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INSIDE COLBY The news arri\·ed in the inno·

cent c loak of a postal change· of-addre form, confirmed by a computer check: M ark Hubbert '79 ( who is profi led on page 6 ) has returned from S ioux Falls to his company' home office in New York, leaving Colby w ith· out alumni in outh Dakota. Can Colby consider itself "national" when it lacks a si ngle alumnus or alumna in an entire state ? How will the compet ition exploit such a vOid ? Won't our friendly rival to the outhea t, Bowdoin, find a way to brag that two of it alumni reside in outh Dakot a ? I n an issue ofColb)' dealing with the con umption of a lco hol on campu , planning the College's future and even war and peace, the loss of outh Dakota may seem insignificant to ome. Yet in a ea of problem both vex ing and complex, th i conundrum come with a olu· t ion at once ob ious and simple: Hubbert h i m elf attests to some of South Dakota's advan tage , e pec ially for fam i l i e . Colby has 1 9, 300 loyal alumni ("in 50 rate and 59 foreign countrie ," we used to a y ) . M ight o n e o f them consider movi n g t o Sou th D a k o t a ? m e b o d y w h o i a l re a d y nearby, perhap ? We probably cannot pare any North Dako tans-there are only three. But what about one of our 1 7 Ne bra kans, 29 lowan or 97 Min· ne orans? Several l ive not far from the South Dakota border. M ay be one w o u l d agree to commute or at least opena outh Dakota postal box fo r appearance's sake.

Cover Story 16

A Change Is Brewing: Once considered a \'irtual rite of pa ,age in college l ife , alcohol use by students is coming under increasing scrutiny. At Colby, administrators and student leaders are working to reduce alcohol's appeal in a nuwber of ways, including sponsoring "non-alcoholic" partie l ike the one pictured on the ctwer. pg. 6

Features 6

Inside Outsider: Professor Robert Reuman, who will retire later th is year, looks back on a life spent living-and teaching-his ideal of nonviolence.

War and Remembrance: I n the spring of 1 94 1 , the war that would change their future-and c laim four c lassmates-lay ahead for Colby's graduating senior . But some members of the Class of '41 heard the d istant guns.

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Departments

Periscope

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New from the Hill

Faculty File

Student L ife

Paging Parents

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Colby, March 1 99 1

Approaching the Year 2000: As Colby looks ahead, the Planning Committee has drafted an interim report on the challenges the College will face in the next centur .

G ift & Grants

Books & Author-

M ule on the Move

Alumni At Large

Obituarie

Letters

PERISCOPE Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from hi weekly campus newletter, FYI.

An Acre a Pain

20yearsago theCdby catalogueclaimed

lntramurals Back on Track

After last winter'

1,400 acre::. for Mayflower Hill, a figure no doubt bei:ed by de\'ek1p

dhc�1nrcnt, the all-ncll' intramural �pom, rrogram, led by as i:,tant

ment and PR folks intent upon selling buildings for the new

men', ha:,kerball coach Gerry McDowell '76,

campus... For guilt or a better reason, I 0 years later the nurnher had

off m a great

'tart ... Fall ream, included 20 Clied re-;iJent1<il hall ream in soccer

dropped to 900 . . . Then came Stan Nicholson, erstwhile adminis

and 12 in fomb;11l... Winter team

trative vice president, who loved ro tramp the back acre� ... In 1988

rnlleyhall and habkt:thall.

include indOl)r coed ,,occer,

tan declared that the actual numher wa- 570... "Add a :ero tll the number of Hein: ,·arietie ," he would say... Although ::.rnne were relucta nt m accept the sudden loss of all thi, land, none had the wit

Herr Mac Wird Unterrichten

or the transit to make a challenge ... On the e1·e uf hi retiremenr,

director of Career ervice:,for the past nme year , will return

tan ga\'e back some of the acres, but no one rememhered how many, leaving folk who fill out forms to freelance once again . .. College

Jim Mcintyre,

to full

timl'. teaching in the fall ... An as ociate profe "or of modern lan guage (Germ<1n ), J 1m iomed the Colby faculty in L 976.

direcrorie,, and guidebooks thi year \'ariously and sharnelc,::.ly -;how Colby's acreage ranging from 600 to 900 acre� ... Nn more! G ene Chadbourne, a wi:ard in the Phy�ical Plant Department, ha used up cale maps and a computer to determine, once and for all, th;1t the contiguous land on Mayflower Hill amounts to 714 acres (714.35, to be preci·e) .

tan' Heinz formula no longer works

. . Remem

Freshman Out of Favor

1, w imrwve rhc .,ratus of women in the nation's campu es . . . The

her, instead, Babe Ruth's total lifetime home runs.

AAU

Hands Down

Certainly there is no more por,ular Colby

icon rhan the magnificent rower of M i l l er

L ibrary...

The Chronicle of Higher

I 7 that a growing number of college· are mnving away from the use nf the term "fre hman".. . The aim of rhc effort, led by the Ameri c an A''ociation of Un 1 1-ersiry tudenr , Education reported on October

And, as all

Colby folks know, part of rhe wonderful rower lore i,, rhar the four faces of rhe c lock have seldom, if ever, been synchroni:ed ... Alas, rhe time warp has wor ened in recent years, the result of gears worn

ll'hich ha�

270

memher institution , i:, urging colleges to

adopt " fir:,t-year tudent" m read . . . A recent Colby task force on

the �taru> of women ha:, made the · ame recommendation, now under

rnn:,ideration byrheCo llege's Educarional Pol icyCommittee ... The term "fir>t-year student" has been adopted by a nu mber of U . college> and i s widely used o u t 1de o f this country.

by a half-century of turning... The hands were removed in midJ anuary and clock part were ent offtoFreeportfor repair ... We can only hope that the work doe not produce ab olute perfection .. . Keep watch .

To Name a Few

The Council for Advancement and

upport of Education named Profe:,sor of Economics Tom Tietenberg Maine Profes or of the Year . . . It'� the second con ·ecurive year that a Colhy professor ha garnered the honor . . . ociology and anthro

To the Test of

Ba resCollege administra to rs, who madcfiling

AT score optional for admissions cand idates six year ago, have

one-upped them elves by an nounc ing that they w i l l no longer require any

tandardized tests at all... Officials at the Lewiston

school say that neither SATs nor achievement tests are strong predictors of college succe ·s .

. Bowdoin abolished the SAT re

qu irement in 1969 . . . Colby continue to be lieve that the

AT and

achievement tests are one of many helpful predictor , useful both for

pology professor Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is rhe recipient of rhe Loyola- Mellon oc ial Sc ience Award, presented annually to a di tin

guished oc ial c ienr ist as a means of promoting the di c ipline w i th i n the l i beral arts commun ity. .. Pauline Wing, veteran secretary i n the sciences, admissions and financ ial aid, has retired after 16 year of service to Colby.

. Sue Conant Cook '75, director of Alumni

Relation , led a most successful campus-wide Thanks-Giving drive to collect toys, clothing and food for area relief agencies.

some adm i sions dec ision and for course counse l i ng after students arrive.

A Bird in the Hand

Moosecellaneous

Recent calculation

than 50 percent of today's Colby

how that more

tudents spend ome time during

The Senior Class has politely

their four years studying abroad . . . The College put its new brush

withdrawn it invitation to President George Bush to be its om mencement peaker . . The White House had said " maybe ," but

chipper to good work in January as employees were invited to bring

couldn't give a final word until well inro the spring . . . Clas officers, mi ndful of the late tum-down by the president a year ago, were

their Chri tma trees up the hill for mulch i ng .. . Dan Lauria of the TV series Wonder Years, a high- chool c las mate of Dean of rudenrs

worried the same would happen to them, thus reduc i ng their options

Janice Seitzinger, was on campus for a visit and a talk i n the fall . . . He said he would try to sport the Colby name on a sweatshirt

for a speaker.

in some future epi ode.

Colby, March 1991

NEWS FROM THE HILL Seniors Tackle "Real-World" Economics T

he next t ime the President's Counc il of Economic Ad\'isers gathers to hammer out a federal budget proposal, some of the a(h·ice they study will come from Mayflower H i l l . Last month, Assistant Professor nfEco nomics M ichael Donihue '79 attended the Model Comparison Seminar in Philadelpia with the "big guns" of economic forecasting from major research uni,·ersi ties, who are paid to predict economic trends. Donihue brought with him the Colb)' Economic Ow look, a I 0-page newsletter produced by the tudent of Economics49 3 , Senior eminar in Economic Foreca t i ng. "We\·e never had a Colby model tn take to [the eminar] before," Donihue ·aid in J anuary. "The results of the seminar are taken ro the President's Counc il. These are the piece · of information that go into the budget-making proces ." Colby' economic foreca ting seminar, now two year old, i Donihue' brainch ild. He say h is object in initiating the Cl)ur-e was to give tudents on the brink of gradua tion a glimp e of the day-ro-day chores of practicing economi t . "They put together the theoric they have learned, plu the mathematic and the -tati t ical tools they have, to get a handle on the way economi ts work," Donihue aid, describing the course. "They learn about presenting economic forecasts-and some of the risk a ociated with doing that." Among tho e ri ks for last emester' Economic 493 tudent wa the chance that a M iddle Ea tern war would de ·tro their predictions almost before the ink was dry on the new letter. The Colby Economic Owlook predicted that the gulf conflic t would be resolved through negotiation, and, if a war did erupt, that ho tilities would la t only two months. "Widespread destruction in the Middle Ea tern oil field will most l ikely k indle a world reces ion," the CEO says. "Thi same reces ion could wor en if the war is prolonged or expanded ro include I rael and thereby a majority of the A rab rate . Regard le , our foreca t of the war scenario is basically opColby, March

1991

timist ic and appears the most l ikely outcome if a conflict occur . In either scenario, the U .S. economy is foreca ·t to rebound quickly in the th ird quarter of 1 991. for disheartened consumers and srruggling businesses, there is a light at the end of the tunnel." "You want to know how the pred ictions turned out ?" Donihue said with a laugh during an inten·iew four days after the Uni red States went to war with Iraq. "It's too early to tel l ." Whether or not their forecasts prove

accurate, Donihue ><l\'S, the students :,hould h;1\·e an edge on their peers in the job and graduate school markers. "Last year, the people who graduated with th is course lm rhe i r r ranscripts typica lly got better jobs," he -aid. "They can sit down in an inten·ie\\' and ay, 'G i,·e me a dara ct and l can produce a forecast in a reasonably short amount of time.' That makes them unique, d ifferent from economic majors coming from other institutions."

Trio Granted Tenure Daniel H. Cohen (left) was promoted to 1975 and earned his master's and doctorate from Indiana Universiry. He has caught at Colby since 1983; Tamae K. Prindle (center) was promoted to associate professor of modem languages. She is a

Three faculty members were granted tenure in Jamtary:

associate professor of philosophy and religion. He graduated from Colby cum laude in

graduate of SUNY/Binghamton. She holds two master's degrees, one in English from Washington Seate University and another in Asian studies from Camell. Prindle received her Ph.D. in modem Japanese literature from Camell and came to Colby in 1985. In 1986 she was named a Dana fellow and in 1988-1989 was acting chair of Colb)' 's East Asian Srudies Program;

Kenneth A. Rodman

continues as associate professor of government. A graduate of Brandeis Uni<L•ersiry, Rodman received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology in 1983. He came to Colby in 1989 from New York University, where he had been an assistant professor in the department of politics.

Thespians Enter

;1ter Fe,t1,·.i l ;H rhe

Regional Contest A p l < l\ �t;1gcd ;H Cnlhy I.ht 'cmc,rl'r gur

111 \'t•r,ir\ ,,f Ne\\'

ri.ige with Rmaura, wh,11n he h.i-, never 'ecn.

H<1mi''hin.' 1n i,HL' January. "We're \'L'r)' rniud ,1f thL' ,h,111'," ,,1 iJ 1-luward Kn<HKL', prnfc,,m nf r1erf , 1rm i ng

hec<llne cnrangleJ in e;Kh nther'>' lm'L' li ve;,,

;1rr- anLI a memher uf rhc c ;1,r . "The f1r'r yc;1r

a currain c;1JI in Nell' Ham11,hirc durm.i.: J;m

ll'c\·c u,ed \'1'it1ng ,1rt1'r' h;h prnduceLI '>uch

PLm ;md ar the same r1ml' heired rhL· Pcr

l'xccllcnr eJucmi,m;d rc,uJr,."

Tht! \ 'cn.:ricm T w111.s, hy Carlt1 c;, ,n J, '111,

hmning Art' Department l aunc h a new ,·iv

Tl·m1ugh ,lLJJ circum-,rnnce'>. the two men wnh hilariou' re,u l t, .

Koonce ><iys he\ l'roud of the way rhc Col hy <lCtor' h;n·c m,1,te reJ the ex<1ggcrareJ mm'L'' requireJ m cummed1a ddl'arre. "One ch�1rncrer fling' hi'> hoJy c v ery\\'h crc, C\'en

inng arti't rnigr;1m ,in an up hc;H.

r.1kc, fo111 il1<1 r c<11ncd1-<if-crrllr> line'. Ir ''

int,1 a hack flir. Bur he' alway' 111 ctmrrnl."

J u l i e CJ, 1c ll , ll'h, "r,·ci.di:c, in the quic k 111,1,·ing, h ilar i u u ' thl'<1tcr ,,f commcJ1a Jd/'urrc, rnught 'tuLknr' her cr;1fr <lllLI d1-

rhl' 'r"n· ,,f ;1 ,ct ,,ft\\ 111, ,l'r<1r<1tcd ;it h1rth

he .,;11J. "They hcn'L' m<htercd the footwork,

'' hn, brcr 111I1fr ;md c o1nc1den ta ll 1 , " ind Lii'

rhc h<.1mJ�,·,1rk that i-, needed for controlled,

111 Vcrun;1 .11 rhe '"me rime [(1 meet rhc1r

hcl1e,·ahlc character' anJ the \'Oice rn ma rc h

rccred them 111 Tho?\ ·�ncrim1 T!!'lll., l .i-r l!c

fi;mCL;e,. Tun1nll, the Cl()' ,J 1c k cr, rJ.111, [()

ccmhcr. The pL1y \\'<1> then ch o,l'n tl > nim

m;i r ry hc;1utiful fkat ricc 'cc rct l \ . Zanctrn, ;1

rh o,L' c h <1r,1crcr>.

rctc m thl' rcg1om1l Amer i c;in Colkge The-

cuunr ry huy, pur,uc' ;1 pre-Mr;mgcd m<1r-

In aJd1r1tm m rhc r l ay cnmrcritinn,

rw,1 \/cncuan Tw1rn acwr,-iunior Glen Porter ofRrockton, Ma�' · · anJ senit1r Maggie H c i ghr>, Ohin-wcrc

Li c cy nf CJc,-clanJ

lll\'lteJ ro a udi r inn for I rene Ryan Act ing SchuJa r,h 1r'·

SOAR Promotes Racial Awareness When Alison Davis '93 entered a cam

pus parry recendy, she was snubbed by some of rhe other gue t . "There were Hi.panic American .tu dents there , " Davi remembers, "and a

oon

a· I walked in they aw that l had blond hair

and wasn't one of them." I n fact, Davi i Argent i n ian , as i

revealed in her

l ight

accent. " I ' m probably more outh A merican than any of them, " he said. "It just so hap ren that I have blond hair.

o we all can be

g u i lty of racism. " I nc ident

such as the one Davis de

scribed are part of the impetus behi nd the formation of the Colby chapter of

ociety

Organized Against Racism ( OAR). Colby i

one of 29 SOAR member inst i t u t ion

throughout the Norrhea t. The larger OAR group organize

conferences and seminars

on campu racism and publi he a quarterly Sharon Lab1ck '91

Rachel Bradley

'93 played " Beatrice" and Sara Regan '93 "Pedrolino" in the Perfonning

Department's production of The Venet i an Twins.

Ans

newsletter. The Colby SOAR chapter i publ ish ing The SOAR Viewpoint, an occa ional

Colby, March 1 99 1

new-letter that examines i sue affec t ing the

done . "! feel that the people \\"e most need

Colby community.

reach weren't at the _OARUM," he said,

stronger. Together, \\'e're alreaJ\ changing

"but it \\"aS \·ery constructi\·e. �OAR has

the campus a\nireness."

"It is very easy for a

Im of people ro say

made a presence and SORH

i' gctrtng

that there is no racism at Colby," V1ewpoinc begin . "What a lot of people mean when they say that there arc no race prnblems at Colby is that there have been no overt act. of v iolence. Which i good. Bur that doe· not mean that racism does not exist. We l i \·c in a racLr oc1ety and Colby College i no exception " OAR works \\"ith d ifferent n:ition al itie and re l i gions to talk about how rac ism affects u , " said member Ta-Tanisha Jame-;

'93. "And I don't mean. j ust African Ameri can l ike my elf,but'u ' asin Colbystudenrs, 'u ' as in worldw ide. We're trying to promote awareness in people and get them to think about racism them eh-es." The member of

O A R are careful to

di tinguish their group from the

tudent

Organi:ation for Black and Hispanic Unity though the two do overlap to ome degn:e. "We're eparate from

OBHU in that

they mainly include African American and Hispanic A merican upport group ,"Jame aid, "but they also promote diver·ity and education of the campu

about national ity

awarenes . " " O B H U tend to i olate the majority tudent ," aid

OAR leader J oel Mackall

'93. "There i a tigma attached tO it becau·e it mo tly represents black and H i panic , o no one [el e] feel comfortable approaching them. . . .

OAR i

uppo ed to be for every

one." ln N ovember,Colby'

OAR member

held a " OAR U M , " an evening of kit and di cu

ion designed to h ighl ight the group'

focu . Mackall say the evening was a uc ce . "The

OARUM wa exactly the push

needed to get the bal l rol l ing, " he aid. "I aw a girl from a private school in Connecticut giving her addre

to a black girl from Chi

cago during the rehearsal.] don't think that before

OAR they'd [have been] friends.

OAR created an open environment for friend hip opportunities." Sti l l , Mackall note , there is work to be

Colby, March 1991

Quacked Ice le began, as ic always does, wich che myste1·iou.s appearance of a few whice fann ducks on Johnson Pond-gifcs, no doubc, from chose whose darling Easter ducklings had become flapping, quacking pests. Close behind were che children wich bags ofb1·ead, parents or grandparents in row,joining a ricual long associated wich t•isits to rhe campus . And, of course, wild ducks have always joined rhe fun. In September, the golden eyes and bufj1eheads dropped in for a week on cheir wa)' to rhe estuaries of che Kennebec . Then came the black ducks, who also prudently moved quick/)' onto the moving water. The fattened fann ducks (perhaps nor so m)•steriously as rheir aiTival) disappeared two days before Thanksgiving, but che mallards came and stayed. More than 150 of chem were still in college chrough an unseasonably wann December. Some folks worried that the birds had been spoiled by the hand feeding. The local Morning entinel ran a page-one srory , urging that the feeding stop so the diicks would move along to the flyways. The pond froze coast-co-coast for the first cime on January 3 and the ducks left that night--or at least most of them did. A doz.en or so recumed for day trips for a while bur finally gave up and left for good. Next year che College may ask chat the handouts stop in August so the birds will stay in flying fonn and begin to think seriously abour a more suitable winter habitat. -Earl Smith 5

Inside Outsider

by Robert Gillespie

The Child is father to the Man, And I could wish my days w be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth

ana Professor of Philosophy Robert Reuman, who w i l l retire in M a y after 3 5 years at Colby, st ill remembers an inc ident in t. Lou is 60 years ago when he learned that stick and tones can break your bones but name can really hurt you. "Some of the k id d iscovered that I 'd been born in China," Reuman said, "and they teased me with 'Ch ink Ch ink Chinaman sitt ing on a fence, trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents.' I didn't really understand what that meant, but I knew that it hurt, and that I wa being excluded , and I knew that it hurt when they threw pebbles at me. I ran home , crying most of the way, to plead tearfully with my stepmother, 'Mommy, I 'm not a Chink, am P'" After he reassured him, Reuman says, he began to wonder, "And what ifl were Chine e? What then ?" "I began to identify with m inorities," he said. Thinking about rel igious and rac ial bigotry by oppressive majorities led Reuman to perceive h i mself as both "an insider and, at the same time, an outsider, a part of any despised minority." And ever since that day six decades ago, Robert Reuman has been guided by the principle of active nonviolence. "Peacemaking mean the creation of j ust and fair-that is, nonviolent-structure , " he said. "The refusal to use force is only the first step. Nonviolence means you don't hurt people, you don't k ill people, you don't engage in war. But soon you move to how you can m inimize injust ice. You start to worry about racial injustice and social class relations and min imizing the v iolence humans do to each other." 6

A revered teacher and respected moral force on the Colby campu , Reuman be lieve that educat ion, at its be t, can help people l ive more productive, minimally v iolent, lives. "Phi losophy ha alway been a guide to a reflective approach to I ife," he observed. "One could work for a better world in the trenches, hut the he·t way is through education-getting tudents excited about more en it ive way of living their lives." In h is own life Reuman ha act ively practiced what he teache . In the mid-'40s he wa a member of the Congres of Rac ial Equal i ty (CORE) protesting rac ial discrimination in Ph i ladelphia. At M iddlebury College he led the struggle to remove d iscriminatory clause· in fraternity constitutions. During World War II he spent ix month in a Civil ian Publ ic ervice camp for conscientiou objec tors, then completed his ervice with two-and-a-half years working in the violent ward of a mental ho pita! in Philadelphia and erving a a guinea pig in med ical experiment . In 1949, after refusing to register for the draft, he served four months in a federal prison. I n the late '40s and early '50s he served with the American Friends Service Commit tee-the Quakers-in war-ravaged Ch ina and in Germany. In the '60s he was a Quaker International Affairs Representative in Berl in. "He's a tremendous presence in the cla s, metaphorically and l i terally," said Assistant Profe sor of Phi losophy Dan Cohen ' 7 5 . Cohen recalls a philosophy conference at which one of t h e peaker talked about what a phi losophy professor ought to be. The gist was that "someone who teaches ethic who doe n't live an ethical l ife can't be a good phi losopher. For all the world, it eemed to me the ideal he was describing was Bob Reuman," Cohen said. "We were in awe of what he'd done and what he knew," said Anita Terry '89, who took three cour es and an independent tudy with Reuman and i about to enter graduate chool in the field of feminist ph i losophy. "He'd talk about a subject-like being in the CO camp-so matter-of-factly. lt was part of h is life. The most impressive thing i , he doesn't say these things to make you think he's Colby, March 1 99 1

�

11 onclerful. He say� them in the context l'f ll'hat', harrening in cbss. Ht>\ the most umelf-st>n·ing rerson I \"C' e1·er mer in 111\" life." Tht> �nn anJ granJ �on of m1s;;innar1c" Reu man gre\\' ur ll'ith un-;elf ,en·ing Il1l)del'. H1. rat1:rnal granJfathcr 11'<1> a Lutheran ll'ho in the L ·, like mmw mher German liberals in the lare L 9th and early _0th centuries, fled his home land and ettleJ in Ohio. Rcuman': father became Congregation::il1 t mirn ·ter anJ \\'a. a mi� s 1onary in Foocholl', Chrna, \\'hen Reuman ll'a born 111 1 923. Hi· mother died when Reuman \\'a 2, and hi father bec ame "mother and father Bob Reuman m his cud:-· borh-ll'arm, compa 1onate, con iderate. He 11·a:i a man·elous rer�on, gentle and caring, much loved by all," Reuman said. " unday after unday he \\'oulJ preach about the ermon on the Mount, about lm·ing one anmher, about heiring tho e in need, about going the econd mile and turning the other cheek, about loving one' enemie and doing good m tho-.e that de pitefully u e you." To Reuman, the world often eemed at odds with his father's philo ophy. During the bleak Depre ion years, Reuman li tened ro the ermon ab )Ut hope for a better world, but he al o read about the truggle fi r liberty and dignity being waged by Mohanda K. Gandhi in India and about lynchings of African American in the oU(h."It'd ju t turn my mmach," he remember . "You hear your father preach ino, then you begin to wonder." Watchino hi father participate 111 community activitie ,uch a church uppers and ewing fe-r , Reuman came to feel that the church wa more of a ocial than a religiou organi:ation, and he began to di ranee him elf from formal Chri tianity. lncrea ingly, he felt that religion hould challenge people' comfort and hould not be u ed as a vehicle for elf-congratulati n. "I wa intere red in reforming the world," he aid imrly. "l Colby, March 1 991

mo1·cJ in the Jirect1on th<tt I rhnught my father . h,lulJ ha1·e mo1·cd." By 1 937. 1 4-1e.1r old Roh Rcum,m 11·,i- .1c tin• in the Pilgrim Fel lo\\'·h1r. the Congn:g,1tional Church\ youth organi:atinnded1careJ t•' fighting ra i,,m and ecn nnmic orrre--wn. lll >n, Rcuman \\'ch ht'ad111g rhe grour\ �,icial act111n committee, bur, he ,,1id. "before l fell int11 leader ,,hir J Jidn't c1·en kn,m· 11·har rhe ll'ords meant." Reuman was a[,,, alerr tn the lol)m1ng 11·orld \\'ar. Knoll'111g that he \\'Ould have to take a ·rand. he became-like other Pilgrim Felloll',hir leaders (and much ro the di may of hi father)-a l\l,1r1 Elkn l\l.1r.l\·,1 democratic sociali�r and a pacifi t. ar home 111 \.X-'aren•i/le. "All the,,e rhing-; \\'ere in my mind at 1 4," Reuman said."! had to be a racifist, anti rmfit and nonl"iolent. I became a CO at 1 4." Although he \\'a. not a Quaker, Reuman's racifi·m in time led him m take pan 111 the Wider Quaker Fellowship and attend Friend 1eerings in Philadelphia and, later, in Vas alboro, Maine. When he wa. drafted in June 1943, at the end of hi junior year at Middlebur-, Reuman had been a con cientiou- objector for six years. He refused military service. Reuman \\'a: -ent to a Cil·ilian Public Service camp in Oregon to fight fire· and \\'ork on refore ration projects. ronsored by the "hi.toric peace churche "-Quaker , Brethren and Mennonite, such camp- were e tabli hed a an altemati1•e to military ervice. In Oregon, Reuman ay , he found a different kind of intellectual and emotional -rimulation. "All of a sudden I was running into vegetarian , Baha'i t and Hindu1 t , ja:: piani t , a profe ional wre tier who was hurting people and oave it up," he aid. "Another guy had run for vice pre idem on the ociali t W rker' Party ticker. Pierro Di Donato, the noveli t, wa there, along with a Pulit:er Pri:e \\'inner, a concert piani t and a Detroit librarian who had coached debate. There wa a

rugged fe l low, a Qu;ikc r former from the M idwes t , there 11·a, a fundamen tal ist ll'ho wa; abt1 a weightlifter. I Profcs;nr of Engli,h Eme ri t us] Jllhn SuthcrlanJ wa, there. A t the CPS rnrnp in Big Flat,, N . Y . , before we ll'ent to Oregon, we h a d 57 Jifferenr re ligious group' represented in

1 50

or so inJ 1 viduab. You can imagine the rcl iginu'

Jiscussions we had. "! was j u;t fascinated with theoc peop le. You'd hike fi\'(� mileo w i th

pounds of dynamite on your h,ick, you'd be out all ddy long

c u t t ing a road through rhc

mi th R i n�r Bu rn to he able to get to fire ,

then you'd come back from the proje t and a guy'; p lay ing Bach . "! loved it , out in the wood,, j u;t the noi c of the ;aw," he said, recal l i ng the shafts of l i ght fi lte ring Jown through Douglas fir;, a few b i rdo, a l i t t le trcam meandering through, the spongy ground. " I t was etherea l l y beautifu l , like a ca thedra l . " B u t Reuman "wanted to d o oomething c looer to people," h e oaid. And although he d idn't sec h i moelf ao a oldier, his notion of pac i fi. m in wartime was that one should undertake the danger of war with out ki l l i ng people. H e volunteered for high l y da ngenius Jury in rhc make J u mpers but was t urned down becau>e he exceeded the Ii 111 its of six feet and 1 90 pounds. I f the frai l Gandhi often sec1m the phy ·ica l epitome nf a nonviolent person, Reuman surprises once more. To Visit i ng A;sis tan t Profe·sor of Ph i losophy Tony Cunningham '80, Rcuman kxiked l ike "a big scary Len i n . He's an ennrmous man. He puts hio hands on his head when he · tart · th inking. You rcal i : e he ha

enormous

hands." A CO could "wa lk out "-choose to go to prison-or apply f o r a transfer and ·e rve in a group projec t . Reuman transferred ro Byberry Hosp i tal in Philadelph i a , the second largest mental hosp ital in the nat ion, where for the next two - a nd - a - half years he worked the n ight shift in the v i olent ward. The hospital had a skeleron crew of two or three doctors for 6,000 pat ient . Reuman worked with one other attendant in a ward that should have had 10 or 20. They did only

The clothes and hairstyles betray their 1 959 vincage . . .

custodial care, no rehab i l itation, and v iolence was frequent . "I wasn't satisfied being there, but you're not destroying human beings," said Reuman. "It seemed to pale compared to a comparable

and methodology are enormou ly important. You can get at con truc

sacrifice of war."

tive qual i t ies of human l ife."

During the six months before he left the ho pita! i n 1 946, he was

Reuman began h is teaching career at Temple U n iversity in 1 947

not only working n i ne hour a day, six days a week, he was fin ishing

whi le he worked on a Ph . D . at Penn. A year later the Selective

hi master's degree at the U n iversity of Pennsylvania-and doing i t

Service Act was reinstated, and Reuman, who objected to "the

a l l on t w o hours o f -leep a n ight ("! can hang from a strap on the

increa ingly mi lirari t ic posture of the U.S.," chose not to register for

subway and leep, " he d id ) . It was then that he became attracted to

the draft.

the idea of col l ege teac h i ng . "I had m ved," he said. "I d idn't see myself a a professional rel i gious person, as a missionary. I l ike branc h i ng our and erving, but I d idn't l ike some of the rheological aspects. I didn't want to preach at people. Education i n't sel l ing people your conc lusions. When you teach, you're not propagand i z i ng. The moral and pol i t ical questions

"There wa

no war and consequently no mistake about my

motives," he said. "I

ent a letter to President Truman on why I

wouldn't register and where he could f ind me. He got the letter." The FBI let Reuman f i n ish h i s year of reaching. Then he wa sentenced to a year and a day in prison. "The pro ecuting attorney kept trying to make me out an

Colby , March 1 99 1

China. E,·en though Reuman had n m agreed r o the gm·ern ment's stirularion w "obey al l la\\' - , " he \\'as granted rarole, and, with four mnnths m a federal rrison-and a Ph.0.-hehind him, he set uff for the East. T\\'o yem earli er, Reuman had sen'ed in a 1\·ork camr 1 11 France. \\'here another of the ,·olunteers \\'as Dorothy _ \\'an. <l muo;1c and Engl i,h majl1r ar Wooster

ollege m Oh io. Folkm·ing her graJuatiun

in 1 949, these t\\'O off>rring llf m111i:'ter< married, "made the break \\' ith c u'it,1mar1· rou r 1 11e. racked a\\'ay rhe 11·edding cake and g1fr, and a 11·cek later 11 ere on the \\'av" to Ch1 11a. They caught the next-to-last fl ight to Chungking hefore the CommunN takecwer m 1 949. The couple worked \\'Hh the Fncnd-; Amhu l,mce Unit. rran:,pnrting med ical �uprl ies and helpmg rn rehuikl ho·ritals and estahl1sh c l inics and mobile med ical team�. In <l c l 1 111 c in Chungking, they patched Sl1res, treated tracoma and

fought ,h·":-nrerr. �cahie and malaria. In 1 9 5 1 , the Friends >ent them ro Germany. which 1\ a

't i l l

dc\·astated s i x years afrer World W a r T\\'o ended. Reuman \1·a, o n the staff <Lt the Fnend · Frei burg

wdent Center. \\'here srudents met for

d1 scu,s10ns, seminar,, grour acti,· it 1es and recrea t ion. Key t<> the center's ac t i\'lt 1es \\'as the notion that the swdents could create ,·aluahle strucwre> for group 1 1 \'lng. I n 1 964, eight years airer Reuman came to Colby, he returned

Germany on a t\\'o-year lea\·e from the College ro sen·e as Quaker I nternational Affair- Repre-entat1\'e in Germany. He met \\'ith h igh go\'ernment offic ials and academic in an effort ro reduce tensions on

both sides of the Berlin Wall. In a 1 9 53 article for the M iddlebury alumni maga : i ne, Reuman ,aid that the Friends \\'ent to Germany "to hare with and ro \\'Ork alongside rho e who had een greater orro\\' and had le s to 11·ork \\'Lth than they. They came out of rheir O\\'n inner need - , a \'Oice that rold them you cannot dige t your meat ll'hen someone else ha none [and they labored) to hare with other- in

. . . bur Reuman has artraned eager

studenrs for 35 years .

working roward a ll'orld in which there w i l l no longer be an occasion for war." Today, Reuman belie\'es thar the positive asrect of his acti\'e non\'lolence in China and Germany are more -ignificant than

athei t," Reuman said. "I ga\·e h i m analytic argument . He fi nally

h i refusal of m i l i tary ·erv 1ce.

aid, 'Pur a ide al ! the pala\'er. Do you belie\'e in God !"If you'll define

I f h i l ife has been an experiment in ensit i\'e way of l i\·ing,

God,' I an wered, ' I 'l l be happy co tell you whether I believe in him

Reuman ha al o experimented, on Mayflower H il l , with sensirn·e

or nor."'

ways of teac h i ng.

The j udge was courteou , even letting Reuman read a tatement, and Reuman was hopeful that he would be entenced to social work.

When he first came to Colby, he remember , the Great

oc ial

Thinkers cour e wa interdisc ip l inary. Is s ue were t ac kl e d in o n e ma

But the judge thought t i me ought to be erved. " I was a felon ,"

lecture, then people from the different department - ociology,

Reuman aid. "It wa a federal offense . "

r ychology, history, ph i lo ophy-led d i c u s io n secrions. The cour-e

B a c k in t h e early '40s, Reuman h a d applied to t h e Friends Amh1 1 lance Unit but had been turned down because he was roo

was a model for Reuman's experiment in interdisc iplinary reac h ing at Colby for the next 35 years.

young. In 1 949, from pri on, he got in rouch with the American

"It was a very sari fy i ng cour e,'' he aid, "a wonderful m ix of

Friends Service Committee and offe red ro work for them. W i l l ing ro

different approaches that gave tudents important cross-disc ipli nary

take him if he were paroled, the AF C proposed ro send him ro

think ing. And faculty had to break out of thei r di c ip l i ne

Colby, March 1 99 1

and

. huilc a career

Rl' 1 1 man faced

hel/Jing :·cnm.c;

agunt:�ing chotL'l!:..;; sq1wrd·y m a

Culh1a11:; confron t

\•uung man 111 the

1hc moral choice' nf 1he1r mnc.1 .

1 9-tLls and .

c , mfront other'. At faculty lunch.:, II"<: had tu t;1lk t< > each < >thl' r . I

rr.iding th<: College\ tr<1d 1 m 1nal emph<1'i' on inter;iction hern·een

lo\·ed the reoplc we 1\"L'rC ll'orking ll'i t h . "

(1culry and 'tudcnt' tor more dcmon,trnhle 'chnlar,hir. NL1ting "the

I n hi, fir't ye;ir, at t h e Colll'gc, Reum;1 11\ tuc u' w a , o n 'uci;1l.

c h anging c h arac ter offaculry exrecrnritm," he 'aid ll'ith c h arac teri -

mural and politic1l rhilu,orhy. He al,o picked ur t he "modern"

tic frankne,,, "OnL' thing ,adden' me. I 'cc door

philosopher,, Dc,rnrre' through Kant . I n the l 960, he taught cour,e-,

aren't

clo,ed. Faculty

a1·:iilahle to 'tudent,. I th ink ll'e're trying rn he both an

i n n c m \ · i nlencc, la ter 11·c;n· 1ng in io,ue' :-uch a ' ahomon and c 1 \·il

undergr;1d u,ite in,rnution and a uni\ Tr,ity. A college i. nothing

d hohcdiencc. Twenty year, ago he <1dded "mc)ral rrnhlcm," to lw.

with\ 1ut gt ind tc<1cher' and good rc,1ching. The whole roint i good

ethio cour!>c, along wirh Ex1 stcnt1aliom and ! 9 th-century rhilc N 1 -

teaching-the ll' i llingne-. tn he actua lly ;11·a i lahlc to 'tudcnts in and

pher·.

out of the cla"" 1 11 a l'ariety of$e t t 1 11g,.

Reu man is noted for building courses th<lt cq u 1 r ,wdcnt:- tn rn k c

" Ir\ not .m i,>uc ofteac hing \'crsu' re,earch," Reuman added.

concert far beyond the cla,sroom w a l b a n d into their ro,t-Colleg<:

"We need to rc-;pect what's going on in the field. I can't ;peak again t

li \'CS. Listening to him desc r i be the gene i, and mernmmpho:-i' ofhi,

ruhlica t 1on-whcrc ll'Ould I be W i t hout PlatLJ or Kant 7 But I think

Mora l Philosophy course. one hears the craft"11an at work . "Norm a t i \'C philosophy was Plato, Arbrotlc, Kant , Mill, Dewey," he a id. "At some roint it seem thm mo>t student' rend to come out ofreligious hackgrounds, and philosorhy in Eurorc even came out of

there\ a lot ofd ifference het\\'een Kant a t

50 and �l)mehody publi

ing in order to he tenured. � chnlar,hip for publication i; troubling to mc-ll'c\·e mm·ed too far in that direction." A; he asses'e' his legacy w the College', students, other faculty

the idea that lll<)ral i ty was grounded in struc t u res ofthe univcr e, w

and administrarion, Reuman talk

I had ro do something with religion. I also had to deal with Buddhism

ll'hich learning rnke> place, serving on the raci, m task force, perpetu

and Confucianism, too, -;o I tried to analy:c traditional societies and

ally re'itruc turing ed ucational opportunities: "These arc enormously

abm1t rethinking the e t t i ngs in

to en·e the

their value systems. I added in religious origin . Moral j udgment> arc

imrorrant things," he aid. "These are ignificant way

grounded in metaphysical !>tructurc, o I needed to add this element.

Cnllege. Ed uca tion doc,n't h<1ppcn until you confront your own

The other thing that complements moral ph i losophy is that ,wdcnts

familiar upbringing and contrast m her racial. religious and economic

need to he engaged act h·cly in the rrocess, so I used · tudent debate

\'iewpoints and c ulture . "

t o get them into respon iblc t h i nking, dealing with multiple point> uf

he approac hes rctir ment, Rcuman counts the cost

leal'ing the place he's worked for three-and-a-halfdecades. "I do love

v i ew. "He brings ev<."ry t h i ng to bear," said Dan Cohen. "You see him

teaching," he said. " I t 's never boring becau e I love the field I'm in.

grappling with issues rig h t there in c las , pulling together every

Colby has always had interested and . tim u l ating tudent , o ir's a

thing."

good student body to work with, too. And I've had a very congenial

Anita Terry

that when he thought of studying fe minist

philosophy, she went to Reuman, who

"turned around and pulled

set ofc olleagues. There's a st rong sense of regret about leaving." After Dorothy Reuman retires from Colby's Music Department

couple may travel in a van for a year. Maybe, Reuman

books off the h e l f about what I wanted to do. He's till at the c u mng

next year, the

edge of what's happening in philosophy today. He knows about Plato

says, he'll photograph birds in the Everglade , maybe they'll go to

and he knows about Alison Jaggar."

Alaska. M a yb e they'll sp nd a year in Europe, j ust moseying around, camp ing. Reuman would like to take a woodworking course, too. And oh ye·, Reuman says, revealing the continuing pr esence of the child who made the man, t h e y ' v e talked about joining the Peace

According

to T my Cunning h a m , Reuman is "two or three

philosopher rolled up in one. You're not going to see many like him aga m De pite his own proven classroom succe ses, Reuman i con cerned that Colby's efforts to attrac t a distingui hed faculty may be

Corp .

Colby, March 1 9 9 1

War & Remembrance

For the Last Class To Graduate Before Pearl Harbor, The Winds of War Blew Softly

he war wa there in the 'pring of 1 94 1 . hut-probably because the Uni ted rates was not d i rectly im·nl \'ed-none Llf rhem had gone w i t yet. The conflicts across bmh oceano were as di tam as rhe War> of the Roses.

ot that the newspapers and ai rwa,·e hadn't been full of new>-

of the fightino. Do:en of young journa l isrs were c u r ring their reerh m Paris and Berlin anJ London-Murrow, Cronk ire, e\'ereid and h i rer among them. One of Colby's own, Kathryn "Kay" Herrick ' 3 5 , was working in

BC' Paris office in 1 94L and participated in a J une broadcast during rhe eige

of rhat c i ty. "It wa about 1 : 3 thi afternoon when the alarm ·tarted," Herrick began her broadca t . "A u ual, people didn'r hurryabout reac h ing the ai r raid helters. They w i l l from now on1 . • • I 'd lefr the re tauranr where I wa ha,·ing lunch and had reached the BC office when a ll of a udden a hrill whi -t le pierced the a i r . . . . There wa a terrific crash, and then another, with flying l a all about u . W1rhour waiting any longer, we da�hed downstair , wondering where the air raid helter might be. \Ve had no t i me to find out. randing in the lobby, we watched everal ,·ery frightened people come running i n , covered from head tO fo o t w i th soot, for r h e first homh h a d shrouded r h e ent i re neighborhood in a c loud of black du t. As soon a the du r cleared away, we rood in the doorway, nervou ly watching . From rhe hou e oppo ite, three wounded people were being taken out on tretcher by rolicemen . . . . The house on rhe opro i re comer, no more than 40 feet from the

BC office, wa all bur demo l i hed . Divan ,

cable , chair and one bed are r i l l stretched rrecariou ly on what remain- of the ror floor.

everal women' dresses are st i ll hanging on the wall, and rhere i

omerhing

almost ghostly about rhe telephone still standing on a l i u le comer cable. . . . covering the war, but today the war ctwered

BC i

BC headquarters-w ith di order, du·t

and hattered gla ." The la t anyone at Colby had known of Herrick' whereabouts before the broadca t , he wa on her way to join the fac ulty of a Friend, chool in Holland. Then again, she had moved about often enough in her fir t year out of college to raise the brow of regi trar Elmer C. Warren, who had charge of her credential . "I hope t h is doe not mean that you are going to h i ft job roo freq uently," Warren had grumped in re ponse to a bree:y n te from Herrick a k ing h i m to end her paper to a teachers' employment agency in Bo ron. Hi

remon tration did l ittle ro dampen a wanderlu t that eventually took her

around the world. Ba ed in California for the la t 20 year , Kay Hemck McCrodden ha li ved in Europe, Africa, I rael,

outh America and Turkey.

