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Volume 88
Issue 4 Fall 1999
Article 17
October 1999
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Fall 1999
will begin a farewell
clubs as he approaches
at
will mail notices
of
November 19
Washington, D.C.
November 20
Philadelphia
January 23
Los Angeles
January24
to alumni,
Chicago
ch area to an
Denver
3
March 30
or
Seattle
Hartford
April25
April26
or
e ..
umni®colby.
May1o
Downt
Mayu
Waltha
May25
Maine
8
The Natural
Kent Wommack ' 7 7 perseveres to preserve.
I4
Vying for Scholars
Colleges keep raising the bar to stay on top.
19
Millennium Story
What do Colby professors find most interesting
about the 20th century?
2
readers write
Most assuredly not a trenchcoat ; early years
is for toddlers.
3
32
gifts & grants
Environmental excel lence attract attent ion;
besting 50 percent.
from the hill
The elm-less Elm i ty; new numbers for
W M H B; Y2K at a "most-wired" campus.
26
books & authors
John Pullen '35 rev is i ts Joshua Chamberlam
later in l ife; Don nyder '72 vi it the mother
he never knew.
periscope
Gleaned from Earl Smith's weekly
new letter, F.Y.I.
4
30
64
final period
More h istory is made on the Kennebec River.
student life
Undergraduate research goes year round;
unique A lfond apartments opened.
28
faculty file
Who's running for Congre s and "'ho' not;
studying francophone \\'Omen.
34
alumni news
35
classnotes
59
obituaries
profiles
36
Paul \VIlle,· '·L
Jame, :-.lcConchie '63
48
el:-orah Palman '/44
(!J�
I
read ers wr1te
·
"Early Years" Is for Toddlers
On Diversity
ue of Colby maga:ine ( urn­
I am writing regarding a recent event that
mer '99) arrived here about a week ago. Ed
occurred at Colby that appeared in the most
[the Rev. Edwin H. Shuman '3 ] and I have
recent Colby alumni magazine. It is quite
The la t i
very much enjoyed reading the various ar­
obvious that Colby continues to struggle
ticles and feature . However, \\"hen we turned
with the same issues of"diversity" and "race"
to the
ection called Alumni at Large, we
that plagued the school when I was a student
were appalled to discover that anyone who
(19 6-9 1 ) . lt is d isappointing to see that the
graduated before 194 \\"as non-existent, with
arne liberal rhetoric and indoctrination that
the exception of Newsmaker Ray Farnham
was foisted upon my classmates and me is
'36 and a long list of alumni who had died.
till alive and well on Mayflower Hill. . . .
Do people at Colby think that anyone
While I detest racism in any form, l don't
over 0 years of age does nothing except sit
believe that the College has any right to
in a rocking chair and ruminate? . . .
provide "diversity training" to any of its
Why did omeone have to lump the 50-
students or faculty. If there are issues that
Piu group into "The Early Year " just as if
trouble any group of students at the college
then the college has a responsibility to pro­
we were toddlers again I
orry to be complaining but it trouble
me greatly that Colby has apparently not
vide adequate forums for the students and
facu l ty members to exchange ideas and dis­
reali:ed that our generation is living longer
cuss these prominent issue . The College
and doing more than ever before, even if a
should not endeavor to regulate or legislate
ltttle more slowly'
what students can and cannot say and think.
Marjorie Gould
human '3 7
West Oneonta, N . Y .
ing" is merely a way to restrict freedom of
Ill health has forced Fletcher Eaton '39 to sus­
pend h1s dunes as correspondent for the classes
ews of those classes may
expression and speech . . . .
l think that it is time for Colby College to
take a leadership role to teach its students the
be submmed directly to Associate Director of
qualities that all human beings share and that
Alumm Relations Meg Bernier' I in the Alumni
are common to all races and religions. Instead
Office, Colb) College, Waterville ME 04901.
of focussing on "diversity" and the qualities
Please also send suggestions for renaming "The
that make the student body different, why
Earl:- Years," and we'll adopt the best one.
can't the protesters focus on the qualities
continued on page 63
In the Trenches
I enjoyed the article "Chari ie Bassett
and his trademark trenchcoat prepare to
leave Colby." I certainly wish him well in
his future adventures. He sounds like my
kind of guy. As a lifelong haberdasher, I
wonder if I might be permitted a mi nor
quibble. (And I know that Pacy and Ludy
are looking over my shoulder as I type
thi . ) The coat that you give a fu l l - page
color photo to under the mle "Hanging I t
p" may mdeed b e Charl ie' trademark,
but It mo t a >uredly
1
Greg ThomaJan '5
Tht! cuac
m
que
Volume 88
Number 4
Colby Staff:
Stephen Collins '74
executive editor
Brian Speer
art director
Robert Gillespie
Alumni at Large editor
Leo Pando
illustrator
Karen Oh '93
designer
Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97
staff writer
Joanne Lafreniere
staff assistant
Brian Speer, Karen Oh,
Scon Perry, Jeff Earicbun,
Bridget Besaw Gorman
contributing photographers
From cover photo:
Bridget Besaw Gorman
ately. This Orwellian phrase "diversity train­
marjories@prod igy.net
of 19 39 and before.
I f there are racists among the student body,
then they should be disciplined appropri­
Colby
uun.
Bo ron , Ma».
not a trenchcoat.
Administration:
William R. Coner, president;
Peyton R. Helm, vice president for
development and alumni relations;
Earl H. Smith, dean of the College;
Margaret Viens '77, director of
alumni relations
Alumni Council Executive
Committee:
John Devine '78, Chair;
Lou Richardson '67, Vice Chair;
Eleanor Amidon '75; David
Bergquist '61; James Bourne '81;
Bruce Drouin '74; Ernest Fortin
'51; Lisa Hallee '81; Diana
Herrmann '80; Barbara Bone
Leavitt '52; Joanne Weddell
Magyar '71, Wendy Kennedy
Ralph '90, Christopher Tompkins
'89; Johnston Whitman '59; Alex
Wil on '73; Philip Wysor '70
Colby i published four times yearly
for the alumni, friends, parents of
students, seniors, faculty and staff
of Colby College.
Audress correspondence to:
Managing Editor, Colby
41 1 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901-8841
or e-mail to:
mag@colby.edu
on the Internet:
http://www.colby.euu/colby.mag/
Alumni Office
207-872-3190
LB)
FALL
199
2
periscope
I
By Earl Smith
Colby Is 18th
teache a cour e on Daly. The
People article wa; prompted by
a court ru l mg upportmg B \
dec1 1on to force the tenured
a oc1ate profe or to retire a
a result of her per 1 renee 111
refu mg to teach men and
women 111 the ame clas'>. Daly
teache; both men and women,
but eparately.
The unheal thy emphasb on
college ran k i ng� a�idc, olby
folb w i l l be plea�ed that the
ollege held lo;e to la;t
year'; pl ace ment among U.
News & World ReJJort
rank i ng; of the "Be�t
N at ional L i beral Am
ol lege�." Col by wa� tied for
l th, after being 17th in
1998. Bowdoin dropped two
pla e; to 9th; Bate , four
pla e , to 2 3rd. ther
chool are
A
NE
A mh•r t 2nd , W i l l iam 3rd,
M iddlebury 5th, We�leyan
lOth, Trinity 2 2 nd and
onnect icut ol lege 25th.
Discover Colby's
Back Yard
We Teach
Best of Web
olby's caverns Book tore
Web ;ire wa rated the .:tl site
by A ltaVista for folks
searching for Maine books.
Wh ile most companies pay to
have their si te· l i ted that
high, Bruce Barnard and
ompany j ust work to have a
great ;election, excel lent
resp01re for searche· and
quality customer service.
M u h of the credit goe to
Barb h utt, book divi ion
manager and Web guru.
Best Buy
The eprember Kiplinger's
Personal Finance Maga:::ine
ranks the "Top 100 Values in
Private ol lege·," and olby
A
i:, 77 th. or all the E
school· made the l ist. Those
that d id include Amherst 6th,
Will iams 2 7th, � 1 iddlebury
4)rd, Tuft· 51st, Bowdoin
61 st, olb 77th, Bates and
Ham i l ton (tied ) '4th and
Trin1ty ''th.
·
Boost for Books
olb •'s summer rear Book·
l nstitute got e,·en mnre
famou: with some fine
publicity 111 • rthur Frommer',
s ·ndi ·a ted column, "Budget
Tra,·el." The fir;,t h.1lf Llf a J uly
column in The CH' York
D 1ih c!H'S and ebewhere
.
was a glow i no reCL1mmen la­
t ion for olby'· program that
con -luded, "Anyone whL)
treasures i �eas should CL1me
awa w ith a refreshed set of
perspecri,·es."
·
In J u ly the unday New York
Times reported that "After
years of hying away from the
field, a growing number of
col lege students, including
tho e from e l i te l i beral arts
colleges, now say they want to
be choolreachers." In that
article, Mark Tappan
( education ) said, "In rhe last
lO years, the number of
tudenrs in olby College's
education and human
development program ha
doubled, to almost 1 00."
Long Peddle
The Randolph (Vt. ) Herald
reported june 1 7 that
B lak en ey anford '01 pa sed
through, headed for the coast.
The We t oa r, that is.
anford and Jacob Grant, both
al ifornian , were riding
4,500 mile from right to left
and raised more than ,000
for the Env i ronmental
ouncil in anta Barbara. A
ermonter told them that 1f
you flatten the Green
fountain , ermont 1· a
large <1" Texm• . Havmg pedaled
up ·e,·eral of them, the pa1r
\\'il> mclmed to be!Ie\·e It.
leanwhde, L)ming ea t from
�an Franc1.-o on a b1ke, .J.
\ all Ill ' 9 of Belgrade,
lame, kept u' up to date wnh
pu� lished d1,p.uch "each
"eekend 111 rhe enrral :\I me
:\ lommg
�
encmd
Beetle Bob
Bob elson (geL1logv) 1'
quoted at length 111 an article
about fireflie in the July Down
East magazine. Down East
tapped h is kn wledge-not of
rocks but of beetle ( which i
what fireflie are ). Explaining
the function of firefly flashes,
Bob said, "It' an internal
b iochemical process u ed
principally by female to attract
males." Sometimes it's an
amorous come-on; sometime
it's to attract males of another
species. "They'll come flying
in," he said, "and the female
will eat them."
Debra's Dust-Up
ome Boston ollege official
were up er with Debra
Campbell ( religiou stut.lie ) ,
quoted in the J une 1 4 i u e of
People magazine in an article
about the t.li mis al of that
school' controver ial faculty
member Mar Daly. "Bo ton
ollege' clai m to fame are
lary Daly and the football
team," qu ipped Debra, who
Two of Ru Cole' h1olow,
tut.!ent;, Darcy orne!! and
Rachel Palmer, hoth '99 grad.,,
have wntten a ;plent.!Id gLut.!e
to the olby nature traiL The
Illustrated booklet mrroduces
elementary choolchddren to
bas1c ecology through hand>­
on actiVItle , ant.! young rer
who vi It the Mu eum of Art
get a copy.
What's Brewing?
Four recent olby grad , who
among them have degree 1n
biochem1 try, molecular
biology, physic and econom­
ic , tarred the oa tal
Extreme Brewmg o. 111
M itl. tl. lerown, R. I., and rhe1r
fir r batch of ewport torm
Amber Ale wa to h1p th1
ummer. I n May an A soc1ated
Pre tory about Derek Luke
'9 , Will Rafferty '97, Brent
Ryan '97 and Mark in lair
'97 began: "Four college
budd1e and a comummg
pa s1on for beer might ounJ
l ike a formula for d1 a-.ter. Bur
to the young men tllllmg ;may
m a hop at the �l 1ddletown
Trade man enter, n' a
bu me; plan."
Moosecellaneous
Charlie Bassett' warm pu., wa on page llne of the J u l) 16
hrom le of H1gher Educauon; he wa' featured amLmg L>ther
revereJ . . college profe -.or wh,) retired rh1 ve.u A rrul)
wonderful art icle on harlie lead an 111,1de 'eLtl 111 t itled
\'Crappmg L:p holarly Career.... olh\ .md Jim \\'e
tt'
men\ cr'b' country ream ctmtmue> ro b....1 r rhe h 1ghe r uf
collectl\'e GPA' , wnh the 'yuad po'tmg a 3 .574 to im1 h rh 1rd
(l:>ehmd Hobart and r. �Iary\ Lini\·er It\) among all of rhe
nauon\ Dl\'hlon I l l -hovk ... ]ani e Ka man w, recenth
a ked bv the m1rh t)llege rru tee, ro rra\ el to 'e\\ Yorl anJ
meet With rhem r0 d 1 cu ' 0lh\ re,Idenual hie pr�ram . . . .
Tamae Prindle ( Ea,r A'1an 'rud1e ) ha, been re-elecreJ
pre,Ident L)f rhe J apane'e Language Teacher ' A >OCiarwn ot
. 'ew England (JLT.>\-. 'e" Engl,nd ) .
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FALl
1�9
( 0 L BY
<m>
A I from the h i l l
The Erstwhile Elm City
Colby and Waterville face challenges together
B)' S tephen Collins '74
T
hroughout rhe country, col­
lege
and uni1·ersities are
forging new partnership wirh rhe
towns rhey call home. Yale, rhe
ntl·ersityofPennsyh-ania, Trin­
tty and Connecticut college are a
few that ha1•e, very publicly, come
co the aid of their distre sed cities.
Waterville, while miles and mag­
nitudes away from rhe problems
ofHartford, Philadelphia and
ew
Ha1·en, nevertheless faces chal­
lenges as the economy shifts from
manufacturing to
ervices and
technology and as markets be­
come global. Thu
Colby and
Waterville, with a clo e town­
gown relationship oon to enter
It:. th1rd century,
!miG. to addre
are forming new
ne11· challenge .
Watemlle, home to Colby
mce l
l 7 , e1·okes different
In the 1960s ( left photo) buildings between Appleton and Temple Streets, including the popular Parks' Diner, were razed
Temple and Silver Streets are the heart of Waterville's downtown district.
businesses on Main Street.
100 years in Oakland, likewise
wa a founding member of the
orne deni­
uccu mbed to the pressures of glo­
M id State Economic Develop­
Last spring, as the city gov­
:em of the old campu claim that
bal competition. Diamond Match
ment Corporation, formed in
ernment was reorganizing after a
mayoral recall referendum, Cot­
memone for succe sive genera­
non
of
olb1ans.
the youthful ntalny of college
inOakland,rhe ki-Land Woolen
the early 1990s. When the
tudent 1;, 1111 ;,ed downtown. A
Mill in Clinton and Wyandotte
former
tern ' s Depar t m e n t
ter convened a Downtown Ad­
later generation 1 no talgic for
Industries in Waterville are other
Score building suffered forec lo­
visory Group to work on in-town
Park ' Dmer, Ome's, The Majes­
mothballed relics in an emerging
sure in 1996, Cotter mobil ized a
beautification and new public
tiC re,raurant and the warren of
post-industrial environment.
coali tion of nonprofit and cor­
events, new business develop­
porate sponsors who formed the
ment and waterfront redevelop­
Waterville Regional Arts and
ment along the Kennebec River.
rreer
cour'e m the 1960;,. :-.lam
h.t
Today visitors coming from
berween Mam and Elm
th H were rerlaceJ by The
on­
treet
'>truggled m recent \'ear;,.
extt 3
on 1-95 have to negoti­
ate nme traffic lights and pa
three
hoppmg centers to get
ommunity Center to buy the
Members of the group, predom i­
building and run it a a cul tural
nantly stakeholders in the down­
'l<>thu:r' Dunham\, Butler' and
downtown, and the route from
center. Colby trustees author­
town sector, have been working
t�.m\ do eJ m the 19 0 , anJ
extt 34 pa;,;,e;, the Elm Pla:a
l:ed the lead gift of
with thecity's new mayor, Nelson
100,000 co
Le\'lne' went out of bu me" m
,hoppmg center and a battery of
e tablish The Center. Today the
Madore, and new city admin is­
1 996 .1fter IL 7 year anchonng
fa t-food re raurant;,. The atel­
comrlex contains retail shops
trator, Ronald
the <>uth enJ of �1am
llte -.h oppmg c e n ter;, have
and
thu i a s t i c a l l y welcomed the
<xm
.tftem arJ, the
hor 'n a1·e
rreaJ actll'lt\ away from the
oncour'e
lllJ <.enter. That, coupled ll'lth
'urerm.ul..er m TI1e
d,> eJ
treer.
m f,t,·nr <>f 'urer wre' 1n
, uth mg ,h,'rrmg cent�r .
TI1e r.1rer mdl .1Cr<>" the
K�:nn�:h:<. 111 \\'m lnw 1
(,md
,-Jorle ) .liter
1 rl.: ,hm n J,>wn
qutet
K1ml--erh-
nn' 1
e'lr' ,tg''·
1 ,JJ�\V()( l�n�ldl, ,,hl�.h rro­
du�.eJ !me l.lbnc' for mure rh.m
L BY
L L
I Y
nrrer
,h
nity organi:anon and rhe city
'" dl mgne ;, ro dri1·e to
he.1lrh of , lam
rreet.
While the downtown till has
January meetmg
its challenges, signs of progre s
rru,tee-. e tablt;,hed The Colby
abound. The employme nt rate
At the1r
ch.tl lengeJ the ecllnom1c
ol lege Downtown Develop­
ol h ,
ingel, who en­
support and interaction.
councd chamber .
Augu,r,l, B,mgor and Portl,md,
h.1
ervice;., offices, commu­
IS
good, as mill job have been
ment Loan Program and ear­
replaced in other ecrors of the
reu>gnl:mg rhe 1mrorr.m<.e <>f ,1
marked up ro
economy. The
nhr.mt ut\ center, ha
lm1 -mrere,r loam ro encourage
fllnl.trJ lll <>ffer
reppeJ
l mdlton for
rc f'<l11'>1hlc development
.l">t'r.mce.
Pn�'1Jent \\'dltam R. \m er
()lJ h1,111c' d1.,rnct or
4
111
ro
rhe
keep
.F. Hathaway
hire company still turns out
drc ; ;, s h i r t s a l o n gs i d e
the
Kennebec after a group ofMain e
Most Wired, Most Prepared
"YZK Bugs To Be Remedied Late," proclaimed the headlme on an
Associated Pre s story in
eptember."
o country in the world will
get all of the system fixed by January 1," the story said.
Detail
implied that one
hould think twice before boarding
commuter flight in Bulgaria on
ew Year\ Eve and that trusting
traffic lights in Angola could be d1cey once the date rolb.In the
the health care indu try-"becau e doctor;, ho pttal and payment
sy tems are o decentralized"-was runnmg behmd.
"YZK readines is of greate t concern in developed countncs >uch
as the United tate because they are most dependent on mformauon
technology," the AP reponed.And a college on the
Yahoo'
/ncemet
Life most-wired-colleges list i among the most dependent entitle>
and, thus, may have the most cause for concern.
olby ha taken the threat eriou ly. A contingency plannin[l
task force is chaired by Raymond Phillip , director of mformauon
technology services.
"Work has been underway ince the early 1990s to prepare the
College' IT sy rem for the year ZOOO date change," Ph1ll1p re­
ported.By May, all campus systems were rated "fully compliant" With
two exceptions-a few device that are part of johnson
onrrol
environmental control systems, which pa eel test this ummer, and
a few older Windows microcomputers, which were fixed or replaced.
Questions raised about the relative preparedness of out ide vendor
when Waterville created The Concourse. Today (right photo) the buildings between
and government agencies proved more problematic. The tarring date
for this year'sjan Plan term wa pu hed back a day (to)anuary4) to help
cope with the extraordinary travel volume that's anticipated and
investors brought it back from
with Winslow, where Crowe
ro
delay travel until rran portation sy rem check out.
the brink three years ago. LL
Rope set up a manufacturing
Phillips and department head have contmg ncy plan for the
Bean moved a call center into
plant in a former warehouse, and
electrical upply, food delivery, water supply, propane del"ienes, and
the JFK Mall and recently an­
an existing biotech and a preci­
banking services. A test of the College' phone witchmg hardware
nounced it will expand its holi­
sion machine firm were pur­
wa planned for the fall break.
day ea on
chased by new parent companies.
perations there to
year-round. The Moming Senti­
Unlike Hunter Thompson, who wrote in Rollmg
The Chinet Company, for­
nel put up a new building facing
merly Keyes Fibre, still produce
the only people who'll be safe to have a
astonguay quare several years
paper plates and container
people," Colby planner
from recycled materials on the
sobering reference from wh1ch to work: "The
Fairfield-Waterville town line,
ice
redesign and overhauL Both
and
both the re pon ivene
oncourse wa
haw's Pla:a and Elm Plaza hop­
ping centers r
ently announ ed
akland, Town
America between Waterville
and
of
kowhegan remain one of
!anager
The Elm
used
tratecreation of a high-te h bu i­
lost the last of ns stately elm'
m
be. In fact, Elm
th
ta k force' re­
port stated. o, m
addition
Kennebec Regional Develop­
van
prepara­
ment Authorir •'s multi-million­
as a new economy emerge ,
tion,,
olby wdl
dollar First Park is a multi-town
ol by and the people who
initiative that won a srare11·ide
bridge the
competition for funding and
munit
'hould break ground next spring.
read·
A n
II'
bridge 'Outh of down­
town established a se ond link
in
spon,e capabihtie ,"
rreet
this summer. Bur in ome 11·a ·
, . The
ro
It' ad-
have five evaluation
oliege and rhe com­
team' mob1II:ed before
·
are prol'lng they're
midn1ehr January I
to
help \Vmervdle face
'ee 1f there are any ,ur-
the challenges common
pomteJ out
of the people
Iaine to disasters and
it'' more than It used to be, and
ness park near Exit
wdl be dead
the emergency re­
ity isn't what it
Michael Ro '74 h lped orche'­
torm of January 199
ome weakne e
the state' largest employers.
plans for expansion.
In
appi Fine Paper/ orth
fnend
are not panicky. But they Jo have a
spruced up with an ambitious
ago, and The
wne, "I am
hoarding bullets, many thousands of them.... After the year 2000,
w
pr�>e,, anJ they won't relax un­
ro SL1
man· small nwns rodav.
til Jan Plan '' underway.
5
F .. L L
1999
COL BY
CBB Consortium Opens Study Abroad Centers
and the off-campus study pro­
International study opportuni­
help of an
6,500 award from
Weiss, direcror of academic af­
rie , long a priority at Colby,
the Andrew W. Mellon Foun­
fairs and off- campus s t u d y .
gram more broadly, is to balance
rook an important step forward
dation. The three colleges pro­
Colby establ ished a corpora­
the benefits of cultural immer­
rhi
fal l as rwo of three new
po ed the collaboration ro make
t i o n-C o l b y Co l l e g e U . K .
sion with the maintenance of
collaborat ive Colby, Bare and
the study abroad experience
Ltd.-and purchased a five­
Colby's academic standards. For­
Bowdoin center opened abroad.
more coherent and ro coordi­
story, 1 8 th -century b u i ld ing at
eign study usually is a powerful
The CBB London Center, ad­
nate it better with the home
19 Bloomsbury Square, near the
experience for students, but of­
mint cered by Colby, began its
campuse ' curricula. By pooling
British M useum and the Lon­
ten it is poorly integrated with a
maugural term eptember 6, and
their resources, Colby, Bares and
don School of Econ o m i c s .
student's program of study, and
t h e CBB Qu i r o C e n t e r i n
Bowdoin are able ro maintain
S i nce renovations won ' t b e
many programs are not as rigor­
Equador, r u n b y Bates, also
three programs that meet their
complete u n t i l t h i s winter, the
ous as officials at Colby, Bates
opened rhi
collective standard , giving stu­
two dozen students in the inau­
and Bowdoin would like. The
in
dents from all three institut ions
gural semester are i n rented
CBB programs are an innova­
ourh Africa, w i l l
a wider range of choices than
space a few blocks away. Occu­
tive attempt to provide the ca­
one college could offer by itself.
pancy and a dedication of the
thartic exper ie nce of l iv i n g
The CBB London Center is
Bloomsbury Square property
abroad along with t h e academic
fal l . A center ad­
m i n i rered b y Bowdoin
Caperown,
offer course beginning in
ep­
rember 20 0.
The CBB study abroad con­
Colby's mo t ambitious satel­
ornum wa developed with the
l i te init iative ro dare, said Jon
w i l l take place in J anuary.
One goal of the consortium,
rigor that is a hall mark at all
three Maine colleges.
While handsome terraces give Colby an advantage in national
beauty contests, budgetary support and administrative appreciation
also help Colby achieve the national ranking, Stockford ays. Equip­
ment, sod, irrigation, fertilizer and a half ton of grass seed each year
aren't inexpensive, and neither are training courses for groundskeepers.
Perhaps most critical is the crew's belief in the importance of its
work. Thirteen fu l l - t ime workers maintain the grounds and are
augmented by seven ummer workers. Rodney Ferland is "one of our
proudest," aid ground keeper Danny Huard. " You couldn't meet a
nicer guy." Ferland, after more than 20 years at Colby, maneuvers the
ll-foor mower around campus like a surgeon, tilt ing the side decks
so they don't scalp the terraces and skil lfully avoiding obstacle .
Dana Jones, who is the athletic field triper, watches games on
televi ion "ro see how straight their line are," said Stockford. Jones
is such a perfectionist with the blue "C" on the football field that
coaches of other Colby teams have requested exact replicas on their
fields. " I t's the added things that we like to do," said Stockford. " I t
dre es i t up." Now, with a horticulturi t recently added, "we have a
Groundskeeper Rodney Ferland operates an 11-foot-w1de mowerw1th prec1s1on,
very diverse crew," he aid. "There is very little we can't accomplish."
elp1ng keep Colby on the most beaut1ful campus list.
The ground crew maintains about lOO a res of lawn and ports
and mow another 200 acres twice a year. " I t takes seven
Grounds for Approbation
field
(..<l lhv' c.unpu mm·eJ up ro numher f\\'0 m The Pnnceron Rev1ew's
people to mow and trim the entire campus," aid Stockford, describ­
.mnu.1l r.mkmg nf Amenca\ mmr heaut1ful c.ampu e>-hehmJ only
mg a ycle that endo Friday afternoon and begins again Monday
morn mg. It take, one per>on two month to prune planting , and
another perwn wao h�red this summer olely to remove weed .
1hc
nJ\er
Jt' nf RKhmnnJ.
reJ1t J. FreJnc.k Lu on, the ongmal
.1rd11teLt of thL �1.1, fl, m er Hdl campu,, crcJJt campu> leaJer> who
JuJJLI<'U h c p.mJeJ the nngmal pl.m, anJ creJ1t the h.uJworkmg
Gemng th mg;, green in time for commenc ement is an annual
t lk m the PIH,K,ll Pl.mt Dcpanmenr
challenge, hut the most hect1
.mlll·LKrc•
"-tuJcnt,
ho keep Cnlhy' 5
hudJmg>
p1th.
n
'
the open 'pace' anJ
are >pent preparing for the
Whde to kford 1> clearly proud of hJ> unit's contribut ion to the
number I wo rankmg, nobody IS restmg on any laurels. If anything , the
rankmg ha, been a >pur to even h 1gher aspiration in the spirit of the
ex p an>J\·e
olh. "It' one of rhc f1r't thmg people
n<'ll c \dtcn dtn lOur," ,ud 'cnh
"Tit.H t 1r 1 11111 rc Jon 1 1m
day
openmg of chool .
hen renurk dut
l.t\\ 1�:> rh H ltlrol reJ them to
L
\\
t<
ktorJ, grounJ,
upcr\'1 or.
oiJ A \'I, c.u rental ad'>: "We're number two ;o we try harder."
rr,m1."
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wit and wisdom
"We start here "
D1rector of Intercultural Affa1rs Jen Roseboro,
("Why Are All
the Black Kids S1ttmg Together m the CafetenaT), wh1ch
to the Class of '03 quot1ng the summer read1ng
advocated break1ng the silence about rac1sm.
"Real places are not defmed by arbitrary political boundanes"
Gary Snyder Pulitzer pnze-w1nnmg poet,
pioneering enwonmentalist and Zen Buddh1st. at a roundtable
discussion on poetry and the bio-reg1onal voice.
"Courage and endurance."
Didier Kamundu Batundi, Colby's 1999-2000 Oak Human R1ghts
Fellow, when asked what resources h e had to build and run a
human nghts organization 1n war-torn Za1re
Lee L'Heureux '03, summer station manager at WMHB, spent his time
"The fat is i n the f1re . "
with lawyers and engineers working on a licensing snafu.
Brian W1ercinski '92, t o Charlie Bassett. lamenting both t h e sixth
unanswered vars1ty goal and the g1rth of some of the alumni
Do Change that Dial
WMHB-FM,
players in September's annual alumn1 men's soccer game
olby's community radio station, i going back on
the air this fall for its 34th year. Which wouldn't be news but for the
"It only took you 20 years to graduate'"
fa t that it hut down voluntarily in July and remained off the air for
BenJamin Humphreys '00, Student Government Assoc1at1on
the rest of the ummer while officials scrambled to get FCC approval
president, upon makmg B1ll Cotter an honorary member of the
Class of 2000 follow1ng the State of the College address
for a new frequency.
(And before the hall cleared. plans were in motion to
This summer Lee L'Heureux '03 expected that his job as station
s1gn up Cotter for the Senior Pledge dnve )
manager during the months between his graduation from Watervi lie
IIigh
chool and his matriculation at
olby would amount to "just
"If you bnng an apple for lunch, don t put 1t on your head
making ure everything ran smoothly." Trouble was, it didn't.
•
Dean of the College Earl Sm1th, explaining that though the
l n July he learned that WM HB had, for more than 10 years, been
campus
broadca·ring at 90.5 mH: even though it was licensed for 9 1 .5 mH:.
IS
an off1c1al Wildlife Management Area where hunt1ng
IS
banned, new signs were bemg posted 1 n the wake of a new
Ma1ne law that perm1ts archers to hunt deer 1 n c1ty lim1 s
Only recently, when the Maine Public Radio network filed for the
90.5 frequency to fill in a weak sector in its coverage, did the problem
come to light.
Research rc\'caled that in the 1 9 Os the people running \Y/ IHB
filed to change its frequency from 9 ! .5 to accommodate
lame Public
Boyle Will Edit Colby
R.1diowhen it began broadca ring on 9 1 . in the Water\'llle area.Wnh
<1 lack of continuity in the largely :.tudenr-run station, no one e\'er
Gerry Bovlc '7 '.author of f1,·e accla1mecl my,tery nnn:l ,mJ ,m
f�1llowed up on the application and the change \\'a· ne\'er appro\'ed.
award-wmnmg new,paper CLllumn, "Accorclmg
been namecl managmg eel nor of
So instead of dealing with sponsors, schedules and re ord compa­
nies <1ll summer, L' Heureux worked wnh Dean Llf
K<1S�m<m and D1rector of :tudent
began h1, eel nona! dutic' at
tudent Jan1ce
member at the
Ctl\'ltle, L1sa Hallen, lawyer' and
w
olbv m Oc tober,
encral .\lam.: .\lomm
t:ncmd ior I
engineers.His on-a1r experience m three year:. a> a \XI IHB OJ durmg
recemh ne\h ecltwr. He h.1, Llmtnbutccl frcclan
high school ser\'ed him well-he handled mecl1.1 mten·1ew, abt1ut
Colb). mcluclmg "Hangmg It
the situation like a prn.
Pr,lle"nr
been apprL)\'ed for \'i,l IHB
w
,1
111
the
'' .b .1
,t,1ft
vc.u , mo t
c .uu
le,
to
'ummer 1"uc, .1hour
harle- Ba"ett\ 1ttempt tL> rettrc. &>vic, whom
brc-r btll,k, Bordalm�,
re�ume broadcbtmg ,H k1w pLl\\er,
resume sending a stwnger s1gnal that helped build
h,1
re' le\\er h.we CLlmp.ueJ t<l R,>berr B. P.ukcr '5 . publt,hcJ ht
Hallen and L'Heureux repLlrted 1n September that ,1 ,,1lut1lm hac!
enough to coYer the campus are<1, while It aw.llh F �
'p,"
Boy lc,"
olb) m.1ga:mc. B,l\ lc, who
appro' .1 1 tLl
111
[99 anJ a\\ m pub It
cor; e.1rh ne:-.r \ e,u. He rep bee J. Ke, 111
,
non ot
oter
ool, who I> now
ecln,lr ,1f the -rani,1rJ L1\\ .::chtll'11 1lumn1 ma\!a:111e.
[,1yal corp, Lli
listeners in surrnundmg wwns.
7
F-\ L l
1999
C O L B Y
Among U . S . rivers, the St. John holds a
special mystique. Above the village of
Allagash it has the longest stretch of
wild and natural waterway ( 1 30 miles)
east of the Mississippi. The river gained
national attention in the 1 970s when
construction of a dam-the Dickey­
Lincoln project-threatene d to make a
lake of a substantial section of the free­
flowing river. More recently, sales of
timber company lands for recreational
lots in the North Woods threatened to
break up the heretofore undeveloped
riverbanks. Led by Kent Wommack '77,
The Nature Conservancy spent $35. 1
million to preserve 40 miles of the upper
St. John River and is interested in
protecting more of the unspoiled land
between its current holding and the first
settlement, at Allagash.
l ncredtbly, Wommack did i r . And in swinging the biggest
smgle con ervation land acquisition in Maine ince Baxter
created hts namesake park, Wommack changed Maine, The
ature Con ervancy, the nature of land pre ervation and him­
oelf. H e rat ed the bar on what was thinkable and changed the
ocale of con en·ation-not j ust in Maine but in the nation.
And, he say , thi i only the beginning. There are still
another 90 mtles of undeveloped land along the upper r . John
ro prorect, a ll'el l as orher watersheds in Maine. He doesn't
expect ro do tt all h i mself-there are other groups and other
method> l:>e�tJes ournght purchase. I ndeed, only 10 week after
the Con,ervancy announced i ts acquisition, t imberland owner
Pmgree A"octateo sold the development rights to more than
754,00L acre' of tt' orth Wood holding to the e11' England
Fnre,tr, FounJanon of Groton, Conn., for 2 mdlton. ignifi­
c.mrk, '<lme of the acreage abur-. the on ervancy's land on the
r . John.
"I J,1n'r rh111k there\ another place 111 1a111e rhar equals the
r John," \Vnmm<Kl mu,ed. " l r\ nor J U'>t any nver; tt 1 a
n.Hllm,tlh ,tgnthLanr n.�"1urce, the longest, large..,r, mo-.r remote
11 t l,J..: m c" n1 o.:r kfr e.t-t of the � 11"1' tpp t . Ir' c lear rhar The
• . nure 'on,er. .me\ .mJ th<hL < lf u clo eh .t"<Kl<HeJ wtth I t
, t r o.: ne1 cr \.!<H n!.! t<l l e rhe ,,mu: ,tfrcr rht,. Once we hnt,h thh
1 r< > Je L t r herL·' n<1 !!<'111!.! h.ILk rn rhe 11 .ty we u,eJ rn work and rhc
.tlo.: 11 e u o.: I rn \l<lrl-: . n . "
hnm It' he,tJ,, ,no.:r' .11 R.tker L.tke r n I t ' J lll1Ltll ll1 111 1h the
t\ ll t!.! . l' h .1 !o.:11 m t le 11 e't of Fnn Kent, rho.: upper 1 John 1
, t r!!u.-I H \ rhe 11 t l le t , lll< r un 1 t le l n1 e r m t he llrthL t r . l-llr
l 1\ '
some 1 30 m iles the river runs unferrered between rocky banks
and towering standsofspruce. Unlike the more popular A llagash
River to the east, the Sr. John doesn't arrract thousands of day­
trippers and overnight trekkers because i t lacks the lakes that
guarantee summer-long h igh water. The easy canoeing season
lasts from ice-out in late April or early May to early or m id-J une.
" I f you go i n right after the ice-out and ride the h igh water,
you'd berrer know what you're doing," Wommack warned, "and
if you wait until after Memorial Day you'd berrer have a h igh
tolerance for blackflies." Eighty percent of the scant traffic on
the river happens within a week of Memorial Day. After that,
the r . John is reserved for the purists who are willing to trade
low water for outstanding fishi ng, a noticeable lack of motorized
boats, and glorious i olation.
Kent Wommack has had h is eye on the St. John River since
1981, when he was a summer i ntern in the Maine office of The
Nature on ervancy. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Wommack,
now 44, had d t covered Maine when he arrended Colby Col ­
lege. " I n h tgh school, I was look ing for a small l i beral-arts college
111 ew England," he expla i ned. " I had never been to Maine
before, but I happened to v isit Colby on a bright sunny day. I n
the end, 1t ll'as the only school I applied ro . "
He maJored 1 11 government and joi ned the Woodsman's
Team, "a h1:arre little group of people who competed in
conrc'r' of '<l\Vmg log> and throwmg axes at targets," he
recal led 1 1 1th a gnn. That expmure to the woods was enough
to 'end Wommack on to graduate school at the Yale School of
FllrL,try and En1· 1 ronmenral rudtes and two summe r intern-
.
,
-
.
(.... ·: ..
.
When Kent Wommack '77 combined a Co!by degree in govern­
The policy angle IS appealing to prospective students because 1t
ment with a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and
1s an unusual maJor and because students are attracted to he not1on
Environmental Studies, he anticipated the type of interdisCiplinary
that, through policy, "I can change th1ngs, I can make a d1fference, "
grounding that Colby now offers in its environmental studies programs.
F1rmage sa1d. The capstone Problems 1n EnVIronmental Soence
In the 1 980s and early '90s, "We were a real oddity" among
course, a group research proJect for sen1ors, has been held up as a
undergraduate programs, said David Firmage, C lara C. Piper Profes­
nat1onal example of the value of real research 1n the undergraduate
sor of Environmental Studies and chair of Colby's interd1soplinary
learnmg process.
studies division. "We were the environmental science progra m . "
"Another part of 1t 1s our locat1on , " F1rmage sa1d. " Colby's place
Where other colleges tended t o have less sharply focused environ­
prov1des us w1th a student body that's really Interested m the outdoors
mental studies majors, Colby offered biology, geology and chemistry
and the enVIronment. We're lucky to be where we are . "
majors an environmental science concentration. An environmental
Last year more than f1ve percent o f Colby's undergraduates had
studies minor was added in 1 990, and when a major was added in
a maJor, m1nor or concentration m one of the environmental
1 99 5 it was i n environmental policy, drawing heavily on social
programs. There were 36 environmental policy maJors and 1 6
sciences, especially government and economics. " Students need
environmental stud1es m1nors whose maJorS ran the gamut from
tools rather than sim ply an appreciation for the types of problems we
anthropology to French stud1es to natural soences. I n add1t1on, 42
face and a desire to contribute, " Firmage said.
science majors earned a concentration m enVIronmental soence
County, at 4,800 acres, wa the chapter' large t holding among
i ng at the M a i ne N a t ure Conservancy's offices, then in
it 22 ,000 acre of pre erve in the tate. " I t wa in that context
Topsham. { I t is now in Brunswick . )
when I starred here that the
H e hasn't strayed far from Maine--or The Nature Conser­
1 98
t. J hn R i ver wa
umber
ne on
onservancy ful l t i me in
my priority list," Wommack aid. "But even then i t wa pnmanly
after graduating from Yale. He canoed the upper St. John
becau e of the Furbi h lou ew rr and a number of other rare
vancy-since. Wommack j o i ned the
plants along the upper parr of the river."
in 1 9 4 , just a week before he married Yale cia mate Gro
Then, everal year ago, the national
Flatebo. (The couple now has three chi ldren: two boys, 7 and 9,
ature
on
rvancy
and a daughter, 1 2 , all of whom have been taught to paddle in
undertook a serious internal evaluation. F r decade , the trat­
the canoe Kent and Gro received as a wedding pre ent . ) I n 1 99 1
egy of saving bit
he b came executive d irector.
questioned, but now a pec ial
And in all that t i me , the
and pice
of w i ldeme
had never been
on ervation
t. John was never far from his
"We were winning a lor
mind, although perhaps not in the context and on the scale
f g od batt!
, but we were not
winning the war working at the calc we had b
that later developed.
explained. The
From its found i ng i n 1 9 5 1 in Washington, D.C., as an
outgrowth of the old Ecologist
Union, The
ature
omm1ttee wa
asking whether the tac t ic were really effect ive.
on er­
n,"
om mack
on ervancy d cided to adopt a large- calc
trategy-"buy who!
ale 111 read of retad," a
omma k pur-.
vanc has alway prided it elf on being a c ience-ba ed con er­
it-and take a regional approach to con ervatlon thar followed
vat ion organi:ation. I t was in busine s to ave unspoiled parcel
biological and ecological boundane> rather than pol 1 t 1 al one .
of land an� the environment' biodiver ity, it broad range of
plant and
Wommack
rather than quant i ty. " H istorically we've tended to be drawn to
relat ively mall
ro
look
on en. an C)
arure
barely how. up."
an 1 hi ·rorically that has meant parri ular ·ires or habitat' with
lore to the pomt, \Vomma k que,tlon' whether reatlng tin�
bland-. of bHxhve!'>ll:y am1d rhe hut:e
particularly rare plants or animal·."
hapter's a qu1S1t 1ons-alwa
on en·at1on
lame. 'J hen you look ar a mar of
Maine, for msrance, the work of The
that's where the sci nee was-we ould know for ure something
was rare. The on ervanc focuse on biodiver-ir ' protect ion,
Iaine
national cha1r of rhe
ould imp! menr th1 k mJ of v1 10n," he -,a1J. " I began
at what we had done 111
ire ," W mmack said. "That' partly because
nt i l recently, th
erv d a
ommittee. "It gave me the opporrun1ry to thmk about how we
nimal life, but the emphasis wa alway on quality
rream of development
make' -,en,e. " I f one lli our pre en.·e enJ, up urmunJcJ b� /­
·,
larr,, 1t pwbablv 1nm 't be nable 111 the long run," he
from w i l l ing sell ers-t nded to be along the l111esof 1 - a res here
there. The Big Reed Forest Pre::.erve 111 Aroo rook
and
mreJ out,
"anJ 1r\ nor g,1111g to -,en.·e rhc b1lxl11 CNI:'\ g >a! that we have."
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1 999
C O L BY
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Wommack approached his board of
1 998, an unprecedented series of massive forestland sales was
directors with a proposal . Wagner Woodlands, a highly repu­
announced among the major timber companies. Eventually,
I n the pring of 1 99
table timber management firm that had worked previously with
almo t 1 5 percent of Maine changed hands-more than 2 . 5 -
the Vermont
million acres. Priceles water frontage and mountains were bought
arure Con ervancy, had a client interested in
bidding on 1 5,000 acre of International Paper ( IP ) forestland
and old throughout the North Woods while state government
in northwe tern Maine. The tracts included 40 m i les of the
and conservationists watched, helpless for lack of money.
t. John River. Essentially, the investor was willing to
That was the atmosphere in which Wommack met with his
trade the river frontage for the Maine Conservancy's support in
executive committee and won their enthusiastic approval to try
upper
to pull off the biggest deal in The Nature Conservancy's history.
the expected bidding war for the land.
Then he flew down to Washington, D.C., and met w i th John
The board agreed, and over the summer Wommack worked
Sawhill, the national president, and his staff.
with Wagner in evaluating the land and putting together a
propo al that ultimately came in third when I P opened the bids
"I said that I recognized that this is not a project that we've
a year ago. "We were about 1 5 percent below the top bid,"
been talking about for the past year," he said. "I recognized that
at 3 5 . 1 million this would be the largest financial commitment
Wommack said.
ever undertaken by The Nature Conservancy anywhere in the
Over the next two months, however, both the winning
ovember, IP notified
world, by a factor of two-and we needed the money in six
Wagner that the 3 5 . 1 -million offer it had brokered was accept­
weeks. But if I can raise $ 1 0 m i l l ion in the next six weeks in
able if they could close the deal by the end of the year. But
pledges for this acquisition, I asked, will you loan us the money ?
Wagner's c lient had by then moved on to other properties. That
Much to their credit, they said yes."
bidder and the runne r-up dropped out. In
was when Wommack got hi good-news, bad-news call.
To hear Sawhill tell it, the answer was not only yes, but hell,
"Our fir t reaction wa , 'Right, how can we possibly do that?'"
yes. "We were very excited about protecting that much habitat
Wommack remembered. "Then it j ust occurred to me, how can
in such a vitally important region all at once," he recalled. Nor
we possibly
was Sawhill buying a pig in a poke when Wommack made his
no t
do this?"
The issue of woodland pre ervation was high on everybody's
pitch. The Nature Conservancy had already identified the St.
radar creen by the end of last year. Starting in the summer of
John River as a prime candidate for conservation. "The fact that
On July 2 1 , Kent Wommack '77, executive director of The Nature
of the campaign. Though the general solicitation from Conservancy
Conservancy's Maine chapter, received the Down East magazine
members hadn't begun, "we have a couple of hundred unsolicited
1 999 EnVIronmental Award from Dale Kuhnert '68, editor of Down
gifts from members and non-members," Wommack said.
East, and Governor Angus King H '99. Kuhnert compared Wommack's
That early success shows the enormous popular appeal of the
bold in1t1at1ve to save the upper St. John River with the late Governor
initiative, but challenges still ahead highlight the way Wommack's
Perc1val Baxter's efforts to preserve Mt. Katahdin and what is now
vision has raised the stakes in the land conservation game. The
Baxter State Park. Governor K1ng, in h1s remarks, praised Wommack's
Conservancy must raise another $ 1
v1s1on and placed h1m 1n the pantheon of Maine environmentalists
alongs1de Baxter and the conservationists who created the Allagash
Wilderness Watervvay
m
the 1 960s.
1
million for the St. John parcel­
more than twice what the chapter's last five-year campaign raised­
pius additional capital to carry on with plans for other important
conservation initiatives in Mai ne-Cobscook Bay, Mt. Agamenticus,
"There's a f1ne l1ne between 'v1s1on' and 'catastrophe,"' a sm11ing
Merrymeeting Bay, Mt. Abraham, the Saco River, the Camden Hills
Wommac sa1d a the ceremony. He earned the "visionary" label, 1n
and offshore islands among them. "We're in completely uncharted
territory for conservation groups," Wommack said. "There's no
part, because h1sgamble pa1d off. Twenty-four million of the necessary
$35 million for the St. John proJect was ra1sed 1n the f1rst n1ne months
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formula to follow. "
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For the Immediate future, Wommack' focu w d l be paymg
we could accomplish that much that quickly wa very appeal­
off the
ing," the president of the national organ ization added.
