Colby Magazine vol. 83, no. 4 by Colby College Libraries

7 ,409

People

said YES! They all gave to the I 994 Colby Alumni Fund. T hanks to all of you, as of June 30 we raised $1 , 769,000 in unrestricted dollars for the College.

To the 483 new donors who helped provide a 7% increase in giving, welcome aboard! One of the criteria for Colby's national rankings is the percentage of alums who support their college, and you helped Colby reach 45.2%. And for those of you who thought "maybe I'll give something next year" - it's next year!

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Cover Story

Colby Staff:

Sally Baker

execucive editor

A Remarkable Day

The Class of '94 departed in memorable fash ion, w ith be t wishe and advice from former president George Bush.

]. Kevin Cool

managing editor Brian Speer

designer

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Robert Gillespie

Alumni at Large editor

Back in Shape

tephen Collins '74 Lynn Sullivan '89

A renovated and improved Alfond Athletic Center rises from the a hes of a fire-damaged fac il ity.

staff writers

Aneste Fotiades '89

editorial assistant

Outreach Agents

Hannah Swenson '96 Amy Chamberlain '96

Colby's Alumn i Counc i l i empowering itself to erve the needs of its constituents and to assist the College.

edicorial interns Contributing Reporter: Selby Frame

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In pired by faculty to test their abilitie , student blo om i n o n e of t h e nation's b e t creative writing programs.

development and alumni relacions; College; director of alumni relacions

Earl H. mith, dean of the usan Conant Cook '75,

Making a Life Out of Theater

A the curtain falls on hi 3 1 -year Colby career, Howard Koonce reflects on the j oy of nurturing a theater community.

Departments

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Administration: William R. Cotter, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president for

Alumni Council Executive Committee: Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman '80; Thomas M. Dailey '80; John B. Devine Jr. '78; Solomon J. Hartman '67; Ronald L. Lupton '71; William E. Marvin '65; Judith Orne horey '55; Carol G. Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58

Features

Books & A uthors

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Paging Parents

Alumni at Large

Profiles: 47 Dr. Steven Sternberg '4 1 53 George E. Haskel l J r. ' 5 5 59 J oan Phillipp Thomp on '64 65 Abigai l Rome '78 75 Robert Scott J r. '90 77

Obituaries

Letters

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Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI. Alumni In Admissions

Move To Wellness

More than 1 ,000 Colby alums from some 45 tates are enrolled in a special program to assist the College with identifying and interviewing prospect ive students. Judy Brody '58, associate dean of admission heads the team whose members inter� v iewed nearly 250 high schoolers last year and represented the College at more than 70 college fairs around the country.

Col by's age-old physical education re quirement has been renamed and rede fined , thanks to the work of a study group formed by the Health Care Advisory Com mi ttee and inc lud i ng members from the staffs of the H ealth Center and the Athletic Department. Effective in the fall , the name will be changed to the "Wellness" requirement. The centerpiece of the new program i a 10-week serie of seminars on top ics relat ing to wellnes , attendance at which will meet half of the new requirement. The plan preserves the trad itional methods of meet ing the re quirement th rough joining in any of seven l ife-time sports activi ties (squash, tennis, aerobics, scuba, l ifeguard training, yoga and ice skating) and by part icipation in var ity or club sport teams.

Piper Life Trustee Trustees have e lected Wilson Piper '39 a life member of the board. Piper, an attorney with the Boston firm of Ropes & G ray , became a trustee in 19 5 9 and has served in numerous capac i ties, includ ing a term as v ice chair. H e is now a member of the executive, aud it and budget and finance committees. For more than a half century, Piper has g iven the College his t i me and his talent and has been among Colby's most generous benefac tors. He and his w ife, Peg, established the Clara C. Piper endowed chair, currently held by Dave Firmage. Other l ife mem bers on the board are Robert Anthony '38, Alida Camp and former Colby presi dent Robert E. L. Strider.

