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He's the first per on many alumni think of when they hear the word 'Colby.' An affectionate portrait of beloved alumni secretary Sid Farr '55, whose retirement, like his career, wa a model of humility and graciousness. 15

FEATURES AHEAD OF THE CURVE

HARD TIME

Three Colby alumni reflect San Franci co' energy

Criminologist David Ward '55 has researched America's

and innovative pirit.

toughest prisons for alma t 40 years and has a startling

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revelation: punishment works. 18

DEPARTMENTS 4TH FLOOR EU TIS 2 PERISCOPE 3 FROM THE HILL 4 FACULTY FILE 26 BOOKS & AUTHORS 28 STUDENT LIFE 30

GIFTS & GRANTS 32 PAGING PARENTS 34 MULES ON THE MOVE 36 ALUMNI AT LARGE 38 OBITUARIES 64 READERS WRITE 67 FINAL PERIOD 68

ALUMNI PROFILES David Brodie '42 41 Ed Ducharme '55 45 Phyllis Jalbert '67 51 Rebecca Alex '79 55 Marie Willey '85 59

Colby Volume 84

Number 1

Colby Staff: Sally Baker executive ediwr

Ana tomy of a n ew Des ign

J. Kevin Cool managing ediror

Back in ninth grade biology when my teacher, who also happened to be my dad, told me to

Brian Speer designer

experience taught me very little about th frog but a l t about the dangers of heavy-handed

dissect a frog, I poked around at it with ju t enough conviction to mangle the thing. The analysis. It is quite pas ible, I learned, to do more harm than g

Alumni

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When you cut into an organi m, you had better do so with the humble re olve that it is

Robert Gillespie

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for a good purpose. The same is true whether anatomizing

frog

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evaluating a magazine.

And there is at least one other major imilarity: in both ca e , you are l

Stephen Collins '74 Lynn Sullivan '89

staff wrirers

rately allowed us to get

a

house. The foundation was sound and the con truction sturdy, but it needed a paint job. So when we put Colby back together we did so with an eye toward increa ing visual

Contributing Photographers: David Wilkin on (cover); Scott Davis (inside back) Administration: William R. Corter, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president for development and alumni relations; Earl H. Smith, dean of the College; Susan Conant Cook ' 7S, direcror of alumni relations Alumni Council Executive Committee: ' Albert F. Carville Jr. 63 , chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman '80; Thomas M. Dailey '80; John B. Devine Jr. '78; Solomon J. Hartman '67; Ronald L. Lupton '71; William E. Marvin '6S; Judith Orne Shorey 'SS; Carol G. Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58

Colby is published four times yearly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty and staff of

appeal and readability without c mpr mi ing the

ut randing editorial mix that has charac­

terized the magazine in the past. We gave particular attention to the departments, ections that should reflect the Colby community-a ubject difficult to contain in 16-or-so pages. Responding to readers' wishes for more news about the College, we've tried to wedge in more articles by creating a series of sub ection , several of which we introduce with this issue. The combined effect of the e change , we hope, will be to enhance readers' enjoyment of Colby while also providing more information; a pleasing recipe that con ist of what a colleague of mine calls "important news and endearing trifles." There will be no retreat from the quality writing and interesting ubject matter that Colby readers have come to expect. The Alumni at Large section, 30-plu pages of per onal post cards from old classmates, celebrates both the uccess and sincerity of Colby alumni. If there is a better alumni news section in a college magazine today, I haven't seen it. It remains as it always has been. Likewise, features have long been a strength of the magazine. We will continue to bring you provocative, entertaining articles about Colby people and their activities. We hope Colby will reflect the breadth and diversity of Colby's alumni, a group whose talent and hard work are leaving imprints all over the world. Our two favorite subjects around here are Colby and Colby. If you have comments about either, we'd love to hear them. You may e-mail messages to mag@colby.edu, call 207-8723226 or send me a letter. I hope you like Colby's new look.

Colby College. Address correspondence to: Managing Editor, Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901-8841 or e-mail to:

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managing editor, Colby

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better picture of the whole and decide on way we could improve

it. If you'll excuse me as I switch metaphor for a moment, Colby re embled a beautiful old

Aneste Fotiades '89 Jennifer Aengst '95 edirorial assistants

C OL B Y

king for the heart.

We began disassembling Colby about ix m nth ag . Analyzing its component

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Periscope G l eaned by Dean Earl H.

Pretty Damed Hot There were 277 applicants in the first round of "early decision" candidates for the Class of 1999, obliterating last year's record of 167. What's to account for the whopping 65 percent in­ crease? Credit, certainly, the hard work of Parker Bever­ age and company, a star­

studded faculty and, as well perhaps, some dandy national publicity in Princeton Review' rating of Colby students as being the happiest of all.

Making Lists The latest i ue of Blnck Issues in Higher- Education lists Colby as 14th among the nation' college with the highest graduation rate for African­ American students. Colby's rate of 80 percent fall behind only Wesleyan (90 percent), Williams (88 percent) and Amherst (87 percent) among the NE SCAC colleges. Harvard tops the list with a 92 percent rate.

Colby Pride

Smith from the weekl y campus newsletter, FYI

Hopkins University Press, 1994. . . . Priscilla Doel is

and Ruth, is being widely praised as the host of

cited as "a friend of the

Marketplnce, Public Radio

Portuguese, honoring us

International's daily business

with her research" in the

tory, about a mile from the

introduction to a piece she

Elijah P.Lovejoy Memorial.

wrote on the Portuguese fishing industry published in

Town and Gown

the August issue of Revista de

At the request of the

Mminh.a. . . . Linda Gold­

Belgrade Lakes Association,

stein, the development

students in Biology 493 gave

officer who recently com­

an oral report on their

piled the reque t for the

project on Long Pond and its

terrific Olin Grant, has had

watershed at the Union

a paper, Without Compromise

Church in Belgrade Lakes

in Any Particular: The

Village in November. Thank

Success of Medical Coeduca­

Dave Firmage, Clara C.

tion in Cleveland, 1850-1856,

Piper Professor of Environ­

accepted for publication by

mental Studies, and students

Caduceus, the journal of the

for education with outreach.

medical humanities.

Coming and Going

news program. David was fir t on the air at the age of 13, taking unpopular time slots on Colby's WMHB. . . . Some 100 colleagues paid tribute to Pat Mullen at a retirement luncheon. Pat has toiled as Colby's own clerk­ of-the-works for the past 14 year , overseeing 21 new construction and renovation projects . . ..Admissions dean Parker Beverage made a fall

tour of Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus, Kuwait and the UAE as one of 33 U.S. college admissions agents seeking students from that

Olin and Colby

Pam Alexander, associate

part of the world. On the way

Waterville city solicitor and

director of annual giving and

hi to

written to explain that

a member of the Colby staff since 1981, has taken a new

home, he attended the European Conference of Independent Schools in

Franklin Olin, whose fortune

post as director of develop­

Hamburg, Germany.. . .

led to the creation of the F.W.

Emeritus economics professor

Olin Foundation, was a native

ment at the Hewett School in Manhattan, close by where

of Alton, Ill., where famed

her husband, Jim, works.

len '11 and his wife, Marge,

Colby grad Elijah Lovejoy

What with the departures of

have returned from Florida to live in Waterville .... After

buff Buzz Federle has

and vice president Bob Pul­

was martyred while defending

Sid Farr, Pam, Sara Waisa­

his new paper presses against

nen, Lynn Magovem and

receiving Buzz Federle's

a mob. Olin was the founder

Barbara Friedman, the

letter, we thought for a time

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes,

of a small black powder

Development Department

that we might make yet

John D. MacArthur Professor

factory in East Alton that

lost a whole lot of professional

another Colby connection

of Sociology and Anthropol­

eventually became the

experience in a single

with Frank Olin.Olin played

ogy, was the featured speaker

Western Camidge Company.

semester. Taking Lynn's place

professional baseball for

at the annual awards cer­

Olin acquired the Winchester

is Demetra Giatas '88. Mary

Toledo in 1884 and for

emony for the Society for the

Arms Company after World

Federle Porter '88 wa back

Detroit in 1885, a bit ahead

War I and produced a

to help for awhile, too. And

of Connie Mack. Mack went

we welcome Margaret Felton

on to manage the Philadel­

Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research

majority of the U.S.small­

Association, meeting in

arms

Albuquerque this fall. ...

Viens '77, new assistant

phia Athletics and Jack

War II. Olin's oldest son,

director of annual giving,

Coombs, Colby 1906, who

replacing Sara.

posted a 31-game winning

ammunition for World

Herb Wilson (biology) is the

John, used the profits to build

editor of a new book,

Olin Industries, an early

Reproduction and Development

conglomerate. The Western

Moosecellaneous

of Marine Invertebrates,

Cartridge Company still

David Brancaccio, son of Pat

'97, by the way, is Colby Jack

published by the John

operates in its original fac-

(Zacamy Professor of English)

Coombs's great-grandson.

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season in 19 10. But that's another tory. John Coombs

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"

. Right Next to the Pul i tzer"

E

From theHin

ugene Patter�on, one nf

and as LonJon bureau chief.

the most respecteJ and

In 1956 Ralph McGill

influential journalists in rhe

mimed him eJitor of the

nation, was honoreJ in

Journal and Consricution.

November as Colby's 42nd

"When [the pres ] i� Ju i ng it� jnh, which include rai. i ng inconvenient que�tilm anJ

xposing

unhappy fact , tho e

Patterson lefr the Atlanta

Elijah Parish Lm·ejoy fellow.

rarer when, after a ::.erie� of

He received an honorary

clashe with Patterson, it!>

doctorate from the College

publisher yanked

and delivered the Lovejoy

that wou!J ha,·e offended

Address ar Lorimer Chapel.

Georgia Power Company.

person in hi� profe�"iun ,

After erving three year" a�

including the Pulit:cr Pri:e

history of rhe award have

eel i tor of Th Wruhin�on

and the William Allen

for the pre . He quoted New

the attributes of the recipi­

Post and helping found Duke

White Award for joumal 1::.r i c

Yori< Times cnlumni t

Seldom in the long

;.1

offended will often ee it a getting in the way of their

column

e

Patter�on ha:- won mo!:>t of

pct olution� to ociery'

rhe honor!> a\·ailable to a

prohlem ,"he said. But Patter on al o re erved some har h word

rein

writin that

ent intersected so clo ely

Herbert

with those of the man for whom the award is named.

"meJ1a pundit , who hould

Lovejoy, a staunch aboli­

pher:., are nit picker ."

·

he our age and philo o­

tionist, was killed defending

"That one ting ,"

his presses from a pro-slavery

Parter on aid. "Every age

mob and is considered the

anJ philo.opher in the new

nation's fir t martyr to

bu ine·. will in tantly know

freedom of the press.

who he i , of cour e, and all

Patterson, a editor of the

of u will well with right­

Arlanta]ournal and Constitu­

eou·ne -. It' the nit picker

tion, became one of the few

who will have difficulty

white Southern editor to

identifying them elve . You

write editorials in favor of

can help them; they're the

civil rights for African­

one

Americans. He won a

reputation for toughne

Pulitzer Prize for editorial

televi eel news conference

writing in 1966. Perhaps his affinity for Lovejoy's cause is one rea on

President Wil liam Cotter introduces E u gene Patterson, right.

1994

Lovejoy Award winner.

ou ee eeking

by in ulting the

at

fficial at

ba . Their toughe t ques­ tion can be a ked civill ,

Univer ity's public policy

merit," Cotter said. "But

to receive the award. "This

institute, Patterson was

beyond that, Gene Patterson

will hang on the wall right

named editor of The St.

ha won what is perhap the

picker often miss the hero

next to the Pulitzer," he said.

Petersburg Times and it

mo t eloquent form of

stories. In preoccupation

"This is one award I want my

Washington publication,

recognition-the unre erved

with the press's vital

granddaughters to see."

Congressional Quarterly. He

respect and affection of hi

watchdog role, they neglect

succeeded Nelson Poynter,

peers." Cotter quoted leadin

it companion, the explana­ tory journalism that today's

Patterson seemed so moved

Patterson, reared in Adel,

uch a Gene

and ought to be. "I n pur uit of villains, nit

Ga., graduated from the

the founder of the publica­

journalist

state university while still in

tions and of the nonprofit

Roberts, managing editor of

his teens and served as a

Poynter Institute for Media

The New York Times, Bill

their zeal to send the sheriff

tank commander under Gen.

Studies, as CEO of the

Kovach of Harvard's Nieman

to jail (where some sheriffs

complex is ues require. In

George Patton in World

companies in 1978 and

Foundation and fom1er

do richly de erve to be doing

War II.He returned to

served in that capacity until

Boston Globe editor Thomas

their public service) the nit

civilian life as a cub reporter

his retirement a decade later.

Win hip in prai e of

pickers fail to illuminate

for newspapers in Texas and

At a gathering prior to the

Patterson's courage, vision

such larger stories as the

and dedication to principle.

building up to the savings

Georgia, then joined the old

Lovejoy convocation, Colby

United Press in Atlanta,

President Bill Cotter paid

eventually serving as UP'

tribute to Patterson and his

Patterson mused on the

1980s and uch under­

night manager in New York

accomplishments. "Gene

pres

reported pre ent stories a

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role in America roday.

and loan debacle in the

the wa te in agricultural

economic recovery rewarding

witnessed shouting matche

sub idies, the advance of the

mainly the top quarter of the

betweer. journalists turned

masters threw the rascal out.

African-American middle

society where they didn't

television hams, puzzled over

The danger lay not in the

class, the full sweep of

rank. America's economy

shallow printed squibs and,

election's destination, it lay

market-driven reforms in

and its schools were supposed

finally, fell victim to those

in the route the bandwagon

health care that aren't

to promise their children

sleazy campaign commercials.

took. By meanness and

waiting for government action, and the fall-yes,

more than they'd had. They

Have I got a scapegoat for

mendacity, many anti-crime,

sa\\." instead their children

you! many candidates

anti-immigrant candidates

fall-in the crime rate. . . . "

may be downwardly mobile.

assured their angry constitu­

channeled the electorate's

Against this insecure start to

ents. Blame that fellow

anger toward scapegoats.

each day, Americans

behind the tree!

And when the voters looked

"Judging from the mendacious din of paid-up commercial television that

struggled to pay taxes to the

dominated the campaign

government, wrestled with

"And that's the real danger here, isn't it! The

and fed on the millions of dollars that indentured many of the candidates, the great i sues before the nation were crime, welfare, immigration and illegitimacy. . . . A visitor from Mars might have concluded that America's unhappiness

to their sources of informa­ tion for guidance, the media were too often content to

"A visitor from Mars might have concluded that America's unhappiness could be blamed on mendicants, migrants, miscreants and the misbegotten. " Eugene Patterson

could be blamed on mendi­

Editor Emeritus, St. Petersburg Times

cants, migrants, miscreants and the misbegotten. "The press reported the

voters unhappy with their

dignify the candidate ' definition of issues. " "At every step," Patterson said, "from Lovejoy's martyrdom in the 1830s to Ralph McGill's heroism at The Atlanta Constitution in the 1960s, American journalists spoke clearly and directly to the people's needs for knowledge in their time,

the bureaucrats and paper­

election itself may have had

though the truth was often

work of government and

a wise result. In its deeper

unpopular. Their healthy

over what? The candidates'

resented government's open­

wisdom the electorate may

skepticism of power did not

insistence on pressing the hot

have sensed it was time to

descend into cynicism about

buttons of scapegoating,

handedness with people they saw as freeloaders on their

which happened to encode

struggles. The e angry voters

an unspoken racial tinge,

electorate was angry. Angry

shake out the leadership of a

the promi e of self-govern­ ment to serve American

searched the media for

Congres the Democrats themselves had helped to

distracted the news media

explanation of what had

gridlock, and to try a change

the last to sap that faith. Its

in political philosophies, whether for better or for

The promi e of democracy

needs. The press should be own freedom flows from it.

from fully exploring the

hold of them. In place of

deeper causes of the general

finding clarity and insight,

anger.Americans, white

they too often blinked at a

worse. In the fine tradition

must remain an article of

collar and blue, saw an

bedlam of talk how babble,

of free men and women,

American faith."

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Rebuilding the Square

played host to a benefit reception at the president's home

ailroad Square Cinema, a favorite downtown destina­

before the Nobody's Fool premiere. Colby also pitched in

tion of Colby tudent , is dark but not dead. De troyed

by fire on October 11, the alternative theater i raising

on the day after the fire, offering office pace in Millett

money to rebuild on a lot near its former location between

Alumni House to the cinema owners. Eisen said Railroad Square will be rebuilt as a two- or

College Avenue and upper Main Street.

three-screen theater and is expected to open this year. He

Railroad Square, started in 1978, is owned and operated by Gail Chase '74, Kenneth Eisen '73, former Colby audio­

said the new theater will seat about 300, compared to 180 in

visual librarian Lea Girardin, and three other partner . Students, faculty members and area residents have

the old theater, which occupied a former beverage ware­

rallied to upport the cinema's rebuilding plans. Authors

new Square Cafe is planned as well.

on the English faculty donated proceeds from holidayeason book ales to the campaign, the Echo called for

Practice, a physicians' group that includes Jeffrey Lovitz '70,

house near the intersection of Main and Pleasant streets. A The old Square Cafe and the offices of Waterville Family

students to ask for donations to the theater in lieu of

also was damaged in the fire. The doctors' offices were

Christmas gifts, and Professor of English Richard Russo

repaired.

orchestrated a world-premiere showing of Nobody's Fool (see page 23) as a benefit for Railroad Square. Bill and

undetermined, though arson was ruled out by state fire

Linda Cotter, along with faculty and alumni couples,

investigators, Ei en says.

No one was hurt in the fire and the cause remained

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B.Y.O. B. new College policy

happiest in the nation­

restricting the Jelivery

said of the College's social

of alcohol to campus has

environment, "If you're not

students debating the policy

careful, life can be a

itself and the broader issue of

drunken blur."

student responsibility.

HILL SIDES

: Mundy Earns Dreyfuss Distinction

Brad Mundy, Miselis Professor nf Chemi t r y , ha

"Once we realized the

Implemented after a recommendation by the

attitude, it didn't seem like

Alcohol and Campus

something we should be

Environment Committee

promoting," Dean of

(ACE), the policy allows

been

named a 1994 Camille & Henry Dreyfuss Scholar, joining a

predominance of this

list of ,ome of the nation's mo t nut.,tanJing teacher

of

chemical sciences. The program, Je!>tgned to encourage new Ph.D. recipient to undertake teaching anJ research a t undergraduate colleges, will help support a new teacher-a

Student' Janice Ka sman

only kegs to be delivered to

told t h e Echo. "It seemed

Dreyfu s Fellow-tu work with Mundy at Colhy for the next

parties on campus.

odd that alcohol has such

two year!-.. Since 1987, the Dreyfu"s Foundation ha given

value in our community

: granb

previously had been allowed

that it should be a acces­

·

to deliver all type of

·ible a pizza."

Waterville liquor store

alcoholic beverages to

Debate about the is ue settled into two recurring

though that practice had

themes: whether

never been officially sanc­

restricting the deliveries

tioned by the College.

con tituted an abridgment of the College had an obliga­

some complaining that

tion to protect tudent from

prohibiting delivery to

them elves. An Echo

campus would invite drunk

editorial di counted con­

driving, while others

cerns that the new policy

countered that the College's

would increase the likeli­

re ponsibility

hood of drunk driving by

to

students

Playwright Views Colby Production

students' right and whether

new policy was mixed, with

did not extend to providing

students who would leave

on-demand delivery of

campu to purchase more

alcoholic beverages.

alcohol during a party. "This

Drinking was described

argument is not only short-

in a college guidebook last

ighted, but also disrespect­

year a an unfavorable

ful to the re t of the tudent

element of Colby's cul t u re .

population," the new paper

The Princeton Review

said. "The administration is

Student Access Guide-the

treating the Colby popula­

same publication that listed

tion like mature adults by

Colby students a s t he

instituting this policy."

�omc 100 mentors and postdoctoral fellow at 53

· . colleague, Clare Boothe Luce As t�tant Profe or of Bio­ chemi'>try Julte MillarJ, her elf a former Dreyfu Fel low.

students on campus, al­

Student response to the

to

colleges around the country. Mundy was nominated by hi

Autht ir anJ AID -awarenes� acti vi'>t Larry Kramer attended a tudent performance of hi- award-winning play The Normal Heart in the

trider Theater on December 1, World Aids Day.

Co-founder of t he prote t grnup ActUp, Kramer pre ented a lecture and vi·ited a cla

during hi Colby visit. His emi­

autobiographical play wa produced by Colby'

tudent troupe

Powder & Wig and directed by Jonathan Bardzik '96, a per­ forming art major from Pelham, Ma . At a potlight lecture Kramer di-cu eJ hi per anal ba t tle w i t h the federal medical re·earch e tabli hment over the de­ velopment and authorization of new drug for AID He ay he i Ji couraged by the lack of progre

patients.

to find a cure

for the disea e. He blame bureaucracy and mi·management at the National In titute ofHealth and the FeJeral Drug Admin­ istration for inhibiting re earch and delaying new drug ."Eve­ rybody i

itting around waiting for a cure. It' like waiting for

Godot," he said.

Students Speak Up Want to know how student feel? Look on the wall of the Student Center every Thur day. A student opinion poll in tituted this year by Student Association President Bryan Raffetto provides

'95, of Hingham, Mass.,

weekly pul e check of t he campu . Student re­ Debate about a proposed multicultural house intensified during the · spond to a different question every Wednesday by filling out fall. The Echo published a series of letters to the editor both in favor : a post card at a table in the lobby of the Student Center. i x o f and against the concept o f a separate housing facility for students hundred or more responses per week are not unusual.

interested in multicultural issues. In a student opinion poll on the subject October 12 nearly half (511) of the 1,035 students who "voted" said they favored a multicultural center rather than a multicultural house, which received 81 votes. One hundred eighty students said they would support both a house and a center, and 131 said they would support neither. An additional 132 students said it was "too early to decide" about the issue. The Board of Trustees is expected to rule on the issue at their meeting this month in Boston.

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Questions have ranged from which night is best for music entertainment in the Spa (Thur day wa the favorite) to what

foreign language Colby students would most like to study (Spanish). Other poll have dealt with volunteerism, sexual harassment and political correctne . Re ult of the polls are posted in the Student Center and reported in the Echo. "We don't consider them scientific, " Raffetto said. "It' ju t a mechanism to tart discussion."

ahead

of the curve by Stephen Collins '7 4

three Colby alumni reflect the spirit of San Francisco San Francisco is famous for many t h i n gs: a bri dge, fog, a former prison, cars on cab l es and very steep h i l ls. It has as many personal i t i es as neighborhoods. Perhaps t h e q u a l i t y t h a t best d i sti n g u i s h es t h i s most progress i ve of A m eri ­ c a n c i t i es is t h e p ioneer s p i r i t t h a t e n d ures here. It con t i n ues to attract peop l e see k i n g n e w opport u n i t i es. I n San Francisco, i nnovation is i n d i genous to the c u l ture. The city that n urtured Lon don, Steinbeck and Kerouac, that birt hed the Beat Generation and h i ppie movements and spawned psychedelic m usic, today cra d l es comp uter wi zardry and Pac i f i c Rim tra d i n g . It rem a i ns a romantic outpost i n an America supposedly g o n e to seed. Colby a l um n i in the city reflect both its cosmopol itanism and its commitment to keeping ahead of the curve. They are business entrepreneurs and artists, publ ic service leaders and industry consultants-an eclect i c group with l ives as d istinctive as the city they cal l home. The t h i n g they share is the place they began-and the cadre of peop l e who h e l ped shape their futures.

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liquid assets A p h i l osop h y major at Co l by in t h e ear l y 1960s, Peter G. Gordon '64 reca l ls h is l i beral arts experience as a rich opportu n i t y to exp lore new ideas. " At Col by I l earned not to be afra i d to try new t h i n gs," he sa i d from his office in San Francisco. Co- foun der and co-owner of one of the nation 's leading natural beverage com pan ies. Crystal Geyser Water Com pany, Gordon i s a testament to the v a l ue of fearl ess i nnovation. I g nore for t h e moment that in 1 9 7 7 the notion of se l l i ng sma l l bott les of dri n k i n g water was l i tera l l y foreign-a European phenomenon l i ttle known in North Ameri ca. Gordon and h is partner at Crystal Geyser, Leo Soong , pioneered the add it ion of natural f l a vors-an d later the add i t ion of v i t a m i ns-to sparkli n g bottled water and juice. I t began w i t h k i tc h e n cou nter experi ments that Gordon and Soong con 足 ducted w i t h bot t l e d water a n d f l avori n gs. Today, t h ey are se l l i n g som ewh ere i n t h e n e i g h borhood o f $ 1 0 0 m i llion worth o f water, j u i ce a n d t e a dri n ks a n n u a l ly. Gordon a n d Soong w e r e t h e f i rst t o add c i trus f l avors to bottled m i n era l water and t h e f i rst to market a non-citrus f l avor. Crysta l Geyser Co l a Berry, i n trod uced in 1985, became the best - se l l i n g f l avored spark l i n g water i n i ts f i rst year. On the other h a n d , Ch erry - Choco l a te, i ntrod uced a y e a r l a ter, w a s an e x 足 per i m e n t to test " How f a r cou l d we go?" Gordon sa i d . "it had a stron g core fo l l ow i n g. but .. . " Gordon came to Colby from New York City i n 1 9 6 0 . He remem bers i t a s a t i m e o f persona l growth a n d maturat ion . P h i losophy prov ided bot h the d i sc i p l i ne a n d the process t o i nvestigate and un derstand ideas, a n d exposure t o t h e sciences, t o l i terature a n d t o a r t a n d m usic broadened students' perspectives and chal l enged t h em to h i g her a c h i evement and a better understanding of the wor l d , says Gordon. "The range of courses that I had al lowed me to open my mind to new i deas." The importance of open ing up i n col lege was underscored by h is experience after graduation. " As t i m e goes on y o u i ncreas i n g l y h a v e to narrow your focus," Gordon sai d . After a brief period of trave l i n g , he enrol led at N ew York U niversity, taking courses i n busi n ess. He spent several years doi n g i nvestment research on Wall Street for Merri l l Lynch , where he foun d h is un dergraduate p h i losop h y education as valua b l e as h is business school tra i n i n g . "Aga i n , " he sa i d , "it was the thought process that was valuable-taking a l l t h i s i n form at i on and m ak足 ing sense and order of t h i ngs." The desire for a more agreeab l e environment and a health ier l i festyle sent Gordon west. He landed i n San Francisco as a securi t i es analyst for We l ls Fargo, where he met Soong, a l so a securities analyst. The pair struck up a fri endship and d iscussed various business ventures. "We decided i t was time to create someth ing, to try someth i n g on our own ," Gordon recal led. "We wanted a chal len ge. a hands-on situation where we wou l d be involved, i mmersed, sti m u l ated . " W h i l e t h e p a i r looked at e x i st i n g b usi ness opport u n i t ies during t h e m id197os, several see m i n g l y unre l ated i deas percol ated i n Gordon ' s mind and kept lead i n g h i m to water. " Part o f m y assignment o n W a l l Street was to try t o understand t h e rules a n d regulation s o f t h e n ew Environ mental Protection Agency," he sa i d . T h a t work revealed t o h i m t h e widespread problems w i t h water i n t h e U n i ted States-poor m anagement o f water resources, spot prob lems with inadequate treatment and the use of treatment technolo足 g i es that were worrisome to i n creas i n g l y h e a l th-consc ious Ameri cans. It was a time when

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consumers were choos i n g products l a b e l ed " a l l natura l " and were trying to moderate t h e i r consumpt ion o f a l coh o l i c beverages a n d h i g h l y sweetened soft d r i n ks. Research in Europe revea l ed that per capita consumpt ion of bottled water was very h i g h and grow i n g , even where p ub l i c water suppl ies were good. Gordon and Soong launched a new business to se l l bott l es of water to Ameri cans who had taken for granted t h at dri n k i n g water cam e from a tap. " Each time we came bac k to this i t p i qued our curiosity aga i n and seemed l i ke a good idea, " Gordon sa i d . T o succeed, t h e y n eeded a source o f water i n a remote area not threatened b y deve lopment. T h e y spent a year a n d a h a l f " n etworki n g " to find the r i g h t water sources-an a l p i n e spr i n g 4 , 000 feet up i n the S i erra Nevada Mountains and a m i neral spri ng in Napa V a l l ey-and figuring out financing, production and d istri but ion . They b u i l t a bott l i n g plant n ear the spri n g " i n the m i d d l e of nowhere" to ensure the p urity of their product, Gordon says. " We t h i n k that's i m portant. It ' s fundamental . " T h ey i n corporated Crystal Geyser Water Company in 1977 , a n d their first prod uct, sparkl i n g water, h i t t h e shelves a year later. The co- ch ief execu­ tives took on a myriad of responsi b i l i t i es, i n c l ud i n g r i d i n g i n the beer trucks t h a t d i stributed Crystal Geyser, driving the forkl i ft in t h e i r C a l i stoga bott l i n g p l ant and

T h e i r i n n ovat i on s , add i n g natural

offeri n g free sam p l es at supermarkets. " In the ear l y days we were rea l l y m i ssionaries because the idea of bot t l ed water was strange." Gordon sa i d . But not for l ong. "The t i m i n g was very good, " he sa i d . " After we got oursel ves org a n i zed, sudden l y the i dea of bottled

f l avor i n gs an d v i tam i n s an d bran chi n g o ut

water became very pop u l ar . " Ai ded by an advert ising blitz by t h e i r compet i tor Perrier. the French granddaddy of spark l i n g m i neral waters, Gordon and Soong soon were r u n n i n g to keep up w i t h sales figures that doub led each year t h rough m uch of the 1980s. Their own i n n ova­

i nto j u i ce an d tea dri nks , e l evated Crystal

tions, add i n g natural fl avori ngs a n d v i tam i n s a n d bran c h i n g out i nto j u i ce and t e a d r i n ks. susta i n ed the growth and e l evated C rystal Geyser to one of the top five nat ural beverage brands in the U.S. Now, w i t h some 200 emp l oyees to drive the for k l i fts and so on. Gordon is

Geyser to one of the top f i ve n at ural

respons i b l e for sales a n d m arket i n g w h i l e Soong h a n d l es f i n a n ces a n d operat ions, but the two col l aborate on all decisions. C rystal Geyser products are ava i l ab l e in a l l 50

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states and in several Asian and Lati n American countries.

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The future of the i n d ustry, Gordon feels, i s prom isi n g . H e predi cts t hat C rystal Geyser w i l l con t i n u e to be an i n n ovator. W h i l e t h e company h as a " very good. very prod uct ive source" of water, f i n d i n g and deve lop-

ing another source is a possi b i l i ty. Gordon and h i s w i fe, Krist i n (Meyer ' 64), who l ive in M i l l Val l ey. cel ebrated t h e i r 30th wed d i n g a n n i versary i n Jan uary. Krist i n , who majored in E n g l ish at Colby, is an artist who h as worked i n scu l pture , carv i n g , cast i n g , w e l d i n g and p a i n t i n g and h e l ped w i t h some of the early signs and label desi gns for Crystal Geyser products. The cou p l e ra ised t w o c h i l dren, n o w grown. T hree years ago, " after a h i atus of about 25 years." as Gordon put it, he renewed his t i es to Colby, and he curren t l y serves as an overseer. "The broad - based education that a p l ace l i ke Colby provides i s essent i a l , " he sa i d . " T h e exposure to many d isc i p l i n es a n d c u l t u res, t h e way i t provokes, pushes, c h a l l en ges students, t h e way it tests them and tests t h e i r va l ues [ is i m porta n t ] . The rol e of Colby is essential to what h appens to us as a nation in the future . "

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vintage colby J on Fredr i kson '6 4 knows w i n e , a n d h e 's had t h e purp l e teeth to prove i t . Fredri kson-a pri n c i p a l i n the respected w i n e i n d ustry con s u l t i n g firm of Gom berg, Fredri kson £, Assoc iates, a profess ion a l wine taster, a former execut ive vice presi dent of Pa u l Masson V i n eyards and the Seagram Wine Company, an expert source for The New York Times and a b i l i n g ua l fi nancial anal yst who's con s u l ted in Spain and Egypt­ is, above a l l , an oenop h i l e . So devoted is he to h i s favored beverage t h a t he once tasted 625 w i n es i n four days at the Cal i forn ia State Fair. When i t was over he travel ed to San Jose, p urp l e teeth and a l l , to atten d-what else?-a wine sam pl i n g . Fredri kson i s a c l a s s i c product of an i n terd isc i p l i nary education, com b i n i n g interests i n two f i e lds with an entrepren euri al spirit t o create a s uccessf u l career. A n econom ics major a t Col by, Fredri kson remem bers emeri­ tus professors Robert W. Pu l l en ' 41 ( econom ics) and Henry Hol land ( Span i s h ) as major i n f l uences on h i s career. He part i c i pated i n a sum mer Spa n i s h i nstitute at Colby in 196 1 , and Hol land persuaded him to apply for a Fu l bright scholars h i p. He got it, attended the Nation a l U n ivers i ty of N i caragua for a year and trave led throughout Centra l and South America. After studying i nternational business and ac­ cou n t i n g at Col umbia Un ivers ity-he earned an M . B . A. i n 1 967-and serving a tour o f duty as a naval offi cer i n Hawa i i , Fredrikson w a s h ired by Seagram i n 1 9 7 0 as a n i nternation a l f i n a n c i a l anal yst to keep trac k o f its Lat i n American i n terests . Mon i toring the wine i ndustry became part of the job, and he q u i c k l y evolved into "the wine g uy" on Seagra m ' s New York staff, Fredri kson says, even t ua l l y moving up t o r u n the international group. As part o f t h e j o b , he went b a c k t o school t o l earn more about wine. " T h ey sent me to graduate courses, i n c l u d i n g one that was held i n the wine cel lar of the St. Reg is Hote l . That's when I became a wine fanati c , " he s a i d . "We tasted some great w i nes in there . " In 1 9 7 2 Fredri kson w e n t to S a n Fra n c i sco to anal yze Seagra m 's Cal i forn i a operations and was h ired by the com pany 's wine d ivis ion there. Over the n ext decade he h e l ped run several of Seagra m ' s wine s ubs i d iaries, i n c l u d i n g Paul Masson. When Seagram reorg a n i zed and moved i t s wine operat ions to the East Coast i n 1983, Fredri kson and h i s wife, Ei leen, deci ded to stay i n San Francisco and go i nto busi ness as con sultants. They bought the venerable Lou i s R. Gom berg£, Associates and con t i n ­ ued t o work with Lou is Gomberg-a founder of The W i n e Insti t ute and a pioneering i n d u stry anal yst-unti l h i s death l ast year. Gomberg , Fredri kson £, Associ ates, as the firm is now known , p ub l i shes the month l y Gomberg-Fredrikson Report, w h i c h Fredri kson edits, as wel l as the WINEDATA sales and pri c i n g mon itors. The firm, w h i c h h as four employees, offers servi ces that i nc l ude econo m i c and marke t i n g studies for the wine i nd ustry, expert testi mony, w i n e and winery eva l uations and rea l estate brokerage for wine properties. E i l een Fredri kson , who has a busi n ess degree from the U n ivers ity of Cal iforn ia at Berke l ey, i s the f i rm ' s d irector of c l ient servi ces .

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The Fredri ksons ' t i m i n g cou l d not have been better. T h e i r entry i nto con s u l t i n g c o i n c i ded w i t h t h e explosion of the prem i um domestic wine market i n the m i d - ' 8os, wh i c h w a s sp urred by American consumers' i n creas i n g knowledge. They had a c o u p l e of years of exper i e n ce to prepare for "the real action , " Fredri kson s a i d . " Lo o k i n g back now over the last twe lve years. we were fort unate to get started when we d i d . " One measure of t h e ascendance of C a l i forn i a w i n es is t h e extent to wh i c h i m ported w i nes, e v e n Fren ch tab l e w i nes, are now e m u l a t i n g their l ook and m arke t i n g sty l e. I n stead of p u s h i n g the tra d i t i on a l European appel l a t i o n system , i m ports are now labe l ed as varieta l s such as C h ardon nay and Cabernet, Fredri kson says. There has been l i t t l e p l a n t i n g or expa n s i on at C a l i forn ia v i n eyards recently beca use growers are dea l i n g w i t h root l o use, an i n sect t h at is th reaten i n g grapevi nes, Fredri kson say s . The s l owdown has created space for a n ew wave of i mports. Among Ca l i forn ia wines, Fredri kson said h e ' s part i a l to r e d Z i n fandel. " W e get w i n e as g i fts, we buy i t , somet i m es we ' re p a i d i n w i n e , so we h ave a h uge wine

Fredr i kson is a

ce l l ar, " he s a i d. " And w i t h all t h e c h o i ces, very often I pick up a red Z i n fandel because i t goes we l l with pasta and l i g h t m eats l i ke c h i cken . " Among w h i te wines, Fredrikson recommends

c l ass i c product of

a coup l e of Chardonnays and Robert Pepi Sauvignon Blanc. Fredri kson ' s avocation as a wine taster has

an i n terd i sc i p l i nary

turned him i n to an a u t h ori ty. When t h e C a l i forn i a State

ed ucat i o n ,

Fair deci d ed to resurrect profess i o n a l jud g i n g of w i n es in the m i d - 198os, E i leen s igned Fredri kson up as a j ud ge足 " un beknownst to me, " he noted. He sweated, but passed,

comb i n i n g i n terests

a r i gorous exam to q u a l i fy and was chosen to taste Sonoma County w i nes at t h e 1 985 State Fair. "Jt sounds l i ke fun," he said, "but t h e f i rst year i t was four days. You ' re seq uestered l i ke a j ury, a n d we tasted 625 w i n es足 everyt h i n g from Sonoma County. You can ' t i m a g i n e what

in two f i e l ds w i t h an

your mouth fee l s l i ke; i t feels l i ke your teeth are ready to fa l l out," he s a i d . Occupat i o n a l hazards of t h e bus iness not足 w i thstand i n g , Fredrikson has n o regrets about t a k i n g the p l unge into consu l t i n g . "it ' s a l o n g way from t h e corpo足 rate wor l d , " he s a i d . " I l i ke to say that you go from riding i n t h e corporate j e t to tak i n g out your own trash . " M a k i n g a good l i v i n g i n d u l g i n g h i s pass ion

en trepre n e u r i a l sp i r i t to create a s uccessf u l career.

for grapes and w i n e , Fredri kson part i c u l ar l y val ues t h e h o urs he s p e n d s outdoors i n t h e v i neyards . Then , every even i n g , he returns t o the "dream ho use" he and E i l een b u i l t amongst t h e redwood trees in t h e Santa Cruz Mountains, overl ook i n g t h e Pacific Ocea n . T h e fam i ly-Jon, E i leen a n d two high schoo l -age daughters . J e n n y and Eri ca-drops every t h i n g for a tra d i t ional s it-down fam i l y d i n n er, usua l l y gourmet food, a l m ost a l ways with a bott l e of wine. '' J m i g h t go bac k to work after d i nn er unt i l one i n the morn i n g , but the two ho urs arou n d d i n n er are very i m porta n t , " he s a i d . Fredri kson i s a l o n g w a y from h i s n a t i ve New Y o r k and t h e corporate career that i n i t i a l l y sent him to C a l i forn ia, and he i s h appy with t h e path h e ' s take n . "My wife s a i d I stopped gri n d i n g my teeth t h e day I stopped wor k i n g for Seagram , " he s a i d .