3 5 . 1 - m d l ion loan. He ha five year and expect to raise
0 percent of the money from pnvate Individuals, 1 0 percent
t i l l , there was that l i ttle matter of$ 1 0 mil lion in pledge that
from foundations and l 0 percent from corporation .
Wommack had promised. "Keep in mind that during our last
But he also recogni:e rhat "the proJeCt
capital campaign, over a period offive years, we raised 5 mill ion,"
1
not done when we
loan. I t ' c lear that norhmg wdl be the arne after
he explain . " o I was promising to raise twice that much money
pay off thi
in six weeks. To make a long tory short, by the time we do eel on
thi . " Last year' deal protect only a third of the undeveloped
December 30 we had just over
portion of the river, and Wommack admit to a certa in urgency
1 0 million pledged in hand."
and his father, David
a North
back , " he rea oned. "Th ink about this. You can canoe 1 30 mdc
r., and other family members. Bert's Bees,
down the
arolina honey and bee wax company that got i ts start
in Main , promised another $2 m i l l ion through the
Woods Wi lderne
trust in Rockwo d .
nee a S i te 1 developed, there' no tummg
to hield the re t . "
omc $ 3 m i l l ion came from the Rockefel ler fami ly-Richard
t. John to Al lagash, and you wdl not pa. a mglc
development or settlement. If we hadn't bought thi land, wa� It
orth
all going to get developed ?
ther leadership pledge
o, not
m
the fore eeable future. Bur
what happens if the next landowner choo e to put
came from Leon and Lisa Gorman, of L . L . Bean; Maine Con er­
m
the fir�r
ubd ivi ion here ? I t' gone. That qual i ty 1 gone forever."
vancy board chairman Joe W ishcamper and his wife, Carol;
t.
hcrry and Dav id H uber and the Huber fam i ly; and the
Eventually, Wommack would l ike to ee the enr1re upper
weetwater Trust, a Ma achusetts-ba eel foundation interested
John protected, "and if we can do that here, there are a lot of
everal other major contri­
other water heel i n Maine," he ob erved. "I really feel we have
in northern forestland preservation.
an obligation to do everything we can to protect the Mame we
butions came from anonymous d nors.
all know and love. That's our re pon ibil ity, not only a
"The e people stepped forward with pledges far beyond any
organ ization but a a generati n. l think rhi
phi lanthropic gift they've made in the past," Wommack said
with a touch of wonder. "I think people did that because they aw
legacy that all of u w i l l be really plea eel and proud
that we have an opportunity here to leave a legacy in the
can't think of anything I 'd rather leave my kid ."
northern forest a large in scale as Baxter
ro
Reprinted by permission from (May 1 999) Down Ea r :
Copyright 1 999 . All nghts reserved .
tate Park at a s i te that
an
i gomg to be a
leave. l
The
Magazine of Maine .
i j ust as important."
Besides moose. which are plentiful,
land purchased by The Nature
Conservancy on the upper St John
River is home to dozens of
endangered plant and an1mal spec1es.
Kent Wommack 77 says In July he
reported that the second conf1rmed
sight1ng 1n Ma1ne of a breed1ng pa1r o
Canada lynx was made on he
185.000-acre rae
wh1ch 1s he
Conservancy s b1gges landholding
Wommac ·s leadership 1n purchas1ng
a tract tha 1mmense launched a new
era 1n land preserva 10n
e •1ere
w1nnmg a lo of good ba les bu .·.e
ere no
1nmng he .ar .or 1ng a
he scale 11e had bee
I�
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e sa a
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The E n d u ri ng, b ut Evo l v i n g , Va l u e of a C o l by E d u c ati o n
by J eff Wuorio ' 79
As stu dents, parents and a l u m n i watch col lege costs creep u pward , t h e so u n d
hey m a ke s l a p p i ng t h e i r foreh eads is often fo l l owed b y a q uestton : " W h y so
m u c h ? " Or " H ow has it co me to t h i s ? " J eff W uorio
' 7 9 is a b u s t ness a n d
f i na nce w r i ter who retu rned t o Co l by t h i s fa l l t o try
to a n swer t h ose q uestt n s .
I n short, he fo u n d that com pet i t i o n a m o n g c o l leges h a s ratsed t h e q u a l t ty of
progra ms a nd serv i ces; t h e i nc reased q u a l ity of programs a n d servt c es h a s
ra i sed students' expectations; st ude nts' ex pectat tons h a v e t n c reased c o m pet t t i o n a mong c o l leges; a n d a ro u nd agai n . Wuono, w h o wntes for
and
Money, Worth
The New York Times amo g other p u b l tcattOns. f t l ed t is report on t h e
va l u e of a Co l by educa 10 n a n d how the Col l ege has c a n ged 1 n t h e
20 years
s t nce h e gra u ate d .
F ". L L
I <J 9 9
C -. L BY
A
cartoon in a recent
eration, a keen eye for cost cutting and a c u lture of Yankee thrift
and ingenuity. It has learned that success begets succes , as
ew Yorker depicts the interior
of a d ilapidated home-the curtains are shredded,
evident in the results of The Campaign for Colby, which w i l l
come in ome 4 0 percent above i t s original goal o f raising 1 00
the walls peeling, the furniture threadbare. Equally
d i heveled is the couple that occupies the center of
m i l l ion, setting a new standard for phi lanthropy in the state of
Maine. Clearly, donors are eager to support a winning cause.
the picture. Their clothes are tom and their hair unkempt.
They look l ike war refugee .
Despite all that, it's inescapable that part of the cost of
overall excellence shows up in tuition. The price of a Colby
The couple i beckoning toward a young man who i reach­
ing for the front door. He wears a handsome sport coat that only
education, as at Colby's peer institutions, is on the rise, and that
is likely to continue. The comprehensive fee ( tu ition, room,
partially obscures a college letter sweater. Beneath one arm he
carries a large textbook.
board and required fees) for the current school year is 3 1 , 580,
right in line with Bowdoin ( 3 1 ,4 7 5 ) and Bates ( $ 3 1 ,400 ) . The
Caption: " on, can you spare a few minutes to talk about
your t u i t ion?"
College Board, based in New York, estimates that, nationally,
students paid roughly five percent more in tuition and fees at
private institutions in 1 998-99 than they d id the previous year.
That bit of humor may well be lost on m i l l ions of Ameri­
cans-including many
olby fam i l ies-who are struggling to
cope with the escalating cost of higher education. With overall
mall College
Colby's increase this year is only 3 . 8 percent, the lowest such
increase in nearly a quarter-century and the continuation of a
Athletic Conference ( N E CAC) and in the Ivy League­
downward trend in the rate of increase over the last 1 0 years. I t's
tho e back home paying the bills are j ustified in wondering how
still more than inflation but meager compared to increases
yearly expense
topping
30,000--a figure consistent with
Colby' peer institution in the New England
the cost of a top-notch education soared into the stratosphere.
averaging 1 6 percent a year in 1 980, '8 1 and '82 . In a compari­
Even though neither of my children are college age yet, I
son of costs with other N ESCAC and Ivy League schools, the
College currently places 1 4th among 2 1 institutions.
know I 've wondered. How could an education that cost 6, 760
Granted, you can j u xtapose numbers and stats until your
in my enior year have more than quadrupled in 20 years?
calculator disintegrates, but it still begs the question-just how
There are many partial ( and obvious) answers. The cost of
did the annual price tag top $ 30,000 ? Dean of the College
technology that barely exi ted 20 years ago, the inevitable rise
Earl Smith summed it up nicely: "We are in an
in salarie and other like expenses, sparkling new build-
arms race, and no one shows any sign of wanting
ing ri ing from the ground and renovations to older
to declare detente."
tructure built with more mode t re ource have all
played their role in pushing the cost of a Colby
The battle is not merely fueled by other
education up.
institutions. As President W illiam Cotter
In fact, rho e and other factors boi 1 down
points out, prospective students also have
to a more fundamental explanation
lent a hand: "We certainly didn't start this,
for soaring college co t
but we simply would not be competitive if
among
the nation' top school . The
we didn't track what was happening at our
depiction of the couple in
the
peer institutions and try to do better.
ew Yorker cartoon as
Student expectations have ri en and,
victims of a conflict ha an
when you're paying $ 3 1 ,000 a year,
element of truth in it be­
you have the right to expect first­
cau e, m many way , Colby
rate everything."
and other el ite colleges and
Standard
year's Princeton Review Bes t 3 3 1
a ryre of war \\'Ith one an­
Colleges guide l ist three Maine
orher-vymg to lure the be t
college
and bnghte r that they can,
( including Colby) in
it "be t food" l ist. M iddlebury
to re rUit gifted faculry, tocon­
i ranked for "dorms l ike pal­
tmue to wm grant
for new
aces." Bates has one of the top
bUildmg and for new academ1c
20 college radio stations and
and extra urncular program .
Will iams is c i ted for the
popularity of its intramural
That reLJuirc
an cxrem1ve
ar...cnal of 'urerlative pro­
sports program. Asso iate
Dean of tudent Paul
gram,, fac d l t le and en·icc>.
To hudd the ar-,cnal,
olh, ha
l
are high. This
un1ver ine are engaged in
John ton ays one uni­
rcl 1ed on 10
versity has its own math
ycar,ofh<�lanccd hudgcr ,
tutor on its own cam­
a lean and cHic icnt or-
pus cable television
l B
F
16
Pres i d e nt W i l l i a m Cotte r
channel. The tuto r does the daily problem et and take phone
on for 1 99 -99 how
call from student who need help.
harp new bui lding and extracurricular pr gram and ser­
vice a ide, much
numerou . " I t wa an mtent ional pol tcy of the
f the cost of doing busines over the pa t two
decades boils down to increa es in salarie
and the
the ' 0 and '90
redu e it," aid
ollege'
financial aid program, which together make up roughly two­
third of
to the
over the past 2 0 years
1 . 5 m i l l ion to
aid-that
tudent
trimmed the
table
tudenr-facult}
ratio from 1 2 to one in 1 979 to i t current level of n ine to one.
Overa l l , the median cla
1 0. 6
ize ha dropped from 19 111 1 97 9 to
its current level of 1 6.
m i l l ion. That, says Director o f Financial Aid Lucia Whittel e y
' 7 3 , dem n trate t h e
ame t i me maintain i ng a relatively
student popu lation, Colby ha
ol lege' grant budget has
s ared more than 600 perc e n t , from
to look at the �tudent-facu l ty rat io and to
orter. "We've done j u t that-we've heen able
now and at the
of their abi l i ty to pay.
At Colby, w h i l e student charge
more
By increa ing the ize of the faculty from 1 2 5 in 1 979 to 1 9
ollege' mis ion to provide superlative academics to the
have i ncrea ed 46 7 percen t , the
1
ol lege dunng
to add faculty without add ing add it ional tudent ."
olby's overall operating budget. And both are central
most qualified tudents, regardle
olby at the very top m that group.
And the facu l ty i not j u t better compen ated, It
ol lege'
allege's "comm i t ment t o need-based
!early the change ha enhanced the
trad ition of clo e fac u l ty- tudenr col lab rat ion. I n
1 979 t h re were three independent major o n campu ; I
hould have the opportunity to develop
t year
there were 1 8.
their talent to their ful l poten t i a l , regardle s of their ab i l i t y
As College budgets have ratcheted upward , facu lty a lane
to p ay . M any colleges a r e n ' t able t o meet the fu l l need of a l l
and financ ial aid accounted for mo t of the increa e . Bur, a
Matthew M i l ler wrote in rhe
adm i t ted students."
ew York Time Magazine earl ter
About two-thirds of Colby's student body receives financ ial
this year, "In mo t indu trie , compe t i t ion cur co r . I n htgher
assistance, and more than 60 percent of those students receive
education it park an arms race of amen i t i e that rat�e them."
"Dorm were a major con iderarion," J u l ia
grant or loans. "We are not a 'rich k ids' college," aid Peyton
lac Donald '99
R. H e l m , vi e president for development and alumni relations.
said, recalling her compari
"Qu ite imply, a lot of Colby student wouldn't be here without
Colby recognized rhar it needed to catch up wtrh r h e compen­
fi nanc ial aid . " Even though The Campaign for
ends thi year, raised more than
t ion and i now in the m iddle of a
olby, which
Dana H a l l . Dana, con idered a purgatory-like entence when I
priority, he said, since the scholar hip end wment at Colby
over a mailer percenrage of the financ ial aid budget than
was a tudenr-a tiny rep up from hanng a pup rent with 1
other people-now i pri:ed for tt comfort and >pactou., lJUar­
tho e at better-endowed peer inst i t u t ion .
When Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine rated the top
t r . The Anrhony-M irchel l - chupf re tdence hall-, and the
eptember i ue, Colby
If nd Re idence
ranked 7 7 t h in the nation. ( By omparison, Bowdoin wa 6 1 t
4th . ) As part of i ts analysi · the maga:ine u
a erage indd tedne
sivc fee romling more than
grad- in the
graduate .
of 1 99
14,
d the
v irtually 1
edge in the la:.t _
how mu h the
back tll\\ ar�l
olby ha-,:
omplex and held, and mcre.t..,cd
the number L)f var,tn 'P'lrt
am,mg . 'E
:\
tr,lm _
to 3_ ( the mlbt
,ch,l 1 ! , ) :
0 I ncrea,ed r h e number Ll t 'tudenr luh � m d orgam:.mon
fwm 3
w .-;
0 Built the cvmputer netwvrk mtra>tru rure trvm 1 2 com­
puter rermmaJ, w more than _ , i
computer., and w t red
re ogni : i ng the importance of re rut t i ng an� rer a m mg the be't
avai lal: le s holar-tea h rs. During the 1 9�' � )!by was some­
-cho,)b when t t came
·
number of t tem> 111 tt;
olby has made �a lane� a pnont\',
A
·ear�.
0 Expanded the arhlen
The other big ar a of bu �get increm.es '' faculry sa lane .
Be ·ond rh fa t that salarie- throughout academe ha,·e c l i mbed
E
lb
(!) Doubled rhe t:e of I dler L tbraf\ and almlN mpled the
on average . That
mher·t grads owing ub-ranr iall · le:s.
where in th m iddl of th
and to pu>h
per ent of '>tudenr re> t d mg on campu,.
A mong orher tmprovemenr' rhar helped gam a compcr i t t \·e
olby
average debt i · lower than or omparable to ·e,·en of the other
ch ols in the "be·t ,·alue·" lt·t, wtth onl ·
A
E
e ight
faster than the inflation rate,
omplex were built to make up for bed b,r
in renovanon of older hall
e pite comprehen­
1 1 4,0 O for the i r four year·,
Ia- of 1 99 owed onl ·
owhere m tght the
impact of that program be better illu trared than the rebtrth of
financ ial aid fund , aid w i l l conrinue to be a fund-raising
and Bates
44- m i l l ion renovarton
program for all residence and din ing hall .
3 5 m i l l ion in n w endowed
1 0 values in private col leges in i ts
n when dectdmg where to enro l l .
e\·er\' dorm ro)m
(l)
The
allege paid its full prof ssor·. wherea, com pan-
17
n ampu' tor Ethernet a ce,,.
Llllege\ effvrr' m mforman n technology have earned
F "' L L
I �
C 0 L B)
a spot in a l l three Yahoo! "mo t-wired cam­
educat ional experience but also in furthering
pu e " urvey , and, for students, the system
basic goa l s that the College has a lways es­
provides an information flow unknown to
poused. " It 's important to look at the value
prior generations. My c lassmate, now As-
of having students come to Colby who
ociate Profe sor of Economics M ichael
might otherwise not be able to attend, "
Donihue, not only posts discussion groups
said Whittelsey. " A d i verse student body
on l ine to encourage interaction out-
enhances the education of everyone here,
ide the clas room, he also taps the
and equa l choice and access to the Col­
Internet for up-to-the-minute data. "l
lege are ideas we want to support. "
can have a class at 9:30 and take that
morning'
U l timately, t h e question of whether
unemployment statistics
an e d u c a t i o n c os t i n g more t h a n
right into the clas ," he said. "But I
$ 1 00,000 is a good b u y is o n e that
better be on my roe , because l
i n d i v i d u a l fam i l ies a n d s t u d e n t s
know the tudents w i l l already
m u s t wrestle with themselves. A s
have that data a well . "
Cotter acknowledges, there is n o
O u t i d e o f cia , students
s i m p l e y e s or n o answer. What is
go on l ine to check which
c lear is that the i mpact of a dy­
d i n ing hall i offering what
namic educational and l iving en­
menu. And where my peer
v ironment transcends d o l l ars
remember a Dance -with­
and cents: "At Colby, a stu­
Wolves- tyle
dent has an opportu n i t y to en­
stampede
twice a year at regi tration,
gage
the process is now completed
extracurr i c u l a r worlds that can
a l ma t entirely on l ine.
and
the choice everyone has to make
valid, how do you mea ure if Colby
for them e lves," Cotter said.
i winning i Here, roo, the number paint
The value in a Colby education is in the
tart with admissions. Appli-
growth. Dean of Facul ty Ed Yeterian says the Colby
cant increa ed from 3 ,0 5 7 srudents in 1 979 to 4,363 this year.
Plan and it
In 1 979, 3
logue, out! inc the College's goals, and that graduates can
percent were accepted; in 1 999 only 32 percent
were offered admi
admi
10 precepts, published every year in the cata­
ion. Even more impressive are the early­
expect to leave M ayflower H i l l with a set of broadly applicable
ion applicant numbers-201 in 1 979, 46 1 20 years later.
skills that ensure their succes beyond college . ' Broadly app l i ­
Then there are the "win rates"-how often Colby won the
cable' is perhaps b e t exempl ified b y a student who arrives
tug-of-war when appl icants also were accepted at other col­
wanting to be a lawyer but leaves with an acceptance to
lege . In 19 9 Colby got 4 5 percent of the students also
medical school and who is fully prepared for e i ther.
accepted at Bate and only n i ne percent of those accepted at
The shock of a $ 3 1 ,000 price tag wasn't completely d u l led
for me, despite a l l the changes for the better I saw at Colby.
That's still a load of cash, pure and imple. But, knowing all that
Bowdoin. Thi year Colby got 70 percent of appl icants also
accepted at Bate
and 39 percent of the Bowdoin overlap
group. During the 1 990 ,
olby win rate went from negative
to po i nve \\'lth Colgate, Hamilton, Holy
Perhap
the mo t compell ing
r
and Trinity.
tatistic , tho e that be·t
olby's growmg pr stige among peer in titution , are
embod1ed m the tudent who choo e to attend the ol lege.
JU nfy
chola tiC Apwude Te t cores now top
Med1an combmed
1 , 300, a oppo ed to I , 1 00 20 year ago, and it' a decided ly
more d l \·cr c popu lanon. In 1 979, only 2 3 percent of rhe
rudent
arne from our 1dc
C\\' England ; by 1 999, nearly half
d 1 d . Where rhcre were tudcnr from I
forc1gn countnc� m
1 979, 4 natiOn arc now repre>cnred. Fmally, rhe number of
auvc
Atncan- Amen a n , Lanno, A 1an-Amen an and
Amen an -,rudent ha grown from 64 m 1 979 r o 249 la t year.
De plte the ever-grO\\ mg pnce tag, olhy 1 mdeed \\' 1 11nmg, nlH mere!, m offenng tudenr a better, more complete
(
educational
really change them. And that's
But if the arms race analogy is
a compelling portrait.
in
l 1\ '
LL
9
the College has accompl ished and how it ha grown for the
better in the pa t 20 years-readin g all the wonderful numbers
and eeing the phy ical transformatio n of the campus for
myself-put that expense in perspective .
If the analogy of a war among elite colleges is accurate, and
if one of the costs of the war i the pricetag on a Colby
education, the victor in the conflict isn't nece arily any one
chool who e win rate is better or whose dorms parkle the
mo t. The winners are the students who take ful l advantage of
everythin g that chools such as olby have to offer. The price
may he h1gh, hut it' money well spent on those who make the
mo t of 1 t .
)eff \XItwrw ' 79 1 the author o f G o t Mone y ? ( 1 999 , Amacom Books)
,
a personal fmancial plannmg guide for young people .
Raffael Scheck
brotherhood and hope to a generation of teenagers (and their
Associate Professor of History
parents) with their pioneering work in commercial folk music.
Their success paved the way for many folk performers, including
Totalitarianism
the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob
The most important development of the 20th century is a
Dylan. The message songs that characterized the folk music of the
phenomenon that I would loosely call "totalitarianism," which
i embodied in people uch a H itler and
'60s and '70s helped to shape the political and social opinions of
talin. I t signifies an
at least two generations. The sloop Clearwater was instrumental in
attempt to e tabli h total control of the state over the individual
making Hudson River fish nontoxic once again and still sails the
according to certain seemingly rational guidelines, u ing science
Hudson as an environmental classroom. Seeger was a constant
( or p eudo-science) and all mechani m of oppressive control.
public presence during both the civil rights campaign and the
Admittedly, no totalitarianism ever established complete
Vietnam antiwar movement, speaking and singing against vio­
control. But the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi and Stalinist
lence, injustice, bigotry and hatred in its many ugly forms. He
y tern are, in my view, keys to understanding the 20th century.
continues to campaign for peace, human rights and world har­
The econd half of the century, even after the defeat of H itler
mony through his music and personal appearances.
and the death of tal in, was played out in the shadow of their
Judging from my folk music sessions at Colby during the past
totalitariani ms, and the next century will till have to deal with
them; the potential power of totalitarian sy tern
decade, Seeger is influencing yet another generation. This man is
has only
one of the truly great figures of the 20th century, a person whose
mcrea ed with the development of computers and biological
prominence derived not from political power or wealth or social
technology ( genetic ) .
status but from sheer determination, force of will and personal
While this view i pessimistic, other developments o f the
dedication. His entire life has been dedicated to making the world
cemury provided orne balance. Liberati m, the idea of civil
a better place.
right , the emancipation of non-We tern peoples and of women
were crucial achievement of the 20th century, too, though the
Leonard S . R e i c h
1dea informing tho e movemem come from the 1 9th and even
Professor of Administrative Science a n d of Science,
1 th cemurie .
Technology, and Society
W i l l i am B e r l i nghoff
Henry Ford and mass-production
Visiting Professor of Mathematics
Henry Ford and the engineers working with him between 1 9 1 2
and 1 9 1 4, who created full scale mass-production methods for the
Model T, led not only to mass mobility of American (and later
Pete Seeger: One-world citizen
One of the mo t mfluennal people of the second half of this
century has been (and till 1s) Pete eeger-folksinger, environ­
menta l ist, humannanan, paCifi'>t and one-world ltl:en who
world ) society hut also prodded industry to increase efficiencies,
lowercosts and make profit on large volumes rather than high unit
mark-ups. The process wa known as Fordization, and, while there
have been many refinements, the basic techniques are still in use
prllmoteJ mulnculturah.,m for decade before It became the "in"
thmg to do. eeger profoundly mtluenceJ at lea'>t three genera­
non of Amen can a well a ffi<ll1) people of mher nawmahtle'>.
producmg everything from jetliners to mobile phones. Applied
well, the'>e techniques re ult in high quality and low price, an
He hecame ,1 ,oCial actl\"i t a a 'upponer nforgan1:eJ lahor 111 the
'4L , anJ '50 a' part llithe AlmanaL mger \nth Wnlxl� Guthrie.
In rhe ')Q,, he anJ the \XIeawr hroughr rhe me";lge, of peace,
l B
unheatahle combmanon.
2
Electron i c Amplifiers
Ta mae Pri n d l e
A second set of sem inal innovations proceeded incremen­
Professor of Japanese
tally through the century, start ing w i th the invention and
Oe Kenzaburo
dev e l op m en t of electronic amplifiers and culminating in the
One of Japan' Nobel laureates in the field of literature,
mobile phone. Amplifiers, first based on vacuum tubes, were
e
Kenzaburo, born in 1 9 3 5 , has frayed the conscience of tunnel­
developed by Ambrose Flemi ng, Lee DeForest and research
visioned contemporary japanese people by bedding light on the
crews at GE and AT&T in the century's second decade. Tubes
meaning of a vil lager ver u
gave way to solid state w i th the invent ion of the transi tor at Bell
a c i ty dweller, a father wtth a
handicapped child versus a father with a "healthy" child, and what
Labs in 1 94 7 . Finally, integrated c ircu i t ry ch ips were developed
it is to be a c ity-dweller in earch of a v i llage within one'
by Jack K i lby at Texas I nstruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild
el f.
Oe has characterized the pre ent years a a godles , nuclear
Semiconductor in the late 1 9 50s. These d vices have been
age in which individual
central to the d e ve lo p m e n t of all k i nds of wired and wire less
have surrendered their per onal re­
sponsibi l i t i e to nuclear power and government authoritie . He
communications systems, as well a radar, computers, etc. With­
teaches that sani ty can be regained only by under tandmg anJ
out them, our world would be a very d ifferent place.
accepting diver i ty as an undiluted whole. The v i ton of the
whole is akin to that of a transcendental god, which '' ould gtve
T h o m a s H . T iete n berg
Mitchell Fam ily Professor o f Economics
each i ndividual a vision of hi place in the human world . To tht
The World Wide Web
which draws on d i verse realitie that lurk in the naJ tr of t he
end, Oe brandishes a technique he name "grate que rea h>m,"
The predo m i n a n t "shaper" in modern l i fe has to be the I nternet
human p yche.
and the World Wide Web. They are shaping the process of
globalization and transforming commerce, finance, c u lture and
I ra Sadoff
even geopol i t i cs. They provide previously unattainable access
Dana Professor of Poetry
to information, which is affect ing not only big-picture items
Sadoff listed 20 people off the rap of hrs head: john Coltrane , Enc
such as the world economy but many more spec iali:ed concern ,
Dolph)' , Balrhu (paimer) , Strat•insk)' , \Val/ace
including my own field of environmental pol icy.
tet ens , Trot k> ,
Berrolttcci and Scorcese , Einstem , FOR , F . Scou F�tzg,erald ,
This communicat ions revolution brings with it some enor­
mous benefits, including lower prices, the abi lity to hear both
Marrin Luther King, Pablo
Alice Munro, Ralph Ellrson ,
sides of every srory, etc. But it also poses some unprecedented
risks, l i k e loss of privacy, a growing gap between those who use
asked him
to
A/lend�,
er11da , Garcra Lorca , Eli-::abeth Brshop,
aul Bellou , Ho Chr Mmh
e xpand on the first .
olhy
new communi at ions technology and those who don't, al ien­
ation arising from an incr asc in impersonal contact and , impor­
tant ! •, a loss of control over the future. uch risks accrue to both
J o h n C oltrane
people an :1 ountries.
f,l l l,l we I h plav d ' cure ( 'o we can he
'0 nrc:h t' valucJ h
the
world ) . \Vc'rc ,·crv rep lac c<�hl e . Tou much 'P•tcc he tw cc n mo­
ment' of mtcn,tt\ , tho,c ll1llll1Cnb when \'tt.t l t t\ 1:. o p:ctlp,thle,
") crankc,l up, there\ nn quc,nun vuu icc! that \ vu'rc tc tu a l ly
orhmg noumhe, u' l tke art. Too much of t he re't of l t fe 1
ntual, Jury. mmd-numhng combat wtth burcaucracv anJ c n -,c ­
le" h r e ra rc hv , hard work
Thomas Friedman's analysis of the impa ts of the communt­
rc,rnrccl tll llUr lab,lr, la!--,l r which
cnr ion revolut ion on globa l i:at ion and the impa t of globalt:a­
t ion on all aspects of modern l i fe in his book The Lexm and che
Q/iq•e Tree is espec iall · insightfu l .
�1
·
F l\ l L
1 9 9 i
l O L B )
o technological advance,
ments that carmot be proved or disproved within the system.
no politician, no theory about the universe can accomplish that
Second, he showed that the statement that the system will never
feat. You live. There's a connection between heart and head, the
lead to contradictory conclusion is either one of these undecid­
alive, which is, after all, our project.
exterior and the interior. Art fills you with joy and fear, the kind
able statements or is false. Godel's result had an immense effect on
of openness and ero that's difficult to inhabit for long without
philosophy ( not only on the philosophy of mathematics but on
di comfort or demand for change.
philosophy in genera l ) . In many ways, it strengthened the anti­
foundationalist mood of 20th-century philosophy. At the same
Coltrane's intensity passes through the listener; his "sheets of
sound" deploy the full range of emotion, from melancholy to rage
time, it suggested ( this was Godel's own interpretation, in fact )
to transcendence. The hi tory ofjaz: and race is inside the notes, but
that the attempt to reduce thought t o calculation was itself
he wa
doomed, and that there was something in human thought that
looking fonvard: his whole purpose was to find new
went beyond mechanical symbol pushing.
expre ion, to stretch and expand melody. He was devoted to
growth and change; he was a elf-improver, moving from a not very
Karl Barth's theology
fluent member of the Basic band to creating music with such fonnal
Karl Barth's work is still, I think, the most important theologi­
flux, uch complexity and intensity, critics called it noise. But like
cal work of the 20th century. Though now somewhat out of
Beethoven he was not afraid of being demanding, of courting
dtfficulty. Listen to hi
"
fashion, his critique of the optimistic liberalism that dominated
many version of his beautiful ballad
the mainline churches in his time had a huge impact on theolo­
atma" over the years, how layered the feeling became, how
gians ranging from Bonhoeffer to N iebuhr. He may not have been
transitory. For Coltrane art erved not as di traction or enhance­
entirely successful, but he was attempting the right thing: to make
ment ( as it i for the privileged who abstractly value "culture"): it
theology be authentically about God as he shows himself to
brought ltfe to the forefront in all its pleasure and pain, reminding
people and not about human creativity and imagination. H is
u of how fulsome is experience, how delightful, why we must live.
writings are massive (one of the reasons he has lost some influ­
ence) but despite their seriousness are shot through with a
Fernando Q. Gouvea
humane and generous spirit. When most of the liberal theologians
Associate Professor of Mathematics
are forgotten, I predict people will till be reading Barth.
Kurt Giidel's formal mathematics
Comic books a n d comic strips
In the ! 920� and ! 9 30 , mathematictan and philosophers of
Comics are a 20th-century creation, though some proto­
comics appeared late in the 1 9th century. Though from the
beginning comics have been treated as insignificant and not
serious, they have emerged as a significant medium of expres­
mathemattc were trymg to develop foundations-trying to find
.1
way of ,hmnng that mathemattcal tdea re t on a secure ba is.
The, wanted to expre' mathemattcs formally, using � rmal
logtcal expre,,ton , then de<,cnhe the tep> m a proof m yntatic
term' ( e.g., you're allowed
tht
'y mhol
ro
sion. While there has been a lot of j unk published, there have
also been a few arti tic triumphs in the genre. Pogo and Peanuts
tramform the formula by movmg
from here to there) and then prove that one could
both howed ( in very different way ) that serious and funny
could come together, the classic adventure strip from mid­
century are till a wonder to read and graphic novels such as Art
ptegelman 's Maus show that there is a good deal of life left in
ne,·erdem·e contradtctory onclu tom from tht, procedure, thereby
en,unnc rhar marhemanc-, '' a' free of error. . GoJel' theorem
hlew a huge hnle m rhe'e plan . FiN, he 'howeJ that
'uHtctenrh mterc nne fnm1,1l
Ll
v
,my
rem would alway' include stare-
the genre. And, of course, there' the impact on popular culture,
from upcrman and Batman to the Oi ney duck comic .
., .,
Science fiction c o m e s true a n d then comes untrue
When science fiction writers tarred dreaming that we would
conquer space and visit the moon and planets, most people
transformed the office so that no future pre idem could take a
back seat. He set the agenda, spoke for and repre ented the
nation. Each of h is uccessors had t
a sume tho
e
role .
thought the whole thing was ridiculous-daydreams to keep
After FOR, the government wa assumed to play a key role
young boys entertained. Then came the 1 960s and we actually
every citizen's life-as the employer of la t re orr, provider of
did it. And then, what no science fiction writer ever predicted­
welfare, guarantor of ecuriry in old age, regulator, collector of
ll1
even more incredible than going to the moon-we got bored
taxes. Under FOR the federal government became prominent in
with i t , stopped the program, and forgot . I have heard that
our view of what the country meant. Wa hington became the
should we need to go to the moon today, we wouldn't be able to
center of the nation and Roosevelt became the
do i t without a new effort to develop adequate technology-that
United States became the world leader, the trongest and mo t
we don't even know how to build the big rockets anymore. I n
powerful nation, the po sessor of the ultimate weapon.
some ways, it's the most amazing story o f the century. W e d id
something that everyone acknowledges as a great achievement
and then promptly put it aside.
L. Sa ndy M a i s e l
The William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government
ymbol. The
Sports: Branch Rickey a n d B i l l i e Jean M offitt King
Branch R ickey and B i l l ie Jean Moffitt K i ng fundamentally
changed the ways in which athletics affect A merican soc iety.
J ackie Robinson, a great athlete and role model, broke the
color barrier in Major League Basebal l . Branch Rickey' fore­
sight and courage allowed him to do o.
one hould den igrate
Maisel said the list would be incomplete without Jonas Salk, for
the significance of Robinson'
efforts under the most trymg
discovering the polio vaccine , or The Beatles . He also suggested
circumstances. But it wa
Thomas Alva Edison , Henry Ford , Albert Einstein , Winston
hurchill, Adolf Hitler (faT the wrong reasons) , Mohandas Gandhi,
repre entative of the corporate Dodger -who had the v1 10n to
leader, the
Rickey-the bu ine
bring Robinson into the league and who was will ing to
n
k h1s
Martin Luther King Jr. , Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein , Pablo
Picasso , George Halas and RogeT Bannister.
position in basebal l by defying hi fel low ba eball execut ive .
Pol itics: Franklin D e l a n o R oosevelt
advantage in signing the great player> from the old
No single figure has domi nated A merican pol i tics as did
Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the early 1 930s until h is death
in 1 94 5 . Roosevelt deserves a place among the most important
peopl of the century-not because of the record-setting length
of h is service in the White House or because he led the nation
out of the Depression or because he was a great wartime leader­
but because under h is leadership the role of government and of
the president w re both transformed.
Roosevelt elevated the presidency to a posit ion of domi­
nance i n our national government. Presidents before him ha:l
be n powerful figures who dominated their era . but FOR
Make no mistake, Rickey understood that break ing the color
barrier meant that he and hi Dodger would have a compet1t 1ve
egro
League. But that motive does not detract from the s1gmf1cance
of the step taken by R ickey, Robm on anJ the Dodger . The
extent to which rac ial barrier have been broken and port have
come to be viewed a a place m
mencan oc 1ety where one
ucceeds ba ed on ability , not on race, can be rraceJ J 1 recdy w
the integration of �laJOr League Ba>ebal l . That
imporrant soc ietal ter taken
ll1
'>()Ort>
ll1
I'>
the mo t
the century, one for
which Rickey (orherw1se nor a rarucularly rra1 ewonhy mJI­
vidua l ) deserve recogn1t 1on.
Bdl1 Jean
loffitt Kmg Je,erve' more red1t rhan anyone for
ele\·armg the role of women m athleuc,. An exrraorJmarv
renms rla,· er ll1 an era when few female athlete were well
known, K mg rook on the cau'e ofwl)men' right . he led female
t nms rlayer-o; m a fighr to a h1eve equahry \\lth the1 r male
F -\ L c
1 999
C O L B Y
viral; they would be cajoled and coerced into accepting the
counterparts. More than that, she rook the fight to a national
level a one of the early and besr-recogni:ed advocates of Title
existence of definitions of art and forms of aesthetic expression
IX. The benefits of participating in organi:ed sports, once almost
different from their own. Pollock's vision and the vi ion of those
solely open to young men, are now available to women through­
who appreciated him, as well as those who reviled him, changed
out the world. Billie Jean Moffitt King-an individual and a
the course of 20th-century art. Though my own scholarly
ymbol for a generation of women fighting for equaliry---de­
interest in art focuses on the M iddle Ages, I never look at a
er\'e recognition for the role he played ( and continues to play)
cathedral or contemplate its sculpture without realizmg how
111 haping American ociety.
much 1 learned about art, its vitality and its relevancy from
seeing Pollock's work.
David L. S i mon
Cla i re Pront n i c k i
Jette Professor of Art
Head of Acquisitions, Colby L ibraries
Jackson Pollock
Jack on Pollock changed my life, or rather seeing his paint-
Prontnicki said that after the shoorings at Kent S tate ( "and really , the
111g d1d. For the fir t time 1 reali:ed what relevancy meant; I had
whole Vietnam War" ) and Watergate , "nobody in my generation will
a en e I wa looking at a work of art constructed in a manner
ever trust the government again . " Roe vs . Wade , the moon landing,
different from anything el e I had een before. I couldn't stop
Henry Ford, WWI I , the pill, the Internet , Dr. Seuss , the end of
my elf from looking and rhus from seeing. The surprising thing
colonialism in Africa , Betty Freidan (The Feminine Mystique) , the
women's movement and permanent-press shirts also made her list.
1 that rh1 cathartic experience occurred in a museum, specifi­
cally the Mu eum of Modern Art in
ew York. A mu eum is a
People: Rachel C arson
guardian of tradition, and the art mu eum does that most
Rachel Carson's 1 962 publication of Silent Spring first brought
forcefully, o in many ways it is an unexpected place to experi­
the dangers of modem pesticide to the attention of the general
ence real change.
public. Thi was the beginning of a major change in how we view
If the Impact of Pollock' work on me was strong, I was a
the natural world and our place in it. Instead of seeing nature as
latecomer, ee111g his works nearly a decade after they were
something "out there," which should be controlled by science, we
proJuceJ. More 1gn1ficant was the effect Pollock's work had on
began to realize that we are part and parcel of our environment.
h1' profe 10nal contemporane , the artist and art critics who
came
ro
reali:e that art 111 the mid-20th century needed to
I nnovations: Television
expre ., alienation, d1 tractiOn and d1;comhobulation. After
Television has changed the nature of politics, advertising,
H 1ro hm1a, could the world, pamterly or otherwise, really be
recreation, childhood and neighborhoods. We now know (or
rhoul.(ht of a a rang1hle whole, compmed With logiC and hal­
.mceJ
Ir
\\ nh
\\ih
think we know) celebrities better than we know our next-door
equanm1It) �
neighbors; instead of using their imaginations, k id watch TV
Pollock\ academic rrammg, much of It under the
and re-enact the scripts with plastic versions of the characters;
t u t cl.Ige of rhe figuratl\'e and narral l\'e pamter Thomas Hart
and political offices go to whomever can afford the most prime­
Ik:nt<ll1, rh.n .JlloweJ hm1 w hreak from cl<h'>ICal comtruct . The
r<
time adverti ing and get the best five-second sound bites.
t' nf Jecon,rrucr 1on <�re nor planreJ far from Pollock\
L,ln\ ,1
c'.
T<l learn
w
tolerate .mJ rhcn .lpprcc iare rhe per-.onal
.mJ rhe iJu!'\ ncr.H IC, n·en " hen It 'cem' fenlCIOU,,
"
w
apJ reu.ne rhe fmce oi elf-ex pre 1on. lf people J 1Jn'r like whar
tiH'\
.1\\ ,
rhC\ wnulJ become
.m
of rhe project of makmg arr
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Of some 22,000 l iving Colby a l u m n i , only two were a l ive 1n 1 900,
and only Dr. Merrill S.F. Greene '20, born July 1 7 , 1 900, entered the
world during that centennial year. "I was conceived 1n the 1 9t h
M ichele Bac h o l l e
century, I lived through t h e twentieth century, a n d I ' m eager t o see
Visiting A ssista n t Professor of French
the beg i n n i n g of the twenty-f irst," Dr. Greene said during a recent
chat in the living room of his home i n Lewiston, M a i ne.
Noam C h o msky
I n 1 97 9 The New York Times Book Review called Noam
homsky "arguably the most important intellectual alive . . . in
terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought."
A language theore t i c ian, phi losopher, intellectual h istorian,
social critic and political analyst and an In t itute Professor at the
Dr. Greene i sn't the oldest living a l u m-a classm ate who I S
three years older i s i nca pacitated a n d no longer receives Colby
m a i l-but he i s a notable a l u m n us for much more than j u st
lon gevity. He h a s nea r-perfect attendance at a l u m n i reu n ions i n
recent decades, a n d h i s pa rtici pation i n t h e parade o f c l a sses h a s
M assachu ett In t itute of Technology ince 1 976, Chomsky is
become reu n ion tradition. He h a s been a generous donor t o the
a pivotal figure of our century.
Merr i l l and H a rriett Greene/Art hur Roberts F i n a n c i a l Aid Fund, a n d
In the 1 9 50s l i nguistics was mo tly concerned with how
a plaque i n Cotter Union acknowledges t h a t he a n d t h e l ate Mrs.
languages evolve. H is book Syntactic Structures ( 1 95 7 ) marked the
Greene gave the n a m i n g gift for the lobby.
beginning of modern linguistics. Chom ky' radical notion ha
Dr. Greene came to Colby from Athens, Maine, after President
been that language is part of the brain's hard wiring, that it i
Arthur Roberts visited Som erset Academy when Greene was a
innate and that all languages operate under the same general
student there. After Col by, he enrolled at H a rvard Med ical School,
principle in spite of superficial d ifference .
earn i n g a n M .D. degree i n 1 924. Early i n his career he spec i a l ized in
Chomsky's prodigious activity and restles intellect have led
him to contribute to the fields of philosophy, psychology, biology,
the hi tory of ideas, cultural anthropology, cognitive sciences and
pol itical s ience.
homsky is the most c i ted living person and
ranks eighth overall among living and deceased. Science magazine
said in 1 997 that no scientist, not even Ein rein, dominated his
field so completely and for so long--over 40 year .
research and m a nagement of d i a betes. He retired from active
practice a s a general practitioner at the age of 90.
Dr. Greene's selection for Col by's list of highl ights of the 20th
century clea rly is World War II. Though he served in the Army in 1 9 18,
the First World War ended before he was cal led overseas. He is a World
War I veteran who said, "We were fortunate we did n't have to go."
In World War II he enlisted as a physician in the Army's 67th
General Hospit a l Corps and served i n England and France. H 1 s
U rsula Reidei-Schrewe
recol lections o f those years focus on two Amencan pastimes­
Associate Professor of German
baseball and legal procedure. He was recrUited to p1tch m a
celebrated baseba l l game held on a cncket f1eld and broadcast back
G erman Unification
old War with the Berlin
to the States i n 1 945. He a lso was recruited to defend sold1ers 1 n the
Wall coming down in 1 9 9. That peaceful revolution was the
beginning of a new era for the ent ire world. For Germany it ended
decision of the U.S. Supreme Court after the war. "I got a lot of
pol itical division and opened a ultural and intellectual landscape
that had been disconne te � from de"clopments m the \Vest. Th1'
throat , " he sa1d of h1s explo1ts beat1ng h 1 s su penor off1cers in court
Mo t people connect the end of the
had a tremendous effect on Gem1an studies as a Lh�c1plme. Fom1er
G[ R spe ialists, rather than being out of work, arc now ln\'Ol\'cd
in the stu� • of the transitional process. The emergmg "\Vendc­
L iteratur" reflects the hanges in the public and pm·ate sphere.
Dialogues in\'olving author', media people. publishe� and rerre­
senrarives of e �u a tiona! and cultural m. ntunon' haYe become a
ommon feature and are sharing a new public ClmSclou,ne.'
dock for courts mart i a l and says one of his cases was upheld by a
favora ble publ icity, but a l i i was ever doing was cutting my own
on beh a lf of h1s c l ients.
Back 1 n Mame he was chairman of the Republican Party m
Lew1ston-"wh1ch 1sn't very m uch. 1t's such a Democratic c1ty,
he confided
He lives 1 n h1s own home i n the com p a ny of a Ins y c a l1co
com panmn. "I call her my d a ughter. but I guess most people would
.
call her a cat. . he sa1d . rubb1ng her head Dr. Greene says he
occasmn a l ly discu sses problems w1th the cat. "She doesn't do
much. but she listens." he sa1d rem a rk1ng that it's a tra1t he
somet1mes fmds 1 n people a s
ell
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Lab Collaboration
S u m mer research opportu n ities make learning stick
By Alicia
((
I
emiccolo MacLeay '97
board to
tried the typical college tu-
a career," A l le n said.
I n addition to the academ i c
dent job after fresh m a n
year-scoop i n g i c e c r e a m a t
experience, h e spent o n e d a y a
Ba kin- Robbin -and i t got old
week with Ken Viens ' 7 3 , learn­
p re t ty quickly," said Carolyn
ing about the brokerage business
Morda
a t A . G . Edward & Sons down­
' 0, a double major in
chem1 try and math. Two years
town. H e also worked a t Dick
later Morda wa e n conced in a
W h itmore's ( athletics) b a ket­
chemistry lab for the summer,
ball camp. Two more reasons
doing re earch with A ociate
A ll e n stayed a t Colby were the
Profe or Tom
proxi m ity of the H um e Center
hattuck, trying
and the Outi ng Club cabin.
to find binding constants for
Most student research takes
gue t -h o t complexe .
More than 40
tudent
place i n a lab, at a computer or in
re­
mamed at Colby t h i summer to
the library. Betsy Loyd '0 1 , an
a 1 t profe ors in re earch for
A merican studies major, got to
publications, experiments and
watch movies on the job. Part of
other project . Every academic
h e r r e s e a r c h w a s fo r D a v i d
d i cipline wa repre ented, from
Lubin's ( art a n d A merican stud­
p ychology to phy ic and mu ic
ies) book on the m a k i ng of the
to anthropology. A lthough stu­
1 93 3 film King Kong. Their goal,
dent remain on campus for vari­
said Loyd, was "to use the film as
ou
a springboard for d iscussing what
rea ons, learning underlie
them all. Concepts taught dur­
mg the academiC year are pur­
ued m greater depth, and new
l ife was l i ke for people i n the
Professor Jim Flemming and Wes Baff '99 worked together this summer to build
a Web site for the American Meteorological Society.
early 1 930s and what would pro­
voke them to make such a fil m . "
1dea are mve ugated. Opportu­
the American Meteorological
experience. Now he sees the com­
S h e also watched t h e 1 99 7
n i t ies to acqune new k d l and
ociety, working with Professor
puter screen as an empty canvas.
h i t Titanic with the remote con­
omen me even get author cred­
J i m Fleming ( sc ience, technol­
It '' h de working clo ely wnh a
ogy and oc iety } . Baff examined
Fleming said summer research
t ions right for another Lubin
profe, or are appealmg.
book project. She even edited
" I can do whatever l want."
trol i n hand, to get the quota­
the hi tory of the global warm­
like Baffs can "give the student
Morda , who pent Ia t urn­
ing-cl imate change controver y
orne national credentials." Hav­
some of the writi ng. "That part
nl­
and designed a 30-page Web ite.
ing their findings publ ished or
was really fun for me," said Loyd.
