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(9MMENTARY Comm o n s Bond i ng

The Commons system celebrated its four t h birthday last fa l l , and it has made great st rides in its short history toward becomi ng an effective student government. But i t has a way lo go yet .

Most of t h e problems w i t h t h e Commons system c a n b e traced back l o the i n tentions o f its bui lders. Adminis­ trators say that the Commons system was supposed lo emulate the good things about frate rn i ties, l ike unity and bonding, but bury i n basements on Frat Row all the bad things, like discrimi nation and hazi ng. The Commons sys­ tem is based on student involvement. More than 1 00 studen ts, includ ing some fraternity members, even helped de­ sign the system in the spring of 1 984. But the new government was nol wi thou t enemies, and many students were sti l l b i t ter abou t the ba n n i ng of the brothers in Ja nuary 1 984.

I arrived as a freshman at Col by seve ral years later, i n the fa ll o f 1 986, and was e lected a governor of my resi­ dence hall. Consequent ly, 1 also served on the M ary Low Commons Council. We spent more time discussing what we were going to decide, whom we were going lo tell about our dec isions, and how we were going to tell them than we did actually mak ing the deci sions. The decisions we did make carried l i ttle weight and certai nly did not sign i fican t ly al ter campus l i fe. Our opinions rarely went anywhere except home with us on the carbon-copied min­ utes of the meeting.

The most memorable thing we did as a council was throw a few successfu l part ies. "You should do this more," said o u r fellow students. Wel l . maybe we should have, but that was not the prima ry purpose of the Commons sys­ tem. Governors were supposed to be representatives of the students, their policymakers, not party hosts. However, if we d idn't t h row the part ies. who would fill the gap left by "legal" fraterni t ies? It was a frustrating year, and the dual role of party host/poli cymaker is still a muddy one today.

This year, my j u nior year at Colby, there are signs that the Commons system is mak ing headway. Today's stu­ dents have only k nown Colby with the Commons system. The Commons presidents, the Student Association ex­ ecutive board members, and the board of governors incl ude many veterans of the system. They understand that student gove rnments do not ove r rule but, rather, work with admin istra tor and faculty. At the same time, student leaders are learning bot h what dec isions they have the authority to make and how lo use the political power of a u nited student body voice. The governors are sta rting to worry about policies and not parties, a l lowing the soci a l chairs and other committee c h a i r s t o fulfi l l the i r o w n duties. T h i s experience within t he system is mak i ng a difference.

Add i t ionally, t he Commons system i s starting lo make decisions about important campus issues. Removing club status a nd funding from the Colby Crossfire (a publ ication of student opi n ion a nd atti tudes) when its editors chose to violate the Student Association const i t u t ion i s t he best example I've wi tnessed. The board of governors considered the facts, talked to the offenders, discussed the problem, and made a decision. The Commons system sho u ld continue to get its hands d i rty and tack le other d i fficult campus i ssues that need to be add ressed.

The most neglected problem cu rrently plaguing the Commons system is its relationship lo the student body.

I deas and complai nts often have a d i fficult t ime "trick l ing up" the system. Events such as town meetings, at which t he residents of a hall ga t her with their governors, are helping to build a better bridge between Col by students and the Commons system. St i l l , while most students can rat t le off a few l i nes about how t he system provides represen­ tation for t he student body or can explain how the Commons h ierarchy i s set up, that isn't enough. Students need to u nderstand what t he Commons system can and cannot accomplish as wel l as what it is accomplishing.

I am not a flag-waving fan of the Commons system. I do, however, believe that Col by is a better place with this system than it was with legal frate rn i ties. Admini strators acknowledge that underground fraternity members are elected and appointed to positions within the Commons system, sometimes for t he sole benefit of the system and other times to make sure their organ ization is represe n ted. Of course, i f fraterni ties follow the example Zeta Psi set when they d i ssolved the i r group in December, l i fe on Mayflower H i l l would change dramatically a nd become easi­ er for the Commons system.

Nevertheless, the toughest part i s over- t he Commons system has survived its fi rst years. Now it j ust has to grow up.

Chip Gavin '90

"Commentary" does not necessarily represent the editorial position of Colby nor the opinion of College officers. Readers are invited to submit proposals or opinion essays of between 500 and 800 words to the editor, Colby, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. The edi­ tor cannot guarantee publication of every submission.

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Designing a Major Dream

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DEPARTMENTS Commentar y (inside fro n t cover)

After extensive planning of an i ndependent major be­ ginning i n her freshman year, Wendy Dauphinais '89 is earning a place i n the world of newsclips and soundbites.

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An exchange program brings the diverse back­ grounds, i nterests, and insights of two Soviet stu­ dents to the Colby campus.

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Exchanges: A Great Oppor tunity

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A Gi f t for A l l Ages

At 87, George Nickerson '24, "the dean" to genera­ tions of Colby men, is still actively helping people.

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Bill Donahue '86 tells how a group of his Colby class­ mates flaunts mainstream commercial practices to build a successful restaurant business.

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C lass Correspondence

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Milestones

Young Self-starters

Serving wi t h Grace and Charm

Since the days of the Elmwood Hotel , Doris Rowe's help-and second helpings-have provided savour at College events.

Volume 78, Number 2, Spring 1989

Colby is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to the editor, Colby, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799.

Editor: Robert Gillespie; Assistant to the Editor: Nancy Fortuine Westervelt '54; Director of Publications: Bonnie Bishop; Production Editor: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: Christian D. Antalics '89, J u lie Marks '90, William Morgan '89. Lisa H. 1\vomey '9 1 ; Photography: Rhett Wieland (front cover). David Leaming (p. 6). Mary Ellen Matava (pp. 1 4, 1 5). The Preble Studio (p. 1 6). Christopher Ayers (p. 25). Colby archives {pp. 1 7, �6.

47, 48), Jeff Russell '87 (p. 20). Scott Davis (p. 2 1 ), Bonnie Bishop (back cover).

Printed by Knowlton & McLeary, Farmington, Maine On the covers: Outside the greenhouse on the walkway between Arey Life Sciences and Keyes Science Building, snow still covers the campus, but in­ side it's a spring day. Tim McCutcheon '89 tends the greenery.

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I enjoyed reading of my father, Edward C. Roundy, in the anniversary edition ("Athletics a l Colby" ) . I t is always w i th a feeling of great pride that I read of his accomplishments and gifts to Colby. I do, however, find two glaring errors in the article that I fee l hould be corrected: My father went to Colby in the fall of 1 924, not 1 92 5; he died in 1954, nol ex­ actly a "reti rement:• and he had just com­ pleted his 30th , not his 28th year. He had just received a further honor as a reward from Colby for his many years of service and love to the College, a three-year con­ t ract , which would have carried him to his 6 5lh year. l l was my u nderstanding at the time that i t was the first multi-yea r cont ract ever given a coach.

Though many called him "Eddie," most of Waterville called him "Coach:' M i ke Loebs vvas "Mike," Al McCoy was "Al," "Cy" Perkins was "Cy," but Eddie Roundy was, to a great majority, "Coach''..... to me an indication of the love and respect given him by those who knew him well. 1 feel so lucky to have been one of those and particularly lo have been his daughter.

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The half-life of such ball on is mea­ sured in decades. As an envi ronmental studies major at Colby, a marine biology technician, and a sailor, I have learned how fragile our oceans and thei r inhabi­ tants are. During th is pa t summer, the media was full of stories about how we are destroying the oceans from which all life on earth comes. Plastic objects, in­ clud ing balloons, comprised the bulk of t ra h recently picked up from the Maine shores d ur i ng a coastal clean-up spon­ sored by the Maine Audubon Society. If one of Colby's balloons was found on Mount Desert Island , it i s quite possible that others made their way i n to Maine waters and onto the shore, thereby con­ t ributing to the pollution. l certainly am nol opposed lo cele­ brating such milestones as Colby's 1 75th anni versary, but 1 would ask that the College place a ban on the release of bal­ loons from its campus for any reason.

Balloon releases have been denou nced by many envi ronmental organizations for their contribution to the deaths of many marine fauna. I hope that Colby will join in their cause.

Charles P LeRoycr I l l '75 Lincolnville, Maine

Mary "Dixie" Roundy Bebee '-J.6 Crystal Rive1; Fla.

It was with mixed feelings that I reviewed my fall 1 988 issue of Colby, which cele­ brates the 1 75th anniversary of the College.

I congratulate the College its students, alumni, and fac ulty, and I applaud the staff of Colby for a fine anniversary issue. l am proud to be an alumnus of such a fine institution of h igher learning.

M y mi xed emotions a rise from the manner in which the occasion was cele­ brated. The bright and colorful balloons adorning the front and back covers of the i ssue may seem festive and gay to some, but l o marine mammals. fish, a nd sea birds they can mean death by su ffo­ cation or starvation. Balloons such as these have been found in the gullets of seals, dolphins, whales, and sea bi rds and identified as the cause of their un­ timely demise.

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No words can convey the pleasure I fel l in reading your magnificent fall issue o f Colby. It provided me with an intensely nostalgic lour of the old campus, and I am deeply indebted to you and all of your talen ted staff for making the i ssue possible.

I had known personally three of the disti nguished alumni: Harold Marston Morse, Herbert Carlyle Libby, and Joseph Coburn Smith. The Morses were friends of our family in Waterville. Meroe and Dryden, Marston Morse's children, were frequent visitors at our house on Silver Street, as we were at theirs on Park Street.

Marston Morse was always my hero, since he excelled at everything he did.

Herbert Carlyle Libby was my profes­ sor of public spea king. On one occasion , I was discussing before a somnolent class the alarming flaws presen t in a pro-

posed version of the National Labor Re­ lations Acl. The class showed no alarm .

Meanwhile, D r . Libby w a s banging on the piano lid. This behavior had the in­ tended effec t. which was for me lo lose my way. When I had wandered to a fl ustered and complete stop, Dr. Libby j u st beamed in nocen tly. Making what I thought was a brilliant recovery. I said: "Before I was so rudely interrupted . . . " but slopped short, my face crimson with embarrassment, realizing how impudent and di srespectful my words had been.

Dr. Li bby was gracious, recognizing my discomfi t u re, and told me and the class how to deal with hecklers.

I spent a lot of time with Joseph Coburn Smith, both at his home on Park Street across from the home of Marston Morse, and al the College. We had a mu­ tual interest i n photography. I am sur­ prised that your text does not mention the fact that Joseph Coburn Smith was the son of George Otis Smith.

Four of the men in your series [Morse, Libby, Averill, and Day] were personal friends of my iather, Harvey Doane Ea­ ton , Class of 1 887 and a Colby trustee.

Holman Day was in my father's class at Colby. His book of verse, Up in Maine, was excruciatingly funny, a nd I have it to this day.

George Averill was a familiar figure around town when I was you ng. He of­ ten wal ked by our house at 55 Silver St reet but a l other l imes rode around in his Pierce-Arrow, the car with the dis­ tinctive headl ights sprouting from the front fenders.

I could go on forever in loving reminiscence of my days on the old cam­ pus and of the wonderful professors I had back then. Once again, thank you for your magnificent issue.

Fletcher Eaton '39 Needham, Mass.

Heartiest congrat ulations on that splen­ did, encyclopedic issue of Colby! I couldn't put it dow n . It was good to be reminded of the forward-looki ng people who were involved with Colby's past . "There were giants i n those days:·

And probably there are giants in these days, too.

My time as a student was the period 1 91 3 - 1 91 7, while Prexy Rob was trying to operate the College single-handed, vvith no secretary, no dean, no telephone, etc., but the footbal l team was runn i ng up in­ credible scores, beating Maine 14-0, Bow­ doin 48-0, and Bates 61-0. (I quote from memory, and probably i ncorrectly.)

As a proofreader and veteran of many years spent w riting for Hebron Academy's alumni publication, I ran across the non-expression avante-garde [page 54] . The expression, as you and I know, is avant-garde, as avant is a French preposition and shows no gender.

Harold E. Hall '17 Hebron, Maine

We in Women's Studies would l i ke to en­ courage you to highlight women's contri­ butions to the College i n Colby. We were disappointed that the fall issue of Colby did not balance women's historic roles at t he College with the treatment of men. I t is important that women be perceived as part of the historical story of t he College and not simply segmented into things some particular group - women - did. We did appreciate your comment i n the Com mentary that further coverage of women would be forthcoming, and we offer to help you in any way we can.

Patrice Franko Jones Assistant Professor of Economics Co-chair Women's Studies

Congratulations to you and to all who produced the splendid fall 1 988 Colby 1 75th anniversary issue. The magazine is a strik i ng collection of memorabilia, reacquainting us with the strength of the College's life, especially through the di­ verse people making Colby a reality yesterday, today, and i nto tomorrow.

As a retired school historian/archivist (St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Is­ land ) , I offer particular kudos to the stu­ dents of the Jan Plan who j oined you in producing the magazine.

Gilbert Y Taverner '48 Concord, Mass.

ln the last issue of Colby, you made a slight error in "The Old That's Worth Sav­ ing" [page 38]. 1 was a member of the

Class of 1 986 and a class officer who helped to start the tradition of placing blocks of carved granite in the Student Center f ireplace. We were proud to begin this tradition again , and I felt I vvanted to tell you it was the Class of 1 986, not 1 985.

pate. I encourage e\'eryone to attend next spring's show. I heard this fall's \Nas a tremendous success1 l\le/issa Ruff '88 Mountain View Calif

Leslie Greens/et '86 Greenwich, Conn.

First and foremost, I wish to offer my congratulations for a superb i ssue of Colby! I t was not only i nteresting and in­ formative but also served as a warm reminder of cool fall days at Colby, which are not alway s easil y recalled in sunny California. However, I would l ike to point out one error I found under the Drama Section in Appendi x G: "A Selec­ tion of Events 1 987-1 988." "Broadway Musical Revue" was l isted as a " Povvder and Wig" production - which it currently is not, nor has it ever been.

"Broadway Musical Revue" was fOLmd­ ed in 1 985 by three i ndividuals indepen­ dent of t he student drama club "Powder and Wig:· During the fall semester of 1 985, the show was fu nded through the Commons system, the Music Depart­ ment, and the Performing Arts Depart ­ ment to varying degrees. In the spring of 1 986 the show was funded by matching f u nds from the Student Association and the Dean of Students Office for three all­ campus performances and a private show for the Board of Trustees. In the fall of 1 986, "Broadway Musical Revue" was ac­ cepted as a Student Association club.

Since that time, the fu nding for the shows has been provided through the Student Association.

"Broadway Musical Revue" has be­ come a tradition at Colby, with many members of both the Colby and outside communities attending every show. It is a production that many people look for­ ward to a nd appreciate for its novelty on a campus dominated by straight dramat­ ic productions. Therefore, although any recognition of the Revue is appreciated . I felt it necessary to clarify both the "roots" and the i ndependence of the production.

"Powder and Wig" provides many terrific experiences for both audience and cast members; however, they are not the only club on campus producing student-direct­ ed shows. It is important to recognize that the "Broadway Musical Revue" is a totally separate and self-standing unit.

"Broadway Musical Revue" provides a unique experience for all who partici-

Greatly enjoyed the current issue of Colby. Dean Runnals had a break in her service in that E rma Vyra Reynolds \\·as dean of women for at least two years arou nd 1 928. I can't forget that, as I got a red hot tongue lashing from the dean, and it wasn't Runnals. The names sound alike, but they were qui te different peo ­ ple. As I recall, the women were happy to have Dean Runnals back at Colby.

And thanks for printing the letter from Glen P. Goffin '58. He is old enough to recall that prior to Castro taking over Cuba, people l ike Professor Bowen in­ sisted Castro was not a "Red:' Granted that Castro overthrew a dictator named Batista, and though I don't like right \\'ing dictators, Cuba was better off than i t i now. I'm happy to see that others \\·ave Old Glory and don't fall for malarkey.

Rod Farnham '31 Hampden, Maine Frederich M. Drumm ond '..J7 called to say that if we wanted to see the interior of the fieldhouse 011 the old campus correctly, we should look at it in the mirror - the photo was flopped' Our thanks to all for their sharp and appraising eyes.

To t h e Class of 1989

Hey, how are thi ngs back at the fort?

This is j ust a quick note from the outside describing some of the experiences of postgraduate life. I t's still hard to believe it's all over and I actually made it through.

Seniors, how is the job search going? Per­ haps t hat deserves a rephrasing omitting the first word: is the job search going? In the words of a famous philosopher, "Don't Panic!" Take your time. You'll spend plenty of time working during your lifetime, so why push it? Besides, you have six months before you have to start paying those loans off anyway. Pack your Colby sweat­ shirt and go someplace for a while. Or go many places for a while. Worry about how little time you spent at Career Serv­ ices later.

The farther away you get from Colby.

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lhe more you appreciate lhe lime you spenl there. There are few places with such close conla l lo professors of the caliber you find al Col by. Also, al other coll eges. students do not have a say in policy or tenure decisions lo nearly the cx lenl that they do at Col by. A few months ago I was asked to write a letter of recommendation for a professor who \•vas seeking tenure. My co-workers and the associate director of my firm could not bel ieve that I would p lay a role in such an important decision. (I couldn't believe that students and alumni wouldn't play a role in such a decision.) They were even more amazed when I told them the extent lo which st udents are involved al every level of the system, from how Col ­ lege money is spen t , to the stands the College takes on political and moral is­ su es, right down to the integral role stu­ dents played in designing the Student Center. ( I f you don't l i ke it, blame the c lasses responsi bl e.)

You may ask how all oi this affects you. Aside from the d irect effects that policies have on you , student involve­ ment gives you the feeling that you are a part of the College and that your opinion matters and w i l l be heard when deci­ sions are made. I t is important lo stress here that i f you don't take control of and use the power that has been given to you, you will lose it. Therefore, it is your responsi b i l i t y to make yoursel f heard in the i mportant decisions that affect you and your College.

Otherw ise, you could find yourself in the same posi tion in your school that you occupy in your country. How much power do you feel voters (few as we are) have over the policies adopted by our count ry?

We sho u ld be our own government, yet sadly, many of us v iew it as a separate ent i ty, us against the m . The first step in overcoming this separation is to encour­ age controversy and gel involved . Don't be afraid to tal k politics or religion in Dana or raise your hand in Lovejoy 100.

Nobody w i l l be happier than your profes­ sors ( most of the t i m e). They understand that if you are simply wri ting down what they say and not act i vely and critically li stening, then you are not learning. If you p lay an active role in your ed uca­ tion, you w i l l come away from i t w i th confidence, the feel ing that you are not limited, that you can do anything you put your m ind to. That is what sets Colby apart, and it is the essence of the l i beral arts education that you are paying for .

You may a lso find that Colby w i l l a l ­ ways be close b y i n some form (whether 4

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you l i ke it or not ) . I've met Colby people on mountaintops in Austria, in bars in Italy and in vil lages in Mexico, al the Chicago blues festival and a l a tol l booth on 1-95. I met one driving down Pennsyl­ vania Avenue in Washington, D.C . , an­ other at a wedding in Bloomington, Ind . , and another who runs Pizza Oasis in Portland . Oreg. There's a town on 1-90 in Kansas whose founder seems suspicious­ ly sim i lar lo the guy who gave us that big grant, and subsequently his name, back in the old days (refer that one lo the history Jan Plan). Ju st when I thought I had truly escaped - l was amid the 200fool red sandstone c l i ffs of Lake Powe l l i n sou thern U tah , at l east 8 0 m i l e s from any marks of human civilization save Native American ru ins - I opened up an Augu t 8 is�ue of Time, and what did I see? Professor Sandy Maisel's big goofy grin and a story a m i l e long about his son, josh. I reflected on the fact that I had given Josh swimm ing lessons, and I thought about what my father would say ..c'Damb'd i f that ol' boy don't have a knack fer slayin' in the l imel ight!"

Meanwhile, what have I done with my Colby degree') l teach a reading and

study sk i l l s program al high schools around the country and world (check Readak in Career Services). This was most probably influenced by those sw imming le!:>sons and hours tutoring German. Al this point I can honestly (and safely) admit that one of the greatest freedoms I have experienced since grad­ uating from Colby is that I can think, say, and write what I believe, and Chip Hauss can't make me do a rewri te.

Steven Masur '88 Ogden, Utah

D o Many Have Th i s P roble m?

I am writing to ask if you would consider sending me the quarterly Colby magazine in a plastic wrapping. When the maga­ zine is sent by U.S. mai l , freq uently the pages are torn and wet when it rains.

Wh ile I enjoy reading Colby, it is dis­ couraging when the magazine arrives in poor cond ition.

James E. Fell '32 Fall Rive1� Mass.

Wow! . . . 26 alumnae in one picture . . . September 1 0, 1988, at the women's alumni soccer game. Front row: Marianne MacDonald '87, Anne Tiedemann '84, Katherine Sullivan '87, Leah Don Basbanes '88. Second row: Mary Needham '86, Carol Simon '85, Charmaine TWigg '87, Sarah Pope '88, Courtney Celi '88, Jennifer Allen '88, Laura Shaver '87, Jennifer Estes '86, Sue Whittum '87, Beth DeSwarte (a "ringer"}.

Third row: Coach Terry Parlin (Colby head coach 1981 -85}, Marsha Landau '84, Lauren Watson Charwat '83, Mary White '84, Patrice Galvin '86, Anne Boatright Beaney '85, Maura Cassidy '84, Lisa Tomasetti '88, Lesley Melcher '85, Jennifer Douglas '86, Deborah Brooks '86, Carol Anne Beach '88, Julie Bruce '83.

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Have H e art, W i l l V o lunteer

On th e Role of the Media

Concerned students from the Colby Vol­ unteer Center raised a total of

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$ 1 , 18 1

Robert Hager, parent of Christina Hager

for

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and a nine-year NBC ne\-.·s correspondent

the Sacred Heart Church soup kitchen in

spoke in Roberts Union on October

Waterville last November. Contributing

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During his lecture, The :-. ledia and

to Maine Hunger Week coffers, the volun­

Presidential Elections," Hager admitted

teers sponsored events in the residence

that although television is the dominant

halls and Student Center such as a penny

political force in America, it is compelled

collection, bake sale, and auction.

by its format to deal with issues more su­

The local soup kitchen is a favorite

perficially than the press media.

labor of love with the students, but they

Hager, who has covered numerous

willingly give time and talent to nursing

political conventions since

homes and schools and serve as literacy

that soundbites-short clips of the candi­

1 964,

explained

volunteers, tutors, and entertainers with

dates that TV viewers see on the evening

impressive musical gifts and a popular

news _:a · re getting shorter as TV news gets

clown act. Rachel England

'90,

who is

slicker:· As candidates realize that the

coordinator of the campus-wide Volun­

pictures of a soundbite "tend to be more

teer Center, meets with student leaders

powerful than their content," they often

weekly to plan special events and trans­

"oversimplify the issues." Hager stated

portation. The volunteers will do almost

that this leads to a competition between

any task in the area requiring young backs and strong arms, including stack­ ing firewood and shoveling snow. Ap­

Richard Claytor '88 planted the Westra tree last spring.

the candidates as they try to overshadow each other's image in daily TV sound­ bites. Finally, a controversy emerges over

proximately

tackle and no problem too big to solve,

who "controls the agenda of the cam­

force list,

and if it was ... well, that was okay, too;

paign, the candidates or the media?"

100 people are on the task and 30 to 50 are involved in

various projects on a weekly basis for as many as

20

hours. The program continues

we'd just have to do the best we could.

He always had that indomitable smile on

To resolve this controversy, Hager as­ serted that the television medium must

throughout the academic year, with sev­

his face, and when he wasn't yelling salu­

change its presentation to facilitate "a

eral special events planned for the spring.

tations across the library lawn he was

more free exchange:· He also suggested

spending time with his Waterville "Little

that the candidates and networks agree

sored a formal black tie ball in the Stu­

Brother" or promoting the Boy Scouts.

well before a can1paign to make free time

dent Center for faculty and students.

He was an avid outdoorsman as well,

available to each candidate to speak on

Proceeds from the gala, which featured

with an enviable sensitivity and appreci­

appropriate issues. Such a move would

two live bands, were donated to the

ation for nature. Most of us, however,

give audiences a better feel for the issues,

Maine Children's Cancer Program in

will remember him as the impetus be­

he said, particularly in the early stages of

Portland.

hind the "Lazy Mule Triathlon;· which he

the presidential election year.

On March

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the volunteers spon­

inaugurated on Johnson Pond during the winter of

T he Westr a Tree

1 985.

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In April

a small oak was plant­

A M a n Cal led Suss

Colby tends to attract friendly, charis­

ed in his memory next to Johnson Pond,

matic people who exult in helping others.

an addition to the fine memorials and

Julius Sussman

eulogies to David Westra that preceded

ago, but his long and interesting life is de­

We can

all

remember at least one individ­

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ual who could always persuade us to

it. February

crack a smile on even the gloomiest of

his death, and we miss him. But just as

days. Somehow the day would become a

his contributions to our lives will grow

marked the third year of

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died nearly five years

tailed in a recent book by Celia C. Risen.

Yankee Fiddler: A Man Called Suss con­ sists mainly of excerpts from hours of

little brighter, and life might even take

within and enrich each of us, his tree will

taped interviews with Sussman and his

on a slightly different meaning. Even if

also grow. Every time we return to Colby,

late wife, Lil, as they reminisced over the

this person weren't around, thinking

we may stand beneath it and remember

struggles and joys of their married life,

about him or her could bring the smile

how important a friend can be.

including the loss of S 10,000 invested in

Tom Claytor '85 and Mark Howard '85

John, whom they eventually lost to Downs

back in an instant.

David "Johan" Westra

'85

was one of

a shoe factory, the life of their son, Sidney

these people. For those of us who knew

Members of the Class of 1985, who raised

Syndrome, Sussman's multiple heart at­

him when he was still alive, he was al­

more than $2,000 to accompany their gift, also gave a memorial Westra garden to the

tacks, and his wife's five months in a body

ways a tremendous source of enthusiasm and strength. No task was too large to

College.

cast with a broken back.

Sussman was born in Kentucky to COLBY

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Po lish immigrants, but his family moved lo New E ngland the following yea r. Ac­ repted at Colby in 1914 without a high school diploma, he set window panes and played the violin for his room and board and established a society for Jew­ ish men tha t event ually became Colby' Tau Della Phi fraternity. A fter the Suss­ ma ns married secretly i n 1 92 1 , they es­ tablished themselves in Augusta as "the repository for i n formation about Jewish holidays in the communi ty:· Event ually they set up the Augusta-Gard iner chap­ ter o f B'nai B'rith in thei r own home.

The couple remai ned upbeat through many years of physical and emotional pai n , and Sussman con t inued to play the violin and perform clown acts for local kindergartens and schools for men tally retarded children. Colby al umn i will re­ member his performances for the Fifty­ plus Club at reu nions. I n 1978 he was awarded a Colby Brick.

Yankee Fiddler is valuable not only for the Sussmans' lively narrative but For its preservation o f Maine and Colby his­ tory and of the d i fficulties many Jews faced in tegrating themselves into Yan kee society. The book may be o rde red from the Colby bookstore .

C o l by Reaches f o r the S t a rs

Last fall Colby welcomed its newest struct u re, a small cylindrical observatory in the northeast corner o f the campus near the baseball field and hard by the Gould Music Shell. The building houses a 400-power, 1 4-inch Celestron telescope, the g i ft o f Chicago real estate executive A n thony Kramer '62 . Both the telescope and observatory were given i n memory of Kramer's classmate, Law rence Walker Collins I I I .

The equivalent o f a 3 , 9 10 mm camera lens, the instrument enables a user to perceive an object 5,000 t imes "fain ter" than would be possible w i thou t magnifi­ catio n . Associate Professor of Physics M ur ray F. Campbell , whose specialty i s astronomy, pred icts t h a t much of t h e re­ search he and his students conduct will center o n stars that vary i n brightness.

"The benefit of such a telescope;· he sa id, "is not so much that we can see farther stars but that we will be able to see ones that a re much fai nter." Campbell added that the new telescope handsomely sup­ plements the portable telescopes now used in his astronomy lab cou rse.

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Associate Professor of Physics Murray Campbell adjusts Colby's new stargazer.

linois last summer on a flatbed truck, was stored until November while Colby scientists pondered the best location for its reassembly. Now in place, the tele ­ scope will expand horizons for more than Colby students. Campbell has plan ned several "public eveni ngs" for area residents next summer, which will include lectures and su bsequent star­ gazing.

Fac u l t y a n d O thers

Associate Professor of Sociology Sonya Rose and Associate Professor of Modern Languages (German) Peter Nutting have received National E ndowment for the

Humanities fellowships awarded under the NEH program for "college teachers and i ndependent scholars:' Rose will complete her book, Gende1; Labor, or Capital: Industrial Relations in 19th-Centwy Britain. Nutting's fellowship will enable

him to complete a book on Kafka titled Kafka's Clowns.

Associate Professor of Modern For­ eign Languages ( Portuguese and Spanish) Priscilla Doe! was recently interviewed by popular mor n i ng show host Peter Mil ler o n C BC, the Canadian national radio net­ work. Doe! discussed the "Portuguese Presence" in N ew foundland and Labra­ dor, the topic of her research during her recent sabbatical leave.

Associate Dean of Students Joyce

ter-manipulated sample sound to study

Update: A l u m n i D i rectory and

McPhetres-Maisel received a Distin­

accoustical principles and will apply to

A l u m n i Info r m a t i o n P roject

guished Service Award from Region I of

the creation of music structure.

the

ational Association of Student Per­

Professor of Government G. Calvin

Vice President for Development and

sonnel Administrators for "voluntary

Mackenzie shuttled between Waterville

Alumni Relations Randy Helm recently

spirit of membership and a record of in­

and Washington, D.C., last fall, advising

announced a two-phase Alumni Informa­

volvement and contribution within the

President-elect Bush's transition team.

tion Project scheduled to begin next fall.

region:' McPhetres-Maisel has been the

The election of George Mitchell. LL.D.

During the first phase, as outlined in the

as Senate majority leader in Decem­

winter issue of Currents, the College will

association's Maine state director and

'83,

chair of the annual conferences for four

ber focused a great deal of attention on

compile a new directory that will be

years. She also chaired the regional advi­

both his hometown of Waterville and on

published in late

sory committee and at conferences and

Colby. Mitchell's father was employed in

Harris Publishing Company and will in­

panel discussions has presented topics

the Buildings and Grounds Department,

clude home and business addresses

such as substance abuse.

and for the past

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years his brother, John

Colby class, other college degrees. and

("Swisher"), has been assistant men's bas­

business or professional affiliations for

ern Languages, and Performing Arts

ketball coach. During his college sum­

all Colby men and women. The Harris

departments rides again, collaborating

mers the senator worked with the Colby

Publishing Company will be contacting

with Italian film director Sergio Leone

grounds crew. President Cotter was one

alumni during the next several months to

on his next film, a Civil War epic titled A

of several of the nation's educators who

verify and correct address information

Place That Only Mary Knows. Stars will

praised the Democrat's choice in The

and then will make the directory availa­

David Mills

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of the English, Mod­

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be Mickey Rourke and Richard Gere.

Chronicle of Higher Education. "He has

ble to alumni at a reasonable charge next

Mills will do research for the film, col­

been very supportive [of higher educa­

fall.

laborate on the script, and write the dia­

tion]," Cotter said of Mitchell, "but he is

logue, as he did for Leone's Once Upon a

also a very judicious person. He is re­

Time in America.

sponsible about fiscal issues and will be

the posting of a comprehensive question­

serious about balancing the budget:'

naire to all alumni that the College is

Nata Bene

ni Relations Susan Conant Cook

Assistant Professor Jonathan Hall­

able to reach by mail.

strom of the Music Department received a grant from the Sloan Foundation to sup­

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phasized that "The census will provide us

port work at MIT and Stanford to develop circular modules that integrate sample

The second stage of information gath­ ering will begin in October

Due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts,

sound and procedular composition con­

the annual Kingsley Birge lecture will

cepts in courses on music theory. The

not be given this school year. The pro­

modules will include the use of compu-

gram will resume in

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with a deeper understanding of our

alwnni,

their perspectives on their years at Colby, their career and other important life choices, and how their Colby experience has affected their continuing growth and development. (It] will also provide gradu­ ates with an opportunity to evaluate our alumni programs:' Completed questionnaires will remain confidential even though the College will publish a report of significant patterns and trends based on the aggregate re­ sponse. This should help Colby evaluate the effectiveness of its liberal arts pro­ gram.But, says Vice President Helm, "the success of the Alumni Information Project-and Colby's continued ability to strengthen its reputation and performance -will depend on a high rate of alumni participation. We hope all alumni will re­ spond positively when contacted for the alumni directory by Harris Publishing during the next few months, and again next year when we launch phase t\.\'O."

Five Colby alumni are serving in leadership positions at Mount Ida College, Newton Centre, Mass. Pictured with Bryan E. Carlson, president of Mount Ida, are {front row, from left}: President Carlson, Helen Moore Phillips '48, administrative assistant; James Martin '70, vice president for academic affairs; (back row) Victor F Scalise, Jr. '54, vice president for institutional advancement; P Kendall Palmer, }I: '6..t, executive vice president; and john Kearns '69, professor of psychology.

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The special collections staff of Miller Library cata logues and keeps any books written by alumni and faculty of which they are a ware.

For this reason, and for the purpose of this book review section, a ll Colby auth ors are encouraged to send books to the College edi­ tor, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901.

Jazz: M y t h and Re l i g i o n

Neil Leonard '50 Oxford University P ress, 1 987 $ 1 6 .95 I n his fascinating book jazz: Myth and Re­ ligion, Neil Leonard observes that many com mentators have detected a relation­ ship between jazz and religion. Leonard's contribution to this field is to explore jazz a s religion. To what extent, he wonders, are j azz movements sects and the musi­ cians prophets; to what extent is their craft a supernatura l ideal and its practice a ritual?

To a nswer these questions Leonard brings to his considerable k nowledge of jazz culture the luminaries of the sociolo­ gy and anth ropology of religion. Follow­ i ng Ernst Troeltsch's model of the "ideal church,'' Leonard depicts j azz as a "sect" persecuted by and hostile to an elit ist and covertly racist (and sexist) orthodox "ch u rch" of classical music. The jazz movement became "ch u rchly" i f not "church" w h i le t h rowing off new sects.

Leonard identifies t hese sects as early j azz or "Dixieland ,'' followed by bop i n t h e 1 940s a n d "free j azz" of t h e 1 960s and '70s, and argues that each threatened the pure canon that had preceded them. The hostility of established "ch u rc hly" j azz

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predecessors pushes each new sect be­ yond the margin of respectability.

Forced i nto this border slate, the jazz movement operates much like a cult. Jazz cults form around prophetic figu res like Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, whose talent and charisma make them authoritative t ransmitters of an ecstatic, supernatural ideal, or gnosis .

This gnosis both binds the musicians and their fans a nd fel low t ravelers together in a community of the faithful and sharp­ ly differentiates the community from the world of "the squares."

Rituals of musical performance and initiation and ritually dictated charac­ teristics of behavior such as appearance, humor, and language "told the believer what to do and how to do it" and helped orient and structure activity. shape exper­ ience, a nd quell doubt. Myths, or "stories about sacred heroes and origins." enacted these rituals or grew out of them. In ei­ ther case, myths provided the jazz move­ ment "coherence and significance" and placed a whole people "into a cosmic con­ text that explained and j ustified their ex­ istence and their music:· Finally, a jazz laity of criti cs, aficionados, hipsters, beats, and dancers receive the m usical sacrament from the masters and i n re­ turn serve as missionaries who continu­ ously bring the cult to a hostile world and, ultimately, respectability.

Leonard's rigorous application of tech­ n ical and jargon-studded concepts to the j azz culture occasionally provides jarring d isj unctions, as, for example, when he describes conversions to jazz as "maze­ way reformulations:· But for the most part, such fidelity to his analogy between jazz and religion is illuminating and pro­ vocative. Leonard concludes that jazz is

"a powerful social force" a nd that it is "bringing i n timations of magic and the sacred to an era whose enormous changes have depleted conventional faiths:· jazz: Myth and Religion tells us not only about an extraordinary culture but how jazz substitutes for religion in a secular era.

Benjamin Westervelt Teaching Fellow in History Harvard University O t h e r N oteworthy Book s by A l u m n i and Facu l t y

Brown, Jane Tarbell '37, e d . Seasonings.

Troy, N.Y.: 1 988.

- - - . 1\.vo Crows: joy! Cropseyville, N .Y. : Quackenkill P ress, 1 9 76.

Easton, Thomas A. '66. Working for Life: Careers in Biology. 2nd ed. Medford, N .J . : Plexus Publish ing, 1 988.

H udson, Yeager. Emerson and Tagore: The Poet as Philosopher. Notre Dame, I nd . : Cross Roads Books, 1 987.

Kren, George M. '48, and Leon Rappaport.

The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Be­ havior. New York: Holmes and Meier,

1 980.

Naifeh , Steven and Gregory White Smith '73. The Mormon Murders. New York: Weidenfeld and N icolson, 1 988.

Nelson, Ralph D., J r. '60. Dispersing Pow­ ders in Liquids. New York: Elsevier, 1 988.

Pal mer, Norman D. '30. The United States and India: The Dimensions of Influence.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1 984.

- - -. Westward Watch: The United States and the Changing Western Pacific.

Washi ngton , D.C. : Pergamon-Brassey, 1 987.

Wiggi n , Ruby Bickmore '3 1 . As I Remember.

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Designing a Maj or Dream

by Wen d y D a u ph i n ais '89

T

e '1udio ligh" pmoded the rnom A tall, handsome man strode in front of the cameras, nonchalantly sat behind the anchor desk, and began reviewing the script. I squinted, filtering the spotliohts to get a better look. A production assi s­ tant seated me in the backgrou nd and gave me headsets and a switcher so I could monitor the newscasts of several different stations. Within a m inute, the director, a grey-haired man , yelled, "Eve­ ryone seated! Quiet on the set ' Five, four, three . . . . " The figure at the desk came to life. "Good evening;' he said, 'Tm Peter Jennings with ABC World ews . . . .

