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Volume 90 Issue 1 Winter 2001 Article 11
January 2001
Alumni at Large Alumni at Large
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Bibby Levine Alfond ' 38
A letter to the editor of the Lawrence, Mass., Engle-Tribune paid tribute to Donald Freeman '26's l ife and long teaching career in the public schools ofHaverhi l l , Mass. The writer praised Freeman's "amazing 44 years" as a high school English teacher, principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools and also cited his numerous civic endeavors ·:· The lion's share of the attention paid to the inaugural class of the Maine Sports Legends Hall of Honor went to the team of Bibby Levine Alfond '38 and her husband, Harold Al fond H '80, whose phil
anthropic contributions to sports in Maine are unsurpassed. Maine Sports Legends was conceived by a partnership of people to raise money for scholarships given through the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
Deaths: Theodore G. Smart '27, October 6, 2000, in Norway, Maine, at 95 ·:· Kenneth H. Mansfield '3 1 , August 2 5 , 2000, in Orange City, Fla., at 91 ·:· Mary Dignam Murphy '3 1 , September 2 7 , 2000, in Wilmington, Del . , at 9 1 ·:· Evelyn Haycock Quinton '3 1 , September 6, 2 000, in Lewiston, Maine, at 90 ·:· Ed\vin E. Getchell '34, September 28 , 2000, in Portland, Maine, at 87 ·:· Frederic B. Champlin '3 5 , December 9, 1 998, in Iredell, N.C., at 90 ·:· John R. Turbyne ' 35 , Iovember 5, 2000, in Waterville, Maine, at 87 ·:· William A. EIJingwood Jr. '36, June 1 9, 1 999, in Maine, at 85 ·:· Milton M. Gilson '36, September 1 7 , 2000, in \Vest Roxbury, Mass., at 86 ·:· Sara J . Cowan '37, October 20, 2000, in Portland, Maine, at 85 ·:· David S. Eaton '37, October 3, 2000, in Lawrence, Mass., at 85 .;. Anna Stobie Rogerson '38, September 1 4, 2000, in Portland, Maine, at 8 3 .
'20Sf30S Responding to our request for news of the Class of 1 93 8 , Bob Anthony reports that the I 0th edition of h i s l'v lmwge111ent Co11trol Syste111s (with Vijay Govindarajan) has just been published.
42 For more than 10 years Sue Rose Bessey and her husband, Earle, enjoyed the thrill and companionship of skiing with a group of friends a couple of weeks each winter in a number of European countries, including France, Switzerland, I taly and Austria. The group was known as "the \ Vashingtonians" and included Colby alumni Tee and Anita Pooler Laliberte, i\ I uriel and Bob Tonge '49, Karl '54 andJane J\ [ i llett Dornish '5 5 and Paul and Germaine J\ Iichaud Orloff ' 5 5 . Once this became i m possible for Earle and Sue to do physically they looked for an a lternative to spending the winter i n snow country. Their solution has been a small town in Arizona, Green Valley, which is located about 2 6 miles south of Tucson and about 2 5 mi les north of the
Mexican border at Nogales. Green Valley has a large number of seniors avoiding a harsher winter climate . N l a n y recrea t i o n a l centers, go l f courses a n d interesting study courses for mental stimulation are big drawing cards. A multimde of i nteresting day trips add to i ts a l lure. (Sue and Earle also enjoy seeing \Vatervi l le's Bob andJudy Kany, who have a lovely home in Saddle B rook in the northern Tucson area . ) To top it all off, their grandson from Simsbury, Conn. , became so enchanted witl1 the desert and mountains of the Southwest that he is currently enrol led as a freshman at tl1e University of Arizona in Tucson. From December 29 through Apri l l 3 their address wi l l be 1 5 29 B e l fry Court, G reen \'a l l ey , Z 856 1 +, phone number 520-399-2748. If you are in the area, give them a cal l . . . . John Stevens \\Tites from San D iego that he anended the P-38 reunion in Palm Springs at the end of i\ l ar. John planned to attend the Eighth AF group reunion in Dayton at the end of September and was looking forward to another such re-
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u n ion (but not the cold weather) in 'orwich, England, i n l\'o\·ember.
The town of Norwich is rebui lding tl1e city'scentral l ibrary, which burned down in 1 994 withJohn's Second Air Division's memorial in it. The reunion purpose is to re-dedicate their memorial .
44 Ralph Braudy summers in Hyannis, J\ 1ass., and then returns to Los Angeles for the winter. In tl1e class news questionnaire, alumni were asked to share a favorite memory of Colby's former presidents, faculty or staff, and Ralph rem i n isces about dati n g Presi d e n t B i x l e r 's d a u g h t e r Harriet. H e also writes about pushing a sled with a kegofbeer concealed by a blan ket from tl1e Tau Deir house to the Phi Deir house. He says his favorites were " Ecky with B recky, English l i twitl1 Chappie, h i story with \Vi lkie and of course, Pop Newman . "
45 O n loan last summer from the Colby College M useum of Art, vVi l l i a m Merritt Chase's painting To111ki11s Pm·k, Brookly11- 1 887 was in a special exhibi tion at tl1e B rooklyn M useum of Art. It was a real kick f or me when I came upon it there. o doubt about it, it was the biggest and best i n the show, which was cal led ,Uodem rl111ericm1 Ln11dscapes ( 1 886-1 890). It feamred scenes of Brooklyn and Manhattan parks and harbors . . . . Rae Gale Backer '++ and Morty had a special trip to Florida in June to attend tl1e graduation at which their son J immy, a teacher in Israel , received his doctorate . . . . "Trip cancel led by a broken jaw" is Muriel Marker Gould's headline for her report on their needless-to-say cancel led Norway cruise i n August. J\ luriel sustained tl1e in jury in July in a fa l l in her garden i n Florence, I tal)', where she lives eight or nine monms each year. As I write tl1is in September I can tell you fi rsthand (since she is at present i n Tew York) that she handled her wired jaws unbelievably well and is now pretty nearly okay again . . . . So what 's going on w i t h y o u ' l\'oth i n g so d rastic, I hope. P l ease don't whiz by the quest ionn a i re i n th is i ssue of Colby-just rake a sec to dea l with i t , okay'
-.\'nomi Collett Pngnnelli
46 Another award for P h i l i p Boyne, D.,\ l . D. , :\ L S . , D . S c . ! In June, Phi l was named Faculty ,\ !ember of the Year at the College of Dentistry, Loma L i nda Uni\·ersity. Though he's
1940s Correspondents
1940 Ernest C. Marriner Jr . RR # 1 , Box 1815-P North Monmouth, ME 04265 207-933-2401 [email protected]
1941 Bonnie Roberts Hathaway 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C Leominster, MA 01453 978-343-4259 classnews1941@alum .colby.edu
1942 1943 1944 c/o Meg Bernier Col by Col lege A lumni Office Waterv i l le , ME 04901 207-872-3185 classnews1942@alum .colby.edu [email protected] [email protected]
1945 Naomi Col lett Paganel l i 2 Horatio Street #5J New York, NY 10014-1608 212-929-5277 [email protected]
1946 Anne Lawrence Bondy 7 7 1 Soundview Drive Mamaroneck, NY 10543 914-698-1238 [email protected]
1947 Mary " Li z " H a l l Fitch 4 Canal Park #712 Cambridge, MA 02141 617-494-4882 fax: 6 17-494-4882 classnews194 [email protected]
1948 David and Dorothy Marson 4 1 Woods End Road Dedham, MA 02026 781-329-3970 fax: 6 1 7-329-6518 classnews1948@alum .colby.edu
1949 Anne Hagar Eustis P.O. Box 594 Princeton, MA 01541-0594 978-464-5513 fax: 978-464-2038 [email protected]
professor emerims, Phi l is sti l l acti\'e in the department of oral and maxi llofacial surgery, where h e has been since 1 97 . Before mat h e was dean at the niversit:y of Texas School of Dentistrr after faculty time at UCLA. He had retired from the l\'avy with the rank of captain after 20 years of
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sen-ice, during w hich he \\·as in\'olved with craniofacial research in Bethesda, :\Id . , and \'iemam. Phi l h a a note\\·orthy CY, and we congratulate h i m on h is long a n d impressi,·e career . . . . Ruth Lewin E merson has been traveling in a motor home to Arizona, :\ I i souri, \\'i con in and other less distant place \\-i th her hu band and dog. They are nO\\' sel l ing the motor home, she sa�·s, "because we ha\'e been there and done that!" They also \\·ere in Alaska but with a rented motor home . . . . Gene and I had a man·elous trip i n J une through can yons a n d I ndian country o f t h e South-
west \\·i th daughter El izabeth and her fami l y . \\'e were four adults, three c h i ldren, two car and wallcie talkies . Great s ights , great company, great experiences, great way to travel and l ea rn . . . . The inauguration of Will iam D . Adams as Colby's 1 9th president took p lace on October 2 1 . As you read this , h e wil l have been president for a while but not too long for us to add our welcome and to offer good wi hes for a h appy and productive tenure . . . . Do put Reunion 200 1 on your ca lendars . I h ope to see you a l l there . ,\ le a n \\· h i l e , send n e w s ! \Vi t h o u t y o u ,
charles Da l lam County is s tuck in the fa r corner of the Texas Pa nhandle,
northwest of Amari l lo . On a map the a rea is a l l r ight angles-the New
Mexico and O klahoma state l i nes, the boundary between Central and
Mounta i n t ime zones-but i n real ity the landscape is vast and f lat and
bound less. " In the winter, at n ightti me, you can see the reflection of
towns that a re th i rty or forty mi les away," says Charles Card '40, a
retired Dal lam Cou nty cattle rancher.
Card and h is wife, M a ry, owned and operated a 4,000-acre ra nch.
For the most part , the Cards did the work themselves,
herd ing cows and d riving tractors, with Mary Card assuming
the post of "self-declared bovine obstetricia n . " "You'd try to
get somebody to help you but we were th i rty-two m i les from
the nearest town , " Charles Card sai d . "You don't get many
people begging for the opportun i ty to work that fa r away
from a nyth ing."
The Cards' piece of the Texas Panhandle was a
long way from a town , and 1t was a long, long way
from the town of Farmi ngton, Maine, where
Cha rles Card grew u p. He remem bers the $50
bounty paid for a dead bear and the one-la ne road
that led to his father's ca m p at the base of what was
then a remote, undeveloped mountain-Sugarloaf.
Card earned a tea c h i ng d egree at the U n 1ve rs1ty of
M a i n e a Farmi ngton a n d then decided he wanted to
learn more H e was he lped by a Colby a l u m n us , Ted
Hodgkins '25. a n d by others. " T h e person I have
great fee l i ngs o affect ion for 1s Dean [ Ernest]
M a rr i n e r , " Card s a i d . " He's the one who told me
he d 1 d n ' h i n k I was s m a r enough to get
t h rough Colby, b u he was gonna give me a
c h a nce a nyway."
A ter earning his Col by degree. Card went
on o each in Liberty, Ma ine , for a yea r . Then
the war broke ou and Card served w1 h a u n i
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t h e re ' s n o col u m n 1 Try my e - m a i l (classnews l 9.+6@alum .co1by. edu) .
-A1111e Lawrence Bondy
4 J Dorothy Cleaves Jordan and her husband, Clay, have been doing so much travel ing that she says they have caught up with June Chipman Coalson. Last fa l l , after hearing raves from Chip, they took the Norwegian Fjords trip up the coast and back on a worlcing ship. In April they cruised the Sociery Is lands, tarting in Tahit i and \risiting several i lands l ike Bora Bora and ,\1oora. They were off again in November, this time to Af-
, An Old Cowhand
rica, where they were to go on a w i l d l i fe s a fa r i , t h e n fly to t h e Seyche l l e s I l a n ds for a five-day cruise. From there they were to fly to Luxor, Egypt, for three clays. She adds, " Hey, Chip, bet you haven't been there 1 " Last spring she met author Gerry Boyle '78 a t a book signing. She says she has enjoyed his latest books . . . . Marilyn H u bert always has news of Colbyites. For those of you who are sold on Fresh Samantha, she wonder if you knew that M ichael Carter, one of the developers, is a Colby grad ( 1 980) and that the drink i s named after one of his nieces.
of Army com bat engineers for three years, mostly i n North Africa a nd
Ita ly. H is memories include bu i ld ing bridges in Italy as it snowed or
rained for 32 straight days. " Fortunately we survived the wa r but it was
a long t rip , " Card sa id .
Whi le overseas, he corresponded with a you ng woman he'd met in
Little Rock, Ark . When Card was d ischarged , the woman was in
Pen nsylva n ia . Card appl ied to the U n iversity of Pittsburgh, was
accepted (he thought) and enrol led. He later lea rned he'd actual ly
been rejected because there was a two-year wa it ing l ist for a ppl i
cants. " After a bout th ree months in school , I got a n invitation to
ta l k with the dean of students , " Card reca l led . " H e wanted to
know how I got in there to begin with . "
But Card stayed , received h i s master's degree i n
h istory a n d went on t o become a civi l ian tra i n ing supervi-
sor for the Air Force at Amari l lo Air Force Base. After 16
years Card ret i red , and he and Mary (the woman from
Litt le Rock) stayed home a nd worked the ra nch . They
kept more than 200 head of beef cattle and grew much
of their feed . Card sa id he eventua l ly t i red of the
isolation : "We had a real n ice home out there, but after
a wh i le you get k ind of lonesome . "
I n 1 9 7 6 t h e Cards sold out. They bought a cotton
fa rm near Abi lene as an i nvestment a nd moved into
Amari l lo . I n stead of chasing cows, they now de l iver Meals on Wheels, though Card joked that he l i kes to sign u p for
del iveries on Mondays when the golf cou rse is closed .
Card sa id he th inks th i ngs worked out wel l in the
years s ince h is boyhood i n Farmi ngton, Ma ine. He and
Mary have been married 53 years and both turned 85
this yea r . But even after 47 years in Texas, Card is
part Mainer . "I sti l l reta in that Ma ine-on ian accent ,"
Card said 1n Amari l lo . "At the L ions Club they never
let me forget i t . "
-Gerry Boyle '78
\ larilyn also has been fo l lowing Peter Hart '64 with his Political Focus Group and Doris Kearns Goodwin '64, whom everyone must know through her books and TV appearances . . . . Beverly Benner Cassara and Ernest recently returned from Alaska, where they visited their son and had an adventurous weekend flying90 miles into the interior ofDenali National Park. She was really impressed by the thousands of peaks in the Alaska Range, many like McKinley, snow covered year round . . . . As ] write, John and I have just returned from a week in Chicago and will leave for a week in New York City-both times spending most of our time in museums. In October we planned a walking tour in Provence . . . . Please send me news for the next issue of Colby. \!\That have you been up to, what experiences have you enjoyed, and what may your future plans include? And how about hearing from some of you men?
-J\fary "Lie:,'' Hall Fitch
48 Elizabeth Day B ulger's husband, Derek, is a retired Episcopal clergyman. Their family consists of two sons and their wives plus one granddaughter and a grandson born on July 4, l 999. She met her husband while a student at Colby and worked at the College in the "dim past. " Her e-mail address i s dbugler@blaze netme.com . . . . Fran ( Peetzie '49) and Jack Kimpel relocated to Enola, Pa., after half a century as Hoosiers. J ack ([email protected]) wrote to keep us up to date on C huck Sanborn, who lives in Baltimore. They spent a day togetlier at an Orioles game, walking from die city market to the inner harbor and then on to Camden Yards. Chuck a l so stays in touch with C harlie Cousins . . . . Peg Clark Atkins reports from her summer home in Onset, Mass., that her family consists of s ix ch i ldren and five inlaws plus nine grandch i ldren. She and H a rold celebrated their S Oth <l ll n i versary in June , and Bertha G ra v e s N o l l m a n a n d H a t t i e V.'h ite H a nnige n attended a long with 1 3 0 others as Peg and H a ro ld renewed the i r vows a t the church in M i ddleboro where they were married. Peg wrote that she rece ived a l etter from J\l l a ri a n n a Nutter Wyer, who reported that Shirley Parks had moved from a rest home in \Vakefield to the i\Ie lrose Care Center. She also said that she spoke with Kay Brine and was plan-
Gene Hunter '48
Counterpoint, Robert DeCormier '4 3 's new nine-member a cappella chamber chorus, made its debut on Labor Day weekend in Vermont. During his long career in music, DeCormier has worked with Harry Belafonte and with Peter, Paul and Mary and has cut a number of albums. H i s television credits include a BBC series of folks songs, an Emmy Award-winning Belafonte special and several Public B roadcasti ng System concerts -:· Gene Hunter '48 was inducted into the Maine Sports Legends Hall ofHonor at a ceremony in Waten�lle. A four-year
starter on Colby's baseball team and a member of the Maine Baseball Hall ofFame, the long-time high school baseball and basketball coach and athletic director concluded his distinguished career at South Portland High School.
Deaths: Halsey A. Frederick Jr. '40, August 24, 2000, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., at 84 ·:· Rowena Buzzell Funston '4 1 , September 6, 2000, in Vancouver, \Vash., at 80 ·:· Weston MacRae '42, August 9, 2000, in Winter Haven, Fla., at 79 ·:· Mary Foster Kimball '43 , September 29, 2000, in Concord, N.H., at 80 ·:· Wendell F. Phillips '44, July 2, 2000, in Moorestown, I .] ., at 79 ·:· William H. Tobey '44, October 1 , 2000, in Brunswick, Maine, at 77 .;. Richard R. Fellows '45, April 25 , 2000, in South Hamilton, Mass., at 78 .;. Helen Small Martino '45, October 1 5 , 2000, in Portland, Maine, at 77 ·=· Eldridge P. Wallace '47, September 8, 2000, in Lewiston, Maine, at 74.
ning to visit Hazel Huckins Merrill after Labor Day. Peg received a Volunteer of the Year Award from the General Federation of \!Vomen's Clubs of Massachusetts . . . . Evie H elfant Malkin had a family reunion at Acadia National Park in June attended by 20 people. She continues oncology social work at Mass General but with shorter hours than in the past. She recently met Bob '46 and Harriet Glashow Singer '46 in Providence . . . . Kay "Veisma n Jaffe (mjaffe2 7@aol .com) said that her major effort these days concerned getting out die vote for the November 7 elections and being certain that the issues were understood. She was also excited about her "coming greatgrandmotlierhood" (which may be a bit presumptuous since her granddaughter's wedding was planned for October 2 000!). She recently heard from Hanna Levine Schussheim and Phyllis O'Connell Murray. Both Kay and husband ,\ l ike are wel l . . . . Phil Shulman continues to work as a volunteer for The International Diplomacr Council, which plans itineraries for foreign v is i tors to San Francisco who are sponsored by the State Department tlirough our embassies al l over the world. Due to the people he has met in his role he has
had reciprocal visits to Africa and the ,\ l iddle East. Recently he was elected a Fellow of tlie Royal Geographical Society in London, an honor stemming from his interest in 1 9th-century British explorers in East and Central Africa and his ''is its to a dozen Islamic countries . . . . David C hoate e-mailed about a safari in Kenya and Tanzania, saying, "It was a magnificent experience1 Almost as good as a college education." In October he and his wife were going to China for the second time, planning to go up the Yangtze River before i t is dammed up, then doing some "minor trekking" in Tibet before relaxing in Bal i and renirning home by Thanksgiving. They go to N"ew York frequently to visit their granddaughter, 4. Other than that they play golf and tennis a little and "rearrange our picnires." . . . A wonderful article in the fal l 2000 issue of the Colby Heritage Club publication " Planning .\ latters" dealt with tlie establishment of the H arriet S. and George C. Wiswell Jr . [ '50) Chair in American Constitutional Law. The article traced the \\'iswells' Colby h i tory and their business careers. It also cited the motivating factors for thei r gi ft and their interests and values that caused them to select American constitutional law. I t
further states that "tlie individuals that truly wi l l benefit the most from tliis planned gift are the future students of Colby." . . . Marguerite Jack Robinson wrote that she and her husband, Roger, and her sister, Adelaide Jack i\lcGorri l l '46, often go t0 the Salmon Falls, Maine, area. They recently ''isited the home of Kate Douglas \Viggi n with the Buxton Hollis Historical Society. Marguerite also wrote that her 45th wedding anniversary would be spent at Boothbay Harbor and Capitol Island . . . . A year ago Elaine Browning Townsley and her partner sold their business, Rails and Crafts Inc., to a hobby shop in Lebanon, N.l I . , but she works two days a week in the new store. And she sti l l collects toy trains ( Lionel and American Flyer). In October Elaine and her sister were to leave for a 1 0-day trip in I reland to visit their I rish family. She says that she sees Hazel H uckins Merri l l every so often . . . . ,\ l issing from this column is our annual report on visiting Betty and Marvin Joslow in i\ Ienemsha on ,\ lartha's Vineyard. This was a very marginal summer for sailing as either the weather, the current or our schedule prevented us from that annual ''isit. After Labor Day Dorothy was off to Israel for a few weeks, and then we attended the inauguration of President \Vi l l iam D. Adams at Colby before heading to our house in Jupiter, Fla. , in early
Tovember. \ \'e planned to return north for Than ksgiving and then spend the rest of tlie winter in Florida. In J anuary 2 0 0 1 we will celebrate our SOth wedding anniversary . . . . On a sad note, we recently learned of the death of George M . Kren. George was a professor of h istory at Kansas State University for decades before he retired last ,\ lay. He was born in Linz, Austria, which was also H itler's childhood home. George and his sister were shipped to England when George was 1 2 , but the family evennia l ly was reunited in the United States. \\'hen he became old enough he enlisted in the Army and served in a Europe-based i n fantry un i t in \\'oriel \\'ar 1 1 . H e was a widely publ ished historical writer and wrote and co-wrote books that dealt with H itler and the Holocaust. He also wrote books on photography and personal computing.
-David and Doroth)' ,\ /arson
49 How about helping me out with some news for the next issue of Colby'
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You a l l must be doing something out there . . . . Virginia You n g Ellis reports t h a t she and J ea n 1aloof
aman and their husbands \'i s i ted 1ary H elen Wilson Miller and her
husband at their new home i n Ottawa, Ont. , Canada. They had a wonderful mini-reunion and toured many points of i n terest in the city. This was their second reunion-the ,\ I i l l ers \•isited J in ny and Jean in Florida last \\'inter.Jinnp,;nters i n Palmeno and Jean in Palm City . . . . This ummer I went on a 3 2 -day \-iking R\- tour to the Canadian ,\laritimes. \Ve went as far east as the road goe in l\"orth America-Red Bay, Labrador. \Ve were in L'Anse aux ,\1eadows, Newfoundland, when the repl ica of Lief Ericson's h ip , bui lt and captained by a di rect de cendant, fin ished i ts journey from I celand. I was fascinated by the h istory and the geology of :-;ewfoundland and Labradoran eye opener on both counts. \Ve fin i hed the tour on Prince Edward I land, my favorite Canadian province. And I ee 'lart h a Loughman
hepard occa ionally as I plan to move to the ame community in Top ham, ,\Iaine, come spri ng 200 1 . I ' m looking forward to being her neigh bor. . . . \\'e l l , I hope to hear from you all oon . I ' m sure you don't " an t me to monopolize this column \\ i th my new e\·ery month1
-r/1111e Hngnr Eustis
50 Big news i n Dudie J ennings ,\Ialey's family. Daughter Ann was accepted and has ju t begun medical 5chool at Jeffer on ,\ ledical College 111 Phi ladelphia. :-;ow, you a l l know Colby ha been a family affair with the Jenni ng5es. o unle s )'OU want me to regale you \\ ith tales of our large, e\lended family, let me hear from you. You can use the form in Co/b\ magaz111e or e-mail me (class nc\\ ., 1 9 - o@alum .colb) .edu). In an) e' cnt, J'> ) our ne" class corre pondent. I " i l l do Ill) part tO locate and t,1JJ.. " nh cla.,.,matc'>, parucularl) those " ho " ere not '>ecn or heard from at our ' Cf) '>Uccc.,.,fuJ 50th celebration la tJune . . . . It woJ.. '>Omc real leuthing ( i 1hr.1 1') microfiche) to locate Ruth and mie a rpenter b) phone 111 \ \ e,tl.ike \ ii Lige, Cal if. Er111c has JU'>t renred. and he and Ruth plan co do '>ome tra\ cl 1 11g once he I'> ful l� n:cm ered from recent, '>Ucce.,.,ful h.1<.:J.. .. urger') . I he� ha' c three ch1ldn:n and h,1, e JU'>t celebrated the lnnh of their f ourth gramkh1ld . . . . I trac:J..cd dm' n Ra) B racken and learned th,H
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Among the inductees in the i naugural class
of the Maine Sports Legends Hall of Honor
was Ted Shiro ' 5 1 , former Watervil le High
School and Colby basketball and basebal l
tandout. The one-time Boston Celtics pro -pect is a member of the Maine Ba eball Hall of Fame.
Ted Shiro ' 51
Denths: William M. \.\Tilson '50, August 1 9, 2000, in Boston, Mass., at
73 ·:· Jean Brewer Bridge '52 , August 1 8, 2000, in Orlando, Fla., at 0 .;. Priscilla Chamberlin Kraut '56, April 1 9, 2000, in Wilmington,
Del., at 65 ·:· James Russell Wiggins H '54, November 1 9, 2000, 111
Brookl in, Maine, at 96.
upon graduation from Col by he trained as an umpire and worked four years i n the minor leagues before making his career with Liberty i\ Iurual Life I nsurance Company. He has an interesting hobby-woodcarving. Ray uses basswood to carve, among other things, birds and decoys as well as busts of Civil War heroes for his son, who is a Civil vVar buff. . . . I wish I had space here to include more of Ch arlotte Cowan Sutherland's twopage e-mail deta i l ing special memories of Colby. It real ly belonged in our 50th reunion book. She also described great summer vacation with their three kids, camping (and having a bear lean on their tent while they were i n it1), climbing to Rocky i\ Iountain peaks, air boating on the Everglades and visiting historical sites a l l O\'er th is country . . . . Among our world traveler are Richard and Mary "Skip"Jordan Megargee, who spent a month this past summer visiting England, \\'ales and I reland. They were planning a fal l trip to Italy, which " as to include Rome and Tuscany as " el l as :'\a pies, where Richard was to be a guest lecrurer at the :'\aval \\'ar College . . . . Kenn and Susi Go ldey
lorrison traveled to Oberamergau, Germany, \\ ith a group of their friends ro ee the Pa sion Play, " hich has been held there e\'el')· I 0 year for the pa'>t 3 60 � ears. Thi pectacular sixhour e' ent (\\ ith one long intermis'>!On) ha'> a ca tof:?,000 and incredibly beaut1ful choral mu. 1c. Those of u5 " ho .. ang the " \ l essiah" at Colb) " ould ha\ e lo\ ed that. . . . Re\ .
hades L. mithJ r. ran-but i<hta Republican bid for repre'>entatl\ e to the Rhode J .,Jand C .cneral h">emhl� from the Pro, 1<lence fifth d1>tnu.
I n the process of campaigning he s l ipped on a sidewalk, severely breaking his left arm. Nevertheless he writes, "I have no regrets. I met a lot of interesting people and had an enjoyable time. But at age 74, this is probably my first and last hurrah ."
-Alice Jennings Cnstelli
5 1 The only news I have for this i s s u e i s from S h i rl e y R a y n o r I ngraham, Clearwater, Fla. And that i s interesting news. The ownership of the smal l child-care center of which Shirley was secretary on the board of di rectors was rurned over to a l a rger organization on the very night of her move to a retirement apartment. Shirley was immediately elected secretary of the Regency Oaks Chapter 1 5 1 of Florida Life Care Residents Association. She will be traveling to Tallahassee to meet with the legislarure to maintain input on pending bills regarding medical needs of the elderly and mandated repackaging of prescription drugs for seniors in nursing homes . . . . H aving admined my fai lure in Computer I 0 I despite the help from classmate H enry Fales, I am trying once again to be just a l i ttle bit modern with my new l i ttle Mail Bug, which does just e-ma i l . Ty address is classnews 1 95 I @alum.colby. edu. \\'rite to me. I f I keep my wits about me and push the right keys and buttons I might even get an answer back to you. Try me. f need news.
