they can promise great entertainment. So watch for mailings about Reunion Weekend! It’s always wonderful to get the Class of 1970 together! —Brenda Hess Jordan
Eighty books! That’s the output of poet Gary C. Lawless ’73. An Ellsworth Weekly article, “Unsung Literary Heroes,” called the publisher of Blackberry Press and proprietor of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine, a fighter for many environmental and humanitarian causes and “a generous and underappreciated hero and voice” For former college ski racers like Richard H. Healey ’77, league-racing night at Wachusett Mountain in central Massachusetts offers a chance to relive the rush. “I’m always Gary C. Lawless ’73 comparing myself to someone my own age, and then against the young, fast guys. It’s a sport that you don’t want to stop, and the way they’ve designed this handicap system, it’s possible for us to keep up,” said Healey in “Out of Her League,” a story in the December 2004 Ski Magazine.
(C.Ph.T.). It was nice to hear that he is still composing new classical music. You can listen to his work on his Web site at http://jamessignorile. com. . . . My college roommate, Ann Jason Kenney, lives in Shelburne, Vt., with her husband, John, daughter, Madeline, a senior at St. Lawrence, and son, Ted, a freshman at Rice Memorial High School. Ann has had a career in librarianship. She got her M.S.L.S. at Simmons College and has worked at Brown, the Oregon Health Sciences Center, the Catlin Gabel School, St. Michael’s College, and now at Rice High School. . . . Linda Krohn, our classmate with triplets, has gotten her license to practice law in Minnesota after having a Colorado license for six years. She was a welfare appeals and welfare referee for the state of Minnesota for 16 years and now practices law after normal work hours. She is currently in sales at WirthCo Engineering. Linda, who is recently divorced, is trying Internet dating, which she finds quite entertaining. . . . Jean Wahlstrom has been named interim minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Flint, Mich., while the church committee continues to seek a new minister. After receiving a degree in mathematics from Colby, Jean, a native New Englander, received her master of divinity from Harvard Divinity School. She worked in the insurance industry for nearly 12 years before becoming a minister. . . . In the winter 2005 class column, the list of classmates who are Colby parents was an attempt to name parents of all current Colby students, but it implied a more comprehensive approach. Jim Brace called from Pennsylvania to report that his son, Corbin ’01, not only graduated from Colby, he’s still in the area, teaching physics in Winslow and working part time on weekends at the Alfond Athletic Center. Other classmates who fit the category of Colby parents without students currently enrolled are Michael Currie, Sandra Clark Jonassen, Gary Millen, Rodger Silverstein, Nancy Spangler Tiernan, Al Traversi, and Nancy Dubois Truman. And by the time this is printed the Class of ’09 is likely to add more names to the list. . . . Keep sending me news. —S. Ann Earon
milestones
75 Roger Hatch was honored
over the years. . . . The week prior to our return to Maine we were delighted to receive an e-mail from Steve Cline, who was coming to Chicago on business. We spent a lovely evening with him in the city, traded business, school, and family news, lost and shortly thereafter retrieved Steve’s cell phone from the rear seat of a Chicago taxi, and promised to meet again soon at our upcoming Colby reunion, which Andy Starkis characteristically describes as not our 35th reunion but our seventh. Anyone feeling lots better now? . . . I am chagrined to report that a few months ago I received a nice, newsy note from Tom Whidden that I simply cannot unearth, so from memory I will just report that he is continuing to design sleek, award-winning ocean craft and having a wonderful time enjoying the lifestyle surrounding that profession. I apologize, Tom, for misplacing your note. Please come to our reunion so you can share the details of your interesting letter! Let me sweeten the attractions: The Love Equation, the Colby band from the ’60s, will be playing, and everybody needs to come and dance! It’s all Colby grads—Ron Caruso ’69, Barry Atwood ’69, Jim Winchester ’72, Vic Pinansky ’68, who started the band, and his son, Marc Pinansky ’00. They played at last year’s ’69 reunion and had a blast so decided to do it again this year. It is a lot of fun and brings back the music we all grew up with. Not to mention beer on the floor and cloud shows. Can’t promise that (after all, we are a bit older), but
71 William Hladky wrote from
Yonkers, N.Y., that he is a premium auditor. He has an 11-year-old son, Jacob. . . . Linda Chester of Hudson, Mass., and I had the opportunity to visit Karen Mahanke and Judy White Brennan in August 2004. Karen and Judy still reside with their respective families in Newport, R.I. Keep those cards and letters coming! —Nancy Neckes Dumart
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I am honored to be the class correspondent for the next five years and thank Robin Sweeney Peabody for her hard work. A special thank-you also to Steve Collins, who covered the reunion in my absence (first I have ever missed). . . . Robin Hamill-Ruth lives in Virginia and has managed to raise six kids! One is through college, one is in grad school, two more are in college, one is a high school sophomore, and one is in third grade. She was elected to the board of directors of the American Board of Pain Medicine. In addition to being busy with work and her family, she is redoing her house (totally gutted kitchen). I was tired reading her e-mail! . . . Jim (Jamie) Signorile lives in Teaneck, N.J., with his wife, Mary, and is a software engineer at Crestron Electronics; he’s also a certified pharmacy technician
newsmakers
Deaths: Carter M. Zervas ’73, April 2, 2004, in Wyndmoor, Pa., at 52 Jean Crowley Huebner ’75, November 18, 2004, in Rutland, Vt., at 51 Peter P. Knowlton ’77, August 11, 2004, in California, at 49.
at the Massachusetts Association of Vocational Administrators Annual Dinner Meeting. He received the David F. Cronin Award, which was
1970s Correspondents 1970 Brenda Hess Jordan 141 Tanglewood Drive Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 630-858-1514 classnews1970@alum.colby.edu 1971 Nancy Neckes Dumart 19 Deergrass Road Shrewsbury, MA 01545 508-842-1083 classnews1971@alum.colby.edu 1972 Janet Holm Gerber 409 Reading Avenue Rockville, MD 20850 301-424-9160 classnews1972@alum.colby.edu 1973 Roberta Rollins Wallace 119 Eastern Drive Wethersfield, CT 06109-2609 classnews1973@alum.colby.edu 1974 S. Ann Earon 124 Thomas Lane Manahawkin, NJ 08050 609-597-6334 classnews1974@alum.colby.edu 1975 Bruce Young 20 Applewood Avenue Billerica, MA 01821 978-443-6417 classnews1975@alum.colby.edu 1976 Jane Souza Dingman 805 River Road Leeds, ME 04263-3115 classnews1976@alum.colby.edu 1977 Mark Lyons 66 Edgewood Drive Hampton, NH 03842-3923 603-929-7378 classnews1977@alum.colby.edu 1978 Janet Santry Houser 9 White Rock Drive Falmouth, ME 04105-1437 classnews1978@alum.colby.edu Lea Jackson Morrissey 1 Shorewood Road Marblehead, MA 01945-1225 classnews1978@alum.colby.edu 1979 Cheri Bailey Powers 6027 Scout Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918 719-532-9285 classnews1979@alum.colby.edu COLBY / spring 2005 53