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fall 2004 vol. 93 no. 3
Features 14/Electing a President: What’s at Stake? Faculty and political-analyst alumni were asked to provide perspective on the 2004 presidential election. They did, from foreign policy to the economy to the environment.
10/Global Reflection The first Davis UWC scholars to graduate from Colby consider their years on Mayflower Hill. 22/Career Moves After months of planning, interviewing, waiting and worrying, our four Colby seniors have landed jobs, places in graduate school.
Departments 02/Letters 04/From the Editor 05/Periscope
alumni at large 44/Class Notes 66/Obituaries 68/Christopher Bauer ’02 on Haiti
Colby News 06/Terry Waite and forgiveness 06/Sherman Alexie’s irony 07/Sentencing guidelines criticized 08/Bill Alfond Field takes shape 09/Alumni Center gets name
alumni profiles 48/Judy Dickson ’58 50/June Chatterjee ’60 62/Heather Boothe ’94 65/Justin Amirault ’01
From the Hill 26/Commencement 28/Q&A with Paul Josephson 30/Crew 32/Red Sox front office 34/Facing ALS 36/Textbook authors/Recent Releases 38/Ted Williams biographer 40/Teaching responsibility 42/Undergraduate Research Symposium
Colby Online (www.colby.edu/mag) Mission: Democracy While the media focus is on warfare, a quieter battle is being waged: the implementation of a democratic government in Iraq. Colby alumni tell the story. The Book on Artists Rachel Tobie ’04 designed an independent major in Word and Image Studies, a growing area of academics that perfectly suited her fascination with both writing and art.
Band of Brothers For years, a group of fraternity brothers from the Class of 1973 has gathered annually to rekindle a decades-long friendship. This year, with the passing of Luthene “Luke” Kimball ’73, their reunion took on new meaning.