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Your support of the 1996 Alumni Fund produced many winners.

Please join us in thanking these volunteers for all their hard work.

Winners of the 1996 Class Agent Awards

Since I 979 che Cnllege hm aclmowledged indi1•idual class agents llnd clll\\C\ 1!'/w mude parric11UJrh 1J11Cmmding efforcs for Cullrv d11ring clit.' {neccding :vear.

Thi.' )rM/Jh Cuh11rn Smich Clms Perfrnmance Awards honor re1mi1111 ,md nnn-n:tmiun classes char show che besc Ol'erall perfor­nwnct.'' hased rm rhe 1uwl nwnh:r of donors, /Jercemage of partici­fJ<mls mid dullars conmbuced. Th<! winners, both non-re11nion and rr:1m1un. llrl':

Classes with fewer than 100 members Roderick E. Famh;1m '31 (decea�ed) anJ PhilirJ. Boyne '46 ErnL·,r E. Hiller '19 cmd Jean Burr Smith '39. runners-up

Classes with 100-200 me1nbers Rnhcrr S. Rice ' . .f1 and Thrnna' W . Burke '47 Kathleen 1lt11Hgh<rn Corey '43 and Vivian Maxwell Brown '44,

runncr'>-UJ'

Classes with 200-300 members Erne;,t V. Fortin '51 and George ll'a'>C)' '63 Franklin E. Huntrc-,�. Jr. '56 and Dcivid N. Rlnom '59, runner -up

Classes with 300-400 members Harold F. Kowal '65 and Deborah Nutter Miner '68 Richard J. Valone '72 and Su�an StCJrles Smith '75, runners-up

Classes with more than 400 members Su�an Erb Pittenger '80 and Heidi Henderson ' Kathryn Lucier O'Neil '85 and Anita L. Terry' 9, runners-up

Participation award for classes graduating within the last fl ve years Stephanie V. Goff '94 Kendra Smith '92, runner-up

Michael L. Franklin '63 Reunion Participation Award Class of

'5 1 , 45th reunion (206 Jonors for 80 percent participation) Ernest V. Fortin, Head Class Agent

The Participation Challenge continues in 1997.

Continue your support with a gift to the 1997 Alumni Fund.

Call I-800-311-3678

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On the Cover Earl Lewis '96 wa one of 449 degree

recipients at the l 75th commencement on

May 26.

� .�F I inside colby

cover story 8 Picture Perfect

The l 75th commencement developed into one of the be t e\·er.

I 2 Recovering the Quad

features

Colby's 50-year-old sugar maples are dying, but a ne\,. land caping project promi e re- leaf.

I 4 Friends for Life

early 40 year after leaving Mayflower Hil l , this network of friend is tighter than ever.

19 Hart Monitor

Want to know what American are thinking? Ask Peter Hart '64, the nation's con ummate information man.

2 4th Floor Eustis

A new policy on obituarie .

3 Readers Write

Letter laud the May issue.

4 Periscope

G leaned from Dean Earl Smith' weekly newsletter.

5 From the Hill

A federal judge questions the wisdom of anti-drug law ; affirmative action debate; alcohol polic ies; aving a local re ource.

24 Faculty File

Are grade at Colby inflated, and if o,

what can be done about id; David Find­lay profi le.

28 Boohs & Authors A new book about the S ixties offers fresh

in ight into that tumultuous decade.

30 Student Life icole Dannenberg i Colby's fir t Car­

negie Jumor Fellow.

32 Gifts and Grants A $1 -mil l ion gift sets a firm foundation for the new re idence hall.

departments

34 Paging Parents

Parent of tudents returning home may find that old hou e rules no longer apply.

36 Mules on the Move

Women' !aero se core big during 1 0-4 ea on.

38 Alumni at Large

Class column , reunion round-ups

71 Deaths

7 2 Final Period

Condon Medal ist Matt Rus reflect on what college meant to him.

Alumni Profiles

38 Beth Pendleton Clark '3 5

45 Diane Chamberlin Starcher '54

49 Marjorie "Midge" Walton Holme '63

57 Jeff Lawrence ' 7 2

6 6 Cabot Philbrick ' 6

70 "After Eight" '90s

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fourth floor eustis I �

Addition by Subtraction ometimes I ife seem t o b e a erie o f traJeoff . You get your d e ert i f you

at lea t try the pinach. You can have the car on Saturday night if you wash it

and fill it with gas. You can take Friday afternoon off if you get a vital report

to the bo s by Thur day.

Life at Colby is like that, too. F r more than a year, editors Kevin Cool and

Sally Baker have been hearing from alumni in the SO-Plus classes who want

individual cla s c lumns in the maga3ine. We al o hear from con tituent

across the board that they like the issues in which we run four-color photo­

graphs-and they want more. But with paper and mailing co ts rising almo t

faster than we can track them and without additional fund to print color or

to increase the number of pages in the magazine, we knew we couldn't re pond

po itively to those comments unless we made some difficult choice .

The first of tho e choice is reflected in this issue of Colby. Instead of

printing full obituaries for deceased alumni, Colby now will run brief death

notices in the Alumni at Large department. We hope that the re ultant gain

in pages and reduction in cost will allow u , eventually, to expand the SO-Plus

section and/or add four-color photographs to each issue. More study i needed,

o the e changes won't be made overnight, but we hope that the majority of

Colby alumni will favor our attempts to improve the magazine within the

constraints of our budget.

As always, Executive Editor Sally Baker and Managing Editor Kevin Cool

welcome your comment on the magazine. Sally Baker may be reached at 207-

8 7 2-3220 or sabaker@colby.edu. Kevin Cool i available at 207-8 7 2 -3226 and

jkcool@colby.edu. If you would like information about how to contact

survivors, please contact the Alumni Office at 207-87 2-3 1 90.

C O L B Y A UGU . T 1 9 9 6 2

Colby Volume 85 Number 3

Colby Staff:

ally Baker executi1•e edicnr

Ke\"ln Cotil managing edttor

Brian peer an director/designer

Karen Oh '93 designer

Marc Gia s photographer

Roberr Gilbpie A/11m111 at Large editor

tephen Collin:. '74 Marc Gia s

sraff writers

Anc>te> ForiaJe, '89 Pamck 1 lcBride '97 conmb11ting U'11ters

Administration: William R. Corter, president;

Peyron R. Helm, vice /Jresidenr for de1•elupmenr and alumni relations;

Earl H. m1th, dean of the College; usan Conant Cook '75, director of

alumni relations

Alumni Council Executive Committee:

Ron Lupton '71, chair; Joanne WeJ<lell Magyar '71, 1•ice chair;

Libby CoryJon-Apicella '74; Anhur Brennan '6 ; John

Devine '78; Diana Herrmann '80; Anne Hus ey '80; Lou

RicharJ on McGirnty '67; Leslie Mitchell '80; usan Jacob on

Nester' ; DaviJ White '75

ulby is publi hed four time yearly for the alumni, frien<ls, parem of srndent·, senior , faculty and staff

of Colby College. Address corresponJence m:

Managing Editor, Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill

Waterville, ME 04901-8841

or e-mail to: mag@colby.edu

on the internet: http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/

Initially, We Were Wrong I was intere red in your article "An

Olympic Achievement" on page 33 of

your May Colby.

I believe you will find that the

Connolly mentioned in the article, who

was the author of many fishing and sea

stories, is James B. (Brendan) Connolly,

not James R.

James B. came from Sa\·annah, Ga., on

a scholar hip to Harvard, \\'as not afforded

an opportunity to take time off to compete

in the fir t modem-day Olympic , but

took off anyway.

Harvard, I believe, refused to rein tare

him but recanted later when h1 ·rnries

became popular in Collier's maga:ine.

It i also interesting that on the I OOth

anniversary of hi Olympic victory, the

Olympic thi year are in Atlanta anJ the

ailing event will be held in avannah.

tephen J. Connolly Ill

Beverly, Ma .

Yes, we goofed on the middle inirial of Mr.

Connoll)'. Photographs from the arricle abow

Connolly's Olympic victory in che first modern

games in 1896 were sent b)' requesc to che

director of the U.S. Ol)'mpic Committee for

possible inclusion in a book abom che hist01)• of

American Olympic comperiwrs.-- Editors

No Trouble Brewing Thi letter is in respon e to the "Didn't

Go Down Ea y" letter to the editor

written by tephen choeman '64 in the

May 1996 i ue of Colby. I am not up et

that you printed thi [letter] (it 1s

important that all points of view be

expre ed) but the [letter] it elf bother

me. It i unfortunate that Mr. choeman'

experience with alcoholic beverage wa

so negative. However, it would appear

that he 1 advocating the censor hip of

reality and the elimination of choice.

The original article referred to was an

excellent depiction of initiarh·e and

success, \\'ith Blueberry Ale imply as an

example. Pe0ple drink, and it has been

hown that the con-umptton of alcoholic

be\·erage (in moderation) i actually

beneficial. Thar i reality. More impor­

tantly, it is imperati\·e that an educational

in titution teach people how to learn and

make informed decision .. There wa

nothing in the article that encouraged

people to drink or not to drink.

Life is a constant eries of choice .

We must all be gi\·en the opportunity to

make them a· they affect our 01\·n

per onal existence.

Paul C. Veilleux '

Fort Lee, Va.

Gone but Not Forgotten After reading your article on amuel

0 borne in" othing e\\'" (May '96), 1 wa·

reminded of an experience from May 199 3

when I attended my 50th clas reunion.

Solomon Fuller ['36], who also attended

this reunion, invited me to rake an

afternoon ride with him dmmtown. We

\·isited once familiar places: College

A venue, the old campus, Alden House, Foss

Hall, the railroad ration, Professor Colgan'

home where I -rudied voice \\'tth hi wife,

my Chaucer profe or Dr. Alice Com­

paretti's home-where her new infant was

the subject of my project for a cour e in

child psychology-the church where

Professor trong of the ForeiQTI Language

Department wa organist and I was the

choir's paid soprano and the site of the

0 borne ' home.

1 was so eager to get to the Osbornes'

place. olomon became trangely quiet.

Had memorie ilenced him. olomon had

graduated from Colby many, many years

before I had enrolled. Howe\•er, we both

remembered the 0 borne with plea ure.

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� I readers write

We bllth haJ beaten them at checker-; 11·e

both had read their '''lie' ,1f the Afru­Amcncan and Pmshmgh Cmmcr. 11.!annn

Oohorne, ..::amuel o,home\ okler

daughter, Cla,, of 1900, ll"a' the fiN

African-American 1roman en earn a C1)lb,

degree. I ll"as the oecond, 4 3 year' later.

What had heen amuel Osborne\ home

and garden ll"a; no\\" an ugly asphalt

rarking Int. Not rhythmically battered mtn

plmters and rubble by sma,hin!< '11"111!!' nf a

crane', demolition rendulum. lmtead,

burned to ashes. Ceremonial me? Arnn?

"-olomon, are you sure th1� is the

place'" He iu·r nodded. We oat -,denrh·.

staring at the parkmg lor. I began to ache

way dm1·n deep within me. A \\'e >lowly

pulled all'ay from the site, a car crowded

ll"ith )"l)Ung male adults passed lw. They

leered, jeered and .houted ob·cenit1e, ar

us. The orro1\· m my gut left me. In m place I felt a burning rage.

The tribute to _amuel Osborne m the

�lay 1996 i sue of Colby dou�ed the

burning rage ll'ithm me.

Millicent Bollino mith '43 Washington, D.C.

Thanks for the Memories Earl mith' piece on [the clo mg of]

Le\·ine'· [clothing tore] in the mo·r

recent is -ue of the Colby maga:me 1s a

\\'eet, e\·ocati\·e and generous es ay.

l wa so pleased to \\'1tne the award

of honorary doctorate· by the College to

the Le\·ine brothers at last year'

graduation-my daughter, Karin, wa in

the graduating class.

The closmg of Le\"ine's may be a

metaphor for the end of an era. Your e ay

caught the moment, captured the

entiment and brought more than a fell"

tear to thi rea<ler.

Mark B. Lapping Cumberland Center, Maine

AUGUST 1996 C O L B Y

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By Earl Smith

What's summer for? Colby f lk have grown accustomed to the du t and d i tche that have marked campus growth for a half century. This ummer, Physical Plant Director Alan Lewis set nell' records of inconvenience when rhe College and the local sewerage district combined effort� in creating a huge mes along Mayflower Hi l l for a new l ine. Other proud disruption­included the heginning of rhe new dorm and grand landscap­ing projects around the Olin, Schupf and Pugh building , not to mention a complete renova­tion of the lower central mall . ( ee "Recovering the Quad , " page l 2.) Ocher projects included the remm·al of the fence around the football field and repair of the l ibrary steps. And, if thar isn't enough, think about boiler removals, Chapel rewiring, renovation of the Rohen Row and Hi l lside dorms, chem and bio lab renovation·, completion of re·idence hal l computer networking, and new fields for softbal l , lacrosse and field hockey.

Keeping time We're sorry to report the end of a fine Colby tradit ion with the scheduled repair of the M i l ler Library tower c lock thi ummer. Even though

generations of Colby students and others have become used to separate t imes on rhe four face -and none of them correct-increasingly more outrageous discrepancie have prompted the dec ision to outfit the th ing with precision workings. We can hope chat rhe new tuff won't work ei ther, but more likely we' l l mourn the loss o f the myriad opporrunitie for excuse for being late to clas es and meeting . Life on Mayflower H i l l w i l l never again be the same. Next thing you know,

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they'll cap the spring that floods the McCann Road and spoil rhe ice fish ing.

A bit of blackmail Bowdoin, like Colby, ll'aS chartered by the General Court of Massachusett bur, unlike Colby, Bowdoin has never entirely separated ir-elf from the Commonwea lth. o, in order to make charter change�, the Brunswick col lege was at the mercy of the Massachusetts as well as rhe Maine legislacure. Paul Matthews, a 1 994 Colby grad, is an aide to Massachu-etts Representative Harriett

Chandler ( D-Worce ter ) , who shepherded a bill through the Boston ·rate hou e to consol i ­date Bowdoin's Board of Trustees and Over eer . Matthew· joke that he thought of getting Chandler to hold up the bi l l in exchange for some kind of graft-"Namely," he said, "the kind of graft that gets boiled in a pot and dipped in melted butter . "

Colby's a brick ln 1 9 3 5 , when architect Jens Frederick Larsen wa commis­sioned to de ign the new Mayflower Hil l campus, he was determined that the building would feature a very pecial brick. He wanted durabi l i ty, of cour e, but he also wanted a color that would be softer than ordinary brick, with a more pleasing texture. The brick that most closely matched his needs was the Harvard Brick, a com po i t ion de igned pecifically for Harvard College

and which had become a randard in the construction

trade. The Morin Brick Company in Danvi l le J unction, Maine, would have filled the order, but principal there convinced Larsen and Colby trustees to examine sample of an entirely new brick. After a winter of rigorous

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experimentatil n, Lar en pronounced rhe new brick superior to the Harvard one and specified it for the new campus. The Morin company, which made the new brick in it ki lns in Auburn, asked pennis ion to name the new product after Colby. More than a half-century later, the Colby Brick remains a popular tandard. Larsen thought it

wou ld rake 27 mil lion of them to complete the campus. Given that the place is now twice the si:e of the one Lar en envi­sioned, i t wou ld seem a fair estimate chat there now are ome 50 mil l ion Maine-made

Colby Brick on the Hil l .

Another CASE The Counc i l for the Advance­ment & Support of Education ( CA E) awarded Colby maga:ine a bron:e medal for the on l ine ver ion of the publication. The competit ion had 70 col lege and university entries. The CA E offic ial who announced the pri::e said that "Colby is obviou ly doing this [online maga:ine] rhe right way and i t show . "

Colby pride Bruce Rueger in geology ha received a grant from the Bermuda Zoological Society to upport his ongoing research

into the vegetation hi tory of the i land. Funding from the grant abo wil l al low Bruce to rake two Colby students with him into the field ... . Jon Weiss, director of Colby' program in Dijon, France, wa invited to give a lecture on the research he has been doing into the l ife and work of I rene

emirov ky, a French writer born in Russia ( 1903-194 2 ) , at the University of Tour in Apri l . . . . The tudent Association honored assistant director of student activitie Josh Eckel '94 with it annual

staff award for his hard work on behalf of all students, espec ially the leaders of tu-A. Over eer and part-time College physician Al Hume ha been elected chair of the board at the Tilton School in New Hampshire. Ben Jorgensen '92, director of student activi ties, ha been given the additional title of assi tant dean of rudents . . Demetra Giatas '88 ha been promoted from assistant director of alumni relations to associate d irector.

Bedrock research Andrew C. Flint '96 ( Catonsv i l le , Md . ) ha been awarded an undergraduate research grant from the Geological Society of America to upport hi study of the fractured bedrock aquifer in Watervi l le. The project involve h is work as a re earch assi tant to Assistant Professor of Geology Paul Doss with the newly m tailed ground­water wel ls in the F.W. Olin Science Center.

Moosecellaneous The campus had an extra sparkle in the long-overdue -pring, thanks to Linda Cotter who gave the Col lege hundreds of daffodi l bulbs for campus planting a couple of year ago, now mature and blooming. Although Colby cheese is not named for Colby in the ame way that the Colby Brick i , the softer stuff i mosr certainly named for the same man. Gardner Colby, who aved this college with $50,000, made railroad here and there, including in Wi consin, where they named a town for him. The ame town later began to make Colby chee e . . . . Science and Technology Studie is changing it name to Science, Technology, and Society (ST ) .

A_ I from the hill

A Losing Battle? Federal judge questions the wisdom of the 'War on Drugs' By Kevin Cool

S ll'eeping changes are ne<'d<'d

in gm· rnment anti-Jrug

policies, bt'ginnmg 1nth pilc1t

programs ro rest th<' effecu1·e­

ness of Jecnminal1:arion of sc1me

drugs, an mfl uential ledt'ral

mun judge rnld a Colhy audi­

ence last spring .

dle<!.11 clni<! li'l" l'ut funclmc: t.>r

c11mb.ltm'! rhe-e le� ti clru�- 1- .1

fr.ic(l1'n nf the .1rn1 >unr 'l'l nr ti 1

f1f:'.ht tlltctt -uh-t.m..:c''· .--\cc11r,l-

111� t11 ,t.1(1-tlC' T<>rruell.1 l'rc­

-eIH<',I. 1H1e 111 f1,e .--\mertL.ln'

Uol.'' rl11:'.1CC<l. re,ult1n� m -f 7-f.c'c'L' deaths Jnnualh· ,m,i hdl111n, 11t ,foliar, m mt'd1c.d C1 "r'. \ k.m-11·h1k ,1b11ur 11ne 111 �') Ameri­

can< U'<'S ill<'�.11 Jni'!-. re-ultm'!

111 5.c\X' deJth, each 1·e,1r. "The

harm c.1u::ed h· .1lcL1h11! .m,I t11-

rhan rhat nf Jnt\!'." he -.ucl.

Juan Torrudla. chief judge

of the . Coun ot Appeals for

the First Circuit. saiJ that the

'\1·ar on drugs" 11·aged since the

early i 97l has bt'en expensi1·e

anJ largely 111effecri1·e and ma\"

ha1·e contributed w a gro1nng

criminal subculture susraineJ

by extraordinary pr,1firs. "The

more you restrict supply [of a

proJuct] the h igher the price

goes," Torruella -aid . . '\rrracred

by profit margins of 10,000

percent , drug dealers are engag­

ed in "rhe best business in

. '\merica," he said.

judge Juan Torruella says anri-drug laws make drug dealing profitable.

Sh,1rt ,1fin,r1rutl11<!,ir.K11111.in

Lrn·- like thL1'e m S11w.11'ure .111-l \!ak\\-,iJ -ll'ht're I'1'"''"111n ,1! e1·en t11w .l!l1t'Unt- 11f dlt'\!.11 Jru\!'

1s pun1-haHe h- h.m�111'!-thl.'

go1·<'n1ment c.1nn11r -1'!n1f1..:.mrh

c,1nrr,1! clru;: u-t'. T11rruell.1-,11,I.

"\\'<' '1mph- can't I'Ui e1· t'rd'1'ch

in _1ail ." h<' sJiJ .

T orruella emphasi:ed that

his ideas about changes in Jrug

polic ies do nor amount ro an

endorsement of decriminali:a­

rion bur present other options

for debate. "Nothing I sayshc)uld

be interpreted as my promoting

rhe u e ofdrugs because norhing

c,1ukl b<' furrh<'r from m1· L111·n

persL1nal pos1t1on." he <aid. "Bur

11·e must ask our<eh-es 11·h1ch

1mpo-;es greatt'r cost on L1Ur Sl1Ci­

etY-permi((ing drugs or pro­

hibiting tht'm."

Federal spending on ami-drug

programs-includ 1ng educa(lon.

rehabilitation and enforce­

ment-ha� increas<'d fwm • 100

million 111 1913 tllS12 billion in

1993, rhe latest 1·ear for 11·h1ch

figures are a1·ailable, Torruella

sidewalk talk Record-breaking num ers of application this year resulted

in the lowest admit rate in College history and places Colbv

amono the nation' top schooL in that important tatistic.

Final figure prodded by the Office of Admissions show

rhar only 31 percent of rhe College's 46 I applicant

were admmed for the Clas of 2 0 . President Bill

Cotter told tru ree at their spring meenng

that the low admit rare "is truly extraordi­

nary." Only about - colleges in the coun­

try admit fewer than 5 percent of all

applicants, and Colby's rate likely places

it among rhe top 20, Cotter aid.

s

said. \\'hilt' attempts w curb rhe

;.upph· l1f drugs ha1-.:' cfont' lnrle

r,1 reduce rh<'1r u;.e, t'..:lucar1nnal

programs aimed at rt'ducin\! the

demand ha1·e had rea:,onabh·

go,1l-l success. "\\'hen it come, to

reducmg drug u;:e, the go1·<'rn­

ment gets more bang for the buck

from education than enforce­

ment," he said.

Torruella noted that alcohd

and wbaccl1 use produce much

greater problems for societY than

Torruella rec,1rnmende,i ,1 nJUl1nal debate about dru'! r11l 1-

cie< and a hiparr1,an c1,mm1-­

s1on w expl11r<' OI't1nn'. a, 11·dl

;i, a pil,1r pr,1grarn ,,f ,l<'cn1111-

nalt:ari,m. "L<'t', !,1,1k at rh1,

prohlt'm and tllld nl.'11· 11-.w- ,,f deal111g 11·nh n." ht' -.11d. +

Grades for Free Effecn1·e July l, Colby no longer requires student< and alumni r,1

pa1· for rranscnprs. Registrar Gt'l1rge Coleman sa1·s.

CL)leman say, the '1 fee for processirw extra rran,cri1't,-rhe first

cory akays 11·as free-has been in place for more than 30 Y<'Jr;.. "F11r

all I kno11· 11·e 're rhe last place m rhe u1111·erse charglllg that aml1unr."

he said."� !any colleges charg<' fi1·e dollars; a numb<'r charne r1t1rhmg."

Persons requesr111g rramcnprs that require cwemighr sh1pp111g, fax­

ing or other special po5tage II' ill be charged for those cost>. Cl1leman ,a1·,.

Because of confidenrialttY c11ncerns. transcript reque<rs mu,r be submitted in 11-rirmg: faxes are acceptable 1f rhey are signed. Tht'

Reg istrar's fax number 1s 207-87 2- '076 and the phone numher I> 2L 7- I 2-3197. Question' or correspondence or her rhan rran<cnpr

requests may be _enr 1·ia e-mail ro registr@rnlh·.edu. +

.-\L" GL"ST 100� Cc'LBY

Alcohol Panel Seeks Attitude Adjustment

A ranel charged 11'Ith reducing alcohol abuse at Colby produced

a report in )\,fay that incl uded more than )0 recommendat ion:,,

many of which attemr.t to r.romote "a culture f responsib i l ity . "

Following nearly a year of re:,earch and discu ion the Trustee Commis,ion on A lcohol. chaired by Beverly Nalhand ian Madden \0, said it seeb to deve lor. a more vibrant social l ife while creating an environment "where ahuse is challenged and not tolerated, where all r.ersom ll" i l l be honored, and where civ i l ity and resr.ect for the educational proce s , both inside and outside the cla room, are r.aramount."

Dean of the College Earl mi th, a comm is . ion member, said the

r.anel bel ie1·ed that changing the campu� culture, rather than the

adoption of harsh regu lation , wa- the best approach for allev iatmg

alcohol abuse. "The rules are prohahly the least imp rtant part of the

report," mith said. "Many of the new things are aimed at creating

d ifferent attitudes ahout drinking."

A major recommendation ca l l for the creation of a centrali:ed ocial/cu ltural programming student board ro organi:e campus soc ial

event> and help fund many kind of activ ities. The comm is ion noted that major campus social e1·ents uch as "La-t Day of Loudne "do

not provide adequate alternative option for students who don't wi h

to drink.

Shannon Baker '9 ( Columbus, Ohio ) , a member of the commi -

sion, says that changes resu lting from the panel 's ugge tion won't

happen overnight. 'Tm probably not going to ee a big d ifference

during the time I 'm at Colby," she said. "But hopefu l ly five years from

now we won 't have people coming into Colby expecting ro play beer

die every n ight, think ing it' a party school . "

Baker ays the commi ion report "has tudent talking." The component most often discussed, she says, are the new regulation l imiting re idence hall to one party per week and the introduction of chem-free lounges in all residence halls." ot everybody is happy with all of the recommendation , but that's a sign that we've introduced real change," she aid.

In addition to everal faculty and administrators, the commi ion

included tru tees A I ida Camp, Jane Whipple Coddington ' 5 5, George

Ha kell '55, Ellen Ha wee Ii '69, Jean Pratt Moody ' 56, David Pulver

' 6 3 , Elaine Zerva tamas '53 and John Zacamy '71; students han­

non Baker '9 , A lex Chin '96, Holly Grochmal '98 and Noah

Wepman '96; and Alumni Counc il Chair Ronald Lupton '71. +

Is Affirmative Action Needed? Yes and No.

An outspoken cr itic of affir­

mat il·e action told a por­

l ight Event audience in early

May that the program has out­

I ived i t u efulne s and has cre­

ated a stare-sanctioned form of

d iscrimination , but an advocate

of the program aid It remain

an important step toward level ­

ing the playing field for minor­

ity ci ti:en .

Linda Chavez, president of

the Washington-ba ed Center

For Equal Opportun ity and au­

thor of a book cr it ical of race­

based government programs,

aid affirmatil·e action provides

unfair adrnntages for prospec­

t ive college tudents of color

and to minority contractors

competing for lucrati1·e federal

project . "[Affirmative action]

has gone away from its original

goals of recruitment and tra in­

ing to giving outright prefer­

ences, not j ust to those who

have been v ictims of d iscrimi­

nation or who have been d isad-

C O L B Y A U G U T 1996

From the left, Juan Williams; from the right, Linda Chavez.

vantaged, but to any person who

fits certain racial c las ifications

and to women," Chavez said.

"To judge people by immutable

characteristic uch as the color

of their sk in i wrong," she said.

Arguing again t Chave: was

J uan Wil l iam , an author and

commentator best known for h i

Emmy-award winning documen­

tary Eyes on the Prize. Will iams

rejected the notion that affirma­

tive action i unnecessary a a

vehicle for empowering minor­

ity Americans. "The fact is, if

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you look at the CEOs and people

in positions of power in this coun­

try you find that it i overwhelm­

ingly, almostexclu ively, a white

male pre erve," he said. Wil l ­

iams said the recent attacks on

affirmative action are politically

motivated and have little to do

with the reality of the American

workplace. "The truth i ," he aid,

"there i not much affirmative

action going on."

Wi l l iams sharp ly rebutted

Chavez's contention that colleges

and univer ities hould not con-

sider race as a factor in evaluating

applicant . He nored that admis­

sion offices often select tudent

based on non-academic charac­

teri tics uch as athletic or musi­

cal abil ity. Only when race i used

to promote diver ity among it

tudems are college accused of

"discrimination," he said.

The fact that minority stu­

dent are underrepresented at

public college and un iver itie

uggest that state are fai l ing to

educate their c itizen in propor­

tion t0 their numbers. "In fact,

minority tax dollar are being

used to fund the education of

non-minority students," Wil l ­

iam aid.

Chavez countered that A mer -

ica will never reach its goal of a

"color-blind" society until affir­

mative action is abolished. "Two

wrong do not make a right," she

aid. "Policies that u e race as a

proxy for achievement will not

lead us to a society in which color

is not a dividing l ine." +

WRACC is seen as a key to revitalizing downtown Waterville.

Building Up Downtown

Recent economic news from

Waterv i l le has been grim.

National media out lets from

Boston to Los Angeles covered

the announcement in May by

Warnaco CEO Linda Wachner

that the Hathaway shirr factory

in Waterville would close before

the end of the year. (A group of

investors led by former Maine

Governor John McKernan is

work ing tO save the plant . )

Levine's, an anchor for the dm�Tl­

town bu ine-s di trict, has closed.

Avian Farms, an internationally

recognized poultry breeding and

research firm, has delayed ex­

pansion plan because of a na­

t ional downturn in demand.

And, a ide from the revival of

the Harri Baking Company,

which is emerging from bank­

ruptcy, local industry is flat.

o it was with con iderable

enthu ia m that Waterville em­

braced a plan by a group of local

leaders to purchase the Stem

Cultural Center on Main treet,

defunct ince late last year, and

chri ten i t the Watervil le Re­

gional Arts and Community

Center ( WRACC ) .

Colby President B i l l Cotter

leads the group, which purchased

the former terns department

tore at auction in early J une.

WRACC will use the building as

a venue for performing and non-

performing arts, for community

group office and for retail busi­

nesses. The intent is for the faci l ­

i ty to serve not only Waterville

and surrounding towns but cen­

tral Maine from the coa t to

kowhegan. All members of the

community wi l l be invited to

become members of the center.

More than 500, 000 was

rai ed for the purchase from

Colby , M id- Maine Medica l

Center, philanthropists El iza­

beth Noyce and Bert Clifford,

Colonia l Di tributor , Walter

and Mary S imcock, Hannaford

Brothers, Thomas College, A.G.

Edward & ons and an anony­

mous donor. The bui lding sold

for $ 3 50,000, and much of the

remaining 1 50,000 will be used

for repair and renovat ion. An

addi tional $ 5 00,000 must be

rai ed by next spring. The group

plans to approach other local

corporations and businesses for

addi t ional major gifts and hopes

to attract at lea t 2 ,000 indi­

vidual donor at the 25 mem­

ber h ip leve l .

The bui ld ing' current ten­

ant are expected to stay, and

WRACC has hired a general

manager and a group to admin­

ister arts programs. Other new

tenant may include communiry

non-profit group and the City

of Watervi l le . +

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The Reel Pocahontas Pocahontas may ha,·e been 11·onJerful fami ly emenamment,

but the Disne · film haJ ,·ery l i t t le re:,emblance to the h1stoncal

figure 11·hose name it appropnated. That 11·a� the consen LI\ at a

d iscus ion about Hol lywood's depict ion of Pncahont<b anJ of

Nat ive American culture in general conJucted h· vi:,1t ing

Instructor of Rel igious tudies Laurel Schneider.

chneider, ll"ho taught a pring course t it led am·e Amen­

can Rel igious Tradition , read nm Jifferent accounts by Cap­

tain John mith of h is capture by the Powhatan in December

1 60 7 . In the first account, ll'r itten in the same year the event

occurred, mith c laimed that tribal chief Poll"hatan released

him after an elaborate rel igious ceremony; he did not mention Pocahontas. mi th's second version of the story, 11Titren 1 7

years later, described how Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas,

interl'ened to a\·e his l ife as he ll'as about to be k i l led by cluh­

wielding Ind ians. Despite the inconsi tencies betll'een the two

accounts, Schneider says, Smith's later version was accepted

into popular lore and spa1rned the legend of Pocahontas. But

even this h istorical ly questionable account 1rns discarded by

Disney in an attempt to add drama and romance to the re lation­

hip bemeen Pocahontas and Smith, she ays. In the movie,

which chneider -howed following her introduction, Pocahontas

fall in love with mith and prel'ents a war between the

Powhatans and the Engl i h. A istant Profe or of H i tory

El izabeth Leonard cal led the fi lm "a complete fabrication."

The historical Pocahontas-who was 1 1 years old \\'hen

mith was captured-married a Virginia merchant, J ohn Rolfe,

accompanied him to England and died, probably of smallpox, at

2 1 , Schneider aid.

The disronions in the fi lm raise

questions about the dep iction of ac i 1·e

Americans by filmmakers, Schneider aid.

For example, she said, the models used ro

create the an imated characters in

Pocahontas were A ian, not acive

American. She added, howe1'er, that

Pocahontas resonated 11· ith some Na­

th·e Americans becau e of i t posith·e

portrayal of the ir people.

I nstructor in Educat ion and Hu­

man Development Sandy Grande said

that she was able to eparate the movie

character from the historical Pocahontas.

"There is story and there is history, and I

think it ' important to distingu ish be­

tween them," she aid. " l hope we don'r

look to Disney for history ." While con­

ceding thac Pocahontas i hi torica l ly

flawed, Grande said the story ha ome

value in depicting ative A merican a

"the good guys." +

A U G U T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

Picture Perfect First came the platform party: the president, honorary degree

rec ipient , dean of tudent , dean of facul ty, dean of the College,

registrar, faculty marshal , trustee . Then the faculty, resplen­

dent. Then 449 about-to-be graduates, two by two, flowing down

M i ller Library' steps in black robes.

Mo t ot her years, the Portland Bra s Quintet would have been

right on the money in triking up, a they did, a tune from

Wagner' Die Meistersinger van Numberg. Wagner is not known

for hi brevity ; neither are Colby commencement proces ion .

But in 1 996 it took j ust 1 3 minute -about half the average for

the last five years-for everyone in the long l ine to proce s and

be seated. ( At a luncheon following the ceremonie , President

Bi l l Cotter joked that if the faculty had picked up i ts pace a l ittle,

the parade m ight have come in under 10 minutes. "We're old ! "

Profes o r o f Government andy Maisel protested. )

lnnm·ation ha its hazards, of course. From the platform, Dean

of Student Janice Ka sman spotted Hacho Boho Boho ian '96

( sum ma cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, honors in chemistry ) , who

didn't appear to have a chair placed behind him. This would be

a problem, he surmi ed, when the senior were directed to sit .

The dean sent an emi ary. " I ' l l have a chair when it ' time to sit ,"

Bohossian said confidently, and with good reason-economics

professor Patrice Franko wa on the job, raiding the faculty

eating ection. A chair appeared.

Not much of a glitch-and the la t of the day. Colby's l 7 5 th

commencement was all but f1awle s .

Rabbi Raymond Krin ky, the College' Jewi h chaplain, a ked

in hi invocation that the graduates be granted "courage, deter-

mi nation and a loud voice" against injustice and inequity. Cotter

thanked the cla for the cool , sunny weather and reported that

the 1 996 Senior Parent Fund topped 3 5 7 ,000, a record. Cla

Pre ident Ginger Com tock of Westfield, N .] . (daughter of

Robert '6 7 and France Richter Comstock '6 7 ), offered a caution­

ary tale. Persuaded by a friend that he was "a lock" for an

internship at H BO and that a vi it to the corporate office wa a

formality, Comstock aid, he wa urpri ed to be ushered into a

mogul's office for a formal interview. "And I have nothing, no

re ume, nothing to show this man," she said. "And he began to

ask me que t ion . 'Why HBO? Why communications?' I didn't

know why. And then he aid, ' o, what are your trengths7' I

hadn't given it any thought. o of course I sat there and I aid,

'Uh, I dunno. ' That' not really what they want to hear. And then

after that he said, 'What are your weakne e ?', and of course,

immediately, I had an an wer. I don't know where it came from,

but I aid-I looked thi man, he wa so unfriendly, right in the

face-and I aid, ' ometime I have a hard t ime following

directions.' . . . He howed me out." Com tock adv i ed her c la -

mate to take some t ime to a se s their trengths. "You are going

to go off and do omething, each one of you, that fits you and i

going to be perfect," he aid.

Class Speaker Matt Ru s of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, called his

college year "a rich ource of stories," noting that the people he

met each had "an intriguing pa t and a promising future." He

learned about these people, he aid, by I i tening to their stories.

"Upon graduating, and for the rest of our lives, we are going

to meet more and more people who are different from our elve ,"

Clockwise from upper lefc : Crawford Family Professor of Religious S tudies Thomas Longstaff and Robert E . Diamond Professor of Women's Studies and French Jane Moss lead the graduation procession; class speaker Matt Russ; a family member gets into rhe picture; 1 996 graduates ; honorary degree

recipienc and commencement speaker Charles Osgood; Carrie Allen

1 7 5th Commencement Leaves Lasting Impressions By Sally Baker, with photos by Marc Glass

C O L B Y A U G U T 199 6 8

9 .-\ L G L" 3 T I q 9 t C 0 L B )

Rus · said. " I t wi l l be up to us, wherever we are and whatever we do, to find a means of coexisting. Call it peace. Call it love. Call

it tolerance. Call it whatever you like. I will call it haring storie . I wi l l th ink of my Colby diploma as a bookmark of orts, marking a chapter of stories that opened my mind to the exciting minds

of others." A few minutes after conc luding his speech , Russ

returned to the podium to accept the 1 996 Condon Medal, an

honor voted by the c lass and confirmed by the faculty .

Charles 0 good, proud ( and occasionally choked up) father of

Kathleen Wood '96 and, inc identally, anchor of CBS News Sunday

Morning and CBS Radio's The Osgood File, wa on hand to deliver

the commencement address despite the obvious conflict. ("I told

my mother that Charle Osgood would be here," Bill Cotter said at

a reception for the honorary degree recipient the evenino before

Commencement. "She said, 'Well, where wil l he be Sunday

morning?' We're basking, but mil l ions of people are hating us,"

Cotter said . )

Indeed, Osgood gave the assembled senior , their parents and

the rest of the crowd plenty of warmth in which to bask.

"A commencement speech is suppo ed to contain words of

wisdom for the graduates," he said, "but as a broadca ter I have

di covered that there is neither a great supply of wisdom nor a great

demand for it. My own per onal supply of wi dom i uch as to

guarantee that this will be a short peech." Osgood then offered "a

commencement speech within a commencement speech" and

recited a 1 4-l ine poem read by Or. Suess when he addre sed graduates

at a different college several years ago. The poem, "My Uncle

T er\villiger on the Art of Eating Popovers," encouraged students to

"Do a lot of spitting out of air . . . and be careful what you swallow! '"

"Your feel ing are mixed now, I am sure," Osgood said. "Joy­

that you have achieved what you set out to. Sadness-that thi

chapter in your l ives is over. You realize now that some of the

finest people you will ever know have been here in your years at

Colby. From them, the dedicated men and women of Colby, you

have learned a lot, not only about the subjects of your studies, but

you have learned a respect for wisdom. And you've learned

omethi ng about dedication yourself, and the fact that the

greatest satisfaction in l ife are those things we do for others.

"Without the expressed permi sion of every mother and father

here, but ecure in the feel ing that I 'm right about this, I can tell

you that we parents are experiencing a mixture of strong emotion

about this day of your , too. Love and pride and happiness for you,

along with a flood of memories and a breathtaking, almo t dizzying

sense of 'Where have all those years gone?' We look at you s itting

there in your caps and gown , all grown up, and other pictures flash

through our mind of you when you were little. I mean really l ittle,

when you were a baby; yes, even when you were first born. You

being tucked in and ki ·sed goodnight; you going off to school for

the first time; you in a school play; you laughing and playing and

inging. You growing up.

"I mean, I don't want to embarrass you, and it would take too

much time anyway, but we've got hundreds of thou ands of these

terrific picture of you stored indelibly in our memories, and we are

playing them back in our minds right now. And in our heart . In

case you didn't know. Here's looking at you, kid."

Osgood finished h is peech with his verbal signature, a poem

for the graduates:

"You've come now to a mi lepost

where the pa t and future meet .

At a cros roads for a moment

that is trangely bittersweet.

You knew it would affect you

but you didn't know how much

a today you tell each other that

of course you' l l keep in touch .

And perhaps you even wil l ,

for it is now forever true,

that you are part of Colby,

and that Colby' part of you ."

Osgood joined Drew Univer ity Pre ident andformer New Jer ey

Governor Thomas Kean (father of Alexandra '96 , Rya Zobel,

United tates Di trict Judge for the Di trict of Massachusetts and

director of the Federal Judicial Center, and Robert T. Paine, a

professor at the University of Washington and an international

leader in the <level pment of the cience of ecology, in receiving

honorary degrees from the College. Then all at back and enjoyed

the long proce sion of seniors who came to the platform to hake

Cotter's hand and get their diplomas.

The Class of '96 displayed its share of unusual garb and back­

of-the-hat humor. Pleas for jobs adorned a few mortarboards. Josh

Fi hkin of Redding, Conn., was caple and hoeless. Deirdre

Foley (Closter, N .J . ) was porting a carrot in place of her ta el .

After Mass on commencement morning, she'd a ked Colby

Cathol ic Chaplain John Marquis if he'd een her lost tassel. "No,

I haven't een it," Marquis aid. "Why don't you j ust put a carrot

on your cap ?" Bingo.

Commencement ended with a benediction from Marquis,

who urged the new graduates to erve as well as to strive. And, he

said, "May they be filled with optimi m for their future." Another

emi ary from the platform, this time sent by Profe or of French

and co-College Mar hal J ane Mo s, gave whispered, last-minute

directions on how the c la should recess. Then they were off­

first to the Runnals lawn for lunch under a blue and gray awning

and, from there, to whatever awai t them.

Clockwise from upper lefc : Earl. Lewis; Sarah Gelman; ] . Colin Harringwn; Kim Allen; Wilfredo Alvarez; Tina Garand

O L B Y A U G U T 1 99 6 1 0

1 1

Recove ring th e Quad 0 n a1w 'unny day i n spring nr au rumn , rhc exp;m,e nf nf the a d m i ;,s1nns office through ll'h ich hundreds of prospect i ,·e green 'pace thar unf o ld, heh )\\· M i l l er L ihrary io spr ink led ,tuLlenb pa>> each year, rhey chnse a spot near a grove nf p i nes wi th

11· i th ,tudent;, reaLl i ng, i l lung i ng cm the gr;.i:,:, and pLw i n,g a �·annramic ,· ie,1· ( )f the qu<iJrangle .

Frisbee. The quaLl rang l c ha> for 5L' year' heen Cc ilhy\ fronr la11 ·n, s i re Because of the q uadrangle 's central place i n Colby's iden t i ty-i t 's

e lf i mpromptu pame,, 1•hmn c1p1•or t u n i t ic" C t lln mence men ts anLI , the menta l i mage a l u m n i often reta i n most ,. i ,· id l y-i ts aeothe t ic

ll'c l l , peopll' 'm i ng ar, iunLI . A'k ,· i r tua l ly any Colhy '-t uden t ll'hat qua l i ty i, of more than token in terest . o ll'hen Co l lege offic i '1 l s

fir::.t ;Htrac teLI h i m t lr her rn the Col lege ;md the terraced p l ,1tfurm c m wan ted advice about how to i ncorporate the new F.W. O l i n Sc i ence

/\ l ayfl , 1 11·er H i l l th ,H i-, the heart of t he campus 1\· i l l he 11 1en t 1oned . Center into the qu<idrangle, they rurned tel M ichae l Van Valkcnburgh

Fnlm the t<lp , 1f the quad une can ,ee a l l the w;1y tn the C<imden Asonc i ates ufC<imbridge, M ass . . landsc ape arc h i rects who two y ar

H i l l , 50 m i le, ; 1 11·ay , hur i t\ the , · 1e11· frL Hn belo11· that Jru1•s j aws. ;1g, 1 des1gned a new master plan f or Han·<ird Yard . Van Va l kenburgh 's

Flanked h· Get irg ian h u i l d m,g, an L I 'ugar maple•, , the qw1d ri ,e, ta::-k 11«1' l arger than the ass i m i l a t i on uf a new bu i ld ing , however. The

1 mprL'�"" ·e l y rnll'<lrd it-, 'entn·. thl' l i hr,H\" , on I t '- gn:en rcL!c,rnl. i ruat ion fac i ng Colhy i , s 1 m i l m tn H an·ard\-a monoc ul ture, in

\Vhen the CPlkgc 11"1::- curhidl' r ing , i tl'' f , ir the Lunder Hnu,e, h, 1me t h 1 :- c ao;e, su .i;ar mar le, , has re;iched the end of i ts l i fe span, threaten-

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Colby's SO-year-old sugar maples are dying, but a new landscaping proj ect promises re-leaf

ing rhe char.ic rer l,f rhe Cl' l lege's mL1sr 1mf'orranr ereen srace . The I t bran· ennance . . -\ nell' rerr.1c c u r m r,, rhe lL)\I er ,ec r 1 ,,n ,,( rhe

quadrangle ll' l [ lwu r rrees � U111mag111,1ble. l] uad 11· t ! l heir balanc<:' rhe '\1 e 1 ehr" l>f rh<' 0 1 1 11 bu tlll 1 n e . l,, · ,ueJ

Adm i n 1sua r 1 1·e \ l ice Pre' ldenr \\' . . -\rnl'ld Y a , i n , k 1 s;w, r har l'f'f'U:' 1 re rhe Eusr 1 s p.1r k 1 11e .1re,1.

the College recogn i : eLI an l1pp\ lnun 1 tr horh lll ease 1n rhe Ol 1 11 "\\ ·e 11·,1 nred r,, ,nfr<'n rhe enLI' ,,( rhe ,1uadrangle .mLI ,ilk! m,1re

b u i l d i ng and presen·e rhe long - r e rm b<:'au l\· ,1f rhe ,1uallr;:ing k . c, , [,1r," Y;:is1nski sa1ll , exrl.1 1 1 1 1ne the crabaf'ple ,,rch,ir,J, anll rhe

Us ing Van \la l kenhurgh's de, 1ens . Colh· ll' t l l Cl1mr lere rh1< addit1 ,1nal rerracmg. " 0. \ ,,:,r 1mf'''rr,mt. 11·e 11·anred r ,1 ref'lace rhe

summer a $ 3 00 ,000 l;:indscarmg rroJ ec r rhar 1 11 c l u J e s refore.;rmg monncu l rure> 11·e no11· ha1·e 1nrh ml1re d 1 1·er, 1 rr and create ,1 ,hade

rhe quad . There ll' t l l be more rree> and more spec ies l,f rree, . Red canof'1· rhar 1n,uld 1wt hide L1ur but ldme,."

oaks, red maf' les and a hard ier srec 1es of rngar marles are be1ne 81· acune nL"I" rhe C,1\lee<' has an,1ded lo,mg n, <:'nure uee

p lanted in ud1· roll's on e ither , 1de ,,( rhe quadrnngle. Fl,111·er 1ne canl1r1· a r l1nc<:', Ya, 1 11,k i s.11· , , .ind rhe ne11· rlantine, ,lwuld en:;ure

c rabapple uees ll' i ll form small orchards in front Lll rhe 0 1 1 11 rhat ,uch a scenan.1 1n1uld n,1r ,Kcur in the furure. "\\ ·e 11·anr w

b u i ld ing and rhe Eustis park 1 11g !or. Benche, are beine allded 1 11 .1lll'a1·, ha1·e marure rree, ak1ne rhe ,1uad. " he :,a1LI .

srra reg1c p l aces , and a " ,- i n ing 11·all" 1< be ing t>recred nt>ar rhe Future gt>nerat 1L1n< ,,f C,, [b1an< rw dl1ubr 11·ill be erarefu l . +

By Kevin Cool

1 3 .-\ L u L ' T I " " o L l.' L P. )

Ma be it started over a burger at the Spa. Ma be you met in a clas and continued a discussion on the way to the library. Maybe there was a ski weekend with common acquaintances. Maybe you were roommates.

Colb friendships have many origins, but the thing they have in common is the College itself. It is the great meeting place-the venue for developing friendships that can last a lifetime. No great college would be great without the legions of alumni whose collective memor and joint perspective give meaning to it traditions-which are rooted in their shared experience. After the classes are forgotten and the knowledge stored away, friends remain a tether to the place where adulthood bega�; a reminder of how good those years were.

But life manages to c leave pace where there once wa none. Distance, time and changing lifest le can gradually erode the relationships that were ea i1 maintained when "getting together" meant walking down the hall or across the campus. College friendships that become long-term friendships take work.

The degree to which Colb friendships endure seems, if not extraordinar , certainl unusual. Colby alumni have taken the time not merel to sta in touch but to remain part of each other's lives, defying the transience of career and hometowns to forge even deeper ties.