During the 1 940-41 academic year, Herrick sent pieces about her experience Europt. to the

Alumnus

and the

Echo. One

memorable account of a rwo-monrh trek acros

occupied France and from there ro Turkey, where she took up a teaching po t i n a girls' school, read l ike a py novel, complete with escape from inister German border guard . Colby, March 1 99 1

And a s they marchcJ towarJ Commencement that >pri ng, H erric k 's wa harJly the only Colby voice to rem inJ the men :ind women of the Cl,1ss of L 94 l that war would soon affect them a l l . I n a Colby Alumnus e�,ay on t h e progrc>s o f t h e n e w Mayflower H i l l campu , t h e i n i m itably npt imi;tic CL)l lege presiJent, Frank l i n J oh nson, lamented that because of the war, "material and spiritual values, slowly anJ laboriously accumulated through the centuries, are being ruth lcs,ly Jc troyc d . " I ndeed , as the month passeJ J oh mon never seemed to miss an opportunity to warn Colbian · that a darkne wa ett l i ng over the worlJ, one that coulJn't help hut engu lf them ;(1oner or lat r. Rem i nders of the war to come shLlulJ have tempered campus euphoria over acquisiti n ofpriccles Tho1m1s HarJy manu c ripts and a tate champion footbal l team . "America's Place i n the Current Crisi " was the theme o f a tudent Chrbtian Movement-sponsored f orum on Peace Day in late spring. And

Chicago Tribune correspondent J ay A l len c losed the

olby Lecture Series that

year w i th a rnlk denounc i ng the A l l i e for g i v i ng "total i tarian" nations "a green l ight to cont inue aggressions in various part of the world." Yet, as they conj ure memorie i n ant i c i pation of their 50th c la s reunion this J une, members of the Class of 1 94 1 say that for much of their sen ior year at Colby most stuJents were surpri ingly good at tuc k i ng the auguries of war well back in their minds. "I Jidn't Jo a lot of think i ng about the war that fa l l , " Ruth " Bonn ie" Robert H athaway '4 1 remember now. "I l ived with Profes or [Edward) Colgan's fam i l y i n town during my j un ior and sen ior years, not on campus, anJ I d idn't join a -.orority, so I wa n't l i v i ng right there and hearing people talk ahout the war on campu ." According m J ane Ru.,scl l Abhott '4 1 , there wasn't much war talk t o m is . "TI1cre wa some," she aid. "Not as much as one m ight have t h ough t. I thought ahout it, I guess because I was a h istory/government major and i n the I nrernat innal Relation Club. The war was a natural focus for me." Ahhutt says the att i t ude on the o ld College Avenue campus during 1 940-4 1 wa> similar tll that on Mayflower H i l l duri ng the late 1 960s, when ,he l i vcJ i n Waterv i l le anJ used ro jL)g on the cross-country tra i ls and in the fieldhouse with her husband, Henry Abbott '4 1 . "They were upposedly protest ing," he aid, "but i t seemed to us that they were ju t out having part ies. Youth is l ik e that , and we were probably no different." Wh i le the war fa i led to overwhelm day-to-day tudent life, i t did draw ever increasing attentil)n i n the Echo, . tart i ng with the first editorial by Elmer Baxter '4 1 in October, which noted rhat the recently rei n rated m i l i tary draft had becume "the topic that is uppenno>t i n the m inds of men of college age today." The follow i ng wee k , Bonnie Roberts' landlord, Profes�or Colgan, told a Women's Assembly that three quarters of the men drafted u nder the elec t ive ervice Act wou ld never oee combat-a sad ly i naccurate prediction. The legendary professor of h istory W i l l iam W i lk inson was a lead i ng campus proponent of American involvement, a l t hough he bristled at an Echo srory c l a i m i ng rhar be advocarcd outright American entrance i nt o the war. He was an unswerving supporter of England- een by many a the l i nchpin holding free Europe rogether. If England should fal l tO Germany, W i l k i nson contended repeatedly, the U nited State would be threatened w i th aggre sion from both Germany and J apan. " I don't remember any ac t ive movement for peace," said Norris Dibble '4 1 , who del i vered the I 94 I sen ior address. In fact, a Peace Commi sion was formed on campus that year, but it received scant atrention in the student newspaper. Ir was not world peace that seemed to concern Colby tudenr- and even faculty who wrote i n the Echo but whether the U n i ted States should or would join the war. "What has happened to the I nternational Relat ions Club7" wrote one student, who signed the letter "A Member." " H as i t become the English-American Relations Organization 7 M ight it not be well to rename it the Propaganda Club for America's I ntervention ?" W i l k i n on-the ! RC' adv iser and a leader in the new Group on Defense of Democracy thundered frequently against isolationism and attracted a coterie of students to h i s pos i t ion. One of the most eloquent wa Emanuel Frucht '42. "Dome tic problems and considerations must neces arily yield the pre-emi nent place in th is coming campaign to the more pre sing and vital problem of our nati nal defense and foreign a lignments," Frucht wrote i n a ring i ng endorsement of a t h i rd term for Frank l i n Delano Roosevelt that contended Republ ican Wendell W i ll k ie had done "more than any 12

Colby, March 1 99 1

other man in the U n ited

tares

enate to ol:uruct legi lat ion a i med at end ing .A menca'

tradimmal policy of extreme isol ation." I n a mock e lection, W i l l k i e won by a 3-2 margin (surprising the Echo, 11·hich haJ predicted 1 t ll'Ould be 2 - 1 ) , but Frucht emerged as a c a m p u gadfly ll'ho e pol itical ll' ritings ·eem, in retro::.pect, weight ier than h is comments on contemporary an, literature and mm·ies. He cal led Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls "a bit wordy" and Charlie

The Grear Dicwcor "a Echo.

Chaplin's landmark helped enl iven the

J isappointing film"-1:-ut he

W h i le Frucht, W i lk inson and mher� ll'fOte unceasingly al:-t1ut Germany and J apan, college l i fe wa going on much as if no confl ict ex isted. The members of the Class of 1 944 am1·eJ on campus. were issued beanies to wear throughout the year and, according to Perley Leighron '4 3 , author of a weekly compendium of Colby go sip cal led "Canvassing the Campu,," the men ru,hed our almo:.t a a group and bought pipes in a vain ,mempt tn ·heJ the callow look. Colby N ight, dubbed "the biggest en:-m of the year" ( as W i nter Carnin1l 11·L1uld he a few month, later ) . pushed ll'ar ne11·s off the

for t1n1

Echo front rage

weeks. The Colby football team earned banner head l ines week after ll'eek en mute tll 1 r , f1r't undefeated ,ea ·on ::.ince 1 909 and its third ,ua1ght 1\- Lune champion ·hip. I t 1s almo't eerie m note that \Xlaten·dle\ Oll'n Bob LaFleur, "the -.;orhomorc fla,h ," ,tepred m to make a handful of critical rlay' <h

quanerb,ick ,mJ

pa·� receiver. Two years later, <b a bomhard1er, Capt. Robert

S1uh. d Fame

LaFleur d ied m the A l l ied in1·a,1on of posthumously into the Colby Hall

He 11·,1s inducreJ

( and, ye::., 1t is his name that W<Hern llc\ LaFleur A i rport carrie ) .

A -, t h e year progre"cd. there 11crc PL'r ·1 ·rent 1f ;;uhtle 'H!n' that the 11 ar 11<1' �nmg w L'ecomc an una1·rndable pre,ence m the ,tu dent·' l i 1·es. A ttracti1·e, young, athletic men anJ women fearureJ m c igarette ,,J,, 't ir intance, gave ll'ay to men i n un iform. I n tl!1e, a woman stands between tll'O ,erncemen, otter ing each a Cigarette beneath the heaJ l me: "Gm: 'em the smoker\ c igarette and ll'atch 'em reg1> ter! " In Ocrober, Jack K i tchen '42 became the fir t of two Canadian student

w enJ i,t in the

Royal Canad ian A ir Force. After graJ uanng 111 midyear, Bill Guptill '4 1 led a trickle of newly minted Colby graduate mto the A men can force' a trickle that became a ru h after war was dec lared the fol lowing December. Gupt i l l joi ned the Army Air Corp� ( iarer the United

tare

Air Force ) , nam ing in Massachu

ens, Florida and Virginia and, all the wh i le, sent letter

back ro Colby. "It seem

school and I ure do mi

age

mce I left

the campu and the fellows

and the girl-," he ll'rote i n Augu t 1 94 1 to Cec i l Goddard ' 2 9 , t h e n Colby' alumni ecrerary. " I can a �ure y o u t h a t if I g e t t h e time I ' m going to make a pe t of my elf with repeated runnings bac k." Gupt i l l wa married in 1 942. ix ll'eek · later, he d ied in a tate·ide plane crash near Creed , Va., the Cla of 1 94 1 ' fir t ca ·ualty. Three mher·-Richard Noyes, Arnold Myshrall and Myron " M ike" Mante l l-were k i l led before the war ended in 1 94 5 . A senior prepared for Colby' I 2 0 t h Commencement, t h e mood on campus seemed increasingly

olemn. On the urface, the bigge t conrrover y afoot wa over a failed pet it ion by seniors to be excu ed 5 percent or better mark over the cour e of the emester. The faculty

from exam if they had earned an

k i l led the proposal on a technical ity and a flurry of grave letter from wounded cholar appeared in

Colby,

March 1 99 1

Coach Frederick "Mike" Loebs , his wife , Rwh , and Dean inecra RLmnals greer a srudenc at rhe Wmrer Camival Ball ( top) . The camivalqueen and her courr: (from lefr) Thelma Bassett '4 1 , June Tarman '42 , queen Virginia Duggan '42, Karherine Monaghan '43 and Alw Gray '4 1 . 13

the Echo . Anorher hm ropic was the q u a l i ty of food in Fo H a l l . ( " By a recently conducted urvey it wa shown conclu s i vely that 70 percent of the sruc.lents i n the Women\ Divi sion arc thoroughly dissatisfied with the present mea ls," wrote one woman . ) In Apri l , the raper announced that a "rosture-crn1'cious campaign" had heen launched to make fem a le students more aware of the way they sat, rood and walked. "We usu a l l y hare to be serious in our l i tt le column," Perley Leighton wrote i n May, ''[but] today, w ith 'our hnys' lca\'ing the ha l b of learning to offer up the ir l i ves on the a l ta r of freedom . . . wherefore [does] any man or woman in c ol l ege find the right to q u i hble over the qua! ity of food in Foss H a l l , the i na n i t ies of the faculty nr the cli rty wi ndows i n Chem ical H a l l ?" If the · hadow of war had fal len over the breeziest Echo column hy late 'irring, i t was sure l y present on Commencement Weekend, J u ne 1 5 - 1 6. though prim a r il y as a counterpoint to the com mencement address. The srcaker,

first line o f d e f e n s e ! �:::::::==:=-:;::.�

larence

tre i t , was a trong advocate of the

FeJeral Un ion-a rroposed bonding of the U . . , the U n i ted K ingdom, South Africa, New Zea land and A u,trn l ia . H e rnld the graduates that un ion wa the best hope for a future U n i ted Stare, of M a n , wh ich could, after negotiat i ng peace with the A x i s pmvers, ensure "freedom for a l l men equ a l l y . " Less than s i x months later, a hail of J a panese hi mbs told them all what they a l ready had much rea on to suspect-that world un ion would not come. Henry Abbott and J a ne Russe l l were married a year after grad uation. Two months l ater he j o i ned the A i r

llrps.

he worked in New York C i ty and waited

for Henry rn return frnm Europe. "We d idn't t h i nk the war wou lc.l l a t a long as it d i d , " Abbott recalled. "I rook advan tage uf whatever s i tuation I found myself i n , b u t l ife w a s on h o l d . " Asked e a r l y i n the w a r to ferry p lane to Europe f o r the Ci \' i l i an A v iat ion A d m i n istrat ion, A bhott, who had earned her p i l ot's l icen e at Colby, refused. " H enry thought I 'd j ust get over there and he'd be bac k ,"

expla i ned. Bon nie Roberts married an Orono man namec.I Henry Hathaway the month after the attack on Pearl Harbor. "He wa · upro ·ed to graduate from flying chool on December 1 2 , then get leave," he said. "We l l , the J apanese changed tha t. " They married q u i c k l y and he wa sent to New G u i nea. They d idn't see one another aga i n for two-and-a-half year . " I gor a job 111 the N e w Haven Public Library c h i ldren's depart ment," she remembered. " l never would have gotten the job if there hadn't been a war. They wou ld have h i red someone w i th experience. l had no tra in i ng at a l l , but l k new a lot about c h i ldren's book . " Eventua l l y , both husband c a m e home, a n d t h e Abbotts and Hathaways settled down l ik e so many m i l l ions of other fam i l ies to have c h i l c.lren and put the war beh i nd them. And, l ike most of them, they remembered tho e who were not so fortunate. "

I dated Dick Noyes," J ane Russe l l Abbott said, the catch in

her voice t i l l audible a half century later. " He was such a l ikeable man." The Class of '4 1 was the last to graduate before the world eemed to explode. They marched through Colby as a group, not torn apart by war a the c lasses i m mediately behi nd them were, and to the end they

Oren Shiro

'4 2 , Captain A lbert

retained at least enough i n nocence to s it through a speech on world

Rimosukas · 4 1 and} ohn Lee '4 3, lead

ers of the I 94 I suue champion basket

unity with smooth, uncynical faces. The ir Colby experience brought them together for l i fe-and perhaps that, rather than the terrible

ball team ( top) . Students admire the

conflagrat ion that awa i ted them after Commencement, w i l l be uppermost i n their m i nds when they

Delw Kappa Epsilon snow scu lpture .

gather for their gold reunion on Mayflower H i l l this J une.

which won first prize in a Winter Car nival competition (bottom) .

"We have tremendou loyalt y to Colby," said Abbott , who has for many years served a c lass agent. "We're a close-kn i t group."

Colby , M arch 1 99 1

Another Colby Class Gazes Down the Barrel of a Gun A

yellow ribbon wa threaded through the railing on M iller Library tower January 15

a the Colby community marked the deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait. The day'

other activities included a vigil at Waterville'

Unitarian-Univer alist church

pon ored by Veterans for Peace, and the e ening before, Colby's Government Depart ment held a Middle East forum. Fifty year after the Cla

of '4 1 walked away from the College Avenue campus into

an uncertain future, another group of enior has pent it la t Colby year contemplating war. But like their predece- ors, the member of the Cla

of '9 1 were reluctant to make

the budding conflict the primary focusofcampu activity. Ted Lambrecht '91, one of the tudents re pon ible for decorating the library, said, "People j u t don't want to deal with it until they have to." Jo eph Brennan '9 1 agreed. ''The way Colby is, o in ulated and i olated from the real world, everyone i more concerned with their final paper and exams than they are about the concept of going ro war," Brennan aid a the fir t eme ter ended. But for Lambrecht and a mall group of h is cla- mate , thought of war were more urgent. They are member of the Re erve Officer Training Corp -if the United

tates

i at war when rhey graduate, they will be likely candidate for ervice in the conflict. Two day before the war began, Lambrecht aid he hoped military force would be used "only a a la t re ort." But he aid the po ibiliry of going to war hadn't changed hi commitment to ervice. "Everyone hould erve their country cho e to go into the mil itary.

omehow," he

aid. "I

en. ing in the ROTC t a job, but it' al o a pledge I made

to put my life on the line if my country call for it." eniors Chri Caponi and Jak

ilberfarb, member- of the Marine Officer Candi

date Program, both aid they, too, were prepared to fioht if nece ·ar\r. "It' not my job rn que tion whether the i ue- are right or wrong,"

ilberfarb aid, but added that a a Jew.

he felt I rael hould be protected from Iraq. Caponi, a Canadian who joined the M.O.C.P. becau e of"the quality of the men" involved, aid in January that the United

tare "should go to war a

oon as pos ible. '

'The only thing we can-and should--do i act," Caponi aid. "If we hold off for or 15 years, Hu

ein w i l l have Kuwait under control and � ho know_ what other

nations . . . . I f Hu ein walk

away intact after all thi

build-up, what purpo e will

America have erved?" But for ome member of the cla

, the hadow of rhe Vietnam War loomed large.

"We've made too many mi take- in the past by forc ing ourselve on othercountrie ," said Dana

tin.son '9 1 .

"The U . . become

invol ed a a ba is for foreign policy and then ju tifie the

invasion with humanitarian rea_ons," aid enior Matt Bourgault. "I think thi i another excu e to exerci e a trong m ilitary." A ked if they would participate in a war if drafted, Colby enior were <lidded. "If the United

tate· wenr to war against Iraq I would not fioht," aid Dan Rayrnonr '9 1 . "If

the U . . wanted to fight for c ivil rights in

outh Africa, l wouldn't he itate to take up

arms. But if we decided to go to war with Iraq, l 'd rather go to Me ico----o r to jail."

Alexander "San<ly" C lhoun expre ed the more prevalent anitude.

would go if

I wa drafted," he aid, "becau e I ha\'e faith in the leadership and believe the deci ion they make are in the best inrere t of the country . . . . Every generation, every culture, every ociery has een war, I think it' unlikely that you will have li\'ed your life and nm experienced a war."

Colby, March

1991

Ted Lambrecht ( wp) and Dana Stinson, both members of the Class of 1 99 1 , expressed oppos ing views of U . S . int>al�1ement in the Gulf.

A Change ls Brewing An Old Issue, Drinking on Campus, Takes Some New Turns by M . F. Chip Gavin '90

hen a rate li

at keg and "card" e\·ery

uor inspector

one for proof of age. "The

ied to c rac k

new

policy

sucks." one student said

dow n on underage drinking at Colby in 19 7 , orne

bluntly on a Friday night

student

responded by

at the close of the fall se

prin t i ng T-shirt with the

mester. He had retreated

w o rd s " C o l b y Col l e g e

to a sma l l , pri\·ate party in

H unting C l u b " around a

a re-idence h a l l . The beer

caricature of her in the

in his hand had co t him

cro s ha i r ofa gun'

nearly as much in a down

cope.

town

The inventive if bra :en en t repreneur

M o s t C o l l e ge a d

h i res at Co l l ege- a n c locat ions

rn i n i trators, cit ing pub

lished regulations, main

grounds of t aste, but th e h irts

he used to

to the keg .

barred from hawking the t ioned

tore a

pay for a full n ight of trip

were

tain that campus alcohol

old well anyway.

More to the point, campus

pol icy has not changed.

drinki ng practices re i red

The difference, they say,

the crackdown. The flow of alcoholic bever age , mo t ly beer and much of i t consumed

locales before the c lean-up crew arrive. "You know it'

ad when the bigge t file

is that now the rules are enforced. As a re ult, the campus inebriant of choice, beer,

tudent

is not where it used to be , not a plentifu l ,

'9 1 ,

n o t a s cheap and, to those under 2 1 , n o t fo r

crackdown i under way a t Colby, and thi

a n important srrategi t i n the fight again t

sale. "You can't even drink anyrn re , " one

t ime there are two important difference .

exces ive and underaged drink ing.

underaged tudent said in a ringing if unin

by student under 2 1 was unabated. Now, bare!

three years later, another

First, much of the impetus is corning from

folder you have is on alcohol , " aid A soc iat ion Pre idem

Yet all i not

hawn Crowle

the same. The sme lls and

tended endor ernent of the new enforce ment policy.

within the College rather than from out ide

ound are no longer apparent in the Stu

enforcement agents, and, second, student

dent Center, where until this year 1 5 or

Colby has grappled w ith alcohol for

leaders are working wi th administrator to

more keg could be drained in a night. Vir

more than a century. But student drink i na

create a campus oc ial l ife that i not centered

tually designed to ucceed the old fraternity

ha become more of an issue during the pa t

on alcoho l .

house

decade, in part becau e M a i ne followed a

No, Mayflower H i l l is ne ither d r y nor

as a focus of carnpu

oc ial life, the

center al o was attractive to administrator

nat ional trend in raising the legal drinking

yet in total compliance with the law that

becau e i t a llowed tudent to party right on

age from 1

make drink ing by tho e under 2 1 i l legal . A

campus and w ithin walking distance of their

vi itor m ight

co 2 1 .

t i l l ob erve underage con-

rooms. U l t i mately, the price of uch conve

i llegal for man

urnption on carnpu any weekend n ight and

nience proved too h igh ( or low, actually,

leges in a quandar

hear cheer for player "chugging" stein of

ince students could drink all night for a

beer during drinking games. And the tench of tale brew t i l l overwhelms some campus Colby, March 1 991

ingle admission charge of

2 or $3 ) . Now,

uniformed Colby security guard are po ted

uddenly a practice that

orne decried as unacceptable a l o became tudents and put most col The argument that

moderate and monitored drink ing on cam pus wa

en ible pol icy given the a l ternative

wa also an excu e for breaking the law.

But the c hange in the law was not the l one issue. In 1 980 a Col by tudent home on hreak died in an a l c oh o l - re l ated acc ident , rrnmpt ing a �hon - l i ved campaign for more resronsi h i l ity. l n l 98 3 a lcohol was c i ted as a contributo ry ause after an auto with four Cnlhy st ud e nt · in it ra mmed an amhulance. The follo\\' i ng y e a r , pol ice acc used the Colby pa of 'en· i ng he er to underaged c ustomer:,. The n, i n 1 98 7 , the ::-tare l iquor i n,pector who wnu ld he i m mortal i:ed on the offensive T-shi rts c a m e to v i s i t . Used tu d o i ng most of h e r cnf orcemem ll"Ork i n Watcrv i l le's seed ier taproom and lounges. Agent Hol ly Po merleau saw her approach as e\·e n - h andcd and m i nced no word i n exp l a i n i ng it. "I know I 'm ;i hard ass," she told a c ad re of angry student after one of her "raids" that October. "l 'm j u:,t upho l d i ng the bw and doing my joh." It wa:, a me sage not often heard at Colhy or most nrher col lege,-and one that wou ld take more than three years to s i n k in. Like many ( perhap, mlbt ) residential u nd ergrad u a t e i n st i t ut i o n , C o l h y h a d eemed w i l l i ng to estahl ish o n e s e t of ru les and enforce a m1rher. U nJeraged drink ing was overlooked if not rol erated o long a it d id not lead to offensive behavior. That approach may have evl)[ved more from expe rience than a ·rated plan rn " look the other way ," as offi c i al s contend, but studen ts say the effect was the same. There were shrugs and s m i rk when Agent Pomerleau, the prophet sl ightly ahead of her t i me, stopped coming up the h i l l on Friday and aturdays. Why then doe Colby appear ready now to tack le a n is ue it seemed so anx ious to avoid 1 A combination of self-exami nation and external pressures has contributed to the

We really do need to address this . It's coming at us from all s ides . Janice

eit:i nger, dean of -,rudent'

change oi a t t i tu d e , accord i ng to Col l ege offi c i a ls. "We rea l l y do need to address th is," [ ean of tudents J a n ice Sei t:i nger said s i m p l y . " I t 's corn i ng at u from a l l side . " A n e a r l y salvo aga in t t h e tatus quo was fired last fall by the Task Force on WL1men' I sues and Gender, which cal led ;:i lcohol abuse a lead ing factor in all sexual harassment, from suggc r i ve ogl i ng and comment at parties to date rape. ( I ndeed , each al leged dare rape inve t igated at Colby t h is year h a� heen alcoho l - re lated, accord ing to h ief Physic ian Dr. H. A lan H u me . ) The Task Force o n Raci m, formed two years

ago after an inc ident of rac ial catcalls at a basketball game reported ly fueled by alcohol , c i ted campus drink i ng a unsettl i ng to many i n ternat ional student� who come from cou ntrie where a lcohol i; not o central to >oc ial l ife. Further, i n eptc mher the Health Center reported treating an average of one �tudent every day for an alcohol -relclted i nc ident. i nc l u d i ng one or two o into x i c a ted they vom i ted o n nurses o r fought with the staff. Si nce September, the Health en ter has averaged about one alcohol -related i nc ident every other clay. "That's sign ifi c a n t when y o u real i:c you're looking at the tip of the iceberg," H u me said. Even with the c rackdown underway, Campu� Safety and ecurity Director Mark Van Val ken burgh say:, that ful l y 80 percent of the f orce' 2 1 2 re pon cs during the first eme>ter were rela ted to alcohol consump tion. When a ·rudenr collapsed in a drunken tupor i n the lounge of Dana outside the J u n ior- en ior Cot i l l ion in early December, ecurity officer> acted with d ispatc h . They said they have llm of experience hand l i ng such cases. A nd t here i more. In exit i n terview la t pring, e itzinger said, a ignificant number of seniors identi fied alcohol abu e a. a major problem on campu . A nd th is year, ·he added, a major ity of 30 fir t- year tudent. questioned Ii ted exce sive beer consumption a one of their first impre> ion of the College. " I t h i nk we i n the Dean's Office ha\ e always worried about thi ," said e i tzinger, who came to Colby 16 years ago. "But [ u n t i l now] we have not heard it from other people." Then there is the pressure for change

A student waits in line co show her ID to security officers at an on-campus party. Her ID is checked against a list of invited guests. 18

Colby , March 1 99 1

frnm nut. ide the College.

t i nning of '\pontaneou," pan1e,-one "ru

For example, i n theory Colby , rand. to lose

dent leader exrre:.,ed concern. ' ' I 'm worried

l .4 m i l l ion in federal funds 1f i t doesn't

I t w i l l he hard to enforce , " said K rist in � hon

comply w i th rhe new Drug Free Act, wh ich, �

'92, rhe head resident i n Da na. "Every time

e i t : i nger n 1tes, inc ludes a federa l l y man

we walk i n to a rl1tim, \\'e have to make a

dated "ob l i gat ion to not a l l ow underage

j udgment about whether i t 's a party or not .

people to drink . "

It', not suprl1sed to b e a majl1r change, h u t 1t

"The i n i t i a l i mpact o f t h e l a w is on l1Lff

i,, e"rec i a l ly here in Dana . "

enforcement procedure," aid Admin istra

U l t i m a t e l y , t h e student body melf

t ive V ic e Pre idem Arnold Yasinsk i , "but

should rn1\" ide the be'r re-;r nfColhy\ effort

we're nor reacting .olely to thar." He main

ro e l i m i nate underaged drink ing and l i m i t

ra i n rhat the federal mandate is bur one of

alcohL1l abuse. T h e College 1� b e m n g th<ir

many influences-and at least one insider

drunkenne,,-,·iewed once a� a rite of p;1-.

says the mandate is more a handy excuse for

>agc if m1r a

stricter enforcement than i c cau. e.

respons ibly-wi ll lose its a l lure. Like the

I f College offic i a l

fe l t they needed

reasons to act, they found one at a party early la,t semester when an underaged ophomore broke three vertebrae in a fa l l from a w i ndow during a parry in the

tudent Center. The

Colby kids have

authoririe

and ed i torial

in the

Echo.

The e were followed by the new enforce

exce::.sive drinking w i l l flourish-if 1t has a chance to take roor de p 1 te stubborn recr

they s till have it

rres. ure of the sorr that kept underground

pretty good.

earl ier this year, touched off a

pate of torie

anti -smok ing sen t i ment now prevalent on campus. offic ial· be l i eve, a trend away from

to look around and see

i nc ident , s t i l l under i nvestigation by local

ter in learn i ng how to drink

fratern i t ies active until this year. That rressure was apparent early i n the camru controversy touched off la t seme -

hawn Crowley '9 1 , � t u-A president

ter by Colby's new approac h . Typically,

ment mea ures, which official say were a l

leaders . ay , the most v isible i m med iate re-

ready b e i n g planned.

pon.e to the new enforcement wa evasion

A t least one key player, H u me, can

func t ion, the less l i kely i t i- that you 'll be

and protest. Some underaged tudents were

operate as both i n ider and outsider in the

bothered-unless you bring attention to

reported to be drinking hea\' i ly in private

new drive for greater control. A long-time area phy ician who ha been a benefa c tor to

yourself."

before going to part ies--even the "alcohol

there i any afe haven for underage drink

free" dances. "Lots of k i d are drink ing hard

the College, he a

umed the campu medical

ing. We will probably be required ro be more

ruff and showing up trashed," said Patricia

d i rectorship i n the fa l l after ret iring from h is

vigi lant than in the pa r . A lot' going to be

Masters '9 1 , who wa on the front l ine in her

private pract ice. "Things change when ex

up for que tion in the future."

role a- social chair of the Student A soc ia

ternal forces bring enough pre

u re , " Hume

e 1 t: i nger

aid. " Bu t I can't

One negative aspect of this approach is

t i n . Master a l o d i scovered that new gim

that i t can g i ve some of the toughest calls to

m icks, uch as door prizes and video music,

those lowest on the enforcement ladder,

were nece ary to attract

member of the tudent re idence hall raff

Student Center i n the aftermath of the en

tie , not on breaking down residence hall

When a change wa enncted that pro-sobri

forcement crackdown.

door or mok i ng out off-campu haunts.

ety force

aid, "and I 'm omewhat unrelent i ng . " For now, tudent l i fe official a r e con centra t i ng on mon i toring

anctioned par

"The further you get from the publ ic

tudents to the

rhe c lo ure of a key

Tullio N ieman, in h is first year as d i rec

loophole--e l i m i nat ion ofon-the- pot anc-

tor of tudent activit ies, says the innovative

h a i led a

This student's I D and invitation are verified (left) , his hand is stamped and he receives a wrist ribbon (right) that wiU allow him access co the bar. Colhy,

March 1 99 1

rrogra m m i ng is ac t ua l l y a benefit of the

arrested on

c h a nge . A n auto - le;; " d r i ve - i n movie" on

polic e

free h,1l iday party om pl ete w i t h hay r ide,, a

campu and held f or Waterville by Colby's own securi ty officers for d r i v i ng wh i l e i n tox i cated compared to none in 1 989-90. The idea that �tricter enforce ment w i l l cha e otudent d r i n ker� away and lead to tragedy is a longsta nd i ng component

b i g -screen t e l ev i o ion w i t h b)l iday spec i a l , a

of the dehare.

v ideo d i sc jockey and free food and d r i n k .

drink i ng age, which murky line through the otudent body a!> each school year wanes and more otudents reach majority. " I t would be be tter if it were l or 2 5 ," Se itzinger said. "Then everybody would be i n the same boat . " S h e a n d others maintain that i f drinking was lega l , they could address the real issue alcohol abu e-instead of underage drink i ng. "We're in a terrible catch - 2 2 ,'' H u me added , "because to learn how to d r i n k re spons i b l y is aga in t the law." Liquor enforcement officials re pond that lowe r i ng the drinking age is n t an option. Wh ile i t m ig h t help col lege l ike olby, they ·ay, it urely would add to the weekend mayhem nearly everywhere else. "And who is Colby to s ay 'No, we won't co m pl y 1' " asked N ie m a n , who, like Hume, is new and a strong voice for sobriety. Voices, roo, are emerging from student leadersh ip. " I ' m o sick of heari ng, ' i f you don't let u d r i n k then we'll go off campus and drive drunk,"' Ma ters said, adding that Waterv i l le ha a tax i service and Colby provides the J imey bus ervice to ferry tudents between campu and downtown. "Colby i no different from any of the c o ll e ges ," aid Ch i ef John S. M art i n of the M a i ne Liquor Enforcement Bureau. "We've

t he lawn i n fron r of Dana and other ac t i v i t ies a r e ga i n i ng in poru lari t y , :-.a i d N i e m a n , who a l so h e l ped � t u d e n b r l an an a lcohol

o i

Y e t a v is i to r could nut help but notice

draw

that more students at t h e h o l iday event were watc h i ng telev ision than danc i ng . A nd the fo l l ow i n g wee k , a Last Day of Loudness c e l ebrat i o n on the day before read i ng reriod

and fi n a l e x a ms began at tracted fewer stu d e n ts than an i m rromrtu event w i t h alco

hol across c a mpus in the East Quad. The Student Assoc i at ion secured add i

tional funding from the trustees to h e i r susta i n c ampus soc i a l l i fe for ·ec ond �emes

Cro w ley sa i d , because c l ubs had de help rai e money. A few k egs and a d isc jockey to attract 400600 student at $ 3 a person turned a profit to fi nance future events. On t h e other h a nd , the Co ll ege may already be rea p i ng fi nanc i a l benefits as a result of i ts c o m m i t m e n t to reduce underage drink ing. Damage to residence h a l l s dropped 50 percent in the first semester, according tn Dean of Housing Paul J o h nsto n , who at tributes the reduced vandal ism to reduced drinking as well as a new sy rem of b i l l i ng vandals. Dan a , u ually the leader in damage with about $ J , 5 00 each semester, dropped the most, to $ 3 7 5 . A l so down dra ma t ic a l l y was the num ber of Student J ud i c i a l Board heari ngs, acter,

pended on beer bashe tn

I 'm so s ick of hearing 'if you don 't let us drink then we 'll go off campus and drive drunk . ' Pa t r i c i a Masters '9 l

, Stu-A oc i a l c h a i r

cord i ng to Asooc iare D e a n o f Students M ark

'7 3, who sa id t he fi r t -·emester fu ll y e a r h igh of 5 in 1 984-8 5 , the fi nal y e a r in which fraternit ie; were recogn ized. J ust three erdj e n i a n

ca eload was seven compared with a

heari ngs have been a lcohol-related, accord ing to Serdj e n i a n , who ;ays the percentage was h igher i n the past. I n the fac e

of these appare n t l y roo i t i ve

trends, one stat istical b l i p g i ve a d m i n istra tors pause .

even

Colby student!> have heen

the legal

an i n c rea i ngly

Beer is still the drink of choice at most campus events , though the days when as many as 1 5 kegs could be drained at one Student Center party are over. College administrators and student leaders say the new crack down on underage drinking will have a side benefit-the chance for stu dents to forge a more creative and diverse campus social life . 20

Colby , March

1 991

at one

Some students arrived at Colby with

t i me or another. The Bureau has nothing

had problem

with all the college

drinking problems. Some see alcohol as the

against Colby . . . . The problem with some

key to good times-an escape from the dol

colleges is they try to make an atmosphere

drums of studying and an ant i-inhi bitor for

where underage people can drink legally,

sexual act ivity. And now that it i

and there simply is no uch animal."

forb idden, some w i ll perceive a heightened

A t Boston College, an "as istant dean

truly

challenge. A t a recent party a woman not yet

for alcohol and drug education" was hired

21 walked past a friend. She had a beer in

recently. Colby has no such plans, but the

each hand. "If you have connections or if

College, which uses the substance abuse

you're working at the party," she confided,

fac ilities of the nearby M id - Maine Medical

"you can still get beer."

Center, may soon hire its own part-time

Yet state agents, campus offic ials and

substance abuse counselor and is consider

student leader say this time they mean i t.

ing reserving part of a residence hall for non

T h i s t i me th e crackdown w i l l lead to pro

drinkers the way it now ha a "quiet dorm."

The solution mus t come

Colby has alway talked about "educa tion" as a key tool. After all, it i a college. But

ome program

from s tudents .

that looked good on

paper in the past, Hume says, proved inad

That's the only way the

equate, perhaps because the College d id nor

thing will work.

exactly adhere to its own me sage. " lnve t some real t i me and energy into effec tive alcohol education," the

Echo

advi ed ad

D r . H. A l a n Hume, chief physician

ministrators last fall.

found changes in campus life. "Nobody wants to squash the good times," said Martin, the state enforcement chief. " But when you look at the amount of drinking and then the numberof people who are hurt-we've been lucky. We've been awfully lucky." ieman says the absence of alcohol \

ill force students to create a more varied

and con tructive campu

An "a lcohol awareness week" was

social life, but

Crowley says that is a challenge yet to be

scheduled for February, and state offic ials

met .

were invited to campus to take photos and

s ive drinking in themselve or others be

"The old way had more people, a lor

di pense official Ma ine ID cards, which will

cau e such tell-tale signs as vomiting, m iss

more fun and was a lot looser," he said. "So,

henceforth be the only acceptable proof of

ing class or punching a window can be ex

if that's better, then the old way is better. But

age on campu .

plained away. " But, people are beginning to

the new way will bring ome opportunities

Campus education programs present

establish those norm ," aid H ume .

some real challenges, in part because behav

"The solution must come from stu

too. Colby kids have to look around and ee they still have it pretty good . "

ioral norm are not nearly as rigid a they are

dents," Hume concluded. "That' the only

in the rest of ociety. Consequently, stu

way the thing will work." And at best that

-M . F . Chip Gavin i s on the s taff of the

dents can have a difficult time spotting abu-

will take time.

Central Maine Morning Sentinel.

Collegiate Drinking: A National Problem

ollege a n d universities aero

t h e country are addre

ing

the issue of alcohol use on campus.

smoking have been cut i n half over the ame dozen year ," he aid.

"Co1leges are trying to d o what they can," aid Profe

What account for alcohol' enduring popularity on cam

Henry Wech ler, director of the Youth Alcohol and Drug

Program at Harvard'

doing i not that different from what adults are doing," Wechsler

chool of Public Health. "But there i no

unified response-aside from the fact that all Wech ler ha

are

responding."

rudied alcohol and drug u e by college and

high-school students for almo t two decade . La t year he and h i co-workers q u e tioned almo t 2 ,000 fir t-year Ma

tudents at 14

achu etts colleges about drinking and drug use. What they

found, he aid, was that collegiate drinking behavior had not changed since Wechsler conducted a similar

tudy 1 3 year

before. "Heavy drinking has continued at the ame high rate ,"

"It i a legal drug, and therefore, what college tudents are

noted. "They ee ad on televi ion. Alcohol i one of ociety's norm . " "Most students share t h e v i e w that i t ' okay to get high o r drunk w i t h friends or at a party," h e said, " b u t i t i n o t all right to get drunk alone. Drinking is a social activity." Wech ler says that whether colleges are large or small, urban or re idential, there seems to be one common denomina tor in

rudent drinking. "Students get into major difficultie

around alcohol," he said. "Any problem on campus, whether it

Wechsler said. "Approximate!y one�th ird of men and 1 2 percent

i a fight, a date rape, vandalism----or even, sometimes, a racial

of the women in both year , 1 977 and 1 990, were frequent heavy

inc ident-tend to occur around alcohol. it doe n't nece arily

drinkers, (consum ing] at least five drinks at a sitting. That has

cause the behavior, but it is a major factor."

not changed. The use of marijuana, the use of cocaine and

CoUry,

March 1 99 1

-Sally

Baker 21

Approaching the Year 2 000 Colby Plans to Meet 2 1 st-Century Challenges

fter eight months of work, a spec ial Trustee Planning Committee ha issued "Approaching the Year 2000: An I nterim Report on Colby's Planning Process" and is eek ing reaction from alumni and others. "Colby's most recent strategic planning cycle began formally in May of 1 990 and has, so far, involved more than l 00 trustees, faculty, students and alumni in wide-ranging d iscus ions of fundamental issues that w i ll determine Colby'sfuture," Tru tee Planning Commit tee Chair J ohn G . Christy says in the report's introduction. "Th is interim report is intended to inform a broader Colby community of what has been achieved to date. More important, it actively sol ic its advice, reaction and further discussion from all members of the Colby family . . . . The livel iness and breadth of that discussion will be the measure of this report's usefulness." The need for a formal planning effort was first discussed at trustee meetings in 1 989. Early in 1 990, Chair of the Board H . R idgely Bul lock ' 5 5 and President W i l l iam R. Cotter decided to a k the trustees to launch the effort. The process was constituted at the April 22

trustee meeting with an invitation to all trustees to participate. Eventually, 16 trustees accepted the call. Christy, chair of Chestnut Capital Corporation of Ph iladelphia, agreed to head the committee, and the College' v ice president for development and alumni rela tions, Peyton R. "Randy" Helm, was designated a its secretary. The trustee planner joined member of the College's senior admini trative staff in a day-long retreat last May at M illett Alumni House. Subcommittees on curriculum, student life, diversity, fac ili t ies and financial resources were created with faculty, administrators, students and alumni invited to participate in sessions held through out the summer. Feedback came a well from alumni and parent leadership groups and from president's forums in Boston, New York and Waterville. In October, the subcommittees issued their first interim report to the full committee. Why a new planni ng process for Colby now ? "The next decade will change h igher education in our country drama tically if not fundamentally," Cotter ays at the outset of h is introduction. "I nst itutions both public and private will be tested. Colby , March 1 9 9 1

ome w i l l deteriorate; ome w i l l disappear; mhers w i l l build on rrength to improve the ir quality and the ir reputation . Colby in tend to enter the new m i l lennium as a nat ionally acknowledged

pol i t ical or doc m na l litmus test . We hope to cont inue our pol i c y of

leader in undergraduate l i beral arts education, prepared ro face rhe chal lenge of the 2 1 st century."

report

trustee weekend in Boston. Rev i ed drafrs will be re\·iewed during the

The interim report trace Colby's growth and modemi:ar ion during the pa t decade, de c ribes the chal lenges it faces in the

be presented to t h e f u l l board at its Commencement Weekend

need-bl ind admi

ion· . "

T h e Planning Commi ttee reviewed t h e

ubcommi ttee draft

in a session conducted in conj unct ion w i th the J anuary

April trustee weekend on Mayflower H i l l , and the final draft plan w i l l

ninetie and outline several "basic a sumptions" abour Colby's future. They inc l ude a recommitment ro Colby'· "trad it ional mi sion [and] fundamental character" as a private, non ectarian, re 1dent ial

forward their indi\·idual nsions of Colby'

and coeducat ional undergraduate col lege of arts and sc ienc e · .

President Cotter or to attend pectal alumni meeting that ha\·e been

" W e value d iversi ty and aspire to unite poet , c ienti r s , philoso pher and mu ic ian -from suburb and inner c i ties, from aero

mee t i ng in M ay. A lumni, parents and friend of the College have been urged to future 111 wm1 11g w

scheduled thi winter.

our

"The planning proce

ha identified an ambitious agenda that

own country and abroad, from a rich mixture of ethnic, re ligiou and socioeconomic backgrounds-in a community of shared 1 11tellectual

ha- the poten t ia l rn shape Colby'

purpo e , trad i t ion and value·," the report dec lares. "Our reaching will

refinement and d1fficuk choice . We are anxiou to 1m·olve as ma1w

committee

future in e x c i t ing way ," the

ays. " Gi\·en l im ited resource , it w i l l require further

cont inue to emphasi:e c ritical and independent think ing and e lo

members of the Colby fam ily as poss ible a· we continue our plann 1 11g

quence in both written and spoken expre � ion. We will require no

d iscu · ion. Please send u your idea , comments and

ugoe tions . "

Planners Ponder Five Major Topics F

ive

ubcommittee

ha\·e examined spe

Curriculum

c ific plann ing i ues. Thei r work and tenta

The Curric u l u m

tive conclu ion , a described in the plan

focused on ·ix general area :

ubcommittee ha

seminar i· cal led ) plu the area requirements are 111 add i t ion to rhe Engltsh composttinn requirement and the fore ign language re

n i ng doc ument, i outl ined on the e page-.

CuiTiculum Revision: The Faculty Cur

For a copy of the complete interim planning

riculum Committee has pro\·isionally pro

discu

document, reader are in\·ited to write Peyton

posed alteration

ral Science , Literacure , Quanciwtive Reasoning

R . Helm, Secrewry , Tnmee Planning Com

portion of the College' d i ·mbution require

Wacernlle , ME 0490 I .

ments. Currently under d i cussion are a re

mirree, Colby College ,

to the "eneral education

quirement. The s ix area

currently under

ion are : A rr:s , His wrica ! S r w:l ies ,

acu

and Social Sciences. lncemarional Education: To meet the

quired ·em inar for all fir t-year tudents and

chal lenge

requiring all student - to rake one cour e in

international awareness, the Fac u l ty Cur

of the growing importance of

each of · i x broad areas within their fir t two

riculum Committee has reaffirmed the im

year . The fir t - year col loqu ium ( as the

portance of rhe rhree-seme ter foreign Ian-

Roger Woodberry '90

Study abroad programs Tna)' be expanded, and a new first-year seminar is under discussion by a faculty subcommittee. Colby, March 1 99 1

The Diversity Subcommittee has urged the College w increase recruitment efforts for minority students.

guage requ irement. The commi ttee i al o invest igati ng the desirability of increased opportunities to tudy in other countries as part of a student's four-year Colby program. What k i nd of foreign-study opportunitie are truly valuable and whether all tudent· would be required to study abroad remain issues under d iscussion. Independent Study: The Faculty Cur riculum Committee has also been d iscussing whether opportunities for independent study and research should be expanded. Many departments and programs c urrently require senior seminars that have a research com ponent, but there is no Col lege-wide expec tat ion that every student will have com p leted a sustained p iece of independent work by the time he or she leaves the College.

Advising: To deal with this trad it ional area of weakne �. a campus task force ha been formed to inve tigate ways academic advising might be improved. There is gen era l satisfaction with major and career/post graduate tudy advising; the problem seem to be in general education advising. The newly proposed area requirements and the Educational Precepts adopted in 1 989 should serve as the ba is for a trengthened and more coherent advising program. Faculty Growth and New Faculty Posi tion Allocation: The subcommittee has re

v iewed the deployment of 1 8 new faculty po it ions during the past decade. For the mo t part , new fac ulty posi tion and reasignment of exi ting positions have been in respon e to new interdi·c iplinary programs,

Photos by Amy Farmer '90 anJ Mar Lebow1u '87

the addi tion of new di c i p l i nes to the cur riculum and the strengthening of ex isting majors, espec ially to accommodate new ar ea and subfields. The new tenure-track po sit ions have added important new features to the curriculum. Traditional imbalances have a lso been addressed (e.g., i n the Natu ral Sciences) , and enrollment pressures have to some extent been alleviated by faculty growth.The curriculum revision currently under discussion, the need for add i t ional fac ulty re ource to accommodate the intenity of individual ized direction of student independent study and research and the continu ing need for flexibil ity to taff new critical areas and subfields have produced a proposal by the subcommittee to add addi t ional faculty and fac ulty support staff dur-

Photos by Sam Salman '93 and Mary Ellen Matava

Participation in athletics and performing arts is credited with allowing students w •»ork wgether and form lasting friendships.

Colby , March 1 99 1

ing the next five years at an annual rare of l . ::i full-rime equivalent position . New Programs, Program Revisions and Program Deletions : The subcommittee has

reviewed the mix of traditional 2i1d interdi c iplinary programs in the c urriculum, has created a ummary of the recommendations of the Overseer V isiting Committee reports for the past five years and has noted the programs that have been deleted as new programs have emerged.

Diversity The Diver iry Subcommittee i tack l ing an assignment that may be Colby's greate t challenge. With a tudent body that is 94.6 percent Caucasian, we are currently the least rac ially d iver e of our peer colleges. After exam ining all aspects of d iversity on campus, this subcommittee focused on am bitious recruiting goals. While the subcom m ittee expressed the wi h that the Colby student population would one day reflect the d iversity of the nation' college-going

population, it seemed more productive and realistic to set ambitious but achievable ad missions goals for rhe entering class of 1 99 5 96 as follow : at least 2 0 0 applications and 30 enrolled students from eac h of three im portant ethnic groups: African American, H i panic and Asian A merican. I n add ition, we hould strive to rec ruit: N at ive Ameri cans ( at least 1 percent of the class ) ; Maine ·rudents (at least 1 3 percent of the clas ) ; a n d international tuclents (at least 7 per cent of the class) . The subcommi nee stresses that these are targets of fully qualified appli cants Colby should aim for, not quotas to set l imits on the number of qualified tudents from any particular ethnic background. A c hiev ing the e goals will requ ire: enhanced admissions recruiting efforts, self examination to increase the campus com fort - level for those of different cultural back grounds and augmented financ ial aid. The subcommittee estimates that to ach ieve in terim goal by 1995 may cost as much a 750,000 in additional scholarships annu ally.

