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A Gluten-Free Recipe for Success: Foye ’14 turns an unexpected challenge into sweet
students explore river communities and study rapidly dwindling water resources on a two-week experiential learning trip to the American West RECURRING 4 College News 9 A Sustainable Campus 14 Around Campus 21 Portfolio 36 Sports News 29 Alumni News 30 Class Notes 43 In Memoriam 45 In Fond Memory 46 Archives 48 Epilogue NEWS+STORIES 3 Commencement 2022 6 Aspiring Teachers Inspiring Students: UVEI partnership offers students a clear path to the classroom 16 Inherent Design:
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cover: Jude Prijdekker ’23 takes in the setting sun at Arches National Park during a field study trip to Utah in May. this page: The River Communities class hikes through the Utah desert at sunrise. editor Michael Pezone associate editor Mary McLaughlin production manager Gregg Mazzola staff writer Nicole Butler designer Laura M. Young ’16 staff photographer Christopher Peirce ’18 class notes editor Tracey Austin printing R.C. Brayshaw & Company, Warner, N.H. Colby-Sawyer welcomes letters to the editor and reserves the right to edit and condense them. Please send your letters editor@colby-sawyer.edutoor to: Editor, Office of Marketing & alumni@colby-sawyer.eduSendNew541Colby-CommunicationsSawyerCollegeMainStreetLondon,NH03257addresschangesto or to: Colby-Sawyer College Office of Alumni Relations 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257
Looking ahead, this is an exciting time for the college.
are another important part of the college’s learning experiences. A few years ago, the college partnered with the Upper Valley Educators Institute (UVEI) as a pathway for stu dents who wish to pursue their New Hampshire teaching certificates. You’ll read about how our recent graduates are making a difference in the classroom. We also had a number of nursing students on campus this past summer partnering with Dartmouth Health as LNAs.
The college’s progress on the new health sciences building continues to go well. The new building will sit where Reichhold once stood. We continue to be on track for a 2024 opening. The building con tains new space for anatomy and physiology labs, gathering spaces for students and a state-of-theart simulation center for our nursing students. We are also in the process of constructing an athletics pavilion at Kelsey Fields that was made possible by Sally Shaw Veitch ’66. We expect construction to be completed by March 2023, hopefully in time for use by spring teams.
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It was so good to have some normalcy for a class that had endured so much during their four years.
On Sept. 7, we announced a new initiative that will make a Colby-Sawyer education more accessible to more students. Please see the story on page 49 to learn more.
This issue also contains a number of stories that affirm the breadth of the Colby-Sawyer curriculum in addition to our pursuit of a greater presence in the health sciences. Field studies courses give our students a wonderful opportunity for hands-on learning in the real world. You’ll learn about one of these opportunities in a story about a Colorado River Partnershipstrip.
Susan D. Stuebner, Ed.D. President and Professor of Social Sciences and VolanakisEducationFamily Presidential Chair
All of the work we do on campus would not be possible without the support of so many alumni and friends of the college like you. I thank you for your continued interest, engagement and support of KindColby-Sawyer.regards,
Greetings from COLGATE HALL
The fall semester is well underway, and we have entered a post-pandemic era wherein we are able to return our focus primarily to the teaching and learning that Colby-Sawyer does best. The past two years have been intense for our students, faculty and staff, and I am grateful to them for their efforts in making everything work. We had a wonderful in-person Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2022 with families and friends in attendance.
As recipient of the Jack Jensen Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Business & Social Sciences Assistant Professor Kimberly France delivered the Commencement Address, titled “Keep It Real.” Nina Hills ’22, a biology major from Jacksonville, Fla., inspired the class with her Senior Address, “Unfinished Stories.”
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top photos: Members of the Class of 2022 proudly sport their caps, gowns and new diplomas. bottom (Back row from left) School of Arts & Sciences Professor Jon P. Keenan; Board of Trustees Chair Lisa Hogarty ’81; President Susan D. Stuebner; School of Arts & Sciences Associate Professor Donna E. Berghorn. (Front row from left) Former Board of Trustees Vice Chair Robin Meade ’72; School of Business & Social Sciences Assistant Professor Kimberly France; Trustee Emerita Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56; former Board of Trustee David B. Payne.
“The scariest and by far most reflective portion of my time here has been during this year. I was afraid of letting go, losing people, my next steps, not having all the right answers and time going by too quickly. In fact, the more I thought about these things, the more I looked at graduation as a thing to fear instead of anticipate. My mind was changed through a shift in perspective. I was encouraged to think of my life as a novel under construction. Instead of the ending of each chapter bringing about a new beginning, it simply continues the story. In fact, the best part of this novel is that you are not the only author.”
Former vice chair of the Colby-Sawyer Board of Trustees Robin Mead ’72 and former member of the Board of Trustees David B. Payne were awarded the Susan Colgate Cleveland Medal for Distinguished Service, the college’s highest honor. Kayla Frazier ’22, a nursing major from Lee, N.H., and Hannah Tiffany ’22, a child development major from Enos burg Falls, Vt., received the David H. Winton Baccalaureate Award. Troy Cappos ’22, an athletic training major from Peabody, Mass., received the Colby-Sawyer Award.
Trustee Emerita Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, an honor bestowed upon an individual of humanitarian character and superior intellect whose life and work have brought about positive, far-reaching consequences for individuals and organizations. The honorary degree recognizes the remarkable leadership and commitment that Sonja has offered through her dedication to Colby-Sawyer College and, especially, to the arts at the college.
Commencement 2022
Colby-Sawyer College celebrated its 184th Commencement on Saturday, May 7, with its first traditional, in-person event for graduates and their guests since 2019. The ceremony celebrated 150 graduating students in the Class of 2022 and recognized several members of the college and greater community for academic excellence, outstanding contri butions to society and service to the college and its students.
Excerpt from Senior Address ‘Unfinished Stories’ by Nina Hills
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above left: Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters prior to the college’s 2021 Commencement ceremony.
above right: William Davidow lectures in the Black Box Theater located in the Davidow Center for Art + Design during a visit to campus in May.
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The next day, during the college’s Commencement ceremony, Sonja Davidow was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, an award that recognizes an individual of humani tarian character and superior intellect whose life and work have made a positive, far-reaching impact on individuals and organizations. The Davidows and their daughter, Becky, enjoyed a special lunch with Director of Development Beth Bryant Camp ’92 and Professors Peter White, Darcy Mitchell and Jon Keenan, the faculty holders of the endowed chairs bearing the Davidow name.
A Colby-Sawyer graduate, Sonja received her associate of arts degree from the college in 1956. She subsequently served as an alumni trustee on the Colby-Sawyer Board of Trustees from 1989 to 1992 and was a member of the Board Organization, Capital Campaign and Enrollment Committees.
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Davidows Met with Gratitude During Campus Visit
Last year, the Davidows contributed $10.2 million, the largest gift in college history, and established “The Davidow Challenge,” providing matching gifts made to endowed scholarship funds. The family has also supplied the funding for the Sonja C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair of Fine Arts and the Sonja C. and William H. Davidow Endowed Chair. The Davidow Center for Art + Design and the William H. and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 Fine Art Gallery are also named in their honor.
During their visit, William Davidow, a technology industry executive and venture investor, gave a presentation in the John and Heidi Grey Niblack ’68 Black Box Theater in the Davidow Center for Art + Design, titled “Virtual Space’s Greatest Creation — Homo Sapiens,” which explored the subject of virtual spaces over the course of 2 million years of human history.
top: William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 pose for a photo alongside their daughter, Becky Logan, in front of the entrance of the Davidow Center for Art + Design.
opposite page : Students take part in the college’s Day of Giving in April; Dean for the School of Business & Social Sciences Thomas Kealy; Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President for Human Resources Ron Price.
William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56, along with their daughter, Becky Logan, paid a visit to the Colby-Sawyer campus this May, where they witnessed in person the graduation of stu dents whose educations have been supported by their generous contributions to the college.
This selective group, made up of college and university presidents from Division III conferences across the nation, operates as the premiere advisory panel to the Division III Presidents Council, the division’s highest governing body. Stuebner, who is currently serving as chair of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Presidents Council, has already begun serving her term.
President Susan D. Stuebner Appointed to NCAA Division III Chancellors/Presidents Advisory Group
Colby-Sawyer College Dean for the School of Business & Social Sciences Thomas Kealy has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year.
“Colby-Sawyercommunity.College has taken an important step by creating the role of chief diversity officer and
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School of Business & Social Sciences Dean Awarded ACE Fellowship
Colby-Sawyer College raised $11.7 million in fiscal year 2022, marking the second highest single-year fundrais ing total in its 184-year history.
Colby-Sawyer College President Susan D. Stuebner was recently appointed to serve on the NCAA Division III Chancellors/Presidents Advisory Group on a threeyear term.
In addition to these contributions, the college also received $5.58 million in bequests this year, the largest of which was a $3 million bequest from Janet Udall Schafer ’52.
The $11,740,142 raised in fiscal year 2022 is second only to the $21.5 million donated last year — supported by a record-setting $10.2 million gift from longtime supporters William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56. Colby-Sawyer also saw a 40% increase in the number of donors, with more than 3,500 individuals and organizations — the most since 2012 — making gifts over the course of the fiscal year.
The college’s fundraising success was due largely to a marked increase in giving from parents and friends of the college. The college also raised more than $350,000 during its fourth annual Day of Giving. The money raised during this 24-hour event was supplemented by gift-matching pledges made by former trustee Rob in Mead ’72, current trustee Sally Shaw Veitch ’66 and William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56, contributing to a total of $1.05 million in donations added to the fund over the course of the year.
vice president of human resources together,” Price said. “This role and office will play an important part in assuring that our college is a more supportive and engaging place to work and that we learn by under standing the perceptual, institutional and psychological processes that impact the ways people interact with each other.”
College President Susan D. Stuebner nominated Kealy for the prestigious program, which has produced many college and university presidents and provosts since its inception in 1965. Kealy participated in a competitive application process before being named one of the 46 emerging college and university leaders in the 2022-23 class of ACE Fellows.
College Raises $11.7 Million in Fiscal Year 2022
College Hires Vice President for Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer
Colby-Sawyer College has hired Ron Price of Atlanta as its vice president for human resources and chief diversity officer.
Price, a father of three who began his role on June 20, comes to Colby-Sawyer with more than 20 years of experience in higher education and an extensive history of leadership in diversity, equity and inclusionbased initiatives. As part of his position, Price will manage the college’s staffing procedures while also playing a key role in further developing ColbySawyer’s ongoing initiatives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, with the goal of increasing the proportion of underrepresented groups within the college
As an ACE Fellow, Kealy will spend the spring 2023 semester participating in an immersive, customized learning experience at a yet-to-be-determined institution of higher education under the mentorship of another experienced senior administrator. Kealy said his focus of study will be diversity, equity and inclusion in higher Colby-Sawyereducation.
Gunn is enthusiastic about the opportunity he’s had to work with students, citing the program’s early experiential opportunities as one of its most attractive qualities.
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Aspiring Teachers Inspiring Students
“I could get right into teaching and I wouldn’t have to spend more time than I needed to do an extra semester of school,” he said. “I think the program has shown itself to be really beneficial now that I have a full-time job as a teacher and I’m doing what I love at such a young age.”
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Since the inception of Colby-Sawyer's teaching partnership with the Upper Valley Educators Institute (UVEI) nearly five years ago, graduates of the program have established impressive portfolios — and an outstanding reputation as classroom teachers.
Couper Gunn ’22 completed his student teaching at Kearsarge Regional High School in Sutton, N.H. Three months into his internship, he was offered a full-time teaching position for the 2022-23 school year.
Colby-Sawyer's education preparation program consists of 3½ carefully planned years of training and instruction and prepares students for success in the spring semester as they complete a six-month student-teaching internship and professional study program at UVEI.
opposite page: Julia Roy ’21 speaks about her time as a fifth-grade teacher. top left: Couper Gunn ’22 discusses his experience with the UVEI program. top right: Julia Roy ’21 helps a student complete an in-class exercise.
– Page Tompkins, UVEI President
Maddie Johannson ’21 said the hands-on experience the program provided gave her the opportunity to compare the reality of teaching with her idea of what it would be like.
And the program continues to grow. Eleven education minors are expected to complete a bachelor’s degree this December, then com plete the six-month student-teaching internship and begin the UVEI portion of the program. In May, they’ll walk with their graduating class at Commencement. For these ambitious new teachers, it will mark the end of their time as students, and the beginning of a career shaping the student experience of countless others.
Sciences Assistant Professor Amy Lyon ’85 said of Johannson. “It fills my heart to see her in that room with those students.”
“As teachers move from Colby-Sawyer to graduate preparation at UVEI ... the results are exceptionally prepared teachers.”
“I knew I wanted to be a teacher since I was 11,” Johannson said. She also said she knew that testing out her theory was important, adding that she wanted it to recognize if teaching wasn’t really for her at an early point in her college career.
Luckily, Johannson said she found that teaching was, indeed, her calling, and that graduating from Colby-Sawyer could make her childhood dream come true a year sooner than traditional pathways. By sophomore year, she had planted her roots just down the road from the college at Sutton Central School, where, five years later, she now teaches fifth “Shegrade.gained quite the reputation for being an effective, skilled, ‘great team player’ type of beginning teacher,” School of Business & Social
“The core strength of this pathway is that aspiring teachers start preparing their freshman year,” UVEI President and faculty member said Page Tompkins. “So, as teachers move from Colby-Sawyer to graduate preparation at UVEI, they have a strong background in their content area and a foundation in teaching from the education minor. When you combine this with the intensive UVEI internship, the results are exceptionally prepared teachers.”
The Colby-Sawyer/UVEI partnership is one of the few undergraduate programs that offer students a clear, direct path to becoming a teacher in New Hampshire. In just four years, education minors can earn both a bachelor’s degree in the major of their choice through Colby-Sawyer and a New Hamp shire teaching license in middle (5-8), secondary (7-12) and/or visual arts education through UVEI. With mentorship from skilled teaching profession als, acquired knowledge and in-class practice, this unique collaboration gives students the opportu nity to gain a strong liberal arts foundation with a focus on child development and education and graduate as highly qualified teachers.
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Melissa Conlon is the social media coordinator for the Office of Marketing & Communications. She holds a B.A. in communications from Southern New Hampshire University.
COMING SPRING 2023 FEATURED SPACES: TEAM MEETING SPACES ATHLETIC TRAINING ROOM COVERED PICNIC AREA PUBLIC RESTROOMS Pavilion at the Kelsey Athletic Campus This project was made possible by a generous lead gift from Sally Shaw Veitch ’66. If you would like to learn more, please contact Director of Development Beth Bryant Camp ’92 at 603.526.7323 or via email at ecamp@colby-sawyer.edu.
Here at the college, there is a culture of sustainability, and we look at everything from our energy efficiency to potable water consumption while also making sure that our students, faculty and staff are thriving and able to adapt to the challenges ahead.
So, yes. We have a turbine and solar panels, but do we have the capacity to bring everything else that’s a part of “sustainability” to Colby-Sawyer College? Absolutely. We already have and will continue to do so. I look forward to being a part of that process and hope you will be, too.
“Although environmentalism is an important aspect of the field, we also have social and economic factors to consider.”
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meet ZoëAdams
So, now that I’m here, what is my plan for sustainability on campus? Luckily, my prede cessor, Jennifer White ’90, laid much of the groundwork for me. Wind turbine? Got it. Solar paneling? Got it. Sustainable classroom? Never heard of that before, but hey, we got it. So, what’s left?
A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS
Introducing Colby-Sawyer’s New Sustainability Coordinator
I couldn't wait to touch her.
Quite a bit. A common misconception is that the field of sustainability is solely environmentalism.
Petting a snake when I was five years old shaped the course of my life. My school in San Antonio took us on a field trip to the zoo. The zookeepers had an array of animals for us to interact with, including a female yellow python. The kids (and the chaperones) were shocked, and almost all of them refused to handle her.