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new age activ ist In a I i g h thearted essay about how she i s an embarrassment to her two sons and a worry to her l o n g - s uffer i n g mother, Nancy Kudriavetz R amsey ' 6 2 , a l o n g - t i m e Was h ­ i n gton po l i t i c a l act i v i st n o w court i n g a mel l ower l i festy l e i n S a n Francisco, descri bes herse l f as "an unreconstructed rad i c a l i n post - m odern i ty . " As an ant i - wa r act i v i st in the late 1 960s she handed out leafl ets urging a boycott of Wonder Bread because its parent corporation made weapons. In 1 969 she c h a i n ed herse l f to t h e W h i t e Ho use fence to protest the Vietnam War. She worked i n the National W e l fare R i ghts Organ i zation and the Women ' s I n ternat i o n a l League for Peace and Freedom and had her house under rou n d - t h e - c l ock protection i n 1 9 7 2 when she went to Moscow to meet w i t h Palest i n i an women. S he was d i rector of Americans for SALT, co­ founded and ran the i n f l uent i a l Comm ittee for National Security and co-wrote Nuclear Weapons Decision Ma king. She spent four years in the

m i d - 198os as l eg i s l a t i ve d i rector for Sen. J o h n Kerry (D­ Mass . ) and was a D i stingu i s h ed Resource Fe l l ow at the Center for Confl ict Reso l ut i on at George Mason U n i vers i t y . A l l of t h i s fa i l s to acknowledge a maste r ' s degree i n soc i a l w o r k f r o m the U n i vers i t y of C h i cago and her e a r l y efforts set t i n g up the first Community Act ion and Head Start programs i n Massach usetts. Seven years ago Ramsey deci ded it was t i m e to exercise another part of her bra i n . She left the nation ' s capi t a l f o r C a l ifornia w i t h h e r t h e n partner, n o w h usba n d , Russel l " R usty" Schwei ckart, an Apo l l o 9 astronaut and com m i ss i oner of energy i n Cal ifornia during Edmund ( J erry) Brown J r . ' s , adm i n istration. The t ra n s i t i o n f r o m B e l t w a y i n s i d e r t o Sausa l i to-based w o r l d traveler wasn ' t w i t h o u t its bumps. "1

spent the f i rst year [in C a l i forn i a ] t h i n k i n g , ' What have

I done? "' said Ramsey. She says s h e ' s very happy i n C a l i forn i a and c l a i m s . " I can n o w g e t t h ro u g h a d a y w i t h o u t rea d i n g t h ree newspapers. " She now operates Morn ing Star I mports, serves on the board of the Fund for Constitutional Govern ment and i s a mem ber of The G l oba l Bus i ness Network (GBN), a cutt i n g - edge cons u l t i n g consort i u m that WIRED maga­ z i ne c a l l ed " a world l eader i n futurism . " Futurism de­ scribes the process of a n t i cipating world events; i n t h i s case t h e process i s based on data obta ined from and a n a l yzed by a worldwide network of h i g h l y placed, tec h ­ n o l o g i ca l ly sop h i st i cated peo p l e . It's a l o n g road from growing up a U krain ian Catholic in West Hartford, Conn . , through the corridors of infl uence and power in the nation 's capital to importing jewelry crafted by the Tuareg nomads of West Africa. Ramsey points to a year in Germany as an American Field Service student as the entrance ramp. Witnessing from abroad how people viewed Americans and how Americans viewed themselves had a profound impact on how she saw the world and how she wanted to change it, she reca l ls. Ramsey was a h i story major at Colby. A dys l e x i c , she says she had to work harder and l on ger to keep up with the rea d i n g . She reca l l s "the p l eas ures of essay tests " and says she val ued t h e i n te l l ectual respect i m p l i c i t in professors t a k i n g t i m e to read and eva l uate essay an swers. " T h ey were trying to get at whether we were t h i n k i n g , not whether we were rea d i n g and memori z i n g , " she said. She calls t h e early 1 960s a great t i m e for Colby 's h i story departm ent, mention­ i n g C l i fford Berschnei der i n part i c u l a r as a professor who pushed st udents to l earn. She won t h e W i l l iam ) . W i l k i n son Prize i n h i story as a senior.

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S h e p la n n e d to go to l aw schoo l-un t i l she sh owed up at Dartm outh to take t h e law boards, that i s . " I t h i n k t h ere were f i ve w o m e n t h ere . A l l the men had on, I remember it very c l early, khaki pants a n d ye l l ow s h i rts with beige sweaters or gray pants w ith p i n k s h i rts a n d gray sweaters, a n d I thought, ' I can ' t l i ve m y l ife l i ke that. ' I wanted t h i n g s to c h a n g e ! In t h at moment I had to ret h i n k what it was I wanted out of m y work. " Two t h i n g s h i g h on her l i st were raci a l j ustice and an end to poverty. " You can i ns t i t u t i o n a l ize change, " she said. "If you be l i eve i n th ose t h ings, you have to m a ke a comm itment to make them happen . " S h e was i nterested i n the U n iversity o f C h i cago because o f a law s c h o l ars h i p ava i l a b l e at C o l by, but the epi phany at the law boards s e n t h e r i n stead to the un ivers it y ' s school of social w o r k . A y e a r i n the f i e l d convi nced her t h a t she wasn ' t g o i n g to be sat i sf i e d m a k i n g c h a n ges one c a s e at a t i m e , so she s h i fted her e m p h a s i s a n d eventua l l y graduated w i t h a concentrat i on i n com m un i t y orga n i z a t i o n . Regard i n g her a c t s of consc i e n ce and c i v i l d i s obedience d u r i n g the V i etnam War, she s a i d , "When the system i s n ' t l i sten i n g , one has to ask how to get its attent i o n . W i t h a mule y o u h i t it over the head; w i t h the

I t ' s a l on g road from grow i n g up a

po l i tical system, i f t h e y ' re not l i sten i n g w h en you come to t h e door, you h ave to go to the streets. I t seems hard to remember that peop l e too k what they be l i eved i n seri o u s l y e n o u g h to r i s k t h e i r person a l security, b u t it was that k i n d o f w i l l i ngness t h at saved us from a worse deba c l e in the war. " Com i n g from a backgro und l i ke that, Ramsey never wou l d have predicted that fash i on would p l ay such a b i g role i n her future. C l ot h es a n d j ewe l ry had n ever been that i m portant. " W h en I came o ut here [ to Cal ifor­

U kra i n ian Catho l ic i n West Hartford, Conn . , through the corri dors of infl uence and power

n i a ] , " she said, " I owned a wardrobe of dark suits and wh ite s h i rts, l ittle bow t i es and wh ite earrings. When a friend said to me, 'Would you l i ke to borrow somet h i n g of m in e to wear to our d i nner party?' I knew I was in trouble. " A few months later, accompanying Schweick­

in the n ati on ' s cap i ta l to i m porting jewe l ry

art to a meet i n g o f the Assoc iation of Space Explorers (an organization h e fo u n d e d ) in Saudi Arab ia, she encoun­ tered t h e country ' s d i sti nctive s i l ver jewe l ry . I n that moment Morn i n g Star I m ports was conceived, a n d her f i rst contacts were made for a busi n ess that has taken her

crafted by the Tuareg nomads of West Afr i ca.

from R iyadh to Bangkok to Timbuktu. "I d i dn 't know the d ifference between s i l ver a n d g o l d , but I f i g u red i f I c o u l d write a book about n uc l ear weapons decision making, how h ard could jewelry be?" she s a i d . S h e desc r i bes Morn i n g Star I m ports as a sma l l jewelry business t h a t se l ls t o i nd iv i d u a l s , desi gners a n d s h o p s m a i n l y i n C a l i forn i a and C o l orado. The S a u d i connect i o n l a s t e d o n l y u n t i l t h e G u l f War b e g a n , w hereupon she s h i fted her attent ion to Southeast A s i a . Safety concerns prompted by Cambo d i a n activity in an area of n orthern T h a i l a n d w h ere s h e was work i n g prec i p i tated a n o t h e r change of ven ue, a n d s h e now concentrates o n geometri c s i l ver des i gn s created by Tuareg art i sans. She v i s its t h e i r homelands south of t h e A t l as Mountains every year a n d has contacts w h o a l so b r i n g items to her. While she st i l l sees herself as an unreconstructed rad i ca l , Ramsey is amazed by her transformation from polit ical animal to businessperson over the l ast six years. ( H er i n i t i a l reaction to the G u l f War, she adm i ts, w a s concern f o r her b us i ness interests i n S a u d i Arab ia. ) But the b u s iness l eaves room for a variety of other activities and interests as we l l . T h i s w i nter she was headed east for a cou p l e of months with Schweic kart, who i s developing one of the

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first l ow earth -orb i t i n g satel l i tes for mob i l e d i g ital commun icati on-e-mai l ' s answer to the ce l l ular phone. The sate l l ite, slated for launch in J a n uary, wi l l enable people w i th an antenna and a laptop computer to log onto computer networks from anywhere in the world. W h i l e s h e h a s c o n s u l ted on a variety of i ss ues with GBN, her m a j o r effort t h e re h a s taken her back to an earl i e r i n terest-wo m e n ' s i s s u e s . Last year s h e h e l ped s c i e n ce writer P a m e l a McC ord u c k orga n i ze a n d run a s i x - we e k , G B N - sponsored, o n ­ l i n e c o n ference a n d s u bsequent two- day m e e t i n g on " Women As a D r i v i n g Force i n 2 0 1 0 : A W i n dow on C h a n ge . " " Being on the ground in Africa and other places, I was concerned that the G B N ' s scenarios weren ' t ref l ecting the depth of change happe n i ng around the world, " she said,

l

expl a i n i n g how she pushed for i nc l u d i n g more di verse vi ews in the group's deli berations. " They were m i ssing the changes that are happen ing with women, and for international corporations it makes an extraordi nary d ifference. " An article about G B N i n the

" T h ere ' s a t h eory that un l e ss women

November WIRED magazine poi nted out a tiny example­ that no one foresaw the i ncrease in urban traffic jams when Ameri can women entered the workforce en masse in the 1970s and 'Bos. Ramsey insists that. on an i nternational scale. the changes in women 's roles portend more funda­

take t h e i r c l ot h es off or s cream at m e n , t h ey aren ' t rea l l y n ot i ce d . B ut t h ere

mental and far-reaching sh ifts i n society. The economies of the Pac i fic R i m countries are being carried on the backs of women laborers, she says. They are educating each other and they are rece iving more formal education, often staying i n school w h i l e the boys "drop out to play with guns, " she said. " T here ' s a t h eory t h a t u n l ess women take their c l othes off or scream at men, they are n ' t rea l l y n o t i ced , " s h e sa i d . " B ut t h ere i s a corps o f i n ternat i o n a l women ' s l eaders h i p e m erg i n g t h a t ' s i n cred i b l e . " S h e

is a corps of i n tern at i o n a l women ' s

u s e d last y e a r ' s s u m m i t on pop u l a t i o n i n C a i ro t o i l l ­ ustrate t h e point. "Women from aro u n d t h e world came together to reconcept u a l i z e a prob l e m and came up with poten t i a l s o l u t i o n s . It's one of t h e most e x c i t i n g changes I ' ve s e e n i n m y l i fet i m e , because i t ' s people

l eaders h i p emerg i n g

w h o are com m i t ted to c h a n g e w h o are doing i t-work ­

t h at ' s i n cred i b l e . "

In t h e wake of the G B N conference on t h e fut ure of women, and i n a n t i c i pation of a women ' s s u m ­

i n g t o g e t h e r a n d d o i n g i t profess i on a l l y . "

m i t i n Beij i n g next fa l l , Ramsey and McCorduck a r e c o ­ writ i n g a b o o k tentat ively t i t led T h e Futu res o f Women: A Window on Change. Ramsey said it w i l l be publ i s h ed after

t h e B e i j i n g con ference, probab l y in Apr i l 1996. She says she has good C o l by company i n the rea l m of women ' s advocacy. Lael S w i n n e y Steg a l l '62, Ramse y ' s fres h m a n - year roommate at C o l b y and one o f her best f r i e n d s , i s run n i n g a compre h e n s i v e program for wome n ' s needs i n Bosnia and H erzegov i n a a n d Maced o n i a and stays i n touch via e - m a i l . R a m sey also reg u l ar l y sees another fresh man roommate and c l ose friend, G i l l i an Lamb B ut c h man '63, a spe c i a l e d u c a t i o n teacher i n s ub urban Was h i n gton w h o a l so operates a camp o n Mart h a ' s V i n eyard f o r person s w i t h cerebra l palsy. Ramsey says s h e is convinced as ever that her pri n c i p l es are worth fighting for. " So, h ere I am . . . a n ever-was Comm u n i st , an unreconstructed rad ical in post-moder­ n ity, l i gh t i n g cand l es of m y own, and pra y i n g to the Goddess for t h e future. "

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So Farr, So Good

I

n the few Colby photographs that capture Sid Farr '55, he always seems to be standing in the background. That's him, applaud i ng a donor a t a b u i ld i ng dedica­

t ion, cheering on a team, chuck l ing at an aside from a trustee. Center stage has never been his arena. But Colby insiders-espec i a l ly those who have worked w i th him in the College's administration-know that for more than three and a half decades, Farr has played a critical part in Colby's success. And when he reti red last month-qu ietly, of course, w i thout fanfare-the College marked the end of an era. "Nobody is i rreplaceabl e . Except Sid," said Vice Pres i ­ dent for Deve lopment and Alumni Relations Randy Helm, who worked with Farr for seven years. "You have to grow a S i d . It's like growing a redwood forest. It takes a generat ion to produce a Sid Farr." A Mainer through and through, Farr was born in Portland, reared in Orrington and graduated from Bangor High Schoo l . H e was t h e o n l y child o f parents w h o stressed t h e importance of education and aimed him toward col lege early on. In Farr's j unior year of high school, Colby admissions director B i l l Bryan

'48 visited Bangor and spent half a n hour with Farr.

"I thought he wa a wonderful man and that Colby must be a wonderful col lege to have uch a man representing i t , " Farr remembered. Shortly after meeting Bryan, Farr g a r

a

personal tour of Colby from Bangor friend and Col lege trustee G us D'Amico

'28.

" I t w a s love at first ight," Farr sai d . "This w a s t h e new College, there weren't even any big trees yet. But when I saw Colby I saw a beaut iful college and a wonderful opportunity to come and learn someth ing . " I t didn't hurt that D'Amico introduced Farr to President J. Seelye Bixler-in B i x ler's study, no less-and to Dean of Men George N ic kerson ' 2 4 . T h e young m a n w a s firmly ensnared by t h e college to which

Retirement is not goodbye for beloved alumni secretary Sid Farr

he would devote his working l ife. He app l ied for admission nowhere e lse. Farr enrol led in

1 9 5 1 and, predictably, was e lected v ice

president of his freshman c l ass. I n his four years on May­ flower H i l l-in add i tion to completing a rigorous triple maj or in history , government and economics and being e lected to Blue Key, the senior honorary society-Farr serv­ ed two more terms as a c lass officer ( sophomore v ice presi­ dent and senior treasurer ) . H e was a member of the G lee Club and vice president of the International R e la tions Club, was Lambda Chi A lpha secretary and co-chaired the senior commencement committee. Then there was ROTC ( fou r

By Sally Baker

years ) , t h e captaincy of t h e Dril l T e a m , service as a head

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resident and, in his spare time,

succeeded Bixler a Colby

the Outing Club, baseball

president in the fall of 1 960.

team and c h a p e l u h e rs .

"He did have a foot on the

When a doctor advised him

old campu , even though

not to play baseball i n his

he never attended classe

senior year, Farr went to ee

there. He had an affinity for

music professor Peter Re and

commun icating with people

volu nteered

from that era. Part of that

to

accompany

the Glee Club on piano.

may he hecau e he worked

Piano ?

o c lo ely with Bill Millett,

"Sandy Doo l i ttle [ H unt

who wa<; the embod iment of

' 58] and I played a pretty am­

the old campu ."

bitious Christmas concert; we

"I don't think we would

sat fac i ng each other at two

have made the tran ition

p i anos," Farr recalled with a

from the old campu to the

laugh . "I know 1 surprised Dr.

new campus w i thou t

Bixler. I 'd been at Colby for

Farr-at lea t not in the

three years, and he had no i dea l knew how to play . "

iiiiiiil••·L�'.::-���

minJ

id

of the people who

Center stage i s n ' t a comfortable location f o r F a r r ( f a r right), b u t h e ' s

identified them elve a 'old

Farr was comm issioned an been a fervent Colby booster for four decades. Pictures often Air Force officer on gradua- depict him giving encou ragement from the si del i nes.

campu people , "' aid J ack

tion day, and he spent j ust

perception that the new

over four years in the serv ice. He gave some thought

Deering ' 5 5 . "There wa a

campu wa ·n't 'us'-a real gulf. id was the link. He brought

to

becom i ng a career officer, and he con idered going into

people along."

busines -there were opportunities, he ays. But after hi

When Millett ret ired i n 1 966, Farr wa prom ted t o alumni

great friend and mentor, alumni secretary Ellsworth "Bill"

·ecretary. "Following Bill M i llett wa like following God,"

M i l lett '25, teamed up with development direc tor Ed Tum er

Deering said. "But Sid Farr d id it and did a great job. I cannot

to offer Farr a co-assi tant hip in their department , Farr

i magine anyone else who could have."

asked himself: "What do you want to look back on when you

In 1 97 1 , w i th college aid program growing increa ingly

retire ? Sell ing widgets or flying airplanes or helping kids ?"

complex and c st rising, Administrative Vice Pre ident

For Farr, the que t ion was purely rhetorical. He began work

Ralph "Roney" W i l l iam ' 3 5 tapped Farr to lead the College'

at Colby on April 4, 1 960-Bixler's birthday. One of his fir t

financial aid and career coun e l i ng office . Farr held the

tasks was to help M i llett deliver a birthday cake to the

po ition for even years and remembers it fondly becau e of

president' home.

the contact it afforded him with tudents. But it wa a tough

Farr soon earned a reputation for tack ling anything that

job that frequently called for Farr to work late into the night.

needed to be done-and cheerfu lly. Dean of the Col lege Earl

" I t had to be done right," Farr said. " I was l ucky to have the

Smith , who j oined the Colby adm i nistration in 1 962 as

help of my dear wife, Shei la, who spent many n igh t at home

assistant to news office director R ichard Dyer, remembers

with our children while I worked." (The Farrs have two

the days when Farr single-handedly saw to it that the

children, Sally Farr Welch and Scott Farr. )

Alumnus -as Colby magazine

then was known-reached it

Despite his attention to career and fam i ly , Farr found t i me to serve the Waterv i l l e comm un i ty and further his own

readers. "He used to package the magazines and apply the labels and carry them to the post office," Smith aid. "That

education. He was a member of Rotary, a d irector of the

was fine with h i m . It was i mportan t . "

Chamber of Commerce and the Boys Club/G irl Club, a

A s M i l lett's assistant Farr helped bridge the gap some alum­

representative to Watervi l le's c ity counci l and a member of

n i saw between the College Avenue and Mayflower H i l l eras.

a state task force on governmental reorgan ization. A long the

"Sid represented continuity," said Robert E. L. Strider, who

way he earned a master's in pol itical science and an M . B.A.

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from the Univer i ty ofMaine.

aid H e l m . "We ' re los i ng

And he wa

extraord inar i ly

omebody who, as a profes­

generous in his volun teer ser­

sional administrator at this

vice to Colby in the e year ,

college, has ,·irtually e\·ery

for which he was awarded a Colby Brick in

ta lent that anybody wou ld

1972.

need to draw on for a lmost

Farr succeeded Roney W il ­ l i a m as Colby'

any job that we do.

secretary of

id has

done everything and done

1 976; two

e\·erything we l l . And we're

years later Strider named him

losing his tremendous integ­

the corporation in

vice president for develop­

rity. Some alumni out there

ment. Strider credits Farr with

look at Colby and wonder

taking Colby's development ef­

what foolishness those folks

fort to a new level of succe

on the H il l are up to now­

.

" U n t i l t h i s mos t recent

what k ind of craz iness are

flurry o f l arge g ift , Sid was

the students up to, what is

more responsi b l e than any­

that faculty doing, and are

body e l se for the l argest per­

those administrators off their

sonal g i ft the Col lege had

rockers ? But then they' l l re­

ever had-the A re y g i ft s i n the

Farr, along with friend, classmate and form e r Colby col l ea g u e Dave

Roberts '55 { r i g h t ) . s u rpri sed-a n d a l ittle em barras sed-by a member, Sid Farr still loves

1 960s t h a t enabled u to b i rthday celebrat i o n .

that college and S id Farr still

renovate the old l i fe sc i ence b u i l d i ng, '

works there, so there must

t r i d e r s a i d , adding t h a t Farr hawed h i

a p t i tude for development i n h i Foundat ion c h a l lenge i n

be some thing right about the place . "

p romotion of t h e Ford

Strider remembers speaking t o a n alumni couple in Florida

1 96 2 . "You c annot o verest i m a te

who que tioned him clo ely about a new policy he wanted to

the role S id p layed in t h i s effort becau e of hi- re l at io n ­

i mplement. The woman turned to Farr and said, "Do you

s h i p w i th t h e a l um n i . "

approve of what the president is planning to do ?" Farr said he

Deering ays Farr was effective a s a developmen t offi cer

did. "Fine," the alumna said, "then we approve too. " " I t'

becau e of his patience and hi bel ief in his ta k. "People who

amaz i ng t h e number o f people out there w h o e e

are asked for money are l i ke monkeys: they'll drop from l imb

Colby through h i s eyes-who

to l i mb. Sid out-li ten them. He i ts there and i the embodi­

e y e ," aid E a r l S m i th . "He's shown t h e m t h a t Colby is s t i l l

ment of Colby College.

want

to s e e i t through h i

very m u c h like i t w a s when t h e y were here ; it's s t i l l a good

i d ' l l out-wait you. You think he'll go

p lace full of good people . "

away. He won' t . And the memory of his notes, hi per istence and h i pat ience i like a tattoo-you can't get it off. A lot of

" i d h a s a k ind of loya l ty t o the in t itution t h a t y o u can't

the people who give to the new campaign w i l l g ive becau e of

buy," S trider aid. "He would do anything for the College­

that memory of their vi it with

and he's done a great many of them already. "

id."

Typ i c a l ly , Farr deflects t h e thanks a n d p r a i e . He insists

Farr's mes age was easy to wal low. "When I a k someone

i t ' been h i pleasure, thank you.

to help Colby, " he explained, " I ' m not ask ing for my elf. I ' m a k ing because l w a n t to

ee t h e

tudent

" I can honestly say that if l had my l i fe to live over again,

helped. The

I would do exac t ly the ame thing," Farr said . "There are

students and the fac u l ty are the core of everything . "

19 4 ,

some d isappo intments a long the way, but that happens in

and until h i retirement in December he was alumni secretary;

anybody' c areer. l retire happy to see what' happened here

he'll con t inue as board ecretary unt i l his term expires this

and exc i ted by the wonderful level of talent and ded i ca t ion

Farr stepped down a development v i c e p r e ident in

that he does not intend to

that is here today. I'm happy I 've been perm i tted t o be part

separate h i mself from the College in retirement ( "Not as long

of a great community, grateful for the fact that I 've been able

pring. A lthough Farr i n ist

to work for the College and that I 've m e t some wonderful

as I can breathe," he ay ), his departure leaves a void. "Probably nobody loves Colby a much as Sid Farr does,"

peopl e . You j ust can ' t beat Colby people. They're the be t . "

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Co o1

D a v i d Wa r d

1 55

D

"id Wa,d '55 figo<e h is life rnold have gone ei the< way

documen ted. In 1 9 79 at the federal pen itentiary at Marion, the

studying crimina ls or being one. Were it not for the intervention

country's super-maxim um-cu tody facil ity, X-an alleged a soc i­

of a couple of Colby professor , he says, it might have been the

ate of the Aryan Brotherhood pri on gang-and another inmate

latter. "lt wouldn't have taken much of a push

to

put me on the

tahbed a prisoner 57 times wi th sharpened rods, say court

other side," he says half-jokingly.

reports. When the man wa on the floor, the documents say, X

Professor of sociology and department ch::iir at the University of

continued

to

stab him in the head and back , houting "Die, you

M innesota, Ward has been moving in and out of America's darkest

son of a hitch . " ln 1 98 1 X again part ic ipated in the murder of

places almost since the day he left Mayflower Hill 40 year ago.

an 1thcr inmate, allegedly in retal iation for an i nsult against a

During a career of unprecedented acces·

memberof an allied gang. Then, on an October day in 1983,when

to

the country's most

dangerous criminals, h is research has produced four hook , scores of

X wa be ing escorted back to his cell from a recreation area,

articles and appearances on telev ision documentaries. He i · a major

another inmate lipped him a hank through the bars of his cell.

authority on the effects and effectiveness oflong-tenn isolation, and

X attac ked h 1 three guard , kill ing one and leaving the other two

his new book, Alcatraz: America 's Devil's Island, to be published later

permanently d i abled . When other guards arrived to drag the

this year, is sure to add another layer to the raging debate about crime

inj ured men away, X raiset.I hi arm in a boxer's ge ture of victory

and punishment. H is findings, Ward says, how that "no-nonsen e"

and walked back to hi cell laughing. He was convicted and

incarcera t ion-ala A lcatraz-

entenced to life-aga in. By this

greatly diminishes the chance that

t i me he had accumu lated four l ife

a criminal will repeat h is offense

After 40 years of research in America's

once released. Even the mo t hard-

fiercest prisons , Ward has as much

core criminals are, in a sense, rehabilitated after years with noth­ ing to do but think, Ward says. "Alcatraz worked." Ward extends this thesis only to the roughly 1 percent of pris­ oners in super-max imum custody

enthusiasm as when he began . " This work is so intrinsically interesting

emence plu 150 years, prompt­ ing the j udge' comment that the law was no longer a deterrent. X was transferred to the fed­ eral hospital in Mi ouri and placed in a specially constructed isolation

that sometimes I can't believe I 'm

cell, where he remains to this day.

ge tting paid to do i t . "

He leaves the cell ju t once a year,

- what he call "the all-star team

shackled and escorted by six guards, for an annual physical check-up.

of crime." Based on exhaustive research of former inmates at

H is fumi hings include a mattre

Alcatraz and its successor, the federal penitentiary in Marion , I l l . ,

elevated cement platform that he uses as a desk. He has a word

on the floor of the cell and an

Ward's study focu es o n prisoners l ike the one in t h e underground

processor, books and a five-inch black-and-white television; no

chamber in M issouri, John X (not his real name ) . A man whose

photographs or personal belonging are allowed. He is monitored 24

violent behavior has been deemed so ambitious and o remor ele s

hour a day by surveillance cameras. He sleep during the day and

that he is, according to one j udge, "wholly beyond the deterrent

stays awake all night, reading law books, science-fiction novels and

reach of the law," X is Ward's private project. Ward is the only

accounts of prisoner who have survived long-term confinement. At 39, X has spent most of his adult life in pri on and most of that

person outside the prison system who sees him. X's crimes are notorious even by prison standards, according

with almost no human contact. He is, Ward says, "a stone killer,"

to court documents. He was originally sentenced to life impris­

who e d i passionate one-hour account of the laying of the Marion

onment for k i l ling h is Marine drill instructor, sub equently was

prison guard reduced his case worker to tears. When Ward arrives to conduct an interview, a guard l ide

charged in the separate k i l l ings of three federal prisoners and in 1 983 stabbed a prison guard to death. This brutality is well

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open the food tray slot, an orifice two feet w ide and perhaps ten

20

inches high, through which Ward and X converse. Ward questions

X about his childhood. They talk about his mother, who came to visit once but has never returned and who X says he never wants to see again. But mostly they talk about what it's like living in total isolation. "I recently asked John to provide me with a derailed minute-by-minute account of how he spends h is days over a period of about two weeks," Ward said. "I want to know how he does this, how he survives in this setting. "As a criminologist, I'm interested in him as a pri oner. I want to know what makes him tick."

''I

owe everything to Colby," said Ward, who.se interest in

criminology was foreshadowed during his undergraduate study of American economic history. "I was more interested in labor riots than in federal fiscal policies," he recalled. Ward credits the late James G illespie, professor of psychology, with providing the vision that launched his career. A self-de­ scribed "hell-raiser" at Colby, Ward says Gillespie and other Colby professors offered direction and motivation. "I was put on social probation and was skating on pretty thin ice. Gillespie and some other professors took me in hand, paid attention to me, and that made all the difference," he said. G illespie encouraged Ward to attend graduate school and expand on his interest in behavioral science. "He actually typed up my graduate school applications," Ward said. Ward spent his fir t year after graduation at Tufts University, where an internship at the Massachusetts State Prison solidified his career plan . He entered graduate school at the University of I llinoi and in 1 9 58 began an 1 8-month tudyof prison misconduct at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. A year later, he went to Leavenworth Prison in Kan as and there met and inter­ viewed former Alcatraz convicts, one of whom was in olitary confinement. Ward recalls how the prisoner from solitary came into the interview room squinting and blinking as his eye tried to z

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adjust to the first light he had seen in weeks. That interview, Ward says, was the genesis of a research project that has spanned more than 30 year . Following his research at the School of Public Health at UCLA from 1 96 1 to 1 964, Ward's studies of men's and women's prisons in California resulted in the publication of two books, Women's

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Prison : Sex and Social Srructttre and Prisoner Treatment and Parole

been succe sfu l . This was a tunning li ne of re earch . "

Surviwl. In 1 962 he wrote ro the director of the Bureau of Pri ons,

Ward tracke<l down every former Alcatraz pri oner an<l recon­

James Bennett, and asked that he be allowed to conduct research

structed his history. He located everal who had "important jobs"

on prisoners at Alcatra:. No per on outside of the pri on �ystem

in towns where nobo<ly knew they had ever been convicted of

had ever been allowed on Alcarra2 1 land, let alone inside the

crimes and who had wive · and children who never knew about

prison, but Bennett was familiar with Ward'· research and granted

Alcatraz. The clear conclusion, Ward say , wa that "the pre urned

the request. Ward arrived 36 hours after the mo t famous escape in

effects of long-term confinement were wrong."

Alcatraz history-later dramati:ed in a

lint Eastwood film-and

No fe<lcral pri on came clo e

to

matching the condition at

boarded a boat with FBI agents who were searching the bay. Once

Alcatraz for the next 2 0 years. But by the early 1 980 mayhem

on the island, he was taken immediately to the cell block, where

among prisoners at the nation'

he wi tnessed the ten e interplay between guar<ls and prisoners in

Marion, Ill., had become o routine that even inmate privately

the escape's aftermath. "It was an incredible experience," he said. Pressure from the Kennedy Administration, coupled with the facility's deterioration, led to the prison's closure in the pring of 1963. The government adopted a

policy opposing so-called "last resort" penitentiaries, and Alcatraz

maximum security lockup in

pu hed for har her rules. "They

"I watch their hands . There are guys who might try

to

puU you through the bars if they

saw a chance , but the other prisoners wiU usually let me know if there is somebody I should keep an eye on . "

were

m

fear for their live every

day," Ward aid. Twenty-five inmate were mur­ dered at Marion over a pan of as many years. A circuit court judge who heard appeals of pri oner convicted for the murder of fel­ low inmate

inmates were cattered at federal

wrote: "All thing

con idered, t o many inmates at

prisons throughout the ystem. Ward's research project appeared

Marion' Contr 1 Unit the price of murder mu t not be high, and

to be over before it started.

to some it must be close to zero."

For the next several years, Ward kept Alcatraz in the back of hi

The cycle of violence got o bad, ay Ward, that pri oners were

mind while completing a fellowship at Harvard Law chool and a

running out of way to one-up each other in their culture of

Fulbright fellowship tudying prisons in Sweden and Denmark. H is

machi mo. Finally, he ay , the challenge became "let's ee who

interest in Alcatraz re-emerged in 197 5 when the island opened as

can take out some raff." The result wa X's infamou "mad dog"

part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The National Park

attack on the three guards.

Service, drawing heavily upon prisoner testimony, depicted Alcatraz

Marion went into a "lockdown,"

a

euphemi m that de cribe

as brutal and sadistic, Ward ays. At a dinner reception for U.S.

the impo ition of re trictive pri ner conditions imilar to those

SupremeCourtChiefJustice Warren Burger in Washington, D.C.,

used at Alcatraz. Most privileges were revoked, including opportu­

Ward was approached by Bennett, who was chafing at the Park

nities to meet with other inmates. Again, the government called

Service's portrayal. He encouraged Ward to pursue a follow-up

Ward in to investigate.

study of Alcatraz inmates, a project Ward knew would require

Since 1 983, he ha conducted exten ive interview with in­

years of research and the cooperation of hundreds of people. With

mate at Marion, nine of whom have been there since the lockdown

help from the FBI and parole officers across the country, he was

began. One thou and pri oners have passed through Marion's

able to collect rap sheets on all 1,5 5 0 Alcatraz alumni. Almo t

lockdown-the average stay is a little over three year -and been

immediately he recognized a significant pattern. "Early on it

transferred to other pri ons. None of them ha a saulted an officer

became clear that half of these guys weren't in prison anymore," he

or attacked a fellow pri oner with the intent to kill him, Ward says.

said. "Although they had been described as habitual criminals,

Only 1 6 percent have been returned to Marion because of miscon­

incorrigible, many of them had re-entered the free world and

duct. Ward says the e findings were "completely unexpected" and

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added weight to hi thesis that confinement in deprived environ­ menrs produces positive resulrs. "This i

These prisoners often have a "warrior mentality," Ward says.

the tudy that shows

They are intelligent, charismatic leaders. "These are men you would want with you if you were in combat. They are fearless. It

punishment works," he aid.

takes an exceptionally strong individual to psychologically survive

Ward i pretty sure he know whyrecidivi m at Marion i so low.

in this environment," he aid.

"The one thing that is clear is that the e prisoner think a lot about the consequence of their behavior," he

When confronted with the austere conditions under which these

aid. "TI1e thing that

works-in addition to aging, which i the best cure for crime-i

men live, Ward said, "most people assume they're all going tark rav­

being locked up in a place where you have plenty of time to think.

ing mad. ln fact, there is no mental illness among this population."

You tart thinking about thing you've mi sed. Your dad died three

"People naturally put themselves in a prisoner's place and say to

years ago and you couldn't go to the funeral. If you have a wife she's

themselves, 'I'd crack up,' and they're right," Ward said. "1 can tell

living with somebody else. If you have kids they're being raised by

you that the staff at the facility where John X is kept are amazed that he is as strong mentally and emotionally as he was when he

somebody else. Your energy tarts to wind down." "The entire time these guys are locked up they're basically

arrived eleven years ago. I mean, here you are in this l ittle cel l , you

doing cost-benefit analyse ," Ward said. "Most of them come to the

don't see anybody except a guard who hands you food three times a day, you never go outside, you have no family members who visit

conclusion that the crime ain't worth the time."

you, the lawyers have given up on you, and you're in here for the

While the e pri oners come to regret their actions, Ward says, he

rest of your life. How could anybody survive that?"

tops short of calling their attitudes remorseful. "They're sorry because what they did put them in this situation, but they don't view

Prisoners l ike X see their incarceration as a personal challenge

their crimes the way you or 1 would. They will tel l you, for instance,

set for them by the federal government. "The tougher the govern­

that when they killed a guard they weren't killing the man, they were

ment is on them, the tougher they get," Ward said. "They see it as

killing the uniform."

a test of character and they're going to be up to the challenge."

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Wh i le Ward adm i res the personal

trength of men who can

o n . When they say, 'So-and-so i s crazy,' I tend

to

Ii ten."

survive such cond i t ions, he does not excuse their violent rasts, nor

When interviewing a prisoner in an office, Ward instructs

does he advocate turn ing them loose. "In my op inion, John X is

guards to re move the man' shackles and handcuffs and wait

someone who doe not deserve to get back to the free world. J oh n

outside. " I tell them I don't do interviews with officer in the

X' goal in life i to get out of this isolation unit. That has to be hi­

roo m, " he said. " I t's important that the prisoners see me as

go a l . I would like to see him moved to a less re ·trictive environ­

somebody representing the free world and not as part of the

ment to see how he handles it. I 'm not talk ing about releasing h i m ,

prison sy tern ."

I'm talking about putting h i m hack in a rlace where there is some

Surprisingly, Ward says, mo t of these pri oner advocate harsh

i n teract ion, however l i m ited , with other h u man beings. Other­

measure

wise, how will we know whether this treatment work ?"

happening in our society as everybody el e. They are disgu ted by

to

deter crime. "They are as concerned about what's

c h i Id mobters and rapists and drive-by hooter . lfanything, their

remedies for crime are harsher than the general public' ."

W

Inmates play to the pri oner-sensitive attitude of civil libertar­

"d says he is ahk ro scp a raro his pmfo sional and pmonal

lives and not allow hi research environment

ian who malign facilities like Marion as inhumane, Ward says. But

affect hi own

privately, he ay , the y want the protection Marion provides. "They

outlook. " I t's a question l 've been asked h u ndred of ti mes-how

arc concerned about personal safety. They're willing to give up some

do you keep this from gett in g to you ? l gue s in part it's because I 've

of the freedoms of a more open environment to feel afer."

to

done this for so l on g that it ha

Ward ha great confidence in

become routine in some res pec ts. " Ward says he decided early on to demonstrate he was not afraid to enter the prisoners' environment. "The first thing I d id when I went to a new place was walk around in the yard [where prisoners congre­ gate], although I probably would

hi research but is cautious when

"The entire time these guys are locked up they ' re basically doing cos t-benefit analyses . Most of them come to the conclusion that the crime ain't worth the time . "

not do that now," he said.

a ked about its influence on pub­ l ic policy. He recently presented a report to the director of the Fed­ eral Bureau of Prisons prior to the opening of a super-maximum fa­ cility in Florence, Colo., but even this high-level acces is no guarantee his findings will b e acted

"I'm on a first-name basis with

upon. "You've got a university

most of these guys, and they like talking to me. I t's in their best

professor telling you one thing and Congress or a judge saying

interests to talk to me because I'm the guy who m ight make them

something else. Policy makers will act according to political

known to people outside the pri on system."

considerations. That's life," he said.

Even so, he is not reckless about h is own safety. Although he

He is outspoken about the penal system. "The field of correc­

usually interviews prisoners in an office, he makes exceptions for

tions is a misnomer," he said. "A far as I'm concerned inmates [in

the group at Marion who insist on staying in their cells. (Policy

the general prison population] are living in hotels with amenities

dictates that these men must be handcuffed and shackled before

and people to wait on them. The staff takes care of their every need.

being allowed out of their cells.) Ward goes to the cell and sits a few

There is not enough time for reflection."

feet from the bars while a baton-wielding guard stands nearby. " I

Ward says the parole system is "terribly flawed," and he supports

watch their hands," h e said. "There are guys who might try to pull

mandatory fixed sentencing. "Parole boards have to make a guess,

you through the bars if they saw a chance, but the other prisoners

and that's exactly what it is, a guess," he said. He also is bothered by what he views as a too-heavy dependence

will usually let me know if there is somebody I should keep an eye

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on behavioral counseling as a method of rehabilitation. 'Tm

Meanwhile, Ward is working t o secure the release o f a 75-year­

convinced by data," he said, "and there is not a shred of evidence

old former Alcatraz inmate who is dying ofcancer. "The government

that psychological treatments work. That doesn't mean that we do

is still convinced he's a threat to society," he said incredulously.

away with mental health programs but that we acknowledge we

After 40 years of research in America's fiercest prisons, Ward

don't know what works."

has as much enthusiasm-perhaps more-as when he began. "This

Ward intends to write a follow-up book about Marion and is

work is so intrinsically interesting that sometimes I can't believe

working with a publisher on a second Alcatraz-related book, Voices

I 'm getting paid to do it. To have had the opportunity to go into

of Alcatraz. He says Voices may be produced as a book-on-tape as

these prisons and ask all the questions that Geraldo [Rivera] would

well, using actual taped interviews with former Alcatraz inmates.

ask has just been enormously rewarding."

