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>Ietters. etc. Assistant Profissor of Neuroscience joseph Schroeder to highlight the effiets of alcohol on the brain using beer goggles and a Wii To the Editor: driving game.

I was hopeful, when I saw an article about I've been working as both an editor CC: Connecticut College Magazine responsible alcohol use on campus, that and producer of television for the past Volume 181 Number I I would be reading about the substance- 13 years, and have been extremely free living and substance-free lifestyle on encouraged to see several recent articles, EDITOR: Lisa H. Brownell campus that I enjoyed as a student. Camels in the Crowd listings and other ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Phoehe Hall Instead, I found an enlightening article mentions of alumni who work in the ART DIRECTOR I ONLlNE EDITOR: Benjamin Pareut about Conn's efforts to reduce binge world of television, movies and the arts. CONTRIBUTORS: Beth Broman, ROil Coioie, Art Durity drinking and drug use. While I am pleased I loved my liberal arts education, '84, Daniella DeFilipp{} Garran '34, Joanna Giffia '07, !Wchel Harrington, Dave Holahan, Bob MacDonneLL, Amy to see structures in place to help such and although there were very few classes Marrin, Brandon W Mosley, Barbara Nagy, Lilah Raptapoulas '11, Leslie Rovetri, A. Vincent Scarano, Arielk Shipper '10, afflicted students, I was more than a little offered in the area of television and film Will Tomasian, Julie Wernau, Geordie WOod Brad Yeo

upset that Blackstone does not appear to in the mid-'90s, this in no way made CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR: Karm LflJkey be involved in any of these efforts, nor was me less enthusiastic about the education CLASS NOTES EDITOR: Sarabeth Fields it even mentioned as a safe haven. I was receiving nor did it deter me from CC: Comm:licut Co/kg_ Mtlgm:in, is publi,hed by ,he Office of All four of my college years were spent entering into this field. Cnllege Re!alions, Patricia M. Carey, Vice President. The magazine', m'ssion is In maintain ties between the College, hs alumni and all in Blackstone, and I loved that dorm. We I hope that you will continue to seek olher conslilUents and to repon on issues of imporlance 10 Ihese grou!". were dedicated to a substance-free zone, out these interesting people and stories Cc- Connmicllt CollegeMagazindUSPS 129-140);s publi>hed four but, contrary to popular opinion, we did and will continue to highlight them in I1me, a year, III summer, fall, wLntc~and 'pring, and is mailed free of charfe In members or Ihe Connecricur College Alumni Associauon not give up fun, parries or even general the magazine, I look forward to the next L~~d~~7~-ta~d ~oa~dl~;:'7:;~~~a~. class postage paid al New college hijinks. By my senior year, we issue, and I am as proud today to be an Conrribmions: Cc- CQmw:ticut Colle£'Magazine will consider might not have been a patry dorm, but alumnus of Connecticut College as I but LSnot responsible for unsoliciled manuscrJpts, proposals and photographs. Address correspondence to' everyone knew that we had a blast living was the day I graduated 13 years ago. Editor, CC: Connecticut Colkg,MI1gazin" Becker House, there. We had the best housefellows, 270 Mohegan Avenue, NC"· London, cr 06320-4196. Phone: 860·439-2500 involved house reps, and we threw fun Alex Katz '96 FAX: 860-439-5405 TNEs, events and, for a small dorm, were Hollywood, Calif. Alumni: Send address changes 10 always a contender in Camelympics. Alumni Office I sincerely hope that Blackstone and The writer is co-executive producer of the Connecticut CoUege TV show "The Biggest Loser. " 270 Mohegan Avenue the substance-free Hoors of other dorms New Loudon, CT 06320 (in my time, it was Smith) are involved in or e-mail to [email protected] this outreach program. Blackstoners have always been an accepting group of people, open-armed and happy to help. If they CONNECTICUT COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES are not involved, I am sure the substance- James S. 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2 CC,CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE MAGAZINE FAll 2009 >president's page

Student-faculty relationships a key to success

Leo I Higdon, Jr.

>AT REUNION THIS YEAR, have expanded a residen- Diane Y. Williams '59, the first woman tial education initiative to become an officer of one of the that further integrates world's leading financial services com- academic and residential panies, was presented with the College learning by creating new Medal. Accepting the award, she told ways for faculty and stu- the crowd she planned to share it with dents to interact outside her former economics professor. of the classroom. Eleven It turns Out that, 50 years after new faculty Residential graduating from Connecticut College, Education Fellows, led Diane Williams continues to speak fre- by Professor Eugene quendy with Ruby Turner Morris, the Gallagher, rhe head Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of fellow, serve as liaisons we welcomed nine new tenure-track Economics, now 101 years old. She said and mentors and work closely with the professors to the College. Among this she first explored advanced concepts student residential house leaders to give extremely talented and diverse group of in economics with Professor Morris, and sponsor informal talks, plan educa- professors is Mohamed Diagne '97, a and the two women eventually turned tional programs and host study breaks. native of Senegal who majored in phys- a scrong student-professor relationship The Residential Education Fellows ics and mathematics at Connecticut into a lifelong friendship. program supports the kind of learn- College and earned his doctorate in Every day, I see similar relation- electrical engineering from Brown ships forming across our campus. University, Science professors and students col- As an undergraduate, Diagne's men- laborating on advanced research, arts (Our) faculty in every tor was Arlan Mantz, the Oakes Ames faculty working closely with students discipline are deeply Professor of Physics. Professor Mantz to explore new styles and techniques, retired this year, but students will con- humanities and social sciences profes- engaged in their tinue to know him as a senior research sors taking discussions about literature, students' learning. scientist at the College. Best of all, his philosophy, history and more to new former student, Mohamed Diagne, levels - faculty in every discipline is the new Oakes Ames Associate are deeply engaged in their students' Professor of Physics. learning. ing relationships that keep a student In another 50 years, when the In this economy, we are looking in close contact with a professor - graduates of2010 are at their Reunion, closely at all our costs and being very even 50 years after graduation. These they likely will be giving credit to disciplined with respect to areas that relationships have been growing across Professor Diagne - or any of this don't directly impact students. This campus for decades. Now, with an College's amazing faculty members- strategy has allowed us to continue added structure and a more formal role for helping to transform their lives and investing in priorities that enhance the for professors in the residential houses, achieve their goals. student experience and to continue we are building new connections in Who was your mentor at nourishing these critically important very purposeful ways. Connecticut College? If you'd like to faculty-student relationships. Another strong faculty-student rela- share your story, I'd love to hear With the start of this school year, we tionship came full circle this fall when about it. •

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Battling raindrops and groundhogs

)WHEN NATALIETHEYS '11 took the summer garden manager position for the Sprout! organic garden, she never imagined she'd be weeding with an umbrella. But a very wet summer - twice the average rainfall in June, according to meteorologists - as well as the usual garden pests tried to conspire against a successful harvest this year. Fortunately for summer diners at Harris Refectory, Theys and Eli Mangold '11, who took over the garden in July, still had plenty of fruits Illuminating and veggies to share. See the video at www.youtube.com/ConneeticutCollege. )FROM GRITTY STREET LIFE to immense oil refineries and the New York skyline, the Fanny Wetmore Prim Collection was a treasure trove of imagery for Abby Mackles '09 as she designed an exhibition and guidebook exploring city life at the turn of the 20th cenrury last spring. Works by Childe Hassam, John Sloan, Martin Lewis and others in the College's collection offer a glimpse of how life was changing on big and small scales. "So many artists were shifting away from traditional landscapes and turning to urbanscapes .... Some zoom in on tiny moments, vignettes of city life," Mackles says. )FORTY YEARS AGO, IN SEPTEMBER 1969, CONNECTICUT To see the museum College for Women welcomed its first male students after almost 60 booklet she created years as a single-sex institution. In this well-known image from the flr an independent College's archives, Stephen Detmold '72 (now deceased) steps up to study in Museum register for classes. At left is David Smalley, professor of art. If you Studies, go to http.-ll know the identity of the four women students please e-mail ccmag@ cconline.conncoll.edu. conncoll.edu so we can print the information in our next issue.

4 CC,CONNECTICUT COllEGE MAGAZINE FAll 2009 Summer facelift

>THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW 6,500-square~foot fitness center took center stage this summer, but the $8 million project did not overshadow the importance of other campus renovations. Artful addition to campus Focusing primarily on infrastructure, safety and code improvements, this summer's projects fI'I~':Il.~ •• • •• had an approximate price tag of $2 million. which stands between Palmer and Cummings, was donated to They included: the College earlier this year by renowned artist Sasson Soffer P'07. Soffer's work can be found in permanent collections at • New windows in Freeman House the Whitney Museum of American Art in and • New fire alarm and sprinkler systems in 360 the Indianapolis Museum of Art. His daughter Jessica Soffer Mohegan and Earth House '07 says the family chose the dynamic , which Sasson Upgraded/new high-voltage transformers created in 1986, because it "provides a contrast to the very serving several buildings serene, very rolling landscape of the Green." New air conditioning system for the compmer systems in Bill Hall Window repairs, framework on Harkness Chapel and several residence halls • Demolition of north tennis courtS • New bleachers at Silfen Field New sidewalks to the AC bridge New walkway to admission main entrance and parking lot Fresh paint on Cro's southern exposure • Renovation of former fitness center for other exercise and SpOTtS programming

The renovations are part of a lO-year asset renewal plan that will invest more than $60 million in the campus grounds, buildings and infrastructure.

WORKERS PREPARE CHAPEL WINDOWS FOR REPAINTING

(ABOVE) AND DEMOLISH THE NORTH TENNIS COURTS (RIGHT)

»for more news, go to www.conncoll.edu 5 Connect with campus in October Fall Weekend will focus on how technology is changing the world

)SrT IN ON A "SATURDAY • Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Seminar" with a professor, enjoy an Dianne Reeves will perform in all-campus picnic on Tempel Green, concert at Palmer Auditorium browse Harvestfest and cheer on the Saturday night. Visit http://onstage. Camels as they rake on Colby. conncoll.edu for ticket information. Best of all, enjoy the campus - and spend time with other members of the • Saturday Seminars will include College community - at the most topics such as career networking in a beauriful time of year. digital age, thwarting cyber thieves, It's allan tap Oct. 23-25 for the revolution in how we get and Fall Weekend, the College's annual share news, and the value of face-to- celebration for alumni, parems and face communication - even in an students. electronic era. The theme this year is "Staying Connected," with a special focus on • Three alumni will be inducted into how technology and innovation are the Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday changing the way we live, learn and afternoon: communtcare. The weekend will include all the Susan Mabrey Gaud '68 P'07 traditional Fall Weekend activities as Kim Holliday McElderry '97 well as Connecticut College Athletic Sarah Pitt '86 Hall of Fame inductions, a half-year reunion for the Class of 2009 and Last year the festivities drew about timely seminars. Many will look at how 1,700 alumni and parents to campus. to better use, understand and enjoy the - Barbara Nagy opportunities technology provides. Some highlights:

• Fernando Juan Espuelas-Asenjo For more information, including '88, an entrepreneur, author and a schedule of events, go to technological trailblazer, will speak http://fallweekend.conncoll,edu Saturday on the topic "Revolution in the Internet Era." As a young CEO Espuelas-Asenjo became a symbol of the technology revolution and was named a "Leader for the New Millennium" by Time Magazine .

• Stop by the new fitness center Saturday afternoon to try our the newest fitness machines and take in the stunning view of the Thames.

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Dollars and sense Professoraids effirt to save wages ofCaLifirnia careproviders

)PROFESSOR AND ECONOMIST Jobs Better Care initiative. Her work widely considered a model for other Candace Howes is the leading expert in has been published in the journals The states, because more than half of the a class action lawsuit against rhe state of Gerontologist, Industrial Relations and state's Medicaid funds are spent on California that could affect hundreds of State of California Labor, and she is "high-quality, cost-effective home care thousands of stare residents there. currently working on a book with the services" instead of nursing home care. The Service Employees International Working Group on Care at the Russell She points out that if the SEIU fails and Union (SEIU), which represents Sage Foundation. wages are cut, the "success could prove home- and community-based care Using her findings from prior short lived." providers in the stare, is suing the research, data from California's In June, however, the SEIU won the first round of its court battle. California government to prevent a Department of Social Services and proposed $2 reduction in the maximum public information from government A U.S. District Court judge issued reimbursable wage for Medicaid-funded Web sites, Howes conducted a detailed an injunction preventing the wage decreases until the state has conducted care providers, a plan supporters say will analysis of the potential effects of the a full analysis of the potential effects of save the cash-strapped state $90 million. wage cuts for the SErU. the plan on consumers. Howes, the Barbara Hogare Ferrin "I have studied the effect of wage While the srare is appealing, Howes '43 Professor of Economics Education, cuts for California care providers, considers the ruling a victory. "I'm glad is helping the union argue that such a and when you reduce wages, turnover there is sunlighr being shed on this cut would lead to a significant increase increases," Howes says. "These workers process," she says. "This is a very poorly in the turnover rate for care providers, can't always be replaced, even during documenred industry, and I want the resulting in a diminished quality of care times of high unemployment. This leads state to do the kind of analysis needed for consumers and increased costs to the to a disruption in care for the consumer, to prove how essential this workforce state. and many more will be forced to enter is. It's the first step to making sure the "The long-term care of elderly nursing homes." people who provide services to some of and disabled people with limited Howes estimates that an additional our mosr vulnerable citizens are paid a means in the is provided 1,400 people will be admitted to decent wage." - Amy Martin through Medicaid, either in the form nursing homes if the proposed wage of home- and community-based care decrease is realized. And because

nursing home care costs significantly \\1\HlII\lII1IIlIlIlIIIlIIlIIlIlUlIIIIHll or in nursing homes," Howes says. 1111 more than home care, the state will lose 1\\11\\\\\\1\\ 1/1 /1111111 "Essentially, we are arguing that these 11\\11\\1\\1 lilll/IIII wage cuts will have a significant negative a sizable portion of its expected savings. ~\\\\\\\\\\III "The increased nursing home ~\\\\\\\ impact on the quality and consistency ~\,\'\\ admissions would cost the state ~\. of care for the consumers, who are protected by the Americans with approximately $30 million /' .' Disabilities Act and the Medicaid Act." per year, and possibly / Howes' reputation as an industry more under a range of ,f analyst and foremost researcher on the reasonable assumptions," _,,1 problems facing the long-term care Howes wri tes in her ~- workforce made her the perfect expert affidavit. for the SEIU. She has spent eight years In a New York studying how low wages and benefits Times blog posting, Nancy Folbre, an contribute to the shortage of home care providers in California, and much of economics professor her research has been funded with a at the University $500,000 grant from the Robert Wood of Massachusetts- Amherst, says the Johnson Foundation and Atlantic California system is Philanthropies as part of the Better

»for more news, go to www.conncoll.ecIu 7 The 'accidental historian' Thinking globally: Photography proftssor shares unique perspective of downtown New London >THE MOST URGENT ISSUES of our time - global warming, the current economic crisis, hunger and world health, to name just four - are >TED HENDRICKSON HAS SEEN by newly sprouting restaurants and global in scope. New London go through waves of what coffee shops. In the past three years, Overseas internships are an he calls "sinking and rebounding" from downtown New London has welcomed invaluable way for students to gain the the 1970s through today, And he has a shoe boutique and art gallery, a food international experience they need to seen it all through a wide-angle lens. co-op, a fair trade store, an outdoor cafe, be successful today. A photographer with a half-century's a music venue and an organic restaurant Two new endowed gifts, one from experience in one city is bound to with a menu that changes daily. The Lisa and Brad Freer '91, the other have some son of archive. This is the area also has witnessed the Rourishing from Bente Jones Srarble '86 and case with Hendrickson, an assistant of its widespread arc initiative, the Craig Starble '84, will provide that professor of art at the College. So when Hygienic Art Center. experience to two rising seniors each the Custom House Maritime Museum "New London's much more year. The gifts will cover their travel in New London recently hosted an interesting than a lot of college towns, costs and stipends for summer work exhibition abour the history of the New but it's an effort to get here," he says. abroad, with special focus on business London Parade, an open public area at "Bur the interaction between the and financial services internships. the entrance of the city, Hendrickson College and downtown is better than "Internships are a clear reached back into his collection it's been, maybe ever. There's so much and produced 10 photographs that more to do downtown. Businesses have document the downtown from the early a stronger CUstomer base. It's become a 1980s through May of this year, pretty cool place." The Parade is currently undergoing a Hendrickson has always made time Here, there $10,2 million to shoot & everywhere renovation to downtown. restore It to Even today, From the Bronx to Beijing, the Yukon to Yale, its historical he regularly and Hollywood to Hanoi, Connecticut College intention: makes the students fanned out all around the globe this an open and drive from summer. In the three months before their accessible his home in senior year, about 350 students interned cultural area Mystic to with companies and organizations, Many of in the heart photograph them found internships through the College's of New what has Career Enhancing Life Skills program London and changed, (CElS), which provides a $3,000 stipend for a welcoming "I've students who participate in the program, access gate been taking Now in its 10th year, CElS was featured to travelers pictures of in a July story in USA Today that highlighted passing New London the increase in internships at for-profit through the for a long companies (54 percent vs, last year's 38 city. The redesign levels the plaza with time," he says. "Whether I move toward percent). "It gives our students a huge leg the street, expands the amount of open nature-oriented landscape or other up," says Amy Martin, the College's manager space, and adds greenery, and ideas, I always come back and shoot a of media relations, "For-profit companies a whale tail fountain in the center of a little in New London. I say I became are taking advantage of the fact that they do small, sunken amphitheater. an accidental historian .... Sometimes I not have to worry about paying interns," Hendrickson thinks the project could have in my mind as I shoot, 'This will The following list is just a sampling of be parr of a unique and permanent become the archive of the future." _ rebound. The renovation is accentuated Lilah Raptopoulos '11 student internships this summer:

8 CC,CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2009 Alumni gifts support internships

differentiator when employers are firsthand. " cutting back on the internships they searching for full-time, entry-level hires The College encourages students fund, Bente Srarble says. "We hope to after graduation," says Craig Starble, to pursue career-related internships be able to give students the opportunity who has experience hiring interns at and summer research that focus and to work in career-relevant jobs with State Street Corp. in Boston. develop their interests, and it provides major companies that may not have the "Global companies require and stipends to cover student expenses when financial resources to hire interns in the place more value on studenrs who have employers don't pay them. About 13 next five years," she says. tangible, relevant work experience," he percent of students go overseas, and the The Freers, who returned to the says. number is rising. United States in August 2008, say their The Preers, who lived in Asia for In recent years students have years in Asia were life-changing. 12 years, want to give students the interned, for example, in Hong Kong "We immersed ourselves in both opportunity to work abroad. with an international bank, in Italy Singapore and Hong Kong and loved it. "There is no way to truly grasp what with an alternative energy nonprofit, Not only was it an incredible experience is going on in a cDunny or culture until in Madrid with the ministry that professionally, we learned a (On about you live it and experience it," says Brad regulates the Spanish economy, and in the many varied Asian cultures and Freer, an investment manager with with an agency developing AIDS made lifelong friends that may as well Capital World Invesrors in Los Angeles. education progtams. be family," Brad Freer says. "It helped "Students need to experience the But because of the recession, many shape us and we want others to have the challenges, successes and relationships global financial services companies are same experience." - Barbara Nagy

• Women's Studies Institute at the University of Granada, Spain • The Foundation for Development Cooperation, Queensland, Australia • Elan Artists, Brooklyn, N. r Deutsche Bank • International Rescue Committee, Silver Spring, Md. • Democracy Now', New York, N. r • Virginia Tech's Human-Computer Interaction program, Blacksburg, Va. • Vogue, New York, N. Y • MyPub/isher Inc., New York, N. r • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. Boston Trust & Investment Management Co., Boston, Mass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, N.r • United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn. Sierra Club, Portland, Maine • Club of Madrid, Spain Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Burlington, Vt. • Mandate Pictures, Santa Monica, Calif Hand in Hand Center for Jewish Arab Education in , • International Center at Children's Hospital Boston, Mass. Jerusalem, Israel Georgetown University's Brain and Language Lab, Washington, DC. Calvin Klein Inc., New York, N. r • Clneflix Productions, Toronto, Ontario • United Nations Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda • Alvin Ailey Amencan Dance Theater, New York, N. r Vietnam Veterans of Ametice Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam • Gray & Rice Public Relations, Boston, Mass. • Marie Claire, New York, N. r StudiO Berg, Milan, Italy Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Accademia dell'Arte, Arezzo, Italy • Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Fairbanks, Alaska • Ellen DeGeneres Show, Burbank, Calif YaleUniversity Comparative Cognition Laborator;, New Haven, Conn. • Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Japan • Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY A Friendly Hand, Santa Barbara, Honduras Sotheby's, New York, N. r • Citi, New York, N. Y Bronx Borough President's Office, Bronx, N.r • Corporate Accountability InternatIOnal, Boston, Mass. • Smith Barney, New York, NY • MIT Summer Research Program, Biological Sciences, Massachusetts South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp., Bronx, N. r • Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. • u.s. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. • Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Madnd, Spain • Louisiana Department of Education Recovery Scnoc! District, • Pittsburgh Pirates, Bradenton, Fla. New Orleans, La. • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass. • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, N. r • Trust & FidUCiary Management Services Inc., Boston, Mass. • Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.

»for more news, go to www.conncoll.edu 9 Summer of discovery School's out, but students are hard at work in the lab

>SERENDIPITY ALWAYS PLAYS No fly-by-night operation, the Using red- and blue-dyed food to a parr in research projects, and it's a distinct populations were maintained recognize each group, Arenson has found smart scientist who knows how to until Barnes' adviser retired and sent some cross-mating between the groups, capitalize on it. In the lab of Phillip Barnes the flies. Now, 57 years later, but found each group has a definite Barnes, associate professor of biology, Patricia Arenson' 11 of Littleton, preference for its own members. two summer interns are working on Colo., on an internship sponsored by The two students are excited about projects that must give some small credit the KECK Undergraduate Research spending their summer doing original to lady luck. Program, is taking advantage of those research, putting classroom lessons Tara Travaline '11 of Uxbridge, Mass., two populations to study speciation, the to work in a hands-on environment is searching for a mutant gene that causes formation of a new species. Barnes says with their own projects. Classroom flightlessness in Drosophila melanogaster that in the roughly 850-plus generations experiments are designed to teach a flies, more commonly known as fruit these flies have gone through in their concept or technique, not yield original flies. Barnes says he discovered the disparate environments, unintended results, and to these two women, the mutation accidentally when he spilled a changes, such as behavioral differences, difference between classroom and real container of flies on a table. Expecting may have resulted. It's possible those world is huge.

(0 see them flyaway, he was instead changes are the reason the flies in each "I like that 1 don't know what results surprised co find them strolling around, group don't necessarily want to mate I'm going to get," Arenson says. "It's like unable to fly. with the other group. being a real scientist." To find the gene, Travaline - whose The hypothesis is, Barnes says, that "They said it's like being a real research is funded by The Phillip T. "their hybrids may be perfectly fine, scientist, but in essence, they are," Barnes Barnes Research Internship, which is but they won't mate because they don't says. "They're doing original research." endowed by the Scott family - is using recognize each other's - Leslie Rovetti a technique called chromosome deletion behavior." mapping. She removes a section of genes from a single strand of chromosomes on a mutant Drosophila, and men crosses

it (Q one that can fly. The results tell her whether or not the flightless gene is in the part of the chromosome that was deleted. "It tells you physically on the chromosome where the mutation is," Barnes says. Travaline's work has narrowed

the location down (Q an area on rhe Drosophilia chromosome that hasn't yet been fully studied. The second summer project in his lab was possible because in 1952, the man who would become Barnes' Ph.D. adviser at the University of Minnesota began a study on DDT resistance in D. melanogasrer. He created two similar populations in two vastly different environments, one with DDT and one without.