There is one group of Colbians for whom friend hip are particularly profound. The speak almost reverent! about their time together; at once wistful and grateful. Not just friends. Friends for life.

By Ke · ·n Cool

Norman Lee '58

"Want to know what a friend is ?" Lynne D'Amico McKee ' 5 8 , a mall woman with a large presence, was s i tt ing on the couch of her Hampden, Maine, home when she proferred the que t ion, and, a moment later, the answer. " I ' l l tell you what a friend i ," she said, and leaned forward so her elbows re red on her knees.

Andria Peacock Kime ' 58

For the next 90 minutes she related stories of joyful reunions, anniver ary celebrations, birthday part ie - , shared vacations and children's weddings. She talked about spou es who died, chi ldren who took their own l ives, i l lne es, funerals. And through it al l , friendships that endured, deepened and solidified.

McKee is one of several people-many of whom are Colby Cla s of ' 58-who comprise a c i rc le of friends that has shown extraordinary staying power. Nearly 40 years after they left Mayflower H i l l , these former roommate and fratern i ty and orority buddies congregate reoularly. When someth ing happens to any member of the group, phones tart ringing. oon al l of the others know about i t .

To say the e folks know how to have fun would be an understatement. When they get together, ays M cKee, " it's non- top laughter. " Take, for

instance, the "Colby Weekends" held annually s ince the late ' 70s at the Maine lake cottage of Norman Lee '58 and Charlotte Clifton Lee '6 1 . They are raucous gatherings that inspire prodigious travel efforts . Regulars will do a lmo t anything to avoid mi ing them. Last year they came from Seattle, Lo A ngeles, W isconsin-al l over the United

tare -and one "member" tried to come from Katmandu, Nepal. What began a a tiny gathering of old fratern ity buddies ha grown to involve dozens of people. Chi ldren are now bringing grandchildren a the partie pi l l over into the next generat ion. " 1 think our k ids have come to enjoy i t as much as or more than we do," Norman Lee said.

In an age when friendships are as tran iem as careers,

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Peacocl< Kime '58 ,

Bruce Blanchard '58

and John Kime .

Charlotte Clifton Lee ' 6 1 ,

onnan Lee '58 ,

John Wilson '60 and

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the �olidarity of this group f Colbians eem extraordinary, if not unique. "A lot of people focus their friendships on

where they l ive," Norman Lee said. "We've done just the opposite.

Distance is not a factor for us." Beryl Scott G lover ' 5 cal ls

it s imply "a love network." Friends for l ife ? As far as she is

concerned, there's no other k ind . "I dec ided a long t i me ago that these people were too

important to me to let them l ip out of my l ife," she said.

Glover says -he and her late hu band, Bob-a Bowdoin graduate and "honorary member of the Colby Class of ' 58"-moved so often they joked that he was "a migrant worker." The re ult of so many different addresse was that the G lovers

aid a lot of goodbye . " I r became ,·ery painful to leave friend behind, o I dec ided I wa going to take my friends with me," he said. " I found that 1 could put a WAT line to better purpose than anybody in the universe."

If shared happine has been the glue of these friend hip over the past 40 year , shared sorrow ha been the cement. N early

Lynne D'Amico McKee '58

everyone in the group has dealt with the lo s of a loved one, a serious i l lness, or both . McKee' husband, Robert, d ied in 19 8 ; G lover's husband died in 1 993 . E leven years prior to lo ing her mate, Glover had endured the ·uic ide of her daughter, Kathy, to whom -he had donated a k idney two year earlier. "We've shared each other's happine s and we've hared sadne- , too," McKee said.

On February 2 7 , 24-year-old Bradford Lee, a pec ia l i t fourth c las in the Army Nat ional G uard,

" loved by everyone who knew h im," accord ing to hi father, Norman, committed suic ide. The Lee , a lways the couple who had brought other Colbian together,

now received an outpouring of love and upport. McKee and Glover mobil ized the army of

friend to come to the Lees' aid. "Beryl and Lynne must have called 50

people. I heard from c las mate I hadn't heard from in year , " said Norman

Lee, h i voice breaking. " I don't think w e real ized how

much the e people meant to u unti l Brad' death . "

McKee a y Norman called her on Mother' Day, a few week

after h i on' death, in tear . "Norman is a very lo ing man. If there i

omething he can do to make omebody happy he wil l do it. l w ish there wa a way to

take ome of the burden he and Charlotte are carrying. When they hurt, I hurt too," he aid.

The death of the e loved one ha brouoht home the fact that pain will be a companion to joy as these friendships age . "Up until the time Lynne and Beryl lo t their husband we felt invincible," aid Norman Lee. "We j ust rhought we

would alway be together. I think tho ·e deaths brought a new d imen ion , a deeper understanding, to our relation hips. We appreciated l i fe more and we appreciated each other more ."

G lover recal ls how her grief fol lowing the suicide of her daughter was made ea ier by Colby friends, and in tum allowed her to provide comfort later to others confronting a lo . "I 've been the beneficiary of the depth of these friendship , and I \·e been a part icipant when my buddie faced these tough challenges," -he said. "When Kathy d ied I felt a c irc le of love around me; the Colby gang was there. When Lynne's [hu band] Bob d ied I had omething to give her, and the ame wa true when the Lee lo t Brad. I knew what they were going through. I f you'"e had to gut it out yourself and others have showed you the way, you are better able to give comfort and upport. "

T h e death o f c la smate Andria Peacock K i m e i n 1 992 provided another i l lu tration of t h e closeness of the member of the Cla of '5 and their extended network. Kime wa d iabetic and was t ld by doctors that he probably wouldn't l ive past the age of 3 5 . They m is e d b y 2 0 years.

A few day before he died, Kime called a clas mate from the emergency room to apologi:e because he couldn't attend a reunion planning meeting. he had

disguised her illness o effectively that many of the clas mate at that meeting were hocked to learn of her death, McKee said. When the reunion took place several month later her classmates selected a Japanese cherry tree on the Colby campus to dedicate in her memory. Glover, Kime's Colby roommate, wrote the memorial eulogy.

Beryl Scott Glover '5 "Everybody showed up for

the ceremony," he aid. "Her death wa part of the ongoing love network in our group. The troops gathered around and upported her husband and her children and tayed in touch."

Glover is convinced that Colby friendships are extraordinary, particularly in the Clas of

'58. "Our cla s eemed to have a special bond when we were at Colby, and that bond ha continued and trengthened ince,' Glover said.

he attribute that bond in part to "marvelou

These Class of '58

fiiends ' shared memories began

with College events like the

Strawberry Breakfast

(above, 1 957) and continued with periodic

mini-reunions (below, 1 99 1 ) .

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human being who happened to be in the ame rlace at the ·ame time" and to a pec ial chemi try Colby seem to engender.

" I think Pre ident [ eelye) Bix ler had <.i Im to do with the feel ing we ha\·e for the rlace anJ for each other," ·he aid. "He sort of et the tone. He kne\\' every tudenr by

name and knew where you \\'ere frum, anJ even omething about you."

A.lmo t 40 year later, Glm·er anLI other refuse to let that sen e of community die. One product of Glm·er's eamc mes 1s a new letter published for Tri Deir soronty member , complemented by periodic mini­

reunions, the first of which wa held at the Gkwer ' home in 1 9 7. There ha\'e been two more reunions since, and another is planned for next year, but that first meeting i particularly memorable for G lO\·er. "Th i was four years after Kathy died, but I sti l l had ome unfinished bu ines to deal with. I didn't alway talk about my grief, but at that reunion I was encouraged tn talk about i t . They at and cried with me. Ir was something I needed to do, and omething they needed to do and something we needed to do toaether."

Glover's Colby support group tepped forward again when her husband died suddenly in 1 993 . "We haJ a memorial service for Bob in New York City. It was a January day and the weather wa ju t a\\ful-a terrible ice stom1 practically hut down the city. But people came. They came from all O\'er the place. There wasn't any question about it-they j ust came," she said.

L ikewi e , McKee ha been the beneficiary of a lo\'ing support network of Colby friends. he recalls that "the phone neYer stopped ringing" fol lowing the death of her hu band. One old Colby friend, John

hute ' 5 7 , heard about her loss while v is i t ing the campus and immediately drove to the McKee home in Hampden. "He was on my doorstep within twenty-four hours of Bob' death," McKee recalled. " ! hadn't een

John for years, but there he wa , coming to help me."

" ! can't de cribe how much the upport of my Colby fr iend meant to me after Bob d ied ," he aid.

"These were the people I wanted to be wi th ."

Robert McKee and Lynne had traveled with the Lee to

Thailand, I nd ia and Nepal in ovember 19 7 and

were planning another trip to A laska when Robert d ied the fol lowing

J une. Buoyed by the Lees' in istence that her husband would

want her to make the A la ka trip, Lynne called a former prep school friend, M i m

Brown to accompany her. S ince then, Brown ha invited McKee and the Lee to her cottage on Lake George, M aine, everal time , further extendi ng the " love nen ork."

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t.. ! c K ee j oke that the e gatherings always hold new oppmtun i t ies for pok i ng fun a t nne another, an im portant element of the e friends' p layful affection. "Norman ha� been dubbed the offic ia l ' leg l ifter' becau e he ha · to help me into the boat ," Mc Kee said.

McKee has been d iagnosed w i th mul t iple sc leros is and oays it 11-;r the Lees whn persuaded her to 1· i s i t the L1hey Clini in Boston ro determ in why she was experienc ing pain i n her leg . "Norman sa id, 'Maybe l can get rid nf th i- job as leg l i fter, l don't get any t ip · anyway," ' Mc Kee said, laugh i ng.

The Lees surpri ed her recently wi th a gift of art they had purc hased for their home several years ago, Mc Kee says. " How could omeone ll'ho bought this beaut ifu l piece of art for the i r own home j ust gil'e i t away l i k that ?" Mc Kee said. " I r '- goi ng right O\·er there," she sa id , point ing to a spot on her l iv i ng room wa l l . " ! ll' i l l th ink of Norman a n d Charlotte e very t i me I look at i t . "

T h e Lees, in t h e m id�t o f p lanning f o r the i r daughter Cynthia 's wedd ing i n August , a r e moving from t h e i r longt ime home in We t H a rtford , Conn. , to Florida, where they ll' i l l pend the winters. They will return for summer -and more "Colby Weekend. "-at their Ma ine cottage.

Gl over recently moved to N orth Carol ina. She is busy help ing to plan next year's Tr i De lt reun ion.

McKee ·h are her Ha mpden home with her son, Rob, and d reams of more travel adventure . " l f I can get th is damn r ight leg under control I ' m going to he in Africa aga in hefore l die ," he said. he gets regu lar phone c a l ls and l ' is i t from old Colby friend , includ i ng

orman Lee, who ays he hope M c Kee can make one more Ol'ersea trip with them before her i l lness become too evere. "Lynne is one of the e gutsy women who won't let her cond i t ion get i n the way of doing what he wants , " he said. "She ju t has remarkable spi r i t . "

L e e s a y he worries that as members of t h is c lo e group grow older d is ta nce may become more of a barrier. "We' re determi ned to s tay together and get crotchety together," h e sa id . "Maybe we w i ll buy our own fac i l i ty, h i re nur es and ra ise a l l the havoc we wan t. We've ta lked about c hanging the cottage i n to a p lace where we cou ld a l l go and move around on ramps and pul ley . "

When s h e reflects on t h e length and depth o f the friend h i ps stem m i ng from her Colby days , M c Kee is rem i nded of an anecdote she overheard her father, A. A "G u " D'Amico '28, tel l a group of friend . " Dad was ta lk ing about how he a lmo t went to Dartmouth

in read of Colby, and that made me think what the

impl icat ion of that would have been on my l ife , " he

aid . "All of the e people who have been o dear to me for all these years wou ld not have been part of my l i fe becau e I probably would not have ended up a t Colby. I get emotional ju ·t thinking about it. Life without my Colhy friend 1 l can 't imagine i t . "

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Glover is convinced that Colby friendships

are extraordinary

and she attributes that in part to a

special chemistry the College seems to engender .

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WANT TO KNOW WHAT AMER ICANS ARE TH I N K I NG? ASK PETER HART ' 6 4 , THE NAT ION ' S CONSUMMATE I N FORMAT ION MAN

BY STEPHEN C O LL I N S ' 7 4

I t's a c h i l ly Monday momin in early Apri l anJ a low m·ercast _hang lWer DupL)nt Circle in

northwe t Wa hington. threatening nm,·. The cacorhony ot new� ahout the Rerublican

rresidential rrimary ha · d immished since Bob Dole final ly ecl ir�ed h is rcsky r inls rn

arparently ·el\' up the t1L)minat ion. But the urcommg race between Dole and Bill Cl inton i · much

on the minds, and tongue · , of those 11·ho prowl the . idewalks and corridor� of power and of influence

in ide the Beltway.

hortly before 1 1 a . m . , the door of Peter D. Hart Re ear.::h As ociates Inc. on Connecticut

A \ 'enue open and out onto the -ide,rnlk dashe· Peter Han '64 . He almost coll ide· with a large man

walk ing to\\'ard Dupont Circ le \\· ith h is head dm\'n. Han dodges, apolog1:es and ·l ip' into the from

pa ·enger side of a bright red Dodge eon that's double parked by the c urb.

"Thanks, Henry. Thi· i reat ," he S<l)"S so · incerely you \\'ould think he's unu ed to being

chauffeured around tmrn. As the car pulls into traffic he tell the dri ,·er hi . chedule so the l i ttle

Neon wi l l be wa i t ing for him. Ar 1 1 a.m. there' a meeting with Reed Hund t , chair of the Federal

Communication Commi ion. Ar noon Harr ha· lunch plans "· ith a pol i t ical reporter for The

Washington Pose at Vidalia' , a restaurant aero - the treet from the FCC-an ea·y \rnlk. At 1 p.m.

he wi l l need a lift t o the White Hou e, where Laura Ty ·on, a · istant to the Pre·ident for economic

policy, want to ee him.

Harr mo\'e l ike a halfback through the ueet" and halhrnys-leanmg forward, hurry ing to keep

up wi th h imself, but with hi head up scanning the middle-d istance for ob tac le . Trim and agile,

1 9 A L G L S T l � >l � C L'l L R \'

of average · tature, he leaves h is raincoat streaming in his

wake. Doors open and he moves effic iently through a ·ecurity

checkpoint, but he i ne\'er too hurried to say thank you or

exchange a few pleasantries, to make introductions and to

j oke abou t pol it ics or baseball or, frequently, about himself.

At the FCC, Hundt begins by addre ing Hart about a

propo�al invol\' ing free a ir t ime for pre idential candidates.

"Let's kick thi off and explain it , and then you can tell us what

you think we ought to know or do," Hundt ay .

Later at the re taurant, Post reporter Dan Bal: asks Hart for

adYice on how to cover the upcoming presidential race. Baiz

jot ideas in a reporter's notebook as Hart responds.

St i l l later, oucide the entrance to the White House West

W ing, a small group of acquaintances arrives at the guard­

hou e simu ltaneously. " ometh ing must be up if Peter Hart'

going in," note Maura Lia son, Nat ional Public Rad io's

White House correspondent.

In Hundt' office, at the lunch table with the Post reporter

and in the Roo evelt Room at the White Hou e , others run the

meet ing , but all defer to Hart.

H art i the con ummate information man. After 2 5 years as

the president of Peter D. Hart Research Assoc iates Inc. ,

h is reception wherever he goes conj ure up the E.F. Hutton ad

of the 19 0 . When Peter Hart talks , people l isten. In an age

of information overload, "Peter Hart i seen a- the guy who can

cut through i t all and tell you what's important here," said

A oc iate Professor of Government Anthony Corrado, him­

self no stranger to the world in ide the Beltway.

Hart is ne of two pol l ter chosen to do opinion re earch

for the Wall Srreet }ournal/NBC Ne\\' weekly national urvey.

When he took on the job ( a long with Robert Teeter, a former

GOP poll ter who balances the political background of the

team) it wa the fir t t ime a major new organi:at ion went to

out ide firms for opin ion survey , Hart says. In January the

Journal began a quarterly sect ion t i t led "American Opinion"

based entire ly on Hart' and Teeter's finding .

Hart ha been involved in pol l ing and adv ising for more

than a hundred pol i t ical campaign , inc luding tho e for presi­

dential hopefu l · back to Morri Udall in the 1 976 primary.

During the 1 992 pre idential campaign he was the econd­

mo t-quoted pundi t on the topic in the nation's new media,

one tudy reported.

With a professional taff of about three dozen in Washington

and a bank of 1 00 phone in Akron, Ohio, Hart Re earch typically

has 40 or more project in the work imultaneously. The firm

serves corporate cl ients including MTV, Chry ler, Rolling Stone,

American Airline , Time-Warner and Kodak, and the tairway at

the Connecticut Avenue office i lined with framed corporate

logo of c l ientele. "That's truth in packaging," aid Hart. The

At the l unch table with The Washington Post reporter and in the Roosevelt

C L L B \ A U G U S T 1 9 9 6 20

Worldwide Fund for ature, Amnesty Internat ional, the

mithsonian Institution, Drug Strategies and Habitat for Hu­

manity are among a host of non-profit c l ient that benefit from

Hart' ser\'ice .

"What I think my bu ine s i about i understanding the

American publ ic and translat ing what i happening out

there , " Hart aid. Whether it' reforming the way presiden­

tial campaign are run, refocusin� how the media co\·ers the

campaign or having a hand in shaping soc ial policy, Hart i

pas ionate about his hope for po i t ive change . "More than

anything e l e , you can make a difference . You can play a

role," he said.

H art grew up in Cal ifornia, where his father was an Engl ish

professor at the University of Cal ifornia at Berke ley. At

Colby he majored in h istory. When he graduated in 1 964,

there were two pollster of any tature in the U . . -George

Gallup and Louis Harris. Hart went to work for Harris right out

of college, starting in the coding department at 2 per hour. He

soon moved up to the re earch office and tudied the 1 966

e lections for the CB New poll ing conducted by Harri . The

tumultuous ocial and poli t ical event of that t ime-including

the civi l right movement and the Viemam War-prompted

Hart to re-evaluate h is direction. Late one January night in

1 96 he was working on a report for Oil & Gas Journal when, he

aid, " I looked out from the rop floor of the old Henry Luce uite

at the Time-Life Building in New York and I aid, 'Thi� isn't

what I want to do."' He expla ined hi restle sne s to Harri. and

left, with the bo ' ble ing, to do campaign 11·ork for a cand i ­

date i n the Democratic Senate primary i n Ohio. " I t ll'a n ' t about

Oil & Gas Journal," Hart said. "It was about is ues thar move our

society-issues that count."

In 1 9 7 1 Hart started his Oll'n firm in Wa hingron. " I t was a

totally different busines then," he aid. "We did u1Tey. door to

door. We'd send sun·eys via the U . . Po tal en·ice." People

would ha\·e e\·en to 1 0 days to return the forms, and the fim1

would take that much time again to code, tabulate and analy:e

the data. It took three weeks to produce re ults. Today it takes

a l ittle a e ight hours, he ·ay . Ifa majorevent happens ad p.m.,

Hart' ste>ff can have a survey approved, call made, inten· ie11·ing

completed and preliminary result ready for the 1 1 p.m. ne\\' .

"That' how much this busine has changed in twenty-five

years," he said.

Now, too, there are hundreds of polling organi:ation . "You

can't pick up a newspaper today wi thout gett ing report on at

least five poll , " Hart said. Hart Re earch i one of the few

companies that does everything in-house.

While Hart erves a range of corporate, non-profit and

polit ical c l ients, it was work for the Democratic Party and

Democratic candidates that brought him esteem. He was direc-

Room at the Wh ite House, others run the meetings, but al l defer to Hart.

2 1 A U G U . T 1 996 C O L B Y

As Hart began tal king, there was a fl urry of activity in the back of the room .

tor of re�earch for d1c Democratic Nat ional ommit tee in 1 969,

hefore he started h i� fi rm, anJ was head of research for numerous

campa ign includ i ng Walter M< ndale's president ial hid in 1 984 .

" E ,·erybudy ,,·a n t - to he the pol lster for a rre� ident ia l

camraign . I t\ a h uge j ob and i t ' - h ighly comre t i t i \ 'e , " sa iJ

Corrado, who h a worked \\' i t h Hart and cont inue to use

H a rt 's data i n h i re earc h . " l remem ber doing the e i ghty­

fou r Mondale campa i gn when Peter was the Mondale pol l ­

s ter . H e \\'a� instru m enrn l . H e w a - a t the table every morn i ng

w i t h the camraign manager and the campa ign c h a i r , sort i ng

the i n format i on and ac t u a l l y �haping the campaign. He was

a l way� the ,·o i c e of reason , even when t h ree hundred thou­

�and peop le a day were dec id ing they l i ked G a ry Hart better

than Wa l ter Monda l e . "

"Clearly he' a Democra t i c pol bter, b u t h e ' s ·o good a t

w h a t he does that he t ran ·cended t h a t party affi l i a t ion,"

Corrado sa id . " Experience, good mea�ured j udgment , rru­

dence in the c las� ica l �ense , what ' the kernel of truth here­

that ': what Peter prm· idcs."

Corrado point� to Hart's h istory with the N BC New-/Wall

S treet Journal i�o l l . "That [assoc ia t ion] more than anyth ing i an

indicat ion of the re�pect he ha ."

A t the Apri l FCC mee t i ng, two prop ) als were made for

te le, · i ion networks to pro v ide free t i me rn cand idate

late in the rres iden t ia l campaign. Hart say he was inv i ted to

comment beca use of hi experience in president ia l race� and h i

sense o f how Ame ricans fee l about campaign-, and a l o because

he is ou tspoken abou t h is interest in campai gn reform . "My goa l

wa� not to represent the Democrat". There' a rroces· that ha�

broken down, and i t 's t i me to put i t back on t rack," he sa id .

He told Hundt that the prnposab-from Fox Network 's

Rupert M u rdoch and from Walter Cronkite and Pau l Taylor,

who is on leave from The Washington Post crusad i ng for cam­

paign reform-came a t an opportune t ime. F irst , he said, the

mood of the country, from a l l points of the compas , was of

"anger and revul ion" with po l i t i c . Further, " the only anger

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greater than t h e anger t h e public has for pol i t i c ians i t he anger

i t has for the media , " he said . Second, the country i at the

thre -hnld of a huge i nc rea e in t he nu mber of televi ion

channels, wh ich probably will have far-reaching effect on how

ampaigm reach v iewers in the future . He uggested that

HunLl t see if the effort cou ld be b i l led as the Paul Taylor/Walter

Cron k i te proposal w i th Murdoch in a low-profile role. Whi le

Murdoch's p lan had meri t , the fact that i t c ame from a corpo­

rat ion that could profit from the campa ign programming make

it rroblcmat ic , H art said .

After lunch, Hart hust led aero s town and i nt o the

Roo�evelt Room of the Wh i te H ouse, adjacent to the Oval

Office. There he sat w i t h Tyson and two of her staff, a l l

c l ustered aro u nd the end of a hea,·y, 2 0-foot table . Hi

m ission, he explai ned later, was to t ry to get President Cl inton'

�taff to frame their me ·sage corr c t l y-to ta lk about the

accompl i hments of the adm i ni� trat ion not with stat ist ics

and nrncroeconomic but in human terms. " I t's about l ife tyles,"

Hart told Tyson. "In part i t 's ta l k i ng to p ople about people ."

The publ ic wane- to hear about how the government is going

to help m iddle-c lass peop le make it in today'- economy, he

�aid. No matter how good the tat is t ics are, people don't

neces ari ly feel i t in the ir own l i ves and , even if they d , they

don ' t l i n k that fee l i ng back to the Pre ident, he a id .

Han a lso ad,·ised the Cl into n staff to make sure that every

pos� ible reference to opponent Bob Do le l i n k h i m with House

peaker Newt G ingri ch , since G i ngrich' negat ive ratings

were a l ready being een by ome a a l i abi l i ty for the Repub­

l i can . While Hart probably wa n't the only one with the idea,

i t wa exac t ly one month later that M aura L iasson d id a piece

on Nat ional Public Rad io's Morning Edition spec ifical ly about

the Wh i te House's pers istent u e of the "Dole-Gingrich team"

i n i ts tatement .

Wh i le t he round of meetings in Wa hington i l lu trates how,

and with whom, Hart operates, it does not represent a typical

day for him. "Any regular day you might find me sitting at the

table here with another analy t working through a question-

A televis ion reporter roused h is cameraman and whispered, " Ro l l , ro l l . "

naire or an analysi , " he �aiJ, point ing to a work rable srac keJ

\\' i th 1 1 th ick, black notebooks anJ flanked by a Colhy chair .

Han'· regu lar-day scenario, howe,·er, doesn't rake i n to

account rhe fac t that he t ra \'e l · 1 00 days anJ runs abL1ut 1 00 focus group · each year . On the Tuesday after hi· round of

meeti ngs i n Washington, Hart p resented research on d rugs

and crime in America at the Freedom Forum in A r l i ngton,

Va. , in the morn ing before fly i ng tu Los A ngele_ anJ eat r l e

that afternoon to run foc us group · f o r corporate c l ients ,

i n c l u d i ng T i me-Warner. The company \\'a, about to launch

i t s fi rs t-e,·er corpora te i mage ad· us ing the theme "There's a

l i t t l e b i t of T ime-Warner in every one of us ," a concept Hart

h e lped de,·elop.

Knowledge and insight are raramount in h is bu ine ·s, but

there a l o is the matter of tend i ng to the bu ine ·s and maintain­

i ng quality that has kept Han Re earch at the tor of i ts field

ince i t inception. W ith more than 40 projects running con­

currently , Hart set h igh tandard by rutt ing him elf i n his

c l ients' shoe and rem ind i ng h i mself that people are paying him

to get the be t information. "To e,·ery one of these c l ient , i t 's

the uper Bo\\' l , " he aid. "You can't forget i t . There's nothino

rout ine. The challenge i to do i t we l l . "

Three d a y s after the Ti me-Warner focu group Hart \\'as

on the oppos i te coa t running s i m i l ar e s i on in Colby'

M i l ler L i b rary. H e p i tched i n to auoment Colby's enior

e x i t - i n terv ie\\' process by running two group , one a l l men

a nd the oth r a l l women, probing the i r experience a t the

Col lege. H a rt c l a i m s there' an e lement of ·elf- in tere ·t . " l t '

the only way to k now firsthand what'· rea l ly out there ," he

a i d o f his opportuni ty to meet w i th c o l l ege tudents . W i th

c l ient l i ke Rolling S tone a nd MTV, c o ll ege i not an age

group h e can i gnore .

He came away i mpre · ed. "The e k ids are o mart, o

en ible and o genera lly knowledgeable, and their love of

Colby and commitment to Colby is so trong," he aid. " l f

there' a uniquene to Colby i t h a s to be t h e tudent-fac ulty

relat ion hip -that came through regardles of where the tu-

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dents came from ur \\'hat they maJL1reJ in . " An1L ll1!.! chal len[!e',

alcohol 11·as the "hot button" i �ue, ar1LI ,tuden t' [!enera l l \

ll'anteJ tn see the aJmin i-,trarinn l i ,ten more c lmd) and oict

nwre quickly, he saiJ.

Hart has a ll'ife, Florence, an�I tll'o chi ldren ( a daughter ar

Duke Un iwrsity, a o;on tn high -.chnol ) , i � on the wad one 1 1!

e,·ery three ,,·eekdays, play.; temw, anJ 11· ims before ll'ork e,·en·

morning, \\'orks in hts study from after d i nner unt i l m tdnt ghr

and sti l l finds t ime to sen·e as a rru,ree ar Coll')" "There are a

k1t of people who are a Im busier than I am 11·ho fit tt in and make

it \\'ork , " he said.

.As the ·on ofa professor, he ays, he ha� a l\\'ay ,-a lued h tgher

eJucation and its in t i tution.�. " I \\'a� born that \\'ay and rat-;cd

that way." But he feeb he Oll'e a rec ial debt to Ctilhy. "Colby

took a chance on me," he said. "My career is Jue, in ran, to my

educat ion a r Colby. Ir d idn't land me my fmt job , but it

rrepared me for all the job l \·e had ." In add i t ton to contrib­

uting his t i me ( recentl y as an LWerseer, now a� a trustee anJ for

year a sponsor of frequent Colby tntems ar his Wa h ingrnn

office) Hart also endo11·ed the Hart cholar·hip, which is gi\'en

to a tudent "'ho Jemon.strate commi tment ro publtc or com­

munity en·ice.

F la ·h back to Wa·hingron and the Freedom Forum program

on drug · and crime. Harr pre.ented re earch comm is ioned

by Drua trategie· ( an organi:ation "committed to fac ts, qual­

i ty re earch and analy i and preading etfecti\·e t ra tegie·")

anJ The Pol ice Foundation. After hi presentation Hart faded

into rhe hadow , and a panel of law enforcement offic ials,

poli tical con ultant and a criminology profe or ·pent more

than an hour di ·cu sing the implication· of the re earch. A

tele\·i ion crew tap in the proceeding had hut off it· equ ipment

unti l, ·uddenly, Harr joined the panel and fielded a que t ion from

U . S . ews & World Reporc writer Ted Gue t. There was a flurry

of acth·ity in the back of the room. The tele,·ision reporter roused

hi cameraman and \\·hi pered, "Roll, rol l ."

Peter Hart \Va · talking.

A l.: G L" ' T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

faculty file I (t

Because student

eualuations figure

heauily in tenure and

promotion decisions,

some faculty belieue

they can be used as

leuerage to extract

better grades. But

Dean of Faculty

Robert McArthur

doesn 't buy it. "Our

students are smarter

than that, " he said.

'There is a fair

amount of euidence

that the opposite is

true. Some of our

most reuered faculty

are the toughest

graders. ,,

( · 1.l L f\ \ .-\ L (; L " T I <> <J 6

Fear of Inflation Grades are up, but are standards slipping?

A 'nrhnmnre 'tuden t _enrcred

;rn adm 1 n i-,mn in� , 11i ice late

l cbt '!'r ing 11«1 l ' in ,e a J'arcr ;rnd

l nl >k i n e , 1 1 gh r l y flw.ht'd . " 1-k re\

'nme e1 · 1dence nf .erncle in fl a ­

t ion ," ,he 'a id . a n d d i,J'l ayecl t h e

p<irer tu the m<rn h e h i n d the

de::-k. A large " A - " 11· < 1, ;,Crall' led

at the rnr , )( the !'age. " I h<1rd l 1'

s tucl iecl for th i o; , " the w, 1man ,a id .

" I Jnn't kn, 111· ll'hether t< l he

ha11p1· < l r ::-acl . "

That anecdote m a y n o t acc u ­

ra tely J e p i c t grad ing pra c t ice' ar

Cnlhy, hut something l i k e it hci'i

ge l t t t'n the at rent inn nf the Col­

lege. G raJe::. are u nder i 11 1·e::.t iga­

t i e 1n .

A ta'k f,11-ce composed nfFac ­

u l ty members Charles Conn1·er.

Da1· i cl Fi ndlay, J ane Mo,:,, Da1·id

ugent , Ira Sadelff. Mark T<1ppan

and Dean of Fac u l t y Robert

Mc A rt h ur i:i study ing 1d1ether

grade i nflat ion ex i::.t:i and, if so,

ll'hat rn do about i t .

" W e ha1 ·en ' t reachecl a n y

conc l u s i o ns , " sCJ id M cArthur ,

who speaks candid ly a h o u t the

i :i :,ue and Cl \llcedes that " there

certa i n l y i s a phenomenon elf

h igher grades." The data hacb

up that c ontent ion. The med ian

c u m u l a t i l'e G PA of the senior

c l a::.:, ha;, r isen from � .38 in 1 96 7 ro 3 . 0 l lasr year. "Al'erage" used

to he a C-plus ; noll' it's a 8.

l f grnde inflat ion i s occurr ing

at Colby-and relugh ly ha lf of

the facu l t y su n·eyed by the task

force he l iel'e it i s-the Col lege

may he experienc i ng what has

been a nat ional t rend i n recent

years, McAnhur :iays. "Grade i n ­

fl a t ion h as been a prohlem at t h e

h· 1 es a n d , to a l esser e x t e n t , a t

rhe -;mai ler h igh ly selec t ive p r i -

1·ate [ ·chon l ] for s o m e t i me," h e

a id . A n art i c le i n Link maga: ine

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reJ'nrtecl t h ; 1 t i n 1 992 t h e <ll 'er­

< 1 ,[(c gr;1de <rnwng Stanfo rd Un1 -

\'c'r> i t y u n ckrgra d u ;Hc' \l'<lS a

D-J'I w' . A nd the Princcwn Alwn ni

\\'cl'kh· noted I ll A t'r i l that un­

cler!..'.r i lduatl''> ther rece i l'ed tll'ice

< l ' many A\ la::.t year ,b di d the ir

C < >un tcrp<1r t;, 25 year::. agn .

At C, i lhy the r i ,e in grncle::­

appcar' w ha1·e "'�1 -era I 1·a r iahles .

l v lcA rrhur ''li'' 'truc rural change::­

made m·er the pa:,t tll'O decade'

may he re'�'e m:iible f,)r "the 1· ir­

tu< i l e l im i m1r i , ln e i [)\ and F's"

and a .l!rndua l upll'ard creep in

graJe, , 11·era l l . In the 1 980s the

Ce 1 1 lege introclucecl the u::.c L)f

plu:ies and 1 n i nu::-e::. ll' i t h letter

grndt'' · which 1mw hm·e contrib­

u ted r,) a cnmJ'ression of grade'i at

the h igh end of the scale. "There

11«1::. a t i me ll'hen there ll'ere four

grades you could pa:i' ll' i th­

A ,B ,C and D. Noll' there are that

many disr inct il'no j ust betll'een

A and B," McArthur said. He a lso

noted that unt i l recently students

were a l ln11·ed to 11·ithdraw from a

c l ass they were fa i i i ng right up to

the last day of the course, ll'h ich

had the pred ic table resu l t of re­

duc ing the number of students

ll' i th poor grades. Effecr i 1·e ll' i th

the c lass of l 999, students can

nnly w i rhdrall' from a c lass before

mid-term. Accompany ing these

changes, he says, has been a dif­

ferent approach to teaching that

i s more col lahorat i 1·e and empha­

s i:es student ·uccess . For example,

a student who turns i n a paper

that 20 year ago would ha1·e re­

ce ived a C now has the opportu­

n i ty to rell' r i te the paper u n t i l he

or -he produces a at isfacrory re­

sult and is sub equently rewarded

with a grade that reflects their

final wor k , not their orig inal sub­

m ission. " lt\ nor c lear, therefore,

By Kevin Cool

that there b a d i rect relat ion h ip

h e t ll'e e n r i g o r a n d gra d e 'i , "

McArthur saicl . " _ ome n f t h e i n ­

crea:ie [ i n .eradc:i] m�1y b e < l t t r ihut ­

ah le to rhi, change in reachi n,g

phi lnsoJ'hy."

McArthur doe' not adl'ncate

;1 grad ing sy,,tem that ll'ou lcl ar­

hi t r a r i I y cl i ::. t r i h u t e > t ud c n t :i

<l mong the fi l'e le t ter .eracle;, ::.n

that , es-,ent ia l ly , there ll'nukl he

nne F for e1' l'ry A. "That's nm

the an:,11·er. You ll'<Jn t sruden t:i

rn reach a point ll'here they ha1·e

learned the materi <1 l . We aren't

here rn fa i l 'tuden t<' he -;a id .

H, i11·e1·er, h<' hcl ie1·es there i s

::.e1me 1 · a l u e i n mm· ing toward a

mnre r ig<)r, )u::. hut unif orm :,tan­

dard of grad ing.

The me);,t cnntrm·ers ia l of the

ra::.k force find i ngs is that some

fac u l t y may be g ra d i n g l <:'ss

s trenuously to a 1·oid poc1r s tu­

dent evaluat ions. S i x ty of l 1 6 fac u l ty sun·ey<'d said they he­

l ie1 ·e there i s a correla t ion he­

rween the grades they g ive and

the el 'aluar ions they receil 'e , and

45 of those said the el'a l uar ions

i nfluence their grad ing srandards.

Becau ·e srudenr en1luat ions fig­

u re hea1· i l y i n tenure and �'rO­

mnt ion dec is inns, some fac u l ty

hel ie1·e they can be used as lel'er­

age to extract better grades. Bur

M c Arthur doesn't buy i t . "Our

:, rudents are smarter than that ,"

he sa id . "There is a fa i r amount

of evidence that the OJ'pos i t e i s

true. Some of our mo t revered

fac u l ty are the toughe t graders ."

St i l l , ays McArthur, the per­

cept ion that r igorous grad i ng

produce poor evaluat ions doe

ex ist , and the task force ha at ­

tempted to dea l w i th i t both hy

i nvest igat ing the c red i b i l i t y of

uch c l a i ms and hy con idenng

procedures that

would indemnify

fac ulty against

"punishment" for

m a i n t a i n i n g

high standard .

The task force

also is trying to

resolve wide­

spread variability

between depart­

ments ' grad ing

patterns. Statis­

tics show that one Robert McArthur

department gave virtually noth­

ing but A's and B's in a recent year,

while others gave a much lower

percentage. McArthur said this

disparity is unfair to students com­

peting for Latin honors and other

all-College distinctions. He is col­

lecting reports from all depart­

ments to aid in assessing the origins

of these differences and ways to

remedy them.

Despite acknowledging that

average grades have risen, thus

raising the po sibility they would

be v iewed as less credible ,

McArthur says

the phenomenon

probably hasn't

impaired Colby

students entering

graduate school

or the workplace.

"Because of the

universal nature

of this problem,

our students have

not been put at a

d isadvan tage , "

he said.

Study will continue through

most of the next academic year,

McArthur says, and the task force

will prepare a set of recommen­

dations aimed at addressing the

core issues involved with grade

inflation. "The study already has

changed some behavior," he said.

"Faculty are talking about and

thinking about their own grad­

ing practices. We've begun a dia­

logue about what grades mean

and how they should be admin­

istered. I expect more positive

benefits to come out of this." +

Faculty Notes G . Calvin Mackenzie, Distinguished Presidential Professor of

Government, was named to head the Maine Commission on Gov­

G. Calvin Mackenzie

ernmental Ethics and Elec!ion

Practices in May, replacing

Dean of Faculty Robert McAr­

thur, who did not seek a new

term. The commission monitors

campaign financing and legisla­

tive ethics in the state. Macken­

zie will serve a two-year term.

. . . Associate Professor of

Sociology Terry Arendell was

honored by the American

Sociological Association, which

selected her for an appearance

at "An Author Meets the Critics"

session at the ASA's national

meeting in New York City. Five leading sociologists will comment

on Arendell's book Fathers and Divorce . Associate Professor

of Biology Jay Labov attended a meeting sponsored by the Nation­

al Science Foundation and the National Research Council to

discuss strategies for revitalizing undergraduate education . .

Assistant Professor of History Larissa Taylor was named nomin­

ating officer of the executive committee of the Society for Reforma­

tion Research, and received a two-month fellowship for 1 997 to

work at the Herzog August Bibl iothek in Wolfenbuttel, Germany

Colby Mourns Passing of Four Faculty

The Colby community re­

cently noted the passing of

four retired faculty members

whose careers spanned more than

50 years and whose influence is

preserved by alumni who still

credit them for their success.

N orman D. Palmer ' 3 0 ,

L.H.D. , internationally known

political scientist, historian and

writer and Colby professor, died

February 2 1 , 1 996, in Seattle,

Wash. , at 86. Recognized for

more than half a century for his

knowledge of the governments

and cultures of South Asia and

Korea-his accomplishments

fill an entire column in Who's

Who in America-he was a na­

tive of Hinckley, Maine, where

he attended the Good Will-

Hinckley School. At the Col­

lege he was a member of Alpha

Tau Omega fraternity, majored

in history , graduated summa

cum laude and was elected to

Phi Beta Kappa. He received an

M.A. in history and interna­

tional relations from Yale Uni­

versity in 1 93 2 and a Ph.D. in

1 936 . He taught history and po­

litical science at Colby from

1 93 3 to 1 94 7, although he spent

the war years 1 94 2 -46 as an air

combat intelligence officer in

the Pacific.

For the next 34 years he

taught at the University of Penn­

sylvania, where he chaired both

the political science and inter­

national relations departments.

Throughout his career he trav-

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eled extensively, teaching and

researching in universities. His

journeys to more than 50 coun­

tries included 12 visits to Africa

and a score to Asia, and his

teaching positions at more than

a dozen institutions around the

world included four appoint­

ments at the Graduate Institute

of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee

University in Seoul, Korea,

when he was in his 80s. ln one

year he was a Guggenheim Fel­

low, a research fellow of the

Council on Foreign Relations

and a fellow of the American

Council of Learned Societies.

He wrote two dozen books on

international subjects, includ­

ing three after his retirement to

Washington state in 1 98 2 . ln

recent years he taught Elder­

hostel courses in Washington,

where his keen ob ervation on

political systems of the Pacific

Rim, contemporary India and

U.S. policy toward China and

India led his local community to

honor him in I 992 a Citizen of

the Year.

He was a member of the

board of directors and secretary

of the American Academy of

Political and Social Sc ience,

president of the ational Coun­

cil on A ian Affair , chair of the

Friends oflndia Committee and

pre ident of the International

S tu d ies Associat ion . Colby

awarded him an L.H.D. in 1 9 5 5

continued on page 2 7

A U G U S T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

Under the Macroscope Master teacher David Findlay puts economics in clear view

One needn't spend a lot of t ime with

As ociate Profe sor of Economics David

Findlay to understand why students rate him

among the be t teachers on the campus. When

he talk about economics, hi entire body gets

involved, coil ing and uncoil ing with each

explanation, daring you not to be interested.

"Macroeconomic -money and banking

i sues-really interest me, and I get exc ited

talking about them," Findlay said. "Not just

talking about them but presenting those

ideas to tudents so they can talk about the e

is ue , too."

tudents last spring elected Findlay as

the fourth recipient of the annual Senior

Teaching Award, an honor he says is both

gratifying and humbl ing. " I was shocked. To

be included with the group of previou win­

ner really is a tremendous honor, and to be

selected from among al l of the great faculty

members at Colby, wel l , I ju t can't bel ieve

it," he aid.

"Maybe students mi read the que tion,"

he joked. " I might be the first rec ipient to

request a recount

The origin of Findlay's popu lari ty as a

teacher stems from hi wi l l ingnes to chal­

lenge students, ay his former tudents.

Steve Swartz '92, now head of the opera­

t ions depanment at Morgan Stanley Canada

in Toronto, recal l that Findlay wa the

toughest grader and mo t demanding teacher

he had. He a lso wa one of Swartz's favorites.

" l got the worst grade of my Colby career in

hi cla ses, but the atisfaction that I re­

ceived from those grades wa greater than

from any other grade I got , " he said.

wartz ays he's not surpri ed that Findlay

rece ived the Col lege's highest teaching

award. "His classroom i a whirlwind," he

aid. "From the moment you walk in , you are

bombarded with information presented in a

C O L B Y A U G U S T 1 996

David Findlay

dynamic fashion. He i always hitt ing you

with real- l ife i tuations and bringing them

back to theory. Then, a soon as you have

grasped the concept, he will turn it on i ts

head and test you ."

"It ' gratifying to know that you've pu hed

the tudents, that you've challenged them,"

Findlay said. "You t ry to be fair, and I was

very pleased that student recognized that . "

Findlay took on the issue of grade infla­

tion in his Spotlight lecture on May 9 ( see

"Fear of Inflation" ) . Using a l ist of 10 prin­

c iples to explain where and why inflation

occurs in the macro economy, Findlay pointed

out how the same principles could be applied

to Colby. For example, he said competitive

devaluation and depreciation-which occurs

when a country intentionally devalues it

currency to increase exports-may be used to

explain why, theoretically, faculty would

soften grading tandards. Recent surveys sug­

gest some faculty believe that giving higher

grade results in better student evaluations

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and ult imately improves their chance for

tenure and merit pay increases, Findlay said.

"If it i in the faculty member' best interest

[to grade more easily] and if other faculty

members do it collectively then tho e mem­

bers who hold the l ine and don't alter their

standards would be hurt," he aid.

Findlay says he u ed the grade inflation

issue a a platform for his lecture becau e it

was t imely and offered a way to discu s

economic principles in a Colby context. " l didn't even think about how the ta lk would

go, but asked, 'Are there macro issues I can

use to motivate what happens here in a

micro world-Colby, grades, facu lty, stu­

dents ?' I had a blast coming up with the l ist ."

Findlay, a member of the Grade Inflation

Ta k Force, says the talk also was an attempt

to address the underlying implications of in­

flated grades. 'Thi is a cultural issue, and we

need to send a message about what we value,"

he said. "I t's a fight against G.P.A. emphasis."

Findlay wasn't always ure he would enjoy

teaching. He recalls that as a graduate tu­

dent at Purdue, where he earned his Ph.D. , he

wondered how faculty could teach the same

material repeatedly without getting bored.

"There are two reasons why that's not the

ca e for me, and you only realize these over

time," he said. "First, the students are always

different; it's a new gr up every semester.

And second, I j ust really get a kick out of

helping students learn about economics."

H is goal as a teacher, Findlay says, is to

bring student to their own understanding of

economics and equip them to analyze poli­

cies critically. "Ultimately what you want is

for students to not ju t spit back what I 've

told them, but to be able to interpret policy

statements and make the ir own determina­

t ion about whether those statements are

correct," he said. -Kevin Cool

for his work as a Fulbright pro­

fessor in India, and in 1 980 he

del ivered the Boardman address

on the occa ion of his 50th re­

union. He was predeceased by

his brother, Albert Palmer '30,

former chair of the Colby Board

of Trustees. He is survived by

his wife, Gurina, his daughter,

his sister, Mary Palmer Mil ls

'3 2 , his nephew, David Palmer

' 5 7 , stepsons and stepdaughters,

a granddaughter and many

great-grandchildren.

Clifford Osborne, D.D. '49,

retired Colby chaplain and pro­

fessor emeritus of religion, died

May 1, 1 996, in Naples, Fla., at

95. He was born in London, En­

gland, and served in the Royal

Navy during World War I. After

taking an honors degree in phi­

losophy at London University

and graduating from Richmond

Divinity School, he served Meth­

odist pastorate in New York and

Maine before joining the Pleas­

ant Street Methodist Church in

Waterville. He was appointed

chaplain at the College in 1 950

and was professor of religion

when he retired in 1 9 6 5 . A

founder of the Maine Council of

Churches, he broadcast its Sun­

day morning programs for sev­

eral year and was the first Maine

clergyman to be selected as a

preacheron CBS radio's "Church

of the Air." H is book, The Reli­

gion of John Burroughs, was pub­

lished in 1 929. Predeceased by

his w ife of 67 years, Beryl, he is

survived by his son, Timothy

Osborne '48, his daughter, Ma­

vis Lee, four grandchildren and

five great-grandchildren.

A l ice Pattee Comparetti ,

emeritus professor of English,

died April 7 , 1 996, in Tempe,

Ariz. , at 88. She j oined the

Colby taculty in 1 93 6 , the year

she completed her Ph. D. at

Cornell University. She became

an associate professor in 1 95 3

and a full professor in 1 96 1 . Her

book The Whice Doe of Rylscrom

remains an authoritative criti­

cal evaluation of a poem by

Wordsworth, and Gregory ' s

Angels, a n adventure novel for

children, was lauded for its ac­

curate portrayal of the cultural

and social history of sixth-cen­

tury England. On the old cam­

pus as well as the new, she taught

both major figures and general

courses in l iterature and com­

position. When she retired,

former chair of the department

Alfred K. Chapman ' 2 5 wrote,

"the College is losing a fine

scholarly mind and a conscien­

tious, devoted teacher." She is

survived by her husband of 5 8

years, professor emeritus o f mu­

sic Ermanno Comparetti, and

by a son and daughter.

George Douglas Maier, pro­

fessor emeritus of chemistry,

d ied of lung cancer on March

1 2, 1 996, in Chicago, I l l . , at 6 5 .

He was born i n Chicago, gradu­

ated from Cornell College with

a B.A. in chemi tty and received

his master's and Ph.D. from Iowa

State University. He came to

the College in 1 96 5 and be­

came a full professor in 1 983.

