newsmakers The Providence Center, a community-based outpatient behavioral health organization, recently named Anne Szostak ’72 to its board of trustees. Szostak, CEO and president of Szostak Partners, a consulting firm, also serves on the boards of Tupperware, BELO, and Spherion Corporation and is the first woman chair of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Edward Snyder ’75 was appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. The Anne Szostak ’72 term is to begin July 1. Snyder also is the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics, co-edits the Journal of Law & Economics, and is senior scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the university. The Home Safety Council tapped Angela Mickalide ’79 as its new director of education and outreach. The council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making homes across the country safer. With 20 years Angela Mickalide ’79 of health education experience, Mickalide will lead outreach initiatives to the company’s national programs and partners, including the nationally distributed Weekly Reader magazine.
milestones Deaths: Barbara L. Waters ’71, December 5, 2004, in Davis, Calif., at 55. Charles K. Hull ’72, July 5, 2005, in Portland, Maine, at 54. Jay Hotchkiss ’77, September 11, 2005, of South Portland, Maine, at 50. with Colby. I wish you well.” We thank you, too, Laurie. Y My oldest son, Daniel, graduated from Franklin & Marshall in the spring, and I am now doing college trips with my next son, David, who is in his senior year in high school. My youngest, Jonathan, is in the seventh grade and still most interested in sports of all kinds. I work at Harvard University as manager of systems operations for the University Libraries. Y Please continue to write or e-mail and let me know what you are doing. —Dianne Billington Stronach
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We hear from classmates far and near and on the move! Jane Brox’s third book, Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm, was published in 2004. Last year, Jane was reviewed in a New York Times article, which covered her life and writings. She lives in Harpswell, Maine, and is pondering her next book. Y Hrönn Rikhardsdóttir is teaching and living in Iceland. She is working on a master’s thesis on educational leadership, which has taken her longer to complete than she expected, but she hoped to graduate in the fall. In September, Hrönn
and her sister planned to travel to Argentina with their husbands. Her oldest daughter graduated from high school and headed to art school. Her 12-year-old daughter stays busy playing football (soccer) and practicing gymnastics. As a parting note, she adds, “I still find my year at Colby 30 years ago to be the single most exciting year in my life.” Y Peter Secor has three children, the oldest of whom graduated high school this year in Vienna, Va. Peter is still with the U.S. State Department and serving this year as principal officer of the U.S. Embassy in Grenada. Y Pat Hotchkiss Bakir writes “Our big news is that we are in the final month (months?) of building a home of our own in Amman, Jordan. Crazy idea; we may move after a couple of years. But it’s an excellent investment climate, and for a few years at least we’ll enjoy having a big house for our two teenage boys, including our master suite all alone on the roof. And a guest bedroom—so plenty of room for visitors if anyone is so inclined. (Believe me, Jordan is safe.)” Y From New England, Sandy Buck writes that he and his family are “finally moving to Maine this fall—a
decision that took way too long, since graduation, to make! We are building a home in Cumberland Foreside and hope to be complete and moved in by the end of September. Horizon Foundation has already moved to Portland. Alex graduated from Carrabassett Valley Academy in June and is working at Camp Kieve this summer before heading off to Montana State University to major in backcountry skiing. Sarah will wrap up her year abroad at University of Geneva, Switzerland, and return for her senior year to Skidmore. Sissy sold River Gallery in Ipswich and looks forward to getting back to creating her own art in Maine. I’m eager to delve into conservation projects in our new home state, once the blues and stripers migrate south, the landscaping is complete, and trout season is over!” Y After eight years in Falmouth, Maine, Scott ’76 and I moved back to Marblehead, Mass., last winter. Although we moved, we don’t feel disconnected with Maine in the least, as both of our kids attend Carrabassett Valley Academy and we still have a place at Sugarloaf. Scott will be a senior, and Katie will be a sophomore. Both are ardent ski racers and world travelers. Scott and I enjoy their pictures and e-mails very much as we have not been to half the places they travel to! (If only all of us could come back as one of our kids, right?) Between Sugarloaf and CVA, we reconnect with many Colby friends. Maine is a beautiful place to live, and we met some great people. Scott runs the Boston and Portland offices of Clearpoint, an employee benefit consulting firm. Clearpoint was founded by CEO Peter Carpenter ’91, whom Scott first hired as a Colby senior. Other Clearpoint Colby alums are Bill Higgins ’92 and Rob Fast ’84. Y Please write us! Your lives and news are of interest to all of us! —Janet Santry Houser
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turnout for our 25th this past June. Judging from the class photo, it looks like about 125-plus of us returned to Mayflower Hill. Special thanks go to Lisa McDonough O’Neill, Susan Sullivan Hinrichs, and Lynn Collins Francis for their organization, decoration, and leadership. Susan and class president Dan O’Halloran did a fantastic job leading our class fundraising efforts, and Patty Valavanis Smith put together an awesome reunion yearbook. Chih Chien Hsu, who returned to Waterville for the first
1980s Correspondents 1980 Thomas Marlitt 1835 SW Elizabeth Street Portland, OR 97201 503-248-4310 classnews1980@alum.colby.edu 1981 Elizabeth Stiller Fahey 1325 Hemlock Street NW Washington, DC 20012 classnews1981@alum.colby.edu 1982 Janice McKeown 64 Robert Street Roslindale, MA 02131 617-244-7013 classnews1982@alum.colby.edu 1983 Sally Lovegren Merchant 24 Easy Street Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-0441 fax: 207-244-9445 classnews1983@alum.colby.edu 1984 Cynthia M. Mulliken Lazzara 84 Hecker Avenue Darien, CT 06820-5310 classnews1984@alum.colby.edu 1985 Gretchen Bean Bergill Phillips Exeter Academy 20 Main Street Exeter, NH 03833 classnews1985@alum.colby.edu 1986 c/o Meg Bernier Colby College Office of Alumni Relations Waterville, ME 04901 207-859-4312 classnews1986@alum.colby.edu 1987 Kathleen Harnett Linger 208 Holmes Road Charlotte, VT 05445 802-425-2276 classnews1987@alum.colby.edu 1988 c/o Meg Bernier Colby College Office of Alumni Relations Waterville, ME 04901 207-859-4312 classnews1988@alum.colby.edu 1989 Anita L. Terry Alte Landstrasse 174 8800 Thalwil Switzerland 011-41-43-388-5701 classnews1989@alum.colby.edu COLBY / winter 2006 57