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Volume 78 Issue 2 Spring 1989 Article 1

April 1989

Colby Magazine Vol. 78 No. 2: Spring 1989

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Commons Bonding

The Commons system celebrated its fourth birthday last fall, and it has made great strides in its short history toward becoming an effective student government. But it has a way lo go ye t. Most of the problems with the Commons system can be traced back lo the intentions of its builders. Adminis­ trators say that the Commons system was supposed lo emulate the good things about fraternities, like unity and bonding, but bury in basements on Frat Row all the bad things, like discrimination and hazing. The Commons sys­ tem is based on student involvement. More than 100 students, including some fraternitymembers, even helped de­ sign the system in the spring of 1984. But the new government was nol without enemies, and many students were still bitter about the banning of the brothers in January 1984. I arrived as a freshman at Colby several years later, in the fall of 1986, and was elected a governorof my resi­ dence hall. Consequently, 1 also served on the Mary Low Commons Council. We spent more time discussing what we were going to decide, whom we were going lo tell about our decisions, and how we were going to tell them than we did actually making the decisions. The decisions we did make carried little weight and certainly did not significantly alter campus life. Our opinions rarely went anywhere except home with us on the carbon-copied min­ utes of the meeting. The most memorable thing we did as a council was throw a few successful parties. "You should do this more," said our fellow students. We ll. maybe we should have, but that was not the primary purpose of the Commons sys­ tem. Governors were supposed to be representatives of the students, their policymakers, not party hosts. However, if we didn't throw the parties. who would fill the gap left by "legal" fraternities? It was a frustrating year, and the dual role of party host/policymaker is still a muddy one today. This year, my junior year at Colby, there are signs that the Commons system is making headway. To day's stu­ dents have only known Colby with the Commons system. The Commons presidents, the Student Association ex­ ecutive board members, and the board of governors include many veterans of the system. They understand that student governments do not overrule but, rather, work with administrator and faculty. At the same time, student leaders are learningbo th what decisions they have the authority to make and how lo use the political power of a united student body voice. The governors are starting to worry about policies and not parties, allowing the social chairs and other committee chairs to fulfill their own duties. This experience within the system is making a difference. Additionally, the Commons system is starting lo make decisions about important campus issues. Removing club status and funding from the Colby Crossfire (a publication of student opinion and attitudes) when its editors chose to violate the Student Association constitution is the best example I've witnessed. The board of governors considered the facts, talked to the offenders, discussed the problem, and made a decision. The Commons system should continue to get its hands dirty and tackle other difficult campus issues that need to be addressed. The most neglected problem currently plaguing the Commons system is its relationship lo the student body. Ideas and complaints often have a difficult time "trickling up" the system. Events such as town meetings, at which the residents of a hall gather with their governors, are helping to build a better bridge between Colby students and the Commons system. Still, while most students can rattle off a few lines about how the system provides represen­ tation for the student body or can explain how the Commons hierarchy is set up, that isn't enough. Students need to understand what the Commons system can and cannot accomplish as well as what it is accomplishing. I am not a flag-waving fan of the Commons system. I do, however, believe that Colby is a better place with this system than it was with legal fraternities. Administrators acknowledge that underground fraternity members are elected and appointed to positions within the Commons system, sometimes for the sole benefit of the system and other times to make sure their organization is represented. Of course, if fraternities follow the example Zeta Psi set when they dissolved their group in December, life on Mayflower Hill would change dramatically and become easi­ er for the Commons system. Nevertheless, the toughest part is over-the Commons system has survived its first years. Now it just has to grow up.

Chip Gavin '90

"Commentary" does not necessarily represent the editorial position of Colby nor the opinion of College officers. Readers are invited to submit proposals or opinion essays of between 500 and 800 words to the editor, Colby, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. The edi­ tor cannot guarantee publication of every submission. CONT ENTS

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FEATU RES DEPARTMENTS

9 Designing a Major Dream Commentary (inside front cover) After extensive planning of an independent major be­ ginning in her freshman year, Wendy Dauphinais '89 is earning a place in the world of newsclips and soundbi tes. 2 Eustis Mailroom

12 Exchanges: A Great Oppor tunity An exchange program brings the diverse back­ grounds, interests, and insights of two Soviet stu­ dents to the Colby campus. 5 ews from the Hill

16 A Gift for All Ages At 87, George Nickerson '24, "the dean" to genera­ tions of Colby men, is still actively helping people. 8 Ex Libris 18 Young Self-starters Bill Donahue '86 tells how a group of his Colby class­ mates flaunts mainstream commercial practices to build a successful restaurant business. 22 Class Correspondence

21 Serving with Grace and Charm Since the days of the Elmwood Hotel, Doris Rowe's help-and second helpings-have provided savour at College events. 45 Milestones

Volume 78, Number 2, Spring 1989

Colby is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to the editor, Colby, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799.

Editor: Robert Gillespie; Assistant to the Editor: Nancy Fortuine Westervelt '54; Director of Publications: Bonnie Bishop; Production Editor: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: Christian D. Antalics '89, Julie Marks '90, William Morgan '89. Lisa H. 1\vomey '9 1; Photography: Rhett Wieland (front cover). David Leaming (p. 6). Mary Ellen Matava (pp. 14, 15). The Preble Studio(p. 16). Christopher Ayers (p. 25). Colby archives {pp. 17, �6. 47, 48), Jeff Russell '87 (p. 20). Scott Davis (p. 21), Bonnie Bishop (back cover).

Printed by Knowlton & McLeary, Farmington, Maine

On the covers: Outside the greenhouse on the walkway between Arey Life Sciences and Keyes Science Building, snow still covers the campus, but in­ side it's a spring day.Tim McCutcheon '89 tends the greenery.

COLBY --�z___ :_u_s _ T _1_s_ __M A 1 L R o o M

Setting the Record Straight The half-life of such ball on is mea­ posed version of the National Labor Re­ sured in decades. As an environmental lations Acl. The class showed no alarm. I enjoyed reading of my father, Edward studies major at Colby, a marine biology Meanwhile, Dr. Libby was banging on C. Roundy, in the anniversary edition technician, and a sailor, I have learned the piano lid. This behavior had the in­ ("Athletics al Colby" ). It is always with a how fragile our oceans and their inhabi­ tended effect. which was for me lo lose feeling of great pride that I read of his tants are. During th is pa t summer, the my way. When I had wandered to a accomplishments and gifts to Colby. I do, media was full of stories about how we fl ustered and complete stop, Dr. Libby however, find two glaring errors in the are destroying the oceans from which all just beamed innocently. Making what I article that I feel hould be corrected: life on earth comes. Plastic objects, in­ thought was a brilliant recovery. I said: My father went to Colby in the fall of cluding balloons, comprised the bulk of "Before I was so rudely interrupted ..." 1924, not 1925; he died in 1954, nol ex­ tra h recently picked up from the Maine but slopped short, my face crimson with actly a "retirement:• and he had just com­ shores during a coastal clean-up spon­ embarrassment, realizing how impudent pleted his 30th, not his 28th year. He had sored by the Maine Audubon Society. If and disrespectful my words had been. just received a further honor as a reward one of Colby's balloons was found on Dr. Libby was gracious, recognizing my from Colby for his many years of service Mount Desert Island, it is quite possible discomfiture, and told me and the class and love to the College, a three-year con­ that others made their way into Maine how to deal with hecklers. tract, which would have carried him to waters and onto the shore, thereby con­ I spent a lot of time with Joseph his 65lh year. ll was my understanding tributing to the pollution. Coburn Smith, both at his home on Park at the time that it was the first multi-year l certainly am nol opposed lo cele­ Street across from the home of Marston contract ever given a coach. brating such milestones as Colby's 175th Morse, and al the College. We had a mu­ Though many called him "Eddie," anniversary, but 1 would ask that the tual interest in photography. I am sur­ most of Waterville called him "Coach:' College place a ban on the release of bal­ prised that your text does not mention Mike Loebs vvas "Mike," Al McCoy was loons from its campus for any reason. the fact that Joseph Coburn Smith was "Al," "Cy" Perkins was "Cy," but Eddie Balloon releases have been denounced the son of George Otis Smith. Roundy was, to a great majority, by many environmental organizations for Four of the men in your series [Morse, "Coach''.....to me an indication of the love their contribution to the deaths of many Libby, Av erill, and Day] were personal and respect given him by those who marine fauna. I hope that Colby will join friends of my iather, Harvey Doane Ea­ knew him well. 1 feel so lucky to have in their cause. ton, Class of 1887 and a Colby trustee. been one of those and particularly lo Holman Day was in my father's class at have been his daughter. Charles P LeRoycr Ill '75 Colby. His book of verse, Up in Maine, Lincolnville, Maine was excruciatingly funny, and I have it to Mary "Dixie" Roundy Bebee '-J.6 this day. Crystal Rive1; Fla. George Averill was a familiar figure around town when I was young. He of­ No words can convey the pleasure I fell ten walked by our house at 55 Silver It was with mixed feelings that I reviewed in reading your magnificent fall issue of Street but al other limes rode around in my fall 1988 issue of Colby, which cele­ Colby. It provided me with an intensely his Pierce-Arrow, the car with the dis­ brates the 175th anniversary of the College. nostalgic lour of the old campus, and I tinctive headlights sprouting from the I congratulate the College its students, am deeply indebted to you and all of front fenders. alumni, and faculty, and I applaud the your talented staff for making the issue I could go on forever in loving staff of Colby for a fine anniversary issue. possible. reminiscence of my days on the old cam­ lam proud to be an alumnus of such a I had known personally three of the pus and of the wonderful professors I fine institution of higher learning. distinguished alumni: Harold Marston had back then. Once again, thank you My mixed emotions arise from the Morse, Herbert Carlyle Libby, and Joseph for your magnificent issue. manner in which the occasion was cele­ Coburn Smith. The Morses were friends brated. The bright and colorful balloons of our family in Waterville. Meroe and Fletcher Eaton '39 adorning the front and back covers of Dryden, Marston Morse's children, were Needham, Mass. the issue may seem festive and gay to frequent visitors at our house on Silver some, but lo marine mammals. fish, and Street, as we were at theirs on Park Street. sea birds they can mean death by suffo­ Marston Morse was always my hero, Heartiest congratulations on that splen­ cation or starvation. Balloons such as since he excelled at everything he did. did, encyclopedic issue of Colby! I couldn't these have been found in the gullets of Herbert Carlyle Libby was my profes­ put it down. It was good to be reminded seals, dolphins, whales, and sea birds sor of public speaking. On one occasion, of the forward-looking people who were and identified as the cause of their un­ I was discussing before a somnolent involved with Colby's past. "There were timely demise. class the alarming flaws present in a pro- giants in those days:·

2 COLBY And probably there are giants in these Class of 1986 and a class officer who pate. I encourage e\'eryone to attend next days, too. helped to start the tradition of placing spring's show. I heard this fall's \Nas a My time as a student was the period blocks of carved granite in the Student tremendous success1 1913-1917, while Prexy Rob was trying Center fireplace. We were proud to begin to operate the College single-handed, vvith this tradition again, and I felt I vvanted to l\le/issa Ruff '88 no secretary, no dean, no telephone, etc., tell you it was the Class of 1986, not Mountain View Calif but the football team was running up in­ 1985. credible scores, beating Maine 14-0, Bow­ doin 48-0, and Bates 61-0. (I quote from Leslie Greens/et '86 memory, and probably incorrectly.) Greenwich, Conn. As a proofreader and veteran of Greatly enjoyed the current issue of many years spent writing for Hebron Colby. Dean Runnals had a break in her Academy's alumni publication, I ran First and foremost, I wish to offer my service in that Erma Vyra Reynolds \\·as across the non-expression avante-garde congratulations for a superb issue of dean of women for at least two years [page 54]. The expression, as you and I Colby! It was not only interesting and in­ around 1928. I can't forget that, as I got a know, is avant-garde, as avant is a French formative but also served as a warm red hot tongue lashing from the dean, preposition and shows no gender. reminder of cool fall days at Colby, and it wasn't Runnals. The names sound which are not alway s easily recalled in alike, but they were quite different peo­ Harold E. Hall '17 sunny California. However, I would like ple. As I recall, the women were happy Hebron, Maine to point out one error I found under the to have Dean Runnals back at Colby. Drama Section in Appendix G: "A Selec­ And thanks for printing the letter tion of Events 1987-1988." "Broadway from Glen P. Goffin '58. He is old enough We in Women's Studies would like to en­ Musical Revue" was listed as a "Povvder to recall that prior to Castro taking over courage you to highlight women's contri­ and Wig" production - which it currently Cuba, people like Professor Bowen in­ butions to the College in Colby. We were is not, nor has it ever been. sisted Castro was not a "Red:' Granted disappointed that the fall issue of Colby "Broadway Musical Revue" was fOLmd­ that Castro overthrew a dictator named did not balance women's historic roles at ed in 1985 by three individuals indepen­ Batista, and though I don't like right \\'ing the College with the treatment of men. It dent of the student drama club "Powder dictators, Cuba was better off than it i is important that women be perceived as and Wig:· During the fall semester of now. I'm happy to see that others \\·ave part of the historical story of the College 1985, the show was funded through the Old Glory and don't fall for malarkey. and not simply segmented into things Commons system, the Music Depart­ some particular group- women -did. We ment, and the Performing Arts Depart­ Rod Farnham '31 did appreciate your comment in the ment to varying degrees. In the spring of Hampden, Maine Commentary that further coverage of 1986 the show was funded by matching women would be forthcoming, and we funds from the Student Association and Frederich M. Drummond '..J7 called to say offer to help you in any way we can. the Dean of Students Office for three all­ that if we wanted to see the interior of the campus performances and a private show fieldhouse 011 the old campus correctly, we Pa trice Franko Jones for the Board of Trustees. In the fall of should look at it in the mirror- the photo Assistant Professor of Economics 1986, "Broadway Musical Revue" was ac­ was flopped' Our thanks to all for their Co-chair Women's Studies cepted as a Student Association club. sharp and appraising eyes. Since that time, the funding for the shows has been provided through the Student Congratulations to you and to all who Association. To the Class of 1989 produced the splendid fall 1988 Colby "Broadway Musical Revue" has be­ 175th anniversary issue. The magazine is come a tradition at Colby, with many Hey, how are things back at the fort? a striking collection of memorabilia, members of both the Colby and outside This is just a quick note from the outside reacquainting us with the strength of the communities attending every show. It is describing some of the experiences of College's life, especially through the di­ a production that many people look for­ postgraduate life. It's still hard to believe verse people making Colby a reality ward to and appreciate for its novelty on it's all over and I actually made it through. yesterday, today, and into tomorrow. a campus dominated by straight dramat­ Seniors, how is the job search going? Per­ As a retired school historian/archivist ic productions. Therefore, although any haps that deserves a rephrasing omitting (St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Is­ recognition of the Revue is appreciated. I the first word: is the job search going? In land), I offer particular kudos to the stu­ felt it necessary to clarify both the "roots" the words of a famous philosopher, "Don't dents of the Jan Plan who joined you in and the independence of the production. Panic!" Ta ke your time. Yo u'll spend plenty producing the magazine. "Powder and Wig" provides many terrific of time working during your lifetime, so experiences for both audience and cast why push it? Besides, you have six months Gilbert Y Ta verner '48 members; however, they are not the only before you have to start paying those Concord, Mass. club on campus producing student-direct­ loans off anyway. Pack your Colby sweat­ ed shows. It is important to recognize shirt and go someplace for a while. Or go that the "Broadway Musical Revue" is a many places for a while. Worry about ln the last issue of Colby, you made a totally separate and self-standing unit. how little time you spent at Career Serv­ slight error in "The Old That's Worth Sav­ "Broadway Musical Revue" provides ices later. ing" [page 38]. 1 was a member of the a unique experience for all who partici- The farther away you get from Colby.

COLBY 3 lhe more you appreciate lhe lime you you like it or not). I've met Colby people study skills program al high schools spenl there. There are few places with on mountaintops in Austria, in bars in around the country and world (check such close conla l lo professors of the Italy and in villages in Mexico, al the Readak in Career Services). This was caliber you find al Colby. Also, al other Chicago blues festival and al a tollbooth most probably influenced by those colleges. students do not have a say in on 1-95. I met one driving down Pennsyl­ swimming le!:>sons and hours tutoring policy or tenure decisions lo nearly the vania Avenue in Washington, D.C., an­ German. Al this point I can honestly cx lenl that they do at Colby. A few other at a wedding in Bloomington, Ind., (and safely) admit that one of the greatest months ago I was asked to write a letter and another who runs Pizza Oasis in freedoms I have experienced since grad­ of recommendation for a professor who Portland. Oreg. There's a town on 1-90 in uating from Colby is that I can think, say, \•vas seeking tenure. My co-workers and Kansas whose founder seems suspicious­ and write what I believe, and Chip Hauss the associate director of my firm could ly similar lo the guy who gave us that can't make me do a rewrite. not believe that I would play a role in big grant, and subsequently his name, such an important decision. (I couldn't back in the old days (refer that one lo Steven Masur '88 believe that students and alumni wouldn't the history Jan Plan). Just when I thought Ogden, Utah play a role in such a decision.) They were I had truly escaped - l was amid the 200- even more amazed when I told them the fool red sandstone cliffs of Lake Powell extent lo which students are involved al in southern Utah, at least 80 milesfrom Do Many Have This Proble m? every level of the system, from how Col­ any marks of human civilization save lege money is spent, to the stands the Native American ruins -I opened up an I am writing to ask if you wo uld consider College takes on political and moral is­ Augu t 8 is�ue of Time, and what did I sending me the quarterly Colby magazine sues, right down to the integral role stu­ see? Professor Sandy Maisel's big goofy in a plastic wrapping. When the maga­ dents played in designing the Student grin and a story a mile long about his zine is sent by U.S. mai l, frequently the Center. (If you don't like it, blame the son, josh. I reflected on the fact that I pages are torn and wet when it rains. classes responsible.) had given Josh swimming lessons, and I Wh ile I enjoy reading Colby, it is dis­ You may ask how all oi this affects thought about what my father would couraging when the magazine arrives in you. Aside from the direct effects that say ..c'Damb'd if that ol' boy don't havea poor condition. policies have on you, student involve­ knack fer slayin' in the limelight!" ment gives you the feeling that you are a Meanwhile, what have I done with James E. Fell '32 part of the College and that your opinion my Colby degree') l teach a reading and Fall Rive1� Mass. matters and will be heard when deci­ sions are made. It is important lo stress here that if you don't take control of and use the power that has been given to you, you will lose it. Therefore, it is your responsibility to make yourself heard in the important decisions that affect you and your College. Otherwise, you could find yourself in the same position in your school that you occupy in your country. How much power do you feel voters (few as we are) have over the policies adopted by our country? We should be our own government, yet sadly, many of us view it as a separate entity, us against them. The first step in overcoming this separation is to encour­ age controversy and gel involved. Don't be afraid to talk politics or religion in Dana or raise your hand in Lovejoy 100. Nobody will be happier than your profes­ sors (most of the time). They understand that if you are simply writing down what they say and not actively and critically listening, then you are not learning. If Wo w! ...26 alumnae in one picture .. . September 10, 1988, at the women's alumni you play an active role in your educa­ soccer game. Front row: Marianne MacDonald '87, Anne Tiedemann '84, Katherine tion, you will come away from it with Sullivan '87, Leah Don Basbanes '88. Second row: Mary Needham '86, Carol Simon confidence, the feeling that you are not '85, Charmaine TWigg '87, Sarah Pope '88, Courtney Celi '88, Jennifer Allen '88, limited, that you can do anything you Laura Shaver '87, Jennifer Estes '86, Sue Whittum '87, Beth DeSwarte (a "ringer"}. put your mind to. That is what sets Colby Third row: Coach Terry Parlin (Colby head coach 1981-85}, Marsha Landau '84, apart, and it is the essence of the liberal Lauren Wa tson Charwat '83, Mary White '84, Patrice Galvin '86, Anne Boatright arts education that you are paying for. Beaney '85, Maura Cassidy '84, Lisa To masetti '88, Lesley Melcher '85, Jennifer You may also find that Colby will al­ Douglas '86, Deborah Brooks '86, Carol Anne Beach '88, Julie Bruce '83. ways be close by in some form (whether

4 COLBY //!LL FROM THE

Have Heart, Will Volunteer On the Role of the Media

Concerned students from the Colby Vol­ Robert Hager, parent of Christina Hager 90 unteer Center raised a total of $1,181 for and a nine-year NBC ne\-.·s correspondent the Sacred Heart Church soup kitchen in spoke in Roberts Union on October 27 Waterville last November. Contributing 1988. During his lecture, The :-.ledia and to Maine Hunger Week coffers, the volun­ Presidential Elections," Hager admitted teers sponsored events in the residence that although television is the dominant halls and Student Center such as a penny political force in America, it is compelled collection, bake sale, and auction. by its format to deal with issues more su­ The local soup kitchen is a favorite perficially than the press media. labor of love with the students, but they Hager, who has covered numerous willingly give time and talent to nursing political conventions since 1964, explained homes and schools and serve as literacy that soundbites-short clips of the candi­ volunteers, tutors, and entertainers with dates that TV viewers see on the evening impressive musical gifts and a popular news _:·are getting shorter as TV news gets clown act. Rachel England '90, who is slicker:· As candidates realize that the coordinator of the campus-wide Volun­ pictures of a soundbite "tend to be more teer Center, meets with student leaders powerful than their content," they often weekly to plan special events and trans­ "oversimplify the issues." Hager stated portation. The volunteers will do almost that this leads to a competition between any task in the area requiring young the candidates as they try to overshadow Richard Claytor '88 planted the backs and strong arms, including stack­ each other's image in daily TV sound­ Westra tree last spring. ing firewood and shoveling snow. Ap­ bites. Finally, a controversy emerges over proximately 100 people are on the task tackle and no problem too big to solve, who "controls the agenda of the cam­ force list, and 30 to 50 are involved in and if it was ... well, that was okay, too; paign, the candidates or the media?" various projects on a weekly basis for as we'd just have to do the best we could. To resolve this controversy, Hager as­ many as 20 hours. The program continues He always had that indomitable smile on serted that the television medium must throughout the academic year, with sev­ his face, and when he wasn't yelling salu­ change its presentation to facilitate "a eral special events planned for the spring. tations across the library lawn he was more free exchange:· He also suggested On March 11 the volunteers spon­ spending time with his Waterville "Little that the candidates and networks agree sored a formal black tie ball in the Stu­ Brother" or promoting the Boy Scouts. well before a can1paign to make free time dent Center for faculty and students. He was an avid outdoorsman as well, available to each candidate to speak on Proceeds from the gala, which featured with an enviable sensitivity and appreci­ appropriate issues. Such a move would two live bands, were donated to the ation for nature. Most of us, however, give audiences a better feel for the issues, Maine Children's Cancer Program in will remember him as the impetus be­ he said, particularly in the early stages of Portland. hind the "Lazy Mule Triathlon;· which he the presidential election year. inaugurated on Johnson Pond during the The Westra Tree winter of 1985. In April 1988 a small oak was plant­ A Man Called Suss Colby tends to attract friendly, charis­ ed in his memory next to Johnson Pond, matic people who exult in helping others. an addition to the fine memorials and Julius Sussman '19 died nearly five years We can all remember at least one individ­ eulogies to David Westra that preceded ago, but his long and interesting life is de­ ual who could always persuade us to it. February 22 marked the third year of tailed in a recent book by Celia C. Risen. crack a smile on even the gloomiest of his death, and we miss him. But just as Ya nkee Fiddler: A Man Called Susscon­ days. Somehow the day would become a his contributions to our lives will grow sists mainly of excerpts from hours of little brighter, and life might even take within and enrich each of us, his tree will taped interviews with Sussman and his on a slightly different meaning. Even if also grow. Every time we return to Colby, late wife, Lil, as they reminisced over the this person weren't around, thinking we may stand beneath it and remember struggles and joys of their married life, about him or her could bring the smile how important a friend can be. including the loss of S 10,000 invested in back in an instant. a shoe factory, the life of their son, Sidney Tom Claytor '85 and Mark Howard '85 David "Johan" Westra '85 was one of John, whom they eventually lost to Downs these people. For those of us who knew Members of the Class of 1985, who raised Syndrome, Sussman's multiple heart at­ him when he was still alive, he was al­ more than $2,000 to accompany their gift, tacks, and his wife's five months in a body ways a tremendous source of enthusiasm also gave a memorial Westra garden to the cast with a broken back. and strength. No task was too large to College. Sussman was born in Kentucky to

COLBY 5 Po lish immigrants, but his family moved lo New England the following year. Ac­ repted at Colby in 1914 without a high school diploma, he set window panes and played the violin for his room and board and established a society for Jew­ ish men that eventually became Colby' Ta u Della Phi fraternity. After the Suss­ mans married secretly in 1921, they es­ tablished themselves in Augusta as "the repository for information about Jewish holidays in the community:· Eventually they set up the Augusta-Gardiner chap­ ter of B'nai B'rith in their own home. The couple remained upbeat through many years of physical and emotional pain, and Sussman continued to play the violin and perform clown acts for local kindergartens and schools for mentally retarded children. Colby alumni will re­ member his performances for the Fifty­ plus Club at reunions. In 1978 he was awarded a Colby Brick. Yankee Fiddler is valuable not only for the Sussmans' lively narrative but For its preservation of Maine and Colby his­ tory and of the difficulties many Jews faced integrating themselves into Ya nkee society. The book may be ordered from the Colby bookstore.

Colby Reaches for the Stars

Last fall Colby welcomed its newest structure, a small cylindrical observatory in the northeast cornerof the campus near the baseball field and hard by the Gould Music Shell. The building houses a 400-power, 14-inch Celestron telescope, the gift of Chicago real estate executive Anthony Kramer '62. Both the telescope and observatory were given in memory of Kramer's classmate, Lawrence Walker Associate Professor of Physics Murray Campbell adjusts Colby's new stargazer. Collins III. The equivalent of a 3,910 mm camera linois last summer on a flatbed truck, Humanities fellowships awarded under lens, the instrument enables a user to was stored until November while Colby the NEH program for "college teachers perceive an object 5,000 times "fainter" scientists pondered the best location for and independent scholars:' Rose will than would be possible without magnifi­ its reassembly. Now in place, the tele­ complete her book, Gende1; Labor, or cation. Associate Professor of Physics scope will expand horizons for more Capital: Industrial Relations in 19th-Centwy Murray F. Campbell, whose specialty is than Colby students. Campbell has Britain. Nutting's fellowship will enable astronomy, predicts that much of the re­ planned several "public evenings" for him to complete a book on Kafka titled search he and his students conduct will area residents next summer, which will Kafka's Clowns. center on stars that vary in brightness. include lectures and subsequent star­ Associate Professor of Modern For­ "The benefit of such a telescope;· he said, gazing. eign Languages (Portuguese and Spanish) "is not so much that we can see farther Priscilla Doe! was recently interviewed by stars but that we will be able to see ones Faculty and Others popular morning show host Peter Miller that are much fainter." Campbell added on CBC, the Canadian national radio net­ that the new telescope handsomely sup­ Associate Professor of Sociology Sonya work. Doe! discussed the "Portuguese plements the portable telescopes now Rose and Associate Professor of Modern Presence" in Newfoundland and Labra­ used in his astronomy lab course. Languages (German) Peter Nutting have dor, the topic of her research during her The observatory, brought from II- received National Endowment for the recent sabbatical leave.

6 COLBY Associate Dean of Students Joyce ter-manipulated sample sound to study Update: Alumni Directory and McPhetres-Maisel received a Distin­ accoustical principles and will apply to Alumni Information Project guished Service Award from Region I of the creation of music structure. the ational Association of Student Per­ Professor of Government G. Calvin Vice President for Development and sonnel Administrators for "voluntary Mackenzie shuttled between Waterville Alumni Relations Randy Helm recently spirit of membership and a record of in­ and Washington, D.C., last fall, advising announced a two-phase Alumni Informa­ volvement and contribution within the President-elect Bush's transition team. tion Project scheduled to begin next fall. region:' McPhetres-Maisel has been the The election of George Mitchell. LL.D. During the first phase, as outlined in the association's Maine state director and '83, as Senate majority leader in Decem­ winter issue of Currents, the College will chair of the annual conferences for four ber focused a great deal of attention on compile a new directory that will be years. She also chaired the regional advi­ both his hometown of Waterville and on published in late 1989 by the Bernard C. sory committee and at conferences and Colby. Mitchell's father was employed in Harris Publishing Company and will in­ panel discussions has presented topics the Buildings and Grounds Department, clude home and business addresses such as substance abuse. and for the past 22 years his brother, John Colby class, other college degrees. and David Mills '57 of the English, Mod­ ("Swisher"), has been assistant men's bas­ business or professional affiliations for ern Languages, and Performing Arts ketball coach. During his college sum­ all Colby men and women. The Harris departments rides again, collaborating mers the senator worked with the Colby Publishing Company will be contacting with Italian film director Sergio Leone grounds crew. President Cotter was one alumni during the next several months to on his next film, a Civil War epic titled A of several of the nation's educators who verify and correct address information Place That Only Mary Knows. Stars will praised the Democrat's choice in The and then will make the directory availa­ be Mickey Rourke and Richard Gere. Chronicle of Higher Education. "He has ble to alumni at a reasonable charge next Mills will do research for the film, col­ been very supportive [of higher educa­ fall. laborate on the script, and write the dia­ tion]," Cotter said of Mitchell, "but he is The second stage of information gath­ logue, as he did for Leone's Once Upon a also a very judicious person. He is re­ ering will begin in October 1989 with Time in America. sponsible about fiscal issues and will be the posting of a comprehensive question­ Assistant Professor Jonathan Hall­ serious about balancing the budget:' naire to all alumni that the College is strom of the Music Department received able to reach by mail. Director of Alum­ a grant from the Sloan Foundation to sup­ Nata Bene ni Relations Susan Conant Cook '75 em­ port work at MIT and Stanford to develop phasized that "The census will provide us circular modules that integrate sample Due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts, with a deeper understanding of our alwnni, sound and procedular composition con­ the annual Kingsley Birge lecture will their perspectives on their years at Colby, cepts in courses on music theory. The not be given this school year. The pro­ their career and other important life modules will include the use of compu- gram will resume in 1989-90. choices, and how their Colby experience has affected their continuing growth and development. (It] will also provide gradu­ ates with an opportunity to evaluate our alumni programs:' Completed questionnaires will remain confidential even though the College will publish a report of significant patterns and trends based on the aggregate re­ sponse. This should help Colby evaluate the effectiveness of its liberal arts pro­ gram.But, says Vice President Helm, "the success of the Alumni Information Project-and Colby's continued ability to strengthen its reputation and performance -will depend on a high rate of alumni participation. We hope all alumni will re­ spond positively when contacted for the alumni directory by Harris Publishing during the next few months, and again next year when we launch phase t\.\'O."

Five Colby alumni are serving in leadership positions at Mount Ida College, Newton Centre, Mass. Pictured with Bryan E. Carlson, president of Mount Ida, are {front row, from left}: President Carlson, Helen Moore Phillips '48, administrative assistant; James Martin '70, vice president for academic affairs; (back row) Victor F Scalise, Jr. '54, vice president for institutional advancement; P Kendall Palmer, }I: '6..t, executive vice president; and john Kearns '69, professor of psychology.

COLBY 7 }1 BRIS )Ex i

The special collections staff of Miller Library predecessors pushes each new sect be­ "a powerful social force" and that it is catalogues and keeps any books written by yond the margin of respectability. "bringing intimations of magic and the alumni and fa culty of which they are aware. Forced into this border slate, the jazz sacred to an era whose enormous changes Forthis reason, and for the purpose of this movement operates much like a cult. Jazz have depleted conventional faiths:· jazz: book review section, all Colby authors are cults form around prophetic figures like Myth and Religion tells us not only about encouraged to send books to the College edi­ Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Parker, and an extraordinary culture but how jazz tor, Colby College, Wa terville, Maine 04901. John Coltrane, whose talent and charisma substitutes for religion in a secular era. make them authoritative transmitters of Jazz: Myth and Religion an ecstatic, supernatural ideal, or gnosis . Benjamin We stervelt Neil Leonard '50 This gnosis both binds the musicians and Te aching Fe llow in History Oxford University Press, 1987 their fans and fellow travelers together Harvard University $16.95 in a community of the faithful and sharp­ ly differentiates the community from the Other Noteworthy Books by In his fascinating book jazz: Myth and Re­ world of "the squares." Alumni and Faculty ligion, Neil Leonard observes that many Rituals of musical performance and commentators have detected a relation­ initiation and ritually dictated charac­ Brown, Jane Ta rbell '37, ed. Seasonings. ship between jazz and religion. Leonard's teristics of behavior such as appearance, Troy, N.Y.: 1988. contribution to this field is to explore jazz humor, and language "told the believer as religion. To what extent, he wonders, what to do and how to do it" and helped - - -. 1\.voCrows: joy! Cropseyville, N.Y. : are jazz movements sects and the musi­ orient and structure activity. shape exper­ Quackenkill Press, 1976. cians prophets; to what extent is their ience, and quell doubt. Myths, or "stories craft a supernatural ideal and its practice about sacred heroes and origins." enacted Easton, Thomas A. '66. Working for Life: a ritual? these rituals or grew out of them. In ei­ Careers in Biology. 2nd ed. Medford, N.J.: To answer these questions Leonard ther case, myths provided the jazz move­ Plexus Publish ing, 1988. brings to his considerable knowledge of ment "coherence and significance" and jazz culture the luminaries of the sociolo­ placed a whole people "into a cosmic con­ Hudson, Yeager. Emerson and Ta gore: The gy and anthropology of religion. Follow­ text that explained and justified their ex­ Poet as Philosopher. Notre Dame, Ind.: ing Ernst Troeltsch'smodel of the "ideal istence and their music:· Finally, a jazz Cross Roads Books, 1987. church,'' Leonard depicts jazz as a "sect" laity of critics, aficionados, hipsters, persecuted by and hostile to an elitist beats, and dancers receive the musical Kren, George M. '48, and Leon Rappaport. and covertly racist (and sexist) orthodox sacrament from the masters and in re­ The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Be­ "church" of classical music. The jazz turn serve as missionaries who continu­ havior. New Yo rk: Holmes and Meier, movement became "churchly" if not ously bring the cult to a hostile world 1980. "c hurch" while throwing off new sects. and, ultimately, respectability. Leonard identifies these sects as early Leonard's rigorous application of tech­ Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith jazz or "Dixieland,'' followed by bop in nical and jargon-studded concepts to the '73. The Mormon Murders. New York: the 1940s and "free jazz" of the 1960s and jazz culture occasionally provides jarring Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. '70s, and argues that each threatened the disj unctions, as, for example, when he pure canon that had preceded them. The describes conversions to jazz as "maze­ Nelson, Ralph D., Jr. '60. Dispersing Pow­ hostility of established "c hurchly" jazz way reformulations:· But for the most ders in Liquids. New York: Elsevier, 1988. part, such fidelity to his analogy between jazz and religion is illuminating and pro­ Palmer, Norman D. '30. The United States vocative. Leonard concludes that jazz is and India: The Dimensions of Influence. New Yo rk: Praeger Publishers, 1984.