" [ enjoy e d i t i ng , and i t was great
mer domg re earch at the
ver 1 t � of V e r m o n t and t h 1 s
"The project eemed l i ke a great
making presentations is common
,umme r a t olhy, sa1d, "although
opportunity to learn more about
for re earch assistants and bol­
to learn how i t works in the real
rhe1r fac d 1 tle' were greater m
omerhmg I had an interest in,"
ster their career prospects.
book publishing world."
o much I
Economics major Kirk A llen
Every researcher acquires skills
fee l like an expert. Before, I only
'00 spent h is summer research­
they wouldn't get from a class­
ours. That 1s prerry 1m­
had a superfic 1al under tanding."
mg two topics with two econom­
room lecrure. Allen say he gained
Although Ba f met regularly
ICS profe sors-with J i m Meehan
a better understanding of the re­
w1rh Flemmg, he re earched and
he stud1ed "The Organization of
search process by compi ling and
de 1gned the
Profe
presenting data-valuable tool
m trument w as actually nor
l!ooJ
a
pre ,,.e for
. 1orJa
olhy "
.ud ,he remameJ m
\X',ncrnlle th" ummer N!c.au'e
"n'
much e.b ler
m
in most careers and for the ana­
to
that\ m� 0\\ n, anJ at the end of
League and rhe M i nor Leagues,"
lytical re earch paper required of
um­
the -,ummer I can 'it hack and
and wnh Hank G e mery h e in­
'a� . 'I d 1d rh1 ' and he proud ."
ve ngated
mu .He pnme nmc ," 'he a1J.
\\'e Baff '99 r.weJ <ln . by­
tl, w er H dl .!Iter gradu.Hlng
m
Je,lgn a re ean.:h \\' eh 'lte for
L 1\ '
10nal Ba eball: The Re­
lat ion h i p Between the Major
'e
,Jh(.)ut; j.mu.ll"\ and the
1te h1m elf. " I t 's
been n1ce to work on a project
�et re,earch
Jone w hen there ,ue no Ia
'" IT)
a1d Baff. " I 've read
a>
numN!r, . . . the qualny of the1r
Baff c. Ia 1m' he w a
n't
om­
fnrrable w1rh om purer' and had
n<l pro�rammmg or
. . I nternal m igra­
non m rhe 1 9 30 . "I knew going
t h is way: "Once ! learn a concept
mro sen1or year I
and use it in my re earch, it sticks
hould do
omerhmg that was a spring-
ch des1�n
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enior economics majors. Mordas
explained the value of her work
with me for good ." +
U nique Alfond Apart ments Open
eniors lived off
of whom are returning from the
campus during the 1 996-97 aca-
freedom of a junior-year abroad.
When 2 1 2
demic year, Colby commissioned
"We d idn't want all of the
a task force on residential life to
apartments to be the same ,"
study campus housing and the
Hammond aid ofthe four-, five­
effects this exodus wa having on
and
the
apartment include
allege. TI1e group c ncluded
that the void left by off-campus
i x - per on u n i ts . Every
private
�
�
bathrooms and k i tchenette
senior deprived Colby ofstudent
with all the appliances. While
leaders and hurt the residential
many seniors are intere ted in
life program. That was clearly a
preparing their own meals, all
problem; the Harold and Bibby
maintain a minimum meal plan
Jason St. Cla1r, left, and Matthew Boutet move 1nto a s1x-student sen1or
omp l e x ,
of 1 00 meals a semester. "They
apartment in the Harold and B1bby Alfond Res1dence Complex th1s fall.
which opened this fall t o house
don't need to be ent irely self-
removed for u to feel indepen­
than ! 00 re>Idcnt
dent ," said Donahue.
nothmg even clo e. "The no­
Alfond Residence
1 07 seniors, is the solution.
ufficient," said Hammond.
and found
The senior apartments, lo­
Tom Donahue '00 is one stu-
To allow maximum auton­
cated on the wooded hillside be­
dent who chose the complex, in
omy, governance of the complex
hind The Heights, are "a hybrid
part because he wanted to have
is in the hands of the re ident .
between living in a regular dorm
a choice between eating at a
No hall staff or faculty are in
AR
and living off campus," said Ron
dining hall or cooking for him-
residence. Instead, repre enta­
ofus rorren,"sa1d Donahue. "Very
Hammond, as ociate dean of stu­
elf. The location of the com-
tive from each of the 22 apart­
few of u
dents for residential life. The pur­
plex was another advan rage. " It's
ments meet weekly, advised by
apartment
pose of the complex is to provide
close enough to the regular cam­
Hammond.
cious a these for qu1te a whde."
greater privacy, independence
pus to make everything ea ily
another school with imilar elf-
olby
earched for
tion that 1t'
elf-governmg I'>
unique," Hammond a1d.
"The only problem 1 that the
i> probably gomg to pml all
are gomg to l1ve m
as modern and �pa­
A dedica[ lon ceremony wa.
held
eptember 30.
C h a rles Strom '03, of Newton, Mass., spent his s u m m er wi sely­
Most of the class of 2003 was born in
f i n i s h i n g up h i s basic Emergency Med i c a l Tec h n i c i a n tra i n i n g a n d , i n
1 981 . They were the firstgeneration raised
August, t a k i n g the cert i fication exa m . O n the way back from h 1 s
in disposable diapers and never in their
COOT, which took h i m i nto t h e mounta i n s on t h e New H a m ps h i re border,
lifetime was Yugoslavia a country. Colby's
his bus came u pon a 1 2-year-old i n l i ne skater lyi n g in the road w1th a
1 82nd freshman class is 490 strong,
head i n j u ry , bleeding a n d a possible broken a rm after be1ng h1t by a
emphasis on strong, and its members hail from
pickup truck. When the cry " I s a nyone an EMT?'' sounded, Strom was
the only one close, a n d he was sti l l awa1ting h1s oHic 1 a l cert1f1cat10n
4 1 states and represent 25 countries.
from Massachusetts. He sta b i l ized the v1ct 1 m ' s neck and spine u ntil
a n a m b ula nce arrived, helped get him i n a cerv1cal brace and onto a
1 98 1
backboard and acco m p a n ied h 1 m 1 nto the exa m 1 n at10n room at
Tom H a n k s receives h i s fourth
R u m ford's hospita l .
Oscar n o m i nation for Saving
Private Ryan
W h e n the September Seventeen m a gaZine publi shed "Th i s Town Rocks
1 0 Best C1t 1es for Tee n s . " Nate Argu e l l e s '03 was a spo e s m a n for h 1 s
The a utomotive trend i s toward
compact c a rs
hometown, B i l l i ngs, Mont., a n d p l u gged both c u ltural a n d outdoor
opport u n 1t1es, from swmg d a n c i n g to mou nta i n b 1 k 1 n g "Colby rocks
Shakespeare in Love w 1 n s
too." he s a 1 d from h 1 s room 1 n God d a rd-Hodg 1 n s two weeks after
the O s c a r f o r Best Pict u re
l a n d 1 n g i n Waterville "People are really fnendly and here·s a lo
Kim Ca rnes' Bette Davis Eyes wins
o do.
You're surrounded by really s m a rt people, and you can tal w1th them
the Gram my for record of the year
a bout a l most a nyth m g ..
") ­,
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facu lty fi le
See Dick ( N ot) Run
Maisel's controversial study of candi date emergence cont i n ues
By Stephen B. ColLins ' 74
I
t's the autumn of an odd-num­
Stone obtained the names of
the House floor and implied that
bered year, do e to the :ero
Democrats and Republicans con­
the N SF regretted funding it.
hour for tho e Congressional can­
sidered strong potential candi­
didare who must decide whether
Cand idate Emergence Study. "
The initial study found that
The controversy did not fade
"the better they [potential can­
da res for Congress in 200 selected
after this symbolic attack, and
didates] were, the less l ikely they
U . S . House districts, whether or
things got hairy when the GAO's
would run," M a isel said. Often it
they are to make filing deadlines
not those possible candidates had
investigation ordered Maisel and
was a practical decision based on
for the 2000 national election.
shown any interest in running.
Stone to breach the confiden­
their sense that they couldn't
ext they surveyed these ideal
tiality of their informants ( con­
win against incumbents. But a
greater concern was the percep­
to throw their hats in the ring if
Ask L. Sandy Maise l , the
W i lliam R . Kenan Jr. Professor
candidates about their political
fi d e n t i a l i t y
of Government, about who is
ambitions, l ikel ihood of running
guidelines of the NSF and guar­
i s r e q u i re d
by
tion that Congress is no longer a
place where people can solve the
running-and who i not-and
for office, perceptions of their
anteed in the human subjects
you'll get the informed insights
districts and incumbents, view
law gove r n i ng s c i e n t ific re­
nation's problems, a phenom­
of their chances of winning and
searc h ) . Colby and University of
enon M a isel attributes to the
what opportunities, costs and
Colorado attorneys entered ne­
success of the Reagan revolu­
benefits were associated with
gotiations with the GAO and
tion, which shifted power to state
the NSF's unsympathetic gen­
and local policymakers. That and
eeking a seat in the House.
Sandy Matsel
of an expert who has studied
The inquiry made some mem­
eral counsel and, at one impasse,
the perception that politics and
ber of Congress nervous. The
"were prepared to fight a con­
Congress are too negative and
initial mailing prompted calls
gress ional subpoen a , " M a isel
are held in low regard have had a
from about 20 congressional
said. At that point Rep. Barney
notable effect on people's will­
staffs, most of whom were moll i ­
Frank ( D-Mass . ) and others per­
ingness to serve.
fied once Maisel and Stone ex­
suaded Rep. Clay to ask the
The negativity-the partisan
plained the scientific nature of
GAO to wrap up its investiga­
bitterness-worries Maisel most.
the study, that it addressed 200
tion. The subsequent GAO re­
"I have always enjoyed having
districts and that it involved both
port blandly concluded that the
conservative students in the c lass­
Democrats and Republicans.
grant proposals "were submit­
room. ! love having someone like
One was unconvinced, however,
ted, reviewed, and processed ac­
Joe Reisert [assistant professor of
and this Congressman went on
cord i ng to the N S F's grant
government], who is very conser­
the attack. Rep. Bill Clay ( D­
policies and procedures."
Mo. ) i ued a pre
release in
J une of 1 997 ex pre
The political science lesson for
vative, in the department." Con­
gress, however, has changed greatly
ing "our­
Maisel was one of political power.
in the last 1 5 or 20 years and has
" nor runnmg I> now Mat el'
rage" that tax dollars were being
"Just because you know you're
lost the code of comity that per­
pn mar) re>earch mtere t, and
"wasted" when "there i never
right, and everyone knows that
mits friendships across the aisle,
tt\ al o rc,earch that generated
any shortage of good and quali­
you're right, doesn't mean you're
Maisel says.
more contnll'er,y than the
fied people who feel they could
going to come out ahead," he said.
"How do you maintain a civil
The sideshow overshadowed
debate when the other side takes
an absolute position?" he asked.
ongre>> for three decades. Who
t iona!
a­
c t e n c e Fou n d a t t o n
erve m Congres:.."
ptcked up the
research that reached interest­
tory, "our phone rang nonstop,"
ing conclusions and warranted
I t's a d i lemma that he attacks as
tone, a
atd Mat el. Clay and three other
a fo l l o w - u p s t u d y o n h o w
a teacher by making students rake
pwfe,,nr nf polmc.ll 'ue nc e at
Houo,e member> pre ;ed for mves­
pot e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e s ' v i ews
the side of a debate that runs
dk•
nganon of the :,rudy by the
change. "The
contrary to their own bel iefs.
( ' ' F ) would have pred tcted
'' hen It otlereJ fund mg.
. l.u,cl .md Walter
n l \ er,lty of
u�l\ cJ
1 7 5.
oloraJn, re­
fmm rhe
F
f11r rhetr (. mJtJ ne Emergence
r uJ 1 , 11 htch
, r ,m e J
111 1 997 .
When the pre
F's
F said 'ofcourse
tmpcctorgeneral and the General
you can apply,"' Maisel said of
Account ing Office (GAO).
the sequel s t u d y , " b u t they
the need
begged u not to." I n
cour e in politics as one founda­
Though the
F mve;nga-
ThL g,>. J I 11 .1 w unJer r.1nJ rhe
non c leared r h e >tudy <l> hemg
he and
J�u,t<>n·m,Jl..: mg prt><.o.:' nf pt>­
"full) comt'>tt.m t" wnh the rc­
from the
tone received
eptember
TI1e study's findings underline
to
maintain civil dis­
1 38 , 580
tion of a functional democratic
mith R i c h ardson
system. Otherwise, "you don't have
rho'e
11
hn
'ear h pmptbal the founJ<Jnon
Foundanon for a two-year study
run anJ e'r�ual h rhn'o.:
people dedicating their lives
11
ho
luJ agrccJ to funJ, Clay and ht
mlcd "Who Rum for Congress
making the system better," Maisel
u>lle.Jgue' ,tr rJ keJ rhc rudy nn
and Who Doe n't Run: The
said. 'That's scary as hell to me."
to.:nn.ll L<tnJtJ.ne
Jo.:uJL• nor
ttl.
Ftr r , l.Jt,cl .mJ
2
to
Exceptional Facu lty Rec ruits
Th is fa II, Colby welcomed new
search a s the best way to teach
members to the faculty, includ i ng
scienc e was another attrac t i on.
Three new Clare Boothe Luce
six assistant professors who are in
The ab i l i ty to recru i t a sea­
Assistant Profe sor� of Biology
we ll as in medical ant hropology.
tenure-track positions and Robert
soned and respected senior pro­
are Cathenne Bevier, J udy tone
Castaldo, chair of the Geology
fessor l i k e Castaldo to lead the
and Andrea Ti lden. Bevier, who
Department and the first Whipple-
geology program is a te tament
received her Ph.D. m ecology
addi ngton Professor of Geology.
to the value of endowed chairs ,
from the Univer I ty of
astaldo, who was the A l u m ­
onnecti­
otter aid. The
cut, bri ngs expert! e m an l lnal
n i Professor o f Geology at A u ­
W h i p p l e -Codd i n g t o n c h a i r ,
behavior and behavior ecology.
burn U n i versity i n A l abama,
given b y Trustee Emeritus J ane
holds a doctorate i n geology from
Whipple
Southern I l l i nois U n i v rsi ty. A
of 3 1 named professorships at
Gettysburg Coll ege graduate, he
Colby,
d c i ded to move to Maine, and
endowed in the past
from a large university to a small
President B i l l
Stone hold a doctorate in ecol­
addington '55, is one
ogy and evolut ion from the
Un iver i ry of
ew York ar
rare
tony
2 7 of which have been
1 0 years.
Brook and spec i a l i zes in pol l ma­
Six tenure-track posi tions also
evolut ion of flowering plants.
Pnnceron. H I
phy 1cal orga n i c c h em istry .
Robert Gastaldo
r i on biology, ecology and the
spec ialty
��
col lege, for the satisfac t ion of
were filled, inc luding a joint ap­
Ti lden earned a doctorate i n
er­
pointment in African-American
physiology from t h e University
Peter Dnmanson holds a JOint
teac h i ng i n a l i beral arts
" 1 a l ways had undergrads
"1 a lways
studies and anthropology filled
fOk lahoma with pec ial izarion
appointment m East Asian �tud­
i n my lab," he said.
by Maritza Straughn-Will iams,
in neurobiology and compara­
Ies and h i tory. He earned hi'>
found i t a reward i ng t h i ng. I t 's
who completed her doc toral
tive animal physiology.
at that point that students de­
studies i n anthropology at the
c i de seriously what they want to
City U niversity ofNew York. he
r a n t profe s o r o f chemi t r y , ha
do." Colby's emphasis on re-
spec ial izes i n the Caribbean as
a doc torate i n c h e m istry from
r i ng.
Ph.D. in h btory and Ea t A�1an
Dasan T h a m a r roor, a s i s ­
language from Harvard U n iveriry and
peC i a i i :es m mtelle -
tual and cult ural history.
This new program reache a bn further
W h e n Professor S u e l l e n
and combines the resource of the French
( French ) started to p u l l together informa­
t ion and support for a new i n terdisc ipl i nary
Department with the International tudie>
program on French- pea k i ng women in Af­
program and other d iscipl mes m the hu­
rica and the Caribbean, she was amazed at
man i t ies and oC ial C ience . D1aconoff 1
how a campus in rural M a i ne is so thor­
particularly pleased that It ll' d l foc u
ough ly engaged i n i nternational affa i rs and
geograph ical regions and culture that arc
activit ies. " I t was rea l l y fanta r i c , " she said.
often not only underrepre enred m the
As a result of her i n i t iative, this involve­
formal c urnculum but are h i>toncally un­
on
dervalued by Western C I V I i i:ation.
ment becomes even deeper this semester.
Diaconoff was the leader of a coa l i t ion of
The program will mve rigare i �ue
facu l ty members who won a U.S. Department
civil oCiety through rhe tatu of women in
of Education grant to support a two-year
proj ect titled "Focus on Francophone Women
in Africa and the
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Suellen Diaconoff
tud1ed. The emergence of ne11 mle
orrh Africa and next year wdl
ro
expand trad it ional language in�rructiOn
w
'>(X.It>e..:o­
;mhhcan
Afnc,m anJ
.
1
.lrt:
g11·cr . him
will the ch.1llen'!e
The pwgram <>ffer'> exc n mg <>pportumtie, t�>r ,tudenb
thev enwll m the cour'e' t)[ nor. :\n Afn..:.m .mJ
I i rerature majors starred dropping, the department became the fir�r
olby
nf
that they face m the C<>mmg century.
urriculum i n recent years. � hen the number� of French
c u ltural stud ies as we l l . In
ft>r
maker'>, IITiter'>, anJ artl'>t,__ w dl he exammed .
of the progressive revision' that the French Department ha made
at
or rernwne,
anbhean. on£11 rmgda1m'
women-mrel lectual politiC ian,, eJucatt>r'>, he.1 lrh-
Dean of Fac u lty Ed Yeterian see' the program a an exten�Ion
irs
Afnca and rhe
nomic, political anJ cultural rran>ft>rmatitm in rhthC '>(X.ICtie wdl he
bring a foreign scholar to Mayflower H i l l for part of a seme rer.
w
olnnie'
the fom1er Fren h
of rraJmon anJ mr�<..l e rnity and
aribbean." The program
w i l l help add new courses in several department', w i l l offer ptr ible
Jan Plan trip' to Guadalupe and
•
of
w,b ,cheduleJ lt>r the hegmnmg of
mclude
ruher, all-campu' lecture are
m the t>tt mg, anJ ,eJt-m,tru t 1on.1l unn on
1 994-95 i t began offenng French >tudie'
11 hether
reule him ie m·al
Afncan anJ anhhcan
and d iscm·ered i t was a popular opt ion. h !any student' now double
language -pcrhap :\ rab1c, \\'olut. Bamb.1r and/ r Creole-w i l l
major i n French stud ies and internat ional studie'.
be adJeJ tc>
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olh ' 'rare-ot-rhe-arr Lmguage Re, ur e Center.
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Chamberlain : A Hero for the Ages
John J. P ullen '35 exami nes a hero he hel ped res u rrect 40 years ago
!, ·
By Harold B. Raymond, emeritus professor of History
a way to train Maine youth for
advertising career in 1 96 5 and
more varied careers in the state.
in the appeal of his career to
ordinary c itizens. H e was a c i v i l ­
never considered him elf a pro­
Chamberlain was as dedicated
fes ional hi torian, l a i d the
to public service as he was to the
ian-a professor-who met the
foundation for Chamberlain's
Union army, but his principles
grim test of wartime command
frequently got in his way.
and emerged as a hero a t a cru­
re,•ived
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.· t
'
JOSHUA
CHAMBERLAIN
A Hero's
tatus ,,·hen he pub­
lished his first book, The Twen­
What Chamberlain failed to
c i a l m o m e n t . The r e l a t i v e l y
rieth Maine, in 1 9 5 7 . l n his new
learn was subtlety. After erving
s m a l l size o f the unit he com­
book, Pul len deals largely with
as governor he became embroiled
manded ( 400 men) make
postwar years
in a near civil war over a voting
skill, courage and calm maneu-
Chambe r l a i n '
Life & Legacy
JOHN J. PULLEN
Joshua Chamberlain: A
and explains why his status as a
l ist dispute that ended in a siege
hero revi,·ed in the 20th cen­
on the state capitol. H is insis­
tury, after Chamberlain had
tence on pu uing that dispute
been subjected to repeated dis­
brought a bloodthirsty mob to
Hero's Life and Legacy
appointment and the gradual
his door and, more important,
Stackpole Books, 1 999
fading of his wartime glory. In
alienated him from politicians
2 1 6 pages
one sense, Chamberlain's l ife
across the spectrum.
A
reached its peak at Little Round
P u l len describes Chamber­
Top, where his leadership of the
la in's long decline-from 1 880
b u l l e t ripped through
Twentieth Maine quite poss ibly
until his death in 1 9 1 4 he suf­
J o h u a Lawrence Cham­
aved the Army of the Potomac.
fered from poor health, the rise
berlam' peh-i during a battle at
He went on to orchestrate one of
of a new generation, and di­
a., m 1 64. Cer­
the most moving gestures in mili­
minished prestige. But he re­
tam of death, he dic tated a fare­
tary h i tory when he in isted on
mained devoted to public duty,
wel l letter to his wife. When
saluting surrendering Confeder­
the pursuit of personal integ­
a;ked by two general what they
ate soldier at Appomattox Court
rity and patriot ism.
could do for him, Chamberlain
House-a decision that may well
He was a patriot with deep
reque red a promonon to bnga­
have cost him the illustrious fu­
emotional commitment to the
dter general, a rank awarded per­
ture that had seemed inevitable.
Union he helped save, but he
Peter burg,
'tmally h\
ly e
been forgotten. The answer lies
Pullen, who retired from an
. Grant.
his
The Civil War, like other ma­
was never an active abolitionist
vering at Little Round Top eas­
JOr Amencan war , produced a
and wa decidedly critical of radi­
i ly understood and fits into a
rh,n '><.ene m ht later book,}oshua
group of young men who found
cal reconstruction. Despite his
long American tradition of the
hamb.>rlam : A Hero's ufe and
fu lfillment and glory in military
own wounds, he was a firm be­
soldier rising to heroic achieve­
leader;h tp. However, the quali­
ltever in military virtues and the
ment in war.
that made orne men out-
heroic side of wartime service.
The struggle he maintained
rhar ,myone who 'eek:, a h tgher
t a n d m g on the b a t t l e f t e l d
Though these views have been
against an unfamil iar and an of­
wnrldh ofttee '' hen he thmk he 1
frequently were nor useful m polt­
critic i:ed by some 20th-century
ten hostile world, old age and
t tc and hu me;:,.
h t;torian , the U . . Army field
phy ical dec line is one old
manual on leader hip designates
diers must face. The heroism of
areer
hamberlain as a model mil itary
"doing the right thing no matter
through four fru rrat1ng one-year
leader. H t; ourage, c a l m devo­
what the consequences," drama­
J ohn J. Pullen '35 de:,cnbe
U!{Cll..') . "A thought whtch mu;t
'rnng
to
mmd," Pullen \\Ttte , "t>
dep.mmg from the world
cer·
1'
t te
I n a clear narrat ive, Pullen
tamh l<Xlkmg t<m ard the perpetu­
.ltt<m nf ht, tume ,md fame "
h.tmf-erlam needn't h,l\ e
w,
rned
H,tJ he dted rhar da\ ,
fo l l ow; Chamberl a m '
term'
a'
ht'>
,1 rem.trk.tHe leg.K\ of h<ln<lr,
'tghred,
.md hr,l\ en . A It
he '' enr <ln r
11!
,
'er\ e
,h
w ,h,
g<l\ em<lr
l a me ,md pre tdenr ,If ht'
,11 rna m.ttt:r, &m dom.
t ion
red n , Ch<1mherlam '' <l'> far­
( h.unh:rl.un \\Ould h.1 w t1ll lefr
de en<.
gm ern or of Mame. To
upporrmg muea ed
t<lun'm ,md nrher :-.. 1ame-ha,ed
ol­
duty and genuine com­
tized at Gettysburg, continued
pa >ton are VIrtues that endure
long after the glory of the war
hoth tn war and c t v t l ian life.
faded. Pullen' account ofCham­
ro
ne m tght a;k why
ham-
berlain's postwar career and the
1--erlam h<1 reemerged a a genu­
revival of his reputation is an
dependen e <ln ,e J ) mg r;m m,t­
me Amencan hero while many
essential part of the story of an
ten.ll . He rre 'ed edut:,ltlon a
other once-famo u :,oldter:, h ve
enduring American hero.
mdu,trle rh.tt reduced the '>tate'
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Of TIMl
The Mot her H e N ever Knew
A N [)
Don J .
MlMORV
nyder ' 7 3 's 1 9-year­
on an elevator, the woman who e
old m ther died days after giving
de i res and fears nyder need to
the man who had never been
birth to him and hi twin brother.
know-" the one Without who e
t he ame after h 1:. young w1fe of
Of Time and Memory, the non­
touch our own worth me would
I0
fic tion story
forever be
f nyder' search
m
Abandonment and loneh­
fr iends, fam i l y and h usband,
brings to l ife the mother he never
nes pervade this deeply mov­
ing story. nyder gathers all the
t i me that other people had w1th
Of Time and Memory:
ging in the back fa pickup truck,
her and make the um of their
A Mother's Story
the young bride on her honey­
moon ki sing her husband a they
moment h i own. Along the
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ride all the way down l l floors
pages
fresh prints
month d1ed.
Gettmg at the heart of thb
doubt. "
for her in the memories of her
knew-the girl of 1 3 j i tterbug­
Alfred A. Knopf
k nown and fa llen m love w1th,
woman mean
gomg for the
heart . nyder\ lyncal pro e
reache peak after ad, heauuful
peak. In the weep of t1me and
pace that overpower mother anJ
father and nyder h1 m:.elf, h 1
own w1fe and four children prove
way he "finds" h is father, too,
t h e pe rson h i s m o t h e r had
under tandably prec1ou .
the mi d - 1 500s who 1s cred1ted w1th keepmg Pans Catholic . The book
i s a window on the religious and mtellectual climate of Pans at the
Writer on the Rocks: Moving the Impossible
time, and 1t challenges earlier works that suggested France was then
Linda Tatelbaum
i n the g ri p of eschatological ( "the-end-Is-near' ) angu1sh.
About Time Press,
1 999
Since publishing Carrying Water A s a Way of
Life i n
1 997,
essayist Linda Tatelbaum
Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father
Isaac
D. Balbus '64
1 998
(Engl ish) has carved a niche writing about
Routledge,
homestead i n g , gardening and living without
Isaac Balbus '64, professor of polit1cal sc1ence at the Un 1vers1ty of
benefit of the electrical g ri d . In Writer on the
I l l i nois at Chicago, weaves three narrat1ves how h1s struggle to
Rocks she goes to the well again-literally, in
mother his daughter caused him to evaluate his relat1onsh1p with h1s
the first section, where she's down the hole
own mother; how theories of feminist mothenng and of narciss1sm
digging to get water flowing during a drought.
relate; and how historical changes 1n mothenng pract1ces expla1n the
The dry well is a metaphor for the blocked
popularity of Dr. Benjamin Spack's pnnc1ples Emotional Rescue 1s
writer, and the ghost of the late Edwin Kenney (E ngl i sh) as a mentor
feminist theory, psychoanalytiC theory, and 'men's stud1es at the1r
will be familiar to alumni readers.
very best," said one rev1ewer
Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media
The Complete Encyclopedia of Skiing (third edition)
B i l l Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
Robert
The Century Foundation Press,
1 999
C. Barnes '83
The Snowline Press,
B i l l Kovach (chair of Colby's Lovejoy Award Select1on Committee)
1 999
The th1rd ed1t1on of career ski Instructor Robert C Barnes '83's The
IS
and Tom Rosenstiel use the Lewinsky scandal and Cl inton impeach­
Complete Encyclopedia of Sk1lng
ment to examine how the rapidly proliferating news media function 1n
reference for Instructors and all senous skiers
the new non-stop news cycle, which i s emerging 1 n an era of
Col o . , wntes that w1th 1nnovat1ons like deep-s1decut sk1s. "never has he
chang1ng mores about what is "fit to pnnt." Analyz1ng what was
reward for clear understanding and e ecttve educa tOn been grea er
reported when, by whom and with what sources, the authors "have
been particularly vigilant 1 n trying to articulate the endunng values
so much under assault," writes
stam i n the introduction.
1 997 Lovejoy Fellow David
Halber­
touted as the 1nd1spensable
Barnes of Keystone
other m e d ia
School o f Velocity (CD)
Arthur Levering '75, composer
2 ( 999)
Composers Recordtngs Inc. (CR· CDS
Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Franyoise Le
Th1s co ectton of compost 10ns performed by he Dtnosaur An ex
Picart and the Beginnings of the Catholic Reformation
Mus1c Ensemble and
Brill,
1 999
Larissa Taylor ( h1story), whose
anous other mustc,ans has been called
e Boston G abe and
exc1 1ng lyncal polhe ul" by
Larissa J uliet Taylor
album by an Amencan composer I
1 992 book Soldiers of Chflst was
•
Robert Car'
n
Fan are
e
e bes deb
eard
agaz,ne T o g
named the best fi rst book in medieval stud1es. follows up w1 h an
Le enng s nev. mustc •s pra sed
analysis of published sermons by Le P1cart. a popular preacher 1n
tmag,na 1 e arches ra ton and
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1 9 -J y
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gifts & grants
Enhanc i ng Green
G rants help envi ronmental stu dies p rogram
B)' Stephen Collins '74
E
m· ironmental i ues are a n
Perkins Arboretum as an outdoor
increa ingly important and
laboratory and will fund environ­
popular field of study, and evi­
mental curriculum development.
dence suggests that among the
In September the College
prolifera t i ng academic programs
learned that the Andrew W .
available, Colby's i get t i ng no­
Mellon Foundation approved a
t iced. Top tudent are comi ng
proposal for several h u ndred­
to Mayflower H i l l to enroll in
thousand dollars "to strengthen
the program , and foundations
the environmental studies pro­
and individual have shown a
gram at Colby." That proposal
w i l l ingness-and even an eager­
i n corporates student research
Improvements in the 1 28-acre Perkins Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary on the
campus will enhance its usefulness as an outdoor laboratory forenvironmental
sciences and other disciplines.
as istantships, new off-campus
Award for I ntegration of Re­
endowments pay for student sti­
research partnerships for stu­
search and Education in 1 998,
pends each year.
ar hip to 1 0 Mas achusetts h igh
dents, a lecture series to bring
gets reinforced any t ime a stu­
M a ny students need the in­
chool enior who were plan­
outside experts to Colby and a
dent can spend the summer work­
come of a summer job to earn
ne -to upport the program.
A foundation that gave schol-
n i ng to rudy environmental sci­
coordinator to help arrange and
ing as a research assistant with a
money for school and expenses,
ence took notice this spring when
manage student internships in
professor.
explains Vice President for De­
t h ree of their scholars chose
environmental studies.
dation Student Research Fund,
velopment and A l u m n i Rela­
the J ana C. Rudnick Student
t ions Peyton R . Helm. These
Colby. The foundation,
east Educational
orth­
Earlier this year, The Holli
ow, the Hollis Foun­
ervices, 1 nc . ,
Foundation, Robert Rudnick '69
Research Fellowship in Environ­
endowed positions combine the
o l b y to find out
and Vicky Kleinman P ' 3 all
mental Sciences and the Ralph
best elements of a paying sum­
more-and to invite the College
established endowed fel lowships
and Jack K leinman Student Re­
mer job and a valuable academ i c
to apply for a grant. This summer
for summer research assistants.
search Fellowship ( named i n
opportunity a s students work side
the foundation approved a pro­
Colby's emphasis on teac h i ng
honor o f Mrs. Kleinman's de­
by side w i th a professor. "There's
posal utled "Enhanc ing Envi­
through research, which was si­
ceased son, J ack '83, and late
a great need for these positions
ronmental Education through
m u lt a neou ly recogni:ed and
husband, Ralph) give Colby stu­
in the sciences as well as in soc ial
Fteld- BaseJ Learning," which will
supercharged with a
500,000
dents those opportunities i n per­
sc iences and the humanities,"
tmprove the u efulne s of the
N ational
c ience Foundation
petuity as the earnings of those
Helm said.
contacted
More than the Sum
"We dtd tt!" crowed Peyron R. Helm, vice president for develop­
T h e College does n o t buy or ell m a i l ing l ists and guards t h e
privacy o f i t s graduates rather zealously. Colby also wants to make
mem, upon leammg that, for the fir t t i me, m re than half of Colby's
alumm-5 1 percem-parttctpated in the Alumni Fund drive.
giving as convenient as possible, so it ha established a new secure
annual-giving Web site ( h ttp://www.colby .edu/afgift/) and the
toll-free, 2 4 - hour number ( 800- 3 1 1 - 36 7 8 ) for individuals who
or that there has heen a dearth of rea om for the development
>taff w ro\\ , gtven the unprecedemed ucce s of The Campaign for
olhv th.tt \\ rap' up tht year, hut the 50-percem alumnt part tc ipa­
wam the ea e of m ak i ng the transaction on the Web or by phone
at any hour.
t ton go.tl ha heen a wugh nut tll crack.
P.trrtctpannn rate' are u,eJ by col lege ran k mg urvey and
c h .t r t t.t h le founJat iom
pen:et\ e p.trrtup.ttton a
ro
,1
gauge an t m t t t unon\
Once someone contributes, he or she will not be sol ic i ted again
for the Annual Fund that year, Helm said, o responding to the first
appeal ts the best olution for those who plan to give but feel
trength. They
mea,ure of "cu.,wmer 'an;,factton."
Rut , 1 the numher of n<m proftt nrg.tnt:anom ha exploJed and
overwhelmed by the volume of mail.
If wdlmg alumni keep track of whether they have contributed in
any gtven year it will help maintain or even improve the participatio n
rate, whtch ts tmportant for the College's successes to keep begetting
ucce,ses. "Thts ts a berrer participatio n rate than half of the schools
rhetr tunJ-r,l l , t nfo! red1n tque' ha\·e l:>ec<lme more '>oph t;,t lc<HeJ and
m '<ll1le c,t,e ,Jgfo!re
t\ e, Amem:.m ' recept t\ t t � to sud1 .tppeal, ha,
heen h.trJer to eng.tge. \X.'trh mformar u m .mJ .tppeal proltferanng
. J p..l tcnn.tl J, m,lr ' .ltrcnnon '1'·111' hnnk mg, H
m
J tHtLulr for
e pl.1 1 n , . "Ir' n<lt rhar
l
F
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muea,mgly
<llh t<l ccr tt me .lge rhr<lugh ro .tlumnt, Helm
l L
that outranked Colby m the U . S . News & World Report list this year,"
Helm .,atd. "It bodes well for the future."
olh .tlum' J,m'r feel upport t\·e," he ,,uJ.
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Have you moved ?
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This new questionnaire will be in each i sue of the magazine, allowing alumni to contact their cla
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The past system for collecting news, ending separate letter once a year, wa unwieldy and nme comumtng for the -.ma l l taff in
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G reat Site Gets Better
A
Alu m n i Web s ite adds new se rvices with O n - L i n e Com m u n ity
By Stephen
ollins ' 74
T www. olby.edu/alumni/harris.html, and a l l that a n al umnu; or
he
o l by O n - L i ne Co m m u n i ty i s up and r u n n i n g a t
al umna needs to participate is the authenticat ion number pnnted on
the mai l i ng label of this magazine.
The A l u m n i Relations Office set the Web s i te up to give olhy
alumni an easier way to find old olby friends and the opportunity
to get a permanent "@alum.colby.edu" e - ma d address that wdl
remain the same no matter how often the owner change I nternet
serv ice prov iders.
White
Logging on is a simple, four-step proce .
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Go to http://www.colby.edu/alumn i/harris.html.
C l ick on "join now."
Follow the prompt for registering with the authent ication
number printed on your Colby magazine mai l ing label.
hoose an lD and a password. ( N ote that the lD cho en
The Alumni Connect1on' adds several new funct1ons to "The Blue
Light , " Colby's alumn1 Web s1te
occupation. ew erv1ce , mcludmg space and tool to budd per­
anal Web page , w i l l be added a the on- l me community grow , said
J u l i a rowe, Web and publ icat ion coord mator for developmen t and
alumni relat ion .
becomes the prefix of the permanent e-mail address, and
neither can be changed . )
The d i rectory, which i s password protected so only olby alumni
have access to it, can find alumni by name, c lass year, location o r
From Kosovo to Dja k a rt a
Alumni C o l lege G rowth Spurt
Fifty-five people attended this
summer' Alumni College on The
American ivil War-a record
number and a substantial spurt in
what ha been steady growth dur­
i ng the six years that the program
ha been offered. " l t was an enor­
mou succe s," said coordinator
harle Ba ett ( English and
Am ri an studies). "The ivil
War is a popu lar topic that ap­
peals to a wide variety of people,
but the word has begun to get
spread, too, that thi i a great
way to -pend a week."
Ba--ett again recruited col­
league- from the faculty to teach
a single theme for a weel m J ulv
to a n audience of I n terested
alumni and parents of current
'tudent'. E li:abeth Leonard and
R i c h ard �\ l oss ( h 1 s w r ) G .
akin bcken:ie and . nrhonv
orrado ( government ) a nd Da\'ld
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Lu� in ( art and Amencan srud­
ies ) dis ussed h istory , pLllmcs,
Robert . Gelbard '64, confi rmed
thi summer as the United tate
amba.,.,ador to l ndone Ia, was he,1ded
for that troubled nation 'hortlv after
an m tern m i onal peacekeepmf.! force
landed m East Timor la t month. H , ,
deploymenr was delayed while he
\\Tapped up bu me ' from hi, prt.!\'1ow. P<"tmg 111 Bm n 1 .1 where h e was
the Pre,Idenr\ speC ial repre,ent.lti\·e
Robert S Gelbard '64
bef,lre .md dunn(! the KL"<'Hl en'' .
Ambao ador Gel bard, a career d 1pk1mat , ha, emert.:cd ·b Pnc ot' the
tate Department' "hot t-'ll n,," in the wt,rd., ul :\,'lX:I.uc Pw!t: or
of EconLlmic and l nte rnanona l , t uJ 1e P.u n c c Fr.m k cr--.m ,, c "
i mages and soc i a l trends in
America during the Civ i l War.
Morning lectures and d iscussions
were augmented with afternoon
programs and field trips. Part ici­
pants stayed in the Anthony­
M itchell- chupfdormitories and
took ad vantage of everyth mg the
,
campus has to offer-athlenc
fac i l itie , arboretum t ra i l , na­
t ionally acc laimed food ser\'lce
and the olby-Hume enter on
!essalomkee Lake.
1umn 1 from eve!)· decade fwm
the 1 910, to the '90s were repre­
ment onfi m1ed h h1 appcHntment 111 l ndone 1.1 .1 th.u c;ountry
dealt With blt'l<.ld. heJ and Lhatb 111 Ea t Timor, dc mon,t r.mnn ' 111 rhc
capit,ll and pr,)Hem wtth the lntern.mon.1 ! , !oncr.tn Fund.
In add n iLm tel h" ,t ,u u ' a .1 meml-ocr ' t olh ' !.1 ot 1 96 ,
veli'>arJ became .1 tlih\ p \Tent thi, e,H \\hen hi d.lll�hter,
Al e \..111 dr.1 , enrtllled "' .1 mcmh�r ,>f the Cl.b ot 2
3. H t Wile
and Ale\.andr.1' muthcr, A t kne Gelh.uJ, , dem _raphcr tn
:,ented, a1d l\!eg Bernier ' l , <b>O­
Ciare d1recror of alumm relan'm',
and their re.p<.1nse '' <b enthLNa nc. "Bravo! " one partiCipanr \\T<lte
on the CLlur'e ,·aluan,m. 'T,1 be 111
the room while Prclfe"<'T Ba -err 1.
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Ma king Con nections
Alumni call me all the time to
chat about politics or other
issues. And it's not unusual
these days, as my old students
become important decision
makers, that I'm the one
doing the calling.
That's the thing about Colby.
Lives intertwine for the long
haul. We may be teacher and
student at one point, but then
the roles evolve and reverse.
Cal Mackenzie
Distinguished Presidential Professor
of American Government
We share interests, we argue,
we learn from each other.
The bonds between facu lty a nd students
a n d a l u m n i a n d Colby h ave a lways been stro n g .
Yo u r g ift h e lps strengthen these special rel atio nsh ips.
G ive to the C o l by Al u m n i F u n d .
all 1 -800-3 1 1 -3678 o r visit Colby's
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An act of generosity by the son of Adrian Cloutier ' 3 1 made news recently when eorge A.
Cloutier, a Maine native and Harvard graduate, endowed a 1 -mdlwn cholarsh1p fund for
four Mame students to attend Harvard each year. Adrian loutier credited Colby with an
Instrumental role in h is son's generous gift. " I f ! hadn't gone to Colby and given him thi great
start in life, he wouldn't have been able to do what he d1d," said lou t ier, who wll l1ves m
h is home of more than 40 years in Portland, Maine.
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L A R G E
A T
Before the Forties
c/o Meg Bern1er
Colby College Of 1ce o Alumni RelatiOns
Wa erv1lle. ME 04901
207-872-3 1 85
m_bern,e@colby edu
1 940s Correspondents
1 940
B E F O R E T H E FORT I E S M I LESTO N ES
Deaths: Doris Dewar H u n t ' 2 6 , April S , 1 999, in New Canaan, Conn . , at 94 . . . . Helen Kyle
Swan ' 2 6 , April 26, 1 999, in Kingston, Ma s., at 93 . . . . Marjorie Dunstan ' 2 7 , May I , 1 999,
in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 95 . . . . Marie Holmes Ray ' 2 7 , May 1 8, 1 999, in Randolph, Mass . ,
at 9 1 . . . . Gladys B u n ker Bridges ' 2 8 , M a y 2 9 , 1 999, in Bangor, Maine, a t 94 . . . . Al lan J .
Stinchfield ' 2 9 , J une 1 7 , 1 999, i n Gorham, Maine, a t 93 . . . . Mabel Doll iff Craig ' 3 0 , J u ne
5, 1 999, in Claremont, Calif., at 9 1 . . . . Lee F. Brackett ' 3 1 , J une 9, 1 999, in Farmmgton,
Maine, at 90 . . . . J e rome G . Daviau ' 3 1 , J une 1 4, 1 999, in Berlin, Conn., at 90 . . . . Barbara
W hite Morse ' 34 , J u ne 1 , 1 999, in Springvale, Maine, at 86 . . . . Cleo Tuttle Henderson
' 3 6 , April 2 1 , 1 999, in Penacook, N . H . , at 86.
BEFORE THE FORTIES
J i m Bunting was a cryptanalyst and lingui t
Fletcher Eaton '39 has been unable to continue his
column for the classes between 1 920 and 1 939.
Please send your news directly to Meg Bernier,
olby College Office of Alumni Relations,
Waterville, Maine 0490 1 ( m_bemie@colby.edu) .
W e hope t o hear from you.
with our National Security Agency. J im ha
won first place in golf in hi age group at the
Maryland pecial Olympic for the last three
years. H is son John wa a linebacker for the
Philadelphia Eagles for 1 1 years . . . . I sabel
Abbott is into Elderhostel. he's also a traveler,
having toured Greece in 1 997 and the Briti h
Isles in 1 998 . . . . Class agent Bob Bruce 1 also
an Elderhosteler, having experienced five of
their foreign programs a well as many m the
United S tates . . . . J oseph Burns and wife
Catherine saw the America's up sailing race
in Australia a few years ago. Their trip was the
prize won by Catherine for an essay on that
event. Some writer! They live in Mendham,
N .J . . . . At Reunion Weekend la t J une the
Class of 1 939 had a large delegation back for
their 60th. But we can do better. Plan now ro
return ro Waterville 111 J une 2000 for our 60th.
Let's celebrate the new year, the new century
and the new millennium In tyle!
-Ernest C. Marriner )r.
40
ur representatives a t 1 999 Reunion
Weekend, enjoying gorgeous weather, were
Doris Rose Hopengarten, Howard Miller,
W o r k m a n and
I. . . . Phone calls from Charles "Chuck" Card
and Myron "Mike" Berry were great substitutes
for the written word. After the Air Force sent
huck to Amarillo long, long ago, he stayed and
became a cotton and m i lo rancher. He and Mary
have no children. M ike, who celebrated his
golden wedding anniversary in 1 998, now has
nine grandchildren. He told me that Horace
B u rr told him that Tom Elder was recently
married . . . . Ruth Rowell Higgins reminisces
about Tom Elder's stay in a ew York hospital
during WW I I . She also reports on recent heart
surgery performed on E l len Fitch Peterson in
arasota. Ruth and son teve were moving from
outh arolina to Albuquerque this year. . . .
Brewster Bran: was president ofGuardian om­
panie when he retired. H is son- are, respec­
t ively, a professor of organic c hemistry 111
alifornia, a ph ·sic i t in olorado and an attor­
nc · in h !assachusetts . . . . David Corron stdl
dispenses college scholarships to h1gh school
graduates up in "the county." He IS the execu­
tive director of the Ricker ollege Board of
Trustees . . . . Ruth Emerson Duchacek reports
that faith, fam i ly and fnends are unpc rtanr w
her. he speaks for many c)f us! Two of her
children, a bank compliance officer and a con­
tra tor sales representati,·e , ll\·e In \ ermonr as
she does. he also has a daughter In regon . . . .
A i l ee n T h o m p s o n , L i n
41
In my efforts to mamtam close ties
with friend and c las mates from long ago, I
frequently come aero;, a humorous >tor or
anecdote or >omethmg JUst to make me smde.
