alumni at large Image (www.imagejournal.org) and conducts retreats on disability and spirituality. She’s contemplating a move south for better winters. Y Scott Butchart was named associate dean of Brookline High School, after teaching French since 1984. He and his wife, Christine, live in Needham with sons Liam, Niall, Conall, and Aidan. Having coached soccer and skiing at the high school, Scott now coaches his sons’ teams. Y After graduating from Colby Rick Anzelc taught math, then worked in programming and data processing. In 1982 Rick co-founded Hi-Tech Software and is now owner and president. Hi-Tech provides administrative and clinical software for 90 percent of Maine’s nursing homes and many more in other states. A Morning Sentinel article featuring Rick was titled “Serendipity and Software.” Obviously, Rick paid attention to President Strider’s serendipity speech! Y Lynn Leavitt Marrison’s older daughter graduated from Yale this spring, then headed to medical school in Charleston. Lynn’s younger daughter completed her junior year at the Hotchkiss School and is researching colleges. Lynn loves teaching third grade at a little Episcopalian day school. She and her husband have purchased land on the Kennebec River for retirement. Y Jed Snyder received his second Navy Superior Civilian Service medal from the Secretary of the Navy. He next heads to Hawaii. Y Richard Oparowski (aka Opie) left Citigroup this spring, but for a mini-retirement. He’d been with them since 1977, most recently as director of business risk and control for the Consumer Lending Group. His main goal now is to maintain the proper balance between work and play. Richard and his wife, Gail, live in Newtown, Conn., and “continue to be best friends after almost 39 years.” Their oldest, Beth, works for Genworth in Richmond. Jon, their youngest, recently married and lives in North Carolina. Y Sarah and Doug McMurrey planned to escape Houston’s summer heat with a week sailing the Maine coast. Son Jay (Colby ’06) works and studies in London; daughter Leigh enjoys college life at UVA. Y Jack Dean started a charitable foundation that helps people get alternative healing. Learn more at www.ourweepingangel.org. His oldest daughter, Emily, graduated from Penn State, daughter Allison returned from a semester in Rome, and son Jackson completed 10th 56 COLBY / FALL 2008
70s newsmakers Sarah Owen Tabor ’70, an art teacher at Bangor High School for more than 20 years, was named 2007-08 Maine Art Educator of the Year by the Maine Art Education Association. In addition to teaching art, Tabor continues to pursue a career as an artist, and her work has been featured in several galleries and shows. v Carolyn Johns ’75, associate professor of environmental studies at St. Sarah Owen Tabor ’70 Lawrence University, was named to the Grace Fippinger Endowed Professorship in Science. Her research is on freshwater ecosystems in the St. Lawrence River, and her course curricula center on air and water pollution, sustainable agriculture, and environmental backlash. v For leadership in the public sector, and for having made a significant contribution to the future of Greater Portland, Jerre Bryant ’76 will be honored with Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Neal Allen Award. Bryant is the city administrator of Westbrook, Maine.
milestones Deaths: Robert B. Nelson ’72, July 1, 2008, in Groton, Mass., at 59. v Mary Eckhoff Dreyer ’74, August 7, 2008, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at 55. Marriages: Stephen A. Etzel ’74 to Andrea Friberg in Cape Elizabeth, Maine grade. Jack’s in Marshfield, Mass., and was looking forward to a summer of sailing. Y This summer Fred McGrail became Lehigh University’s vice president for communications. Previously he had been director of communications and public relations at Northeastern. Fred and his wife, Rosalind, have two daughters, Lindy and Kate. Y After seven years as Maine Audubon’s executive director, Kevin Carley is Pacific-bound to become the Peace Corps’ country director for the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau. Y Kevin Murphy lives outside Philadelphia with Patty, his wife of 30 years, and commutes to D.C. Kevin’s son, Brian, graduated from Ithaca College and is in the U.S. Navy, while daughter Shannon was finishing her senior year at James Madison University. Kevin welcomes all old friends to join him for a round of golf. Y Class president Paul Boghossian wants you to start thinking about our 35th reunion in June 2011, noting, “It’s fun, and you get to plan the reunion you want.” If you’re interested, contact him at paulboghossian@gmail.com. Paul is expecting a spring 2009 dedication for the Hathaway Creative Center project in Waterville. If you’d like to
be invited to the grand opening or an advance tour, e-mail Paul. Y Jenny Frutchy Ford continues to work for two philanthropists who support progressive politics and emerging visual artists. Her daughter is a junior at Brown and captain of the women’s swim team. Her son, who is starting at Middlebury, was headed to Beijing to be a translator at the Olympics. Jenny asked me to thank all of our class’s contributors to the Colby Fund. To which I’ll add that, if this column has brought back fond memories of our Colby days, now would be a terrific time to make this year’s contribution! Have a great fall, everyone! —Robert Weinstein
77 Greetings once again classmates, from your about to be excorrespondent. Y Bill Yoder has taken a new position as an organizational effectiveness consultant with SRA International Corporation, a company located in the D.C. area that does technology consulting. The job sounds really interesting, and who knew you could get paid gobs of money for being well organized? Bill’s daughter, Stephanie, graduated from Emory last spring and spent the summer backpacking through
Europe, which is an excellent summer job. His son, Willy, is at Ohio Wesleyan University studying sports journalism and has his own blog called TheNatsBog.com, which is probably about the baseball team and not pesky insects. Y Nancy Epstein became a rabbi in 2006 and has been working for the Reconstructionist movement since she was ordained. Nancy works with synagogues (thank God for spell-check) and consults on issues such as governance and lay-clergy relations. She also serves at the local rabbinical college as a spiritual director to the students, and she continues to teach at Drexel University in the School of Public Health, where she is an associate professor. Nancy lives in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia and says she loves it there. It sounds like she has no trouble staying busy. Y Jerry Chadwick writes that his wife, Ligia (Campana), spent last summer in South America again with daughter Elizabeth. They must really like the… food. They spent three weeks in Peru climbing a 27-mile stretch of the Inca Trail at an altitude of 13,000 feet. I’m exhausted just writing about it. Jerry stayed home, worked his day job, and started his doctoral dissertation. Y Kevin Farnham sent news for the first time in my six-plus-year tenure as correspondent. It is a wonderful thing because (trumpets please) he has foolishly, I mean generously, offered to be our new class correspondent! Kevin’s son, Jesse, graduated from Wesleyan last spring and is in the computer science doctoral program at some university named Princeton. Kevin’s daughter, Kayla, is at Hampshire College in Massachusetts where she is majoring in music. Kevin lives in Connecticut and says he and his wife have embarked on a Thoreauvian experiment in self-sufficient living. They intend to grow a big garden and heat their house with corn stoves this winter instead of using oil. It’s not clear what Kevin will do for electricity, but maybe he intends to write the class news column in longhand by candlelight. Kevin, you are the man for volunteering to be our correspondent. It’s time to pass the baton. Thank you, and I know you’ll do a great job. I wish all my classmates well, and I will sign off for the last time. —Mark Lyons
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For those who missed our 30th reunion (June 7-8), we had a great time! We had a respectable turnout,