-Barbara Jefferson Hln/ker
52 \\'ith no class news coming my " a> of late, l picked up the phone and called John Baum, a roommate no" Ji, ing in \ \'ale5. \\'e had not ral J..c<l or corresponded in all the years
since 1 95 2 . I was aware that John, a lthough a business administration major at Col by, had gone on to take a bachelor of music degree from the Tew England Conservatory. I was
curious as to how that had come about. John tol d me that fo l lowing our graduation exercises he had introduced his father to Roney Wil l iams ' 3 5 . Roney had said, "I understand John will be joining your business." "That's true," Mr. Baum responded. "A pity," said Roney. As i t rurned out, Roney was prophetic. John lasted a year i n the family business before deciding to explore an interest i n music that had developed late i n h is col lege career. " But, John," sa id I , " I didn't know you played an instrument." "I didn't," h e said. "I took up the flute at the conservatory." Following the conservatory, John moved to Colorado, where he taught music. \VhiJe there he decided to broaden his knowledge i n the education profession, and he acquired an M.A. at the University of Colorado. Then it was on to California, where he earned a doctor of education degree at Stanford. He was granted a Fulbright scholarship and for two years went off to Peru, where he srudied and made recommendations on that country's school system. \iVhile there he earned a second doctorate from the 111versity of Cuzco. Through this assignmentand the publishingofhis doctoral dissertation, John came to the attention of Columbia University, under whose auspices he rerurned to Peru for about seven years as an education consultant. This was fol lowed by nvo years as a consultant to the governor of Puerto Rico. Back on the U.S. mainland,John decided as a change of pace to enroll in a pottery class in Georgia, where he developed the abil ity to throw and decorate a marketable pot. He backpacked across Europe, got to Jerusalem and there, without any advice from Roney VVi l l iams, opened a pottery studio. This proved to be a short- lived venrure, but a migration to t h e . K . a n d u l t imate ly t h e Pembrokeshire area of\t\Tales was more successful . There John opened another pottery srudio in a l ittle-used building on the estate where he was living. Five years later, while on a skiing vacation in the lps, John discovered this really neat Swiss ski instructor. \t\Thether Ingrid was attracted by John's well-executed stem christies or his mellow flute f did not inquire, but the year 2000 marks their 2 5th wedding anniversary. They have a
daug·hter and two sons aged 1 7 , 20 and 1 3 . Joh n is now retired. The pottery business is a thing of the past.John and Ingrid continue to keep several hives of bees and travel much, and assuming fai r winds and tides,John can be found on t h e i r s loop sa i l i n g a long the Pembrokeshire coast, perhaps one of the world's most delightful sai l ing areas-second only, of course, to the coast of Down East Maine.
-Pnul 1' 1. Aldrich
53 David Lavin l ives in New York City and is a professor of sociology at the City University of New York, where he mainly does research and writes books and articles about higher education and social inequal ity. David has three daughters, all of whom live in and around I . Y.C. Recently he remarried, to an academic who is based in Boston. I t's a commuting marriage that has both an upside and a downside. He enjoys his summer place out i n Bridgehampton, Long Island, she has a place on the Cape, and they split time between the two summer houses ("tough to take, huh?") . They do a lot of kayaki ng, h iki ng, concerts, etc. Another highl ight was the four months they spent in Austral ia , where h is wife taught at a university in western Austral ia . . . . My mai lbox is empty. I hope to hear from more of you 1
-Bnrbnrn Easterbrooks !Hailey
54 Jody Peary now l ives with her sign ificant other in Sarasota, Fla. She has retired as executive assistant to the producing artistic di rector of the Asolo Theatre there, where she met many i n teresting people. She now spends her t ime painting, reading, travel ing and just enjoying l i fe, and she sends an invitation to any classmates who happen to be in the area to give her a ca l l . . . . As you can see, we are short on '54 news for tl1is issue. Please help us provide more news for our class by sending in yours'
-Helen Cross Stabler
56 I hope you a l l have responded to tl1e letter from Bil l Haggett indicating that you are planning to join us in june for our big 45th reunion. Our two days at the Sebasco Harbor Resort should be great fun . I t is a del ightful place, right on die ba�', witl1 kayaks and canoes to rent. A group can rent a cottage, or couples can rent rooms in the l ighthouse . . . . Our class started with 2 1 9 freshmen, and 1 97 graduated, or 90 percent. (For com-
parison, the Class of 1 999 graduated 520, or 84 percent of those who entered, al though several more finish within two years.) \Ve have 16 members l i sted as " lost," and I hope some of you responded with information after getting the l ist. Ofour class, 1 2 0 have responded with cash gifts to the Col lege. This is a good percentage, but we can do better before June . . . . Our meeting inJ une at Hope Palmer BramhalJ's included nominations for our next set of class officers. You wi l l be asked to vote on same before the reun ion , where they w i l l be announced. I wi l l te l l you that Dave and Rosie Crouthamel Sortor have agreed to be Alumni Counci l representatives and that I have agreed to keep writing this column as no one has come forward asking for tl1e job! . . . Susan l\1il ler Hunt and I again traveled out to the Berkshires in July to take part in the week-long Berkshire Choral Festival . \Ve both plan to sing with tl1e Colby Reunion Chorus next J une . . . . Joyce Frazier Fraser goes striper fishing each summer as part of the annual Girls Shoal Trol l , sponsored by her local angler's club. H er son Barry is a commercial tuna fisherman in the fal l . Having read The Hungry Ocean by Li nda Greenlaw '83, I have great respect for a l l serious fishermen. If you haven't a lready, you owe it to yourself to read this book. \Ve are hoping that Linda wi l l agree to be one of the authors speaking at our reunion.
-Kl/thy ,UcConr111ghy Zambello
58 E-mail is quick and easy; take advantage of it if you don't want to use the questionnaire in the magazine . . . . Ann Willcox Loftin has been adjusting to a new l i fe since her husband died a year ago. She sti l l runs the family's small advertising special()' company and lives on an island in tl1e Charleston, S.C., harbor but also is fixing up the beach house for lots of family and friends to ''isit . Ann traveled to Connecticut in October to see her mom, who celebrated her 98th birthday in September. . . . Jim Bishop has had a fi lm script kicking around Holly-wood for 1 0 rears. TO\\' a big Hol lywood group has flashed the green l ight on his script, which centers on a \ \'oriel \\ 'ar I I hero who returns home and can't cope and becomes a guerri l la . Raise the glasses at Onie's. sa�·s Jim . . . . John Edes <llld his wife, \'alerie, now live in Boynton Beach, Fla . , but he is sti l l a registered representati,·e for
Phoenix and maintains an apartment and office in Providence, R . I . John has become very invoked in charitable work, specifica l ly with the Amos House, a home i n Providence for the homeless, and he was recently written up in an article in the Providence Joumfll for befriending a homeless man who had once been a high school basketball star.John and another man have become a min i-support system for this fe l low. \.\'hen asked what special memories he had of Col by's former presidents, John told about the t ime that he and several friends asked President B ixler i f they could watch the \ \'orld Series i11 color at his home, and President Bixler very generously invited the boys. John a lso has fond memories of Professor J i m Gi l lespie, w h o helped many of the students in their studies as well as t h e i r persona l s i t u a t i o n s . . . . Cynthia Gardner Bevin h a s ret i red a fter 20 years of teac h i n g h i story i n J ohnstown, Pa . C i n dy a n d h e r h usband , Douglas , recently h a d their th ird grandchi ld . Their daughter, Cici '85 , has become president of her class and has a son and a new daughter. This past J une the Bevinses' second home in Connecticut was nearly destroyed i n a storm . Two houses were featured on national television during the storm, and these houses belonged to Cindy and to her mother. Ci ndy's fami ly was very grateful to Robin HunterClutz, who helped get them back into their home and get their l ives back together . . . . In the summer of 1 999 Susan (Macomber '60) and Dick Vogt flew with their bicycles to Seattle and biked across the northern part of the United States to Ke nnebunk, M a i n e . They biked alone, camped out (some moteling), ate great quantities of calorie-laden food and completed the cross-country trip in about 90 days and totaled 4, 1 04 mi les' They averaged about 50 to 60 mi les a day and had a wonderful time exploring back roads and small towns. Susan wrote a daily journal, which can be seen on their \\'eb site (www.conknet.com/jrngt). The trip had been planned for l 0 �-ears, and they started training six da�·s a week in February 1 999 until they left in mid-June. I n ,\larch 1 999 ther sold their home of 30 years and mo,·ed in w i th their daughter temporar i ly . llpon returning from the b ike tour, the�· bought a motorcoach. Last February Dick dro,·e the motorcoach to Florida to see the Yankees' spring
1950s Correspondents
1950 Al ice Jenn ings Caste l l i 6 Salem Road Madison, CT 06443 203-245-7 725 [email protected]
1951 Barbara Jefferson Walker 3915 Cabot P lace # 1 6 Richmond , V A 23233 804-527-0726 classnews1951@alum .colby.edu
1952 Paul M. Aldrich P.O. Box 2 1 7 Bristol , M E 04539 20 7-563-8 7 44 [email protected]
1953 Barbara Easterbrooks Mai ley 80 Lincoln Avenue South H a m i lton, MA 01982 978-468-5 110 978-77 7-5630 x3310 [email protected]
1954 Helen Cross Stabler 206 Crestwood Drive North Syracuse, NY 13212 315-457-5272 [email protected]
1955 Ken Van Pragg P.O. Box 87 ( May-early Nov) Grafto n , NY 12082 518-279-1696 22 Gold Drive (Early Nov-May 6) Port St. Lucie, FL 34952 classnews1955@alum .colby.edu
1956 Kathleen Mcconaughy Zambello 135 lduna Lane Amherst, MA 01002 classnews1956@alum .colby.edu
1957 Guy and Eleanor Ewi ng Vigue 238 Sea Meadow Lane Yarmouth, M E 04096 207-846-4941 [email protected]
1958 Margaret Smith Henry 1304 Lake Shore Drive Massapequa Park, NY 1 1762 516-541-0790 classnews1958@alum .colby.edu
1959 Ann Segrave Lieber 7 Kingsland Court South Orange, NJ 07079 973-763-6 7 1 7 classnews1959@alum .colby.edu
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Alumni at Larg1950s-1 960s
tra in ing ( usan thought this was a guy thing and stayed home). This .\ larch Dick and Sue plan to take the motorcoach to Florida and bike from Key \\-est to Eastport, .\ laine, about 3 ,000 m iles. Their son ,,- i l l dri,·e the motorcoach to i'\ew H ampshire, and then the \Togt wi l l take off for the umrner and fal l in Canada and Alaska.
\\'ben not on the road, the \Togts enjoy their n ine grandchi ldren, produced by' their four chi ldren, and e\'eryone l ives in i'\ew Hampshire, the home ba e for these ,·agabonds . . . . And that i s i t for thi t ime. I stil l need to hear from more of rou. Take care.
-J I mgnret S111 it h H emy
59 Delighted to report that I 've started recei,-ing new from '59ers once again after a l engthy d ry spel l . . . . Carlene Price "'bite runs n i mal E p i odes in .\ [assachusetts (having turned a hobb)' into a strange but very real business) and recently finished a stint as motorcycle crew witl1 her daughter for the Boston-1'\ew York AI D Ride, a three-day affair requiring 600 volunteers. These rides ha,·e raised mi l l ions of dollars to fight this dread disea e . . . . Trish and like Farren \'isit their eight grandchi l dren a often a possible . .\ l ike is stil l holding the fort at .\ !anchester i -.H.) Ai rport '' h i le Tri h does hospice nur ing and consults at an assisted li' ingfaci l i�-. They see \Tera and Dick ,\lorrison regularly and a l o ha,·e seen Bill Nicholson, .\ lari lyn and Bob Greer '6 1 and Fran and Boyd ands . They even watched Bob uriemma's grandson play hockey
at :\'e" I l amp hire College . And the generation'> march on ! . . . Louis Leona has been named professor emeritu •. < >fh1<,tory at t. Bona,·enture C ni' er'>I� . Lou earned master' and doctoral degrees from Columbia Lni\t!r 1� Jnd retired in 1 99- . . . . Peru hao, been home to Cio,elle and Jim Pl unken for 3 - y e.irs. They ha\ e fi, e grandchi ldren, Jnd J im directs I F.. C, an m ero,eao, ' ero,ion ofSCO RE, founded b� Da' 1d Rockefel ler. I !e ' s n1rrend� wmng up a ne\1 JCll\ i� 1 11 recepti\ e toun-,m 111 Peru, o,o thoo,e of y ou " i th '' anderl uo,t, conract J 11n at plunk..:r r terra.com. pc and he'll -,ho\1 � ou the I nc.1-,' J 1 11 1 alo,o ha-, a home ' 1deo of rhe ' - 9 cla.,., n:un1on J\ a i l .1hle for 2 0 L . . , 1nclud111g po-,tage from Peru. . . Dr. Bob Youne h ,u l l •lLm e on the hoard of t. Jude Children\ Rewarch I l mpnal. I le ' I I -,oon go '' nh other ho.1rd member' w I ehanon to open a pcdiarnc canccr
46 B , T E
treatment program affiliated with St. J ude at American Unjversi ty ofBei rut Hospital . Then he' l l join his fanuly in Ind ia for a tour ,,;th his in-laws, who were missionaries in that country. Bob is a lso conference chair for The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation and is active with tl1e Rene .\ Ioawad Foundation, which supports l i teracy, health, agriculture and crafts programs . . . . Elaine and Paul Reichert are active in the U.S . Power Squadron, and both teach safeboatingclasses in Florida. Last spring their annual river cleanup group collected more than a ton of debri from the river. Paul also assisted in the second grade at a local school. In the meantime, he and Elaine were expecting their sixth grandchi ld . Paul reports that Al Wilbur is newly married and that Bob Keltie is goal judge for the Florida Panthers in the l\THL. . . . By the time you read this I wil l have participated once again in the .\ laking Strides Against Breast Cancer walk on October 1 5 . Ladies and lady-associates of the Class of 1 95 9, is it time for your mammography)
-A1111 Segrave Lieber
60 Eunice Bucholz Spooner is doing a wonderful job with our class \\'eb site. Direct quote from Eunie: "\\'hat a wonderfuHOth reunion1 The committee deserves a round of applause. The 1 960 class \ \'eb site has photos taken O\'er the weekend. You can click on any picture for a larger \'ersion. If anyone has other photos to post, please e-mail or snail mail them to me. No names have been placed with the photos to protect the i1mocent." I n July, Eunie attended the Alumni College (Sports and Leisure: .\ I i rror of American Culture), where the Class of 1 960 had the most students attending: David Wiggins, Claudia Lawrence Rogers, Todd ;\larchant and Bob Hartman and hi'> '' i fe, ue. Eunie report that required reading was verr enjorable and that they had t\\ o lectures each morning by Colby profes ors. unie learned from Todd �' larchant that he i'> ' cry act!\ e in ' olunteer acti,·itie , 1 11clud111g the Exchange Club at the local, di;trict and nanonal le\'els . . . . Jim Haidas\ elde>t >on, \'an, is a o,e111or ,1t Colb) , '' here he i> rooming 1 11 Pcpper l l a l l-the ;amc dorm '' hcre J 1111 J i , cd dunng h1<, fir-,t year at Colb) 111 1 956. I l io, ) oungc�r >on, \ I 1chacl. 1 11 h1 1u111or ) ear at Bnrn n, \I J'> Jt the L n l\ ero,1� of ( , Jao,gm1 for thc fal l '>cmco,tcr. Both bo) ' '' orked
What he does Freela nce writer on
environmental issues.
His spec ialty Fish and wild l ife
conservation .
Where you may have seen his work
Audubon, Fly Rod & Reel, Sierra Club
magazines .
Who's noticed The National Wi ld l ife
Federation, Federa l Wi ld l ife Officers
and Outdoor Writers Association of
America , and the American Society of
Magazine Editors.
What he has in common with "Ted W i l l iams the Elder" An
obsession with f ishing and b i rd h u nting, but not baseba l l .
What bugs h i m " I know outdoor writers b u r n themselves o u t fast
with bile and cheap booze, but what's rea l ly d i scouraging is when
my readers meet me in person and still t h i n k I 'm the ba l l player . "
Which photo we used The mountain l ion cub . The photo of
Wi l l i ams holding a monster sa l mon in Alaska ended up on the
cutting room floor. But it was some f ish.
al l summer with Frances and J im in running their rn·o restaurants on Cape Cod. J i m was very upset that he couldn't manage our 40th reunion; however, he was lookjng forward to Parents \Veekend on October 7 . . . . Peter N. "Mac" Mc Farlane retired from the Air Force in September 1 990 after 30 years and began work with a small technology firm, Delfin Systems, in Arl ington, Va. He continued with Delfin until April 2000, when he decided, with help from Sheri, his wife of 16 years, that i t was time to really retire. Mac and Sheri had moved to Evergreen, Colo., in September 1 998 with a second retirement in mind. They purchased a H-foot \ \'innebago and have been seeing a lot of the country, including a fiveweek trip to the East Coast. They also visited the area around Moab, Utah, with its fantastic natural wonders of Arches National Park. As you can tel l , Mac is enjoying retirement. He has not played hockey for about a year but expected to be getting back into that soon. Their home is in a \'ery hi l ly and wooded area at nearly 7, 00 feet, which makes skjing at ele,·ations around 1 2 ,000 feet much easier . . . . Ralph elson tested our e-mail system by reporting that he and h is \1 i fe, Kay, \1 ere awaiting the arrival of their first grandchild and \1 on 't ha\ e any real ne'' s until that is >afel) accomplished. l n .\ fay they took a I 0-da) trip to France '' ith the Son of the American Revolution, and Ralph ,,·as in the color guard, \1 hich helped to place a '' rcath on the gra\ e
of General Lafayette. They had private guided visits to the ancestral chateaus ofFrench generals Rochambeau and Lafayette and stayed several nights in a chateau that has belonged to the Kergorlay fanuly since the year I 000. The wine and cheese and weather were wonderful, they report, and they recommend France to other tourists . . . . Nancy Shoemaker Dargie planned to retire from the USDA Forest Service at tl1e end of the year. Her twin, Carol Shoemaker, told her a bout our great -+Oth. . . . Had a wonderful e-mail from Jo Deans Auchincloss, who attended her first reunion and enjoyed being there as much as we enjoyed having her. Jo had lots of family around at the reunion: her mother, Louise Murray Deans '3 1 , attended her 69th reunion, accompanied by Jo's brother and his wife, John and Gretchen Deans, and Jo's daughter Lee came up from Portland to join tl1e family for the lobster bake. After the reunion,Jo tracked down Sandy Myers, her junior-year roommate. Jo and I would l ike very much to see a lot more e-mail addresses in the directory (part of tl1e Colby H'eb site). She has volunteered to collect e-mail addresses from some of her Colby friends. l would appreciate help from all of you. Please send al l your news by e-mai l (c l assnews l 960@a lum. colby.edu), and it automatical ly w i l l be forwarded to me.
-Jane f- lolde11 H11e11n
6 1 1 11 as delighted to hear from
Penny Dean Robb, with whom I shared four years of Powder & \!Vig activities. Penny, who l ives in Manhattan and works at Carl Fischer Music Publishers, reactivated her interest in drama last year by joining the St. Bart's Players, a non-professional theater group that uses the faci l i ties of St. Bartholomew Ch urch on Park Avenue. This past summer she participated in a Shakespeare workshop on delivering the Bard's sonnets dramatica l ly as opposed to analyzing them academical ly. Gra duation was a performance in the St. Bart ' s cou rtya rd, an event that brought back memories of her favorite English teachers, Mark Benbow and Powder & \Vig's long-time director I rving Suss . . . . Although as recently as a year and a ha lf ago l planned to teach until forcibly evicted from the classroom in my dotage, I woke up one morning and rea l ized that there were lots of things I wanted to do, so for the next few yea rs I ' l l be teaching just spring semesters (from lateJanuary to mid-May). So far J am lovi ng every minute ofit, even though I have come to my office nearly every day anyway' . . . Bev Lapham reports that tl1e Reunion Planning Committee met September 1 6 and made great progress in planning our 40th reunion. Pre-reunion activities wi l l start June 7 at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, Maine, with gol f, sa i l ing on a schooner, museum visits and other activities to suit a l l tastes. The on-campus part of the fun wi l l begin tl1e eveni ng of Friday, June 8 . Sanirday tl1e 9th wi l l be the big day, witl1 tl1e a lumni parade (can you find your old freshman bean ie'), a lobster bake and a special surprise event just for us in the afternoon. Our class reunion dinner wi l l be Saturday night in the Roberts Bui lding. You wi l l get more deta i l s in a newsletter as the time draws nearer, but keep in mind that tl1e most important ingredient in a successful reunion is you. Start planning now to come to this one-it just won't be tl1e same without you ! . . . And don't forget that you can very easily send me news for this column via Colby's e-ma i l . J ust address your message to classnews l 96 l @alum. colby.edu and it wi l l be passed along to me. My regular mailing address appears with the other 1 960s class correspondents' addresses near this column.
-Judy Hoffmn11 Hnkoln
63 Since the e-mail b l i tz from the Alumni Office fails completely in its
purpose of generating news, Barb Haines Chase and I are putting heads together to see i f we can go forward to a system that works. So send i n news o n what you a n d your famil ies are doing to: Karen Falb, 245 Brattle Sa·eet, Cambridge, MA 02 1 3 8 and kff2 4 5 @aol . com as we l l as c lass news I 9 6 3 @ a l u m . c o l by . e d u . Our family news is not earth-shattering eitl1er. We are looking at col leges for our "rising senior" daughter at Concord Academy and have seen 1 3 so far. \!Ve are now at the point of deciding whether we want a col lege one hour from home or three hours1 This August T had fun on a a·ip with the two daughters, seeing many schools in Vermont, the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut. Colby sti l l rates high with its energy if not its location. One night between Skidmore and Vassar we stayed at a town called Saugerties, and it nirns out that tl1e only person I know who is fami l iar with that area is our own Jeannette Fannin Regetz, who with her kids spent many a happy summer vacation there.Jeannette is looking forward to joining her husband, Fred, in retirement in a year or two. She sti l l enjoys her teaching of remedial reading to lower grade snidents in an Arlington, Va., public school and enjoys having the i r two chi l d re n , Suzann a n d Jonathan, working· nearby. She's had news from Dale Ackley Pluta in Vienna,Va., that she and her parents and sister enjoyed a renirn ''isit to Colby last summer with a nostalgic picnic in front of Coburn. She was impressed by how good it fe lt to be back and how the campus had not lost i ts old feel ing . . . . I 'm told that the M i l l er Li brary a rchi tectural model has been returned to the College, thanks to ] . Wesley Mil ler. I t now resides i n the Colbiana Col lection in Mi l ler Li brary . . . . Judy Spear freelances as an editor specia l izing in art and architectural history and em'iron mental issues i n Lancaster, Mass. J\ I uch of her time this year has been spent in advocating for tl1e preservation of Lancaster's historic town green and tl1e classic symmetry of its 1 8 1 6 First Church, designed by Charles Bul lfinch. Feeling tlrnt a proposed addition to tl1e church would not only change tl1e church's architectural integri�· but also diminish the space and character of the town green, ] udy has written numerous articles and letters publ ished in local papers pointing out how historic buildings and their origi-
nal landscape are importan t for a "deeper understanding of historic events and their concepts" and that it is important to be responsible stewards of historic monuments and common areas. This advocacy has been a challenge as the Massachusetts H istorical Commission recently ruled that the addition as currently planned by the church can proceed. Hopefu l ly,] udy and other concerned preservationists can turn the tide.
-!Viren Forsitmd Falb
64 Candi (vVilson '65) and John Haynes dropped in yesterday for a quick visit ful l of laughter. (My son, Andrew '90, a lso was home, and having inherited his father's sense of humor, he's good com pany.) John is sti l l with Monsanto , which now has another name, but he's making a lot of noise about retirement. His Colby roommate, Dick Friary, has done just that, retiring from ScheringPlough after 2 7 years . Dick and Diane moved to Big Sky countryStevensvi l le, J\ Iont.-just as the fires arrived. Apparently they were unscatl1ed, as I 've heard noth ing to the contrary. Dick had sent me a cartoon from The 1 ew Yorker that featured Doris Keams Goodwin. How famous can you get! . . . Joan Thiel Hadley has a l so moved west-to Scottsdale, Ariz. She has tl1ree grandchi ldren now, she and her husband do a lot of day hiking, and Joan has been volunteering witl1 Alzheimer's and cancer patients. Says i t has taught her how lucky she is . . . . Dorothy Thompson Herrin has a grandchi ld in Texas and anotl1er on tl1e way. She's sti l l teaching special education in Vermont. She's been a Reading Recovery teacher for four years and loves this model for helping young children learn to read . . . . I 've had a long and interesting letter from Steve Schoeman. Steve has two daughters, but I'm sorry to report that he lost his wife, El len, in Ju ly of 2000 after she fought melanoma for nearly two years. Before her deatl1, however, he had the good experience of being a Hansard Scholar, working in the office of a member of the House of Commons in London . H e took fu l l advantage of the Houses of Parliament as well as learning a great deal about the under side of England . . . . I dro,·e south i n :\larch to ,-isit mam· former neighbors, �a''Y friend and classmates. In ,\ lay I went to England with four friends from Kittery. A fami ly wedding in California was an oc-
1960s Correspondents
1960 Jane Holden Huerta 2955 Whitehead Street M i a m i , FL 33133 305-446-5082 classnews1960@alum .colby.edu
1961 J udy Hoffman Hakala 25 Charles Place Orono, ME 04473 207-866-4091 [email protected]
1962 Patricia Farnham Russel l 16 Sunset Avenue H ampde n , ME 04444 207-942-6953 classnews1962@alum .colby.edu
1963 Karen Forslund Fa lb 245 Brattle Street Cambridge , MA 02138 6 1 7-864-4291 classnews1963@alum .colby.edu
1964 Sara Shaw Rhoades 7 6 Norton Road Kittery, ME 03904-5413 207-439-2620 [email protected]
1965 Richard W. Bankart 20 Val ley Avenue Apt. D2 Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 201-664-7672 classnews1965@alum .colby.edu
1966 Natal ie Bowerman Zaremba 11 Linder Terrace Newton , MA 02458 6 1 7-969-6925 Fax: 6 1 7-266-9271 x107 [email protected]
1967 Robert Graci a 2 9 5 Burgess Avenue Westwood, MA 02090 781-329-2101 [email protected]
Judy Gerrie Heine 2 1 H i l lcrest Road Medfie ld, MA 02052 508-359-2886 [email protected]
1968 Nancy Dodge Bryan 7 Weir Street Extension H ingha m , MA 02043 781-740-4530 classnews1968@alum .colby.edu
1969 Sari Abul-J ubein 257 Lake View Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 6 17-868-827 1 classnews1969@alum .colby.edu
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Alumni at Larg1960s
casion for a lot of reunions. And i n August I went t o Alaska, a land that i s vast a n d emptyyet teeming ,,·ith \\' i ldl i fe . Back here in Kittel")' I'm enjoying my hobby of church cook. I do d inners once a month and luncheons once a month for between 2 5 and 0 people. It ' a lot of fun . . . . Take five m inutes now to tear out the class ne\\'S page at the front of this magazine and tel l me something you spent a lot of time on last week. Or send i t by e - m a i l (classnews 1 96-t@a lum. colb)·.edu). I ' l l print the most interesting responses.
