Colby Magazine Volume 97 Issue 1 Spring 2008 Article 10 April 2008 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2008) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 97 : Iss. 1 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol97/iss1/10 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. alumni at large Alumni Trustee Nominations James E. Cowie ’77 and M. Jane Powers therapeutic day school for emotionally ’86 have each been nominated to serve a troubled children and adolescents. A second three-year term as alumni trustees. Presidential Scholar and member of Phi Cowie, of Kenilworth, Ill., is a managing Beta Kappa at Colby, she served as an director with Frontenac Company, a private admissions volunteer, Alumni Council equity investment fi rm based in Chicago. member, and overseer before becoming He serves on the boards of four companies a trustee in 2005. She earned her M.S.W. and is a trustee of the Illinois Institute of from Simmons in 1990 and has served Technology. He earned his M.B.A. from on the executive board of the nonprofi t Stanford in 1982 and served as a member Dignity/Boston. Jane and her spouse, Peggy of the Alumni Council and as an overseer Hayes, live in Medford, Mass. James E. Cowie ’77 Jane Powers ’86 before becoming a trustee in 2005. He is According to Alumni Association bylaws, married to Kathleen M. Keegan ’77, and other nominations may be made by petition they have three sons. to the executive secretary of the Alumni are no nominations before May 1, Cowie Powers is a clinical social worker, Council with signatures of one percent of and Powers will be declared elected by the child/family therapist, and director of a the members of the association. If there chair of the Alumni Council. 30s milestones and her youngest grandson became and baseball at Colby before they went a freshman at Emory. She finds into the service. They hadn’t been in Deaths: Myron M. Hilton ’32, December 24, 2007, in Cumberland relationships with the grandchildren contact since the war and had a great Center, Maine, at 99. ❖ Richard H. Packert ’32, December 11, 2007, rewarding, fun, and a great joy in time talking about those early days at in Machiasport, Maine, at 96. ❖ Ruth Pullen ’33, December 4, 2007, her life. ✹ Mary and Gene Hunter Colby when they were Zetes. ✹ We in Camden, Maine, at 98. ❖ Robert E. Rosenberg ’33, April 26, 2007, fi nished their 10th year living in their are back in Florida for the winter. in El Paso, Texas, at 95. ❖ Cedric G. Porter ’35, December 29, 2007, in condo in Scarborough, Maine. They Dorothy went on a trip in January Newburyport, Mass., at 94. ❖ Muriel Scribner Gould ’37, January 12, now hold Thanksgiving dinner at to Australia and New Zealand. She is 2008, in Hershey, Pa., at 91. ❖ Elliott H. Drisko ’39, January 8, 2008, their son’s home in Brunswick. The joining David’s brother and his wife. in Yonkers, N.Y., at 90. last count shows they had 44 Hunters David passed up the trip, preferring attending. They have seven children to avoid the 21 days of travel. We (ages 37 to 58), 20 g ra ndch ildren, a nd recently saw Bob Sage ’49 and his wife, 40 Last summer only three of us, 47 Allie and Dick Sampson, six great-grandchildren. Among their Phyllis. We have stayed in contact Doris Rose Hopengarten, Alleen from Appleton, Wis., celebrated children, Mark is retired from a pulp with Betty Joslow. Marvin Joslow Thompson, and I, represented their 51st wedding anniversary last and paper company and now acts as a passed away around Thanksgiving our class in the Saturday parade Aug u st w it h a scen ic t r ip to A lask a up consultant to a couple of paper mills last year. We miss him and think of at Reunion Weekend. Come and the Inside Passage. In June, besides in Maine; Allen is a superior court him often, especially when we sail help carry our sign this June! ✹ greatly enjoying Dick’s 60th reunion, judge in Maine; Marcia is a doctor to Martha’s Vineyard. ✹ Our 60th Joanna (MacMurtry ’41) and Lin they traveled to Wisconsin through of psychology in Portland; George reunion occurs this spring. We are Workman sent their regrets for Ontario. Currently Dick is resting in is a vice president of the Mid Coast planning to attend! Our ranks may being unable to leave their Georgia a nursing home after suffering a mild Hospital in the Bath-Brunswick have thinned but we still anticipate home last year and come to Maine stroke, but he’s ready to go home. area; Paul is in charge