- - -. We stward Wa tch: The United States and the Changing We stern Pacific. Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey, 1987.

Wiggin, Ruby Bickmore '3 1. As I Remember.

8 COLBY Designing a Major Dream

by We ndy Dauphinais '89

T e '1udio ligh" pmoded the rnom learned during the first month at a job. A tall, handsome man strode in front of Recalling his advice while I was at Colby the cameras, nonchalantly sat behind the helped me confirm my belief that to reach anchor desk, and began reviewing the my news reporting goals I needed an ed­ script. I squinted, filtering the spotliohts ucation in a broad range of liberal arts. to get a better look. A production assis­ Designing my own major. "Commu­ tant seated me in the background and nication Liberal Arts;' was the most logical gave me headsets and a switcher so I way to achieve this education at Colby, could monitor the newscasts of several but it was an arduous task to get the ma­ different stations. Within a minute, the jor approved by the Colby independent director, a grey-haired man, yelled, "Eve­ major board. I worked for weeks with ryone seated! Quiet on the set' Five, four, Dean of the College Earl Smith, trying to three ...." The figure at the desk came in communications, and do an internship create the right balance of Colby courses to life. "Good evening;' he said, 'Tm Peter for work experience in the field. and plan my internships and exchange Jennings with ABC World ews .... Sometimes at Colby I questioned this programs. Dean Smith's experience as a I fixed on his profile, intent on his advice and ended up talking with Jim Mc­ journalist, his 25 years in the Colby ad­ composed manner. I watched his lips Intyre, the director of Career Services. ministration, and his support, advice. and form every word, awed at seeing in per­ He emphasized that a liberal arts college reasoning were crucial as we worked out son a news anchor I've always admired would make it possible for me to learn a major consisting of history, psychology, on the television screen. As I spent the many different subjects. I also remem­ and sociology and a deeper emphasis in next year interning at "A BC World News" bered the phone conversation I'd had governnment. economics, and English. A in New Yo rk City, that initial awe gradu­ with former NBC president Lawrence knowledge of government was necessary ally turned to informed understanding. Grossman when I was still in high school. for political reporting, economics was im­ During my freshman year at Colby Figuring that the best way to get sound portant for covering stories in the state's this internship was only a dream - but a advice was to go straight to the top, I'd budget or even in the stock market, and dream I designed in an independent ma­ tried to get through to him for hours, but English was the base for writing and jor so that I could pursue a career as a his secretary told me he was in a meeting. thinking logically. news reporter. When friends and rela­ Whether she got tired of my persistence These courses, however, were only a tives asked me why I was going to a lib­ or he really did get out of his meeting I'll part of my independent major proposal. I eral arts college instead of a journalism never know, but he finally agreed to acquired journalism experience during a school, my response was simple: I was speak to me. Only a few media courses Colby-in-Washington semester interning heeding the advice of several successful were necessary for news reporting, he at Cable ews Network (CN ) and then media professionals to get a solid liberal told me, because most of the information in a year's exchange program at Hunter arts education, take a couple of courses taught at journalism schools would be College's Junior Year in ew Yo rk. It's not

COLBY 9 I sat at a desk in the newsroom overlooking Peter Jennings and the producers and easy selecting classes such as "Broadcast lenges of work in hard news. The intern­ Journalism" and "Mass Media and Propa­ watched and ship al ''.ABCWorld News" was just the ganda" for your junior year when you're opportunity I was searching for. During a freshman, but I had to apply lo Hun­ listened as they my first semester al ''ABC World ews ter's program two years early to assure as desk assistant and production assis­ the committee that I would be able to ful­ hashed out the tant. I typed scripts into the computer, fill my proposed plan. While I maintained answered phone calls from foreign cor­ evening news. a full journalismcurriculum at Hunter I respondents, faxed articles, distributed also had internships with both ''ABC World scripts, and paid a great deal of attention ews" and ABC's "20120:' H unler helped to the work of the producers. I sat at a me set up the interviews necessary to get desk in the newsroom overlooking Peter the "20/20" internship; I was fortunate lo was also my duly to distribute wire copy Jennings and the producers and watched land the ''.ABCWorld ews" internship to the writers. I often came in early and and listened as they hashed out the eve­ myself. stayed late to practice writing news piec ­ ning news. As a full-time intern alCable ews es. The writers and even the executive I was assigned to be assistant to the Network in Washington, D.C., in the fall producer read and helped lo improve my producers during my second semester at of 1987, I saw Washington as I never work. One morningI came in early and ABC. After attending daily morning meet­ would have seen il as a tourist. I went to wrote a couple of the key stories. When ings with all of the executives and produc­ the White House with a C N news crew the morningpro ducer put the leading ers, I met separately with the producers and covered a press conference, observed piece on the air and I heard the anchor lo find out which stories needed help. an interview with Japanese Prime Minis­ reading my copy, I knew that all of my They assigned me to research stories, con­ ter Nakasone, and even attended Presi­ hard work was worthwhile. duct phone interviews, set up shoots, or dent Reagan's 76th birthday party with While I was interning at ''ABCWorld go out on the scenes with them. One day Mrs. Reagan, George Bush, George Shultz, ews" and "20/20" in New York City, I when I was working with ABC news Frank Carlucci, a number of other politi­ worked directly with the producers and crews at the ew Yo rk Stock Exchange cal figures, and news reporters. Other news reporters. "20/20" was heavily un­ during the October crash, I realized how news shoots took me inside the Pentagon, ionized, so I wasn't able to have the hands­ important liberal arts classes are to news the State Department, and the offices of on experience with the equipment I'd had reporters. When we interviewed a stock­ several congressmen and senators on at CNN. However, I was able to watch the broker I understood his stock market jar­ Capitol Hill. I was with a CNN reporter tedious process of shooting and editing gon and the changes in the market that who covered a protest outside the CIA film (it has to be developed and spliced day, thanks to my "Principles of Macro­ headquarters in Virginia. When I went before you can see it, unlike videotape, economics" class. back to the CNN newsroom I watched which can be edited on the spot). I also ABC also allowed me to follow the how the editors and reporters selected sat in on tapings of "20/20," and this gave candidates on the press bus during the certain soundbites - short clips from me the opportunity to gel to know Bar­ primaries. I spent an entire day with speeches-and formulated them into a bara Wa lters and Hugh Downs, who even more than 50 producers, reporters, and package telling the story we had just granted me a half-hour interview. camera people, following Democratic covered. Compared with the production of a presidential candidate Al Gore as he Because the CNN Washington news­ CNN or ABC news package, the prepara­ made stops at hospitals, shopping cen­ room was not unionized, I was able to tion of a news documentary is more time ters, and press conferences. At lunch­ operate the studio cameras every day consuming, and the pace is much slower. eons and press conferences I also met during the newscasts as well as the tele­ Working on documentaries at "20/20,'' I Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis. At prompter and the editing equipment. It realized that I preferred the constant cha!- the end of many long, exciting days I

10 COLBY My independent major has helped me work into the "networking" process, ------..... the intricate headed back to the newsroom to help Mass. These jobs also led to my position distribute rundowns - lists of the order channels through as a stringer for UPI covering local Mas­ and timing of each news piece -and to sachusetts stories in my hometown and, monitor the newscast from the control which each accom­ later, the Wa terville scene when I was at room or the news studio. Colby. All of these experiences in my in­ When I had free time I generated my plishment may dependent major have helped me work own story proposals and presented them my way into the "networking" process, to Peter Jennings and the executive pro­ lead to the next. the intricate channels through which ducer. The most worthwhile moment of each accomplishment may lead to the my internship came when Peter Jennings next. and the producer accepted my story pro­ While I was interning, CNN allowed posal on an abortion pill, RU 486, which and economic situations of the Soviet me to make a resume tape, producing was scheduled to go on the market in a Union, China, Cuba, Japan, Poland, Nic­ and reporting a news story and anchor­ few months and was causing protests by aragua, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Profes­ ing a newscast I had written. Last sum­ anti-abortion groups. I was assigned to sors also suggested projects and papers mer when I looked back at my resume work on it with a producer and a corre­ that pertained to my field. Professor of tape I laughed at myself and was happy spondent. After we had begun the initial Economics Fred Moseley discussed eco­ to see how much the experience had interviews, however, a crisis in Panama nomic current events during class and helped me in only a year and a half. Re­ sent the correspondent to cover that took time after class to talk with me about cently I completed another resume tape event, putting my story on hold. articles in the newspapers. My govern­ at the cable station where I worked the Studying and interning in Washington ment professor, Rita Moore, encouraged past two summers. In another year I hope and New York City, two of the country's me to work on an analysis of the changes I'll look back at this tape and see progress, media capitals, provided a wonderfully in the Soviet media resulting from the too. intense contrast to Colby life. Even dur­ Gorbachev reforms. One night during my internship, as ing my busiest times- when I was taking Now, in the midst of my senior year, the lights brightened the room, Peter Jen­ six classes at Hunter College and work­ more than three years since I designed nings was already positioned at the an­ ing the internships at both "A BC World my independent major, I'm beginning to chor desk. Camera one zoomed out to a News" and "20/20''- I always had time to realize that I have something to show. wide shot to open the news with the en­ see Broadway shows, ballets, museums, With extensive planning at the beginning tire studio in the background. I dashed galleries, night clubs, and the parades and of my college education -and some re­ into the newsroom with the rundown and cultural and ethnic celebrations. Never­ structuring of the proposal according to placed myself near a switcher so I could theless, though a year and a half may changes in course offering - I've averaged view the other networks' newscasts and seem a long time away from Colby, it five courses a semester in addition to the compare the different focuses. As Jennings gave me a new perspective and let me internships, a schedule that has prepared read the scripts, I watched the teleprompt­ focus even more on courses that I found me for the long hours of a news reporter er, noting his intonation and effective through my internshipsto be essential to and has taught me how to make the most pauses. During a commercial break he news reporting. For instance, my senior of a little time. I've landed internships and turned around to see who was in the year courses became directly related to summer jobs as a news reporter covering newsroom. Our eyes met; he smiled, gave events in the media. "Soviet Domestic Pol­ events on the scene and as anchor of a me a comradely wink, then turned back icy" gav� me a better understanding of a weekly newscast. As a program director to scan his copy. country that is in our news every day. I set up interviews, commercials, and "Comparative Economics Systems" taught some of the business aspects of "Adams me backgrounds and current political Russell" cable television in Leominster,

COLBY 11 Exchanges: A GreatOp portunity

Colby recently had an opportunity to talk Alexande r: Well, I wasn't scared at he envied me this opportunity and ad­ at length with Pe/eris S/iede and Alexander all. I was very much excited. When l en­ vised me to study the language as much Zakharov, exchange students from the Soviet tered the Institute in 1983, l began to col­ as possible and also computers. My grand­ Union who are spending the 1988-89 aca­ lect any information about the United parents are rather old and have experi­ demic year at Colby. The College is a mem­ States from our newspapers and maga­ enced the Stalinist era. They advised me ber of a group of 26 institutions, including zines. The things which were discussed not to speak without thinking my thoughts Middlebury, Amherst, Bates, and Bowdoin, in our press were just political items­ over because, they said, it would come to which brought 56 Soviet unde1graduates to treaties and agreements with the Soviet a bad end for my future. I think this is American universities and colleges and will Union and the actions of the United old fashioned. I don't worry. But I must send an equal number of Americans to study States on the international arena. So l be responsible for what 1 say, not to talk at leading universities in several republics didn't have much information about nonsense, because I am a representative of the Soviet Union. Following a month of what the real America looked like and of my country and American people will orientation at Middlebury, Alexander and how people lived there and what they listen to me and draw conclusions about Peteris came to Colby. did and so on. my country. Peteris Sliede is a handsome, slightly­ But I don't know why, I never had When we flew into New Yo rk, the built man of 23. He is married, has a young the idea that the American people want look from the airplane was fascinating! son, and is in his fo urth year of a fi ve-year to deteriorate the situation in the world Long Island, huge cities, lots of houses physics program. He speaks English slowly or conquer other countries or unleash and wide roads. But after we landed it and carefully, with a special depth of fe eling war with the Soviet Union. I've never was like a switch from positive to rather when the subject is his beloved Republic of thought of the American people in bad negative. The international airport was Latvia and his home city of Riga on the Bal­ terms. My understanding has always so crowded. There were long lines to the tic Sea. been very warm and positive. And when immigration . And the people in the air­ Alexander is an English major at the I came here I was not disappointed. port were not kind at all to the passen­ Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow. It was a very long flight from the So­ gers. So I felt scared of this society and The tall and serious 24-year-old is an ethnic viet Union, about ten hours. When we these people. When we went out of the Russian from a city 1,000 kilometers (620 landed in New York I just wanted to get air-conditioned terminal room to our miles) south of the capital. He is training to some fresh air. But it was so hot there buses the air was so heavy! The streets be an interpreter or translator and speaks and full of air pollution that I could were not in a very good condition. There fluent, almost unaccented English. hardly breathe. But I was not scared. I were many jams. Dirty roads and many was excited, first, that we had landed writings on the walls and fences. But as We began by asking Pe/eris and Alex­ safely and, second, that we had landed soon as we were in Middlebury, every­ ander to describe their emotions when they in the United States. thing changed. A new life started! learned that they would be coming to the United States, the advice they were given by Peteris: I knew exactly that I was We asked Alexander and Pe teris to de­ parents and friends, and what they fe lt upon coming to the United States only five scribe their academic work both in the Sovi­ arrival. days before leaving. My father said that et Union and here at Colby.

12 COLBY Peteris: My major is physics and sol­ guage itself rather than English litera­ Alexander has a somewhat different id-state physics is my specialization. Stu­ ture and history. We actually take a short view. dents specialize in such narrow areas course of history and geography of Great beginning from their fourth year. Solid­ Britain and the United States but it is not Alexander: When I came here I was state physics is the study of the structure that profound compared with the cours­ scared in terms of how I would under­ and properties of condensed matter - es at Colby. We study as separate courses stand people, living with them in every­ crystals, glasses, ceramic materials, and English phonetics, English grammar, con­ day life. I could speak on academic topics various plastics. This is a very practical versational English, and writing, and the­ but I'd never had any experience just in branch of science and becomes more and oretical courses like English lexicology talking on everyday things. So I was more popular because there is a very and the history of the ianguage. Also, we scared. But now I dont have any prob­ great demand on science for new materi­ never do such a great amount of writing lems. I have never lived in a dorm be­ als for military and civil needs. as they do at Colby. So I have an oppor­ fore. It's a new experience for me and This semester I'm taking a quantum tunity now to try myself in a different quite interesting. l don't see any prob­ physics course, a computer science field and just to write. lems living with American students. course which teaches Pascal language, a As students they are pretty much the writing laboratory in English, and a course Alexander and Peteris also have some­ same as students in the Soviet Union. I on science in America; half historic, half what differing impressions of American think that students work individually social studies. I am finding physics, so students. harder here than we do. But as people of far, less difficult than I had in my univer· this particular culture, they are different sity. But that's understandable because even if they are students. They are very the purpose of liberal arts colleges is not Pe teris: Before I came here I thought open and friendly as are American peo­ to train students in a very narrow area that American students were very seri­ ple in general. I think it's the impact of but to give a broad scope of knowledge. ous in their studies. They all would be your culture that students are so friendly So far, I have already studied [quan­ science-oriented, less communicative and are ready to help in any situation if tum physics] in my university in shorter with each other. They would be more you have any difficulties. time with less [emphasis on] applications. egoistic, ambitious, and more sophisticat­ Our course was more theoretic with more ed. I knew that we would go only to the We asked Peteris if liberal arts colleges mathematics. More advanced I would say. best colleges in New England, with only like Colby existed in the Soviet Union. people from the upper classes, so I ex­ While Peteris is finding the academic pected to be in a strange society to me. Pe teris: We have, you might call it content of his course work less demanding But I was positively impressed by "liberal arts" in high school. We call it than at his home university in Riga Alex­ what I actually saw. The students are "middle school'.'The students are taught ander's experience is different. very kind and open and helpful. They all the subjects including natural sciences, are very simple people, common people. mathematics, literature, music, physical Alexander: I am taking two English That was a great surprise to me. I can education, work in factories [industrial writing courses, a computer course, and speak to everybody and everybody seems arts], and handicrafts. Everybody takes a sociology class. Actually, I was also tak­ to be interested in my country. these courses because there is no such ing a British literature course at the be­ It is difficult to compare directly be­ term as "e lective:· So the high school grad­ ginning. I attended a couple of classes cause the students I meet in Latvia are uate is a well-rounded person. But as and then dropped it because it was diffi­ mostly science students; physicists and soon as the applicant enters a university, cult for me to catch up with the rest of mathematicians. Here there are art stu­ he or she begins to study very specialized the students. There was an enormous dents and language students and so there courses and from year to year the special­ amount of reading, 150 to 200 pages per is a difference in majors and a difference ization is more and more pronounced. week. I had never done this much reading in ways of thinking. But in general, I before in our institute so it was difficult might say that Americans are more free Alexande1; a self-confessed urbanite, for me to cope with it. I got lost and felt in their way of expression, their way of commented upon campus life at Colby. somewhat awkward in class so I dropped thought. They feel free to do what they it. Next semester I hope to take American want. They don't feel so restricted. I think Alexander: I hoped in the bottom of Short Story. I think it will be okay. that in general, this is a good feature. It my heart that I would be assigned to a helps in everyday life. college in a big city. In my mind America We asked Alexander to compare his was associated with big cities. o it hap­ course work at Colby with his studies in But Peteris also suggests that we may pened that I was assigned to Colby, and I Moscow. pay a price for our greater freedoms. like Colby very much. I've been to Bates and frankly speaking, I didn't like it that Alexander: I would say that it is strik­ Pe teris: My opinion might be narrow­ much. The setting is much prettier at ingly different. At our Institute, it's a fixed minded but I think this personal freedom Colby. syllabus, a fixed set of courses which you is connected with the lack of culture, the But still, the thing which I don't like are taking, and you are not able to choose lack of personal discipline. People don't very much about Colby is it is in a rela­ or change anything as you are here. And feel so much their duties to other people, tively small city and is somehovv isolated then, thf' very process of learning is to the society itself. I don't say this very even from this small city. Students live different. often because I have seen too little of within this environment and they don't For instance, our Institute is purely American culture and this is not what I have much interaction in the world. linguistic so we study the English Ian· want my opinion to be. There is no need even to go downtown.

COLBY 13 There are a lot of parties on campus and 1 feel that many people have a fear Another point is that there is great in the dormilorie�. videos, movies, lec­ of having another great leader with im­ mistrust in our country toward the policy tures, everything ...even a theater. Still mense power. But so far it is okay. He is which is being led by our government, I would prefer a big city. doing a good job and leading a great poli­ because now we begin to read in our But on the other hand, what is good cy. But what will happen later if he con­ newspapers and lo realize that our coun­ about Colby is also that by virtue of its centrates all the power in his hands? The try's internal policy and foreign policy isolation, the students spend more time result might be another extreme situation were not always led in the best way and learning. They don't pay much attention in the country. the government lied about what actually to anything but the courses they are tak­ And another thing, like many Rus­ happened. So how can we trust the gov· ing. This is good. sian leaders (those persons who live in ernment and the policies now? Should Russia itself) he doesn't understand the we trust now or not? Naturally, we were interested in problems in the national regions, nation­ Peteris's and Alexander's views on political al republics. Gorbachev's great power Alexander: What I like about Gor- matters. We discussed the recent American might be an obstacle in the way lo reach bachev, and what I think most Soviet presidential campaign. independence of the smaller nations. I'm people like, is that he is trying his best to very interested in the positive outcome change things because everybody knows Pe teris: I would say that it was very, of that issue. this is no way to live. So something must very democratic. The society is so free that people can say whatever they want and the mass media is free in expressing different opinions. That is good . But I think this unrestricted freedom for every­ body, including the presidential candidates, has led to this negative campaigning.

Alexander: 1 didn't really analyze and study the platforms in depth. I read just what ordinary Americans read in news­ papers and magazines. I saw a couple of the debates on TV I got the impression that they didn't really address the nation. They didn't actually speak about their platforms and what they would like to do with the country and how they would like to solve different issues. They would just attack each other. That's what I didn't like. But it was interesting because we don't have such things in our country. We are just trying lo introduce it right now. Recently I read, even in Pravda, that eminent Soviet scientists and academi­ cians and people like that have spoken in favor of a multi-party system. And I think. why not? There might be two parties, three parties in our country. But they should bring benefits and be good for the nation. That's the idea.

We asked their opinions of Mr. Gorba­ chev and his plans for the Soviet Union.

Peteris: Gorbachev is a great politi- cian. Really great. But we know in the Soviet Union very little about him as a personality. Our newspapers write that the Party did so-and-so but everybody should keep in mind that Gorbachev did so-and-so. He has great power. Not know­ ing the personality of Gorbachev, his plans, his character, not knowing Gor­ bachev as a man, a human, it is difficult to predict his policy and to understand what are his real intentions. English major Alexander Zakharov surveys the campus from the steps of Keyes.

14 COLBY do it. He responded to Gorbachev's de­ sire to improve the relations between the two countries and make a better world. So I appreciate what Reagan did. He didn't remain cold tOv\'ards Moscow.

Finally, we solicited Peteris's and Alex­ ander's advice for American students who go to study in the So�·iet L nion.

Alexander: I would like to see more of these exchanges. I think they are bene­ ficial for both sides. Not only in terms of acquiring knowledge but in terms of a better understanding of each other. Get­ ting closer and closer. My advice would be the same as my parents gave me. Just be yourself in every situation and don't be shy or scared to say what you think. If something is wrong, say it. If you don't like something you don't like it.

Pe teris: First of all, to study language as much as possible. To understand the spoken language. I felt unable to do any­ thing at first because of not understand­ ing what was going on around me. So, language and language and language. Al­ so, take as much information as possible about the United States. Not about great politics. That we know more or less. But about the household of the Americans. About the customs. About everyday life. About traditions. Slides, pictures, post­ cards. We are interested in the actual life Peteris Sliede is a physics student from Riga, Latvia. of Americans. ot what is in the news­ papers but what is under that. be done. But nobody knows what, in par­ years the relations were so cold. Our ticular, should be done. lt is difficult to mass media told us that the United Both Peteris and Alexander miss their say, "Do this and everything will change States was a super-power that wanted to homes and families, but both look forward for the better:· Nobody can say that. But impose its aggressive policy on the to the time when they may return to the he is trying to do everything possible to world. So now it is difficult to switch the United States. turn the country to the better. minds. Even when Reagan and Gor­ I appreciate what he is doing and his bachev met, the general opinion was that Peteris: That is my dream. To study plans in that he is trying to democratize this was not a very frank or true step at MIT or other prominent university. our country. If one wants to make a coun­ from Reagan but that it was a sort of That will be possible only if I am chosen try more democratic, then there is no show or necessity pressed upon Reagan again in exchange. Or later when I am way to stop just half way. I think that the by the world community. working on my candidate of science or events in the Baltic republics and Arme­ doctoral thesis, I hope I will be able to nia reflect this painful process of democ­ Alexander: It's really difficult for me go to study there. ratization. We've never had something to say on behalf of the whole Soviet coun­ like that before and people don't know try. I can only say my personal opinion. Alexander: I miss the whole atmos­ what to do about it, how to deal with it. Reagan came to power in 1980 and Gorba­ phere of the country. I was brought up So it's learning on the run. chev came to power five years later. Before there so it is difficult to break any rela­ that our relations remained somewhat tions with it. I don't understand Ameri­ We asked for their perspectives on rela­ tense. It is quite apparent that something cans who leave the United States and, tions between our two countries. changed with the coming of Gorbachev to say, go to France and live there the rest the Kremlin. Since then, the relations be­ of their lives. Peteris: Just before coming here there tween the two countries have begunto ease. But to come back here sometime, not was a positive change in the attitude to­ Why didn't Reagan continue his pre­ for the rest of my life, just for a couple of wards the United States. But still the rela­ vious line and escalate the situation and years, either to study or to work ...it is tionship is reserved because for so many make it even more tense? But he didn't a great opportunity.

COLBY 15 A Gift for All Ages I n the new oddillon to Millec Librncy Thal year hordes of college-bound countable only for the men. One of his is a study carrel given in honor of George men returning from the war flooded the favorite quotations is the definition of a T. Nickerson '24 by John A. Briggs ' 52 admissions office with applications. ick­ college campus as "a place where young and his wife, Carol. This is one of the erson's wife, Ruth, often helped read the people mature without strain on their more tangible tributes paid to a man avalanche of folders he brought home at parents," and as parent substitute Nicker­ whose connection to people, especially night. Aside from a secretary, the dean son had his share of vexations, among young ones, has always been strong and was the whole office, and time spent "on them the increasingly volatile liquor and vital. the road" was minimal. In 1947 the Col­ fraternity mix on the new campus. ickerson spent most of his profes­ lege combined the admissions duties with Since 1851 alcohol had been forbid­ sional career working with young peo­ those of dean of men, but the burden den to Colby students, and even after the ple. From 194 7 to 1967 he was "the dean" proved to be loo great. In a major ad­ repeal of Prohibition in 1933 the College to thousands of Colby men, but before that ministrative shuffle, William Bryan '48 continued to ban liquor despite escalat­ he shepherded droves of boys through was hired, first as assistant dean of ad­ ing student pressure for change. Much of the hazards of adolescence during sever­ missions and then as head of the office the opposition was due to the influence al years as master at St. Paul' School in in 1949. Nickerson replaced Ernest Mar­ of trustee George G. Averill, chair of the Garden City, NY, and as dean of boys al riner '13, the new dean of faculty, as dean board from 1944 to 1946 and a major Cranbrook School in Michigan and Scars­ of men. This shift of personnel marked benefactor. With President Bixler's ap­ dale High School in 1ew Yo rk. At a re­ the beginning of a new age for the Col­ proval, Nickerson undertook a series of union in 1946 he remarked to G. Cecil lege. Never again was it exclusively the "persuasive visits" to Averill, and although Goddard '29 that he had sent "an awful lot "hometown school" as a large-scale cam­ "Averill's feet were in cement on that one;· of boys to Colby" from the prep school paign of out-of-state recruitment began. eventually in 1960, six years after his level and he'd "kind of like to be on the To day the admissions office requires a death, the trustees agreed to allow liquor receiving end for a change:· Hiring was a dean, seven professional assistant and as­ on campus, subject to state law-but only simpler affair 40 years ago. Goddard re­ sociate deans for on-the-road recruiting, for men. Women were not accorded the ferred him to President Bixler, who ar­ six support staff, and several part-time same privilege until 1967. ranged a meeting next day with chair of interviewers. Once the alcohol issue was in the the board Neil Leonard '2 1 over lunch at In 1989 the College's dean of stu­ open, Nickerson maintains today, it was the Union Club in Boston. Nickerson was dents, Janice Seitzinger, oversees both simpler to deal with campus problems. hired on the spot, and in 1946 Colby ac­ men and women, but when Nickerson He found that working with the Men's quired its first full-time dean of admissions. served from 194 7 to 1967 he was ac- Judiciary, which was composed entirely

16 COLBY of students, "made my job a lot easier" not from community service. He was George Nickerson turns 87 on April and was a "fairer" means of dealing with president and chair of the Maine State 1, but he has hardly slowed down. What offenders. The students had pressured YMCA and was given the "Distinguished does he do in his spare time? He and for the change of rules, and they now be­ Service to Yo uth Award" by that organi­ Ruth, who live in Winslow, play bridge came "a jury of peers:· Such participation zation for 21 years on the executive com­ the year round, travel to Florida every helped to promote maturity, responsibili­ mittee. Still an active church member, winter, and visit their daughter and her ty, and mutual trust in the College com­ Nickerson was a senior warden for five family in Lamoine Beach, Maine. Last munity. Upon his retirement in 1967, years and a long-time vestry man at St. year, "for the fun of it," they flew to Yu­ when Nickerson was awarded a coveted Mark's Episcopal Church. goslavia with good friends J\farjorie and Colby Brick, the College noted "the grati­ These days George Nickerson can Phil Either '30 and Dudley and Doris tude of hundreds of Colby men [for] your usually be found somewhere in the Thay­ Smith. In April 1989 the Nickersons plan keen perception, able guidance, thought­ er Unit of Mid-Maine Medical Center, a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. ful justice, and, most importantly, yo ur where he spends many hours each week Instead of a party they are taking Leigh, friendship." as a volunteer. He has been chair of the her husband, Sandy, and 12-year-old The year he retired, the Nickersons Mansfield Clinic advisory board, is still a Shawn abroad for 10 days- because, and their daughter, Leigh, flew to Saudi patient-opinion poll interviewer, a mem­ Nickerson said, "I want to ee Shawn's Arabia, where he was consultant in set­ ber of the Volunteer Emergency Room face when he arrives in Europe:' ting up a dean's office at the College of Te am, and a Waterville Hospice volunteer. George Nickerson's bond to young Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran. He is a long-time editor of the Mid-Maine people still holds strong. When he returned in 1969 he served a Medical Center Volunteers Newsletter, year as acting dean of men at the Univer­ and he dispenses calm cheer and good­ NFW sity of Maine at Farmington. In 1970 he natured help on all levels of the hospital, retired from college administration but a place where it's always needed.

Dean Nickerson was adviser to the Interfraternity Council. The council, said the 1958 Oracle, made the effort "to raise the standards of fraternities." Seated (left to right}: Edward Goldberg '59, Wa rren Judd '58, Dean Nickerson, Douglas Davidson '58, Brian Barnard '58, Wil­ liam Orne '58, Ralph Rideout '59. Standing: john Edes '58, F Fritz Knight '59, Steven Gang '58, David Wiggins '62.

