Colby Magazine Volume 99 Issue 4 Winter 2011 Article 11 January 2011 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2011) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 99 : Iss. 4 , Article 11. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol99/iss4/11 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 Walter ’91 and richardson ’67 nominated for alumni trustees Lou Richardson ’67 and Amy Walter ’91 have Walter oversees all political coverage on ABC and each been nominated to serve a three-year term on ABCNews.com and provides on-air analysis. She has Colby’s Board of Trustees as alumni trustees. been a regular contributor to the NewsHour with Jim An overseer since 2003, Richardson served Lehrer on PBS and has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, on the visiting committees for the Psychology and CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, and Theater and Dance departments and chaired the HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Walter is a member College Relations Visiting Committee in 2009. She is of the Goldfarb Center’s Washington liaison board, is former chair of the executive committee of the Alumni an admissions volunteer, and was a class agent and Council, a member of the President’s Advisory Com- Career Center volunteer. She lives in Arlington, Va. mittee, and a Career Center volunteer. Richardson is According to alumni association bylaws, other PHOTO COURTESY OF ABC NEWS controller at Xerox Corporation in Waltham, Mass., nominations may be made by petition to the execu- Lou Richardson ’67 Amy Walter ’91 where she has worked since 1979. She lives in tive secretary of the Alumni Council with signatures Wellesley, Mass. of one percent of the members of the association. If Walter joined ABC News as its political director there are no nominations before May 1, Walter and in August 2010 after serving as editor-in-chief of Na- Richardson will be declared elected by the chair of tional Journal’s “The Hotline.” Based in Washington, the Alumni Council. 1920s-30s I’ve had two rather spectacular trips this August and September including “These the bow and I enjoy living in our home by Colby College year. In May my cousin and I had a two- Old Automobiles” and “Whittens’ Maine the river despite a dropped foot from bad Office of Alumni Relations week cruise “doing” the Mediterranean. We Travelogue.” On Sept. 25 he spoke at a back surgery. I do what I can to help those Waterville, ME 04901 started with several days in Rome, and on meeting at Gambo Falls, the site of the less fortunate especially at the ballot box! a Sunday we found our group, along with old gunpowder mills in Gorham, Maine. We have amazing grandchildren and most 1940 about 10,000 other tourists, visiting the Whitten wrote the book The Gunpowder are in college now. One girl graduated from Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Vatican. Somehow I got separated from my Mills of Maine. Swarthmore, another is at Amherst, and [email protected] group! No one came looking for me and one is a junior at UVM. Our only grandson eventually it registered that I had to get graduated from the University of Mas- myself back to the hotel. I found a Vatican 1946 sachusetts. Four more to go to college! guard who spoke English and he assured Shirley Martin Dudley Maybe one will choose Colby!” Y Howell 1941 [email protected] Meg Bernier Boyd me it happened all the time. However his Clement wanted to know how we spent [email protected] next question left me speechless. “What the summer without a boat. David had hotel are you staying at?” I didn’t have the told him that we are approaching our 60th foggiest notion! Eventually with the help 1947 wedding anniversary, which beats Howell 1942 of several guards and their friends, they Meg Bernier Boyd and Norma by two years. They met in Meg Bernier Boyd located the company that had supplied the [email protected] Owensboro, Ky., a town that Dorothy and [email protected] bluetooth and hearing devices that we had I visited when I was travelling in that area been listening to and got the named of the on business. Y Dave Choate took a cruise hotel. I got a cab and arrived back at the 1948 to Panama and Costa Rica for a month 1943 hotel. I paid in dollars and also Euros and David and Dorothy Marson and returned in mid November. He’ll fill Meg Bernier Boyd it amounted to almost $60! Didn’t care. [email protected] us in for the next edition of Colby. Y Janet [email protected] I was so relieved to be reunited with the Dorothy Worthley Cleaver wrote and Gay Hawkins wrote, “I just returned from group. Lesson learned ... when traveling thanked us for the work we are doing. a marvelous and informative trip to the always know what hotel you are staying Here is the text of her interesting letter. lake country of Italy—Lake Como and 1944 in! The other trip I have just returned from. “My life has changed after the death of Lake Maggiore. Beautiful country, good Josephine Pitts McAlary We cruised the Danube from Bucharest to my husband, Charles, last July. He was food, and lots of history. Then some of us [email protected] Budapest. It was most interesting as we 89 and we had a wonderful life together; continued on to Cyprus, which is interest- visited Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, spending lots of it in the wilderness ing and full of ancient history. Forgot to There are still a few of us keeping busy and Hungary. All these countries are once mention the food, which was outstanding. and out of trouble. Of course no one has canoeing in Maine and the wild rivers again free and struggling to get back on of the Northwest Territory and fishing, Other than that trip and maybe another written! I actually did have a chance to their feet and eventually be able to become one to France in the spring, all is quiet.” chat on the phone with Nancy Pattison hunting, snowmobiling, and even writing member of the European Union, if they wish. some poetry. We spent as little time as Y As for us, we returned to Florida in McCarthy during the summer. Her family mid June and remained there until late still has a home right near the shore of possible with a roof over our heads. Our five children created a moving memorial July. In Massachusetts we play golf with Penobscot Bay. She and her daughter were 1945 our daughters and their families and my up visiting her sister, who at that time was Meg Bernier Boyd service for Chuck in our yard on the Ken- nebec River in Skowhegan with 130 friends brother. In August we drove to Maine and in a local health-care facility. It really was [email protected] visited a friend near Castine. Then we very special to have a chance to chat. Y and beautiful weather. I continue to canoe Maurice Whitten gave several talks in our river with our great little Springer in drove to New Brunswick and went to St. 36 COLBY / WINTER 2011 [email protected] 36 12/22/10 3:39 PM John and then to St. Andrews on Passa- 1950 how you are doing, what you did before similar day in 1951. We were part of the maquoddy Bay. From there we went to the Betsy (Dudie) Jennings Maley retirement, if you are retired, and what dream of Mayflower Hill, now fulfilled with Samoset Resort in Rockport and then on [email protected] you are doing now. It is all interesting to the help of so many of our classmates. to Dedham. We went to Cape Cod twice our classmates. Thanks. There is much to be proud of and those and took the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard Last September Alice (Allie) Jennings of us who remain in this world are now for a day. It was painful to see all those Castelli was among a group of volunteers approaching our last chance to insure the sailboats moored in Vineyard Haven, as honored for their many years of service to 1951 dream for the future. Remembering the we had spent countless nights there on SARAH, a nonprofit Connecticut shoreline Chet Harrington help we all had during our student years, our mooring. In more rational moments, organization dedicated to serving the [email protected] as we approach our 60th anniversary, we we both agree that we sold the boat at the needs of people with handicaps. Since Stanley Sorrentino’s wife, Hope, passed must give our last full measure to Colby right time in life. On July 4 we were playing he was 16, Allie’s son Peter has benefited away Sept. 10 after 62 happy years to help this new generation of students.” in a holiday tournament and Dorothy got a enormously by his association with this together. They were married in Stanley’s hole in one, which was the highlight of her organization. Her son Bill and daughter sophomore year and lived off campus for golf season! In January Dorothy and I will Martha both have chicken coops in their two years.