Over the course of his 20-year

Colby career he taught a range

of courses, from environmental

biochemistry for nonscience

majors to upper-level biochem­

istry. After retiring in 1 986, he

continued to do biochemical

research in various laboratories

in Chicago and enjoyed ongo­

ing relationships with former

students; many honored him by

attributing their success in

graduate schools and in their

careers to his reaching of bio­

chemistry at the College. He is

survived by his parents. +

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pundits & plaudits Returning to Worship

Cheryl Townsend G ilkes, John D . MacArthur Associate

Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and African­

American Studies, was quoted 1 n an article 1n the San Jose

Mercury News about the spiritual renewal among middle-class

African Americans

Burgeoning "megachurches" are the latest evidence of

b lack baby boomers' desire for spiritual nourishment, the

article said. Gi lkes noted that these large churches fu lfi l l a

need in the African-American community. " Primarily, they've

grown because of very hard-working pastors who bring to

those congregations traditional African-American worship that

addresses the current problems of baby-boomer African­

American Christians and younger," she said. " Usually [these

churches] are geographically mobile, so church is the way in

which they reconnect with the black community."

Not Nearly Enough Assistant Professor of Economics Sara n na Thornton '81 ,

in an opinion artic le in the Providence Journal-Bulletin, said

recent cong ressional and White House budget proposals fall

far short of what is necessary to red uce the national deficit

over the long term .

Thornton said both the Cl inton Administration and the

Congress have failed to address the underlying problems that

result i n large deficits Budget plans proposed by both would

el iminate the deficit by the year 2002 as advertised, but would

merely postpone even larger deficits in future years, she said.

"Cuts in discretionary spending won't solve the long-run

deficit problem ," Thornton wrote. "The combination of current

legislature and impending demographic changes would cause

spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security

and Medicare to equal 1 00 percent of government revenues

by 201 2. Proposed balanced budget plans would only push

the date back a few years."

Spend Thrift Associate Professor of Government Tony Corrado, quoted

in the May 1 7 Wall Street Journal, said that despite having

nearly reached the ceil ing on pre-convention campaign

spending, Sen. Bob Dole wi l l continue to deliver his message

via other means.

The spending cap "limits some of his options, but it isn't

going to make his campaign grind to a halt, " Corrado said.

"There is probably going to be a more visible presence than

the public is used to."

The article said that Dole would take advantage of "issue"

advertisements subsi dized by the Republican Party to bui ld

support for his run for the presidency.

A U G U S T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

books and authors I !E�m

Understanding the Sixties Douglas Miller goes deep into the decade that still divides America

By Richard J . Moss

Americans ha\'e the pecu l iar

habit of s l ic ing up their past

into decade . We use terms l ike

the 1 9 50s, the 1 920s and the

19 30s ll'ith an easy assurance that

we w i l l be understood . Only

s l ightly more problematical are

terms l ike the Gay N inetie ( the

I 90s ) . Certainly the l 960 have

become not merely a decade but

a conci e topic m·er which hisro­

rians and others have expended

much ink. Douglas T. M il ler ' 58's

On Our Own : America in the Six­

ties ( D.C. Heath) is a sane and

non-pol itical contribution tO the

ongoing attempt tO make ome

sense of that cruc ial decade.

M i l ler, a h istory professor at

M ichigan State Univer ity, has

a c learly defined point of v iew.

He bel ieves that the 1 960 was

one of the mosr important mo­

ments in the A merican past and

that A merican l ife was ub tan­

t ial ly transformed between the

late 1 9 50 and 1 974. The agent

for this transformation was "the

Movement," which M i l ler see

a a combinat ion of the variou

prate ts a imed at almost al l as­

pects of American cu l tu re. The

"Movement," in prate t ing on

o many fronts ( civ i l rights, femi­

nism, gay rights, env ironmen­

talism ) , amoun ted to a profound

crit ique of the status quo in the

Un i ted States. M i l ler also be­

l ieve that we have tO under­

stand the ixties by tracing its

roots in the Fiftie and by follow­

ing the decade's impact on the

eventie and beyond.

On one point, Mi l ler stand

in contra t with accepted wis­

dom on the nature of the ixties

and especially the New Left. Sev­

eral very influential books, most

C O L B Y A U G U T 1 9 9 6

Miller says various protests upset the status quo.

notably A l len Matu ·ow' · The

Unraveling of America ( 1 9 4 ) ,

have establi hed the idea of"com­

ing apart" or "unraveling" as the

dominant theme in the 1 960-. I n

this v iew, the New Left o r "the

Movement" blossomed in the ix­

ties as traditional liberal remedies

for the nation' problems proved

incapable of solving long-term

problems such as poverty and civi l

rights for minorities. By the late

Sixties, the violent clash between

liberalism and the New Left had

left the country exhausted, anx­

ious and divided. Mi l ler does not

reject the notion that many of

the \'alue that had tied Ameri­

cans together frayed and snapped

in the late ixt ies, but he con­

cludes that the ''coming apart"

thesis "overemphasize the extent

of A merica's unraveling [and)

lead tO a fal e en e that the era

came to an abrupt end and thereby

downplays the enormous impact

and legacies of the decade." Miller

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would ha,·e us understand that

for many Americans the late ix­

ties and early e,·entie were not

an era of de pair and decl ine but

rather a fertile period of libera­

tion and experimentation.

While the book i exceedingly

well written and i a joy to read, it

is also an excellent reference to

have on your book helf when you

need to sort out your fai led or

fai l ing memorie of the ixt ies.

Mi l ler has even included an ap­

pend ix, "The Language of the

Sixtie ," for tho e who have for­

gotten the meaning of "l id," "far

out," "unreal" and "trip." M iller

also has included many well-cho­

sen i l lustrations that take us back

to memories that hurt (a beaming

Lyndon John on, an immolated

monk in Vietnam ) or that make

us smile ( Bob Dylan, a great im­

ageofTimothy Leary, astronauts) .

I have long uspected that dur­

ing the ix tie Americans became,

as they had in the pa t , particu-

larly sensiti,·e to the symbolic

meaning of event . To ome ex­

tent fueled by an expanding me­

dia, American were flooded by a

relentle s tide of interpretation

that found meaning (often omi ­

nous, often hopeful) in events large

and mall . In "Twilight of the

Movement," one of the best chap­

ters in the book, Mil ler oives a full

i llustration of the remarkable de­

gree to which Americans were

engaged in a complex game of

attaching ymbolic meaning to

e\•ents. By turns, the rock concert

at Wood-rock meant that the age

of Love and Peace was at hand,

and then the rock concert at

Altamont meant the end of hope

and the coming of the era of Death

and De pair. The ymbol making

went on and on; America became

a nation addicted t0 a daily read­

ing of the national tea leave .

A t the heartofOnOur Own is

a tension between this con tam

desire to find meaning in small

events and the clear fact that in

the long run, meaning was rooted

in larger but often le s dramatic

trends uch as women' libera­

tion or environmental reform. In

the end, the book allows us to

under tand that the Sixties wa a

va tly complex era that wa often

grossly mi under rood by the

people who l ived it . We are only

now coming to understand its last­

ing significance and what it ac­

compli hed. Doug Mi l ler's On

Our Own: America in the Sixties is

a fine place to get that per pec­

tive, that larger understanding of

the e crucial year . +

Richard "Pete" Moss is John ] . and

Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of

History at Colby.

Reading the Future

Imagine a society in which two

third of all mothers had chil­

dren out ide of marriage, often

using "artificial wombs" to carry

the fetuse , and women began

generally to disassociate them­

selve from men.

This cenario, t it led " epa­

rate-and Doing Fine, Thanks! ,"

is one of four po sible world or­

der env i s ioned by a u thor

Pamela McCorduck and N ancy

Kudriavetz Ram ey '62 in their

book The FuturesofWomen: Sce­

narios for the 2 l sc Cenwry ( Addi­

wn-Wesley, 304 page , 24 ) .

Written a i f these event

already have occurred, the book

de cribes the soc iological de­

velopments involv ing women

around the world up to the year

2 0 1 5 . Each of the four cenarios

dep i c ts po l i t i c a l and soc ia l

change temming from trend

that began late in the 20th cen­

tury. For example, in "Backlash"

the authors sugge t that a rising

tide of rel igious fundamental­

i m fueled a bel l igerent and ag­

gre ive worldwide campaign to

turn back the c lock on repro­

ductive rights, equa l i ty in the

workplace and other basic c iv i l

right for women. So thorough

were the e movement that in

We tern coun­

t r i e w o m e n

began to wear

t r a d i t i o n a l

M iddle Ea tern the

f u of

avoid derision and v iolence.

In "A Golden Age of Equal­

i ty"-the most optimistic of the

four cenario -the removal of

artificial barriers between cul ­

ture and gender-, driven by the

explo ion of communicat ion

technologies l ike the Internet,

resu l ts in worldwide prosperity

and a new attitude of col labor­

at ion. Women lead the way to

prac t ic a l a d v a n c e m e n t i n

educat ion, environmental pres­

ervat ion and confl ict resolu­

t ion. Differences are celebrated

rather than exploited or u ed

as a mean of d i vi ion. Pol i t ica l

s t a b i l i ty becomes the r u l e

rather than the exception.

"Two Steps Forward, Two

S t ep B a c k " perhaps m o s t

c losely resembles w h a t the a u ­

thors refer t o in their foreword

a "the official future," in which

w men continue to make gain

tn equa l i ty , but the pace of

change i slow and impeded by

economic depri\·ation.

McCorduck's and Ram ey's

book i intel l igent, provocative

and occasionally (per hap inten­

tional ly ) outrageous. I ts con­

struction of imagined soc ietie i

in tructive if not always entirely

credible. But any book that pre­

chadors and ub­

m in e d to a

range of oppres­

sive mea ures to women

dicts soc ial be­

h a v i o r i s m

ba ed on the

study of an ob­

scure primate

spe c i e , the

bonobo, pro­

v ides plenty to

think about. +

S ce n a r ios for the 2 1 st Centu ry

29

fresh prints David Suchoff (English) and Mary Rhiel. editors The Seductions of Biography

Routledge

This book of essays about the

strengths and limitations of

biography wil l be as entertaining

to the general reader as it 1s

instructive for students of the

form. Associate Professor of

English David Suchoff and his

co-editor, UNH Associate

Professor of German Mary Rhiel.

attracted contributors ( 1nclud1ng

Colby Professor Betty Sasaki)

who tackle the subject from a

variety of fascinating angles

Marjorie Garber. for instance,

examines the ways biographers have written about the private

lives of publ ic f igures. She says, in part. that despite freer use

of information about subjects' sexual habits , biographers sti l l

make many subjective choices about what constitutes "decent"

information. Michael Eric Dyson ranges across the literature by

and about Malcolm X and concludes that both X's desire to

"'make sense" of his past 1n his autobiography (written by Alex

Haley) and his biographers' inabi l ity to round out the flesh-and­

blood man mean that the definitive X biography 1s yet to be

written Other selections look at provocative ideas such as

how-and by whom-a person's life story is controlled and

why , as The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm has said, " b iography

is burglary."

"The proliferation of theories and practices of biography

represented in this volume tells us that the seductions of

biograpry cannot be reduced to a generic formula," Suchoff

and Rhiel write.

Martin Gliserman '63 Psychoanalysis, Language, and the Body of the Text

Un iversity Press of Florida

G l iserman, an associate professor of Engl ish at Rutgers

University and a psychoanalyst in private practice, identifies

how the presence of the body becomes a central component of

the novel form.

He discusses how the arrangements of words in sentences.

paragraphs and chapters serve as expressions of bodily

gestures, particularly representative of primal bodily pain The

book examines four novels, Robinson Crusoe, Jane Eyre,

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and David Bradley's The

Chaneysville Incident, to reveal the role language plays in

integrating mind and body.

A u G U T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

student life I$�

Nicole Dannenberg '96

Dannenberg will

worh with Carnegie

senior associates to

retJiew U S. strategy

in Asia, Africa, Latin

America and

eastern Europe and

will retJiew and

edit manuscripts

for Carnegie 's

flagship publication,

Foreign Policy.

She's a Winner Dannenberg lands Colby 's first Carnegie junior Fellowship

By Kevin Cool

N i cole Dannenberg '96 is

that rare s tuclen t who com­

b ines ex traord inary inte l lectual

gifts w i th enth usiasm for learn­

ing and a winning persona l i ty .

he is , according to A soc iate

Professor ofGm·ernment G u i lain

Denoeux, '\imply del ightfu l . "

T h e Carnegie Endowment

for International Peace appar­

ently agrees. Dannenberg wa

one of 10 students c hosen from

the e l i te of the c untry 's top

schools tO work alongside a se­

n ior assoc iate as a Carnegie J un­

ior Fe l low for s ix months . She is

the first Colby student e\'er se­

lec ted for a Carnegie fel lowsh ip.

"This is a \ ·ery prest igious

a p p o i n t m e n t , " said P a t r i c e

Franko, assoc iate professor of

econom i c s and i n tern a t i o n a l

s tud ies a n d c h a i r o f t h e Carnegie

nom inat ion commi ttee. " I don't

k noll' any grnduate student who

ll'Ouldn't drop what they were

doing to have this opport unity .

This ll' i l ! wri te her t icket , in com­

binat ion w i th her accom pl ish­

ments a t Colby, to whatever

graduate program she wants. I t 's

the be t opportunity out there

for an undergrad uate in terested

in foreion re lat ions."

A seme ter in Morocco and

another semester at the London

School of Econom ics sol idified

an a lready strong hackgrouncl in

interna t ional study and encour­

aged Dannenberg to pursue pro­

grams that would bu ild on her

experience. "Carnegie wa first on

my l ist ," she aid. " I knell' [ wanted

to be in Washingt0n so [ thought

I m ight as well give i t a shot." She

heard about her se lect ion on

April Fool' Day, which seemed

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appropriate cons ider ing Dan­

nenberg's re ponse. " [ couldn't

hel ieve i t ," she said. " [ honestly

d idn't think [ had a chance."

She began work ing at the en­

dowment in early J une. Her work

inc ludes col l aborative research

w i th Carneo1e senior assoc iate

Adoni Hoffman, d i rec tor of the

endowment' U.S . -Africa Pol icy

Forum. The project capi tal izes

on Dannenberg's in terest in Af­

rican affa i rs , which he says stems

fr m her study in Morocco and

ubsequent read ing, which con­

vinced her that "Africa i s the

most neglec ted cont inent . " She

wrote a research paper on ethnic

violence in N igeria for Denoeux's

senior sem inar desp i te being bet­

ter acquainted 11· i th Arah coun­

tries of northern Afr ica . "Th i i

typical of icole ," Denoeux said.

"She d es not l ike shortcuts and

does not opt for the easy way out.

he knew that the proj ect would

represent a greater inte l lectual

c h a l le nge and that i t would pro­

vide her wi th an opportu n i ty to

learn about an area wi th ll'hich

she was less fam i l iar. "

Dannenberg al o w i l l work

w i th Carnegie senior associate

Thomas Carothers ro re\·iew U.S.

stra tegy in Asia , Africa, Latin

America and eastern Europe and

wil l rev ie11· and ed i t manuscripts

for Carnegie's n agship publ ica­

t ion, Foreign Policy . Franko and

Denoe ux say that perhaps the

m o s t v a l u a b l e b e n e f i t from

Dannenberg's i nternship w i l l be

the contacts she makes in Wash­

ington . "She will \'ery qu ickly

learn who peorle are-academ­

ics, rol icy makers, think- tank

people-who heir shape and in­

form pol icy debates," Franko said.

"It' j ust enormously val uable rn

have that opportunity ."

Denoeux acids that the expe­

rience of part ic ipating in and co­

orJmating h igh-level conference

sronsored by Carnegie 11· i l l equip

Dannenberg for future cha I lenges.

" he can watch how people oper­

ate in those settings and use that

knowledge in her c areer," he aid.

Break i ng inrn the intensely

c ompe t i t i ve J u n ior Fel low pro­

gram has long been a goal of

Colby fac u l ty. " I t ' an honor for

the inst i tu t ion," Franko aid , and

i t i s one more s ignal of the

Col lege's abi l i ty to succeed at

the h ighest level . +

kudos Two Colby students are among 55 scholar natiomride elected for

prestigious Morri Udall Scholarships for 1 996-97. Amy Lyon '9 of ebago

Lake, Maine, and Steve Higg '9 of Birmingham, Mich., each will receive

a $5 ,000 award to be used toward tuition, fees and room and board.

Lyon majors in environmental policy and international studie . Higg

is a double major in biology and environmental policy.

The scholarship honor the former congressman from Arizona, Morris

K. Udall, and upport academically talented U.S. tudent who have intere t

in and potential for career in environmental public policy, health care and

ari1·e American public pol icy .

This is the fir t year Colby has participated in the program.

Patients, Patients

For one day thi pring, the

health center at Colby looked

like the emergency room of a

metropolitan hospital on a busy

Saturday night. Students were

lying on couches, on cot , on the

floor, in the hallway, on every

flat urface that would accom­

modate a human body. This was

not a drill to test the proficiency

of health center taff. I t wa an

hone t-to-goodnes epidemic of

what tudents were calling "the

Colby virus."

A particularly virulent train

of ga troenteritis hammered the

campus for about two weeks in

late April and early May, accord­

ing to Medical Director Melanie

Thompson. The peak of the epi­

demic occurred on April 25, when

the health center treated 65 tu­

dents. "We were so bu y we actu­

ally had our nurse doing triage,"

she said. "It was the worst [epi­

demic] I've seen at Colby."

News of the highly infectious

illne --characterized by acute

nau ea and vomiting--created

so much anxiety that students

were bringing their roommates

to the infirmary and insisting

they stay there. "We were so full

that our nurses tried to persuade

them to j ust go back to their

rooms after being treated, but

the roommates refused," Thomp­

son said.

Properly treated, gastroen­

teritis is not a life-threatening

illness, although it i a major

cause of death among young chil­

dren in developing countries,

Thompson says. "A few of the

students we saw were dehydrated

enough that we put them on IVs

and sent some to the hospital.

But most of them were feeling

okay after twenty-four hours,''

he said.

Thompson says the e p i ­

demic probably was caused b y a

combination of a strong v irus,

inattentive hygiene and c lose

l iving quarters. "Rout ine hand

washing is the be t defense

aga in t gastroenteri t i s , " she

said. "Students are especially

vulnerable because they get run

down from lack of sleep and

other factor and their immune

system are lowered . "

The virus had virtually disap­

peared by mid-May and did not

significantly affect end-of-the­

year activities. +

Promises Made and Kept Th e Colby Echo prai e d outgoing Student Association President

Tom Ryan '96 and vice president T ina Goudreau for leading tu-A

"through a very difficult year."

The newspaper, in a May 2 editorial, said Ryan and Goudreau

de erved credit for their role in establi hing a mentoring program for

first-year students called Big ibs, for working with the Academic

Affair Committee to change class schedules, for engaging tru tee

about alcohol policies and residence hall renovations and for promot­

ing attendance at the Spotlight Event eries.

"While perhap it wa unnoticed by many Colby tudents, Ryan

and Goudreau have lived up to their campaign promi es," said the

Echo. "How many politicians can say that?" +

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graffiti Eight Plus Seven

The Colby Eight received good reviews for their latest

compact disk titled Bitter Little Dutchboy, released this spring

The CO contains 20

songs and features the voices

of 15 current and former

Colby Eight performers. Both

the 1 994-95 and 1 995-96

Colby Eight groups provided

songs, including recent

popular works like Seal's

"Kiss From a Rose" and

R E.M 's "Everybody Hurts "

Judy Ring '99, who reviewed the CD for The Colby Echo,

praised Jonathan Howe '96's arrangements and called the

album "a great mix of tunes."

A Fun Atmosphere The Student Environmental Coalitton sponsored an

ambitious program of activities to celebrate Earth Day 1n late

Apri l . Nature walks and instructive ecology tours in Colby's

Perkins Arboretum were popular attractions, as were interactive

programs featuring reptiles and birds of prey.

Several Colby faculty participated Assistant Professor

of Environmental Studies and Government Beth DeSombre

spoke about financing international environmental

protection, Associate Professor of Science. Technology,

and Society James Fleming presented a talk on global

warming and M itchel l Fami ly Professor of Economics Tom

Tieten berg discussed market-based approaches to environ­

mental protection.

Tom Ryan '96 (center) speaks with Dean of Students Janice Kassman and Brian Golden '97 after the Trustee Commission on Alcohol Spotlight Event

A U G U T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

gifts and grants I � Setting a Firm Foundation

Long-time trustee Robert Anthony gives $ 1 million toward residence hall By Marc Glass

When the new residence

hall near J ohn on Pond

opens in the fall of 1 99 7 , the

Colby <:ommunity and the 1 40

first-t ime residems of the three­

bu i l d i n g c o m p l e x w i l l h a \'e

trustee Robert N . Anthony ' 3

t o thank for h i s $ l -mi l l ion gift to

the construct ion projec t .

An thony's i t h e first o f what

i expected to be three nam i ng

g i ft for the res idence ha l l ' s

t h ree b u i ld i ngs . One of the

longest erv ing members of the

Board of Tru tee , A n thony

says t i mel i ness wa an impor­

tant fac tor in h i s dec is ion to

c o n t r i b u t e to t h e p r o j e c t .

" Pres ident Cotter c om· i need

me that th is w i l l be an i mpor-

Robert N. Anthony ' 3 8

t a n r way of assuring t h a t the

new dormi t ory w i l l be con­

truc ted promptly ," he -a id .

" Bob An thony wa chair of

t h e searc h c o m m i t t e e t h a t

brought m e to Colby a n d was

chair of the board when I wa

inaugurated," said Pre ident B i l l

Cotter. " H is comm i tment to this

col lege has alway been trong

and vi ible, and this latest gift

re i nforce his ded i c a t i on to

keeping Colby fir t -c la s i n ev­

ery way."

Anthony, who is Ross G ra­

ham Walker Professor of Man­

agement Control, Emeritus, at

the Harvard Busines c hool,

erved as assistant secretary of

defen e, c o m p t ro l l e r i n the

Johnson Administration, and is

c redited with developing the

field of management account­

ing. He has been a trustee i nce

1 95 9 and was chair of the board

from 1 9 78- 1 98 3 .

The new r e idence h a l l w i l l

provide beds that wi l l b e lo t

when Colby renovates and up­

grade l iv ing pace i n a l l dormi­

torie except the He ights over

the next five years.

The overal l proj ec t earmarks

7 . 2 m i l l ion for dorm renova­

t ions, $6.5 m i l l ion for new con-

truction and $ 2 . 5 mi l l ion for

upgrading the three ex ist i ng din­

ing hal l . I t is the most exten ive

fac i l i t ies project undertaken by

Colby since the College moved

from downtown Waterv i l le to

Mayflower H i l l 5 0 year ago.

G roundbreaking for the new

building is planned for August

on a ite between the H i l l ide

complex and Johnson Pond. +

New Intensive Course 'An Attractive Innovation'

Wi th the help of a 1 . 4-mi l l ion grant from the Christian A .

J ohnson Endeavor Foundation, C lby i s developing a n inte­

grated, inten ive course of study that Pre idem Bi l I Cotter says could

become a ignature program in the Col lege's curriculum.

The J ohnson Foundat ion grant provides for the endowment of a

permanen t fac u l ty posi t ion, the holder of which would design and

implement a seme ter- long program involving 20 to 'O tudents and

an interdisc ip l inary team of fac u l ty . The idea is to examine a

part icu lar period ofhistory through the len es of several

Physics Charle Conover and Profes or of M usic Paul Machl in .

A second p i lot emester i planned for the fa l l of 1 997, after which

a chair holder w i l l be selected to adm inister the program.

Detai ls of the program st i l l are being worked out, bur prel im inary

plan ca l l for up to 20 tu dents to be enrolled from al I c lasses, Wei brot

said. If more than 20 wi h to partic ipate, facu l ty wi l l give priority to

fir r-year and ophomore tudent . "We want to reach student early,

espec ially before they are too far into their academic trac k, to acquaint

them with the possibi l i ties of a l iberal art education,"

d i c i pl ine . Each program will comprise four or five

cour es that wi l l erve as the enti re academic workload

for that semester.

"This is exactly the Weisbrot said.

"It eems to me this is exac tly the kind of activity in

which a l iberal art chool hould be engaged."

"There is an antecedent for thi program in the

early 1 970 that invol ved an integrated teach i ng ap­

proach, so we are cap i ta l i:ing on omerl1ing that i part

of rhe Colby trad i t ion," Cotter said. That earlier inter­

d i c ipl inary program wa d iscont inued becau e it was

not permanen tly funded.

kind of activity in which a liberal arts

A l though the current propo al involve only one

semester of the program each year, Cotter say integra­

tive learning c lu ter m ight be provided more often

and to larger numbers of students if faculty bel ieve that

should happen. school should

Robert Weishrot, Chri t ian A. J ohnson Dist in-be engaged. " This i the second profe sor hip endowed by the

Chri t ian A. John on Foundation, and was the product

gui hed Teaching Profes or of Hi tory, is act ing chair

of rhe program and a lready ha developed a p i l t semester for the

spring of 1 99 7 . Thi inaugural seme ter, t i t led " Revolut ion, War

and the Cri i of Modern Culture," will focu on the period between

1 9 1 9 and l 94 5 . Fac u l ty w i l l inc lude Lee Fam i ly Profe or of Ameri­

can tud ies and English Charle Bas ett, A i rant Profe sor of

C O L B Y A u G U _ T 1 9 9 6 3 2

o f several year o f discus ion between Cotter and

foundation direc tor J u l ie Kidd. Cotter say the foundation' upport of

Colby has been "almost unique," and he cred i ts K idd, who he ay ha

"an extraordinary commitment to l iberal learning."

"We've promised to have meetings here to share our experience

with other . We think it i an attractive innovation," Cotter said. +

Gibson Funds History Chair

J ohn "Van" G i b on · 5 9 ha, endowed a rrnfe :ior:ihir in h 1,rnry a t Colby. bnngmg t h e weal number ot endowed chairs at the

College to 2 4 .

T h e f i r t occuram of the John J . a n d Corne l i <i V. G i bson Chair in H i·tory. named for G i b,on\ rarent . is Ric hard " Pete" Mos�. a member of t he Colby fac ul tv :ii nee 1 9 7 . Mo · . who holds bachelor\

Ph . D . from ! ich igan tate, is the

a u t hor of three book · : 1 oah

\\f'ebscer, a b1ograrhy; Hiscor: of

American Language; and A Sra ­

tion of Peculiar Exposure: The L1je

of Jedediah forse . H is research

and teac hing srec ia l t ies mc lude

inte l lectual and c u l t ural h is tory

of the U n i ted States; hi tory L1f

srorts; and trends in American

thought and popular c u lture.

Richard "Pete" Moss

The Gibson chair is the 2 4th

.uch gift to the College and the

20th since 1 990. Endowed chairs

such a G ibson' a l low Colby to

recogni:e and reward i ts most

dist inguH1ed teachers and ·cholars in selec ted fields, supporting

their compensat ion and prov id in a them ll' i th d iscre uonary fund· for

their research. The new chair haYe helped Colby retain it best

profe or- and attract top ·cholar to the fac u l ty by offerino salarie

and benefit that are among the be t in the nation.

011· retired and l i1·in in Bay hore, Long Is land, Gib·on 11·a· for

many year· an execut i1·e with Cha e Manhattan Bank. +

Record Participation -ff\ Colby has tant fund for endowment.

r' exc eeded

"> it partici­

p a t io n goal

for 1 996, attract­

ing a total of 7 ,616

donor , the highe t number ever. "Our a l u m n i and fr iends

accepted our chal lenge to in­

c rea e dramat ica l ly the num­

ber of indiv idual g ifts to the

Col leoe, and 1 e are very grate­

fu l , " a id Vice Pre ident for De­

velopment Randy H e l m . "This

new level of g iving enhance·

Colb ' posit ion among premier

p rivate l iberal art co l lege·, in

add i tion to prov id ing i mpor-

"Of course this i j u t the

first step of a three-year chal­

lenge-It 11· i l l be crit ical for us

to retain the loyal ty of those

ll'ho ga1·e thi year, and ll'in the

·upport of e1·en more new Colby

upporter next year to secu re

t h e n e x t b i o c h a l lenge g ift

[ 1 1 7 , .5 00] to the endo\1·ment . "

Colby rai e d more than

m i l l ion t hrough the A l u m n i

Fund in 1 99 5 -96, another record.

The College met its goal of at­

tract ing .55.5 new donor , whose

gift each were matched with

1 00 for endowment, rais ing

more than 5 , 00. +

33

An etching form Piranesi's Vedute di Roma.

Valerie's Piranesis

W h e n V a l e r i e A n n e

Spierl ing ' 9 d ied ofcan­

cer in the spring of 1 994 , her

mother, Penelope Dean Robb

'6 1 . and a ·mall group of friends

determined rhat she \\'Ould be

remembered in a special ll'ay.

1' !emorial donatiLm · 11·ere sought

in I ieu offloll'ers in the hope that

an acquisition could be made m

pierl ing' · name for the Colby

Museum of Art.

Thi ·ummer the rroduct of

that effort material i:ed when tll'O

p r i n t s by G io1·ann1 B a t t i s t a

Pirane i , purchased ll' ith dona­

t ions to the Spierlino memorial

fund and money from the J ere

Abbott Acquisit ion Fund, ar­

ril'ed at the mu ·eum.

The prints, 11·h ich depict

l'iews of Rome, are from P1r­

anesi' \ "edwe di Roma . a set of

1 3 7 e tchings publi hed m the

late 1 th century. Chn topher

Gail lard '90, who helped -elect

the print a long 11· ith M ark Tay­

lor '90, Catherine Long '90 and

Robb, say they ymboli:e many

thing about p ierlino. "Valene

ll'a increa ingly intere ted m the

Old Ma ter , particularly e igh­

teenth-century ma-ters, and in

arch i tectura l Yie11·s , " he said.

"These prints al o el'oke her in­

tere t in the decoratil·e art -

furniture and co tu me."

Gail lard, who works at Chri -

ne's auction hou<e in ;-Jc11· York.

say, the commi ttee ll'anteJ tl1

pwnde the mu�L'um 11 ith ll'orb

that �tudent> ll'nu lJ fmd u eful

in their stud\' of art h1-.tor\' .

"When I ll'a· at Colh I curated

a sholl' on contempl1r<ll"Y pnnr ,

and there ll'a, a l,1t m rhe mu­

seum to draw on. P 1 rane,1 i> .;nrt of an art h istorical che,mut­

h1s prints are famou>. \X'e felt It

was important ft1r the College t )

m1·n at least a prime example of

that 1rnrk," he said .

pier! ing worked at a contem­

porary art gallery in ew York

·oon after graduating from Colby,

and from there ll'ent to London to

-tudy decorarn·e art and fme art m

a program operated b · _ otheby\.

he ll'a · workino at the Tepper

Gallery, a small ell' York auction

house, ll'hen he became ill. he

died in l'darch 1 994.

"It i- our hope that the _tu­

dents of Colby ll'd l ut i l i:e the

prints as mile cone- in print­

making and art history and be

ab le to e x a m i ne the p r i n t ·

c losely, a alerie ut i l i:ed other

object m the mu eum collec­

t ion throughout her tenure at

Colby," Gail lard aid.

p ierling al o i remembered

through a memorial cholarship

for ew York City tudent- e -

t ab l i hed in 1 99 4 by P e t e r

V lacho '.5 . +

� C G L" S T l <l � t> C O L B Y

t)) paging parents I _l..

Home By 1 1 ? Parents of returning students say the old rules may not apply

By Marc Glass

S tudems usual ly spend sum­

mer vacat ion to i l ing for tu­

i t ion dol lars and havi ng fun, but

ret u rn ing to the nest after a year

of independence at Colby can be

difficult . The student, del ivered

at Colby' doorstep a scant nine

months earlier, may come home

w i th different values, a changed

appearance, new ambit ion and,

most certainly, a decreased de­

pendence on his or her parents.

Mark Serdj enian ' 7 3 , assoc i ­

a t e dean o f students, says that

de pite attempts to counsel their

ch i ldren from home through

phone cal ls and e-mail me sage ,

parents may have les influence

than ever before.

"At Colby, the students are in

a position to go to Quebec and not

tell anyone. This is a hard fact to

accept, but when the on or daugh­

ter is away parents can't apply the

ame re tric t ion that worked

when the child wa at home,"

Serdjenian said. " As students walk

a fine l ine between childhood and

adulthood, parents sometimes feel

left on the sidelines."

erdjenian, whose son, Kerry,

i home after h is first year at

Brandeis, says some parents have

difficulty accepting the fac t that

the days of the midnight curfew

are over.

Even though i t's a courtesy for

the student to indicate where he

or she will be and when he or he

wil l be home, when parent re­

que t th is information it 's some­

t i mes een as an i mpos i t ion,

erdjenian aid. "Whatever olu­

r ion parents and rudenr find, i r

definitely wi l l involve less con­

trol for the parents."

Hi on d idn't ret u rn home

sporting a nose ring, ta ttoos or

C O L B Y A U G u T 1 9 9 6

College students returning home bring with them a new independence.

an arre r ing color cheme in

his hair , but erdj enian >ays

paren rs who are treated to a

ch ange in appearance need to

maintain per pec t ive.

"My wife and I real i:e there

are bigger issue than appear­

ance, and we've seen ome dif­

ferent hairstyles over the years,"

he said. " tudent who expres

themse lve through body pierc­

ing and tattoos find themselves

saying, ' I 'm still a good k id ! I'm

still working hard at chool ! "'

Regard I es of the is ·ues that

arise when a student returns

home, erdjenian ay he's re­

minded of a banner that was d i -

played at a nursery school where

his wife used to reach: "There are

two gifts we give our chi ldren,

one is root , the other i wing ."

Sometime tudents stretch

their wing gently, giv ing notice

of their independence without

much affront. Nancy Ander on

of Norwell , Ma s., says that her

daughter' phone calls home dur-

34

ing the sophomore year differed

from tho>e of the fir t year-they

were occasions for catching up

rather than seeking counsel. But

Anderson, whosedaughter,Je sie,

j u>t fini hed her sophomore year,

believe thi i a >ign of maturity.

" he tended to handle the

minor upsets without us this year

because she problem-solved with

a wonderful group of friend ,"

Ander on said. "They talk about

w men's is ue , graduate schools

and career planning. Sharing

the e rhings with her fr i nds rep­

re ent a tran i t ion from u , but

I 'm very happy she's hanging

around these whole ome k ids and

can work out so l u t i ons she'

happy with."

Jack Nelson of North An­

dover, Mass . , has part icular con­

cern about how rules at home

apply to both the returning stu­

dent and their s ibl ing .

" I t's inappropriate to have a

younger ibl ing adhere to one et

of rules, while the elder chi ld has

another. If the expectation are

changing on a daily ba is, kid

wil l play that to their advantage,"

said Nelson, whose son, Graham,

j ust finished h is sophomore year.

Aside from good parenting

sk i l ls, which he says he learned

from friends and older fam i l ies,

Nelson cred its a rigorous aca­

demic program for regulating stu­

dent behavior when parent

aren't around.

"Colby has taught Graham

that with freedom come signifi ­

cant responsibi l i ties l ike attend­

ing classes and being prepared

for exams," he said. "I think he

realized early on, ' I f I haven't

taken advantage of the opportu­

nitie , i t 's my loss."'

ometimes a year at Colby

cau es tudents to reexamine

hometown friend hips once con­

sidered indi s luble. When her

daughter, Jenna, returned home,

Laura De imone of Winchester,

Mass . , wa concerned that Colby

fr iend had upplanted h igh

school friend .

" he hadn't spent t ime re­

k indl ing friendships from home,"

DeSimone said.

Though De imone ays Jen­

na initia l ly was restless about be­

ing accountable to her parents

after a year without supervision,

the t ime apart actually improved

their rapport.

"Before he went to col lege,

she was unsure of what I had to

offer her in the way of advice,"

said De imone, whose daugh­

ter j u t completed her econd

year at Colby. "Now th.rough

let ters and phone cal ls we've

never been more open. he say

she can tell me thing that he

can't tell. her friend . " +

Parents' Advocates

Scott and Jean Peterson, parents

of H i lary '97 , of M iddlebury,

Conn. , wi l l serve as chairs of the

Executive Committee of the Parents

Assoc iation for 1 996-97.

The Petersons will lead the Ex­

ecut ive Committee in i ts efforts to

raise funds for the College and ad­

vise admini trator on i ues of con­

cern to parent . Margaret Felton

Viens ' 77 , assistant director of an- Scott and Jean Peterson

nual giving and administrative l ia ison for the Executive Committee,

say the group is cal led upon to as ist the College in several way .

'They're there as ounding boards for ocher parents and for

President Cotter when he want a pulse check on how parent feel

about a certain issue," Viens aid.

The Executive Committee a l o works with the Admission Office

co conduct retention programs, including v isit by current Colby

parents to prospective parents. "They can give a parent' -eye view of

what it's l ike to be at Colby," Vien said.

The Parents Association has been in trumental in adding more

ecurity l ighting to the campus, creating after-hour study rooms in

Mi l ler Library, establishing quiet hours in residence hall and in

improving dining ervice . +

Keeping Costs in Line

Returning Colby students wi l l

pay 4. 7 percent more to at­

tend next year, the smallest tu­

i t ion increa e i n 2 1 year .

President Bi l l Cotter explained

the increase in a letter to stu­

dents and parents, noting that

although the full cost of attend­

ing Colby will go up, the com­

prehensive fee of $ 2 7,900 st i l l

does not cover the expen e of

educating a student.

Al though Colby's ruit ion in­

crease i 2 percent higher than

the national rate of inflation,

Cotter points out that most co ts

as ociaced w ith higher education

ri e faster than the general infla­

tion rate. For example, he aid,

faculty compen ation-about 45

percent of the College' coral

budget-generally rises 2 to 3

percent above inflation each

year. These increase are ne­

cessary to maintain Colby's po-

i t ion a a leading competitor

for the nation's best teaching

talent, Cotter a id. Costs for

computer equipment, library ac­

qui i t ion and, most notably, fi­

nancial aid all increased at rate

well above inflation, Cotter said.

Colby has reduced its ex­

penses in some area by increas­

ing efficiency and re training

staff growth. The ize of both the

faculty and administration are

frozen and a l l future growth wi l l

be through ubstitut ion. The

College ha worked hard to keep

co t down "while t i l l providing

( and expanding) the kinds of

fac il ic ie , programs and quality

of instruction that caused you to

choo e Colby in the fin place,"

Cotter aid in hi letter. +

35

nothing new A Great Beginning

The Class of 1 996's commencement ceremony on May 26

marked the 1 75th time that Colby has granted bachelor's

degrees to a graduating class. On this anniversary year it

seems appropriate to remember the College's orig inal

commencement, held rn August 1 822, when Colby was

known as Watervi l le College.

The first graduating class consisted of just two students­

George Dana Boardman and Ephraim Tripp. There was one

honorary degree recipient, Samuel Wart. who later founded

Wake Forest College.

Colby's first president. Jeremiah Chaplin. who shep­

herded the College through its infancy, presided over the first

commencement. He wrote the Latin phrases that str l l are

used at graduation ceremonies and that appear on every

diploma, including the often-invoked sentence, "All that your

instructors have been able to do for you has been done. "

T h e processional was b i g o n pomp b u t small in number.

I n addition to the two students. the group included Albion K.

Parris, Maine's first governor, trustees, Colby professors

(there were only two) and Chapl in .

The ceremony took place in the meeting house r n the

center of Watervi l le , which was then a v i l lage of a few

hundred people. Most of the audience were Waterville

residents who at first were eager to wrtness the ceremony

and stampeded in but grew restless d uring the long

induction speeches. Many of them left before the proceed­

ings had ended .

The meeting house, where the first Colby commencement was held, still stands today as the Park Street Baptist Church.

A U G U - T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

m u les on the move I �

Goal Oriented Women 's lacrosse team scores big during I 0-4 season

By Marc Glass

B efore taking the field at

every game this eason, the

women's lacros e team broke from

its huddle shouting "Pride ! " I t

was an appropriate declaration.

The White Mules finished the

eason with a 1 0-4 mark and their

fir t ECAC playoff berth ince

1 989. Three regular-season vic­

tories were by a margin of more

than 1 8 goals, and the Mules won

the CBB championship.

Goal ie J ennifer Pope '96

(Needham, Mass. ) was named

NESCAC Player of the Week for

routinely exceeding 16 saves per

game, and she wa elected to play

in the STX North-South Senior

All-Star game, which featured the

top enior Division I I I women's

!aero se players in the nation.

Amie Sicchitano '96 (Wellesley

Hil ls, Mass.) was named first alter­

nate to the STX all-star game.

Pope and Kara Marchant '97

(Lakeville, Conn.) were named

second-team regional All-Amer­

icans by the I ntercol legiate

Women's Lacro seCoachesA o­

ciarion, and Marchant was given

Amie Sicchitano '96 was one of several individual stars.

honorable mention in All America

voting by the United tare

Women's Lacro e A sociation.

Stacy Joslin '97 (Warwick, R.l . )

broke the chool record for mo t

a sists in a eason with 2 3 , and the

team set school records for mo t

goals ( 1 8 5 ) and most points ( 264 )

in a ingle ea on.

Why wa the team ucce sful ?

Consider the quandary of senior

center Cindy Kelly as a mea ure of

this team's devotion: A little more

than a year ago, Kelly realized she

still kicking Debbie Mac Walter '9 1 , an All-American heptathlete and four-time All­

American in the javelin , knows her school heptathlon record ( 4, 384 points)

miaht fall to Cynthia Pomerleau '97 before too long. But Mac Walter, who

roomed with Pomerleau's older si ter, Pam '9 1 , at Colby, wishe the heir

apparent well.

"I'm happy for her, but it' ad to ee it go already," she said. "It' a big

accomplishment."

MacWalter earned a master's degree in physical therapy from Simmon

College in l 993 and practices at South hore Hospital in Weymouth, Mas .

And she hasn't lo t her desire to compete. She now runs up to 30 mtle per

week in preparation for her first sprint erie triathlon this summer. he ·ay�

her husband, Fred Bright '9 I , a real estate appraiser at Bank of Bo ton, will

serve a her " upport crew" for the event, which includes a half-mile swim,

1 2-mile bike nde and three-mile run.

C O L B Y A U G U T 1 9 9 6 36

had a difficult deci ion ahead. Her

i ter Iris '9 1 announced that she

would be wed on April 20, 1 996-

the same day Colby was sched­

uled to play nationally ranked

Tuft at Seaverns Field. Though

familial obligation and sisterly love

won out, Kelly agonized over

whether to mis the game or the

wedding. Head coach Heidi Go­

domsky exerted no pressure, but

he said Kelly's "heart-wrenching"

decision reveals much about the

team's dedication.

"Several year ago, players

were mi ing game and practices

unnecessarily. That's changed.

Cindy was in tears about missing

the Tufts game, and though her

teammates understood her desire

to be in two place· at the ame

time, it was a big deal that she

wasn't here for the game,"

Godomsky said.

Co-captain Sicchitano be­

l ieves that elf-di c ipline was

another reason for the team's

improvement. At the close of

pract ice, especially in the two

day before a game, the eniors

and captain routinely admon­

ished their teammates to tay

well-re red and healthy. Accord-

ing to Sicchitano, breaking the

team's "48-hour rule," which for­

bade the consumption of alco­

hol and late-night social izing

before games, wouldn't be toler­

ated within the ranks.

"Everyone, including those

who might not play much, is will­

ing to sacrifice a couple of nights

of fun for the team," Sicchitano

said. "If one per on isn't one hun­

dred percent during a game, it

jeopardizes our chances for suc­

ces and team unity."

The lifeblood of any uccess­

ful program is able newcomers,

and Godomsky's recruiting effort

la t year resulted in a talent-rich

group of fir t-year tudents who

often outshone the seniors and

earned most of the playing time

on offense. But instead of gener­

ating re entment, the first-years'

contributions were welcomed, ac­

cording to Kelly.

"We looked at the new players

as the answer to our prayers," she

said. "Their ki l ls were above and

beyond ours, but they pushed the

upperclassmen to play better. We

still had a lot of leadership and

experience to offer, and the result

was a stronger lacrosse ream."

Chri tie Browning '99, an

Al l-American attack player in

high school, considered two Di­

vision I schools but says he'

happy she cha e Colby.

"The upperclas men are al­

ways tell ing us how much they

appreciate the first-years, but

they're not giving themselves

enough credit," Browning said.

"The defen e i all uppercla s­

men, and they've saved u in

many games. Pope i the best

goalie in the NESCAC. I don't

know what we're going to do

when they graduate." +

Hurry Up and Win

I f you attended women' crack

and field meer rhi pring,

there were two ound you were

certain to hear: the report of the

starter's pi tol and frustrated offi­

c ials saying, "We're waiting for Pomerleau !" Cynthia Pomerleau

'97, who competed in at least six

of the heprathlon' se\'en event

in most meets, would be ripping

through the 1 00-meter hurdle

while a schedule-minded hotput

official awaited her cu tomary 40-

foot throw. The j avel in official

waited while he bla:ed through

200 meters. Somehow, Pomerleau

al o found the time and stamina

to launch her elf more than 1 7

feet in the long jump and five feet

in the high jump. While official

waited for Pomerleau to arrive, her rivals hoped for a no- how.

"Sheu uallydoesherbestwhen

rushing from event to event," head

Cynthia Pomerleau '97

coach Debbie Aitken aid.

" L l ike the heptathlon because

I l ike to be bu y and I l ike the

challenge," Pomerleau aid. " I f

one event goe poorly, there'

alway another to do well in."

But none of the event went

poorly. he finished the outdoor

track and field eason with All­

American honor in the hepta­

thlon, a N ESCAC title in the

long j ump and hotpur anJ a

ixth-place national ranking in

the heptath lon . H e r 4 , 3 4

heptathlon point total i only

1 0 5 hy of the Colby record held

by Debbie MacWalter '9 1 ( ee

t i l l K ickino) . Pomerleau, who

won the ECAC and New En­

gland Di v i ion l l I champion hip

in the five-event indoor pen­

tathlon la t winter, ha only one

regret about her j un ior year of

competition-a hamstring train

prevented her from competing

on the cross-counrry team.

The three- port chedule and

all the nece ary aaining lea\'e

l ittle time for anything else but

studying, and Pomerleau, a biol­

ogy major with a concentration

in environmental cience , de­

mand a much of her elf in the

classroom as he doe on the track.

"When I et a personal record

in track, Deb alway encourage

me to do better by saying, 'Don't

be ati fied with that"' Pomerleau

said. " l 'm not sati fled with learn­

ing the minimum. Lf I 'm not do­

ing well academically, ! don't feel

good about athletics." +

Three Cheers. . . . . . for the women's tenm team, ranked 1 9th national ly in

Divi ion I l l , which ended the ea·on with an 1 1 -4 record. K im

Cheah '99 ( Pu lau Pinang, Malay i a ) fini heJ as the Maine

single champion and was ranked No. 32 nat ional ly among

Di vi ion lI l ingles p layers.

3 7

sports shorts The Colby basebal l team ( 1 4- 1 2) enicyed its best record in a

decade and ended the season with a five-game winning

streak John-Charles Panio '96 (Scarsdale, N Y ) led the

pitching staff with a 6-0 record , and h u rler Galen Carr '97 (Walpole, N . H ) posted a 3-0 mark Outfielders Jerrod

Brian Emme ·97

Deshaw '97 (Burl ington

Vt ) and Pat McBride '97 (Woonsocket. R I ) were

the team's top hitters with

batt ing averages of 398

and .376. respectively

The men's ten nis team

posted an 8-4 record,

including its first-ever

undefeated spring-break

trip. Top s ingles player

Gerry Perez '96 ( M aho­

pac. N Y. ) was 1 0- 1 . whi le

the top doubles team of

Perez and Staunton Bowen '97 (Toronto, Ont.) went 8-2

The softball team posted a 1 4- 1 2 record under first-year

head coach Jen Holsten '90 Shortstop Meghan O'Neil ' 96 (West Newbury. Mass ) was named N ESCAC Player of the

Week i n May for getting nine hits 1n 13 at bats and second­

base player Stephanie Patterson '99 ( Margate N J ) was

named N ESCAC Player of the Week for her fielding prowess

she made only one error i n 26 games . The men's

lacrosse team fin ished the season with a 7-7 record and a

q uarterfinal-round appearance in the ECAC playoffs Brian

Frank '98 ( Essex Fel ls , N . J ) broke the school record for

most saves i n a season with 24 1 . and Matt W i l l iams '99 (Cape E l izabeth, Maine) set the school record for most

assists (30) and total points (49) by a first-year student.

