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The t- IConneclcuCollegeAlumniMOJCXzineVolume 64, No. I, Fall 1986

PORTFOLIO:FIFTEEN ALUMNI ARTISTS I

THE VALUE OF NOT KNOWINGBy Paula Brisco' 86 22

IN THE VANGARDEBy Susan Baldwin Kietzman '82 27

CLASS NOTES 29

MAY 1ST:THE BACKGROUNDTHE FUTURE 32

On the cover: "Conflicts," a lije-size sculpturefrom tile Red Shoe Series by Claudia Reese '71.Photo by Kimbell Art Museum.

Edito rial Board: Vivian Segall '73. Editor (12Smith Court, Noank, CT 06340) / MargaretStewart van Pauen '87, Editorial Assistant /Katherine Gould '81/ Wayne Swanson ISusan Baldwin Kietzman '82/ MarilynEllman Frankel "64 / Louise StevensonAndersen '41, Class Notes Editor / EllenHofheimer Beumann '66 and KristinSrahlsr-lnnidt Lambert '69, ex officio /WiJIiam Van Saun, Designer.

The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine(USPS 129-140). Official pu hlication of theConnecticut College Alumni Association. Allpublication rights reserved. Contentsreprinted only by pcrmission of the editor.Published by the Connecticut CollegeAlumni Association at Sykes Alumni Center,Connecticut College, New London. CL fourtimes a year in Winter, Spring, Summer,Fall. Second-class postag-e paid at NewLondon, CT 06320. Send form 3579 to SykesAlumni Center. Connecticut College, NewLondon, CT 06320. CASE member.

Alumni Association Executive Board: EllenHofheimer Bertmann '66, President / MarionNichols Arnold ':>2, Vice President /Elizabeth Mc-Lane McKinney '52, Secretary /Lauric Norton Moffatt '78, Treasurer / Jay B.Levin '73, Mary Ann Carvin Si('gd '66. andHelene Zimmer Loew '57, Al umn i Trustees.George F. Hulme '77, Rebecca Holmes

Post '63, and june Day Hooker "l'i, Directors/ Committee Chairmen: Helen Reynolds '68(Nonunaung) / Laura WheelwrightFarnsworth '52 (Alumni Giving) / CarolFilice Godfrey '74 (Clubs) / Laurie NortonMoffan '78 (Finnur-e and Programs) / GeorgeF. Hulme '77 (Classes) / Maanen Terry '83(Undergraduate / Young Alumni Relations)/ Rita Younger. Walker '73 (Minority Affairs)/ Kristin Stahlschmidt Lambert '69(Executive Director) and Vivian Segall '73(11tumn i Magazine Editor), ex officio.

Communications to any of the above may beaddressed in care of the Alumni Office,Connecticut College, New London, CT06320

One of the aims of Tile Connecticut CollegeAlumm Magazine IS to publish thoughr-provoking articles, even though they may becontroversial. Ideas expressed in themagazine are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflectrhe official position of theAlumni Association or the College

Formost of us, art is a spectator sport. Butwhat is it like to work as on artisttoday? We asked fifteen alumni who work in mediums from cloy tofilm to put their art into words.

Peace in Nicaragua,Accepting the Sandinistas,The New York Times.

Bhopal Suits ChallengedViability of American TortSystem, New York LawMagazine, Summer 1985.

Cathy Hull '68IllustratorGiven the option, I prefer to work in pencil on

Bristol plate finish paper for a variety of reasons.Pencil is an immediate medium-there is no dryingtime as with oil paints. With tight and often unrea-sonable deadlines that is essential. Pencil affordsmaximum control with no complicated technicalprocesses to master. Finally, and most important,pencil is very forgiving. If you make a mistake, youcan simply erase it. There are problems posed by theprinting process that must be taken into considera-tion. To best reproduc.e the wide range of tones, theoriginal should be executed with the published piecein mind and adjustments must be made accordingly,sometimes at the expense of subtlety.

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I think of my work as visual writing. I have some-thing to say, but I use images instead of words toexpress it. The idea is all-important. Nothing is arbi-trary, gratuitous, or superfluous. Conceptual artdepends on anticipating and controlling the reader'sresponse. As an illustrator, as opposed to a fine artist,it is not my function to please only myself. An illus-tration, if successful, should be autonomous; but itshould also titillate, complement the article ratherthan compete with or contradict it, and amplify thegist of the story.

PenciL paper and imagination arethe tools of Cathy Hull's trade. A tree-lance illustrator whose work appearsregularly in The New York Times andTime, Ms. Hull may be asked to Illus-trate on article on the homeless. oneditorial on economic protectionism,or to croft a cartoon about corr-puterized phone calls. "Her drawingis straightforward and bold," says arecent protile in U&/c "But it is manlythe clarity at her thinking-her under-standing at what has to be said andher willingness to be understood-that makes her work so satistying andhas produced a career resume thatdreams are mode of" On thatresume are exhibitions allover theworld. a long list of awards. andappearances in every major annualof design and illustrationCathy Hull's drawings have

appeared in most notional publica-tions, including Newsweek, Esquire.New York, Sports Illustrated, andPtoVboV, as well as the French mag-ozmes Realites and Marie-Claire andthe German publication Brigitte Sheis on the taculty at the School ofVisual Arts in New York

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jealousy, Time, 1983

Homelessness: A Hid-den Problem, Op-Ed,The New York Times.

Double- Walled Vessel, earthenware, 8" x l5W'.

Lori Lapin '81Potter1 am 28, a potter and happy with my choice. For

five years I have been working professionally withclay.1 don't know where the romantic notion of the

artist's life began. The image of inspiration strikingand wonderful creations appearing has quite anappeal. 1 was captured by that dream and it was onlyafter being an apprentice to Frank DiGangi, a potter,that 1 understood what was involved. For a year and ahalf 1 sat at a potter's wheel seven hours a day, fivedays a week, making pots; so many pots that when itcame to glazing there was a kind of freedom andsecurity that comes with numbers. A rhythm devel-oped. Each piece was not precious; their fate wouldbe decided by the fire. I grew to love the potters, thehard work and my life of relative solitude. When I leftHampton Potters, Frank gave me a small black bookcontaining his recipes and tricks-he gave me hislivelihood and trusted that I would do well by him.Graduate school presented a whole new perspec-

tive. Your skills were seen as a given; what you didwith those skills was the challenge. My individualityas a potter began to emerge. The ideas about pots thatbegan during that time still fascinate me and con-

Skip Weisenberger

rinue to develop. I have learned it may be six monthsor longer after a body of work is completed before 1can tell if the work stands on its own. What you setout to do and what actually happens are often verydifferent.The practical realities of earning a living in clay

have led me in various directions. Since graduateschool 1 have taught in both university and coopera-tive situations. Teaching comes naturally to me. In aprocess that can easily become overwhelming andintimidating to the student, the ways 1 can be helpfulto an aspiring but less experienced young artistintrigue me. The interaction of teaching is inval-ua ble, for the exchange often helps me define my ownideas more dearly and stimulates new ones.The greatest challenge for any artist is getting the

work out and seen. Artists must develop marketingskills that often don't come naturally. Rejections areabundant; egos bruise easily. The key is feeling confi-dent enough to present yourself and your work to thewidest possible audience.

On those days when frustration hits and 1wonderwhy 1 am doing this, I try to remind myself of thesatisfaction I feel in being able to look at somethingbeautiful and say "I made that." My growth as anartist is gradual. When I think of what I might bemaking in 30 years and that 1 will never have toretire, I take heart. My life feeds my work. I enjoygoing to the studio each morning.

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Barbara BlickmanSeskis in herShangri-La of astudio

Below, Bagatelle,mixed media col-lage, 15" x 19"

Terry Seskis '75

Barbara Blickman Seskis '49

I believe that if one is creative, life is never static ordull. While we were having dinner with friends shortlyafter the death of sculptor Henry Moore at age 88, thewife turned to her husband and cheerfully announced,"Dear, you should take up painting!" "Why, forheaven's sake?" he shot back. "Because," said she,"artists live such a long life!" After my first amusedreaction to her simplistic comment, I pondered itskernel of truth.Being creative is certainly a multi-channeled course

leading to a stimulating variety of detours. At college Iwas a fine arts major with a strong interest in design.In the following years I have studied portraiture, soldminiature flower paintings, designed invitations andbook covers, and worked with interior designers doingwall arrangements using antique frames and printsfound in all sorts of dust-covered corners. I particularlyenjoyed this "matchmaking," often cutting and cover-ing the mats myself with the proper fabrics. As a steadythread throughout these activities I painted non-objectively using acrylics.I feel very strongly that we must experience art in

order to appreciate the richness of the human poten-tial. When the time came [or our sons to enter college Iallowed them free choice in their curriculums exceptfor one request that they take a course in art historyand in music. My son, Terry, fulfilled my wishesadmirably at Connecticut College, class of 1975. Son

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Painter & Jewelry Maker

Seen did also, elsewhere. Now, in between economicreports and football scores we can sometimes discussthe new exhibit at the Museum of Modern An, and Iam content. I often thank Professor Edgar Mayhewmentally, and now publicly, for enlarging my world soskillfully and with such wit.While painting I find the inclusion of collage mate-

rials endlessly fascinating. I combine bits and pieces ofthe "real world" with other mediums to make a per-sonal statement. I may use all kinds of the ephemera oflife-printed matter evoking times past and present-each carrying its own character on its surface. I juxta-pose these papers and scraps of fabrics, layering them,veiling them in washes of color, partially hiding some,allowing others to demand attention. It is a subtlepush-and-pull operation until they all settle down intheir rightful places in the pictorial field.The world is my flea market. I have peeled scraps of

posters from Paris to Pompeii, and my eyes are con-stantly drawn to sidewalks and billboards, looking forthose exciting found objects. A longtime friend reactedwith horror as I ripped off a particularly scrungymorsel from a New York City street corner. "How canyou touch that!" she shrieked as I tucked the treasureinto my pocket. We are all strange in our own way!As any artist will admit, life in "studio solitary" can

get lonely, and the challenge of new fields beckoned. Ienrolled at the Westchester Art Workshop to learn sil-versmithing, and soon discovered I had not gone farafield, since I gravitated back to my beloved collages.The pieces I worked on became metal canvases-one-of-a-kind pendants composed of scraps and odd bits ofsilver and gold-constructed, layered and fused tomarch to my tune.While continuing work on my jewelry, I executed a

series of small easel-sized Wall Street collages forAlfred Dunhill Ltd. There was no lack of material forthese, since my husband, Alan, was a member of theNew York Stock Exchange. At this time, I designed apersonalized collage for Nathan Cummings on theoccasion of his eightieth birthday. Naturally, itcontained a Connecticut College crest!In the last few years I've started a small business

creating high fashion jewelry using beads and findingsfrom all parts of the world. I use mostly natural (andsome semi-precious) materials-bone, horn, ivory,shell, wood-plus carvings and pendants mixed withmetallics. My necklaces have been sold in HenriBendel, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many elegant bou-tiques. I have enjoyed every facet of this-the businessend, buying the components, the personal appear-ances, and especially working out the designs.

It has been very hard work, but it has been a wonder-ful challenge. For someone marrying in the 50's, whoraised her children and stayed close to home as per thecustom, it is a revitalizing revelation to discover such arewarding career in the 80's.And now, after three years of jewelry-making, I am

again tempted by the collage material and paints wait-ing for me in my studio. Is it any wonder that so manyartists live to a ripe old age? There is so much to bedone-and so many seductions along the way!

Terry Seskis '75

Natural and some semi-precious materials comprise this highfashion jewelry, sold in Henri Bendel and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Blue Entry, mixed media collage, 18" x 18".

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Crusade #2,watercolor.

Dorothy Barbour Slavich '36Painting has always appealed to me as a means of

self-expression. Though I am shy I can usually man-age a discussion about art. I love music too but lackthe equipment to express myself here. But since I ammarried to a musician I get the best of both worlds.As a child I made myself obnoxious by pasting my

drawings all over the wallpaper in my room. At thistime we lived in Kentucky and I went to a privateschool where there were art lessons a few days a week.I don't remember much of the work I did, but myteacher said I had talent.My great aunt heard the rumors about talent and

offered to pay for art lessons for Dorothy. So onesummer I went to Hugh Breckenridge's studio inGloucester, Massachusetts. This was a jolt and a reve-lation to me. I had never even squeezed a tube of oilpaint before, and everyone in the class was at leasttwenty years older than I.I was introduced to the demonstration and the cri-

tique. A long discussion about a cubist paintingreally had me wondering. In those days there seemedto be a formula for everything-everything but cre-ativity, that is.In 1932 I went to Connecticut College and studied

art with my peers. I remember equipment, paints,still life, and lots more; but I can't remember artbooks. I remember lectures and trips to the library.After college I got married, started a family, and got

caught in the Feminine Mystique trap. Then camethe war. This could have ended my art world before itreally opened. It did slow things down.But in the 60's I began attending art classes at the

University of Illinois. I also started attending work-shops in California, and later on the coast of Maine.In California I worked a number of times with

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Painter

Richard Yip. His philosophy and work embracedboth Oriental and Western concepts.Some bits from my notes in Richard Yip's class are:

"Painting is a part of you and a record of yourlife .... When you paint you should please onlyyourself .... Try to learn something each day .... Beinnocent, be a beginner. Paint from knowledge, notappearance .... You cannot paint what you don'tknow."Today the world around us has changed radically

from what it was in the 30's. The change has come toall parts of our lives and has affected our culture andart. We live in a world of things, unnecessary things,plastic things. Modern art is a reaction to the worldand the way we live. You can create in art form, any-thing you want. There are many media and tech-niques to choose from. But your work had better begood, and had better be different. Just remember,there are thousands of artists out there who haveworked hard for years and there are new ones comingalong every day.Though I have experimented with different media,

watercolor has been my first choice for the last fifteenyears. Twenty years ago watercolor was not too popu-lar. Today we are having a watercolor renaissance.Today I live in Texas. It's a great place to paint,

and it's not necessary to travel to find beautiful land-scapes and workshops. The landscape is right hereand outside my window. Many of my friends havewritten books on art. But I would rather paint thanwrite. I can take advantage of the innovations of thisage: The computer, TV demonstrations, videotapeinstructions, workshops anywhere in the world, freeseminars and tools of the trade shows, competitions,photography, and books, books, books!

Cynthia Osborne '69 PainterI came to Connecticut College as

a blank slate. The product of asmall town Connecticut highschool, I was duly overwhelmedwhen my first semester includedsuch weighty subjects as philosophyand government-and ended up onacademic probation. As I workedmy way up the ladder of liberal artscourses and focused on what tomake of this commitment calledcollege, I determined that I was des-tined to be a zoologist. The semesterI took Comparative Anatomy withMs. Sibyl Hausmann was a memo-rable one: although the dissection ofa cat leaves its own vivid impres-sion, the high point was the com-pletion of my term paper, "Loco-motion in Representative AquaticInvertebrates," which is still in mycollection. A seemingly "dry" sub-ject, the paper was a turning pointfor me because it was my first realinvolvement with drawing, with thelikes of neresis worms, water boat-men and dragonfly nymphs as mymodels. Looking through it now, Iam amused by the hesitant qualityof those sketches, but when Sibylwrote, "your drawings are excel-lent," it started the wheels turning.I was spurred to take Art 101 thenext semester, already with theintent of switching my major. Notinsignificant was the fact that chem-istry was looming on the horizonand Iknew a sidestep out of zoologywould be quite timely.And so my junior year found me

in my first art class with ProfessorMcCloy, the second semester withthe influential Messrs. Lukosiusand Smalley, and I still have notreturned to zoology. Within themultiple choice of pursuits in art, Ifound a fascination in printmakingand continued my studies at theUniversity of Wisconsin, a fortunatechoice not only for its specializationin the print mediums but for theBig University Experience thatcomplemented the coziness of theyears at Connecticut.Currently I am a professor and

head of the printmaking area, asubdepartment of art at CaliforniaState University, Long Beach (partof mega-Los Angeles). The overview

that the invitation to write for thisissue provoked led me to a ratherhumble conclusion: I do not seemyself primarily as an artist or asan educator but as a tinkerer. I do,in the end, take after my father whowas trained as a toolmaker, and weboth like to fiddle with the "parts"and take pride in overcoming the"directions" to make the "piece"come out right-or at least convinc-ing. The same can be said for myinvolvement with printmaking, adiscipline that has enough processto madden the best of artists, butwhich rewards us stubborn types

with the chance of great surpriseand satisfaction with the results.My art imagery, however, is not

very process oriented: I am stilldrawing as I did in that zoologyclass, and to me the images are justas important as "Figure 13: Jump-ing Appendages of the WaterStrider." In the print included here,Misfit, Iam still concerned withfound objects, which appeal to meas used and therefore experiencedimages. I hope they carry an appeal-ing poignancy, but as far as an artcritique is concerned-I'll leave thatfor the afternoon class.

Misfit, lithograph/silkscreen/crayon, 24/1 x 18/1 1984

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Boat V, acrylic on paper, 7W' x 12", 1985, Poet's Bark study.

Susan Altman Miller '61Painter

Having agreed to write a few words on painting, Ihave to start by saying too much is always being writ-ten about it and this space would be better taken withreproduced artwork. I certainly feel more comfortablecommunicating in paint than in print. This state-ment stirs a memory of a not dissimilar protest Irecall making 25 years ago to William Ashby McCloy,then chairman of the art department, about the writ-ten thesis I had to produce for senior honors. I saidthe time would be better spent on another painting.Mr. McCloy in his unwavering wisdom knew therequirement had merit and assigned it anyway. I, inunwavering obedience, wrote. Here, a quarter of accmurv later, I find myself still protesting-and stillwriting.He was right, of course, and one invaluable lesson I

learned about painting as I struggled inadequately toput into words what I had struggled more success-fully to consummate on canvas, was that the essentialexperience of a work of art has no verbal equivalent.With that profound realization, I have continued to

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Eeva lnker!

make art with an urgency that has at times baffledme. Only through hindsight, when a work has longbeen finished, have I come close to understanding theimperative that drove me to create it. For me, paint-ing clearly is a necessary means for crystallizing andcommunicating experience.Two years ago at Berkeley, while delivering a slide

talk on my paintings, I suddenly had the giddy feel-ing that my life was flashing before my eyes. Know-ing the classic occasion for that phenomenon, I wasmomentarily shaken, and then stunned by thethought that in a real sense my life was always flash-ing before my eyes since it materialized, visually, inthe form of my paintings. Standing in front of a slidefrom an early series of paintings entitled The Valleyof the Queens, which had explored the subjects ofwomen and myth, I was in the process of explainingthe symbology that had developed. The words beganto sound pretentious, cumbersome, and in some waytruth-evading. The only importance those paintingsreally had for me was in the passionate process they

reflected the wrenching changes our lives were under-going at that moment with children growing, leav-ing, striking out on their own.

revealed I had undertaken in an urgent search for anidentity.

I sawall the following slides as if for the first time;the Hathor paintings about the sacred cow goddess ofthe ancient Egyptians, (but also, I saw now, about myneed to recreate the archetypal Mother); the Arkpaintings referring to the Biblical myth of survival(but just as important, symbols for my own threat-ened world); and the storm-tossed, abandoned life-boats whose solo voyages, I suddenly could see,

An can brilliantly elucidate how we feel to our-selves. This isn't accomplished by understanding theartist's intentions, however, but by respondingdirectly, by experiencing the work. Although readingthis may be entertaining, I recommend withoutfurther delay, the paintings.

Sue Miller's work has been exhibitedextensively, including many one-woman shows in New York and Cali-fornia. Most recently, she has hodshows at the Jewish Museum. theWomen's Caucus for Art, RutgersUniversity, and the Hudson RiverMuseum, She has a moster's degreein teaching from Harvard.

Ararat IV, acrylic on canvas, 50" x 66",1986,

Boat IV, acrylic on arches paper, 8" x II",1985.

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Cecilia C. Moffitt '75Sculptor

Back in the late 1960's and early1970's, my generation had a visionof a new Renaissance person. Wegrew our hair long and took art andphilosophy in reaction to what weperceived to be an overly materialis-tic and technological society. Wewere idealists who dreamed of sup-porting ourselves through our cre-ative pursuits. Connecticut Col-lege's liberal arts education suitedus perfectly, for it allowed us theluxury of lime and the discipline todevelop our talents.With graduation came the reluc-

tant realization that it is indeed dif-ficult to survive as an artist. I viv-idly remember a meeting of thesenior studio art majors called byMr. Lukos ius shortly before gradu-ation. Gently, he told us not to betoo disappointed in ourselves if wegave up our pursuit of being artists."It's hard to make it as an artist inthe world out there," he warned.And so I earned a K-12 teaching cer-tificate and went on to graduateschool to qualify myself for a col-lege position.Now, in the mid-1980's, my

Crystallize II, sculpture in alabaster, 1981.

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Rough Beast I, sculpture in seatite, 1981.

generation is passing through theirthirties and forties. We find our-selves financially secure but lackingin our old vitality. Success in busi-ness does not satisfy us fully. Forthe sake of a healthy bank account,some of us have gone emotionallybankrupt.Like many other women, I aban-

doned teaching and my studio forseveral years in order to raise a fam-ily. When I returned to my studio,distracted by motherhood, Idiscov-ered that being creative does nothave to be an all-or-nothing situa-tion. I learned to carpe diem, usingsnatches of time in my busy life tocreate. It was a bit frustrating atfirst, not having the endless time toimmerse myself in projects I enjoyedduring my undergraduate days. Tofinish a piece now takes morepatience because of the interrup-tions of children and housework. Idoubt I would have the confidenceto persevere had it not been for mytraining at Connecticut College.I returned to my art for myself.

The satisfaction of completing a

new piece is enough in itself, butthe experience of reaching anaudience adds an even deeperdimension. My first acceptance in ajuried show was a real thrill. Even-tually, the owner of the GreeneGallery in Guilford, Connecticut,called to ask me to show regularlythere. This relationship has pro-duced a number of sales, and itseems finally I am on my way as aprofessional.Each year my Renaissance ideal-

that one can be self-supporting andartistically creative-becomes morereal. A while back when I spoke to aseminar of art students at a privateschool, I tried to share with themthis vision. I encouraged them todevelop their creative talents as wellas the tools for a lucrative career.Does this mean they must relegatethemselves to being amateurs? Per-haps, but "amateur" is derived fromamare, to love, and amator, lover.In its highest sense, it refers to "onethat has a marked fondness, liking,or taste." In other words, a devotee.There are many writers, musicians,

education. ILis important LO honorthe creative spirit in oneself, for itcan nourish one's soul for a life-time, bringing satisfications thatwealth cannot buy.

and artists who labor as lawyers,doctors, or teachers. And many havefound, to their surprise, success onboth accounts. The balance is thereto be struck.The pity would be not to develop

one's talents and habits of self-expression when the time andmeans are most available. That isthe priceless opportunity offered bya liberal arts education. At a schoollike Connecticut College, one candevelop those talents and habitsthrough exposure LO a variety of

disciplines and professors. Later, ifone must set aside creative pursuitsfor a period of time, one can al waysreturn to find the skills and mate-rials still there.Those who labor only for mate-

rial success often lose touch withtheir creative and spiritual dimen-sions. Those who live only for cre-ativity often suffer hunger anddeprivation. It is possible LO strivefor the Renaissance ideal in the1980's, particularly with the aid of aConnecticut College liberal arts

Cecilia C Moffitt '75, M.fA PrattInstitute, 1981, is 0 sculptor whoteaches ot the University of NewHoven. Her stone SCUlptures can beseen at the Greene Gallery in GUlltord.Connecticut,

Matthew Geller '76Sculptor &- Filmmaker

Being a visual artist in the United States is anenigma. In the social fabric that describes success,artists are deviants. To most, what a visual artist doesis a mystery. Perhaps it's because we never have con-tact with artists doing their jobs, as we do with, say, adoctor. We don't learn about their jobs in school, aswe do about congressmen. These things are also trueof writers. For the most part writers and visual artistscreate in an environment where they have sole access.We have, however, all sat down to write something;we read the written word every day. Perhaps mostimportant, and a clear reflection of their perceivedsocial role, we have seen literally hundreds of writerstalk about themselves and their work on television.Being a visual artist, it seems, is the least experienced,observed and television documented occupationalactivity.This relationship between worker, work process

and product is especially strange when one considersthat the products (works of art)-which strictlyspeaking have no utilitarian function-are in almostevery household, regardless of cul rural background oreconomic status. The art might be school kids' draw-ings on the refrigerator, or a velvet painting in thebedroom, or an artist friend's painting in the diningroom, or a religious work in the hall or a Warholreproduction in the den, or an original Matisse overthe mantel.American culture might allow artists more freedom

and eccentricity than some other cultures, but it alsoforces them to seek fulfillment, satisfaction and eco-nomic solvency outside the cultural norm. In theshort run this can be a very isolating struggle, butperhaps in the long run it's a blessing.

1976 Class Gift, Connecticut College. Wood, steel, concrete,steel cable, 17'H x 20'L x 18'W. Conceived and designed byMatthew Geller and Terry Stockwell, and completed inspring 1976 with the assistance of dozens of classmates.Funded, in part by the Connecticut College President'sFund. Destroyed in unexplained circumstances in thesummer of 1983.

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DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING

A Review

This is a brutal book. And also avery tender one. It is about dying inAmerica, and also about living withdying in America. It is a chronicle, aday by day account of the death ofone young woman named Elley,rendered in agonizing detail by allof the formal documents filed eachday by the battery of attending phy-sicians, nurses, hospital adminis-trators, even the dietician. All thisarcane, antiseptic. and minutely de-tailed medical jargon, this recedeslike so much background music be-fore the singular fact of the chroni-cle, the fact that no one, includingthe subject herself, can grasp untilthe very end: the slow, inexorablemovement from life to death of onesingle human being.What little narrative there is suf-

fices. For the author is Elley's clos-est friend. And the little fragmentsfrom their daily encounters areenough to place the human face ofthis story in clear relief. Geller'sdocumentary style is affecting. Itconstantly juxtaposes the personaland the impersonal, the particularand the general, the relevant and theirrelevant. He forces us to followElley's story from both without andwithin, as if we are both observerand observed.

In the end what affects us are thesimple things: the daily ritual oftearing the day off the calendar,making plans for the future, Mat-thew walking Elley to the com-mode, or bathing her, photographsof her mugging in clownish wigsafter her hair falls out. These areacts of courage and love. At last,exhausted, Elley cries "I've hadenough. I'm sorry." Matthew givesher permission to die, contemplatesa mercy killing, decides against it,and in the end simply stays by herside.Milton Mayeroff wrote, "In the

sense in which a man can ever besaid to be at home in the world, he isat home not through dominating orexplaining, or appreciating, butthrough caring and being caredfor." Matthew Geller', DifficultySwallowing is a remarkable evoca-

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tion of the truth of Mayeroff'sstatement. The very act of sharingthis story with us is itself a witnessto it, truth, and I am deeply grateful

to him for having the courage andgrace to have done it.

- The Rev. David]. RobbCCAM, Winter 1983-84

Pages (rom Difficulty Swallowing: A Medical Chronicle. Works Press, New York,1981, 160 pages. Available in person or by mail order from; Printed Matter,7 Lispenard Street, New York, NY 10013. $7.95 softbound, $24.95 clothbound.