He also hopes to write a book comparing X's experience with that

The thousands of research hours also have provided Ward with

of Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz. Stroud, who was

a poignant reflection. "If you talk to old guards and old inmates

incarcerated for 55 years, most of them at Alcatraz, wrote an

from Alcatraz, their stories sound the same," he said. "In the end,

account of his prison experience that was never published.

you can't tell them apart." +

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Watching the

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Drama in Quebec

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By J . Kevin Cool

A

s a provi ncial referen ­ dum looms about whether Quebec will rema in part of the Canad ian fed­ eration, two Colby scholars who have spent years study i ng Quebec say they're d isappointed that so little is known about the place. J ane Mos , Robert E. Diamond Professor of Women's Studies and French, and J onathan Weiss, professor of French and d i rector of academic affairs and off-campus study, both have been leaders in the effort to promote under­ stand i ng and bui ld awareness about Quebec. Moss is president of the American Counc i l for Quebec Stud ies, and We iss is a member of the exec utive board of the American Assoc iat ion of Canad ian Studies. They have brought to l ight the intellectual and art ist ic communit ies in Quebec that reflect a strong desire to maintain French cul ture and language in the prov i nce. Moss is recognized as the world's definitive authority on women's theater i n Quebec. She knows many of the p laywrights personally and has gained extraord i nary access to cultural circles of Quebec . We iss is esteemed for h is work on French­ Canad ian theater, a subj ect he has been writ i ng and lecturing about since the late 1 9 70s. Together, they are a formidible tag team in Francophone stud ies. Moss and Weiss both say that part of the attraction to Quebec stud ies was the proxi mi ty of a French­ speaking culture to Colby.

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Said Weiss, "France is a long way away, Quebec i nearby." Their scholarsh ip reflect� the pol i t ical changes i n Quebec , most nota hly the rise of the Part i Quebecois anJ the grow ing ·eparati t movement. Moss has been studying the re lati nsh ip between nat ional ism and l i terature since 1979, when she was awarded a Nat ional Endowment for the Hum:mi­ ti es grant to research her thesis that wri t i ng in the provi nce changed after the PQ came into legislative power in 1976. Writers who

I'ile

stuuie , both Weiss and Moss enjoy the henefits of a wel l­ connected network inside Quebec. A president of the Quebec tud ies a . oc iation, Moss regularly deals with emba sy representat ive and lead ing government official in the provin e. Her interest in Queb c theater is part ic u­ larly complex because of the

" I n Quebec , language is a form of persecution . All they want to do is to live in their own language . "

J onathan Wie s had been preoccupied with pol it ics swi tched from themes of national identity and poli tical i ndependence to trad i t ional l i terary topics, she says. Weiss actually developed the framework for a Canad ian studies program at Colby in the late 1 970s through a $ 50,000 NEH grant. He has cont inued to push for greater awareness about Quebec both on campus and off, primarily through his involvement with the American Associa­ tion of Canad ian Stud ies. He has wri tten two books about French-Canad ian l iterature and serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly publications. Because of their long-term involvement in Francophone

symbiotic relation hip between culture and govern­ ment there. Alma t all theater is sub id ized by the government in Canada, where there i strong public support for the art . So not only are artists working under the shadow of taxpayers' support, so are the scholars who study their work. The Quebec studies journal to which Moss has been the publisher and a regular contributor is funded in part by the M i nistry of Interna­ tional Affairs of the Cana­ d ian government and by the Department of Foreign Affairs in the provincial government. "We're in a funny position," Moss said. "If Quebec separates, what happens to my funding?

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We're concerned about this." Weiss is cautious about predicting the results of the upcoming referendum. "Quebec has never been happy as a member of the confedera­ tion, but if hi.story repeats, they won't eparate," he said. Moss agreed. "The common wisdom is that they will vote � r the Parti Quebecois because in their hearts they're all nationali t , but they will vote aga i n t the referendum because they know what the pri ce f sovereignty would be." That price would include developing a national defen e sy tern and maintaining economic growth for i t c i t izens. The root of the separatist movement i a de ire to have language and culture su rained, Weiss says. H i cholar hip is in part informed by that i sue becau e, he ays, "you can't have a I iterature in exi le." "In Quebec, language i a form of per ecution. All they want to do is to l ive in theiT own language. The study of l i terature has tuned us in and made us more sympathetic to the importance of language in people's lives," Weiss said. Because of Colby's location in central Maine, stud ies by Moss and Weiss also have contributed to a growing awareness among the College's French­ Canadian students about thei r own identities. " I have seen so many students real ly rediscovering their roots through the study of Que­ bec," Moss said. "There have been some touching experi­ ences." +

Punozrs ano PLauozrs

Fool's Paradise T h e fi l m version of

probe deeper into h is

Professor of Engl ish R i c hard

character, a colorful roust­

Russo's novel Nobod) " s Fool,

about named S u l l y .

starring Paul N ewman, the

Heahhy De8are

Before the November election shifted

" I t h i n k i t's a good

l ate J essica Tandy and

mov ie," Russo said, acknowl­

Melanie Griffith, is be i ng

edging that he feels too close

Congressional power from Democrats to Republ icans, Senate leader George M itchell ( D-Maine) and Robert Dole ( R-Kan. ) were engaged in a battle over health care

to the proj ect to be a good

reform. W i l l iam R . Kenan Professor of Government L. Sandy

j udge. As for important

Mai el, quoted in USA Today, said both M i tc hell and Dole had a big rake in the outcome of the health care debate.

details, he said , "I l ike the treatment of setting-they

Maisel said M i tchel l . who retired after 14 years i n the Senate,

get the idea of place very

was hoping a victory in health care reforrn would be hi "crown­ ing achievement." " I t's got to be very d isappointing to h i m , "

well. And mo t importantly they get

ully-his complex­

M a isel said .

i ty , his inner fire, h is anger

M a isel attri buted M i tchell's fa ilure to pol itical obstac les,

and frustration and his

inc l ud ing a Republ ican fil ibuster. "The Senate is a \·ery tough place to lead," he said. A for Dole, Maisel said, the failure to pas some type of

wonderful, bouyant optimism are all there on the screen. " The Waterville howing

health care reform could ul timately be pol i t ically damagino. "I think he's going to be \'iewed a ' Dr. No,"' he said. " I t always

occurred only after a special effort by Russo when the

looked like he wa preven ting a sol u t ion . "

original venue, Rai lroad quare Cinema, burned down

0Fpce Conrn18uno11s

in early October (see page 5 ) .

Campaign finance spec i a l i ·t Anthony Corrado, a soc iate

Ru o negotiated special

professor of

pem1i ion from Paramount Pictures t

ing ro the 900- eat Waterville Paul N ewman as Su l ly in

Nobody's Fool.

"To paraphrase W i ll ie

the creening into a benefit

released nationally thi month followi ng premi ere creenings in New York City, Lo Angeles and Waterv i l le .

told the Dallas Morning Neu•s that

contribute to a candidate for a state office.

Opera House and transformed for R ai lroad

gm·e mment,

ut-of-state c andidates -olicit money from Texas contributors because the tate does nor limit the amount an ind iYidual may

move the screen­

u t ton, who referred to robbing

bank , when you raise money in pol itic , you have to go to

quare, a small

where the money is," Corrado said.

independent theater.

Critics of out-of-state contributor want them l imited by

"Th e tudio has been \'ery generou in a l lowing us to do

law, a mea ure Corrado aid was " een as a way to reduce the

some thing they don't normally do," Ru-so said,

reduce the influence of Hollywood money,

influence of pol itical act ion commi ttees. But it also i a way to ew York money

add i ng that people from the

and a lot of Texas and California money," he said .

the August 1993 Colby) is

publ i c i ty office right up to the head of Paramount

Ru o's third c ri t i c al ly

pi tched in.

In rhe S rn1ke Zone

obob) "s Fool ( rev iewed by E. Annie Proulx ' 5 7 in

acclaimed novel and the fir t to be turned into a fil m .

Rus�o has been careful

As major league ba eball players and owners scuffled o\·er a ro

propo ed alary cap, debate about baseball's unique ant itrust

Ru so as isted d i rector

put the fi l m into perspe c t i \·e fo r the aspiring wri ters he

exempt ion intensified.

Robert Benton-best known

teache . "A mov ie being

for Kramer vs . Kramer-w ith

made of a novel is not the

revisions to the screenplay

encl - a l l and be-all of a

told the Orange County Regiscer that a repeal of the anti trust exemption would not destroy the game as owners have suggested.

and talked a t length with

writer's de ign," he said . " I t's

ewman, who wanted to

the '-"'Ord that we're after. " +

Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics J a mes Meehan

"I think the courts wou ld have ome sympathy to a l lo\\' the teams to have compe t i t ive balance , " sa id , Meehan, who ha worked at the Federal Trade Comm is ion and the anti tru t d i v is ion of the U . S . Department of J ustice. "The question i , how much protection do you need ?"

Syllab i

He acknowledged that compe t i t ive balance would be an

Off-campu J a n Plan th is year include trips to Rome, London, Bermuda, Ecuador, Poland , Russia, Germany and the Mojave De ert. An add itional 68 on-campu plan were offered on topics ranging from Athenian architecture to Utopian li terature.

issue because of the investment maj or league teams make in minor league ballplayers. " lf you rec ruit minor league ballp layer · ·

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and you invest a lot of your resources, obv iously it reduces your incentive to invest in that talent if another team can · ign that p l ayer away, " he aid.

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Reaching for the S tars By Robert G i l lespie "

T

he r e w a s no f orm of

mother and stepmother, her

the le

love that J i d not l ead

friend� and her �i · te r's

acted l i k e your elf," Phoebe

bed l a m , " th inks I sabe l l e

you lt )OkeJ and

frienJ�, and ne ighbors,

t h i n k , wi tfu l l y alone,

Smuggs, :-. i n g l i n g o u t t h e

a c q u a i n ta nces and assorted

wa n t i ng only ro fi t i n .

k)l1ny power t h a t prope ls

st ranger l i k e the Sm ugg�e .

hope that a h a i rc u t and dye

ro

A . oc iate Professor nf

They a l l l i ve l i v e s of noisy

Engl ish J ames Finney

despera t i on-hoping to he

Boyl a n ' com i c nm·el The

one of the group, to go

ons tdlarions ( Random House,

22 ) . I sabelle ( a

character ll'ho�e scu l pt u re people find revul t i ng)

job will tran form her from

t

m i x e r and a 1 9 7 5 Dodge w i nger h a t u�e.

rn

H an·ard , to make a l i v i ng, to m a k e it big, to be l m·ed .

f or motor o i I.

re members one of the abandoned her: " amuel said he loved t h e per-on h e ll'<lS when he wa w i th her bur

ri�co

e!1 tenccs

h u rr l e off on tangent�

Whether trying to c c i n t ro l s o meb o dy eb ,

count less swains who have

he

" t h e t ra nger w i t h the b i g , fea there d , j e t b l a c k h a i r" t o "a l i t t l e h o n e y b l o n d g i rl w i t h a short bob. " "Jeez,

thro ugh t h e d i t ra c t i n m of

Ph Pebe though t , t h i n k ing

a h u nd red d e ta i l

a bout thi per on, thi

d ,. ,, .. C V " ". " ' :: .l ./ 11 1 / i o 11 s

bl ond h y t ranger. I hope she likes me . " o m e o f t h e novel' b e t moment helong to Duard,

who a ks h i m elf que t ion

t h is person was not h i mself

a a way of communicat i ng:

and so i n order to go back to

"Doe t hat ound l ike fun ?

being h i m ·elf t hey had w

don 't k now. Am l t i l l

break up e,·en t houoh he

nervou ? A l i rtle ! " Even real

I

l ik ed the per on who was

understanding can occur i n a

not h i mse l f better than the

world where character attend to one another only

person who h e actually was . "

ob::.e- i\'el

"She ' l l adj ust," reflects

phone w i-th Phoebe, ay ,

Q u e nt i n Smugg , recen t l y I \ 1\1 I ., I I ,....., I ' ,, I< c > \ I I ,N ,

rel ieved of h i s em inar c a l led

R e i nvent i ng Be i nghood. "Th is whole world i s j ust a process of adj ust i ng . " Adj ust ing to the com ic world of The Consrellations means confronting bedlam from w i thout and w i t h i n and coping w i th one screwy compl icat ion or d isaster after another. Events take p lace

or i n elf-

in tere r . Duard, on the

Isabel le's father, Professor

, ,, ,

,

.

,

'

,

Adjus ting to the comic world of The Conste llat ions means confron ting bedlam from without and within and coping with one screwy complication or disas ter after another.

" Do I m i

you ?"

"I m i

you

too, Duard ," Phoebe repl i e . Vi ual humor incl udes the c ald i ng and baldi ng Phoebe endures to become a blonde preppy and a berserk vac uum c leaner that confound the inept ales­ per on. The c lassi c adulter­ ou

pou e al o i s p layed for

laughs a he gets nabbed redhanded at the scene of

in and near Central i a , Pa.,

t ry i ng to i mprove t h e i r

"Out of conrrol ! '' e x c l a i m

which has become v i rtually

c i r c u mstances or t ry i ng

Phoebe's h igh c hool friend

the c r i m e , hi own naked

a ghost town s i nce the loc a l

ac t u a l l y to break a pattern

Duard , whose pants are on

body the smok ing gun that

c o a l m ines began to smoul­

and behave t hemselves

fire. Adj ustments to t h is

sends him runn i ng for home

der w i th subterranean fire in

better, the c h arac t e rs

worl d , which natura l l y

chased by cows.

1 96 2 . H eaded by Phoebe

bounce l i k e p inba l l off one

c reate more comp l ic a t ions,

Harrison, a h igh school

another's obst ru c t ive self­

are very funny. When 15-

"heavy metal c h i c k " whose

absorpt io n . The novel

year-old Phoebe wonders if

more extreme," Boylan a id

mother abandoned her e ight

bustles and bristles w i th

anybody l ike her, the

recently, referring to his fir t

years earlier, the c as t

man i c verve as t he c harac ­

adj ustments are painfu l , too.

novel, The Planets, "and that

i n cl udes Phoebe's fat her,

t e rs zoom about in a c e m e n t

O L B Y

J A

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"I wanted to write a book that was both funny and

had an even more erious

heart . " I n terested in what he calls " that edge between what's funny and what's grotesque," Boylan compares Phoebe' touc h i ng mee t i ng in The Conscellarions with her long- lost mother to a Harpo Marx cene in the Marx Brothers' A ight at rhe Opera. " S uddenly the movie gets serious," he said. "This guy is play i ng classi c a l harp in the m iddle of farc e . " Astrology, explaining how

a

hem·enly bod ies affect the conduct of human affairs, provides epigraphs to each of the novel's c hapters, but Boylan says the c hapter headings prov ide only "a nice superfic ial superstructure to what happens. There's no profound J oycean secret, no secret code to crac k . I r's j ust fun to find in human act ion some ort of patten1 . " E\·ents n e v e r overn·helm Boylan's c haracters, who

prm·e that flex i b i l ity, adaptab i l ity and res i l ience, i n the comic world a t least, IT1ay lead to a te mporary breakout from se lf- destru c ­ t i ,·e pat terns a n d even to a measure of happ iness. Bumping together in the madcap darkness of a 1x:lsing, mo-s tory l ife - l ik e replica o f t h e h u m a n heart and reuni ted back at the Harr ison fam i l y home in smouldering Central i a ,

Fresh Prin ts

Boylan' c harac ters p l a y out t h e "serious heart" o f t h i s nove l . Isabelle Smuggs, the culptor whose work makes 1•eople sick , "wished that she had had the heart to be a l ittle less original in her art and a li ttle more generous." For his part, Boylan has \\Tittt>n a funny book that is original and generou both. The Conscellmions deserves to ha\·e e\·erybody asking for more. +

resent ing the World Bank, the U n i ted States Federal Tradt> Commi sion, I · rae l i Sc ience I nstitute, SEA TEC I n ternation­ al and the Rus ian Academy of c ie nces. Four Colby Col lege fac u l ty-A si rant Professor of Chem istry Wh itney K i ng, Assoc iate Professor of Biology Frank Fekete, Assistant Profes­ sor of Geology Paul Doss and M i tchell Fam i ly Professor of Economics Tom T ietenberg-also contribu ted to the book . The essays touch on a wide range of env i ronmental issues, inc luding how chaos theory can be appl ied to undt>rstand nat ure and conc erns about dumping tox ic waste in m i nori ty neiohbmhuods. The book suggests that bec ause the em· i ronment im·oh·c, a complex mix ing of relation hip, , a multidisc i p l i nary approach i neces ·ary to resolve tensions bern·een technological ad­ \'ancement and environmental quality.

E l i za beth Leo n a r d , H i st o ry Yan kee Wom e n : Gender Battles in the Civil War

N orton P r e s s Yankee \'V'omen explores the barri­ ers and d i scri m i n a t i o n \\'Omen lWercame during the C i \· i l War to sen·e their coun try . Foc using on the l 1 \·e L)f three women , oph­ ron i a Buck l i n , Annie W i ttenmyer and M ary Walker, Leonard re\·eals the hard hi p· they faced a longside U n ion soldiers. Bucklin \\'CIS a nur e \\'ho worked in frontl ine hosp ital W i tten1T1yer was a prolific orga­ n 1 :er of charitable activit ies th:it suprdied gonds for Un ion rrnop::-, e rahl i:heJ orphanage-; forch ddren of Union �old 1er� and opera ted k itchen for wounded men. Walker \\'as a femrn ist \\'ho m·er­ came se\'eral inju r ices, includ r ng imprisonment as a 'PY· to become the only woman to sen·e a� a Lloctnr for the Uninn force . Leonard examine ho\\' the Ci\·d War c reated ne,,· opportun i t i e for \\'omen "·ho had been cnnfrned w purely dome tic role pre\'1ou Iv.

Robert B . Parker '54 A ll O u r Yesterdays

D e l a corte P r e s s

The a u thor of the acc l a i m ed Spenser nll\·el series has 1Vritten a fam i l y 'aga about an I rish im m i ­ grant tu rned B o t o n pol iceman. The book traces the l ive of three genera t ions of Sherida ns beg i n ­ n i ng w i th Con n Sheridan, whl1se work as a pol iceman in Bo · ron's u rban underworld parallels his in­ trod uct ion to the c i ty's pm,·erful and \\'ealthy. Against this bac k ­ drop, Parker fol lows t h e Sheridan saga through Conn's son , G us , a hom i c id e detecti\·e, and his son, Chri-;. When Gus unClwers a Cl1n­ nec t 1 on between a child k i l ler a nd an I r ish-American gang war, the c i rcle that began w i th h i - father' I R A ac t i v i t ies begins to c lose. Chris, a spec ial prosec utor, beg i ns an im·est L­ gation of his own that uncover the truth about h i s fa m i l y ' · p a s t a n d h i heritage.

James Rodger F l e m i n g , S c i e n c e a n d T e c h n o l o g y Henry A . G e m ery, E c o n o m i c s Science, Tech n o lo g y, a n d t h e En viro n m e n t: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

The U n i v e r s ity of A k r o n Pre s s

Profe ors Fleming a n d Gemery ha\·e edi ted a c o llec t i Lln nf e ay that Ji cu e c ie rl t lfi c and humani tic approaches to environmental problems . Con tributors inc lude ubel pri:e­ w inning phys i c i t orman F. Ram ey, MIT Professor of H i�­ tory Leo Marx and scholnr from Corn e l l , Penn State and UCLA . Other author inc l ude international authorit ie. rep-

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I � � ;

(" L1 L I\ Y

Elementary ? N o t These Watsons

tudent ife

By Robert G i l lesp ie

T

homas J . W a cson Fe l l ow� are amung c h e mosc fort unace peop le in t h e world . T h e W a c son F1JLmda­ c ion, which adm in ister · c he fe l lows h i ps, gra n b them <i year of per,onal explora­ t i on-a se l f-d i rec ted period uf focused and d isc i p l i ned reflec t ion and t ravel abroad . But a cand i date's road ro a W ac-o n-ga c h e r i ng papers and app l i c a t ion materials, f o rm u l at i ng a proj ec t , w r i t i ng a proposa l , i n ter­ v i e w i ng w i t h the campu · W atson c o m m i t tee a nd then w i th a Watson Foundat i on represent a t i ve-prom ises ·ome tough s ledd i ng . Last fal l , four Col by seniors d rea m ing of Watson ubmi c ­ ted t heir proptYal· co the foundat iLm, which w i l l grant 1 5 ,000 to 60 app l i can ts from 48 outstandi ng private college and u n i ver it ies around the country. Profe sor J im Mcintyre, Col by 's facu lty

f or J apanc:::.e newspaper and televi�ion hurcau:::. i n Wa:::. h ­ i ngtl m , D.C., spent la�t ;-,pri ng 'emester in Na nj ing, Ch ina, and inter'ILb to :-- t udy the Ch ine�c pri n t med i a \ cover­ age of the government� of m<iinland Ch i na, H ong Kong and Taiwan. Erin Man:::. u r, who t race:::. h i � i nte n:' t rn <1n l l rh grnde gloha I ecology c l a:::. in hi:-. hometn\\'n of Ashfield, Mass., propose� to exam ine ·u ·ta i nable de \· el op ­ ment in ch etherL .rnds and

ment anJ internat ional -,tu<l ie:::. major anJ al o

a

c an <l i <late f or a Fulbright fellow hip, he di covered that her writing henefited

from her Wat n project. " Pu l l i n the project to­ a huut c h c i r pro i c c t:::. c re­ <Jt i \'ely ;111d re,ourcefu l ly­ hull' they w i l l ca rry on '\ l\'er tht>re , " a' lnng-t ime Wat �nn comm i t tee member Peter H;1m �a i d , ''dning wh:H fate 11 put you t h e re cu d,). Del i a Wel�h �ay' one

gether and writing a con­ c rete prop os a l in five page , I learned an unbel ievable amount about wri t i ng c learly

and conci ely and focu i ng," Wei h aid. "It wa defi n i te ly li ke tak i ng a cour e . " N rve-wrack ing a i t may he, the interview on campu

w i t h the ni ne Colby fac ulty members on the Colby Wat­ �on committee wa in rruc­ r i ve,

toe .

ad \· i

e

Mc i ntyre ays he

cand idace to be able

to an wer two key que · tion : "Why i t h i idea worth

upport ing? Why are you the per on to carry i t out ?" Wel ·h a i d , " I r' really imponant chat you e l l the per on along wich the proj ect . I d idn't under tand

l iaison with the Wat on

rhi ar fir t . I thought these

Foundation, says that

were random que t ion , but

successful candidates usua l l y have some long - sta nd i n g commitment or bac kgrou n d

H a n n a h Beech '95 hopes to study C h i n ese media through a Watson Fel lowsh ip.

that is relevant to their

in Costa R ica, where he

p rofes- o r told her, '"Writ i ng a

projects. Most candidates

studied the fir t e m es te r of

Watson propo al hould be a

have had junior-year-abroad

his jun ior year.

three-credit course . ' You go

experience in the countries

"

through a 1 t in t h i nking

I know what I ' m

the Colby committee want to ee your per onal ide. They're not going to give fifteen thou and dollar to omebody who can't stand being away . " Meadow Dibble, a n En-

where they will pursue thei r

i nterested in," s a i d M a n u r ,

how you're going to carry i t

gli h and French major from

plans. Seldom have they

a d o u b l e major i n phi loso­

o u t , " Welsh a i d , "and what

Orleans, Mas ., whose project

developed ideas on l y recently.

phy-mathematics and

you're going to do next July." The daughter of a

b iology with an environ­

involves recycling in Senegal,

real drive lead right into the

mental science concentra­

m i l i tary fa m i ly currently

was even more anxious after becoming one of the four

proposal, " said M c i ntyre.

tion, "but the hardest part

l i v ing in Lynchburg, Va. ,

Watson nominees. The

"Most Watson candidates

was get t i ng the details and

Welsh attended 1 3 schools

increased pressure along w i th

are fami liar with t h i ngs a

j ust putt ing it together."

in 1 4 locat ions outside the

the constructive criticism that

" Background , interest and

person normally wouldn't be

A proposal may demand

country and spent her j un ior

came out of the interview

year i n Morocco, where she

forced her to rethink her

fam i l iar w i th . I t's why

some of the best writ ing a

Watsons are rare . "

student does at the Coll ege.

proposes to study the effects

proposal, she says, and she

Cand idates need to make

of economic reform and

started doubting herself.

Washington, D.C. , who is

the reader see how, where

privatization in the former

part Japanese and has worked

and why they w i l l be going

French colony. A govern-

Hannah Beech, from

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"You've written how this ties i n to your past and your

present and your future," Dibble explained. "You see it o clearly. E,·erything starts mak ing en e . But you're vulnerable. You've l a i d out yourself n the paper, and then nine people on this committee are saying, 'HaYe you thought about who you are , do you h3\·e experience, do you really think you c an do this, are you be ing honest ?' It' l ike telling you, 'Why don't you go and search your soul and figure out who you are and then come back and we'll talk." Mansur says the interview helped him to see how he would go about rudying sustainable development. He say that the committee members, far from attacking h is proposal, "were j ust curi­ ous. I j ust felt I never corn·ey­ ed the idea of how important this is to me. I\·e ded icated my life to u tainable devel­ opment, Watson or not." As all four candidate focused on the fu ture, they knew the ir course work suffered. " Ever thing got put on hold . Now I really have ro get seriou ," said Welsh. Beech, who was raking five cour e as wel l a fac ing deadline every week for her column in The Colb)' Echo, aid her involvement in her project "definitely affected my school work . I lost a lot of sleep over it. I'm always work ing until the la t min­ ute. Papers I turn i n are still warm from the laser writer."

" I know I should try and d i vorce myself from this," D ibble said, "but i t real ly is my life . " After t h e interYiew w i th the Watson representat 1,·e on campus i n December, it was all i n the hands of the Watson Foundation until awards are announced in mid-Marc h. Beech, who worked at U . S . News & \.\ /arid Report last summer and rerurned there for a J an Plan, won­ dered what to do if a j ob offer comes along before the Warson decision. She said she doesn't e,·en kn01r \\·hether to mention the Watson poss ibil ity in job applicat ions. eYertheles - , she k nows that a Watson i - a once-in-a-l ifetime opportu ­ n ity. he says that one o f the people she worked w i th told her, " If you get a Watson, the j ob \\·ill wait." Dibble aid the inten ity of the Warson application pr c ess made her more rea l 1 tic about l i m i tat ions and b tac le . he added, " Ir's part of what you haYe to go through to find your d i rection. What is so pa inful also is wonderfu l ly reward­ ing-because rarely are you forced to make the connec­ t ion between your pa t and your present and your fut ure. You get caught in this \\'a,·e. It wa l i ke being elated. I felt like I knew where I'm going. It gave me energy for an ex­ tended time. l ha,·e a ca use -a very personal one . " +

Dea .. �§ :iia. deopa. ..�

Associate Dean of Students Mark Serdj enian '7 3 11·on the fir t-ever Chapl i n Commons J eopardy game, organi:ed by Andy Vernon '9 5 , of Wind or, Conn. erdj en ian pulled out the ,·ic tory during Final J eopardy, be -r ing Dean of tudenrs Janice Kassman and Assoc iate Dean of Students Paul J ohnston. Serdj enian, whose first-place trophy is d isplayed in his office, called the ,·ictory "a beaut iful triumph . " T h e J eopardy g a m e , p layed before a packed house at the Spa, was hosted by Vernon and Chris Loman '9 5 , of Marl­ borough, Conn. �a.1: �o-..J.d Ki.Pk Thi.Iak'?

Apparently tired of reading subt i tles at S tar Trek mo,· ies, e\·en srudents, \\'hen asked which foreign language they \1·ere most interested in learn ing, said " K l ingon. " The responses c ame from a Student Assoc iation opin ion poll o\·ember 2. At lea t one other swdent was more down to earth: he pic ked "M inne otian . " Pape .. Ch.a.§e

At Colby, enn breakfast can be competitiYe. Students at Dana d ining hal l h3\·e gotten u ed to scramb l ing for an i sue of The Boston Globe. Accord ing to sen ior Emily Goetchus, of Brooklyn, N .Y . , r h e appeal o f read ing t h e new, paper at breakfast is a matter f timino and habit. "l think part of it i that \\·e don't ha1·e much t i me to watch the news," he said. " A l ittle t i me to c atch up on what's going on in the world is prec ious. Read ing the newspaper in the morn ing is ideal, since you're most l ikely to be eat ing alone. And, of cour e, there's always the comic." E�1:en.ded Fa.IJD..i.I.i. e §

Each year d uring orientation, international student may c hoo e whether to ha,·e a host family. Dean J udy Carl­ Hendrick matches studen t · with fam i l ies accord i ng to their interests and preference . "The real ly nice thing about it is that it include faculty, staff and ad mini ·trat ion . I t makes it easy for the wdents to form a close re lat ionship w i th their [ho t] famil ies," Carl - Hendrick aid. According to Carl - Hendrick, more than 75 perc ent of international students choose to ha,·e fa m i lies. The · rndent and the fam i ly take it from there, determ ining 11·hen where and how often to meet. Carl- Hendrick a l o coord i nates m u l t iple e ,·ent through­ out the year, inc l u d ing a fal l d inner at Assoc iate Professor of Government J ane Curry's house, a w inter party at the home of Assoc iate Professor of A d m i n istra t i v e Sc ience Leonard Reich in Febru ary and an end -of- the-year formal d i nner at Colby.

Ridge, 1.Y., about t udy ing -cience will appear in a book pub li hed by the Depa rtmen t of Health and Human en·ices. Van der Hoeven i a geology major and a chemi try minor. An a rt i c le by Karrien

an der Hoe v en '9 5 , f Pound

her experience a a woman

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A Firm Foundation for Sc ience Superiority By Lynn Sull ivan '89

A

1 0 ,000-square-fom , st<1te-of-the-art science add i t ion-made rus� ible by a $6.4 m i l l ion g i ft frum the F.W. Ol i n Foundat ion-w i l l m a k e Colby's science rrngrc1m rre-emi nent among �m<l l l l i bera l art::- col l ege�. accord­ ing to the bioln.�y prnfcs�nr who helped hri ng it abou t . "The new O l i n bui ld ing will give Cnl hy nne uf the rre m ier scien e d i v i� ions in the count ry, " said F. Ru�se l l Cnl c , 0:1k Prnfessor of Biologio-11 Sc ience� and c h a i r of the d epartmen t . " I t i going t L ) b e a t tra c t ive tu prospect ive and c u rren t students, it w i l l help reta i n a n d attra c t fac u l ty a n d i t w i l l increa::-e t h e enrol lm ent in the sc iences." Colby was one of three col l eges se lec ted to receive the award from a rool of 79 appl icants. A n Olin gra n t i� cons idered one of the mu t prest i gious honors that a col lege can receive; t h i - gift is the l argest foundat ion gra n t i n Colby' h istory . Construc tion on the Olin Sc ience Center is lated to begin i n M arc h 1 99 5 and shou ld be compl eted by the fal l of 1 996. The b u i ld i n g w i l l be perpend i c u l ar to t h e A r e y B u i l d ing on a site t h a t is n o w a park ing l o t . Accord i ng to Cole, when the doors of the O l i n B u i ld i ng open in a y ar and a half, the new c ience c e n ter will be "a model for teac h ing undergraduate science . " "The i n c rease i n space w i l l a l low u to redeploy and reconfig u re space

(" O L B \

J A N U A R \

J 9 9 i

G

t h roughout t h e sc i e nce com p l e x , " �aid Cole. "We w i l l be ahlc to have a more hand -un aprro,ic h w learn i ng, i l ml t h <H w i l l i n c rea�e t h e 1 )rpurt u n i t i e -, r h a t f o c u l t y :ind � t u d e n t � h<t vc to w m k toge t h e r. " Research in�t i t ute� ha,·c a foc u� nn re�earch \\' ith re l a t i ve l y few �tud cnt-, part i c i ra r ing," !>< 1 i d 'ole. "Cnlhy has ;1 very haml�-nn approach a l l 1 i\\' ing for ; 1 lnt of �tudenr� tn dn the

ifts&

rants

t i me� the 'ea t i ng c ; 1 pa c i t y in add i t ion w gniur d i -,cu.,-,iun ;1nd rri\';1 t e re; 1 d i ng area�. A l l the l i hrnry\ read ing '{'ace' \\'i II he \\'ired to the Col lege\ cnmruter network , ; i i low i ng ,rudenr ' t 1 1 ll'nrk from t h e i r 1�l'r,l llla l Cl imrut-

Architect u ral drawing o f the O l i n Science Center

er:,. Although there w i l l be no inc re<l,e in reriod ical acq u isit ions, the l ibrary i� designed to accommodate fu t u re purc hase . The sec t ion of basement not used by the l ibrary w i l l have a 1 00-seat study room equipped for c l asses, lecture and guest speakers. There is a 30-seat c las room w i t h aud io­ v isual support, a e m i nar room and a computer center with 1 6 h igh-powered

researc h the mselve . Th is new b u i ld ing w i l l put us ahead of the pack of our peer i n t i t u t iom. I t w i l l a l low u:, to move further and faster in the sc iences." One h ig h l ight of the bui l d i ng is the new ·c ience l i brary. Approx i mately four t i me t he si :e of the Keyes sc ience l i brary, the new area w i l l occ upy the first floor and part of the basement. There will be three to four

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M a c i n to:,h computer . The bu i l d ing's second flc or w i l l hou e clu ter of technological ly advanced c l a��rornn� tn he u ·ed for teach i ng and re ear c h . 'lu�tcring keeps t h e tC<J C h i n g area in c l o e prox i m i ty to fac u l t y office,, re�ource cent ers and lab area:,, enabl ing fac u l ty and �tuJenr.- to work c l o e l y together, ole say . A greenhnu�e, aquari u m , maintenance a n d storage <irea,, hcrbarium, organismal !ah, rol len analy is lab and em·ironmenral chamber· ( l arge , em· i ron ment­ contro l l ed refrigerated u n i t , ) occupy the t h i rd floor. There al o are pri\'ate J 1,cu,,ion and 'tudy areas nn thi I ,·e l . T h e three existing sc ience b u i l d i ng -Mudd, Keye and Arey, whi h are cnnnecred hy ele\'ated wa l k way -wi l l b e attached t o t h e Olin h1 i l d i ng by a second- and t h i rd- level bridge. The ent i re c ience complex w i l l be redesi ned to accommodate the c luster em· 1 ro n men t . The l in k ing of each b u i ld i ng i n add i t ion to the redeployment of -pace w i l l , for i n tance, a llow for the env i ronmental compo­ nents of each c ience d i v i ion to be i tuated on the econd level of the e n t i re complex. Cole says that the new fac i li ty will al low more re earch proj ect l i k e the one w i t h the Belgrade Lakes As oc iation, in which students try to identify environmental problems.

Also, science teachers from the local community will be able to become more involved in research projects and workshops, he says. The science building is the culm ination of five years of work by Peyton R. Helm, vice president for develop­ ment and alumni relations; Linda Goldstein, director of corporate and foundation relations; Robert P. M cAr­ thur, v ice president of academic affairs and dean of the faculty; and Cole. Combining their efforts to write the proposal, the four traveled to 1 5 different colleges, incl uding Colorado College, Bucknell, Swarth­ more, Occidental and Bowdoin, to examine each in titution's science center. +

More for Museum Wing

C

olby trustee Paul ] . Schupf has contributed an additional $500,000 to his initial gift of $ 1 50,000 toward the construction of a new wing at the Colby Museum of Art. The new wing will contain 4 1 4 works given by artist Alex Katz, in addition to Colby's substantial Katz holdings. Schupfs gi.ft bring to almost $ 1 . 2 million the funds raised for the $ 1 . 5 million proj ect. The i mpetus behind the new w ing, which will be named the Schupf W ing for the Katz Collect ion, grew out of a 1 985 A lex Katz exhibit, featuring Schupfs collection, held j ointly by Bowdoin and Colby. Schupf, who has been collect ing the artist's work since 1 9 7 3 , suggested a new permanent Katz gallery. I n 1 993, when Katz offered t o donate more than 400 works, planning for the new wing took shape. "It was the commitment of [museum director] H ugh Gourley, Bill Cotter, Ada and Alex Katz and Colby that was the motivation for the gift," said Schupf, who says he is a tremen­ dous fan of all five. I n addi.tion to the $650,000 for the museum w ing, Schupf gave $ 1 2 ,000 for Silicon G raphic computer workstations for the biology department, and has pledged an additional 3 3 8,000 ( which has not been allocated ) , bringing h is total campaign gift to $ 1 million. Construct ion on the 8,000-square-foot museum wing is scheduled to begin during the summer of 1 99 5 and should be completed the following spring. The wing is specifically designed to display Katz's paintings, prints, drawings and cutouts and has storage pace for works not currently on exhibi t. Schupf is an investment advisor in Hamilton, N .Y . He has loaned the Colby museum many Katz picture and has donated works by other arti ts, includ i ng Ed Ruscha and Christo, from h is per onal collection. +

Belief in Colby Spurs New Chair

A

love for the l iberal arts and a de ire to give the College ground, and all of our children have attended liberal arts colleges as well," she aid. "Colby i j ust such a good place. "maximum flex ibility" in meeting it needs led Audrey Wade H ittinger Katz ' 5 7 and her hu band, heldon, to People there aren't j ust doing a j ob, they really care about e tablish the $ 1 . l -million Katz Professor hip for Distingui hed what they're doing. They're trying to make Colby better and Teaching. A faculry chairholder likely will be named by trying to make the world better. " Katz i- vice president of Data Prompt l nc . , a computer President William Cotter in the pring of 1 99 5 . As conceived, company she and her husband established in the late 1 9 70s. funds for the professorship also could be used in future years for other purposes, including upport of "j unior chair" appoint­ Sheldon Katz, who once left the computer field to become a developer, recognized a need for ments-scholars recruited for computerized management of tenure-track positions in a variety contracts and subcontracts and of fields. Other po ible uses could "Colby is jus t such a good place . conceived Data Prompt to fill that be to appoint, recruit and retai.n an n iche. N ow 1 50 employees strong, outstanding profe or by offering People there aren 't jus t doing a Data Prompt handles ervice him or her a fully endowed chair; to job , they really care about what contracts for the Department of support the Spotlight Lecture eries; they ' re doing. " Housing and Urban Development. or to support an a yet undefined Audrey Katz, who says her need or personal program that the Audrey Katz math degree led to her first j ob, president and the Katzes feel is a remembers her years at Colby as College priority. "very happy." "I look back now "We are very impressed with and wish 1 would have taken advantage o f more things when the quality of the administration at Colby; it' really top I was there, but that' one of the lessons of being nineteen notch," Audrey Katz said. "We feel li.ke they have a better idea of how best to addres the College's needs, so we wanted years old. I 've always thought Colby was a wonderful p lace." The Katz professor hip bri.ngs to 24 the number of endowed to provide a lot of flexibility [in u ing these funds] . " chairs at Colby. "The Katz's gift will give the College tremen­ Katz a y s s h e a n d her h u band are strong believer i n dous flexibility a we strive to enhance the quality of an undergraduate liberal a r t education. " W e wanted t o support already outstanding faculry," said Cotter. + the liberal arts because both of us come from that back-

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J A N U A R Y

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C O L B Y

Where Apron S tr ings End

)_

By J . Kevin Cool

C

ollege, says Dean of

difficulty, especially in cases

Students J an ice

that could result in a

Kassman, should be a time

student's uspension.

when adul thood i achieved

Ka sman emphasize that

on several levels, including

th is pc I icy is not designed to

tak i ng responsibil ity for

exclude parents-"we'll talk

one's own education. And

to

that philosophy drives

said-but the College won't

polic ies governing college ­

ini tiate that contact unles

student-parent relationship . "There is a fine l i ne we

Pa .

aging arents

th m at any time," she fol low when addre

parents arrive with d ifferent expec tations, they come to thi . They've been truggling

there i a eriou problem.

tudent concern , Ka

ay . " l t 's not 'Okay, thi

great

with the ame i ue, which is

i ng man i

lengths to inform and

problem nu mber 3 4 2 , How

students' independence and

involve parents, she says,

to Deal With Depre ed

keeping parent notified

through Parent Weekend

must walk between honoring

parental notification, Kassman ays. "Even i f

understand why we're doing There is no manual to

The College goe

to

Colby is very clear about i ts pol i c ies regarding

tudent After Weekend at

[about problem ] , " Kas man

how much independence do you give the c h i l d ? We're colleague in thi effort . " Ka man point out that the number of students who experience erious academic

said. "Our m ission essen­ t ially is to treat tudents a

d i fficulties or d i c iplinary

" There is a fine line we m ust

problem i very small. In a

walk between honoring s tudents ' independence and

given year 3 5 to 50 students

ad u l ts and nine t imes out of ten have our dea l i ngs solely w ith students. But we realize

may be on academic proba­ tion, about the same number

keeping parents notified . "

that when the ability of a tudent to remain at the

who would appear before the J udic ial Board. "Most of our

] an ice Ka sman

College is i n j eopardy, we

contact with parent i about

Dean of Seu.dents

have to involve the parent . "

day-to-day th i ngs that are problemati c , " she aid.