I fixed on his profile, i ntent on his composed manner. I watched his lips form every word, awed at seeing i n per­ son a news anchor I've always admired on the television screen. As I spent the next year interning at "ABC World News" i n New York City, that i ni t ial awe gradu­ ally t urned to informed u nderstanding.

During my freshman year at Colby this internship was only a d ream - but a dream I designed in an i ndependent ma­ jor so that I could pursue a career as a news reporter. When friends and rela­ tives asked me why I was going to a lib­ eral arts college i nstead of a journalism school, my response was simple: I was heedi ng the advice of several successful media professionals to get a solid liberal arts education, take a couple of courses

in communications, and do an i nternship for work experience i n the field.

Sometimes at Colby I questioned this advice and ended up talking with Jim Mc­ I ntyre, the director of Career Services.

He emphasized that a liberal arts college would make it possible for me to learn many different subjects. I also remem­ bered the phone conversation I'd had with former N BC president Lawrence Grossman when I was still i n high school.

Figuring that the best way to get sound advice was to go straight to the top, I'd tried to get through to him for hours, but his secretary told me he was in a meeting.

Whether she got ti red of my persistence or he really did get out of his meeting I 'll never know, but he finally agreed to speak to me. Only a few media courses were necessary for news reporting, he told me, because most of the information taught at journalism schools would be

learned during the first month at a job.

Recalling his advice while I was at Colby helped me confirm my belief that to reach my news reporting goals I needed an ed­ ucation in a broad range of liberal arts.

Designing my own major. "Commu­ nication Liberal Arts;' was the most logical way to achieve this education at Colby, but it was an arduous task to get the ma­ jor approved by the Colby i ndependent major board . I worked for weeks with Dean of the College Earl Smith, trying to create the right balance of Colby courses and plan my i nternships and exchange programs. Dean Smith's experience as a journalist, his 25 years in the Colby ad­ ministration, and his support, advice. and reasoning were crucial as we worked out a major consisting of history, psychology, and sociology and a deeper emphasis in governnment. economics, a nd E nglish. A knowledge of government was necessary for political reporting, economics was im­ portant for covering stories i n the state's budget or even in the stock market, and English was the base for writi ng and thinking logically.

These courses, however, were only a part of my i ndependent major proposal. I acquired journalism experience during a Colby-in-Washington semester interning at Cable ews Network (CN ) and then i n a year's exchange program at Hunter College's Junior Year in ew York. It's not COLBY

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I sat at a d e s k i n t h e news room ove rlooking Pet e r J e n n i ngs and t h e easy selecting classes such as "Broadcast Journal ism" and "Mass Media and Propa ­ ganda" for your j u nior year when you're a freshman, but I had to apply lo Hun­ ter's program two years early to assure the commit tee that I would be able to ful­ fill my proposed plan . While I maintained a full journalism curriculum at Hu nter I also had internships with both ''ABC World ews" and ABC's "20120:' H unler he lped me set up the in terviews necessary to get the "20/20" i nternship; I was fortunate lo land the ''.ABC World ews" i n ternship myself.

As a fu ll-time intern al Cable ews Network i n Washington, D.C., i n the fal l of 1 987, I saw Washington a s I never would have seen i l as a tourist . I went to the White House w i t h a C N news crew and covered a press conference, observed an i n terview with Japanese Prime M i n i s­ ter Nakasone, and even attended Presi­ dent Reagan's 76th birthday party with Mrs. Reagan, George Bush, George Shultz, Fra n k Carl ucci , a number of other poli t i ­ c a l figu res, a n d news reporte rs. Other news shoots took me i nside the Pentagon, the State Department, and the offices of several congressmen and senators on Capi tol H i l l . I was w i t h a CNN reporter who covered a protest outside the C I A headquarters i n Virg inia. W h e n I went back to the CNN newsroom I watched how the editors and reporters selected certain sou ndbi tes - short clips from speeches - and formulated them into a package telling the story we had j ust covered.

Because the CNN Washi ngton news­ room was not u nion ized, I was able to operate the studio cameras every day during the newscasts as well as the tele­ prompter and the editing equipment. It 10

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prod u c e rs and wat c h e d and listened as t h e y hashed o u t t h e eve n i ng n ews.

was also my duly to distribute wire copy to the writers. I often came in early and stayed late to prac tice writing news piec ­ es. The writers and even the executive producer read and helped lo improve my work. One morning I came in early and wrote a couple of the key stories. When the morning producer put the leading piece on the a i r and I heard the anchor reading my copy, I knew that all of my hard work was wort hwhile.

While I was interning at ''ABC World ews" and "20/ 20" in New York City, I worked directly with the producers and news reporters. "20/20" was heavily un­ ionized, so I wasn't able to have the hands­ on experience with the equipment I'd had at CNN. However, I was able to watch the tedious process of shoot ing and editing fi lm ( i t has to be developed and spliced before you can see it, unlike v ideotape, which can be edited on the spot ) . I also sat i n on tapings of "20/20," and this gave me the opport unity to gel to know Bar­ bara Walters and Hugh Downs, who even granted me a half-hour intervi ew.

Compared with the production of a CNN or ABC news package, the prepara­ tion of a news documentary i s more time consu mi ng, and the pace i s much slower.

Wor k i ng on documentaries at "20/20,'' I realized that I preferred the constant cha!-

lenges of work i n hard news. The intern­ ship a l ''.ABC World News" was just the opportunity I was searching for. During my fi rst semester al ''ABC World ews as desk assistant and production assis­ tan t . I typed scripts i n to the computer, answered phone calls from foreign cor­ respondents, faxed articles, d istributed scripts, and paid a great deal of attention to the work of the producers. I sat at a desk in the newsroom overlook i ng Peter Jennings and the producers and watched and listened as t hey hashed out the eve­ ning news.

I was assigned to be assistant to the producers during my second semester at ABC. After attending daily morning meet­ ings with all of the executives and produc­ ers, I met separately with the producers lo find out which stories needed help.

They assigned me to research stories, con­ duct p hone i nterviews, set up shoots, or go out on the scenes with them. One day when I was working with ABC news crews at the ew York Stock Exchange during the October crash, I real ized how i mportant liberal arts classes a re to news reporters. When we interviewed a stock­ broker I understood his stock market jar­ gon and the c hanges in the market that day, thanks to my "Principles of Macro­ economics" class.

ABC also allowed me to follow the candidates on the press bus during the primaries. I spen t a n entire day with more than 50 producers, reporters, and camera people, following Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore as he made stops at hospitals, shopping cen­ ters, and press conferences. At lunch­ eons and press conferences I also met Jesse Jackson and M ichael D u kakis. At t he end of many long, exciting days I

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headed back to the newsroom to help distribute rundowns - l ists of the order and timing of each news piece - and to monitor the newscast from the control room or the news studio.

When I had free time I generated my own story proposals and presented them to Peter Jennings and the executive pro­ ducer. The most worthwhile moment of my i nternship came when Peter Jennings and the producer accepted my story pro­ posal on an abortion pill, RU 486, which was scheduled to go on the market i n a few months and was causing p rotests by anti-abortion groups. I was assigned to work on it with a producer and a corre­ spondent. After we had begun the initial interviews, however, a crisis in Panama sent the correspondent to cover that event, p utting my story on hold.

Studying and interning in Washington and New Yor k City, two of the country's media capitals, provided a wonderful ly intense contrast to Colby life. Even dur­ ing my busiest times - when I was taking six classes at Hunter College and work­ ing the internships at both "ABC World News" and "20/20''- I always had time to see Broadway shows, ballets, m useums, galleries, night clubs, and the parades and cultural and ethnic celebrations. Never­ theless, though a year and a half may seem a long time away from Colby, i t gave me a new perspective a n d l e t m e focus even more o n courses that I found through my internships to be essential to news reporting. For i nstance, my senior year courses became directly related to events in the media. "Soviet Domestic Pol­ icy" gav� me a better understanding of a country that is in our news every day.

"Comparative Economics Systems" taught me backgrounds and cu rrent political

"networking" p r o c e s s , the i n t r icate channels through which each accom­ p l ishment may l e a d to the n ext .

and economic situations of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Japan, Poland, Nic­ aragua, H ungary, and Yugoslavia. Profes­ sors also suggested projects and papers that pertained to my field. Professor of Economics Fred Moseley discussed eco­ nomic current events during class and took time after class to talk with me about articles in the newspapers. My govern­ ment professor, Rita Moore, encouraged me to work on an analysis of the changes in the Soviet media resulting from the Gorbachev reforms.

Now, in the midst of my senior year, more than three years since I designed my independent major, I'm beginning to realize that I have something to show.

With extensive planning at the beginning of my college education - and some re­ structuring of the proposal according to changes in course offeri ng - I've averaged five courses a semester in addition to the internships, a schedule that has prepared me for the long hours of a news reporter and has taught me how to make the most of a little time. I've landed internships and summer jobs as a news reporter covering events on the scene and as anchor of a weekly newscast . As a program director I set up interviews, commercials, and some of the business aspects of "Adams Russell" cable television in Leominster,

Mass. These jobs also led to my position as a stringer for UPI covering local Mas­ sachusetts stories i n my hometown and, later, the Waterville scene when I was at Colby. All of these experiences in my in­ dependent major have helped me work my way into the "networking" process, the intricate channels through which each accomplishment may lead to the next.

While I was i nterni ng, CNN allowed me to make a resume tape, producing and reporting a news story and anchor­ ing a newscast I had written. Last sum­ mer when I looked back at my resume tape I laughed at myself and was happy to see how much the experience had helped me i n only a year and a half. Re­ cently I completed another resume tape at the cable station where I worked the past two summers. In another year I hope I'll look back at this tape and see progress, too.

One night during my internship, as the lights brightened the room, Peter Jen­ nings was already positioned at the an­ chor desk. Camera one zoomed out to a wide shot to open the news with the en­ tire studio in the background. I dashed into the newsroom with the rundown and placed myself near a switcher so I could view the other networks' newscasts and compare the different focuses. As Jennings read the scripts, I watched the teleprompt­ er, noting his intonation and effective pauses. During a commercial break he tu rned around to see w ho was in the newsroom. Our eyes met; he smiled, gave me a comradely wink, then turned back to scan his copy.

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Exchanges : A Great Opportunity

Colby recently had an opportunity to talk at length with Pe/eris S/iede a nd Alexander Zakharov, exchange students from the Soviet Union who are spending the 1 988-89 aca­ demic year a t Colby. The College is a mem­ ber of a group of 26 institutions, including Middlebury, Amherst, Bates, and Bowdoin, which brought 56 Soviet unde1graduates to American universities a nd colleges and will send a n equal number of Americans to study a t leading universities in several republics of the Soviet Union. Following a month of orientation at Middlebury, Alexander and Peteris came to Colby.

Peteris Sliede is a ha ndsome, slightly­ built man of 23. He is married, has a young son, a nd is in his fou rth year of a five-year physics program. He speaks English slowly a nd carefully, with a special depth of feeling when the subject is his beloved Republic of Latvia and his home city of Riga on the Bal­ tic Sea. Alexander is an English major at the Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow.

The tall a nd serious 24-year-old is an eth nic Russian from a city 1, 000 kilometers ( 620 miles) sou th of the capital. He is training to be a n interpreter or translator a nd speaks fluent, almost unaccented English.

We began by asking Pe/eris and Alex­ ander to describe their emotions when they learned that they would be coming to the United States, the advice they were given by parents and friends, and what they felt upon arrival.

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Alexande r:

Wel l , I wasn't scared at all. I was very much excited . When l en ­ tered the Institute in 1983, l began to col­ lect any information about the U n ited States from our newspapers and maga­ zi nes. The things which were discussed in our press were just political items ­ treaties and agreements with the Soviet Union and the actions of the U nited States on the i nternational arena. So l di dn't have much i nformation about what the real America looked l i ke a nd how people l ived there a nd what they did and so on.

But I don't know why, I never had the idea that the Am erican people want to deteriorate the situation in the world or conquer other countries or unleash war with the Soviet U n ion. I've never thought of the American people i n bad terms. My understanding has al ways been very warm and posi tive. And when I came here I was not disappoi nted .

It was a very long flight from the So­ viet U n ion, about ten hou rs. When we landed in New York I j ust wanted to get some fresh air. But it was so hot there a nd fu l l of air pol lution that I could hardly brea the. But I was not scared. I was excited, first, that we had landed safely and, second, that we had landed i n the United States.

he envied me this opportu n ity a nd ad­ vised me to study the language as m uch as possible and also computers. My grand­ parents are rather old and have experi­ enced the Stalinist era. They advised me not to speak without thinking my thoughts over because, they said, it would come to a bad end for my future. I think this is old fashioned. I don't worry. But I must be respon sible for what 1 say, not to talk nonsense, because I am a representative of my country and American people w i l l l isten to me and draw conclusions about my country.

When we flew into New Yor k , the look from the airplane was fascinating!

Long Island, h uge cities, lots of houses and wide roads. But after we landed it was l i ke a switch from positive to rather negative. The i nternational ai rport was so crowded. There were long l i nes to the i m m igration . And the people i n the air­ port were not kind at all to the passen ­ gers. S o I f e l t scared of t h i s society and these people. When we went out of the air-conditioned terminal room to our buses the air was so heavy! The streets were not i n a very good condition. There were many jams. Dirty roads and many writings on the walls and fences. But as soon as we were i n M iddlebury, every­ thing changed. A new l i fe started!

Pete r i s : I k new exactly that I was coming to the Uni ted States only five days before leavi ng. My father said that

We asked Alexander and Peteris to de­ scribe their academic work both in the Sovi­ et Union and here at Colby.

Pete r i s : My major is physics and sol­ id-state physics is my specia lization. Stu­ dents specialize i n such narrow areas beginning from their fourth year. Solid­ state physics is the study of the structure and properties of condensed matter crystals, glasses, ceramic materials, and various plastics. This is a very practical branch of science and becomes more and more popular because there is a very great demand on science for new materi­ als for m i l i tary and civil needs.

This semester I'm taking a quantum physics course, a computer science course which teaches Pascal language, a writing laboratory in English, and a course on science in America; half h istoric, half social studies. I am finding physics, so far, less difficult than I had i n my univer· sity. But that's u nderstandable because the purpose of l i beral arts colleges is not to train students in a very narrow area but to give a broad scope of knowledge.

So far, I have already studied [quan­ tum physics] i n my u n iversity in shorter time with less [emphasis on] applications.

Our course was more theoretic with more mathematics. More advanced I would say.

While Peteris is finding the academic content of his cou rse work less demanding than at his home u niversity in Riga Alex­ ander's experience is different.

I am taking two English writing courses, a computer course, a nd a sociology class. Act ua lly, I was also tak­ ing a British literature course at the be­ ginning. I attended a couple of classes and t hen dropped it because it was diffi­ cult for me to catch up with the rest of the students. There was an enormous amount of reading, 1 50 to 200 pages per week. I had never done this much reading before in our i nstitute so it was d ifficult for me to cope with it. I got lost and felt somewhat awkward i n class so I dropped it. Next semester I hope to take American Short Story. I think it w i l l be okay.

Alexander:

guage itself rather than E nglish l itera­ ture and h istory. We actually take a short course of history and geography of Great Britain and the U n i ted States but i t is not t hat profound compared with the cours­ es at Colby. We study as separate courses English phonetics, English grammar, con­ versational English, and writing, and the­ oretical courses l i ke E nglish lexicology and the history of the ianguage. Also, we never do such a great amount of writing as t hey do a t Colby. So I have an oppor­ tunity now to t ry myself i n a different field and j ust to write.

A lexander and Peteris also have some­ what differing impressions of American students.

Pe t er is : Before I came here I thought t hat American students were very seri­ ous i n their studies. They all would be science-oriented, less communicative with each other. They wou ld be more egoistic, ambitious, and more sophisticat­ ed. I knew that we would go only to the best colleges i n New England, with only people from the upper classes, so I ex­ pected to be in a strange society to me.

But I was positively impressed by what I actually saw. The students are very kind and open and helpfu l . They are very simple people, common people.

That was a great surprise to me. I can speak to everybody and everybody seems to be interested in my count ry.

It is difficu lt to compare directly be­ cause the students I meet in Latvia are mostl y science students; physicists and mathematicians. Here there are art stu­ dents and language students and so there is a difference in majors and a difference in ways of thinking. But i n general , I might say t hat Americans are more free i n their way of expression, their way of thought. They feel free to do what they want. They don't feel so restricted. I think that in general, this is a good feature. It helps i n everyday l i fe.

We asked Alexander to compare his course work at Colby with his studies in Moscow.

pay a price for our greater freedoms.

I would say that it is strik­ ingly different. At our Institute, it's a fixed syllabus, a fixed set of courses which you are taking, and you are not able to choose or change anything as you are here. And then, thf' very process of learning is different.

For i nstance, our Institute is purely l inguistic so we study the English Ian·

Pe teris: My opinion might be narrow­ minded but I think this personal freedom is connected with the lack of culture, the lack of personal discipline. People don't feel so m uch their duties to other people, to the society i tself. I don't say this very often because I have seen too little of American culture and this is not what I want my opinion to be.

Alexander:

But Peteris also suggests that we may

Alexander has a somewhat different view.

When I came here I was Alex a n d e r : scared i n terms of how I wou ld under­ stand people, living with t hem in every­ day life. I could speak on academic topics but I'd never had any experience j ust in talking on everyday thi ngs. So I was scared. But now I don t have any prob­ lems. I have never l ived in a dorm be­ fore. I t's a new experience for me and quite i nteresting. l don't see any prob­ lems living with American students.

As students t hey are pretty much the same as students in the Soviet Union. I think t hat students work i ndividually harder here than we do. But as people of this particular cultu re, they are different even if they are students. They are very open and friendly as are American peo­ ple i n general . I think i t's the impact of your culture that students are so friendly and are ready to help in any situation if you have any difficulties.

We asked Peteris if liberal arts colleges like Colby existed in the Soviet Union.

Pe teris: We have, you might call it "liberal arts" in high school . We call it "middle school'.' The students are taught all the subjects including natural sciences, mathematics, literature, music, physical education, work i n factories [industrial arts] , and handicrafts. Everybody takes t hese courses because there is no such term as "elective:· So the high school grad­ uate is a well -rounded person. But as soon as t he applicant enters a university, he or she begins to study very specialized courses and from year to year the special­ ization is more and more pronounced.

Alexande1; a self-confessed urbanite, commented upon campus life at Colby.

I hoped in the bot tom of my heart that I would be assigned to a college in a big city. In my mind America was associated with big cities. o it hap­ pened that I was assigned to Colby, and I l i ke Colby very much. I've been to Bates and frankly speaking, I didn't l i ke it that much. The setting is much prettier at Colby.

But st i l l , the thing which I don't l i ke very much about Colby is it is in a rela­ tively small city and is somehovv isolated even from this smal l ci ty. Students live within this environment and they don't have much i nteraction i n the world.

There is no need even to go downtown.

Alexander:

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There are a lot of part ies on campus and in the dormilorie�. videos, movies, lec­ t u res, everything . . . even a th eater. Sti l l I w o u l d prefer a big ci ty.

But on the other hand, what is good about Colby is also that by virtue of its isolation, the students spend more time learning. They don't pay much attent ion to anything but the cou rses th ey are tak­ ing. This is good .

Natu rally, we were interested in Peteris's and Alexander's views on political matters. We discussed the recent American presidential campaign.

Pe t e r i s : I wou ld say that it was very, very democratic. The society is so free that peopl e can say wha tever they want and the mass media is free in expressing d i ffere nt opinions. That is good . But I think this unrestricted freedom for every­ body, including the presidential candidates, has led to this negative campaigning.

1 feel that many people have a fear of having anot her great leader with im­ mense power. But so far it is okay. He is doing a good job and lead ing a great pol i ­ cy. But w h a t will happen l a t e r i f h e con­ centrates all the power in his hands? The resu lt might be another extreme situation in the country.

And another thi ng, l i ke many Rus­ sian l eaders (t hose persons who li ve in Russia itself) he doesn't understand the problems in the national regions, nation­ al republ ics. Gorbachev's grea t power might be an obstacle in the way lo reach i ndependence of the smaller nations. I'm very interested in the posi tive outcome of that issue.

Another point is that there is great mistrust in our country toward the policy which is being led by our government, because now we begin to read i n our newspapers and lo realize that our coun­ try's in ternal policy and foreign policy were not always led i n the best way and the government li ed about what actually happened. So how can we t rust the gov· ernment a nd the policies now? Should we trust now or not?

A l exander: What I l i ke about Gorbachev, and what I think most Soviet people l i ke, is that he is t rying his best to change things because everybody knows this is no way to live. So something must

1 didn't really analyze and study the plat forms i n dept h . I read just what ordinary Americans read in news­ papers and magazines. I saw a couple of the debates on TV I got the impression that t hey di dn't real l y add ress the nation.

They di dn't act ually speak about their platforms and what t hey wou ld l i ke to do with the cou ntry and how they wou ld l i ke to solve d i fferent issues. They would j ust attack each other. That's what I didn't l i ke. But i t was i nteresting beca use we don't have such things in our country. We are just trying lo introduce i t right now.

Rece ntly I read , even in Pravda, that eminen t Soviet scientists and acade m i ­ c i a n s and people l i ke that have spoken in favor of a multi-party system. And I think. why not? There might be two parties, three parties i n our country. But they should bring benefits and be good for the nation. That's the idea .

A l exander:

We asked their opinions of Mr. Gorba­ chev and his plans for the Soviet Union.

Pe t e r i s : Gorbachev is a great pol i t i cian. Really great. But we know i n the Sov iet Union very l it t l e about him as a personality. Our newspapers write that the Party did so-and-so but everybody should keep i n mind that Gorbachev did so-and -so. He has great power. Not know­ ing the personality of Gorbachev, his plans, his character, not knowing Gor­ bac hev as a man, a human, it is diffic u l t to pred ict his policy and to understand what a re his real in tentions.

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English major A lexander Zakharov surveys the campus from the steps of Keyes.

do it. He responded to Gorbachev's de­ sire to improve the relations between the two countries and make a better world. So I appreciate what Reagan did. He didn't remain cold tOv\'ards Moscow.

Finally, we solicited Peteris's and Alex­ ander's advice for A merican students who go to study in the So�·iet L nion.

Alexan d e r : I would li ke to see more of these exchanges. I think they are bene­ ficial for both sides. Not only in terms of acquiring knowledge but in terms of a better understanding of each other. Get­ ting closer and closer.

My advice would be the same as my parents gave me. J ust be yourself in every situation and don't be shy or scared to say what you think. I f something is wrong, say it. I f you don't like something you don't like it.

Peteris Sliede is a physics student from Riga, Latvia.

be done. But nobody knows what, in par­ ticular, should be done. lt is difficult to say, "Do this and everything will change for the better:· Nobody can say that. But he is trying to do everything possible to turn the country to the better.

I appreciate what he is doing and his plans in that he is t ry ing to democratize our country. I f one wants to make a coun­ try more democratic, then there is no way to stop j ust half way. I think that the events in the Baltic republics and Arme­ nia reflect this painful process of democ­ ratization. We've never had something like that before and people don't know what to do about it, how to deal with it.

So it's learning on the run.

We asked for their perspectives on rela­ tions between our two countries.

Peteris: Just before coming here there was a positive change in the attitude to­ wards the United States. But still the rela­ tionship is reserved because for so many

years the relations were so cold. Our mass media told us that the United States was a super-power that wanted to i mpose its aggressive policy on the world. So now it is difficult to switch the m inds. Even when Reagan and Gor­ bachev met, the general opinion was that this was not a very frank or true step from Reagan but that it was a sort of show or necessity pressed upon Reagan by the world community.

Alexander: It's really difficult for me to say on behalf of the whole Soviet coun­ try. I can only say my personal opinion.

Reagan came to power in 1980 and Gorba­ chev came to power five years later. Before that our relations remained somewhat tense. It is quite apparent that something changed with the coming of Gorbachev to the Kremlin. Since then, the relations be­ tween the two countries have begun to ease.

Why didn't Reagan continue his pre­ vious line and escalate the situation and make it even more tense? But he didn't

Pe ter is: First of all, to study language as m uch as possible. To understand the spoken language. I felt unable to do any­ thing at first because of not understand­ i ng what was going on around me. So, language and language and language. Al­ so, take as much information as possible about the United States. Not about great politics. That we know more or less. But about the household of the Americans.

About the customs. About everyday life.

About traditions. Slides, pictures, post­ cards. We are interested in the actual life of Americans. ot what is in the news­ papers but what is under that.

Both Peteris and Alexander miss their homes and families, but both look forward to the time when they may return to the United States.

Pete r i s : That is my dream. To study at MIT or other prominent university.

That will be possible only i f I am chosen again in exchange. Or later when I am working on my candidate of science or doctoral thesis, I hope I will be able to go to study there.

Alexander: I miss the w hole atmos­ phere of the country. I was brought up there so it is difficult to break any rela­ tions with it. I don't understand Ameri­ cans who leave the United States and, say, go to France and l ive there the rest of their lives.

But to come back here sometime, not for the rest of my life, just for a couple of years, either to study or to work . . . it is a great opportunity.

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A Gift for All Ages

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n the new oddillon to Mil lec Librncy is a st udy carrel given in honor of George T. Nickerson '24 by John A. B riggs ' 52 and his wife, Carol . This is one of the more tangible tributes paid to a man w hose connection to people, espec ially you ng ones, has always been strong and vital. ickerson spent most of his profes­ sional career working with young peo­ ple. From 1 94 7 to 1 96 7 he was "the dean" to thousands of Colby men, but before that he shepherded droves of boys through the hazards of adolescence during sever­ al years as master at St. Paul' School i n Garden City, N Y , a n d a s dean o f boys a l Cranbrook School i n Michigan a n d Scars­ dale H igh School i n 1ew York. At a re­ union i n 1 946 he remarked to G. Cecil Goddard '29 that he had sent "an awful lot of boys to Colby" from the prep school level and he'd "kind of like to be on the receiving end for a change:· Hi ring was a simpler affair 40 years ago. Goddard re­ ferred him to President Bixl er, who ar­ ranged a meeting next day with chair of the board Neil Leonard '2 1 over lunch at the Union Club i n Boston. Nickerson was hi red on the spot, and i n 1 946 Colby ac­ quired its first full-time dean of admissions.

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Thal year hordes of college-bound men retu rning from the war flooded the admissions office with applications. ick­ erson's wife, Ruth, often helped read the ava lanche of folders he brought home at night. Aside from a secretary, the dean was the whole office, and time spent "on the road" was m i n imal. In 1 947 the Col­ lege combined the admissions duties with those of dean of men, but the bu rden proved to be loo great. In a major ad­ ministrative sh uffle, William Bryan '48 was hired, first as assistant dean of ad­ missions and then as head of the office in 1 949. Nickerson replaced E rnest Mar­ riner ' 1 3 , the new dean of faculty, as dean of men. This shift of personnel marked the begi n n i ng of a new age for the Col­ lege. Never again was it exclusively the "hometown school" as a large-scale cam­ paign of out-of-state recru itment began .

Today t h e ad missions office req uires a dean, seven professional assistant and as­ sociate deans for on-the-road recruiti ng, six support staff, and several part-time interviewers.

I n 1 989 the Col lege's dean of stu­ dents, Janice Seitzinger, oversees both men and women , but when Nickerson served from 1 94 7 to 1 967 he was ac-

countable only for the men. One of his favorite quotations i s the defi n ition of a college campus as "a place where young people mature w ithout strain on their parents," and as parent substitute Nicker­ son had his share of vexations, among them the i ncreasingly volatile l iquor and fraternity mix on the new campus.

Since 1 8 5 1 alcohol had been forbid­ den to Colby students, and even after t he repeal of Prohibition in 1 933 the College continued to ban liquor despite escalat­ i ng student pressure for change. Much of the opposition was due to the i nfluence of trustee George G . Averill, chair of the board from 1 944 to 1 946 and a major benefactor. With President Bixler's ap­ proval , Nickerson u ndertook a series of "persuasive visits" to Averill, and although "Averill's feet were in cement on that one;· eventually in 1 960, six years after his death, the trustees agreed to a llow l iquor on campus, subject to state law - but only for men. Women were not accorded the same privilege until 1 967.

Once the alcohol i ssue was i n the open, Nickerson maintains today, it was simpler to deal with campus problems.

He found that working with the Men's Judiciary, which was composed entirely

of students, "made my job a lot easier" and was a "fairer" means of dealing with offenders. The students had pressured for the change of rules, and they now be­ came "a jury of peers:· Such participation helped to promote maturity, responsibili­ ty, and mutual trust in the College com­ munity. Upon his reti rement i n 1 967, when Nickerson was awarded a coveted Colby Brick, the College noted "the grati­ tude of hundreds of Colby men [for] your keen perception, able guidance, thought­ ful j ustice, and , most i mportantly, your friendship."

The year he retired, the Nickersons and their daughter, Leigh, flew to Saudi Arabia, where he was consultant i n set­ ting up a dean's office at the College of Petroleum and Minerals i n Dhahran.

When he retu rned i n 1 969 he served a year as acting dean of men at the U ni ver­ sity of Maine at Farmington. I n 1 970 he retired from college administration but

not from community service. He was president and chair of the Maine State Y MCA and was given the "Distinguished Service to Youth Award" by that organi­ zation for 21 years on the executive com­ m ittee. Still an active ch urch member, Nickerson was a senior warden for five years and a long-time vestry man at St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

These days George Nickerson can usually be found somewhere in the Thay­ er U nit of M id -Maine Medical Center, where he spends many hours each week as a volunteer. He has been chair of the Mansfield Clinic advisory board, is still a patient-opin ion poll interviewer, a mem­ ber of the Vol unteer Emergency Room Team, and a Waterville Hospice volunteer.

He is a long-time editor of the Mid-Maine Medical Center Vol u nteers Newsletter, and he dispenses calm cheer and good­ natured help on all levels of the hospital, a place where it's always needed.

George Nickerson turns 87 on April 1, but he has hardly slowed down. What does he do i n his spare time? He and Ruth, who live i n Winslow, play bridge the year round, t ravel to Florida every winter, and visit their daughter and her family i n Lamoine Beach, Maine. Last year, "for the fun of it," they flew to Yu­ goslavia with good friends J\farjorie and Phil E ither '30 and Dudley and Doris Smith. I n April 1 989 the Nickersons plan a 50th wedding anniversary celebration.

I nstead of a party they are taking Leigh, her husband, Sandy, and 12-year-old Shawn abroad for 10 days - because, Nickerson said, "I want to ee Shawn's face when he arrives i n Europe:' George Nickerson's bond to young people still holds strong.

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Dean Nickerson was adviser to the Interfraternity Council. The council, said the 1958 Oracle, made the effort "to raise the standards of fraternities." Seated (left to right}: Edward Goldberg '59, Warren Judd '58, Dean Nickerson, Douglas Davidson '58, Brian Barnard '58, Wil­ liam Orne '58, Ralph Rideout '59. Standing: john Edes '58, F Fritz Knight '59, Steven Gang '58, David Wiggins '62.

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Young Self-starters

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ay you m 22 yem old and a c c · cent Colby graduate. And say that, along with a f1ock of college friends and a large . boi sterous dog, you have been driving a round the nation for several months.

You and your friends have been sleeping on couches and car seats and working odd jobs such as slitting salmon bellies at an Alaskan canne ry. A fter a sum mer in San Francisco, you pull into Portland, O reg . , almost inadvertently. Yo u find a fli msy, i nexpensive apartment and easy, part-time jobs that will pay the rent - and leave you ple nty of time for bicycling, dow n i ng beers, and making road trips to the coast.

Then say one member of your group suddenly suggests that you start a busi­ ness - that you open a restaurant and call it Pi zza for the People. Would you laugh?

You probably would, but i f you are l i ke the five founders of Portland's P izza Oasis, whose travels are described above, you would also act on your friend's propos­ al. Beginning two years ago the friends, all of them Colby Class of 1 986, channeled thei r restless energy into becoming pizza entrepreneurs, and they created a business with staying power.

Located at 224 1 West Burnside in Port­ land, Oasis is hardly a gray-suit enterprise.

Crews of teenage employees, some in tie­ dye, some with long hair dyed white and one wearing a T-shi1i that reads "Ski Na­ ked;' weave behind the restaurant's count­ ers, bumping into one another as they j ive to the blare of caustic music. The am­ bience, says J i m Dixon, a restaurant crit18

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ic for Portland's V\111/amelle Weeil, is so "decidedly punkish'' that newcomers will have "the feeling that they're about to eat Pizza from Hell:' I n itial impressions a re misleading, though: despite the apparent chaos, Oa­ sis is producing what is now widely rec­ ogni zed as one of the best pizzas in town.

The restau rant's cheese slice Dixon says, "is better than average, nicely browned, with a [thick] crust and a robust tomatoey taste." The quality of the food a nd an in­ nova tive menu, which includes whole wheat crust and pizza topped with brocco­ li and a cream sauce, seem to be enough to ensure the restaurant a diverse clien­ tele. Says John Miller, one of the Oasis founders, "We attract a lot of families. We don't turn down the music for t hem but we are really nice to them, and they keep coming bac k."

The bottom line, however, is not the vol ume of the music or even hav i ng a faithful clientele. It's making money. And Oasis has been doing that quite well. Mil­ ler keeps monthly tabs on the restaurant's revenue and says that its gross has never decreased from one month to the next.

Totaling $ 1 1 ,000 i n its first month, Oasis grew so rapidly that, after less than a year in business, the restau rant's owners were already franchising. They opened a new restaurant, Oasis Cafe, are now grossing between $45 ,000 and $50,000 every month, a nd expect to take in over half a mi llion this year.

P izza Oasis started i n October 1 986 as a joke. The laughs began when John

Mi ller, who was then delivering part lime for northeast Portland's American Dream Pizza, saw an ad saying that a piz­ zeria i n the suburbs was for sale. Along with Katie Colbert, Amy Melker, and Dwite Trainer, fellow Colby classmates who were living with him i n a northwest Portland apartment, J\1iller soon visi ted a realtor to discuss buying the $25,000 bus­ i ness. The quartet had no money and, save Miller, no knowledge of pizza-mak­ ing. Says M i ller "We weren't taking it too seriously. We threw ugly blazers on over our regular clothes . . . and the realtor treated us as i f we were little kids."

The meeti n g with the realtor was not enti rely frui tless. His condescension was taunting, and the group itched to prove him wrong - to find a storefront it could shape i nto a more stylish eatery. As the only mem ber of the group with business experience, M iller was, quite clearly, the most suited to take the fi rst serious steps toward opening a restaurant. The eco­ nom ics major had acquired a wealth of busi ness sense from his father, a record producer, and had headed two l ucrative summer busi nesses, a yard maintenance firm in Connecticut and a child-care serv­ ice in California.

While his friends worked odd jobs washing dishes and folding cardboard ad­ vertising displays for t he Roman Meal Company, Miller initiated the pizza venture by seeking "For Rent" signs. He searched only i n northwest Portland because, he says, the area was quickly becoming gen­ trified and was a more l uc rative district

to open a business. The northwest sec­ tion, he adds, was also alluring because it had only one pizzeria that consistently attracted a young clientele.

Low rent made the west side's 224 1 Burnside the most attractive site for the restaurant. While $ 750 a month may sound cheap for a 1 ,200-square-foot com­ mercial space with 20-foot -high ceilings and two walls of windows, it was a bit steep for youths with nearly i nvisible bank accounts. And it seemed very steep when the friends began to contemplate buying thousands of dollars worth of kitchen equipment.

The group needed a loan - or a spon­ sor. But neither the banks nor the Small Business Association would even discuss loaning to entrepreneurs with less t ha n two years of experience in t h e field they sought to enter. Miller briefly considered allying with a venture capital firm, but when he learned that doing so would ob­ ligate Oasis to give its financiers up to 80 percent of the gross, he recoiled.

Desperate, the group turned to Mil­ ler's father for $30,000. The loan, Miller insists, was not j ust the gift of a doting parent. "He's a shrewd businessman ," he says of his father. "He's in this to make a profit:' And, to make his investment more certain, ! he elder Mi ller insisted that the entrepreneurs not call their restaurant Pizza for the People.

The loan transformed the business from a humorous lark to a very real pros­ pect and stirred excitement among the friends. By New Year's Day 1 987, the

owners had chosen the name Pizza Oasis, Colby classmate Jim Frew had wandered west from Boston, and all five Colbyites were working 80-hour weeks to convert the Burnside site from an insurance of­ fice to a restaurant.

During the getting-ready period, each partner developed an area of expertise.

"We didn't assign responsibilities;' says Colbert. "Everyone leaned automatically toward doing something they were good at." Art majors Frew and Melker designed and i mplemen ted an interior whose i m i ­ tation p a l m trees a n d s k y b l u e ceiling were i n keeping with the Oasis theme.

Miller remained the administrator, and Colbert applied her skill for detail work by negotiating with i nsurers and supplies sales representatives.

Readying for openi ng also involved numerous trips to the Portland B uilding, where one gathers such paperwork as l iquor license applications and fire safety manuals, and to the hinterlands of south­ east Portland, where second-hand shops specializing in restaurant equipment abound.

While these j unkets were vital, the most important and time-consuming proj­ ect was, of course, construction. Trainer was the natural leader for this aspect of the business. Having taken a h igh school drafting class and having erected shacks while working i n Alaska one summer, he was the only partner with even a hint of construction background.