This time It wa a questionnaire returned ro me
by orris Dibble. \ ell, sin e school he has
fulfilled hi> dream to become a lawyer, an mter­
e>t >parked back at olbv, and has a l ove l y '' 1fe
whom I am sure manv of \'c)U ha,·e mer. He h,1,
four children '' he) ha\'e no\\ grcm n .md ha\ e
children of their em n-e1ghr gr.mdchddren aged
" ve::u, nghr d c)W n w - · , 'orn' retired frc)m his
law career '' nh Dibbll', .l mpbell, and B.ub.1
and no\\ II"e' 111 Longmead,m , :\Ia" Hl' '' still
a' nbranr a' e\·er. ,md 'In e we'\'e hl'ard trc)m
him last, he ,a,·, he ha, �:rown older. '' '' r,
betrer IOL)kmg, and h,1pp1er. He claim, rhar 1r "
con-rant acr t\'H\ rhar keeps htm c ut t the
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Pionere del Aire
Paul Willey '42 modestly judges his career as "spotty," and, i n
a s Buenos Aires a n d a s exotic a n d remote a s Antofagasta, C h i l e ,
fact, h i s academic and professional careers were both ridd led
and Cochabamba, Bol ivia. "Some places we f l e w had never seen
w1th interruptions. But "spotty" is a word that seems ill suited to
airplanes," he said . Qu ito, Equador, has a field elevation of
a pioneeri ng career that opened large tracts of South America to
1 0 ,000 feet, with mountains on all sides, rang i n g from 1 5 ,000 to
commercial aviation.
2 1 ,000 above sea leve l , and the old DC3s labored for altitude with
Willey graduated from Watervi lle H i g h i n 1 938 and enrolled at
no turbocharger. LaPaz, Bolivia, was a d i rt strip 1 3 ,400 feet
Colby's downtown campus. Robert LaFleur '43, a high school
above sea level. A route from LaPaz to Argentina was so h i g h it
classmate, did l i kewise. But like so many students of that era, the
req u i red pi lots to breathe supp lemental oxygen for five hours
two local fellows had their studies interrupted by a passion for
straight, though passengers got it only in emergencies.
flyi ng and an opportun ity to p u rsue it made possible by World
Wil ley returned to Waterville in 1 947 and eventually f i n i shed
War I I . LaFleur was killed i n the war (and Watervi lle named its
h i s last year at Colby while working 45 hours a week at radio
airport for him), but Wil ley, initially because of a quirk of stature,
station WTVL. " I was always a history and government b u ff , " he
took a different path-pioneering commercial air routes throug h
said, recall ing his mentor, Professor Paul F u l l am . "And I wanted
South America a s a pilot for Pan American-Grace ( Panagra)
to say I had graduated from someplace . " But the flyi ng bug still
Airways based i n Lima, Peru .
had him and he returned to Panagra i n 1 95 1 . During a six-year
"I tned to get into the Navy, the Air Corps and the Marine s , "
furlough from the airline he ran Col lar and Willey I n surance in
s a 1 d Willey, now retired and l i v i n g in Florida. " Each t i m e , the
Oakland i n the 1 960s. He was called back and spent 1 3 years
recruiting officer would look up at me and say, 'How tall are you ,
flying for Braniff before man datory retirement hit at age 60.
sonny?" A t six-four, he simply wouldn't fit into early mil itary
When he returned to Maine in the 1 980s, his wife (since
cockp1ts Tra1ned by the Col by-sponsored Civilian Pilot
1 943), Marie, decided she'd l i ke to have a Colby degree
T ra1ning Program. Willey took a position with Panagra
too. Marie Willey '85 graduated P h i Beta Kappa at
•n 1 942 The work was sufficiently i m portant to
age 69. " P hys Ed req u i rement and a l l , " her
the Un1ted States' interests that he was
husband prou d l y reported.
protected from the draft and, later in life,
Wil ley sti l l exercises his interest in
rece1ved an honorable discharge from
h i story by p u b l ishing " PANAGRAm , "
the A1 Force for his service.
a newsletter for Panagra veterans
W 'ey recently p u b l i shed a
that helps maintain what appears
book compiling h1s colleagues'
to be a tight network of "/os
memo1rs H1s own accoun re-
pioneres del aire. "
calls 1y1ng places as fam11iar
-Stephen Collins
36
'74
A L U M 1'-: I
rocking chair. Whether it is mental , phystcal,
emotional, moral, econom ical, phi losoph ical or
anything else, Norris is a man always domg
something to keep active. He has served as a
hospital volunteer ever ince his retirement
even years ago. Norris Dibble is certainly a man
to make Colby proud. But when asked what he
learned at olby, h is response was surprismgly
honest. He said, " ! l ived in the Phi Delt House,
acr
from Fos Hall. Quite often the women
there dressed or undressed without pull ing the
shade . ! learned more about anatomy there than
cnu e last wmter, vt tttng olomhta, Co,ta Rtca,
etc., and go111g through the Panama anal a far as
Lake Gatun. He recently had a phone vt tt wtth
Beverly Booth, who ts dmng well . . . . Add Adele
Grindrod Bates to the "hope-to-go" lt;t. Adele,
nately, Runnals Union, home of the
trider stage, is all that now tand
across from Foss Hall, which has just
completed renovation.
-Bonnie Robens Hathaway
42
Received n e w from Sun-
ny Smith Fisher, who is a "serious
vol un teer" in N arraganset t , R . I .
unny, a member o f S H O ( eniors
Helping
thers), volunteers on a
number of commi ttees and directs a
watercolor w rkshop at the com·
munity center. After her husband's
death, she says she wanted to con-
fornta octet� of Oral and Maxd lofactal ur·
geon' a' an "mternattonally known researcher
m hone phv tolog)- and tt' c l m tcal appltcatton
m the fteld of oral and maxd lofac tal �urgery."
ongratulattom, Ph t l ! . . . Remember back a
few column' when
50th. . . . Helen trau s has been another heavy­
Project I n ternationa l ? 'i ell, mv tgnorance of
the project brought forth the fol lowtng mforma·
duty
tn
olby volunteer and const tent reumon at·
tton: He rfer provtde' drfterent kmd of flXxl·
and France. Last spnng he managed one of our
semt-annual .Y.C. tghtseemg events, tht ttme
and- mcome-prod u c m g a n r m a l s a long W t t h
mtemtve trammg m anrmal hu bandry, env r ronmentally 'lmnd farm m g and
com m u n t t y development to 4
countrre , tnclud tng the
newspaper interviews that the elf-published Death Under the Tall
Pines was selling well enough to order a second prmtmg . . . A photo
of Raymond Rogers '49 who volunteer> tn the " Born To Read"
program at a Waterville, Maine, day-care center, appeared m the
ummer issue of The Maine Humanltle
ouncd new letter.
M I LESTO N ES
Deaths : Ruth Berkelhammer Collis '40, January 6, 1 999, m
ew
Bedford, Mass., at 8 l . . . . Richard C. Johnson '4 1 , June 6 1 999, m
Sunnyvale, Calif., at 8 l . . .. Ruth Camerson avage '4 1 . December
30, 1 998, in H ilo, Hawaii, at 78. . . . atalie Moores Daggett '42,
J une 1 6 , 1 999, in
45
trip in early J une to Mayflower Hill. Reminder:
while there, we'll be guests of the College. I 've
talked with a few c las mates who, like me, are
"hope-to-go's." That goes for all '45er whose
names follow. Chuck Dudley, who erved so
very well a
lass president at our 50th, is a
faithful reunion attendee. He and hirley ( Mar­
tin '46) have seen these Colbyite dunng the
past year: Bill '48 and Bonnie Howard Atherton
'44, anc Loveland Dennen '4 7 and Dor Allen
oettman '46. The Dudley had a great trtp last
winter to ew Zealand and Australia. They also
travel regularly, to l i ami Bea h , l ndtanapolt>,
Pasadena, M i nneapoli' and Hartford ( where
they live when not tn Florida) tO \'tStt thetr ftve
sons and daughters . . . . Ro: Kramer ha> at·
tended many reunion and been a dedt ated
oraduate over the ·ears, servmo on a vanety of
olby committees, holdmg several offices . . . .
Betty Lohnes rudin, who 'ays the reunwn\ .1
po'sil: t l tty for her, talk· verv enthusta>ttcalh
about li1·ing tn Foxdale V I llage, a retirement
pia e in Pennsyh-anta . HappY fam t iY ne1": .1
new orandch i ld on the \\ av, 111 England. where
her son lives . . . . \Y./e can expect w see �Iaurice
Whitten, a l aine/Fionda restdent. at the ,, 1 .
lege next J une. launce an� Dons enjl'Wd .1
Fergu on
tcndee. A I wnte tht5, he' travelmg tn England
After a career in new papers m Mame and Flonda, Horace Landry
'49 has written a mystery novel in his retirement. He told everal
As you read thi , our 5 5 th reunion is
just a few months away, and it's time to plan a
ancy Par on
ment ioned her volunteer work '' tth the Hetfer
N EWSMAKERS
tinue traveling,
she spent a sum·
mer studying watercolor in I taly and Greece.
More recently she v isited Australia. he i a
proud mother of two and grandmother of two.
-Robert S. Rice
L A R G E
onnecttcut and keeps bu�y enough
for two people, remember> fondly our very rectal
who ltve
I did in any c lassroom." My goodness. If that' what he learned when
we went to ho I , I wonder what
the k ids are learning today. Fortu·
T
cottsdale, Ariz., at 7 .
a tour of hi toric Fraunces Tavern, plu lunch.
oming ro the ctty ? Maybe coinctdentally we'll be
having an outing that you mtght ltke to attend­
we'd love to ee you.
- aom1 Collwe Paganellr
46
A
quick note from Jean O'Brien
Perkins with the Peace Corps m Bulgana tell
usda e are goingwell. "Teachmg here rs really
no different from teaching 111 the tate . Teen­
ager here are a great and a unpredrcrable." . . .
Norma ( "J i l l " ) Taraldsen Bill ings, an off and
on soc tal worker, says she\ pretty much renred
though he \'Oiunteer at church and at the
Augu ta !ental Health ln,mute. Dr I.. '4 ha'
e>tablt hed Day �lountatn Publtcanon,-te l l
us more 1 he ay> the · ha1·e fl\·e wonderful
grandchtldren, wtth one, ean �lc amara, a
pre> rdennal scholar at
H. And the1 ·eep
Dr k's old home m eal Harb 1r II\ able fM the
famtly to enjlll' · " l\ l t . De,err '' ' ur 'ummer
treat," ,he ,ay>, addmg that thetr ftme" pro·
gram 1' a i led "Garde n . " .
arol Robin
Epstein 1' makmg contmumg g,xx! pr I(!Te"
after 'enou,, mmwann: 'urgerv .;; h e rettred 1.1 t
:eptember tr,,m ,,x: t,l l '" rl... " tth t,hter L ue
chr ldren .m d famt lte, ,md .1 teen pre!:!n:mc\
' he re... enth
p m:nrmg pr,,gram m \\\l r<.. e ,ter .
h e l ped h e r ml> t h e r · e l e b r.He h e r I
th
btrthd,ll . . . Philip B y n e 1 , rt:LLll ertn!:! trum
rw,, ,pm.l l , per.lt tL>n' .md 1\'L>rl... mg part t t me un
re,e.1r h .lt L, ma Lmd.1 Unl\ er-rn . ledrc.1l
enter. I n JanU.l[\ rh.t re..:et\ ed the Dt,tln·
gut,hed .;;e n·t·e :\\\ ard tr,>m the S >uthern air-
( Aroostook
ounr� for m t.mce)
I t offers hungry fam r ltes around the
world a way to feed them-.elvcs, he­
come elf-rel tant and help other,.
Antmal are reg ron appropnate and
m tght be hetfer,, l lama , goah, rah­
brt , chtckem, honer bees or duck-.
I n the tradttton of "Grve a man a
ftsh 1 Teach a man to ft,h," Hetfcr
Proj ect make a drfference. In vol­
unteenng there, ancy help, make
a dtfference, too . . . . o more quev
ttonnarres wrll be maded to you. To
save money and t11ne, the A lumnt
Office wtll mclude a general que'>·
t tonnarre m every t> ue ( four ttme a
year) of olby maga:me. o look for
your and end tt to me wrth your new,. Thank .
-Anne Laurenee Bond,
47
The larch 2 tssue of The Bo wn lob.:
conta med an mtere t t ng artrcle about Margaret
cott Carter and her Port mouth,
H .. an·
ttques shop, where she ells country furn iture,
decoratl\'e acces ones anJ ant rque too k e \ •
era! of her mmtature carpenter plane,, '' ht<.:h
are mcrea mgly drft.tcult to fmd, were ptct ureJ.
ow a grandmother of 1 4 and great-grand­
mother of two, 'he gamed an mtere't t n tlll > l
from her I.n e hu,hand, " ho \\ a a dealer ,md
colle tor and wtth \\ hom he founded thetr
shop. �[o,t of '' h,n he 'ell, Me I th-ccntun
tlX'I' he collcu' m Enel.md.
Tom Burke
thank, e,·en·onc '' h,, 'cnt hrm w t he, th.lt he
get we l l ta't and ,,ud th.H '' ,J, m11rc th.m 5l
percent l1f the dh,. He ,,u d he had no tdea o
manr people appreu.lted '' h lt he drd a c l.1 ,
agent and WlluiJ be h>rever gr.u du l . I t ' u c: '' hu
are t,,re1 er gr lttlul tl> 'ou, T,,m,
D roth)
Brigg
romon Cllllttnuc' toc ur.ue the , led held
H Nl>rt<.. .l l -ll<.. let\ , '' ht<.. h " r l l h: celebrattn'
r \ e.U' In 2
l.
Juh 2 / , the Bod tun
� ·huheretn,
\\ here he te c:he
erm, n .mJ
German h ru e ,
'' nh the e. pcLt.ltl n ot t\\ r three rh u ,mJ
'PeLtdt r, Tht
ummcr, he pi nned to be
hrkmt: n the :\dtr nd �. I..
i . 'e\\ Y rk.
Robert Bender l•n,tnalh tn the Cia
.:r tdu'lteJ '' tth u liter return me trum the
u.m , .r thc end f \'( rld \X'ar l l Unt r unatel) ,
he 1' til nJ u'm..:
\ t:cn tull t tme.
F
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Richard
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L A R G E
Sampson has three "excellent grandchildren."
(Aren't all grandchildren excellent? ) He and
his wife live in Appleton, Wi ., and continue as
reader in their respective churche . He is active
politically a a member of the Democratic Parry,
secretary of the th Congressional Disrrict and
member of the platform and resolution commit­
tee, th Disrrict. . . . John and I have recently
returned from a walking tour in the Corswold
area of England, known for it history, villages of
yellow lime tone buildings, gentle hills and
stream . As a follow-up, we'll be walking inn-to­
inn in Vermont next week.
-Mary Hall Fitch
48
We haYe had limited response to our
last mailing-just three replies and a letter­
although David Choate provided plenty of in­
formation. Dave is retired, and he and Diane
have fi,·e children and three grandchildren. His
Colby roots are deep. His mother and father
both graduated from Colby as did his sister,
Constance Choate Trahan '46, and his brother,
Paul. Dave's goal was to be an attorney and he
went to Boston University Law School, but
ultimately he left and graduated from the
Andover ewton chool of Theology and wa
a pastor In the west for 1 year . He then earned
a master' degree from the University of Colo­
rado In public administration and worked in
local and reg1onal government before finally
becoming a realtor. He tutor Hispanic children
In La Academ1a, a private school, reaching
Denver h1gh chool "dropouts." He spends two
to three months a year in foreign travel, owns a
place near Cancun, Mexico, snorkels, golfs and
takes canoeing tnp on Colorado rivers. Thanks,
Dave, for that \'ery interesting ummary of your
full and rewarding activities . . . . Peg Clark
Atkins ha:. LX chddren, nine grandchildren
and fl\•e daughter /sons-In-law. he and Harold
are planning a tnp around the Baltic Sea and
Intend to VISit Copenhagen, t. Petersburg,
He! Ink I and 0 lo. They volunteer at their local
pub he library, where Peg ha been a trustee for
2 5 year . The� also ra1se funds and help main­
rain a budding for the local G1rl couts and do
numerou church actiVItle . Peg v1 1ted Marie
Machell Milliken In rhe Denver area Ia t
Oct<lber
Dick Billings Included an Infor­
matl\·e 1-- wchure of h1s Da1 Mountain Pubhca­
tl<ln , '' h1ch doe de,ktop pubh>hing (h1 Web
.lddre'' " W'J W.Bdlini':,Boobrore.com ) . Af­
rer olh he recel\·ed a ma>rer' degree from
pnngj1eld .md a docrorare from La aile Um­
n:r It\ . He ha' had a d1,t1ngu1shed career of
publ1c 'ernce and 1:-u,Ine, . By the way, he " a
ded1mu' JU'tlce and not.lT\ pul:-hc and oH1c1ates
.u w edding . ( \Vc Included rh.H Infnrmanon In
the e' enr rhar anr of you young rers fwm '4 are
pl.mmng marn.tge In the near future . )
David
e�nJ How ell lement-w hnm <lffiC of you rna\
r.:c1ll w Dtnd\ r< 1m mare .tlon� w1th loyd
A r-t:rh '46 In rhe proctor\ 'ulte In Headman
H.1ll In 1 944 ha,·e h.td Lllntmumg corre·
'f'lmJenu: rhat 1' mh•rm.HI\ c .Ind .1 lor of fun.
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For Memorial Day weekend Howell planned to
finish sawing up a 60-foot white pine he had cut
down because it was dying. Then he was going
to take a bike ride for exercise and finish up by
going to Glacier Park for a picnic with his
daughter's family. The following week he was
scheduled to officiate in a soccer tournament
called Three Blind Refs. The name of the tour­
nament was adopted from comments made by
some of the players . . . . We went to Colby com­
mencement this year. David and our daughter
Debbie took part in all the ceremonies. We had
great fun meeting and having dinner with J udy
Woodruff of CNN and AI Hunt from The Wall
Street ]oumal, who were honorary degree recipi­
ents. George Mitchell was the commencement
speaker and delivered an excellent address. Over
the Memorial Day weekend we went to a wed­
ding in Florida, then drove to Sarasota and
visited with Aaron Sandler and his wife, Sandra,
before heading home. It was great for us to get
together after so many years. In June we at­
tended the 50th wedding anniversary party for
Phyllis and Bob Sage '49. Bob and David have
been friends since they met at summer camp in
1 94 1 . . . . Please write us and tell us what is
going on in your lives. You don't have to fill out
a form-just send a letter so that we can provide
interesting class notes for Colby magazine.
-Dorothy and David Marson
49
Welcome to the 50-Plus Club! Wasn't
that a grand reunion? I thought it was the best
one we've ever had. It was great having so many
of us back, but we missed those of you who were
unable to attend. The Anthony, M itchell,
Schupf dormitory complex is certainly a far cry
from what you and I remember from our Colby
days, with cable TV, phone and Internet j acks
in every room ! And the wonderful meals and
meal service didn't have much in common with
the meals of our day either. Do you suppose that
in 50 years the Class of 1 999 will be in equal
wonder and amazement at the changes at Colby
compared to what they remember? . . . ow that
we are members of the 50-Plus Club, our class
leadership i configured differently. Don Nicoll
wdl erve as vice president of the 50-Plus Club,
Don and Bob Tonge will represent us on the
Alumm Council, and I am back for another
tint a class corre pondent. Which brings me to
the subjeCt of news-and perhaps you've no­
need, I haven't any! Hopefully, together and
w1th the help of the technology that has devel­
oped In the mtervenmg five year since I was la t
your correspondent, we can fix that. Fir t of all,
the Alumm Office wdl no longer be ending out
quesnonna1re to one-fourth of the class at a
nme; que nonna1re> wdl now be Included m the
olby magazine four t1mes a year. If you choo e
to U'>e them, great, but I >ee m peru mg our new
yearf-ook rhat man\ of u , Includmg me, are now
on the Internet. And 1f you are ! Jke me, you
would much rather >It down at your computer to
keep m touch w1rh fnend and famdy. o when
the >pmt mo,·e , 1t down and >end me your
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news. If you want to re pond to the questions on
the questionnaire via e-mail or USPS or j ust Sit
down and chat with your cla smates, I will be
thrilled and do my best to transmit your news to
the rest of the class. I don't want to hear any
more excuses ("nothing has happened," "!/we
haven't done anything or been anywhere").
We are all interested in what you are doing
even if it's nothing! Whether you use e-mail
or s-mail, please send me your news. Having
j ust spent a weekend getting reconnected,
let' keep connected. I will happily serve as
the connecting link.
-Anne H agar Eusris
50
As I write this I'm thinking with fond
memories of the 50th reunion of the Class of '49,
which Charlie '49 and I j ust attended. The
weather was perfect and the campus looked
beautiful. The trees have all grown and so has
the number of buildings. (You will be amazed at
the wonderful facilities at Colby now. Students
today are extremely fortunate to attend such a
lovely campus.) The group from '49 was an
active, young-looking group that thoroughly
enjoyed being together and seemed to like all
the activities planned for them. I urge everyone
attending our reunion to plan on going for the
four full days, as it seemed to heighten the
camaraderie among the group. June 2000 will be
here before you know it, so we should all plan
now . . . . Robert Armitage attended the 50th
reunion in 1 99 7 as a member of the original
Colby Eight and plans to be at ours. Bob, who
has retired from a career in computers, lives in
Binghamton, N.Y., with his wife, Bianca. They
have tl1ree children and nine grandchildren . . . .
Alice Jennings Castelli lives in Madison, Conn.,
and has retired as an admissions director of a
small private school. After Colby, Allie studied
for an M.A. and an M.S., and she has three
daughters, a son and four grandchildren. Allie
and her sister, Elisabeth Jennings Maley, went
to Prague, Czech Republic, last spring, and she
also travels frequently to Colorado, Mexico and
Florida. Like so many of our cla mares, Allie
has fond memories of life at Foss Hall and classes
with professors Colgan and the Comparettis . . . .
Charlotte Shoul Backman writes from Newton,
Mass., that she and her husband, I rving, will be
celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, as
will many of us. They have a son and a daughter
and four grandchildren. Charlotte is certainly
active, playing tennis four to five times a week,
going to aerobic classes, swimming and walking.
Charlotte make everal short trip each year to
v1sit her daughter and family in Florida. Al­
though she hasn't been back to Colby, she plans
to attend our reunion, she says, and fondly re­
members her contacts with President Bixler, who
entertained at teas and welcomed honor students
to his home. He was a favorite with all of
u . . . . Philip Dine of Hanover, Mass., i rhink­
mg about cumng back on his work week, but he
doe find time to take a couple of nice trips to
Europe each year. He and Barbara have three
A L L.. M
ch ildren and ix grandchildren. Phil says he had
such a good time at our 4 5 th , he plans to be there
for the 50th. Hope to hear from more of you.
-Virginia Davis Pearce
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Robert and A n ne Plowman Stevens
to
Athens for three day., cru1 e the Aegean ea
and end with a three-day tourof l tanbul. . . . ot
to be outdone by our clas mate , m late pnng
M im i and I spent nearly three week on a renree '
vacatiOn
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we tern
anada and Ala k a .
moved to Wernersvil le, Pa., in j u ly 1 998. Anne
Vancouver I land and V1ctona more than lived
up to their reputations. ThecrUI e from Vancouver
had triple by-pa s surgery the following
up the In tde Passage,
ep­
tember and reports good results. She has retired
toppmg at Ketch1can,
Juneau, 1tka, Valdez and eward, prcx:lucedspout­
1 950
P 0 Box 984
Gran ham. N H 03753
603-863-6675
VPearce@srne .com
ing whale , calvmg glac1er , oanng eagle and,
between the two of us, 20 pounds, unevenly
distributed. And did I ment1on g1ft �hops ? A tram
3 9 1 5 Cabo Place # 1 6
trip from Anchorage to Fa1rbanks, w1th an over­
night top in Denali
atlonal Park, prov1ded
804-527-0726
contrast in terram and wildlife. ne dlsappomt­
ment: no gnzzlie .
ext tune! . . . Won't you
please send me the quest1onna1re you w1ll find m
Pau l M Aldnch
this is ue ? Believe it: lots offolks out there would
enjoy hearing about you.
-Paul M . Aldrich
207-563-8744
seven grandchildren, a number of whom live
nearby . . . . Barbara Gifford Whitepine reti red
from the music department at Bowdoin four
years ago and continue to l ive in Brunswick.
After a 43 -year vacat ion from the euphonium
that she played in the
olby Band, Barbara
joined both the Bath and Boothbay Harbor
munic ipal bands. She works part time for Neigh­
bors, an organization providing services to the
elderly, and also is a tive in several programs at
the Brunswick enior enter. One such pro­
gram involves interviewing seniors and compil­
ing their stories for a book they hope to publish
on recollections of life in the 20th century.
During the summer she often visits Hugh and
A n ne Magee Burgess, who spend their sum­
mers in Maine . . . . Art W h ite, who retired as
headmaster at The Hotchkiss School in Con­
necticut, and h is wife, ynthia, spend the win­
ter months in New myrna Beach, Fla. When
not pursuing his dut ies as our class agent, Art
cooks for a food kitchen and is active in a
hi torical ociety, a men's garden club and the
New myrna Beach Golf Club. ( The order
given is not necessarily the order of time uti l iza­
t ion ! ) Cynthia and Priscilla Storrs Grummer,
also living in New Smyrna Beach, are volun­
teer at The Harris House, a center for the
arts . . . . Karen and Dave Robinson live in
Alfred, N . Y . , where for the pa t nine years Dave
has been village admin istrator for the vil lage of
Arkport. In 1 9 6 he retired as regional adm in­
i trative officer for the New York State Depart­
ment of Transportation. Karen is a special
education teacher in Hornell,
.Y. They were
in Maine for a week along the coast in April and
made a vi'it to Colby, Karen for the first
time . . . . Valerie and Bill Taylor, my maJor
source of internet jokes both good and bad, l 1ve
in an Dieoo, al if. Bil l's major acti\'lt)' now
that he's retired from ew York Life and the
U. .
oast
uard is with the retired semor
volunteer patrol of the San Otego Pollee De­
partment. t-. !embers do vacation hou.e checks,
bank patrols, elementar • school patrol- as the
kids arrive and depart and "You Are ot Alone "
ails on the elderly Jnd d1sabled. Btll 1· founder
of the Rancho Bernardo ew Engbnd lub,
which numbers ' 5 members. H e also I S a mem­
ber of the an Oieoo . -. oast Guard fiicers
Assoc iation, " keep i ng the memon· a l l \·e. "
alerie is a phi losoph · instructor at Palomar
ollege. s I wrote, they were prepanng to th
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Before reporting fr m our "regular"
contributors, I wanted to g1ve everyone the
news from Jane Bailey Blood Strete. J ame ha
been very busy ince graduation. She earned her
ma ter's degree in theology, which, he ay ,
made her more of a "people" per on, and stud1ed
psychology and writing, which i n turn led to
publishing poetry. She eem quite proud of her
effortS to c l imb 1 4 of the many White Moun­
tains of New Hamp hire and even orne of the
Rockies. Somewhere in there he has managed
to rai e a daughter and two on . Her daughter
is now a lawyer; her ons are in the computer
world. Back in the '70s she re-visited the cam­
pus, so now is the time for Jane to plan for our
50th . . . . Bob Wulfing write that h 1s minister
son is a missionary in Russia, where he repre­
sents the Salvation Army. Bob is still tramping
the golf courses m the good weather and skung
the eros -country routes in the Vermont wmter
months. He already says he IS plannmg on bemg
at our 50th . . . . Loretta "Tommi" Thompson
Staples said that he and Carolyn English Caci
were taking an "extended paJama party" to Ire­
land in j uly . . . . I believe I already reported th1s
new before, but Chuck pencer wrote that he
went to the Antarctica w1th the George Pirie
on a Univenty of l llm01 Alumn1 orgam:ed
tnp . . . . AI Whitaker, a loyal ontnbutor to
th1s olumn, ay::. he '' renred and enJOYil1-! four
grandc h t ldren more often. H" w1fe " 'till ral'­
mg and showmg t-. lame oon at, . . . . Try ro
keep up w1th Penn · Pendleton
hult:. 'he
recently mo1·ed after 22 ye,lr> 111 a brge hou'e ro
a rownhou;,e m Portland,
re. , and a[ ,,, ro a
winter home m • urpn,e, An:. ,:'he hmt' th.u
she belte1·e, e1·ervone ,h,,uld �::e r mro the h.1 b1t
,,f mo\'lng e1·ery !e11 year, J U ' t w get nd ,,t
"quft . " It mu't be our age and all th.u .KLUmu­
lanon ,,i memenro, . . . . :\n 1
. rt1de m the ap.c
oJ hromd.: abc ut laire �lacy Dubi tell'
about her 011 neP.hlp and lnl'clh'ement m her
iam t !v bu,me", ,1 blc-I... bu,me"-" h tc h we
may ,ay " a man\ 11\.,riJ-but latre ha, J,me ,
hand--c'nJ,1b runnmg the
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V1rg'n1a Dav1s Pearce
store but plays in two orche tras in the Reading
area, and between the two, concerts are fre­
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after more than eight years of work in a book­
quent. Bob and Anne have four chi ldren and
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Barbara Jefferson Wal er
R1chmond, VA 23233
1 952
P 0 Box 2 1 7
Bnstol, M E 04539
mapa@llncoln m1dcoast.com
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Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey
80 Lincoln Avenue
South Ham ilton, MA 0 1 982
978-468-51 1 0
978-777-5630 x33 1 0
1 954
Helen Cross Stabler
206 Crestwood Dnve North
Syracuse, NY 1 32 1 2
estable 1 @ctwcny. rr .com
1 955
Jane M i l lett Dorn1sh
9 Warren Terrace
Winslow. ME 04901
207-873-36 1 6
karldornlsh@Juno.com
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Kathleen McConaughy Zambe 10
1 35 Iduna Lane
Amherst, MA 0 1 002
docz@Javane com
1 957
Eleanor Shorey Hams
1 3 Bow Road
Wayland MA 0 1 778
508-460-2359
fax 508-4850-0937
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and to meet Elizabeth Leonard, associate profes­
sor of history and head of women's studies, who
gave a most interesting presentation on women
in the Civil War. Nine classmates also spoke of
their memories of Colby. Sunday a.m. we gath­
ered at the edge of Johnson Pond, where the
Rev. Scalise, supported by Tom Hunt and Sue
Johnson, conducted a special memorial service
remembering classmates who have died. A delicious brunch, hosted by J ane ( Millett
'5 5 ) and Karl Dornish at their lovely
home, was a fitting finale to our
N EWS MAKERS
outstanding 4 5 th. Many thanks to
Russell "Tubby" Washburn '50 was
them and to all who helped make it
the subject of a sports feature in the
a success: Derek Tatlock and Ned
Maine Sunda)' Telegram after he shot his
Shenton for planning the pre-re­
age on the golf course at least eight
union activities, Dave and Betsy
times this year-and still counting in
Powley Wallingford for organizing
mid-August. Washburn, 77, was cited
the picnic at China Lake, Larry
as the top player in the Southern Maine
Walker Powley for setting up our
Senior Golfers Association . . . . Robert
headquarters, Sue Johnson and Vic
B. Parker '54 wrote the screenplay,
Scalise for the class dinner, and the
was granted cast approval and had a
College for the fine hosp i tality
cameo appearance in August in an A&E
provided . . . . Being in touch with so
Robert B. Parker '54
production ofhis 26th book, Small Vices ,
many classmates during our five-year
featuring his trademark private eye, Spenser.
term as class correspondents has been
rewarding. Many thanks to all who
M I LESTO N E S
responded to our questionnaires, and
keep the news coming to Helen
Deaths: A ntoin ette Klament Townsend '50, June 7, 1 999, in
Stabler. Each of you is needed
Cross
Timonium, Md., at 70 . . . . Jacqueline Dillingham Schlier '5 1 ,
to make this column a success.
June 1 8, 1 999, in Concord, Mass., a t 6 9. . . . Janet Clark Winters
pany, even driving some deli,·eries. We are left
wondering how a chemistry major makes a liv­
ing in such a business. . . . Priscilla Eaton
Billington and I pent a couple of great days at
Colby the first weekend of June. Actually,
Priscilla wa there to fulfill her class duties at the
Alumni Council meeting; I go along as support
and enjoy the meeting as well. I was surprised and
thrilled beyond belief to find my roommate, Diane
Chamberlm tarcher '54, in attendance for her own reunion activities.
We always keep in touch, but it is o
much more fun to meet face to
face . . . . I ha1·e one sad addition to
our new . Parvi: Chahbazi' former
w1fe, Louise Peterson ' 5 5 , called
me to ay that Parvis died July ,
1 99 , in Teheran, I ran. ince
graduation he had earned a master's
degree at Tufts and a Ph. D. from
Cornell and was a teacher abroad.
He is urv1ved by two daughters,
two son and three grandchildren.
-Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey
54
fairway putter! With the '54 headquarters set up
at the old DKE house (now Drummond Hall) we
headed out to the Shorey compound at China
Lake for a picnic, where Ellie Shorey Harris ' 5 7
was our most gracious hostess. The fun contin­
ued as more classmates joined the group. Friday
evening, the Alumni Awards Banquet was held
at Wadsworth Gymnasium, and a member of a
neighboring class, Lawrence R. Pugh '56, retir-
Our 45th reunion has come
and gone-a great weekend, at­
tended by 49 c lassmates and 3 1
guests. The campus looked beauti­
ful, the Maine weather was perfect
and the company-the be t! We
were orry that not all clas mates
-Bill and Penny Thresher Edson
' 5 l , J une 22, 1 999, in Biddeford, Maine, a t 69 . . . . Barbara Hamlin
could attend, but know that you were
Hladky ' 5 2 , March 7, 1 999, in Pre-en-Pail, France, at 68 . . . . George
mis ed 1 The early comers enjoyed
As I write this column, Karl
C. De Luna ' 5 3 , July 6, 1 999, in ew York, at 66.
cocktads at the top of the Radisson
and I have just had a wonderful 45th
Ea t land Hotel in Portland on
reunion of his class-makes me ex­
ing chair of the Colby Board of Trustees, re­ cited to think about ours in June 2000 . . . . A
Wedne day evenmg. We arrived at our restau­
rant for dmner, only to discover that it had
ceived the Marriner Distinguished Service
letter from Beverly Mosettig Levesque men­
clo ed 1 5 mmutes earlier. ed Shenton sug­
Award. Back at the DKE house we continued tions the freshman year at Foster Hou e. One of
ge ted another restaurant on the harbor, and
catching up on old times and memories of our the ideas at a planning meeting was to try to find
although only four lob ters were left for the five
favorite profes ors, challenging classes, fraterni­
the shuttle bus that brought so many of our
people who wanted them, 1t d1d work out­
ties and sororities, the blizzard of ' 5 2 , the car classmates from the old campu to the new!
Derek Tatlock grac1ou ly gave up h1s. Thursday
that ended up in Johnson Pond, the car driven Wonder if we can find the Blue Beetle ? We could
a.m. we took m the 1ght of Portland, including
up the newly planted chapel lawn, the dorm have Bev and her gang all ride in the parade. Bev
the Mu,eum of Art and hop along the water­
trays rhat made for great sledding and the "Blue
and husband Paul pent leisurely time in Venice
front. For lunch the group found It way to a
Beetle," to mention only a few. On Saturday,
visiting old friend ; they hope to be in Provence
'It-down puh, where the beer and lobster rolls
w1th our bright blue and white umbrellas (45th and the Riviera thi year. . . . Sylvia Jennison
'' ere deltc1ous. Thur;day afternoon, 2 1 class­
for '54), we were easily recognized in the parade
Spike writes that she is "hanging in there" as she
mate mer on rhe Jock for our sarlmg crur e of of classes to the Harold Alfond Athletic Center, continues to work as a docent and in develop­
,J,co BJY ahoard rhe 5 -foor sloop Palawan.
where each class was recognized for its contribu­
ment at the Portland Museum of Art; she also
\VhJr .1 w onderful afternoon, With bnght blue
tion to the Alumni Fund. Thanks to the out­ care for husband Walter who had a troke three
,J.. I e,, w .1rm un,hme and a hmk wmJ. Mary
randmg orgamzatron of Judy Jenkin Totman years ago. Sylvia poses the question of travel
anJ her reumon g1ft committee, '54 was recog­ opportunities devoted to the handicapped. Any­
u J t ,e, J ud) Jenkins Totman, Joyce Witham
nr:ed (along With '59) for the highest class one have good references? She and Walter have
pe nce r .m J Bill Edso n wok rhe hrunt of rhe
parnc1patron among reunioning classes-ours eight children, 19 grandchildren and three great­
w ,l\ e rh·H 1-- wke owr rhe how Luckrl), rhe
was 67 percent! We were proud of this accom­ grandchildren between them, and they have
onh on:rho.1rJ lo"e were three har . DneJ off
pl "hment and feel fortunate to have o many added a shih tzu puppy to liven up their new
,mJ refre,heJ, w e .1ll (our group <.:ontmueJ w
cla"mate:. who care o much for our College. apartment. . . . Travel have been a part ofHarold
muea't: m numher) mer fur e<�<.knrl and Jm­
Followmg the traJmonal lobster bake were cam­
ner .n l r. 1 r llo\ tloann� re raur.mt mrles .mJ
and Betty Harris Smith's year off to Bermuda
pus tour,, renn" and semmars, mcludmg one and to Provence in the falL She continues to own
Lh.Hter LO n t m ueJ ,�s '"' renew ed o!J fnenJ­
prc,entcJ h) the Rev. Vic calise, "The Wi e and edit The Lincoln Review and to help raise two
'hrp , rei I\ cJ old menlllm: -.mJ .lJ<rccJ rhar
Management of Gnef." On arurday evemng grandchildren. They planned a family gathering
w e rcalh h.tJn't LhJngo:J th.H mud1 rn 45 yc.tr,,
our C<lLkrad rcccpnon was helJ m the "well"
n FnJa1 a m , the '54 •olt tc.tm Loro:J w ell rn
tn Augu t when their daughter was to marry.
our 1Jc Rohcrr- n10n, Junng whrch President
the .llumnt tournament , t thl· \\'.ncr\ ri le oun­
. . . Renrement and travel are part of Kay
Bdl Corter 'JX> ke ro us. lr " a' a plea'>ure to have Hartwell Thalheimer's life. For 3 1 years she was
m lub, hcannt.: man) < t rl c \ OUnl.! " ruJ . ' A I
Profc"or Emcnru Donaldson Koom JOtn us manager of Adoption ervices at Che ter County
Joseph a\l' c. pert m'rructi<IT1' tn the u'e <>f the
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and received the Pennsylvania Adoption Pr fes­
sional of the Year Award in 1 990 and 1 998.
had been a
Congratulat ions, Kay 1 Now she has time to enJoy
Elderhostel trips, walking and hiking in witzer­
land, bicycling in France. he had a great time
visiting Diane Reynolds Wright at her beaut iful
her academic research on both cont l l1ent,, 'on
harles IS a lawyer prepanng to work for the
home in Steamboat prings, Colo. Kay al o vi ired and biked along the Delaware Canal m ew
Jersey with Jane Whipple Coddington. Great to
hear from you, Kay . . . . Lou Zambello writes of
his and Kathy's (Me onaughy '56) activit ies,
encouraging us to get in touch with a classmate
we cared about. And that should be part of our
reunion goal, to encourage those who often don't
get back to the College to join us in J une 1 999.
While in Florida this pa t winter, Kathy and Lou,
who still has c lose contact with fraternity broth­
er , visited the Gil Alfanos. Lou says he and
Kathy are adjusting to the fact that their grand­
chi ldren are leaving New England . . . . Another
fir t-time writer is Sara Keeney Richardson.
Welcome! Sally is in Bethesda, Md., where she
ha recovered from n n-Hodgkins lymphoma
recently and just retired as admission director for
an independent school; her hu band, Allan, is a
retired physicist. Travel now occupy some of
their t ime as well as history courses, cooking and
volunteer work-they have been to outh and
entral Africa to visit children, to Belize and to
Fran e on a barge trip; summers are in Nova
coria. he says second marriages are great. Sally
wonders where Taffy Mahoney is. (The direc­
tory says Taffy is in Sunapee, . H . ) . . . We have
word of w isdom from Barbara Kearns Young­
hanse after her husband's six-way bypass opera­
tion in March: pay c lose attention to our bodie .
Barbara and Allan are avid dancers, ballroom and
tap ( their e-mail says dancingduo@j uno.com ) !
They have added performing on rage t o their
ac tivities-a new awareness for Barb, to find how
much he enjoys performing. President Bixler,
happy and lobster are among her favorite memo­
ries, and she and Allan hope to make it to
reunion . . . . Karl '54 and I had a grand visit to
Tu'cany with Paul and Germaine Michaud Orloff
this spring. We never had a meal we didn't like,
and the wines were out tanding. We had home
rentals in Barbarino and
i na-a very spec ial
wa • to travel. . . .
ongrarulations ro Larry '56
and Jean Van uran Pugh for their devotiOn
and generosity to our College. At commence­
ment they were awarded honorary degrees­
quite an accomplishment ! I felt very proud to be
in the audience as they put the hood on Jean\
robe-! knew her when! Da\·e "7 and Anne
Burbank Palmer were 111 luded 111 the ie,tivmes
that surround honored guests at commence­
ment . . . . I will c lose With my new favonre quote
from arrison Keil lor: "B well. Do oood \H'rk.
Keep in r1u h."
-Jane ;\ hll.:rr Dom1sh
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oble repre,enred
In April, Yvonne
olby at the installation oi the ne\\ pre,Idenr c'l
'\' ashington & J efferson ollege 111 F111le\'\' l l le,
Pa., where she resides when 11l)t 111 Londcm. She
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a wnter. He ha, \\ rltten a mu,Ical play and 111
1 99 7 wrote the l:ooo k Pleas.: Lmen W'lule I Thmk .
I'm a \'errnoma, a comrdanon of Joke' and
'tone' With a Yankee t\\ 1 t . Bruce <tnd h1' wife,
UN; daughter oph1a 1 fin1>h111g med 'chtx1l 111
oleen, r;med a famd� of three, haw l:oeen acm·e
London . . . . Celeste Traver Roach lo\'e' he111g retired, hav111g time to work on computer
In \Vmd or, Vr., church and commumtv life and
kdl and volunteermg everal days a week at
her ho pnal gift hop . . . . Dan Yarchin ,., 'em i ­
remed from t h e hoe busme and 1Iv 111g 111 L a
Mesa, aiif. , where he reports that he\ a "free
pirit," driv 111g a Yolk wagon bus and fly111g
radiO-controlled airplanes-a wanna-be h1pp1e!
He fondly remembers Dr. Bixler, On1e' , The
Elmwood and Joe Peres. Don't we all! . . . Pat
Hennings Thompson sends ad new from
Wayland, Mass., that her hu band and our c lass­
mate, William R. Thompson, passed way 111
February. Bill was very active 111 community and
relief organizations and wdl be orely missed.
Our heartfelt condolence to Pat . . . . Robert
Weiss write from tamford, onn., that he IS
the chief operating officer of a marker1 11g re­
earch firm while wife arah is CEO. The famdy
include two children, two grandch dtlren and
one dog, which should cover mo t of the ba e
for research subjects . . . . I have new that Pat
McCormack H u l tgren and husband are now
living in Palm Beach Gartlen, Fla. H w about
some news, Pat ? . . . So long for now.
-Kathy McConaughy Zambello
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As we advance thr ugh the years, re­
tirement seems to be the main activity along wnh
change of lifestyle and addresses. Gideon Picher
(gid@edh.net) will be retiring a pre 1dent f
Maine urf, Inc., a transportation engmeenng firrn,
and forming a corporation. G1d's w ife, Annette
(Wyman '59), now the company' busmess man­
ager, i a published freelance wnter. They have
four children-graduate of MIT, otre Dame,
Princeton and Johns Hopk111s-who have pro­
duced five grandchildren o far. The youngest
daughter li\·es in France o G 1d anti Annette \'IS It
annually . . . . Charlotte ( lifton '6 1 ) and om1an
Lee (seahawk@home.com) now live full time 111
ara ota, Fla. When they wrote to me In the early
spnng, they had J USt returned from a crUI'e through
the Panama anal, "truly the eighth wonder of
the world." . . . Bill Orne and h" \\ Ife, Fran
( whome l @ pis. net), ha\·e renred tL1 umre1 �.
. . . Lois 1.acomber ( h iayhyankee@Juncl.(tlm) ''
pre"denr and ottice \ olunreer d the Yankee
ounCII A YH and '' a[,,, he,, tel den�[,,pment
ch, urper-on. Part of the year ,he II\'e' 1 11 \V 111d'c1r,
onn., then 'pend, a fe\\ mc,nth, e,Kh ye.tr u
, her
\'a'at lcm home 111 HniiJ.l\ , Fla. Lo,, '' crea1-.1unt
to three young,ter,. . . Bruce Blancard 'P<'nt
recently celebrated their 40th anni\·er,,Jr,
La t • larch, Harry and Joan haw Whitaker
(Jwhit626 1 1 aol.com) mo\'ed l:o.Kk t11 �h"a­
chu,ett' ( Plymouth) after havmg 'l'ent 'en:ral
wonderfu l year' 111 La Vega,. They deCided l,t,t
Winter to return Ea t to he ne.1rer t<' t,J m i h ,md
fnend,, but they ha\'e fond memone' ,,t their
l ife and new fnend' fn>m La' Vega,.
Ruth
v i n t e r bottom Pea c o c k ( rpeacoLk a m m d
vox.com.mx) u'e' a mad111g .1ddre ' In cl.ty,l,
Mexico, hut her return addre" \\ J Laredo, Tex a,.
Her hu hand, Von, " the .Jgncultural director tor
B1rd' Eye de Mexico. By mm Ruth h;1, prol:o,Jblv
been up to A la:.ka; ,he \\ a' plannl11!! a tnp tnr the
end of J u n e and wa' hnr m g
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contaLt
J udy Brown Dickson . . . . Marian Woodsome
Ludwig- pringer " 'rill teac h mg mu'IC m
Lunenburg, Ma:.s., hut l n e on ape od Her
hu;band, Wolfe, 1 'ales man,Jger fnr a kylight
corporation. In March, Manan haJ a gr,md re­
umon at the home of Wilma McDonald awyer
and saw j udy Hince quire, Marilyn lark and
Cindy Allerton Rocknak. And thi pa t �1.1\
Manan hecame a grandmother for the 1 2 th
nme1 • • • ew ha l:oeen 'carce of late. A' vou
have een, the 'ummer '"ue of ollr. m.1g.1: 111e
conta111ed a general que tionnaire rh.u \\ Ill no\\
be u etl for feed111g thi column. Plea'e fill It out
and add any 111formation you would like to 1'·1"
on tO your c lassmate,. In the future, n>u m.l\ hnJ
orne added quest ion;, JU't a wu ha\·e 111 the old
questionnaire,.