B rian Emme '97 ( Evergreen , Colo . ) and Brett Nard i n i '96 (Scituate, Mass.) were named to the Brine/Lacrosse Founda-

tion East al l-star team. . Men's track a n d field was h igh-

l ighted by the performances of Patrick Fournier '98 ( Bel lows

Fal ls . Vt ) and Conrad Saam '96 (Ski l lman . N J ) at the NCAA

New England Division I l l Track and Field Champ1onsh1ps

Fournier clocked a 31 06 37 f in ish 1n his 10 000 meters win

and broke the Colby record in the event Saam scored 5,858

points to break the school decathlon record He won the pole

vault. long jump, 1 OD-meter dash and 1 .500-meter run on his

way to a second-place overall finish tn the decathlon competi­

tion Donald Saucier '96 (Westport Mass ) won the 1 OD-meter

high h u rdles at the NESCAC championships. In women's

track and field anchor runner Rachel Ehlers '96 ( R1chheld

Springs. N.Y ) came from fourth place to lead the women's

4x1 00-meter relay team to victory at the ECAC championships.

alumni at Large I --1•·•

Fifty-Plus Correspondent :

Fletcher Eaton ' 39 42 Perry Dri \ 'e N eedham, MA 02 1 9 2 6 1 7-449- 1 6 1 -1

THIRTIES Howard Ferguson ' 3 1 , a man who ha coached ba ehall all h io l i fe . finJ:, that watch ing m i l l ion­a i re athletes try to play the game J i:itrac t h im from the more eri ­ou> pur:,u i t of l ife, l ike try ing ro amwer a quc t ionnairc . Howard i:, 87 nnw anJ l ive:, at t . J crcph ' L i \' i ng Center in W in d h a m , Conn. When he entered t h e fa­c i l i ty last y ar, he had trouble \\'alk ing , but wtth phy ical thera-

py and good care he i walking aga in and keep ing fi t . He only wishe he cnuld move faster ( how many of you wish you could move slnwer l ) , but he enjoy reading the new paper every day and says he i� work i ng now at "c leaning out a bunch of files. " Howard enjoys gardening and is able to have ome garden space at h i s daughter's home in nearby Leha­non, C( nn. He abo ha · a son in M ilford, Ohio . . . . Don ' 3 3 and

Dorothy Gould Rhoades '36 sent their 1 995 Christmas letter­s ing le -spaced, both sides-a an effic ient means of pas ing the word. ( Dorothy is the si ter of Marjorie Gould Shuman ' 37 , whose encyc lopaed ic knowledge of Colby alumn i gave this col­umn an a u then t i c i ty hard to matc h . ) The Gouldse and the Rhoadeses are n umerou , and the i r sheer mas di ·tributed over the northern ha lf of the North

The Greatest Gift B eth Pend leton Cl ark

' 3 5 , an interim m i n is­

ter for the U n i ted Church

of Chri t , has alway given

of herse lf. o he was en­

t i re ly i n character last Feb­

ruary 22 when she donated

a kidney to her daughter, Barbara Daggett, who ·uf­

fers cystic k idney d isea e,

the ame hereditary d i ease that took Clark' hu band

40 years ago . Beth Pendleton Clark ' 3 5

' T m o gratefu l . I couldn't help h i m , b u t I could help her,"

Clark said of the operation at Brigham and Women's Ho pi­ta! in Bo ton . "This wa de tiny. I ju t had to do this ."

The daughter and wife of Bapti t min ister , Clark fol lowed her bent toward church and soc ial work as a ociology major

at Colby. Three year later he received a bachelor of d iv in ity

degree from Andover Newton Theological School . he was

ordained i nto the Christian min istry in 1 96 7 , rece ived a

ma ter' of d iv in i ty in 1 968 from Eastern Bapt ist Theological eminary and completed her doctorate at Lanca ter Theo­

logical Seminary in 1 98 1 .

I n 1 9 7 5 Clark serveJ on the orig ina l committee that

organ izeJ the Interim M inistry Network . As an interim

min ister for the Uni ted Church of Christ she took on fu l l

dut ies i n 21 church as ignment averaging n ine months each.

Five churche cal led her back for a econd ministry and one

for a th ird . For many of those churches, she was the fir t

woman pa tor. " I 've broken down ome barrier ," said Clark,

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who i l i red in Who's Who in Religion. I t 's not that she' not

been happy pitch ing in, but now, he sa id , '' I 'm 8 2 , and I think it 's t ime to enjoy l i fe ."

Al l she has done is attend a recent conference in Toronto

on stewardship and g iv ing, then return home to Sel insgrove, Pa . , to her dut ie as chair of the nomi nat ing committee of

her church. Her inten ive study of grief for her Ph . D.

di ertat ion at Lanca ter not only helped with her interim min istries, she ays, it a l o led to her current work in a local

hosp ice program that erve several counties . Last fal l she was the peaker at the program's memorial serv ice. She a lso does book reviews for the magaz ine of the Alban I nstitute,

where she trained year ago. Although a national organization helps find donors for the

600,000 people in thi country who have polycystic k idney d isease, all of Clark's stre , heart and blood test howed that

she was in excel lent health and the best donor for her daughter. " I 've been tested for A I DS so many t imes," she

joshed with her doctor, "I don't kn.ow whether to be insulted or compl imented on being t i l l sexually active." When the

transplant surgery al o involved removing a rib from her

upper abdomen, Clark told the surgeons, "If they're going to

make a man out of that rib, I want to do the specifications." Today Barbara Daggett, a Maine state legislator who

mis ed only three es ions of the legi lature, ha been ap­pointed chair of a commi ttee to reshape the government and is gear ing up for a run for the state senate. She' back

playing ten.ni , too.

The tran plant operat i n , Clark said, has given her "a completely new perspective about g iv ing. It makes you

think about what g iving means. G i v ing is basic to your l ife ."

American continent may well accoun t for the wobble recently detected by astronomer in the path of the Earth around the sun. Thei r letter leaves no doubt that they paid countless del ightful v i -it to counties del ightful fam i ly members, to the great reward and enrichment of all. . . . The worst m i take Evelyn Stapleton Burns '33 e\·er made wa to buy a tele­v i ion set for the fam ily. During her t i me at Colby, the banks were clo ed ( remember? ! ) and she \\'a l ucky to have t\l'L pair of shoe De pi te privation at t imes, E\·elyn ha always been super-ac t ive in community affa ir . During spring break one year, ·he wa in Rome personally to hear M u sol i n t ad­dressi.ng the crowds, a \·isit that wa made po ible by her Carne­gie International Peace c holar-h ip. Says Evelyn, "Our age group

has l i v ed t h ro u gh a l o t of hi tory." . . . Ruth Stubbs Frazer '34 asks, "Jn the upcoming elec­t ion for President , why can't 1 be enthusiastic abou t any pro pec ­t ive candidate ." he l ives in a lovely ret i rement c o m m u n i t y cal led Friend hip Vi l lage in Pitt -burgh, where she imprm·es her physique by walk ing half a m ile ( one way ) to the d i n ing room. However, she doesn 't we igh any more than ·he d i d 5 0 year ago . . . . Robert F. Estes ' 3 5 want t o know what happened to Wallace Bates McLaughlin ' 3 6 a n d Larry Dow ' 3 5 . Mr. M c ­Laugh ! in i decea e d . M r . Dow's

NEWSMAKERS Bonnie Roberts Hathaway '4 1 \\'as awarJed the Shaklee Comm u n i ty Caretaker Award from the ew England haklee Corp. for her work to raise awarene � of environmental i ue· and to educate people on tep they can take to help prQ[ect the planet . . . . B. A . Royal Spiegel '42 publ i hed a poem, "Lessons from the Pond," in Highlights for Children maga:ine.

address b Route 3, Box L 2 9 , Belfa·t, Maine 049 1 5 . tvlr . Este· has '' t\\'O g1rb, t\\'O boys and nine grandchi ldren, al l doing \\'e l l and keep i n g an eye on t h i- o l d m a n . " . . . T h e Re\·erend Doctor Beth Pendleton Clark ' 3 5 do­nated a k idney to her daughter in February here in Boston ( see pro­fi le on page 3 ). Personal ly , I am fi lled \\' ith admirat ion bl- Beth's courage and de\·ot ion. She ha resumed her l ifestyle of upply preach ing, book re\· iew1ng. gar­den ing and being ac t ive on se\'­eral boards and committees. For exerc ise. he uses a rreadm i i l. ]. Warren "Joe" Bishop ' 3 5 \\' ishe h e cou ld ha\·e been a ber­rer person and ha\·e l i \·ed a bet ter l i fe. However, if you read about the mode t Mr. Bi hop, you wish you could ha\·e done as \\'el l . For 10 y ar he \\'a chairman of the Department of Busine s Admin­istrat ion at Colby. From rhere he went on to be control !er and then v ice president at Uni m Mutual Life I n urance Company. He has two adopted ons and , by having

been \\'1do\\'ed t\\' ice, ha� acquired fo u r s t epson , t h ree d a u _g h ­rers - in- lall' and sll'arm' o f grand­chi ldren and gre,1ts-all doin_g 11·el l . . . . Nat Guptil ' 3 9 is "get­t ing a l i t t le t i red of be ing a Re­publican." He extend; greetmg� to Sally Aldrich Adams '39 and Eli:abeth " lppie" Solie Howard ' 3 9 . On Augu·r 1 . Nat and Helen ( Carter ' 3 9 ) w i l l ha\·e been married 59 years. . . During the Korean War, Lr. Col. Charles E. Mclean '39 tle\\' , combat m issions ( 4,000 ri lot hours in 1 2 different models offighrer rlane ) . He says he ll'ould love. once again, to ger beh ind rhe stick ofa fighter aircraft, the gu l l -winged Corsa i r in rart icular-a mo·t demand ing and beaut ifu l p lane. ( Dur ing World War 1 1 , your secretary worked in the Chance Vought a i rc raft fac tory in tratford , Con n . , \\'here Corsa i rs \\'ere manufact ured. Ar rhe t ime, I knell' every nur and bolt in thar plane and feel , as doe Lr. Col . McLean, that i r w a a beautiful iron bird . ) . . . G. Allan Brown

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' 3 9 and \\' ife Prisc i l la rerse\·ere despite gra\·e problems of health. Hm\·e\·er. rhe renremenr commu­ni ty w ll"h1ch they mo\·ed in the nick of rime ha prm·ided \\'onder­ful help and 'uppl1rr . . ..\ ! Ian'< mam difficulty '' lu" ,1f hb �en'e 1 1f halance. \\'h 1ch ha' affectecl h1> ll"alkmg e\ ·er ,mce the Gudla1n­Barrc nen·e ,Ji,e,be h i t him 1n 1 99 3 . Ho\\'e\·er. ,1 h1r orernrtnn 111 \1\'emher may help. +

FORTIES Wendell Starr '4 1 ha:i Jbour a� brief a 1ni rt:-up ( one l me ) a' you'll find in any copy of the Oniel<?. Yer the:ie Jay as a -;c 1ent 1'>t ( e lectron ics) and c rusad m g en­\· irnnmenral i t , he menrs laree 1n1 te-ups. He regrets that he i nor much heir around the hou,e for h is \\'ife, Anna ( " just raking care of rhe \\'eedmo <1nd prun mg is a big job" ) . In the firne-- de­r<1rtment , he ha> re,oh-ed to qun j ogging becrn-e his knees are gi\· ­mg o u r , b u r h e feel - lucky to ha\·e kert jogging for ,o long. In Febru­ary ll'hen he \\'rnte, Wendell \\'a look ing for\\'ard to a ,em inar led by Norman Palmer ' 3 0. I am deeply saddened ro rerorr thar Dr. Palmer d ied on February 1 1 , 1 996. Dr. Palmer <1nd l main­tained a l l \·ely corre·pondence centerino on rhe errors of omb­s ion, commi s ion, grammar and taste and rhe general inepm ude

hameles-1 · d i played in rhis col-umn. I shall mis· h im. +

Homecoming '96 Colby Night Friday, October 1 8 , 1 996

Honoring Sid Farr '55 1 996 "C" Club Man of the Year

All alumni are invited and welcome to attend the Colby N ight dinner, span ored

by the "C" Club. Watch for your Homecoming brochure , or call the Alumni Office 207,872,3 1 90 to make your reservation !

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Correspondents:

1 94 7 Mary H a l l F i tch 4 Canal Park, = 7 1 2 Cambridge, M A 02 1 4 1 6 1 7 -494-488 2

1 948 David and Dorothy Mar,on 4 1 Wood · End Road Dedham, MA 02026 6 1 7 - 3 2 9 - 39 70

1 949 Rnbert M . Tonge Sr . 5 Greylock Road Waterv i l le , ME 0490 1 207- 7 3 - 3 244

Correspondent: Mary Hall Fitch

47 R o b e rta M a r d e n A l ­den has three married

ch i ldren and, when she wrote, was expecting to be in Honol u lu in May rn welcome a fifth grand­chi ld . he and her husband are both ret i red and do a lot of tra\'­e l i ng , most recently to nat ional parks in the 'outh\\'e t . She con­tinue to hear from Emily Cardell Hueston and Joan Hunt Ban­field. . . Ronald Coe i a phy i ­c ian st i l l ac t i v e l y prac t i c ing in terrnil med ic ine in arnden, Conn . He and his wife, Eleanor, ha\·e a married daughter who ha one on and two tepson . Tom Bu rke cal l him elf a "pro­fessional amateur gnlfer" and hi wife a "household engineer" and " l ife ma ter bridge player." He play golf three ti mes a \\'eek, ,·ol­unteer at hi HMO c l inic in to\\'n and loves cru ise . He ha crui ed to Montreal , Quebec and can­dina\· ia and wil l be in the Orient for 1 4 Jay in October, when he hopes rn see Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson. Tom has four

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sons. One heads affirmati\'t: ac ­tion f or He\\'lett Packard in Or­egon; the second i a hanker/farmer in I ndiana; the third teaches at ULSAN Uni 1·ersity in outh Ko­rea; and the fl lurth \\'orb for Pi::a Hut in Phoenix while pursuing a master ' s d e gree in computer sc ience. +

Curresponden t:i: David and Dorothy Marson

48 We rec eived no n:spome to our most recent mai l ­

ing reque t ing news of the Class of l 94 . Nevertheless, we will carry on by tell ing you that \\'e j ust returned from a l 0-day trip w Israel. Ir wa, Dorn thy\ seventh \'is it and my fir t. Before \\'e left l

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was concerned ahout our ,afety due rn the recent bu hnmhings and the rockets up north, but we were ne1·er in any danger and the trip wa� \'ery enl ightenmg and enjoyahle . . . . You do not ha\'e to ll'ait for the Alumni Relat ion Office to send out a letter reque t­ing cla,s news. J ust \\'rite to ei ther Dorothy or David Marson <lt 4 1 Wonds End Rnad, Dedham, MA 02026. This >ec t ion of Colb)' i s one of the fir"t that e\'eryone reads. We ll' i l l inc lude all the ne\\':i that we rece i \'e. +

Cnrrespondent: Robert M. Tonge Sr.

49 H a r o l d e n e " D e a n i e " Whitcomb W o l f , who

l i \'es at 2 1 Pippen Way, Morris­town , NJ 07 960, is retired and recently bought a tennis v i l la in Vero Beach, where she spend two nr three month a year. he says she is currently unmarried and look i ng . . . . Leonard Warshaver and his wife, Elaine, are also re­t i red . They ha\'e six grandchi l ­dren , four boy- ( the two oldest at Tuft and Columbia respec t ively ) and two g i rls. Leonard ays hi golf game has deteriorated, with a handicap -oaring l ike the stock market, and his tenni game i not as aggre si,·e, but otherwi.e he' doing well physically. He give his regard to all '49ers . . . . A class corre ponclent, I enjoy providing new ofcla· mates, but plea e he lp m out by rnntribut ing to the flow of informat ion 1 +

1946 My fir t memory of our 50th reu n ion w i l l alway- be Betty Ann Riker and her husband, Roe Howel l ,

getting up for a 7 :30 a . m . tee-off at t h e Waterv i l le Country Club. My econd vivid memory wi l l be Charlotte Carrington Jame on eeing her fre hman roommate after 53

years. Charlotte left to go to nur ing school and hadn't seen Emily Holbrook Pel i sier unti l this J une. I t was great fun in the dorm to ee everyone' name appearing on doors on mi cel laneou craps of paper.

Pre ent were 3 1 member of our wartime cla s and an additional 2 1 gue ts, husbands, chi ldren, etc. We a l l shared meals and catch- up conversation in Lovejoy Commons. The meal certainly have improved; I fel t I wa at a splendid hote l buffet. The lobster bash alone under the b ig tent wa worth the trip.

Cloyd Aar e th and his wife, Joan, had set up a wonderful memorabi l ia d i play in the dorm i tt ing room. I t inc l uded a tu i t ion bill for less than 200. l understand Colby now co ts 29,000 a year total.

At the award banquet, Jean O'Brien Perkins received a olby Brick for her wonderful work of keeping track of u and pur u ing u to keep pledging.

At the Parade of Classes on aturday morn ing, i t was great fun to watch everyone march by and then parade ourselves through all the c lasses wi th applause resounding.

Our reunion banquet in the Art Museum was very classy. Betty Scalise Kilham, our president, introduced President Cotter and his wife, Linda, and led us through a wonderful program. The superb video ofour war year at Colby was done by Cloyd Aar eth. If you would l ike to enjoy a flood of memorie , the video i available for

2 5 . Al o, our new c la picture can be obtained through the College for 6. Each of u looks healthy and happy. One of my high points wa the unday Boardman ·ervice in Lorimer Chapel . I am o proud when l ee

the accompl i hment in someone I 've known a long t ime. Hannah Karp Laipson gave the addres and l was

thril led to ee her in her profe ional role. l was also glad to ee the other part ic ipant , a rabbi and a Cathol ic

pr iest , the Col lege chapla ins. Our reunion letter book by o many of our cla mates was my late night reading and wil l be for year . Lt was edited

by the great triumvirate, Hannah, Carol and Anne. Barbara Pattee Healey wrote a wonderful letter to us all.

There i a lovely new Colby with all new rule , coed dorm , new bui ld ing in the future. But it wa the

place I began to be a real per on. I 'm proud of me, my c las mates and the College where it all began.

-Nancy J acob en

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Correspond en ts :

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Virginia Davis Pearce P.O. Box 9 4 Grantham, N H 03 7 5 3

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Barbara Jeffer on Walker 39 1 5 Cabot Place, Apt. 1 6 R ichmond, V A 2 3 2 3 3

04-5 2 7-0726

1 95 2

Edna Mi ller Mordecai 1 1 4 5 Walnut treet Newton H ighland , MA 02 1 6 1 6 1 7 - 3 3 2 - 3 707 fax: 6 1 7-965-9 23 e-mail : M Mordecai@aol.com

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Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey 80 Lincoln Avenue South Hami l ton, MA 0 1 9 508-46 - 5 1 1 0

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Bil l and Penny Thre her Edson 3 2 5 3 Erinlea Avenue Newbury Park, CA 9 1 3 20-5 1 1

05 -49 -9656

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J ane Mi l lett Domish 9 Warren Terrace Win low, ME 049 0 1

1 95 6 Kathleen McConaughy Zarnbello 1 3 5 lduna Lane Amherst , MA 0 1 002 4 1 3 - 2 5 3 -3 00 1

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Brian F . Olsen 46 Washington Drive Acton, MA 0 1 720 50 - 2 63-923

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Margaret rni th Henry 1 304 Lake hore Drive Mas apequa Park , Y 1 1 762 5 16 - 5 4 1 -0790

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Ann Marie egra\·e Lieber 7 Kingsland Court South Orange, NJ 07079 2 0 1 - 763-67 1 7

Corre pondent: Virginia Davis Pearce

50 ew frorn Chicago: Jerry Frank i the proud grand­

father of triplets ! One of his sons and hi daughrer- in-law had a girl and two boys, born in J anu­ary. Lucky Jerry ha hi three chil­dren and now fi\·e grandchildren all l iving within a mi le and a half of him. He recently v is ited Rona ( Kopan ' 5 7 ) and Bob Rosenthal and reports a l l i s w e l l w i th them . . . . I had a nice letter from Patricia " Rusty" J ensen, who has retired after 44 years of teach­ing-the la t 17 at the Uni\·er­sity of Rhode I land, where he ha been honored with the rank of profe or emerita. ow she i a ful l - t ime volunteer at ourh County Ho piral in Rhode Is­land, working in expre s care and as v ice pre ident of the aux i l iary. I gue we can't say you have real ly ret ired , Rusty . . . . J erry Baker is not about to ret ire, he writes from ew ]er ey. He is the general manager of a J apane e company's sub idiary and enjoy the world travel . H i family con­sist of wife Peggy, three chil­dren, two of whom are now married, and h i s 9 1 -year-old morn. Jerry play tenni three t imes a week and enjoy di ranee biking . . . . Richard Arrnknecht I i e in Concord, Ma s . , and i retiring thi year but wi l l con-

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tinue on the board of adn ors of his daughter Beth\ temporary placement busme·s. Dick \\'ri tes that he' planning ro attend War­ren Buffer's annual rneetmg 1 11 Omaha aoain this year ince he had u c h a great t i me l a s t year . . . . Foster Bruckheimer write from Delray Beach, Fla. , where he's ad ju t ing to s ingle l ife after the death of his wife, elrna. Hi daughter Eli :aberh i \\'Ork­ing on her Ph.D. at Ander on Cancer Center in H o u ton , Texas, and daughter Ellen l i\·es in Tucson, Ari: . , with three chil­dren. Fo rer ha retired from work­ing in the jewelry trade ro working in community affairs, uch as the Palm Beach County heriffs Of­fice and condo board. . peak­ing of Ari:ona, Charl ie '49 and I were in Green Valley, Ari : . , for the month of March and spent ome time with Beverly De­

schenes Libby and her husband , J im , who own a home there. They are in Maine al l um mer and Ari­:ona a l l winter-the best of both worlds. Be\' plays tennis about every day, goe- ki ing in Colo­rado every year and enter enior Olympic wimming e\·ents. A you miohr gue s, be ide- her nur e' train ing, Bev has been a phy ed teacher ( in Portland, Maine, chool ) . Charl ie and 1 also attended an Elderhostel pro­gram near beautiful Sedona Ari:. This was our third one, and we've enjoyed them al l . Tho e of you who have been to Elderhostel , let u know about your favorite . . . . Robert Bonner, of ewton, Ma ., ha retired from General Electric and keeps him elf bu y doing home repairs and wood­working. He has three children and seven grandchi ldren and two hou e to maintain. I bet he's a handy grandfather to have around . . . . C h a rlotte S h o u l Backman and hu band I rvin also l ive in ewton. They ha\·e a on and daughter and four orandchtl-

dren. he \\T1 te that the ir \'llung­est daughter died m l 9L 4 at the age of 2-1 from a choking acc i ­dent. Charlotte keep;. herselfhusy taking cour es. doing communit\· sernce , fund ra1smg, etc. They ha,·e tra\·e led exten i\·ely and espec ially enioyed nm mps to Ru s ia and one to China . . '\bout our da · · at Colby, Charlotte men­t ioned enjoying the tea that Pre idem Bixler ho ted for us . plea ant memorie . •

Correspondent: Barbara Jefferson Walker

5 1 Here's hoping the reunion has stirred up a lot of rnern­

orie and therefore a lot of ma i l m yourcorre pondent. Bargain! You end your "stuff' in and I ' l l ·end 1 t

out . . . . Keep your ear alert for the ounds of Maury Ronayne, Alexandria, Va. , who as a ·en ior c i t i:en is rak ing \'Oice and piano Jes ons at a local cornmunin· college . . . . I appreciate contmu�

ing to receive the "Atomic Vet­eran " new let ter, courte y of editor and national commander Dr. Oscar Rosen . . . . Ha rry Wiley has retired from Y EX. AT & T and the Maine T umpike Authority. He i no\\' a director and offic ial writer for the Mame

port Hal l of Fame as well as bein inrnlved with his church and condominium a soc 1ation. Joan ( Kelby ' 5 2 ) and Bob Cannell a \1·el l as Jack '55 and Anne Burnham Deerino ' 5 5 were among the celebrant at one of Harry' ret i rement partie . . . . Fenton Mitchell . Roll ing Hill , Calif. , write that h e i i "founder, presi ­dent and o le owner of CX and B United Corp., which i one of the large t promotional produ c ts cornpanie on the We t Coa t ." Among the h ighl ights of hi l i fe s ince graduation, he ay , are "con rant per onal growth and development, be ing the father of

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fi\'e ch i lJren, a l l of whom turned out well , anJ ach ie\' i ng peace f m ind." What he wants rn do noll' is to "keep bu i ld ing the company, travel and �imply ra·re a l l the b e s t t h a t l i fe has ro g i v e . " . . . S y l via Fredette Schu rin , Rockport , Ma ., is a ret i reJ lan­guage teacher and antiques dealer ll'ho noll' is studying o i l and ll'a­tercolor paint ing. 1 apprec iated her personal note reflecting on when we fir t knew one another as freshmen in Hedman Hal l . That fall of 1 94 7 ll'ith college looming ahead was a chal lenging adventure for rhe "shy girl with the fey ense

fhumor" that ylvia recalls . . . . I have ju t returned from yet an­other adventure-this one taking me to Botswana and Deception Valley in the Middle of the Kalahari De err. Do endnewsofyourdreams and adventure to share with your '47-' 5 1 classmates! +

Correspondent : Edna Miller Mordecai

5 2 Thanks to those of you who have taken the t ime

to write to me, but j ust in case it ' getting harder to find the paper, search for the envelope, d ia out the tamp and run to the mai l ­box, here' m y e -mai l addre s : MMordecai @ AOL.com ( I may not be profi c i e n t a t m a t ters Intern t , but I wil l an wer a l l mai l as we l l a pas - along any­thing you want to hare with your c las mares ) . You may want to hare your own e-mai l address . . .

Peop l e who wro te t h is t i me around seem to be finding new ways to invest their t ime. Fritz Zeigler write· from Ohio that a l though he' older and grayer, he' not notic ing much effect of aging. H e reports having ome success "mes i ng around" w i th thoroughbred rac ing. Russ Wallace, in M i l l Valley, Cal if. , say that he and wife Ki t are "prob­ably lowing down." ( Don't you love the probably ? ) From h is re­ports i t should read "probably not." They made three trips out­side of the cont inental Uni ted

rate in 1 995 to places l ike Ti­ber and Mongol ia . Ru play a ro le in th e Pac ific I n terc lub Yachting Association. Thorough­breds and yac h t , wow! Polo, anyone I . . . A rt White of New

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Smyrna Beach , F la . , and Bath, Maine, has retired as headmaster ofHotchki s , plays golf and work in the Bath oup k i tchen in the summer . . . . Stu West from California wri tes that through the miracles of modern surgery his eyesight i� as good a i t wa at Colby. Hi radio stat ion WEMR­AM and FM cont inue to serve ( bu t tu, you didn't ay where, for any ' 5 2er who might he in range ) . tu al o helped to re,· ive the Wyoming County Fair in Penn y lvania, a succes ful 1 0-year revival of a fair that had run from 1 8 5 7 to 1 94 2 . . Ray Keyes boa r of having the job that ev­eryone wishes for. I n ' t that a

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great way to feel 1 ( Actual ly I have that job ! ) He teache ( half t ime) graduate students at the business chool at Boston Col lege . . . . I t

m a y h e hard fo r you t o believe, but i t is t ime to begin to plan to attend your 45 th Colby reunion, June 1 99 7 1 Yourcomm ittee, Bar­b a r a B o n e Leavitt , orma Berquist Garnet , Ray Keyes, Dave Lyn n , Ben Sears and I , Eddi Miller Mordecai, are hav­ing fu n p lann ing the event . N orma is planning a memorable v ideo, which w i l l require the par­t icipation of many. Look for more new of th is. We'll be in touch frequently from now on with lures to tempt you to Waterv i l le in '97 .

1951 O ur 4 5 th reunion J une 6-9 proved to be a huge success. Sixty c la s

members attended and we had more than 1 00 people at our aturday evening reunion dinner, inc lud ing former Colby facu l ty

members Don Koons, Bob Pullen and Ronie W i l l iams. Everyone who attended seemed to have a very enjoyable t ime meeting with old friends and generally "schmooz ing" with each other .

Thirty c lass members attended the pre-reunion get-together in Portland that was organized by Bob and Jane Perry Lindquist. This event featured a wonderful harbor cruise on Casco Bay and inc luded a del ightful l unch at the Diamond Edge Resraurant on beaut iful Diamond Island.

On Friday evening a t the a l l -College dinner, c las mate Warren Finegan was honored with the Ernest C. Marriner Award for h i d ist ingui hed service to the Col lege over the pa t 45 year .

The weather cooperated on Saturday for the Parade of Classes from the Student U n ion to the football rad ium, after which it was an­nounced that over the past two year the Clas of 195 1 ha contributed to Colby in capital gifts and Alumni Fund donations the grand sum of

2. 9 m i l l ion. Our thanks to al l classmate who contributed and to Ern ie Fortin, our clas agent fund-raising leader. We were all mighty proud of that accompl ishment and feel fortunate to have so many classmates who care so much for our college .

Our c lass d inner on aturday evening proved to be the highl ight of the weekend with 20 "J u t-for-Fun" awards pre ented to c lass members for extraordinary accompli hment during their alumni year . These awards, which drew many laughs, were ba ed on indi­vidual re ponses to the questionnaire sent out to all members of the c las prior to reunion. A summary of the e responses was prepared by Bob Archibald and assembled into a class directory that was d istrib­u ted a t the reunion.

The big surpri e of our class dinner evening wa the after-dinner mu ic provided by a j azz combo made up of four cla mates: Bob Lee ( p iano) , Fenton M i tchel l ( trumpet ) , John L incott ( sax and keyboard ) a n d Bump Bean (bass viol i n ) . Class officers nominated and elected for the 1 996-200 1 period were Clifford Bean, president; Ernie Fortin, v ice pre ident, chief c lass agent and Alumni Council representative; and Barbara Jeffer on Walker, c las ecretary.

Thank to all who helped to make our reunion uch a ucces . Now let's all look forward to the 50th, which hould be even bigger and better.

-Clifford "Bump" Bean

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Don't tell us you ' re wait ing for the 50th. Our motto is, " I t 's too late to wait . Carpe diem ! " For now, please give ome thought to your part ic ipation in the c las gift . Sure, we hope for lot of b ig buck , but the percentage of par­t ic ipation is a rea l ly cruc ial issue. ln the past, only 42 percent of us have contributed. J ust a l i t t le ef­fort will raise us over our 50 per­cent target . When you hear from Dave Lynn and h is comm inee, do whatever you can to make the drive succe sfu l . The C llege wil l be tell ing u more about some excit ing opportun i t ies for mak­ing our gifts count ! . . . One of the ta k of the reun ion ing classes i to try to locate m issing cla -mates. We have a number of these, and l wi l l publ ish their names in lots of ix or so from now t i l l reun ion. If you know the whereabout of Jeremy Amott, J oa n A c heson B ri dge , Lois Green, Ray Henderson, Harriet Clouter Horan or Howard Kent, please make contact and urge them to let the College know of their whereabout . +

Corre pondent : Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

53 J u t when I think there i l itt le new com ing my way,

my mail box fills up. Elaine Zervas Stamas sent her notes too late for the last deadl ine and I'm sure thought 1 had left her out. In add i t ion to her duties as a Colby trustee, Elaine sti l l volunteers her rime, as does her husband as chair­man of the New York Phi lhar­monic and many other board .

he reports her granny-stand ing i now "two." he ha a new grand­son to go with the first grand­daughter. . . . Bob Wulfing is now reti red and l iv ing in Wal l ingford, Vt . , with h is wife, Joan. H is three chi ldren are on their own. His on is a mini ter in Portland,

Maine, married, with four daugh­ters. H is daughter Hol ly wa chef to the governor of Georgia and now has a home maintenance busine s with her husband. Their daughter Amy is al o married. Bob i keeping h i mself bu y a a trustee of Pub l ic Fund in Wal­l ingford, p laying a lor of golf, trav­el ing and genera l l y enjoying l i fe . . . . Marty Friedlaender'

many friends will be happy to know that she' back home after several month in the hospital following compl tcat tons from cheduled spinal surgery. You can

write her ar 382 Cenrral Park Wesr = 1 4A , ew York , N Y 1 00 2 5 . . . . Mimi P rice Patten from ourh Harpswell on the beautiful Maine coa t wrote that her three children and four grand­chi ldren were all together at Christmas '95 . M imi acquired, v ia the surgery route, two new body parts: a new hip and new knee. We will all ha,·e tO catch up to her next reunion . Last Sep­tember he went on a cruise with Charl ie W i ndhor t ' 5 4 , Lou Ferraguzzi and ick arris ' 54 and their wives, and I bet they all had a great t i m e . . . . K i t t y Webster Smith i n San Bernar­dino, Calif. , informs us that he is a school bookkeeper for rhe Del Rosa Christian chool, where her husband i the administraror. He al o is enior pasror of Grace Bap­t i t Church. Ki t ty's fami ly wa planning a family reunion in J uly on two houseboat on California' Lake Shasta ( they'd need all that space to accomodate four mar­ried children with the 12 grand­children) . She and her hu band celebrated their 42nd anniver­sary in January. e ither one ha imminent retirement plan . . . . Alan Whittaker thanked me and the Alumni Office for including him in the Class of ' 5 3 . ( He' not ure if he' in the right class year

because he pl i t t ime at Colby, '49- '5 1 and ' 5 5 - ' 5 7 , due tO U AF dury. ) Alan i now retired as a hospital CEO and keeping him-elfbusy in real e tare. He and h is

wife, Ruth, raise Maine Coon cats and do ome traveling around to cat shows. And having reared six children, they are now enjoying all the grandchi ldren . . . . My roommate, D iane Chamberlin Starcher '54 ( see profile p. 46 ) , rook the t ime t o phone m e from Grown, Mass . , on her way to vi i t her son and daughter-in- law out in Washington tare. I wil l leave the report on her trip up to her and hope to read about i t in her c las news . . . . I am sorry tO have to tell you of two deaths in our cla : Gilbert "Gil" Sewal l on April 8, 1 99 5 , and Robert Carr on March 4, 1 996 . . . . As

u ual, I look foward to your news. Thank to the abo,-e for fi l l ing my mailbox aoain. +

C' orrespondents: Bi l l and Penny Thresher Edson

5 4 J ackie Warendorf Bever­idge Shelton write from

aples, Fla. , where she l ive with her bu band, John, a pilot/con­sultant. Jackie, a tra,·el consult ­ant , ha two daughters and two granddaughters. Her question to classmate : "How about group travel for the Cla of' 541" Sounds l ike an intere t ing idea! Accord­ing to Jackie, "being a French major in college has allowed me to make the world my oyster." . . . Philip Reiner-Deutsch i a travel c lerk for Am track Cu tamer er­dces in Lo Angeles, ha\"ing hifted careers in 1 97 3 . He man­

aged to survive a heart attack and sub equent coronary bypass and is coming back \'ery well. Ac­cording to Phil , "checking out current level of hospital care i a revelation in i tself. Food not nearly a grim a the rumor mill would have it ." Hi retirement tii:: "only do i t if you are ab o­lutely sure the t iming and the finance are right." When remem­bering Colby, Phil wonders "how a mixed-up b ig-c i ty k id was ever going to fit into the academic framework demanded of me." He would l ike to ask cla mate whether there i "any re idual b itterne s left over regardino the abo l i t ion of fraterni t ies and sororit ies . " . . . Lindon Christie retired from private/public edu­cation in 1 9 79 . He serve a a l ieutenant colonel in the Maine air wing of the Civil Air Patrol and was centerdirector at Hu son College in Portland, Maine. He spends a great deal of t ime at h is seasonal home in North Brookl in, Maine. " till fly occa ionally in C- 1 7 2 , usually in Turner, Maine," he write . "Maine look awfully good from 2 , 500 feet." . . . Diane Lee Stevens Brown writes from Baker field, Calif., where he live with her hu band, Dr. Herman Brown, a practicing psychologi t. Diane i an artist and portrait painter who e oil and pa tel are all commissioned works. Diane plays tournament bridge and love

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NEWSMAKERS David Crocket '52 received a Johnson Hardy Memorial Fund Award from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., for longe t con­tinuous ervice to the college. . . . Philip Hussey '53 and the Hus ey eating Company of

orth Berwick, Maine, were recognized by the Maine Coun­cil of Churche for " the exem-

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plary ethical and ecologically Max Singer ' 53 respon ible standards by which ten generation of the Hus ey family have conducted their business in Maine." . . . Max Singer '53 received a 1 996 Uni­ver iry of Lou isville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Singer i co-author of The Real World Order: Zones of Peace , Zones of T unnoil. . . . The cribner publi hing company has rei ued Hean Songs, a book of tories by E. Annie Proulx '5 7 first published in 1 9 . Proulx also i the author of a new novel , Accordian Crimes . . . . Mabel l e McKevett Grolljahn ' 5 9 was appointed vice pre ident of the Peterborough and Rindge, .H. , ERA The Ma iello Group real e rate office .

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Russell G. Longley '59 to Dianne LeMa ter in

axton River, Vt.

to dance, wim, garden and help care for a 9-year-old grand on. The Browns ha,·e two orown daughters and a on. According t0 Diane, "we aren't retired yet, and I 'm not ready for it. We like to enterta in and parry w i th friend ." Diane, who did not an­t ic ipate moving over the whole country and finally settling in California, especially remember lot of partie , rudying play Imes for Powder and W ig, s mgin in every choral group, dance and writ ing long English major pa­per while at Colby. he a k clas -mates, "Hey, what' going on? Doe n ' t anyone ever get to California?-love to ee ome of you." . . . Marcia Curtis i a re­tired dean at the Medical Univer­sity of South Carolina. he li\·es in Charleston, S.C. , and summer in Waterville Valley, .H. Marcia enjoy keeping in touch with many good friends around the country, including Beth Young Baker ' 5 5 , who lives with her husband in Boi e, Idaho. Marcia has experi­enced arthrins and cancer. "My l ife i lower, more thoughtful and

weeter as I get older," she write . "hery day i a pleasure of keep mg up my friend hip , helpmg other and keeping inrnh-ed." Garden­ing, exercise cla in the pool, educational con ult ing, fi bing and some tra,·el keep her busy. Marcia' retirement t ip : "keep bu y . . pay attention t0 your health . . . eek out friend \\'ith a po iti\·e outlook on l i fe . . . enioy every day as it comes-look to the future with anticipation of ood thing to come." Marcia ne\'er expected to become a nurse and receive an Ed.D. in education

he alway wanted to be a doctor, but, she say , "It wa hard in the '5 s for a woman t0 e t into medical chool." Marcia remem­ber "the mall cla e , good fac­ulty l ike Allen cott in biology who encouraged me-a phy tc teacher who rold me that women had no place in medicine-great t re s-happy t ime -life long

fr iend h ips and c areer goal unfulfilled ." Marcia asks if there are any alumni in Charle ton or in Waterville alley. +

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Lirresponden t : Jane Millett Dornish

5 5 John Reis�an wri tes that he and ll' ife J ane ( Da i h

' 5 ) ha,·e retired. John ll'as w i t h La:arus Department tores 1 11 Columbu , Ohio , for 3 6 years and 11011' finds t ime t l l \'Olun teer and tra\' e l . One rart i cu lar trip to C ,ta Rica in J anuary was an ecology coun.e that had them s logging through the rainfore t and j ungle . . . . Lou Zambello's alh- ice to us all is tC1 "reach out and call" a long- lost c las mate, someone you enjoyed in years pa:it. " l t", a k ick ! " he said. He am! ll'ife Kathy ( McConaughy ' 5 6 ) p e n t t i me in Bend , Ore . , \' i s i t ing

friend and �k i i ng Mt . Bachelor. Lou\ golf game ne,·er gets any be tter, but he'> "one lucky dude" becaw,e of fam i ly. friends and good health . . . . Karl and l m issed eeing Diane Reynolds Wright

ll'hen we were in teamhoat prings, Colo., th i winter. Diane

l h·es in M ilwaukee but spends winter in team boat . � he and h usband Dick take bik ing trips around the U. and recent ly b iked in I taly-a great ll'ay to see the country ide. An intere t ing ven t u re for th is fami ly im·oll'es

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being ent rerreneur in European hard -cru t bread bakerie -our favorite kind of bread. Check i t out when you're in Wiscons in . . . . A q u i c k note from E l l i e Larned Wescott as he ll'as go i ng out the door says she was on her ll'ay rn Beal'erton. M ich .-a new adventure in her l i fe . She has her fir t randchi ld , Tamara. We wish E l l i e w e l l a s she e t t l e · i n M ic h igan . . . . Da,· id ' 5 7 and Anne Burbank Palmer are oren­ing a nell' Burger K i ng j ust off 1 - 9 5 on K M D in Waterl' i l l e . Anne' ad,· ice f o r a n y one o f u s w h o is faced wi th health con­cern is to educate yourself about the d i ·ea·e or cond i t ion. Their son Todd suffered a er ious head injury last summer in a motor­cycle accident; each day is a learn­ing experience as she and Dave handle Todd'- recovery . . . . I t 's great to hear from you a l l . +

Correspondent : Eleanor Edmunds Grout

5 6 When you read this last c las column of mine it

wi l l be after our 40th reunion. Nell' Class of 1 956 officers wil l be ready to lead us for the next five years, and thi· seat w i l l be very

capably occuried by Kathleen McConaughy Zambello. Good luck, Kathy 1 • • • Patricia Robin-son Tucker wrote from Cam­b r i d g e , M ass . , w h e r e h e is d i rector of award management and re ource information, 1-lar­\ 'ard Un i ,·ers i ty . Pat r i c i a and h usband Stephen , an architect , travel frequently-"To France at least once a year," she write , adding, "my job also take me a l l over the world . " he has no plan to ret ire for a long t ime . . . . Sue Veghte Wilson keer busy with real e tate business and ha an interest in the � pec ial Olympics. Travels to Mex ico and Rome are hoped for, and sports-tenni , golf, sa i l i ng and k ing-always keer Sue busy . . . . Harry and Lyn Brooks Wey l i \'e in H i ngham, Mass. Harry is semi -ret ired from insurance, and Lyn is an interior decorator. They are both bu y reople- Lyn i a hospice volun­teer and Harry work on the har­bor development committee­and t hey enjoy golf, sk i ing and boating. They have three daugh­ters and four grandchi ldren. Two grandchi ldren are adopted from Korea . . . . I was ·o glad to hear frnm Bill Wyman, who l ive in La Honda, Cal if. B i l l is head­master emeritus, The Thach r

1956 The accolade are arriv ing dai ly-the verdict is in . Our 40th reun ion wa super. Fifty- even c la smate

plus spouses, gue t and vi i tor from the c l as es of ' 5 5 and '57 spent a memorable Reunion Weekend at Colby preceded by 65 of u conven ing earl ier at the Samo et Re ort. The weather cooperated unt i l

aturday p .m. but nothing cou ld put a damper on the pecial camaraderie that preva i led. There were many first t imers to the great del ight of tho e of us who ca l led and wrote to send encouragement to attend. The overwhelmi ng consensus was, "Why d id we wait o long to return ?"

Fir t t imers were Phy l l is and Charl ie Brown, Loi Weaver Neal , Dick and Domenica Tranqui l lo Rainer, Bobbie Moore Parsons, ue Veghte Wil on, Bill Wyman, Peg and Dave Van A llen, Liz Ru el l Col l ins, Larry and Grace Mainero Andrea, and Kathleen Vogt.

I f I m i ed omeone, my apologies, p lea e drop me a l ine. I 'l l be report ing in future column on reun ion act iv i t ie and encourage input from all involved. As John Marshal l has a id , "Why ru in a good tory for l ack of a few fact ."

We had re ponse from 3 7 c la mate for our reun ion memory book. I nc luded are excerpt from baccalaureate and commencement p lu Profe sor

ary' poem to the Clas of ' 56 ( 30th Reun ion) . I w i l l s e n d a copy to anyone reques t ing o n e i f a belated que t ionnaire i ent .

Let' keep the new coming, particu larly of those m i n i - reunion that are now being planned. Everyone who a ttended the reunion urely agrees that the Clas of '56 i indeed "al ive and k ick ing."

-Cathy McConaughy Zambe llo

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chool, Oja i , Cal if. , which he de cr ibe as a chool where a l l

tudents must c lean up after horse a wel l as pack them. The theory: rak i ng manure i the be t way to keep out of wr i t ing the i r Eng l ish papers. B i l l , who has re­t i red, sort of, and bui l t a home in Cal i forn ia's coastal mountains, loves to go pack ing in the ierra Nevada Range and keeps bu y wr i t ing and researching the Sier­ra and the West. He's a l o in­volved in helping c holarship programs and programs for inner­c i ty k ids around the country. . . . Thanks for a l l your news over the last five years. Au revoir. +

Correspondent: Brian F. Olsen

5 7 By now you've heard from c lass pre idem Sue Bean

about the 40th reunion coming up in les than a year. "Forty for Forty" is our unofficia l slogan for the gathering, ince our goal is to have at least 40 c lassmates make the trip to Waten· i l le . The last one was a great time, and if we can get 40 of us to "reune" i n J une of '97 this one w i l l be even bet­ter! There i s nothing quite l ike the chance to renew old friend-h ips and recal l old memorie

from the not-so- long-ago ' 50s . . . . Fred Hammond wri tes that he' neari ng ret i rement after a career teac h i ng American h istory and coaching track a t Beverly H igh

chool in Massachusens. Fred ha been fi l l ing hi pare t ime play­ing the saxophone in a concert band on the North Shore for ev­eral year . . . . I received a n ice re ponse to one of the question­na i res from Anne Schimmel­pfennig Laszlo. Anne i l iv ing in Exeter, N. H. , teach ing educat ion course at Northern Essex Com­munity College while proudly and happi ly fac i ng the da i ly chal­lenges of being a s ingle parent . Anne's flower garden provides olace and relief from both of the

above . . . . It was go d to hear from Pete Hussey , s t i l l wi th the Hus ey Seating Company ( what a surprise ! ) and now the execu­tive VP. Don't cal l Pete for your new din ing room chair ; do call Pete if you are going to open a new arena l ike The Uni ted Cen­ter in Ch icago, The Gund Arena

in Cleveland or Jl)e Robbie �ra­dium in M ia m i ! Pete\ \\' i fe , Kathryn , i the registrar a t the Brick tore Mu eum in Ken­nebunk, Maine, and their four children are no\\' -cattered around the country . . . . John Koeh ler writes from Californ ia that he is happily remarried and cont 1 11u­ing to \\'Ork a a psychiatric soc ial \\'orker. J ohn i playing a l i tt le guitar and inging with a couple of groups in his pare t ime. He al o has s tated for the record that he would not en·e if e lected go\·­ernor of Californ ia ! . . . It was great to see Jim and Eleanor Jones Rogers at the reunion planning meetino. Jim is no\\' retired after \\'orking for Raytheon and Lock­heed- aunder as a purcha ing manager for 36 years. E leanor

write' about the truegle:, many of u are fac 111g a, 11·e become parent to our parents. (The chal­lenges of l i fe ne\·er seem rn di­mi11 1sh, a_ \\'e mo\·e from one srnge to another . ) Eleanor keeps bu -y ll' i th her own 'imall bu-ine,,, ,el] 111g her drieJ flo\\'er arrange­ments. J im and Ell ie , 11·hL) h�1·e retired to peaceful Fit:wt l l tam,

. H . , hm·e four children and fl\·e grandchildren . . . . .A nor her hap­pily retired c lassmate ts Eli Mar­tin. He and Pat are j ust taking ir easy, doing some tra\·el111g and a l i tt le \\'r it ing. � !arty i · s t t l l in Glastonbury, Conn . . . . Th is 1s about a l l the space I 'm al lo\\'ed, bur look for plenn· more ne11·s 111 the upcoming issues. Remember the 40rh-June 6- , 1 99 7 . l f you ha\·en ' t been back, you ' l l be

ama:ed. � !aytfower Hil l 1 < spec­racu Jar, anJ 1·0Ltr l 1IJ frienJ, 11-;rnt to �ee you ' +

Corr es pnnLlen t : Margaret m i t h Henry

5 8 William Lochhead, whtl spent one year at Colh·,

became U111\·erstty of New Hamp­,hire '6 1 , but hi, Jauehter i' Su­san Lochhead Yardley ' . he '' now pur·u ing her Ph.D. 1n p:,y­chology. A son, Jay , 1s a graduate of RPI. Wil l iam had t1nlY one 1ob. Lochhead M t l lwork Co. Inc. 111 Ne\\' Hampshire, unt il he re­tired in 1 99 1 . . . . J im ' 5 6 and Ann Harding Jamieson l t \'e 1 11 Boil­ing Spring, Pa. They ha\'e three married children and a fourth to

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folln\\' 111 Sertember. A.nn 11 a, a lwu,e11 1fe (, ir 1 3 year' and t«1r the ra:-- t fLlUr \ ear-. h,b been a bank. re l ier. J im '' a ret t rt•cl A. tr f,irce ptlut nl)11· in real e'tate . . . . In 1 99 3 Plwllis Hardy Peterson anJ her husbanLI. Dean. ,1 ret t recl b 1 -nll)gy teachc>r. m, 1 1 eJ tn Green Cwe � �'ring', Fla. The ir daugh­ter '' marr1eJ anJ reache' f1r,t eraJe 111 Ne11· Pait:, '.' .Y . Snn l\ 1 tchael . alsn mamecl ( w an el ­ementarv ,chtiol nlll, tC teacher \ , 1 1 \·e, m \X'aten· i l le and wnrb for Kennebec Mental Health. Before mo\· 1n2, rhe Peterson, had I t \ ed 111 Belerade and 'Pent 'ummer:i there 1 11ce 1 96 ... . . . . Peg Sie­brecht Steffensen i' a pn1te''''r of Ene l 1sh l 1 112un1cs ar I l l tntlt5

rate �Uni\·ers � ty . H e r husband,

Dale, is a profes,or of genetics.