U nder Trainer's guidance, the five partners usually worked simultaneously

at the construction site. The arrangement afforded surprisi ngly quick, cheap prog­ ress. "Everyone told us that five partners were way too many," Miller says. "but sta rting up, it was a great asset. We had tons of free labor and were able t o di vide up respon sibilities."

Occasionally. however the combina­ tion of 80-hour weeks and five friends v\'Orking close together induced a deliri ­ um, a giddy atmosphere in which mis­ takes were i nevitable. One February afternoon three disasters occurred in one hour. Miller tripped and spilled stain onto the restaurant's carpet, Tra iner splashed blue paint on the front winr..l ow and the whole crew rui ned the door­ frame as they toted i n a new refrigerator.

When, i n a dizzy spel l, Melker nearly fell from a 1 5-foot scaffolding the group decided to quit seven hours early and go out for drinks on the business. During the construction, M iller says, the part­ ners worked so closely that "if you want­ ed to go to the bathroom, you had to tell everyone else." As his tone suggests, prox­ imity led to tension . The most heated flare-up came j ust as the restaurant was about to open . Miller arranged a work sched ule for all the partners, and the move infuri ated his friends. Says Col­ bert, "I felt like telling him, 'Who the hell are you to make up a schedule and throw it at me7"' The partners addressed such dilem­ mas through late-night meeti ngs at local bars. The meetings, says Mi ller, dragged on because the partners were such close

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friends and did not want to step on each others' toes. "Don't ever go into b u siness w i t h your friends," he advises without i rony, "because, when yo u do. emotions ru le busi ness deci sions:· Despite tensions and mi nor structur­ al p roblems such as a crooked hallway and a wobbly p rep counter, Pi zza Oasis constru ction neared completion by mid­ February 1 987. The q u i ntet still lac ked one crucial i ngredient, however: pizza recipes. So Oasis enlisted a chef from American Dream Pi zza to help with reci ­ p e development a n d hosted t w o private taste tests, a busi ness luncheon for K K U L radio sta ffers a n d a gorging session for Reed College students.

The recipes proved popular, and Pizza Oasis opened on February 27, 1 987.

Without having done any advert ising, the restaurant took i n $235 on i ts first day. Explains Miller, "People in the neigh­ borhood had seen us building the place, so they came in. They kept com ing back because they liked the pizza:· The early days o f operation were smooth and marked only by a chance confrontation with a belligerent drunk and a few errant tosses of dough , which t he partners were stretching by spinning i t , Italian -style, in t he air. Major chal­ lenges d idn't emerge until Apri l , when the expanding busi ness sta rted del ivering pi zza and h i red employees to do the driv­ ing. Says Colbert, "It was diffic u l t trying to be a boss beca use we were so you ng.

We didn't feel we had enough experience to boss someone else around."

To make the role of "boss" less im pos-

ing - and lo retain the Oasis's casual at­ mosph ere - the part ners, says Melkner, almost always hired inexperienced teenage or college-aged youths who were well sui t­ ed lo taking, rather than giving, advice.

These employees sha red with the part­ ners the enth usiasm and pride that comes with sta rting a new busi ness - a nd were startli ngly loya l lo a restaurant that was paying them only $ 3. 50 an hour. o workers quit during the first three months, and by late spring the partners and their crew were churning out pizzas.

Running the busi ness became so easy, in fact, that Trainer grew rest less - and bega n losi ng his fervor for the Oasis. In June 1 987, he escaped to Alaska for an­ other sum mer of salmon-slitting; by Sep­ tember, he was in G renada, working for the Peace Corps. Th ree or fou r months later, Melker and Frew also became bored - and exhausted - by the pi zza regi­ men. "It was draining lo work there:· says Melker, a pai nter who did art work con­ stantly while al the Co llege but prod uced only one ca nvas during 1 987. "After a while, nothing creative was going on, and thoughts of work sa t urated your mind."

Like Trainer, Melker and Frew had not entered the business with the hopes of making a career out of pizza-making.

Last spring, they left the Oasis, with no other career opportunities in sight. Ex­ plains Frew, "I quit because I was work­ ing so hard that l didn't have the time to make a decision on what I wan ted to do next :' The remaining partners, M i ller and Colbert , have put their wanderlust on

hold and now entertain ideas of stayi ng in Portland lo steer Pi zza Oasis and the Oasis Cafe for 1 0, or even 20, more years.

They have resigned themselves to a regi­ men that includes two or t h ree meetings a day (with food distributors and other sal esmen) and 80· to 1 00-hour workweeks.

While the pair can now talk busi ness with the sober voice of experience. they're running an enterprise that continues to leap forward by taking ri sks, by winging it. In 1 988 the Oasis became the first Portland pizzeria to ma rket frozen pizzas to food stores, and now it's developed a new way to perfect employee perfor­ mance. The answer, Miller insists, lies in "The Zen Pizza Mani festo;' a worker's manual written by employee Sean Farrell.

Laced with quotations from Zen scrip· l u re, the mani festo begi ns, "The Pizza: distant, separate, i ndividually produced ingredients amalgamated to form one beautifully si mple dish;' and then pro­ ceeds to provide a common sense guide to pizza-making. Sound a bit offbeat? "I guess:· Colbert acknowledges. B u t she is smiling as she says this, because "The Zen Pizza Manifesto"- like all the other tactics Oasis has used to shun mainstream busi ness practices - works.

Bill Donahue is a Portland, Oreg. , free-lance journalist for newspapers and magazines.

His latest article appears in the April issue of Thrasher, a California -based publication for skateboarders. This article appeared in a slightly different version in Portland's The

Busi ness Journal.

Colby is no mirage a t Pizza Oasis in January 1988: Jim Frew '86, john Miller '86, Katy Colbert '86, Sonja Muehlmann '86, and Amy Melker '86. Dwite 'JYainer '86 had already left for the Peace Corps.

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ollege communiti" tend to pm· duce people of uncommonly long tenure.

Extreme examples at Colby have been Julian Tay lor, who taught at the College for 62 years; a Bangor trustee, Moses Gid­ dings, who served on the Board of Trus­ tees from 1 852 to 1 9 1 1 , an astonishing term of 59 years; and Leslie B. Arey ' 12, a teacher at Northwestern University med­ ical school for an astounding 72 years.

The College has recent examples of long service as well. In 1 986 Dorothea "Dot" Marchetti retired after 42 years of service in the library, and Ansel Grindall spent 40 years with the Bui ldings and Grounds Department before retiring in 1 985.

At the annual faculty-trustee dinner last spring, President Cotter took special note of Doris Rowe who, although never a full-time Colby employee, has played a special role at the College for 39 years.

For au that time she has been a familiar presence at Colby banquets and other im­ portant occasions, making sure that things go smoothly, and on time, and with a special grace and charm that reflect her own personality.

Mrs. Rowe's work for Colby began in 1 95 1 . In that year her mother, Eva Clark, was hired by Helen Nichols, the legen-

dary head of the College's dining serv­ ices, to staff the dinner of the first Colby Business I nstitute held at the Elmwood Hotel in downtown Waterville. Mrs. Clark was in charge of banquets at the old Elm­ wood and , beginning at the age of 1 5, Doris Rowe had been part of her crew.

Later she took her mother's position at the Elmwood and, with it, the part-time job as the person who hired, trained, and d irected the people w ho served at special College functions - meetings of not only the Business Institute (she hasn't missed one) but also the Quarterback Club, art show openings, building dedications, campaign dinners, special fu nctions at the president's house, and, of course, the traditional events of Commencement, Homecoming, and Reunion weekends.

W hen Colby had completely moved to Mayflower Hill, Mrs. Rowe remembers Miss Nichols sending the Colby bus (the

Blue Beetle) or taxi cabs to pick up the E lmwood crew for events in Foss Hall and Roberts U nion. She has worked for th ree presidents and several dining serv­ ice managers and special program heads and recalls with affection and admiration "my presidents" as well as such Colby stal­ warts as Bill Millett '25, Bill Macomber '27, Ed Turner. George Whalan, and Dick Dyer.

In 1 966 Doris Rowe became manager of the Coffee Shop at Thayer Hospital, now the Mid-Maine Medical Center, where, with her own brand of wit, sym­ pathy, and understanding, she consults regularly with nu rses, doctors, volun­ teers, and visitors. Meanwhile Mrs. Rowe's daughter, Patty Evers, became part of the Colby group, and in recent years the serving crew has often includ­ ed Patty :rnd four of her children - Jill.

John, Angie, and Jimmy.

In making the presentation to Doris Rowe of an inscribed Colby Chair at the faculty-trustee dinner, President Cotter said: "Gracious and cordial, confident and reliable, cheerful and always willing, Doris has become an essential part of Colby . . . it is difficult to imagine a Colby function without her."

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Periodically, Colby is invited to send representatives to special academic events at colleges and universities. The following persons have represented the College at i naugurations i n the past months: Robert W. Belyea '5 1 , at the i nauguration of A.L. Fritschler as president of Dickin­ son College.

Garth K. Chandler '62, at the i nauguration of William Henry Beardsley as presi­ dent of Husson College.

Deborah Cohen '77, at the inauguration of Daniel M. Lambert as president of Ba­ ker University.

Andrea Vujan Colaiaco '70, at the i na uguration of Oscar E. Remick as president of Westmi nster College.

Thomas Colman '59, at the ina uguration of H . Douglas Lee as president of Stetson U niversity.

Leslie Taylor Cooley '76, at the inauguration of Sister Ruth Hallenbach as president of Mount Mary College.

Edward S. Cronick '75, at the inauguration of F. Thomas Trotter as president of Alaska Pacific University.

Stephen D. Ford '68, at the inauguration of N iara Sudarkasa as president of Lincoln University.

Linda Nicholson Goodman '62, at the inauguration of Bruce R. Swinburne as presi­ dent of M itchell College.

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As prom ised, here is an in troduction lo some of the most recent members of 50 + : Bob Ant ho­ ny '38, Waterville Valley, N . H . , has retired from 38 years of leaching al Harvard Business School and reports that seven of his books were pub­ lished i n 1 988. some of w h ich were revisions.

They deal with his specialties. accou nting and business management. He and Kay have traveled extensively. and t hey are proud of their four grandchildren • Ralph "Bus" William Brown '38, Palm Harbor, Fla .. and his w i fe, Bernice spend five months in Searsport, Maine and seven in Florida, now that he has retired from being su­ perintendent of schools. H e and Bernice still l i ke lo talk about their six weeks touring five Russian republics • J oseph Ciechon '38, Ridgefield, Conn., is happy to be a man of leisure after many years of teaching math, during which time he co­ wrote an algebra text. !n 1 985 he and Carolyn had t he wonderful experience of exploring Alaska from the northern t i p lo the southern • Reta Trites Cook '38 P h i l lips. a retired teacher, be­ came a great-gra ndmother in November and a l ­ ready has 1 1 grandchildren. She keeps active i n town government a n d h e l p s Wendell on t h e farm • M a r t h a Wa kefield Falcone '38, Hart· ford. Con n . , has five grown children and t h ree grandchildren. She retired from teaching after 18 years and now is actively trying to promote peace and disarmament. What a thrill she had when she returned to China, the land of her birth, after 37 years! • Ed i t h "Billie" Fa l t Favour '38, North· east Harbor. is a retired English teacher who feels that she "never had a job that she wasn't good at."

After her h usband's death, she decided to spend six months a year i n Southern California, and she has been playing bridge, taking courses i n writ­ ing, and attending concerts. She has written two books on Maine Indians, published three poems, and had an article i n Down East. In September she visited t he Amish cou ntry and Brandywine Val ­ l e y i n Pen nsylvan i a • A rc h i e Fol le t t '38 , Lakeland, Fla., retired from scientific research, i s now quite a world traveler, with some teach· ing of science i n Switzerland and Sout h Africa, along with visits to Iceland, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. l n July he and Ellen went to Italy, then attended an Elderhostel program i n Beer­ sheva and Jerusale m . This last was t he result of a 1 987 participation i n a scien t i fic archeological excavation i n Sepphoris, four kilometers north of Nazareth • James Fox '38, orth Dartmout h , Mass., is a semi -reti red lawyer w h o played vio· l i n for many years in the New Bedford Sympho­ ny Orchestra and served for many years as secretary and member of the board of the New Bedford YMCA. In October he and Gertrude visited the British I sles • Fred '38 and Mary H e rd E m e r y '38, Bangor, report t hat he has re­ ti red from h i s l i fe work as a pediatrician. Son Fred, Jr. '69 i s now a federal attorney in Roches­ ter, N Y. • Ernes t " B ud" Frost '38, Myrtle Beach, Fla., can enjoy golf now that he has retired from his executive position i n a public voluntary health organization. H e and his wife, Ruth (Fu l ·

ler '36). plan to go to Alaska next year • Martha Bessom Gorman '38, Marblehead, Mass .. is a retired teacher who keeps involved in commu­ nity activities. She is a volunteer guide at the Lee Mansion and is active in AAUW and church af­ fairs. Recent l y she had a n article. A H i story of the Marblehead Female H u mane Society, pub­ lished in the Marblehead Magazine • Joyce Per­ ry Goss '38 . Elmsford. .Y. , has retired from social work and office positions so that she can enjoy doing t h ings with husband Fred. Both of their children are author-editors living i n Califor­ nia and Missouri respectively • P h i ljjps B. Henderson '38, Stoneham, Mass . . continues as an American Baptist m i nister part time. Recent­ ly he traveled to Russia on a Bridges-for-Peace Tour and hopes to make a Friendship Tou r to Chi­ na soon. H e and Gertrude have two children and eight grandchildren • Edward M . '38 and Hel­ en Lewis H ooper '38 Charlotte N .C. have limited activities because of H elen's illness. He has retired from his craft supply business and has become a n urse's aide. For a hobby he collects fishing supplies. H e remembers with pride his work as president of the Exchange Club and of the Toastmasters· Club. as secretary of the Associ­ ation of Civic Clubs, and as director of t he Carousel Parade in Charlotte • H e l e n Foster Jenison '38, North Scituate. R.I .. does volunteer work in school and church. She has two grand­ daughters in high school. Last summer she went to the British Isles. and she hopes to return to Ha­ waii next year • Edwin M . Leach '38 Wil­ liamsburg, Va , is now retired after serving as a pediatrician in t he avy for 35 years, but he is active in environmental groups and in Physician for Social Responsibility. He and Patricia spend t heir summers in Blue H i l l . Maine, and their winter in Virginia. They both recommend the Colby Alumni College seminars • James l\i.

Lewis '38, obleboro. is a snowbird who goes south every winter to St. Simon Island. When he retired. he and Helen spent 10 weeks traveling in E u rope. They have been happily married for 48 years and are "st i l l dancing all the way'" Their two daughters have blessed them with five grand­ children • W i l l iam "Bill" Litt lefield '38, San · ford, benefits from his retirement from being president of Littlefield Construction Co.. for now he can play golf every day' He and his wife spend their winters in Boynton Beach. Fla. Although they have traveled to Europe four times and twice to , orth Africa, he says, "I'll take Maine any day!" • C ha rles MacGregor '38, Bernardston.

Mass .. has given up surgical practice but concen­ trates on rest-recreation-and-physical-fitness. Of his four children three are doctors and one a n u rse. Each year he and his w i fe. Tucker, make a trek to N orway for c ross-co u n try s k i ­ ing • E t h e l Bradstreet M a n ey '38 , Beverly Commons, Mass .. a former French teacher, was widowed in 1 985. Since then she has discovered the satisfaction of volunteer tutoring and church work. She has also studied with Elderhostel in England and Scotland. Daughter Ardith '66 is a professor of political science of Iowa State University and daughter Laurel '70 is special products manager in M i lwaukee. Her son is at Dartmouth • Congratulations to Fred B. O l e ­ s o n '38 and his wife, B e t t y ( oyes '40). Concord.

Mass .. for having celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in September. Not yet retired, Fred is a consu l tant health physicist for the Federal Emergtr.cy Management Agency. evaluating emergency plans around nuclear power stations.

His work takes him to every state in the country as wel l as to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

A Record of Daily Entries Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser '19 first heard about Colby College from her grandfather.

Silas Stone, principal of the Hyde School in Boston, when one of his excellent teach­ ers, Miss Ada Louise Peabody, became the wife of Colby president Arthur ]. Roberts.

Stone advised his granddaughter to apply. Valedictorian of each school she attend­ ed, she entered the College i n 1 9 1 5, concentrating on languages and E nglish literature.

During World War I , Mrs. Sweetser remembers, women gained new prominence on the campus. As a freshman in Foss Hall her three roommates included Marion Starbird Pottle ' 1 8, who became the first president of the Women's Student League, a forerunner of Stu-A. Phyllis Sturdivant was second president. "There was no d is­ crimination that I can recall," Mrs. Sweetser said; "we were treated j ust like the men in the classroom:· Another memory is of the tragic flu epidemic of 1 9 1 8- 1 9, which caused the College to cancel sessions for some weeks to reduce the infection among students. When Armistice Day came, "we all flocked down to the E l mwood Hotel," said Mrs. Sweetser, "and with whistles blowing and church bells ringing we pranced around a big bonfire - I remember appealing to President Roberts to cancel classes then, too, but he assured us, 'Of course there will be classes'" Phyllis Sturdivant married Herman Sweetser in 1 9 1 9 , and they lived i n Orono, where he was professor of horticulture for many years at the U niversity of Maine.

When they returned to Cumberland, it was to the ancestral home where five gener­ ations of Sweetsers have lived and where Mrs. Sweetser lives today with her grand­ son·, Richard Sweetser. She raised a daughter, E lizabeth Sweetser Baxter '4 1 , and two sons, Philip and Richard.

I n 1 9 5 1 Mrs. Sweetser became the librarian at Prince Memorial Library in Cum­ berland Center, a position she held until 1 970 when she was 72 . Along the way she organized and was head of the town's high school library at Greely I nstitute from 1 960 to 1 964. She started writing, compiling, and editing material for a history of C umberland while she was at Prince, and the 35 1 -page book, Cumberland, Maine, in Four Centuries, was published for the town's bicentennial in 1 976.

Mrs. Sweetser assumed the role of h istorian more easily than most. Her family and her husband's family were early settlers of the area, and she has read constantly during her lifetime. Most helpful, she has kept a journal and family record for many years on a succession of Swiss calendars, a habit of daily entries that shaped the future historian. The record keeping still goes on.

Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser was class agent for many years and a member of the Alumni Council from 1 965 to 1 97 1 . At the end of that tenure she was awarded a Colby Brick for her loyalty and service to the College. Today she is active and in­ terested in her home, family, and community, and she recalls with humor her ear­ ly days, such as the walk "two miles each way to high school - which is why I'm so rugged at 9 1 !"

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le and B<•tty have explored most of Eu rope and have even skied in the Alps • Mitchell Phillip� Newton Center Ma�s., i a semi-ret ired i n ­ s1.irance broker w ho h a s been act ive in Mason ry and the Jewish War Veteran of ewlon. H e and ylvia his wi fe. enjoy attending reunions and ap­ p reciate the new campm. although he has har­ py memories of the old one particularly the fine p rofes ors • As H a rry Hayden Clark Emerilu� Professor of English al the U n iversity of Wiscon­ sin. Walter B. Rideout ' 3 8 , Madison. Wis.. con­ tin ues to work on his biography of Sherwood Anderson, under contract to Oxford U n i versilv Press. As a public relations person, Walter helped lo build Orchard H i l l . a re idential faci lity for retarded adul ts. H e and Jean ( D risko '39) work in their gardens and t ravel as much as they can.

They would l i ke some day lo return lo Japan where he taught i n the Kyoto American Studies Seminar in 1 98 1 • Edwin H . Shuman '3 8 . Pen­ ny Farms, Fla., is a rel i red cl rgyman and a fund raiser for the American Bapt i sts. Since 1 986 he has been a town councilman. and since 1981. the mayor. H e and Dorothy have four chi l dren aml seven grandchi ldren . Ed says that he still has his Colby swealer1 • Sigrid Tom p k i n s '38, Port­ land, attorney in t he firm of Hutchinson, Pierce Atwood , and Scribner, has served on the Alum­ ni Council and the Board of Trustee as well a� in Maine pol itics. Recently she made a People-lo­ People tour of Eu ropean capitals. including Moscow. with a group of probate lawyers lo meet their counterparts • Rex Tarbell '38 Bangor and Bamberg, S.C., is a reti red metall urgical as­ sistant safety engineer who has worked in the aer­ ospace industry i n California a11d now enjoy golf and motorcycl i ng. H e has fond memories of Colby and remembers when the bridge over the Kennebec went out in the great Oood of '36. He and fel low P h i Delts went downtown al 2 a.m. lo watch. According lo Rex, the Mayflower Hill campus is one of the most beautiful in the cou n­ t ry. but i t's hard for him lo visualize il as "his school" • Bett y M cLeod Thompson '38, North Berwick, i s a proud "domestic engineer,' with three children and four grandchildren. he works hard for her church and the Republican Town Committee. Quite the act ress, Betty has per­ formed i n a play and three musicals • Maynard C. Wa l t z '38. Bask ing Ridge, J. has retired from bei n g a department head at Bell Laborato­ ries to being a full-time hobbyist. Using their trav­ el t railer. he and Lu ( Leonovich '4 1 ) spend t h ree months i n Florida in the w i n ter al H omestead in t h e Keys. Lu i s an organist and pianist who en­ joys cooking, quilling, and nower arranging. May­ nard works on genealogy, ancient history. modern railroading, amateur radio, gardening, solar heat­ ing, bird carving, and electronics. They also travel widely • Peg H iggins Williams '38, West Bath, reti red from college teaching in 1 974 and has been tutoring adults in reading and English as a second language under the Literacy Volunteers Program . She is active i n the avy League, the Down East Club. and the West Bath Republican Committee. ln lhe winter she and Owen head for Sarasota for two months and hope to visit Antigua and Montserrat soon. Peg says that Colby "made a world of d i fference" in her l i fe • Le Roy N .

Young ' 3 8 , Poland Springs, taught for 26 years in Farmingdale. NY, and is now professor emeri­ tus with the State University of New York. He and Eileen glory i n their collage al Sabbat hday Lake in the summer and spend part of the w i nter i n Florida. H e dislikes questionnaires. ( So b e i l ; i f the letters keep coming. then n o more question­ naires') • Now for some news of other classes.

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Retirement or semi -retirement bring change. but many 50-Plusers are still accomplishing very sig­ n i ficant t h i ngs. Maude H. We bster ' 1 6 . Sou th Weymouth. Mass., contin ues to be concerned about all local, slate, national. and in terna tional govern mental issues. She is also active in church and poetry groups, maintains her membership in the G reat Decision discussion groups. and con­ ti nues to be in terested in education al all levels.

She, loo. is a snowbird who flies south to Florida for the winter • Leonard W. Mayo '22. Chagrin Fal ls. Oh io, l i kes lo work in his garden and serves on committees al Case Western Reserve Univer­ sity whe re he taught for many years • e l l i e Pot t l e H a n k ins '25 , Oxford, has been working with co-editor Dr. John Strawhorn of Scotland on a fort hcoming book on the correspondence of James Boswell w i t h the overseer of his Auchin­ leck estate • M i l d red E. Brigg� '2 5 . Man­ chester, . H . . now volun teers in the art library, Currier Gallery • We have some enthusiastic genealogists. �uch as Ma rjorie A . Edge r l y ' 2 5 Wrightwood. Ca lif., who has made t h ree trips to G reat Britain to track down her ancestor . and H a rriet Towle McCroary ' 2 8 , Winthrop. who i s act ive in D.A.R. and in genealogical socie· ties • Bea trice Pa l m e r Frederick '2 9, St Clouu Fla , i� also a member of D.A.R • ,\ lusic is still very important for Mollie cltzer Yett '26 Brookline Mass. who st i l l plays the violin and viola i n ensembles and orchestras • Dona ld C. Freeman ' 2 6 Bradford Mass. is president of the lru lees of the Whi ttier Birthplace Rece n t ly he steered a biography of W h ittier to publication as wel l as a video about W h i ttier He is also co­ author of a pictorial biography of W h i t t i ­ er • James H . H a lpin '2 6. Bronxvi lle N Y . i s sti l l practicing l a w a n d hoped lo g o to V i e n n a in November • Simi larly Pa u l M. G reene '2 8 .

East Patchogue Y , is a retired attorney but cur­ rently is doing pro bono work as arbi t rator in a small claims court. which he finds rewarding and stimulating • Grace ylvester Ober '29 Wood­ lnnd. sti l l writes her monthly column for the St Croix Co1mer of St. Stephen, 1ew Brunswick. and i s also the official historian and researcher in her home town • Fred J . Sterns '29, Skow hegan. keeps i nvolved with the Cen t ral Maine Area Agency on Aging • Energetic Bernice C o l l i n M a c lean '29. orwood. Mass. teaches an ex­ ercise class for seniors. "Have fun with Bun!" and works as a medical librarian for the Pondville H ospi tal for Cancer • Becoming professor emeritus of political science at the U n iversity of Pen n sylvania hasn't slowed down orman D. Pal m e r '30, Friday H a rbor, Wash. H e says that he has done more writing since ret i rement than at any other time. with the book The U111ted States and India published in 1 984 and The United States and the Changing Western Pac1(1c published i n 1 987 -n o l ful l t i tles, i ncidentally - and he is now working on a book on security in the Western Pa­ cific, in col laboration with a Korean scholar. H e h a s two more books in various stages o f comple­ tion. l f that isn't enough. he has been leaching part-time a t a nearby university and also a l one of t he Elderhostel programs on Lopez Island, one of the San Juan Islands i n Puget Sound • Don­ ald E. A l l ison '30, Westerly, R.l.. although offi ­ cially retired, is already planning for his 45lh year as owner-director of the Winnapaug Day Camp • R u by B i c kmore Wiggin '3 1 . Clinton , has pub­ l ished her t h i rd book, As 1 Remember, which she says is selling slowly but steadily • Jane Belch­ er ' 32 , Pittsfield, Vt., works for the Pittsfield H i storical Society as c u rator of the museum • J o h n B. C u r t i s '33, Palm Harbor, Fla .. uses h i s

medical skills 1n the mi li tary recruitment serv­ ice. He also enjoys gardening, woodworking, golf­ ing, and swi mming • Malcom Wi lson '33, Waterville. serves on the Board of Alliance for the Mentally lll and goes lo Washington for quarterly meetings • Eve l y n Hall Spaulding '33, Water­ vi l le, i s a l i fe member of the Telephone Pioneers after working 30 years for Pacific Telephone in Los Angeles • Eve l y n Sta pleton Burns '33.

Norway, has served for the past eight years on the National General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church and has been in­ volved in social j ustice issues, especially world hu nger • John L. S k i n n e r '33, Sea Cli ff, N .Y., still pract ices law and travels. He even made the Colby trip to the Greek Islands • Eager student Barbara "B.Z.'' White Morse '34, Springvale, has been auditing courses at the University of South­ ern Maine, speci fically geology at p resent • Blanche Silverman Field '35. Brookline. Mass .. i s happy lo be near Boston so that she can attend concerts and plays • Some ardent golfers are Wendell A. Tu fts '30, Boynton Beach, Fla., Sid­ ney S c h i ffman '3 5, Maitland, Fla., and Bob W i l l ia m '36, Los Angeles. Bob also teaches gol f a n d is proud of h i s friendship w i t h Ben H ogan, Arnold Palmer. and Jack Nicklaus. He hasn't slowed down yet . for although he has sold his macaroni business to Borden he is now working for a mortgage company in Los Angeles • Law­ rence Robbins '3 7, Searsmont, was chair of the Polio-Plus Committee al Rotary Club. H i s aim is lo stamp out polio completely • Betty W i l k i n ­ s o n R y a n '3 7, New York Ci ty, appreciates the tech nology of her computer when she does her free-lance assignments for the G rolier Society.

She wrote ' while still loving N .Y.C. as home, great pleasure comes from escaping the city at times.

Enjoy the East Coast and the West - from Maine to Washington state" • Steve Young '3 7, Bar Harbor, has been working on the local planning board to keep Maine from being "inundated with greedy fat-city developers. We don't want Colby's favorite geology class field trip area (Mt. Desert Island) to be covered wall-to-wall. or Cadillac Mountain, with all -shores, sky-rise condos1" • Ambitious Jot, all of vou. And if I have missed some, be patient, and I'll try to catch up next time!

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ine you rself on the Colby campus in the spring of 1939. The basebal l season i s under way, and Laure l W. " Lop" H e rsey has led the M u les to a 7-5 w i n over Bates, with help from M a urice Alfred "Doc" Rancourt and Leland C. "Buster" B u r r i l l . Class Day parts have been a n nounced: Bernerd Burbank, class marshall; Don na deRochemont, prayer; Nathanael Guptill, ora­ tion; Ernesti ne Wi lson, poem; Evelyne Short, ode; Robert Canders and Sally Aldrich, award­ ing of honors; Violet H amilton, parting address; and A l bert H u n ter, presiding officer. Spring dances are in full swing, with pastel evening gowns, gardenia corsages, and youthful romance.

The Lambda Chi's dance to "smooth music" at the

To See a Rhino, You Have To Leave Matinicus When the rhinoceros charged, Clayton Young '39 didn't panic. His guide, he noticed, wasn't making any particular effort to remove the Land Rover from the path of the thundering beast, so, figuring that safari guides aren't paid enough to risk their lives i n the service of tourism, Mr. You ng calmly aimed and fired. Young's trophy snap­ shot of the charging rhino (who, it turned out, was all bluff) is now displayed i n his spic 'n span house on Matinicus, 23 miles out to sea where no rhinos have been seen i n years.

There have been Youngs on Matinicus since before the Revolutionary War. Generations of ancestors root Clayton Young to a world two miles long and one mile wide, but his horizons are not limited. He is one of those people we are fortunate enough to meet once i n a w hile who shattered all the stereotypes. Matinicus na­ tive? Hardy fisherman? Taciturn Yankee? Colorful , but provincial?

Clayton Young was educated at Kents H il l and Hebron before taking a degree i n mathematics at Colby. Following service in World War I I , he gravitated back to his native island, where for 25 years he ran the island store down at the harbor. In 1 977 he sold the store i n order to care for his ailing wife. Following her death, h is family gone and grown, Clayton Young set out to see the world.

Now the remarkable thing about Mr. Young, a most unassuming gentleman, is not j ust that he i s interesting, but that he is interested - interested enough to risk having adventures. While busloads of retirees roll safely into Camden and Bar Har­ bor, Clayton Young takes off for parts unknown.

'Tm more interested in rural areas and far-out places;' says Young, "but I don't think going on safari in Africa is too far-out. If you want to see the animals, you want to go there:' I n Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, then, Clayton Young was charged by a rhino.

In Ruanda he sat quietly i n the rain forest surrounded by a family of gorillas. I n Australia a n d N e w Zealand h e believes he saw every sheep i n t h e South Pacific. He's not sure where he m ight head next, the Yucatan Peninsula maybe, but his last ma­ jor journey took him to Tierra del Fuego and from there to the Antarctic for a few days. His stay in Antarctica was prolonged a bit, as it happened, when a blizzard prevented his plane from coming back for him. Living on Matinicus, of course, Clay­ ton Young must be familiar with cancelled flights.

"Yes;' he says, "and I'm also familiar with blizzards on the coast."

This article is reprinted from traveling in the Amazon.

The Maine Times with permission.

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Lake\\'ood Country Club, the DU's are at Water· v i l le Cou ntry Club, and the Zeta Psi's are at the Lake Shore Hotel in Belgrade. Famous bandlead­ er Fred Waring has j ust written a new song for Colby, causing a flurry of excitement. The weekly College radio program is ending for the year and the seniors w ho have worked on it are commend­ ed: Ralph Delano 40 and Bob Ca nders, sports commentators; Fletcher Eaton newscaster; and George Ellis Mott, several positions. . . All t his news is from The Colby Echo oi 1\ lay 24 1 939. \ Ve'll exchange more recent news i n person when we meet on our beautiful Colby campus on June 9 to 1 1 . . The lead story in t hat long-ago Echo was that a former member of t he German Reich· stag had spoken at the Colby lecture series say­ ing that the majority of Germans \\'ere not m favor of Hitler and that England and France had been influential in keeping Hitler from continu­ ing his conquests. Also on the front page was an account of a banquet honoring Miss Corinne Van Norman for her 1 7 years in the a t h letic depart ment . (You could have told us 70. and wed have believed i t . ) Advertisers i n this issue included Jeff's Tap Room, "Dine and Dance. Opp. Stadium Noel's Tap Room, 2 3 Silver St., Pai n t e r s Annex "Good Drinks, 3 for 25c . Opp. Opera House," and Park's Diner. which needed no street address. Le· vine's. "Where Colby Men Meet;' had suits for S 1 5.50 . . . . Three movie theaters were operating in Waterville. and movies we could have seen that week included Pg)'malion, w i t h Leslie Howard and Wendy H iller; Stage Coach, w i t h Claire Trevor and John Wayne; and Code of the Secret Service, with Ronald Reagan. Tickets were 25 cents . . . but enough nostalgia. Let's look to the future, and especially to t he good t imes coming on June 9 to 1 1 , when t h e campus w i l l be green, old friendships w i l l be renewed, Gardiner Gregory's pictures will delight u s , the Class o f '39 singers will be in fine voice, and we'll feel youn· ger t han we have i n years.

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Our column this time is l i mited to i n formation about one member of our class and his dog. It was a doggone good contest for ewfoundlands.

There were six events i n the "Water Rescue Dog certification, and only one dog completed all six events. The star of the show was five-year-old Timber. owned by Halsey Frederick. This infor· mation was sent to me by Violet Hami lton Christensen '39. Had it not been for her, I would have nothing to report. Make my job easier: send tales of your doings'

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d a u g h l t'r, - a dPLlnr a l a wye r , ii l i b r a r i ;i n - a n d th rc'e gra n d c h i l ­ h � ha' ll'orked with t h e ull' 'ch�'ol d i s t r i c t pu rrllil')lng to,l bnoks r o r scvern l 'l h oo b . J e a n h a r bo r � rl, n d memories ol Colby espPrially or Dutton I l ou c' • Alt hough Lawrence Berry a t ­ te nd ed Colby iu'>l l l l' n years. he remembers se1·er­ al clas�mates. He serl'ed 1 11 the Air Force as a meteorolc1g1'l w i t h the wea t her atel l i tes in D.C. He now lil' e in Sun Ci ty, Ariz .. from October l o J u n e and in Sou th H a rbor, l\. l a i n e , from J u ne lo October To keep fit and actil'e, he s t i l l play golf. grinds stones a n d t ral'els • George Young re ­ Cc' n t l y mnved lo S t . Petersburg, F l a He ha� two sons and t h ree grandchildren. on Philip married a beautiful Korean girl. They l i l'e in J\ l adis on , \\' is., w here G eorge and hi w i re pend part or their yea r. Because he's not wel l . George can't be active • Not so for H i ra m Macintosh still in Phi ladelphia. H e spe n t a week skiing al Lake Ta · hoe Cal i L , a week golring at M y rt l e Beach C wen t spring tu rkey hu nting last April attended E lderhoslel at Pottsdam College in June and went o n a l Cl-day ecological t r i p lo A laska. H e said hes ready for a year of rest now • It w a s good l o hear fr m H a zel J u d k i n Daughaday once aga i n S h e lil'eS i n S t . Loui J\lo. with her husband W i l ­ liam, a n emeritus professor who 1s still leac h i n g doing research and wor k i ng 1 n t h e lab. Hazel a u ­ dits archeological c o u r e and � w 1 m to keep fi t.

They plan a t ri p to Taiwan H ong K o n g Pe rth West Australia, and Sidney. Hazel wi hes they coul d get to J\laine more often • \'irgi nia Mosher is reti red, still live in Spartanburg C and still bow ls t h ree n i g h t s a week But Jiggs' is 11101·ing back to Watervil le. 1aine i n summer 89 \V ith a bow l i ng house J U Sl a block away she ll surely stay fit • P r i sc i l l a Patterson is sti l l a choral conductor al the Carmel Bach Festil'al i n Carmel Calif. and conductor of adul t c h o i r at Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church though she li1·e i n Stamford, Con n . Yoga is her main means of staying fit • Rev. L i n wood Polter i s reti red i n Sanbornville /\' . H . , b u t h a s taken up part-lime residence in Florida. H e still stays actil'e in patri­ otic events, joining an occasional parade or de· l ivering an add ress. H e goe bicycling, mou ntain climbing, camping, fishing, and boating, t hough he admits he is losi ng some zest at age 77. He add­ ed that he i s actually getting rid of hi rock and shel l collections. He'd l ike to become an amateu r radio technician in the General Class and pass the code test • V i rginia Ryan after 42 years is still eligibility supervisor al the Connecticut State Department of Income Main tenance. To stay fit she swims, plays tennis, and walks. She collects jewel ry but gets rid of old clothes. When she fi ­ nally retires she will take more trips. Virginia had n ews of C la i re E m e rson, who sti l l l ives i n Bid­ deford, Maine, is a reti red school teacher, and raises show cats. We hope Clai re w i l l w rite her­ sel f • And fi nally an up-date on news from Jane R u ssell Abbott. This i s her third year teaching biology a l Dwight E nglewood School in E ngle­ wood, N .J . Especially busy as president or the Na­ tional Association of Biology Teachers, she was a l eader or 78 biology teachers and medical per­ son nel du ring a month in the People's Republic of China. The last two winters she taught marine biology i n the Caribbean. To keep hersel f fit, Jane plans to join a spa or u se the school gym • And n ow may we have news of some more of you This we all enjoy.