of sales for a having a good time. We hope many for the summer. ✹ Ruth Gould food company covering the eastern of you will participate. —David and Stebbins has added the role of expert 48 We heard from Aaron Sandler, region of the U.S.; Stephanie owns Dorothy Marson caregiver to her many other skills who was looking forward to a visit and operates a business called Hunter and accomplishments. Thanks to her from us in Sarasota and hoped that a Promotions near Orlando, Fla.; and 49 Earlier this fall, Sid McKeen ministrations, her principal patient, mini-reunion of the classes of ’48 and Mary and Gene’s youngest daughter, wrote: “In August my wife, in Roger, has recovered nicely from ’49 could be arranged this winter on Dawn, teaches in the Cape Elizabeth collusion with my two children, threw very serious surgery for colon cancer. Florida’s east coast. ✹ David receives school system. They all graduated me a surprise 80th birthday roast in Their grandchildren are, respectively, e-mail on various subjects from his from the University of Maine. The B e l f a s t .” Mo r e t h a n 9 0 p e o ple s howe d a fashion designer in New York, 1944 roommate Howell Clement, grandchildren have attended many up, 10 percent of whom were Colby a songwriter and entertainer who who lives in Kalispell, Mont. ✹ Carol different colleges in the United States, alumni, including Sid’s wife, Anne recently toured West Coast cities Stoll Baker lives in a high-rise in Canada, and England. So far they have Fraser McKeen ’48, Frankie and Bud from Vancouver to San Diego, and a Newton, Mass. After 38 years in three lawyers and a dentist. Others Nannig, Sid’s senior roomie who bride in her second year of marriage. Needham, living in a cozy apartment are in grad school, high school, and made it up from Rhode Island, Fred ✹ One of my grandchildren, a nurse leaves time for painting (she’s trying elementary school. Mary and Gene ’48 and Charlotte Cowan Sutherland practitioner in Idaho, expects her fi rst portraiture), the BSO, the MFA, and work at a golf course near where ’50, Carol Carpenter Bisbee ’49, child, my third great-grandchild, this d i n ne r w it h f r ie nd s . R e c e nt l y Frances they live and Gene is coaching a Nancy Foreman Slaughter ’71, Sid’s year. In case you wonder, she lives with Hyde Stephan and Carol enjoyed seventh grade boy’s basketball team son Jeff McKeen ’76, and Eric Rolfson her loving, supportive husband. My an afternoon of bridge. Carol’s at Scarborough Middle School. Gene ’73. Entertainment was provided by family is traditional and that is fi ne eldest grandson recently married called Frank Strup ’44 and they Jeff and Eric, half of the musical group with me! —Ernie Marriner a young woman from England, reminisced about playing basketball Old Grey Goose International, who COLBY / SPRING 2008 41 alumni at large returned a few weeks earlier from a tour of Mauritania under auspices of No Excuses | Beth Pendleton Clark ’35 the State Department. In September, Sid and Anne enjoyed a great visit from old friends Betty Parker Forman Beth Pendleton Clark ’35 had every excuse not ’48 and Diane Palmer Clare. ✹ I bet to succeed. quite a few of us could report similar Family tragedies and prejudices shadowed her events. I had a small family weekend life, presenting her with challenges that could have celebration in Bass Harbor, Maine, left her bitter and defeated. in September. We had a great time Two months after she married, she learned her revisiting old haunts, enjoying a new husband had a terminal disease. Years later Friendship sloop cruise, and just being cancer claimed her son. all together. It was a doubleheader, Despite these painful losses, Clark pursued too, as we also celebrated my sister- a career in ministry, healing others while she in-law’s 80th! ✹ On Nov. 10 Hope healed herself. In the decades following her Colby (Toby) Harvey Graf attended a education, Clark earned three degrees from delightful, nostalgic 60th reunion seminaries in Boston and Pennsylvania. Along the of the Colby Eight. Clifford “Bump” way she also broke a few gender barriers. Bean ’51 and President Bro Adams She was the fi rst woman to receive her introduced the program and gave a doctoral degree in ministry from Lancaster brief history of the Colby Eight(s). Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, and while Bump founded the group, which working as interim minister she often found herself fi rst sang at the 1947 homecoming.