-Sam Shaw Rhondes
65 Reunion part 2 : . . . and we yakked and yakked . . . . Saturday morning started with Marty Dodge and his ,,·ife, Kari, leading about 30 of us on a nature walk through the Colby arboretum. ll lan:y is a professor at Finger Lakes Community College in upstate f'e,,- York and passionate about ecolOITT' and the timber sports program. ll larry spoke eloquently about the interrelationships of flora and fauna . . . . Classmates continued to arri,·e . . . . Bryan Harrison Curd joined us from Arizona, where she is enrolled at Arizona State studying for her 11 LA. in art history . . . . B ruce and Jann Buffington Browning reported that J ann is now a placement coordinaton,·ith the Insurance Staffing Group, an employment and temp raffing agency in Lynnfield, 11 1ass.
B ruce is going for an 111 .A. in American histol")' at alem State . . . . Gai l and Rick Davis reported that their children ha,·e now joined the fami ly insura nce bu iness in �eedham, .\lass . . . . Re,·. Jon Moody i the chaplain at H iram College in H iram, Ohio, and teaches ethics, religion, phi losoph) , etc . . . . \\'e had the class parade to the gym . Younger clas es ''ere amused at seeing the occasional beanie (mine) on a geezer. . . . Harold K ow a l\ cla ., agent team ra i sed
�OOK for the College. Harold continue' a' a la" ) er; he and Ruth, director of operations at Bosron Public L1braf) , arc parents of E l izabeth '9:? .rnd . u<>annah '96 and I I \ e in :"' e\\ ron, \ l a" . . . . In I 999 AJlen Po t mo, ed ro Bon ita pnng'>, Fla . , '' here he i \'P 1n l ml..ccp �- Compan) , 1 m e tment and '' cal th management er' ice, . . . . Con111e and Dave e a ron arc Ill '\c,, I l a rrford, Conn . Da\ e reachc, management at Central Connccncur . r.ne C1rn cr'1t) 111 '-.'c\\ Bnr.un. . . \fter die lolhter bake, '' c had the afternoon free to e\plore the cam-
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pus and yak. A few of us took the opportunity to see the great views of the campus and \Vatenri l le from the obsen•ation deck high up the l ibrary clock tower. The pathway leads up and actually through the mechanism that controls the hands on the face. Our class dinner was in the Katz wing of the art museum, a great location surrounded by beautiful wal l -sized p a i n ti n gs . C lass pres i d e n t Bud Marvin introduced incoming class president Sunny Coady, VP and Alumni Council representative Jan Wood Parsons and your continujng scribe . Jan continues i n the guidance area at N'atick H igh School in M assachusetts. \Ve were entertained by the Colby '65 thespians- Bud, Caesar, Pam Plumb Carey and Judy Eyges Da lton-in a rousing song skjt recallmg another era. Professor Tom Morrione spoke on current student activities on campus. Nancy Ryen Morrione is on Colby's admissions staff and explained that yes, we probably could stil l get into Colby. Our S Ts of 1 1 60 compare wel l with today's 1 3 20 once you knock off the 1 00-plus points caused by recentering the scores a few years ago. SAT inflation has joined grade inflation it seems. Nancy said the 35 percent admit rate is the same today as when we applied, but the current465-member class is up from our 3 46. 11 1issing from the reunion were Tim and Adora Clark Hil l , who now live i n the Rocky ,\ lountains above Denver. However, Tim provided us with a Top Ten l ist of "How to know you just might be a member of the Class of 1 965 " : ( I 0) \ Vhile on vacation at a posh ,\ 1editerranean spa, you find yourself ordering a " Friday Blast" with a chocolate frappe and ask tO speak with John. (9) As a female, you find yoursel f on an evening out reminding your significant other that you only have 3 0 more minutes before curfew. ( ) You think that the word "significant other" are some obscure term that you must have learned in Kingsley Birge's Sociologr I 0 I course. (7) As a male you are com·inced that the "Soup �azi" is from the seed of ,\ l a Tri pp. ( 6) You get a l l \\ arm and mi ry eyed at hearing the n1 o '' ords "dime draught."(5) You arc �ti l l waiting for the relea e of Ted Furlong's first folk album. (4) \.<, a male at '' edding receptions, you 1mmcd1atel) di,·e under the table '' hcne' er an) one tinkles a glas t0 announce a toast. ( 3 ) \s a female �·ou ha' e found � ourself th rel\\ mg your
panties out your apartment window as a group of chanting protesters has gone by. (2) As a male you keep joining chanting protest marches in the hopes of catching a pairof panties. ( 1 ) You have a recurring nightmare that involves blue beanies, large name tags and butterfly nets . . . . Congratulations to Elfie Hinterkopf on her marriage last September to Stephen Biles. They honeymooned in theJapanese Alps . . . . Hai l , Colby, Ha i l '
-Richard W. Bn11km1
66 Ha,ring j ust enjoyed a 3 5th reunion planning meeting this past Saturday, I'm reminded to encourage a l l classmates to put the 3 5th class reunion dates on your calendars. Reunion 1vi l l be the weekend of Jw1e 8- 1 0, 200 1 , with a pre-reunion event scheduled for Thursday evening and Friday, June 7 and 8. 'Watch for reuruon reminders and updates, and let's see how many classmates each of us can encourage to attend. Reunions are great Colby events and a great way to reacquaint ourselves with old friends and with the constantly growing Colby faci l i ties and programs . . . . My husband, Frank Zaremba '64, and I have had a wonderful personal and professional year. As a fami ly we attended the opening of the South Carolina Aquarium, the culmination of many years' work for Frank and colleagues. Our children have grown up with dad going to Charleston, S.C. , as the aquarium project progressed, and it was fun to join all of Charleston in the celebration of its opening the weekend of May 20, 2000. \Ne a lso took the opportunity tO meet Sue Turner and her husband, Karl, for lunch the day of the Charleston Aquarium opening. Two weeks later we enjoyed the excitement, fun and ce lebra t ion o f the w e d d i n g i n Chatham, Mass . , o f our older daughter, Karen, to i\1 ichael Fox, whom we have come to know and love. A month later we were ready to put our feet up and relax and went to the Grand Tetons, Yel lowstone and Glacier national parks for nvo weeks. This fal l our younger daughter has headed off tO Savannah, Ga. , for a master's program in hist0ric presen>ation at Sa''annah College of Art and Design . . . . John Tara sent a wonderful e-mail '' ith attached photo to Frank Finizio bemoaning the fact that his Full Dress Harley had been stolen on his way to ,\ lyrtle Beach , . C. However, he reported the good news that he used the insurance proceeds to purchase a
Low Rider and that l i fe was good . . . . Peter Blumenthal wrote that h is son Richard '93 was with Outward Bound in Florida for five years and has moved back to Boston, where h is wife-to-be wi l l attend graduate school. Son Seth '97 is teaching history at a private secondary school in \Na l tham, Mass. Peter sold his business (a retai l chain of picture fram i n g stores ca l l ed Framekjng) two years ago, with the short-term goal of competing in the I ron man Triathlon in Hawai i . I n August a year ago while on a training ride on his bicycle he was h i t by a car and suffered a broken neck. Miraculously, he was not paralyzed or k j l led . After a lengthy recuperation, he was able to get back on h is bike and successful ly complete two triathlons last spring. So as not to have to make a decision about what to do with the rest of h is l i fe, Peter, his w ife and young daughter decided to move to Jerusa lem for a year. \!\Tith no plans, the Blumenthals anticipate simply finding exciting things to do once they arrive. Any Colby a lums who are passing through should give a cal l (0 1 1 -972-2-5 8 1 -42 7 1 ), and they wil l receive a most hearty welcome' . . . Allen and J anet M eyer Throop wrote that on July 7 Jerri Hamil ton Bost '65, the Throops and Elena and Peter Anderson walked across the G o l d e n G a te B r i d g e . I t was a celebratory walk with friends forJerri, a survivor of bone cancer, and for Peter and Elena, survivors of major surgery in the last few years . . . . Sue Turner wrote that she recently enjoyed spending the 4th of J uly in B rooks, Maine, wi th Linda Hal l Lord, Linda's husband, Russe l l , and their family. Sue , husband Karl and daughter Alissa spent s ix weeks in Sal isbury Cove, N laine, whi le Karl worked at the bio lab and Sue paddled as much as possi ble. Alissa, 1 6, expands their world through her travels to band weekends in various parts of South Carol ina . Sue's special memories of Colby include the day that Henry Holland tossed a pamphlet at her and said, " H ere. Go see a l lama." That pamphlet ofa study abroad program in Peru changed her l i fe . The Peru group had their 3 5 th reunion in July, and 1 7 of the 20 participants, plus the di rectors and fami l ies, attended. Another special memory is of George Coleman's Geology I 0 I class, which Sue was determined to hate, but it took her only about five minutes to rea l ize how lucky she was that
olby made her take a lab science'
The fina l memory for the moment is of her math teacher freshman year showing up for a math exam at 8 a .m. o n a S a t u rd a y morning i n deep snow-on snowshoes1-with the exams i n his pocket and a huge grin . . . . I w i l l make one fin a l plug for Reu n ion 2 00 I -send any photos of you and/or Colby classmates so that we can all enjoy them at our reunion headquarters! You can send photos d irectly to me at 1 1 Linder Terrace, Newton, 1A 02458.
-Nmnlie /3owern1n11 Zaremba
67 G reetings1 Mike and Pam Coo-
per Picher spent tl1ree weeks in Europe last spring touring with their son Andre 'O I , who was on a junior visit ing program at the Sorbonne. They were accompanied by JeanMichel '96 and daughter Mariel le and v i s i te d t h e a n c e s t r a l v i l l age in Tourraine, left in l 662 by Pierre Picher. Andre got a job bartending in a Left Bank Canadian hockey bar cal led Moosehead's and threatens to never come home . . . . After 32 years with Dow Chemical, the last 1 0 in H ong Kong, Dick Heend has retired and has settled in Naples, Fla. Dick developed an appreciation for
/ sarah hu High Seas Health Care
Contrary to what you may have heard, the biggest threat on the h igh
seas is not "The Perfect Storm . " For the crews of the tan kers and ca rgo
sh i ps that traverse the world's oceans, the real th reat may be heart
attacks, burns, in ju ries suffered in fa ! ls or explosions-h u ndreds of
mi les from possible rescue.
That's where the knowledge i m pa rted by Sara h H udson '69 can
make the d i fference between l ife and death . A trainer of emergency
med ical technic ians and a professor of sh i p's medicine at Maine
Mar it ime Academy, H udson teaches future merchant seamen and
officers to provide med ical treatment at sea . "With EMT stuff, we tra in
them to take care of the patient, get r id of the patient in ha l f an hour , "
she sa id . "The students who go to sea have to learn to take care of the
patient for fou r or five days in the middle of the Atlantic . "
That's how long it can take a dee p-water s h i p to come with in reach of even the most far-ranging rescue hel icopters. Unt i l help arrives,
H udson's students, tra i ned as shi p's medical officers but u sual ly doing
other shi pboard jobs, m ust perform tasks that would fa l l to an entire
hospital staff on land. "They have to start IVs and suture and catheter
ize people , " H udson sa i d . "They're it . "
At Ma ine Mar it ime (enrol lment about 700), a l l students take basic
shi p's medic i ne, she sa id . About 20 students each year take
advanced sh i p's medic ine . H udson sa id she a lso teaches the
course to veteran deep-water capta i ns a nd tra nsatlantic
sa i lors in intensive week-long sessions d u ring Maine
Marit ime hol iday brea ks. H udson came to sh i p's medic ine through
her work on dry land. An economics and
busi ness admin istration major at Colby,
the Pittsburgh native moved to B l ue H i l l
with h e r parents soon after grad uation. She tra ined as an EMT at B l ue H i l l
Hospital that year a n d started working
with B lue Hi l l Ambu lance. She moved to
nearby Casti ne, home of Ma ine Marit ime,
in 1975 and two years later started
l iving the "high l ife" in Hong Kong as his home was on the 3 6th floor, so when he moved to Naples he chose a location on the 1 5 th floor overlooking the gul f. \<\/hen Dick descends to sea level, he makes his way to the golf course with frequency . . . . Linda (Mitchell '66) and Lee Potter have watched both their boys march down the aisle in the past two years and now have turned their interests to another shared love: skiing. Lee and Linda have purchased a ski chalet in central Vermont and intend to spend many weekends and vacations tl1ere . . . . Last fa l l a fascinating PBS series called
" \\later: The Drop of L i fe" a i red on stations throughout the country, showing breathtaking footage from around the world . If you paid attention to the credits you noted that tl1e chief writer of the series is Bob Field. Bob has been traveling the world fi lming the series and te l ls us that i t provides him with chal lenge and reward. Bob has been writing and producing documentary videos for some time and recently ,,·as recognized by his professional organization when he received a Gold Slate for two of his works . . . . Joe Candida's daughter, Jean, has enrolled as a freshman at St.
Castine Ambulance Service. "They d idn 't have one and I got t i red of
my car bei ng used as the a m bu lance , " H udson sa i d .
S h e joi ned the faculty a t Maine Marit ime in 1 986 a n d began
teaching the more compl icated medical proced u res req u i red . " M y gift
is that I can s impl ify things , " H udson sa id . "You j ust treat the human body as a machi ne-I teach the k ids , i f there's a hole somewhere, p lug
it . If there's not enough f lu ids , put more f lu ids i n . "
And they d o . With sh ips typica l ly a t sea with one shi p's med ical officer, a ful ly stocked pharmacy and satel l i te l i n ks to doctors on shore,
H udson's students cope with myriad med ical emergencies. She hears
a bout their cases by e-ma i l , phone cal ls and letters from a l l over the
world . "They'll say, 'Oh, gosh. You won't bel ieve what I had to do ,"'
H udson sa i d .
A s on land , some patients a board sh ip don't survive. But s o f a r the
smal lest patients have made it . "We've actually had seven students
who had to del iver babies at sea , " H udson said . "They've a l l been
refugee babies, so they've been in terrible conditions, but, knock wood ,
they've a 1 1 survived . "
Whi le her former students sh ip out , H udson stays i n port. She l ives
with her sister in Castine in a house overlooking East Penobscot Bay.
She contin ues to tra i n students for land duty ( Ma ine Marit ime
s u ppl ies EMTs for Cast ine Ambulance) and to d ispense
common sense advice: "J ust slow down and fix what you can
fix and i f you can't fix i t , you j u st have to take a deep breath
and do the best you can and give the patient T LC.
Hand hold ing is i m portant. Hand hold ing is probably
the most im portant thing people do. "
H udson prescri bes handhold ing; i n return
she gets the not-so-occas1onal pat on the back.
"I guess you're always surprised when you
have a student who does a great job ," she
sa id . " It ma kes you stand bac k and th ink ,
'Wow. I gave them a gift and t h ey've u sed
1t wel l . "'
-Gerry Boyle '78
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Alumni at Larg1 J 960s-1 970s
Louis ni,·ersity, where she plans to major i n English literature. ;\Ieanwhi leJoe continues to i ntroduce ferti le minds to the riches ofShakespea re at the University of Arkansas. Recently, Fabio Battagil i a '6 cal led Joe after he read a news article about J oe's deparonem. Joe "·em on to say, " It's amazing to me how e,·en 3 5 years o r s o mean nothing when you encounter an old friend. i\ Iaybe I ' l l try to make the next Colby reunion . " It's a ,·ery good thought a n d o n e we hope takes seed in the recesses of your minds. After a l l , the 3 5 th is less than rn·o years away, so start planning now1 :\ Ieanwhile, e-mail us about what's new with you. -Robert Gracia and Judy Ge1Tie Heine
68 Andrew Dunn writes from H i l lsdale, 1\'.J, that whenever he and his wife, Barbara, travel to \ Vatervi l le to ,-is i t their daughter Katie '02 , they are treated to the warm and gracious hospita l ity of J on '69 and Paula Jo-eph Eustis '69, their l ong-time
Colby and Korea friends (their Army tours of du�· sl ightly overlapped back in the earl�· '70s). Their son, J ason, wa married in September '99, and J a on and his wife, Jen, practice law at Rope & Gray in Boston. Their daughter Sarah, who graduated from lJ\'A last year, works for a consulting firm in Arl ington, \'a . . . . Hope Jahn , who has taught fifth grade i n King ton, 1\' . H . , for 1 9 years, is enjoying being single and started a busine s- impl�· Siamese-raising k ittens. Re ponding to the " lessons in l i fe question," she says, " Decisions made when we were 20 were not the best. Reach deep and enjoy being you." H ope would l ike to know the " h ereabouts of Paula an ,\ leter . . . . ] ane Finkeldey Stephen-on " rites that she and John ha,·e
become em pty nesrers. Daughter Kate graduated from Ha,·erford in \ la� and is doing a fel lowship on u -tauuble ener� m s\\ eden, and daughter �arah 1u.,t '>tarted her fre hman � ear at I I arn1 1d. College. Gane i -,runned at hc)\1 much kid> bring these da� ., to college-her recollection was hnng111g a comforter for the bed and a r,1d10. Sarah\ roommate arrn ed " 1th ,1 �rumball mach1ne� )jane '>ti l l " ork'> a� ,1 med1cal '><>CUI \\Orker at Dartmouth l l 1 tchcod. \ led1cal Center-and long> for the d,11 " hen -,he can reure-but '>J\ '· " 1 1 \a di-,tant dream " 1th another kid ro get through college . " . . . Ken Y o u n g " r i t e ., fro m I l a l l c J \1 e l l , \Lime. I n the 1 99 -99 -,chool � ear
50 I c 0 l B y . T E R 2 O J
... .-.--.-:--�"]""'....,-, Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Gelbard '64 was the focus of a New York Times feature on deteriorating relations between Indonesia and the U.S. His strong criticism of the Indonesian government's slow pace of economic and social reform has earned him enmity in the country, but "Mr. Gel bard has the respect of the diplomatic corps here
r---='-'--- �t�aMW;i::i because he says the right things," said a
Robert Gelbard '64
Japanese diplomat ·:· Kenneth C. Young Jr. '68 has been named Lewiston, Maine's downtown development director. An attorney by trade, with a law practice in Lewiston
in the '70s, Young has sen-ed as commissioner of Maine's Department of Emironmental Protection and as a director in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. ·:· Lee Woodman '69 served as a consultant for Tbe Patriot, the Mel Gibson Revolutionary ·war film. As executive producer of Smithsonian Entertainment, where she produced and directed many award-winning exhibition films and television specials, YVoodman was responsible for the Smithsonian's first-ever historical consultation on a major motion picture. She is currently vice president of media development for PremierSchool.com.
Deaths: Marcia Peterson Robinson '60, October 1 6, 2000, in Fishers, Ind., at62 ·:· Bruce '-''· Logan '68, October 3 , 2000, in orth Yarmouth, Maine, at ) ) ·:· Carl T. Rowan H. '68, September 2 3 , 2000, in vVashington, D.C., at 7 5 .
h e a n d h i s wife, Anne, hosted Pascal, a student from Frankfurt, Germany, through an AFS Student Exchange, a l i fe-changing experience for them a l l . Their daughter, Sarah, was off to Germany with AFS in September 1 999, staying for six weeks with a family in the former East Germany and then sett l ing with Pascal 's fami ly in Frankfurt. She learned German, tra\•eled and attended the 1 1 tl1 grade in Frankfurt. Back home for her senior year, Sarah might be interested in studying German at Colby but is concerned that "VVatervi l le is nowhere and too close to home." Ken says, "we can finesse too close to home but not \Vaterv i l le as no" here ! " Ken's wife i s acti,·e in AFS, reorganizing the local chapter and recruiting host fami l ies. Ken has sen ed on the local school board for �i\ rear and was going to run again in �o,·emher for a third three-year term. The) rncationed in Portugal in \pril and hope to visit Germany nt.:\t ) ear to catch up " ith Pascal and ro meet Sarah's ne" German friends. . . . R ichard Lewis i� adding to the global pu'>h of his public re lations agenc� , Richard Le" is Communicanon'>, Inc . , \11th the addit ion of � taff '>peak ing Japane�e, Chi nc�e,
French, Spanish and Arabic. Rich and Sebs Mamo '70 and their wives recently traveled to Paris together, where Rich made a presentation on PR and tl1e Internet to 1 1 French companies. Rich and Sebs are tryi ng to organize a reunion of the 1 968 Colby track team, which won Colby's first Maine state championship, so i f you were on tl1e team, please contact Rich ([email protected]) . . . . Nancy Short Hal l writes that in May she and Wayne worked on the Vermont Square Dance convention in their role as presidents of the Vermont Association of Square Dance Clubs. Then they headed to Orono, Maine, to attend the conferring of an M. B.A. on their son, Davi d. Their daughter, Kristi n , graduated the fo l lowing weekend witl1 honors in biology from Harl"\vick Col lege in Oneonta, N.Y. Kri tin started grad school inJ une at Union Col lege; by next year she should have her M.A.T. and be on her way to becoming a top-notch biology reacher. Taney was on summer brea k from Colchester N f iddle School when he wrote and was preparing for a week's canoeing in the Temagami region of Ontario. She hoped to return to school in mid, \ugust relaxed and recharged . . . .
Steve Ford, writing from Chatham, N.] . , is sta rti ng h is fifth year as general counsel of Coty Inc., a global manufacturer of fragrances, cosmetics and skin care products with operations in 29 countries and sales in more than 80 countries. He works in mid-town Manhattan and has a typical commute of one and a ha lf hours each way' Even though Coty began in 1 904, i t is a lmost a start-up in the U.S. because the parent company did n ot begin acquiring the former Coty companies and consol idating them under a U.S . holding company unti l the 1 990s. Steve says it 's a far cry from Scott Paper in Phi ladelphia , which he joined i mmediately after law school and where he was involved for more than 2 0 years with tissue and print ing papers, mostly from a U.S. legal perspective. S teve and Mary's twin daughters are sophomores in the engineering program at B rown University, one son is a senior in high school and another i s a freshman, and their youngest daughter is in seventl1 grade. Steve and Mary had d inner this spring witl1 Terry and John Leopold when they vis ited New Jersey. John i s sen1ing with much d istinction as a tri a l judge in the Colorado j udicia l system.
-Na11cy Dodge 81ya11
6 9 Leslie Podgus Blanding reports that she is now starting her third year as a fu l l-time high school German teacher in M a nchester, N.H., a position that includes running an annual exchange program. The annual visits from and to her school's parmer school in Neustadt, Germany, are definitely the best part of the job, if a lso tl1e most strenuous. The sa·angest thing, she says, is to be working in the field she majored in at Colby . . . . William H . Lyons was recently appointed to a chaired professorship at the University of Nebraska College of Law-the Richard H. Larson Professorship of Tax Law. He will be a visiting professor at the Verm o n t Law School in South Royalton, Vt., during the spring 2 00 1 semester. . . . Our thanks to Sari AbulJubein, who has taken on the position of class correspondent for the Class of '69. As of last October, all correspondence is being routed his way.
JQ On behalfofour class, I ' l l ike to thank Steve Cline, who performed the duties ofclass correspondent so beautiful ly over the past five years. He kept us entertained and
informed and in so doi ng provided us with that l i ttle extra measure of class identity, which i s the effect of a wel l-written column. Thanks, Steve -you've passed a bright torch 1 And I 'd l i ke to thank a l l of you who have entrusted me with this pleasant task for the next five years. I can tel l you from past experience that being class correspondent i s a great way to feel a connection with the school , as is serv ing on the Alumni Counci l , w h i c h I hereby a l s o recommend (right, PhiP). I t's guaranteed to make you proud of your Colby connection. And now my modest charge to you : your column w i l l only be as good as the in formation I receive from you. Just remember how nice it is to hear news of your classmates-your news is part of that in formation pool, so take a few minutes and drop me a l ine . . . . We had a wonderful Reunion \Neekend in June , kicked off in the Portland area with a dinner/brunch/golf com binat ion and fol lowed by severa l campus events, including a barbecue, an im pressive prese ntat ion by Stu Rothenberg, o u r class dinner with feaui red guest Professor of Engl ish John Sweney and a del igh tful visit from Bill and Linda Cotter. The Cotters have served the College with marvelous grace and success, and we wish them a pleasant retirement . . . . Notwithstanding the fact that we have managed to edge toward the front of the reunion parade (when did that happen 1 ) , we enthusiastically kicked up our heels a t the dance on Sauirday n ight and didn't draw a deep breath from the time we reached the campus unti l the time we left. I t was just s o wonderful t o see s o many of us a l l together. Many of us mentioned how integral to our l ives these reunions have become over the years and how truly important we have become to each other as we lead interesting l ives, make interesting choices, blossom continual ly. Great to see: Molly, Barb, Hawk (what's her fi rst name'), Joni, Phi l , Todd, Skip, Peter, Andy, Andy, Sandy, Chip, Judi, Linda, Peter, Dave, Linda, Steve, Laura, Bi l l, Ken,Jeff, Sandra, Steve, Debbie,] udy, Mike, Chickie, Paula, Sue, Ron, Marlene, Stu, Brenda, Ell ie, Anne, Nicky, Jeff, Dan, Donna and many spouses who have become a valued part of this group. I hope I haven't left anyone out (that's the danger in a l ist ! )i f I did, I apologize . . . . Looking forward to hearing from you a l l . And
to extend a time-honored tradition : Libby Brown Strough, call me!
-Brenda /-less ]01·da11
7 1 Reunion planning is well under way for our 30th reunion, June 8- 1 0, 200 1 . Committee members met in Wa ltham, M ass., last fal l , and a lthough the group got down to business quickly, everyone had a great time reminiscing. The committee, led by our class president, ] erry Layman, is planning a variety of activities, from pre-reunion events prior to arriving on campus to our class dinner on Saturday night. Committee members include Paul and Jane Hight Edmunds, Nancy Hammar Austin, Dave Eddy, Nancy Neckes Dumart, Paul and Susan Sammis Spiess and myself. I nformation wil l be mai led to everyone in the class, or you can check out Colby's reunion \Neb site at www.colby.edu/alumni/ reunion. Mark your calendars for our 3 0th and plan to return to Mayflower Hi l l this June!
-James 1 -/awkins
J 3 News from our class continues to be sl im. Please take a few minutes and drop me a line about what's going on in your l ife. Better yet, e-mail me, l ike Susan Schink did. Susan and I grew up in Ridgewood, N.J . , where she continues to live, so her news strikes home for me. In February in the midst of a major l i fe change, Susan left a 2 5-year career in corporate communications and market research to pursue a master's in divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She aspires to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. This past summer she completed a chaplaincy training program at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and then joined the staff there as a flex-contingent staff chaplain. She writes that as "a card-carrying student again, !her] feet love white socks and running shoes instead of panty hose and heels." In her spare time she continues as a director of the l n;:ernational Photographic Council and as an NGO at the UN, and she does the scholarship programs for photojournal ism students. She is also a trustee for the Y\\'CA in Bergen County,
'.] . usan stays in touch "·ith teve Capaldo '74 and his wife, Christie Pope, who l i,•e in Oahil le, Ont., Canada. Steve ''isited Susan while he interned at the United Nations for a week in .July . . . . I was fornmate this summer to meet Stuart Wolf at
i\lohonk :\ Iountain House in 'ew Paltz, N.Y., where I work. Stuart, his wife,Joan, their two sons, ages 1 3 and 7 , and his mother-in-law vacationed at Mohonk for five days in August. Suiart is principal at a school in Groton, Conn., which is largely attended by children of Navy sta ff. He regularly sees Jack Fine, who lives in Gainesvi l le, Fla., with his wife and two children, ages 1 6 and 1 3 . According to Suiart,Jack is a very successful lawyer who handles h igh-profi l e cases. Stuart looks fit and healthyhardly l ike someone with college classmates who are fast approaching 50. He's contemplating a job change, and we mused about career moves (a year ago I left my job as a tenured faculty member at a community college to become general manager at a resort hotel) and retirement years. So al l of this makes me wonder about what mid-life changes the rest of you ma)' be experiencing. Please write and share your news.