Student Life The Student Life Subcommittee was originally asked to investigate whether: rhe resulenrial life programs , including faculty rela tions wich scudencs oucside of course work, adequacely support the intellectual development of scudencs? Whac should be rhe balance of academic curriculum and ocher campus activi ties? The subcommittee subsequently broad ened i t focus to review not only the Com mons system ( residential life ) bur al·o the \·alues of the College and how we communi cate them to students. In re\·iewing the Commons y tern, the subcommittee has considered whether rhe resident ial ysrem provides the sort of oppor tunities for self-governance and rudent re sponsibility for campus activities that en gender pride of accomplishment and a proprietary interest in the welfare of the College as well as strong friendships among students. Th e subcomm ittee a lso asked whether faculty involvement in the Com mons ystem has effectively supported intel lectual life outside the c u rriculum. Prelimi-

Alumni Are Urged to Join the Process Ne w overseer George Hask

I L ' 5 5 returned t o alumn i act ivism in style l a t seme ter when h e was host of a reception and d inner at the Ritz Carlton i.n Boston. The event, H a kell a id, was de igned to bring other "errant alumni" back into the Colby fold-to get them involved in and exci ted about the c hallenge the College face i n the decade to come. Haskell concede that bu ine commitments and other obligations kept him from vi i r ing Colby for nearly a decade until a classmate, Colby Alumni Secretary S i d Farr ("Mr. Per istence," Haskell said with a laugh) , persuaded him to come to Mayflower Hill in November 1 989. What he found, h e says, wa an impressively maintained campu where faculty and administrator eemed dedicated to providing fir t-rate academic programs in an atmo phere of cooperation with rudenr , alumni and other con t iruencie . "Go back to campus and ee for your elve ," Haskell told fellow alumni at the Bo ton dinner. H e said thar the enormou financial and demographic problem Colby face in coming year require increa ed a lumni involvement. pecifically, he aid, more alumni need to join trustees, overseer and other current donor in upporting the Alumni Fund and the drive to increase the College endowment. Tne Haske l l dinner was one in a eries of events de igned to involve an increa ing number of alumni in helping to plan for Colby' future. During the fall e me ter, President W i ll ia m Cotter held Pre ident's Forums in New York, Boston and Waterville. H is message to attendees at each meeting was the ame: thi is not a time to batten down the batche and hope the storms buffeting h igher education will blow over. It i a time to be exc ited about the future and about the innovative programs on the horizon. Colby remains a h ighly elective, h ighly competitive college committed to liberal arts education, Cotter said, and Colby offic ial are charged w ith finding way , even during a recession, to keep that education withm the reach of middle-clas tudents. The College i also dedicated to the idea that no educat ion i complete w ithout an international element, he added, and--clo er to home-efforts to make the Common y tern re ponsive

to student needs are vital.

Colby, March 1 99 1

Ph,110, hy am

l;man '9 3 anu

New funding sources are needed to complete projects like the Bixler building renovation and the updating of computer equi/)ment .

nary conclus ions uggest that Colby's student governance system has dev eloped rapidly during th e last sev eral y ears as an effective voice for student repres entation tn College governance. Students find many opportuni t i es to tak e responsibilty for important cam pus activ ities and to form lasting fri endships in th e residenc e halls and in settings such as athletic teams, clubs and other extracur ricular activiti es. Most students feel th er e is a good balance b etwe en intellectual and extracurricular pursuits, but th e subcommit t e e believe that som e additional efforts should be mad e to enhance th e intellectual/ cultural component of student life at Colby, especially faculty-student contact outside th e classroom. The subcommitte e also felt that, as a college, we must redouble our

efforts to articulate our hared value and to ensure that students f e el that th ey belong w a "community of scholars. "

Fac ilities

Though many ofu till think of Colby' "new campus," many of our Mayflower Hill facilities are now half a century old. The Facilities Subcomm itt e e ha revi ewed th e entire physical plant, has collected and clas sif i ed all known building and renovation projects and has stud i ed the College' equip m ent ne eds (above those covered in annual budgets ). A preliminary tally indicates that Colby faces more than $28 million in capital projects and equipment purchase over the next fiv e years. Approximately half of th e e

n e eds are in the area of replacement and renovation, which, in th e past, hav e b e en fund ed from internal sources. Given th e needs of our aging plant, this will place extraordinary d emands on future budgets. The rest of th e e capital projects will require new commitment of fund from external sources. Major project includ e: th e renovation of Lovejoy; a new science build ing; the reno vation and expansion of th e Bixler Art and Music Center; an enlarged Training Room; renovations of th e resid ence halls in th e East and We t Quads and Robert Row; a new admis ions facility; acad emic and admini trativ e computing equipment; and replace ment or upgrade of th e central heating plant.

NESCAC Endowment Comparison (in thousands) Williams .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $306,879 We leyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2 7 5 , 1 38 Amher.t

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Middlebury

$ 266,506

$2 1 7 ,220 $ 1 44, 1 56 Tufts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1 3 7 ,498 Trinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . $ 1 26,260 Hamilron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1 1 3 ,945 Bowdoin

Colby Bate

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$74,03 5

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$ 5 8, 2 5 1 $35,3 1 0

Photo by Mary Ellen Matava

While the College needs to increase financial aid resources , i t also must focus on fund raising to build the endowment.

Colby , March 1 99 1

Financial Resources The Financ ial Resources Subcomm it tee pent much of the spring and summer examining the major component of Colby's budget and developing a financ ial model. By early fal l , the committee conc luded that Colby has in place adequate tools to evalu ate the financ ial impac t of change in i ts operating environment and to react to those changes if necessary. The committee also rudied market ensitivity to student charge , finding that the demand for h igher educa t ion ha , so far, been inela t ic-that i , rela tively insen itive to price increase . There is some evidence, however, that this may be changing. Colby i well positioned in the middle of the cost range for institut ions of comparable quality and is one of the mo t

efficient of our peer colleges. The subcommittee' studies al o indi cated that academic qual i ty i the most important nonfinanc ial factor affecting stu dents' tendency to enroll, suggesting that maintaining h igh qual ity is a more effective strategy than trying to compete w ith other schools for students on a price basis. A large increa e in enrollment would thus create financ ial d ifficult ies both because of the impact on quality and the cost of additional faci litie . Consequently, the subcommittee thus far sees no significant advantages to be gained by dramatic changes in the size of the student body, though a modest increase in enrollment might be considered. Colby ha assigned a h igh priority to offering competi tive faculty salarie during the past decade

and now rank in the top 5 percent of col leges nationally. The subcommittee d i cussed fac u l ty q u a l i t y as fundamental to the College's academic reputation and the re lated is ues of compet itive faculty salaries and benefits. De pite the completion in 1 986 of the most successful capital campaign in rhe College's history, Colby' endowment ranks 2 3rd of the 25 colleges named in U . S . News & World Report's l ist of the country's best liberal arts colleges. G iven the continu ing need to maintain faculty salaries and increase financial a id, we must renew our fund-raising effort for endowment. A t the ame time, we are faced with essential, formidable fac il ities needs that will require additional external comm itment .

Planning Participants Trustee Planning Committee

John G. Christy, chair Peyton R. Helm, secretary

H. Ridgely Bullock ' 5 5 , usan Comeau '63, William H . Goldfarb '6 , Jerome F. Goldberg '60 , ancy pokes Haydu '69, Gerald]. Holtz '52, Robert . Lee ' 5 1 , Beverly all:-andian Madden '80, Robert A. Marden 'SO, David Marson '4 , WilsonC. Piper'J9, Lawrence R. Pugh 'S6, David Pulver '63, Rohert age '49, Edward H. Tumer, Mary El izabeth Brown Turner '63

Subcommittee on Curriculum Nancy Spokes Haydu '69, trustee, chair Robert McArthur, dean of faculty, secretary H. Ridgely Bullock 'SS, crusree,JohnG. Christy P ' 4, crnsree, W i l l iam R. Cotter, president, Silvia BermuJez, instructor, Modem Lan guages, David Bourgaize, assistant professor, Chemisrry, Debra Cunpbe ll, associate profes sor, Philosophy and Religion, Edwin J. Kenney, professor, English, Jay B. Labov, associate pro fessor, Biology, Margaret Lichterfe ld Thoma. , associatedean offarnlty, Phylli F. Mannoccht, associate professor. English. Richard J . Mo -, professor, Hiswry, Leonard . Reich, as ociace professor, Administrative Science, Jonathan M . W e t , professor, Modern Languages. Thomas A. Capozza '92, hawn P. Crowley '9 1 , Tracey E . Hardman '92, Brown Harri I l l '9 3 , Kathleen A. Kal iff '9 1

Subcommittee on Student Life David Pulver '63, trustee, chair Janice Seitzinger, dean of students, secretary Be\·erly Nalbandian Madden '80, 1rus1ee, Wilson C. Piper ' 39, mLScee, Joyce McPhetre Maisel, associate dean of students, Pamela A.

Colby, March 1 99 1

Blake, assistant professor, Gouemment, David H. Finnage, professor, Biology, Thomas J . Morrione '6S, professor, Sociology and Anthro pology, hawn P. Crowley '9 1 , Kathleen A . Kaliff '9 1 , Adolfo K . Vaal e t o ' 9 1

Subcommittee on Diversity Susan Comeau '63 , trustee, chair Parker J . Beverage, dean of admissions, co secretary Earl H. Smith, dean of the Col lege , co-secretary Mary El izabeth Brown T umer '63 , trustee, William R. Cotter, president, Roland Allen, assistant dean of admi sions, Timothy Burton ' 9, assistant co dean ofadmissions, Linda Cot ter, alumni liaison, Career Sen•ices, Victoria M. Hershey, associate dean ofscudencs. Thomas W. Kopp, seniorassociar.e dean ofadrmssums, Andria P. Mc ea!- mith, assistanr co dean of admis ions, Lucia Whittelsey myth '73, direcwr, financial aid. CeJric G. Bryant, assistanr pro fessor, English, Murray F. Campbell, associate profes or, Physics, Charles . Hauss, professor, Govemmenc, Tamae K. Prmdle, assiscam pro fessor, Modern Language , J ami le D. Ba etc '93. Cecily Y. Finley '94, Catherine W. Giles '9 1 , Candace A . Green '9 1 , Ali.za . Hernandez '93 , Ta-Tanisha D. James '9 3 , Maria M. Kim '93 . Joel A. Mackall '93 , Adolfo K . Vaal ero '9 1 , Tiare D. White '93

Subcommittee on Facilities Jerome F. Goldberg '60, trustee, chair W. Arnold Yasinski, admini trative vice president, secretary H. Ridgely Bullock ' 5 5 , trusr.ee, Robert A . Marden 'SO, trustee , David Marson '48, trustee, Robert age '49, mmee, Edward H. Turner, trustee, Will iam R. Cotrer, presidem, Gordon

John

Christy , Planning Committee chair

Chee man, associate direcror, physical plant, Raymond B. Phillips, director, computer ser i•ices. Alan D. Lewi , director, Physical Plant, F. Ru ell Cole, professor, Biology, Thoma R. Longstaff, professor, Philosoph)' and Religion, Karen P. Laidley '93, C. Blake Liebert '9 1 , Jane E. olomon '9 1 , Kary A. Wilkin '9 1

Subcommittee on Financial Resource Gerald J . Holtz '52, trustee, chair Douglas Reinhardt '7 1 , treasurer, secretary H. Ridgely Bullock ' S S , mmee,John G. Chri:ty, mtsree, William H. Goldfarb '6 , trustee, Rob ert . Lee 'S l, crnscee, Beverly alband1an Madden '80, trustee, Lawrence R. Pugh '56, m1.scee, William R. Cotter, president, W . Amold Ya in ki, administratitie vice presidenr, Jan . Hogendom, professor, Economics, Jame W. Meehan, Jr., professor, Economics Chair H. Ridgely Bullock 'S5 and Presi dent Wi lliam R. Cotter are ex-officio membero of all commirtee .

FACULTY FILE Muehlner Steers Libraries Into the Future T

he woman credited with lead ing Colby's libraries into the 2 l st century owes her career to substandard typing sk ills. Soon after Suanne M uehlner graduated from the Univer ity of Cal ifornia at Berkeley, she moved east to Boston and appl ied for a c lerical job at the Massachusetts I nstitute of Technology. She fai led the M IT typing test-three times-and wa steered toward the library, where she became an intern. It was a happy match. Apart from a one-year stint in the reference library at Techn ische Universitat in Berl in, Mueh lner stayed with the MIT l ibrary system for 16 years, eventual ly rising to the po ition of assistant director of public services. In 1 98 1 , looking for new chal lenges and tiring of urban l ife, M uehlner came to Colby as director of librar ies. Now, instead of worry i ng about "parking problems a n d l i v i n g e x pe ns e s , M uehlner is building a house in the country that she de signed herself. Though the project is in only i ts second year and has a long way to go, the house is already a com fortable retre a t . On long winter evening , M ueh lner can relax and read in front of her big stone fireplace with her fe l i n e fa m i l y : F lopsy, Mopsy and N i bbles. The erenity M uehlner cherishes in her private l ife is a l o apparent in M il ler L i brary, where, according t o staff members, M uehlner h a s presided w i t h j ust t h e right mix of authority, humor and trust. "There's no ego involvement in her decisions," said Frances Parker, the I ibrary's assistant director of public services. "She's able to make dec i ions fairly when no one e lse can . . . . Most of all, she lets u have r om to work, our own authority to operate responsibly. I t al lows u s t h e leeway t o g e t things done without someone constantly supervising." Library assistant Natalia Kemper says M uehlner is a good friend a well as a good boss. "She's very helpful when you approach her. I t's very easy to talk to her when it comes to problems." M uehlner, Kempers said, "has a wonderful sense of humor. I t's an infectious laugh that she has. But we hardly ever see her." Nor do most l ibrary patrons. M uehlner's office is a calm refuge at the end of a long corridor beh ind the c i rculat ion desk . From there, 28

M uehlner operates Colby' three- l i brary sy tern, keeping one finger on the pulse of the library and one eye on the future. Working with other Colby administrators to design and finance library policies is the major portion of Muehlner's job, but she stays involved in day to-day decisions as we ll. "She' always watching us," said library assistant Eileen Lalime. "Not in a bad way, but j ust so that she knows what's going on." Muehlner came to Colby armed with a dream: to use computers to update cataloguing procedures and make library materials more avai lable to the Colby community. And thank to her effort and those of her staff, the days of thumbing through tack of card in the card catalogues are over. Now, anyone who needs a book, journal, videotape or a l most anyth i ng else housed in the Colby librar ies---can use video termi nals i n M iller Library's main room or i n fac u l t y and adm i n istrative office on campu to conduct a com plete earch. But M uehlner says she i n't stopping there. I n a program that she hopes will save pace and money, she is encouraging the College to give up subscriptions to l i ttle-used journals, espe c ially if they can be ordered from a nearby library. '' I ' m concerned b e c a u e o u r dol lar b u y fewer journals each year," he said . "No matter how much money I ask for from the administration, it still doesn't cover the increasing price of subscriptions. You can't expect a 30 percent increase, all of a sudden, from a $ 1 00,000 budget. But that's what we need. " Colby's three l ibrarie need more money and more room to expand , and M uehlner say he is concentrating on plans to build a new sc ience library and on rai ing funds for an add ition to the art and music l ibrary. "She' always been supportive of the art and music library and of humanit ies at Colby," said art and music librarian Tony Hess. "She' gone to bat with the administration for me for funds to expand the library and enlarge the budget to buy more art books." Muehlner's appreciation for the arts was nurtured in her child hood and has been a lifelong source of pleasure. " I was rai ed in a household where the TV was nonexi tent and the family spent time Colby, March 1 99 1

rogcrhcr rcaJ ing," she �a iJ. During her \'C<lr m Bcrl m , :-. 1 uchlncr ,irrcnclcJ ar

lea't t11'll llf'Cra,. llr c onc rr ' each \\-eek un bnrh -;ide, of the W<J l l . "There\ an ennrmnLh , . ,ffiety nf arr' anJ enrcrr<1 1 11menc in Berl i n , and I wanrcJ r,1 ,cc ,1, much a' rn,., 1 h l e ,,·h ile

\\'a, there," ,he

'a id , add i ng that 'he thtnb German un1ry \1· 1 1 1 rc,ult tn e\·en richer cul rural offerin_gs. 1uehlner 1 s a talenreJ roncrwhn'e work attract' facu lty members in Jniyc,

Suanne :\ 1 ttehlner pre\ldcs m·er Co/h,· · _,

w the sem i - annual Pl)ttery Cl uh 'a le, hdd tn

the

rudenc Ccnrer.

La·t semester she Cl1-raught ;:i rnttcr\' c,1ur'c and "has i c a l ly -;he heired u,. carry the ponerv cl ub while [ i t, ad\'lscr] . 1 ,mc,· Meader, ,,.,b ;1 \\'ay," aid J anet E a ton, a friend of t--. l uchlner\ anJ w1Jo\\' of the !arc Tnm Ea ton, who raughr biology at Colby.

"Wh t ie I wa · at

:-- I.tr\ Elkn :-- t.n "

/1hrancs

mu,.1c anJ blnck LlUt rhc ent i re '' orld for a tc\\' hllur, . "

'\\' im-,

e\· cry day

<lnJ

"Suanne '" one

i-.

<l\·iJ

cru,.:--countrY sk ier.

in the librane·, o l found ,.omethtng that \\'l1ulJ rake my minJ nff my

/\ 1 uehlncr a l " '

the mo;,t imrorrant people a r Colhv." '<'l iJ

Dean ,l rhe Fac u l ty R,ibcn l\ ! c A rrhur. " E ,·en·rh tng-a l l , iur 'uccc" at rhe c,1l h y l ibrnrie,-1, due t<l her hard \\'ork

!IT I 11·anced a break imm rhc rigor' c1f \n1rk1ng

irh a jinn hand and a 1mrm hearc.

ment . "

"- he

.mcl

go,1d m.11l<l!!l'

a n d I d c m 't al \\'a\'::. agree n n e,·ernhmg," "11J France'

II e

work bur nil · r i m u late my intel lec t .'' M uchlncr ,aid. "Pnnery '' ,·cry

rarkcr, "bur rh;:n's nkay. I rc;.pect her a great deal, C\'Cn \\ hen

phy ical but requires concenrration. And 1t\ \\'onderful therar1· for

J 1 ,agree. /\ l ll.t uf rhe rnne -;he', rn�ht, any\\'ay. But re.,recr 1 1 mrnr

the hand .

can j usr focu:. on making rot>, l isten to <I l i ttle c l,1"ic;il

ranc , and

Jun't rcsrecr j w.r anyone. \Xfhat' more, I rea l l y like her."

Saunders Unearths the "Real" Stephen Foster S

ong l ike "Oh _ usanna ! " and "Campto\\'n Race " ha1·e long been

staple of American m u ic, and the man who wrote them,

rerhen

Fo cer, i firmly enshrined i n the country'· mu·ical hi tory. But the

by sheet music col lectors and by m u i c 10\·er

who \\'anc to play

Foster' original tunes. " I know ofindh·idual - who have bought copies becau e they l ike the music o muc h, " Saunder. :aid.

Fo ter music we know today i quite d i ffe rent from chat wh ich the

The compo it ion rhar d idn't make it inco the book were s i m i lar

compo er put to paper, according to a Colby music professor who

to Foster's original work but contained hundred of l it t le mistakes

spent five year poring through Foster arrangements to determine

that had filtered in o er the year ,

their authenricicy.

t i me· added or remm·ed sh arr , flat or dotted figure when the rieces

teven

were printed-\\' ith the m i take multiplying with each reprinting

aunders did the work while a doctoral tudent at the

Univer ity of Pitt buroh in Foster' hometown. W i th Deane L . Root,

and it wa. up ro

curator of the Foster H a l l Col lect ion at Pitt,

had \\'ritten.

aunder reviewed 00

aunder says. Publisher some

aunder and Root to determine what Fo ter h imself

Fo ter piece , eventually gleaning 201 authentic composition and

" ] got my hand on every edit ion of a p iece, pread rhem on the

puning them in chronological order. The result of the ir work, a book

table, made a Ii t of the d ifference in the word and the note , and

tit led The Music of Stephen C. Foster, wa recently publi hed by the mithsonian In t i tu tion Press.

"le'

a complete, scholarly edit ion of

every p iece of mu ic that Fo ter ever wrote," aid

aunder .

put them in order,''

aunder sa id. " E ·entually I had huge file folder.

on each of the song conta ining all rhe different edit ion . We looked at anything we could find our about the song."

A l l of che pieces in The Music of Stephen C . Foster are printed as

The proce s of peeling away layer to get at an original compo

they fir t appeared, and some even inc lude the decorative t ide page .

s i t ion, cal led textual critic i m , i painstaking but extremely re\\'ard

Though primarily intended for cholar , rhe rwo volume are pri:ed

ing work,

Colby, March 1 99 1

aunder

ays. H e note

that in many case , the more a

performer knows about a piece, the better hi or her rendit ion is l ikely to be . "You want to get as close as possible to what the composer intended," Saunders said. "You want to find the root level of the compo er's intent ions, recovering them to the extent that's possible." Foster's intentions have been the subject of controversy. Some have labeled the composer a rac ist, and though Saunders disagrees with the charge, he admits that the lyrics in some early songs would be considered racist today. A l ine in "Old Unc le N ed" refers to the "wooly ha ir on top of his head ." And the word "nigger" appears in the second verse of "Oh Susanna ! " "That's why you never learned the second verse," Saunders aid. But accord ing to Saunders, his study revealed that Foster under went something of a metamorphosis in the early 1 850s-about the same t ime he became friends with several Pittsburgh abolit ionist . Some of his early lyrics, mostly those for m i nstrel song , were laced with stereotypical d ialect. But as he matured as a songwriter, Foster "put profound words into the mouths of blacks," Saunder said. The lyrics to "Old Black Joe," written in 1 8 5 1 , contain no dialect, and talk about "world weariness," a common Fo ter theme.

"In the song, Old Black Joe is singing about all h is friends who have gone before him, rem inisc ing about the c h i ldren who once sat on h is knee," Saunders said. "Clearly something happened in Foster's mind in the early 1 8 50s. There were real changes from his early songwriting." Myths about Foster abound. Many people are convinced, for instance, that the compo er lived in the American South-a region he visi ted only twice in h is life. The idea that Foster was an alcoholic and d ied of the di ea e i probably also mistaken, Saunders say . What is undeniable i the impact Foster has had on generations of Ameri cans who have kept his mu ic alive. Foster was the fir t American to make a good living writing songs, aunders point out, add ing that it was Foster's ability to forge memorable tune that made him o popular. Though Foster was not always a shrewd businessman (a a young man, he gave songs to min trel how performers, little heeding their potential value ) , his lyric reveal a deep understanding of uni versa! artistic themes-love, los , disillu ·ionment, the importance of fam i l y. According to Saunder , much re search i left to be done on Foster-both as a composer and as a man. But he says he be lieve the work will be congenial to anyone who undertakes it. "As you study omeone, you tend to be ympathet ic," aunder aid. "The more familiar you get with the ongs and the closer you get to the original versions of these ong , Along with his scholarly srudy of Foster's music , Steven Saunders also enjoys making the works come to you can't help but l ike the man." life on an upright piano. 30

Colby , March I 991

STUDENT LIFE Amo, Amas , Amat: "Dead" Languages I

t was 1 9 1 . The war i n Europe \\'asn ' t q u i t e o\·er, and now there wa,

H i lJa Westef\·elt. a j u nior. "

trouble on campus.

All That

o one e lse is able to reaJ and translate

Greek . " "A lot of people don't e,·en kmm· "·hat c l assics is," said Deann<i

I t w a s t h e pesky Greeks. A nd \\'hen the Board of Trustees \'oted for abol i t ion, "that act ion occasi oned such remonsrrance

im i n -

Deroche '9 l. Among those ,,·ho d o , "a lot o ft h e m a r e int rigued b Y the

d ignant a l u m n i , " i n the words of a College h istor ian, that the board

foct thm \\·e're c lass ic� maiors," she added.

postponed the act ion for a ye;:1r and then rescinded i t. motion

M y ·tique i� an imr1.)rtant part 1.)f the arpea l . � o far ha,·e ,,·e n 1111e

ent irely.

fmm compulsory c lassic a l educ at ion t h Jt the �tud\· uf G reek anJ

o, the reprie\'e \\'as not for

rhose G reeb.

Latin has becnme ra ther exoti c .

They \\'1.llild not run

i n to trouble f o r another 6 5 •ears. This conrrm·ersy \\'as ahout the

There' · a >ense of exclusi\'ity in learni ng the cnde and gaining firsthand access rn the ,,·isJom uf anc ienr Greece and

department of G reek. Desp i te dec l i n i ng enrol lments in

: -�-· ::::,.e; lw ,- w 0i� �l,(1'\(�;i4\ ·l��11�·]1;1,!·\1�.-�� , : �-,pl , � 1:·�. �\\1'�� - y· " ){� I �· i _�\\_�1: \(�,:� � r,;·'t�/,' [' f�\i�l\\\��.�-\J��\\' , . � -:ft-�1

� � �\�� @?;�� · �\;1 ��· ., � �� F��\·< /-� , '- -.., �@� � Ti {b,j'.� 11\ '../� �\ .,<�@� � W!/! - � \\\'. t�.,,1 • ' i ) i� ·�\@ � .:11�\�".\·i\ \''' t · · · /," · 1.·1 · · 1 ' •"I/ , 1..1:"· � -v. �\ 'f!!i �p" � J/ " '\1\.· · ' \'�· 0i!,� \@] @)J \ mm ·: .'�j ' \\� L "\) - · 0��:1 •1\"'� ·:-:\ �\\\ \I '@ .

Greek courses, alumni �ent 1 menr per�u,1ded the a l i\'e at Colb .

�� {':":�-:'i:

Two decades before, 1 11 1 89 7 , the ment for ,1dmission and graduamm "To the d 1ehards ot the cnm ent iunal c urriculum such a depart ure \\ a.;; unth 1 11kable ," the l are Emest

1 .irn ner

wrote 111 h is Hisron• C>f Cvlh"

Cul-

"Nnt tn k now G reck \\'d, t1.l d i e

111 ignorance. Profic 1enC''1 1 11 Greek and Latin was the mark ofa ge ntleman and a sc holar " When they fi nally did e l 1 1n 1 -

�

nate com ul my G reek, the trustees al o e tablished a new Bache lor of Phi-

_ ·

•

College had dropped Greek ,1s a req u i re-

Rome Conquering Greek and Larin earns the

trustee· to stay the course and keep the c la�s1c�

lege

�

student of the classics memher-;hip 1 11 a s1.ic 1 . et\• thar shares t h 1 s a l m1.n ecrer a b i l 1 t yt o

�

decipher ancient and dead lang iages. � And-perhaps nor unl ike the trnter-

l _.,-

�

ni ty- rn\\' GreeksofmorerecemCulhy

. ..

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0•

;

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;,(,\ \

/1 :,j �\',\

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" rudent ignoranr ofthe rungueof ocrates

and A nsto t le must not ha,·e the re\'ered de-

11 • 11 ! " '

•'t/1 1 \

1\ 1

:f j J \ �,

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-1 �W� ·��

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ow, a l most a century later, Greek i, � t i l l i n Colby's

strong hond of k nrn,· i ng .ome t h i ng that most peuplc don't ha,·e the w i l l rn figure nut. "There\ tremenLlnu� sati,-

fac t ion 111 i· u,r hei nl'.! able tn read i r , " · a i d W e s r e n·e l r . " T h e r e \ something sacred ahout thnse text-;.

' _./ {jj, ��).,..? � <@> � � � �� @!/@I@i&l ®�

gree of Bachelor of A rts, but a le ·scr mark of Ji t t nc t ton," Marrmer expla1 11ed

:<\� \• �

t-:fW':'i U/ ii'.' ,, \ 1,1 �

losophy degree to h ighl igh t the defi c i t

' I

h i stllry-classics maj1,rs share the

For J eremy G rnnr. a se mi naryhound sen ior from Colorndo, the appeal of the c lassics is the "capiral-T Truth" they rnnra 1 11 . "� ome of the

�

Greeks have id th i ngs rhat j ust c n ' t be � : said any bet ter, Grant said. The tau l ts-

and-,1 l l heme i n Homer, Plato's noble efforts

ro cxpress the \\' isdom nf ocra tes a nd the reasoning

of Demosthenes are unequaled i n the modern world, he

catalogue, and a small but enthusi'1 tic corps of scholars i keeping the

mai nta ins, and they can't be fu l l y appreciated if they're filtered

flame a l i ve . Th i

through ·omcone e lse' translation.

c la

year'

census show

n 1 11e

tudent

rcgi�tered a,

ics major , and department chair Domthy Koonce �ay that'

typical of the nu mber i n recent year . Who are the e people who . pend th1:ir t i me immer�ed in a n t iq u i ty, tran·lat i ng anc ient Greek and Latin texts for pleasure ? What i it that l u re them from more contemporary pursu i t s ? Arc they

This apprec iat ion for the i ntellect of people who l i 1·eJ more than t\\'l) mi llenia ago, coupled w i t h an i n t i mate knowledge of a c u l t ure so geograph ically and chronologically d istant, gi,·es c la �ic majors a u n ique per pec t i \·e on their O\\'n \\'Orld. For example, w h i le many of today's student

may v ie\\' the

the la t ofthe true gent lemen, gentlewomen aml scholar ? Or are they

Persian Gulf turmo i l a· the greate t conflict of their l ifet i me , more

tud ious anachroni m lodged in the upper reache, of the in)ry towe r ?

t h a n o n e c las· ics major wa quick to take a longer \'iew. As the armies

Current c la

major

eemed no paler thiln other col lege

tudent in M a i ne tc an ob ·ervcr thi w inrer. A- a group they are not

of l raq and the U n ired

rates girded for a h igh-tech \\'ar i n the desert,

sophomore Andrea Wal ker recill led the Hisrory of the Pcloponnesian

near- ighted and le pccrac led, as the caricarurbt m ight draw them.

War by the Greek h istorian Thucydide .

Nor are they h u nched forward from carryi ng their too-heavy d i c t ion-

bered Thucydide 's recoan i t ion, as he paraphrased i t , that "what has

arie arounJ or from bend i ng over their te ts roo i ntently.

happened will hereafter happen aga i n , accord ing tn h u man nature-

Today' c la

ic major are aware of the tereotype but pay them

no heed. " I 'm proud to be a c la Colby, March 1 99 1

ic major-I t h i nk i t '- funky," said

pecific ally, he remem-

the ame or pretty nearly so." "Men always t h i nk the war of t he i r own t i me to be the greatest

11 h i k rhcy arc cng;1gcd in i r , " Th u c 1·d idc'

1nnrc, " h u r ll'hcn they h,1 1 c cca'cLI fwm 1 r , rcg,1rd earl i e r e1-c n r ' 11·1th mun: <1d m 1 r,1t it1n

"Thucyd ides knell' "·h a t he 11'<1' ta l k i n g Jh lLJ t , " said Amy F a n g , a i u n i m J U't back from a >eme,tcr in A then . The a b i l ity to 'cc tmc\

o wn 11'l1rkl

from a d i fferent per-,pec t i vc through the c la.sics may be a ton ic f or the natura l eg o centric i t y and eth noccnt ric it y

Ck1s10 majors Andrl'a \\ al ke r · 93 . Jen:m;.· G ranc share a laugh wilh Sce/Jhen Collin.1

of hu1rnm

' 74

'91

(fnm c ) and Deanna DeRoche '9 1 ( back , righc)

in the Jo�eph Spa .

n a t u re , hut the tangible i mprovement ' in a c l ;i-,ic� major\ foc i l i ty

a b i l n ie-, to think , a n a l y: e a n d w r i t e .

with Engl ish rank among the more mundane bene fi ts

tonk Lar i n " rn gcr rid

The gram mm and :itructure of Engl ish arc often be:it under,tood

through the :itudy t1f la t i n and G reek, scholars say.

,1gned up a. a double

rawford

tru n k , a ophomorc,

my language requ i remcn r . " He ha

s i nce

1m1jor i n c l a .,ic' and mu,ic . " ] absolutely loved

i t , " he -,aid. " I t \ not ea y by <my mcan:i, but i r 's worth i r . "

"We're glad to h al'c students for whatever reason they come tn

70 , a h igh-school c l a:,sic teacher in Oak land, Maine, and c u rrent president of the bss i c a l As,oc i a t ion of

Though r h e y a r e no douht wor k i ng a hard a t h e i r counterparts other d i sc i p l i n e,, 'enior c l as:i ic:i major� don't g i ve off rhe tense 1 · i b rn t i ,>m of. 'ay, hiolngy major · c ra m m i ng for MCAT or adm i n is

New England. " But i t 's mosrly the l i terature , the h istory and the

trative ,c icnce maJor> hom i ng off do:en of joh resumes. Perhap

us," a i d A l i:ion H arvey

that i

c u l ture that are important to us." Disc i p l i ne i s certa i n l y part and parcel of stud y i ng the c la::.. ic,, teachers and students agree. "It req u i res i n tellectual

t a m i n a , " ·aid

hc ca u :,e rhey hc l 1cve rhe i r c l assic� credentials w i l l erve them

well no mancr what d i rection they rake. But before they can turn to thoughts of the furure, there are those d i c t ionaries to tote around and another I 00 I i nes of Hippolytus

H arvey. " I t'

eriou

undertak i ng ; i t 's a great deal of work,"

aid

to translate. Profc sor Koonce note

that non-majors enrolled i n

Professor Koonce. " F e w t h i ngs in l ife a r e o worth the effort. I f t h e y

cla · ic cour cs have been on the i ncrea e, bur the c l a

s t u d y c la

for the upper-level course i n which they can cut through the c l utter

ic they n e v e r lose that value," s h e s a i d .

Students cred i t the intellec tual d i sc i pl ine w i t h i m prov i ng t h e i r

and work w i th a professor one-on-one

ic major long

or rwo-on-one.

For We-rervelt, daughrer of Perer Westerve l t , a c las sic. profe or c u rren t l y on leave, one-on-one tutoring is also the re ult

of choosing her parents carefu l ly. Love of

the c l ass ics is a fa m i ly a ffl ic t i on she d i d n ' t rea l ly expect to carc h , she confes es. Though four years of Lat i n at Waterv i I le H igh

c hool d idn't generate much enthusia m ,

s h e rhought she'd give herself a break by sign i ng up for a fir t- emcster c lass on Horace a Colby' - program in

a first-year

(Udent at

uernavac a , Mexico.

" I rea l l y found I d idn't know anyt h i ng at a l l ," she rec a l ls. "It was l ike doing math w i thout knowing how to count." But t h i t i me , for some rea on, the bug bit her. She's now a year from grad uat i ng as a cla sics major. She said her father never pu hed her i nto tudying the c l a sics, but he d i d manage to share h is passion for the dead language . N ow , occa ionally on a w i nter n ight when the

un sets

before four o'c lock in Waterv i lle, H i lda w i l l v i i t her father and say, "What do you say we spend the eve n i ng Mary Ellen Matava

Love of the classics is a family affair for Hill/a and Pecer Wescervelc . 32

s ight-read i ng a l i tde Greek ?" "We have a great re lationship," she said.

-Stephen Collins ' 74 Colby , March 1 99 1

PAGING PARENTS There 's More to See Than Mayflower Hill . M

any Colby parents l ike to tack fam i l y vacat ions onto the ir trips

•

e n d offer full schedules o f campus-ba,ed a c t i v ities.

to Mayflower H i l l .

But v is i t i ng fami lie in quest oflodging c an discm·er how quickly

tudent drop-off and pick- ups and campus , . i its often occ u r at

nearby motel space is exhau�red, and many a -on's or daughter's m id

the start or finish of sightseeing on Mount De ert I land , at Moosehead

seme ter greeting is, "Can you take me and my roommate out for

Lake or in ea tern Canada in ummer, sk i i ng at

d i nner tonigh t ?"

ugarloaf or

unday

River in w inter and ant iquing, h i k ing, camping or j ust ge tting away

Don't panic, parent 1 A bit of p lanning, an air of adventure anJ a w i l l i ngne s to go the extra mile( ) can open new nsta for \'tSitnr�

in aurumn and spring. The College i c lo e to many attrac ti ve area - ome w i ld and

and rhe students they ha,·e come to Colby to -ee. The Belgrade Lakes, the historic river town of H al lowe l l , the m id -coast v i l lages of Bel fa ·t,

unspoiled, others developed for tourism. Bur Colby' own backyard Waterv i l l e and neighboring town in the Kennebec R iver valley- is

Camden and Searsport and pict uresque Kingfield in the Carrabassett

dominated by hone t, working-clas communities with l e - obvious

V a l ley are all w ithin range. To help start you on your way, Colby

al lure for traveler .

presents this Parents' Gu ide ro Central M a i ne.

That may nor be of much concern for parents who want t0 spend

Enjoy-and feel free to ubmit your own add it ions, delet ions

mo t of thei r t ime at Colby on the c ampus itself. I ndeed, uch event

and comments for future updares1

a Orientat ion, Commencement and the annual fall Parent Week-

Limou ines David Lajoy:

Augusta Airport 45/hour, three-hour mini

mum. White Lincoln Town Car -rretch lim ousines. 465 - 2 0 7 7 . Skowhegan Fleuriste: S50/hour, three-hour minimum. Midnight-blue Lincoln limou ·ine

4 74-62 56.

Taxis: Clem' Don's Mac's

71 -9000 872-93 l 474-2650

Airline Northwe t Express Car Rental Agencies AV! 6 2 3 - 5 50, I - 00- 3 3 1 - 1 2 1 2 Budget 6 2 2 -02 1 0

Bangor International Airport Airlines Continental. Delta, United

Portland International Jetport

Transportation

Limousines Airlines Continental, Delta,

orchwest, TWA,

United, U A I R

Lafleur Airport ( Waterville)

Rental C a r Agencies AVIS 7 7 5 - 3 1 68, 1- 00- 3 3 1 - 1 2 1 2

LaFleur Ai rport allow o n l y private aircraft to land. Aircraft are available for rental and charrer from Telford Avian n Inc.

72-

Budget Hert: Thrifty

Dollar

7 3 - 7668, 1- 00-42 1 -6 6

Jo eph Mocor Co. 73-3373 ational 7 2 - 29 1 1 , 1 - 00-CAR-RENT

Colby,

March 1 99 1

65/hour. More than 2 hour : 5 5 . 5 0/hour. Cadillac for five people: 5 1 . 7 5 /hour. More than rwo hour : 40. 2 5/hour. 942-2002 . Affordable Elegance Limo: Outer Union t . ,

7 7 2 - 1 963, I - 00- 5 2 7 -0700 774-4544, 1- 00-654-3 1 3 1

Hermon,

7 72-462 , 1- 00- 367 - 2 2 7 7

Car Rental Agencies:

5 5 5 5. Car Rental Agencies: Budget 8 7 3 - 1 1 88 , 1 -800-527-0700

Tally-Ho Limo: 19 Freedom Park, Hermon. Lincoln stretch accommodating six people:

Limousine Portland Jetport Limo: Portland ro Colby re ervation made only through Campu Travel. $ 3 3 one way, $60 round trip. Limit

48-2492.

AV!

947- 3 3 , l- 00- 3 3 1 - 1 2 1 2

Budget

945-9429 947-5474, 1 - 00-42 1 -6 68 942 - 5 5 1 9 , 1 -800-654- 3 1 3 1

Dollar

Hem ational

947-0 1 5 , 1 -80 - 2 2 7- 7 3 6

two uitca es and one piece of carry-on lug gage per person. Campus Travel: 7 2 - 3 4 5 6.

taken < l ll\ r 1 1ne. h u r L u m:n r l y hl l< > h: d u nc i l 1 99 3 . N , m -,n1liker' unly. 8 7 3 - 7 7 2 4 .

L a m p L i g h t e r ( 8..-d & Flrl'<ikf;ht )

44 W. R 1 ,-er Rd. F,iur r<>om,, 111·n w 1 d1 prl\·,1r..- h,Hh,. [\ ,ublc 50; w i t h pr1' ' < l l l ' h<1 t h : 60. Full hrcakf.1,t m c l uded. c�)lll tnt"rlCL'lllC:nt ft'..,L'f\'( 1 ( 1 \ ln � taken n\ > ITIOfL' than nnl' year 1n <lcknncc. 8 7 2 - 2 4 3 2 . <1ccupancy wirh 'h.i r..-d harh:

Waterville Motor Lodge

" 1 6.

[L'.1. 87 3 -0 1 4 1 .

Rl l1>m w i t h fu l l - , 1 :e h e e l : 562; w 1 rl1 twn fu l l

' 1 :c hecb: 6 4 ; ,..- m 1 -, u 1 tc: " 7 4 . R<:,<.:rV<H 1nn' accepted one year

Douhlc occupancy:

5 9 . 5 0 p l u tax, k i ng 60 p l us rnx. C, rn r 1 nenrnl hreakfa,r 1 11 c l udcJ. Indoor , w 1 m m i n g pool. Book re> ervamm> three month, ahead for Com mencemc n i . 8 7 3 - 2 7 7 7 .

400 Kennedy Memnrial Dr. Double occupancy:

�ro: b y' s �ed & Break fa,t

1 1 G rcen , r. l t a l 1anatl' h�)u..,c llL'CH mu,cum", ..,hoppin,�

,md n:,r,rnr<rnh. Fl \'C ronm,, rhree w 1 r l1 pr1 vc1tc h,lf h>. R,1tc;, '24 t<'

3 . m c l ud mg fu l l

hre<Jkfo,t. Rc,en·anon' taken an\ t 1 1nc. 6 2 2 -

1 86 1 .

Budget Host/Airport I n n 39.95 p l u' rax. Cnnn

n e n r a l hreakfa;r ( doughnut> and coffee ) i n 7 3- 3 366.

4 5 5 Kennedy Memor i a l Dr. Double occupancy: 48.9 5 . Corporare room,, avail11hle. Di;rnunt!> for A A A member> and ,,enior c i r izcm. Comp l i memary coffee and rea. Coupon for rhe Chef,, Pamry i n c luded for rwn-nighr weekend stay. 872 - 5 5 7 7 . Holiday I n n

Duuhle: $67.95 p l u, t a x . Breakf;i,t incl udc:d. accepted up ro

8 4 ; K i ng: $ 8 9 . Reservation

cepted f o r Co111mencemem starr i n g J a n uary 1 of rhar year. 8 7 3 -0 1 1 1 .

\'L'<lr m adv;rnce. 6 2 2 - 6 3 7 1 .

mnm u n 1 r y Dr.

[ ouhle: 5 5 - 75 i n rhe fa l l ,eason, 60- 80 in the rring. Rc,rauranr Lln the premi>e,. Resen·at1nn, taken up rn a year 1 11 ad,·ance. 622-47 5 1 .

rax d u r i ng

4 1 - 50. Breakfa>t of coffee and

doughnut;, incl uded. Reservation> av;i i la h le

v a r 1 o n ; a c c e p t e d for Com m e n c e m e n t srarnng J anuary 2 rmor. 8 7 3 - 3 3 3 5 . I n n at Silver Grove ( Bed & Breakfast ) 1 84

i l ver

1 9 Church

B u i l t h y a Belfa r -ea capra 1 1 1 circa I 40.

M ansion erected i n

all with hared bath .

made i n advance.

30- 4 5 . 3 3 - 2 1 5 1 .

The Londonderry l n n : Belmont Ave. On 54 wooded acres a m i le from Penob cot counrry '>k 1 1 ng. Four room w i th two hared bath .

45- 50, fu l l breakfast included. Open

J u ly I -October 1 5 . 3 3 - 39 Penobscot Meadows I n n

( Bed & Breakfa t ) R o u t e I ix room,, <lll with pri

homemade breads, pa ta, pate and ice cream. French,

panish anJ Portuguese spoken.

45- 75. 33 - 5 3 20.

The Carriage House I n n ( Bed & Breakfast) Route I , East Main

Camden Camden Harbor Inn:

roOlm,

3 Bayview

1 8 7 3 . T w e n ty-llne

rooms, 16 with private baths, some with fireplace· or balconies. F u l l breakfast i n

i x rooms, one with private bath. afternoon tea. Pers a l lowed.

erve

50- 60. 54

2 2 89. Homeport Inn ( Bed & Breakfast)

Seven room , four w i th private bath . Double

c l uded; d i nner available. B a r , parlor.

Route l, East Main

occupancy with shared bat h :

wnal rate ranging from

Victorian hou ekeepingcorrnges. Ten rooms,

65;

l ight l y

more f o r a private h a t h . F u l l brcakfa�r i n c l uded. Re;ervarions for Commencemcm

Hiram Alden Inn ( BeJ & Breakfa t )

Sear port

Mid-Coast 5 8 p l u s tax ( $ 8 9 p l u,,

ommencemem week ) . Re>er

Belfast

vate bath . Lunch and d inner avai lable w i th

W h i t ten Rd.

·ix month> m advance. 6 2 2 - 3 7 76.

Upper Mam S r .

l \'erloob rhe harhor. Rate'i eptember through Marc h : 60- 75 Joubleoccupancy, 5 - 1 1 5 . Private April through A ugw.r: h.nh, 1n all room>. Tea en'ed. Gourmet hreakf.i,t. Rc,ernmon> accepted anynme. 2 16-9656.

On Penobscot Bay.

Howard Johnson Lodge Double occupancy:

( Fled & Bre<1kfa,.r)

Bay, w i t h h i k i ng, sw i m m i ng and cross

Howard John. on Lodge

Douhle:

6 H igh , t.

,·are barhs. Per, al lowed if arrangements are

Susse Chalet

3 7 5 Upper M a i n S r .

with private

0. Re":n·ar1on' taken any-

Windward Hou

u m mer: eight

390 W<.:>tcrn A ve .

1 10

'IX

W i nter: three to four rooms, rwo w i th pri

Days I n n

Re;,wuranr opt'n for di nner. Re,en«H llln'

Econo Lodge

Double:

.iJ,«mcc:. l nd< H lr p,1,11.