Let's Welcome new managing ed itor of this magazine, who comes to us by way of Central College in Pella, Iowa, where, s ince 1988, he has been d i rector of col lege commun icat ions. H is work at Cen tral, h is alma mater, won a number of awards includ ing one for "exceptional achievement in publication " from the Council for the Advancement & Sup port of Education ( CASE). Before join ing the college cene, Kevin was managing editor of the Daily lowegian in Centerville and, before that, news editor of the Daily Union injunction City, Kan. Kevin Cool,

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th or of a book, Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria , 1897-1936, which has received the Wal lace K . Ferguson Prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Assoc iat ion for "the best book in non-Canadian h istory published in 1 99 3 . " . . . Lyn MikelBrown ( education) has been chosen as a Na t ional Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Administered by the N ational Academy of Educat ion, the fel lowships are given to enhance t h e future of research by developing new talent in the many fields of educational scholar ship . . . . Work by Ira Sadoff ( English) has been included in the Harper's Ameri can Literature Anthology, Vol . II, j ust released . . . . Sandy Maisel (government) ha been elected pres ident of the New England Pol it ical Science Assoc iation.

Colby Pride

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( phy ics) has rece ived a Maine Researcher Enhancement Grant from the Experimental Program to Stim ulate Competitive Research. I t is a pro gram established to help states that t r a d i t i o n a l l y re c e i v e l i t t l e f e d e r a l fun d i ng . Michael Don ihue '79 ( economics) has accepted a one-year ap pointment as senior economi t w i th the Pres ident's Council of Economic Adv i sors i n Wash i ngton . H e ' l l spend h is sabbat ical year working with members of the Council as well as with members of President Cl inton's administration in p r e p a r i n g e c o no m i c fore c a s t s a n d m a c r o e c o n o m i c s p o l i c y . . . . Susan MacKenzie '80 ( government and envi ronmental c ie nces) has been awarded a research fel lowship by the Center for S c i e n c e & I n terna t io n a l A ffairs at Harvard . She will conduct research and write a book on international efforts to implement ecosystem management . . . Jan Hogendorn ( economic ) i co-au-

This year's freshman book is Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz . . Colby Book Prizes were presented to students at 7 5 h igh schools around the country this spring. Books are purchased from an ap proved l ist by alumni or alumni groups and pre ented to j uniors as chosen by chool faculty. lntere ted alums should write the Admis ions Office . . . . Presi dent Bill Cotter found the money to help a group of 1 5 Colby students who spent spring break working for Habitat for Hu manity by construct ing homes in hurri cane-ravaged Miami.

Shelby Nelson

Ooops! In a "Periscope" i tem about an Alumni Fund student phonathon in the June is sue of Colby, we should have included the name of Susannah Kowal '96's mother, Diane Terry '65. Susannah was the event's top solici tor, raising $12 ,190 from 171 donors. We apologize for the oversight, Diane.

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Panel To Address Housing Options T ioned a panel to evaluate Colby's he Board of Trustees ha commis

other college are doing to addre the hou ing needs of mult icultural tudents and asses oc ietal factor that pertain to questions of divers i ty . The group a a

special interest hou ing and whether it would open the door to additional reque ts re idential life program and determine for separate housing units ba·ed on aca whether i t meet the need of all Colby demic, soc ial or co-curricular affin itie . tudents. The issue was The ubcom m i t tee raised at a meet ing thi evalua t i ng comparab le pring in which 7 0 tu program a t other col dents of color requested lege has al ready con that the College provide duc ted a survey of 2 multicultural hou ing. ·chools to learn what The 2 1 -member Trus hou ing programs exi t tee Cammi s ion on Mul ro meet pec ific need of t i cultural and pec ial mul ticul tural student . Interest Hou ing was cre M e mber w i l l \·i it a ated to address concerns handful of college thi a i red by S t ud e n ts o f ummer and fall to col Color United fo r Change lect more information. during a March 9 Cam The ational Cultu pus Commun ity Com ral Evaluation subcom m i t t ee mee t i n g . The mittee, noting that "new centerpiece of the stu issues and new objectives dents' proposal wa a re regarding race relation quest for a multicultural are now evident," said hou e/center that would any deci ion regarding S tudems of Color United For Change sought the establishment of a multiculcural provide a "residential oanew hou ing a rrangehouse at a CCC meeting in March. i " for student made ments hould con ider uncomfortable by mainstream dormitory whole will di cu s how and to what ex oc ial trends that may influence current life. The students emphasized that such a tent the creation of a mult icultural house concerns and future need . house would be non-exclu ionary and de- would i mpact College pol i c ies regarding The commi ion expects to present a igned to "ini tiate multicultural d ialogue." " pec ial i nterest" hou ing option . T h e report to the tru tee board at i ts J anuary ome student aid that they feel con- Tr u tees Comm ission o n Campus Life' 1 995 meet ing. picuous and unfairly burdened by their December 1983 report recommending the abolition of fraternit ies and sororities perceived role as d iversi ty amba sador . (Roughly 7 percent of Colby's student has been the ba is of sub equent dec i n a c raggy island 2 m i le off population i composed of orth A meri s ion oppo ing the creation of separate the coa t of Maine-an inho pi can minorit ies. ) A mul ticul tural house hou ing unit . Colby Pre ident Bill Cot would ease a simila t ion for tudents of ter has expres ed reservation about re table chunk of granite whose only occu color while providi ng a place to celebrate v isiting t h is policy but ay he agrees that pant i s a l i gh t house k eeper-Co lby add i t ional study is needed on the particu tudent Matthew Weaver '95 and A so Colby's d iverse population, they say. The commission, whose members in lar issue of mult icultural housing. He c iate Profe or of Chemi try Tom Shat clude trustee , faculty, students and ad called i t "one of the most poignant and at tuck di embark from a Coast Guard boat, cramble over a carpet of rock and, reach mini trators, held i ts fir t meet i ng M ay the same t i me one of the most difficult" i sues faced by the College. ing the l ighthouse, c limb to the top. The 20 and appointed three subcomm it tee One area of debate for the commis ion v iew i impre s ive, but they aren't there to study separate i s ues. The ubcommit tee will evaluate Colby' re idential l ife i expected to be whether the creation of a to admire the ocean. They are collecting program as i t currently exists, tudy what multicultural hou e would be con trued as aerosol samples to study the way a i rborne