Still from Everglades City, 1985, videotape, 92 minutes. Feature length video fairytale about a family in small town Florida and a magical female hermit who livesdeep in the lush islands of the Everglades.

Cynthia Myers Young '55Painter

One of my graduate advisors mentioned that learningtechnique is easy; finding one's image takes alifetime. How true! My own work has beenconsistently abstract but evolves constantly. Myearlier works were of biomorphic forms and innerworlds, then moved outward to abstracted westernlandscape. The western influence continues in acurrent concentration on totemic images derived fromNorthwestern and Southwestern Indian cultures. Inan abstracted non-literal imagery, I try to capture thesense of awe and mystery of relics that have enduredthrough time. To contemporary eyes, the ritualisticsignificance of these objects may be unknown butthere is a very real sense of ancient meaning in thesemonoliths. Technically, I work in the tradition of thebiomorphic surrealists, finding images from randommarks made on the canvas. I have returned to the useof oil paint, learned at Connecticut College, afterseven years of exploring acrylic stain painting.Always, the challenge of change.Before entering the art world, I studied fine and

liberal arts at Connecticut College, marriedimmediately after graduation, and became atraditional housewife, mother and volunteer. Duringmy husband's 20-year military career, I took artcourses wherever possible. I was unemployed untilmy 40's, when I simultaneously became a secretaryand began graduate school in art. As with most latebloomers, I feel an urgency to catch up or make upthe time spent outside the profession. Art educationand theory have changed incredibly since my days atConnecticut. The new young emerging artistsobviously see differently, are trained differently andreflect a world that is not my own frame of reference.Thankfully, there is room for many visions.Although I often wonder about "other worlds"-

more rewarding financially, possibly less competitive,less lonely, with more cheerful surroundings than myslum studio; about professions in which blue jeansare not a necessity-I know I am what I am. Finallyat one with myself, with paintbrush in hand, I beginyet one more journey into the empty canvas and theworld I will create.

Cynthia Myers Young's awards include graduate honorsin painting: a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Arts.and serving as ortist-in-residence for the Notional PorkService. among others Her work has been exhibitedwidely In the Washlngtan. DC. area and is in thecollection of the Sheraton International She wasawarded a commission for on eleven-foot painting forthe CNerseas Private Investment Corporation. Sheteaches at Northern Virginia Community College andMaIYmount University of Virginia.

Totem #2, oil, 48" x 50".

The artist, in her studio, works in the tradition of biomorphicsurrealists.

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Stephen & Ruth with Compression 1 by Stephen F. Frerichs, concrete, steel and bronze, 1984, commissioned by Arizona StateUniversity in honor of its Centennial Celebration

Stephen Frerichs '78SculptorWhen I think back to the years when I was an art

major at Connecticut College, the first image thatcomes to mind is trudging up three flights of stairs tothe top floor of Bill Hall. There was no CummingsArts Center in those days. I too, (as I recall someoneonce saying) felt somehow that the top floor, with itscommanding view of the Thames River, was special,as though an artist were entitled to an important andfar-reaching view. It was a view both beautiful and attimes frightening-as life would prove to be-for wecould so well observe the occasionally battled-scarredsubmarines limping home to port. This was WorldWar II.Another image, curiously enough, is the memory of

a glass case in the corridor containing a display ofclay pieces of sculpture by former students. It alwaysevoked a sense of wistfulness in me, for at that timethere were no sculpture courses offered. "Later," Iused to think. "Some day." It was a very small artdepartment, but I had chosen Connecticut Collegebecause it offered a studio major in art, and I wasdetermined to make the most of it, without sacrificingthe broader spectrum of a first-rate liberal arts educa-tion. If the view from Bill Hall seemed expansive andfar-reaching, I was soon to discover another viewfrom Marguerite Hanson, then professor of art, who

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Ruth Colcord Frerichs '47Painterwith stern determination taught the rigors of criti-cism-of one's own work, as well as of others. Herswas a view never-ending in its demands, sometimescapricious, and sometimes "opening on the foam ofperilous seas."Never in those years, or for years to come, would I

have imagined that I would have a son graduate fromConnecticut College, let alone a son choose to pursueart as a career! Despite parental pride, I always feeluneasy about too much emphasis on family "tradi-tions" in educational or career choices, especially infields of creative endeavor. Individualism and inde-pendence of mind are matters of pride too, and"copycat" is, for the artist, the ever-dreaded insult. Ifanything, I think what Steve and I share as a legacyfrom Connecticut College is that very respect forindependence of mind. We are, indeed, two very dif-ferent people, and our work shows it. It is as if westood, eyeing each other, opposite in sex, from oppo-site edges of a vast canyon-our own generationgap-lively debate being our favorite means of com-munication, and disagreement, as often as not, themeasure of our mutual respect. The contrasts oftemperament and mind are as vital to us as the con-nections of kinship and college.

-Ruth Colcord Frerichs '47

After graduating from Connecticut College with dis-tinction in anthropology. Stephen Frerichs worked underPaolo Soleri at the Cosanti Foundation in Scottsdale. Ariz-ona. Spurred by his experience working in the bronze-costing foundry ot Cosonti. and olso by on earliersummer art program at Conneclicut College. Stephenenrolled In the art deportment at Arizona State University.Hisanthropological interest in primitive art soon began tosurtace in his work. After further study. he was acceptedfor a Moster of Fine Arts degree program in the deport-ment of SCUlpture. and later held a teaching assistantappointment as director at the Harry Wood Gallery atArizona State. In 1984. Stephen won the ASUCentennialSculpture Competition. and his work entitled Compres-sion 1was commissioned by the University in honor of itsCentennial Celebration as port of a permanent collec-tion of sculpture Installed on the campus. In his dedi-cation speech tor the sculpture. Arrzona State UniversityPresic'ent J Russell Nelson noted that It was the first timethe University hod ever purchased a work by a studentStephen's works hove been exhibited in numerous juried

Ruth C. FrerichsSandpainterWatercolor, 20" x 30"

and Invitational shows throughout Arizona Stephen iscurrently completing work for his moster's thesis exhibition

Ruth Colcord Frerichs graduated with honors from Con-necticut College and was the recipient of the Jane BillPrize in Fine Arts as well as the Joan Connell Prize inDonce. After graduation. she worked in commercial art inNew York City and studied lithography at the New York ArtStudents League. In 1954. she moved with her husbandto Phoenix- Arizona. and continued to pursue her interestin art while raising her family. Ruth has concentratedprimarily on water-media. but also executed a series ofstone lithographs in collaboration with moster-printersfrom Tamarind Institute. Ruth has won recognition for herversatility and boldness of style. She has received venousawards. and her paintings are included in numerous pri-vate and corporate collections. In addition to one-artistshows. Ruth hos participated in major regional andnotional jurred exhibitions throughout the United States.Now divorced. she maintains a studio at her home inPhoenix.

Stephen F. FrerichsDouble BindNeon, bronze and steel

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The photograph includes books designed for Yale, two Summer Hill Books projects, and some book jackets designed free-lancefor the publishing house of Ticknor & Fields. One of the latter is Mabel, a biography of Mabel Normand, the early silent filmcomedienne, by Betty Harper Fussell, who came with her husband, Paul Fussell, to the Connecticut College Englishdepartment in 1954. My classmates and I fought over who would get to baby-sit for the Fabulous Fussells.

Sarah Hargrove Harris' 57Graphic Designer

At Yale University Press each of four designers isresponsible for preparing for publication 30 or moreedited manuscripts. These titles range from simplemonographs to series and editions to complexillustrated or otherwise documented texts, and wemust work closely with editorial, production, andmarketing departments in determining appropriateformat and presentation for each book.We design page layouts, specify type, and

decorative material where appropriate, arrangephotographs or other illustrative elements whencalled for, check proofs and prepare necessary artworkand dummy for a printer, design the binding andselect the binding materials, and, finally, design andprepare the jacket to complete the "package."I have spent quite a bit of free-lance time on book

and jacket design as well, and the accompanyingphotograph includes a few of those efforts.Several years ago my husband Chris and I (each

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with about 25 years or so of experience in publish-ing/printing/design/advertising) started SummerHill Books, a professional resource for the design andproduction of quality books. We provide services towriters, photographers, publishers, and anyinstitution or private group that may wish to producea book for fund-raising. promotional, orcommemorative purposes. This is known in the tradeas "packaging," whereby we assemble words andimages and guide through to production a finishedwork ready for publication and distribution. SummerHill Books designed and produced Gertrude Noyes' AHistory of Connecticut College, and, more recently,The Taft- Thacher Letters, edited by William G.Nicholson and produced for the Taft School ofWatertown, Connecticut, and the Thacher School ofDjai, California.I will be forever grateful to Richard Lukosius. who

came to the art department at Connecticut College thesame year I did, and whose keen eye spotted a futuregraphic designer. He taught me to look carefully atletter forms and to appreciate their intrinsic beauty,guided me through four years of extra-curricularposter designing, and sent me packing to the YaleSchool of Art and Architecture. And I'm still onlythree blocks away.

now mixed-media collages and environments to be. poetry.

Where does one end, the other begin?It will take a lifetime to give youmy answer.Then you will see for yourself. ..and so willI.

Lorraine Schechter '66Mixed Media

Song of Changes

Excerpts from a poem dedicated LO Dick Lukosiu s, whoseinfluence as friend and teacher continues to resonate.

Growingup

Color and pattern ... shape,red-yellow-blue building blocks:destruction built into creation.

Teaching teaches me to keep learning

Business More questions, such as:Will "the Public" respond? How?Who will buy it?Does It matter?Is that why I make it?

It will take a lifetimeto give youmy answer.

Yoga means union.Body-mind-spiritalignedand attunedto the Song of the Earth

.my song:resonant and full .expanding in space,reaching out towards the light.

1 honor the light within you.

Papier-raache,cut-colored-paper collages.mobile.

Museum-going:Matisse and Rousseau early friends.

School They said 1was a primitiveand couldn't major in Art,but I did ...a marriage vow I keep sacred,with changes.

An/Work Art and Craft ... Craft and Art.Where does one end,the other begin?Drawing flowered into painting, paper-makingcut-paper collages, embossed prints.PAPER SCULPTURE,

Fall Suite: Dance of the Last Rays of Fall, mixed media collage, 1985.

Lorraine Schechter doesmixed media collages, anddesqns cords and paperSCUlptures. Her most recentshow was at the WashingtonArt Gallery In WashingtonDepot Connecticut. She isartist-in-residence for theTOrrington Boord ofEducation, a viSiting artist inNew Preston, and a teacherof yoga.

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Claudia Reese '71Sculptor & PotterA strong image I have of Connecticut College is of

trudging through the snow to the art buildingbecause that's where I spent most of my time. Littledid I know then of the twists and turns that a careerin clay could, and would take me.Following my graduation, I completed three years

of grad school at Indiana University and then taughtfor six years as a visiting artist at several differentschools, including Purdue, the University of NorthCarolina, Louisiana State, and the School of the ArtInstitute of Chicago. I enjoyed teaching and thevariety of experiences it afforded, but after movingaround so much I wanted to stabilize my life. Idecided then LO direct my energy toward establishingmy own business. And what did I know better thanworking with clay?So in 1979,1 began developing a series of large

(20-inch diameter) platters that are both decorativeand functional. These platters interested me because Ican paint the surface with slips (colored clay) creatingcomplicated and intricate patterns. I thought theyhad potential, but the true test would be in the mar-ketplace. Fortunately, my first marketing adventurebegan with the American Craft Enterprises Show inDallas where my first order was from Frank McIntoshof Henri Bendel. That order, along with others, wasenough to keep me going until the next show. Sincethen, I've continued to exhibit with A.C.E., theWashington Craft Show, and the Philadelphia CraftShow.

Midnight Zag, earthenware platter, 20",1986.

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The plauers are currently being sold in galleriesand major department stores coast to coast. Mostrecently, they enabled me to participate in the firstAmerican Craft Enterprises/Ateliers d'Art Interna-tional Salon in Paris, France. Now I've got plattersbeing shipped to Madrid, Rome, Biarritz, Paris, andAustria. Working on the platters and earning my liv-ing through marketing them, allows me resourcesand time to work on sculpture, for sculpture is thereal reason I work with clay in the first place.During the late 70's, my work evolved from wall-

hung pieces to three-dimensional heads. Then in1980, 1 saw the Qin Dynasty full-sized figures and

Conversations,55" x 25/1 x 25", 1984.

horses in the Chinese Terracoua and Bronze Exhibi-tion at the Field Museum in Chicago. They werepowerful, and they communicated. To me, they estab-lished a connection with people existing 2,000 yearsago and did it on a life scale. That's when I felt theneed for greater volume in my own work. My headsbegan to have torsos, and then full bodies, and finallythey became life-sized figures. My interests lie inAmerican folk art, Pre-Columbian art, African,Oceanic, Alaskan, Chinese, and Egyptian art and theyall influence my work. Yet I think of my figures ascross-cultural, cross-temporal-neither ancient normodern and, I hope encompassing it all.

Claudia Reese at work on her platters, available fromBiarritz ro Bendel's, and in the Texas sun outside hernew studio. Right, Magi Wave, earthenware platter, 20"square, 1986.

This year my most recent sculptures were exhibitedat the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth in con-junction with the Mayan exhibition, The Blood OfKings. In my hometown of Austin this comingspring, I'll be having a one-person show at theR.S. Levy Gallery.It's been fifteen years since I've trudged across a

snow-covered campus to Peter Leibert's classes.Today, with the bright Texas sun flooding my newstudio, I find working a pleasure, whether it's plattersor sculpture. This really has been some journey, andit's been one that started at the Cummings ArtsCenter in New London, Connecticut. Phil Martin

Rick Patrick

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Moving Tribute IV, acrylic and oil on canvas, 72" x 144", 1986.

Joan Ross Bloedel '64Painterby Marion Miller Vokey '74

On the top shelf of a bookcase in Joan Ross Bloedel'slarge, sunlit Seattle studio is a small painted study ofa head. "That was painted by Richard Lukosius in aneffort to explain to me the receding/advancing valuesof darks and lights," she says. Her college art profes-sor, Mr. Lukosius had a profound influence on Joan,teaching her everything from how to stretch a canvasto how to believe in herself. She fondly remembers thenurturing atmosphere he provided for all his stu-dents. Joan has saved several of the written critiquesof her beginning work by her Connecticut Collegeprofessors, a few of which she read to me. Do teachersrealize how much students take their comments toheart?Joan Bloedel, who has emerged as one of the most

exciting artists in Seattle, was unsure of herself andher abilities in college. To complicate matters, shewas uncomfortable with the then fashionable Min-imalist trend in art. From the beginning, Joan's arthas been alive with emotion and human meaning,communicating an irrepressible vitality-the anti-thesis of Minimalist theories.Another significant dimension of her college days

was Joan's involvement in the Peace Club, whichthen had six members. Certainly not in vogue oncampus in the early 1960's, the politically active, con.

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Rob Vinnedge. 1986

troversial group nevertheless believed strongly intheir causes. Joan, as the club's president, vividlyrecollects an overwhelming desire to "do good" forthe world. Perhaps it was that strong humanitariandesire, coupled with her insecurity that art was notreally a valid academic discipline, that prompted herto double-major in religion and art at Connecticutand then to enter Yale Divinity School aftergraduation.As soon as she began her theology studies at Yale,

Joan knew she had made the wrong decision. Sheenrolled in two art classes that year at Yale, both ofwhich were to have a lasting influence. A color theoryclass with Bauhaus master Josef Albers fit wonder-fully with her intuitive sense and provided a theoreti-cal base she still draws on today. Today her control ofcolor is truly dazzling and has prompted critics todescribe her painting as "radiant poetry." Joan hascreated a layered light effect, where color is absorbedand at the same time reflected. Printmaking was herother class at Yale. A component of her work hasalways been drawing and printmaking, but she con-siders herself a painter and is a proven master at com-bining materials and techniques. She mixes painting,printmaking, and drawing to build up a rich, layered,tactile surface with sensuous quality.At the suggestion of Connecticut College Professor

William McCloy, Joan entered the master's programat the University of Iowa the following year to studyintaglio printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. It wasat Iowa that her formal education in art wascompleted.So why did the Boston-born and bred artist come all

the way to Seattle? "To seek adventure," she repliesquickly with a smile. She is happy with her choice."Seattle has the kind of healthy, invigorating atmo-sphere that stimulates my work," she says. However,success did not greet her (rom the moment she arrivedin 1968. That year was just the beginning of a longstruggle-supporting herself with various part-timejobs, teaching, trying to get exposure for her art, andabove all, working hard.

Her early work was figurative and revealed a strongdebt to Expressionist Northern European artists likeEmil Nolde and Edvard Munch. In fact, in the mid-1970's, Joan went to Norway to immerse herself in theart of the Expressionists. During these years, shereceived lots of exposure, but little critical acclaim.

It was not until 1981, when Joan was invited to bein the New Ideas exhibition at the Seattle ArtMuseum, that her career really took off. On the heelsof her successful show, Joan was the first woman toreceive the annual Betty Bowen Award, which honorsSeattle artists. She had begun working in series for-mat, exploring one abstract formal idea in countlessvariations, turning it inside out, and finally bringingit to a conel usion. Her Play Within A Play seriesattracted the most attention and rightfully so. She hadcreated a body of work that demanded interest. Usingmono type as a base (a printing technique employingpaint on an un etched metal plate printed on damp-ened paper), she would build up layer upon layer ofpaint, pastels, and pencils, creating what she hopedwould be "a visual search for the viewer" with somuch going on beneath the surface.

"There is a visual dialogue between being close to

Joan Ross Bloedel's work has been called "radiant poetry."

my work and stepping away," the artist says. Duringthis period, most of her work had an underlyingdiptych-like structure of two rectangles which pro-vided an ordered framework (or the scattered randomtouches of rich color, and the shifting layers of light.

Despite the popularity of her work of the early1980's (all of the Play Within A Play and ShimmerStacks series have been sold), she had reached the endof her discoveries and began working in new direc-tions. Her new work reveals an increased freedom. Nolonger using an ordered geometric framework as atranquil counterpoint to her coloristic explorations,she has unleashed a surging dynamic energy in hernew images. The day we met, a recently completedpainting commissioned by Seafirst Bank was hangingon her studio wall. Entitled Moving Tribute, the boldcolors, densely textured surface, and flowing primi-tive forms of the six-foot by twelve-foot paintingseemed to activate the entire room.

Joan Ross Bloedel's success is no accident. She hastaken a natural gift and through hard work and per-severance brought it to maturity. Married with nochildren, she feels her paintings are like children inthat they are so much a part of her. She maintains anintensive studio work schedule. "I put most of mytime, energy, and money into the development andgrowth of my work," she says, and has a healthyrespect for the pragmatic business end of art. Abusinesswoman par excellence, she keeps her officeremarkably organized, has learned to be continuallyalert to opportunities (or learning and exposure, andis now represented by Seattle's Foster/White Gallery.There is, after all, more to being an artist than simplymaking art.

Christian Staub, 1986

Marcia Silverman Tucker '61finds comfortin courting ambiguity

THE VALUEOFNOTKNOWINGBy Paula Brisco '86

The office is not what one would expect of adirector of a renowned art museum in Man-hattan. No palatial executive suite;no sweeping skyline vista; no framed Great

Master adorning the wall. At the New Museum ofContemporary Art, the director's office is a white cubein which desk, typewriter and chairs vie for space onthe industrial grey carpeting to the irregular rumbleof the subway. Art books cram the shelves; a bulletinboard boasts snapshots of a small child. And by thedoor a marine painting hangs in the most ornategilded macaroni frame this side of a grammar schoolart class.It's an office that says the occupant means

business-but plans to have fun doing it. And per-haps there is no better way to describe Marcia Tucker.Nine years ago, at age 37, she founded the NewMuseum, the only art museum devoted to showingthe work of living artists. Today, as director, she lec-tures nationwide about contemporary art, travelinghalf the year with her husband Dean McNeil and two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Ruby in tow. She organ-izes at least one major museum exhibition a year,serves as a sounding board for the ideas of 25 staffmembers, and churns out a continuous stream of arti-cles and exhibition catalogs. It's a strenuous pace-but one she relishes."Marcia has incredible energy. She's always think-

ing about 30 things at once," said Mary Clancy,assistant to the director for the past three years."She'll be telling me one thing, writing another, andtalking to someone else on the phone. It's a mad cir-cle of information-and yet she always pays attentionto detail."What keeps the mad circle on center is Marcia

Tucker's continuing love affair with the unknown."As soon as she starts to get comfortable, she getsuncomfortable," Mary Clancy said. "I've seen it

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happen many, many times. It's like it itches. If thingsare too cozy, she'll start pushing herself, pounding onthe typewriter."In particular, Marcia pushes herself to understand

unusual and unconventional art. "The question thatmost offends and irritates artists, 'Why is this stuffcalled art?' is one of profound interest to me," shewrote in the catalog for an exhibition she organizedentitled Choices. Listen to Marcia discuss art, and yousoon realize that no statement better explains why hermuseum shows artists like Tehching Hsieh, whoseartwork has included a series of one-year performan-ces such as punching a time clock every hour of theday and night or living entirely outdoors in NewYork City.A tall, lanky woman in denim tunic and jeans,

black cowboy boots, and silver jewelry, Marcia isperched on a red upholstered chair in front of herdesk, as though to ignore for a time the rows of tele-phone messages marching down her desk. She nur-tured a cup of convenience-store coffee as she searchedfor ways to explain the appeal of studying unconven-tional art."One of my museum trustees, Paul Harper, Jr.,

said something that struck me as very true. He said, 'Ialways prefer to be addressed just a little above myhead.' I think that the sense of reaching [or some-thing that is not altogether within your grasp givesyou a feeling of extension, of pursuit. There may benothing so appealing to human beings as the idea ofactive pursuit of something, whether it's a goal or alover or a language or a geography. I think the act ofstretching or extending yourself is a very pleasurableone to some people; it feels like exercising."Another person, an artist named Morgan O'Hara

who was in the show I did called Choices, also saidsomething very, very interesting: 'If you do x, what-ever x is, you develop a capacity for x.' If you read dif-ficult books, you develop a capacity for reading diffi-cult books. If you watch sitcoms, you develop acapacity for watching sitcoms, and on and on, as withlove, eating, anything. Although it seems like such asimple statement, it has given me a great deal ofpause for thought."It is no easy task for any museum person to present

the work of artists such"as Tehching Hsieh or Mor-gan O'Hara. O'Hara's art, for instance, consists ofkeeping extensive diaries of her life. (She recordsdreams, people visited, and shopping trips.) She thencharts her movements in space and time on maps andgraphs. Many museums limit the number of showsthey devote to such contemporary art because it canbe difficult [or people to understand. The generalpublic may become disgruntled and disappointedwhen confronting art that lacks traditional aestheticqualities. The disappointment arises, Marcia Tuckeracknowledged, when people feel they ought to imme-diately know what an art piece means."But realistically, how possible is it to do that?"

she demanded, carving a small arc in the air with along, artist's hand. "Something that was made in thepast five months or sometimes improvisationally in

the past five minutes is not necessarily going to yielditself to interpretation immediately. Part of the prob-lem is that most people want to interpret somethingbefore they experience it. This is not the correct orderof things," she said with a mischievous smile. "Expe-rience takes time; experience takes a kind of attentionand focus on what it is that you're feeling."

But Marcia believes that the public ultimately likesto be provoked by contemporary an; as she once said,"They enjoy fighting it out on that battlefield thatcontemporary an can offer because it's a way ofthinking, and I think most people like to think."Given the chance, people can learn to relish theunknown. The first step is to recognize that "not

Marcia Tucker and a sculp-ture from "Sots Art," anexhibition of work by Rus-sian emigre artists.

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"The concept of developing a goodeye is an outmoded one. It's moreimportant to think about developinga good mind."

knowing" is part of the art process-something thatthe artist and the viewer share.

"Basically, good artists do things investigatively;artists do things to find out, not to prove what theyalready know," she said. "That's true about almostanything: good science, good museology. The artistvery often doesn't understand what he or she has donein the broader sense until he or she can put it in thecontext of other work that's been done, of the timeand place in life when the work was done, and of thecultural milieu of the entire society. Very often wedon't have the perspective to do that for quite sometime. So I don't see art as simply a means of self-expression, nor do I see it as a didactic tool or frame-work, but I do see it as an investigative process for theartist and also for the viewer."

Marcia Tucker has been an investigative viewersince her undergraduate days at Connecticut College.William McCloy, then chairman of Connecticut's artdepartment, remembers her as a studio major whotook her work quite seriously. "She spent her junioryear studying abroad at the Louvre, which was fairlyunusual then. Her work was really quite good, in themanner of Ben Shahn. But I think she took morepride as an undergraduate in being a college rebel,"he added. "Rosemary Park remembers her with a sortof twinkle in her eye."

Marcia also remembers people seeing her as aneccentric, although she doesn't know that she sawherself as such. "I think that sometimes you 'buy' apackage," she said, contemplatively twisting a strandof the thick, dark hair unleashed around hershoulders. "In other words: At that age, at that time,if you decided that you weren't going to try to becomepopular or part of a group or a 'great date', then youwere almost bound to read really tough literature; yougot involved with civil rights issues-this was beforefeminism but certainly not before civil rights-orwith an unpopular political way of looking at things.

"But what I want to say is that if in your life youchoose to break away into an area of personal uncon-ventionality, a lot of other things come with it. Soyou become this champion of the undesirable, theunwanted." Marcia Tucker became the champion ofcontemporary art.After a brief stint in the print department of the

Museum of Modern Art, Marcia earned her master's atthe Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Shebecame curator of painting and sculpture at the

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Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969. Eightyears later, she was fired because of a disagreementabout the museum's direction. She wished to con-tinue a strong involvement with contemporary art;the museum wished to concentrate on its permanentcollection.

Marcia responded in her characteristically energeticfashion: she started her own museum. The NewMuseum opened its doors in 1977, devoting itself toshowing the work of living artists, particularly thosewho have received little public exposure or criticalacclaim. It is a unique stance for a museum, and onethat people like William McCloy applaud.

Inside the museum's home at 583 Broadway inSoHo, Marcia has gained plenty of firsthand expe-rience learning to become comfortable with ambi-guity. And she can offer suggestions to anyone whowants to learn about the value of "not knowing."

"It's a bit like learning to like skydiving," she

Colleagues callMarcia Tucker"the New Muse-um's biggest PRperson" becauseshe is an eloquentand popular advo-cate for contem-poraryart.