6 2 2 - 5 04.

>i:e hcd:

c l uded.

0\ 'ter Rar & Grill n:,tc1ur.rnr on prc·m 1'e'.

322 Main St.

h.nh,. Full hreakf<bt and di nner avai lable.

1 1 me. 2 3 6- 3 39 1 .

2 4 Wc:;,rern A w : .

Atrium Motel

nque>. Ten gue'r mnm

Ocrnher. · so-

Be>t Western Senator Inn

Waterville

Twll V 1 c mrian hnme' furn1ohed w i t h an

Tc.i <cn·cd. Bar, rcnn1' CllUrt,. Open J une

Augusta

Lodging

1 886 ,r,me ca,rle on four acres with \'le\\"i<lf Pen,1h,c.llt B,1y. I n laid oak noor" hand Girved m.mrelp1ece nn d 1 11 1ng room fireplace. Twd vc: room,, all w 1 rl1 private horh, and k mg->1:e heck RmH11' w i t h fireplace or ,,u1 te> ,w; 1 1 l a b l e . " I 0 5 - " 1 40. Cnmpl11nentary w i ne , rnd chec''L' crvcd m the ;1fternoon. Reser '"m"n' acceprcd a n y t i me. 1 36-4646. Wh itehall Inn: 52 H igh

3 2 0 I<enncLly M e mori , 1 1 Dr. Douhlc nccupancy , 4u..-c n->1 :<.: heel: C, 1mpltmen Wr)' C< >ffec

orumbega Bed & Breakfast

6 1 H igh

ea 95 ro I 5 for a double room. Re-ervatiom taken anytime. 2 36-4200.

six w i t h private bath . Bar.

50- 6 5. 548-

2 2 59

Colby, March 1 99 1

The Mountains

made Cl lffcc cdkc ;rncl muffin,, llr try rhc Culhy ,'pcc 1al-rw<) c�g,, h;ic,m. toa>r. pa n cakes, h,>mefr1e,.111,koffe e-for 4 . 5 0 . Very l i m 1 recl ;,c.1r10g. Sm1>king 'cctton avatl.1hk.

Kingfield Herbert Inn

P.O. Box 6 7 . M,un , t . Country hotel huilt hy a lumher haron, with bra-- fixtures, m1k wmxlwork anJ ant14uc furnishings. Thirty-three room , all with private baths. nme in-room ·pas. Fu ll rc> taurant. 50- 1 1 0. 2 6 5 -2000. Hartford Green Acres lnn (Bed & Breakfast) Twenty-one rooms, all with private bmh . Breakfast incluJcJ, other meals available. ine-hole golf course and tennis. 32. 503 5 . Open from late June until Labor Day. 597-2 3 3 3 .

7 2 -7 7 1 2 .

Ch ef ' s P a n t ry

4 7 5 Kennedy Memunal Dr., Waterville Home- ryle bre,1 kfasc> anJ lunchc> with a guunncr much. Dbhe incluJe made-ro-or Jernmelerres, eggs BeneJ ic r , Belgian waffles, filled crepes, chicken cordon hleu sanJwiches and homemade Je ens. Prices range from 1 .3 5 for egg, roa r and coffee to $6 for a large meal. Open daily 6 a.m.-2 p.m. 8 7 2 -9290. Jade Island

W . River Rd., Waten· t lle Oneoffive local Chinese restaurants. en•e· Cantonese- :echuan and American food wirh appen:ers like the pupu planer for two at S 1 3 .60 or individual Jishes for $ 1 .9 5 $ 7 . 50. Fish, poultry and heef entree range from 5- . The cocktail lounge special izes in Polyne ian drink . Open MonJay through Thursday, 1 1 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday and atur Jay 1 1 a.m.- I O p.m. anJ unday;, l 1 : 30a.m.9 p.m. Reservanon · accepced. 7 3 - 71 I . Johann Sebastian B's

40 Fairfield Rd., OaklanJ Run by a Colby profe or in hi> beautiful. century-old Victorian home. Contmental menu mcl udes e cargot, crepe>, shrimp nx:kca t l appen:ers, homemade soup, salad like canJinavian herring and lentils, main cour c of halibur, chicken, sauerbraten, wiener!>ehnit:el, entree crepe . Vegetarian di hes ;watlahle. Homemade Au·rrian pa rrie>, Ben & Jerry's ice cream for de_·en. Open for dinner from 6 p.m. Friday anJ aturJay. Reservations recommendeJ-six month· in advance for Commencement weekend. Price· range from 9 to 2 . 50. o credit cards acc cpteJ . No moking. 465 - 3 2 2 3 .

Food Waterville Area Big G's

1 06 Hal ifax

t., Win low

One of Colb '

favorite sandwich

hops,

fearuring over 50 mear and cheese combina tions. Vegetarian combos and alaJs avail able. Yourchoice of bread. Price range from

3 . 50 to $4. 2 5 . Open Monday-Friday 5 : 309 p.m. Sarurday 7 a.m.-9 p.m. a nd Sundays

7 a.m.-noon. Breakfasc served daily until 1 0: 3 0 a.m. 873-7 0 . Bonnie's Diner Benton Ave., Win low A \.olby weekend breakfasc hangout. Open seven day a week 5 : 3 0 a.m.-2 p.m., serving breakfast all day. Build your own meal from egg , bacon, oarmeal, Texas toast, home-

Colby, March 1 99 1

J ohn Martin's Manor

54 College Ave., Waten·ille Modem dining in a paciou erring. Appe tizers include escargot, chowJers and scuffed mu ·hroom . eafooJ, c h ick e n, beef anJ ltahan- ryle enrree . Huge salad bar. Lunch price range from $ 5 .95 to $ .95, dinners are $7.95 to 1 4.95 . moking ection available. Open weekday 1 1 a .m.-9 p.m. and atur days 1 1 a.m.- 1 0 p.m. for lunch and dinner. Reservacion acc ep ted any night except aturday. The Main Event Bar downstairs serves burgers, fried mozzare l la cicks and other snack and i open until I a.m. 7 3 5676.

Killarney' : a r che Holiday Inn Waten· t l l e lmh->ryle p u b , m J re,raurant . 'W"t�ckJ.1) hrc ak foq, featun: cu>tom-maJe nm.-1..:cre,, fre,h fru i t . othl'r item' rangml! in pnce in>m ' 2 . 9 5 rn $6. Champ:igne brunch '"rh full buffec on Sunday for 6. 50. Daily lunch >p<.:cials ·uch as Ca1un sceak <mJ lemon peppered haJdock for about 6, a> well a� ,·egerable sm-fry, sanJwiche: and hamburg er-. Friday ::mJ arurJay Jinner is buffet sryk for 6.9 5 , Maine seafood medley i- ;w::tilablc for 1 4.95 and chicken stir-fry for I 0.95. Open Monday- aturJay 6 a . m.-2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., undays 6 a . m . - 1 0 p.m. Reservations accepreJ. 8 7 3 -0 1 1 1 . Last Unicorn

8 ilver St., Wacerville Small resraurant and bar complete with fish tank and fe ms, giving ic a natural. cozy atmosphere. Apperi:ers, including smoked salmon, hummu -pread and pate, range in price from $4-$6.95. andwiches for $4.9 5 . Chicken, filec mignon, tortellini anJ fresh fish dishe- for 9.95- 1 3 .95. Daily pecials include ruffeJ calamari, Thai curry stir-fry, Mexican 4uiche and homemaJesoups. Many vegerarian c hoice-. Open daily from 1 1 a.m.2 : 30 p.m. for lunch, 6- 1 0 p.m. for dinner. Re en•arions recommended. 7 3 -009 5 . Lobster Trap

2 7 Bay t . , Winslow Rustic re tau rant overlooking the Kennebec River with ea ·onal outdoor Jining. Spe cial i:es in fresh lobscers, lob ter scew, scal lops, swordfi h and ocher seafood di he . teaks and Italian di hes al-o available. Dinner prices peak at 1 0. Open Jaily from 1 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. No re en•arions. moking ·ecrion available. 7 2 -0529. Railroad Square Cafe

Railroad quare, W a te rv i lle Relaxed, cozy cafe wirh local arrwork di played on th e walls. Appet i:ers include pesto bread rounds with un-drieJ tomame· anJ nachos. Lunch pecial i nc l ude burricos, baba ganouj, Bangkok chicken salad: 1 . 50-$ 5 . 7 5 . Dinner serves fish, Thai green curry, stir frie , pa tas: $ 5 . 50- 7. 50. Daily pecial uch as West African chic ke n -pea nu c stew, chili pie, lentil oup. Homemade desserr . pe c ializes in vegetarian dishe . Open Tuesdayunday 1 1 a.m.- 1 0 p. m. Limiced eating available. o reservations. 7 3 - 5 562. Silver Street Tavern

2 ilver t., W a t e rv i l le Wood panelling and tained glass windows give this restaurant, which is co-owned by a Colby a l u m n us , a

look s i m i l a r to a

Waterville and Surrounding Areas Kingfield

gentleman's den. The lunch menu features seafood chowder, salads and sandwiches, gourmet burgers, teriyaki sirloin and sole almondine. Enrree from $2.50 to $6. A candlelit dinner may include hrimp cock ta i l , stuffed mushrooms for starters, seafood enrree of A la kan king crab, haddock, sir loin, teriyaki kebab , chicken divan and veal dishes from $2.95 to $ 1 7.95. Specials every night. The Safari Bar downstairs has an extcn ive wine cellar. Open for lunch Monday-Saturday, 1 1 :30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and dinner Tuesday- arurday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. undays and Mondays 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations recommended. 8 7 3 - 2 2 7 7 . Steve's Restaurant 14 Silver Sr., Waterville Set in a tum-of-the-century vaudeville the ater. Appetizer include potato skins and soups. The luncheon menu features salad and sandwiches and more exotic fare, such a frog ' legs, plu seafood and pasta dishes from $ 1 . 2 5 to $ 4 . 7 5 . Dinner offerings in clude Alaskan crab, trout, beef and many Italian d ishes ranging from $8.95 to $ 1 1 .9 5 . Vegetarian dishes available. Open daily 1 1 a.m.- 1 0 p.m. No reservations accepted on weekends. 872-9887. Weathervane Kennedy Memorial Dr., Waterv i l le Decorated with nets, craps and buoys, this chain restaurant has a nautical atmosphere. Specializes in seafood: steamed lobsters, clams, shrimp, salmon. Steaks, burgers also available. Prices range from $5 to $ 1 0. Open daily from 1 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. No reservations or credit cards accepted. 8 7 3 - 4 5 2 2 . You Know Whose Pub 55 E Concourse Cu., Waterville A popular student hangout. Serves nachos, whole wheat pizza, Reuben sandwiches, soup, salads, burgers and homemade cookies. Prices range from $ 2 . 7 5 to $ 1 7 . 50 (for a 1 5 " Pub Monster pizza ) . Closed Sundays and Mon days. Open Tuesday-Sarurday 1 1 a.m.- 1 1 p.m. No smoking, no reservations, no credit cards. 8 7 3 - 5 2 5 5 .

Augusta Area Ashley's 1 5 1 Water St. , Gardiner Luncheon fare such as taco salad, sand wiches and hamburgers from $ 3 to $4.2 5 . Dinner spec ialties include teriyaki steak, seafood, fetruccini primaveraorspinach salad from $6 to $ 1 2 . 9 5 . Sunday brunch with a live jazz band. Open Tuesday-Thursday 1 1 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday-Saturday 1 1 a.m.- l O p.m. and Sunday 1 1 a.m.-8 p.m. 582-300 5 .

Colby, March 1 99 1

Fremont & Julien 1 52 Water

old building. Large srorefront window , ceil

t., Hallowell

A small cafe and book rare with folk music

ing fan and monthly art exhibits. Atmo sphere is relaxed, but proper dre ts re

playing in the background. Serves a caferyle breakfast of homemade croissants,

quired. Omelerres, croi ·ants and homemade breads for breakfa t for $ 1 to $5. Daily lun

muffins, granola and cappuccino or espresso

cheon specials include at least three veg etarian entrees, fresh fi h and seafood and sandwiche . Prices from $ 1 . 7 5 to $9. Dinner spec ialti include eafood, prime rib and

for $ 1 -$4. Lunch menu includes tarragon chicken andwich, grilled eggplant with avocado and chee e sandwich, soups, salads, daily specials like falafel and J apanese veg etablepancakesfor $ 2 .50-$4 . 2 5 . The dinner menu changes monthly and include dishes such as chicken with orange and cardamom, Indian vegetable curry, couscous, gulfshrimp and brie with cranberry sauce. Prices range from $4 to $ 1 4.50. Chocolate chestnut torte isciessert spec ialryof the hou e. Reservations recommended, e pecially for dinner. Open Tuesday-Saturday 7 : 3 0 a . m . - 2 : 3 0 p . m . , Thursday-Saturday 6 - 9 p . m . a n d brunch 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 626- 32 56.

unday

Hazel Green's 349 Water t., Augu ta Open pit where customers can watch teaks being cooked. pecializes in steak . Lunch menu offers stir-fries, salad bar, sandwiche , broiled haddock, teriyakt chicken: .95$6.50. Dinner features prime rib. steaks and fresh fish from 7.95 to 1 4.95. Kentucky Derby is dessert pecialty. erves lunch Monday- aturday 1 1 : 30 a .m.-2 p.m., dinner 5-9 p.m. Closed unday. 622-9903. Oyster Bar & Grill enator Inn, We tern Ave., Augusta Furnished in dark wood, chandeliers and glassed-over linen tablecloths. Specialties include homemade breads, muffins and desserts, fish, seafood and easonal fare. Raw bar with oysters, clams and shrimp. Gourmet Sunday brunch buffer erved from 1 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. Breakfast prices up to 4, lunch 3 .9 5 $7.95, dinner$9.95-$1 5 .9 5 . Open daily 6 : 3 0 a.m.- l O p.m. Complimentary horsd'oeuvres

pa ta dishes for $ .95 to $ 1 6.95. Open daily 7 : 30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. for breakfast and lunch (brunch on unday); 5 : 30-9 p.m. for dinner ( to 9:30 on Friday and Saturday). Clo ed unday and Monday for dinner. Reserva tions accepted for large parties. 622-95 7 5 . Village I n n Rt. 2 7 , Belgrade Lakes Set in the lovely Belgrade Lakes region, this restaurant i famou for its duck entrees. Other choice include fresh eafood, prime rib, homemade ·rrawberry glace pie. alad bar. Prices from approximately 5 to $ 1 5 . Open March ro November, Monday- at urday 5-9 p.m., unday 1 1 :30 a.m.- p.m. for dinner only. Reservations required. 4953553. Weathervane Restaurant Rt. I 7, Readfield Overlooking Maranacook Lake, co:y atmo phere enhanced by a large tone fireplace and hanging plants. Daily lunch specials include oups, alads, eafood or chicken di hes; hamburgers and steak a la carte. Lunch prices from $ 3 . 50 to 7. Dinner fea tures seafood ca erole, baked stuffed shrimp, prime rib, salads. Prices from 3 . 50 to $ 1 4. Limited vegetarian dishes. Open Tuesday Sarurday 1 1 :30 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-9 p.m; Friday and Saturday until 9:30 p.m. unday dinner served 1 1 :30 a.m.-

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Become A Resource For Colby lf you are a Colby parent and are reading thi , you hould have received a letter and a "parent reource que tionnaire" by now from Ellen and Lee Metzendorf, co chairs of the Colby Parents A o ciation. Theque tionnaireask for an evaluation of various vehicles and programs the College use to communicate with parents and re spond to their needs. Re ponses will help adminis trator , among them the editor of Colby, shape future policies and activities, and the Career Services and Alumni office hope to u e them to locate parents who can assist their efforts. Parents who have not already completed and returned the que tionnaire are urged to do o. Additional copie are available by writing to the Parents Association at Colb or calling ( 207 ) 872-3569.

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from 4 to 6 p.m. 6 2 2 -0320. River Cafe 1 1 9 Water t., Hallowell Exposed brick walls and I mpressionist prints

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set the tone. Entrees include seafood, steaks and salads and Middle Eastern dis hes such as stuffed grape leaves, tabouli, lamb shish kebabs. Vegetarian falafel and lentil soups. Maza for two provides a varied sampling of Lebanese cuisine for $6 to $ 1 0. Prices range from $ 4 . 2 5 ro $ 1 4 . 9 5 . Open Monday Thursday 1 1 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 5-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 5 -9:30 p.m. 622-2 1 90. Slate's 1 69 Water St., Hallowell Set in Hallowell's historic district in a lovely

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In spring, the College Bu iness Office turns to deadlines that apply to a variety of financial matter . They include: • March 20, which is the final date for mailing the 1 99 1 -92 Financial A id Form to the College cholarship ervice; • April 1 , the date a $200 attendance deposit is due at Colby for the fall 1 99 1 eme ter; • April 1 5 , the deadline for mailing 1 99 1 -92 Colby a id application and 1 990 tax returns to the Financial A id Offi ce; • May 1 , the date a graduating enior' financ ial obligation to the College are expected to be clear for him or her to participate in Commencement. 37

GIFTS & GRANTS Piper Makes the "Ultimate " Gift "T 1 he ultimate th ing," W ilson Piper ' 3 9 said

last year, "would be ther had been one of the earliest settlers in 1 840-and had two sons and a daughter before tragedy struck. Donald Piper died of a ruptured to give an endowed chair." appendix when Wi lson was just 4. Now, thanks to his own expertise in estate planning, to the "We moved back with my impetus of a foundation chalgrandparents and with their help lenge grant and to a deep desire he raised us," he said. Wilson to honor h is late mother, Piper matriculated at Colby in 1 9 35 has done the ult i mate, estab and was followed two years later l ishing the Clara Col lins Piper by his sister, the late Prudence Professorship at Colby. "Maybe Piper Marriner '4 1 . He joined a l ittle knowledge really is a Delta Up i lon fratern ity, was dangerous th i ng," Piper sa id in elected to three honor societies, J anuary in Boston, where he is Ph i Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu about to retire as an act ive and Pi Kappa Delta, and rose to partner in the law firm of Rope editor- in-chief of the Echo. He and Gray. " l have stretched to still wonders whether that might do this." have galled his good friend and The endowment caps a classmate Dwight Sargent, who half-century of volunteer ac aspired to what would be a di ti vity and support for the Col tinguished career in journalism, lege by Piper and provides although he acknowledges that Colby with the first of three Dwight got the last laugh even endowed chairs it must estab before graduation by editing an l ish to qual ify for a $ 1 .2 million edit ion of the campus humor grant from the Christian A . magazine, the Whir.e Mule, that Johnson Endeavor Foundation. was a devastating parody of the The professorship i open Echo. to a memberofanydepartment Piper went on to graduate but carries a specific preference from Harvard Law School, and for someone who t e a c h e s not long after he began a I ifet ime courses in international rela of service to his alma mater. He tions or environmental stud was pres ident of the Boston ies. " I felt those were the two alumni club and authorofa 1 9 58 subjects most in keeping with revision of the College by-laws. Mother's interest ," Piper said. Since 1 954 he has served as co A 1 9 1 4 graduate of Colby who chair of the Colby Estate Plan was a teacher of Latin, a librar ning and Tax I nstitute and, since ian and a ocial worker, Mrs. 1 959, as a trustee of the College. Piper d ied at age 97 in J anuary In that position, one of h is most 1 990. "She was a great lover of memorable role was a chair of the outdoors," Piper said, "and the hearing subcommittee of the so was my father." Tru tee Commission on Resi A fter gradu a t i ng from dential Life, which, in 1 983, rec Colby as a member of Ph i Beta ommended that Colby cease to Kappa, she taught Latin i n recognize all fraternities, includ Livermore Falls, Ma ine, where i ng h is own. Two of h is and wife she met Donald Piper. They Peg's c h i ldren, Charles ' 70 and married, returned to their na Elizabeth Piper Deschaines ' 7 5 , t i ve Caribou in the northern are Colby alumni , a s is a nephew, Clara Collins Piper ' 1 4 part of the state-her grandfa38

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John Marriner '70. Fund raising has been a major aspect of Piper's work. H e erved a regional chair of a 1 95 7 fund-raising campaign and chaired the Planned G i ving Counc il and the Library Add i tion Task Force a n d w a s gen eral counsel of the Colby 2000 Campaign, which exceeded it $30 m i ll ion goal. Piper's flair for inventive financing of gift to the Col lege i widely ac know !edged. "Arranging this endow ment with Wil on was a little l ike h av ing Faberge do the egg for your Ea ter egg hunt," said Peyton R. "Randy" Helm, vice president for development and alumni affairs, who worked with Colby Directorof Planned Giv ing Da id Roberts '55 on the detail of Piper's endowment. "It really is a rate of the art veh icle." Piper was well ahead of hi time in crafting the mechanism for his philanthropy. In 1 969,

shortly after the federal tax laws were revi ed to estab li h such plan , he invested money in unitrusts for h i fi ve grand chi ldren's col lege costs, with Colby serving as trustee and inheri t ing the p rinc i p a l . A s i m i lar uni trust for Peg P iper i� among the major elements of the recent donation , which will push Piper's overa l l contri bution toward the chair past $ 1 m i llion by early i n the next century. Helm said that Piper' gift would be a major boo t in his staffs efforts to attract donor for the other two chairs required to match the Johnson grant and give Colby a total of four addi t ional endowed profe sor h i p . "One down and two to go," Helm said. "A someone who has worked o hard for .o many years to attract contributions for Colby, W ilson knows how exceedingly grateful we are for h is generosity." Wilson Piper '39

Fund Totals Are Down, Enthusiasm Is Up

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or 1 99 1 A lumni Fund chair M ike Franklin '6 3, rhere' good new and bad news. A of December 3 1 , when the fir t wave of contribution for thi fi cal year wa tabulated, giv ing level were running behind last year's mid-point total . That' the bad news. The good new is that combined appeal had yielded $600,000 in gift and pledge toward the $ 1 .4 million fund goal---de spite the fact that no tudent phonathon wa held la t fall. Acknowledging that fund ra i ing is espec ially difficu lt in a year replete with d o me t i c and i n t e rn a t i o n a l c r i es

Franklin ays he is plea ed with the ini t ia l number . " I always w i h our number were better," Franklin said, "but 600,000 isn't bad." Franklin noted in January interview that the student phonathon would begin i n February and that clas agent a l o mounted an appeal beginning last month. "The December 3 1 figures give us an excellent base to build on," he aid. " A l u m n i have t o r e m e m be r , " Franklin aid, "that i f the Alumni Fund is to be a rel iable ource of fund for the College, we have to come through in tough times as well a good t ime . "

BOOKS & AUTHORS Playing Around (Seriously) with Conventions Wi1en her academic

mystery Graves in Academe was pu hli hed , Su an Kenney ·ays, ome people j u m ped o n her fur ;,at i r iz i ng a "fict ional" col lege in Ma ine. Her fifth book and the mo t recent of her three my st er i e> , One Fell Sloop ( V i k i ng, $ 1 6.95 ) , pu t;, prL 1fessm detecror Rn: Howar<l and her friend A l an Stewart all at >Ca aga i n , o n l y t h i · t i m e it's in a real sa i l boat in M a i ne', PenlJb>cot Bay. "Canterbury College wasn't Colby Co l l ege , " Kenney sa id of Graves in Academe . " ] even had people write me from Princeton, convinced that I 'd been under the table at t h eir d epa rt ment meet i ngs. But people ·rill assumed it wa� Colby. That' when l gave up on the fictional world . "

Kenney fans lose one fictional world but gain another. The Ma ine of One Fell Sloo/>, complete with fogs and tide and wind and ail ing \'csscl - ( and t wo islanJs that aren't on the real map of the bay ) , i s fac t ua l l y accurate. A nd Ro: Howard and A l a n Stewart, like Hol mes and Wat ·lm , like Poirot and Ha tings, have become a Jct ec t i \'e tea m . "That's what drove me nut , the relation hip between them," Kenney saiJ. "Rn: re;ist be mg the iJek ick. Th ink about Poirot and Ha ti ngs. There\ no real e mot ional subtext. I think books ahead, and when I tarrcJ I t hou h t it'J be nice to have th i couple and the ir re lat iun,h i p . I like the love interest going along as a ubplot, but that whole hu i ne > ga ve me trouble." A l an appears i n Graves in A ademe only as the White Knight re c uer of Ro:. In One Fell Sloop, their third mystery together, he's e\·er-pre cnt. howing (without >howing off) what he cla ims is the benefit of a c las· ical education, he talk to Ro: about everything under the >Un on land as well as sea-sailboat , colonial architecture, bota n y , mcJ icme and o on. All of th is, of cour e, add- to the lore of ailing, contribute> c lue to the my tery anJ lead· the pair of leuth to happen upon enough u pee ts and different olution to the murder ro ke ep them anJ the reader a i l i ng ahead. He i- so competent that Ro:, in a ·nit early m the tory, hound him to lay off. The c r i s i s i n their l i v e. was all planned, Kenney says, but because they were on a sa ilhoat , a su pended place, all they were doing in the beginnino of the hook was argu i ng . That threatened to take over the tory. "May he it'> a case of the genre l 11n iting it," she said. "Maybe you can't have a place for relation hips in mysteries. That's why I got to the murder ooncr than usual . The body comes in fairly oon, for me." The choices he make are conditioned by the convention she choo es to fol low, says Kenney, who prefer reading book by Martha Grimes and P.O. James, the "cozy" or " oft -boiled" or "murder in the vicarage" type of mystery. She say her own first my tery was "murder in the garden," the second wa "serial murder" and this one is "a locked-room murder." "I wanted to urpri e, I wanted to come up with something people hadn't done before," Kenney said of the "howdunnit" in this case. "Dorothy Sayres left a body on a rock with no footprints in the and leading up ro it. I thought I could come up with something more obscure. Th i was my own addition to the literature of the locked room." Kenney says she got the idea for the murder from talk ing to a job candidate at Colby who had grown u p on a sailboat and was a Melville cholar working at My tic Seaport. Another key event in the book originated in an episode that happened in M as achusetts. She picks up a lot of things from newspapers, he says, and it takes time to pull them together. "Most ideas go back five year . I do work out the whole plot ahead of time , usual ly ways of k i l ling people. Writing the book is like hanging up the bag of laundry once you get it all in. You put up the

Susan Kenney , author of five books , including One Fel l Sloop, and professor of English at Colby .

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c lothes l i ne and start tak ing the stuff nut of the bag and hang it up. It all takes a long t i me . " T h e p l o t of One Fell Sloop begins in t h e l a c k of commu nicat ion between Roz and Alan. The d iset)\"ery of the body become their rea on for ernding the issue between them, and, a· they fail to communicate essential information to one another, the mystery is deepened for both the leuths and the reader. " I t' an exercise in conc ealment," Kenney a i d . " 1y job i to know all that-who did it and hm\·-and to keep it from the detec t ive and the reader. I rea l ly wrote One Fell

loop by

backward construction. You work backward, cm·ering up your

tracks. I t's real ! • a manual on how to make a mystery." My tery concocting, she

ay , is a matter of rlaying

around with the convention . When he taught a seminar in the history of the my ·rery a a \· isiting profe·sor at Amhcr't la�t year, Kenney read some of the book, then in rrogn.?:-:-, to the class. "They really got into this fiction a though it 11'<1' rea l . " he s a i d . "For the ir final paper, they h a d the option of �oking the case. One per on olved it.

he got nrtually e\·ery c lue.

She knew it had ro do with what ·he saw t n the boa t . " Knowing the genre and its convention , in other Wl>rds, i� the sure t way

to pot the k i l ler.

Even Roz and Alan know the convent ion. . Alan' ralk 1s peppered with references ro mystery novels, mystery writers and l i terary theorie of my tery, which are a func tional in thi ca e a

if they were real pol ice procedure. At one point Ro:

thinks about A lan: "an expert in foren ic rathology too?" Then he a ume that he knew "the ame way ·he did, from reading detective torie ." Kenney said, " I f you like to learn a lot about settings or occupation , think of all the thing you can pick up reading my terie . In Garden of Malice it wa garden and gardening. For Graves in Academe, becau e I 've been a teacher, l j u t got out my lecture note ." When he fini hed Sailing, her fourth novel, she said, " I could carry over a lot of re earch to One Fell

Sloop. Both Roz and Alan know how to sa il. A lot of lore came in here

counr. ' I t 's l ike comparing your children."

that I d idn't need in Sailing and could get in. I j ust looked up d i fferent

he's al o amused when reader suspect that "serious novel·" are

things. I l i ke to find out thing . I l ike book w ith mi cellaneou lore."

autobiograph ical but that mysteries are not. Probably the most

After all th is careful plotting and writ ing t ime, Kenney say that

autobiography that appears in her novels-"just unaltered happen

he is irritated by the notion that mysterie lack real l i terary value.

ing," she called it-i in Garden of Malice. "People takes scenes for

Amanda Cross use a pseudonym, he ays, becau e he writes l iterary

actual fact, but they're u ually mistaken," she aid. " I n mysteries I ' ve

criticism and thought that being known as the writer of mysterie

tuck in scenes of thing that actually happened that j ust tuck our.

might jeopardize her getting tenure. 'That dec ision," Kenney aid,

When you make things up, it' all of a piece, it's plausibly presented.

"presume an idea of an inferior genre." When Jn Another Country was

I get a k ick out of people talking to me about things that happen to

publi hed, the late Anatole Broyard asked Kenney to participate in

my characters happening to me. One woman asked me, 'Did your

a symposium on the subject of "the second nove l . " " I told him that In

hu band come back ?' "

Another Country was my econd novel, after Garden of Malice," he said. "He said, 'My teries don't count.' It'

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MULES ON THE MOVE Colby's Skiers-A Breed Apart M

" I rn n ' t feel l i k e I'm re ost Col lege <i t h l e tes a l l y rac i ng if I ski in thi;. \\' r il k nr j og acro's e<1m1>u, t<l th ing," Pa ine repl ied. he practice. The olhy A l pine h<1rJ l y want;, to change her -,kier;. face a 1 1 6- m i l c niund 't) le at the conc l usion of <1 trip th rel' t iml'' each wee k . 'rellar ;,k i i ng career. Raised With Colh:" a long for in thc ;,haJmv� ofthe k1 traib thl' ride onl' mprn ing in l'mly of N orth Conway, N . H . , J <m uary, Sue Ger,rhcrgl'r '9 1 P;1 1ne ha;, competed in the muled <1 n Pubi:eJ h l u<: van n<1tinnal chnmrionshipo and , fu l l of ; k i e r; onto Mayflu\\'Cr a;, c1pta m , seemed assured of H i l l Drive with El lyn Pa i ne one uf the women' spots. '9 1 c lo e bchinJ in her 'ta But . he wa;, not undere t i tinn wagon c arry i ng the rest mat i ng t h e compe t i t ion. of the tC<lm. Exec u t 1n g <1 se "Over t h e pa;,t f o u r rie;, oi left and right' he year;, t h e qual ity o f Colby rn·een Colby and Sugarlmf ,k ier� h a'> continual ly i m Mountain in M a i n e ' <> proved," Pa ine . a id. "We used Long mn ri /) 5 w Si igarloaf and et•L'n longer jcnirnc:-·s w weekend meet� make for Carrnha . set t V ,1 1 l e y t h at to have j ust a few strong men a wry close and unified A/pine ski ream . wluch usuall:" cxcd., and ulim:•s has fun . \\'OulJ have Jone an Olym ;mJ women. Now we are ric slalom c hamr ion rrnuJ, tmng at ; 1 1 i -,1 x 'J:'Ob for each." the two women completed the trip in ha re ly 90 mi n ute.. i ncc the ,k i team, which i' compri ed of A lpine and Nordic "I'll meet you at Comp H i l l , " Paine cal led out to a teammate, 'quads, earned var�ity staru, in l 9 7 , the \\'Omen' A lpine team has head i ng to the main lodge tn ;,uit up before c l i mb i ng ahoard the l i ft won the Oivi�ion I I c hampion hip a l l four years and the men two of for the first of ;evera l trips up the h i l l . the hbt three years. One skier ha gone on to national compe t i t ion for N O\· ice;., not i c i ng t h e un iformed Colby skier , paused occa;ion CL1lhy at the conc lu ion of the past two sea on : Paine in 1 989 and, ally to a;k , "What's going on 1 A race ?" last year, N ord ic skier Marc G i l hertson '9 1 . In ,1 way, there was a ra e in the offing thi day, anJ f or some Rich ard , who divides h is t i me between coac h i ng the Col by team aspi ring varsity skiers, it was the most important of the ye;ir. They and a h igh -school quad from arrabas et Val ley Academy in nearby were engaging i n t ime trials to determ ine which men and women K i ngfield, monitored the trial from a hut at the ha e of Compe t i t ion would compete for the W h i te Mule Alpine squad , which is defend i ng Hill. i ts nmional NCAA Divi. ion I I crown . " l \·e never seen them s o nervou before," R ichard a i d a s he "The k e y is to g e t in as m a n y r u m as possible," Gerstherger said watched the k i er come down the mounta i n . "That's a good s ign, a. , he ad j u red her goggles. "There's no l i m i t . But obviousl y, the more because I 'm , eeing times I 've never een them get before." runs you -k i the more t i red you get. You want to get i n a good run Team member came in and out, c heck i ng their re u lts and early." discus i ng their runs with R ichard . When Pai ne entered, Richard It had been a re latively m i ld morn ing in Waterv i l l e two hour> assured her that her t i me were fine and a ked her to take over h i e<irlier, hut now a strong wind was hlowi ng on the north side of the monitori ng chore· so he could get out on the course. S i nce R ic hard mounta i n , c h i l l i ng the anx iou- skier as their coac h , Todd R ic hard , pends most of h is t i me at Sugarloaf. Paine and co-captain Mark fiddled with a bal k y t i mer. Radcl iffe '92 look after many of the team's adm i n i t rative dera i l . "We're good ro go," Ric hard called out at last. As tu Eunson '9 1 Chris Bither ' 9 3 walked i n to the h u t , rubbing h is hand tO warm rrepareJ to make the first run, words of enc uragement came from a l l them. "Does omet h i ng look wrong here ro you 1" he a ked, hold ing d i rection.. up h is crooked right pinky. ''! caught i t on a gate." " I t' a l l you, t u ' " yel led one would -be teammate, and " Have a As Paine looked at the damage, Bither peered over her shoulder good one ! " shouted another. The ent i ment eemed remarkably at hi late t ti me. gen u i ne, coming from c la smates and comrades who, after a l l , were "N ice run, Chris," Paine aid reassur i ngly. "Did you ee mine?" al o competitors vying for one of the i x coveted downh i l l p s it ions. "You looked smooth but not aggre sive," Bither countered, and Gerstberger and Pa ine ;,tood side-by-side waiting their turn . A, Paine laughed. he has heard it before-the two were teammate at they neared the front of the l i ne, Paine started to remove her jacket. Holderne School. "You're getting naked ?" Ger tberger asked , ·urpri ed .

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Cameraderie and friendship run deeply through this ream. It is a clo e, unified squad. "We're competitive," Paine sa id, "but we're always there for one another." "Ir's the closest team I 've ever been involved with," Gerstberger said, till trying to shake the after-effect ofa pill on her last trip down the mountain. "And being co-ed makes an incredible d ifference." The closeness showed when Radc liffe fell on Competition Hill during the first day of t ime trials, tearing a knee l igament and putting himself out of action for the season. " It' more than lo ing a skier and a captain," said Paine. " I t' like lo ing a coach. Mark always has o much to offer our on the lopes." The members of the Nordic, or ems -country, contingent of the team usually don't risk as dramatic injuries as the downhill skier do. They only have to tra el about half as far, to Troll Valley in Farmington, for practice (and when the now i right, can even practice on Colby' own trail ). But like the downhill varsity, the Nordic kiers sometimes bristle over their relative anonymity on a campu where the triumphs of other teams eem to be topics of daily discu ion. " ome other colleges have three coaches on raff for the Nordic team alone," aid senior ean kaling. "They take their ski for them and make sure the proper wax i used." "We j u t hope we get a chance to wax up before the race tarts," senior Annelie e Eckhardt added with a chuckle.

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Alpine ski captain Ellyn Paine zips dou.m Competition Hill.

But Colby's kier eem more than comfortable with the College'· low-key approach to their port and, in fact, voted to dec line an invitation to abandon Division 11 for the glamor of Division I competition with the M iddleburys and Dartmouths. "At some of those same opposing colleges," Skaling said, "you won't even see skier cheering for the ir own teammate . But each weekend, we are the mo t enthusiastic team at the meet. We cheer for each other-and even for kiers on other reams Yet, de pite their part-time coaches ( Waterville City Councilor am Humpert igned on thi year for h is second stint as ordic coach) and informal approach, the White Mule skiers are proud of their accomplishment . "About half of our team raced in U . S . . A . [United rates Ski Association] meet in high school," enior co captain H i lary Greene said. "Other athletes talk about how hard double [practice] e · ion are," Ger tberger said. "When we practice, it's all day. When we go to meet , i t's all weekend." Nordic and Alpine ki members exuded quiet confi dence over the Division 11 champion hip, which was scheduled for February 1 5 - 1 6. Captains of both squads aid the goal is to defend Colby's championships. But that i not enough. "Everyone ha individual goals," Skali ng aid, "but as far as the Nationals go, Marc went last year, and I ' m working to / get there this year." "Speaking for myself-and for others," Skati ng aid as Sean Skaling '91 an afterthought, "I know this team is the best experience I 've had at Colby. I t's just a great atmo phere." Marc Gilbertson, Nardic captain , trains hard on Colby's ski trails .

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ALUMNI AT LARGE FIFTY--PLUS Marjorie Gould Murphy '3 7 sends spring greetings to all and thank those who responded to the re cent ques t i onnaire from the Alumni Offi ce. She adds her pe cial thanks to "the loyal volun teer from Fifty-Plus" who at tended the volunteer workshops during Homecoming Weekend, including Evelyn Kellett '26, Ed i t h " D u c k i e " G r e a r s o n Money ' 2 6 , James E. Fell ' 3 2 , Rod Farnham '3 1 and Peg Davis Farnham '28, George Putnam '3 4 and Vesta Alden Putnam ' 33 , John Reynolds '36, Edith Emery '3 7, Ruth Yeaton McKee '37 and Ernest Marriner '40.

"Also," Marjorie writes, "the Fifty-Plus Club is grateful to the 61 member who made a contri bution to its treasury. As you know, we have no dues, but there are expenses, so any gift is indeed welcome. Thanks ! " M a rj orie i devoting her pace in this issue to the mo t enior members of the Fifty-Plus group--those who graduated be fore 1 920--and to the most jun ior members, from the Cla of 1 940. "Ida Phoebe Keen '05 has been a resident of Mount San Antonio Gardens in Pomona, Calif, ince it opened in 1 96 1 . he was born in Un ity, Maine, when Chester A . Anhur was pre ident---on March 1 , 1 884. When asked what to do to stay young and happy, she replied, 'You mu t have a sense ofhumor1 ' She added that she i tired of being a good old maid. She has piles of Colby magazines and memorabilia in her room, and she feels that Colby has too many 'old codgers' and needs a 'young person' l ike herself. According to one of her friends, she reads the Los Angeles Times daily, panicu larly the pons page. The Dodg ers are her favorites. When her nurse tells her, ' l love you, Phoebe,' she replies, 'I know you Collry, March 1 99 1

and she goes for walks every day . . . Lucy Taylor Pratt ' 1 7 , W e t he rsfi e l d , Conn . , write cheerfully that she has urvived the removal of a cataract and hope to pick up her reading hab its. 'I walk on leg that wobble,' she writes, 'but with a cane I can walk outside with ease. 1 am 96 and plan to keep on enjoying the beaut iful surround i ngs of my home. Yesterday I v i i red my cl a s mate M i l d red G re e l e y Arnold ' l 7 . h e i well, gets about in her wheelchair and is full of pep and enthusia m.' d o , and that's why 1 take advan tage of you ! ' At Mount San An tonio Gardens, where he is the most senior member, her hobbies are writing poetry, bookbinding, and call igraphy. "Here in the ea t, centenar ian Crary Brownell ' 1 3 , Moodus, Conn., says that a he looks back on hi life, he feels very fortunate. He and h is wife, Hala, have lived in the same hou e since they were married in 1 9 1 6. Their son Wil son i devoting hi life to taking care of them, and 'doing a won derful job,' Crary says. Crary likes to walk a half mile every morn ing, and h is hobby is mak ing bluebird boxes for pring nesting. H is most vivid memories ofColby days are of the Kennebec River on one side and railroad tracks on the other, and the 'wonderful smell ?' of the paper mill across the river. He wrire , 'I was at Colby for one year only and was not known very well for that reaon. I did belong to the DKE fraternity and the Glee Club. I could go to Colby only for one year because of my father's death. Then I had to take over our busi ne . I d id get a lot out of Colby and have fond memories of that year.' "Maude Huckins Webster ' 1 6, of South Weymouth, Ma .,

writes that he hopes to be active again in civic, social and church

affairs and that she enjoy read ing about people in the Fifty- Plu column and about Colby af fairs . . . Mildred Greeley Arnold ' 1 7 , Wethersfield, Conn., ha been a resident ofMediplex since a car accident in 1 984, but he has continued her various inter ests and sees her family often. 1l1e new interest and fr iends he has acquired recently have en riched her greatly, she add . . . Harold E. Hall '1 7 , of Nor way, Maine, i 93 years old. He was the only member of h is class to attend the reunion last J une, but he enjoyed every minu te. Next summer, he hopes to visit the British Isles, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Austria. Harold's favorite profe sor a t Colby was 'Judy' Taylor, in Latin . . . Marion Starbird Pottle ' 1 8, Ithaca, N . Y . , recently moved from her home of 38 years in New Haven to an apartment near her on, who is a profes or at Cornell. Before he retired, she worked in the Yale Library. Following the death of her husband, Frederick A. Pottle ' 1 8, a former professor of English at Yale, in 1 987, she depended on the company of her sister, Marguerite Starbird Lunt ' 2 3 , who d ied in 1 989. Now, Marion says, she is adjusting to the e changes in her life. She l ikes to read, do crossword puzzles and watch football games on TV,

"Mary J ordan Alden ' 1 8,

Fairport, N.Y., write , 'While I must grow older, 1 hope my out look on life will stay young.' Her daughter says that at age 94, Mary is still interested in world af fairs . . . Harvard E. Moor ' 1 8, has recently moved from Hamp den, Maine, to Westfield, Mass., where he w i l l l i ve w i t h h is daughter . . . Robert E. Sullivan ' 1 9 , Tre n ton, N .J . , has j ust completed 48 years as a volunteer in a local hospital. He hope to make h is 7 5th reunion at Colby and regrets that he could not be at Colby for h is 70th. 'I often wonder how many of my class mates are still living,' he muses. (Thanks, Roben, for your gener ous words . ) . . . Phyllis Sturdi vant Sweetser ' 1 9, Cumberland Center, Maine, was pleased to be written up in the Colby magazine a year ago. Her daughter, Betty Sweetser Baxter '4 1 planned a big family luncheon to celebrate Phyllis's 9 3 rd birthday on Febru ary 8. Phyllis says that she still drives herowncar, but only locally where there isn't much traffic."

40 Marjorie delved into the Class of l 940's reunion book and into a stack ofquestionnaires and came up with a fair sampling of news. "Entrepreneur Isabel C . 45

Abbott, ofUnion, Maine, can be proud of having owned and oper ated h e r own sto re for 3 9 years . . . Beautiful Maine lures Prince Beach from Houston, Texas, twice a year to enjoy the delights of vacationing on Mes salonskee Lake, where h is family has owned property for 90 years . . . Retired college profes sor Myron G. Berry, Houghton, M ich., has found enjoyment in h ik ing and mineral collecting. Like Candide, he 'cultivates h is garden and is content.' "Linguist and retired teacher James M. Bunting, of Silver Spring, Md., has worked part time since 1 986 as an instructor at the Berlitz School of Languages and has also been a part-time volun teer in a middle school . . . J. Alton Burns, a former insurance claims adjustor, is now self-em ployed as a furniture refinisher, doing rushing and splint work in Mendham, N .J . . . . Still belong ing to many professional organi zations after retiring from teach ing and school administration, Rufus A. Brackley, of Strong, Maine, is a self-employed lum berman . . . Brewster A. Branz, Portland, Maine, has exchanged happily the duties of president of the Guardine Companies for a life of traveling abroad, studying French and Russ ian, playing bridge and golf, swimming in a 'Lifeline' program and serving on the Portland Parks Commission . Jean Bridges, Holden, Mass., a retired Army nurse and school guidance counselor, now find satisfaction in doing handcrafts, volunteering and serving as a church trustee . . . Retired coach and successful businessman Bob Bruce, of Watertown, Conn., keeps active in church and civic affairs, serves on town commit tees and has run for the state senate twice. He al o plays golf, has traveled to Russia and China and has skied in Europe when not 46

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Headliners Ellis Mott '39 has been named a Life Member by the National Association of Science Writers. Mott covered the U .S.-Soviet space race for all three major American networks, beginning in 1 957 with the Sputnik story. He was editor of Science Digest magazine and, for almost a dozen years, was director of information services foe the New York City Board of Education. He now works as a computer consultant in southern Oregon and is writing a book .