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Very Observant A series of "public evenings" sponsored by the College we hould share what we learn ," he said . "We feel we owe J u ly 16-22 attracted about 300 Waterville area residents to it to the public to share this information." the Coll ins Observatory to see the results of comet frag The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet's collision wi th J upiter, ment hitting J upiter. approx imately 480 mil P ro fessor of Phy s i c s l ion m i l e from earth, Murray Campbell, who or i n trigued veteran ky ganized the events along watchers and per on w i th Vi i t ing A s-istant who had never looked Profe--or of Physics Rohdri t h ro u gh a t e l e c o p e , Evans a n d W i l l Y e l l e Campbell ays. "The pub 9 6 was pleased w i th the lic is intere ted in as public's response. "I was t ronomy for the same elated that so many people reasons astronomers are," came to look through the he said. "They want to see telescope and enjoyed do more and know more." ing so," he said. Celestial phenomena, Although he planned while scientifically impor to have the telescope open tant, also touch the human onl y one night , the public spirit, he says. "Science response prompted Camp teaches us how to solve bell to extend the sessions problems, but it' also aes Professor of Chemisrry Murray Campbell lines up Jupiter . through the week. thetic. There is an intrinsic On J uly 20, one of the clearer nights of the week, an beauty which the public can appreciate." estimated 100 people l ined up for a one- or two-minute Because of i ts massive size and gravitational force, J upiter inspection of J upiter. Most said they were pleased by the i a comet magnet. Comet -aggregates of rock and ice quality of the image, and everal could make out distinc t hurtling through the solar y tem--often come close to black patches that Campbell a y s probably were clouds o f J up iter but seldom hit the planet it elf, Campbell says. "lf a d ust caused by comet fragments vaporizing in J up i ter's comet doesn't have the misfortune of going close to J upiter atmosphere. "I always worry that people will be d isappointed it will live the entire age of the solar system," he said. that they don't see a textbook qual ity image," Campbell Campbell i grateful for a gift by Anthony Kramer '62 that said. "But my wife [Linda], who was randing at the tele provided funds for the purchase of the tele cope. The gift was scope , heard a lot of people saying 'Oh, wow.' They were made as a memorial to Kramer's friend and cla smate absolutely thri lled . " Lawrence Walker Collins I l l '62. Campbell s a y he was fol lowing a tradi t ion within the "l hope to do many more summer evenings for the public in a tronomical community that emphasizes public educa coming year ,"Campbell said. "Thi one was a lot ofwork, but the tion. "There is a strong fee l i ng among astronomers that appreciation by the people who came made it all worthwhile." '

part icles travel in the atmosphere. Thi summer 12 Colby students are involved in 14 separate projects in the College's Chemistry Depart men t, colla borating with faculty on erious, funded research that often involves fieldwork. In the vernacular of the chemistry fac ulty, the e students are "doing cience" and doing it well. Accord ing to Shattuck, Colby's sum mer re earch ass i tant compare favor ably with first- or second-year graduate tudent . M iselis Profe sor of Chemi try Brad M undy concurs. "These k ids are working on real sc ience, " M undy aid. OLBY