The New Museumis located in thelandmark Astorbuilding onBroadway. Artistsare encouraged todevelop artworksfOT the displaywindows, such asthis piece by YuraAdams (1984).

admitted with a laugh. "But if somebody is threat-ened by his lack of knowledge about contemporaryan but wants to not be, there's a real simple way to doit; familiarity. You don't have to talk, you don't haveto tell the painting how smart you are, all you have todo is look. If you want to educate yourself, you go tomore galleries and museums, you look at more."However, there's a lot of art you can't look at,"

she said. "And there's a lot of art being done rightnow which is not visually pleasing in the way that wehave come to think of art as visually pleasing-that isnot, for example, like paintings done by the Impres-sionists. In that case, you are thrown back on yourselfto think and feel about the work."It's sometimes helpful to take an art history

course. But if you go and look at more and more andmore, you usually develop this capacity for lookingmore and more and more. And then you get reall ycurious. And you go read a book on art history or you

begin to read the trade journals, like Artforum. Andyou read what makes sense. You don't wade throughmost articles-I wouldn't-that are incomprehen-sible. There are some wonderful critics, some wonder-ful books and articles written, that are not difficult toread, or ones where wading through is worth it."As with other fields, generally the more you

explore, the more enjoyable and richer the initialexperience becomes. You can appreciate a Bach can-tata without knowing anything about music; butwere you to listen to a lot of music, were you to knowsomething about Bach, were you to find out some-thing about the contata form and how it evolved, youwould go back to that same piece of music with norelinquishment of the original enjoyment but with akind of additional structure."The ability to recognize your own ignorance and

then move on to educate yourself is a quality of whatMarcia calls a good mind. "I've been saying in lee-

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tures recently that everyone is concerned that theyneed to develop a 'good eye'. I think the concept ofdeveloping a good eye is an outmoded one, because itessentially assumes that works of art consist of formalcomponents that can be analyzed; that there is astandard of quality against which all things can bemeasured. That standard of quality is culturallydetermined. And it's a very provincial view to assumethat it's a white upper middle class standard.

"So I have said in my lectures over and over againthat it's more important to think about developing agood mind. And a good mind will look at works ofart with an openness that it brings to bear on allfields of investigation."

To hel p others develop a good mind, Marcia placesa strong emphasis on scholarship, said Mary Clancy."This is why the New Museum is a museum and nota visual arts center. We have an education program,catalogs, books, and a lecture series. Marcia is inter-ested in getting people thinking and not just looking.She's interested in art that promotes ideas, promotesthought, as opposed to art that is exclusively formal.

"I'm a painter myself," Mary added. "I still paintwhat might almost be old-fashioned, formalconcerns-painting as an object in itself. Workingwith Marcia has helped me broaden my horizons. Forinstance, I used to think of exhibition catalogs assouvenirs, and I only looked at the pictures. But nowI read them, and they do enhance my understanding."

That focus on ideas has met with some criticismfrom people who claim that Marcia Tucker is onlyinterested in the verbal aspects of the visual arts: sym-bolic artworks or pieces that have words in them. Sheis the first to admit that some artwork doesn't interesther, particularly work done for commercial success orwork that is purely academic. And some members ofthe New York art community have labeled Marcia a"pluralist" because she doesn't see art as having onefixed standard of quality. She responds by pointingout such a view unnecessarily narrows the field.

"I think that what we're seeing now is a newacademy," she said a little sadly. "A lot of the workwhich uses appropriated images, or which critiquesthe way imagery is presented in our world, is so obs-cure as to not be recognizable as a critique by the gen-eral public. That poses an interesting problem,because then the art reads the same way the originalimages do. Let's say you have an image taken fromwomen's magazines, that is supposedly a critique ofhow women are presented. But the image is so closeto the original that unless you knew the artist's workyou wouldn't know that the image is a critique."That kind of "insider's" art almost begs to bemisunderstood.

"I also think today's climate in which young artistsare making art is very unhealthy. It holds out thepromise of fame and fortune rather than of a kind of,oh, I think it used to be an intellectual and spiritualquest. A lot of people today see what I do as career

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counseling. I go into the studio and the artists say,'Where should I take this?' instead of asking for thekind of dialogue and exchange between curator andartist that people craved in the old days. And I'm nota career counselor."who is she, then? A very complicated person, say

her colleagues. There's the disciplined director wholoves wrestling with unconventional ideas. And thenthere's the creative person who hangs a picture in anabsurd macaroni frame in her office, dresses boldly,and gives staff members gifts of earrings in the shapeof leaping monkeys.

"She has a real gift," Mary Clancy said. "She canbe so personable and very informal, and yet extremelyaggressive. It's a strange combination, I know, butshe accomplishes a great deal."

"The message I've wanted to share about Marcia isthat she's too modest about her artistic talents," addedWilliam McCloy. "Now she poohpoohs the sugges-tion that she has any ability at al l." He laughed as herecounted his favorite comment: "1 keep threateningto take her undergraduate prints down to hermuseum, show them at the desk, and ask them whatthey think of this talented young person!"

But Marcia Tucker has a more modest view of thesource of her energy: " 'If you do x, you develop thecapacity. .''' Marcia laughed, sipped her coffee, andbecame contemplative again.

"The way I stay enthusiastic is that I don't seem tobe able to think in the mainstream, because somebodyelse is already doing it. I think that like anything, inmy own life I've had periods in which I was moreimpassioned and periods in which I called into ques-tion the enterprise I was engaged in. I think you haveto ask yourself over and over again: 'Why am I doingthis, what is it I'm doing?' You have to be critical ofyourself and the enterprise.

"But one of the things that keeps me interested isthat the museum is such an extraordinarily flexibleplace. You know, in a period of rigorous self-examination," she said, lowering her voice melo-dramatically, "I started asking why we were doingexhibitions, whether we were different from any othermuseum. And I brought the questions to the peoplewho work here. The result is that we're embarking ona year of real radical experimentation, acceptingproposals from artists for the complete transforma-tion of the museum's space and perhaps more-things that go outside the museum's walls, thingsthat are interdisciplinary." Her eyes sparkled at thethought of the challenges ahead.

"I feel that I have to regenerate myself as a museumperson in the same way artists need to regeneratethemselves-and that is by reaching into an area out-side one's own area of knowledge. I always knowwhen I'm frightened, that something really interest-ing is happening."

Paula Brisco '86 majored in art history with a special focus on artcriticism. She is an editor at the Bureau of Business Practice, asubsidiary of Simon & Schuster in Waterford, Connecticut.

In the VangardeWith a little help from their friends, artists have

carved out a dashing new gallery in downtown New London~ By Susan Baldwin Kietzman '82

.1.he one thing they have in common is Con- •• _-------~-------~-------...,necticut College.

Some taught in the studios there, others drew frommodels; while still others continue to mold thecollege-aged minds of young artists. And all acknowl-edge that connection as the stepping stone to theinitiation and construction of the new VangardeGallery in downtown New London.

The idea for a gallery started in the minds of Pro-fessor David Smalley and Helen Langfield, MA '70,when they saw a large space in the old Garde Theaterbuilding on Captain's Walk, the pedestrian mall thatwas long known as State Street. Both had a commit-ment to the building; Langfield's was initiallyfinancial-her husband Raymond wanted to purchaseand renovate the building. And Smalley's, moreemotional-his father used to be the manager whenthe Garde was a movie theater.

"Raymond got together with several businessmenand purchased the building for $300,000," said Lang-field. "Money came from trust funds, primarily fromGeorge Swift at the Connecticut National Bank. He'sin charge of trust funds to be used for communitywork, and gave a considerable amount."

Soon, the American Musical Theater came into thenew Garde and "rented spaces to art people-printers,photographers, art studio spaces," said Langfield."The money gained from rentals pays for the mainten-ance and upkeep of the building.

"When Helen and I saw the place," said Smalley,"we thought it would be just perfect for an artgallery." The meetings started in earnest in the fall of1985,Smalley said. Connecticut College teachers,graduates, students, as well as other area artists werevery interested. "It happened pretty spontaneously,"Smalley continued. "We found a volunteer architect,Rick Cipstein, and started the renovations in theearly winter."

"David did a lot of the physical work," said Lang-field. "You should have seen it. It was a big barrenroom with no walls. I guess they just stripped theentire thing." The small room in the back of thegallery was Smalley's idea; she added. It provides ameans [or more artists to show their work, while themain artist on display uses the entire front of thegallery.

And that front is very impressive. Walking up Cap-tain's Walk, a visitor is taken aback by the gallery'ssheer starkness. Huge panes of glass draw the visitorinside to see a somewhat small space made large withwhite walls and a black ceiling-the perfect backdropfor any work of art, whether on the walls or in frontof them.

Artists own the non-profit, co-op gallery on Captain's Walk.

People are uncomfortable with galleries, Langfieldpointed out, because they're not used to them. "Theydon't know if it costs anything. They don't knowwhat to say when they enter, and they don't knowwhat to say if they don't like what they see," she said,"which is why the process will be a slow one." For

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now, however, the artists are pleased with the near-ness of the gallery, saying New London is a perfectplace.''I'm really pleased to have one so convenient," said

Martha-Jane Wakeman, an an instructor in Connec-ticut's evening division. Wakeman spent ten years inItaly, where she exhibited her work, and met her hus-band, Robert Proctor, who teaches Italian at Connec-ticut. "It's nice for New London to have a gallery [orcontemporary art," Wakeman said, "and I enjoy theidea of everyone working together and creatingtogether. We all contribute towards rent, and I findthat quite exciting."The Vangarde is a cooperative gallery, which, as

Wakeman explained, demands rent payments fromthe artists. In exchange, the artists can decide the pri-ces of works rather than letting a gallery ownerdetermine the value."When artists show in big cities like New York,"

said Langfield, "the gallery owners ask the artistswhat they want, and then they add on 100 percent forthemselves, usually. But if an artist wants $1,000 here,the gallery will charge just that. There's no overheadbecause the gallery is non-profit."

Professor Emeritus of Art William McCloy said artcooperatives are geared primarily for artists without areputation. "I've been around for a long time, andwhen I was 25 and 30 I was working very hard to geta reputation," he said. "And here I am ... 73."

McCloy said local artists have often had problemsin smaller cities. "There have been other attempts inthis area, but they've all failed in one or two years,"he said."I know these artists are serious," continued

McCloy, in reference to his Vangarde colleagues."They want exposure, like all cooperative artists, butthey want more than that."What they will want, McCloy added, is to sell their

work at their own price. Many of the Vangarde artistsknow that success is not guaranteed."We need some time," said Alida Ferrari '74, who

now teaches art part-time at the University of Con-necticut Avery Point campus. Her husband Arthurteaches sociology at Connecticut."You have to get established and have people know

that we're going to be there on a permanent basis ifwe want any hope for sales of the future," she said.However, Smalley said a lucrative future may not

be too far away for some artists. "We do have a cultur-al audience in New London. Yes, it's measured in thehundreds rather than the thousands, but it's a verydedicated audience. And several of us," he added,"have a local audience, but I really think we're fight-ing that Yankee antique mentality. Art work is hardto sell. . there's no economic framework."

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The opening of the gallery July 2 showed thedegree of local interest in art, with 500 to 600 peopleflowing in and out of the front door. A local bandplayed in front of the gallery, which added just theright touch to the evening, noted Langfield.Working with other artists is a new experience for

most of the artists involved in the Vangarde, Lang-field said. "We all know each other, but we all hadour own studios and were trying to do our thingseparately. But now, we've become a cohesive groupof artists. We've all been involved with the arts andnow wi th each other."The artists seem to relish the idea of learning from

each other, of exploring the work of others. All workwith different mediums to produce unique results.Ferrari is concentrating on painted wood, lattice

sculpture right now, even though she majored inceramic sculpture. After school, she sold pottery inthe area and made sculpture in her spare time. Butmoving to Arizona in 1978 changed all that."It was a very different visual experience," she said,

"and my art was influenced by the Indians. I startedto primitive fire my pieces, which leaves flashes ofsmoke on the surface. And then I switched to ladderpieces." Her ladder pieces are alternations of spaceand forms. "It's a huge change from ceramic sculp-ture, that just happened gradually." Ferrari's show isin October, but her part-time status with UConngives her plenty of time to work, she said.Wakeman, who teaches night school so she can

paint during the day, as well as care for her twochildren, won't show for two years. Her show willconsist of canvases covered with pastels in addition topaint. "I wanted to be the last one," she said, "to giveme time. Two years is a good amount of time to havea show of good quality."Langfield's show will grace the gallery next May.

She works with paints, pastels, charcoal and cutoutsof various materials-paper, canvas, "Anything I canset my hands on, really," said Langheld.And Smalley works with stainless steel sculpture.

Although his show is not until next October, he hasmany of the pieces ready.People associated with the College and also with

the Vangarde Gallery number about a dozen. In addi-tion to those mentioned above, Lynne Stone, BarkleyHendricks, Don Eccleston, Charles Chu. Laura Ray-mond, Peter Leibert and Janet Shafner have been orare involved with the Vangarde.Inquiries about membership can be addressed to

Smalley at the College, but, he warned, just becausethe gallery would like more people does not mean it'sany easier to get it.One look at the new Vangarde and you know he's

not kidding.

19ln September 1915 when our class enteredc.c. we numbered JOJ. On this summerday of 1986, we number 19. The teenagers

of 1915 are now approaching their 90s if they have notalready reached them. but we still speak of each other as"girls" though we smile a bit when we think of it. Someof us are more active than others but as our old songwent, "We are the Class 1919, the first class in thecollege!"

Ruth Avery French writes of her granddaughter andfamily back from Haiti where they spent two yearsworking for Habitat for Humanity. Her oldest son Billhas retired from a,M. and has been visiting Ruth. Ruthhas just bought an exercise bike as she finds it too hot insummer and too cold in winter to walk outside forexercise. Good for her! Her wild flower garden is in fullbloom and she makes an arrangement for church eachSunday.Joyful news from Priscilla Ford Schenke. A cataract

operation has restored her vision so she can now get tothe pool for her regular swim and doso many things shehas been unable to do for a long time. A blouse shethought was tan turns out to bea pretty lavender, so herwhole world has brightened. I understand it as I havehad both eyes operated and implanted.Marenda Peentis, too, is recovering from a cataract

operation and is looking forward to reading again, oneof Prent's great joys.

Esther Batchelder writes tnat this has been a veryhappy year. The outstanding experience was a trip viaConcorde from NY to London and her chance to con-tinue helping her friend and housemate Jane Ebbs inwork over there on the book she is writing. It concernsthe British/ American coopera tion in relief and rehabil-itation of civilians in liberated countries as we advancedin World War II, when Jane worked forthe Army andlater the Defense Dept. The important records wereSECRET until 1975 and even this year more very valu-able material became available. They started the workin London! I years ago and this was the ninth year theyhave spent !Q to 12 weeks on the research. As always theLondon theatre gave them some fine entertainment.We are sad to report the death 5/12/86 of Marion

Kolsky Harris' husband Frank who had had a long anddistinguished career as a college professor of economicsand in the field of labor relations in both the public andprivate sector. He served as an arbitrator on theNational Labor Relations Board in D.C. and the U.S.Mediation Service where he trained the commissioners.The class extends its sympathy to Marion.

Correspondent: Virginia C. Rose. 20 Avery Lane.Waterford, CT06385

21 Olive Lintehates Corbin. 9 Brady Ave .•New Britain. CT06052

2 3One happy item I can report is a delightful38th anniversary reception in Schenectady,on June 29th for Olive Holcombe Wheeler

and Rufus, given by their daughters. It was my goodfortune to attend. In July, on return from two days atMystic Seaport, our family drove through the lovelyC.c. campus. I was able to point out to my grand-children the corner room in Plant where Harriet Wood-ford Merriman and [ spent our happy sophomore andjunior years together.It is with sadness I must report the passing of two of

our classmates, Mary P. Wheeler on 3/6/86 and RuthWells Sears on 9/15{86. Our sympathy goes to Mary'ssister and to Ruth's family members.

Correspondent: Adelaide Satterly Tuthill. 76 HuntAve .. Apt. i-A, Pearl River, NY 10965

25 Emily Warner. Covenant Village Apt.3112. Missionary Rd.. Cromwell. CT06416

27 Henrietta Kanehl Kohms is kept extremelybusy with both academic and extracurric-ular activities of her two granddaughters

Class Noteswho attend private schools in Summit, NJ. Laura Jo isa sophomore at Kaul Place which has two CC alumnaeon its staff. Both girls are interested in amateur theatri-cals. Thanks to good health, Henrietta has been able to

be a part of their doings.Marian Lamson Carr is feeling much better after

spending a year in bringing her heart and system up topar. She enjoyed the summer at her camp in ME.Betty Leeds Merrill and Barbara Tracy Coogan

drove to the College in time for the May 31st picnic.They sat with Frances Joseph, Sally Pithouse Becker.Emily Warner '25. and some of the class of '34 and '36.Betty and Barbara see Jean Howard and Betsy Allen '25who lives with Jean. Betty also talked with ConniePalmer.Sallie Barber Pierce recently had a cataract operation.Mildred Beardsley Stiles planned a trip to Scandina-

via with her eldest daughter Nancy last summer.Thistle McKee Bennett is still a practising doctor and

busy with State Board of Health. Her family has beenenlarged by one great-grandson.

Winifred Maynard Wright has had a very inactiveyear following a complete knee replacement last Dec.Her first outing was in May when she attended a CCluncheon with Margaret (Peg) Rich Raley andMadelyn (Maddy) Wheeler Chase '28.Ruth Molhersill Joy, after 16 glorious years of

retirement in Guadalajara, Mexico moved back to theStates to be nearer to their children. The Joys now livein a retirement village. Their traveling is limited tovisiting the children and attending grandchildren'sweddings; three out of I I are married. Ruth has atwo-year-old great-granddaughter.

Eleanor (Nubs) Vernon smashed her new car lastspring, which resulted in much humiliation andwalking!

Connie Noble Sewan'sdaughtercame up from FL tocelebrate their mutual birthdays on July 26th.

Lois (Loie) Penny Stephenson and husband haveJived in a retirement village for over a year. They spenttwo months in FL this year.

Sarah (Sally) Pithouse Becker has been busy sinceher husband's death, clearing out a five bedroom house.She has moved to a retirement home. "Being sentimen-tal and a squirrel doesn't make moving easy," wroteSally.

Edith (Ede) Schupner Lester has been to Nyack, NYand twice to HI this year. She has six great-grandchildren, Her daughter Pat and husband visitedChina recently.

Margaret (Peggie) Rich Raley had just returned fromSwitzerland, and last fall visited Morocco, Spain andPortugal.Eleanor (Richie) Richmond Smith spends six

months in Monroe, OH, and the winter in Green Valleyand this will probably be her last winter in AZ. LastOct. she stopped in Portland, OR to see three nephews

In MemoriamRuth Wells Sears '23Aileen Fowler Dike '25Isabel Newton '26Amy Ferguson Crouch '27Dorothy Quigley '30Helen Corinne Chidsey '31Edith Schneider MacGlashan '31Elizabeth Way Williams '3 IMary Seabury Ray '34Dorothy Richardson '37Filomena Arborio Dillard '43Annette Rapin '50Judith Bailen Kateman '65

and also saw a grandnephew and grandniece for thefirst time. Richie still does calligraphy and needlepoint.

Gretchen Snyder Francis spends winters in FL andsummer in No. Egremont. MA. Last year she went onan Elderhostel trip to Mexico. One week was spent inMexico City visiting a family as part of the Experimentin International Living. One granddaughter has justgraduated from R ISD. Gretchen is still interested ingarden club activities.

Barbara (Bob) Tracy Coogan has closed her SFapartment and now has one in Newton. MA. She keepsbusy responding to notes received in recognition ofPeter. A memorial book fund has been established forhim at Harvard Law School.

Sarah Tanenbaum Wein is active in various organi-zauons and volunteer work in New London. CT. Eachwinter she spends several weeks in FL. Her pride andjoy are her two grandsons.

Elizabeth (Betty) Tremaine Pierce, after losing herhusband in '77. sold her home of 41 years and movedinto a condo in her hometown. She went to Spain in '83and on a cruise to the Caribbean and Panama Canal in'84. Christmas and every summer are spent with herchildren in MI and NE. Betty keeps well and busy withchurch, women's club, college women's club, and thehistorical society.

Mary Wilcox Cross has been spending much timetraveling. She went to FL in Feb. to visit her sister anddaughter, April's highlight was a 19-day tour of theNetherlands. In May, she visited in lL and WI and inJune she visited Baltimore and cruised on ChesapeakeBay. Mary's children arc in CT, FL and Honduras andher grandchildren live in various places ranging fromHonduras 10 CA.

Eleanor Richmond Smith winters in Green Valley,AZ and summers at Mt. Pleasant, OH.

Margaret (Paducah) Wheeler went to Philadelphiafor its annual musical festival and 10 Santa Fe for itssummer one. She and her librarian roommate managethe retirement home library.

Minnie (Mitzie) Walchinsky Peck and Harold stilllive in CA. Harold does accounting, manages propertyand does other real estate work. Volunteer work, studygroups, lectures, sewing, gardening, and musical eventskeep Mitzie very busy. Part of last winter was spent inFL and they go east several times a year to visit daugh-ter Judy Arin Krupp '58 and husband Alan. Judy andAlan just returned from China where they visited theirdaughter Karen, Tufts '88 who was a student at PekingU this summer. Peter Krupp was graduated from U ofChicago Law School last June, Larry Krupp, Yale '85.does environmental work in DC. Susan Krupp is aBrown senior. Son Don, a surgeon in San Jose, CAmoderated a meeting of The International Society ofColon and Rectal Surgeons this Sept. in RiodeJaniero.His daughter Mara is attending Santa Clara LawSchool. Jonathan is a student at OR State.

Margaret Battles Barber is in a nursing home inNorfolk, OH. Hiram died in July. Our sympathy isextended to Margaret and her children.

Correspondents: Madelyn Clish Wankmiller, 422Mill SI., Worcester. MA OJ602; Minnie WatchinskyPeck, 135J Saratoga Ave .. San Jose, CA 95129

2 9 Elizabeth (Zeke) Speirs spent time in L.J.where she visited with Winifred Link Stew-art and Frances Wells Vroom. She sees

Elizabeth Utley Lamb and Esther Stone Wenzel fre-q uently for lunches and local jaunts. Zeke reports thatMary Slayter Solenberger, who lives in ME, is troubledwith emphysema but finds great interest in a younggranddaughter.

Faith Grant Brown was north for the summer fromher home in FL, Jiving in a converted barn.

Dr, Eleanor Michel resides in Meriden, CT at theMiller Community, part of Church Homes Inc.

Eleanor Newmiller Sidman had a visit with Peg Bur-roughs Kohr, and contact with Ann Stein wedell Hardywho lives in Delray Beach, FL.

Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whitman and Burton werevisiting friends and "birding" in FL last winter.

Ruth Howlett Navarre's husband died of cancer6{30/86. Frances Wens Vroom's only daughter died ofheart failure on 7/27/86 and a memorial service was

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r-----Office Politics----Belaga and Kolb

named assistant directorsHeather Belaga and Susan Kolb, the Alumni Association's new

assistant directors, share a corner of the Alumni Office and anavid interest in Connecticut state politics.Susan Kolb. a 1984 graduate of the University of Connecticut

who is charged with nurturing our clubs and Connections struc-ture, was office manager for U.S. Congressman Sam Cejdenson's(D-Conn.) 1984 reelection campaign. Working at the next deskand responsible for classes, reunion, and advising the newUndergraduate Alumni Board (DAB) is Heather Belaga, whosename should be familiar (0 Connecticut voters. Heather, a 1986graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, is the daughter of theRepublican candidate for governor of Connecticut, Julie Belagaof Westport. Heather has campaigned for her mother, who isdeputy majority leader of the Connecticut House of Representa-tives and a five-term representative.Susan, a Waterford resident, has a great deal of experience

working with volunteers, both in Congressman's Gejdenson'scampaign and at Mystic Seaport, where she was an assistant indevelopment. She looked forward to Alumni Council as heropportunity to get to know Connecticut's volunteers. "I'd like tomake sure that all the club presidents and regional coordinatorsknow I'm here and willing to listen to their ideas, thoughts forimprovement, enthusiasm, and complaints," Susan said. "Thereis a club organization all over the United States, but it needs to bemore developed and cared for."Heather joined the Alumni Association staff two weeks after

graduating as a business management major from Franklin andMarshall. But she was already a veteran of alumni affairs, servingas president of the Alumni Student Association and organizing aconvention of student alumni groups at her campus. ''I'm veryexcited about working with the UAB," Heather said. "They'rebrand new and very enthusiastic, and I look forward to helpingthem grow."The two young women succeed Tamara Brown '84, who left

the Association to attend graduate school at Goucher College.Their appointments mark the first time the staff has included twofull-time assistant directors, making it possible to focus moreenergy on the Association's expanding programs and events.

held 8/16/86 in Southold, NY, Our sympathy isextended to Ruth and Fran.

Correspondent: Amelia Green Fleming, 34-48 81st5/., Jackson Heights. NY 1/372

Caroline B, Rice's continuing tireless efforts for theCollege. We spent many nostalgic moments lookingthrough C.B.'s remarkable notebook on the history ofthe class of 1931. Each member has a page with anec-dotes and at least one picture. We all expect to returnfor our 60th reunion when the book will be just fiveyears more interesting.Thursa Barnum continues her peripatetic ways. This

summer it was a trip to Scandinavia.Winifred Beach Bearce broke her wrist this past win-

ter but has been able to keep up her piano playing. Sheis teaching lWO neighbor children who have no piano,so come to her house to practice daily. They are learn-ing with Winnie's own new teaching method. Winniehas a large family including three great-grandchildren.Beatrice Brooks Carpenter's most recent trip was a

cruise through the Panama Canal. She's excited abouther grandson's attending c.c.Dorothy Birdsey Manning's oldest grandsons, twins,

3 1 Twenty-three alumnae plus guests attendedour 55th reunion. Hats off to DorothyGouldand Jane Williams Howell who out-

did themselves with the arrangements. The finalaccounting of our class gift came to 77.87 percent par-ticipation, the 4th highest percentage but some of ourcontributions came in too late to be counted for thisyear. We thank Elizabeth Appenzellar Parsons whosent hers from England and will be considered our firstcontributor for 1986-87. We're proud of our record andthank all those who gave and we know that most ofthose who couldn't had serious illness or other personalproblems. Much of this success can be attributed to

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graduated from college this year; Bruce Howlett withhonors in biology and Brian Howlett summa cum laudein life sciences. Her oldest granddaughter is a collegefreshman. Dot writes that education has always been atop priority in her family. After five girls Dot's oldestson has a boy, born 7/18/86.Wilhelmina Brown Seyfried is best known in her

community for her "Billie Coats." To date Billie hasmade 989 of the sweater coats, averaging one a week forthe past 20 years! She has given them to relatives,friends and even strangers, including a stewardess whosaw her knitting one on a plane. In her spare time Billieserves meals at a senior citizens' apartment house, is acircle leader for a ladies' group at her church, programchairman for the Senior Women's Club and you knowwhat forthe c.c. class of'31. After reunion in Junesheattended her brother's 60th wedding anniversary inMartha's Vineyard and then was off to M I to swim andwater ski with some of her grandchildren.Louise Buenzle Moyer writes from FL that she is

recovering from hip surgery and is unable to do anytraveling this year, but enjoys swimming in a salt waterpool.Ruth Canty lives in a housing project for senior

citizens. She has trouble reading but enjoys gardening.She has grandnieces and nephews in their teens who,she says, are terrifically interesting.Virginia Carmichael retired as executive secretary in

a large corporation. After a dreadful year in which shewas robbed three times and beaten up once she washappy to return to her hometown in Hamden, CT.Anna Cofrances Guida has moved to a retirement

home. Son Dr. Paul Guida now occupies the oldhomestead where he and Anna's daughter, MarthaGuida Young '61, grew up. Anna's oldest grandson willbe entering Syracuse in September.Isabel Colby enjoys gardening, serves on the church

vestry and is an inveterate world traveler. Although shehas no children of her own, she has greatly enjoyed themany children she has taught and says she would nothave changed her way of life for any other.Alice Coy Schwenk has undergone hip surgery but it

doesn't keep her from visiting her children and grand-children. One of her visits takes her from FL to Ans-cortes, WA.Lucia Dearden Watt and husband celebrated their

52nd anniversary this year. They have lived in ReddingRidge, CT since their marriage, in four different houses.Lucia was a partner in a private nursery school until 10years ago when she and the same partner went into theantique business. They feel they are now in Cadillacclass of antique shows. She is well, loves what she isdoing and does not regret having confined her travels tothe U.S. of A.Bethel Dean Lemmerman and husband Bob have

retired and havea home overlooking Lake Erie. Fortu-natelythey are safe from the erosion that plagues manylakeshore residents. They have four exceptionalchildren-three girls and one boy, and six exceptionalgrandchildren-four girls and two boys.Olive Driscoll McCreery's physical activities are

limited to short walks but she keeps busy with churchwork and AARP.Katherine Dunlap Marsh attends her family reunion

at Saugertied, NY and also visits her son in NC. Kitenjoys going to the theatre and dinners with her seniorcitizen group.Lois Eddy Chidsey, although she had a broken arm,

keeps in shape swimming in their backyard pool.Katherine Eggleston Wadleigh has moved to a

smaller house with a bigger yard. When she isn't gar-dening, she enjoys visiting her children and grandchil-dren which requires traveling to NH, CA, Caracas andToronto.Margaret Fitzmaurice ColJoty has two grandsons;

one at Brown, the other at Lake Forest. Mackie writesthat they really are handsome, brilliant and Charming.Dr, Giovanna Pusco-Rfpka has one son, a law pro-

fessor at American U. School of Law in DC. He hasfour daughters by his first marriage and the list of theiraccomplishments is most impressive. The youngest, 17,starts college this fall. A second marriage, to a professorof law at the U. of Baltimore, produced another girlthree years ago and finally twin boys born 3/1/86.Jennie and husband have traveled extensively through-

out the world but due to his health they feel that theirtraveling days are over. Jennie had a heart attack lastDecember, has retired from medical practice, but feelsfine now.