Credit Where Credit Is Due D i a n e C h a m b e r l i n

Starcher '54 left Colby with a degree in biology and although her career has not dealt \\ ith the tudy of life, he ha ought ways to im­

prove human l ive ever s ince. tarcher, who earned a certificate from the Har­

\·ard-Radcliffe Program of Busine s Admini tration in 1 9 5 5 and a ma ter's degree from Vermont College of Diane Chamberlin Starcher · 54 Norwich Univer ity in 1 994, currently is conducting re-earch on how mall loan ( a l o called micro-credit ) gi\'en to

women entrepreneurs without collateral or credit hi tories can c lo e the gap between the wealthy and poor.

' Most of the [world' ] five hundred mill ion poor, elf­employed people are women," he aid. "In Africa, e ighty percent of the food i grown by women. A micro-credit to help women bring food to market can fue 1 economic develop­ment a well a improve the quality of their l i\·es. They have a very low default rate and generally reinvest whate\·er profits

they real ize in the ir bu ine enterpri e and their familie-." At a United ation conference on ocial development

la t year in Copenhagen, Starcher poke about fostering

women entrepreneur through micro-credit lending. In Feb­ruary he will join thou and of participants at the Micro­CreJit ummit in Washington, O.C. The summit' goal are to bring micro-credit to 1 00 mill ion poor people by the year 2005 and encourage commercial lender to offer more mall

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loans to fledgling entrepreneurs and the self-employed. One moti\·e for 1mpr0\·ing soc ial and economic cond i ­

tions stems from tarcher's Baha'i faith, which -he -ay ­empha i:es -elf-reali:at ion, world unity and \\·orld peace. She and her hu band, Georae became acquainted \\· irh Baha'i in the late '5 s \1·hen his ser\'ice m U .S . Army Finance Corp took them to Orleans, France. Whi le rai-ing two ons, Loren and Bruce, tarcher ha- held se\·eral admin­

istrative positions in Baha'i , including secretary-general to organi:e the 1 976 international Baha'i conference in Pari .

he and George currently l i\·e in Chambery, France, \\·here she leads Baha' i cla se for adolescent and i active in the European Baha'i Business Forum, a non-go\'emmental or­gani:at ion that gi\·es micro-credit loans to the needy.

"If \\·e limit our goals to materialism, we 11· i l l ha\'e the ame ocietal and economic problems we ha\'e today," she

said. "By sen·ing other- and the community 1\·e become more piritually de\'eloped. "

Starcher maintain regular correspondence with former

Colby roommate Barbara Esterbrook lailey '53 and \·j it her whenever she's state ide. Oral exam and fini hing her ma ter' thesis prevented tarcher from attending a 4 th c la s reunion in 1 994, but he ays she' hopeful about making the 45th in 1 999.

Starcher, who fondly remember afternoon tea with her fir t-year biology profe or and paghetti picnic uppers with mu ic tudents at the home of Prof es or Peter Re, has only one regret about her course work at Colby. "Had I knm\·n 1 would l i\·e in French- peaking countries, 1 probably would have made e\·en more effort in my c la e in French language and civili:ation," she said.

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They have three children and five grandchildren. During the years they have done much trav­el ing, including two trips to China during 1 995 to do research with a former student. This summer they are to go to Finland, where Peg wi l l read a paper at the Interna­tional As ociat ion of Applied Lingui t ic . . . . Phil Dankert is a l ibrarian at the !LR School, Corne l l U niver ity, his wife , G inny, is a daycare provider, and they have three children. Phil sent along a pre s release about the Philip R . Dankert Park com­memoration. In September 1 99 5 " in recognition o f his exceptional commitment to youth of the I thaca area, the park on Uptown Road, Vi llage of Lansing was re­named in honor of Phil ip R. Dankert . " Phil is characterized as the "patron saint" of v lun­teers . . . . ( Will iam ) Ding and Betty Cooper Cochran overlook Skaneateles Lake, south of Syra­cuse, N .Y . Their beautiful home was designed and bui lt by their oldest daughter for her own fam­ily; when they had to move, Betty and Ding bought it . They are both active in St . James Episco­pal Church, the local historical soc iety and the enior men' golf group and have "tons of family and friend visit ing." Each of the ir daughter has a son and a daugh­ter. Betty and Ding are definitely look ing forward to the 40th reunion . . . . C. Lynde Palmer and his wife, Anne, have three ons, one of whom was Class of

'9 1 . The two younger sons are st i l l in college. The Palmers l ive in Yarmouth, Maine. . . Phi l Guiles is now retired so he "can do important things ." Phil wa "an older vet" who l ived in the vets ' apar tments and d id n ' t mingle much with the "young­sters" of our clas . He ha served a a trustee and currently is chair­man of the board at Opportunity Farm for Boy , a residential home in New Gloucester, Maine, for boys from dysfunctional familie . The Gui les have four children. One son, Ethan '82, stayed on for everal years as an assistant in the

Geology Department . . . . Nat Adams, retired but t i l l a "roving editor" for Reader's Digest, ha been named d i rector of the London-ba ed Re earch Founda­tion for the tudy of Terrorism.

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He al o was appointed an advi­sory member on the Organized Crime Task Force of Wash­ingwn's Center for Strategic and I n ternat ional Stud ies . On a two-m nth trip to Asia and the Middle East last fall, he looked into the international network that supported World T rade Cen­ter bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousuf. Nat and his wife, Annel iese , a member of the Austrian Em­bassy' press relat ions bureau , have two "unbearable" dachs­hund and are completing a log home in Ennis, Mont . . . . Larry La Pointe is a professor ofEnglish at the Univers i ty of Maine-Au­gusta, has traveled extensively and publi hed articles. In 1 994 and 1 996 he wa l isted in Who's Who Among America 's Teachers and received an Annenberg KPB Grant. The La Pointes have four children and nine grandchild­ren . . . . Sandy Doolittle Hunt retired in 1 995 from high school soc ial work, and now he and her husband, Buel l , own a 2 7 -dealer ant iques shop in Wal l ingford, Conn. Their daughter, Al l ison, a Colby graduate and profes ional singer, l ives with her husband in Connect icut. Son Skip is an ac­tor and inger who also followed h i s mother ' s profess ion-he work in the psych program at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, N . J . . . . I still have quite a few letters that wi l l most definitely be included in future column . +

Correspondent: Ann Marie Segrave Lieber

5 9 Congrats w Tom Con­nors, who has left Sweet

Briar College to run a foundation at the UniversityofVirginia. Tom and J oc e lyn have moved to Charlottesville and would wel­come vi it from classmates, both to view the university and to tour beaut iful central Virginia . . . . Anne Worster and husband David restored a Portland, Maine, townhouse to 1 830s style. Ann co-edited Ruby , An Ordinary Woman, which has been well re­ceived, and is currently at work on a b i ography of her own mother. . . . Carlene Price White manages to keep most of what she owns tax-deductible, i . e . , 1 39 animals including even Great

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Danes and 22 mini donkeys. Rais­ing animals for the movies and med ia can even allow for an oc­casional trip to Germany l . Be ing an e lementary school teacher affords Corinne "Tink " Batchelder Weeks the opportu­nity to return every ummer w

cotland and England. Tink's daughter Jennifer was married last year. . . . I regret to inform you of the passing of Pat Walters Marier . Our sincerest condo­lences tO Pat's husband, Bob '60, and to their fami ly . +

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1 960 Carolyn Web ter Lockhart 1 70 County Road

ew London, H 3 2 j 7 fax: 603 - 526-9632 e-mai l : tclockhart@aol.com

1 96 1 J ud ith Hoffman Hakola 8 Charles Place Orono, ME 044 73 207- 66-409 1

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1 963 Barbara Haines Cha e 1 73 Spofford Road We tmoreland, H 03467 603- 399-49 5 7

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76 orton Road K ittery, ME 03904-54 1 3 207-439-2620

1 965 Richard W. Bankart 20 Valley Avenue u ite D2 We twood, J 07675 20 1 -664-7672

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1 967 Robert Grac ia 295 Burge s Avenue Westwood, MA 02090 6 1 7 -3 29-2 1 0 1 e-mail: Bob_Gracia@

brookl ine.mec.edu J udy Gerrie Heine 2 1 H il lcre t Rd. Medfield, M A 02052

1 968 Mary Jo Calabrese Baur 1 3 7 Lexington Road Dracut, MA 0 1 26 50 -454-9733

1 969 Diane E. Kindler 1 1 7 Alba treet Portland, ME 04 1 03 207 -774-74j4

Corre pendent: Carolyn Webster Loc khart

60 What a great response to the late t que tionnaire!

I receh·ed busine s cards with pic­tures, brochure describino busi­nes es and a lot of the word " ret ired . " Now see what fi ts. Nancy S hoemaker Dargie i cur­rently l i\·ing in eneca, .C., \\'ith four off pring at home. he ha three other married daughters and five grandchildren to date. Twin sister Carol Shoemaker Rasmus­sen has retired from teaching . . . . Peg Hibbard Miller wrote from Gardner, Mas ., where he i a real estate a ociate. he and hu band Don attended a hip commissioning in ewport, R. I . , l a t October. Ted '6 1 and 1 were also there and wonder how many time we saw them and didn't know it ! Some of you may re­member when Peg broke her leo in a ski ing accident. he now gue e that he didn't learn a thing becau e she i ti l l at it­skiing, that i . . . . P. ( Pat ) Anna Joh nson is pre ident of Open Hand Publi hing Inc. in eattle, Wash., a company that publi he adult and children' book that reflect the diver e culture within the U . . . . . Peg Jack Johnston live in Denver, Colo., and i a business broker and partner in an electrical ervice busine . . . . Dick Kenison wrote from Top-ham, Maine, where he is a emi-

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retired mu 1c teacher and band director currently teaching in­strumental mu ic three days a \\'eek at the elementary le\·el and lm·ing it. . . . In t. Paul, 1 mn. , Eloi e "Didi" Camerer Kle in 1 a \\Titing m tructor and consult­ant and i also de\·elopmg a bus­i ne s in \\'h ich she teaches i l lu trated journal writing and storytellino . . . . Penny and Hen­ry Lapham are remed in 1an­chester, Mass. , but keep busy \\'ith many activ ities in their commu­nity and in Bo ton . . . . Larry Lathrop, retired high school prin­c ipal, and \\'ife Donna li\'e in Falmouth, Maine . . . . Bob Le­vine, a denti t in Welle ley, Ma . , writes that he has become an accompl ished scale model shipbuilder, with ome ofhi work on exhibit in the Bo ton area at the Constitution Mu eum and Rowe Wharf Hote l . . . . Chet Lewis, a la\\'yer and a istant d i -tric t attorney, state of Michigan, plan to retire e\'entually but say "the pattern in the Deparrment of Attorney General is to con­tinue working a long a the mind and body allow ( and ometime e\'en when the body is pretty far gone . ) " . . . Rebecca Hamaker Loose is a fashion coordinator living in Ephrata, Pa. he and hu band Larry own a farmers' market and auctton. They travel a lot, love it and hope there is time to see e\'erything on their l is t . . . . Bruce and C h arlotte Wood Mac P h e t res re ide in

c ituate, Mass. They are plan­ning a Bo ton-Bermuda crui e with George 'j and Wendy McWill iam Denneen, Doug ' 5 and J udy Ingram Hatfield, Ted and Liz Boccasile Mavis and Debbie Wilson Albee . . . . From Fall Church, Va. , comes word that Pete Mcfarlane, retired U AF colonel, i now working for Delfin ystems, ha three chil­dren l iving nearby and no grand­children, plays hockey twice a

\\'eek \\'hen m tO\\'n, tra\ el a lot and look- for\\'ard to ret1remenr, maybe m Colorado or Utah . . Doug Mathieu remed from I B�1 and mm·ed to outh Harp-\\'e l l , Mame, and mm the real esrate bu mes . He say it \\'a> a great change, and he \\'di be happy to help anyone who would l ike to relocate to the Mame coast. . . Sandra Myers Paap wrote from

hore\\'ood, W 1 ., \\'here he is a psyc holog 1 t for the p u b l i c schools . . . . Dick Peter on lh·es m Bryn Mawr, Pa. , and 1 CEO of M m�t, Inc . , an in urance broker­age in N e\\' York City . . . . On a ·ad note, j ust before I senr this column off, Colby notified me of the death of Judy Miller Heekin on March , 1 996. J udy fouoht a lengthy battle with cancer. and our thought go out to her family and friends . . . . I look forward to hearing from more of you during thi next quarter. Plea e don't feel that you ha\·e to wait for a que ttonnaire-your ne\\' 1 al­ways welcome. +

Correspondent: Penny Dietz Sull ivan

6 1 1 hope you will have ·een all of the following at re­

union and learned more . . . . Diane Scrafton Ferreira i still on the Big Island in Hawaii with her retired hu band, John, on a ranch with more than 4 animals. Smee she i till a professor of English at the Hawaii Community College, he commutes to Honolulu by

plane . . . . . J anet Haskins Man­daville m Portland, Ore. , i a writer and wa going to Australia before the reunion ( he was look­i ng forward to ee ing J u d y H o f f m a n H a k o l a and A m Eisentrager Birk ) . . . . Susan Parmalee Daney and her hu -band, David, a re earch engineer at Lo Alamos in ew Mexico, hope to return to Boulder, Colo.

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where Sue can re turn rn teach­ing. Their youngest daughter j ust graduated from c o l l e g e . Norm Macartney i n Beaufort, N .C. , owns a ceramic rile busi­ness cal led Ti leworks in More­head City and is a member of the masters swim team of orth Caro l ina. He hopes -omeone knows how to find Bill Byers.

. . Torn and Dorothy Boynton Kirkendal l l i ,·e in Potomac, Md. , ll'here Tom rook early re­t i rement from COM AT and now works as a con u l tant , which allows them more t ime to v i s i t their camr in Maine. . . . The remaining respondents are in New England . Richard Gibbs wa- in the oil busine s and now has his own company creating indu try business deals.

. W illie DeKadt Juhlin i an ESL teacher, and she and Thor manage a nonprofit youth la­crosse c lub for middle school­kid . She had talked to Nancy Larkin Connolly, who had at­tended a five-day national secu­rity seminar at the War College in Carl isle, Pa. Nancy and her husband, John, have just retired. . . . Scotty ( J udith ) Macleod Folger has, in the last two year , been divorced, then retired , so she is 10\·ing being a "free agent" for at least a year before starring a new career, pos ibly in polarity therapy ( massage ) . he crewed on a 7 5 -foot chooner from Maine to Florida last fa l l and pent Chri tmas in Nepal with

her daughter Phoebe. Daughter Hi lary, a en ior at Stanford, wi l l attend grad school there. Scotty has vis i ted J udy Chase and her husband in northern California. ( I hope J udy has let Colby know her new addre s and name, since my records show she is t i l l s ingle i n N e p a l . ) . . . D i c k F i e l d s changed jobs t o g e t o u t o f N e w York C i t y and i n o w enior V P ofDanecraft Inc. H i wife, Kathy, ret ired a VP of Federated De­partment tore and bought a busine s, The Crafty Yankee. Dick's daughter, A l ison '95 , was magna cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa and captain of the Colby women' soccer team . . . . J udy Hoffman Hakola wi l l take over the job as c lass correspondent. Thank you for all the k ind notes along with your responses. I re-

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NEWSMAKERS Mark G. Edelstein '68, for­merly v ice president for aca­demic affairs at the College of the Redwoods, was named presi­dent of Diablo Valley College in Pleasant H i l l , Calif . . . . A. Marshall "Buck" Lawton '62 is the new executive director of the Sharon Arts Center in J affrey, N . H . . . . Robert S . Gelbard '64 was the subject o f a feature profile in the Miami Her­

Mark G. Edelstein '68 ald. The paper said Gelbard, the government's point-man on the battle against drug importation, is "Technicolor" in his profes­sional style. Gelbard recently was elevated from ambassador to career mini rer, a top State Department designation . . . . Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 was e lec ted overseer at Harvard University . . . . Torn Easton '66 was promoted to adjunct profes-or at Thomas College in Waterville . . . . Carl D. Glickman '68,

professor of education and chair of the program for chool improve­ment at the University of Georgia, was gue t speaker at a erninar, "Educational Reform: Yesterday' Lessons, Today's Decisions," held at Colby in May . . . . Susan Wakeman Davis '69 wa named partner in the Gately & A sociates certified public accounting firm in Welle ley, Mas . . . . The Hartford Couranc profiled Rosemary Lung-Mei Shu Cleaves '69, president of Connecticut General Pension Services Inc. in Bloomfield, both for her busines accom­plishments and for her volunteer work in the Hartford community, including the Loaves & Fi he soup kitchen .

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Members of the Class of '6 1 enjoyed a wild ride on the Kennebec

River as part of Reunion '96. Pictured above are: Wendy lhlstrom

Nielsen, Liz (Rowe '63 ) and Beverly Lapham, Diane Scrafton

Ferreira, Claire Lyons, Sandy and Dee Ann Arens and Margie

Chamberlain Davis

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ally have enjoyed my stint as class correspondent. +

Correspondent: J udith Hoagland Bristol

6 2 Bob Reinstein, who left government serv ice m

April 1 993 after 20 years, is ex­ecutive vice pre ident for Wash­ington I n ternat ional Energy Group and has lived ince 1 994 in Rockville, Md. Bob served a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state from 1 990 to 1 993, chief negotia­tor on the U.N. treaty on global cl imate change and chief nego­tiator for the U .N. treaty on ozone layer protection. Hi partner, Sa tu Nurmi , is a lawyer in Brussels, where Bob also lives and main­tains an office. He has traveled all over the world and says that maybe he will "retire in 10 years to teach at the univers i ty le­vel." . . . Craig Malsch married in April 1 995 and moved to a new house on a canal in Venice, Calif. Craig is vice president of sale in textile printing and wife Barbara is in medical lab market ing. Craig's son j ust started at Van­derbi l t and his daughter is a sophomore at St. John's School in Houston. The Malsches cruised to Alaska at the end of June and take weekend t r ips on their Harley-Davidson '95 Dyna Wide gl ide. Craig also enjoys playing with classic cars . . . . Cy Theobald is director of college guidance at the Kent School, wife Jean i an admi sion officer and their two grown son are in Kansas and New Hampshire. Cy retired as varsity football coach after 22 years and used one of his first free Saturdays to watch Colby beat Trinity on a last second TD catch by one of his former Kent captains. Cy went to Colorado on school business a while back and hooked up with Bink Smith and John McHale. . . . Garth Chandler writes that Bi l l Bryan '48 now is at the Maine Veterans Home in Bangor and suffers from Alzheimer's disease. I agree with Garth that all of us were blessed to have B i l l as Colby'sdirectorofadmissionsand endorse Garth's request that we write to Bill at the Maine Veter­an Home, Room B 1 3 , 44 Hogan Road, Bangor, ME 0440 1 . My

and is marrieJ tn J uJHh (Thomp­son '6 3 ) , a cnmruter rrogrammer with Garland Middle chool 111 Bangor. Garth wa Jiagno ed \\'ith Hodokin' di>ease la t year hut reports that chemorherar) work­ed, and he and Jud · planned to travel the northern U . . t h 1 summer . . . . B i l l Barnett i, a >pe­cial inve tigatnr for 111 urance claims, and wife Marjorie i> an emergency room RN at the Lnwel 1 General Ho pital Trauma Cen­ter. Unril 1 99 1 Bill tra\'eled ex­ten i,·ely throughout the U . . a, corporate director of safety for Omni Hotel . Bill i acti\'e in fresh and salt\\'ater fly fi hing and is an avid hockey fan. They ha\'e t\\'o son . . . . Jim Bridgeman and wife Jean (Eielson '63 ) retired January 1 after Jim' 2 year w1th AlLtate. Their new home in Park City,

U tah, has the Wa;ach Mounta in; <1' a hackdn p for the ir 'k l lng, nu\\'>hoein,g, h ik 111g, b ik ing, golf

and water sport>, and alt Lake ity t> nearby for cul tural ac t in­

t le> and rrofes;wnal ·port,. They im·1te Colhy friend' to look them ur . . . . After 25 year · in the ,ki hu ine:. \\'ith HeaJ, Lange anJ Ra1chle, Henderson Colley i al o rerned. He ha- a wonderful ooal of 1 00/ 1 00/1 00, which mean;, 1 00 Jciys each of kiing, golf and ten­rns. W i th places in Dem·er. Vail. Vermont and Florida, he keeps mtwing. I s retirement boring? He >ays he\ "ton busy to work . " . . . Bruce Brown i · a h i g h school srec i a l educ ation teacher 1n Freerort, Maine, \\·here he has been for 25 year.;. He'. al o heen an Englt h teacher, assistant prin­c iral and coord inator of the gifted

and talented prngr,1m. La,t 'Ulll­mer he srent 'IX ,,·eeb 111 EnglanJ anJ cot land \\'Ith reacher'> at Oxford and later \\'enr rn the Ed 111hurgh Fe,rn·al, the Orkney' and the Outer HebriJes . . . . J ohn C hapman l l\ ·eo; l l1 Brun ,,nck. /I.la me, \nth \\ '1fe A l l hon. a miJdle ,cl1ool muo;1c teacher. � on Brian 1· a m u.ic ian. daughter Ah1gal i · col lege hunrmg and son Joe 1 at Kent's Hill chonl . . . Brenda Wrobleski Elwell i< <till a national account mana.ger, ha,·-111g sun·i,·ed three maim layoff·. Her daughter is \\'0tking on Wall Street, but her on i' entering col lege, ·o a lthough she '>ay<; the corporate treadmill i · ,,·earmg her out, he has tO ,,·ork into her 70s ' Last year she and her son hiked Ari:ona and el\' 1'. lex1co and also made a Eurorean trir. This sum-

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mer 'he rlannecl a trir to the � I delle Ea't ,md a ,.1,1t tnil :::in1,m friend . . . . Plan, are unJenrnr t«1r nur 35rh next J une . \Vhn 1\·anr' rn he a cla55 officer m rer ? A 1w 1Je;h for acth·me, ' Plea-e !er me hear from ruu. +

Corre,rondenr : Barbara Haines Cha e

63 I know rnu ,�·1ll he read1n!! rhi> h>ue ot C()l/J) 111 rhe

hear of m1d<ummer, hut a' I . 1 t a t my comruter, I 'iee daffod i l, nud­J111g 111 rhe \\'ood, and the ,mal l ­e · r of bud, ar rhe tip, l1f the tree branches-a \1·elcome >1ght after th is endle.s \\'1nrer' . . . A, the owner of Wellesley Farm· Land-

care m Wellesley H ill, , fa, . . Richard Sharron abo \\'e lcnmeJ

Looking Out for the CIA What' a philosophy

major and Quaker

pacifist doing in a place like the CIA ? After 19 year with the agency, Marjorie "M idge"

Walton Holmes '63 ha no

doubt . "The CIA i keeping u out of war," she aid.

Holme , who is deputy

of trategic planning in the CIA's Office of Public Af­

fa ir , has been w ith the agency since 1 97 7 and re-

Marjorie Walton Holmes '63

cently wa honored a one of the 1 996 Out tandin Women

of the Central I ntell igence Agency. Until three years ago Holme wa head of the CIA library, helping analy t "put

p ieces of puzzle together" and informing policy maker about what going on at border or hot pot all over the world .

"Thi i important stuff for policy maker ," a id Holme .

"You've got to get it right. If something break in Bosnia, we'd

better be on top. This job ha a lot riding on i t . " The que t ion brought to the CIA are different from tho e

at a public library, ay Holme whoeamed a ma ter' in library

c ience in 1 967 and worked a a reference librarian for nine

year in Fairfax County, Va. At the agency, he said, ' It ' 'Are

the cattle dying of anthrax or i it biological war?"' The CIA

library, for employee only, contain va t amounts of material

on ec nomics, c ience and technology, he ay , and no fiction.

In her public affair posi tion Holme ay he deal with

the broadca t media and Hollywood. he' aware that a

public affair office in a c lande tine aoency i an oxymoron but ays that what he doe i "not ju t infomercial . '

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After a call from Di ney Ad\·emures, a maoa:ine for kid-,

for in tance, he et ur CIA tra inino for the writer, "Mr.

Ad\'enture ." Two pieces on the agency appeared on the Di CO\'ef)' Channel and another on ABC' Good iorning America with Joan Lunden. Holme says he' mo t rleased with heir ing a Make-A-Wish Foundation child's dream come true when the 9-year-old boy was u hered in to the

CIA' inner anctum to do py ruff like wear night-\'is ion

goggles, take clande t ine photo and learn the craft of

di guise. he also arran ed the filming at the CIA' front

door of a cene in the mm·ie Mission : Impossible. The agency encourages job rotation, ay Holme , who

won a compet it ive po it ion in 19 9-90 with Maine enaror

Will iam Cohen. ("l wa n't suppo ed to upply him with information," he explained. "I wa a leoislative a s istant on health care . " ) That led to a po t in the CIA's Office of

Congre s ional Affair pro,·iding new member of Con ore with information about the agency.

W ith three grown children, he and her hu band, Chris,

a enior CIA offic ial, are "a tandem couple, overt, not covert . " Both that i , could go abroad openly and with no

attempt at concealment.

evertheles , he till can't talk about ome things­

the number of CIA employee , the number of women not even the pec ific language of the award the agency pre­

ented her, althouah he ay it wa gi\·en for "mentoring, leader hip network i ng, helping j unior people progre

through their careers ."

Holme admit that "you g ive up a lot of pri\'acy to come

here" but ays he's never regretted \\ ork ing for the CIA.

" I t ' a great way to pre\ ent war ," he aid. "And every day

wa i ntere ting."

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'ipring, I ' m '-L ire. R ichard enj ny> h i k ing, i' acr i ,·e ll" i rh rhe a­[ 1 ( 111a l Weather , en· ice and the American Meteorological Snc i­ety a' n weather oboen·er anJ 1:, i m·o l \'eJ \n r h hi::- golden re­tr ie\'er, B i-;mnrk, in pet thera�'Y ar nur ing homes. He i� a lsn in­reresteJ in h i rel ing and traveled with the 1'. la,,achusew. Audubon Suc iety tn A laoka i n 1 99 3 . Thi> man c la im:, to be "h<1ppy, healthy and act i \'t� ," and i t sure sounds thar ll"<i y 1 • • . Owen Mark Sand-erson and his w ife, Freda , <i prop­erty m<in<iger. l i"e in CLwen try, C,mn . , where Mark i an a t tor­ney. H e enj oys golf and i 1west ing in srncks and bond:,. The , <ind­ersom recent ly t ra,·e led rn Eu­rnpe a nd rhe l-l<111·<1 i ian l l<imls.

. . R ichard Varney is fac ing the chal lenge of bu i ld ing <i new bu;i­ne's at a rime when 'iOme of us a re contem p l a t i ng re t i rement . H i:i b u s i n e , , , T h e C h <i n ge C r e :i t G roup, I n c . , a human r e ource manage m e n t c onsu l t i ng fi r m , starred i n 1 994 mid , h reports, i s d o i n g wel l s o far. R ichard ' wife , Donna, i a hospita l \'ll lunteer in Morri:,town, N .j . , where they l i l'e. The V<irneyo enjoy \"<Kationing in Berm uda, app<irent ly often . . Fran Jones Vitaglione i s coord i ­naror of the Disco\'ery Room ar the N .C. tate Museum of Natu­ral c iences. During the Christ­mas and ew Year" holiday:,, :ihe and her husband, Tom, ,·isi ted­\'ia H<ill"ai i-their younger son , , andro, at h i Peace Corps a · ign­ment in Thai land. he ays, " I t w <i the trip of a l ifet i me l " . . . J im Westgate is a teacher of Eng l i h <i a econcl language and of cros:,-cultural communication a t t h e I n te rn a t i o n a l c h o o l i n Bangkok, Thailand. He sent me an article, publ i hed in a parent auxi l iary newspaper, t i t led "Twen­ty-six Years After: The Reun ion of an A merican Teacher and his Vietname.e tudent ." I r isa mo\'­i ng accoum of J i m's return tO the town where , as a volunteer for an in ternat ional o rgan i:<i t ion , he raught hoy in the loca l school from 1 966 to 1 96 , the height of the American war. This A pri l J i m p l a n ned another t r i p to Vietnam . . . . Ed W i n k l e r , a neighbor of m ine in Claremon t,

. H . , i e lf-employed at W i nk Inc . a a private consultant . H i art i t i c talent are een i n h is

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wnoJ ::-c u lpt u re , la rge ahstrac t ,hape' car\'ed from cherry, but­ternut and p i ne . He abn wri te:, poetry anJ is act i \'C in the men':, mo\'ement. Ed , who is a member of the 3 5 th reunion commi ttee , s<iys this w i l l be the first h has mrended , hut as the son of a olhy ::-tudent and the parent of a Colby student i t ':, about t i me he joined in a reun ion celebra t ion . . . . Pen Will iamson \\'r i te' that h i son, Jo,hua, is teaching the<iter at Bates. He also reports eeing Al C a rv i l l e r e a c h i n g � k i i n g <i t

ugarlo<if on ll'eekend:,. l heard that A l had ret i red from Han­naford. Way tn go ! Sa i l in the rnmmer, ki in the winter . 'Ti a good l ife . . . . Ralph Kimba l l , c lao. prei,iden t , wou ld l ike <i l l to know that Renai sance '9 ! is cnming to Colby in J u ne 1 998. That' the theme for \)Ur 3 5 th reunion, :,elected by the plan­n ing commi ttee at a meeting in W<i l tham, Mass . , on April 20. Twenty-four ,·olunteer. met and appo i n ted t h ree c o m m i t t ees : theme, chaired by Ann Bruno Hocking; publicity, chaired by Ed W i nk ler ; and g ift , c h a i red by George Swasey, our c las:, agent. Renais"ance '98 1 promi e:, to be a fun t ime for <il l . If you would l ike to help, please g i ,·e Ralph a call at 508- 7 5 5 - 1 8 7 . . . . Bi l l and I en­joyed watc h i ng spring come to our nell' home. We are ,·ery busy working outdoor to repair the damage done by construct ion to the land urrounding our house. Ba ical ly we'reencouraging th ing to grow-plants, that is, not black flie�. Plea e keep in touch. +

Correspondent : Sara Shaw Rhoades

64 l ' m a l i tt le fragmented a I write in late Apri l . Both

Dusty and I lo t our fathers within t wo week· of each other thi mon th . A long ll' i th all the ser­v ices and memorie and fami ly gathering , we became suddenly aware of the i n e v i rab i l i t y of c hange. Our l ives now need to be restructu red, but we haven't fig­ured out how. Meanwh i le , l i fe and event march on. It was a plea ure to see how faithful our cla · ha been in contribu t ion to the ollege in the recent pub l i ­c a t ion Accepting the Challenge ,

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1 994- 1 995 Anmial Re/)OrtofCon­cribwiom. I'm rel ie,·eJ to :,ee so many people add ing their sup­port to our dear old ;i lma mater, many w i th extremely generous g ifts. l t ' a lso a pleasure to <1 11 -nounce thar our nephew ha, cho­sen Colby ( ha,· ing fa l len under the infl uence of our onn Andrew '90) and w i l l enter in the c l a5 of 2000 . . . . Charles Fallon, after sel'cn years as a fin;inc ia l ad,·i ·nr, found that he missed being in school with c h i ldren and teach­ers. He i. noll' t he princ ipal of a residemial school for emotion­ally Ji turbed c h i ldren. "Th is exc i t ing pos i t ion i 1wolve the design of therapeut ic program for ch i ldren aged 1 0- 1 that hope­fu l l yreunite them with thei r fami­l ie<; and com munit ie ," he wrote. "We plan to deoign model pro­gram� that wi l l reduce the <imounr of time ch i ldren spend all'ay from their home ." He <ilso reports that one on , Abrnham, i a j u n ior at � k id m ore and another , Ben­jamin , is a j un ior at a magnet

choo l i n R o c h e · r e r . . . . Ted Malley says he's "sti l l flying­spott ing tuna and swordfish" and last year got in two months in Tuni i<i and two in the Bay of Fundy. on Teddy wa ·tart i ng defen eman on the B.C. H igh championship ream in the first schoolboy uper 8 hampion-hip <it the new Fleet Cerner in

Bo ton. Daughter Kait l in i 1 5 and Greg b 8 . "That's righ t, 8 yearo old ! " he say . " I ' l l s t i l l be free: i ng my posterior off in some rink long after the rest of you are struggl ing through your one mi le walk in t. A ugust ine." . . . Bill Pollack responded to my "What percentage of your c h i ldren are financ ia l ly i ndependen t ?" by ay­i ng 1 00 percent and then adding, "Your quest ion rea l ly hou ld be, 'When doe paren t i ng end ?' The real answer i apparently never. 'Financ ially independent' i a very rel a t i v e concept ." . . . l ' ve re­ce i ,·ed t he fir t four re pon es to my n e w q u e s t i o n n a i r e , t h e " 1 996-97 I nformation Cen us." John Brassem write , " ] am gain­ing in recogn iz ing that t i me is the mo t i m portant c o m mod i t y I have. In tead of be i ng a driven busine"s man, I ' m spending more t i me ' mel l ing the roses' and en­joy i ng l ife." In respon e to my q uestion abou t Maine, he, a New

Yorker, remembers th ink ing of Maine in 1 964 as "<i run-do\\'n tare, ubject rn th vagaries of

touri t " and ha n't changed h is opin ion ;,ince then . Hi fa,·orite commerc i a l : Peps i ' saga of the gnldfi. h flushed doll'n rhe toi let . . . . Phil Choate, a l ifelong Maine resident, doesn' t remember hav­ing a perception of the s tate when we grnd uared and ad m i ts he h<idn ' t traveled much. "Today I th ink it i a great place to l i ve · i x months out of 1 2 , " he a id . "Eco­nom ical ly , Maine i h urting. But, when I weioh my choice , l do l i ke it here. Ir can get cold, it nows every now and then, but

cr ime is low, people are friend ly, and we don't ha\-e rornadoes." He a lso reports that he is "gener­ally gaining-in personal rela­t ionsh ip and in weight , " and he too \'Otes f r the Pepsi commer­c ials . He a l o urged me to l ighten up on my dis l ike of the t ire and hahy c o m m e rc i a l s . . . . Linda Spear E l w e l l h a moved to Florida, and her v iews of Maine are m i sty: " I 've a l ways l oved Maine and pent ummer at Wel ls Beach ince l wa- 1 2 so l 'm prej udic ed and love the beach area . . . not too knowledgeable about other part of rhe stare. Love M a i n e lobster , c l am s , beache <incl people, n o t nece -<irily in that order !" he reports he's gain ing more un hine and

exerci e and golf and lo i ng more weight i nce she can get outs ide more. Her fa\'l)[ite ad i the one about the chi ldren thinking of their parents going to Disn�y World . . . . Karen Knudsen Day ay she's gain ing on t ime to ki

and los ing companions to go ski­i ng wi th. he remembers Maine fr�m the J 960 as "a afe place to support the experience of experi­menting ll' i th becoming a re ·pon­sible adu l t . N owaday i t i sr i l l val id for ra i ing my own son, com­pared to Cal ifornia [where they spent a lot of year ] . However, I 'd vote for mov i ng from w i n ter

traight into spring. Apr i l and May are l ong, brown, m uddy months." Amen. +

Corresponden t : R ic hard W. Bankart

65 New news: Eric Beaver­stock, enior oftware en-

reunion 96 1966

Pre-reunion at the Samo et : the 18 or so of u that met at the amoset in Rockland, Maine, ·tarted nff the um mer with renewed friend hips under blue skie at a wonderful location. On Thursday, l l of u-,

teed off on what Golf Digesr rates the seventh most beautiful golf course in the country, and it certainly l i\'ed up to it b i l l ing. Friday ·aw repeat round of golf for ome while other took the boat trip ro Outward Bound Camp on Hurricane Is land. There they participated in Outward Bound team build ing exerc i::.e,. Oddly, hortly after our departure, a local new item reported a udden local hortage in lobster·.

Once on campus, our number · wel led to more than 40 cla mates who made at least a v i i t to Colh· during Reunion Weekend. I f you haven't been back to Watervi l le lately, you almost wou ldn't recogni:c the school . The trees and planting have all matured, and the ne' educational and cultural fac i l it ie · are impressive. The campu is more beautiful than ever.

Significant event included Meg Fallon Wheeler being presented a Colby Brick, the first in our c la�, to earn thi honor. Meg wa rewarded for her t ire le ·upport of the College and her l ifetime dedication to the field of education.

aturday 5K race in 1 9 : 3 7 , blowing off ome anonymou youngster from the Class of ' l . In fac t, the Class of '66 wa impressi\'e, with Dick Gilmore placing fifth, Fran Fini:io 1 1 th, Larry Eck le 1 2 th, Laura Holmqui t Tara 1 4th, nos­ing out new hu band and new cla president J ohn " 1 90 pound, of White tee!" Tara, who wa 1 5 th, Linda M itchel l Potter at I th and Sue Spencer Ebinger and Debbie Angl im H iggin t ied at 20th. Not only d id the c lass make a great bowing in part ic i ­pation, but had this been a cross country race, the Cla of '66 would have outscored the balance of the entire field.

As new clas president, John Tara promise a goose in every pot,

while Fran Finizio, our new cla VP, promi e to try to keep John away from the gee e. (John's a hunter, don't­cha know. ) Natalie Bowerman Zaremba will a ume the dutie of cla ecretary and correspondent and Mary

ue Hilton Week will ucceed Stu Wantman as c las agent. Stu fini hed out his amazing 1 0-year tenure with another trong performance, enticing u to donate another 2 50,000-plu to Colby.

Other intere t ing new t idbit include the fact that the Cla of '66 t i l l holds the a l l - t ime record for highe t rate of part ic ipation and large t turnout for a 2 5 th reunion. How many cla e can report that f our member traveled all the way from Wa hington tate for their 30th reunion ?

Front (from left) : Deborah Anglim Higgins, Susan Spencer Ebinger, Brian Shacter and Linda Mitchell Potter. Back: Dick Gilmore, Fran Finizio and Larry Eckle.

More important, and omething I'm ure you' l l hear more about very oon, Colby wi l l be Ii ted in the next Barron' Elite 4 5 , the 45 be t educational inst i tut ion in the country. Colby rated number one in tudent ati fact ion. We all benefit by thi improved tature even now, and it i gratifying to know that

Colby continues on i ts route to excellence. Cla s of '66 reunion attendees included Beth Peo Armstrong, Ken A tor, Wes Barbour, Garry Barne

and Gayle J ob-on Pain ette, George Cain, Katherine McGee Chri tie-Wil on and husband David, Betty ( Savicki '6 ) and John "Daisy" Carvel las, ally Leighton Clutter, Pam and Gil Congdon '67, Larry Eckel , Fran Finizio, Ed and Lynn eiden tuecker Gall , Dick Gilmore, Carol everance G lenn, Deborah Angl im H iggin , Pam Harris Holden, Bi l l and Ruth Loker Ingham, Lea Kouba, Rick Lund, Pat and al Manforte, L inda O'Connor McDonough, u an ( Brown '65 ) and Frank M usche, Len Nel on, Ed Phil l ip , Lee '67 and Linda M itchell Potter, Phil Proulx, Joan and Bi l l Rynne, Brian hacter, Chri tina imp on, Karen ( Day '64 ) and Bill now, am and ue Ebinger pencer, John and Laura Holmqui t Tara, Donna ( Kievit '6 ) and Bob Thompson, Pete and Linda Buckheim Wagner, tu Wantman, Mary ue H i l ton Week and "Whizzer" and Meg Fallon Wheeler.

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g in ee r a t Cr, 1 , t 1 e l J l nL . t n l\Ltnche,rer, . H . , \\"ih n, 1med "l 995 PP! peNin ,)f the W<tr." ( EnJle,, 'peculat ll'n , ,n rh.: po'­> 1 hle ongm, .:md 1mpltc ,lt 1 < >n' nf PPl are nm1 tteJ , hut fe l 1 ,n\· t ech1e' ll' d l figure th1, nut tn ,1 n; tn, 1,ev nnJ . ) He al'u rep,1rr, ' r <1rl lng ,1 new hu me", _ 1mpl 1fieJ Com­puter :y, tem' I n c . , fnr ll'h 1Lh he Je\·elnped some ne11 1m e'tmcnt trackmg nft11-.1re f11r WmJnll''. La't ·ummer he anJ El i:aheth tra\-eleJ 111 lre lanJ, :cntlancl . England and Wale,. He\ al,, 1 nn the hoard of rru�tee' ofh 1.., c h u rch in Hudson, J . H . The ir daughter graduated fwm U H in J une '9 5 , P B K and magna c u m laude 11 l l h a dual degree in Engli. h-journal-1sm and psychology. Eric ll'as <1

math major at Colby, an ATO . a member nf e\\'man Cl uh , Po\\'­der anLI W ig and Math Cluh and managerof \·arstty basketball. Eric arrived at Colby in _ ept '6 1 from

a:,hua, N . H . ( ince he 1\'a' the on ly one to respond to the l,bt request for ne\\'s, you may detect some padding in this column. H int, hint . ) . . . A call rn Lew Krinsky brought new' that he \\'as host to a col lege fair in Hous­ton la t Apri l . There t' grmnng interest in Cnlby in Texa..,, he ays, due to the gloll'ing report' in

the pres and posit i \·e feedback from recent area graduate . La,t J anuary, Lew hosted a dinner for Houston area fo lks featur ing Pres ident Cotter . Later , hi daughter, L i: Corter, and four Up \\'ith People ca t members were Krinsky house guests when Li: and her choral group put on e\·­eral concert . In May, Lew' daughter Lauren was married and daughter Dorey graduated from U of T exa . . Your corre·pon­denr will be in Prague a you read thi . . News from the p<tst : Bucky and Anna Owens S mith'' on N athaniel graduated from

We·t Point w i th the c la - of '94 . . . . Leah Aranovich reports t h a t h e r on Zachary is a t Dartmouth, c l a of ' 9 7 .

ometime i t a l l come together: Denis Carter writes he i "watch­ing my adul t children rai e chil­dren who are healthy, happy human beings and knowing I have contributed omething very pe­c ia l to the next generation . " . . . R u s and Karen Jaffe Brown aw their daughter, tephanie,

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gr;iJu< 1 t l.' tmm Kenyon C, > l lct.:e m '9 1 a, < \ 11 Engl i,h ll1<1 J l lr . , < lll Gre­gnr)' fnllmved at Kenynn I ll '95 ll" t th tn<lJl >r' 1 11 pn l n ic1 I 'C ience and mm1c . . . . For thu,e of ynu ll'r t tmg 11ut col lege chccb: an­nual charge' are tu t t i l ln $ 1 , 2 50, rnnm · 100, hn� i rJ 45L\ "ckncs' and accident 1 11,urnncc : 2 2 , ' tu­dent acm· i t ie' fee 2 4-$ 2 ,046

( tcxthl>l ib, 'LIJ�pl 1t':,, heante,, per­:,nn a l expen-ic::- < l r<: in add n 1on ) . Wel l , 11erhap, I ' ve g1me t 1 1 1 1 for h ,1c k 1 1 ,046 nf th 1, ; 1mounr 11''1' Jue 1 , epr '6 1 fnr nur fi r,t ye;ir nn the h i l l . . . . Ma Tripp b hark ing " '' '1gn,-n,1 ear ." Y1lu hat·c fin-1,hed Alic<? Through che Loo/rn1g G las� ' . . . H a i l , Colh)' , Ha i l i +

CnrrespnnJen t : Russell N . Monbleau

66 You knoll' ynu are gemng old ll'hen \'nu JU't can't

;,rnnd penplc ll'h 1 ) arc inrnleranr . . . Thi' hemg my la::-t column, I

have run through the record, to ,ee holl' c lme tn tn)' or1g111al oh-1ec t i n: I got. Over the pa>t ftl'e year>, hetll'een the column!> in the maga:ine and the annual c la;,, let­ter:,, J ' l'e reported nell"., nf 1 54 of the 3 3 6 name!> nn nur c la;,� I i'it ( 30 of t h.em haJn ' t heen heard from in the previou-, fi,·e- 1 O year, ) . , ome­hnw, I had th i:, ' i l l )' idea the1 t l 'J get m cm·er 80 percent (lr more of the c las;,, hut I gue;,;, fil'e year; j u;,t i;,n't enough t i me . . . . Dr. Charles Rabeni has heen 1 1wi ted hy the New Zealand Nat ional l n ­:- m u t e of Water & Atmo!>pher ic Ltd. to attend meet ings and col­lahoratc with mher cienti r' to exchange re:,earch and design and execu te field research in r i l'er re;­rnrnt ion. Charlie wa!> ·elected for th i. project Jue to hi.., unique re ­search in 'tream ecolog)'. I on l)' found out ahout i t becau e Jane Farnham Rabeni , ment ion ing Charlie'· mode ty, sl irped the ar­t ic le i n to the return que<;tion­na i re. T h a n k s , J an e . . . . The Univer i ty of Lo�t i \' t i le held a memorial concert for Dr. Randa l l Holden '65 , late hu,hand of Pam Harris Holden. The program, he ld la r _ eprember 3-whar would ha\·e heen their 29th wed­ding annt\'ersar)'-includeJ mu­sic hy Bernstein, Verd i , Col trane, , chuhcrt and others and read mg from _ hakespeare, e.e. cummings

;rnd bther WooJ '26. R;rndy\ li fe l, m .l! deJ irnr ion and accnm -1�\ 1 ,hmenr,, in the ll'nrld uf mu,ic ll"ere ce lehratecl . A c hair in the North Rec ital at the un i l'ero i t)' a l> 1 1 ha, heen ded1c1tcd in Randy\ m e m o r y . . D a v i d " D e e " E rd m a n \ U J' C lrn1 i n g t r i p to A l r1,ka cnnnicr-, ll' i th our 30th reuninn, and he re.�ret> that he wi I I n11t he ah le to attend and rene\\' 1 l ld <lCquainta nce!>. Dee i'> the dean of admi>'itonc and en­rol lment ;it Rol l in, Col lege in Winter Park . Fb. He i:- abn the d i rector of the Foundat1(1n of Ex­cel lent chnnb, a non-pr1 ifi t ur­g;1 n i :at ion that rn i ;,,e;,, :,upport fnlm foundminn> and ind1\· iduab to imprn\·e the qual i ty nf puhlic educat ion. ( :n who\ helpin,g the lou'\' ,ch11l1b? ) He t\ al:,11 a con­;,,u l rant for independent 'chonb. Dee and , U><lll ha,·e j u:,t ce l ­ehrated their 30th ll'eJding ann i­\'er a ry and ha\'e a da ughter , Lind>ay, 1 2 . Dee and L imbay me golf partner-. . . . . Janna Vaughan Kasarj ian recen t l y e a rn e d a master\ degree in Engl ish a'> a second language. She reports that her 1 1 lder daughter j ust completed her m1·n ma!>ter's degree and that her second daughter ha, a h ig ll'edding coming up in the next y e a r . . B a r b a r a A c k e r s o n M c C l u r e wa to marry Boh Vogler, her bu ines partner, on May 2 5 . They ha1·e purchased a nell" hnme in Ridgefield, Cmn. . . . Bil l Snow j o i ned Barher Fonds in Portland , Maine, a> the VP of human relat ion:, . . . . Erik Thorson repLlrt that the major event in h is l i fe over the past year ll'as jn in ing AARP. Please . . . . In a s i gn of t h e t i m e , Karen Riendeau Remine rook an early ret i rement package from N YN EX and ha. heen h i red back a a con­>ultant . he also ha earned the t i t le of docent for the taten Is­land Zoo, where he is a certified rnhhit and gu inea pig handler. ( Karen a b that you not laugh , and I hel i e\·e I need to add no editor ial comment!> here . ) . L inda ( Brook '68) and J ohn P e r k i n s rec e n t l y c e l ebrated J oh n ' abha t i c a l w i t h tra1 ·e l through the U K , tudy at Oxford and a m:le on the Orient Expre s.

