Colby Magazine Volume 83 Issue 3 June 1994 Article 1 June 1994 Colby Magazine Vol. 83, No. 3: June 1994 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College (1994) "Colby Magazine Vol. 83, No. 3: June 1994," Colby Magazine: Vol. 83 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol83/iss3/1 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. ' IT S JUST NOT THE SAME WITHOUT YOU. When U.S. News & World Report ranks outstanding liberal arts colleges, they look at alumni participation. In a recent poll, 88 percent of Colby alums said the College was worthy of their support-yet less than 50 percent give. STUDENT/FACULTY EDUCATION PROGRAM ALUMNI RANK NAME RATIO PER STUDENT GIVING RATE BEST NATIONAL 1. Amherst College (MA) 9. 1 $20.506 62'lt 2. Williams College (MA) - 1 S?l.254 60'l\> LIBERAL 3. Swarthmore College (PA) 8•1 $22 CT32 55"o 4. Wellesley College (MA) 1CV1 $<'7.610 51'Jw ARTS COLLEGES 5. Pomona College (CA) 97' 1 S21...25R 47� 6. Bowdoin College (ME) 1111 $19873 SM. THESE IRE THE TOP 2) 7. Haverford College (PA) 1111 516.538 49% 8. Middlebury College (VT) 1(),11 S20.638 .ffi"b SCI IOOLS ..IS R.I \hED 9. Smith College (MA) 10/l $20.245 46% 10. Wesleyan University (CT) 12/1 S-16.018 ·12� BY U.\'£1\ 8 \\ ORLD 11. Claremont McKenna Coll. (CA) 1011 1 .624 38% g RfPORT \�10\G THE 12. Davidson College (NC) 1211 Slo,i'-12 46% 1011 140 HI ,!-IL) ELE Tl\'E 13. Carleton College (MN) $16.093 i!f% 14. Vassar College (NY) 10' ] -5:967 � l\S.TITL'TIO I\ .) Ii\' THI 15. Bryn Mawr College (PA) 9,1 S18.242 33% UTEGOR\ 17. Colby College (ME) 11/1 $16.261 34% 18. Bates College (ME) 1011 Sl 4.579 l=1 19. Colgate University (NY) 11/1 14"346" 20. Washington and Lee University (VA) 1�1 21. Oberlin College (OH) IOll 22. Hamilton College (NY) 23. Mount Holyoke College (MA) 24. Trinity College (CT) 17� 25. College of the Holy Cross (MA) 111£7 Ab1111Qtctlr·,..C..!U!le 4 '!19.1 WE VALUE YOUR GIFT AS MUCH AS YOU VALUE YOUR EDUCATION. PLEASE JOI1 THE ''PARTICIPATION PUSH ... CALL COLBY AT 1-207-872-3283 AND CHARGE YOUR ALUM I FUND GIFT TODAY. ,\\.-\STERC.'\RD. \'I\:\ OR .�\_\\ERIC:\:'\ [.\PRESS _;\CCEPTED. I N s I D E C 0 LB Y COLBY Volume 83 Number 3 Cover Story 16 Colby Staff: Teaching Tolerance Sally B,1ker For the Tolerance on Campu -fi lm project, Caleb Cook� '91 and executive dmn- hi crew of tudent film makers shoot movie that matter. Brian peer designer page 16 Robert Gillespie F eatu res Alumni at Large ediwr 6 tephen Collins '74 Lynn Sullivan' 9 Class Acts scaffwmers After staging bright Colby career , these eniors are reaJy for life off the Hill. Aneste· Fotiades '89 scaffphowgrapher 12 Contributing Reporter: Master Exhibitionists M 1chelle everance '94 At the Colby Museum of Art, great work are in good hanJs. Administration: William R. Cotter, prcs1denr; Peycon R. Helm, t'ice presidem for page 6 development and alumni relations; Departments Earl H. m1th, dean of the Colkge; usan Conant Cook '7 5 , direcwr 2 31 of alumni relations Peri cope Alumni at Large Alumni Council Executive 3 Profiles: Committee: From the Hill 3 2 Eleanor Barker McCargar '3 7 Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella 21 43 David Tourangeau '61 '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman Gifts & Grants 49 Rebecca Littleton Corbett '74 ' O; Thomas M. Dailey' 0; 53 Jen Underhill '89 Solomon J. Hartman Mary 23 '67; Lauren Patterson '89 Alice Campbell Ko:en '47; Books & Author Ronald L. Lupton '7 l; Beverly 61 25 Nalbandian Madden '80; Obituarie William E. Marvin '65; Carol G. Mules on the Move Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58 64 page 25 27 Letters Colby i publi he<l five time Student Life yearly for the alumni, friend , 29 parent of tudents, eniors, faculty and staffof Faculty File Colby College. Addre corre pondence to: Managing Editor, Colby Colby College Waterville, ME 04901-4799 • page 27 NE L994 COLBY P E R I s c 0 PE � �J«« u= · � � . ;· r · '/� r��. .... / . � Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI. Admissions Successes yearbooks in my search," he said, and tions available to undergraduates in the there he wa -Fred Canby '84, a dentist United States. Hannah, an English and Colby received 3,404 applications for the work ing on the same base. Not long after­ international studies major, studied in Class of l 998, a whopping 20 percent in­ ward, Andy caught the name of John China during spring