10 CC,CONNECTICUT COllEGE MAGAZINE FAll 2009 Let's dance Class keeps people with Parkinson's disease moving

>EVERY WEDNESDAY THIS summer, inside the dance studios of the College Cen ter at Crozier-Williams, a transformation was taking place. Sometimes it was a fooc tapping. Other times it was two arms reaching, or RACHEL BALABAN LEADS A DANCE CLASS FOR PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE ON fingers playing an imaginary piano. But CAMPUS THIS SUMMER. no matter what - it was dancing. arm to indicate the imaginary cup in his 200 1, MMDG has held a weekly "The main thing is, how many hand. The rest of the class follows. class in partnership with the Brooklyn people can you help?" says 74-year-old Others say "Bob Dole," "spoiled Parkinson Group, for people with Stan Wertheimer, professor emeritus rotten," "a bird," and choose a motion Parkinson's disease and their caregivers of mathematics and founder of the for the rest of the class to follow. They and families. Connecticut Parkinson's Work Group, "milk the cow" to the song "9 to 5." Wertheimer compared it to an which brought a free dance class for They shake it to "Love Train." They act introductory math course he taught at people with Parkinson's disease, their as mirrors for one another as they mime Connecticut College, geared toward families and friends to campus this their morning routines, complete with a number of students in the arts, summer. teeth-brushing and sugat for the coffee. including dance majors. Wertheimer founded the group in "Automatic movement is difficult" "It was not an easy course, but 1994, five years after he was diagnosed for those with PD, says Balaban. It's it built on their strengths, not their with the disease, while a professor at the "thinking about it" that makes weaknesses, to allow them to access the College. The group has since grown the class so useful. She mentions mathematical thinking. Now the into "a force to be considered," a group psychoneuroimmunology - the dance department, and its chair, David that not only advocates for people with interaction between psychological Dorfman, are returning the favor by Parkinson's disease but also serves as a processes and the nervous and immune allowing us to use their facility to social network and information source. systems of the human body. The class conduct classes for people with PD, Wertheimer is particularly proud of is fun, it's communal - it's freeing, she which builds on their strengths- that fact that CPWG is entirely run by says. desire to move, need for exercise, love of individuals with PD. "When people start to feel better, it music - not their disability," he says. "It's rare that these organizations really reaches into all their areas of their Balaban, who combined a long are run by a person with Parkinson's lives," Balaban says. "They're so bright dance history with her desire to help disease," says Wertheimer, handing each and vital. Their minds are so sharp but others in agreeing to teach this class, dancer a nametag as he or she arrived, their bodies have shut down on them." says she couldn't be more thrilled to "because you get tired." The method - called "Dance be teaching the class at Connecticut Inside the dance studio about 20 for PD" - was originally developed College to such an uninhibited and people, all seated in a circle, physically by the Mark Morris Dance Group willing group of participants. act out their hopes and dreams, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and presented at "To be doing this work in a bona following a cue from their dance the World Parkinson Congress and fide dance studio is a huge deal," she instructor, Rachel Balaban. Neuroscience 2008 in Washington, says. " ... I think it's fantastic. These "I've always wanted to hold up the D.C., and at the International are amazing, courageous people who cup after winning Wimbledon," says Congress for Parkinson's Disease and are really hungering for this." - julie a man named Larry, who holds up his Related Disorders in Berlin. Since lXIemau

»for more news, go to www.conncoll.edu 11 SPRING '09 On the SPORTS right track >THE TRACK AND REWIND field program rolled out the red carpet for the rest of the league as the College hosted the 2009 NESCAC Championship New eyes on the ball in April. Five Camels turned in All-NESCAC >THE COLLEGE WELCOMED TWO NEW performances: Brian head coaches this summer. Kenny Murphy, who Murtagh '09, Alex Samma was previously the assistant soccer coach at Brown '10 and Doug Wtight '12 University, becomes only the second head men's earned spots on the men's soccer coach in the program's 38-year history. A squad, and Jill Sergi '09 and former professional soccer player and Wall Street Faye McKenna' 11 were honored commodities broker, he says he's looking forward on the women's squad. co competing in the New England Small College Murtagh, the first of 10 NCAA Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Brian Wilson, qualifiers for the College this year, set a highly regarded recruiter and former associ- a school record with his victory in the ate head coach at the College of the Holy Cross, 3,OOO-meter steeplechase, provisionally is bringing renewed energy and enthusiasm to qualifying for the 2009 NCAA Outdoor women's basketball, according to team member Championship in a time of9:12.66. Samma earned Emily Cummings' 10. "The team is excited abour a spot on the squad with his second-place finish in the triple jump the positive direction that he has in store for our (46 feet, 3'A inches). The junior jumper won the NCAA Crown in program," Cummings says. March and provisionally qualified for the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championship. Wright posted a rime of 15:28.76 in the 5K, setting a personal record in his third-place finish. The Camel men achieved their highest score for the program at a NESCAC Championship with FOR THE LATEST CAMEL 34.5 points. ATHLETICS NEWS, VISIT On the women's side, McKenna emerged as one of the rising stars http://sports.conncoll.edu at the NESCAC Championship. She placed third in her inaugural 10K race with a time of 38:07.97, earning a spot on the All-NESCAC team, Sergi, a two-time All-New England performer on the cross country trails, posted a time of 18: 16.28 in the 5K in a third-place Water polo winners showing for the Camels.

>THE WOMEN'S WATER POLO TEAM POSTED FOUR WINS, including a post-season victory against Utica College in the Northern Division Championship Tournament. Co-captains Phoebe Bakanas '10 and Emma Heishman '09 provided plenty of offensive punch for J.J. Addison's squad. Bakanas buried 39 goals this year, tickling the twine with 12 scores in a sweep of Utica and Colorado College in March, The junior sharp-shooter was named to the 2009 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District] at-large third team in the college division, Heishman was distinguished as an honorable mention All-America by the American Collegiate Water Polo Coaches Association. The explosive scorer netted 28 goals in her senior season but was equally impressive at the opposite end of the pool, utilizing her speed and experience to handle the most challenging defensive assignments.

12 CC,CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2009 >the sports section

Win Robinson '08 goes semi-pro Down Under

>AS A STUDENT, WINSLOW Q: I have to ask you, which was A: Unquestionably, the sense of Robinson '08 was a dedicated leader the bigger thrill: scoring the walk-off family created within a team is one and a two-year captain of the men's goal on the Green in overtime of your of the best perks of any collegiate soccer team. His work with the final home game that put you in the program, and was something that Student Athletic-Advisory Board 2007 NESCAC playoffs or nerring defined my experience at Connecticut brought credibility and change to the your first goal Down Under? College. It was amazing co have such Camel program. And no one will ever good friendships emerge and endure, forget his heroic game-winning header A: There isn't anything that can and Istill keep in couch with most of in overtime of his final home game, compare to that moment on the the lads. David Kellogg '09 and Matt purring his team in the 2007 NESCAC Green; it concurrently captured the Hula '09 will be arriving here to play Championship Tournamenr. culmination of four years of college for Queensland in late August when I Two years later and thousands of soccer and a lifetime of sporting leave to start graduate school. miles away, Robinson fulfilled another achievement and is a memory Irevisit www.loganunitedfe·com dream by playing semi-professional frequently. Still, scoring a goal at this soccer, competing in the Queensland level with my mother and State League on the Logan United sister in the crowd was Football Club in Australia. The also hugely exciting Stratham, N.H., native scored his first for me, as this is goal for the senior team in his debut the highest level I and netted twO goals for the U21 have ever competed squad to give them their first win of at. It's a cough call, the season. but for a senior Before Robinson left the league winning a playoff in August to start graduate school at qualifier in his last , Will Tomasian, home game, there the College's sports information isn't a better way co director, caught up with him bye-mail: go out.

Q: How were you able to land a Q: You mentioned spot in this serni-professionalleague? many of your friends A: Ialways find myself paying in your blog: Kyle homage to my alma mater for the Neidhardt '08, David network of support and guidance, and Driscoll '08, David this case is no exception. When I was Kellogg '09, Eric visiting during Fall Weekend, I spoke Snffolerro '06 and with athletic director Fran Shields Jon Knights '05. abour any possible contacts he might Can you comment have in Australia. He puc me in touch about the with a lacrosse contact, who directed relationships that me co the Football Queensland Web were created with site. Through this site, I sent om several the soccer team e-mails to clubs, explaining my interest and competing in playing, and heard back from many as a leader in of them. the athletic program?

»)for more news, 110 to WWW,conllColI,ec!u 13 Send your original First Person essay, of 450-500 words, to [email protected]. Please Include your name and class year. Essays may be on any topic of First Person: interest to the Connecticut College community. Finding the first cornerstone

LEFT: GARRAN WITH HER STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS AT THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. BELOW: WORKING ON POTTERY SHARDS ON A DIG IN BULGARIA IN 2007

>MY FIRST HISTORY CLASS at Conn was under the tutelage of Marc Forster. Until this class, my experience studying history had been mainly focused on memorization of dates, people and places rather than on the interpretation of events and their meanings: the causes and effects of history. Professor Forster opened my eyes to just how interesting history

could be and how it is relevant to all of us. I went on to major in both history and art history, my love of which was fostered by Barbara Zabel, professor of art history, and the late Nancy Rash whose passion for their subject matter was nothing short of inspirational. As a middle school teacher, I try to impart the knowledge, skills and passion for learning in my students that these the towns of Cape Cod. The theory Whether at not the speculation remarkable professors instilled in me. is based on the notion that the town- about the Pilgrims' surveying methods I am fortunate to teach in one of bound lines radiate from a center point is proved valid, investigating the logic Massachusetts' first charter schools, in Cape Cod Bay. From geodesy to behind the conjecture as well as learn- which, despite constant threats of glaciology, from geology to hydrology, ing about the 17th-century mapping budget cuts and unrelenting scrutiny from navigation and cartography to and surveying techniques the Pilgrim from the state and the teachers' unions, oceanography, and from archaeology elders may have used have proved to has persevered for almost 15 years. The to pedagogy, the search for the first be the opportunity of a lifetime for Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School cornerstone has taken on a (ife of its my students. This project also clearly is a teacher-driven, project-based own. Over the past year, I have worked demonstrates the potential for middle school that, in many ways, reminds me with two dozen students who have school students to excel even when of Conn. We encourage our students made tremendous progress toward given the most complex inquiry- and to ask questions, initiate research and validating this theory. I have overseen problem-based curricula; given the solve real-life problems by employing them as they pore over primary necessary tools, resources and guid- critical thinking skills and working documents, speak articulately with ance, young learners have the ability to with community partners. reporters, work surveying equipment make significant contributions to their Last winter, our school was and present their findings in a room chosen fields. I am lucky to be able to approached by a retired lawyer who of 100 people. Their passion for uphold the same educational values had recently moved to the Cape and learning has amazed the land surveyors, and approach to learning that I gained encountered an interesting theory journalists, college professors, lawyers at Conn; I remain indebted to my pro- about how the Pilgrims conducted and archaeologists with whom we have fessors each day of my teaching career. their first land survey to divide up worked. - Daniella DeFilippo Garran '94

14 CC,CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2009 ask a camel byJoanna Gillia '07

Q: What steps can I take to reduce my stress level?

Jennifer Schelter '88, a yoga and meditation instructor and life coach, has the answer.

A 1. Communicate: Some people cut communication when they are : stressed. Communication with your loved ones or a trusted profession- al can help ease the anxiety and depression caused by stress, while also framing your situation in a more positive light.

2. Keep a journal and try stream-af-consciousness writing: I am an advocate of

putting down on paper whatever comes [Q your mind at the time. It's a great way to purge your negative emotions and get to the root of what's causing your stress.

3. Remind yourself to live one day at a time: 1 know this sounds like it's

straight out of a 12-srep program, bur it's true. I uy (0 remind myself to nor get ahead of myself, and live for today.

4. Become 'present to the cost,' and take time for yourself: This involves realizing what rhe long-term costs of stress are and then taking an honest look at how you live your life. Studies have shown chat stress can reduce your life span. So next rime you are stressed, ask yourself, 'Whac do I want co be doing

",.,:;;r:!~~~!lf.lilll,.~I, ifestyle now conducive to achieving these ~. '(&Ii inl!6 ems to examine what theit mind·~ and te,adail

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LASER FOCUS

('S not unusual for Connecticut wealth of expertise in semiconductor using them as a research tool," Mantz

College students to stay in touch device physics, flip chip technology, says. In 1996, Mantz helped Diagne land for many years with the professors vacuum deposition techniques and other a summer internship at a company that Iwho menrored them. But rarely complex systems. His former mentor, made lasers; a year later, he helped him does a student return to fill the shoes of Arlan Mantz, the Oakes Ames Professor prepare for his interview at Brown. Then his or her former professor. of Physics, retired in June but will last year, the soon-to-be retired professor Mohamed Diagne '97 earned a continue as a senior research scientist at suggested his former student to senior degree in physics and mathematics from the College. administrators and Dean of the Faculty Connecticut College 12 years ago, and, a After nearly a decade doing Roger Brooks as his replacement. few years after that, a Ph.D. in electrical cutting-edge research in optics and "We were looking for someone who engineering from Brown University. microelectronics, helping to develop could really have an immediate and This fall he joins the Connecticut highly sensitive photonic devices and positive impact on our students through College faculty as the Oakes Ames data transmission technology for both his teaching and research activities, and Associate Professor of Physics, a tenure military and civilian applications, it struck me that Mohamed had exactly track position in the Departmem of Diagne, 37, is returning ro his second the credentials we were looking for." Physics, Astronomy and home along with his wife, Fatima, who Mantz adds that many physics majors Geophysics. He is enrolled as an undergraduate biology and potential majors exptess an interest brings with major, and their two young children. in engineering, and Diagne could give him a Diagne says he has always had a fond them personal insights and expett place in his heart for his alma mater, guidance based on firsthand experiences. which showed such faith in his potential and nurtured him through his formative • FROM BROWN TO MIT academic years. He is grateful to all of his professors who would listen and Diagne's first job, after earning a provide guidance to him, not just Ph.D. in electrical engineering from in science but also in his life. Brown University in 200 1, was at "He is really hitting the Xanoprix in New Hampshire, where he ground running," says worked on arrays ofVCSELs, or vertical Mantz. He recalls that cavity surface emitting lasers. VCSELs when he joined the faculty are used to create transceivers that can in 1995, Diagne asked send massive quantities of information to help him set up his within a local network via fiber-optic laboratory, including the cables. The quantity of data involved stabilized tunable diode could not be transmitted by computers lasers. "It soon became or on the Internet, Diagne says. obvious, listening to In 2005 he began working at MIT his questions, that Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., Mohamed was probably a Department of Defense research more interested in facility. While much of his work for making lasers than in Lincoln was classified, Diagne outlined

Iam trying to give back by teaching here, to help students not just with their education but with their lives."

- MOHAMED DIAGNE '97

20 CC,CONNECTICUT FAVORITE SON RETURNS TO THE COLLEGE AS A PHYSICS A PROFESSOR, FILLING THE POST OF HIS RETIRING MENTOR

in broad terms what he did there, at Westchester Community College, "We were looking including research on semiconductor where several fellow students urged lasers that can track aircraft and him to apply to a school of higher for someone who create and send images remotely education called UConn. Being (for example, from the ground to an unacquainted with the local collegiate could really have an airplane), as well as photo detectors scene, Diagne first rang up another immediate and that can take pictures in virtually no institution altogether. available light. "These detectors are "I think this is the best thing that positive impact on going to be so sensitive that they can happened to me," he says. It was a detect a single phoron," he says. "Even felicitous happenstance all around. He our students ... and in the dark they can tell you that they was accepted for the spring semester Mohamed had exactly have seen something." of 1995 and graduated with honors While Diagne will commute to in just two and a half years with a the credentials we were Lexington once a week this year, the double major in physics and math. In focus of his work there has shifted to his spare time, he helped to lead the looking for. the bio-medical field. Connecticut varsity soccer team to the Division - ARLAN MANTZ College and Brown University are III NCAA tournament, a first for the collaborating with Lincoln on research Camels. into optogeneric neuro-scimulation, Diagne's new position gives him

which uses optical signals to analyze what he feels is an ideal situation, an and diagnose brain function in people opportunity to teach and to continue with conditions such as Parkinson's doing research with leading colleagues disease. in his field. And if anyone knows how to take advantage of an • COMING TO AMERICA opportunity, he does. "I didn't have to make a When Diagne arrived in America huge transition from Senegal from Senegal on Dec. 15, 1993, he to here," Diagne says. "This was what is termed in sports "a walk- is a smaller school, and on." No one had asked him to come, people live here like in a and no one was waiting for him when family. The opportunity he arrived. But Diagne is a problem- I had here to deal wi th solver of the highest degree. He soon professors almost on a landed a job and started sending a one-to-one basis had a portion of his paycheck home to great impact on what his family. I have learned. I am His big break came on a sunny trying to give some of day when he was watching a soccer that back by teaching match in Central Park. A player was here, to help students injured, and Diagne offered to play not just with their in his place. His skill landed him a education but with their spot on the squad and, even more lives, helping them to important, a place to live, with one of understand what is out his teammates. In the fall he enrolled there for them." •

STORY BY DAVID HOLAHAN· PHOTOS BY RON COWIE

In a recent article in the Jewish taken, a rose by another name wouldn't Voice & Herald, Pessin said the be a rose, the proof is in the {vanilla} book offers "something for all kinds pudding and intolerance is a virtue. of readers - committed believers, And it does it all in 60 little lessons that disbelievers and those on the fence can be learned in - you guessed it - leaning one way or the other." It could about 60 seconds each. It's what Martin even help you make up your mind, he Cohen, author of"101 Philosophy added. Problems," calls a "potpourri of Michael Schermer, founding philosophical ideas." publisher of Skeptic magazine and The book covers a broad range author of "Why People Believe Weird of topics and ideas that have kept Things," says the book is a must-read. philosophers busy over the millennia. It "If you want to know what the challenges readers to question common greatest minds of the past 2,500 years sense and recognize truth in the bizarre. said on the most contentious issue ever, ANDREW PESSIN And that, Pessin says, is the point. you simply must start with this book," "Philosophy makes you deeper, Shermer says. richer and more interesting," Pessin \1Vhile"The God Question" wrestles says. "It mayor may not bring you with one of life's greatest mysteries, you never even knew you had. happiness, but it will bring you greater Pessin's second book, "The 60-Second For example, the pocket- appreciation for whether happiness is Philosopher: Expand your Mind on a sized paperback explains why, something ultimately to be valued." Minute or so a Day!" answers questions philosophically, there is no path not Certainly that's worth 60 seconds.•

"PHILOSOPHI:I HAS A UERI:I ACTIUE AND LIGHT-HEARTED SENSE OF HUMOR." PESSIN SAI:IS. "IT TENDS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE THICK. DARK-RIMMED GLASSES OF HEAUI:I THINKERS. BUT COULD JUST AS WELL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE OF 1,10001:1ALLEN."

24 CC,CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2009 Be A Rose." I won't ruin it for you, GONE:IN :60 SE:CONDS but let's just say I've never thought , » so much about the non-existence of Santa Claus in my entire life. SIXT'::I SECONDS IS ABOUT HOI,) LONG IT TAKES ME TO Other chapters, such as Chapter go from the depths of profundity to "Oh, look, something shiny on 10 - "There Is No Path Not Taken" - made me laugh before I'd Twitter!" even read them. (Someone had to make the path!) Here, Pessin Don't get me wrong. I like to read. Just not to the end. And not explains the idea that the choices you make are entirely determined for longer than it takes to microwave my oatmeal. by your character. experiences and other factors. Even if I decided Basically, I'm a TV executive's dream and a philosopher's not to drink that coffee this morning (which I would never do), I'd nightmare. I'm not proud of the fact that I have about 50 books on be doing it because of some other determining factor - like trying my shelves that I've never finished or that I forget to pay attention to prove Pessin wrong, which J did because of an anti-authoritarian when my husband tells me his latest theories about how 50 years streak, etc., etc. from now we'll be able to download ourselves into computers and He even has something to say about my little issue with zoning order a latte just by thinking about it. I like to think deep thoughts, out when my husband brings up robots (see Chapter 48 - "In One Ear And Out The Other"), and he stopped really. me from ever feeling the need to buy anything So, I picked up Andy Pessin's "The again, pointing out in Chapter 30 that stuff 60-Second Philosopher" with the thought is "composed mostly of empty space inside that if there was any hope for mind its atoms." Also, thanks to Chapter 20, "You expansion, this was my last chance. Choose, You Lose," I'll never be a pediatric This first thing I noticed was that I surgeon (that chapter should come with a could see from the beginning to the end of warning for people with heart conditions). each chapter without turning a page. I was "If we're going to think about things, then hooked. But just in case, I read the last we need to think about just which things there chapter first just to make sure I didn't add are to think about," Pessin argues. How true. another unfinished book to my collection. But as Pessin writes at the end of the book, The second thing I noticed about Pessin's there really is no end to the number of things book is that it's not for bedtime. Namely, there are to think about. My many unfinished because it makes you think and think and books are just the beginning. think until your brain hurts. Take Chapter "You'll never finish," he says. -Julie Wernau 15 - "A Rose By Another Name Wouldn't Dean of the Faculty Roger Brooks speaks with John Nugent, senior research analyst and special assistant to the president, on how Connecticut College assesses student learning and outcomes.

MEASURING LEARN

Nugent: How would you say that teaching and learning have changed in the time you have been at the College?

Brooks: I think there's been a real sea change in pedagogy nationwide, and it's reflecced at Connecticut College. The change has been from an assumption that teachers teach to the assumption that teachers make it possible for students co learn. And if you adopt a learning-centered model for what happens in the classroom, all sorts of things change. For example, people used to be very concerned with "getting through the material." Now I think that kind of coverage has shifted to "Have I gotten the students to understand the material?" It often is a tradeoff, perhaps doing less material to get deeper understanding. The other big change is that our students have a different expectation of what happens in the classroom, and that has made us more active teachers. It's not nearly as common for faculty members to simply stand and give a lecture; instead they tend to give mini-lectures and have students break into discussion groups. You have a mixture of different pedagogy in the classroom.

