event occurred the next day after a cold front swept in and kicked up giant swells in front of the camp, which can only be reached by boat. Lizotte thought he heard someone yelling “Help!” and looking out the window spotted Mike Roy bobbing among the waves in a yellow kayak, about to be smashed onto the rocky shore. Mike’s dramatic entrance ended well after his rescue by Tom, and the three former DU brothers enjoyed the rest of the day in relative peace. Y Mark Standen opened his own wills, trusts, and estates law practice in Yarmouth, Maine, in 2006 after 18 years with Drummond Woodsum, a Portland law firm. Son Jed will graduate from Colby this year, daughter Mary works as a nurse in NYC, and son Alex is a junior at UPenn. Mark and wife Liz (Tufts ’77) serve as executive directors of the George and Raymond Frank Foundation, a public charity that owns and operates Camp Kawanhee, a boys’ summer camp founded in 1920 and located in Weld, Maine. Y Phil DeFord, after 25 years in Asia, has moved with his wife, Shelley, to St. Louis and will be working for DHR International, a global executive search firm. He will focus on financial institutions and international. Anyone can reach Phil at phdef10@hotmail.com. Y Jeff Seip continues to improve after a near fatal accident (high speed rolls) in his pickup earlier this year. The accident occurred after Jeff completed recovering from a broken back suffered whilst trimming trees in early 2006. Jeff and his wife, Jeanne, still live in Cape Canaveral, but he no longer surfs or rides motorcycles. His passion for rescuing old cars from the crusher remains unabated. Y Havard Jones works in the office of the auditormaster at the D.C. Superior Court. While walking along Seventh Street he noticed a young man wearing a Colby t-shirt. He stopped to chat and found out that man, Ian, is a member of the Class of 2007. Havard will be unable to attend our reunion as he used all his vacation leave for a trip to the Grand Canyon in September with Bucky Marshall ’76. Y H. Jefferson Megargel II’s legal career ended in 1994 in Connecticut as a solo with two clients. He was divorced in 1995 from Barbara Janis of Ohio. Y After 20 years in Denver, Jay ’72 and Robin Sweeney Peabody moved to The Netherlands for three to five years. They live in an apartment in The Hague. Jay will continue as a global director for technical consulting with Nalco, located at their
European headquarters. Their son was married in Vermont in October and their daughter will live in their home in Denver and attend graduate school. Y Cheryl Booker Gorman has joined the Harvard University Employees Credit Union as SVP for retail banking. She thanks everyone who sponsored her in the August PMC 163-mile bike ride from Wellesley, Mass., to Provincetown. Donations were made to Dana Farber and the Jimmy Fund. Y Hope to see everyone at our 35th (yikes) reunion in June. —S. Ann Earon
75 Jay Reed wrote from the U.N.,
where he works long hours as the catering manager. He and wife Gail (Hansen ’74) live in New Jersey in the shadow of NYC. Gail works in Weehawken as the media specialist at the Woodrow Wilson Star School and she also coaches the forensics team. They love being close to the city to enjoy all kinds of theater. Their oldest son, Ben, graduated from Dartmouth and works for the Justice Department, and daughter Genna is a senior biology major at Lehigh. Y In May Jennifer Mustard Titrud and her family visited cousins in Norway and enjoyed the magnificent scenery. Her oldest daughter graduated from UConn and is in graduate school for school psychology. Jennifer is substitute teaching in Fairfield, Conn., in a public special-education preschool. Y Carol Madjalany Williams lives in Litchfield, Conn., as an empty nester. Her daughter is a senior at Dartmouth and her son is a sophomore at Colby. She finds it fun to reminisce with him, although clearly times have changed. Carol works part time in her husband’s online aircraft marketing business and at the local Montessori school, where she teaches sixth and seventh grade science. Y Rod Jones and his wife, Joanne, have settled into the city life of Old Montreal. Their youngest, Trevor, graduated from the Governor’s Academy and is a freshman at Colby. Daughter Kim is working in Dublin for the Bank of Ireland. She fell in love with Ireland during her Colby year abroad. Emma returned from a year abroad in New Zealand and Australia and is looking to settle in Boston. Rod is still swimming competitively and ran into Dave Bright at the New England Masters Championship. Y I reported in an earlier edition about Flo Gutowski Harlor and her family. She wrote that she retired this summer after almost 30 years in computer