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After a persua�1ve cal l from one of Colby's most loyal sport supporters, C l i f f Came urging us lo foot bal l game on 1ovember 12 1 988, your correspondent and spouse P h i l Wyso r were ( for the fi rst t i me 1 11 20 years) part or the large and enthusiastic crowd of Colby students. a l u m n i , and f r i e n d s w h o shared one of the mo,l lnu mphant day i n the an­ nals of Colby's football history. Nol only did Colby beat Bo11·do1n decisively 2.t-0, 1l was t h e fi rst l i me in 2 9 years t h a t Colby h a d beaten their major rival on t he i r own field Whal a game' Al­ though there was much cheering from the crowd we mis ed the presence of chee1 leaders and a band which seemc'd to add so much lo the ex­ citement and color of football game 1 n "our day" Hm·e they gone forever" • Other clas males cattered in thl' stands were Sue Rose Be sey and her husband Earle and Oren Sh i ro with whom we hatted whiil' hal' 111g a tailgate picn1L Oren abo wrnlc that a rte r e l l 1 ng his very succes · ful restaurant The Jeff " Ill 1 973. he and l11s lm·ely w i fe J e a n n e , hal'e done a great deal of traveling Thev hal'c thret chi ldren l\ lark is a bu inessman I ll B�ston Loi a hair styl i st m /\'aples Fla and Cindy a senior 1 n medical SLhool A fi rst-class golfer Oren aid that he had played ·ail 01·er the country" in the last l 0 years. While playing. he has een many Colby people including Jim Daley ..i t , with whom he had played football al Colby.

Some of his golf honors. winner of Jaine Ama­ teur s i n 1 979 the olde t participant by 2 3 years He also won the /\'e11 E ngland en iors in 1 918 and 1 980 and shot hi age 16 I several times this past summer In addition he still finds time to play bridge twice a week . l\.1ore power lo you O ren , and manv more honors \\'ill undoubtedh· be yours by the time we see you al ou'r 50th • Hon Charles A. Lord wrote that he has been a j udge 1 11 the common pleas court of Philadelphia for 1 3 year . . Charlie and his wife, Shi rley '.U have fou r children and 10 grandc hil­ dren. Charl ie· favorite game now is golr, though he is best remembered a l the College for being a c hampion ten n i s player They have traveled in the Caribbean and Hawaii. We also hope your travels will bring you back to Colby for our 50th, Charlie • Mar y R e n y Buck has reported an er­ ror i n her family news as it appeared in the fal l i ssue: Mary h a s o n e son , M ichael Clinton Buck. ow employed by C.F. Hathaway, he is also a first c lass petty officer with the Seabees of the N avy Reserve. Formerly he served with them at Guan­ tanamo Bay and in orth Africa, Gulrport, Miss .. and Alaska • Now i t is time for me to send out a plea to you all to send more news. To those who have already responded so generously, my grate­ ful thanks, and from time to lime we wou ld wel­ come an update. And to those who have not w ritten at all. we miss you and are eager to hear from you. A l the meeting of correspondents dur­ ing A l u m n i Vol un teer Leadership Weekend, we were told by Robert G i l lespie, college editor, that when the Colby magazi ne arrives the first page alumni turn t o a re the class columns, and alum are disappointed if news of their classmates is not there. So . . p lease heed my S O.S. and send me you r news. go lo the Colby-Bowdo i n

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I was flabbergasted when I received the notice that a column is due on November 1 5. I'm still en­ gro sed in leaf-raking, vegetable garden clean-up. and plannmg for Thanksgiving. In the midst of all this I'm spending l 0 clays with my parents i n Waterville A � t here i s no time t o send out a ques­ tionnaire I have very little news. I did get a note and reu nion pictu res from Leonard Cau t . Len remarked t hat he was amazed to find so many of his clas mates looking about the same as he remembered them from -15 years ago. H e won­ ders if the secret could be bottled and sold. The pictures are excellent and he did a good job of get­ ting nearly everyone in al least one picture. U n ­ forl unatelv Lou i se Tra han McCombs w a s u n ­ able to get. l\. l a c i n a picture in spite of apparent wal'ing1 • 1 have telephoned a couple of people from whom we'l'e not heard for some time. It is wonderful lo hear that Dr. Richa rd '-12 and Natalie Cousens Dyers daughter, Candy is back at work assisting in surgery. She expects to be on her own by w i n ter. You may remember she was sel'erely burned i n a boating accident and has had 13 operations since then. Dick and Candy, both members of the American College of Sur­ geons, are the only father-daughter surgical team 111 Rhode I sland The Dyers expect to visit Scot ­ land this fall • Although Re s a Flewelling Ed­ m unds and I live only 25 miles apart, we've never succeeded in getting toget her. She and her hus­ band a re building a new house - no thoughts of retirement apparently They did vacation in Maine this summer but n o t at the time of re­ union • Madeleine H i n c k ley G i bbs sounds cheerfu l and energetic. Her fa1�ily vacations at her mother's place i n Blue H i l l but she couldn't make it lo reunion Madeleine mentioned t hat she sees Bill Clough 61 who is now at Gould Acade­ my in Bethel • The Rev. Howard Johnson is as busy as ever since retirement from teaching and is working on his book on Jesus. He has two sons, Conrad, who l ives nearby i n Providence, and Dana who lives in Tew York • I hope before my next deadline on March l to have had holiday greetings from many of you. It was obvious from remarks at reunion that your classmates do read these columns. So keep me informed and I'll pass a long any news. Happy holidays to a l l even though they will be history when you read this!

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ing Colby were to teach E nglish ( inspired by Dr Mary Marshall), to marry, and to raise a family.

She has done just that: she moved to Maine i n 1 948 and taught at Fryeburg Academy, retiring i n 1 987 as head or the English Department . H e r s o n Peter ' 7 0 received recogni ti on f o r his crafts

business in the "l\!aine Toda\' 1 988 edition of Down East. Peter s twin Rog.er is principal of Gray H igh School in New Gloucester. Jan s son John is president of .\!t. Washington Flagship Corp. 1a cruise ship on Lake \\'innipesaukee 1.H.). Her granddaughter is Adria Lowell '92 and there are seven other grandchildren who may re· peat the Colby tradition. Janice isn t sitting still in retirement: she is a part-time admissions as· sistant at St. Joseph College and she spent two months in E ngland in spring 1 9 8. She had a re· cent "heart-to-heart" with Elaine Johnson \\'ing reminiscing about Alden House • Josephine Pitts McAlary and Fred -1.3 left i n November on their annual \\·inter trek to Ft. Pierce, Fla. via Cape Cod, Mass.; Newport R.I 1as guest of a grandson who graduated in i\.lay 1988 from the U.S. Naval Academy); Annapolis ,\ Id.: and Kil· lington, Vt. !for Thanksgiving with two children and families). Thev had alreadv had t heir ,·aca· tion to Denver Coio.: Rocky l\ l� untain National Park; the U.S. Air Force Academy; t he Grand Can· yon· !\arrow Gauge R.R. in Durango; the ski areas of Colorado-Aspen \'ail. Copper .\!ountain and Breckenridge; and Utah's Canyonlands. Fred s 50th Waterville High School class reunion oc · curred in 1 988, with other Colbvites J\ !ary Renv Buck '42, Mary Farrell Lacombe 42 an·d An;1 Jones G i lmore 42 attending. \Nhen she's home Jo still does substitute teaching • M a ry \\'eeks Drum mond is extremely frugal with news but reports that she retired from teaching in 1 987. She has two children, Robert and John 77 Sawyer and two granddaughters, Laura and Holly Saw­ yer • Kay Howes Brooks reported about the changes i n her life: "Gotten older am not pleased about it.' 1You speak for us all Kay.) Her artistic outlet is writing satirical poetry and I can report t hat its extraordinarily witty. Kay and \\'endell 42 have two girls, Kat hie Brooks and Wendie Brooks Geiger, and two grandchildren • Ar­ nold Grossman, D D.S., was appointed assistant professor of dentistry at Tufts University and also maintains a private practice {but is semi-retired).

His son Peter is also a dentist son Thomas 77 is an attorney and daughter Jill is a psychologist.

In 1 984 Arnold participated in an educational ex­ change in China and again in 1 986 i n Russia. His hobbies are photography and sailing in Falmouth Harbor, Mass. where he has met David l\!arson 48 and David Sortor '56 • W. Harris G ra f (an­ other dentist '! paints in watercolors, oils, alkyds and acrylics. He is an avid skier, having skied in Italy. Switzerland, and Austria, and looks forvvard to skiing in Spain and sailing down the Rhine. His wife, Mered ith, is a dental hygienist, and they have enjoyed sharing their home with numerous Austrian, German, and Japanese young people.

Harris looks forward to our 50t h class reunion.

He credits Colby for giving him a new outlook on religion and pointing him toward his current profession • Eugene C. Struckhoff lists his oc· cu pation as "executive and consultant. l travel the U.S. ( 10,000 miles a year) helping start and revital· ize community foundations - and meet interest· ing people in scores of cities, states, and counties 1also internationally) w ho give leadership to im­ prove their area.'' He expresses pride in "encourag­ ing and helping over 50 community foundations to succeed; being productive in helping to change and improve systems through which we help youth, aged, etc.'' Gene claims to have spotted 6 1 9 species of birds north o f t h e Mexican border i n 3 5 years o f bird watching with wife Norma. or· ma is also a portrait artist painting in pastels.

Their children are Eugene C. l1l and Laura Lee Struckhoff Cline '70. In November Gene traveled

to Copenhagen and London and anticipates a trip to Alaska and the Orient. He sends the message \quoted from Earl \\'eaver\· \\'hat s important i what you learn after you k now it all • G. Ric hard l\lountfort has acquired a new \\·ife Esther and four stepchildren'. His first wife Gin· nie died oi cancer in 1 987. Richard had been forced to gi,·e up his ministerial duties to care for her during a l ingering illness. >:ow he has re· turned to assume responsibility of ministry to the disadvantaged children and youth at H igher Ground Camp in Wentworth :\.H His hobbies i nclude playing the trumpet repairing stained glass windows. and pitching softball. The \lount­ forts look forward to a cro -country trip and an Ala kan cruise • Ralph \\'. H il ton retired in 1 986 after .lO \·ears in the field of education as a teacher coach. and educational salesman. He and Jean spend the winter months in Florida. They have four children Ralphs hobby is watercolor painting • Jean Ferre l l Howe has mo,·ed to Portland i\!aine, lo be closer to her daugh­ er • H a r ry Levi n describes his occupation as foundation executi,·e. His travels include South America J\lexico. Europe Asia and Africa and he has learned three languages. He is grateful for the intellectual stimulation he recei,·ed at Colby • l\1alcom D. i\lcQuillan has retired from his work as a teacher'guidance coun elor and is able to "sleep in after late n ight T\'. Enjoy· ing excellent health he al o enjoys preparing gourmet dinners for friends He recently had t he experience of being the sole passenger in the pri· vate jet of his nephew 1and namesake) when visit­ ing him at Hilton Head S.C. • For my part I stay out of trouble by reading !economics yuck\ to a blind professor at the Center for Ad,·anced Studies at Stanford Cni,·ersily working at the Food Closet for the homeless. and babysitting Ito keep i n practice for \·isiting my grandchildren ) .

I warn i n t h e Senior Garnes i n S t . George. Utah in October (one gold two silver three bronze) and am currently working out with the Stanford 1\ lasters Swim Team in a 50-meter outdoor pool come rain or shine. Cheers. Good health to you all.

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Hope 1 989 is going very well for everyone. As I write this, it's still 19 8 - certainly a wonderful year for Ernest Rotenberg. Not only was he named "Outstanding Trial Judge in the United States· by the American Bar Association, but also he received the Haskell Freedman Award as 'the j u dge who has done the most for marital law in 1 988." Asked what he would l i ke me to relay to his Colby friends, he replied, "If near Attleboro, please say hello - and if you need help call me!" • Sherwood Tarlow is another lawyer among our classmates. Formerly a probatejudge he's a consultant to Bostons Capitol Bank where he used to be president and chair as well as chair of the Global Bancorp in California • Floyd H arding is also a lawyer and serves as president and dean of the Bar Association in Presque Isle.

His son Alan has been associated with him in his law practice for 1 0 years. Floyd plans to attend our 1 990 reunion and looks forward to seeing

e,·eryone there • Ros l y n Kramer our truly outstanding class agent has attended e\·ery .l5 reunion 1a record?\ and writes. Plan now - come one come all back to Colb\· for our .1 5th Ros · l r· n s a re earch chemist· there ha,·e been se\·er­ a l publications of her work . She s starting now to think about retirement. 1 Retirement offers a chance to do many t hings e\·en return to work \\·hich l 1usl did - two da\·s a week at T\\' YCH Travel \\' 1th Your Childre;1 - a tim· fun little com­ pany and a big switch from my former work m college textbook publishing.I • Rae Gale Back ­ er .l.l n o w h a s a second granddaughter Tamara thanks to son Jimnw and his \\'lie w ho Li,·e in Is­ rael. I recently visited Rae greatly en.1oying a tour of the J FK \lemorial ,\ ! useum which 1s truly beautiful • Dorothy "Dee" Sanford \lcCunn happily retired has become im·oh·ed m local Ca· naan Conn. organizations - she also doe ·grand· children sitting upon occasion. Last fall she and Ian enjoyed t,,·o months in E ngland and Scot · land • A brief word from Jane Farnham \\'ood tells u hes retired from teaching and is l iving in Pinehurst >J .C. Shed love to hear from any classmates i.n the area • Bill \\11ittemore whose extensive professional travels and accomplish· ments weve pre,·iously reported is in a great po· si tion to be a collector and i ndeed he is one - of books printed before 1 500. French cut glass and \lvcenaen rnses. Back ·on the road Bill will lec­ t u ;e at the l\ational Association of Sciences in April on 50 years of fission • The latest from Laura Tapia Aitken is news of her appointment as chair of Fairleigh Dickinson University s plan· n ing council -''a great learning experience she wrote. involving an institution of higher learning with 9.000 students • A recent outing with Joan Gay Ken t was enjoying the massi\'e Degas exhi· bition at t he i\letropolitan \!useum of Art he my favorite :\'ew York companion on such out · ings. Joan continues her successful creative sef\·· ices agency on Long Island.

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I recently had the opportunity to talk to two lo· cal { Holden and Shrewsbury i\!ass.) friends from our class Nancy Parsons Ferguson and Carol Robi n Epstein and to catch up on t heir latest activities. Nancy and her husband are looking ahead to retirement and are gearing up to the prospect by taking interesting trips each year.

That certainly ounds like fun preparation for the extra time retirement brings. except that so many claim they re busier than ever. The difference l guess, is that there are more options for what to do with time! The Fergusons went on a wonder· ful trip to jordan. Israel, and Egypt last winter and recommend those countries as fascinating places for tra,·el. Their three children live in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Florida, and each has a son and daughter, so the grandparents enjoy tra\·el · ing in this country as well. :'\ancy continues to volunteer each week at the New England head· quarters of Heifer Project International in Rut· land. Mass.. and finds that her commitment to this project is very rewarding. Carol w ho still heads a unit to help pregnant teenagers. 1s a so· cial worker for the Children s Friend Society in

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\\'orceslcr il l a��. Like Nancy, Carol enjoys \' i s i l 1 1 1 g her children and gra ndchildren. he has three gran ddaughters two nf \\'hOm l i \'e nearby The third l i \'CS 1 11 ii \1nneapoli�. where Carol visits her son Rob and h1� fa mily and her daughter Lois H er other daughter, Judy, li\'es in t h e Boston area, and her son Richard l i \'eS with his family in Worcester • l i ke and I also have been keeping up with our offspring, who a re scattered in Mas­ sachusetts, New Yor k , and D.C. We do manage lo get together fai rly frequently and are looking for­ ward !al this writing) to our annual Than ksgiv­ ing reunion . Please write. We want lo share in your activities and idea r C lass sec retary: H A N

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This month's news will be a li ttle nostalgic, as I've ju st come back from Colby. Embry and I went to A l u mni Volu nteer Leadership Weekend, which was combined with H omecoming this year. We had a great time. Friday night, the 2 3rd of Sep­ tember. was the class correspondents' dinner w here we were given some ideas on how to be better corresponden ts. Saturday was the Alum­ ni Council meeting, dinner on the grou nds, and the Colby-Trinity football game. I think we were the good luck the team needed. Although they didn't win that game they have gone on to win several since, including Bowdoin and Bales. We tai lgated with Ray and "Tossie" C a m pbell Kozen and saw Carol Carpenter Bisbee '49 and Dick and Dorie Meyer Hawkes at the game. The alumni banquet was that night. We sat with Caro­ lyn and Ray G reene and Stan and E l l i e Fa r n · h a m Fro l io A good time w a s h a d by a l l . The campus look wonderful and the new half­ m i l lion-dollar track is certainly an added attrac­ t ion. It was also enjoyable to visit the old home place in Poland Spring and visit one of my friends there. Also, the lobster is j ust as good as ever. I hope some of you w i l l plan to go back for H omecoming another year • M i t c h Jaworsk i w rote that he h a s been recuperating from a re· cent operat ion , but he enjoys retirement in Plan­ tation , Fla. H e says he's no d i fferent from other retirees - he plays golf and enjoys the sunshine as well as doing some painting • B i l l Crowther graduated May 1 from the training class of the Connecticut State Police as an auxiliary state trooper and was assigned to T'roop G in Westport.

Auxiliary troopers usual l y work one night a week patrol ling i nterstate and state highways. They also work at special events and in emergencies.

In addition to this vol unteer work, Bill does con­ sulting work in marketing communications and tries to get in at least a couple of hours a week flying a Piper Cherokee out of Bridgeport Airport.

He's also investigating the feasibil ity of starting up a special ized mail order business. Alice, his wife, was certified in June by International Dance Exercise Association as an aerobics instructor.

Her specialty is aerobic exercise for older folks and for people with moderate d isabil ities • Many of you will be hearing from me later for my next report, so start thinking about a l l the news you will send me.

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A Nove l ist's Novelist Thomas Savage '40 said, "I've seen three beautiful women in my life: o n e was a woman in St. John's Church in Boston who kept me from concentrating on church, another was a woman strol ling the streets of Cambridge, and the third was Anne Chapman, a woman I used to watch d rive by i n her family stat ion wagon when I was 17 a nd walking the st reets of Dylan, Montana." When Savage was a boy he lived on a ranch 45 mi les from Dylan and had to board in town during the school year. He deems this "a wonderful educational experience," and i t seems that i t was. The turn-of-the century town of G rayl ing i n his 1 3th and latest novel, The Corner of Rife and Pacif­ ic, is based on Dyla n , and Anne Chapman is the heroine.

Pu blishers Week ly listed the widely praised novel among the 15 best books of 1 988. The New York Times has cal led Savage "a novel ist's novelist . . . fasci nated by the enormous i n fluence of the past on the present:• Savage believes t hat books of­ fer readers a new way of viewing the world but states his feel ing about his work i n simpler terms: "l feel absolutely useless u n less I write:· Back in the '30s in Montana, Savage heard that another beautiful Montana wom­ an was a student al Colby, and after a year and a half at the University he trans­ ferred . Elizabeth "Betty" Fitzgerald Savage '40, also a fiction w riter, and Tom Savage married in their j u n ior year. The Savages have a daughter, Elizabeth St. Mark, and two sons, Robert '68 and Russell '70.

Savage claims that Dean Ernest C. Marriner ' 1 3 was a major i nfluence on his original commitment to his work. The young writer was working on his first novel, The Pass, and cutting many classes when the dean asked to see the manuscript over­ night. The next day, said Savage, "He told me that as long as I did enough classwork to pass, I could continue to write and cut as many classes as I needed to. Dean Mar­ riner first gave me the freedom that I needed to write:' In 1 954 Colby awarded Sav­ age an honorary M . A . , and in 1 980 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at Brandeis U niversity, Suffolk U niversity, Vassar College, and Franconia College.

The freedom s of a successful writing career have recently allowed the Savages to return to the West from their long-time home on I ndian Poi n t in Georgetown, Maine, and they now live i n Langley, Wash., on an island i n Puget Sound. Langley looks "like the town of a Western movie with two-story houses and the snow-covered Cascade Mountains in the backdrop," Savage said, and i t's the location for his next novel. The book has "nothing to do with anyt h i ng I have ever written before. I t's not set in Cambridge or Montana but on the island, and i t's contemporary:' If books give us a new way of viewing the world, Tom Savage's new novel will be well worth looking into.

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issue. This is written late October for spring pub· lication, so plan accordingly. !any Happy Returns.

C lass secretary: KATH ARI E \VEISMAl'\' JAFFE. P.O. Box 1 1 3, \!ill River. Mass. 0 1 244.

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To all who read my fall class letter, be it known that I rescind my promise (threat) to nominate an­ other class correspondent this term. It has been exciting to hear from those w ho wrote. Now what's with the rest of you? • Gordon M i l ler wrote his thanks to all for making our 40th great.

As class prexy, he appreciated t he help from all his officers and sends best wishes to the new slate. H e says he's been retired almost seven years, is still married (so are lots of us, Gordon ). travels much, and boasts three children and four grands dwelling from West Coast to New York state. More conscientious than most. me partic· ularly, he tries to keep in shape via aerobics, nau· tilus, golf, and watching what he eats and drinks.

Hail Gordon! say we w hose health kick is much gentler • "Cy" Pe r k i n s, as those who talked with him at t he fabulous 40th know is happily retired in Kennebunk, Maine, having served in a personnel staff position at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. After a brief stint i n politics, he's now involved with his five kids and t heir four kids as well as Vets organizations. He and Jean 46 have a Colby 73 son (Malcolm James Perkins) near San Francisco as well as two daughters in the Bay Area. This makes them frequent fliers. Cy is a strong advocate for retirement with the luxury of doing what one chooses. He did mention that Jean is re· tired from teaching but still is working part time in a school library. • Another retiree, G i l Tav· erner, wrote of h is honorable and u nusual rea· son for not attending our J u ne Reunion: The Gilbert Y. Thverner Archives Room at St. George's School, Newport, R.I., was dedicated simultane· ously with our 40th. Gil had been chaplain and a faculty member for a while, so he and his wife, Bette, up and authored the school history. ow moved to Concord, Mass., they are savoring their less structured life • Fran Hyde Stephan checked i n with a nice note saying that she is not ready for complete retirement. John and she are keeping busy in business, and she does volunteer work, too. They live in New England, dreaming of the great weat her i n Vail, Colo. She owns up to something most of u s do not. Describing her community service with elders (i.e. older t han she), she admits it's all relative and she's not tak· ing too kindly to the later years. Personally, I'm enjoying these non-golden fleeting years • Also retired, Jack Kimpel outlined some highlights from his "lost" life in the Social Security Adminis· !ration. His good news includes wife Fran Ben· ner '49 still teaching fou rt h grade and four off· spring scattered from Philadelphia to Seattle and points between, including their "son the doctor:· Four grandchildren, too! Jack lost a run for may· or but took it philosophically, having lost some golf games, too. However, he has not recovered as well from a ski run loss and describes a fash· ion able limp from that '87 disaster. The Kimpels travel around to scattered kids and beyond, and Jack servPs on several community boards. In · terestingly, he still exhibits some grief over Col· by's lost football games • That's all the news from Lake 40 Acres (Achers?) and '48ers, too. You send the words . . . and we'll include them, next

40th reu nion, J u ne 9·1 1 , 1 98 9 • At our re· union banquet i n Mary Low Hall five years ago, Bob Bedig admonished me to write down eve· ry word spoken by our classmates for my first column as class secretary. (I should have listened).

At a meeting for clas correspondents we were reminded to return to the Alumni Office news clips about. notes from. and questionnaires com· pleted by our classmates. (I didn't always!. At a Vol unteer Leadership Weekend workshop it was pointed out that if classmates answered a request for information and never saw that info published i n t he column they tended not to respond again. ( ! hould have been less selective). However, whereas this concludes my stint as secretary. and ,,·hereas I am genetically disposed to save every· thing that comes into my house. and \\'hereas this is the last class column before our 40th reunion, be i t resoh·ed t hat I , your class correspondent, shall recap material received in that first success· ful questionnaire of June 1 985 t hat may be deemed applicable to the moment • P h i l i p Berquist. w h o retired from being retired, are you still appraising real estate and enjoying "many changes all good"? • I t is safe to say that Bar· bara Fransen Briggs in Cincinnati is still en· thusiastic about any activity having to do with music (shades of Music Appreciation I and I I ) .

H e r comments j u s t sang w i t h enthusiasm and good humor • Ruth Endicott Freeman sang praises for a good portable phone, which gave a busy physician a bit more yardage. Are you able to find any more time lately for the gardening that you enjoy7 • Arthur G reeley, whose roots were always deep in laine, did you enjoy the in· trospective life at Pemaquid Harbor as you worked about your cottage? • Jeanne H a l l : hope your early retirement a s a psychiatric social worker permitted you time for "self-fulfillment," smelling the flowers, and contemplating the "never written novel" exactly as you had antici· pated • Marty Bennett H eadley. as a state Ii· brary commissioner in New Hampshire, must have brought her enthusiasm and energy to solv· ing some very serious growth problems of the decade. She must have witnessed the expansion of many libraries, overseen construction of new libraries, and worried about financing these jewels of the community • Elizabeth Beamish J o l ley last wrote on t he eve of her departure for Europe. I envision her still managing an adult apartment complex in Orlando, Fla., keeping the grounds in shape, weeding the flowers, pruning t h e s h ru bs, and p l a n n i n g her next trip abroad • A heart operation did not stop "Bud" Nannig from "starting his second li fe" with great ent husiasm and a business trip to Japan. Still walking three miles a day and too young to re· tire, Bud? • C harles A. Pearce, an alumni par· ent, is active in community volunteer work and travels a lot. (And not ju t between his two homes in Hingham, Mass., and Eastman, .H., I wager.)

• Time has not tarnished the understatements of Kare k i n Sahagian, w ho professed that his "grumpie" personality increased as his temper

decreased and that he \\'as tra,·eling more and enjoying it less- la\\' of diminishing returns. A recent address c hange assure me that he made Florida by 1987 according to plan • There is probably no retirement for a uccessful author.

I expect Alvin Schwartz continues to \\'rite books. speak and research folklore. Ho\\' l ad· mire anybody ,,·orking \\'ith \\'Ords'. • \!ickie 50 and H. Guy Smith parented a son and four girl (twin daughters included in that tallyl . By this writing Guv mav have retired as division con· , troller at Sq uibb.Corporation • "Ski ppy" Car· ter chair oi the board and chief executi,·e officer at the William Carter Company has been reelect· ed to serve on the board of directors of the Ameri· can Apparel l\lanufacturers Association and currently serves on the member hip commit· tee • Bob Sage. chair of the New England re· gion of t h e American Com mit tee for t h e Weizmann Institute of Science a n d national ,·ice president, received the American Di�tinguished Leadership award. The I nstitute located in Re· ho\'ot. Israel. was established i n 1934 for the pur· pose of basic and applied research. At present there are almost 100 research projects in fields ranging from artificial intelligence solar energy and cancer and autoimmune diseases to agricul· ture and lasers • "Honey" Hat hawav Cherry at t he im·itation of her Coilege and accompanied

by Peg Atkins 48, joined undergraduate alum· ni. and tO\\'nspeople from 'v\'aterville to stroll about the Alfond Track following ribbon cutting ceremonies during Homecoming Weekend. \\'hat a pleasant experience' Yes. dear colleagues. there is still a Colbv Familv and \\'e are fortunate to be a part of it. · · Class secre t a r y : l\ 1 A RY H AT H A\o\'AY C H E R RY 63 I ndian Pond Rd. King ton l\ lass.

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At the time [ am \\'riting this edition oi Class of '50 news, people around the S.A. are ca ting t heir ballots for the presidential election. When manv of us first voted for president the candi· dates were Truman and De\\'ey in 1 948. our jun· ior year at Colby • Congratu lations to N e i l Collar for being named Lion of the Year in Oak­ land . Maine. He was cited for his u nselfish sen·· ice to both the community and the Lions duri no his 29 years of club membership. He \\'as praised for leadership of his Boy Scout troop and hi tire· less contributions to Lions projects • B i l l Tip· pens and his wife were recently honored on their 40th wedding anniversary in Portsmouth N . H .

B i l l owned an insurance agency in J\lillinocket J\laine. and since retirement has been invoh·ed in real estate • During a recent Colby phone-a· thon, l had the opportunity to chat \\'ith "Doc" Hamlin, and he reports that all is \\'ell in his area of t\! illinoc:ket • I recently talked with Prisci l · l a Tracey Tanguay w h o reports that s h e visit· ed with Chris \o\1inter Verrengia in Kingfield 1\ laine, last summer. Joe Verrengia has retired and he and Chris are now living i n Florida • Ellie and l welcomed our first grandchild Wil· liam Paine Everts in October. A delightful career has begun! Please keep the card and letters com · ing with your news of family and classmates. Best wishes.

C l a s s s e c re t a r y : N E LS O N " B U D" EVERTS, P.O. Box 802. l eedham Hts. ,\ !ass.

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r h 1 � i lu m n IS h e 1 n g perpt' l ra tt.'J in the Can nell gul' '>t hou�e 1 1 1 C a p L' E l i1abcth J\ l aine I 111 h e re fo1 a bed and hreakfa�l \\'t.'L' ke n d a n d a Col by­ B\1\HIP1n foot bal l game Huuah' T h e student alh­ ktes fn1m J\ layflo\\'e r Hill have prevai led and en·n t hough 1 t ma\' be six months unttl you read thi'> the ,· ictoriciu � t h ra hi n g \\' t l l s t i l l 1 1;deecl be <iumL' t h 1 n g lo sa,·or Di d Bob Lee, Bob Cannell a n d I \\'il �e�s t he start of a ne\\' dynasty'.' Or will a -1--1 reco r d and t h e state s e r i e s title m e a n a n ove r c m p h a s i ::. un footba l l � Will we ha\'e lo sca le back� No m a t t e r A beautifu l autumn afternoon t a i l ga t 1 11g in t he p1 ney woods of t he Polar Bea r is sti l l a most plea�anl way to greet old friends a n d c l a s s m a t e s . A n d yes. Pacy and L ud y c a n b e seen cavorting a l o n g t h e si d e l i n e s d u r i n g t h e game • A c heery l e t t e r arrived from M a y Rick­ er Stone r epo r t i n g the many acl1v1l 1es of her happy family pnclud1ng grandchildren! 1 11 Wood­ bridge \'a l\ 1 ore details next time • Al o heard from C h a r l i e Fisher 1 1 1 Clearwater Fl a . I t hought he \\'an ted Lo exult in the e lection ' iLto­ ry of George and Dan but a las. as de frocked brothers I am not sure that he and I can ever re­ join t h e m in the mystic c i rcle. Perhaps l\\oose should start a sun belt c hapter for Dekes '' 1 t hout portfol io. \\'htle carrying out his regular job a � criminal i nvest igator for the stale oi Flori­ da • Ji m 53 and Jea n n e Wilke Christie '52 ha,·e mm·ed into a new home in Lake Placid 0: .Y. They ha,·e been invoked in several successful venture.s and are n ow d oing business brokerage • At a re­ cent Colb\' dinner I met Pa tricia Anderson Ebi nger, � t i l l J i ,· i n g in Rowl ey J\1ass Anot her busy lady she t ravels exten 1vely with husband Fred and help him in the leather bu iness IL eem that Patty l i fe has taken a happy turn and i t show • Deborah S m i t h Meigs wrote that her work as a l i brarian no\\' includes Danvi lle �.H., as wel l as Sou t h H ampton where ,he has ser\'ed for 2 7 year Her daughter E l len 8 graduated w i t h honors in sociology and awards for the mo t ,•aluable player on the women's su­ per softball team • Please keep up your interest­ i n g notes and calls. The n e x t I 0 respondents w i l l receive free passes f o r l i fetime crossings of the 1\vo Penny Bridge.

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8 While Pine Knoll Wayland, l\lass 0 1 778.

Hello to a l l ' I understand from the Alumni Of­ fice that the booklet we made for the reunion has been sent out to t he c lass members who did not at lend. Thu . I have been t rying to give informa­ tion about those of the class who were not includ­ ed in the booklet • I did see Bet s ey Smart Merr iam last winter. She looked great and is tak­ ing cou rses al Lesley College • I am sti l l teach­ ing fou rth grade in Scituate and still love my job.

This year I was appointed sc ience curricul u m l eader f o r my school. On one of our science out­ i n g I wen t Lo the H i ngham Wildlife Center and found out that the young man who was ru nning it was Rick Horton '77. We had a nice Colby chat .

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It is i n terest i n g to m e e t fL·llo\\' a l u m n i ; rn d see what they a r e doing • Diane Sarge n t La rsen 1 > l i vi n g in jnL ksom i l l e Bc<Kh Fin I Icr husban d, Lo u , d i e d i n 1 985 Bet ween 1 9 56 a n d 1 98 1 she l i n�d in 1 1 '>l a l l'> i i t" ice} a n d t w o fore ig n cnu n ­ l r 1 e ' Sh L Wil'> about to take l h l' � lor 1 da r e a l C '> · l a t e exam I l ope a l l w e n t w e l l and t hat she 1 � <,el l mg i o h 1 > t p ro perti e '> • F rn 111 W i l m i n gton l'\ .C Jeanne \\' h i t c Simon \\ role that she hil'> her own craft galkry I l cr hu,band Lee, O\\ ll'> an el eLlro n iL representative agency They h<1ve thrl'< Lhild ren Debbie Barbara and Linda • Lou i lte G i n t berg H i rsh berg '' in Cal i fornia an d 1s ct health ed ucator cou n>eior Her children G a rv' �man , Nancv -jim and B i l l are a l l g ro\\' n up n n d d o i n g terr1 fi �· things h e 1 n g thcmsch-c'> Lo u i s� gave up her _job \\ I t h Wa l t Disney tn go h<lLk l o >chuol . ht.' no\\' has a m a >l c r ' degree 1 11 clinical h u J 1 , l 1 L hea l t h and rca l l v c· n i ov'> her \\'nr k • Stephen Kenyon l i ve·, in Ri d g c w o ml N J w i t h his w 1 ie Helen H L I> prod uction >U · pen l'><lr fo r R J R ;-..; a bi'>u> • A> I am fast ru n­ ning out nf t ill ne,,. , t hat Don l l a i lc r ga\'l' me I a m hopmg l o h.t\'l' the Col lege > end out a ne\\' LJ U L'>l io n n a 1 r l' form I hope \'Ou ha\'e all re<,pond· cd 1f \'nu ha' L rec e 1 \ ' C d 1t l' J ca.,e tin send soml' · ne\\-, I know vour ne\\'� I '> >ome,d1at dated when 1 t appear> bu.l L l <l '> 5111a le \ dn l 1 kl' to hear about other c la>.,mates C la s LEA\ ' I TT

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A letter from Clas� Pre 1denl Dick Hoba r t : Over t he past 35 years. most of us Class of 53 ur.wors have been reasonabh· t rnceable because \\·e had lo pay a mortgagL' r�ise a family or olherwi e make some form of recognizable 11\'lng Now many of you r cla smates find t hemselves closer to the brink of another great experiment someth111g t hat s been callecl "the Golden Year which a re not to be con fused with 011 Golden Pond, \\' hich was also good fiction In any case i t can mean t rading in the 9 to 5 routine that ha run our lives for the last t h i rd of a cent u ry for a less time -dictated existence. Or 1t can mean starl­ ing that second or third career You know the one you a lway wanted to have. but economic need kept get t 1 11g in the \\'ay. Wel l . rega rdless of what scenario fate has in mind for u s I hope you \\· i l l let you r c lass officers become the catalyst and pipeline by which we keep t rack of each other over the next five years until our next reunion.

Those of you "'ho retu rned to t hese gatheri ngs over t he years ha,·e left genuinely pleased and happy for the experience. And why not? We had a pretty great group of people i n our class. So, enough from this wage slave and more from the person who will truly be the glue that binds us together until next time on Mayflower Hill, your class secretary. elson Beveridge" • And from our vice president. . '"Hello again; lo everyone who showed up for our 35th reunion . Hard to be­ l ieve that i t's real l y been that long. Everyone looked terrific1 -That's what fou r formative years spent on t he wind-swept slopes of Mayflower Hill do for you. 'Sorry we missed you, to all those who couldn't make i t . Begin now to think posi tively about our 40Lh reunion in 1 993 - yes, you'll sti l l b e strong enough to make i t b y t hen - remember those four formative years! 'Thanks for joining us:

to all tho e long-suffering spouses. good-natured enough to allow themselves to be dragged along ­ some even pretended lo enjoy listening Lo our remin1scen(es. Stay in touch. Let us know what you've been up to" The letter 1s signed "V.P. in Charge >f Happy Th ugh ts, E lectra Paskal ides Coumou A special thanks to Dick and Electra for their comments • Congratu lation s lo Joan Rooney Barnes for a job well done in raising S 1 8, 1 75 for the Alumnt Fund, with 49 percent c lass participation. Joan reports that she attend­ ed a hOL1sewarming al Helen Koniares C leaves· new home in Ya rmouth, l\\aine. She also notes t hat Mary Jane F i t z pat r i c k Cashman has moved from Chicago t o Scarborough, Maine • Harry O'Brasky has been appointed purchasing ma nager for Casual ,\ \ale I nc in Shrewsbury ;\ las a men·s off-price. brand name retai l chain • C h uck Spencer lives in t he foothi l l s \\est of Denver Colo. a n d spent a b u s y summer boatmg on Lake Powell in U tah, Lake Connoughy in Nebraska (met Gwen [ Van Eerden] 55 and Dana And ersen t here) and Lake G ranbey in Colorado. Quite a life ' He wrote· "l have been working in Hungary on an oil and gas explora­ t ion project for the World Ban k . Sorry Joyce (Whitham 5-1} and l mis ed the reunion· • Bruce J\.lc Roy is operat1om d i rector for the :\'ash Finch Co. 111 Rockv Mount :'\ C He has a new grand­ daughter .� manda l\lcRoy • Sally Ba i n e s H oward reported that she is a "teacher (English computer sludie> business 9- 1 2 1 in Freemonl Calif. Ha\'e purchased my retirement home. I ' l l be there 111 93 for our 4 0 t h • P h i l H u ssey s youngest son Richard is a enior at Colby • Rev Robert Dow recently moved back lo Maine and ha opened a smal l pastora l counseling cen­ ter in aco • Joan hea Conroy is retired from counseling and is li\'ing in Slidell La "Heart prob­ lems have required long hospitalization she said.