Sustainability looks at how we can ensure a future that meets the needs of present and future generations of people. Providing communities with healthy, local food, clean water and efficient energy and addressing societal problems like safe working conditions, equity and fair wages directly relate to the overall health of our planet. Behind everything you consume is a human being who helped get it to you.
I still remember how smooth her skin was. I thought she was perfect. That one interac tion inspired me to explore the relationship between animals, nature and people years later as a college student. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Master of Arts in sustainability at Wake Forest University. Working as the sustainability coordinator at Colby-Sawyer College throws my education into practice, and I’m loving the challenge.
We readily chunk it down to recycling and reusable water bottles because it seems easier to digest that way. Although environmentalism is an important aspect of the field, we also have social and economic factors to consider.
It was the second morning of a four-day whitewater rafting trip, the culmination of an environmental studies course called River Communities. The day before, our group — 12 students, two professors and me, the college photographer — had arrived atop a mesa via two small bush planes to meet our river guides at a put-in known as Sandwash. It was day 10 of a trip that School of Arts & Sciences Professors Nick Baer and Leon-C. Malan have led every other year since 2007 — one that is equal parts adventure, education and intentional connection with the natural landscape. Its purpose is to show students firsthand the forces, pressures and realities of the resource that most shapes the American West: water.
The silty brown water of the Green River, one of the two largest tributaries of the Colorado, seemed to be both inside and outside the raft. As the rocking of the boat slowly subsided, and my nerves began to settle, I turned to watch the raft behind us navigate the same large Class III rapid we’d just crossed. Nick Genovese ’22 was completing the last two paddle-strokes of the rapid: he was drenched and grinning widely.
Story and photography by staff Christopherphotographer,Peirce’18
Colby-Sawyer students explore river communities and study rapidly dwindling water resources on a two-week experiential learning trip to the American West
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To prepare for the trip, each student had chosen a research focus on the impact of water use, and throughout their previous semester at Colby-Sawyer, they’d studied these topics in small groups both inside and outside the classroom. Now, at various points in the trip, they were called upon to share this knowledge with their classmates, offering their expertise on subjects like geology, ecology and hydrology.
opposite page: Olivia Anderson ’23 ( front ) and Jude Prijdekker ’23 sit atop a sandstone cliff in Devils Garden at Arches National Park in Utah. above left: Marcus Barata ’22 and School of Arts & Sciences Professor Nick Baer relax during a hike in Arches National Park. above right: River Communities students learn about siphon pipes and flood irrigation at a farm near Montrose, Colo. bottom left: Olivia Anderson ’23 completes a tight scramble deep underground in Fulford Cave high in the Colorado Rockies. bottom right: Colby-Sawyer Staff Photographer Christopher Peirce ’18 (front) and members of the River Communities class paddle on the Green River in Desolation Canyon, Utah.
Our expedition started in Denver, then traveled across the Continental Divide and into the Moab area of Eastern Utah. As a photographer, I had naturally anticipated images of jagged, snow-capped mountains, scenic vistas and powerful, churning rivers. However, I was aware that this was not merely a sightseeing excursion. Its grounding mission was to better understand the environmental, legal and social issues surrounding water resource usage in the American West, a place that is becoming less habitable due to increased drought and water misuse as the population increases.
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“I will never forget the way the waves hit me in the paddle boat or how pushing my oar through the water felt,” he wrote. “How the swallows and great blue heron flew across the water. The sight of the great steep cliffs and the animals that climbed them. The way the riparian zone melted into the desert. During that time where I was surrounded by and connected to the beauty of the life around me, I was truly alive.” x
clockwise from top: Colby-Sawyer students descend into Desolation Canyon in preparation for their river trip. Jude Prijdekker ’23 rests on the trail in Arches National Park in Utah. School of Arts & Sciences Professor Nick Baer enjoys the warmth of the campfire in Sylvan Lake, Colo. School of Arts & Sciences Professor Leon-C. Malan teaches students about the local flora in Flatirons, Colo. A raft flotilla is shown moored on the banks of the Green River. Baer and his students complete a rapid in Desolation Canyon.
opposite page: Members of the River Communities class pose for a group photo beneath Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.
By the time the students found themselves on the rafting journey through Desolation Canyon, something had fundamentally changed in them. When the front of our raft smashed through the third and largest stopper wave of our first Class III rapid, the students’ combined expressions of joy, terror and serene focus reflected a new awareness. Through stakeholder meetings and journal entries, through group demonstrations and fireside conversations, students had experienced a different type of education: one wrapped in the intangible beauty of the natural world, guided by professors committed to immersing their students in authentic engagement with the environment.
“... the students had experienced a different type of education: one wrapped in the intangible beauty of the natural world, guided by professors committed to immersing their students in authentic engagement with the environment.”
Later, once we’d returned to New Hampshire and we’d all had time to reflect on how this experience had affected us, Genovese shared a journal entry describing the thoughts he had on the raft in the canyon.
Christopher Peirce ’18 is the photographer/videographer for the Office of Marketing & Communications. He holds a B.A. in history and political studies from Colby-Sawyer College.
I watched as the students’ learning expanded in real time. But it wasn’t just their knowl edge that grew: I also saw their perspectives evolve as Baer and Malan demonstrated the power of an immersive experience coupled with context. This context was enhanced by discussions with experts in municipal water, the environment, hydropower, agriculture and anthropology, which framed the nuanced challenges of a system in which their most integral element, water, is rapidly disappearing.
Each location we visited was intrinsically tied to water as an essential component of life. Students who had previously only read about and discussed the significance of high mountain snowpack were able to personally observe it while camping at 8,500 feet be side a snow-fed river. They marveled at underground caverns that, without the erosion of water, would never have existed. Over the course of the journey, the students’ hair began to go unwashed, their clothes became mud-stained and wrinkled and their joints were sore from nights sleeping outside. But no one minded. They were gaining some thing much more precious: a chance to exist so close to nature that it evoked a sense of appreciation, understanding and kinship with the landscape through which they traveled.
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The Class of 2022 celebrated their final days at Colby-Sawyer with Senior Week, the first MBA cohort graduated and, as always, we enjoyed another season’s worth of delicious maple syrup! It’s a Chargers world, we’re just living in it!
We work hard, but we play hard, too!
These insects had been collected for the purpose of close examination. Beside the vial is a booklet featur ing pastel-drawn representations of the insects; the forms amorphous, the colors, exact. In her written description of the piece, Abbie states, “I honestly dreaded this piece of my capstone, as my main focus is birds, and insects were simply one of the X variables I was looking at. But I could not believe the diversity and elegance of the insects I collected. So, as I preserved, and therefore killed, upwards of fifteen hundred bugs, I drew some of the most stunning specimens in this mini zine I titled Insect Obituary.”
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At Colby-Sawyer, Abbie majored in both environ mental science and studio art, and her work as a
student explored the ways that the two intersect. Now, a year later, that coincidental focus on insects has developed into her current work: an illustrated guide to the bumblebees of New England, which she’s preparing for the Vermont Center for Ecostudies.
But neither the past nor the present was the reason Abbie now joined me in a busy local bakeshop in White River Junction, VT. Rather, our conversation was focused on the future: Abbie was preparing to illustrate her first full-length book.
Abbie Castriotta ’21 prepares to take her paintbrush to the page to illustrate a revolutionary guide to resilient farming techniques in the Northeast
Abbie Castriotta ’21 is an illustrator. At least, she is in the process of becoming one. Her portfolio, displayed online, shows examples of her art — mostly watercolor, mostly pictures of plants, birds, and animals. One project, a tiny bound booklet, is photo graphed next to a specimen vial containing a collection of her subjects — luminous, bead-like insects, emerald and vermillion, preserved in alcohol, their bodies arrested in a semi-permanent suspension.
“The common thread with that is a sense of place and observation,” Abbie said. “I like to center myself where I am and work based on my surroundings.”
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This book, a project proposed by Abbie’s uncle, Marty Castriotta, a practitioner and teacher of a style of agriculture known as permaculture, is intended to meet a need. While much has been written about the subject of permaculture with attention to both the theoretical and the practical, thus far, few texts have addressed one of its most fundamental principles: accessibility. This book will be written for beginners, with a focus on local case studies and real world examples that are suited to the particular climate
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This is Abbie’s specialty — the juxtaposition of these seemingly separate spheres: creation and observation, the active and the passive, the principles of art and the
“... humans are a species that design inherently.”
Marty’s house, which he shares with his wife, Ellen, and his young son, Jules, lay at the end of a series of unpaved roads, nestled inconspicuously amongst mounds of greenery. In a nearby field, a small flock of sheep paused their grazing to regard passing cars with wary calm. The terraced garden beds surrounding the main dwelling spilled over with lupines and calendula, vegetables and medicinal herbs, barely restrained by retaining walls made of woven branches. Everything appeared to be caught in mid-stage in a cycle of transformation, from the stacks of salvaged roofing slate to the half-constructed barn, to the vigorous flock of young broiler chickens that now occupied the old sugar house — chickens that had, in less than a month of life, already quadrupled in size.
opposite page: Abbie Castriotta ’21 enjoys the beauty of the Colby-Sawyer permaculture garden. above left: Watercolor scenes by Abbie Castriotta ’21 are shown. above right: Marty Castriotta pauses to discuss the plants within the permaculture garden at his home.
– Marty Castriotta
and habitat of Northern New England. In this way, Abbie and her uncle hope to illuminate some of the complex ities bound up with the ethos of permaculture, which is less a prescriptive methodology and more a set of values; a particular approach to the relationship between humans and their “Permacultureenvironment.isfarming — farming and growing food,” Abbie explained. “But it also expands to, for instance, the type of shelter that we use, like houses. It can even be applied to local economies and how we organize com munities. The main premise is that we’re modeling our human systems based on what actually works — not using more than you need to, recycling nutrients and energy. Nature doesn’t create any waste; everything is recycled. So, we’re looking at those models in nature and seeing how we can design our systems based on that.”
The first of Abbie’s preliminary sketches was a drawing of two cross-sections of forest edge: one with livestock, one without. Tall sugar bush maple and butternut trees were outlined in stark black ink, frames filled with mottled watercolor greens that captured a sense of leaves moving in wind. Beneath, the diminutive shapes of chickens roam freely in the underbrush, rendered in a cheerfully contrast ing orange. In permaculture, I soon learned, such liminal spaces — the physical boundary between forest and field, for instance, or the conceptual boundary between civilization and wilderness—were of particular utility. The elements of the picture were clear, and their meaning could be easily discerned, but they were also interpretive, even playful — more than just figural representations of objects in the world, they also invited the viewer to notice the subject’s particular character. “I’ve always felt that observation or illustration is more useful for me in that way than photographs,” Abbie said. “You know, being able to show that this is what you focus on when you’re looking at this thing. So, for me, that’s the most logical combination — scientific illustration.”
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laws of the natural world. “The science side of that is to notice something, form a hypothesis, and work through that whole scientific process,” she continued. “But art is the same kind of thing. You notice something and then take time to observe it and interact with it in that way. So, it’s like two different kinds of consciousness, observing and interacting with the world around you. You have to have a scientific knowledge to be able to draw something
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drawing was a Venn diagram composed of three contrasting circles clustered symmetrically to cre ate areas of overlap. Each field of color was labeled with a different concept, thereby explicating the relationships between the core tenets of permaculture’s ideological framework. At the center, where the three circles join, was a word one is unlikely to find in a typical gardening manual: ethics.
“You have to have a scientific knowledge to be able to draw something accurately.”
“You know,” he reflected, looking down at the space we had just traversed, “it’s insane to me to think about how far we are removed from our food system; that it’s not ever that close at hand or accessible for people.”
Audience is one aspect of his planning process, of course, but he told me he’s also considering other perspectives, and this, especially: how best to convey the shared values of the permaculture community. “For instance,” he said, “we’re thinking about access to land. Not everyone has land. And another thing we’re talking about is an awareness that a lot of this is really about indigenous strategies for growing food. So, we have to be careful not to claim that, especially for the white men that are teaching it. We realize that we’re on indigenous land, and that a lot of these tech niques have been used for ages. But at the same time, we’re at a different place in time. So, this is an evolution of those strategies for modern times.”
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Later, Marty explained how he’d first recognized the need for the book he’s in the midst of planning. “I felt like that was a niche that was missing. I mean a text that is for (high school and college students), a permaculture book that was more specifically for them. Not just introductory, because there are introductory books out there — but framed differently, for that age group.”
For some time, Marty’s farm had not been equipped for the overwintering of livestock — and that meant that each animal he raised, with very few exceptions, would need to be gone in the fall. Now, as the barn neared completion, the overwintering population of the farm had marginally
Soon, Marty is also pulled back to the notion of patterns. “Another example,” he said, “is the idea of fertile edges. An edge ecosystem produces everything that both of those individual ecosystems produce. And you can see edge ecosystems happen on their own, where forests and fields meet. But the concept of a fertile edge can also apply where two organizations work together, or where two different people join their sets of ideas and collaborate.”
As Marty walked through the gardens and the fields, he explained the essential whys and hows with the instinc tive clarity of a natural-born teacher. Between broader discussions of the relationship between the plants and the animals and the phases of growth, decomposition, and rebirth, Marty pointed out young seedling hazelnut trees, nearly invisible to my untrained eye. Occasionally, Marty stopped to chop back the growth with his machete — either errant “volunteers” that had seeded themselves from last year’s garden, or part of this year’s crop that was no longer productive. Marty left the cut foliage in place on the ground to build and nourish the soil.
increased, but still, most of these animals were destined to lead a brief life, all committed to the continued sus tenance of the system in some way--by grazing the land, by fertilizing the soil, and by nourishing the people that bred and kept them. Most of this season’s lambs were still following their respective mothers, waiting for the opportunity to latch onto a teat with a surprising violence. One full-sized ewe came straight up to Marty and bleated expectantly. Marty obliged, scooping the sheep up into his arms. “She still thinks she’s a baby,” he said, chuckling. Marty and his wife had once been vegetarians, he said, and they’d decided together that if they were going to raise livestock for food, they would prefer to see that process through to the end — including the slaughter. “We get pretty close with our animals, and we definitely know when the time is the time … but it’s nice if we can do it ourselves.” He added that he didn’t like the idea of putting his animals on a truck to be processed at a USDA facility, where they might spend hours or even days in an unfamiliar envi ronment, although, he conceded that, like most small farmers, at times, for the sake of convenience, he has done that as well. As it turns out, processing animals is both labor intensive and time consuming.
Back on campus, at the Main Street Garden, the summer interns doing the very same job that Abbie herself had done just two summers before, had been orchestrating a remarkable process, at once both new and old—the cultivation of land for the production of food. Their pro fessor, Leon Malan, served as a docent, explaining how they’d turned this recently fallow space into row upon row of food-producing crops.
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Marty studied engineering in college before switching to environmental studies for his graduate degree—a decision that was in part provoked by a sudden insight as a student in the classroom. His instruction had prepared him for the execution of design work — but the curriculum had included only a single class session on the subject of ethics. It was this class that sparked a type of epiphany for Marty, eventually guiding him to change his path and study environmental science in graduate school. “I think that when anyone designs anything, ethics needs to be embedded,” he said. “I mean, what are we doing in the world if we’re building, creating, manufacturing the real ity that we’re in, and there’s no sense of ethics or values behind it? That’s what I like about permaculture — it has ethics, which makes it unique as a design system. And you can interpret them however you want, but basically, it’s clear that what you’re doing is good for the planet, it’s good for people, and it’s accessible to everyone.
This garden, established using permaculture techniques that minimize the disruption of the soil’s natural flora, had been cultivated entirely with hand tools. Raised beds spanned the garden’s width, filled with vegetables that had been started from seed, either directly in the beds themselves or in trays filled with strips of paper accordion, stretched and folded so as to envelope small pockets of soil — a technique, Leon told us, called “Japanese paper planting.” At odds with the ancient processes occurring
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We’re faced with all these challenges, which I don’t even have to name—environmental, social, political, democracy — everything is a little bit fraught at the moment. So, we realized that there needs to be an accessible and creative and inspirational blueprint for a different way of creating.”
above: Marty Castriotta’s flock of sheep graze through a field at his home. opposite page: Abbie Castriotta ’21 sketches flowers in Colby-Sawyer’s permaculture garden.
