Crandall loves singing again—in the Seattle Women’s Chorus (www. flyinghouse.org/swc/). “We do some really complicated music,” writes Chris, “which makes my brain fizz a bit, but it’s good for me.” Chris, who retired from Microsoft in 1995, has been doing some editing (mostly fiction) and volunteering. She loves Seattle and has a great life. ✹ Debbie (Stephenson ’68) and Phil Wysor celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary. When their daughter, Jess ’03, marries Nat Chamberlin ’03, they will become a third-generation Colby couple. Phil’s Colby couple parents were members of the Class of 1942. Phil, Debbie, and their sons (and grandchildren) live in Marblehead. Phil sends his best to fellow ’70 classmates. ✹ Kathy Hill Wade, who lives in Amarillo, wonders which classmates are living in her area. Let’s hear from you! ✹ Regardless of where you live, please let us know what you are up to, especially if we haven’t heard from you lately. —Deb Fitton Mansfield
71 As autumn unfolds into winter once again, it’s time for me to let you know the happenings of some of our classmates. Not too many of you responded to my request for news this time and thus, there isn’t a plethora of information for you to peruse. ✹ Fred Copithorn writes that, although he hasn’t “changed the world” as he thought he might in 1971, he’s preparing for retirement. He has returned to throwing pottery, he just took an oil painting class, and he has his eye out on eBay for a French horn. In addition, he says, “Now I just have to fi nish remodeling the house.” His message ends with, “So really, I have no news.” Go, Fred. ✹ Bobby and Judy White Brennan still live in Middletown, R.I., near Newport. Judy is still in nursing and is now concentrating on psych and gerontological nursing. She earned her master’s from Salve Regina University and hoped to become certified in gerontological nursing early in 2008. She’s also done work with hospice and rehabilitation. Much of her winter is spent going to her son’s basketball games. He’s now the coach! Judy often sees Karen Mahanke, who lives in Newport with her husband, Tim Brown, and their three children. They see Nancy Neckes Dumart and Linda Chester about once a year. They all take advantage of the summer events in Newport and love having company. If you’re ever in the
Newport area, give them a call. ✹ I encourage all of you to send me news whenever the spirit moves you. I will always save what news you have for the next issue of the magazine. — Ann E. Miller
73 Gail Andrews McCarthy left her job in June and enjoys doing church volunteer work and traveling. On a trip to China, Gail rode a zip wire off the Great Wall! Her son was scheduled to deploy to Iraq in February. ✹ Norm and Pat Flanagan Olsen have returned to the U.S. after spending 22 of the past 25 years overseas with the U.S. Foreign Service, most recently in Tel Aviv, where Norm was political counselor and Pat was a teacher and principal of the American International School’s middle school. They left Tel Aviv on their sailboat in June, cruised across the eastern Mediterranean and along the coast of Turkey for two weeks, and then spent a month at their home in Cherryfield, Maine, along with son and daughter-in-law Patrick ’02 and Teresa Hawko Olsen ’01 and new grandson Colin. Norm is now based in Washington as an associate coordinator in the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism. ✹ Several classmates returned to campus this fall to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the 1972 football season. That team was Colby’s fi rst to fi nish with seven wins and only one loss, and no team has done better since then! Those returning were Peter Card (all the way from Biloxi, Miss.), Brian Cone, John Krasnavage, David Lane, Duncan Leith, Joe Mattos, and Alex Wilson. The late Luke Kimball was remembered in a toast at the anniversary dinner. ✹ After working as director of development for the Audubon Society of Rhode Island and then in the same position for Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, Wells Pile became a part-time freelance fund raiser in 2004. And, recently, he became a student again! He is enrolled at The Landing School in Kennebunkport studying marine systems and is looking forward to work on and around boats and ships. His son Craine is working on satellite communication systems and his other son, Austin, is a senior at Colorado State. Austin has also spent several years playing and traveling with the U.S. Men’s Field Hockey team. ✹ Susie Yovic Hoeller resigned in August 2007 from the legal department at Wal-Mart Stores in Bentonville, Ark. Susie is going to
