Colby Magazine Volume 84 Issue 2 April 1995 Article 1 April 1995 Colby Magazine Vol. 84, No. 2: April 1995 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College (1995) "Colby Magazine Vol. 84, No. 2: April 1995," Colby Magazine: Vol. 84 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol84/iss2/1 This Download Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. Co lb for Alumni, Parents & Friends 22 Days in the Desert WHEN THE STANDARD BY WHICH WE'RE MEASURED IS PARTICIPATION, EVERY GIFT COUNTS. One of the tandard by which Colby i judged i its participation rate. ParticiRation me ures the number of people who cared enough to join the effort. Every gift, whatever amount, count equally. the Participation is leverage: higher rate help Colby win important foundation gra ranking in national survey· such as U . New while upp rti 1 . & World Re/Jort and faculty salarie . Although of alumni urveyed ay Colby i worthy of their up� rt, nly gave t 88% 45% Alumni Fund in Every gift ha a real impact on thi important tatistic. 1994. College % participation in Annual Funds* Amherst 62 Hamilton 56 Williams 56 Bowdoin 55 Swarthmore 54 Dartmouth 49 Haverford 48 Carleton 47 Colby 45 Bates 41 Trinity 41 Oberlin 40 Smith 38 * based on 1994 CFAE survey reports �ll gifts received by June count equally in helping Colby gain maximum leverage. So if 30, 1995, you haven't yet contributed to the Alumni Fund, please return the enclosed envelope today, 1995 or make a gift with your credit card by calling 207-872-3186. THE CAMPAIGN FOR COLBY Colby Alumni Fund 207 � 872 � 3 86 1 INSIDE C 0 LB Y COVER STORY WHERE KNOWLEDGE BLOOMS Fifteen Colby rudents went to the Mojave Desert expecting desolation. What they di covered wa an intricate ecosystem that fills the sen e and nourishes the spirit. 13 FEA T URES WHY TENURE WORK CHARACTER STUDIE HITTING FOR THE CYCLE President William Cotter discus�es Adversity has deferred but not From "Baseball" to a best-selling book, how tenure liberates faculty and deterred the dreams of the e two Dori Keams Goodwin '64 has been strengthens the College. Colby alumni. all over the field. 9 20 22 DEPAR TMENTS 4TH FLOOR EUSTIS STUDENT LIFE ALUMNI PROFILES 2 30 Virginia Kingsley Jones '39 READERS WRITE GIFTS & GRANTS 43 3 32 Ronald Moran '58 PAGING PARENTS PERISCOPE 34 48 4 MULES ON THE MOVE John W. Kusiak '69 FROM THE HILL 36 54 5 ALUMNI AT LARGE Deborah Wathen Finn '74 FACULTY FILE 41 60 26 OBITUARIES Andrew Nemiccolo '93 BOOKS & AUTHORS 73 71 28 FINAL PERIOD 76 Colby Volume 84 Number 2 Colby Staff: ally Baker executiw edicor Caught in the Web J. Kevin Cool Two year ago I attended a conference for college periodical editor and at in on a managing editor sparsely attended eminar ahout on-line magazines. Few of us in the room had ever heard of Brian Speer such a concept-publi hing our periodicals in cyberspace. The prospect of reading a maga­ designer zine on a computer seemed pretty ridiculou at the time. What were the advantages of this Rohen Gillespie new medium for the reader? I was keptical. i Alumn ac Large ediwr Since then, on-line magazines and new paper have proliferated. While many are Stephen Collins '74 electronic versiow of their pap r predecessor , new periodical available only in electronic Lynn Sullivan '89 form are being founded with increa ing frequency. Recently, college have begun to trans­ sc.aff wi·iters late their printed publications into computer ver ions. And now Colby ha joined the Christian Davenport '96 handful of pioneer . Beginning with the January 1995 is ue, Colby i available via the World Elizabeth Baker '97 Wide Web, a form of the Internet that can end picture , ound and video as well as text. i srudenr conrr buwrs Our resident computer guru, Anestes Fotiades '89, ha de igned Colby in its new electronic Anesres Fotiades '89 form. It's all there, the unabridged Colby magazine in an ea y-to-navigate form that transfers Jenn ifer Aengst '95 the stories, new and photos of the printed magazine into a new medium that ha potential edicorial rusisr.ant< to bring you even more information about the College. Contributing Photographers: Reading a magazine on a computer is no substitute for the real thing. The tactile J. Kevin Cool (cover) enjoyment of reading can't be duplicated by moving a mouse on a de ktop. Neither can the Administration: computer version be relied upon to perform many of the traditional