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"Clearly progress is lower than it would be for a graduate student, but the quality of work is at the graduate-school level." M e rc k/Le ighton Summer Fe l low Evelyn Ol ivares '95 is conducting experi ments on basic structures found in natu ral products, hoping to develop new approaches for recomposing those prod ucts organ ically. When she de cribe the research, Oli vares speak w ith the confi dence of a seasoned veteran. "Rather than j ust doing a cookbook kind of thing, fol lowing directions, I'm thinking about what goes on next and developing my own protocols," she said.

Olivares, who began her 1 0-week fel lowship May 24, culminated the project with a presentation to her chemistry col leagues late in ] u ly and with a visit to the Merck pharmaceutical laboratory in New Jersey, where she di cussed her research and toured the fac ilities. "This has been a very educational sum mer," he said. "This gives me the indepen dence I need to think for my elf and give me the tool to start on my own, to develop omething new based on my idea ." M undy, a self-professed "zealot" on the merits of Colby's summer re earch program, said opportunirie Olivare and

others in the Chemi try Department have are truly extraordinary for undergradu ates. "Evelyn is now doing vacuum d isti l lations a n d usi ng equipment that two months ago she never even thought about u ing," he said. Another of Mundy's ummer research a istants, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Scholar Frank Favaloro '96, is analyzing how or ganic compound are reduced. "Frank is doing catalytic hydrogenations; that's an experience that probably one percent of the world' student will ever have and yet he's doing it routinely," Mundy said. Sarri Salman '94 is studying the syn the is of carbon i n wood rot fungus; J osh Sm ith '95, also a Bristol-Meyers Squibb scholarsh ip rec ipient, is conducting ex periment on sulfide oxidations during the metabol i c proces . Meanwhile, Clare Boothe Luce Scholar Sara Charneck i 9 5 and Jennifer M arde n ' 9 5 , a n d Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholars Daniel Howe '94 and R i ma Lathrop '96, are collaborating w ith Clare Boothe Luce Ass i rant Profes or of B iochemi try Julie M i llard and Associate Profe sor ofChem istry David Bourgaize, respectively. A istant Profes o r of C h e m i stry Whitney K ing, whose collaboration with ummer research assistants last year re ulted in two pub l i hed papers and a trip to Switzerland for Heather Lounsbury '

'94 ( see Colby, March ) , said tudent help i "absolutely essent ial" to completing hi re earch. "Student make a huge im pact on what I'm able to do," he a id . "I can't do my sc ience without the ir help." The rec ipient of re earch grants from both the N ational Science Foundation and Research Corporat ion, King relie on tud e n t a s i stants J . Cath e r i n e Kneece ' 9 6 and J ason Hosmer '95-both of whom also rec eived fund i ng from H H M I -for d ata col lection and lab analy is. "The y're collecting tons of data, and I've been able to get two papers out [this summer)," Ki ng aid. Shattuck points out that most stu dents will carry on research begun dur i ng the summer into the fall semester, perhaps culm inating in a senior thesi . "By the time they fini h college they have a nice body of work they can be proud of," he aid. However, Shattuck emphasizes that faculty try to structure research projects that give students a sense of accompl ish ment. As a result, he ay , summer project typ ically are an exten ion of faculty re search. " It's absolutely necessary that stu dent projects be carved out of a bigger whole," he aid. "Ten weeks is not a lot of time , and so what you hope will happen is that students develop a fee l for the research and can tie what they do in the

I n the Running The United State- Corporate Athletic Association held its 1 6th annual track and field champion ships on Colby's Alfond Track on J uly 1 6- 1 7 . A thousand competi . tors from more than two dozen corporations across the U . S. at tended the meet, which promotes employee health and fitness. As the host in titution, Colby entered everal of the competi tion . Chemi try Profe sor Julie M i l lard, Christine Durkee of Spe c ial Programs and A sociate Con troller Cindy Whittier Wells '83 ( about to take the baton from Durkee ) ran to a sparkling third place finish in the Divi ion I I women's relay.