-.\lar�-arec mtrh Henry
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accord111g r o 'orne ot the r,l\'e rc\'Ie\\ ' 1 '\'e re­
cen·ed, 111clud111g an unhn1ken 'tre.1k 11f rertecr
weather. Alter Fnda\ lunc.h md a \'1 It t11 the
Farn,worth � J u,eum 111 R,xkl.m J lnr the \\ lln­
dert'u l Wyeth exhibit ( ,1 1 1 l:oe 1unfulh .1 rr.111geJ
h ar le Jelineck Barnard ) , .1 'Pmted grour nt
af>,,ur 2 rrcxeeded w \\ uu\' l l le .md met ur
with d.1"m.ne' , H Th.: Heicht-, our de,Ign te I
hc,me tnr the weekend :\r c.heck - m , e.1�h <tlum
recel\·eJ , J "meffi\11'\ [:,. >k" I.. O nt,l ln111g rhoto'
and \\ ntten m.uen.1 l trom the ') '• d, ng '' nh
plenty ,,f 'P·''-" lc1r nc\\ rhlllO,, n me anti ,JJ­
Jre ' II'r- md mem •r 1rdi.1 tr m our rcun1 n
Thank, w Keet
rnett t r the tdc mJ the
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year- 111 ,,1 le' management, m-nket111c mJ cen­
er.l l man,1gemenr wnh RK h:uJ, 111 - \ I..: b. l n..: .
He toc'k e.uh retirement 111 I 0 "i mJ 111 I <!Q I
..:re.ueJ ,1 ne\\ -, mr.m\ ..:.1 lleJ :::>p.xt , Fnn h1 "'
Inc. \\ Ith &.m 1e Kuhn, I 1m1u �c>mm'"'' ncr c t
l:o.bel:o.l ll They l:orclker the 'lie ut rr >k"IL n I
,pc,rr- te.lm,-l:o,l,el:o.J II, tc 'tb.1ll. 1:-o,t• etl:o II nJ
he -ke\ Bmce ha· 1.11c'thcr 'eccli1J c.ueer, that t
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ing guests included Tom Brackin ' 5 7 , Bo Olsen
' 5 7 , Peter Merrill ' 5 7 , Dave Adams '5 , Bob
Marier '6 and Terry Lee '6 1 . There was hardly
a dry eye in the house when the Eight began to
ing; they were till so good that all the inter­
venmg years j ust melted away and the '59ers
were young again. Our gratitude to Jay for his
hard work m getting this fabulous group to­
gether once more. aturday brought the alumni
parade. The Class of '59 was well represented,
courte y of Mike Farren's efforts, with each
person wearing orne article of clothing that
said "Colby" on it. We were proud to be the
leadmg clas in total gift to Colby and had the
pleasure of presenting a giant check for nearly
2 million to our favorite school. Most of this
record amount was in the form of capital gifts;
we approached our annual giving goal with a
total of about 6 ,000. incere thanks to all
who contributed to this successful campaign,
and much appreciation to Dave Bloom and Ed
Goldberg for their fund-rai ing efforts. The lobter luncheon, indoor this year, was a delicious
a e\·er. Our class dinner was held in our resi­
dence dorm, a new departure this year. The
ltghtmg wa oft, the table decor and atmo­
phere were plea ing, and enthusiasm reigned
upreme. Pre 1dent Cotter dropped by for a visit,
and gue t speaker Professor Cal Mackenzie talked
about the social/world events that were begin­
nmg or marurmg during our college years, thus
debunkmg the nonon that "nothing happened
m the '50s." He covered the civil rights move­
ment, the begmnmg of the women' movement,
the defeat of the French in Vietnam, setting the
stage for U . . mvolvement there, the beginning
of the space race and Elv1 's arrival (no, he was
nor seen m the building dunng dinner! ) . It was
easy to ee why Cal 1 such a force on campus.
Outgomgcla s pres1dent Ed Tomey proved once
agam that he 1 truly Rena1ssance Man, with his
shepherdmg of the clas through all the intrica­
Cies of the weekend and h1 wonderful hosting of
the clas banquet. He pre ented each of our
honored gue t ( Robert mder, Coltn MacKay,
John 1mp:,on, johnjo eph and Cal Mackenzie)
" 1th memor, books and pec1al Cltanon , which
he wrote. Thank , Ed, for your mspmng leader­
'hlp. unday brunch was al o m our dorm.
H,J\'Ing all cla"-related acnv1t1es m one loca­
tion re,ulted 1n record attendance at the e events
and pronded lor of per,onal contact and a great
\'Cnue for 'avmg good-bye. A alway , the pre­
' ,ulmg feelmg, were urpme and deltght, as old
fnend'hlp' rene" eJ and new fnend'h1ps formed.
Then! were m.my campu' .:hange -ne" or re­
modeled bulldmg,, altered walkways, new way
ol org.m 1:mg reunllln domg,-but the funmest
,,, all " a the di,Ul\'er, that the dorm laundr)
n m nm' 1--o,ht cnndnm m;Khmes' Qu1te a
dtHerenc.: lwm rhe d.1\' nl dorm coun II, cur­
h:\\ , qutet h<>Ur , gr,J ctou ltnng and house
m< rher . 'rx>n retlectl<ln, l kmd of ltked our
en\ twnment 1--e ner; 1.!<1 ltgure. To 'urn up, a
•rear ume wn' had ( olo 1r acu>mp.mted hy
u'" ,t •ntlt<:. mr orher) h ffi<lre th.m 6 '59er .
Locked into your stocks ?
lf the prospect of capital gains taxes has you feeling that you can't afford to
sell appreciated stock, yet the recent volati l ity of the market has you wishing
you could lock in some of these gains, you might want to contact the Planned
Giving Office at Colby.
For more information, please contact:
Steve Greaves or Sue Cook
Office of Planned G iving, Colby College, Waterville , Maine 0490 1
phone: 207-87 2 -3 2 1 0, e-mail: scgreave@colby.edu or sfcook@colby.edu
internet: www .colby .edu/planned.giving
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43 7 3 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 40901
Please send me a copy of "Fore ight: Colby's Guide to Planned Giving."
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. . . I was devastated at mis ing our reunion, but
I hope I 've conveyed i ts joy and success with the
same enthu iasm I fe lt through all the plannmg
essions. And to yndy and Aaron, Pat, ue, Ed
and M a i c h , Keet and Bev, J ay and hris, M i ke
and Trish, J a n i e , Carol e , A rleen and every­
one e lse who sent good thoughts my way, my
warmest thanks. A l t hough my ear problems
remain unresolved to date, I enter i n to my
tenure as your c i a pres ident with eagerne
and pleasure .
-Anne Segrave Lteber
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Beginning this ummer, questionnaires
will no longer be mailed out from the Alumni
Office. I n order to save time, paper and money,
a general que t ionnaire will be inserted into all
olby magazines for alumni to fi l l out and return
to class correspondent . This will avoid the wa it
to receive your questionnaire once a year and
seemg cia :.mate at the 40th. . . . andra Myers
Paap has been tn the M t lwaukee area 111ce 1 969
and finds that hard to believe! he '' a chool
psychologt t wtrh two marned daughter hut 1
"begmn111g to th111k about remcment ltfe, travel,
and all of that." andy ay> .,he collect' every­
th mg-and need to get nd of half of n . That
also �ounds famtltar1
he ha,n't been hack
to
olby recent ly, bur :.he always enJoys dm mg hy
when >he doe:. get to Mame to che k our new
butldmg proJect�, ere . . . . ! lope you all had a
good summer. We have been dtvtdmg our ttme
between
ew Hamp;hne and Rhode bland,
where Teel works dunng the week. Book on
tape are great and were 111vented for the likes of
I nter�tare 495, where you can 'r even get a cup of
coffee and the major enterra111ment IS watchmg
people pass you at the peed of heat, along wtrh
will give you the opportunity to inform me
about change and news in your lives every
occasional displays of road rage ' . . . Plea:.e make
u e of the new que nonnatre system. Otherwt e,
I'll be forced to re orr to Kay Wh t te'> threat ro
make thing up. And remember the 40th'
three months! Perhaps t h is change al o will
-Carolyn Web ter Lockhart
inspire s me of you who never respond to let the
rest of us hear from you. Your classmate really
do want to know what you are doing. Each issue
bri ngs us three months closer to our 40th re­
union. We all received a letter from Kay White
about the planning and hope many of you will
give some thought to helping. This is our re­
un ion-so let' make it a great one. The more
people who have a part in it, and the more who
return, the better it will be . . . . Maybe Don
Mordecai will attend. He says he ha n't been
back in eight years but has heard good things
about olby. Don is currently living in Wa h ­
ington, D. . , b u t planned t o move t o N e w York
ity in September. He is assistant head of school,
administration and finance at Maret School in
D. . Hi wife, Pat, is assistant to the presiding
bi hop for admin istration of the National Epis­
copal
hurch. They have sold a house in
Litchfield, onn . , and bought one in Castine,
Maine, which is rhe one they hope to ha,•e when
they are down to one liv ing space. Don writes
that they have four children, ages 29 ro 34, in
the throes of self-evaluation and earning a liv­
ing. ound familiar? . . . Chet Lewis is still an
assistant ar rorney general in tl ichigan, concen­
trating on tax-exempt bond finance work. H ts
wife, Fran es, remains a proof reader for rhc
legislative sen·i e bureau of the Michtgan Leg­
islature. Their younoer daughter IS l l vmg at
home while pursuing a doctorate, another daugh­
ter is an attorne • 111
1 inneapohs, and thetr son
olby '95 graduate who is takmg engmeer­
ing ourses at l\ l i htgan �rare ntverstry. Thev
have tra\'eled on bus111ess and found wne to
explore some oi rhetr desnnanons. bur rhev abo
travel se,·eral wnes a year to \' tStt ag111g p.u ent'
is a
her ''' "'
in onnec ricur and Rhode Island.
they colle r books beyond rhetr abdtt\ tll re.1 J
them, but the · ha,·e nor been accumuLuinc
food, etc . , in anr ictpation oi Y _ !..:: . He ha' abL)
heard from Ralph els n, who ts \'er\' act I \ e 111
the Delaware �AR.
her ts look111g iL)rwarJ w
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Hmmm . . . not one 1 11gle que non­
naire returned this quarter. But 111 my devotton
to my responsibilities as class corre·p ndent, 111
early J une I hopped a plane to Portland, re . , 111
pursuit of news of classmates. O.K., I admtt the
primary reason for the trip was to vt tt my
younger on, who ha ettled in that del tghrful
city. However, while I wa there I pent a won­
derful day with Jan Haskins Mandaville. You
may remember that J an ha been 111 the habn of
escaping Portland's rainy wtnters by tak111g ex­
tended visits to Australia. he ha recently
found a less drastic solution to the one drawback
to Portland's charms by acqutnng a second home
in northern Oregon on the dry tde of the
mountains, where she wtll gladly trade colder
temperatures for sunsh111e. . .
n a sad note, I
have to pass on new of rhe death on May I of
Hans Veeder from cancer. Ht good fnend and
former roommate, Sandy Graham, descnbed
Hans as "btgger than life. He '' as always the
eternal optimi r and unttl h ts last breath re­
ma111ed that way. He \\'til be sure I) mt"ed by ht'
many fnends." We )0111 andy 111 'endmg our
condolences ro Hans's \\'tfe, Pol h , .md rhetr
famtly . . . . I n rht> tssue, you wtll f111d a genert
que,twnnatre, whtch the ollege ' ' l1LH\ 'tnl:!
tn read oi the c lass-,pectftc yuestll nn,ure' rhar
were sent ro our homes 111 the p,1 ,t. Plea'e ft ll tr
our ani send tt ro me sL> I won't h,1,· e tL) CLmtmue
trymg to m tl .u e non-new' to m.1ke ,1 CL>lumn.
And '' htle vou are ,lt tt, J<>t dLH\ n \ <>ur thL>ucht
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Carolyn Webster Lockhart
1 70 County Road
ew London, NH 032 57
603-526-9632
fax 603-526-802 1
toe hart@ ds.ne
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Judy Hoffman H a ola
2 5 Charles Place
Orono, ME 04473
207-866-409 1
J ud t t h . ha ola@umt marne edu
1 962
Patncta Farnham R ussel'
1 8 1 Mame Avenue
Mliilnocket. ME 04462
207-723-5472
prussell@ka t . net
1 963
Karen Forslund Falb
245 Brattle Stree
Cambndge, MA 02 1 38
6 1 7-864-4291
KF F245@aol com
1 964
Sara Shaw Rhoades
76 Norton Road
Kittery, ME 03904-541 3
207-439-2620
fatrwmdsc@aolcom
1 965
Rtchard W Ban art
20 Valley Avenue Ap . 02
Westwood, NJ 0767 5-3607
2 0 1 -664-7672
1 966
Natalte Bowerman Zaremba
1 1 Ltnder Terrace
Newton, MA 02458
6 1 7-969-6925
6 1 7-266-92 1 9 x 1 07
nzaremba@har org
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Robert Gracta
295 B u rgess Avenue
Wes wood.
A 02090
7 8 1 -329-2 1 0 1
Bob_Gracta@broo line mec ed
Judy Gerrre Heone
21 H t Jeres Ad
ed eld, MA 02052
508-359-2886
hetne,g@aol com
Lm rhe IL)llowmc: It n>u wen: 1->ecmnmc , ,,ur
CL>llece career ,1 !!.1111 ( ,lt L>lh , <)I LL)Urse ) , '' ,,ufJ
Y<)U chr•o-e the ,,1 me m<lJ<)r? It '''· \\ h\ ? It not,
'' h,H \\L)ulJ \'L)U maJL>r tn? \\ h\ : It \ <lU h.we 1!1\
c.:ner.1 l 111rere't que,t t<m' n>u'J l tk.: t<) h.n e m.:
pL>'e w the re't L>l L>ur d.1 --m He' tn turur.:
CL)Iumn,, )U't let me knL)\\ .
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History on the Block
On Columbus Day weekend of 1 998 James McConchie '63
creati ng a nonprofit organization so the house will qualify for
read i n the Boston Globe that suffragist Susan B. Anthony's
certain funds as a charity. McConc hie says there is less bureau­
birthplace was for sale. McConchie mentioned to his wife, Linda,
cracy in setting up the foundation than he anticipated. "The
that the h i s orical home i n Adams, Mass . , was on the market. They
process hasn't been lengthy," he said , but he i s hesitant to define
saw the house that day, by the afternoon they put in a bid, and at
a time line. He hopes to start renovations by next summer.
S u san B . Anthony's father b u i l t the home i n 1 8 1 7 , and she
4 p . m . McConchie, an attorney, signed the papers. The real
estate agency had 230 i n q u i ries by the next day.
was born there i n 1 820. H e r fam i ly moved to G reenwich, N . Y . ,
Of the q u i c k decisi on to buy, McConchie said he and Linda
i n 1 826, b u t t h e house stayed i n the family u n t i l 1 920 when the
had previously thought of "getting a project for retirement . " A
Quakers took over and ran it as a museum through the 1 940s.
res1dent of L i n c o l n , Mass . , McConchie is presid ent and owner
Because of its previous role as a museum the house conta i n s
of the Recreation G roup, which owns and manages area
extensive archives, i n c l u d i n g photos a n d drawings that w i l l aid
health c l u b s . Linda is executive d i rector of the Freedom Trail
i n the restoration process. McConchie p l ans to return the home
Foundation, which coord inates educational program m i n g , fund
to its condition d u r i n g Anthony's residence.
raising and marketing for 1 6 h i storical sites along the Freedom
" I t will be Spartan. Her fam i l y was Quaker," he sai d . Most of the
Trail 1 n Bosto n .
renovations will be cosmetic and will involve stri p p i n g away what
S 1 n c e January the c o u p l e h a s solicited suggestions from
was added after Anthony's residence-six layers of l i noleum, for
commun1ty residents and historical groups on how the house
example-until the house looks as it did i n the early 1 820s. "Our
should be used. McConc hie says he has observed heig htened
goal i s to historically renovate it as much as pos-
Interest 1 n such historical treasures and hopes that once the
s i b l e , " said McConc hie. Given the fam i ly's com­
our-bedroom house is restored, it can serve as a museum and
mitment, failure is impossible.
women·s stud1es center 1n the Berkshires. Its location, equidis­
-Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay
tant from several women's colleges, is idea l .
L i n d a and t h e couple's two daughters, Elizabeth
and L1ndsay '98. own the house as partners in
Fa1lure I s Impossible. the company McConchie set
up to buy the property
The company's name
comes from Susan B . Anthony's famous 86th birth­
day speech. When she died soon after, the line
became a slogan for the suHrag1st movement McConchie
says 1 1s appropnate that the women in h1s fam1ly own the
house
We have a very femininely-based household "
H 1 s daugh ers who plan to help run the establish­
men
lo e the property
he 1dea and the house "
cConc 1e says he f1rst th1ng he learned about
1stonca1 restorat1on was "don t do anythlng­
e professionals
s ., o Jed 1n
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He currently
e requ1re­
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cial izes in conducting polygraph examinatio n .
H is work often takes h i m to Maine, so he fre­
quently manages stops on the Colby campu ,
where he visits the chapel to reflect on life. Jim
says i t came as a complete surprise when he had
a pacemaker installed in January 1 998 because he
had no symptoms, j ogged daily and was in excel­
lent health. He urges all of u to have
really have JU t
htfted vocations. Judy find'
three w�:eb after he reti red from >econdary
,chool coumel 111 g . After a honeymoon 111 lre­
church, for Homele
is J i m's dentist, and he sat with Ed
Kyl e and Bill Chase at the Colby­
Tufts game Ia t fall. Jim sent along
interesting articles and news on Dee
Toole, who was a Massachu ens
Teacher of the Year finalist for '97
and attended the National Teacher
Forum in Washington . . . . Richard
Robbins, who lives in Claverack,
N . Y., and
hi
harleston, S .
., has made
Bnstols find t i me for travei-Caiiforn ta, Ea tern
"vtrtual offtcc, on-l111e coun,elm�.: prac t ice."
Europe, Washmgton, D.
grad u a t i n g from N e w E n g l a n d
onservatory of Music . . . . Kathy
Hertzberg sent her best from Con­
.-and were anttctpat­
mg a three-week crut e to the Far Ea t tn
ctoher
hare! H t l l .
. . . And congratulation' to Marty Dodge, who
mamed Kan
loner' 111 J une 1 99 . 1\.lart\
from
N EWS MAKERS
I'
on
, wa named Vermont' 1 999
Advocate of the Year by the U. .
mall Bu:,me s Accountant
mall Busmes:, Admmt rration
( S BA ) . The publicat ion Pracrical Accountant named h ts firm one of
the top 1 5 independent CPA firms m
Chabot '66 of
ew England . . . . Gregoire
ewburyport, Ma s . , played the role ofLe
arrareur
in a French-language produc tion of the play "Encore une fm:,, st
vous permettez" at the Acadian Festival m L d le, Mame, m J u ne .
. . . J udith A . Mos edale ' 6 8 was named t h e new head o f the
Hunter McQuire School, a K-5 school m Verona, Va.
been head of the lower school at Ptke
ommunm
l'llege of the
.Y , where he I' ,1
profe"or of comerv,Hion and de­
F111ger Lake ,
Michael D . Flynn '6 1 , managmg dtrector of Gal lagher, Flynn &
Co. , PL
., "here Bob has 'tarred a
'�hbatical lea\"e for the '99- \.0 vear
he had
chool m Andover, Mas'>.
velop 111 g "a cour e focu,cd on [ani
ecologtcally ,u,tamable 'oc tety . " He
1' al,o trave ling the wdderne" tn
A la,ka . . . . Congratu latton' to Leah
Aranovitch, who'e d.JUghter, Jennte
Pht Bet<� Kapp.1
Ohenan '99, wa
and the only Mame re'ident to reach
the f111 a l' for the RhoJe,
shtp program ( her
cholar­
anta 1\. ! ontc.t,
al tf., cla :,mare B t l ! Polk mghorn
dtd become
olby\ >txth RhoJe,
chola r ) . Leah and her 'On Gator
M I LESTO N ES
scores, most recently for A Soldier's
tended Colby for two years before
land, cot! and and \ ale,, the newlywed' mo,·ed
to
name as a composer of musical
Daughter Never Cries. R ichard at­
Pet>, at a thnft hop and a
a board member of a con ortium of churche . The
a yearly EKG! Recently Dick and
Toole and Kathy Hiltz Bauer visited
L A R G E
volunteenng a full -time Job: workmg for the
Jeanne Banks Vacco, Dee Cross
J im in hi new home. Phil Gregorio
:\ T
continue tn the per onal rra111mg
Deaths: Carol Wickeri Castine '60, J une 1 8 , 1 999, m Plattsburgh,
N .Y . , at 6 1 . . . . . Ellen McCue Taylor '6 l , J une 29, 1 999, m alem,
Ma s., at 60 . . . . Sandra Jean Shaw '66,June 26, 1 999, m Yarmouth,
M a i ne, at 54.
field. . . .
ongratulanom
to
Myles
Denny-Brown. He ha been hu'>y a'
an 111ternational economt t '' tth the
U . . Dept. of Commerce, Ofttce of
Telecommun ication . !\.lyle' reporr-,
cord, N . H . , where she is a math pro-
"[After] four year:, of negon<.Hion
fessor. She says retirement is coming up fast for
with other family member . J udy has j ust fim hed
that l parttctpated 111 , both m \Va,h 111g ron and
her. . . . Lynn Kimball, who retired after a long
a genealogy class at Rice. Their 27 -year-old son,
Bru
teaching career, plans to relocate permanently to
Wes, and three dogs complete their household . . . .
ment wtth the European
her home in the Pemaqu id Point, Maine,
Doug and Gail Macomber Cheeseman are wild­
ognmon of Approval for Telecom Equtpmenr . "
els, [we] reached a bdareral trade agree­
mon on Mutual Rec­
area . . . . I enjoyed a recent lunch with Pam Tay­
life tour leaders in Saratoga, Calif. Doug has
ongrarulation t o t h e Den i Carter , who
lor in Bangor, Maine, where Pam is a geriatric
retired from teaching and now can lead their
celebrated rhetr 20th weddmg anntver,ary wtrh
soc ial worker. . . . The grapevine tells me that
safaris ful l time: to Australia, Afrtca, Amarcnca
a tnp to Hawa u . He\ a rherapt'>t and hum.m
my former roomare J o Sexton Hardy has old her
and South America! ( I 'm still waitmg to partiCI­
system comu lrant
home in Dixfield, Maine, and moved to the
pate in one of their adventures 1 ) Thetr son and
wtth organt:attom regard 111g emotional 111 t e l l t ­
Rangeley Lake area. . . . The campus looked beau­
daughter are both still going to college . . . . Hoop­
gence 111 t h e work place. He a l , o ha a conttnu-
tiful in June when Rollie and I were at Colby for
er Cu tler write from Marblehead, Ma s., where
111g 111 teresr 111
Reunion Weekend to attend the Boardman ve -
he is the ftre captam and where hts wtfe (of five
pers, the service that honors all Colby alumni
years ) , Joan, is a nur e. Between them they have
J u dy Eyge Dalton 'aw Ken and ally Thomp­
son Br ·an at the Tuft,-Colby game m Ot.toher
'9 along wnh Rick Davi<;, J ay
r nlund ,
who have died in the past year. Both our daugh­
five grown children, and the grandchildren JU>t
ter-in-law, who died in October, and my mother,
keep on coming. Hooper say:, he ha:, 3 2 year, wtrh
who pa ed away in April, were honored. It has
rhe fire department and c uld reme. However,
been an unusual year for the Russells.
ur planned
he doesn't know what he'd do and JUSt ltwe' hts
retirement became instead a job change a we
work. " Best de , the new guy' keep me young ! " . . .
undertook the task of caring for our two very
Mary
young randchildren. I've found being a second­
an e and Peter D uggan live m
harlone,
., where he recently renred a' 'ale, and
time-around mother as enjoyable as the ftrst nme
marketmg
ex epr for rhe age and energy factor! . . . Bob and
emplo ·ed as a YZK mformanon tech. Thetr d,1ugh­
P for Lm e, Inc., and \\ here , 11r,
Pat Downs Berger live in Brookline, i\la s. Bob
ter Le,lev
is a surgeon and Pat a mo·tly remed phystctan
bu-;y comulnng f�lr two large
who work· part rime as the school phystctan for
compame' and
la·sachusetts
ollege of Art. Pat enJoys com­
wa, to
and c ctence
1'
1
get marned m J u h . Pete keep'
tm,umer tund
tm the hoard of
harltltte Art,
tlunc tl. He recenth It 'r ht, f.nher,
petitive ice skating and pamtmg, and rakmg nme
bur he W<b hapr\ w he.u fwm ,e,er.l l C<X)j
to "smell the roses" is htgh on her list. In 1\ larch
tnend,, 111cludmg Dr. Stndcr. \'\',,rd, Lll \\ t..J >m
she went skiing in Ira! · with ancy Rowe Adams
and Boothba ; Harbor fnends. The Bergers' two
rrt)m Pete: " Keer wur hc.1 lrh. 'tmrlth ,,,ur ltk
and enJtl\ en•r, d.1 \". t,,r It I ' rruh .1 !!I tt
1ll \our
daughters are both oroam:ers for weliare' k)\\
tTtend, C\ en nt)\\ and then." Th mk,, Pete. l
in ome rec ipients, I lana 111 :an Fmnctsco and
hana '9 in lew York It\' . . . . J udy H agland
Bristol \\Tires from Houston. Judv and H.1 m
thmk we Ctlu!J 1
. l l rake the,e " ,,rd, r, heart
have both retired , J udv from edu ·anon and Ham·
as a stockbroker, but like so manv L)thers thev
-Par
65
�L
c�a
,,lh
F1mh.nn Ru ,II
n;!r.1tubnl n_, !-r,, Bob Beech in r,
newlY wed w Eileen ,,n \'.1 lcnttnc ' Dl\ [ 'N ,
111
W111ona, l\. l 111n., workm�.:
an,·e Amencan tradmon.,
Roberta Gil o n Drewe ,
h r i Bro\\ n md
many from t rher L la"e' The " ht>k �:,.tn� re­
turned to the Dalton home for po,r-c.une lev
t t vtne,.
ongra r ul.n ton , , t<l<>, w t he D,t lron
daughter' on a ,·er,· hu,, J une '99 D.tuchrer = l
recet\'ed her �I B A. frt>m T ut.k
L hool lt
Darrmtluth and " il' m.trned, =2 cr tdu.lted trom
, 1YU T�sLh L h t>o l ot Ftlm, md = 3 !,!r.tJu,Hcd
from \VII !tam,.
And JO\ <>U' L >n (! r tui..Hwn'
to
ed .m d Ly nn
rner Bauer ' n thetr re I!.!­
n .1t t t l11 tn>m the hn,ken penul t. lub. " I t' been 1
lon t t me '111L e \\ t:'n: been 111 t<>u.:h" w a the
tlpt:n111!! l111e m , " unJcrtul letter " tr h nt:\\ ,
rh.u ho rh .uc a l t,·e .mJ \\ e l l .md It, m � m
Gem ,burg, Pt. ( rhe, \ e mnred Lia marc
' I' t r ! ) . A '9 1 Jo" n 1:m� • ·�d) nd
bu\
( L, nn ) cnJcd " ur Yur •� !ttc t \ lc " m
n
Dte � . H 11 cn:r, a rei
non to .:n bu r..: ha ,
II " .:d m re rr.m4utl pur un to tlow cr L nn',
tl\ J h, h ,.c no" b.:t. omc
he " m her
'ev.:nth \ .:ar
L.:nt\ .:r-�r ,
•
, a '"" re t,
'eJ dnvc
F
LL
r h t p pt: n hun�
km b t le t r tht:
I v
C O L B Y
A L U M
I
A T
L A R G E
Adams County library, and together they oper­
ate Hope Springs Antiques and regularly travel
to auctions and antique shows. They've also
bought and are restoring a pre-Civil War home.
"Starting over hasn't been easy, bur we survived
with health and humor intact and have evolved
from panic and resentment into contentment."
Ned and Lynn plan to anend our 3 5th reunion
J une 2-4, 2000. . . . Your reunion commirtee,
led by Bud Marvin ( 603-66 -67 3 7 ) , had its
third meeting in eptember and is working up
plans for a fun-filled reunion. If you have some
thoughts, contact Bud or me or any of the
planning committee members: Marcia Harding
Anderson, Ginger Goddard Barnes, Chris
Brown, S u n n y Coady, R i c k and N a n c y
Winslow Harwood, J a n Wood Parsons . . . .
Hail, Colby, Hail!
-Richard W. Bankart
67
Here's what classmates have been up
to lately. Eric Rosen e-mailed that he took
early retirement as an artorney from Bell At­
lantic and has started his own practice in
Framingham, Mass. He i also quite busy with
community ervice work. He's an officer of
Temple Beth Am in Framingham and is a Big
Brother with the Jewish Big Brothers and Sis­
ter of Greater Boston. A recent book, Lost in
the Vrctory, recounts the story of young men
ltke Eric whose fathers died in the war. ( Eric's
father wa killed in action in World War I I
before Eric was born . ) His participation i n the
proJect prompted him to found the American
World War II Orphans etwork. He's also an
anrmal lover and has a standard poodle of his
own, but he volunteers for the Greyhound
Protecr ron League . . . . Roberta "Sookie"
rockwell Weymouth lives in Winthrop,
Marne, wrrh her husband, Carl. She's a staff
nur e at Togus, the Maine Veterans Adminis­
tration Ho prtal. he finished a B . . in nursing
rn December 1 99 and hopes that it will make
her more flex rble rn thrs time of rapid change
rn the health care field. Carl has been downsized
out of JObs rwrce. ookre ay , "Looking for jobs
makes us que non what rs mo t important to
tr, to marntarn and what parts of our lives we
can change." he' qurte proud of her chddren.
Her 'on, Todd, 1 an engrneer. He and hrs wrfe,
'anc\ , w ho rs a teacher, JU t bought the�r first
hou'e rn Vrrgrnra. Therr daughter, Heather,
make, Jewelry and rs a wame . he bought a
.Y . . . . Tom
"frxer-upper" rn Rochester,
Me rumm e-maded that a story about hr
'ugarhou'e brought more than 400 vr rtor rn
one Jay to ear ugarhouse food and maple
,yrup. He ay' that the hronrcle people drd a
gL'OO JOb and w ere real nrce peo pl e to work
wnh, 1-- u t he W<b too busy bodrng maple syrup
w get up w the house w 'ee the program ' Tom
'a\'' free pul-- l rcr ty wa' good for h 11n thrs year: "I
gm the hronr le pre e, \\ a' featured on a
channel 22 pnngfreld ( �fa". ) prece, [gor] a
\\"nte-up rn the unda\ pnngfreld ne\\·,paper
and one mennon and two arncle al--o ut my
C 0 L B )
FALL
1 9 Q 9
place in national magazines (Country Home
Magazine, Travel Holiday Magazine, and New
York Magazine ) . Nothing like free advertising!
Farming ain't easy, but it beats living in the
ci ry doing a 'real j ob ! "' . . . After 2 7 years in the
Washington, D.C ., area, Bill Walker has relo­
cated to Cape Charles, Va., on the eastern
shore of Chesapeake Bay, where he does envi­
ronmental consulting. H is wife of 14 years,
Ann Hayward Walker, is president of Scien­
tific and Environmental Associates ( SEA), Inc.
They have an 8-year-old son, Thomas. They're
still working hard (don't use the "R" word
much) but are enjoying their little town, their
office, home and sunsets across the Bay. After
cleaning out his desk, Bill e-mailed asking if it
was too late to get a copy of the reunion video.
Never roo late for "Mule Kick Flicks," Bill. If
any of the rest of you would still like a copy,
we'll put you in touch with Bob Field, our own
c inematographer. . . . Our mailbag is com­
pletely empty! We've read all our e-mail mes­
sages! Help ! Please fill out the questionnaire at
the back of this issue and send it to us. We
haven't missed an issue in the last seven years,
so don't let us blow our streak.
-Robert Gracia and ]udy Gerrie Heine
68
Susan Davidson Lombard, who lives
in Dalton, Mass., writes that she is a "profes­
sional volunteer" and that her husband, David,
is a publisher's representative for Jostens. Their
daughter, Bethany, 2 7 , is director of residence
life and student activities at Dean College in
Franklin, Mass. Their son, Derek, 2 5 , is assistant
�o the deputy commissioner of parks and recre­
ation for the City of New York. Susan had the
pleasure of becoming reacquainted with Judi
Whipling since they both serve on the execu­
tive board of the Massachusetts State Chapter
of the PEO Sisterhood. Susan and David cel­
ebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Sep­
tember. Susan says, "Please thank our classmates
for their generous support of the Alumni Fund­
they are the best! " . . . In 1 994, Bob Hughes
returned to his home in New Rochelle, N.Y.,
with his wife, Lynn, after a four-year assignment
in England. He continues to work in the maga­
zine publishing production industry and is cur­
rently director of manufacturing operations for
McGraw-Hill. His daughter, Katherine, attends
Colby this fall as a member of the Class of 2003,
and he 1 lookmg forward to seeing Kate and
Colby dunng the next four years . . . Jane
Morrison wntes that on Jo hua Bubar '93 mar­
ned Beth Cronrn '93 at olby in J u ly. Son eth,
who anends outhern Vermont College, was
be t man. Doggres Igor and McDuff did not
artenJ ( Igor recently VISited a dog p ycholo­
grst). Jane lrves rn Appleton, Marne, and is
communrty relatron manager for orthea t
Health. Two and a half years ago when she
moved to a new, smaller house, he purged a lot
but nll had to budd a garage last fall to get her
Junk out of fnend ' houses. ay she can't re rst
a bargarn in an antrque ba ket or old farm
.
46
implement. She collects mossy stones from her
1 2 acres to line perennial beds. In October she
photographed Brenda Cornfield Robe r t s '
daughter's wedding in Halifax, where Lystra
W i l son G reeves ' 6 7 and J a n n S e m o n i a n
Czarnetzki made it a reunion. Jane says Brenda
and her family are wonderful and her home near
the infamous Peggy's Cove is beautiful. . . .
Shirley O'Neal Morales lives in St. Croix, U.S.
Virgin Islands, with her son, Moses, 1 5 , who
plays football, soccer and paintball, and her
daughter, Miriam, 1 1 , who loves ballet and
drama. She reaches fifth grade at a private school
and sees the occasional dolphins j umping since
the Caribbean is right outside her classroom
window. She's been there for the past 1 0 years
(she arrived two weeks before Hurricane Hugo
and spent three months without electricity and
six months without phone ! ). She has writren
several classroom plays and lots of poetry and
gets the chance to use her Danish with local
Danish residents as well as tourists. Shirley says
it's summer year-round and sure beats Waterville
winters! She wonders if there are any other
Colby classmates living in the Caribbean . . . . A
newsletter from Anna Gideon Holzhausen ar­
rived from Burbach, Germany, where she and
her husband work for Wycliffe Center, whose
goal is to translate the New Testament into
languages into which it has never before been
translated. Her husband, Andreas, edits the
newsletter, and Anna serves as librarian and
assistant in the candidate office. Their son,
Stefan, 22, married last year, and he and his
wife, Kristine, are studying commercial art to­
gether in college. Their daughter Christa, 24, is
in nurse's training in Cologne; daughter Linda,
1 4, lives at home.
-Nancy Dodge Bryan
69
As I write my last column I am aware
that many of us are experiencing milestones and
periods of transition-children leaving home
and starting (or finishing) college, parents ag­
ing, career moves, and the birth of grandchil­
dren and children . . . more of the former than
the latter. . . . Don Clark is now in Senegal as
the director of the United States Agency for
International Development. Don transferred
from Uganda, where he had been stationed for
the four previous years. Don and his wife, Connie,
invite Colby friends to join them to view great
sun ets from the westernmost tip of Africa. The
eldest of their four sons, Alex, is a student at
Colby . . . . William Antonucci and his wife,
Tina, have a toddler son, Benjamin. Bill also is
celebrating the milestone of having his two
older boys in college, Thomas at UNH and Zach
at Wesleyan (Conn.) . . . . Ed Beard writes that
he is fac ing the transition to l ife as an
empty-nester; he is gerting ready to sell his
oversized house a daughters Katie, a college
student, and Kristen, a high school senior, move
on in life . . . . Winning a golftournament on his
brrthday while vacationing in Scotland was
Gary Austin' milestone-given , he say , his
A L u M
ski lls as a golfer. Gary's daughter, K i m , married
Laura and l are prepanng for a VISit to Waren:dle.
t h i s year, and his son , Aaron, is erv i ng as a
It amazes me that our daughter Wht rney, our
N avy officer in the Persian G u l f. . . . Peter and
"baby," 1s now a htgh school emor and rhar
Mary Holden Brown ach ieved the m i l estone
she'
of having their son, Jeffrey, graduate from
olby.Their daughter, Jenn ifer, w i l l graduate
long before we JOin the rank
actually cons1denng
olby. l r won't he
of empt}·ne,r­
ers-a club that we are not lookmg forward to
from the Col lege next year . . . . In a recent
ques t ionnaire I asked, "What have you done
jommg! I'm glad to report that a few of you have
that you never a n t i c i pated when you left
o l by ?" Some of your answers: erving a a
school comm i t tee member and church trustee
ful column . . . . Mark Zaccaria has had a turbu­
been in contact, so I am able to write a meanmg­
lent few year . After seven years m
ew Jer'IC}
(sounds like a sentence, doesn't t t ? ) , Mark moved
( Barry Atwood ) ; starting a pol i t ical consult­
hi family to Atlanta only to find that h t'l pos i ­
ing business i n a b i g city, Cleveland, i n a big
t i o n with a
tate, Ohio ( Bi l l B u rges ) ; and stopping skiing
. . ubstdtary o f a U . K . company
a po iti n wttl1
English d e p a r t m e n t a t Camden/Rock port
Rhode Island. C ngrat to Mark, ht wtfe, Ruth,
( M a i n e ) H igh School, gave up s k i ing after
and their c h i ldren, Adam, Kate and April for
many years of coach ing, a l though she s t i l l
with tanding two house sales and rwo move m
coache t h e girl's c ross country team. S h e writes
a very short period of time. Whew!
that she never antic ipated that she and her
Harvey is one of many c la mate
husband of 3 0 years,
devoted her l ife to education. A! tson 1
harlie, would serve a
chool's week - long sen ior trip to Washington,
D.
. One memorable trip involved a meningi­
D.
omtec I nforma tion
y rem m
.
.
.
Ali on
who has
now
entering her 30th year ( could that be pos tblel)
of teaching at Messalon kee H igh
chool m
Oakland, M a i ne , where he heads the foretgn
h i ldren's Hospital in
language department. An arricle in the Central
. for the whole gang. Penny and Charlie
Maine Morning Sentinel earlier this year recog­
t is care and a trip to
are think i ng of mov ing fu l l t ime i n to v ideo
n ized A l ison's efforts. More than 700 tudent
prod uct ion after long teaching career . . . .
a t "Ole Mess" ( I 've always wanted to write
Craig Stevens wri tes that he never wou ld have
that ! ) take a foreign language, includmg an­
a n t i c i pated becom i ng an " a c a d e m i c a n i ­
c ient Greek and Lat in. Way to go, A l i on! . . .
mal . " . . . W h i l e w e are deep i n to transit ions,
Phil Wysor, our man on the Alumni Counc i l ,
some t h ings never c h ange. l n e s R u e l i u s
dropped m e a l i ne a while ago. Ph d and Debbte
Al temose wri tes o f visit ing Colby a number of
( Stephenson '68) are the parent of Adam '95,
years ago, heading to her old stomping ground
Nat ( Bowdoin '97 ) and Jessica, a
of the biology b u i ld i ng and catching Bruce
be in 2003 ! I n early 1 998, Phil became a parrner
1 970
S even C 1ne
6602 Loch H 1 l Road
Bal .more, M D 2 1 239-1 644
sdc@connex . n e
1 97 1
James Hawk1ns
485 Locust Street
Attleboro, MA 02703
508-226- 1 436
olby grad-ro­
1 97 2
Janet H o l m Gerber
409 Readmg Avenue
Rockville, M D 20850
301 -424-9 1 60
)anethg@Juno.com
1 97 3
Jackie N1enaber Appeldorn
1 437 Old Ford Road
New Paltz, NY 1 2 561
9 1 4-255-4875
jappeldorn@aol.com
1 974
Robin Sweeney Peabody
46 Elk Lane
Littleton, CO 801 2 7
303-978- 1 1 29
R S Peabody@aol.com
1 97 5
N a n We1dmann Anderson
806 Partndge Ctrcle
Golden, CO 80403
303-278-4378
dcaata@aol com
i n a seven-person law firm, G i l le pie & Wysor,
looked up and said, " H i , l ne ," as if 20-plu
year had not passed . . . . Another person who
and this summer the Wy ors wdl celebrate then
30th wedding anniver ary. l there anyone m
h u ng around the biology b u i l d i ng, Connie
our c ia
Tingle Grabowy, is l iving the good country
lives in Westfield, N . J . , and is rhe manager of
1 97 6
life i n Harvard, Mass . , with her husband, Dick,
the Athletic Balance Sports store. Kandy IS a
and her c h i ldren, J u l ia and N ic k . Being a true
brea t cancer survivor and IS,
friend,
"doing fine" and "enjoying l ife" wnh her yellow
Valene Jones Roy
38 Hunts Pom Road
Cape E l izabeth. ME 04 1 07
207-767-0663
sroy1 @matne rr com
who can top 3 0 7 . . . Kandy Ander en
111
her own words,
i n central Massachusetts last
Labrador retriever, Piper . . . . If! 'm read111g Alan
w i nter. We spent much of the next day to­
Colby's area code correc tly, he 1 1 \·es 111 lowa. He
hockey game
gether, our boys bonded over N i ntendo, and l
is an upper chool pnnctpal and photographer,
got a much- needed break from the hockey
and he travel frequently, nde a " k111ny me"
tournament scene. My own transit ion these
bike and "ha fun" wtth ht family, whtch 111-
days i n c lude hav i ng c losed my private psycho­
therapy prac t ice ( ooodbye managed care) and
cl udes wife Donna, a homemaker, and tepch d ­
dren D a m , an armt, mustctan a n d college
start ing a new program i n post-adopt ive er­
student, and Adnen, a htgh school J U n ior ' ho 1 '
in Portland.
ase • is the soc ial en• ices branch of the Annie
asey Foundation, which supports a w tde
E.
vices for
a e
Fam i ly S n·ice
variety of efforts to -rrengthen commun i t ies
and i mprove the l ives of c h i ldren. I am exc ned
about my new job and glad to ha\'e ma �e the
peak i ng of c h a nges, thts I S nw last
c )lumn. I hope I ha,·e represented you well.
and if I have left out somethmg you wrote It I>
on! because of l i m i tatiOns of t ime and space.
c hange.
ly best to all of you , and please sray m touch
\\' i t h my su cessor.
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Kindkr
As I sit do\\11 to \\Ttte thts column.
L A R G E
1 970s Correspondents
Fowles s i t t i ng beh i nd a m icroscope. Bruce
onnie j o i ned me at one of my on's
A T
wa eliminated. Rest! tent as ever, Mark landed
( Penny Post Crocket t ) . Penny , who head the
c h ief organizers and chaperons for their h igh
I
an actress and dancer. . . . I t \ taken nearh· k1ur
year , bur rhts column ha, totalh '' tped <1Ut mr
\'a r ;,torehouse of 111format1on ai:-><1Ut cia" mem­
bers. To keep t h t' C<1lumn 111tere,nm.'-It 1' 111teresnno, 1,n'r t t ?-1 need
to
he.1r tr, m m\>re <'I
you. I t doe,n't take ,·en long to \\Ttte, anJ e-m,l tl
I> e,·en qutcker. I e,·en h,l\'e ,1 new e-matl aJJre ,:
sd @c<'nnext.net. K111J e11 11<"' ' e>H. the tont.'lle,
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C 0 L B Y
Blazing a Trail
Deborah Palman '75, who became Maine's first female game
warden i n 1 978, notched another first when she was named 1 998
Maine Game Warden of the Year. Though she made history as the
first woman ever to win the honor, Palman d i smisses the attention
that accompanies the term " p ioneer." She prefers to be recog­
nized as a law enforcer and forensic sc1entist. "I never found
being a woman to be a big issue , " she said.
Palman is at home in the woods, having hunted and camped as
a child, and says she chose her career because she
"wanted a challenging job working outdoors with wild­
life " While at Colby she taught shooting and hunter
safety to youngsters for two summers at the Vermont Fish
and Game Department's conservation camp. Immedi­
ately after graduat1ng with a biology degree, she earned a
master's 1n wildlife management from the University of Maine. Not
wildl ife forensic laboratory, where she analyzes meat, hair and
content always to s1t behind a desk or work in the forensics labs, she
blood samples to identify w i l d l ife. "Now that there's D N A [testi n g ]
dec1ded to take on the game warden's job of law enforcement.
w e c a n 1 0 . the i n d ividuals , " s a i d Palman. She c a n link animal
Desp1te her academic background and commitment to wild-
remains found i n the forest to frozen meat i n a poacher's freezer
Ie. and desp1te passing every test, Palman waited two years for
and establish how many animals a violator possesses.
her warden application to be accepte d . She then completed
Besides the presence of more female wardens, Palman says
e1ght weeks of trai n i n g , includ1ng passing the same physical
she has noticed other changes since she started . "There were
requ 1 rements as the men and classes on first aid, firearms,
periods when not h i n g went on, just h u nters and fisherme n , " she
courtroom procedure. self-defense speech, and map and com­
said. Now there are more people out i n the woods and thus more
pass read1ng After two weeks of applied trai n 1 n g , she graduated
problems. I t is variety, however, that makes her job interesti n g .
1rst 1n her warden school class
"There's no typical d a y , " she s a i d . "Some o f t h e best is saving
As a d1str�ct warden Palman enforces Ma1ne's f1sh and w i l d l ife
people's lives when they're lost or i n danger. The worst i s having
laws 1n seven towns east of Bangor She also deals With acc1dents
to pick up the pieces when someone's done something stu p i d . "
and a1ds 1n search and rescue Though wardens generally work
"To b e successful you have t o b r i n g a broad range o f q u alities
alone Palman has tra1ned a couple of partners over the years­
1nto the job , " said Palman, who also received an Exemplary
German shepherds--and
now work1ng w1th number three.