. . Frank Neal and wife tacey were part of a group that new to China l a t ummer and combined sight eeing with adoption. The

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ea!, nn\\' hal'e a I 3 -rnonth - l I d dau.�hter, A n Fei , mean ing "safe fl i ght ," whn is reported to be happy , 1 11 good health ::ind sh,)11'­ing >ign; of developing a good ;,ense of humor. . . . After man\' yea r ' of 'earc h i n g , C l a u d i a Fu gere Finkelstein �ucceeded in fi nd ing her h i r t h m o t h e r in Montreal , Canada. She abo has d 1 scm-ered twu half brnther>, a n iece, a nephell' and aunt and uncle. Claudia\ journey 11·as the suhject of an extensi\·e <irt tcle in the Pon/and Prcs.1 Hnald. Connie Day prm·es that there are > t i l l gain tn he made in l i fe, even at uur age. he report> that as the ch i kln:n ha\·e gone out on their oll"n, <>he ha.., hecnme the primar\' hreadll' mner again. " I t ha., heen my fate to finance one husband's education, one hushand\ incor­poration and one h usband's re­t i re m en t , h u t h e )' , t h i one cooi<s 1 " • • • Natal ie Bowerman Zaremba ha!> gracinu!>l\' accepted the re pon,ihi l i ty of cla corre­'pcmdent for the next five year>. I t hm, heen m y plea!>ure t o serve you, and I tru;t you w i l l a l l support N at a l i e as she rake on t h i s t a k . . . . W e are !>tart ing tn reach that point where we have too much room 111 the house and not enough in the med ic ine cabinet. Beot wiohe . +

Corre pondent!>: Robert Gracia and J udy Gerrie Heine

6 7 J oe Candido, profe,sor of Engl ish at the Un ivers i ty

of Arkan a>, has recent ly pub­l i hed a text exp l i ca t ing the · u b t l e t t e s of h a k e pearean drama. Joe was considering a t ­tend ing our 3 0th reunion if he cou ld arrange a d ifferent date for hi yearly trip to the home of The Bard, where he teache a group of graduate tudents . . . . Marty Gl iserman, a ·ociate profe ·or of Engl i ·h at Rutgers Univer i ty , has publ ished Ps)•choanalysis , Lan­giiage , and the Bod)' of the Text (Un iver i ty Pre of Florida ) , a fasc inating study exam in ing the pre ence of the body as the core phenomenon of the novel. . . . Bill Vanderweil wri tes that h i son Peter was a fre h man a t Colby as he fol low in rhe foot tep of Bi l l and wife Cathy ( McManus

'6 ). They l i ve in H ingh a m , Mas . , where both are act il'e in c o m m u n i ty affa i r . . . . Susan Monk Pacheco and h u band ]<t ime l ive in Dayton, Ohio, where they practice med ic ine. In their prec ious spare t ime, they work on t h e i r b r i c k C o l o n i a l h o u e , ll"h ich, according t o u a n , needs some med ical attent ion. In J une her daughter, r ist ina, gradu<ited from Colby and her on, Ben­j a m i n , g ra d u a t ed from h igh schoo l . u an ha ju t completed two year as c h ief f raff at Chi ldren's Medical Center in Dayton and ha heen teach ing ped iatric re idents and med ical tudenrs at Wright tare Univer­

s i ty Medical c hool . . . . In Cape El i:abeth, Maine, Dick Lemieux cont inue in hi pract ice of oral surgery. After a period of adjust­ment fo l lowing the di olut ion of a 2 5 -year marriage, Dick reports that he recent ly spent 1 2 day aboard a 1 00-foot boat in the Red Sea with eight other c uba divers. The div ing has led to a new hobby, underwater photograph)'. When not div ing and ea kayaklng in Casco Bay, D ick find t i me to play an occasional hockey game-for in ranee, the a lumni game a t Colby, where he teamed up wi th former mates Paul Cronin and Lee Potter . . . . Caroline Kresky inform us that her law fi rm, Bra n c h , P ike and Gan: , ha merged with a Florida firm, creat­i ng an organization with nearly 500 attorneys in three states. Caroline continues ro pract ice in At lanta, spec ial iz ing in commer­c i a l l i t i g a t i o n and prod u c ts l iabi l i ty . . . . Clemence Ravacon Mershon reaches and t i l ls the soi l in Pennsylvania, where her on, Andre , skipped h i sen ior year of h igh school and i a dean' I i t rudent at Edinboro Univer i ty

of Penn y lvan ia . C l e mence 's daughter, Claire Helene, i al o a top-ranked tudent. Clemence traveled to southern Afr ica a couple of years ago and al o took a 1 0- tate tour in the rates on behalf of a Quaker organization.

he reports that the venture were eye- pening regarding differences in think ing about ecology, oc iol­ogy and t h e o l ogy . . . Tom Watson remarried in December 1 994. Hi w ife, Karen, has a dauohter, Kr i ten, 1 6. Tom ha three c h i ldren: Katherine, 26,

Willy, 2 5 , and Bnnnte, 2 l . Be­-ides being a Colhy 1wer,eer, T,1m i a la\\'yer m Wtlton, Conn . . . . lf you need a real estate atwrney 1 11 the an Franci,co area. look ur John O 'Reilly. He write' that he'� ne,·er been married but enjo\'' the freedom and great soc ial and cul ­tural acti,· i t ie- m the c it\'. He take- a six-week ''aGHton e,·ery year for recreational trn,·el and ,o far ha· been to 5 7 counme:,. He\ a c t i ,·e \\' i t h Zero Por u l a t ton Gro\\'th and the F bar a::.,oc 1a­tion. [,·en \\ ' tth that bus\' ,ched­u le, he \\'Ork out at the club four times a week! . . . The 30th re­union is in the rlairning stages. Be sure to keep your calendar open for J une 6- , 1 99 7 ! The comnrn­tee will be meeting again on �ep­tember 2 in Bo-ton, and "·e indte anyone \\'ho'd l ike to a s t t to contact u- o that ·ou can be kept po-red about the meeting location. o far, the plans inc lude the pos ibil ity of a "pre-reunicm" at the amo et on the 1aine coast, a "Hopeless Open" golf and tennis tournament, a BBQ at John on Pond on awrday and a video for the class d mner. Please di out your boxe- from the attic and plan to end along whate\·er you find to a id u - \\' i t h the video! . . . We're orry to hear that Jean Philson Sommers 's bu.­band pa ed a\\'ay in May 1 99 3 after an extended i l lne -s . he'

t i l l at her j ob at Coopers & Lybrand in Wa)11e, Pa., and ha · aoreed to help the comm ittee make call t cla smate about the reunion. Her dad i -rill in Oak­land, Maine, o she plans to com­bine a v i - it with him and the reun ion. We aoreed that -he hould ask him alono to be part of

our cla activitie . +

Correspondent: Mary J o Calabrese Baur

68 Lee Urban is now exec u­ti\·e director of Peabody

House in Portland, Mame, a h me for people in the ad,·anced rage of H I d i ease. He manage op­eration at the home and ha forme a new oroani:ation to pro­v ide home health care to tho e with AID who t i l l l ive in their own home . Lee hares his l ife

\nth ht' \\'tfe, 1 1an, a ,ch,1,1l ,, ic1al \\'llrker. and their four chi ldren , age, 5 rn L.:. . . Thoma Rippon. .1 bu,me�s exec u t 1 ,·e 111 \\"h 1 te ,::'pnng', ra . , ha, been app11inted an o,·erseer of Colby. Tom ha, three chikiren-r\\'11 aclult' and .1 l L' \·ear ,1ld. . . te,·e \\'ard of Danen, C,mn., ,en·e, ,1' \T 11! finance for a comrany that 1\·a:­,,1ld by K11Lbk and b,1ught h· _annf1, I nc . H 1' fam 1 h- mcludes "·ife SanLh· and children � te,·e I \'. Chris and K1mberh· anJ n,·o golden re r r i e,·ers . . . . \Vrit tng frn m � t a m ford , Co n n . , J a y S a n d a k a n d h i s \\' t fe , l\ ! ary Sommer, are la\\' partner> a t Sandak. Friedman. ancl .::-11mmer, "·here they ,lea! \1·irh general l i t 1 -ga t1nn, exc luding c nminal la\\-. The\· ha,·e three b,1ys, age, 1 4. 1 3 and 1 L\ whn are m ,·oh-�d in 'inC­cer and \\'eekend ,ki rrir, w the i r \\'inter hL1me at Brnm ley l\ l11un­tam m \ 'ermont. Trip' rn Park City and \'<'huler ha,·e rro,·en that the kicb are quick!\- outpac­ing their parents . . . . Last \'ear t-- 1ary and George Rideout offi­c ial ly became "empry ne ter·" a ­t h e i r younge·t, Ke,· in , left for -chool. but they \1-ere extremely bu y establishing a ne\\' school. Wes gate Christian :\cademy, in We rnn, Mas,. As of February 1 996, ir enrolled children from pre·chool to grade one and in

eprember \\' i l l expand to grade s ix . Much \\'ork \\'as needed to receh·e state licen. ing. George run two foundations, �hair mi�­sion- and is also chairman of the elders at We,rgate Church . . . Betty Savicki Carvellas 1- kert bu. y -erving a pre-idem of the

ational A --oc1ation of Biology Teacher_ a \\'el l a contmu ing to teach full t ime. he \\'rite · that her good friend and mentor, Jane Abbott, is a pa -r president of

ABT and a '4 1 Colby grad . . . . Chri Austin Barbour \\'rites that rheir daughter, Karen, is a fre -h­man at Goucher College in Balti­more, and that makes her think of the colleoe experience from a brand ne\\' per pec t l \' e . he thinks more highly of Colby than e\'er. . . . tewart Armstrong of Concord, .H. , ends new- of a differenr job. He' nmnhe prin i-pal of a 5 - chool, \\'here he' exc ited to be bringing about the

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!!rrnnh n f a true lllllldle 'ch,1, i l . He anLl h1, \\'1te , Jo\, ; 1 h1d1 ,ch,,, , j drama n 1ach, han.> nhn·cd >ll1LI .in.' enJLl\' 1 11 !! c1md11 l i fe \ n11 \'<Hd ,1·,1rk ! ) . The1r LL1u!o!hrer Kn,ten 1, a ,, iphnnHire ac un g maJ <'r < l l Emer,,1n nl lege 1 1 1 s,,,tLln, and Jennifer 1:- ,1 fre,hman ,Janee m<l­]"r ar NYU. +

Curre,rnnJent: Diane E. Kindler

69 Cheri t i t h a m W h i t e l i \T' lll South r,1rd,md.

h1 ine, ;md b the rnnc 1ral at an dcmen rnr\' ;;chool 1n Freepurr. She repL1rt' that �he ha' ch.meed net ther her add res:- n11r her ,pnu,e nllr her pride 111 her t\\'ll children, Di l len and Lm. Her crn,::--c11untry drl\·e in the 'ummer 11f 1 995 1n a �-+-foot U-Haul 1nth trailer \\'i1' fun but une,·enrful, c1ther than ::-lime funny bu;;ine,, 11·ith >eltne polH b i rc h t ree in Bn:eman, l\ lont. Let', j ust >a\' that l\ Imel S i x no longer lea,·es the l ight nn for Cheri , "'ho note> that .1 l ­th,1ugh rhe trip may ha,·e lacked a certain "Thelma and Louise" quality, she really didn't \\'ant w dri,·e nff 11f a c l iff am·,1·a)-.

usan Magdefrau \\ erkho,·en has returned to teaching math ;lt The G u nnery, a o;nec t icut rrep -chool. �he l iws m Wa,h­ington Derllt \\'ith her hu�band, Da,·e. Her t\\'O ch i ldren j u st grad uated from college, � con from Lafayette and Karen from Hamil ton. Laurie Ki l loch \ iggins, \\'ho really kno\l·s ho\\' to fil l out a c las- questionnaire, i ­\\'orking about a : i l l ion hour· a \\'eek as a leader of the devel11p­ment of competition rolicies and dereoulation of the telecommu­nication · industry. he describe · her \\'ork at AT&T \\' i rh a mall group of economists and analy.ts 1\·ho \\'ere the architect. of the Telecommunications Act of 1 996 a the most excit1 11g of her 2 7 years in the industry. he gh·es credit to the Colby economic fac ulty, e·pecial ly Hooendorn, Breckenridge and Cox, for much of her \\'Ork in ouiding telecom­munications into the free market. ( Whar l remember from econom­ic is aturday morning. \\' ith Wil on Brown. They don't have

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Saturcl.1Y c l .i,,e, ,u c,,Jh .1rn -nll >rc-. 11·h1ch 1- pr1 1h,1bh .i \ Cf\ g," ,,j 1,ie. 1 . ) L1ur1 'd'' 'he n-e' bet\l t'en 4 .mcl 5 ,i .m t\ 1 !.!c t r . 1nc•cl , ,n her " ' 'rhl.1\ ,m,I rel 1l'' 1111 T.11 Chi .mcl tre;1dm1 1 l m1rk11ut' . her rl'd Im!! , ,f P<ll'tn , .md thL· I , n e ,1 nd -u pp11rt ,,f her h u - h,1 11.I . \\',1,·ne, t<l mamra111 her rl11,1c .1 I ;md em1 >t l l•n.il well be111!! . She al'l' rt>pnn- pr1iudh- the h1rrh l lt her !!r<mJnephe\I , C<1111wr �lax­\\'ell Fenin, named fnr her f.tther. . . . J udy Holden \\' ray rq'urt' that 'he ha- had ,1 gre,H �-+ \ e.ir' \\·1th her hu,[,.ind. H;1rn . Their ch1 lclren are 1 9 .mcl 1 4. J u,ly 1n1n­der' \1·har mn't m,H ter' t < ' .lnd 1\·ornc, our c la"mate, ,H tht' nme 1 11 l i fe . . . . Debbie \'an Hoek Abraham f1111,hed her t-- 1 . B.A . . at Bab,nn C11 l k g e , m a gn ;1 c u m laude. _ he c,1nr inue' rn enJO\' her \\'Ork a' d i rec tnr of the rarlm L1 -bran· 1 11 [,·erett , t-- la'' · · and 1, plannmg a tr ip to J apan . Rosemary Shu Cleaves \\'<b the ,uhiect ,,f a feature arttcle m the Harrj(irJ Cu11ram in \\'h1ch ,he \\·a. recogn1:ed a, hm·ing qu ietly 111>ptred nther' tLl pronde fr1od for reople 111 neecl. R,1,eman·, the pre,idenr nf C,mnecr1cut Gen­eral Pen,1,1n : en·ice" a d 1n,iLm ,1f ClG :\ C,1rp. , i, de,cnhed a, helping CL1rp11rate c l ients "turn m i l l ions into bi l l ions." Through her membership 111 :::t. Jame' Er1,­CL1pal Church, ,he ha> been 111-,·oh-ed 111 a number of chanrable prnJects. On her O\\'n m 1 t 1ar l\·e she began making 2 50 bag lunches once a month to be d1smbuted a, the e\'ening meal for renple eat­ing at a local SL1Up kitchen. Se,·­eral grnups ha,·e follo\\'ed her leaJ and begun ro conmbute the1ro\\'n lunches to the kitchen. RL1�emary, "·ho l l \·es in We ·t Hartford with her hu::.band, Tom, and \\·ho,e daughter, Rebecca, i at Bro\\'n, descril: e her effort- a: an attempt to maintain balance m her life: "You ha\'e w factor in the hungry. Then you come back and have w rake care of the \\'ealth." Wise \\'Ord from a ,. ry accompl i-hed c las mate . . . . I hope your sum­mer ha· been full of good \\'eather, good oarden - and oood t ime:. Plea::.e stay in touch. +

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Corresponden t : Steven Cline

70 l t actual ly happened . Phi l Norfleet c a l l d home 1 H e

re1x1rt:, frnm S a n Diego t h a t he\ al ive and well and work i ng w i t h J ac k N i c k l a us ( ye s , the J a c k N ic k l a u s ) i n deve lop ing g o l f courses a n d resort com m u n i t ies. Phil keep · i n touch w i th "Big Bill" Anderson , who, accord i ng to Ph i l . l i \·es in Massach u;etts bur >pend much of h i - t i me tra v ­e l ing around t h e coun try shoot­ing wonderful phorngraph� . . . . One nf the moot in tere t i ng of many e - m a i l message; came from Ann McEwen , l e t t ing me k now of the arrival of M ichael Mc Ewen Thomson on March 7. M ic hael weighed i n at a healthy l I lb . l S

o:. Mom, Dad and older brother Jamie are proud as can be. I n add i t ion t o car ing f o r h e r new on, Ann i wor k i ng on a reta i l

c a t a l og u e for he affer Pen ' worldwide market . ( By the way, i fanyone e lse in the c l a :, is th ink­ing about g iv ing b i rth , please note: t here w i l l be an award for newe t mom or dad at our next reu n ion. That's the good news. The bad news is rhar the next reu n ion i i n the year 2000. o far, Ann, you 're in the lead . ) . . . I feel honored that Jean Macali ter Royall sent me her first respon e in 2 5 year . J ean l ives w i t h her r h y :, i c i a n h u;ba n d , J oh n , i n R u msen, N .J . The Royal l s have a daugh ter who grad u ci red from Princeton in 1 994, a daugh ter

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who grnduared from k idmnre r h i year <md a th i rd daughter whn w i l l be a j u n ior ar Duke. Tha r ' a rnugh road to fo l lL1w for the i r :,on, who i t i l l in h igh :,chnn l . . . . "Little Bil l" Aldrich i :, a veteran of rhe I n ternet. In fac t , he and two parmers ha"e founded J acqu ard ystems Rc­�earch , a company that re-engi­neers legacy :,oftware. ( ounLb i mpre � ive. I ha\'e no idea wh<1t that meam ! ) ln h i:, spare t ime, B i l l i an a\' id ou tdoor man who has ,k ied rhrou,gh the Pem ige­was et Wi lderne-; w make a m id­w i n t e r ascent of Ow l s Head.

. . Chris Crandall e-mai ls from r he great Norrhwe t that :,he re­cen t ly "ret i red" ( a r least for a w h i l e ) from her job at M icro oft to spend more t i me wi rh her wn,

am, 6. Chris managed a h igh­end developer trai n i n g grour. Chris\ h u�band, Chri Harr is , carr ie on a r M ic rosoft a lone while Chrb is learning how to weave and enjoy i ng being a fu l l ­t i me m o m . . . . N o t qu i re a s far west i> Clare Bonelli . Clare and her h usband run The Old Benton P l ace , a bed -and-breakfa t in

onoita, Ari:. 1 h ave the brn­chure if you 're i n terested. Clare is the !erk of rhe local elemen ­tary school d i:, tr icr gove rn i n g board, on w h i c h s h e ·erve w i rh another Colb ian , Fo ter Drum ­mond ' 5 2 . . . . Jon Weems wri tes from w i l d and wonderful We t V i rg i n ia , where he has been ar h i " temporary" j ob nn the ta ff nf We ·t V irgin ia Un iver· i ty' · Core A rboretum for the past 1 8 year whi le h figure our what he wanrs to do w i t h h is l i fe . Jon and h i w ife, Donna, des igned rheir own home on the shore of Cheat Lake, and he serves as rhe com modore of r he H og Wal low Yac h t Club. . . . Deborah Thu rlow recent ly wa r rom oted to d i rector of teacher educat ion ar Lynn Col -

lege in Bate;v i l le , Ark. Deborah wri re; that he recen tly earned her doctorate in i n:,truct ion and c urric u lum leadership. Congratu­lat ions, Debora h ! . . . I do have more response · , but I don't have mme room, so you ' l l have ro tune in next t i me to ee which c l ass­mate I c<in embarras; the mos t ! There has been ome i nterest i n put t ing together a Class o f 1 970 e-m<i i l d i rectory. I f you're i n ter­ested, e -mai l your e -ma i l addres rn me at my e-mai l addre s and we can mai l everyone's e-mai l addres; to everyone ar their e­ma i l addre se . imple, isn't i t . . We've found Ph i l Norfleet, so, Stu Rothenberg, phone home 1 +

Corre:,ponden t: Nancy Hammar Austin

7 1 Th is is my last art i c le, wr i t ten ju r before our

2 5 th reun ion. ince the reunion update book inc l udes so much i nformation abo u t many of us, I thought I 'd end my tenu re a cor­respondent with another k i nd of rem inder about the th ing and the t i me that were our day on Mayflower H i l l . H ere's the play l ist for the first '67 - ' 7 1 mu ical retrospec t i ve being c rea ted to help set the stage for the reun ion. This is t he Love ong ect ion. ( Other theme; inc l ude u n and Rain ong , ong about People, P l ace and G e t t i n g to Them Songs, and of course Prote t and the Counterc u l t u re ong ) . En­joy rhis b last from rhe past , and as alway,, Be Brave. W i rh Love, N a n c y . . . " Eyes of a h i ld" ( Moody Blue ) , "Hel lo , H I to" ( opw i th Camel ) , "Happy To­gether" (Turtle- ) , " Reach Our , I ' l l Be There" ( Four Tops ) , "The Rain , the Pack and Other Th i ng " ( ow · i l l ) , " S u n n y " ( Bobby Hebb ) , " 59th Street Bridge ong"

( � 1 mon and Garfunkel ) , "Day­dream Be l i eH r" ( M onkee ) , "Brown-Eyed G irl" ( Van M nr­ri ·on ) . "Lo,·e I A ll Aro und" ( T rogg,) , "Laugh, Laugh" ( Beau Brummels ) , "Walk Away Renee" ( Left Banke ) , " [ A in'r Gonna Ear Our My Hean Anymore" ( Young Rascals ) , "You Keer tv!e Hangm' On" (Van i l la Fudge ) , " umJ1 1ne of Your Love" (Cream ) , " ln-A­Gadda-Da-V1da" ( Iron Burterfly ) . "M idnighr Confessions" ( G ra�»­rom ) , "Do You Wanna Dance" ( Mama's and Para'· ) , "Moon­dance" ( Van Morn ·on ) , "Lon:

rory Theme," ''The ·e Eyes" ( The G uess Who ) , "Wirhour Her" ( Blood, wear and Tears ) , "One" (Three Dog N ighr ) , "Once I Ha�! a weethean" ( Penrangle ) , " May­be" (]anisJorlin ) , " eed a Man ro Love" (Jani Joplin ) , " omebody ro Lm·e" (J effer on A 1rrlane ) , " Love r h e One You 're Wirh" ( rephen r i l l ) , "Touch Me" ( Doors ) , "The Firsr Time her 1

aw Your Face" ( Roberta Flack ) , " omerhing" ( Beatie ) , "Fin l Look ar rhe Pur e" ( J . Geils Band ) , "Happy Birthday, John" (Janis Jori in ) . +

Corre pondenr: Janet Holm Gerber

7 2 Susan Buttner Lavelle «1ys she i "gening wrinkle - ,

but I r i l l don'r feel l ike a 'grown­up' ! " he and her hu band, A l len, l ive in I rvine, Calif. , wirh rwo sons, rhree dog and a car. usan 1 a soc ial worker for Orange Coumy, working with rhe de,·el­opmentally di abled . . . . The me­nagerie at J udy Moreland Spitz's home has been rrimmed ignifi­candy. he and Bob are down ro a gu inea pig and a Labrador re­triever but " till have three k id-." Who took the goat ? J udy i back to teaching. Mom, Dad and the three on will drive to A danta for the Olympic thi ·um mer and hope to ee Ann Bonner V idor. . . . Conoratulat ion to J ame V igue of Watervil le upon the ucce ofFir tmark Corporation.

He' pre,ident of the A DAQ company, wh ich i eeing record profit _ J im made a point of rec­ommending William Cooper 's Town a good readina for u all .

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reunion 96 1971

Our 2 5 th reunion wa a four-day evenr thar eemed to ao much roo 4u1ck l y ' Our weekend be�an Thur day evening at the Pordand Counuy Club, wirh a wonderful dinner that wa · arranged hy Tun

Wyman. The food wa out randing, and j udgino from the com·ersat1on level 111 rhe room, it took no nme for c las mates to beoin where they had lefr off year before !

The nex t morning we gathered at the dock for a ·hon boat rrip to Peak' I land, where we en1m-eJ .1

Down Ea t lob rer bake. It was reported that Jerome Layman was anxiou ·ly sol icit ing vote· to en. ure h1' election as cla s pre ident the next e,·ening.

Friday evening found u all at Colby, in the Fo s-Woodman dorms, which we musr report do not h1k substant ially :lifferenr than they did when we arrived a· fre:hmen ju t a few year ago. We gathered in the lounge and traded torie and picture . pec ial thank ao to

ancy Au tin and Macy Delong, who gathered many bi rs of memorabilia for the di play , and t0 a l l who added their pictures and memenros. Linda Wallace desen·e· special mention for bringing ( a l l the way from California) a tape of our graduation ceremony.

J im Hawkin and Pat Montgomery manned the re­ception de k and rhe Polaroid camera Friday evening and

arurday morning, and rhe "Rogue· Gallery" of napshots \\'as a help to tho e of u who needed a bir of prodding to put names with faces. Background mu ic wa · prodded by tape compiled by Bill Glennon and ancy Au rin. Keep rhose for rhe next reunion, Bill and ancy.

aturday morning' panel di cu ion, "Colby Then and ow," brought back lots of memorie and laugh , a· wel l a some eriou in i ht into how tumul tuous our years at Colby were. Bob Gordon ably organi:ed the event and invited Charlie Ba sett (no introductlc)n ne ed ) , profe ·or of ociology Tom Morrione '65 and Ken Ei en ' 7 3 , owner of the Railroad quare Cinema. Tom hared a video he compiled of rhe changina cene at Colby from rhe ixties to today. The di ·cus ion could ha,·econtinued for hours longer, bur we needed to don our t- hirr and march in the Parade ofCla e - The logo on the t- hire and on the Reunion Handbook was rhe work of Le lie Ander on, to whom we owe a incere thank you. The parade wa great fun, and our cla ' donarion to the Alumni Fund and rhe Campai n for Colby were certainly noreworthy.

Our c las barbecue had been moved into the field hou e due ro the prediction of rain, but becau e it didn't rain, we exerci ed our right as rebelliou Colby tudent · and ate out ide anyway. Chef Paul peis , Ron Lupton, Dennis Cameron and Ken Bigelow outdid them elve at rhe orill . J on tone organi:ed the second Reunion oftball Game, which produced ome good play and even berter storie·. There were many classmate who brought rheir familie , and the age f our children ranged from l to 2 1 ---quire a pread' Thank to Peggy G ilfoy for coordinating child care arrangement \\·ith rhe College.

Re red and dre sed after the day, we arri ed at the Cotter' home for cockrail aturday evening, then headed over to the tudent Union for our d inner. The h ighl ighr of the dinner was a · l ide show, pre enteJ by J erome Layman and Le l ie Anderson, t i t led "Colby A-Z." Wharever memorie hadn r been re ·ur­rected were brou ht forth w ith their how. Dean Earl mith gave u ome in ight into our year- at Colby from hi per pecr ive. The c la officer for 1 996-200 1 ( oh my that ' · a scary thought ) were e lec red, and congratulation and thank go to Pre-ident Jerome Layman, Vice Pre idem and Alumni Counc il Repre entative Debbie Me er Zlatin and ecretary J im H awkin . Bi l l G lennon al o de erves our applause for ecuring the band, the iahr Life , for the evening's entertainment.

There were o many cla mate at the reunion that I he itate to mention name for fear of for ett ing omeone, but there were two "cameo" appearance that can't go by wirhout notice-Barry Kelley and M ike m ith, it wa great to ee you both. exr t ime tay a l itt le longer!

Thank to all who helped to make the reunion o enjoyable. I t wa succe fut only becau e o many people helped, and o many people came, relaxed and had a good time. It' amaiing that after 2 5 year we can still have such a good t ime toaether, and we can connect with classmate whom we never had the chance to know year ago. For tho e who couldn'r make it, we mi'·ed you, and we hope to ee you next t ime on Ma)rflower H il l .

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Writ ten by Clllby grad Alan Tay­lor ' 7 7 , i t i> the tory of the found­ing llf Coopersto\\'n , N . Y . "Mev" Verrengia Woessner i:, in Dem·er w i th her h u,band, B i l l . � he is oll'ner/d irector o f the Den­\'er Bar As,nc iat ion Placement � en·ice, he i, an attorney , and they ha'-e two daughter:,, Amy, \\'ho works for an ad agency in N .Y.C. , and Kat ie, a jun ior at the Un iversity of Puget Sound. Jack Williamson and h i, wife, Jody, l i,·e in Birm i ngham, M ich. J ack i!i professor of de,ign stud ie:, at the Uni,·ersity ofM ich igan and execut ive d i rector l)f the De:,ign Mich igan Program. He had t\\'O hooks publ ished in 1 99 5 : Comnrn­nit)' Design Managemenr and Our Design Uni1•erse, wh ich he co­wrore for a pub I ic de,ign center in N agoya, J apan. . On a much smal ler scale, I cont inue in the arr field, teach ing pre dwol through eighth grade arr at a pri\·ate school in Rochi l le , Md. I a lso teach pre­school cooking and pre c hool "fi t ­ne - ." l keep fi r by running-l sr i l l enjoy marathons-bur my two boy , J usr in , 1 2 , and Taylor, 9 , are my primary focu and keep me entertained and c hal lenged with their thri l ls and ·pi l ls . +

Corre ·ponden t: Margaret McPartland Bean

73 Lois Leonard Stock is happi ly self-employed as

an arti t/i l l ustrator in Port land, Maine. She i teach i ng her elf to draw and pa int on her computer and wou ld 10\·e to rece ive e-mai l ( Loie@eworld.com ) . . . . Michael Savage, h is wife, Martha, and their two ch i ldren have moved to

ew Z e a l a n d . M i c h a e l a n d M artha a r e both teach ing there and lov i ng i t . . . Mark Serd­jen ian h a been men's head oc­cer coach at Colby for 20 year Mark i a l o Colby' a ocia re dean of students for academ ic. He and Tina ( Murphy '7 2 ) have three ch i ldren, rhe olde r a fresh­man ar Brandeis . . . . Kathy Sto­ver Spencer is rhe d i rector of rehab i l i tat ion ar Goodwi l l I ndus­t ries in Portland, M a ine. She and h usband Larry have two teenage c h i ldren and are aging gracefu l ly ( l ike the rest of us 1 ) . • • Anne

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Douglas Stanek i:, very busy as a mother of four, k indergarren/fi rst grade mu:. ic reacher and host ro an AF student from Paragrniy. . . . Ellen Kornetsky ha:, made many change> in her l i fe in the la>t year. 'he ha:, moved into a houoe, graduated from the U n i ­,·ero ity of Ne\\· England wi th an M.S .W. , been h ired as a,,isrant d i rec tor of <m adopt ion agency and married Denni� P ickering, inherit ing t\\'O reenaged stepch i l ­dren and t\Vt) dogs . . . . Robin Barnes is a ful l profe snr of his ­tory ar David ·on ol lege. He and h is wife, Ann Lee Bressler, have two chi ldren and find l ife in North Caro l ina pleasant-but rhey t i l l m i s, rhe North 1 • • • Gwynelle Dismukes ha, chal lenged the sra­ru quo in her books Affirmations for a Year-RoLlnd Kwan�aa and Afrilwn All<hem)'. A quote from the larrer: "Time 1s rhe very ex­pression of our J i ,·es. The gift of I ife, however horr or long, how­e,·er productive or \\'astefu l , is only a gift of t ime." Gwynel le perform pir it of Our Ance ·­tors, a celebration of African­ba ed spir i rual i ty, which i1woh·e, poetry, music , dance and original s o n g s . I n g r i d S v e n s s o n Crook is fee l ing t h e freedom o f having both ch i ldren in schoo l ! S h e rook a t r i p to Germany, we­den and Denmark w i th her par­ents and v i i red rhe place where her ance tors l ived for many years. Uncannily, the names of rhe ch i l ­dren l iv ing there now are nearly identical to the name of her own two c h i ldren 1 • • • Ron Majdalany is busy maintain ing a veterinary prac t ice and running a l lama farm in G reat Barrington , Mass. He and wife J ane Laning have a 3 -year-old daughter . . . Mar­garet Lich tenberg is del ighted with her on, M ichael , and work rhe "mommy track" ar her oft­ware development job . . . . J on­athan Miller is an attorney in Boulder, Colo . , and ha been pub­I i h ing article on t he law. He, Arlene and on Jonah sk i , b ike, sai l and ride horse . . . . Susan Rennau work a nurse coord ina­tor for a fert i l i ty c l in ic a r U niver­sity Hosp ita l in a l t Lake City.

he and h usband Rick Hoffman have twin girls . . . . Ken Eisen wa married ro Ann Hutch inson

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in November J 995 . Congratula­t ion , Ken, and good luck wi th t h e rebu i l t R a i l road quare Cinema ' . . . Please be sure to send me ne\\' of your adven ture . The reque5t for informat i on come only once a year, so don 't put rhem a,ide ! +

Corre pondenr: Shel ley Bieringer Rau

74 Congratu la t ion ro Norm and C h r i s Bogos i a n

Rattey on rhe b i r th of the i r daughter. J u l iana Mary, on March 1 3 . J u l iana was welcomed by her sister,, 9 and 1 1 , and brother, 4. The Rarrey l ive in Brunswick, Maine. Norm prac tices law in Auburn whi le Chri holds doll'n the f ort at home. . indy and Herb Landsman are in udbury, Mas;, . , where they abn have four c h i ldren, ranging fnm 1 - 1 /2 ro 1 3 year, old. Herb \\'Orks for TJ Maxx as VP and sale. manager, ll'h i le Cindy manage rhe k ids, fund rais ing, chauffeuring, re. Herb, who al o reports on the "unfortunate combo of hair loss and weight gain," ·ay he i po5-ses ed hy fatherhood . . . . Mark Pestana and wife Mary Beth write from Grand Rapids, M ich . They h a,·e a d a ugh ter , t e p h a n i e

imone, no11 1 - 1 /2 . Mark i an assistant profes or of phi lo-ophy at G rand Val ley tare U n h·er­s i ry . chari and Mike Roy are in Waterv i lle, where Mike is Oak­land rown manager and chari i ·

a ped iatric nurse. They ha,·e two c h i ld ren , M o l l y , 8 - 1 / 2 , a n d Carolyn, 9- 1 /2 . . . . Gay ( Emme­K i n g ) Peterson l i ves in N . Yarmouth , Maine, with spou e Rob Wood and teenager Ably and Ander . he i- an RN who say she l ikes being m iddle-aged. ( peak for yourself-I now th ink m iddle-age mu r tart at around 60; therefore, I'm st i l l young ) . G a y is pend ing more t ime a t h me weatheri ng early adoles­cence and less t ime ar work strug­gl ing with managed care . . . . On t he road again i Jeff Seip, who ha relocated from audi Arabia ro hangha i , h ina, as control­ler for We t inghouse in joint ven­ture with hanghai Electricity Corporat ion . . . . J ay '72 and

Robin Sweeney Peabody have been in L i r r leron, Colo., for e ight years. Rnb is a ale manager with

algon. Robin recently returned ro work a- a sale /merchandi · ing rep, a varied and fun job that she ay5 gives her the t ime and flex­

ibi l i ty she needs to parent Alan, 1 3 , and Kate, 1 1 . They rea l ly enjoy Colorado and are v is i ted yearly by Linda Krohn Kildow and her ch i ldr n . . . . Ronda Fay L u c e , M . D. , and "= l h o use spouse" Nathan e ion. l ive in Bremerton, Wash . , where Ronda i. tra in ing with a ;,earch dog ro become part of a cert ified wi lder­ness search team. he report that she has given up her ER job for a day job and love being home evenings . . . . On the Ea r Coa t, David Roulston i a lawyer in Greenfield, Mass. He and wife M e l i nda have two c h i l d re n , Michae l , 1 0, a n d Marielena, 4 . Dave is president o f r h e board of d i rector of the Frankl in Area

urvival Center, an emergency food pantry. . From helburne, Vr . , wri te Paul '76 and Carol Wood Philbin. Carol recently "ret i red" from Merchant Bank and i con ider ing launch ing a new career in decorat ive arts and crafts. he'd love to hear from anyone who ha a career in arts/ crafts/re lated field . Paul is d i rec­tor of information service at the Un iver iry ofVermont . . . . Laura and J im Lazour are in Arl ington, Va., where J im is a denri r and Laura i a county supervi or. J i m ha coached four Greater D.C. c hampion youth basketball ream , i s ream dentist for the George Washington U niversity basketbal l team and ha played golf wi th B i l l Cl inton . . . . In Fairfax, Va., are Bi l l and Pru­dence Hoerter Parks, who i an a ttorney/federal lobbyi t . They have two ch i ldren, N athaniel, 1 4, and Maggie, 1 1 . Pru is learning to ride a horse and looki ng forward ro exchanging the rat race of Washington for r id i ng the range in Montana or Wyoming, ome day . . . . Here in Auburn, Maine, we are recovering from a eriou sk i ing injury to our n , Luca , l 0, o had a part icularly house­bound w inter. Hi last surgery was in late Apri l , and ir appear he wi l l recover fully. On to bigger

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Getting NASA Off the Ground American chi ldren may

grow up with tars in their eye , but Jeff Lawrence

' 7 2 , a high- level admini -t rator for the a t iona l

Aeronautic and Space Ad­

mini trat ion ( A A ) , ha his feet firmly on the ground. On the ground of Capitol H i l l in Washington most of the t ime.

Three year aoo Law-rence became a spec ia l a _ Jeff Lawrence '72

i tant to the president of George Wa h ingtc n Uni \·er i ty after the congres man he had worked for lost in the 1 992 e lect ion. After 16 year on Capitol Hi l l a a staff member for variou repre entative and congre s ional committee , he wa con idering gett ing an adYanced degree and try ing teach ing when he an wered a ca l l from the White Hou e . The Cl inton Admini tration needed an a soc iate admin­i t rator for legi lat ive affa i r , and Lawrence had the ski l ls

and contact . H e knew most of the people in the pace agency and most of the people in the hal l s of Congres . As

legi lat ive d i rec tor for former Rep . B i l l Green ( . Y . ) , Lawrence w a raff member o n the H o u e Appropriat ion Committee and the ubcommittee that O\·ersee indepen­dent agenc ie . I n that capaci ty he had tra\'eled ex ten i\ 'ely oversee ing A A proj ects . His experience with A A and hi record f developing leg is lat ive strategie and draft ing legi lat ion were the c redent ia ls that landed h im the Pre ident ia l appo intment .

For Lawrence, the appeal of working for the pace agency lie in the earthly working of Capitol Hi l l , not the my t ique

and teeper lope ! Hope all i well with each of you ! +

Corre pondenr: Noel Barry S tella

7 5 For those of you earch­ing for that next unu ual

adventure, follow Tom and J ean Crowle H uebner to the orth­ea t Kingdom of Vermont. Last ummer they canoed inn to inn,

enjoying uch memorable tops a the Craft bury Bed-and-Break­fa t. Bw d v i ta and lu h lawn framed their din ing pot at day' end . . . . Paddling along in a dif­ferent mode are Mart and Karin Lit terer W o m e r , who c i rcle Friend h ip Long I land , Maine,

in the ir sea kayak. When not afloat, Karin works as managing editor at Down East Books while Marty hits the book , tudying for hi- la\\' degree at the Uni\'er-i ty of Maine chool of Law . .

Deep in the wo ds, elsewhere in the rate, you may run into Deborah Seel Palman, who is a game warden pec ial ist in Au­rora. he and her hu band, Gre­gory, count their three dog a family-two German hepherds, who help with search and re cue, and one Brmany, who e dual role include hunting and playing pet dog . . . . Cathy McGerigle Tay­lor write from Waterv ille, where she i a medical a i tant in a surgical office. he say he i whittl ing down her golf core af-

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u f -pace explorat ion. Hi role i_ "to keep Congre.-� educateJ on what we are doing and [to] en,ure a healthy (lUtcnme for the Pre idenr' budget ," he aiJ.

In the early 1 990s, a pattern deYeluped in ll'hich ASA's

budgets, and particu larly fund mg for the pace ::.tation project ,

were resol\'ed in annual c l iffhanger \"Ote . � ince Lm\Tence joined the legislati\'e affairs office in 1 993-a \\·eek and a half before the agency's budget was apprm·ed h· a s ingle \'ote­congre ional budget apprornl has come more decidedly.

Lawrence meet \\· ith some 2 50 member- of Congre -each year. "The key," he aid, ' ' is to build up enough of an

intell igence network o you kno\\" ,,·ho needs what and then et it to them." La t \\' inter, for example, he returned to his

nat i\·e Maine \\' ith A A admini trator Dan Goldin and astronaut Mary El len Weber to , · isit school - and bu ine_se .

The trip was organi:ed, in part, to counter the notion that NA A offers noth ing for rura l areas l ike northern and ,,·e·tern Maine. La\\'rence explained to Bangor-area busine group that technology de\'eloped by the agency i ava i lable to pri\·ate enterpri e , ometime imply by asking. That kind of"technology transfer" i ho\\' ear thermometers fir t used by astronaut ended up on -rare sheh-e and how digital imaoing used for the Hubble pace Tele cope improved the re liabil­ity of mammograms in detect ing tumor , Lall'rence say ..

Lawrence wa a history major at Colby. He recall Profes­or Cl ifford Ber chneider as a mentor who "beat me up

becau e of my la:y academics and helped me see that j ust being g l ib wasn't enough ."

Lawrence aid he \ " i i ted Berschneider in Pittsburgh after Ber chneider's ret irement. ''He ga,·e us a ,·is ion of the \\·arid that wa greater than the little high chool and the great l itt le college on the hi l l , " Lawrence said. "He really changed the way we looked at thing ."

ter a humbling outing \\'ith Harold Joseph '44 . . . . Call ing in from the Uni\'ersity of Texas Health

c ience Center in Houston i· R. Patrick Wood, M . D. , F.A.C. Patrick is chief of three li,·er tran -plant program at the center, which perform about 5 trans­plants each year. half of them children. . Kevin Zorski, D.O., al o pec ial i:e -in osteopath · .

He and hi wife, E l i e, ha\'e a son, Jesse, 9 . . . . Alan '73 and Deb­orah Morrell Polackwich roost year round in ero Beach, Fla. Deborah i \\'Orkin a m fimo clay, decorat ing wine gla es and Chri tmas ornament and mar­keting them through the local art center. When not designing, she a i t \\'i th the mentor program

for Vero Beach e l e m e ntary c h i ldren . . . . Sarah V e t a u l t \\'rite from T u c on, Ari:. , \\'here she recently gained simultaneou re pon ibil ity for a new home and a plumber's niohtmare. While holdino her finger in the dam, he found time to read The Double

Helix by Jame D. Wat on. he described the book as a "must read" ( and he' not e \'en a cienti t) . . . . Stephen Smith ha

mo,·ed from Richmond, Maine, tO e,,·ton, M a . , after 1 1 year­at Bowdoin. If anyone want to own a home in wonderful Maine, the mith ' i t i l l for ale . . . . Who could belie\·e that Tiny, the boa con uictor, would still be quirming after all the e year ?

It ' true. Doug Schwarz ay that

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Tiny c lebrated his 30th thi; ra�t year. ( Details on the guests' attire later . ) Doug regularly ee Colby friends Dave Pec k , Scott and Patti Cass Smith, Carol Foss ( h is landlady) and John and Ann Gage Conant . . . . Marian Hart­man Rogers reports that he and

tephen '76 were married in Oc ­tober of 1 99 5 . They now l ive in I thaca, .Y . . . "Life i · Good ' " i n Incl ine, Vil lage , e\- . , where Kim and J i m Schmidt and their two children make their home . J im is a senior software engineer programming Mac into h comput­ers, but someth ing tel ls me he's in Tahoe for other reasons a we l l . Can Jennifer and Dave downhi l l l ike their dad ? . . . Twi la ( Pun·is '74) and Russel l Sehnert have been busy bui ld ing a freelance writ ing business. Inc luded with his advertising work, Russ is cre­ating Web ires on the Internet. The ehnert and their two "wild" boy live in ummit, N .j . , but ski in Maine . . . . Deborah Vose and Steven Roman have also been busy with their two: Molly, 4, and Woodrow, 1 , who arrived home from Korea at four and a half month . Molly adore her gigan­tic brother ( 26 pound at nine month ), and Deb ay it 's been wonderful . . . . Richard and Su­san Staples Smi th have other chal lenge . usan claims even chi ldren, 10 grandchildren and two great-grand ons ( by marriage, which, she notes, i the ea ier way ) . When not occupied with her extended family, Susan de­sign database y tern for N I H ­funded r e earch studies o n Al D and on improving the health of the elderly . . . . If you're in the Boston area, you may be able to catch one of Carolyn Anderson Pope' operat ic duet perfor­mances. Carolyn and Dana '76 have three girl , Lindsay, Ceci l ie and Laurian , who accompany mom on the piano and v iol in. Stay tuned for Boyd Al len, Will T uttle, Lisa Turtz and other ! +

Corre pondent: Leslie A. Ramsey

7 7 I heard from even fresh­man friends. Remember

Fre hman Week 1 I remember Stefan Karas from Dana's second floor. Always around 5 p.m. he

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The 20th reunion of the Class of 1 976 was a fun-filled week­

end of rev ival of o ld friendships and the beginning of new ac­quaintance . Although the en­t ire cla wa not in Watervi l le, those in attendance were treated to a weekend of relaxation. We were a wed by the physical changes that have occurred on Mayflower H i l l s ince we left.

H igh I ight of the weekend in­c I uded the cru ise in Portland Harbor, the awards banquet on Friday and the class dinner and danc ing to l ive music on atur­day. The c lass parade wa an op­rortunity to finally meet as a class and the cla s picture wa wonder-fu l . The tradi t ional cla cookout

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on Saturday gave me an opportunity to ee al l of our classmates one-on-one even though I had to l ing hamburgers and hot dogs to do so. Special thanks to the Clas of 1 9 7 1 for lending me an apron.

The c lass d inner on aturday, preceded by a cocktail hour in the bowel of the l ibrary ( how many of you ever drank in the l ibrary before then ?) , allowed u to catch up on old time and renew old torie of fratemitie and sororities, intramural ports and our favorite profe sor . pecial gue t included a surpri e vi it by Profe or Charlie Bassett, who ably substituted for Sandy Mai el , and Pre ident Cotter, who poke, among other things, of Colby's prominence as a forerunner of gender equality in higher education. Professor Bassett did ay we were better than tho e behind us. "More fluent" wa more preci e . "The k ids ju t want to watch that damn televi ion all the t ime,"he said.

The reunion committee hould be recognized: Mark Jano (outgoing pre ident) , cott McDermott ( incoming pre ident ) , Paul Bogho ian ( Mr. Everything) , Marian Lord (cla agent ) , Joel wet and Jennifer Ford. Thank you al l .

would walk down the hal l to and from the cafeteria downstairs. I 'd t ime it right and be tudying cla -ic , Engl i h, art hi tory, etc . out

in the hallway, right at the L, hoping to trip omebody cute. Stefan i chief of the department of ophthalmology at the traub Clinic and Hospital in Hono­lulu, Hawai i . H is wife, Deanna, i in the fi lm indu try and their daughter, Kel ey, is 3. H i - " pe­c ial thri l l" i watching hi wife on epi ode of Magnum Pl and Jake and the Fae Man . . . . Mark Lyons l remember from fre hman En­gli h, definitely with John M isner (and maybe second with J oe Mar­t in ? ) . Mark now l ives in H amp­ton , .H. ( near everal brothers whose names ring a be l l ) , and i v ice pre ident marketing/ ale for Whee labrator Environmental

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Geraldine foreight years, and they have a daughter, Vanessa, 6, who share her dad's love for fishing and k i ing. H is job ha taken him to Japan, England, France, Hol­land, Belgium and Bermuda.