As ociate Dean of Students Mark Serdjenian '73

erdj enian ays h i and the Parents Handbo k

Home.' We deal w i t h those

message t o parents i to let

academic difficulties pass

and other special mailings.

through an alert ystem before

"We want

situation on a ca e - by-ca e ba i . On the other hand , we

whenever possible. " I t 's tough to parent from a

say students experiencing

to

let them know

tudent find their own way

the College involves parents.

they're part and parcel of thi

do have protocol for such

I f a student receive a second

proce ," she aid.

thing a a death in the

di tance , " he said . "Colby

family, a suic ide attempt,

w i l l eventually become l ike

"What we say to parents

warning about academic performance in a different

is, ' Look , you know your

date rape-the major crise

home-or feel like home­

class, parents are notified.

sons and daughter very wel l ;

that m ight affect a �tudent."

to the majority of the

"Students don't universally

you're going to be t h e first

love that ystem, but we

one to know when they start

recognize that parents have a

calling with d ifficulties . So

huge personal as well as a

rather than suffer i n s ilence,

One out of every 1 2 1 Colby students comes from a home­

financial inve tment in their

please i nvolve us.'

town with Falls in i t name.

children's education," he said. "Our fee l ing i we don't

Home Base

"For example, a parent m ight call on a Monday

Here's how they fall alphabetically: Bellow Falls, Vt. ( 3 )

want parents to be surprised

morn i ng and say, 'Mary was

when there i a negative

home this weekend and she'

Chagrin Fall , Ohio

outcome,'' Kassman said.

look ing t ired , she's depress­

E sex Fells (well, close enough) , N .] .

"Parents are very apprec ia­

ed, she hasn't made any

tive of that."

friend ; what can you d o ?'

Di ciplinary procedures undertaken against a student

Well, I wouldn't have that

Livermore Falls, Maine Mechanic Falls, Maine

are not reported to parents,

called me. Together, the parent and I would come up

ly advises" students to let

with a mechanism to get

their parents know about the

Mary in here . "

J A N U A R Y

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Lisbon Falls, Maine

knowledge unless the parent

but Kassman says she "strong­

C O L B Y

Falls Church, Va. G reat Falls, Va. ( 2 )

Steep Falls, Maine West Falls, N . Y .

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student bod y , but you don't

well together. "The main

system overn igh t . "

thing i to have the family

H e says Colby's h igh

N OTH IN G N E W Historical Footnotes from the Colby Ar hive s

students and parents work

shed that old support

c

together on where the

retention rate-among the

student is in his or her l i fe .

best in the nat ion-is

T h e vast maj ority o f stu­

evidence that the College,

dent do very wel l . " +

What's in a Name

Founded in 1 8 1 3 as the Maine Literary and Theological I nstitut ion with a charter granted by the Ma sa­ chusetts legislature, Colby has undergone several name

Parental Guidance Requested

T

he Parents Exec u t i v e Committee, a group

the concerns of parents through formali:ed meetings

that provides input on

and correspondence. I t

College polic ies and repre­

answers quest ions o f other

sents parents' concerns, is,

Colby parents and assists the

accord ing to the committee's

Adm issions Office by

changes. When Maine became a state in 1 820, the school wa empowered to grant degrees and oon after changed its name to Waterv ille College. Five years earlier, a fatherless and impoverished family-in­ c luding a 5-year-old boy named Gardner Colby­ had moved to Waterville from Bowdoinham. College president J eremiah Chaplin introduced Gardner' mother to friends in the Boston area, who made it possible for her to move her fam ily and start a

adm i n i native liaison,

reaching out to parents of

"consulted by President

bu iness there. Gardner Colby rose from poverty to become a

new and prospective

Cotter almost as often as

students each spring. The

the tru tee . "

wealthy manufacturer and importer. In 1 64, upon hearing that Waterville College wa financially troubled and remem­

commi ttee also sol ic its

bering the kindness of Chaplin, Colby made a gift of $ 50,000

contributions to the Parents

d i rector of annual giv ing,

to the school. In gratitude for h i generosity the trustee voted

Fund, which la t year raised

says the comm ittee adv ises

$ 2 2 3 ,000 .

in I 67 to change the name of the corporation to Colby University. In 1 899, at the request of President N athaniel

Sara Waisanen, assistant

the College on a range of

The 48 parents/parent

Butler Jr., the legislature declared the institut ion solely an

issue but is part icularly

couples represent 55 students

i mportant d ur i ng debate

undergraduate college of liberal arts and granted the name

and come from 19 states.

Colby College.

about ways to improve student

experience . I n the

Gerald and Myra Dorros of M i lwaukee, W is . , chair

m i ttee ha been con ulted

the committee. Co-vice chdir for 1 994-95 are

on efforts to diversify the c ampus, the installation of a eamless campus-wide commun ications network

The t i me is 1 60, the occasion Colby' first game again t Bowdoin. Students and fans l ine the field preparing to watch what is sure to become a fierce rivalry. A play begins, a hush falls over the crowd as the first ball heads for the wicket.

Donald and M i l l icent Abbott ( Christopher '94,

Wicke t ?

icholas '9 5 ), Lutherv ille,

and the pu h to increase

Md.; W .

endowment, she says. A

Peterson ( H ilary '9 7 ) ,

retreat for the group was

Waterbury , Conn . ; Kenton

inc luded a part of planning

J . and Susan

for The Campaign for Colby.

( Amie '96 ) , Wel lesley H i ll ,

Establ i hed in 19 1 , the

But Did They TaJgate?

( Ari '93 , Eben '96, Isa '9 )

past few months the com­

T h e two schools' 1 0 2 -year-old football rivalry is the fifth

con and J ean

oldest in the country-but Colby's first athletic with Bowdoin was in the genteel sport of croquet.

survive from those early days ofcorr.pet i t ion, but we do know

icchitano

that croquet was played intramurally at Colby as early a:, 1 50. Intercollegiate c roquet contests w i th Bowdoin began

Mas .; and W. Mac Donald, J r. and

arah

a decade later, predat i ng baseball's beginn ing in 1 6 7 and football's in 1 89 2 .

now ( A ndrew

'9 5 ) , Short H l l ls,

.J .

ki rmish o records

•

C onsti tutional Questioning T h e l a t e 1 960s a n d early 1 970s s a w revolut ionary change occ urring on col lege campuses across the nation, and while q u ieter than many campuse , Mayflower H ill was hardly erene. I n 1 969 the College dec ided to tac k le tudent con­ cerns related to the structure of campus l ife. At the sugges­ t ion of trustee Eugene C. Struckhoff '44, Colby held a Constitutional Convention, or Con Con as it became known. Representatives of all the College const ituencies-ad m ini tration, alumni, faculty, parents, students and trustee -met for three days and redefined the way the College operated. When i t was over, students had won a role i n the governance of the institut ion, and a resultant campus-wide catharsis Gerald and Myra Dorros chairthe Parents Executive Committee.

eased tension.

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J A

U A R Y

1 9 9 S

C O L B Y

�

N o Longer the Dark Horse

Mul

By Lynn Sull ivan '89

l

ust four seconds and three po i n ts kep t Co l by' foot­

e son oveth e

The Wh i te M u le won an unprecedented seventh

a l l team from a perfect

straight Co l by- Ba t es ­

"We took our h i t in t he pa s t , " he a i d . "Over the pa r three year , though, we've been the t h i rd

season. The team fi n ished 7-

Bowdoin championsh i p ( i n

1 , the program's best record

1 99 3 Colby ha r ed t h e honor

since 1 9 7 2 and pe r haps the

w i th Bnwdoi n ) , post i ng the

NE CAC, and

Wh i te M ules' best show ing

second best record in

we have had only one lo i ng

w i n n i nge t t eam i n i nce 1988

N ESCAC. The Boston Globe ,

who wan ted to w i n

came in the season opener

ranked the Whi t e M u l e

a n d t h e y knew h o w t o

when Trinity won, 1 7 - 1 5 , on

t h i rd among New England

w i n , " said

a 2 6 - ya rd field goa l w i t h four

sma l l college teams.

Tom A u s t i n . " I ju · t have a

quart rback Matt M an ne ri ng,

lot of a d m i ra t ion for the k id·

from Walp le, Ma ., broke

ince 1 940. The only loss

seconds remain i ng.

"We had a group of k ids

t

olhy head coach

n the team. They were a

rec rd , wh i ch was in 199 0 . "

e

Team h no r came a q u i c k l y as t h w i ns.

en ior

h i :, own record fo r most

pa ing yard in a ea on,

great group. not d i�couraged, a fter our

th rowi ng for 1 ,846 ya rd and I 2 touchdown . Other

open i ng lo �-

member of the squad picked

"We were d i :,appo i n red , i x of our

E CAC

a-Offensive

:-even v i c tnrie� were i n

up

game:. where we h a d to come

Player of the Week honor ,

·

from beh i nd

ro

w i n , " ·a i l

two Ea tern Collegiate

Au r i n , who i n n i n e year on

Arhleric Conference Honor

M ayflowe r H i l l ha a record

Roll elect ion , two

o

nf 3 4 - 3 7 - 1 bur is 2 2 -9 - 1 i n

NE CAC defen ive player of

r h c pa t f u r ·ea \1n .

t he week di ti nctions and a

Fast Company The M u l e s'

34-1 3 w i n over Bowd o i n

Still

capped a

7- 1

T

seaso n .

Kicking

country ream competed

In 1988 the Melissa Brown Award wa e tabli hed to honor field hockey

ophomore Kara Patteron wa the lone Colby

for the econd t a i ght year

ru nner to earn A l l -Ameri­

at the Divi ion I l l NCAA c hamp ion hip , p l ac i n g

can honor , rac ing to 1 Orh p l ac e at the nat ional meet.

1 0th. La t sea on rhe

The Falmouth, Maine,

women' ream made history

native lost on l y rwo Divi ion

by becom i ng

players who demonstrate the mo t dedication, inspiration and de ire. The

sr

he women's c ro s

o l by ' s fir t

representat ive at a nat ional conte t i nce NE CAC

schools lifted a ban on post­

III race during the regular season. Patterson placed econd at the N ew England Di v i ion I l l race to qual ify

woman for whom the award i named, Melis a Brown '88, is still active in

season N CAA tournament

for the nationals with a

athletics. Brown, who was a captain on the field hockey team for two

play. Colby finished 1 2 th at

pe r son al best t ime of 1 7 : 4 7 .

seasons, was named most valuable player three years in a row and was elected to the Maine Assoc iation oflntercollegiate Athletic Women All­

the national meet last year.

Patter on a n d t h e winner

This year's 1 0th-place

broke the course record of

nat ional finish capped a

1 7 : 5 6 set nearly 10 years ago.

State teams i n 1 985 and 1986. Today she is chair of the modern language

season that included team

department at the St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Del . , where she

w ins at the Un ivers i ty of

nat ional meet Colby was

also serves as the head var ity coach of girl , lacrosse-another port in

Massachusetts-Dartmouth

ranked ninth i n Div ision I l l

Invita t ional, the Colby

and had been ranked as

l nv i rar ional and the

h igh as fifth du r i ng t h e

N ESCAC c hampionships.

r e gu l a r sea on. +

which she starred at Colby-and of field hockey.

C O L B Y

J A N U A R Y

1995

36

The week prior to the

ESCAC Fre hman of the Week award.

Strong Net Work

widest since the '4 1 squad outscored their competition

Maine, senior co-captain

the school' all-time record

T

J im Zadrozny , a defensive end from N orfo l k , M a ss . ,

of four straight seasons

New England Women'

above . 5 00 , et from 1 9 1 1 to

Intercollegiate D i v is ion

J un ior l i nebacker J ason J abar, from Waterv i l l e ,

ophomore Tom Beedy, a

by 1 76 point . The '94 team matched

he women's tenn is team placed third

( out of 22 teams) in the

1 9 1 4 and again from 1 93 8 to

llI tennis champ ionsh ips.

1 94 1 . The football program

I t "vas the team's best

Falls, M a i ne, and j un ior

has never had flve winning

finish ever at the New

t ight end Brett N ard i n i of

season in a row . The

England tournament.

free safety from L ivermore

c i t u a t e , Mas ., were all

accompl ishments of the

First-year student J essie

named to the E a tern

1 994 season are comparable

Anderson, from

Col l e g i a t e A t h l e t i c

to the 6-0- 1 season of 1 940.

Conference ( ECAC)

That team's tie c ame against

D i v i s io n III A l l - N e w

rival Bowdo in, 1 3 - 1 3 . the season with a 30-4 K at e LaVigne ' 9 5 "Our goal- for next season . record. Ander on won are undefined," aid Aust in, . the M aine State s ingles champ ionship and , along with ·. partner Kate LaV igne, a senior co-captain from Paxton, "but we hope to conti nue

England t e a m . The White Mules outscored their opponents 243 - 1 28 and came within four

� �----....'-•m::iiiliiiiiiiiil ii

the same level of compet i­

points of the 1 94 1 season

t i veness d uring the next

record. The 1 1 5-point margin

year. R ight now we're j ust

produced this season was the

enjoying 1 994."

•

� �;!��,���e m�n�� ��s� a

i

·

V igne placed e ighth in the nat ion m D ivision I I I double . The squad finished with a 6-4 record, i nc luding w ins O\'er nat ionally ranked M idd lebury and Brandeis. +

TAYLOR-MADE SEASON with

in the Intercollegiate Soccer Athletic A oc ia t ion' N ew En­ ixth straight w inning season

earned the team a econd seed in the ECAC championship tournament. The 1 99 3 ECAC defending champs lost in the emifi na l

team MVP after fini h ing

Mass., earned the doubles title as wel l . Ander on and La

· ·

n 1 1 -3 - 2 ovetal l <ecmd and a ixth-place rnnkmg

gland coaches' poll. Colby's

orwell,

Mass . , was selected as

to Brandeis Urnver ity, 2 -0 . It wa Colby's third

po t-season ECAC appearance in three year .

20-GAME WINNER The volleybal l squad ended i t fourth var ity eason with a 2013 record after posting w i ns at the Bowdoin Polar Bear Invita­ tional and the Maine As oc i at ion of Intercollegiate Athletic

Katie Taylor '98

Women tournaments. Four team member earned spots on all­ tournament teams, two rec e i ved All -State honors and one

The field hockey team produced a 6- 7 - 1 record and a second-team regional All-American. Fir t-year student Katie Taylor, the tarting center back from W ilmington, Del., earned second team regional All­ America.n honor and was named Rookie of the Year. Sophomore Eli:abeth Dodds, from Wellesley, Mass., and junior Joanna Slis:, from Cheshire, Conn., earned Academic All-American honors. The team defeated nationally ranked Uni­ ver ity of Southern Maine, 2 -0, and Bate , 1 -0.

player wa named to the All-N ESCAC first team.

ROUNDUP

ROGERS REACHES NATIONALS

2 record. Outscoring their opponents b y almost 2 0 goals, the

Abe Rogers was the lone harrier from the '94 team to qua I ify for the N CA A champion h ips. A four-t i me All-State and two­ time A l l -New England Division l l I runner, Rogers fin i hed

White M ules have n i ne c u rrent players on the team's all-t ime

In other sports act ion, the women's occer team po ted a 7 - 5 -

scoring l i t . . . . I n c rew the women'

nov ice e ight won the

Tex t i le Regatta, the men's novice e ight won the B i l l Braxton Regatta in Philadelphia and the women's varsity e ight finished 2 3 rd our of 5 2 boats at the Head of the Charles in Bo ton . . . . The

78th out of a field of 1 84 runner . The team placed fifth at the NESCAC c hampionships. A t the New England Div ision I l l championsh ips a l l team members ran personal season-best times, help ing propel the team to a fourth-place finish overall, econd among N ESCAC c hools. I n 1 1 of the past 15 years,

Colby golf team won the CBB champ ionships this year. The team p laced fourth at the Bowdoin I nv itational, third at the State of Maine I nv itational, seventh at the N ESCAC tourna­ ment and fifth at the Colby Invitational.

Colby h a ranked i n the top five of the regional NCAA poll.

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J A N U A R )

1 9 9 5

C O L S )

Fifty--Plus

Hawcc l i '69. b a r ru;tce of the C )l lege . . . . Elsie Frost Rapp '26

Correspondent: Fletc her E a t o n

ccnt center in Danhury, onn . , where >he h a' 2 4- hour care. he

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ha· ti1·c m;:irried c h i ldren, n i ne grand c h i kl re n , > i x great -grand­ c h i ldren and nm a d i vorce or :,cpara m m anywhere i n rhe fam­

6 1 7 - 449- 1 6 1 4

ily. he enjoy;; buok by Erma Bom heck an J fmLb hooks hy

Leonette Warbuton Wishard '2 3

Ca therine M;mh a l l most insr1r­ arion a l . . . Beatrice Ham D i c k ­ e r m a n '26 h a J her 9 1 r b i rthday on December 2 4 , 1 994, anJ s t i l l

say> ·he wants to hear mnre ncll'S frnm cl as ma res. Ar 9 1 , she i'

l i ve;; i n rhe n u r, i n µ h n m c i n L i vermore Falb, �bme, where

proud to say she sr i l I d r i ve:-, keers

>he ha been for se1·eral years. . . I n though tful and complete answers to h er quest i o n n a i re . Miriam R ice Schu lze ' 2 7 .ay'

TWENTIES

hnu>e. ha· a t h i c k head of h a i r anJ a l l her t e e t h hut nnc. w a l k s w i thout a cane, g o e on p i c n i c s and to c h urc h and concerts a n J wan ts to u e her pa 'rnrt more. Except for a rare touch of angina, she feels fine . . . . Melva Mann

Far n u m '23 has moved i nto a ret i remen t com m u n i ty 1 11 Port­ land, M a i ne, where ·h i · \Try

comfortable. She has 1 1 grand­ c h i l d ren and 1 8 gre a r - g ra n d ­ ch dJren. S h e rememhers w i t h gra t i t ude Dean N i netta Run n n b . Dr. J u l i an Ta y l ur anJ Profc_ snr

H erbert Carlyle L i bhy and al ·o prote · sor Thomas A hcraft anJ Henry Brown. he recommends a biography of Benjam in Frank Im by Ronald Clark: " l nforma t i \'C , c h a l l e n g i n g , start l i ng , " 5ays he . . . . D r . P a u l Gates '24 writcs t h <lt the " wretc hed worm arc hurrow i ng i n lawn and [ r h rnw­ mg] up soil in p i les all around . " . . D o r i s Hardy Hawee l i ' 2 5 i l i v ing happ i l y in orth Conway, . H . , w i t h h r n iece, E l i:abeth H ardy George ' 5 7 . A l t hough, a t 9 2 . a rt h r i t i s in her legs and hands - lows her <lown a l i t t l e , M r Hawee l i has few com p l a i n t and i "in touch by m a i l w i th an a maz­ ing n u m ber of my former Coburn tuden t s . " ( Coburn Cla · ic a l l n ­ ' t i r u re i n Wa terv i l l e w a s d e ­ :,troyed b y f i r e many years aoo . ) H e r n i ece by marriage, E l len B .

j .'\ N U A R \

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she w i he. 'he had ;:mnrher l 1fe­ t i me tll catch up on c l as:,1cs nor read, d i scol'eries bemg made c1•­ ery day and ac t i v i t ies to get i n ­ volved i n ( and a budy ac t i ve and mnsr ly r<l i n - free i n all i ts natural or replacement pan ) . h e trans­ ports penple i n her J 9 7 0 Olds­ m ob i l e , r l ay, c ra h b l e , cook mea ls for a neighhor, t-upport' p u b l i c telcv i,ion and w ishes ,he cou l d respond to I /200rh of the appea l s he get i n the m ai l . . . . A l berta L . Van Horn h u te '28 does 60 i t up every morn i ng in her new home, a former ga­ rage, wh ich wa· moved ro i r­ presen r locauon ( M anc hester,

memLJrie-, of Henr y Trefethen, W 1n rhror � ran ley and George P;1rmenter . . . . Carolyn Herrick Critz '29 finJ-, l i 1· ing in a r r i re­ mcnr home \\' I t h 400-plu k m ­ drcd ,ou l , ( 111 ewrnwn _quare, Pa . ) rn he a ch al l e ng 1 11g but re­ ward in g exrcriencc. Her son (a p a r h o l og 1 '> t ) and d a u g h t e r ( a n u r'c ) are happy anJ 'ucce ful i n r h c 1 r career,. To keep fi r , >he walb 1n good weat her, ride, a h 1cyclc 1n >1de I ll haci anJ worb i n h e r g a r d e n . •� h e re m e m b e r ' '' Rug," Chc.,ter a, a ll'onderful man anJ reacher. . . . V i rgi n ia Dud ley Eveland '29 ha muved from C::irm c l . a l if. . to Bar H ar­ bur. M a ine . . . . On ovemher 1 9. 1 99 3 , Oscar Chute '29 be­ came a grea t - grnndfarh e r . To mark the occa,ion, Mr. Chute >e nt rhe newcomer a note: "Dear cott , Ynu came into rhi:. world naked hut you are nor broke." . . . I n a que r ionnaire fi l led our hy h i w i fe, Marguerite, we learn rhar Donald H . Fra er '29 ha heen lega l l y b l i nd for 16 years. He and hi w i fe l i ve comfortably

in a re t i rement 1· i l lage in Denton, Texas. A I though uffc r i 1 g from arr h r i r i in h i · knee and hac k , Don manages a half- m i le walk i n t h e v i l lage h a l l w a

Maine) and made into a house ( " Love being i n m y own house un my own land " ) . he has fond memL)ries of CL J r i n ne B. Van orman and hlack gym su i t . . . . Harriet Tow le McCroary '28 remembers her geology professor ( Edward Perk i n s ) espec i a l l y he­ cause she used a lot he taught her i n her own teac h i ng. One of her 1 1 grandc h i ldren majored i n ge­ ology because of her i nterest i n t h e ubjec r . . . . Dr. Rene J . Marcou '28 keep i n shape by wa l k i ng a m uch a poss i b l e , es­ pec i a l l y wh en h e goe shop­ p i n g with h is wife. H e ha fond

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Mr-. Taylor . . . . One of t he re­ wards of rh is job is the joy of read­ i ng a questionnaire such as that subm i t ted by Professor Norman Palmer '30. H e teache and trav­ el the world and is more act ive and productive than most men half h is age. To keep fir , h e follows h is l i felong profession of worry i ng ab u t the stare of rhe world: "Th is

wife, Gurina, he h a s moved into a new h ome in F r id ay H arbor, Wash. I r overlo k the F.H. Ma­ rina and rhe en t i re harbor-a heautiful scene . . . . Or. Gordon J o h n on ' 3 0 h a been ret i red ince 1977 an<l keep fir by raking care of hi lawn. . . Dr. I va n McLaugh l i n

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"Bugs" Che ter for h i gen t le but persua ive, often t i me hum rous manner of i m r i l l ing a desire to learn and Profe or Weeks-a tou h, we l l - l iked reacher of a rough, unl iked cour e (Organic Che m i t r y ) . To keep fi t , Dr. M c Laugh l i n get up every morn­ i ng . . . . Frances Page Taylor '3 1 walk six m i le a week and wi he he cou ld get rid of her arthriri . ( Do any of u nor wi h that ?) She remember Profe sor J u l ian Tay­ lor ( La t i n ) as being pat ient and k md . . . . Bernard Porter ' 3 2 , ph�,. icisr, arri t and es ayi r , ha donated th Bern Porter Collec­ t ion of Contemporary Leners to Colby's M i l ler L ibrary. I t numbers more than 4,000 letters, manu­ -cript , journa l · , magazines and book . According to a flier accom­ pany ing h i · que r ionnaire , M r . Porter wa- once a nuclear phyi c i r who helped develop rhe cathode ray tube, which, among other uses, is the picture rube in telev ision sets. He al o worked on the Manhattan Project and on the manned pace program for N ASA . . . . Maxwell Ward ' 3 2 h a s a son, Denham, whose fu l l · i gn a t u re i n c l udes t h e l e t ter M . O. and Ph.D. H is granddaugh­ ter, Rebecca Pease, i s a 1 99 1 graduate of Colby . . . . The Very Reveren] Harold F. Lemoine '32 departed for Honolulu on April 2 1 , 1 994, and returned to Garden C i ty, Long I land, N . Y . , on No­ vember 2-a plan he fo l lows every year. I n the past, however, he ha spent ummers i n England, where he ha numerous first, econd and

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third cousin . For 22 years, he was dean of the cathedral in Garden City, where he served under three bi hops before retiring at the age of 70. He now conducts ervices and preaches several times annually. He had unbounded respect and affec tion for Herberr Carl yle Libby, whom he describes as a great debating coach and public speaking professor. . . G w e n ­ dolyn Mardin Haynes '32 has sons, daughters and grandchildren living all over: in Maine, Nevada, California, Arkansas, Ohio, Ala­ bama and other points of the com­ pass. "How does one keep up with all these descendants?" she asks. Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings he is up at 6 a.m. to attend a half-hour exercise se sion in the pool. "l live atone end of the fifth floor ( in this retirement com­ plex) and have plenty of exercise going and coming to the central elevator." . . . Emery Dunfee '33 has attended Elderhostels in Vir­ ginia, Newfoundland and Denver, Colo. His son, Donald, is pastor of Roundy Memorial Bapt i t Church in Whitefish Bay, Wis. (a suburb of Milwaukee) . . . . Elea­ nor Wheelwright Ness '34 and her husband, Norman, have sold their house in Auburn, Maine, and moved into a retirement community in the same town. They have adjusted well and like their new lifestyle. Their son, Norman Jr., has three children and three grandchildren; their daughter ha two children. Mrs. N ess recommends The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. In general, she does not like the violence in modem novels. . . . Annie Tuck Russell '34, with her husband, Frank, reads the Bible every day, following assignments from the church, and enjoys it more than she did 70 years ago. She also reads eight novels a week. Although her health isn't what it used to be, she walks an average of two miles a day and does aerobic exercises daily. . . . In a letter dated April 1 9 , 1 994, Portia Pendleton Rideout '34 tells of her very serious illness starting just after Christmas, when she was rushed to the emergency room suffering from a strep throat, septic shock and several other complications. At the time of writing, she hoped to go home in a couple of months from the nursing home where she was recuperating.

( In October, Portia sounded ju t fine on the phone. ) She extends her best wi hes to all in the Class of 1 934 . . . . John J. Leno '34, uncle of the Jay Leno of TV fame, remember Professor Edward Colgan and his tricky psychology cld ses. Mr. Leno exercises for an hour every day by walking, using hi exercycle, pushing against a wall and lifting weight with his legs (pumping iron ) . He watches golf, ba eball, football and race horses. . . . In a lerter dated April 26, 1 994, Paul Feldman '34 writes that he and Fred Schreiber '34 and Sybil Wolman Berman '34 were planning to attend their 60rh re union in J un e . Ruth Feldman and Matthew Berman plan ned to accompany their spouse . . . . As of last April, The Reverend Beth Pendleton Clark '35 was still waiting to donate a kidney to her daughter, Beverly. 1 am sure I peak for all of us in admiration of Beth's motherly de­ votion. he does book reports for the Alban Institute in Washing­ ton, D.C. , and has enjoyed the more than 20 he ha already done. One of the best was Sacrifice and Delight. Beth is glad to do this " ince it will help to keep my mind alive and can continue to do so when I 'm in a rocking chair." . . . Avis Merritt Churchill '35 enjoy� walking and yard work as a welcome change from the har h winters they have in Southington, Conn. Her on, Ralph, i a colonel with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. She hopes that my mailbox was stuffed to overflow­ ing with responses to my April questionnaire. I can report that my mailbox is a big one but will not hold all the response 1 re­ ceived. The letter make a pile 1 3 inches high. . . . June Wight Ma­ son '35 liked all of her profe sors at Colby but claims it was too long ago for her to remember any of their name . (Some of us can't remember what we just ate for lunch. ) To the question "What aren't you doing bur wish you were," she replies: "Don't ask." . . . Dorothy Tozier LeMaster '36 wants to be visiting old friends and keeping up with the many activities she used to pursue, but in 1 988 she had a bad stroke and is residing at the Montello Manor N u rsing Home, 5 4 0 Col lege Street, Lewi ton, Maine. Her son,

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NEWS MAKERS Osborne C. Bacon '29 described for readers of the June i sue of Textile Chemist and Colorist what it was like to be a dye chemi t during the development of the fabrics we take for granted today. He was employed by Du Pont's Dyes and Chemicals Technical Laboratory in Deepwater, N .J . , for 30 year following the Depre ion. . . . Ginny Kingsley Jones '39 is re. . , G mny Kmgsley ]ones 39 sponsible for leadingthe $ 1 60,000 fund-raising campaign for St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Since joining the hospital in 1 94 1 , she has been a full-time employee and president of the auxiliary and is now a member of the board of trustees.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Ida P hoebe K e e n '05 in Pomona, Cal if. , at 1 1 0 . . . . Mildred Greeley Arnold ' 1 7 in Hartford, Conn., at 1 00 . . . . Grace Ruth Foster '2 1 in jack onville, Fla., at 9 5 . . . . Harold C. Marden '2 1 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, at 94 . . . . Doris Purington Cunningham '22 in Presque Isle, Maine, at 93 . . . . Mary Irene Whitcomb '22 in Bethesda, Md., at 94 . . . . Mary Watson Flanders '24 in Fort Myers, Fla., at 9 3 . . . . Margaret Turner Howe '24 in Lewiston, Maine, at 9 1 . . . . Mollie Seltzer Yett '26 in Bo ton, Ma ., at 88 . . . . Mona Herron Erickson '28 in New Bedford, Ma s., at 87 . . . . Helen Hight Brown '28 in Skowhegan, Maine, at 87 . . . . Willis S . Duncan '29 in Mar Hill, Maine, at 88 . . . . J ohn S. Davidson '3 1 in Harrisburg, Pa., at 86 . . . . Wallace A. Donovan '3 1 in Waterville, Maine, at 86 . . . . Ruth Andrews Yeomans '32 in Lincoln, Maine, at 84 . . . . Raymond 0. Knauff '33 in Watervi lle, Maine, at 83 . . . . Harold M . Plotkin '34 in Lawrence, Mas ., at 83 . . . . Albion L . Farnham '35 in Maine at 86 . . . . Laurence A . Humphrey '3 7 in California at 79 . . . . Edwin M . Leach '38 in Blue H UI, Maine, at 79 . . . . Freda K . A b e l '39 in Bar Harbor, Maine, at 77 . . . . J oh n B . Davenport '4 1 in Bedford, Mass., at 76 . . . . Lucile Upton Garrett '44 at 7 1 . . . . Mary L. Roberts '44 at 73 . . . . John P. Turner '44 in Cambridge, Ma s., at 7 2 . . . . Forrest W . Hussey Jr. '44 in Winslow, Maine, at 7 1 .

H ugh, i s a funeral director in Monmouth, Maine, and grandson Joseph is a student in the eighth grade. (Hint: Why not drop by and see Dorothy? She'd love to see you . ) . . . Amy Thompson '36 has received an I nspirational Award from the National Asso­ ciation for Sport and Physical Education. She remembers Her­ bertCarlyle Libby in public speak­ ing and Corinne B. Van Norman in physical education . . . . Ray Farnham '36 keeps fit by keeping the house salable, playing golf with the senior league and looking

for stray golf balls. He spends four months a year at Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He recommend The Chamber by John Grisham-"an interesting story of the South, the Ku Klux Klan and the bigotry that was part of their time frame." He and his wife, Ruth, are proud of their grandson, Craig Farnham, who graduated summa cum laude in mechanical engineering from the U n i ve r s i t y of M a i n e at Orono . . . . Willard Libby '3 7 , son o f the unforgettable Professor Herbert Carlyle Libby, keeps fit by visiting grandchildren on the East

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from my home. Our aprlcs were fa i r , and I p ressed 32 qu'1m of

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moved i n to a re t i rement commu­ n i ty where the rules forhic.l wine

H1 c c es. fu l w i t h P ro m c t h e u . , Po l yph e m u s a n d L u n a ccucr­

New Zea lan<l , Au tra l ia, all t h e Bm ish I s l e , a l l 50 r a t es , Nova

with dinner. l am su re Cliff joins

p i l l a r. ." . . . Nathanael Guptill ' 39 re me mbe rs rhat we had a u ­

Scot ia, Africa an<l I taly. A if t ha t we re n ' t e nou gh , he skb cro s coun try an d <l o w n h i l l to the fu l l extent of two r i bs broken in a 4 5 m p h e r a h . An<l go lf, golf, go lf. Say he: " I ' m l i ving a l l m y fan ras 1e . " . . . "Bonnie" Roberts Hathaway '4 1 an<l her h u band, " H a n k ," have five c h i l d re n , six gran<lchd<lren an<l t h ree great­ gra ndch ildren. A fa m il y gath e r ­ mg w planne<l for la t ummer in New Ip wich, . I-I . A a mem­ her of the Foundation for G lobal om m u n i t y , sh e h a h e l pe d to pro du ce a VCR t ape , The Unfold­ ing Swry, featuring c 1enrist , au­ th<m, re l ig iou s leaders and Native American as they tell the un­ fol<l i ng s t or y of a n m te rc o n ­ n ec t ed, 111 te rdep ende n t un iver e . he uses rhe fi lm m connection w1rh her r a l ks to h igh chool and adult groups . . . . In e ptem be r 1 99 3 , Jim Daly '4 1 an d hi wife, a l l y , entertained Dan Daley '4 1 a t the i r home in eattle, Wa h . Alth ou gh t h e t w o m e n h a d been roommate , fra t e rn i t y brothers and foorbal I reammate , che y had nor ecn each ocher since 1 940a span of 54 year .. J i m ts a retired banker and Dan was with NA A for 25 year. and saw John G lenn lift 1nto orbit. . . . Albert Schoen­ berger '42, 0.0 . . , work a a gwup t h e r ap bt at an ad u l t care cen ter for Al:he1mer' panents. The 'c hoe n b e rg e r have four c h i l d ren and fi\'e grand c h i l ­

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nor co m f o r rn hl e .

L i bby ' 7 7 , i s head n f the U ppe r chool at W aynfle t e 'chool i n Por t l a n J , M a i ne . . . . Margaret

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The lat t e r , ac co rd i n g to

me m ex t e n d m g cnndolences. Boh r ec eiv ed the Oistmgu ished

"Bugsy" he ter, who, at the end of a c h ap t er, would ask, " Docs

A l umnu' Award from Colhy last J une. The o l by l ibrary has 1 1 0

pc r h fac u l ty i n our t i me-teacher deJ ica t e<l to te ac h ing in a way that b rare thc,e day'>-Pmfe�sor

anyone have a n y ques t i ons 1" anJ conti n ue l ec t u r i n g o ra pid l y that no one could poss ibl y ask on e.

i tems with Bob's name on them. . . Lester Jolovitz '39 has rct i reJ after 46 ye ars prac r i ci ng law in Water\' i l lc, M a i ne . He spenr a

W d k im,on acc urat e l y anJ confi­ dent l y p red ic t i n g World War II when c\'erybody cbe was saying, " I t c a n ' r happe n "- D r. L 1 b h y

month in the English Cot wo kb in the su m mer of '9 3 ;md r l am to sp e nd wmters 1n F lor i da . Le,rer

1 1ur flo w e ry -,p ecch es , "An emp ty harrcl hath a -.ound pec u l iarly ir-,

H er c h i l d ren a r c Richard, Ruth, Pe t er and Paul; grandchildren arc Re t h , H eather, K im be rl y, T i mo­ t hy, Matthew, W i l l iam and Ry<m .

Son Peter is an arc h i rcct in Ar­ l i ng t o n , M a � � . I n Se p r c m h cr 1 99 3 , s h e ,· is i t ed C o n s t a n c e

Averill Cooley '39 i n Vcr m1m r anJ ofren :-mp' by r\l -,ec Sara

Cowan '3 7 m Po rr l and , Maine, nn her way from h i na, Mai ne, where s h e l 1ves, ro Mas,<ic husetr<;, whe re all h er fa m i l y l i v e .