COLBY 17 Yo ung Self-starters

by Bill Donahue '86 s ay you m 22 yem old and a cc· ic for Portland's V\111/amelle We eil, is so Miller, who was then delivering part cent Colby graduate. And say that, along "decidedly punkish'' that newcomers will lime for northeast Portland's American with a f1ock of college friends and a large. have "the feeling that they're about to eat Dream Pizza, saw an ad saying that a piz­ boisterous dog, you have been driving Pizza from Hell:' zeria in the suburbs was for sale. Along around the nation for several months. Initial impressions are misleading, with Katie Colbert, Amy Melker, and You and your friends have been sleeping though: despite the apparent chaos, Oa­ Dwite Trainer, fellow Colby classmates on couches and car seats and working sis is producing what is now widely rec­ who were living with him in a northwest odd jobs such as slitting salmon bellies at ognized as one of the best pizzas in town. Portland apartment, J\1iller soon visited a an Alaskan cannery. After a summer in The restaurant's cheese slice Dixon says, realtor to discuss buying the $25,000 bus­ San Francisco, you pull into Portland, "is better than average, nicely browned, iness. The quartet had no money and, Oreg., almost inadvertently. Yo u find a with a [thick] crust and a robust tomatoey save Miller, no knowledge of pizza-mak­ flimsy, inexpensive apartment and easy, taste." The quality of the food and an in­ ing. Says Miller "We weren't taking it too part-time jobs that will pay the rent -and novative menu, which includes whole seriously. We threw ugly blazers on over leave you plenty of time for bicycling, wheat crust and pizza topped with brocco­ our regular clothes ...and the realtor downing beers, and making road trips to li and a cream sauce, seem to be enough treated us as if we were little kids." the coast. to ensure the restaurant a diverse clien­ The meeting with the realtor was not Then say one member of your group tele. Says John Miller, one of the Oasis entirely fruitless. His condescension was suddenly suggests that you start a busi­ founders, "We attract a lot of families. We taunting, and the group itched to prove ness - that you open a restaurant and call don't turn down the music for them but him wrong- to find a storefront it could it Pizza for the People. Would you laugh? we are really nice to them, and they keep shape into a more stylish eatery. As the Yo u probably would, but if you are coming back." only member of the group with business like the five founders of Portland's Pizza The bottom line, however, is not the experience, Miller was, quite clearly, the Oasis, whose travels are described above, volume of the music or even having a most suited to take the first serious steps you would also act on your friend's propos­ faithful clientele. It's making money. And toward opening a restaurant. The eco­ al. Beginning two years ago the friends, all Oasis has been doing that quite well. Mil­ nomics major had acquired a wealth of of them Colby Class of 1986, channeled ler keeps monthly tabs on the restaurant's business sense from his father, a record their restless energy into becoming pizza revenue and says that its gross has never producer, and had headed two lucrative entrepreneurs, and they created a business decreased from one month to the next. summer businesses, a yard maintenance with staying power. To taling $11,000 in its first month, Oasis firm in Connecticut and a child-care serv­ Located at 2241 West Burnside in Port­ grew so rapidly that, after less than a year ice in California. land, Oasis is hardly a gray-suit enterprise. in business, the restaurant's owners were While his friends worked odd jobs Crews of teenage employees, some in tie­ already franchising. They opened a new washing dishes and folding cardboard ad­ dye, some with long hair dyed white and restaurant, Oasis Cafe, are now grossing vertising displays for the Roman Meal one wearing a T-shi1i that reads "Ski Na­ between $45,000 and $50,000 every Company, Millerinitiated the pizzaventure ked;' weave behind the restaurant's count­ month, and expect to take in over half a by seeking "For Rent" signs. He searched ers, bumping into one another as they jive million this year. only in northwest Portland because, he to the blare of caustic music. The am­ Pizza Oasis started in October 1986 - says, the area was quickly becoming gen­ bience, says Jim Dixon, a restaurant crit- as a joke. The laughs began when John trified and was a more lucrative district

18 COLBY to open a business. The northwest sec­ owners had chosen the name Pizza Oasis, at the construction site. The arrangement tion, he adds, was also alluring because Colby classmate Jim Frew had wandered afforded surprisingly quick, cheap prog­ it had only one pizzeria that consistently west from Boston, and all five Colbyites ress. "Everyone told us that five partners attracted a young clientele. were working 80-hour weeks to convert were way too many," Miller says. "but Low rent made the west side's 2241 the Burnside site from an insurance of­ starting up, it was a great asset. We had Burnside the most attractive site for the fice to a restaurant. tons of free labor and were able to divide restaurant. While $750 a month may During the getting-ready period, each up responsibilities." sound cheap for a 1,200-square-foot com­ partner developed an area of expertise. Occasionally. however the combina­ mercial space with 20-foot-high ceilings "We didn't assign responsibilities;' says tion of 80-hour weeks and five friends and two walls of windows, it was a bit Colbert. "Everyone leaned automatically v\'Orking close together induced a deliri­ steep for youths with nearly invisible toward doing something they were good um, a giddy atmosphere in which mis­ bank accounts. And it seemed very steep at." Art majors Frew and Melker designed takes were inevitable. One February when the friends began to contemplate and implemented an interior whose imi­ afternoon three disasters occurred in one buying thousands of dollars worth of tation palm trees and sky blue ceiling hour. Miller tripped and spilled stain kitchen equipment. were in keeping with the Oasis theme. onto the restaurant's carpet, Tra iner The group needed a loan - or a spon­ Miller remained the administrator, and splashed blue paint on the front winr..low sor. But neither the banks nor the Small Colbert applied her skill for detail work and the whole crew ruined the door­ Business Association would even discuss by negotiating with insurers and supplies frame as they toted in a new refrigerator. loaning to entrepreneurs with less than sales representatives. When, in a dizzy spell, Melker nearly fell two years of experience in the field they Readying for opening also involved from a 15-foot scaffolding the group sought to enter. Miller briefly considered numerous trips to the Portland Building, decided to quit seven hours early and go allying with a venture capital firm, but where one gathers such paperwork as out for drinks on the business. During when he learned that doing so would ob­ liquor license applications and fire safety the construction, Miller says, the part­ ligate Oasis to give its financiers up to 80 manuals, and to the hinterlands of south­ ners worked so closely that "if you want­ percent of the gross, he recoiled. east Portland, where second-hand shops ed to go to the bathroom, you had to tell Desperate, the group turned to Mil­ specializing in restaurant equipment everyone else." As his tone suggests, prox­ ler's father for $30,000. The loan, Miller abound. imity led to tension. The most heated insists, was not just the gift of a doting While these junkets were vital, the flare-up came just as the restaurant was parent. "He's a shrewd businessman," he most important and time-consuming proj­ about to open. Miller arranged a work says of his father. "He's in this to make a ect was, of course, construction. Trainer schedule for all the partners, and the profit:' And, to make his investment more was the natural leader for this aspect of move infuriated his friends. Says Col­ certain, !he elder Miller insisted that the the business. Having taken a high school bert, "I felt like telling him, 'Who the hell entrepreneurs not call their restaurant drafting class and having erected shacks are you to make up a schedule and throw Pizza for the People. while working in Alaska one summer, he it at me7"' The loan transformed the business was the only partner with even a hint of The partners addressed such dilem­ from a humorous lark to a very real pros­ construction background. mas through late-night meetings at local pect and stirred excitement among the Under Trainer's guidance, the five bars. The meetings, says Miller, dragged friends. By New Year's Day 1987, the partners usually worked simultaneously on because the partners were such close

COLBY 19 friends and did not want to step on each ing - and lo retain the Oasis's casual at­ hold and now entertain ideas of staying others' toes. "Don't ever go into business mosphere - the partners, says Melkner, in Portland lo steer Pizza Oasis and the with your friends," he advises without almost always hired inexperienced teenage Oasis Cafe for 10, or even 20, more years. irony, "because, when you do. emotions or college-aged youths who were well suit­ They have resigned themselves to a regi­ rule business decisions:· ed lo taking, rather than giving, advice. men that includes two or three meetings Despite tensions and minor structur­ These employees shared with the part­ a day (with food distributors and other al problems such as a crooked hallway ners the enthusiasm and pride that comes salesmen) and 80· to 100-hour and a wobbly prep counter, Pizza Oasis with starting a new business-and were workweeks. constru ction neared completion by mid­ startlingly loyal lo a restaurant that was While the pair can now talk business February 1987. The quintet still lacked paying them only $3.50 an hour. o with the sober voice of experience. they're one crucial ingredient, however: pizza workers quit during the first three months, running an enterprise that continues to recipes. So Oasis enlisted a chef from and by late spring the partners and their leap forward by taking risks, by winging American Dream Pizza to help with reci­ crew were churning out pizzas. it. In 1988 the Oasis became the first pe development and hosted two private Running the business became so easy, Portland pizzeria to market frozen pizzas taste tests, a business luncheon for KKUL in fact, that Trainergrew restless -and to food stores, and now it's developed a radio staffers and a gorging session for began losing his fervor for the Oasis. In new way to perfect employee perfor­ Reed College students. June 1987, he escaped to Alaska for an­ mance. The answer, Miller insists, lies in The recipes proved popular, and Pizza other summer of salmon-slitting; by Sep­ "The Zen Pizza Manifesto;' a worker's Oasis opened on February 27, 1987. tember, he was in Grenada, working for manual written by employee Sean Farrell. Without having done any advertising, the Peace Corps. Three or four months Laced with quotations from Zen scrip· the restaurant took in $235 on its first later, Melker and Frew also became lure, the manifesto begins, "The Pizza: day. Explains Miller, "People in the neigh­ bored -and exhausted - by the pizza regi­ distant, separate, individually produced borhood had seen us building the place, men. "It was draining lo work there:· says ingredients amalgamated to form one so they came in. They kept coming back Melker, a painter who did art work con­ beautifully si mple dish;' and then pro­ because they liked the pizza:· stantly while al the College but produced ceeds to provide a common sense guide The early days of operation were only one canvas during 1987. "A fter a to pizza-making. Sound a bit offbeat? "I smooth and marked only by a chance while, nothing creative was going on, and guess:· Colbert acknowledges. But she is confrontation with a belligerent drunk thoughts of work saturated your mind." smiling as she says this, because "The and a few errant tosses of dough, which Like Trainer, Melker and Frew had Zen Pizza Manifesto"- like all the other the partners were stretching by spinning not entered the business with the hopes tactics Oasis has used to shun mainstream it, Italian-style, in the air. Major chal­ of making a career out of pizza-making. business practices- works. lenges didn't emerge until April, when Last spring, they left the Oasis, with no the expanding business started delivering other career opportunities in sight. Ex­ Bill Donahue is a Portland, Oreg., free-lance pizza and hired employees to do the driv­ plains Frew, "I quit because I was work­ journalist for newspapers and magazines. ing. Says Colbert, "It was difficult trying ing so hard that l didn't have the time to His latest article appears in the April issue to be a boss because we were so young. make a decision on what I wanted to do of Thrasher, a California-based publication We didn't feel we had enough experience next:' for skateboarders. This article appeared in to boss someone else around." The remaining partners, Miller and a slightly different version in Portland's The To make the role of "boss" less impos- Colbert, have put their wanderlust on Business Journal.

Colby is no mirage at Pizza Oasis in January 1988: Jim Frew '86, john Miller '86, Katy Colbert '86, Sonja Muehlmann '86, and Amy Melker '86. Dwite 'JYainer '86 had already left for the Peace Corps.

20 COLBY Serving with Grace and Charm

C ollege communiti" tend to pm· Blue Beetle) or taxi cabs to pick up the duce people of uncommonly long tenure. Elmwood crew for events in Foss Hall Extreme examples at Colby have been and Roberts Union. She has worked for Julian Taylor, who taught at the College three presidents and several dining serv­ for 62 years; a Bangor trustee, Moses Gid­ ice managers and special program heads dings, who served on the Board of Trus­ and recalls with affection and admiration tees from 1852 to 1911, an astonishing "my presidents" as well as such Colby stal­ term of 59 years; and Leslie B. Arey '12, a warts as Bill Millett '25, Bill Macomber teacher at Northwestern University med­ dary head of the College's dining serv­ '27, Ed Turner. George Whalan, and Dick ical school for an astounding 72 years. ices, to staff the dinner of the first Colby Dyer. The College has recent examples of long Business Institute held at the Elmwood In 1966 Doris Rowe became manager service as well. In 1986 Dorothea "Dot" Hotel in downtown Waterville. Mrs. Clark of the Coffee Shop at Thayer Hospital, Marchetti retired after 42 years of service was in charge of banquets at the old Elm­ now the Mid-Maine Medical Center, in the library, and Ansel Grindall spent wood and, beginning at the age of 15, where, with her own brand of wit, sym­ 40 years with the Buildings and Grounds Doris Rowe had been part of her crew. pathy, and understanding, she consults Department before retiring in 1985. Later she took her mother's position at regularly with nurses, doctors, volun­ At the annual faculty-trustee dinner the Elmwood and, with it, the part-time teers, and visitors. Meanwhile Mrs. last spring, President Cotter took special job as the person who hired, trained, and Rowe's daughter, Patty Evers, became note of Doris Rowe who, although never directed the people who served at special part of the Colby group, and in recent a full-time Colby employee, has played a College functions - meetings of not only years the serving crew has often includ­ special role at the College for 39 years. the Business Institute (she hasn't missed ed Patty :rndfour of her children -Jill. For au that time she has been a familiar one) but also the Quarterback Club, art John, Angie, and Jimmy. presence at Colby banquets and other im­ show openings, building dedications, In making the presentation to Doris portant occasions, making sure that things campaign dinners, special functions at Rowe of an inscribed Colby Chair at the go smoothly, and on time, and with a the president's house, and, of course, the faculty-trustee dinner, President Cotter special grace and charm that reflect her traditional events of Commencement, said: "Gracious and cordial, confident own personality. Homecoming, and Reunion weekends. and reliable, cheerful and always willing, Mrs. Rowe's work for Colby began in When Colby had completely moved Doris has become an essential part of 1951. In that year her mother, Eva Clark, to Mayflower Hill, Mrs. Rowe remembers Colby ...it is difficult to imagine a was hired by Helen Nichols, the legen- Miss Nichols sending the Colby bus (the Colby function without her."

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As promised, here is an introduction lo some of the most recent members of 50+: Bob Antho­ ny '38, Waterville Va lley, N.H., has retired from 38 years of leaching al Harvard Business School and reports that seven of his books were pub­ lished in 1988. some of which were revisions. They deal with his specialties. accounting and business management. He and Kay have traveled extensively. and they are proud of their four grandchildren • Ralph "Bus" William Brown '38, Palm Harbor, Fla .. and his wife, Bernice spend five months in Searsport, Maine and seven in Florida, now that he has retired from being su­ perintendent of schools. He and Bernice still like lo talk about their six weeks touring five Russian republics • Joseph Ciechon '38, Ridgefield, Conn., is happy to be a man of leisure after many years of teaching math, during which time he co­ wrote an algebra text. !n 1985 he and Carolyn had the wonderful experience of exploring Alaska from the northern tip lo the southern • Reta INAUGURATIONS Trites Cook '38 Phillips. a retired teacher, be­ came a great-grandmother in November and al­ 11 Periodically, Colby is invited to send representatives to special academic events at ready has grandchildren. She keeps active in town government and helps Wendell on the colleges and universities. The following persons have represented the College at farm • Martha Wa kefield Falcone '38, Hart· inaugurations in the past months: ford. Conn., has five grown children and three grandchildren. She retired from teaching after 18 Robert W. Belyea '5 1, at the inauguration of A.L. Fritschler as president of Dickin­ years and now is actively trying to promote peace and disarmament. What a thrill she had when she son College. returned to China, the land of her birth, after 37 years! • Edith "Billie" Fa lt Favour '38, North· Garth K. Chandler '62, at the inauguration of William Henry Beardsley as presi­ east Harbor. is a retired English teacher who feels dent of Husson College. that she "never had a job that she wasn't good at." After her husband's death, she decided to spend six months a year in Southern California, and she Deborah Cohen '77, at the inauguration of Daniel M. Lambert as president of Ba­ has been playing bridge, taking courses in writ­ ker University. ing, and attending concerts. She has written two books on Maine Indians, published three poems, Andrea Vujan Colaiaco '70, at the inauguration of Oscar E. Remick as president of and had an article in Down East. In September she visited the Amish country and Brandywine Va l­ Westminster College. ley in Pennsylvania • Archie Follett '38, Lakeland, Fla., retired from scientific research, Thomas Colman '59, at the inauguration of H. Douglas Lee as president of Stetson is now quite a world traveler, with some teach· University. ing of science in Switzerland and South Africa, along with visits to Iceland, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. ln July he and Ellen went to Italy, Leslie Ta ylor Cooley '76, at the inauguration of Sister Ruth Hallenbach as president then attended an Elderhostel program in Beer­ of Mount Mary College. sheva and Jerusalem. This last was the result of a 1987 participation in a scientific archeological Edward S. Cronick '75, at the inauguration of F. Thomas Trotteras president of Alaska excavation in Sepphoris, four kilometers north of Nazareth • James Fox '38, orth Dartmouth, Pacific University. Mass., is a semi-retired lawyer who played vio· lin for many years in the New Bedford Sympho­ Stephen D. Ford '68, at the inauguration of Niara Sudarkasa as president of Lincoln ny Orchestra and served for many years as University. secretary and member of the board of the New Bedford YMCA. In October he and Gertrude visited the British Isles • Fred '38 and Mary Linda Nicholson Goodman '62, at the inauguration of Bruce R. Swinburne as presi­ Herd Emery '38, Bangor, report that he has re­ dent of Mitchell College. tired from his life work as a pediatrician. Son Fred, Jr. '69 is now a federal attorney in Roches­ ter, NY. • Ernest "Bud" Frost '38, Myrtle Beach, Fla., can enjoy golf now that he has retired Continued on page 39 from his executive position in a public voluntary health organization. He and his wife, Ruth (Ful·

22 COLBY ler '36). plan to go to Alaska next year • Martha Bessom Gorman '38, Marblehead, Mass .. is a retired teacher who keeps involved in commu­ nity activities. She is a volunteer guide at the Lee Mansion and is active in AAUW and church af­ fairs. Recently she had an article. A History of the Marblehead Female Humane Society, pub­ lished in the Marblehead Magazine • Joyce Per­ ry Goss '38. Elmsford. .Y., has retired from social work and office positions so that she can enjoy doing things with husband Fred. Both of their children are author-editors living in Califor­ nia and Missouri respectively • Philjjps B. Henderson '38, Stoneham, Mass.. continues as an American Baptist minister part time. Recent­ ly he traveled to Russia on a Bridges-for-Peace To ur and hopes to make a Friendship To ur to Chi­ na soon. He and Gertrude have two children and eight grandchildren • Edward M. '38 and Hel­ en Lewis Hooper '38 Charlotte N.C. have limited activities because of Helen's illness. He has retired from his craft supply business and has become a nurse's aide. For a hobby he collects fishing supplies. He remembers with pride his A Record of Daily Entries work as president of the Exchange Club and of the Toastmasters· Club. as secretary of the Associ­ Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser '19 first heard about Colby College from her grandfather. ation of Civic Clubs, and as director of the Silas Stone, principal of the Hyde School in Boston, when one of his excellent teach­ Carousel Parade in Charlotte • Helen Foster ers, Miss Ada Louise Peabody, became the wife of Colby president Arthur]. Roberts. Jenison '38, North Scituate. R.I .. does volunteer work in school and church. She has two grand­ Stone advised his granddaughter to apply. Va ledictorian of each school she attend­ daughters in high school. Last summer she went ed, she entered the College in 1915, concentrating on languages and English to the British Isles. and she hopes to return to Ha­ literature. waii next year • Edwin M. Leach '38 Wil­ During Wo rld War I, Mrs. Sweetser remembers, women gained new prominence liamsburg, Va , is now retired after serving as a pediatrician in the avy for 35 years, but he is on the campus. As a freshman in Foss Hall her three roommates included Marion active in environmental groups and in Physician Starbird Pottle '18, who became the first president of the Women's Student League, for Social Responsibility. He and Patricia spend a forerunner of Stu-A. Phyllis Sturdivant was second president. "There was no dis­ their summers in Blue Hill. Maine, and their crimination that I can recall," Mrs. Sweetser said; "we were treated just like the men winter in Virginia. They both recommend the in the classroom:· Another memory is of the tragic flu epidemic of 1918-19, which Colby Alumni College seminars • James l\i. Lewis '38, obleboro. is a snowbird who goes caused the College to cancel sessions for some weeks to reduce the infection among south every winter to St. Simon Island. When he students. When Armistice Day came, "we all flocked down to the Elmwood Hotel," retired. he and Helen spent 10 weeks traveling said Mrs. Sweetser, "and with whistles blowing and church bells ringing we pranced in Europe. They have been happily married for around a big bonfire - I remember appealing to President Roberts to cancel classes 48 years and are "still dancing all the way'" Their then, too, but he assured us, 'Of course there will be classes'" two daughters have blessed them with five grand­ children • William "Bill" Littlefield '38, San· Phyllis Sturdivant married Herman Sweetser in 1919, and they lived in Orono, ford, benefits from his retirement from being where he was professor of horticulture for many years at the University of Maine. president of Littlefield Construction Co.. for now When they returned to Cumberland, it was to the ancestral home where five gener­ he can play golf every day' He and his wife spend ations of Sweetsers have lived and where Mrs. Sweetser lives today with her grand­ their winters in Boynton Beach. Fla. Although they have traveled to Europe four times and twice son·, Richard Sweetser. She raised a daughter, Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter '41, and to , orth Africa, he says, "I'll take Maine any two sons, Philip and Richard. day!" • Charles MacGregor '38, Bernardston. In 1951 Mrs. Sweetser became the librarian at Prince Memorial Library in Cum­ Mass.. has given up surgical practice but concen­ berland Center, a position she held until 1970 when she was 72. Along the way she trates on rest-recreation-and-physical-fitness. Of organized and was head of the town's high school library at Greely Institute from his four children three are doctors and one a nurse. Each year he and his wife. Tucker, make 1960 to 1964. She started writing, compiling, and editing material for a history of a trek to Norway for cross-country ski­ Cumberland while she was at Prince, and the 35 1-page book, Cumberland, Maine, ing • Ethel Bradstreet Maney '38, Beverly in Four Centuries, was published for the town's bicentennial in 1976. Commons, Mass.. a former French teacher, was Mrs. Sweetser assumed the role of historian more easily than most. Her family widowed in 1985. Since then she has discovered the satisfaction of volunteer tutoring and church and her husband's family were early settlers of the area, and she has read constantly work. She has also studied with Elderhostel in during her lifetime. Most helpful, she has kept a journal and family record for many England and Scotland. Daughter Ardith '66 is a years on a succession of Swiss calendars, a habit of daily entries that shaped the professor of political science of Iowa State future historian. The record keeping still goes on. University and daughter Laurel '70 is special Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser was class agent for many years and a member of products manager in Milwaukee. Her son is at Dartmouth • Congratulations to Fred B. Ole­ the Alumni Council from 1965 to 1971. At the end of that tenure she was awarded son '38 and his wife, Betty ( oyes '40). Concord. a Colby Brick for her loyalty and service to the College. To day she is active and in­ Mass .. for having celebrated their 50th wedding terested in her home, family, and community, and she recalls with humor her ear­ anniversary in September. Not yet retired, Fred ly days, such as the walk "two miles each way to high school - which is why I'm is a consultant health physicist for the Federal so rugged at 91!" Emergtr.cy Management Agency. evaluating emergency plans around nuclear power stations. NFW His work takes him to every state in the country as well as to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

COLBY 23 I le and B<•tty have explored most of Europe and Retirement or semi-retirement bring change. but medical skills 1n the military recruitment serv­ have even skied in the Alps • Mitchell Phillip� many 50-Plusers are still accomplishing very sig­ ice. He also enjoys gardening, woodworking, golf­ '38. Newton Center Ma�s., i a semi-retired in­ nificant things. Maude H. We bster '16. South ing, and swimming • Malcom Wilson '33, s1.irance broker who has been active in Masonry Weymouth. Mass., continues to be concerned Waterville. serves on the Board of Alliance for the and the Jewish War Ve teran of ewlon. He and about all local, slate, national. and international Mentally lll and goes lo Washington for quarterly ylvia his wife. enjoy attending reunions and ap­ governmental issues. She is also active in church meetings • Evelyn Hall Spaulding '33, Water­ preciate the new campm. although he has har­ and poetry groups, maintains her membership in ville, is a life member of the Te lephone Pioneers py memories of the old one particularly the fine the Great Decision discussion groups. and con­ after working 30 years for Pacific Te lephone in profes ors • As Harry Hayden Clark Emerilu� tinues to be interested in education al all levels. Los Angeles • Evelyn Stapleton Burns '33. Professor of English al the University of Wiscon­ She, loo. is a snowbird who flies south to Florida Norway, has served for the past eight years on the sin. Walter B. Rideout '38, Madison. Wis.. con­ for the winter • Leonard W. Mayo '22. Chagrin National General Board of Church and Society tinues to work on his biography of Sherwood Falls. Ohio, likes lo work in his garden and serves of the United Methodist Church and has been in­ Anderson, under contract to Oxford Universilv on committees al Case WesternReserve Univer­ volved in social justice issues, especially world Press. As a public relations person, Walter helped sity where he taught for many years • ellie hunger • John L. Skinner '33, Sea Cliff, N.Y., lo build Orchard Hill. a re idential facility for Pottle Hankins '25, Oxford, has been working still practices law and travels. He even made the retarded adults. He and Jean (Drisko '39) work in with co-editor Dr. John Strawhornof Scotland on Colby trip to the Greek Islands • Eager student their gardens and travel as much as they can. a forthcoming book on the correspondence of Barbara "B.Z.'' White Morse'34, Springvale, has They would like some day lo return lo Japan James Boswell with the overseer of his Auchin­ been auditing courses at the University of South­ where he taught in the Kyoto American Studies leck estate • Mildred E. Brigg� '25. Man­ ern Maine, specifically geology at present • Seminar in 1981 • Edwin H. Shuman '38. Pen­ chester, .H .. now volunteers in the art library, Blanche Silverman Field '35. Brookline. Mass .. ny Farms, Fla., is a rel ired cl rgyman and a fund Currier Gallery • We have some enthusiastic is happy lo be near Boston so that she can attend raiser for the American Baptists. Since 1986 he genealogists. �uch as Marjorie A. Edgerly '25 concerts and plays • Some ardent golfers are has been a town councilman. and since 1981. the Wrightwood. Calif., who has made three trips to Wendell A. Tufts '30, Boynton Beach, Fla., Sid­ mayor. He and Dorothy have four children aml Great Britain to track down her ancestor . and ney Schiffman '35, Maitland, Fla., and Bob seven grandchildren. Ed says that he still has his Harriet Towle McCroary '28, Winthrop. who William '36, Los Angeles. Bob also teaches golf Colby swealer1 • Sigrid Tompkins '38, Port­ is active in D.A.R. and in genealogical socie· and is proud of his friendship with Ben Hogan, land, attorney in the firm of Hutchinson, Pierce ties • Beatrice Pa lmer Frederick '29, St Arnold Palmer. and Jack Nicklaus. He hasn't Atwood, and Scribner, has served on the Alum­ Clouu Fla , i� also a member of D.A.R • ,\ lusic slowed down yet. for although he has sold his ni Council and the Board of Trustee as well a� is still very important for Mollie cltzer Yett '26 macaroni business to Borden he is now working in Maine politics. Recently she made a People-lo­ Brookline Mass. who still plays the violin and for a mortgage company in Los Angeles • Law­ People tour of European capitals. including viola in ensembles and orchestras • Donald C. rence Robbins '3 7, Searsmont, was chair of the Moscow. with a group of probate lawyers lo meet Freeman '26 Bradford Mass. is president of the Po lio-Plus Committee al Rotary Club. His aim is their counterparts • Rex Ta rbell '38 Bangor lru lees of the Whittier Birthplace Recently he lo stamp out polio completely • Betty Wilkin­ and Bamberg, S.C., is a retired metallurgical as­ steered a biography of Whittier to publication as son Ryan '37, New York City, appreciates the sistant safety engineer who has worked in the aer­ well as a video about Whittier He is also co­ technology of her computer when she does her ospace industry in California a11dnow enjoy golf author of a pictorial biography of Whitti­ free-lance assignments for the Grolier Society. and motorcycling. He has fond memories of er • James H. Halpin '26. Bronxville NY. is She wrote 'while still loving N.Y.C. as home, great Colby and remembers when the bridge over the still practicing law and hoped lo go to Vienna in pleasure comes from escaping the city at times. Kennebec went out in the great Oood of '36. He November • Similarly Pa ul M. Greene '28. Enjoy the East Coast and the West -from Maine and fellow Phi Delts went downtown al 2 a.m. East Patchogue Y , is a retired attorney but cur­ to Washington state" • Steve Yo ung '37, Bar lo watch. According lo Rex, the Mayflower Hill rently is doing pro bono work as arbitrator in a Harbor, has been working on the local planning campus is one of the most beautiful in the coun­ small claims court. which he finds rewarding and board to keep Maine from being "inundated with try. but it's hard for him lo visualize il as "his stimulating • Grace ylvester Ober '29 Wood­ greedy fat-city developers. We don't want Colby's school" • Betty McLeod Thompson '38, North lnnd. still writes her monthly column for the St favorite geology class field trip area (Mt. Desert Berwick, is a proud "domestic engineer,' with Croix Co1mer of St. Stephen, 1ew Brunswick. and Island) to be covered wall-to-wall. or Cadillac three children and four grandchildren. he works is also the official historian and researcher in her Mountain, with all-shores, sky-rise condos1" • hard for her church and the Republican To wn home town • Fred J. Sterns '29, Skowhegan. Ambitious Jot, all of vou. And if I have missed Committee. Quite the actress, Betty has per­ keeps involved with the Central Maine Area some, be patient, and I'll try to catch up next time! formed in a play and three musicals • Maynard Agency on Aging • Energetic Bernice Collin Thanks, everyone! C. Wa ltz '38. Basking Ridge, J. has retired Maclean '29. orwood. Mass. teaches an ex­ Class secretary: MARJORIE GOULD from being a department head at Bell Laborato­ ercise class for seniors. "Have fun with Bun!" and M RPHY '37, P.O. Box 102. West Oneonta, N.Y. ries to being a full-time hobbyist. Using their trav­ works as a medical librarian for the Pondville 13861. el trailer. he and Lu (Leonovich '4 1) spend three Hospital for Cancer • Becoming professor months in Florida in the winter al Homestead in emeritus of political science at the University of the Keys. Lu is an organist and pianist who en­ Pennsylvania hasn't slowed down orman D. joys cooking, quilling, and nower arranging. May­ Palmer '30, Friday Harbor, Wash. He says that nard works on genealogy, ancient history. modern he has done more writing since retirement than railroading, amateur radio, gardening, solar heat­ at any other time. with the book The U111ted States ing, bird carving, and electronics. They also travel and India published in 1984 and The United States widely • Peg Higgins Williams '38, West Bath, and the Changing We stern Pac1(1c published in retired from college teaching in 1974 and has 1987 -nol full titles, incidentally-and he is now been tutoring adults in reading and English as a working on a book on security in the Western Pa­ 50th reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • Please imag­ second language under the Literacy Volunteers cific, in collaboration with a Korean scholar. He ine yourself on the Colby campus in the spring Program. She is active in the avy League, the has two more books in various stages of comple­ of 1939. The baseball season is under way, and Down East Club. and the West Bath Republican tion. lf that isn't enough. he has been leaching Laurel W. "Lop" Hersey has led the Mules to a Committee. ln lhe winter she and Owen headfor part-time at a nearby university and also al one 7-5 win over Bates, with help from Maurice Sarasota for two months and hope to visit Antigua of the Elderhostel programs on Lopez Island, one Alfred "Doc" Rancourt and Leland C. "Buster" and Montserrat soon. Peg says that Colby "made of the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound • Don­ Burrill. Class Day parts have been announced: a world of difference" in her life • LeRoy N. ald E. Allison '30, Westerly, R.l.. although offi­ Bernerd Burbank, class marshall; Donna Yo ung '38, Poland Springs, taught for 26 years cially retired, is already planning for his 45lh year deRochemont, prayer; Nathanael Guptill, ora­ in Farmingdale. NY, and is now professor emeri­ as owner-director of the Winnapaug Day Camp • tion; Ernestine Wilson, poem; Evelyne Short, tus with the State University of New Yo rk. He and Ruby Bickmore Wiggin '3 1. Clinton, has pub­ ode; Robert Canders and Sally Aldrich, award­ Eileen glory in their collage al Sabbathday Lake lished her third book, As 1 Remember, which she ing of honors; Violet Hamilton, parting address; in the summer and spend part of the winter in says is selling slowly but steadily • Jane Belch­ and Albert H unter, presiding officer. Spring Florida. He dislikes questionnaires. (So be il;if er '32, Pittsfield, Vt., works for the Pittsfield dances are in full swing, with pastel evening the letters keep coming. then no more question­ Historical Society as curator of the museum • gowns, gardenia corsages, and youthful romance. naires') • Now for some newsof other classes. John B. Curtis '33, Palm Harbor, Fla .. uses his The Lambda Chi's dance to "smooth music" at the

24 COLBY Lake\\'ood Country Club, the DU's are at Water· ville Country Club, and the Zeta Psi's are at the Lake Shore Hotel in Belgrade. Famous bandlead­ er Fred Waring has just written a new song for Colby, causing a flurry of excitement. The weekly College radio program is ending for the year and the seniors who have worked on it are commend­ ed: Ralph Delano 40 and Bob Canders, sports commentators; Fletcher Eaton newscaster; and George Ellis Mott, several positions. . . All this news is from The Colby Echo oi 1\ lay 24 1939. \ Ve'll exchange more recent news in person when we meet on our beautiful Colby campus on June 9 to 11. . The lead story in that long-ago Echo was that a former member of the German Reich· stag had spoken at the Colby lecture series say­ ing that the majority of Germans \\'ere not m favor of Hitler and that England and France had been influential in keeping Hitler from continu­ ing his conquests. Also on the front page was an account of a banquet honoring Miss Corinne Van Norman for her 17 years in the athletic depart ment. (You could have told us 70. and wed have believed it.) Advertisers in this issue included Jeff's Tap Room, "Dine and Dance. Opp. Stadium Noel's Tap Room, 23 Silver St., Painters Annex "Good Drinks, 3 for 25c. Opp. Opera House," and Park's Diner. which needed no street address. Le· vine's. "Where Colby Men Meet;' had suits for S 15.50 ....Three movie theaters were operating To See a Rhino, Yo u Have To Leave Matinicus in Waterville. and movies we could have seen that week included Pg)'malion, with Leslie Howard When the rhinoceros charged, Clayton Yo ung '39 didn't panic. His guide, he noticed, and Wendy Hiller; Stage Coach, with Claire wasn't making any particular effort to remove the Land Rover from the path of the Trevor and John Wayne; and Code of the Secret Service, 25 thundering beast, so, figuring that safari guides aren't paid enough to risk their lives with Ronald Reagan. Tickets were cents ... but enough nostalgia. Let's look to the in the service of tourism, Mr. Yo ung calmly aimed and fired. Yo ung's trophy snap­ future, and especially to the good times coming shot of the charging rhino (who, it turned out, was all bluff) is now displayed in his on June 9 to 11, when the campus will be green, spic 'n span house on Matinicus, 23 miles out to sea where no rhinos have been seen old friendships will be renewed, Gardiner in years. Gregory's pictures will delight us, the Class of '39 singers will be in fine voice, and we'll feel youn· There have been Youngs on Matinicus since before the Revolutionary War. ger than we have in years. Generations of ancestors root Clayton Young to a world two miles long and one mile Class secretary: SALLY ALDRICH wide, but his horizons are not limited. He is one of those people we are fortunate ADAMS, 22 l\lillerSt ., ledfield l\lass. 02052. enough to meet once in a while who shattered all the stereotypes. Matinicus na­ tive? Hardy fisherman? Ta citurn Yankee? Colorful, but provincial? Clayton Young was educated at Kents Hill and Hebron before taking a degree in mathematics at Colby. Following service in World War II, he gravitated back to his native island, where for 25 years he ran the island store down at the harbor. In i-Q __ 1977 he sold the store in order to care for his ailing wife. Following her death, his family gone and grown, Clayton Young set out to see the world. Our column this time is limited to information Now the remarkable thing about Mr. Yo ung, a most unassuming gentleman, about one member of our class and his dog. It was a doggone good contest for ewfoundlands. is not just that he is interesting, but that he is interested - interested enough to risk There were six events in the "Water Rescue Dog having adventures. While busloads of retirees roll safely into Camden and Bar Har­ certification, and only one dog completed all six bor, Clayton Young takes off for parts unknown. events. The star of the show was five-year-old 'Tm more interested in rural areas and far-out places;' says Yo ung, "but I don't Timber. owned by Halsey Frederick. This infor· think going on safari in Africa is too far-out. If you want to see the animals, you want mation was sent to me by Violet Hamilton Christensen '39. Had it not been for her, I would to go there:' have nothing to report. Make my job easier: send In Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, then, Clayton Yo ung was charged by a rhino. tales of your doings' In Ruanda he sat quietly in the rain forest surrounded by a family of gorillas. In Class secretary: ELEAt OR THOMAS Australia and New Zealand he believes he saw every sheep in the South Pacific. He's CURTIS, 4607 W. Alabama, Houston, Te x. 77027. not sure where he might head next, the Yucatan Peninsula maybe, but his last ma­ jor journey took him to Tierra del Fuego and from there to the Antarctic for a few days. His stay in Antarctica was prolonged a bit, as it happened, when a blizzard prevented his plane from coming back for him. Living on Matinicus, of course, Clay­ -- ton Yo ung must be familiar with cancelled flights. tf.7,___. "Yes;' he says, "and I'm also familiar with blizzards on the coast." Such a great response this time' We will all be This article is reprinted from The Maine Times with permission. Clayton Yo ung is now grateful and glad to hear from o many, some who traveling in the Amazon. have not replied in a long time. To begin \\'ith. Jean Pearson Burr ha lived in a suburb of Rochester, l .Y.. for the past 20 years. She has two