open her own law fi rm in Bentonville. She will become the president of the American Center for International Policy Studies and will continue as an AMCIPS director. She is also on the board of the N.W. Arkansas chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Susie visited Janice Johnson Peterson in Wilmette, Ill., in July. ✹ After 10 years as Arizona State University’s vice president for research, Jon Fink is now ASU’s chief sustainabilit y off icer and director of their Global Institute of Sustainability. The Institute has an overall focus on studies of rapid urbanization, and the job change means that Jon can professionally justify wearing sandals to work, driving a Prius, and having solar panels on his roof. Jon is also enjoying being the parent of teenagers, Laurel, 15, and Andy, 11. ✹ After graduating from Colby, Malcolm Tucker taught high school math for 25 years in N.Y. He now works for GEICO managing their national college recruiting program and enjoys being on college campuses. He has three daughters and a granddaughter, is remarried, and lives in Maryland. —Roberta Rollins Wallace
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Deborah Wathen Finn’s daughter, Stephanie, graduated cum laude from Colby in June 2007 with an international studies major. Deb and Libby Corydon-Apicella are both College Overseers and sat on the dais as the class graduated. Libby had a “surrogate” daughter graduating that day as well. Other Colby classmates in attendance included Vicki Parker Kozak, Jill Gilpatric Richard, Janet (Hansen ’75) and Bruce Drouin, as well as Barbara Gregory Lyons ’73. Deb’s aunt Ruth Pratley Madell ’63 also attended graduation, making three generations in the family who are Colby grads! While in Denver, Deb saw Robin Sweeney Peabody, who is host, along with Linda Krohn, for a gathering of the “Dirty Dozen” (Colby graduates). ✹ Jeff Barske returned to Mayflower Hill to celebrate 60 years of the Colby Eight. With more than 70 voices in all, each group rehearsed on Saturday and sang to a standing-room-only crowd in the chapel Saturday night. Jeff was in a group spanning ’69 to ’86 and enjoyed catching up with Paul Boghossian ’76, with whom Jeff sang in the Colby Eight while in college. He also had a nice chat with Sue Conant Cook ’75. ✹ After 33 years, Phyllis Hasegawa Auger got
together with Larry Kominz, who is a Japanese professor at Portland State University in Portland, Ore. Larr y helped Phyllis write the Japanese character for “Beiju,” which is the celebration for one’s 88th birthday—for Phyllis’s dad. Larry and Phyllis met at Festival Japan, where Larry performed a traditional Japanese dance. Phyllis also sees Sally Hall ’02 as they both belong to the Aurora Chorus. ✹ Havard Jones, who resides in Washington, D.C., is proud of his new grandson, Seth Christian Jones, born Oct. 12, the same day Havard’s mother was born. ✹ Ed Hatch is recovering well from a stroke he suffered in 2005. His wife is a division president at Readers’ Digest and his two sons, Kevin and Connor, are in eighth and sixth grades. ✹ Mick Chapuk is currently teaching painting and drawing at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pa. He recently juried a show of local artists at the Allentown Art Museum. He also got together with Brian MacQuarrie for brunch. Brian is writing a nonfiction book about a murder in Massachusetts. Mick also saw Norm Rattey, an attorney in Portland, Maine, and Doc Zeller, who does research for an investment fi rm in Century City in Los Angeles. Mick visits Tom Sullivan once a year in Centreville, Va., where Tom manages a palliative care facility. ✹ The Rev. Jean L. Wahlstrom was recently named the new pastor of May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society in Syracuse, N.Y. ✹ Linda Krohn’s daughter Lindsey Vonn, an Olympic skier, was married Sept. 29. Linda said it was the best day of her life—her two triplet sons walked her down the aisle, and her other two daughters were co-maids of honor. ✹ I am now entering my 26th year of consulting in the areas of audio, web, and video conferencing, and my practice has had a surge in business with the resurgence of “telepresence,” thanks to John Chambers, CEO of Cisco. —S. Ann Earon
75 After graduation, Ellie Betz Hess moved 20 miles away from campus to Freedom, Maine, where she and her husband raised three daughters. With an empty nest, they moved to the Marshall Islands. She is the chair of the developmental education department at the only college in the country. Ellie teaches math and science and is learning a language spoken by only 60,000 people. ✹ Quite a distance from COLBY / SPRING 2008 51