I hope all is going wel l now • Our tar performer oi Colby Bnck fame Marty Friedlaender met with Chuck and " andy" Pearson Anderson and Carolyn English Caci last summer lo talk O\ er old times • E l a i n e Zervas S t a m a s trav­ eled with the New York Phil harmonic on their th ree-week 1 98 tour of Europe. Her husband is president of the Phi l harmonic The tour took them to Athen with exciting performances a t the ancient outdoor t heater at the Acropolis. Anoth­ e r highlight was concerts in East and West Ber· Jin. They a lso had a two-week tour of Leningrad and /\loscow d u ring the June Summit meet· i ng • I m out of space . . but start planning to attend our 40Lh C la s secretarv:

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s'i-----35th reunion: J une 9-1 1 , 1 989 • I gotcha with direct mail, now I gotcha with magazine adver­ tising. TV is too expensive for us. My next option is sky w riting. 1 need 15 AROTC pilots w ho still remember how Lo fly airplanes to volunteer. We will meet December 25th at noon at Lefleur Air­ port in Watervi l l e. M y plan is to work westward t h rough January and February. Only pilots who received an "Pt in penmanship need apply. When you are enjoying your favorite winter sport, i .e., skiing, skating, or shovel ing, keep one eye on the

sky. The follo\\·ing are already shoo·ins: Susan Johnson Abbott R ice "Jake" Peirson Art Rothen berg Art Eddy Lindon Christie . ick Sarris Harold Krieger Trudy H u m me! Jeffer· son . and W i l l i a m "Su per" Ganem who wrote. 1 ll volunteer for anvthin you need. It sure 1s nice to know t hat g �eat gu ;· stay great guys • Bob Alpert cannot make 1t as he will be in Australia. \\'ord has it that he's auditionin� for the lead in Crocod1/e D1111d<'e lII He promi ;rl to be at our -Wth reunion where he will raffle off Linda Kozlowski • \Ve have had one request for space to park a camper. The one we are looking for is the classmate who needs a heliport • \\ill someone please call Bob and Joan Hall Pa rker and urge them to attend I can t tand the thought of being t he only celebrity C lass president: C H ARLES J . \\' l :'\ D · H ORST 3 6 6 Ocean Drive Stamford Conn

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To Write and To Right "I never wanted one of my kids to say, 'What did you do?' The only answer was to do it:' Louise Davis Stone '53 speaks matter-of-factly about involvement in local Philadelphia projects, work in ward level politics, and over 30 years of volunteer­ ing in black communities. A strong desire to "improve things" and help people led Stone to major in sociology at Colby and begin a master's degree in social work at Columbia. But almost immediately her career veered off into writing and editing; the projects shifted to her spare time, although they engross her stil l .

Today Stone is director of publications at t h e University of Delaware. W i t h a staff of 1 0 , her office has state-of-the-art computer equipment and 68,000 readers for its publications, which range from admissions l iterature through development material to stationery for university offices. Her office staff, who are often hired with a special aptitude, usually wind up learning every stage of production: art work, proofreading, writing, layout. Sc edule is priority, and Stone has resorted to enlist­ ing her own family for writing or design help when a deadline looms unmet. Artic­ ulate and soft-spoken, she says wryly, " I can be very Machiavellian - I will do anything to get the publications out on time:· Stone has done free-lance work ever since she left Colby. A lifelong passion for jazz and black theater led to years as theater critic and jazz columnist for several newspapers, including the Washington Post. She was raised on the campus of Hamp­ ton Institute in Virginia where her father was dean, and a memory of jazz and clas­ sical music luminaries at the school in those years made a lasting impression. "I grew up on Fats Waller, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson," she said. "I remember my mother driving him to a segregated barbershop off campus for a haircut:' Stone and her sister, Jennie Davis Brown '55, came to Colby through the interest of Hilda Fife '26, an English teacher in Hampton Institute summer school and a friend of their parents. The girls also graduated from Fryeburg ( Maine) Academy, the first black students in the school's history.

Stone lives in Philadelphia and commutes daily to Newark, Del. It's easier, she says, than fighting the cross-town P hiladelphia traffic as she did when she was as­ sociate director of publications at the University of Pennsylvania. Her son, Charles, a recent graduate of the Rhode I sland School of Design, works in New York City.

He and his sister Krishna earn their livings otherwise and train for the stage in their free time. Middle daughter Allegra, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a nurse-specialist in oncology in Philadelphia.

These days Stone does free-lance newsletters for the Writer's Wordshop in Har­ risburg, is publicity person for Bushfire Theater and the Brandywine Workshop, and is a consultant in the arts for numerous minority groups, a still satisfying use of h�r "free time:' It's work she'll continue to do.

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Classmates: News is sparse. We do want to hear from you. You will be receiving a questionnaire from Colby soon. We do hope you will take the time to send us your news • Luckily 1for the column) Barbara Ayers Hasla m s youngest daughter wa married in September. Among the guests were Peter and Sue Capen S t u t ts who came from New Canaan, Conn. where the\· hm·e been living for a few years nO\\'. I still m1 �s see· ing you at the library and Grand Union, Susie and Peter' Dottie Dunn Northcott and her husband who have retu rned from more than two years in Japan, also came to the wedding. The Northcotts ha\·e ret11rned to Connecticut. Other guests were Barbara Burg King and her husband Frank.

The Haslam wedding sounds like a mini-reun10n for the Class of 1 955 • Set and I were in i\ laine recently and visited David and Ruth le Donald Roberts. David and Ruth took us on a "guided tour of Colby's new outdoor track. lt is a beauti· ful addition to Colby's athletic facilities. David told us that it is surfaced the same as the track used in Seoul for t he 1 988 Olympics. We t hen visited the Student Center which we had not seen, and met Amy Greene ·39 daughter of Ka­ thy and M i not Greene. It was a pleasure to meet Arny. Minot • While gathering my material for this column, I came upon a clipping t hat CoJb,· had sent me in December 1 985. Since I am writ· ing this article in mid- ovember it seems some· what appropriate to see a picture oi J ud i Lee Holtz Levow of Weston, lass .. trimming a Christmas tree t hat she had decorated for a ben­ efit for Child ren's Hospital. I quote from the ar· ticle: "For Levow I nteriors. also of Weston the weal t h of Christmas spirit is in Ah Wilderne [as Judy's tree was named] a four.foot tree done mostly in reds:· The tree was decorated with cardinals, red and w hite velvet ribbons. apples cranberries. and pine cones. How beautiful it sounds. I'm addened to add that Judi lost her hus· band Barry '54, last August. We all send her our condolences • Although this column will not ap· pear before the holidays, I wish you all a happy healthy holiday season, and a happy. healthy 1 989. Just think1 In June 1 989, it will be 34 years for the Class of 1 955.

C lass secretary: SUE Bl\'E 1 STA P LES

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hi ked I N N to IN in New Hampshire this past summer • Keep those questionnaire� coming - I I ve Colby mai l '

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C l a s scnetary: H O P E PA L M E R BRAM­

HALL ( M rs. Peter TC. ) , One Meadow Creek Lane. Falmouth Foresicle Maine 04 1 05.

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As your class correspondent, I had occasion lo go back lo our alma mater in September for the pro­ ,·erbial " hot in t he arm " lo fi nd out what work in eliciting responses from c lassmates - a chal­ lenge, a t best ' A second trip at the end of October w i t h our oldest (of four daughters). Faith '8 1 , reconfirmed m y earlier impressions. The new Student Center seems to be a place of activity. Per­ haps the best thing t hat has happened, however, i that t he campus seems lo be more cohesive, since the road that formerly divided the campus between the Chapel and J\ l i l ler Library has been grassed over. Also good news - in the words of the Portland Sunday Telegram - is that "the t ransition period is ove r for the football team al Colby Col­ l ege.' The J\ l u les started t he season with a L-23 record over the past t h ree yea rs but fini hed al -1--4, winners of t hree consecutive games, includ · ing a decisive 24-0 victory over Bowdoin to win the CBB ti tle. I t had been 55 years since Colby shut out Bowdoin , and 29 years since we won at Whittier Field. lt was wonderful to see the Colby turnout and enthusia m - pulting a spar e home crowd lo shame. Need less to say, my husband Peter ( Bowdoin '56) . was very quiet on the way home' I L was fun to see Ann Dill ingham I ngra­ ham '55 and Jane M i l lett Dornish '55 and her hus· band, Karl '54 • B i l l H agget t, chair of Bath I ron Works, has been in t he spotlight lately. He has successfu l l y negotiated an 85 percen t reduction in fines levied agai nst B I W by OSHA by a w i l l ­ ingness to accept a settlement a n d drop legal chal­ lenges to t he fines. Bill has announced that the company is providmg $50,000 in "seed money" to establish a training program for safety inspectors a t t he Cen t ra l Maine Vocational Technical l nsti· tute. Alt hough not a part of the set t lement, the program i a positive and creative response to OSHA. BTW is a major contractor for the avy's Aegis c ruiser and destroyer programs and is the state's l a rgest private employer. w i t h more than 1 0,000 workers. A classmate in a truly responsi­ ble position, doing a great JOb1 • I t was fun to hear from a "gal on the go;· Janet N ordgren M c r y weather. A l t hough husband Steen's chil­ dren have produced five grandchildren, Jan now proudly boasts one of her own. Jan writes. "What a joy to have Jennie livingjust an hour away.'' She was bapti zed by Father Bob Raymond. Now that Jan and Steen have successful l y reared six children, all married and leading productive lives, she finds hersel f busier t han ever. In addition to holding two part-time jobs (four days a weekJ. Jan is looking forward to next June when she will as­ sume t he presidency of the Garden Club Feder­ ation of Maine for a two-year term. She has served on the board of the Bangor Symphony Women since its inception 20 year ago. Each winter, that Florida sun beckons, and Jan and Steen enjoy two mon t h s in Captiva and Sanibel • G reat to hear from Joan Wyckoff Olsen! Joan and "origi nal husband" have raised t h ree kids and a re looking forward to a trip to Australia to visit daughter and grandchildren . Sou nds exciting' Joan has no thoughts of retirement from her job of I 6 years.

She is staying young and active and keeps mov­ ing, teaching second graders. She loves hiking and

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If you fol ks are anything like me, the arrival of t he Colby magazine in your mail box is a source of pleasure for two reasons First, t he class columns bring us up to elate on many of our Col ­ lege friend . and second, I know I have an eve­ ning of interesting and enjoyable reading ahead.

My apology, therefore. is gen uine for having missed getting a column in for the last issue • John C o n k l i ng's P R man is doing a great job.

I have no less than five newspaper articles 1n front of me concerning his lofty tat us 1n the real es­ tate appraiser s field. John is cu rrently president of New England AJ praisal Co. and of Conkling Real Estate Agency. Recently he was awarded the professi nal designation of senior residential ap · praiser by t he board of governors of the Interna­ tional Society of Real Estate Appraisers. John and Nancy have t hree sons Robert the younge l, graduates from ew Hampton this year; John Jr. . graduated from N e w Hampshire College a n d is a builder-developer in Connecticut; Sam gradu­ ates this year from Colby • David O lsen, an in­ surance underv.•riler, has joined Preferred 1'v1 utual Insurance of Ne'' Berlin N Y as field represen­ tative for Connecticut and Rhode I sland • Jan­ ice Thomson C h ri tcnsen wrote that she has been li\·ing in East Lyme. Conn.. for 27 years, and she and husband Howard have five children, two boys and t h ree girls. The t h ree oldest are grad u­ a tes of the U n iversity of Vermont, one is a t the Un iversity of Connecticut, and the youngest 1 s s t i l l a t home. Janice earned h e r M . Ed at Boston U n iversi ty right after Colby, taught e lementary school for t h ree years, is a volunteer for the East Lyme N u rsing Association, and was a six-year Girl Seoul leader • Sa l l y D i xon H a r t i n and husband Ed a lso have five children. The t h ree girls and one of the boys are now all out of col­ lege. and the youngest is a j unior a t U. lass at Amhers t . Sally is a real tor in t he greater Spring· field a rea, and she and her family spend a good part of the summer in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod • eed to buy a fence? Don Bishop is president and owner of the l\-laine Fence Co..

Pittsfield, Maine, and of Maine Fence Distribu­ tors, Stoughton, Mass. Don and his wife, Gerry. have two children and t hree grandchild ren • Another president from our class! J o h n Came­ ron , chair of the E nglish Department at Dana Hall School in Wel lesley, Mass. . has been elected president of the New England Association of Teachers of English, the oldest such organization in t he U.S. John a l so lives in Wellesley • Our c lass presiden t , E l l i e Shorey Harris, works in the employee relations department of Stratus Computer. Ellie is married to Joel H arris, U.N . H .

'53, a n d they have t h ree children: Joel, Colby '8 1 , i s a broker with Tucker Anthony i n Portland; Jen­ ny is a graduate of Plymouth State College and is a graphic artist; Jim is a rock drummer and stu­ dent a t Plymouth State. Ellie deserves our t hanks for her work on the Alumni Council for five years and a l l her work in preparing for the reunion in 1 987. Ellie is t i re less and unwavering in her sup-

port of Colby! • ot to be overlooked in t his re­ gard is Susan Fairchild Bean. Active in Hartford area alumni even ts, she attends sem inars on plan ned giving and a l so does i n terviews for the College admissions department. Susan has three chi ldren Dave is a helicopter pilot instructor on the West Coast. Kri stin, also on the West Coast. is the owner of a publishing company for an art gallery Youngest daughter G retchen graduated from Colby in 1 986 • I t was great seeing Eli "Ma rty" M a r t i n last year. Marty l ooks terrific and sends his best to t hose he missed seeing at the reunion H e is working for the I nsurance As­ sociation of Con necticut and lives in G laston­ bury • I've exhausted my notes from you folks, so fu t u re columns will depend on your help. I'll be ca ll ing or writing some of you in the coming months so we can continue this treasure trove of information. If you cou ld drop me a card or a call unsolicited, it would be much appreciated. That's all , fol ks C lass secreta ry: BRIA F. O LSEN . 46 Washington Drive, Acton, Mass. OJ 720.

Thanksgiving 88 is upon us as I write this spring column l\-ly t hanks for hearing from so many of you . Adjusting to the empty nest, children mar­ rying. and the arrival of grandchildren are ma­ jor roles in your Jives • Fra n k and E llen Cowperthwaite after much travel with a busy military career, say t he Washington. D.C. area is an exciting place to live. Frank is a real estate bro­ ker. As empty nesters, t hey still enjoy t rave ling.

H e has seen Car los Davi l a and Nat Adams at Colby events. al, as senior editor for Reader's Di­ gest, has investigative assign ments that focus on international t raffic in d rugs, M iddle East poli­ t ics, and terrorism. H e appeared on the "Today" show and before Congress - and saw Tony Kal­ loch on a flight from Bogota • Douglas and Cynthia Gardner Bevi n's daughter was married in Portland, Mai ne. last November. Cindy said Kay Litch field Cross and Dick and Robin H un ter C lu t z were t here to get her t h rough the occasion. (The Bevins l ive in Johnstown, Pa. ! ) • Jorge and Ellie Fortenbaugh de la Bandera, in celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, t raveled to Tahiti. Ellie i s a court interpreter, translator/terminologist. I n 1987 she was one of four persons to pass, on a first attempt, the cer­ t i fication examination of the Administrative Office of the U n i ted States Courts for Spanish/ E nglish court interpreting. She was one of 15 na­ tionwide to pass the oral exam. Since 1 978, of the 8,295 a t tempting the exam, 307 have been certi­ fied • John Baxter, an educator, reti res this June. Last August a feature article was written about John i n the Providence journal concerning retirement from the education field. The reporter was a former studen t ! • John and Valerie Edes are also in Rhode Island. John's t houghts on see­ ing us at our 30th?__c'Seeing my classmates getting old and I didn't:' Shall we take that? 1\vo fol ks, who w i l l remain nameless. said they t hought the gals were far better preserved than the guys! • Bruce Blanchard said we'd be proud of how well he's adjusted to retirement (as he is developing a new company). But we'd be "disgust­ ed at my behavior as a grandfather - described best as a slobbering idiot:' I'm sure t hat goes for

all you grandpas1 • G len Goffin is also retired ( USAF lieutenant colonel). He has received a na­ tional poetry award and had several short stories published. H e also received an honorable men­ tion from the Florida Department of Consumer Affairs. Read his letter in the fall issue of the Colby magazine • 1\vo of our classmates spent time teaching at Harvard. Peter Dora n , Ph.D., was a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health; Ruth W i n terbottom Peacock taught English during the summer • Sara Stewart Johnson, a teacher of high school journalism and English, traveled to Scotland last summer work­ ing on a U niversity of California at Berkeley team to gather folklore from the Scots. She had a chance to meet many native folk while gather­ ing folk tales and ballads • Sheila Tun nock Cox says that three years ago she became a grand­ mother one day and the next started a 1 5-month program at Boulder School of Massage Therapy.

She now has a private practice and does massage at a facial salon, a retirement center, and a chiropractor's office. What a change from medi­ cal research for 27 years. But she has time to ski, raft, canoe, and scuba dive • Jim '56 and Ann Harding J a m ieson had enough excitement and nail-biting during Jim's 24 years of Air Force serv­ ice. They are enjoying the calm (comparatively speaking) of reti rement, awaiting their third grandchild • Sandy Doo l i t t l e H u nt , along with being a psychiatric social worker, opened an antique shop that she finds very fulfilling • Al Dean, with the hectic challenge of opening a new business, had his appendix burst last fal l - 10 min­ utes off the Maine Turnpike i n Lewiston. His thanks go to the staff at the Maine Medical Center - and ours that he's OK • Keep the news coming, friends. It's wonderful hearing from you.

Just think, four years until our 35th .

Class secretary: A D R I A PEACOCK K I M E, 737 Turnpike St., Stoughton, Mass. 02072.

30th reu n i o n : J u n e 9-1 1 , 1 989 • Reunion weekend is fast approaching and you've got to come if only to find out how your committee of Mclntoshes, Kopchain ses, Pal lottas, and Gays manages to please some of the people some of the time. Responses to our questionnaires were so all-over-the-place that we should name this gat h­ ering bird-shot. The other reason is to get the an­ swers to the following pop quiz. Guess who: Uses MADD return address stickers (two people) • Qui t work to begin life at 50 as a free-lance writ­ er • Is a VP at CBS • Lived in Belgium for four years • After 28 years with United Airlines drew happy faces • Sings at Carnegie Hall and Lin­ coln Center each December • Works in insur­ ance (three) • Hunts heads • Works for her kids collecting "Warbirds" i n a museum • Re­ tired (three) • Has been l iving in Peru since '79 • Are students ( two) • Visited the Soviet Union as part of a peace contingency • Had sons at Deerfield at the same time ( two) • Left Ha­ waii for orthern California and returned to Ha­ waii • Soars i n little airplanes with no engines, riding thermals l i ke eagles • Had a private tour of the White House • Rents out uniforms and linens and dry cleans in Maine • Was a Guggen­ heim Fellow in Switzerland • Calls his wife First Lady • l s involved in investing (two) • Owns stores i n Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New

York • Is a medical social worker i n Oregon • Took a three-week tour of northern Japan to vi it craftspeople and folk artists • Runs corporate track meets • Writes h i storical fiction at home • Never thought he'd be a jet fighter pilot, world traveler, and in ternational busi ness­ man • Said t here was "little i n my head" when she left Colby • Left Colby for California but has a summer cottage on the Cape • ls a Colby in­ terviewer and Jan Plan hostess but hasn't had a taker • Has a four-year-old • Is program direct­ or of National Maritime M useum • ls an FAA safety inspector • Works for H&R Block • None of the above • The answers are: Bailey, Belcher, Bendelius, Boeh m, Brooks, Br uce, Burt , Chapin , Ch urch , Cl eaves, Col ma n, Crockett, Cronk , Egan , Fran k , Fet herston, Gay, Goldschmidt, Good man , H agerman, H ay, H ol t, Kimball, Landry, LaVerdiere, Laza­ r us, Levine, Little, Longley, Metcal f, Metcalf, Orth, Pal lotta , P l u n ket t, R a n d, Ranlet t , Reichert, Reil ly, Sandqu ist, Seebode, Segrave, S tock we l l, Tamaccio, Tolette, Worster, and Younes. Good luck. Should you decide to accept

this mission and if I don't self-destruct, there may even be a prize for the Colby 30th "reuner" with the most correct answers.

C lass secre tary: KAY G E R M A

DEA

295 Pierce St. Leominster, J\lass. 0 1 453.

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The Class of '60 is keeping up the Colby tradition.

At last fal l 's Parents Weekend I talked with Jane H o lden H uerta, Anne I m py Reed, and Lee Z i n m a n, who all have sons in the current fresh­ man class ('92) • Bev Johnson Arnett is the manager of the Marlboro, Mass., branch of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, one of 35 in the state.

She had previously taught and consulted for com­ puter operations services and has worked in state management for the last eight years • Dick Hil­ ton owns an herb shop, Herbal Effect, in Mon­ terey, Calif. He and his "bride of four years" celebrated his 50th birthday in the Rockies in Colorado • Don't forget to send me some news, so you . can appear here in print.

C lass secretary: BEVERLY J AC KSON G LOCKLER (Mrs. Anthony S.). 39 Whippoorwill

Way, Belle Mead,

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Carol Davidson Jack wrote from Hopewell J unction, N .Y ., that the family flew out to Palos Verdes, Calif., for daughter Diane's wedding last May at the Swedenborg Glass Chapel. Carol en­ joys skiing in ew England, camping and travel­ ing, and spending time at their cabin in Rangeley, Maine • 1 received an exotic postcard in early May 1988 from the Cook Islands, where Diane Scrafton Ferreira was spending a week unwind­ ing in Rarotonga and Aitutaki. She says the ho­ tels and bars are right out of Somerset Maugham and totally u nspoiled. Diane was appointed a community scholar for the state l ibrary system under a grant from the National Committee for the Humani ties. With her sister Lee's move to

Sydney for at least three years, John and Diane plan to house exchange "Down U n ­ der" • Richard G ibbs has moved t o Houston, Tex., i a partner in Texport Oil Company - an oil trading business - and is now di\'orced. He enjoys skiing (in Texas?) . golf, playing \\'ith kids and travel • Virginia Wriggins H oc h e l la (domes­ tic engineer for the Hochella household in Med­ way, Mass.) has been volunteering \\·eekly for a biology teacher, helping to set up a new library for the Middle School. and helping husband :'\or­ man handle tickets for the Wellesley Symphon\' Orchestra. ( Norman plays tuba.I She enjoys be­ ing involved with the Medway Historical Com­ mission and Society, the Arts Lottery Council and Open Spaces Committee. She also dabbles in stained glass, keeps honey bees, gardens, and reads a lot. She confesses to being a true Maini­ ac at heart and shares a cottage with her brother and sister in South Bristol on the coast. And since her parents retired to Damariscotta 1 ills she vis­ i ts there as often as possible • William Byers sent an update from Tol land, Conn. He did get to visit with Norm Macartney in Katonah N .Y. ­ during a blizzard in January 1987- but Bill didn t tell us what Norm was up to. (Norm, what s hap­ pening?) Bill enjoys hiking. traveling, landscap­ ing/gardening, personal photography, and skiing.

However, his current Ph.D. work in instruction ­ al technology at U. Conn. does get in the way of these pleasures. After his photographic ill ustra­ tions were published in Mark Lindquist's success­ ful book Sculpting Wood: Contemporar)! Tools and Techniques, Bill has another book project, this time working with fused glass. techniques. and products. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Connecticut chapter of the I nter­ national Television Association, an organization that promotes the skilled use of TV or video in business, industry education, and other non­ broadcast settings. And he is still teaching pho­ tography and TV production as a professor at Worcester State College in Worcester lass. • Gale H oltz Golden went to Bryn Mawr College after Colby and then on to Syra­ cuse University. Gale moved to Burlington. Vt. , s i x years ago a n d real l y loves i t . S h e h a s a private practice in sex and marital therapy and is clini­ cal assistant professor of psychiatry at U niversi­ ty of Vermont Medical College. She said it was great to see JoAnn Gannt after more than 25 year • Vaughn J . Howland wrote from Bethesda, Md., that he returned to school in 1983 and received a master's of social work degree in 1 985. Now he is in private practice, specializing in alcohol and drug abuse. H is wife, Mary Deems Howland '62, is professor of E nglish at the U.S. aval Academy. Their two children are now out on t heir own • Beverley H. La pham still lists his occupation as a banker (executive vice presi­ dent, Skaneateles Savings Ban k ) . But his news was that he and Liz !Rowe '63) continue to expand their Change-d - Pace Farm enterprises, adding maple syrup and honey production, dried flow­ er sales, and cut-your-own Christmas trees • U lrich and Diana Sherman L u t h live in Pitts­ burgh, Pa. Their elder son (of two) chose Colby after touring many campuses and began his fresh­ man year last September. Diana wrote that she is always reading and compil i ng files on w here she would like to vacation with the family. They get to 1 ew England annually and hate to see all the congestion and growth at what used to be peaceful vacation spots • Thanks, classmates· keep i t up 1 C lass secretary: E D W I N " N E D" GO\V

RFD Box 395 Canaan, Conn. 060 1 8

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Tlvo of our m i -,;ing t la�smates responded to my q u es t i o n n a i re a long w i t h 3 5 o t h e rs

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t h e 2 :i t h because oi con f l i c t s but sent a long p i c ­ t u res o f a n a u t i c a l t r i p on t h e Seacoml>er c i rca 1 9 59 o r 1 960. T h e "sa i l ors" i n c l ude d

Bi II Pye, Bruce Marsha l l, Steve

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P r i sc i l la Gwyn M a u lsby,

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"reti red" i n Sou t h b u ry. Con n . , w here she and h us­ band Dick are " l i v i ng happi ly ever after on a sm a ll fa r m " raising h o r se . a n d p l an n i ng t o dr i ve to the Yucat an to do l\1a y a n rui ns. H e r t w m c h i l d ren a r e grown and i n depe n d e n t Daughter A n n W i s\,•a l l

T h e Golden Age of Discove r y

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Bi l l

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J\I1serables last year after we tal ked about our act­ i ng ia m i l y at t h e re u n i o n . j o h n's o l d est son, Bri­ an, i s a t t e n d i n g l\ \ I T reported by

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s u l t a n t i n vo l ved i n real estate. w h o w o o e d a nd won o u r Frederick, 1\ l d . , English t e a c he r after he r

14 years as a d i vorced m o t h e r o f two da ugh ters.

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a "fi s h e r m a n , e t c " in the Barnstable, Mass . area.

His remarriage to w i fe Sheila i n c reases t he i r fam­ ily s i ze to seven , with t h ree d a u g h t e rs a n d two stepc h i l d re n . Message from john: "Hi, Trucks.

Remember the '38 Pontiac?"

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vice presiden t . J i m m y Joh nson , was a l so heard iro m . H i s return was fu l l of news of o t h e r c lass­ mates.

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Phil Gregorio. B i l l Chase. A l We l l e r , Ed Ky le, Dick Vacco, "Bucky" Ma lsc h , Al cigher, a n d J i m ­ m y . G u ess w h o s h u t t h e b a r down? • O u r pres­ e n t v i c e pres i d e n t , Peter Leofa n t i , sent news of a l i fel ong d ream t ha t became a rea l i ty.

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1 987-88 school year o f f a n d t raveled a r ound the w o r l d . The effects a r e too m a n y to m e n t i on a nd too complex to f u l l y u n derstand y e t:• Jay and

Ter r y Mac Lean

in I ta l y for D K E tour

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and t h e i r fam i l i es m e t Peter

days i n J u l y for a m i n i - E u ropean

l'm going l o r u n out of column space

before I run out o f news. so look for your n a m e next time. I saw

Peter J a ffe

a t H omecom i ng a l

C o l by a n d Pele repo r t ed a j o b c h a n ge a f t e r 2 5 years i n a l a rge corporate set t i n g . H e h a s t a k e n a position i n t h e sma l l brokerage f i r m of Marshall

Fra n c i s Pove r m a n , N o emi Sanchez Corso 1 n Florida w he n vaca t i o n i ng w i t h t he Povermans • A f i na l news c l i p received. Ron Ryan has been named v i c e

"In my day it was odd if you weren't an English or hi story major, but my choice of bi ology as a major was the right one for me;· said Charles C. Leighton '60 - "the field exploded." Biology certa inly was the right choice for Leighton , who recently was promoted to senior vice president of medical and regulatory affairs worldwide at l e rck Sharp & Dahme Research Laboratories i n West Point, Pa. Leighton joined Merck Sharp & Dahme in 1 965 and became a senior director in the medical affairs area in 1 9 7 1 . ow responsible for the company's research in dru gs and vacc ines in the worldwide sea rch for new, more advanced medications, his work lakes him lo Europe, South America, and the Far East. "We are in the golden age of discovery in curative drugs," Leighton said . "I feel very fortunate to be able lo part icipate i n these development s."

During his undergraduate years, Leighton was active in campus life as presi­ dent of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and member of the Student Council and the Intra­ Fraternily Counci l . His academic achievements were recognized with the Blue Key award , membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and a Rhodes Scholar candidacy. Upon grad uating cum /aude from Colby, he earned his M . D. at Harvard Medical School and then completed his internship at the University of M i nn esota. He also had re­ search fellowships in biology al Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, in psy­ chiatry at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and i n pharmacology at the Harvard Medical School. Leighton was interested i n med icine even before he at­ tended the College and remarked of his underg raduate education, "it was a great four years al Colby, a great education and preparation for life. [And] that wonder­ ful Maine envi ron ment develops a love o f the ou tdoors that you never lose'.'

Apart from his work at Merck Sharp & Dohme, Leighton finds time to be ac­ t ive in a nu mber of medical and professional groups, including the A merican As­ sociation for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association, the American Society for Clin ical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and t he Drug I n ­ formation Association, of which he is currently president. H e was also an alumni interviewer for Colby for 20 years and enjoys keeping ties with the College through Phi ladelphia club activities as well as class reun ions. H e most recently visited the campus last fal l with his son, Chri stopher, who is in the process of choosing a col­ lege. His fam ily also incl udes his wife, Pamela, and his two daughters, Wendy and Kristine.

Of his l i fe Leighton said, " l feel I have been very lucky. I have a wonderful family, I had a wonderful educat ion, and I'm grateful for the chance to contribute to humanity:·

Pove r m a n , h u sba n d o f J i l l

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president of the Philadelphia Flyers. Most recent­ ly Ron was a cable television execu tive, and Flyers' president , Jay Snider, said, "v\le are very fortunate to have been able to attract an individu­ al with Ron's outstanding qualifications for this position:· C lass secretary: L I N DA t t C H O LSO 1 GOO DMA , Fernwold Heights Farm, Lynch

Hill Rd . , Oakdale, Conn . 06370.

Some exciting news for Dee Dee W i lson Perry.

Her daughter, Beth , a Colby student, has been named a Dana Scholar this year. Beth, an excep­ tional person indeed, is very interested in t he hearing impaired. This has led her lo devise some of her own study courses at Colby. For this year's Jan Plan, she'll be studying under Charis Storms Davis as she learns all about teaching and work­ ing with the hearing impaired. Charis teaches five- and six-year-olds, and her husband, Vern, works with the college-age students. Beth, a the pian enthusiast at Colby, w i l l also be contribut­ ing her drama talents to the students she'll be observing • Sal l y Proctor is now a full-time faculty member of Drew University. If you reread her page in "Update '88;' you will see she was suc­ cessful in her pursuit of a college professorship.

Congratulations, Sally • Nothing much else to report at this time. I would l ike to remind any of you traveling through the northeast Ohio area to please stop in or call me. Sandy MacW i lliam Lloyd mentioned she likes to travel and also col­ lects dolls. Well, Sandy, stop in and I'll show you my old doll collection • Hope your Holidays were wonderful! We should all be lookmg for­ ward to warm weather and a new beginnin�. Stay in touch!

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2 5 t h reun ion: J u ne 9-1 1 , 1 989 • Class presi ­ dent Judy Fassett Aydelott has been hard at work coordinating our 25th reunion in June. Dur­ ing Parents Weekend in October, Judy, whose son Jack is at Colby, met with classmates Ben Bea­ ver, Sally Page Carvil le, Phil C hoate and Don Short, all of w hom also have children at Colby, to finalize plans for this very special weekend you won't want to miss • In ovember, Wayne Fill­ back coordinated a reunion phonathon with the help of Ben Beaver, Art Fulman, Bob Mangion, John Mc abb, N a nc y Saylor Kimball, and Ben Potter. The phonathon helped to renew con­ tact with Colby and generated lots of interest and excitement for our 25th reunion. Ben reported that he talked with M i ke Cohen in M ichigan, Bernie St upski i n Virginia, Al Smith in Mon­ treal. Ken and Ann Schmidt ye in Freeport, Maine, Todd Sherman in Colorado, H a n s On­ sager in ew Hampshire, Marcia Phillips Shel­ don in New Jersey, and Joan Thiel Sanford,

who recently moved to Boston from Chicago. Al­ most all said they were planning to come back for the reunion. Nancy Saylor Kimball, who is work­ ing with me on putting together the class reunion book , says she talked with S a l l y Saa bye O'Brien, Barby Dar l i ng, N a ncy Pen dleton Dye r, Roger and Joyce Arnold I sbi ster, "Weezie" L ippschu t z S i l l iman , and Nancy Bergeron Cornwal l • Ben Beaver deserves a

vote of thanks for his untiring efforts as our ef­ fective class agent. He is currently working on the ambitious ibul attainable!) goal of raising 575,000 from our class for our reunion year • I had a sur­ prise phone call from l\.larcia Phillips Sheldon and we had great fun catching up on our lives af­ ter having been out of touch for a few years. l\.lar­ cia, who is teac hing special needs children and John '63 live in Westfield, J .J., with their two chil­ d ren, Douglas and Heather • Le e Scra fton Bujold wrote that she will definitely be back for the 25th reunion. Lee and Joe are currently liv­ ing in Singapore. Daughter Noelle graduated from Middlebury and is with the State Depart­ ment as a project officer, and son Marc is in his second year at Middlebury • Dick Geltman joined the Public Securities Association as direc­ tor of intergovernmental relations after working for the ational Governors Association for sever­ al years. Dick and his wife and two children l ive in Chevy Chase, Md. • On a personal note, l have j ust started a fun and challenging new job in the president's office at the MGH I nstitute of Health Professions in Boston. Ben and l returned to Colby for Homecoming this past fall. and the College never looked better. l hope all of you will be able to come back in June and see for your­ selves j ust what a special place Colby still is.

Husband 1\ lark is the owner of the Cork 'n Cask a retail liquor store in Beverly Farms . .\1ass. Her daughter Laura is a freshman at Sarah La\\'rence College and son Sam is a high school stu­ dent • Rick Davis president of the Edward L. Davis Insurance Agency in Needham, l\.lass. has been named state national director of the I n ­ dependent Insurance Agents of l\lassachu5etts • David Pa rish is a pa rtner with Holland and Knight in Miami Beach Fla. Dave wrote that his firm is t he largest Florida-based law firm. He is the aut hor of several articles appea ring in lega l journals and he \\'rote a c hapter in a recent text of corporate law. He is also the vice president of the Greater Miami Je\\'ish Centers. He and his wife, Rhonda. have a son and a daughter • Joan Copit horne Bowen . director of the central oi­ fice of the Archaelogical Institute of Amenca lives in Bedford, /\lass. She is the mother of three children • Margo Beach Long is a school p y­ chologist and lives in Stonington Conn. Her hus­ band. Dick. is a senior planner with Electric Boat Co. Margo wrote, as have many of you that de­ veloping long-lasting friendships wa a most im­ portant part of her life t hat started at Colby • The lead-time between writing and when the column is printed is at least four months. As I write, it is almost Thanksgiving. but by the time you read, winter will be nearly a memory' Keep sending in your news . . . i t s been great to get t hese updates' C lass secretary: MARC I A H A R D I N G AN­ D E RSON , 15 Brechin Terrace, Andover. 1\ lass.

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John G i l l mor has been made a partner in the law

firm of Carlsmith, Wichman, Case, M u kai and Ichiki in Honolulu • Conrad Krack '66 is a ma­ rme engineer living in Seattle, Wash. • Bud M a r v i n is the president of Manpower of Tew Hampshire/Vermont; his wife, Ann, is the vice president. Their oldest child, Jennifer, is now a freshman at the University of Tampa. Bud ex­ perienced a heart attack about 1 8 months ago and has drastically changed his diet and exercise hab­ its • Gayle Lenz M i tc h e l l has begun a career in the real estate field. Husband Chad '64 is the president of West End Chevrolet in Waltham, Mass. Their older daughter is a sophomore at Hartwick College • Gordon Corey lives in Cumberland, Maine. where he is a horse train­ er/driver • Michael McMahon is a professor in the English Department at Colby-Sawyer Col­ lege. Mike's writing career began at Colby when he published his first poem in the Atlantic dur­ ing his senior year. He has just received a grant to do an anthology of poems by women who lived in New Hampshire in t he nineteenth centu­ ry • J i m Spates is another whose career began at Colby. Jim majored in sociology and is now a professor of sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, .Y. • Charlene Gors u n Solomon is an associate professor of mathematics at Wentworth Institute of Technol­ ogy in Boston. Charlene started the Learning Cen­ ter at Wentworth and is its initial coordinator.