Service Award 1n 1 995. It's a nice h i storical footnote to have been
Anna S1nce tra1n1ng her f1rst dog 1n 1 980, Palman has become
the f1rst woman game warden i n Maine. Game Warden of the Year
d 1rector of the can1ne unit The dogs track cr1m1nals lost people
more accurately acknowledges Palman's determination and her
and InJured an1mals and detect ev1dence at cr�me scenes
own broad range of qualities.
IS
I n add1t10n to f1eld ass1gnments, Palman 1s a spec1a!lst at the
-Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay
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computer t e l ephone proj e c t s and B r i t e Vo1ce
Systems i n C a n t o n , M ass. Whde h e was 1 n
M e a , Ariz., Bill
i m o n s and h 1 s on J oe
v is i ted for two weeks . . . . F red 0 born 1
l i v i n g i n " at Rock" in Garn o n , N . Y . He
j us t went back to work i ng for the Episcopal
h u r c h as d i rector of p h i l a n t h ro p i c serv i c es
and is a c t ive w i t h several local profi t s . H 1 s
oldest son i s e x pe c t m g a c h i l d ( th e i r fir t
grandch i l d ) , h i s daughter was to get married
a t " at Roc k " t h i s s u m m e r , and h i s youngest
maJor mde tone, age 50. He encnura�e'
d:b
-
mates to e-mad h u n ( nahawiz� batelco.com.
bh ) . . . .
. · . border ,
lmer to
hri'>tie Pope
Capaldo live m Oah die, On t . , JlN out, Ide of
Toronto, where .,he 1� a mother and home Jay­
care provider.
he and
four chi ldren-
tcphcn '74 are p,Irent
1ck, I , M1ke , 1 6,
I I , and Emily,
to
'harlt1tte,
and to border collie, J,l k, I
They have been fmter parent
to
1 6 chi ldren over
the last I 0 years, for 'tay' rangmg from two day'
to
I 7 months. Her children are actl\'e m hocke�,
son i s t a k i n g a year off from Vanderb i l t
U n i v e rs i t y . . . . N i c k a n d S u san Hard i n g
soccer and roller hockey.
Preston a r e busy w i t h t h e i r k i Lodge/ B & B ,
M o u n t a i n F a r e I n n , and w i t h coac h m g a t
W a t e rv i l l e V a l l e y a n d e i g h t -week summer
t ra i n i ng programs at B l a c koom b , B . . , Lake
so that she may f111J a "real" JOb m nmc w pay for
hn tic " hack 111
school takmg cour.,cs In computer programmmg
the university.
he and her family v"I ted Grand
ro
the
I
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L A R G E
band J<� ' 7 5 tatted the 'nlll\ ater 11-lonte 'on
�cht11.1I m Old Town 1 5 \"l'.Jrs a go 111 .1 ramblm�
white h<.1U e ; the\ l i n� lll1 the urrer two floor
'
the prc,Lhr•ol ocwp1e' the ground tk>or, and the
elcmcnt.lf\' prngram '' htlused 111 space rt'nteJ
from the Inc 1l H,,[.,. F 1 1n d r P,m,h G reat
Jnh�
M ichael
al lahan wrote fn,m Se n t lc .
In .1dd l t ltm w workmg '' 1 \"P n t m.1rkermg,
, l i ke, ,1lnng with wile T.1m1e, "" ner/d m:LtPr ,,f
a ht'fon:-anJ-.1fter 'ch!l<1l center,
.m:
three hnys, Jn,hu,J , Je"c ,mJ T,,h
. . AnPther
re.mng
e,ntle re,Idcnr, Dan Dittmann, en,ls h1 hc't
regards
ro
former Lhums B i l l
a mp be l l ,
Wa l l )
orman anJ Le'' l< l 11g,huf\ ' 7 7 Dan .m,l w1k
, larr h,1 .1re graphic Je,Igncr' . m J Ct1ntinuc w
u an
chink,
perform In a h l u e ,fwc � h a n J . .
apaldo g1rb.
hmne
McMu rrey wrote
Canyon recently and al,o saw
who is godmother
\1
to
Doug
repnrt t h a t he h,l, nwved
P l a c i d and N e w H a mpsh i re . The i r son We is
i n v i te
off to U n ion College, and T i m i a freshman
through Toronto to look them up . . . . Thanb to
merger of the Glohal PwJect Gwur " 1 th the
a t N e w H a m p ton
all of you who re�ponded. Any of you who have
G lobal
new to hare, plea;e kx1k for the general ques­
now re,pon"bk w i t h
tionnaire 111 this Issue of
Bank. . . . Keep th,n nc\\
c hoo l .
-]ames I lawkins
73
What fun it is to receive mail from
olby classmates. l often pull out my wel l -worn
olby c lassmates who are travdmg
from you and pa mg along information about
picture the per on sending me news. So tho e of
are perennially 20-something. My most recent
111g,1pore
•
to
Hnnl! Kong a
-Jackie
76
,1
re u l r of .1
yndicat inm Gwup, tor \\ h1ch he ''
'h,1,e :-.l m h .H t .ln
cnmmg '" I c.m
>hare I t \\ Ith the c i a " !
\ 'alene }one Rn,
what's happening 111 your II\'e .
copy of "Faces and Place " and my yearbook to
you who wrote, be assured that in my mind you
olby. I enJOY heanng
from
ienaber Appeldom
I imag111e that everyone has had a busy
77
The
eiley fam i ly mon:d to Burlingtlln,
Vt., thi Augu.,t1 We f111d our-el"c' ,1 lre,1dr ,1 lmle
spring, a my mailbox has been less than fu l l '
homesick, but thought, of great kung and s.ulm�
olby mail comes from near and far. Near to
Several o f u
so clme by and the easy di,tdnce' tnen:rp\ here m
were In the process o f '>ending
olby is Gary Lawless, a Maine bookse l ler/
ch ildren off to col lege In the fal l ; I 've bumped
teacher/poet, who writes that he is currently
inro several of you at college 111format10n :,ess10m
up1
teaching creative writing and environmental lit­
and/or campus rours! Good luck ro the cia-,, of
l\.ladi"(111, W1s., and deeph ,1pprecnte the wel­
ew England ( e,·en
• • •
l a me ' ) keep u' f i red
tvly "'ter and f,umh recenth m1wed
to
erature at Bates. . . . Farther away is J udith
2003 ! . . . David Christie wrote from L111colnvd le,
come and genemu' help frnm Karen
McDivitt, chief of communication, di vision of
Maine. He' a sale man for Atk111s Pnnt 1 11g In
Crossley, her hu,band, Alan, and their Lhddren,
nutrition and phy ical activity, Centers for Dis­
Waterville, while wife Kath leen Is a cw.tomer
ease
advocate for c redit card gian t M B
ontrol and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga. She
A.
ot e\'ery­
u tafo;on
am, 1 2 , and tw1m Hannah and C.1leh, IL ,-\rmeJ
With an execun,·e �! . B.A. degree, K.1ren '' the
has left academia for the t i me being and now
one ha col lege-age kids: Da\'Id and Kathleen
'en1or d1recwr ot de,·elopment t,,r the umver It
heads a team trying to improve Americans' nutri­
welcomed their first, Anna Carol Chmtie, m
oi 'J ''consm
tional habits and increase their level of physical
March! We hope you're enJopng tho,e 2 a.m.
"life '' ,tdl cra:y, fun and wdd With chdJren, \\11rk,
activity ( hers included ! ) . She finds thi
feed111g as much as your note 111d1cate.,1
tr.l\·el and outcl.11.1r adYenturc' "
work
•
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•
Dave
hr•ol nf BLhinC" .
•
he \Hitc, th.n
Mark Brefka
Carol
and Melissa Waldron Raue are about to under­
ha' enJoyed '>(1megreat mung, n.l\'II.!<ltinl.!
Chalker McDowell resides in Beverly, Mass.,
take another mi lesrone-fu lfill111g a dream of the
the 1 997
both i n teres t i ng and reward i ng . . .
.
CWIX1rt -Bcmlud.l
111 ,1
1
J --H m
''::lmL: 1 d.l\ ''
and works as a school psychologi t. Al though
last se\'eral years. Mell ,sa
' planned ro enroll 111 the
For you �lidwe tern l.md-k>e ked tl.ul.mdcr-, th.!t's
daughters Amy and tvlolly are grown and out on
phyoiCian as>IStant program at the Yale Un,,·er-
ta,t � \Vhcn he's 11l1t ,,u lmg, , l .uk
their own, the nest isn't quite empty: husband
I ty 'chool of �ledicine 111 Augu'r. Alth,,ugh
harley has retired from his work as a physician,
ohe'll be extremely bus) With a ,·er1 demandmg
( ArmbrcLht ' l ), " '\t 11t 't:rL:e.mt" rn P.llll,
Henr� , 4, l!<1 1 Je n rerneq:r 'len .md pnnl.!er 'P m­
' ' .1
Grccm' �<:h,
onn., m,·e,tment h.mkcr. H,, " 1te,
''mcli.1
arol claims to have the healthiest and best­
curnculum, Da\'e <lml ''",., 1\ latthc\\ , 1 3 , ,md
fed squirrels in the region ( I suspe t she bakes
Enc, I I , wdl be a b1g help an,und the hou,c! The
Id �l.n.
them cake ) . . . . Joseph Mattos wntes from Oak­
be,t of luck
lmk.net ) m.ldc It t<1 Pur l 'ith md 2 th rcuniPn
and
land,
I a i ne, that he IS workmg at sun'l\'111g a
mid-life crisis and a recent dl\·orce ( me , too , Joe;
you're right-it's not fun ) . H 1s chi ldren, J ustll1,
to
you, � lel i"a . . . Returnl11g t<1 the
tate' '' Olen Kalkus, who '' ,1 , reccnth hired "'
headm,lsterofa ne\\ bo\ "Ch<><)L Ac,1dem\
�ac red Heart 111 Pnncewn,
t the
'.J . lnltl,llh the
I _ , and Emi ly, 1 0, are fully in\'Ol\'ed 111 a busy
schedule of spring/summer acnnnes, 111 ludmg
sch,,ol wdl ftJCu' on cb"es tor bt,,, tr,,m k111Jer­
golf, b1kmg, campmg and tenms. j,,e keep' bu,\'
on the professional front , ha\'111g been 111\'0h-ed
expand tl1 edu..:Me b'1' ' thn>tn!h thv eighth
in the de\'elopment of educanon >Ott\\ ,Ire 11l)\\'
being used b · seYeral l- .\ ame school >l'>tem,. He
expected to hear 111 tv lay whether or not a ' I . �. Derarrment of Educanon techm,[­
o.,. · and inno\'anon gr.mt he co-authored would
be funded. ocxi luck, Joe. . . . n the mtern,l­
m i l l ion
�r.1de . .
\\T<.HC th.lt ".t-IJC f"mm m\ pic 'life
fncn,[,, mnnte .111 I k�c[, 1l
o h.1J
In
)
't
.mJ
n1. o[J
rruh '"'n I rtul
Rem.n n111g ,,n the wriL ,,t l'du .lt,,r,, I
re.1d ,, ''"''n,lerful .un l e <.m ) anne Defilipp
lex,
� ! .lint:'- recent Te.11.. ht'r ,,t tht' Ye.1r _h, mnl " ' '
the f1r't pre,ch 11.1!, IIr-t � l<.1nte"<'n md IIr-t pn­
\ 1te-,d1<11.'1 re,K her m th< ,t.lte t<' re, el\ < the
''" ,u,i. " h1<.:h '' [! I Yen ,,n the ''l' <11 non11n tl< n,
tr< m p.1 renr-. tell'"' re.1 her- mJ admmt t
t
r- .
I n ,,,t,l in,,n, ,he \\,l, th< ,,nh pre ·h "I , r rn­
Bahram. He and w1fe � l.1hal h.w e three h<''' ·
Hani, I � . Sami , 8, and Ram:1, 6. If he were Cl\'en
to bragging, he would boast ab,,ut achienn� th.u
,,t the ' e.1 r " h,, mer Prv,iJenr �lmt 1n , t the
\\ 'h i te H<'U'e thl' r 't 'pnn� . J nne nJ hu,-
oreddin
twm hi, h<.>me m C,)rn\\ ,lll-,m-HuJ""n,
g.1rten through seC<.1nd gr.1de but C\ enru.1lh " I ll
ahawi " n rc' tr,m1
t ional front,
harlie Frankel (dr mkel he lfth
' .lt e-'
h,x,[ te,l ·her ,un 1ng the 'i
,r,H c tc
her'
F
LL
C 0 l B \
A L U M
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have two kids, Erica, 1 2, and Todd, 9. Todd
the bat. The address confirmed that I had reason
for [WO year . She was delighted to receive a recent
will travel with his mother to W.Va. for the
to be concerned-it was sent to "Mrs. Bobbie
e-mail from Eric Clise, a friend who transferred
U.S. N ationals in karate-he took a gold and
Woodbury." It was great to hear from Jeff
after freshman year. "l hadn't talked with him
silver in last year's championships. The fam­
a
for
manager
VP-resident
is
Wheels
Wheeler.
since 1 974 . . . the glories of technology!" . . . !t was
i ly also traveled to Israel and Jordan last
First Albany Corp. in Boston/Wellesley and has
great to hear from Carter ewell, an aquaculrur­
winter. . . . Linda Stahl Tribble sent a newsy
three kids-Jay, 1 4, Tucker, 1 1 , and Katie, 7 .
ist, marine biologist and fiddler living in
e-mail. Linda c laims that J im, a portfolio man­
He c laims that in addition t o attending o u r 20th
Damariscotta, Maine. Hi English wife, Kairy,
ager at CIBC Oppenheimer in Boston, already's
teaches mu ic and plays the trumpet and the reunion, he spent last summer "chewin' some
baccy." He's looking forward to a big turnout for got the "big R" ( retirement) on his mind, but
fiddle. Their children, Maise, 1 5, Brendan, 1 3 , and
first, they've got three kids to put through
the 25th and expects Sandy "Roe" Buck to get
Megan, , also are musicians, playing among them
college. All the kids are in high school, and now
the violin, trombone, sax and guitar. Since 1 986 Jerry Jeff Walker to perform. Also, he's looking
Linda's returned to school with her sights on
Carter has operated an oyster company with Chris for a Colby reunion at Fenway Park this year.
becoming a C.P.A. and developing an at-home
Let's do it! . . . Abby Rome works for Amazon
Davis '7 and Jeff McKeen '76, farmed mussels at
business. Their oldest daughter, Jenny, graduAdventurers, an independent consultant in conGreat Eastern Mussel Farms, and worked with the
ated from Scituate High and is a mem­
Maine Legislarure on funding for R&D
ber of the Colby Class of 2003 ! (This
in aquaculrure. (Like mussels? Carter says
after she claimed she wouldn't concheck out eatmussels.com.) He has also
N EWS MAKERS
sider her parents' alma mater. Hail,
been the U.S. delegate to the ICES
A photo of Anthony Maramarco ' 7 1 appeared in the August
Colby, Hail! ) Son J immy, 1 6, does
working group on aquaculrure-environ­
Smarr Money magazine after he assumed management of the
football, hockey and wrestling, and
mental interactions and hopes to finish
Babson Value Fund this year. He co-managed the fund for three
daughter Lindsey is a freshman at
his Ph.D. in marine biology in 2000. He
years before taking over from his colleague and predecessor.
Scituate and does drama . . . . Sally
fiddles each year at a fiddlers conven­
. . . "'Jesus Wept': Reflections on HIV Dis-ease and the Churches
Pearce is a state scenic byways coor­
tion and with Jeff McKeen in the Old
of Black Folk," an essay by Reginald Blaxton '74, appears in the
dinator in Colorado who says her fam­
Gray Goose. . . . Ann Lyons, one of my
book Dangerous Liaisons : Blacks , Gays, and the Struggle for
ily unit includes a cat, a good garden
favorite freshman-year Sturtevant
Equality , published in June.
and time to play golf and ski. This
dormmares, just bought and moved into
summer she worked with 2 3 local
her childhood home in Newburyport,
M I LESTON E S
groups on designated scenic byways
Mass. Ann is a licensed independent
social worker on a team doing intensive
and on a d m i n istering 96 grant
Marriages: Zachary Wechsler ' 7 7 to Michelle Powell in Ma­
family intervention. he was looking
projects. Her job will now be dedirina del Rey, Calif.
forward to spending time on Plum Is­
cated to this work as she will give up
land and in the local state park in spring
the history part (environmental as­
Births: A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Bourdelais, to Susan
and ummer. . . . Brian "Crowman"
sessments, historical surveys) after 1 3
Wadsworth ' 7 7 and David Bourdelais '78 . . . . A daughter,
McDormand also lives in Massachusets,
years. Following last year's reunion,
Dulce M.A. Nettey, to Robert and Marcia Gomez Nettey
where he has worked as a machinist in
she had lunch in Denver with Dave
' 7 9 . . . . A daughter, Grace Dwight Stevenson, to Jack and
an atrcraft engine business for the last
Donegan and Kevin Gliwa and realJodie Dwight Stevenson ' 7 9
20 years. Bnan' wife, Marian, is a nurse,
ized they know some ofthe same people
and they have four children: Jacqueline,
out in Colorado. It's a small world
Deaths: Kristen Capers B a i le y ' 7 2 , June 26, 1 999, in Belmont,
24, a emor at Bradford College; Kevin,
after all! . . . John and Pam Cleaves
Maine, at 48.
1 , a fre hman at the University of
Devine also sent an e-mail. For the
Chtcago; Anna, 1 7, a high school sethird year in a row John's on campus
mor; and Kerry, 1 5, a htgh school fre hman. Brian servarion and ecotourism, especially in the trop­ four or five times chairing an overseer commit­
coaches htgh chool basketball and referee high
ics. In spite of forays to Central America and
tee, and he started a two-year term in J une 1 999
school football m Lynn and spends some time at
elsewhere, she always returns to her Colby roots
as chair of the Alumni Council. Pam re-entered
rhetr ummer home at Cold Stream Pond in East
by vacationing on a small island off the coast of the workforce for the Maryland Association of
Lowell, Mame. He wants to know "What's up with
Maine. Abby writes that she finally has settled
C.P.A.'s as director of their in-house marketing
KDRs' And JTB I I I , C], Chooch, Spaceman,
down and consolidated all of her possessions in program that handles C.P.A. continuing educa­
Jo h T, ere., where are you?" . . . Sue I nches has a
a house she bought from a friend outside of tion. They missed last year's reunion for a middle
ne" JOb wtth the tare of Mame as dtrector of the
Washington, D.C. (Silver Spring, Md. ) . She
school graduation of daughters Kim and Sarah,
Mame Department of Manne Resource , where
also says he'd be happy to organize an ecotour
1 5 and 1 3 . . . . Peter Torres is an arborist. He
'he "work_., on de,•elopmg fishene and eafood for any Colby alumni who are interested . . . . AI
and hi spouse/partner, Ava-Marie Stone, a
Sheehy, a researcher at the University of South­
proce,,mg, wtth lor of mrere;nng people and
psychologist, live in the other Portland ( Or­
t"ue,." ue and her hu;band, Bob esstons, an ern Mame in Portland, lives with his wife,
egon) with two black woolly animals . . . . Jane
Su an, a clinical social worker, son Mike, 1 2,
orrh Yarmouth,
organic farmer, l tve tn
Brox is getting a huge amount of prai e and
one dog, four cars and a rat (female, l assume)
Zach Wech ler recently marned
Mame.
notoriety for her new book, Five Thousand Days
M IChelle Ptmell He work m the department of named Rargtrl. . . . Lorraine Thompson writes
Like This One. This book follows Here and No­
from Ene, Pa. he IS an organizational develop­
rhe At torney General of al tforn t a , and
where Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN
ment consul tam, and her spouse/partner, Gerald New England Award in 1 99 5 . These books
Mtchdle recel\·ed her M.F.A. from Harvard m
Ro ron, Ph.D., IS a re earch scientist. Their describe the emotional trains of returning home
and 1' .1 dt,·elupmenr d t recror wnh
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anng Haw k Lane, famdy unit, whtch mclude:, two ferrets, was
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to her aging family's farming home read after
plannmg a btrdmg rnp to Costa Rtca. At Case
5445, or ar nedeyolmen@
harlorre, VT
years of living away and moving into the future
Western la;r year Lorrame uccessfully defended
rogerher.ner. \X'onderfi..tl heanng from all of you.
as the torch is pas ed from one generation to the
her doctoral dt errar10n on learnmg skdls for
-Ellen D. O' Bnen
next. A sample review from The New York Times
profes tonal . . . . Peter " pike" Sheerin wnte
Books Review: "A poignant account of return
from Beverly Hdls, where he' a dentist for the
l recem:!d a letter " trh a return add res
and recommitment. . . . Brox describes crisply
of "Duke Wildman," '' ht h 'cared me nghr off moneyed and beaurtful. He and hts wtfe, ancy,
yet with great feeling." Jane is also the recipient
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ture Fellowship. Congratulations, J ane!
J ane Venman Ledeb u h r , Bob Lizza, J o h n
-Robert S . Woodbury
Lyman, J e a n herwood Lynch, Meg Matheson,
Laliberty, Bev
chnorr Larmie and Wa yne ,
Gary McCarthy and
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The sun, bright and glorious, touched
Katahdin on J une 5, soon to awaken our little
campus on a hill. ome ofourcla mate were up
with the dawn, "fun" running. oon the rest of
the campu stirred, and the day came alive with
the sound of children and the smiles and laugh­
ter of friend . For many of our c lass, graduati n
had been their last real glimp e of olby, and
much had changed on campus. Yet the fam i l iar
dominated, and soon the smells of lobster and
drawn butter beckoned visitors to the field house
and the traditional reunion fea t. Old friends
rose to greet each other. Hugs, k isses and smiles
were exchanged. Toasts were made to old friends
and new-found friends. The afternoon became a
blur. As day turned to evening, the c lass reas­
sembled for dinner in Roberts U n ion. New faces
appeared, memories were shared, and more
glasse were raised. Dinner was served, and Steve
Earle, our graciou class president for the last
five years, welcomed all and then bid us adieu,
making way for the new administration of the
remarkable and unchanged J a net Deering
Bruen, who will be assisted by Vice President
Kirk Paul and Secretary/ orrespondent Cheri
Bailey Powers. Bates ( ! ) professor J ohn Smedley
entertained us with a presentation on the phys­
ics of acoustics, which Mark McAuliffe umma­
rized succinctly ( if not altogether academically)
as "How you touch it matters, where you touch
it matters, and you should touch i t often ! " John
then provided a little jazz guitar interlude, joined
on harmonica to the surprise and delight of all,
by Eric Spangenthal, husband of Andrea James
Spangenthal. J anet then took charge, ordering
tables cleared and dancing to begin. And we
danced till 1 a.m., outla ting our teenage DJs,
then ret ired to the old LXA house ( now
T reworgy ) for a scrapbook tour of Colby fur­
nished by J ulie Sydow Palmason. Sunday morn­
ing came a bit too soon, perhaps, and the sounds
of farewell oon echoed across the campus. A
few intrepid souls made the short drive to
Bonn ie' in Winslow for breakfast, and a few
more intrepid souls dined in the beautiful new
cafeteria in Dana Hall. All too soon Waterville
was fading inro rear v iew mirrors. In addition to
those already mentioned, these friends also made
the trip, and the lass of 1 979 and Colby are
grateful for their presence: Laurie Borden
Ahearn, Dwight Allison, Gayle Amato, David
Bernier, Bruce Brown, Deb \.Vallace Burbine,
Tom '80 and Maria Macedo Daile •, Dwight
Darrow, M i ke Donihue, Peter Dwyer and
nrh • , Hillary J ones Egan, Geoff Emanuel and
Laurie, Monique Fecteau, Bruce Forsle Robin
Towle Gl n n and Dennts, Peter Goodnow,
•,
Libby Maynard Gordon, Betsy Bucklin Gra ·
and Peter, Cindy Flandreau Helfrich and J tm,
Li: ( Yanagihara "L) and Barr · Hormvit:, �lark
Hubbert, Gordie and Kath · \\ al l Hun:iker,
harlie ' 7 ' a n d J ac ie
ordes H u rd, Dave
uzy, Ross Moldoff and
Amy, Bill Muller , Jonathan Murphy and ath�.
Tony Musgrave ,
tck 7 9 and Kim Ro si
ichols, unny Omat eye and Eh tye m t ( a l l the
way from
tgena ! ) , Greg Pfitzer, Jane air
Prairie and Ketth, Kevin chneider and Amanda
Kourafa , Deb chwartz, tacey Cox low in ki
and Joe , J ohn medley and arole Parker, ean
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mith, Emily Grout
prague, J effTaylor, Doug
Taron, Lisa Moore and Mike Thompson, Brad
Warner, Lindy Williams and Lynn Wde , Karen
Oehrle Wright and BenJamm. Many other I
know were wnh u m sptnt. Good fnend� teve
Ktrstem ' 0, Dtana Herrmann ' 0, Ann Hurlburt
and Deb uellette celebrated with u , and ome
of us aw Tom Reilly ' 4, Pete God oe ' 0, Eric
Rosengren and Dana Russian wtthm houtmg
distance ofWaterville over rhe weekend. ! would
be remiss in not thanking Andrea Graffeo, Ia s
of 2002, for her graciou help wnh our class
a c t i v i t i e s . l hope I ' ve not left anyone
out. . . . This is it for me-my last column. I t has
been fun hearing from so many of you and
catching up with your lives these past five year .
Cheri Bailey Powers takes over the rems, and I
wish her much enjoyment. Please keep Chen
busy by writing often and by encouragmg your
clas mates to write also. My be t wi he to all for
continued happiness in your live . As alway , tf
you get to the D.C. area, look me up.
-Robert Kinney
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Last June I returned to Colby for my
father' 50th reunion and was surprised to find that
four of us in the C!assof'8 1 had parents in the Class
of'49. Liz Stiller Fahey's mother, Anne Houston
tiller, Meg Bernier's mother, htrley Fellows
Bernier, and Elisabeth Eustis' mother, Anne
Hagar Eusti , were all 111 the Ia of '49 wtth my
father, Ed Pniewski. Lt:, who recently got her
master' in public account111g, marned Kev111 Fahey
'80 last m•ember 111 Bradford, onn. (where her
parent have ettled) and are ltv111g 111 wa,hll1g­
ff ' 0 was the best man, and
ton, D.C. Dan
many other Colby frtends and famdy were 111
attendance, 111clud111g Li: Pi::uro 0 off. leg
recently bought a hou'e 111 Watervdle, he 1' the
a oct ate dtrector of alumnt relation' at oily and
dtd a wonderful JOb 1f orgam:mg the Ia" ot '49
reumon weekend. Elisabeth Eu,tt' I' work111g ar
L.L. Bean a' a '\ eb ma,ter. I .1 l,o ran mw Kathy
Dornish Du renier\ mnrher, J ane :-. l d lett
Dornt h ' 5 - , who told me th.1t K.u h\ recent!\
\'tstted Leslie Kaplan Knopf at her ht'u'e 111
eorgerown, :-.lame, .mJ tha t Le,!te " 1' e xpeL t ­
mg a 'e ,mel bah 'm' m 111u te .
J mie (Jim)
Bourne " a ' .1 ! 1
. r the reum,,n, rerre,ennng the
A lu mm ,,unct!. Jamte .mel Laura Little ield
B urne 11\·e 111 the \'\'a,h111gwn. D. , 1re.1 mJ
have rwo - ht!J re n J.lmte h.b been \\ uh the EP.-\
k1r I ye.1� and recent II \\l rkeJ L'n .1 J'TllJ� t tL .:et
funJ111g (l) he ir k ·a[ (L1mmun lt le ·lean UJ' thetr
dnnkmg 1\,lter He .lU th 'Ted an arrt- le 111 the
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American Water Works Association maga:ine
about rhe e tabli hment of rhe Drinking Water
tate Revoking Fund, which helps finance rhe
co ts . . . . Lisa Hallee gave an award during rhe
reunion tooneofrhealumni fund raisers. . . . Victor
and Ginny Bulford V es na ve r and rheir rhree
children, VJ, Valene and Veronica, are living
about 20 miles from London for a year. Victor
works for a real estate investment firm called
Security Capital Group. They have been explor­
ing England during rhe weekends and al o have
viSited AITtSterdam, Paris and Rome and skied in
Ausrna . . . . John Yates is in Mountainview, Cal­
if., and works wirh Sieman's Phone Mail group
playmg wirh new technologies. John also has been
takmg c lasses at UC-Berkeley and continues to
work on his CD-ROM biography of his grandfa­
ther, a World War II major general. That research
has taken him to rhe Mexican border (for Pancho
VillahtStory), Oklahoma, Munichandeven orrh­
ern Ireland pubs! I hoped to see John last4rh ofJuly
m h1s hometown of Harvard, Mass., also my
current re 1dence . . . Joel Cutler and his wife,
Rand I, chaiTed the Jewish Community Centers
of Greater Bo ton's 3 5th annual meeting last
year. joel 1s an active member of the Combined
Jew I h Philanthropic , serving on rhe federation's
srrategiC plarmmgandendowmentcommittees . . .
Deb Cook ha JOined rhe Maine Science and
Technology Foundation in Augusta as vice presi­
dent of commumcations and government rela­
tiOns. Deb had been wirh the Greater Portland
Chamber of Commerce after attending graduate
school at rhe Muskie Institute of Public Policy at
the Umvers1ty of ourhern Maine . . . . John
Marrhew marned Eh:aberh Halvorsen last june
m Middletown, R.I. john 1 a director of rhe global
emergmg markets debts division of Merrill Lynch
m ew York, and Elt:abeth IS a resident m psy­
chiatry at Mount ma1 Ho pita! m New
York . . . . la>t August Pam Ellis had her wonder­
ful watercolor> di>played at The Art Gallery at
hmtma> Cla»Ics and Collectibles m Rangeley,
�lame. Pam and her two children, Bethany and
Connor, hveon theeastshoreofRangeley Lake. . . .
Margaret Libb • abo had her am<·ork displayed­
at the Harror Art Galler,· at UMass-Bo ton. The
'htm wa, called "Between Morher and Chdd,"
worb m mixed media. . . . La,t June, even of u
fwm the CJa,, of' l went ro the Top otch Resort
m ::.rowe, \'t , ro celef,rate the b1g 40! Ellen
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Ow en Dion, Darlene Howland, Lynn McLaren,
L)nne Bruen Winter, ancy Welsh Isbell, Lauren
Hampton Rice and I had a great nme treatmg
our,eh-e' ro the 'Pa rreonmenr,, tenni' and Ver­
mont a1r. he ry l Carr Holt JOmed u' for dmner
<>ne mghr Cher, I anJ her hu,banJ, om,, both
W<>rL n Blue m" Blue h1eiJ m � 1onrpe1Ier, Vt.,
,mJ II,·e m �orthfieiJ, \ r They ha' e ,1 d<lUghter,
1ollv, 3, a nJ twm bt,,,, R1ch.ud and Andrew,
l . . Plea,e keep wntmg, .mJ e-mail me at
f,eth. w Ilxmit\\ e,q,rwup.com.
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After mo,·mg from Texa:, Tom \\'ar­
ren '' a nurrne tr,herre' manager wrth the 'a-
� B )
FAL�
1 9 q 9
tiona! Marine Fishery Service in Gloucester,
Mass. His wife, Pamela, is a registered nurse, and
they have two children, Abigail, 6, and Grant,
4 . . . . Susanna Schneider wrote from "some­
where in China," where she was director of
finance with M annesmann Rexroth Changzhou
Co. Ltd. Susanna returned to the U.S. in Au­
gust, but during her 10 years in China she
learned a new language and how to operate a
company in a multi-cultural environment and
now has a keen eye for evaluating businesses.
he sums up her 1 0-year experience: "What was
I thinking I" . . . After eight long years, says Dave
Worster, he has completed his Ph.D. in English
at the University of orth Carolina at Chapel
Hill. This fall he began a one-year postdoctoral
appointment teaching dramatic literature in
Duke University's drama program. Dave's wife
works at Duke as an executive assistant to one of
the senior vice presidents. They live in Chapel
Hill with their rwo children,Jennie, 7, and John
David, 2 . . . . Ellen E. Smith Sicard is a C.P.A.
in Rehoboth, Mass., and her husband, Chris, is
a precious metals controller. They have two
dogs-Jake, a sharpei-mix, and Teddie, a
beagle . . . . Beth Ellis Tautkus and her hus­
band, Keith, both teachers, have four children:
Jason, 1 1 , Katie, 9, Jenny, 5, and Austin, 3. The
family moved from Virginia to Connecticut in
August of '97 and plan to move into the new
house that Keith is building in Ellington, Conn.
Beth, who is teaching at her old junior high
school with some of the teachers she had when
she was a student, is also in the Air Force
reserves and drills at Fort Devens, Mass. She
sees Sue Kallio every few months, and she and
Co l l e e n P l o u rde Harvey visited D e n i s e
Glennon, her husband and their new daughter,
Lucy . . . Ann Renner Stillwater is a part-time
school nurse, and her husband, J D, is a first-year
high school physic teacher. Chris is 1 3 ; Robin,
8, has finally joined the rest of family-making
them a family ofbookworms. Ann' latest favor­
Ites are Miriam's Kitchen, Tuesdays with Morrie
and My /shame!. Ann declares that her renewed
intere t in health and spirituality probably quali­
fies as a mid-life crisis, but she knows that by
takrng time for these things, she is happier and
more at peace than she has ever been. Ann
would love to hear from John (T.P. ) Jackson,
Mary Jane Bates, Lee Zalinger and anyone else
they all hung out With . . . . Sarah Fox Whalen
1 a physrcran' assistant, and her husband, Rob,
r a boat burlder. They have two children,
Hannah, 5, and J 1mmy, 3. arah reports that life
r> good and contentment r h1gh.
he often see
Ellen Huebsch Anderson and her family.
Ann kinner Rider 1 a children's book editor
and senror eJ1tor at Houghton Mrfll m-Jed
antoro\ company, too. Ann and her husband,
Thoma , ha,·e twochrldren, Molly, 6, and hns­
topher, . . . . Richard Robinson sent a qurck
note hefore lea' mg for a brkrng trrp through
l t�h . RILhard " a '>enror VP wrth Real Estate
Im·e,tmenr,, and h" w1fe, Hilary, " a retarl
huyer. They ha,·e two grrb, arah, 9, and Blarr,
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7 , and a cocker spaniel, Madison, 5 . They re­
cently moved to a new home in Concord, Mass.,
to accommodate their expanding family-they
are expecting another baby . . . . Diane Zavotsky
has been busy as chief-of-staff at Upper Con­
necticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, N.H.,
where she is finishing a two-year term as a family
physician. Her husband, Daniel McClenahan,
is a nurse anesthetist. Diane had fun this past
winter teaching Tess, 4, to ski. Hayley is
7 . . . . Carolyn Treat is in her sixth year a an
art therapy teacher and residential coun elor
with Shalom House, Inc. of Portland, Maine, an
agency supporting individuals with mental ill­
ness. This past April, Carolyn, who is also a
sculptor, organized an exhibition at the Danforth
Gallery in Portland featuring artwork from more
than 40 clients, most of whom she had worked
with at Shalom House . . . . J u lanne C u l l y
Wright is fiscal administrator with New En­
gland Tech in Warwick, R.I. Her husband, Bill,
is a consultant for State Street Bank, and they
have two boys, Conor, 7, and Aidan, 3 . . . . Cathy
Leonard Swain is a Spanish and French teacher
at the college and high school level. Her hus­
band, Stuart '83, is a math professor. They live
in Jonesboro, Maine, with their children, jacob,
1 1 , and Gretchen, 7, a golden retriever and two
cats . . . . Bill Storey and wife Cheryl had a son,
Walker Charles Storey, on February 26, 1 999.
-Mimi H. Rasmussen
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Steve Rowse reminds us to buy Very­
fine juices constantly, wherever we go. As VP of
foodservice and vending sales for Veryfine Prod­
ucts, Inc., he's hoping that our increased con­
sumption of the juices will increase his children's
chances of going to Colby! Steve says he and
Anne Marie, who live in Harvard, Mass., with
daughters Hilla:ry, Rebecca and Sarah, see Nick
Silitch and his wife, Regina, in New Hampshire
a lot in summer. Nick is currently SVP of investor
relations with the Bank of New York and lives in
the West Village of ew York. Steve also stays
connected wid< Jamie Town, who is on the road
a lot for Rugby, a London-ba ed building prod­
ucts distribution company that bought Winter
Corp., the company Jamie has been wirh for more
than 10 years. J amie and Ann have a on and
daughter, Dylan and assidy. Steve asks, "Where's
Ellen Mcintire?" . . . Sonya Thompsen wrote
from Redondo Beach, Calif., where she i newly
married to J eff Halsey. Both work for New Line
Cinema, onya as senior VP of business affairs
and Jeff as director of post production. In their
pare time, they've been working on a house they
bought to fix up . . . . Becky Crook Rogers, an
independent rep for Excel Communications, and
her family have adjusted well to life in Salt Lake
ity, Utah, and planned to camp a lor on week­
ends and to visit Alaska this summer. . . . Nancy
Simm 1 director of long-term care insurance at
Ward Financial Group in Avon, Conn. She
sound great and ha enjoyed the outdoor , hik­
rng, rock clunbing, camping, kiing, and golfing.
he's heen in touch with Karen Purcell, Karen
-\ L t.: . l ).. l
Foster Palmer, Margaret Gardiner, Lindy Lowell
Birse and others, and she wants to know where to
find Lee-Anne Famolare and Peggy Hessler
Moore. For a few years, Peggy I ived in my area of
the world near Ellsworth or Surry, Maine, but her
family moved. Peggy, you need to write or e-mad
me. You, too, Lee-Anne. In fact, I'd like to have
you all e-mail me a quick hello, complete with
your correct/preferred e-mail address to which I
could send a note now and then . . . . I heard from
Maria J obin-L ee ds , whose family has just moved
into a newly renovated house in ambridge,
Ma s. Maria's consulting is "in a nice phase now,"
she says. She' got an interesti ng HIV -preven­
tion job in three central African countries. It's all
research and recommendation done from Ma sa­
chu ett -no travel to Africa. . . . Also in Massa­
chusetts is Debbie Bombaci Pappas and her
hu band and son. he had just een tephen
King's Storm of the entury, which was filmed on
location in outhwest Harbor, Maine, minutes
from my h me. Deb had also just read about
Linda Greenlaw's part in The Perfect S torm in the
Chronicle and in Colby magazine. Deb's comment
about Linda: "What an amazing woman ! " Look
for Linda's new book, The Hungry Ocean , A
wordboat Captain's]oumey . . . . Kelly Dodge has
become assistant director of annual giving at
Colby. I 've met with Kelly and with Dave Beers
'85, who is director of giving. You may get calls
from me as class agent, so please take it easy on me
and j ust whip out your checkbooks the first time
around. Let's show we can all participate to bring
our numbers of givers and gifts upward. We will
continue to need helpers, and if any ofyou would
help, l would appreciate more e-mail in this vein!
It was great to talk with everyone whom l may
have called . . . . Duncan Gibson wrote from
Rochester, N . H . , where he works for Business
Express Airlines. Business Express was bought by
American Eagle, but he hopes to stay in ew
England. He has enjoyed being more and more
active in the arts and has been a big supporter of
the olby museum and the Cape (Cod) Mu eum
of Fine Art . . . . Joni and Tom W i l lia m s are in
Holbrook, Ma'S. Tom is a physician's assistant
and an educational coordinator in the orth­
eastern Univer ity P.A. program, and Joni is a
graphic designer . . . . Kevin and Karen Nickerson
Purcell have been on ape od for about two
years. Kevin is doing hospitality consulting whde
Karen is home with their two children . . . . l had
a quick chat with Grace Reef one evenmg 111
June. Her three children were busy, and Grace
sounds super, as always. he is director of 111ter­
gm·ernmental relations for the hildren's De­
fense Fund in \' ashington, D. . . . . l encouraoe
ever ·one to connnue to send m the questiOn·
naires and write a little hello each wne. \'\1e'll all
remember these when we're 111 our sen1or yean..
Thanks, and my ver best to e\·eryone.
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aJl,. Lot t'gren � !t:rchme
Please contacr me 1f you \\'.U1t an e­
mail address for any classmates. Recenth·, e,·.
eryone seems to send news \"Ia e-m:lll-wh1 ch
has been great' . . . am taley was promoted to
deputy d1rector of Rea on Public Policy In tl·
tute and now over�ee the production of more
than SO ;rud1e; and repom publi�hed h the
thmk tank m a f1>cal year. He cnntmues to
d1rect the Urban Future'> Program for RPPI . He
sui! lives 111 Ohw and contnbutes penod1c ar­
ticle to the Dayton Dally eu· a' a member of
Its board of community contributor,. He say
th1 mean that he gets to pontificate one or two
times a month on urban policy Issue-. m Dayton
and Ohw! . . . Leon Buck I'> an attorne� m
Wa hington, D.C., where he has been hvmg
since graduatmg from lloward Umverslty Law
chool 1 0 years ago. For the past two year , Leon
was ch1ef of staff/legislative director for on·
gre swoman heila Jackson Lee from Houston,
Texas. He also worked on the Clmton l mpeach­
ment proceeding Ia t year. ince February 1 999
he ha been an attorney for the Hou;e J ud1C 1ary
ommittee and wa named the m1nonry coun·
sel for the Immigration and Claim ubcommlt·
tee. Leon i married to Munel Evan -Buck, who
is director of development at the Close-Up
Foundation, and they are both active m Demo­
cratic Party politics. Leon keep in touch w1th
Veda Robinson, Patricia Shelton, Sheryl Battit,
Todd Robinson '85, a phy ician for the .S.
Navy, and Dr. Roma Vasa Rothman ' 7 , a
'psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins UniverSity m Bal­
timore, Md. Recently, Leon accepted an ap·
pointment a a Colby overseer. . . . In January
'99, Donna Altenpohl (aka Dino) and husband
Bill Deasey had a daughter, M 1chelle Bradley,
who join her brothers, Will, 6, and Zachary, 4.
Dino still works for CIG A Healthcare as di­
rector, business development, and ays every·
thing is hectic but wonderful. She 1s sorry she
missed the reunion but expected to ee Carol
Hildebrand, Sue Chase Downs, Dawn Lepanto
Taylor and Laura Mahoney McGovern ' 8 � at
the end of J une . . . . Karin McCarthy and her
husband, Doug Atkinson, had a baby boy on
January 3 1 . Tucker Dougla wa:, born dunng
half time of the uper Bowl; one of rhe1r docrors
actually came m to announce the score Just as
Tucker wa born' Kann 1s takmg an extended
maternity leave from her position as the direc­
tOr of corporate education at the nl\·er lr\ of
lassachusetts. he started With u � Ia" a little
O\' er a year ago and ha> d1recred the unl\ ·r,lt\\
efforts to coordmate '\"stem-\\ 1de re,pon'e' w
bu,me>> workforce need,. Kann expeueJ w
return to work part tune m J u h anJ I' .11'''
explonng the po, , Ibd l t \" ,,t tarnng her ''" n
busme>,-a gardenmg enterprhe .11med lt
. he l p­
mg the not-,o-ereen-thumbeJ ,,t the \h>rlJ!
They ,nll [i,·e m � larblehead .mJ ,hare rhe1r
,eas1de ott age '' 1 th b.1 h T u d .e r, J J,,!:! .mJ t\\ O
car-. . .
ally Lee repL>rteJ th.H )Ur d.1 " m h
had .J b,, ur
peL)ple at reunll'n b u t rh lt the
1 Sth attenJ.mce I' u,u,1 lh lc"' due tL> I J m t l ie
and Yl'ung kiJ,_ .::: h e -:uJ It ''a, t u n w !:!d t
knl1\\ 'l'me cl.l"m.l te' better \\ nhL>Ut the h _
cwwJ S.1 lh \\ ,, , a-cepteJ .u an .Ut
lc m ,
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month of Augu,t. he also recently returned to
Bermuda tor 'orne ln'l'lrHwn, pamt lng and
relax·Jtlon . . . Paul Arthu r , a teacher linng m
1\.obleboro, �l.1 1ne, h.1 fm1 hed h1' Ph.D m
phdo,orh� Paul 1' also mvoh-ed <n th canoe
racmg on both wh1te " ater and fl.n. Th1' 'urn­
mer he planned a 1 .4 5 -mde sea ka\nk tnp from
Burlmgton, Vt , to :-.. t .mhattnn ' 1.1 the , t .
Lawrence R l\·er,
orthumberl.mJ 'trait ,md
cna'>t of 1ew England
. Tom · 2 anJ \'i k i
ro u c h ley Dougherty are livmg m Roger,, A r k ,
with Megan Katharme, 9, .m J A lexandra Le1gh ,
4. V1ck1 I'> a m e mbe r of the jun lt>r Aux d t.lt\ ,
whose pnmary focus 1' bettenng the li,·es of
women and c h ddren m neeJ 'he al,o 'erve' t>n
the PTA as an execut l < e bl>arJ member .mJ a
ha1r of the art'. program \' 1ckl I' 1 l'o actl\· e m
her church-teachmg relig1nu' eJLIC lt lon .md
workmg at the hdJren\ enter-anJ 1 J
leader for the G1rl cout . he cont mues w rl.w
tenm; on a
. . Tenn1s A"ncl<Hton le,J gue
team at their country club. V1ckl anJ To m 'ull
ki m Colorado for a pnng break e\·en· vear!
They also vt,lt
ew EnglanJ annual!) m the
ummer. . . . Erick Piper hao JOmed ecumy :-.. t u­
tual L1fe ebraoka a nce pre, Ide nt o f the work.1te
market> diVISion . . . . Kenn tarr ' 5 wa,appomted
to the posmon of chieffmancial off1cer dt M dlen·
mum Pharmaceutical , Inc . He recel\·eJ a m.hter\
degree m corporate finance fwm Bo,ton
College . . . . Thank> for 'endmg m Item' for the
column all the e years' Hore all 1 well!