“It’s also framed around the idea that humans are a species that design inherently,” he said. “That means we can be creative. And we can create with each other within our communities, to make systems that feed us. We can sequester carbon, build wildlife habitat, build biomass, and there’s no reason we can’t do that collectively.”
Once, not long ago, Leon was Abbie’s teacher, as well. And he’s developed a sort of reciprocal relationship with Marty, sometimes bringing his students to visit Marty’s farm, which gives them the opportunity to see permaculture in practice. Leon is hopeful that some day, when it’s finished, he’ll make use of the Castriottas’ book as an instructional text. Earlier, in his classroom, which looked like some sort of staging area, perhaps for an archeological expedition, Leon had displayed some of his tools for instruction. A long table was strewn with books, drawings, and equipment, in various stages of completion or use. Here was where Leon and his students planned their tasks, divided their chores, and hatched new solutions to age-old problems — here, out of the afternoon heat, and among the trappings of the digital age. Access to such records of collective knowledge are vital to their work. Leon and his students are not the first to practice this form of agriculture; a fact of which Leon seemed keenly aware.
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All illustrations for this story were created by Abbie Castriotta ’21.
within the garden beds, a length of electric fence enclosed the space. “Usually, I’m happy to let the animals visit the garden and take what they need,” said Leon, “but some of the students are conducting experiments in these beds, so obviously, that won’t work.”
These are the issues at the heart of this project — issues of how we adapt and survive, of how we teach and learn, and of how we preserve and distribute our knowledge. This book, yet unwritten, has already begun to form an ecosystem of its own, built from the relationships between members of a family, between a teacher and a student, between people with a common interest and a set of common values. And it will endure, perpetuating the beliefs, the knowledge, the talent, and the hard work of the people who created it, even after their cycle is complete. w
For more information about Abbie and Marty’s book, please visit colby-sawyer.edu/permaculture
above right: A sketch by Abbie Castriotta ’21 created for Marty Castriotta’s upcoming book is displayed.
“... it’s clear that what you’re doing is good for the planet, it’s good for people, and it’s accessible to everyone.”
above left: Abbie Castriotta ’21 walks through the tall grass in Colby-Sawyer’s permaculture garden.
“So this book could fulfill some of that need,” Leon said, “and make it possible for teachers to teach the concept of not just permanent agriculture, but permanent culture, which is the way we should be thinking as a species — thinking about how we can design transportation systems, energy systems, cities, schools, governance structures, that will sustain our species. Not everyone might agree, but I think we are at a species crossroads, if you start thinking about all the crisis factors that we are facing. So, we need to start introducing that seed earlier, and get that material across sooner.”
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Nicole Butler is a staff writer for the Office of Marketing & Communications. She holds a B.A. in creative writing from St. Lawrence University, and an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from Ohio State University.
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Sarah Dow-Fleisner ’07 , assistant professor for the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, was selected to present a webinar for the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention Partnership in Research in Kelowna, Canada. Her presentation, Defying the Odds: Positive Adaptation in the Context of Family Adversity, provided an overview of emerging research on positive resilience among those who have endured experiences of early childhood and family adversity.
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arrangement is an outgrowth of Keenan’s Fulbright work in Japan. It will mark the Tokyo group’s second visit to Colby-Sawyer’s campus.Printmaker and artist Carol Lummus ’57 was recognized by Marquis Who’s Who with its Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Lummus, a member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen from 1974 to 2001, has distinguished herself as a renowned artist for more than 40 years, having completed close to 300 etchings since purchasing her first etching press in 1974. Her work has been shown in more than 60 exhibitions, both domestically and abroad.
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Professor Ewa Chrusciel’s new book of poetry, Yours, Purple Gallinule, is forth coming from Omnidawn Press. The book, Chrusciel’s fourth in English, uses species of birds as a mechanism for a lighthearted lyrical satire exploring themes of health and illness and the processes of diagno sis, misdiagnosis and treatment. In July, Chrusciel also led a creative writing workshop for Ukrainian refugees and art residents at Loch Camelot Theater in Krakow, Poland.
conference.Amidnews of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications Laura M. Young ’16 , a profes sional graphic designer and illustrator, created and distributed stickers to support the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. The stickers featured quotes from the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins burg and Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale . Young matched 100% of the proceeds before donating them to the fund.
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Assistant Professor Christina Perez was recently published in Develop mental Review, a scientific journal fo cused on research in developmental psychology. Perez authored a paper titled “A review of the differential contributions of language abilities to children’s eyewitness memory and suggestibility,” in which she and her coauthors conclud ed, using more than 30 years of research, that specific types of language abilities uniquely predict children’s testimonial performance. In March, Perez traveled to Denver to present her research at the annual American Psychology-Law Society
Two recent graduates of Colby-Sawyer’s MBA program, Jenna Bessette ’21 G’22 and Madison Lambert ’21 G’22, along with School of Business & Social Sciences Associate Professor Jonathan McCosh, recently coauthored an article chosen to be presented and published at the 49th Annual Northeast Business & Economics Association Conference in Portsmouth, N.H. The article, “A Discus sion of How the Consumer Price Index and Demand Elasticity Were Impacted by COVID-19,” was written as a continuation of work conducted while Lambert and Bessette were earning their master’s degrees.
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School of Arts & Sciences Professor Jon Keenan received a prestigious Whiting Foundation fellowship to study Italian art and culture. He will travel to Florence, Italy, in October for a brief residency as a visiting artist at the Florence School of Fine Arts, an institution with which he has a longstanding collaborative relation ship. While there, Keenan will study and learn, give talks and demonstrate his work. In spring and summer 2023, Keenan will have a solo exhibition of ceramics in Kyoto, Japan. In the fall, he will host Japanese faculty colleagues and students from the Tokyo University of Fine Art for a ceramics residency at Colby-Sawyer. This reciprocal
Working and learning at Dartmouth Health
Few choices we make have as much impact on our daily lives as our choice of career. The stakes are high, and once we’ve committed, it can be difficult, time consuming and expensive to change direction. This is a common concern for many college students, who are often first introduced to some of the more practical aspects of their profession after they’ve already earned a degree. Nursing, with its significant clinical component, is an exception to this rule. And for the student nurses who take advantage of special opportunities like Colby-Sawyer’s LNA summer nurse internship at Dartmouth Health, the post-graduation workplace holds very few surprises.
This is exactly what happened to Maddie Gaskell, a rising senior in Colby-Sawyer’s nursing program. “I thought I would love pediatrics because I’ve always babysat. But on the floor, you have different feelings,” Gaskell said. “And for me, when I was in OB for the first time, I just felt calm. And I was like, ‘I think this is where I should be.’ ”
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The LNA summer internship is designed for nursing students in their second or third year of study, a point at which most have completed some amount of clinical work and are seriously considering which specialty to choose for a senior practicum. It is the point at which Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Nurse Educator Tracie Ruggles believes it’s important for advanced students to spend a summer really getting to know the ins and outs of their chosen field.
“It’s an opportunity for them to explore care environ ments,” Ruggles said. “Students sometimes think they have a specific interest, that they know where they want to land and what they want to do after they graduate. But, during their clinical rotations, they have a sort of an abbreviated experience. The LNA program allows them to have a
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saturated experience. They can say, ‘Do I really want to be an ICU nurse? Do I really want to be a neonatal inten sive care unit nurse?’ Sometimes they want to choose a specialty based on what they think it’s like, and spending a summer working in some of these care areas as an LNA helps them to really see the work and make informed decisions about where they want to be.”
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Conversely, rising junior Emilie Bouchard already knew exactly what she wants to do. “They tell you by your junior year start thinking about your practicum, and I knew my end goal is to be a pediatric oncology nurse,” said Bouch ard, who had explored the oncology aspect of that special ty during a clinical rotation but had not yet spent time on the competitive pediatrics floor. “I did a clinical rotation on One West, which is the cancer floor. That solidified my plan — I thought, ‘Okay, this is exactly what I want to go into.’ So, then I was like, ‘Okay, I need some pediatrics to just get used to working with children, because the way you talk to a child is completely different from how you’re going to talk to an adult.’ ”
Fortunately, even students who don’t have Laycock’s frontline experience as a practicing LNA have access to the Dartmouth Health summer internship program. Com pletion of the Fundamentals of Nursing course, which is part of the nursing curriculum, is sufficient qualification for Colby-Sawyer nursing students to apply for the LNA license they need to begin the internship. This means that traditional students who haven’t worked in a hospital environment outside of their brief clinical rotations also have the chance to learn experientially by immersing themselves in the daily rhythms of a hospital floor.
“I really wanted to get on the floor and start making relationships with the people that I hope to work with in the future,” Gaskell said. “But it’s super hard without going through the LNA internship — I think it’s very difficult to get on the birthing pavilion floor as just [a regular] LNA.” She explained that COVID-19 restrictions have made typical job-shadowing oppor tunities hard to come by; however, spots are reserved and available for students in the internship program.
“The LNA program allows them to have a saturated experience.”
The LNA program is also an opportunity for students to increase their chances of gaining entry into the more competitive specialties during their senior practicums. For students who are hoping to end up in pediatrics, obstet rics or trauma care, an entire summer of networking and practical experience can be the best way to get a toe in an otherwise very selective door.
For other students, the primary appeal of the internship is the additional professional development programming. “I decided to do the LNA program this summer because I learned about all the networking and educational opportunities that they build into the program,” rising junior Bri Laycock explained. Laycock already had a thor ough understanding of hands-on patient care as an LNA, having spent a year working on a general surgery floor during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, she said she found the additional professional development opportunities offered every few weeks to be useful. One session focused on communication and work ethic. “We got to talk as a group,” Laycock said, “and I really loved the part where you get to debrief with the other
Gaskell said she knew that without the internship, finding a spot in obstetrics might be challenging.
photos: Colby-Sawyer nursing students who are taking part in the college’s LNA summer internship program participate in team building and professional development exercises at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
Bouchard’s intended specialty is also one of the most competitive. When she shared her goal with her advisors, they emphasized the ‘audition’ aspect of the LNA opportunity. “They were like, ‘Okay, make yourself known, because there’s a lot of people that want to go for this,’ ” Bouchard said. She said she hopes that during her time on the pediatric floor, she’ll make a positive im pression on the people who will decide whether she’ll be accepted to pediatric oncology for her practicum during her senior year.
That was the primary motivation for Jaelynn Currie, a rising junior. Currie’s internship was in Dartmouth Health’s he matology oncology clinic, which sees approximately 3,000 patients each month. “I’m a hands-on learner,” Currie said. “So, I felt like doing something like this over the summer would be good for me to get practice in nursing experi ence and more patient interaction.”
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Of course, for patients and students alike, a hospital can be an intimidating place. After all, this is where lives begin and end, and is the setting of some of a person’s most intense and intimate moments. “It definitely can be nerve-wrack ing at times,” Gaskell said, “but I think they set you up for success. So, at least as a student, you’re learning, and they know you’re learning, and they won’t put you in a situation where you can make serious errors.”
With the support of program advisors, mentor nurses and their peers, Colby-Sawyer LNAs have the resources they need to grow. “Now I feel like I’m more confident speaking to people and answering questions, whereas before, I was shy about just walking into patient’s room,” Bouchard said.
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interns, and just talk about how things are going or what you could improve on in your practice.”
For Dartmouth Health, the hope is that these talented students will eventually join their staff as fully qualified nurses — but the program is more than a recruitment tool. “In the end,” Ruggles said, “regardless of whether they come to work for us or not, we want to help them to be as prepared as possible to enter the workforce as new nurses.”
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After a two-week break, Hanson was back competing again for the indoor track & field team. Hanson picked up two silver medals in the GNAC Indoor Track & Field Championships in the 800 meter and in the 4x400-meter relay. On Feb. 26 in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III East Regional Championships, Hanson made school history, along with Kara Keiper, Ashley Keleher and Grace Walsh, by breaking the school record in the 4x400-meter relay by more than four seconds, placing 16th.
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“Hanson is a natural talent who maximizes her potential through hard work, coachability and competitive determination,” said women’s lacrosse Head Coach Emily Dewdney. “We’re thrilled to have Heather as a part of the Colby-Sawyer lacrosse program both for her on-field contributions as well as off-field. The way she leads by example and genuinely cares for those around her makes Heather a wonderful teammate and a pleasure to coach.”
“Heather is the type of person who really brightens up every room she walks into,” said cross country and track & field Head Coach Ryan O’Connell. “Her energy is contagious, and she brings a lot to the team and really helped cement the culture we are building on the cross country and track & field teams.”
Heather Hanson ’24 is not your typical collegiate student-athlete; in fact, she is a full-on rarity in the year 2022. She is a three-sport athlete for Colby-Sawyer competing year-round in cross country, track & field and women’s lacrosse.
While training for regionals in track & field, Hanson dusted off her lacrosse stick and started preparing for her third season of the year, during which she cemented herself in the record books again with a program record in ground balls. She was later named the GNAC Rookie of the Year, a First-Team All-Conference member and an All-Rookie Team selection.
“Being a three-sport athlete is both challenging and rewarding at the same time,” Hanson said. “I have a lot of support from the upperclassmen on my teams, and they’ve all showed me the best ways to be a student-athlete.”
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Hanson started the year in the fall cross country team. She finished ninth in the GNAC Cross Country Championship on Oct. 30 as the Chargers won the championship. Hanson earned All-Conference Second Team honors and was named a member of the GNAC All-Sportsmanship Team.
above: First-year student athlete Heather Hanson ’24 rushes into the attacking zone during a lacrosse game against Fitchburg State University.
Starin also has prior experience at the collegiate level, having previously served as an assistant coach at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2013-14 and Worces ter Polytechnic Institute in 2012-13. He also served as head coach of the Londonderry High School boys’ and girls’ teams where he was named 2009 coach of the year.
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David Starin was named the new head coach of the men’s and women’s volleyball programs in April of 2022.
Anthony Cosky joined Colby-Sawyer for the 2022 fall season after being an assistant for Clark University in the 2021 season. At Clark, Cosky and the Cougars finished the year 11-7, falling in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference quarterfi nals. Prior to his time with the Cougars, Cosky was the women’s soccer head coach for Becker College for four seasons, holding a 33-27-5 record. During his tenure, Becker was in the conference tourna ment semifinals every year, and his student-athletes received numerous accolades including Confer ence Player of the Year, United Soccer Coaches All Region, Scholar All East Region, COSIDA All District First Team, NEWISA All New England teams and 10 all-conference selections.
An active member of the New Hampshire Volleyball Coaches Association, Starin received his bachelor’s degree in marketing management in 2006 from Siena College and his master’s degree in finance in 2012 from Southern New Hampshire University.
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Cosky has more than 15 years of coaching experi ence at all levels, including at the semiprofessional level as the head coach of the Worcester Smiles in the United Women’s Soccer League for its inaugural season. He has coached with the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program and various clubs and high schools. He has also done private coaching for the past five years, and has been a member of the United Soccer Coaches Organization for more than 10 years. Cosky currently holds the United Soccer Coaches Premier Diploma, Director of Coaching Diploma, Level 3 Goalkeep er Diploma and USSF National Youth License, and he is actively pursuing his USSF National D License.
Starin came to New London, N.H., following a recent stint with Bedford High School, where he amassed a 41-3 record in his three-year tenure with the program. Starin also has extensive experience at the club level, serving as a head coach for Hard Rock Volleyball since 2014, where he has helped capture 27 NERVA/New England Region tournaments.
