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