Newsmakers The Rev. Charles T. Russ '38 was named pastor emeritus of the Church of Christ Congregational in Goshen, Conn.

Mileposts Deaths: Marjorie Barker Henderson ' 1 6 inNashua, N .H., at 95 . . . Mildred Barton Flood ' 1 7 in Longmeadow, Mass. . . . Esther M. Power '20 in Washington, D.C. at 92 . . . Frederick G. Fassett, Jr. '23 in Damariscotta, Maine, at 89 . . . Hilda M. Fife '26 in Portsmouth, N.H.,at87 . . . Clifford R. Packard '26 in South Portland, Maine, at 91 . . . Paul W. Logie '2 7 in Houlton, Maine, at 87 . . . Nat Lorins '2 7 in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at 86 . . . John E. Rogers '29 in Worcester, Mass., at 84 . . . Beatrice Muller Campbell '30 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, at 81 . . . Esther Libby Fern '30 in Dexter, Maine . . . Arthur B. Esty '3 1 in Beverly, Mass. . . . Gertrude Snowden Giles '3 1 in Marblehead, Mass., at 81 . . . Martin T. Storms '34 in Freeport, Maine, at 84 . . . David Carleton Libbey ' 3 7 in Orem, Utah, at 73 . . . Ralph E. Morrow '38 in Worcester, Mass., at 74. sightseeing . . . Painter and print maker Nannabelle Gray Carter, Machias, Maine, likes to travel, especially on walking tours for painting and photography . . . Ma rgery S m i t h Ca vanagh , Tequesta, Fla., has rai ed seven

children and now has 16 grand children. Her work has been pub l is h ed in two volu mes of poetry . . . Marj orie Chase Chapman, Briarcliff Manor, N .Y., is grateful to Colby for preparing her for public health nursing, and

especially to 'Bugsie' Chester for arousing her curiosity. Also, her Colby Glee Club experience led to a life long appreciat ion of choral music and opera . . . Ruth Moore Corkran remembers with nostalgia her J 0 years of working as assistant to the alumni secretary at Colby. She now enjoys retire ment living in Palmetto, Fla., where she and her husband are busier than ever, playing golf and enjoying their many friends . . . Eleanor Thomas Curtis, Hous ton, Tex., capable former class correspondent, recalls a great 50th reunion. She is on the faculty wives board of Rice University, on the Houston Yacht Club La dies' Sailing Association Board and volunteers at the Neurology Clinic for Children's Diseases. She al o makes needlepoint or naments, some of which will grace the 1 99 1 White House Christ mas tree . . . What does a former newspaper publisher and jour nal ism professor do in retirement ? Just ask Ralph Delano, Benson N .C., who belongs to a barber shop singing ociety, is a member of the International Board of Di rectors of Barbershop Singers and serves as its d istrict pre ident . . . Vernelle 'Cappy'Dyer, Jr., of Cumberland Foreside, Maine, is an independent consultant spe cializing in workers' compensa tion claims. He also likes garden ing and traveling. Last fall, he and h is wife, Barbara ( Partridge) '4 1 , took a coast-to-coast train trip. 'A great way to see the coun try!' he reports . . . Because Oscar H. Emery and his wife attended the passion play in Oberam mergau last June, they could not attend the reunion. Life in Santa Clara, Calif., 0 car writes, has been relaxed, except during the 1 989 earthquake. He has photo graphed all 50 state capitols, as well as most of the national parks . . . Besides having tenni and photography as hobbies, John T. CoUry, March 1 99 1

Foster, Keene, N . H . , is interested in genealogy and travel. Last year he took h is granddaughter to I re land and vi ited Trinity College in Dublin. He continues to work on a text about health service management . . . Halsey Fred erick, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and hi wife, Traphy, have a full l ife fly ing, collect ing c lassic and sports autos, training dog and growing a varieryofrhododendrons . . . M. Donald and Phyllis Chapman Gardner, Portland, M aine, are near enough to Colby to get rhere fairly often. Don is pa t Grand Master of the Masons of the State of Maine and a 33° active mem ber of the upreme Counc il of the Ancient Accepted cott ish Rite of rhe Northern Masonic J uri diction ofthe USA. ( Ahem! ) . . . William L. Gousse, J r. , ha been retired from the U pjohn Company in Kalamazoo, M ich., ince 1 9 2 . . . Philip M. Grant pent ix week in New Zealand during the fall and hopes to spend four weeks in Hawaii rhi w inter. H i friends will want to know that he has moved from his farm to a home near a golf course in McMinnville, Oreg . . . . C lyde M. Hatch , Zephyrhi l ls, Fla . , i a traveler, with trip to Europe, outh America ( including the Galapago ) and New Zealand. He ha attended Elderho tel in Oahu, Hawa i i , and now hope to go to China and M icrone ia . . . Shirley Maddocks Hatch , a retired lan guage teacher in Brownfield, Maine, published a book of po etry in 19 7 and spend her t ime writing, studying, reading, gar dening and enjoying friends both h um a n and a n i m a l . . . Former librarian Ruth Rowell Higgins, Conway, S.C., took two hi rory cour e recently at the Un iver ity of South Carol ina ( Co a s t a l C a ro l i n a C o l lege ) . . . Virgil J . Hinckley reports that he ha moved up the street to 1 8 Dana Ave. i n Kittery, Maine. He

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enjoys hunting, fishing and travel after many years of teach ing and being a h igh-school principal . . . Doris Rose Hopengarten , Waban, Mass. , leads a full life of trave l i n g , s w i m m i n g , s k i i n g , · consulting, using a computer, 'oldersi tting and grandparenting, with o many good memories of Colby, the faculty, the friend ship that have bridged rhe gaps of t ime.' "Former reacher and now bu ·inesswoman Lydia Farnham J ohnson, who winters in Boca Raton, Fla., ha operated her gift shop , The Bras K nocker, in Belgrade Lake , for 43 summers. Her recent trips to England and Europe make her w ish she could have gone right after her course w i t h Weber, Chapman and P a l me r . . . R u t h H e n d r i c k s Maren, Gainesvil le, Fla . , is ac tive in the Audubon Society and i a volunteer for rhe Florida De fenders of the Environment. he play tenni and i tak ing a mas ter gardener' course . Physi c ian Stanley Kimball, haker Height , Ohio, has done medical imaging ( radiology) for the past 10 years. In their motor home, he and hi wife have taured the United tates and A laska as well a port i o n of C a n a d a a n d M e x i c o . . . Norma Leppanen ha had two careers, one as a high-school teacher and one a a l ibrarian. Now retired and l iving in Belmont, Mass., she enjoys travel i ng and doing volunteer work . . . Lydia Abbott Mailhot, Sudbury, Ma . , a retired teacher and mother of three daughter , now enjoys the good life-doing puzzles and needlepo i n t a nd playing bridge and scrabble . Louise Holt McGee, Yarmouth, Ma ine, has served on several hos pital board of director but now enjoy trave l i ng and playing golf . . . G o lden-vo i c ed B u e l l Merrill , Whitt ier, Calif., enjoys woodworking as well as i nging

and playing tennis. He and his wife, Evelyne Short Merrill '39, who also s ings, come east every summer to visit Colby friends . . . Adrianna Rodgers Paine, Martinsburg, W.V., and her hus band, A lan, travel mostly in the U nited State . They love going to Elderho tels, to the theater in New York or ta New Orleans to Ii ten to j a:: . . . Ellen Fitch Peterson, ar ick , Mas . , is a re tired l ibrarian, so now she can enjoy retirement with her hus band , Stuart. Their daughter, Jean, graduated from Colby in

couldenjoy theirfourchildren . . . Alleen Thompson of San Jose, Calif. , formerly a career librarian in th i country and in Korea, has served as president of the pec ial L ibraries Assoc iation and was named to its Hall of Fame. She has traveled in the U .S., Great Britain, continental Europe, the U .S.S.R. and China. Now she i a docent at the San Jose H istori cal M useum . A r t h u r T. Thompson, Wellesley, Mass . , is professor emeritus of engineering at Boston U niversity and Went worth University and has received m a n y h o n ors in h i s field . . . Ahead of her t ime was Constance Til l ey , Bethesda, Md., a 30year veteran of the Dis trict of Columbia police force. Now rerired, he is free to walk, bike, read, garden and drive her car Marjorie Gould Murphy '3 7 everywhere . . . Marjorie P.O. Box 1 02 , South Street Day Weeks, Gorh a m , West Oneonta, NY 13 6 1 M a i n e , former teacher, Phone: 607-43 2 -8936 e d i torial assistant and 'faculty wife,' now uses her many k i lls in the League 1 969 . . . William D. Pinansky, of Women Voters. She also trav e l s , gardens a nd enjoys h e r Cape El izabeth, Maine, find that gra ndc h i ld r e n . . . E l i z a b e t h playing tennis is a good balance ta his continued duties as a self Wescott, Bucksport, M a ine, pur sues her interest in environmen e m pl oyed at torney . . . E d n a tal i ues, physical fitne and Slater Pullen tries to keep track of her four grandchildren, two of anima ls. She is also act ive in c hu rch work . . . Ric hard H. whom travel abroad for work. he White, Newporr, R. l . , has retired and her husband, J ohn S. Pullen after a long N avy career and now '38, live in urry, Maine, and l ike to b o w l a n d p l a y g o l f a n d can relax with boating, fishing and lobstering . . . Linwood L. bridge . . . Walter H. a n d Mar Workman, Jr., ofFort Myers, Fla., gery Lier Reed, Bingham, Maine, and New Harbor, Maine, a re c laim ta be the second couple in tired teacher and camp director, the class married while still un now enjoy outdoor activities, dergraduates ( consult Tom Sav wood work i n g , garde n i ng and age ) . They celebrated their 5 1 t seeing the country. He ing in ann iver ary on December 24. h i church choirs and choruse , Congracularion . Both ret i red teachers, they now enjoy work both in Florida and Maine. "See news about the rest of ing i n ou tdoor education . . . Constance Pratt Spinney, Barre, Fift y-Plu in the next i sue of Mass . , retired from hospital work Colby. And keep writing." in 1 98 5 so she and her husband

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"Your corresrondent hare to hear soon that more of you will be returning tO Colby early next J une to help celebrate this rare occasion," wntes Ruth " Bonnie" Roberts Hathaway of the Class of '4 1 's upcoming 50th reunion. "Among the enthu iast ," Bon n i e c o n t i n u e , "is R u t h Stebbins Cadwell, in N e w Hore. Pa. , who has fiYe stepchildren, 1 0 grandchildren and three grear grandchildren. Who can top that? 'Stebbie' al o occupie herself volunteering at her local library, as a guide at New Hope's hi torical ociety and on the altar guild at Trinity Episcopal Church. As for change in her life, she exclai med that he needed a new septic field. urely none of us envy her that chore . . . Alison Pike Slade, in Newton Centre, Mas . , could be a clo e second to tebbie, with four children and e ight grand c h i l d re n . She say she i a homebody and leaves the outside contacts to her husband, Edward. Theyareonceagain empry-nested since their oldest daughter re m a r r i e d . A l ison was indeed pleased to have a neighbor's on accepted to Colby last fall . Then there' Pauline Lander Higgins from Lisbon Falls, Maine, with eight children-four ofeach gender-and four grandchildren, three boys and a girl. Her newest event of ignificance wa another grandchild, born last October. Other than time with her chil dren, Pauline is a very active member of the L i bon Fa l l S h a ke speare C l u b . . . From Marblehead, Mass., comes news of John Ormiston with hi four children ( three boys and one girl ) and four grandch ildren ( three boys and one girl ) ! He i a conultant in paper manufacturing. Besides that he has been on the chool committee for 24 years (chair for 1 2 ), served as park 4

commi sioner for four years and spent five year on the hou ing authority as vice chairman. Ob viously, he i sti l l active. "After 3 5 years in Massa chusetts, Ruth Scribner Rich and hu band Edwin have been retired for I 0 years in Wi cas er, Maine. Ruth i active in peace organiza t ion , at the Woolwich Histori cal ociety and at the Bath Free Library. At their church, he sees B i l l '40 and Mary Robinson Taylor's on, Bill, and h is wife, Betty . . . Claire Tilley Hender son and her hu band, Edward, are in Ashland, Mame. They have two daughter , both in Con necticut, and three grandchil dren, two in h igh school and one in college . . . James Daly i till in eattle, Wash. , enjoying life a a retired banker with hi wife, Sally, and their three children and t h ree grandch i ldren . Walter Sherys i practically a neighbor of mine in Roche ter, N . H . Hi life has changed coniderably since his wife, Agnes, had a stroke in June 1 9 9 that left her paralyzed on her right side. he ha improved ome but i now limited in what she can do. Walt says they eat out a lot to ave on cooking. He went on to remini ce about Colby days with Bernie Burbank '39 and the Colby G lee Club. He al o played piano in the White Mule Dance Band for several event . At present he owns a Yamaha electronic organ, wh ich he enjoys greatly. He even sent me a tape of h is playing, and he ha played on WUNH-TY in Durham. I f they can make it to our reunion, he'll no doubt be willing to play for us . . . Some of you may already know that Henry and Jane Russell Abbott spent last school year in Myrtle Beach, .C., where J ane taught. They pent last summer at their cot tage in Waterville, but they are now living in a warmer c l i mate. You can be sure they have Colby

very much on their minds and will be back to celehrate our 50th with us. We hope to see you there, too

graduate Teaching award from Northern I l l inois Un iversity, where she ha taught art history for many years."

"Count down i on," notes clas corre pondent Marie "Chns" Merrill Wy or. "Planning for the 50th reunion of our clas was set in motion on Homecom ing Weekend. With the able leadersh ip of our p re s i d e m , Linwood Palmer, and t h e guid ance of Alumni Director ue Conant Cook '75, your cla of ficer and others have done some preliminary planning. However, there is still much to do and many committees to be filled. Plea e write to Lin and offer your help. His addres i : Linwood Palmer, Jr., R R 1 Box 369, Nobleboro, ME 04 5 5 5 .

"And it i not too early rn save the dates: June 5-8, 1 992. Ar the Colby "C" Club banquet your corre pondent and her spouse, Phi l Wysor, were privi leged to sit at the table with Martha Rogers Beach and her husband, George Beach '4 1 . We basked in reflected glory when George and Arthur 'Red' O'Hal loran ' 5 0 received silver mug in recognition of their years of 'C' Club ervice. The be t part wa that it came as a complete surprise to both of them. "Helen Henry Merritt's book, Modem]apanese Woodblock Prints , the Early Years, wa pub lished recently by the University of Hawa ii Pres . I t i not only cholarly and well written, it is al o fi l led with beaut ifu l and colorful prints. Thi is a field in which l ittle has been written. he is now working on a reference book tO accompany this volume, and that will be publi hed next year. Helen is also to be congrat ulated for having received, last May, the Excellence in Under-

Correspondent Eleanor mart Braunmuller send "greet ings from Maine. The grass i green on Mayflower H i l l but there's skiing at Sugarloaf and addleback. "By now you've seen that with 50 percent participation, we didn't quite reach our Alumni Fund goal of 8, 500. With Kaye Monaghan Corey's enthusiasm, we should do better thi year . . . Marjorie McDougal Davis writes that she and Cliffare semi-retired. They vacationed in the Turks and Caicos islands and are busy with communiryservice. Marjorie shares my enjoyment of good my tery writing . . . By the time this column appears, Elizabeth Field Blanchard should be a cer tified chaplain. She and Leon divide their time between Florida and Barre, Mass. Their chi ldren l ive in Maine, Mas achusetts and the Netherlands, and there are now three grandc h i ldren . . . Lynn and Ron Lupton are living in Florida but spend parts of each year with daughter Carol Lupton Morgan '77 in Rhode Island and w ith son Ron '7 1 and h is wife, Linda Howard Lupton ' 7 2 , in Maine. Ron and Lynn are plan ning a crui e to Acapulco in the spring . . . Betty Tobey Choate till feels that he and David are too young for golf. Dave is semi retired and 'Tobey' i too busy with gardening, the h istorical society and babysitting to worry about spare time. Tobey says they do all their own gardening and help out at their on's place, so their 'backs and legs are taking a beating.' " E l i z a b e t h and H u b e r t Beckwith had unny weather the

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Retirement? It's Tb e fir t thing Jane R u ign up for a Ubrary card.

Science

ell Abbott '4 1 did after ettling into her new winter dig o n the gulf coasc of Alabama L a t he and her husband, Henry '4 1 , have moved o often in the five year

advanced biology at Waterville H igh

ovember wa

ince he retired from teaching

chool that the ·cientific journal to which he ub�cribe don't always catch up with her. "But

l have to keep up,'' Abbott said, " o l find rhe neare t Library, wherever we move." Abbotc is hooked on cienc - o much o that la t month, he paid her own way to a convention in

a c ional A sociation of Biology Teachers

an Franci co. As a pa t president of the organization, Abbott i a prized participanc at the conference, but ince she

has left the top post, the

ABT no longer picks up the tab. "I can't cay away," Abbott aid. "I love all tho e kind of thing . Getting

cogether with people, talking about new advances-it's exciting." Anyone who knew Jane Ru ell during her day at Colby probably won't be urpri ed to learn that in "retirement" �he i a active as ever. The I i t of activitie and achievement next to her photo i one of the longest in the 1 94 1

Oracle.

She wa the fir t female

editor of the White Mule (a now defunct humor magazine ) , belonged to numerous sport team , academic dubs and ervice group

and wa one of the few women who completed a civi lian aviation course at the Waterville municipal airport-now Lafleur Airport. "l used co do 720s and pins over Lorimer Chapel," he laughs. After graduation, Abbott worked in New York City while her hu band erved in the European Theater in World War Two. They eventually settled in Waterville, where, on the strength of a glowing recommendation from Dean Erne t Marriner, Abborr wa accepted into the

ational Science Foundation Institute at Colby.

he earned a ma ter's in cience teaching at Colby and, a dozen

years later, took a ma ter' in phy ical cience from Cornell as a Shell Merit

cholar.

I n 1 986, after teaching at Waterville High for 26 year , she moved to Lo Angele with Henry and taught at a private school. But the notoriou

mog wa tough on Henry who suffer from emphy ema, o the couple moved to New Jersey. Again, Abbott took

up a teaching po t, rhi time at rhe Englewood chool. After two year , the Abbotts packed their bag again and headed for wanner cli mes-Myrtle Beach, S.C. That wa Abbott' last teaching po it ion, but she doesn't rule our another foray into the classroom. What keep drawing her back, he ay , are the tudenrs. " I alway had out tanding students in Waterville, and my student in New Jersey were wonderful, unbelievable!" he aid. When pre ed, she concedes that he "worked hard, too . They wouldn't do well if I didn't work hard. You have to study all the time to teach [advanced placement] biology because it's changing a l l the time." Because he rook the rime-and bu ilt the clout-to apply for Ford Foundation education grant , her tudems were treated to lecture by uch luminaries as author I aac Asimov and astronomer Harlow Shapley and were taken out of the classroom to tudy Maine's ecosy tern fir t-hand through uch activities as aerial tours, boat trips and winter ojourns at the beach. One class even contributed to a change in state policy on lake pollution. Enticing though it may be, Abbott ay he ha n't made any teaching plans for rhe future. Thi winter he is enjoying swimming in the gulf ("I'm the only one in there," he said in early January. "The water is 5 7 degree '' ) , fulfilling her dutie as a class agent on the eve of the 50th reunion and traveling. "I don't have to worry about more than one day at a time," he aid in a voice more excited than wi tful.

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e n t i re t i me they toured the Netherlands, Be lgium, France and West Germany la t spring. They are now working on the construction of a summer camp near Orleans, Vt. I n the winter, they enjoy the cultural advantages of Washington, D.C., and ' Beck' is doing some ed iting and research for the Lyme, Conn., historical society . . . Howard and Muriel McLellan DeShon spent time in Bermuda last pring, made a trip to several western national parks and last fall traveled for three weeks in the British Isles. M uriel continues to find her work a· a commissioner of the Maine State Museum 'fasc inating.' "Howard Johnson i now playing with the Rhode Island Recorder Society and working on the final draft ofthe latest revision on his book . . . Marjorie Abar Gray, now retired from teaching, attended the high-school gradu at ions of two of her grandchil dren-one in M bile, Ala., and the other in Monroe, Conn. Marj orie, like so many of you, enjoys reading, and l wish l had time to read ·ome of the book you all have I isted as interesting. Maybe I ' l l send along a reading l ist sometime1 This is all for now. Let me hear from you . You have no idea how interesting you are ! "

Lou i s Deraney ob serves, in l ight of the Colby football team's third straight CBB championsh ip, that the Cla of 1 944 "remembers when Colby had A l l - M a i ne c hampionsh ip teams. "One of the e teams was led by our own Remo Verrengia, who was inducted into the Malden ( M a .) H igh School Golden Tornado Club's hall of fame in November. When l first heard of this honor being bestowed on Remo, 1 immediately contacted 50

Hannah Karp Laipson '46

Headliners Hannah Karp Laipson '46, a professor of English at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Mass., re ceived the Mary E. Tobin Award fr m the Ma achusett Association for Women Deans, Administrator and Counsel or . The award honors "outstanding women who have di tin guished themselve by long-term contributions to the wel l being of women."

Newsmakers Remo M. Verrengia '44, a former captain and coach of the White Mule football squad who now lives in Ridgewood, N .j . , was named to Malden ( Mass.) H igh chool' Golden Tornad Hall of Fame . . . Ben C. Bubar '46 wa profiled in the Town Line, a c mmunity paper in China, Maine, where he live . A driving force behind Maine's Christian Civic League, Bubar i con idered a pol itical pundit in central Maine . . . Carleton P. Stinchfield '49 wa named acting dean of academic affa i rs at Greenfield Comm.unity Col lege in Greenfield, Ma s.

Mileposts Deaths: Carolyn Beverage Keene '4 1 in Windham, Maine, at 7 1 . . . Jerome Orenstein '4 1 in Newburyport, Mass., at 70 . . . Patterson M. Small '47 i n Garden City, Long lsland, N .Y., at 69 . . . Sanford I. Kroll '48 i n Boston, M as ., at 65 . . . Eric W. Pape '49 i n Bo ton, Mass. , at 65.

Thomas P. Norton ' 4 3 , think ing he and I could be at the testimo nial banquet and urprise Remo, but we both realized that we had committed to other plans. Tom had promi ed that he and his wife would vi it their son in Richmond, Va. , for the Thanksgiving holi day, and l had planned to visit

Gainesville, Fla., to enjoy turkey with family and friends. Wasn't it New England where that fe tive day bega n ? Tom is now retired from the G i l lette Company, where he was employed a a chemist . . . Phil Nutting is vice president/advertising director of Kompass International Publi h-

ing, Inc., in Boston, Mass. They publish in Russian, and ince his bu iness card Ii ts Moscow Busi ness Journal and other Russian publicat ions, l surmise that he is versed in the Rus ian language. 1 had trouble passing the Reading Knowledge exam back in 1 94 3 in French. Now I teach that subject on occa ion, and l am planning to spend some time in Reim , France, a an educator . . . Bar bara Baylis Primiano is s t i l l working part time in t h e family business in Barrington, R . l . She report that he has been in touch with Elaine Anderson Hagstrom on several occasion this pa t year. Barbara is keeping up physically but is gaining lots of white hair . . . Ralph Braudy left Cape Cod in August and writes from Las Ve gas, where he went to see the Dougla -Holyfield fight. Ralph is our 'bon vivant' classmate-rich, single and debonair. Summer on the Cape, winter in England and vi its to California in between. He is enjoying good health except for hi hay fever. "The class news i !es infor mative only because you all do not correspond so that l can relay your messages in th is column ! "

"l recently talked to 'Bunny' Thompson Ward, who lives in Burnt Hill , N .Y.," re port Dee Sanford McCunn. "She has kept busy for many years with her art and crafts shop. She ha five art teachers who give work shops in decorat ive painting, water colors, etc. She lives close to the aratoga Performing Arts Center and finds that there i a lot of local intere t in cultural ac tivities. Bunny and her hus band, Art, enjoy reading and cros -country skiing-when time permits. Bunny has a daughter and two grandchildren who l ive

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Reunion Planning Continues Reunion committee are actively involved w ith class plans for Reunion Weekend, J une 6-9. The honor classe -'4 1 and '66-will start the weekend Thursday evening, with special class events on Friday. Reservation materials will be mai led to all alumni in Apri l-so mark your calendars to be on Mayflower H il l on J une 6-9 and get ready for an exciting weekend with old friends.

nearby . . . Elsie Love Scull and her husband have a condo right on the water in Sarasota, Fla. This gives her plenty of free time to play bridge, tennis, bike and walk . Elsie lost her first husband, who was ill for a number of year , and she remarried seven years ago. Elsie and her husband travel a lot-they spent September in Great Britain. But he saves some time for her two daughters, one in C a l i fornia and one in N e w Jersey . . . Barbara Soule Hoover a nd h e r h usband re t i red t o avannah, G a . , t o property they purcha ed a number of year ago. Barbara re t i red from a h igh pressure job in Ph iladelphia as an advert ising c oord inator. Her biggest lifetime 'milesrone' is re t irement, which she loves. he doe volunteer work at a ho p ita!, and her husband has started a new busines . he ha two son , one of whom i a sound engineer and con ultant in Washington, D.C. , who ha done work in the Wh i te Hou e. Her other son i equally bu y a an indu trial a le man and i the father of Barbara' on! grandchild . . . I talked to Helen Gould Sullivan in c i tuate, Mas . he has raised five children, all of whom li\'e nearby. he and her husband ha\'e a motor home an I tra\'cl various route ·ight eeing a they head to Port Richey, Fla., for the winter month . When in c ituate, they penJ a lot of time re toring the ir hou e. Helen enioy raking art le on and want to learn more about working w i t h o i l . . . Helen Small Martino live. in We rwood, Ma. ., and ha� rai ed even children. orry to "ay, he lo t her hu band ix ear:. ago. he found that supervising four on and three daughter kept her from having empty ti me on her hand . he h a attended the American I n t itute of Banking and enjoy the field of money management. Helen a idly peColby, March 1 99 1

ruse the c lass news and i s inter ested in re a d i ng about h e r classmates . . . Betty Chamber lain Ficker writes that her po litical activities consist of being a checker at the local election bu reau. She is a deacon at her church, helps serve communion and v isits the homebound elderly and says she finds these altru istic activit ies fulfill ing."

Hannah Karp Laipson was pleased to receive so many responses to her questionnaire a king '46er about the unex pected facets of their l ives but ay she is "finally coming to the end" of them with this column. "Jean O 'Brien Perkins,"

Hannah writes, "who is a library cu todian and j unior high school tut r, wrote that he didn't l ive her fanta y of becoming a doctor, but he ha had great plea ure in teaching, working in a library, helping to ra i e five children and most of all, 1 1 \'ing. he ·ounded like the positi\·e J ean I remember from our Colby day· when she added: 'I alway thought life was and would be good-but it' · re ally great ! ' "Mar Roundy Bebee, a re t i red teacher, looked back fonJ ly to her fa\'orite professor, Dr. Wilkin on , and w her 'won Jerful friend ' all over campus. he wanted marriage and inter e:ting work. he apparently re ceived what he wanted- he wrote: ' I married, haJ three chil dren and two grandchildren and enjoyed being a teacher. I abo had ome great year a a legal ecretary with courtroom experi ence.' he lived in (not ju t vi iteJ ) the Bahama , We t l nd ie and J amaica and ay� 'the mar velou people provided plea ures I wouldn't have mis ed for the world.' . . . Francis J. Heppner,

an arch ivist at the National Ar ch i ves in Washington, D.C., thought back to Hedman Hall, sulphur smoke and 'eating two good meals a day at a boarding house run by a woman in town.' He served in the U.S. Army when he left Colby in 1 94 3 , but he didn't expect to l ive in Washing ton, D . C . , for 40 years ! . . . Courtney S impson expressed gratitude that he 'survived to live the good l ife with my family.' He added, 'I married Harry Hale's lovely daughter two years ago and took the fa m i ly to v i s i t my youngest daughter in France and the University of N ice at Easter.' "I've had a wonderful time reading your reflections as you looked back, and I found that your memories brought a few of my own. When l graduated, l thought I'd continue my interest in newspaper work (with a good tart a editor of the Echo and as the fir t female reporter for the Haverhill Gazecce in my home town), but with M ike's return from the Navy at the end of the war, we married and moved to Amher t so he could fini h hi college education, and I fell ( truly unexpectedly) into a career of teaching, which l '\'c lo\·ed. At first, as a mother of three, l found it best to teach part time, but for the past 20 year-. l\·e heen a profe sor of Engl ish at Quinigamond Community College in Worcester, where my d i\·erse ·tu dent -from all type of ethnic and econom ic hackoround ha\·e broadened my own educa tion. \)\\", Mi ke and I are plan ning rn retire next June and are look ing forward to pursuing new interest-. J ' ll !er you know what they are when we dec ide ! Plea e let me hear from you, espec ially those of you who d idn't respond to the la t que tionnaire, becau e we'd really l ike to know what you're doing.''

Writing after her "pil grimage" to Waterv i lle, J une Chipman Coalson says that she enjoyed visiting old friends and notes that "the lobster is still de lic ious." A letter from David Weber prompts J une to share some of her own Colby experi ences with classmates: "[ went to Green Mountain J un ior College i n Poultney, Vt., my freshman year. Then I trained as a laboratory technician and worked for two year and entered Colby as a sophomore in Febru ary of 1 94 5 . I graduated in August of 1 94 7 after going to summer school at the University of N ew Hampshire . . . I was glad to hear from Dave. In September he en tered into a sabbatical leave, after 2 1 years as director of univer iry libraries at Stanford. He stays busy con ulting and publishing in the area of academic and research libraries. In the pa t year he has given paper in Paris and Kana zawa, J apan, and has consulted in eastern Canada and in Oregon, Utah and California. He and h is wife, Natalie, have four children, three of whom li\'e in outhern California. One is studying for a doctorate in philosophy at the Un iver iry ofNebra ka. Dave and aralie are al o bles ed with fi\·e grandchildren . . Ronald Coe i still practicing internal medicine. He ha tra\'eled to Bermuda this past year and ·pends a lot of t ime at his place in Ludlow, Vt. Hi� only daughter recently pre ented him with h i · fir t grandchild . . Ted Buyniski 1 a retired phar maci t . He wa presi dent of Verno n Drug Company in Worcester, Ma s. He winter near Pa lm Beach, play a lot of golf and work with computers. Ted and h is wife have a on and two grandchildren . . . Cecil Burns retired a a vice principal in the Long Beach, Calif., chool di trict and moved back to Rumford, 51

Maine, f our year, ago. He and hi wife ha\'e a lot of family there. Cec il 'tarred our coaching has kerba ll and football and st i l l i> very invol ved in these two <;port;,. He keep;, up hb C< mncct i<m with ;,choob by erving on Rumford's chool hoard . . . Margaret Scott Carter ha;, an mtere,ting I ife. She i;, in the antique husines> and recently returned from a . i x-week huying trip to England, covering 6,000 miles and bringing back 600 ant iques. She ·pend;, three week · every winter in the West Ind ies at Nevis Island and often meets her Engl ish friends there. lsn'r rhar the l ife ? To add ro that, she wa j ust presented w i t h grandchild number 1 2 . . . Perry Harding is still working as the major projects director of Cham p ion I nternational in Sheldon , Texas. He and h is wife had a great time at the Rocky Mounrain National Park in Colorado last summer. Perry enjoys fishing and working in h is yard. but accord ing to h is wife he is a workaholi , which is what keeps h im young. He and h is family were honored when the ir 1 3 -year-old son was accepted by Duke U n iversity's Talent I dent ifi cat ion Program and qual ified to take the SAT. He scored h igh enough to make rate honors. Congratu lations, Perry. It must be the Colby i nflu ence. "Speaking of Colby, I hope you are all plann ing to join me for our 45th reunion in J une '92. T o ssi e Campbel l Kozen and Dorie Meyer Hawkes are get ting together with our class offic ers already to formulate plans."

Katharine "Kay" Weis man J affe checked in j ust before winging off to Pakistan. "My 're t i red' husband and I are trave l i ng more than ever," Kay says, "as he

Correspondents 1 94 1 Ruth R . Hathaway ( Ruth "Bonnie" Roberts) RFD 1 , Box 38 1 New Ipswich, NH 0307 1 -

1 944 Loui M. Deraney 57 Whitford treet Roslindale, MA 02 1 3 1 -

97 1 5 Phone: 603-878-4547

Phone: 6 1 7- 327-4486

1 947 June Coalson (J une Chipman) 1 29 Jane lle Lane Jacbonvi l le FL 3 22 1 1 Phone: 904-7 2 5 - 1 4 79

1 942 Marie Wysor ( Marie "Chri " Merri l l ) RR 2 , Box 1 90-B South Harpswell, ME

1 945 Dorothy McCunn ( Dorothy Sanford) 8 Honey H i l l Road Canaan, CT 060 1 8 Phone: 203-824-72 36

1 948 Katharine W. Jaffe ( Katharine Wei man) PO Box 1 1 3 M ill R iver, MA 0 1 244 Phone: 4 1 3 -229-8 1 7 1

1 946 Mrs. Myron R. Laipson ( Hannah Karp) 25 Pomona Road Worcester, MA 0 1 602 Phone: 508-752- 1 204

1 949 Anne Eu ti ( Anne Hagar) 3 1 5 M i rick Rd. PO Box 594 Ea t Princeton, M A 0 1 5 1 7 Phone: 508-464- 5 5 1 3

that she had created her own 'C' Club by being ac t ive with her c h i ldren , c lub and Colby, a well as church, where he was inv lved with the choir and was c lerk of her pari h. She i also involved with the Girl Scouts, has been a library trustee (secretary) and did genealogical research in her spare time (only cooking eems to be missing) . She also travels, and we all know the great work she does for our class. "My husband, M ike, and I have een lot of new places thi year but have spent a lot of t ime in Taiwan. On our th ird trip in nine months, I even helped some bright young engineers who could read and write English wel l to i mprove t h e i r c o n v e r a t i o n ( most l y , they were s h y , and lunchtime lessons increa eel their confidence ) . U ually, I j ust tag along for the good food and

sightseeing. We became friendly with warm, hospitable people who init iated us into the intricac ie of the lunar holiday to appease the ghosts, to an Eastern harve t fe tival, to elaborate funeral and wedding celebration and to flag ellat ion rites for Buddhist saint' day . We also had a gl imp e be h ind the scene of Taiwan' new, two-party political system. "I received a very special letter from Robert Batten. He writes, ' I 've been listening to a broadcast of Mendelssohn's Elijah and found myself dec iding that it i time to come out ofh iding from my past. Perhaps memories of the Colby G le e C l u b and J o h n Thomas's " 7 6 Trombone" bass voice, perhaps something of Pro fessor Colgan or Pop Newman. I n t h e past, I 've read t h e accounts of successful lives and committed the error of "judging my insides

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con ults in powdered metallurgy in Asia, Canada and the U.S. "Some of you heard from Carol Silverstein Baker during the Colby telethon. l did. Profes sionally, she was making art of certain spec ial furni ture pieces by deft l y decorat i n g each w i t h original hand paint ing. She 1 also studying watercolor a art as well a c raft , d oc e n t i ng for t h e DeCordover Museum in Lincoln, Mass . , and volunte e r i ng for Colby's Development Office. As a loving mother and grandmother and caring daughter to an i l l mother, she has truly been in volved in the extended fam ily. Recently, she decided that her life is at a crossroads, and you will have to tune in later to d i cover where she will d irect her very productive life in the future . . Another of '48's accomplish ing women, Peg Clark Atkins, wrote

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Are You UP-- 2 --DATE? For up- to-date Colby ports scores, information about upcoming alumn i events, derails of week ly campus ac tivities or to make a donation to the Col lege, c a l l 1 - 207-UP-2 -DATE.

by omeone e l e's out ide ," and was embarra- ed about letting any of my former cla ·mate and friend know where I wa or what [ had been doing. A t any rate, herewith, a quick, and, I hope , a brief summary. '"! went from Colby to a year of e m i nary and then four and-a-half years as a Benedictine monk. l moved on to a career in vocational rehabi litation and, at the height of succe , came out as a gay man. That wa my mid-l ife "crisi ." From there, four-and-a half years getting into and out of c ientology and urv iving! I t has all been exciting and c ha llenging and rewarding. l am now trug gling w ith finding way to put into writing where I went, what l d id, how I dealt with it and what l got out of it, so that other coming thi way behind me will know it has been done and uc cessful ly, in terms of elf- ati fac t ion if not material gain."'

" A year ago l wa writ ing my fir t column for Colby. And with thi , my fifth, I will fini h relating all the new you sent me a a re ult of my first que tion naire," write Anne Hagar Eu t is. "When you receive my next re quest for new , l do hope to hear from ome of you whom we have not heard from lately, a wel l a from tho e who responded la t t ime. " l e njoyed e e ing Terna Kaplan Cushner at our reunion al mo t two year ago. Tema i one of tho e '49er who gravitated back to the Waterv i l le area, hav ing spent the la t 4 1 summer on now Pond. And when her hus band, Len, retire thi year, she expects to become a profe ional 'Colby Watcher. ' Te ma retired from her job as assistant to the administrator of an alternative h igh school five years ago and Colby, March 1 99 1

since has worked in her husband's office . . . Jean Desper Fitton and her hu band , Larry '42, retired to obleboro, Ma ine, l years ago. J ean ·ay , 'After I years ofretire ment from educat ion, l think it's time to retire from retirement. We u ed our boar once thi sum mer ! ' Amen! l don't know many of our retirees who are rusticating or ,·egerating . . . Muriel Tho mas Levings went right p a ·c Maine to Digby. o,·a cotia, when her hu band, Wendell, re tired 1 5 years ago. Murial and her hu band h a\·e e x perienced a complete role re\·er·al a well, ince Muriel' present job as ac t ivities director at a home for pec 1al-care adult is her fir t alaried po ition, and Wendell has become a 'house hu band . ' They h a v e five children a n d 1 2 grandchildren and are proud of

them all . . . J une White Rosen berg l ives in ewton, Mass. She and her husband, orman, are both in the retail trade. They have two daughter and one ·on. J une says her spare t ime is taken up with, 'work, children and so ciali:ation.' . . . John 'Jack' Ives i retired from the insurance busi ness and lives in Scotia, .Y. Jack thinks retirement is wonderful and is gi\·en to bragging about his four granddaughter·. His 'spare' time is taken up with golf and re a d i n g . . . \V h e n C a r l e t o n Stinchfield stepped down after 10 ears as director of math, c i ence , engineering a n d nursing at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Ma ., he intended to return to teachinP c hemi try full time. Bur in May 19 9 he wa appointed acting dean of aca demic affa irs, and earlier this year

rhe college pre ·1dent told him to expect to ·ray on a dean at least until J une of l 99 1 ! Carleton and hi w i fe , J an e t , live i n Ber nardston, l a . , and have five daughters and one son . . . e\· eral years ago, Marilyn Soutter Puopolo retired as a kindergarden reacher in the Quincy, Mass . , ·chool system. he a n d h e r hus band, V ito, now enjoy l h·ing on Cape Cod m rhe ummer and in Fort Lauderdale during the win ter. Marilyn spends her spare time tra\·eling, reading and doing \·ol unreer work. he is rill an avid knitter, ju t as our yearbook ays she was 41 year ago! "And that i· the um and substance of the news you '49er have sent me. Be sure to re pond when my next questionnaire ar rives in your mail--but you can end me new anytime . "

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What's New? hare your n e w and v iew· with your cla ·mate ! Have you tra\·eled recently, changed job· ? \Xlhat' exc1tin about your current job? Have you been married recendy or moved to a new area or a new home 1 Do ou have a book to recommend to other reader· or movie pan to pas a long ? Plea e write in the blank and end it to the Alumni Offi ce for forwarding to your cla s corre pondenr.

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d i v ision contro l ler from E. R.

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enreri ng a new phase of their l i ves

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w i t h much joy and share intere ts

we arc a v i goruus, compet it i v e ,

he re t i red after comn<iry hyr•1s'

for. Let' hear frnm thc rest ofyou.

in h i k i ng , b i k i ng , b i rd i ng and

i n vo l vctl and v e ry i n terc,t i n g

surgery, hut that ' t hc,e arc goud

For those i n the Bo,ron <lrea, if

ra i m i ng. It was great to hear from h i m . . . From Verna l , U tah, Dale Dacier Meagher writes that she

"Our c lass is j ust great-

quihh

gmur." �ay' correspondent N a n c y

t i mes mid busier than eYcr-we

rak i ng pen or word rrncc,sor in

R icker � ears. "We arc <-cmtcred

c;:i n travel wherever :rnd when

hand seems imro,sihlc, how abllUt

across the country, cont i n u i ng or

ever we p lca,e, vol unteer more

rhoning 1"

re t i red from a variety of careers

and take odd course . ' She says

and contr i b u t i ng to our fa m i l ies

what they are ga i n i ng i� gra nd

and c o m m u n i t i e � a � c i rc u m

c h i l d re n , the count now being

stance

eight . . . Susan and

perm i t . O n t o news of

"The news of our c l a.s-

busi ness degree from the U n iver �ity of outhern Cal iforn i a and is

grandc h i l d re n . Bob remarried i n

by i t> rrnfund i t y , " promises cor

employetl at Manhattan I nstitute

1 989 after t w o years as a w i dower.

resrondent Warren F i nega n . Bur

i n New York City. Da l e a l o keeps

He ays they are ga i n i ng friends

there \ a catch. "If you wish to

b u s y at

in Lafayette, La., and he is not

�hare i n this c o m m u n i c ci t ions

Founda t ion Research Center . . .

l o > i n g we i g h t , and h e s e n d s

bona nza," he cont i n ue�. "you ' l l

Nonnan B. Crook is i n Grove

m a t c h the

"Barbara Wyman Ander son wrote from her home i n Freeport, M a i ne , where s h e l i ves t i red U . S . Navy wbmarinc cap

He is a banker and cattle rancher. The i r son, N ic holas I l l , has a

mares is bou n t i fu l , exceeded o n l y

these fasc i n a t i n g peop l e .

with her husband, Rohe n , <1 re

Bob Stander

help her hu band , N ichola , w ith bookkeeping and record-keeping.

m i ths w i t h e i g h t

tain. Barbara had cancer . urgery

greet i n gs to a l l h i s c l assmate>

in 1 989 bur reported that �he was

the

Data-G a t h e r i n g

h<Jvc ro come t o re u n i on. I s i m rly

land, Mass. He 1s CEO of Bethany

. . . A recent phone conver at ion

can not adequare I y reflect the true

Home

fee l i ng fine one year after e nd i ng

with Barbara Hill Millett brought

newsworthinc's of these harren

pa. tor at the Second Congrega

c h e mo t herapy. Last year t h e y

good news and batl new . The had

ings i n a c l ass c o l u m n . Ye , Re

t i onal Church i n We t Boxford.

enjoyed sa i l i n g i n Greec e , a n d

news was that

un ion X L dra ws ever n i gh. � pring

H e and h is w i fe , Josette, m1vel

they l o o k forward to sa i l i ng i n t h e

undergone surgery f o r a r<ice

mu�t he here.

some 1 5 ,000 m i l e a year in their

he had rec e n t l y

( e lderly hou i ng ) and a

L e e w a r d I s l a nd� i n M a y . T h e

maker-the good news is that

"Ed Laverty fi nally came out

A nder�om have 1 1 grandc h i l

she is rebound i ng heau t i fu l l y and

of the woods. H e was a h igh pick

their Boxer dog . They enjoy t h i a n d look forward to going a· far

' Beaver' motor home and show

. Hugh J o rdan a n d

told me she expected to be back

in [;1st fa l l ' M a ine moose lot tery,

Audrey Foun t a i n J ordan '49 have

on the tenn is courts hy the t i me

and the mome rclea ed him only

rec e n t l y moved to W h ispe r i ng

you read t h i . Barb rook up tenni.

rec e n t l y . A good t h i ng

Pi nes, N . C . , and recommend the

some t i me after her Colby day�

Wiley d i d not �pot h i m . Harry

he was e levated by Congres from

d re n

Harry

afield as t i me and c i rc u m tance al low . . .

Harold Kent write that

area i n terms of c l i mate, eco

and won her

hare of troph i e ·

shot a deer . . . I t was fun t a l k i ng

Tenderfoot Boy Scout d i rec tly to

nom ics and recreat ion. H ugh says,

over the years as she was learn ing

on the phone to old friends dur

l ie utenant colonel in the U n i ted

'We have a 200-acre lake in our

and perfec t i ng her game. Her

i ng our reu n ion fu nd- rn i s i ng ef

ta tes Air Force. H e has never

backyard and 3 6 holes of golf

h usban d ,

Bob , w a s

heard of anyone e l e who has

een on

aero� the >treet. It' t i me to start

Boston's Channel 5 nOt long ago

f orts. Please g ive generou�ly to our c lass gift , anJ of cour e, try to

a Colby Club in N orth Caro l i na '

a coach of a c hampionsh i p ten

make it back to Colby on J u ne 7 . "

H ugh retired in 1 986 <tfrer 3 6

y e a rs

with

Exxon .

Ray

Brackett wri te� from ret i rement

Div ision A c hamri onsh i p four

i n Sa l i b u ry , Md., where he is a

years out of the last fi v e . Bob

hi rd/decoy rnrver I i v i ng a stone\

retired from h is many years at

retire u n t i l rigor morris sets i nto hi

team from L i ncoln-Sudbury

H igh Schoo l . H is team won the

done that 1 H e ay he w i l l never weary bones. Grea t ! He i.