COLBY ZS "'11' and two daughlt'r, -a dPLlnr a lawyer, ii 'L'c rel.tr1' <111d a libra ri;i n - and thrc'e gran dchil­ drt'n h� ha' ll'orked with the ull' 'ch�'ol district purrllil')lng to,lbnoks ror scvernl'l hoob. Jean harbor� rl,nd memories ol Colby espPrially or Dutton I lou c' • Although Lawrence Berry at­ tended Colby iu'>llll'n years. he remembers se1·er­ After a persua�1ve call from one of Colby's most al clas�mates. He serl'ed 111 the Air Force as a loyal sport supporters, Cliff Came urging us lo meteorolc1g1'l with the weather atellites in D.C. go lo the Colby-Bowdoin football game on He now lil'e in Sun City, Ariz .. from October lo 1ovember 12 1988, your correspondent and I was flabbergasted when I received the notice June and in South Harbor, l\.laine, from June lo spouse Phil Wysor were ( for the first time 111 that a column is due on November 15. I'm still en­ October To keep fit and actil'e, he still play golf. 20 years) part or the large and enthusiastic crowd gro sed in leaf-raking, vegetable garden clean-up. grinds stones and tral'els • George Yo ung re­ of Colby students. alumni, and friends who and plannmg for Thanksgiving. In the midst of Cc'ntly mnved lo St. Petersburg, Fla He ha� two shared one of the mo,l lnumphant day in the an­ all this I'm spending l 0 clayswith my parents in sons and three grandchildren. on Philip married nals of Colby's football history. Nol only did Waterville A� there is no time to send out a ques­ a beautiful Korean girl. They lil'e in J\ladison , Colby beat Bo11·do1n decisively 2.t-0, 1l was the tionnaire I have very little news. I did get a note \\'is., where George and hi wire pend part or first lime in 29 years that Colby had beaten their and reunion pictures from Leonard Cau t. Len their year. Because he's not well. George can't be major rival on t hei r own field Whal a game' Al­ remarked that he was amazed to find so many of active • Not so for Hiram Macintosh still in though there wasmuch cheering from the crowd his clas mates looking about the same as he Philadelphia. He spent a week skiing al Lake Ta · we mis ed the presence of chee1 leaders and a remembered them from -15years ago. He won­ hoe CaliL, a week golring at Myrtle Beach C band which seemc'd to add so much lo the ex­ ders if the secret could be bottled and sold. The went spring turkey hunting last April attended citement and color of football game 1n "our day" pictures are excellent and he did a good job of get­ Elderhoslel at Pottsdam College in June and went Hm·e they gone forever" • Other clas males ting nearly everyone in al least one picture. Un­ on alCl-day ecological trip lo Alaska. He said hes cattered in thl' stands were Sue Rose Be sey forlunatelv Louise Tra han McCombs was un­ ready for a year of rest now • It was good lo hear and her husband Earle and Oren Shiro with able to get. l\.lacin a picture in spite of apparent fr m Hazel Judkin Daughaday once again whom we hatted whiil'hal '111g a tailgate picn1L wal'ing1 • 1 have telephoneda couple of people She lil'eS in St. Loui J\lo. with her husband Wil­ Oren abo wrnlcthat arter ell1ng his very succes· from whom we'l'e not heard for some time. It is liam, an emeritus professor who 1s still leaching ful restaurant The Jeff" Ill 1973. he and l1 1s lm·ely wonderful lo hear that Dr. Richard '-12 and doing research and working 1n the lab. Hazel au­ wife Jeanne, hal'e done a great deal of traveling Natalie Cousens Dyers daughter, Candy is dits archeological cour e and �w1m to keep fit. Thev hal'c thret children l\lark is a bu inessman back at work assisting in surgery. She expects to They plan a trip to Ta iwan Hong Kong Pe rth Ill B�ston Loi a hair stylist m /\'aples Fla and be on her own bywint er. You may remember she West Australia, and Sidney. Hazel wi hes they Cindy a senior 1n medical SLhool A first-class was sel'erely burnedin a boating accident and has could get to J\laine more often • \'irginia golfer Oren aid that he had played ·ail 01·er the had 13 operations since then. Dick and Candy, Mosher is retired, still live in Spartanburg C country" in the last l 0 years. While playing. he both members of the American College of Sur­ and still bowls three nights a week But Jiggs' is has een many Colby people including Jim Daley geons, are the only father-daughter surgical team 11101·ing back to Waterville. 1aine in summer 89 ..it,with whom he had played football al Colby. 111 Rhode Island The Dyers expect to visit Scot­ \Vith a bowling house JUSl a block away she ll Some of his golf honors. winner of Jaine Ama­ land this fall • Although Re sa Flewelling Ed­ surely stay fit • Priscilla Patterson is still a teur s in 1979 the olde t participant by 23 years munds and I live only 25 miles apart, we've never choral conductor al the Carmel Bach Festil'al in He also won the /\'e11 England eniors in 1918 succeeded in getting together. She and her hus­ Carmel Calif. and conductor of adult choir at and 1980 and shot hi age 16 I several times this band are building a new house - no thoughts of Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church though she li1·e past summer In addition he still finds time to retirement apparently They did vacation in in Stamford, Conn. Yoga is her main means of play bridge twice a week. l\.1ore powerlo you Maine this summer but not at the time of re­ staying fit • Rev. Linwood Polter is retired in Oren, and manv more honors \\'ill undoubtedh· union • Madeleine Hinckley Gibbs sounds Sanbornville /\'.H., but hastaken up part-lime be yours by the time we see you al ou'r cheerful and energetic. Her fa1�ily vacations at residence in Florida. He still staysactil 'e in patri­ 50th • Hon Charles A. Lord wrote that he has her mother's place in Blue Hill but she couldn't otic events, joining an occasional parade or de· been a judge 111 the common pleas court of make it lo reunion Madeleine mentioned that she livering an address. He goe bicycling, mountain Philadelphia for 13 year .. Charlie and his wife, sees Bill Clough 61 who isnow at Gould Acade­ climbing, camping, fishing, and boating, though Shirley '.U have four children and 10 grandchil­ my in Bethel • The Rev. Howard Johnson is as he admits he is losing some zest at age 77. He add­ dren. Charlie· favorite game nowis golr, though busy as ever since retirement from teaching and ed that he is actually getting rid of hi rock and he is best remembered al the College for being is working on his book on Jesus. He has two sons, shell collections. He'd like to become an amateur a champion tennis player They have traveled in Conrad, who lives nearby in Providence, and radio technician in the General Class and pass the the Caribbean and Hawaii. We also hope your Dana who lives in Tew York • I hope before my code test • Virginia Ryan after 42 years is still travels will bring you back to Colby for our 50th, next deadline on March l to have had holiday eligibility supervisor al the Connecticut State Charlie • Mary Reny Buck has reported an er­ greetings from many of you. It was obvious from Department of Income Maintenance. To stay fit ror in her family newsas it appeared in the fall remarks at reunion that your classmates do read she swims, plays tennis, and walks. She collects issue: Mary has one son, Michael Clinton Buck. these columns. So keep me informed and I'll pass jewelry but gets rid of old clothes. When she fi­ ow employed by C.F. Hathaway, he is also a first along any news. Happy holidays to all even nally retires she will take more trips. Virginia had class petty officer with the Seabees of the Navy though they will be history when you read this! news of Claire Emerson, who still lives in Bid­ Reserve. Formerly he served with them at Guan­ Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART deford, Maine, is a retired school teacher, and tanamo Bayand in orth Africa, Gulrport, Miss .. BRAUNMULLER (Mrs. Albert R.). 115 Lake raises showcats. We hopeClai re will write her­ and Alaska • Now it is time forme to send out Rd., Basking Ridge, N.J. 07920. self • And finally an up-date on news from Jane a plea to you all to send more news.To those who Russell Abbott. This is her third year teaching have already responded so generously, my grate­ biology al Dwight Englewood School in Engle­ ful thanks, and from time to lime we would wel­ wood, N.J. Especially busy as president or the Na­ come an update. And to those who have not tional Association of Biology Teachers, she was written at all. we miss you and are eager to hear a leader or 78 biology teachers and medical per­ from you. Al the meeting of correspondents dur­ sonnel during a month in the People's Republic ing Alumni Volunteer Leadership Weekend, we __ of China. The last two winters she taught marine were told by Robert Gillespie, college editor, that 'fq_ biology in the Caribbean. To keep herself fit, Jane when the Colby magazine arrives the first page 45th reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • Janice Tap­ plans to join a spa or use the school gym • And alumni turn to are the class columns, and alum pin Lowell wrote that her expectations on leav­ now may we have news of some more of you are disappointed if news of their classmates is not ing Colby were to teach English (inspired by Dr This we all enjoy. there. So . . please heed my S O.S. and send me Mary Marshall), to marry, and to raise a fa mily. your news. She has done just that: she moved to Maine in Class secretary: RUTH "BO NIE" Class secretary: MARIE "C HRIS" MER­ 1948 and taught at Fryeburg Academy, retiring ROBERTS HATHAWAY (Mrs. Henry). RFD#l, RILL WYSOR, R.R.#2, Box 190-B, South Harp­ in 1987 as head or the English Department. Her Box 213, New Ipswich, 1 .H. 03071. swell, Maine 04079. son Peter '70 received recognition for his crafts

26 COLBY business in the "l\!aineTo da\' 1988 edition of to Copenhagen and London and anticipates a trip e,·eryone there • Roslyn Kramer our truly Down East. Peters twin Rog.er is principal of to Alaska and the Orient. He sends the message outstanding class agent has attended e\·ery .l5 Gray High School in New Gloucester. Jan s son \quoted from Earl \\'eaver\· \\'hats important i reunion 1a record?\ and writes. Plan now - come John is president of .\!t. Washington Flagship what you learn after you know it all • G. one come all back to Colb\· for our .15th Ros· Corp. 1a cruise ship on Lake \\'innipesaukee · Richard l\lountfort has acquired a new \\·ife lrn· s a re earch chemist there ha,·e been se\·er­ 1.H.). Her granddaughter is Adria Lowell '92 and Esther and four stepchildren'.Hi s first wife Gin· al publications of her work. Shes starting now to there are seven other grandchildren who may re· nie died oi cancer in 1987. Richard had been think about retirement. 1Retirement offers a peat the Colby tradition. Janice isn t sitting still forced to gi,·e up his ministerial duties to care for chance to do many things e\·en returnto work in retirement: she is a part-time admissions as· her during a lingering illness. >:ow he has re· \\·hich l 1usl did - two da\·s a week at T\\'YCH - sistant at St. Joseph College and she spent two turned to assume responsibility of ministry to the Travel \\'1th Yo ur Childre;1 -a tim· fun little com­ months in England in spring 19 8. She had a re· disadvantaged children and youth at Higher pany and a big switch from my former work m cent "heart-to-heart" with Elaine Johnson \\'ing Ground Camp in Wentworth :\.H His hobbies college textbook publishing.I • Rae Gale Back­ reminiscing about Alden House • Josephine include playing the trumpet repairing stained er .l.lnow has a second granddaughter Ta mara Pitts McAlary and Fred -1.3 left in November on glass windows. and pitching softball. The \lount­ thanks to son Jimnw and his \\'lie who Li,·e in Is­ their annual \\·inter trek to Ft. Pierce, Fla. via forts look forward to a cro -country trip and an rael. I recently visited Rae greatly en.1oying a tour Cape Cod, Mass.; Newport R.I 1as guest of a Ala kan cruise • Ralph \\'. Hilton retired in of the JFK \lemorial ,\ !useum which 1s truly grandson who graduated in i\.lay 1988 from the 1986 after .lO \·ears in the field of education as a beautiful • Dorothy "Dee" Sanford \lcCunn U.S. Naval Academy); Annapolis ,\ Id.: and Kil· teacher coach. and educational salesman. He and happily retired has become im·oh·ed m local Ca· lington, Vt. !for Thanksgiving with two children Jean spend the winter months in Florida. They naan Conn. organizations-she also doe ·grand· and families). Thev had alreadv had their ,·aca· have four children Ralphs hobby is watercolor children sitting upon occasion. Last fall she and tion to Denver Coio.: Rocky l\l�untain National painting • Jean Ferrell Howe has mo,·ed to Ian enjoyed t,,·o months in England and Scot· Park; the U.S. Air Force Academy; the Grand Can· Portland i\!aine, lo be closer to her daugh­ land • A brief word from Jane Farnham \\'ood yon· !\arrow Gauge R.R.in Durango; the ski areas er • Harry Levin describes his occupation as tells u hes retired from teaching and is living of Colorado-Aspen \'ail. Copper .\!ountain and foundation executi,·e. His travels include South in Pinehurst >J.C. Shed love to hear from any Breckenridge; and Utah's Canyonlands. Fred s America J\lexico. Europe Asia and Africa and classmates i.n the area • Bill \\11ittemore whose 50th Waterville High School class reunion oc· he has learned three languages. He is grateful for extensive professional travels and accomplish· curred in 1988, with other Colbvites J\!ary Renv the intellectual stimulation he recei,·ed at ments weve pre,·iously reported is in a great po· Buck '42, Mary Farrell Lacombe 42 an·d An;1 Colby • l\1alcom D. i\lcQuillan has retired sition to be a collector and indeed he is one -of Jones Gilmore 42 attending. \Nhen she's home from his work as a teacher'guidance coun elor books printed before 1500. French cut glass and Jo still does substitute teaching • Mary \\'eeks and is able to "sleep in after late night T\'. Enjoy· \lvcenaen rnses.Back ·on the road Bill will lec­ Drummond is extremely frugal with news but ing excellent health he al o enjoys preparing tu;e at the l\ationalAssociation of Sciences in reports that she retired from teaching in 1987. She gourmet dinners for friends He recently had the April on 50 years of fission • The latest from has two children, Robert and John 77 Sawyer experience of being the sole passenger in the pri· Laura Tapia Aitken is news of her appointment and two granddaughters, Laura and Holly Saw­ vate jet of his nephew 1and namesake) when visit­ as chair of Fairleigh Dickinson University s plan· yer • Kay Howes Brooks reported about the ing him at Hilton Head S.C. • For my part I stay ning council -''a great learning experience she changes in her life: "Gotten older am not pleased out of trouble by reading !economics yuck\ to a wrote. involving an institution of higher learning about it.' 1You speak for us all Kay.) Her artistic blind professor at the Center for Ad,·anced with 9.000 students • A recent outing with Joan outlet is writing satirical poetry and I can report Studies at Stanford Cni,·ersily working at the Gay Kent was enjoying the massi\'e Degas exhi· that its extraordinarily witty. Kay and \\'endell Food Closet for the homeless. and babysitting Ito bition at the i\letropolitan \!useum of Art he 42 have two girls, Kathie Brooks and Wendie keep in practice for \·isiting my grandchildren). my favorite :\'ew York companion on such out· Brooks Geiger, and two grandchildren • Ar­ I warn in the Senior Garnes in St. George. Utah ings. Joan continues her successful creative sef\·· nold Grossman, D D.S., was appointed assistant in October (one gold two silver three bronze) ices agency on Long Island. professor of dentistry at Tufts University and also and am currently working out with the Stanford Class secretary: NAOJ\11 COLLETT maintains a private practice {but is semi-retired). 1\ lasters Swim Team in a 50-meter outdoor pool PAGANELLI 2 Hor�tio Street ,15J :\'e,,· York His son Peter is also a dentist son Thomas 77 come rain or shine. Cheers. Good health to you NY. 1001.l. is an attorney and daughter Jill is a psychologist. all. In 1984 Arnold participated in an educational ex­ Class secretary: NANCY Cl: RT I S change in China and again in 1986 in Russia. His LAWRENCE i.\1rs. v\ iatson A.J 1031 Berkeley hobbies are photography and sailing in Falmouth Ave. l\!enlo Park Calif. 9.1025. Harbor, Mass. where he has met David l\!arson 48 and David Sortor '56 • W. Harris Graf (an­ other dentist'! paints in watercolors, oils, alkyds and acrylics. He is an avid skier, having skied in '16--I recently had the opportunity to talk to two lo· Italy. Switzerland, and Austria, and looks forvvard to skiing in Spain and sailing down the Rhine. His cal {Holden and Shrewsbury i\!ass.)friends from wife, Meredith, is a dental hygienist, and they our class Nancy Parsons Ferguson and Carol have enjoyed sharing their home with numerous Robin Epstein and to catch up on their latest Austrian, German, and Japanese young people. Hope 1989 is going very well for everyone. As I activities. Nancy and her husband are looking Harris looks forward to our 50th class reunion. write this, it's still 19 8-certainly a wonderful ahead to retirement and are gearing up to the He credits Colby for giving him a new outlook on year for Ernest Rotenberg. Not only was he prospect by taking interesting trips each year. religion and pointing him toward his current named "Outstanding Trial Judge in the United That certainly ounds like fun preparation for the profession • Eugene C. Struckhoff lists his oc· States· by the American Bar Association, but also extra time retirement brings. except that so many cu pati on as "executive and consultant. l travel the he received the Haskell Freedman Award as 'the claim they re busier than ever. The difference l U.S. ( 10,000 miles a year) helping start and revital· judge who has done the most for marital law in guess, is that there are more options for what to ize community foundations -and meet interest· 1988." Asked what he would like me to relay to do with time! The Fergusons went on a wonder· ing people in scores of cities, states, and counties his Colby friends, he replied, "If near Attleboro, ful trip to jordan. Israel, and Egypt last winter and 1also internationally) who give leadership to im­ please say hello-and if you need help call recommend those countries as fascinating places prove their area.''He expresses pride in "encourag­ me!" • Sherwood Tarlow is another lawyer for tra,·el. Their three children live in New ing and helping over 50 community foundations among our classmates. Formerly a probatejudge Hampshire, Ohio, and Florida, and each has a son to succeed; being productive in helping to change he's a consultant to Bostons Capitol Bank where and daughter, so the grandparents enjoy tra\·el· and improve systems through which we help he used to be president and chair as well as chair ing in this country as well. :'\ancycontinue s to youth, aged, etc.'' Gene claims to have spotted 619 of the Global Bancorp in California • Floyd volunteer each week at the New England head· species of birds north of theMexican border in Harding is also a lawyer and serves as president quarters of Heifer Project Internationalin Rut· 35 years of bird watching with wife Norma. or· and dean of the Bar Association in Presque Isle. land. Mass.. and finds that her commitment to ma is also a portrait artist painting in pastels. His son Alan has been associated with him in his this project is very rewarding. Carol who still Their children are Eugene C. l1l and Laura Lee law practice for 10 years. Floyd plans to attend heads a unit to help pregnant teenagers. 1s a so· Struckhoff Cline '70. In November Gene traveled our 1990 reunion and looks forward to seeing cial worker for the Childrens Friend Society in

COLBY 27 \\'orceslcr illa��. Like Nancy, Carol enjoys \' isil- 111g her children and grandchildren. he has three granddaughters two nf \\'hOm li\'e nearby The third li\'CS 111 ii\1nne apoli�. where Carol visits her son Rob and h1� fa mily and her daughter Lois Her other daughter, Judy, li\'es in the Boston area, and her son Richard li\'eS with his family in Worcester • like and I also have been keeping up with our offspring, who are scattered in Mas­ sachusetts, New Yo rk, and D.C. We do manage lo get together fairly frequently and are looking for­ ward !al this writing) to our annual Thanksgiv­ ing reunion. Please write. We want lo share in your activities and idea r Class secretary: HAN AH KARP Ll\IP­ SON !Mrs. Myron R). 25 Pomona Rd., Worces­ ter, Mass. 01602.

This month's news will be a little nostalgic, as I've just come back from Colby. Embry and I went to A Novelist's Novelist Alumni Volunteer Leadership Weekend, which was combined with Homecoming this year. We had a great time. Friday night, the 23rd of Sep­ Thomas Savage '40 said, "I've seen three beautiful women in my life: one was a woman tember. was the class correspondents' dinner in St. John's Church in Boston who kept me from concentrating on church, another where we were given some ideas on how to be was a woman strolling the streets of Cambridge, and the third was Anne Chapman, better correspondents. Saturday was the Alum­ a woman I used to watch drive by in her family station wagon when I was 17 and ni Council meeting, dinner on the grounds, and the Colby-Trinity football game. I think we were walking the streets of Dylan, Montana." When Savage was a boy he lived on a ranch the good luck the team needed. Although they 45 miles from Dylan and had to board in town during the school year. He deems didn't win that game they have gone on to win this "a wonderful educational experience," and it seems that it was. The turn-of-the several since, including Bowdoin and Bales. We century town of Grayling in his 13th and latest novel, The Corner of Rife andPacif­ tailgated with Ray and "Tossie" Campbell ic, is based on Dylan, and Anne Chapman is the heroine. Kozen and saw Carol Carpenter Bisbee '49 and Dick and Dorie Meyer Hawkes at the game. The Publishers Wee kly listed the widely praised novel among the 15 best books of alumni banquet was that night. We sat with Caro­ 1988. The New Yo rk Times has called Savage "a novelist's novelist ...fasc inated by lyn and Ray Greene and Stan and Ellie Fa rn· the enormous influence of the past on the present:• Savage believes that books of­ ham Frolio A good time was had by all. The fer readers a new way of viewing the world but states his feeling about his work campus look wonderful and the new half­ million-dollar track is certainly an added attrac­ in simpler terms: "l feel absolutely useless unless I write:· tion. It was also enjoyable to visit the old home Back in the '30s in Montana, Savage heard that another beautiful Montana wom­ place in Poland Spring and visit one of my friends an was a student al Colby, and after a year and a half at the University he trans­ there. Also, the lobster is just as good as ever. I ferred. Elizabeth "Betty" Fitzgerald Savage '40, also a fiction writer, and To m Savage hope some of you plan to go back for will married in their junior year. The Savages have a daughter, Elizabeth St. Mark, and Homecoming another year • Mitch Jaworski wrote that he has been recuperating from a re· two sons, Robert '68 and Russell '70. cent operation, but he enjoys retirement in Plan­ Savage claims that Dean ErnestC. Marriner '13 was a major influence on his tation, Fla. He says he's no different from other original commitment to his work. The young writer was working on his first novel, retirees- he plays golf and enjoys the sunshine The Pass, and cutting many classes when the dean asked to see the manuscript over­ as well as doing some painting • Bill Crowther graduated May 1 from the training class of the night. The next day, said Savage, "He told me that as long as I did enough classwork Connecticut State Police as an auxiliary state to pass, I could continue to write and cut as many classes as I needed to. Dean Mar­ trooper and was assigned to T'roop G in Westport. riner first gave me the freedom that I needed to write:' In 1954 Colby awarded Sav­ Auxiliary troopers usually work one night a week age an honorary M.A., and in 1980 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has patrolling interstate and state highways. They taught at Brandeis University, Suffolk University, Vassar College, and Franconia also work at special events and in emergencies. In addition to this volunteer work, Bill does con­ College. sulting work in marketing communications and The freedoms of a successful writing career have recently allowed the Savages tries to get in at least a couple of hours a week to return to the West from their long-time home on Indian Point in Georgetown, flying a Piper Cherokee out of Bridgeport Airport. Maine, and they now live in Langley, Wash., on an island in Puget Sound. Langley He's also investigating the feasibility of starting up a specialized mail order business. Alice, his looks "like the town of a Western movie with two-story houses and the snow-covered wife, was certified in June by International Dance Cascade Mountains in the backdrop," Savage said, and it's the location for his next Exercise Association as an aerobics instructor. novel. The book has "nothing to do with anything I have ever written before. It's Her specialty is aerobic exercise for older folks not set in Cambridge or Montana but on the island, and it's contemporary:' and for people with moderate disabilities • If books give us a new way of viewing the world, Tom Savage's new novel will Many of you will be hearing from me later for my next report, so start thinking about all the news be well worth looking into. you will send me. WM Class secretary: JUNE CHIPMAN COAL­ SON, 129 Janelle Lane. Jacksonville, Fla. 32211.

28 COLBY issue. This is written late October for spring pub· decreased and that he \\'as tra,·eling more and lication, so plan accordingly. !any Happy Returns. enjoying it less- la\\' of diminishing returns. A Class secretary: KATH ARI E \VEISMAl'\' recent address change assure me that he made JAFFE. P.O. Box 113, \!ill River. Mass. 01244. Florida by 1987 according to plan • There is probably no retirement for a uccessful author. I expect Alvin Schwartz continues to \\'rite books. speak and research folklore. Ho\\' lad· mire anybody ,,·orking \\'ith \\'Ords'. • \!ickie 50 and H. Guy Smith parented a son and four girl (twin daughters included in that tallyl. By this writing Guv mav have retired as division con· 'f8-- , To all who read my fall class letter, be it known troller at Squibb.Corporation • "Skippy" Car· that I rescind my promise (threat) to nominate an­ 40th reunion, June 9·11, 1989 • At our re· ter chair oi the board and chief executi,·e officer other class correspondent this term. It has been union banquet in Mary Low Hall five years ago, at the William Carter Company has been reelect· exciting to hear from those who wrote. Now Bob Bedig admonished me to write down eve· ed to serve on the board of directors of the Ameri· what's with the rest of you? • Gordon Miller ry word spoken by our classmates for my first can Apparel l\lanufacturers Association and wrote his thanks to all for making our 40th great. column as class secretary. (I should have listened). currently serves on the member hip commit· As class prexy, he appreciated the help from all At a meeting for clas correspondents we were tee • Bob Sage. chair of the New England re· his officers and sends best wishes to the new reminded to return to the Alumni Office news gion of the American Committee for the slate. He says he's been retired almost seven clips about. notes from. and questionnaires com· Weizmann Institute of Science and national ,·ice years, is still married (so are lots of us, Gordon). pleted by our classmates. (I didn't always!. At a president, received the American Di�tinguished travels much, and boasts three children and four Volunteer Leadership Weekend workshop it was Leadership award. The Institute located in Re· grands dwelling from West Coast to New York pointed out that if classmates answered a request ho\'ot. Israel. was established in 1934 for the pur· state. More conscientious than most. me partic· for information and never saw that info published pose of basic and applied research. At present ularly, he tries to keep in shape via aerobics, nau· in the column they tended not to respond again. there are almost 100 research projects in fields tilus, golf, and watching what he eats and drinks. (! hould have been less selective). However, ranging from artificial intelligence solar energy Hail Gordon! say we whose health kick is much whereas this concludes my stint as secretary. and and cancer and autoimmune diseases to agricul· gentler • "Cy" Perkins, as those who talked ,,·hereas I am genetically disposed to save every· ture and lasers • "Honey" Hathawav Cherry with him at the fabulous 40th know is happily thing that comes into my house. and \\'hereas this at the im·itation of her Coilege and accompanied retired in Kennebunk, Maine, having served in is the last class column before our 40th reunion, by Peg Atkins 48, joined undergraduate alum· a personnel staff position at Portsmouth Naval be it resoh·ed that I, your class correspondent, ni. and tO\\'nspeople from 'v\'aterville to stroll Shipyard. After a brief stint in politics, he's now shall recap material received in that first success· about the Alfond Track following ribbon cutting involved with his five kids and their four kids as ful questionnaire of June 1985 that may be ceremonies during Homecoming Weekend. \\'hat well as Vets organizations. He and Jean 46 have deemed applicable to the moment • Philip a pleasant experience' Yes. dear colleagues. there a Colby 73 son (Malcolm James Perkins) near San Berquist. who retired from being retired, are you is still a Colbv Familv and \\'e are fortunate to be Francisco as well as two daughters in the Bay still appraising real estate and enjoying "many a part of it. · · Area.This makes them frequent fliers. Cy is a strong changes all good"? • It is safe to say that Bar· Class secretary: l\1ARY HATHA\o\'AY advocate for retirement with the luxury of doing bara Fransen Briggs in Cincinnati is still en· CHERRY 63 Indian Pond Rd. King ton l\lass. what one chooses. He did mention that Jean is re· thusiastic about any activity having to do with 02364 tired from teaching but still is working part time music (shades of Music Appreciation I and II). in a school library. • Another retiree, Gil Tav· Her comments just sang with enthusiasm and erner, wrote of his honorable and unusual rea· good humor • Ruth Endicott Freeman sang son for not attending our June Reunion: The praises for a good portable phone, which gave a Gilbert Y. Thverner Archives Room at St. George's busy physician a bit more yardage. Are you able School, Newport, R.I., was dedicated simultane· to find any more time lately for the gardening that ously with our 40th. Gil had been chaplain and you enjoy7 • Arthur Greeley, whose roots were At the time [am \\'riting this edition oi Class of a faculty member for a while, so he and his wife, always deep in laine, did you enjoy the in· '50 news, people around the S.A. are ca ting Bette, up and authored the school history. ow trospective life at Pemaquid Harbor as you their ballots for the presidential election. When moved to Concord, Mass., they are savoring their worked about your cottage? • Jeanne Hall: manv of us first voted for president the candi· less structured life • Fran Hyde Stephan hope your early retirement as a psychiatric social dates were Tr uman and De\\'ey in 1948. our jun· checked in with a nice note saying that she is not worker permitted you time for "self-fulfillment," ior year at Colby • Congratulations to Neil ready for complete retirement. John and she are smelling the flowers, and contemplating the Collar for being named Lion of the Year in Oak­ keeping busy in business, and she does volunteer "never written novel" exactly as you had antici· land. Maine. He was cited for his unselfish sen·· work, too. They live in New England, dreaming pated • Marty Bennett Headley. as a state Ii· ice to both the community and the Lions durino of the great weather in Va il, Colo. She owns up brary commissioner in New Hampshire, must his 29 years of club membership. He \\'as praised to something most of us do not. Describing her have brought her enthusiasm and energy to solv· for leadership of his Boy Scout troop and hi tire· community service with elders (i.e. older than ing some very serious growth problems of the less contributions to Lions projects • Bill Tip· she), she admits it's all relative and she's not tak· decade. She must have witnessed the expansion pens and his wife were recently honored on their ing too kindly to the later years. Personally, I'm of many libraries, overseen construction of new 40th wedding anniversary in Portsmouth N.H. enjoying these non-golden fleeting years • Also libraries, and worried about financing these Bill owned an insurance agency in J\lillinocket retired, Jack Kimpel outlined some highlights jewels of the community • Elizabeth Beamish J\laine. and since retirement has been invoh·ed from his "lost" life in the Social Security Adminis· Jolley last wrote on the eve of her departure for in real estate • During a recent Colby phone-a· !ration. His good news includes wife Fran Ben· Europe. I envision her still managing an adult thon, l had the opportunity to chat \\'ith "Doc" ner '49 still teaching fourth grade and four off· apartment complex in Orlando, Fla., keeping the Hamlin, and he reports that all is \\'ell in his area spring scattered from Philadelphia to Seattle and grounds in shape, weeding the flowers, pruning of t\!illinoc:ket • I recently talked with Priscil· points between, including their "son the doctor:· the shrubs, and planning her next trip la Tracey Tanguay who reports that she visit· Four grandchildren, too! Jack lost a run for may· abroad • A heart operation did not stop "Bud" ed with Chris \o\1interVe rrengia in Kingfield or but took it philosophically, having lost some Nannig from "starting his second life" with great 1\ laine, last summer. Joe Ve rrengia has retired golf games, too. However, he has not recovered enthusiasm and a business trip to Japan. Still and he and Chris are now living in Florida • as well from a ski run loss and describes a fash· walking three miles a day and too young to re· Ellie and l welcomed our first grandchild Wil· ion able limp from that '87 disaster. The Kimpels tire, Bud? • Charles A. Pearce, an alumni par· liam Paine Everts in October. A delightful career travel around to scattered kids and beyond, and ent, is active in community volunteer work and has begun! Please keep the card and letters com· Jack servPs on several community boards. In· travels a lot. (And not ju t between his two homes ing with your news of family and classmates. Best terestingly, he still exhibits some grief over Col· in Hingham, Mass., and Eastman, .H., I wager.) wishes. by's lost football games • That's all the news • Time has not tarnished the understatements Class secretary: NELSON "BUD" from Lake 40 Acres (Achers?) and '48ers, too. You of Karekin Sahagian, who professed that his EVERTS, P.O. Box 802. l eedham Hts. ,\ !ass. send the words ...and we'll include them, next "grumpie" personality increased as his temper 02 194.