-Jackie Nienaber Appelt/om
J 4 Bruce Carmichael reports that he retired from the Air Force as a colonel in the fall of 1 998 and settled in Park City, tah. Bruce is working for L-3 Communications, which produces data l ink equipment for mil itary reconnaissance aircraft. He and his wife, Jennifer, have two children, Gavin , 7, and Erin, 6, and enjoy l ife in the mountains . . . . I was surprised to receive an e-mail from MaryAnn Sartucci Andrews that came from tl1e next town and to learn that she had a hand in the new l ibrar)' v\Teb site, which I use all the time to reser·ve books. MaryAnn is working on an ,\1 .A. in human resource management at Colorado State University. She reports little beyond working full time and studying but was planning an AJaskan cruise . . . . Marilyn Lebowitz Rothberg reports that son Jonathan is off to Cornell and daughter Joanna is finishing up at the niversity of Delaware, so the old empty nest syndrome looms on the horizon. She and husband Brian saw Mick Chapuk, his wife, Sandra, and their adorable I -year old, Ana-:\Iaria, this past winter in Bethlehem. Pa. A trip to i\'.Y.C. provided a chance to ,;sit with Peter Schu ltz a n d i\Iichae l Strone . ,\ Iarilyn sa�·s e,·eryone i doing well . . . . J im Heald wrote that he a n d his wife, Laura, enjoyed a long weekend a r the South Jersey shore with Ray i\lazurek and his family. J im says the�· had great fun rehashing old
times, arguing politics and enjoying the sun and surf. Jim works in computer mapping for the Department of Agriculuire in D.C. Ray is still on the American suidies faculty at Penn State, specia l izing in contemporary fiction . . . . Ed Hatch, thinking of retirement, encourages sons Kevin and Connor to watch Tiger \ Voods and Pete Sampras in between their own sports activities! Ed was voted "Top Gun" among securities analysts for the fi fth time by The /Vall
treet Journal analyst survey-which he says should properly shock his Colby professors. His specia lty is in the media industry . . . . Twila Purvis Seh.nert sent me a post card from Greece, where she was vacationing with a girlfriend while her rwo boys were at ski camp. Her husband, Rusty '75 , is working hard at his ne\1 business . . . . Shelley Bieringer Rau writes that she works as a hand therapist for a group of orthopedic surgeons and that her husband, Rick, is a psychologist. Their yearly treat is their week at the Berkshire Choral Festival, where the)' take classes and perform . Shel ley's love of m usic started with a Jan Plan, and this year at tl1e festival she was pleased tl1at fe l l ow chor i s ters i n c l u d e d J i m Armstrong, who was the chair o f the ,\ 1usic Department when Shelley was at Colby . . . . Bonnie Nielson reports that her son, Zachary, is off to Gordon College. Bonnie is now working at Colby and reminded me that in our freshman year, 30 years ago, Earl Smith had just been appointed as ociate dean of men. Earl is now dean of the College. Bonnie saw Vicki Parker Kozak twice last summer. Vickie's two boys and her ''olunteer dutie keep her busy bur lea\•e enough time for her to enjoy their place on the lake in Readfield, ,\ laine . . . . Chuck and Cathy Phillips Jewitt have happily returned to .\ laine after 24 years in M a ryl a n d teach ing a t Ol dsfi e l d School. The)' continue their careers in education. Cathy lo,•es to garden, and Chuck is in a bluegrass band as well as a country gospel band . . . . Remember that your news comes right to me when you use e-mail (classnews l [email protected]).
-Robin Su:eeney Peabody
7 5 I r is appropriate to begin this column with a write-up of our 2 5th reunion, which presumably did indeed take place in the year 2000. ( How in the world did RELS foresee that?) But I didn't go, and neither did
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Alumni at LargJ! 9 70s
\'OU. �or has a police spokesperson ;,.i,·en an\' detai ls of the e,·ents and the
:1 1eged perpetrators. H o"·e,·er, if ,,.e
had crone, I am sure that ,,.e a l l \\"Ould
ha,.: had a ,,·onderful time renewing
old friendships and forging ne\\" ones,
recal l ing our steps on shaded paths,
gathering at the shrine, hai l ing the
B lue and Gra\' and parting ,,·ith man�·
incere promi es to "keep in touch,
no rea l lr, this time I mean it, I real!�· do!" . . . In real l ife, Doug Schwarz report that '' h i le he continues to make a l i,·ingas a ;elf-employed computer programmer, he has joined the ranks of profe;sional actors after rears
of appearing in community theater. ln Julr Doug plared ,\ lo nastatos in Opera fest �.H. 's production of The .1 lagir Flute. In August he appeared in the Peterborough G'.H.) Players production of Om· Tou:n as Professor Wil lard . A highlight was playing a scene opposite ,·eteran actor James \\'hitmore. Doug \\"ants to remind people that he can be contacted at od [email protected] . . . . Joyce Smith also has maintained a firm grip on the \\"orld of the theater (and hasn't changed a bit in 2 5 �·ears, I hear), ha,· ing recent ly appeared in the Belfast ,\ !askers presentation of Our
carte If there was ever a f isherman who could be descri bed as a Rena is
sance man, it's Carter Newel l '77 .
N ewel l spends much of his work week as staff biologist for G reat
Eastern M ussel Farms in St. George, Maine, but a lso ma nages to keep
up a 20-year association with the Pemaqu id Oyster Co. , which he co
ounded with Jeff McKeen '76 and Chris Davis '78. Newell produces
academic papers with regularity, hopes to f in ish his doctorate at the
U n iversity of New Brunswick next year and is a one-man advocate and
entrepreneur for aquacu lture development a long the vast Maine coast.
In his spare t ime, he f iddles with the Old G rey Goose, one of Maine 's
longest-ru nn ing folk ense m bles. and somehow ma nages to f ind t ime
for h is wife and fa mi ly . He has four ch i ldre n , i nclud i ng a new baby.
I t 's a s imple matter of sched u l i ng, N ewel l i m pl ied d u ring an
interview not far from the docks in Damariscotta where some of h is
oyster rade takes place: "Three days for mussels, one day for oysters,
one day for writing and f iddl i ng. " M uch of h is academic work is done
d uring the winter. when the f ishing 1s slow "and there's a lot of qu iet
1me a long he coast . "
A Con necticut native, Newel l found Maine much to h is l i k ing when
he a rrived a Colby, and aside from travel for academic and commer
c.a endea ors he's been here si nce grad uation . It was whi le on a
Wa sor Fellowsh ip 1n Scotland , studying snai ls , that he first became
1n rigued by the poss1b1 l 1 t1es of commercial aq uaculture. When he
as�ed a bout a research program spec1al 1z 1ng in shel lf ish, he was
referred o he U niversity o Maine's Darl ing Center 1n Boothbay
Harbor l r'1agine having o ravel all that way to f ind that out , " he said.
A f years la er he had h is mas er's degree from U Maine and a
budd1rg career
we! ta ec; an e m pirical pragma 1c approach to bu1 ld 1ng aq uacul
i.. re operat1orc; A lo of M a ne fisherman a ren't going to be i m pressed
b a ge rict1 qJ1c p1 er, he sai d , "but 1 you can show them how to do
t, provide tie cols and ou l ine he opportun i y , they'l l give 1t a ry "
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Co1111fly's Good. The drama focuses on com•icts in I 8th-century Botany Bay. J oyce played multiple roles, as did Peter Conant, the brother of Susan Conant Cook. Additional ly, Joyce served as assistant d irector and arranged a traditional folk tune for the production. In her spare time, ]o\•ce teaches British l i terature at ,\ [essalonskee H igh School in Oakland. By the way, the play had sti l l another Colb)' connection. The director was Howard Koonce, chair emeritus of Performing Arts . . . . \\'e al l know that Deborah Marson works as ass istant genera l counse l for
Fidd l i ng with M ussels 77
Gil lette. But a� a graduate of Suffolk Law School U . D . '78) �he wa� the subject of a feature article in the Suf
folk Law i'1agrr::.i11e. The article, titled " Loyal to Gi l lette," focuses on the years she spent as the only woman on one of Gi l lette's operating committees and her efforts to bring other women into management positions. Ha,•ing been with Gi l lette for more than 20 years, Deborah was recently put in charge of worldwide legal strategy for the oral care side of the business, which generates 1 .2 bi l l ion a year i n s a l es . Con gratu l a t i o n s , Deborah1 (And can any classmate top
He's run seminars a l l a long the Maine coast, a nd h is companies sel l
seed oysters and mussels to get newcomers started . " Even i f they're
j ust looking for su pplemental income between f ishing seasons, it can
be worth it," he sa id .
Eventual ly Newell would l i ke to cut back some of the hard physical
labor-"the 85-hour weeks at sea, the diving in cold water"-a nd spend
more time promoting and studying his chosen field. He's done recent
presentations in New Orlea ns, Seattle and Hol land . A faculty advisor
once told him to write at least one research paper a yea r, and he's taken
that advice: " It keeps you fresh, it keeps you on top of your field ."
Casting back to his Colby days, he says
that, despite having spent much of h is t ime
in the biology labs, he a ppreciates the
College's requirement in the
huma nities. "I can sti l l remember
[Mark] Ben bow's Shakespeare
course and John M izner's on
existential l iterature. They teach
you to write, and I can't te l l you
how va lua ble that's been ."
Despite h is academic bent,
Newel l reta ins much of the
salt i ness and d ry hu mor of the
Maine coast. " I count it a good
day on the water ," the ca pta in of
two f ish ing vessels sa id , "when
there's no
whin ing from the
crew-and no
b1olog1st Jokes."
- Douglas
Rooks '76
Deb's longevity with the same company') . . . Ed Decker reports (tongue in cheek we suspect) that he is now the activities di rector at the Golden I l ind Retirement l iome in Rancho M ,1 \ario, N . M . l l e plans field trips, bi ngo tournaments and other " fun stuff" for the res idents. "Sometimes, it's a lot l ike a frat party around here," he says, "but the party i s usua l ly ending around sundown now, instead of sunrise. Not that I could handle that these days, anyway' " Ed, who cla ims he was a lways an avid stickba l l player and Frisbee golfer at Colby, says he recently won the B utte County amateur golf tournament. . . . H ey, this e-mai l sniff is easy. So drop me a note someti me.
-Bruce Yo1111g
7 6 i\ lark your calendars now for our 2 5th reunion, J une 8- 1 0, 200 1 . Plans are underway bp great group of our classmates who ha,·e ,·olunteered to be the 1 976 Reunion Planning Committee. As of late August, the group included Scott McDem1ott, Ann Beadle, Janet Oken Nicholas, Peter Labombarde, Sharon �'alsh McNally, PamCame,BillCampbell, Brian Hurley, Nancy Daly, Susan Tauer and Jennie Frutchy Ford. There may be other classmates involved by now, but please plan to come to Colby that weekend to see e"eryone and reminisce' Please direct your comments, questions and/ or suggestions to the committee (c/o Scott ,\ I c D e rm o t t , w h o can be reached at 97 8-402-2 7 1 0, or to Margaret Viens '77 in the Alumni Office). . . . Kate Cone's daughter Sam is now attending Goucher College, where she received an academic scholarship and will conti nue her snidies in music. Son Burke, 1 6, is a scholar/athlete at ,\ lt . Ararat High School in Topsham, ,\ la ine, excel l ing in soccer, basketball and lacrosse. ,\ Ieanwhi le, ,\ Iegan, I 0, entered fifth grade this fa l l and is at that great age where she sti l l consents to a hug from mom. Kate is beginninga fu l l -time master's program at the niversity of Southern ,\ la i ne in American and New England studies and "·i l l fu l fi l l her assistantship by working and doing research on school chi ldren mapmakers at the Osher .\ lap Library. She i n v i te s e - m a i l ( c a ps i c u m @ suscom-maine.net) from long-lost classmates . . . . Betsy Bowen continues to enjoy l iving in Fairfield, Conn., with husband Jeff Schwartz and son Ben and teaching at Fairfield Uni,·er-
sit)• (as associate professor of English) . I n July she renirned from an exciting two-week tnp to St . Petersburg, Russia, where she worked with Russian university teachers on ways of teaching writing in their English classes . . . . Check out the editorial reviews on the amazon.com \\'eb site and you' l l find a n ice review on Janet Wray Gorman's Even ,1 /y Fm11i�)', the first of a trilogy concerning a preCivi l \\'ar young \\'Oman set on a path determined by her fami ly's heritage and her struggle to find her own path . . . . Scott Butchart reported on the birth on August I 0 ofa new baby, boy #3 , named Conal l . Congratulations, Scott. . . . Joe and Noel Bury Stella's fi rst-born, Abbe)', i s a "first year" at Colby. Does that make me feel old or what' Both J oe and Noel are teachers and remain very busy with the athletic pursuits of daughters ,\ l a ry and ,\ I aggie, i ncluding ,\ Iarv's recent participation as a member of the East Regional Championship team at the Softbal l \ \'orld Series i n Kalamazoo, ,\ J ich., last summer . . . . That's about it for now. One more ti111e: Plan to attend our 2 5th reunion during the weekend of June 8- 1 0, 200 1 .
-Valerie Jones Roy
77 Chris McKeown Burry was to move into a new senior executive position at the Defense Intell igence Agency, \ Vashington, D.C., late in the fa l l . Currently she works in D IA's corporate headquarters managing strategic planning, financial resources and public affairs and corporate outreach programs. In her new position she wi l l manage mi ! i tar)' ana lysis for a l l of the ,\ T idd le East and Africa, and she S<l)'S she is looking forward tO the oppornmity to travel overseas again. She placed a recent Colb)' graduate \\'ho \\'as working in the summer intern program into a fu l l -time position with D I A as a Latin American analyst and says she would be glad to help other Colby sn1dents looking for summer internships in the \ \'ashington, D.C., area . . . . Charles E. Frankel reports that he and Denise ha\'e been married for 1 5 years and ha,·e t\\'O children, El isa, 1 1 , and Angela, 8 . Charles is a parmer in a law firm in �ew \\'indsor, �.\' . , and primarily handles real estate and estates and trusts. I l is passion for kiing. \\'hich he enjo)·ed while at Co lb\' (perhaps roo much. he says), cont i n ues \l'ith family \\' inter \\·eekends at Ski \\'indham, a local area in the Catskills. Aside from skiing. they all pla)' ten-
nis, rol lerblade and occasionally bike ride. I le mentioned that he doesn't seem tO ha\'e enough t ime for all the deman ds, requ i rements, meetings, activities, interests, hobbies and sports that now fi l l their ca lendar, but he's looking forward to returning for the 2 5 -year reunion-he real ly enjoyed the 20th.
-Ellen D. O 'Brien
78 Thanks for a l l the news1 I re-cei\'ed e-mail titled "A scarphought" from Doug Giron. l le \\ aS in the company of Pete " H urra" K rane '79, and they were into some serious party action. Hurra \\'as paying his first visit to G)'ro in some time as he was cruising through Pro\'idence, R. l . , on his " ay to the Cape . . . . I ran into Sarah Bryan Severance at a local Starbucks \l'hi le grabbing some corporate fuel. Sarah \\ aS on her way home to 1'.j . after picking up her 1 3 -and 1 5 -)•ear-old sons from Camp K i eve, Sandy Buck's sta m p i n g grounds. I \l'Onder \\'hat kind o f an effect it has on a teenage kid to be left with Roebuck a l l summer . . . . George Kesaris wrote from Bar l ] arbor that he, Doug Maffucci, Jon H ubbard '77, Dave Raymond '7 7 and Peter Roy '68 attended the Fifth H i ram 1\ laxim Society machine-gun festirnl at Dover-Foxcroft in J u ly. George claimed that it \\'as a nice break from the brutal pace of summer in a tourist to\l'n to see 50 or 60 men and \\'Omen shooting machine guns a l l at once at junk cars. He called them a "Serious Second Amendment cro\l'd ." They especial ly l i ked the flame t\1ro" er demonstration at l unchtime. I 'm sure it reminded George of his old p)T0-1rnmiac clays . . . . Pat Hotchkiss Bak.ir provided some news from Amman, Jordan, \\'here she's been for fi,·e years, the longest she's been in one place since graduation. Pat said that l i fe goes on l ike anywhere else as her kids, ,\bdo, 1 0, and Hytham, 8, attend Little League and soccer practices. She's doing consulting work in \l'ater and irrigation management, mainly for Chemonics I n ternational , a .S. company. She also presents some papers and does some training in community participation at a fe\1 local and international conferences. Her husband, Hamed, is regional ad,·isor for the \\'orld Health Organization, a job that im·okes some tra,·el , most of " hi ch t h e rest of t h e family misses. In their spare time they camp in the desert and ,·isit Pat' in-hrn s in Ramal lah, Palestine. he im ited any-
1970s Correspondents
1970 Brenda Hess Jordan 141 Tanglewood Drive Glen E l lyn, I L 60137 630-858·1514 classnews1970@alum .colby.edu
1971 James H awkins 485 Locust Street Attleboro, MA 02703 508-226-1436 classnews197 1@alum .colby.edu
1972 J anet Holm Gerber 409 Reading Avenue Rockvi l l e , M D 20850 301-424-9160 [email protected]
1973 Jackie N ienaber Appeldorn 1437 Old Ford Road New Paltz. NY 12561 914-255-487 5 [email protected]
1974 Robin Sweeney Peabody 46 Elk Lane Littleto n , CO 80127 303-978-1129 fax: 303-904-0941 classnews197 4@al u m.colby.edu
1975 Bruce Young 20 Applewood Avenue Bi l lerica , MA 01821 978-443-641 7 [email protected]
1976 Valerie Jones Roy 38 H unts Point Road Cape E l izabeth , ME 04107 207-767-0663 fax: 207-767-8125 classnews1976@alum .colby.edu
19 7 7 E l l e n D . O' Brien 205 Fernwood Avenue Davenport, IA 52803-3606 319-359-4665 classnews1977@alum .colby.edu
1978 Robert S . Woodbury 484 Bridge Street H a m i lton , MA 01982 978-468-3805 fax: 6 1 7-951-9919 classnews1978@alum .colby.edu
1979 Cheri Bai ley Powers 6027 Scout Drive Colorado Springs , CO 80918 7 19-532-9285 classnews1979@al um .colby.edu
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Alumni at LargJ! 970s-1980s
lichael Roy '74 \\'as honored by the ;\ Iaine Town and City ;\ lanagement Association for his \\'Ork as Oakland, ;\ laine, town manager. A Central ;\ Iaine .1 Iorni11g Sentinel article cited Ro�· "for his al l-around talents, particularly h i s ab i l i ty to respect the opin ions of others" ·:· The Suffolk Uni,·ersity Lall' School alumni magazine honored Deborah 'larson '75's 20-year career ,1-ith Gillette, where she is
Deborah Marson '75
' assistant general counsel and a corporate officer responsible for all Gillette products for Asian and Latin American businesses. She also sen·es as a Colby O\·erseer and is a trustee at her
daughter's school, Bea,·er Country Day, in ;\lassachusetts.
Deaths: Mary H. ,\larshall H '73, September 2 5 , 2000, in S�Tacu e, KY., at 91 -:· Katherine W. Fanning H '79, October 1 9, 2000, in Wareham, ,\ las .
one interested in ,-isiting or learning more about Palestine to contact her at bak irhp@nol . com . jo . . . . Steve ;\li l lerchecked in from the west coast of Florida, where he's lived for l 6 ,·ear . He wondered about some of the old Pi Lams, specifical l �· Tony Lopez, Dave Abrahamson and \Vally O lien (whom Ste,·e is quite con fident he could st i l l beat at roofbal l ) . te,·e and his wife, Terri, and son, .\lax, l i 1·e in Treasure Island on the beach of the Gulf of :\Iexico. I l e misses frozen beer on the windowsi 1 1 of his Colby dorm, but marguerita w hi le watching the sun'>Ct 01 er the gulf are a reasonable sulmitute. I le sold his C. P .A. practice to \.mencan Express 1 1 rears ago to help establish their accounting presence 111 the outheast C . . He ran tlur corner of the country for them J'> the� built the ninth largest accounung practice in the count!')-. \ \'h de he w as there. the state of Flomb w ent after ·te1 e, attempting to t.tkc h1., C : . P. \ . liceme because he 11 J'> pratt1c1 11g 1 11 a non-traditional f orum. Src1 e 11 as '>Cl ere I� m1 ffed and '>ued the '>Ute. 1 1 1., case 11 ent to the L .'-> . upre1m: Coun ( \ Id ler '" The '->t.lle of Florida). 11 here he 11 on una111-111ou,\� . lffut111Ti111,{ l 11d11\ . a trade rag, n.1 11lt:d him to their Ji.,t of \ !mt l n tlucnt i .1 1 \ccount.tnh in the L .'-> . I le then opu1cd h 1., 011 n practice ag,1 1n '
. B i l l .rnd Joann Barr: etchell .1 lont: 11 1th their 2-� c.ir-old llJughter. /oc . • 1rL mm mg from Burlington, \ t . . m \u.,tm, I t:\J'>, 11 here Bil l I '> \ P-control lcr of C . recn \lounr.1in I· ncr1:-� Comp.111� . C . rcu1 \ lountam r ner1:-� (I thought thL � II crL lea\ ing
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\'ermont) markets e1wironmentallr cleaner electricity in deregulated energy markets. Joann i s working very hard at keeping up with Zoe's active educational, social and recreational sch edule . . . . Alicia Rodriguez Connolly is expanding/evolving her business to coach exclusively. Generally AJicia helps people to l ive more fully, with more ,-i talitr in their professional and personal li1·es. She married] er!')' Connolly '7 5 and th er have a - -rear-old son, Joseph, who just started kindergarten. Ther l ive just outside Annapolis, ,\ I d. , and Jerry is head of the upper school at the Severn School in Severna Park, ,\ Jd . AJ icia plans on making our 2 5 th1
-Robert S. Woodbmy
7 9 I ha1·e baby news to report. Larry Sparks and his wife, -:\'ancy, welcomed into their family a son, 'te1·en Alexander Sparks, on August - . 2000. His godparents are Carol and Dean ,\lorrissey of Beaufort, S.C. Lari')· says that ther 1·isit Dean and Carol often, especially in April when the) lea1 e Connecticut for the warmth of South Carolina . . . . Kyle Harrow's Flh!Joi 11 a'> born on April 30and joins her Ing brother, amuel, 4. Krle and fa mil� ha1 e been residing in .\ l i l lburn, ".J .. for almost three ) ears after li1·ing 1 11 '( oronto for i\ years. She i� 1 el') ha pp) hc111g a member of the "unpaid 11 orkforce" a., an at-home mom. I f .,hc need., e\cttcmcnt, \ l 1 1 lhurn I'> onli a ) - -mmutc tra111 nde from ".Y.C: . . . . Li nne raybeal ha'> 101 11cd Perk111., ( .rne 1 . . 1 . . P. as co-chair of their tradc-111.irk and cop� nght coun•>Ci1ng and rq.(i.,L r,mon group in the <icanlc of-
fice. Lynn has extensive trademarkrelated experience in .S. and international trademark prosecution and fil ing strategies, trademark selection and counseling, trademark disputes, co-existence and licensingagreements, and domain name issues and disputes. She is a frequent speaker and presenteron trademark and domain name issues. Lynn recei1·ed her ] .D. cum laude from the Uni,·ersity of Puget Sound School of La11-. . . . I really need to hear from you, as I have nothing more for furure columns. I would real ly love to hear from Janet Deering Bruen, Libby Maynard Gordon and Debbie Lieberman Moore. Please write1 Please cal l 1 Drop in 1
-Chei-i Bailey Powers
80 i\ Iany members of the Class of '80 live in Maine. Herb Perry is in South Berwick 11·ith his wife and two daughters. H e told me that he toi ls in "semi -obscurity" as a newspaper editor for the York fVeekly in York, ,\ Iaine. . . . Dottie Foster Vachon is in Ellsworth with her podiatrist husband, three children, various livestock and pets. She works with her husband in his practice and also enjoys making creative photo albums and spending time 11·ith her family and friends . . . . Bob Bower resides in Cumberland with h is wife, Taney, and their three children, ;\ [aggie, Fred and Katherine. He works in Portland in labor and employment la11· and enjoys fishing for stripers . . . . Fred Madeira also l ives in Cumberland with his wife, Trish, and two sons, John and Nathan. He is the VP of strategic accounts for "'right Express, a Portland subsidiary of Avis . . . . Pete '8 1 and Mary Lynah Bishop love J i,·ing near the ocean in Saco. Pete is a stockbroker at Tucker Anthony in Portland and insists that playing golf is an important part of his job1 ,\ lary is the di rector of corporate and foundation relations at the University of New England . . . . Elsewhere, Ken Sacks is working in New York ity for Citigroup in investments and finance . . . . Doug Martin, who lives in \ \'ethersfield, onn., with his wife, n1 o sons and three dogs, works for the em·ironmental consulting firm \ l ar in Em·i ronmenta l . . . . Li a 1\lcDonough 0' eill is l iving in the 11 iJd., of nonhwestern -:\'e11 jersey 11 ith black bear, deer, 11 ild turkev and fO\ in her back yard. She enjoys jJlaying ten nis, skiing and canoeing 11 ith her hu.,hand, Sean, and her <ion, Richard, . She hopes ro get hack into
riding-at reunion she heard that Lisa Mackintosh l ives a fe"' miles away in i\ l ahwah, N".J . , and has two horses that need to be ridden 1 • • • Suze Connolly Levere is in W. Hartford, Conn. , with husband Larry and their chi ldren, J ul ia , 6, and J a m es, 4. She hopes to get into teaching using her master's degree in reading and language . . . . El len Mercer Papera and Johanna Rich Tesman traveled to reunion together wi th the i r o ldes t daughte rs and J o h a n n a 's n ewest l i tt le redhead . E l l en resides i n Wyckoff, N.J . , with h usband Raymond and three daughters. She enjoys being involved in her children's schools and the community. Johanna and her husband, Barry '8 1 , have two chi ldren, Emma, 9, and Lucy, 1 4 months .Johanna works part time for the school district evaluating children ages 3 - 5 with speech delays, autism and behavior problems. She also works in the private sector admi n istering psychological evaluations. Barry is a mathematics professor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. He is the chairman of the department and is busy finishing a graduate math textbook . . . . Jack McBride lives in Concord, J\lass., with wife ,\ Iel issa and children John, "'i l l and Louisa. He i s a bui lder in housing development . . . . J ean Minkel l ives in ew \ Vindsor, N.Y. Five years ago she started an independent consulting company in the area of assistive technology. Her company specializes in exploring options for mobi li ty, special ized seati ng and otl1er functional devices for people with physical disabil ities. She had one of her projects shown on Dateline last year. Her company also pro1rides education to health professionals about assistive tech nology. . . . John Veilleux along with h i s wife, Diana, and son, Jed, 4, live in Maryland. He is an in-house lawyer for MCJ \ Vorld Class Consumer Business in wireless, local and I n ternet se1·vices. He still sings occasionally . . . . Bai-clay Foo rd is a software developer in New York City. He spends his free time camping, scuba diving and caving . . . . Charlie White, wife J\l fari (Samaras '8 1 ) and their f our children, Charlie, Kal l i , ] .T. and Alec, moved to Madison, \ Vis., this past year when Charlie took a position with Land's End. f I i s p rev ious job was wi th Orvis in ,\ Janchester, Vt. . . . New father Peter Asher proudly reports the birth of h is son, NI ichacl Benjamin Asher, on July 1 8 , 2000. Michael is keeping
Peter and h is wife, Angela, very busy. They live in Vlhite Pla ins, N .Y. , in a home they have been slowly but steadily renovating. Peter works at Met L ife in New York C i ty as a project manager in one of their information technology groups. Angela is a marketing research manager for a Pepsi-Lipton parrnership at Pepsico headquarters in Purchase, N.Y . . . . A classmate asked me to include this in the column: "Whitey, Nellie says hi . . . send a message to [email protected]." . . . By now I hope that you a l l have received your class newsletter with questionnaire. P lease send your comments back to me soon. I w i l l close this issue of our class news with this q uestion for a l l of you to answer. v\Tho is the most interesting person you've met si nce graduating in 1 980, and how did you meet this person? I look forward to hearing from you with your answer-and your news.