systems sales. She is playing golf and skiing more with husband Dave. Y Arthur Levering announces his new solo CD of music that he composed. It’s on the New World label and is titled Still Raining, Still Dreaming. Y Debbie Seel Palman retired from the Maine Warden Service this summer after 30-plus years. She is starting a professional dog training business to keep busy during her retirement. Y Peter and Prudence Reed Kraft’s daughter, Hopestill, is a sophomore at Colby. They also enjoy their granddaughter, Emma (whose dad, Pete, is Colby 2002). Peter still likes the summers in Maine, Boston sports teams, good waves, but can do without the mosquitoes. Y Brad Smith has been living in South Beach, Miami, for the past two years where he does public relations consulting and plays drums in various groups. He also spends time at his second home in Tampa Bay where he performs music in acoustic duos. Some of you may remember Brad playing with friends/roommates at the Mary Low coffeehouse. He would enjoy hearing from old Colby bandmates. Y I received sad news that Libby Piper Deschenes passed away April 20, 2008. I remember Libby as enjoying life and especially her time at Colby. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Penn and was most recently a professor in the criminal justice department at the California State University. She was an avid swimmer and runner. Y I’m sorry I missed the last edition due during a crazy work time. I hope you’ll continue to write to me for future columns. —Dianne Billington Stronach
76 Bill Silverman is a professor
of gastroenterology at the University of Iowa and is listed in America’s Top Doctors. He specializes in pancreaticobiliary diseases. Bill notes that Iowa City is a great bicycling town, made even better by last year’s gas prices. However, getting blown off the road by an undergrad riding a Walmart clunker bike with underinflated tires constantly reminds him of his age! Y Rab and Martha (Bell) Bell write from New Jersey, where Martha works for the College Board and is enrolled in a master’s program at Columbia in strategic communications. Rab runs two international trade associations plus a small consultancy business and has embarked on a project called the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), which aims to create new jobs and opportunities via broadband to
1970s Correspondents 1970 Deborah Fitton Mansfield 1612 Middle Road Warren, ME 04864 207-273-2139 classnews1970@alum.colby.edu 1971 Ann Miller 100 Belknap Road Framingham, MA 01701 508-877-7544 classnews1971@alum.colby.edu 1972 Nancy Round Haley 6 Knowles Lane West Kingston, RI 02892 401-364-6773 classnews1972@alum.colby.edu 1973 Carol Chalker 191 Brimbal Avenue Beverly, MA 01915 978-922-7799 classnews1973@alum.colby.edu 1974 S. Ann Earon 124 Thomas Lane Manahawkin, NJ 08050 609-597-6334 classnews1974@alum.colby.edu 1975 Dianne Billington Stronach 308 Commonwealth Avenue Concord, MA 01742 978-371-1495 classnews1975@alum.colby.edu 1976 Robert Weinstein 1106 Wellington Place Matawan, NJ 07747 732-290-1106 classnews1976@alum.colby.edu 1977 Kevin Farnham 819 Wrights Crossing Road Pomfret Center, CT 06259 classnews1977@alum.colby.edu 1978 Janet Santry Houser 17 Doaks Lane Marblehead, MA 01945 781-639-8114 classnews1978@alum.colby.edu Lea Jackson Morrissey 1 Shorewood Road Marblehead, MA 01945-1225 classnews1978@alum.colby.edu 1979 Cheri Bailey Powers 6027 Scout Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918 719-532-9285 classnews1979@alum.colby.edu COLBY / WINTER 2009 47