COLBY 29 It is interesting to meet fL·llo\\' alumni ;rnd see to all tho e long-suffering spouses. good-natured what they are doing • Diane Sargent La rsen enough to allow themselves to be dragged along­ 1> living in jnLksom ille Bc lall'> ii t" ice} and two fore ign cnun­ you've been up to" The letter 1s signed "V.P. in lr1e' ShL Wil'> about to take lhl' �lor1da real C'>· Charge >f Happy Th ugh ts, Electra Pa skalides rh1� ilumn IS he1 ng perpt lratt.'J in the Cannell ' late exam I lope all went well and that she 1� Coumou A special thanks to Dick and Electra gul''>t hou�e 1 11 CapL'El i1abcth J\laine I 111 here u <,ellmg ioh 1>t propertie'> • Frn111 Wilmington for their comments • Congratulations lo Joan fo1 a bed and hreakfa�l \\'t.'L'kend and a Colby­ l'\.C Jeanne \\'hitc Simon \\ role that she hil'> Rooney Barnes for a job well done in raising B\1\HIP1n football game Huuah' The student alh­ her own craft galkry I lcr hu,band Lee, O\\ ll'> an S 18, 175 for the Alumnt Fund, with 49 percent ktes fn1m J\layflo\\'e r Hill have prevailed and eleLlroniL representative agency They h<1ve thrl'< class participation. Joan reports that she attend­ en·n though 1t ma\' be six months unttl you read Lhildren Debbie Barbara and Linda • Louilte ed a hOL1sewarming al Helen Koniares C leaves· thi'> the ,·ictoriciu� thra hing \\ tll still 11;deecl be ' Gintberg Hirshberg '' in California and 1s ct new home in Ya rmouth, l\\aine.She also notes eior Her children Garv that Mary Jane Fitzpatrick Cashman has and I \\'il�e�s the start of a ne\\' dynasty'.' Or will ' �man, Nancv jim and Bill are all gro\\'n up nnd moved from Chicago to Scarborough, Maine • a -1--1 record and the state series title mean an - doing terr1fi�· things he1ng thcmsch-c'> Louis� Harry O'Brasky has been appointed purchasing overcmphasi::.un football� Will we ha\'e lo scale gave up her _job \\ Ith Wa lt Disney tn go hchuol . ht.' no\\' has a ma>lcr ' degree 111 clinical ;\las a men·s off-price. brand name retail ta ilgat 1 11g in the p1ney woods of the Polar Bear huJ1,l1L health and rcallv c· niov'> her chain • Chuck Spencer lives in the foothills is still a most plea�anl way to greet old friends and \\'nrk • Stephen Kenyon live·, in Ridgcwoml \\est of Denver Colo. and spent a busy summer classmates. And yes. Pacy and L ud y can be seen NJ with his w1ie Helen HL I> production >U· boatmg on Lake Powell in Utah, Lake Connoughy cavorting along the sidelines during the pen l'>u> • A> I am fast run­ in Nebraska (met Gwen [VanEerden] 55 and game • A cheery letter arrived from May Rick­ . ning out nf till ne,, , that Don llailcr ga\'l' me Dana Andersen there) and Lake Granbey in er Stone reporti ng the many acl1v1l1es of her I am hopmg lo h.t\'l' the College >end out a ne\\' Colorado. Quite a life' He wrote· "l have been happy family pnclud1ng grandchildren! 111 Wood­ LJ UL'>lion na 1 rl' form I hope \'Ou ha\'e all re<,pond· working in Hungary on an oil and gas explora­ bridge \'a l\1ore details next time • Al o heard cd 1f \'nu ha' L rece 1 \'Cd 1t l'Jca.,etin send soml' tion project for the World Bank. Sorry Joyce from Charlie Fisher 1 11 Clearwater Fla . I · ne\\-, I know vour ne\\'� I'>>ome,d1at dated when (Whitham 5-1} and l mis ed the reunion· • Bruce thought he \\'anted Lo exult in the election ' iLto­ 1t appear> bu.l Ll5111ale\dn l1kl' to hear about J\.lcRoy is operat1om director for the :\'ashFinch ry of George and Dan but alas. as defrocked other cla>.,mates Co. 111 Rockv Mount :'\ C He has a new grand­ brothers I am not sure that he and I can ever re­ Clas secretary: Bt\RBt\ RA BO!\'E daughter .�manda l\lcRoy • Sally Baines join them in the mystic circle. Perhaps l\\oose LEA\'ITT 21 Indian Tratl Scituate 1\ lass. 020fi6 Howard reported that she is a "teacher (English should start a sun belt chapter for Dekes '' 1thout computer sludie> business 9-121 in Freemonl portfolio. \\'htle carrying out his regular job a� Calif. Ha\'e purchased my retirement home. I'll criminal investigator for the stale oi Flori­ be there 111 93 for our 40th • Phil Hussey s da • Jim 53 and Jeanne Wilke Christie '52 ha,·e youngest son Richard is a enior at Colby • mm·ed into a new home in Lake Placid 0:.Y. They Rev Robert Dow recently moved back lo Maine ha,·e been invoked in several successful venture.s and ha opened a small pastoral counseling cen­ • and are now doing business brokerage At a re­ ter in aco • Joan hea Conroy is retired from cent Colb\' dinner I met Pa tricia Anderson counseling and is li\'ing in Slidell La "Heart prob­ Ebinger, �till Ji,·ing in Rowley J\1ass Another A letter from Clas� Pre 1denl Dick Hobart: Over lems have required long hospitalization she said. busy lady she travels exten 1vely with husband the past 35 years. most of us Class of 53 ur.wors I hope all is going well now • Our tar performer Fred and help him in the leather bu iness IL have been reasonabh· trnceable because \\·e had oi Colby Bnck fame Marty Friedlaender met eem that Patty life has taken a happy turnand lo pay a mortgagL' r�ise a family or olherwi e with Chuck and " andy" Pearson Anderson it show • Deborah Smith Meigs wrote that make some form of recognizable 11\'lng Now and Carolyn English Caci last summer lo talk her work as a librarian no\\' includes Danville many of your cla smates find themselves closer O\ er old times • Elaine Zervas Stamas trav­ �.H., as well as South Hampton where ,he has to the brink of another great experiment - eled with the New York Philharmonic on their ser\'ed for 27 year Her daughter Ellen 8 someth111g that s been callecl "the Golden Year three-week 198 tour of Europe. Her husband is graduated with honors in sociology and awards which are not to be confused with 011 Golden president of the Philharmonic The tour took for the mo t ,•aluable player on the women's su­ Po nd, \\'hich was also good fiction In any case them to Athen with exciting performances at the per softball team • Please keep up your interest­ it can mean trading in the 9 to 5 routine that ha ancient outdoor theater at the Acropolis. Anoth­ i ng notes and calls. The next I 0 respondents will run our lives for the last third of a century for a er highlight was concerts in East and West Ber· receive free passes for lifetime crossings of the less time-dictated existence. Or 1t can mean starl­ Jin. They also had a two-week tour of Leningrad 1\vo Penny Bridge. ing that second or third career You know the one and /\loscow during the June Summit meet· Class secretary: \<\1ARRE ']. FIN EGA ' you alway wanted to have. but economic need ing • Im out of space . . but start planning to 8 While Pine Knoll Wayland, l\lass 01778. kept gett111g in the \\'ay. Well. regardless of what attend our 40Lh scenario fate has in mind for us I hope you \\·ill Clas secretarv: ELSO BEVERI DGE, let your class officers become the catalyst and 134 Border St .. Col;asset Mass. 02025. pipeline by which we keep track of each other over the next five years until our next reunion. Those of you "'ho returnedto these gatherings over the years ha,·e left genuinely pleased and happy for the experience. And why not? We had a pretty great group of people in our class. So, Hello to all' I understand from the Alumni Of­ enough from this wage slave and more from the fice that the booklet we made for the reunion has person who will truly be the glue that binds us been sent out to the class members who did not together until next time on Mayflower Hill, your class secretary. elson Beveridge" • And from s'i------35th reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • I gotcha with at lend. Thu . I have been trying to give informa­ tion about those of the class who were not includ­ our vice president. . '"Hello again; lo everyone direct mail, now I gotcha with magazine adver­ ed in the booklet • I did see Betsey Smart who showed up for our 35th reunion. Hard to be­ tising. TV is too expensive for us. My next option Merriam last winter. She looked great and is tak­ lieve that it's really been that long. Everyone is sky writing. 1 need 15 AROTCpilots who still ing courses al Lesley College • I am still teach­ looked terrific1 -That's what four formative years remember how Lo fly airplanes to volunteer. We ing fourth grade in Scituate and still love my job. spent on the wind-swept slopes of Mayflower Hill will meet December 25th at noon at Lefleur Air­ This year I was appointed science curriculum do foryou. 'Sorry we missed you, to all those who port in Waterville. My plan is to work westward leader for my school. On one of our science out­ couldn't make it. Begin now to think positively through January and February. Only pilots who received an "Pt in penmanship need apply. When i ng I went Lo the Hingham Wildlife Center and about our 40Lh reunion in 1993 - yes, you'll still found out that the young man who was running be strong enough to make it by then - remember you are enjoying your favorite winter sport, i.e., it was Rick Horton '77. We had a nice Colby chat. those four formative years! 'Thanks for joining us: skiing, skating, or shoveling, keep one eye on the

30 COLBY sky. The follo\\·ing are already shoo·ins: Susan Johnson Abbott Rice "Jake" Peirson Art Rothenberg Art Eddy Lindon Christie . ick Sarris Harold Krieger Trudy Humme!Jeffer· son . and William "Super" Ganem who wrote. 1 ll volunteer for anvthin you need. It sure 1s nice to know that g�eat gu;· stay great guys • Bob Alpert cannot make 1t as he will be in Australia. \\'ord has it that he's auditionin� for the lead in Crocod1/e D1111d<'elII He promi ;rl to be at our -Wth reunion where he will raffle off Linda Kozlowski • \Ve have had one request for space to park a camper. The one we are looking for is the classmate who needs a heliport • \\ill someone please call Bob and Joan Hall Parker and urge them to attend I cant tand the thought of being the only celebrity Class president: CHARLES J. \\'l :'\D· HORST 366 Ocean Drive Stamford Conn 06902.

To Write and To Right

"I never wanted one of my kids to say, 'What did you do?' The only answer was to Classmates: News is sparse. We do want to hear do it:' Louise Davis Stone '53 speaks matter-of-factly about involvement in local from you. You will be receiving a questionnaire from Colby soon. We do hope you will take the Philadelphia projects, work in ward level politics, and over 30 years of volunteer­ time to send us your news • Luckily 1for the ing in black communities. A strong desire to "improve things" and help people led column) Barbara Ayers Haslams youngest Stone to major in sociology at Colby and begin a master's degree in social work at daughter wa married in September. Among the Columbia. But almost immediately her career veered off into writing and editing; guests were Peter and Sue Capen Stutts who the projects shifted to her spare time, although they engross her still. came from New Canaan, Conn. where the\· hm·e been living for a few years nO\\'. I still m1�s see· To day Stone is director of publications at the University of Delaware. With a ing you at the library and Grand Union, Susie and staff of 10, her office has state-of-the-art computer equipment and 68,000 readers Peter' Dottie Dunn Northcott and her husband for its publications, which range from admissions literature through development who have returned from more than two years in material to stationery for university offices. Her office staff, who are often hired Japan, also came to the wedding. The Northcotts ha\·e ret11rnedto Connecticut. Other guests were with a special aptitude, usually wind up learning every stage of production: art work, Barbara Burg King and her husband Frank. proofreading, writing, layout. Sc edule is priority, and Stone has resorted to enlist­ The Haslam wedding sounds like a mini-reun10n ing her own family for writing or design help when a deadline looms unmet. Artic­ for the Class of 1955 • Set and I were in i\laine ulate and soft-spoken, she says wryly, "I can be very Machiavellian - I will do recently and visited David and Ruth le Donald anything to get the publications out on time:· Roberts. David and Ruth took us on a "guided tour of Colby's new outdoor track. lt is a beauti· Stone has done free-lance work ever since she left Colby. A lifelong passion for ful addition to Colby's athletic facilities. David jazz and black theater led to years as theater critic and jazz columnist for several told us that it is surfaced the same as the track newspapers, including the Wa shington Post. She was raised on the campus of Hamp­ used in Seoul for the 1988 Olympics. We then ton Institute in Virginia where her father was dean, and a memory of jazz and clas­ visited the Student Center which we had not seen, and met Amy Greene ·39 daughter of Ka­ sical music luminaries at the school in those years made a lasting impression. "I grew thy and Minot Greene. It was a pleasure to meet up on Fats Waller, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson," she said. "I remember my Arny. Minot • While gathering my material for mother driving him to a segregated barbershop off campus for a haircut:' Stone and this column, I came upon a clipping that CoJb,· her sister, Jennie Davis Brown '55, came to Colby through the interest of Hilda Fife had sent me in December 1985. Since I am writ· ing this article in mid- ovember it seems some· '26, an English teacher in Hampton Institute summer school and a friend of their what appropriate to see a picture oi Judi Lee parents. The girls also graduated from Fryeburg (Maine) Academy, the first black Holtz Levow of Weston, lass.. trimming a students in the school's history. Christmas tree that she had decorated for a ben­ Stone lives in Philadelphia and commutes daily to Newark, Del. It's easier, she efit for Children's Hospital. I quote from the ar· says, than fighting the cross-town Philadelphia traffic as she did when she was as­ ticle: "For Levow Interiors. also of Weston the wealth of Christmas spirit is in Ah Wilderne sociate director of publications at the University of Pennsylvania. Her son, Charles, [as Judy's tree was named] a four.foot tree done a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, works in New Yo rk City. mostly in reds:· The tree was decorated with He and his sister Krishna earn their livings otherwise and train for the stage in their cardinals, red and white velvet ribbons. apples free time. Middle daughter Allegra, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, cranberries. and pine cones. How beautiful it sounds. I'm addened to add that Judi lost her hus is a nurse-specialist in oncology in Philadelphia. · band Barry '54, last August. We all send her our These days Stone does free-lance newsletters for the Writer's Wordshop in Har­ condolences • Although this column will not ap· risburg, is publicity person for Bushfire Theater and the Brandywine Workshop, pear before the holidays, I wish you all a happy and is a consultant in the arts for numerous minority groups, a still satisfying use healthy holiday season, and a happy. healthy of h�r "free time:' It's work she'll continue to do. 1989. Just think1 In June 1989, it will be 34 years for the Class of 1955. NFW Class secretary: SUE Bl\'E 1 STAPLES (Mrs. Sheldon C.J. 430 Lyons Rd. Liberty Corner l .J. 07938

COLBY 31 hiked INN to IN in New Hampshire this past port of Colby! • ot to be overlooked in this re­ summer • Keep those questionnaire� coming - I gard is Susan Fairchild Bean. Active in Hartford I ve Colby mail' area alumni events, she attends seminars on Clas scnetary: HOPE PA LMER BRAM­ planned giving and also does interviews for the HALL (Mrs. Peter TC.), One Meadow Creek College admissions department. Susan has three Lane. Falmouth Foresicle Maine 041 05. children Dave is a helicopter pilot instructor on the West Coast. Kristin, also on the West Coast. is the owner of a publishing company for an art

__ gallery Youngest daughter Gretchen graduated from Colby in 1986 • It was great seeing Eli As56 your class correspondent, I had occasion lo go "Marty" Martin last year. Marty looks terrific back lo our alma mater in September for the pro­ and sends his best to those he missed seeing at ,·erbial " hot in the arm" lo fi nd out what work the reunion He is working for the Insurance As­ in eliciting responses from classmates-a chal­ If you folks are anything like me, the arrival of sociation of Connecticut and lives in Glaston­ le nge, at best' A second trip at theend of October the Colby magazine in your mailbox is a source bury • I've exhausted my notes from you folks, with our oldest (of four daughters). Faith '81, of pleasure for two reasons First, the class so future columns will depend on your help. I'll reconfirmed my earlier impressions. The new columns bring us up to elate on many of our Col­ be calling or writing some of you in the coming Student Center seems to be a place of activity. Per­ lege friend . and second, I know I have an eve­ months so we can continue this treasure trove of haps the best thing that has happened, however, ning of interesting and enjoyable reading ahead. information. If you could drop me a card or a call i that the campus seems lo be more cohesive, My apology, therefore. is genuine for having unsolicited, it would be much appreciated. That's since the road that formerly divided the campus missed getting a column in for the last issue • all, folks between the Chapel and J\liller Library has been John Conkling's PR man is doing a great job. Class secretary: BRIA F. O LSEN. 46 grassed over. Also good news - in the words of the I have no less than five newspaper articles 1n front Washington Drive, Acton, Mass. OJ 720. Portland Sunday Te legram -is that "the transition of me concerning his lofty tat us 1n the real es­ period is over for the football team al Colby Col­ tate appraiser s field. John is currently president lege.' The J\lules started the season with a L-23 of New England AJ praisal Co. and of Conkling record over the past three years but fini hed al Real Estate Agency. Recently he was awarded the -1--4,winn ers of three consecutive games, includ· professi nal designation of senior residential ap· ing a decisive 24-0 victory over Bowdoin to win praiser by the board of governors of the Interna­ the CBB title. It had been 55 years since Colby tional Society of Real Estate Appraisers. John and shut out Bowdoin, and 29 years since we won at Nancy have three sons Robert the younge l, Whittier Field. lt was wonderful to see the Colby graduates from ew Hampton this year; John Jr.. Thanksgiving 88 is upon us as I write this spring turnout and enthusia m-pulting a spar e home graduated from New Hampshire College and is column l\-lyth anks for hearing from so many of crowd lo shame. Needless to say, my husband a builder-developer in Connecticut; Sam gradu­ you. Adjusting to the empty nest, children mar­ Peter (Bowdoin '56). was very quiet on the way ates this year from Colby • David Olsen, an in­ rying. and the arrival of grandchildren are ma­ home' IL was fun to see Ann Dillingham Ingra­ surance underv.•riler, has joined Preferred 1'v1 utual jor roles in your Jives • Frank and Ellen ham '55 and Jane Millett Dornish'55 and her hus· Insurance of Ne'' Berlin NY as field represen­ Cowperthwaite after much travel with a busy band, Karl '54 • Bill Haggett, chair of Bath Iron tative for Connecticut and Rhode Island • Jan­ military career, say the Washington. D.C. area is Works, has been in the spotlight lately. He has ice Thomson Chri tcnsen wrote that she has an exciting place to live. Frank is a real estate bro­ successfully negotiated an 85 percent reduction been li\·ing in East Lyme. Conn.. for 27 years, and ker. As empty nesters, they still enjoy traveling. in fines levied against BIW by OSHA by a will­ she and husband Howard have five children, two He has seen Carlos Davila and Nat Adams at ingness to accept a settlement and drop legal chal­ boys and three girls. The three oldest are gradu­ Colby events. al, as senior editor for Reader's Di­ lenges to the fines. Bill has announced that the ates of the University of Vermont, one is at the gest, has investigative assignments that focus on company is providmg $50,000 in "seed money" to University of Connecticut, and the youngest 1s international traffic in drugs, Middle East poli­ establish a training program for safety inspectors still at home. Janice earned her M.Ed at Boston tics, and terrorism. He appeared on the "Today" at the Central Maine Vocational Technical lnsti· University right after Colby, taught elementary show and before Congress - and saw Tony Kal­ tute. Although not a part of the settlement, the school for three years, is a volunteer for the East loch on a flight from Bogota • Douglas and program i a positive and creative response to Lyme Nursing Association, and was a six-year Cynthia Gardner Bevin's daughter was married OSHA. BTW is a major contractor for the avy's Girl Seoul leader • Sally Dixon Hartin and in Portland, Maine. last November. Cindy said Aegis cruiser and destroyer programs and is the husband Ed also have five children. The three Kay Litchfield Cross and Dick and Robin state's largest private employer. with more than girls and one of the boys are now all out of col­ Hunter Clutz were there to get her through the 10,000 workers. A classmate in a truly responsi­ lege. and the youngest is a junior at U. lass at occasion. (The Bevins live in Johnstown, Pa.!) • ble position, doing a great JOb1 • It was fun to Amherst. Sally is a real tor in the greater Spring· Jorge and Ellie Fortenbaugh de la Bandera, in hear from a "gal on the go;· Janet Nordgren field area, and she and her family spend a good celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mcryweather. Although husband Steen's chil­ part of the summer in Barnstable Village on Cape traveled to Ta hiti. Ellie is a court interpreter, dren have produced five grandchildren, Jan now Cod • eed to buy a fence? Don Bishop is translator/terminologist. In 1987 she was one of proudly boasts one of her own. Jan writes. "What president and owner of the l\-laineFence Co.. four persons to pass, on a first attempt, the cer­ a joy to have Jennie livingjust an hour away.'' She Pittsfield, Maine, and of Maine Fence Distribu­ tification examination of the Administrative was baptized by Father Bob Raymond. Now tors, Stoughton, Mass. Don and his wife, Gerry. Office of the United States Courts for Spanish/ that Jan and Steen have successfully reared six have two children and three grandchildren • English court interpreting. She was one of 15 na­ children, all married and leading productive lives, Another president from our class! John Came­ tionwide to pass the oral exam. Since 1978, of the she finds herself busier than ever. In addition to ron, chair of the English Department at Dana 8,295 attempting the exam, 307 have been certi­ holding two part-time jobs (four days a weekJ. Jan Hall School in We llesley, Mass.. has been elected fied • John Baxter, an educator, retires this is looking forward to next June when she will as­ president of the New England Association of June. Last August a feature article was written sume the presidency of the Garden Club Feder­ Te achers of English, the oldest such organization about John in the Providence journal concerning ation of Maine for a two-year term. She has served in the U.S. John also lives in Wellesley • Our retirement from the education field. The reporter on the board of the Bangor Symphony Women class president, Ellie Shorey Harris, works in was a former student! • John and Valerie Edes since its inception 20 year ago. Each winter, that the employee relations department of Stratus are also in Rhode Island. John's thoughts on see­ Florida sun beckons, and Jan and Steen enjoy two Computer. Ellie is married to Joel Harris, U.N .H. ing us at our 30th?__c'Seeingmy classmates getting months in Captiva and Sanibel • Great to hear '53, and they have three children: Joel, Colby '81, old and I didn't:' Shall we take that? 1\vo folks, from Joan Wyckoff Olsen! Joan and "o riginal isa broker with Tucker Anthony in Portland; Jen­ who will remain nameless. said they thought husband" have raised three kids and are looking ny is a graduate of Plymouth State College and the gals were far better preserved than the forward to a trip to Australia to visit daughter and is a graphic artist; Jim is a rock drummer and stu­ guys! • Bruce Blanchard said we'd be proud grandchildren. Sounds exciting' Joan has no dent at Plymouth State. Ellie deserves our thanks of how well he's adjusted to retirement (as he is thoughts of retirement from her job of I 6 years. for her work on the Alumni Council for fiveyears developing a new company). But we'd be "disgust­ She is staying young and active and keeps mov­ and all her work in preparing for the reunion in ed at my behavior as a grandfather- described ing, teaching second graders. She loves hiking and 1987. Ellie is tireless and unwavering in her sup- best as a slobbering idiot:' I'm sure that goes for

32 COLBY all you grandpas1 • Glen Goffin is also retired York • Is a medical social worker in Oregon • Sydney for at least three years, John and Diane (USAF lieutenant colonel). He has received a na­ Took a three-week tour of northern Japan to vi - plan to house exchange "Down Un­ tional poetryaward and had several short stories it craftspeople and folk artists • Runs corporate der" • Richard Gibbs has moved to Houston, published. He also received an honorable men­ track meets • Writes historical fiction at Tex., i a partner in Te xport Oil Company-an oil tion from the Florida Department of Consumer home • Never thought he'd be a jet fighter pilot, trading business -and is now di\'orced. He enjoys Affairs. Read his letter in the fall issue of the Colby world traveler, and international business­ skiing (in Texas?). golf, playing \\'ith kids and magazine • 1\vo of our classmates spent time man • Said there was "little in my head" when travel • Virginia Wriggins Hochella (domes­ teaching at Harvard. Peter Doran, Ph.D., was a she left Colby • Left Colby for California but has tic engineer for the Hochella household in Med­ visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public a summer cottage on the Cape • ls a Colby in­ way, Mass.) has been volunteering \\·eekly for a Health; Ruth Winterbottom Peacock taught terviewer and Jan Plan hostess but hasn't had a biology teacher, helping to set up a new library English during the summer • Sara Stewart taker • Has a four-year-old • Is program direct­ for the Middle School. and helping husband :'\or­ Johnson, a teacher of high school journalism and or of National Maritime Museum • ls an FAA man handle tickets for the Wellesley Symphon\' English, traveled to Scotland last summer work­ safety inspector • Works for H&R Block • Orchestra. (Norman plays tuba.I She enjoys be­ ing on a University of California at Berkeley team None of the above • The answers are: Bailey, ing involved with the Medway Historical Com­ to gather folklore from the Scots. She had a Belcher, Bendelius, Boehm, Brooks, Bruce, mission and Society, the Arts Lottery Council and chance to meet many native folk while gather­ Burt, Chapin, Ch urch, Cleaves, Colman, Open Spaces Committee. She also dabbles in ing folk tales and ballads • Sheila Tunnock Crockett, Cronk, Egan, Frank, Fetherston, stained glass, keeps honey bees, gardens, and Cox says that three years ago she became a grand­ Gay, Goldschmidt, Goodman, Hagerman, reads a lot. She confesses to being a true Maini­ mother one day and the next started a 15-month Hay, Holt, Kimball, Landry, LaVe rdiere, Laza­ ac at heart and shares a cottage with her brother program at Boulder School of Massage Therapy. rus, Levine, Little, Longley, Metcalf, Metcalf, and sister in South Bristol on the coast. And since She now has a private practice and does massage Orth, Pallotta, Plunkett, Rand, Ranlett, her parents retired to Damariscotta 1ills she vis­ at a facial salon, a retirement center, and a Reichert, Reilly, Sandquist, Seebode, Segrave, its there as often as possible • William Byers chiropractor's office. What a change from medi­ Stockwell, Tamaccio, Tolette, Worster, and sent an update from Tolland, Conn. He did get to cal research for 27 years. But she has time to ski, Yo unes. Good luck. Should you decide to accept visit with Norm Macartney in Katonah N.Y. ­ raft, canoe, and scuba dive • Jim '56 and Ann this mission and if I don't self-destruct, there may during a blizzard in January 1987-but Bill didn t Harding Jamieson had enough excitement and even be a prize for the Colby 30th "reuner" with tell us what Norm was up to. (Norm, what s hap­ nail-biting during Jim's 24 years of Air Force serv­ the most correct answers. pening?) Bill enjoys hiking. traveling, landscap­ ice. They are enjoying the calm (comparatively Class secretary: KAY GERMA DEA ing/gardening, personal photography, and skiing. speaking) of retirement, awaiting their third 295 Pierce St. Leominster, J\lass. 01453. However, his current Ph.D. work in instruction­ grandchild • Sandy Doolittle Hunt, along al technology at U. Conn. does get in the way of with being a psychiatric social worker, opened an these pleasures. After his photographic illustra­ antique shop that she finds very fulfilling • Al tions were published in Mark Lindquist's success­ Dean, with the hectic challenge of opening a new ful book Sculpting Wood: Contemporar)! To ols and business, had his appendix burst last fall-10 min­ Te chniques, Bill has another book project, this utes off the Maine Turnpike in Lewiston. His time working with fused glass. techniques. and thanks go to the staff at the Maine Medical __ products. He is also a member of the board of Center-and ours that he's OK • Keep the news 60 directors of the Connecticut chapter of the Inter­ The Class of '60 is keeping up the Colby tradition. coming, friends. It's wonderful hearing from you. national Te levision Association, an organization At last fall's Parents Weekend I talked with Jane Just think, four years until our 35th. that promotes the skilled use of TV or video in Holden H uerta, Anne Impy Reed, and Lee Class secretary: A DRIA PEACOCK Zinman, who all have sons in the current fresh­ business, industry education, and other non­ KIME, 737 Turnpike St., Stoughton, Mass. 02072. broadcast settings. And he is still teaching pho­ man class ('92) • Bev Johnson Arnett is the manager of the Marlboro, Mass., branch of the tography and TV production as a professor at Registry of Motor Ve hicles, one of 35 in the state. Worcester State College in Worcester She had previously taught and consulted for com­ lass. • Gale Holtz Golden went to Bryn puter operations services and has worked in state Mawr College after Colby and then on to Syra­ cuse University. Gale moved to Burlington. Vt., management for the last eight years • Dick Hil­ ton owns an herb shop, Herbal Effect, in Mon­ six years ago and really loves it. She has a private terey, Calif. He and his "bride of four years" practice in sex and marital therapy and is clini­ 30th reunion: June 9-11, 1989 • Reunion celebrated his 50th birthday in the Rockies in cal assistant professor of psychiatry at Universi­ weekend is fast approaching and you've got to ty of Ve rmont Medical College. She said it was Colorado • Don't forget to send me some news, come if only to find out how your committee of so you can appear here in print. great to see JoAnn Gannt after more than 25 Mclntoshes, Kopchainses, Pallottas, and Gays . year • Vaughn J. Howland wrote from Class secretary: BEVERLY JACKSON manages to please some of the people some of the Bethesda, Md., that he returned to school in 1983 G LOCKLER (Mrs. Anthony S.). 39 Whippoorwill time. Responses to our questionnaires were so and received a master's of social work degree in Way, Belle Mead, .J. 08502. all-over-the-place that we should name this gath­ 1985. Now he is in private practice, specializing ering bird-shot. The other reason is to get the an­ in alcohol and drug abuse. His wife, Mary Deems swers to the following pop quiz. Guess who: Uses Howland '62, is professor of English at the U.S. MADD return address stickers (two people) • aval Academy. Their two children are now out Quit work to begin life at 50 as a free-lance writ­ on their own • Beverley H. Lapham still lists er • Is a VP at CBS • Lived in Belgium for four his occupation as a banker (executive vice presi­ years • After 28 years with United Airlines drew ____ dent, Skaneateles Savings Bank). But his news happy faces • Sings at Carnegie Hall and Lin­ 6J was that he and Liz !Rowe '63) continue to expand coln Center each December • Works in insur­ Carol Davidson Jack wrote from Hopewell their Change-d-Pace Farm enterprises, adding ance (three) • Hunts heads • Works for her Junction, N.Y., that the family flew out to Palos maple syrup and honey production, dried flow­ kids collecting "Warbirds" in a museum • Re­ Verdes, Calif., for daughter Diane's wedding last er sales, and cut-your-own Christmas trees • tired (three) • Has been living in Peru since May at the Swedenborg Glass Chapel. Carol en­ Ulrich and Diana Sherman Luth live in Pitts­ '79 • Are students (two) • Visited the Soviet joys skiing in ew England, camping and travel­ burgh, Pa. Their elder son (of two) chose Colby Union as part of a peace contingency • Had sons ing, and spending time at their cabin in Rangeley, after touring many campuses and began his fresh­ at Deerfield at the same time (two) • Left Ha­ Maine • 1 received an exotic postcard in early man year last September. Diana wrote that she waii for orthern California and returned to Ha­ May 1988 from the Cook Islands, where Diane is always reading and compiling files on where waii • Soars in little airplanes with no engines, Scrafton Ferreira was spending a week unwind­ she would like to vacation with the family. They riding thermals like eagles • Had a private tour ing in Rarotonga and Aitutaki. She says the ho­ get to 1 ew England annually and hate to see all of the White House • Rents out uniforms and tels and bars are right out of Somerset Maugham the congestion and growth at what used to be linens and dry cleans in Maine • Was a Guggen­ and totally unspoiled. Diane was appointed a peaceful vacation spots • Thanks, classmates· heim Fellow in Switzerland • Calls his wife First community scholar for the state library system keep it up1 Lady • ls involved in investing (two) • Owns under a grant from the National Committee for Class secretary: EDWIN "NED" GO\V stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New the Humanities. With her sister Lee's move to RFD Box 395 Canaan, Conn. 06018

COLBY 33 Tlvo of our mi-,;ing tla�smates responded to my questionnaire along with 35 others • Our clas president in 1962, Pe ter Duggan, wrote from Columbu�. Ohio. where he is group vice pre�1- dent oi Borden Snack . Borden, Inc. Pelt> missed the 2:ithbecause oi conflicts but sent along pic­ tures of a nautical trip on the Seacoml>er circa 1959 or 1960. The "sailors" included Bi II Pye, Graham Barkham Bruce Marshall, Steve Thompson '63, and Jim Ya lhouli '64. Pele asks. "\Vhere is my old fraternity brother. Pete Thom pso n , from Houlton, 1\\ame�· • Also reporting in wa Priscilla Gwyn Maulsby, now "retired" in Southbury. Conn., where she and hus­ band Dick are "living happily ever after on a small fa rm " raising horse . and planning to drive to the Yucatan to do l\1ayanrui ns. Her twm children are grown and independent Daughter Ann Wis\,•all Larson teaches journalism lo 1\ \arine Corp resl'r· The Golden Age of Discovery visls while on Chip Wiswall is pursuing an J\1. Litt degree al St. Andrews in Scotland • John "In my day it was odd if you weren't an English or history major, but my choice of Chapman requ ested delivery of the fol lowing message: "Thanks due lo Bill Barnell who biology as a major was the right one for me;· said Charles C. Leighton '60 - "the field jumped through ho ps to get u four tickets to Les exploded." Biology certainly was the right choice for Leighton, who recently was J\I1serables last year after we tal ked about our act­ promoted to senior vice president of medical and regulatory affairs worldwide at ing ia mily at the reunion. john's oldest son, Bri­ lerck Sharp & Dahme Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa. • an, is attending l\\IT Ne"· marriages were Leighton joined Merck Sharp & Dahme in 1965 and became a senior director reported by Elizabeth Conley Clagett and by John Crowell '63. Liz says. "l was married 1aga111J in the medical affairs area in 1971. ow responsible for the company's research in on July 4, 1988, and the fireworks are still going drugs and vaccines in the worldwide search for new, more advanced medications, off'' Her "super husband" i Galen Clagett, a con­ his work lakes him lo Europe, South America, and the Far East. "We are in the golden sultant involved in real estate. who wooed and age of discovery in curative drugs," Leighton said. "I feel very fortunate to be able won our Frederick, 1\ld.,English teacher after her lo participate in these developments." 14 years as a divorced mother of two daughters. john says he is in his "mid-life" crisis and has During his undergraduate years, Leighton was active in campus life as presi­ decided to leave banking after 17years to become dent of Pi Lambda Phi fraternityand member of the Student Council and the Intra­ a "fisherman, etc" in the Barnstable, Mass . area. FraternilyCounci l. His academic achievements were recognized with the Blue Key His remarriage to wife Sheila increases their fam­ award, membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and a Rhodes Scholar candidacy. Upon ily size to seven, with three daughters and two stepchildren. Message from john: "Hi, Trucks. graduating cum /aude from Colby, he earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School Remember the '38 Pontiac?" • Our original '62 and then completed his internshipat the University of Minnesota. He also had re­ vice president. Jimmy Johnson, was also heard search fellowships in biology al Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, in psy­ ir om. His return was full of news of other class­ chiatry at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and in pharmacology at the mates. Some samplings -''Trip to Hawaii in Harvard Medical School. Leighton was interested in medicine even before he at­ March; saw Connie Fournier Thomas and Di­ ane Scrafton Ferreira '6 1." A group of Tau Del ts tended the College and remarked of his undergraduate education, "it was a great who got together al the Officers Club at Hanscom four years al Colby, a great education and preparation for life. [And] that wonder­ Air Force Base in December included Phil ful Maine environment develops a love of the outdoors that you never lose'.' Gregorio. Bill Chase. Al Weller, Ed Kyle, Dick Apart from his work at Merck Sharp & Dohme, Leighton finds time to be ac­ Vacco, "Bucky" Malsch , Al cigher, and Jim­ my. Guess who shut the bar down? • Our pres­ tive in a number of medical and professional groups, including the American As­ ent vice president, Peter Leofanti, sent news of sociation for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association, the " a lifelong dream that became a reality. I took the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the Drug In­ 1987-88 school year off and traveled around the formation Association, of which he is currently president. He was also an alumni world. The effects are too many to mention and interviewer for Colby for 20 years and enjoys keeping ties with the College through too complex to fully understand yet:•Jay French and Te rry Mac Lean and their families met Peter Philadelphia club activities as well as class reunions. He most recently visited the in Italy for 10 days in July for a mini-European campus last fall with his son, Christopher, who is in the process of choosing a col­ DKE tour • l'm going lo run out of column space lege. His family also includes his wife, Pamela, and his two daughters, Wendy and before I run out of news. so look for your name Kristine. next time. I saw Peter Jaffe at Homecoming al Of his life Leighton said, "l feel I have been very lucky. I have a wonderful family, Colby and Pele reported a job change after 25 years in a large corporate setting. He has taken I had a wonderful education, and I'm grateful for the chance to contribute to a position in the small brokerage firm of Marshall humanity:· Poverman, husband of Jill Francis Poverman , and sees Noemi Sanchez Corso 1n Florida when LHT vacationing with the Povermans • A final news clip received. Ron Ryan has been named vice