Congratulations to Gary Knight on his promo­ tion to president and CEO of Livermore Falls Trust in Maine. Gary is a l ifelong resident of Livermore Falls and has worked at the bank since he began as a teller t here in 1 962 • M ichael C l ivner has moved himself and his furniture company from Phoenix, Ariz., to St. Thomas U.S.V.l., where he can seriously pursue his new­ found interest in diving and underwater photog­ raphy • Beth Peo Armstrong pursues her pho­ tography interests above sea level; she is a sports photographer for the Seattle Herald. Beth taught photography to children last summer in Woods Hole, Mass. • Dick Ammann and his wife Lil­ lian, have returned from two years in Lagos, Ni­ geria, where Dick taught at a local university and Lillian worked for t he Ford Foundation. They are now living in Racine, Wis. Dick is an educ�tion professor supervising student teachers in field sites. He also makes j ewelry from beads he has collected on his travels • 1eteorologist Ted H oughton spent two weeks in 1\.trkey last year with the Air Tational Guard, forecasting weath­ er for a � ATO exercise • Bon nie Darl ing Bou nd is a housewife, mother of four. and cus­ tom quilt designer in Woolcott, Vt. She teache Bible classes for women, and her husband Jim is chaplain for the I nter-Varsity Christian Fellow­ ship on two college campuses • G retchen H erschleb and Steve Mutafian were married in 1 986 and are expecting their first baby in the spring. Steve is a civil/industrial engineer and he and G retchen together teach a course in belief management called Avatar. They live in Bayport 1 .Y. Welcome to '66's newest baby' • A writer

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in BL'l ia�t l\lai ne, Tom Ea�ton u111 l 1 11ues to turn out biology textbook� a n d has hild se,·era l of hh poems puhl1 hed • Hobe rta "Birdie" Tracy H ye has made a big career sw itch from professor of German to ystems analyst \\' i t h t he I\ la�ima Corporation and says he loves the busi ness world. The Hyes li ve near Day ton Ohio • In addit ion lo being the mother of four children ages 22, l9 1 6, and 8, G i nny G rc lo t t i C o n n o l l y i the execut ive d i rector of Beaver­ brook T.E P a nonprofit corporation providing re idenlial and upport services to mentally reta rded a d u l ts. G i n n y J i , es i n B e l m o n t , l\lass. • M i ld red h'.ouba, who n w uses h e r m i d d l e n a m e Lea. lives on a 20-acre farm o n Whidbey Island n e a r Seattle, Wash . . a n d i s in­ ,·olved \\'ilh a spi ritually based educational cen­ ter that focuses on living in harmony with the eart h . Lea rai ses vegetables pou lt ry, and sheep and also \\'Orks part lime as a psychother · apist • David Erdmann of Win ter Park F i n . is dean of adm issions and student fi nancinl plan­ ning al Roll i n s Col lege. He and u san are the proud parents of five-year-old Lmd ay • Won­ derful responses lo the last questionnaire, and a usual too little space here . . more next time <111ll lL'aLl\L'I l l \·111g

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B i l l Loveday has moved to Indianapoli \\' i t h his w i fe . Joyce, and their fi,·e children. Bill is presi ­ dent and CEO of J\lethodi l Hospital of I ndiana.

He was offered an opportunity loo good to pass up" • P h i l Bromwel l w rote from Norwood Mass . . where he is a research and design techni­ cian w i t h Polaroid. He and his wife Marv, have two daughters. Leah, 1 1 , and Paula, 9. Phil is go­ ing back to school part time and is still doing a lot of singing • Lynn \Vein man phoned from his home in Vienna Va. He is on his own again after several year of marriage • Ruth E l l i o t t H o l m es resides in Bloomfield H i lls. Mich .. w here she has her own busi ness. A handwriting and document examiner. she is a media spokes­ man and lect u res t h roughout the U.S. • Don Jepso n has started his own business as a nap­ On Tools distributor, and it sounds as if he enjoys being hi own boss • Sarah S h u te H a l e sent some photographs of her landscape bati k . She se m to have fou n d a warm mix of family, church, art, and business. She and her family live in Arden, Ontario • M argare t Ann Cook lives in Springfield, Mass .. doing my old job as a jug­ gling single parent, although she has added a few new wrinkles: she's also getting a graduate degree and is an artist in addition to raising her two girls and bei ng an art teacher • Laurie H un t Beas· Icy edits a newsletter called "Art Meets Labor:· Her h u sband. Noel. is international vice presi­ dent of the Clothing Workers Union. They have two children. Moran, 1 3, and Lara, 8, and live in Oak Park, III. Laurie collects art and gou rmet cookbooks and enjoys physical fi tness • Dick H u n n ewe l l is an associate professor of art his­ tory and lives in Plymou t h , .H. When asked to brag, h e talked of his accompli shed wife. Ann, and his two engaging children. Joshua, 7, and Isaac. 4 • I missed a phone call from R ic k Lu­ bov several months ago, but his wife. Maggi, fi lled out the questionnaire and fil led us in on their lives in Seattle, Wash . . w here they moved

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in 1 979 from Boston Rick was a principal and guidance counselor in Maine for 1 1 years and is now ne of the top realtors in Seattle • Joyce Dcmkowicz l lcnc k lcr is as�islanl vi e president for enrollment management al the Un iversity of Maine. She oversees admissions. student aid, the career center. new student orien tation . and en­ rollment management. Her goal is to recruit and retain students. She and her husband , Donald have two on , Adam, 9, and Aaron, 7 • Laurie Page M i l ls i� in Australia for rour years. H usband Jim's job as managing d i rector of Caterpillar Fi­ nance Australia sent Laurie into temporary retire­ ment after a 1 7-ycar career in ba nking. She was responsihle for loan approvals nationwide as the corporate underwriter for a mortgage banking firm • Ken Johnt.on wrote from his parish 1 11 Gardner, Mass .. that he and his wife had a daugh­ ter. Johanna Augusta. on November I, 1 988 They now have t h ree girls and a boy • P h i l Kay is president of Telecommunications Con ulting and lives in Topsfield, Mass , with his wife, Barbara, and daughter, Debora h, 10 Due to his busi ness t ravel Phil might d rop in on any one of us any lime He wrote that he had fun taking Deborah to Camp V\'ohelo in South Ca co. Maine, and recom­ mends that camp to ot hers with daughters 8 lo 14 • Gil Congdon lives in Reading. Mass. . with his wife Pam sons Peter. l.t and Brad. 1 2, and daughter Brooke 8 He recently resigned as ath­ letic d i rector at Read ing Memorial High School to concent rate on teaching math full time at the junior/senior high school in Manchester Ma s.

Gil a lso coaches you th baseba l l and soccer • Chri Si n ton was recently elected executive ,-ice pre ident of retail al the United New Jersey Bank.

Chri joined the bank in 1 985 • C h a l me rs "Chop" H a rdcn bcrgh edits "The Arms Con trol Reporter,'' a monthly update on arms control ne­ got iations. He has been married for two years to Margaret Kimball • John Cooper is a restau­ rant manager in Saco, Maine H e and wife Sarah have two daugh ters. Jennifer 1 4, and Sarah 1 0.

John says he collects pounds and t hen tries to get rid of them. A recent milestone ror him was bi­ focals. John wrote that he k nows where N i c k Ja n sen , Pet e G u rley, and B r a d C o a d y are. but he won't tell anyone • "Sook i c" tockwe l l Da n i elson lives in Winthrop. Maine, with her husband. Ken. and their two children. She plan ned to start nu rsing school at t h e Universi ­ ty of Maine at Augusta in the fall of 1 9 8 . Being wife and mom has been her focus. Sookie visit­ ed with La i la Walji A l i d i na , w ho is an al lergy specialist. Lai la's husband is a college professor, and they have t wo boys in school • Jed '68 and Fra n c ie Calmes Davi s live in M anchester, Mai ne. Daughter Megan, 1 1 , loves softball and horseback riding, and Anna, 6, is an aspiring soc­ cer player. Francie is the head of the compliance division of the Maine H u man Rights Commis­ sion. a state agency. She has been appointed to the State AIDS Advisory Committee • S us a n Fin lay C h avez wrote from Annapolis, Md., where she is an RN al National Institutes of Heal t h . Susan works in the surgical ICU. If she were to brag, it would be to say that she is a "good c ritical care nu rse:· She a lso gardens, sails, and does needlework_ She would love to see some for· mer c lassmates. Don't hesitate to look her up if you 're in the area • Fred H o pe ngarte n and his wife, Betty Herr, live in Lincoln, Mass.. where he is a lawyer and president of Channel One, Inc. Betty is a doctor, and t hey have two children, Anne, 5, and Steve, going on 2 • I r v Fa unce wrote from Gardiner, Maine, saying he is presi­ dent of Yan kee Heal thcare and a member of the

board of directors of his school district. The thrust of his comments. however, focused on his "strong family:· W hen asked what changes have occurred in his life. Irv responded, "Financial ruin brought on hy higher education:· (He's not alone, is he?) • Caro l i n e Kresky wrote from Atlanta, Ga. Caro­ line had a very serious bicycle accident on the Maine coast in August of 1 988 t hat made her "more conscious than ever of the value of life and that it should be enjoyed" • "J.J." T i l l i nghast's business is expanding. In her role as account execu­ tive of Duch in En tertainment she is now arrang­ ing entertainment for special events, weddings, fund raisers. and corporate events. She works hard as a vol unteer on fund raisers. J.J. enjoys auctions and her children, Nicole, 1 5, and Bry­ son, 1 1 • Derek Sch uster is vice president of corporate development of Ryder Const ruction.

He lives in YC with his wife, Ka ren, and their four daughters. He has founded a child abuse prevention organization called Family Dynam­ ics • andy Miller Kcolane wrote in a very up­ beat tone that her life is busy with her career in design and her family She is pleased with the life decisions t hat she has made. Her suggestion that child rearing should be a required course at Colby is a good one .

C l a s t. e c rc t a r y : S U SA D AG G ET T DEA 1 ( M rs. Ross A.), 2930 1 t . I 1 4th St., Scotts­

dale, Ariz. 85255

Professional yachtsman Ted A l l i on aims to en­ ter the Whitbread Round the World Race in '89.

Ted and Carolyn and son Jake a re happily settled in Seattle, Wash • Pele Arnold's success as a house builder is equalled by accomplishments in the field of family counseling. Pete, Lynne, and children Nathan and Carob live in Damariscotta, l\laine • John B i r k i n b i ne, government rela­ tions manager with Outboard Marine, celebrates daughter Kris's entering college. Yes, John, you are too young; I'll always picture you as a young prep school grad entering Colby • Pastor and eternal runner Ken Borch e rs preaches in Ash­ land, .H. Ken and his family greeted sophomore roommate Fred C lasquin, now a dentist, at Ken's church last summer • Nancy Fischer Reale has been elected to the Rochester, N .Y. , school board. The simple pleasures of life, including ski­ ing, continue despite ancy's busy family life • I rv Fru t koff is di rector of analytical services, Unikoor Biotechnology, Jerusalem, Israel, where he dwells with family Margalit, Carmiel, and Kin­ nerel • Attorney Theodore Fuci l l o has a res­ taurant on the Charles River, Cambridge Mass.

Ted's beautiful daughter Kristine is five • Sandra H igh Walters and husband Ken neth, a Bowdoin man, love raising their four children in their huge home in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. • D r. R i c k M o riart y wrote beautifully about his work in pediatrics at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Rick and Patty's child ren are award-winning swimmers • Commercial artist Brad Muscott and wife Criste reside in West Redding, Conn. We are t hankful that Brad survived a motorcycle accident • Jeff Lathrop has been appointed to the top executive posi tion of general manager of Mount Attitash Corp. in ew Hampshi re. Jeff's extensive work in the ski industry led to this promotion • Jane Pfeffer Jerry of Texas is president of the Arneri-

can Association of You t h M useums, a 1 57-mem­ ber international organization • Attorney Tom Rippon and w i fe Virginia celebrate as the oldest of their t h ree children enters college • Betty Savicki Carvellas continues to teach in Vermont. where she reigns as science department chair • Jerry and Vickie Traylor Schneider and Remy, 3, of Bridgewater, Mass., watch t heir real estate developing and landscaping career grow and grow • Dr. Hethie Shores Parmesano became, for a spell, a full-t i me mother and wife when sec­ ond child Julia was born in J u l y 1 988 • Nancy Short H a l l. mother of two, holds a management position i n Girl Scouting i n Vermont • George and Donna Sidel i nger R iser preside over G K R l nc. in Ross, Calif. • Bart a n d Tricia Weyand are back in the U.S.A. after 15 years in Great Brit­ ain. Bart is senior development officer at Bates College • Anne and Ken You n g with daughter Sarah look forward to building t heir own home in 1 989. Ken is vice president of Environmental Consul t i ng Corp.

C lass secretary: BAR BARA ABRAMS B I X BY, 1 2 E ighth St., Bayvi lle, N Y 1 1 709.

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20th reunion: June 9-1 1 , 1 989 • Warning' I 'm going to lay it on pretty thick about reu n ion this time. I hope to get ome of us calling each other with definite plans. I'm told the kids will love i t , loo. S o h o w m a n y good excuses can t here be? • Mary E l le n Lyl e Henry has received a lot of praise from her colleagues about her superi­ or education at Colby. She loves that and in turn is sharing her gifts with college students at Ameri­ can U niversity • Lyn n e H udson Treat won­ ders what is your favorite memory from Colby7 I hope she will be able to come from Phoenix, Ariz. , and get some responses. Some will be \' ery interesting, I expect • Dan Todzia wonders if Homecoming Weekend is still as much fun as it was. I'm unsure, but I know #20 will be great, and I want Tod to bring a picture of this alleged 45pound kingfish caught off a seven-foot sailfish! • I hop e Don Cooper w i l l come and bring Den­ nis Casey. These two and their families see each other regularly. Don is a very successful varsity coach i n Oxford, N Y. . and he even has a son named Colby • Many of us are looking for each other. Les l i e Podgus Blanding would like to find David Katz. Leslie is in Bow, N.H .. where she's a retired teacher and mom to four young children • Roberta Kent English is looking for Pat Moore. Robbie is starting a new career as a speech/language pathologist, and she has a daughter at Princeton • Lots of life changes for us: Lesl i e H i tc h D un ba r changed careers, life­ style, and islands, moving to Molokai, Hawaii • Barbara Fel z Reim h a s moved to Indianapolis with her family • E . Sanderson Hoe has moved to Potomac, M d . , where he and h i s wife are raising t h ree children. Sandy is an attorney, especially interested in government contract law.

Remember, guys, during t i m es of c hange, i t's al­ ways good to rediscover roots • I wonder what kind of vehicle Rosemary Constable P i l lsbury drives when she gets out w i t h her six children?

Will she bring t hem and receive the "most kids" prize? • Best wishes; hope I'll see you t here.

C la s s s e c re t a r y : DON A M AS S E Y SYKES, 2 5 0 5 SW Crest Lane, Rochester, M i n n .

55902.

Since my last column. Steve and I ha\'e been back lo Colby, when we returned for Homecoming Weekend as well as class correspondent and club leader meetings. The weather was made to order for a tailgate picnic and football game (which Colby nearly won ' I . and we caught a glorious \'iew of the campus atop the bell tower of 1\ lil ler Library • On that spot we met with friends Debbie W i l l iams Anderson and Steve '69 and their two children, the eldest of w hom is already college bound. We walked the beau t i fu l ne,,· track together after classmate Sebs Mamo had t he honor of running the track's dedication lap • Richard '69 and Martha Luce Habeshian were also among t he very few of our classmates to attend the weekend. Martha reported seeing Cathy Pagano from time to time in the local gro­ cery store near their Rhode Island homes. r.Iar­ tha is a school librarian . She also performs \\'ith the New England Festival Chorus and has trav­ eled abroad on a singing tour. Richard manages tennis clubs and appropriately maintains his i n ­ terest in the sports program at Colby. In his spare time, he referees Rhode Island high school hock­ ey games. Both of them continue to be acti\'e alumni and looked great • Judith F iles Mc Ker­ nan, who has been selected to receive a scholar­ ship to U niversite-Laval in Quebec, completed her maste r s degree at Rivier College and went on to teach there. She now teaches French at Coe­ Brown Northwood Academy in New Hampshire.

W hi le i n Quebec, Judith will speak only French at the oldest French language university in North America. Thousands come frorn all over t he world to study there each year, but only 1 5 scholarships are awarded • Kudos t o Ann Mc Ewen, who has been named to the board o f directors f o r the Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts. Anne runs her own advertising agency i n Northampton, Mass. • Please let me know what's happening in your lives. I'm sure our classmates would like to know what you re doing.

C lass secretary: LA RA STRUCKHOFF C L I N E. 660 1 L o c h H i l l Rd., Baltimore, 1\ \d.

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The deadline for this particular column caught me by surprise, so without any fanfare .

M ic hael S m i t h "sold the farm in Oxford and moved to t he Big City" of Auburn, Maine, with his wife. Diana. and their two daughters. "basket­ ball star" Danielle and "model" Chesea. M ike is now sports editor for the paper there • Pau l and Susan Sammis Spiess a re sti l l living in Am­ herst, J . H . , where Paul is president of Colonial Mortgage and Susie is an "on-sabbatical real es­ tate appraiser" who has been kept busy supervis­ ing the construction of their new home and keeping up with daughter Jennifer and son Stephen • Andrew Smith wrote that ince returning in 1 980 from Saudi Arabia w here he taught and coached the Saudi ational Tennis Team, he has been l iving in Torrington. Conn ..

with w i fe Nancy and baby daughter :\.lara and teaching elemen tary P.E. in Regional Dist rict :;6 • Jon Stone wife Gayle and sons Brent, Pe­ ter. and r-1atthew have moved home to Sharon Mass. to a llow Jon to assume a new postilion as director of marketing for \\".R Grace. Gayl e i currently working as a mat hematics tutor Jon notes that both are very proud of their son ' aca­ demic and athletic accomplishments. He may be setting a few of his own agai n smce successiul back surgery last spring has got him up to run­ n i ng t hree miles a day again. His busy chedule didn t pre\'ent him from attending Steve Orio,· > wedding in J\lontreal in September • Although Jeanette Lerner only attended Colby for her freshman year she's still on the class rolls and sent back word t hat she stil l recalls a number oi names and memories of her year at the College.

She's currently working on her P h . D. in l i nguis­ tics at Berkeley • From G lastonbury Conn comes word t hat E l a i ne Weeks has been elect­ ed vice president at the Connecticut Bank and Trust. She is responsible for marketing credit card portfolios of CBT and other Bank of New England affiliates. Elaine and I shared a few classics cours­ es at Colby since we both had majors in the same departmen t. and my high school Latin classes were fascinated to learn w here her classics ma­ jor had taken her • And now to tackle lhe "mountain" of questionnaires that have poured in from all this summer. No. I don't know why some of you received two mail ings, and the "w � men s lib" question was a surprise to me also. The good news is that l won't be complaining about the lack of news for some time to come and I did hear from a number of people l'\'e been wondering about. Andrea Solomon is teachmg high school English and special education classes in N YC. and trying to participate in Colby alumni actiYi­ ties w h en possible. She still remembers t hose nowfalls in January' • Rod Sch u l tz checked in from Houston Tex .. where he works as con­ troller of Treesweet and resides with w i fe ,\ lan· and daughters Lauren and E llen • \V i l l i a n1 H ladky is another member of the class li\'ing and working in NYC .. w here he is manager of the Premium audit department. He also finds time to do some w hite water canoeing • And, final­ ly, a quick congratulations to Scott Thomas and his wife, Shei la, who were expecting an August addition to their family. They are currently l i\' ­ ing in Fitchburg. J\lass., with son Sean .

C lass secretary: L I N DA A. C H ESTER. 4 6 Lincoln S t . H udson, lass. 0 1 749.

It's pre-Thanksgiving, and Im \\"filing between batches of pumpkin bread and pies. With t hat and a new batch of questionnaire responses, it s a happy time to write to you • G a i l Glidden Ch ristiansen w i l l be on sabbatical next year from her position as director of the Learnino Cen­ ter at Southern Maine Technical Institute • An­ drine S m i t h and her husband, Henry· li\'e in Alameda Calif., where sbe has begun law school w hi le working as a legal assistant • Ten years ago Russell Harris began publishing a weekly newspaper in Groton, Ma s. H e is now celebrat­ ing the 1 0th anni\'ersary of that continuing proj­ ect • From Mt. Vernon. Maine Alice Osmer Olson wrote that she continues as a librarian and nursery school teacher • With much to be

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• Now for the H a rriet H u l ts

wrote lo update us on her l i fe sin ce Colby,

o f t h e m a n d her profession as a l a bor a n d dcl i v·

Wa l l

1 n g lilw and ba l l room d a n c i 11g. Ka t hy is off lo li ve

cry n u rse

w h i c h i n clu des teac h i n g E n g l i s h in N iger. West

1 11 Paris. l ra n icrrctl by H oneywell B u l l

e n on the "hectic" l i fe: fu l l l i m e at home with their

Africa, c o m p l e t i n g Tem p l e Law School , and be·

th ree

comin g in terested in i n ternational law/po l i t ics.

Edga rton

•

"

"

Chi p

does cost e st i ma t i n g in c o m m e r c i a l

has tak­

• G a i l A n d rews McCa r t hy

M 1 c h J e l , Pa t r i c k , a n d Carol y n !

• Janet

constru ct i o n , w h i l e J lan i c l e a c h e s second grade

Stafford Wood

Their lWL) l ee11a g c·r� a re c l e a r l y leaders a n d a t h ·

Dece m be r 1 986 a t 2 8 1/2 w e e k s . 2 pou n d s, 1 2

had a preemie boy. S t e p h e n , i n

Harriet a l so wondered w hat

Corbett

is d o i n g

Beck y Lit tleton • Lowell Widmer wrote from

l e t e�. C h i p co n t i n ue� \\ i t h hockey - be l i eve i t or

ou nces; Stephen i s d o i n g grea t , a � i s big brother

M o n t a n a , wh ere h e works for Royal Teton E n ·

n o t . i n a n " O l d Ti me rs" l cague1

C h r istopher J a n e t's com m i t me n t lo her profes­

g i n e e r i n g and Construction. One t h i n g he's done

•

Ski i n s t ru c tor.

c o n � t r u c l i o n busin ess m a 11ager a11d m o t h e r of

sion a s a n RN i n N ewborn IC is u n derstandably

t h ree - t h a t '

that h e never a n t i cipated doing w hen h e left

I ersona l l y rewarding

Colby was lo become a M on t essori e l e m e n t a ry

her h u band rece n t l y moved with their th re

nity involvement -

school teacher

boys fr m Cornish N

From

L'e Dblricl 1 987-88, c h a i r, M i ssissippi Economic

w rote t hat h e s a

Forum 1 988-89. and active 1 n De111ocrat1c pol i tics

l i s t s his occupation as actor/d i rector/ac t i ng i n ·

i n sou t h west J\l i ssi ssippi

sl ructor/rest a u r a n t consu l t a n t . Whew!

Linda Dewey Ma d e i ra .

H . , to Norwich, Vt .

Pa l e r mo. M a i n e , J o h n

B u nker

h igh sch ol E n g l i s h teacher

•

She and •

"The respon si bi l ·

• Re: Pol i t ics and co111mu· Peter Ri naldi was clrnir Lev·

•

M e r ri lee Bonney is

• N ic k Bal las wrote

from

ew

Mexi co, w h e re h e s been for t he last six years. He

• Beth

w rote f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e sin ce we grad­

S a l l y Ch ester

t he D utc h dl'legale to the Group of Economic Ex­

Robe r t s

a s s h e con t i n ue s l o h a n d l e m u rde r

perts on A i r Pol l u t1on of t h e Econom ic Comm is·

uated lo say that she l i ved for a lime i n Swi t ·

cases. For t h e se co n d l i llle she h a s a voi de d t h e

�ion for E u rope of t h e U . N

7erland t hen for about four years in Germany,

d e a t h p e n a l l y for a c l i e n t

Bigelow 1 s an elected m e m b e r of town m e e t i n g

during which time

p i n g we've learned t h a t

a n d coord i na t o r of several school com m i t t ee

ter returning t o t h e U.S i n 1 980, s h e h itched

i l y i s f r i g h t e n i n g , s a y s a t t o rn ey

W i l l i ford

• From a news c l i p · Barbara Senges was r e ·

cen t l y n a llled a ssi s t a n t p r i n c i p a l of t h e C ha r le s

m e m be r campaign

•

J a n et Peret h i a n

• Peter Gerken

h e t raveled extensively. Af­

m i ngles

t h roughout the country detou ring to Mexico and

Gary

G u atemala. A l the time she completed her ques·

E . J\ l u rphy 1\ l i d d l e S c h oo l i n J\lo n lv i l l e , Con n .

with

W i t h a n extensive background i n language, leach·

Law les

1 s J\ l a 1 n e s coord i na tor for Earth Fi rst

tionnaire. Beth described herself as a "poor gradu·

i ng. a n d a d m i n i s t ra t i o n , Barbara has a l ways pre­

(env i ro n m e n ta l a c t i v i > m l a nd a rock 'n rol l band

ate s t u d e n t ," work i n g on her d i ssert at ion in

fer red the j u n i o r high level Bar bara

ka ngas

•

Congra t u l a t i ons.

Congra t u l a t i o n s a l so to

Pat M u sta·

i n Canton N Y. S h e s i m lllersed i n social

t h e "green�" 1n West Germany

melllber of

Lawn O rn a m e n t s·

•

J\\ary Jan e

•

sociology

•

Mary An n Soursourian joined the

Tiedeman i s pres i d e n t of t h e H o m e and School

Fa m i l y J\ \ u l u a l Savings Bank about a year ago as

Associ a t i o n o f her c h i ld ren· school

corporate controller, t aking responsibi l i t y for the

Gail An·

•

ser\'ice work and was recen t l y prollloted to s u ·

drews J\1cCarthy i s active with t h e local AAUW

pervisor of Pre,·e n t i v e Sen·ices f o r C h i ldren

Fran Gates Demgen

( wo r k i n g with fa m i l i e s w hose c h i l d re n a re can·

her local sc hool board and 15 activ e w i t h

d i dates for fost e r care ) .

•

i s an e l ec t ed member of 1eals

ban k' s financial con t rol area. M a ry Ann holds an M . B.A. from Su ffolk U n i versity

• Tom Lizotte

was n a m ed 1 988 M a n of t h e Year b y t h e Colby

he s a l so d i rector of t h e

on \<\/ he e ls and Campfire; s h e s a l so working w i t h

"C" C l u b. The award i s presented for outstanding

local Assoc i a t i o n for N e i g h borhood Rehabi l i ta ·

he r t wo d a u g h t e rs a n d o t h e r c h i l d ren on a n i n e ·

service devo!Jon. and work in t h e area of athlet­

l io n . h e l p i n g p u rchase a n d reno\'ate h o u s i n g for

iool by five-foot t i l e m u ral f o r t h e i r

ics

u ie Yovic Hoeller 1 s a

c h oo l !

•

• J i m H eald recently announced the official

board me mber of Dal·

release of his first tape "St a n d i n g on the G reat

of a com m u ni t y t heater group. and she con t i nues

las R i g h t to L i fe and a Republican Party precinct

Wall of China.' This independently produced tape

t o p l ay her F r e n ch h o rn - wi t h t he S t Lawrence

worker

U n i \' e r s i t y Bras E n se m b l e a n d Orchest ra She welco m e s anyone t rave l i n g i n the "far reaches oi 11orthern New York" to stop and ,. i i t • From an·

own b u smess i n i nves t m e n t s f o r i n d i v i d u a b 1 11

Ma noogian

Deborah I ke h ara 7-1 d i d a short course l r i a l h ·

low i n co m e persons. I n a d d i t ion she's a m e m ber

other "outpost''.... Fargo. N . D . - Sandy

Pearce w ro t e a great

tale. S h e a n d her h u s ba nd ,

•

G e n era l news ( l o he con t m ued i n the

ne x t i ssue - you sent a lot ! ) .

Al Linsky

has his

Ion

•

l e m le e Bonney of Pij nacker

h e a d S t a l e U n iversity on t h e N o r t h Dakota- M i n · nesola border. Sandy's a n assistant professor of

D u t c h - E n g l i h translation ser\'ice. H e r h u sband,

English, leach i n g technical w r i t i ng and Shakes·

Jacabus, i s a m e m ber of t h e Du t ch Par l i a m e n t

peare. We should a ll be a s grateful al this Than ks·

R ic h Gawt h rop

•

Lory a l t h e U n iversi ty of Sou t h Carol ina

"bright a n d b u b b l y" daughter a n d he r son , who

G e rken i s married w i t h t wo d a u g h t e rs i n Bier· bach, West G e r m a n y · a teacher. carpenter, and w r i t e r. h e welcomes Colby visit ors D ec a t u r, G a . , regret

•

Peter

• Al H i l l

of

t h a t a past c o l u m n report·

Perethian Bigelow con·

p r ou d accom p l ish m e n t and a c h e ri s hed g i ft a f· l e r t h e loss of t h e i r second baby boy s h o r t l y a f · ler b i r t h

•

Merrilee Bonney

is raising bi l i ngual

gi r l s , E l ske ('84) a n d Sasha ('86): t hey keep her ar· leries from harden ing1

•

Mary Jane Tiedeman

fee l s much the sa m e a s M e r r i lee, a s Anna ('78) a n d Andy ( '8 1 ) a d d up l o h e r "fitness program" of run, run, run 1 A ft e r a I D -year hiatus of be i ng at h o m e , she's now a p a r t - t i m e l i brarian a t a law fi r m . She asks. " H ow do fu l l -t i m e working moms m a nage i t a l l ?"

• C a rol C h a l ker M c Dowel l

boas ts prou d l y o f teenagers A m y B e t h ( ' 74 ) a nd M o l l y Lynn ( ' 7 6 ) as h o sp i t a l volunteers, proficient

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wrote from Andover, Mass., t ha t

Breck Arnzen

D u b l i n . A t hens. Rome, and Cai ro are a l l in Geor­

h e is in t h e f i e l d of computers as a consultant for

gia I H e i s a cons u l ta nt for t h e Georgia Depa r t ·

Digit al E q u i p m e n t Corpora t i o n . His w i fe, Lan i,

m e n t of H u m a n Resources. has one d a u g h t e r ,

is a doct oral candidate i n psychology

•

A n ew

Alex, 1 1 but i s d i vorced. H e i s s t a r t i n g a l l over

job, as o f early 1 988, c h a racterizes Joan

DeSa l ·

vo's

l i fe . S h e i s n o w assistant p r i n c ipal at Si lver

Thanks

Lake J u nior H igh School in Pembroke, Mass. She's

to a l l w h o p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e q u e s t i o n n a i re .

not t h rough yet, though. Joa n i e's ju st about done

Decatu r, G a . 30030. Best of l u c k . A l Re: Mother hood - Janet

H e l p ! I m r u n n i ng ou t o f i n format ion . A new questionnaire i s on the way, so if you want a col u m n next t i me, take u p pen and respond 1 • E.

ed t h a t h e travels t h e world i n h i s professi on :

aga i n a l a new add ress: 1 2-1.:1.-7 Forrest B l v d . ,

s i d e r s t h e birth a n d l i fe o f son C h r istopher a

E, 7

Noyes Ave .. Wa t e r v i l l e , J\ l a m e 0.:1.90 1 .

rece n t l y married leaches h i s·

giving time as Sandy. who wrote w i th pride of her

1 1 1 1 2 Broad G reen D rive, Potomac, M d . 20854.

We can do

Nether·

lands, is a policy analyst-economist al the Ministry of E1wironment in the Hague she owns her small

C lass secretary: J A ET HOLM G E R B E R .

•

Class secretary: CAROL D. WY

my home town oi J\ l e d fi e l d . He and h i s w i fe

Tom , have j u s t accepted teach i n g posts al M oo r ·

"ca u g h t a f i sh i n t h e river by ou r house:·

is a com p i l a t ion o f n i n e original songs t h a t "delve i n t o the mysteries of love and l i fe"

t he rest of o u r catching up at r e u n i o n !

•

Please fi l l out t h e next one, as t h e d e t a i l s of o u r

get t ing a second master's degree i n educat ional

l i ves d o cha nge f r o m one m o n t h t o t h e next 1

a d m i n i stration and will soon be cer t i fied as prin·

C lass secre t a r y : A N N E H

FF J O R DA

36 H i l lcrest Rd . , M e d f i e l d , Mass. 02052 .

7'-t-----1 5 t h reu n ion: J u ne 9-1 1 , 1 989

•

Read i n g

cipal. Congra t u l a t ions, Joan i e 1

C raig C lark,

•

I heard from

w ho now calls Nashua, N.H., home

. . w h e n he's arou n d . Craig i s a free-lance pho­ tograp h e r c u r re n t ly employed as a d river for a relocation company. D r i v i n g all over has provid· ed grea t subjects for his photography. He i s now represented by several stock photo agencies and i s active i n producing model portfolios

Coom a n

•

Kevin

is partner i n t h e law firm of Greisberg·

er. Zicari, McCon v i l le, Cooman, Morin

& Welch.

t h rough my n o t e s f r o m t h e A l u m n i Office on a

At first a t r i a l lawyer, h e now supervises the l i t i ­

grey Novem be r day, I'm r e m i nded t ha t t h is w i l l

gation departmen t . Kevin n o t e s that h i s s o n , Car­

be t h e l a s t co l u m n l o appear in Colby before o u r

son , 6, is a lead i ng j u ve n i le a u t h o r i ty in the area

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Hannah Karp Laipson '46, at the i nauguration of Thomas J . Anton as president of Becker Junior College.

Susan Lockhart '64, at the inauguration of Linda Koch Lorimer as president of Randolph-Macon Women's College.

Michael Lynes '75, at the inauguration of Elizabeth Colman as president of Benning­ ton Col lege.

Candace Castle Marsellus '6 1 , at the inauguration of Neil R . Grabois as president of Colgate University.

of automobile identification and classification • Larry Fleischman has relocated to Dix Hills :--J Y. , w here he is a partner i n a vent u re capital firm. He and \\·ife Joan have -year-old Eric and 5-year-old Craig to keep t hem busy • I got a newsy reply from Gene DeLorenzo who is still at/wi t h Colbv after all these vears. Genes the as­ sistant athletic director at Cdlby as well as coach of women's ba ketball and men s baseball \\' i fe Norma jBoutet 771 is an assistant \'P at Key Bank.

Gene and Norma have built a new home on Mayflower Hill recently • Dr. Eric Gestrich and family have moved from Philly to Lebanon Ohio, where he is repaying an obligation to the National Health Scholarship Corporation Cyni­ cally, Eric noted that these days he is gaming "debts, weight. children" and losing hair free time, brain cells'" • That does it . . I m clear out of questionnaires. Please answer the upcom ing one or we'll. God forbid. ha\·e a blank column next go-around.

C lass secretary: BARBARA CA. R R O L L PETERSON , 92 1 Dolphin Drive. lalvern, Pa.

1 9355.

William Marvin '65, at the inauguration of Richard A . Gustafson as president of New Hampshire College.

Carol Auskelis Myers '74, at the i nauguration of Donald Sheldon Stanton as presi­ dent of Oglethorpe U niversity.

Ralph Nelson, Jr. '60, at the inauguration of Russell C. Jones as president of the University of Delaware.

Lesleigh Amlaw Perry '49, at the i nauguration of Lyle A. Gray as president of Cas­ tleton State College.

Mark Richardson '77, at the inauguration of John Patrick Crecine as president of the Georgia I nstitute of Technology.

Jeffrey Sanderson '77, at the inauguration of William M. Dyal, Jr., as president of St. John's College.

Martha Raymond Scherpenisse '6 1 , at the inauguration of John H . Jacobsen as presi­ dent of Hope College.

Gloria Shepherd '64, at the inauguration of Brother Thomas J . Scanlon as president of Manhattan College.

Barbara Stanford-Tremblay '68, at the inauguration of Judith A. Sturnick as presi­ dent of Keene State College.

Edward Stuart '5 1 , at the inauguration of Charles Boynton Knapp as president of the University of Georgia.

Paul L . Tessier '64, at the inauguration of Fran k Douglas Brown as president of Columbus College.

David Van Allen '56, at the inauguration of Thomas Keith Meyer as president of El­ mira College.

Frederick A. Watkins '63, at the inauguration of Agnar Pytte as president of Case Western Reserve University.

Lewis Weeks, Jr. '42, at the inauguration of Patti McGill Peterson as president of St. Lawrence University.

76�Thanks for the great response to t he q uestion· naire. I'll try to get to everyone, and those whom we've not heard from recently move to the top of t he pile • Lydia McAnerney is program di rec­ tor for the G irl Scout Council of St. Croix \'alle\'.