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Nugent: "Assessment" is of learning outcomes that we the fundamentals of how we kind of a buzzword in higher hold for each major? ... We let students know what our education. What does that have to think about our general academic standards are and - word mean to you? education requirements, which how to constantly improve. - are College-wide. Every time Even our best writers, for Brooks: In the simplest that we have examined general example, ought to be going to form, "assessment" is how you education requirements in the the Writing Center on campus improve teaching and learning 20 years I have been at the and getting advice on how to ar [he College. It's a feedback College, we have renovated write better. Course evaluations loop. You start by identifying them and added something provide the same kind of what students are going to Jearn new on the basis of how feedback to instructors, and we from particular courses and students are learning and how use peer evaluations as well. programs, a major or certificate faculty are teaching. First-year At this point I'd actually program. Then you gather seminars are a good example. like to turn the question back information from the students to you, John, because one of about what they've learned Nugent: So it sounds like the most critical ways we use WABASH in their academic programs. it's important that those goals assessment at the College is This can be done by direct be available for all to read in through institutional research, ...measures interviews or looking at the the catalog and Web site, for which is your area. You and students' output; then you take example. I have worked together on (the) kinds of that information back to the several national surveys. design of the program, major Brooks: Yes, and this year outcomes we or course. So it's a simple loop we've asked every major to Nugent: Since 2000 we've hope students of establishing goals, gathering specify their own learning been participating as a College information and data, and then goals. The purpose is to let in the National Survey of will get out of using that data to do a better people know, even before a Student Engagement, or NSSE, job the next time you offer the student begins a course of as it is called. That study a liberal arts same course or program. study, what kind of outcomes emerged from the Department they are likely to have. of Education at Indiana education: Nugent: Wha[ would you University as an alternative to tell people who ask, "Isn't Nugent: What forms does rankings such as the U.S. News assessment what professors do assessment take at Connecticut and World Report rankings, critical with the practice of grading College? How do you start to which largely measure inputs, and giving feedback?" learn about the higher levels of such as money and student thinking, general education outcomes? test scores, for example. But Brooks: Yes, [hac is those rankings don't tell a moral assessment, but it is only Brooks: Well, grades and lot about what students are . on one level. As a student is comments are certainly some learning in the classroom or reasomng, getting grades, that data can of the most important ways what kind of outcomes they are help them measure how well we have of giving students experiencing. So the NSSE asks attitudes they've performed on that feedback. One of the things students what they have been particular assignment. But as a liberal arts college that doing in their coursework, towards typically, when we think about distinguishes us from all other what they are writing, what assessment at the College, types of schools is that we have they've been doing outside diversity, it's in broader terms. It isn't the close working relationship the classroom, what kinds JUStabout what happens between faculty and students. of interactions they've been lifelong in an individual course but For example, professors will having with their faculty and in an entire major. Do the offer to review a first draft with other students. required courses and other of a paper and are happy learning requirements as a combined to review the second draft. Brooks: We've also worked program produce the kind Those kinds of comments are every closely on the Wabash

28 CC,CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2009 National Study of Liberal often pick up suggestions in There are now about 50 show that we could probably Arts Education, a survey areas that need to be improved institutions involved in the challenge our students a bit that is broad enough to give or ideas that they'd like to Wabash study; we were one of more and signal very high

us good comparative data try.... The Joy Shechtman the original 18. It attempts to expectations to them. They from peer institutions. Both Mankoff Center for Teaching make the correlations between would like to have more NSSE and Wabash give us and Learning here on campus educational experiences and outside-the-classroom faculty that comparative national runs workshops on best those outcomes. It's been a interactions. That's why we data. Added to that and practices, but what's really very successful study. It works inscirured [his year a faculty- our work with individual been interesting in the last with students in their first student lunch program where departments, we have a host several years is that those year and at the end of their faculty members can eat once of other kinds of assessment. workshops have been strongly first year. We're in Year Four a week with students in the We have seniors who do influenced by the data that we so we'll be looking at seniors, College dining halls. capstone projects, honors gathered right here. and then a year from now, theses, art exhibits, recitals, we'll be getting the data that Nugent: So what about presentations and student Nugent: I wanted to return a does a four-year comparison. measuring outcomes? What

teaching portfolios. NI of little bit to the Wabash study. do our students do after [hey those are opportunities, at the We've started receiving our Nugent: And what did we graduate? end of a student's four years, results back, and I know you learn so far from the Year One

to plan a major intellectual and I have been interested to data? Brooks: About a quarter of project and get feedback all see what can be learned from our students go on to grad the way along the route to that kind of broad-based, Brooks: Well, one thing school immediately, and completion. We do foreign multi-year study. Could you that we notice when we go to they mix some full-time, language competency exams as explain how the study works? the Wabash meetings is that some part-time. About 75 well. And we do some alumni many of the other schools in percent go to work. But surveys periodically, and we Brooks: The Wabash study the study would love to have within a decade or so, half of look at national databases has really become the gold our data, because we're doing our students have earned an like the National Student standard for looking at liberal a great job and our retention advanced degree. That means Clearinghouse and the arts education, and if you numbers are very, very good. our students have picked National Science Foundation think about it, it measures Other schools are telling us up on the idea of lifelong to track how many of our two things and then tries to that they wish they were in learning, and they understand graduates earn advanced correlate them. On the one the situation we are. All that that it's really important to degrees. hand, it asks what kinds of said, I think rhat the data continue your education .• outcomes do we Nugent: And from what hope students will get you described as a feedback out of a liberal arts loop - establishing goals and education: critical then gathering data to use to thinking, moral improve the academic program reasoning, attitudes in various ways - it sounds towards diversity, like it's critical to provide the lifelong learning, all of

information back to faculty those kinds of things members so that they can that we commonly say make adjustments as necessary. a liberal arts education How does that happen? gives you. So it measures outcomes Brooks: It happens through like those, and it also course evaluations, of course. tries to coordinate the After the students write up kinds of programs and the evaluations and then hand kinds of educational them in, the professors have experiences students JOHN NUGENT, SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST AND SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO a chance to review them and have at the College. THE PRESIDENT (LEFT), WITH DEAN OF THE FACULTY ROGER BROOKS

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by Lisa Brownell Myles Green '09 dug deep into his family roots for a metaphor that works above and below the New England soil.

ransporting more than 5,000 pounds of earth and clay from four different locarions in New England and stirching a deerskin are not among the usual requirements for completing a senior honors thesis, usually the realm of footnotes and citations. Myles Green '09, an art major, did just that and more while crossing the boundaries of several states and many disciplines - philosophy, post-colonial srudies, history, ethnobotany, genealogy, anthropology, architecture, the visual arts and critical theory. His thesis, "Oriental Bittersweet and Other Invasive Species:Americans in North America," which he abbreviates as OBOIS:ANA, investigates his own ancestry and connects it to the land and people around him today. The symbiotic work, including three sculptures, documentation, photography and a published work, earned him the Oakes and Louise Ames Award for the most outstanding honors thesis this year. Denise Pelletier, assistant professor of art and his thesis adviser, comments, "In its final form, Myles' work, like some of the very best visual art, is a brilliant blend of process, material and research that seamlesslyconnects the personal ro the political and metaphor to narrative while it allows the viewer to enter the work on his or her own terms to construct its meaning."

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In this thesis, I contemplate place Asia, is one of the most destructive invasive species in - specifically southeastern Connecticut - and my New England In its search for light this vine strangles identity as a descendantof TbomasMiner, who was the trees and plants it climbs. one of the first European settlers of Massachusetts I construct my familial connection to one of the and Connecticut during the 17th century. Through first English colonizers - or invaders - of New a critical postcolonial viewpoint, I investigate the England and the changes that he directly instigated irreversible effects of the Euramerican colonization through a rammed-earth sculptural installation, a of New Eng&nd, including the (visible) land double-sided drawing on deer hide and an unfired dispossession. the (currendy invisible) mass genocide clay ttiptych. Through research and the use of and the changes to the understanding of the land. metaphor in the visual work of OBOIS:ANA, I hope The central metaphor for this incursion is invasive to provoke a critical examination and reflection of the

speciesofplants, specifically Oriental bittersweet. This means through which modern Americans stand 011 the plant, a deciduous woody vine originally from eastern ground under their feet.

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y f Orhgreat-grandfather, Thomas Miner, because the Indians had not was one of the early protagonists in what 'subdued' it and therefore • is ordinarily called the "colonial period of had only a 'natural' and not a United States history." He boarded a ship, arrived in 'civil' right to it." what we today call America, and soon became one Thus, [he so-called of the first planters ofland previously unsettled by Colonial period of United Europeans. States history was not a In New London and Stonington, Thomas farmed "settling" of an uninhabited the land, distributed property to other colonists, or empty land and the "establishment of civilization" acted as diplomat with the Pequot, held various as was believed at the time and in many cases still town appointments, trained soldiers and fought in today. Rather, it was "the period of invasion of Indian the military. However, the land that Thomas and society," of which Thomas Miner was a principal and other Englishmen "settled" was not uninhabited. It (prorragonisr .... is estimated that roughly 125,000 Native Americans In short, I believe that Thomas Miner was a lived in New England on the eve of Contact. p~edom~nanr figure in the implicit exploitation and In 1629 Governor ofConnecticut]ohn Winthrop, dissolution ,of Native American sovereignty, culture father of one of the three associates with whom and power In colonial New England as demonstrated Thomas founded Stonington, expressed the opinion by his religiously/ideologically motivated of most English colonists of the time regarding the par~icipation in the multifaceted dispossession of land: He proclaimed that the majority of America Indian land from which the agrarian American falls "under the legal rubric of vacuum domicilium dream was born.

• Viewthe entire work online at cconline. conncolI.edu

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DEFENDER By Rachel Harrington

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DEBD ADEGBILE '91, LEFT, ARGUED TO PROTECT THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AT THE U,S, SUPREME COURT THIS YEAR.

38 CC,CONNECTICU1 COLLEGE MAGAZINE fALL 2009 hen the U.S. Supreme in New York City, he studied the civil Court rejected a rights movement, which he describes constitutional challenge as a "wonderful story of empowerment to the core provision of that speaks to the possibilities of our the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in June, Constitution." attorney Debo Adegbile '91 was at the center "The LDF figured so prominencly in thar of the case. entire story," he says. "They were known as Adegbile, director oflitigation for the the lawyers in the civil rights movement and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational became the reason that I wanted to become Fund, defended the law before me court in a a lawyer." case that was one of the most closely watched Longtime friend David Flemister '87 of the year. The challenge was brought by a introduced him to Connecticut College, small Texas water district, Northwest Austin and Adegbile was impressed by the soccer Municipal Utility District Number One. program, breadth of the academic offerings, The court ultimately ruled on a narrow and caliber of the faculty and students. statutory issue, declining to address the Adegbile studied with professors like constitutionality of the law. Thus, the William Frasure, who teaches government, decision allowed both sides to claim victory. and Arthur Ferrari, who teaches sociology. The justices hinted that if pushed, they While Ferrari taught him about social might find the law unconstitutional. The inequality, Adegbile learned about public question of whether the election of Baraek policy and the evolution of one's right to Obama proved that voting discrimination counsel from Frasure. was a thing of the past was in the air Frasure remembers his student well - throughout the case. But Adegbile, who also Adegbile took so many of his courses that testified before Congress in support of the friends joked he was a "Frasure major." reauthorization of the Act in 2006, has some Frasure says AdegbiJe was always up for an words of caution. argument or debate, and he wasn't surprised "The Voting Rights Act ... is about by Adegbile's decision to become a lawyer - equality for all citizens, not about opportunity or by his success. for a single citizen or even a very talented "Debo was bright, intelligent and very citizen to reach the highest office," he told interested in politics and public affairs," interviewer Tavis Smiley on PBS a few days Frasure says. "He was terrific in every after the coon handed down its decision. respect." "I think it would be a mistake to equate Adegbile's first experience working in law progress, which we acknowledge and also happened while he was at the College. embrace, with the idea that there are no more Before slatting at the lingering problems." School of Law, he secured an internship in Adegbile, in his eighth year with the LD F, New London's public defender office through said after the case that discrimination today the Office of Volunteers for Community is more sophisticated - but no less painful Service. His outstanding work in public - than in 1965. service eventually earned him the Anna "I'm hopeful that there will be a time Lord Strauss Medal, presented each year to a in the future when we won't need to have Connecticut College senior. special protections for minority voters, but "I had a great experience at Conn," we haven't come to the point yet," he says. Adegbile says. "I, opened a lot of doors, It's not surprising that Adegbile wound prepared me well for law school and gave me up with the WE As a child growing up an opportunity to focus on public service." 1: Jcnlne. center - white, some Native American; Evan, right - African American, Native American, white; their children and Evan's mother. 2; Anando, Ari and Rehana Ellis- half Indian, half white. 3: John Ross- half Asian, half white. 4: Shigeru Logan - half black, half Asian. 5: Ryan Schlachter - half black, half white; with his mother, Terry.6: Jade and Perry Sharify - half Asian, half Iranian.

40 CC,CONNI:CTICUTCOllEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2009 ------BEYOND BLACK & WHITE

Mike Tauber '94 and Pamela Singh '95 cross the color lines in their new book on mixed-race America

STORY BY PHOEBE HALL PHOTOS BY MIKE TAUBER '94 From top to bottom: Cristalle Stutrud - half Asian, half white; Timothy Merli - Puerto Rican, Iranian; Sashya Clark - half Asian. half white.

n a perfect summer day in "Why is this even an issue? Why does July, Mike Tauber '94 and this matter?" she adds. "But on a daily Pamela Singh '95 relax on basis it's an issue." O the screened porch of their home in Fairfield, Conn. As they try to auber, who is white, and Singh feed lunch to their sons, Wyatt, 3, and didn't know each other at Rohwan, 1, Tauber and Singh ralk about TConnecticut College, meeting later typical parenting challenges: potty training, in New York City when Singh and some finding babysitrers, and juggling their work of Tauber's college friends were attending schedules. graduate school at Columbia University. Bur they face not-sa-typical challenges They began working on "Blended Nation" too. Like when strangers mistake Singh in 2001 after Tauber, a professional for the babysitter, and the white nanny as photographer, convinced Singh that the Tauber's wife. Or when teachers assume topic was so visual that the book should Wyan can't speak English. Or when they primarily consist of pharos. fill our forms for schools or doctors and "It's all skin color," Tauber says, which have to pick just one box to immediately presented him with a identify their sons' race. challenge: should he shoot in It was this issue black and white or color? of pigeon-holing, "I like black and white, one with and I preferred to use which Singh "INDIANS SAV, it when color wasn't herself has 'YOU'RE FROM TRINIDAD SO critical," he says. struggled YOU'RE NOT REALLY INDIAN'; But he felt many for years, photos had to be AMERICANS SAY, 'YOU DON'T that in color "because inspired LOOK INDIAN.' SO THAT'S WHAT skin, eye, and/ the MADE ME DECIDE TO DO or hair color were couple to important and you THIS BOOK." collaborate would lose that in on a - Pamela Singh '95 a black-and-white coffee-table picture." book, "Blended "It's rare to see the Nation: Portraits and combination in one book. I'm Interviews of Mixed-Race sure some die-hard photography America." Published this summer by critics will think it's an abomination," he Channel Phorographics, the book features adds. "Bur it would have lost the point if it individuals and families who identified were all black and white." themselves as multiracial on the 2000 U.S. That point - that heritage and identity Census, the first time they could do so. are as important to mixed-race individuals "I was tired of getting the 'what are as they are to those of a single race - was you' questions," explains Singh, who is the driving force behind the movement to three-quarters Indian and one-quarter change the Census. "Mixed-race people black. Singh grew up in an Indian village are constantly asked to check one of five on Trinidad and says she considers herself boxes," Singh says, thus denying the rest of Indian, bur when she moved to the U.S. their backgrounds. After much lobbying, she felt "forced" to identify as mixed-race. the 2000 Census allowed Americans "Indians say, 'You're from Trinidad so to mark two or more boxes below the you're not really Indian'; Americans say, question, "What is this person's race?" 'You don't look Indian.' So that's what In response, 6.8 million people checked made me decide to do this book. more than one box. Singh and Tauber

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wanted the individuals they featured in mixed-race senator from Illinois declared their book to be dear examples of this his candidacy for president. Sales of population. They steered away from Barack Obama's memoir, "Dreams from mixed ethnicities or nationalities, such My Father," soared among people of all as half Chinese and half Japanese, and races, of course, but Jonathan McBride followed Census parameters by not '92, who is half African American and classifying "Hispanic" as a race. Bur they half Syrian, says it holds special meaning acknowledge that the concepts of race, for people of mixed race. erhniciry and nationality overlap. "There's "I always saw being mixed-race as a gray area," Tauber says. "For example, a distinct advantage," says McBride, Middle Easterners are considered white, who was photographed for "Blended even though there are dark-skinned Nation" with his brother, Mikle, who is Middle Easterners." half African American and half Korean. "We were walking a fine line of not "I felt 1 could move between worlds being tOObroad and nor being too comfortably. Barack talks a lot about that specific, finding the definition of what in his book, that ability to operate on the race is," Singh says. "It's such a complex, margins. 1 absolutely felt that by the time nebulous and fluid concept it's difficult 1got into high school." to boil it down CO something specific and Jonathan and Mikle were adopted tight. by white parents and grew up in an "We're nor attempting to solve interracial neighborhood in Milwaukee. anything," she adds. Both say they identify more with their "We're JUStfurthering the discussion," African American heritage. Bur now Tauber says. Jonathan, a former College trustee, is married to a woman who is half Syrian he couple found their subjects and half Lebanese. "Ar age 39, I'm through friends and mixed-race suddenly really exploring my Syrian Top: the authors, Pamela Singh '95 and organizations such as Swirl and roots," he says. Mike Tauber '94. Bottom: Mikle McBride. half T African American and half Asian American. the Mavin Foundation. Tauber would Many of the people featured in and Jonathan McBride '92, half African photograph them, traveling throughout "Blended Nation" talk of that lifelong American and half Syrian. the Northeast and to California and exploration in their essays. Washington state, areas with high "Becoming comfortable in my skin multiracial populations. The subjects was a long process and didn't really the cultures around me." were then invited to respond to six happen until I left home for college," The essaysshow "what it's like to questions; many wrote such extensive writes Alexisjohara Haag, who is half exist in that realm between how people and intriguing replies that Singh white and half African. She recalls white classify themselves and how society and Tauber re-thought their original children not understanding that her classifies them," Tauber says. Singh says that employers have chosen approach of limiting the book to white mother was her "real" mother, and just photos and long captions. They black girls accusing her of being "roo her race for her when she has checked included essays by TV journalist Ann white." Now, she says, "I always identify twO boxes, and she expects teachers, Curry and author Rebecca Walker as as mixed, and 1 always check off twO doctors and others will do the same to well as biological anthropologist Alan boxes. If! called myself anything else, I'd her children. But, she says, she tries not Goodman, who they say gives"Blended be denying a significant portion of what to be "hypersensitive," and doesn't want Nation" a scientific foundation. makes me Alexis." Wyatt and Rohwan to be, either. "It became much more than we Tania Hino Gonzalez, who is half "It cook me a couple of years after moving here to realizehow important expected it to be," Tauber says. "The Asian and half Mexican, was born in race is to Americans." Now, she says, project evolved beyond the mixed-race Mexico and writes, "Growing up in the "I'm over it. I'm more concerned about experience into a whole conversation USA is especially hard because you have about race." to identify your race.... I had to develop my kids." • For millions of Americans, that my own identity and pick and choose conversation began in 2007, when a what fit best for my personality from all www.b!endednation.com

CC,CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEMAGAZINE fALL 2009 43 New $8 million fitness center debuts

>A NEW FITNESS CENTER, THE Murchison Hamilton '42 Fitness- Work on the new facility began in College's second major construction Wellness Center - was renovated for 2008, just as the College finished a $5 project in three years, opened its doors in group exercise, such as aerobics, Pilates, million top-to-bottom renovation of mid-August to the raves of students. yoga and spinning. two of its largest residence halls. The six "The best part is the amount of The new 6,500-square-foot facility gifts, including one for $3.5 million, additional space," says Shavar Bernier is an important resource for the entire allowed the College to move quickly '10. "The old fitness center would be campus community and a major draw for to construction after the project was packed from 3 to 6:30. There were just so prospective students. announced in December 2007. many people trying to work Out." "Athletics and fitness are high The College is raising rhe profile of The $8 million facility, builr wirh priorities for students, for good its athletics programs, and the fitness gifts from six individuals through the reasons," says President Leo 1. Higdon, center is the centerpiece of several Campaign for Connecticut College, Jr. "Athletics is also a critical part of a facilities improvements. They include triples the workout and fitness space liberal arts education." By challenging reconstruction of the south tennis courts and increases the number of machines themselves physically - on the playing - thanks to another gift - and at from 22 to 40. Its two stories rise field, in the gym or in their own fitness the athletics center, installation of new above the Lyn and David Silfen Track plan - students learn tremendous bleachers and a new walkway to Silfen and Field with sweeping views of the lessons about endurance, discipline and Field and rhe refurbishing of rhe Hall of Thames River. Inside, wooden beams teamwork, he says. Fame. complement the clean lines of the metal Almost 80 percent of students already Shields says the new fitness center is railings, dark gray floors, and glass walls use the fitness center, and Fran Shields, the a draw for students at all levels, whether at the front and rear. Katherine Wenk Christoffers '45 Director they want a good workout as part of The former facility - the Jane of Athletics, expects use to increase. their personal fitness regimen or plan to compete in a varsity sport. Varsity athletes want a fitness center where they can keep in top shape against NESCAC rivals, he says, and coaches have already started using the new fitness center as a recruiting tool. Kenyon, Hamilton, Gettysburg and Vassar all have new fitness centers, he adds. "We're staying competitive with other colleges where we're competing for students. We're nor standing pat. I think that's great," Shields says. William Wuyke, director of the fitness center, is elated. ''I'm like a kid with candy," he says. There wasn't enough

- When you support the College through the Parents Annual Fund reaches third Fund this year, you can show your pride in your graduating senior by making your gift in his or her highest total in College history honor. Your senior can also make a gift through the Annual Fund in honor of you, a professor, or someone else who's had a special influence in his HHE COLLEGE RAISED MORE Reunion giving - and attendance or her life A special honor roll booklet next spring than $16 million in new gifts and - showed strong suppOrt. The Class will celebrate the senior parents and students who commitments in 2008-2009 - despite of2004 achieved an all-time record for supported the College this year. the recession - through continued attendance by any reunion class, with leadership suppOrt and solid Annual 143 members on campus. The classes I' Fund participation. of 1969 and 1989 also set records. Many alumni, parents and friends Five classes- 1994, 1984, 1964, stretched to make the most substantial 1959 and 1954 - focused their giving gifts they could, although some had to efforts on scholarships. Together, they room in the old facility for everyone who make smaller gifts than they wanted. raised nearly $1 million in gifts and wanted to use it. "It was crazy in the The College is grateful for the support pledges for the Annual Fund. afternoon," says Wuyke, the College's they were able to give, says President The Class of 1959, celebrating its strength and conditioning coach. "This Leo. I. Higdon, Jr. 50th reunion, won the C. B. Rice '31 will make a big, big difference." Some highlights from the year: Award for the reunion class with the Work went smoothly overall, and stayed • The Annual Fund raised $4.5 highest participation (95 percent). on schedule - down to the moving of the million, the third-highest total in That class also rook the Ann Crocker machines from the old space. All together, the history of the College. Wheeler '34 Award for the greatest the move rook three weeks. • The Parents Fund increase in the number of Annual 00 Free weights and other heavy training reached $737,000, 8,9 Fund donors (38 percent). equipment are on the first floor of the new exceeding its goal, alumni, The Class of2004 came in second at 33 percent facility, with lighter cardia machines and with 40 percent parents, faculty, weight-circuit stations upstairs. Upstairs, participation. - tremendous for a fifth people can watch TV; listen to music or • Gifts from staff and friends reunion. And the Class of 2009 take in the expansive view of the Thames corporations supported the River while working out. and foundations set a record for supporting The view, Shields says, is one of the reached $3.5 College. the Collegethrough the things that will strike people most about million. Senior Giving Program. the new space. They'll also see how the • The Campaign for • ••• Ninety-seven percent of students new fitness center revitalizes the entire Connecticut College stood at made gifts. Together the seniors raised athletics center, he says. $120 million at year's end on June nearly $12,000, including a match by Bernier, a varsity basketball player, says 30. Trustee Thomas A. Sargent '82. the new design is more efficient, too. To 8,900 alumni, parents, faculty, Higdon expects the difficult economy to continue through 2009. get to the lighter weights, students used staff and friends supported the Careful financial management - to have to make their way through the College. combined with strong support from area where varsity athletes would be team The College focused much of its donors - positions the College to lifting. With the new facility, that won't be fundraising effort on financial aid and conrinue pursuing funding for its necessary. the Annual Fund because of the critical strategic priorities, he says. "Everyone has been looking forward to support both provide for current-year "The College is moving forward having it open," Bernier says. operations. Several new commitments with a clear strategic vision despite the The Department of Athletics invited of $1 million or greater were received challenging economy," he says. "OUf parents to visit the fitness center on Arrival by the College despite the economy, commitment is to provide nothing less Day, and hosted the College communiry although new gifts and commitments than an extraordinary education," for a ribbon-cutting and other festivities showed a decline from 2007-2008. 10 see who made these achievements after Convocation on Sept. 3. An official The College increased opportunities possible, go to http://honorrollconncoll dedication is being planned for the fall. - for networking and saw attendance at edu. The password is Honor09. Barbara Nagy alumni events jump 50 percent.