Frederick Oleson ' 3 8 1s rer ireJ from rhe U. governmcm hut st i l l doe s consu l u ng work for A rgo n ne N at ional Laboratone' on emergency plan · fo r nuc I car power plants. He has rhree grca r l y accompl is h ed c h i ld r en, S;1 l l y , N anc y and R ic k J r . , plw. seven

g r a n J c h i l J re n . . . . M a y n a r d Waltz ' 3 8 enjoys g i vi n g ralb on the h isrory of the Pcnacook I n d i ­ a n of co asta l N e w H a mpsh ire and outhwc t Maine. The talb b ri ng homo sa p i e n · from Africa to New Eng l a n J and end at th e year 1 600. A l t hough he walb a quar­ rer m i l e to the madhox e\·ery Ja y, M a y nard feel he <loes nm get e n o u gh e x e r c i ::. c -a fe e l i n g sha re J wi t h mos t of r h e peop l e who write to me . . . . Edward Hooper '38 h a , never taken a co ur e he e nj oye d more rhan eco­ nomics w1 t h Professor Brec k ­ e n r i dge. Professor C h ap m a n ' s cour::.c in Eng l 1 -, h \\'a!> abt) a de­ l i gh t . H e p la y' tennis and lo\'eS i t , b u t h1' wife, w h o w a s o n t he ten­ n i s team at W i lliam and M a ry, he<H' h im regu larly . . . . M y old

fnend and frn te rn i r y bmther Cliff Nelson '38 ha li\'ed in N apl e s, Fla., for 40 years, which convinces me that he has Jone \'ery well bec a use the la t time I was there I formed the impression I w as the on l y non-m i l l ionaire 111 rown . C l i ff has been in rouch w i th Ralph B rown ' 3 8 , " Moose"

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co m menr mg after we haJ ma<le

h a s t w o g r a nd ... o n � > t u <l y 1 n g abroad, o ne in Ch ile, the other i n V ie n na thanb t n Rotary. La!-.t

own." Re fe rr i ng to the fac ulty as a group, Nathan<1cl :-.ays, " W i t h a l l

'u mmer Lester underwrote a lllu r by W i n.low J un i nr H ig h � c huol -, t ud c n t ' rn \' !'> i t rhe H o l 1ic;i u-.t

great lca c he rs , ;md Jc,ms Mar­ r mc r and Ru nna 1' were parenrs to m al l-for which we w i l l he e re r ­ nally gratefu l . " . . . Wade ' 39 anJ Eleanor Tolan Hooker ' 3 6 h,1ve a 'on, Wade J r . , an attorney m New York ity; a da ughte r, An n , 111 Texas; and a daugh t er, J ea n , m A n n apo l i > , M d . There arc nine

Museum in W a,h m grnn, D. . On the tou r , t he yo un g p eop le wore

T-,h 1 m., the bacb nf which

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the l egend , "You cnn ;ilways, a l ­ w a y g 1 \'e "1met h i n g , C\'en 1 f I t i s on l y k i ndne" . . . A n n e Frank." Le ter ke e ps fit phy,ically hy e x er ­ C 1s1ng ( h e dnesn't spec i fy how ) , h u t h e h a a �ecret yea rn i ng to take up -.kyd h· i ng . . . . G. Elli Mott '39 and h is 1\•1fe, J oyce, cclehrnted their 50th weJJmg a nn iver,ary on Apnl 3, t 994, and on June 1 9 embarked t m a c ru 1'e ro A Ja ,ka­ a gi ft from the fom i ly. Elli-. I'> hc ;wil y into computers and won­ ders 1 f the cl;1's would he t nrer­ e t e d in c o m m u n 1 c a t 1 n g on

P rnd 1gy m C11 m r u Sc rv e . Th is pa-.r '>u mmer, the Mom. with the i r fuur c h i lJren and 111ne gra ndch i l ­ d ren went w Ore a .., Island for a fam il y camping mp. E l l is walb a n d docs srec ia l exercises to h e l p h i s n e \ arrific 1al hip . . . . From my ,-o l u mi now. file on Gardiner Gregory '39, l offe r rhe f ol lo w t ng cxcerpr from a charm mg letter he w ro te to Marjorie Gould Shuman ' 3 7 . "Th i past ,umrner [ l 992 1 wa> most unusual, con! and dry. Some of my melons la::.t year we i gh ed s i x l'.'Lltmds a n d t h e largest this year t s o n l y fo u r , b u t we ha rv e, t e<l the la rge st onion ever. B l u e be m c s \\'ere more than plen t i fu l , b u t trawbemes an<l raspbe rries were nor. The raccoons and porcupines got most of my pe a r . So far, I've caught eight raccoons, 21 porcu­ rine and a skunk in my rra p,-a J I of t hem relea ed about 1 0 mile·

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grandc h i ld re n , the oldc-.r a n A rmy c a p t a r n Ill K o re a , t h e \'llL m ge , t 111 fir r grade . . . . Leila Ros Hyman '39, a pe r i ra ret 1c gvr'Y by her own d esc nru on , has re r urn ed from the Ba l t i c 'rates and R ussia and was p l a nn mg a mp to I c e l an d ( " beca use l l 's t he re " ) when she rerurned her quc r ion­ naire lasr Apn l . She belong to

thrl'e 50-plu-. dance clubs an<l de­ e !a rc s rhat she 1' happily retired a nd not mo me d. L e i la h um red l ll l \ l my hrm her, John Eaton '4 1 , m K en ya and flew all rhe way back to Bosto n with him and h1 wife, + Barham.

FORTIES After earn mg a B . ,' . frnm Central Connec t i c u t S ta te U n 1\'crsity and a ma ter\ de gree from the U111v e r s i t y 1)! C o n n ec t i c u t , Guy Scribner '40 has bee n a ss i st ant qu al i t y manager at the gear d tYi ­ ston of r he Fenn M an u fac t u r i n g C o . , a fo r e m a n at P r a t t & W h i tney A i rcraft and a teacher m a couple of Connecncut h igh schools. He h a s v is i ted 36 tares and much ofCana<la. He has three d au gh t e rs: Susan and Sarah, both married, and Rob i n , who, for many years, ha been employed at the King Faisal Spe c i a l i t Hospi-

t a l in R i y a <l h ,

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. . Carl McGraw '40 appears ben r o n putting m i le. behind him, to w h i t : trips to T a h i t i , Moorea,

d ren . . . . Charles Nightingale

'42 keep fit by puttering, i n this in ranee renm·at i ng a n ol d farm­ house in Charlesrown, N . 1-1 . W i th h is wife, M a ry , he ha even ch i l ­ dren a n d 1 1 grandchildren. When asked what he i n't doing but wishe-. he were, he rep l ie , "Can't t h i n k of a t h m g . " . . . Robert McDonnell '42, a retired neuro­ surgeon, kee ps very bu y with conu l tat ions and m h i 1 0-year stint as treasurer of the Connecticut Medical aciety. He ha ix da u g h t ers a n d 1 6 g rand ch i ldren and kee ps fit by j umping ( to c o n c l u ion· ) . . . . J. Fra n k l i n Pineo '42 remembers"Edd1e" J oe

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Chester' "great, big, whopping amoeba." Mr. Pineo crunched a vertebra while lifting and turning. He says this i nor a good thing to do. Among family members, he lists a thoroughbred mongrel bor­ der collie/golden retriever named Bi becau e he i birac ial. . . . Bar­ bara Philbrick Mertz '43 is mar­ ried to a doctor, ha two sons, both

doctor , and a daughter, married to a doctor. So far she has nine grandchildren aged 2 , 4, 6, 7 , 7, 1 0, 1 1 , 14 and 1 6. She remembers Professor Palmer's praise of com­ munism ( i n 1 942-43 )-"Besides," she adds, "he was handsome." . . . Licah Shapiro Mellion '43 recalls her first day in Qualitative and Quantitative Chemistry class

when Professor Wendell Ray looked down at the only two girls in cla s and announced: "Girls shouldn't be in chemistry." De­ spite Profes or Ray's discouraging words, Mrs. Mell ion stayed in chemi try and has taught and tu­ tored it for years. Of today's tu­ dents, however, she observes: "Ama:ing what they don't know!"

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. . . Among the books that the very literate Carolyn N utting Martin '43 recommend i War and Peace by Tolstoy. She recalls that Professor Wi lkinson said, "You must read it! " Other notable quotation : "Bugsie" Chester­ "You will readily recognize . "; Professor Wilkinson-"Don't for­ + get Thuringia ! "

The Adventures of David Brodie Dthan seven decades living with avid Brodie '42 has spent more

the throttle wide open. And despite a quadruple bypass operation, recent chemotherapy and everal rounds of angiograms and angioplasty, Brodie report that he works out and swims seven days a week at ew York' Downtown Athletic Club and that he recently embarked on an ambi­ tious and innovative plan to rum sludge from U.S. c ities into ferti lizer for Third World markets. One of his goals is to use the fertilizer to try to stem the expansion of the ahara Desert in West Africa, and it's not the fir t time he's gotten involved in a grand international scheme. In the fall of 1 94 1 , as a senior majoring in history and bu ine at Colby, Brodie wa drafted to erve in World War I I . G iven hi academic worrie -Brodie admits he wa primarily focu ed on having a good time-the news came as a rel ief, he say . "At Colby I was paying too much attention to the girls and I knew I 'd never make it so l refused my father's advice, wh ich was to tty to get a deferment." Arrangements were made, credit from h is military training were accepted and Brodie was able to march with his class at Commencement in 1 94 2 . He recall fondly hi four years in Waterville and tells colorful stories about an amorou and some­ time intemperate donkey he procured and managed as Colby' ma cot. He also remembers mall c las es in professor ' homes and cherished mentors, Profes or of History William J . Wilkinson in particular. "He was fabulous," said Brodie. "He was a wonderful human being." J ust a week after h is graduation, Brodie shipped out on an old World War I freighter that carried 7,000 tons of bombs for the Allies. The boat required 1 09 day to get from New York to Cairo, traveling through the Panama Canal, down the western coast of South America, across the southerly reache of the Pacific Ocean and north to the Mediterranean, all in an attempt to avoid enemy ships and submarines. An amateur radio operator at Colby, Brodie got out of the infantry and into communication , serving in the Office of trategic Services ( the forerunner of the CIA). After brief duty in Egypt, he volunteered to go to I ta ly, where he oversaw construction of a radio station. Brodie says his wartime adventures in Europe included com­ munications work on torpedo boats in the Mediterranean, rescu­ ing U.S. airmen and nurse from a downed airplane in Albania and

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setting u p radio communications for the Tito government in Yugo lavia. When he got in trouble with a gen­ eral in Italy he headed back to Cairo. He requested duty in China, where he ays he helped establish another radio station. A letter written by Brodie in 1 94 5 to his mother and father said: "My impression of China is that these are the most brilliant and resilient people I have ever met, and God forbid the day we cross swords with them." After some hair-raising experi­ ences flying around Asia in bombers and C-4 7 transports he shipped back to the U.S. and ended h is service on Catalina Island off California, where he say he trained Koreans for a co­ vert mission to set up marker bea­ cons designed to help American p i lots nav igate over J apan. The atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Naga aki and the subsequent urrender by the Japanese made the mission unnecessary, he says. Upon his discharge from the ervice the OSS asked him whether, in time of national emergency, he would prefer to serve in civilian dress or in uniform. "I replied with one word-neither," Brodie sa id. After the war Brodie went to work in the steamship brokerage business and started his own company, J .C. Hampton Co. I nc . , where h e worked until he retired in 1 98 5 . Since then he has become increasingly concerned about the effects of urban sewage dumped off hore and about the amount of money New York City spend to take care of its sludge. Brodie recalled seeing Asians use "night soil"-human waste-for fertilizer and remembered h is father' - method of using the sun to extract potash from Dead Sea water in Palestine when Brodie was a boy. Combining those practices, Brodie hopes to te t hi method for producing fertilizer from olar-dried American sludge and ha drafted a proposal to u e the technique in the African desert. He wants to use the product on African forests that are now threatened by the expansion of the Sahara Desert. Besides the environmental benefit of keeping sludge out of the ocean, he says, the practice could cut in half U.S. c ities' costs for disposing of sewage. Brodie lives on South End Avenue in New York, a block from the Hudson River, the river that both launched his journey in 1 94 2 and sustained h is career built on steamships. Though his globe-trotting days are now behind him, at age 74 Brodie is still thinking-and acting-globally.

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my�elf. We re ad the name' of th e early respondent who ex pec t to attend and felt very encouraged that there w i l l b e a goo<l turnout next J une. By the time you read thi l hope you w i l l have remem­ bered to re pond to N ao m i ' s and Helen ' · reque t f o r a b1ograph 1 cal page for inclu-ion in our class book. Everyone l have hear<l from has eagerly read their copie· llf the '44 cla · book. It' great fun catching up with the many i n­ between years. . . Chuck Dudley and hi wife, Sh irley ( Martin '46 ) , spend their wi nter month i n Safety Harbor, Fla . , where they organized an all-c lass Colby re­ union in the Greater Tam pa area i n 1 994. I t wa very successful, and they aim for another great meeting in February of '9 5 . A l l a r e welcome . . . . Laura Tapia Aitken is still working full time as one of the senior members of the faculty at W i l l iam Patterson College of N ew J er ey. Her c h i l ­ dren a r e grown, a n d s h e h a s two grandchildren. Laura tates that she has not done what she anti c i ­ pated w h i le at Colby: s h e had p lanned to return to Central America to educate the poor and the remote, but life took an unex­ pected tum when she remained i n the U n i ted States. Laura and

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her hu band, Hugh, have trav­ ele<l to many place>, however, 1 11 c l u d i n g Africa, I nd ia , Peru, Galapago , T rin iJad, To h ago, France, Greece, pai n , Mex ico and lot� of Eng l an d and cot­ lanJ. La uni ree<1lL that Colhy was a profound experience f or her and wh ile there ,he was introduced to Greek Jrnma, \nme memorable facu lty , man y fnen<lsanJ NQW I . Curre n t l y l iv i ng in Essex, Con n . , Rtta Mc abe , who re­ tired 1 5 ye ar' ago from I BM cor­ porate headquarter>, enjoyed a 3 3 -year career with I BM, join ing the company righ t after gradua­ t ion from Colhy. he hear> each year from Kay Matteo Hancock, Eleanor Carter Curtice, Jane Farnham Wood and Marge Owen Fallon. R i ta is hu y keeping in touch with her large fam ily. he enjoy travel mg an<l fil l her time with golf, w1mming and work ing a. a part-nme real e tate agent. . . . When I was in eattle this

pa t ummer, I an and I spent an evening with Roberta Holt Sachs a nd her husband, Don. Remem­ her, they met at Colby? They fi l l ed u i n with deta il of their extensive fish ing exped1tions and eattle sports acti vities. Don had interesting tales to tel l about the h L rories of the Boe i n g B- 1 7 bomber . I wa g l ad to find that Bobbe expects to attend the re­ + un ion in '95.

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By the time you read this column, I w i l l have heen to Egypt to attend the World Assembly of the I nter­ national Counci l for Adult Edu­ cation. Thi is my last meeting as a member of che executive com­ mi ttee of the !CAE. It has been a great pleasure and learning expe­ rience for me. I w i l l m i s it. Our

NEWSMAKERS The A merican Academy of Actuaries named Dougla C. Borton '48 the 1 994 recipient of the J arvi Farley ervice Award for h i volunteer ervice as an actuarian. . . . David Mar on '48 repre ented Colby at the i nauguration of Tom Gerety as president of Amher t College . . . . Daniel C. Scioletti '48 was inducted po thumou ly Douglas C . Borton '48 into the Swamp scott ( Ma . ) H igh School Hal l of Fame at it fLr t induction ceremony l a t J une. An a l l-conference quarterback, Scioletti also went on to success on the Colby gridiron.

MILEPOSTS i n Portland, Maine, at 69. . . . Seabury T. "Buzz" Stebbins '48 in Bronxvi lle, N .Y., at 7 1 .

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theme this year i "Women, Lit­ eracy and Development"-a sub­ j ect suggested by officials in Egypt and one that i an important part of our work. I should also take this occasion to give you my change of address-2 1 30 Massa­ chusetts Ave. #3 B, Cambridge, M A 02 1 40-and to tell you that I am passing on the responsibility for the column to other hands. It has been a great pleasure to make contact with so many of you and to feel like a real member of the Colby family again. Thanks to all of you who have been communi­ cating with me . . . . I am sad to report two deaths: William C. Gutteridge died on April 2 2 , 1 994; and Donald R e x , husband of Alice Billington Rex, died on February 7 , 1 994 . . . . I had a let­ ter from Tom Burke, who would like me to pass on to you some information about our response to the 1994 Alumni Fund. He reports that our class goal was $6,000, which we reached i n the waning minutes of the fiscal year. Sixty-four out of our 1 00 mem­ ber participated with a total of $6, 5 1 0. H e is looking for 36 addi­ tional givers next year. As for himself, when he is not raising funds for Colby, he keeps busy p l a y i ng golf and trave l ing­ Alaska last year and this year a Princess crui e out of N ew York for Montreal and Quebec . . . . I have four additional letters in my file about interesting activities of our classmates. It is hard to con­ dense all of Shirley Thorne's ac­ tivities for this paragraph. I am extremely pleased to know that he is working with a group that is pushing for more controls on food packaging, even though the last bill was defeated. She also is work­ ing with the Unitarian Univer­ salist Urban M i nistry on a project for Asian women, helping them enter the host communities more smoothly. A v o l u nteer w i th Citydance, which is a project of the Boston public schools, she attended a mediation workshop and has been invited to work in that area at the Bo ton English High School. . . . Jane Lamb is also a great environmemalist. She practices non-consum in g , or­ ganic agriculture, recycles every­ thing, raises her own food and buys basic ingredients in order to cook from scratch. She has been

active on planning for the new Brunswick high school, partici­ pated in the Sunday Telegram/ M a i ne Cou n c i l of Churches Reader Round Table on educa­ tion and wants to continue to be involved in evolving the educa­ tion needed for our time. Last summer she took a walking tour in Bristol, England. She says that as a freelance writer, she doesn't have to consider retirement but is perpetually engaged i n the things she wants to do . . . . I re­ ported earlier that Stanley Levine took his master's degree in fine arts at Savannah College in '93, concentrating on historical ar­ chitecture. H e and h is wife have restored four early- 1 9th-century townhouses in Savannah's en­ chanting historic district and also conduct a rare-book business in their 1 820 house. He says he has not retired but moved to another career. . . . Carl Wrigh t lastsum­ mer was the pitching coach for the Skowhegan American Legion ba eball team, which won the

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By the time you read this column you will have received a re­ quest from us for news and en­ couragement to let us have your views on substantive matters tak­ ing place at Colby . . . . The sum­ mer was fairly uneventful and with surprisingly few Colby con­ tacts. We d i d have Len n y Warshaver ' 4 9 a n d h is wife , Elaine, visit u s at our dock i n Falmouth. W e sailed t o Menem­ sha too early in the season to see Marvi n Joslow, and we had hoped to sa i l to Padanaram ( outh Dartmouth) to enjoy the harbor and the scenery and perhaps sur­ prise Paul Solomon, but some­ how we j us t c r u i sed around

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Martha's V i n eyard and N a n ­ tucket a n d unfortunately d i d not see very many Colby people. We are going to become grandpar­ ents for the third t i me since our daughter and David's business associate, Marsha, is about to have a baby. January 1 5 is David's ten­ tative retirement date. He is de­ termined that it will take place no later than the first of April, so for the first time in 38 years he can prepare Hero unhurriedly for another season of sailing. We are going to take a January vacation i n St. Barts and in the spring rake our grandchildren (children of our daughter Debbie '7 5 ) to Disney World. After Orlando we uspect that we will really need a vacation . . . . We can not over­ emphasize how important it is for our classmates to keep in touch, because w ithout material this column is very difficult to keep interesting. J ust the threat of having to hear more about our family ought to get you writing + furiously.

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Have you ever been back toColby ? How did you fee l ? . . . "Fe l t at home and proud co be part of Colby's alumn i"-Dick Lyon. . . . "Felt proud of Colby's vital­ i r y"-C h a r l es Smith . . . . "We felt great! "-Bob and Barbara Hill M i l lett . . . . "Beautiful cam­ pus ! "-Edit h Tozier Stock . . . "Loved that dance stud i o ! "­ Charmian Herd . . . . "Felt nos­ talgic. l mpres ed with the size and beauty of the campus. l had no idea"-Char l ie Garland . . . . "I felt lost in memories"-J ohn Harriman . . . . "Loved the new campus . . . the result of the move to Mayflower H i l l that started i n our era"- Pri s ci l l a Tracey Tanguay . . . . "What a transfor­ m a t i o n ! "-J e a n C h i c k e r i n g Nardozzi . . . . " l t felt great! Beau­ tiful, permanent-looking campus" -Bob Merriman . . . . "Felt nos­ talgic ! "-Gloria Gordon Gold­ man . . . . "Went back in the early fifties---campus looked great"­ A l Riefe. {J ust wait t i l l you ee it now, A l ! ) . . . "The board cer­ tainly showed its wisdom w i th the Mayflower H i l l project"Bob S tander . . . . "Great campus! "- Al Gates. . . . "Proud of what Colby has become"- Mar­ garet Rodgers J ones . . . . "Fe l t g re a t ! Wonderfu l c a m p u " -

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George W iswel l . . . . "Felt ex­ cited ! One of the beautiful cam­ puses of the country"- Di c k King . . . . "Splend id campu "­ Paul Hinton . . . . "Great cam­ pus"- P h i l Lawson . . . . "Felt wonderfu l . Beau t i fu l campu . Couldn't bel ieve how much the trees had g row n " -Ginny Davis Pearc e . . a m p l i ngs of re­ spon es that have been received through the questionnaire regard­ ing reunion. Most of the above say they plan to be at our 4 5 t h . Dig o u t your questionnaire if i t's buried somewhere and let u have your thought on the program for the weekend. If you've never been back to Colby, reunion t ime is your chance to hare in the nos­ talgia, the pride, and the warmth of friend hips recaptured. If you can't be with u , end a me age or give u� other new of your elf. We want to hear from everyone. •

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A fu nny t h i n g hap­ pened on the way to your n e x t round of questionnaires for this column. They were a l l sent to the wrong clas . I received a delightful re­ turn from J e rri Bost, Class of '65, saying that "by then ( 1 96 5 ) l 'm sure your class wa already mak­ ing quite an impact on the world." She said she liked the set of ques­ tions because they were "thought provoking," and he anticipate reading the responses. When the new q u e s t i o n n a ire does get mailed to the right class-please respond! . . . Great news! The Class of ' 5 1 set a new record for percentage giving to the A lumni Fund-67 percen t ! . . . E r n i e Fortin summered at t h e Belgrade Lakes and saw Vivian Bryan and his wife, Joyce ( Wa llace ' 5 2 ) . Ern ie e nj oyed a t t e n d i n g the

Alumni College and especially taking a class on Shakespeare taught by Professor Mark Benbow in which no grades were given. He report that the food was much better than what he remembers from working in the k i tchens at Foss Hall and Roberts U n ion. . . . Ted Shiro bring pride to cla smates by his induction into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. An inductee along with Ted was ummer resident George Bush. Becau e of h i multitude of port activit ies over the years, Ted will have two (2) new hips. . . . Paul Kilmister was a candidate for election as a New Hampshire state represen tative . . . . Maury Ro­ nayne attended the reunion of hi WWII Army 280th Combat Engineering Batta l ion . . . . My recent adventure was a tenting safari in Tanzan ia. One h ighl ight was the night six lions surrounded the din ing tent as we ate d i nner. They did not want us for din­ ner-they wanted the territory we had c laimed. A sad advenrure wa going to Albany, Ga., to help vict ims of the Flint River flood move the entire contents of their hou e todi po a l heap and then tear down walls and floors right to the stud and joists. I will re­ turn to help build back up. I have to. Check your Elderhostel fliers for the ones at Camp Hanover in V i rginia. They are the one I help with. I am going on my fir t Elderhostel as a participant to Antarctica . . . . By the way, what were you doing in 1 965 ? +

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Many t hanks for a heartening response to my plea for news of you a l l . I can't include all the updates i n this column, but there w i l l be more to come . . . . Bob Kline gets top b i l l ing since he

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n April of h is senior year at Colby, Ed Ducharme '55 was asked by Profe sor of Educa­ t ion Norman Smith what he wanted to do with hi life. "l really hadn't put much thought into it," he recalled. "[Smith] then asked if I 'd ever thought about teaching and ifl'd l ike to be nominated for a full scholar­ ship to Harvard for a ma ter' in education. I said, 'Sure . "' A year later Ducharme had h i Harvard master' and was on h i way to becom ing one of the mo t respected teacher educators in the country . He ha written more than 50 ar­ ticles, essay reviews and ency­ c loped ia and book chapters on the subject. Currently professor of edu­ cation at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Ducharme al o serves as co-chair of the department of teacher education and curriculum studies along with his wife, M ary. They are co-editors of the Journal of Teacher Education, a leading educational journal. Last summer Ducharme's first book, The Lives of Teacher Educators, was published by Teacher College Pres . The book followed his appointment in 1 993 as the Ellis & Nelle Distin­ guished Professor of Education at Drake---one of the univer­ sity's highest honors. He says his accomplishments are a far cry from h is child­ hood experience. "Growing up in a household with non­ college-educated parents . . . you don't dream large, you don't know about all the opportunities," said Ducharme, who was reared in Dover, N . H . , and in Waterville. " But college wasn't an issue. My dad drilled it into our heads that we were going to college." Ducharme says he and his brother, Raymond ' 5 3 , both attended Colby because it was affordable and close to home. Raymond is on the faculty at Smith College in Northampton, M ass . , in the department of child studies. "Colby was such an eye-opener for me in terms of learning about education and knowledge," said Ducharme, an English

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major. " l t was wonderful t o find out that people cared about teaching and learning." Ducharme had a short stint in the army after receiving his master's. In 1 9 58 he took a job teaching English at New Roch­ elle H igh School in New York. I t was there, he say , that he decided to get a Ph.D. and move on to higher education. "There were rea lly three rea ons why I decided to leave," he recalled. "I saw several people who had run out of ga and were rea lly short-chang­ ing the kids, and 1 didn't want to end up like them. I had worked with a few teacher and tudent- teachers and saw that I could really help. And I was feel ing re tless." Ducharme received h is doc­ torate from Columbia University Teachers College in 1 968. He took a job at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., followed by an appointment at the U niversity of Vermont, where he was on the faculty for 1 9 years. He took early retirement from UVM and is a professor emeritus after serving as dean of the College of Education and Social Services. H is enthusiasm for teaching about teaching has never waned. "There are certain things that make some people good teachers," said Ducharme, who has five children, two of whom also are teachers. "You have to have a deep and profound love and respect for what you are teaching, you have to love, trust, understand and have faith in k ids, you must have a sense of humor, and you have to have a willingness to always question. A distrust of other human beings is what makes a poor teacher." H is faith in teacher and tudents is what he says makes the recently published book The Bell Curve so frustrating. He says the book, which concludes that d ifferent races have innate intellectual capab i lities that produce d ifferences in social class, is simply a validation of people's darkly held views. " lf what is said in The Bell Curve is true," said Ducharme, "then there is no need for places l ike Colby College."

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warm ly no.,talgic letter ;1hout h is return for the 40th reunilln and the renewal nf nld friendships, esrec 1 a l l y t he girl he d;ited on his 2 1 st hi rrhday . . . . A Colhy m i n i ­ reunion w a s a wonderful event for Mark ' 5 1 and me in Septem­ ber. E b Warendorf H u l m 'S l and husband J i m ( who should be awarded an honorary alumniship) hosted u s i n t h e i r heaut i fu l l a k e i d e home i n Wolfeboro, N . H . Present were three from the Cla of ' 5 1 and five from the Class of ' 5 2 , an l a finer looking hunch of M ed ic are rec ipients (>ome are and some soon to be ) is rare indeed. The occasion was a vi it from Balti more of Nancy Nelson Cedrone and husband Lou. They live a "star- rudded" l ife, since in Lou\ role as ans critic f or the Balcimore Sun they've had the opportun i ty to meet ml re ce­ lebrities and attend more glamor­ ous evenrs than anyone 1 know. Joan Kelby Cannell and husband Bob '5 l came over from their home in Cape Elizabeth. Al and Joan Martin Lamont, who live half­ t i me in F l o r i d a and h a l f i n Sunapee, N . H., d o pretty good imitations of Greg Nom1an and teffi Graf Absent and mi sed were Dick and Bev Baker Ver­ rengia, who have recently built a new home in Rockport, Mas . We had a wonderful time, and 1 came away congratulating myself on picking such wonderful friend all those 40-plus years ago. +

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mates. In J u ly Rick Tyler and h 1., wife, Ann, rode h i kes from Banff to Jasper, Alberta, a total uf 2 '0 miles-in perfect wenrher. Later they went hack to Ogunq u i t , M a i n e , for two weeb with their som and grandc hildren. Rick is ull working and hapry he c;rn he tak ing a couple of trtps a year. . . . Joe Bryant spent six weeks travel mg to Florida and hack, rny­ ing in Lakeland so that he c.ltdn 't have to get out the snowblower fora ·ea,on. Next spring he has,et his sights on a trip to Alabama (and a'k if there are any ' 5 3ers there ) . He sti l l works at LL. Bean between October and M arch. . . . Another tramplanted New Englander i ylvia Caron ul­ livan in N11slw i l le, Tenn. he say she travels back to New Hamp­ shire for her ummer to enjoy her family and grandchi ldren, age 9, 3 and l . This past ummer he had a chance to get together with other alum and Bill Cotter at a meeting m Wolfeboro. In ash­ vi lle ·he tay bu y erving on the boards of a mental health e tab­ li ·hment that trains and finds jobs for mental health c l ient and of the chool of De 1gn in Franklin, Tenn . . . . Ginnie Fal kenbury Aronson traveled to candinavia to be with her daughter, Pat, who was there for a year on a Fulbright. he write , "It wa wonderful, so c lean, the k y o blue, and the phone never rang." Back in the states, she made two separate trips to North Carolina for conferences. She ·ay she "suffered a little Lyme di ease with a lucky recovery in time t play Grandma G innie" to her threeyounge t grandchildren, 3, 6 and 8, and also gave a celebra­ tion for son Andy's ma ter'sgradu­ ation from R u tgers. She adds,

The beautiful Mayflower H i l l campu and the endowment that underpins Colby's academic excellence were built largely by thoughtful bequests from alumni and friends. And the need continues. Nobody but you knows exactly what you've put in your will. But wearing a Heritage Club pin says you've made a permanent commitment to the financial support of the College. There are many ways to structure your bequest. You can pecify a dollar amount, fixed percentage or particular items of tangible property. You may provide income to a loved one before benefiting the College and may derive extra benefit during your l ifetime by making a "planned gift" now. I f you've already put Colby i n your will or a special trust arrangement, please tell us so we can offic ially welcome you into the Heritage Club. For more information on how to make a beque t, write to: Steve Greaves, Direcwr of Planned Giving, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 . Or call 207-872-32 1 2 .

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"Whew! This year all four of my children are workmg at the same t i me-a first ." Now G mnie ts back to her music business, Mr . A' K mder Parent M usics . . . . Elaine Zervas Stamas wrote that he has heen surrounded by workmen re­ model mg her home, a l l the time wishing. he could be on the North Shore of Boston ( with me ) , swim­ m ing in the ocean and eating fried c lams. ( Well, l swam in the ocean in Maine one unday and had no c lam .) Elaine' mo t important news i Alexandra Elaine, hernew granddaughter. Elaine ays her life revolve mo tly around mu ic. Her husband, teve, is chairman of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1 99 3, the philharmonic's l SOth anniver ary, they toured with the orche tra to major European c it­ ies. he also ing with the We t­ che ter Choral Society and serves on the board of a music school in car dale. Elaine's other major involvement i- with Colby, where erving on the Board of Tru tees gets her bac k to the campus regularly . . . . Nan Murray las­ bury sent word from Florida that he and Chase pent the ummer in Camden, Maine, settling their new home. They plan to spend six months there and six in Florida. During the ummer they attended Chase's 4Sth prep school reunion and spent two night with hirley and Nick Sarris at Cape Cod. N ic k and Chase were classmate at Tabor A c ademy. N a n and Chase planned to return to Maine i n October for a visit to Colby and a parent weekend at New En­ gland College, where their young­ e t daughter is studying. A note from Ed Fraktman tells u that the arrises "are leading the l ife of R iley. They pend six weeks every summer at their family home on the Greek I land of Lesbos. The re t of the time is spent in Dover, Mass., writing h is famous Xmas epistle and driving Shirley crazy. George Pirie has retired from den­ tal practice at the University of Georgia and pends his leisure time at his home i n Hawa i i , surfing, playing golf and tennis and riding hi motorcycle. Colette, his wife, says some guys never grow up. Lou (The Guzz) Ferraguzzi and his wife, Pat, traveled to I taly this past summer to discover his 'roots.' A l l Lou found wa old IOU's from h is buddies at the Phi Delt House.

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In reality, they had a marvelous time vi iting Rome, Venice and Naples." . . . I am still working and enjoying home ownership, except when things fall apart, and love having the grandchildren now and then. My father used to say, "Glad to ee you come, glad to see you go." I did get to Moosehead Lake with Hilary and Serge (grandkids) to visit with my on, Richard, who took us on a tour of the lake. That turned out to be "hairy" as the wind and rains came and the mo­ tor conked out, but we made it, and the children loved every minute of the ordeal. Also, I was treated to a tour of the Maine Maritime Museum by my daugh­ ter- in- law, a volunteer at the museum, and son, Peter, in Sep­ tember. . . . Thank for keeping in touch, even though I have to prod a little. Thank , too, to Nelson Beveridge, who treated Carolyn English Caci and me to dinner at a Bug-A-Boo restaurant in Au­ gust just to talk over the finer points of news retrieving. +

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magazine named Bruce Cars­ well '5 1 Human Resource Ex­ ecutive of the Year for his 37 years of service to GTE. He has been the senior vice president of human resources and admin­ istration for GTE since 1 98 1 . . . . Along w ith Bill Millett '34, Ted Shiro '5 1 and John Jabar Bruce Carswell 'S J '52 were induc ted into the Waterville Boy and G irls Club Inspirational Hall of Fame at the end of October . . . . Philip Hussey Jr. '53 wa appointed to the board of directors of the National As ociation of Manufacturers . . . . As reported in The Boston G lobe, Lee Fernandez ' 5 5 ha been volunteering his service in the restoration of the Bo ton Opera House since last ummer. The project, which has ju t moved through the "pre­ Phase I" renovation stages, is expected to cost $5 million and will receive partial sponsorship in grants from Action for Boston Community Development . . . . K. Dino Sirakides '55 represented Colby at the inauguration of Bryant L. Cureton as president of Elmhur t College.

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As clas correspondent for the next five year , we should get a steady flow of news from the question­ naires that will be sent from the Alumni Office to one fifth of the class at a time. The first group has been sent, but unfortunately we have received no responses. Do write and keep us informed ofyour activities. Rather than have a blank '54 column, we decided to make a few phone calls to class­ mates. Bill "Super" Ganem and his wife live in Plymouth, Mas . , where h e has owned a tool rental business for many years. They have four grown children. One son works with him in the family busi­ ness, and a daughter is working in a bank while attending law school. "Super" has contemplated retire­ ment, but not just yet. He was planning a get-together with Bob Fraser, Bob " Ace" Parker and Ed Fraktman '53 . . . . Dick Beatty and his wife, who live in King of Prussia, Pa. , have five grown chil­ dren and� ven grandchildren, the oldest being 1 5 . After Colby, Dick spent many year teaching in Rockland, Mass. He then changed

Deaths : Ernest T. Bernier '50 in Waterville, Maine, at 8 1 . . . . William B. Riordan Jr. '53 in New York, Stutts '55 in New Haven, Conn., at 60.

to a sales career and is now in the mortgage end of real estate. His family is in good health, and at this time he is not ready for retire­ ment. Dick talks with "Super" occasionally but has not been back to Colby ince the mid-'60s. . . . Nate '55 and Winnie Robertson Miller would have enjoyed com­ ing toour 40th reunion, but gradu­ ation and weddings interfered. In Mt. Kisco, N.Y., for the past 1 5 year , Winnie has supervised the customer service department of a company that sells screen print­ ing upplies. Before that she says she "took on a new career each time we moved." After earning a master's degree in finance, Nate worked for General M ills and later for their newly formed apparel di­ vision. Winnie is not yet ready to retire, but Nate has numerous in­ terests and hobbies, so retirement, which he plans for next J une, should be a busy time. Both of their children are married: Katie and her husband are social work­ ers in child protection, and she is completing her master's degree;

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Scott graduated from culinary school and is living in Bremerton, Wash., while his wife is a medical school intern at the naval base. . . . Al Trumpet, who lives in Teaneck, N .J . , is married and has three children. After leav ing Colby, he attended accounting school and Hunter College. H is first job was with Lehman Bros. on Wall Street. For the last 2 9 years h e has worked for IBM a s an accounting manager. He retired two years ago and loves it. Al spoke with Gene Floyd before and after our reunion. He hasn't seen Colby classmates but did see Roger Montgomery '53 several years ago . . . . Mary Belden Wil­ liams and her husband, Gordon, l ive in North Hatfield, Mass. They couldn't make our 40th because it conflicted with his 50th high school reunion. Their old­ e t son, Darryl, now manages the family farm, but Gordon contin­ ues to work long hours. They have four children and seven grandchildren w ith two more expec ted next spring. The i r

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Slowly but surely I am sending questionnaires out to our class. The questionnaire is dated August 1 994, but many of you won't re­ ceive it until much later. I have tried personal izing the form and have already received enough re­ sponses to put together a column for this issue of Colby. In the meantime the Alumni Office is trying a new approach to the cor­ respon d e n t syste m . B e s i d e s changing the format, t h e office will now automatically send out a questionnaire designed by the class correspondent to a fifth of the c lass appro x i mately one month before each of the column deadlines. As I had already sent out my own questionnaire to ev­ eryone, I will bypass this new sys­ tem for now . J ust keep those replies corning! . . . Burt Angrist, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical School. He, his wife, Anka, and daughter Laurel, 14, l ive in Man­ hattan near the hospital and school. He does not consider him­ self retired. In his spare time he does "outdoor stuff," espec ially rock climbing. I n the pa t year his daughter has gotten good at this, too. They also go canoe camping, hiking and snorkeling on vacations. Burt has continued friendships with Doug Miller and Pete Vlachos, and maybe we can hear fro m t h e m . . . . R o b i n H u n t e r C l u t z w r i t e s fro m Williamstown, Mass., where she is a business manager for a real estate firm and her husband, Ri­ chard, is a general surgeon. Their son, Andrew, is married and has provided the first grandchild, Abigail, born March 3, 1 994. Daughter Susannah is a ski coach in Park City, U tah, and econd daughter Caroline has one more

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semester at M idd lebury Col lege. Robin 'ees Cyndi Gardner Bevin ( their first grandc h i ldren are only two weeks apart ) . The Cl utze have bought a mall house in New Hampshire, where they have run i n to Carolyn ( Webster '60 ) and Ted Lockhart '6 1 at the gro­ cery store. Robin has al o recently taken up painting . . . . Our former correspondent, Marietta Pane, has ret ired from the N avy and is now teach i ng Eng l i sh aml pol i t i ­ c a l sc ience at South Seattle Com­ m u n i ty Col leg . In her spare time she doe ome "our-of-control" garden ing. But she must be much better than he lets on. As a board member of the Seattle H isrorical oc iety, M arietta i doing rhe land caping for the last log house stand i ng at the b i rr hs i re of Se­ attle. She has no more space to dig hole i n her own garden, so she has branched out i n to this marvelous project. All the plants w i l l be native to the place and time of rhe landing, o the "chal­ lenge i nor only good design but a lso a u t he n t i c i ty . " . . . Marcia Griggs Atsaves and l keep in pretty c l o e contac t . We have v i s i ted Marci a and her husband , Mario, several t imes ar their V i r­ g i n i a home. They al o have a beach condo at Bethany Beach, Del . , where they pend j ust about every weekend they can, weather permitt ing. I t's a wonderful place to relax and unwind from the stress and strain ofru n n i ng a busi­ ness i n Wash ington, D.C. Marcia and Mario have two married sons, and both sons have added grand­ daughters to the fam ily. Son A lex and his w i fe and daughter, Erin, l ive near Marc ia, and A lex works i n the fam i l y busines . Son A n ­ drew l i ved i n Califo rnia w i t h h is w i fe and daughter, Caro l i ne, who was born this pa t May. By now Andrew's job has taken him to Mexico C i ty, and he and h is fam­ i l y have moved to a wonderful home there for a few years . . . . Last J u ly , Harry and Joan Shaw Whitaker moved from New­ ton, Mas . , to Las Vegas, where they can enjoy 360 degrees of mountain views. They have both retired but are sti l l looking for work-"we're tooyoungtoretire." Harry and Joan have one daugh­ ter, Mary Beth Mcintyre '82, who

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has one daughterofherown, Kelly Devin. Joan writes that he and Harry "made the big move and truly love the desert, mou ntains and c l imate." If anyone is in the vicinity, they would love to sec you and give you a tour of the ight away from the "strip." . . . I hope your new year is heal thy and happy and fu ll of resolutions to amwerquestionnaire from Colby. A lso, give ome serious thought to the requc�ts you receive regard ing the A l umni Fund. +

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At this wri t i ng, Marty and l are rreparing fe­ verish ly f or a wonder­ fu l t r i p to I ta l y to v i s i t o u r daughter, w h o i; 'pending t h e fa l l semc t e r there . She ' l l he our official gu ide m Venice, the three of us w i l l explore Florence to­ gether, then Marty and I w i l l move o n to Rome when Beth returns to school. Young people

t o d a y h a v e s u c h w o n d e r fu l opport u n i t ie . . . it's only righ t that we oldsters shou ld tag along for at least part of the ride ! . . . In mo ta pect of l ife, the old adage "No news is good news" is appro­ priate. I n the case of a class cor­ respon d e n t who n e ver hears from anyone, however, no news is defi n i tely bad news. So, how about bringing joy to your corre­ spondent' heart by wri ting of the events i n your l i fe that you'd I ike to share w i th your c l assmates. l look fo rward to your letters! +

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The reunion commit­ tee of our class spent a September Saturday seriously planning our 3 5 th re­ union. Can you believe it is com­ ing up--so soon ? Class president Russ Zych was well organized and soon had the rest of us tossing around ideas to make this reunion a delightful one for all the varied interests in our class. Rus came from Caldwell, N .J . , for the meet­ ing and used the skills he has honed as woolen sales manager for all of Forstmann & Co. in New York. ( He explained that in addition to the familiar clothing fabrics his company manufactures, Forst­ mann also makes most of the fab­ rics for billiard tables.) Also from New Jersey wa Bev Jackson Glockler, who arranged to be away from her volunteer du ties as a para­ medic for her community, which completely depend upon her do­ nated time and efforts. Carolyn Webster Lockhart came from New London, N .H., where she and Ted '61 have serried after Ted retired from the Navy. Ted is now consulting, so they may stay there for a while, which w ill be quite a change from the number of moves they have done in the past few

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years. J udy Ingram Hatfield also joined us from New Hampshire, bringing experience both from ours and also from Doug's, her husband' , Class of '58 reunions. Jerry Goldberg came from Maine. It was decided that his legal mind will be great for planning the cla s dinner on Saturday night. And because Ja n e Holden H uerta came the shortest distance---only five minutes away-she seems to have raken on the most work and is our main coordinator for the events of the reunion weekend. She welcomes anyone who would like to work with her on these various functions. We are also planning a couple of"pre-reunion" days at the Samoset I n n i n Rockport, Maine. Activities a t this beautiful location could include golf, tennis, hiking, a nature trip, dancing, good food and more. This may be a perfect way to have a great vacation. And the reunion should have something for each of us, since the group spent a lot of time brain-storming how best to have a variety of interesting and fun programs to provide some­ thing for everyone. Remember the dates-June 8- 1 1 , 1 995. Plan to + be there! Correspondent: Penny Dietz Sullivan

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Those of you who quick ly answer�d your . quesuonna1res m Sep­ tember saved me from a "no news" situation. First to arrive was from Bebe Clark Mutz, whom we had seen j ust a few months ago when Carolyn (Webster '60 ) and Ted Lockhart were visiting and we all got together. Since Bebe works at the DAR Library, known as a great source for genealogical data, she has discovered that she and Ted are related about nine or ten generations back. She now serve as director of technical services.

