Colby Magazine Volume 90 Issue 1 Winter 2001 Article 11 January 2001 Alumni at Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2001) "Alumni at Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 90 : Iss. 1 , Article 11. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol90/iss1/11 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. '20s/'30s-1940s [Alumni at large union (but not the cold weather) in 1940s Correspondents 'orwich, England, in l\'o\·ember. A letter to the editor of the Lawrence, Mass., The town of Norwich is rebuilding 1940 Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Engle-Tribune paid tribute to Donald Free­ tl1ecity'scentral library, which burned RR #1, Box 1815-P down in 1994 withJohn's Second Air man '26's life and long teaching career in the North Monmouth, ME 04265 Division's memorial in it. The re­ public schools ofHaverhill, Mass. The writer 207-933-2401 union purpose is to re-dedicate their praised Freeman's "amazing 44 years" as a [email protected] memorial. high school English teacher, principal, assis­ 1941 tant superintendent and superintendent of 44 Ralph Braudy summers in Bonnie Roberts Hathaway schools and also cited his numerous civic 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C Hyannis, J\ 1ass., and then returns to endeavors ·:· The lion's share of the atten­ Leominster, MA 01453 Los Angeles for the winter. In tl1e tion paid to the inaugural class of the Maine 978-343-4259 class news questionnaire, alumni were Sports Legends Hall of Honor went to the [email protected] asked to share a favorite memory of team of Bibby Levine Alfond '38 and her Bibby Levine Alfond '38 Colby's former presidents, fa culty or 1942 husband, Harold Al fond H '80, whose phil­ staff, and Ralph reminisces aboutdat­ 1943 anthropic contributions to sports in Maine are unsurpassed. Maine Sports ing President Bixler's daughter 1944 c/o Meg Bernier Legends was conceived by a partnership of people to raise money fo r Harriet. He also writes about push­ Colby College Alumni Office scholarships given through the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. ing a sled with a kegofbeer concealed Waterville, ME 04901 by a blanket from tl1e Tau Deir house 207-872-3185 to the Phi Deir house. He says his [email protected] fa vorites were "Ecky with Brecky, [email protected] English litwitl1 Chappie, history with [email protected] Deaths: Theodore G. Smart '27, October 6, 2000, in Norway, Maine, at \Vilkie and of course, Pop Newman." 95 ·:· Kenneth H. Mansfield'3 1, August 2 5, 2000, in Orange City, Fla., at 1945 91 ·:· Mary Dignam Murphy '3 1, September 27, 2000, in Wilmington, Naomi Collett Paganelli 45 On loan last summer from 2 Horatio Street #5J Del., at 91 ·:· Evelyn Haycock Quinton '31, September 6, 2000, in the Colby College Museum of Art, New York, NY 10014-1608 Lewiston, Maine, at 90 ·:· Ed\vin E. Getchell '34, September 28, 2000, in vVilliam Merritt Chase's painting 212-929-5277 ·· Portland, Maine, at 87 : Frederic B. Champlin '35, December 9, 1998, To 111ki11s Pm·k, Brookly11- 1887 was in a [email protected] in Iredell, N.C., at 90 ·:· John R. Turbyne '35, Iovember 5, 2000, in special exhibition at tl1e Brooklyn 1946 Waterville, Maine, at 87 ·:· William A. EIJingwood Jr. '36,June 19, 1999, Museum of Art. It was a real kick for Anne Lawrence Bondy in Maine, at 85 ·:· Milton M. Gilson '36, September 17, 2000, in \Vest me when I came upon it there. o 771 Soundview Drive ·· Roxbury, Mass., at 86 : SaraJ. Cowan '37, October 20, 2000, in Portland, doubt about it, it was the biggest and Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Maine, at 85 ·:· David S. Eaton '37, October 3, 2000, in Lawrence, Mass., best in the show, which was called 914-698-1238 at 85 .;. Anna Stobie Rogerson '38, September 14, 2000, in Portland, ,Uodem rl111ericm1 Ln11dscapes (1886- [email protected] Maine, at 83. 