CC,CONN£CTlCUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE FAllZD09 45 $375K grant enhances foreign language programs

>A $375,000 GRANT FROM a number of curricular and student- A community outreach partnership The Andrew W Mellon Foundation centered initiatives, including: with the World Languages program will enhance foreign language at New London's Regional studies with new opportunities for • Opportunities for 60 students to Multicultural Magnet School student-faculty research, proficiency conduct faculty-directed research in certification, programming and foreign languages Students can study French, German, language learning across the • Language proficiency certification for Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, curriculum. 110 students Russian, Spanish and Arabic. The "This new program will transform • Foreign language components for College also offers classes in Hebrew, how foreign languages serve as a courses in a wide range of disciplines Greek, Latin and linguistics. Language foundation of an international, • Two new faculty developmem programs focus increasingly on cultural globalized liberal arts education," says seminars focused on foreign language and colloquial fluency in addition to Roger Brooks, dean of the faculty. teaching and inrerdisciplinariry more traditional lirerarure studies. "Languages will be integrated across Studem-designed, co-curricular Many language courses are enhanced the curriculum and in the residence programming in foreign languages with technology; for example, students halls, giving all students access to an Faculty-led events in the residence in introductory Russian are issued iPods internationalized experience both inside halls conducted in foreign languages with authentic cultural materials, such the classroom and out." • A new international common room as popular music, folk songs, music The grant, which will fund the with satellite television and Skype videos and cartoons, as well as language program for three years, will support stations exercises. - Amy Martin

Contact Bill O'Neil, director of majnr gifts and planned giving, at 860-439'2414 or [email protected]. Or go to www.conncoll.planyourlegacy.org

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Jesse Friedman '02 fun and meaningful for Friedman, he says one of the most important Brings lessons of living abroad to high school students parts of being a global citizen is "how you come back and apply it." This is central to the mission ofTriskallian Tours - a company named for a >UKE MOST COLLEGE college. Friedman combines his curved, three-pronged symbol that, students, Jesse Friedman '02 found his experience as a seasoned traveler he says, embodies the idea that semester abroad to be life-changing. with his degrees in government and "everything comes back to its origins." But Friedman's time in Greece during political science to provide teens He adds, "To travel is one thing, but his junior year inspired him CO take with a two-week trip to Costa Rica to travel, learn and apply these lessons an unusual leap: after graduation, and Panama that is one part cultural to one's life at home, that's what it's all Friedman moved to Southeast Asia, immersion, one part community about." where he spent three years teaching service and one part surfing. When Friedman isn't leading trips English as a second language. His sec- Friedman hopes to make important in Central America, he's in his Dennis, ond experience with total cultural im- changes in the communities they visit Mass., office, planning future trips and mersion taught him the importance of - and in the lives of the students he working to expand the company. He'd recognizing oneself as a "global citizen leads - through Triskallian Tours. like Triskallian Tours to go to other who is a parr of something bigger." He While his post-graduate travels countries, including Brazil, Thailand adds, "Had I gained this lesson before certainly inspired his line of work, and Ecuador, with different programs I went to college, I would have been Friedman says Connecticut College in each place. But one constant will such a different person." fueled his desire to travel in the first be the focus on community service. This philosophy is the foundation place. He believes that without the "That's one of the coolest parts about for Triskal1ian Tours, a company College's emphasis on study abroad, "I traveling, helping people out in Friedman founded to give high probably wouldn't have sropped and the community," he says. Over the school students the opportunity to been like, I should do this." past three summers in Costa Rica, live (briefly) abroad While traveling Friedman has built a special bond before is both with the local community, which, he says, "recognizes that (the students) are there to make an impact." By translating his education and experiences into a meaningful career, Friedman has found the kind of job satisfaction that many only dream of. He says of his annual travels wi th high school students, "There's a lot that goes into this that people don't see, but I just sit here with a smile on my face for four months."-Arielle Shipper '10

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Jennifer Bilotti Chamberlain '96 Graphic designer finds her niche on the web

>YOU MAY NOT KNOW HER "I name, but you've probably seen her thought work. graphic Graphic designer Jennifer Bilotti design was the Chamberlain '96 is responsible for perfect way to le- branding WebMD, a site visited each verage my skills as an month by about 17.1 million people artist and get paid to be hoping to find a new doctor or diag- creative," Chamberlain says. Chamberlain's first job after grade- nose their ailments. clients. She combats this by meeting Before starting her own company, acing was designing for Conde Nasr with a monthly peer group, using Pixel Pop Designs, Chamberlain was Traveler magazine, and she followed LinkedIn and Twitter, and hosting the leader of WebMD's in-house that up by working for Food & Wine and YM. When the Internet started lunches for clients. design studio, where she also worked Her talent, dogged work ethic and taking off, though, she left the maga- on online marketing campaigns for networking efforts have paid off, and zine business to design for Vault. heaithcare companies like Tylenol and she's working on projects for General "I was fascinated by the Web's Pfizer. Mills, 7-Eleven and ARac, to name a few. She's enjoyed following her vision, Great design comes from creativity, a solid setting her own schedule and working with people who inspire her. understanding of design fundamentals and "I love working with my clients to make their ideas a reality," she says. knowing how to appeal to your audience. Though Chamberlain creates for the Web, she Starts all projects out on paper. She recommends the book Inspired by everything from high- inreractiviry," she says. "I knew I had "Universal Principles of Design" to any way billboards to Target commercials, to be part of it." budding designer. Chamberlain was always an artist, Chamberlain took the leap and "Great design comes from creativ- but she knew as a student that her started her own company after her son ity, a solid understanding of design chances of making a living as one were was born last year. fundamentals and knowing how to thin. Then Professor of Art Andrea Working at a small design studio appeal to your audience," she says.- Wollensak introduced her to the world can make it difficult for Chamberlain RacheL Harrington of graphic design. to network and stay connected to her

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Volunteer Spotlight CONNIE SMITH GEMMER '80 P'IO

>FOR CONNIE SMITH a position that also makes her a Gemmer strives to keep other Gemmer '80 P' 10, Connecticut College trustee. alumni feeling as connected as she College is a family tradition. "I love getting an opportunity does, whether it's through alumni Her mother, Headley Mills to connect with my classmates on programming or communications. Smith '53, started the trend. Then a regular basis," she says. "I Reunions, like the one she'll her brother, Whit Smirh '76, kept may not have known celebrate in 2010, are it going, meeting his wife, Terry it back in 1980, but important co her, since it's Sanderson Smith '76, at the College. they're my friends Gemmer a way for alumni co have As a student, Connie met her own for life." is the new a great party but also get husband, Fred Gemmer '80, and Her hard a glimpse into what's now, the tradition remains strong work has not president of happening at the College among the next generation - the gone unnoticed - from new faculty Gemmers' daughter, Annie Gemmer by her classmates the alumni hires to the construction '10, and nephew, Matthew Smith - or Connecticut association of the new fitness center. '10, are current students, and Whit College staff. "If alumni go away and Terry's daughter, Alexandra "Connie never with the intention of staying Smith, graduated in 2007. denies the College connected until their next reunion, With all of her family ties to the anything," says Bridget McShane, they're more likely to support the College. it's no surprise that Connie director of alumni relations. "She College and feel a real sense of pride Gemmer considers it a second is always front and center when it about their alma mater being top home. She looks back fondly ar her comes to helping us out." notch,' she says. "That's what I'm entire experience - from living in As presidenr of the AA board, really hoping for." Windham, the same residence hall as her future husband, to washing dishes in Harkness dining hall with her "fantastic" boss, Clara Hatch. "Not only did I love Conn College as a student, I am very mindful of just how much my experience there shaped my adult life," she says. Gemmer became a tireless volunteer the moment she graduated, She began by conducting interviews with prospective students and went on to host freshmen send- off events at her home in Maine. Today, in addition to working as a partner in the public relations firm Barron & Gingold, she helps plan class reunions, serves as a class agent and correspondent, and volunteers as the new president of the Alumni FRED GEMMER '80, CONNIE GEMMER '80, AND THEIR DAUGHTER, ANNIE GEMMER 'io. Association Board of Directors, AT FALL WEEKEND 2007.

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Food from the Family Tree: Bygone Food and Nutrition Controversies Tyrannoclaus Days Meet Modern Ways Today: A Reference Guide Janet Lawler '74 Patricia Johns Bell '65 and Bonnie Myrna Chandler Goldstein September 2009, HarperCollim Johns Rasmussen '67 '70 and Mark A. Goldstein Publishers, $16.99 2008, Moreland Publishing, $20 2009, GreenwoodPress,$49.95 How will Tyrannoclaus deliver the This cookbook, written by Bell and Conflicting messages about food and dinosaur children's presents on time illustrated by her sister Rasmussen, is a nutrition make it difficult for the lay after a volcano erupts? Another light-hearted culinary journey through person to know what ro believe. This charming book for children three generations of their family. guide presents opinions and facts by Lawler. about 16 commonly discussed topics. The Chosen Few Goldstein has been a freelance writer and independent scholar for Roy Eaton '78 and Joseph DiLalla I': ,J:',,':f'1iM\JD I/\CLJLTY two decades. Her Web site WWVoI. i\U, I;016: Please have review 2008, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, changethemold.com encourages doing copies and publicity materials $13.99 business with socially responsible mailed to Editor, CC: Magazine, In this thriller, a sick man taken off an Becker House, Connecticut companies. She is the author of "Boys experimental drug therapy investigates College, 270 Mohegan Ave., into Men" and "Controversies in the the pharmaceutical company's New London, CT 06320-4196 Practice of Medicine." nefarious motives.

Reindeer with King Gustaf: What to Expect When Your Spouse Wins the Nobel Prize

Anita Perry Laughlin '74 October 2009, Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, $24 A humorous account of the madcap two months lived by Laughlin and her Nobel laureate husband as they prepared for and attended the 1998 ceremony.

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ily.They still own a cottage at and airlines are no problem. She 3 5 Correspondent: Sabrina Groton Long Point and drive by sees Jean Keith Shahan, who (Subby) Burr Sanders, 33 Mill St., Unit CC on their way there. lives in a town nearby. A neigh- 4E, Wethersfield, CT 06109 Jean Moran Gaffey turned bor's grandson is a CC alum 90 in Jan. She and her hus- (Class of'02), and he always 3 8 Correspondents: Mary band keep busy with family in visits her when he is in town and Caroline (M.C.) Jenks Sweet, 865 Wallingford, Torrington and gives her news of the College. Central Ave., Apt. A404, Needham, Winchester, CT. They now have MA 02492 and Jane Hutchinson a third great-grandchild - all Cauffield, 100 High Point Drive, A-l3, 41 Correspondent: Ethel Moore Medina, OH 44256 are under the age of 3. Jean Wills, P.O. Box 443, Northport, MI wishes she could keep up with 49670, [email protected] her husband, who walks 20 laps I start this column with the Correspondent: Frances Sears 40 at Choate every morning. Her news that Kay Ord McChesney Baran, 87 Plant Sr., New London, CT 06320, [email protected] granddaughter works at the U. has asked to bow our as Class Our class sends sympathy to the of Delaware library. Correspondent after many family of Pauline (Polly) Carroll Margaret Haddad MacDonald years at the helm. I understand Carter. She died in Feb. after and Mac celebrated their 60th completely and applaud her 66 years of marriage to husband anniversary with a lobster din- for her many years of service to Joe. His sister, Nancy Carter ner. Although they have lived our class. Four years ago, Kay McKay '51, and his daughter, in FL for many yeats, "Shore put out a plea for help and I Antoinette Carter Emery '66, are Dinners" are still their favorite responded. Now it is my turn to also alums. foods. ask for help. Please send news. It Irene Kennel Pekoe is feeling Elaine Perry Sheldon says she is the phoning and digging that good but doesn't have many is in good shape and lives in are most time consuming. friends left. She has seven chil- Beverwick in the Albany area. In my last column, I wrote dren: five sons live nearby in the There are 200 residents, mostly that Priscilla (Dux) Duxbury Cleveland area. One is a profes- women. Her son's in-laws live in Wescott-Huber had enjoyed sional artist who has had several Mystic, so she gets to CT often a visit from Elizabeth (Bette) well-received exhibitions. One and drives through campus for Smith Twaddell. I e-maiied daughter lives in a look-see. Her daughter is in Bette and received the following and has written five books on IN. Elaine played golf until four response: "I had a great reunion strength training. Her other years ago. with Dux, Joe and some grands. daughter lives in Miami. Apphia (Muflie) Hack I'm recovering from my 90th Bessie Knowlton Tyler is still Hensley went to WI to be with birthday, which my four kids in the same house with the same her son when he received a and 10 grandchildren put on husband. They love getting out kidney transplant. Fortunately, for me, with lots of old friends. to lunch often. She works our his wife was a perfect match for None of them live nearby, so rwice a week with a trainer. a donor, and they are both doing it was done by lots of e-mail. A new great-grandchild has well. Although using a walker, Other than giving up tennis this increased the size of their fam- Muffie loves to go on cruises, winter because of eye problems

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A weight off his shoulders The bronze self-portrait of Alex Forden '06 is at home in the library

SOME COLLEGE STUDENTS, contemplating the trials of young adult- hood, might withdraw within them- selves and silently reflect. Others find it therapeutic to express themselves in other ways. So when Alexander Forden '06, an art major, decided to use his senior thesis to explore his identity and his passage to adulthood, to say he wasn't afraid to share with the world would be an understatement. "1 was interested in how big we could go," he explains. He was able to go life-size. His proj- ect, "Before the Rally of Spirit," which took Forden his entire senior year to complete, is a bronze casting of himself, naked, his back arched, anns down, mouth relaxed and palms open. ALEX FORDEN '06 VISITS HIS SCULPTURE, "BEFORE THE RALLY OF SPIRIT," AT SHAIN LIBRARY IN "Life leading up to my senior JULY. FORDEN LEASED IT TO THE LIBRARY WHEN HE GRADUATED. year was a search for 'place," Forden explains. "The sculpture is a representa- be here for him when that happens," he the foundry was sufficient for smaller tion of many transitional periods of my says. castings, but Forden says he and Bailey youth. The materials, scale and weight Forden says the lease covered the cost wanted to "push the limits." They built of the sculpture represent stability and a of his materials and some of his labor. "I a temporary structure with a roof to pivotal resting point while the form sug- feel really forrunace to have some place keep the rain off their heads and started gests something more emotional." as great as Conn to keep it and to have pouring molten bronze into molds in Forden's adviser, Assistant Professor them help me our," he adds. spring 2006. of Art Greg Bailey, worked closely with Now working in construction The final product weighed in at 350 pounds - presenting Forden with a his student to make the project happen, management in New York City, Forden new problem. Bailey and his wife (and even bringing it to his home studio so starred an M.B.A. program at Baruch Forden could finish it there. "This was College's Zichlin School of Business this their Subaru) helped move it into the Cummings Arts Center for the senior the single biggest student project that fall. He's going parr time so he can keep an show, but then it needed a more I ever advised," Bailey says. But he was working in the industry. "I want to open permanent home. After Forden secured happy to help, he adds, because Forden my own construction and architecture its place in Shain, he and his girlfriend was "tremendously hard-working." firm," says Forden, who attributes his used a dolly to roll the sculpture across The provocative sculpture caught the interest in the field to classes in drafting campus. "It was something out of a attention of Lee Hisle, vice president for and design at Connecticut College. comedy," Forden laughs. "I started Information Services and librarian of the Forden says that at first it didn't oc- pushing it up the hill (to Shain) and I College, who arranged to lease it from cur to him to be uncomfortable about was almost to the top and it starred to Forden. It has stood in the southeast putting his nude self on display. "When roll back. ... I'm glad Ihaven't had to corner of Shain Library's first floor since Iwas assembling it in wax form in the move It since. " Forden graduated. studio and people were gawking at it, Ultimately, when Shain's lease runs The library paid $600 to lease the then I became more self-conscious of our, Forden will have to move it again. sculpture for five years, Hisle says, add- it," he recalls. There's no room in his Manhattan ing that he doesn't believe the library Bur the young arrisr had bigger apartment for a bronze alter ego. But had ever leased student artwork before. things to worry about. For one thing, Bailey lives near campus, Forden says. "It's in a safe spot and on public view. the campus foundry could not accom- "I asked him, how do you feel about a Someday Alex might like to pur it in a modate a project of that magnitude. garden sculpture?" - Phoebe Hall collection or in his own home, so it will Located behind the south tennis courts,

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(embarrassing to be hit by the her sons worked together to Barbara Batchelor Hamlin is drives. Both her daughters are balll), I'm still working out, build the company, which her in a retirement community in grandmothers now! doing rai chi and knitting, and I husband had started in '67, and CT, where she has much to do. Nan Thompson Wells lives belong to two book groups. My it continued to increase and Daughter Louise is a full profes- in MI and moved to a condo daughter contacted the alumni thrive until they sold it. She is sor at Dartmouth. Daughter after her husband died. She is office and got a copy of the year- proud that the three of them Susan is a banker, son Bart is involved in her church as a ves- book, and I read the interesting worked a family business and an architect and son James is a tryman and plays chimes every '39 alumna description of being have remained friends. And she musician, all in NY. Sunday. She is active in garden caught in France when the war is grateful that they all remain Barbara Hogate Ferrin is in dub and plays bridge. She visits broke out. Reminded me of my in the area, including three FL. Her granddaughter gradu- her three children often. thwarted junior year abroad, grandchildren. Currently, Leann ated from law school, passed Julia Rich Kurtz is in a retire- when I gOt to France in July and is volunteering at a nonprofit or- the bar and got married, all last ment home in FL. She has seven had to come home. _, an excit- ganization founded by son Andy summer! Her other granddaugh- grandchildren and six greats. ing but sad time." to support the arts in Cleveland- ter graduated from Amherst Every year the whole family Bette's e-mail triggered some area schools. The whole family is and is going to Columbia, and meets at her daughter's house on similar memories for me. My involved. Leann still drives and her grandson goes to U. of Lake Winnipesaukee. sister, Carol Moore Kepler '38, is an active supporter of Cc. Denver. Barbara volunteers and Constance (Connie) Smith my mother and I were treated One of her activities relates to has been on the board of the Hall is in PA and still singing to more than twO months in her being a history major. Iwill Rehabilitation Center for 15 in a 60-member chorale. She Europe as a graduation present report on that in a future issue. years. does watercolor painting and has for her from an aunt. It was the Margie (Bunny) Livingston had several exhibits. She enjoys lase summer such a trip was pos- 4 2 Correspondent: Jane "Woodien Campbell says that after 64 years her book group and has six sible. The following summer my Worley Peak, Vinson Hall, Apt. 306, of camping and sailing adven- grandchildren and 12 greats; she sister's friend, Elizabeth (Betty) 6251 Old Dominion Drive, Mclean, tures, she and Staff have "settled attends the symphony and the VA 22101, [email protected] Burler Close '38, went to Europe down." She still paints and is Fulton Playhouse. with a group, and they were in touch with Barbara Hogate In CT, Louise Reichgott Endel forced to leave Berry in a French 43Correspondents: Isabel Vaughan Ferrin. is on several advisory boards and James, 22 Gypsy lane, East Aurora, hospital for removal of her Marilyn Sworzyn Haase is enjoys bridge. Her claim to fame NY 14052; LoisCreighton Abbott, appendix, as they were ordered recovering from hip surgery and 37 Stonewood Drive, Rockland, ME is her grandchildren: one is get- back to the U.S. because of the 04841, serhabborrwaol.com is caring for her sick husband. ting a degree in political science, war. Somehow it all worked out. Kay Hadley Inskeep lives in VA. She was a natural science docent one is a medical student, one is My sister is gone, and I lost track She keeps up with Fran Yeames at the Oakland Museum and in nursing school and three more of Betty many years ago. I hope Prickitt, who is on oxygen. Kay host of a Great Decisions Study are in college. Fabulous! And that all of this brings back some does lots of volunteer work, goes Group. She has lectured on her her children are no slouches! war-related memories that some to nearby Elderhostel offerings 20-year friendship with Eleanor One is a professor, one works for of you would like to share. and still plays J 8 holes of golf Roosevelt. Harvard Health Plan and one is I had a long chat with Leann Hope Castagnola Bogorad Mary Surgenor Baker has a busy volunteer. Donahue Rayburn and am arranged a concert in honor volunteered at her local hospital In Toronto, Jane Grimley hopeful that Iwill report most of Czech composer Bohuslav for many years and is grateful Norsworthy has retired from of our conversation accurately. Martinu, in which her daugh- for good health and a wonderful library work and buying and (Occasionally I regret the loss of ter, Julia, played flute and her family, including 11 great- selling antiques; she now loves to my shorthand skillsl) Leann feels son, Ben, played viola. Hope grandchildren. travel to see her children in MN she has been very blessed; first provided a commentary. Mary Morse Hurst's husband and CT. by a great husband who started a Frieda Kenigsberg Lopatin writes that they have had many Nancy Crook Tishler is in successful business, and secondly wrote a poignant letter abour the wonderful trips around the Cape Cod; her children are not by two fine sons, Jim and Andy, death of husband, Colman, who world and sunny winters in FL, far away, in NH. She has eight who took over when their father died last Dec. He was a weIl- but, sadly, Mary now suffers grandchildren and three greats. died unexpectedly. Leann and loved doctor in Fairfield, CT. from dementia. Nancy looks back on volun- Alyce Watson McAllister teering as docent in Carnegie still plays golf and helps with Library and 26 years as docent college and men's rournamenrs. in Americana Museum and She often sees her three sons: a Gardens in MA. She finds dentist, a football coach and a arthritis limiting. "Hello to all tech engineer. She also "fiddles '43 friends." about" with watercolors. The class sends sympathy to Louise Daghlian Belcher the family of Barbara Boyd lives in DC and met our CC Bensen, who died 4!l5. She is president at a College gathering. survived by daughters Patricia She was amazed at the number and Wendy, six grandchildren of young men present. She and eight great-grandchildren. now gives virtual tours for the She was a Realtor in Ridgewood, Smithsonian, via computer, to NJ, for many years. schools allover the district. Ruth Wilson Cain lives in TX. 44 Correspondent: Jane She still does some needlework, Bridgwater Hewes, 236 Silver Creek but macular degeneration has Circle, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, wl- taken a toll. She has sold her [email protected] house and moved to a retirement Edith Miller Kerrigan has had Tiffany Bowlby '01 visited Randy Perkins '01 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. community, as she no longer hip-replacement surgery and is