Bebe and her husband, Dale, have "downsized," trading in theirfive­ bedroom family homestead for a big three-bedroom town home. As I write this, she j ust passed through Bosron, where she spent an evening with Jim and Nancy Tozier Knox, trying ro cram two years ofnews into two hours. That next morning, Nancy and J im's 1 1 th grandchild was born, bring­ ing to seven the number of them under the age of 4. They all l ive nearby, so they get plenty of babysitting duty and love it ! They dream of a retirement where they can drive an RV across the coun­ try and spend summers in Maine and winters in Florida. Next, Bebe was planning to visit J udy Dupras Stanford '62 on her way to see her son Glenn and his family in West Chesterfield, N. H. She wou Id like to know what Sally Thompson S o l a r i , F r e d S e a r s and B i l l Christie ' 6 2 are u p to. Nancy would also like to hear what Sally is up to, as well as knowing about John Maguire 's whereabouts. So, Sally . . . please write! . . . Lee Holcombe Millike n writes from Carlisle, Mass., that she is becom­ ing more political, especially in town affairs. Her kids have settled in interesting locations that have obviously affected her. She says that her trip to China with son Peter, who works in Beijing, made her a believer in Pro Choice phi­ losophy and practice: "Best thing l ever did was march in Washing­ ton, D.C." Her oldest, Andy, teaches in Jakarta International School. She keeps up with both of them via e-mail. She saw Claire Lyons at the wedding of Bonnie McGregor Otis' daughter Anne a year ago. . . . Liz (Rowe '63 ) and Bev Lapham spent the last year fitting out a 1 2 ,000-square-foot building they bought at auction for the business, building a new dream home ( they hope their last) and renting out their old two­ family hou e to two new tenants.

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then o n t o N e w London, N . H . , to vi it Carolyn and Ted Lockhart. We had a great time with them, and l would love to retire there, but that �eems a long way away. If any of you attended the Na­ tional A sociat ion of Realtors show in Anaheim in early No­ vember, you w i l l have seen us (Open Systems As ociares) in­ troducing our next generation MLS replacement product called "The GURU Realty Network." Launching a software product is a more than full-rime job. Write soon with your news . . . or fax it to 7 0 3 - 7 58-6709, or e-mail to + penny@opnsy .com.

NEWSMAKERS Peter Henderson '60 was named assi tant vice pre i­ dent of university relations at FaulknerUniversity in Mont­ gomery, A la . . . . The Kings­ wood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Con n . , rec e n r l y named J o h n A . T . Wilson '60 to its board of trustees . . . . In­ terviewed by the Vineyard Gazette about her experience Mary Ballantyne Gentle ' 6 2 as a F u l b r i g h t e x ch an g e teacher in Cellardyke, Scotland, Mary Ballantyne Gentle '62 said that the chool, with its few resource , gave her a new perspective toward education. "You walk the walk and talk the talk," she said . "lt changes tbeper on who return home." . . . In an effort to help al leviate the crowded court sy tern , attorney Malcolm F. Maclean Ill '62 volunteer for the Essex ( M ass. ) County Bar Association, which runs an alternative di pute re olution service to consolidate and mediate cases. H e was profiled i n the Danvers Herald. . . . Paul Pineo '63 recently left partner hip at Hallenback, Lascell & Pineo to join the corporate and tax departments in the law firm f H arris Beach & Wilcox in Rochester, N .Y . . . . Doris Kearns Goodwin '64, in recounting the impact of personal ity on FDR's pre idency in her recently publi hed No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, parallel H i l lary Rodham C l inton with Eleanor Roo eve lt. When Mrs. Clinton heard her discu ion on a radi talk how, she called to talk to Goodwin personally about the imilaritie . The book ha earned enthu ia tic reviews in The New York Times and elsewhere . . . . The Central Maine Morning Sentinel reported on a new financial advice business, Money Management, launched i n Waterv i l le, Maine, by William Cottle Jr. '65: geared to assist people with their personal finance , the company"doe n't sell anything except advice." . . . The Rev. Peter B. Ives '65, pastor of The Fir t Churches of Northampton, Mass., was profiled in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on eptember 2 . . . . David Cutler '65 started Poinrs South Magazine, a new re­ gional publication for outh hore Ma achu etts.

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Leonard W. Waxdeck '63 in Berkeley, Calif., at 66.

Kept them busy! Bev and his son, Bev l l l , are partners in their busi­ ness, V i llage Canvas, in Mere­ dith , N . H . H e plans to work, he writes, until his son "throws him out-then he can pay me to stay away! " Bev would l ike to know where Fred White is and what he is doing . . . . Thor '59 and Willie deKadt Juhlin are enjoying their empty nest. Their daughter, J ill, just got married. W i l l ie says, " I think launching a rocketship is

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easier! But it was a 'great happen­ ing."' They went to Thor's 3 5th reunion in June and had a won­ derful time. Willie had forgotten how beautiful Colby is, especially after touring other campu es their kids attended. She is looking for­ ward to our 3 5th, which is sneak­ ing up on us! . . . Well , guys, that is all the news I have, so I hope there is more on the way or the nextcolumn will beon ly my news. Paul and I did get to Boston and

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It i autumn as I write t is column, b � r by the time you re d it wmter will be in full wing. For the pre enr l am enjoying the bri l­ liant colors and the relatively "balmy" weather. . . . There was a bit of a mixup in the mail ing of the questionnaires this time, but I have heard from a stalwart few and shall relay the news. Adele Ackley Pluta and her husband, Joseph, both work for Uni ys Corp. in McLean, Va., near their home in Vienna. They have two sons, Mark, 28, and Joel, 24. Adele, I agree that an imminent retirement would be welcome . . . . Betsy Doe Norwat writes from Lake Winnebago, Mo., where she is a Spanish teacher. While visit­ ing Washburn University in To­ p e k a l ast s u m m e r w i th h e r husband, Donald, and her son, John, who starred school there in the fall, they saw Ruth Pratley Madell. Ruthie's son-in-law was exhibiting pottery at an art fair they attended . S m a l l world, indeed . . . . Business continues to grow at the Thomas Travel Ser­ v ice in Doylestown, Pa. Tom Thomas wishes he were traveling more and working less. He has, however, just returned from the "new" South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe and finds South Africa especially impre sive. Patti (Raymond '65) and Tom's son, Bob '88, and Carrie O'Brien '88 married August 6. To quote a quote, "a Colby couple begets a Colby couple." . . . June

'94 Colby Brick recipient Pen Williamson sti ll loves his job at Outward Bound after 2 I year . He and his wife, Beverly, live in War­ ren, Maine, where she is a school reacher. In June of '9 3 Pen com­ pleted a trans-Atlantic sail and w i shes o n l y to do it aga i n ! . . . Restauranreurs Gayle and Byron Petrakis l ive in Kingston, N . H . Other members of their household include Cassandra, a senior at UNH, and Jason, a high school freshman. Byron is proud of hi "marathon marriage" of 27 years and his marathon running. Sounds like he has a marathon life! . . . From neighboring Can­ ada "Sam" Moulton Burridge invite visitors to get in touch. She and her husband, Trevor, who i a professor at the U de Monrreal , live in Montreal, where am is a teacher of elementary French and music. Do visit soon, if you wish to ee her Victorian home. Like many of us, she is wi hing for things more simple. . . . Bill and 1 traveled in the Pa­ cific Northwest this August and loved the wilderness, the moun­ tains, the water and the islands of Washington stare. On Whidbey Island we visited Betty Johnston Rayle and her husband, Frank, in their beautiful beachfronr home, in which are displayed many of Berty's paintings. She is a very talented lady, nor to mention a gracious hostess. Thanks, all, for your new . Your continued corre­ spondence helps keep this col­ + umn interesting.

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I hope you all caught Doris Kearns Good­ win singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on Ken Burns's PBS special Baseball. I f not, I urge you t o watch for it in reruns; she's in the seventh or eighth inning. Seriously, the se­ ries was a real treat for us baseball lovers. What with the strike and all, I'd forgotten how much ! loved the game until I watched Bums's compi la t ion. Except for some former players in the women's league, Doris and Jackie Robin­ son's widow were the only two female interviews, and both added immeasurably to the overview. I

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ive me one w i lderness or the other," said Phyll is J a lbert '67 , who l ives i n N ew York City but spends her ummers oper­ ating the Willard Jalbert Camps in the A llagash Wil­ derness Waterway ofnorth­ ern Maine. "What the A l l agash does for me is gives me peace and t ra nq u i l l i t y , " said J albert, w h o is o n e of 81 women among the 1 ,979 active regis tered M a i n e Gu ides. " Bu t N e w York City . . . I could never get enough of it. Wanderlust doe n't have to be j u t about nature ." " I d idn't l ike livi ng in the suburbs at all," recalled J albert, who e first j ob out of college was teaching French and German on Long Island. "I j ust hated it. " J albert i co-owner of the Brooklyn real estate firm Whitaker, Brooke & Harrison, which she founded in the early 1 970s. The business is named for Whi taker Brook, which feeds the A liaga h River. She see the real estate business as not only selling, ren ting and managing buildings but renovating them as we ll. Her home i n Boerum, N . Y . , is an 1 847 brownstone recently placed on the N ational H istoric Register. Fifteen years ago J albert bought the rundown building and restored i t to classic condi t ion. " I enjoy being out on the j ob more than sitting behind a desk," said Jalbert, who has renovated over 40 build ings. " I t is very rewarding to have a build ing that's completely de­ stroyed and revitalize it, bring it back to life." J albert's other love is the Willard Jalbert Camps, situated on Round Pond along the A l l agash River on the western border abutti ng Quebec . Her grandfather, Willard J albert Sr., built the camps that bear his name in the 1 940s as a sportsmen's haven. Jalbert took over the family business in 1 986. Her fam i ly is one of a few allowed to have a private camp in the w ilderness waterway, an unincorporated area

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accessible only by sea plane or canoe. J a lbert , who grew up in Fort Kent, Ma ine, along the Al lagash, is an experi ­ enced and accompl ished canoei t. She has navi­ gated the lower canyons of the Rio Grande, a well as the Salmon, Machias, St. J oh n , Bonaventure and Dead rivers. She spent her c h i ld ­ hood s u m m e r s a t h e r grandfather's c a m p and every October did what vir­ tually every other student who lived in Aroostook County did-picked potatoe . She hadn't real ly considered college until a family friend' daughter talked about how much she l iked Colby. "During my admi ions interview I talked all about the Allagash," recalled Jalbert , one of the first members of her family to go to col lege . "I think i t's what got me in." he say the other Colby students were much more worldly and sophisticated, but he did her best to fit in. One major difference, she say , was that all her classmates dressed alike whi le she wore what now would be considered " L L . Bean conservative." J albert , who was a French major with a German minor, worked as a waitress at the dowtown Waterville bar The Chez, wai ted on tables in the din ing halls and worked "among the stacks" at the library to help pay for col lege. She also played clarinet in the band and was a member of the G lee Club-an activity he say somewhat satisfied her chi ldhood dream of being on stage. "My l ife j ust sort of evolved," said Jalbert. "I never did any long-range planning. I t j u t happened." She says she sees no contradiction between her dual lives in N ew York and the M aine woods. "I have real ties to Maine and espec ially the Allagash," she said. "You'd have to be a hermit to l ive along the A llagash, but that doesn't mean you can't love the w ilderness."

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had n ' t rc<1 kcJ hnw malc-Jn m i ­ n a r c d the ,11ort \l°<l' f or al mn't a l l

fou nd a rcq ue't from H a rry

o f i t ' h i,tory . . . . J oan McG ee

i t i nerary through his Tw,can hdb,

this gathcrmg, Lee Potter was to

Vermont M i l i tary Academy. I n

A mes wrnte after t h e reuni on

ard inia, Cm,ica and rhe French/

that our >0th \\'a' j u't a warmur

l ra l 1an R i v iera area,. Harry ha-, been living in Radda- 1n-Chian t i ,

juin u�. Mnre l l l fol low ahout thh even t a' l will at tend with note­ holik in hand . . . . I received a

amwer t o what he'd brag about­ h is k i ds, of c o u r>e . . . . Jerry

for her: "I !<:ft the cu l l ege Sunday morning and met two Un iver-,ity

nf Maine M . L . S . '7 3 fr1enJ, fur l u n c h , then went on tll B l u e H i l l

a n d Stevens Academy, where I was ' meJ ia spec i a l bt ' frnm 1 9 7 3 to 1 97 5 before moving to New H;1mp5h ire. N i ne teen year-, later l J i ,ClWereJ i t wm poos 1 b l e to gn home aga i n as there wa� st i II a handfu l of teacher, on the fac­ u l ty from tho,e gnud old day . My tec h n ical aide ( no\\' retired ) and many fnendo st i l l live in row n , and I w a ' able to s e c m a n y o f t hem a lso. T h e fin a l re uni on and a rea l high! ight was having l u nch with Karen ( Beganny '6 3 ) and B i l l Bryan '48 i n East Holden. They had at tended the Cl ass of ' 5 9 ac t i v i t i es, but there were j uot too many people there for us to see each other. At their home there were j ust the three of us, and we were able to call up many of the old memories." . . . L e t me h e a r of o t h e r m i n i - reun ion-. Hey, did that M idwestern event m a t e r i a l i z e out i n W i s c o n s i n + and I l l inois?

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Richard W. Bankart GOAL

! . . . Some

take a l i fe time t o ac­ compli h . Fred Wetzel has now cros ed off "c l i mb M r . Karahdin." He a n d h is wife, Hope ue ( J a h n ' 6 8 ) , and cou in Hesselbach '9 7 accomplished this last August. He wrote, "K was a good piece of work . . . we knifeedged i t and all . . . ome many years after graduation and pretty beat by the end. l recommend it h ig h l y before we have to be wheeled up." Another goal Fred is working on is "get a Ph. D." He's in h is last year of cour e work in education at U N H and plan

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dissertation " l ikely to be on differ­ ences i n learn ing across gender." Fred works for The College Board, organ izing train ing for teachers in New England in support of the Advanced P lacement Program. . . . On my return from a holiday i n Finland--dest i na t ion #52 on m y goal to "see the world"-!

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Marshall for a cory

of

Graff and Dave Aronson. To mnderalc the heavy DU flavor of

my '9 1

I t<il y, n e a r Florence f or ,evcr;1 I year' ;rnd is p l a n n i n g to tour Cnr,ica and S;irdi n ia . . . . Art Sills h;1� a new wife, arnh Deflhll'>, . i n d a n e w addn:s in C::imhndge, Mas, . , where he continue-. ;1:, ,i physirnl cdu anon reacher at the am hndge FrienJs Sc hno l . . . Susan McGinley i, a frl'ehmce theater d i rector teacher anJ i� dumg a lot of frce Lmcc wri tmg. Ba:,ed in Em,t HnlJcn. Maine, she i;, the uwner/,1perarnr of Theatre Prod uct ions U n l i m ited . Twenty year ago usan en-founded the Open Door Th <H e r of Boston. � he enc losed an eye-popping day­ glo flier for their AugLn produc­ t ion, "Huw the Zodiac ame to Be ," wh ich ;,he Jirccted. usan is a l o chair of a comm i t tee that ha; raised $ 1 5,000 :.o far in their plan to restmc an 1 8 3 0 rire organ. For fun he enjoy her dog; anJ flower garden . . . . Jay G ronlund and fa m i l y enjoyed a u m mer hol iJay vis i t i ng relat i ves in Norway, we­ den and Estonia. J ay ha;, a N ew York ity-based consult ing prac­ t ice that often in\'olve i n terna­ t i o n a l bu i n e re e a r c h and evaluat ions. Thus, he has contin­ uing contact with George Hooker in Bangkok, Tha iland. Jay report that George' company merged m pring of '94 and i:, now called Brooker Group Ltd . , a 52-per on consulting resource in indu trial market research. publ ishing and environmental matter . . . . What are you doing1 Return the ques­ tionnaire ! Our 30th is on ly five months away. Use the weekend of J une - 1 1 to ach ieve your goal of "return to Mayflower H i l l . " H a i l , + Colby, H a i l !

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Robert Gracia The other day I talked with Eric Rosen about his stirring up of a

sma l l gathering of classmates at t h e T u ft s fo o t ba l l g a m e i n

nl·w-.y lcttl'r from Ed "Woody" Berube thm deserves to he re­

prinreJ m i h en t i rct y : "Dear c la:.s­ matcs, I regret not mak i ng the 2 5 th reun ion. It\ hard ro imagine

how people cope with large fa m1l 1 c-;. J have only one daughter, 1 4 . It 1s unbel 1c\'able the amount of time it rakes to he involved in CO<Kh ing girls ,nfthall and a l l -:.tar tournamento. Then there i the u U<ll 'warranry' repair to my ag­ mg hody ( shoulder 'urg ry 1s the next i tem u p ) , plus the numerous med ical ,md phys ical prohlems req uiring doctor's vi i ts, therapy, etc., for Breanne. I tell you, all you mult iple-child fa md ieo, my hat goe off to you. Anyway, l i fe at .Y., Xerox Corp. in Roche ter, goes on in -.plte of ma1or cutbacks going on a l l around me . . . . I was mduc tcd into my h igh chool ( Durfee of Fa l l R iver, Ma .) ath­ letic hall of fame last year. That wa:, the good new ! The bad new, i you have to be out of h igh school 30 years ro qual ify, peri h the thought! Anyway, my late t g i m m ick to reach back and think young aga in i my M i t ubi h i 3000 G 7 ·ports car. My daughter even gave me a van ity plate, ' L VRBLIT,' to boot. 111e truth is ;,he miked me inro it with inrent on driving in two year·. Fina l ly, I 'd l i k e to end a 2 5 -year overdue + hello ro 'BZ . ' "

Corresponden t : Mary Jo Calabrese Baur

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Much new ro report thi- time. Betty Sa­

vicki Carvellas had a busy summer. he taught a two­ week course to Vermont h igh schooler on the ubject of Lake Champlain and also attended a San Franci co conference, "Ac­ ces Excellence- u m m i t '94," where each teacher received a laptop computer and printer cou rtesy ofGenentech. Unfortunately her husband, John '66, was hit by a car while b i k i ng some months ago. We certa inly hope he's to­ t a l l y recovered now . . . . Steve CampbeLI, beside hi day j ob, i

Medford. J im Thomas was to drive up from New Jersey for the weekend, and Eric put the c a l l out to J im Wilson, J im Bright, Bud

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also chairman of the Morri town, Vt., li brary and a commandant at

Schneider of Carro l to n , G a . , brags about h i s daughter, Remy, 8 , who\ n n t h e honor rol l and the swim team. He w1.,he he w los­ ing weight Jnd exercising more (.,ounds fam i l iar). For four year> he's heen traveling monthly to Wa;hington, D.C. , for Navy Re­ :,erve dri lls, hut as ofOcrober trav­

cb to Pittsburgh monthly tO

erve <!.!> command mg officer for four re­ \erve u n i t. there . . . . In J u l y , Hope Jahn Wetzel, hu band Fred '65 and daughter Lindsey biked from Germany to Belgium and marveled at the age of European town . . . . E l i zabeth ( Be l d i n g '70) and Ken Borchers recent l y celebrated t h e i r 2 5 th wedding a n ­ n i v e r ary. K e n is a pastor in Ply­ .H., and h i wife help mouth, with his mini try, especially with the youth group. He enjoys play­ ing guitar, trumpet and piano and credits the Lord who cares for h i fam i ly and has given them two fantastic daughter , Koren, 2 1 , a senior at Gordon College, and Rachel, 1 5 , a high school sopho­ more, who both carry on Ken's trad i tion of ru n n i ng f r t h e i r chools . . . . R e v . Charlene Mar­ inke Alling has moved from Virginia to Mt. Lebanon, Pa., to serve at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. . . . Rose Buyniski Eriksson and Surah (Sue Toabe) Whelan en­ joyed a brief vi it ( their first [n five year ) together at urah's family camp in New Hamp hire. Ro e reide in Sweden with her spouse, igvard, and their three c h i ldren: N i ls, 20, M agdalena, 1 7 , and Johann, 1 5 . She teaches spoken Engl ish at Sando U - ce n trum. urah lives i n Orono, Maine, with husband Bob and their three chil­ dren: Devlin, 26, hannon, 2 3 , a n d Rose, 1 3. She's a n assistant profe or of human ervices at U n i vers i ty College in Bangor. . I'm sure many will be sad to learn that the historic Grist M i ll Restaurant in Kennebunkport, Maine, owned by Sue Davidson Lombard and her husband, was de troyed by fire. Many will re­ member a wonderful dinner there the Thursday before our 2 5th re­ union. More next time. Thanks + again to all who wrote.

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Correspondents : 1 97 0 Robin Armitage Cote 604 Primrose Court Northfield, MN 5 5 7 5 7 197 1 ancy Hammar Austin 29 Irving Street =5 Worce ter, MA 0 1 609 508- 797-47 1 1 1 972 Janet Holm Gerber 1 1 1 1 2 Broad Green Drive Potomac, MD 20854 30 1 - 299-6240 1973 Margaret McPartland Bean 1 3 1 Dudley Street Presque Isle, ME 04769- 29 1 3 207- 7 68-602 1 1 974 Shelley Bieringer Rau 1 2 3 Hotel Road Auburn, ME 042 1 0 207 -783-0829 1 97 5 Susan Gearhart Wuest 65 Country Downs Circle Fairport, N Y 1 4450 7 1 6- 2 2 3 - 1 967 1 976 Noel Barry Stella 2 8 Stuart Place Westfield, MA 0 1 085 4 1 3 -562-5629 1977 Leslie A. Ramsay 44 Appleton Street Manchester, NH 03 1 04 603 -647-87 1 2 1 978 Nicholas Levintow 1020 1 Fore t Grove Drive Silver Spring, M D 20902-3949 30 1 -68 1 - 3 3 2 7

1 979 Robert Kinney 29 1 1 Edgehill Drive Alexandria, VA 2 2 302-2 5 2 1 703-836-4 2 2 7

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Nancy Hammar Austin

l'm dedicating rhi col­ umn to the Women of the Class of ' 7 1 (prob­ ably because I'm racing on the Wicked Women of Wachusecc

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Robin Armitage Cote

"Twenty-fiveyearsand till kicking 1 " is the re­ union theme selected by the 2 5 th reunion planning committee at their meeting in Welle ley on ovember 14. Re­ union p Ian are taking shape, and a m morable weekend is in tore for all. . . . Joan Katz and Debbie Hawk Kelley discussed the en­ tertainment program and would welcome any pictures or slides from our year at Colby that you could contribute to a slide show (send to Joan at 1 496 Common­ wealth Avenue, ewton, MA 02 1 6 5 ) . . . . Andy Hayashi flew down from Ontario to help us as emble a networking database so that we can contact all of you and personally invite you to come back to Colby for our 2 5 th . . . . Chip Lord came in from Virginia to bring his idea for our reunion logo to the meeting . . . . Plans are afoot for a reunion t-shirt for us to wear during the parade of cla es. . . . Please re pond to the reque t for a page about yourself for the 2 5th reunion class book. It won't be complete without you . . . . For more information about the 2 5 th reunion, contact Debbie Wil­ liams Anderson at 9 5 Hillside Avenue, Melrose, MA 02 1 76; phone 6 1 7 -662 -9490 . . . . We hope to hear from you-let us know that you're coming to re­ + union.

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ski ream and was interested in reviewing some of our achieve­ ment·, e pec ially since we at­ tended Colby before thing like women' studies were invented! ). Most of the information comes from the Colby fi !es about women who have not been included in the column before; if it' obsolete or incorrect, please let us know so that we make the appropriate corrections . . . . Carolyn Additon Anthony is director of the Skokie Public Library in Skok ie, I l l . Deborah Nelson Averill i a li­ brarian with the Bangor, Maine, chool ystem. Also in the Bangor area are Susan Morrissey, a re­ porter for the Bangor Daily News, and Priscilla Leighton Haley and Nancy Gaston Foreman, both social workers. A n ne Wetherill Bialobrzeski owns Stockton Ser­ vices, a land surveying company in Hampton, N .H. Georgianna Bishop is director of human reources development for the EPA in Boston. Judith White Brennan is a registered nurse in Middleton, Conn. Sandy Hutcheson Buck owns Buck Mountain Stenc iling at Maple Comer in Calais, Vt. Kathy Libby Castonguay runs Musikgarden Studio, teaching piano, harpsicord and organ in Falmouth, Maine. Carol A n n Lager Clark is a medical secre­ tary in Pensacola, Fla . . . . Karen Christinat i a Spanish reacher for the Freehold Regional H District in Engl ishtown N .J . Other teachers include Andrea Solomon in Forest Hills, N .Y . ; Sandra Smith Salmi in Derry, N . H . ; Maria n n a O c h s Esta­ brooke at SAD#-3 5 in South

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Berwick, Maine J ud ith Ann Lyle Rethlefsen in Winona, Minn.; Sandra Rau Ferrari in Windsor Locks, Conn.; and Linda Chester in Leominster, Mass . . . . Linda Cotton is assistant director of fam­ i ly daycare in the Office for Ch il­ dren in Boston. Macy Delong 1, director of the Cambridge Furni­ ture Bank at the Multi-Services Center in Cambridge, Mass. Kathy O'Donnell DiNisco is the director of O'Donnell Interna­ tional Marketing at the Carriage House, Newbury, Mass. Terry Boyle Falsani is a writer for John Fochs's firm, Fochs & Associates Advertising, in Duluth, Minn. Bonnie Belanger Gauthier i vice pre ident of the Hebrew Home and Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Sara Orton Glickman i an ar­ chitectural hi torian in Georgia. Pat Kress Greer is a contracts administrator at M I T . Nancy Henning is a real estate associate in Newport, R . I . Gail Robinson Hyland is a research supervisor for the L . A . Times. Pam Ryan works at the Dougla Tile Co. in Portland, Maine. Deb Shallcross i a judge with the 1 4th J udicial District in Tulsa, Okla. Johanna Talbot is the Chri tian c ience Fund secretary in Cambridge, Mass. Cindy Quinn i an activiry therapi t with Kent Counry Adult Daycare, Chestertown , M d . Leslie Anderson has a new j ob as marketing communications man­ ager for Wildfire, a sofrware com­ pany in Lexington, Mass . . Several women from our class have found their way to Califor­ nia-Linda Wallace is the inter­ national operations manager for File Net Corp. in Costa Me a; Barbara Waters is a ma sage therapist in Davis; J il l Fernald is a psychiatric soc ial worker in Orinda; and Kathy Severson Menteer is a freelance produc­ tion coordinator in Woodland Hills . . . . New York state is home to several c lassmates: K a t h y

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Parmelee Fairbanks I' a rrofe,. 'nr t)f

h iochem Nry �ir

the Ne\\'

York M eJ1cal CL1l lcgc 1 11 Valhalla; Shirley Stetson Kessler

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Jent of Moun t::i m ro r Venture�. I n c . , HansJa l e ; J oanne Weddell Magyar i an o r t i c i a n anJ l i ve-. i n LILJyd Harbor; Karla Kava­ naugh is a rartner with Octagon

B u i lder

in G h e n t ; Dr. Beth Marker t s a ss b t a nt director t >f mxic ology in the Offic e of the Ch ief M e d ic a l Examiner 1n New York C i ty; Karen Hoerner Neel l i ves t n Croton-on - H uJson . . Among those who lbt their occ u ­ p ati o n a, hl1memakcr arc Joyce Amero Champi 111 S t m > h u ry , Conn . , Grace Cappannari Elliot

in Madi,L m , Conn., and Leslie Schiller 1 11 Green Bay, Wis . . . . The whereabout> of other mem­ he r · ofo ur cla s: Karen Mahanke,

Newpor t , R . l . ; J ea n n e C ook Klainer, Grafton, Mas . ; Paula

Drozda! , Read in g, M a� , . ; Joann e Gordon S a m p s o n , N o r w a l k ,

Cnnn.; Catherine Green Snow, Penoh<.rnt, M J inc; Faith Tiberio Dough e r t y , N o r t h P la i n fi c l <l ,

N . J . ; I rene Fen l a o n , A n son ,

M a i n e ; Pam Cunningham Jas­ persoh n , JnhtNm, V t . ; Judith

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Your re-.pomc ro my questionnaire wa� ter­ rific-more r h a n 30

-each fu l l of new'>! I t\ fun to get ITI<t i l other than htlb and aJ;. Tim Glidden J r. and w i fe Kath ­ a r ine Lyon l i ve in Top�ham,

Cormier and Pam Wolf parkes, hnt h of W. Har tford, CL1n n . ; and Amanda Fisher Kobkyashi, Ten ­

rec r or o f t h e <1 t u ra l Re;ource Cou nc i l of M a ine . K cith a r in e p, a th e rar 1 ,t. Tim i on the local c hoo] hoarJ, when� he f111J� ha-

rt Nara , Japan. . . An e xc e l l cnc wa y to upd a t e th1-, tnfo r ma t ton would he rn re turn ynu r c h.1>squcv t 1o n a 1re tn me <1' 'oon a-. you re­ ce i ve it. Thanb, JnJ Re Brave . +

Mame, with g1rb orh 1 e , 6, anJ Emma, 8. Tun 1 · 1111w deruty J i ­

ste .,a t 1 foumn a nd fru,tra t 1 o n . H l' 't i l l "col lect," rnc k 'n rnll, W( luld l i ke to he ,,1 i l mg <m>und the world and wou!J nm give up m u c h of wh;it hc\ dot ng n 1w. He asb 1f , t l l oi you are -, r i l l cra"y

( after all these year�) .

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. David

Bailey h a conJuc tor, music

teacher and imtrument repair­ man in Na h u a , . H . Dave has haJ tv. o ongmal composttions anJ fo u r a rra nge me nt p u b l i sh e<l hy Fa ! Is Hnu>e Pres . He loves the flex 1btl ity he has to spend lots of ttme with wife A l i on, a violin­ ist, a nd c h i ldren, Seth, 5, and Emma, 3, anJ he e pec ially en­ joyeJ conJucting Mendelssohn' viol m concerto with Al ison a o l o i r . . . . L e s l i e and P a u l Barresi l i ve in Cape El izabeth, Mame, with Hannah , 4, and Jo­ .,ep h , 2. P au l is an anesthes1olog1st . . . . Alan '7 1 and Kathe M i s c h T u t t m a n w r i t e from An lover, Ma s. Kathe 1s assis­ rnnt DA m E ex County, and A lan is a crim inal Jefen e attor­ ney. Je sica, 1 5, and Andrea, 1 3 ,

Bob Duche ne '75, a DJ for WQCB-FM in Bangor, Maine, was

Cape Cod runner Don Bates '70 has been running even Jays a week for 1 5 years, report· th e Cape Cod Times. Among New Enoland's top master' competi­ tors, he has run 40 marathon· and eight ultras ( each of 50 m i le ) in add i t ion to count less honer race . . . . Marlene Goldman '70 wa promoted to associate profes­ sor in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of James Bubar ' 72 Public Health . . . . At 2 a.m. on October 1 1 , a fire destroyed Waterv1lle's Railroad quare Cin­ ema, the only alternative film theater in the central Maine area. Dr. Jeffrey Lovitz '70, part owner of the building, which al o hou ed the Waterv ille Family Practice doctor ' complex, and Ken Eisen '73 and Gail Chase '74, operators of the cinema, hope to rebui ld, salvaging as much of the original structure a possible. Fund rai ing for the recon truction i underway ( ee page 5 ) . Chase, also pursuing h e r political career, won re-election t o the Maine Hou e of Repre entatives in November. . . . I n La Vega , N ev., Steve Leon '7 1 and hi wife, Barbara, recently opened Sole ii, a design firm offering contemporary furniture. olei l 1 the exclusive distributor of handcarved custom furniture from lndo­ ne ia . . . . In Madison, Wis., James A. Bubar '72 was appointed vice president-chief information officer for TD Telecom, a wholly owned subsid iary of Telephone and Data ystems, Inc . . . . Patricia De Berry Nordstrom '72 recently publ i hed Solve Your Child's Math Problems, a book de igned to help parent a ist their children with the basic math needed before they move on to algebra . . . . The Rev. Stephen M. Kelsey '74 is the new enior minister for the Middlesex Area Cluster Min istry in Connecticut . . . . Donald R. Toussaint '74 joined Fleet Bank of Connecticut in eptember as executive vice president re pon ible for corporate and middle market banking in Fairfield County. . . .

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named 1 994 Country Mu ic A oc1ation Small Market Broadcast Per onality of the Year. . . . Lawrence K. Fleischman '75 repre­ -ented Colby at the inauguration of Arthur Levine as president of Teacher College at Columbia Umver ity . . . . Charle LeRoyer '75 joined Health Connections at Pen Bay Medical Center in RocklanJ , Mame, a a c lmical phy 1cian a istant . . . . Honor Kelley Lewi '7 5 wa ! teen ed as a certified public accountant by the tate of Vermont . . . . Kent Wommack '77, executive director of the Maine chapter of The N ature Conservancy, poke at a gathenng of the Maine cience community held at the College to launch Colby cience mto the 2 1 t cenrury . . . . Nancy Gamett­ Thoma '77 i now an as ·i tant profe sor at John on & Wales Un1ver ity in Providence, R. l . he teache nutmion cour e to cul inary tudents . . . . Jeffrey W. Wheeler '78 was named vice pre ident of the Burlington, Ma ., hranch of Prudential Securities, rhe fourth large t brokerage firm in the country . . . . Gerry Boyle '78 wa awarded third place in the Maine Pres A ociation's 1 994 Better ew paper Conte t for hi local column in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel. . . . M iniature Precision Bearings in Keene, . H . , appointed Gwendol n Boeke Confalone '79 to the position ofprogrammer-analy t. . . . Lee John on '79, a high chool tandout in field hockey, basketball and softball, was inducted into the wamp cott H igh School Hall of Fame at its fir t induction ceremony la t J une. At Colby he al o excelled in ice hockey and went on to play profes ionally for the Massport Jet .

