C LBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2000 ANNUAL REPORT ISSUE EDITOR David R. Morcom CLASS NOTES EDITORS Sheila Lewis Henry Lucille V. Shevett CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Peg Cawley Sheila Lewis Henry Adam Kamras Jean London Amy McConnell David R. Morcom Patricia Wetherall VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Donald A. Hasseltine DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Suellen M. Peluso DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL GIVING Sandra Swain-Bromwell COVER PHOTO Katie Dow ’90 DESIGN Dysart Creative Duxbury, MA PRINTING Penmor Lithographers Lewiston, ME ADDRESS LETTERS AND SUBMIT ARTICLE IDEAS TO: David R. Morcom, Editor O N T HE C OVER Publications Office As the colors of early autumn begin to show themselves, it’s a time of special Colby-Sawyer College beauty and excitment on the Colby-Sawyer campus. Friendships that were put on hold over the summer are renewed. Stories of adventures and accomplishments are 100 Main Street exchanged. And our new and returning students settle into the comfortable New London, NH 03257 rhythm of their home on the hill, where learning in and out of the classroom, Phone (603) 526-3730 cultural events, sports activities, and making new friends will fill their days and E-mail: [email protected] nights for the next nine months. A LUMNI M AGAZINE Fall/Winter 2000 contents Peg Cawley ’41 These happy campers, camp directors, and counselors shared many joyful moments on Little Lake Sunapee when Colbytown Camp was in its heyday. You’ll meet some of this group and hear their stories when you read Wishes Afloat on Moonlit Waters in this issue. Virtual Visits Sports Round-Up. 20 Colby-Sawyer a Popular Place in Cyberspace. 2 Olympic Connections Angels on the Highway . 4 Judy in Wonderland . 22 Dana in the Land of Oz . 23 Elections: Trustee Profiles Black, Coughlin, Fontaine, Goldthwait, McLaughlin & Thielen. 6 Reunion 2000 . .24 Conversation: In The News . 29 The President and a Friend . 8 Class Notes. 33 Wishes Afloat on Moonlit Waters Stories About Colbytown Camp . 10 In Fond Memory. 60 Commencement 2000 . 17 Annual Report. 61 VIRTUAL VISITS Colby-Sawyer a Popular Place in Cyberspace by Patricia Wetherall Since its launch in August 1999 onto the World Wide Web, mation to current and prospective students and their families, Colby-Sawyer’s Web site at www.colby-sawyer.edu had welcomed members of the campus community, and alumni and friends of 470,764 visitors by September 30, 2000. That’s an average of the college, as well as to other visitors from the local, national, more than 1,188 virtual visits per day. The Web site’s increasing and international communities. size and sophistication will ensure that more people will visit Initially developed in summer 1999 by a campus team of Colby-Sawyer online to stay informed about what’s happening volunteer Web publishers and editors–and guided by with our programs and people, including students, faculty, staff, XeniumGroup, a Web site design and building firm based in alumni, and friends of the college. Hanover, New Hampshire–the college’s site has burgeoned to The purpose of the Web site is to serve as a user-friendly, more than 1,100 pages in its first 13 months. It shows no signs internal and external medium for communicating about the of stopping. One goal for our Web site is to have it double in high quality of life and learning at Colby-Sawyer, as well as the size as quickly as possible while maintaining its elegant “look” unique traditions, celebrations, and opportunities that make our and conversational “feel.” Other goals include making it school special. Our professionally designed site provides infor- increasingly interactive and to accelerate our pace of updating 2 information, including sections of particular interest to alumni. bers. They can also read about the achievements of their peers, During the summer prior to his senior year, Rob Carroll ’00, Alumni Association activities, and the Alumni Volunteer a Communication Studies major, completed the challenging job Program, which assists the Admissions Office. In the future, of organizing content from numerous college departments to alumni will be able to form chat rooms with their classmates post onto the Web site. His task was to do this in a way that and dorm buddies, network with the college’s Career Services would inform Netsurfers with a wide variety of interests and Office, access our online Alumni Directory, pledge to the information needs. We are still reaping the benefits of Rob’s Annual Fund, and access student re´sume´ s when seeking interns strong sense of the type of information that would prove valu- or employees for their businesses. As the Web site develops, able to virtual visitors. alumni