She's also verv involved in t he St. Paul, Minn·. dance comm{mity. Lydia sits on the board of directors of the Tapestry Dance Center in the 1\\' in Cities • A number of classmates are cur­ rently li\·ing in Oklahoma, including Karen Gil­ lum G ivan, w i fe to Christopher G ivan • Bob C l ay is living i n Guthrie, where he is a financial manager with the Bixby Telephone Company. He and wife Joyce have five children ranging from ages 2 to 7. The oldest, E lizabeth and Adam. are on t he local swim team • H arry Nelson is a production manager with the Baker Company in North Yarmouth. Maine. He's also going to gradu· ate school and is president of the board of trus­ tees for People's Regional Opportunity Program of Portland. Harry's other accompl ishments in­ clude running in 20 marathons since Colby. which may help him keep up with his kids Sam j5). Peter j2). and Alex (almost 1) • Carol Mcintyre-Peale has recently moved due to a ca­ reer opportunity for her h usband, James 77, now a deputy clerk for Cheshire County Superior Court in New Hampshi re. Carol works part time as a pre-school special needs teacher when she's not taking care of Caitlyn 141 and Andre\,. j3) • M ichael Jones is an airline pilot for , orth­ west Airlines. He and wife Susan have three chil­ dren, Lauren (7). Kate (.+ ) . a n d Anna (2) • Norma n Mars i l i u s wrote for t he first time - he's an archi tect l iving in Fairfield Cou n­ ty • Jeanne lcCarthy is a Spanish teacher in Scarborough, Maine. She and her h usband Thomas, have a two-year-old son, Thomas Ill • I wish I had known when I was there that a bunch of '76ers are in Cleveland. Phil Freund is a data base administrator at the Cleveland Clinic. He and w i fe Synda have a son , Johnathen, who was born in February '88 • Jenny Frutchy Ford was promoted to assistant \'ice president of Progres­ sive Corporation, managing a S 1 million cor-

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pnra tc g i v i n g p rt1gram She s n l s o in c h n r g e of n m<11or rL' a l c�tnlc d c ,· e l o p m e nl project lo "remake Cl evela nd Jenny ha� been \\'Orking \\' i l h n a t i on­ ally k 1wwn a r c h i t e c t Fra n k G e h e r v a n d several n rt.1 s l s i n c l u d rn g O l d e n b u rg Sa r ;a , J ud d , and

A n d r e S h e a n d her h u �ba n d Ed have a d a u g h ­ ter u s a n n a h \Vende. who. w i t h he r parent are

the subj ect of a H a rvard B u ine s School case on l\\'O·ca 1:eer fa m i l ies • B i l l Silverman is a fellow i n gaslroenlerology al Ca. e \Veslern Reserve. He's been l i v i n g abroad i n I t a ly a n d B ru s�els for th e la l eight years l\1osl re ce n t l y, he \\'as an e m e r ­ g e n c y r o o m physician 1 11 C h ic a go. Bill i p l a n n i n g a trip back Ea l a nd \\'anted lo wa rn Mike North oi t h e v i s i t . B i l l a n d w i fe J\largarida have a two­ y e a r -o ld ret riever n a m e d Bai lo who !according to Billi thinks she' human The family spends a l o t o f t i m e canoeing, and Bill adds t ha t t he dog t s a better canoeist and swim mer t han his wife \\'hich l m certain he'll a ppr eci a te. Coinc 1 de n t a l­ l y, Bill \\'anl e d lo know \\'hat Mitch Brown 1 s up to. \\'e aim lo p lease here: i\litch is an e xe rci�e phy i o l og isl . He completed a maste r's i n exercise p h ysiology and works for a sports medicine c l m ­ ic ! i t c h was appo i n t ed r e g io nal c o a c h f o r the Eastern R e g io n G i r l s U - 1 6 leam He con l m u e to coach occer for girls and leache a liccnsmg course to fel low c o a che s . H e adds t hat he finds great sali faction in h e l p i n g women achieve some oi their goal and in helping t hem decide their fu­ ture. He ho pe s he can go beyond leachmg t h e technical aspects of the game and instill some hu­ manity and care in dealing with others. l s n t that the real name of the game?

C lass secre t a r y : PAM E LA i\I. CAM E, 31.t Central St . . i\!ewton lass. 02 1 66

I 'm still work ing from news you sent me in late 1 987, so forgive me if some of this is dated. If per­ chance you have changed anything in t he past year, please send me an update • News from afar: Bruce and J e n n i fe r Davis Thomson and their two daughter are living in Tokyo. I'm not sure \\'hy they're there - Bruce and Jennifer. care to comment7 Are your daughters lea rn ing Japa­ nese? Are you? • The fol lowing are proud par­ ent of what are now one-year-olds: Jo-Ellen Bois Smith has a daugh ter. Fiona Alyse; Kath­ leen Jewe t t S u t herland h a s a son, Colin Fran ­ c i s • T h i s m o n t h's fea t u red p rofe s s i o n : attorneys. E m i l y G raham h a s represented Mar­ ilyn Chambers in court • Robert G u i l lory is a Main iac lawyer !practicing in Saco) • Prisci l la Bondy is becoming a yuppie in Shelburne, Vt . • Dav id M a i ma n has put his legal skill to work a s township m a nager in G radyville.

Pa. • Mark F i s h bon s t i l l loves baseball. lives in Sharon. Mass .. and admits t hat he listens to Frank Sinatra albums. (W hat a relief. I thought I was t h e only one our age who liked OI' Blue Eyes.) • Ot her professions: M a rgaret Fel ton Viens calls herself an entreprene u r. She owns her own busi ness in Fairfield. Maine. !Margaret, \ hat is it that you do?) • Judy Damon Endress is a printed circuit designer for M IT. That sounds pre t t y impressive, Judy! • Carl W i t t hoft is ei­ ther an optical physicist or a global destroyer, de­ pending. . . And yes, Carl, Templin Hall is still standing. However, our south goalpost is not, as Kansas fi nally won a football game • Ann Mor­ gan Dodge is a bookbinder at Brown U niversi-

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ty in Providence Last yea r s h e w i t n essed the America C u p Trial in Australia' • Jenny H o­ lan is an edi torial as i s l a n t for All A m e r i c a n Crat t s P u b l ic a t i on h e l i ke s bei n g able to work with several la ng u a ges. Fala portugues J e n ­ n y � • L o o k s like Bob McCa ughey is back in Boston working for Channel 56 after hav111g been in Denver for several years • From the category of p nz e d possessions. Among other things Ii led l uc h as houses. 5pouses. and kid�. not neces5ar­ ily 1 11 t ha t o rd er } are Bob Kecfe 5 antique clock collecti n • D i c k Cona n t currently dorng a q u a t i c b iolo g y research in fl . Lauderdale val­ ue his coffee maker • Mom and student Diane P ra t t Ames appreciates the lock on her bat h­ ro m door • Karen Sundcrhauf lo\'e h e r ted ­ d y b e ar • Cat lo\' er�· A n d rea Jensen V i c k i

John on , ue H a rvey, La u ren S i egel G o l d ­ man • D o g lovers. Heidi Neumann H a nsen Lou A n ne To bias Jaeger Jon H ic kock • Pa­ t ricia H aven tein u t hers ts rather fond of her horse

•

Thats all the room for now For those of

you who n o t i ce t ha t my a d d re s keeps changrng

I hope to report the last c hange 1 11 th e next column when I finbh my Ph.D an d get a real1ob1 C la s sccrc t a r v : D E B C O H E N 933 Ken ­ tucky, Law rence K� ns 660-14

\,\'inter is upon u here in Boston and I keep won­ dering lo myself how I ever lasted through the four bli tery w i nters at Colby . m ust be mid­ dle age setting in! Thanks to Jtm Cook for the fi,·e great years as our class secretary. H e w t l l be a tough act lo follow • A l ix Land w as married last spring 1 11 Los Angeles to Barry i\!etzley a na­ tive Californian They came east this summer !his first to this coa ti for a reception in \ estporl.

Conn .. attended by Pat and Joan \'icario ween­ ey. Dave Don ega n . Jim and J a n e Li nge Mc Donough , Dan Dawe ' 76 and w i fe Debbie Cron in Carol R1cc1 77 mvself. and manv - friends · and family • John 0 a nd Ronni-Jo Posner Carpenter are pleased to announce the birth of their twin ons. Scott Lindeman and Robert Olds Carpenter. Both boys weighed in at a healthy six pounds and are keepi ng their parents very busy and happy • Lisa K ri sten Klein spent a great weekend in Birmingham. Mich .. with Ted 76 and Rae Carava t y Shanahan and their frisky baby Michael. Ted's an executi"e at Coke. and Rae. she says, is a great mom . Lisa's in N .Y.C .. working at Lincoln Center Theater as director of annual gi\' ­ ing. She said that "get out your checkbooks" is the name of the game' • I ran into R i c k A brams this fall and we caught up with one another. H e is president of Tom Snyder, I nc . . a Cambridge software company. H e and his wife, Susan Kenyon . traveled lo Bermuda in October with Ann and Doug Kapla n, Robin and J e ff Shrib­ man, and Barbara and Dan H oefle. Each cou­ ple has one child and all agreed they had a glorious six days away from t h e kids. Five of the eight o f them are at torneys Rick not­ ed • Speaking of attorneys, Tom Suddat h , for­ merly of Denver, is now an assistant U.S. attorney general based in Philadelphia • Dan and Elaine Regan Drisco l l '80 are the parent of a cute lit­ tle boy, Mathew Mark, with another due about the time this hits the presses. Best w i s h ­ es! • Wel l , I'm signi ng o f f . Please don't hesitate

to send me current information on yourself and famt lies. Abo. let me know if you are out of con­ tact w i t h a former friend from Colby and I will be more than happy to relay t i in this column . I myse l f would like to know what has happened t o Sandy H a l l La ke and why she wasn t at our I 0th. Take good care. And once agam thanks Jim. C lass sec retary: JAME E. SCOTT, 67-1 Tremont St. Boston Mass. 02 1 1 .

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1 0 t h reu nion: J une 9-1 1, 1 989 • .'l lotherhood seems to ha\'e taken a place of prominence among the o c c u p a t i o n s of our f e m a l e c l a s s ­ m a t e s ' • Carol M i l ler Don n e l l y a former financial analy t for AT&T, decided lo become a full-time mom and feels verv fortunate to have so m uch time with her two � hildre n , E lisa and Stephen I n add1t1on to parenting. Carol and her hu band Brian. are renovating a 1 20-year-old house. Last summer they traveled to Holland, Germany and London with t he kids • E m i l y G rout prague wrote t h a t s h e loves being home in Watertown 0: .Y. with daughter Caroline but is suffering the confltct of wanting to stay at home w i t h her and go on teaching English to 7th graders' ! Becoming invoh·ed with the future through teaching and in pinng an enthusiasm for learning have been particularly satisfying to her } • nnc Luedermann H u n t finds it won­ derful to experience ltfe through the eyes of her child Colin. born to her and Tim 0 in April of 19 I n add ition to being a mom Anne is a stu­ dent at George Washington U niversity pursuing a masters in internattonal education • In Fran­ con ia :\' . H . Lou isa Bliss Ke nnev, married to i\lichael is busy as carpenter, c � binetmaker farmer and mother of two • :'\lanaging their horse farm in Lyme Conn. and their kids is a full­ t i me job for C y n t hia Pigo t t Bacon . Baby boy Trevor is smiling and burping w hi le big brother Cameron is destroying the house . . and Cynthia says she's happier than e\ er! • Jean herwood Lynch and husband Peter i n l ew Brunswick N-.J .. are enjoying their role as parents of son Mat­ thew 2. Jean is working in the fast-paced field of anti-viral research at E . R. Squibb and Sons as asi tant research investigator • One classmate w ho is easing into the idea of parenthood is domestic supervisor Kay E. La oie Lowel l, who is now mother to two adult cats and grandmother to five kittens! he and ate (who you may re­ call was the textbook supervisor at the Colby bookstore) live in Lisbon Center, Maine. Though Kay expected to be an English teacher after Colby, she wound up as a paralegal and legal ecretary for several years and then attended law school.

She also aced all three Maine real estate broker­ age courses. I n 198� a work-related injury left her hands permanently partially d i sabled. She now sings in the Androscoggin Chorale and volunteers much of her time and energy to WCB B -T in Lewiston • Stri k i ng out on his own, G le n n C o n n e l l h a s formed his o w n p u b l i c relations firm, Connell and Company, dedicated to serv­ ing high technology-based industries in southern 1 ew Hampshire and northern Massachusetts.

Glenn has over 1 2 years experience i n indu t ri­ al sales and marketing and is the author of numer­ ous feat u re a r t i c les in h i g h - t e c h t r a d e

publications. In addition to the above Glenn has rebuilt and sold houses at a profit . traveled ex­ tensively t hrough the U.S., Japan. and Europe. added to his family (he and his wife Diana, have t hree children). and has generally had {1111 since Colby! Way to go, Glenn' • Also in business for himself is Dean Morrissey who started his own development company headquartered in Hilton Head , S.C. I n 1 984 he moved from Boston to de­ velop student condominium projects at Miami University i n Oxford. O hio, where he no,,· lives • After losing touch with several Colby pals, Bec ky Rogers Bushong wrote to send warm greetings to all from Washington. D.C. Becky was married in tovember 1 987 to Bill, an architectural historian with a Ph.D. in American civilization. Both he and Becky work as research professionals in the D.C. area; Becky as a special· isl in congressional h istory and Bill as a special­ ist in historic preservation • Working i n t he health field, Kyle Harrow is an exercise physiol­ ogist in Scituate, Mass.. where she lives with hus­ band Richard Kantor • Barbara Croft Spillane is a physical t herapist and a th letic trainer in Chestnut Hill. Barbara was married in the fal l of 1 987 to John Spi llane. a graduate of the U n iver­ sity of New Haven and current captain in t he Brookline Fire Departmen t . (Barbara wrote t hat Colby s small size provided her the chance to grow up and "find herself" and admits that she probably would've gotten lost at a bigger school) She has fow1d her niche in the medical world and truly enjoys life now. Last summer she and John celebrated this happiness with a second honey­ moon trip to I reland' • Thanks for helping me to share your news. t houghts, and feelings with other classmates.

C lass sec re t a r y : JA T E V E M AN LEDEBU H R . 4590 Rocky Hill Way , Will iams­

ton, Mich. 48895.

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John Ve i l l e u x married Diana Johnson on Oc­

tober 29, 1 988, in St. Matthews Cathedral, Washington, D.C. They honeymooned in Hawaii and now live in Washington. Among attendees at their wedding were S teve Kirstein (Living in Bos­ ton and engaged to be married as well), Rod Mar­ shal l (who is now an attorney, living and working in the Providence, R.l., area). Jona t h a n G reen ­ span (who lives in Manahattan, where he works with the investment property group of Coldwell Banker), Bob K i n n e y ' 79, and Bob Ham 79 • Carol Sly works i n Boston as a graphic designer of real estate proj ects, lives i n Newton, and is still quite active athleticaJ l y: she recently participated in her third Pan Massachusetts Chal­ lenge bike race, w hich goes from Sturbridge to Provincetown • Amy B u tcher has also been ac­ tive with the Pan Mass Challenge. She now works in outdoor education a t Greenfield Community College in Massachusetts • Penny J anzen, who does copy editing with IDG ews in Boston, Lives in Dorchester and enjoys interesting travels as part of both work and play • An attorney in Bos­ ton, Liz Shackford lives in Dorchester, too, with Maggie Murphy 78 • John and Susan Erb Pit­ tenger, married in October 1 987, live in a house they are renovating in Winchester, Mass. Susan works in development and public relations for the Essex I nstitute in Salem and John is a manage­ ment consultant • Larry Sparks is a math

teacher al Watkinson :\ l iddle School in Wethers­ field. Conn . • John Monroe spent the summer of '88 at Stanford Lniversitv l\ledical Center's Ba­ sic Science Course in Ophthalmology· he ha no\\· returned lo work in his ophthalmology residen­ cy in San Diego • In July Mark and Pa t t y \'alavanis S m i t h moved into a house t hev built t hemselves (all t he way from clearing th� lot to finish carpen try) in AndO\·er /\ lass. Patty has a new job doing press and outreach programs for the Secretary of Stat e s public affairs division in Boston • C y n t h ia Auman lives in l\lanhattan ,,· here she is director of marketing with Plumb Pearson , Inc. Cynnie is no,,· quite active with the Alumni Fund as well as the New York Alumni Club • Liz Martin is rumored to be traveling about t he world/country writing books • Li nda P h i lipo bu i l t a new house i n Richmond, \ 'a., where she works ,,·ith Citibank • Our 1 0th vear rellJ1ion is creeping up on us. and we seem lo l;a,·e "lost" several of our classmates (including Peter Golden. w hom I tried to contact la t time I \\·as out i n Los Angeles). Ii you know anyone ,,·ho has been hiding in the woodwork please let us know.

Also. please keep me posted on anv and all changes i n your life.

C lass secretary: DIANA H E R Rl\1AN N ,

360 E. 65th St . ;t3 H, New York

:--J .Y.

1 002 1 .

81.,_-_ The response to the questionnaire was mar­ velous! I will have enough news to fill the column for the next year • Joel Harris is living in North Yarmouth. !aine, with his wife. Natalie, and son, Morgan. He is a money management officer with Fleet Bank i n Portland. where he is especially in­ ,·olved i n t he municipal bonds market. Joel and Talie also are busy restoring their home, which was built around 1 800 • Scott Vendersal l, who is pursuing an M . B.A. a t BU, was elected assis­ tant vice president for commercial loan for In­ dian Head Bank and Trust. Portsmouth N . H . He and his wife. Amy, are parents of two daughters, Allison and Andrea • Lisa Nolan is back home in Metuchen, N.J . , after spending t h ree years in England'pursuing a master's in medieval art from the Courtauld I nstitute of Art in London. She is working for the Cloisters, a branch of the 1etropolitan M useum of Art • E m i l y L i n ­ demann S t u a r t lives i n Cumberland, Maine, and teaches biology at Bonnie Eagle High School.

She says Colby reminds her of Sugarloaf and of lots of fun with her roommates. She laments her lack of free time these days. with daughter Maryette keeping her and husband Robert busy • Dar lene H ow land C u rrier and hus­ band Jeffrey are busy in t he theater. They are both gearing up to perform in a musical called "Roar of the Greasepaint'.' Darlene is program di­ rector a t Welle5ley Community Children's Cen­ ter, Wellesley College, where t hey built a model childcare center on the college campus; it serves 90 families with children between three months and three years • Joe Kel liher is a senior proj­ ect manager for public housing development in t he Commonwealt h of Massachusetts, but he wrote to me from Katmandu w here he was busy "trekking around, visiting monasteries, and se�­ ing the base of Mt. Everest." From t here he goes on to Tibet in search of enlightenment • Peter Bishop wrote that his memories of Colby include

Carl :\'elson a man with much good h umor and patience. Peter is livmg in Sherbrooke Quebec and works as secretarv-treasurer a t Ea tern Townships Produce Ltd. · distributors of Sealtest dairy products and Boischatel Spring Water. Hi wife .\ 1ary ! Lynah 801 is director of liai­ son • Ken neth G a l l recei,·ed a Ph D in nucle · ar physics from Boston Un iversity in June 1 9 8 and curren tly hnlds a faculty position at Han·ard i\ledical School in t he department of radiation medicine. He was married to Loui e Perk in� on September 3 1 988. J o h n Boole 1best man\ Bri­ an Heneghan 80 Paul :'\o,·ak 80 Ken Seidel 2 and J o h n Taylor 3 were in a t t e n · dance • Kat h r yn Critchlow L u t h e r a n d hus­ band I\ lark both �eceived ,\ l .S. degrees in geology from the U niversitv of North Dakota in ;\la\' · 1 988. !\lark has rec � ntlv started a job a an en ­ ,·ironmental scientist with the :\'orth Dakota State Health Department. Kathryn participated 1 n a seven-day 80-mile whi te-water rafting trip and is now job hunting. Their daughter ,\ legan Rose is four years old • Kathy Ennis C u t ter and husband Alan ha,·e just bought a condo in Jamai­ ca Plai n . Kathy is a student working on her i\ I B.A at Boston Uni,·ersity and is mother to Samuel Jason. Alan is a real estate broker and ren tal manager. Kathy says she mi ses the close­ ness at Colby. especially with her sisters i n Chi Omega • Fred Madeira and his wife Tricia were married in lay 1 988 at BU chapel. Fred is working as an account executive at Compuser\'e and Tricia is an a sistant sales manager for AT&T. They are Ji,·ing in the south end of Bos­ ton • Fai t h Bra m h a l l has been promoted to a new position as group disability sales consultant :-.Jorthwestern Mutual Life. This job gives Fait h t he opportunity t o d o a great deal o f traveling. She writes of fellow Colbyites: Mari Samaras \\'hite and husband Charlie '80 were expecting their t hird child in October. I n !\lay she visited in Maryland with Tory Sneff who is ,·ery involved with Le Peep Restaurants. Jn San Francisco she caught up with Kim Wadk i n s. who is till work· ing in human resources at MCI. Kim also keeps active as captain of a soccer team. More recen t­ ly Faith was in New York City. where Kathy Dor­ n ish and H o l l y M a c k i n A n z i n i are both working. Sou nds to me like Faith has the perfect job! • Daphne Geary Waggaman and hus­ band William are living in orwalk Conn .. and have started their own company renovating and restoring old homes in Fairfield County. Their second child Natalie Pierpoint. was a leap year baby born February 29, 1 988. Colby brings her memories of her favorite professor. Ed Kenney.

C lass secre t a ry : PAU L A H I N C K L EY BU R RO G H S. RRl. Box 11 A, Hillsboro. N . H .

032.+�.

I hope you all received my lengthy newsletter once again I apologize for its delay. You looked in vain for your name if you didn't write. t ow that I have finally completed that tome, there isn t much fresh news to report, so I welcome any and all updates. There is however. a lot of academi­ cally related news • At last report. J e n n i fer Batson \\Ti lson was a career counselor at Dart­ mouth College. Jenny has now completed her master's of education in counseling from the

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H o l e , Wyo., a n d t h e o t h e r on Paradise I s ­ l a n d i n t h e Bah am as\ I r e t u rn e d t o assume m y new p o si t i o n i n p e r so n n e l as t h e c o m p a n y ' s e m ­ p l oy m e n t m a n ager. A n y bo d y need a job? If so. give me a c a l l ' I f nol, give me a c al l anyway! Ke ep in t o u c h - a n d enj o y y o u r spr i n g .

Jac kson

C lass secretary:

E M I LY E. C U M M I N G S,

7-1 M y r l i e St. # 1 , Bost o n , Mass. 02 1 1 4 .

I have very little news to work w i t h this time around, but I'll share what is available. "Now" means Thanksgiving/Christmas season, although as you read t h is you have already exchanged the stuff you received under t h e tree that didn't fit well . You might already have made (stuck to or broken) some New Year's resolutions. But most importantly, did you write and mail a letter to me about your latest-latest anything? I would like to get that news out to the rest of the readers of this section of '83 class history • Let me tell you a bit about my fall experience at Colby. All class cor­ respondents and other "volunteer leaders" were invited to the College in September to workshops relative to the type of activity for which we volun­ teer. I t also happened to be Homecoming Week­ end. Apart from the fact that some t hings never change at Colby ( P resident Cotter is still there,

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Amy Page Oberg '80 and her lrnsband, David, are giving kids a fai r chance. Regis­ tered foster paren ts, the Obergs have been opening their doors and their hearts to child ren in need of a family since 1 985. In the period si nce, four youngsters have been taken i nto custody by the Obergs under the foster care program: Joshua 16).

Charlie 1 5 ) , Tony ( 3 ) . and George ( 2 1 . Although the Obergs always accept a foster child with the hope of future adoption , the situation they currently iace highlights some of the di fficulties i nherent in the foster care program - as well as the couple's forti tude and dedication.

Only two of their foster chil dren , Joshua and Charlie, are adopted. Tony and George have been under foster care. But George's father has been pushing for cus­ tody on principle, even though the parents have not visited the boy for more than a year, and a custody trial was in the works for late winter. Should George's biolog­ ical parents' rights be terminated, the Obergs will adopt the child i n the spring. How­ ever, Tony recently vvas ordered by the court to be placed with his biological father, a decision the couple finds unsettling in view of their hopes to adopt and raise each foster child they lake into their family.

Amy and David Oberg have a cozy house i n Barrington , where they live with thei r seven children: David, Jr. (71. Kitty (6). Joshua, Charlie, Sarah (4), Tony, and George. Amy Oberg's day is a busy one, of course. But she has a purpose beyond keeping occu pied. Oberg says, "So many people say, 'I think I want to adopt some­ one who needs a home.' So many people say that but so few do it. The kids we have adopted could have had signi ficant problems. A child still in the foster care system by the teen years is just a waste. We're doing i t because the k ids need love."

In an age of two-income families and the career woman, Amy Oberg has "adopt­ ed" a more t raditional position. Occasionally she is confronted by the differences between her life c hoices and those of some of her peers. "Sometimes it's real frus­ t rating lo me. People do measure worth by you r position.'' But, she says, 'Tm happi­ er i n my job than most people I see. I feel that I'm doing very worthwhile work.''

In spite of some of the d ifficulties they have had to face, the Obergs are over­ whelmi ngly positive about their experience. "It's absolutely wonderful," Amy Oberg said. "These k ids need a chance at life . . . . And they appreciate everything, wheth­ er i t's a sweater when they're cold or oatmeal when they're hung ry!'

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and we know him: the library is still there, as are our dorms and frats-turned-dorms; and e\'en some of our favorite and not-so-favorite profes­ sors are still there) . a lot has changed. Take, for example, that beautifu l and architecturally per­ fect Student Center of which we alums are very proud. That building has become a center of ac­ tivity for the tudents. I was fortunate enough to be a part of that activity when, on Friday night a major event seemed to be happen i ng. Lip­ synching was the focal point of the momf'nt, and everyone seemed to enjoy the antics of the stu­ dents performing. Sure, we had gone to smokers.

But we did not all go. At this particular event !which, by the way, featured beverages of the al­ coholic tap kind and of the nonalcoholic on re­ questj, it appeared that every student on campus must have been jammed i nto the building. The windows were open. and legs hung out' I had seen the Student Center with a reserved audience sitting quietly as President Cotter spoke. but I never had slipped on a beer-covered floor there before. For all the world, the place melled and sounded like the parties we '83ers can remember being held in w hat are now "commons:· When I asked the student who checked student IDs as the kids and alumni entered if I had, indeed, entered a frat party, I was chastised and immediately cor­ rected. She was appalled. "That is the f-word!" she said. 'We do not have those anymore:' W hat was odd was that those students, for all their own pur­ poses, were living in those smelly, sticky. totally enthralling moments we lived - but in another era. I wasn't going to argue with her, for fear she might have me thrown out. Kel l y Dodge and Liz adeau were there with m e and we took it all in together. We left amazed, and we pondered the whole evening. The scene we had seen proved to us that five years and many structural and ideo­ logical changes had occurred. Think about it • Anyv.•ay, I want to report that our own Todd Coffin was the fastest miler in the first Forest Av­ enue Mile, edging U. Maine graduate Myron Whipkey. We still love to beat those guys! • Con­ gratulations are also in order for John Lemoine and his brother, David '79, who were awarded de­ grees in May from the University of Maine School of Law in Portland • If you want or if you are unable to write, give me a call. I'm at 207/2443678; at work, 207/276-3322. Until next time, happy spring!

Class

s e c re t a r y :

M ERC HANT,

04660.

SALLY

LOV E G R E

Box 244 B, Mount Desert, Maine

5lh reunion: J u ne 9-1 1 , 1 989 • Keep those let­ ters coming! • Mary Colbath recently finished her M.Ed. at Harvard University after receiving an M.A. from M i ddlebury College and teaching Spanish for two years i n California. She is presently an administrator at Westover School (a private secondary school j in M i ddlebury.

Conn. • Lisa Kuzia Krueger and her husband, Warren '82, have given birth to their first child.

They live in Cambridge. Mass. • This past sum­ mer B r u c e i c h o l son was in Seeley Lake, Mont., along with Phil Cusick '85, building a log cabin. Bruce has been keeping i n shape by com­ peting in triathlons. H e also enjoys fishing and backpacking. He spent five weeks in Australia and ew Zealand - al l this after t h ree and one half years on tour i n the Marine Corps as a first

l ieutenant stationed at Cherry Point, N .C. • continues to stay in touch with classmates Sara h C h a p i n R e a r d o n M a r y W h i te, A l icia Curtin , and M a u r a Cassidv. The gang travels every year to events like Mardi Gras and skiing at Loon J\ lountain. Cathy is l iving in New Haven. Conn . and is an office manager at Conran's as well as an assistant coach of the Yale women's ice hockey team • I t was good to hear from Cecil C. Hol stein. who wrote from Riehan.

Switzerland, where he had been involved in in­ house investment banking. specifical ly the retructuring of the Latin American debt. He was transferred to Sao Paulo. Brazil. at the end of the year • Lt. Fred e r i c k Canby, D.D.S. , is i n Long Beach, Calif., working at the Naval Dental Clin­ ic. Fred graduated from Georgetown University School of Dentistry i n May 1 988 • R a n d a l l \Vilmot graduates from the Yale University chool of Architecture with a masters of architec­ t u re in the spring of 1 989. He has run into Lance and Anna White H a n son '85 in San Francisco Calif. • Stephanie Curtis is in D.C. teaching at a pri,·ate school for learning disabled kids the Kingsbury Centre. Stef has been tra eling and working for caterers in her spare t i me. learning cooking s k i l l s and earning some extra cash • Jessica G w y n n e is engaged and has been working at Cunningham. Henderson & Papin. Jessica attends the Colgate Darden School of Business Administration at the Universitv of Virginia • Get psyched for our five year' re­ u n ion ' Regards!

C a t hy C o n i f f

C lass secretary: KATHRYN B E RG.

0 1 940.

M.

SODER

5 mith Farm Trail, Lvnnfield i\1ass. .

is still flying around Africa. \\'hen I last heard from h i m, he was searching for "Pyg­ mee elephants" with two Pygmee trappers in the Central African Republic. This March a Nation­ a l Geographic film on which he worked.

"Serengeti Diary," will be airi ng on public televi­ sion • In Boston, Swing Robertson and Peter Coley '86 are living in a great townhouse on Bea­ con Hill. Swing is working for a real estate de­ veloper on the South Shore, and Peter is working for Drexel Burnham • Jamie Stone and Doug Brown are living i n Brighton. Jamie is training to be a trader for Shearson-Lehman Brother , and Doug is going to BU, getting his Ph.D. i n phys­ ics • Steve and Marcy Reed are living in Arling­ ton, Mass. Steve was preparing to attend law school i n the fall • M a r k Howard is working for Shearson-Lehman Brothers in J ew York and attending YU part time for his M.B.A. • Eddie Maggiacomo is a builder and general contrac­ tor i n Providence, R.L • Chris Murphy has started his own real-estate appraisal business in New Hampshire, F & M • Vic k i W h i ted has quit her job at Maine Medical Center in Portland to pursue a degree at USM to teach Eng­ lish • J u l i e Sands is engaged to Chris Causey, and they plan to be married June 2-t in Minn eapo­ lis • Cindy Jeck is getting her Ph.D. in pharma­ cology at Columbia and will marry Jeff Davis .:in lay 27th • Anne Cookson is living in Arling­ ton, Va., and working in D.C. for the International Monetary Fund.

Tom C laytor

C lass secretary: AN

MEG WH ITE.

Day St., Apt. 205, Somerville, Mass. 02 1 4-t.

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The response from the Class of 86 was over­ ,,- helming this fal l . Thanks to all of you for be­ ing such wonderful correspondents • Andrew Ma ley and wife Margaret Da\·is 85 ha,·e mo,·ed from New Hampshire to Connecticut. where An­ drew has joined his father and brother \\' il liam 81 in th� famih- business . -\ndre\\" also ,-olun­ . teers at the Lo�g Wharf Theater 111 :'\e\\· Ha­ ven • Steve Bren nan got engaged to Syh-ia Kuzia and relocated to \"irginia where he 1s work­ ing in real estate • I lona l\'.agy Burd e t te was married in June 1 988. Karen Clark was her maid of honor • S h e i l a Du ffy Da,·is and Andrew Davis '85 were married i n eptember and are both working in ew York City • Tom Ox.holm was appointed director of alumni relations at \'er­ mont Academy, his alma mater after working in the retail field for a while. Congratulations to Tom also on his recent engagement to V ictoria Brigg 87. An August 1989 wedding is planned • Eve ­ Ly nne Ermer and husband Scott Russell 83 be­ came proud parents of a daughter Andrea born in August. Andrea joins brother Erik at home in Salisbury, Conn. • Some of our classmate give reports from school. Doug Scalise is in his final year at Boston Uni,·ersity's School of Theology where he will be getting a master s of di,·ini­ ty • H e i d i Stone h i l l has decided to explore a more creative and ,-isual path in science at the l niversity of Pennsylvania. hoping to combine her interests in art and nature • Stephen Potts is at U Mas working on a master's in geolo­ gy • Arlene Kasarjian reporting for the first time since graduation, is studying at Boston Col­ lege, preparing for a career in public service. She has been working for the i\!assachusetts Depart­ ment of Public Welfare and interning with the federal go,·ernment i n Washington • Cabot P h i l brick is enrolled in the J\ L F.A. program at Syracuse after spending a year in a film­ production program at the Art Institute of Chica­ go • Bob Cobuzzi, a full-time grad student at Loyola Uni,·ersity ledical Center is working on his Ph.D. . . . and really enjoys it' • C i n d y Ardi­ to is in the doctoral program at the Uni,·ersity of Hartford in the field of clinical psycholo­ gy • Rick Frank is studying at Tufts Dental School and has visited with classmate ;\larc D oo l i t t l e at BrO\rn U n iversity .\ledi cal School • Bren t, J i l l (Stasz) , and Bradley Hanis have relocated to Washington D.C. after Brent recei\·ed a master s in medical biochemistrv from Hahnemann Univer ity. He is now enroiled in Georaetown's School of .\ledicine for thei r M . D./Ph.D. proaram. Jill sen·es as assistant to the executive director at the National Black Child De­ velopment In titute. Brad turned four last sum­ mer and is enjoying his new school • Molly Couch i teaching at the Gulf Stream School with an outdoor classroom across the street from the Atlantic Ocean' he continues a busv. fitness program involving aerobics tennis, swi mming and ice hockey in an all-men s no checking league • Joey Marcou x is in his third year of teaching at Lawrence Junior High chool in Fair­ field. Maine. Joey also ha a busy coaching sched­ ule • After spending two years teaching at Kent School, . Scott Perry teaches i n Portland at the

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\\'a ynOctL' Schnnl • Spring 1 988 brought H eath­ e r Freeman ba k homl' to Vermont. where she

publi sher\ assistant and gets to do plenty of skiing • U pon �uccessful completion of a train­ ing program with Merrill Lyn h, Eva n Dangel is finally assisting his own clients with financial planning and personal invest ments • M ichael Dobbs was promoted lo prod uct manager for Colgate-Pa l molive and has transferred to West Germany for about three years • Geoffrey Alexander is a senior production planner al Bath Iron Work • Suzanne Sta h l is a video promo­ tions co rdinator al C - pan, localed in Washing­ ton, D.C. • G race Ser izawa Brown is the owner of Etc. & Co., a design. compu ler­ consulting, and print-production company. Grace had a wonderful even-week visit lo Japan last summer, where she was reu nited with her mot h­ e r a fter 17 years • Another ent repreneur, Rachel Bra n d ze l , has a w holesale handmade greet ing card company and a retail store in Sea t­ t le, where she and husband Kim Stuart Rogers '85 live • H a m i l ton Brower has traveled exten­ sively for J. Walter Thompson. Some recent trips have included slops in London, Paris Vienna, Mexico, and the Far East. He also made a more local slop to see classmate Helene Landers in Hollywood, Calif., where she is breaking into act­ ing after being in a few commercials • Finally, Lee Sca mmon is a headhunter in retail markets close l o her new home in Waltham. She also reports on R ic h Deer i ng, who is working for John lartin's Manor in Portland - a nd no doubt doing the mambo in the Playroom there! • That's all the room l have for now. More news 1 11 the next magazine. Best wishes to everyone1 ba

C lass sec re t a r y :

G R E TC H E N

A.

BEAN

The H a rvey School, Route 22, Katon ha, N .Y 1 0536.

I'd like to congratulate all of t he following on their recent marriages. Debra Dunn married Andrew Wal ker of H arwich, Conn., in June 1 988. Debra is pursuing a doctorate in psychology at the University of Connecticut • Jen Shackett mar­ ried Thomas Berry, a 1 986 Dartmouth grad, also during the month of June • In July, Abby La us­ ier and Tim M u r p hy were married. Abby is working for the law firm of A rnold, Morgan & Lausier in Lynn, Mass., and Tim is employed by the Bedford Administration Hospital • J i m C a n field married Karen Bonander of Troy, Mich., last September. Jim is currently employed t h rough the financial development department program at Digital Equipment in Maynard, Mass. • In November J o h n Bookis married Deborah Seferiadis. John is working for Morgan Guaranty Trust in New York • More news comes in about some of our classmates who are con tinuing their education and some who a re continuing the education of ot hers. Andrew Rudman is working on his master's degree in Latin· American studies al Tu lane. He had plans to ret urn to Argentina last summer to research the democratic t ransition . Andy loves New Orleans and welcomes any classmates who pass by lo stop for a visit • Connie G a l la gh e r left Portland. Maine, last summer, w here she was teac hing special children, lo ret u rn to her home slate of Californ ia. Connie has started working

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on her master's in educa t ion al Stan ford she has ne clas� with Eric H eiden I • On the c rea­ tive side, G regg Bach and Janet Dean represent­ ed Colby in the Anthology of Fi r�l Annual Hamilton College Intercollegiate Read ing Se­ ries • Last year E.J. Perry was a substitute teac her in the Lawrence 5chool system in Mas5achuset ls, where he was also coach ing the Law rence High track team • Pam Blanchard joined the staff al Vermont Academy this past fall She works as an a5sistant in the admissions of­ fice • In the almost two years that we've been out, ome of you may have switched jobs and my info may be old news, so drop me a line. Richard C u t h i e is living in Beverly H i lls Cal if., and is work111g as a marketing manager for Cecil Say­ dah Co., a maJor tex tiles firm 1 11 L.A • Peter M c K i n ley worked in ew Hampshire for the Conservation Commission as a summer intern in 1 988. He wa5 lo produce a brochure of recreation · al tra i l s in the Concord area • Krissie Ralff lives 1n Boston and works for Sheraton Interna­ tional Corporation. She has been in their public relations depart men I si nce spring 1 988 • K i m Ryan 1s in Ne\\ York working for the publications Wo111e11s \ Vear Daily and W She's meet ing some really in terest ing people, and last year she had the opportunity to interview the Pel hop Bovs • Elaine Mu llen is still in 1ew York but is 1;ow working for the Bank of Tokyo in the finan­ cial service department. Shes happy she's gel ling the c hance lo use both her East A ian and eco­ nomic5 majors • Another classmate who 1s put­ ting her major lo good use is Me rri d it h Be ld en .