. Jeff Sanderson I remember because we were part of the N . H . contingent that fall o f 1 97 3 . Jeff's "family unit" is a Civi l War-era home in Alexandria, Va., pur­chased in December 1 994. Jeff is a ho pita! management con ul t ­ant and since 1 990 has moved in the international arenas of Egypt, R ussia and the Czech Republic. Jeff was to be married in May to Andrea Zalzal, who is a voca­tional service coun elor/ uper­visor. Hi career in international health care has worked for him in term of income and perhap has been an emotional " afety net" fordealing with two family deaths.

-Mark Jano

Jeff ha cycled for Dana Farber, raising an impressive problem­solver figure. Jeff is happily in tandem-and I would say an in­ternationally oriented import/ export busine s ound great, too . . . . Peter Cohn I will always remember for hi Foss Woodman creativity and energy. He gave me an origami bird on a stick that he paperfolded h imself around Valentine' Day that year. Peter enclosed a Knothole newsletter of the Chri topher Morley Knot­hole As ociation, which keep alive the memory of the famous Long l land poet. He ent a hol i ­day card, too, of hi wife, Joanne, and their two chi ldren, Aaron and arah . . . . Jane Will iam Blumberg had uch a nice mile.

he i an elementary school teacher after having been an at-home mom since her elde t,

NEWSMAKERS Earle Shettleworth '70 i co­author of Gardiner On The Kennebec, a new book al out the Maine town . . . . Danny Smith '72 wa an organizer of the Edwin Arlington Robin on Fe tival in Gard iner. . . . Ken­yan Pre ident Daniel arap Moi ha appointed William Mayaka ' 7 3 permanent ecretary of the African nation' Mini try of E n v i ronment and a tura l Earle Shettleworth 70 Re ource . . . . Gregor White Smith '73 i co-author of a new book, On a Sn-eet Called Eas)' , In a Corwge amed]oye . . . . J ohn Ladky '74 represented Colby at the inauguration of Mary Bullock a pre ident of Agne corr College in Atlanta, Reginald Blaxton '74 at the inauguration of Howard University' pre ident, A. Patrick wygert, and Thomas Suddath Jr. '78 at the inauguration of Constantine Papadaki at Drexel Univer ity . . . . Wanda Hinckley Brill '75 ha been elected to the igma Theta Tau International Honor ociety of

ur ing . . . . Peter Kraft '76 i a parmer in a new law firm, Kraft & Winger, in Portland, Maine . . . . Gerry McDowell '76 has been named head men' basketbal l coach at We leyan Urnver ity . . . . Frank Malinoski '76 i the new vice president of medical affairs for NABI of Boca Raton, Fla . . . . Jane Brox '78 won the LL. Win hip/PE ew England Award for her memoir, Here and owhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family.

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Sean D ru m m e y '76 to A l i on Wetheri l l in Wi lmington, .C.

Births: A on, J ame higeo, to Tracey and Henry Osborne '76. . . . A son, J o eph A lfonso, to Gerard ' 7 5 and A l icia Rodriguez Connolly ' 7 8

Phil ip, was born. Gwen came three years later. he write that her husband, Bruce, is a doctoral tudent at MIT and that he's

happy to be back in the c la -room again. I bet the k id love you, Jane . ( Thank for thanking me again for being cla ecre­tary. It' ba ical ly fun, J ane. )

. Karen Gustafson C rossley wanted to wave hel lo again, too.

he and her hu band, A lan, l ive in Madison, Wi ., and keep am, 9, and Hannah and Caleb, 6, in tow. Karen i the director of de­ve lopmPnt at the chool of Bu ine s ' University of W i -con in Foundation, and Alan i a w i ldlife b iologi t with the W i consin Department of at­ural Re ource . Karen i current-

ly enr o l led in the exec u t h·e M.B.A. program at UW-Madi­son' c hool of Busine . . . . Richard D. Conant Jr . l ive in My t ic , Conn. , with hi w ife, Cather ine . he is a French teacher and he is an environ­mental biologist. At the end of the summer, a new l i t t le one wi l l join R ic hard I l l and Gregory David. Richard i the final friend we'll hear from . . . until opho­more year. +

Corre pondenr: N icholas Levintow

7 8 The mailbag wa bulging thi month despite the

fact that omeone in the Alumni

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Office dec ided I haJ 1mn-ed w Alexandria, Va. Fal,e ! � o some nf your letter'> took rhe �reat CI re le route, lecw ing me \\' ith more nell's than I can really Jo i u�t1ce tn. l\ 1 1· apologies go out to any faithful corre-;rondents ll'ho dl1 not 'ee their nell' in this column. I ' l l try again next issue. usan Pollis 11T1tes from Falmouth, Maine, that ince late 1 994 she has been wnrking ar LL. Bean. � usan t i l l travels back to the Far Ea t and Japan and ·en·ed as a <ipec 1al del­egate celebrattng the 1 0th anni­\·ersary of Portland, ,fame, and

hmagawa , J aran , a sister c i t ies. u·an ts married to T eJ Reed

' 0 . . . . Tim H ussey pa:,sed on some news from his old ro 1111-mate, Les Morgan, ll'ho is l i l'ing with his family in Bangladesh. Les ll'rites: "We are still a family of fi\·e and l i 1·ing in Rai shahi next door to the Chri ·t ian Mis-ion Hospi tal. Our yard i:. a gar­

den of fruit tree-, and I wake up to the sound of trorical birds e1·ery morning. We haYe pets e1·ery­ll'here-rhree cats, fh·e rabbits, two turtles , 23 fish, I dol'es, one pony and e ight guinea pig at last count. After six year-, we feel pretty comfortable in Bangladesh, we travel everyll'here wi th ease, and our Bengali is gett ing better and better. . . . I finally feel com­fortable in my job and am able to put my mind and energies toward seeing patient , advising health programs, Yisiting congregations, studying and corresponding with folks back home." Tim reminded me that Le ha been working at the Pre b rterian medical mission ince 1 990, and he and hi ll'ife,

Cindy, ha1·e been raising three children there. Les wa to return stateside thi J une for a year of tud ie . . . . Peter Jeffries da hed

off a note to let folk know that he and hi wife, Pamela Thomp­son, recently celebrated the first birthday of daughter Ail a Mori-on Jeffries. Peter and family are

I i Ying in Canton, Mass . . . . Peter Bothwell has returned to ew England, Weatogue, Conn. , to be prec i e, after two years in Maryland. Peter i in the in ur­ance biz and think he urvived the Traveler /Actua merger. Pe­ter and his wife, Kathy, have three chi ldren, Jennifer, Laura and

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Creµnry. and "1 mu't he prett\' gon 1 at :one defense at t h " p o t n t . . . . Former c la,, cnrre­:.rnndent Susan Ge rnert Adams 11Totc me recent ly 11 1th al l kinJ, nf ne11''i. La�t year ll'a:. a higg1e t« 1r her: 'he turned 40, won an Emmy (_ w.an is a nauonal rrnJucer t«ir

BC':. Datdme ) , c l 1mbeJ a nh1un­ta111 in Olvmria at 1unal Park and gor mameJ to Pope Bwck , a freelance wnter. Congratulatiun-, � u an! . . . Alicia Rodrigue: anJ hu:.band Gerard onnolh- '/ 5 celebrated the fir>t binhJay of nn J l1 serh. The RoJ r igue: ­

Connol ly ' recently mol'ed w Annaroli , MJ. , and A l 1 c 1a cnm­rleted her ! .A. 1 11 111terd 1�c 1r l 1 -nary tud 1e ll'ith an emphm.i!> on women's tud1e:,. Gerry i s the headmaster of a prirnte schoo l . . . . I f you're a martial arts mol'ie aficionado, keer an e ·e out for Ton · Lopez , ll'ho ha· been se­lected to play role in upcnm111g fi lms to be produced by the ame outfit that make the Chuck Norris fi lms. Tony is st i l l l i l ' 1 11g and ll'orking in Rome , Ga., at the Dar l ing ton choo l . . . L i s a Klein Boldt and hu-band l\ 1 ichael nm1· ha1·e a econd on, A lden, to join older brother Ian. Lisa ha been actil'e in Ian's cooperatiYe school a- ll'el l as helping a local parentino organi:ation 11·ith their fund-rais ing program . . . . Ted Bristol, j ust aero- the river from me in Fal ls Church, Va. , 11T1 te that he is now t h e P for

agamore As oc. , a om·ernment relations consulringfinn. Ted and wife Nel l ie have two chi ldren, and Ted reports that he till get our and rows on the Potomac River when he can . . . . Please continue to write. Anyone who actual! y flips over that url'ey and sends me real news about what they're doing, who they\·e een, or what they would l ike to ee at the next reunion (on ly two year off) will get top b i l l ing in the next column. +

Correspondent: Robert K inney

7 9 After even year at home, Gayle Amato and hu -

band Jerry Lu a have " traded place ," with Jerry taking the helm

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as a stay-at -home dad whi le Gayle returns tn the work ing world as an instruc tor/c01rultant for De -t iny Corporat ion , a software com­pany outside Hartford . The new job ha> resulted in >Ome tral 'e l and ha; enl ightened ·pou>e J erry tn t h e h e a 1· y b u r rew;:i rd i n g workload ar home tak i ng care of Amanda, 8 , J acob, 6- 1 /2 , and Tucker, 3 - 1 /2 . Gayle a lso has t ime tn ;ing in the Hartford Chorale . . . . Liz Armstrong and h u,hand Erik Lofgren adopted daughter Rebecca in August 1 99 5 from China, which she descr ibe· as the e1·ent in their l i 1·es. he would be happy to act as a re·ource for anyone i ntere ted in adopt ing from China . . . . Laurie Borden Ahearn is s t i l l happi ly en>concecl in M iddlehury, V t . , w i th husband Dan iel and chi ldren Col in , 9 . and H a l e y , 5 . . . . Lesl ie Chanler Brooks sent a long an updated p ic rure of a happy and rambunc ­t ious W i l l iam Tucker tuyvesan t Brooks, now 2 - 1 /2 . Lesie topped work ing this year to spend m ore

t i m e w i t h W i l l i e . . . . Kathy Bleakney Pawley also dropped me a note from sou thern Vi r­g in ia . The hard winter we had here in the south made her home­sick for Ne\\' England, but she admits that her southern husband, Keenan, ha l i t t le enthu ia m for a ml11·e north. Travels to Colo­rado last fa l l inc luded v isits with the fam i l ies of Cheri Bailey Pow­ers and Carol Mordecai Myers . • • • L ince many of you ·o k indly i n q u i re , a l i t t le news on the K inneys. l 've been an at to rney at the U .S. Environmental Protec ­t ion Agency for a lmost four years now, main ly work ing in the Wa­ter Enforcement Di v i ion of the Office of Regu latory Enforce­ment. In eptember 1 99 5 1 began a detai l to the RCRA ( H azardous Waste ) Enforcement Divi ion, where I 've barely scratched the surface of this complicated area of the law. EPA was at the fore­front ofthe budget battle here in Wash ington, and between No­vember and A p r i l I was fu r-

loughed twice ( inc luding al mo t a month over Christmas and into the New Year) and nearly fur-11 ughed twice more, only to he saved by 1 1 th -hour negotiat ions between the White House and Congress. With a fiscal year 1 996 budget final ly in place, Kay, Mat­thew and I can look forward to a l i t t le breathing room. I 've had an in terest ing and varied career so far at EPA, and recen t ly was awarded my second EPA Bronze Medal in two year , th i> one for work on a l i t igation team that settled a compl icated c iv i l en­forcement act ion aga in t a large company in Penn y lvania. When not rooting for her beloved na­t ional champion Kentucky Wild­cat basketball team, my wife, Kay, is executive vice pres ident for the N a t iona l Assoc i a t i on of Mortgage Brokers in Rosslyn, Va. , and w e co-chair t h e Habitat for H u m a n i t y c om m i t tee at o u r church. I a lso do a l i t t le pro bona work for Legal Services of North­ern Virgin ia . Matthew is a won-

clerful, ex pre s ive , buoyant boy of 2 - 1 /2 and the absolute joy in our I ive . He's a l ready a bi t of a jock ( un l ike h i c lad) and can dribble a fu l l - izecl basketball and hit a tosse ! basebal l . l n ou r recent trav­e ls we aw Steve Singer at Kay's 1 5 th Kennedy chool reun ion at Harvard . S teve is cl i rec tor of com­municat ions and adjunct lec turer '1t the Kennedy chool. We al o aw Peter Goodnow during hi

recent travels back Ea t . Pete i chair of the h istory department at the Robert Loui teven on School in Pebble Beach, Cal if. , hut misses the East Coa t and i s contemplat ing a reloca t ion. He and wife Catherine have a beau­t iful 4-year-old, E l izabeth. And I am tak ing the l iberty ofannounc­ing the arrival of John Edward Veil leux Jr. ( "X squared" ) , first ch i ld of our good friend and Class of '80 corre ponclent, John ("X") Vei l leux, and his wife, Diana. P lease w r i te or e-mail me a t K lNNEY.ROBERT@EPAMAIL EPA.GOV +

Wil l your retirement fund be triple taxed? I f you are planning to leave your IRA, Keogh or 40 1 K to the kids through your will , you should know

that the spec ial nature of retirement funds may expose your account to up to three different taxes when

your estate is settled:

Eftare, �m.,e, mx utim.atedar 39.6%

By naming Colby as the beneficiary of part or all of your retirement plan:

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$1.00 Direct tb c:otby

at a,, cort of $. 10-$.26

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You can support Colby for pennies on the dollar. Whether you choo e to support Colby or not, you hould talk to your advisor about min imizing this potential triple tax bite.

For more informat ion contact: Steve Greaves, Director of Planned Giv ing at Colby, 207-87 2 - 3 2 1 2

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Correspondents :

1 980 John Vei l leux

4 1 3 Park Cre t Dri\'e i lver pring, MD 209 1 0- 5404

e-mail : 72072 . l l I 4@Compusen·.com

1 98 1 Beth Pniew ki W i l on P.O. Box 602 Harvard, MA 0 1 4 5 1 s o -456- 0 1 e-mai l : beth_wilson@mcimail.com

1 982 Mimi Rasmus en 63 Re ervoir treet Cambridge, MA 02 1 3 6 1 7-492 - 1 002

1 983 a l ly Lovegren Merchant

HCR 62, Box 244B Mr. Desert, ME 04660 fax: 207-244-9445 207-244-044 1

1 984 Maura Cas idy 1 1 Winthrop Road =9 Brookline, MA 02 1 46-4442 6 1 7-566-00 1 2 e-mail : maura.cassidy@fmr.com

1 985 Barbara Knox Autran 1 74 Degraw Street Brooklyn, Y 1 1 2 3 1 -300

1 986 Wendy Lapham Ru 206 Cheltenham Road

ewark, DE 1 97 1 1 302- 738-626 1

1 98 7 Lucy Lennon Tucker 9 Well tone Drive Portland, ME 04 1 03 207-772 -7 1 27

1 988 ara Dick ison

25 Fayette treet = 1 Bo ·ton, MA 02 1 1 6 6 1 7 -292 -00 1 5

1 989 Deborah A . Greene 62 Locust Avenue =2 Worcester, MA 0 1 604 e-mail : deborah.greene@ ummed.edu

Correspondent: John Veil leux

80 I ' l l be the first to claim bragging rights to the t ide

of proudest new dad ( and cer­tainly newest proud dad ) . Diane deli\'ered J ohn Ed\\'ard Vei lleux J r. on April 25 and is enjoying a temp rary assignment as stay-at­home mom. By Auoust, I hope to have replaced her for a fe\\' months in the r o l e of M r . M o m . . . . A lso contending for the title is Weld Butler. "He ha big hair. We're going to keep him," ays the gu hing father of Cah-in Koch Butler. Weld, an in\'estment advisor and pre ident of Harbor Ad\'isory Corporation in Port mouth, . H . , describes wife Sarah's occupation a "engi­neering dome t i c . " . . . Tony Cunningham teaches at r. John's Univer i ty in Sr. J oseph, 1 inn., where he was the first rec ipient of the Robert Spaeth Teacher of Di tinction Award last year. He ha run Sr . John's honors pro­gram for the past two years and last fall d irected the school's in­ternational education program in Galway, I re land . Spou e M ickey ( Mul len ' 1 ) is al o teaching ( art ) and i an art historian. They have two girls, Flannery Claire, 4 , and Maele ine Lou i e, 2 . . . . Scot Lehigh i now a columni t with The Boswn Globe, and he and wife Mar ha are the parents of twin bab girl . cot reports that

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he is co-d irector of the New En­gland Chapter of PETA. k oc ien· for the Protecuon and Ethical Treatment of A n i m a l s ) and would l ike al l Colby alum to kno\\' that lob ters ha\·e fee l ing roo . . . . Cornelia A rmbrecht Brefka recently surprised hus­band Mark '77 with a 40th birth­day party. The big Colby crowd included Terry O'Brien '7 , Bi l l '78 and Joann Barry Getchel l ' 7 , Dotty Farrell hel ton '78 , Hilary M o r t o n S h o n t z and S u s a n Sull ivan Hinrichs. Cornelia and Mark l i \'e in Green\\' ich, Conn. , wi th the ir two boys, Paul , 5, and Henry, 1 - 1 /2 , two doos and 202 worm ( Paul ' ) , courte y of god­father Terry O'Brien ' 7 Valera Butler Crofoot, a chef and food writer, \\'as the 1 996 recipient of the Ju I ia Child A ll'ard from the International Associa­tion of Cul inary Profe sionals.

h e and m u s i c ian husband Charlesli\'e in Monkron, Md . . . . Cathy Palmer is deYelopment directer for the Lund Family Cen­ter in Burl ington, Vt . . . . J u l ia Greenwood Kreutz write from Decatur, Ga. , where he l i\·e with hu band DaYid and daughters J ohanna and Gretchen. They were all looking forward to the O l y m p i c , part i c u lar ly ince Decatur is ho t to I re land. A a physical therapist/rehab program manager w ith Theratx Inc . , J ul ia recently made the uan i t ion from patient care to management. In addition to her profe ional l ife, she enjoys teaching her girls to p lay p iano and ro swim. J onathan Covell own a land­scaping bu iness and is a i rant boy ' hoop coach at auset Re­gional H . . He and w ife u an l ive in Brew ter, Ma ., with the ir daughters J essica, 7 , and Kath­erine, 5 . . . . J o h n Carpenter writes from orth Yarmouth, Maine, where he and wife Ronni­Jo ( Posner '7 ) l ive with their twin boy , cott and Robert, ,

daughter A l l 1>LH1, 5, <ind a Luge Yel in\\' lab named Du,ty. John\ a partner at the PL)rtland la\\' firm ,1f Bermte111 , Shur, _ a\\'yer &

el on and report ' that Ted Tinson 1, CFO oiHealth Plan--, a managed care pro\· ider, and that Dan O'Halloran recent!\' mar­ried and mm·ed 11· 1th \\'1fe Jane tll Yarmouth . . . . Susan Clark li \'t'S 1n Alexandria, Va., \\'here as presi­dent of Bryce Executi\·e Air a­tering he caters to the needs of business and pol it ical h 1ghfhers. The firm sen·es corporate ancl prh·ate jets at the major area air­ports, and usan is particularly looking for\\'ard t0 catering an­other Presidenual campaign . . Marjorie Smith Bose mm·ed into a new home in Derry, . H . , and traded 111 her title as marketing manager of a small sofrn·are com­pany in Cambridge to start a con­sulting busine s out of her home.

he and husband Ron also are expecting a baby. he recently recei\·ed a \'i it from J anet Fisher Gronneberg and had lunch with Mary Lynah Bishop, Rob i n Gathany Shea and Debbie Pugh Kelton . . . . Linda Alter also ha mm·ed her office "in-hou e" and nO\\' repre ents soft\\'are manu­facturer e l l ing educational soft­\\'are to schools in M innesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. he l ives 111 t. Paul , Mmn. , ll'ith writer Carol Krall'c:ak . . . . Ken Branch is a l ieutenant commander, CEC, U N, and waxe poetic about the challenoes of h is new job as operation officer for Naval Am­phibiou Con truction. During the la t nine months, hi group has been responsible for moving Marine, avy and Army unit from hip to shore in Korea, Thai ­land, Campuchea, Cenrral Eu­rope and Eoypt. When at home, Ken, wife Maria Murrel l -Branch and daughter Makalea Mae l ive in Coronado, Calif. +

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orresponJent: Beth Pniewski Wilson

8 1 Da rlene Howland has been elected vice presi­

dent of the Boston Associati ,m for the Education of Young Chi l ­Jren. Darlene i s the director of the early chilJhood program at the Wellesley Community ChilJ­ren's Center. In her spare time she i active in community theater and recently played the role of Anna in The King and I with the Welle-ley Players. Nancy Welsh Isbell , Ellen Owens D ion, Lynne Winter Bruen, Janet Blau Cobb and 1 went to ee the play. Darlene was marvelous as a lway ! Mimi Pratt Valyo has moved with her family from Cal iforn ia to Sim bury, Conn. Now Mimi is able ro visit with Brian Picard and h is wife, G isele, who also l ive in imsbury. Brian and G isele have four children-Christopher, Andrew, M ichael and Laura. Mimi says she is glad ro be back in her home state, but it has been an aJjustment after being away for many years. M im i 's daughter Al i on cal led her to the window ro see a man "mowing the now" ( u·ing a nowblower) . he and her husband, John, are building a new house in imsbury. . . Scott Murchie i l iving in Mt. Airy, Md., and i a geologi t working at Appl ied Phy ics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. cott write that he is working on a camera and spec­trometer on Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous pacecraft, which was to be launched by N ASA in Feb­ruary. Scott and h is wife, Karen, have a daughter, Andrea, and two cat . . . . Sarah Swager is l iv ing in Hart vi l le , .C. She is the dean of tudent at Coker College in Hartsvi l le and i in the final phase of her dissertation at the Uni ver-ity of M ich igan for her Ph.D. in

h igher education admini tration. h e h opes to grad uate t h i s

y e a r . . . . V i c tor a n d G i n n y Bulford Vesnaver are b u y with three chi ldren in Glen El lyn, I l l . Victor is a s istant v ice president of sale for Regency y tem olu­t ion , a div ision of Hyatt, and G inny is a ful l - r ime mom and part-time administrative manager at Deloitte & T ouche . . . . Karen Baumstark Porter i a c l inical p ychologist and l ives in Omaha,

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reunion 96 1981

M any thanks to teve Pfaff, Darlene Howland and Lyn Bruen Winter for organizing our 1 5 th reunion. The reunion committee was so successful that Steve and Darlene are now engaged to be married at

Colby in October. Best of luck to you both ! Steve has served a our cla president for the pa t 10 years and turned the ropes over to Faith Bramhall Rodenkirk at our reunion d inner on Saturday n ight . Our new v ice president/Alumni Counci l member will be Kim Hokanson, and I will be staying on as secretary, so keep those letters coming in 1

Our reunion weekend got off to a good start on Friday evening with a cocktail party in the turtevant Lounge , which erved as our reun ion headquarter throughout the weekend. The award for longe t d istance traveled went to Kim Wadk in Seymour, who traveled from San Franci co with her two ch i ldren. We had one c lassmate from out of th country: Marisa D'Andrea Barber came from New Market, Ontario, j ust out ide Toronto. Unfortunately, her husband and fel low c lassmate Bruce Barber wa; unable to make the reunion. Fri fay evening cott '82 and Lynne D'Angelo Many had an unexpected , . i i tor in their room. A very blond-ha ired l i tt le boy came into their room and announced he wa gett ing into bed w i th them. Lynne to ld him she wa not h is mother, but he d idn't bel ieve her. o he c l imbed in. Finally he real ized Lynne was not h is mother and Lynne was able to return Andrew Dion to Ellen Owens Dion. Andrew, I can relate. Tho e "new" dorms are real ly strange. I couldn't find the women' room al l weekend long and ended up using the men's room.

aturday, Pam E l l is had a wonderful showing of her watercolor in the art mu­seum. everal cla mate , including Janet Blau Cobb, Kathy Dorni h DuGren ier, Holly Mackin Anzan i , Doug and A my Parker Cook, and Bruce and El len Rein­halter Shain, were on hand to view the lovely Maine scene Pam has painted. at­urday afternoon we had a barbecue. kip Ne,· i l le and V ictor Vesnaver p itched in, fl ipp ing the burgers. Later Steve Pfaff awarded Skip and V ictor the first annual Colby barbecue kit complete w ith baseball alt and pepper shakers for their effort .

aturday even ing we had a c lass d inner in Robert . President Cotter stopped by and said a few words. Our guest peaker was Cal Mackenzie, chairman of the Government Department. Cal gave us an update on what wa going on at Colby and mentioned that technology in the c las room i playing a big part in higher education and wi l l be even more so in the future. aturday evening we returned to the turtevant Lounge and danced the night away to songs of the '60s and '70s ( yes, even some di co) until our feet were sore. A number of us toured the new field hou e and wished we could omehow travel back to the future o we could take advantage of thi amazing new fac i l i ty .

N e b . he and her husband, Randy, have a daughter, Mary E l izabeth, and two dogs. Karen got her Ph. D. in cl inical psychol­ogy in 1 990, got married in 1 99 1 and went into private practice the same year. Thi year Karen be­came a partner in the private practice where she has been work­ing, Kairo P ychological , P.C.

. Glenn Currier is a phy ician in Well ington, New Zealand. Hi wife, Linda, i also a physi­c ian, and they have a son, Tho­ma Harry Curr ier , born i n

eptember 1 99 5 . They have trav-

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eled throughout the outh Pa­c ific and Au tral ia and now cal l New Zealand home . . . . I re ­ceived two e-mail . One wa- from Dale Oak, who has been working for the Committee on Appropria­tion for the U . . Hou e of Re­presen tat ives , manag ing the computer operations office. Dale and his wife, Janet, spend most of their free time chasing their 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old on around. He aw Jim and Laura

Littlefield Bourne at an event la t fall of the Maine tate oci­ety, an organization in Wa h-

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ington, D.C. , for people with a Maine connection. Dale ran into Champe Fisher in Arlington, Va. , where they both l ive . . . . Kim Hokanson, also an e-mailer, mar­ried Denni tein la t eptember at the Bowdon ( ! ) College alumni house. everal Colby grads wer in attendance: Cathy Dwyer ,

andy What ley ' 0, A l a ta i r Caperton '85 , ara Hi ll '84 and El iza D r ey ' 1 . Kim i t i l l work­ing at the development office at Harvard and i l iving in Water­town with their two dog , Kodak and Brownie ( Denni i a photog-

rapher), both re cued from the Humane oc iety . . . . Plea e keep writing! +

Correspondent: Mimi Rasmussen

82 In Rockport, Mas . , S u ­s a n Hartley Brisson and

her husband, John (an assistant professor at M I T ) , ha\'e two chi l ­dren, arah, born in 1 99 1 , and Jack, born in 1 993 . A long ll'ith part-t ime con ult ing work for a telerecruit ing company (college admissions ) , u an i kept busy with carpool ing, volunteering for

arah's pre chool-and two large Newfoundland dog ! . . . Jona­than Baskin's relocation to Fort Lauderdale, Fla . , ha resulted in an increa e in the purchasino of

PF 1 5 sunblock ! J onathan has a top PR job at Blockbu ter Enter­tainment a a VP of corporate relat ion . This i a new job for him, and he enjoy the profes-

ional challenge. Hi wife, E l i:a­beth, is working part t ime in the PR fie ld. The ir daughter, Cath­erine, was born in 1 99 5 , and they have two cats, Fe! ix and Roger. A great book that Jonathan recently read is The True and Only Heaven by Christopher Lasch . . . . Chris Cameron ha tarted a market ing communicat ions firm that pe­c ial izes in the recreation and food industries. With hi experience at martfood and more recently at Mountain Bike Magazine, the business i pul l ing together much fa ter than expected. Hi wife,

usan, is a d irect market ing con­sultant, and they are expecting their econd chi ld in October. ( Peter Wil on Cameron was born in 1 994 and rode h is two-wheeler without training wheels on his second birthday ! ) Chri occa ion­ally ee Carson Stanwood and Tim Dawson . . . . Paul Veil leux is currently d i rector of in truc­t ion , Combined Logistic Officer Advanced Course. ince 1 988 Pau l ha been stationed in Bel­gium and in Frankfurt, Germany, and wa deployed to audi Arabia for De ert h ie ld/ torm, for which he> earned the Bronze tar. At the ational Training Cen­ter, Fort I rwin, Calif. , he erved a a trainer for logi t ic units from al l over the U . . S ince 1 994 Paul ha been in Fort Lee, Va. He and

hi· wife, Andi , ha,·e two chil­dren, Christopher, 9 , and Ryan, 6. AnJ i organi:ed and run a fam­ily upport >roup for 3 50 employ­ees and fur al l the student in CLOAC ( up to 360 at any one time ) . Rounding out the fami ly are harl ie the dog and amantha the cat. . . . Mary Rudolph Black is pract ic ing law with her parmer and law school classmate at their firm, Black & Pont i ako Her hu-band, Peter, is a manager, and their twin , ophia and George, were born in 1 994. Mary i curi­ous about l n g r i G u n d e r s o n Lombardi-please write in ! . . . Jeffra Becknell moved to Cali­fornia. he and parmer Liz dro\'e across the country in a U-Haul towing a Ford Exp lorer whi le Wi lbur the cat got to fly TWA. Jeffra is getting an M . Ed. at UCLA and i teach ing at Dorsey H igh School in inner c ity L .A.-j ust l ike Dangerous Minds-only she says -he doe n't look l ike M ichelle Pfeiffer and has yet to learn ka­rate. he's finding L.A. fun, has managed to find a hockey team to play on and has been an extra on a s i tcom . . . . Tim Cross and h is wife, Ann Philbin, have recently returned from two year of work­ing in War aw, Poland, where he was c untry coordinator of the Civi l Soc iety Development Pro­gram. They were expecting their first child in J uly . . . . After four years in Dubai, UAE, Suzy Teare Morris ha moved back to Lon­don. Her hu band, Mark Morri , returned to London with Merr i l l Lynch as executive d irector, In­ternat iona l Pr ivate Bank ing. They have four daughters-Lo­gan, Nel l ie , Catharyn and Annie. Su:y and her fami ly get back to the tare every summer to vis it Princeton and the Cape, and they also get together with J anice McKeown, Annie's godmother. They a l o keep in touch with Colleen Glovins Casey but have not seen her for a few year . . . Terry Smith P robst is a bank admini tration officer with At­lant ic Bank in outh Portland, Maine. he and her husband,

teve, had their fir t child in November 1 99 5-Adam Mor­rison Brob t checked in at lb . 1 2 oz. and 2 1 .5 inches. Everyone is happy and healthy . . . . I want to thank you all for taking the time to write and end new . I

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also want to remind everybody that next ::.pring we'l l be hav ing our 1 5 th reu11 1nn 1 A the time get c loser, we'll he send ing out more information. +

Correspondent: Sal ly Lovegren Merc hant

83 I had too much new for a column, ::.o ll'atch for a

newsletter. If you don't recei\'e one, it could be time for you to check on whether we ha,·e your current address. Write me! Hope you're ha,·ino a happy -ummer1 +

Correspondent: Barbara Knox Autran

85 Tom Claytor says hello to the Clas of 19 5. " I f

you're interested in what I 've been up to, please vis it my Web i re ( http : //al l i ca t . mck .co .za/bu h pi lot/ ) , " he writes, "or drop me an e-mail ( 10007 7 , 7 1 l @compuserve. com ) . " . . . John M. O 'Connor reports that after even years in private practice as a trial attor­ney he has changed career . Plea e contact him if you want to buy or ell real estate in Boston . . . . Elisa

Maxwell married Todd Tetreault, relocated to Rexford, .Y . , and had a son, Luke, born February 24, 1 996. Congratulations ' I 'd a lso l ike to congratu late my friend ( and former roommate ! ) A n d y and B a rb a ra W i l k e s Sheehan o n the birth o f Kyle Tanner . . . . Wendy Ronan de­Montbrun changed jobs and had a son, Kevin. She writes , " 1 99 5 has been a challenging year­lot of work and l it t le play. But i r's been rewarding-wonderful k ids , i nterest ing careers . " . Maureen "Mo" Cyr i currently l iv ing in rhe Los Angeles area after driving cro country by her elf . he work in banking during the day and is attending grad chool at n ighr ( M . . W. at U C ) . Mo has been doing ome great things ince he left Colby.

he volunteered as a rherapisr­in-training at rhe L.A. Gay & Le b ian Communi ty Center' coun el ing sen·ice department.

he also worked on Capitol H i l l and later in healrh, economic and policy research . . . . J oh n Schleck had a great t ime in Or-

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lando managing an office for r c l\ !ortgage. H ... reloc<Jted tl) C,1n­nect 1 cut earl ier thL year.

heryl Lar on Mortensen had her second chi ld , Enka. th1' ra't Augu::.t. heryl complered her admmi>tratilln/supen·1sillll certi­fication while rak1 11g a courle l) t years off frnm reaching. She en­JOY� >pend111g more t ime \\' ith her chi ldren. . Ch ristopher Leb­herz write> rhat the mo t , 1gn1fi ­canr change in hi l ife ha been hi· wife ' · rregnancy. "Fami ly commitment> have been a change for the be(ter," he say Chm participates in a ba,eball comre­t i t ion every year \\' i th Keith Turley, Brad Whitacker, Ell iot Kolodny, J ohn Prorok , Rich MacNeille and Wi l l iam McDer­mott ' 6 . . . . Hathy MacMahon Simpson is a graduate student and morher of two ons, Graham and James. he [ i ,·es ll' Ith her husband, Richard, in We tporr, Conn . . . W e n d e l l P e r k i n s ll'ould l ike t o announce the birth of his daughter, E l len Margaret. He recently moved to Lake For­est, I l l . , where hi wife teache college . . . . Beverly Rice Tede­schi said she never antic ipated teac h i n g h ig h school when ·he left Colby, but she IO\·es it and is glad that she cho e it as a career . . . . M.J . J a me s - P i r r i married M ichael G . Pirri last ep­tember. They met at the Univer-ity of Rhode I land, ll'here she

was getting her Ph.D. in biologi ­cal sc ience . +

Correspondent: Gretchen Bean Lurie

86 I gues thi can be consid­ered my retirement col­

umn. After writ ing to you for 10 year , I am turning my pen over to Wendy Lapham Russ. With her wit , creativity and knack for journalism, I know she wi l l do a great job. Ler' help her out wirh a great re pon e to all rho e questionnaire 1 • • • J ulie A rcher Tunney and her husband, Sean, were married in J u ly 1 99 5 and are l iv ing in Zimbabwe, where Ju lie is a health advisor for rhe Ameri­can Refugee Committee. Her work has ent her to Mozambique, Rwanda, Kenya, Ma lawi and Thailand, but J ul ie hope to re­turn ro the Srnte in ear l y

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reunion 96 The 1 0th Reunion of the Class of 1 986 wa

a rousing success with lots of classmate ( 0 at la t unofficial count) in attendance. We were incredibly lucky with the weather­although rain was threatening a l l day atur­day the showers held off until we were safely inside partying on Saturday n ight.

Some lucky classmates started the week­end fe tivities early by playing golf on Friday afternoon and then joined the rest of the working folk on Friday night and were treated to good food and drink. Later Friday n ight, we gathered in our clas headquarters in Mary Low Lounge and, with the help of ome back­ground music and a nice beer and wine bar, settled in for a catching-up session that lasted late into the n ight.

1986 experience. Profe sors Pete and Jane Moss found our barbecue, despite a last-minute lo­cation change, and held court on the lawn. All the kid were in their glory, too: Eve Ermer' Erik and Andrea, Deb Pernice Duffy' Hannah and Joe, J ay Church' Connor, Chapman Mayo's Hugh, John Haber tock's Taylor, plus the darling l ittle tykes of Geoff Alexander who e names did not get written down. Each one wa cuter than the next. Everyone eemed to have a great time. During lunch, Ted Wolff, J ay Church, Sue Maxwell Rei ert, Heather Fra ier Chabot and Anne Butter all agreed to sign up a class agents and, with the help of Bill Northfield's handy year­book, even chose the folk they'll be contact­ing in our cla s.

Saturday morning, our class made quite a Norma Delaney (left) and Sue Whitney pic ture parading to the footbal l field, blowing wear balloon hats.

After d i per ing a bit to take tour of the beautiful art museum, impres ive new Olin

bubbles and getting t icky, thank to the cheerleading efforts of our class host, David Hanauer '97 , plus Hank Yel le' insistence that bubbles were mandatory. J ay Al len and Chris Engstrom did a great job as banner bearers, with support from Brian Cornwall waving our cla s year s ign. We al o admired the great class T- hirt de igned by Le lie Greenslet Perry and wi hed we'd all worn ours for the parade-next t ime! Tom Fi her d idn't really urprise us when he admitted he'd had a hard time getting up in time for the parade, but did surprise u with h is accurate identification of a Balt imore oriole near Dana-by sound alone.

At the presentation of gifts, we wowed everyone, including ourselves, when we aw how well we'd done in supporting Colby; ju t a few dollar shy of $ 200,000 from the Cla s of '86, including a l l our campaign pledge . Several cla smates asked for and received a mini­lesson in fund rai ing and learned about annual vs. capital giving.

In the afternoon, we gathered on Dana lawn- and, back to basics, cooked our own burgers and hot dogs and lounged around doing lots of catching up and catching ray . Ted Wolff, ue Whitney and Chri Engstrom had a good time remini cing about their ea emester

1 997 . . . . Gretchen Miller Crow­ley and her family wi l l be l iv ing in the Bath-Brunswick, Maine, area u n t i l they re locate to Hawai i in J uly 1 99 7 , when her U . . Navy commanderhu band' ship move . Gretchen i a busy '"hou efrau" with Thomas, 5, and 3 -year-old twins , J ame and Kelly . . . . Paul Buckley, M . D. , Ph.D., started residence in Ju ly a t

t . Luke's-Roosevelt Ho p i ta! Center in N .Y.C. after fini hing his medical program at the Mayo (Cl inic) Foundation in M inne­sota . . . . Scott Croll finds hi l ife as a easonal national park ranger becoming increasingly migratory. While he misses having a home and garden, he ha enjoyed the

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opportunity to travel (Glacier Bay Ala ka in -ummer 1 995 followed by last winter in the Florida Keys ) . He recently spent three months in Hawaii volunteering with an archeologist and learning to scuba d iv e . . W e n d y B i rb ro w e r Solomon returned to work full time as a manager of systems and admin istration for her husband's manufacturing company. The many perk include the flexibil­ity to work a schedule around daughters Jordan, 4, and Rebecca, 2. Wendy and her family st i l l enjoy the ir trips to towe, Vt . , for ski ing and bike r iding . . J oyce Sutton Anderson and her family have been l iving in Egypt ince eptember 1 9 9 5 . W ith

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Science Center, or expanded Alfond Ath­letic Center, we came together again for our class banquet in Roberts on Saturday n ight. Our nifty bottle coolers were a big hit all around, as wa the night in general. We were greatly entertained by our vi it from J an Hogendom, who regaled u with stories of Colby Then and Now. Pre ident Cotter' incredibly timely entrance created a sensa­tion, unequaled throughout the weekend. J ay Church might argue that the highlight of the evening was having hi picture taken with his "personal harem" of Teri Appleton, Lisa Foley, Robin Clisby Pelczar, J e sica Flood Leitz, Amy Barnes Hurley and ( of cour e ! ) Imogen Mintzer Church. We had a great t ime dancing-Deb Brook won the prize for her spunky duet with our mysteriou gue t . For a while, we thought Brian and Laurie Clark Cornwall were the only ones who knew how to dance l ike grown-up , until we aw Peter and Linda Flight Lull waltzing to the Smashing Pumpkin .

Sunday morning, we l ingered over Bonnie' coffee cake in the dorm and reluctantly said our good-bye , mixed with promise of "next time ! " and " ee you sooner! " Let's start thinking about what we want to do next time!

daughter Lind ay, 5, and son J ame , 3 , Joyce and her hu band have enjoyed travels to Luxor and the Karnak temple , a cruise on the Ni le and spring hol iday at the Giza pyramids . . . . Chris '8 and Heather Fasier Chabot are enjoying their home in the foot­hi l l of the White Mountain . Heather received her ma ter' in oc ial psychology this pring and

is currently working toward a P h . D . . . . M i dori and Steve Bridge are l iving in Alabama, where teve i bu y with four part-time teaching ( ESL) job and managing Levi , the Great Dane puppy, who i getting "rea l ly big ! " . . . Renata and Bob Cobuz­zi are both working in the Val ley

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Forge area for Astra Merck, a pharmaceutical company. Bob completed hi postdoctoral fel ­lowship las t fal l , and he and Renata are enjoying a brand new home . . . . Chris and Cynthia Lloyd Brogan, Lars and Barb Falcone Smith and Brian and Laurie Clark Cornwall shared a fun weekend at Stowe, Vt. , last February. The six enjoyed a few days of downhil l and cros -coun­try ki ing, but their bodies felt the 3 0 - omething yndrome afterward ! . . . Suzanne Swain Masiello nearly broke a hospital record la t December-in the ho pita! by 9 a .m. , her baby deliv­ered by l O a.m . ! he i enjoying motherhood, with l ittle tark

Thomas keep ing her qu i te busy. . . . J i l l Myerow B l inderman write from Connect icut that with mommying ( Ryan, almo t 5, and Tyler, 1 months ) and working a a ales manager, "who has t ime for anyth ing el e ? I " . Peter Taubkin i v ice president of government relations and pub­lic affairs for T ime Warner Cable, Albany ( N .Y . ) d iv ision . . . . Tra­cey and B i l l Yardley l ive in Needham, M ass. , with their first­born, who arrived in Februarv. Bill was promoted to manager �t Bo ton Ga Co. in October 1 99 5 . . . . Sue Whitney returned to her teaching po t at Shady Side Academy in Pirtsburgh fol­lowing her travels to Ghana, West Africa, where she worked to start a program for h igh chool and college students to pend a e­m ester abroad . . . M e l a n i e Megathlin Flaherty continues work in government relat ions in Hartford, Conn. She and her hu band, Brian, purchased their first home last spring . . . . l 'm a bu y fu l l - t ime mom to Paige, now 4, and Hunter, almost 6. Thi fal l I ' l l b e serving my third year on the nursery chool board a well a volunteering at Hunter' new chool-he starts k indergarten at

a nearby private chool in ep­tember. My kid ' involvement in occer, bal let and gymnast ic

keep us on the go in outhern California ! M any thanks to all of you for your help and support during the past 10 year . Best wishe to everyone for continued happiness and succes ! +

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8 8 N icola Rotberg and Rob­ert Cloutier '89 were mar­

ried in J une 1 99 3 . They both graduated from the Univer i ty of Vermont' College of Medic ine. N icola i currently an OB/GYN re ident at Temple Univer ity, and Rob work a an emergency medical re ident at Medical Col­lege of Pennsylvan ia. Both ho -pitals are in Phi ladelph i a . . . . Rok Zaiec wa married last Octo­ber, an cl J onathan Selkowitz and Chris Brown were in the wed­d ing. Rok works a an a i tant trea urer. . . . Hank and C indy Hudson Whittenberg enjoy their

NEWSMAKERS Amy Haselton '81 is the new pre ident and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Blue R idge in Roanoke, Va . . . . Jennifer Strode '8 1 wa a featured arti t in the Valley Arti ans Market art how in Cambr idge , N.Y . . . . Timothy Carstens '82 represented Colby at the inau­guration of]ohn Bardo as pre i­d e n t of W e tern Caro l i n a U n i v e r i t y i n C u l lowhee , ancy D i Bernardo '87 N.C. . . . Nancy Briggs Mar-shall '82 was an invited speaker at three Maine trade aroup conferences in the spring. he poke about pub l ic relation and marketing techniques . . . . Ethan Shapiro '83 wa named asso­c iate dean at Phi l l ip Academy in Exeter, . H . . . J ack on Hole, Wyo. , ki in tructor Nathan Emerson '85 wa a ked by Jordan s K ing Hus ein to ki w ith the monarch's family for a \\'eek last w in ter. Emerson also publi hed an article on cros -country sk iing in Snow Count1·y magazine . . . . Ann-Meg White '85 i the new assistant d irector of Tufts U niver i ty's Fund for Arts and

c iences . . . . Nancy D i Bernardo '87 has been promoted to director, synergy for Capital Cit ies/ ABC I nc . . . . Charles Ferris '88 has jo ined another Waterv i l le trial attorney to form The Law Office of Geller & Ferris . . . . Kenneth Ginder '88 has been named senior as oc iate in the tax pract ice of Cooper & Lybrand in Bo ton . . . . Jodie Caruolo '89 ha opened a law pract ice in

eekonk, R. l . . . . Neil Menard '89 i new d irector of executi\'e and employee benefit p lans at The Kalee l Co. Inc . of B ton . . . . Jeffrey Smith '85 has been named v ice president of community banking for Key Bank of Maine.

MILEPOSTS Marriages : Daniel O 'Hal loran '80 to J ane M ahoney i n Cumberland, M aine . . . . Wende Davis '82 t o Joseph chultz i n Beverly Farms, M a . . Katherine Keller '86 t o M ichael Garfield Jr . in Holderness, N . H . . . . Holly James '87 to J effrey M ichael in Granville, Ohio . . . . Sean M. Sullivan '87 to Amy Drury in I lesboro, Maine . . . . Jeffrey Tracy '89 to Kimberley Jenkin in We t Barn table, Mas .

Births: A son, ean M ichael, to J on and Mary Beth Whitaker Mcintyre '82 . . . . A daughter, Catherine Mary, to Louis '85 and Susan James Geremia '85 . . . . A daughter, Ju l ie pencer Fe is , to Christopher Feiss '85 and Hadley Hubbard '86 . . . . A daughter, Emily, to Katherine Gates Karlik '87 . . . . Two on ,

icolas and N athan, to Andrew Rudman '87 . . . . A on, Alan Osamu, to Tetsuya and Paige Alexander Sato '88 . . . . A daugh-ter, Hai l i Ka ak -Moyer, to Ingrid Kasaks-Moyer '89 and Quin Moyer '89 . . . . A son M itchel l Thoma , to Stephen '89 and Karen Faunce Rand '90.

two children, Kyla Quay, 4, and Jenna Lee, 2. Hank works as a tax attorney and president of North American Bio y terns, Inc. L ike many Colby alum , they reside out ide of the Bo ton area. Beth Henry Russell made the last payment on her Colby tu-

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dent loan the ame month she decided to lu i t her job with the M aine rate Hou ing Authority and tay at home ful l t ime with her on, Thomas, born in ep­tember 1 994. " I think it took tour at Colby to real ly prepare for ful l ­t ime parenthood. While it' by

far the hl:''t ' J l 'h ' l \·1:' e\·er hacl. 1 t\ cerra1 11h· the most chal len!.!tn!.!." . . . La-,t December Paige Alex­ander Sato hacl her f iN Lh i l cl , A lan 0-.amu. :he ancl her hu'­h<1nd arc cal l 1 11g him :am She ha, been bLI'\" wnh her inh m N .Y.C. as a rubi 1c affa ir' courcl 1 -nator at a Jar,me'e maJOr fnnd lll2redknr cL1mrany cal led .--\pn, 1-mntn. One nf the cumram·', he,t­knnll'n rrnduct, t> M G , ,n there i� ne\·er a clu l l mnml:'nr 1 :he and her hu,band al o Jn free lanLe t ran-, l a u n g from J arane'e ro English . . . . Bill Reed 53\"' that after f1n ishmg a ma"ler·, 111 h1<­tory at the Unl\·erm) of \'er­mont , he ha:, been teach 1 11g se,·enth and e ighth grade h1 wry at Berwick Academy in c1uth Bennck, l'v laine, and coachlllg soccer , k i rng and baseba l l . . . . Craig Welch , co-founder of a financial software comram· based tn Boston, ·pent 1 99-1 ex­plormg po·sible 1m·estment op­pon u n 1 t ie in former m· 1 e t a ircraft companies. Profe sor A l Maninac helped \\'1th some o f his 1 1w e tigarwns1 +

Corre pondent: Deborah A . Greene

89 Roger ' and Danielle Nowak Archambault l i ,·e

in Tuckahoe, .Y . , \\'here Dan­ielle is a c l inical research as oc 1 -ate for pharmaceu t i ca l drug tud ie and Roger i an orthope­

dic surgery re idenr. Their rro­fess ional commi tments keer them bu·y, but ,·ac ar ion w Greece and Hawai i provide some qua l i ty relaxat ion . . . . Sonya Hal l Morrison and her hu,band, ala · arri t Chri topher Mornson, moved to Bel l ingham , Wa h.

onya teaches French at a h1gh chool and, I 'm happy to hear, in

her spare t ime is st i l l dancmg. he and Chri graduated from

the Mounta ineer c rambl ing Cia and are putt ing their nell' k i l l to good u e m the wilds of

ea tern Washington . . . . Brad Mitchell ha left VER Y , I nc . in Bo ton and i no\\' a fir t-year l a\\' tudent at ermont La\\'

chool. He's ·pec ialt: ina in en\' i ­ronmental law, an interest that developed during campaign \\'Ork for enator Georae M itchell in 1 9 . In 1 994 he founded a

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Candid Camera Some of those dramatic

Jocu mentary-style pub­

l ic serv ice announcements

del ivered on network tele­

Y ision in J u ly by young, re ­

covering drug aJd i c ts for

Partnersh ip for a Drug-Free

America were d i recteJ by

freelance fi l m d irector, pro­d ucer and ed i tor Cabot

Phi lbrick '86. "As a d i rector I have a

lot to ay about the vi ual ," Cabot Philbrick '86

said Phi lbr ick, who conducted on-camera interviews with

one addict 's mother and with three young people who are

,ucce ses in a drug rehabi l itat ion program. He and another

ed i tor then con truc ted 1 1 30-second storie , each with a beginning, middle and sobering conclu ion foc using on mari ­

j uana as the doorway to rupture with friends and fam i ly ,

dropping out of chool , cr ime and other drugs. ( As one young woman say , pot led her to "crack, hash, ange l dust, every­

thing . " ) Phi lbrick fee l hi que tions and re pon e to the young people e tabl ished a rapport that produced the com­

pel l i ng footage. "Anecdota l ly wa the best way to go," he said, "because it makes a connection with k id watching ."