<JCtive i n c h u rch and cont i n ues

olo p iano and organ p l ay i ng and Barbara Bone Lca\' i t t

i ssue · an appe a l to a l l members of

offers lecture

in 'Rel igion and

the Subconscious M ind . ' He is

t h row from a w i ldfowl m use u m .

L i ncoln- udbury as both teacher

the Clas, ,)f 1 9 5 2 to send news as

plann i ng to be rationed in Fon

R a y lost h i

w i fe m cancer i n

and princ ip<il and now manages a

the 40th reu n ion approaches.

Wort h , Texas, and can hard l y

1 98 7 . H e h a d a l o n g career w i t h

h e a l t h c l u b in Bedford, Mass.

"Jesse James was the only

L i berty M u t u a l I nsurance Com

. . .

Jack Alex, a retired judge from

one of the c l<1s officers who was

pany and raised two daugh ters

L . A . , tweaks the con c icnces of

able to g e t t o t h e p l a n n i n g

wait for those pec i a l boots a n d a 1 0-ga l lon, wide-brimmed hat. H is wife, J oyce, is a floral designer

Priscilla Leach Melin is in

and a son . H e <tnd hb son now

c l assmate

who m ight have but

meet i ng for our re un ion," Barbara

. . .

make t h e i r home together . .

d idn't make i t to re un ion. He

notes. " He i� e x c i ted about the

M i lford, Ma s. he own Prisc i l la's

Paul 'Doc' Titus l i ve. i n Sol a na

says, 'had a great t i me at the 40th

p l ans, and you w i l l hear all about

Beac h . Ca l i f. , w i t h h i s w i fe ,

re un ion. Can't under rand why

them

Patr i c i a , a n d rerorrs i ntrigu i ngly

c l assmates who l i ve i n N e w Eng

. .

David Morse wrote to

ay that he is doing we l l and that

Braided Rug Loft.

he volunteer

f or Tri-Cou nty Elder

ervices a

a respite care worker.

he and her

t hat h is golf handicap rise · at the

land and e. pec i a l l y Waterv i l le

he h as married a long t i me friend,

h usband, Robert, have two c h i l

Mary

don't attend when guys like my

J oan We l ls Morse. They are both

dren a n d t h ree grandch i ldren.

John Harriman ind Paul Flanagan w i l l come fnm Ca l i

ret i red from their respect i v e oc

"Thanks to tho e of you who

h u band, G u y S m i th '49, l i ve in

cupat ions, h e from radiology and

keep news comi ng. I t would be

Be l l e Mead, N .J . G u y is a ret i red

forn ia.' Ouc h !

she from n u r ing. They arc now

wonderful to hear fr m a l l of you . "

sam e rate as h i we ight . . .

'Mickie' Lobdell Smith and her

self,

Colby, M a r c h 1 99 1

Myron B . Thompson '50

Headliners Myron B. Thompson '50 ha joined the board of Honfed Bank, Hawaii' third-large t financial institution . . . Carleton D. Reed, J r. '53 wa elected chair of the Central Maine Power Co. board of tru tee · . . . Lee Fernandez '55 produced 'The All-American Music of I rving Berlin," an album dubbed one of the "Be t of'90" by Time . . . William E. Haggett '56, chair and CEO of Bath Iron Works and a leader of a newly formed Maine group, the Coalition for a ound Economy, wrote an op-ed in the Maine Sunday Telegram titled "How Maine Can Avert Economic Di a ter." . . . Lawrence R. Pugh ' 5 6, a Colby tru tee, wa fearured in a Bitsiness Week rundown erved a CEO of VF Corporation for over nine of America' "corporate e lite." Pugh h year . . . Douglas S. Hatfield ' 5 wa named a director of Che hire Financial Corp. in Keene, . H . . . . Wilma Lyman Sherman '58 poke on 'Parenting the Gifted Child' at the ew Hamp hire A ociat ion for Gifted Education conference.

Newsmakers Charles Robin on ' 5 0 , head ofthe Baltimore County Public Library y tern, wa the ubject ofa recent fearure tory in the Baltimore unday Sun . . . Former White Mule ba ketball tandour Ted Shiro ' 5 1 wa elected to the M aine port Hall ofFame . . . Gertrude Cleveland Miller '5 1 ha left clas room teaching and enrolled at orthea tern University law chool in Bo ton, a career move that caught the actention of the Gloucester Daily Times , which featured an article about Miller, along with a photo of her with her rrusty LL. Bean bookpack . . . After 1 4 year as a probate judge in Windsor, Conn., Walter "Doc" E. Russell '5 1 ha left the bench, to the d i may of the friends and colleagues who gathered at a dinner in East Hartford to wi h him well. "He i a treasure for which we are grateful and happy that he i only retiring from the probate court and not the community," a id J udge Robert Killian inhi tribute to Rus ell . . . Richard L. Abedon '56 wa re-elected probate judge in ewport, R.I. . . . Carolyn Bossi Hadge '57 i di rrict co ordinator of the Tom' River ( .] . ) Regional chool Di-trier'- alcohol and ub ranee abuse program . . . J eanne F. Arnold ' 5 7 wa, named director of rhe new Southern Wiscon in Family Practice Re idency Program.

Mileposts Marriages : J ohn S. Baxter ' 5 8 to Diane E . Luther in Taunton, M a s . Deaths: Richard Barratt Beal '5 1 in Centre Harbor, . H . , at 59 . . . Donald V. Carter ' 5 7 in V a s alboro, Maine, at 63. Colby , March 1 99 1

A prn�perou · a n d healthy 1 99 1 ro the Cla s of l 9 5 3 from J . elson Beveridge, who sent his report from Cohas·et, Mass. "Dr. Parviz Chahba.:i re ports that he ha moved to Tehran, Iran, and he i doing well . . . Marjorie Smith Fincher lives in Cheyenne, Wyo., and works for the Wyoming tare Health Department. Her hu band, John, uffers from prooresive muscular atrophy and is get t ing help from a local rehab cenrer. She say , 'We took a wonderful auto trip through Utah National Park and Lake Powell this September and then out to California to \'iSit our daughter and family (four grandchildren, all boys ) . on J im will be \·isiting u for the holidays. Heavy snow are now keeping u inside. Would lm·e to hear from any Colbyite in the area. ' . . . Mary 'Fitzy' Fitzpatrick Cashman writes, 'Dan and l retired, moved to car borough, Maine , and lm·e the Portland area. Do volunteer work, Audubon, quilting and play ten nis. Kids are scattered ( three boy and one girl ) . Olde t i· a captain in the Marines in an Diego, Matt and Kevin are finishing college at the University ofVem1ont. Chris, my daughter, is married to a Navy officer rat ioned in Jacksonville, Fla. 1 see Joan Rooney Barnes often for l u nch.' . . . N o r m Hodgkins retired from the U . . Weather Bureau in 1 98 7 and mm·ed to Lovell, Maine, in 1 9 o n G len graduated from the Universiry of Maine as a ci"il engineer and is working for the U. . Geological urvey in I nd ia napolis. Daughter Nancy gradu ated from the U niver ity of Ver mont and will oon receive a ma ter's degree in p ychol gy from Antioch College. Wife Ruth is working part time in the local library. orm i doing part-time 55

work for a local bui lder and en joying retired life hunting, fish ing and canoeing. Quite a l ife ! . . Alice Colby-Hall ' is head of the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She is giving her courses in old French, direct ing graduate students' thee and progressing with her own rese a rch on rhe e p i c h e ro Guilbume d'Orange. ' Th is note, titled 'ON ORATISI MO', came from Alice', husband, Bob Hall. N ice guy! . . . Richard Hobart's company j ust opened a plant in I re l a n d , where they w i l l be manufacturing electronic com ponents for the auromotive in dustry. Dick says it's time to start think ing about our next reunion in 1 99 3-our big 40. Send your ideas. Please keep ending your news notes. As your class corre spondent it make my job a lot easier . . . Bruce McRoy and Sandra Sivert McRoy 'SS cele brated their 3 Sth wedding anni ver ary la t J une. They have two son , four granddaughters and one grandson. Bruce reports that they vacationed for the last two years in Georgia, A labama, M is issippi and Louisiana visiting Civil War battlefields and attended T. Harry Williams'sCivil War symposiums at Southeastern Loui iana State University. Bruce is pre ident of the William Dorsey Pender Civil War Round Table and field trip chair of the North Carolina Civil War Round Table. andra has retired from teaching the third grade . . Ted Lallier reportS, 'I have two children, aged 1 2 and 9. I have my own law practice in Amesbury, Ma s. We have a camp on 1 3 acres of land in wiftwater, N . H . We have done some family traveling ro Canada, the V irgin I lands and Portugal. What we would like tO do is maybe wap our house and pool or even our rustic camp with someone out west next summer. Let me hear from you if interested.' Sounds S6

Advice to Bank On A

Roman philosopher fir t noted that one man' meat i another man's poison. It eems an apt ax iom, 2 ,000 years later, to help account for the burgeoning career of Peter Merrill 'S7, a consultant de cribed in a recent Boston Globe interview as a "bank trategisr." A native of Augu ta who was a member of Air Force ROTC at Colby, Merrill erved as a pilot with the Air Force Strategic Air Command for five years after graduation. He then earned a graduate degree from the Fletcher chool at Tufts an<l worked for Cha e Manhattan Bank before igning on at Abt A ociate , the Cambridge-based soc ial science think tank. After 1 2 year there, he fonned his own firm i n 1 978, specializing i n advising companie i n banking and ocher heavily regulated businesse . He traces hi own intere t in the field ro a paper on government regulation he did at Colby for a cla taught by Walter N. Breckenridge, the legendary profe or of economics. Merrill's 35-year interest in whether, when and how government hould regulate private financial activity give him an extraordinary background on i ue that other expert have come to grapple w ith only recently. Did he ee the savings-and-loan cri is on the horizon? "Don't get me starred," Merrill said with a laugh. Wel l-intended laws pa ed during and after the Grear Depre s ion, Merrill argues, created a climate of over-regulation and, as a re ult, an atmosphere of false ecurity. The public' confu ion over the insolvency ofso many banks can be laid, he adds, to an exten ive misperception about the nature of banking it elf. "The government and the banks themselves led people to believe that there was no rivk involved, that banks were really arms of the go emment rather than profit-making busine in t itution ," Merrill observed. "That was a rotally incorrect as umption and the public i paying a very high price for it." Many of the bank failures, Merrill told the Globe, can be viewed a a "painful adjustment" of the indu try that i really part of an overdue consolidation. Even bankers agree, he adds-so long as their is not one of the bank lated for a disappearance. The collapse of many banking and thrift in titutions and the near-collapse of many more has made Merri ll's advice a very valuable commodity. "If you can't do ir in thi business in this period," he says modestly, "then you'll never do it." But in fact, Merrill's ·uccess at helping bank operate more effic iently wa demonstrated even before the current downturn in banking fortunes. In 1 98 S , when the indu try wa till riding high, he sold hi firm to Golembe A sociate of Washington, D.C., and la t year that firm merged with Atlanta-based BEI Holding to form BEi Golembe-with Merrill a pre ident. At Colby, Merrill wa active in a variety of activities and was especially noted for hi choral skills, singing in the choir and glee club and leading the Colby 8. In hi early year a an alumnu , he worked a an admi sions recruiter and served as a class agent before bu ine s and family activities drew him farther from Mayflower Hill. He returned in 1 984 for a Colby 8-Colbyettes reunion, again three year later for a 30th class reunion and, mo t recently, last fall to how the campus to h is daughter, Sara, who is a h igh- chool junior. "It wa the first campus we visited," he said. Colby , March 1 99 1

' 5 6 Reunion Planning Apace The Class of ' 5 6 w i l l move imo the on-campus phase of their reunion on Friday, J une 6, 1 99 1 , aft er a few pre-reunion days at the coastal Samoset Resort in Rockport, M a ine. Class President Dave Sortor, showing terrific leader hip, already has commitments from nearly 30 couples to attend this spec ial "Maine event" reunion.

l ike a good deal to me . . . Ac cording to Sylvia Caron Sullivan, 'We continue to enjoy N a hville. I am on the board of Cumberland M useum, a c h i ldren's c ience museum and w i ld life park. A lso on the board of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. George and I had a wonderful two-week trip to I re land and met lot of Sullivans1 We spend our sum mers in Wolfeboro, N . H . , where w e a re n e i ghbors of G eorge H askell ' 5 5 . ' . . . Carolyn En glish Caci sets a new record by being the mother of the bride three t i mes i n e ight week ! The wedding took place i n Boston and Stoneham, M ass., and i n Butte, Mont. Between weddings Carolyn and John managed a 1 O day cruise to Casco Bay, M a ine. What a gal ! . . . George Pirie continues to keep a record pace, and l quote: 'trips to Hawa i i , Germany, P a l m Springs, N e w York, Florida a n d Arkansas. Had the l ast of the big wedd ings, grandfather to our fifth grand child ( no end in sight ) , work a bit, play tennis andgolf.' . . . Joan Shea Conroy is recovering from a bad fall and is currently living with her daughter i n Greenville, N.C J oan worked for the Bureau of the Cen us la t spring. If any one is in the Greenville area, J oan would l ike to hear from you . . . Martha Friedlaender at tended a ll three of the Carolyn English Cac i wedd ing . They spent 10 days traveling between Salt Lake City and M on tana . . . Robert Grodberg has been appointed to the Board ofTrustees of the New England Aquarium."

"What a pleasant sur prise to open rhe recent ques tionnaires and to have news from people we have not heard from in a while," says Marlene Hurd Jabar. "For i nstance, Dorothy Duda Colby, March 1 99 1

C e c e l s k i . Doroth y l i v es i n Springfield, Va., bur works i n Washington for CommonCau e . H e r rwo grandchildren, Stefan and Rachel, are high on her pri ority list! . . . Marcia Curtis is another one it was great to hear from. Marc ia never married, bur her l ife has been filled in other ways. On December 1 5 , 1 990, Marc ia received an honorary de gree ( doctor of humanities) from Francis M arion College in Flo rence, .C. She was also made a member of the Colby Heritage Club in March of 1 990. Marcia has retired from her position as a college dean and professor, bur she keeps extremely busy. She pends four months of the year in Waterville Valley, N . H . , travels, gardens and fi hes! . . . Geneva Smith Douglas is emi-retired but when you still do consulting work, have an appointment as programmer l i a i on for Sorop t i m isr I n ternational, a classified service organization for executive business and professional women traveling to such p laces as N or way, A ustralia, New Zealand, C a l i fo r n i a and J a p a n , r a k e busloads o f people on tours o f the NeYada Test ite and then garden and work to landscape a hou e in Rockport, Ma ., thi cannot be called semi-retired . . . Fred and Marge Hill Ashman have ome word ofwisdom for us all: 'You've got to dare to rake some ri ks or l ife get a lirtle boring.' They certai n ly are l iving up to rhi themsel ves or through the i r ch ildren. When they wrote, they were anticipating the imminent return of son J i m , who wa working with Liberian refugee in Sierra Leone. They planned to spend Chri tma in New Mexico with the ir daughter, Su an, and her fam i l y . . . The note from Edwin Eisen , a lawyer in New York City, wa brief. H e and hi wife, Elaine, a furniture de igner, enjoy playing squash, tennis,

ski i ng and golf . . . Finally I would l ike to take this time to offer condolence to Bill Ames. B ill's wife, J oan, whom we all enjoyed seeing at our reunion in J une of ' 9 , d iedsuddenly onJ une 6, 1 990. Our heartfelt sympathy is ex tended to Bill at this most difficult time."

Hope Palmer Bramhall i s s t i l l e x u l t i n g o v e r la t N ov e m be r's Co l b y - Bo wd o i n football game. She sends kudo to "a dedicated coach who cros trained his players and an equally committed ream who made it all happen. Congrat u l at ions and thank for such an exciting cul m i nation. "Enthu iasm continues to mount as we approach our 3 5 th! Add the following names, now total ing 43 ( w ith four more on the fenc e ) , and l hope you'll be in pired to join us Wednesday, J une 5 through unday , J une 9 for our best ever Samoset/Colby Reunion: (Pratt) Moodys, Kins mans, (Edmunds) Grouts, Van A llens and pos ibly Stompes. "Bab Falt ings K i nsman re port that the thing rhat have brought the greatest atisfacrion and enjoyment to her life recently inc lude build ing a cottage in Greenlake, Maine, ail ing with her grandchildren in Penob cot Bay and 'being Captain' and travel ing throughout Europe and Russia. This pa t J une, Bab re ceived her certificate ofadva need graduate tudies in counse l ing from the U n iversity of N e w Hampshire. Congratulations! . . . Don Rice, having turned h is ...bu ine over to his daughter and son, is now enjoying semi-retire ment between Cape Cod and Scottsdale, Ariz. . . . Don Voll mer has 'been keeping body and soul together these past 1 2 years, run n i n g my own c o ns u l t i n g

practice, Banc Re-earch, Inc., which has done work with over 35 banks.' . Barbara Davis Howard has recently completed 20 years of teach ing in New York City. She and her hu band haYe raised three daughters who haYe traveled the world with trips to Ch ina, A laska, Ru sia, Bolivia, England and Europe. 'BJ ' enjoys travel ing also and summers on Shelter Island, N . Y . , and i n Vermont . . . l t sounds a s though Shirley Needham Eaton must be one fantastic reacher out in Palo Alto, Calif. Her sixth grade cla ses scored the highest in California on statewide achievement rests, and two of 'her boys' were in the seventh grade math c l ass that scored highe t in the nation! Shirley survived the October '89 earthquake and find her many t r i p and travels 'sedate' by comparison . . . Linda Powers Nickerson feels her greate t ac complishment is having 'suc ceeded in the d ifficult task of self fulfi l l ment through the outdated professions of daughter, w i fe, mother and grandmother-not ea y in today's c limate.' A men! Su an and Brian Stompe enjoyed Christmas and New Year's in the Bahamas, where they were joined by the ir olde t son and midd le son and h is wife. Brian got in lot of fi h i ng ! That' all the new from c las mates. Please ler me hear from the re r of you and make plans now to join us for Reunion."

"My new of you folks is getting dated," laments Andria Peacock Kime. "l know you w i ll come through w ith wonderful new on the next questionnaire. "Judy Hince Squire keeps watch over Colby. As a n inth grade t e a c h e r of E n g l i h at Waterv ille J un ior H igh she sees a lot of Colby friends when they 57

Correspondents pass through. She says the con tact are endless. She loves her reaching position, and it sounds as if she loves fishing, too. She's all over Maine fishing the differ ent lakes for different kinds of fish. She also travels a lot to visit family and friends-from Idaho to France. Judy sees Bob and Mary Anne ' Kudha' Stetson Bates frequently since they retired to the Belgrades . . . Lynne D' Ami co McKee is l iv ing in Hampden, Ma ine. She aid she bought a house that is too big for her, but it i urely keeping her busy redeco rating. She says boarders, refugees and other are welcome ! . . . Lois Munson Morrill is back at Colby frequently as a member of the Alumni Counc i l . We' l l convert husband Dav id to rooting for Colby if it hasn't happened al ready. Since the ir marriage, Lois said adjusting to teenagers in the hou e after a few years of low volume mu ic and relative quiet has been quite a chal lenge . John Ludwig was also a frequent v isitor to Colby-at least yearly for the alumni meetings. He served on the Awards Committee. ' r i l l feels like my school,' he reports. 'Good feel ing.' John said he till enjoys fast and responsive cars, motorcycles and boats. He said nothing major has changed except losing more hair and get ting stronger reading glas e . Are wedding bells in the future ? John travels on weekends to N ashvi l le, Ten n . , to see h is bride- to-be, Sandy, and they c r u ise the Cumberland R iver. He talks to Al Dean on occasion-' the M idas M uffler mogul of southern New England.' . . . Fran Wren Ray mond l ives in Hulls Cove, Maine, with Bob '56, who is an Epi copal minister. Fran said she dusted off her flute and plays in the Bar Harbor town band concerts. Bob plays h is trumpet. Make sure you say hello to them if your travels take you to Bar Harbor, and let 58

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Nancy Sears (Nancy L. R icker) 3 1 Sweetwater Avenue Bedford, M A 0 1 7 30 Phone: 6 1 7-27 5 -7865

Ann Ingraham (Ann S. Dillingham) 9 Appletree Lane Manchester, ME 0435 1 Phone: 207-622-0298

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Barbara Leavitt ( Barbara J. Bone) 2 1 I nd ian Trail Sc ituate, M A 02066 Phone: 6 1 7-545-4374 1 95 3

J . Nelson Beveridge 1 34 Border Street Cohasset, MA 02025 Phone: 6 1 7-383 - 1 7 1 2

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Mrs. Peter T.C. Bramhall ( Hope W. Palmer) 1 Meadow Creek Lane Falmouth, ME 04 1 05 Phone: 207-78 1 -2 506 1957

Brian F. Olsen 46 Wa h ington Drive Acton, MA 0 1 720 Phone: 508-263-9238 1 958

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m e know how they sound1 They find playing challenging and fun. Fran has also become a hospice volunteer. She is on the evange l i m consu ltant team for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine . . . Well , friends, that' it for now. I look forward to all the updated contributions you'll be sending me."

"Faithful readers of this column will recall that l never fa ii to ee Georgia Johnson Manin when l am in Paris," writes corre s p o n d e n t S u s a n F e t h e rs t o n Frazer. "This ummer was n o ex ception. We had dinner in a cute little Thai restaurant where the

cooking was not too bad if you don't mind Frenched-up Thai. Georgia has four chi ldren, the youngest of whom ( and the only girl) is starting college this year in the U .S. The boys are all true Frenchmen. Georgia works for an international communications firm and has traveled all over the world for busine s and pleasure. She has also become something of a private expert on matters of citizen hip rights for children with parents of two national ities and on the tax laws of the two coun tries that figure most prominently in her own life. She and her boys recently fixed up and sold a stu d io apartment that Georgia had bought some time ago, and they are till in the proce of doing

over their house, consisting of a butcher shop and many adjoin ing rooms, just south of Paris. Georgia asked about several classmates, one of whom is Mary Jane Davis Smith, whom I talked with the other night. Mary Jane and her husband , a Bowdoin graduate, live in Northampton, Mass. Mary Jane works at UM ass/ Amherst in the interlibrary loan office and also in the development office, and her husband is with the Northampton public school ysrem. Their daughter, Melissa, is a French major and ha been to France (Angers) with the UMass program. The Smiths have had to put off doing what Mary J ane calls 'exciting things' unti l their children have finished school, but they are politically conscious and articulate while w aiting . . . An other politically conscious and active '59er i Mike Wormser. l n 1 98 1 M ike decided h e had had enough of the scene from behind a de k in Washington, where he wa an editor of the Congressional Quarterly . He and h is wife, Genie ( Ha l l ) '60, bought a farm in U n ion, Maine ( near Camden) and took up gardening and rais ing sheep. M ike still doe free lance writing on political sub jects and is active in Democratic pol itic . He says it's really spread out in h is new locale and tough goi ng on the political from. Nevertheles , he say they have the best of both worlds there. M ike also hums and does seriou bird watching, e pec ially 'snow k ies,' a migratory bird that travels around Canada and Greenland . . . Did you know that Lou Leotta tuned pianos for big bucks whi le we were in college? Well , maybe not big buck , but enough to buy 'a lot of whiskey,' is the way he put it. Lou, l found out in a long and absolutely wonderful tele phone conversation, is yet an other academic from our c la s. He ha t a u g h t a t F a i r l e i g h Colby, March 1 99 1

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Dickinson and at Rutgers in N ew J ersey and i now chair of the history department at St. Bona venture U niversity in southern New York, near the Pennsylva nia line. H e is happily married the second time around, has two grown c h i ldren and a few publi cations, is active in giving help to person with visual and audio handicaps and is on his seventh eeing-eye dog. Lou i on top of modern technology, especially a it applies to h is own handicap: he has in h is hou e a reading machine that is in fact a computer with a scanner that is ensitive to print and page contrast. I t has a voice synthesizer that reads to you even in foreign language if you ask it n icely. As you m ight expect, it's not cheap---into five figures for one of those things. Lou made it sound like fun to 'bring home some book and put it on the scanner.' Talking to Lou made me realize that there are various ways of seeing . . . Gues who, on M arch 2 6 , 1 990, became the daddy of a Colby pre-fre hman, Class of 2 0 1 1 ? G ues who got back thi ummer to an old Colby love, the Appalach ian T ra il 7 Answer to these and other ques tions will appear in the next issue. "l sent out a lot of hand written requests for updates, but have not heard from many ofthose olicited. No names this t i me . O u r is n o t a cla s o f f r u trated autobiographers, that much is clear. Okay, folk , how about this: if you don't want to write, you could send me copies of promo tion letters, press relea e , legal briefs, tax returns, medical re ports, parking tickets, ubpoenas or anything like that, and I will write it up and make you sound, well, interesting. If you're a talker ( and I have yet to encounter any exceptions, except maybe one ) , l rem ind you that our number in Connecticut is ( 203 ) 3 46-8 1 37."

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Edwin K. "Ned" Gow finds it hard to believe that the 30th reunion is "j ust around the comer" and urges you to make the trip to Waterv i lle and to "persona lly encourage" other to do the same . "Hope you and your favorite c lassmates will be there the weekend of June 7 thru 9 ! " he writes. "Dale and Bebe Clark Mutz li ve in Potomac, Md. Bebe now work full time as a genealogical cataloguer at the DAR Library in Wash ington. She invites any classmate who comes to the D.C. area to give her a call---only one M utz listed in Potomac. Bebe wrote she had a chance to see Carla Possinger Short while at Penny Dietz Hill's wedding last April . Bebe has become a grand mother, so he gets to New Eng land period ically to visit eldest son G lenn and his wife and child in Keene, N . H . Meg graduated from Colby in '88 and is looking for rhe perfect job. Dana is a j unior at West V i rg i n i a Wesleyan . When Bebe wrote, Dan iel was counting the days until he got h is driver' licen e . . . lris Mahoney Burnell is a student pastor and a enior at the Bangor ( Maine) Theological Seminary . . . Anne Lehman Lysaght is the registrar at Wellesley H igh School. Her husband, Hank, is president of Teccon, I nc . , which designs and manufactures circuit board . They have three 'kids . ' Meg is in her second year ofa Ph.D. program in astrophysics at Iowa State; Mark is a senior at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.; Tim is a ophomore in engineering at Worcester Polytechnic . . . Those who fly in the M idwest might find Captain Henry Sheldon pi loting a United Airl ines B-727 or be assisted by his wife, El ise, an airl i ne pa senger service agent. Henry and El ise live in G len Ellyn, Ill. Henry gets together 60

frequently with Bob Hartman '60, who also lives in Glen Ellyn . Jeanette Benn Anderson reports thatout ofmidlife has come better health. She has combined her writing sk ills and study of multiple sclerosis tO get her first 'article' publi hed in the Maine M .S. oc iety's newsletter. A piece of her poetry was also publi he<l in a local newspaper. Son Chris has come back home ta Houlton, Ma ine, after a Traveler's In ur ance Company educat ion and working for them in New York, Kansas and M issouri. Wonder if he works now with dad , as Bob is an independent insurance agent. Daughter Kathryn live in Char lotte, N .C., and manages a block of shopping centers for a devel opment firm . . . Carole Ann Pope Wilcox was honored by the Brattleboro branch of the Amer ican Assoc iation of University Women la t year with an educa tional grant given in her name to the national AAUW Educational Foundation Program. She was ci ted for her leadership role in A A U W and for her overa l l commun ity involvement. Both kids have flown the nest and migrated south. She has gotten toge ther w i t h Regina Foley Haviland and Sandy Goodwin Nelson quite a few times whi le vacationing in Maine. Regina noted that she also had lunch with Suzanne Fourcade Erskine, who was up from Salisbury, Md. Sue completed her doctorate in education and continue to teach in Salisbury . . . George Nix and his wife, Cec i le Tougas N ix '63 , l ive in Fairport, N .Y. George is president of con ult ing at the Software & Systems Integration Company. Cile is a teacher in the Rochester school system. Their daughter Laura moved to Boston after graduating from Reed Col lege in Oregon last spring. Andrea is finishing her senior year at Colby. Out of allocated space

again. Don't despair; I haven't lost your response. See you at our reunion ! "

A Homecom ing visit to Colby left correspondent Linda N ichol on Goodman in a reflec tive tare of mind. "To ave our selves from falling into that old line that ound like we're over 50-'thing were different when we were student '-Peter Leo fanti, J ay Webster and I ad journed to a winging Homecom ing reunion that was being loosely hosted by my son and many of his friend . "The conversat ion ind i cated that seniors a n d recent alumni worry about the realities of 'life after Colby,' and in the economic c l i mate of the '90s, there are fewer givens for the new graduates than there were for us. Traveling to other part of the c o u n t r y for e m p l o y m e n t or look ing into graduate school seemed to be top priorities for many of them ( right after coming back to Homecoming and re newing the bonds with college friends). The weather was glori ou , and the occer team' over t i me win over Bowdoin was cheered on by a boisterous crowd of fa ns. Some t h i n g never change. "The e respon es were cut out of my last column because of room restrictions and will con c l ude the huge response to my questionnaire l ast year. J udy Hoagland Bristol , dean of a Hou ton h igh chool, wrote that son David, 24, has moved to Colorado ( perhap all '62 alumni with kids who have moved there should plan a sk i week some February) and son Wes, 20, is in the Air Force in San Angelo, Texas. Judy has become an e lder in the Presbyterian Church and says it's not just for little old gray-

haired la<lie ; those who use ome hair coloring mayalsoapply. She's al o a craft how addict and is looking forward to retirement in six years fol lowed by lots of travel with husband Harry, a Texas stockbroker . . . Jay French, a product announcement support manager based at I BM Corpora tion in New Jer ey, returned to the Boston area last fall to cele brate Terry MacLean's 'big one' a long with h is wife, Di, Jay Webster and Susan Keith Web ster, Peter Jaffe and Peter Leo fanti. We hear via the grapevine that the Web ters will be grand parents before too long . . . From t h e M i dwe t, Kay S ta n l e y Maxfield writes t o tell u s that she is currently a teacher's a sistant in a middle-school classroom for the phy i c a l l y h a n d ic apped. Children are Marlyn, 2 1 , Sarah, 1 9 , and Christian, 1 2 , and her husband, Donald, i a ca e worker for the Elgin Mental Health Center. Kay may have needed hi ervices after a rather disastrous health year in which she had two majorsurgerie and then fractured her knee bike-riding with her son . . . Frank 'Tony' Mainero has returned to the Ea t Coast ( re a l l y the m i d - A t l a n t i c Wayne, Pa. ) after 1 1 'great' years in Cal ifornia. A en ior vice president of marketing for DBM Inc., Tony says he expresses him self through writ ing and publ i c speaking. H is tribute t o h i s wife, Cathy, who is a program coordi nator, indicates that they have had 25 years of healthy togeth erness that has produced four children. Kim, 23, is their oldest, and her wedding was imminent when 1 heard from Tony. Kri ten is 2 1 , tephen is 18 and Kathy Leigh , their 14-year-old, is endur ing the b e a u t i f i c a t i o n of braces . . . John M. and Deborah Lucas Williams are the proud grandparents of Samantha El iza beth Cooperrider, born in No-

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Headliners As chair of Hong Kong's Q-Mark Council, which gives a seal of approval to goods and industries that meet high quality standards, Dennis Ting Hok-shou '60 is helping Hong Kong manufacturers prepare for the 1 993 European Community consolidation, when trade standards a.re expected to become more stringent . . . Michael D. Flynn '6 1 has been named chair of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce . . . Robert D. Dyer '64, a sixth-grade teacher in Kennebunk, Maine, was among six teachers--and two Colbians- to receive the first Maine Educator of the Year awards . . . Donald J. Short '64 wa named treasurer of the National Fisheries Institute at the group's annual convention in San Francisco . . . Robert L. Hayden, Jr. '68 has been named vice president, editorial, of Kalmbach Publishing Co.'s cale modeling, miniatures, craft and book groups.

Newsmakers The Cascade Grange in Oakland, Maine, honored Eunice Bucholz Spooner ' 60 with its 1 990 Community Service Award . . . David E. Williams '63 wa the ubject of some gentle ribbing in Neil Morgan' San Diego Tribune column. Morgan accu ed Wil liam ofe caping from friend who hoped to haze him at a 50th birthday party by making "a no ralgic vi it to Maine," where he "found that the specimen hark he'd di sected as a Colby College pre-med student had finally been tra hed." . . . Craig B. Millett '64 and her husband, David Yohn, are joint pastors of Pilgrims' United Church of Chri t in Leesburg, Pa. . . . Christopher C. Brown '65 wa ap pointed director of Chapter I and coordinator of stati tics for rate and federal programs for the Weymouth ( Ma .) public school system . . . John A. Wheeler '66, who already knocks 'em dead a the principal French horn player in the Colby Community Orche rra, has joined the Blue H ill ( Maine) Bra Quintet . . . Laurence Nelson '69, who e photography ha appeared on the cover of Ar/antic Monthly and in many other publications, has founded Global Odyssey Design, an art card company, in Southborough, Mas .

Mileposts Marriages : Ruth Kelleher Shacter '66 to Bruce E. Hertz ' 6 5 i n South Paris, Maine. Deaths : Helen Martin Lucier '60 in Boston, Mass., at 52 . . . Lawrence Murray Daley '62 in Thorold, Ontario Canada, at 54 . . . Charles P. Angwenyi '64, H '88 in Nairobi, Kenya, at 52 . . . R. Barclay Below '67 in Ashburn, Va., at 45.

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vember . . . News clippings tell us that Bill Barnett was honored last January for 16 years of dedicated service to the Westford Recre ation Commission in Westford, Mass. Bill, who directs loss con trol and claims for the Omni Hotel Corporation in New Hamp hire, found that constant travel com mitments for his job made con tinued service difficult, but he takes pride in the town swim pro gram-which he initiated-and which now serves 300-400 chil dren every summer . . . In the South H ill, Ya., area, Jeff Gould has spent a year heading up a new counseling program for employee assistance at the Community Memorial Health Center. The program, known as REACH, in volves marital and relationship issues, stress management, family dynamics and depre s ion. Jeff, with 1 2 year of experience in the field, has become certified both as a mental health counselor and by the Institute of Rational Emo tive Therapy in New York . . . One last clipping tells us that Brenda Phillipps was appointed director of development for the Zeiterion Theater in New Bed ford, Ma s., last February. Con g ra t u l a t ions to a l l of the e 'new worthie ."'

''I'm sure my mail- lady is wondering what I do, since she has been delivering mail to me from all over the U.S.A., Paris, Brazil and the We t lndies," writes J o-Ann W incze French from Aurora, Ohio. "It may rake the next several months to relate all the great news. "Coral Crosman wrote to tell me that her son, Chri topher Robin, i a freshman at Oberlin College here in Ohio. I'm hoping that will give Coral an excuse to stop in on her way through the area. Her daughter is a senior at

SUNY and i following in her mother's footsteps by majoring in Engl ish . Coral has been working for 18 years at the N . Y . State Education Department. Now that Coral and her husband, Rene, are empty-nesters, she should have more time to write-she is pres ently complet ing her ixth novel . . Mike Franklin, who was recently named chair of the C o l b y A l u m n i F u n d , has a daughter, Laurie, a 1 987 Colby grad ( and a double master' can didate ) and a son, Joshua (Tufts '90 ), who will be applying to law school. M ike works as a sales ex ecutive, and his wife, Carol, is a counselor. M ike has overcome a serious bout with cancer and mentioned that he never dreamed he'd be able to see both h is kids graduate. M ike spent h is last va cat ion in Wyoming on a cattle drive, and he also sails and plays tennis . . Pen Williamson is vice p re s i d e n t , H u r r i c a n e I s l a nd Outward Bound School. H is wife, Bev, is a teacher. Pen and Bev recently c elebrated their 2 5th anniversary. Next J une, Pen will travel to England to celebrate Outward Bound's 50th anniver sary. Pen's kids, Josh, 23, and Eliza, 20, both studied at Ithaca College. Many of you said, as Pen d id, that travel was the one thing we all wished we could do more of . . Mackenzie Smith owns h is own insurance agency. Mac says that h is three k ids, Angela, 2 5 , J ames, 22, and Graham, 20, 'were great growing up and have stayed that way.' Mac, who claims to be a p i l lar of the community, visited Colby with h is wife, J eann ine, a while back, was appalled at the condition of the fraternity houses and dec ided that the recent ac tion by the trustees to ban frater nities was right . . . Sally Proctor Rackley is a classics professor at Drew University. A year ago, Sally conducted a month-long course in anc ient Greek civil ization in 62

Greece, and she anticipates re turning in January of '92. Her son, Christopher, is a junior at Washington University in St. Louis-and is a c lassics major! Sally plan to travel to Scan dinavia next summer and spent some time in I taly a couple of year ago. A situation many of us face at our age is caring for or dealing with aging and ill par ents. Sally-and many others of you-have written about your parents, and we can be grateful

for the time we still can share with many of them. There's more news ahead. Keep those letters coming

T h i rt y - five " o p i n ionnaires" have now found their way to correspondent Sara Shaw Rhoades, and she says each one is unique. "Your remarks on the intrusiveness of the press are so

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M rs. Ross A. Dean (Susan R. Daggett) 29301 N . l 1 4th Street Scott dale, AZ 85255 Phone: 602-585-03 1 3 1 968

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good, I'm sending them to the major networks," Sara says. "lf you have more to say on the sub ject, write now and those remarks will be included. " [ was surprised by your an swer about visiting Berlin this year. Somehow I thought every body would like to see the spirit of freedom 'in the flesh,' to see for yourselves the differences be tween the two great ideologies that have redefined the world for our whole lives-but I was wrong! While 1 7 want to go, another 1 7 do not , with Sandi Hayward Albertson-Shea casting no vote, having already visited both East and West in 1 980. Dick Larschan was there the day Checkpoint Charlie was dismanded, and Ken Nye will be there next April, having been asked by the New England As ociation of Schools and Colleges to conduct a five year follow-up accreditation visit to the John F. Kennedy Interna tional School in Berlin . . . Fur ther news from Sandi: she married Ray Shea in J une 1 989, honey mooned in Ireland and then re turned to Concord. He teaches English at M iddlesex College. Sandi's daughters are at Vas ar and Haverford. We all wish you the best, Sand i ! . . . People without CD players outnumber the more progressive/affluent c lassmates 22-1 3 . I'm comforted to know I'm in the majority. Non c h u rc h membe rs outnumber members 1 9- 1 6 . There was no conne c t i on between c h u rc h membership and owning a CD1 checked! The magazines you read avidly in addition to news magazines seem to reflect e ither your professions ( Forbes, Fortune,

AOPA Pilot, Business Week, Horticulture) or your hobbies (Golf Digest, Travel & Leisure , Chess Life, Audubon, Backpacker, North American Hunter ) . On l y a few read literary magazines, and a few read about an absent lifestyle: Barbie

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' 66ers-Bring Your Golf Clubs ! l n a break from the trad itional 2 5 th reunion boar cruise, rhe Class of '66 is k ick ing off with golf, a cook-our on campu and c la smare-led mall discu·sion group on current topic . Watch your mail for re ervar ion information in April followed by rhe 2 5 th Reunion Cla ; Book.

Carr Howson in Richmond, Va., read Yan k e e , a n d A n n e t t e Petersen Greenberg in U tah reads The ew Yorker. obody I i red Playboy , and only Nancy Saylor Kimball mentioned Na tional Geographic . Jon Pitman l i red a lot of maga:ines l 've never heard of, inc lud i ng Biblical Ar chaeology Review! Jon wrote news a wel l . H is family ha· been in volved in foreign exchange pro grams; they've been ho ts to a German rudent and sent on Marc to weden for a year. Dur ing rhar time, the Pirmans , . i ired weden, Denmark and Germany. Jon ' daughter, helly, ha ac quired her pilor' l icen e, and hoth kid are in their last year at M dron A c ad e m y . . . B.J . C a m p b e l l Witherell wrote a good es ay o n fi n d i ng her c areer p a t h . he teache Engl i h a a econd lan guage at the h igh- chool level and truly loves it. Finding that n iche rook a long t i me, but many move led up to it, including her 10 years in Paris. Last March she gave a pre entat ion on u i ng computer with ESL rudent at an international conference of E L teachers in an Francisco . . . A postcard from J ack Ross ay he and hi wife have traded the women's-wear busine s in Maine for a year in Las Vega . You'll find them at The Paddle wheel and Cae ar' Palace work ing, not playing! - . . Our cla s graduated three offspring in the Class of 1 990: Du ty' and my on , Andrew ( now working for Loral Aerospace in Massachu setts) , Carol Lockwood, daugh ter ofJ ack Lockwood and Diana Walsh Lockwood '67 , and Anne Pollock, daughter of Bill Pollock and Jeanne Ander on Pollock '63 . Bill a n d J eanne a l o graduated Quinn from M iddlebury, Cla s of '90. The Pollock till live on their 3 -foot sailboat, from which they apparently launch c h ildren and col lege payment . "

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"OOP 1 The w i nter column reported that Rhoda Goldstein Freeman wa a profe ·ional body builder. While Rhoda may get plenty of excerc ise, it' really Leah Aranovitch who i our trophy-winning athlete," note corre pondent Richard Bankart . . . "Last fal l ' elections saw John Bragg elected toa rhree-yearrerm on the Bangor ( M a ine ) City Counc i l . John's eight year· as a Penobscot County comm i sioner gave h i m the e xperience to emerge as one ofthe three winners in an eight-cand idate field. Poli tic run in the family. John' great grandfather wa mayor of Bangor over 1 00 year ago. John contin· ues as executive vice pre idem of N . W . Bragg & ons . . . Neil C l i p ham ha moved-aga i n . m c e 1 96 5 , he h a s l ived in Bos ro , an J uan, Houston, Los An eles, London and A lbuquer que. In March 1 990, he and hi wife, J ean Hoffmann Cl ipsham '66, moved ro 1 2 2 1 Jarvis Lane, Lan dale, PA 1 9446. Neil i a so c iate vice president for federal ale in the environmental engi· neering d iv ision of BMC Engi neer Inc. H is on David gradu ated with d istinct ion in physic from the U. . aval Academy and i now in flight training at Pen acola. H i son Dougla is a ophomore at Wittenburg Univer ity in pringfield, Oh10. Neil say , ' Hope we can ettle down for a while. Be t regard to the classmates.' . . A report in Ad vertising Age about Gavin Scotti le d to a phone call for c larifica t ion. That Gavin i h i cou in. Our Gavin is a lawyer in Manhat tan. H is field i general lit igation, and he pec ial ize in criminal law. Prior to th is he pent 14 year with the U . . Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. He tarted his career with three year in the Department of Ju tice. He l ive in Garden City,

N . Y . , w i th his wife and sons, Ga,·in, 1 6, and Paul, 1 3 . "

M e g Fal lon Whee ler \\'rire · from West Boxford, Mass . . " 2 5 th Reunion: J une 7-9, 1 99 1 ! The following '66ers gathered in Welle ley, Ma ., in November to telephone cla mares and 'talk up' the reunion, encouraging both presence and 'presents' ( i .e. a generous contribution toward our c lass gift to the College ): Linda Mitchell Potter, Stu Wantman, Sue Ebinger Spencer, Russ Monblea u , Dee Dee Pardee Cunningham, Peter Swartz, Jerri Davies De George, Fran Finizio, Nat Bowerman Zaremba, Pete Blumenthal, J im Drawbridge and me. Each of rhe phonarhon workers agreed it was l ike a mini· reunion, and it made u realize what an incredible experience it will be to be reunited as a cla on Mayflower H i l l in J une . . . If you ever erve on a committee with Ellie Caito Thompson, be sure to chedule at least one meeting at her home. Rumor ha it she serve up a scrumptious feast ! . . . Kay McGee Christie-Wilson enjoyed eeing cla smate Linda O'Connor McDonough at a conference in the fall in Bo ton, where they were able to share their common arr interest . Don't forget to bring sa m p l es of your l i fe ' s work , hobby, interest or talent to re un ion for an eclectic Class of '66 exhibit . . . Congratulation to Ruth Kelleher Shacter and Bruce Hert: '65 on their October 6, 1 990, wedding in outh Paris, Maine. Ruth and Bruce are living in North Wayne , M aine . . . Ap prehen ion eem to be an al mo t u n i ve r al emot ion shared by people contemplating an upcom ing class reun ion . I am no ex ception. Will I recognize any one ? Will anyone remember me or care ifl am there ? Wi l l a return

to campus dredge up painful re minder· of my late-teem' msecu ririe and hang-ups7 How will my 46-year-old body compare with orher46-year-old, former-student bodie · ? Bur after one evening at rhe Colby phonarhon with 1 1 of my c las mare , my apprehen�ions were quieted. I felt an almost tangible bond with these people, some of whom were good friend at Colby, orhers of whom I barely knew. There were no barriers, no labels, no preconcept ion . I n stead, there were intere t i ng and intere red peers, people anx ious to talk and to l isten, to hare, to congratulate and to com mi erate, people with whom I felt ·o very comfortable. As I drove home, for the first rime I became genu inely excited about our reunion ( even though I 've been 'selling' it for five years ) , th inking of it al most a a ' econd chance' at Colby, a golden opportunity to get to know cla smates I never cro sed path with between 1 962 and l 966 and to rek indle old friendships as well. I wish each of you could have felt the emotions of this 'reunion preview.' Please don't let apprehension keep you away. Come and find out for yourself. Come and feel that bond. I know you won't regret it."