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in intensive therapy. he had worked in Groton and husband are both well. They Muriel Jentz Schulz has moved while there had taken graduate returned to CO after another to a nursing home. Her daughter courses at Cc. Iwill be sharing nice winter in Tucson. Their says she would love to receive my CC Magazine with him as sons are still in FL and CO. notes. Also, Betty Babcock is Icontinue to marvel at what a Four of five grandchildren are in the skilled-nursing section of small world it is." in various stages of undergradu- a nursing home. Cards to her Mariechen Wilder Smith and ate and graduate work. Their would be appreciated. Barbara friend Kirk planned an Aug. fifth granddaughter is 12 and is Pfohl Byrnside's husband writes cruise to Martha's Vineyard, severely handicapped with tri- that she was unable to attend Nantucket, etc. Neither had somy 18 (triplication of the l Srh Reunion but sends best wishes ro been back in that area for over chromosome). "Her parents are all. They live at Belle Meade, a 30 years. Kirk's mother was an fantastic caring for her." senior's abode in Southern Pines, early settler of Nantucket, so Edna Hill DuBrul misses NC. Phyllis Miller Hurley is the trip had special meaning for both Lois Pariserte Ridgway moving from her home of 39 him. Mariechen planned to go and Connie Barnes Mermann. years to a retirement facility. on to Cape Cod to see Marjorie "It's not easy, but r guess that's Please contact the alumni office Lawrence Weidig. This trip was why the Golden Years seem so for aU our friends' new addresses. a celebration of Mariechen's tarnished." She also misses her Barbara Barlow Schaefer spen t 85th birthday; she assures us friends at Peconic Landing as Michael Kahn '92 gets ready for the that she doesn't feel that old, last winter in Ft. Myers. She still fourth season at his 8&8, The Stone they pass on. "But life does have "but the calendar does not lie." volunteers at the library back at House, in the south of France. a bright side - after listening to home. Barbara Avery Jubell enjoyed Obarna at his press conference, Elaine Kappel Winik has equestrienne. Marjorie Geupel several weeks on Sanibel Island. my hope is partially restored for published twO books - "no Murray died 2/13. She loved I (Ann LeLievre Hermann) live this country. What a fast learner bestsellers" - "Still Looking needlepoint, stitching many just a few miles from there, but he is. JUStdon't let anything Forward," a book of memoirs, creations for friends. She served this year both Barb's schedule happen to him." I, Ann, feel and "Living with Dementia, A for 60 years, some as an Elder, and mine were so full that we a need to contribute another Love Story." Husband Norm at the Presbyterian Church in settled for a nice long phone "bright side" - how wonderful has suffered from dementia for Indianapolis. Marylouise Oak chat instead of our annual get- it is when we find new friends 15 years. Elaine also teaches a Cowan died 3/28 at her home together. She sounded as chipper who then fill at least a part of course in creative writing. in Boothbay Harbor, ME. She as ever and was enjoying friends the emptiness left by those who Lila Sullivan Murphy works was 87 and had been ill for some and family members visiting leave us! at the Preservation Society and time. her condo during "the season." Sadly, Margery (Midge) says if you come to Newport, The weather was glorious, so her Rogers Safford passed away in RI, she'll give you a tour. Please guests enjoyed the beaches and Feb.; she was living back in OH 45 Correspondent: Ann Lel.ievre contact the alumni office for her Hermann, 6809 Turban Court, Ft. other outdoor activities. near her children. We send our phone number. Myers, FL 33908, alhermph@ The same was true when my sympathy to her three children Janet Leech Ryder has moved erubarqmail.com guests, mostly family, visited and eight grandchildren. into a care facility for military Ruth Veevers Mathieu, who my new, downsized apartment. is co-chairman with Frances I survived the move and am and foreign service personnel. 46 Correspondent: Muriel Her husband, Bert, suffers from Conover Church of our 65th just delighted with my new Evans Shaw '46, 10 White Oak Drive, Alzheimer's. Janet keeps busy reunion (june 4-6,20101), has surroundings. It feels so good to Apt. 304, Exeter, NH 03833-5314, serving on garden committees, been pleased to see Reunion let go of items no longer needed [email protected] knitting for Navy Relief and reminders in previous issues and and to move into fresh and attending events in DC. is especially glad that many of attractive new rooms. fu usual, 47 Correspondent: Ann McBride Lois Hanlon Ward can no us are making plans to attend! "I I am hustling as 1write these Tholfsen, 549 W. 123rd Sr., Apt. ro. G, New York, NY 10027, anntryg@ longer drive or manage public hope everyone who possibly can notes, this rime because good lanser.com transportation - the result attend will do so. Think of it . friend AI and I are embarking on 65 years out of college! Fran and a river cruise from Amsterdam No one in our class has sent any of a terrible fall twO years ago. news for this issue. Sixty-two She was sorry to miss Reunion I welcome all suggestions. We to Budapest! are planning a great performance Elizabeth (Trim) Trimble years is such a long time! When I and sends regards to those who read of the 200th anniversary of by our crowd-pleasing clown Crosman went to South China, attended. Darwin's birth, it rook me back Susan Marquis Ewing and (who plans to attend and to ME, in July, where she saw to our senior year, when I took perform againl). Be there or be daughter Margot and son-in-law John were unable to attend a course in genetics. DNA was Reunion as they were in the pro- square!" David, as well as son Bob and Lois (Toni) Fenton Tuttle's his wife, Betsey, with grand- first discovered to be connected cess of moving into a retirement ro genetics in the '40s, and I re- facility in Rocky River, OH. oldest great-grand, age 4, has son Kyle and granddaughter been reading for almost a year. Katharine. Daughter Darcy has member so well Miss Botsford's Gloria Pierce Gould's daughter excitement during her lecture "Back in our ancient days of co-edited her first book with wrote that she has been hospital- on this discovery and its possible yore I don't think we read until friend Karen Mclean Dade, ized in a nursing home. relation to human evolution! We first grade." "DivineNPromise." Trim has Alice Carey Weller repons her have seen so many changes since Joyce Stoddard Aronson taken on a roommate in order to daughter is a cancer survivor '47 rhar it takes my breath away. after experimental treatment at shared a small-world experience: stretch the dollar and stay in her She had lunch with a resident condo. She's healthy and active The study of biology is much the U. of Philadelphia. more complex now, but we Sadly, we have lost three whom she had not known very and wonders how she stays so went [Q college in such exciting well. The conversation turned to busy all the time. "Still doing classmates recently. Patricia times. These days I spend a good where they had gone to school. the class agent thing and plan to Bennett Hoffman died on deal of my time reading novels ''AI; he had said he was from LA, attend Reunion 2010!" 2/5. She was an experienced and rereading old favorites; dog handler and an excellent I was very surprised to Jearn that Mary Watkins Wolpert and

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listening to music, particularly chamber music, which we were introduced to in Mr. Quinby's camels to class; and trying keep up with IN THE CROWD the world. We travel only to see children and grandchildren; it becomes increasingly difficult to be as active as in the past. My best wishes to ali of you, and please send news for the next issue!

48 Carrapondent: Shirley Anne Nicholson RODS,3 Cozzens Court, Newport, Rl 02840, caproos@ frontierner.ner Kathleen Keffer Keane '72, director 49 Correspondent>: Mabel of the Johns Hopkins Brennan Fisher, 6602 Sulky Lane, N. Bethesda, MD 20852-4345, watted@ University Press, aol.com and Marjorie Stutz Turner, did not extend into a third gen- I JUSt learned of the death of our began a one-year term 6696 Club House Lane, Apr 104, eration (Selby's daughter is Anna classmate, Carol Burnell Raney, Warrenton, VA 20187-7274 Graham Kindermann '84). in early June. The class extends as president of the Mary Gillam Schmalz now its sympathy to Bill Raney and Association of American 50 Correspondent: Ruth Kaplan, lives independendy in Savannah, family upon the death of his University Presses 82 Halcyon Road, Newton Center, l\1A GA, where she moved in fall wife. 02459, [email protected] (AAUP) in June. She '05 after the death of her The first respondent to my By the time you read these lines, second husband. She is on the plea for news was Joan Andrew served for the past year our 60th reunion will be less Residence Council there, plays White. In Feb., she and a friend as president-elect and than a year away. The festivi- a lot of bridge and has made went to the Galapagos Islands has been on the board ties will be held on campus the many new friends. Her children with a National Geographic! weekend of June 4-6,2010. of directors since 2007. are scattered. Daughter Patricia Lindblad group, seeing "all the This past Feb., the College Barber Bagnell 72 lives in wonderful animals, birds, fish Prior to coming to hosted an Insights Weekend for Natick, MA, and teaches high and tortoises." The highlight of Johns Hopkins in 2002, representatives of reunion classes school English. She and husband the tour was seeing a 34-foot Keane was executive vice to develop plans and programs Ed have three boys, all in their pregnane whale shark right next for the big weekend. We were president of operations 20s. Nancy lives in Milton, MA, to the Zodiac while cruising in represented by Elaine Title with her 14-year-old daughter, the waters offshore, a rare event and chief publishing Lowengard, Barbara Harvey adopted from Russia at 15 - many of the naturalists and officer at Harcourt Butler and Marie (Mimi) months old. Tim, a lawyer, and ship's crew had never seen one in Health Sciences in Woodbridge Thompson. wife Madia live in Charlotte, all their excursions. Specific details were not avail- Philadelphia. NC. They have three boys - In late March, Jeanne Tucker able as I prepared this column. one has graduated from college, Zenker wrote of her busy life The College is making all the one is in college and the third in Vero Beach, FL, during the arrangements - all we have is a junior in high school. And winter months; N] in May, June to do is show up ... in droves, Kip and wife Chris live in Palm and fall holidays; and summers I hope. As in past reunions, Springs and MI. They have rwo on Martha's Vineyard. She visits we will probably be housed in sons; one has graduated from with Joy Karn McCormack, one of the Plex dorms, which college, and the other is a junior. Marjorie Weeks Owens and have been renovated with air Alison (Tiny) Porritt Wilson Marjorie Erickson Albertson conditioning and elevators. You lost husband Bill in Ocr. '07 in FL. In a phone conversa- will be hearing much more on - a great loss, as she fondly tion with Barbara (Bar) Nash this subject - perhaps you have Sullivan, she discovered that Richard Halpern remembers the wonderful trips already received a letter from our they took together. She has three Bar's granddaughter and Jeanne's '76 was named a 2009 reunion chair, Julia Linsley. children and five grandchildren, grandson were both freshmen Guggenheim Fellow Starr planning now. Contact all living in NC and \IT. at Lewis and Clark College in your friends. Urge everyone to Portland, OR. In jan., having by the John Simon The Class extends sympathy to come. And stay tuned. the family of Mary Clark Shade, won the prize at a benefit in FL, G uggenheim Memorial Good news from Selby Inman who died on 1/12. She moved Jeanne and Dave took a I6-day Foundation. Halpern Graham, whose health is much from PA to CA in '90, where cruise from Los Angeles down is the Sir \'\1illiam Osler improved since last we reported. she remained active in Friends the coast of Mexico, Costa She and husband Frank have Rica and Nicaragua, through Professor of English of the Library. She is survived four grandchildren in college, by husband Ross, two daughters the Panama Canal, ending in at the Johns Hopkins and they are pretty well spread and five grandchildren. Miami. Jeanne's granddaughter, University and director around. One girl is at Cornell Elizabeth, graduated from Pitzer and another is at Virginia Tech. College in Claremont, CA, in of undergraduate 51 Correspondent: Barbara One of the boys is at Columbia, Wiegand Pillore, 3200 N. Leisure May. Jeanne remains our class CONTINUED NEXT PAGE> the other is at North Carolina World Blvd., Apt. 517, Silver Spring, agent, so you will hear mote State. Guess the CC tradition MD 20906, [email protected] from her.

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News came in early April from letters. shore. Recently, while in FL, Mona Gustafson Affinito, who she saw Nancy Weiss Klein and was following up on 186 press 52 Correspondents: Mary Marianne Fisher Hess. releases to news media adver- Ann Allen Marcus, 5 E. l dch Sr., Elizabeth (Lib) Alcorn Holt camels tising her first excursion into Tempe, AZ 85281 and Beverly Quinn and I commiserated over the IN THE CRO\\'D fiction. "Mrs. Job" had just been O'Connell, 907 Promenade Lane, long, cold and icy winter. She Mr. Airy, MD 21771, masslass3619@ published, a novel written from recently chatted with Gwynn verizon.net Mona's experience with teach- Doyle Hunsaker and her hus- < FROM PREVIOUS PAGE ing the psychology of women, band, Rod. They've moved into her work and publications on 53 Correspondent: Lydia a life-care community outside studies for the English Richards Boyer, 5701 Kennett Pike, forgiveness, and research into Atlanta and are enjoying it and department. His the biblical book of Job. After WilmingtOn, DE 19807-1311, all the amenities, including golf. lydiaboyerts'aol.ccrn research interests several book signings, she is Lib has grandchildren in college: awaiting reactions from readers. Emmitt's boy, Cory, is at the U. include Renaissance Correspondent: Lois Keating Phyllis Driscoll Hoffmann 54 of Colorado and Cary's oldest is literature, Shakespeare, Learned, 132 Pomperaug Woods, also in college. Daughter Louisa and Frank, who now live in Southbury, CT 06844, 15arned@ science and literature, Hilton Head, SC, visited Nancy and her family left Newport, RI, opronline.ner and critical theory. Libby Peterson and Karl at their Jan Gross Jones, who lives in for a winter sailing vacation in For his fellowship, he Naples, FL, condo in March. Worthington, OH, is in touch the American Virgin Islands. The two couples attended a with Barbara Guerin Colon One of my spies, who has been will spend the 2009- Southwest FL alumni recep- and Cynthia Linton Fleming. in touch with various classmates, 2010 academic yea!' forwarded the following news tion and met up with Iris Bain Cinny spends time in Scottsdale, researching and writing Hutchinson and Jim and Mary AZ, and near Minneapolis, and to me: in New York City. Cardle Lowe and lusty. The four Barbie still has an apartment Evelyn (Irene) Ball Barrack's couples finished the evening at in Metairie, LA (near New son, Bill Barrack '91, is now a the Perersons' "for supper and Orleans), and a home in Sc. College Trustee! In jan., Irene much reminiscing." The three met in Chicago and had knee surgery and marvels at Renate (Rennie) had a "joyful, happy" time for a the better techniques and recov- Aschaffenburg Christensen and few days. Jan also visited the UK ery time since she had her other Bob returned to their summer with family. She has one grand- knee "done" 12 years ago. home in Wareham, MA, in late child in college, and her son, Polly (Pam) Maddux Harlow April, bur before doing so had who lives in FL, has a 'i-year-old moaned about her aching feer lunch with Pamela Farnsworth son - quite an age span. Her and back and then reported French and Jack in Sturbridge, daughters are in Seattle and that Reunion conflicted with MA. Rennie had calked with Bernardsville, NJ. a ballroom-dancing session on Edward B. Burger '85 rhe tango in Miami! She still Harriet Bassett MacGregor and Jan Parker has retired from is a finalist for Baylor indicated that all was well with rhrives on competitive ballroom teaching economics at Suffolk University's 2010 Robert her family. A joint birthday/an- Community College on Long dancing. Foster Cherry Award niversary celebration for Harriet Island and is a volunteer om- Mary Lee Matheson and Bob in April brought budsman (-woman?) for seniors, Shanahan also missed Reunion, for Great Teaching. as son Chris moved to NC most of the family together in especially those in a nearby The award winner, from Washington, DC, that Kennebunkport, ME. Is it true nursing home. She sees Ellen who will be announced that 80 is the new GO? Moore, also retired, who has same week. Chris, a Realtor, has in spring 2010, will Helen (johnnie) Johnson moved from New Milford CO encouraged his mother to re- Haberstroh is now the Volunteer West Hartford. open her old business, A Better receive S200,000 plus Guild Art Shop manager in the Joan Peldgoise Jaffe filled me Arrangement. She helps sellers S25,000 for his home Kennedy Heights Arcs Center in in on her life. She's retired from "stage" their homes and new department and will Cincinnati. She started as one practicing the law, and her three buyers arrange their furniture to teach at Baylor during of the charter guild members married sons are not toO far give their old things a new look. five years ago, becoming guild away - one's in Chevy Chase, Mary Lee is thrilled that her faU2010 or spring 2011. chicks, Brooke and Chris, are coordinator and developing MO, and has twO children, and Burger, a professor of now close by. screening, exhibition, bookkeep- another lives nearby. Besides her mathematics at \X!illiams ing and shop decor committees. condo in Philly, she has a house Helen (Wig) Teckemeyer College, has received Working herself OUt of the from at Cape May Point on the NJ Allison is in a retirement community in Tallahassee, lines, she is now one of many numerous teaching FL. Widowed, she's retired contact persons for a fascinating awards. He is the author from a banking career but still public in a diverse community, or co-author of more and she is having a "blast" as a enjoys riding her horse, which she keeps nearby on daughter than 30 research articles 58-years-ago art major. Elizabeth and son-in-law's horse Can you believe we are just a and 21 books and CD- farm. year and a half away from our ROM texts and is an A few of us are recovering 60th Reunion? It will coincide from accidents: Sara Shaffer associate editor for The with the lOath anniversary of King broke her ankle and Janice American Mathematical the College, so class president Adams cracked her pelvis in Justine Shepherd Freud says to Monthly. three places. And I, Lois (Loie) put June 2011 on your calendars Sarah (Sadie) Parkman McDaniel, Keating Learned, just discovered now! It is an event not to be born 5/3/09, with big sister Annie, that my hurt knee is not a me- CONTINUED NEXT PAGE> missed. 3, daughters of Jessica Haynes niscus tear, just a stress fracture I await your e-rnails and McDaniel '97.

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of the tibia plateau. spoke on democracy and civic very mobile and bright grandchil- society in Kenya. The discussion dren. Mills and Melley graduated 55 Correspondents: Carol included many groups, but the from college; Melly is studying camels Kinsley Murchie, 182 Merrimac Ave., most exciting for Sondra was architecture in NY and Paris. IN THE CROWD Springfield, MA 01104, cmurchie@ a group of youth leaders from Lark spent three months studying earrhlink.ner and Bitsie Root, 314 Kibera, a huge slum in Nairobi. the New Zealand wilderness, Stanford Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025, These young people, who may returned home to become a [email protected] < FROM PREVIOUS PAGE be Kenya's leaders in the future, first responder, but soon left for Only a few months unril were articulate in identifying and Ghana ro intern on their leading Reunion! Plan to come if you addressing the country's deepest newspaper. Drew won both the In July 2010 Michele can; if not send news to Bitsie problems. Sondra was inter- world (in Austria) and national E. Lachance '94 will or Carol. viewed for an hour on TV before telemark championships. Chase become president of the Our classmates continue to she went on to Rwanda, where is with an ad agency, and Lindsey, be involved in lots of interest- Pennsylvania constituent her handbook, "The National victim of the recession, is a ter- ing activities - from travel to Conversation on Prosperity and rific waitress. of the American study. Mary Rossman Bird has the Common Good," is being Hope co see you in June. Let's Society for Clinical been sailing, both in FL and off translated into Kinyarwanda. try to break the artendance and the coast of ME. This year she Laboratory Science Pete and Cynthia Russell annual giving records for our (ASCLS-PA). Lachance decided to take her third son to Rosik took Amtrak from wintry 55rh. Scotland to explore the water- OR to Pasadena to celebrate is a histocompatibility ways around the Hebrides - Pete's 80th birthday. Cindy Correspondent:Jan Ahlborn technologist at Penn State her fourth trip to the Highlands. 5 6 continues to excel at competi- Roberts, P.O. Box 221, East Orleans, Milton S. Hershey Medical Cynthia Myers Young, repre- tive swimming in her age group, !viA 02643, [email protected] Center and on the adjunct senting the East Coast branch adding two rop-l O national of the Myers family, visited the faculty of the MLT /PBT times to her records. 57cOITfSPondent: Elaine Diamond West Coast group, the fam- Elizabeth (Liz) Buell Labrot's Berman, 72 Stanton Lane, Pawcatuck, program at Harrisburg ily of Gail Andersen Myers, family has kept her on the move, cr 06379, [email protected] Area Community College. to attend Abby Myers' wed- attending the weddings of son Elaine Manasevit Friedman and She majored in zoology at ding. Cinny's granddaughter, Andrew and daughter Elizabeth, Bob were blessed with another Caroline, competed in a national grandson when Jack Nathan Connecticut College. plus graduation in pre-med for Decca competition, a marketing her oldest grandchild. Friedman was born to Jamie competition drawing kids from Beverly Stevens Prakelt Friedman and Alison Needle. all over the world. keeps on the go visiting her Big brother William is adjust- Wayne and Joan Walsh Asker offspring as far west as OR. ing to the newcomer, "but not traveled to CA to see daughter Granddaughter Dana has with great enthusiasm!" The Joanne in the hills near L.A. inspired her to delve into family grandchildren now coral four, as and then explored the coast history. Bev, believing it's never daughters Dody (Dorian) and north to Monterey. In the fall, too late to learn, has enrolled in Amanda each have a daughter- they love to visit the Bitterroot Elder Education Enrichment, Mara and Madeline, respectively. Valley of MT to see daughter featuring professors from north- Now that the "great house" is a Sarah. When not traveling, Joan ern VT colleges. thing of the past and they are in Elizabeth Duclos- and Wayne, now semi-retired, Doe Palmer Stowell wrote dur- a condominium, they are free to Orsello '95 was awarded help their son in his real-estate ing Holy Week (Semana Santa) come and go with little concern. a Fulbright Fellowship for business. He lives near them in from Mexico, where she and a So Elaine and Bob visir the eastern MA, as does daughter friend were engrossed in writing a children to play "Grammie and the spring 2010 semester. Amy. Joan also teaches Bible children's book about the celebra- Papa" and return home to think An assistant professor studies, which she continues to tions. While still living in Puerto about other travels. Their trip in the Department of find challenging but enjoyable in Avenruras, she keeps track of her to the Galapagos and Machu Interdisciplinary Studies our ever-changing world. Walter and Marilyn (Skip) and coordinator of Smith Noll took a 16-day the American studies cruise from Sydney, Australia, concentration at Salem to Singapore. Both had long State College in Salem, wanted to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef where the fish can Mass., she will use her be large but "friendly." The scen- fellowship to teach ery was beautiful but they were American studies struck by the terrible poverty of at the University of the people, many of whom sold handcrafted items to the tourists. Luxembourg. Duclos- Skip's mother, fearful the North Orsello, who received her Korean rocket would hit their master's and Ph.D. from plane, was relieved when they Boston University, studies returned safely. Sondra Gelb Myers returned The class of '56 held their annual holiday lunch at the Metropolitan Museum U.S. cultural history, to Africa to continue her 12/4/08. From left: Marjorie Lewin Ross, Laura Elliman Patrick, Marie wonderful work with women Garibaldi, Prudy Murphy Parris, Suzie Rosenhirsch Oppenheimer, Sue Martin CONTINUED NEXT PAGE> and youth. Through arrange- Reardon, Joyce Bagley Rheingold and Jill Long Leinbach. If you're interested in ments with the US Embassy, she joining the annual '56 luncheon this year, e-mail [email protected].