semester. ... The crease over last year and perhaps the biggest Monroe '80 in the alumni news and January issue of Medicine reviews Lind­ leap of any college in the country. Dean found John just down the road at Camp say Wilson's book Women & Medicine in Parker Beverage report that ome l ,300 Pendleton Naval Hospital practicing the French Enlightenment and calls it offers were sent to fill the new class of 4 7 5. ophthalmology. With ne or two more "fascinating." ...And the Camoes Cen­ Deb Did It specialists, they could open up a Colby ter Quarterly has a fine photographic es- Doctors Club and a Colby Medical Cen­ ay a sembled by Priscilla Doel from her lt has taken nine years, but Colby ter in that neck of the wood . book Pore O'Call. women's track coach Deb Aitken has finally convinced the NCAA to include Officers Re,Elected New Student Charges Set the hammer throw in the Division lII Larry Pugh '56, chair and CEO of VF Trustees have approved an overall in­ women's outdoor track and field champi­ Corporation, was re-elected chair of crease of4. 9 percent in student charges for on hips. Once considered solely a men's Colby's board at its April meeting. Sid 1994-95, the mallest jump in the past 19 event, the hammer throw has been gain­ Farr '55, alumni secretary, was re-elected years. The new tuition charge will be ing popularity among women, especially board secretary. Newly elected as vice $18,930; room, $2,890; board, $2,700; on the East Coast. The NCAA News chair of the board was Waterville native and general fe e, $900, making the overall (April 6) leads from page one with the Paul Paganucci, retired vice chair of comprehensive fee $25,420. In a letter to story, crediting Aitken as the principal W.R. Grace & Co. and vice president parents, President Bill Cotter outlined advocate for the change. emeritus of Dartmouth College. the reasons why college costs outstrip in­ flationary growth and said that he expects Calling For Colby Colby Pride Colby's charge to remain about in the Nina Tilander reports that the annual An article by President Bill Cotter is middle of the 25 most selective private student phonathon for the Alumni Fund fe atured in the February is ue of The colleges and universities in New England. has ended after having raised $161,856 in Journal of che Historical Association cash and pledge . Nearly 60students were (Blackwell Publi hers, Oxford, U.K., and Moosecellaneous involved, claiming a pledge rate (givers Cambridge, U.S.A.). The piece, The This year's valedictorian, Danielle Jam­ to calls) of 34 percent, the phonathon's Somerset Case and the Abolition of Slavery ison of Gardiner, i the eighth Maine stu­ highest ever. The team contacted 8,238 in England, was an outgrowth of research dent to achieve this distinction in the past parents and alumni while drinking nearly Bill conducted while on sabbatical leave 10 years, an astonishing record consider­ 1,000 cans of oda. Susannah Kowal '96 in 1989-90 ....Two Colby faculty mem­ ing that only approximately 12 percent of of Lexington, Mass. (daughter of Harold ber have been awarded Cottrell College any of the e graduating classes are Main­ Kowal '65) was the top solicitor, raising Science Awards to support research er .... Don't think for a minute that Col­ $12,l.90 from 171 donors. projects. Brad Mundy in chemistry will by can't beat the University of Maine in receive $28,000 to assist his work on the hockey. Laura Halldorson's skaters did it Small World IV "experimental and calculational investi­ in February, 10-3 ....The admissions de­ Andy Miller '82, a doctor serving with gation of remote heteroatom effects," partment ha an Internet e-mail account the Navy Medical Corps in Long Beach, and Duncan Tate in physics will be for general inquiries (admissions@colby. Cal if., writes to say that he's doing plenty awarded $35,245 to support his work in edu) that will help keep Colby apace with of physical exams these days, repaying correlating "two-electron systems probed competitor in the student-finding game. Uncle Sam for help with medical school. by hyperfine structure measurements." ... Papernapkins in all of the dining halls Sailor are checked at a dental clinic and ...Hannah Beech, a junior from are now made from recycled paper. The then come to Andy bearing charts with a Bethesda, Md., has been named a Truman switch spon ored by the Environmental hauntingly familiar name.