MILEPOSTS Births: A daughter, Rebecca Abigail, to Rob and Maryliz Moynihan Levy '75. Marriages : J a n e t E. Josselyn '77 to John D. Koon in Harwichport,

Mass. . . . Steven Celata '79 to Karen McCarty in Merrimack, . H . . . . G eoffr e y S. Emanuel '79 to Laurie A. Walsh in South Portland, Maine. Deaths: Marshall Barker, M.S.T. '73 in Weymouth, Mas ., at 66. . . . Ursul a Senenky Pascarella '74 in Portland, Maine, at 4 L

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ear of study at clas ical art academie during the 19 Os gave Rebecca Alex '79 the technical tool· to make it as a painter. But only after mastering her craft d id he reali2e what Colby had given her: a palette of idea , the primary color and back­ ground tone for the fla he of inspiration that elevate paint on canva to fine arr . A an Engli h major at Colby in the late 1 9 70s, Alex wanted to be a writer. he recalls tudying literature and symboli ·m with Profe or R. Mark Benbow and Charles Bassett, philo ophy and reli­ gion with Profe or Gustave Todrank, clas ic with Pro­ fessor Peter We rervelt-even trying a beginning arr design cour e that she didn't like. After graduating with distinction in her major in May 1 979 he headed for ew York City and an internship at the Guggenheim Museum. Deciding e wanted to be a mu eum curator, he got a job in her home tate of California at rhe Los Angele County Mu eum of Art working on an inventory of the museum's holding . She al o took up painting. "What I found wa that I was always coming home at night and working on my own art," he remember . Despite her be t efforts to chart a table career in the vi ual arts, working for museum and getting regular paycheck , an urge to create rather than to manage arc got the upper hand. By the fall of 1 980 he wa back in ew York beginning what would turn into six year of study at the Art Students League of New York and the Nat ional Academy School of Fine Arts. Now back in Cal ifornia, Alex combine painting and teaching art in a career that she say is far more succes ful and satisfying because of her early grounding at Colby in literature, mythol­ ogy, philo ophy and religion. She has exhibited widely in California and New York a well as in Maine, M i ouri and Switzerland. Recently she has mounted solo exhibitions at the Bade Mu eum at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and in the an Benito County Art Commission Gallery in Holli ter, and she had paintings in two group exhibitions in Santa Cruz la t year. In 1 993 she earned a master of fine arts degree at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Calif., and has since taught courses there. It wasn't until the M . F.A. program that Alex fully appreci­ ated how her Colby education served her art. "In New York I

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studied almost rure tech­ nique-realism, v isual and optical effec ts," she said. " ! began t o feel, though, that content was really missing from the artwork. I was look­ ing for ·omething more profo u n d . T h a t ' where the liberal arts background k icked in. Ir h e l ped me push the em·elope of my work beyond the technical aspect of visual and optical repre enration." She returned to literature, drawing insp irat ion from poetry and from e say by Erner on and Thoreau. Her own writing refined and clari­ fied ideas that began to show up on her canva e . he describes her more recent work as an attempt to bridge the material and spiritual world through arr. Greater spiritual awareness and self-awarenes are both the source and the re ult of her painting, he ·ay . "After months of painting lilies (some a big as four by four-and-a-half feet) I began to experience on a deeply personal level the Pas ion, Resurrection and Redemp­ tion of Christ," she wrote in an artist' statement about her most recent solo exhibit, Noching Gold Can S eay . Painting in the exhibit al o draw on non-Christian myths and spiritual tradi­ tions from alchemy to Greek and Sufist mythology. A ked how she evaluate her success as an artist, Alex replied, "You do have to make a living." She e timates that a third of her income comes from sales of painting to private collector and the rest from teaching art to children. More important, she say , he feels successful in efforts to continue pushing the conceptual levels in her work and in making her art personal to the point that it becomes universal. She is the founder and teacher of ArtWORKS 1 , an after­ school program at elementary chools in the Bay area. "I love it almost as much as my own work," he said, because, with children, technique is almo t always secondary to creativity. She remains active in the Monterey Bay chapterofThe Women' Caucus for Art, an organization she co-founded to promote women and people of color in the arts. "The art world has been notorious for under-repre enting both groups," she said. I n 1 994, Alex focu ed her work on themes of conception, creation and pregnancy, seeking the universal in the personal: she and her husband, Eric Feuss, were expecting their first child in mid-December. " It's been one of the most fertile periods in my life," she said.

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Even though he has experienced no real c h< mge heing 40-plu>, his daughter, M<irtha, 1 0, thinb her dad i, a l ready "over the h i l l . "

w i n t er g;une;, i n A l her t v i l l e , France, in l 99 2 . "a very spec ial

neglected c h i l d r e n. M a rgaret completed her master' in inter­

experienc e . " Pamela is also very involved in the 80:.ton chapter nf Women in Work] Trade as a

nat ional management with d is­ tinc t ion and teaches economics in her " pare t i me . " he write

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spon · i b i l i ty for Ph il and hi w i fe, M < iry Ekaheth. The ir daughter wa� very i l l , b ur after 1 3 ,urgeries,

their mon thly programs . . . . I re­ cently learned that Pete :.hould he now adJre:, cd rn, Major Peter

and hu band Dick recently cel­ ebrated t h e a r r i v a l of baby

nicat ions in a publ ic h igh schoo l .

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B. Coz, U MC. Last um mer he was transferred to the Wash i ng­

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forming arti t . Cooper, 1 2 , and J u l ia, 9, attend public school and

po ·siblc at their Cape od home. Ph i l i' look ing forw<ird to llur 20th reunion in J u ne . . . . Bill and

:.chool" after many year in sunny

t o find t i m e for t e n n i s and sk i i n g . . . . C a n d a c e B u r n e t t kwes l i v i n g i n N e w York City and teac h i ng Lat i n and commu­

study am with the pros (a con­ cert p ia n ist and J offrey Ballet chool respec t i vel y ) . Candace co l lects-and i trying to get rid of-book. , books, hooks. She wH1es she were wri t i ng her 200th publ ished tory and running a marathon, wi he he weren't run­

Barby Beran Muller are living in Fa l mouth, Maine, where B i l l is general counsel and Barby i com­ puter comu l tant at U

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Port land. Daughter Mol l y, 5 . and on Maynard , 9, arc "truly the

n i ng up her cred i t cards and would

joys of our li ves . . . pmenthond can be a chal lenge , but a mo t

l i ke to know if you are becoming more spiritu a l as the third m i l ­

plea urable one . " For B i l l , the best thing about be ing 40 is st ill

lenn i u m approaches . . . . Attor­

being al ive . . . the wor t i the :,erious scrotal injury he suffered

ney David DiCola write from Providence, R. l . , that he enjoys trave l i ng w i th h is n i eces and nephew . He is very much in­ volved in a neighborhood group dea l i ng with a local col lege to manage student/town problems. He wishes he were traveling in Europe and that he could be rak­ ing advantage of everything avail­ able ! ( Dave would l ike to know what one experience at Colby had the most impact on your l ife . ) . . . Diana ( S u s a n ) Stork is a harpist in Cal i forn ia. Spouse Teed Roc kwell is a musician and phi losopher. Diana, who is on the board of directors of the San Francisco Harp Soc iety and pro­ duce an annual harp fest ival in northern California, is looking for any Colby c h ums in Cal ifor­ n i a and for any who play the harp. She wishes she were not working so hard on the business aspects of the harp festival and t h a t she were m a k i n g more money, but she does love the m u s i c ! . . . I ' m out of space­ + more next time!

. . . Maryliz Moynihan Levy and hu band Rob are now parent of two: on Daniel Benjamin, 4, and daughter Rebecca Abiga i l , born April 1 994. M ary l i z works for NYNEX in product marketing but has stopped be ing a "workaholic" in trying to maintain a hea lthy balance w i th fa m i l y life. The Levys are enjoying the uburban life i n Wel lesley, Mass . . . . grass, trees and space to put up the s w ingset. B e i n g a pare n t for Maryliz is "by far the most re­ markable achievement of my life." She w i l l defi n i te ly be at our 20th reunion . . . she only missed the 1 5 th to get married! . . . Pamela Bradley Burton was married in September 1 993 in G louce ter, Mass . , and is now tepmother of

Norway receiving top ratings for spectacular scenery. She and hus­ band Ross attended the Olympic

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l i ved i n the Roches­ ter, N . Y . , area ( c u rrently Pi tts­ ford) and been employed by Xerox

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implant. Volunteering as a xual dysfunct ion counselor three eve­ n i ngs a week, Bill wri tes that " i t' an a l l too-common problem that needs to be deal r w i th openly, honestly and compassionately."

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southern al ifornia. One of Pete's latest endeavors i rollerblad ing ( or i n - l i n e k a t i n g ) . H e h a

in 1 99 3 . H1 injury and urgery required the insertion of a pe nile

works at Progress Software Cor­ poration i n Bedford, Mass., as in­ ternational marketing manager and travels all over the world. Her fa vorite cities cont inue to be Paris and R io de Janeiro, w i th

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i ng on bu ine s i ues in the west­ ern M a achusett region. Nancy writes for the pringfield Union­ News and Sunday Republican and in her pare time perform com­ munity service in the areas of education and teen pregnancy prevention. Nancy credits Kim Marsh, i n part, for her marriage to blues music ian R ich Adelson: K im apparently taught her "how not to throw l ike a girl," which led to an active oftbal l career and a chance infield meeting with N ancy's future husband. Great story! It remind me that 1 also met my spouse-to-be after a oft­ bal l game, only I think it may have had more to do w ith learn­ ing how not to drink like a girl, and I was the student. . . . L.A. King was recently ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church i n Safety Harbor, F l a . The ceremony wa performed by the Rev. Ed­ ward Cole Chalfant, Bishop of Maine . . . . Margaret Buck Hag­ strom, who works as a marketing consultant i n Goffstown, N . H . , was named t o t h e board o f direc­ tors of a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping abused and

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thoner B e n Thorndike reports that he i managing director at Scudder, Stevens and Clark in Bo ton. Ben and w ife Joanne ( Lynch '80) are bu y j uggl i ng t h re e k i ds and reg u l a r v i s i t from Bob Woodbury. Ben isn't sure which i more tax i ng: work, the kid , marathon train ing or Woody's visit . Ben shared a real n ice thought that, of all h is pro­ fes ors, he respects Charlie Bas ett the most "becau e he t i l l remem­ bers how my papers could have been better! " . . . Kathy Jackson write from Brightwaters, N . Y . , t h a t he i t h e associate execu­ tive d i rec tor of a branch of Planned Parenthood. Kathy is married to an attorney and i busy rai ing two sons ( Taylor and Dav i d ) while holding down her position as a "full - t ime working p rofe s s i o n a l m om . " . . . A l i x L a n d r e c e n t l y o b t a i ned h e r master's in social work a n d work in Portland, Ore., with d isturbed ch i ldren and their fa m i lies. A l i x loves Portland for its beauty and diversity and ays she is keeping pol i t ically invol ved fighting a right-w ing c i t izen's group. he report that Dan '76 and Debbie Cronin Dawe have a daughter, A l l ison, and a new son, W i l l iam, and are l i v i n g i n Yarmou t h , Maine, where Debbie i employed as a controller for Cole-Haan. . . . Paul Harvey is s t i l l the finest d e n t i t in Portsmou t h , N . H . , where h e and wife Rebecca are bu y bringing up Paul I l l and twins Andrew and E lizabeth and plan to b u i ld themselves a new house soon . . . . Susan Plummer Mastyl now freelances as a medical/ c i ­ e nt ific writer in Norristown, Pa. Sue recently married B i l l Mastyl . . . . That's t h e bottom o f the mailbag, folks. Please drop me a + l ine soon.

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1 980 Patty Valavanis Sm ith 6 Hammond Way Andover, MA 0 1 8 1 0 s o -470- 1 4 4 1 98 1 Beth Pniewski W i lson P.O. Box 602 Harvard, MA 0 1 4S l so -4S6-8 0 1 1 982 Mimi Rasmu sen 63 Reservoir treet Cambridge, MA 02 1 3 6 1 7-49 2 - 1 002 1 983 Sally Lovegren Merchant HCR 62, Box 2 44B Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-3678 1 984 Maura Cassidy 1 8 1 Winthrop Road =9 Brookl ine MA 0 2 1 46-4442 6 1 7 - S66-00 1 2 1 985 Mary A l ice Weller-Mayan RD 2 , Box 1 49 Camden, DE 1 9934 302-697 - 0 1 4 2 1 986 Gretchen Bean Lurie 2606 an Marcos Drive Pasadena, CA 9 1 1 07 8 1 8-356- 7 S 3 8 1 987 Lucy Lennon Tucker 9 Wellstone Drive Portland, M E 04 1 0 1 207 - 7 7 2 - 7 1 2 7 1 988 Sara Dickison 25 Fayette Street # l Boston, MA 02 1 1 6 6 1 7 - 292-00 1 5

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La t J uly our cla - wa­ well represented at a panel d iscu sion on careeropportunitie · sponsored by the Career ervices Committee of the Alumni Council and held in Burlington, Mass. The panel wa modeled on a program started by Leslie Mitchell, a trademark attorney in ew York Ciry. At the Bo ton-area event, organi:ed by lumni Council class repre­ -ent tive Carol Sly, the partici­ pant told current student and new graduates how they em­ barked n their careers and what their jobs entail. Inc luding ring­ leader Sly, a graphic designer, the paneli t were: Tom Dailey, who, though based in Boston, handle legal issue for Vermont for YNEX; Paula Baril Foley, a pediatric nurse in Hartford; Andy Goode, director of land protec­ tion for The Nature Conservancy in Bo ron (and who i noc in­ volved in any professional terp i­ chorean activities a alleged in the last class column by that re­ nowned troub lemaker, S c o t t Butterfield ) ; J o n Covell, whoco­ own a landscaping company in Brew ter, Mass., with h is brother; Linda Davis, a major account manager for the computer prod­ ucts division at Hewlett-Packard in Burlington, Ma s.; and Mark Gorman '78, a middle choolguid­ ance counse lor in Lakev i l le, Mass . . . . Grab that pristine 1 995 calendar and write in the dates for our (gulp! ) 1 5 th reunion, which will be held J une 8- 1 1 . If anyone is interested in joining

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the planning comm ittee for the reunion, plea e contact me, and I will direct you to the appropriate committee leader . We've got a good team that has started coping out good stuff to keep us busy, but we welcome more participant . All kinds of help is needed, from people who can call friends and urge them ro come ro those who can help with last-minute deta i Is at the reunion. Thank to the fol lowing folks who have already volu nteered: C o r n e l i a A r m ­ brecht Brefka, Cynnie Auman, John Carpenter. J im Coull, Linda Davis, Lynn Collins Franc is, Andy Goode, Lisa Paskalides Grimmig, Diana Herrmann, Su­ san Sullivan Hinrichs, Liz Mar­ tin Hutchison, A n ne Hussey, Bill and Mary Lou Eckland Jack­ s o n , Steve Kirstei n , Mimi Brodsky Kress, Tom Marlitt, Jack McBride, Leslie M itchell, J o a n n e Shannon O ' D o n n e l l , Susan E r b P i t t e nger, E l l i o t t Pratt, N a n c y Reed, Carol ly and J oanne Lynch Thorndike.

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Steve Pfaff is l iving in C h e l m s ford , Ma s . , wh ere he recen t i y bought a house. He left h is job in the law department at the City of Bo ton and has joined the law firm of Merrick & Loui on in Bo ton . . . . Wayne '80 and Liz Burton Siladi are the proud par­ ent of Rebecca Anne, born La­ bor Day 1 993, which Liz ays wa a fitting day after 30 hours of la­ bor. Liz is the directorof gift plan-

ning at Radcliffe College, and Wayne is a senior engineer at Weidl inger Assoc iation. They have enjoyed hiking in national parks and skiing in the we tern part of the country but will ha,·e to wait now until Rebecca gets her first pairs of hiking and skiing boots . . . . Terry Morales Khor­ assani i lidng with her hu-band, Mohsen, and their daughter, Katherine Fatima, m Bronx, .Y. They were expecting a second chi Id in February of 1 994. Terry i on leave from Citibank' credit ri k information department. They have traveled to Florida to spend time with Terry' parents and also ha,·e traveled to Iran to vi it w i th Mohsen's parents. . . . Jay Votta and h is wife, Flo, live in Walnm Creek, Calif. Jay is a con ulting actuary with M ill­ man & Robert on in an Fran­ c isco . . . . Jeff N eville and hi wife, Michelle, are living m At­ lanta, Ga. Jeff is a vice president at Merrill L)mch, and Michelle is a v ice president at Solomon Brother . They have a daughter, Kelsey. Jeff writes that they are aving up enough money ro bu ild a new home. . . Tim Springer i living in Minneapoli and write th.at h i environmental con ult­ ing business is doing ver)' well. He also ha been doing volunteer work in the area of bicycle trans­ portation. Tim says we should look for Minneapoli ro become the first major city ro construct linked bicycle highways to make bicycle transportation fast, safe and plea ant . . . . Eleanor Camp­ bell started law school at Rutger U niver ity in ew Jer ey la t fall. . . . R i c k Schaub and his wife, ue, are l iving in Center­ ville, Ohio, near Dayton. Rick is vice president of sale and mar­ keting for Dolly, Inc. They have two sons, Douglas and W ill. Rick write that he travels often and attended a number of PGA rour­ naments last year. . . . Paulette

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Paulette b a fund raiser for the Fam i l y Re;ource, a chilJ abuse prevention agency. Paulette says

Paul L. Damren '82 recently return d from deployment with the U. . Inchon of the Amphibiou · Ready Group, a Marine Corp unit

;he 1s feeling more >ettled in the

that patrolled water off the coast of Haiti in support of Operation Support Democracy. He al o was promoted to the rank of major. . . . Richard D. Nawfel '82 was awarded certification by the

Monterey area now that she has bought a house. he is h ping to

American Board of Radiology. He specializes in diagn stic imaging phy ic at Brigham and Women'. Hospital in Boston. . . . u an

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Woods Spofford '82 was interviewed by the Quincy, M a . , Patriot

Ledger on what advice ro give ro pectators at the nation's premier rowing e ent. Head of the Charle Regatta. Her fir t rec mmenda­ tion after yearsofattending the annual event: dre warmly . . . . Peter A. Thomas '82 i· now the pre ident and chief pro� ional officer of the United Way of the Central North h re in Ma achu ett . . . .

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Richard M. Wald '82 is project manager and lead consultant in the M inneapolis, M inn., office of Wil liam M. Mercer, I nc . , which provide con ult ing ervice in the fields of employee benefit , compensation, a et planning and human re ource management . . . . Dr. Diane Zavotsky '82 joined the staff of the Indian Stream Profe ional A ociation in Colebrook, N . H. , where she will practice family medicme . . . . Barbara Leonard '83 wrote a grant proposal that resulted in the

award of 7.5 m i l l ion to the M aine Department of Human ervice Bureau of Health t create a comprehensive brea t and cervical cancer creening program for low-income w men in Maine. Once implemented, the program is expected to erve 4,000-5 ,000 women annually . . . . The new a ociate rabbi at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Mas . , is Sho hana M. (Su an) Perry '83 . . . . The election of Aviva E. Saper '83 as a principal of aper & Wallack make her a third-generation owner of the firm, which pecializes in executive compensation and benefit , inve tments and retirement and e tate planning . . . . The Maine Pre As ociation awarded Lisa Wormwood '84, a reporter for the Wiscasset Register and the Boothbay Regi ter, fir t in reader ervice for a four-part erie on dome·tic violence and in design of a specialty page for a tory on a blacksmith. he al received econd in wming-

Europe anJ also wrote something in German, th ink ing we had taken a German clas together at Colby! Sorry, John-] wa n't in your G e rman cla s after a l l . . . . Bruce and Ellen Reinhalter Shain had a seconJ on, born last p r i n g , and h a v e moved to

Hamilton, Mas ., where they built a new house . . . . Instead of send­ ing all of you an annual urvey, the Alumni Office will besen<ling out a urvey ro a fifth of the cla at a t i me, o please look for that form and return it to me as soon as you can. Thank for your help + wtth the column.

investigative reporting and in photography and a third for de ign of a front page story. . . . Imogen

Mintzer Church '85 earned a master's degree in higher education at an J o e tare University . . . . Brian Morin '85 earned a certificate in orthodontic from Harvard Univer ity chool of Dental Medicine and has e tabli"hed practice in Fairfield, Farmington and kowhegan, Maine . . . . Ann W. Thayer '86 has become part owner at Robert G. Gerber l nc . , a geo cience and environmental management finn in Freeport, Maine . . . . Beth Staple '86 i the new women's ba ketball coach at Colby . . . . Michael W. Ashley '87 has joined Corporation ervice Company in Wilmington, Del. . . . Karen Hutchinson Jagolinzer '87 is now teaching eighth grade math at the Rockport, M ., middle school. . . . Matt Murphy '87 ha been named editor of WoodenBoat magazine in Brookl in, Maine . . . . Peter A. Steele '87 is the editor ofThe Advocate in Provincetown, Mas . . . . The 1 994 ea on aw J im Brandt '88 move up a head coach of the John J ay football team in ew York . . . . Jeffrey A. Huebschmann '88 i now an a sociate attorney with the Worce ter, Mass., law firm of Bowditch & Dewey . . . . After graduating from the Univer ity ofVennont College of Medicine, Dr. Adair M. Bowlby '89 tarted her residency in family and community medicine at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. . . . The Vineyard ( Ma . ) Gazette reported on the summer intern h ip held by Dana Hollin head '89 at the We t Tisbury, Mas . , town h a l l . A master's candidate in women' tudie a n d public policy a n d public admini tration a t George Washington University, he a s isted in creating bike path in t h e town, starting a n after- chool program, evaluating town build ing and ummarizing a community action tatement for the town.

MILEPOSTS Births : A daughter, Caroline, to Robert and Nancy "Kitty" Wey! Dove '80 . . . . A son, Alexander Dixon, to David Mahl and Marian Leerburger-Mahl '84 . . . . A son, Thomas W i lson, to Jeffrey '87 and Beth Henry Russell '88.

Maniages: Gay E. Shanahan '80 to James B. Goldenberg in Bedford, Ma . . . . Timothy J. Bernard '8 1 to Michelle J . Ca avant in Che tnut Hill, Ma s. . . . Gary H. Ru ping '85 to Karen Willim in Burlington, Mass . . . . Heidi A. Arnao '86 to Mark G. Madison in Canton, Mass. . . . John S. Miller '86 to Samantha Brody in A bland, Ore. . . . Suzanne C. Swain '86 to Stephen Masiello in Winchester, Mass. . . . William J. Derry '88 to Ann Eastman in Keene, N . H . . . . Kenneth F. Ginder '88 to Claire Adami in South Hadley, Mass . . . . Michael J. Kelley '88 to Sperry Wil on in White River Junction, Vt. . . . Susan J . Lochhead '88 t o Matthew Yardley i n Nashua, N . H . . . . CaroUne C . O'Brien '88 t o Robert M. Thomas '88 in Nantucket, R . l . . . . Celia G. Pastoriza '88 to Charle Welch in Lincoln, Mass . . . . Joseph P.

Walton '88 to Janine Frostick in Easton, Mass . . . . Eric Zieff '88 to J u l ie Ro enblatt in Bloomfield, Conn . . . . Maryanna F. Marinos '89 to Jeffrey D. Baker '90 in Lorimer Chapel.

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Donna Curran Stock end new from Graf­ ton, Mas>., that Bren­ dan M ichael was born last May 4, joi ning brother Ryan, 5, and Trevor, 3. Donna currently is working part time as the as oc i­ ate director of the Tuft Veteri­ nary Fund. Her hu band, Bill, is an area manager at Acherly Com­ mun 1ca t io n . omething that Donna h a s n o t y e t done but i s still hopmg ro do i r i d e in a hot air balloon . . . . Cindy Rich Dana and h u band Chuck also have an addition to their family: Hollis Anne, born last J une 4, joined older sibling Taylor. One month later Cindy and her family relo­ cated to Jakarta, Indonesia. Let's hope Cindy will send another note to let us know about life in Jakarta. . . . John Crowley and h is wife, Kimberly, had an excit­ ing ummer and fall. Their sec­ ond child, Jo e Patrick, wa born J u ly 1 9 , when older sister Katelyn N icole was 2 1/2. John received his M . B.A. from New Hampshire College in September and ac­ cepted a position as v ice presi-

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it back for her 1 0-year re­

quirement and accept her as a pe­

union in June, it's safe to ay her

cial student. " ] guess they weren't

Class of '85 mates will remember

in the habit of teaching enior citi­

her. She holds the distinction as

zen ," Willey recalled, laughing.

the oldest person ever to graduate

Three years later she stood in

from Colby, having done so at the

l ine with students 50 years her j un­

age of 70, more than 40 years after

ior to accept her Colby diploma.

her husband, Paul '42 , and almost

Her three children-all college

20 years after her daughter, Paula

graduates-were especially im­

' 6 7 . But what would be j ust a pecu­

pressed by her election to Phi Beta

l iar footnote in most people's lives

Kappa, "because I was the only one

is a typical epi ode in W i l ley's,

in the family to get it," Willey said.

which has enough plot twists and

Her Colby experience wa en­

surprises to sat isfy a serpentine

riching and rewarding, Willey says,

novel.

and it demonstrated that "you

Born to immigrant I talian par­

never stop learning." She says she's

ents in Chicago, she grew up anx­

thankful that professor nurtured

ious to assimmilate into American

her thirst for knowledge and took her seriously as a student.

culture and attend college, Wi lley says. But the Depression prevented her from pursuing college

"I had a wonderful relationship with my professors, espe­

so she enrolled in night school and took advanced Spanish.

cially [Emeritus Professor of English] Colin McKay," Willey

She befriended several South American student attending

said. "He was the only one who was close to my age. We used

the University of Chicago, taught herself shorthand in Span­

to sit in the faculty lounge exchanging sayings in I talian

ish and within a year was fluent.

dialect. He would say things that my grandmother used to say . "

She joined the Foreign Service as a bilingual secretary and

Courses w i t h Professor of Classics Peter Westervel t , she

was selected by the Institute oflnter-American Affairs to serve

recalls, "opened up a whole new world. Those classes were

in Lima, Peru, where she met and married her husband, an

j ust wonderfu l . " S h e recalls debating a young male student in Dana Profes­

airline pilot and a native of Waterville.

sor of Philosophy Yeager Hudson's class: "It was like a tennis

They moved from Lima to Waterv ille, back to Peru, back

match, back and forth. Mr. Hudson enjoyed that, I think."

to Maine again, to Peru a third time, and back to Waterville.

"l was beginning to realize that I needed something besides

After graduation, the W i l leys moved to Florida and she

having a family and a wonderful husband and taking care of

was determined to put her educat ion to good purpose.

children, so I managed an insurance office and used ome of my

"Otherwise," she said, "I was going to be a very smart lady

ski l ls," she said.

in the cemetery. "

Five years later Paul was recalled by Braniff Airlines to a job

She has taught Spanish i n adult education programs for the

in Florida and the Willeys moved to M iami. " I decided I had to

past nine years. She also took up painting, reproducing master

go back to college," Willey said. It rook her 10 years, attending

works such as Botticelli's "Madonna of the Roses" and painting

classes at local community colleges when he could, but in 1 970

her own still lifes that are exhibited in local galleries.

she earned an associate's degree. When she and Paul retired in

Today, at age 79, Willey is as active as ever. She attends

1 98 1 they returned to Waterville and built a home, and she

studio classes and continues to develop new talents. Her only

applied at Colby. "I wanted to enrich my life," she said. "I

regret, she ays, is that she waited so long to pursue her dreams. "If I had it to do over I 'd be in academia," she said. "I wish I had

wanted to learn philosophy and languages and literature."

more lives."

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Thank t o t h ose who've wri tten and responded to my post cards and, now, to a c lass ques­ t ionnaire. Pam Kovaly O'Brien wrote while on vacat ion in Ber­ muda, happy to tell u about the birth of her daughter, Courtney Anne ( Aug. 1 5 , 1 99 3 ) . Pam, who works full t ime as a product mar­ keting manager a t Digital Equip­ ment Corp, says she and her hu band have enjoyed watch ing Courtney grow. They l ive i n udbury, Mass . , a n d P a m loves her fam i l y neighborhood and five-m i n u te commute to work.

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. . . From t i m e to ti me, I send our post c a rd s to ran<lom classmares fohing f or news. Richard and Sue Sheehan Schwermer re p ond ed to o ne of my cards, wri t i n g from Sue's qu iet bedside in � a l t Lake ity, Utah, where 'ue wa J ue w i t h their second child. Their f1 m, Jtrhua, is 4. During , ue' second pregnancy, he had ·ome time at home and kept working as director of job and bu incss de vel o p m ent by u i n g comput­ ers, mo<lems and t elec om m u t i ng. The region he works with i n U wh i� cal led " M ou n ta inl an<l " and inc ludes uch areas a Park City, Deer Valley and Provo/ Orem . The economic <levclop­ ment areas arc typically rounsm, manufacturing and h igh technol­ ogy. he work c l os e l y w i t h Word Perfect Corporation and Nm·el and hope the ir recent m e rge r w i l l h e l p c h a l l e nge M icro oft. I n 1 99 1 , uc h a d the opporrun ity to present one of their program t o the Ford Foun­ dat ion and Harvard U n 1 \·ersity. It was name<l one of the top 2 5 gov e rn m ent i n nova t iom o f that year-"prov i ng Utah i s n ' t as backward a some think ! " Rich pas ed the U ta h state bar in 1 9 6 an d practiced law unt i l 1 990. He then became the rate adm i n is­ trator for the j us t ice courts an<l i now over the court ystem for Utah, working with all the j udges and the legislature. ue keep 111 touch w ith Kelly Burke Corwen, Debbie Bombac i Pappas and Beth ( abino ' 4 ) and Tom K ing. They al o see Chip Rooney about once a year . . . . Sue De rochers Patterson wrote recently from an Mateo, Calif., where he's l iving w i th her husband, Kelvin. She s t i l l work for Deloitte & Touche ( one of the " Big 1x public account ing firms) as a se­ n ior manager. Sue met Kelvin in Connecticut. . . . he moved to San Francisco . . . when she was through with an a signment at the end of 1 99 2 , she opted ro be relocated to San Francisco . ue and Kelvin were engaged i n October 1 99 3 . . . a n d married in M ay 1 994. Sue keeps in touch with Heidi D ickman Taylor, Terri Lewis Clevenger, Tammy Reagan Wil liams and Kathy Regan . . . . From Portland, Maine, Abby King took a m inute to write from her de k at Bernstein, Shur,

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Sawyer & N elson, where she's practic ing law. Abby jome<l the firm 111 January 1 992 after work­ i n g for two and a half years at Pierce, Arwood, crihncr. Before that, ·he c lerke<l one year for the M a i n e � upreme Court. Ahby works with a couple of Colhy grad , John Carpenter '80 and Tony Perk ins '8 2 . Out 1de work, she ray, bu ·y, too. he ran the Maine Marathon i n I 992 but a car acc ident in I 990 curbed her running, and he doe n't have plans to do any more right now. I nstead, he' been b ik ing a lot and ha done the A merican Lung Assoc iat ton Bike Trek from un­ day River ro the amoser re ort for rhe l a t three years. Abby's parent moved from Wel lesley, Ma s., ro Camden two years ago and have a um mer home i n I l e born, l Abby spend a lot of ti me in the mid-coa t area. he bought an 1 8 50 ant ique cape hou c in Cumberland Foreside and enjoys time work ing around the hou e and garden . . . . New Year' re olution: write new ro ally. Hope that l i t t le po t-it note adorns the home and offices of each one of you ! end photo and u pda te oon ! +

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In a few short month l w i l t be re l i nqu ishing my durie as class sec­ retary, and I am looking for my replacement. I f this very presri­ g iou po i t ion appeal ro you, plea e drop me a l i ne-I am now accepting nominat ion for ecre­ rary as well a for all c l ass officers. ow for the news . . . . My fam i l y vi ited Peaks I land , Maine, Ia t A u g u s t for t h e m a r r i age of M e g h a n C a s e y a n d Ch u c k Park er. Carol Eisenberg was Meghan' matron of honor. Also in attendance were Leslie Rob­ inson and Diane Albert. It wa a wonderful wedding, w i th the re­ ception at the Fifth Maine Regi ­ ment, which had a gorgeous view of the ocean. . . . Manoj Kanskar is a phy i c i t w o r k i ng as a postdoctoral fel low at the Uni­ versity of British Columbia i n Vancouver, B.C. . . . Tracy Gow­ en is an assistant director of fi­ n a n c ia I a i d a n d a d m i s i on s

coun elor at terling College i n Kansa> . . . . Janet Lamoreau Cyr writes from Oshkosh, Wis., where he b development director for a regional nonpr fit agency. Her husband, Tom, was in Ala,ka for several month , and Janet was a hie to pend a hour a month there la t summer. Their ult imate goal is ·rill to get back to Maine, but the Midwest continues to be very pleasant in the meantime . . . . Nancy and Gregory Shefrin an­ nounce the birth of their fir t child, Zachary Lee, on J u ly 26. Greg i an assi rant vice presi­ dent at the Bank of New York in New York City . . . . Brad Whit­ aker and his wife, Karen, had another little girl, Molly Eliza­ be t h , la t March 29 . . . . Kristen John on Wyco moved to Vir­ ginia, bought a small farm and­ most i mportant-had another child, Dylan Robert, on Nov. 20, 1 99 3 . His ister, Gretchen Mary, i now 2 . . . . Life i fun right now for Sheryl Larson Mortensen. he and her husband, Rod, are enjoy i n g thei r 2 -year-old son, Todd. Rod is mayor of New­ ington, Conn., and Sheryl i s a fir t gradeteacher. he write that Laura Kozloski is in M iami, Fla., fin i h i ng work on her Ph.D . . . . J ohn O'Toole writes from Ruth­ erford, .J ., where he bought a hou e that he expect to pend y e a rs fi x i n g up . . . . Edward Pfister i an as ociate attorney w i th reel , Hector & Davi in M iami. The pro bono work he d id for the firm after Hurricane Andrew earned him an award at the annual ABA convention in New Orlean . Edward and hi wife, usan, have rwo chi ldren, Lee, 1 2 , and Katie, 3. He enjoys golfing, sail ing and cuba d iv ing. . . . Suzanne Krumm Yerdon i the d i rector of industry affair at M F Communicat ion Corp. i n Chester, .J . . . . After t w o year in the working world following Colby, Andrew Myers returned to academ ia. Over the next three and a half year he earned a law degree and an M . B . A . at Bo ton U n i •er i ty. After the bar exam, he spent a month i n Thailand. Andrew now work at O'Connor, Broude & Aronson in Waltham, Mas . , as a enior associate con­ centrati n g in corporate and ecu­ rities law, pri marily representing emerging bus i ne se . . . . Terry

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outh Port­ land, Maine. H e completed a a t ional Endowment for the H umanities eminar at the Uni­ versity of M aine and entered a master's program in history at the Univer i ry of New Hampshire. H i s son, ean Evan, i almost 3 . . . . Anna Sandstrom wri tes that she i till logging through a Ph.D. in medieval/renaissance French l iterature. . . Deb Lind­ berg Thoresen celebrated the birth of her second chi Id (a daugh­ ter th is time) on J uly 4 . Her name is Kari . . . . Andrew Worthing­ ton works as a vice pre ident for commercial lending at Shawmut Bank in Manchester, Conn. He ran a political campaign for a tare senate po ition. Did your candidate win, Drew? . . . Happy New Year! I look fomard ro hear­ ing from all of you in the coming + year.