Constance Ganoe Jones lives in a condominium inFL where she plays golf, swims and goes bowling. Herson lives nearby and she visits her daughter in NM. Herlatest trip was through the Panama Canal to AK. Con-nie does hospital work and delivers meals on wheels.Grace Gardiner Manning exercises with Fitness

Unlimited and continues to take active part in AARP,Retired Teachers, DAR, church, etc. Last year shevisited her daughter and family in London. Later shespent time at lovely Mackinac Is., MI and recently shetoured Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Is.Flavia Gorton Williams is interested in a very suc-

cessful dress shop in Hudson, OH, dealing in financialmatters and helping in the shop when needed. In thesummer it's a struggle for her to take care of her two anda half acres of land. Her daughter and husband livenearby and she sails with them on Lake Erie as well as inFL. Fla is one of the few members of our class with agreat granddaughter.Dorothy Gould's pacemaker has given her the energy

to take part in many activities. She is often at theCollege doing volunteer "unskilled labor." Severalyears ago she worked in the Development Office colla-ting their records with those of the Alumni Office.Recently she attended a dinner at the home of Devel-opment Director David Edwards celebrating the suc-cess of C.C.'s 75th birthday. She also worked for thepublic library book sale. She sees Frances Brett dailyand plays bridge with her occasionally. She recentlyattended two 50th anniversary celebrations: one at Lin-coln School in Providence and the other at WesttownSchool in Westtown, PA, where she taught.Last fall Esther Green Schechter went to Spain with a

Hartford Atheneum group followed by an extendedtrip on their own. Esther is a docent at the Museum forFine Arts.Dorothy Johnson Imes has two daughters. Linda,

married three years ago, lives in Charlestown, SC.Fran, married 3/24/86. lives, by choice, in Docie'sgarage apartment. Dodie's home, although not builtuntil 1929, is on Kentucky Heritage and the NationalTrust. Dodie is most grateful for her two girls and herexcellent health.Jane Haines Bill's trip to the Far East and to China

had to be canceled due to her husband Speed's illness.We hope for a fast recovery.Betty Hendrickson Matlack and Bob are grateful

that both are well and able to drive from NJ to theirhouse on Lake Megunticook near Camden, ME. Whilethere Betty does a good deal of walking and swimming.When vacationing in FL last March they visited ConnieGanoe Jones.Harriet Hickok Kenyon thinks she has the ideal

recipe for retirement living. In the winter they Jive in herhusband's NYC apartment and in the summer in herGalena, OH country home. She and new husbandHouston, a widower and Harvard friend of her latehusband, met on a cruise to AK with mutual friends.Since their 1982 marriage they have had four exotictrips plus winter vacations in Bermuda.Virginia Hinman Linden is the proud great-

grandmother of three! With 12grandchildren we expectthat number will be raised. Ginny is on the board oftrustees at her church and also does hospital work.

Mary Louise Holley Spangler is grandmother of twomore college graduates. Toot's grandson, Mike Davies,graduated from Kenyon in OH and is asst. soccer coachand chemistry teacher at Baylor Academy in Chatta-nooga, TN. His twin sister Susan, after graduating fromYale with a double major in microbiology and philos-ophy is now business manager of a summer theatre inIrvington, NY and is hoping it will lead to a career inthat field. Fortunately, a college education offers morethan job training.Ruth C. Johnson has moved 10 a retirement village

and recently has confined her travels to places nearby.She is proud 10 be the great-aunt of IO!Alice Kindler spent part of July at the Cape with CB,

Rice. While there they had lunch with Peggy MarvinBarnes. AI had to give up golf because ofa bad shoulderbut otherwise seems very well.

Jane King Buss' husband has Alzheimer's disease. Heis now in a nursing home as Jane is no longer able tocare for him. She is thankful to have sold their homeand moved to Green Valley, AZ. She feels it is the bestplace for them and she has two children living in nearbyTucson. In August Jane returned to Cleveland to visittheir other two children as well as friends and classmates.Josephine Lincoln Morris. in spite of a number of

broken bones, does a good deal of walking and swimsalmost daily. She and her husband live in an apartmentin Cleveland but spend five months each year inExuma, Bahamas.Virginia Lavis Patten has two children and six

grandchildren. Her husband died in 1971 and she re-married eight years later. Since then they have traveledto S. Africa and S. America. They have just returnedfrom a cruise around Puget Sound. Ginnie highlyrecommends marriage the second time around.Correspondents: Wilhelmina Brown Seyfried. 37

South Main 5/ .. Nazareth. PA 18064; Gertrude SmithCook. 109 Village Park Dr., Williamsville, NY 14221

3 3 Ericka Langhammer Grimmeisen andhusband Erwin are active in AARP,garden and teacher retirement clubs and

have many hobbies. Nine grandchildren keep themrunning to graduations, plays, and recitals. They arevery proud ofson Paul who is now president of Or tho-pedic National American Chiropractic Assn. Bothdaughters are busy in their jobs; Marie is now directorof nurses at Holyoke Hosp. Ericka and Erwin visitErwin's sister in Germany annually, and they managean annual cruise and trips to a Caribbean island.

Jean Marshall Simpson has finished writing the his-tory of the British Benevolent Society of S. F., foundedin 1844. In mid-Aug. she moved to Menlo Park, CA.

Helen Peasley Comber and Bill were hosts to BettyKunkle Palmer and Hap in May when the Palmers wereen route to a wedding in OH. Helen wrote that she'sfalling apart since turning 75 in June. She tore a legmuscle doing keep-fit exercises. They spent the summerat home enduring the intense heat and drought that hitthe southeast. Now Helen is recovering from surgeryand hopes to be back soon into her regular activitiesincluding painting.

Margaret Ray Stewart won't be traveling now asJack had a stroke last Sept. and is home using a walker.Sunny has a nurse's aide part-time so that she can getout some.

Margaret Royall Hinck and Edwin are spendingthree months at Lake George where they will see theirdaughter and son and also Kay Hammond Engler.Peger and Kay are working on our '88 reunion andwould welcome any ideas from classmates so don'thesitate to send suggestions to them.

Virginia Schanher Porter's son married a lovely girlfrom M I and Ginny is delighted that the young couplewill be living and working near her. The wedding was atime of reunion for family and friends, who came fromfar and wide. Ginny had houseguests and also plannedthe rehearsal party, right up her alley since she hasworked in the country club business for 21 years. Shestill works to keep young in body and spirit. Ginnykeeps in touch by phone with Winnie DeForest Coffinand Kathryn Jackson Evans, both of whom are house-bound but manage to stay in good spirits.

Dorothy Stokes writes that she is still on the same oldtrack enjoying life and her music and was planning tovisit a friend in Scotland in August

Jessie Wachenheim Burack traveled in March withbrother Edgar to visit Edgar's son and family in the S.F.Bay area. In May she went to Troy with the family 10 seegrandson graduate from R.P.1. She had an activesummer with houseguests of all ages, lots of tennis andeveryone enjoying the lake. With her son nearby thetwo younger grandchildren visit often, and the twopussy cats are great companions for an old lady whosure doesn't feel 75! No way.The class mourns the death of Jean Myers Tielke on

1/30/86 in Santa Barbara, CA. We extend our sym-pathy to her family.Correspondent: Jessie Wachenheim Burack. Bo)."408

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3 5JilI.Albree Child is improving steadily fromher stroke three years ago and reports thearrivallast Nov. of another granddaughter

to make a total of two girls and four boys. She and Samenjoyed two more Elderhostels.

Charlotte Bell Lester's husband has developed canceralong with his heart condition. but the good news is ofalovely June wedding in Aspen, CO. where daughterJodi married David Marsh. a lawyer and terrific per-son. Charlotte regrets not having made our 50th.

Kaye Cartwright Backus and Gene's darling grand-son Thomas, born on Easter Sunday, is brother toMeghan, 3. In the spring they flew to HI to stay inHonolulu and the Kiahuna Plantation on Kauai, visit-ing relatives in CA on the way home.

Corinne (Rene) Dewey Walsh is recovering well froma heart attack in May, taking rehab exercises at thehospital with full monitoring three times weekly. Shefeels so good she's going to France -for a historicalseminar in Aug. and Sept. She enjoys watching her twograndchildren living across the street, which makes herhouse with cat and dog a special treat.

Ginny Diehl Moorhead in June went to the PanamaCanal Zone to visit son Sam and his family stationedthere with the Army. The rainy season didn't spoil thefun. With her 55th high school reunion coming up shelooks forward to our CC 55th.

Betty Farnum Guibord is getting back to normalfrom a bad accident during the Sept. '85 hurricane. Shevisits with Kay Woodward Curtiss, Ruthie FordyceMcKeown, Madlyn Hughes Wasley and Ruth FairfieldDay and recalls our 50th with great joy.

Merion (Joey) Ferris Ritter enjoyed a quiet summerwith her next door daughter's family after three wintermonths in FL, a second Caribbean cruise, and shortAARP trips. Julius now has a motorized wheelchairwhich helps him to be more independent outdoors.

Ruth Fordyce McKeown has a new address inWilmette, I L not too far from her former place. KayWoodward Curtis visited her. and theydined with RuthWorthington Hendersonat her home. Ruthie's summeris partly at home and partly at her son's cottage in MI.

Ginnie Golden Kent had a great trip to the American-Canadian Northwest marveling at the spectacular scen-ery from Banff to Jasper. They have a new grandson,born to son Jeffrey and wife Patricia.

Maylah Hallock Park and Rick made a delightfultrip to Australia and New Zealand in March, endingwith some R. & R. in Maui and Kauai. Their plansincluded the annual summer family reunion at Hat-chett's Point. Old Lyme, CT.

Bobbie Hervey Reussow and Charlie were in FL withthe children for Christmas and visited friends aroundthe state. They saw Audrey LaCourse Parsons andJohn and Marion (Budge) Bogart Holtzman ')4 andGeorge. In June she met Ruth Worthington Hendersonat Squam Lake and Beth Sawyer had them for lunch, areal reunion. Bobbie plans to attend her 55th highschool reunion in Needham, MA in Sept. SHe andCharlie were planning to go to Santa Fe, NM, tb visitold friends and possibly contact Margaret (M.T.) Wat-son O'Neill.

Madlyn Hughes Wasley and the whole family ofeight adults and 18children, flew in Aprilito a children'sClub Med in Guadalupe. where constant activities keptthem very busy. In Aug. Martha Hickam Stone andChuck will cruise into Nantucket, where Madlyn willmeet them for a tour of the island.

Kay Jenks Morton is' reading with deep concentra-tion on her front porch this summer. In July youngestson Fred and family of five spent two weeks with them,their first visit from Portland, OR in five years. A visitfrom her niece from DE en route to ME and one fromher sister-in-law from NM kept her busy until she andDick visited their oldest son Rick in VT.Your correspondent and Hairy spent a cold, damp

week on the Stoke-Poges golf course, staying withfriends in Burnham, Bucks, England. On a rainy dayour hostess drove Subby to Chelmsford Cathedral,where a plaque honoring Thomas Hooker. founder ofHartford, CT, was to be unveiled.Correspondent: Sabrina (Subby) Burr Sanders, IJJ

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MAY 1ST: The BackgroundBy Karen Quint '87, Frank Tu irt '87, Eduardo Castell '87 and Richard Greenwald '87

On May 1, 1986,53 students occupiedFanning Hall. Many other colleges,including Dartmouth, Brown, andSmith, had seen protests last year, forthe most part, over South Africaninvestment policy. But at several col-leges, demonstrations centered on issuescloser to home. The students at Connec-ticut-the majority of whom werewhite-wanted the College to "improvethe quality of life for minority stu-dents." At Dartmouth, according to TheNew York Times, an attack on a groupof shanties built to protest South Afri-can investment policy "led to a counter-demonstration in which the administra-tion building was occupied, and then toa day long moratorium on classes fordiscussions of racism." And at Brown,The iimes reported an outside commit-tee (appointed after a protest last year)advised the university "to do more forminority students after they are admittedand more to combat racism on campus."

We asked four participants to explainthe background of the protest at Connec-ticut. Karen Quint is vice president ofSOAR (Society Organized AgainstRacism), Frank Tiutt is former presidentof UMOjA (the black student organiza-tion), Eduardo Caste lis is vice-presidentof La Unidad (the Hispanic studentgrou-p}, and Richard Greenwald is presi-dent of SOAR. All are student leadersand active in many campus activities; allare serving as housefellows this year.

It was not just another SOAR meet-ing on April 30, 1986. There was a pal-pable sense of anticipation as concernedstudents met with members of SOAR,La Unidad, and UMOjA and expressedfrustration over their continual attemptsto explain what it is like to be a minor-ity on a predominantly white campus.For many minority students, coming

to Connecticut College is a radicalchange. "Every student has a differentcollege experience. But because blacks,Hispanics and Asians are in the minor-ity, their problems are accentuated,"explains Frank Tuitt '87, former chair-person of UMOjA. Eddie Castell '87,vice president of La Unidad, adds,"Many minority students feel foreign ina homogeneous community like Con-necticut College. Many have feelings ofisolation and abandonment because oflack of support in terms of staff andcounseling, the small number of rolemodels, the need for more courses in

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Protest focused on quality of life issues.

black and Hispanic studies, and thereinforcement of stereotypes and socialand cultural differences." The poor rateof retention of minority students is clearproof of the problem. According toT'uitt and Castell, unless the Collegemakes a commmitment to change, theproblems minorities face will continueto increase as more minorities areaccepted.Richard Greenwald '87, president of

SOAR, explains how SOAR began."White students found inspiration fromthese minority students who had beenworking together for years and who hadbeen continually fighting to be heard.Once SOAR was organized two yearsago, and majority students began speak-ing out to bring attention to minorityconcerns, things began to change."SOAR began with a core group of stu-dents petitioning to add some Afro-American studies courses to the curricu-lum. SOAR is now the largest club oncampus, with over 70 students attendingweekly meetings. Comprised mainly ofwhite students, along with members ofthe black, Hispanic and Asian commun-ities, SOAR works toward raising racialawareness through forums, discussions,and guest speakers.The students meeting on April 30

were not a reactive group, but oneaimed at problem solving. However,students were frustrated and tired ofalways taking the initiative. The trus-tees were coming in two days. Shouldwe make another presentation to them

in a plea to have them recognize thatracism must be addressed on this cam-pus? Representatives from SOAR,UMOjA, and La Unidad had met withthe trustees in May of 1985and believedthey were successful in getting theirpoint across, but unsuccessful in gettingany commitments.Students had written numerous letters

to the president and administration,including a 27-page "statement ofexpressions" submitted by UMOJA.This letter made an attempt to summar-ize and highlight the Connecticut Col-lege experience for minority students. Itoffered solutions and explained that itwas their last reasonable attempt to getthe College to listen. SOAR endorsedthis letter and said they would followany UMOJA action. "We did get aresponse from the president," FrankTuitt says, "but we felt it was inade-quate and unacceptable." Should wewrite another letter to the president?At that April 30 meeting, we also con-

sidered contacting the press, hopingthat the publicity would eventuallyreach prospective minority students.Another option was to call studentsdirectly. Should we make these calls?After carefully considering our

options, we realized there was only onething we could do to force the Collegeto confront the problems. The risksinvolved were high, but we were all wil-ling to accept the consequences of ouractions. We made the decision to occupyFanning at another meeting in Unity

House (the minority cultural center)that evening at 10:30. Afterwards, moststudents went home to get some sleepwhile a dozen stayed to prepare for thenext day. They worked all night writingpress releases and developing a list ofdemands to be presented to the College'ssenior staff.Al 5:30 A.M. on Thursday, May 1, 53

students entered Fanning Hall andlocked the doors behind them. Studentsassumed different responsibilities:spokespeople were chosen, along withpeople to answer phones, watch doorsand windows, and communicate withstudents outside the building who werehanding out press releases and answer-ing questions. Support came frommembers of the entire college commun-ity throughout the day. A lot of studentswanted to join, but hadn't been aware ofour plans. SGA (the Student Govern-ment Association), Chavura (the Jewishstudent organization) and the NAACPdelivered food. This unity and organiza-tion during the 18 hours inside thebuilding was indicative of how wealways worked together efficiently andeffectively because we knew what wewere doing was right.The set of demands was presented LO

the president before anyone was allowedto enter the building. Before classescould resume, these demands had to beanswered by the College's senior staff.Throughout the day, students andmembers of the senior staff workedtogether to develop a joint statement ofcommitments to change and LO improvethe quality of life for minority andwhite students on this campus. When itwas completed and the doors were onceagain opened, a large gathering of stu-dents, faculty and staff was outside,applauding the work that had beenaccomplished. The next day, PresidentAmes' office distributed copies of thejoint statement to the collegecommunity."We became a stronger community

yesterday," Mr. Ames said in a letteraccompanying the statement, "asmembers of senior staff and facultyworked with the concerned studentswho were occupying Fanning Hall toreach an understanding of the future ofminority affairs on campus."

Major points of the statement includedestablishing an affirmative action policy,a series of awareness workshops forfaculty and staff, and a minor (and if thereis sufficient interest, a major) in Afro-American and Black African Studies; set-ting a goal for increasing minority stu-dent enrollment; and increasing thebudget of Unity House and the Office ofMinority Student Affairs.

MAY 1ST: The FutureSince May, substantial progress hasbeen made in many areas. The affirma-tive action committee is close to com-pleting a final proposal. "We have adraft oj a plan and of procedures forboth faculty and for administration andstaff," says Bonnie Stern, Director ofCareer Services and committee chair-man. Minority enrollment in the fresh-man class is 11 percent, up from 9percent last year. In November, minor-ity prefreshman weekend attracted over50 students-a record. "It went mar-velously," says Annie Scou '84, assistantdirector of admissions. "We had morecounselor referrals than ever, and thequality of the students was very high."Carolyn L. Buxton '71 was named

Acting Assistant to the Dean for Minor-ity Student Affairs and Director oj UnityHouse in july, shortly after receivingher master's in education from Harvard.She is former Associate Dean of Stu-dents at Franklin and Marshall College.We asked Carolyn to write about thefuture of minority affairs at the College.

By Carolyn L. Buxton '71

August 1, 1986. 1:00 P.M.Oh my God! What have I done? I havejust completed my first day on the job.My first ful l day at ConnecticutCollege-my first day in over 15 years.My goodness, the sense of deja vu I feltas I walked around this ever beautifulcampus with Tony Sheridan '74(Director of Personnel). While so manythings have changed, so many haveremained the same. The dormitorieslook smaller, Cro looks different, thePalmer Library is the BlausteinHumanities Center-so noiseless,bright, cheery-and the new athleticcomplex sits majestically across Route32. But all day, as one person afteranother welcomed me, or I heard adesperate plea (or help in their greeting,"welcome back," "we need you," "yourpresence can make a difference,""things have really gotten out of hand,"I thought, "What's wrong? Whathappened in the short period I've beenaway from the College?" When I was astudent we worked very hard to bringabout change on campus.I thought we had made an impact. I

chose to remember that we had someinput with the presence of the BlackCultural Center, increased minorityenrollment, black studies courses, etc.What happened? Did time and distanceserve to alter my recollection of myexperiences at Connecticut? Are mymemories of my days here more positivethan the actual experience?

Well, GB., you are here, youcommitted yourself to give ten monthsservice to GG It's too late to back out.There is a Gargantuan task in front ofyou-to make this a better communityfor everybody, not just minoritystudents, by helping all people toidentify, appreciate, and celebrateindividual cultural, ethnic, and racialdifferences. Oakes Ames had said, "Webecame a stronger communityyesterday ... " What can you contributeto keep this a strong and viablecommunity? The task is great, the roadis long, your time is short. You need agood plan.But right now, it's off to the Crystal

Mall for some R & R.September 6,1986.2:30 P.M.Boy, I'm so tired. I feel as if I've beenhere forever. Everybody thinks I'm theauthority on minority issues. I am sofrustrated. In general, things are goingwell. I have received a great deal of sup-port from the senior staff, middle man-agers, and of course, the students. Buteverybody wants a quick fix. Impossi-ble! I must not allow myself to fall inthat trap. What is my goal plan? For theadministration my message must belong-term, far-reaching change-nocosmetic alteration:e Relocation of the Minority Cul-tural Center. Current location (downthe hill and across the highway)sends several negative messages.e Restructure the Office of MinorityAffairs to include (a) A minority per-son at the dean's level, who wouldalso oversee minority affairs, (b)Director of Unity House, (c) Assis-tant to Director of Unity House, a-nd(d) clerical suppport.e lncrease resources for minority stu-dents on campus.efncrease minority student presenceon campus.GB., do you realize what you've

done? You have created a list of impos-sibilities. You have not included onething on your list which could beaccomplished in one academic year.You know what the physical, financial,attitudinal constraints are on campusand elsewhere. Can't you come up withat least one thing that is do-able? No! Iwill spend my time and energies crusad-ing for these goals. After all, we are alltalking about the future and things thatwill bring about permanent change-not just cosmetic and token gestures.But what about the over 100 black,

Hispanic, Asian, and other studentswho need you in their corner daily, tobe their advocate, guide, and friend?

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What about student programming? Ifyou go off on a crusade to change theadministrative bent of the College, youwon't have any time for your students.Yes, I know, but, my Lord, what must

I do? The need is so great. Too muchfor any person.September 20,1986,7,30 P.M.During the last couple of weeks I've hadto attend so many meetings, leaving melittle or no time with students. They areanxious now. The honeymoon is over.They want to see the stuff I'm made of.A few students are still challenging myauthority. There are signs of lack ofharmony, back-biting and resentment.Sometimes these feelings are directed atme, but I'm concerned because most ofthe time they direct them at each other.I've had a few conversations withminority student leaders. We havedecided to have rap sessions, smalllunches and dinners, and anything elsewe can think of to get students to talk toeach other and to us. We must establishsome sense of community among our-selves or, why bother talking about thefuture.

I've had the opportunity to talkwith Gene Gallagher (Acting Dean ofthe College), Ed Brodkin (Professor ofHistory), the trustees, and everybodywho wanted to know my feelings aboutneeded changes (from the location of theUnity, physical condition of Unity, tostaffing patterns). People smile andappear to be receptive and sympa-thetic .The proof of the pudding is inthe tasting-in other words, I won'tknow how much I've been heard until Isee next year's budgets.September 28, 1986.3,00 P.M.I met with the Alumni AssociationExecutive Board this A.M. But was loutof it. Not enough sleep this weekend,the Parents' Weekend program yesterdayand the SOAR meeting in Boston onFriday took a lot out of me. I'm not asyoung as I used to be.The President heard my goal plan

during the Executive Board meeting. Hedid not terminate my contract on thespot. As a matter of fact, the report thathe gave to the Executive Board aboutminority affairs was so upbeat and posi-tive. I felt it was only appropriate forme to say, "and, well, folks this is whatwe must do during the next year, threeyears, and five years to honor the com-mitments which were made in that Maylst statement."All in all, I believe the ExecutiveBoard heard what I was saying. I senseda great deal of support from them. Afterall, so it seems, we all want this place tobe as great as, if not greater than, ourmemories. After all, we are talkingabout the future.