1890). It fe amred scenes of Brooklyn 1947 and Manhattan parks and harbors .... Mary "Liz" Hall Fitch '20Sf30S Mexican border at Nogales. Green Rae Gale Backer '++ and Morty had a 4 Canal Park #712 Responding to our request for news Valley has a large number of seniors special trip to Florida in June to at­ Cambridge, MA 02141 of the Class of 1938, Bob Anthony avoiding a harsher winter climate. tend tl1e graduation at which their 617-494-4882 reports that the I 0th edition of his Nlany recreational centers, golf son Jimmy, a teacher in Israel, re­ fax: 617-494-4882 l'vlmwge111ent Co11trol Syste111s (with courses and interesting study courses ceived his doctorate ...."Trip can­ classnews194 [email protected] Vijay Govindarajan) has just been for mental stimulation are big draw­ celled by a broken jaw" is Muriel 1948 published. ing cards. A multimde of interesting Marker Gould's headline for her David and Dorothy Marson day trips add to its allure. (Sue and report on their needless-to-say can­ 41 Woods End Road 42 For more than 10 years Sue Earle also enjoy seeing \Vaterville's celled Norway cruise in August. Dedham, MA 02026 Rose Bessey and her husband, Earle, Bob andJudy Kany, who have a lovely J\ luriel sustained tl1e injury in July in 781-329-3970 enjoyed the thrill and companion­ home in Saddle Brook in the north­ a fa ll in her garden in Florence, Ital)', fax: 617-329-6518 ship of skiing with a group of friends ern Tucson area.) To top it all off, where she lives eight or nine monms [email protected] a couple of weeks each winter in a their grandson from Simsbury, Conn., each year. As I write tl1is in Septem­ 1949 number of European countries, in­ became so enchanted witl1 the desert ber I can tell you fi rsthand (since she Anne Hagar Eustis cluding France, Switzerland, Italy and and mountains of the Southwest that is at present in Tew York) that she P.O. Box 594 Austria. The group was known as he is currently enrolled as a freshman handled her wired jaws unbelievably Princeton, MA 01541-0594 "the \ Vashingtonians" and included at tl1e University of Arizona in Tuc­ well and is now pretty nearly okay 978-464-5513 Colby alumni Tee and AnitaPooler son. From December 29 through again ....So what's going on with fax: 978-464-2038 [email protected] Laliberte, i\ Iuriel and Bob Tonge April l3 their address will be 1529 you' l\'othing so drastic, I hope. '49, Karl '54 andJane J\ [illett Dornish Belfry Court, Green \'alley, Z Please don't whiz by the question­ '5 5 and Paul and Germaine J\ Iichaud 8561+, phone number 520-399-2748. naire in this issue of Colby- just Orloff '55. Once this became impos­ Ifyou are in the area, give them a call. rake a sec to deal with it, okay' professor emerims, Phil is still acti\'e sible for Earle and Sue to do physi­ ... John Stevens \\Tites from San -.\'nomi Collett Pngn nelli in the department of oral and maxil­ cally they looked for an alternativeto Diego that he anended the P-38 re­ lofacial surgery, where he has been spending the winter in snow country. union in Palm Springs at the end of 46 Another award for Philip since 197 . Beforemat he was dean at Their solution has been a small town i\ lar. John planned to attend the Boyne, D.,\ l.D., :\LS.,D.Sc.! InJune, the niversit:y of Texas School of in Arizona, Green Valley, which is Eighth AF group reunion in Dayton Phil was named Faculty ,\ !ember of Dentistrr after facultytime at UCLA. located about 26 miles south of Tuc­ at the end of September and was the Year at the College of Dentistry, He had retired from the l\'avy with son and about 25 miles north of the looking forward to another such re- Loma Linda Uni\·ersity. Though he's the rank of captain after 20 years of COLBY · W I NTER 2001 I 41 Alumni at Larg1!940s sen-ice,during which he \\·as in\'olved west \\·ith daughter Elizabeth and her there's no column1 Try my e-mail rica, where they were to go on a withcraniofacialresearch in Bethesda, family. \\'e were four adults, three (classnews l 9.+[email protected]. edu). wildlife safari, then fly to the :\Id.,and \'iemam. Phil ha a note­ children, two car and wallcie talk­ -A1111e Lawrence Bondy Seychelles I lands for a fi ve-day \\·orthy CY, and we congratulate him ies. Great sights, great company, cruise. From there they were to flyto on his long and impressi,·e career .... great experiences, great way to travel 4 J Dorothy Cleaves Jordan and Luxor, Egypt, for three clays. She Ruth Lewin Emerson has been trav­ and learn.... The inauguration of her husband, Clay, have been doing adds, "Hey, Chip, bet you haven't eling in a motor home to Arizona, William D. Adams as Colby's 19th so much traveling that she says they been there1" Last spring she met au­ :\ Ii souri, \\'i con in and other less president took place on October have caught up with June Chipman thor Gerry Boyle '78 at a book sign­ distant place \\-ith her hu band and 21. As you read this, he will have Coalson. Last fa ll, after hearing raves ing.