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Jacque I me Tjon 1eu" ;mJ Brian M rin
VISited Pam, France anJ HollanJ. They are pwuJ
godparent-' to abnela Languet. . . John ollins
wntes of h1 Jaughter, A h "a , m h1' weekh col­
umn, "! learned there I' a k>cJl 'K1ds' ollege he!J
on aturday at Thoma :-.. toore ol lege m
Memmack for 'g1hed anJ talenteJ' chdJren age'
4 to 1 4. Featunng small hand ·tm cl.t"e' With
mles like 'What\ 'r O..x. '' .mJ 'Nr...-..J lc he.JJ
tone,' and 'Ft "1ls: Fact' .mJ Fun ' Ah· '·1 1' onh
2, and I'm womeJ al:x>ut her bemg l, ,._.. he <'11 .1
collegecampU>. You see, ,he\.t hn!.!CJuiCednnker."
. . . Bruce Hickey h.b been n.tmeJ l ne ot live ne\\
partners at D.1v, Bem H,m trJ LL P tht b.r!_!c t
Eli:.abeth Edd)
Ia" fmn m <'11ne<.:rllut .
Griffin ha, J<>meJ P1ct<.:e An,,x-..J 1- m Hh>tne\ m
the \\ <>rkers' C<>mpen' 1t11>n ;.!t<>up
Tim a l e
LrLh'eJ p.uh' With Paul B ums m
n.1J 1 " h1lc
n.x.k L llmbm!.! m Bu!_!.Jl:xx> Pr<>\ ll1L l ll P 1rk nd had
,l '"l,tl">ulou' mJ JJ\ enrur• ' \\ ec
\\ lth rerteL.t
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rJ of tru, tee, juha h
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m,trudL>r at EnJ t.: >tt
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at Tult, l.Jnl\ e N t\ .
hn tine Peter en n
R�bert
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Brennan and his wife, Sylvia, who
free to call or write to me if you're
bought a new house in Alexandria,
N EWS MAKERS
interested in volunteering for the position and would like more informa­
Va., this spring and celebrated their
G oode
tion about what is involved . . . . Marcie
In May, Andrew T.
'80 was
l Oth anniversary this summer. . . . A
Campbell McHale has been incred­
named director of the Atlantic Salmon
big welcome to Y ana Tudek, born in
ibly busy with twins, Sam and Claire,
Federation's U.S. programs. Goode, for­
January to J ' Amy Allen and Bob
1 , and Madeline, 4. It has been an
merly with The N ature Conservancy
Tudek. She joins sister A ylee, 3. They
ama.:ing year for Marcie-"incredibly
and The Orvis Co., works in Brunswick,
live in Bristol, Vt . . . . Another big
busy and fun1 " She is working part
Maine . . . . Anthony Perkins '82 of
welcome goes to Molly Rains, also
time at home but has found it difficult
Gorham, Maine, was named senior
born in January, to Doug and Joyce
to get much work done. She says, "I
technology, computer and e-commerce
Seymour Rains. They live in Turner,
will probably put career plans on hold
attorney at the Portland firm of
Maine . . . . A big high five to Anne
until my children are older. I am en­
Bernstein Shur when the firm an­
Butter for herpromotion to director of
joying time at home with them."
. . . Vera Hoffman Obeso has three
Anthony Perkins '82
nounced in J u ly the creat ion of
quality assurance for the Foreside Co.
TechVentures Group, a consulting
She lives in Freeport, Maine, and trav­
children ( ages 3 , 5, 6-1/2 ), four goats,
affiliate . . . . Elizabeth S. Ketcham '83 became director of develop­
els frequently to India on busi­
7 5 chickens, one cat, three
ment for the Baltimore Museum of Art last year. She oversees
ness . . . . A big welcome back to Peter
dog and one runle, and she's looking
membership, annual giving, corporate relations and special events
Coley, who survived a month-long
for llamas! Vera planned to travel to
for the museum . . . . In June James R. Gaudette '84 joined The
trip to Kamchatka, Russia, where he
eattle in May, drive up the Alcan
Onstott Group, a Boston-based executive search firm, as an execu­
tagged sea-run trout and salmon with
and stan work on 1 60 acres of raw
tive search consultant . . . . Jim King '85 recently was named news
an environmental team. When not
fending offgrizzly bears in the Ru ian
two sheep,
land. Vera and her husband, Greg,
anchor at WPRI- TV, channel 1 2 , the CBS affiliate in Providence,
plan to start a sustainable/organic farm
R . I . . . . Melinda Pittis '89, a teacher at the Lexington School for
rundra, Peter is vice president at Pru­
and a community-supported agricul­
the Deaf in Jackson Heights, N .Y . , was awarded a summer research
dential Securities in Boston . . . . A big
ture (CSA) unit using draft-horse
fellowship by the American Physiological Association.
power and a solar-wind hybrid energy
M I LESTO N ES
ystem. They are located between the
Alaska Range and the Chugach Range,
with 360-degree "awesome" mountain
thank-you from the Home Depot in
Melrose, Mass., where Kevin andJoyce
Sutton Anderson continue to pour
Marriages: Elizabeth S. Ketcham '83 to Clement G. Cizewski I I I
vtews . . . . Fred and Kristin Hazlitt
i n Wayne, Pa . . . . Ned Case '87 t o N ancy Lawrence i n Wrightsville
Wickham just "finished the construc­
tion of a new house overlooking en­
eca Lake in upstate New York. We did
Brewster, Mass . . . . R . David Genovese IV '89 to Julia R. Ix in
most of the design ourselves. We are
enJOymg having no neighbors but deer,
turkey and rabbits and having family
nearby." . . . Ttm and Beth Towle
Locke announce the birth of their first
chtld, Edward Everert (Teddy} Locke,
born May 1 5 , 1 99 . . . . My family j ust
spent our first mght in our newly pur­
chased home mOakland,Calif. l apolo­
gt:e for the
econd address change
dunng my term as class correspondent,
but we are cenamly exctted and a little
overwhelmed. mcettsoundsas ifmany
of our clas:.mates are JOLn mg the ranks
of homeowners, how about you veter­
Beach, N.C. . . . Leonard C. Sciarra '88 to Gerri L. Lasch in
Greenwich, N.Y.
Kelly Burke Corwen '83 . . . . A son, Paul Richard Ramsey, to
David and Tracy Sotir Ramsey '84 . . . . Twins, Curtis William
Grellier and Elizabeth Winslow Grellier, to Rick and Alison Cox
Grellier '85 . . . . A daughter, Alexis Katerina Kotsiopoulos, to
Arty and Monique Reed Kotsiopoulos '86 . . . . A son, Quin
Peters, to Brian and Linda Michaud Peters '86 . . . . A daughter,
Merritt Bussell Davie, to John '88 and Kristin Hock Davie
'90 . . . . A son, Peter James Koenigsbauer, to Anita and Kirk
Koenigsbauer '89.
Deaths: Scott Croll '86, May 2 , 1 999, near Juneau, Alaska, at
34 . . . . Peter B. Murphy '87, July 1 0, 1 999, in Rangeley Planta­
tion, Maine, at 34.
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l 've got lot>ofbtg rufftocoverhere, folks,
pa\ attennon now. Fu'\t, l owe a btg apology ro
Pete r Taubkin, who I '>Ort of miSrepre»ented m the
'pnng �,ue. Peter love; ht> JOb a> \'ICe president of
gcwernment relanom and public affau> for Ttme
from Lindsay, 8, and James, 6. . . . A big
invitation to those interested in nursefinishing up her degree as a nurse mid­
wife and would love to talk to inter­
ested cla mates about it. She and her
husband, Brian Clark '85, live with
their three daughters, Taylor, 6, Kaelen,
4, and Madison, 2, in Essex Junction,
Vt., and were expecting their fourth
child in August. . . . A big salute to Jim
Campbell, who has returned to active
duty with the Maine Army National
Guard while also finishing a Ph.D. in
military history at UMO. He and his
wife, Judy Richards Campbell, live in
Bangor with theirchildren, Catherine,
I I, Margaret, 8, and James Jr., 6. . . . A
ans ;,enJmg a few handyman nps1 I'll
-Barbara Knox Autran
into renovating their historic Victo­
rian house. The�· get help, no doubt,
midwifery. Kristen Feifert Clark is
Births: A daughter, Meghan Kathleen Corwen, to Robert and
pnnt them m my next colurrm.
their "hearts, souls and bank accounts"
big hello to Jill Myerow Blinderman,
he and his wife, Keiko, plan to be drinking [n Bali on
who found time to e-mail me despite her busy life in
New Year's Eve '99. And in case that isn't cool
Fairfield, Conn., with her husband and two kids,
enough for you, Gio also wins hands-down in the
Ryan, 8, and Tyler, 4. Jill works for Professional
"dream JOb" category. He lives in Tokyo, where he
Detailing Network, which provides sales personnel
ts
a film cnnc for the ]apan Times, moonlights as a
to pharmaceutical companies. Remember our days
ful career as
as R.A.'s in West Quad, Jill? . . . And finally, a big
OJ m Tokyo clubs and also has a succe
a mustctan . . . . I'm sending a big "I hear ya" to Geoff
reminder to all of you to complete and mail the
pre.ented With the 1 999 Bra,·eheart AwarJ from
Alexander, who IS remmded almo t daily that he is
"not the carefree 20-somethmg that [he] used to
be." Geoff and hts wtfe, L111dsay Carroll Alexander
me your news, since you won't receive a separate
� 1tm,tne.' fur People \\'tth AID 111 recog­
' 7, live 111 Cape Ehzabeth, Mame, with their sons,
to say in our carefree 20s, it's "no biggie" } . That way
nmun ofhL' ompany' worbn th the AID Coun­
Cil of , orthea,tern . . Y. Although life keep htm
bus\ . Peter glaJly fmJ> nme w be wtth ht> wtfe,
tober 27, 1 99 . .
Kathv. and 'on, atl1an, born
Will, 5, and Curtts, 2. Geoffworks as an mvesrment
I'll have even bigger stuff to report next time.
Warner Cable m Albany, ' .Y. In June he wa>
�upport
. . I owe a btg thanh to Giovanni Fa=io for tellmg
me what "arak" L ( Bahne.e nee " me) That'> what
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questionnaire included in this magazine, or e-mail
mailing. Come on, it's not that hard (or as we used
ad\'t'>Or wtth a Portland ftrm . . . . A btg congrarula­
nom to Thomas Blair, who got mamed
m Augu
t
to Mtchelle Casey. He work> m fixed 111come capt­
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Lisa Schreck Bolton and husband Saul,
ew
a chef, are opening a restaurant ( fine dining} in
. More btg congratulanom to Stephen
Brook lyn, fu lfilling a goal they set when they
tal market> for Bear
York.
& Company m
-Wendy Lapham Russ
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met. ( Lisa, send us the name and location . )
They have two boys-M iles, 4 , and T h o, 1 .
L isa wants her x-country team member to
know that she' still running as slow and steady
as ever and would love to hear from them. he
ees C h r i B re na - Cofs k y , who now ha three
c h ildren and is a great mom 1 . . . Nancy and ed
Case had a beautiful, barefoot, beachside wed­
d i ng in Wrightsville Beach, N. . The beach
was temporarily clo ed for their ceremony, which
was attended by Natasha and Brian Low, J o y
Pratt, onnie and Ken Vopni and Karen and
Tim Hennessey. Afterwards, Ned and Nancy
went off to Costa Rica for their honeymoon . . . .
I n J une, Katie and Eric Green welcomed a g1rl,
Annie, who joins her 2-year-old i ter, ell. . . .
Tony and Pam Blanchard Harrington moved
back to an Franci co after a short return to the
East oast. Tony was rei cated . . . . Tina Zabriski
Constable say l ife is grand with pencer, wh
arrived last August. She' back at work, which
makes the juggling act all the more interesting.
he and husband Rob have enjoyed getting
involved in their community of Pelham, N .Y . ,
where Tina is o n the board o f t h e Newcomers
Group. he also has joined the J unior League
and helped orche trate a lively Valentine's Day
party for 1 00 wheelchair-bound senior c i tizens!
. . . M ichael and S ta c y Mathews Bushey have
two chi ldren, Mathew, 3, and Audrey Rose,
born Ia t March. They live in M ilford, Ma
Joe and Helen M u i r M i l b y are the proud parents
of arah, 2. Helen says her job as director of
development � r a poli t ical group on Capitol
Hill seem a lot easier than trying to keep up
with arah! Helen had a great time catching up
with other alums last May for Kathleen and Tim
O ' Donnell's wedding in the Washington area.
Marianne MacDonald Wessman ( who wa ex­
pecting twin in eptember-ch i ldren ><3 and
#4 ) , Tom Hubbard, Tim Bonang ( engaged)
and cotty Hunter were amongst the group
who attended . . . . Ben Diebold continue his
tudies and travel . He is gearing up for another
field ea on in Turkey, excavati ng a large
neolithic town near Antakya ( Ant ioch ) , which
is h is di serration research. "I t's a n ice change
from digging in yria, though I enjoyed that
al- ," he write . He expected co be back 1 11 ew
Haven in ctober and welcomes visit rs . . . .
Paul and Leslie C h i n B urke write that "Paul
opened up his own law firm Ia t year in
Andover, where we recently bou ht a house.
\ e celebrated our second anniversary by spend­
ing two weeks travel ing throughout Thadand.
And we're the new parents oi a son, L1am
Thoma-, born m J une." . . . Hannah Howland
J udson had a son, Turner, last February and >ays
he's been great. Hannah has happdy qu1t her JOb
as a graphic designer and IS teachmo art and
de-ign part t ime at a small olleoe m h 1cago.
"I'm home as much as poss1ble," she say>, "but
m · husband and I are snll findmg nme w pamt
and ior our band-. L iie IS gocxi ! " . . . \\ ilia obb
and "a mar\'elous man [she] met at work," Fred
!ercer, were married m !arch and are hapr1h·
ltvmg on I:.astern Prom m Portland, lame,
where Wdla IS a freelance graph1c artl t . he
moved from .Y. . and m1"e the h1g City' . .
Heather Anderson
h ristensen ran her f1r t
marathon last January at D1 ney World .�� part
of the Leukem1a Team 111 Tram111g; she 'ron­
sored a lmle g1rl with leukem1a and rm;eJ 4,
he was look111g forward to another race hut a�
he's pregnant It'll have to wal t ! . . . J i m ull ivan
contnbuted the follow111g tnbute. "After a hoat1 11g accident J uly 1 0, Peter Murphy drowned 111
Moo elookmegunnc Lake. Long hefore the lake
waters cla1med h1m at 34, Murph had already
figured out that the be t way to lead ltfe wa to
live as 1f the next Jay would be h 1s la;r. That wa;
h1s gen1u . He ltved 111 the pre;ent teme, ex­
ploiting every moment. He wa bn ll tant w1th
laughter, better at l t than anybody. Remember
the z1g-zagg111g grace he brought to olby'
rugby field and how he made a ballet tage out of
the mogul fields at ugarloaf. Remember the
way he u ed to conduct our evenmg from a
turntable, playing the anthems from Peter
Gabriel and U2 that would et us oanng. Re­
member that he' one of the few people you'll
ever know who wa truly lit from with111 , and
that so many of us will be haunted by the echoe
of all that laughter until we do what he' done
too soon already."
-Jane real Manuel
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Our l Oth was a rousing success, with
more than 1 7 5 ' 9ers mak111g the tnp to May­
flower Hill. I t wa the best-attended reumon 111
olby's h istory. Unfortunately, I can't It t every
member of our class who wa there, but I'll
continue to wnte about reumon 111 upcom111g
columns. ( A lso, don't forget to send 111 the
handy que t ionnaire m th1s 1ssue to keep me up
to date . ) Jenn ifer Joseph helped k1ck off the
weekend by providing "mixers" for Fnday's
crowded cocktad party. Among those at the
party: Bill Carr, who w1th the help of Kirk
Koenigsbauer ( and a mean goatee) got a JOb at
Amazon.com and moved to eattle 111 July;
Melissa Early Ruwitch and M'evie Mead, out
from t. Lou1 ; ancy pellman and husband
Paul; usan cott tu ker and husband Fred. I
thought J ulia Lewis Peter on arne a long way
for the weekend, but Pam \ oolle · made the
JOurne from rear Bnra111. Althoug
leg
C h r i s t i e couldn't make I t up from Pc)rtl.tnd,
we had a reun iOn lunch there on Fnda\ " 1 th
Demet r,t 1aras
, T rac G i onfr iddo and
Kev in P l u mmer. Doug H a l l '9 kept Fr1d,ty\
part\ gomg w1rh a keg on Runnals H d l . at
whrch J i m o n n o l h· ' s \\ ,I s t he cmh serwus
l n J UT\ rero r r e d . - a t urd.w ' s c l ,t s s p.tr.t de
brought out mcbt c)t u s , s,)me l0c)kmg n\l)re
t i red t h a n o t h e r s . T h a n k - t<) )l l a r g a r e t
hri
H a r t n e t t , \\ h e) h e l red m e ( 111 .J
Tom p k i n .1nd B i l l B u l l c k am ,m g c)[hers )
ur c l.tss t d l.:d the
-arn the c lass b.m ner
>t.l l rs fcH the c l.tss r�<.tUrt!, ffi l i1Us, unt:-ortu­
llJtel\ , L v n n ulli,-an \ j,,g : me ' t us, h e
Dan Brandeis .md Dan Whitin , ·arne m h t r
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left to
the lob,ter ( Dan \J . and Ken ve
meet John Gi rard 111 Portland on �aturday af­
ternoon ) The iood at .nurdav mght\ d111ner
\\il n't the til trest or the most rlentlful, but a
good time '' a had by all John Re ·nolds and
hri Tremain were dragged w the rartv bv
Mark o don ( who rent the rast ve.tr tea h 1 11g
at olby) Beth raver and Doug t. La'' renee
cut qu1te ,1 rug. Mark Demian ,mJ J eff Ward
enJoyed the fact th.Jt the �eer w 1 n't Bu r.:h
Lara Beet ham Mona ch e\ entually cwerc,tme
her gudt at lea\ 111g her son 111 d.w c 1re md
enJoyed her elf Ed ' and J enn ifer Pier e Barr
headed up the ew York contingent, " h 1ch
111cluJeJ ue Bratone hilds, Brenden ahill
and R ie Ahkami, among other B..) th Ruth
Bender and Paul Beach m.1de lt all the w .ty t rn m
.F. And what would a c ia" column he w 1tl11>Ut
a baby report 1 B..)[h amilla Johan son be P
and Beth Robbins Tango h,tve perleued the
glow of pregnane · . Don't forger to let me kno''
when the lmle ones arnve. pe.1k111g oi prcg­
nancre;, Trip and Heidi Lombard J hnson .m­
nounceJ the 1mmment arnval ot b.th� ><3 Hilar ·
( Barnes) and Rob Ho pe� had rhe1r ador,tble
tw111s along, and Aimee Momenee imon
brought baby A lexanJer but had to le n·e ndy
at home 111 Phdly. Jeff T rae · had to be the
proudest father I've ever 'een. DavrJ '90 ,md
Diane Pearce Kew bro ught rhe1r lmle bov f,,r the
afternoon; b� the time thr 1 pubh heJ, they'll
have one more. n a final note, h ns Tompk111 ,
Chri Tierney and I were rem1ss 111 not rhank111g
cia> Web page guru Ane te F tiade I t wu
ha,·e acce<,; to the Web, check out our great p,tgc,
all due to Anesre,' hard work.
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The Ia s o f 1 99L wei omes a whole
crew of ne\\ k1ddm. M i k e and Deb Wood
O'Loughlin had a baby boy, onnor . !akolm,
on Apnl 24, 1 999. ( De b n�roed . ! rke 1m the
comb111atmn of earn us Angus . . . or '' .I s l t w be
Angus, eamus�). They'rt! 111 onnectlCut, '' here
! rke 1s compler111g h1' rt! 1dcnc\ 111 r td!olog\ ,
bur wdl mo"e next year w Rcx hc rer, ! 111n.,
where )1! 1ke wdl hegll1 ·1 td lowshlr It the . !.1\'o
lm1c
. Dand 1nd Erica H ffmei ter upple
h.td a baby g1rl, Delane\ , 111 Dt!ccmber The\
sttll hve 111 Brun"' �ek, )Ib111e, " h •rc D.l\'e \H>rk
at the • '.t\ al Arr -t.ltH>n.
rah Ha, ne
Rei II · and her hu,h.md. R,1b, h .w c 1 m R, f,h1e,
I Thedl\ e 111 . \�'' York ' m , " hen: .u l u 1
n e e rresdent wnh A' at, r :\
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her husband, Jonathan, rra1·eled ro Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, to adopt a six-month old son, ate
Vireak Augusto. Kerri writes, "It was an ama:ing
adventure that left us feeling the deepest re pect
for the people of this war-rom country and deep­
est love to this little boy who has become the
center of our universe." Kerri has recently seen
Karen CuiffoBookerand herdauohter, Lindsay,
and has heard from Kerri deForest Jarosz, who is
li1·ing m Waten·ille and working as a reading
pecialist in a public elementary school. Kerri
and her husband, James '90, keep busy renovat­
ing old house and caring for their rwo dogs and
a cat. . . . John Hayworth and his wife, Martha,
had a baby girl, Margaret Manning Hayworth, on
Apnl 20, 1 999. Her godfather is Chip Smith . . . .
te1·e ' 9 and Karen Faunce Rand recently moved
to Jericho, Vt., where Steve is a district manager
with Hannaford Brothers and Karen is a full-time
mother ro Mitchell, 3, and a baby due in
July . . . . Stefan and Lisa Ensign Timbrel! ex­
pected thetr first child in June. They are living in
ew Hampshire, where Stefan works as a real
e tate broker and Lisa plans to be a stay-at-home
mom for the fir t year. . . . On the wedding and
engagement front, I have heard that Tom Whelan
IS engaged to Julie Ann Gordeau of Wenham,
Mass. Julte Ann received her master's from Lesley
College and teaches elementary school in
Freeport, Maine, and Tom is an a sistant vice
prestdent at Bath avings Institution, al o in
Freeport. They planned a July 1 999 wedding.
. . . James Clifford married Gwen C. Allen in
December m Portland, Maine. They will live in
Falmouth, Mame, whtle Gwen complete her
work at the nmh College School of Social
Work. James works at the law firrn of Bernstein
hur awyer & el on . . . . Scott Perley mi­
grated from Washmgton, D.C., to Los Angeles
last fall to pur ue a master's degree in urban
plannmg at UCLA. H t tudte focus on
'u tamabtltry, prawl and transportation i ues
related to destgn of more funcuonal and livable
cttte,. He 'a\'' he recently ran mto Chris Taylor,
who h abo at UCLA m hts second year of law
,chool And he has heard from Dave Coleman,
w ho ha' \\ andered out to the Bay area and ts
hu"lv de1 elopmg '\orne useful ptece of the
Internet." con 'aY' he ts "enJOytng the warm
cit me' of Lth Angele,." . . Christina Wright IS
m . 'e\\ ) ork ·n\ workmg as a food \\Ttter. Her
recent collahor:mon wtth Jacque Torre , the
p.l,tr\ chef at Lc Ctrcque, De serr Circus ar
Hom�, h a , he en puhlt,hed ro rave re1·1ews (check
1t our on Am:1:nn.com ! ) he loob forward ro
co-producmQ rhe rhtrd de"err-cookmg ,how
and h<><lk m rhe 'ene'
Kristina Wemple
olden lt1·e, m !1.1t. Llllrel. , J , and t> wo rk mg
'h a re,c m:h a '<><=tare tor rhe . 'ammal &1ard of
�1edtc. l hammer'. Her hu,hanJ, John, 1' a
cott
L apr.l tn \\ Hh rhe C . · . Atr Force
ulli,·an :md h t ' w tit:, Da1\ n, are lt1 mg m Bn,rol,
Conn , 11 here �nm reccnth- JOmcd LHchftcld
Hd[, Orrhoped tc A"<X tate' m Ttlrnngwn .md
Margaret
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bridge and spent the past year doing research in
a cardiac transplant lab at Massachusetts Gen­
eral Hospital. This fall, she will return to the
clinical side of the hospital to complete the final
two years of her surgical residency.
-Laura Senier
92
Becky Graham e-mailed to say she is
in Boston and still working in TV and film. Her
last exciting project was working on Jeopard) "
when it came ro town. She al o wrote with lots
of news. Jenn Pelson Hopkins has been living
with her new husband, Pat ( Bowdoin '92 ), in
Singapore for the last year, teaching fourth
graders at an American school. Jenn and Pat
were to be back in Maine in J uly for the big
wedding they didn't ha·Je before leaving for
Japan. J en Greenleaf is engaged to someone she
met while working at Reebok. They were to get
married at the Colby chapel in August before
moving to Germany, where )en's fiance j ust got
a job with Adidas. ancy Putnam Bentley and
her husband, Chris, j ust became the proud par­
ents of Meghan Margaret Bently in March.
Sarah Hamilton Barringer is living in London
with her husband, Scott, and loves her job
teaching grade school. Sarah and Scott just
came back from a safari in Africa. )en Kosek
Walker is living in Pennsylvania and getting
ready to move into a new house with husband
Matt and 2-year-old son Zack. And Elizabeth
Kowal is finishing her last semester at North­
eastern Law and will graduate this May . . . . Tom
Powers was engaged to Moira Monteith and
was planning a September wedding on Long
Island. Tom is currently an analyst at a Manhat­
tan law firm, and Moira is training to be a flight
attendant. . . . John Brockelman was named
executive director of the Massachusetts state
GOP. According to an article in the Worcester
Telegram & Gazette, his first priority will be ro
recruit candidates for the state election in the
year 2000 . . . . Jennifer McLeod got married on
May 29 in Maine to Robert Finch. They're
livmg in the Boston area, where Jen is the
assi rant director of communications/electronic
publishing ystems at Bentley College . . . . Laura
Weymouth-Horne is living in Portland with
husband Peter and children, Andrew, 2, and
arolme, gomg on l . Laura ays she loves being
a ray-at-home mom . . . . Deborah Fuller writes
from Bo ron, where she is working toward a
master of art at The ew England School of Art
and Destgn. he wa plannmg a July wedding on
Martha's Vmeyanl to Edward Berger, a software
engmeer . . . . Felicia Gefvert-Montezemolo 1
workmg roward her M.B.A. at tanford and
expects to graduate m June 2000. Felicia is
lt\'lng m Palo Alto wlth husband Lorenzo, a
nemork engmeer, and see Katie Martin fatrly
often. Kaue 1 workmg m rhe area at un
!1.1 tcro,y>tem . . . . J odi Erne t wn tes from
Greensboro, .C , where >he 1 a partner m a
local law ftrm. In her spare ume she\ workmg
on her golf game and cn)oymg her parents'
\. 1L3t ltln home m Hd ton Head . . . . K i m
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Kennedy is living in Sarasota, Fla., where she ts
a physical therapist at an outpatient ortho­
paedic clinic. The November 1 998 edition of
Advance magazine, a trade journal, published
Kim's research on low back pain and irregular
menstrual cycles in female distance runners. . . .
Mark Longsjo reunited with several former
Colby Eight members for Colby Day at Fen way
Park. The group sang the national anthem be­
fore the Red Sox lost to Baltimore, 3 -0.
-Michelle Forcier Biscotti
93
Go you Mules, and whatnot! Greg
Burns, one of the more prolific news submitters
to this column, writes that he flew up to Alaska
recently to visit Ryan Friel, a head guide at
Fishing Bear Camp in the summers; winters he
spends skiing in Montana. Greg says that Ryan
had a ful l-page color picture in an issue of S kiing
magazine Ia t winter! What a stud! Greg is
living in Silicon Valley with his wife, Carrie,
and is doing well at International Data etwork
Services . . . . Sarah Burditt also was recently
out west, visiting Kristen Mobilia and Anny
Mahoney. Kristen just received her M.B.A.,
and Anny recently graduated from architecture
school. Sarah also has news of John Poirier,
who is working in D.C. for Reuters, and of
Gretchen Skea, who just moved to ew Zealand
to continue her biology research . . . . Also in a
land far far away is Sibel Akbay, who is in
London working for the BBC. . . . Back in more
familiar territory is Karen Beauchesne Charette,
who is a senior inventory buyer at L.L. Bean in
Freeport, Maine. She was married last fall, and
Louise Jalbert and Tamiko Davies attended . . . .
Mike Eckel is also in Maine-Bath, to be ex­
act-where he is a staff reporter for the Times
Record. I recently saw M ike at the Central
Square World Fair in Cambridge, Mass., where
he was traipsing around with Emily Muldoon.
Emily finished her first year at RLSD and was
living in Boston for the summer. . . . Also in
Boston is Sasha Galland, who was recently
promoted to marketing associate at the Museum
of cience . . . . Also here in the east are Emilie
Abair Barmashi, who is living with her hus­
band, Alex, in Bethel, Conn., Diane Decker,
who is at Cornell studying veterinary science,
and Vanessa Lloyd Beauchaine, who is a third
grade special ed inclusion teacher in North
Attleboro, Mass., where she lives with her
husband, John, and her two stepchildren . . . .
Katy Donovan has one more year of business
school at Babson and i the a sistant director of
marketing at the Greater Bo ton Chamber of
Commerce. he and Mike O'Neil planned to be
married Ia t August . . . . And in more wedding
new , Kathleen Bartlett married Lt. Christo­
pher chneider in March of 1 999 . . . . Amy
O'Mara married Roger Moore and honey­
mooned in Portugal and Ireland; J ill Moran
Baxter was the matron of honor. . . . Jason
D o r i o n was married to M a rgot
almela
'95 . . . . J u l e Gourdeau is engaged to Tom
Whelan '90 . . . . Karyl Brewster-Geisz and her
A L L . I :S I
husband, Zach Brewster-Geisz '94, were expect­
ing their first child in August. ongratulations
to all. Keep sending in the news!
-Beth
94
urran
Missy Fraser-Gramer, planning trips
to I reland and Cal iforni a this pa t summer,
wrote that Bobby '93 and Kerry Sheehy Ward
were moving to al ifornia when she fi n ished
H a r v a r d ' s b u s i n e s s c hoo l . . . . M a r i k a
Schwartzman completed her fir t year a t Duke,
and Tracy Lars e n , Christy Lynch, Jes ie
Newman and John '93 and Krisy Nordgren
Southall all met up in Breckinridge for a hort
ski trip in March. Krisy works for a vet in
Denver while John is doing hi residency . . . .
Rebekah Freeman got her master's in higher ed
administration from N YU and works as a re i­
dential college director at Washington U. in t.
Louis . . . . Sara Ferry works for American Ex­
press in N.Y.C., and Heather Lounsbury works
in Cambridge. Marile "Bump" Haylon, with an
ad agency in Boston, planned a J uly wedding to
David Borden, and Sara, Heather, Rebekah and
Carolyn Hart were bridesmaids. Carolyn wrote
that after graduating from Boston College with
an M.A. i n h istory, he and Dave O'Shea '93
moved to Ann Arbor, where she began a
Ph . D. program in U . S . women 's history . . . .
O th e rs p l a n n i n g weddi ngs i n c l u d e M a rc
Maclean and Deanna H u ston, a production
manager for Coed Sportswear, who bought a
house in Farmington, N . H . , and a new rott­
weiler puppy named Jake; Rob Diozi and Jenni­
fer H u rd, system manager for ITI New England
Management, who visited D u e Trac in J apan
and saw Meredith Gregory in Bo ton; Erik and
Kathryn " Toddy" P ierce Hobbs, biology
teacher at the Providence ountry Day chool
in R . I . ; and Michael Robinson and E lizabeth
Tabor, who received her master's of l ibrary and
informati n science from Simmons and was
promoted to acqui itions librarian at the Roger
Williams U. School of Law Library ( M ichael is
an attorney in Brockton, Mass. ) . . . Holly
Labbe, of ewport, R . I . , completed her master's
in dance at a e Western Reserve and returned
home to get married and look for a college
tea hing post. . . . Torin '92 and Anika Smith
Ta lor were married in August '9 and live in
Boston. Anika earned an I. . in social work
from olumbia and works at The las achusett
ociety for tbe Prevention of Cruelty to Chil­
dren . . . . Jonathan Kaplan, still work ing 111
onoress and a proud owner of a condo in D. . ,
spends a lot o f time riding and racing hts new
road bike . . . . J ennifer "Jay" Hartshorn, as !S­
tant track and field coach at olbv for the past
three years, attends orad school at - m t t h
ollege . . . . Last spring Heather incola spent
a month in Japan as part of her I. B.A. program
at Babson . . . . J ulie Ackerman, assoetate pro­
ducer for ourt TV's documentary untt, ts earn­
in broadcast J )Uma!tsm
ina her master'- deoree
0
fr m olumbia's raduate chool oi Journal­
ism. J ulie hears from {ichelle atterlee, whc) ts
;
grad u a t t n g fro m a t e ac h m g program a t
Pepperdme nn:er�tt}, and from Ernie Clark,
enJoymg !tfe a the lead ;mger 111 J hand 111
eattle. J u ! te wrote that Alys a chwenk, an
attorney for JAG, completed hoot camp and 1'
. Kelly
t a t toned at Fort Bragg,
Boudreau 1 a paralegal tn D. . , and Marina
Grande, pur mg an M.B.A. at the . of ht­
cago, worked tn . Y. . Ia t :,ummer . . . . Laura
Eanes, who pent a great weekend wtth tacey
Warner last March, 1 pursumg a rna ter\ 111
math educatton from olumbta' Teacher>'
ollege and planned to return to Blatr Academy
in the fall. . . . Matt Gaines graduated from o­
lumbia with an M . . 111 phy;tcal therapy. . . .
olo.
Ben Garrison l tve 111 Boulder,
Heather Johnson, a Ph.D. candtdate at orth­
eastem, i workmgon herdt ertatton and teach­
ing sociology classes. . . . After !tvmg tn pam,
Alex Kavanagh tarred graduate school at
M IT. . . . Michael King was lookmg forward to
a fun pring coaching the var ity !aero e team
at hoate Ro emary-Hall after travelmg 111
Italy . . . . In J une I left Houghton M tfflm and
now work as an H.R. genera!t t for Putnam
Investments in Andover, Mass. This is my last
column, and I thank all of you for helpmg me
fulfill my dutie a cla correspondent for the
past five years.
-Alicia H idalgo
95
Stephanie White ( stephan ie.whtte
@wholefoods.com) ha been living 111 Jamatca
Plain, Mass . , since graduation ( aside from a 1 0month stint in Boulder, olo . ) . he had been
working in information y rem mtegratton for
the Bread & Circu stores in the Boston area but
was set to start school in the fall of'99 for v10!tn
making and restoration. Stephame reported that
Ann Neuhauser is completmg a rna ter' degree
in fisheries management 111 England . . . . Lynne
Moss is an editor at American Arcist maga:me
in .Y.C. . . . Emberley e bitt to pursumg a
g r a d u a t e d e g r e e t n c re a t t ,·e w r t t t n g a t
Cornell. . . . Lauren Pelz t s teachmg pamsh at
Lawrence Academy 111 Groton, t-las . , and Matt
Barr is taking cla se , prepanng for the t- 1 AT,
and trying to grow out a bad hatrcut 111 Boul­
der . . . . CongratulatiOns to Margot almela anJ
Ja on Donon '9 on thetr ugust '99 ,,eJdmg
Both Margot and Jason teach ht,torv anJ c )Jch
at he;,htre Academy 111 onnectt ut . . . . John
D unbar, a teacher at Pace AcaJem\ 111 Atlanta.
was engaged to marn J u ! t e o,l\ 1' 111 J une
'99 . . . . Mike Y u nes had a bu'\' fe,, mc)nth' tht,
sprmg: he graduated trom T ulr- � ledt<.al Schcx)l
111 � Lw and marned Su,an o'tello 111 J une
Kate La\ igne ( k lan[!ne jae.l ,tern m.l" · ''r!!) 1'
!tnng wtth � brk Bc)le, '92 111 the Be 'wn uc 1.
where -he worb as the d tre wr ,)t r rc) [! r a m' tc)r
J un tor :\chte,·ement .m d �lark h an .K.:clunt
manager t o r Te.1 -h t,H Amt.!rtC.l H Le,)
Burnett. . . . hrisanne Loll " 1' the m.m.l[!cr t
a mutual fund re,earch !!r,,ur m the & 'r n arc
but >tarred c1t Jec'r[!eW\\11 rht- tall m the m,_,t.:r'­
D u � ia a u le' t,
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A T
1 990s Correspondents
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Laura Sen,er
1 Par man S ree
Na 1c . MA 0 1 760
508-653-7927
lsen,er@bu edu
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Jenn 1fer Wood Jenc s
80 Wa1nut Street
Seekon . MA 02771
508-336-7049
ktwt540@aol com
1 992
M1chelle Fort,er B1sco
8232 Arbor DPve
Shrewsbury, MA 0 1 545
508-845-6507
btscottm@frankhnhealth .com
1 993
Beth Curran
64 Dane Street # 1
Somervtlle, M A 02 1 43
ecurran@stg bsh com
1 994
Tracy K. Larsen
529 Columbus Avenue # 1 2
Boston, M A 02 1 1 8
t racy_k_.arsen@fleet.com
1 995
Alyssa Falwell
279 Fellsway Wes #2
Medford, MA 02 1 55
6 1 7-520-7239
alfalwell@aot com
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Am1e S1cch. ano
25 Hundreds C i rcle
We lesley H 1lls. MA 02 1 8 1
6 1 7-235-0666
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1mberly
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a private detective and his iden­
t i c a l twin . . . . A n n e J u rgeleit
N EWS MAKERS
teaches at the Tilton School, where
she is a language learning center
William I. Evans '90 was named staff
specialist, dorm parent, coach and
director of the U.S. House of Repre­
director of the outdoor program. She
sentatives' rules and organization sub­
plans to take some classes and apply
committee. In June the National]oumal
for her master's in physical therapy
said he "got off to a quick start, exam­
in the fal l of '0 1 . . . . J onathan
ining proposals to improve civility
Cannon l ives in Manchester, Vt.
among members." . . . Douglas Belkin
He is thrilled to have been hired
'90 was named full-time religion writer
by N ASA to install the stereo in
at the Palm Beach Post, a position the
the new international space sta­
paper described as "an exalted beat." .
tion . . . . Joy Christoferson is in
. . Cameron Howe Dubie '92 received
Cameron H . D u b i e '92
a n a c c e l erated B . S . N . - M . S . W .
her master's degree in education from
nursing program at Johns Hopkins
Harvard University this summer. . . . Barbara Coulon '94 was
School ofNursing. She will receive
featured in G lamour's August issue. She is director of trends at the
her B.S.N. and become a registered
agency Youth Intelligence in New York City, and she forecasts
nurse and then plans to go directly
trends for Coca-Cola and MTV among other clients . . . . Joshua
into a master's program to become a
Morris '96 is off for a year of volunteer teaching in Ecuador under
family nurse practitioner. Joy sees
the auspices of WorldTeach, which is based at Harvard.
Caleb Dolan, who teaches in North
Carolina . . . John Daly is working
M I LESTO N ES
for a private environmental con­
Marriages: Kate Carswell ' 9 0 to Timothy Schmoyer in Lenox,
sulting firm in Boston and is ap­
Mass . . . . Thomas G. Powers '90 to Heather H. Davis in New­
p l y i ng to gradu a t e school for
port, R.I. . . . Sally Richards '90 to Michael Lehr in Simsbury,
e n v i ronment a l l a w . . . M a r k
Conn . . . . Samuel Tucker '90 to Lindsey Salerno in Weston,
Mortensen completed his master's
Vr. . . . Marc Gilbertson ' 9 1 to Whitney Kaulbach in Craftsbury,
in computer science at Stanford and
Vt . . . . Shannon B. Johnson ' 9 1 to Benjamin B. Ames ' 9 1 in
started working on his Ph.D. in or­
Lincoln, Mass . . . . Kathleen A. Kaliff ' 9 1 to Thomas A. Reeve
ganizational behavior. . . . Ben Otto
in East Providence, R . I . . . . Shelly A. MacConnell ' 9 1 to David
spent '97 -'98 traveling in Central
J. Kunath in Sanford, Maine . . . . Amy R. Selinger '92 to Mark
America. He was awarded the
B. Elefante in Madison, Conn . . . . Elizabeth P. Arden '93 to
'98-'99 Rotary International Am­
James W. Howard '93 in Harwich Port, Mass . . . Karen N.
bassadorial Scholarship to Tanza­
B e a u c h e s ne '93 to Scott A . Charette in Scarborough,
nia, East Africa, and left in January.
Maine. . . . Laura K. Fogarty '93 to Matthew G. Nerney '92 in
He planned to study Swahili for six
Barrington, R . I . . . . Rodney Gerdsen '93 to Casandra Taylor in
months, then travel and work in
Aiken, S.C. . . Jocelyn R. Hiller '94 to Martin P. Kane in
Nepal and Tibet before returning to
Hartford, Conn . . Elizabeth A. Dunn '96 to Michael Allen in
the U.S. late this year. . . Rima
Norwell, Mass.
Lathrop Carlson returned from the
Peace Corps in Congo, Africa, after
Births: A son, Zane Gee, to Chris and Robin Pearah-Gee '97 . . . . A
-Alyssa Falwell
civil war broke out in the capital
daughter, Merritt Bussell Davie, to John '88 and Kristin Hock
city in June 1 997. Rima and her
Davie '90 . . . . A daughter, Delaney Supple, to David and Erica
Michael Goode was ac­
husband, Brian '94, planned to go
Hoffmeister Supple '90 . . . . A daughter, Jessica Lee Coffin
cepted to Wtlltam and Mary chool
back to school this fall. . . . Shana
Hoyt, to Drew '92 and Jennifer Coffin Hoyt '92 .
. A son,
of Law. Pnor to that he wa workmg
Berger works for a nonprofit organ­
Andrew Ferenc Brewster-Geisz, to Zachary '94 and Karyl
a' a paralegal m Bmton . . . . Jennie
ization in N .Y.C. called Just Food.
Brewster-Geisz ' 9 3 .
Anderson t' teachmg at hady Htll
She plans to coordinate a program
chool whtle 'tudymg for her
for community-supported agricul­
rna ter\ m elementary educatton at Le ley Col­
runs a dog ledding guide service in Montana . . . .
ture with low-income communities in N.Y.C.
lege m Camhndge, Ma''· he wme that Ben
Susannah Kowal is in a master's program in
and farmers in N.Y. state. Before this, Shana
Freeman t> a OL tmtructor and has been tn
phy teal therapy at the University ofMiami.
spent two months interviewing lobstermen along
BaJa, the PaCtfic orthwe t and Ala ka. he Jason Kidwell moved from Boston to an jose
the coast of Maine about management of the
.md Ben " til be marneJ m Augu t 2000. . .
and ts an account executive for PR ewswire.
fishery. She says that Amy Darling left Nepal
Heather Gerry lt,·c, m Watertown, Ma s., and
He wntes that he, Ju tm Van Til '95 and Matt
after working with the Pitzer College Semester
Ct)umel, trouhleJ gtrl, at Germa111e Lawrence
Mor e '9 recently kied m Tahoe, that JC
in Nepal Program and planned to travel through­
chtlOl 111 Arl111gwn. �1a" Heather plan to
Panio ts domg h1 best to supply southern New
our Australia visiting family . . . . Amy Phalon is
attend 'orthea tern for an �1. . 111 coumel111g
England wtth Labatt and Rollmg Rock beer
working with Killington, recording weather re­
P'\ Cht)logr
J a m i e Geier rece1'·eJ her
and that J e e Wilcox moved back to Connecti­
ports and attending a master's program in
ma,ter\ 111 puhltc health and " a' to tart her
cut and l t ve w t th J C and M t ke K e l l er
English . . . . Kim Woodman is attaining her
'95 . . . . Anna Goldsmith t a graduate tudent
Ph D. m ep1Jem10logy at olumhta Un1,·er tty.
rna ter's in education in N . H . . . . George
-he 1' head111g to Tan:ama and plan to cl11nh ar U H m a creanve non-f1ct10n program.
Samuels live in Brooklyn and is an economics
Currently he t wntmg a sene of arttcles on
Ktl1manJaro With her ltance, Roh tewarr . .
profes or. . . . Ruth Bristol is in her third year of
Amenc.an teenagers for a J apane e company.
Ja I reland t a loan t)ffKer ar am hnJge �1ort­
med1cal school at Tulane . . . Carrie Califano
he 1 abo \Htt tng an "a> told to" book about
gage Group. He 'a'' rhat Christian Denckla
will join the Army JAG corps when she gradu-
an M.B.A. student at Dartmouth. In
the off season from school, Doug
played summer baseball for the
Yawkey League in Boston. . . . In one
of those strange coincidences of the
world, I received a note from Wendy
Oram-Smith Marr ( wmarr@ceo.cu
dener.edu) on the same day as the
tragic shootings at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo. Wendy is
not only living in Littleton but is a
teacher there-but at the middle
chool where he reaches eighth
grade language arts. Before moving
to Colorado, where she and her hus­
band, David, recently bought a house
and are enjoying fixing it up, Wendy
was reaching on the borderofMexico
as part of Teach for America . . .
Debbie Fletcher Muniz (dmuniz@
mail.duke.edu) has moved to Dur­
ham, .C., where she is the weekend
executive M.B.A. program coordi­
nator for the Fuqua School of Busi­
ness at Duke. Debbie's husband,
Rafael, and Stephanie Tyrrell are
both students in the Fuqua M.B.A.
program. Debbie also reports that
Lissie Dunn is living in Ari:ona and
was planning a wedding for the fall of
'99. . . . ikki Breen graduated from
immons in May '99 and is now a
phystcal therapist. . . . Dee Loew is
working at Stmmons and living in
Boston, and Jason Mahoney gradu­
ated from law school in May '99 and
t movmg to New Orleans to work
at a law firm . . . . Reminder: our re­
umon ts commg up j une 2-4. tart
plannmg to make it up to Waterville,
and get rho e urveys back to Carrie
Farber or e-matl me Wtth questtons1
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ates from law school. . . . Simon Dalgleish bought
a motorcycle and drove the southern route cro
country to hi new job as an analyst for the
program
discount brokerage
c l m l c a l a ffd l a t l o m
harles
chwab . . . . Grace
Jeanes l ives in Dun table, Mass., with her part­
ner, Leah Basbane '88, and works m the devel­
opment office at Harvard Busine s chool. Grace
and Leah have three dogs and a cat.
race sn l l
both the &>ston Marathon and her ma,ter\
m
occupational therapy at Bo,ton
Un1ver�1ty and 1
111volved 111 '1x month
111
He rook �orne nme out rh1 'lummer to 'toP by
olby and to Vl'llt
anada before head111g hack
we t . . . . Katie Me
Engagements
and
marriage
w a'
1 0voh-ed 10 publi,h10g, and I'
pur,u10g her . ! F. A at the Cmn!r-lt\ of \Va,h­
\ endy M rri '>tarred a
new job 10 December a' m
al iforn 1d-0,1v1 .