MARRIED: Elizabeth E. Schumann Teter3 7 to Dr. Martin Goldwasser on 4/20/85.Charlotte Calwell Stokes continues doing

sculpture and has been selling a series of garden elvesshe made. Chim is busy planninga convention in '88 forthe Fan Assn. of No. America which will be held inPhila. She was responsible for the planting of thegardens and also for researching and executing the1860's kitchen in the Victorian Eberteeze r MaxwellMansion. Snorkeling in the Caribbean every winter is afavorite pastime.After breaking her hip for the second time and a heart

attack, Dorothy Richardson spent 13 weeks in the hos-pital and rehabilitation. Now she walks without a caneand is in condition once again. Dottie lives WIth herbrother and they are enjoying retirement.Bernice (Bunny) Wheeler continues her volunteer

work at Lyman Allyn Museum. In June, BunnytookanAudubon trip to AK which was most rewarding. Theinland waterway, bears, wolves, bald eagles, harborseals and spectacular scenery remain the highlights ofthe trip. Bunny later took a cross-Canada trip.Elizabeth Schumann Goldwasser and Martin

honeymooned in Paris and enjoyed a trip to Japan lastOct. In between they vacationed in the Poco nos, VTand ME. Martin retired in the spring of '85 from thepractice of dentistry and they divide their time betweenhis home in Brooklyn Heights and Schumie's home onPeconic Bay, Ll.Frances Minson Hitgood and Royal live in Cocoa

Beach, FL from mid-Nov. to May and are active withchurch functions and in the Cape Canaveral HospitalAuxiliary. Daughter Lorna, asst. prof. of libraryscience at Western Carolina U. in Cuthower, NC, hastwo sons, 16 and 13. Their son David lives nearby inNiantic and is married with three children, 12, II and 7,all doing well in competitive swimming and music.Frances is recuperating from a severe injury sufferedlast April when she fell from a stage into the stairwell,smashing her right shoulder with complications follow-ing. She will be having therapy for several moremonths.Eleanor Thayer Heald reported the death of her hus-

band in 1985. Daughter Wendy has a daughter Allison,15, and son Jeff. with Timothy and daughter Thayer, alllive on Martha's Vineyard. Eleanor divides her yearbetween Palm Desert, CA and New Canaan, CT. Shewent on a Royal Viking cruise before going to CA inNov.An inland waterway trip from Savannah on the

Newport Clipper was a fun change on the way homefrom FL for Elizabeth von Colditz Bassett. Last Sept.she enjoyed a golfing trip to Scotland.Janet (Elizabeth) Thorn Waesche reports that life

goes rolling along and the pace seems quicker. Russell ison his fourth career since retirement from the CoastGuard but this one is part-time. Their youngest, Jillian,is a defense attorney with the Public Defender's Officein Wichita, KS. Eldest, Judi, has a son, 16. She per-forms in various spots in TX on her Paraguayan harpwhen not earning a living in Federal GSA. Marilla andJimand Cordelia, I I, live in Mill Valley. CA. Betty saysthat after a month in the east each year. they appreciatetheir midwestern ambiance.Madeline Shepard Howard and Brewster spend from

Oct. to May in FL, playing tennis and bridge andenjoying the warm weather. Then they head for theirBrookfield, MA lake cottage where their children spenttheir summers. Now their four children, their spouses,and 12 grandchildren visit for a week at a time "byreservation only!" Brewster still works full time in thesummer.Mila Rindge enjoyed a delightful (except for the

weather) trip to Yugoslavia in March. She spent a weekin Opatija, using it mostly as a base for side trips tosome famous caves, to a stud farm for Lippizanerhorses, and to Venice. She didn't ride in a gondola butwas on a water bus on the Grand Canal. On the island ofHvar, which she 'enjoyed especially, everything seemedto date back to the 15th century.The class sends its sympathy to the family of Eliza-

beth Stromberg Naab, who died 3/28/86.Correspondent: Winifred Seale Slaughter, 14/0

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MARRIED: Janet Mead to Edward W.

3 9 Szaniawski,I/II/86.Bobbie Curtis Rutherford and Bud cele-

brated his 50th reunion at Bowdoin this summer andhad a great weekend. Bud is semi-retired allowing formore golfing and curling. Plans for a Rhine Valley triphad to be canceled due to the terrorist activity but theyspent a week in Aug. at their annual family campingreunion. Bobbie has a grandson at Norwich V., twoothers in high school and two in grammar school.Margaret Abell Powell and husband rented a villa on

the Cote d'Azur for Sept. and were expecting CarolynKenyon Donlon for a visit. They will spend Thanksgiv-ing in Bermuda with all nine grandchildren and parents,then home for Christmas, followed by Jan. in Mexicoand Feb. in the Caribbean. She was looking forward toseeing Harriett Ernst Veale and husband Tinkham inDC.Betty Lyon Quantrell was married last Feb. to Bruce

Quantrell from Wichita, KS with all children andgrandchildren present. Between them they have sevenchildren and eight grandchildren. They were in Londonthis summer and cruised the waterways of Belgium andthe Netherlands. They visited Janie Guilford Newlinand husband when they were last in KS.Winifred Valentine Frederiksen is still busy with the

CC club in FL She spent two weeks in July campingwith daughter Patience and grandson Chris, 6, in AK.Then they camped with a friend through the Gaspe,P.E.!. and Cape Breton highlands. Winnie claims shecan still wield a mighty axe for firewood!Jean Lyon Loomis, after nursing a broken ankle for

six months, is happy to be playing golf again and look-ing forward to a Sept. trip to France.Betty Young Riedel and husband are still working on

and enjoying an apartment on Lake Winnipesaukee.They expect to go back to their house in VA. in Oct.,then spend some time on the Gulf Coast again thiswinter and look forward to seeing CC '39 South.Carol Prince Allen enjoyed a week's gathering of the

Allen clan at the Cape in Aug. "Busy but fun with sixgrandchildren ranging from four to 16. We are nowgetting the trailer ready to head for AR to meet BarbaraMyers Haldt and Peale and Eunice (Nini) Cocks Mil-lard who will trailer up from FL. We'l1 then explore theOzarks."Jane Mitchell's street address has changed from #804

to 802 Neff Rd. She will join a group tour in Sept. toYellowstone, several canyons, Las Vegas, Montereyand S.F.Maryhannah Slingerland Barberi and Matty took a

nostalgic trip to San Diego in May to revisit their '41home and his former barracks at the Naval Station.Stingy posed for a snapshot in front of the nurseryschool where she used to teach. Daughter Susan andhusband Bob vacationed in Italy after Susan's lawschool graduation and while she studies for her MA barexams.Helena Jenks Rafferty and Allen took a trip to the

Gaspe Peninsula, also busing through Quebec Prov-ince. Lee is also back at college taking a psychologycourse.Ruth Wilson Cess is golfing and swimming in Santa

Barbara and loves her life style. Her youngest child hasher Ph.D. in microbiology and works in a V.A. hospitalin L.A. "All five grandchildren are just great."Elizabeth Jordan has completed her fourth year as

pres. of the Willimantic Women's Club. Last fall shetook a five-week trip to Tahiti, Australia, New Zealandand Fiji. This fall she plans to go to Peru, Ecuador andthe Galapagos Is. In June she and a friend went to AKfor three weeks, stopping off at the World's Fair inVancouver.Mildred Weitlich Gieg lives in Nantucket year round.

Her granddaughter, 17, worked there this summer andhopes 10 attend C.C. One son is in VA, one in Boston,one in Nantucket and a daughter lives in CA.Ruth Kellogg Kent and husband enjoyed seeing

Carol Prince Allen and Lewis when they stayed at theNartwood Club this summer. Ruth and Dick went toAruba in March to see and photograph Halley's Comet,and will leave for China in Oct.Betty Patton Warner has seen several classmates

recently. Ruth Brodhead Heintz helped with a publicT.V. benefit; Katherine Ekirch, a v.p. at Pace Univer-

sity: Jean Ellis Blumlein, while visiting NY from S.F.,and Middie Weitlich Gieg most recently in Nantucketin her beautiful historic house. Betty is deeply involvedill public T. V. and preventive medicine-c-vfascinating!"She has four fabulous grandchildren. Husband Phil isv.p. of Recording for the Blind and they both are busyand happy.

Peg McCutcheon Skinner's sister and brother stayedwith her for the summer on Little John's Is., ME. SonMark and wife have bought a house in Chatham, NJand will visit Peg in Sept.

Virginia Taber McCamey visited England and Scot-land with two Atlanta friends last summer. She isinvolved with women's conferences in the UnitedChurch of Christ and is on the diaconate of her localchurch. Her grandson graduated from the U. ofVT andworks in Phoenix and her granddaughter graduatedfrom Drexel U. and works in Philadelphia. She wasleaving for a N.E. trip, staying at a White Mrs. resort.Ginny was recently secretary to the director of twoChristian education schools in India.

Libby Taylor Dean is a volunteer at the BrandywineRiver Museum. She writes "We are doing the main treeat the Smithsonian this year (after the tree at the WhiteHouse in '84)-I'm a part-time (paid) worker arrangingflowers for large parties, weddings, etc. Billand I winterill Naples, FL."

Gwen Knight Nevin is in Ft. Lauderdale and feelsvery fortunate to have her son and daughter and theirspouses and children living in south FL by choice. Hersix grandchildren range from six to 18. She is interestedin government politics and spends considerable timewriting to politicians and business executives concern-ing current day issues.

Helen (Peggy) Wiles Platt lives in Tom's River, NJand has been confined to her home for some time due toill health and would love to hear from classmates, espe-cially those from Lacey House and Blackstone. Fortu-nately her son, daughter and grandchildren live nearby.

Margaret (Mogs) Robison Loehr is busy in MaggieValley, NC with her Copper Kettle restaurant. Magsbroke her arm in May, but is fine now. She'll beheadingback to Tequesta, FL "when the witches fly atHalloween!"

Elizabeth Mulford DeGrofflooks forward to movingfrom her town house in Ft. Lauderdale to a house onthe Intercoastal Waterway. Libby and husband Ed hada fun trip to England and drove all around Wales. Theyplan to go to CO to visit their grandson at the Air ForceAcademyand to try find some old haunts harking backto when Ed was stationed at Colorado Springs AirBase.Janet Mead Szaniawski says her marriage to Ed

"happened as a result of my co-chairing my 50th highschool reunion. Edith (Happy) Gray·Burger and RuthBrodhead Heintzattended with husbands. I hadn't seenEd for 50 years." He had been class pres. and pres. of hishouse at U. of ME, also a W.W. II, Korea and Vietnamvet. They did a "nostalgia trip" through N.E. in Aug.,stopping to see Happy and Bob in Burlington, VT.They now have two homes and live in Scarsdale fromJune to Sept. and San Diego from Nov. to ApriL

Carol Lehman Winfield had a mini-reunion in Pine-hurst, NC with Jean Friedlander Schwartz and CarolynKenyon Donlon. Carol isa freelance writer and special-ist on aging, and gives "old age pep talks" around theEastern seaboard area. Anyone interested in schedulingher lectures should call her (special c.c. rates). Shelives contentedly in NY most of the time and in summerrents a cottage near her daughter and family on a VTlake. She occasionally visits her son and family in Mex-ico, who have fortunately been unscathed by earth-quakes. She has four grandchildren and enjoys goodhealth and spirits.

Marjorie Johnston Rawls writes that her summer hasbeen very hectic as she moved from her house in Ports-mouth, VA to a small apartment there (address is thesame). Two weeks later she moved to New London, NHwhere she has bought a condo in Hilltop PI. The wel-come mat is out for any and all who may be in the areafrom June to Nov., after which she will return toPortsmouth for the winter months.

Your correspondent was delighted to have daughterSara and three-year-old granddaughter fly East fromAlbuquerque, NM for two weeks in ME and Cape Cod

and to visit brother Henry in Concord, MA, whoregaled us with tales of his 50th Harvard reunion. SonMark and grandson (also Mark)shared a house with usin Harwich, MA. Daughter Anne moved to Amarillo,TX in June where she trains cutting horses. so couldn'tjoin the clan. Hope to get out that way soon.

We regret to announce the death of Harriet MendelWirth on April 23, 1986. Our sincere sympathies areextended to her husband David and family.Correspondenr: Madeline S. Hutchinson, R. 4, Ox

Hill Rd., New/own, CT06410

41 Reunion '86 has come and gone, but 54 ofus will long remember it. We enjoyed re-unions with old friends but also enjoyed

getting to know some classmates we didn't know wellbefore. A summary of our activities shows that golf,bridge. travel, grand kids, volunteer work plus sweetdomesticity take up most of our time. Most of us havehad careers and are now retired. Now, let's plan for our50th!

Pres. Virginia Newberry Leach keeps extremely busywith family in Attleboro, MA and Fairlee. VT. She ischrm. of the park commission and had exhibited flowerarrangements at the Garden Club flower show. Ginnyand Phil met Sally Schley Manegold and Bob at Dart-mouth Conference Center where they were planningtheir 50th. (Katherine Ord McChesney's husband Macwas in that class, too.] Ginny knew where we Newmanswere spending the summer and engineered a mini-reunion for freshman roommates Sally and Jane, whohadn't seen each other in 44 years.

Katherine (Kay) Ord McChesney had lunch withJanet Peto McClain in La Jolla, CA. Who wouldn'tenjoy the Macs trip from Hong Kong to Canton,Indonesia, Bangkok and Tokyo?

Natalie Sherman Kleinkauf summers in Sun Valley,lD where she is on the museum board. She is also pres.of the Questers chapter (antiq uing and historic restora-tion) and a trout fisherman,

Sally Kiskadden McClelland and Bill like to swimand read, among other activities.

Janice Reed Harman and Jerry ski and Jane WhippleShaw ice skates.

Elizabeth(Liz) Morgan Keil is a member of the townmeeting in Needham, MA and chairperson forthe Bos-ton unit of Unitarian Universalist Service Committees.

Margaret Stoecker Moseley. retired from her posi-tion as exec. secretary for a financial consultant, andwriting a bridge column,

Elizabeth (Betty) Brick Collier is exec. secretary fortheir insurance agency in Columbus, NJ.

Bette Smith Twaddell is president of her local gardenclub Zone V and attends national meetings. She is anARC blood aide, and greeter and lay reader in herchurch.

Peggy Patton Hannah helps at the Old Ladies' Homeand Hospital. She sees Gene Mercer and Nancy ButlerFinley when in Delray Beach for the winter. They spenta week in Yorkshire doing an art experience and thenwent to Paris and the Riviera.

Nancy Van Houten McFall works on "saving thetown" through houses and antiquities in York, PA andis a board member of the historical society.

Barbara Yohe Williams was director of a nurseryschool in Pittsburgh for twenty years and now workswith Meals on Wheels.

Mary Farrell Morse tutors L.D. students and volun-teers in computer tutoring.

Ethel Moore Wills and Ted are retired but very busyin their community. Northport, on Lake Michigan,

Virginia Chope Richmond serves on Jr. GroupGoodwill Industries, Cancer Society and Red Crossboards.

Jane Merrill Bentley is president of the women'sassociation of the Sierra Presbyterian Church.

Lois Altschul Aaron was editor of the graduateschool publication at Tuck School of Business andThayer School. She started a summer music program inNew London, NH and was asst. editor of Webster'sNew World Dictionary. Travels include China, Spain,Israel. Ireland, U.S. and Europe.

Henrietta Dearborn Watson is active in Kitty Hawkin the Outer Banks Comm. Foundation and the Duck

Woods Golf Club in NCSarah Kohr Gregory works on auxiliaries of the

Tulsa Opera, Ballet and Philharmonic. When in Day-ton she sees Betty Schmidt Gilmore and Betty Landis,

Mary (Brad) Langdon Kellogg had retired fromdirectorship of the Council on Aging. She enjoys sing-ing in the church choir and Cape Cod Chorale.

Edythe(Chips) VanRees Conlon is active with the NJCC Club Scholarship Committee and fund raising. Shehas made recent trips to India and Africa. Chips man-ages a group exploring NYC once a month

Helen Henderson Tuttle and Eugenia Mercer havefun with retirement hobbies as does Peggy MunsellPalmer. Peg is a hostess at historical houses inWellesley.

Doris Goldstein Levinson retired as college instruc-tor and is now active in Family Service Agencies, Uni-ted Way and the Town Committee. She had some OpEd. articles and agency reports published.

Miriam Rosnick Dean also in N.L. finally had D.A.husband Harold retire.

Dorothy Gardner Downs is on the board of HartleySettlement House. They summer in CO.

Leann Donahue Rayburn is board chrmn. of FlexAlloy, Inc. in Cleveland and is able to travel for hercompany, and is also on the board of the museum.

Elizabeth (Beth) Main Chandler retired as assoc.director of admissions at Wellesley.

Anne Henry Clark is a travel agent in Cincinnati.Marjorie Wicoff Cooper manages NJ shore rental

properues.Ruth Doyle Zeh is still employed as a fiduciary

accountant.Mary Holohan Waldron is a part-time travel consul-

tant and a member of NJ State Commission MentalHealth Board.

Mary Helen (Terry) Strong Heller is a corporatefamily relocation counselor and teaches a class in meta-physics. Terry published a joint scientific paper onsharks in Nature.

Lorraine Lewis Durtvan is in real estate in CT andalso likes to write letters to the editor of the N. L. Day!

Edith Patton Cranshaw docs social work with lowincome families in Boston's inner city. Edie establisheda widowed and widowered group. She had a fabuloustrip to China and recommends we all go before it iswesternized. She visited Nancy Marvin Wheelock inCushing, ME and spent glorious days sailing with them.Nan and Frank sail the Intercoastal to the south inwinter and enjoy birding.

Jessie Ashley Scofield also visited Nan. Jess circlesfrom home in Levittown to Chatham, NY to Camden,ME.

Elizabeth (Bets) Byrne Anderson and Will enjoy theirNoank, CT home and their grandchildren.

Syhil Ward Smith has devoted time to children'sservices and volunteer library in Glastonbury, CT.

Margaret (Peg) Hardy Schweizer spends time doingcrossword puzzles, weeding, laundry and writingchecks!

Emmahelle Bonner Innes recently retired from teach-ing kindergarten in CT

Notes were received from Eleanore Balderston Hoef-fel, Rosalie Harrison Mayer, Sue Fleisher, Ann BreyerRitson and others who would have liked to reunionwith us but had conflicts.

Ann Rubinstein Husch teaches yoga and a well nessprogram

Donna Ed Reynolds had delightful visits with Dougand Margaret Patton Hannah and Roy and Mary Far-rell Morse, Her younger daughter was married May31st with entire clan attending .including twogreat-grandsons.

Betty Holmes Nichol spent six weeks Elderhostelingin ME and Canada.

Margaret Jane Kerr Miller spent a wonderfulsummer in Scandinavia, except for a broken arm.

Mary Louise Cutts had a wonderful cruise to GreatBritain and Norway, and another on the Danube Prin-cess to Budapest.

Margaret (Peg) Lafore Wyatt did a pre-retirementfor bishops' wives in DC and after that, a 3000-milemotor tour of the U.S.

Carla Eakin White visited NE this summer, stoppedat CC and wiscassen, ME and flew to London.

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Katharine Bard Wollman writes from Santa Barbarathat she works for the art museum eight months of theyear. She spent time in Carrara, Italy with a U of CABerkeley study group carving marble statues! Broughtone home, too, all 185 tbs.Janel Bunyan Kramer and Hank keep busy at home

with hobbies. needlepoint cabinet building. classicalmusic (compact discs) and dogs.Shirley Stuart rick had a long winter with husband

Carl hospitalized for most of it. Stuie enjoys workingone day a week for Literacy Volunteers of Americateaching adults on a I-I basis.Carol Chappell's freezer is full with bounty from her

garden. She had a trip up the Inland Waterway andonly went aground about 15 times! She and LouiseStevenson Andersen thank the class for a wonderfulturnout at the 45th. Stevie and Andy visited with TheaDutcher Coburn and Elizabelh Burford Graham inKennebunk. ME in August.We are saddened to announce that Lucille Horan

died shortly after attending reunion, She had justretired from the CT State Mental Health Dept. Wehave also learned that Barbara Caldwell McClurepassed away in Dec.f84. Our sympathies are extendedto their families.Correspondent: Jane Kennedy Newman, Paradise

Park, Unit 159, 46900 Slate Rd. 74, Punta Gorda, FL33950

4 3 Carolyn Merchant Arbonies attended thededication of the Hood Museum of Art atDartmouth, NH; her architect son was

involved in its planning and building. Carolyn andTom's planned reunion with Connie Haaren Wells andDan was cancelled when the wettses were blown offcourse by hurricane Gloria. Debbie Burton Adlervisited the Arbonies in Huntington, NY a year ago andCarolyn says that Debbie looks wonderful and hasn'tchanged a bit.Margot Harrington Walker Jives in Winter Haven,

FL and made the rounds of the Midwest last year.Margot lost her husband several years ago but staysbusy with golf and bridge and a visit from two grand-children this spring. She is in touch with Sally WagnerWagner and her retired Navy husband in Miami.Katharine Johnson Anders has been volunteer,

board member, and paid worker in Madison, NJ fortheMorris County Welfare. Southeast Morris County RedCross. Junior League and YWCA. Her involvementwith the Red Cross won her an award and prominentmention in the annual report of the Geraldine R. DodgeFoundation. When she applied for a grant, ExecutiveDirector SCOIt McVay noticed a CC coffee mug on herdesk. mentioned his enthusiastic reception at anaddress on whales before the CC students, and gave herthe grant! Her husband Harley is retired but active inthe Lafayette College Alumni Association. Their son,aCornell graduate, manages facilities at Hearst Castle inCA. They have two granddaughters, Kackie sees SalChurch Payntar '44, Elizabeth (Teal) Middleton Brownand Jane Storms Wenneis, all nearby New Jerseyites.The Anders havea summer house in Sebago. ME wherethey are neighbors of Evelyn (Flh) Silvers Daly.Margaret Grout Tambke shuttles from their Hilton

Head house to Tom's business in Atlanta. Followingsuccessful cardiac surgery, Tom flies a small plane toand from work, and hopes to start retiring soon. Theyattended a clan reunion in Nantucket with 21 Groutmembers present, including Peggy's brother, a 35-yearvictim of multiple sclerosis, recently honored by Presi-dent Reagan as Father of the Year. Peggy and Tomhave a married son, grandson. and a daughter in DC.Mary Lou Shoemaker Turner is a part-time physi-

cian's assistant in Lake Oswego, OR. She teaches pup-petry and language and loves her variety of jobs as longas nothing interferes with concerts, lectures, etc. Shoesays her family is a hodge-podge melting pot with athree,year-~ld adopted Guatemalan grandchild, aGreek son-in-taw and son's Japanese girl friend. Shereminds her "kids" that now she is doing what she likesbut they'll be responsible for her when she reaches 95.Louise Reichgott Endel and Charlie continue main-

streaming dual domiciles and careers in New Havenand Jacksonville, FL with time au! to take their three

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granddaughters to Disney World. Louise is a supersupporter and worker for New Haven; "Hello NewHaven," the Sage Advocate Organization, an all-encompassing senior agency, and a woman-owned newTV station are among her affiliations. She helped raisemoney for the Dixwell Community Center with a Mar-tin Luther King Symphony in January. Last May,Louise was the recipient of the Elm City Award for thecitizen contributing most to Yale and New Haven.Grace (Billy) Oellers Glaser lives in Birmingham, MI

and treks to FL in the winter. She has a married daugh-ter, physician son, two handsome bachelor sons andfour grandchildren. Billy is fine, exercises to accommo-date her hip operation and is embarking on a campaignto give up cigarettes which Billy says "is absolute miseryafter 45 years of smoking." She is in touch with SylviaKlingon Eisen and Jean Kohlberger Carter.Virginia Railsback NeUey and George lost their

daughter Cynthia in June after a long illness. Ginnysays that despite her failing health, Cynthia and familywere able to join the Neileys in their MI house lastsummer.Ruth Ann (Ranny) Likely Miltendorffteaches paint-

ing in St. Louis Park, MN. In children's classes, shetries to equate art with science, using the method ofexperimentation. knowledge, and logic and she saysthat it works! After completing six portrait commis-sions this year, Ranny is rejoicing in some free-formwork that doesn't have to look like or please someone.Their physician son lives in San Diego, architect son inMinneapolis, daughter CC'73 in Clinton, NY, engineerson in S. F. The Mittendorffs have seven grandchildren,two nearby.Asked to provide news and witticisms, Frieda

Kenigsberg Lopatin, responded that her funnybone isout of joint, out to lunch, just not "witting" the mark.

ComeDown Under

With Us

Duck-billed platypus, the Great Barrier Reef, anda performance at the Sydney Opera House areamong the many attractions for alumni partici-pating in an upcoming seminar in the LandDown Under, August 22-September 12,1987.The visit to Australia will be the third joint

Alumni Seminar Tour for Connecticut Collegeand Wesleyan, following the 1984 seminar inEcuador and the Galapagos Islands and the 1986seminar to Kenya and Tanzania.For reservations ($300) and additional information, write theAlumni Office, Connecticut College, New London CT 06320.

From Fairfield, CT. punster Frieda writes, "My presentoccupation is dedicated to keeping the moving partsmoving: in aerobic dance, fitness workouts, and posi-tive thinking-also a continuation of college addiction.,illing in class-at Fairfield U,. Sacred Heart U., theNew School. and an occasional foray to New Haven-the more I listen the more there is to know. My hus-band, who fancies himself an investment maven, isstymied: how come all these tuition payments haven'tyielded greater dividends-maybe the acquisition of acampus or two, or at least a merger a la Sarchi andSatchiT Frieda says that they are a nuclear family.physician husband and son. writer daughter and sportspublisher daughter, and two grandchildren who aregorgeous. precocious and bratty on cue, or off.Mary Louise Haskell writes that after losing her hus-

band Brad to cancer in 1983. she was faced with manag-ing a sheep farm and renovating a cottage in Yarmouth,ME. With the help of family and good friends she nowhas a new house on Sunset Point and is on to her newlife, She has four married children, three within a fewhours drive. and six grandchildren, Mary Lou findsPortland to be full of interesting activities and at a localCC meeting. she met Wilma Parker Redman '43 andher first coeds; one young man is president of the club.She offers her second floor accommodations to visitingCt'ers and says that you can't beat her rates.The class sends sympathy to the families of Filomena

Arborio Dillard who died 5/28/86, and Virginia KingStevens, who died 3/10/86; also to George and VirginiaRailsback Neiley, who lost their daughter in June.Corrrspondent: Margir Livingston Camphelt, 3861

Wayland Siren, Jacksonville, FL 32211

4 5Our 40th reunion is still on the minds ofmany classmates, some noting how great itwas, others regretting they did not make it.

Lois Parisette Ridgway writes from Garden City, NYthat she still has good thoughts re reunion, and that shesees Constance Barnes Mermann and Edna Hill Dubrulquite often.Louise Parker James recalls our splendid reunion

and marvels at the amount of planning and work thecommittee did to put together such a memorable event.No grand events since then for Weezie, but pleasanttravel: two weeks in Jamaica, then two months inSanibel, FL. two weeks in the U.K .. and a Down Eastsummer in Portland, ME, her home.Charlotte Service Church spent most of last winter in

FL visiting friends and family. A Pensacola grand-daughter just graduated from 5th grade and a newgrandson was born in CT. The Churches are busv withflower and vegetable gardens and improvements ontheir Avon, CT home. "Has it really been over a yearsince reunion?" Charlotte wonders.Cornelia Wales Reeder spent a week in ME with her

son, daughter-in-law and grandson. 5. then stopped tosee Patricia Hancock Blackall and Steele in their newProvidence, Rl house. Connie wore her CC hand-painted Lois (Toni) Fenton Tuttle reunion hat. Connieloves her new house in the small country town ofHopewell, NJ. She is a million dollar real estate pro-ducer in Princeton.Wilda (Billy) Peck O'Hanlon was so sorry to miss

reunion. but she reuned with Betty (Penny) GilpenGriffith and hubby for lunch at Patrick Air Force Baselast spring. The O'Hanlons took grandsons, 10 and 6.on a VA farm vacation and traveled to Ireland in thefall. Billy volunteers at the Women's Center and hospi-tal in Melbourne. FL. and still plays tennis, althoughbones are creaking.Louise Markley Delisle also regrets missing reunion

and looks forward to making the next. The De l.islessold their AZ home after eight years and are returningto the NJ/ PAl NY area. They've had it with dust, pollu-tion, 1170 heat and the "cowboy mentality," so "it'sback to civilization. last stop before the nursing home."Louise leaves behind some very good piano pupils. butplans to continue teaching. The Del.isles will be happyto reune with their married daughter who lives in NYCand is an editor in the research dept. at Paine Webber.Son is a CBS-TV director in Okla. City.Patricia Wells Caulkins and Jack have moved two

miles to a smaller home in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI,after 33 years in their wonderful old house. All fiveCaulkins sons live and work in other cities. Gettingtheir new yard in shape is one of Pat's current projects.Amy Lang Potter and husband moved to a condo in

Saratoga Springs, NY after Lyman's retirement fromhis Simsbury, CT ministry last June. The Potters newabode is near their summer home in the Adirondacks.so they see lots of their children and grandchildrenduring the summer. After 23 years in the same houseand lots of sorting, the Potters are slowly gettingorganized.Mary Elizabeth Power Lubitsh and husband re-

versed the trend by moving to a much larger house withan enormous yard in Wilmington, DE. Mep. who isIncreasing various community activities-a hospitalboard. board ofa retirement/ nursing home and a musi-cal group-sends compliments to all the '45ers who didso much so well on the reunion and the post-reportwhich updated those unable to attend.