-Ly1111 Collins Frm1cis
8 1 I received an e-mail from my old roommate Terry Jacques, who is l iving in central Pennsylvania. I n 1 997 Ten-y co-founded a nonprofit group cal led Equalogy, whose mission is to produce positive social change around issues of equa l i ty. They uti l ize interactive educational theater to raise awareness of violence against women. Terry says that after having worked in education, theater and domestic violence and sexual assault, she has managed to combine her whole career history into a single focused effort. Terry works behind the scenes and hires professional actors to perform the plays. They have been touring col leges and universities from Maine to West Virginia, presenting interactive plays about acquaintance rape and dating violence. Last September their program was presented at Colby as part of the first-year student wellness seminar series. Terry a lso wrote that Barbara Bullock visited her last winter. Speaking of Barbara, she asked me to put in a word for our class \ Veb site (www. a 1 umn icon nections.com/ col by/) and for signing in. It would be nice to get more people to write in our guest book, especia l ly with our 20th rem1ion coming up. Barbara says the site is low tech but if anyone is interested in revamping it, let her know ([email protected]). Barbara is back at Penn State after a sabbatical, a part of it spent in Paris. She is now working to get a new graduate unit in l inguis-
tics up and running by 200 1 . . . . Pam Ellis ran into both Elisabeth Eustis and Jeff Goliger at the Portland, Maine, Sidewalk Art Show. Pam says Jeff is l iving in southern California, changing careers from medical research to computers. He has a 7-year-old son . . . . Harvey Coco sent me an e-mail after seeing how many of our classmates l ive in Vermont. H a rvey and his wife, Deborah, and three daughters, Olivia, Sophie and Hannah, live in Old Bennington, Vt., where his dental practice, which special izes in implant and reconstructive dentistry, has been located since 1 99 3 . His daughters are a l l avid skiers and horseback riders. They bought their first horse a year ago, and to their surprise it gave birth to a foal l ast J une. Kate and Marc Jeton '82 are godparents to the Cocos' ol dest daughter, Ol ivia, and are happy to report that they are moving back to Maine . . . . Also l iving in Vermont are David and Arny Haselton Bolger. Last] uly they welcomed a son, Liam, into the fami ly to join big sister Sadie. Amy is enjoying being a stay-at-home mom . . . . Margaret Libby had a showing of her animal paintings and pastels at the O'Farre l l Gal lery in Brunswick, Maine, last spring . . . . Gary Smith is producer, rock group m a nager a n d co-owner of Fort Apache Studios in Cambridge. According to The Boston Globe he was planning on spending last New Year's Eve in a lean-to made of palm fronds on a deserted beach on Kauai . . . . Richard Demers bought a house in Moorpark, Calif., last December. Last J\ 1arch he joined a new telecommunications start-up fi rm, I n tegrated J\ 1icromachines, in Pasadena. The company received its first round of venture capital funding last May to develop optical switches for optical telecommun ications. His position there is project manager for 3-D systems . . . . I recently read in The Boston Globe that Bob Ruzzo is an attorney for the i\ l assachusetts Turnpike Authority but is leaving to join the i\ lassachusetts Housing Finance Authority.
. I recently attended a great 40tl1 birthday parry for Steve Rowse '83 , who lives not far from me in Harvard, i\ Iass . . . . I hope you all are planning on attending our 20th reunion, June 8- 1 01 Please keep e-mai l ing'
-Beth Pnirv:ski Wilson
82 SJ Lickdyke Morissette sends news of her second daughter, Kyra Suzanne, born in October
1 999. Kyra i s much l oved by her big si ster, Laura, 4, and brothers, Greg, 1 4, and Nick, 1 2 . S " ret ired" from Fide l i ty Investments in '98 but rejoined part time n ine mon ths l ater. Garry and S sti l l l ive in Andover, having added on to the house again to make room for their expanding fami ly . S spent a speci a l afternoon in Boston with Ann Skinner Rider, Kim Smith McCartney, Dianne Conley Lavangie and Mary Lee Santoro, wife of Jed Santoro. Ann, a chi ldren's book editor for Knopf, was in town for a book conference. Kim, a pediaa-ician, lives in Sudbury, Mass., with husband Doug McCartney and chi ldren . . . . \Vi i i , 9, and Blake, 6. Dianne, active as ever, lives in South Portland, Maine, with husband Paul and daughter Meaghan, 1 3 . . . . Abigail Smith sen t news last Apri l , when winter was just right around the corner in New Zealand. Abigail and her husband are both professors in the division of sciences at the University of Otago. Abby enjoys teaching marine geology (in tl1e last few years they have had junior year abroad students from the U.S.A., including some from Colby) and a lso gets to lead field courses on tl1eir research vesselwhich she would enjoy more if she didn't get seasick' Baby David was born in December 1 998, and their oldest boy, Ned, 5 , started school this fal l . . . Tim Dawson joined the I nternet world and heads up business development, structuring partnerships and a l l iances with other Internet fi nanc ia l services com panies for mPower, the leading Internet-based investment advisory company. Last spring Tim went to Austin for Brian Sharples's second wedding. Also there were i\i lark Avery and Ken Sharples '8 I . . . . Amy (Thompson ' 8 3 ) a n d Chris Landry l i ve i n Conway, i\ lass., with their boys, Ben and Dylan, 4 and 2. After 1 2 years in the museum field, Chris recently left to become the director of development at the Food Bank of \\'estern i\ Iassachusens. Am)' is executi,·e director of the Chi ldren's i\ luseum at Holyoke . . . . Andrea Branmer I i,·es in Stamford, Conn . , and works as inhousecounsel at GE Capital A,-iation Sen�ces, I nc. She lo,·ed her rwo )·ears in Seattle, with .\It. Rainier and Lake \\'ash ington right outside her window, but "·anted to be closer to her familr in i\ Iaine. Andrea plays golf "·eek!)- in a league and spends summer weekends pla,-ing golf or a-a,·eling to i\ laine to see her nieces or to
1980s Correspondents
1980 Lynn Co l l ins Francis 1 6 Oakridge Road Sudbury, MA 0 1 7 7 6 classnews1980@alum .colby.edu
1981 Beth Pn iewski Wi lson P .O. Box 602 H a rvard , MA 01451 978-456-8801 classnews1981@alum .colby.edu
1982 M i m i H. Rasmussen 219 Lexi ngton Ave. Cambridge , MA 02138 6 1 7-492-1002 classnews1982@alum .colby.edu
1983 Sal ly Lovegren Merchant 24 Easy Street Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-0441 fax: 207-244-9445 [email protected]
1984 Cynthi a M . M u l l i ken-Lazzara 18 Sunsh ire Avenue Sausal ito, CA 94965 415-332-3542 classnews1984@alum .colby.edu
1985 Sue James Geremia 87 Centre Street Dover, MA 02030 508-7 85-8366 classnews1985@alum .colby.edu
1986 Wendy Lapham Russ 146 West Main Street, Apt #1 Newark, DE 1 9 7 1 1 302-283-1225 [email protected]
1987 Jane N icol Manuel 8 Wentworth Drive Beverly, MA 01915 978-92 7-6084 fax: 520-833-6214 classnews1987@alum .colby.edu
1988 Lauren Frazza 200 East 78th Street, Apt. 19A New York, NY 10021 212-717-7020 [email protected]
1989 Anita L . Terry 501 Warwick Street St. Pau l , MN 5 5 1 1 6 65 1-698-9382 fax: 6 51-848-1182 [email protected]
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Alumni at LargJ! 980s
hang out at camp \\'ith her parents and brothers and their famil ies. She occasional ly stops by Colby to see the new bui ldings and to lunch with her former roommate :\ leg Bernier ' 8 1 . She a lso gets to see Dave Fanger occasional ly i n l'e\\' York and stays in regul a r touch \1·i th Sarah Perry, D iane Zavotsky, Midori Yanagihara, Karen Enegess, Emily Cummings and Susan Robertson Kuzia . . . . Bob Benjamin and wife L)'ll11C had their fourth child last April . L i a m Henry joins older sibs Bobby, 1 1 . Caity, 9, and J essie, +. Bob is sti l l teach ing English and coach ing at B runswick School in Greenwich, Conn. He was promoted to captain in the C.S. Army Resen•e and is currently serving with the 1 l 79th Deployment Support Brigade at Fort Hamilton, �.Y. . . . Susan Hatch is the editor of a trade magazine, Tech-
110/ogy ,\ feetings, and i s working out of her home in Essex, i\ Iass. She recently returned to work after time off fol lowing the birth of her son, Si mon Peterson . . . . Nancy Smith Daley and her husband, Joe '77, recently relocated to Kingfield, i\ 1a ine, after almost 20 )'ears at Bridgton Academy, where .1'\ancy taught English and Joe was the dean of students and a footbal l coach. They have three sons, :\ l ichael, Thomas and Patrick ( 1 5 , 1 3 and 1 2) , all competitive winter atl1 letes-i\ 1ike went to tl1eJ unior Olympics last year and came in 1 0th in the slalom-and they moved so the bovs cou ld attend a n d tra i n a t Carra basset Valley Academy ful l time. Nancy, who got her master's in l iteracy from 1 orwich Un iversity, teaches English at CVA, and Joe is the assistant headmaster and coaches skiing . . . . Sharon Dulude has spent
helen Helen M u i r M i l by '87 th rows the k ind of
party people wi l l pay thousands of do l lars to
attend . And as the d i rector of develo pment for
the Democratic Leadersh ip Cou nci l , she has a
whopping $?-m i l l ion pa rty budget.
Wel l , sort of.
M i l by's JOb 1s to raise money for the nonprofit orga n ization charged
with bu i ld ing the Democratic Party. She's responsible for the Demo
cratic Leadersh i p Counci l 's seven-figure bottom l i ne, and while it isn 't
a l l fun and games, she says if you wa nt to cha nge the world you 've got
to know how to party. And she does.
When the country's Democrats descended u pon Los
Angeles last summer, M i l by was there with a week's worth of
events. Cocktails to coattai ls , l unches to brunches.
Al l this for the low, low price of $20,000 per
ticket. " It's obscene how m uch money 1s 1n
pol1t1cs," she says. " U nfortunately, not
enough of 1t goes to the good guys. "
I t s easy to be typecast, a nd pol 1 t ical
fund ra1s1ng can be a d i rty word . But ,
M1 by says. enough people in the
Washington , D.C . a rea know her group
1sn t funding r egat1ve pol 1 t1cal ads or
gobbling u p specia l- interest money It 1s
fighting for tax cred 1 s-not wage h1 kes
for working fa m: 1es and rying to make
Democra 1c po!1c1es more business
r iendly she ma n a ns The grou p has a
popu lar modera e pla orm . M i l by says,
h1ch some mes pu s he DLC at odds
1 r la bor organ za ions and o her
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the last five years as a socia l worker at various elementary schools in rural i\ Iaine, working with emotionally and behaviora l ly disturbed kids and their fami l ies. Having been through some tough times herself and survived, Sharon decided to put her experiences to a positive use. Sharon also has a part-time photography business doing some weddings but mostly landscapes from which she creates cards. She rides her horse, Sandman, as often as possible and is working with another social worker to establish a tl1erapeutic riding program for troubled kids. Sharon sends congratulations to Heidi \i\Tass Murphy '85 on her newspaper and would l ike to hear from Laurie Leavis . . . . Paul Maier and h is family have moved back to New England after 1 8 years of l iving in New Jersey, Colorado and Ch icago. \i\Tife J ane, son Kai and
• '87 A Political Party
daughter Paige a re a l l gett ing used to the New England way of l i fe in Marshfield, Mass. Kai 's th ird birthday was spent with Jon Schwartz (godfather) and his family, Kim, Sam and Anne. In the business area, Paul 's company, E TEX IT Service, was acquired by Seimens AG last Apri l . This has kept the executive team very busy and has created great synergies for their cl ients . . . . Thanks to everyone who wrote in . As a lways, we a l l love hearing from you .
-Mimi H. Ras11111sse11
8J This past summer I heard from Sue Kal l io '82 and Mark Green, who live with their chi ldren, Christopher, Connor and Meghan, in Bedford, N . H . Mark is vice president of sales for Si lknet Software, a provider of I nternet-based customer service software. i\l[ark has enjoyed taking the
trad it iona l ly pro-Democratic specia l i nterest gro u ps.
B ut she leaves that to the pol icy people . She's too busy f inanc ing it
a l l . " I was never rea l ly that pol i t ica l , but I decided s i nce I was goi ng to
be in D . C . , I m ight as wel l get i nvolved , " she sa id . " I t felt wei rd being
here and not being a part of the pol it ical process. "
M i l by, 35, moved to the nat ion's capital i n 1 993 after ra is ing money
for five years for the Colorado Endowment for the H u man it ies-a job
that f it with her a rt h istory and French majors. She ma rried J oseph
M i l by that yea r and soon found herself work i ng on Oklahoma Demo
crat David McCurdy's fa i led U . S . Senate ca m pa ign . " I t was a very bad
year for Democrats , " M i l by sa id .
But her ca m pa ign work took her to the DLC, a gro u p she says was
"trying to f igure out why a l l the Democrats were losing at the nat ional
leve l . " F ive years later a nd with two ch i ld ren-3-year
old Sarah and 4-month-old Kate- M i l by says she
st i l l loves her work.
I t can be t ir ing at t imes, she says, and she
st i l l gets nervous before big events. But she
bel ieves in the grou p's ideals and feels
passionate a bout her work. Event plan n i ng
t ip from the pro: The P resident is a lways
late, someti mes up to two hours, but don't
sweat i t . People wi l l wa it for h i m .
M i l by might not stay a t t h e DLC
forever (she t h i nks ra is ing money for a
p h i lanthro pic organ ization would be n ice ) ,
b u t h e r career path gives h e r u n i q u e job
secu rity: gro u ps a lways need money. "You
know you 're going to be the last person f ired
and the first person h i red , " she sa id .
-Matt Apuzzo '00
company from a smal l start-up in l 995 to a very successful I PO as of i\ Liy 1 999. Mark gets back to olby eve1·y year to participate in the a lumni basketbal l game. H e says it 's a great way to connect with the l ikes of Rick Fusco, Roy Dow '8+, J im Gaudette '84, Tom Zito '8 1 , B i l l Storey '82 and many others . . . . Rick Hemond sent some news from his home in Acton, Mass. He and wife Beth and girls Rachel , 4, and Ol ivia, 2 , get back to Colby three or four times a year, s i n ce R i c k ' s w i fe w a s b o rn i n \Vatervi l le a n d her parents are former professors Bob and Dorothy Reuman. Rick contin ues to run marathons and finished his third N.Y.C. Marathon in November 1 999 . . . . Chris Schmidt sent me a photo of Colby alumni by the seashore at his June 2 000 wedding in Massachusetts to Susan Moynihan. Chris says he gained an instant fa m i l y in Abiga i l and Siobhan. At the wedding were Jake Filoon and Gordon Marshall. . . . From Alexandria, Va., Nancy Goers Hubbell and her family arrnounced the birth of son Nick in July 2000. Nick's big brother,Jack, is 6 . . . . From Lund, Sweden, Stacey Sorensen wrote of news in her l ife. The new bridge between Sweden and Denmark is the fi rst connection since the Ice Age, and Stacey says she's enjoyed walking across the bridge, about five mi les. She a lso has ridden a few times around Lake Vattern, which is a 300-km round trip. Stacey's a lso dancing and learning to play Swedish folk music on her violin . . . . The only piece of mail I received that involved a postage stamp came from Sean McNamara. Sean and his wife l ive north of Atlanta, Ga. , and were expecting their first child, a son, in November. Sean is director of product planning for Saab cars in the North American market. \Vorking for Saab means that Sean may someday move back to Deo·oit, since Gi\ I bought Saab . . . . i\ laine vacations this year lurecl ML and Mark Tolette ancl their family to the Fox ls lands Thorofare in summer and to Sugarl oa f in w i nter . . . . Chip and Martha Driscoll Kelley, their chi ldren and John Northrop and his girlfriend, Erin, \'entured to Belgrade, ,\ laine, in August to \'isit
Joyce and Jamie O'Neil and their fami ly . . . . Tony and Dede Arrnda Perkins and their three daughters joined Pajes J \Ierriman Stenn an and her family on ,\ [artha's Vineyard for sun and fun . . . . Kelly Dodge checked in with hel los and reminded me that
STEFANIEROCKNAK'88 What she does Visiting professor of
phi losophy at Connecticut Col lege, wood
scu l ptor.
Where she learned Colby, Boston
Un iversity, R hode Is land School of
Design, Tyler School of Art in Rome.
Her fi rst mentors Her parents, Lucinda
Al lerton Rockna k '58, who restores
furniture, a nd her father, R. Wi l l iam
Rocknak '58, a woodworker.
What she teaches Skepticism and
epistemology, in a n attem pt to get students to th ink on the ir own .
What she carves H u m a n figures, women o n a tra i n , a woman i n a
Cam bod ian death ca mp. She is at work on a trypt ich . Check out
her work at www.steffrocknak.com.
What she uses for materials Eucalyptus, oa k and basswood.
Where her teaching, phi losophy and carv i ng i ntersect " I do try to
understand what is the right picture of the world , the right picture
of knowledge, " she to ld Woodshop News earlier this year.
Todd Coffin took second in the Bar Harbor Ha lf i\ 1aratl1on in mid-September . . . . Joyce and Paul Lezberg now live in Brunswick, i\!Iaine . . . . In \ \'i lton, Conn., Carol McQuilling l\ilc1\ 1orris now works for Country Living Associates. Carol's working toward a master's in business administration at New York niversity . . . . I n New York City, Scott Stein's office is in Chelsea i\ Jarket. Scott said that he'd l i ke to be back in i\ l a ine sometime but real ly enjoys Tew York for now. He's working for Oxygen, and Oprah "Tinfrey is one of his bosses, after a fashion. J\! Iostly i t's Scott and "400 or so sisters," he says, working to create a television and Internet network . . . . Thanks to e\'eryone for the news, and I hope more of you wi l l send some my wa�'. Happy New Year'
-Sall)' Lo1•egre11 ,\ /erch1111t
84 Tammy Jones Howe fi l led out her questionnaire and shared the following: she and her husband, Scott, are living in IpS\\1ch, n [ass., and enjoy playing,,1th their rwo chilclren, Phoebe, 5, and Charlotte, 2 . Tammy is working as a mom and part-time forensic ps�·chologist. . . . Karin J \IcCarthy emai led from ,\ I a rblehead, ,\ J ass . . where she is o n materni�· lea,·e. She had her second child, Griffin \\'i l l iam Atkinson, on ,\ Ia�· n , 1000. I le joins older brother Tucker, 1 , mo cats and one clog. Karin \\'as tO return to work in Ocrober as clirecror of corporate relations in the president's office at
,\hiss (in do\\'nto\\'n Boston). Her
job entails working on an initiati,,e tO create "Ui\ lASS on-line," building corporate partnerships to get job oppornmities for i\ 1ass grads, scholarships and sponsored research. Every summer at the beach in ,\ l aine she sees Mia Rosner and her husband, Larry Roop '8 1 , who l i"e in L.A. She also runs int0 Tom Cushman '85 every once in a \\'hile; he also Ii,·es in ,\ I a rb lehead i\ Iass . . . . Je remy Springhorn e-mailed tO announce that he and his wife, Erin, have a new addition to the family: Ethan I larris Springhorn was born J\ l a rch 3, 2000.
Jeremy reports tl1at he has watched the company he helped to start grow from a seven-employee company with no product to a 1 1 0-emplo)·ee \'errically integrated biorech company with a market cap of I bil l ion. They now ha,·e eight clin ical trials underway for rwo products and t\\'O other products in pre-cl in ica l de,·elopment. Jeremy is directing early research and de,·elopment. Erin, a pediatrician, \\'Orks part time ata pri,·ate practice in ,\ ladison, Conn. H'hen schedules permit, Jeremy and John Gagne play golf. He also keeps in touch with Andre'' Da,•is '85 . . . . Brewster Burns emai led that he has rwo chi ldren, Carol ine, I , and Christopher, 3 . Ere" srer claims that he's doing the t\']Jical mid-l ife stuff: "added t0 the house last ummer, painted this ummer." . . . , \notlier clas mare reports adding tO her house in \\'ellesle�-, ,\ [ass. Carol Hi ldebrand and her husband, Don Eburne, spent six months remodeling their house from
the bottom up. Lucki ly they received shelter from Leslie and Geo! Barnes '85, who li,·e near them. They remodeled while Carol \\ aS pregnant; they now ha,·e a "new" house and a daughter, Ol i,·ia , born ,\ la rch 2 2 , 2000. Carol i s also senior editor for a b ra n d - n e w b u s i n e ss/tech n o l ogy magazi ne cal led DanL'i11 ,\ /agrr::. ine. I t's a project of C/O magazine. Look for it on the magazine racks soon. Carol sees Laura 1\ l <lhoney ,\ fcGo,·ern '85 , Sue Chase Downes, Donna "Dino" Altenpohl a n d Dawn Lepanto Taylor. Carol reports that Da" n and her husband, Davis '8 1 , l i ,·e in Holl iston, ,\ lass . , and have a daughter, Piper, 4 . . . . Sally Lee e-mailed from Danvers, f. l ass. She's sti l l '' or king at ,\ l lT and seems quite happy with her '' ork. She's able to pursue her art career on tl1e side and has done some digital i l lustrations for \'arious publications. She's contin uing '' irh her painting and has recei,·ed a second fel lo,, ship to the \Termont Snidio Center. You can check our her work at W\\ w . sls. lcs.mit.eclu/sally/. She a lso has a few paintings at Arts Research Associates in Hami l ton, ,\ l ass . . . . Please see the o n - l i n e a rt i c l e ( h t t p : // courant.ctnO\\ .com/ne,, s/specia l/ne/ suicide I .sun) on the late Charles Tenney. I r is a \\ Onderfu l , heartfelt eulogy for Charl ie . . . . Thar'; a l l the news for now, so please take a moment, get the questionnaire . . . (you know the rest). T lope to hear from you soon.
-C_y11thi11 . \ I. ,\ lul/iken-1,a:::.:::.am
85 Lori Gustafson Adams '' rites that she has just finished a \"Cf) busy )'ear-she completed a master\ degree in \\Titing ancl l i reranire at Ri,·ier College, worked full time as a technical writer and took care of her n1 0 children with her husband, Cal . . . . Barbara Knox Autran also ha<, her hands ful l . She '' rites that she j ust started teaching ESL, L' . . histof)-, U.S. go,·ernment and '' orld histof) to G E D students. ,\fter a '>ix-and-a halfyear hiatus raising Dylan, 6, and Sa,·annah, 1, she is ,.el!· much looking forward to teaching again . . . . Kevin Brnen continues his career as a lieutenant and la\\Ter in the C. · . Coast Guard and has spent the past t\\O �·ears practicing em·ironmental la" . ummer 1000 brought a mo,·e for Ke,·in, Carol)11 (Bo�11ton ' 4) and Connor from the Presidio in an Francisco to L. . .\., where he assumed the role of marine safe�· inspector'' ith the Coast
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Guard in Long Beach. Ke\in \\Tites that "Thankfull�·, Tom Valinote i stil l in the L.A. area and ha an extra surfboard'" . . . i\ like Muir sends his regrets for m i sing reunion. He recently completed a doctorate in curriculum and instruction \1·ith a focus on middle-b·el education and meaningful engaged learning from U,\10. He i currently the assistant professor of education at -,\la ine-Farmington. Of particular note, ,\ like l i\'eS i n what used to be the women's prison in
kowhegan, ,\ laine. He assures us that "it's much more comfortable now'" . . . John 0. Robinson i a lso sorry to have missed reunion but is planning ahead for 2 005 . He has just finished his 1 2 th �·ear teaching world h isto�· at Pl�111outh South High chool and for summer 2000 planned to work ful l t ime as a lawyer in Falmouth, ,\ lass. I n addition, he is t h e featured soloisn1ith the Falmouth ,\ l en's Chorus . . . . Shireen S hahawy (\1·ho did make it to reunion and had a great time') is working as the director of marketing for continuing education at the ni\'er-
i�· of �ew England. She and her daughter, Ally, l i \·e i n Portland 11·ith two dog and rwo cats. F\1-Ally had such a good time at reunion that she plan to enroll in the Class of 201 1 1 (,\ny tip from Admissions for Ally and other son and daughters of alums 11 ould be greatly appreciated!) By the \1ay, you may hear h ireen on a few national radio spots-she does voice-01 ers. o listen carefully. . . . 1el inda Griggs Underwood l i \·e happily in Putney, \'t., with her dog, Estee, and r110 cats. She \1 orks a a consultant to nonprofits in the southern \·ermont area, focU',mg on program de\·elopment, grant proposal as isrance and marerial., prcxluction . . . . Tom l ayto r <.,end greetmg'> t o a l l a n d promise rhar he \1 ill keep us u p to dare on his r ra\ el'> . . . . \frer a terri fic \hO\I ing at n:un1on 1 11 J une, Chris, Tucker and
ici Be1 in o rdon celebrated the health� rnd ha pp� arm al of Tare Fl 1 1,1 beth on Jul ) 2 I , 2000. C :ongratulanon'>, C 1 c 1 ! . . . On the other .. 1dc ofBo ..ton. Lou eremia, Fl 11a , l'- 1 k 1 and I ( ue Jame eremia) \1 c lcomcd a l i ttle one of our 011 n, Ch n.,tophcr J ame'>, on �cptember CJ. 2 000 . . . . Pl e,1.,e keep .,endrng e-111 a i l u p d .i r � ., (da ., n e 11 ., 1 <J ' ® a l um.collll .edu). I t i... g'reat fun hcarmg from �1 e� one. a�d It make., for a fun column '
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Randolph-:\lacon Woman's College honored Beth Schwartz-Kenney '86 with the prestigious Gill ie A. Larew Award for Distinguished Teaching, recognizing "sound scholarship and effectiveness as a teacher in the classroom. " A member of the psychology department since 1 99 1 , Schwartz-Kenney works in the field of children's eyewitness testimony. "The things that she valued as an undergraduate at Colby are the same things to which she is dedicated at R-i\1\VC," re-
Beth Schwartz-Kenney '86 ported the school's alumnae magazine.
.Umringes: Christopher H. Castner '82 to Pamela M. Rockett in Marblehead, :\ lass. ·:· Catherine C. Hobson '83 to Robert B. Scott in Rye, N .H. ·:· Paul R. Doyle '85 to Diana Saraceno in Middletown, Conn. ·:· Caroline R. Moses '86 to Christian D. ,\ 1c,\Iahon in Falmouth, ,\1ass. ·:· Lisa A. Rydin '86 to C. Scott Lil liott in H ingham, ,\lass. ·:· ScottJ. Jablonski '89 to Maria F. Florio in Johnston, R. l .