um mer to work they will ha,·e later on-" The benefits for -rudent are elf-evi dent, ay chemi try faculty. "I would ay a good undergraduate research experi ence i equal to almost any other factor that a graduate -chool could look at, " Mundy said. "One of the really fanta-tic trengths of Colby College is that even tf a faculty member doe n't ha,·e funded re earch they can get in the re earch game and give tudents these opportuni ties. I'm very exc ited about the opportu nitie student have here." Without fund ing to underwrite the re earch the tudent a i rant program would not ex ist. King ays a combi nation of external support-both of his re earch grants have funds designated for tudent h e lp-and Colby ' s i nternal upport drives the program. He also credit re cent renovations in Keyes Science Bui ld ing with provid ing adequate space for eriou ummer research. The effect of ummer research pro j ects don't end when Colby student graduate. Rob Aldrich '94, who worked with K ing on iron analysi experiments last summer, i continuing hi collabora tion with King wh i le participating in an oceanographic cruise i n Augu t during which he will run an analytical ystem he and King developed. Chemistry faculty enjoy the clo e in teraction with tudent dur ing ummer re earch. "A real esprit de corps develops," King aid. "And we enjoy the teaching a peers, which i� part of the reason we're at Colby rather than at a large research institution . " Summer research i s b n o means l imit ed to the Chemi try Department, either. Aero the campus, a total of 45 student are as isting faculty with research in 1 8 d iscipline . V ice President for Academic Affa i r a nd Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur says the summer re earch program, now in it s ixth year, was os ten ibly created for faculty upport, but it reaches w e l l beyond that. " I t i enormously helpful to tudent who not only learn a lot but who often end up w ith their names on publication a co authors," he aid. " It' good for faculty, good for the College, and it' very aood for the tu + dents," said K ing. AUG

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hey u�ed tl1 cal l it "the long wal k ." Down the gym corridor tL)Ward the unk nown. Blasts of rock music _ re\•erheratrng off the wal ls. Whn wa� there? H ow many1 They never knew.

sl) it \\"aS fur Colhy's women athletes rwt many years agL). If

they \\"anted to tra i n with weights, they had to end ure the l ong \\·al k tu the old weight mom set up in a d,)uble squa�h court. "Th

biggest thing then was the long walk down the

corridor. We'd hear the music. and we d idn't knO\\" what was gning on," sai d Carn! Anne Beach '88. An athlete as an undergrad uate, Beach nL)\\" coache:, women 's ha�kerhall at Cul by and serves as assi ·rant director of athletic� and :,enior \\'omen\ adm i nistrator. As daunt ing as that walk \\"as, it \\"as nothing compared tu the c hallenge of \\·mk i ng out in the �'re\·ious weight mom, a c lau\tl"ll phobic space near the boi ler mom in Wad:-.\\'L)rth Gymna ·ium. "That was really i ntimidating," Beach :,aid. "Ir was a \·ery c losed space. Very small . There wa· \'ery little \'entilation. Only a c o u p l e of \\"omen frnm track and a couple L)f women from basketbal l wou l d use it. And you always went in with someone else. Ynu never \\"ent in al one." Nor that footbal l p layers grunt ing and pump i n g i ro n endan gered Col by's handful of female I ifters. It was the i dea of being outnumbered by bigger, stronger ath l etes and the feeli ng of vent u r i ng into an a l ien world of male j oc k talk that intimi dated Colby women. " lt was psychologi c al ," Beach s a i d . "Bas i c a l ly, once you were in there it was fun . Bur it was getting in there." Fast forward from those not so happy day of yesteryear to

1994. An April afternoon. Col by women enter the Harold Al fond Athletic Center w ith a sense of purpose, not dread. Plugged into Walkmans or Discmans, they wear warm-up jackets and baseball caps w ith visor- rolled over l ike a used Red Sox core card. They leave their Colby IDs with an attendant, take a right through glass doors and enter the new Colby fitness center. Bright, airy and fi l led \\'ith the latest and be t exercise equip ment, the faci lity might as well be called Workout Wonderland. "I love irl" e xc la imed Allison A lsip '94, of Bai nbri dge I s l and, W ash. "I come down here four t imes a week . I l ike a l l the new equirment." Carolyn Greene '94, of Grarn·il le, Ohio, nodded in ar prov a l . " I t's so clean in here," she s a i d . " Before, there was o n l y o n e Stairmaster, a n d i t w a s i nt i m i dating. We'd be t h e only women in the weight room," A ls i p sai d . "Now I e e more women comi ng i n t o work out." That's exactly what Colby administrators were hoping for when, in the wake of the A ugust 1992 fire that destroyed squash cou rts, offices and part of the gymnasium. they discus ed the features they wanted for the new facility. Access and openness climbed the priority ladder when they saw how women re sponded to a change in the location of the weights. "When we had the fire, we had to put the weight room in the fieldhouse. It wasn't nice. We had no different equipment. But so many more women used it because it was open," Beach

said. "lt wa a d i ffe r e nt atmosphere, and that's what we tried to build on when we created the new room."