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Picchu was thrilling. Amanda net and Lonnie Jones Scherer, 9330 Old Burke Lake Road, Burke, VA 22015, and her family travelled to CO [email protected] in Jan. to ski and were delighted camels with a visit to Suzanne Krirn Greene. Sue's warm reception 64 Corrapanderu: Jean INTHE CROWD and helpful hints made their Klingenstein, 400 W. Ontario Sr., Apr 1703, Chicago, lL 60654-7162, stay very special, and for Elaine [email protected] < FROM PREVIOUS PAGE it was full circle, as she and Sue Joan Ross wishes she could have were roomies freshman year. come back east for Reunion! And gender issues, immigran ts, Nancy Keith LeFevre sent that everyone could have come along some cards from Dorothy to see her artwork at the opening ethniciry in literature and (Dottie) Egan, who had a at Patricia Cameron Gallery in history, social justice, lengthy career teaching and Seattle on 3!26. Learn more at cultural geography, and as dean of students at Colby- www.patriciacamerongallery.com civic engagement. Sawyer College in New London, and www.joansruartross.com. NH. As those of us who live in the Northeast know, it was a bit- Alexander Brash '81 and Cynthia Enloe '60 in St. John, V.1. terly cold and icy winter. Dottie 65 Correspondent: Nannette was without heat and electric- Geron Schwartz, 7766 Wildcreek Trail, to attend the Junior National Huntsville, AL 35802, ity for eight days in Dec. "On nannerre.schwartzziscorncast.net the last day, the temperature Youth Leadership Conference in Diane Willen and husband Jim inside my home had fallen to Washington, DC. His selection Roby are now retired and living 37 degrees; my dog and I spent letter stated that he was chosen in Catonsville, MD, JUStoutside the days in front of the fireplace because of his academic achieve- Baltimore. Jim worked as a with a down-filled quilt wrapped ment and leadership potential. professional electrical engineer. - cocoon-like around us. When "Obviously, we are very proud of Diane taught at Georgia State A proposal submitted reading by flashlight became too this fine young man." Sue's son, U. in Atlanta for over 30 years, by Jamal Moss '97 difficult at night, all three of us Marc Greene '85, Andrew, and where she chaired the depart- to the North Pacific (dog, quilt and me) headed for sister Laura skied with Sue in ment of history during her the bedroom and re-arranged CO for seven days in early April. Research Board was last five. "I like to think chat 1 ourselves on my bed. Though carried a bit of Helen Mulvey, selected to be a part of I can't find much good to say Correspondents: Judith Lenore O'Boyle and Edward its study of the Gulf about the physical discomforts, 58 Ankarsrran Carson, 174 Old Harbor Cranz into the classroom with of Alaska. A fisheries I must say it was kind of fun Road, Westport, lv1A 02790, jdcarson me." She still enjoys doing scientist for the National to do creative cooking in my [email protected] McCoy research in early modern English fireplace. My latest purchase? A Morrison, 7046 W. Lincolnshire Drive, Oceanic and Atmospheric Homosassa, FL 34446, agmorrison@ history. Daughter Joanne mar- generator!" ried in '05. Joanne is in the Administration in Juneau, And Nancy Keith LeFevre gmail.com doctoral program in English Alaska, Moss studies fish subsequently sent us an e-mail literature, and her husband, Jeff, Correspondents: Carolyn migration and the related with the following information: 59 is completing his MBA, both "Oh, how I would have loved Keefe Oakes, 3333 Warrensville Center effects of the retreating Road, Apt. 412, Shaker Heights, OH at the U. of Maryland. Diane to accept the Sykes Luncheon 44122, carolynoakesrs'art.ner: Lynn and Jim see Sarah (Sally) Tehan ice of the Arctic Circle. invitation and see some of those Graves Mitchell, [email protected] Kruel and husband Frank on His proposal will study 50-year celebrants. As you recall, occasion in FL, where Sally and when they entered as freshmen, commercially important Correspondent: Jean Chappell, Frank board and show horses I was our junior class president 60 40 Walter Ave., Norwalk, CT 06851, during winter. "I would love to fish in the gulf and the and therefore was in charge of [email protected] hear from old acquaintances liv- influence of climate them until they elected their AJexander Brash '81 and ing or visiting in the Baltimore! change on biodiversity. own. I would love to see some of Cynthia Enloe met in St. John, Washington, DC, area. I've kept them again, but it was too far to Virgin Islands, to plot about sav- my own name and have e-mail come at this point." Nancy had ing an em-lodge adjacent ro the at dwillenrs'gsu.edu." Esme Singer '03 was just returned from a visit to CA national park. "If you have ever Sarah (Sally) Ryan Black's voted Resident of the to see her daughter and to attend been to Maho Bay and loved it, youngest child, Madeleine Ignon an Elderhostel in Mendocino, an Year by the Attending e-mail us." '09, graduated in May, so she's area she and her husband had al- Physicians at Thomas been back to campus quite a bit, ways hoped to visit, as they were Jeffetson University Correspondents: Marry Guida and was there for graduation. great fans of Angela Lansbury in 61 Young, 2203 Colonial Woods Drive, Elaine DeSantis Benvenuto Hospital in Center City, "Murder She Wtote." Nancy's Alexandria, VA 22308, jomayoung@ is Madeleine's godmother and Philadelphia, in June. only granddaughter turned 2 cox. net and Paula Parker Raye 49 now lives in Boulder, CO, near while she was there; then she Barcliff Ave., Chatham, !VIA 02633, She received her doctor daughter Kecia and her family. spent Easter in Montclair with [email protected] of medicine degree Sally stilllives and works in her son, who'd worked as associ- Los Angeles as an independent from Thomas Jefferson ate scenic designer on "Blithe Correspondent: Seyril Siegel, 62 film producer. She executive pro- Spirit" in NYC, where Nancy 17263 Boca Club Blvd., Apt. 2, Boca University Medical duced Paraiso Travel, a Spanish- "so enjoyed seeing Angela as Raton, FL 33487, seyril@gmaiLcom College in 2008. language film coming out this Madame Arcoti." fall. "I have menrored several Suzanne Krim Greene's 63 Correspondents: Nancy CC alums, which has been fun." grandson, Andrew, was chosen Holbrook Ayers, 907 Countryside Court, Her husband is a screenwriter, as one of 250 students in the US McLean, VA 221 0 I, nhayers@starpower.

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and they recently finished writ- mother's home in Marshfield ing a script together. Hills, MA. Elizabeth volunteers Carol Carter Shilepsky and as a board member and co-chair husband Sandy teach math- of a campaign to raise money ematics and computer science to renovate the historic home at Wells College in Aurora, of the North River Arts Society. NY, bur spend four months a Elizabeth connected with Lorna year in Charleston, SC, where Wagner Strotz and her husband, their daughters live. Lisa is an Mary (Polly) Lucas Pierce and attorney and Beth is a family her husband, and Paula Schwartz practitioner. Carol has three Hagar in June when Lorna vis- grandchildren. Retirement, with ited from CA on a trip related to more walks on the beach and her artwork. Martha Twigg lives time with the grands, is not too in rhe next town and is busy as far off, but teaching is still fun. executive director at South Shore Pamela Choate Carle and her Natural Science Center. husband are retired and living Olga Karman Christiansen in Bedford, MA. Pre-retirement, Daniel Griffin '04 and Elizabeth Huber '03 with the Honorable Rafael reports: a. marriage to Dr. Owen Pam was a technical writer. Their Hernandez-Colon, the former governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, at Bossman on 8/1 /08; b. retire- life is much slower now, but the governor's home in Ponce. ment from D'Youville College, they enjoy their freedom. Their May '08 after 28 years as profes- dogs are especially happy, as they lives in Thurmont, MD, with Graglia Gordon, Helen sor of Spanish; c. named profes- are now walked every morning. his four children, ages 3-9, so McCulloch Schmitz, Eleanor sor emerita, June '08; d. work Barbara (Bonnie) Beach-Meek Jean and Bob enjoy seeing all of Macneale Elkinton, Barbara on collection of short stories, also lives in Bedford, and chey them when possible. "We also Goff Takagi, Peggy Rifkin "Mojiros," underway; e. caught visit each other frequently. Pam's have been blessed to be able to Lehmann and Linden Tucker in 6.3 earthquake in Costa Rica, e-mail address is pamcarle@ remain in the life of our Scyear- Bell '67 gOt together in DC for a 1/8 at 1:22 p.m. - unforget- verizon.net. old granddaughter, Mireya, who long weekend in early Feb. "We table; [ Calgary Stampede in June Vail has marked the dates was only 9 months old when our missed Diana (Pokey) Davis July and chen Vancouver; g. for Reunion! She sent a quick daughter, Wendy, died of cancer." Korner and Antoinette (Toni) waiting for travel to to be note, written from Stockholm, Carter Emery, but family events allowed for Cuban-Americans Sweden, where she spenr some took priority for them." Correspondents: Lois (like her) with no relatives left months of a final sabbatical leave 6 6 Maclellan Klee, 225A High Sr., After retiring in '07, Louise on the island so that she can go from Bowdoin Co !lege. She and Newburyport, MA 01950 and Betsey Fay Despres returned to teaching back legally this time. husband David will each retire Staples Harding, P.O. Box 702, French and Spanish parr time. Andrea (Andi) Ansell Bien in two years from their profes- Jackson, NH 03846, ccnotes66@ Toni Carter Emery retired announces the birth of two sorships, and they look forward gmail.com in '06 and moved to Ginger beautiful grandchildren! Sophie to it! He has been teaching Marian Silber sees Rona Shoe Cove, a life-care community in Grace Berman was born to environmental economics and both in NYC and Naples, FL. A..nnapolis, which she enjoys. daughter Lauren Bien Berman June dance: studio work, dance (Note: Rona no longer uses the She has a patio with a view of and husband Keith on 11/4108 history and ethnology. They will name Cherno since she divorced; the water and a very small gar- (Obama Dayl) and, not to be continue to live in Brunswick, e-mail her at ronashorsogmail. den, all manageable as her vision outdone, son Sean Bien '93 and ME, with regular visits to com.) They had dinner and continues to decline. Her two wife Kathryn Timlin welcomed a Europe - older son Ben lives went to a concert with Asia Rial sons each have two children. son, Harrison Richards Bien, on in Brno, Czech Republic, with Elsbree and husband Hugh, Betsy Reid Creedon is the Christmas Day '08. "Both babies wife Renata and two daugh- who live in Naples. Marian also director of business operations are a joy to me and my husband, ters. Younger son Nick lives in sees Ruth Zaleske Leibert and for global public policy and gov- Jon, now officially known as Seattle. husband Burr, who have a place ernment relations for General Grandi and Poppy." On a sadder note, Jean 'Iorson in Naples. Motors. Last summer she and Liane Stearns Gowen's family Walker's life rook an unhappy Elizabeth (Betsey) Staples husband Gaylord went on a continues to grow, with four turn in '08 when husband Bob Harding enjoys a wide variety of mission trip with their rector as grandchildren and counting! The (CGA class of'65) was diagnosed volunteer work; she's currently guests of the Archbishop of the whole family had one big party in with a stage-four brain tumor. helping a community music Anglican Church of Burundi. the spring to celebrate birthdays "We have spent the time since school. She's also learning to play Easrer week he returned the and then spent a summer week then measuring our our lives in a new Appalachian dulcimer. favor and visited Christ Church on Cape Cod. Liane can't wait to surgery, radiation, chemotherapy Pamela Mendelsohn divides Grosse Pointe and stayed with retire and put all her pictures in and other medical appoint- her time between Arcata (5.5 them. Anne Wood Birgbauer order. The Palmer Public Library ments." Bob is being treated at hours north of the Bay Area) and Mary (Polly) Deming has two Gowens on its board of Memorial Sloan Kettering and and Emeryville (near Berkeley). Ledyard '62 attended the recep- trustees, Liane and Suzanne, who Hartford Hospital. He retired She and daughter Rebekah had tion for the archbishop. is their secretary! Husband Dick as general counsel of Hartford a mother-daughter photography Jane Noyes Bancroft had a is involved in issues of mental Steam Boiler Inspection and exhibit in Emeryville and Arcata second knee replacement last called "Points of View." Pam retardation in western !\.1A. Insurance Co. in Sepr., and Jean Oct. They had a fabulous trip to became "of counsel" to her law still works with the disability China in May '08 and they took firm, Jacobs, Walker, Rice & rights movement, most recently 67 Correspondent: Jackie King their granddaughter to AK in Donnelly, 1515 N. Astor Sr., Apr 12C, Barry, in Sept. Their travel has on a project in Moscow called July. They have a new Bancroft Chicago, IL 60610-5799, jackiedon- "Building Bridges: Cameras in been limited to NYC for chemo, grandson. [email protected] the Hands of Children." "not exactly the travel we hoped Elizabeth Leach Welch and Afcer 24 years at L.L. Bean, Kay Landen, Antonia (Toni) to do when we retired." Son Carl Tom live in her great-grand- Martha Kidd Cyr has decided to

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brother Charlie is 3. And she the same antique house since crazy; if you haven't seen them has a "granddog," a Cairn ter- '72. And she has now been it's a memorable San Francisco rier named Tadpole, who also working for the same newspaper sight." The double-disc col- turned 3 this spring. Suzanne group for 40 years! Husband lector's edition DVD of "The still teaches contemporary art Jack has been with the group Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" history and works on various art since '67. "1 have to say, it has came out in late '08 with lots of boards. Her focus is on women suited us well." They live close new rnarerial, and she's started artists, and she is the chair enough to the office to walk another documentary called of the board for the National to work each day, and they "Pelican Dreams." If you love Museum of Women in the Arts, still enjoy small-town life and pelicans and would like to see PA State Committee. So any journalism. Older son Ben is your name in movie credits, CC classmates who are artists married and lives in Alexandria, please be in touch! See www. Madeline Elyssa Courtemanche was (filmmakers, ecc.) working in VA, where he works for the pelicanmedia.org. born on 3/12/08 to proud parents or associated with PA, let her US Cornmicree for Refugees Please send me information Melanie Klein Courtemanche '00 and know. and Immigrants and is going about your activities, so that Ryan Courtemanche. Jacqueline King Donnelly, to George Washington U. Law they can be shared in the Class your humble scribe, and School; he's a former newspa- Nores. retire. It's been a difficult deci- husband Patrick returned from per reporter who went back a winter in San Miguel de to college (UConn) at 28 and sion, as she loves the company 69 Correspondent: Judi Bamberg and all the great people there. Allende, Mexico, to their condo completed a degree in history, Mariggio, 1070 Sugar Sands Blvd. She and Moe plan to sell rheir in Chicago for the spring and magna cum laude. Younger son #384, Riviera Beach, FL 33404, home in ME and relocate to FL. summer months to be closer Mike graduated from Berklee [email protected] The last twO winters have been a to daughter Martha, who lives College of Music and now lives Don and Ellen Aronoff Kent bit much, and they are ready to in the city, and to enjoy the in Brooklyn. He has a band (of missed Reunion to celebrate simplify and downsize. wonderful activities Chicago has course) and a day job, working their 40th wedding anniversary. Deborah Greenstein returned to offer. They are all hoping to for A.rc., a French clothing They keep busy visiting seven home to DC after another see son Patrick, his wife Alex and company. Sally and Jack cel- grandchildren (ages 18 months wonderful winter at her place in baby Annie in Singapore, where ebrated their 40th anniversary in to 10 years) spread across the Fr. Lauderdale. She recommends the young family has been living June by taking a train trip from US. Ellen volunteers with the visiting the Bonnet House, a for two years. Toronto to Vancouver, then Junior League and holds a posi- fascinating museum. exploring the Pacific Northwest. tion on the FL Regional Board of Hadassah. Don is president Carol Cohen Freife1der writes Correspondent: Mary She meets Paula Zammataro 68 of the Foundation for Fiscal that Jack Freifelder is off to Clarkeson Phillips, 36 The Crossway, Messina and Jo Romano Viets Medill School of Journalism at Delmar, NY 12054, mphiJl2@nycap. for lunch occasionally. Reform. Northwestern in the fall, class rr.com Laura Pliskin Gottwald is Nancy Barry Manor is ex- Terry Reimers Byrnes and hus- of'l3. Craig Preifelder returned an interior designer/decorator ecutive director of the Voices of band attended the Olympics in Ascension Chorus and Orchestra to NYC after graduating from with her own business in NYc. China last summer to watch son in Greenwich Village, NYC, school in ME in Jan. Carol She does residential, hospital- Andrew compete as a member of an independent organization continues in TV ad sales for ity (restaurants and hotels) and the Canadian National Rowing affiliated with the Church of Katz Communications. They business spaces: retail, offices, Team. They won the gold the Ascension on Fifth Avenue. still have their weekend house in showrooms, etc. She has two medal in the men's eight! "It They perform in the church and Quogue, Long Island. children: Vezna, a painter, who is was an amazing experience for also at Carnegie Hall and Alice Carol Belli, Candace Mayeron 37, and Lukasz, a songwriter and our whole family. As a former Tully Hall at , '68, Nancy Taylor Hunt and producer of pop music, who is Asian history major at CC, 1 and they've produced a collec- Deborah Gammons Pendleton 35. Check out www.lauragor- was thrilled to finally make it to tion of COs on the Delos label. '68 continue their "East Coast rwald.com. China." Claire Eldridge's travels for Meet-Ups," peeling back the Judith Irving and Mark Sally Schweitzer Sanders was Binner live in an old dock- work on behalf of the U. of years as if they never existed. married less than a week after Tennessee's Campaign for Marcia Robbins Lugger worker cottage all Telegraph graduation and has lived in Tennessee kept her away from enjoys an active life in Hill. "The red-and-green parrots Ridgefield, CT, ever since - in still fly around and squawk like Reunion. On a New England Haddonfield, NJ, playing trip in June, she saw Vera Idel bridge, working out at the gym, Gierke, Dianne Sanborn '68, gardening, and volunteering at Suzanne Sanborn O'Cheskey the League of Women Voters, '68 and Margaret (Markie) Frost the Haddonfield Historical Whitlock '68. Society and the Unitarian Babette Gabriel Thompson Universalist Church in the area. is getting used to the lifestyle of Above all, through the miracle the Pacific Northwest and trying of Skype, she can visit in real to "understand how we could time with Peter, Karin and possibly be [his busy now that grandchildren Isabell, 5, and we're retired." They are active in Vincent, 3, who live in a quiet Audubon and gardening activi- town outside of Vienna. Marcia ties and took an eco-advencure enjoyed Thanksgiving with Paul cruise to Costa Rica and Panama and Kyra, who live near Boston. in Feb. Susanna Saunders is delighted Nancy Horovitz Bachrach has to announce the arrival of a been working full time promot~ second grandchild, Hudson ing her first book, "The Center Saunders, born 12/8. Older Terry Reimers Byrnes '68 at the Great Wall of China.

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of the Universe," published ing Reunion; a niece's wedding 4/28. "I'm enjoying the pleasures in WA and a reunion of the of reading aloud in bookstores MacJnnis dan kepr her far from and doing my parr to bailout campus. the book industry." Ellen Steinberg Karch missed Dagny Hultgreen Griswold Reunion as she was busy rying and husband continue working up loose ends before retiring and enjoying their home and from teaching. "I'm looking family. After the death of her forward to the advenrures ahead, 96-year-old mother last fall, once I have time to plan them. Dagny had to handle her estate I'm very happy in my life, with and the sale of the family home my new husband (since Nov. of 50 years. In ]an., she took '07), Harvey Karch. We thor- daughter Becky on a Caribbean oughly enjoy our expanded farn- cruise to celebrate her 21st ily and circles of friends as we birthday. have blended our lives together, Once "voices of protest" on the front page of the Washington Post, Class of In june '06, Harriet Kodis as well as travel, volunteer work 1970 alumni gather to knit in Belgrade, ME. rook early retirement after 30 and keeping up with both of our years as a high school counselor synagogues. " in the Littleton Public Schools. Sally Yerkovich continues to grandchild, Aidan Zev, was born divides her time between the Her mother passed away that enjoy being president of the in Feb. '08. Please tell me about Swiss Alps and Houston. ""W'hile summer, and she lost one of her Fund for Arts and Culture, your lives. Then I will have more in Switzerland, I continue to sisters to cancer last summer. working with museums and to say in our Class Notes. work as an NGO representa- Harriet and husband Marc other cultural organizations in Linda Manno Kennedy, who tive at the United Nations in Berman moved from northwest central and Eastern Europe. On lives in ME, writes, "Come on Geneva. Last year, I worked on a of Boston to Norton, .MA, a recent trip to Bulgaria, she Class of '70! "W'hen were we ever special task force to ger a plaque three years ago. She works part assisted a new foundation in as- quiet, except in the pages ofrhis at UN Headquarters to honor time as an academic coach at sessing the state of their national magazine'! I would love ro know Eleanor Roosevelt for her work Dean College and volunteers museums. "I'm sorry to miss what you are all doing - the ex- as the driving force behind the on the Norton Superintendent Reunion but love keeping up traordinary and plain ordinary." adoption of rhe UN Universal of Schools Advisory Committee to date with everyone through Linda sees Valerie DeVuyst, Declaration of Human Rights and as a literacy tutor. Harriet Class Nares!" Elizabeth (Betty) Bacchiocchi (UDHR). Last year was the 60th enjoys cross-country skiing, bik- If you were not fortunate Landsman-Libby and Jean anniversary of the UDHR, and ing, walking and reading. Marc enough to join us on campus for Glancy Vaughn once each sum- the plaque dedication was one of works as a financial planner from our 40th Reunion, we missed mer. "Incidentally, Val, Betty many events to honor Eleanor home. Daughter jen works at a you! Look here for a recap of the and Jean appeared as 'voices of Roosevelt. " nonprofit social service agency in fun next issue. protest' on the front page of the In addition to running her Providence while still pursuing Washington Post on 1/20/68, inrerior design business, Karin her photography. rhe day President Nixon was Lerner Lechner, in Lafayette, Ellen Lougee Simmons travels 70 Correspondent: Myrna Chandler Goldstein, 5 Woods End inaugurated, minutes before be- CA, has started a second busi- frequently with semi-retired Road, Lincoln, MA 01773, mgolds[@ ing charged by mounted police. ness selling her own beaded husband Matt, as he speaks massmed.crg A wily bunch, they survived jewelry designs. To see her internationally on global energy Hard to believe, bur our 40th to knit." Two summers ago, beautiful jewelry, go to www. issues. She is still involved in Reunion is in 20 1O. Where did they all gathered for a one-day serendipiryjewels.ner. "With rhe National Trust for Historic the time go? Many of us have reunion on Peaks Island, ME. one business, a husband, tWO Preservation, the Dean's Board retired or starred new careers. "After eating and walking, sons, two grandchildren and five of Advisors at Harvard Business Mark retired from MIT a few we sprawled on warm rocks, as granddogs, you'd think I would School, the New England years ago and is now chief of comfortable in our company as have enough to do. For some Historic and Genealogical adolescent and young adult when lounging on dorm beds. reason, the creative juices keep Society, and various committees medicine at Massachusetts And we shared the same burning Rowing, ideas keep popping up in Houston. Of five daugh- General Hospital. I stopped question: Whatever happened to and I keep on truckin'l' ters, the youngest graduated writing newspaper and magazine Lisa Rowe? Lisa, come for- fu for the Goldsteins, our two from Duke in May, the fourth articles and now focus on non- ward - we miss you!l!" Linda most recent books are now on is headed to Smith to get her fiction health books. Lots of us is a grandmother of two. After Amazon and other Web sites. MSW, two are in NYC, and the are now grandparents. Our first retiring more than four years ago Rodale published the trade eldest is married and living in from "a most ordinary career," paper version of "Your Best San Francisco. she pursued her real passion: Medicine" in March. Written In March, Kathleen MacInnis a written account of the great with Mark and Larry Credit, Kichline's first book, "Sisters thoroughbred Kelso, who raced OMD (Doctorate in Oriental in Scripture: Exploring the during the '60s. Look for "Kelso: Medicine), it outlines traditional Relationships of Biblical The Horse of Gold" under her and complementary approaches Women," was published by married name, Linda Kennedy. to more than 80 medical prob- Paulisr Press. Kathleen is the Since completing the book, lems. Published by Greenwood oldest of seven sisters and one Linda has "kept the woodstove in April, "Food and Nutrition brother; three of her sisters are burning and the house main- Controversies Today: a Reference also alums: Beth MacInnnis tained, taken two road trips, and Guide" discusses 16 different Schultz '77, Laurie MacInnis Linda Christensen Wright '87, her visited my daughter and family nutritional controversies, such Hartnett '79 and Rita MacInnis husband, Bill, and their three children on the West Coast." as hidden ingredients, fats, food Luce '82. Kathleen regrets miss- in Greece. Pamela Brooks Perraud labeling and genetically modified