Elizabeth Payne Shannon, a full-time paralegal inCO. had a family reunion last summer in Edgartown,MA. with her two bachelor sons, married daughter andgrandson, 3. Youngest son graduated from the U of COin '86.Marjorie McClellan Feeney has begun her 30th year

teaching mathematics at the Mac Duffie School in MA.Marjorie has been taking continuinged. computer pro-gramming courses at Westfield State, figuring one isnever too old to learn something new.Alice McEwan Perkins in Walpole, N H, has no

advanced degrees or exotic trips around the globe toreport. The Perkinses are very busy in retirement, cut-ting wood, running a sugaring operation. and doinglarge-scale gardening. with the pleasures of boating andgolf thrown inMary Ann Riegel Lockhart, in Orange, CA is proud

of her CC family. Daughter Joan Lockhart Gardner,'66, enjoyed her 20th reunion last June, and grandsonJamie Gardner '89 won the freshman chemistry prizeand was on a winning crew. Daughter-in-law Carolyn(Cricket) Zoephel Lockhart'72 works hard forthe col-lege in Darien, CT.Louise Schwarz Allis and Jack went salmon fishing

in Norway for a month last summer. They love to traveland spend most of the winter skiing and summer play-ing golf. Mugsie enjoyed a Milwaukee visit from herdaughter and grandson, 2, who live in Paris.

Nancy Mayers Blitzer and husband have been doinga lot of traveling from NYC these past few years to ME,MT and a wonderful trip to New Zealand last April.The Blitzers drove on both the North and the SouthIslands, saw everything, including Halley's Comet.They have a granddaughter, born 5/27/86, and agrandson. 5, both courtesy of eldest son David.Jane Oberg Rodgers and Don returned to Potomac,

M D, this spring from the most eye-opening trip of theirlives, visiting daughter Holly Wescott and husband,both '74, in Zambia, Africa. where they will be living fortwo years. Holly plotted safari trips for them and hersister in Botswana, Kenya, and Zambia. The Rodgerswere swamped with impressions-geological. political.and sociological-heartening and otherwise. Their tendays in Paris paled bycomparison though they want togo back. Jane-O said Holly and Tom came back to theStates to be in two weddings. one that of Peter Cawley,son of Georgine Downs Cawley. the other of SusanPowell '75. In the summer Jane-O and Don visitedEthel Schall Gooch and Warne who departed CherryHill, NJ in mid-June and moved intoa veritable "HouseBeautiful" in Barnstable, MA. Warne did the plans. It isvery unusual and spacious in the form of a hexagonwith two wings tbat frame the bay view. During theirstay Ethel had a dinner party which included BarbaraWadsworth Koenitzer and Marjory Lawrence Weidigand husbands. When contacted in August, jane-O wasoff to Penny Gilpin Griffith's regular Wednesday poolgroup. which includes Penny, Jane-O. and MabelCunningham.For Helen Savacool Underhill, 1986 was a traveling

year. with the Under hills getting mileage out of her yearoff from teaching. They took a CA study group fromBurma to Brunei for a month, then went to New Zea-land, zig-zagging down both islands. They are beautifuland varied, Savie says, from pineapples to glaciers-

and no billboards. Last summer. they spent nine daysrafting down the Colorado and heartily recommend theexcitement of such days and the peacefulness of nightsunder the stars. In between. both Underhills are media-tors in the Flare Rock, NC dispute settlement center,keeping their human horizons broad and in touch withthe real world.

Mariechen Wilder Smith and George are enjoyingtheir first year as grandparents. Mariechen and hermother celebrated the latter's 87th birthday lastsummer in NC with her seven-month-old namesake,Julia. The Smiths also visited their son, his wife and agrandson who joined the family just before he wasthree. Nancy Judson Brown and husband visited theSmiths in FL last winter. Also, Mariechen stayed in NJwith Caryl Maesel Kaercher and husband when up forher 45th prep school reunion at Grier in PA. Real estateand volunteer activities continue to be satisfying forboth Mariechen and George.Margery Rogers Safford. Florence Murphy Gorman

and Patricia Feldman Whitestone and spousesattended the lovely Charlottesville, VA wedding lastspring of the daughter of George and the late CarolynMcKewen Curme. The Germans and Whitestones dis-covered they both were planning an Inland Passagecruise to AK that summer and so booked together onthe Nordam. High spots were a seaplane trip over gla-ciers and down the Taku River to a salmon bake at awilderness lodge (where a black bear tried to come todinner) and sailing into Glacier Bay where we watchedthe glaciers "calve" and puffins bob among the bergletsand growlers. The food, service and activities shipboardwere topnotch. Pat and Dorsey often meet Elizabeth(Betty) Brown Leslie and friends to tailgate at Yalefootball games or dine on seafood at the CT shore.Betty. who isa paralegal for Dewey, Ballantine in NY,is making a major addition to her Old Greenwichhouse. Pat is still doing PR and the company newsletterfor a computer system maintenance firm, The White-stones had lunch with Midge and Lou Safford on theirmost recent trip down from Williamstown, MA to visitMidge's Laurel classmate, Jean Harris. in the Women'sCorrectional Facility in Bedford Hills, NYCorrespondems: Patricia Feldman Whitestone, 73

Kerry Lane. Chappaqua. NY /0514; Elizabeth BrownLeslie. 10 Grimes Road. Old Greenwich. CT06870

47MARRIED: Bettsy McKey Hulbert to Dr.Charles D. Marler on 3/29/86.Bettsy McKey Marler and her husband, a

professor of philosophy and education at the U. of DE,live in Newark. DE during the academic year and willsummer in ME at Bettsy's home on Mt. Desert Is.

Pat Robinson teaches exercise classes for senior citi-zens and swimming for the local elementary school. Shestilllobsters in the summer, swims, and sails in BaileyIsland, ME where she lives.Mary Spencer Ransome welcomed a rrew grandson

in April (number 9) and shares retirement with herhusband and a computer.Joan Rosen Kemler writes of her son's wedding a

year ago. I.your correspondent, spent a delightful week-end with Joan and her husband shortly thereafter. Joanis now the treasurer of the State of CT -filling anunexpired term until 1/87.Sally Radovsky Llnett had a trip to England this year

with three weeks of classes at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.She says that one of the great things about teachingmore than 25 years is the opportunity for travel duringthe summer months-e-including trips to Spain and theGalapagos Islands. Son Mark is a recording engineerand son Bob a manufacturer of the Rhythm Tech Tam-bourine in the design collection at the Museumof Mod-ern Art.

Connie Walker Thompson lives in Towson, MD andhas converted her home into four apartments. She is onthe road a bit traveling to see one child in NC andanother in Dallas.Joan Perry Smith welcomed a new granddaughter in

May.Jodie Murdock Donaldson is in the process of mov-

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teacher in a child development center in NYC. Herhusband retired from Columbia Teachers College lastyear. She plans a trip to Germany to visit her daughterand husband. She sees Jean Witman Gilpatrickoccasionally.

Barbara Walsh Carnrick and husband are living inNaples, FL on a waterway with a sailboat and a b.eachnearby. Their children are Rick, in computer businesssystems, Arthur, a chemist, Cherie, owner of an errandservice, and Christopher, with a TV advertisingagency-also six grandchildren.

Lorraine Pimm Simpson and her husband Dick haveretired to Largo, FL from Toronto-"a drastic changein lifestyle." Theirthree children are in NY, Boston andS. F., which gives them interesting travel destinations.

Peg Stirlon Miller met Anne Fromm Forbes at a VTski lodge. They arrived as strangers and recognizedeach other-"fortyyears makes some radical changes."Peg teaches first grade and grandmothers three nearbychildren.

Sue Studner Solomon lias a new career venture-Consultants to the Business Family-in Stamford, CT.

Jean Stiefel Goodman is battling Parkinson's diseaseand the editing of a newsletter for the DC Parkinsonsupport group. Older son and wife, both meteorolo-gists, are attached to the Marshall Space Center in AL;their younger son is about to be married, and theirdaughter and grandson live close by.

Jane Sapinsly Nelson is still running two tennis proshops in her husband's tennis clubs. All three offspringare married. In Jan. they had a reunion in Montrealwith Nancy Immerman Friedlander and husbandDavid.

Mary Vance Smeraldi spent three weeks in Spain inJuly living with a Spanish family and studying Spanishat the U. of Granada.

William Chadd Matteson writes that his mother,Jane Muse Matteson, is in the Peace Corps teachingmath in Kenya. She loves to receive mail at Box 175,Luanda, Kenya, East Africa.

Jean Wilman Gilpatrick has just finished her firstparish experience as a Unitarian Universalist ministerin Alton, IL. She also went to Kenya in 1985 andIceland, Luxembourg. Germanyand Denmark in 1986

Virginia Stauffer Hantz's youngest, Benjamin, grad-uated from Worcester Polytech and is returning as agraduate student in materials engineering. DaughterAndrea is married and living in NH and Bobbie andJackie live and work in Nashua and Atlantarespectively.

Ann Wetherald Graff went on a skiing vacation inSwitzerland and attended Bettsy's wedding in March.She also has a second grandchild and is baby-proofingher house in anticipation of visits. She enjoys this wholenew stage of life. She is still involved in her gallery andpainting.

Mark your calendars for our 40th reunion on May29, 30 and 31, 1987. Nancy Yeager Cole and BarbaraOtis are CO-Chairing the event. You'll be hearing fromthem in detail.Correspondent: Jane Coulter Mertz, 33 Crescent

Road, Port Washing/on, NY 11050

4 Joan Underwood Walls sold her cheese9 shop in June so Undyand wes are now freeto travel. Son Chris is married, has two

children, and lives in Ormond Beach, FL. Son Scott, agraduate of Syracuse U. School of Architecture, worksfor the architecture div. of the Golden Nugget. living inStone Harbor. NJ.

Jane Smith Moody enjoyed working on the CCCampaign, and is delighted it ended so successfully.Kate, the youngest Moody, is in Cambridge in a mas-ter's program at Tufts. Jane sees Vicky Simes Poole andfamily often and chats regularly with Jeanne WebberClark, Esther Coyne Flanagan, and Judy WintonDayton.

Polly Lishon Cowen is working 'N time as director(co-founder) of The Tutoring Network, a private, non-profit service with a concentration in the field of learn-ing disabilities, operating in eastern MA. The other \4time is divided between gardening, golf and tennis.

Marge Stutz Turner ended her 18-year teaching

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Wald Named Chief Judge

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Patricia McGowan Wald '48 becamechief judge of the United Stares Court ofAppeals for the District of ColumbiaCircuit in July. Judge Wald, who wasmentioned as a likely Supreme Co urtnominee during the Carter administra-tion, is well known for her work in pub-lic interest law and is co-author of theseminal work on bail reform. A nativeof Torrington, Connecticut, she is thefirst woman to head a federal appellatecoun.

"It's similar to being head of anadministrative agency," Judge Waldsaid. Although the work is primarilyadministrative, there are also manyceremonial duties. Judge Wald, who is57, was assistant attorney general forlegislative affairs in the Caner adminis-tration and has served on several presi-dential commissions. A Winthrop schol-ar at Connecticut, she has served on theCollege's board of trustees. She gradu-ated from Yale Law School in 1951,where she was case editor of the YaleLaw Journal.

career in June. Ned plans early retirement from NewJersey Zinc Co. and they will move in Sept. to NewBaltimore, VA. Two daughters live and teach in VA.Son Robb and wife Amy both work in the envi ron men-tal sciences div. of the Oak Ridge, TN, National Lab.Son Peter is pres. of Hayes, Inc" a small metal fabricat-ing company in Burlington, CT. Marge and Ned havethree grandchildren.

Emmy Lu Walsh Hartley had a very eventful year.Their youngest graduated from medical school, theyhad a two-week trip to China, and also a two-week tripto England and Ireland. Emmy Lu says it will be restfulto return to her job in Sept. as the secretary/den motherin the gifted program at the local middle school.

Grace Smith fell and fractured her hip last winter,and has been slowly learning to walk again. She hopesto get back to her activities of tutoring jail inmates,working for the Red Cross Blood Bank, guiding at thelocal historical museum, and playing golf.

Doris (Dodie) Stone Foster has been a productionmanager in the movie business for ten years. In Aprilshe finished The Color of Money with Paul NewmanIn late summer she will run the Murder She Wroteepisode Angela Lansbury will be doing with Tom Sel-leck, Oldest son is astrophysicist in northern CA. #2 sonisan attorney in DC. Husband Bennett just finished hislatest feature screenplay. Grandchildren, ages 3 and 6,are growing "like CA weeds."

Josephine Parisi Beebe, living in Niantic, is a psy-chologist in private practice with three associates, in thefirst office condo in the New London area. DaughterSusan completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, andworks at the Temple U. Rehabilitation Hospital. SonEdward is finishing his Ph.D. at Cornell in engineeringphysics.

Mary (Stech) Stecher Douthit sent greetings to allbut reported no new developments, no marriages, andall children out of school (momentarily). Following aNYC reading, daughter Lue '78 hopes to get her latestplay produced.

Lauranne Thomas Freyhof finished the school yearwith her second graders, housecleaned like mad, andthen flew to France for three Weeks. In Biarritz sheattended a four-day organ symposium as a non-performer, and then toured France. A week after herreturn. daughter Anne was married, with two brothersand a niece in the wedding. Lauranne's two brothers,nieces, nephews and spouses came from Cincinnati andall had a wonderful time.

Gretchen (Dutch) Van Syckle Whalen spent thesummer as box office manager for the GlimmerglassOpera Theater in Cooperstown, NY where she andhusband Ed live. Dutch worked alone. with an occa-sional aide, processing the tickets for all 18performances.

Judy Kuhn Johnson's real estate business in Somers,NY keeps her busy seven days a week. However. she didmanage to squeeze in a happy business-pleasure trip toExpo '86 recently, and plans to attend the internationalreal estate convention in Denmark in early '87

Jean Pierce Tayerle enjoys her six young grandchild-ren who live near her in Deerfield, IL. She and Calvacationed in lovely Saugatuck, MI.

Marion Luce Butler and Herb had two weeks ofskiing at Lake Tahoe in Jan. '86. In June, son Skip wasmarried. He and wife Karen will be making their firsthome in Italy, where Marion hopes to visit them,although she still works at the DAR National Head-quarters. Daughter Barb, an RN, and husband Carl, anEpiscopal priest, have a young son. Daughter Ginny is aveterinarian in PA and has been on TV several timeswith a horse in which she implanted a pacemaker. Heisquite a celebrity.

Marilyn Viets Davis is a receptionist for Health Stop,a walk-in medical facility. Youngest son Rick is in med.school at St. Louis U., Jane's in CA, Jim's in W. VA,and Tom's in NH. The whole family plans to meet in UTto ski this winter. Marilyn went on the CC/ WesleyanEast Africa safari that we all read about.c-vsuper trip."

Mary Elizabeth Stone flew to NY for Memorial Dayweekend and a wonderful family reunion on LongIsland at the wedding of her nephew, Robert Stone, sonof Sally How and Wadsworth Stone. Stoney spentApril in England with three friends, where they Jived aweek in each place: a 17th century Cornish cottage, acanal boat on the River Avon, and an ltaJianate watertower on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham Estate. Theydrove 1600 miles without incident, and plan to go toWales and Scotland next year.

Janet Regoltaz Bickal lives in her "decaying oldfarmhouse" in Lawrenceville, NJ with eldest daughterJean, a lawyer like her sister. Janet teaches English atMercer County College. In £1 Paso recently, she missedBetty Ruth Williams Wakefield, but did see her daugh-ter's stunning new art gallery in which Mom is an activeif silent partner. Betty Ruth looked great when Janetlast saw her, when she had just returned from Africa. Sodid Gretchen Schafer Skelley, with whom Janet spent aday in NYC a while back.

Nancy Noyes Copeland teaches physically impairedchildren in Venice. FL, but lives on Siesta Key. Sheplans 10move to a mobile home in the near future, teacha few more years, and at last have a chance to travelJane Broman Brown is trying to put the pieces back

together after a serious woodstove fire last April. Every-thing inside the house had to be replaced, plus a newroof. new windows, etc, Now they are dreaming about a"perfect" house 10 be designed by their architect son fora lot in Thornton, NH. It has been a great help havingall three sons in NH during these recent months.Estelle Markovits Schwartz has four grandchildren,

three within a short distance of her new Bondville, VThome,and year-old Sonya lives near her Valley Stream,NY home. Markie still works at the Queens regionaloffice of the NYC Board of Ed. as a supervisor ofspecial ed. We are sad to Jearn that her 93-year-oldmother died in March.Clare Willard Sisk has worked in the oil and gas

industry for seven years. and is now a contract coordi-nator handling natural gas sales instruments. She livesin Clear Lake. TX near NASA, and commutes 10 down-town Houston. Children are grown, one married, andone If-year-old grandchild.Sandra Strotz Keiser lives near Dallas. TX, working

for Rohm and Haas Co., mfr. of Plexiglas. She waslooking forward to an Aug. trip to Canada. Expo '86and rail tour. Son John is in pilot training in Columbus,MS, where they visited him. They're busy planning forthe Nov. wedding of daughter Susan, a chemical engi-neer, Married daughter Karen, a pharmacist at U ofCAVet. Med. Teaching Hospital, lives in Davis, CA.Marilyn Watson Babich moved back to Glens Falls.

NY where she lived during the '70's. Last Christmas shenew to L.A. and had a fine time, but also enjoyed thesummer in the Lake George-Saratoga Springs area.Barbara June (B,J,) Pinchback Carter spent July

visiting family in D.C. and has returned to teaching atthe Ponaganset Middle SchooL Husband Junie is adentist. Daughter Susan lives in Natick and son Larry isin East Providence. The whole family had a reunion inJune when son Lance was married in Boston.Sharon McLean Doremus sees Gertrude (Gaby)

Bolte Woods, Pat Manning Muller, Gloria BarnettLevin and their husbands several times a year. Shanniecontinues with her Plant Lady, an office interiorscapingbusiness. Rich has just retired. Sara is a Srd gradeteacher; Jody works in NYC and she and husband livein Darien, CT.Julienne Shinn McNeer reports that recent highlights

have been rafting and camping down the UsumaciruaRiver in Mexico, finally completing her degree. andvacationing this summer at the Outer Banks with thewhole family together for the first time in 18 years.Marguet (Martie) Portlock Barnard is active at her

church, in the women's organization and cooking forthe poor. She keeps busy with flower gardening. andLloyd took up vegetable gardening this year. which wasquite successful, considering the drought. Martie hastwo granddaughters in Atlanta, Bill's children. Scott isan architect, married. Jiving in Savannah. and son Sta-ceyis at Auburn U in a masters in accounting program.Barbara Trench Eliason lives in Walnut Creek. CA.

Her most recent volunteer work involves tutoringadults who pretend to read. but are really functionallyilliterate.Sue Nankervis C1ippert and John moved in Sept. to

Seabrook Island, SC after 31 years in the same house inDearborn, MI, Youngest son Geoffrey is a freshman atIndiana U. Son Jim had his third son this summer andwill continue the family business as the fifth generation.Betty Leslie Hahn won a prize for one of her stone

carvings in a recent show near her Guilford, CT home.She writes poetry, plays tennis, and crews for her hus-band Phil on his new fiberglass boat. They spent winter'85 in Nashville, TN, and return there in Oct. to help attheir sons' business, Fitmhouse,Marion Walker Doren's juvenile novel Borrowed

Summer, released by Harper-Row in fall '86. was thewinner of a SC Arts Commission prize. HusbandGeorge is a band director and musician teaching inCharleston. Theyspent the summer in ME, missing theheat and drought in SC.Rhoda Meltzer Gilinsky is the Westchester corres-

pondent for the New York Times. Daughter Beth is in

Switzerland writing the final chapters of a book. SonJosh, a composer, is at the Manhattan School of MusicRodi. Anne (Boston) Glazier. and your correspondent,Barbara Norton Fleming. met at Tanglewood thissummer, and had a marathon gabfest before the concertbegan.Correspondent: Lois Braun Kennedy, 40 West 77th

St., Nell' York. NY 10024: Barbara Norton Fleming. 19Princeton St .. Holyoke. MA 01040

51 Sally Buck Thompson and husband Tedown and operate a turf farm in Evans City,PA. Aided by son Stuart. they survived

their busiest spring ever. which was good for businessbut kept Bucky from attending reunion. Older sonHank is in Dallas; daughters Marcia and Diana live inNJ and DC respectively.Janet Freeman has left her job as corporate V.p. of

Stop & Shop in BaSIOn to open her own business, theHuman Resource Consortium. in Old Saybrook whereshe looks forward to a less hectic pace.Nancy Klein Mannes is a development officer at a

wonderful new museum, the National BuildingMuseum in D.C. She thinks highlyofthe c.c. studentswho work there as interns. Nancy's two daughters andson are all married and have presented her with twograndchildren.Mona Gustafson Affinilo continues as full-time pro-

fessor of psychology at Southern CT State U and alsomaintains a flourishing private practice, Son Doug,with newly acquired Dartmouth MA in computerscience, works for General Mills in Minneapolis anddaughter Lisa finds that her job with ITT keeps her onthe move more than the Air Force didJoy Kern McCormack sent me a brochure about her

new All-Day Nursery School in Battery Park City, afew blocks from the World Trade Center in ManhattanJoy has long been a teacher and administrator in earlychildhood education. Her new school "where childrenlearn to love and love to learn" is designed 10 meet thechild care needs of career men and women. A brochurephoto shows a trim. attractive Joy holding an adorabletoddler. Joy's younger daughter Julie is a senior atHamilton, and older daughter Lisa works for CalvinKlein and has two children.Since Judy Adaskin Barry and husband Nate retired

from their jobs a few years ago. they have traveledextensively and enthusiastically, the most recent trip inMay was to China, Hong Kong and Japan. Judyseemsdelighted with her new roles as mother-in-law andgrandmother.Annabel Beam Custer and husband bought a new

house in Stuart, FL and consider themselves full timeFL residents despite a couple of summer months inPerrysburg, OH which was home for many years.Grandchild count for Annabel is three.Joan Campbell Phillips and husband moved to S.

Harpswell on the ME seacoast near Bowdoin in '82. On6/ I 3/86 daughter Cynthia married an Egyptian doctorwhom she met during her three year teaching stint at theAmerican U. of Cairo. Older son Peter manages thefamily business outside Boston and is married to apolitical scientist. Son Bruce has an import businesswhich necessitates twice yearly trips to India a nd Nepalwhile Janet is a glaciologist at the Yosemite Institute.A letter from Anita Tholfsen Mullen said she and

husband Jim retired in Rapid City, SDafter years in themilitary because of his fondness for bracing winters andare now serious duplicate bridge players, traveling toregional and national tournaments. Son John. an '83Annapolis graduate, is in naval air training. Her lenerclosed with a heartwarming paragraph, "The real rea-son I'm writing now when I've never done so before is toassure you and all other class correspondents thatsilence does not mean distinterest. In reading theAlumni Magazine Class Notes I find myself rejoicing atthe good news and grieving at the sad, just as if eachperson I read about had been a dear friend. The fact isthat over the years. by sharing their lives in the printedword. they have become dear friends. And I'm sureothers feel the same way," Thanks, Anita, from Claire,Bar, Chloe, Sue, M.M .. Jeanne, Paula, Pavvyand me.Correspondent, Roldah North up Cameron. 15

Brook Court. Summit, NJ 07901

Elaine Fridlund Lester made a career

5 3 change. and is nowin the trust dept. of oneof Pittsburgh's leading banks. Daughter

Nancy made law review as a 3rd year student at Pace U.Law School in White Plains. NY. Son Pete lives inCohasset. MA where he's a marketing rep for Car Con-nections. a firm that matches buyers and sellers of usedcars through a computer service. By avocation he's afreelance musical performer. voice and guitar. Elaine isproud of Pittsburgh's being named by Rand McNallythe "most livable city in the U.S."Joan (Suzie) Bloomer Collins enjoys her many

volunteer activities in and around Bethesda. MD espe-cially her work for Mother Teresa. Summers are spentin Annapolis when she and Jerrycan get out there. It's aperfect retreat for the whole family. Oldest daughterLaurie has two children and lives outside NYC. Fred isa lawyer in DC and Jody works for a real estate firm.Jeremiah is in 10th grade and keeps his mother verybusy.Harriet (Sugar) Kane Pashman and husband How-

ard retired to Jupiter, FL after 33 years in NYC. She lefther job as travel agent and looked forward to lots off reetime and playing golf 12months a year. After a year sherealized this was not for her and is a full-time residentialloan officer for a local savings bank. Howard has takenover some of the household chores and does volunteerwork. Sugar finds time for golf once a week and stillmaintains a 12 handicap. They cruise the FL andBahamian waterways on their 34-foot traw!erwheneverpossible. Several times a year they get together withtheir two sons who live in Wichita Falls, TX and S.F.Sugar sees Judie Goldenkoff Goldfarb during the win-ter months. She very much enjoyed the 75th Anniver-sary Magazine and wonders if we really wore whitegloves when we went out!Ann Hutchison Brewsterand Bill moved into a Ches-

ter County. PA farmhouse, the oldest part dating backto 1740. A lot needs doing but they are enjoying therestorationCatherine (Rae) Ferguson Reasoner and Bud are

first-time proud grandparents of Ryan Addison Rea-soner whose parents, Andy and Holly. work at thefamily nursery in Bradenton. FL Daughter Beth ismarried. lives in Colorado Springs, teaches special ed ina rural school and takes courses for her master's. LastChristmas the whole family gathered to celebrate Rae'smother's 80th birthday. Bud keeps busy at the nurseryand also is a director of a local bank. Rae plays tennisand bridge and does a lot of gardening and horsebackriding.Joan Rudberg Lavin's daughter, Janet is at Stanford

in a master's in education administration program.Your correspondent's son, Chris, is also at Stanford inhis third year of law school.Correspondent: Dorothy Bomer Fahland. 5152

Wedgewood Road, Lynchburg. VA 24503

5 5 Necte Byerly Doyle and husband Dickhave lived in Westport. CT for overseventeen years, and now have only twin

daughters living at home. Zenecia and Marv Catherineare seniors at Staples High School. Therr sons are:Richard Jr. (called Jim), a Fairfield U. graduate whoworks for Prudential Bache; Michael, a Trinity Collegesenior, and Timothy. a Providence College sophomore.Necia returned to work last Feb. as a legal secretary fora local law firm.Dorothy Curtice Hartwell really enjoys being old

enough to do only what she wants to do and cheeringher children as they do their thing. She and Hugh'sthree children are a daughter in Denver who is a travelagent. a married daughter in New Orleans. and a sonwho is a Lake Forest College junior.Georgia (Ricky) Geisel Littlefield received a M. B.A.

in May from S1. Thomas College in SI. Paul. MN andhas started her own business specializing in planningand organizational development for small entrepre-neurial and not-for-profit businesses. Ricky traveledthis summer to England, and to MN Boundary WatersCanoe Area with son Tony. who lives in Minneapolis.Daughter Jennifer, married two years ago and recentlymoved from Portland to Chicago. plans to work in her

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field-interior design. Ricky is proud to have stoppedsmoking, and happy 10 have moved irno a condo indowntown Minneapolis on historic Nicollet Island. In

the Mississippi River.Jane GrosfeJd Smith lives in Weston, MA and is in

her tenth year as a guidance counselor at HinghamHigh School. Oldest daughter Lisa is married and in herthird year at Boston College Law School. Tracey is in amaster's program in physical therapy at S.U.; sonJames is beginning a Ph.D. in physics at M.1.T. Allthree are Brown graduates. Jane saw college roommateAnita Wollmar this summer on Nantucket IS.-a reun-ion they have regularly.