will simply know more about what’s happening on cam- Xenium’s graphic designer, Scott Chesnutt, conceived the pus, and they’ll know it sooner. Web site’s overall appearance, and Xenium’s founder, Mike Parents of current students love access to such features as the Yacavone, served as strategic advisor and cheerleader to the cam- new online calendar of events, as well as to our constantly pus Web team. Mike continues to advise the college’s Web mas- updated sports information. Because the college’s online calen- ters, Barbara Marty and Doug Minor, as well as our Web dar is multi-year, parents can use it to plan ahead for vacations Council, which represents the perspectives of Academic Affairs, and holidays. Prospective students and their parents eventually Admissions, Alumni Relations, Athletics, Development, will be able to enjoy online tours of campus before they arrive Information Resources, Public Relations, Student Development, for Discovery Days and/or the interview process. When making and other college offices and departments the trip to New London in person isn’t possible, alumni virtual- The pace of change and innovation on the World Wide Web ly will be able to tour new and recently upgraded facilities at the is accelerating at warp speed. The job of the Web masters and college as well as meet new faculty through their home pages. Web Council is to anticipate information needs of both the The most popular destinations during the Web site’s first 13 campus community and external visitors to the Web site and to months included the following: Academics, General prepare our site to meet these needs. This involves planning, Information, Information for Prospective Students and Families, research, keeping a watchful eye on Web innovations, and care- Campus Life, Athletics, College Administration, Admissions, ful listening to users’ requests. Calendar of Events, Colby-Sawyer People, Alumni & Friends, Colby-Sawyer’s younger alumni take connectivity to the International Students, and Human Resources. Internet for granted, and future graduates will have even higher Visitors to the Academic pages can learn a great deal about expectations for the college’s ability to communicate with them the thirteen majors offered by the college and can even peruse and provide a more interactive online experience. The AARP the Colby-Sawyer College Catalog with its selection of course indicates senior citizens are the fastest-growing group of U.S. offerings. World Wide Web users, so members of the earlier classes are as The first 15 months of traffic on the Web site has included likely as recent grads to appreciate a constantly evolving Web 54,436 unique visitors, 11,845 repeat visitors, 916,476 pages site that keeps them informed. accessed, and 5,989 file downloads, making the Colby-Sawyer Through the Web site, alumni currently can enter them- virtual campus a most popular and accessible cyber-resource for selves into the E-mail Directory and update such information as those who want to learn a little or a lot about our college. address, work title, place of employment, and telephone num- 3 The last issue of the Colby-Sawyer College Alumni Magazine ran a small item about one of our students who saved a woman’s life in a frightening auto accident. The item came to us so close to our publication deadline that we were not able to give it in-depth coverage. Below is an expanded version of the harrowing, courageous story as told in her own words by senior Nursing student Michelle Doyle ’01. Lives were at stake on the day this story took place, and, after reading what happened, you will be convinced there really are Angels onAs told tothe David R. Morcom Highway “It was kind of ironic because, car I had to assess her condition. due to road conditions that were I looked in and saw that the too icy for me to go home, I woman (Stephanie Perkins, 24) stayed at my parent’s house the was trapped under the steering night before the accident. My column, which had been bent parents called me where I was a over and was pinning her in waitress over the holiday break place. She had serious lacera- and said, ‘Please come stay with tions and was very disoriented. us. Don’t try to drive all the way I told her I was an emergency back to New London.’ o care attendant, that my name t o h P “It was about ten o’clock the was Michelle, and that I was P A , next morning, Saturday, (January e there to help her. All of this is n i L 8, 2000) and I was driving g pretty standard when you’re i a r through Quechee, Vermont, on C trained as an ECA. The woman my way back to my apartment in Both Daniel Eigenbrod (far right) and Michelle received the Vermont responded by saying she didn’t New London. As I came around Governor’s Certificate of Honor for their selfless actions.