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The Harold Alfond Athletic Center lS

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Colby's fitness center ex tends 40 feet over the fieldhouse

• Two motorized treadm i l ls;

f1oor from the original ath letic complex entrance. One f1oor

• Three regular and two recumbent Lifecycles;

above the fitness center is an aerobics/exercise stud io. The

• A piped- in stereo system .

fieldhouse roof was raised to make room for the new spaces.

"I t's like a very n i c e health c l u b w i t h t h e track right there,

Nat ur a l l ight from skylights bathes both areas.

the tennis court , the poo l , the gym, the ice rink and the squash

Some of the center's aerobic equipment, such as stair

courts," Dexter said . "The big advantage is that the athletic

machines and tread m i l ls, overlook the fieldhouse floor. Free

complex fits a lot of d ifferent needs and a lot of people . "

weight benches are s i t uated in the m iddle of the room and weight machines toward the corridor s ide of the room, which,

Annual membership for students i n 1 994-95 is a l i ttle over $25 ,000, bu t that includes room and board, two semesters of a

at 5 ,300 square feet, is s l ightly larger than the area of the

liberal arts education and J an Plan.

basketball floor. Except for the exterior side, the walls are glass

During the winter and spring, student monitors approved by Dexter were on duty during peak hours, approx imately 2

or m irrors, which enhances the feeling of open space. "Th is was designed to be user friend ly. We wanted a

p . m . to 1 0 p . m . They supervised activ ity in the fitness center,

comfortable atmosphere for everyone to work out," said Ed

spotted for those who needed i t and instructed others on using the machines. Moni tors have a background in weights, have

Mestieri, assistant d i rector of athletics for operations.

trained w i th Colby teams or have worked out elsewhere.

Tom Dexter, assistant football coach, head baseball coach and coordinator of strength training, supervised the purchase

The fitness center itself was open from as early as 7 a.m.

and installation of $ 1 25,000 worth of equi pment. The inven

during the week to as late as m idnight on Fridays and Satur

tory is i mpressive:

days. Only Colby students, faculty and staff may use the room

• Bodymaster free we igh ts-poundage: 4,000;

because of it size and the demand placed on its equipment.

• Three squat racks; • One encased squat machine that permits users to lift

house, as they have in the past.

Waterv ille-area residents continue to have access to the field Faculty and staff gave the fitness center high marks and last

safely w i thout the benefit of a spotter;

spring were inquiring about summer hours ( Monday through

• Stairmaster Graviton, a device for weight-assisted

Friday, 8-8, Saturday and Sunday, 1 2- 5 : 30 ) .

pull-ups and arm d i ps;

" I t's first class, no question about it," said J im Meehan,

• Nau t ilus and Bodymaster machines;

Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor and chair of the Economics

• Selec torized equ ipment that employs pins to adjust

Department. He uses a stair c l i mber five days a week during the

w e igh t loads;

lunch hour, when faculty have priority.

• Two step m i l ls, stair machines that rotate on an axis;

"In the old days there were only two Stairmasters," Meehan

• S ix stair c l imbers;

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said. "Sometimes I'd have to

throw omeone off. I felt

awkward about it. The only waiting line now seems to be for the treadmills." Meehan said more people are using the athletic com plex than before the fire. "The other nice thing is the mix of men and women students who u e it now,"

Thanks, Harold!

1 li-,t�thatathlete"keerfiled in a cahinet hy the fitness

On October 1, during Fall Parents Weekend, Colby will celebrate Harold

center entrnnce. Codche.,

Alfond Day with variou events and activities on campus, including a parade

rrerare tra i ning regimen� for their rlayer�. hut it i" t he athletes' re,rc >n,1h1I1 t) to d\) the \\'1>rk.

during halftime of the football game v . Middlebury. Before the game, which will begin at l :30, there will he guided tours of the renovated and renamed Harold Alfon<l Athletic Cemer, entertainment and intercollegiate contests played by most of Colby 's fall athletic team , which will continue into the afternoon. The athletic center will be dedicated officially at a ceremony held from 12 :30 to

1 p.m., and that evening there will

be a fireworks salute to Alfond beginning at dark.