J\1errid ith, who has sett led into her own house in Freeport, J\la111e with her adorable dog, Bud. is working as a biologist with Eco-Analysts.

Among other things, the company is involved in real estate development permitting hazardous waste site assessments, and aquatic and terres­ trial habitat research • Steve an born has been very busy up in Bethel, Maine H e's leaching bi­ ology al Gould Academy and is a supervisor in the dorm he lives 1n Steve has also begun a stu­ dent service organization that is assisting elder­ ly people, and he still finds time to work with local grammar school chi ldren • Also in Maine, John Moore has taken on an exciting challenge with his older sister. The two of t hem bought the State Theater in Farmington This is the first time in over 50 years that the local movie house won't be operated by a big corporation. Best of luck to you and your sister, John 1 • Scott Bates has be­ come another addition lo Port land, Maine. He's been living here for the past year and a half. working for the Sheridan G roup in project management • Also in the Portland area, C l i fford Dow enjoys his work as a stockbro­ ker • As for the rest of you who haven't seen your name in this column yet, let me know what you're up to. I want to hear from the whole class at least once before our fift h -year reunion.

C lass secre t a r y : L CY T. LENNON, 269 Commercial St. , Apt . 4F, Portland, Maine 04 1 0 1 .

88-The news I've gathered is mostly job-related, so forgive me if this column is not the most thrill­ ing . . . please d rop a note to me or the Alumni Office. Even though many left Waterville last May worried about their joblessness, clearly such

worrying was unnecessary. Allison Mu rray, who was sure she'd "never get a job," is now living in Boston and working for Boston Financial Data Services as a correspondent. So far the best news for her is that her shift has been switched from an 8·00 lo a 9: 15 starting lime • Also in Boston is K r i s t i n Shea, who is involved in an executive training program with one of the area's leading retail companies • Rob Young is nearby; living in Newlon, he's a store manager al Herman's Sports. Visit him and perhaps you can get a dis­ count on a new pair of skis • Those w hove re­ mained in Maine include Greg C u n n i ngh a m , To m Fe rri s, Tim Wissem a n n ,

Tom Jes ter .

Todd

B la ke,

and N a n c y Pa re. Tom Jester lives in Watervi lle and commutes to Augusta, w here he works for the Stale Preservation Society. Also in Waterville, Todd is the assistant to Colby's stu­ dent activities director, John Farkas. The rest are in the Portland area. Tim is an agent for The Equ itable Financial Services, and Nancy works al Portland's district attorney's office. I'm not ex­ actly sure what Greg and Tom Ferris are doing, but by the sound of their active social lives, they are doing j ust fine • M e l i ssa R u ff is in Palo Alto, Calif., working for Beyond War • David Scan­ n e l l is with MassPirg in Springfield, working with two of the area's colleges, promoting student awareness on a variety of issues - ultimately, as Dave says. to "encourage them to become more responsible citizens.' He is very busy and enjoys the student atmosphere a lot. From Dave I col­ lected a variety of information. (Of course he told me to confirm all of his news, but as I don't work for the phone company, you'll have to take it as I heard it.) Dave's roomale at Colby, Brad W i r t h l ives in Dover. 1 . H . , where he is a management trai nee for Hanaford Bros. • Karen H e n t z works as a technical writer in the Boston area, Sara D i c k i son works for a "headhunting" firm, and Ellen Kra u se has entered the blue-suited world of banking • Amy Lumbard lives in Bea­ con H i l l and works for an architect u ral firm • Je f f Pac k m a n is in Arlington, Va., and working at the University of Maryland in biolog­ ical research. He is living with Steve Tep l i t z . who is in his first year of law school at George Washington University • Likewise, K a t h leen B ra d l ey is pursuing a career in law; she i s at the Vermont Law School and plans to concentrate on environmental law • Also i n school is Jill Hes­ lem; living in Am herst, Jill is in her first year al the University of Massachusetts, doing graduate work in French • Cathy Cohen, an avid psy­ chology major, is pursu i ng her field at Tufts University • On the other side of the academic fence are G a r re t H i n e ba u c h and B i l l Reed.

Garret is leaching English at the Berkshi re School, and Bill is at Eaglebrook in Deerfield, Mass., teaching history and coaching soccer and skiing • Rumor has it that M a t t Kennedy is "not ready to wear a blue suit yet" and so is ap­ plying for jobs aboard cruise ships • Finally, I heard from Lauren Frazza, who is living i n Greenwich Village, N .Y. , pursuing a career in jazz, studying voice, and taking a few fine arts class­ es. To support herself she works as a singing waitress - surely Lauren is t he only singing wait­ ress our class can boast of! • Well, that's it. I apologize if any of the news is outdated, but be­ cause of printing time and the winter holidays, the deadline for this column was Thanksgiving.

Clearly some of the above-mentioned might eas­ ily be involved in something dramatically differ­ ent by now.

C l a s s s e c re t a r y : E M I LY I SAACS, 1 5 Warfield Place, Northampton, Mass. 0 1 060.

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L E S T 0 N E S Charles Ross Devin

'86

to Jennifer Lynn Plas足

ter. June 4, 1 988, 'Trumbull, Conn.

Robert A. Kenney '86 to Beth Meryl Schwartz

'86.

June 4, 1 988, Boston, Mass.

Wendy Elisabeth Lapham

MARR I A G ES Terence J- Reilly

'75

Howard

Emmons

'82

to Sheila Flanagan,

Swampscott, Mass.

to Jane M. Irvine, April 2,

Susan E. Wechsler

'82

to Stephen R. Atkins,

May 29. 1 9 88, Boston, Mass.

Ross Moldoff '79 to Arny Beth Price, July 1 7, 1 988, Wellesley, Mass.

Denise H. Kay

4, 1 988, Durham, N . H .

James Brophy '80 to Lynne Rawlins

Sandra L e e Thornton

'85,

May

t o John Henry

Diane M. Farrell '80 to Grey Parkin Guthmann,

Dawn Anne Gale

to Charles Brent LaCasce,

Fryeburg, Maine.

Reading, Mass.

'82 to William E .

Wright, June

19, 1 988, Weymouth, Mass.

'86,

Katherine Elizabeth Kamm

to Suzanne Bourne

'86

'87 to Timothy Robert Aiken,

February 20, 1 988, Reading, Mass.

'87

to Judith L.

Palumbo, June 1 1 , 1 988, Cranston, R.I. Tasha M. Allyn '88 to Mark G. Falcone, July 24,

1 988, Skaneateles, N.Y. James E. Donahue '88 to Linda Lee

'85

to Martin D.

R.

June 1 8, 1 988, Pawtucket, R . I .

Andrew Robert Spirito, Jr.

'84

McNary. Jr. , May 7, 1 988, Manchester, Conn.

'85

Pearson

'86 to Jonathan

June 2 5 , 1 988, Skaneateles, N Y.

Jean Elise Kroeck

to Lawrence C. Parker, June

1 4, 1 988, Danvers, Mass.

Julanne M. Cully

'87,

Michael E. Marchetti

1 988, West Palm Beach, Fla.

'84

Russ

Cran足

'88,

ston, R . I .

Davis, April 30, 1 988, Sewanee, Tenn.

B I RT H S A son, David Fisher, to Stephen Fisher

'69.

1\vin daughters. Hilary and Mercedes, to Susan M . Rennau

'73.

A son, Mark Edward M c

ulty, to James and De足

borah Marson McNulty

'75,

September 1 6,

1 988.

A daughter, Kathleen Elizabeth Hamilton, to David and

Karen

Blough

Hamilton

'76,

November 3, 1 988.

A daughter, Jocelyn DeWire, to Jacqueline and

E Michael DeWire I I I

'77,

September 30, 1986.

A daughter, Alison DeWire, to Jacqueline and F. Michael DeWire

I I I '77,

January 5, 1 988.

A son, Connor Edward Green, to Richard and Melanie Dorain Green '77, September 23, 1988.

A son, Cory Joseph Rosenfield, to Kenneth and Janet McLeod Rosenfield

'77,

September 9,

1 987.

A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Haines, to Jonathan

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1988, the wedding day of Wendy Lapham '86 and Jonathan Russ '87. Front row: Lisa Rathke '87, Susan Talburt '85, Sheila Getman Sherwin '87, Nell Draper '87, Scott Lainer '87, Matthew Moran '87, Stephanie Hart '85, Jonathan Russ, Wendy Lapham Russ, Evan Dangel '86, Sue Roberts '86, Pamela Parker 1881 Liz Rowe Lapham '63, Nancy Cunneen Boardman '61, Joan Hoffman Theve '59, Robert Theve '58. Back row: Robyn Iblstrup, Rick Iblstrup 186, Glenn Wilson '85, Giles Welles '85, Bruce Cole '86, Ibny Stiker '86, Scott Perry '86, Matthew Hartley 186, Kimberly Burnham '86, Zaki Nashed '87, Tum Gratzer '84, Genevieve Hammond '86, Bev Lapham '61, Candace Castle Marsellus '61, Edgar Boardman '61.

Blue sky showed over Skaneateles,

NY,

on June 25,

'79 and Joyce Glassock

Haines

'79,

April 9,

1 988.

A son, Eric Timothy Eschner, to David and Nan足 cy Kennedy Eschner

'80,

September 1, 1 988.

A son, Daniel Stephan Cobb, Jr., to Daniel and Janet Blau Cobb

'81,

May 27, 1 988.

A daughter, Laura Lee Sturtevant, to Alan and Bette Smith Sturtevant

'81,

August 20, 1 988.

A daughter, Andrea Frances Ermer Russell, to Scott Russell '83 and Eve Ermer '86, August 1 5,

1 988.

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1965. He was past president of the Vergennes Ro­ tary Cl ub, l Peter's Par ish Coun i i , and �everal educational organ11al ions. His late brothers, John L. Berry '24 and Mark J. Berry '35, both at tended the Coll ege. H e 1s survived by his wife, Kuthlecn, a dnugh ler, and lwo grand­ children. q a lewide

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Bert \\'be ' 1 6 , September 1 9 , 1 988, in Liberty,

at age 96. H e was born in New Brunswick, Canada, and gradua ted from Houlton H igh Sthool bciore coming lo Colby, where he was a 111e111ber of Alpha Tau 0111ega fraternity. H e worked as a l i 111ckeeper a n d accou nlanl for the Bangor and Aroostook Ra ilroad from 1 9 1 - until his reti re111enl i n 1 957. H older of the Bosto11 Post Cane as the oldest resident of Liberty al the li111c of his death, he leaves several nieces and nephews.

I\ la I l le,

\'iolct Shaw Scott ' 1 8 . September 29 1 9 8 8. in Caribou I\ laine al age 93. Born in Fort Fairfield.

I\ laine, he a t tended Caribou H igh School and graduated fro111 Boston Uni\'ers1ty after allend­ i n g Colby. Al the Col lege she was a membt.'r of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and later served as her class age n t . An 80-year member of the G ray lemorial ni led l\1elhodisl Church of Caribou she \\'as a member of the Un ited Method ist Wo111 en and was active in numerous com munity aL­ tivi ties. She is survived by a son , Sheldon S. Scott a sister, two grandchildren, and four great­ grandchildren.

H e l en Bald w i n Gates ' 1 9 August 1 5. 1 9 8 8 al age 92 he was living in Orange City. Fla., al the lime of her death. She was born in Verona, N .J . , a n d a t tended Foxcrofl Academy in Foxcroft I\ laine. While at Colbv she was a member of Chi .

0111ega orori ty and p resident of the YWCA. he received her master s degree in religious educa­ tion from Boston Un iversitv and worked for 2:5 years a a missionary in Bur ;m1 . During this time she applied much of her efforts to teaching Eng­ lish and religious education at Judson College in Rangoon Burma. She was also dean of women at Ewing Christian College in I ndia for four years.

Her husband, the late Gordon E. Gates ' 19 was professor of biology at Colby f ro111 1 94 8 to 1 95 1 .

Su rvi vors include her daugh ter, Evelyn Gales Moriarty ' 4 4 , her son -in -law Ja111es W. Moriarty '43, her isler, V i rginia Baldwin Kinney '26, and her brother-in- law, Paul Gates '24.

Reta Wheaton Belyea '2 3, June 13, 1 988, in C:t r­ ibou , Maine, at age 9 1 . Born in H ou l ton, Maine, she attended high school there before com ing to Colby. where she was a member of Sigma Kap­ pa sorority. She taught a lgebra a nd geomet ry in the Caribou school system for over 25 years and was a member of the Maine Teachers Association.

She was a lso a member of the U n itarian U n iver­ salist Church of Caribou. She is survived by her sons, Robert W. Belyea '5 1 and Frederick W. Bel­ yea, eight grandchildren, and three great-grand­ children.

James F. Berry '2 7, September 9, 1 988, i n Mid­

dl ebury, Vt . , al age 87. H e was born in Jefferson­ v i l le, Vt . A h istory major and member of A lpha Ta u Omega at Colby, he received his M .A . from the Un iversi l y of Vermon t in 1 93 1 a fter study al Trinity College i n I reland. H e married Constance Canning Berry and was principal al Sherburne and G roton high schools in Vermont . After nine years as principal al Vergennes High School, he resigned in 1 952 lo lake a post with the educa­ tion division of Field Enterprises, publ ishers of World Book Encyclopedia. Active in local politics, he was a candidate for mayor of Vergennes in

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La u rice E d e s Merriman Chandler '28, August

26, 1 988, in G reenwich Con n . , al age 83 Born

in angerville, Maine, she lived in Bangor for most of her life. She worked as an assistant librar· ian at 11 usson College and was a tireless supporter o f the slate of l\1aine In 1 92 7 she married Earl L. Merriman '25. Fol lowing retirement she lived in Englewood. Fla. She is survived by her second husband Roland. three sons, including Robert '50 and Richard '57, a daughter, Ruth Merriman Bro\\'n '52, a daughter-in -law. Nancy Weare Mer­ riman '52. 1 2 grandchildren, and two grea l­ grandch 1 ldren.

Dona ld 1 1 . M i llett '2 8, September 1 7. 1 988, m Bucksport, laine, at age 82. Born in Hanover, l\1<1ss., he nt tended high school in pringfield. Vt Al the Col lege he was a business administration ma_1 r, a member of the deba ting society. and a c harter member of the Colby chapter of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. He received his M.B.A. from H a rvard Un iwrsity in 1 9 3 1 and went on to be­ come office manager of Maine eabord later St. Regis Paper Co H e was also treasurer of Eastern Corporation Ht' rt'lired from Central Maine Pow­ er in 1 97 1 . He served in Bucksport as mayor and council rhair for even ye<:rs and was chair of the executive board of the Bucksport Regional Health Center and of lhe Hancock County Planning Commission. His father was Robert N Mil lett Cla s of 1 893 and his mother was Katherine H obbs l\.lillett Class of 1 894. H e is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jennie Dunn M i l lett 3 1 , a brother. William '34, a sister, Ruth Mil lett Mak­ er '36, a daughter Pa t ricia M i l lett Kent '62, t h ree grandsons. and two grea l-grandchildren.

Corona H a t c h MacRae '29, June 3, 1 988. She

lived in Walton, N .Y. , with her daughter, Phoe­ be Adams, who survives her.

Pa u l i n e Bakcman '30, October 5 , 1 988, at age

Born in East Jaffrey, N . H .. she at tended Pea­ hody High School 111 Peabody, Mass. A Phi Beta Kappa at Colby, she was an English and biology major who, she once remarked, "was in practical­ ly everyt hing permitted the female except beau­ ty contests:· She went on lo receive an M.A. in social work from the Un iversity of Chicago and earned a certificate in applied psychiatry al Wil­ liam Anson Institute of Psychiatry. She was a psy­ chiat ric social worker for various bureaus of social service in Illinois, on t he East Coast, and in Germany. I n retirement she l i ved in Alton N . H .. where she was actively involved in the New Ha111psh1rc Poetry Society, writing poetry of self­ anal ysis and social tnsight. She also played the cello in several musical groups. Her father and mother, Robert A. ·0 1 and Jennie J u ne Dunn Bakeman '03, her grandfather, trustee Francis Wales Bakeman Class of 1 866. and many cous· ins attended Colby. She is survived by her sister­ in-law, Jessie Bakeman .

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Joseph F. Theriau l t '2 8 , August 1 1 , 1 988, in

Methuen, Mass., at age 8 1 . H e was born and edu­ cated in Haverhill Mass., and was a chemislrv ' major and member of Delta Upsilon fraternity a t Colby. He also attended Boston U niversity and received his M .S. in biology at the U niversity of N ew Hampshire in 1 937. H e taught biology and chemistry al H averh ill High School for 16 years until 1 945, when he began work as a chemist for the Robert Gare Co. of Bradford, Mass. In 1 969 he began a 1 0-year period of employment in the research department at Continental Can i n ew London, Con n . He was a member of nu merous organizations, i ncluding the American Chemical Society. H e is survived by his wife , Amelia, a daughter, and two grandchildren.

David K ronq uisl '29, August 1 9, 1 988, in Fort

Myers, Fla., at age 83. He was born in Ru111ford, R . I . , and attended East Providence H igh chool.

At the College he was a member of Kappa Delta R ho fraternity. His work as a salesman look him to Honduras with the United Fruit Company be­ fore he sett led in Florida, where he lived for 40 years and was employed in retail sales, advertis­ ing, and life insurance. He was his class agent for the Alumni Fund from 1 949 to 1 954. He leaves his wife, Maria Louise, a daughter, two sons, four grandchi ldren, and two great-grandchildren.

Lucius H . Stebbins '30

L u c i u s H . Stebbins '30, July 1 8, 1 988, in Damariscotta, Maine, at age 8 0 . He was born in Colchester, Con n . After graduating from Colby, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, he was employed by Central Maine Power Co. for a short while. H e then taught i n a high school in Woodstock, Con n . In 1 94 1 he moved to Fairfield, Conn., where he taught Eng· lish at Roger Ludlowe H igh School. He received his master's degree in psychology from Fairfield U niversity and was the school psychologist and guidance counselor at Andrew Ward High School until his retirement in 1 969. He is survived by his w i fe, Thelma, a daughter, a son, a granddaugh­ ter, and a great-granddaughter.

II '33, August 3, 1 988, al age 78.

Born in Medford, Mass., he attended Worcester Academy. Al Colby he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. I n 1 933 he was the lead­ off runner on t he Colby mile relay team t hat set a College record lasting 43 years. After Colby he

John W. Locke

attended Harvard University and entered the U.S. 1 avy in 1 942. Following � career w i t h British Petroleum Oil Company in New York, he was an industrial engineer w i t h the CETA Program in Hackensack, N .J . H e retired in 1 983, making his home in Glen Rock, N .J. H e is survived by his wife, Mary, a son, t h ree daughters, i nc l uding Mary Jean Locke Ready '72, a son-in-law, Michael Ready '74, and seven grandchildren, including Sheryl Reynold '87.

Harrison F. W i l l ia m s ' 3 3 , August 1 0, 1 988, in Portland, Maine, at age 78. H e was born in Marl­ borough, Mass., and attended Braintree H igh School. A member of Lambda Chi Alpha frater­ nity and Kappa Phi Kappa at the College, he was an outstanding runner and held several track rec­ ords, including the 1 933 mile relay record. He was a sales representative in Maine for the in­ stitutional division of General Foods for 20 years.

H e was a n active vol unteer in the Boy Scouts of America for 60 years and on the National ki Pa­ trol for 30 years. H e was also a Red Cross first aid instructor for 30 years and a Kiwanis Club mem­ ber for 32 years. H e is survived by his wife, Rena, three daughters, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

'34 , October 1 1 , 1 988, in Middletow n , Con n . , at age 77. H e was born i n East Hampton, Conn., a n d attended Wilbraham Academy. At Colby he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and was captain of the track team, running the second leg on the record­ holding 1933 mile relay team. Following service d uring World War II as a corporal in the U.S. Ma­ rine Corps, he became president of the Cape Cod Line Co. and treasurer of the Bevin-Wilcox Line Co. H e was active in local c h u rch and commu­ nity activities. H e is survived by his wife, Thel­ ma Chase Bevin '3 1 , a son and a daughter, a brother, two sisters, and seven grandchildren.

Abner G . Bev i n , Sr.

was a member of the American Chemical Socie­ ty and t he Institute of Food Technology. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Nora, and a daughter.

M. Armstrong '39, September 16. 1 988 in K i ngsport. Ten n . , at age 7 1 . H e was born in Waterville, Maine, and graduated Phi Beta Kap­ pa from Colby. H e went on to take his doctorate in physical chemistry from Brown University fol­ lowing war-time work on the 1\lanhattan Project.

H e also did postdoctoral study at Brown and joined the research engineering department of Tennessee Eastman Co. in 1 948. At the time of his retiremen t i n 1 982 he was a sen ior research c hemist. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and was a member of the Moose Lodge.

He was predeceased by his sister. Ruth Arm­ strong Bickmore ' 33. He is SLir\'i\·ed by his wife Alice. two sons. four grandchildren a sister, Louise Armstrong Ray '30, and four brothers. in­ cluding Donald '26.

Gerald

Leon J . Bra udy '39 , August 19. 1 988. in Pitts­ field, 1\lass .. at age 69. He was born and educat­ ed in New Bedford, Mass. After Colby, where he was a busi ness administration major and presi­ dent of Tau Delta P h i fraternity, he received his M .B.A. from Harvard School of Business Ad­ ministration in 1 94 1 . During World \ ar II he at­ tained the rank of captain, serving as a finance officer i n the Army Air Force. For 40 years he owned a certified public accounting office, oper­ ating the business from his home in Greenburgh, N .Y. . w here he lived since 1 952. H e also taught accounting at i\lercy College in New Rochelle for five years before retiring in 1 987. He was a found­ ing member of the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale. Predeceased by his brother. Selwyn '34 he is survi\·ed by his wife. Shirley. two sons, a daughter, a brother Ralph .t3, and a sister.

H . Sawyer '34. June 2 1 , 1988, in Waterville.

Maine, at age 80. He was born in Arlington, Mass.

While at Colby he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He served in the Army during World War II. He is survived by a great-nephew.

Geoffrey Sawyer, and a great-niece, Carolyn S. Vaughan.

John

R o b e r t B. C a r r '-+O August 3. 1 988 in \\'ater­ \'ille. �laine, at age 69. Born and educated in :'\or­ ridgewock 1\laine he was Phi Beta Kappa at Colby and earned his 1\ ! . Ed at the College Ai­ ter attending the University of Chicago. he sern:'d as principal of i\ laine high schools in Flagstaff and Oxford. During World VVar II he attained the rank of captain as a meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force.

After a year of teaching mathematics in Dedham Mass . . he mo\'ed to Auburndal e, Ma s .. and taught at Frank F. Day J unior High School in ewton for 32 years. His sister 1\lary Carr Pow­ ers '42, died in 1 983. Survivors include his \\·iie Jane Leighton Carr 42, a daughter. th ree sons and five grandchildren.

1 c L a r e n '-+2 . February 16 1 983. in Laconia, . H . , at age 6 1 . Born in Berlin N.H., she attended Berlin High School . Upon graduation from Colby she studied laboratory technique at 1\lary Hitchcock Hospital where she worked as a medical technologist. Sun·ivor i n ­ cluded t w o sons, K e i r and Ian, a daughter Les­ lie, a sister, a brother, and two grandchildren.

Norma Brosius

Gerard Begin '42, September 9. 1 9 8 in \\'ater­

\'ille. Maine, at age 7 1 . Born in Augusta and a life­ long resident of Waterville he was a Postal Sen·­ ice employee for 3 5 years. H e was a \"eteran of World \Var II. A first euchari tic minister at St. Francis de Sales Church, he was acti\' e in the church's charismatic renewal mo\'ement. He is survived by his w ife, 1\larguerite, two sons. in· e l uding James '67, two daughters, and se\·eral grandc h i ldren.

'48, August 9, 1 988, in Portland, Maine, at age 68. Born in Rumford i\laine, he attended Stephens High School where he won all-state basketball honors. After two years at Colby he joined the United States Ma­ rine Corps in 1 942. serving for four years in the Pacific in World War I I and playing for service baseball teams with Ted Williams and other ma­ jor leaguers. W hen he returned to Colby, w here he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity he lettered in basketball and football and played on one of the strongest baseball teams in the Col­ lege's history. H e was an A l l -State center fielder in his j u nior and senior years and was selected in 1 946 for the East squad at the East-West Col· legiate All-Star Game in Fenway Park. He taught for one year at Lawrence High School in Fairfield, Maine, then accepted a teaching/coaching posi­ tion at Livermore Falls. Later he taught U.S. his­ tory, coached footbal l . track, and baseball for 24 years, and for 1 4 years was athletic director at Rumford H igh School. In 1 980 he was elected to the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. He was a mem­ ber of the American Legion, the V F W and the Sons of Italy. He was predeceased by his wife Lil· lace, in January 1 988. Surviving are two daugh­ ters, Wendy Blanchard and Heidi Waken a son Dean, a stepdaughter, five brothers, nine grand· children, and one great-grandson.

D o m i n i c "Mico" P u i i a

Ray Gardner '3 5 , June 1, 1 986, at age 72. Born Ray Goldstein in Colchester, Conn., he attended White Plains H igh School in ew York. After graduating from Colby he began a 26-year career in the U.S. Army Corps of E n gineers, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. H e con­ tinued his education at Jones College in Florida, where he received a B.A. i n accou n ti ng i n 1 973 and a B.A. in business administration in 1 979. He was business manager at a medical complex in Orlando, Fla., for six years and managed Kissim­ mee Gas Co. i n Kissimmee. Fla . . for fou r years.

Prior to his death he lived in an apartment in the Los Angeles, Calif., house of his son, Eric Rollins, who survives h i m .

Pauline Prati Plaisted 39 P h j f j p . S i m o n ' 3 6 , A u g u s t 3 0 , 1 988, in Bra n ­ ford, Conn., at a g e 74. He w a s born in Boston and attended Brookline H igh School . A member of Tau Delta Phi fraternity while at the College. he went on to earn his master's and doctorate de­ grees in food technology at the University of Mas­ sachusetts. H e was an Army captain during World War I I and a self-employed manu facturer of food products in Scarsdale, .Y.. until 1 973. He

H igh. For 22 years she was a teacher and mathematics department head at Fro n t i e r Regional H igh School in South Deerfield 1\ lass.

She was also an accomplished m u sician begin­ ning her music career as a flutist at the age of 1 2 with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She played the ilute in the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra for 30 years. She is sur\'i\·ed by her hus­ band, Robert two sons. two daughters. and fiw grandchildren.

Pa u l i n e P ra t t Plaisted '39, August 29, 1 988, in G reenfield, Mass., at age 70. Born in Portland, Maine, she attended Deering High School and graduated with h ighest honors in mathematics.

A member of Sigma Kappa sorority and the mathematics club at Colby, she wen t on to teach mathematics i n Kezar Falls, Maine. Later she taught at Falmouth H igh School and Deering

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Ric hard E. Bagg�. J r. '53 1\u g u'>I 14 1 977 at age ..i;- Born 1 11 \J e\\ Yo rk :\ Y he at tended Cen t ra l

H igh School m Ph1i<:tdelphia Pa. Following gradu­ a t i o n he >e n ed i n the C . Army. Al the time o i h i > death he \\'a> a resident o f Phi ladclph1a Sur­ ' 1 \ ' 0r, i nc l uded h i s wife, Te resa a brother a sis­ ter, a n d a COU>tn, Robert E Baggs. Jr 6 5

the ba�eball team. A l ter attending Emerson Col­ lege and :--J o rtheas l e rn U n i ve rsi ty. he beca me prc,idcnt of G.A Le,·ow Co., a fa m i l y-owned busines, i n New lon, Mass which di stri butes microprocessing equipmen t . He received a mas­ ters 1 11 social work from Boston U n iversity 1 11 1 978. He erved a admi1mtrator of the Little Peo­ ple's School in West ewton. a school for language- and he<.1ri ng-impa i red children, which he c o- fo u n d e d . l i e was p n.' , t d e n t of t h e Metropol itan Center f o r pecch a n d Hearing Therapy 1 11 West Ne\\lon from 1 970 lo 1 980. He was a l so a former member of the Massachusetts Depa rtment of Pu b l i c H ea l t h ta�k force that set gu ideli nes for speech and hearing centers i n the slate He was a past president of the l\1assac hu­ setl5 H eanng Aid S o c i e t y and a frequent lecturer for many educational inst i t u tions. government agencies and health sen ice providers U pon his denth of ly mphoma a scholarship fund was set up 1 11 h i name a� a memorial Sun·i,·ors i nc l ude his \\'tie J u d i t h Lee Holtz Levow ' 5 5 . two c h i l ­ d ren two grand.:hi ldren a brother-1 n-law Ger­ ald L H nlt1 52 nnd a sister-in -law Gale Holtl Golden 61

\\'a l ter Ba rry mi th '60 December 20. 1 984 in G l en Cove NY at age 4G. A busine s adm i11 1 s­ tra t wn ma_1nr at the College he began work in l 9G2 as an 1 n lerYiewer and counselor for the :'\cw York Stale Department of Labor Division of Em­ ployment and became a supervising senior em­ ployment counselor He was awarded an t\1 .S. 1 11 guidance counseling from Long I land U niversity 1 11 1 Y70 He held variou lay pos1 twns 1 11 c h u rch affairs and was active 1n t he Boy Scouts. Survivors included his mother ,\ \ rs. Wal ter R. Smith Prisc i l la " Patsy" Shi rley Castarieda ' 5 3 April ..i. 1 986. at age 5 5 . Born in Ne\\'lon t\1 ass. she

graduated from Gould Academy in Belhl'I t\1aine. After Colby she attended the n 1ver 1ly of Geneva, w i t zerland, and Florida Technolog­ ical U n iversilv and worked for a const ruction company in VV inter Park, Fla. A victim of m u l t i ­ p l e sclerosis, sh w a s im·olved in n umerous 1as­ sac husetts c h u rch and community organizations i n addition to her activism in support of the phys­ ically d i sabled. She served as a m em ber of Col­ bv's A l u m n i Cou n c i l i n t he late 1 960s. Survivors i � cl uded a brother Robert Shirley, and two sis­ ters. Susan Barrie and Elizabeth Day.

Barbara G uernsey Eddy '54 , August 22, 1 988. i n Salisbury Conn . , at age 55. She was born in M iddleton, O hio, and raised i n Lexington, Mass.

At Colby she was an English major and a mem­ ber of both Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Cap and Gown honorary society. She married C. Ar­ t h u r Eddy '54 and in 1 963 moved to Sal isbury to raise a fam i l y. I n 1 9 70 she became a reporter for the Lakeville jo11mal weekly newspaper and later becam e its copy edi tor. She was her Colby class secretary from the late 1 970s to the early 1 980s.

She was very active i n her community during this time, serving on t h e board of education, t he plan­ ning and zon ing commission, and the school building com m i ttee. She is su rvived by her hus­ band, their two sons and two daughers. and her mot her.

Barry Levow '54 , August 5, 1 988, i n Weston, Mass .. at age 57. H e was born i n New Bedford, Mass., and wa educated at New Bedford High School and Hebron Academy i n Maine. A busi­ ness administration major at Colby, he was presi­ dent of Tau Delta Phi frate rn i ty and a pitcher on

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!er of The New York Times Company. He was a resident of New York City He 1s survived by his parents. Joseph and Annette Singer.

Elisabeth Ross Blackwell '78, August 13, 1 988 She lived in Delavan, Wis. Al Colby she was ac­ t i ve in a t hletics, especially women's ice hockey Survivors include a brother, Clifford E. Blackwell Ill. Charles H igginson, J r . '8 1 October 8, 1 988, in Boston, Mass. at age 30. Born and raised in Co­ hasset , Mass. he was a graduate of the Potomac School in McLean, Va .. and Phillips Academy i n Andover, t\1ass. After graduate work at t h e Lon­ don c hool of Economics, he began work as a fi nancial analyst at Kidder Peabody in ew York A member of the Cohasset Yacht Cl ub, he was well-known in the area for his performance in the International 1 10 Class and was fleet champion for two years At the time of his death he worked as an oi i t rader for Catamounl Petroleum Corp. in Boston. He leaves his wife of four months, Su­ san his paren ts. and t h ree brothers.

H O N O R A R Y

Louis Booker Wright, Litt.D. ' 59. February 28, 1 984 at age -1. A successful reporter, editor, professor research scholar, and author, he was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. for 20 years. After h i s retire­ ment i n 1 968 he became a consultant for the Na­ tional Geographic Society

Jens Fredrick Larson, L . H . D. '64 , May 6, 1 98 1 , Dawn E. M i t hel l '6 l September l 2 1987 i n Lewiston. :'llaine. at age 48 Born in Lewiston she a ttended Auburn schools. graduating from Ed­ \\'ard Little High chool i n 1 957. A member of Al­ pha Delta Pi sorority she graduated cum /aude from Colby She was a self-employed accountant in Boston for many years and was a member of the Amercian Society of Women Accountants.

Surviving is her brother, Radcliffe G. Mitchell, Jr

Richard I . Spector '70, 1 984 al age 36. H e was born in Patterson N .J . . w here he at tended East Side H igh School H e worked i n :--J e w York Ci ty.

Survivors i ncluded his fat her, 1orman, and two brothers.

Richard T. Brindle '7 1 , October I , 1 987. in Den­ ver Colo., al age 38. H e was born and educated in Haverhill, Mass. H e received his master's of di­ vinity degree from Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in Newton, Mass., in 1 974. H e served as associate pastor of the First Congregational C h u rch in New M i l ford, Conn., from 1 974 to 1 977. H e became m i nister o f the W heal Ridge Congregation of U n i ted Church of Christ in Colorado in 1 977 and served there until his death.

H e worked actively w i t h the Denver U n i ted Fund, the American Red Cross, the Salva t i on Army, and the Big Brother/Big Sister Program and was well known in the area for his dedication to you t h and family concerns. Survivors include his parents, Arthur and Anne Brindle. and h i s sister.

P h i l i p S. Singer '7 1 , October 2, 1 987, in Boston, Mass., a t age 38. An admin istrative science ma­ jor a l Colby, he went on to work as a complrol-

in Wi nston-Salem, N.C. Larson was well known as one of a group of architects and college presi­ dents work ing lo i mprove the architect u ral character of liberal arts colleges when he was chosen by President Fra n k l i n Johnson and the Board of Trustees in 193 1 lo be t he master plan­ ner and chief architect of Colby's Mayflower Hill campus. Larson's plan, a combination of Beaux­ Arts principles and Neu-Georgian style, created "an ideal small college in the best New England traditions" and was followed fai t h fu l ly for de­ cades of building on Mayflower H i l l .

P h i l i p C. J e s up, L L . D. ' 7 3 , January 3 1 , 1 986, i n Newtown Pa., at age 89. He was born i n Man­ hattan, N Y., and was educated a t the Ridgefield School in Connecticut. H e went on to Hamilton College, Yale University Law School, and Colum­ bia University. A member of the bar i n New York and in Washington, D.C., he joined t he faculty of law at Columbia in 1 925, became the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diploma­ cy in 1 946, and cont i nued teach ing for 15 more years. During that period he also served as U.S. representative to the United Nations General As­ sembly for four years and was a member of t he I nternational Court of J ustice in the Hague for nine years. A l t hough he was attacked by Senator Joseph McCarthy for having "an u n usual affini­ ty for comm unist causes," d uring h i s four years i n the U n i ted · ations he won high praise from his colleagues, particularly for his role in ending the Berlin blockade. H e wrote and edited sever­ al significant books in the field of i n t e rna tional law. A l Colby he delivered the Com mencement address for the Class of 1 973. He was survived by his wife, Lois, a son, a brother, t h ree grand­ chi ldren, and four step-grandchildren.

L E A D E R S H I P

William R . Cotte r , p resident Peyton R . Helm, vice president for development and alumni relations Board of Trustees H. Ridgely B u llock '55, chair Gerald J . H oltz '52 Richard L . Abedon '56 Howard D. Adams Robert N . Anthony '38 Frank 0 . Apantaku '71 Alida M illiken Camp (Mrs. Frederic E . ) Levin H . Campbell Clark H. Carter '40 John G . Christy Susan Comeau '63 Warren J . Finegan '5 1 Robert A. Friedman William H. Goldfarb '68 Rae Jean Braunmuller Goodman '69 Nancy Spokes Haydu '69 Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80 Robert A . Marden '50 David M. Marson '48 Lawrence C . M c Quade Paul D. Paganucci Wilson C . Piper '39 David Pulver '63 Sarah Janney Rose '76 Robert Sage '49 Richard R . Schmaltz '62 Robert E . L . Strider II Barbara Howard Traister '65 Edward H i l l Turner William D . Wooldredge '6 1 A l u m n i C o u n c i l Executive Committee R. Dennis Dionne '6 1 , chair Victor F . Scalise, J r . '54, vice chair Susan Conant Cook '75 Libby J . Corydon '74 Jerome F . Goldberg '60 Douglas S. Hatfield '58 Cory L. H u mphreys '85 Jonathan L . LeVeen '73 John D . Ludwig '58 Scott F . M c Dermott '76 Deborah Marson McNulty '75 Germaine Michaud Orloff '55 Donald J . Short '64

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