spring 2008
contents
vol. 97 no. 1
FEATURES 12/A Fine LIne Documentary filmmaker Andrea Nix Fine ’91 and her husband and co-director, Sean Fine, wanted their film War/Dance to tell the world the story of children living in a refugee camp in war-torn northern Uganda. The world watched, as War/Dance was nominated for an Academy Award.
24/Having a Ball in Japan Larry Rocca ’90 made the jump just in time. The former baseball beat writer, now in the front office of the Chiba Lotte Marines baseball team in Tokyo, is a catalyst in the historic melding of two baseball cultures.
19/Different Prescriptions Some Colby students are bringing new meaning to “premed.” Instead of devoting themselves strictly to science, they are studying everything from drama to philosophy before entering medical school. It’s a path they recommend.
DEPARTMENTS 02/Letters 03/From the Editor
ALUMNI AT LARGE 41/Class Notes 66/Obituaries
COLBY NEWS 04/Changes to grant aid 05/Diamond to speak at commencement 05/Hathaway progress 06/Campus construction roundup 07/More bubble bursting 08/Colby 360 begins
ALUMNI PROFILES 42/Beth Clark ’35 50/Rick Horton ’77 56/Sean Skaling ’91 60/Annika Svore ’04 THE LAST PAGE 78/Yvonne Siu ’03 on Egypt’s democracy
FROM THE HILL 28/Harold Alfond remembered with affection 30/Q&A with Neha Zaigham ’08 and Sanval Nasim ’08 on Pakistan 32/On anthropology and the Iraq war 34/President Adams on grant program 36/Hubert Kueter revealed 37/Jennifer Finney Boylan’s haunted past 38/Hockey’s triple threat
Colby Online (www.colby.edu/mag) Hear Jennifer Finney Boylan discuss her new memoir: Growing Up Haunted. Listen to Cedric Bryant’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day remarks. Hear Hubert Kueter read from his memoir, My Tainted Blood. Nico Porot ’10 shares his account of the remnants of Hurricane Katrina.