Col hy 'tuLlent' ha,·e '

hegun tu use the f1tne'>'> center a� a !Tl ee t i ng rhce

as \\'ell a' \\'urkout rlace. "j

really bel1e\·e it 1� J tucal

he aid. "There's also a good mix of faculty and staff. I've noticed people from the dean'

point on campus," Mestieri said. "The atmosrhere is �uch that

office here and from the treasurer's office. I've seen a few from

it promotes social interaction, but most people are fncu,ed on

buildings and grounds and even a spouse. I've been pleasantly

working out. A lot of people go with friends or meet friend and work out , but people who take fitness or w e llnes s seriously gu

surprised by the mix." Unlike the old days, when the weight roomappealed to varsity

down and work out real bard."

athlete , predominantly football players-"It was dark, closed in

"Exercise is o social. 1\·e seen some die-hard guys srnnding around between set and talking , " Beach said.

and not user friendly if you were not a hea\'y lifter," Mestieri said-the new fitness center attracts all Colby constituencies.

The fitne

ness Program the College has devised for students, faculty anJ

'Tm beginning to see kids I never saw in the old weight room," said John Hebert

center should play a significant role in the Well-

staff for the

'97, a basketball player from Van

1 994-95 academic year. Colby in tructor will

provide information on individual training program .

Buren, Maine. "And athletes still have a quality place to train," Dexter said.

"We can accommodate virtually any need of any tudent on

Indeed, Colby athletes train along ide non-athletes-they

campus, and we plan to do it in the fall," Mestieri said. "We will

do not get preference in the fitness center or have hours re erved

teach them what to do for cardiova cular improvement, mus

for them. "I don't think that would go over here," Mestieri said.

cular strength and weight control. The information has been

"The fitness center is designed to accommodate the student body

available, but now it will be on a much more organized ba i ." Much of the athletic complex received a facelift after the fire.

without having a specific advantage for athletic teams."

The renovated entrance is decorated in blue and gray tile with

Sometimes the only way to tell the two apart is by the check

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a blue Cl1lby C on the floor. The trophy case that adorned the left wall is gone. The new wall is pai nted a muted gray. Halfway down the corridor toward the Carl E. N e lson Physical Therapy Center, a sta irway on the right prov ides access to the pool deck. On the left , j ust past the main en trance , the 3 ,000-seat Wadsworth G y mnetsi u m spark les w i th a new basketba l l floor the old h cird wood court warped from water damage i n the fire-and new scmeboards at both ends of the court. A long the corridor he h i nd the top row of the gymnas i u m grandstand are the five rebu i l t Dunaway Squash Courts, three A merican and two i n t e rn at iona l . The three A merican courts were b u i l t w i t h false w a l l s so t h e y can be converted to internat ional -sized courts. The rear w a l l of each court is g l ass. A new glass-wal led conference room located j ust before the squash court

pro v ides space for post-game g<tther ings and a

new home for Colby's troph ies and award . A lso as part of the overa l l re novat ions to the athle t ic c o m p l e x , new men's and women's locker rooms and bench areas were b u i l t in the A lfond l e e Arena. A wnmen's facu lty/ staff locker room and s i x new coaches' uffic e - were added . L igh ts were put up on the f ootba l l prac t i c e fie l d . And the Wales Ten n i s Courts were dug up, turned 90 degrees to face north-south and resurfaced w i th aspha l t . T h e t i m ing o f t h e renova t i ons was ideal-the fieldhouse complex was 2 4 years old and show i ng s igns of wear and tear. N ESCAC chools were pass ing