Sue McCone MlleMiIlan and husband Alex movedback to their native CA in 1968 and have enjoyed hisretirement there ever since. Sue serves on the board ofasmall residential treatment center for women alcoholicsand on the alcohol advisory board for the county.

Polly Milne Budridge and Bud are landlocked inWichita, KS after spending all of Bud's Coast Guardcareer in coastal locations. Youngest daughter Christieentered the U. of KS this fall, and oldest daughter livesin Seattle and is mother to their two grandsons. Budretired from the Coast Guard eight years ago and nowworks for Sperry Flight Systems. Polly is office coordi-nator for the air ambulance service for Wesley MedicalCenter, the largest hospital in Wichita.Correspondent: Henrie/la Jackson Schoetter, 80

Lancaster Drive, Tewksbury, MA 01876

5 7 Helene ztmmer-Loew. who has done somuch for the college all through the years,recently became a member of the Connec-

ticut College Board of Trustees. "Should be fun for fiveyears." she writes. Helene has moved from Albany toCherry Hill, NJ. She is executive director of the Ameri-can Assn. of Teachers of German, a 7,OOO-memberorganization for instructors of German, kindergartenthrough post graduate.

Nancy Snedecker Wheeler is working on her master'sdegree in exceptionality at the U. of Southern ME. Sheis a resource room teacher in Boothbay Harbor.Daughter Virginia lives in NH where she runs a wastewood products business with her husband. DaughterBarbara is a seaman (or is it seawornan. or sea person?)in the Navy.

Joan Heller Winokur's daughter Dale was marriedthis summerto Alex Troy, Dale,a graduate of Yale andYale Law, practices law in New York, as does herhusband. Joan's son Teddy is an attorney in Stamfordand son James graduated last year from Boston Col-lege. Joan was at Sue Krim Greene's milestone birthdayparty in August.

Mimi Prosswimmer Longyear reports that daughterMarcie, a recent grad of Denison, is a buyer-trainee forJ.e. Penney, where Russ is president of communica-tions. Son Andy is a student at St. John's.

Sede Slone Spang is an administrative assistant inthe state Office of Recycling in NJ. Husband Tom iswith Bell Communications Research. Daughter Bar-bara, a 1986 Cornell graduate, is with an environmentalconsulting firm in Washington. Son Larry was marriedlast year and Steve, also a Cornell alumnus, is workingin California.

Rachel Adams 1I0)'d recently retired after teachingmodern dance at Colgate for the past 15 years. Daugh-ter Rebecca, a student at OW Law School. is also afull-time law clerk forthe prosecuting attorney of Alex-andria. VA. Erica, a SI. Lawrence grad, works in LakePlacid, NY.

Looking forward to seeing most of you at our 30threunion this coming May 29-3l. Watch your mail fordetails!Correspondent: Elaine Diamond Berman, 33 North

Wyoming Avenue, South Orange, NJ 07079

59 Correspondent: Dale Woodruff Fiske, 45S. Turkey Hill, Greens Farms, CT06436

61 MARRIED: Lee White Graham to Robert(Bob) Brown, 2/86.The weekend of May 31 provided a mem-

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Hardy is New Commissionerof Social Security

Dorcas Hardy '68, who first workedwith Ronald Reagan when he was gov-ernor of California, has been sworn inas commissioner of the Social SecurityAdministration. Described by theWashington Post as a "conservativeReagan administration loyalist" with areputation as a tough administrator,Ms. Hardy controls an agency with75,000 employees that sends $206 billionin Social Security benefits to 39 millionAmericans, plus another $lO,5 billion inSupplemental Security Income to theneedy aged, blind and disabled.

Dorcas Hardy's first political job wasa summer internship with Senator Clif-ford P. Case (R-N,J.) during her under-graduate days as a Connecticut Collegegovernment major. She joined the Rea-gan administration in 1981 as assistantsecretary of Health and Human Servicesfor Human Development, and has spon-sored numerous internships for Connec-ticut College students, She is chairmanof the President's Task Force on LegalEquity for Women and holds an M.B.A.from Pepperdine University,

orable. nostalgia-filled series of events for the 25threunion class of 1961. Old friendships werc renewed,and for those in attendance, time often seemed to havestood still. "Everyone looked great!" was the commentoffered by more than one attendee.

Special thanks from the class to Dottie CleavelandSvoboda for arranging an interesting and entertainingweekend. Especially appreciated by many was the gra-cious Saturday evening dinner in the new BlausteinHumanities Center. At the dinner, the news sent bymany classmates was delivered by Julie Emerson Pew,

outgoing class president. Included were long notes fromBetsy Kendall McCreary, whose singing, writing, andreal estate in HI kept her from the reunion, and SusanOwers Haeertch. who accompanied her oceanographerhusband to England for his sabbatical, and planned toreturn to Newfoundland in July.

Almost everyone attending reunion had interestingnews about beginning or continuing careers in manydifferent areas. Developing their work in educationwere c.c. Dean of Student Affairs Marg Watson,whose 18 years at the college have included the transi-tion to coeducation, which she feels has only enhancedthe school. Newly-married Lee White Brown isa schoolcounselor in Plainville, CT, while husband Bob com-mutes weekends from Boston, where he is with Travel-ers Insurance Co. Also in Boston is Nancy Cozier Whit-comb, our hard-working class agent. Nancy and familyrecently gave up country life for the big city, where shedoes financial aid and college counseling in five highschools.

Active in the business world are Leslie PomeroyMcGowan, working in real estate in Ann Arbor, MI;Julie Emerson Pew, who enjoys part-time employmentat the Falmouth Book Reviewin Falmouth, ME; AnnHarwick Ankrum, living and working in the DC areawith Blue Cross and Blue Shield: and Sandy KassEskenazi, who acts as chief assistant to the president(her husband, Irving!) of Eastern States RestaurantGroup in NYC. Both Anne Moriarty Nichols andDenise Boitel Graham work assystemsanalysts-Annein Middletown, RI, and Denise at Petro-Canada inToronto. Denise also teaches fitness classes during herlunch hour! Janice Cook Williams is also in real estate,but faraway! She traveled from CA for the reunion andreported it was worth every mile. Traveling for a livingis Jill Dargeon, a senior group sales supervisor for acompany that offers high school tours to Europe and S.America and ski tours to Austria and Switzerland.

Reporting interests in the legal/political arena areCaele Mansfield Barthold. now the deputy for law atthe Philadelphia District Attorney's Office; MarionHaber Lang, employed as a paralegal in Stamford, CTand Laura Cohen Roskind, now known as "Duchess,"who is a political activist, and hopes to attend theKennedy School of Government in the fall.

Classmates in the art world include Lynn Kony Por-ter, busy with a bonsai studio in New Hope, PA; SusanCameron Schutz, a self-confessed grecophile, spendingsummers on Paros in Cyclades in Greece; Emily AdeeAndren. whose principal avocation is restoring Victo-rian homes; Susan Altman Miller, whose paintingswere recently presented in a one-woman show at theHudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY; ColleenDougherly Lund with her own craft business in CA;Sheila Scranton Childs, who combines careers in thetheater and art as market director for the Theater ofNations in Baltimore, and p.r. director of the MeredithContemporary Art Gallery; and Mary DouglasEdwards, who is now professor of history of art at thePratt Institute in Brooklyn.

As editor of the Weekly Reader Children's Paper-back book clubs, Betty Zuraw is one of several of usworking in publishing or writing, including Susan Rog-ers Friedman, executive editor for the Chanticleer Pressin NYC, and Ellin Taylor Black. currently doingresearch for a book in the area of human sexuality.

Carol Marty Garlington is an upper school librarianin Greensboro. NC; Joan Karslake Beauchamp is edu-cational coordinator at the YWCA Child Care Centerin Ridgewood, NJ: Marty Guida Young's extensiveinvolvement with church work includes duties as parishsecretary and the presidency of the SI. Catherine'sGuild this fall. Helen Lapham is an ornithologist whoremembers that our junior class gift to the College was aThermo-fax machine!

Sending special notes of invitation for classmate vis-its are Melanie McGilvra Zador in Yardley, PA, andJan Hall McEwan in 40 acres of apples in NH. Jan's sonJon has just graduated from CC and did a senior artshow on the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall whichreceived favorable attention from the Nell' London Day.

Annemarie Harden Obsitnik wrote how much thosewho could not attend reunion were missed by those whodid, and as Barbara Flug Colin said in her descriptionof her family, "All these facts tell nothing of their essen-

for Dutch people. Holidays and her husband's businesstrips allow fora lot of travel in Europe. She saw.MarthaBirkett White and family in Bern several times while theWhites were stationed there.

Carol Cohen has worked as a television time salesexec. in NYC for MMT Sales Inc. forthe past 10 years.

Ruth Connette Gray celebrates life after 401 Her firstchild was born after 15 years of marriage. and in 11/85she was elected to the city council in Annapolis.

Carol Friedman Marchick laments the same jugglingact so many of us experience: she and Hal try to balancethe balls offamily, career. with some timeforcommun-ity activities and quiet reflection. She has seen SueBrackin Smith and Joan Redmund Platt and had ahilarious reunion with Phyllis Ray Perrault. as theyended up on a doubles tennis team together saying"You look so familiar!" She hopes to be at our 20th.

Ellen Glascock is an associate professor of alliedhealth at SI. Francis College, Brooklyn, the secondtenured woman on the faculty. She has been granted asabbatical for spring '87 to study "Retirement inWomen's Religions:' (i.e. nuns)

Debby Greenstein is still at HUD, and still activewith the local CC club-she's treasurer because she hasthe key to the mailbox! She has seen Alice Evans Atkinsand Cindy Paul Walker.

Amanda Haas is a retail renovation specialist and islooking forward to breaking out of the corporate moldonto her own very soon. Teenagers Taylor, 17. MaryElizabeth. 16. and Paul, 15 are offering all the typicalchallenges and happiness of that age. Husband Ray hasa busy law practice, specializing in computer softwareand electronics. They all love S.F. and remain actively

Arbor and son Lee is in his second year at the U, of P A.Correspondents. Judith (Jo) O'Donnell Lohmann,

American Embassy, P.D. Box 5000, Ogdensburg, NY13669; Roberta Slone Smith, 16 Greene Drive, Law-renceville. NJ 08648

ces, or of ours." You really had to be there.Congratulations to all of those celebrating 25th wed-

dinganniversaries as well as college reunions. Some weknow include Linn Whitelaw Ong. Robin FosterSpaulding, and your correspondent who missed seeingall of you and was only kept away by AI's 25th atHarvard.Correspondent: Sally Foote Marlin, Webster Farm,

412 Old Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, M £04107. 6 5 The class extends sympathy to the family ofJudy Bailen Kaleman, who died on8fl5/86. Judy's son is a c.c. freshman. A

scholarship has been established in her name.Correspondent: Carol Murray Kim, American

Embassy, Seoul, Korea, A PO San Francisco, CA963016 3

Nancy Budde Nightingale and husbandRobert, chief financial officer of theN.R.M. Corp., live in Salem, OH. Her

most recent projects have included oil painting andskiing in CO.

Elana Brown Anderson, a registered nurse, and hus-band William, an attorney, have been renovating ahundred-plus-year-old house in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.Their children are: Jake, 25, Eliza, 23 (both teachers),Maysie. 14 and Spencer, 6. Elana recently traveled tolies des Saints, Bermuda, Switzerland, and France,andsailed on the tall ship Shamrock in NYC on July 4th.

Katherine Converse Schelter, an interior designer.and husband Craig, an architect, live in Philadelphia.Their four children are: Jennifer. 20, Kristin, 17, Gra-ham, 15 and Kate. 10. Katherine's hobbies include awide variety of sports and renovating houses. The fam-ily vacations at Cape Cod each summer,

Nancy Cooper Rustici received an M.A. in'73 fromV,R.t and is an English and math high school teacher.She and Joseph, owner of Elmridge Golf Course, live inPawcatuck, CT. They also have four children: Larry,37, Jerilyn, 33, Eric CC '78, 30 and Alan CC '85, 22.They have four grandchildren. Nancy's most recentprojects include putting her husband's businessaccounts on an Apple liE and golfing. She visited Eng-land in '84and spends each Christmas at Disneyworld.

Bettina (Tina) Bauer Hinckley, a yacht broker andbookkeeper, and husband Bob. president of HinckleyYacht Brokerage, live in Southwest Harbor, ME. Theirthree children are Jill, 23, Barry, 20 at U. of CO, andLiz, 17 at Middlebury. Tina has been very active inhelping with a pony club, riding, skiing. sailing andentertaining.

Susan Albro Sheehan received a MAT from Yale in'64 and now teaches English at Catilleja School in PaloAlto, CA. She is also the coordinator of Hospice Minis-try, a volunteer home care for the ill, aging, and acci-dent victims for SI. Marc's Church. Prior to her hus-band's death in '83, they both spent several sabbaticalsin Europe. Susan would like to know what happened toSara du Ross, last known to be living in Paris, France.

Marian Bingham Hubbell is self-employed with hus-band Bill, a freelance corporate photographer. inGreenwich. CT. Their two children are Drica, 24 andJonathan, 21. Marian enjoys farming and is in thecontinuing education program at Cc. She was in Parisin June to visit Joan Weisberg Keiser, who now livesthere with her family. She also sees Linda Stark Packeroften in NYC. Linda has two college-aged sons and iscompleting an M.A.

Nancy DiMatteo Hall, v.p. of Hancock Lumber,lives in Casco, ME. Children are Jeffrey, 24. head ofpersonnel at Hancock, and Jennifer. 18. at U, of ME.At least once a year she sees Sue McGuire Gay whoworks with senior citizens in Montgomery County. MD.

Cynthianna Hahn has worked as a school socialworker with deaf children in a Chicago public schoolfor the past three years. About a third of the childrenshe teaches are Hispanic. so in addition to using signlanguage with her students, she uses her Spanish withtheir parents. During summer '85 she and a friend spentseven weeks driving throughout Europe and one of thehighlights was visiting the small town where Cynthi-anna's great-great-grandfather was born.

Barbara Thomas Cheney is the rector of St. Gabriel'sEpiscopal Church in East Detroit. She enjoys havingher own parish and feels very fortunate as such a posi-tion is not common for women clergy. Husband Dexteralso has a new position as diocesan administrator andin addition does supply work on the weekends. In theirspare time they are working, as well as having fun.painting, decorating, and garde ning at their new home.Barbara's daughter Diana is living and working in Ann

67 MARRIED: Marjorie Singer to EdwardJoseph, 10/12/85; Bahira Sugarman toShelly Isenberg, 4/6{86; Carol Cohen to

Leonard Freifelder. 7/31/86BORN: to Wayne and Ruth Connette Gray. Martha,

1984; to Werner and Margaretann Hart Roberts, EmilyClaire, 9/8/81; to Michael and Sidney Wheeler warras.Tyson Ames, 8fl5/84

Nancy Blumberg Frankel IS a school psychologist inYonkers, NY while she iscompletingadoc!orate. She isdivorced with two daughters, Erica, 14. and Elana, 17, afreshman at Northwestern studying theater.

Christine Carlson Kohnstamm has lived since 1974 ina tiny village outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands.Her bilingual children, Sarah. II and Justin. 8, attendDutch schools. She is part-time information officer forKLM. planningall types of travel programs in the U.S.

Minority Celebration IICome back to Connecticut for the second great minority

celebration, June 26,27, and 28, 1987. Plans are underway fora dinner dance, picnic, art show, rap sessions, workshops onthe minority professional, sports and recreation, a chapelservice, and more. Join together for camaraderie, nostal-gia, and a look at the future as we organize a mentor pro-gram for Connecticut students. Reservation forms and moreinformation will be mailed in the spring.

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P B K Scholarships Open to Alumni

Each year the Connecticut College chapter of Phi B~la Kapp~ award~ oneor more scholarships to an alumna, alumnus, or seruor who IS plarmi ng todo graduate study. In 1986, scholarships were awarded to Elizabeth AllenCarroll '86 and Holly Ann Dworken '77.Alumni interested in applying for this year's scholarships should write:

Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa, Strider House, Connecticut College, NewLondon, CT 06320. Applicants need not be members of Phi Beta Kappa.The deadline for alumni applications is March I, 1987.

involved in private education and health care.Kenner Hart Myers is teaching in Clark U:s educa-

tion department while husband Winslow is head of theart department at Bancroft School. Children Anna, 8and Chase. 7 are happy and wellMargaretann Hart Roberts moved in August '85

from MA to Rockville. MD. Husband Werner nowworks with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors inD.C. Children Katie. 8 and Emily, 4are busy in schoolactivities. while Mom keeps busy decorating the newhouse and taking care of her family.Marsha Hunter Matthews and Bill celebrated 20

years at SI. Paul's School and 20 years of marriage bytaking all three boys to Europe. Son Billy is a senior at51. Paul's. Bobby a sophomore at SI. Mark's, and John.a seventh grader at the local school in Concord, NH.Marsha has been teaching nursery school for 10 yearsand loves it!Elizabeth MI;C!lSlin Passela has been living in Ger-

many for four years and works for the Bank of Americawhile husband George is with First National Bank ofBoston. Son Chris Battles is in the U.S. at Hill, butdaughter Hadley is still happy at the InternationalSchool in Germany. Elizabeth was instrumental infounding an international business women's network.The Frankfurt Forum. last year, and their success hasbeen very rewarding. particularly in an environmentwhere women in management are still an oddity.Pat McMurray writes that son William, 3, is a

delight, and sometimes a trial. She is writing freelancearticles for The Boston Parent's Paper and filling in forvacationing announcers at two local radio stations. Stillnot ready to go back to work full time, she is v.p. of theircooperative nursery school.Christine Miller St. Jean, children Nicole. 7 and Jus-

tin. 4 and husband Paul live in the Exeter, NH area,where she is the social studies department head at Exe-ter High School. She also seves as a NH seacoast CCadmissions aide and whenever possible encourages herjr. and sr. honors students to apply. Several times a yearshe gets down to the NY area to visit with Dana Freed-man Liebman and Susan Mendelson Braitman. She'sanxious to see everyone at our 20th!Anne Moloney Richmond has moved to Washington

to work with her former Avon boss at MCL She isdirector of national sales promotions forthemand rightin the thick of the telecommunications industry.Marjorie Singer, recently married to actor Edward

Joseph. is general counsel for Vera Institute of Justice,NYC.Debby Small Russell and husband Jim, who now

races cars. are enjoying their busy lives and chaoscreated by two teenage boys, Matthew. 17and Andrew.13. Both boys perform with their own rock groups.Debby has taken on senior wardenship (head layper-son) of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a challenging newrole. She occasionally runs into Prof. Emeritus DickGoodwin at Planned Parenthood meetings.Bahira Sugarman legally changed her name in '85

from Betty. She is a psychotherapist in private practiceworking with individuals, couples, children and fami-lies. A former faculty member in the child and adoles-cent division of the dept. of psychiatry at the U. of FL,she is a consultant to several service institutions in the

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communitv. She is an experienced workshop leader,offering programs in stress reduction. professionalb ur n-o u t . increasing body-mind awareness, taskoriented teamwork. and healing and enhancing couplerelationships. A certified instructor of the Arica Insti-tute, she is also an apprentice teacher in the School ofTai Chi Chua, Inc. Bahira is a licensed massage thera-pist and a co-founder of the Institute of TraditionalHealing Arts currently serving as faculty member andconsultant.Terry Tartinder Grosvenor lives in Newport, RI with

husband Rick. Amanda, 4 and Andrew, 2. She is tryingto continue a career in real estate sales and developmentand is still writing music-a song was recently pub-lished in NY.Marda Walker DuRie lives in Wyckoff, NJ with

husband Bill and children Randy, 15 and Stephen, [2.She is part owner and manager of Walker TravelAgency in Ridgewood and is enjoying traveling andsailing at Normandy Beach Yacht Club on BarnegatBoy.Wendy Wiener Wolf spent most of the past year

traveling, working and playing. On a business trip withhusband Richard to London, Madrid and Paris. shewent to the old apartment house where she lived whilespending junior year in France. Much has changed.Combined with the substitute teaching of French andSpanish at the local high school in NJ, and the activitiesof her two boys, II and 14, she is kept extremely busy.Bonnie Woodward Christen had lunch with Fran

Wattenberg Klingenstein '68, Both are enjoying theirlives of tennis, aerobics and caring for their children.Bonnie just finished her degree in medical technologyand Fran has started courses to become a real estatebroker.Elayne Zweifler Gardstein escaped NY's winter this

year with a family trip to Antigua. She has been editinga book and has joined the CC Club of New York.Husband Hank, Tracey, 15. Betsey. 10 and Elaynevisited the College this past spring.Carol Cohen's marriage to Leonard Freifelder was

attended by Carol Morosky Belli, Debby GammonsKauffman '68 and Candace Mayeron '68. The couple.who met on a ski trip, then honeymooned in Australiaand New Zealand.Debbie White Corr has lived in CA for the past 12

years, although she gets back to New England as oftenas possible. Their three children are Jonathan, 16,Sarah, 14, and Andrew, 7. and she is involved in theirschools. She accompanied the Sacramento HighMarching Band to NYC in April and managed to trackdown Jane Gullong, with whom she had a wonderfulvisit though much too short.The Class of 1967 sends its deepest condolences to

Barbara Sachner Boyle and her children Kate, Trippand Elizabeth. on the death of Patrick Boyle, 39, whosuccumbed to TB over Memorial Day weekend.Correspondent: Robin Frost Dawson, 800 Hoydens

Road, Fairfield. CT06430

69 Susan Ninde Tresemer, 1J South Street.Brattleboro, VT05301·2656

71 MARRIED: Carol Stephenson to DavidA. Polmon. 9/7/85Carol Stephenson-Polman and David.

who spent their honeymoon in Germany, live in South-bury, CT. Sharing their home are four cats, one dog,two horses and assorted fish. Carol frequently seesChris Regula.Linda Simsarian-Dolan and Michael moved to Boca

Raton and love the climate and lifestyle there. Thomas.3, keeps Linda busy but she has time for aerobics andhas been able to visit with Susie weme.Nancy Quinley Kataja has been remodeling her home

in Marborough, CT but she and her husband are able totake breaks in their condo in Hilton Head. Nancy sawRonna Reynolds in Hartford last Feb.Nancy Kraft Perault and Peter Jive in Chapel Hill

with Matthew, 6 and Julia. 3. Nancy is a part-timeclinical social worker at Duke U. Medical Center Hos-pital, and Peter is a psychiatrist in Durham.Barbara Fineberg Fletcher, Judy Barkin Scott and

Anne Kennison Parker had an all-too-brief reunionin July at Barbara's CT home. Anne also saw JanCassidy Salerno in June when Jan was visiting fromLA. Anne keeps up with Bonnie Monfort Bopp '70and Susanna Lewis Ferry '70.Correspondent: Anne Kennison Parker, 45 Wood-

land A ve., Apt. 39, Summit, NJ 0790/

7 3 MARRIED: Carol Cronin to Larry Bar-bour, 6/80; Sherry Hensley to John Wil-liam (Bill) Munday4/26/86; Kim Howleto

Christopher Olsen. 1982; Sue Kronick to EdwardShumsky, 8/85.BORN: to Steve and Jane Barbo Gabriel, Jonathan

Steven 4/ 19/86; to Edward and Anne Barry Swanson,Elizabeth 1/8l and Christopher 9/85: to Herbert andKathy Boynton Williams. Nathan 4/2/84: to Chip andMarjorie Bussman Gillis, Patrick 4/86; to Nick andJane (Trinkett) Banker Clark, Charlotte Allegra RiceClark 6/3/85; to Larry and Carol Cronin Barbour,Barrell Christine 4/19/83 and Charles Beveridge6/12/85; to John and Jill Felsenthal Levi, Daniel Fel-sent hal 1/24/86; to Peter and Jean Kelleher Niebauer.Cara Shannon 7/18/85; to Ian and Eleanor KucinskiThompson. Rebecca Victoria 7/2/85; to Vivian Segalland Paul Baumann, Sarah Alexandra 2/6/86.Jane Barbo Gabriel lives in L.A. with husband Steve,

a captain in the Air Force, and son, Jonathan Steven.Steve has just finished a three-year assignment at theSpace Division working on space shuttle projects andwill be a ROTC instructor at Loyola Marymount U.Jane is an English instructor at Marymount PalosVerdes College and after maternity lea ve will return thisfall to teach part-time. She sees Caroline Kelley Kryst-kiewicz often.Anne Barry Swanson lives in Santa Monica, CA with

her husband, an attorney. daughter Elizabeth, 5 andson Christopher, I. Anne worked as a research analystuntil Elizabeth's birth and now is active in the Jr.League and the docent council of the LA. CountyMuseum of Art where she gives weekly tours tostudents.Kathy Boynton Williams lives in Barrington, RI with

husband and three children. She is editor of three news-letters. one of which was awarded 3rd place in the Assn.of Jr. Leagues' annual public relations awards, sits ontwo community boards and spends the rest of her timedriving carpools.Betty Brown Bibbons has completed her obstetrics-

gynecology residency as chief resident of OBI G YN atU. ofTX Medical Branch in Galveston. She will moveto Louisville with husband Paul who is completing hisdissertation for his Ph.D. in genetics, and son PaulEdward, 4. She will begin practice at a communityhealth center repaying a three-year Nat'! Health ServiceCorps commitment.Marjorie Bussmann Gillis and three children will be

moving from Dallas to Houston where husband Chipwill join Tenneco Financial Services. Marjorie keepsbusy raising her children, teaching alphabetic phonicsto dyslexic children and swimming classes during thesummer.Allen Carroll is happily ensconced in DCas'lssistant

art director of National Geographic magazine. Heworks on such projects as the immune system, Halley'sComet and an historical atlas of the U.S. Businessoccasionally takes him to Tucson where he visits JimMcLaughlin '74.Mary Cerreto had just moved to DC when husband

Dave was recruited by Boston City Hospital She ischief executive officer of The Accreditation Council. anational, non-profit agency that sets standards, surveysand accredits private and public programs serving per-sam with mental retardation and developmental dis-abilities. The council's board voted to move their exec.offices to Boston out of respect for the needs of adual-career family. They ha ve just purchased their veryown "Money Pit," a IOB-year-old Victorian in Natick.Trinket! Clark has been kept busy this past year in

Exeter, NH with baby Charlotte, who isa lot offun andwalking and running all over the house. She organizedan exhibition of drawings by David Smith, the Ameri-can sculptor, for International Exhibitions Foundationin DC, which is traveling all over the U.S. and then toEurope, She is now in the midst of organizing an exhibi-tion for the Fort Worth Art Museum. She recentlyvisited Eric and Sally Bunting Kaufmann '76 and theirtwo children in Orlean, VA.Christine Clarke received an M.A. degree. She owns

and operates her own fitness studio and is a consultantand contractor for a health spa at Stratton Mountain,VT teaching yoga and fitness, directing massage ther-apy, and lecturing on the power of the mind. She isbuying a new house in Dorset.Carol Cronin Barbour received an M.B.A. from

UNC-Chapel Hill. She moved to Houston in '75 whereshe worked for an oil company until 1981 , was a finan-cial advisor to a Texas family for a year, and in '82started a real estate firm. She loves Houston and invitesany classmate to call when in the area.Nina Davit Hamill, husband Jim '74 and children

Meg, 9 and Michael, 4 live in the woods in Southbury,CT where Jim is an account executive for LearningInternational (formerly Xerox Learning Systems).Nina is coordinating a mothers' support group andtutoring French. Her most exciting work is withteenagers-leading discussion groups and doing crea-tive dramatics.Wendy Dolliver Wynn, husband Brian and children

Eric, 4 and Kristin, I live in Toronto, where Brian is apartner in a law firm. Wendy is national manager forinvestment funds services for Canada. They barely havetime to breathe but enjoy it all.Maggie Elbert Paar spent the last two years in the

Cape Canaveral area where husband Tom was execu-tive officer on the Coast Guard cutter Diligence. Theywill be, heading for DC where Tom will assume a deskjob at e.G. H.Q. Maggie will return to work at PEPCOin their research de pt.. and daughter Jess will enter firstgrade, She invites anyone in the DC area to look themup-they'll be the only Paar in Arlington.Jill Felsenthal Levi, husband John, and sons Ben-

jamin,4 and baby Daniel, 6 mos., live in Chicago whereJohn isa partner with the law firm of Sidley and Austin.Jill was a pediatric social worker at the U. of ChicagoHospitals for five years, but has been home now forfour years enjoying a busy family life. They have takenwonderful family vacations to the Canadian Rockies,MT and CO, traveling by overnight train. They hope toput Ben on skis this winter.Sue Finch Camp and husband Philip live in a big old

house in Gainesville, FL where Philip is in a Ph. D.program in physics at UFL. Sue will do freelance writ-mg and photography for a time before setting up herown business. She welcomes classmates' correspon-dence, especially from fellow -Lazarites."Meg Gifford continues as a trial lawyer for the U.S.

