Dick Lucier ’60, P’85 and Kate Lucier O’Neil ’85
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ick Lucier ’60 and his daughter, Kate Lucier O’Neil ’85, are a fatherdaughter pair of Willows Society members who have both made provisions for Colby in their wills to ensure that their support of the College will endure for future generations of students. This Massachusetts pair has also supported the College for years as fundraising volunteers. Dick’s Colby Fund service included his 40th, 45th, and 50th reunion gift committees, and Kate is a trustee emerita who served as vice chair of the investment committee for six years and headed the private equity subcommittee.
“I give to Colby because I recognize that my college experience greatly shaped the rest of my personal and professional life.”—Dick Lucier ’60, P’85
Farnham Russell, leads a hectic life in Hampden, Maine. Summers are still spent at our beloved cottage near Millinocket. I’m a tax aide volunteer working two to three days a week during tax season. I keep up with my cross-country skiing, nature walks, bridge, and grandchildren. Rollie suffers from Alzheimer’s and now resides in a local nursing home. I’m able to visit frequently and enjoy the other residents. Pam Taylor, Colleen (Jo) Littlefield Jones, and I meet for lunch and visiting. Jo Ann Sexton Hardy, my old roomie, and I get together frequently.
1963 Dick recently documented his bequest intention to support his class’s 50th anniversary gift. “I give to Colby because I recognize that my college experience greatly shaped the rest of my personal and professional life,” said Dick. “My English literature major, in addition to being fun, provided me with the cognitive skills for analysis and problem solving—very useful tools for living in a changing world. And it goes without saying that having an enduring and
successful marriage to a Colby classmate (Helen ’Penny’ Martin Lucier ’60, who died in 1990), and then being followed to Colby years later by our daughter, Kate, resulted in my heightened and sustained interest in the College.” In addition to her annual support of the Colby Fund and to providing for the College in her will, Kate and her husband, Ford O’Neil, recently made a gift for the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement and the naming gift for the photography studio that is part of the planned Colby College Museum of Art expansion. “Colby had a profound impact on my life. The quality of the classroom experience was extraordinary,” said Kate, a retired general partner of FLAG Capital Management. “My commitment to Colby is really all about the people in the Colby community, the incredibly dedicated professors I feel very much indebted to, and the lifelong friendships formed while there.”
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Paule French classnews1963@alum.colby.edu Al Carville, class president, has begun working on our 50th reunion. Penn Williamson will be responsible for the reunion gift, Pauline Ryder Kezer will be in charge of planned giving, and yours truly will be organizing our reunion class book. Al and his wife, Linda, are heading to the Panama Canal to see it before it gets widened. He recently spoke with Pat Ey Ingraham. Y Bill ’62 and Barb Haines Chase are off to Hawaii for hiking and snorkeling with Road Scholar (a.k.a. Elderhostel). Y Byron Petrakis completed the Manchester, N.H., marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon, which he plans to run in 2012. Byron’s daughter, Cassandra, who lives in Switzerland, “ran the last several miles with me, making sure that her old man crossed the finish line in one piece!” Y Karen Beganny Megathlin, Cathy McConnell Webber, Dee Dee Wilson Perry, JoAnn Wincze French, and Pat Ey Ingraham spent two nights in Newport, R.I., in October. They checked out local restaurants and had a great time catching up on each other’s lives. They’re “looking forward to entering the seventh decade with enthusiasm.” Karen and husband Skeeter ’59 visited Nancy (Godley ’65) and John Wilson last summer in Deer Isle, Maine. Y Karen Forslund Falb recently heard from Jeannette Fannin Regetz, whose husband, Fred, passed away last winter. Karen also spoke with Lillian Waugh, who is substitute teaching and plays in orchestras in the Boston area. Karen recently had an engagement party for daughter Alison, who studies at Fordham Law School. Despite preparing for Ph.D. orals in Middle Eastern history at U Cal Berkeley, Alison’s sister, Hilary, made it to the party. Both daughters went to Brown. Karen is still a board member of the New England Landscape Design and History Association. Y Rick Varney is retiring from his human resource consulting
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