Bi11hs: A son, Caleb Thomas Hale, to Da1·id and Cynthea Hurlburt Hale '84 ·:· A on, Christopher James Geremia, to Louis '85 and Susan James Geremia '85 ·:· A daughter, Tate Elizabeth Gordon, to Doug and Alicia Bevin Gordon '85 ·:· A son, James ,\ fanning Di Sandro, to Jeffrey '87 and
lary Browne DiSandro '89 ·=· A son, David Samuel Martin, to Chris and Jayne Grossman Martin '88 ·:· A son, Benjamin Travis, to Robert Travis '88 and Michelle Leinbach '89 ·:· A son, Ben Abbatiello, to Thomas '89 and Christine Murphy Abbatiello '9 1 ·:· A son, Carsten James Connolly, to Adrienne and James Connolly '89 ·:· A daughter, Emil)' Reed Gallagher, to Robert '89 and Susan Banta Gallagher '89 ·:· A daughter, Sarina ,\Iackenzie Bridges, to Laura Johnson '89 and Patrick Bridges ·=· A son, Geoffrey Dre\\" Brunel l , to Nancy Spellman '89 and Paul Brunell ·:· A daughter, Katelyn Ann Szustak, to Michael and Cherie Poulin Szustak '89 ·:· A daughter, Johanna Letson Harding, to Anita Terry '89 and Kevin Harding.
Dentbs: David E. Bell H '86, September 6, 2000, in Cambridge, Mass., at 8 1 .
this one, so n o babbling, just the news. Thanks to all who e-mai led this time . . . . Robin Chalmers married Jerad .\ [ a on in July, witl1 Margaret \Vallace as maid of honor. Robin 11 orks for a magazine publishing com pan)', and the newlyweds l i\·e i n \ \'inchester, ,\ l a s . . . . Helene Landers has put her professional golf career on the back burner for noll" so she can concentrate on her son, Gray, horn 111 September 1 999. I l elene sti l l I n e'> 1 11 L..\. and keep'> a foot in the theater \1 oriel b) doing an occasional com111erc1al . . . . H i lary Breed an D u en .md her hu.,hand, Charlie, 11 elcomcd their '>econd daughter, l ... la� . 111 Februar) 2000. She joins ., i... ter \ l a n k a , 3 . T h e ) l i \ e i n \ larblehead, \ la<i'> . . . . Harriet Haake relourcd to �an Diego fi\ e � ear'> ago, and .. he \1 nte'>, ") e'>, the 11 carher 1;
great a l l the time." She was married in November 1 999 to Mark Hal l , and Colbyites who made the trip for the wedding included Rob Boone ' 8 5 , Kris G i b l i n L i n d q u i s t , Andre a Mclnnis Leonard a n d Linda (Flight ' 5) and Peter L u l l . Harriet works as a retirement plan consultant at Buck Consultants in San D i ego . . . . Gretchen Bean Lurie got together ll"ith Brigid Hoffman in Tew York in October while G retchen was visiting the Big Apple for the premiere of her husband's fi lm, The Co11te11der.
he and her husband and k i d s , I l unter, I 0 , a n d Paige, 8, live in Pasadena, Cal if. . . . Beth SchwartzKen n ey recei\·ed an a w a rd for di>tinguished teaching and continues to chair the psychology department at Randolph-.\ l acon \\'oman's College. Bob Kenney is busy as presi-
dent of his consulting company, Partners Through Training . . . . Lisa Rydin married C. Scott Li l l iott in J une. The couple bought a house in Stow, ,\1ass., and Lisa now works at Fidelity I nstitutional Retirement Services Company i n M a rl borough, Mass . . . . H amilton Brower has made some changes i n his l i fe. He left the marketing i ndustry two years ago and sailed around the world with his dad for five months. They started in Athens, Greece, and, 2 8,600 miles later they returned. Hamilton is now involved with an educational program sponsored by the United ations and is a lso involved with Habitat for Humanity . . . . Hey-this is our 1 5th reunion year, so make plans now to attend. If you're sti l l wishy-washy about attending the reunion, keep in mind this important bit of wisdom: make new friends, but keep the old; one is si lver and the other's gold . Reunion is a great chance to catch up with old pals, overwhelm elderly faculty members who pretend they know who you are, and hangout with people you never had anything in common with at Colby but suddenly do now. Come brag about your jet-set l i fe or show off your body piercings-whatever, just come. If you woul d l i ke to volunteer to help with planning the reunion, contact Jay Allen Qames. al [email protected]). Also, I 'm looking for someone to take over the class notes starting this summer. E-mail me if you are interested (it's fun and no more painful than the average body piercing). Ciao for now.
-Wendy Lnpha111 Russ
87 Three's a charm for B i l l , J e a n n e , M i tch a n d Er ic . C a l l i e ( Knowles '89) and Bi l l C lapp welcomed a baby girl, Ainsley, last March. She joins tl1e very cute Ben, 6, and Caroline, 4-I saw them at Brian Law's house when Karen and Tim Hennessey were visiting this September. Karen and Tim live in San Francisco and were on their way to Italy for a vacation. Bill is tl1e math guy (Brian's title for him) at Berwick Academy and was just about to lead the orientation program for the students. He is also the JV boys' hockey coach and varsity lacrosse coach. Callie earned her master's from BC and is a social worker at Sexual Assault Support Services in Portsmouth as the group coordinator . . . . Mitch andJeanne Morrison Cook had their third injuly with the arrival of Samuel ,\ lorrison Cook. H e joins his very
proud big brothers David, 6, and Merritt, -t, out in Grand Rapids, Mich. . . . I n August, Karie and Eric Green's third, Maggie, joined her two b ig sisters, Nell , 3 , and Annie, 2 . . . . I saw Mike '86 and Christine Palmer Savage at a birthday party for Joy Pratt and Mary McCarty. Christine was expecting #2 in the fal l and is busy with PJ at home and avoiding all the work that' being done on their house in \ Vellesley. Tim and Teri Scally Kfosella were also there. They l ive up in Newbu1-yport and have a l ittle boy, Cole, who's I . Teri, a long with Melissa Raffoni, is part of a group called the Professional Skil ls All iance, which is a Boston-based group of consultants who work individually and in cross-functional teams to provide a wide range of business consulting services to a l l types of companies. Check out th e i r Web s i te ( p ro fessionalskil ls.com) . . . . Helen Muir Milby reports the birth onJm1e 2 2 of their second girl. Kate, she writes, "has been a joy. Although bittersweet, I am looking forward to heading back to work. It should be an interesting fal l with the elections. I have worked closely with Senator Lieberman over the past five years and hope that he'll be our next vice president." . . . Karen Czuchry Sallman has just taken a senior consulting position with Ariba. She writes, "I will be stationed and l iving in Munich. I got married on August 4 to a German by the name of Florian Sal lmann. This year we had our German civil ceremony and next year, also on August 4, we will have our church wedding with family and friends." . . . MelissaJenkins continues to serve on the faculty of Brown University in the department of psychiatry and human behavior. "As a cl inical neuropsychologist," she says, "I perform assessments of patients with neurologic i l lnesses and i njuries. I teach in the clinical psychology internship/fellowship program and conduct research . " You can fi nd J\lfel issa's recent publications in many journals, including theA111eria111 ]011r-11al of p,J1cl1iany. She also spends time scuba divi ng, ski ing and rollerblading and was looking forward to coming to J\ Iaine in the fal l to make apple butter with her 8-t-year-old grandmother' . . . Thanks to Josh Shapiro for answeri ng my plea for news. He got married inJ uly to Suzanne] uster, a Notre Dame alum, and had lots of Colby friends at their wedding. The attendees and their professions: Ethan Shapiro '83 , Josh's brother, a dean/
teacher at Ph i l l ips Exeter; Scott Lainer, advertising; Bruce Dalbeck, consulting; Mike Ashley, started his own business; Shannon McDonald, mother and part-time social worker; Andrew Rudman, State Department; Brad Fay, \TP market research; Jeff DiSandro, partner in a management recruiting firm. Josh and Suzanne l ive in 1 ew Jersey, and both work as brand managers at Reckitt Benckiser. . . . Glenn Cummings started a new job in ugust as d irector of professional advising at the niversity of Virginia, where he serves as the primary faculty advisor for UVA students considering law school and medical school. On his first day he met with a grad student who turned out to be Margaret Russell Ewalt '92 . Small world1 The summer was busy as well , as Glenn had a commitment ceremony in June with his partner of three years, Colby Smith. Yes, his name is real ly Colby' They plan to stay in Charlottesville, where Glenn's been for 1 2 years. Colby travels a lot, teach ing seminars all over the U.S . for the Moulton Company . . . . Marco Loretto is co-founder and vice president , bus i ness development for Notara in N.Y.C. H i s company provides \ Veb-based collaborative software that automates administrative processes . . . . Thanks to those who wrote to me. And for the rest of you, send me an e-mail today! My best to you al l .
-Jane Nicol iV lr11111el
89 Laura Johnson has started a private practice in pediatrics, and she and husband Patrick Bridges welcomed the i r t h i rd ch i ld , Sar ina Mackenzie B ridges, onJ une 1 5 , 2000. Sarina joins Alexa and Owen in tl1e Johnson Bridges household . . . . Chris Tompkins had a book publ ished on the Croton Dams and Aqueduct i n September, a n d on the day he sent the final manuscript to the publisher he received his master's of social science from the J\ Iaxwell School at Syracuse . . . . T have enough baby news to fi l l an entire column1 Mary Browne DiSandro and husbandJeff '88 had a baby boy,James ,\fanning, on Februan' 1 5 . ,\ lary writes that James arri�1ed a mond� early, so his aunt Cathy "C.C." Cook was not able to be in Boston for his birth . . . . .\ I ichael and Cherie Poulin Szustak had a daughter, Katelyn Ann, on J une I . They also h<l\'e a son, Christopher, who started kindergarten this fal l . . . . Brian Murphy i s the proud papa of
Liam . . . Ponch Membreno writes that he and wife Jess were expecting a baby in December. They bought a house on Peaks lsland, J\ Iai ne, though they haven 't l ived there yet because Ponch took a job at Patagonia in ew York. They hang out witl1 Jake Ul ick '90, Tucker Offutt and Tom Cahill and saw Steve Masur '88's band. Ponch recently spent three weeks kayak ing in Tha i l and . . . . J im Connolly sent a long e-mail with news of the birth of his son, Carsten James, in October '99. Jim reports that he recently kayaked the Potomac River to raise awareness about the e ffect that the pol lut ion in the Anacostia River has on die fragile Chesapeake. J im also sent news that Jan Gisholt i s engaged to be married. Jan l ives in Miami and works as a ship broker. His fiancee, Denise, is a psychiatrist. . . . Kayaking is quite the trend. Jennifer Joseph regaled me with tales of her kayaking exploits, including a planned trip to Acadia and a kayaking symposium in Castine, Maine.Jenni fer lives in P insburgh and works at Ernst & Young; she recently returned from a birthday trip to Norway and Iceland . . . . Carolyn Harper joined the marriage ranks in J une when she married Stephen Paul Hefner . . . . Michelle Leinbach and husband Rob Travis '88 had their first baby, Benjamin, last February. They also bought a house in \V. Newron, i\ Iass., and Michelle is now back at work as a lawyer at Mintz Levin in Boston. She sees Ju l i e Abele Wetzel l a n d Michelle Delea a n d reports that Michelle and her husband had a baby girl in December '99 . . . . Nancy Spellman and husband Paul Brunell welcomed Geoffrey Drew Brunell on July 20, 2000 . . . . Bob and Sue Banta Gallagher moved to Scituate, ,\lass., where Sue is a catalog visual special ist for Tai bots and Bob is a senior manager in a special ized l i tigation-consulting group with Price \ Vaterhouse Coopers in Bosron. They had a baby girl, Emily Reed, on Easter Sunday. Sue writes that the�· h <we had visits from Liz (Helft '9 1 ) and Don Darby and their l i ttle girl, H annah, and Kirk Koenigsbauer and his wife, .:'\een, and baby Peter. i nce mo,'ing to Boston, ue and Bob see more ofi\'lel ita �larks, who just became engaged ro Da,·e chacter, Christina Theokas, who is in a Ph.D. program in psychology at Tufts, and Dave and Karen Currey \Vehr, who had a bab1· girl in ,\ I a�" . . . Kathy Dowley
i s now a professor of pol i tical science at S 1 :Y-New Pal tz, where Roger Bowen is president, and she was to travel to Albania in the fall to moniror local elections. Kathy and her h usband, J\ Ian, and their two kids love upstate N.Y . . . . Mark Demian writes that he recently became a partner with]a1'itch, Block, Eisen c' Ratl1bone in Cleveland and ,,· i l l soon move to Columbus to be the managing partner in the firm's office there . . . . Lane Wilkinson i s sti ll in Seattle, recently bought a house, and is now the bike and ski buyer for REI . He spentjune climbi ng i n the Bolivian Andes . . . . Dawna Zajac Perez started a new job as director of development for the H ispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation i n Boston and Lawrence. She works from home, although home may be changing as she and husband David and their two boys a re building a house in H averh i l l and hoped to move from N. Andover in December. She writes that she would lo,·e to hear from Micky Beck, Rob Garland, Brett and Leslie orton Rankin, John Girard, Steve Nason or anyone who l ived in Coburn senior year.
-Anita L. Teny
9Q John Hayworth left his old law fi rm i n December 1 999 with seven other people to establ ish their own l i tigation firm and i s happy to report that die new firm i s doing very well-and that he and his wife are expecting their second chi ld i n February. He sees Chip Smith because Chip is in Nashvi l le as one of Al Gore's deputy campaign managers . . . . Rudy and Erika Dresser Penczer wrote to say that they are also expecting a second child in February. Their son, .:'\icholas, wi l l be a bout 2 1 11 when hi new l i tt le brother or sister arrives . . . . Carol Lockwood moved from \\'ashington, D.C. , to Hawa i i last spring, fo llowing her mother's diagnosis with brain cancer. he writes, "whi le the mo,·e was unexpected and the reasons for it de,·astating, i t is n ice to be back with my family." She is practicing international trade, corporate and real property law at a fi rm i n Honolulu. Carol 's d a d graduated from Colby i n '6.+, and her mother attended with the Class of '66, so Colby is dear tO all of them, and they think frequently of the friends they made there . . . . Matt Frymier i s st i l l l iv ing out in an Francisco, where he was a bond trader for six years,
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but he has recently been promoted to d i rector of e-commerce for fin an c i a l markets at the B a n k of America. H i s work im·olves a great deal of tra\·el shutt ling between San Francisco, Chicago, N" e\,. York and Charlotte. His w i fe , Cath�·, i s an institutional salesperson at Goldman, Sachs and Co. They\·e been enjoying l i fe in northern California (sa i l i ng, h i king and bik ing) . They had a great t ime at reunion last June \\· i th Malcolm Chace and h is w ife, Erin, and enjo�·ed \·is it ing ,,· i th :\ Ialcolm's three kids . . . . Doug H a l l i s now l i,· ing in Portland, :\ Ia ine, and working as a city fire fighter, "the best job in the \\·orld," h e writes. I ' l l take Doug's word for it , since I think he's had more jobs in the last 1 0 years than the rest of us put together' He says he sees Beth Kubik frequently (she i s l i ,· ing in Portland with her h usband and her dog) and that he's bui lding a three-family house with \'ie\\'s of the Portland sl')'l i ne and the harbor. " I 'm looking forward to being a kinder, gentler slumlord," Doug sa�·s. He especia l ly \\'ants to thank the many Colby friends who supported h is -+ -mile sea kayak regatta fund raiser this summer, which raised money for a youth development organ ization . . . . Jeff Kelleher has been teaching music for about seven �·ear , the pa t fi,·e at the B rooklyn (Conn.) :\ I iddle School . He recently fin i hed his master's in music education at the llni\·ersit:y of Connecticut. He and his wife , Barbara, wi l l soon celebrate their fifth wedding ann i \ e r,ary, and their daughter, \I i i on, turned 2 in December. . . .
.\l ary ",\ i im" Siegel and her husband, B i l l Lombaro, had a baby boy named '\icholas . . . . Tom and Kate Brennan Da i l ey are l i ,· ing in England and \\ ere expecting a baby in earl� :\'c l \ ember, \1 h i le ,\ [e l issa Ray :\'e l son and her husband, Da\·e, ju t had a bal)\ named Cameron at the end of Jul) . . . . Dave and Dawn Pitcher Batchelder are ha' ing a great t 1 111e \I t th the i r da ughter, l'-Hhen ne, " ho " J'> I Jn '\ 01 em her. Da' e , ., " ork1ng at Lucent Technologic, Jn Cambndgc, and Da\1 n i' a ph) .,icun \ J'>'1'>t,rnr at the La he) C l 1 11 1c 1 11 Burl i ngto n . The� are ll\ -1 11g 1 11 \ \ e-,tford and "ha\ e embraced dorne,nc l i fe completcl) .
.. acu>rd-1 11 g to Da\\ n . . . . �reph,1111e (\'ore '9 l ) rnd Pau l pp l e celebrated the b irth of their -,econd child 1 11 earl)
eptember. \I other .rnd d,tughtcr arc do1ng fine, antl " hi le l llg brother,
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B rian, is a l i ttle puzzled by a l l the noise around the house, he seems otherwise happy to have a l itt le sister. . . . Chris Michaud and Matt Taber had a baby girl, J i ll i an Laura Taber, born i n N"ovember 1 999 (their son, Benjamin, is about 5) . . . . Bernie Khoo has accepted a ne,,· post as senior \'ice president/chief in formation officer at the American Association of Homes and Sen·ices for the Aging. In addition to his responsibi l i ties at AAHSA, Bernie teaches as an adjunct professor in the economics deparm1ent at American U niversity and writes regularly on I nternet issues for Coutempormy Long-Tel711 Cm·e magazine . . . . Chip Gavin recently was promoted to vice presi dent o f communications at Crittenten Hastings House in Boston, nlass. CHH's m ission is to assist individuals and fami l ies to attain and sustain economic independence and selfsufficiency; in his new position, Chip wi l l have responsibi l ity for everything from information technology systems to media relations . . . . Don't forget to stop by the class \Veb page (\\'\\'\l' .colby.edu/classof/ 1 990) for more news and photos of reunion.
-Lnurn Senier
9 1 I t's hard to bel ieve, but our 1 0th reunion is just a few months away. The reunion committee has been quite busy over the past year making plans for the weekend of June 8- 1 0. Those attendi ng the recent commi ttee meet i ngs were Tricia Shepard Quinn (who was expecting her first chi ld in December), Laurie Brown Ross (and her 1 8-month-old son, Andrew),J essica Butler Stabile, Dave Shumway and Shawn Crowley (on conference cal l from N"e\\' York). T h e weekend w i l l i nclude a class headquarters in a dorm, parade of classes, lobster bake, class dinner with our favorite faculty speaker/guest and 1•arious other class acti,·ities. You will have the opportunity to pre-order a n ice blue Colby fleece blan ket as a memento of our I 0th reunion. There wi l l also be lots of fun chi ldren's acti,·i ties and a child-c.ire program for your l ittle one'>, '>0 he >ure to bring your ch i l tlren a long-\\ e " ould a l l lo\'e to see them. \\'c had a great rumour for our fi frh rcumon and e.\pect an e\·en h1ggt:r one for our I 0th ' l t is important , ho\1 C\ er, ro prc-rcgi'>ter for the \1 cekend '>0 that the Col lege i'> prcparctl for attendance at the acti\ i t1 e'>. PleJ'>e keep J)(l'>tcd \1 i th the
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laresr i nformation on the Colby 'vVeb s i re or feel free to contact Laurie Brown Ross ( lr [email protected]) for more in formation. Please spread the word to a I I of your Col by friends and make this the t ime to catch up with all those friends you m iss hanging out with . See you in J une.
-Jennifer Wood Jencks
92 Bessie Moss St. Lawrence had a baby girl, Gretel Sarah , in May, and she and her husband, B i l ly, moved back to the Boston area after l iving in Greenwich, Conn. , for the past few years . . . . Ji l l Collett Donohue welcomed her second son, Christopher Brooks, last August, the same day that Kristen Russo House had her first baby, Madison Son i a . J i l l l ives in Greenwich, Conn. , with her husband, Steve '90, and sons, and Kristen st i l l loves J\i l i l l Val ley, Cal if. , where she moved in 1 998 with her husband, Mike . . . . Amanda Bishop got married last summer to her h igh school sweetheart, Mark Becker. Guests at the Castine, Maine, wedding included Michael and J essica D'Ercole Stanton, John O'Brien a n d Debra Stinchfield Morrin. Amanda and Mark bought a home in Newbu1yport, Mass., a year ago and both work in sales in the greater Boston area . . . . Kristin Nixon Donahue got her M . B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in J une of '99 and is working at Putnam I nvestn1ents in Boston. She and her husband, Tom, bought a new condo in Boston last year and have been known to host great parties on the ir roofdeck! Kristin , Amanda Bishop, Jessica D'Ercole Stanton, Kate Kane and Ji l l Collett Donohue threw a birthday party in Boston on May 20 for anyone/everyone who turned 3 0 this year. A great turn-out of local Colby people i ncluded Chris and Whitney Adams Ward, who recently had a baby (Li ly!), Greg Mahoney, Mark Mellyn, Dave Dore, Jocie Childs, Peter '9 1 a n d H eather G lynn Ginolfi, Kyle Lissack wim his wife, Marl ies, who just happened to be in Boston that weekend, David Freed '90, Paul Davis '90, Steve Dimitriou '9 1 , Sarah Whi tely '9+ and J ustin D'Ercole '95 and a handful of others. . . . Mark MeUyn recently bought a house in Centervi l le, 1' Iass., where he works as a captain in the police department. . . . Erica Gregg and Joe Tarnburini continue to enjoy Scituate, R . I . , where they have an old farmhouse and lots ofanimals. Erica works
as in-house legal counsel at Textron Financial Corp. in Providence, and Joe works in Boston as a broker at Salomon Smim Barney. Both have recent ly run marathons ( Erica in Dubl in, I reland, and Joe in Boston) and were tra in ing for this year's Marine Corps Marathon . . . . Michael and Jessica D'Ercole Stanton l ive in Cambridge, Mass., and are resisti ng the efforts of fe l low alumni who are trying to convince them to move to the 'burbs. Michael recently left Putnam I nvestments to join money manager David L. Babson Co., where he is in inst itutional sales. Jessica joined the office of alumni and corporate relations at the M IT Sloan School of Management in May . . . . Aimee ( Flores '95) and Cal Wheaton are l iving in Luthervi l le, Md. Cal is now a vice president in the healtl1 care investment banking group for Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown. He travels several days a week and sti l l runs into Colby a lums along the way, including Charles Beeler '93 and Mark Mellyn. Aimee fin ished medica l school lastyearat Penn State, Hershey Medical Center, and is starting her second year of internal medicine residency. They have two very energetic dogs and a new home mat keeps mem busy. They also love to travel and last year visited Egypt and I taly. This summer mey planned a cruise of tl1e Galapagos Islands and tl1en a h ike of the Machu Picchu tra i l in Peru . . . . Chris and Karen Larson Flint now reside in Rhode Is land. Chris is the head coach of the women's soccer team at Bryant College, and Karen works for Textron Financial in Providence . . . . Bill Higgins married Lauren Holland in 1 998. Last year tl1ey moved to Minnesora for B i l l 's job with Reliance Standards L ife I n surance, a n d last December tl1ey welcomed tl1eir first son, Frankie . . . . Christy O'Rourke works in tl1e marketing and promotions department for LYCOS in \Valtl1am, J\ l ass. She became engaged last July + to Jeffrey Doyle, who graduated frcm St . Lawrence Universiry in Canton, N.Y. They plan a wedding next J une in New York.
-,\ Jiche/le Fo11ier Biscotti
9J \Vei l , they say desperate times cal l for desperate measures. A.nd this, m\' friends, is crulv a desperate time fo� me Class of
.1 993 . I have not
received a single piece of news from any of you since I last wrote a column in.June! What gives, people) I r is now
easier than ever to send me news' Assuming tl1at you have heard of email , t l1at is . So here is me address once aga i n : classnews I 993@alum. colby.edu. And aga i n : c lassnews I [email protected]. J n fact, r am tempted to fi l l up the rest of my al lotted space with that address, just in case there is any l ingering confus i o n . I t ' s c l a s s n e w s I 9 9 3 @a l u m . colby.edu. That's classnews 1 993 . . .