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foods. We are working on twO he and many others in the field Sullivan Lindseth, "who seems additional books. One is on "have been kept hopping!" He to be doing great." He saw John adolescent psychiatric issues, did the technical direction for an Bush on a trip to Bermuda. which we are writing with the all-CG IMAX film that will be Christopher Wright lives in assistance of a psychiatrist. released this fall (see www.mol- L.A. with his wife of 19 years, The second is called "Healthier eculescochernax.corn), and also Holly Powell-Wrighr, and son Foods: Fact or Fiction," which led a team through a 12-week Ryan, 15, who arrends Campbell discusses the research behind burn to get five fully animated Hall School and loves science 50 supposedly healthier foods. shorts online in record time and debating. Holly is an Emmy Also, when you have a few (http://hivfreegeneration.warner- Award-winning casting director extra minutes, please check OUt bros.corn). "It was fun working who worked as an exec for CBS the Web site I set up with my directly on the Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. She now son, Brett, called Doing Good, lot in Burbank. The studio was runs a seminar teaching profes- While Doing Business: Support set up in the exact same room sional audition techniques to Socially Responsible Companies, Chris Wright '79 at his father's 80th used by the old-time animators actors. Chris runs Christopher at wwwchangerhemold.com. birthday celebration. who drew Bugs Bunny, Wily Wright ManagemenrlWright Now, please e-mail your news. Coyote and Porky Pig, among Entertainment Inc., a manage- Sill Sircely, roo Box 207, Wycombe, others. The large and established ment company representing PLEASE!! PA 18980, masircelyrs'sircely.com studios in and around Burbank actors in theater, film and are far from the glamorous view television. The firm advises and Correspondents: Charlotte 71 portrayed in the media; they are counsels over 30 actors. Chris Parker Vincent, 5347 Gainsborough 74 Correspondent: Ellen Feldman Drive, Fairfax, VA 22032, cvincent@ Thorp, [email protected] actually more akin to factories, sees Mark Teschner occasionally conncoll.edu and Lisa McDonnell, 134 with constant building and tear- in L.A., where Mark is casting W. Maple Sr., Granville, OH 43023 director for "General Hospital." Correspondents: Miriam downs, carpentry, huge trucks [email protected] 75 Josephson Whitehouse, PO. Box 7068, and cranes, constant danger, and Amy Biderrnan was married Cape Porpoise, ME 04014, casablanca for the actors, most of the time 5/2 in Concord, MA, to Mark @adelphia.netand Nancy Gruver, Davis, with whom she recon- Correspondent: Sam spent standing around the food 72 2650 University Ave. W #101, St. Paul, Maclaughlin Olivier, 3886 Chatham services truck." nected at their high school MN 55114, [email protected] Lane, Canadaigua, NY 14427, reunion. She is now stepmother solivierrs'rochesrer.rr.com to four children aged 16-27. 79 Correspondents: Vicki Hello all, it's a shorr but note- 76 Correspondents: Kenneth Chesler, [email protected]; Sue They also have a new rescued worthy entry this issue. I went Abel, 334 W. 19rh Sr., Apt. 2B, New Avrges Kayeum, sakayeurnts'comcasr. Great Pyrenees named Molly, to my 40th high school reunion. York, NY ] 00 II, kenn61 [email protected] who joins another dog and three and Susan Hazlehurst Milbrath, 5830 Mark"" Shuster lives in Newton, It seems Charlotte, NC, and S. Galena Sr., Greenwood Village, CO cats. Charlotte Country Day School 80111, [email protected] MA, with his wife of22 years, Anne Garrison and husband have changed beyond recogni- Bradford Peck met basketball Beth, and daughters Emily, David Hewitt finished the pho- tion, but the Class of '68, not so hall-of-farner Rick Barry at a 19, and Abby, 16. Emily, at tography for a book about U. of much. We have survived similar Charleston, SC, foundation Washington U. in St. Louis, California-San Diego's campus, experiences in the intervening fundraiser on 2/9/08. is spending a semester abroad due out in 2010 by Princeton years and have arrived battle in Chile; Abby, a high school Architectural Press. Although scarred, yet mostly intact, in '09. senior, is looking at schools, their work has been in many 7 7 Correspondents: Ann including Cc. Beth is a re- Please send me your updates. Rumage Frirschner, 310 Thomas Road, books, this is their first time as Nancy Burnett has begun Hendersonville, NC 28739, anmeme@ cruiter at the biotech company the sale photographers for the teaching a course on inter- bellsourh.net; Jim McGoldrick, P.O. Genzyme Corp. Mark has been entire project. Their kids now viewing at SUNY Oneonta in Box 665, Warenown, CT 06795, jamc- in marketing for 25 years and span high school, middle school [email protected]; and Dan Booth is currently VP of marketing at and elementary school, so there addition to the audio production Cohen, [email protected] course she has taught for the last WellPet, a marketer of natural is never a dull moment. Anne nine years. Her family has grown pet foods. The family has visited plays tennis on leagues, which as well: "I adopted two kittens 78 Correspondent: Susan Calef Peru, Israel and Thailand. Mark run year-round in San Diego. Tobiason, 70 Park Terrace East, Apt. reconnected with Katherine She regrets missing Reunion. last fall, twO grand-nieces were 41, New York, NY 10034, stobiason@ born this spring, and my father yahoo.corn got married on New Year's Eve at Roger Blanc's "Movement for the age of91." String Quartet" received its Glenn Morazzini continues NY premiere on 4/5. The work to work in private practice as a was originally composed and psychotherapist in Cumberland, performed as parr of an honors ME. In May, daughter Tara thesis in music completed at CC Morazzini '09 graduated from in 78. This recent Manhattan Cc. Glenn still writes poetry; performance was dedicated to his poems won the 2007 Allen the memory of Professor of Ginsberg Award, the 2008 Music Charles Shackford and his Paurnanok Award and have been wife, Jane. finalists in several other national Robert Cole has been busy do- contests, appearing in magazines ing some feature films and short like Poetry, Rattle and North projects on both coasts. With American Review. Check it out; the economic downturn there it's pretty impressive stuff. has been a resultant increase in demand for entertainment, so 73 Correspondent: Mary Ann »connect with your classmates, go to www.conncoll.edU/alumnl 63 * READ MORE CLASS NOTES ONLINE, www.conncoll.edu/alumni *

Daniel Levy enjoys the Boston three daughters: Laura, 20, is a area and stays in touch with sophomore at Amherst; Liza, 18, Patrick Gallagher, Jordan is a senior in high school; and Multer, Eric Ostroff and sister- Hilary, 15, is a freshman. Barry in-law Sally Everett '84. Dan frequently speaks with William is director ofIS operations at Malinowski, an investigative Boston Scientific, where he has reporter for the Providence worked for 18 years. Dan's wife, Journal. Barry also keeps in Marge, recently retired from touch with Christopher Gifford, the CEO position at a local the producer of Nickelodeon's hospice organization after 15 "Dora the Explorer" children's years. This past year, son Brad, show; Thomas Barry '82, 18, became an Eagle SCOut, and whose daughter is on the same son Scott, 15, and his summer high-school rrack team as Bill's baseball team played in the 2008 daughter in RI; and Barbara Junior Little League Baseball Marino Kenny '80 and Herbert World Series in Taylor, MI. Brad Kenney '80, whose four children has been accepted at Mitchell all attend or have graduated College in New London, so Dan from Fordham U. hopes to introduce him to Mr. NYC at the end of April to do use of all real estate assets held Susan Cole Ross still teaches G's! the MORE half-marathon. by the state's various transporta- teachers and supportS children Peter is a general partner Flint Victoria (Vicki) Chesler tion agencies and promoting in need and now also coaches with Polaris Venture Partners, continued a decades-long tradi- transit-oriented development yoga at Loomis Chaffee. She's where he has worked for six tion of skiing with Peter Craft throughout the state. currently working toward her years. He and his family live in in Keystone, CO, in Jan. In Ann Goode Quinn and Ruth certification from the National Devon, PA, so he commutes to April, while picking up daughter Wagner Earl report that good Yoga Alliance. Sue and husband Boston for a few days a week. Kelsey after freshman year at friend Lee Mazzamurro Joseph Jeff have two sons: Matt, 26, a Daughter Catherine Flint '08 Northeastern, she and husband '82 won top prize in tango at the chef in Denver, and Tim, 23, graduated from CC last year and Matt Kovner had dinner with Habitat for Humanity fundrais- a Porsche racecar mechanic! is now an account for executive Mark McLaughlin and wife er, Dancing with the Realtors, fabricator. CBS Interactive in NYC. Peter Daphne Northrop, and Mark's part of the 2009 Eastern U.S. In observance of her 50th still plays in a rock band and has brother, Neil Mclaughlin '81, Dancesport Championship held birthday, Marsha Williams has been renovating a 1967 Chris and wife Julie. They met at the at the Boston Park Plaza. Ann planned an entire year of eel- Craft 47-foot Commander. House of Blues, where Vicki's lives in Glastonbury, CT; Ruth ebrating (a [a Queen Elizabeth)! Lynda Fitzgerald has taught daughter Melissa works, and near Albany, NY; and Lee in She welcomed in the New Year at Anne Arundel Community watched an epic Sox-Yankees Shrewsbury, 1v1A, and they re- on African soil, attended Barack College in Arnold, Ml), for game with the crowds on main in close touch. The dance Obarna's inaugurarion in DC 20 years and is the coordinator Lansdowne Street. In March, majors established their own and presented a paper in Dubai. of performing arts and dance. Vicki and Matt visited Amanda regular Camel reunion in Watch She planned to work hard all She designed the dance cur- Marshall Zingg and husband Hill, RI, each summer. summer to earn enough money riculum and created the major. Chris Zingg '77 at their home Alexander Brash and Cynthia to continue the second half of She also directs the AACC in Barrington, RI. Their son, Enloe '60 met in St. John, her "Jubilee"; a safari in Kenya Dance Company. One of her Marshall, is looking at colleges Virgin Islands, to plot about sav- and Tanzania, as well as building students finished third in the now, and their daughter, Emma, ing an ceo-lodge adjacent to the for Habitat for Humanity in first season of "So You Think is 13, Vicki and Martha Rago national park. If you have ever Egypt and another worldwide re- You Can Dance!" Husband Jeff caught up over cocktails in been to Maho Bay and loved it, search conference in Marrakech. teaches chemistry at the Naval Grand Central Station. Martha e-mail them. Marsha obviously loves working Academy. Oldest son Man is at lives in Westchester with hus- Kenneth Goldstein lives in for herself, as she wonders who Sr. Michael's College in VT, and band Howard Bemsrein '76 and Brookline, MA, and works as an else would give her so much younger son Danny is a senior kids Emily and Nick. attorney at his own firm. He is time our of the office"! in high school. Lynda and Linda still active in town politics, hav- Since this is the year most of us Rosenthal Maness '81 met in ing served for several years as the 80 Correspondents: Tony will celebrate a certain milestone chairman of the planning board. Littlefield, 108 Hillrop Drive, birthday, I thought it would Chestertown, MD 21620, He was recently elected to the be interesting to hear some of [email protected] and Connie board of selectmen for the town the ways you have celebrated Smith Gemmer, 180 Glenwood of Brookline. Ave., Portland, ME 04103, connie@ or are planning to celebrate the Scott Hefter is a global manag- barrongingold.com Big 5-0. So, whether your plans ing director ofPRTM, a man- are yearlong (like Marsha's) or agement consulting firm. He involve something smaller, please 81 Correspondent: Jacqueline and his family recently returned Zuckerman Tynan, 431 Elm Sr., Mon- send me your updates! roe, CT 06468, [email protected] to MD after a year in London. Peter O'Connor recently ac- While there, they traveled to . China, Dubai and Kuwait. 82 Correspondents: Deborah cepted a position as deputy Salomon Smith, 236 Lori Lane, Barry Hyman lives in secretary for real estate and Norwalk, CT 06851, dbsdssmith@ Ann Goode Quinn '81, Ruth Wagner economic development at the Cleveland and practices law, acl.com and Eliza Helman Kratt, S92 Earl '81 and Lee Mazzamurro Joseph Massachusetts Executive Office representing companies in the Colonial Ave., Pelham, NY 10803, '82, left to right, enjoy a beach day at of Transportation in Boston. He electric power and natural gas in- ehkrafrccaol.com the carousel in Watch Hill, RI, during is responsible for overseeing the dustries. His wife, Jamie, works Ann Goode Quinn '81 and their annual summer rendezvous. for a hedge fund. They have Ruth Wagner Earl '81 re-

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pon that good friend Lee 17; Zach, 15; and Matthew, Mazzamurro Joseph won top 11!" Keith is a graduate of U. prize in tango at the Habitat for of Virginia's school of archi- Humanity fundraiser, Dancing tecture and the Darden School with the Realtors, part of the of Business. He works at the 2009 Eastern U.S. Dancesport Darden School "and is passion- Championship held at the ate about sustainable design and Boston Park Plaza. Ann lives renewable energy development." in Glastonbury, CT; Ruth Lolly has a master's in counsel- near Albany, NY; and Lee in ing from U. of Virginia and a Shrewsbury, MA, and they re- law degree from U. of Baltimore main in close touch. The dance School of Law. "We love living majors established their own in Charlottesville." regular Camel reunion in Watch Hill, Rl, each summer. 86 Correspondent: Barbara Malmberg, 560 Silver Sands Road, 83 Correspondent: Elizabeth Unit ]303, East Haven, CT 06512, [email protected] Greene Roos, 5 Buchan Road, Lolly Jelks '85 married Keith Crawford in Oct. '08. From left, Patrick Dougherty Andover, MA 01810, Marilyn Dunphy is looking for '85, Patty Gillett Elliott '85, Keith and Lolly, Julie Martin Hudson '85, Ben Ford [email protected] news from other RTCs. Since '84, Eve Plummer Samuel '85, and Maria Wychoff Boyce '85. graduation she has worked at CC in the admission office, the 103 Barn Hill Lane, Newington, CT and drop a note in my "inbox." Correspondents: Lucy 84 06111, [email protected] Marshall Sandor, 251 Katydid Lane, president's office and finally in Please contact the alumni office Wi!wn, CT 06897, lucysandor@ career services. She also taught Linda Christensen Wright lives for my phone number, and make aol.com: Sheryl Edwards Rajpolt, 17 religious studies at the high with husband Bill and their sure to give them your e-mail Pheasant Lane, Monroe, CT 06468, school level for three years. She three children in West Hanford, and mail address changes too! See srajpoltrs'us.ibm.com, and Liz Kolber now works part time at the Old CT. Linda runs her own cater- the beginning of the Class Notes Wolkoff, 119 Estate Drive, Jericho, NY ing business and is busy with section for that address. 11753, lizkprincrs'aol.com Lyme Library as the campaign her kids and their many sports Heather Hewson Rock lives in coordinator. She wonders what other RTCs have done since and scour activities. The family Seattle with her husband, daugh- Correspondent: Nancy Benney, recently toured Greece with Bill's 88 ter Riley, and twins Matthew graduation. 925 Surrer Sr. #201, San Francisco, CA 7, high school an students. linda and Nathaniel, who were born Joan Brady and her husband 94] 09, [email protected] and Bill's son has been diagnosed 5/19/08. headed back to the roads of America to reprise their cross- with type 1 diabetes, so the whole family is involved with 89 Correspondent: Deb Dorman country journey from '03. Their Hay, 5821 N. 22nd Sr., Arlington, VA Correspondent: Kathy fundraising for research to find 85 beagle, Fred, accompanied them 22205, [email protected] Paxton-Williams, 2126 SE Umatilla on that trip. This time, Fred was a cure. She enjoys spending time Alexandra Davis Cummin con- SL, Portland, OR 97202, karhyp l l O with her parents (mom is Renate joined by his new pal, Hank. tinues to teach sixth and seventh comcasr.ner Aschaffenburg Christensen '51), Laura (Lolly) Jelks and Keith Two humans, two beagles, one grade at Benchmark School in and the family spends summers Crawford were married mission: Explore the interest- Media, PA. Her husband spent in Boothbay, ME, in the home !0/25/08 in Trevilians, VA, ing, funny and bizarre about a year in Egypt, and they visited linda and Bill built by hand! outside Charlottesville. Alumni this country of ours. Check out him there last June. "I returned Katherine (Katie) Ward Eaddy in attendance included Julie their blog: http://fredandhank. with many camels." lives in Gladwyne, rA, with her Martin Hudson, Patty Gillett typepad.com/fhma. family, and works part time as a Elliott, Eve Plummer Samuel, Correspondent: Kristin developmental consultant and 9 0 Maria Wychoff Boyce, Patrick Lofblad Sullivan, I Aberdeen Court, 87 Correspondents: Jenifer infant educator for high-risk and Cambridge, MA 02138, klofblad@ Dougherty and Benjamin Ford Kahn Bakkala, 51 Wesson Terrace, typical infants and their families. corncasr.net '84. "We had a blast! I am now Northborough, MA 01532, JKBandP @ao1.com and Jill Perlman Pienkos, She also volunteers as a grief the proud stepmother of Jordan, facilitator at Peter's Place, a center 91 Correspondent: Amy Lebowitz for grieving families and their Rosman, 120 Round Hill Road, East children. Katie, Susan Sravin Hills, NY 11')77, rosman')@!ive.com Schultheis and EUen Martinson Amy Lebowitz Rosman has O'Dea and families gather "al- taken up running. "It gives me most annually" at the NJ shore at abour 45 minutes of alone time Susan's family beach house. Katie in the mornings, which is price- also sees Hayley Mark- Taxay '88 less!" She rail in the Long Island and her family often. 10K the first weekend in May I, [enifer Kahn Bakkala, your with her 69-year-old father. She's faithful class correspondent, hope in awe of anyone who has ever that all members of the Class of run a full marathon; "running 6 '87 will TODAY update their miles is long enough for me - e-mail addresses either with me can't imagine ever running 26!" or with the alumni office. Many of you have switched jobs or ISPs 9 2 Correspondent: Lisa Friedrich and can no longer be reached Becker, 7513 Candytufr Coun, electronically. Contact me by Springfield, VA 221 ')3-1803, lisamfb@ e-mail or snail mail (see above) gmail.com Margaret (Behan) Fravel Gifford, or search for me on Facebook Helen Epps '68 rides a camel in Morocco.

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husband Jamie, and children in this market. Several alumni Niall, Mairen and Siobhan have already utilized the compa- live on their Stevens/Hylas 47 ny to find their ideal home. NY sailboat. In the summer of'08, Living Solutions has offered to they sailed out the straits and assist CC alumni moving to or south from Bainbridge Island, within NYC with all real estate WA. Behan wrote from Mexico, needs. For more information planning to cruise the Pacific about the company or to inquire coast of Mexico until early 2010, about finding a place in NY, then anticipating a jump off please con met Mizan at mayers@ to the South Pacific. "Anyone nylivingsoluticns.com. interested in coming as crew to Molly McAuliffe married the Galapagos (3/1 0) or French N. Fedor Smith IVan 4/18 in Polynesia (4/10)?" Contact her at Chatham, MA. Molly is the behanrs'sv-rotern.ccm. assistant director of student Kristen Brooks Kropp '99 married John Kropp in April '08 on the beaches of the services for the Northeastern 93 Correspondent: Michael Riviera Maya with 65 of their loved ones in attendance. U. College of Engineering in Carson, ro. Box 914, East Orleans, Boston. Fedor is the president MA 02643, carson.michaeks'comcast. Unitarian Universalist minister, these three will be roommates of Adantic-ACM, a research and "" performed the service. Holly is like their mothers were! strategy consulting firm for tele- working as a jeweler and Jesse is Craig Dershowitz was recently communications and pharma- Correspondent: Tika Martin, 9 4 a project manager. They live in promoted to editor-in-chief of ceutical industries in Boston. 1628 South Westgate Ave., Apt. 210, Houston, where Holly loves the BOMB IN' Magazine. In addi- Los Angeles, CA 90025, rikamarrinw yahoo.com or [email protected] winter weather. tion, he founded Artists 4 Israel, a3 Correspondents: Melissa a nonprofit organization, and Higgins, 15 Clark Sr. #3, Boston, MA 02109, melissa_higgins13@hotmail. Correspondents: Megan will be a guest speaker at Yale U. 95 Correspondent: Stephanie 9 9 com and Leslie Kalka, 418 W. 49th Tepper-Rasmussen Sokolnicki, Kent as well as travel to Israel as the Wilson Mendez, 221 First Ave., Unit Sr., Apt. 4A, New York, NY 10019, School, 1 Macedonia Road, Kent, CT 48, Minneapolis, MN, 55413, organization's CEO. He spends a [email protected] swilsong'bazoomer.com 06757, reppermrs'kent-school.edu and lot of time with Glidjy Dupont Danielle Leblanc Ruggiero, danielle.; Elizabeth Yocam and Evan Sheryl Frey Rothman and '98 and Felix Fofie '00. [email protected] Lewis were married 8/2/08 at family welcomed their second Peggy Sperling Galanty (RTC) the Columbia Gorge Hotel in daughter into the world on is still teaching playwriting. Her a a Correspondent: Katie Hood River, OR. Alumni at 3/27/08. Elizabeth Josephine plays are performed two or three Stephenson, 54 Rope Ferry Road, Unit the wedding included maid of Rothman weighed 7 lbs., 7 oz. 138H, Wmerford, CT 06385, times a year at home and in NY honor Amy Loveless, Mary "She is a joy and a blessing. Her [email protected] She married AI Calanry, her best Ellen Osborne (in attendance) older sister, Sophia, has been a Elizabeth Ethridge and Kevin friend of 10 years, in '04. Peggy and Ryan Metzler '07 (in at- tremendous helper." McGann were married 8/9/08 tendance). Elizabeth is an actress thanks her lucky stars for her in York, ME. Alumni at the beautiful granddaughter. wedding included matron of and Evan is a film composer. 9 6 Correspondents: Lisa Kristen Brooks Kropp married They live in Los Angeles. Paone, P.O. Box 643, Nantucket, honor Lisa Friedman Scheck, the love of her life, John Kropp, Formerly employed by MA 02554, [email protected] Garrett Scheck, Emily Shield and Gretchen Shuman, 28 Nash in April '08 on the beaches of the and Nicole Rosenblum ACCION International as a Place #1, Burlington, VT 05401, Riviera Maya with 65 loved ones Wegweiser. Elizabeth and Kevin senior investment associate, [email protected] joining them to celebrate. She spent their honeymoon scuba Alexandra Fiorillo recently ac- currently works in medical sales diving in Tahiti. Elizabeth is an cepted a position as vice president 9 7corresPIJndent: Ann Bevan for a high-complexity cancer- interior designer at Rinfrer Ltd. at Microfinance Transparency Hollos, 1443 Beacon St. # 1OS, testing lab (molecular pathology), in Greenwich, CT. They live in in Washington, DC. In her new Brookline, MA 02446, annbevan23@ covering the states of CO and Norwalk, CT. role, Alex will travel around yahoo.corn \XlI. Kristen and John own Elite the world promoting principles Jessica Haynes McDaniel had Nutrition vitamin stores (and of consumer protection and Correspondents: John her second daughter, Sarah organic smoothie bars) in the a1 transparent pricing in the micro- (Sadie) Parkman McDaniel, on Battista, 5225 Skillman Ave., Apt. Midwest and CO (www.elitenu- 2C, Woodside, NY 11377, jgbar@ finance industry. She will work 5/3. "She is doing really well. tririonviramins.com) . hctmail.com and Jordana Gustafson, country by country, beginning Her big sister Annie, 30, is very Zoe Klein and Jorge [email protected]. with Peru, Bosnia and Cambodia, proud of her," Jessica works as a Henriquez welcomed a baby girl, to help banks and microfinance baby photographer in Boston. Isabella Grace Henriquez, on a2 Correspondents: Katie institutions implement transpar- 12/2. She weighed in at a strong McAlaine, krncalainecsgmail.com, ent pricing and promote financial 9 8 Correspondents: Alec -t lbs., 15 oz., and measured 18 Melissa Minehan, 7533 Buckingham education in low-income com- Drive, Apt. 2E, Clayton, MO 63150, Todd, 1045 N. Utah St., Arlington, inches long, at 3Y2 weeks early. munities. Over the next three VA 22201, [email protected] and [email protected] and Lylia She's now catching up in height years, Alex expects to visit more Abby Clark, 179 Prospect Park West Tyrrell, 418 Saint Asaph, Alexandria, and weight and doing well. She's #4L, Brooklyn, NY 11215, abigailb- VA 22314, [email protected] than 80 countries for work. She [email protected] already met Parker looss, son of Mizan Ayers has accepted a would love to visit with Camels Holly Hawkins and Jesse Sarah and Christian Iooss, who new posicion as chief executive around the world, so please let Sabia were married 9/20/08 was born two months earlier, at officer at NY Living Solutions, a her know where you are! Please in Pawling, NY. Alumni at the the end of Sept., and Zoe and company specializing in luxury visit www.mftransparency.org for wedding included Megan Kelly Jorge were looking forward to residential sales and rentals in more information or reconnect at '97, Elizabeth (Betsy) McStay, introducing her to Kathleen NYc. During these difficult [email protected]. Krista Mallory '00 and Robert (Katie) Minor Kheel's new baby economic times, the company Elizabeth Huber and Daniel Utter '75. Megan, ordained as a this summer! Maybe one day continues to expand and thrive Griffin '04 visited Puerto Rico