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P l e a s e forg i v e t h e huge donut hole i n the last c o l u m n . ( 1 e x t time a lack of news strike , I ' l l j ust ketch o m e real incriminat­ ing stuff. ) Let me thank two of the major sav iors. [ ran into Martha Smith, who recently re­ located from Wa hington, D.C., to work a t Talx Corp., a company spe c i a l izing in voice-respon e technology in Bo ton. Both he and Karen Croff are l iv in g in the ame building on Beacon H ill ( and faxed me a beautiful rendi­ tion of their up-to-date "dirt"­ that we should all be receiving an invitation to Karen' wedding to Crown Prince Haakon of or­ way and that Martha has tarted dating Tom my Lee J ones after their passionate meeting on the set of Blown Away ) . Karen has begun a new j ob at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Mu eum as the acting curator of education. They reported that Chris Brown and Lisa Kerney, married a year ago la t J uly, a lso are transplants from Wash ing t on to Beantown. Li a is getting her master's degree in education while Chris, already armed w·th a master's i n archi­ tecture, is workLng at a firm in Cambridge . . . . Charlie Lord was transferred from Boston to ash-

ville, Tenn . , where he i· working for CN A I nsurance . . . . Rick Angeli is the person to call if you need any t ickets to any big sport­ ing events. He' working at lnter­ national Management Group in ewton, Mass . . . . Chris Hurley also joined the bandwagon back to the Bo ton area and is in the midst of completing hi M . B . A . a t l o r t h e a · r e rn . . . . G i n g e r owak married h e r long-time bea u, Pau l Wehrle, last Augu t amid ·t the beautiful scenery of Newca tie, Maine. Ginger is prac­ ticing genera I law in Bath, Maine, after graduating from the Uni­ versity of Maine chool of Law in 1 99 1 . . . . Hope Worden al ·o tied the knot in �faine when she married Chris Kochenbach la t eptember on the ebasco E-­ tates. . . Matt Stetson, Greg Cunningham, Mike Cantara and Joanne LaMarre a l l recently per­ formed the nuptial ritual . . . the latter to each other! M ike and Joanne are living in Arlington, Mass. M att tetson and hi· wife, Kristin Beard, re·ide in Freeport, Maine, where he works for Seafax in Portland. Greg Cunningham married a fel low law srudenr from Franklin Pierce Law chool, and they al o have settled in Port­ lanJ, where they both practice law . . . . Tom Charlton married Katherine N ie l on last August in Che ter, V t . , and Eric Zieff an­ nounced his marriage to J ul i e Ro enblatt in Bloomfield, Conn., la t J une. Cla smates in atten­ dance included David Caspar, and S c o t t and K r i s t e n Foss Smith, Scott Parks, Jeff Coh­ en, Gary Donaldson, Roland Cheyney, Paul Carmillo, Zach Abrams and J ohn Davie. Eric reports that he ha entered his fourth year in the c l inical p y­ chology program at the Massa­ chu etts School of Professional Psychology and hopes to gradu­ ate in the fall of l 99 5 . H e and his wife are l iving in Salem, Mass . . . . Sheila Rudolph tied the knot in October. he i still working as a technician in arthriti research at Massachusetts General Hospi­ tal in Boston. Congrats to all the r e c e n t l y m a r r i ed ! . . . T a n y a (Goff '89) a n d Stew Richmond have been l iv i ng in sou them New Hampshire. Tanya is an attomey in Concord, N . H., while Stew is commuting to Bo ton Law chool

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after four years o i teaching h i tory at a boarding school. . . Dean Schwartz pas ed the New Hampshire bar exam and was admitted on October 3 l. He is as oc i a t e d w i t h the fi rm of Gallagher, Callahan and Gartrell in Concord, .H. . Doug ' 6 and J ill Wertz-Scalise recently celebrated the fir t birthday of their boy, athan. They li\·e j ust outh of Philadelphia, where J il l completed h e r master's in oc ial work at Bryn Mawr and Doug is the minister of a Baptist church. . Kris Hoitt Nason recently finished her master's in soc ial work from Boston College and i work ing w i th foster c h i ldren through Ca ey Fam ily Counsel­ ing in Portland, and Michelle Ch eeseman JUSt completed a ma ter' in education at Harvard Uni\·ersity following two year in Quito, Ecuador, on a Fulbri hr cholarship . . . . M artha Smith and Karen Croffalso let me know that Jackie Lavigne i braving the streets of Baltimore, M d . , where she i s getting a Ph .D. i n e n v i ro n m e n t a l t o x i c o logy a t John Hopkins Univer i t y , and that Becca Bruce is at the Uni­ versity of Texas-Au tin getting a master' degree in urban design. . . . Todd Jepson recently tarted as an Engl ish teacher at the W i lbraham Munson preparatory choo l . Unfortunately, Todd's year-and-a-half expedition from New York to Nome, Ala ka, via canoe and cross-country ski has been indefinitely po tponed due to an injury to h i partner's back. Todd hopes to continue t h i project in t h e future. He h a s the upport and faith of many Colby friends. . I appreciate all the news! +

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Hello classmates, and g re e t i n g s from the land of G uinness! I 'm spending mo t of the fall in I re­ land researching the voyage of eighth-century I rish monks and enjoying the famed pub scene here along the way (j ust had to do the "Literary Pub Crawl," being the English major ! ) . Part of my re earch took me to Iceland early in eptember, where despite bad

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I 've gotten lots of bits and pieces of news from a l l over lately. Holly Peirce wrote to let us know that she is back from Bol ivia, where she wa working with the Peace Corps. I 've heard that Holly i now l iving in M iami and is going b a c k t o grad u a t e s c h o o l for finance. . Sean Pratt is going to graduate school for a degree in anthropology . . . . Carol Lock­ wood graduated from D uke Uni­ versity with a dual law degree and a master's in comparative interna­

working for a law finn in Nash­ v i lle. Steve Coan i s living in Tampa and working for a life inurance company. Pete Sekulow is l iv ing in New Jersey and work­ ing on the campaign staff of a state ena tori a l c a n d i d a t e . Mark Michaud a n d A m y Farmer mar­ ried la t um mer and are l i v ing in Washington, D.C., where Amy i still a photo editor with National Geographic and Mark works for R eprese n ta t i v e G erry St udds ( M ass. ) . Kathy McKiernan i s still with the White House press of­ fice. Mike Marcello graduated from American U niver ity law school and has a j udicial c lerk hip

Washington, working for M i l ler and Chevalier, an international

with the Connecticut court sys­ tem. Thank for all the news, Bob! . . . Lisa Bove married M ike Baker in Newton, Mass., last Au­

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second year of veterinary chool at the U n 1 ver ity of C a l i f orn i a ­ D a v i > , w a s also there. Randy Grover wa n't ahle to make 1t becau>e he i stationed 111 Ger­ many nght now as an optomem. t with the Army. ( RanJy houghr

himself a BMW anJ 1s having fun hu::mg around the Autobah n ) . L i s a a l � o rel l. me t h a t Diana Howell i' livmg 111 M nt, na anJ wmking a., a physical therapy as­ Sl>tant. Lisa and M i k e l tve in North C::irolina, where L i a is working ru, a phy ician' a i rant m a very hu y health c lini c . Con­

gratulations, Li a ! . . . 1 also got a typically wacky letter from Dan

Spurgi n , who i m Lawrence, Kan. Dan b excited about reunton and alreaJy ha booked hi plane ticket for the big weekend. Read­ ing Dan' letter inspireJ me to wonder: whom do vou want to see at re u n ion ? The e are lot of people I keep in touch with on a pretty regular ba is, and l' m look­ ing forward to parrying with them

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Portia Walker Deep Breath . . . Deb MacWalter graduated

with a master' degree in phy ical therapy from immons College last May and i now work111g at Fau lk ner Ho pita!. She and Fred Bright, who i an a ociare real e tare apprai er at Bank of Bo ton , are engaged and w i l l be married next ummer in Lorimer Chapel at Colby. Dave Unruh wa marrieJ there rhi la t May, as Rebekah Mitchell and Tre­ maine Cooper w i l l attest-they held the reception at the M i l lerr A l u m n i Hou e. . . . Patricia Shepard, w h o graduated from Marquette Law chool in M i l ­ waukee la t pring, attended Tish Thorpe '9 3 ' wedding i n August along with Laura Hartrick, who herself was oetting married this pa t December, Jen Hale, who i working at an athletic store i n Freeport, Mai ne , and Maria Sano, who i in her fir t year of med ical school a t the Pennsylvania Col­ lege of Podiatric M ed i c i ne ( i n Phil ly-look her up! ) . They pas on the following: Julie Moran is in the third year of her Ph.D. program in toxicology a t the U niversity of Colorado i n Den­ ver; George Hallenbeck is also out in Colorado work i ng towards h is Ph.D. in psychology; Brian Carlson i i n law chool in Den­ ver, Colo.; Jean Jacob is attend­ ing URJ grad choo l , al o get t i ng her Ph.D. in p ychology; Bonnie Van Der Sluys is in her fourth yearof medical school in the D.C. area; Vicki Baldwin wa married

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last summer and is living in up­ state ew York; Stacie Knight is "wandering around the U n i ted States" ( last potted in Montana); Stu Eunson and Ron Thompson were in China la t they heard; Matt Mackey was at Dartmouth studying biochemistry; and Tim Palmer i· teaching i n J apan . . . . Scott Blake recently moved from New York C i ty , where he worked for Barclay's Bank and lived w ith Doug Baum, who is president of hi own company, New Amsterdam Corporat ion, and engaged to be married to Heather Leavy. While Scott was still in New York, they led group ski tours in the Cat k ills. Scott i now at State Street Bank in Bos­ ton. He told me that Cory Snow i l iv ing in Portland; Tarrnie W illiams is l i ving i n Vancou er working for an electric ans com­ pany as a video oame de igner; and Clover Bums '92 i s l iv i ng in Albany with her hubby, Cl iff, and her 2 -year-o ld and is now experiencing the "terrible twos" fir-t hand! He al o corrected me: Nancy Smith is doing her doc­ torate at URI. . . . Lili Eckhart mo ved to Portland, Maine, this fall after her big adventure our We t ri v e r raft ing and leading a camp . . . . Mike Schwartz is back fro m Antarc tica and i n grad chool in Washington, D.C. At Colby n ight at J i l l i an ' s Bil­ liard Pub l ran intoJ eff Hartwell, Dave Ford, Shannon Johnson, Rebecca Streett, Rebecca Win­ okur, Scott Blake and Brian

Monks '92, who has been work­ ing a t New England Biolab for the last two years. There l fo und out that Ben Ames is in his first year of YU grad chool in jour­ nalism; Fred Stewart i s running his brother-in-law's political cam­ paign in Hawaii; Chris Horst is in her third year of veterinary school i n Colorado; K r i s t e n Resor was teaching English in

Mexico for two year and will be going to Chile this January to teach there; Jen Cos is doing bio re earch in Boston. l also picked up that Caitlin Sullivan i s living in Manila, Philippines; J C Kiser received his master's i n account­ ing and is working for Arthur Ander en ; Susan Willis wa mar­ ried in May 1 994 and i now l iv­ ing in Ke ntu c ky ; Carol Cumming works at Citibank in New York

City afterspending a year in Paris; Chris Brown is l iving in San Francisco elling mutual funds at GT G lobal and sneaking in a l i t t le fishing now and then; and Tom Liv e z e y is attending UPenn \·er school. . . . Last, but certainly not least, Andy Shpiz, Mike Freret and Toby Cox are en­ gaged (bur nor to each orher t ) . The new count stands a t : mar­ riages, 3 5 ; engagements, 2 1 ; baby + ' 9 l ers, 4; other, 3 2 1

is the star of B»e B>'e Birdie, a prod u c t ion in ) am ; i c a P l a i n . Kelly O ' Rourke writes for two newspapers in Dracut, Mass . , and is also the manager of a nursery and garden hop. he plans to be in Texas in J anuary and Febru­ ary . . . . Se\·eral people are l i\·ing or traveling in the West. Cicely Finley teaches in California, and Kathryn Swaggart lives i n Butte, Mont. , where she is pursuing a master' degree in hydrogeology. Greg Christopher ll\·es in Jack­ son, Wyo., with Roger Hughes. Stacey Warner, Andie Sulak, Liz Bancroft , Sarah Whitely and Jessie Newman are all in Colo­ rado. Elliott Barry and Bonnie

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H e l l o , c l as s m a t e s ! W i t h a f e w m o re phone calls in Sep­ tember, 1 gathered more informa­ t ion, and 1 hope most of it i still acc urate when you read this. . . . Brooke Porteous attends law school at rhe University of Maine chool of Law and lives in Port­ land . . . . Kristin Spiller teaches h igh chool English and French in Waterv ille . . . . Dave Hall is lobstering off rhe coast and also going for hi capta in's l icen e. . . . I n ew Y o rk , Tracy Karsch i working for Fir t l nve tors, and Marina Grande is with a b ig fi­ nancial company. A l so , Kamin McClelland i happy at her job at the advertising firm of Ogilvy & M a ther . . . . J e n W o l f f is at R utgers U n iversity pur u ing a master's of education in soc ial studies . . . . Greg Lynch teaches at a private school in Conn­ ecticut . . . . Marile Haylon i an associa re a rt d i rector for Bradford Adverti ing, a graphics de ign company in H artford . . . . Tracy L a r s e n , S e a n G i bb o n s a n d Jonathan Blumberg a r e all living in Washington, O.C. . . . Many of our classmate are in the Bo ton area. Emily Chapman is work­ ing on her M . A.T. at Simmons College while doing a full-time i n tern h ip at an e l em e n tary school i n Concord. Andrea Stairs i s pur u i ng a master's of educa­ tion in curriculum development at Bo ton Un iversity. Marc i Schwartz works for the Sheraton Cop ley Hotel and l ive in Brook­ l ine with Amy Davi '9 1 . Carolyn Hart work for Bay Bank i n

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international new is that Kelly epal for six weeks, Alex Bici i working for Banker's Tru t in pa i n and Michelle Tadros i· in a tra m ing program for Shell Oil in Egypt. . . . Frances van Huystee wrote that she is an English teacher at Bangor H igh School and that Lisa Conley is reaching reading at a m iddle school in Bangor. . Many of you have receh·ed your questionnaire by now, and ! hope to hear from you to include you in + the next edi t ion. Flynn is going to

NEWSMAKERS Michael J. Misialek '90 received

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the University of Massachu­ etts Medical chool and i serving his re idency in internal medicine at Bo ton Univer ity Medical Center. . . . Scott D. Winkler '90 returned from a Michelle Conigan '92 and six-month deployment aboard Margaret Russell '92 the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, which traveled to the Persian G ulf, the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. W h i le on shore, h e participated in community relations projects. . . . The Waterville, Maine, Rotary Club welcomed home Michelle Corrigan '92 from her Rotary cholar hip year of studie at the Univer ity of Barcelona and aid farewell to Rotary scholar Margaret Russell '92, who left for Salamanca, Spain, to rudy Spani h literature and c u lture at the U n iver iry of alamanca . . . . . I n an article in The Cape Cod Times, Mark Mellyn '92, a ummer police officer in Hyannis, Ma ., for the last several years, said, ' inery-nine percent of the job is public relations." . . . Andrea Solomita '92 was named the as i tant manager of media relations for the U .S. Golf As ociation. She will handle publicity and media relations for the org an iza t ion 's 1 3 national champion-hip , which include the U.S. Open, the U. . enior Open and the U.S. Women's Open . . . . Heather Perry '93 wa pictured in the Greenwich Times feeding a Kemps­ Riddley turtle at Sea World in Orlando, Fla., where she ha been employed for the la t year. . . . The running singlet of 1 0-time All-American Michelle Severance Isham '94 was retired on Harold Alfond Day at Colby last October. The inglet w i ll h ang in the center of the trophy room in the fieldhou e.

MILEPOSTS Births: A on, Zachary A lexander, to Daniel and Heather Carey '93. Marriages : Laura E. Friedewald '91 to Randolf F. Notes '92 i n Washington, D.C. . . . Kendra Heywood '9 1 t o Daryl Smith '92 in Attleboro, Mass . . . . Sarah S. Bramhall '92 to J oshua E. Reynolds '92 in Falmouth, Maine . . . . Brittany E . Ray '93 to

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H. R I DG E LY B U L LOC K ·55 H. Ridgely Bullock ' 5 5 , pre. idenr and CEO of Monrchanin Managemenr Corporarion and former chair of Colby's Board of T rusrees, d ied December 18 in New York, N . Y .. ar rhe age of 60. H e was born in New York and arrended Brooks School in North Andover, Mass. One of Colby's firsr Senior cholar , he devel ped a lifelong love of theater at the College, acting in and direcring play and managing Powder and Wig and a summer theater in Camden H i lls, Maine. After gradu­ ating with honors in English, he moved to the Broadway rage and over rhe next several years succe sfully produced a dozen plays and musicals in New York and on tour, includ ing Comin' Uptown, Hotel Paradiso, Fallen Angels and Camus' Caligu la . From 1 9 56 to 1 95 9 he was a captain in the U . . Air Force in Japan , where he also produced plays. In 1 964 he turned to law, three year later earning a J .D. at the Univer ity of Virginia chool of Law. He was made a full partner at the New York law firm of M udge Rose G u t h r i e and Alexander in 1 970 and two years later was named pre ident and chairman of UMC In­ dustries Corp. in Stamford, Conn. , an inter­ national leader in specialized indu trial equip­ ment, engineered plastics and merchandising equipment. He al o served as chairman of the board of Electro Audio Dynamics, I nc . , as director of rate Narional Bancorp, as board member of Knoedler-Modarco intemarional art galleries in New York, a d i rector of the National A u tomatic Merchandising Asso­ c i ation and as direcror of the Dart Group in Washington, D.C. During his career he was a member of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Assoc iat ion, the V irginia State Bar and the American Bar Association. He wa a national exec u tive director of the Boys Clubs of America and a trustee of both the American Shakespeare Fe ti val Theater and the Stamford Center for the Arts. I n 1 987 he opened the Domaine M ichel Winery in California and was presi­ dent and board member of the winery at the time of his death. I n 1 990, while CEO of Montchanin, a company he formed to pro­ vide management expertise for companies experiencing d i fficulties, he was named tem­ porary president of the Bank of New England to oversee its teetering finances. He was active in admissions interviewing

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and in rhe New York City Colby As ociation and became a member of Colby's Board of Trustees in l 97 7 , ·erving on execut ive, de­ velopment, nominating and steering com­ mittees. In 1 98 3 he began an eighr-year ten­ ure as chair of the hoard, a period in which he also was chair of the 2000 Campaign, the large t capital campaign in the hisrory of the College. He made many trip to Waterv il le for planning and trategy ses ions and trav­ eled across the country to meet with volun­ teers and donors, sometimes pi! ting a twin­ engine DeHavilland jet. A tribure ro his lead­ ership, imagination, hard work and deep faith in the College and i rs alumn i , the campaign resulted in new and remodeled fac i l i r ie , $ 1 0 million in new endowment and Colby' na­ tionwide reputation for academic excellence. He received an Alumni As ociarion pecial recogn i rion award in J une 1 987 and was hon­ ored wi rh a Colby Brick in 19 9. Ar the 1 99 1 Commencement h i c itation for a doctor of law degree declared: "Barrisrer and busine s leader, impre ario and aviaror, oenologist and phi lanthropisr-the eclectic experiences and examples of h is life reflecr what we hold out in hope and expectation for our graduates." In 1 992 he received the Ernest C. Marriner Distinguished ervice Award for "rare fervor and devotion" to rhe College and for a career characterized by iniriative, hard work, i magi ­ nation, howmanship and business acumen, all with a firm commitment to excellence. Among the urvivors are his six children, including Sylvia Bullock Clarkson '7 , David Bullock '87 and stepdaughter Arianede Braux '93, rwo isters, a granddaughrer and an aunt, Colby trusree Al ida Camp.

G RACE R . FOST E R '2 1 Grace R. Foster '2 1 , a distinguished educator, died October 5 in Jacksonvil le, Fla. , at 9 5 . She w a born i n Swatow, China, the daughrer of a Christian missionary, John M. Foster '03. She completed high school at Coburn Classi­ cal In titute in Waterv i l le, Maine. At Colby she joined Sigma Kappa, was involved in the l i rerary soc iety, Colbiana and the women tudent' new paper and graduared w ith Ph i Beta Kappa honors in biology. While teach­ ing high school biology in Buffalo, N . Y . , she pur ued graduate work in psychology at Co­ lumbia University and received her Ph.D. in 1 9 34. Following her grandfather John Barton Fo rer, Cla of 1 843 and a professor of Greek and Lar i n at Colby for 3 5 years, she returned to the College as an instructor of psychology. Her 1 934 book, Social Change in Relation to

Curricular Development in Collegiate Education for Women, was an exhau t ive study of the development of a place for women in higher education. From 1 93 5 to 1 94 7 she was em­ ployed as a psychologi t by the Augusta, Maine, rate Hospira! and from 1 95 0 to 1 960 by the Guidance Bureau in New York. She returned to her teaching career at the Univer­ s i ty of Maine and later at Inter-American University before retiring in 1 966. An asser­ rive pioneer in women's professional advance­ ment, he led the unionization at Augusta Stare Hospital and was rhe author of numer­ ous articles in professional journals. Two brothers, two cousins, a niece and two neph­ ew , John T. Foster '40 and Walter S. Foster ' 5 6 , also attended the College.

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John C . Ashworth ' 1 9, former director of the Winthrop, Mass., Housing Authority, died Augu t 14 in Everett, Mas . , at 99. Born in Waltham, Mass., he left Colby to serve as a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps during World War I and participated in the battle of the Argonne Forest and Belleau Wood, earning a Silver Star for bravery. He also held the rank of captain in the Massachusetts Stare Guard during World War I I . A gifted athlete, he played semi pro baseball for four years in Texas before returning to Winthrop, where he joined the Housing Authority. He retired as director in the late 1 960s. He is survived by his son.

Doris Purington Cunningham '22, a retired teach­ er and librarian, died August 1 7 in Presque Isle, Maine, at 93. Born in Houlton, Maine, she atrended Houlton High School. At Colby she joined Sigma Kappa, served as clas secretary and was a member of the Echo editorial board. After Colby she pursued a career as a teacher and continued her education at the University of Maine and the University of Chicago. For 1 2 years following her marriage in 1 930 she was librarian of the Presque Isle High School. She had one daughter and three grandchildren and at the time of her retirement in 197 1 was active in local church, social and cultural organizations.

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M A RY I RE E WH I TCOMB '22 Mary Irene Whitcomb ' 2 2 , a librarian, died August 13 in Bethesda, Md., at 94. She was born in Richmond, Que. She attended Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville, Maine, be­ fore entering Colby, where she was a member of Sigma Kappa. She earned a B.S. in library cience from Simmon College in 1923 and was employed in the libraries at Boston Uni­ versity and Amher t College. In 1 930 he returned to Waterville and worked for several years in Memorial Hall as the catalocruer for Colby's library. She later traveled ext n ively throughout the United States and also re ided in California, Arizona and Washington, D.C. She gave generously of her time to the Salva­ tion Army and worked with the blind.

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M O L L I E S E LTZE R YETT '26 Mollie Seltzer Yett '26, former member of the Vermont State Symphony, died in October in Bo ton, Ma s., at 88. Born in Warsaw Poland, he was raised in Fairfield, Maine. A the College he was a member of the Glee Club and the orche tra, was class poet and commencement speaker and wa a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the first woman to re­ ceive the Health Cup, awarded to the out· standing athlete of the class. For several year she taught high school English in Vermont and New York. Following her marriage and move to Barre, Vt., in 1 9 3 2 , she was active in local civic organizations, serving as pre 1dent of the Vermont chapter of AAUW and as chair of the Vermont Federation of Women' Clubs. She also studied at the Juilliard chool of Mu ic and was first v iolist of the Vermont State Symphony. Her sister and brother, Rose Seltzer Gahan '27 and Leo Seltzer '3 7, prede­ ceased her. She leaves three ans, including Daniel Yett '58, a ister, a brother and seven grandchildren, including Jonathan Yett '86.

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Willis S. Duncan '29, a farmer in Fort Fairfield Maine, died September l in Mars H ill. Born i Washburn, M a i n e , he grad uated from Washburn H igh School and attended Aroostook State Normal College as well as Colby. For over 60 years he was a resident of Fort Fairfield, where he was engaged in farm­ ing until his retirement in 1 977. For the next 1 5 years he was employed with the Aroostook Area Agency on Aging. He was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church and held many church positions over the years. He is survived by two sons, a daughter, three brothers, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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A L B E RT C . PA LME R '30 Albert C. Palmer '30, former chair of the Board of Trustees, died December 1 1 in

Stoneham, Mas . , at age 4. He wa born in H inckley, Maine, and attended Good Will H igh School. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College, he was employed by ew En­ gland Telephone and Telegraph in 1 9 30 in the sales and traffic departments and eventu­ ally rose to d ivi ion traffic superintendent in Boston. From 1 9 50 to 1 956 he was an assis­ tant vice president of AT&T in e\\' York first as head of the traffic division and later i � the personnel department heading the labor relations staff. In 1 956 he returned to Boston as vice president-personnel \\'ith the ew England Telephone & Telegrarh Company, and as vice president·orerations from 1 9 59 to 1 965 he was resronsible for the engineering and marketing organi:ations in five states. At the time of his retirement he was vice presi­ dent-administration and rlanning, concerned principally with develorment of long-range corporate rlans. At the same time that he rur ued hi successful business career, he unselfishly de­ voted energie and talent in one role or an­ other to the l ife of the College. He served as an alumni interviewer, as a c las aoent and as a member of the Alumni Council. In 1 960 he wa elected alumni repre entative to the Board of T ru tee and worked tirelessly to raise College funds, serving key leader hip roles in the Bo ton area Mayflower Hill Develop­ ment Fund campaign, the Ford Challenge Campaign and the subsequent Fulfillment Campaign. He was a member of the board's budget and finance, student affairs, planning and executive committee . Elected chair of the board in 1 970, he erved tirelessly until 1 979. I n addition to hi succe· ful bu ines and Colby careers, he also was president of Massachusetts Blue Cross and vice chair of the Governor' Advisory Council for Com­ prehensive Health Planning in Massachu­ setts. For his service and contribution to Colby and to society at large he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws in 1 97 2 . The Alumni Association awarded him a Colby Brick in 1 973. Survivors include his wife Louise, his on, David Palmer ' 5 7 , his daugh � ter- in- law, Anne Burbank Palmer ' 5 5 , his daughter, Betsy, hi brother, Norman Palmer '30, and his si ter, Mary Palmer Mills '33.

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New England Football Officials. From 1 944 to 1 994, he and h is wife operated the Winnapaug Day Camp in We terly, and in 1 990 they were honored with the Commu­ nity Service Award by the local chamber of commerce. He was a member of the N e \\' England Day Camr Direc tors A sociation as well as a deacon at the Dunn's Comers Pres­ byterian Church in Westerly. Predeceased by hi brother George Allison '30, he 1s sun·iYed by hi wife, a son, Phillir Alli on '63, a daughter and five grandchildren.

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John . Davidson '3 1 , a retired rublic utilities executive, died June in Harrisburg, Pa., at 86. Born in Monrrelier, Vt., he attended the Roxbury chool in Cheshire, Conn. A hi tory major at Colby, he was rresident of Delta Kar­ pa Epsilon and vice rresident of the tudenr Counc il. After working for the ebraska Power Co., he joined the Pennsyh·ania Power & Light Co. as assistant to the \"ice pre idenr and during a 34-year tenure with the company held five differenr positions before retiring a vice presidenr of the ortheast Division. He was a director or trustee of numerous industrial de­ velopment, civic and charitable projects and was a founder and first presidenr of the Ha:el­ ton Industrial Development Corp., presidenr and director of Northeast Pennsylvania Public Television and a member of the Pennsylvania Selective ervice Appeals Board. In 1 963 he received an honorary doctorate oflaws from the University of cranton, which he erved as a trustee. A trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, he received the Americanism Award from B'nai B'rith for outstanding com­ munity service and was selected as a Distin­ gu ished Pennsy lvanian in 1 982 by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Prede­ ceased by his brother, James E. Davidson Jr. '30, he is survived by his wife, Faith {Rollins '3 1 ) , two daughters, five grandchildren and a ister.

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in 1 979. urvi ved by h is wife of 57 years, Runa, he leave <1 daughter, a son, five grand­ c h i ldren and one great-grandch ild.

A RT H U R A. F LEWE L LI NG '3 1 Arthur A. Flewe l l ing '3 l , a retired grocer and store manager, d ied August 5 m l pswich, Mass. , at 8 7 . He wa> born in Montice l lo, Maine, and graduated from R icker Classical I nsti tute. At Colby he belonged to Theta Kappa N u and wao inducted i nto Chi Epsilon M u honor society. He wa employed a man­ agerof the First N a t ional Stores i n Orono and then in Augusta, M a i ne, until hi retirement in 1 97 2 . I n 1 99 2 he moved Lo Ipswich. He I> survived by h is daughter, Barbara Flewe l l ing Swanson '64 , and two grandchildren. Hi s wife, I rene, survived h i m by one mon th.

A L I C E L I N S C OTT R O B E RTS '3 1 A l ice L i n cott Robert ' 3 1 , a Colby tru tee, d i ed August 3 1 i n outh Portland, M aine, at 84. She was born in R i pley, M ai ne, the d augh ter of A . E . L i nscott , Cla of 1 898. and Grace Farrar Lin cott 'O 1 and attended Port­ l and chools, grad ua t in g from Deering H i gh choo l . After Co lby, where she was an En­ gl ish major and member of S igma Kappa and part i c i pated i n Powder and W ig , he taught for a t i me i n the outh Portland e lementary schools and a lso took further cour e work at Boston Un i versity and Gorham tate Teach­ ers Col lege. She proud ly contin ued her fa m i l y 's assoc iation with the Col lege, serv­ ing o n several fu nd-ra i s i ng campa ign , a c l ass agent and as president of the South­ western M a i ne A l u mnae Assoc i a t ion. he a l o was a member of the Board of Tru tees from 1 9 5 4 to 1 960, and i n 1 974 she received a Colby Brick for her volun teer serv ice to Colby. Her other act i v i t ies i n c l uded the A ltrua Club and the Portland Col lege Club. Survivors i n c l ude her husband of 62 years, Wayne E . Roberts ' 3 1 , two sons, Dav id Rob­ erts ' 5 5 and John Roberts '60, a daughter in law, R u t h M c Donald Robens ' 5 5 , five grand­ c h i ldren, i n c l u d i ng Susan Roberts Dangel '86 and Linda Roberts Pagnano '88, and three n ieces.

RAY MO N D 0. KNA U F F ·33 Raymond

0.

Knauff

'33,

former board chair

of the Federal Trust Company, d ied October 22 in Watervi l le, M a i ne, at 83. A Watervi l le native, he graduated from Waterv i l le H igh School and from Coburn Classical I nstitute. A t Colby he was a member of Delta Kappa Eps i lon. H e joined the Federal Trust Com­ pany i n 1 9 3 3 as a teller and served succes­ s ively as treasurer, senior v ice president and cha irman of the board u n t i l h is retirement i n

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1 97 5 . He served Waterv i l l e as alderman and councilman and as treasurer of several local organizations and held member hip on sev­ eral boards of d i rectors. He is urvived by a daughter, Nancy At ki ns, two grandaughter and a nephew and n iece.

c i v i l ian technician with the 8th Air Force in Britain and a year a a corporal with the Army of Occupation in Japan. He was a journey­ man with the I n ternational Assoc iation of Mach i ni ts and Aerospace Workers and main­ tained member h i ps in the ociety of May­ flower Descendants and the Sons of the

C LA R E N C E R. L E W I Clarence R . Lewb

'33

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d i ed J u ne 24 i n

Wrentham, Ma> . A native of Woon ocket, R . l . , he wa a member of the freshman foot­ ba ll team at Colby and part ic ipated i n the George E . Murray Debating Society as well a in many public pea k ing contest . During World War II he was i n charge of ordnance work on merchant ships a t the Bo ton Navy

American Revolut ion . Several of his cousins attended the College. Survi vors include his brother, Reginald Hu mphrey '36, and a son.

CA R L R . P I ZZA NO '42 Carl R. Pizzano '42 died J une 1 , I 99 3 , in Manche ter, Wash., at 74. He was born in

Yard. The College comm u ni ty was enriched

Revere, M a . , where he attended high school. He also attended Kents H i l l School. After ervice in the Pacific during World War I I , he

by his year ofleaderships gifts. He is >urvived by his wife, Mary Ahern-Lewi .

completed h is economics major at the Col­ lege i n 1 94 7 and entered the ret a i l furniture

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Harold M. Plotkin '34, retired vice pre ident of Sweetheart Pla>tics, died

eptember 22 i n

Lawrence, Mass., at 8 3 . He was b o rn in Bo ton and graduated from Dorchester High School for Boy and the Huntington chool. At Colby he was managing editor of the Echo, editor of the comic magazine White Mule and co-author­ producer of the mu ical comedy Moon Madness (which in 1 934 fea tured in its prophetic plot a landing on the moon). He began in bu iness as an executive with Plotkin Brothers, a women' spec ialty shop in the Back Bay. For many years he was active in Boston civic affair as a member of the development committee for the Prud­ ential Center, as an officer of the Boston Con­ vent ion Bureau and as a member of the Massachusetts Senate Art Committee. He was a charter member of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, a member of the Boston Yacht Club and a member of the University Club in Boston. An accomplished painter and poet, he became president of the Back Bay Assoc iation in 1 9 5 1 and founded the Back Bay Art show, which later became the Boston Arts Fe rival. He al o was an active member of the Colby Alumni Counci l . He i

urvived by his wife,

Prisc illa, two sons from his marriage to the late Phyllis Jacobs, a sister and three grandchildren.

LA U R E C E A. H UM P H R E Y ' 3 7 Laurence A. H u mphrey ' 3 7 , formerly a manu­ facturing planner with Lockheed A i rcraft

bu iness. For 40 years he wa manager of the Poplin Fu rn i ture Co. in Framingham, Mass. He also served 28 years as a commander i n the U.S. Naval Re erve. He i survived by h i s wife, Eleanor, a nd by a son a nd tw o daughter .

E A B U RY T. STE B B I N S '48 eabury T. "Buzz" tebbins '48, a retired office manager, d ied August 1 3 i n Bronxville, N .Y . , at 7 1 . Born i n Yonkers, N .Y . , he was raised i n Hasting -on-H udson and attended Hasti ngs H igh School. A t Colby he belonged to the G lee Club and Powder and W ig, com­ peted on the tenn is and track teams and was a member of Zeta Ps i . I n World War II he served with d i t i ncuon and earned a Purple Heart for wound received during the landing at Anzio, I taly. He belonged to the Admiral Farragut Po t of the American Legion. For 40 years he sang with the Yonkers M a le G lee Club. In 1 988 he retired from his job as office manager for the W i l l iam Ha ll Co. He i survived by a brother, Roger M . tebbins '40, and a sister, Ruth Stebbins Cadwell '4 1 .

P ET E R C .

E ST E R '66

Peter C. Nester '66, formerly of Sippican Consultant , d ied i n J a maica Plain, N .Y., at 50. He was born i n M elrose, Mass., raised i n h a k e r Heights, N . Y. , a n d graduated from Stuyvesant H igh School in New York C i ty. After Colby he attended Officer's Candidate School i n Newport, R . l . , and served as a l ieutenan t in the Navy in Vietnam. After the service he j oined Sippican Consultants of

Clinton, M aine, H igh School. After two years

Cambridge, Ma s., and was employed i n ar­ ch i tectural engineering i n Saud i Arabia for ix years. He later l i ved in N ew York City, where he worked as a florist. He summered i n

with the Maine State H ighway Department, he joi ned Lockheed A i rcraft i n 1 939, where

Falmouth, Ma s s . , for m os t of h i s l i fe a nd was active in the Falmouth Yacht Club, w i n n i ng

he was employed unti l his retirement in 1 978.

many trophies as a sai lor. He is survived by h i parents, Walter C . and Eleanor D. Nester.

Corp., d ied J u ly 29 in Cal ifornia at 79. He was born in P i t tsfield, M ai ne, and graduated from

During World War II he served two years a a

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Cut Out the Competition I do not appreciate the d istinction between "Headli ners" and "Newsmakers." I consider my art icle "The Lawyer's Approach to Cri t ical Thinking" as newsworthy and as significant as anything in the " Headliners" sec t ion on page 2 7 of the November issue. I am not here to compete and do not want what I contribute about what I do to the College categorized and classified. You should simply have a section, as was always the case, under classmate news. There is something terribly wrong about the attitude of the College which is demonstrated in the d istinction you draw between "Head l i ners" and " ewsmakers." What you are saying in the d istinction between "Headliners" and " ewsmakers" is that there are people who matter and then there are people who matter. The message is that fame and fortune appear to count more for recogn ition as "headliner" news than the work of m i l l ions and m i l l ions of Americans who never make the fortunes and the front page of the newspaper but who s t i l l do the hard work of ociety. A college, to survive, must raise sufficient sums of money to pay for all the services and materials necessary to running a college. Colby College, however, would appear to be losing ight of the d istinc t ion between maintenance and mission. Perhaps a rereading of "The Epitaph" in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" or even Shelley's "Ozymandias" might do the college a world of refreshing good.

You're righ t , we had the date of Hoover's speech wrong. He spoke at a Baptise church in Waterville on November 8, 1 9 3 7 to commemorate the cemennial of Elijah Parish Lovejoy 's death. Lovejoy had received his diploma from Colb)' at che church. Hoover's speech was broadcast na­ tionwide .-Ed .

Stephen Schoeman '64 Scotch Plains, .J.

Correction

'Emeriti' Alumni How about givLng those of us who have had our 50th reunion a new name ? Instead of 5 0- Plus, how about "Emeritus." I t's far more dignified. We deserve it!

A Laugh at a Gaffe I enjoyed the August issue, espec ially the article about the 1 994 Commencement. On page 1 3 you referred to the visit of President Herbert Hoover in 1 9 30. I was present at that lecture-it must have been later than 1 93 0 as I was class of 1 940. Anyway, I will always remember when Colby President [Franklin] Johnson introduced Hoover, he meant to say "the d is t i nguished ex-president . . . " but alas, he said "the extinguished . . . " and then caught himself. I t sure caused a few titters in the audience. R u th Blake Thompson '40 Montpelier, Vt.

An article t itled, "The Book On Colby" in the ovember issue contained an inaccurate quote. President W i l l iam Cotter was quoted as saying "Our best scholars are our best teachers, too . " The quote should have read, "Our best scholars are most often our best teachers, too. "

H i lda N iehoff True '43 Georgetown, Mass.

Alumni Trustees Nominated The N o m i nati n g Comm ittee of the A l u m n i Council has n o m i n ated two a l u m n i for the position of a l u m n i trustee, with th ree­ year terms to beg i n at C o m m encement 1 99 5 . N o m i nated f o r a second t e r m i s Deborah E n g l a n d G ray ' 8 5 . G ray l ives i n Boston a n d i s a n attorney w i t h H a rcourt G e n e ra l , C hest n u t H i l l , M a s s . I n addition to h e r service as a member of the Board of Trustees, she i s a n a l u m n i volu nteer f o r career services, a n A l u m n i Fund class age nt, and a member of h e r 1 0th R e u n io n G ift Comm itte e . As a member of t h e boa rd, G ray c u rrently serves o n the B u d get and F i n a nce and E d u cational Policy comm ittees, i s vice c h a i r of the Student Affairs Comm ittee and i s a member of the Trustee Co mm i s s i o n o n M u lt i c u l t u ra l and Special I nterest H o u s i n g . N o m i nated for a fi rst, re newable t e r m is Peter G o rdon

' 64.

Gordon i s f o u n d e r a n d c h a i r m a n o f Crystal Geyser Water Co.

i n C a l i stoga, C a l if . A n overseer for the Col lege, h e served o n the Visiting Comm ittee to Admissions a n d F i n a n c i a l Aid. G ordon l ives i n M i l l Va l l ey, Calif. I n accordance with the by-laws of the Alumni Association, other nomi nations may be made by petition to the executive secretary of the Al u m n i Council with the signatures of one percent of the members of the association on or before M a rch 1 , 1 995. I n the event of n o n o m i nations by petition, the above candidates w i l l be declared elected by the chair of the Al u m n i Council.

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A Little P ick--Me--Up

I

t was, Arthur Sawtelle

were assigned to an operat­

month. A typical Ru

would decide later, the

ing unit and c l eaned the

c i t izen l i ves on about fifteen

toughe t j ob he ever lo\'ed . For two weeks la t fa l l , Sawte l l e , supervi or o f

entire area on the fi r t day, accord i n g to

ian

dollars a month."

awte l l e . He

ob ervation: c a ts roamed

was amazed and apal led at

Decay and poor manage­

hal lways and ca mpered

ment have left Moscow' infra tructure hurti ng,

c u ·tod ial service-, overcame

the "fi l thy" cond ition in the

under doors a l l over the

communicat ion barriers,

operating room. "There wa

hosp i t a l ,

homesickness and extraord i­

a l ight fixture d i rectly above

awte l le ay .

There wa no official

awtelle ay . Like the ho pita! where they worked,

nary physical demands to

the operat ing table that wa

c lean ing taff, o nur e tried

help improve cond it ions at a

fu l l of gunk that filtered

to keep up as be t they could

c h i ldren's hosp ital in

down every time the l ight

when not working with

Moscow. He wa part of a

wa m ved , " he aid. "One

patient , Sawte lle ays. They

his roommate once had to

group of custod ian and

of the phy i c ians there told

were "eager and friendly"

j u mp from the e levator to

c u tod ial managers from

me that it hadn't been

and welcomed the Ameri -

across the United States

the hotel where the group tayed wa poorly con­ structed. He de cribed how

the floor after i t topped a few feet from it de t ination.

organized by People to

On another occasion, unable

People, an exchange network that sends Ameri­ can c i t izens abr ad on humanitarian missions. Sawte l le heard about the opportu n i ty from Physical Plant Direc tor A lan Lewis,

Although the hospital had millions of dollars of s tate-of- the -art diagnos tic equipmen t , clean ing s taff re lied on medieval solutions .

then hooked up with

to get an elevator at all, Sawte l le and ome col­ leagues walked down 24 flights of tairs earching every few floor for stairwel l e n t r i e because t h e bu i ld ing had been erected in asym­ metrical sections.

organizer Bob Thomas, a c ustodial manager at

The people he met c leaned in ten years. "

Corne l l Col lege in Iowa.

cans' ideas and guidance.

awte l l e noted several

"My biggest frustration wa

showed re i l ience and p i r i t , Sawt e l le says. "I grew

The trip began October 2 1

strik ing con trad ict ions. For

not being able to commun i­

u p with the Cold War and

from New York.

example, although the

cate. I used s ign language a

had a l ways i magined

hospital had m i l l ions of

lot-got pretty good at it, in

R uss ians as m i l itant, cold

group worked was a sprawl­

dollars of state-of- the-art

fact-but it was hard to

people. I found them to be very fr iendly."

The hospita l where the ing 5 5 0,000-square-foot

d iagno t i c equipment,

really teach them in a one­

fac i l i ty bu i l t in the mid-

c lean ing staff re l ied on

on-one situat ion."

l 980s. " I t already looks forty

medieval solut ions to

Sawtelle says lack of

Before they left, the American group left toys

years old , " Sawtel le said.

address a lack of appropiate

money appears to be

The custodial group was at

supplies. "The broom they

damaging Russian soc iety.

in the hospital, including a

the hospital to train staff, to

used were bundles of sticks

"We saw a lot of young men

handful of Colby hats and T­

and c lothing for the children

c lean and sanitize rooms and

t ied together , " Sawte l l e

in three-quarter-length

shirts. "I feel what we d i d

to give guidance on equip­

said. " W h a t t h e y u s e d for a

leather j ackets, which is the

m a d e l ife better for the

ment and supplies they

mop was a board on the end

'uniform' of the Mafia there.

children at the hospital,"

would need to keep the

of a handle w ith a c loth

We were told that physi ­

Sawtelle said. "There is o

hospital as germ-free as

wrapped around it." Perhaps

c ians make an average o f

much to do, but I hope we

possible. The Americans

the most extraord i nary

about o n e hundred dollars a

helped a little."

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