Justice Dept. in NYC with a mostly antitrust practice."By the time you read this, our 15th reunion will be lessthan two years off. It will probably be the weekend afterthe Memorial Day holiday, 1988, so mark yourcalend-ars. I expect to see a record turnout!" Meg attendedReunion Weekend last spring which included a work-shop for '88 reunion chairs and writes that old PalmerLibrary, now Blaustein Humanities Center, has beenmagically transformed into a warm center of light, airand learning and it will be worth anyone's trip back tosee that accomplishment.

The Definitive Rockwell

Nearly a decade in the making, Nor-man Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue,by Laurie Norton Moffatt '78 was pub-lished in September. The massive 1,152-page, two-volume work illustrates anddescribes nearly 4,000 works by Rock-well. "The scholarship is stupendousand thorough," Arthur C. Danto wrotein The New York Times Book Review,adding, "It lacks the ingratiating text ofthe coffeetable book,"Ms. Moffatt, who has been curator of

the Norman Rockwell Museum inStockbridge, Massachusetts, since 1981,was recently named acting director ofthe museum's new facility being built atLinwood. She spent over six yearsresearching the Rockwell book, thenfaced the arduous task of organizing thematerial and typing the manuscript.Published by the museum, the bookcosts $170, a fraction of the price anordinary publisher would charge.An art history major at Connecticut,

Laurie Norton Moffatt is treasurer andfinance chairman for the Alumni Asso-ciation's Executive Board.

Arturo David Guzman is still teaching eighth gradein the South Bronx at Sacred Heart Middle School. Hecoordinates a federal food program that provides foodsupplements to senior citizens, delivered monthly bythe grade school children. He works with the homelessof the parish and teaches English as a second languageat night to adults. Throughout the school year hecoaches basketball and track. During the summer hedoes volunteer work in Wheeling, WV with the poor,hungry and homeless at the 15th St. Center. He con-tinues his art work in stained glass and says that plus hisjob bring him great happiness.

Linda Havens Moore. husband Paige and childrenMaren. 6 and Justin. 3 live in Stephenville. TX wherePaige is a senior scheduler for General Dynamics in Ft.Worth. Linda teaches special ed. high school age stu-dents for Stephenville I.S.D_ and spare time is spentbreeding, raising and training Morgan horses.

Sherry Hensley Munday became a member of the SCbar in '84 and was a trust officer in Columbia with TheCitizens and Southern Nat'!' Bank of SC until hermarriage to Bill. N ow she is a trust new business devel-opment officer with the same bank on Hilton Head Is.

Kim Howie received her M.A. in urban planningfrom Princeton in '78. She changed careers from hous-ing to health care and is an administrator in the medicalprimary care unit of City Hospital Center at Elmhurstin Queens.

June Sherry Ingram is concert master of the EasternConnecticut Symphony and the Connecticut ChamberEnsemble. and performs with Orchestra New Englandand with symphonies in Waterbury, Ridgefield. NewBritain, Meriden and Wallingford. She teaches violinand viola, is string rehearsal director with the EasternConnecticut Symphony Youth Orchestra and is man-ager and first violinist of the Connecticut String Trio.June is also a residential sales associate with John Ellisand Associates in NL.

Cindy Johnson Pearson passed the CPA exam in '84,received a M.A. in accounting from American U. in ·85,and is an accountant for Leventhol and Horwoth inDe. Husband Dan is an agriculturallegislative assist-ant for Senator Boschwitz.

Jean Kelleher Niebauer and husband Peter are keptbusy with son Patrick, 4 and daughter Cera Shannon,I. They all plan to tour Ireland and Paris this year. Jeanpractices law part time in Alexandria, VA.

Hester Kinnicutt Jacobs, husband David, Chris-topher, 5 and Rebecca, J are still stationed in Norfolkwhere Hester and David are in the Navy. Hester justreturned from a three-day Navy trip to NYC whichbrought back memories of trips to the City while atConn. She saw 42nd Siren and remembered all hertheatre work at Conn.

Katherine Knox Moore started a private practice inspeech and language pathology and treats children inthe AlexandriaJ Arlington/ Falls Church, VA areaHusband Dave is an engineering manager for the USPatent Office and daughter Sandra is looking forwardto starting kindergarten. They saw Nancy voye andhusband Mark Weissler in DC in Feb.

Sue Kronick is v.p. and divisional merchandise mgr.at Bloomingdale's for the domestics division. She trav-els to India and Europe about twice a year. HusbandEdward is the director or the FTC's NY regional office.She reports that she is happy and exhilarated.

Eleanor Kucinski Thompson has lived in Britainsince '73 and now lives in a village called Ha nslope,north of Buckinghamshire. She is an administrator inthe examinations office at Open U. Husband lan, a ci vilservant working at the Forcign and CommunicationsOffice, is interested in railways and steam engines,.which he enjoys photographing, and they have a modelrailway in their spare bedroom. Eleanor pursues herinterest in music, singing in a large choir at work and asmall madrigal group.Correspondents: Carol Proctor MeCurdy, 8/ Cour-

ter Ave., Maplewood, NJ 07040; Susan D Krebs, 444Lincoln 51., York, PA 17404

7 5 MARRIED: Anita Guerrini to MichaelOsborne. 8/13/83.BORN: to Michael and Bonnie Kimmel

Dazenskt. Marc Alexander. 6/22/84; to Michael Fran-chot and Marty, William Law 11{19{85; to MichaelSchmidt and Anne Fowler. DanieI3/20/84; to StephenWillett and Diane Pike, Kyle 5/14/83, and KeirnanWillett 12/19/B4; to Penelope Howen-Heuer and hus-band, Emily 3/9/86; to Avram and Nina CardinReisner, Elnata n 6/30{83, Etan 7/12/81, and Noam6/20/85; to Howard and Sharon Gibbs Cooper, MollyRebecca, 8/29/86; to Sandy and Walter Thoma, JillianMarie 4/3{86; to Kathy and Mark Wilson, lain.Betsey Brininger has been appointed director of the

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the U. of Bridgeport.Diane Pike lives with sons Kyle and Kiernan and

husband Stephen Willett in St. Paul. MN where she isan assistant professor of sociology at Augsburg Col-lege. She had a great time at our 10th reunion withChris Neiman and Penny Hnwetl-Heller.

Susan Ferris Totten teaches English at Pope JohnH.S. in Everett, MA. Husband Thomas also teaches.

Miriam Josephson Whitehouse is a lab technologistat a hospital in ME. Husband Jonathan builds boatsand they have a l y-momh-cld son, Cameron. Any c.c.visitors to Kennebunk are welcome!

Anita Guerriniand husband Michael Osborne live in51. Paul, MN. Anita teaches history of medicine at U. ofM N Med School. after spending a year in Paris andreceiving her Ph.D. from Indiana U. She isactive in theSierra Club, and published her first article last summer.

Jackie Cameron works in NYC at McCann-Ericksonin advertising as a v.p. and account supervisor onAlka-Seltzer.

Patricia Johnson received her Ph.D. in reproductivephysiology from Cornell in 1983 and is a research asso-ciate at the U. of IL.

Anne Fowler received her Ph.D. in psychology fromPenn in 1984. She is now a post-doctoral fellow atHaskins Labs in New Haven, where husband MichaelSchmidt teaches physics at Yale.

Polly Gillett Means lives in the DC area with hus-band Duff and their three sons, 9, 6. and 4. She com-pleted her master's in economics and is doing book-keeping and math tutoring at home,

Darcy Gazza Love keeps busy playing tennis once aweek, working part-time in her family's real estate busi-ness, and running after five-year-old Tommy.

Penelope Howen-Heuer is the project leader on astudy of L.1. Sound's Marinc Finfish Resources for theCT Dept. of Environmental Protection. She's the firstwoman to be hired as a project leader!

Nina Cardin Reisner has returned to school and is asecond year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theologi-cal Seminary.

Eileen Buckley lives in Boston and is an assistant vicepresident at Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.

Walter Thoma will soon complete his tenth year withGlobe Security Systems as a regional nuclear opera-tions manager. His sons Tremayne, 10, Timothy, 8, andJeremy, 7. are happy they now have a sister.

Richard Van Glahn has been appointed assistantprofessor of history at C. C. He began teaching Chinesehistory in September 1986.

Beverly Hindinger Krizanovic and family have relo-cated to L.1. due to husband Gary's transfer as Com-mander Coast Guard Group Rockaway, AtlanticBeach. She and Darcy Gazza Love enjoy gellingtogether with their children at the beach.

Mark Wilson is an instructional programmer andprogramming supervisor at a company in German-town. MD. Mark never took computer courses at c.c.but feels that the strong background he received inEnglish and art has been an invaluable resource in hiswork. He and wife Kathy are also kept busy with their15-month-old son, lain. It is mind-boggling to Mark,who watched the Camels' first stumbling steps, that theteam is now a feared opponent.

Lucille M, Showalter is still active in the SecondCongregational Church, New London. She is a formerdeacon and state delegate of the church and is proud ofsons Craig and Douglas, who are the first two membersraised in the Second Congregational Church to beordained at the Church in its 150-year history. The Rev.Douglas K. Showalter is minister of the First Church inBelfast. ME.Correspondents: Bonnie Kimmel Dazenski. 361 Old

Creamery Rd., Box 841, Andover, NJ 07821; DarcyGazea Love, 20 Oakland Drive, POri WashinglOn. NY11050

7 7 BORN: to Tony and Martha LeachProulx, Brian Benjamin 1O/6f85.Correspondents: Pam Sharp Hulme, 23

Hickory Hill Lane, Framingham, MA 01701; SharonMcIntire Brown, 200 UlSI 66th St., Apt D-1903, Nell'York, NY 10021

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MARRIED: Suzanne Melhado to Philip7 9 Bolduc, 5/24f86; Hilary Henderson toTyrone Stephens. 5/31/86; Amanda Mar-

shall to Christopher Zingg'77, 6/28/86; Emily Stimsonto Paul Sugg Jr., 6/28f86; Maria Hoyt to StephenCashin, 8/2/86.

BORN: to Robert and Kathleen Finn Malkowski,Thomas Robert, 8/10/86

Hilary Henderson Stephens is an assistant director ofinternational development for the Special Olympics inDC. Husband Tyrone is a v.p. and assistant branchmanager of Paine Webber in DC.

Maria Hoyt Cashin recently received a master's inpublic administration from NYU.

Suzanne Melhado Bolduc is enrolled in an MSWprogram at Simmons College in Boston.

Emily Stimson Sugg recently received a master's inFrench from Middlebury. Emily and husband Paul areteachers at the Roxbury Latin School in West Rox-bury, MA.

Amanda Marshall and husband David Zingg '77 livein the Boston area. Amanda is a painter and the man-ager of sales and admissions at the Harvard U. ArtMuseum and David is an owner of In Your Ear recordstores.

Barry Gold and Jody purchased a condominium inNorth Easton, MA. Barry is in his third year as anassociate at the law firm of Burns & Levinson in Bos-ton. Jody recently started a pri vate counseling practicein Brookline specializing in obesity, eating disordersand weight management.

Pam Crawford Mosenthal and husband Scott live inPleasantville, NY. Pam teaches first grade at the Bed-ford Road School in Pleasantville and is working on amaster's in counseling and guidance at LI.U. Scott ischairman of the English department at Irvington HighSchool where he also coaches football and track. Pamand Scott have been doing some East coast travelingand took a trip to the Dominican Republic last winter

Mary Wright moved back 10 NYC from Princeton tobegin a Job with Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.. aninsurer of municipal bonds. Mary's new position is asst.v.p. for general obligations, leases and educationalIssues.

Michael Levine received his DMD from Temple inPhiladelphia and is in private practice in Norwich, CTwhere he and wife Barbara Lynch have purchased ahouse. Barb is working in the adolescent progra m at thechild guidance clinic in New London, CT.

Chip Ciothier received his MBA degree from theKellogg School of Management. Northwestern U. inMay. After living in Chicago for two years, Chip andLiz moved back East and bought a house in Califon. NJwhich they graciously share with their two Siberianhuskies Dasher and Luger. Chip is a brand manager inthe biscuit division of Nabisco Brands, Inc. in Parsip-pany, and Liz is a sales associate with Tucker Anthony& R.L Day, Inc. in Morristown. Chip reports that TraeAnderson, a fellow graduate from Kellogg. is nowworking for Touche Ross & Co. in S.F.

Judy (Kientzy) Rubin received her MSS in clinicalsocial work from Bryn Mawr in 1983. She has designedand now administers "Center Square," a transitionalliving program for recovering addicted women, locatedin suburban Philadelphia.Correspondents: Barbara L. Lynch, 5 Flyers Drive,

Norwich, CT06360: Marcia A. McLean, 319 East 53rd51., Apt. 4-A, New York, NY /0022

81 MARRIED: Nancy Ropes Pettengill toGeorge F. Bushnell, Jr., 6/28/86; AnneElizabeth Behrens to Matthew Cafritz

5/17/86; Christine Saxe to Charles C. Easton [II9/8/84; Susan Russell Roehrig to Jay Reilly 717/86.

BORN: to Derek and Hilary Chittenden Barhydt.Brooks Chittenden, 4/28/86; to Wayne and KarenLanphear Malinowski, Rebecca Danforth, 2/27/86.

Attending the wedding of Susan Russell RoehrigandJay Reilly were Ann Behrens Cahitz, Cris (Reevy)Revaz, John Voorhees, Susan Barker, Carol Henry,David Zieff, Kenny Goldstein, Rick Gersten, BeckyImhoff Shepard '80, Alyssa Roth '83, Maria DiMartino'82, Eric Mann '80, Rocky Damiano '82, Howie Finn'80, Beth Larson Roetzel '80, and Susan Golden Jacob-

son '82.Wayne and Karen Lanphear Malinowski's new

daughter provides a sister for son Nathaniel, 21months.Correspondents: Kenneth M. Goldstein, 201 East

Street, Lexington, MA 02173; Christine Saxe Easton,5-A Troy Drive. Springfield, NJ 07081

MARRIED: Paula Bernhardt to David

83 Touger, 2/16/86; Eileen Diener to NedHimmelrich, 3/22/86; Anne Donihue to

Gary Travers, 6/29/86; Meredith Drake to GreggHartvigsen '84; Cheryl Goldberg to William Neff,5/25/86; Elizabeth Corvtne to James Starke '82.4/5/86; Karen Neilson to Giles Rae, 8/30/86; EricaVan Brimer to Adam Goldfarb, 9/86.

Regina Annino is a senior rating analyst for AetnaLife and Casualty in Middletown, CT. She hears CaraEsparo on the radio all the time. Whereareallthe otherChords?

Kathy Armstrong is in computer school at U.c. Ber-keleywhile she continues working part-time at Kelso &Co. in S.F., expecting "the big quake" any day now.Although thoroughly commited to staying in CA, shestill won't go near tofu or sushi.

Paula Bernhardt is a senior assistant 10 the registrarat the Museum of Modern Art. She and husband DavidTouger love living in Brooklyn.

Eileen Diener HimmeJrich has completed her mas-ter's irrleaming disabilities/ reading at Johns Hopkins.

Anne Donihue is a remedial reading specialist at theMaplewood School in Cornwall, CT. She is in a mas-ter's program at Columbia U. Teachers College.

Meredith Drake and Gregg Hartvigsen '84 live in amansion overlooking Mystic Seaport. She supports herunemployed, master-degreed househusband by takingphotographs.

Cheryl Goldberg received her MBA from Columbiaand is an associate at Bank of America's investmentbanking group. She and husband Bill live in NYC.

At Betsy Corvtne's wedding to James Starke '82, thebest man was William Butterly '82 and Susan GorvineNelson '80 was matron of honor. Betsy counsels abusedteenagers in Nashua, NH and husband Jim managestheir apartment houses and is restoring an antique farmhouse in Milford, NH.

Karen Neilson Rae and husband Giles live in Natick,MA where she is program coordinator for Interna-tional Oil Resources Development, an oil trainingcompany in Boston. Giles is an engineering managerforRaytheon

Erica Van Brimer Goldfarb and husband Adam livein St. Paul, MN where he is doing an internship at theU. of MN Hospital. Erica is planning for the climatechange while she seeks employment.

Karen Bachelder is an advertising account represen-tative for the Mohave Daily Miner in Kingman, AZ.

Jill Baker has had a great summer traveling to theCape, ME and Boston. She spends a lot of time withNancy Reynolds and Mary Jean Kanabis '84.

Randy Bangs got married in Oct. and has bought asmall home. He works at the Park Ridge Foundationasa fund raising coordinator in Rochester, NY

Valerie Bataille, living in Milford, CT, has finishedher first year of law school at the U. of Bridgeport. Hada wonderful summer in Wyoming.

Michele Beaulieu worked for the Peace Corps inGaban, West Central Africa for two years. She returnedin OCI. '86, after spending three months in Europe. Sheis teaching 5th grade in Newington, CT.

Sally Becker has a project management position incorporate administration at Survival Technology. Shesti1lloves DC, but travels a lot for her job.

Eliza Berlow has worked for an economic develop-ment consulting firm in DC since graduation. InAugust, she started at UNC-Chapel Hill fora master'sin urban planning.

Lynne Cascio is working towards her master's degreein journalism at U. of CO. She has a part-time job aseditor of Air Destinations, the in-night magazine forAspen Airways, and also waits on tables.

Alan Cohen is an associate with the international PRfirm of Stone/ Halliman in NYC. He's been in touchwith Matt Martin who just took the bar exam.

John Cohen lives in Long Beach, CA working as apolice officer.Joann Coppola just got a dog, an American mutt.

They're in S.F.Barbara Cusmano is an assistant to the marketing

director at City Federal Savings Bank of Piscataway,NJ.

Beeca Davies left her job at Macy's to go back toschool to get her MBA at Columbia. She and JeremyKramer just returned from a CA vacation. Jeremy willalso return to school this fall in a MBA program atHarvard.Jennifer Davis lives and works in DC, where she is

finishing her thesis for her master's in public policy andworking as a consultant to Cities in Schools. She saw a10tofCC people at Kambrah Garland's wedding in NH.

Guy Defrances graduated from UConn School ofLaw in May and took the bar in July. He is planning topractice in Meriden, CT.

Anne Delaney will attend NYU School of Social

Work in the fall.Leslie Doppler lives in Keene, NH where she is news

director for WKNE AM & FM. "Sometimes I wonderwhy Iget up before dawn every day, but I do enjoy myjob and life here in NH."'

Diane Eliasoph received a master's in museum edu-cation from G.W. U. She works as supervisor of publicinterpreters at the Staten Island Children's Museumand lives in West Village.

Justus Mont Fennel continues enjoying his work asproduction assistant at WBZ radio in Boston.

Jim Fleming works in the trust dept. for Baybanksand lives in Woburn, MA while he finishes up his M BAat Bentley.

Peter Foley is a researcher in Reebok's R&Ddepartment, where he specializes in creating biome-chanically advanced couch potato shoes.

Kathleen Feeney lived in NYC for the past threeyears, working at the National Audubon Society. Sherecently changed jobs, and is now employed at a small

Frederick H. Sykes. first president o~ the College

Call your friends and makeplans now to be in New Londonfor Reunion, May 29-31, 1987

public relations firm which counsels non-profitorganizations.

Mark Foushee received his MBA from FuquaSchool of Business at Duke. He is now at Mutual LifeInsurance Co. of N.Y., a senior estate investment ana-lyst. He and wife Sue live in Mamaroneck.

Kristen Frascarelli received her MA in gifted andtalented education from UConn in 1984. She is nowemployed by the Dept. of Defense for Dependents'Schools. Her teaching assignment is in Bamberg, WestGermany, so she has had the opportunity to travelextensively.

Mark Gershman finds that Glacier Bay, AK mucbdifferent from New London. He "seeks news of theNecromancer and wishes Angelo well among the Brits."

Sally Blinken Grafslein is a research project directorand account executive on Perry Ellis Apparell Fra-grance. She just saw Lucia Carpinteri, Jane Wickstromand Glenn Harris.

Betsey Greenberg has been an assistant director andbookkeeper at the Larry Gagosian Gallery since May.

Jim Hardy now works for Poloj Ralph Lauren inNY. "It's great, I needed a changer" He and MikeMombello are still sharing an apartment.

Julia Hewitt is teaching at the Cabot School in Mid-dlesex, VT. She and husband Phil Smith work slowlyon the restoration of an 1860 farmhouse they bought.While not working on their own land, they help withfarming up the road. They love the lifestyle.

Gigi Hobbs is moving to the Seattle area.Laura Honma lives and works in Boston at Whee-

lock College on a day care training program and on aspecial education grant focused on home/school rela-tions. She wants Sara's address.

Eric Jacobson has entered his second year of themaster's in international business program at the U. ofS'C. He recently departed on a six-month internship atCommerzbank AG, in frankfurt, Germany.

Mark Jordan is curator of education at the LutzChildren's Museum in Manchester, CT. After gradua-tion, he spent six months in DC then more than twoyears at Old Sturbridge Village.

David Kaster, after spending a year in L.A., was lastseen selling precious gemstones at the Boston-basedjewelry firm of Daniel Seidler and Sons.

Mary Keating purchased a home in Amherst, NYand is a management trainee at Marine Midland Bank.She will return to school in January to work on herMBA, at U. of Buffalo.

Judith Krigman just finished teaching an art historysurvey course at Chesterfield-Marlboro Technical Col-lege in Cherdco, SC. Teaching art history without slideswas an experience she will not forget. .

Colette Lottor lives in Eugene, OR, works at anelementary school, and with severely retarded adults ina group home. She is also doing crisis counseling at aclinic, as well as Central American solidarity work. Shespent last summer traveling in AK.

Charles O'Leary received his degree from the Dickin-son School of Law on May 31.

Sara Townsend lives in Anchorage, AK working as aproduction coordinator for an ad agency and freelancewriting. She'd love to know ifany CC grads are out herway.Correspondents: Karen Neilson Rae, 9 Village Rock

Lane. Apt. #8, Natick, MA 01760; Erica Van BrimerGoldfarb, 139 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102

8 5 Correspondents: Kathleen A. Boyd, 4302Saul Rd., Kensington, M D 20895; Anne-Marie Parsons, 531 Burnham St., E. Han-

ford, CT06I08

GRADAlice Hall Petry, M.A. '76,has just returned from fivemonths as a Fulbright lec-

turer in American literature at the Federal University ofParana in Curitiba, Brazil. She received her Ph.D. inEnglish from Brown University in'1979.Correspondent: Eleanor B. Read, 4 Skiff Lane,

Masons Island, Mystic, CT06355

Laurels: A Crowning GiftIn ancient Greece, laurel leaves crowned heroes, victorious athletes,statesmen, philosophers and others who had achieved distinction. Intime, laurel came to symbolize academic achievement, graduationespecially, and beyond this the transition from the sheltered groves ofacademe to the outside world. These ideas find symbolic expression inthe long-standing tradition of the Laurel Chain procession at Connecti-cut College graduation ceremonies.

It was altogether fitting that "Laurels"should be the name of the College's first giftclub, and that a laurel pin be the symbol ofdistinguished giving La the College. Foundedin 1964, Laurels recognizes alumni whodonate gifts ranging from $1,000 to $4,999.The challenge of designing the Laurels pin fell to Mary Strayer

Mcf-owan '65. "Having participated in the Laurel Chain in my junioryear, I knew that the laurel summons up many fond memories forConnecticut alumni," she says. "I also liked laurel leaves because they area symbol of something alive and growing." The design she created is ele-gant in its simplicity. "I wanted something that an alum would enjoywearing," she explains, "and something that could be worn by both menand women."The creation of Laurels was a great step forward in the development of

the Alumni Annual Giving Program (AAGP), which was established in1938. Laurels was an immediate success and prompted the creation ofadditional gift clubs-Crest Circle in 1975, President's Associates in 1978,and Thames Society in 1982-and with these, the steady growth ofannual giving. The contribution Laurels makes each year to the AAGPtotal continues to climb. In 1985-86 it reached $484,665, up from $481,357the previous year. Chairman of Alumni Laurels is Helene Zimmer Loew'57. She is also a Connecticut trustee.Become a Laurels donor! Wear the elegant pin signifying distin-

guished support of your alma mater. Join the steadily growing numberof alumni who are responding to Connecticut's needs with increasedgiving.

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