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Colby-Sawyer’s men’s tennis team got back to Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play for the first time since April 27, 2019. Head coach Barry Schoonmaker led Colby-Sawyer to a 10-10 overall record with a 3-1 GNAC record, which secured the Chargers the second seed in the GNAC tournament. The Chargers picked up a 5-1 home win in the GNAC semifinals over Albertus Magnus College on April 30. Senior Julius Lowman (Bavaria, Germany) had a stellar comeback in #1 singles, storming back from a 3-0 deficit to eventu ally win by a 6-4, 6-0 final. Colby-Sawyer eventually fell in the GNAC championship to Eastern Nazarene College. The Chargers had four student-athletes make the GNAC All-Conference Teams, with firstyear Jan Ullmann (Schriesheim, Baden-Wuerrittemberg, Germany) recognized twice, as a GNAC All-Conference First Team member and as the 2022 GNAC Rookie of the Year. Lowman was awarded First Team All-Conference honors, first-year Aidan Jensen (Essex, Vt.) was a member of the GNAC All-Conference Second Team and senior Charlie Graffius (Portland, Maine) was a member of the GNAC All-Sportsmanship Team.
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Tom White finally got to finally complete a full season as head coach of the Colby-Sawyer baseball team as the young Chargers finished 8-29 with a 4-14 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) record. The Chargers were a part of the Russmatt Central Florida Invitational this year and picked up an exciting walk-off victory against Curry College on March 16. In the game, the Chargers trailed the Colonels 7-6 heading into the final inning, until first-year Jesse MacGlashing (Pittsfield, N.H.) and sophomore Jack Matarese (Ashland, Mass.) each had RBI singles to propel the Chargers to the win. Junior Cooper O’Brien (Vergennes, Vt.) had a stellar season for the Chargers with six home runs, 27 RBIs and a .327 batting average. O’Brien was later named to the GNAC All-Conference Third Team. MacGlashing also shined in his first year in New London, hitting a team-leading .340 with 20 RBIs and six extra base hits. MacGlashing was also named to the GNAC All-Rookie Team for his outstanding play. On the mound, first-year Jack Mullen (Norfolk, Mass.) led the way with a 4-4 record and a team-leading 48 strikeouts.
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The Colby-Sawyer men’s volleyball team had another building year, finishing the season 5-19 with a 2-14 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) record. The Chargers picked up their first GNAC conference win on March 12 at Dean College with a 3-0 (2516, 25-10, 26-24) final. Senior Orlando Plagata (Los Angeles, Calif.) led the way with 12 kills, 10 digs and a service ace. Senior Eric Miller (La Grange, Ill.) added 10 kills and five digs. The second conference win for the Chargers came at home on March 31 with another 3-0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-12) win over Dean College. Plagata had another big game with 12 kills, while first-year (Hampstead, N.H.) added 31 assists, 11 digs and five service aces. Plagata was later named to the GNAC All-Sportsmanship team, finishing the year with 178 kills, 133 digs, and 21 service aces. On April 5, David Starin was announced as the new men’s and women’s volleyball coach at Colby-Sawyer and will take over the program next season.
Head Coach Emily Dewdney kept making history in 2021-22 as the Colby-Sawyer women’s lacrosse team got off to the best start in program history, winning their first eight games of the season. Colby-Sawyer ended the year with an 11-6 overall record and an 8-5 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) record. The big win of the year came on April 20 as the Chargers defeated in-state rival New England College by a 15-6 final on Sally Shaw Veitch Field. Hanson again led the way with five goals, an assist and four ground balls, while junior Hannah Marquis (Weare, N.H.) finished with three goals and four ground balls. Colby-Sawyer fell in the first round of the GNAC tournament to Johnson & Wales to end the 2022 campaign. Hanson was honored three times, being named the GNAC Rookie of the Year, while making the GNAC All-Conference First Team and GNAC All-Rookie Team after a 49-goal, 26-assist and 86-ground-ball season. The 86 ground balls that Hanson collected is a new program record and ranked first in the GNAC in 2022. Firstyear Hannah Himes (Williston, Vt.) was a GNAC All-Conference Second Team member while also securing a spot on the GNAC All-Rookie Team. The converted goalkeeper played an outstanding defender, collecting 45 ground balls and causing 15 turnovers for the Chargers. Junior Sydney Stevens (Laconia, N.H.) made the GNAC All-Conference Third Team as the two-sport athlete scored 42 goals and dished out 20 assists. First-year Sophia Kuhltahu (Cheshire, Conn.) was named to the GNAC All-Rookie Team after causing a team-leading 33 turnovers and scoring 32 goals. Marquis was also named to the GNAC All-Sportsmanship Team.
opposite page: Junior Cooper O’Brien ’23 awaits his chance at bat from on-deck circle. above left: Members of the men’s track & field team celebrate their victory at the GNAC Track & Field Championship last May at Williams College. above right: Orlando Plagata ’23, who was named to the GNAC All-Sportsmanship team, goes up for a left-handed kill.
On the men’s side, senior Alex Kusnarowis (Concord, N.H.) earned first place in three of his events, winning the discus throw, shotput and hammer throw. Taking the win in the men’s pole vault event and collecting an impressive personal record was first-year Drew Doughty (Bedford, N.H.). The team of junior Dean Miller (Andover, Mass.), sophomore Joseph Branchaud (Tewsbury, Mass), first-year Chase Adams (Brookline, N.H.), and first-year Jordan Kofos (Kittery, Maine) collectively won the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 43.83. Adams continued the day with two event victories in the 110-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles. Junior Terrance Harvey Jr. (At lanta, Ga.) battled it out with his opponents as he took first place in the 800-meter race, crossing the line .01 of a second faster than the Regis runner. Colby-Sawyer took first place in the 4x400 relay for ten extra team points with Harvey, Adams, first-year Hayden Goyette (Epsom, N.H.) and senior Jacob Nichol (Concord, N.H.) finishing in 3:35.99.
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Both the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams got to compete in eight meets in 2022, including a trip to the NCAA Divi sion III regionals at Williams College on May 7. The Chargers hosted the GNAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships on May 1, with the men’s team winning the GNAC championship while the women’s team were the GNAC runners-up.
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On the women’s side, finishing in first place during her first triple-jump appearance of the season was sophomore Ashley Keleher (Mashpee, Mass.) with a 10.53-meter jump. Junior Laurel
Blackman (Fairfield, Conn.) led the pole-vaulting event with a 2.90-meter vault to earn first place. Junior Shannon O’Connell (Peabody, Mass.) was named both the 5k and 10k champion as she finished in first place with a time of 19:26.62 in the 5k and 44:35.69 in the 10k. Keleher collected her second event victory of the day in the women’s 100-meter dash, crossing the line at 12.60 while also placing second in the 200-meter race. The team of junior Grace Walsh (Marstons Mills, Mass.), sophomore Aleah Murph (Portland, Maine), first-year Bridget O’Connell (Peabody, Mass.) and soph omore Kara Keiper (Peterborough, N.H.) placed second in the 4x400-meter relay with a finishing time of 4:32.03. First-year Quinn Aldrich (New Ipswich, N.H.), first-year Heather Hanson (Marstons Mills, Mass.), first-year Courtney Larson (Auburn, Maine) and gradu ate student Julia Lanctot (Sandown, N.H.) also placed second, but in the 4x800-meter relay.
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It provides one-on-one therapy services to individuals with chronic illnesses and a guided journal for those who could benefit from tools to manage stress but might not want individual therapy. Foye also created a podcast, “Gluten Free Coast to Coast,” in which she and her brother share personal stories about living with celiac.
Nick’s Gluten Free Kitchen was established in 2021.
“My current favorite is our English muffins,” Foye said. “Most gluten-free English muffins are chewy and not browned on the top and bottom. Our English muffins are each baked on a griddle by hand, which makes them unique.”
Story and photography by Donna S. Long
S ometimes you’re thrown a curveball that will change the trajectory of your life. Jessica Foye ’14 received that unexpected twist in 2012 when her younger brother, Nick, was diagnosed with celiac disease, an autoimmune response to gluten that causes damage to the small intestine.
“I dreamt of a place where you could go to a group therapy session and connect with other people who understood what you were going through and then safely meet your friends for a coffee and a brownie after.”
For more information on Nick’s Gluten Free Kitchen, visit nicksgfkitchen.com
above: Bakery owner, Jess Foye ’14, poses for a photo.
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Foye said that running her own business gives her the flexibility to be creative, adding, “Having worked primarily in the healthcare system, this has been a really rewarding shift for me.”
A sociology major at Colby-Sawyer, Foye started her career as a behavioral health provider in pediatric primary care, working with physicians to integrate behavioral health services into the primary care setting. Then, in 2016, life sent Foye another curveball — at 22, she received her own diagnosis of celiac disease. “This changed my perspective on so many things,” Foye said, “and drove me towards this path even more clearly.”
Donna Shepard Long is the communications and marketing coordinator for the Office of College Advancement. She holds a B.A. in communications from Syracuse University.
below: Jess Foye and her brother, Nick, who the bakery is named for, are shown at a farmer’s market in Maine.
Their gluten-free baked items are available at local markets and events on the eastern seacoast. Foye said they create a variety of curated treats that include seasonal flavors, so their offerings rotate four times a year. “We offer a chocolate chip cookie that is free of all top eight allergens and is vegan,” Foye said. “I am proud of this, because you would never know it was missing classic staples like butter.” They also carry their own take on a Lofthouse sugar cookie, seasonal breads like lemon blueberry, pumpkin and apple cinnamon, and, in the summer, the Maine state dessert, whoopie pies.
“I realized that there was a real gap between getting the celiac diagnosis and the mental health piece that comes after,” Foye, a resident of Kittery, Maine, said. She began to imagine starting a business that would offer mental health support, celiac awareness resources and baked goods.
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Nancy Shumway Adams and Roger had a great trip to Telluride, CO, in Feb. The trip was a Christmas gift from their son Charlie and his wife, Lisa. Three of Shum’s grandchildren worked at the resort for the winter. Sarah “Sae” Bond Gilson reports that she and Ben are doing well at Kendal in Hanover, despite both having had a mild case of COVID-19 early in the summer. It came as a surprise, given both had been vaccinated and received
Nancy Shumway Adams ’52 (2nd from r) with her husband Roger, their son Charlie and daughter-in-law Lisa during a trip to Telluride, Colo., in Feb.
At the time she shared this news with the Alumni Office in early July, Barbara “Bobbie” Hamilton Hopkins was very excited over the prospect of being in New London from midJuly to Aug. 8. She wrote, “I’ll be staying both at our house, Windy Top, now owned and occupied by son Jeff Hopkins and his wife Lyn, who have retired and are joyous, and at our daughter Sally Hopkins Wilson and her husband Jim’s house, Windy Shore, on the west shore of Lake Sunapee in Newbury. I’ll also be staying at son Rick Hopkins and wife Ginger’s house in East Montpelier, VT. I’m gadding about, but hope to get to the campus for a visit, take in a show or 2 at the New London Barn Playhouse, and catch a day or 2 at the annual League of NH Craftsmen Fair at Mt. Sunapee. I will try too to catch up with all the grandchildren and our 1st great grandchild, Eleanor (Ellie), who live in the east! It shall be a memorable time!” Marilyn Belding Hilly turned 94 on May
30 and has had another busy year. After spending a year and a half during the pandemic with her daughter Meg at their farm in VT, Marilyn spent the winter in Nashville, TN, visiting her son Jed and 3 grandkids, now all in their 20s. She also spent 3 months with daughter Rebecca in UT, where she loves to get out skiing on the bluebird days. Currently, Marilyn is back in VT enjoying the wonderful VT weather, swimming at the Sugarbush Sports Center, and attending free concerts where she loves to dance. She’s getting lots of support to keep on
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Ph.D. from MIT at the age of 23. Swimming is Ann’s favorite sport now. She was looking forward to the Delaware beaches in July and ME in Sept. She planned to visit good friend Beverly “Bev” Hastings Shepherd in Brunswick, ME. Ann will be producing a mural of a sunflower garden for Kendal’s (where she resides) 50th anniversary next year.
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Lindy Clapp Macfarland is still truckin’ and enjoys receiving all of the wonderful news from ColbySawyer. She writes, “What a great school! Keep up the good work!”
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dancing in life. Ann Wyllie Jarrett is happy and doing well for 94 years of age! She has been doing oil painting, line drawings and creative writing, and she is working on her 2nd book with her daughter, Sara Burrows. The book is about Ann’s husband, Howard, who was awarded his
point she and her husband have been handling life as nonagenarians well. Ruth Gray Pratt had lunch with Peg Rogers Andrews ’85, who has worked at Colby-Sawyer for many years. They enjoyed the time updating one another on their lives and during their conversation learned that they grew up in the same MA town. As Peg said, “It’s a small world.” Ruth’s 3 CO families moved to FL and Ruth was given a ticket by son and daughter Art and Cyndi to visit FL in April for her 90th birthday. She was able to meet Gabriel and saw Eli and Emi, her 3 great-grandchildren. Ruth enjoyed Easter weekend with 10 members of her family.
Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Marilyn Woods Entwistle for serving as the 1952 correspondent since 2010.
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Marilyn Belding Hilly ’48 skiing in Utah.
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I am pleased that I heard from 2 classmates for this issue of class notes. Barbara Gesen Trulson answered my inquiry about greatgrandchildren. She has 4: 2 girls and 2 boys, all living in NH, so she sees them quite often. Barbara lives at Riverwood Retirement Home in Exeter, NH. She added that Katherine “Kay” Tyler Drolet moved in the facility on the same day she did. Sadly, Kay is no longer with us. Marguerite Cline Almy passed along her COVID-19 virus story to us. She said that when the virus struck, she and her husband were in their winter home in Savannah, GA. They had to rent their summer home in MA, unable to travel at the time. Marguerite is the proud grandmother of a grandson who was awarded his Ph.D. in computer science from Boston University. She says that at this
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their boosters. Sae shared that it’s a very sobering thought that many in the class of 1952 are turning 90 this year. Betty Carlson Salomon shares, “For many this is the year of the big birthday. You cannot avoid it, but you can discuss the number of candles on the cake. I suggested
Arline Soderberg Ely ’54 in front of Burpee Dorm during a visit to campus in October 2021.
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CT, a long-term care facility just over the Guilford town line where they had lived. They moved in early Oct. ’21 and Carol was happy to find Gloria Wiley Hughart living just down the hall. She had also lived down the hall from Carol in Shepard dorm in ’54-’55. Carol shares, “Gloria has been a good friend here as her husband also has Parkinson’s. Fortunately, the care and therapy here have been excellent, and both our husbands are doing quite well handling their disease. We have a wonderful wellness instructor who does a special class for those here with the disease, plus other activities for them.” Marsha Smoller Winer continues to keep busy and active. She enjoys walking, going to the gym, playing bridge and reading, both for a book club and for leisure. Her husband, Nate, continues to enjoy running and biking. Marsha and Nate attended his reunion at Bowdoin College and spent a great weekend with Marsha’s roommate, Nancy Hoyt Langbein, who married Nate’s Bowdoin roommate, Ed Langbein. They all enjoyed getting together and sharing many memories. Judy Davis Somers is now in assisted living, but she keeps busy with adult coloring books, reading and TV. She wishes she could see everyone, but she cannot travel. Judy sends her best to all classmates.
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Charlotte Winchell Johansen reports that she and her husband, Kai, are still alive and kicking. Their middle daughter hosted their 60th wedding anniversary, plus Charlotte’s 85th birthday in June. Their 3 daughters, their mates, plus all 8 grandchildren attended. It was a very special time together. The Johansens
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Can it be true?/ They say you are 90/ But you are only/ ’ 32/ 1932 was a big year for all of us!/ Happy Birthday!
Arline Soderberg Ely is living a charmed life with good health, good mind and a strong body. At 88, she finds that she is still full of energy. Her 4 flower gardens and house repairs take up a lot of her time. Arline has covered 22 national parks with her male companion over the past 12 years. Last fall they stayed at the Mt. Washington Hotel and stopped by Colby-Sawyer on their way home. Arline enjoyed a tour of the campus. The visit brought back many memories of the wonderful times she had and the friends she made at the college. Arline and Agnes Lind Werring from Norway were on the college ski team, which led her to ski in racing events where she won a giant slalom for the USA.