-Beth C111Ta11
94 Phil Polsky graduated with a joint M.S. in foreign service and M. B.A. from Georgetown niversity in May and accepted a rotational management tra in ing position with ' nron in Houston, Texas. He plans to spend one year in Texas and then hopes to spend his second year at one of Enron's overseas offices. Phil got engaged to Ula Solomon, and they plan a 200 1 summer or fa l l wedding. She a lso has her M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown and is on a rotational program for the government, working on tl1e Albania desk at tl1e Srate Department. . . . Jen and Shane Wright moved to Pittsfield, Maine, inJulywim their dog, Reggie. . . . Rich Rygalski is in his second year of law school at Frankl in Pierce in New Hampshi re . . . . Joe Kravitz is in his second year of law school at Pepperdine University in Cal ifornia.
icci and Lars White are sti l l l iving in Hoboken, N.J. , where he is working in real estate management. I icci is a graphic designer in N.Y.C.
licia and Jake Humbert are botl1 practicing law in Montpelier, Vt . . . . Kurt Niebuh�r and his wife, Eiko, are l iving in Tokyo, where Kurt is the COO of an Internet-based consulting firm. They expect their first child mis.January . . . . Ken Lee earned his J\ LB.A. at the Eller School of Business ar me niversiry of Arizona this past .\ lay and is working wim PCS Health Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz . . . . Bill Bush appeared on Politiwlly luco1-rect with B i l l ,\ la her in August 2000. Other guests included Alec Baldwin, Senator Barbara Boxer and Joan Rivers. Bill i s the host of a morni ng radio show in the D.C. area. . . . Katherine Tinney married Brian
now in J une l 997 in l\'ernda. They are currently J i ,· ing in \ \'hirman, .\lass., and celebrated me birm of Alexandra Erin on ,\ lay 13 . Kamerine plans to take mis school year off from reaching middle school Spanish ro be wim her daughter and to continue working on her master's in educa-
tional technology . . . . Kristen (El l i s '92) and Erik Georges celebrated me birth of their first chi ld, Skyler. E r i k a n d K ri s ten are l i v i n g i n Stratham, N . H . , where Erik i s employed as a busi ness development special ist for Modis and Kristen is enjoying being home wi tl1 their baby gir l . . . . Brian O'Sul l ivan a n d Heatl1er H u n t '96 are planning aJ u n e 200 1 wedding in \Vindsor, Conn . They recently moved from normern California to \ \'orcesrer, ,\ lass., where Heather was to begin her first year at the U n ivers i ty of iv [assach usetts Medical School. Brian is working as an account manager with I BJ\1 . . . . Andie Sulak i s working on her M.S . in environmental policy and science at UC- Berkeley . . . . Stacey Warner fin ished her master's in international education at Stanford in August. . . . J eff '93 and Connje Huffine Zlot are living in San Francisco . . . . Sarah (Whitely) and J ustin D'Ercole '95 moved to ew York City in J uly . . . . Laura Eanes married Richard J\lartin inj une 2000 . . . . Jonathan Blumberg married Tasiveli Sarygulova in August 2000 in Chicago. They met at Johns Hopkins whi le Jon was working on his M.A. in international re lat ions and are currently l iving in the \Vashingron, D.C., a rea. Jon and Nasive l i went to J(jrghizsran to spend me Tew Year witl1 asivel i 's family. . . . Trezlen Drake i s worki ng on her second year of a law degree at Georgia Stare Un iversity Col lege of Law. She took a summer course in international commercial arbitration and visited arbitration courts in Budapest, Prague, Venice and Vienna . . . . Rebecca Cooper married Scott Crawford in Apri l 2 000 and l ives in Florida . . . . Cate Czernicki passed the bar and is working in a l aw firm in Connecticut. Care married Bob Reynolds last eptember. Bridesm a i d s i nc l uded Caro l ine Grab Ka l e igh , A l i c i a H i d a l go a n d Heather Vincola. Heather earned her i\1 .B . . from Babson Business School and is a partner in marketing at Giant Loop l\'etwork, a tart-up company in \\'altham, .\ [ ass . . . . Christy Lynch i also working at Giant Loop part t ime whi le i n her second year at Babson B u s i n e s School. . . . Kerry Enright is getting her Ph.D. from tanford Uni,·ersity . . . . Jenna Lemerise is Ji,-ing and working i n .\ [unich, Germany . . . . Maria Desimone i s J i,· ing i n !\' atick, .\ Ia s . , and is a manager of i nformation systems at a n environmental
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consu l t i n g compan)'. She recent!)· took a road tr ip to Port land, O re . , with Katheri n e Bordwel l , who spent the past )·ear in :\ la ine, where she attended a emester-long program on documentary photography. Katherine h a mo,·ed back to Oregon . . . . Congratulations to Iatt SaJah and his wife, h a ron, on the birth of their daughter, Bethany, on :\ la)' 20. They a lso just bought a house in A\'on, :\ l a ss . . . . Rebekah Freeman mo,·ed to Bo ton , where he works at Bo ton Cni\'er in· i n res idential l i fe . . . . Heather Loun bury is working at CCB Group i n Cambridge, :\ lass., and tra,·els frequentl,to Belgium for work . . . . Caro lyn H ar t worked l ast summer at the Clements Library at the l.'niversity of .\ Iichigan, putting together an exhibit on women's h iston· that was to go up i n the fal l . . . . Ingrid Kristan was to be m arried on J u ly I in East Boothbay H a rbor, :\ I a i ne, to .\ lark Rinzi . fol lowed b\· a hone\'l11oon driving up the eastern coast of Canada. I ngrid i attending Temple Uni,·er�it) for a communications degree . . . . _\fter I 0 year of bein g on the East Coa t, I a m mo,· ing back to Los Angeles, Cal if. I left m)' senior board relation position at FleetBoston Financial i n .\ugust and planned to tra' e l for about three months (driving cross coui1tr)' and then on to F i j i , \ustra l ia , Bal i and Thai land) before
purwing another job in the L.A. area. . . . Take care and keep ending news1
-Tmcy /\. L111-se11
95 Tip ,\ lechel married Amanda \\ 'ard (\\' i l l i a 1m 'ollege '9-+) in a J u l ) ccrcmon) outside of Ouray, Colo. The) I n c 111 ,\u tin, Te,as, " here he 1 ' " orki n g t:O\\ ard a P h . D . 1n geolo[.(! " h i le \manda " orks a s a freelance " rner md no' e l i't. The) met " h 1 le at the L m' ersi t) of\ lontana 111 \ l 1w mb, " here the) hope ro ren1m e' c.:nruall) . . . . Kara Toms and her hu,hand, Dan Ba men, ha' e 1110\ ed to I U\emhourg from \'ermont for one ) c.:ar. . . . andra J e" er married her h1uh ,chool "' eethe;1rt. Da1man Del\\ , 111J ul) 111 lt111u:or. \ 1.11ne. In attendance \\ere Kath) 'hrist) . Kell) pooner, Brvn Raffetto. \ l ichelle rdina, \ lichelle \\') cmura . . \Jisa \ las on rnd Crng \ l u rr.l) "% . . . . John
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62 B T E R
SIG SCHUTZ '94 What he is An environmenta l , l it igation
and media law attorney and recent
add it ion to the Port land , Maine,
American R ed Cross cha pter's board of
d i rectors and chair of its strategic
pla n n i ng comm ittee.
How he got i nvolved A contract
d ispute case witness, who ha ppened to
be cha i r of the Port land chapter's
board of d i rectors, was so i m pressed
with Schulz's interviewing and legal
approach that he offered Schutz a
place on the boa rd .
Other th i ngs he's done in h i s "spare" t ime Works on pro bono
cases with the Ma ine Vol u nteer Lawyers P rojects, has been a
volu nteer teacher for J u n ior Ach ievement, interned at the Cornel l
Legal Aid Cl in ic whi le in law school and counseled youngsters in a
youth mentoring progra m .
Parting thought Says t h e R e d Cross is "a great orga n ization that i s
an honor t o b e associated with . "
ried next October o n their I 0-year anni,·ersary . . . . Regina vVlodarski Kruger finished her il l . B .r\. in December after going part t ime for f our years \\'h i le working in the strategic i m·estments group at ;\ laster ard. She and her husband spent most \\'eekends last summer around tamford, Conn . , working on their house, but for fun she did get to a·v another new sport: surfing! . . . Rick Catino and his wife, Chrissy, relocated to San Francisco last fal l . Rick is d i rector of business de,·elopment for a Bostonbased I nternet company . . . . Chris Fossella kicked off his e ighth season as com m issioner of the Colby Fama )' Footbal l League and keeps i n contact " ithJ im Zadrozny, Rick Ca t i n o , Ty le r R a i n ey , Matt i\lorrissey, 1ike 1anning, 1ark Porter and 1arkJackson. Chris and .\ l att are both engaged to be married, to Dana ,\monel l is and Kristin Healy, respecti\ ely.J im married.\ l arissa and \ l arkj ackson married Tricia this past summer . . . . i\latt Barr is in Boulder, Colo. , " orking as an E.\ IT and i n the ICC at Dem er's Chi ldren\ l l ospital . I le\ appl) ing to med school after ha' mg fi 1110,hed t\\ o ) ear'> of postbaccalaurcatc pre-med srudie'> at the l n1, er'>IC) of Colorado . . . . J a'>on '96 ,1 11d Bet ) Robinson Phill ips l i' e in \ l mne,ma. Bet'>) I'> a 'cn1or dema l '>tudent at the l nn er'>!C) of \ lmne-Ola ,ind hope' to graduate th!'> \ Ll) .
. . Kach11 n Co gro' e graduated 111 J une from \I IT\ �lo.111 )c:hool of \ L rn agc.:mellt \1 1 th ;111 \ l . B . \. and lll < l \ e�I to I .o n d o n to " o rk for
,\ lcl(jnse�· & Co . . . . Peter Murphy teaches English at the B ro m fie ld School i n Harvard, i\ lass. He and his wife, Da\\'n (Kal loch '9-+), just bought a condo in i\ l aynard, 1\ lass . . . . After teaching for fi,·e years , John Dunbar has moved back to \ ' ermont to work for h is older brother i n the family cona·acting business. H e and his wife had a daughter, Keagan iV IcKenzie Dunbar, on St. Patrick's Day . . . . Lauren Pe l z a n d C h r i s t o p h e r Kearney \\'ere married last Ju ly i n O l d Lyme, Con n . Lynne i\1oss, Emberly Nesbitt, Ann Neuhauser and Stephanie vVhite attended . . . . Lyndsay Griffiths got married i n July t o Brian Schott of Stow, i\ l ass., on the ,\ ft. I Vashi11gto11 on Lake \ \'i nnipesaukee. They met i n \\ 11itefish, ;\ lont., where they now l ive. Elna Gordon, Jane Lundy and Sara vValdron were in the wedd i n g . Lyndsay reports that E l n a just mo,•ed from \\'hitefish to kiah, Cal if. , to teach high school English. One of her co-teachers is Adam Galvin '9-+. Janie just mo,•ed to Burl ington, Vt., to finish pre-med classes, and Sara is attending gradua te classes at the Uni' ersity of\ \'ashi ngton for education . . . . Amy K.L. Borrell and David Bemer mm·ed to San Francisco i n September after three years 111 " C'>tcrn .\ l assachusctts . . . . On \ubru'>t 5 AJy a Falwell married J oe Ro'>'> i n \\'i nchester, .\ lass . Ju lie Rentz, Kat hryn Cosgrove, Ben Damon, Kristen Hanssen Goodell <llld her huo,band, '-.'ed '92 , a n d .\ l aureen Finn chwartz and her
h usba nd, Eric '96, were i n attendance. lyssa and J oe had a great honeymoon i n St. Lucia and now l ive i n a house they bought i n iVlay in Litchfield, N . H . . . . Erika Trosetl1 i s back in the States after a couple of months in Cuba, and a l l she can think of is how to get back there aga in . he reporrs that Katie Bolick has just started at New York University i n the school of journal ism, where she is studying culniral reporting . . . . I n May 1 999 Margaret Suggs Heratl1 graduated from the University of I l l inois at Sprin gfield w i t h an M .A. i n h i story. S h e works at t h e I l l i nois State M useum in Springfield, I l l . In J u n e 1 999 she v i s i ted Ariana Talbot Vance i n Laramie, \ Vyo., and reports that Ariana is doing wel l and that her daughters are adorable! i\1argaret and her husband plan to vis i t Ali Wilkin i n Oregon next June . . . . Megan Sweeny is l iv ing i n Boston and getting her master's in art h istory at B , where i\ Ieredith \Va Iker '97 i s a lso i n her small program. 1\legan and Debbie Norris went up to \ Velis, M aine, last September to visit Tasha Walker Potter and her h usband, Adam '96, their new addition, Nolan \Va I ker Potter, and their dog, Colby. . . . Greg Walsh and Sarah I am l i n '96 got married i n September i n Chatham, Mass. Greg is an account representative at C l i n ical One i n \ \'oburn, i\ 1ass., and Sarah is an economic consultant at I nnovation and I n f ormation Consultants i n Concord, Mass . . . . Chris Orphanidies is a graduatesruden t at Duke University's Nicholas School for the Environment. H e was awarded a Iational Network Environmental Management Studies fel lowsh i p, through which he wi l l analyze the anthropogenic effects on coastal ecosystems in Narragansett, R . l . . . . Nicole Clavette and Sean Devine '9-+ got married i n ,\ lay i n Scarborough, ,\ [aine. Nicole is a research associate at Digital Research, and Sean is an assistant footba I I coach at TH . . . . The Tunk River Sculpture and Gardens i n Steuben, Maine, hosted a sculpture show this past ugust, which featured a basalt sculpture carved by Jesse Sa lisbu ry . This was the second year] esse has shown his work a t Tunk River . . . . Christopher Lohman mo,·ed to L.A. with his gir l friend, ,\bb1· Eski n '97. l le works for Keane l nte;·active, and '>he attends law school at UCLA . . . . Shake McBride l ives in Boston, " here he i'> a copywriter for C :C 0: lntcracti\ e . . . . Marc Rubin
g r a d u a t e d fro m t h e G ra d u a te School of Business at Stanf ord Univers i ty l a s t May a n d t r a v e l e d t h ro ugh E u rope before s tart ing work at Parthenon Capital in Boston . . . . Andrew Vernon l ives in Cambridge and is the manager of ecommerce forJohn Hancock Funds i n Bosto n . H e ran the Boston Marathon last Apri l . . . . Mike Rosenthal graduated from H arvard Busi ness School i n May and i s working in San Francisco.
-Yuhgo Yr111/{/g11chi
96 Greetings' As the new class correspondent, 1 want to thank everyone who has written in over the past couple of years, encourage those we haven't heard from to submit for the next class news and remind everyone that there a re five months and counting unti l our five-year reunion' . . . Laura Whittaker l ives in Arlingto n , Mass., and is working on a lead poisoning-prevention gran t w h i l e studying for h e r master's in public health at Tufts. She is sti l l seeing Jon Parsons, w h o is doing enzymology research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge. Laura and Jon saw Mike Branca, whose art is gain ing recognition i n Portland, and Amy Chamberlain, who spent the summer interning at an organic farm. They've a lso seen Mark Vigoroso, who is working hard at an I n ternet start-up and kayaking whenever possible. Laura sti l l keeps in touch with Emily Guerette, who loves Denver but is thinking of returning to Boston for graduate school. . . . Nolan Yamashiro graduated from U Penn in August with his M . S . Ed . and is working at the \Voodrow \\T i lson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton . . . . Mark Mortensen finished up his master's in computer science at Stan ford i n 1 998 and is now enrol led in a Ph .D . program in organizational behavior. . . . Kevin Rice was ma rried l ast year and after completing his Ph .D. in biochemistry at the University of \Visconsin i n M ay is n o w doing a postdoctoral fe l lowsh ip in chemistry at Yale. H e reports that Brett Wilfrid a n d Jen Hellman were married this past August . . . . Jeff Dunlap and Rebecca Duvall also were married in August, on Long Is land . . . . Patti Abbot is sti l l l iving in Boulder, Colo., and teaching fourth grade. She is engaged to Jim Arnow and wi II be marr ied n e x t s u m m e r . . . . Sarah Frechette l ives i n Burl i ngto n , \ 't . ,
and works in publ ic affairs and development for a loca l hospital . I n August s h e married Ryan Potts, a pharmacologist. Sarah met up with Rima Lathrop, who ran the Burli ngton C i ty Marathon this spring and fi nished her fi rst year at the Univers i ty of Vermont Col lege of Medicine . . . . Briana Thibeau fin ished her second year of law school at Boston Col lege this past spring and in her free time recorded an a lbum of origi na l m usic with her vocal group. She has seen Kim Allen, who started law school at BC last fa l l . . . . William Yelle fin ished his fi rst year at Mass 1\ ledical School and spent the summer i n Portugal . . . . In August Niki Sh inneman m a rried Vincent Yarnot, whom she met whi le taking a swing dancing class . Niki is l iv ing in Seattle and is working part time f or Optiva whi le sn1dying f or her master's of social work at the University of\l\Tashington . . . . Alane O'Connor was married to Kevin \Vel lenius in May in New Hampshire, a wedding attended by Claudia Wehmeier and Meghan Maguire. Kevin is Chi lean, and Alane was able to meet much of his fami ly during a backpacking trip they had taken to the Patagonian Andes of Chi le and Argentina . Alane and Kevin are l iving i n Cam bridge, Mass. , where Alane works at Industrial Economics and Kevin is a partner at Frontier Economics . . . . Suzanne Arnold completed her master's in English at the University of Virgi nia in 1 998 and was recently promoted to senior researcher for Iational Geographic Television. She was married in August in New Jersey to Daniel Ennis, and they are currently l iving in D . C. Attendants included Patty Benson, Amie Sicchitano, Dori Morrison, Jen Pope and Nicole Dannenberg. Suzanne and Dan were able to catch Nicole's wedding toJonathan Sorger at the end of their honeymoon and were planning on attending Patty's wedding· in October . . . . Nell Prause was married to David Speerli in Groton, Con n . , in August. Jennifer Felmly �'right, (married to Shane '9-+ last October), Carinn Schurman, Carol Strawn and I were able to attend. Jen and Shane recently moved back to J\ la ine from D.C. , Car inn i s l i \·ing in Seattle, Carol i s l iv ing i n Bosto n , and I ' m l i \·ing i n R ichmond, \ ' a . , fi n ish ing m�· last �·ear of medical school and applring for pediatric resi denc�· programs. I am engaged to ,\ lichael Ka plan '9 5 ,
and w e a re p lann ing a J une wedding in Ca l if ornia .
-Kim Schock
97 Congrats to Anrnlie Gosine, who married Austra l ian Cameron Howard. Betsy Eisen, Erika Moore, John Coombs, Rebecca Zacher, Erin Brenner (the maid of honor) and Kerry Propper were all in attendance . . . . Congrats a lso to Patrick Doyle and Amanda Randolph on an August wedding in ,\ lystic, Conn . . . . Dan Lavergne had a June wedd ing in Texas. He works for Southern Bell Telephone Co. and lives in Odessa . . . . Kelsey Miller participated in the Boston to N.Y.C. fVDS Ride 6, a 2 7 5-mile, three-day fund raiser for research and treatment for I I I \'/ AJ DS . . . . Doug Schultz has lived in Jackson, \\'yo. , for the last three years, working and playing on the Teton Range. He spends his workdays devising fund development tactics for a nonprofit group that serves individuals with disabi l ities and brain injuries. On a trip to T.Y.C., he was able to see Ryan Mayhugh, who remains at N lB A, Bob Hart, who works and l ives on the Upper East Side, and Bow Stratton, who is in Boston . . . . Susanna Montezemolo is at the \Voodrow \Yi Ison School at Princeton fora twoyear master's program in public affa irs and urban and regional plann ing. She ran into Josh Oeltjen, who is also there pursuing his Ph.D . . . . Tom DeCoffis working for the Federal Reserve in Boston . . . . Cindy Pomerleau started her master's in physical tl1erapy in J une at the niversity of .\ I innesota-i\ I inneapol is . She's engaged to Corey LeClerc and has planned a July '0 1 wedding in Maine . . . . Denise Mailloux works in the division of adolescent medicine at the niversity of an Francisco as a research associate on a grant with the California \Vellness Foundation assessing adolescent health risk behaviors in three Kaiser Permanente cl in ics. She was l iv ing with Beth Traglia (who has since left to travel in Greece and Peru with friends) and Entity Greenstein, but Denise has since moved in with Jon Bowden '95 . She reports that she's very ha ppr and that the Colby crowd in San Fran i gro'' ing by the minute . . . . Alexander Ammerman taught computer science and English at the elementary le\·els at the American I nternational School in Cairo, EITT·pt, after graduation. He also sa�·s he tra\·eled throughout the .\ l iddle East and .\frica gathering
1990s Correspondents 1990 Laura Senier 38 Pitts Street Natick, MA 01760 508-65 3-7927 classnews1990@al um.colby.edu
1991 Jenn ifer Wood Jencks 80 Walnut Street Seekonk, MA 0 2 7 7 1 508-336-7049 classnews1991@alum .colby.edu
1992 M ichel le Fortier B iscotti 8232 Arbor Drive Shrewsbury, MA 01545 508-845-6507 fax: 508-845-6483 [email protected]
1993 Beth Curran 64 Dane Street # 1 Somervi l le , MA 02143 classnews1993@alum .colby.edu
1994 Tracy K. Larsen 3756 Normandy Drive La Canada, CA 91011-4155 [email protected]
1995 Yuhgo Yamaguch i 1 2 4 Oxford Street # 4 Cambridge, MA 02140 6 17-354-0289 classnews1995@alum .colby.edu
1996 Kim Schock 3201 Copper M i l l Trace Apt. J Richmond, VA 23294 [email protected]
1997 Kimberly N . Parker 5382 Versai l les Road Lexington, KY 40510 606-233-4666 classnews1997@alum .colby.edu
1998 Al l ison L. Brown Flynn 6948 Avery Rd. Dubl i n , OH, 43017-2865 classnews1998@alum .colby.edu
1999 Lindsay Hayes 120 E. 34th Street, #PHD New York, NY 10016 classnews1999@alum .colby.edu
2000 H i l a ry Smyth 29 Marlborough Street Apt. #5 Bosto n , MA 02 1 1 6 6 17-266-5440 fax: 617-248-7 100 [email protected]
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qual itati\·e data on the role of a lcohol i n rraditional cultures. After two years, he returned to the U.S . to complete a master's in English at Boston ni\·ersity l ast summer and i s now at the I n ternational College i n Beirut, Lebanon, reaching h igh school English within the contexts of French, Lebanese and . . h igh school curricula. . . . Andrew Kruppa and Peter ealis grad u a ted from Ohio State Law School, and both work at law fi rms i n Cleveland, Pere for K a h n , Kleinman, Yanowitz and Aronson and Andy for B enesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff. Andy ran into David Barr, who i s i n hi third year of law school at Case \\'estern . . . . Scott Lil ley spent h is summer fishing and cooking in ::\"antucket before returning to reach fifth and ixth grade cience i n ::\"e\\ Canaan, Conn . . . . Sarah
mmel i working at the University of Chicago a a fund raiser in the medical center. She escaped to do �ome camping and h i king i n Kettle _\ loraine, \\'is., in the um mer. . . . Jen 1ason, who is no longer in Den\ er and i. training i n :\'.Y. C. before mo' ing to London sometime in the :\'e\\ Year, pent a day at the beach \\ ith Mol ly Bracken early in the fal l . :\ lolly i n o \\ at Princeton working i n t h e admissions department. h e was a bl e to catch up " i th 1 atthew B u rgener briefl) during his layo,·er 111 Dem er. I le' sti l l at Andersen Ccm<,ulting and is currently in Texa . . . . Jennifer oules started a master's program 1n biolo[0 at Boise State L11 1, er<,1ry; her thesis " i ll focu� on \\ Jnter \\ rens in \\estern \\'a hi ngcon. . . . h ri topher ul l ivan, Steve Papagiota , dam • l bo i m a n d
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Hilary Gehman '93 made the news as a member of the quadruple sculls team at the Olympic Games in Australia. The rowers advanced to the semifinals before being eliminated ·:· Colbia11S who watched "Hopkins 24/7 ," the SL\-part documentary news eries filmed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, :\ Id., recognized Kathie Pooler '94. In one episode the thirdyear resident physician at the hospital related her anxieties after she was exposed to HI\'-infected blood ·:· Public interest in the PBS hit A11tiq11es Rondshou• fueled a new on-line business, Antiques America. Joshua Eldred '96 wa instrumental in launching the Internet site, which helps dealers and enthusiasts gain access to the 11·orld of antiques and to expert guidance in the gro,,ing S2 5 -billion market.
.UmTinges: Karen Dunn '92 to Nathan C. Vlagner in Stowe, Vt. ·:· Helen A. Hopkins '92 to Terry Kellogg i n M iddlebury, Vt. ·=· Jason C. Barnes '93 to Amanda Brebach i n . Marblehead, ,\1ass. ·:· J ulie A. Cyr '94 to Joseph C. Gibowicz in Old Town, ,\1aine ·:· Gregg A. LeBlanc '96 to Catherine C. Neuger '97 in White Plains, N.Y. ·=· John O.J.) F. Lovett Jr. '96 to All ison G. Spil l in Spring Lake, N.]. ·:· Alane B . O'Connor '96 to Devin \\'ellenius i n Dix'\ille Notch, N.H. ·=· Jason R. Mcintosh '97 to Kerry A. Wilcox in Danvers, ,\lass. ·:· Amanda K. Randolph '97 to Patrick E. Doyle '97 in :\ Iystic, Conn. ·=· Heather M. Piper '98 to Christopher Jackson in Watervi lle, Maine.
Bi11hs: A son, Ben Abbatiello, to Thomas '89 and Christine Murphy Abbatiello ' 9 1 ·:· A daughter, Abigail Rose Sweeney, to William and Heather Hartshorn Sweeney '91 ·=· A daughter, Keely Elizabeth Stanczak, to Jim and Lael Hinman Stanczak '93.
the marine conservation/endangered seas program . . . . H enry Lo is a field representative for California State
sembly person Dr. Gloria Romero ( D - Lo s n g e l e s ) . . . . A n d rea DeHaan, who had her grant to teach English in Germany renewed, spent last summer in the Scates and Greece. "But now l 'm back in Dortmund, Germany," he writes, "where the weather is quite a seep down from Greece but where the beer is the best in the " orld." . . . Jon Sterling is at L'Conn La'' chool. . . . Steve Suomi currentl) teaches English, coaches track and field and is a dorm parent at \'irg1111a Epl'>copal 'chool in Lrnchburg, \'a. reg Moody l i, es right do,, n the road, and the !'\\ o hang out fa irly often . . . . \frer graduating from the ) a le '->chool of '\; ur-.1 11g m \ l a) '' ith a ma.,ter\ 1 11 nur m g, Robrn napp
u taf on '' a., certified a-. a ped1acnc nur'c pracnnoncr. Currencl) '>he \\ ork., on t he marer11 1 t) floor at Poudrc \ a l l q I l o., p 1 1 a l 1n Fon Collin,, Colo . . . . Am} ten gel '>pent tht: ,ummcr 111 I uropc ., rud) mg ruropc;rn communit) IJ,, hcfort: rcrurnm !! to ·1 ulant: for her '>t:tond ) car of la1\ 'chool. \lier ,chool .,he plan- to hc.1d had ro Color.1do ro pr.ll'Utc
e n v i ronmenta l law . . . . L u c a s Penney, Jerrod DeShaw a n d Andy Pease moved into a new place in Brookline . . . . Tony Rosenfeld dropped me an e-mai l from Romania while visiting the area.
-Kimberly N. Parker
98 Congrats to Sara Rigelhaupt, who is engaged to Geoffrey Cramer, a musician and recording engineer. They plan an October 2002 wedding1 . . . Tessa Gurley started her first year of teaching first grade in i\'orch Andover, Mass . She has been l iving in Brookl ine and i s just one class away from finishing her master's in elementary education at Lesley College. Tessa reports that Courtney Cataldi is sti l l l iving i n 1 anruckec and that Ellen B ruce i n D . C. is applying co law schools . . . . Elena Kavanagh recently moved from Boston to �rn York and is applying to de� ign schoo l . . . . A l e x a n d e r H O\ ard h a s h a d enough o f t h e l i fe of a freelance online designer and ha., mm ed co a more permanent po'>lt lOn at Bain & Company in Copley <; q ua rc , Bo�to n . l i e works w i t h Ka ush i k en and Brenden G myrck . . . . Brian G i l l (a lso J i ,, ing i n
Bosto n ) started a m aster\ program a t B a n d w i l l be applying to medical school i n the spring. I Ie i s l iving w i th A n d rew Littell , who also h a s taken u p medicine. Brian reports t h a t } o e l Gross bard is studying chi ld development at Tufts . . . . Andrew Porter and Casey Piche a re l iv ing with J ustin Harvey '99 in the North End of Boston and report that they spent "plenty of time on boats, beaches a n d gol f courses this summer . . . now on to snow 1 " . . . Amy Cote is sti l l l iv ing i n Biddeford, Maine, and is in her th i rd year of teaching high school socia l studies at M a ssabesic H igh School. When she wrote she was in the middle of her soccer season and was to begin coaching basketball soon. Amy also has been keeping i n touch with Alison Kelleher, Lauren Hoisington and Eric Anderson . . . . Peter Manning is in his second year of med school at UVM . He spent his summer visiting California for the first time, canoeing in northern Ontario and doing an internship in wi lderness medicine . . . .
J essica Rice is now l iving i n \Nashington, D.C. , and works for a new environmental nonprofit company dea l ing with susta inable forestry. She's been fortunate co do some great international travel with the organization and is a lso directing a female a cappel la group in D.C. . . . Derek Luke reports that business is boomi ng at the Coastal Brewing Company in M i ddleton, R. I . , and that plenty of Colby grads have been there to enjoy it. Coastal Brewing was founded by four Colby alums and h as reported outstanding progress. Last fall they unveiled a new special a le in a flashy cobalt blue 7 5 0m l bottle . . . . Kari Christensen is jet setting across the country i n her job with Southwest Air l ines . She writes that she loves her m a rketing job with Southwest and certa i n ly enjoys the benefits. Kari recently received her pi lot's l icense and rook Beth Deschenes, one of her first brave souls, for a ride ' . . . Dave Bernstein just moved to Chapel H i l l , N.C., to begin the editing of his novel, which is a culmination of two years waiting tables by night and writing the novel by day. . . . Susan Matlock is a lso l iving in
orth Carolina now and has begun law school at Wake Forest. . . . Josh Walton has been working as a mechanical engineer/technician at the Navy Prototype Optical I nterferometer project in Flagstaff, Ariz. His
two-year stint w i l l end in February, but he reports that he has enjoyed h is t ime travel ing to the Grand Canyon, Colorado and New Mexico for mountain bik:ingand ltimate Frisbeetournaments . . . . I am excited to share that Terry Flynn and I were married i n Dallas, Texas, on November 1 8, 2000. \Ve are currently l iving in Columbus, Ohio . . . . Keep writing!