Ph i lbrick say that going to fi l ms when he was growi ng up wa "l ike going to the c i rcu , " but i t wa n't unt i l h is jun ior year at Colby that he real i:ed " i t's not th is magical th ing.

People actually do this for a career. " The next year he took fi l m study c l as e wi th Professor Dav id Lubin, who opened h is eye , he ays, to the c l as ics of fi lm h istory. An Engl ish major

"Wej ustwannafin ish Runner's Club" to rai e money for chari ty whi le running the Bo ton Mara­thon. He rai ed 3 ,000 for Rosie' Place and did more than ju t fin­ish the race in 3 : 5 2 ! . . . Andy S imons is enjoying the student l ife aaain at Boston Col lege Law

choo l ; hi wi fe, Amy ( Mo­menee ) , i the dean of tudents at the Walnut Hill School . They ll'orked for four year at a private h igh school in Southern Cal i for­nia and are happy to be back East with their black lab, Sam, adopted after heing abandoned in the

outhem California mountains. . . . Shelly Horton Olson and hu,banJ Brad are l iving in N .Y.C. Shelly got her M.B .A . with hon­or from Columbia in 1 99 3 and is an equity research analy t at Smith Barney; Brad finished in the top 5 percent of h is cla at

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The Wharton School of Busine s in 1 995 and is the VP of strategic p lanning, also at Smith Barney. . . . Mark S icinski and h is wife, El len, were expecting their first ch i ld. Mark is a vice president at the Bank of New York and Ellen is an assistant VP for Natwest U A. They are l iving in Ossining, N .Y. . . . Christin Haight is work­ing toward a ma ter' in ocial work at Columbia Univer i ty whi le st i l l working fu l l t ime as a p ychiatric counselor in White Plains, N . Y . . . . Kim Murphy Brewer married Paul Brewer in J une 1 99 5 and is l iving near Adrienne and J im Connolly in Arl ington, Va. K i rn works at the Nat ional Academy of c ience and tel l me that Sasha Carey is in medical chool at Howard. Mark Silvern is a law tudent at Suffolk Univers ity . He and h is

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and creat ive writ ing minor, Ph i lhrick had produced "noth­ing v isual ," however, so after graduation he took a fi l m c las in Boston to bu i ld up a portfol io, which led to a year of experimental fi lmmak ing at the School of the Art I nst i tu te of Chicago. In 1 99 1 he earned an M . F.A. in fi lm product ion from Syracuse University.

"Harry Dev l in-An Artist's Ody sey," Ph i lbrick' fi lm

on the commerc ial and f ine arts art ist who e career spans

more than a half century, won the Fir t P lace Gold Camera

Award for Documentary at the U.S . Internat ional Film and V ideo Fest ival in Chicago last May. Ph i lbrick hopes to land h i product ion on a Public Broadcasting Sy tem national

rota t ion, a l though. he recognizes " that \Vou ld be a stretch. You can be creat ive and good, but i t ' a whole other job to market and di tribute," he aid. 'Tm painfu l ly free lance ."

Currently l i v ing in Hoboken, N .J . , Phi lbrick a lso pro­duced an ind ustrial documentary, "The Making of Moun­tain Bike City," in assoc iat ion with I nternational F i lm Design Group Inc . in N ew York City . F i lm De ign give h i m an office th.at is "only a l itt le shel l o f a place," he said, b u t i t M anhattan phone number "makes me look b igger than I am. I t 's a tough road, freelance. You're never unemployed,

you're ju t between project ." The commercials and a "noble day job" at the American

Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, N.Y . , where he

demonstrates new technology and teaches sch ol groups about filmmaking, support hi ongoing documentary labors, Philbrick ays. Currently he's working up subjects and pur u ing funding.

Alth ugh he think he'll nrnke a feature film someday, his experience on the Devl in and other projects ha him hooked. "More and more," he said, " I love the documentary."

w ife , at torney Bett ina Toner ilvern, l ive in Melrose and saw

many classmates at Scott Wen t­ze ll 's wedding to Lisa Krikorian . Mike D' Agostino, who i in an M . B.A. program at Case West­ern Re erve, wa there, along with Scott Will iamson, Brad Lord, Bruce Whiting, Quinn Moyer and Ingrid Kasaks-Moyer and P e t e r A r s e n a u l t . A n t h o n y Mazzola 's M . B . A . s tudies a t Texas Christian Univer i ty pre­vented him from attending . . . . Cherie Poulin Szustak is a full­t ime mom after the b irth of her son, Christopher Michael. he and hu band M ichael, a p i lot, l i ve in Lewi ton, Maine . . . . George Stevens graduated from We tern New England College School of Law in 1 993 and is now the in-hou e counsel for A A Real Estate ervices in Newing-

ton, Conn. Traveler John Semple's motto, 'That which does not ki l l me makes for a good travel tory," i definitely true , and I wish I had pace to print al l his tale . He wrote before em­barking on a three-year journey through Europe, Northern Af­rica, Israel , Jordan, yria and wherever the wind takes him on hi BMW R 0 a/s motorcycle. . . . Scott Turtel is an M .B.A. student at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, North­western Un ivers i ty . Hi wife, Erin ( DeChri topher '8 ) is an account exec w i t h BA i n Evan ton , I l l . . . . Davis Russell received an M.A. in pol i t ical sci­ence and i now a graphic art i t/ production engineer. H i wife, Carolyn ( Baker '90) , is an envi­r nrnental consultant. +

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Correspondent: Laura Sen ier

90 Sheri Berger wrote to let me know that she gradu­

ated from Cornell busine - chool and is now working as a recru i ter for J . P. Morgan. Her job take her to campu e around the country to recru it people for entry-le,·el po·inon . he ent word that Eileen Kinney was to graduare this May from Cornell bu me · school . La·r summer they l h·ed together in N e w York whi le E i leen worked for Hewle t t ­Packard. heri al o ran into A n ­drew Grossman, "·ho i working on a campaign for "·omeone in

ew Jersey . " . . J im Clifford wwte to tell me that he pent some t ime after graduation teach­ing in Portland, Maine, but is now p Irsuing a "career as a pro­fessional wdent," working on a law degree and lh· ing in Newton, Mass. He sends lots of nell"s on friend and c lassmates: Bi l l ' 9 and Bebe Clark Bul lock are mo\' ing to M anchester , V t . , where Bi l l w i l l b e working for On· i ( the fly-fish ing/outdoor equipment manufacturer) . Bebe plan- to teach after the b irth of their first child. John and Nori Sterling Gale are l iv ing in Cari­bou, Maine, where John is an as istant d istrict attorney and

ori i a graphic arti r. Their on, Tate, i abour 1 - 1 /2 now, and they are expect ing another baby soon. J im al o tell me that Rich Robin wa married to N ur i t Goldman thi p a t January i n ew Orlean and that they now l ive and work in Lo Angele . Brian Lee is l iv ing in ew Canaan, Conn., where he works in indu -trial auctioneering and ale and "travel too much." Peter Syl­vester live in Brookl ine, Mas ., and works for a mall in urance company. (] im said that he, Brian and Peter are perfecting their

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handicaps . ) Mark Driscoll re­cently mo\'ed back to Boston from Va i l , Colo . ; he'5 look111g for an interesting job in real estate . J im al·o ay- thar Jocelyn Jones b 111 her fin.t year of law school (he d idn't say \\'hat schoo l ) and that Kaki Martin graduated last pring from Harrnrd' landscape archi­tecture program and i > now l t \' lng 111 Cambridge. Thank for al l the new , J i m ! . . . Karen C u iffo Booker and her hu band , I ate, are l i ,· ing and working in Con­nect icut . Karen 11·orks as a pro­gram coordinator at the Hartford Graduate Center and ate i a busine analyst w i th CIGNA. I n their spare t ime, ate was train­ing for a ·pring marathon and Karen was rehear ing for a dance rec ital and 11·ork ing on a second master' degree . . . . Anne Pol­lock Briggs l i ,·e in T ennes ee ll"ith her hu band, J ohn, a com­puter c on u l tant . Anne 11· i l l graduate from Vanderbilt Uni­\'er-ity w ith an M .B.A. in finance and accounting. After graduation, they will mO\'e to ew York City , 11·here Anne ll" i l l work for Chemi­cal Bank in corporate finance. . . . Anne Cirillo wrote to let me know that he and her fami ly ( h u band Robert Freed m a n , Hayden Marie, 2 - 1 /2 , and R iley

u:anne, mon ths) recently mo,·ed to Boi e, Idaho. Anne is happy to be clo e to her family again. . . Lisa Bove Baker and her hu band , M ike, are st i l l l i\ '­ing in orth Carol ina. Lisa has been work111g there w ith the a­t i o n a l H e a l t h e r Y i c e as a physic ian' a i rant for the past two year and wa expecting a baby in Augu t. he tell me that Anne Band i s gett ing married ( he has been commuting be­tween Wyoming and Montana, where he is enrolled in oraduate choo l ) . Lisa al o mentioned that

she' been in touch w ith Randy Grover, who is now an optom­etrist and i stat ioned with the

Army 111 Germany, 11·here he ll"dl be for another rwo year' or ,t).

. .-\nd f111al ly , 1 f any of you \\'tll he pa"ing through the Wa,h111gtnn. D.C., area and ll'ant tn do -nme h1k1 11g, be 'ure to ger 1n touch \\'1th David Coleman. O<Jnd lead, h 1 - ll"eekly h i ke, thro ugh the

henendoah Nar ional Fore t and u ually ha· ahout 1 0 to 1 5 people 11· t th him. I f you 're 1ntere,ted, you can contact Da"id ,· ia e-ma1 I at colemand1?1ad,·1 ·nry.com . . . . Thank a.gain to al l nf you who 11Tote in \\' Ith news. 1 enjoy get­t ing your letters and pas inQ the nell's on, n keer th<1se cards and letters coming1 +

Corre·ponden t: Portia Walker

9 1 Charlie Allen i-; pursu ing hi M.B.A. down 111 At­

lanta . . . . Peter and Margaret Curran Bailey are enjoying mar­ried l ife in Austel l , Ga. he is no\\' the enior youth uperv1sor in a helter for abused/neglected chil-

dren and started her master's of science and communi ty coun_el­ing at Georgia State Uni,·ersiry, and Peter i a student at Life Chi­ropractic College. They were mar­ried la t eptemher 30, 11·ith Amy Davis and Mike Schwartz in the ll"edding parry. They report a nstt from Josh Green, ll"ho i- currently at the Federal Lall' Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga. (are we tart111g to see a pattern here ? ) , where he is training to be a pecial agent with I peak­ing of Amy, he'll be pending some rime with the Bailey during the ummer Olympic . . . . And the final word from down outh: Deanne Newton i a grad tudent in exercise science and cardiac rehab at the Uni,·ersity of Geor­gia. . . . Mike Doubleda i nor marr ied . ( M y mt take . ) . . . Corinne Hauser Tardio, recently married to Doug Tardio and new

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home Oll'ner, lo\·e, her career a> <1 markering manager for EJ Krause A:,,oc 1are, Imernam mal Exhib1-r i Lm and Conference Manage­menr . . . . Ch ris Caponi and his ll'ife, Hearher ( He\\'S '9 3 ) , hm·e a l in le bn\', C.J (Chris Caplmi J r. ) . They mm·ed w tvl i l ll'aukee i n � er­rember after Chris lefr rhe U .S. Manne Corps ( he ll'a> promored ro capra i n and is s r i l l in rhe re­sen·es and recendy spent rhree \\'eeks in Norway ) . hris is no\\' a sale- rep for T oyma l ndusrrial Fork Trucks and Hearher is reaching. He has become good friends ll'irh Jen Scott and Eric Johmon '92 , and rhe rhree of rhem ha1·e �rnned rhe ir oll'n unLlfficial 1' 1 i lll'aukee Colby lub 1 He say . " Hearher and I are enjoy ing being rarenr wry much." . Jen Cos i s now an e1wironmental healrh inrern for rhe Brookl ine De�'amnem of Heald1 and i:, gening her ma ·rer's in publ ic healrh ar BU. She and J im Brayer '89 are marrying rhis momh . . . . Trish Biros co-ll'rnre rhe fir r of ar l easr four scient ific papers rhat w i l l be presented in the Journal of Pediatric Pulmon­olog)' in rhe near furure. I r 's ba ed on rhe research she and her col­league- ha\'e been conduct ing for th past three year· on chi ldren wirh a ·rhma. Her work ha> raken her ro major re·earch center ,uch as The T exa:, A;thma Camp for K id in Tyler. Texa · . . . . Trevor Braden and Jen Porter '9 3 are ful l ­t i me teacher in biology and pan­ish, dorm heads and ou rdoor educarion leader ar the Verde Val ley chool in Ari:ona. In be­tween :,emesrer · rhey ha\'e \ · isi red Ch ile and Mexico for rhe la t four year . Trevor ul r imarely would l ike ro srart a school down in Ch ile . . . . Susan Cummings d id her firsr rriarhlon lasr ummer and ·ay , "al rhough I did nor break any record . I finished w irhout drown­ing! ( Thar' all I cared about . ) " At one of the triath lon he ran into Dave Fernande: ' 9 ar rhe finish line, who he says was far out in front of her during the race . . . . I hope e\'eryone had fun at the re­union! +

Corre pondent : Katie Martin

9 2 I had ;o much news rhat ome of i t is dated by

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noll' . . . . Anne Maddocks is l i \·­ing i n Brn(]k l ine and ll'ork ing at the Dana-Farber Cancer Inst i ­tute doing non- Hodgk ins lym­phoma research. She rlan to head ro medical school in the fa l l . She had news about some other c lassmates. J o h Steinber­ger is l i \· ing in Brookl ine and \\'Ork ing at Key tone M u tu a l Funds. J e n Nehro Patriacca re ­cently married and is work ing as a research analyst at Bank of Bos­ron. Kelly Wenger ! 1 \·e· and ll'nrk. in Bou lder. Colo. Meg Ewing l i \·e:, in ew York and i:, work ing for Goldman- ach Co. Sarah Block is teaching and ski­i ng in Crested Butte , Colo. Kris­tin Wallace is rur ·u i ng her Ph.D. at MCP/Hahnemann m Penn­sylvania and is engaged to Tom L i \·ey '9 1 . Elaine Bueschen is in her >econd year of law school at American Uni \·ersitv in D.C. , and Sura DuBow 1· head <;\\' im coach at Col by ! . . . Curt Stevenson is lh· ing in orwood, Mas · .. and recent ly rook a pmir inn as a project manager at F idel i ty ln ­\·e,tment . In December 1 994 he married h is high chool sweet­heart. He has been · inging with . ome Colby Eighr a lums . includ­ing Kris Boynton. Mark Longsjo, Chris Frothingham, Mark W in­ieki '90, Dm·e O' hea '93 , Pete Caruso '93 and John Frothingham '94 . Hb orher ne\\'s: Pete An­drews i married and in law school , Kyle Barnard is operat­ing a construc tion and reno1·a­t ion comrany in Cambridge, and Stephen Bell is an ed i tor for Lall'yers Weekly . . . K imberly Kennedy is l i \' ing in arasota, F la . , work ing a a l icensed mas­sage therapist . he hares to ar­tencl oraduate school this fall for phy ical therapy . . . . Eric J ohn­son l ives in M i lwaukee and i thoroughly enjoying hi job ar

trong Capital Management . . . . J C Klick i l iv ing in Worce ter, Ma5s . , and Iov ino hi- econ<l year at UMas med ical school. . . . Dan Starr i s l iY ing in I thaca, N . Y . , and i in a Ph .D. program in ge­netics at Cornel l . . . . Becky Saw­yer, a lso in l thaca, i pur ing a ma ter' in nu t r i t ion at or­nel l . . . . Jeannette R iddle is l i \· ­ing in Denver, Colo., and working at the Chi ldren' Hospital there.

he ski a much a po ible . . . . Melissa Small i l iv ing in Glen

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Arhor, 1' lich . . ll'here she work at the Leelanau chool, teaching math, coaching track and cro·s country , act ing a ass isrnnt dorm master and coord inatino enrich­ment rrogram . � he ha pent u m mers rurs u i n g a master 's

degree at the Uni \·ers i ry of Con­nect icut i n educational �rychol­(1gy and ll 'a to graduare rh is summer. She hopes to begin a fu l l - t ime Ph.D. program in the ame field 11· i th in the next two

year-;. . . Thokozan i Kadzamira i:, in ·chool in Washinoton, D.C. , pur:,uing her Ph.D. in economics \\' i th rhe hope of one clay I i\ · ing in At lanta . . . . l n No\'ember, Gary Anderson and Jes 1ca Graef '9 3 \\'ere engaged and were plann i ng an Augu · r wed d i n g . . . And Anne Bowie i in Cambrid e work ing on her fina l internsh ip and was to graduate in May from Wa h i ngton U n h·er i ty . After tll'O year· in t. Loui , he is harpy rn be back on the Easr Coa t . +

Corre pondent: William Miller Jr.

93 Genevieve Steven is an arch i tec t at the Smith­

;onian lnsr i tut ion. he i chal­lenged greatly but de ire· to go back for an M . B. A . . . . Dave O'Shea work. m one ofrhe dean's office at Radcl i ffe College and i

t i l l inging w i th the l ikes of Pete Caruso, who is a third-year law

tudent. . . . Joe McKenna i a techn ical tra i ner, tra in ing the staff of Delrhi !n terner ervices how to use and upport I nternet software. He was m arr ied to Dan iel le M. Paulu rhi past fall on the Cape . . . . Emilie Abair i work ing at EF Au Pair in Ma sa­chusetts , a nonprofit organi:ation that marches Europeans w i th American host fam i l ies. he has many tra\'e l opporrunit ie . In an Franci co th is spring she and Beth Montgomery met Kristin Wink­ler, who is tudying at tanforcl for her ma ter's and hopes to re­t u rn to N e w England oon. Kr i tm, Emi l ie , Beth and Romany Rehkamp attended Jen Curtis' wedd ing. Emilie also wri tes that Sabina King ha returned home after her rwo-year stay i n Guate­mala w i th the Peace Corp . . . . Beth Cronin i teaching En­gl i h at a h igh school in Arl ing-

ton, Ma s . She pent la t ummer leading Outward Bound trir for ar-r i k h igh chool t udents. he l i \· e i n Ma sac h u s e t t s w i th N a n c y R i c h a rds and S a l l y Z imm er l i , w h o rec e i ved her master's and is certified to teach h igh chool. . . . Kristen Schuler graduated from Bo ton College Law c hool and i s l i v ing in D.C. . . . Ben Clough i in ew­rorr, R . I . , where he i a fir t mate on Conquere, a rac ing sai lboat. The boat i 10 feet longer than the America' Cup boats, and he is enjoying a fine sai l ing season. . . . Ch ris Baynes i a marketing rec ia l i t at Cap i tal One Finan-

c ia l in D.C. He ran the Boston Marathon w i th Mike 0' eil and Jack Higgins . . . . Ken Wilcox is l i \· ing in Hollywood, Fla. , and is in his econd year of graduate chool in r·ychology. He pro-

\' ides therapy to sexually abused adults as well a anger manage­ment m Florida rrison . . . . An­drew Stanley i l iv ing in V irgin ia and work i ng for K PMG Peat Marwick. He is a consultant and tra\'els exrensively . . . . Chris Wilder is an a ociate in the in­vestment bank ing d iv i ion of Yamaichi Securir ies i n New York. He travels occa ional ly to outh America for work and see Scott Reed and Mike Rosenblum quite a b i r . . . . Dev Tandon i l iv ing i n LA. and work ing a an ac­count execu t i \'e at BBDO, an ad­\ 'e r t i ing firm. H i s acco u n t include Aprle Computer. . . . Jeff Baron is work ing for Med ia Map, a oftware concern in Cambridge, Mass . , where he i in oftware ales. He has begun the B- chool

proce· and worked as a coordi­nator for the Dole campaign in Brook l ine , Mass . . . . Heather Hews Caponi, her hu band, Chris '9 1 , and their on, C.J . , 1, have mo\·ed from an Diego to Mi l ­waukee, Wis . he oraduated fir r in her master' degree c lass at the UniYer ity of an Diego . . . . Kri Balser Moussette was married on February 24 to John Mou ette.

he ha graduated from Bo ton College Law chool and will be an attorney in Ma achusetts . . . . Sarah Steindel Blood i an inter­nat ional admi ion coun elor at Key tone College in Pennsylva­n ia . he and her hu band are refi n i h ing an old farmhou e . . . . Jen B ierwirth i l iv ing in Boston

and working a a health care con­sultant. he recently spent two month work ino and tra\'el111g in Korea and J apan . Sa;ah Burditt i a sy rems pecia l i ·r in Litt le Rock, A rk. he is inrnked in a home brew club "where home brewers get together to sample and critique each other's prod­ucts." arah recommends that we read Ishmael by Daniel Qu inn . . . . Libby Repass is a re ·earch mi­crobiologi t l iv ing in Portland, Maine. he i enjoying her job, which challenge and teaches her much . . . . Dan Connolly wa re­cently married and is l i \·ing in Ma sachu etts with h i wife. Jeff Zlot i in San Franc i ·co, ha\' ­ing moved from D.C. He is work ­ing for Montgomery ecuri t ie · . . . . Tasha Worster i a econd­year med ical tudent at the Uni­vers i ty of Vermont. he has tarted her cl inical rotations and

enjoys Burlington very much . . . . Doug Satran is a second grade teacher in Randolph, Mas-. He i " loving e\·ery minute of i t" and st i l l keeps in touch with Colby friends . . . . Karen Beauchesne i an im·entory buyer for L .L . Bean. he recently traveled to Hong Kong and outh China, loved Hong Kong and hope to return annually . . . . I wish I could include all ubmi s ions. More next t ime! +

Corre pondent: Alicia S . Hidalgo

94 Congratulations to Chris Rogers and Andrea Bow­

man, who were looking forward to their wedding and J amaica honeymoon thi month! Chri i the coordinator of computer pro­gram at Cushing Academy in Massachusett , where he al o coache three port . Andrea is the tore manager at The Limited Too in Faneu i l Hal l . Chri wrore that Ed Ramirez work for Fidel­ity l nve tment in Boston . . . . Cate Czernicki has been work­ing for a law office and will enter the UConn chool of Law in the fall. . . . Katy Warrington i at the Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine and plan to pecial ize in equine internal medicine. he wrote that Meredith Gregory fin­i hed her cour e and tarred her doctoral re earch at Loyola U. in

NEWSMAKERS William Prie tley '90 has joined the law firm of Conn, Ka\·anaugh, Rosenthal , P le i c h Ford in Massachusett . . . . Peter Seku low '90 wa named director of earned media for the Republican ational Commi ttee . . . . John Daileane '92 is coordinator of athletic for the Dracut, Ma ., ch0ol system. . . . Leslie Campbell '93 i · an ac­count pec ial i t at haron Merrill Associates in Boston . . . . J eremy Leslie Campbell '93 Samuels '93 was promoted to physical education coordinator at the Jewi h Community Center in Houston . . . . Kerry Enright '94 wa honored by Mas achu ett ' Attracting Excellence in Educat ion program . . . . Gillian Ki ley '95 won a poetry teach111g fellow hip at the Uni\·er ity of Iowa' Writer - ' Workshop.

MILEPOSTS Marriages: Leslie M. Couture '90 to Peter Mourmoura in Portland, Maine . . . . Garin Arevian '9 1 to Kelly Evan '92 in Chatham, Ma . . . . Sean Lucey '9 1 to Megan Fitzpatrick '94 in Chatham, Mas . . . . Devon Tucker '92 to Jeffrey Bo:ard in Tracey' Landing, Md . . . . Thaddeu Gemski '93 to arah

con in anbornton, N.H. Births: A on, M itchell Thoma , to tephen ' 9 and Karen Faunce Rand '90 . . . . A daughter, arah terling, to Jon '90 and Nori Sterling Gale '90.

Chicago. Also Heidi Sil\'er. at orrheastern U. Law School.

fin ished a co-op at the U . A t torne y ' s Office . . . . C h r i s Roosevelt, completing h i s L\. in archaeology at Cornel l , de­signed and taught a writtng course for freshmen. In the ummers he works with an archaeological ex­pedition in Turkey and ha ap­pl ied to a Ph .D . program in archaeology . . . . Robert U n ­derwood, an English teacher i n J apan, went scuba di\· ing in Ma­lays ia and has \'isited ingapore, Au tralia, I ndia and Vietnam . . . .

ince graduation, Carolyn Read ha become a certified EMT, rnl­unteered in a .Y.C. prison 1\· i rh women who k i l led or assaulted their abusive partner and pent a summer in ingapore research­ing and writing articles for a tour­ist maga:ine. he i now in the Peace Corp in M ad aga-car , where he is working a · a health communicator and planned to \'i it Melissa Wilcox in Tan:a­n ia. Carolyn wrote that Hollis Rendleman is in eattle doing advocacy and education on do­me tic v iolence issues . . . . J ason

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Sudano enjoys working for the .Y. rock Exchange and wa,

planning to \· isit Amy Clapp in Taos, 1 . He wrote that Adam Furber, his former roommate 111

.Y . , i s working for a la\\· firm in Germany, and Marina Grande ha · a ne11· job in Latin American re earch at UB ecurit ie· . . . . Jen Zwick and J a ·on omer were married la t 0ctober in Connecti­cut and enjoy l i\· ing in Bosron. J en is employed in finan ial ser-1·ices at Fidel i ty l n\'estmenrs, and Jason i an attorney completmg his ma ter' of law in banking at BU. Jen 1note that Greg Chris­topher is ·rudying architecture at Columbia and Alyssa Schwenk i in law school in ermonr . . . . Erin Crossland loYe 1rnrking for Arthur D. Little in Cambridge as a consultant/Ru s ian translator and has tra\·eled to Belaru , ll'here he i · im·oh-ed with a project on

en\' ironmental restoration and nuc lear threat reduction . . . . Af­ter workino on a congre · ional campaign, Pau l Matthews be­came a legi lat i\'e aide for a Mas­·achu ett rate repre entat i\·e. He wrote that Jeffrey Cohen is a

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-ect1n cl - \ e <H L111 - t u J e n t a r \ . i lhm<>\-a ancl l 1n:' 11· 1 rh hawn Keeler . 11 h,1 11«>rk' f,,r .1n ec11-nt1m1c C < lll 'u l tmg firm 111 Phi l.1-delph1a. He al,o ><l\' Erik Hassing ll'llrb I ll r,1rtland, /\ lame, anJ Matthew Salah l ' a C< llll['Uter prtH!rammer at l\ led 1 tech. Inc. 111 Frammgham. la-- . . . . Ramsey Ell is . f, >rmerll- a re,earch a"1'­tant at the Dana-F.irber Cancer ln-r 1tute. planned w tra\ e l 111 Eurnpe and 1n1rk 111 l\ 1 i lw;iukee before heg1 11111ng medical ,chn,11 at \'\ a,h111gtc>n LJ. 111 St. Lc1u 1' th1, mt1nth. Ram�ey see' J a\' Allard, wh,1 1, l i1 · ing 111 :\ 1 l - t,1n w i th Ken D u p u i and Ben Damon '95. J ay 1 , a re-earch health sC1ent 1st at the Brcickwn \'A Ho,pit.il and J,1ing research on sch1:ophrenia at the Han·ard I\ 1edical Sch,1,11. Ramsey 1< al'n 111 touch ll' tth Laura Pavlenko, who fi n i shed her master's in j 1u rn a l 1 · m a r 1 l o r t l1 11·e:.tern and 11·\lrks at a ne11·spaper 111 the Chicago area . . . . l am m1w \\'llrk­mg 111 the human re. nurce.; de­pa�tment of Houghwn l\l ift1m Pub Ii ·h1 11g Co. in Bn,tt.m and cnmpleting the HR management program at Bentley Col lege. +

Corre pondent: Alyssa Fa lwel l

95 Congratulatmns to Sara Palmer, 11·ho was planning

to marry 1 l ike Perfetti on J u ly 2 ara teaches math in Michigan

and al ·o coaches ba kerbal l anJ occer. he -aid Erin Carmichael

is 1rnrking in Chicago and Ali Fields is teachmg middle school Latin in l\1as:,ach�i-en-. . . . Con­oratulations are al o m order for Ariana Talbot, 1Yho married Ke\·in Vance in Bountiful, Utah, on January 5 . Both are sruJenr at the Uni\·ersiry of Wyom111g in Laramie . . . . Wendy Oram-Smith got enoaged last J une and is plan­ning aJ une 1 997 ll'edding. Wendy is ll'ith Teach for America on the border of Tex as and Mexico. he 11Tite that the experience has 1::-een ama:ino, and he no11· plans to continue in the education field.

he also informed me that Ta ha \\ alker i al ·o teaching-in ·outh­em 1aine-and plannin a wed­ding for this August. . . . Gillian Kiley recently wa awarded one of three prestigiou poetry teaching

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When Mark Longsjo

'92 anJ Poppyann

Mastrovita '9 3 were married

in November 1 994 it was,

naturally, a beginning, but

not j ust for them. A lso at the

wedJing were several cutTent

and former member� of the

olby E ight, inc luding a handful who, along with the

bridegroom, provided music

during the ceremony. They

d idn't know it at the time,

but it was the premiere of a

Something to Sing About enjoy and we're doing i t with

our best friends . "

Longsjo sa id the guys in

the group lost touch with

each other hort l y after grad u a t i ng and A fter 8

pulled them back together.

Busy personal l ive and ca­reer opportunit ies mean oc­

casional ly los ing a member. Curt Stevenson '92, a char­

ter member of the group who

often held rehearsals at his home, left After 8 a few

new inging group. months ago, and Griffin w i l l " W e had s o much fun Back: Marc Winiecki '90, lun Shirahama '92, Dave O'Shea '93, depart oon to return to his

pract ic ing in the week prior Peter Caruso '93 , Mark Longsjo '92. Middle: Chris Frothingham hometown of San Franc isco.

to the wedding and the per- ·9 5 _ Front : Mark Griffin '95, Kris Boynton '92. "Nobody can promise they

formance was so well received that we dec ided to j ust keep it wil l be here for the next year, so we et our goals for three

going," Longsjo said. After 8 was born. months and play i t by ear after that," Longsjo aid . "[ hope

The Boston-based, n ine-member group, ignoring the ob- we can establ i h a revolving membersh ip by bringing in new

v ious numerical d iscrepancy, adopted its name as a tongue- Colby Eight ingers who graduate and move to Boston ."

in-cheek bow to the ir Colby chora l h istory . A l l of the c urrent The group has become wel l establ ished, usua l ly l in ing

member -Longsjo, Marc W iniecki '90, Kris Boynton '92 , up engagement week ly at local restaurant , c iv ic organi -

J u n Shirahama '92 , Chris Froth ingham '92 , David O'Shea zat ion meetings, wedd ing and private part tes. The i r first

'9 3 , Peter Caruso '9 3 , M ark Gr iffin '95 and J onathan offic ia l g ig was a a warmup for a comed ian at the Comedy

Froth ingham '95-sang for the Colby E ight and j umped at Connec t ion at Fane u i l Ha l l . "We've been doing th is for

the opportunity to perform aga in , Longsj ays. "Th is has about e ighteen month now and it ha developed its own

nothing to do with income or wanting to quit our day job ," momentum," Longsj o said . "I hope we can keep i t go i ng he -a id . "We a l l love to s ing, o we're doing omething we vve l l into the future . "

fel lowship� a t t h e Iowa Writer ' Work ·hop. Gil lian wil l be teach­ing intro lit class at Iowa in the fall. . . . Abe Rogers wa one of three men recently elected to the USA Triathalon' first-en�r Na­tional Resident Team at theOlym­pic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Abe will be training ;md compering with Team U A while preraring for a hnr at the Olym­pics in 2000 . . . . Brian Schwegler spent six months a� a farmer in the C:ech Republic before etting down to work on h is Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago. He told me about going to a Colby track team reunion at a bachelor rarry for Matt Train or '94. ln a ttendance were John Dunbar, Zach Nightingale, Kebba Tolbert '94, Ja on Bologna '94, Terry Meehan '94, Jonna Curry '93 and J ason "Grime " mith '96 . . . . Annie Girton i working as a n e d i to r i a l a s i s t a n t for

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Greenha,·en Pre , a publishing company in San Diego. . . Meg Sweeny and Deb Norris are work­ing in Jackson Hole, Wyo. . . Bill Bradley i work ing at 3Com, cov­ering Wal l Street for computer networking equipment, and Den­nis Nations i� working at Putnam in Bo ton. The two of them aw Matt Tangney, who is also in Boston . . . . Jason Hallee i · l ivino in Portland, working at Dexter

hoe and tak ing classe at U M. . . . Lauren Pelz is teaching pan­ish and coaching ba ketbal l and lacrosse at Lawrence Academy.

he planned to reach and do ad­mi n i � t rat i ve work at Loomis Chaffee over the ummer. . . . Regina Wlodarski recently re­turned from training in London with redit uis e Financ ial Prod­uct . She is now ba ed out of New York at their office at Park Av­enue Plaza . . . . Brett Santoli re­cently completed h is first year at

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Cornell Law and was going to pend the summer at Cornel l\

Legal Aid Clinic . . . . Pat Tedes­co has been accepted to several Ph. D. programs for history . . . Peter Murphy i going to Tuft for hi M.A.T . . . . Jon Fox is in Jerusalem, where he wa tudying the May el cr ion . . Jennifer Rock is working for KLM airl ines in New York. he was also tak ing Kung Fu, which she ay i an excellent way to balance out the rest of her l i fe . . . . J e n n ifer Packard is going to attend UC­Davb in the fall to begin her Ph.D. in ociology. She has been work­ing a a panish tutor and book­store clerk and raking pottery and photography c lasse . She al ·o rlanned an archaeological d ig on Cape Cod over the summer. he ment ioned that Wing Tam i working for the A ian Cul tural Soc iety in L . A . and Katrina Greenfield i in Portland, Ore.,

hoping to travel to Japan in the fall. . . . Mike Rosenthal is in Erie, Pa. , a a financial analy t in the financial management program at General Electric. Also in Erie i Bram Lutton, who pent la t um­mer research i ng shark . M ike writes that Mark Rubin i work­ing for DR! in Boston, Yugho Yamaguchi i in New York City and George Hamilton is in Bos­ton . . . . Maureen Finn i going to begin work on her master's in soc ial work at Bo ton Univer ity in the fall. . . . Heather Johnson is in eattle, working as a vet ass istant and taking cla se to prepare for vet chool. he men­t ioned that he saw Tachou Dubu isson, Rachael DeCosta and Dan Marsh at a wedding . . . .

Drew Matus i a re earch assoc i ­a te w i th the Hea l th Care Advi­sory Board in D.C. . . . Keep a l l the new coming! +

Harriett Lawler Davis ' 1 2 , a Maine school teacher, February 4 , 1 996, in Eastport, Maine, at 1 04.

Maurice E. Coughlin '2 1 , a U . . Post Office c lerk and postma ter, May 1 . 1 99 6 , in Water\' i l le , Maine, at 9 7 .

Hazel Dyer Town ' 2 2 , a e\\' Hampshire h igh school teacher, March 2 1 , 1 996, in Peaks 1 land, Maine, at 96.

Vivian Hubbard Pillsbury '24, a homemaker, March _9, 1 996, in Bre\\'er, Mame, at 9 j .

Russell M. Squire ' 2 5 . a bank pre idenr and Colby trustee, (.Wember 4, 1 99 5 , in Exeter, N.H .. at 9 3 .

Josephine Warburton Wilkinson ' 2 5 , o­\•ember 1 , 1 99 j .

Edith "Ducky" Grearson Money ' 2 6 , a h igh chool hi-wry teacher, M ay 3, 1 996, in West

Medford, Ma ., at 9 2 .

Leola M. Clement '2 7 , a Maine high school teacher, February 2 , 1 996, in Waternlle, Maine, at 90.

Helen Leighton ies ley '29, a teacher and homemaker, February 9, 1 996, in Falmouth, Maine, at 7.

Sterling C. Ryder '29, a Un ion Carbide manager, December 2 j , 1 99 j , in Oak R idge , Tenn., at

Robert E. Seaman '29 , a hard\\'are company owner, eptember 1 0, 1 99 5 , in Woodstock, Conn. , at

Lucy Parker Clements '30, a Maine school teacher and principal, March 1 7 , 1 996, in

ear port, Maine, at 9 1 .

Norman D . Palmer ' 3 0 , internat ionally known political c ienti t , historian and \\'riter and Colby profe or, February 2 1 , 1 996, in

eatt!e, Wa h. , at 6.

Carroll C. Mcleary ' 3 1 , a Rhode I land chool teacher, February 1 3 , 1 996, in ew

Port R ichey, Fla. , at 6.

William M. Hardy ' 3 2 , a broker and exporrer, January 1 5 , 1 996, in Chester, .H. , at 6.

Lucille Cunningham Lovett '3 2, a Jordan Marsh ale clerk, in Daytona Beach, Fla . , at 6.

Leigh B. Raymond ' 3 2 , a ew Ha\'en, Conn. , bu i n e exec u t ive, March 1 , 1 996, i n Milford, C nn. , at 5 .

E l l a Huff Compton ' 3 3 , a J .J . ewberry Co. employee, March 1 1 , 1 996, in Bradenton, Fla. , at 2 .

J ohn P. "Paddy" Davan ' 3 3 , a teacher and coach, February 2 1 , 1 996, in Portland, Maine, at 9.

D E A T H S

Howard B. Greene ' 3 3 , pre,1clent anJ CEO of CLmnect1cur compan1e·, ! day c , 1 99 5 , 111 t.. !arco lslanJ, Fla . , at 5 .

Otis B . Read Jr. ' 3 4 , a Baptist minner, April 1 2 , l 99 j , in Baltimore, Md. , at 4.

Edward J . G urney ' 3 5, a Florida U ·- . ,ena­tor, May 1 4, 1 996, in Winter Park, Fla . , at cl . Harold M . "Pat" Salisbury ' 3 5 . a chem1 ·t,

,wember 3 , l 99 j , in Rochester, .Y. , ar 8 2 .

George H. Cranton '36. a n o i l company o\\'ner, Augu't 2, 1 99 5 , in Boca Raton, Fla. , at

Robert C. Thomas '38, an Army captain, eptember 1 2 , 1 994, in Ells\\'Orth, Kan. , ar

Paul G. Win or ' 38 , a sales agent , eptember 1 6 , l 99j , in anford, Maine, at l. Henry L. Bourassa ' 3 9 , a denti r , March 30, 1 996, in Augusta, Maine, ar 79.

Constance Knickerbocker Harley '39, a homemaker, � larch 29, 1 996, in Frankfort.

1 ich . , at 79.

Earl W. Higgins ' 39 , a chool teacher and princ ipa l , April 2 3 , 1 996, in Lewiston , Maine, at l . Richard W . Hopkins '39, a 1aine high

chool teacher and principal, l 99j , in Vir­ginia Beach, a. , ar 7 2 .

Kenneth G. Stanley ' 3 9 , an execut i\·e, 1ay 1 9 , 1 99 5 , in A bury Park, .J . , ar 7

Jean Pearson Burr '4 1 , a school district employee, January 30, 1 996, in Rochester, N .Y. , at h Ruth Stebbins Cadwell '4 1 , an editor, Au­ou t 3 , 1 99 5 , in Do ·le town, Pa. , at 7 5 .

Abdo "Turk" Hassan '4 1 , a n automobile dealersh ip O\\'ner , October 4, 1 99 5 , in Braintree, Ma . , ar 76.

Geraldine Stefko Jones '4 1 , a homemaker, eptember 2 , 1 995 , in eedham, Ma ., ar 74.

Keith K . Thompson '4 1 , a teacher, coach and princ ipal in Maine schools, April 1 2 , 1 996, i n Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, a t 76.

Jane Soule Engert '42 a U . . government employee, April 2 2 , 1 996, in Wa hington, D.C., at 74.

Raymond M. Flynn '42, a po tma ter, D:­cember 29, 1 99 5 , in Biddeford, Maine, at 7 ( .

Shirley Wagner Lerette '42, a o c i a l worker, Ocrober 4 , 1 99 5 , in Augu ta, Maine, at 74.

Melvin N. Lock '42 , a manufacwring com­pany pre ident, February 6, 1 996, in Boca Rarnn, Fla., ar 7 j .

Madeleine Hinckley G ibbs '43 , a teacher and l ibrarian, October 30, 1 99 5 , in Bethel, Maine, at 74.

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Ronald M. Reed '4 3 . a per,1mnel J 1 rec wr , February 23 , 1 996, 1n t-- !onrpel 1er, \ ' r . , at / 5 . Malcolm D. McQuillan '44. ,1 reacher, Janu­ary 25 , 1 996, 1 1 1 \'<'arne. :-. I tch . , , i t 79.

Paul V. \\ itham Jr. '44. a :--.Li1 11e -tart'. em­ployee, February � , 1 996. 1 11 Ban�Lir, � L1 1ne , ar 1 f .

Robert \V. Holcomb '4 5 , a ho'>pttal chapla i n , larch l I . 1 996, 1 1 1 Le\1·i,ron. t a m e . ar ' 1 .

R. \\'eston Pierce '-t6, an 111,urance exec u­ri1·e, � 1ay 22, 1 99 j , 111 Teque,ta. Fla . , ar 7 2 .

Patricia Murray Richards ' 5 0 , a homemaker. � 1arch 3 1 , 1 996, 111 W inche,ter. Ma-- . . ar 6 / .

Robert \V . Small ' 5 0, a � a1·y empl<•Yee, :--.Ll\ 1 . 1 996, in Camaxillo, Calif. , at 6 7 .

Robert A. Stander ' 5 0, a phy,ici,r , Sepem­her -f. l 99 j , 111 Lafayette, La. , at 6 /.

Lawrence E . Wattles ' 5 0 , a farmer and l um­berman, t--tarch 1 7 , 1 996, in New \'ine1 arJ , �1aine, at 7 2 .

Robert A. Carr ' 5 3 , a management a n d 111-surance consultant, March 4 , 1 996, 111 Ocal,1 , Fla. , ar 6 5 .

Harold A. Leathe J r. ' 5 3 , en-ember / , 1 99 5 , in Dan\·er , �ta· . , at 66.

Gilbert B. Sewell '53. a teacher, ...\.pnl �,

l 99 j , in Pre con, Ari : . , at 64.

Pelham W. Brown ' 5 7 . a manager and rre,1-denr of se1·eral bu messes, February 2j, 1 996, in arles, Fla . . ar 6 1 .

Gordon D. Daugharty, Jr. ' 5 7 , a physic ian and med ical director, January 5, 1 996, 111 St. Clair, M ich. , at 60.

J udith Miller Heekin '60, a Comerica Bank officer, March , 1 996, in Ann Arbor. Mich. , at j6.

Phyll is Campobasso Flannery Senn '6 1 . a teacher, October 1 2 , 1 99 j , 111 Blachdle,

.C. , at 56.

David Almy '63 , a real estate company presi­dent, March , 1 996, in Boston, � la-- . , at 54.

Joan L. el on '63 , an insurance under­writer, in Worcester, Ma · . , at 5 3 .

Martha Beck Webber ' 6 7 , an inn O\\'ner and interior decorator, December 3, 1 99 5 , in Car­raba ett alley, Maine, at 5 2 .

Lawrence Martel ' 7 1 , a p ychiatric techni­c ian, eptember 5 , 1 994, in Lo Angele , Caltf. , ar 4j .

i. Michael Belt Jr. '75, a computer spec tal i t, J anuary , 1 996, in an Franci co, Calif. . at 42 .

Honorary Edmund S. Muskie, L.D.D. ' 57 , March 26, 1 996, in Wa hingrnn, D.C., at I .

A U G U S T 1 9 9 6 C O L B Y

final period I •

Lessons to Live By For Condon Medalist Matthew Russ, college was a real education

By Kevin Cool

Eve1:y morn ing last summer,

before the mi t haJ l ifted

from Johnson Pond and before

the first car sho\\'ed up in a Colby

park i n g l o t , a young man

emerged from a tiny tent atop

Runnal H i l l , stretcheJ and

stood for a moment to look out

over the campus that had been

hi home . For Condon Meda l ist

Matt Russ '96, tho e \\'ere spe­

cial moments.

"Just waking up in the field

anJ walking down to campus be­

fore anyone else arrived was a

nice feel ing," aid Ru s, who was

working as a tudent a si rant in

the Admission Office. Then he

added, laughing, "It wasn't en­

tirely rugged. l did rake howers."

L iving in a tent for an ent ire

summer i a very Matt Ru s thing

to do. A native of Cape El iza­

beth, Maine, he say hi love of

the outdoors was one of the rea­

sons he tran ferred to Colby from

Brown University after his first

year of col lege. "When I 'm our

in the wi lderness, especially the

Maine wilderness, it's a t ime I

can think c learly," Ru s said. " [

seem to have a double l ife-the

sol itude of h ik ing and canoeing

and the enjoyment I get from

being with my friends."

Colby has given much to Russ

and he to it . Admired for h is

C O L B Y .'I U G U T 1 9 9 6

Matthew Russ '96 leads a campus tour for prospective students.

achievements in the classroom

and elsewhere, Russ also i j ust

plain nice. Which probably ex­

plains why he wa such an effec­

tive amba sador for the College

when leading campus tours for

prospective students and parents,

and why he was selected to rep­

resent the graduating eniors this

spring as clas speaker. H i

speech, which celebrated the

power of torie -how they are

hared and why they are trea­

sured-conveyed to the com-

7 2

mencement audience the impor­

tance of community. "The most

important thing rhat Colby gave

to me was a communi ty of

friends," Russ said. "Thar' what

l was trying to get at in my

peech-for all of the classes and

activit ies that I 've participated

in, the common denominator was

the people I met. That' what I 'm

going to remember mo r about

my time here.

"Specific conversation , ex­

periences shared with other

people, things I 've learned about

other kinds of l ifestyle . When

you meet kids from other parts

of the country and from other

countries and you hear how they

spent their chi ldhoods, whether

in L .A. or Mex ico or wherever,

you ju t come away with thi

different vis ion of humanity,"

he aid.

Now, Russ and hi classmate

begin another journey on an­

other plot of soil. Russ is return­

ing to Ireland, where he spent

hi junior year in the Colby in

Cork program. He isn't sure what

he will do there except that it

wi l l involve an "artistic project."

He may write and illustrate a

children's book about traditional

I rish fishing essel known as

curraghs, he ays. There is no

definite plan. Russ is simply, in

the parlance of Joseph Campbell,

"following hi bliss."

" I t 's a tough time," Ru s said.

"A lot of my friends are going to

New York City into investment

firm and l admire them. They're

doing some h igh-powered stuff

next year, but I can't see myself

finding fulfillment in that. At

least not yet."

No word yet on whether Rus

will end up sleeping in a tent on an

Irish hillside. "We'll see," he said.

Indeed we will . +

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