" By the time you read thi , spring will be in the air, and our 2 5 th reunion w i l l be j ust a l ittle over a year away," writes Susan Daggett Dean. "A meeti ng was held in late November 1 990 with Irv Faunce, Natalie Fur l o n g G ra c e ffa a n d F r a n c i a Colmes Davis i n attendance. They are at the center of a lot of our Colby activit ies. They are nor ju t committed to the Col lege b u t also t o in uring that a l l t h e members o f o u r cla have a great reunion experience. The dates for our 2 5 th reunion are 63

Digging For Teachers ' Teachers he word among student

at Albuquerque Academy is that Spanish teacher Martha Mentch '67 prepares a mean rest. And while it wins Mentch few plaudits in New Mexico school yards, her knack has drawn the attention of the Educational Testing Service-best known as the source of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The ETS recently selected the 45-year-old educator to help draft a new national exam to gauge the competence of pro peccive teachers of Spanish. Since its inception in the 1 970s, the National Teacher Exam has been faulted by critic who a ert chat the qualities that make a good teacher cannot be measured by a standardized test. Mentch agree "it's not a total picture of anybody," but he insists that such an exam has an important role to play in evaluating teacher competence. But it was a !es philosophical and more technical argument that led to the recruitment of Mentch and others to create a new test. "The name of the game," he said, "i to make it fit the needs of the states." After all, she says, it is the state that certify teachers. Thus, when state certifying agencies decided earlier versions of the National Teacher Exam in Spanish and other subject did not properly address their standards, the irrelevancy was deemed a fatal flaw. To help ensure a better fit this time, Mentch and her colleagues are composing a test for their test that will be administered in some communities as a pilot. The exam includes core questions that all aspiring Spani h teachers will be required to answer, along with optional "modules" designed to measure competence in writing, speaking and teaching. The circuity of Mentch's own path from Colby to the cla sroom seems to confirm that there is no single approach to finding qualified teachers. She left Mayflower H ill with a degree in Spanish literature and two vows to herself. "I wa not going to go to Boston and get an apartment," she recalls, "and I was not going to teach." After three years of helping to organize adult education program for Volunteers in Service to America (V1STA) in California's San Joachin Valley, Mentch's resolve wavered, and you guessed it. She broke both vows, heading to Boston, where she spent the next year as a substitute teacher. The combination of uncertain wage and cold winters ("I damn near froze to death") led her to accept a full-time teaching position in the Virgin Islands. After seven years there, she decided to leave for graduate school in California, but her career took another detour when administrators at Albuquerque Academy offered her "the kind of job l thought I could only get with a master's degree." That was 1 3 years ago, and Mentch, a confirmed wanderer, has settled in, bought a house and earned the master's-from the University of New Mexico. Mentch says she cares deeply about her students and about the subject she teaches. "It's not right," she said, "that we expect the rest of the world to speak English." Her aim as a teacher is for her students "to feel comfortable with another language, another culture," and as Hispanic influence in the United States grows, she believes, knowledge of Spanish will become increasingly valuable. Though she savors her reputation at the academy as a tough teacher, Mentch says that is mostly because her approach is "appreciated down the line, when students get to college or into the job market." Outside the classroom, Mentch pursues a variety of profe sional and extra-professional activities. She serves as a consultant to ETS and the College Board and last month co-directed a four-day conference at the University of Texas aimed at helping teachers better coordinate language instruction at the high-school and college levels. Her "passion of the moment," Mentch says, is Mayan hieroglyphics. A dig at the Mayan city of Copan in Honduras three years ago dampened her interest in the "tedious work" of archeology but excited her curiosity about the hieroglyphs. The experience may also have foreshadowed a future tum in a multiple-choice life. "I decided the first day that archeology would not be my next life," Mentch aid. "But hieroglyphs? Maybe . . . " -Devon Phillips 64

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Help Us Keep Track of Colbians in the Gulf Colby would like tO hear from/about alumni erv i ng in the M iddle East. Many alumni ha\·e told us they would l ike to write tO those serv ing, and the magazine can be a c learinghouse for names and addre ses. Plea e send information to: Managing Editor, Colby Magazine, Colby College, Watervi lle, M E 0490 1 .

J une 4-7, 1 99 2 . There w i l l be ongoing meeting during the next months, and each of you is en couraged to contac r any one of u or the Alumni Office ro get in volved . There w i l l be several committees working on various a peer of the reunion, from c lass book tO fund raising tO the Sat urday n ight d inner . . . I had a n ice letter from Tom McCrumm. He wondered how I heard that he had run for office, since he had not written to me. Colby, in the past, had a cl ipping ervice that provided each class correspon dent w i t h i nformation about member of hi or her c lass. That service h a recently been d is continued, so I now need to rely on each of you tO keep me in formed. Tom was e lected, with almo t 60 percent of the vote, tO be an Ashfield, M a s., selectman. One thing that Tom has been working on for h i town is the reduction, reu e and recycl i ng of it waste. In a period of one year, A hfield resident have gone from recycling only about l 0 percent to recyc l i ng 50 percent of rheir wa te . . . Caroline Kresky wrote that he looked forward tO being made a parmer in the law firm of Branch , Pike, Ganz & O'Cal l a g h a n o n J an u a ry 1 , 1 99 1 . Caroline has been with the 30lawyer firm i nce 19 5 . h e will be one of three women partner , and he will pecial ize in complex commercial l i t igation w ith some products l iabil ity defense work. C a ro l ine's daugher, Deborah Bernstein, is now in her second year at Dartmouth. In addition to being number 10 in her c l ass and a Choate scholar, Deborah excels in track and other ports. Caroline aid, 'I only wi h he had chosen to go to Colby over Dartmouth . ' . . . I rv Faunce reports t h a t h i daughter Kelly i a graduate of the U n iver ity of Vermont, a nur e and married. he work at Dartmouth-Hitchcoc k Medical Colb)» March 1 99 1

Center i n Hanover, N . H . His daughter Karen '90 i a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colby, finish ing fifth i n her cla s. She is teach ing sixth grade in Gardiner, M aine, and l i ving in Portland. She recently began graduate work in e d u c a r i o n a d m i n istrat i o n . Daughter Kasey, 1 4, is a fresh man in h igh chool, and Thomas is in the th ird grade. I rv has been v ice president of corporate plan n ing and marketing with Ken nebec Health Sy tern ince J une I , 1 990 . . . Ross and l have three c h i ld re n with new addresse . Ross's daughter, Crista, was mar ried in October and moved to Port la n d , Ore. Eric rec e n t l y moved t o Colorado Springs and Christine i now gainfully em ployed by Josten Leaming Cor poration; Katie is studying and k i ing ( i n that order, I hope ) at Colorado U niversity in Boulder. Ros and 1 are fine. We are alway too busy, but 1 know we don't have a comer on that malady. Please write, even if it' only three incomplete entence ."

Barbara B i x by sends greeting "aero the Atlantic and up the Baltic coast to Sigvard and Rose Buyniski Eriksson and the i r three c h i ld re n . . . ew comes that EUen Dockser ( whom we remember a the shining tar of Patrick Brancaccio's A meri can l i terature course) i the pub licist for Boston' public TV sta tion, WGBH . . . Linda Reynolds G ill is a teacher. She and her husband, Dav id, a ped iatrician, are rai ing four scholarly on . The e lde t, Sean, has applied to Colby . . . Former radical Bernie Davidson i al o a parent w ith on well on their way to adult hood. H e and wife Le l i e have a century-old Victorian farm hou e in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. How many of u now 'live through our chil-

dren,' and to what extent l . R ich and Glenna White Craw forth and their three c h i ldren enjoy life, work and study in Boise, I daho ( a fabulous state ! ) . With h e r many c areer a c t i v i t ies, G lenna finds rime t o b e president of the I daho State Hi torical M useum A u x i l iary . . . Stewart Armstrong, Jr., a school princ i p a l i n Chichester, N . H . , also per forms in a musical duo with h i wife. Both sing, a n d he accom panies on piano. The Armstrongs have three teenagers . . . Arthur and Gail Schumacher Barr, of Flagler Beach, Fla., al o own a p iece of the North Caro l i na mountains. Gai l , like two of my dear si ter , is a 'master nurse.' And speaking ofsister , Gail seeks news from Chi Omega s isters . . . Please be assured that you can address any corre pondence to m e , and 1 w i l l fo rward i t promptly . . . I w ind down this terse column with news from Ken Borchers. Ken and Liz ( Beld i ng) '70 are a pastoral team in the Ash land, N . H . , churc h . Theirs i a 'cou nuy c hurc h ' where a l l gather a n d share a sense o f com munity. I wa pleased to hear that they are blessed with an active and abundant mu ic min istry , too . . . All my best to the '68 commun ity. l there anyone else who live on the self-contained l ittle quasi-state of Long Island ?"

Correspondent Anna Thompson Bragg issues a word of t h a n ks to e v e ryone who re sponded to her recent que t ion naire. "You are the ones who make my job easy and fun," he say . . . "Judy Lee Moeckel reports that he and her husband, Jeffrey, are l iving in Durham, Conn. , where she work a a consultant and he as a rehabilitation coun elor for the state of Connect icut. J udy enjoy singing in the Hartford

Chorale, which she has done since 1 980. inging wirh rhe chorale ' a l lows m e r n be a p a r t of Hanford' c u lrural scene ( rhe Harrford Symphony, baller, op era, ere . ) . ' J udy is also very in volved wirh her profess i on a l group, r h e N at ional Rehabi l i ta t ion As oc iat ion , which gives her rhe opportunity to travel, learn and nerwork with other profes sionals in her field . . . George 'Bud' Higgins is liv ing in Cape El izabeth, M a i ne, w ith hi wife, Cheryl Ann Moriarty '70, and their three chi ldren, J enny, 1 5 , ] a on, 1 4, and Joy, 5 . Bud i s chief of the emergency medicine de partment at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. Cheryl is busy working on her master's in New England studies. Bud is also di rector of rhe community EMS system. Both are bu y, healthy and lucky to be enjoying a strong marriage . . . Speaki ng of busy, Nancy Money is president of the Tygate Motel Corporat ion. She and her husband, Paul Thasault, have o p e n e d t h e 1 88 - room Hampton Inn and adjacent 1 2 5 sear Colche ter Reef Lighrhou e Restaurant two mi les from Bur l i ngton, Vt. N ancy serves on everal hospital ity assoc i a t ion boards and is an assoc iate trusree for t. M ichael' College. he is trying to find ome time to ride her horse, Tico, and I can see why that might be difficult! . . . Bob Borteck is another busy soul and is located in Pine Brook, N .] . Bob i a parmer in the law firm of Riker, Danzig, cherer, Hylan and Perretti in Morri town. He is the co-aurhor ofa treatise titled 'New ] er ey Estate P l a n n i n g , W i l l Drafting and Estate Admini tra tion Forms.' On the les serious ide, Bob i founder, comm i ioner and coach of the Montville Township h igh chool boys' in tramural basketball league . . . Keep i n touch, e eryone, and be t wi hes for a stupendou 1 99 1 ! " 65

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"We have some reports from folk we haven't heard from in a while," correspondent Janet Holm Gerber notes with plea sure . . . "Over the course of last winter, Jean Christoforo Coello cross-country skied an entire 280mile trail that runs from one end of V e r mont t o the o t her Canada to Massachusett . Jean and her hu band, Armando, an ophthalmologist, l ive in Barre, Vt., with Emma, 1 5 , and Ben, 1 1 . Jean is also working on a master's degree in nutrit ional sc ience . . . Dave Konjoian is 'grower, fi nanc ial manager and retai ler' in a fam i ly - owned garden c e n t e r business in Andover, Ma . H e and Ro alie have t w o boys . . . Ed Morin and Barbara Weldon Morin are in N orth Berw ick, Maine, where Ed i a civil engi neer ( fol lowing nine-and-a-half year with Exxon in the U.S., Venezuela and Saud i Arabia) . . . Amanda Eggert Stukenberg is president of South Texans for Choice. She l i ves in Corpus Christi with husband M ichael, an attorney, and their children Sarah, 1 3 , and Will iam, 1 1 . . . From Berkeley, Calif. , Cliff 'Trip' Stevens say mountain biking in the Berkeley H i l ls i h is favorite getaway. He's a language in structor at an exten ion of U .C. Berkeley . . . Newport News, Va.,

is home for Randy Strickland and Jandy Anderson Strickland '70. Recently, Randy started his own business as a general contractor and Jandy earned dual certifica t ion to teach bl ind and multi handicapped children. They also celebrated their 20th wedding anniver ary this pa t year. Their son, Sean, is a college ophomore and daughter Summer, 1 4, i a n a t i o na l l y ranked g y m n a s t . ( You're right-i t' great here, Randy. He grew up around the corner from where l am now in M aryland ! ) . . . Antique dealer J oyce Bemak Hanes says all the current world and national event are terrible for the antique busi ne A for turning 40-'We weren't -upposed to grow up, were we ?' . . . I ' l l c l ose w i th Fred Valone' big news. 'I fini hed my career as a research dentist at Texaco, hung up my chemistry bac kground and entered the seminary. I'm studying ro be a Catholic priest for the dioce e of Galve ton-Houston. I ' m study ing at St. Mary's Seminary in Houston, which i part of the school of theology at the Univer sity of St. Thomas.' Very be t wishes, Fred."

"Since we last heard from Jonathan Fink, he's been

appointed chair of Ari:ona rate U n i ve r i ty ' s geol ogy depart ment ," report Anne HuffJordan from Medfield, Mass. " He and N ina have added a desert tortoise to t h e i r an i m a l c o l l e c t ion ! Jonathan reads science texts for Reading for the Blind, which let him make use of hi deejay sk ills from WMHB . . . Jackie Nien aber Appeldorn reports that she saw D e b b i e Mae! and h e r daughter, M ichelle, and Chris Mattern Way and her three son over the summer. I n addition to being a col lege inst ruc tor at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeep ie, N .Y., where Jon Clark '60 1 al o an instructor, Jackie has recently become a mediator in family court . . . Gay Quimby Auerbach, a freelance writer/editor, i married with two chi ldren, Ethan, 1 0, and Andy, 6. The whole family has a pa ion for Alpine kiing. Al o, Gay is studying piano. he i raising their children in her hu band' J ewish religion, which she also practice without having converted . . . ince we last heard from Ida Dionne Burrough s , she's be come more active in using her inging talent in a group called Opera, Etc . , which performs in concert and at dinner theater in New Hamp h ire. Ida would love to see her friends at our 20th reunion in 1 99 3 , ince he was

d isappointed at our 1 0th . Morrie Herman, his wife, Ellen Bourret, and their sons, M ichael, 2, and Daniel, not yet 1 , l ive in Toronto. Morrie i corporate awards manager of Ontario Hy dro-Toronto. He runs when he ha time and play basketball as c o - c a p t a i n of the Canadian Maccaluah Ba ketball Tearn . . . Ellen Kornetsky traveled to the Soviet Union in J u ly and thor oughly enjoyed the experience! She anticipates a couple of o viet visitors in the near future. Ellen would love to hear from any Colby singles whowant company at social and/or cultural events. he' in the Portland, Maine, area . . . Larry Rider was married recently at Ananda Cooperative Vil lage, Nevada City, Calif., to Karen M itchell. He would love to hear about h is c l a smate ' piri tual l ive. and imere ts . . . S a m u e l Wagner, a massage therapist, now l ive in Wilton, N . H . , with h is wife, Patricia, a 1 7-year-old stepson and several pets. Sam and Patricia belong to the local Anthroposoph ical So c iety and a community farm . . . Roberta Rollins Wallace think B e t t y N ay l o r - M c D e v i t t of Wrentham, Mas . , works at the Foxboro Co. , which is near my hometown . . . Wells Pile has a

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Headliners Benjamin C. Bradlee, Jr. ' 7 0 was named a i rant managing editor for local news at The Boston Globe . . . Joseph C. Mattos ' 7 3 , principal of]ame Bean elementary school in Sidney, Maine, was among six Maine reachers--two of whom are Colby graduate -to receive the first Maine Educator Awards . . . Kenneth C. Johnson '76 ha been promoted to vice pre idem of grocery by Hannaford Brothers Co . . . . Peter M. Labombarde '76 was named vice pre idem and trust officer at Bank of New Hampshire, N .A . . . . Actor Norm Skaggs '77 had a supporting role in "Decoration Day," a Hallmark Hall of Fame special that aired in December.

Newsmakers Alison H arvey ' 7 0 is president of the Classical As ociation of New England . . . Caterer Richard A. Kenworthy ' 1 1 doled out a few of the tricks of hi trade at a library talk in Glastonbury Conn., recently. The Glastonbury Citizen, which covered the event, reported that Kenworthy's white catering van ports license plate that read "BON-APP." . . . John DeK. Alsop '74 has been named to the board of directors of the Kennebec Valley Mental Health A sociation . . . Jeremiah F. Minihan '7 4 was inducted into the Johnson-North Andover High School Hall ofFame . . . -Randi Mershon Leonard '7 5 ha joined the sale force at ERA Pat Demarai A sociate in Salem, Ma . . . . John A. Lumbard '76 ha tarted a new busine , Lumbard lnve rment Counseling, in Holli , . H . , where he al o is host of a week ly rad io program, "Busines Today," on WSMN . . . Candace L. Campbell '76 took time out from her thriving public relarions firm, Campbell & Co., to be interviewed for a fearure in the Great Falls (Va . ) Current. Campbell represents Australian golfer Bruce Crampton, a star on the enior PGA tour . . . Ted L. Axelrod ' 7 7 i s a n associate at BNY A sociates, l nc . , a subsidiary o f the Bank o f e w York . . . The contributions of Douglas B. Light ' 78, an associate professor of biology at Ripon College, helped the Wisconsin school gamer three National Science Foundation grant for it cience and mathematics program . . . Rebecca } . Alex '79 is president of the Monterey Bay (Calif.) chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art.

Mileposts Births: A son, Daniel Joseph, t o Eileen and Morrie J. Herman ' 7 3 . . . a daughter, J u l ie Dickinson, to Nancy and Peter Clark '7 5 . . . a daughter, Emily Hadden, to Ray and Cindy Hadden Rother ' 7 5 . . . a daughter, Eileen Marie, to David and Cathy Worcester Moison '76 . . . a son, Andrew Han, to John Orrison and Lydia H. McAnemey '76 . . . a on, Yu Frank, to Masanoku and

Elizabeth Johnson-Suenaga '76 . . . a son, William Ferris, to Doreaand Robert Griffin John '79 . . . a son, Erik Andrew, to Robert and J ulie Sydow Palmason '79. Marriages: Stephen Paul Rappaport '72 to Arlene Helen Markowitz in New York City . . . John J. Hotchkiss '7 7 to Sandra Stone Knecht in Cape El izabeth, Maine . . . Robert J. Keefe, Jr. ' 7 7 to Carol lnabinet in St. Paul, M inn.

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new address in M ilton, M as . : 434 Brush H i l l Rd. 02 1 86. He's in rhe midst of a divorce. To help him through chis, Wells gees support fromhis fe l low Epi copalian choir members. H e also bikes, sa ils, h i kes, works our, p a i n ts a nd writes. Maybe some old buddies could drop him a friendly nore. Wells has three children, Phoebe, 7, Cra i n e , 6, and A ust i n , 4 . . . Paulette Archambault Shur continues w volunteer in her children's schools, attends Bible study c l asses and has begun tap dance le sons . . . Ken Viens is in Waterv ille as president of Maine Cascade Iron Works. He and his wife, Margaret Felton V iens ' 7 7 , have t w o children: N ic hol as , 1 0, and Daniel, 5. Ken chairs the board of trustees of M id-Maine M ed ical Center and i a trustee ar Thomas College. He was named Busines Person of the Year for 1 990 by the M id-Maine Cham足 ber of Commerce. I mpressive, K e n ' . . W e are c o n r a n d y t h i n k i n g of y o u , N oreddin Nahawi, and your fa m i l y i n Bahrain dur ing this time o f deep trouble in the Persian Gulf . . As forrhe habi tual hibernators in the Class of '73, I 'm looking for足 ward to hearing from you next ! "

T h e news is lighc from rhe Class of 1 974, and correspon足 dents Stephen Coll i ns and Tom Lizotte would love to hear from more ofyou. "Karen Sawitz wri re from New York C i ty to announce th at after 1 4 years together, she and Daniel Noy were married on April 9, 1 989," Steve writes. "Their son, David Jacob, was born i n J u ly 1 989. St i l l on leave last summer from her job as a systems e ngineering manager for I B M , Karen reported that she was busy taking a cour e or two ar nearby Columbia U niversity and enjoy足 ing the baby . . . Bonnie Nielson

Gimpel has moved to Maine, 'the tate 1 have always li ked best . ' Her new address i s : P . O . Box 369, Monmouth."

Susan Gearhart Wue t reports that c lassmate Mark Goldman has been promoted to senior communicat ions spec ial ist at Camp Dresser & McKee Inc . , a 2 ,000-person international consulting engineering firm ba ed in Cambridge. Mass. "As editor of CDM's cl ient maga:ine, M ark was honored by the Soc iety of Marketing Professional Services at the assoc i a t ion's n a t i onal awards ceremony held in San Francisco in September . . . For about four years now, Alan '76 and Liz Lawson Rosenfeld have been in Laconia, N.H . . where A lan has set up his cardiology practice. They have two chi ldren, M ichael, 9 , and Joann, 5. ln ad d i t ion to working part time for a law firm, last ummer Liz helped coordinate a recycling curriculum workshop with the University of New Hampshire Cooperat i ve Extension. She is now setting up and teachi ng workshops for el ementary-school teachers. Ser vice as co- leader of her daughter's Brownie troop of 38 girls round out her life ! . . . Peter Coz is erving in Opera t ion Desert Sh ield and would enjoy hearing from classmates. H is address is: Cap t . Peter B . Coz U S M C , HMLA-367, FPO San Francisco, CA 96608-6097 . . . Nancy and Kevin Cooman are l iving in the ir hometown area of Roc hester, N. Y. They have two sons, Carson, 8, and Colby, 2 . Kevin is an attor ney with a law firm that carries on a full-range general practice. He spe c i a l i zes in c i v i l l i t igat ion . . . 'Binkie' Cammack Closmore wrote a short note to say that c h i l d number five ( daughter A l ice) was born on Augu t 8. Her 68

Hubbert Elects "Citi" Life L ike many another Colby graduate, Mark Hubbert '79 found hi first job right in M aine, at the

Portland office ofUSF&G, the in urance firm. Then it was off to play among the giants offinance in New York City, first at American Expre and then at Citicorp. And that, in tum, led Hubbert in 1 988 to the burgeoning metropoli of Sioux Falls, S . D. That's "S.D.," as in South Dakota. "The people are wonderful," aid Hubbert, who is president of Citicorp Select Investments, an army of 1 2 5 broker/dealers who market and manage investment portfolios for the bank' cu tomers. ''There are strong basic values. It's very clean, and there are a lot of positive things that are taken for granted that we would like to take for granted in a lot of other places in this country but no longer can. And it is very family-oriented, a wonderful place to rai e a family." Hubbert is a bachelor, which is one reason he was plea ed to return to his Manhattan office and East 5 5th Street co-op last fall following two year in Sioux Fall . He is still savoring the return to fresh bagel , Broadway plays and same-day delivery of The New Yark Times, and the move back was also another step up in a steady ix-year rise at Citicorp. There was one negative sidelight for his alma mater, though. Hubbert was Colby's only alumnus in South Dakota. "ls that true?" Hubbert asked. "I didn't realize that." He explained that he was dispatched to Citicorp's national credit card headquarter in South Dakota in 1 988 to set up Citicorp Select Investments because the giant banking concern envisioned the investment operation as a link with its non-banking customers. A pilot project i n M i nneapolis convinced Citicorp that it also had potential with "face-to-face customers," Hubbert said, and now there is a branch office there and another in Los Angeles. At a time of retrenchment in banking and finance, Hubbert's unit seems positively situated-"a strategic venture," he calls it, designed to convince customer that Citicorp ought to handle their investment portfolio in addition to their banking and credit card bu iness. A regular supporter of the College through contributions to the Colby 2000 Campajgn and the Annual Fund, Hubbert say he is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with Colbians in New York and returning to hi volunteer duties as an alumni admissions interviewer. He made himself available for admissions interviewing in Sioux Falls, but no candidates emerged in h is two years there. And while he is pleased to be back in New York, Hubbert says he hopes to return to M aine one day and would not discourage another Colby alumnus for filling the void created by hi departure from South Dakota. "I got to ee the Black H ills, the Badlands and Mount Rushmore," Hubbert said, "and tho e are places I never would have visited if ! hadn't been stationed out there." And he got a friendly phone call from one of h is former teachers, Professor Charles Bassett of Colby's Engli h Department, when Bassett returned to his native South Dakota for a visit last summer. "He told me he was about to leave," Bassett remembers, "and he sounded as if he was counting the days." Colby, March 1 99 1

Bring Your Children ! For many '76ers, children have joined the family and are being included in many events during the weekend. Softball and a children's golf game are among the class events planned. Make your plan to be at Colby J une 7-9 !

olde t is 7 and the only one in chool all day. Binkie describes

Marie , born chis past Ju ly. he's now a full-rime mom and sell

her life a 'fun and game all day every day ! ' For tho e of you who

Discovery Toys . . . Ken Curtis

have received a survey, please fill it out and send it back to me. Thanks ! "

'Thank goodness Paul Boghossian wrote and filled me in, not only on what he's been up to, but also to report on a number of classmate ," ay a relieved Pamela Came. "Paul i living with hi wife, Jennifer, and two chil dren, 'Chip' and 'Libby,' in a cen tury-old V ic torian hou e on ewport Harbor. Paul i presi dent of Concord i a, a t e x t i l e manufacturing company founded by his grandfather. He is current! y involved in a new product line of advanced compo ires for aero space and sporting goods. Paul ha also been lobbying for change in Rhode I land' worker ' com pensation sy tern and ha met with ome ucce . Parlaying hi real estate vocation into a second business gives Paul an excu e to get up to Sugarloaf, where he spends a fair amount of time each winter . . . He writes about Alan MacEwan ' 7 , who was married to Holly Easte\ in in J une and i liv ing in Freeport, M a ine . . . Mark Sullivan is living in Cam bridge, Ma . , with hi wife, Anne, and their two daughters, Cath erine, 2, and There a, 6 month . . . Peter Clark '75 and h i wife, Nancy, are l iving in New Boston, N . H . They have a daughter, Abigail, 2 , and were expecting their econd child at the time of Paul's report . . . Barry Cohen, who 'take more vacations than Fodor,' according to Paul, will be reined in a l ittle with the arrival of his fir t child, Matthew, thi pa t May . . . Cathy Worce ter

Moison writes that he and her husband have a daughter, E i leen Colby, March 1 99 1

writes from Tokyo, where he is working for a an Francisco-based equipment and real estate fi nancing company, GA TX Realty Corporation. He has opened a Tokyo office and has focu ed on the real estate busine for the lase three years. He recently es-

cablished his own company in the British Isles. He plans to con duce inve cmem-relaced activity, including real estate, between che

U . . , Europe and J apan . Ken planned to return to Boston with hi Japanese girlfriend, Ikuko, for the Christmas holida s . . . All the best in the year ahead! Thank you for your card and letter please keep them coming."

Correspondents 1 970 Robin Cote (Robin C. Armitage}

45 Hayes Avenue Beverly, MA 0 1 9 1 5 Phone: 50 -922- 74 197 1 Linda A. Chester 46 Lincoln rreet Hudson, MA 0 1 749 Phone: 508-562-9872 1972 Janet Gerber (Janet Holm ) 1 1 1 1 2 Broad Green Drive Potomac, M D 20854 Phone: 30 1 -299-624 1 97 3 Anne H . Jordan (Anne Huff) 36 Hillcre t Road Medfield, MA 02052 Phone: 50 -359-5 25 1 97 4 Stephen B . Collins RFD 3 Box 6600 Oakland, ME 04963 Phone: 207-465-3870 Thomas

Lizotte

RFD 1 , Box 4970 Oakland , M E 04963 Phone: 207-46 5 -3 1 09

1 97 5 usan Wue t ( u an C. Gearhan) 65 Country Downs Circle Fairport, y 1 4450 Phone: 7 1 6-223- 1 967

1 97 6 Pamela M . Came 23 Fuller Road Watertown, MA 02 1 7 2 Phone: 6 1 7 -49 1 - 00

1977 Li a Rapaport ( L isa M. Tripler)

2 Tall Pine Road Cape Elizabeth, ME 04 1 7 Phone: 207-767-24 6

1 978 Jame E. con 674 Tremont rreec Bo ton, M A 02 1 1 8 Phone: 6 1 7-262 - 7 1 1 0

1 979 Emily M. Sprague ( Emily M . Grout) 758 Gotham Street Watertown, Y 1 360 1

Although Emily Grout Sprague appreciates Colb)" new, faster rum-around time, she say it has left her a bit short of news for chis column. But, she writes, "the questionnaire have been reque red, and you should be receiving chem before long. For che ri me being 1 find myself w i hing for some of rho e new y holiday card and photos char have yet to arrive. If you are a hi ghly organi:ed per on who manage to produce one of chose informative holiday leners, please end me one-however belatedly it may arrive and despite the facr that I may not be in your personal addre book . . . Mail char has arrived includes a nice note from Laurie Borden Ahearn. he and her hu band, Daniel, are li\'ing in M iddlebury, V e . , with their two ch ildren, Colin, 4 1 /2 , and Haley, a daughter who wa born on J une 2 4 , 1 990. Laurie would love to

hear from ome old buddie by l e n e r or v i it . . . P a t r i c ia Maguire David wrote a fa-cinat ing lener from Pennsylvania. In the 1 1 years since leaving Colby, Patty has been busy with a num ber of challenging career , the two mo t recent of which are parenthood and operating a suc ce sful nanny referral erv ice. Daughter Catherine Eli:abeth, who was born in June of 19 9 to Pac and her husband, Cliff, was the inspiration behind A Choice anny. In addition to all chat, Parry is also a member of the bar in Penn ylvania and spend time looking after their sheep and 1 3 acre farm. What she failed to tell me is what she doe in her ' pare' t ime ! . . . Doesanyone ha e word from the following people: Sav

Z e m b i l l a s , N ic k M e n c h e r , Miriam Patterson, Kevin Frank, Mark Weatherly, J ean Powell, Debbie Schwartz?"

Phone: 3 1 5 -788-5 1 1 9

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Patric ia Valavani Smith says there i s " lots o f news from the Big Apple" to share thi m o n t h . " M a r k e t i n g d i re c to r Cynnie Auman i s 'revel i ng i n life in New York, enjoying jazz clubs and venturing into the c i ty's limitlessrestaurants.' . . . Banker/ trader Bob Slutz and wife Maya also call NYC home. Both Bob and Cynnie say that living in New York was something they never anticipated when they left Colby . . . Michael Fanger is also a banker in New York City . . . To the north, Hilary Morton Shontz cares for her home in Larchmont with husband Dav id, year-old son Harry and two canine friends . And even farther north, David Goldsmith is vice president of Whyte's Laundry, a uniform and l inen rental company in Lynn, M ass . . . . M aine native Anne Hussey loves her new San Diego home and would like to hear from anyone coming through town. She's a customer service supervi sor in the financ ial services field and keeps up her sa iling skills w i th the San Diego women's y a c h t r a c i n g fl e e t . . T h a t Southern California appeal m u t be strong. John Monroe reports that when the N avy transferred him to Jack onville , Fla . , 'they had t o drag me k ick ing and screaming from San Diego ! ' Still, he's enjoying the challenges of his new job as attending physic ian in ophthalmic surgery . . . Anne Veazie Sonner has also experi e nced a coast - to-coast move. After working as a soc ial worker in Ma ine for six years, she and husband David are new in Wal nut, Cal if. , where they've bought a home and Anne is working as a publicat ions manager. She also makes'great quilts,' someofwhich have been exhibited nationally . . Back in Maine, Tom Eyman is working in international trade development and living in Bath 70

with his wife, Martha . . . Jamie Hansman i� a stockbroker with A.G. Edwards in Boston . . . Rose Marie Nawfel resides in Natick, Mass. , and i. employeJ a a quality assurance c h e m i t . . Linda Davis i a d istrict sales manager at Hewlett-Packard in Burling t o n , M a ss . , and fi nished an M . B.A. program at Babson ol lege last December . . . Amy Page Oberg rightly lists her occupa t ion as 'perpetual mot ion,' keep ing up with ix k ids, one cat, two frogs and four fish in Barrington, R . I . ( Does your husband really work forChildWorld, Amy ? 1 ) • • Linda Clark Hammons i a physic ian's assoc iate at a rural health c l inic in West Virginia and lives at Appalachian Bible College, where her husband is a pastoral studies major . . . Karen Caine Babbitt keeps busy with Em ily, 3 1 /2 , and Ike, 2, at home in South Dartmouth, Ma s., while volunteering for church and the chi ldren's museum . . . About a year-and-a-half ago, Linda Alter decided to leave her highly suc cessful but h ighly stre sful com puter software management job and embarked on a hik ing expe dition in Nepal and exten ive travels throughout the U.S. She's now work ing in sales with a nonprofit educational publi hing company in Californ ia that pro duces health- re lated material , and she also serves as a fifth grade teacher's a ide . . . Thank you for the great response ro my ques tionnaire. There's more to follow, and addit ional news is always welcome."

"As always, keep those cards and letters pouring in. The more you write, the more we'll know about each other." So says Sarah Lovegren Merchant, who is anxiou to keep the Mt. Desert mail carriers busy. "One thing

Kelly Dodge brought to light about us is that we have not been giving money to the College," Sarah note . "I am sad to report that our class has the lowest an nual giving record of all rhe c lasses. I am not proud of that. But I am proud enough of our class to ask each and every one of you to join m in 1 99 1 in helping our c l ass leap back up in the standings. Th ink about it and respond generously to those en velopes from the H i l l . Kelly, by the way, has moved co Lowell, Mas . , co be closer to his job at Freudenberg Nonwovens/Pellon Di vision as merchandise manager. He'd ju t gotten back from Ven ezuela when he wrote . . . Karla Hostetler is a grant writer with Arctic tO Amazonia All iance (a nonprofit organization that seek to link indigenous groups world wide in the effort ro protect na tive land rights ) . She lives in Wait field, V t . , near the Sugar bush ski area-'in case anyone wants co v isit.' . . . Dan Matlack and wife A l l i on write faithfully to let us know all is wel l at We ttown, Pa. Thank , Dan ! From Atlanta, Holt Thrasher scrawled a quick note saying that he i off to Switzerland to get a master's in internat ional business at I M O. He left New York and Smith Barney beh ind. But he had recently become engaged. We will need d e t a i l s , H o l t , keep u informed! . . . l t wasgreat to hear from Janice Sandeen in Oak land, Calif. She ha her master' of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design and is now a sculptor and furniture artist as well as a full-t ime as i tant pro fessor and head of the wood/fur nit ure program in the school of fine arts of California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Janice says she reads every issue ofColby, espec ially because she's so farfrom New England. Hopefully, we can ee ome of her work in Colby

sometime. Janice live with her boyfriend in a great hou e with her studio right there . . . Pam Kovaly O' Brien wrote from Needham, M ass., about the hec tic life of a Digital marketing manager. She is al o pursuing her M . B.A. at Babson. he and at torney hubby Kev in do get a chance to relax and ski, however, and hope to get away to ski out west t h i y e a r . Good l u c k , Pam ! . . . N orwood , M a s . , i s home to Karin Foster Palmer, a computer systems consultant, her husband, Ralph, a computer en gineer, and daughter Elizabeth, now 1 . Karin told u that Lisa M u rray D o n o h u e ' s b a b y , Amanda, wa born in October of 1 990 and that her son, Andrew, was 1 5 months at the time . . . Katrina Jannen Donnelly was expecting her first in January of 1 99 1 . . . I ran into expec tant mom and dad Peggy Hessler Moore and Tim in Ellsworth. The baby was imminent at that t ime. Peggy and Tim are still busy with work and with their son . . . Terri Lewis Clevenger and John ' 8 1 wrote from Norwalk, Conn. , t o t e l l us o f their expectant state. April is the due date for #l . Terri loves her job as a public relations executive specializing in health care at Gross, Townsend, Frank & Hoffman in New York City. John's a marketing manager at Pepsi Cola Co. Terri noted that Suzy Desrochers had just moved to Norwalk for a two-year stint in the home office of Delloite and Touche . . . Joey Schreiner is e nior marketing research analy t at Warner Lambert Co., where he has worked since 1 988. he lives in Summit, N .J . , and has received her M. B.A. She says that B e t h S c h roeder work for Loomi -Sayles in Bo ton as a fixed income c re d i t analy t, Beth Lynch is a benefits analyst for Ph ilip Morris in New York City and Cindy Milton Mehnert and

Colby, March 1 99 1

Headliners Peter Forman '80 i the n e w Republican leader of the Massachu et t s H o u e o f Representatives . . . Scott R. Russell '83 was named chair of the foreign language departÂ menc and over ea- program director for Proctor Academy in Andover, . H . , and is studying for hi doctorate at Brown . . . Donald L. Baker 'B4 received the Bank of Bo ton's New England Banker Award for Vermont . . . Michelle Cheeseman 'BB is studying in Ecuador as a Fulbright Scholar . . . Photographer Anestes G. Fotiades 'B9 showed hi work in an exÂ hibit titled "Five Year

hadow" at the Rader Arr Gallery in Worce ter, Ma s.

Michelle Cheeseman '88

Newsmakers Robert Motley '80 joined Coldwell Banker Commerc ial Real Estate Services a a leasing peciali t for Greater

ew Haven,

Conn. . . . Elizabeth Pizzurro Ossoff '8 1 ha been named a i tam profes or of p ychology at St. An elm College in Manchester, .H . . . . Ginny Low Pomeroy '8 1 i helping athlete in the

ew Britain, Conn., area as a phy ical therapist for Physical Therapy and

Dorothy E. Distelhorst '82 ha joined her father, Fred, at his dental office in Vail, Colo., where the Vail Daily recently caught up with her . . . Ellen E. Smith '82 ha joined the accounting firm of Dougla R. Leatham . . . Deborah H. Bombaci 'B3 , an M . B .A . candidate, wa elected to participate in Babson College's International Management Internship Program in witzerland . . . Betsy D. Gillis 'B3 ha joined the public relations firm Creamer Dickson Basford/New England as an account executive in the Boston area . . . George A. Raiche II 'B3 ha joined the chemi try faculty at Hamilton College in Clinton, N .Y., a an assi tant profe- or . . . John S. Munsey 'B3 i a enior en ironmental consultant at Dunn Geoscience Corp. in Albany, . Y . . . . Cheryl Snyder Hogan 'B4, a enior at Bridgeport (Conn . ) Engineering Institute, has won a scholarship in mechanical engineering through a grant from the Mclean, Va.-based A ociation for Manufacturing Technology . . . Sandra Winship Eddy 'B4 and her mother, 1 0-year veterans of the mother/daughter tenni circuit, were runner -up at the ational Clay Toumament in Pen acola, Fla . . . . Rick Anderson 'B5 ha opened Ander on I n uranceAgency, lnc . , in Grafton, Conn . . . . Hannah E. Blake 'B5 wa named a i tant ptoject manager at Bennett Contracting Inc. , in Albany, .Y . . . . Anne Cookson 'B5 has been named administrative a sistant of the Aaron Group in Bethe da, Md . . . . Kate P. Lucier 'B5 i an a -ociate in invesrmenc banking with the Bank of ew York affiliate, B Y A ociates . . . Andrea V. Sarris 'B6 i a producer at Three Ea t Video Production in Portland, Maine . . . Rebecca E. Binder 'B7 has joined Marketing Ba ics Applied, a pons marketing, adverti ing and public relation firm, as promotion and public relations manager . . . Jennifer C. Cooke port Medicine A sociate . .

'B9 ha joined the accounting departmenc of Della Femina, M c

amee.

Mileposts Births: a daughter, Meredith Lee, t o Alan and Robin MacLeod Goodridge ' B O .

. . a daughter, Hannah Mary, and a o n , Geoffrey

tephen, to Chris and Ruth Harkins Lawler 'B2 . . . a daughter, Lydia, to Curtis D. '82 and Deena Schwartz Ball 'B3 . . . a son, Jackson Rhinehardt Clark, to Anne Rhinehardt-Clark 'B2 and Michael Clark 'B2.

Marriages : Alice D. Domar

'BO to David A. 0 trow in Concord, Ma . . . . David J . Harvey 'BO to Caryl A. Brandland in Helynne Bruen 'Bl to Adam Winter in ahant, Ma s . . . . Jeffrey T. Davis '81 to Ellen M . Fox in Cranston, R.l. . . . Pamela A. Heleen '8 1 to Donald G . Spear in ew Bedford, Mas . . . . Jacqueline L. Gage 'B2 to Ru ell L Kahn in Flye Point, Maine . . . Karen } . Scott '82 to Loui H. Denni in Marblehead, Ma s . . . . Troy A. Dagres 'B3 to Stephanie A. MacBumie in Bo ton, Ma . . . . Mark G. Maher 'B3 to A. Le lie Papandreou in Peabody, Ma . . . . Christopher C. Chabot 'B3 to Heather L. Frasier 'B6 .H . . . . Roberta C. Bloom 'B3 to John R. Boath in Monroe, Conn. . . . George J . Katz, Jr. '83 to Lisa F. Goldenberg in in Exeter, Bo ton, Ma . . . . Ann D. Slater 'B3 to Joseph W. Canavan in I p wich, Mas . . . . John R. Gagne 'B4 to Susan M. Meyers in Hydes, Md . . . . Barbara A . Wilkes 'B5 to Thomas A . Sheehan Ill 'B5 in Wenham, Mass. . . . David K. Blake 'B6 to Marylou Williams in Reading, Ma . . . . Robin D. Clisby 'B6 to Theodore L Pelczar in Laconia, N . H . . . . Carolyn L. Kuenne '86 to David B . Jepp en in Charlotte, Vt. . . . Gregory J. Maheras 'B6 to Elizabeth A. Welch in Bo ton, Ma . . . . Jennifer Erlandson 'B7 to Michael Ayers 'BB in Long Island, N .Y. . . . Gretchen A. Weiser 'B7 to J o eph Camey, J r. , in Hingham, Ma . . . . Tamsen C. Wolfe ' B 7 to C. Vincent Quirk I l l in Belmonc, Mass . . . . Ann M. Armstrong 'BB to Robert A hton Baines in Paoli, Pa . . . . Mark E. Giancola 'BB to Katharine A. Mumford in Tow on, Md . . . . Nancy J. Delorey 'B9 to Stephen Cox in Martha' Vineyard, Mass . . . . Jennifer L. Pattison '89 to Portsmouth,

.H . . .

Michael Douglas G i l var i n White River Junction, Vt.

Deaths : John H. Scalley I II Colby,

March 1 99 1

'82 in Pompano Beach, Fla., at 29.

hubby Eric '82 are both attorneys in Augusta . . . Rick Hemond wrote to say that Tony Bolton is a post -doc to r a l assoc i a t e i n neuropsychology a t Beth Israel Hospital in Bo ·ton and George Raiche is professor of chem istry at Hamilton College in New York. Rick mentioned that he l iked the phoros in the 1 99 1 Colby calen dar . . . Barbara Roth Marrash told us of her l ife as a French and Spanish teacher in New Canaan, Conn. , with husband George, a physics teacher . . . El i:abeth and Lauren are the names of Rob and Mary Esterguard Way's two little ones, who were born a year apart, in May 1 988 and May 1 989. Mary is at home and is a part-t ime representative for Lee Jeans. She was formerly branch manager for ignet Bank i n Virginia. The family l ives in Gorham, N .Y . , and Rob i a photographer . . . Con grats to Curt '82 and Deena Schwartz Ball on the birth of Lydia in November 1 990! . . . No one has mentioned the frat issue lately in your letters. (I have not explicitly asked, but I 'd hope you all understand you can write about anything! ) What is the feeling out there by our classmates-frat and non-frat members7 I would l ike to hear from other clas es, too, to get a feel ing for what you are think i ng. What do you think about the frat dec isions at Colby since you graduated ? ls this an issue we should look at l ls it why people are not giving to Colby ? Send your news and opinions ( t houghts and comments more than welcomed from all cla ses ! ) t o me."

