Colby Magazine Volume 96 Issue 2 Fall 2007 Article 10 October 2007 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2007) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 96 : Iss. 2 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol96/iss2/10 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 20S/30s milestones Deaths: W. Raymont Berger ’25, November 1981, in Leominster, Viens honored for service to alumni Mass., at 78 ❖ Donald H. Dunphy ’26, January 1, 2001, in Houlton, Margaret Felton Viens ’77, Colby’s Maine, at 96 ❖ Russell I. Ferguson ’27, November 13, 1999, in director of alumni relations for the last Miami, Fla., at 96 ❖ Bassford C. Getchell ’27, October 13, 1998, 10 years, left Colby in May after 13 years in Bethesda, Md., at 93 ❖ Eliza Tarrant Gooch ’26, March 1994, in the College Relations Division. She in La Jolla, Calif., at 90 ❖ Olive Lee ’27, October 1, 2003, in was credited for making Colby’s alumni Oakland, Calif., at 98 ❖ Elizabeth Alden Wassell ’27, September relations program a model for other 15, 2005, in Ormond Beach, Fla., at 99 ❖ Marie D’Argy Fortier colleges and as a pioneer in the use of ’28, August 11, 2003, in Brown Deer, Wis., at 98 ❖ William H. metrics to measure the success of alumni Lyon ’29, August 1990, in Manhasset, N.Y., at 82 ❖ Irene Hersey programs. She was honored as the Tut t le ’29, December 18, 2006, in Watertown, Mass. ❖ Louise recipient of a Colby Brick award during Hinckley Tweedie ’35, June 25, 2007, in Newton, Mass., at Reunion Weekend in June. A search is 94. ❖ Ruth Richardson Paradise ’36, May 8, 2007, in Brighton, underway for her replacement. Mass., at 91. ❖ Winston C. Clark ’38, June 20, 2007, in Rye, N.H., at 91. ❖ Alice Dignam Grady ’38, July 16, 2007, in Slidell, La., at 90. ❖ Evelyne Short Merrill ’39, June 15, 2007, in Whittier, Calif., at 88. Charlie and Arnie Kiessling Wills, the 50th and 50-plus classes to pass Gerry and Cecil Burns, and Dottie between them to the sound of great Cleaves Jordan. Others who joined in applause. Can you remember when 41 Congratulations to Steve (Jello) the remaining time. We often visit our were Carol Carpenter Bisbee ’49, who we were at the head of the line and Sternberg, who recently had his fi ve children: Jim in South Beach, Fla., is practically an honorary member of the 50th class seemed so old? And book, Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, Laurel and family in York, Pa., Jon and the class, and Jean O’Brien Perkins we’re still young, (at least in spirit), translated into Chinese. family in Pasadena, Calif., Donna and ’46, who visited at one of the break- aren’t we! We met in the gym for family here in Windsor, Conn., and fasts. ✹ About half of us arrived on the announcement of class gifts and 43 Frank Miselis, M.D., reported Bill and family in Carmel, Ind. Since Thursday to attend special events that were proud to see Tossie on stage in from his home on Mt. Heavenly, Jon fl ies for United, we can fl y free, Tossie had arranged. After checking and her picture on two large screens at “beautiful Lake Tahoe,” with a and we fl y somewhere each month or in at the new alumni center on the as she announced our gift. At noon, recap of his adventures since Colby. more often. Last July we went to Big oval and unpacking at Dana, we had all classes met for the lobster bake in After serving in World War II in the Sky, Mont., to visit Jon and family dinner at The Village Inn in Belgrade the fi eld house, and fi nally we had Navy Medical Service and 20 years in their vacation house. We’ve also Lakes, overlooking the lake. Most of our own class dinner back in Dana. practicing medicine in New London, been to Yellowstone, Cody, Jackson us had the restaurant’s famous baked During the weekend there were tours Conn., he entered the world of fi nance Hole, and Salt Lake City, where my duck, served with a cute pastry duck- of the library tower, the enlarged and stock trading in New York and camera died when I dropped in it ling adorning the plate. The second and soon-to-be-larger museum, Chicago. Although he reports that he the Great Salt Lake. ✹ Last April event was a trip Friday morning to buildings on the oval, and lectures struggles with health issues, including Lois Macomber ’58, who winters in Camden, where we had box lunches by various alumni. I think