>erne ter of law '�Chool and worked at rhe
97
where 'he
mgwn 111
n l \'er It� of
overn 'un Jvcd her fJr,t
a­
l -\ R G E
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crober, pound10g the pavement for a JOb . . . .
Rebecca Hoogs lett her jOh 10 Boulder, olo.,
hospnah . . . . Adam Wolk 1 beg111n111g medi­
where he occasion a l ly sees
-Arnie Sicchitano
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cal chool at the
p l a y i c e hockey in a league in M arlborough,
tacy Joslm '97 .
of
t w o Bo t o n - Mea
t
e;�nle.
1 t mt account
a
execu!lve ,1( Edelman Public Reht l()n
Fr,mc i'>Co.
rector
<(
lenn Forger
m.uketmg k1r the
I'
<'pie� Group. .
usanna Monte:em lo now work, tnr the
t iona! Abortion and Rcproducrwn R 1ght' Ac­
Clatlon ofTn.1l Lm·yer ot
tion League 111 D.
la!lve and legal re,e.uch. 'he wme
. over the 'lummer
. Alana
th.n Pat
Prills, abo a fir t - year law '�Chool 'urvi\'Or, n i l
order of the day. Kate Charbonnier and J osh
c a tche; Bob Dy lan �how' when t h e t i me
program at the 'm1th,oman l n,tltut lon
Oeltjen have officially t ied the knot. Lot
al lows.
and th.n
olby people in attendance. Wendy Ridder
. . Andrew Black IS ovcr,ea' go111g
through a sene; of tryout 1 11 hope' of mak 1 11g
Doyle worb for the Re.1J10g I
ar
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'n­
ment:a, do111g leg1 -
are the
f
10 ',m
the ,1 ,l,t,l nt d i ­
Fund.1men t.1l
111
D. '.
ib,on 1, 1 legl,l ltlve ,uJe
ongre"woman 'hell� Berkel� of
1<1
cv 1d.1- mJ
reported that the ceremony wa wonderful and
a professiOnal b a ; k e t b a l l t e a m . . . .
the couple looked radiant.
n the engagement
MacMillan l ives 111 Brooklyn and worb a' a
Jenn Ma on moved to Oenq:r, r.meJ her m.l,tcr'
beat, congrats go out to Kara Patterson, Katy
re earch and development 'pec Jal1't for Helen
ar the
Bakeman and Jenna Klein . . . . Lauren Gra­
Keller I nternational. He caught up w1th Brian
Penn,
ham has left her job doing cancer re earch and
Golden on a VISit to Lake Tahoe . . . . A contll1-
moved hJck to Flonda after IX month' 10 l-.!.1n· ­
moved to
gent l i ving in Buenos A 1 res- H i l lary Ross,
land and I '> a manne ecology f1eld 1mtrucror 111
outh Bo ton with the intention of
obtaining her commercial pi lot's l icen e.
he
ray
choultz, Darrin Ylisto and
Karina
arah
rece1ve gre,lt trip'
tn
"Veg,1,, h.1h�. \'e ga , . " .
n1ver,1ty of Dem·er and heg.m \H)rkiOg ,lt
t:hoen and Be r h n d. .
J u lie Lovell
Key Largo, teach10g ch ddren about the et:nlngy
·ay , " I want to fly big jets." . . . Patrick McBride
Olste n- invite anyone who' Jntere,ted to orne
of coral reef , mangrove' a nd e.1 gra
remain at Rutgers U n iversity and was recently
down for a v1sit. H d lary IS leav111g 'oon to tra,·el
a n t i C ipated gomg
promoted to assistant d i rector of athlet ics
around Austral ia and Eu rope for a year . . . .
Mose . . . .
communication . . . . Joshua Woodfork com­
Hilary Peterson 1
mo,·ed down ro the
pleted his master's in American studies at M ichi­
gan
tate and is pur u ing h is Ph . D . at the
ver,
n i l teach111g English 111 Den­
olo., but spent the ummer 111 M 1ddlebury'
Breadloaf English graduate program . . . . Does
to
,e,
taunton Bo\\en left
.mad.1 md
D. . are.1 He work, wnh
Tony Moulton, Carter Davi . John B.m) '9
and ToJJ Pol10g '9 . . . . Kara Marchant r m the
an D1ego Rock 'n' Roll , lararhon .md r.11 eJ
U n iversity ( M aryland . . . . Amanda Magary is
anyone remember Pres1dent
in a master's program in social work and law at
speech in which he aid we'd change jobs, on
over 6,
average, at least SIX t i me
1
pleted my ma rer\ 10 'POrt'> manJgeme nr ,11
j uven i le rights d i v ision . . . . David Bruinooge
job at
ro
i l i v i ng in
olumbia and works at the Legal A id
ociety,
tandard
& Poor
otter'� graduat111g
Adam Elboim left h1�
dnve eros country
he
J a m a 1 c a wnh K e l l
for the Leukem1a ,<X. le� . . . . I com­
rare anJ accepted
a
h1n
p<l'>ltllln ,11 :-.. !r Holyoke .1
with Steph Andriole '98, plann111g on establish­
rhe 'POrt' 10forrnat1on d1recror. Ple.1 e connnue
and hoping to a trend fi l m school omewhere on
ing busine
ro be 10 rouch. Take care.
the We t
company. But he sa1d he'd be back 111 Bo ton by
nnecticut, tudying for the GREs
oast . . . . Amy Letizia completed
0
B
operatiOns w1th a biOtech start-up
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!arch 1 7 , 1 999, 1 11
predecea,eJ hy her hu ,b.m J, R<,hert
Lucy Taylor Pratt ' 1 7 , February 1 2 , 1 999, in
Melva Mann Farnum ' 2 3 ,
Farmington,
Portland, Ma 111e, at 9 . A reacher, ' h e mo,ed ro
'27.
years and
Japan 111 1 92 7 With her ml"ltmary hu,hand,
Banf1eld ' 4 7 .
chool Program for 50
larl111 D. Farnum ' 2 3 , " ho predecea,ed her. A
onn . , at
I 05.
at Hartford Public H igh
i n the Hartford
years.
ummer
he taught Eng l i h
chool for 2
he is survived by her son, Leon Pratr, and
volunteer ar I m manuel Bap!l't
Ma111e
several nie es and nephew .
!ed1cal
hurch ,md
larence R. M
enter 111 Pnrr land, ,he played
p1ano for mu>Jcal e\·enr-. , he 1' 'urn,·ed hr
Mar
arl Ta lor ' 2 2 , 1ay 5, 1 999, 111
� I ai ne , at 99.
S hoo l ,
cademy 111
amden,
beth F. Hummer ,md Ro,emar, F G J ! ,. ,n , 1 1
nson Academy and \V 1::.ca.>et
gran khddren and 1c gre,u-gr.mdc h ddren.
lame.
u n' l \' Or::. m c l ude her
daughter, Dons Taylor H u ber ' 4 5 , five grand­
daughters, inc l u d i no J ean H u ber Edmond,on
'8L, 1
three daughter,, H dda Farnum ' u.: nll ' 4 9 . Eli:.l­
he taught a t Bmgham H 1gh
great-grandch i l 1ren and three gre.H­
great-grand c h l ldren.
p,lU I \\'.
a re s ' 2 4 . J a n u,m -. 1 999, 111 .1k­
hm d , '.1 1 i t . , ar 97 He " 1, , , m .lllth<lnt\ ''n the
' . public l.md P<'li" 1e'
mencan \'(le,t .m d ',.
, n ardent <.:<)n,ef\'.l !ltlni't Th e ,JUt ht1r ' t
,1nd 1
,e,eral bcx)k,, he t,JUcht ,1!
Ruth J a meson Robinson ' 2 3 , Apnl l , I •N9, 111
Vernon, onn., ar 98. he was a reg1,rered nur'e
·ears bv I\ !anc he,rer ( <ll1 n . )
emplo ·ed for _
1\ !emorial Hosptral. Predeceased bY her hu,­
band, hester L. R ob ms<)n ·- - · ,he 1' ,un·tved
, brc)ther, rhree
b • a son, \' i l lard L. Rolmson, 1
grandc h i ldren and four grear-grandch dclren
t)rneii i.Jmn:r lr\
fr,)m ! 9 16 u n ! l l h1' retm:ment 1 0 ( 97 1 . Pre le·
ce.1,ed h hh �;.r,,rher, l"'rJ,>n ' 1 9 mJ EJ,, 1 0
· _ 2 , he
h
'un·l,·e,l h· h 1 , ' e o n J " tk,
I I \ e L ee
lT,lte' '_ i . .1 ,,,n mJ three J lU!.. h ter , 2 2 !!r, nJ­
c h d lren .mJ ''" en cre.H -�r nJ hddren
Doris De " ar Hunt '_6, -\pnl . ( 9 9 n c
-\ h,lmt:m� er, 'h< " '
,lnJ,l n , �c,n n . .H 9
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un·1n1r' 10 l u J e her d tuchter, J o m H u n t
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Institute in Hololulu. She is survived by her
nephew, John P. Dunstan '60.
Marie Holmes Ray '2 7, May 1 , 1 999, in
Randolph, Mas ., at 9 1 . A World War II vet­
eran, she was the owner, editor and reporter of
the Bridgewater ( Mass.) Independent newspaper
for 3 years until he retired in 1985. Prede­
ceased by her husband, Kenneth B. Ray, she
leaves no known relatives.
Myrtle Main Sherman ' 2 7 , March 2 3 , 1 999, in
Augusta, Maine, at 95. She studied at the Uni­
versity of Maine, McGill, Harvard and the
Sorbonne after graduating from Colby, and for
3 6 years she taught at Maine Central Institute
and Cape Elizabeth High School. Her husband,
Ernest Healy herman, predeceased her. Sev­
eral cousins survive.
Ruth Plaisted Robinson '29, April l 3 , 1 999, in
Farmington, Maine, at 9 1 . A homemaker, she
was a long-time member of the First Church of
Christ Scientist in Boston, Mass. She is survived
by her son, Ronald Robinson, four sisters, a
brother and many nieces and nephews.
Allan J. Stinchfield '29, j une 1 7, 1 999, in
Gorham, Maine, at 9 3 . After serving in World
War II in the Philippines he returned to Maine
as chief orthopaedic surgeon at Togus Veter­
ans Hospital and was on the staffs of Augusta
General Hospital, Gardiner General Hospital
and Sisters and Thayer hospitals in Waterville.
He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Ruth
Hutchins Stinchfield '28, two daughters, two
nieces, three granddaughters, a grandson and
three great-granddaughters.
Mabel Dolliff Craig '30, June 5, 1 999, in
Gladys Bunker Bridges '28, May 29, 1 999, in
Bangor, Maine, at 94. She taught school in the
towns of Brooks, Lincoln and Bangor, where she
served for 2 5 years. Predeceased by her husband
and brother, she is survived by two cousins.
Claremont, Calif., at 9 1 . She was a director of
religious education in the Congregational
Church in West Roxbury, Mass. After her mar­
riage to the Rev. Andrew Craig, she served with
him in churches in Maine, Massachusetts and
Colorado and was everywhere a community
leader. Her husband of 65 years survives her.
Marion Morrell Nickels '32, March 3 1 , 1 999,
in Portland, Maine, at 88. She is survived by her
son, Charles N ickels.
Hildred Nelson Wentworth ' 3 2 , March 8,
1 999, in Millinocket, M a ine, a t 88. A mem­
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and salutatorian of her
class, she taught English at Lawrence H igh
School in Fairfield, Maine, and at Stearns
H igh School in M i l l inocket. She is survived
by her husband of 60 years, George, three
sons, a sister and four grandchildren.
Dorris Moore Cox ' 3 3 , February 23, 1 999, in
Sebring, Fla. , at 87. After teaching high school
English for several years, she worked for The
Reader's Digest Corporation, and she filled her
later years with travel. Survivors include her
two daughters, Lee Cox Graham '69 and Susan
Grant, nine grandchildren, a great-grandchild
and four nephews and nieces.
Waterville, Maine, at 92. A teacher for several
years at Winslow High School and a member of
the Colby Alumni Council, she was prede­
ceased by her husband, Lawrence D. Cole '30.
he is survived by a daughter, Virginia Cole
Henkle '65, a son Lawrence D. Cole Jr., two
grandchildren and a great grandson.
1 999, in ashua, N.H., a t 90. A teacher before
and after raising a family, she retired in 1 974.
She was predeceased by her husband, Reed W.
Davis, and is survived by three children, 1 1
grandchildren and 1 0 great-grandchildren.
Walter L . Dignam ' 3 3 , May 6, 1 999, in Win­
chester, Mass., at 87. He concluded a 42-year
career with New England Telephone as vice
president of personnel. He also was active in
many community organizations. Survivors in­
clude his wife of 6 5 years, Grace, his daughters,
Judith Dignam '60, Joyce Dignam Flynn '62,
Joan Dignam Schmaltz '63 and Janice Dignam
Stabile '72, his sisters, Mary Dignam Murphy
'3 1 , Ellen Dignam Downing '35 and Alice
Dignam Grady '38, and a granddaughter, Heide
Schmaltz Lasher '87.
Margaret Davis Farnham '28, April 1 8, 1 999,
Verna Green Taylor '30, October 1 7, 1 998, in
John P. Sherden '33, March 23, 1 999, in
m Hampden, Maine, at 9 1 . She taught Latin at
orth Anson Academy and later taught at
Husson College in Bangor, Maine. She served
Colby a cla agent, on the Alumni Council
and on the Admissions Committee, and she and
her late husband, Rodenck Farnham '3 1 , both
were awarded Colby Bncks. The Farnham Writ­
ers' enter wa named tn their honor. urvivors
mclude her children, Alden Sprague ' 5 3 , Pat
Farnham Russell '62, Jane Farnham Rabeni '66
and Barbara Bngg , and her three grandchil­
dren, Jeffrey Ru ell ' 7, Ttmothy Farnham '9 1
and Margaret Ru:. ell Ewalt '92.
Scarborough, Maine, at 90. She taught in sev­
eral schools before becoming assistant librarian
at Thornton Academy. She was an active mem­
ber of the United Baptist Church of Saco for
many years. Surviving are a niece, Athena Keller,
and several great-nephews and great-nieces.
Monterey, Calif., at 87. He served as deputy
chief of staff for logistics at the Pentagon and in
various Army ordnance corps assignments from
1 93 1 to 1 965. Later he was self-employed in
investment management. He is survived by his
wife, Catherine, two sons, five grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
Cornelia Adair Cole '28, February 1 3 , 1 999, in
Arthur B. Levine '2 , January 20, 1 999, tn
Palm Beach, Fla. , at 92. He graduated from
Han·ard La" chool and owned ht own general
pracnce tn Waren tlle, �lame. He also had a
'ucce"ful career tn brokenng ecurtttes. He ts
'un 1\·ed hy two on , Robert and teven Lev me,
a J:-.rorher and two grandchildren.
Doroth · E . Deeth '29, !\larch 2 3 , 1 999, m
anra Ro,a, Caltf , at 90. he earned her nur mg
degree at the Cntver'tr\ of htcago and held
,en�ral pedtatrtc nur mg po,mom before be­
commg dtrecrorofnur'e at r. Franct Ho,pttal
tn altiornta. The ollege a" arded her an hon­
oran ma,rer of 'uence degree m 1 9 5 5 .
L 0 L B \
Elizabeth Bottomley Davis '30, February 1 ,
Lee F. B r a c k e t t ' 3 1 , j une 9, 1 999, in
Farmington, Maine, at 90. During World War
II he served as a Navy intelligence officer. For
many years he was a federal game warden with
the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. He is
survived by his wife of 68 years, Barbara Merrick
Brackett ' 3 3 , a son and daughter, nine grand­
children and 1 3 great-grandchildren.
Jerome G. Daviau '3 1 , june 1 4, 1 999, in Berlin,
Conn., at 90. For 40 years he practiced law in
Watervtlle, Mame, which he served as ciry solici­
tor. He also wrote Maine's Life Blood, a pioneer
arrack on mdustrtal pollution and the destruction
of Mame's ftshenes. He is survived by hi wife,
Ruth, hts on, Robert Daviau '68, a daughter,
se,·eral grandchtldren and great-grandchildren.
Walter B. Lovett '3 1 , January 29, 1 999, m Port
Orange, Fla., at 92. After rettremenr m 1 974 he
moved from e" Hampshtre to Flonda. Ht wtfe,
Luctlle unnmgham Loven '32, predeceased htm.
Uf\'1\'0r mclude ht >On, Walter B. Lovett Jr.
60
Barbara White Morse '34, J une 1 , 1 999, in
Springvale, Maine, at 86. Before her marriage
she was a teacher at Lee Academy and at Oak
Grove School. A member of many civic orga­
nizations, she also was a researcher and author
of many articles on Victorian art tiles for na­
tional antiques publications. Surviving are a
son, a daughter, Sally Morse Preston '63 , and
two granddaughters.
Laurance E. Dow ' 3 5 , February 22, 1 999, in
Willimantic, Conn., at 85. An Army veteran of
World War I I , he was city manager of Belfast,
Ma ine, commissioner of Waldo County and
administrator of Waldo County General Hospi­
tal. He is urvived by his wife, Mira, three sons,
three daughters, eight grandchildren, three great­
grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Charles J. Caddoo ' 36 , March 1 2, 1 999, in Florida,
at 87. He was a teacher and coach in Washburn
and Caribou, Maine, until 1 94 1 , then taught in
A L U
Milton, Mass., until h is retirement in
1 974. Predeceased by h is brother, Wil­
liam H . addoo ' 3 2 , he i urvived by
his wife of 65 years, Dai y, two son , a
sister and several grandchildren.
Bryn E. Parry '0 1 died J u l y 1 9 of acctdental carl-.on monoxtde
poisonmg at a olby fnend' home m laryland after a car wa-,
left running in an attached garage near where he wa leeptng.
An English and performmg art double maJor at olby, he wa
active in Performmg Art� and Powder Wtg drama producmm
and was on the Jean' It st. he t urvtveJ by her parent , Andre"'
and Mary Klem of Alexandna, Va., and a younger '>t ter, Letgh
A. Parry.
C leo Tuttle Henderson ' 3 6 , April
2 1 , 1 999, in Penacook, N . H . , at 86.
he was a teacher and principal at
M i lo ( Maine) Elementary chool for
1 4 years and a librarian at Garland
treet J un ior H igh chool in Bangor, Maine.
he is survi ved by three daughter , Gayle
LaVallee, Joan Hender on and J ane Bunting,
two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren
and several n ieces and nephews.
Barbara Frazee Haynes ' 3 7 , March 1 2, 1 999, in
Bath, Maine, at 8 3 . he was an active member
of several community and church organizations.
Surviving are her three daughters, Carol Young,
haron Haynes and Barbara Witham, four grand­
children and five great-grandch i ldren.
Richard W. Dow '38, April l l , 1 999, in South
P rtland, Maine, at 82. He served with the
Navy in the Pacific during World War I I . For
many years he was a heavy equipment sale man
for outhworth Machine and N .A. Burkett.
Predeceased by his son, Richard Dow Jr. '69, he
i survived by hi wife of 5 years, Eleanor, a
daughter, h is brother, orman R. Dow Jr. ' 3 7 ,
and six grandchildren.
I rene Rockwood Johnson '38, J anuary 1 , 1 999,
in Petersham, Ma s., at 8 2 . She worked for the
Baltimore, Md., Visiting Nurse As ociation and
for the ambridge, Ma s., Visiting ur e Asso­
c iation. he was active in anti-war demonstra­
t ions during the V i et na m War and as a
ommitted Quaker spent t i me in pri on. he
I aves her husband of 56 year , Ru sell John on
Jr. , tw son-, a daughterand four randchildren.
I ra L. M c G o w n ' 3 , eptember 26, 1 99 , 111
Bang r, 1aine, at 2. After erving with the
Marine orp :luring World � ar I I he wa· a
data proces i ng manager w i t h Bangor and
roosrook Railroad from 1 9 5 1 to I 6 and wtth
Bangor Hydro-Eie tric o. from 1 96 until ht
retirement in 19 . urvi\' r include h t \\'tfe,
Marouerite, a son and a daughter.
1 99 , tn l nd t, na,
, ugust
at 1 . He sen·ed in the Arm • dunng \X'orld War
I I . urvivors in lude his son.
Leo
parber '
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Harold C. Paul ' 4 3 , Mar h 6, 1 999,
m carborough, Mame, at
. He
wa a a\' avtator and tl tght mtructor m World ar I I .
profe,­
ton I a tor nnd theater manager,
he "'a a prole or of peech and
theater t on ord olle 'e m � e't
Vtrgmta for 2 3 year . unwmg <1re
ht-. \\ t e, Jthr)n, two daughter ,
e t ly L7ne!! and Detrdre P,ntl ' 5 ,
n d ht., 'on, l tchael Paul ' 7 .
Mary Lill ia n Hea l y Orr ' 3 9 , February 1 5, 1 999,
in Reston, Va., at 3 . A ecretary, tea her and
homemaker, he i urvtved by her hu>band of
5 3 year , Forre t, tw daughters and a on, two
brothers and five grandchtldren.
Donald B. Read ' 3 9 , March 29, 1 999, m
Frank lin, . . , at 5 . He had a long career tn
the insurance indu try and wa a member f
several in urance a sociation . urvivor mclude
hi wife, Barbara.
Millicent B lling mith ' 4 , December 2 ,
1 99 , m � a h 111gton, D. . , at 77
prm tpal of Jonathan La" H tgh
Mtl ord, onn., unttl her remement m 1 9 7 .
h e erved o n a number o f educatton commit·
tee and connnued to 111g 111 her I{ ,11 ongre­
gattonal
hur h h01r. Prede eao,ed hy her
daughter and granddaughter, he t un t \ eJ by
her tHer, D lore. Bol l 111g.
Barbara White Haddad '44,
Mildred Colwell
P a u l H. Landry ' 3 7 , April 2 6 , 1 999, in
Waterville, Maine, at 86. After service a a
quarterma ter first class in the Navy during
World War II he was a c lerk with the U.S. PostaI
ervice f r 32 years. urvivors include h is wife,
Ceci le, a on and tepson, two granddaughters,
five isters and many nieces and nephews.
I
teve ns ' 3 9 , February 9, 1 999,
in Waterville, Maine, at 8 1 . he taught for three
years before her marriage to Machaon E. teven
'39, then made her home in Mame and rai ed
four children. Survivor include her chtldren
and a grandaughter, Lauren tevens '0 1 .
Ruth Berkelhammer Gollis '40, January 6,
1 999, in ew Bedford, Ma . , at I . A ew
Bedford resident for more than 50 years, he
leave two sons, Leonard Gol l i and teven
Gollis, a daughter, Margery trauss, a tster and
three grandchildren.
Richard C. Johnson '4 1 , June 6, 1 999, in unny­
vale, Calif., at I . After teaching philo ophy at
Harvard for three year , he had a long career as a
business executive with the Georgia-Pacific
r­
poration and with Ro eberg Lumber. un•tvtng
are hi wife, Geraldine, four ons, two daughter ,
1 3 grandchildren and his fnend, Joy tanton.
Ruth cribner Rich '4 1 , larch 6, 1 999, m
Portland, Maine, at
he was an Englt h
teacher in everal lame ,chool dunng World
War l l . Later -he was a homemaker, hurch
worker and \'Olunteer tn ommuntty organt:a­
tton and proJe t,. he t un't\•ed by I er hu'­
band of56 year , E:Iwm . Rt h, a daughter, rwo
sons, a 't>ter and ftve grand htiJren.
ameron avage '4 1 , De ember l , 1 99 ,
H t lo, Hawau, at 7'. he \\'J' a natt\'e t)f and
ltfelong re,tdent of Hawau.
Ruth
tn
ovember 2 5 ,
1 99 , m Provtdence, R . I . , a t 76. h e part tc t ·
pared m numerou rage produ ttom a n d en·ed
a pre tdent o the lo al garden club tn umber­
land, R . I . in Provtdence ,he 'erved everal cluh
and c mmtttee and volunteered or other non­
profit r antzatton . he ·� o,urvtved hy two om,
E. Alexander Haddad and hmtopher HaddaJ,
two daughters, Jane Haddad and Latla Haddad,
a t ter, and three granddaughter .
Ethelyn Fletcher Fergu on '4 , Januar, 2 , 1 999,
m Bangor, Ma111e, at 72. he wa> a ho,JI teacher
for many year 111 Madt m and wa' a tt\·e tn
everal Ban r or am:attom. un•t,·or 111 Jude
her on, Btl I Fergu n, a '>�ter and two nephe'' '·
Eileen Lanouette Hughes '4 ,
tober , 1 99 ,
111 Floren e, I taly, at 7 . he wa' a reporter and
a corre p ndent for L1fe maga:me. Later he " a'
a JOumaltst wtth Ufe' Rome hureau and •note
a column for the Rome Dml) mcncan he left
to be orne dtre tor of publtc relatton ,l[ 1ew
York ntver tt\ and later Jt Fllrdh.lm 'nl\ er­
'tty. he • ., ur\ tveJ by her tWll Jaughrcr , , lar,
Larkm Hu he' and Kathleen M urp h y , .1 hrother
and four grandchtiJren
Fran e Te r r
· P \\ er '4 , J.mu:uy 1 5, I
9, m
Fayette, �\lame, ,H 7 1 'he W{>rkeJ .u the t.lmtly
b u , t n e ' • Terry', Br.l tdeJ R u g
hop, tn
\X'aten·tlle, :\lame, then mm cd the bu me , to
Fayette anJ umttnueJ <>pentll1g the turc unnl
her de<1th. un·tvof'> m..JuJe her hu h mJ, Ketth
Po•• er, ft>ur d.1ughrer , a te on, mJ ever tl
�:ranJchtiJren mJ �'feJt·!.,'TinJ�.:htiJren
Bettina Barter Richard on '42, Febru.m _ I ,
1 999, tn Flonda, at 7 7 . he " '· ' the fm.m 1.1 1
se retary for the �wnmgton ( , lame) :\letht'ld­
tst hurch ft1r m 1re th.m 4 \ e.l f'> :md " 3' :1 tt,·e
m the Red rt
the Republt ·an P1rr\ anJ
many orhert1r ant:.H ttm,. She h 'Uf\ 1 \· e J h h e r
huchrer. ,l ll\ R tce. rwo grand- m and -e' er.1l
ow;m,, m ludm' O..m na Barrer Btlltm:' 9.
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C 0 L B Y
A L U M N I
A T
L A R G E
Robert L. Brigham ' 5 1 , December 7, 1 99 , in
Paul K. McDermott ' 5 4 , August 7, 1 998, in
orth Port, Fla. , at 67. He worked for Life
maga:: i ne a an editor in ew York, correspon­
dent in Chicago and bureau chief in Moscow.
Later he was co-owner of the York County Coast
Star in Kennebunk, Maine. He is survived by his
wife, Rebecca, two daughters and his brother,
Chester Brigham '50.
Providence, R.I., at 65. A Korean Conflict vet­
eran, he wa a Wall Street petroleum analyst for
2 5 years before his retirement. Besides his wife
of 40 years, Priscilla, he leaves a son, a daughter
and five grandchildren.
Robert V. Reid ' 5 1 , January 1 , 1 999, in
William R. Thompson 5 6 , February 2 7 , 1 999,
in Wayland, Mass., at 64. A financial manager
for General Electric Corp. and Digital Equip­
ment Corp. before he retired, he also was an
active community volunteer. He is survived by
his wife, Patricia Ann Hennings Thompson '56,
a daughter, a sister, Anne Thompson Hennessy
' 5 2 , and a stepbrother.
Jacqueline Dillingham Schlier ' 5 1 , J une 1 8,
Malcolm Remington ' 5 7 , ovember 1 998, in
Massachusetts, at 66. He attended the College
after serving with the Marine Corps in Korea.
Later he was general manager of operations at
Servend Inc. Survivors include his wife, Louise
Ann Mullin Remington '58.
Peter J. Coney ' 5 1 , February 20, 1 999, in Tuc­
on, Ari:., at 59. He was a world-renowned
geologist who taught at the University of Ari­
:ona. urvivors include Darlene A. Coney.
al.em,
Mass., at 69. For more than 3 5 years he was
dtrector of finance for the Honeywell Corpora­
tion in variou locations in the United States.
urviving are his wife, Sheila, a son, two sisters
and two granddaughters.
1 999, in Concord, Mas . , at 69. She was a lab­
oratory technician and erved on the staffs at
Brown Univer ity and Children' Hospital in
Boston, Mass. he also worked as a paraprofesional and substitute teacher in the Concord
elementary schools. Survivors include her hus­
band of 46 years, Robert, two sons, three daugh­
ter , her father and eight grandchildren.
'
Btddeford, Mame, at 69. he was a teacher in
Omaha, eb., for several years before she moved
mto real e tate. For a time she operated her own
agency. mce 1 990 she wa employed as the
town clerk of Kennebunkport, Maine. urviv­
mg are her son, Timothy Winters, two daugh­
ter , Barbara Anderson and usan ormandin,
a brother and ister and four grandchildren.
Barbara Hamlin Hladky ' 5 2 , May 7, 1 999, in
Pre-en-Pad, France, at 6 . A Phi Beta Kappa
graduate, he earned a Fulbnght cholarship at
the orbonne. he rettred to France in 1 9 5
after teachmg Engltsh and foreign languages m
the outh Portland, Mame, school system. ur­
\'tvmg are her hu band, Franct Hladky, three
'on and a daughter.
ancy ewman Tibbetts ' 5 2 , March 1 2 , 1 999,
m Portland, Mame. at 69. he recetved a master's
degree tn oc tal work from Bo ton Umver try
and wa a cltntcal oc tal worker at ommuntty
oumelmg enter tn Portland for 30 years.
urnnng are her hu band, Earl Ttbbett>, her
daughter, her brother and her cou'tn arol
arl on Van Alst) ne ' 5 3 .
George C. De Luna ' 5 3 . Julr 6, 1 999, t n 1 ew
York, at 66 For more than 3L ,ear he 'en ed 1
nee pre>�dent at Itt bank, e unry Pact he and
l rnng Tru t tn ew York, London and Toronto.
He " ,unwed b, ht' wtfe, BarbMa E te De
Luna '5 , three 'on , ht' mother anJ brother.
C 0 L B Y
FALL
1 '1 9 9
Mendham, N . J . , at 62. After many years in real
estate, he became director of property manage­
ment for the General Services Administration
and later held various positions in federal and
state government. He leaves his wife, J ane, a
son and daughter, two sisters and several nieces
and nephews.
Alan S. Rhoades '64, April 14, 1 999, in Kittery,
Maine, at 5 7. He served in U.S. Naval Intelli­
gence, retiring after 22 years with the rank of
lieutenant commander. He also was chairman of
the Kittery planning board. Survivors include his
wife, Sara Shaw Rhoades '64, his son, Andrew
Rhoades '90, his daughter, Abigail Rhoades, a
sister, and his nephew, Peter A.W. Aykroyd '00.
James E. Lambert '66, March 9, 1 999, in Vine­
yard Haven, Mass., at 54. He erved as manager,
vice president and president during a long career
in banking in Maine and MassachusettS. Survi­
vors include his wife, Judy, and three children.
Carol Wickeri Castine '60, June 1 8, 1 999, in
Plattsburgh, .Y., at 6 1 . She was employed by
Pan-American Airlines, a Wall Street law finn
and Exxon Corporation before her marriage to
Kenneth Castine. Her husband, two brothers, a
sister, two nephews and a niece survive her.
Leon T. Nelson Jr. '60, April 1 4, 1 999, in
Janet Clark Winters '5 1 , June 22, 1 999, in
George M . Gross Jr. ' 6 3 , May 1 , 1 999, tn
Boston, Mass., at 6 1 . He was president of the
Boston chapter of the NAACP, the Greater
Roxbury Chamber of Commerce and Lolech
Enterprises, and he served the College on the
Alumni Council and as an overseer. He is sur­
vived by his wife, Charlotte, his daughter, his
mother, ister and three nephews.
Sandra Jean Shaw '66, J une 26, 1 999, in
Yarmouth, Maine, at 54. She began her journal­
ism career at Newsweek magazine and after
moving to Maine in 1 970 was a reporter for
many local newspapers, including the Portland
Press Herald, Maine Times and Lewiston Sun
Journal. Survivors include her husband, John C.
Orestis, her daughter and her sister.
Stuart M. Rosenfeld '69, January 2 1 , 1 999, in
Madras, India, at 50. He was a professor of chem­
istry at Smith College and the author of many
articles and books on organic chemistry. He
leaves his wife, Nalini Bhushan, a son, his mother,
a brother, a sister and many relatives in India.
Robert G. Taitt '60, March 22, 1 999, in Alex­
andria Bay, N.Y., at 6 1 . He worked in advertis­
ing sales for newspapers and The Reader's Digest
and was a lifelong freelance photographer. He is
survived by his wife, Frances, three daughters,
hi father, a brother, two grandchildren and
nieces and nephews.
Belmont, N.H., at 48. She was a grade 7-8
English teacher in Belmont. She leaves her
husband, Thomas J. Bailey ' 7 3 , two sons, her
mother, her brother, Robert S. Capers '7 1 , and
her sister, Nancy apers Mellen '72.
Ellen McCue Taylor '6 1 , June 29, 1 999, in
Robert G. Campbell ' 7 6 , March 1 2, 1 999, in
alem, Ma ., at 60. She was assistant to Colby's
dean of admissions and also wa as ociate dean
of tudent before moving to Ma sachusett ,
where she was active tn several volunteer orga­
ntzanons. he leaves her husband, John Taylor,
her mother, a Sister and a brother.
Cornelius, N.C., at 45. He was a Boeing 7 2 7 pilot
for U.S. Airways and an instructor ofother pilots.
Survivors include his wife, Vicki, his parents, his
brother, two sisters and several nieces.
Patricia E. Wil on '62, May 1 8, 1 998, in
Cullowhee,
.C., at 5 7 . he wa electronic
resource> l t brartan at Western
aro l t n a
Un1vermy\ Hunter Ltbrary. Prev1ou l y she
worked at Key>tone ommun1ty College and
Fro>thurg tate Umvers1ty. he 1 surv1ved by
two daughters, Kate and Karen KraJeSkl, her
mother and her brother.
62
Kristen Capers Bailey ' 7 2 , June 26, 1 999, in
Scott L. Croll '86, May 2, 1 999, near J uneau,
Ala ka, at 34. Rai ed in national parks, he
worked for the National Park ervice in several
parks around the country. He was part of a
coastal mapping team at Glacier Bay National
Park when his plane crashed. He is survived by
h1s parents, Stuart and Ellen roll, his brother,
several aunt , uncle and cousins.
Kenneth W. Bergen, L.H.D ' 8 7 , May 1 1 , 1 999,
tn Lmcoln, Ma ., at 87. He was an expert on
estate plannmg and tax law and a founder of the
Boston Tax Forum.
Readers Write continued from p.2
that all C lby students share ? Can't we make
"unification" a c rnrnon goal ?
Final ly, I want to express my support � r
any active students that think analyt ically
about the world around them. My que tion is
why are these same protester not marching to
Washington to protest the i llegal wars the
Clinton Admini trationhas involved ourcoun­
try i n ? Why do we not hear of any pr tests on
behalf of the 85 innocent men, women and
chi ldren that d ied in Waco? Are the students
not concerned that the Clintons have i l legally
used F. B.! files and the I .R.S. to threaten and
intimidate pol itical enemies ? I realize that the
maj rity of the faculty is of the l iberal bent, but
have the students been so indoctrinated with
this left ist rhetoric that they fai l to see other
significant issues beside "diversity training"
and "in titutional racism?"
Gregory M. Jackson '90
San Francisco, Cal if.
On Discrimination
In order to combat the past effects of
d iscrimination, the government and institu­
t ions l i ke olby grant preferences to pro­
tected c lasses. Preferences in employment.
Preferences in education. Preferences i n con­
tract ing. Preferences in terms of weakening
the presumption of innocence when d iscrimi­
nation is alleged. Preferences in having the
g vernrnent provide advocacy and lawyer­
ing, includ ing prosecuting civil suits.
Preferences for one group are d iscrimina­
tion against others. The one group that will
never get such preferences is m iddle-aged
white male . Perhaps that is fair. As a middle­
aged white male, however, I 'd have to be
meshugenah to upport such a system . . . .
No one should be d iscriminated againstr for-on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity,
d isabil ity or sexual orientation. Mart in Luther
King under tood that. Ward onnerly un­
d rstands that. I f polls are to be believed,
mo·t American· understand that. I ronically,
the only ones who don't understand it are
King' pol i t ical heirs in the d iversity polit­
buro, who are apparently well repr ·enred on
Ia flower H i l l . I have a dream roo-of an
m rica that doesn't put people in boxe·
marked ra e, gender and tribe.
Jon Rei man ' 7 7
l\ lachias, Maine
reisman@nemaine.com
Deans Shortchanged
Shari n g the Spot l ight?
W i l l iam L. Bryan ['4 ) d1ed December 24,
1 998. George T. icker on ['24) d1ed Decem­
ber 29, 1 99 .
Bill Bryan attended Wdl 1arn
ol lege,
leaving to erve in the oast Guard dunng
WWI I . After the war Bill completed h 1s edu­
cat ion at Colby. After graduation Bdl be­
carne directOr of adrni ion and erved m
that capacity for the next 1 5 years. In 1 946
George N icker on returned to olby, serving
ne year as d i rect r f adrni ion . He then
became dean of men, erving in that po ition
for the next 20 years.
These two remarkable men influenced the
l ives of thousands of Colby tudents, both in
their official capacity and off carnpu as well.
They are remembered respectfully and fondly.
Colby acknowledged the passing ofthese two
men with an inadequate article in the spring '99
issue of Colby. In that issue neither man was
noted in obituaries. In the summer '99 issue of
Colby again neither man was l isted in the obitu­
aries. It is my opinion that you have short­
changed the admiration, the memory and the
influence of these two very specific men. They
deserve better from their college.
We feel 1t 1 1rnportant tO clan!)· Wal ter
Wang' respom 1 b d ity 111 brmging K a t i e
Koe tner to addre t h e Colby community
( umrner '99, " harmg the pot l ight") . . .
We were plea>ed that Wang minally
brought Koe tner to Colby m the pnng of
1 99 7 . Her program 1 mcred1bly effe uve,
e pee �ally a exual a ault on carnpu' 1 an
under-addre ed 1 ue. However, we feel 1t 1
1r n 1c that Wang boa:.ted Koe tner wa h1'
"rno t powerful" program dunng h1 three­
year reign a GA cu ltural cha1r, becau:,e he
wa adamantly oppo ed to her returnmg to
Colby the fol lowmg fall a a part of exual
A ault Awarene s Week . . . .
When Laura [D'Afflm1 '99) approached
Walter requesting fund to bnng Koe tner
back t Colby, he adamantly refu ed. In the
overnber 1 3, 1 997, Echo, Wang tared, "We
can't afford to program the arne thmg. year
after year. . . . There are o many different
people out there." .
Our experience With Wang and h1 rcfu.,al
to bring Koe mer back to Colby d1rectly con­
tradicts hi tatement that exual a ault 1 ",1n
important topic and It d e n 't get talked a hour
much. It has everyth mg to do with fee lmg ,,1tc
on carnpu ." A very rec nt graduate who
have struggled to bnng the e 1 ue to l ight at
Colby, we felt that we could not let h1' com­
ment stand without further ontext. . . .
Lynne D'Amico McKee '58
Hampden, Maine
Newsworthy or PC?
I want to register my objection to your
comments on GBL TA [Gays, Bisexuals, Les­
b ians, Transgendered and A l l ies) in the um­
mer 1 999 issue ofColby ["Periscope"]. l t seems
Colby is bowing to pol it ical correcrnes by
promoting and encouraging membership in
an organization focused on certain exual
behavior. Of cour e, studenrs and alumni are
free to practice ex a they wi h, and th y are
even free ro form organi:ation that promote
their own brand of ex, but I believe the
College hould not encourage memb r h1p 1 11
any group dealing with exual beha\'lor. 1
would f el the same wa · if your column dealt
with an r an1:anon promotmg hetero>exual
behavior, although 1 doubt th1 would be
con 1dered n ,,. worthy.
l ha,·e enjo ·ed your column of new about
olby m the pa,t and lO<)k fof\\ ard to ,eemg
It a am m the futur .
Ross A. 1\ I old ff '79
alern. J H .
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Laura D'Afflm1 '99 nd K te Li tle '9
ewton, M :, .
Founder of Advocate for
exual A mtlt
Pret•ennon , a d1u wn of utdent Health
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A Watershed Breakthrough
Dam med since 1 837, the Kennebec runs freely from Waterville south
By Stephen Collins
A
' 74
n old Ethiopian saying goes,
for 1 6 2 years would have been
"Beware of tagnant water
part i a l l y underwater. A s I ap­
proached, a panicky beaver
and calm people."
Twenty year
charged out, dived for where the
ago, the first
time I launched a canoe on the
water used to be and rumbled
Kennebec between Waterv i l l e
down the 1 2 -foot bank, flat t a i l
and Augusta, I endured both:
over teakettle. Before I w a s done
passive companions who let me
laughing a second beaver leaped
plan the trip and then carped
headfirst on to a log. A third rolled
quietly about the utter lack of
down, equally undignified.
current and a pe ky headwind
ow, a l most three months
that turned our Saturday idy l l
later, new lodges have been b u i l t
i n t o an a ll-day slog-a-thon. Back
in eddies t h a t d idn't e x ist b e ­
then the river hadn't ful ly recov­
fore. A fat beaver cavorting in
ered from more than a century of
front of m y canoe smacked the
service a a sewer and dump. As
water in the t rad i t ional way­
Mark Twain aid of the M issis­
w i t h its t a i l this t i me . L i fe is
sippi: "Too thick to drink and too
getting back to normaL
But normal is a relative term.
thin to plow."
The victory at Edwards Dam freed
Returning to the scene of the
teve Brooke
1 5 m iles of the river from indus­
'67, the man who led the fight to
trial bondage. But there are 1 0
grime thi fal l with
remove Edward Dam and let the
river run free, I found plenty of
On July 1 , water smashes through a breach (at left) in Edwards Dam
on the Kennebec River, setting a national precedent for river restoration.
evidence that the clean water leg-
a company's abil ity to make a few
1 !anon of the 1 9 7 0 has helped.
megawatts and a few bucks.
or everyone shares our enrhusiasm though. For those with
And m tead of calm people and
For environmentalists it was
tagnant water I enjoyed dynamic
more dams on the 1 00-plus m i les
up the Kennebec to its headwa­
ters at Moo ehead Lake.
The
1 7 t h - c e n t ury E n g l i s h
different visions for a water hed,
poet J ohn M i lton wrote, " I f the
an unprecedented triumph. On
the Edwards dec ision was a Wa­
waters of truth flow not in a
an old crib from the log drives,
terloo that set a troublesome pre­
p e r p e tu a l p r o g re s s i o n , t h e y
Brooke's Trout Unlimited bud­
cedent. Power companies c i rc led
sicken i n t o a muddy pool o f con­
d ies had posted a " We l come
the wagons. Bass fishermen with
for m i t y and trad i t io n . " Steve
backed the nver up from Augusta
Back" sign for stripers, salmon,
outboards lament the steep gravel
Brooke and h is a l l ies went 1 5
norrh to Waterville. When the
and sturgeon, and as we paddled
bank , the shallow water and a
rounds against the conform ity­
Jam \\'a hreacheJ on july 1 t the
I watched him eye pools and ed­
boat ramp that stops 20 feet from
and-tradit ion tag team to get the
event wa a national new
tory.
d ies as only a fly-fisherman can.
the water. One river dweller who
lower Kennebec to flow freely
The order to remove Edward Dam
In 25 years canoeing Maine riv­
planned to repair seaplanes in his
again. H e t e l ls me striped bass
marked the fir t tune the Federal
er> I never welcomed a standing
retirement is p l a in out of l uc k .
a l ready have been spotted rol l ­
Energy Regulatol)
wave over the bow and into my
companion
and a bn k current
with frequent nffle and rip .
For 1 62 year
Edwards Dam
omm1
1
n
told an unw d l mg dam owner
lap unt i l
eptember, when the
A n d then there are the bea­
ver , who weren't consulted.
ing a t the foot of the dam in
Watervil le-the first t i me ince
"rough luck"-that the puhhc'
Kennebec summoned its long­
The day after the dam was
Colby fou nder J eremiah Chap­
mtere
oubtlued energy to splash Into my
breached I spotted high on the
l i n's l i fe t i m e . "Now what ?" I
Mad Rl\·er Explorer.
west bank a big beaver lodge that
imagine them asking.
t
and the welfare of almon
and tnped ha
O L B )
count more than
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64
T�e C ivi l Wa r Era
at tf.te C o i L ., B o o "Afo re
A U t lu: D a rittg o f tit £ Soldi£r
b y Elizabeth Leonard.
Associate Professor of H i story
All the Daring of the Soldier tells the fascinating
stories of the women who worked i n the Civil War
as spies. as daughters of the regiments or disguised
as male soldiers. Leonard has combed archives.
JoA it H a C lt a Ht b E: r l a i tt :
A H E: ro 1A LifE: a tt d LE: g O C 'f
by john j . Pul len '35
memoirs and histories to unearth stories of the
hidden and forgotten women who ri ked their l i ves
for the blue or gray. She i nvestigates why these
women chose unconventional ways to help their
cause. I n doing so. she pre ents a striking portrait
of the lives women led in the 19th century and of
their ability to break t hrough traditional constraints
of Victorian womanhood. Among the stories are
t h o e of Belle Boyd. a proud Confederate loyalist
and key player in
hold the Shenandoah
tonewall jackson'
struggle to
al ley; Annie Etheridge. who e
four years of courageous work in the Union Arm
earned her a Kearne Cro
for Bravery; and
Emma Edmonds. who enli ted a
arah
"Franklin
Thompson." remained with h r reg1ment for t\\ O
ear
D u r i n g the past two decades J o hua Chamb rla1n ha
emerged as a modern icon. featur d m th
no'
1
Killer Angel . the film Gerry burg and K n Burn ·
eries
The CIVIl War.
umerous b 1 ograph r d 1
h i s C i v i l War career. llvmg h 1 tor
portra
mterpr t r
h 1 m and a beer eYen b ar
h1
name. Renowned h 1 tonan John J
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Pull n ' 3; " ho
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