function --coffee table William R. Cotter, presidenc; ornament, subway companion, fly ·watter-of its printed counterpart. Bur it has its charms. Peyton R. Helm, vice presidenc for First, the on-line versi n of Colby is acces ible virtually anywhere in the world. With a laptop developrnenc and alumni relations; Earl H. mith, dean of che College; computer and a phone modem you can read the magazine in the most remote parts of the planet. Susan Conant ook '75, director Second, the on- creen olby will become a jumping-off point for additional information of alumni relations about the College and it faculty. For example, an article about a Colby professor may be Alumni Council Executive linked to full-text papers he or ·he has presented recently. Your class's alumni notes may be Committee: linked to information relevant to your class. The possibilities of the computer version go Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella well beyond what can be imagined for the traditional magazine. '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman Third, depending on the software you're u ing, you can send a letter to the editor and let 111omas M. Dailey John '80; '80; us know immediately what you liked, or didn't, about the latest is ue. B. Devine Jr. '78; Solomon J. Harrman '67; Ronald L. Lupton The be t thing about the on-line Colby is that it's there if you want it. Here's what you'll '7 l; William E. Marvin '65; need to find and read it: access to the Internet and software to "browse" the World Wide Web. Judith Orne Ca l Shorey '55; ro G. Mosaic and Netscape are the two most popular Web browsers, and Colbycan be accessed by Sly '80; 111omas P. LaVigne '58 either. The address is http://www.colby.edu./communications/CM/CMpage.html. Colby is published four times Obviously, we don't expect hundreds of alumni to suddenly abandon the printed ver ion yearly for the alumni, friends, in lieu of its computer cousin. But if you have half a much fun reading the on-line Colby as parents of students, seniors, faculty and staffof we did pmducing it, it will have been wocth i � Colby College. Address correspondence to: $ Managing Editor, Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901-8841 or e-mail to: [email protected] J. Kevin Cool managing editor, Colby COLB Y AP R IL 1995 2 eadersrite The Genuine Article Sally Baker's splendid arcicle on Sid Farr captured che essence of one of Colby's finesc people. On visits co Mayflower Hill, my wife and I alway headed co see Sid. His welcomes were invariably a ueac. I acrually mer Sid through my wife, Bene. She was once associated with the Alumni Officeof the University of Maine-Orono. Their com·ersations were punctuated with mucual remembrances of conferences and the ever­ changing role of college life in general. To dust off my Colby philosophy Designed to Please degree; Plato observed, "The way co get things done is not to mind who gets The anatomy of the new design is a success. I can 'c remember when the the credit for doing chem." That had to be a key to Sid's unusual success. maga:ine had a last makeover, bur I like this resulc. The results that we A happy, resourceful retirement to Sid and our many thanks. all now see seem to me to have captured enough of the old to provide continuity and enough of a new style to enliven the formac. Gilbert Y. Taverner '48 Pem1it me a general comment, which stems from your report that Concord, Mass. readers wish "for more news about the College." I also feel the need formore news of the campus and ics faculty and scudent life. This issue has too linle 1 just finished reading your arricle regarding Sid Farr's deserving recire­ of that. l don't mean information abouc sports (keep that to two pages, as ment fromColby. However, I was rather disappointed that you neglecced co you did). And I don't look for more on us alums; you already have enough mention one very important volunteer position in which Sid served---coach to portray how and where we have pursued our careers. However, if I want of the Silver Street Service Linle League baseball team of 1975. to find out what the faculty activities are, their research endeavors or the During an era when little girls were encouraged to be "mother's little changes in instruction in their deparcments, I only find the page and a half helpers, ' and boys were encouraged to play competitive sportS, along came ofFacultyFile.