C LBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Dedicating the Heart of the Campus: PIERCE PARK F ALL/WINTER 2003 A NNUAL R EPORT I SSUE EDITOR David R. Morcom CLASS NOTES EDITORS Tracey Austin Gaye LaCasce CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Cathy DeShano Donald A. Hasseltine Adam S. Kamras Gaye LaCasce Douglas Lyon David R. Morcom Kimberly Swick Slover Ryan P. Smith ’00 ANNUAL REPORT PRODUCED BY Geri Holdsworth VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Donald A. Hasseltine DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Beth Cahill DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Gaye LaCasce DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Kimberly Swick Slover COVER AND PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Julia Kate Dow ’90; Bob Shevett DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Paxton Communications Concord, N.H. PRINTING Penmor Lithographers Lewiston, Maine ADDRESS LETTERS AND SUBMIT ARTICLE IDEAS TO: David R. Morcom Editor Publications Office Colby-Sawyer College 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 Phone: (603) 526-3730 E-mail: [email protected] C LBY-SAW Y E R ALUMNI MAGAZINE FEATURES FEATURE STORY Running a Tight Ship. 10 The college’s vice presidents discuss their management areas The Cost of Educating Students at Colby-Sawyer. 16 College Treasurer Doug Lyon reflects on On the Cover: This beautiful area the cost of education at Colby-Sawyer is Pierce Park, which was dedicated near the end of summer. It is located at the heart of the campus between Colgate Hall and the Ware Campus Commencement Center and has become a popular meeting place where students, faculty, 2003 . 18 and staff stop to relax and catch up Celebrating our graduates and on each other’s lives. For more about their families Pierce Park and the joyful dedication ceremony, please turn to page 35 of the campaign section of the magazine. All-college Reunion PHOTO: KATIE DOW ’90 2003. 22 A perfect blend of nostalgia and youth DEPARTMENTS Colby-Sawyer Matters . 2 ALUMNI PROFILES Still Finding the A CONVERSATION The President and Diamond. 30 a Friend . 8 Boys of summer find some “priceless moments” Sports Round-up. 32 Alumni Notes . 43 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Class Notes . 45 Confidently Colby-Sawyer: Annual Report. AR1 Succeeding Together. 35 FALL/WINTER 2003 1 C LBY-SAWYER MATTERS students’ lives. Parents are asking more and more about their return on an investment in higher education, according to Lynk. “Most parents are stretching their resources to send their children to college. They could spend $30,000 to purchase a new car. Instead, for $30,000, they’re paying for a year at Colby-Sawyer. They want to know what they’re getting for that investment,” Lynk says. The Parent and Family Relations Office will serve as a central point for communication with parents, who may have questions about college policies and procedures. Organizationally, the new office operates under the Admissions Office’s Enrollment Katie Lynk (dark suit with name badge) was busy welcoming many of the new students and their parents on moving-in day on September 5th as the 2003–2004 academic year began. PHOTO: KATIE DOW ’90 Management Division. Lynk identifies three goals of her College Focuses on The Parent and Family Relations office: to create publications that keep Parental Involvement Office was created as a result of an parents up-to-date; to serve as a liaison initiative proposed by President Anne for parents who have questions, Ponder, who encouraged departments concerns, or comments; and to help The generation gap has narrowed, across the campus to investigate how parents become involved in the college say experts, and baby boomers aren’t their services are interrelated. Lynk community. ready to sever ties with children head- worked with other campus departments In August, the office published the ing off to college. Colby-Sawyer has that routinely fielded calls from parents Family Guide, which provides informa- responded to this changing reality by in order to draft the initial proposal for tion about resources both on campus creating the Parent and Family the Parent and Family Relations Office. and in the New London community. Relations Office, headed by Katie Lynk, Colby-Sawyer isn’t alone in recog- The office has a Web presence at www. who is joined by Julie McCrory, the nizing how parents’ roles on college colby-sawyer.edu/admissions/parents/ parent and family relations operations campuses have changed. Across the and offers an e-mail address to which specialist. country, colleges and universities are parents can send correspondence. In “Parents today have especially examining parental roles in their the summer of 2003, parents of incom- close relationships with their children children’s post-secondary education to ing students were invited to participate and serve as advocates for them,” determine how to meet the needs of in online chats with parents of current Lynk says. “This office was established the parents. In recent months, both students. so we can guide them about