34 COLBY president of the Philadelphia Flyers. Most recent­ who recently moved to Boston from Chicago. Al­ Husband 1\ lark is the owner of the Cork 'n Cask ly Ron was a cable television executive, and most all said they were planningto come backfor a retail liquor store in Beverly Farms ..\1ass. Her Flyers' president, Jay Snider, said, "v\le are very the reunion. Nancy Saylor Kimball, who is work­ daughter Laura is a freshman at Sarah La\\'rence fortunate to have been able to attract an individu­ ing with me on putting together the class reunion College and son Sam is a high school stu­ 's outstanding qualifications for this al with Ron book, says she talked with Sally Saabye dent • Rick Davis president of the Edward L. position:· O'Brien, Barby Darling, Nancy Pendleton Davis Insurance Agency in Needham, l\.lass. has Class secretary: LINDA ttCHOLSO 1 Dyer, Roger and Joyce Arnold Isbister, been named state national director of the In­ GOODMA , Fernwold Heights Farm, Lynch "Weezie" Lippschutz Silliman, and Nancy dependent Insurance Agents of l\lassachu5etts Hill Rd., Oakdale, Conn. 06370. Bergeron Cornwall • Ben Beaver deservesa • David Pa rish is a partner with Holland and vote of thanks for his untiring efforts as our ef­ Knight in Miami Beach Fla. Dave wrote that his fective class agent. He is currently working on the firm is the largest Florida-based law firm. He is ambitious ibul attainable!) goal of raising 575,000 the author of several articles appearing in legal from our class for our reunion year • I had a sur­ journals and he \\'rote a chapter in a recent text prise phone call from l\.larcia Phillips Sheldon of corporate law. He is also the vice president of and we had great fun catching up on our lives af­ the Greater Miami Je\\'ish Centers. He and his ter having been out oftouch for a few years. l\.lar­ wife, Rhonda. have a son and a daughter • Joan cia, who is teaching special needs children and Copithorne Bowen . director of the central oi­ Some exciting news for Dee Dee Wilson Perry. John '63 live in Westfield, J .J., with their two chil­ fice of the Archaelogical Institute of Amenca Her daughter, Beth, a Colby student, has been dren, Douglas and Heather • Lee Scrafton lives in Bedford, /\lass.She is the mother of three named a Dana Scholar this year. Beth, an excep­ Bujold wrote that she will definitely be back for children • Margo Beach Long is a school p y­ tional person indeed, is very interested in the the 25th reunion. Lee and Joe are currently liv­ chologist and lives in Stonington Conn. Her hus­ hearing impaired. This has led her lo devise some ing in Singapore. Daughter Noelle graduated band. Dick. is a senior planner with Electric Boat of her own study courses at Colby. For this year's from Middlebury and is with the State Depart­ Co. Margo wrote, as have many of you that de­ Jan Plan, she'll be studying under Charis Storms ment as a project officer, and son Marc is in his veloping long-lasting friendships wa a most im­ Davis as she learns all about teaching and work­ second year at Middlebury • Dick Geltman portant part of her life that started at Colby • ing with the hearing impaired. Charis teaches joined the Public Securities Association as direc­ The lead-time between writing and when the five- and six-year-olds, and her husband, Ve rn, tor of intergovernmental relations after working column is printed is at least four months. As I works with the college-age students. Beth, a the - for the ational Governors Association for sever­ write, it is almost Thanksgiving. but by the time pian enthusiast at Colby, will also be contribut­ al years. Dick and his wife and two children live you read, winter will be nearly a memory' Keep ing her drama talents to the students she'll be in Chevy Chase, Md. • On a personal note, l sending in your news ...its been great to get observing • Sally Proctor is now a full-time have just started a fun and challenging new job these updates' faculty member of Drew University. Ifyou reread in the president's office at the MGH Institute of Class secretary: MARCIA HARDING AN­ her page in "Update '88;' you will see she was suc­ Health Professions in Boston. Ben and l returned DERSON, 15 Brechin Te rrace, Andover. 1\ lass. cessful in her pursuit of a college professorship. to Colby for Homecoming this past fall. and the 01810. Congratulations, Sally • Nothing much else to College never looked better. l hope all of you will report at this time. I would like to remind any of be able to come back in June and see for your­ you traveling through the northeast Ohio area to selves just what a special place Colby still is. please stop in or call me. Sandy MacWilliam Class secretary: CECE SEWALL POTTER Lloyd mentioned she likes to travel and also col­ -+2 i\liddle St., Lexington. Mass. 02 173 lects dolls. Well, Sandy, stop in and I'll show you my old doll collection • Hope your Holidays were wonderful! We should all be lookmg for­ ward to warm weather and a new beginnin�. Stay Congratulations to Gary Knight on his promo­ in touch! tion to president and CEO of Livermore Falls Class secretary: JO-A TN WI CZE Trust in Maine. Gary is a lifelong resident of FRE CH, 864 South Parkview Drive, Aurora, Livermore Falls and has worked at the bank since Ohio 44202. John Gillmor has been made a partner in the law he began as a teller there in 1962 • Michael firm of Carlsmith, Wichman, Case, Mukai and Clivner has moved himself and his furniture Ichiki in Honolulu • Conrad Krack '66 is a ma­ company from Phoenix, Ariz., to St. Thomas rme engineer living in Seattle, Wash. • Bud U.S.V.l., where he can seriously pursue his new­ Marvin is the president of Manpower of Tew found interest in diving and underwater photog­ Hampshire/Vermont; his wife, Ann, is the vice raphy • Beth Peo Armstrong pursues her pho­ president. Their oldest child, Jennifer, is now a tography interests above sea level; she is a sports freshman at the University of Ta mpa. Bud ex­ photographer for the Seattle Herald. Beth taught __ perienced a heart attack about 18 months ago and photography to children last summer in Woods 6q has drastically changed his diet and exercise hab­ Hole, Mass. • Dick Ammann and his wife Lil­ 25th re union: June 9-1 1, 1989 • Class presi­ its • Gayle Lenz Mitchell has begun a career lian, have returned from two years in Lagos, Ni­ dent Judy Fassett Aydelott has been hard at in the real estate field. Husband Chad '64 is the geria, where Dick taught at a local university and work coordinating our 25th reunion in June. Dur­ president of West End Chevrolet in Wa ltham, Lillian worked for the Ford Foundation. They are ing Parents Weekend in October, Judy, whose son Mass. Their older daughter is a sophomore at now living in Racine, Wis. Dick is an educ�tion Jack is at Colby, met with classmates Ben Bea­ Hartwick College • Gordon Corey lives in professor supervising student teachers in field ver, Sally Page Carville, Phil Choate and Don Cumberland, Maine. where he is a horse train­ sites. He also makes jewelry from beads he has Short, all of whom also have children at Colby, er/driver • Michael McMahon is a professor collected on his travels • 1eteorologist Ted to finalize plans for this very special weekend you in the English Department at Colby-Sawyer Col­ Houghton spent two weeks in 1\.trkey last year won't want to miss • In ovember, Wayne Fill­ lege. Mike's writing career began at Colby when with the Air Tational Guard, forecasting weath­ back coordinated a reunion phonathon with the he published his first poem in the Atlantic dur­ er for a �ATO exercise • Bonnie Darling help of Ben Beaver, Art Fulman, Bob Mangion, ing his senior year. He has just received a grant Bound is a housewife, mother of four. and cus­ John Mc abb, Nancy Saylor Kimball, and to do an anthology of poems by women who lived tom quilt designer in Woolcott, Vt. She teache Ben Potter. The phonathon helped to renew con­ in New Hampshire in the nineteenth centu­ Bible classes for women, and her husband Jim tact with Colby and generated lots of interest and ry • Jim Spates is another whose career began is chaplain for the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow­ excitement for our 25th reunion. Ben reported at Colby. Jim majored in sociology and is now a ship on two college campuses • Gretchen that he talked with Mike Cohen in Michigan, professor of sociology at Hobart and William Herschleb and Steve Mutafian were married in Bernie Stupski in Virginia, Al Smith in Mon­ Smith Colleges in Geneva, .Y. • Charlene 1986 and are expecting their first baby in the treal. Ken and Ann Schmidt ye in Freeport, Gorsun Solomon is an associate professor of spring. Steve is a civil/industrial engineer and he Maine, To dd Sherman in Colorado, Hans On­ mathematics at Wentworth Institute of Technol­ and Gretchen together teach a course in belief sager in ew Hampshire, Marcia Phillips Shel­ ogy in Boston. Charlene started the Learning Cen­ management called Avatar. They live in Bayport don in New Jersey, and Joan Thiel Sanford, ter at Wentworth and is its initial coordinator. 1 .Y. Welcome to '66's newest baby' • A writer

COLBY 35 <111ll lL'aLl\L'I ll\·111g in BL'lia�t l\laine, Tom Ea�ton in 1979 from Boston Rick was a principal and board of directors of his school district. The thrust u111l111ues to turnout biology textbook� and has guidance counselor in Maine for 11 years and is of his comments. however, focused on his "strong hild se,·eral of hh poems puhl1 hed • Hoberta now ne of the top realtors in Seattle • Joyce family:· When asked what changes have occurred "Birdie" Tracy Hye has made a big career switch Dcmkowicz l lcncklcr is as�islanl vi e president in his life. Irv responded, "Financial ruin brought from professor of German to ystems analyst for enrollment management al the University of on hy higher education:· (He's not alone, is he?) • \\'ith the I\la�ima Corporation and says he loves Maine. She oversees admissions. student aid, the Caroline Kresky wrote from Atlanta, Ga. Caro­ the business world. The Hyes live near Dayton career center. new student orientation. and en­ line had a very serious bicycle accident on the Ohio • In addition lo being the mother of four rollment management. Her goal is to recruit and Maine coast in August of 1988 that made her children ages 22, l9 16, and 8, Ginny Grclotti retain students. She and her husband, Donald "more conscious than ever of the value of life and Connolly i the executive director of Beaver­ have two on , Adam, 9, and Aaron, 7 • Laurie that it should be enjoyed" • "J.J." Tillinghast's brook T.EP a nonprofit corporation providing Page Mills i� in Australia for rour years. Husband business is expanding. In her role as account execu­ re idenlial and upport services to mentally Jim's job as managing director of Caterpillar Fi­ tive of Duch in Entertainment she is now arrang­ retarded adults. Ginny Ji,es in Belmont, nance Australia sent Laurie into temporary retire­ ing entertainment for special events, weddings, l\lass. • Mildred h'.ouba, who n w uses her ment after a 17-ycar career in banking. She was fund raisers. and corporate events. She works middle name Lea. lives on a 20-acre farm on responsihle for loan approvals nationwide as the hard as a volunteer on fund raisers. J.J. enjoys Whidbey Island near Seattle, Wash .. and is in­ corporate underwriter for a mortgage banking auctions and her children, Nicole, 15, and Bry­ ,·olved \\'ilh a spiritually based educational cen­ firm • Ken Johnt.onwr ote from his parish 111 son, 11 • Derek Schuster is vice president of ter that focuses on living in harmony with the Gardner, Mass .. that he and his wife had a daugh­ corporate development of Ryder Construction. earth. Lea raises vegetables poultry, and sheep ter. Johanna Augusta. on November I, 1988 They He lives in YC with his wife, Ka ren, and their and also \\'Orks part lime as a psychother· now have three girls and a boy • Phil Kay is four daughters. He has founded a child abuse apist • David Erdmann of Winter Park Fin. president of Te lecommunications Con ulting and prevention organization called Family Dynam­ is dean of admissions and student financinl plan­ lives in To psfield, Mass , with his wife, Barbara, ics • andy Miller Kcolane wrote in a very up­ ning al Rollins College. He and usan are the and daughter, Deborah, 10 Due to his business beat tone that her life is busy with her career in proud parents of five-year-old Lmd ay • Won­ travel Phil might drop in on any one of us any design and her family She is pleased with the life derful responses lo the last questionnaire, and a lime He wrote that he had fun taking Deborah to decisions that she has made. Her suggestion that usual too little space here . . more next time Camp V\'ohelo in South Ca co. Maine, and recom­ child rearing should be a required course at Colby Class secretary: MEG FALLON \\' HEEL­ mends that camp to others with daughters 8 lo is a good one. ER l 1rs. William A. 1111. Box .l93, \Vest Boxford 14 • Gil Congdon lives in Reading. Mass.. with Clast. ecrctary: SUSA DAGGETT Mass. 01855. his wife Pam sons Peter. l.t and Brad. 12, and DEA 1 (Mrs. Ross A.), 29301 t . I 14th St., Scotts­ daughter Brooke 8 He recently resigned as ath­ dale, Ariz. 85255 letic director at Reading Memorial High School to concentrate on teaching math full time at the junior/senior high school in Manchester Ma s.

__ Gil also coaches youth baseball and soccer • 6z,___ Chri Sinton was recently elected executive ,-ice Bill Loveday has moved to Indianapoli \\'ith his pre ident of retail al the United New Jersey Bank. wife. Joyce, and their fi,·e children. Bill is presi­ Chri joined the bank in 1985 • Chalmers dent and CEO of J\lethodi l Hospital of Indiana. "Chop" Hardcnbcrgh edits "The Arms Control He was offered an opportunity loo good to pass Reporter,'' a monthly update on arms control ne­ Professional yachtsman Ted Alli on aims to en­ up" • Phil Bromwell wrote from Norwood gotiations. He has been married for two years to ter the Whitbread Round the World Race in '89. Mass .. where he is a research and design techni­ Margaret Kimball • John Cooper is a restau­ Ted and Carolyn and son Jake are happily settled cian with Polaroid. He and his wife Marv, have rant manager in Saco, Maine He and wife Sarah in Seattle, Wash • Pele Arnold's success as a two daughters. Leah, 1 1 , and Paula, 9. Phil is go­ have two daughters. Jennifer 14, and Sarah 10. house builder is equalled by accomplishments in ing back to school part time and is still doing a John says he collects pounds and then tries to get the field of family counseling. Pete, Lynne, and lot of singing • Lynn \Vein man phoned from rid of them. A recent milestone ror him was bi­ children Nathan and Carob live in Damariscotta, his home in Vienna Va. He is on his own again focals. John wrote that he knows where N ick l\laine • John Birkinbine, government rela­ after several year of marriage • Ruth Elliott Jansen, Pete Gurley, and Brad Coady are. but tions manager with Outboard Marine, celebrates Holmes resides in Bloomfield Hills. Mich .. he won't tell anyone • "Sookic" tockwell daughter Kris's entering college. Ye s, John, you where she has her own business. A handwriting Danielson lives in Winthrop. Maine, with her are too young; I'll always picture you as a young and document examiner. she is a media spokes­ husband. Ken. and their two children. She prep school grad entering Colby • Pastor and man and lectures throughout the U.S. • Don planned to start nursing school at the Universi­ eternal runner Ken Borchers preaches in Ash­ Jepson has started his own business as a nap­ ty of Maine at Augusta in the fall of 198 . Being land, .H. Ken and his family greeted sophomore On Tools distributor, and it sounds as if he enjoys wife and mom has been her focus. Sookie visit­ roommate Fred Clasquin, now a dentist, at Ken's being hi own boss • Sarah Shute Hale sent ed with Laila Walji Alidina, who is an allergy church last summer • Nancy Fischer Reale some photographs of her landscape batik. She specialist. Lai la's husband is a college professor, has been elected to the Rochester, N .Y., school se m to have found a warm mix of family, and they have two boys in school • Jed '68 and board. The simple pleasures of life, including ski­ church, art, and business. She and her family live Francie Calmes Davis live in Manchester, ing, continue despite ancy's busy family life • in Arden, Ontario • M argaret Ann Cook lives Maine. Daughter Megan, 11, loves softball and Irv Frutkoff is director of analytical services, in Springfield, Mass .. doing my old job as a jug­ horseback riding, and Anna, 6, is an aspiring soc­ Unikoor Biotechnology, Jerusalem, Israel, where gling single parent, although she has added a few cer player. Francie is the head of the compliance he dwells with family Margalit, Carmiel, and Kin­ new wrinkles: she's also getting a graduate degree division of the Maine Human Rights Commis­ nerel • Attorney Theodore Fucillo has a res­ and is an artist in addition to raising her two girls sion. a state agency. She has been appointed to taurant on the Charles River, Cambridge Mass. and being an art teacher • Laurie Hunt Beas· the State AIDS Advisory Committee • Susan Ted's beautiful daughter Kristine is five • Sandra Icy edits a newsletter called "Art Meets Labor:· Finlay Chavez wrote from Annapolis, Md., High Walters and husband Kenneth, a Bowdoin Her husband. Noel. is international vice presi­ where she is an RN al National Institutes of man, love raising their four children in their huge dent of the Clothing Workers Union. They have Health. Susan works in the surgical ICU. If she home in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. • Dr. Rick two children. Moran, 13, and Lara, 8, and live in were to brag, it would be to say that she is a "good Moriarty wrote beautifully about his work in Oak Park, III. Laurie collects art and gourmet critical care nurse:· She also gardens, sails, and pediatrics at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Rick and cookbooks and enjoys physical fitness • Dick does needlework_ She would love to see some for· Patty's children are award-winning swimmers • Hunnewell is an associate professor of art his­ mer classmates. Don't hesitate to look her up if Commercial artist Brad Muscott and wife Criste tory and lives in Plymouth, .H. When asked to you're in the area • Fred Hopengarten and his reside in West Redding, Conn. We are thankful brag, he talked of his accomplished wife. Ann, wife, Betty Herr, live in Lincoln, Mass.. where he that Brad survived a motorcycle accident • Jeff and his two engaging children. Joshua, 7, and is a lawyer and president of Channel One, Inc. Lathrop has been appointed to the top executive Isaac. 4 • I missed a phone call from Rick Lu­ Betty is a doctor, and they have two children, position of general manager of Mount Attitash bov several months ago, but his wife. Maggi, Anne, 5, and Steve, going on 2 • I rv Faunce Corp. in ew Hampshire. Jeff's extensive work filled out the questionnaire and filled us in on wrote from Gardiner, Maine, saying he is presi­ in the ski industry led to this promotion • Jane their lives in Seattle, Wash . . where they moved dent of Ya nkee Healthcare and a member of the Pfeffer Jerry of Texas is president of the Arneri-

36 COLBY can Association of Yo uth Museums, a 157-mem­ with wife Nancy and babydaughter :\.lara and ber international organization • AttorneyTom teaching elementary P.E. in Regional District Rippon and wife Virginia celebrate as the oldest :;6 • Jon Stone wife Gayle and sons Brent, Pe­ of their three children enters college • Betty ter. and r-1atthew have moved home to Sharon Savicki Carvellas continues to teach in Vermont. Mass. to allow Jon to assume a new postilion as where she reigns as science department chair • director of marketing for \\".R Grace. Gayle i Jerry and Vickie Traylor Schneider and Remy, Since my last column. Steve and I ha\'e been back currently working as a mathematics tutor Jon 3, of Bridgewater, Mass., watch their real estate lo Colby, when we returned for Homecoming notes that both are very proud of their son ' aca­ developing and landscaping career grow and Weekend as well as class correspondent and club demic and athletic accomplishments. He may be grow • Dr. Hethie Shores Parmesano became, leader meetings. The weather was made to order setting a few of his own again smce successiul for a spell, a full-time mother and wife when sec­ for a tailgate picnic and football game (which back surgery last spring has got him up to run­ ond child Julia was born in July 1988 • Nancy Colby nearly won'I. and we caught a glorious ning three miles a day again. His busy chedule Short Hall. mother of two, holds a management \'iew of the campus atop the bell tower of 1\ liller didn t pre\'ent him from attending Steve Orio,· > position in Girl Scouting in Vermont • George Library • On that spot we met with friends wedding in J\lontreal in September • Although and Donna Sidelinger Riser preside over GKR Debbie Williams Anderson and Steve '69 and Jeanette Lerner only attended Colby for her lnc. in Ross, Calif. • Bart and Tr icia Weyand their two children, the eldest of whom is already freshman year she's still on the class rolls and are back in the U.S.A. after 15 years in Great Brit­ college bound. We walked the beautiful ne,,· sent back word that she still recalls a number oi ain. Bart is senior development officer at Bates track together after classmate Sebs Mamo had names and memories of her year at the College. College • Anne and Ken Yo ung with daughter the honor of running the track's dedication She's currently working on her Ph.D. in linguis­ Sarah look forward to building their own home lap • Richard '69 and Martha Luce Habeshian tics at Berkeley • From Glastonbury Conn in 1989. Ken is vice president of Environmental were also among the very few of our classmates comes word that Elaine Weeks has been elect­ Consulting Corp. to attend the weekend. Martha reported seeing ed vice president at the Connecticut Bank and Class secretary: BARBARA ABRAMS Cathy Pagano from time to time in the local gro­ Tr ust. She is responsible for marketing credit card BIXBY, 12 Eighth St., Bayville, NY 11709. cery store near their Rhode Island homes. r.Iar­ portfolios of CBT and other Bank of New England tha is a school librarian. She also performs \\'ith affiliates. Elaine and I shared a few classics cours­ the New England Festival Chorus and has trav­ es at Colby since we both had majors in the same eled abroad on a singing tour. Richard manages department. and my high school Latin classes tennis clubs and appropriately maintains his in­ were fascinated to learn where her classics ma­ terest in the sports program at Colby. In his spare jor had taken her • And now to tackle lhe _____ time, he referees Rhode Island high school hock­ "mountain" of questionnaires that have poured in 6Cf- ey games. Both of them continue to be acti\'e from all this summer. No. I don't know why some 20th reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • Warning' I'm alumni and looked great • Judith Files Mc Ker­ of you received two mail ings, and the "w�men s going to lay it on pretty thick about reunion this nan, who has been selected to receive a scholar­ lib" question was a surprise to me also. The good time. I hope to get ome of us calling each other ship to Universite-Laval in Quebec, completed news is that l won't be complaining about the lack with definite plans. I'mtold the kids will love it, her masters degree at Rivier College and went of news for some time to come and I did hear loo. So how many good excuses can there on to teach there. She now teaches French at Coe­ from a number of people l'\'e been wondering be? • Mary Ellen Lyle Henry has received a Brown Northwood Academy in New Hampshire. about. Andrea Solomon is teachmg high school lot of praise from her colleagues about her superi­ While in Quebec, Judith will speak only French English and special education classes in NYC. or education at Colby. She loves that and in turn at the oldest French language university in North and trying to participate in Colby alumni actiYi­ is sharing her gifts with college students at Ameri­ America. Thousands come frorn all over the ties when possible. She still remembers those can University • Lynne Hudson Treat won­ world to study there each year, but only 15 nowfalls in January' • Rod Sc hultz checked ders what is your favorite memory from Colby7 scholarships are awarded • Kudos to Ann in from Houston Tex .. where he works as con­ I hope she will be able to come from Phoenix, McEwen, who has been named to the board of troller of Treesweet and resides with wife ,\ lan·- Ariz., and get some responses. Some will be \'ery directors for the Advertising Club of Western and daughters Lauren and Ellen • \Villian1 interesting, I expect • Dan To dzia wonders if Massachusetts. Anne runs her own advertising Hladky is another member of the class li\'ingand Homecoming Weekend is still as much fun as it agency in Northampton, Mass. • Please let me working in NYC .. where he is manager of the was. I'm unsure, but I know #20 will be great, and know what's happening in your lives. I'm sure our Premium audit department. He also finds time I want Tod to bring a picture of this alleged 45- classmates would like to know what you re doing. to do some white water canoeing • And, final­ pound kingfish caught off a seven-foot sailfish! • Class secretary: LA RA STRUCKHOFF ly, a quick congratulations to Scott Thomas and I hope Don Cooper will come and bring Den­ CLINE. 6601 Loch Hill Rd., Baltimore, 1\ \d. his wife, Sheila, who were expecting an August nis Casey. These two and their families see each 21239. addition to their family. They are currently li\'­ other regularly. Don is a very successful varsity ing in Fitchburg. J\lass., with son Sean. coach in Oxford, NY.. and he even has a son Class secretary: LINDA A. CHESTER. 46 named Colby • Many of us are looking for each Lincoln St. Hudson, lass. 01749. other. Leslie Podgus Blanding would like to find David Katz. Leslie is in Bow, N.H .. where she's a retired teacher and mom to four young children • Roberta Kent English is looking for Pat Moore. Robbie is starting a new career as a speech/language pathologist, and she has a daughter at Princeton • Lots of life changes for The deadline for this particular column caught us: Leslie Hitch Dunbar changed careers, life­ me by surprise, so without any fanfare . It's pre-Thanksgiving, and Im \\"filing between style, and islands, moving to Molokai, Hawaii • Michael Smith "sold the farm in Oxford and batches of pumpkin bread and pies. With that Barbara Felz Reim has moved to Indianapolis moved to the Big City" of Auburn, Maine, with and a new batch of questionnaire responses, it s with her family • E. Sanderson Hoe has his wife. Diana.and their two daughters. "basket­ a happy time to write to you • Gail Glidden moved to Potomac, Md., where he and his wife ball star" Danielle and "model" Chesea. Mike is Christiansen will be on sabbatical next year are raising three children. Sandy is an attorney, now sports editor for the paperthere • Paul and from her position as director of the LearninoCen­ especially interested in government contract law. Susan Sammis Spiess are still living in Am­ ter at Southern Maine Te chnical Institute • An­ Remember, guys, during times of change, it's al­ herst, J .H., where Paul is president of Colonial drine Smith and her husband, Henry· li\'e in ways good to rediscover roots • I wonder what Mortgage and Susie is an "o n-sabbatical real es­ Alameda Calif., where sbe has begun law school kind of vehicle Rosemary Constable Pillsbury tate appraiser" who has been kept busy supervis­ while working as a legal assistant • Ten years drives when she gets out with her six children? ing the construction of their new home and ago Russell Harris began publishing a weekly Will she bring them and receive the "most kids" keeping up with daughter Jennifer and son newspaper in Groton, Ma s. He is now celebrat­ prize? • Best wishes; hope I'll see you there. Stephen • Andrew Smith wrote that ince ing the 10th anni\'ersary of that continuing proj­ Class secr etary: DON A MASSEY returningin 1980 from Saudi Arabia where he ect • From Mt. Ve rnon. Maine Alice Osmer SYKES, 2505 SW Crest Lane, Rochester, Minn. taught and coached the Saudi ational Te nnis Olson wrote that she continues as a librarian and 55902. Te am, he has been living in To rrington. Conn.. nursery school teacher • With much to be COLBY 37 proud of. ancy Round Haley is completing an 111 u5icians, spelli11g hee champs. and superb reunion That's the 15th, folks. So make those last :\\ S. 111 pharnwcology <1nd toxicology. She has habysitters1 Mol ly Lynn is going lo Colby some minute travel arrangements and plan lo be back 'ludicd \\ hilc working and mothering two terrific day! • Susan Rennau had twins, Mercedes and on ca!llpus for a great weekend • Now for the girls • Tr avL·ling through Dell\·er, Kathy Hil lary, a year and a half ago and is very proud news that's not so new anymore. Harriet Hults 1\ lcGirr visited Linda \\lackwitz, who is study· of them and her profession as a labor and dcliv· Wa ll wrote lo update us on her life since Colby, 1ng lilw and ba llroom danci11g. Kathy is off lo live cry nurse • Gail Andrews McCarthy has tak­ which includes teaching English in Niger. West " " 111 Paris. lran icrrctl by Honeywell Bull • Chip en on the "hectic" life: fu ll lime at home with their Africa, completing Te mple Law School , and be· Edgarton does cost estimating in commercial three M1chJel, Pa trick, and Carolyn! • Janet coming interested in international law/politics. construction, while J lanic leaches second grade Stafford Wood had a preemie boy. Stephen, in Harriet also wondered what Becky Littleton Their lWL) lee11agc·r� are clearly leaders and ath· December 1986 at 281/2 weeks. 2 pounds, 12 Corbett is doing • Lowell Widmer wrote from lete�. Chip continue� \\ ith hockey -believe it or ounces; Stephen is doing great, a� is big brother Montana, where he works for Royal Te ton En· not. in an "Old Timers" lcague1 • Ski instructor. Christopher Janet's commitment lo her profes­ gineering and Construction. One thing he's done con�truclion business ma11ager a11d mother of sion as an RN in Newborn IC is understandably that he never anticipated doing when he left three - that' Linda Dewey Madeira . She and I ersonally rewarding • Re: Politics and co111mu· Colby was lo become a Montessori elementary her hu band recently moved with their thre nity involvement - Peter Rinaldi was clrnir Lev· school teacher • Nick Ballas wrote from ew boys fr m Cornish N H ., to Norwich, Vt. • From L'e Dblricl 1987-88, chair, Mississippi Economic Mexico, where hes been for the last six years. He Pa lermo. Maine, John Bunker wrote that hes a Forum 1988-89. and active 1n De111ocrat1c politics lists his occupation as actor/director/acting in· high sch ol English teacher • "The responsibil· in southwest J\lississippi • Merri lee Bonney is slructor/restaurant consultant. Whew! • Beth ily is frightening, says attorney Sally Chester the Dutch dl'legale to the Group of Economic Ex­ Roberts wrote for the first time since we grad­ Williford as she continues lo handle murder perts on Air Pol lut1on of the Economic Comm is· uated lo say that she lived for a lime in Swit· cases. For the second lillle she has avoided the �ion for Europe of the U.N • Janet Perethian 7erland then for about four years in Germany, death penally for a client • From a news clip· Bigelow 1s an elected member of town meeting during which time he traveled extensively. Af­ ping we've learned that Barbara Senges was re· and coordinator of several school committee ter returning to the U.S in 1980, she hitched cently nallled assistant principal of the Charles member campaign • Peter Gerken mingles throughout the country detouring to Mexico and E. J\lurphy 1\ liddle School in J\lonlville, Conn. with the "green�" 1n West Germany • Gary Guatemala. Al the time she completed her ques· With an extensive background in language, leach· Lawles 1s J\la1nescoord inator for Earth First tionnaire. Beth described herself as a "poor gradu· ing. and administration, Barbara has always pre­ (environmenta l activi>ml and a rock 'n roll band ate student," working on her dissertation in f erred the junior high level Congratulations. melllber of Lawn Ornaments· • J\\ary Jane sociology • Mary Ann Soursourian joined the Barbara • Congratulations also to Pat Musta· Tiedeman is president of the Home and School Fa mily J\\ulual Savings Bank about a year ago as kangas in Canton NY. Shes imlllersed in social Association of her children· school • Gail An· corporate controller, taking responsibility for the ser\'ice work and was recently prollloted to su· drews J\1cCarthyis active with the local AAUW • bank's financial control area. Mary Ann holds an pervisor of Pre,·entive Sen·ices for Children Fran Gates Demgen is an elected member of M.B.A. from Suffolk University • Tom Lizotte (working with families whose children are can· her local sc hool board and 15 active with 1eals was named 1988 Man of the Year by the Colby didates for foster care). he s also director of the on \<\/heels and Campfire; shes also working with "C" Club. The award is presented for outstanding local Association for Neighborhood Rehabilita· her two daughters and other children on a nine· service devo!Jon. and work in the area of athlet­ lion. helping purchase and reno\'ate housing for iool by five-foot tile mural for their chool! • ics • Jim Heald recently announced the official low income persons. In addition she's a member u ie Yovic Hoeller 1 s a board member of Dal· release of his first tape "Standing on the Great of a community theater group. and she continues las Right to Life and a Republican Party precinct Wall of China.' This independently produced tape to play her French horn -with the St Lawrence worker • General news (lo he contmued in the is a compilation of nine original songs that "delve Uni\'ersity Bras Ensemble and Orchestra She next issue -you sent a lot !). Al Linsky has his into the mysteries of love and life" • We can do welcomes anyone traveling in the "far reaches oi own busmess in investments for individuab 111 the rest of our catching up at reunion! 11orthern New Yo rk" to stop and ,.i it • From an· my home town oi J\ledfield. He and his wife Class secretary: CAROL D. WY E, 7 other "outpost''.... Fargo. N.D. - Sandy Manoogian Deborah Ikehara 7-1 did a short course lrialh· Noyes Ave .. Wa terville, J\lame 0.:1.90 1. Pearce wrote a great tale. She and her husband, Ion • lemlee Bonney of Pijnacker Nether· To m, have just accepted teaching posts al Moor· lands, is a policy analyst-economist al the Ministry head Stale University on the North Dakota-Min· of E1wironment in the Hague she owns her small nesola border. Sandy's an assistant professor of Dutch-Engli h translation ser\'ice. Her husband, English, leaching technical writing and Shakes· Jacabus, is a member of the Dutch Pa rliament • peare. We should all be as grateful al this Thanks· Rich Gawthrop recently married leaches his· giving time as Sandy. who wrote with pride of her Lory al the University of South Carolina • Peter "bright and bubbly" daughter and her son, who Gerken is married with two daughters in Bier· "ca ught a fish in the river by our house:· bach, West Germany· a teacher. carpenter, and Help! Im running out of information. A new Class secretary:JA ET HOLM GERBER. writer. he welcomes Colby visitors • Al Hill of questionnaire is on the way, so if you want a 1 11112 Broad Green Drive, Potomac, Md. 20854. Decatur, Ga., regret that a past column report· column next time, take up pen and respond • E. ed that he travels the world in his profession: Breck Arnzen wrote from Andover, Mass., that Dublin. Athens. Rome, and Cairo are all in Geor­ he is in the field of computers as a consultant for gia I He is a consultant for the Georgia Depart· Digital Equipment Corporation. His wife, Lani, ment of Human Resources. has one daughter, is a doctoral candidate in psychology • A new Alex, 11 but is divorced. He is starting all over job, as of early 1988, characterizes Joan DeSal· again al a new address: 12-1.:1.-7 Forrest Blvd., vo's life. She is now assistant principal at Silver Decatur, Ga. 30030. Best of luck. Al • Thanks Lake Junior High School in Pembroke, Mass. She's to all who participated in the questionnaire. not through yet, though. Joanie's just about done Re: Motherhood -Janet Perethian Bigelow con· Please fi ll out the next one, as the details of our getting a second master's degree in educational siders the birth and life of son Christopher a lives do change from one month to the next1 administration and will soon be certified as prin· proud accomplishment and a cherished gift af· Class secretary: ANNE H FF JORDA cipal. Congratulations, Joanie1 • I heard from ler the loss of their second baby boy shortly af· 36 Hillcrest Rd . , Medfield, Mass. 02052. Craig C lark, who now calls Nashua, N.H., home ler birth • Merrilee Bonney is raising bilingual . . when he's around. Craig is a free-lance pho­ girls, Elske ('84) and Sasha ('86): they keep her ar· tographer currently employed as a driver for a leries from hardening1 • Mary Jane Tiedeman relocation company. Driving all over has provid· feels much the same as Merrilee, as Anna ('78) ed great subjects for his photography. He is now and Andy ('81) add up lo her "fitness program" of represented by several stock photo agencies and run, run, run 1 After a ID-year hiatus of being at is active in producing model portfolios • Kevin home, she's now a part-time librarian at a law Cooman is partner in the law firm of Greisberg· fi rm. She asks. "How do full-time working moms 7'-t------15th reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • Reading er. Zicari, McConville, Cooman, Morin & Welch. manage it all?" • Carol Chalker McDowell through my notes from the Alumni Office on a At first a trial lawyer, he now supervises the liti­ boasts proudly of teenagers Amy Beth ('74) and grey November day, I'm reminded that this will gation department. Kevin notes that his son, Car­ Molly Lynn ('76) as hospital volunteers, proficient be the last column lo appear in Colby before our son, 6, is a leadingjuvenile authority in the area

38 COLBY of automobile identification and classification • Larry Fleischman has relocated to Dix Hills :--J Y.,wh ere he is a partner in a venture capital INAUGURATIONS firm. He and \\·ife Joan have -year-old Eric and 5-year-old Craig to keep them busy • I got a Continued from page 22 newsy reply from Gene DeLorenzo who is still at/with Colbv after all these vears. Genes the as­ sistant athletic director at Cdlby as well as coach of women's ba ketball and mens baseball \\'ife Hannah Karp Laipson '46, at the inauguration of Thomas J. Anton as president of Norma jBoutet 771 is an assistant\' Pat Key Bank. Gene and Norma have built a new home on Becker Junior College. Mayflower Hill recently • Dr. Eric Gestrich and family have moved from Philly to Lebanon Susan Lockhart '64, at the inauguration of Linda Koch Lorimer as president of Ohio, where he is repaying an obligation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College. National Health Scholarship Corporation Cyni­ cally, Eric noted that these days he is gaming "debts, weight. children" and losing hair free Michael Lynes '75, at the inauguration of Elizabeth Colman as president of Benning­ time, brain cells'" • That does it . . Im clear out ton College. of questionnaires. Please answer the upcoming one or we'll. God forbid. ha\·e a blank column next go-around. Candace Castle Marsellus '61, at the inauguration of Neil R. Grabois as president Class secretary: BARBARA CA.RROLL of Colgate University. PETERSON, 92 1 Dolphin Drive. lalvern,Pa. 19355. William Marvin '65, at the inauguration of Richard A. Gustafson as president of New Hampshire College.