Carol Molander Linsley’s husband Ralph’s Parkinson’s disease worsened suddenly last summer, necessitating a move to Evergreen Woods in N. Branford,
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JILL BOOTH MACDONELL jillphotoart@yahoo.com
Dorcas Sheldon Adkins ’67 and her wife Pat Munoz in front of a waterfall on the Usumacinta River in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
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In June, Sandra Davis Carpenter and her family gathered at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to celebrate an endowed chair in her late husband Bernie’s name, The Merrill Carpenter Chair for Transplant Health. It was a wonderful event presided over by the new CEO of the Brigham, who is a Dartmouth grad, as was Sandra’s husband. Bernie spent 40 years at the Brigham conducting research on renal diseases and was known around the world for his work in transplantation. Sandra and Bernie were happily married for 50 plus years!
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just one big one. It was voted down!” Betty finds it amazing how fast the years went by. She hopes all remember that first day at CJC. If not, certainly everyone remembers Mountain Day! Betty shared that her old roommate Marilyn “Woodsie” Woods Entwistle remembers finding her bed out in the hall. Woodsie is doing well but needs a little help. She has a driver and help at home. She sends greetings to all. Woodsie said, “I am not a poet, but I like to have fun with words.” She shared the following:
Carol Travers Lummus shares, “I had a wonderful catch-up with Jill Booth Macdonell and we concluded that we are all still eagerly learning and… fruitfully! She made me feel like it was still 1957.” Carol wanted to pass on to those who are interested that there is an incredible site devoted to our Bill Holst: www. williamholst.info. There’s also an Instagram site, for those who use Instagram. Carol’s granddaughter
Sarah was the valedictorian of her class at Berwick Academy. She won the All-State Violin prize in NH, and, after a gap year with Americorps, chose Georgetown U. in Washington, DC. Carol is just beaming! It was with a heavy heart that Joan Fullerton Lockhart informs us that Martha Allen Combs , her roommate of 2 years and lifetime friend, passed away on March 18, 2022, in Palm Springs, CA, where she had resided for many years. A full listing of classmates who have passed recently can be found in the In Fond Memory section. I, Jill Booth Macdonell, am still working with and learning from the homeless. I chat with my close friend Cindy Grindrod van der Wyk ’58 frequently and share the richer experiences of mid-80s life. Please send your news!
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Editor’s Note: Apologies to Martha Herndon Williamson , who was incorrectly identified as Martha Hale Williamson in the class notes section of the last issue of the Colby-Sawyer Magazine. Karen Brown Dufault was incorrectly listed under the Class of 1962 in the In Fond Memory section of the last magazine.
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classmates and on a whim, called her Best basement roommate Dorothy “Dolly” Summers Howell with happy results! Ellie moved to Marblehead, MA, and taught at The Tower School for 37 years, retiring in 2004. She has loved living by the sea, painting and writing. Since Ellie lives by the sea and got a dog, she wrote her first book Molly’s Pal, which was published. Those were 3 items on her bucket list, now completed. Well done, Ellie. Ann Parsons Klump hopes to attend our reunion in Oct. She spent time visiting her daughter in England and going to the Lake District with her 2 grandchildren, her daughter and her husband. Then Ann took her oldest granddaughter on a cruise to Norway. Several days after returning home, Ann fell headfirst down her stairs. She
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are now in McCall, ID, at their summer home looking out over a golf course. They enjoy playing golf with lots of couples they’ve met over the years. They will head back to Palo Alto, CA, in mid-Oct. when the snow starts to fly.
Barbara Brodrick Parish and husband Ben recently attended a Colby-Sawyer rooftop gathering of alumni at the Revere Hotel in Boston. Barbara said it was fun to see so many others and interesting to meet younger grads and hear about their experiences. President Stuebner gave an informative presentation about present and future plans for the college. At the time of this writing, Barbara and Ben were getting ready to leave MA and journey to their summer home in ME, which is in the woods on a lake. Carole Hamell Wenthen reports that life is much the same for her and Fred. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and will soon enjoy a dinner cruise on Skaneateles Lake with their 3 children. They are fortunate to be celebrating their “loooong” and wonderful years together. Bruce and I
PATTY CANBY COLHOUN pcccolhoun@gmail.com
has recovered but bruised her spine in the neck area. She will need surgery on her back and will appreciate all our prayers. Judy Johnson Gibbs writes from Cumberland Center, ME, that she and her husband of 60 years spent 3 weeks in HI this spring, which was a wonderful change from the pandemic. They were on the island of Hawaii for 10 days and on Kauai for 11 days. They loved the fresh air and all activities. After coming home, her husband went to New Brunswick to fish and then they went to TN to pick up a French Brittany Spaniel, which they love! Her family consists of 2 sons, daughters-in-law and 6 grandchildren. Judy does lots of gardening, biking, reading and piano lessons, as well as aerobics and yoga classes. She is staying healthy! I, Patty Canby Colhoun, am awaiting the arrival of my son, CB, from IA. I will be having several visitors whom I have not seen for many years, so there will be a lot of catching up. I am planning to visit my sister in Surrey, BC, in Aug. and will do on a Viking Riverboat cruise with my next-door neighbor in Sept. As Senior Warden for St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, I have been very busy. I am also chairperson of St. Andrews Village Association, which involves 25 cottages and our connection to Maine Health. I am hoping to get back to rug hooking by the beginning of July. I still do lots of gardening and walk my wonderful standard poodle in the Boothbay Land Trust properties. Ellen Cook Barnes is still selling real estate after 51 years. She was looking forward to a trip to Marblehead in July to see Elizabeth “Betsey” Foss Dinsmore’s son and daughter. Betsey and her husband, Pete, both passed away this past year. Ellen has 2 grandchildren attending veterinary school at the University of GA. Hope everyone had a wonderful summer.
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Susan Prentice Brainard moved to Aurora, CO, in 2015. They had lived very happily in their Schenectady, NY, suburb home for 45 years. Two of their 3 daughters live in CO and the weather is a great improvement over upstate NY. They play pickle
Mrinalini “Meera” Narain Rao ’67 in front of the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, with her husband, Kileep “Bambi,” and their son, Kartikeya.
(Marsha Halpin Johnson) will be going to Norway and Finland on a fjord trip later this summer.
I will start with a message I missed earlier. Eleanor Tomlinson wrote that after Colby Junior she applied to and was accepted at Colby College where her boyfriend was going. She graduated in 1962. Ellie had lost contact with her CJC
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Ann Wesson Alves ’67 and her husband, Michael, visited campus on a beautiful July day.
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Christina “Tina” Hewitt Morrison ’66 (2nd from left) and her teammates for the 75+ division of the Fort Lauderdale National Senior Games. Her team won a silver medal.
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ball in Dec. and Jan. and love where they live in their very active and friendly community. This summer, they planned to load their bicycles into their van and take a 3-week driving tour of mostly OR. Leslie “Lee” Norris Gray and Rick spent the winter in Bonita Springs, FL, with lots of outdoor activities, including golf, bocce, walking and sunshine. This summer they planned to enjoy their new pontoon boat on Lake Winnipesaukee, as well as renting a house on the lake for their family to gather to celebrate Rick’s 80th birthday, Lee and Rick’s 55th wedding anniversary and all those birthdays they missed being separated by distance. Son TJ & family (2 college graduates) will be there from NH, Mark and family (1 college graduate and 1 college senior) from Seattle, and David and family (jr. & sr. in high school) from Savannah. Pictures to follow next time. Lee was saddened to read in the last Colby-Sawyer Magazine that her roommate, Elizabeth “Liz” Ridley Mills, had passed away last year. “Everyone keep healthy and safe. And if you are ever near Hampton, NH, or Bonita Springs, FL, our door is always open,” says Lee. Betsy Meyers Hunnewell and I (Kathy Conathan Reardon) would
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Sis Hagen Kinney ’67 (r) on Waikiki Beach with her daughter Natalie and her wife Rachel.
Amanda “Mandy” Thompson McGreevy, widowed since 2010, is happily living in Frederick, MD. Her 2 sons live nearby, and she has 7 grandchildren ranging in age from 23 to 3. Mandy is currently recovering from several knee operations delayed by COVID-19. She is thrilled to finally be totally free of the pain, which has overshadowed her life for the past 3 years. Leslie Carvalho Barlow has been retired for 8 years and still misses working. She was a medical assistant for 42 years and she especially misses the patients. Leslie remains busy and involved. She loves libraries and is on the board of her small historic library for the 3rd time. She says that books fueled her love of learning. Leslie is finally a grandmother of an adorable 1-year-old named Effie. She spends one day a week with
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Effie at her house and is forever grateful to have her in her life! Leslie volunteers in the community and travels. She also keeps in touch with her 3 close friends from Colby.
Meredith Dodd Taylor ’69 with bunches of red chiles she dried in her NM horno earthen oven.
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Sue Chapman Melanson and her husband retired from Oak Hill Farm in Hiram, ME, at the end of 2019. They sold the maple syrup operation and rental cottages with the farm and moved to Shapleigh, ME, which is closer to daughter Kristen Horn Guerrieo ’03. Sue creates epoxy resin windows made from “up-cycled” windows from the dump and glass dishes from Goodwill and yard sales, as well as watercolor paintings. Christine “Tina” Hewitt Morrison checked in from Blountville/Kingsport, TN, where she’s lived off and on since 1977. It’s a beautiful hilly area just north of Asheville, NC. Life for Tina seems to keep getting busier, but she enjoys that. She loves to play volleyball and recently competed in her 7th National Senior Games and enjoyed playing at 2 Huntsman World Games in St George, UT. Tina also loves to up-cycle items using decoupage and creating glass garden art totems. She’s a member of the Kingsport Senior Artisans and she takes some of her items to some craft fairs. Keeping up with her civic duties, Tina has been on the very active board for the Literacy Council of Kingsport for the past 18 years. This year she has also been helping raise funds for the Allendale Under the Stars monthlong concert series. Allendale is a local historic treasure with beautiful grounds and venues for many various events. When she gets the chance, Tina loves to travel. She’s looking forward to a special trip to Disney World with her son Mike and grandson Axel.
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love to have lunch with any MA South Shore classmates, or any classmates willing to drive to the South Shore. Late summer or early fall would be great! Please email or call if you are interested. Hope everyone is staying healthy and happy!
Hello to the Class of ’67! I didn’t hear from very many people, which makes me kind of sad. I guess that’s the reality of it, that with each successive year we’ll be hearing from fewer and fewer of you. Dorcas Sheldon Adkins sent me a wonderful photo of her and her wife, Pat Munoz, at a waterfall on the Usumacinta River in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and then another photo of her son, Web Peirce, his wife,
Cyn and their son and daughter, Alder and River. She indicated that this “river trip” on the Usumacinta near Palenque, Mexico, was a highlight of her past year as they got to camp with children and grandchildren. They were allowed to kayak as much as they wanted and to seek refuge on the rafts “when the going got gnarly.” Dorcas said further that the part of the Yucatan where they were “enjoys an amazing proliferation of Mayan temples in various stages of discovery,” and they toured many of them, a few of which were accessible only by river or plane. Dorcas and Pat live in Washington, DC, and she sends “best wishes to you all and
Ellie Goodwin Cochran ’71 with her husband David, daughter Sarah, son Andrew, his wife Kristen and their grandchildren Owen and Vivian.
and their son Kartikeya had a “wonderful trip to Sri Lanka just before all the major trouble started in that lovely country.” She said they spent nearly 2 weeks there, visiting 6 different towns and a lot of the countryside with a hired car and driver-guide. Meera says that Sri Lanka is a most beautiful country and that its people are friendly and funloving, hospitable and usually gentle. She also said they were
able to experience the beaches, the hills, tea estates, loads of elephants and then took an interesting train journey through tea estates and rolling hills to
the famous Buddhist temple town called Kandy. Meera and Bambi, along with their “bachelor children” — daughter Malini and son Kartikeya — live in the same apartment building in New Delhi, and anyone going to Delhi is most welcome to get in touch. After I thanked her for her update and mentioned that I’d visited India back in 2008 when my daughter was studying abroad in Hyderabad, Meera chastised me for not getting in touch. As for yours truly (Sis Hagen Kinney), it’s been quite a year (2022) for me. I was able to fulfill a lifelong dream of my own, but not quite on the same scale as Dorcas’ dream trip. I went with my daughter’s wife and 6-yearold son to meet my daughter in Honolulu, as she was returning from a 4-month stint as a travel nurse in Guam. Yeah, no camping for this crew! We were there for a week in downtown Honolulu right across the street from Waikiki Beach, where we spent several leisurely mornings. We also hiked the entire trail up Diamond Head, walked to the nearby Honolulu Zoo and then on to the aquarium, took a turtle watch boat to what they called Turtle Canyon to see lots of sea turtles in a protected area, made leis, had a hula lesson, visited the Dole Plantation and just thoroughly relaxed and had a great time. On our last day we
the hope that this beautiful world has been a source of solace for you, too, in the time of COVID.” I also heard from Deborah Brakeley who is still in Vancouver, BC, and also spends time in a small Whistler condo. She continues to enjoy skiing, hiking, biking, walking and paddle boarding, as well as gardening. Though she is semi-retired, she still meets with some therapy and collaborative divorce clients. Deborah feels privileged to have 8 grandchildren, whom she hopes to see more of now with life opening up a bit. She said there is lots to be grateful for in these challenging and changing times! Meredith Jones from Belfast, ME, said she learned a
(L to r) Jen Ellis ’85, Peg Rogers Andrews ’85 and Amy Carrier Lyon ’85 were roommates in Abbey dorm during their student days.
lot during her 2 years at CJC, including the importance of being a more critical thinker and encouragement to use her knowledge and skills to make the world a safer place. Meredith says that “most of us (including yours truly) search these newsy class notes to learn whether or not our classmates are still living on earth, to live vicariously through others’ travels and adventures as septuagenarians, and to savor tales of grandchildren’s remarkable achievements. Ok, and maybe to hear about the various maladies and health issues so many of us are facing.” She shared, “Before we leave planet Earth, I urge us all to consider one or more final acts of ‘good trouble.’ We live in a toxic, divided political environment where too many people believe the 2nd amendment needs no limits, climate change is an unnatural act, only some people deserve to be treated with respect, and that women should not control their own bodies. The silence among us is deafening, so I challenge us all to make our voices heard and to take one giant step forward to right a few of the wrongs and bring the US back to a place of comity and reason.” Meredith ended with a plea: “Will you join me?” I received a newsy note from Mrinalini “Meera” Narain Rao, who said that in the latter part of March 2022, she, her husband Dileep “Bambi”
Debi Adams Johnston ’69 and her husband Fred recently celebrated their 50th anniversary with their children.
Candy Collamore Paine ’76, ’78 and her husband Scott.
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Today, Jen (visitor services coordinator), Peg (planned giving officer) and Amy (assistant professor of social sciences and education) all work together at Colby-Sawyer!
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reunion and she said it was great to be at Colby again with her old Page friends, Martha Halloran McLaughlin, Lynne Pettengill Johnson, Sue Hilbert Baroni and Suellynn Stark ’70 Holly Lippmann Trevisan has been living on Cape Cod with her husband, Nello — 27 years full time. They love it in Orleans. The Trevisans have 2 married sons and 5 grandkids. Holly is so proud of them all. Holly is painting landscapes and seascapes. She has represented at The Beacon Restaurant in Orleans for the past 4 years. Check out Holly’s website at hltrevisan.com. Judith Johnson Austin looked forward to the summer season and visiting beaches in Cape Cod, Gloucester and Middleton, RI. Her husband, son, daughter and grandchildren enjoy surf and seafood at these locations. Judith continues to work at a medical practice at Mass. General Hospital in Waltham. She treasures her fond memories of Colby Junior College.
rented a car (didn’t need one until then because we were able to walk everywhere) and tried to see the Pearl Harbor memorial area. The website had been down the previous day so we couldn’t make reservations to see the USS Arizona memorial and the lines were too long for us to wait with a 6-year-old. Although disappointed, we then drove all around the island (Oahu), going up to the North Shore and stopping when we felt like it to eat local or buy local and see some of the other beaches, especially some that had lava rocks all around. Let’s just say the trip was definitely a dream come true. There have been some real downers so far in 2022, but Hawai’i kind of made up for a lot of that! Let’s hope the rest of 2022 is more like “Hawai’i trip” and less like — anything medical! As I continue to be your correspondent, please keep me informed of future happenings on your part. I’m still in the Western NC Blue Ridge Mountains and you’re always welcome to “pop in” to see us and visit this beautiful part of our country!