how to be The New York Times and National Public This fall, Lynk plans to contact involved with their children’s collegiate Radio have devoted lead stories to the parents about serving as career experience.” topic of parents’ activity in their college mentors—individuals who would take 2 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE on a Colby-Sawyer student as an intern. She will also talk with them about other volunteer opportunities, includ- ing serving as resources for parents of prospective students. Lynk has had valuable experience in working with students and parents. Previously, she was an English teacher, coach and dorm parent at Dublin School in Dublin, N.H. She earned a master’s degree in higher education administration from Harvard University. — Cathy DeShano PHOTO: KATIE DOW ’90 Ivey Science Center Appears on Horizon Students and faculty returned to campus this fall to find the steel frame of the Curtis L. Ivey Science Center rising up on the south side of campus against the backdrop of Mt. Kearsarge. Construction began last spring, and by next fall the two-story, 32,000-square-foot science center will open for classes. “It’s exciting to see the science center come to life and to think about how it will transform our educational environment in the sciences,” said Doug Atkins, vice president for administration. The Ivey Science Center will house the Natural Sciences and the Community and Environmental Studies programs, along with classrooms, offices, laborato- ries, and a 180-seat auditorium. The building was funded in large part by Curtis L. and Doris W. Ivey, who contributed a major gift for science education in mem- ory of their children, Curtis L. Ivey Jr., and Elizabeth Ivey Jurgenson, both of whom passed away in recent years. The Ivey family lives in Florida, but main- Colby-Sawyer College student Lindsay Micarelli ’04 tains strong connections to the Lake Sunapee Region, where they have lived reviews a GIS map to check the location of a crop of part of each year for almost half a century. Japanese Knotweed. Working with the New London Chair of the Natural Sciences Program Ben Steele expressed enthusiasm (N.H.) Conservation Commission, Lindsay conducted about what the new building will mean for science education at Colby-Sawyer. a study last summer of New London’s invasive plant “We’ll have more space and new laboratories in a spectacular setting,” said species. Professor Steele. “The dedicated fresh water laboratory will allow us to make NSF Funds Project to better use of our natural environment and enable our students to do more sophisticated research on the plants and animals from our ponds, lakes, and Expand Student streams. We’re also excited about working in closer proximity to the Community Geographic Mapping and Environmental Studies Program, and about the opportunities for students Technologies and faculty to gather more frequently in some of the center’s common areas. We expect the Ivey Science Center will also attract more students to the sciences, particularly biology.” The Community and Environmental Studies Program has received an $82,822 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning “The National Science Foundation students’ learning and research oppor- Systems (GPS) equipment. The project grant will give our students a signifi- tunities with geographic mapping and will primarily benefit students in the cant edge by providing them with positioning technologies. Through the Community and Environmental Studies greater opportunities to gain experience NSF grant, the college will create a program, but will expand other and hone their skills with the most crit- spatial ecology laboratory in its Curtis students’ access by integrating the new ical tools in the environmental field L. Ivey Science Center and purchase technologies into the college’s interdis- today,” says John Callewaert, director additional Geographic Information ciplinary curriculum. — continued on next page FALL/WINTER 2003 3 NSF Funds Project location on land, sea, or in the air. For — continued from previous page example, a community might use a GIS of Colby-Sawyer’s Institute for Com- map to locate all the lakes, streams, and munity and Environment. “The project marshlands within its boundaries, and will also directly benefit the local, import additional data from govern- regional, and national organizations mental sources on the protected areas with which our students and faculty within its watershed. Using GPS collaborate on a wide range of environ- devices, the community could also mental projects.” locate the watershed areas that have Director Callewaert serves as the been altered by human activities such project’s principal investigator, along as the construction of dams, bridges, DOW ’90 PHOTO: KATIE with co-principal investigators Laura docks, and beaches. The community Alexander, adjunct instructor of com- could then flow in the GPS information munity and environmental studies; to create a comprehensive map that Leon-C. Malan, associate professor of reflects the current state of the town’s business administration; and Ben watershed.