everyone the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, Florida, came to Safety Harbor and before boarding the schooner Olad was impressed by how beautiful our Myasthenia Gravis, and the early we had a fun visit. ✹ Sad news that for a two-hour cruise. By then several campus has become and what is in s t a g e s of low- g r a d e p r o s t a c t ic c a nc e r, Betty Anne “B.A.” Riker Howell, more had arrived and we enjoyed a the future for it, in both beauty and none of them is life threatening. He’s beloved wife of Roe Howell, died last windy and chilly sail spotting several usefulness. A few people stayed for given up skiing (after winning two February in Florida. B.A. was active dolphins. Tossie later led us to the top the Boardman Memorial Service on gold medals for slalom) and fl ying while at Colby and she and Roe did of Mt. Battie for an extensive view Sunday, but most of us left after the single-engine planes, but still enjoys return for our reunions. We met them of the area. Friday evening cocktails morning brunch and vowed to see landscaping. He recently completed in Englewood, Fla., a few times and preceded the alumni awards banquet each other at the next reunion. We a 165-foot-long, 20-foot-high wall I recall a special luncheon put on by in the Wadsworth Gymnasium. By certainly had a wonderful time, and along his driveway. He has three sons, B.A. and Allan and Pat Wotherspoon then all of us had arrived except for we fi nd our college friendships ever several grandchildren (including two Imhoff. —Shirley Martin Dudley Arnie, who was still celebrating with more meaningful. ✹ Larry Kaplan who recently received doctorates from her husband at UNH. No longer abid- continues as an adjunct professor in Ivy League universities), and two 47 Our 60th reunion was a great ing by Dean Runnals advice to “wear history at Georgetown University. great-grandchildren. success due to the splendid planning the other dress to dinner” most of us His new book, NATO 1948: The Birth of Tossie Campbell Kozen, who, “girls” wore pantsuits. President Bro of the Transatlantic Alliance, was pub- 45 Marie Daviau Bollinger had as far as I know, has worked on all Adams welcomed us, fi lled us in on lished in June. ✹ Betty Richmond the author of I ’l l B e i n M y C a r, Annette of our many reunions. We owe her a recent developments on campus, and Anthony lost her husband, David, in Januzzi Wick, speak at her church great deal of thanks. People attend- announced the spectacular Lunder March after he fought cancer for 14 book club. She is the proud grand- ing were Tossie and Ray Kozen, Pat g i f t t o t he mu s e u m of a r t . We e nj o y e d months. They were happily married mother of two more grandchildren, and Les Soule, Dana and Harriet a good dinner, caught up on lots of for 52 years. —Liz Hall Fitch making eight total, and she frequents Nourse Robinson, John and Liz Hall news, and then went back to Dana for Gold’s Gym four times a week. Fitch, Dottie “Briggsey” Briggs more visiting. On Saturday morning 48 Franklin and Natalie Pretat Aronson, Roberta Young, Rachel President Adams held his state-of- Arnold live in Foster, R.I. They have 46 Classmates, please send news Allard Ward, Louise “Weezie” the-College session with a question four children, 11 grandchildren, and of your work, families, trips, or visits Kelley Rochester, Charlotte Hanks and answer period. Shortly afterwards three great-grandchildren. Last year with Colby people. ✹ Chuck ’45 and I Dumas and son Eugene, Bill Mason, was the customary parade of classes. they visited Colorado Springs, where live in Safety Harbor, Fla., six months Shirley Lloyd Thorne, Betty Wade As we approached the gymnasium, one of their sons is an assistant profes- out of the year and in Windsor, Conn., Drum, Allie and Dick Sampson, the more recent classes separated for sor at the Air Force Academy, went 46 COLBY / FALL 2007 to Myrtle Beach for their Marine in Boca Raton. ✹ Howell Clement chapter of the Hearing Loss Associa- 1920s-30s-40s Correspondents grandson’s wedding, spent a week in commented favorably on the Colby tion of America and is also a cochlear Branson for fun, and cruised harbors reunion fl yer, but due to his spring advocate volunteer. ✹ This winter 1920s-30s in Maine. Natalie had not heard about schedule couldn’t attend.