-Allison L. Brown
99 Let's talk about Jason Cherella, who is out in the Hol lywood H i l ls . \Norking as a talent coordinator for MTV, our star hockey goal ie has hung up his skates to work on many ofMTV's shows and backstage for their award ceremonies . . . . Steph Patterson and Jodi Eidt '97 got married on September 2 3 in Atlantic City, N .] . , a n d Abby Hea ly , Em i l y Etchells a n d Melissa Maguire were a l l bridesmaids . . . . Erin Steven got married in Seattle in September and spent the honeymoon in Hawai i ; Kristy Gould and Jenny HarveySmith were in the bridal party . . . . Jake Berg and Rebecca Plurnn1er are engaged, and several classmates wi l l be in their wedding.Jake is a grad student at Columbia University whi le Rebecca is a t the University ofMichigan studying chemi stry . . . . Paul McDermott i s at Vermont Law School, enrol led in tl1eir joint degree program of] . D . and master's of em,iron mental law. During the summer Paul worked as an EMT at a nonprofit camp for inner-city chi ldren. . . . Samantha Sarno l ives in London doing cancer research and is working towards her Ph.D. i n molecular genetics . . . . Noah T. Chung is a second-year Ph .D. student in economics at the University ofJ\ 1ichigan in Ann Arbor. . . . Brent Fraser finished his first year at the Univers i ty of Arizona Law School and is working at the U.S . Attorney's office in Phoenix . . . . Chris Bunge finished his fi rst yea r at the University of Connecticut School of Law and is working in a l i tigation firm special iz ing in white-col lar crime and commercial l i tigation in Hartford . . . . Martha Healy finished her first year in tl1e medicinal chemistry department at the University of Kansas . . . . Robyn Osborn and Matt Olsen are in D.C. , where they are both grad students at American n iversity. Matt is in tl1e school of international studies pursuing a master's degree in international conflict studies, and Robyn is pursu-
ing a master's degree in psychology. Prior to grad school, Robyn and Matt drove cross-coun try to Utah, where Robyn was an ArneriCorps*VI STA volunteer for United Cerebral Palsy ofUtah and Matt was a snowboarding i nstructor at Park City J\i lountain Resort. . . . In the fa l l of200 1 , Christian Frazar wil l receive a master's of science in microbiology at tl1e UniversityofMontana in i\1 issoula. Christian studies em,ironmental microbiology, and over the summer he worked at the Environmental Protection Agency in D . C. and lived with Sarah Banner, who is working as an investigative reporter for a nonprofit news service; she's planning for grad school next fal l in international relations. Andrea Wooley is l iving in St. Louis, Mo., and working towards her Ph .D. i n immu11ology at Wash ington University. Ai1drea took the year off a fter graduation and traveled the Phi l ippines. For five months she did mission work with pre-school kids and col lege students through an organization cal led Care Corner. . . . Anna Tesmenitsky spent summer 2000 working as a summer associate at the American Civil Liberties nion in Phil ly. Last year Anna completed her first year of law school at Santa Clara University but has now transferred to Northeastern University . . . . After travel ing in New Zealand during the fal l after graduation, Mary Schwalm moved to Boulder. J\ 1ary's dream came true as she l anded tl1e opportun ity to go down to Australia for the 2000 Summer Ol)m1pics and work for tl1e Associated Press taking photographs of tl1e events. J\ 1ary p lanned to travel until November and tl1en move to Portia nd, Oregon . . . . Nicole Fallat just moved to New York City a fter spending last year in Seattle working for a start-up vennire capital firm. In N.Y.C. , Nicole works in the press office at the New York Phi l harmonic at L incol n Center, and she l ives wit l1 Paul Magyar in Park Slope . . . . Lt. David Nasse is in the Marine Corps and in flight school in Pensacola, Fla. Dave's message to a l l i s , " G o Mules !" . . . Lt . Karen Smith is in signa ls intel l igence school and has received orders to North Carol ina . . . . Danielle Driscoll was in Spain last year and received her master's in Spanish with the M iddlebury Language School in Madrid; she's us ing her Spanish now in Beverly, i\ Iass., at Sensitech I nc . , where she is i n international mar-
keti ng . . . . Braxton Williams and Oliver Williams are moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan; Braxton i s sti l l working at Penguin Putnam i n t h e ma rketing department. B raxton, Ned Eustace and Crans Baldwin love the socia l scene on the Lower East Side . . . . Nate Jue is teaching marine science i n the Florida Keys. . . . Adella Mikkelsen is sti l l in Taiwan completing her VVatson Fel lowship . . . . Jen Lavigne is moving to N.Y.C. a fter hav ing traveled a round Turkey . . . . Katherine Golfinopoulos i s enjoying Morocco, where she's a Peace Corps volunteer. . . . Cate Tynan works in the editoria l department of Broadway Books at Random H ouse i n N.Y.C. a n d l ives i n North Salem, N.Y . . . . Kea Watson worked as a stage management intern last year in Tri n ity, R . I . , at Trin ity Repertory Company and spent her summer i n N.C. teaching sai l ing at a camp. This fa l l she left for Scotland on a tl1eater tour with the Sta rvi ng Artists. (Y\Te a l l must remember them at Colby-" Road J\i lovie" and "Viper's Opium.") . . . Keep your updates comi ng'
-Li11dsny H{(yes
00 Hel lo ' I hope that a l l is wel l with the Class of 2000 and that everyone is enjoying new jobs, new cities and even new countries' It was nice to see many of you up at Colby during Homecoming VVeekend. I hope to hear from more of you in the future . . . . Lisa Cardillo moved to Rome, I taly, in September and reports that she is very happy teaching English and hopes to find a job soon in international business . . . . Also abroad teaching English is Greg De St. Maurice, who is in Morioka, Japan . . . . Carrie Russell a lso has plans to go to Japan this spring to teach English as wel l ! . . . Matt Todesca and Bil l Lenich are both working as clerks on tl1e floor of the stock exchange in Tew York City . . . . Sarah Church is also in New York City now, l iving with Mary Anne Schumacherand working for Lowe Lintas & Partners. . . . fter graduation Drew Davis moved to Rochester, N .Y . , where he is attending medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. . . . In June Melissa Shea took part in a Royal Canadian Mounted Pol ice Expedition to climb Mt. McKinley in Alaska. The climb was a fund-
raising effort by tl1e Royal Canadian Mounted Police to benefit the Canadian Make-a-\Vish Foundation . . . . Kathryn Johnson was a member of the high dive act at The Great Escape in Lake George' . . . Trish Akins, Courtney Genovese, Carrie Keeling a n d Jen Lisk a re l i v i n g i n B r i g h t o n , M a s s . , a s a r e Jenna Aylsworth, Emjly Young and Lisa Goodman, who is attending BC Law. . . . Matt Janssen i s a lso in l a w school-at Vi l l a nova U n i ve r s i ty School of Law in Pennsylvania . . . . Jon Allen is l iv ing in Boston and working at the architecture firm of M i lford & Ford Associates in Wel lesley, Mass . . . . Christie Beveridge is a lso l iving in tl1e Boston area, with Christine Pirani. They both have plans this winter to drive to rah, where Christie is going to l ive with Ben Mackay and Nick LaRusso, who are l iving i n Park City and working as ski patrollers . . . . Lauren Borchardt spent the fa l l working on a whalewatch boat out of Gloucester, J\ 1ass. She and Jen Kassakian plan to head out to Seattle in January . . . . Jaclyn Rollins was married on August 1 2 to Robert Blake . . . . Morgan Milner is serving as the Ai11eriCorps*VISTA volunteer at tl1e Game Loft in Belfast, Maine . . . . Keryn Kwedor reports loving her job as a ful l-time chi ldcare worker for Kate O'Nei l l '85 . . . . Melissa Bradbury is working as the assistant di rector of admission at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, i\ 1ass., and is a dorm parent in the freshman boys dorm' . . . Candace DeWitt is also working in admiss ions-at Colgate U n i vers i ty i n Hami lton, N.Y . . . . Aubrey Love is en joying teach ing physics at the Tilton School in New Hampshire and is the assistant soccer coach . . . . Eric Saucier i s work i n g i n the I nternet division of Fleet Bank in Boston a n d i s l i vi n g w i th Sean Luoma, Sarah Hewins '99 and Pete Lambert. He writes, "Needless to say, our apartment now has no shortage of smartdogs and no brand juices." . . . Also working at Fleet Bank in Boston are Christine Casey and Charlotte Tiffany . . . . J.R. Rudman is a lready on his second job, working as a n account associate at Applied Communication, a h i-tech PR firm in San Francisco. He wants everyone to know that the "weather here is great, though I do miss the snow a l ittle bit." Don't we a l l , ] ! . . . Keep i n touch '
-Hi/my Smyth
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Theodore G. Smart '27, October 6, 2 000, i n :'\orway, .\ la ine, a t 95. He p layed basebal l in the Pine Tree League from the late '20s to the early '40s, then er\'ed as a fir t l ieutenant i n the Army in France. For e,·eral )·ears he taught in chools in
.\ l i l o and .\ Iexico, .\ Ia ine, and also was an in urance salesman for Prudential In urance Co. in Rumford, .\ la ine, unti l h i retirement in 1 969.
u rTi,·ing are his wife , Hazel , two daughters and a granddaughter.
dward . MacConnie '3 1 , Ju ly 1 1 , 2 000, in .\ l eriden, Conn . , at 9 3 . .\ l i fe long Seymour, Con n . , resi dent, he taught biology, p h y i c a n d mathematics for 4 0 years in the . e) mour school s and was principal of e) mour H igh chool . H e lea,·es a son, Edward H . .\ lacCon nie, two daughters, J oan Quesnel and Lisa Ciccone, eight grandchi ldren, eight great-grandch i l dren and se,·eral 11 1cce'> and nephe\\ s .
Kenneth H . .\lansfield ' 3 1 , Augu t 2 5. 2 000. 1 11 Orange City, Fla. , at 9 1 . I l e 111tcrrupted a career as a n out'>t<rncl 1 11g \ laine high chool basketba ll coach to <,en e as a lieutenant in the L .S . '\'a' ) during \\'orld \\'ar I l . Later he \\ J'> a '>pecial agent for :\"orth" e'>tern \I utual Life I nsurance Compan) . Sun 1\ ors include his daughter, '-,u.,,rn \lan<,liclcl Pogue '69.
.\ l a!) Dignam ,\ l u rphy '3 1 , eprcrnher 2 - , 2 000, 1 11 \\'i lmmgton , Dt.:I. , .H <J I . Prior to her ren remenr 1 11 I 94(, .,he '' ,i., cmpl<>) c<l b) the \ lame Bur1:au of \n:ount., and Contro l . "iun I \ mg .i re her '>On . John D . \ l urph) . l \\ O '>l'>ler.,, Fllcn D1gnam l ) < l\\ n ln!! · � , .rnd \l ice D 1 gnarn ( . ra<h '� , three !!r.incldaughter., .ind 'n er.ii n 1n·e., .md m:phe" .,_ r \ Cl ) 11 f f. 1 ) CO k Qu inton '3 1 , "ieplll l lhlr (1, 2 000. 1n l .L\\ l'>ton. \ l .i tnl. .ll '10 \he r .iu!_!ht 1 n I l '>hon I i l k \ l .une , for l \I O \ e .1 r before h e r m.1 rr 1 .1r.:e to DL l l1 L R <)u 1n ron · H>. '' ho d 1 1.:d 1 11 I 'I'll) '>ht ' olun recred \I 1th 'c' er.i i loLtl orr.:.1 m 1.H 1on' .rnd \\ ,I, ,I ll .i t u 1mpl i hul r.:ol lL-r .ind .i rt l '> l I ll p.htc l hL I' '> ll f \ I \ Cd h) her 'on , Rohen I <)mnton ·r, 2 , . rn d r \\ o r.:r.1 ndd.i u!,!hter,,
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Samuel H . Marder ' 3 2 , J u ly 9, 2 000, i n Boca Raton, F la . , at 9 1 . He sen·ed in the .S . A.rm)' from 1 94 1 t o 1 946 and retired a s a l ieutenant colonel . After the \\·ar he was assistant superintendent of the \\' orcester rate H ospital in \\'orcester, ,\ lass . , before he entered pri\'ate practice as a psychiatrist . Sur\' i\' ing are h i s son, Stephen .\ larder, h is daughter, Phyl l is .\ Iarder J ansen '62 , se,·en grandchi ldren and two greatgrandch i ldren .
John H . Wibby '32, August 1 2 , 2000, in Yarmouth, .\ la ine, at 9 . He l i ,·ed in Bangor, .\ Iaine, w here he was e m p l oyed at \\'L B Z Rad io and Tele\'ision and retired as chief engineer in 1 970. Sun·i\ ' ing are h is wife of 6 rears, Glenna, two sons, a daugh ter, nine grandch i ldren and th ree great-grandchi ldren.
George E. Lowe l l '35, August 24, 2000, in Do\'er, KH. , at 87. He " orked in industrial banking with Beneficial Corp. in Lawrence and :-\ewburyporr, .\ lass., and Lewiston, .\ la ine, and managed the companr's Do' er office from 1 942 until he retired in 1 967. A four-sport athlete at Colby, he \1·a an acti,·e hocker and tennis player i nto his 60s. Sun·i,·ing are his '' ife, Dorothy, a daughter, n1 o <,Ons, eight grandchi ldren and three great-grandchi ldren.
Grace \\'heeler i\larsh '35, Julr I , 2 000, in \\'aten il le, .\ Jaine, at 6. She earned a master' degree in biolOg) from Radcl i ffe College and for more chan 30 �·ears \1 as a bacteriolog1'>t for the "e" I l ampshire Department of I l ea Ith and I l uman Sen ice'>. She '' <l'> predeceased b) her '>i'>tCr'> Jul ia \\11eclcr O'Sull irnn '40 and \ laf) \\'heeler Bruzga '40. Sun i' or'> 1 11cludc her ti' c children, a sister, \ l .i rt llJ \\"heeler Zel t' ,man '44, a brother, '\arhan1cl 1 1 . \\11ccler '42, 1 2 r.:randd1 i ldren, indud111g \ \'i l l iam 1'-uln ". 6. 1 2 !(rcat-granclchilclrcn and "" era I niece., and nephe\1 .,, 1nclud-1nr.: \ I JLh.id Bru1!_!.i ·- .
\\'illi .1m \. f- lling-1 oodj r. '36,Junc I ' I , I '1'1'1. 1n \ l a 111e, . l l ' I I L I" cd 1 11 I .hl ( onnrh, \ l .1 1nc. 1 1 " '>Un J\ or, mtlude .i dau!(hlc.:r .
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Milton M. Gilson '36, September 1 7 , 2 000, in \\'est Roxbury, J\ lass . , at 86. He served with the Na'')' in the tlantic and the Caribbean during \Vorld \\'ar I I . A graduate of Tufts niversity .\ l edical School, he operated a fami ly practice in l'ewton Center, ;\ lass . , and was on the staff of the l'ewton-\\'el lesley H ospital for more than 3 5 years. Survi\'ors include his w ife, Sylvia, a daughter, a son, Andrew Gi lson '70, and two grandchi ldren.
Albert 0. Piper '36,J uly 6, 2000, in \\'aten>il le, .\laine, at 86 . H e graduated from Columbia niversity Dental College and was a dentist in \\'atervi l le for many years. Predeceased by his wife, Bettina \\'ell ingron Piper '3 5, he is survived by his daughter, Jan Kornbluth, a sister, a grandson and three nephews.
Sara] . Cowan '37, October 20, 2000, in Portland, i\ Iaine, at 85 . She taught at New Gloucester High School and for more than 29 years taught Latin at Deering High School in Portland, where she was also the field hockey and girls' tennis coach. She served on Colbr's Al umni Council and was awarded a Colby Brick. Survi,•ing are her brother, Herman G. Cowan, and many nieces and nephews.
Robert D. H ussey ' 3 7 , August 2 2 , 2 000, in Roseland, F la . , a t 8 3 . After teaching in Dan forth and at \ \'aten·ille H igh School in ,\ la ine, he became an executi\'e with Norrwock Shoe Co. in Norridgewock, ,\ laine, and Dexter Shoe Co. in Dexter, .\ laine. He was a \'eteran of Tavy sen·ice during \\'orld \ \'ar I I . Survi' ors include his wife of 62 years, Dorita, a son, a sister, six grandch i ldren and three great-grandchi ldren.
nna Stobie Rogerson '38, September 1 4, 2000, in Portland, ;\ Jaine, at 3. \ homemaker, she had a l i felong interest in art and <itudied in \ lc\ iCO at the I nstitute of ,\n at San \ l 1gucl de \ l lende. I !er husband, "c m11an R. Roger<, on ' 3 7 , and a son, John S . Rogerson '66, died pre\'iou'>I) . Sun 1,-ing arc a daughter, Barhar<i hii rficld, t\1 o grandch ildren, a cou'>!n and a niece and ncphe\1 .
Louis Sacks '39, ugust I 0, 2000, in Marblehead, Mass. , at 8 3 . I le received a master's degree in education from Boston n ivers i ty before serving as a . . Army captain in Europe d uring \\'oriel \ \'ar I I . After the war he was a teacher of French and Latin and an assistant principal in the Re\'ere, .\ lass. , school system for 3 2 years. He leaves his w ife of 5 0 years, Frances, two sons, including Kenneth i\1. Sacks '80, a brother and several n ieces and nephews.
Russell M. Birtwistle '40, June 1 0, 2 000, in Attleboro, Mass . , at 82 . He worked for ITT-Grinnell for more than 3 5 years, retiring as manager of valve engineering in 1 982 . Previously he had worked for the Narragansett Electric Company. He leaves n1·0 sons, Kenneth R. B irtwistle and David C. Birnvistle, nvo step-grandchildren and a step-great-granddaughter.
Halsey A. Frederick Jr. '40, August 24, 2 000, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., at 84. During \\'orld \Var I I he served in the Navy as a catapult officer. H e w a s an executive with t h e Lesl ie Company before his retirement in 1 965 , and he spent many years tl1ereafter breed ing and tra in ing Newfoundland clogs for national fie ld trial events. He i s survived by h is w ife, El isabeth, h i s brother and th ree beloved dogs.
Weston MacRae '42, August 9, 2000, in \\1inter Haven, Fla. , at 79. An Army veteran of both \Vorld \Var I I and the Korean Con flict, h e was an electrical equipment sales representative for many years. Survivors include his wife of 58 years,] can Cannel l iVlacRae '42 , nvo daughters, a son, four grandchi ldren and a niece,Joyce Kelby Cannell '8 1 .
Walter A. Woodward '42, August 1 7 , 2000, in Keene, J . 1-1 . , at 8 1 . After serving i n the U.S . rmy 1 11 1"ormandy, France and Germany during \\'orld \Var T T , he was vice president of \Voodward Motors, an automobi le dealership in Keene. Survivors include his wife, Marie, a son, two daughters, a bro t h er , e ight grandch i ldren, I 0 great-grandchildren, nvo nephews and a niece.
Martha Blackington Caminiti '46, June 30, 2000, in Portland, i\ Iaine, at 7 5 . She was a member of several local organizations and taught in elementary grndes i n the Port land school system for several years before retiring in 1 97-t. Predeceased by her husbands, \\'a lter B. Maxfield '·H and Joseph Caminiti , and by her sister, Barbette Blackington Pacht ' 5 3 , she is survived by two daughters, Susan Caminiti Ch ristopher '70 and Beth Guy, and three grandsons.
Harold M. Kearney '47, June 2 3 , 2000, in New Sharon, i\i laine, a t 79. Following service with the U.S. Marines in World \Var I I , he earned his doctorate from Boston University and provided guidance counseling services for high schools in Franklin County, Maine. For many years he was a youth education specialist for the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Maine. He is sun,ived by his wife, Marie, his daughter and son, a brother and tl1ree grandchildren.
Eldridge P. Wallace '47, September 8, 2000, in Lewiston, M aine, at 7-t. During \Vorld ·war I I he served as a U.S. Army antitank gun crewman in Europe and the Pacific. He earned his degree from the University of i\ Ia ine in vocational agriculnire and owned and operated an organic vegetable farm in Leeds, J\ la ine . Sun' ivors include his wife, Barbara, tl1ree daughters, a son, a sister, five grandsons, four granddaughters and two great-grandsons.
Everett S. Bauer '48,June 1 2 , 2000, in Attleboro, Mass., at 7 7 . A graduate of Andover Iewton Theological Seminary, he was tl1e pastor of H i l l i\ lemorial Baptist Church in Boston from 1 95 2 to 1 962 and of Lime Rock Baptist Church in Lincoln, i\ lass., from 1 962 to 1 98 7 . His wife of 5 3 years, N l i ldred Hammond Bauer '·t8, a son and daughter and tl1ree grandchi ldren survive him.
Pauline Vitkauskas Kuzmeski '49, August 1 7 , 2 000, in Springfie ld , i\ I ass., at 73 . She and her la te h usband, Charles A. Kuzmeski, operated L i tt le John Farm in Sunderland, ,\ lass . , and she was a grower for the O x ford Pickle Company of South Deerfie ld . She leaves sons David a n d J o h n K u z m e s k i , da ughters S h i r l ey G i a m b rone a n d J oa n n e Kuzmeski-J ackson, a brother and s ix grandchi ldren .
Robert B. Maxel l '49, August 7 , 2000, in Tucson, Ariz., at 7 1 . He received a master's degree from the niversity of Maine. After serving in the Korean Conflict, he was a teacher and administrator at Ricker Col lege, and after retiring in 1 993 from the University of Maine at Machias he was registrar emeritus. He is survived by his second wife, Elisabeth Dagdigian, a son and two granddaughters.
Christine Lucy MacDonald '50, June 1 3 , 2000, i n Lee, Mass., at 7 1 . She was a school l ibrarian at Lee Central School for many years. She is survived by her husband, Harold C. MacDonald, three sons, two daughters and l I grandchildren .
William Malcolm Wilson '50, August 1 9, 2000, in Boston) v lass., at 7 3 . After service in \\'oriel \\'ar I I and the Korean Confl ict, he worked for the .S . Postal Service i n Brookl ine and Boston for 27 years. Survivors i n c l u d e h i s da ughter, \Vh i tn ey Trotman, and many devoted friends.
A. Winston Naugle1· ' 5 1 , August 1 6, 2 000, in \Nayland, Mass. , at 7 3 . A physics major, h e was credi ted with patents perta in ing to i n frared i maging and n igh t-vision systems whi le employed at Raytheon and H oneywe l l . H e founded Applied Optics Center I nc. , which supplies space programs and the mi l itary with precision optics. H e is survived by his wife, Cynthia Leslie Naugler '50, th ree sons and five grandchi ldren .
Jean Brewer Bridge '52 , August 1 8, 2000, in Orlando, Fla . , at 70. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received her master of arts in teaching from Harvard niversity. She taught mathematics at Colby, the
n iversity of i\ Iaine and Husson
College a1�d in jm1ior high schools in Bangor and Brewer, i\ Iaine. She is survived by her husband of -+5 years, \Val l ace \V. Bridge, two daughters, a granddaughter and numerous cousins, n ieces and nephews.
Raymond F. Keyes '52, Ju ly 1 5 , 2000, in Needham, ,\ lass., at 0. After sen·ice in the Na'T he was a salesman and consu l tant. For more than 30 years he was a professor of marketing in the Carroll School of i\ I a nagement a t Boston Col lege, which he also served as d irector. Predeceased by his brother, Robert J. Keyes ' 5 2 , he is survived by h is
wife, i\ 1ary, a son and daughter, two brothers and three grandsons.
Alfred G. Legge '52, August 26, 2000, in North Palm Beach , Fla. , at 7 2 . He served in the Ai r Force in Japan during the Korean Conflict and was employed by Pratt & \\'hitney Ai rcraft Corp. for 30 years before his retirement in 1 987 . He is survived by his wife, i\ largaret i\ 1acpherson Legge '52 , two daughters and a son, eight grandchildren and two sisters.
Priscilla Chamberlin Kraut '56, Apri l 1 9, 2000, in \'\'i lmington, Del . , a t 6 5 . She was a n urse a n d a n associate professor of n u rs ing at Thomas Jefferson University and the mother of three children. Survivors include her husband, George C. Kraut, chi ldren and three grandchi ldren .
Ruth-Ann Waters '56,July 2 9 , 2000, in Tew Haven, Conn. , at 66. She was an elementary school teacher in Seattle, \Vash. , Fort \Val ton, Beach, Fla., Sn1ttgart, Germany, and n' Iadison, Conn. She leaves five brothers-Robert, Kenneth, Russel l, Allan, and David \\Taters-and nephews and nieces.
Aubrey £. Jones '58,June 20, 2000, in \\'eston, i\ 1ass., at 66. He attended the College after Army se1Yice in Korea and received his law degree from Boston University School of Law. He served as general counsel for the Prudential I nsurance Co., then went into general law practice and later into tl1e practice of investment and trust law in \\Teston. He is survived by his wife, Lois Jones, three daughters, including Jocelyn JonesColes '90, a son, four grandchi ldren, a brother and nephews and nieces.
Marcia Peterson Robinson '60, October 1 6, 2000, in Fishers, Ind . , at 62. She was a secretary and receptionist for Lawrence North High School for 1 5 years and for I 0 years was a n u rsery school teacher at Castleton United Methodist Church. Survivors include her husband, Jack Robinson, tl1ree daughters, a brother and six grandchildren.
Bruce ""· Logan '68, October 3 , 2000, in �orth Yarmouth, ,\ la ine, at 5 5 . A conscientious objector during the \ 'ietnam \\'ar, he earned a master's degree at tl1e University of �ew England and went on tO a career as a social \l·orker in California and i\ Iaine, where he de\'eloped innovative pro-
grams at the Preble Street Resource Center in Portland. Surviving are his wife, Linda C. Russel l , a son, h is mother and a sister and brother.
James Russell Wiggins H ' 54, Iovember 1 9, 2 000, in Brookl in, M.aine, at 9b. He worked for The Neu• York Times and in 1 95-+ was the edito r of The TVashi11gtou Post when he was chosen as Colby's third Lovejoy fellow. After retiring from the Post to become tl1e U.S. ambassador tO tl1e United Tations, he began a second newspaper career in i\laine as ownereditor of the Ellsw011b A111erim11. I le sold the paper in 1 99 1 but stayed on as editor and continued tO write a column until a few montl1s before his death.
Carl T. Rowan H '68, September 2 3 , 2000, in \Vashington, D.C., at 7 5 . After a stint a s one of the U.S . Navy's first African-American comm is ioned officers, he was a pioneering reporter who was once cal led "America's most visible black journa l ist" f or his eloquent columns exploring race relations and championing civil rights. He was a frequent guest on public affairs radio and television programs in a career tl1at spanned more tl1an h a l f a century. He received the LO\•ejoy ward i n 1 968.
Mary H . Marshall H '73, September 2 5 , 2000, in Syracuse, N.Y. , at 97 . During her 69-year teaching career she taught at the College ( 1 93 5 - 1 9-+8) and at Syracuse University, where she taught more than 35 di fferent courses in l i teranire and drama. She retired in 1 970 but conducted continuing education courses at Syracuse until she was 90.
Katherine W. Fanning H '79, October 1 9, :2000, in \\'areham, i\ lass. She was the editor of the 1/11chomge (Alaska) Daily XeU's when the paper received a Pul itzer Prize for public se1Tice. She recei\'ed the Lovejoy Award in 1 979. The editor of The Christian Science ,1 /onitor from 1 983 to 1 988, she was the first " oman to run a national newspaper.
David E. Bell, H '86, eptember 6, 1000, i n Cambridge, i\ lass., at I . He was Gamble Professor of Population Sciences and I n ternational Health at the Han·a rd School of Public H ea l th, where he was chair of the department of population sciences.
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