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as parr of a comparative public Airplane. Jordan and Chloe are Huber '03 visited Puerto Rico policy class in March. They enjoying married life living in as part of a comparative public are both graduate students at an apartment on the upper west policy class in March. They Obituaries Suffolk U. in Boston. Elizabeth side of Manhattan with their are both graduate students at is pursuing a master's degree in Boston terrier puppy, Frunky. Suffolk U. in Boston. Daniel is public administration. Catherine Servant and Jason pursuing joint master's degrees Ruth Jackson Webb '30 of Katherine Driscoll married Lea were married 10/12 in in public administration and Denver, Colo., died April 22. Samarjit Rattan of Ease Lyme, Barrington, Rl Catherine political science. She volunteered for the College CT, on 9/27/08. Three storms works at Bishop Feehan High Kristin Murray and Steven as a planned giving agent. She converged in the Adanric Ocean School as an art teacher, swim Kelley were married 10/25 in was preceded in death by her and headed for New london to and track coach, and student Great Barrington, MA. Kristin husband, John Truman Webb. her parents' home, where they council moderator. Jason is a will be pursuing a master's degree, She leaves two sons. were married, but the wedding certified financial planner. He is and Steven is an F-I6 avionics was beautiful! In attendance the vice president and director of technician in the US Air Force. Jean Berger Whitelaw '34 of were Matthew Turcott '02 and annuity sales at Brokers' Service They live in Great Barrington. Ladysmith, British Columbia, Sarah Barr (of the eELS office), Marketing Group in Providence. Jordan Geary and Chloe died April 29. She was Marcy Currier '02, Mary Rafter The couple lives in Providence. Schon '03 were married predeceased by her husband, Dr. and Althea Arnold. 4/28/08. See '03 notes for Donald Mackay Whitelaw. She leaves her three sons and their Chloe Schon and Jordan 04 Correspondent: Kelly M<:Call, details. Geary '04 were married 4/28/08 kjm<:[email protected] spouses. at the Meadowlands in Darien, Jeremy Whyman has finished his 05 Correspondents: Cecily CT. Alumni in attendance second year of medical school at Mandl, cecilymandlfegmail.com and Maylah Hallock Pack '35 of included Dan Hartnett '04, American U. of the Caribbean Stephanie Savage Flynn, Bloomfield, Conn., died May Kary Dawson, Mary Ellen School of Medicine, on his [email protected] 16. She was a president of the Osborne, Molly Lippman, way to completing an MD. He Kristina Marie Lewis and YWCA Hanford and on the Christopher James Civali were Kathryn Corrigan, Terrence returned to Boston at the end board of the Women's Exchange Corrigan '02, Ben Morse '05, of this summer to study fer the married 7/11/08 in Lakeway, TX. of West Hanford. She and her Megan Sherlock '06, Jay Breuer, second-year boards. After that he Kristina is a second-grade teacher husband were early members of in Newton, MA, and Christopher Elizabeth Wexler '04, Tim will go to London for his third the Hartford Tennis Club, and Stevens, Sarah Mele '05, joelle year of clinical training before is pursuing a degree at Suffolk U. she played the game well into Desloovere Schon '73, Taylor returning to Boston and NY to Law School in Boston. her 80s. Maylah also was active Cunningham '04 and Margaret complete year four and apply Bradley Schwimmer is obtain- in a book club she formed with (Peggy) Mclver Gregerson '73. for residency. Jeremy encour- ing his doctorate of clinical psy- her friends, "Odd Volumes," chology at the Georgia School of Chloe is the logistics director at ages anyone in the area to visit which met monthly for over 60 the Heller Group, a full-service and/or send him an e-mail if Professional Psychology. years. Carolyn was predeceased post-war and contemporary art interested in hearing more about by her husband and rwo advisory firm in Manhattan. the program. o6 Correspondent: Erin Riley, brothers. She leaves her children, Jordan is the associate producer Ian McGowan and Satomi [email protected] daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and direcror of community Makida were married in Joel Scara is currently serving in nine grandchildren and nine outreach for the Nr-based televi- Florence, MA, on 8/23/08. the Peace Corps in Mali, West great-grandchildren. sion production company Little Daniel Griffin and Elizabeth Africa. Jane Hutchinson Cauffield '38 07 Correspondent: Chris Reilly, of Medina, Ohio, died May <:[email protected] 29. She and her husband, Dr. Edwin W. Cauffield, spent much of their life on a farm in 08 Correspondent: Class Notes Editor, CC: Connecticut College Richfield, Ohio, raising four Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., New children, saddlebred horses London, CT 06320, c<:mag@conncoll. and Dalmatians. Jane enjoyed edu spending time aboard steamships EDITOR'S NOTE: If you ace on the Great Lakes. These interested in serving as class cor- vessels belonged to the Buckeye respondent for your class, please Steamship Co., first owned contact Class Notes Coordinator by her grandfather and later Karen Laskey at the above managed by her father. She was address. predeceased by her parents, .twO sisters, husband, and a COUSll1, 09 Correspondent: Class Notes Jean Myers Tielke '33. She leaves Editor, CC: Ccnnecricur College four children and their spouses, Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., New eight grandchildren, twO great- London, CT 06320, c<:mag@<:onnwU. grandchildren, and her sister, edu EDITOR'S NOTE: If you are Joanne Hutchinson '47. interested in serving as class cor- Chloe Kristin Schon '03 and Jordan Peter Geary '04 were married 6/28/08 at respondent for your class, please Marjorie Hanson Navidi '38 The Meadowlands in Darien, CT. Alumni in attendance, back row from left: Dan contact Class Notes Coordinator of Gwynedd, Pa., died May Hartnett '04, Katy Dawson '03, Mary Ellen Osborne '03, Molly Lippman '03, 1. After earning her doctorate Kathryn Corrigan '03, Terrence Corrigan '01, Ben Morse '04, Megan Sherlock Karen Laskey at the above address. in physical chemistry from '06, Jay Breuer '03, Liz Wexler '04, Tim Stevens '03: front row: Sarah Mele the Polytechnic Institute of '05, Joette Schon '73, Chloe and Jordan, Taylor Cunningham '04 and Peggy Brooklyn, Marjorie became a Gregerson '73.

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chemistry professor at Queens of Housron, Texas, died Dec. Betty Ann Reiffel Bry '46 of Barbara Hillery '47 of Falls College, where she taught until 19. Dot was born in Amoy, Walnut Creek, Calif., died July Church, Va., died June 15. retiring in 1988. She co-wrote China, to parenrs working 7. Betty worked as a newspaper Barbara served two years "Chemistry," a textbook widely as missionaries. She was reporter and advertising in the Naval Air Transport used at universities. She gave predeceased by her husband, copywriter before starting Command during World War generously to many charitable David L. Parke. She leaves at WSTC, a radio station in II. Her work included office causes and loved traveling and a daughter, son-in-law, two Stamford, Conn. Betty and her management and secretarial the outdoors. She also served as grandsons, a nephew, and a husband, Richard John Bry, positions with Honeywell and a class agent chair at the College. niece and her family. relocated ro the San Francisco Crowell & Moring LLP.She She leaves two sons, a sister and Bay Area in 1996 to be closer was predeceased by her parents. two grandchildren. Elinor Pfautz Dahl '42 of New to their children. After her She leaves two siblings and London, Conn., died April 26. husband passed away, Beery their spouses, nine niecesand Bessie Knowlton Tyler '40 of moved ro Rossmoor in Walnut nephews, and 12 grandnieces East Longmeadow, Mass., died Betty Babcock '44 of Needham, Creek, where she was an active and grandnephews. June 26. While at the College, Mass., died May 21. Betty volunteer at the fitness center Bessie was chief of justice of the spent several years working and a teacher of English as a Carol Burnell Raney '51 of honor guard. She later worked with the Wellesley College second language. Betty leaves Alexandria, Va., died June 9. for the Holyoke Housing library staff. She worked in three children, a daughter-in- Carol earned a master's degree Authority, and for 50 years she the Westwood school system law, eight grandchildren and two from Brown University and volunteered for Wesson Women's and worked with children with great-grandchildren. taught English at St. Stephens Hospital, where she worked in special needs at Massachusetts & St. Agnes School in Virginia the maternity ward. She was General Hospital. She was Priscilla Wright Pratt' 46 from 1981 to 1998. She was predeceased by her parents active in Republican politics of Noank, Conn., died June predeceased by her parents. and two siblings. She leaves and the Wellesley Hills Woman's 15. Priscilla was a member of Carol leaves her husband, her husband, M. Brooke Tyler Club. She is remembered for the Connecticut Academy of William P. Raney, four children, jr., two sons, two daughters- her cheerful disposition, bright Fine Arts and rhe Mystic Art a daughter-in-law, two sons-in- in-law, three grandchildren, a smile and dignified grace. Betty Association in Connecticut. She law, five grandchildren, and two great-grandson, two siblings, was an avid photographer and was proud of her portraiture siblings, including Sheila Burnell and many nieces and nephews, enthusiastic Red Sox fan. She work and won the leland Sawyer '52. including Joanne Knowlton was predeceased by her parents Howard Special Award from the Gabriel '84. and her longtime aid and Mystic Art Association in 1989. Doris (DeeDee) Deming Bundy companion. She leaves many Priscilla was also committed to '55 of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Anne Henry Clark' 41 of friends and her care-giving staff. wildlife and land conservation Mass., died July 12. DeeDee Cincinnati, Ohio, died April 14. efforts. She and her husband, loved horticulture and grew She leaves a daughter. Marjorie Moody Shiffer '44 Charles N. Pratt, founded the orchids and bromeliads in her of Brownstown, Pa., died May Groton Open Space Association, garden and greenhouse. For Thea Dutcher Coburn '41 28. She worked in the research which successfully protected many years, she was a Bower of Suffield, Conn., died May department of the Federal Haley Farm in Noank from show judge and was a member 24. At the College, Thea was Reserve Bank in Philadelphia development. She was a leader of many gardening societies, one of 10 studenrs selected co and served as a West Earl through her determination, including the Massachusetts participate in the Auerbach Township Judge of Elections integrity and example. She was Horticultural Society and the Project, sponsored by Beatrice and on the West Earl Township predeceased by her husband New England Chapter of the Fox Auerbach of the G. Fox Zoning Hearing Board. She and two brothers. She leaves her Cesneriad Society. She leaves & Co. department store in was an active volunteer at the niece, Elissa 1'. Wright '68, and her husband, Frederick M. Hartford. Through this project, College, serving as a class agent twO children, Charles (Timothy) Bundy Jr., four children, and six Thea modeled, organized and treasurer. Marjorie was Pratt '86 and Priscilla Pratt '80. grandchildren, including Samuel fashion shows, ralked to predeceased by her husband, Dylag'12. women's groups and compared Wendell R. Shiffer, and brother. Jean Witman Gilpatrick '47 prices of competitors. Thea She leaves her two children, son- of Bethesda, Md., died June 4. Ann (Binney) Beck McGeorge helped form the League of in-law and granddaughter. Jean was an ordained Unitarian '55 of Old Saybrook, Conn., Women Voters, eventually Universalist minister. While died May 17. At rhe College, serving as its president. She Helen Farrell O'Mara '45 of raising two daughters, Jean Binney studied with Richard H. was a founding member of the Old Greenwich, Conn., and furthered her commitment Goodwin, the Katharine Blunt Suffield Land Conservancy and Vero Beach, Fla., died June to civil rights, marching in Professor Emeritus of Botany, was presented the Connecticut 11. An active volunteer, Helen demonstrations with her family. whom she greatly admired. After Department of Environmental served Community Answers In 1967, she began teaching graduating, she moved to New Protection GreenCircle Award. in Greenwich for 26 years and philosophy and religion at York City where she worked in She served the College as a was a president of rhe Old the Virginia University of advertising for many years at class agent, nominating chair Greenwich School PTA. In Lynchburg and Central Virginia agencies like SSe. and B. and and vice president. She was Florida, she was a longtime Community College. She was an Ogilvy & Mather. Together, predeceased by her husband, member of John's Island and early supporter of women's rights Binney and her husband, James Coburn, parents, Innis Arden Golf Club where and attended the International William B. McGeorge, owned sister, and grandnephew. She she was chairman of the Women's Conference in their own home building and leaves many grandnephews, ladies' golf program. She was Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985. real estate rental business. She grandnieces, nephews, and predeceased by her husband, Jean was predeceased by her leaves her husband and the nieces, including Doreen Edwin J. O'Mara Jr. She leaves husband, Thomas Gilpatrick. family of her stepmother. CuroniJli '97. three children, two daughters- She leaves two daughters, three in-law, a brother and six grandchildren, a brother, and Harriette (Happy) McConnel Dorothy (Dot) Day Parke '41 grandchildren. many nieces and nephews. Soule '55 of Glenwood Springs,

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Colo., died April 22. Before the Horchow name appeared predeceased by her husband, Barrolac. She leaves three sisters, marrying Craig Soule in 1959, on an auditorium at the Dallas Aaron Woloshin. She leaves an uncle and many close friends. Happy taught high school Museum of Art and a hall Key West waiters, her rwo English in Connecticut, Ohio at the Morton H. Meyerson stepchildren and their families, Robert (Bob) Rasmussen of and Pennsylvania. When Happy Symphony Center. She also cousins, step-nephew, mother, Charlton, N.Y., died April 24. moved to High Point, N .C.; she served on the board of the sister and many others. Bob was a vice president for worked as the music director's UT Southwestern University development ar the College from assistant at the Wesley Memorial Hospiral-Zale Lipshy, where Tom Curtis '85 of San 1993 to 1995. He spent much United Methodist Church and she and her husband created Francisco, Calif., died May of his career in higher education, as a business section librarian at a fund to suPPOrt research 19. At the College, he was also working at Cornell the High Point Public Library in immunology, AIDS and named the New England Poets University and Union College. before retiring in 2003. Happy cancer, and gave $1.5 million Association's "Student Poet of As a consultant, he remained was known for her soprano voice to fund endowed scholarships the Year"and founded "The involved until his death. Bob in the church choir. She read in pediatrics. Carolyn leaves Gallery," a literary publication was a very proud veteran of often, enjoyed drawing, had a her husband, three daughters, rhac served as a testament to the U.S. Army and an active wonderful sense of humor and three sons-in-law, brother, his love of well-crafted words. volunteer for the Scleroderma never stopped learning. She sister-in-law, five grandchildren, He was inspired by the late Foundation. He was predeceased spent many summers on Crystal and several nieces, nephews, Connecticut College professor by his wife, Lynn Rasmussen. Lake near Frankfort, Mich. grandnieces and grandnephews. William Meredith, a Pulitzer He leaves rwo sons and their She leaves three children, rwo Prize-winning poet. In San spouses, three grandchildren, grandchildren, four siblings, and Suzanne Shepherd Bagley '62 Francisco, Tom first worked brother, sister-in-law, and nieces many nieces and nephews. of Roanoke, Va., died May as an assistant to Charles and nephews. 19. Suzanne was a longtime Schwab and then as a buyer for Jeanne DeGange '56 of member of the Christ Episcopal Macys. He eventually became Barbara Reed of Guilford, Superior, Mom., died June 16. Church in Roanoke. She was president of Bebe Sparr. Tom Conn., died June 13. Barbara Jeanne earned a master's degree predeceased by her parents and used to say, "This is not a dress was the founder of the in library science from Syracuse leaves her two children and their rehearsal," when referring to Connecticut Storytelling Center, University. For much of her spouses, sister, brother-in-law, life, and he lived with humor, where she was the director life, she lived in Connecticut six grandchildren, niece and grace and a comfort in his own from 1982 to 1998, and taught working as a contractor in the nephew. skin. He leaves his parrnet, children's literature at the Mystic area and editor at the Niles Bryant, parents, sister, College beginning in 1973. She Bureau of Business Practice in Deirdre Pierce '68 of brother-in-law, niece, three later taught storytelling and Watetford. She was predeceased Washington, D.C, Key West, nephews, grandmother, aunt, organized the first Connecticut by a daughter; her mother, Mary Fla., and Normandy, France, stepmother, rwo stepsisters, and Storytelling Festival at the Crofoot DeGange '27; and two died June 19. For 21 years, a stepbrother. College. She was predeceased by aunts, Margaret Crofoot '28 and Deirdre was a restaurant her husband, Stephen W. Reed. Helen Crofoot '22. She leaves reviewer and food columnist for Sigrid Barrolac of Oakdale, She leaves her sister, six children, her grandson; daughter, Suzanne major Washington publications, Conn., died July 6. Sigrid joined seven grandchildren and two Cattanach 'as; brother. niece; including the Washington Star. the College in 2005 as a member great-gta ndchild ren. nephew; two grandnieces; several k a creative consultant to of the Oasis Snack Shop staff cousins; and many dear friends. Chanrerelle Caterers, she was and became a friend to many both a hands-on chef and menu on campus through her daily Carolyn Pfeifer Horchow '56 designer. Over the years she interactions with faculty, staff CC, Magazine requires an official, of Dallas, Texas, died June 15. won many accolades, including and students. Ingrid Bushwack, printed obituary for all death no- In 1971, Carolyn co-founded Washingtonian magazine's "77 director of dining services, tices listed in the magazine and the Horchow Collection, a People to Watch in 1977" and said, "She represented so well online. To view extended obituar- mail-order catalog for luxury Panorama TV's "Five Most the spirit of the dedicated staff ies or submit information to the goods. In addition to endowing Eligible Bachelorettes." Others in the Oasis Snack Shop." College about alumni who have a scholarship at the College, have described Deirdre as having Originally from Germany, Sigrid died, visit the class notes section she and her husband, Roger a killer smile and a "king-size lived in Montville, Conn., for of the Alumni Online Community at www.conncoll.edu/alumni. Horchow, gave back to Dallas passion for making all the world 30 yeats. She was predeceased by after their business grew, and in love with night." She was her parents and husband, John

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Connecticut College has gone Hollywood - and New York

Alumni in chose cities organized networking events earlier this summer and are interested in hearing from other Connecricur College graduates who want to be pan of the fun. The Hollywood group is a network of young profession- als, all of them graduates of NESCAC schools, living and working in the Los Angeles area. Their second event was Aug. 14, a happy hour with hors d'oeuvres at an Irish pub in Santa Monica. The Connecticut College contact is Russ Chase '07, who can be reached at [email protected]. Alumni gather for dinner in New York in July. From left: Glidjy Dupont '98, The group in the metro New York region is coordinated Laura Manzano '93, Joe St. Cyr '87, Sara Davis '99, Jennifer ClaireScott '94, by several 1990s alumni. They had a series of "Dinners Kim Schoenbacher '99 and Christine Amorossi '92. with Twelve Strangers" in July, inviting 12 strangers with Connecticut College ties to have dinner together at New York www.conncoll.edu/alumni to log in and update your informa- restaurants during the city's Restaurant Week. tion - and see what your classmates have been up to. The group also has been contacting Connecticut College For more information about the Manhattan efforts, contact classmates, urging them to update their address and employ- Jennifer Claire Scott '94 at [Scond'Ernpireforce.com. ment information in the Alumni Online Community. The If you are interested in coordinating similar events in your updates allow other alumni to reach them more easily and area, e-mail the Office of Alumni Relations at alumni@ help the College develop targeted networking events. Go to conncoll.edu or call 800-888-7549.

Alumni Association Awards: Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award Any member of a class that graduated within Honors alumni who have contributed the past 15 years is eligible to be nominated, Call for Nominations outstanding service to the College, except current members of the Board of Trustees demonstrated by continued active participation and the Board of Directors of the AJumni in class, regional programming or Board Association. The College and the Alumni Association of Directors activities. Winners must have Connecticut College Medal graduated at least 15 years ago. give several awards annually to The Connecticut College Medal was established recognize outstanding achievements of Alumni Tribute Award in 1969 to commemorate the 50th anniversary alumni. Nominations, with supporting Recognizes alumni who have given continuous of the graduation of the College's first class. infonnation, should be sent to Bridget and extraordinary service to the College. The It is conferred by the Board of Trustees on service must keep with the purpose and spirit of individuals whose accomplishments or service McShane, director of alumni relations. the Alumni Association, though winners do not have enhanced the College's reputation and These awards are typically presented to need to work directly through the Association. nourished its growth. It is the highest honor the alumni who are celebrating their reunion. College can confer. Goss Award Honors enthusiastic participants in AJumni Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame Association programs or activities and significant The Athletic Hall of Fame, created in 1989, contributors to the College community. honors those who have brought distinction Winners must be members of rhe Alumni to themselves and the College through their Association. achievement, commitment, sportsmanship and leadership in athletics. Nominees may include Harriet Buescher Lawrence '34 Prize reams, alumni, coaches, faculty members, Given to alumni who are leaders in improving administrators or friends of the College society or inspiring others for good, either community. through direct service or by changing the climate of human life materially, socially, ethically or spiritually. Their achievements should surpass Contact: those of other leaders in their fields. 8rid1.('1 ivlr.)/hl}/{', Director 0/ Alumni Relhliom Mach Arom '89 Award Connecticut College 270 Mohegan AIJI'., New Loudon. CT 06320 Honors service to the College and distinguished brid,get. mah.r ll/'@coil//[oll.edli achievements in the recipient's professional field. 860·439-2302

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Network in six minutes Want to increase your networking circle in order (Q find a job or new hire, identify business opportunities, or meet potential diems? Join us for one of the new NESCAC speed networking events. Participating alumni get personalized schedules, designed to suit their interests, and have six minutes to network with each person on their list, These evenings are already quite popular among our alumni. Events have taken place in Philadelphia and, due to popular demand, twice in New York. Further sessions are scheduled in October in Boston and Washington, D.C., and the program will likely expand to other places across the country, Watch your e-mail for more derails. Alumni reconnect at a '70s mini-reunion in June at Bussaco, a restaurant owned by Scott Carney '77 and Melanie Kozot-Oemey '79 in Brooklyn, NY. Connecticut College is hiring The Office of Alumni Relations has a full-time opening for an individual who is highly organized, has excellent oral and communication skills and some background in event UPCOMING EVENTS management. This position will work primarily with regional Check the Alumni Online Calendar at www.conncoll.edu/alurnni for the programming; therefore, the ability to travel is a requirement. most up-to-date information on alumni events. If you are interested or have questions, please contact Bridget McShane, director of alumni relations, at bridget.mcshane@ Sept. 9 Tremont St. Time TBO. Watch your conncol1.edu. Welcome to the City e-mail. To view more job listings, please visit www. Young NESCAC alumni are invited connecticutcollege.edu and click on Employment. to networking events in cities like Oct. 13 Tokyo, Denver, San Francisco, NESCAC Speed Networking Event Chicago, Providence and more. in Washingtnn, D.C. Time TBO. Watch your e-mat. At the Embassy Suites - Cnnventinn Center, 900 10th St. Sept. 9·10 NW. Tim' TBO. Watch your e-mail. Class of 1960 Reunion Planning Meeting Oct. 17·18 On campus. Head of the Charles Regatta AII~weekend event in Boston. Sept. 16 CAMEL in New York City Oct. 23-25 Camel Alumni. Meet, Exchange. Fall Weekend libatel at legends, 6 W. 33rd St., 3rd Flnor GolO·SolO p.m. Watch Nov. 12 your e-mail. Connecticut College Club of Southwest Florida oct. 4-12 Cocktails at Naples Yacht Club, Alumni Travel: Greece and Turkey 5·7 p.m. A Special Thank You! Explore the islands of ancient Greece. Dec. 12 The Office of College Advancement extends Boston Holiday Party its deepest appreciation to all the wonderful Oct. 7 The Algonquin Club, 6030·8 p.m. alumni volunteers who made Reunion 2009 NESCAC Speed Networking Event Watch for more news on the New the great event that it was. The campus was in Boston York holiday party. in full swing. More than 1,200 alumni and At the Cnurtyard Marriott, 275 friends enjoyed not only the beautiful campus, but also seeing their classmates, fellow For more information about any of these events, alumni, faculty members and staff. You are contact the Office of Alumni Relations why Connecticut College is so special! at 800·888·7549 or [email protected].

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