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Eric Harlow ’99 (l), head ski coach at Colby College, gives Gunnar Olsen (Wendy Mansson Olsen’s ’95 son) red carpet treatment during a visit to Colby.
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forward to venturing out again once all this has more or less resolved, especially for highrisk old folks like us. Meredith Dodd Taylor has successfully completed the First Wyoming Naturalist Certification program. As a member of the Native Plant Society, she has been teaching ethnobotany classes about native wild edible and medicinal plants. She regularly uses these plants and has a popular booth for her herbal products at a local farmers market. She is also a member of the Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food Group, where members gather native foods on the Wind River Indian Reservation nearby. Last fall she harvested red chiles that she roasted in her NM horno earth oven. Elizabeth “Liz” Mulligan Jaques shared, “Not much to report. I’m retired yet have 2 part-time jobs!” Liz was looking forward to a summer filled with golf! JoAnn Franke Overfield was at ColbySawyer this year. She shares, “It was wonderful this spring to return to campus for a few pregraduation festivities that could be attended in person. Although trustee meetings were conducted online, a few of us zoomed from the wonderfully renovated Gordon Hall. Trustees could once again participate in graduation. This is always an uplifting day. Extra special to be able to see my good friend and alum, Robin Mead ’72, receive a special award. I also got to stay and visit with my other good CSC alum friend, Suzanne Simons Hammond ’66 . Lastly, this spring my husband and I and our daughter got to do our 50th anniversary trip to Morocco (which was delayed 2 years because of COVID). It was well worth the wait!” After pretty much 3 years of staying put, Julia Stoddart Strimenos was planning to return to the NE over the summer for a wedding and is planning a walking tour in England this fall. The last time Julia was in NH was for our 50th
53 years since we graduated? How can that be? We are all still freshmen in our hearts, are we not? Seems like yesterday we were meeting our roommates and choosing bedspreads for our rooms. What would today’s college freshman have to say to us? Hysterical! How about sharing some of your favorite memories from CJC? Having just celebrated my 50th wedding anniversary, I have lots of time to reflect. A favorite is the equivalent of Mountain Day, when we used to all head to the slopes and ski for a half day. Do college students today still wear their pajamas under trench coats to class? Please tell me one or two of yours! I would love to feature them in future issues. Because of the pandemic, Meredith Bennett and her husband, Tom, have stayed put, but have done a lot of property renovations and installed an 8-foot deer fence. Since they like to walk, read and garden,
Colorado was the setting for a Class of 1995-1997 mini-reunion. Pictured at Red Rocks Amphitheater are (back row l to r) Lisa Casey ’95, Chad Tassell ’95, Alison Armstrong Lubin ’97, Maura Higgins Semmes ’95, Lisa Malik Sharp ’96, Ken Lubin ’95, (front row, l to r) Wendy Mansson Olsen ’95 and Travis Wendel ’95.
A large group of alumni gathered on the rooftop of the Revere Hotel in Boston for a reception in May. A small group of those in attendance is pictured here.
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and their very rural Virginia neighborhood is congenial, quiet and beautiful, staying put hasn’t been too much of a hardship. There is a local women’s group founded in 1917 that is involved in community support so no one who belongs needs to feel isolated. Still, Meredith is looking
looking forward to doing so!
London had it not been for the generosity of then-CJC. We were both the grateful recipients of scholarships, as well as work grants. Martha and I were Kleen Linen ladies, collecting and doling out fresh linens every week. We were also cafeteria servers complete with hairnets! We did not take 1 day of our 2 years on that beautiful campus, or in our lively classrooms, for granted.”
Sally’s sister, Martha Cary Shuster wrote to assure me that both of them will be returning for reunion and are very much
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If you are in MA, be sure to visit the Plymouth Center for the Arts to view Wendy Hazen’s design “First Swim,” which is being shown at the New England Watercolor Society Exhibit, July 8–Sept. 8. Also, in MA for viewing at the All Gallery in Lowell under the heading “Consider the 3rd Dimension” is Barbara Fletcher’s 3rd dimension sculpture “Puzzled.” Birthday wishes go out to Karen Dunnett and Susan Pomerantz. Looking better than ever! I (Gail Remick Hoage) personally am looking forward to lunch and visiting with Deb Marcoux Deacetis and Ann Lozier Rohrborn ’71 MT; then on to spending time with the same 2 ladies at Karen Dunnett’s Rye Beach house along with Susan Pomerantz, Lynn Winchester , Beth Constantinides Meurlin and Val Turtle
Nancy Gillen Kunis has been pretty much confined in Atlanta due to COVID-19, like everyone else, but hopefully will be able to travel soon. The best part of 2021 was the birth of their 1st grandchild, Carolina Nancy Kunis, born Dec. 4. Their
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Greetings! It was a quiet response for news this time. I know from my email and Facebook that Karen Siney Fredericks is enjoying their move to CO and had a fun travel schedule that included sailboat races in Antigua and a visit back to CA. My husband, David, and I, Ellie Goodwin Cochran, finally did some traveling with a relaxing week in Sanibel Island, FL. On our return we had a fun week babysitting before we both had COVID-19. Thankfully mild cases, but we are more than ready for the old normal. Our family recently joined us when David and I were honored by Moore Center Services at their annual garden party for our support to the community, and in particular those with special needs. A few weeks prior to this, my brother Charlie Goodwin and I were honored by the Elliot Hospital with the Davison Philanthropy Award. The award was named for Robert and Lucille Smith Davison, who was a 1935 graduate of Colby Junior College. Hope to see you all at reunion!
Fawn Burns Laverdiere ’08, Kelly Dutra Megquier ’08, and Stephanie Shamel Watson ’08 in Portsmouth, N.H.
may feel, in that our own lives don’t feel very “glamorous or have sufficient interest or accomplishment to warrant sharing.” So untrue! We all have meaningful life experiences. No matter how simple or complex or accomplished or extravagant those experiences may feel to us, in our lives we all have left an impact on family, friends and community in some form. Our lives are to be celebrated and acknowledged, along with our time at Colby-Sawyer, for this is where our foundation was added to and built upon (not counting that “freshman 15”)! So please, no news is too small to share with those who knew you when and, indeed, are still interested to know you. Sally shares, “Having recently turned 70, my perspective on many things has changed, including this very one! So instead of thinking of my life as rather ordinary, I am going to cast it as privileged and a blessing! I live and have lived a good life, have 2 amazing daughters of whom I am very proud, and am the grandmother of 2 very lively and fun grandchildren who are a great joy to my husband and me. My husband, Michael, is a retired small animal veterinarian, and thus our days and years have been filled with the blissful companionship of 5 Golden Retrievers and many cats, too numerous to count! We have lived in the same old ark of a house in our little seaside village of Padanaram, MA, for 33 years, and have no plans to downsize. We have filled it with things we love and cannot part with! Our poor kids! So instead of providing ‘class news,’ in keeping with the circumspection that comes with my ripe age, I would like to attempt to share what my 2 years at Colby has meant to me over a lifetime. First, it must be said that neither I nor my twin sister, Martha, would have had the extraordinary experience of 2 years in New
Chris Kozlowski ’95 and Christen Wallingford Kozlowski ’96.
(L to r) Stefan Schwartz ’95, Allison Latham Hosgood ’95 and Derek Hosgood ’95 reconnected in June 2022.
Adam Perron ’96 (r) with former UCLA and MLS player Brad Rusin.
LINDA KELLY GRAVES Dikeroka@aol.com
ELLIE GOODWIN COCHRAN elliegc51@gmail.com
Here we are, about to celebrate our 50th reunion! Time sure does fly! It almost feels like yesterday … well, almost! I hope that many of you will be planning to join us the weekend of Oct. 14-16, 2022, to reminisce, reconnect and renew our connection with the college that launched most of us into the adult world. Unfortunately, I did not get the massive response that I was hoping for from the class when I asked for news to share, but I heard from 3 of you! Sarah “Sally” Cary Lemelin wrote a very touching note, sharing what I think many of us
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in myself, plain and simple. So, for the lessons learned, the friendships that endure still and for the wealth of happy memories, my deepest love, respect and gratitude. Long live CSC!” Well said, Sally; thank you! Hope to see you all in Oct.!
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Allison Latham Hosgood ’95 and Derek Hosgood ’95 at Rocky Mountain National Park.
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and varied career: retiring as a supervisory legal technician from the Panama Canal Commission after 20 years; composing narratives for 7 years as a tour guide for cruise ships docking at Panama ports; and now 15 years as executive director at her local senior center in VT. Emilie says that Colby-Sawyer sent her off with the necessary confidence to tackle many different jobs, and she is happy to have had that experience. She enjoys her time photographing birds and other wildlife in VT and NH and making her annual trip to Panama to see friends. She hopes all of you find health and happiness where you are in life. I, Sue Brown Warner, bought myself a guitar for my birthday this year and am now an aspiring guitar player! Peace out.
I realized very early on that Colby is an institution with a distinct character and enduring traditions and values, and that it was indeed a privilege to be a part of its fabric and history. To be succinct, I learned to believe
Jim Bullock ’95 with his wife Amber and their sons Odin and Duncan in Seattle
Magazine of the loss of one of her first-year roommates, Deborah “Debbie” Quinn , she was reminded of the importance of keeping in touch. She is now in her 8th year of retirement from, of all places — Colby-Sawyer College! After a 12year career in banking, Carole returned to CSC for 25 years, first in the president’s office (under Peggy Stock), then several years in admissions, followed by almost 20 years as registrar. Carole has been married to Bruce Parsons ’77 for 39 years — one of the few men at CSC at the time. He spent a good deal of time in the ceramic studio and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977. Carole graduated from Wheaton College in 1976. She and Bruce didn’t meet at CSC but in 1981 while cross-country skiing. Together they have 2 grown sons. Bruce remembers how he signed off on letters to his parents from CSC: “Your daughter, Bruce.” Many of you may recall going to “The Barn” in Georges Mills to listen to live music and dance. One group really stood out: Believe it or not, it was Aerosmith! Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are locals who can still be spotted in New London and Sunapee. Carole feels very lucky to have made New London her home after graduating from Wheaton. She didn’t know exactly what she’d do, but she knew it would be in New London. She would love to hear from fellow residents of Colgate Hall at crab76@comcast.net. Ann Woodd-Cahusac Neary and Matt are delighted to announce they have a grandchild! Remy James Caviola was born to daughter Caitlin and son-inlaw Jon on March 25. Holly Hurd DiMauro and her husband enjoyed restoring an old church building and then moving into it. Emilie Daniel thinks fondly of CSC, especially Ms. Kurtz, who taught her to type precisely, which she thinks has been the impetus for her successful
Kim Laura Boyle ’97, Jolene Thompson Stratton ’97, Liz Cronin Melin ’97, Anne Michaels ’95 and Molly Michaels Reid ’97 (front) were decked out in their Colby-Sawyer gear during a recent get-together.
When Carole Horton Parsons learned in the last Colby-Sawyer
downs. I am ever grateful for their friendship and the luck I had in meeting them 52 years ago at Colby-Sawyer. Finally, I am going to close this column with, again, the words of Sally Cary Lemelin in her note to me as she reflects on her time at Colby-Sawyer. She wrote, “Quite simply, Colby gently escorted me into early adulthood and revealed to me a happiness that I had not known, a happiness that comes from making independent decisions and choices and being accountable for those choices.
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daughter, Leigh, and her husband, Angel, moved back to Atlanta after living in NYC and Spain and are now only 20 minutes away from Nancy. They feel extremely fortunate to have them back. Nancy keeps in touch with Patricia “Patty” Brown Kinnunen, Joanne Hill Munyon and Carlyle “Carky” Claypool Conrad. “When we talk on the phone it is as if time stood still and we are still 19 again! After living in Atlanta for 29 years, I am still a New Englander and miss it very much. Hopefully we will be able to make the reunion,” shares Nancy. I, Linda “Kelly” Graves, have had the pleasure of having lunch with 3 of my dearest friends, all met in Abbey on our freshman move-in day back in Sept. 1970. Deborah Ross Chambliss and I met in Havre de Grace, MD, to celebrate her 70th in May; 2 weeks after that, Lucy Main and I had lunch in Potsdam, NY, (halfway between Ft. Drum and Malone, NY) and then a week later I had lunch with my freshman roommate, Nancy Bianchi Miller, in Rochester, NH (yes, I own a gas station—not!). As I am sure for many of you who have maintained close connections with friends formed at Colby-Sawyer, these friends have been there for me and for each other through life’s ups and
Bradley Nevins Olufs retired from the workforce in March 2022 and has no regrets! Her days are completely consumed with a fast-paced morning walk (10-20 miles), gardening (no weeds in her yard) and expanding her cooking to be more plantbased. Her husband, David, is winding down his project work and hopes to fully retire in the next year or so. They will decide what’s next once he retires!
Lynn Lovelett Elizondo’s daughter Melissa and son-in-law Steve welcomed their 4th child, Simon, on 12/29/21. The family moved back to the Cincinnati, OH, area last year, making Lynn very happy to have them close by and be able to spend time with the 4 grandchildren. Kathy Brown Teece has 3 grandchildren and one on the way. Her heart is full! Unfortunately, they’re all on the West coast, so Kathy is very thankful for FaceTime. Kathy shares, “We decided after 33 years of living at the same address that renovating an old farmhouse in VT would be a great idea. Hmmm. Lots of work, but also lots of fresh, mountain air. Can’t wait to experience daily life in the Northeast Kingdom. I still have such wonderful memories of being at ColbySawyer: Bemis basement for tuna on English muffins, walking
Matt Daly ‘19 and Alyssa Smith Daly ’19 were married June 11, 2022.
traveling in her RV, being a visiting professor in an MBA program and playing pickleball. I, Janet Spurr, enjoyed attending a CSC gathering on the rooftop deck at the Revere Hotel in Boston in May. I connected with lots of great alumni and made friends with new graduates.