Amy Carlson reports that he is "st ill working through those quest ionnai re responses" and writes that "Dana Hanley is wearing many hats these days as an attorney at the Hanley Law 72

Office, a Maine tate representa tive and the owner of Lantern Rea l t y . Dana married Debra Tierney '8 3 on September 1 and did take a break from his hec tic chedule to honeymoon in St. John':,, U.S.V . l . . . After gradu ating from the Wharton School last May, Ginger Bushell 'pent three weeks in Bolivia helping create jobs for people with Jis abilitie . She's now working for Patagonia in southern Cal iforn ia in t h e i r c o rp o ra t e s t ra t egy department . . Sarah Jane Lund is enjoying the benefits of be ing a travel agent. he recently made trips to Disney World. the Baha mas, England anJ cotland. he belongs to two health clubs and , l ike many of her classmate, ( my self included ) , prefers chocolate to oat bran . . . Tim Crowley is the owner of Cruise Holidays in Nashua, N . H . , a travel agency devoted exclusively to cruise va cations. Tim does adm it to occa sionally joining some ofthe groups he p u t s together . . . Maura Cassidy is al o doing a lot of travel ing as a sales agent for Con t i nental Airl ines ( mo t recently to Australia, New Zealand, Swe den and Las Vegas) . She gets most of her exercise running through airport . . . Meg and William Lloyd are l iv ing on a dairy farm they bought three years ago in Avon, N .Y . (south of Rochester) and are busy raising two little boys, Coyne and Andrew. He pas ed along this advice for his classmates: 'Getting married is a much smal ler change for your l ife than having c h i ldren. l would not go back , but be ready and prepared.' W i l l iam works as a fi nancial consultant for Merr i l l Lynch . . . David H i l l is a ys tems analy t/software engineer for Westat Inc., and lives in Rock ville, Md. As a part of his efforts to help the environment, David is an officer of a project that sends inner c ity youth to Colorado to

work in the mountains for the summer. He's also a trail upervi sor for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club . . . Also in Maryland, Marian Leerburger is working for the Department of Defense and teaches pol i t ics at the University of Maryland (where she is study ing international relations and national securit y ) . She recently returned from a trip to the Ba hamas chciperoning a group of 1 4- to 2 1 -ycar-old ca Explor cn. . . Nathan 'Waldo' Emerson recently married Lc:,lic Matt on and i l iving in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where he's a ki instructor. He '>ays ki ing l SO day a year is a great way to tay in hape . . . Suzanne Olson married Tom Matthew on June I , 1 990, and i al o living in Jack on Hole. She has devoted a lot of time to train ing her Bernese Mountain dog to work with search and rescue teams in the area. ue currently works for the Jackson Hole Racquet Club Resort but plans to open a bu ine in the near future. Paula Thomson drove out to attend Sue' wedding and rep rted that it was beautiful. Paula lives in Maine and works as an environ mental planner for the North Ken nebec Regional Planning Comm ission . . . Fletcher Kit tredge and Katie Lyons Kittredge '8 3 are l iv ing in Concord, Mass., with their two children ( one and three year ). Fletcher works for Bolt, Beranek & Newman and is studying computer sc ience at Harvard . Nancy Silverman Levinsky i s a buyer/supervisor for Louie's Clothing and l ives with her hu band in Portland, Maine. She teaches tennis at a nearby day camp and does ae rob ics regularly . . . Robert Graham is l i v ing in Bangkok, Thailand, af ter almost three years in Seoul, South Korea. He's a senior devel opment manager for Reebok . . . A t the t i me of this wri t i ng, Vanessa Alonso Desimone was

expect ing her second child. Her fir t, Em ily, was born in July 1 988. She's recently moved into a new home in New Jersey and ha been busy remode l i ng . Thomas Delea received h is M . B.A. from Carnegie- Mel lon last May and is now a fi nanc i a l a n a l yst for Conoco, Inc . , in Houston, Texas. Tom i an avid runner and re cently joined an ice hockey league in Houston."

"Paul Hause i living in paracli e and loving it," reports c o rrespondent M a r y A l i c e Weller-Mayan. "He has rece nt ly become the head of c i rculation at the Key West l ibrary in Florida . . . Beverly Rice tarted gradu ate school in the fall of 1 990. She is pur uing a master'- degree in teaching at Boston Un iversity."

"My husband and I re cently received a chain letter promising us lots of good luck as long as we don't break the chain," begin a note from Gretchen Bean Lurie. "We were naturally de lighted by the po ibili ty ofa n ice surprise. However, a we thought about all the good fortune and happines we had hared during 1 990, we wondered what more we cou Id ask for. We had a strong and healthy marriage, a beautiful new home and a wonderful baby boy. Then it dawned on u -a college education for our future Colby grad! ( Financ ial a id offic ers, are you reading this?) "And now for new from some other c lassmates. Scott Croll i having fun while working winters as the assi tant manager of Tamarack Nordic Ski Center in Mammoth Lakes, Calif .. and ummer a a ranger in North Cascades National Park, Wa h.

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Tom Claytor ' 5 embark d in December on a seven-continent, two-year flight around the world in hi 1 9 1 Ce na 1 OK, he aid he hoped hi olo trip would rarallel the trip. of another profe ional bu h pllot-Charle Lindbergh. ' He wa one of the fir t people to see o much of the w rid from the air," Cla tor said a mechanic at LaFleur field in Waterville prepared hi- plane for the long journe . "The change he aw led to hi- later dedication toward conservation. M rk i an update of h i o rig i nal vi ion." In 1 9 5 Claytor won a Wat on Fellow hip to pend a year in Africa tudying bush pilots. He tayed on for two-and-a-halfmore ear and became a bu h pilor him lf, fl ing con ervarion i t , anci-poacher , anthropologi-t and documentary film crew into outlying area f Ea t Africa. "Bu h pilots are a link between advanced ociery and the pri miti e," Claytor aid. "lt i in the e remote area of the world where the m t dramatic change· are taking pla e; where the rain fore rs are being cut down and animal arc being poached. I'm interested in documentino the change. It' really very imp rtant for che futureofhumanity tofind a balance between technol gy and the wi dom of nature," he aid. Claytor learned to fly at La Fleur while h wa at Colby, ·weeping floor for Telford Aviation in exchange for a small salary and, more imporrant, flight time. He earned h i commercial and instrument licenses and later qual ified to fly eaplane and multi-engine plane . Hi plan to fly around the world captured the attenti n of the Explorer Club, which helped him with funding and awarded him one of its pre tigiou expedition flags, and of the Alfred A. Knopf publi h ing hou e, which put him under contract to write a book ab ut hi experience . But even with an advance from Knopf and other contribution , Claytor' finance came up short when the price of fuel rose after Iraq invaded Kuwait. He postponed hi trip from early August to early December. Claytor calls the plane that w ill carry him on hi journey a "cla ic bu-h plane."The Ce-sna has been fitted to meet hi needs, w ith a removable 1 00-gallon auxiliary fuel rank, all new radio and navigational equipment and a global po itioning ysrem to help Claytor determine hi location on long over-water flights. Flying over water puts him at the greatest risk-the Aclantic Ocean flight from Canada to Greenland is 300 miles-but Claytor has a healthy respect for it and ha equipped hi- plane with survival gear. Quick changing weather may also give Claytor ome troubl , and that's where hi experience and intimate knowledge of h i plane will come in handy. Colby, March 1 99 1

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Lucy Lennon writes from Portland, Maine, beginning with the news from c lo e t to home. "First for some Portland news: Heather S. Anderson and l ran into Peter Murphy and his fiancee, Jenn ifer Lane! Peter and Jen informed us of the ir recent engagement and their plans to be married July 20, 1 99 1 , here in Maine. Peter has applied to busi ness school and hopes to begin next fal l . They aren't sure where they'll end up, bur rhey expres ed a de ire to come back and ettle in the Portland area. Lots of luck to you both i n everything . peaking of Heather Anderson, those of you who know how well she's doing at her job in the insur ance business won't be surprised to hear that she's been promoted aga in! When we spoke, Heather planned to move to Connect icut on January 1 to be regional man ager for Connect icut and Rhode Island. After a few years in her new po it ion, Heather plan to move back to Maine . . . Jennifer Milburn wrote to let me know he's e ngaged to marry Paul Flaxam J une 29, 1 99 1 . Jen i working as a production editor for Cutter Information Corp. in Boston and is pursuing a master's in English l iterature at Harvard . . . Peter Bowers is engaged to be married to a fellow University of Connect icut medical student. Both Peter and h is fiancee, Jean Stadalnick, are in the ir fourth year of medical school, and Peter plans to stay to continue with a pediatric residency in July . . . Dave Bullock added a note ro the bottom of my Alumni Fund letter to inform me that he's en gaged to be married on June 2 2 to Christ ine Finch. ( Speaking of Alumni Fund, don't forget our class has a big reunion coming up, and i t would be great if we could break some record in our annual giving ! ) . . . Heidi Schmaltz is 74

engaged to be married in June of '9 1 , and Bill Clapp married Caroline Knowle '89 thi um mer. Bill and Call ie are l iving on the N . H ./Maine border, where they both teach and coach at Berw ick Academy . . . Angela Piscitello has a job with Fir t Boston in Connecticut, where she is work i ng in equ ity research portfolio strategy. She's engaged to her high-school sweetheart, Lt. Mark Lurie, and will be mar ried next J une . . . Susan Kaplan wrote that she is engaged to former Colby psychology professor Lew

Lester and will marry when she completes her master' degree at the Smith College chool for Soc ial Work. She'sdoing her fir t year of c l inical placement at the Veterans's Administration hos pital in Bedford, Ma . . . Con gratulations and be t wishes to all of you who have gotten engaged. Terry Scally is no longer with Reebok but is working for an adverti ing agency in Boston that deals with Reebok, and she' loving it . . . Jane Nicol is work ing for Lotus in Cambridge and doing a lot of traveling for them.

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Patricia V. Smith ( Patricia Valavanis) 6 Hammond Way Andover, MA 0 1 8 1 0 Phone: 508-4 70- 1 484

Mary A. Weller-Mayan ( M ary Alice Weller) RD 2 , Box 1 49 Camden, DE 1 9934-96 1 1 Phone: 302 -697-0 1 42

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Paula H inckley 7 Eagle Nest Way Manchester, NH 03 1 04 Phone: 603-666-0508 1 982

Emily E. Cummings 2 1 Temple Street #5 Boston, MA 02 1 1 4 Phone: 6 1 7-723-267 1 1 983

Sarah Merchant (Sarah Lovegren) HCR 62, Box 244B Mt. Desert, M E 04660 Phone: 207-244-3678

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Gretchen A. Lurie (Gretchen A. Bean) 2606 San Marcos Drive Pasadena, CA 9 1 1 07 Phone: 8 1 8-282-8259 1 98 7

Lucy T. Lennon 9 Wellstone Drive Portland, M E 04 1 0 1 Phone: 207 -7 7 2 -7 1 27 1988

Emily J. Isaacs 2 7 4 Prospect Street #2 Northampron, M A 0 1 0602 1 27 Phone: 4 1 3 -5 86-00 1 3

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Amy E. Carlson 58 Granville Road #2 Cambridge, MA 02 1 38 Phone: 6 1 7-868-0 5 5 6

Deborah A. Greene 38 Sorrel Road Concord, MA 0 1 742 Phone: 508-369-6978

When I saw her, she'd recently gotten back from Hawaii and was off to New Orleans ! . . . Pam Blanchard is s t i l l at Brooks Academy in Andover, where she is having a good year in admisions and coach ing renni a well . . . Kathi Harnett, after finishing up a great internship in NYC thi summer with a federal judge, has been working hard in her second year at Fordham Law . . . Elizabeth Warren is still working for Tab newspapers in Boston . . . Tony Fazzone '88 is in D.C. study ing at Georgetown University . . . Kim Ryan is still in the Big Apple with Women's Wear Daily and W but she has gotten a great promotion and is now covering the fashion scene at exciting parties and glamorous events in the c ity . . . Jennifer Erlandson Ayers moved to the D.C. area after marrying M ichael Ayers '88 in a beautiful wedding this summer on Long I sland, where Colby grads from both classes had lots of fun! Jen ha relocated to Prudential's Balti more office, and Michael is very busy with hi econd year of med school at Georgetown . . . Thanks to Tom Hubbard, Beth Healy and all of you who returned your questionnaires, I can fill you in on the following: Beth wrote that she is off to the Medill School of J ourna l i sm a t N orthwestern University and ha left the inurance business. Congrats and good luck, Beth! She also told me that Sue Costello i living in Newton, working for AT&T in sales as an account executive and is doing well . . . Tom Hubbard is still with the Thomson Group in Boston and is keeping himself busy traveling all over the United States and Canada. He's living in the South End of Boston with Eric Green, who's working for ADP, a company that does pay roll systems . . . Scott Bates i also in the Boston area working for

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The Oracle has an over tock of old yearbooks and is selling them at reduced prices to alumni. For the classes from 1 976 to 1 9 , the price i just $ 1 0 including sh ipping and handl ing. For classe 1 9891 990, the price is $ 2 5 . To order an old Oracle , please make checks payable to Colby Col lege-Oracle . Let u know if you would like a receipt and include the name, address and telephone number where you want the book sent. M a i l to Oracle, c/o Student Activit ies, Colby College, Waterv ille, ME 0490 1 .

the Weber Group. Scott man aged to find the t i me to row in the Head of the Charles last year! . . . R.B. Klinkenberg and Ned Scheetz have both left Boston. R . B . , aft e r return i ng from a windsurfing trip to the Gorge, has settled in Burlington, V t . , where he i working for Harring ton's. Ned is in graduate school at Duke . . . Ken Vopni is trading on the foreign exchange for Tu llet & Tokyo in Toronto, where he has recently bought a hou e . . . Sue Payne is managing a Talbot's store in ewport Beach, Calif. . . . I 've heard from Adam Rosen baum, who's returned to Portland, Maine, to continue with carpen t e r i n g a n d remod e l i ng a ft e r pending two years in anta Cruz, Calif., where he helped rebu ild after the 'Great Quake. ' ince graduation, he ha traveled and experienced America and Europe by motorcycle . . . Rick Hunt ress ent me a p i c ture of his adorable daughter, Rachel M arie, born in April 1 990. Congratula tions, Rick! Rick married Victoria Fairchild in J une of 1 989, and he and h is w ife are working in mo lecular biology lab at Ma a chusettsGeneral Ho pita! and the New England Medical Center, re pectively . . . Ciara Reynolds wrote from Zaire , where he is in her econd year a a Peace Corp volunteer. She sounds like he 1s having a wonderful experience Leaming about the people ofZaire and their c ulrure. She ha even learned to peak an indigenou Language, Tshiluba . . . Art Nagle is getting his ma ter' in educa tion at the U niver ity of V irginia . . . 1 heard from Dana Friedman, who has been i n California ince graduation and i working at the Cre a t i v e I m pa c t a d v e r t i i n g agency a public relations d irec tor. He also told me that Bill Steams ts living in an Franci co and Jon Foote '88 is in Telluride, Colo. Al though Dana hasn't been

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back t o M aine since graduation, he swears he'll be back for our fifth reunion. I 'm going to hold you to that, Dana. I spent some time with Mary McCarty at Homecoming this year and found out that she is liv ing in Chestnut H ill, Mass., and doing really well working for Lanier Voice Products as a senior supply spec ialist. (Tom Hubbard, Mary Reineman, Heather An derson, Shaun Sullivan, Peter Murphy and Kathi Hamett also made it up to Colby that week end to help plan for our reunion. I f any of you want to help, let us know ! ) . . . I received a postcard from Hannah Howland, who informed me that after gradua t ion she traveled i n V ienna and Morocco with Todd Bishop, then ended up in Boston working for H ughton M iffl in. She gave up th 9-to- 5 life a year ago and is now l i v i ng i n San ebastian, pain, painting and playing c las sical guitar. She run into Colby people every once in a while and wrote that Todd Bi hop is living in Bo ton in a huge indu trial pace stud i o doing German translation . . . Aimee Good i s i n Cambridge working in publish ing and p lugging away at culp ture, and Andrew More is work ing at MIT . . . J im Louis wrote to ay he' in his third year at the yracuse Un iversity college of law, which i keeping him very busy . . . Elaine DeBerardine will be graduating in '9 1 from law chool and will take the N .J ./ N.Y. bar exam in February. She is completing school in 2 1 /2 years through a special program. After pas ing the bar, Elaine hopes to move to N YC to l ive with Lauren Frazza '8 and work for her father's law firm in the city. ( J i m and Elaine, thanks for your offers to help w i th our class reunion. We'll definitely take you up on that ! ) . . . One l a t bit o f info from the far comer of the United States-

I spoke to my old roomie Carolyn 'Cece' Crowe, who's been in Alaska for two years but i j ust now spending her first winter there and is a l ittle cold ! Cece traveled extensively when we first graduated and has done and een lots of exciting things. La t year she was quite busy helping to clean the oil spill in Valdez. She's been fishing out there and enjoying the Alaskan way of life. Cece hasn't had too much opportunity to get back East but she promised to try and make it for our reunion. (Cece, stay bundled up and watch out for those 40-mile-an-hour winds ! ) . . . That's all the news that's fit to print, for now any way. Keep the letters coming ! "

Deborah Green rings in w ith international flair from her d i gs i n J a p a n : " Konnichiwa , classmate ! The scene in J apan is much the same as when I last wrote, except that I'm getting quite proficient at o-hashi (chopt icks) and can now slurp down a bowl of ramen with the best of t h e m . I rec e n t l y ce lebrated Thanksgiving-Japanese sryle, of course. I managed to get hold of a turkey, but it arrived frozen solid, so we put it in the bathtub and turned on the hot water while someone went out and did the only ensible thing-bought a bottle of W ild Turkey! . . . Any way, Karen Currey made me quite envious of fall weekend in New England. She wrote about her job as assistant director of a d m issions at the Westover School in M iddlebury, Conn. , although h e says nothing beats the Belgrades. She's also working on setting the land speed record to Boston. M ust have something to do with the Boston n ight life, or with Dave Wehr, who's living in N e w t o n a nd work i n g i n Wayland-I would tell where but

I 've evidently lost the business card he gave me. Sorry about that, Dave! . . . Barb Swartz is well into her first year at Duke U n iversity's phys ic ians's assis tant/master' of health science program. She wrote the day be fore classes began, so I'm assum ing she's surviving the first year. Good luck! . . . Fleet Bank lost its best customer service supervi sor when Adair Bowlby left East Corinth, M aine, for UVM med ical school. She also became en gaged to James M iller of Bangor, Maine, and is planning a J uly 1 3 , 1 99 1 , wedding. Best wishes ! . Al o planning a wedding in 1 99 1 is Deb Murphy, who wrote to tell me the J une I date, but decl i ned to tell me to whom she's engaged, no doubt feeling her class secre tary has a much too easy job and should guess at some of the an swers. That's okay, Deb, I ' l l let the other guess where you're working these day ! . . . I had to drag out the old National Geo graphic Wor/.d Atlas to find out where Mali is, the county where Lisa Traeger is working for the Peace Corps for the next two years. ( I 'l l save you all the ef fort-it's in northwest Africa. ) She welcomes a l l potential v isi tors, i n ca e you find yourself in Bamako with no place to tay . . . Tom Kara fin wrote me that he married Morgan Fairchild-and I thought I saw that in the National Enquirer! He also wrote, ' I 've been out of school six months and I miss it,' but added he was at tending Northeastem's business school. I 'm a bit confu ed, maybe it's time for another que t ion naire . . . Bill Auerswald has ac tually discovered a place more d e s o l a t e t h a n W a t e rv i l l e I thaca, N .Y. ( I would have gue ed Lewiston)-where he is 'playing law student' at Cornell and try ing to decide between a career in law or l ife as a roadie for the Colby hoops t e a m . . . L a u ra 75

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C L U B B E R S Johnson wrote that the worst th ing she's had to do since gradu ation was pay bills, but after two trips to Brazil following gradua t ion and the drive from New York to Houston, where she is pursu ing a Ph. D. in clinical neuro psycho logy , I c a n ' t imagine why 1 • • • Other weddings (prov ing that despite the abuse I re ceived in the space provided for 'spouse's name' in my survey last winter, many of you are tying the knot ) : be lated best wishes to Kathleen Murphy and Marcus Fellbaum of County Cork, I re land, who were wed June 30, 1 990, and to Peter Reed and Laurie Meehan '88 who were married on N ovember 1 7 , 1 990. Pe ter is working for the Gallo winery and liv ing in Lebanon, N . H . Wendy Dauphinais wrote that she ran into him in a grocery store giving taste tests of Gallo wine, proving that she 'runs into Colbyites ev erywhere' in her job as a news reporter/anchor in New Hamp shire. Look out, Dan Rather . . . Also with Gallo is Jon Nash in Manchester, N . H . , who fondly recalls 'an early 1 0: 30 a.m. grill ing by Bassett for not reading any O'Connor' ( I remember a similar c l ass-e x c e p t it was H e nry J ames ) . . . Hopefu l l y by now Brenda Freund Sullivan will have finished her master's in profes sional accounting at the Univer sity of Hartford, so she can sleep late once in a wh ile. She also works at Arthur Anderson & Co. as an auditorand lives with Kathy Keller and Isser Gallogly. Kathy is participating in a professional development training program for Shawmut Co . . . . My mother hopes Randy Barr is studying harder in his med school classes at UMass than when she taught him in high school. How many years until we can call you 'Dr. Barr' ? Incidentally, I hope all our c las mates who've entered med school are doing well ( he l lo, 76

Dave ?). I seem to hear from people just before classes begin, but never again. If anyone has news of these folks-are they al ive l do they drink 20 cups of coffee a day to stay awake ? do they have ma l practice insurance yet?-let me know . . . Melinda Pittis has a job title about five feet long at the N .Y . League for the Hard of Hearing, where she is assistant to the director of the career coun seling/job placement department ( how do you fit it all on a business card ?). She's working toward fluency in sign language and ul timately looking at a master's in education for the deaf ( inciden tally, Mel inda, Ohio cornfields sound like paradise to me right now ! ) . . . I don't know if these two are sti II in Spain, but I 'm sure they're doing something inter e ting: Tucker Offutt is teach ing English a a foreign language in Salamanca, enjoying Spanish cooking, la marcha and traveling across Spain and Europe. Sorry I missed the Pyrenees, Tucker! Brendan Cahill is a vintner for Torre de Ona wines in Aiava, pursuing interest in wine and panish literature. Between work and travel to Argentina, he is working on a critical biography of the Basque poet J a i m e Rodriguez a s well a s arranging aid for Central America and East Africa for Amne ty International and Oxfam . . . I'm amazed at all the class news I 've received, even over here in Japan. Thanks for all the letters! For those who have yet to write, please do ! "

Corrections In the January issue of Colby, the c lasses of Howard I. Mosher '68 and L a u r a H ye r ' 7 8 were misidentified and the names of Sue Tauer-Ano '76 and Ruth Cadwell '4 1 were misspelled. J. Philip Bruen '77 is employed by UNUM.

r Matt Dumas '9 1 , the chance to get together with Matt Frymier '90 of Boston's Putnam Companies and talk about a career in investments was invaluable. "I knew Matt," Dumas said, "and that made me more comfortable, getting some real answers from rhe horse' mouth." Dumas and Frymier conferred earlier this year at an informal reception organized by Albert Carville, Jr. '63 , chair of the A lumni Council's Career Services Committee, and Carol Sly '80 for the Bo ton Colby Club. The event was planned in conjunction with Boston RecruitingDayonJanuary 1 1 , when representatives from a consortium of area companies interviewed seniors from everal small New England colleges. Colby has participated in Recruiting Day since 1 984, and according to Linda Cotter, alumni liaison in Career Services, and Director ofCareer ServicesJim Mci ntyre, the involvement of area alumni wa a natural progres ion. "The idea," aid Mclnryre, "was to get students interview ing in the Bo ton con ortium program to meet alums from those companies." The event wa o ucce fut that it gave rise to plans for imi lar efforts in New York and Portland. Thirty-five alumni, most of them recent graduates, were on hand at the reception to answer questions, from "How is the job market after graduation?" to "What is it like to live in Boston?" Dumas-who attended the reception along with his fa ther, Roger Dumas '60-went on to interview with a Putnam official the following day. "Matt Frymier definitely gave me the background I needed on the position l wa applying for," Dumas said. "It helped my interview . . . Whether we were there to interview or not, [the reception] gave us some valuable insights on the careers available." Dumas's roommate, Matt Melander '9 1 , talked with Jer emy Springhom '84, a biochemist, about possible paths to graduate school in that field. Senior Pam Young, who is considering a legal career, met with Cathy Woodward Gill '86 of Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, a Boston law firm. And Pam Came '76, vice president of the Boston Club and an executive with Stride Rite Corporation, and Colby Trustee Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80 of Fideliry Investments, were also popular targets for questions. "There was a lot of talking," Sly said. "Mainly it was a good chance for the '90 grad u a tes to c at c h up with the eniors . . . Before the evening reception idea got underway, alums who knew of the consortium would come on their lunch break to see the seniors. We figured that if the seniors had to travel this far for interviews the next day, they should have time to see old friends and hopefully get information about certain companies from them beforehand."

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OBITUARIES Charles P. Angwenyi, Kenyan Banking Leader rains c iv i l ian government in Kenya." He warmly received vis its from Colby students, faculty and alumni, and he played a pi\·ocal role in the establishment of a January Program in Kenya. Survivor include hi wife, uan, a son, a daughter, and hi cousin, William P. Mayaka '7 3 .

Community Volunteer Marjorie Barker Hender son ' 1 6, a member of Ph i Bera Kappa at Colby, died October 1 7 , in Nashua, N . H . , at age 9 5 . Born

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Charles P. Angwenyi '64, L.H.D. '88, a prominent figure in Kenya's financial e tabli hment and a professor of economics, died in N airobi, Kenya, on January 1 5 , at age 5 2 . He was born in Kisii, Kenya, and graduated from t. Mary's School, K isubi. An eco nomics major at the College, he was on the varsity soccer team, was co-chair of the I nternational Relations Club and was a mem ber of the Young Democrats and the debate club. He received an M.A. in economic from the Univer ity of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1 966. I n 1 968 he left the Ph.D. program there for a position a assistant professor of economics at the University of Colby, March 1 99 1

N airobi, and in 1 970 he joined tandard Bank Limited in the Kenyan capital, serving a mar keting manager a well a head of a number of branches. In 1 980, Kenyan Pre ident Daniel arap Moi appointed him chair and CEO of the National Bank of Kenya Limited, the country' first national financial institution. He held that po it ion until 1 988, when he returned to the Uni ver ity of N airobi a profes or of economic . He wa al o a mem ber of the councils of Moi and Kenyatta univer itie . The Col lege honored him in 1 988 with the degree of doctor of humane letter , citing h is "signal contri bution to the economy that sus-

H igh chool. At Colby she was leader of the glee club, a member of the Colbiana and Oracle boards and erved as clas pre ident her junior year. She later attended Katharine Gibbs School of Bu i ne s in Boston. Employed as a bookkeeper with B.E. Cole Co. of Norway for 20 years, she later worked for the Maine Audubon ociety in Portland for five year . he wa act ive in the F i rst Church, U .C.C. in Nashua and was a member of the ashaway Woman' Club and the Nashua chapter of the American Asso ciation of Retired Persons. Pre deceased by her hu band, he i survived by a son, three daugh ters, including Beatrice Hender son Morse '56, 1 3 grandchildren, including Robin Hamill-McGurn '74, and 1 3 great-grandchildren.

taking a job doing hou ework. At 1 6, arriving unannounced, he asked to be adm i t ted t o Waten·ille's Coburn C l a sical I nstitute, from which he gradu ated as class valedictorian. After receiving a cholarship to Colby, where she majored in French and helped support herself by doing housework in one of the women' re idence halls, she taught for five year at the Goodwill-H inckley Home for G irls and Boy in H inckley, Maine. Later, while working as a clerk for a lawyer, he tudied his law books, and in 1 936 she passed the Maine bar examination, 1 0 year before earn i ng her law degree from George Washington Univer iry. In the 1 940 she wa a lawyer with the Veterans Administra tion in Portland, Maine. She also practiced law in the Washing ton, D.C., area and wa one of the first women to argue a case before the U.S. upreme Court. In 1 950 she j o i ned t h e fa c u l t y a t Westbrook J unior Col lege i n Portland. During the 1 9 5 0 she al o taught at several Maine h igh school . She earned a master's in English from Mercer University in Macon, Ga., in 1 9 54. She also taught French and Latin in ew Paltz, N .Y., and was active in a variety of organizations. In her nineties, he explained that it never occurred to her that he was a liberated woman: "I was j u t a lways mov i ng for something better. I was always looking for more money or a challenge." She i urvived by cousins.

Liberated Woman Laura M. Stanley ' 2 2 , who defied the odds against women and built a successful law career in the first half of the century, died October 24, in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. , at age 93. She was born in Mercer, Maine, and at tended a one-room school before

English Professor Hilda M. Fife '26, a former University of Maine English pro fessor and Colby trustee, died on November 1 1 , in Portsmouth, N . H . , at age 87. She was born in Greenland, N .H., and taught in a 77

one-room elementary school in Kittery, Maine, before attend ing Colby. She majoreJ in Greek and earned Ph i Beta Karpa honors. She did graduate work at Boston University and the University of Chicago and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornel l Un iver sity. She became an assoc iate profes or of Engli h at Hampton I nstitute in Virginia, then was an assistant professor at Alfred Uni versity for five year . She was on the English staff at Concord Academy for one year before be coming rrofessor of English at the University of Maine, where she served from 1 946 until her retirement in 1 969. Later, she taught courses in English litera ture and Maine l i terature at the university's Portland and Orono campuses and addressed meetings of h istorical soc ieties. She was the founder of the Maine Old Cemeteries Assoc iation and was editor of the assoc iat ion's news letter. She was also active in the Kittery Mari time Museum and Rice Public Library in Kittery, as well a the Maine League of H is torical Societies and Museums. She also held member hip in numerous professional assoc ia t ions, i nc l ud i ng the Modern Language Assoc iation and the National Counc i l of Teachers of English. She served the College on the A lumni Counc il, on the Friends of the Library and on the Board of Trustee and wa a dedicated and enthusiastic class correspondent and volunteer in the planning for many class re unions. She also presented ad dres es at the College and spon sored a financial aid fund for Maine students and children of Colby a l u m n i . The Co l lege awarded her both a Colby Brick and a Colby Gavel. Predeceased by her sister, Barbara Fife Steams '2 7, she is survived by a brother, Rodney A. Fife, three sisters, Janet Hawkes, Dorothy Locke and 78

Joyce Will iam�. anJ several niece� and nephews, mcluding Carol tea rm Clement '6 1 .

Longtime Pastor Lemuel K. Lord ' 2 9 , a rrominent MethoJist min ister, died September 2 I , in CnncorJ, Ma ss. , at age 8 3 . Born in Winterport, Maine, he was an honor student in Wi nterport schools. At Colby he wa:, a member of the track team and was active in YMCA affairs. He receiveJ national recognition as a member of the debate team, and he served a president of Pi Kappa Delta i n h i senior year. At l 9 , he began a min istry of over 50 year'> in the Methodist Church by a:. sum ing a tudent pa torate in B i ngham, M a i n e . He subse quently was student pa tor m Pittsfield and Madison. He re cei ved his bachelor of acreJ theology cum /nude in 1 9 3 5 and hi doctor of theology in 1 94 1 from Boston University chool ofTheology, which honored him with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1 966. He wa:, mini ter to variou churches in Massa chusetts, and as uperintendent of the Worce ter West Di trict of the Methodist Church from 1 968 to 1 974, he served 68 churches with 1 7 ,000members. For 1 8 year he wa min isterial delegate to the G e n e r a l Confe re n c e of t h e United Methodist Church, the international governing body of Methodism, and for 20 years he was chair of the New England Conference Board of M inisterial Training. A well -known lecturer on youth and pastoral counseling, he had a weekly counseling pro gram on Boston's WBZ radio for several years. He was an outspo ken advocate for civil rights and racial j ustice and served as chap l a i n at the Reformatory for

Women in Framingham and was founding rre-,iJent of the M 1d dle,ex A-,,oc i;it ion f or Mental Health. He is surviveJ hy hi' wife of nearly 62 year,, Doris Wyman Lord '29, three Jaughter and his brother. George W. Lord ' 3 1 .

Colby Volunteer Donald B. Tupper ' 2 9 , who wa, a longtime memberofColhy\ Alumni Counc il, died October 1 6 , in Vern Beach. Fla., at age 7 . He was bom m Worce ter, Ma . . and <ittenJeJ Hehron Academy and Vermont Academy. From 1 92 to 1 9 30 he wm. a :,ales en gineer for the Athol Manufactur ing Co. and then became the Portland, Maine. sale manager for LG . Balfour Co. , a rosition he held for many years. A· an Alumni Council official and a member of the Fund Committee, he was a leader in the Fulfillment Camra 1gn and the Fund for Continuing Achievement Cam paign in the late 1 9 50s and early 1 960·. He was pre·ented a Colby Brick in 1 962 a "a focal point in the maintenance of the Colby r irit" in the Portland commu nity. He is survived by his on, Richard B. Turper ' 5 2 .

Engineer, Teacher Clarence Aubrey Dyer '30, who worked as an engineer for Honeywell Inc. for 30 years, died April 30, in Camp H ill, Pa. , at age 8 1 . He was born November 9 , 1 908, in Sumner, Maine, and graduated from Canton ( Maine) H igh School. A physics major at Colby, he played ice hockey and baseball. After graduation from Colby he earned a master's degree in physics from Wesleyan Uni versity. He returned to Ma ine to teach at Ricker College in Hou!-

mn, frnm l 9 3 2 tn l 94 3 , when he moveJ to the Ph iladelrhia area tn work for Honeywell a:. an engi neer anJ head of cu tomer train ing. He retired in 1 97 3. He is :,urv 1 veJ by hi:, wife, Barbara Work Dyer ' 32 , three children and l O grandchildren.

Speech Teacher Gertrude Snowden Giles ' 3 1 , a longt ime public school te<icher, d ied September 29, in Marhlehead, Ma s., at age 8 1 . he was horn in Deer Isle, Maine, and graduated from toningron H igh chool. An Engli h major at olby, she participated in debat ing, dramatics and publ ic peak ing and wa editor of Colbiana. While studying at the Curry College choolofExpre ion, he acted with the ew London Player in New Hamp h ire, an affiliation that la ted for everal years. he al o studied at Boston University and Harvard and re ce ived a ma ter', degree in edu cation from alem tate College in l 974. In the 1 930 she taught Engli h and history and coached public speaking, debate and dra matic in Kingfield, Maine, and Concord, N . H . , and in the late 1 9 50s began a 20-year tenure at Marblehead H igh School in Ma sachusetts, where she made many innovations in the area of public speaking. She was adviser to the Student Council and wa espec ially creative in her role as fac u l ty adv iser to the school yearbook. She is survived by her son, Anthony S. G iles '66, two grandsons and several nieces and nephews.

Executive Secretary Rosamond Fuller Barker ' 3 3 , who was an executive sec-

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retary for organi:ations in ew York , M a i n e , Cal iforn i a and Ca nada, died last summer in Redwood City, Cal if., at age 0. he was born in Presque l le, Maine, on J une 5 , 1 9 1 0 , the daughter of Roy M . Barker '96 and Lucy Hayward Barker. he graduated from Pre que Isle H igh chool and A roo took tate ormal chool and ·erved as class pre ident and treasurer of tudent government during her en ior' year at Colby. She took secretarial cour es following graduation and worked for several year in ew York City. he left ew York for N ewfoundland, Canada, where he wa ecrerary to the head of the ir W ilfred Grenfell Medical M i ion. he later returned to Pre que Isle to live and work, then in 1 95 2 moved to Califor nia, where he wa employed by the Stanford Research I nstitute. She pent three year m Germany with a tanford research team. After her retirement he traveled extensively in the Orient and Eu rope. he was act ive in the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, Cal if., and delivered Meals on Wheel . he i urvived by one s is t e r , E l e a nor B a r k e r McCargar ' 3 7 .

ence from the State University of ew York at Albany. he was a l ibrary med ia spec iali t at Van Corlaer chool in chenectady for 1 years before her retirement in 1 9 7 5 . ln retirement she con tinued her interest in photogra phy and history, re earching the Shakers and the photographic history of Schenectady. he \\'a a member of the chenectady H istorical oc iety, the Schenec tady Photographic oc iety, the N ew York rare Retired Teach ers A oc iation, the American A s s oc i a t i o n of U n i ,· e r s i r y Women a n d t h e Order o f the Eastern tar. A member of the chenecrady Dol l Club, she also lectured on the ·ubject and do nated a permanent doll exhibit to the chenecrady Library. Her Colby r e l a t i v e s i nc l ude the C llege' fou n d i ng pre ident, J ere m iah Chapl in, her father, George E. Tolman '04, her aunt, Lela Mae Tolman '0 3 , and her father' cousin, Dean J. Tolman, Class of 1 9 urvivor include her husband of 5 2 years, Carlton H . Brown, two daughters and two granddaughters.

Prize Speaker School Librarian Laura Tolman Brown '36, a profe ional librarian and active community worker, d ied ep tember 24, in chenectady, .Y., at age 76. Born in chenecrady, she attended Schenectady H igh chool and was a lifelong resident of the area. At Colby she was a history major and president of the camera club. She worked in the College library' Catalogue Department and on the c ircu la tion de \... , which led her to an intere t in library work and a bachelor' degree in l ibrary c i -

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Carolyn Beverage Keene '4 1 , d ied September 23, in Gray, Maine, at age 7 1 . he wa born in Watervi lle, M a ine, and attended Oakland H igh chool. An Eng li h major at the College, she wa active in the Arts Club, Library A oc iates, dramatic and public peak ing, for which he won the Coburn Prize peaking Contest. he al o part ic ipated in tennis, volleyba l l , field hockey and oft ball. he became a substitute care worker for the Maine State Department of Human Service . A resident of Gray for 48 year , he wa a member of the Portland A d v e n t C h r i s t i a n C h u rc h ,

Pleasant River Grange, Windham H istorical oc iety and Friends of the Library. Survi vors include her husband, Donald, three ons, two daughter , a brother, a · ister, Thelma Beverage Parker ' 3 7, a nephew, Richard M. Beverage '7 3 , nine grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Media Communicator Richard Barratt Beal '5 1 , a corporate med ia executive, d ied January I , 19 9, at age 59. He was born in Williamsport, Pa. , and graduated from the Haverford School. At the College he was pre ident of Delta Kappa Epsilon and president of the Inter-fra terni ty Counc i l , wrote for the Echo and served on several stu dent comm ittees. Following serice in Korea a a second l ieu tenant with the a n t i - a i rc raft artillery, he attended the Charle Morris Price chool of]ournalism. He wa direc tor of media for Doremu -Eshelman Co. in Ph il ade lphia before joining the media taffofrhe N .W. Ayer & on. For I years he was executive vice pre ident of the Foundation for Full ervice Banks, which con ducted the bank ing industry' nat ional advertising program. Later, he published his own bank marketing magazine. I n 1 97 7 he formed The Marketing Depart ment, serving a director and managing partner. He wa a di rector or tru tee of several townhip organizations involved in land and water conservation and recyc l i ng. Hi serv ice to the College included h i work as an alumni i nterviewer and c lass agent and a president of the Colby Club of Philadelph ia. I n 1 98 5 h e moved t o Centre Harbor, N . H . He is urvived by h is wife, Margaret, three ons and one daughter.

Agency Administrator David S. O'Neil '54, an admin istrator at colleges and other nonprofit agencie·, died in Bur l i ngton, Vt., on June 4 , at age 60. He was born in pringfield, Mass., and attended Mamaroneck H igh chool in New York and Boston University before com ing to Colby. An economic major at the College, he also studied so cial p ychology at the e\\" York University Graduate chool of Arts and c iences, where he worked as an assi rant regi trar before rak ing a position with the bank ing fi rm of Reynold & Company in New York. From 1 969 to 1 97 3 he wa vice presi d e n t for a d m i n i s t r a t i o n at F r a nc o n i a C o l l eg e in N e w Hampshire. Over the next sev eral year he erved a· executive director of the ourheasrern Ver mont Act ion Agency and of Threshold Hou e in Plainfield, Vt. I n 1 979 he became business manager of Oakwood School in Poughkeep ie , N .Y . , then moved to a simi lar position at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He was al o pre ident of Innovative Creations Company in Denver, Colo. He is survived by three sons, Dylan, Sean and Col lin.

Honorary

Civil Rights Leader William Montague Cobb, c.D. ' 4, a physici t, educator and former pre ident of the Na t ional Assoc iat ion for the Ad vancement of Colored People, d ied November 20, in Washing ton, D.C. A leader in the civil right movement, he served as president of the Howard Uni ver icy Medical School for more than 40 years.

LETTERS letters from readers. We re brevit)' and clarity . Please send correspondence ro: Edi ror , Colhy .

Colby welcomes

sen•e the right

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Office of Communicarions , Colby College , Waten1ille , ME 0490 1 .

some ·ucces . Because of the war, there was no varsity indoor crack team i n I 94 3 and

1 944. Consequently, the inter-fraternity i n 1 944 became

Jonr track meet in March

q u i te impommt-w ith a large turkey as the

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I t ' s not often that I write, but l do wanr to compl i ment you anJ members of your magazine staff on the new format for Colby. Reader reactions w i l l let you know to what extent you can

a t i fy your diverse

audience w i t h a s i ngle publication, but this aud ience of one finds i t right on the money. A top quality job.

David Van Allen Coming, N . Y.

ongrat u lat ion· 1

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won. There were about

e i ght of us and our star performer was Jerry Lewis

'4 5 , who excel leJ in the da he:, and

broad and h igh j u mps. We now had a problem, which was the prize turkey, · i nce we had no k i tchen or d in i ng room in which to prepare and cat the turkey d i nner. Cy and h is wife came to our rescue by preparing the turkey and all the fixings and invit ing us to their house to eat

the excel lent d i nner, for which

I have a l

ways hcen gratefu l . A l though 1 rea l i :e t h a t Cy should be honored les for h i s c u l i nary a b i l i ty than for h i s gentle and generous nature, this inc ident i l l ustrate h i care and concern for h is boys

As one who has before compl i menred you and Colby on the quality of your publi cat ions, may

I congratu late you on your first

issue of the new "combined" magazine and

through the years.

Charles A. Hannigan '44 Ba i ley Island, Maine

many readers-and the separate journal perhap confusing.

I think you have a good

Fact Check

a l u m n i magaz ine , useful a lso to undergradu ates-and the qual ity of content and ap pearance-design is outstanding.

Osborne F . Ingram Cohasse t , Mas s .

I question the "facts" i n Lou Deraney'

'44 letter regarding the origin of the song " A l l Up To Cheer For Dear Old Colby . " Th is song had b e e n played and s u n g for many years

before I entered Colby

in the fall

of 1 928, and I doubt that either A l McCoy or Fred Waring was involved i n i t composition. T h e J a nuary issue of Colby w a s excel

I am amazed that Colby would print such

lent-and the coverage of"A lumni At Large"

a letter w i thout verifying the "information"

most appreciated.

contained there i n .

Ye , an outstand i ng promotion-and eagerly looking forward to the next is ue.

Chef Perkins I was saddened to read of the death of Cy Perk i ns. I had been coached by h i m i n t h e hamme r throw i n

A lden Macdonald

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A n n a Maria, F l a .

Bob Bruce '40 Waterrown, Conn .

1 942 a n d 1 94 3 with

Magazine Staff: Edward Her hey, director of communications , executive editor; Sally Baker, managing ediwr; Nora L. Cameron, associaie editor, graphics and design; Mary Ellen Matava, associate editor, photography; Carol Anne Beach '88, sports editor; Robert Gille pie, College editor; Bonnie Bishop, creative director; Rebekah M itchel l '9 1 , ediwnal incem Contributing Photographers & Illustra tors: David Wilkinson (front cover and

inside front cover), Rhett Weiland ( i nside back cover), Bruce Hutchinson (pg. 2 2 ) , Jo-Ann A rn o (pg. 49) Administration: William R. Cotter, presi denc; Peyton Randolph Helm, vice presidenr for developmenc and alumni relations; Earl H . mith, dean o f r he College; Susan Conant Cook ' 7 S , director of alumni relations

endorse the notion of a s i ngle publication. The d istinct ions between Colby and Cur rents was probably c learer to you than to

1 s puhli hed five time yearly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, sen· 1or,, faculty and staff of Colby College. AJdres correspondence to the Director of Communication , Colby College, Water· ville, ME 0490 1 -4799.

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Colby's alma mater, "Hail Colby Hail , " was written b)' Karl R . Kennison '06 and is sung ro the melody of "Oh Canada . " "Hail To Colby" was written in 1 936 by Fred Waring. "On To Victory , " a song by an anonymous author that concains the line "All up to cheer for dear old Colby , " appeared in the 1 948 Colby Song

Board of Trustees: H. Ridgely Bullock ' S S , chair, Gerald). Holtz ' S 2 , vicechair, Richard L. Abedon '56, Howard D. Adams, Robert N. Anthony '38. Frank 0. Apantaku '7 1 ,

Alida M i l l iken Camp ( M rs. Frederic E.), John G . Christy, Susan Comeau ' 6 3 , Wil liam R. Cotter, James B. Crawford '64, Robert A. Friedman, Robert M. Furek '64, J e rome F. Goldberg '60, W i l l iam H . Goldfarb '68, Peter D . Hart '64, Nancy Spokes Haydu '69, Gerald J . Holtz ' S 2 , Robert S. Lee 'S 1 , Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80, Robert A. Marden '50, David M . Marson '48, Edson V. M itchell I l l ' 7 S , Pau l D. Paganucci, Wilson C. Piper ' 3 9 , Lawrence R. Pugh 'S6, David Pulver ' 6 3 , Robert Sage ' 4 9 . Richard R. chmaltz '62 , John M. Seidl, Robert E. L. Strider I I , Barbara Howard Traister ' 6 S , Edward H . Turner, Mary Elizabeth Brown Turner '63, Will iam D. Wooldredge '61 Alumni Council Executive Committee:

Victor F. Scalise, J r. 'S4, chair, Forrest W. Barnes 'S6, Albert F. Carville, Jr. '63 , Eliza· beth J . Corydon '74. John B. Devine, Jr. '78, M ichael L. Franklin '63, Scott F. McDermott '76, Germaine Michaud Orloff ' S S , Donald J. Short '64, Solomon J . Hartman '67

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