Carol Auskelis Myers '74, at the inauguration of Donald Sheldon Stanton as presi­ dent of Oglethorpe University.

Ralph Nelson, Jr. '60, at the inauguration of Russell C. Jones as president of the 76�- Thanks for the great response to the question· University of Delaware. naire. I'll try to get to everyone, and those whom we've not heard from recently move to the top of Lesleigh Amlaw Perry '49, at the inauguration of Lyle A. Gray as president of Cas­ the pile • Lydia McAnerney is program direc­ tleton State College. tor for the Girl Scout Council of St. Croix \'alle\'. She's also verv involved in the St. Paul, Minn·. dance comm{mity. Lydia sits on the board of Mark Richardson '77, at the inauguration of John Patrick Crecine as president of directors of the Ta pestry Dance Center in the the Georgia Institute of Te chnology. 1\\'in Cities • A number of classmates are cur­ rently li\·ing in Oklahoma, including Karen Gil­ lum Givan, wife to Christopher Givan • Bob Jeffrey Sanderson '77, at the inauguration of William M. Dyal, Jr., as president of Clay is living in Guthrie, where he is a financial St. John's College. manager with the Bixby Te lephone Company. He and wife Joyce have five children ranging from Martha Raymond Scherpenisse '61, at the inauguration of John H. Jacobsen as presi­ ages 2 to 7. The oldest, Elizabeth and Adam. are on the local swim team • Harry Nelson is a dent of Hope College. production manager with the Baker Company in North Yarmouth. Maine. He's also going to gradu· Gloria Shepherd '64, at the inauguration of Brother Thomas J. Scanlon as president ate school and is president of the board of trus­ of Manhattan College. tees for People's Regional Opportunity Program of Portland. Harry's other accomplishments in­ clude running in 20 marathons since Colby. Barbara Stanford-Tremblay '68, at the inauguration of Judith A. Sturnick as presi­ which may help him keep up with his kids Sam dent of Keene State College. j5). Peter j2). and Alex (almost 1) • Carol Mcintyre-Peale has recently moved due to a ca­ Edward Stuart '51, at the inauguration of Charles Boynton Knapp as president of reer opportunity for her husband, James 77, now a deputy clerk for Cheshire County Superior the University of Georgia. Court in New Hampshire. Carol works part time as a pre-school special needs teacher when she's Paul L. Te ssier '64, at the inauguration of Frank Douglas Brown as president of not taking care of Caitlyn 141 and Andre\,. Columbus College. j3) • Michael Jones is an airline pilot for , orth­ west Airlines. He and wife Susan have three chil­ dren, Lauren (7). Kate (.+). and Anna David Van Allen '56, at the inauguration of Thomas Keith Meyer as president of El­ (2) • Norman Marsilius wrote for the first mira College. time - he's an architect living in Fairfield Coun­ ty • Jeanne lcCarthy is a Spanish teacher in Frederick A. Watkins '63, at the inauguration of Agnar Pytte as president of Case Scarborough, Maine. She and her husband Thomas, have a two-year-old son, Thomas • Western Reserve University. Ill I wish I had known when I was there that a bunch of '76ers are in Cleveland. Phil Freund is a data Lewis Weeks, Jr. '42, at the inauguration of Patti McGill Peterson as president of base administrator at the Cleveland Clinic. He St. Lawrence University. and wife Synda have a son, Johnathen, who was born in February '88 • Jenny Frutchy Ford was promoted to assistant \'ice president of Progres­ sive Corporation, managing a S 1 million cor-

COLBY 39 pnratc giving prt1gram She s n l so in c hnrge of n ty in Providence Last year she witnessed the to send me current information on yourself and m<11or rL' al c�tnlc dc,·elopmenl project lo "remake America Cup Trial in Australia' • Jenny Ho­ famtlies. Abo. let me know if you are out of con­ Cleveland Jenny ha� been \\'Orking \\' il h nation­ lan is an editorial as isla n t for All American tact with a former friend from Colby and I will ally k1wwn architect Frank Geherv and several Crat t s Publ ication he l i kes being able to work be more than happy to relay ti in this column. I . nrt1 sls includrng Oldenburg Sar;a, Judd, and with several languages. Fala portugues Jen­ myself would like to know what has happened Andre She and her hu�band Ed have a daugh­ ny� • Looks like Bob McCaughey is back in to Sandy Hall Lake and why she wasn t at our ter usannah \Vende. who. with her parent are Boston working for Channel 56 after hav111g been I 0th. Ta ke good care. And once agam thanks the subject of a Harvard Bu ine s School case on in Denver for several years • From the category Jim. l\\'O·ca 1:e er families • Bill Silverman is a fellow of pnzed possessions. Among other things Ii led Class secretary: JAME E. SCOTT, 67-1 in gaslroenlerology al Ca.e \VeslernReserve. He's l uch as houses. 5pouses. and kid�. not neces5ar­ Tremont St. Boston Mass. 02 11 . been living abroad in I taly and Brus�els for the ily 111 that order} are Bob Kecfe 5 antique clock la l eight years l\1osl recently, he \\'as an emer­ collecti n • Dick Conant currently dorng gency room physician 111 C h icago. Bill i plan ni ng aq uat ic biology research in fl . Lauderdale val­ a trip back Ea land \\'anted lo wa rn Mike North ue his coffee maker • Mom and student Diane oi the visit. Bi l l and wife J\largarida have a two­ Pratt Ames appreciates the lock on her bath­ year-old retriever named Bai lo who !according to ro m door • Karen Sundcrhauf lo\'e her ted ­ Billi thinks she' human The family spends a lot dy bear • Cat lo\er�· Andrea Jensen Vicki ' 7q______of time canoeing, and Bill adds that the dog ts a John on, ue Harvey, Lauren Siegel Gold­ better canoeist and swimmer than his wife man • Dog lovers. Heidi Neumann Hansen 10th reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • .'l lotherhood \\'hich l m certain he'll a ppreciate. Coinc1dental­ Lou Anne To bias Jaeger Jon Hickock • Pa­ seems to ha\'etaken a place of prominence among ly, Bill \\'anl ed lo know \\'hat Mitch Brown 1s up tricia Haven tein uthers ts rather fond of her the occupations of our female class­ to. \\'e aim lo please here: i\litch is an exerci�e horse • Thats all the room for now For those of mates' • Carol Miller Donnelly a former phy iologisl. He completed a master's in exercise you who notice that my add re s keeps changrng financial analy t for AT&T, decided lo become a physiology and works for a sports medicine clm­ I hope to report the last change 111 the next full-time mom and feels verv fortunate to have ic !itch was appointed r eg ional coach for the column when I finbh my Ph.D and get a real1ob1 so much time with her two �hildren, Elisa and EasternR egion Girls U-16 leam He conlmue to Cla s sccrctarv: DEB COHEN 933 Ken­ Stephen In add1t1on to parenting. Carol and her coach occer for girls and leache a liccnsmg tucky, Lawrence K�ns 660-14 hu band Brian. are renovating a 120-year-old course to fellow coaches. He adds that he finds house. Last summer they traveled to Holland, great sali faction in helping women achieve some Germany and London with the kids • Emily oi their goal and in helping them decide their fu­ Grout prague wrote that she loves being home ture. He hopes he can go beyond leachmg the in Watertown 0:.Y. with daughter Caroline but technical aspects of the game and instill some hu­ is suffering the confltct of wanting to stay at home manity and care in dealing with others. lsnt that with her and go on teaching English to 7th the real name of the game? graders' !Becoming invoh·ed with the future Class secretary: PAMELA i\I. CAME, 31.t through teaching and in pinng an enthusiasm for Central St . . i\!ewton lass. 02 166 \,\'inter is upon u here in Boston and I keep won­ learning have been particularly satisfying to dering lo myself how I ever lasted through the her } • nnc Luedermann Hunt finds it won­ four bli tery winters at Colby . must be mid­ derful to experience ltfe through the eyes of her dle age setting in! Thanks to Jtm Cook for the fi,·e child Colin. born to her and Tim 0 in April of great years as our class secretary. He wtll be a 19 In addition to being a mom Anne is a stu­ tough act lo follow • Alix Land was married dent at George Washington University pursuing last spring 111 Los Angeles to Barry i\!etzley a na­ a masters in internattonaleducation • In Fran­ tive Californian They came east this summer !his conia :\'.H. Louisa Bliss Ke nnev, married to I'm still working from news you sent me in late first to this coa ti for a reception in \ estporl. i\lichael is busy as carpenter, c�binetmaker 1 987, so forgive me if some of this is dated. If per­ Conn.. attended by Pat and Joan \'icario ween­ farmer and mother of two • :'\lanaging their chance you have changed anything in the past ey. Dave Donegan . Jim and Jane Linge horse farm in Lyme Conn. and their kids is a full­ year, please send me an update • News from Mc Donough , Dan Dawe '76 and wife Debbie time job for Cynthia Pigott Bacon. Baby boy Bruce Jennifer Davis Thomson afar: and and Cronin Carol R1cc1 77 mvself.· and manv- friends Trevor is smiling and burping while big brother their two daughter are living in To kyo. I'm not and family • John 0 and Ronni-Jo Posner Cameron is destroying the house . . and Cynthia sure \\'hy they're there - Bruce and Jennifer. care Carpenter are pleased to announce the birth of says she's happier than e\ er! • Jean herwood to comment7 Are your daughters learning Japa­ their twin ons. Scott Lindeman and Robert Olds Lynch and husband Peter in l ew Brunswick nese? Are you? • The following are proud par­ Carpenter. Both boys weighed in at a healthy six N-.J .. are enjoying their role as parents of son Mat­ ent of what are now one-year-olds: Jo-Ellen pounds and are keeping their parents very busy thew 2. Jean is working in the fast-paced field of Bois Smith has a daughter. Fiona Alyse; Kath­ and happy • Lisa Kristen Klein spent a great anti-viral research at E.R. Squibb and Sons as as- leen Jewett Sutherland has a son, Colin Fran­ weekend in Birmingham. Mich .. with Ted 76 and i tant research investigator • One classmate cis • T h i s month's featured profession: Rae Caravaty Shanahan and their frisky baby who is easing into the idea of parenthood is attorneys. Emily Graham has represented Mar­ Michael. Te d's an executi"e at Coke. and Rae. she domestic supervisor Kay E. La oie Lowell, who ilyn Chambers in court • Robert Guillory is a says, is a great mom. Lisa's in N .Y.C .. working at is now mother to two adult cats and grandmother Mainiac lawyer !practicing in Saco) • Priscilla Lincoln Center Theater as director of annual gi\'­ to five kittens! he and ate (who you may re­ Bondy is becoming a yuppie in Shelburne, ing. She said that "get out your checkbooks" is the call was the textbook supervisor at the Colby Vt. • David Maiman has put his legal skill to name of the game' • I ran into Rick Abrams bookstore) live in Lisbon Center, Maine. Though work as township manager in Gradyville. this fall and we caught up with one another. He Kay expected to be an English teacher after Colby, Pa. • Mark Fishbon still loves baseball. lives is president of Tom Snyder, Inc .. a Cambridge she wound up as a paralegal and legal ecretary in Sharon. Mass.. and admits that he listens to software company. He and his wife, Susan for several years and then attended law school. Frank Sinatra albums. (What a relief. I thought Kenyon. traveled lo Bermuda in October with She also aced all three Maine real estate broker­ I was the only one our age who liked OI' Blue Ann and Doug Kaplan, Robin and Jeff Shrib­ age courses. In 198� a work-related injury left her Eyes.) • Other professions: Margaret Felton man, and Barbara and Dan Hoefle. Each cou­ hands permanently partially disabled. She now Viens calls herself an entrepreneur. She owns ple has one child and all agreed they had a sings in the Androscoggin Chorale and volunteers her own business in Fairfield. Maine. !Margaret, glorious six days away from the kids. Five of the much of her time and energy to WCBB-T in \ hat is it that you do?) • Judy Damon Endress eight of them are attorneys Rick not­ Lewiston • Striking out on his own, Glenn is a printed circuit designer for MIT. That sounds ed • Speaking of attorneys, To m Suddath, for­ Connell has formed his own public relations pretty impressive, Judy! • Carl Witthoft is ei­ merly of Denver, is now an assistant U.S. attorney firm, Connell and Company, dedicated to serv­ ther an optical physicist or a global destroyer, de­ general based in Philadelphia • Dan and Elaine ing high technology-based industries in southern pending. . . And yes, Carl, Te mplin Hall is still Regan Driscoll '80 are the parent of a cute lit­ 1 ew Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. standing. However, our south goalpost is not, as tle boy, Mathew Mark, with another due about Glenn has over 12 years experience in indu tri­ Kansas fi nally won a football game • Ann Mor­ the time this hits the presses. Best wish­ al sales and marketing and is the author of numer­ gan Dodge is a bookbinder at Brown Universi- es! • Well, I'm signing off. Please don't hesitate ous feature articles in high-tech trade

40 COLBY publications. In addition to the above Glenn has teacher al Watkinson :\ liddle School in Wethers­ Carl :\'elson a man with much good humor and rebuilt and sold houses at a profit. traveled ex­ field. Conn. • John Monroe spent the summer patience. Peter is livmg in Sherbrooke Quebec tensively through the U.S., Japan. and Europe. of '88 at Stanford Lniversitv l\ledicalCenter's Ba­ and works as secretarv-treasurer at Ea tern added to his family (he and his wife Diana, have sic Science Course in Ophthalmology· he ha no\\· Townships Produce Ltd.· distributors of Sealtest three children). and has generally had {1 111 since returnedlo work in his ophthalmology residen­ dairy products and Boischatel Spring Water. Hi Colby! Way to go, Glenn' • Also in business for cy in San Diego • In July Mark and Pa tty wife .\ 1ary !Lynah 801 is director of liai­ himself is Dean Morrissey who started his own \'alavanis Smith moved into a house thev built son • Kenneth Gall recei,·ed a Ph D in nucle· development company headquartered in Hilton themselves (all the way from clearing th� lot to ar physics from Boston University in June 19 8 Head, S.C. In 1984 he moved from Boston to de­ finish carpentry) in AndO\·er /\lass. Patty has a and currently hnlds a faculty position at Han·ard velop student condominium projects at Miami new job doing press and outreach programs for i\ledical School in the department of radiation University in Oxford. Ohio, where he no,,· the Secretary of States public affairs division in medicine. He was married to Loui e Perkin� on lives • After losing touch with several Colby Boston • Cynthia Auman lives in l\lanhattan September 3 1988.John Boole 1best man\ Bri­ pals, Becky Rogers Bushong wrote to send ,,·here she is director of marketing with Plumb an Heneghan 80 Paul :'\o,·ak 80 Ken Seidel 2 warm greetings to all from Washington. D.C. Pearson, Inc. Cynnie is no,,· quite active with the and John Ta ylor 3 were in atten· Becky was married in tovember 1987 to Bill, an Alumni Fund as well as the New York Alumni dance • Kathryn Critchlow Luther and hus­ architectural historian with a Ph.D. in American Club • Liz Martin is rumored to be traveling band I\lark both �eceived ,\ l.S. degrees in geology civilization. Both he and Becky work as research about the world/country writing books • Linda from the Universitv of North Dakota in ;\la\' · professionals in the D.C. area; Becky as a special· Philipo built a new house in Richmond, \'a., 1988. !\lark has rec�ntlv started a job a an en­ isl in congressional history and Bill as a special­ where she works ,,·ith Citibank • Our 10th vear ,·ironmental scientist with the :\'orth Dakota State ist in historic preservation • Working in the rellJ1ionis creeping up on us. and we seem lo l;a,·e Health Department. Kathryn participated 1n a health field, Kyle Harrow is an exercise physiol­ "lost" several of our classmates (including Peter seven-day 80-mile white-water rafting trip and ogist in Scituate, Mass.. where she lives with hus­ Golden. whom I tried to contact la t time I \\·as is now job hunting. Their daughter ,\ legan Rose band Richard Kantor • Barbara Croft Spillane out in Los Angeles). Ii you know anyone ,,·ho has is four years old • Kathy Ennis Cutter and is a physical therapist and athletic trainer in been hiding in the woodwork please let us know. husband Alan ha,·e just bought a condo in Jamai­ Chestnut Hill. Barbara was married in the fall of Also. please keep me posted on anv and all ca Plain. Kathy is a student working on her 1987 to John Spillane. a graduate of the Univer­ changes in your life. i\I B.A at Boston Uni,·ersity and is mother to sity of New Haven and current captain in the Class secretary: DIANA HERRl\1ANN, Samuel Jason. Alan is a real estate broker and Brookline Fire Department. (Barbara wrote that 360 E. 65th St. ;t3H, New York :--J.Y. 10021. rental manager. Kathy says she mi ses the close­ Colby s small size provided her the chance to ness at Colby. especially with her sisters in Chi grow up and "find herself" and admits that she Omega • Fred Madeira and his wife Tricia probably would've gotten lost at a bigger school) were married in lay 1988 at BU chapel. Fred is She has fow1d her niche in the medical world and working as an account executive at Compuser\'e truly enjoys life now. Last summer she and John and Tricia is an a sistant sales manager for AT&T. celebrated this happiness with a second honey­ They are Ji,·ing in the south end of Bos­ moon trip to Ireland' • Thanks for helping me 81.,__-- ton • Faith Bramhall has been promoted to a to share your news. thoughts, and feelings with new position as group disability sales consultant other classmates. The response to the questionnaire was mar­ :-.JorthwesternMutual Life. This job gives Faith Class secretary: JA TE VE MAN velous! I will have enough news to fill the column the opportunity todo a great deal oftraveling. She LEDEBUHR. 4590 Rocky Hill Way , Williams­ for the next year • Joel Harris is living in North writes of fellow Colbyites: Mari Samaras \\'hite ton, Mich. 48895. Ya rmouth. !aine, with his wife. Natalie, and son, and husband Charlie '80 were expecting their Morgan. He is a money management officer with third child in October. In !\lay she visited in Fleet Bank in Portland. where he is especially in­ Maryland with To ry Sneff who is ,·ery involved ,·olved in the municipal bonds market. Joel and with Le Peep Restaurants. Jn San Francisco she Ta lie also are busy restoring their home, which caught up with Kim Wadkins. who is till work· was built around 1800 • Scott Vendersall, who ing in human resources at MCI. Kim also keeps is pursuing an M.B.A. at BU, was elected assis­ active as captain of a soccer team. More recent­ 80-- tant vice president for commercial loan for In­ ly Faith was in New York City. where Kathy Dor­ John Veilleux married Diana Johnson on Oc­ dian Head Bank and Trust. Portsmouth N.H. He nish and Holly Mackin Anzini are both tober 29, 1988, in St. Matthews Cathedral, and his wife. Amy, are parents of two daughters, working. Sounds to me like Faith has the perfect Washington, D.C. They honeymooned in Hawaii Allison and Andrea • Lisa Nolan is back home job! • Daphne Geary Waggaman and hus­ and now live in Washington. Among attendees at in Metuchen, N.J., after spending three years in band William are living in orwalk Conn .. and their wedding were Steve Kirstein (Living in Bos­ England'pursuing a master's in medieval art from have started their own company renovating and ton and engaged to be married as well), Rod Mar­ the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She is restoring old homes in Fairfield County. Their shall (who is now an attorney, living and working working for the Cloisters, a branch of the second child Natalie Pierpoint. was a leap year in the Providence, R.l., area). Jonathan Green­ 1etropolitan Museum of Art • Emily Lin­ baby born February 29, 1988. Colby brings her span (who lives in Manahattan, where he works demann Stuart lives in Cumberland, Maine, memories of her favorite professor. Ed Kenney. with the investment property group of Coldwell and teaches biology at Bonnie Eagle High School. Class secretary: PAU LA HINCKLEY Banker), Bob Kinney '79, and Bob Ham She says Colby reminds her of Sugarloaf and of BURRO GHS. RRl. Box 11 A, Hillsboro. N.H. 79 • Carol Sly works in Boston as a graphic lots of fun with her roommates. She laments her 032.+�. designer of real estate projects, lives in Newton, lack of free time these days. with daughter and is still quite active athleticaJly: she recently Maryette keeping her and husband Robert participated in her third Pan Massachusetts Chal­ busy • Darlene Howland Currier and hus­ lenge bike race, which goes from Sturbridge to band Jeffrey are busy in the theater. They are Provincetown • Amy Butcher has also been ac­ both gearing up to perform in a musical called tive with the Pan Mass Challenge. She now works "Roar of the Greasepaint'.'Darlene is program di­ in outdoor education at Greenfield Community rector at Welle5ley Community Children's Cen­ College in Massachusetts • Penny Janzen, who ter, Wellesley College, where they built a model does copy editing with IDG ews in Boston, Lives childcare center on the college campus; it serves I hope you all received my lengthy newsletter - in Dorchester and enjoys interesting travels as 90 families with children between three months once again I apologize for its delay. Yo u looked part of both work and play • An attorney in Bos­ and three years • Joe Kelliher is a senior proj­ in vain for your name if you didn't write. t ow that ton, Liz Shackford lives in Dorchester, too, with ect manager for public housing development in I have finally completed that tome, there isn t Maggie Murphy 78 • John and Susan Erb Pit­ the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but he much fresh news to report, so I welcome any and tenger, married in October 1987, live in a house wrote to me from Katmandu where he was busy all updates. There is however. a lot of academi­ they are renovating in Winchester, Mass. Susan "trekking around, visiting monasteries, and se�­ cally related news • At last report. Jennifer works in development and public relations for the ing the base of Mt. Everest." From there he goes Batson \\Tilson was a career counselor at Dart­ Essex Institute in Salem and John is a manage­ on to Tibet in search of enlightenment • Peter mouth College. Jenny has now completed her ment consultant • Larry Sparks is a math Bishop wrote that his memories of Colby include master's of education in counseling from the COLBY 41 Un1\'er�ily ni New I lamp>hirc <1nd \a�l fa ll wa'

42 COLBY and we know him: the library is still there, as are lieutenant stationed at Cherry Point, N .C. • our dorms and frats-turned-dorms; and e\'en Cathy Coniff continues to stay in touch with some of our favorite and not-so-favorite profes­ classmates Sarah Chapin Reardon Mary sors are still there). a lot has changed. Ta ke, for White, Alicia Curtin, and Maura Cassidv. The example, that beautiful and architecturally per­ gang travels every year to events like Mardi Gras fect Student Center of which we alums are very and skiing at Loon J\ lountain. Cathy is living in proud. That building has become a center of ac­ New Haven. Conn. and is an office manager at tivity for the tudents. I was fortunate enough to Conran's as well as an assistant coach of the Ya le be a part of that activity when, on Friday night women's ice hockey team • It was good to hear 86-- a major event seemed to be happening. Lip­ from Cecil C. Holstein. who wrote from Riehan. The response from the Class of 86 was over­ synching was the focal point of the momf'nt,and Switzerland, where he had been involved in in­ ,,-helming this fall. Thanks to all of you for be­ everyone seemed to enjoy the antics of the stu­ house investment banking. specifically the re- ing such wonderful correspondents • Andrew dents performing. Sure, we had gone to smokers. tructuring of the Latin American debt. He was Maley and wife Margaret Da\·is 85 ha,·e mo,·ed But we did not all go. At this particular event transferred to Sao Paulo. Brazil. at the end of the from New Hampshire to Connecticut. where An­ !which, by the way, featured beverages of the al­ year • Lt. Frederick Canby, D.D.S., is in Long drew has joined his father and brother \\'illiam coholic tap kind and of the nonalcoholic on re­ Beach, Calif., working at the Naval Dental Clin­ 81 in th� famih- business . -\ndre\\" also ,-olun­ . questj, it appeared that every student on campus ic. Fred graduated from Georgetown University teers at the Lo�g Wharf Theater 111 :'\e\\· Ha­ must have been jammed into the building. The School of Dentistry in May 1988 • Randall ven • Steve Brennan got engaged to Syh-ia windows were open. and legs hung out' I had \Vilmot graduates from the Ya le University Kuzia and relocated to \"irginia where he 1s work­ seen the Student Center with a reserved audience chool of Architecture with a masters of architec­ ing in real estate • Ilona l\'.agy Burdette was sitting quietly as President Cotter spoke. but I ture in the spring of 1989. He has run into Lance married in June 1988. Karen Clark was her maid never had slipped on a beer-covered floor there and Anna White Hanson '85 in San Francisco of honor • Sheila Duffy Da,·is and Andrew before. For all the world, the place melled and Calif. • Stephanie Curtis is in D.C. teaching at Davis '85 were married in eptember and are sounded like the parties we '83ers can remember a pri,·ate school for learningdisabled kids the both working in ew Yo rk City • Tom Ox.holm being held in what are now "commons:· When I Kingsbury Centre. Stef has been tra eling and was appointed director of alumni relations at \'er­ asked the student who checked student IDs as the working for caterers in her spare time. learning mont Academy, his alma mater after working in kids and alumni entered if I had, indeed, entered cooking skills and earning some extra the retail field for a while. Congratulations to Tom a frat party, I was chastised and immediately cor­ cash • Jessica Gwynne is engaged and has also on his recent engagement to Victoria Brigg rected. She was appalled. "That is the f-word!" she been working at Cunningham. Henderson & 87. An August 1989 wedding is planned • Eve­ said. 'We do not have those anymore:' What was Papin. Jessica attends the Colgate Darden School Lynne Ermer and husband Scott Russell 83 be­ odd was that those students, for all their own pur­ of Business Administration at the Universitv of came proud parents of a daughter Andrea born poses, were living in those smelly, sticky. totally Virginia • Get psyched for our five year' re­ in August. Andrea joins brother Erik at home in enthralling moments we lived- but in another union' Regards! Salisbury, Conn. • Some of our classmate give era. I wasn't going to argue with her, for fear she Class secretary: KATHRYN M. SODER reports from school. Doug Scalise is in his final might have me thrown out. Kelly Dodge and Liz BERG. 5 mith Farm Trail, Lvnnfield. i\1ass. year at Boston Uni,·ersity's School of Theology adeau were there with me and we took it all 01940. where he will be getting a master s of di,·ini­ in together. We left amazed, and we pondered the ty • Heidi Stonehill has decided to explore a whole evening. The scene we had seen proved to more creative and ,-isual path in science at the us that five years and many structural and ideo­ l niversity of Pennsylvania. hoping to combine logical changes had occurred. Think about her interests in art and nature • Stephen Potts it • Anyv.•ay,I want to report that our own To dd is at U Mas working on a master's in geolo­ Coffin was the fastest miler in the first Forest Av­ gy • Arlene Kasarjian reporting for the first enue Mile, edging U. Maine graduate Myron time since graduation, is studying at Boston Col­ Whipkey. We still love to beat those guys! • Con­ Tom Claytor is still flying around Africa. \\'hen lege, preparing for a career in public service. She gratulations are also in order for John Lemoine I last heard from him, he was searching for "Pyg­ has been working for the i\!assachusettsDepart­ and his brother, David '79, who were awarded de­ mee elephants" with two Pygmee trappers in the ment of Public Welfare and interningwith the grees in May from the University of Maine School Central African Republic. This March a Nation­ federal go,·ernment in Washington • Cabot of Law in Portland • If you want or if you are al Geographic film on which he worked. Philbrick is enrolled in the J\LF.A. program at unable to write, give me a call. I'm at 207/244- "Serengeti Diary," will be airing on public televi­ Syracuse after spending a year in a film­ 3678; at work, 207/276-3322. Until next time, sion • In Boston, Swing Robertson and Peter production program at the Art Institute of Chica­ happy spring! Coley '86 are living in a great townhouse on Bea­ go • Bob Cobuzzi, a full-time grad student at Class secretary: SALLY LOVEGRE con Hill. Swing is working for a real estate de­ Loyola Uni,·ersity ledical Center is working on MERC HANT, Box 244 B, Mount Desert, Maine veloper on the South Shore, and Peter is working his Ph.D.... and really enjoys it' • Cindy Ardi­ 04660. for Drexel Burnham • Jamie Stone and Doug to is in the doctoral program at the Uni,·ersity of Brown are living in Brighton. Jamie is training Hartford in the field of clinical psycholo­ to be a trader for Shearson-Lehman Brother , and gy • Rick Frank is studying at Tufts Dental Doug is going to BU, getting his Ph.D. in phys­ School and has visited with classmate ;\larc ics • Steve and Marcy Reed are living in Arling­ Doolittle at BrO\rn University .\ledical ton, Mass. Steve was preparing to attend law School • Brent, Jill (Stasz), and Bradley Hanis school in the fall • Mark Howard is working have relocated to Washington D.C. after Brent 5lh reunion: June 9-1 1, 1989 • Keep those let­ for Shearson-Lehman Brothers in J ew Yo rk and recei\·ed a masters in medical biochemistrv from ters coming! • Mary Colbath recently finished attending YU part time for his M.B.A. • Eddie Hahnemann Univer ity. He is now enroiled in her M.Ed. at Harvard University after receiving Maggiacomo is a builder and general contrac­ Georaetown's School of .\ledicine for their an M.A. from Middlebury College and teaching tor in Providence, R.L • Chris Murphy has M.D./Ph.D. proaram. Jill sen·es as assistant to the Spanish for two years in California. She is started his own real-estate appraisal business in executive director at the National Black Child De­ presently an administrator at Westover School (a New Hampshire, F & M • Vicki Whited has velopment In titute. Brad turned four last sum­ private secondary schoolj in Middlebury. quit her job at Maine Medical Center in Portland mer and is enjoying his new school • Molly Conn. • Lisa Kuzia Krueger and her husband, to pursue a degree at USM to teach Eng­ Couch i teaching at the Gulf Stream School Warren '82, have given birth to their first child. lish • Julie Sands is engaged to Chris Causey, with an outdoor classroom across the street from They live in Cambridge. Mass. • This past sum­ and they plan to be married June 2-tin Minn eapo­ the Atlantic Ocean' he continues a busv. fitness mer Bruce icholson was in Seeley Lake, lis • Cindy Jeck is getting her Ph.D. in pharma­ program involving aerobics tennis, swimming Mont., along with Phil Cusick '85, building a log cology at Columbia and will marry Jeff Davis .:in and ice hockey in an all-mens no checking cabin. Bruce has been keeping in shape by com­ lay 27th • Anne Cookson is living in Arling­ league • Joey Marcoux is in his third year of peting in triathlons. He also enjoys fishing and ton, Va ., and working in D.C. for the International teaching at Lawrence Junior High chool in Fair­ backpacking. He spent five weeks in Australia Monetary Fund. field. Maine. Joey also ha a busy coaching sched­ and ew Zealand-all this after three and one Class secretary: AN MEG WHITE. ule • After spending two years teaching at Kent half years on tour in the Marine Corps as a first Day St., Apt. 205, Somerville, Mass. 02 14-t. School, . Scott Perry teaches in Portland at the COLBY �3 \\'aynOctL' Schnnl • Spring 1988 brought Heath­ on her master's in education al Stanford she worrying was unnecessary. Allison Murray, who er Freeman ba k homl'to Vermont. where she has ne clas� with Eric Heiden I • On the crea­ was sure she'd "never get a job," is now living in b a publisher\ assistant and gets to do plenty of tive side, Gregg Bach and Janet Dean represent­ Boston and working for Boston Financial Data skiing • Upon �uccessful completion of a train­ ed Colby in the Anthology of Fir�l Annual Services as a correspondent. So far the best news ing program with Merrill Lyn h, Evan Dangel Hamilton College Intercollegiate Reading Se­ for her is that her shift has been switched from is finally assisting his own clients with financial ries • Last year E.J. Perry was a substitute an 8·00 lo a 9: 15 starting lime • Also in Boston planning and personal investments • Michael teacher in the Lawrence 5chool system in Mas- is Kristin Shea, who is involved in an executive Dobbs was promoted lo product manager for 5achusetls, where he was also coaching the training program with one of the area's leading Colgate-Palmolive and has transferred to West Lawrence High track team • Pam Blanchard retail companies • Rob Yo ung is nearby; living Germany for about three years • Geoffrey joined the staff al Ve rmont Academy this past fall in Newlon, he's a store manager al Herman's Alexander is a senior production planner al Bath She works as an a5sistant in the admissions of­ Sports. Visit him and perhaps you can get a dis­ Iron Work • Suzanne Stahl isa video promo­ fice • In the almost two years that we've been count on a new pair of skis • Those whove re­ tions co rdinator al C- pan, localed in Washing­ out, ome of you may have switched jobs and my mained in Maine include Greg Cunningham, ton, D.C. • Grace Serizawa Brown is the info may be old news, so drop me a line. Richard To m Ferris, Tim Wissemann, Todd Blake, owner of Etc. & Co., a design. compuler­ Cuthie is living in Beverly Hills Calif., and is Tom Jester. and Nancy Pare. Tom Jester lives consulting, and print-production company. Grace work111g as a marketing manager for Cecil Say­ in Waterville and commutes to Augusta, where had a wonderful even-week visit lo Japan last dah Co., a maJor textiles firm 111 L.A • Peter he works for the Stale Preservation Society. Also summer, where she was reunited with her moth­ McKinley worked in ew Hampshire for the in Waterville, Todd is the assistant to Colby's stu­ er after 17 years • Another entrepreneur, Conservation Commission as a summer internin dent activities director, John Farkas. The rest are Rachel Brandzel, has a wholesale handmade 1988. He wa5 lo produce a brochure of recreation· in the Portland area. Tim is an agent for The greeting card company and a retail store in Seat­ al trails in the Concord area • Krissie Ralff Equitable Financial Services, and Nancy works tle, where she and husband Kim Stuart Rogers '85 lives 1n Boston and works for Sheraton Interna­ al Portland's district attorney's office. I'm not ex­ live • Hamilton Brower has traveled exten­ tional Corporation. She has been in their public actly sure what Greg and Tom Ferris are doing, but sively for J. Walter Thompson. Some recent trips relations depart men I since spring 1988 • Kim by the sound of their active social lives, they are have included slops in London, Paris Vienna, Ryan 1s in Ne\\ York working for the publications doing just fine • Melissa Ruff is in Palo Alto, Mexico, and the Far East. He also made a more Wo 111e11s \Vear Daily and W She's meeting some Calif., working for Beyond War • David Scan­ local slop to see classmate Helene Landers in really interesting people, and last year she had nell is with MassPirg in Springfield, working Hollywood, Calif., where she is breaking into act­ the opportunity to interview the Pel hop with two of the area's colleges, promoting student ing after being in a few commercials • Finally, Bovs • Elaine Mullen is still in 1ew York but awareness on a variety of issues-ultimately, as Lee Scammon is a headhunter in retail markets is 1;ow working for the Bank of To kyo in the finan­ Dave says. to "encourage them to become more close lo her new home in Waltham. She also cial service department. Shes happy she's gelling responsible citizens.' He is very busy and enjoys reports on Rich Deering, who is working for the chance lo use both her East A ian and eco­ the student atmosphere a lot. From Dave I col­ John lartin's Manor in Portland -and no doubt nomic5 majors • Another classmate who 1s put­ lected a variety of information. (Of course he told doing the mambo in the Playroom there! • ting her major lo good use is Merrid ith Belden. me to confirm all of his news, but as I don't work That's all the room l have for now. More news 111 J\1erridith, who has settled into her own house for the phone company, you'll have to take it as the next magazine. Best wishes to everyone1 in Freeport, J\la111e with her adorable dog, Bud. I heard it.) Dave's roomale at Colby, Brad Wirth Class secretary: GRETCHEN A. BEAN is working as a biologist with Eco-Analysts. lives in Dover. 1.H., where he is a management The Harvey School, Route 22, Katon ha, N .Y Among other things, the company is involved in trainee for Hanaford Bros. • Karen Hentz 10536. real estate development permitting hazardous works as a technical writer in the Boston area, waste site assessments, and aquatic and terres­ Sara Dickison works for a "headhunting" firm, trial habitat research • Steve an born has been and Ellen Krause has entered the blue-suited very busy up in Bethel, Maine He's leaching bi­ world of banking • Amy Lumbard lives in Bea­ ology al Gould Academy and is a supervisor in con Hill and works for an architectural the dorm he lives 1n Steve has also begun a stu­ firm • Jeff Packman is in Arlington, Va., and dent service organization that is assisting elder­ working at the University of Maryland in biolog­ ly people, and he still finds time to work with ical research. He is living with Steve Te plitz. who local grammar school children • Also in Maine, is in his first year of law school at George I'd like to congratulate all of the following on their John Moore has taken on an exciting challenge Washington University • Likewise, Kathleen recent marriages. Debra Dunn married Andrew with his older sister. The two of them bought the Bradley is pursuing a career in law; she is at the Walker of Harwich, Conn., in June 1988. Debra State Theater in Farmington This is the first time Ve rmont Law School and plans to concentrate on is pursuing a doctorate in psychology at the in over 50 years that the local movie house won't environmental law • Also in school is Jill Hes­ University of Connecticut • Jen Shackett mar­ be operated by a big corporation. Best of luck to lem; living in Amherst, Jill is in her first year al ried Thomas Berry, a 1986 Dartmouth grad, also you and your sister, John1 • Scott Bates has be­ the University of Massachusetts, doing graduate during the month of June • In July, Abby Laus­ come another addition lo Portland, Maine. He's work in French • Cathy Cohen, an avid psy­ ier and Tim Murphy were married. Abby is been living here for the past year and a half. chology major, is pursuing her field at Tufts working for the law firm of Arnold, Morgan & working for the Sheridan Group in project University • On the other side of the academic Lausier in Lynn, Mass., and Tim is employed by management • Also in the Portland area, fence are Garret Hinebauch and Bill Reed. the Bedford Administration Hospital • Jim Clifford Dow enjoys his work as a stockbro­ Garret is leaching English at the Berkshire Canfield married Karen Bonander of Troy, ker • As for the rest of you who haven't seen School, and Bill is at Eaglebrook in Deerfield, Mich., last September. Jim is currently employed your name in this column yet, let me know what Mass., teaching history and coaching soccer and through the financial development department you're up to. I want to hear from the whole class skiing • Rumor has it that Matt Kennedy is program at Digital Equipment in Maynard, at least once before our fifth-year reunion. "not ready to wear a blue suit yet" and so is ap­ Mass. • In November John Bookis married Class secretary: L CY T. LENNON, 269 plying for jobs aboard cruise ships • Finally, I Deborah Seferiadis. John is working for Morgan Commercial St., Apt. 4F, Portland, Maine 04101. heard from Lauren Frazza, who is living in Guaranty Trust in New York • More news Greenwich Village, N .Y.,pursuing a career in jazz, comes in about some of our classmates who are studying voice, and taking a few fine arts class­ continuing their education and some who are es. To support herself she works as a singing continuing the education of others. Andrew waitress-surely Lauren is the only singing wait­ Rudman is working on his master's degree in ress our class can boast of! • Well, that's it. I Latin· American studies al Tulane. He had plans apologize if any of the news is outdated, but be­ to returnto Argentina last summer to research cause of printing time and the winter holidays, the democratic transition. Andy loves New the deadline for this column was Thanksgiving. 88-- Clearly some of the above-mentioned might eas­ Orleans and welcomes any classmates who pass The news I've gathered is mostly job-related, so by lo stop for a visit • Connie Gallagh e r left forgive me if this column is not the most thrill­ ily be involved in something dramatically differ­ Portland. Maine, last summer, where she was ing ... please drop a note to me or the Alumni ent by now. teaching special children, lo returnto her home Office. Even though many left Waterville last Class secretary: EMILY ISAACS, 15 slate of California. Connie has started working May worried about their joblessness, clearly such Warfield Place, Northampton, Mass. 01060.