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Brianna DeFilippis Puksta ’16 and her husband Michael on their April 2022 wedding day.
spend a couple of months a year there, spring and fall. Still married to the same guy. Still live in the same area. I’d rather express my life in a different way as I have done here: Life is not about the facts but about the journey. Growing up, my parents loved to plan trips up and down the East Coast with our trusty camper. Every trip was a new learning experience. When I moved back home with my 2 young daughters, although the camper was gone, my parents delighted in taking them places for new experiences. We traveled as a family. One daughter went to UGA and stayed, the other graduated from UMass but soon moved to CA. Each got married and had a girl then a boy. I retired early and traveled to GA and CA, mostly by myself since my husband still worked. It was good to learn independence and to explore new places in these states. A year ago, daughter #2 moved home with her family. And daughter #1 just told us she hopes to move closer in a few years. Both daughters are successful in their very different fields. Like their mother, our daughters couldn’t wait to move on from CT, but both are now choosing to come back as I did. We had always encouraged them to go where their hearts led and now, in this difficult world where children aren’t safe at school, climate change is endangering our planet and the nuclear family is farflung, their hearts are leading them back to the family corral. As my parents did, we now are delighting in teaching our grandkids new experiences and traveling to new places. Keeps us forever young, although quite tired at times.” Gwen Pusey Burbank retired last year as an associate dean and assistant professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies. She has moved back to her hometown of Malvern, PA, and is enjoying being a grandmother,
Pilar Bescos Paterson ’02 and her partner Heather on their wedding day.
granddaughter who lives with their middle daughter and family in Las Vegas. Scott and Candy continue to take “off the beat” road-trips and will explore the OR coast this fall. The last 2 years have been an interesting time of transition for Elaine Young Towle and her family. She spent the last 5 years as a division director for the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Alexandria, VA, retiring from that position at the end of Dec. 2019. She launched her own consulting company in Jan. 2020, and then COVID-19 hit in March. Her plan was to work just part time, but it turned out to be more part time than expected, as the healthcare industry focused almost exclusively, not surprisingly, on COVID-19. She had a few fun projects but no travel and no inpractice work, which is her real love. The thing that happened as COVID-19 hit was that her daughter and her family (husband and 4 young children) moved in with Elaine! Elaine shares, “She packed for 2 weeks, and I expected they would be here a month. Little did we know! During that time, they decided to build their “dream home” right behind us, sold their home in MA, and stayed with us until early June 2021 when they moved into the new house. It has been delightful to have them all so close, especially the kiddos, of course! They play in our yard frequently and everyone enjoys the COVID pool we installed. The timing of my work transition turned out to be perfect. There is no way I could have worked full time with 6 extra people in our house!” Elaine’s consulting business still exists, but she’s working with one client and will phase that one out soon and finally be really retired. Mary Davenport Phelan shares, “It would be very boring to tell my classmates that I’m retired with 4 grandchildren and travel a lot. Particularly since one daughter lives in Paso Robles, CA, so we
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Candy Collamore Paine ’76, ’78 and her husband, Scott (NEC class of 78), celebrated their 43rd anniversary on May 5 and have been enjoying retirement for the past 3 years. Candy was in the field of education, obtaining her master’s from the University of CO after leaving Colby-Sawyer, and Scott was a financial advisor on Wall Street. They left the east coast in 1996 and never looked back. They have been residing in Colorado Springs, CO, since
then with Scott starting up his own financial business and Candy working in the publicschool system (special education birth-8). They keep busy hiking and biking and are always on the lookout for a new trail. Their 3 grown children are spread out and currently live in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Durango, CO. They have one 8-year-old
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to ‘Jiff’ for snacks, Mountain Day, Peter Christian’s, Burpee beach … makes my heart smile.”
NATALIE “LEE” HARTWELL THRASHER LifeGrd121@aol.com
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Three Abbey roommates have been reunited in Colgate Hall
Hill Maloney does a wonderful job staying in touch. She writes “I am now officially part of the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Team in Hampton Bays on Long Island. I do at least 2 rescues a week! Lots of orphaned and injured wildlife! Also took up watercolor painting since I know the faces of my subjects so well through my photography. My photos make the daily covers of the FB wildlife pages and Long Island BIRDtography.” Karen’s photos are regularly shared on her personal Facebook page (send her a friend request!) and are truly something to behold, as are the paintings she is working on. Unfortunately, aside from a personal “Grandma” update from me (which I’ll save for next time…who else is a grandma? Write me!), that’s all I have from the 239 classmates that were all together in Sept. 1977. I got an updated class “roster” and see many of us are likely in new spots, and many are back home. We have 2 classmates in AK but none in HI. We have classmates in 26 different states and usually more than one in each. Just 5 states have a solitary classmate, can you guess which ones? We have 10 in CA, including 1 in the 90210. I was surprised that just 7 classmates report FL as their
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A large group of CSC alumni celebrated the marriage of Rebecca Straubel Ingoldsby ’20 and Drew Ingoldsby. Those in attendance included (back row, l to r) Cam Perron, Sophia Sorci ’20, Olivia Goodrich ’20, MJ Richardson ’05, Drew Ingoldsby, Rebecca Straubel Ingoldsby ’20, Nicole Olivieri ’19, Marc Flaherty ’19, Riley Codman ’23, former women’s and men’s volleyball coach Cailyn Straubel, Luna Hote, Ben Morse ’20, (middle row, l to r) Jourdain Bell ’19, Pat Fealy ’19, Mike Casalino ’18, Colby Reardon ’19, Alexa Conlin ’20, Anna Allen ’22, Morgan Flynn ’20, Mariah Keeler ’20, Hannah Barrett ’20, Harley Leino ’20, (front row, l to r) Quincy Logan ’19 and Ethan Forrest ’19.
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Susan Prescott-Buck is semiretired. She and her husband, Bob, recently sold their 1840 Federal home of 37 years to live on the shore of Lake Champlain in the Adirondacks. They made the move to head home after raising their 3 daughters in Argyle, NY. The oldest daughter is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at The Ohio State University. The twin daughters are working in the healthcare industry: one as an emergency room nurse and the other in data finance. All is going well for Susan and her family!
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As I write this, it’s summer — over 90 yesterday in New London — and when you read this, the fall will be upon us. I hope your summer was blessed with family, good weather and safety. Karen
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this summer! Peg Rogers Andrews, planned giving officer, Amy Carrier Lyon, assistant professor, and now, Jen Ellis, visitor services coordinator, are all back at the college. It does not take long to get reinvolved when back on campus, so I, Jen Ellis, have agreed to be class correspondent for 1985. Please send quick updates or just fun photos that I can add to our class notes section of the Colby-Sawyer Magazine. My home email is listed above, or you can reach me via my college email at jen.ellis@colby-sawyer. edu. Thank you and hope to see you back on campus for Homecoming Weekend: October 14-16, 2022!
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residence. There are 4 towns with 3 classmates, Rockport, MA; Concord, NH; Cumberland, RI; and Fantasy Island itself: Manhattan! I am going to try to email and call folks from some of the towns we have lived in (or have wanted to live in). Please respond or, better yet, friend me on Facebook (Debra Bray Mitchell). We were in college at an exciting and active time, and your classmates, whether you knew them or not, are sisters of a sort and worth reconnecting with. Finally, I am saddened to report that Carolyn Lee Sharbaugh ’77, who started with the 4-year ’79s, lost her 10-year battle with breast cancer in June. Carolyn, aka Leebe, had a warm smile, an infectious laugh and a good word to say about everyone. Prayers for her family and friends.
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Editor’s Note: Thank you to Susan Holderness Cusack, who served as class correspondent from 2014 to 2022.
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TARA SCHIRM taracampanella@gmail.comCAMPANELLA
DANICA LETARTE MEDEIROS danicamedeiros@gmail.com
Krissi Dyer is still living in the Sugarloaf area with her partner,
service, Mark Macenas retired from the city of Durham, NC, Fire Department in 2019. He now owns Carolina Hemp Company, an educational general hemp store.
Shelby Kantor Pushee ’19, ’22 and Jake Pushee ’19 on their wedding day.
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ALLISON LATHAM ahosgood13@gmail.comHOSGOOD
Check out Jill’s website at enjoythephotomoments.com.www.
Chris Kozlowski and Christen Kozlowski ’96 are having the best year yet in the food truck world in NH. They picked up a catering contract through the winter to help supplement food for kids at a prep school in southern NH and were catering for 400 students 5 days per week. They recently cleared the land above them so Christen could build her horse barn for her new horse, Magnum Steele.
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lacrosse team. Their youngest daughter, Caroline, graduated from Kearsarge HS, where she excelled academically and was an All-State 3-sport athlete. She will attend Connecticut College this fall as a pre-law major and will play soccer in the NESCAC league. Beth continues to be successful at Colby-Sawyer, now as the director of development. Nate recently finished his 21st year teaching and continues his passion for coaching high school basketball. After 20 years of
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In the last 2 years, Adam Perron accepted a job at the University of VA as their assistant coach/ recruiting coordinator for men’s soccer. He was married July 15, and he and his wife own a home in Palmyra, VA, where they live with their 2 lovely dogs!
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Stefan caught up with Derek Hosgood and Allison Latham Hosgood for lunch in June when he was in central TX for a graduation party. Later in June, Stefan brought home 2 senior fur babies, a bonded pair of Chihuahua mixes to foster and eventually adopt. Stefan was looking forward to a longawaited 2-week trip to AK in Aug. Allison Latham Hosgood and Derek Hosgood are settling into their new home in Round Rock, TX. Derek is an elementary PE teacher in Austin ISD and Allison works for a 100% remote HR consulting company, Austin People Works. Their daughter Hope just turned 21 and Page is 18 years old. Both girls are heading into their senior year, one in college and the other in high school. Now with adult children, Allison and Derek are looking forward to the next chapter with their kiddos. They celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary this year. After 26 years of teaching, Jill Rivers has started her own business by connecting her love of pictures, storytelling, helping others and teaching others. Do you or your parents have boxes of photos, albums and memorabilia and you just don’t know what to do with it all? You need Jill! Have you just gone on an amazing trip or attended a celebration and would love to capture the memories and stories in a beautiful photobook, but you just don’t have the time?
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Colby Reardon ’19 at work at RiverRun Gardens in Newburyport, Mass.
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Their son Dominic (16) recently got his driver license and is playing varsity soccer. Gabriel (14) is about to go off to Red Bull Mt. Biking camp to become a pro at downhill mountain biking! The Kozlowskis spent time at their VT camp at least once a month and hope to see some of you up there someday. Jeanne Corcoran Wiggin still resides in West Hartford, CT, with her husband, Matt, and 3 kids: Gavin, 17, Kelsey, 14, and Finn, 10. She is currently looking at colleges with her oldest son and has made a couple of trips to CSC. Jeanne spends most of her free time doing pro bono public relations work for causes close to her heart. Anne Michaels is living in Woodstock, VT, and has been a physician assistant (PA) for 22 years. She works in the surgery department at the VA. Anne was recently promoted to lead PA of the facility.
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Jim Bullock, his wife, Amber, and their sons, Odin (8) and Duncan (5), are living in the Seattle, WA, area. For the last 15 years, Jim has worked at Grainger and is currently sales manager for the OR and WA markets. The family keeps busy traveling for Odin’s soccer club, a state Premier A club, competing 11 months a year. Soccer is huge in the PacWest and the whole family loves the sport. They also enjoy all the amazing IPAs and wine the region has to offer. And there is lots of disc golf, which they enjoy as well! It’s been a rough 2022 for Stefan Schwarz with the loss of his father, then his sweet fur baby, and then getting COVID-19.
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Nate Camp and Beth Bryant Camp ’92’s oldest daughter, Ellie, completed her 1st year at St. Lawrence University, majoring in biology and playing on the nationally ranked women’s
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Hermella “Ella” Tekle is working on her doctoral dissertation on communicative activities among
Pilar Bescos Paterson married Heather Paterson on Oct. 2, 2021. The happy couple is living in Exeter and started a property management type company specializing in helping people to reinvent or revive their living, working or rental property space. Pilar’s daughters are now 10 and 12. She says that life has been full of changes, transitions and Congratulationstransformations.Pilar!
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MOLLY PAONE mollypaone1109@gmail.com
2014
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Hermella “Ella” Tekle for serving as class correspondent from 2016 to 2022.
SARAH HEANEY PELLETIER sh.heaney@gmail.com
Fawn Burns Laverdiere, Kelly Dutra Megquier and Stephanie Shamel Watson have stayed close friends over the years and recently met up for dinner in Portsmouth. All are graduates of the CSC Nursing Program.
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Mike, and dog, Rosie. She is the events and music manager at The Rack, a high-volume bar/ restaurant/music venue, as well as fronting her own band, Dyer and The Daydreamers. She recently passed her real estate exam and is working on getting a position as a sales agent. Melissa UnderhillTucker recently graduated from Texas Woman’s University with her FNP. I (Danica Letarte Medeiros) drove with 2 of my children to MD during April vacation to visit Maranda Egerdahl Crockett and her family.
Elizabeth Park Nevins married Matthew Nevins in a small ceremony in Hampton, NH, on June 25, 2022. Shelby Curran and Lisa Noyes Hardenbrook were in attendance and spent the afternoon catching up. Elizabeth and Matt honeymooned at Disney World and will live in Hampton with their 6 children.
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Samuel White is working as a lifeguard and water safety instructor in New York City at a health club called Asphalt Green. He also sings in a chorus called the University Glee Club of New York City. Brianna DeFilippis Puksta married Michael Puksta, a police sergeant in Claremont, NH, on April 22 in Meredith, NH. Brianna works as an emergency department nurse at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, NH.
BRITTANY bjmailman@gmail.comMAILMAN
JAYCEE MCCARTHY johnmccar.11@gmail.com
ASHLEY RODKEY rodkeyah@yahoo.com
NIKKI FOWLER nicole.martin3@gmail.comMARTIN
Michael Bullen ’20 and Oona Bond Bullen ’19 in front of the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse in Maine on their wedding day.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Kassandra “Kassie” Pike and Courtney Pike for serving as class correspondents from 2012 to 2022.
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Andrea Hoyt O’Donnell and husband Gregory welcomed their 1st child, Lucas, into the world on May 10, 2022. Andrea continues to work as a 2nd grade teacher in TN. Kim Peters graduated from Regis College in May 2022 with a master’s degree in nursing - family nurse practitioner.
2010
After receiving her master’s in political science, Zelest Caraballo pursued a career in politics. She is currently working as a campaign manager for Charneil Bush, who is running in the 15th district CT state Senate race. She is also in the process of starting We Run Together, a campaign management firm. Zelest is a member of “It’s Time Waterbury” (itw), an organization for the Waterbury, CT, local community. They teach individuals how to run for office or to be part of an election. Zelest serves as a board member for the nonprofit Afro Caribbean Culture Center. The organization focuses on teaching about Afro Caribbean culture, along with uniting the community with events like pageants and parades. They are currently opening up an arts section of this organization
STACY stacyhannings@gmail.comHANNINGS
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Kathryn Mirick Knight is a director of a private preschool. She is married and lives in VA with daughters Kinsley (4 yrs) and Karley (2 yrs).
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ERIC EMERY Ericemery20@gmail.com
STEPHANIE GUZZO stephanie.guzzo@gmail.comIRELAND
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and offering classes like mask making, clay indigenous art, music and Bomba dancing. In the fall, Zelest will begin working on a community theater program through Arts & Culture Collaborative, Waterbury Region.
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LISA NOYES HARDENBROOK litha81@hotmail.com
ELIZABETH CRESSMAN Ecressman1986@yahoo.com
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NICOLE nmpoelaert@gmail.comCOSTANZOPOELAERT
Hayley Kingman spent the summer working as a communications and marketing intern at the Stratton Mountain School in VT. She felt lucky to work alongside and learn from colleagues who share the same passions for business and ski racing as she does. Hayley plans to return to CSC in the fall to pursue her MBA. Jordyn Pailler is currently enjoying working as an undergraduate admissions counselor at Colby-Sawyer College.
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MICHAEL michaelqueen27@gmail.comQUEEN
It is hard to believe that it has already been over a year since graduation, but the class of 2021 has kept busy. When Alexus Farrell first started her job search in the summer of 2021, she found it difficult to find a quality job that matched her education and experience, but she has managed to turn small opportunities into large ones in a very short period of time. She started out as a COVID-19 safety officer for the New London Barn Playhouse, utilizing many of the same skills she gained in her internship with Baird. The nickname given to her during the internship carried on through her position as she was dubbed the “COVID Queen.” Alexus further expanded her positions at the Barn Playhouse to driving patrons of the playhouse to the tent in Ivey field. This was not her only addition however, as she utilized her self-proclaimed ramen and mac and cheese cooking expertise in the kitchen at the playhouse by joining the kitchen staff. In Nov. 2021, Alexus moved on to a new position at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services in Concord, NH, as an equity vaccination clinic coordinator through Maxim Healthcare, once again retaining her COVID Queen title. She is still with the DHHS, but has grown to the Bureau of Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery where she is taking training courses and hoping to land herself in the ideal position. She wishes the class of 2021 the best and thanks her friends, family, faculty and staff of CSC and the Barn Playhouse for their support. Chelsea Perry recently moved to Nashua, NH, after completing the 5-year MBA program at CSC and landing a job as an operations coordinator at Trova Healthcare. Bryce Carlson,
CARRIE LEBEAU Canne5515@gmail.com
propagation at RiverRun Gardens in Newburyport, MA, in Aug. 2021. Drew Ingoldsby and Rebecca Straubel Ingoldsby ’20 were married at Mountain View Grand Resort and Spa in Whitefield, NH, on Feb. 12, 2022.