44 COLBY __ _./'1 1 _ _ LE ST0 NE S _

Charles Ross Devin '86 to Jennifer Lynn Plas­ ter. June 4, 1988, 'Trumbull, Conn.

Robert A. Kenney '86 to Beth Meryl Schwartz '86. June 4, 1988, Boston, Mass.

Wendy Elisabeth Lapham '86 to Jonathan R. Russ '87, June 25, 1988, Skaneateles, NY. MARR IAGES Howard Emmons '82 to Sheila Flanagan, Swampscott, Mass. Michael E. Marchetti '86 to Suzanne Bourne Pearson '86, June 18, 1988, Pawtucket, R.I. Te rence J- Reilly '75 to Jane M. Irvine, April 2, Susan E. Wechsler '82 to Stephen R. Atkins, West Palm Beach, Fla. 1988, May 29. 1988, Boston, Mass. Jean Elise Kroeck '87 to Timothy Robert Aiken, February 20, 1988, Reading, Mass. Ross Moldoff '79 to Arny Beth Price, July 17, Denise H. Kay '84 to Lawrence C. Parker, June 1988, Wellesley, Mass. 4, 1988, Durham, N.H. Andrew Robert Spirito, Jr. '87 to Judith L. Palumbo, June 11, 1988, Cranston, R.I. James Brophy '80 to Lynne Rawlins '85, May Sandra Lee Thornton '84 to John Henry 14, 1988, Danvers, Mass. McNary. Jr., May 7, 1988, Manchester, Conn. Tasha M. Allyn'88 to Mark G. Falcone, July 24, 1988, Skaneateles, N.Y. Diane M. Farrell '80 to Grey Parkin Guthmann, Dawn Anne Gale '85 to Charles Brent LaCasce, Reading, Mass. Fryeburg, Maine. James E. Donahue '88 to Linda Lee '88, Cran­ ston, R.I. Julanne M. Cully '82 to William E. Wright, June Katherine Elizabeth Kamm '85 to Martin D. 19, 1988, Weymouth, Mass. Davis, April 30, 1988, Sewanee, Te nn. BIRTHS

A son, David Fisher, to Stephen Fisher '69.

1\vin daughters. Hilary and Mercedes, to Susan M. Rennau '73.

A son, Mark Edward Mc ulty, to James and De­ borah Marson McNulty '75, September 16, 1988.

A daughter, Kathleen Elizabeth Hamilton, to David and Karen Blough Hamilton '76, November 3, 1988.

A daughter, Jocelyn DeWire, to Jacqueline and E Michael DeWire III '77, September 30, 1986.

A daughter, Alison DeWire, to Jacqueline and F. Michael DeWire III '77, January 5, 1988.

A son, Connor Edward Green, to Richard and Melanie Dorain Green '77, September 23, 1988.

A son, Cory Joseph Rosenfield, to Kenneth and Janet McLeod Rosenfield '77, September 9, 1987.

A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Haines, to Jonathan L '79 and Joyce Glassock Haines '79, April 9, 1988. Blue sky showed over Skaneateles, NY, on June 25, 1988, the wedding day of We ndy

Lapham '86 and Jonathan Russ '87. Front row: Lisa Rathke '87, Susan Ta lburt '85, Sheila A son, Eric Timothy Eschner, to David and Nan­ Getman Sherwin '87, Nell Draper '87, Scott Lainer '87, Matthew Moran '87, Stephanie cy Kennedy Eschner '80, September 1, 1988. Hart '85, Jonathan Russ, We ndy Lapham Russ, Evan Dangel '86, Sue Roberts '86, Pa mela A son, Daniel Stephan Cobb, Jr., to Daniel and Pa rker 1881 Liz Rowe Lapham '63, Nancy Cunneen Boardman '61, Joan Hoffman Theve Janet Blau Cobb '81, May 27, 1988. '59, Robert Theve '58. Back row: RobynIblstrup, Rick Iblstrup 186, Glenn Wilson '85, Giles We lles '85, Bruce Cole '86, Ibny Stiker '86, Scott Pe rry'86, Matthew Hartley 186, Kimberly A daughter, Laura Lee Sturtevant, to Alan and Burnham '86, Zaki Nashed '87, Tum Gratzer '84, Genevieve Hammond '86, Bev Lapham Bette Smith Sturtevant '81, August 20, 1988. '61, Candace Castle Marsellus '61, Edgar Boardman '61. A daughter, Andrea Frances Ermer Russell, to Scott Russell '83 and Eve Ermer '86, August 15, 1988.

COLBY 45 1965. He was past president of the Ve rgennes Ro­ Corona Hatch MacRae '29, June 3, 1988. She tary Club, l Peter's Parish Coun ii, and �everal lived in Walton, N.Y., with her daughter, Phoe­ qalewide educational organ11alions. His late be Adams, who survives her. D E A T H S brothers, John L. Berry '24 and Mark J. Berry '35, both attended the College. He 1s survived by his Pa uline Bakcman '30, October 5, 1988, at age wife, Kuthlecn, a dnughler, and lwo grand­ 80 Born in East Jaffrey, N.H.. she attended Pea­ Bert \\'be ' 1 6, September 19, 1988, in Liberty, children. hody High School 111 Peabody, Mass. A Phi Beta I\la I lle, at age 96. He was bornin New Brunswick, Kappa at Colby, she was an English and biology Canada, and graduated from Houlton High major who, she once remarked, "was in practical­ Sthool bciore coming lo Colby, where he was a Laurice Edes Merriman Chandler '28, August ly everything permitted the female except beau­ 111e111ber of Alpha Ta u 0111ega fraternity. He 26, 1988, in Greenwich Conn., al age 83 Born ty contests:· She went on lo receive an M.A. in worked as a li111ckeeper and accounlanl for the in angerville, Maine, she lived in Bangor for social work fromthe University of Chicago and Bangor and Aroostook Railroad from 191- until most of her life. She worked as an assistant librar· earneda certificate in applied psychiatry al Wil­ his retire111enl in 1957. Holder of the Bosto11 Post ian at 11 usson College and was a tireless supporter liam Anson Institute of Psychiatry. She was a psy­ Cane as the oldest resident of Liberty al the li111c of the slate of l\1aine In 1927 she married Earl chiatric social worker for various bureaus of of his death, he leaves several nieces and nephews. L. Merriman '25. Following retirement she lived social service in Illinois, on the East Coast, and in Englewood. Fla. She is survived by her second in Germany. In retirement she lived in Alton \'iolct Shaw Scott ' 1 8 . September 29 1 988. in husband Roland. three sons, including Robert '50 N .H.. where she was actively involved in the New Caribou I\laine al age 93. Born in Fort Fairfield. and Richard '57, a daughter, Ruth Merriman Ha111psh1rc Poetry Society, writing poetry of self­ I\laine, he attended Caribou High School and Bro\\'n '52, a daughter-in-law. Nancy Weare Mer­ analysis and social tnsight. She alsoplayed the graduated fro111 Boston Uni\'ers1ty after allend­ riman '52. 12 grandchildren, and two greal­ cello in several musical groups. Her father and ing Colby. Al the College she was a membt.'rof grandch1ldren. mother, Robert A. ·01 and Jennie June Dunn Alpha Delta Pi sorority and later served as her Bakeman '03, her grandfather, trustee Francis class agent. An 80-year member of the Gray Wales Bakeman Class of 1866. and many cous Donald 11. Millett September m · lemorial niled l\1elhodisl Church of Caribou '28, 17. 1988, Bucksport, laine, at age Born in Hanover, ins attended Colby. She is survived by her sister­ she \\'as a member of the United Methodist Wo111 82. - l\1<1ss., he nttended high school in pringfield. Vt in-law, Jessie Bakeman. en and was active in numerous community aL­ Al the College he was a business administration tivities. She issurvived by a son, Sheldon S. Scott ma_1 r, a member of the debating society. and a four great­ a sister, two grandchildren, and charter member of the Colby chapter of Kappa grandchildren. Delta Rho fraternity.He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Uniwrsity in 1931 and went on to be­ '19 August 988 al Helen Baldwin Gates 15. 1 come office manager of Maine eabord later St. age 92 he was living in Orange City. Fla., al the Regis Paper Co He was also treasurer of Eastern lime of her death. She was bornin Ve rona, N.J., Corporation Ht' rt'lired fromCentral Maine Pow­ and attended Foxcrofl Academy in Foxcroft er in 1971. He served in Bucksport as mayor and I\laine. While at Colbv she was a member of Chi . council rhair for even ye<:rsand was chair of the 0111ega orority and president of the YWCA. he executive board of the Bucksport Regional Health received her masters degree in religious educa­ Center and of lhe Hancock County Planning tion from Boston Universitv and worked for 2:5 Commission. His father was Robert N Millett years a a missionary in Bur m1. During this time ; Cla s of 1893 and his mother was Katherine she applied much of her efforts to teaching Eng­ Hobbs l\.lillett Class of 1894. He is survived by lish and religious education at Judson College in his wife of 54 years, Jennie Dunn Millett 31, a Rangoon Burma. She was also dean of women brother. William '34, a sister, Ruth Millett Mak­ at Ewing Christian College inIn dia for fouryears. er '36, a daughter Pa tricia Millett Kent '62, three Her husband, the late Gordon E. Gates ' 19 was grandsons. and two greal-grandchildren. professor of biology at Colby f ro111 1948 to 1951. Survivors include her daughter, Evelyn Gales Moriarty '44, her son-in-law Ja111es W. Moriarty Joseph F. Theriault '2 8, August 11, 1988, in '43, her isler , Virginia Baldwin Kinney '26, and Methuen, Mass., at age 81. He was born andedu­ her brother-in-law, Paul Gates '24. cated in Haverhill Mass., and was a chemislrv ' major and member of Delta Upsilon fraternity at Reta Wheaton Belyea '23, June 13, 1988, in C:t r­ Colby. He also attended Boston University and ibou, Maine, at age 91. Bornin Houlton, Maine, received his M.S. in biology at the University of Lucius H. Stebbins '30 she attended high school there before coming to New Hampshire in 1937. He taught biology and Colby. where she was a member of Sigma Kap­ chemistry al Haverhill High School for 16 years pa sorority. She taught algebra and geometry in until 1945, when he began work as a chemist for Lucius H. Stebbins '30, July 18, 1988, in the Caribou school system for over 25 years and the Robert Gare Co. of Bradford, Mass. In 1969 Damariscotta, Maine, at age 80. He was born in was a member of the Maine Teachers Association. he began a 10-year period of employment in the Colchester, Conn. After graduating from Colby, She was also a member of the Unitarian Univer­ research department at Continental Can in ew where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta salist Church of Caribou. She is survived by her London, Conn. He was a member of numerous fraternity, he was employed by Central Maine sons, Robert W. Belyea '5 1 and Frederick W. Bel­ organizations, including the American Chemical Power Co. for a short while. He then taught in a yea, eight grandchildren, and three great-grand­ Society. He is survived by his wife, Amelia, a high school in Woodstock, Conn. In 1941 he children. daughter, and two grandchildren. moved to Fairfield, Conn., where he taught Eng· lish at Roger Ludlowe High School. He received James F. Berry '2 7, September 9, 1988, in Mid­ his master's degree in psychology from Fairfield dlebury, Vt., al age 87. He was bornin Jefferson­ David Kronquisl '29, August 19, 1988, in Fort University and was the school psychologist and ville, Vt. A history major and member of Alpha Myers, Fla., at age 83. He was bornin Ru111ford, guidance counselor at Andrew Ward High School Ta u Omega at Colby, he received his M.A. from R.I., and attended East Providence High chool. until his retirement in 1969. He is survived by his the Un iversi l y of Ve rmont in 1931 after study al At the College he was a member of Kappa Delta wife, Thelma, a daughter, a son, a granddaugh­ Trinity College in Ireland. He married Constance Rho fraternity. His work as a salesman look him ter, and a great-granddaughter. Canning Berry and was principal al Sherburne to Honduras with the United Fruit Company be­ and Groton high schools in Ve rmont. After nine fore he settled in Florida, where he lived for 40 John W. Locke II '33, August 3, 1988, al age 78. years as principal al Vergennes High School, he years and was employed in retail sales, advertis­ Born in Medford, Mass., he attended Worcester resigned in 1952 lo lake a post with the educa­ ing, and life insurance. He was his class agent for Academy. Al Colby he was a member of Delta tion division of Field Enterprises, publishers of the Alumni Fund from 1949 to 1954. He leaves Kappa Epsilon fraternity.In 1933 he was the lead­ Wo rld Book Encyclopedia. Active in local politics, his wife, Maria Louise, a daughter, two sons, four off runner on the Colby mile relay team that set he was a candidate for mayor of Ve rgennes in grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. a College record lasting 43 years. After Colby he

46 COLBY attended Harvard University and entered the U.S. was a member of the American Chemical Socie­ High. For 22 years she was a teacher and 1 avy in 1942. Following � career with British ty and the Institute of Food Te chnology. He is sur­ mathematics department head at Frontier Petroleum Oil Company in New Yo rk, he was an vived by his wife, Nora, and a daughter. Regional High School in South Deerfield 1\ lass. industrial engineer with the CETA Program in She was also an accomplished musician begin­ Hackensack, N .J. He retired in 1983, making his Gerald M. Armstrong '39, September 16. 1988 ning her music career as a flutist at the age of 12 home in Glen Rock, N.J. He is survived by his in Kingsport. Te nn., at age 71. He was born in with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She wife, Mary, a son, three daughters, including Waterville, Maine, and graduated Phi Beta Kap­ played the ilute in the Pioneer Va lley Symphony Mary JeanLocke Ready '72, a son-in-law, Michael pa from Colby. He went on to take his doctorate Orchestra for30 years. She is sur\'i\·ed by her hus­ Ready '74, and seven grandchildren, including in physical chemistry from Brown University fol­ band, Robert two sons. two daughters. and fiw Sheryl Reynold '87. lowing war-time work on the 1\lanhattan Project. grandchildren. He also did postdoctoral study at Brown and Harrison F. Williams '33, August 10, 1988, in joined the research engineering department of Robert B. Carr '-+O August 3. 1988 in \\'ater­ Portland, Maine, at age 78. He was born in Marl­ Te nnessee Eastman Co. in 1948. At the time of his \'ille. �laine, at age 69. Bornand educated in :'\or­ borough, Mass., and attended Braintree High retirement in 1982 he was a senior research ridgewock 1\laine he was Phi Beta Kappa at School. A member of Lambda Chi Alpha frater­ chemist. He was active in the Boy Scouts of Colby and earned his 1\!.E d at the College Ai­ nity and Kappa Phi Kappa at theCollege, he was America and was a member of the Moose Lodge. ter attending the University of Chicago. he sern:'d an outstanding runner and held several track rec­ He was predeceased by his sister. Ruth Arm­ as principal of i\laine high schools in Flagstaff and ords, including the 1933 mile relay record. He ' strong Bickmore 33. He is SLir\'i\·ed by his wife Oxford. During World VVar II he attained the rank was a sales representative in Maine for the in­ Alice. two sons. four grandchildren a sister, of captain as a meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force. stitutional division of General Foods for 20 years. Louise Armstrong Ray '30, and four brothers. in­ After a year of teaching mathematics in Dedham He was an active vo lunteer in the Boy Scouts of cluding Donald '26. Mass .. he mo\'ed to Auburndale, Ma s .. and America for 60 years and on the National ki Pa­ taught at Frank F. Day Junior High School in trol for 30 years. He was also a Red Cross first aid Leon J. Braudy '39, August 19. 1 988. in Pitts­ ewton for 32 years. His sister 1\laryCarr Pow­ instructor for 30 years and a Kiwanis Club mem­ field, 1\lass.. at age 69. He was born and educat­ ers '42, died in 1983. Survivors include his \\·iie ber for 32 years. He is survived by his wife, Rena, ed in New Bedford, Mass. After Colby, where he Jane Leighton Carr 42, a daughter. three sons three daughters, four grandchildren, and two was a business administration major and presi­ and five grandchildren. great-grandchildren. dent of Ta u Delta Phi fraternity,he received his M.B.A. from Harvard School of Business Ad­ Norma Brosius 1cLaren '-+2. February 16 Abner G. Bevin, Sr. '34, October 11, 1988, in ministration in 1941. During World \ ar II he at­ 1983. in Laconia, .H., at age 61. Bornin Berlin Middletown, Conn., at age 77. He was bornin tained the rank of captain, serving as a finance N.H., she attended Berlin High School. Upon East Hampton, Conn., and attended Wilbraham officer in the Army Air Force. For 40 years he graduation from Colby she studied laboratory Academy. At Colby he was a member of Phi Delta owned a certified public accounting office, oper­ technique at 1\laryHitchcock Hospital where she Theta fraternity and was captain of the track ating the business from his homein Greenburgh, worked as a medical technologist. Sun·ivor in­ team, running the second leg on the record­ N .Y . . where he lived since 1952. He also taught cluded two sons, Keir and Ian, a daughter Les­ holding 1933 mile relay team. Following service accounting at i\lercyCollege in New Rochelle for lie, a sister, a brother, and two grandchildren. during World War II as a corporal in the U.S. Ma­ five years before retiring in 1987. He was a found­ rine Corps, he became president of the Cape Cod ing member of the Westchester Reform Te mple Line Co. and treasurer of the Bevin-Wilcox Line in Scarsdale. Predeceased by his brother. Selwyn Gerard Begin '42, September 9. 19 8 in \\'ater­ Co. He was active in local church and commu­ '34 he is survi\·ed by his wife. Shirley. two sons, \'ille. Maine, at age 71. Bornin Augusta and a life­ nity activities. He is survived by his wife, Thel­ a daughter, a brother Ralph .t3, and a sister. long resident of Waterville he was a Postal Sen·­ ma Chase Bevin '31, a son and a daughter, a ice employee for 35 years. He was a \"eteran of brother, two sisters, and seven grandchildren. World \Var II. A first euchari tic minister at St. Francis de Sales Church, he was acti\'e in the John H. Sawyer '34. June 21, 1988, in Waterville. church's charismatic renewal mo\'ement. He is Maine, at age 80. He was born in Arlington, Mass. survived by his wife, 1\larguerite, two sons. in· While at Colby he was a member of Alpha Ta u eluding James '67, two daughters, and se\·eral Omega fraternity. He served in the Army during grandchildren. World War II. He is survived by a great-nephew. Geoffrey Sawyer, and a great-niece, Carolyn S. Dominic "Mico" Puiia '48, August 9, 1988, in Va ughan. Portland, Maine, at age 68. Born in Rumford i\laine, he attended Stephens High School where Ray Gardner '35, June 1, 1986, at age 72. Born he won all-state basketball honors. After two Ray Goldstein in Colchester, Conn., he attended years at Colby he joined the United States Ma­ White Plains High School in ew Yo rk. After rine Corps in 1942. serving for four years in the graduating from Colby he began a 26-year career Pacific in World War II and playing for service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, eventually baseball teams with Ted Williams and other ma­ rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He con­ jor leaguers. When he returned to Colby, where tinued his education at Jones College in Florida, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity where he received a B.A. in accounting in 1973 he lettered in basketball and football and played and a B.A. in business administration in 1979. He on one of the strongest baseball teams in the Col­ was business manager at a medical complex in lege's history. He was an All-State center fielder Orlando, Fla., forsix years and managed Kissim­ in his junior and senior years and was selected mee Gas Co. in Kissimmee. Fla.. for four years. in 1946 for the East squad at the East-West Col· Prior to his death he lived in an apartment in the legiate All-Star Game in Fenway Park. He taught Los Angeles, Calif., house of hisson, EricRollins, for one year at Lawrence High School in Fairfield, who survives him. Maine, then accepted a teaching/coaching posi­ Pa uline Prati Plaisted 39 tion at Livermore Falls. Laterhe taught U.S. his­ tory, coachedfootba ll. track, and baseball for 24 Phjfjp . Simon '36, August 30, 1988, in Bran­ years, and for 14 years was athletic director at ford, Conn., at age 74. He was born in Boston and Pauline Pratt Plaisted '39, August 29, 1988, in Rumford High School. In 1980 he was elected to attended Brookline High School. A member of Greenfield, Mass., at age 70. Born inPor tland, the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. He was a mem­ Ta u Delta Phi fraternity while at theCollege. he Maine, she attended Deering High School and ber of the American Legion, the VFW and the went on to earn his master's and doctorate de­ graduated with highest honors in mathematics. Sons of Italy. He was predeceased by his wife Lil· grees in food technology at the Universityof Mas­ A member of Sigma Kappa sorority and the lace, in January 1988. Surviving are two daugh­ sachusetts. He was an Army captain during mathematics club at Colby, she went on to teach ters, Wendy Blanchard and Heidi Waken a son World War II and a self-employed manufacturer mathematics in Kezar Falls, Maine. Later she Dean, a stepdaughter, five brothers, nine grand· of food products in Scarsdale, .Y.. until 1973. He taught at Falmouth High School and Deering children, and one great-grandson.

COLBY 47 Richard E. Bagg�. Jr. '53 1\ugu'>I 14 1977 at age the ba�eball team. Alter attending Emerson Col­ !er of The New Yo rk Times Company. He was a ..i;- Born 111 \Je\\ Yo rk :\ Y he attended Central lege and :--Jortheaslern University. he became resident of New Yo rk City He 1s survived by his High School m Ph1i<:tdelphia Pa. Following gradu­ prc,idcnt of G.A Le,·ow Co., a fa mily-owned parents. Joseph and Annette Singer. ation he >ened in the C . Army. Al the time oi busines, in Newlon, Mass which distributes hi> death he \\'a> a resident of Philadclph1a Sur­ microprocessing equipment. He received a mas­ ' 1\'0r, included his wife, Te resa a brother a sis­ ters 111 social work from Boston University 111 Elisabeth Ross Blackwell '78, August 13, 1988 ter, and a COU>tn, Robert E Baggs. Jr 65 1978. He erved a admi1mtrator of the Little Peo­ She lived in Delavan, Wis. Al Colby she was ac­ ple's School in West ewton. a school for tive in athletics, especially women's ice hockey language- and he<.1ring-impaired children, which Survivors include a brother, Clifford E. Blackwell he co-founded. lie was pn.',tdent of the Ill. Metropolitan Center for pecch and Hearing Therapy 111 West Ne\\lon from 1970 lo 1980. He Charles Higginson, Jr. '8 1 October 8, 1988, in was also a former member of the Massachusetts Boston, Mass. at age 30. Born and raised in Co­ Department of Public Health ta�k force that set hasset, Mass. he was a graduate of the Potomac guidelines for speech and hearing centers in the School in McLean, Va .. and Phillips Academy in slate He was a past president of the l\1assachu­ Andover, t\1ass. After graduate work at the Lon­ setl5 Heanng Aid Society and a frequent lecturer don chool of Economics, he began work as a for many educational institutions. government financial analyst at Kidder Peabody in ew Yo rk agencies and health sen ice providers Upon his A member of the Cohasset Ya cht Club, he was denth of lymphoma a scholarship fund was set well-known in the area for his performance in the up 111 hi name a� a memorial Sun·i,·ors include International 110 Class and was fleet champion his \\'tie Judith Lee Holtz Levow '55 . two chil­ for two years At the time of his death he worked dren two grand.:hildren a brother-1n-law Ger­ as an oii trader for Catamounl Petroleum Corp. ald L Hnlt1 52 nnd a sister-in-law Gale Holtl in Boston. He leaves his wife of four months, Su­ Golden 61 san his parents. and three brothers.

\\'alter Barry mi th '60 December 20. 1984 in Glen Cove NY at age 4G. A busine s admi111s­ tratwn ma_1nr at the College he began work in HONORARY l 9G2 as an 1nlerYiewer and counselor for the :'\cw Louis Booker Wright, Litt.D. '59. February 28, York Stale Department of Labor Division of Em­ 1984 at age -1. A successful reporter, editor, ployment and became a supervising senior em­ professor research scholar, and author, he was ployment counselor He was awarded an t\1.S. 111 the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in guidance counseling from Long I land University Washington D.C. for 20 years. After his retire­ 111 1Y70 He held variou lay pos1twns 111 church ment in 1968 he became a consultant for the Na­ affairs and was active 1n the Boy Scouts. Survivors tional Geographic Society included his mother ,\ \rs. Walter R. Smith Priscilla "Patsy" Shirley Castarieda '5 3 April Jens Fredrick Larson, L.H.D. '64, May 6, 1981, 55. ..i. 1986. at age Born in Ne\\'lon t\1ass. she Dawn E. Mit hell '6 l September l2 1987 in in Winston-Salem, N.C. Larson was well known graduated from Gould Academy in Belhl'I Lewiston. :'llaine. atage 48 Born in Lewiston she as one of a group of architects and college presi­ t\1aine. After Colby she attended the n1ver 1ly attended Auburn schools. graduating from Ed­ dents working lo improve the architectural of Geneva, witzerland, and Florida Te chnolog­ \\'ardLittle High chool in 1957. A member of Al­ character of liberal arts colleges when he was ical Universilv and worked for a construction pha Delta Pi sorority she graduated cum /aude chosen by President Franklin Johnson and the V company in V inter Park, Fla. A victim of multi­ from Colby She was a self-employed accountant Board of Trustees in 1931 lo be the master plan­ ple sclerosis, sh was im·olved in numerous 1as­ in Boston for many years and was a member of ner and chief architect of Colby's Mayflower Hill sachusetts church and community organizations the Amercian Society of Women Accountants. campus. Larson's plan, a combination of Beaux­ in addition to her activism in support of the phys­ Surviving is her brother, Radcliffe G. Mitchell, Jr Arts principles and Neu-Georgian style, created ically disabled. She served as a member of Col­ "an ideal small college in the best New England bv's Alumni Council in the late 1960s. Survivors traditions" and was followed faithfully for de­ i�cluded a brother Robert Shirley, and two sis­ Richard I. Spector '70, 1984 al age 36. He was cades of building on Mayflower Hill. ters. Susan Barrie and Elizabeth Day. born in Patterson N.J.. where he attended East Side High School He worked in :--Jew York City. Philip C. Jes up, LL.D. '73, January 31, 1986, Barbara Guernsey Eddy '54, August 22, 1988. Survivors included his father, 1orman, and two in Newtown Pa., at age 89. He was born in Man­ in Salisbury Conn., at age 55. She was born in brothers. hattan, NY., and was educated at the Ridgefield Middleton, Ohio, and raised in Lexington, Mass. School in Connecticut. He went on to Hamilton At Colby she was an English major and a mem­ Richard T. Brindle '71, October I, 1987. in Den­ College, Ya le University Law School, and Colum­ ber of both Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Cap ver Colo., al age 38. He was bornand educated bia University. A member of the bar in New Yo rk and Gown honorary society. She married C. Ar­ in Haverhill, Mass. He received his master's of di­ and in Washington, D.C., he joined the faculty of '54 thur Eddy and in 1963 moved to Salisbury to vinity degree from Andover-Newton Theological law at Columbia in 1925, became the Hamilton raise a family. In 1970 she became a reporter for Seminary in Newton, Mass., in 1974. He served Fish Professor of International Law and Diploma­ the Lakeville jo11mal weekly newspaper and later as associate pastor of the First Congregational cy in 1946, and continued teaching for 15 more became its copy editor. She was her Colby class Church in New Milford, Conn., from 1974 to years. During that period he also served as U.S. secretary from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. 1977. He became minister of the Wheal Ridge representative to the United Nations General As­ She was very active in her community during this Congregation of United Church of Christ in sembly for four years and was a member of the time, serving on the board of education, the plan­ Colorado in 1977 and served there until his death. International Court of Justice in the Hague for ning and zoning commission, and the school He worked actively with the Denver United nine years. Although he was attacked by Senator building committee. She is survived by her hus­ Fund, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Joseph McCarthy for having "an unusual affini­ band, their two sons and two daughers. and her Army, and the Big Brother/Big Sister Program and ty for communist causes," during his four years mother. was well known in the area for his dedication to in the United · ations he won high praise from youth and family concerns. Survivors include his his colleagues, particularly for his role in ending Barry Levow '54, August 5, 1988, in Weston, parents, Arthur and Anne Brindle. and his sister. the Berlin blockade. He wrote and edited sever­ Mass.. at age 57. He was born in New Bedford, al significant books in the field of international Mass., and wa educated at New Bedford High law. Al Colby he delivered the Commencement School and Hebron Academy in Maine. A busi­ Philip S. Singer '7 1 , October 2, 1987, in Boston, address for the Class of 1973. He was survived ness administration major at Colby, he was presi­ Mass., at age 38. An administrative science ma­ by his wife, Lois, a son, a brother, three grand­ dent of Tau Delta Phi fraternity and a pitcher on jor al Colby, he went on to work as a complrol- children, and four step-grandchildren.

48 COLBY LEA DERSHIP

William R. Cotter, president Peyton R. Helm, vice president for development and alumni relations

Board of Trustees

H. Ridgely Bullock '55, chair Gerald J. Holtz '52 Richard L. Abedon '56 Howard D. Adams Robert N. Anthony '38 Frank 0. Apantaku '71 Alida Milliken Camp (Mrs. Frederic E.) Levin H. Campbell Clark H. Carter '40 John G. Christy Susan Comeau '63 Warren J. Finegan '5 1 Robert A. Friedman William H. Goldfarb '68 Rae Jean Braunmuller Goodman '69 Nancy Spokes Haydu '69 Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80 Robert A. Marden '50 David M. Marson '48 Lawrence C. McQuade Paul D. Paganucci Wilson C. Piper '39 David Pulver '63 Sarah Janney Rose '76 Robert Sage '49 Richard R. Schmaltz '62 Robert E.L. Strider II Barbara Howard Traister '65 Edward Hill Turner William D. Wooldredge '61

Alumni Council Executive Committee

R. Dennis Dionne '61, chair Victor F. Scalise, Jr. '54, vice chair Susan Conant Cook '75 Libby J. Corydon '74 Jerome F. Goldberg '60 Douglas S. Hatfield '58 Cory L. Humphreys '85 Jonathan L. LeVeen '73 John D. Ludwig '58 Scott F. McDermott '76 Deborah Marson McNulty '75 Germaine Michaud Orloff '55 Donald J. Short '64 Colb1• \lag:vinc Nonprofit Organizati Colb College U.S. Postage Paid/Permi \\'alervillc, laine 0-l()01··t.7C)9 Portland, Maine 041