BEN MAINES bamaines@stanford.edu
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MORGAN morganwilsonportfolio@gmail.WILSON com
WILL HYLAND willhyland207@gmail.com
Almost 2 dozen fellow Charger alumni were in attendance. Shelby Kantor Pushee and Jake Pushee were married near Acadia National Park in Gouldsboro, ME, on June 4, 2022. Alyssa Smith Daly and Matthew Daly were married at Steele Hill Resort in Sanbornton, NH, on June 11, 2022. Oona Bond Bullen and Michael Bullen ’20 were married at Fort William Henry in Bristol, ME, on June 18, 2022. Ian Burgess accepted a job offer as the assistant director of athletic operations at UMass Lowell in June 2022.
Meghan Doane has begun work on her master’s of education for moderate disabilities at Merrimack College, with an anticipated completion date of May 2023. She will be student teaching this fall in Lynnfield, MA. Congrats, Meghan!
Jordyn Pailler ’22, who graduated with her bachelor’s degree in biology this past May, is currently working as an admissions counselor at Colby-Sawyer College.
another graduate of the MBA program, is working as an equity research analyst with Financial Technology Partners. Currently he is in New York City meeting the team and will eventually move to FL when the company opens its new office there. Lastly, I, Michael Queen, also graduated from the MBA program and recently started a position as a program control analyst II at BAE systems in Hudson, NH. It has been a steep learning curve so far, but the company provides many great opportunities. I moved into an apartment in Milford, NH, which is about halfway between my hometown of New Boston and Hudson.
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executive managers during organizational change. Ella serves as an associate editor for the Academy of Human Resource Development. She has published a book chapter on relational consciousness and is working on a 2nd publication on leadership practices. In addition, Ella designs workplace learning and leadership strategies for a high-growth tech company in her practice. Ella and her husband recently bought a house in Washington, DC. After graduating from Colby-Sawyer, Devin DiChiara attended the Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. During her 2nd year, they merged with New England College. Devin received her MFA in 2021.
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Colby Reardon began work overseeing cultivation and
2021
in memoriam
Je-Je’s commitment to the college is perhaps best embodied by a gift that is enjoyed by the college community every day — a park in the center of campus, conceived of and funded by Je-Je, affectionately known as Pierce Park. At its dedication on Sept. 4, 2003, then-President Anne Ponder said that the park “invites us to gather and communicate together, whether we’re talking about learning among friends or the genuine interest that students have in each other or that faculty and administrators have in our students. Pierce Park is a tangible place that subtly symbolizes who we are and what we do.”
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Former Colby-Sawyer College President H. Nicholas Muller III died at his home in Essex, N.Y., on May 31, 2022. He was 83.
After leaving the college in 1985, Muller directed the state historical society of Wisconsin, then served as CEO for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., until he retired in 2002. A historian who specialized in Vermont heritage, Muller authored numerous books on Vermont and dedicated his time to organizations including the Vermont Historical Society, Fort Ticonderoga, Ethan Allen Home stead Trust, National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Essex Community Fund at Adirondack Foundation, which has named him the recipient of the 2022 Francisca Irwin Award for Community Service. He remained connected to Colby-Sawyer as well, encouraging local students to attend the college, giving generously and joining the Heritage Society, which includes those who have provided for the college through their estate plans.
A dedicated alumna who served on the Colby-Sawyer College Board of Trustees from 1998 to 2007, Je-Je was inducted into the college’s Legends Society in 2003 for gifts to the college totaling more than $1 million. In addition to her deep commitment to Colby-Sawyer, Je-Je was an active leader, supporter and volunteer for many community organizations in Boca Raton, Wellesley and Woods Hole.
Jean “Je-Je” Harding Pierce ’47
Jean “Je-Je” Harding Pierce ’47 of Boca Grande, Fla., and Woods Hole, Mass., died May 6, 2022, in Boca Grande at the age of 94. Je-Je was a “leap year baby,” born on Feb. 29, 1928, in Canada to Fred and Lillian Harding. After graduating from Colby Junior College, she attended the University of Maine, Orono, then taught elementary school in Massachusetts.
Je-Je met her husband-to-be, Bob, while she was in New London earning her Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts and he was studying at Dartmouth College. Together, they raised a family in Wellesley, Mass., and were married 42 years, until Bob’s death in 1993.
Muller, known affectionately as “Nick,” was born in Pittsburgh and earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He was a professor of history at the University of Vermont and served as assistant dean, then associate dean of the UVM College of Arts & Sciences before becoming Colby-Sawyer’s fifth president in 1978.
Henry Nicholas “Nick” Muller III
Under Muller’s leadership, the college purchased the Colby Homestead in 1981, and three years later, renovation began on its two attached pre-Civil War barns, which would be transformed into the Susan Colgate Cleveland Library. “We need a place which promotes learning and attracts students and keeps them there,” Muller told the New Hampshire Sunday News in 1984. “We also want to make a visual impression on a casual borrower of each book.” The library was the recipient of an Award of Excellence for Library Architecture from the American Library Association in 1987.
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Sheridan Danforth P’83, ’84, GP’02
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A short time later, Colby-Sawyer College President Anne Ponder announced that she had accepted a position as chancellor at UNC Asheville. Jordan was appointed interim president while a search for Colby-Sawyer’s eighth president took place. Jordan took office on Oct. 1, 2005, and though he served only for the remainder of the academic year, he had a strong presence on campus and was fully engaged with the Colby-Sawyer community. He and Sheila frequently hosted groups of student leaders for pizza dinners at the President’s House and asked thoughtful questions about the student experience.
Former Trustee and former Interim President of the College Philip H. Jordan, Jr. died on July 22, 2022, with his wife, Sheila, and their two sons by his side. He was 91.
Philip H. Jordan, Jr.
Jordan served as president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, from 1975 to 1995. Before that, he was a professor of history and dean of faculty at Connecticut College. In 1996, Jordan joined the Colby-Sawyer College Board of Trustees, where he chaired the Board Organization and Enrollment Committees and served as Vice Chair of the Executive Committee. Jordan left the board in 2005 and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Colby-Sawyer’s Commencement ceremony that year.
Jordan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1954, a Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1956 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University in 1962. In 1975, he was named an Outstanding Educator in America. His national lead ership in higher education includes service as chair of the American Council on Education, board member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and fellow of the Foundation for Independent Higher Education.
At the end of Jordan’s tenure as interim president, the Colby-Sawyer faculty acknowledged him, stating, “The faculty extends our sincere appreciation for your leadership over this last year as well as for your contributions to the college over the last decade. You recognized the importance of continued progress on substantive issues and facilitated significant advancements … Your focus on quality and your enthusi asm for Colby-Sawyer were evident.”
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Sheridan was born in Austin, Texas. She graduated from Greenbriar College in 1956 before raising four children, Laura, Kimberly, David and Mark. She lived the final 40 years of her life in New London, where she was an active community member. She served as a volunteer at Woodcrest Village, New London Hospital, Meals on Wheels and the Kearsarge Area Council on Aging. She was also actively involved with Colby-Sawyer College and enjoyed hosting international students as part of the college’s Friend ship Family program. In 2003, Sheridan and Peter were inducted as inaugural members of the Legends Society, a group whose membership includes those who donate $1 million or more to the college during their lifetimes. The Danforth’s belief in Colby-Sawyer is perhaps best reflected, however, in the decisions of their two daughters, Laura Danforth ’83 and Kimberly Danforth ’84, and their granddaughter, Kristin Danforth ’02, to attend.
in memoriam
Longtime friend of the college Sheridan Danforth died on June 20, 2022, in New London, N.H. She was 83. Sheridan was predeceased by her husband, former Chair of the Colby-Sawyer College Board of Trustees Peter Danforth, after 54 years of marriage.
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in fond memory
Although Colby’s term as governor lasted for only one year (1846-1847), his unyielding beliefs in morality and liberty were incorporated into the academy and created the ideological foundation on which the college was built. Colby was set on the notion that “every human being should enjoy his liberty,” a belief that was firmly evident in his political achievements while in office, and he did not hesitate to articulate this conviction to Congress. For example, in his inaugural address, Colby denounced the Mexican American War, stating that intentions to annex Texas were motivated by nothing
“Let us render good for evil and say to our southern brethren of whatever rank or color that if they come into New Hampshire they shall enjoy equal liberty with us.”
induction of new states into the Union leading to the intensification of debate, the issue of slavery was quickly elevated to the forefront of national discourse. New London Academy was not immune to this tension. But the stance of New London Academy’s founder, Governor Anthony Colby (1792-1873), set a precedent of acceptance that the school would endure for more than a century to come.
– Governor Anthony Colby, 1846
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by Liz Charpentier
New London Academy was established during a time of great turmoil in the United States, in the period preced ing the Civil War, when racial and class tensions echoed throughout the nation. With the Industrial Revolution restructuring traditional socioeconomic roles and the
I f you walk through Colby-Sawyer College’s campus, you’ll find a rural academic community where “Black Lives Matter” is painted on walkways, and an op-ed by late congressman John Lewis is displayed on a dining hall wall. From the college’s establishment in 1837 as New London Academy to the creation of its present-day Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, certain principles of the school have stood the test of time — the foremost of which are freedom and acceptance.
COLOPHON
The graphic elements of this story are a glyph-based typeface called Harriot It was designed by the type foundry Vocal Type. It is modeled after ten quilts that were used as code to direct slaves to safety while traveling the Under ground Railroad in the 1800s. Each quilt block had a specific meaning and part to play in the code. The header for this story was typeset in DuBois, a typeface designed by Vocal Type in honor of W.E.B. DuBois.
In fact, many of Colby’s proclamations touched upon the denunciation of slavery. In an address to the people of New Hampshire in 1847, he announced that April 15 of that year would be designated as a day of prayer and reflection for New Hampshire residents of all econom ic classes. His declaration recognized that the natural rights of men “forbids the relation of master and slave to exist.”
In a letter to Colby at the beginning of his term of gover nance, Daniel Webster reaffirmed the abolitionist position of many New Hampshire officials at the time, providing further evidence that Colby’s humanitarian perspective was recognized throughout the abolitionist movement. His beliefs were also exemplified through the structure of the academy, with women soon exerting their influence
in positions of power throughout the school, beginning with Colby’s daughter, Susan Colby Colgate, acting as the academy’s first principal. Lastly, despite federal legislation that attempted to address racial disparities, prejudice and discrimination against people of color continue to persist in the United States long after the Civil War. But, a photo recently uncovered in the college archives suggests that the institution that is now Colby-Sawyer had long since been at the forefront of acceptance, enrolling a person of color as early as 1896.
other than “that of perpetuating an institution of slavery which degrades the human race.”
Liz Charpentier ’24 is a history and political science major at Colby-Sawyer. She served as an intern in the archives during the summer of 2022.
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Full references for this article can be found at colby-sawyer.edu/assets/ref/charpentier-references.pdf
above left: Liz Charpentier ’24 searches through shelves in the college archives.
above right: A letter from Frederick Douglass to abolitionist and former Concord, N.H., resident Parker Pillsbury is shown.
As I move on to a new experience, I will continue to rely on the inspiration I have received from the Coby-Sawyer community, because that is important and needed now more than ever.
Living His Lesson
From 2008 to 2022, I have been honored to be part of a community that fostered my professional growth in multiple disciplines and supported my personal development. It allowed me to explore diverse opportunities that took my family to Nigeria and China for year-long adventures. During these adventures, I always had the college’s support and the support of my colleagues and students. While being away was exciting and life changing, I always longed for the community at Colby-Sawyer. I always missed learning among friends and being a part of the academic and personal growth of our students.
Since 2008, Associate Professor for the School of Arts & Sciences Harvey Pine has shared with his students his passion for the environment and an urgency for addressing the climate issues we face. Now, after 14 years in the classroom, Pine is leaving Colby-Sawyer to commit his efforts to addressing those very issues. During his time at the college, Pine inspired his stu dents through his enthusiasm and high expectations, often extending the classroom outside the confines of campus. In 2014, Pine was awarded the Jack Jenson Award for Excellence in Teaching, the college’s highest honor, in recognition of his dedication to his students. Pine holds a bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Auburn University.
As I reflect on this process, I remember receiving the honor of the Jack Jensen Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014. This honor afforded me the opportunity to deliver the Commencement address. The theme of my speech came to seem obvious, and so I focused on our community. I recounted a fun but meaningful proverb from Zambia concerning the need to share what is important and valued in our communities. I implored students to go to their communities, current and future, and offer up what they have learned during their time at Colby-Sawyer because the world would certainly benefit from the they’ve lessons learned.
by Harvey Pine
As happens to many of us, I have found that it is time for me to take my own advice and challenge myself. I have decided to pursue opportunities that will allow me to put what I have learned into practice. As I pursue these opportunities, I will take what I have gained over the years from students, staff and faculty and apply it to help address environmental issues our communities face. There will be new experiences for me outside of the Colby-Sawyer community, but I know I will continue to grow and contribute to this vibrant institution.
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I have connected with many students throughout the years, and it has been amazing to see their journeys. The connections students maintain among faculty, staff and peers after graduation are a testament to the collegial culture of Colby-Sawyer. Through these lasting connections, I have shared in the successes and challenges they have faced professionally and personally and have learned alongside them.
“Learning among friends” is a phrase once used to describe Colby-Sawyer College to prospective students. It quickly gave a sense of academic focus, a comfortable atmosphere and an environment of support. While this quote was intended to help develop an image of life at Colby-Sawyer for students and their families, it also accurately describes my 13 years at the institution.
I can see the evidence of how their time at Colby-Sawyer shaped and guided them throughout these experiences. While learning among friends, they were invited to be uncomfortable and to take on courses, projects and internships that challenged them and forced them to grow. I recall many conversations in which I advised students to do things that are outside of their comfort zone because the environment and support at the college would see them through. The community at Colby-Sawyer is built around providing these opportunities for personal and professional growth and is an essential part of the institution.
For decades, we have worked to ensure that students and families do not bear the burden of the full cost of tuition, and 100% of our currently enrolled students receive financial assistance. However, many prospective students and families don’t know that, and our published tuition price of $46,364 prevents them from considering Colby-Sawyer at all.
Making a Difference:
– President Susan D. Stuebner
At Colby-Sawyer, we encourage our students to make a difference and discover their potential to build a better world. We hold ourselves to the same standard.
“...we want to make it clear that a Colby-Sawyer experience is possible for any student who is a good academic fit and wants to call us home.”
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Transforming Pricing and Expanding Opportunities
Our tuition may be changing, but our commitment to small classes, experiential learning, required internships and Capstone projects, and preparation for purpose ful careers and graduate studies remains unwavering. We are excited to make it more accessible to more students.
“Our posted tuition price has caused some families to believe that our individual ized educational experience would be out of their reach financially,” Colby-Sawyer College President Susan D. Stuebner said. “However, our institution is enhanced by having students with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. By guarantee ing a new, lower tuition of $17,500, we want to make it clear that a Colby-Sawyer experience is possible for any student who is a good academic fit and wants to call us home.”
We are able to make this important change following several years of strategic planning to consistently strengthen Colby-Sawyer’s financial stability, establish new programs and deepen key partnerships. We are stronger financially than we have been in recent history — we have operated under a balanced budget the past four years and will exercise the same financial responsibility moving for ward. Our donors have shown their belief in our stability and in the educational experience we provide with record levels of giving, including the largest gift in the college’s history, and our endowment is at a record high.
On Sept. 7, we announced that we are taking an exciting step toward building a better, more accessible college by guaranteeing that all four-year undergraduate students will start with a lower tuition price of $17,500 beginning in the fall of 2023.
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