olby w i th the i r sports fac i l i

t ies. The cost o f t h e post-fi re project was about $6 m i l l i on . H arold A l fond, whose name a lready adorns Colby's ice rink and ou tdoor trac k , donated $ 3 m i l l ion . Colby showed i r apprec i a t ion by n a m i n g the e n t i re indoor complex after h i m a n d w i l l c e lebrate h i s many contribu t i ons t o t h e Col lege o n " Harold A l fond Day," Oc tober l . Contribu t i ons from Colby a l u m n i and friends, a n i nsurance sett lement for fire da mage and Col lege funds prov ided the halance . T h e resul t o f benefactors' generos i ty , w ise i n p u t from a l l areas of t h e Colby com mun i ty a n d - o u n d d e s i g n is a sports fac i l i ty that ranks w i th any among N e w England's small colleges. " Harold A l fond wanted i t done right. H e vi i ted many t i mes d u r i ng the constru c t ion phase. He's an absol u t e perfectionist," said Dick W h itmor e , d i rec tor of athletics and men's ba k etball coach. "Under one roof we have as good a fa c i l i t y a anyon e . " C o l b y ' s coaches and adm iss ions staff u nderscore that po int when h igh school students v is i t c a mpus. " l t's so fulfi ll i ng to bring recru i ts i n the door," said W h i tmore. " I t 's so compel l i ng to have a basketba l l recru i t come i n and turn left to the court. lt fi l ls you w ith a bit of extra Colby pride . " "From where w e ' v e c o m e i t's i n c red i b l e , " Beach s a i d . "We have h ad a n explosion of fac u l ty and raff c om ing down here . We never k n e w o f t h e i ncred ible i n terest i n aerob ics. We're t ry i ng to p l e ase everyone, and we're com ing c lose . " A nd w i thout "the long walk . "

Mike S zostak i s a s!Jorcs writer and coliimnisc a t the Prov idence J ou rn a l - Bu l l e t i n .

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a remarkable day

by sally baker

former president george bush sends off the class of 1994 in style Waterv ille may be a Democratic Party stronghold, but the Elm City-or at least one comer of it-pretty much belonged to former President George Bush on ComÂ mencement Sunday. After weeks of preparation that exceeded even Colby's usual h igh standards for attention to detai l , Bush's visit to campu was among the most pleasant and relaxed occasi ons in recent memory on Mayflower H i l l . From t h e moment he l i terally peeked around t h e doorway o f M i l ler Library's Edwin Arl ington Robin on Room and flashed a smile at B i l l and Linda Cotter and his faculty host, government professor G. Calvin Mackenzie, to the moment he was whisked back to Kennebunkport by hi Secret Serv ice e cort, Bush charmed almost everyone he met. He posed for dozens of pictures. He talked bluefi hing and admired the weather and kidded around wi th the senior c la s officers. He even stopped on h is way out of town to autograph a "Thanks, Mr. Bush" sign a Waterville couple had placed in their front yard for the weekend. (They , unfortunately, were out eating l unch when the former president stopped by . )

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Bush was only the econd Un ited rares president to vi it Colby. Herbert Hoover was a gue t of the College in 1 9 30, though he had to give h is speech in a downtown Bapti t church

Bu h also congratulated "all the broke but happy parent " a

the aud ience. "They charge you an arm and

leg for thi , " he

said, "bur I think it's worth it."

becau e there wa no room on the College Avenue campu large enough to handle the crowd that wanted to hear h im.

aid he wa worried that he might see Dana Carvey at com

Rod Farnham ' 3 1 report that Hoover "wa not an orator by

mencement, since Colby was famous for its l mpres ion istic

After a few more j oke -he got the biggest laugh when he

any m e a n - i n fa c t [the

works-Bush ettled into the

speech] wa quite boring."

meat of hi

Though Bu h acknow l

peec h, which wa

all about ervice and \·alue .

edged i n h i commencement

"Edw in Arlington Robin-

addres that he was "not a good

on, [whose] room graces your

communicator," his remarks

library, once wrote something

were well received by the large,

that was very imple and yet

cheerful audience gathered on

very es ential , " Bush said . "He

Miller Library lawn. L ike se

wrote: 'Life i the game that

nior speaker Kendra A. K ing,

mu t be played. ' In a en-e,

who wa chosen by her cla s

that wa Kendra' theme, and

mates to addre s them, Bu h

in a en e that' what you're

stres ed the idea that individu

about to do-- tart playing the

als can and should try to make

game of l ife. And I hope for

a po itive d ifference in ociety.

you chal lenge will be p lenty,

K i n g t h a n k e d re t i r i n g

and I hope for you ucce s . Bur

trustee Richard Abedon ' 5 6

most of all I hope that every

for h is upport and encourage

one of you will find the depth

ment throughout her Colby

and meaning of! ife that comes

career. Then he called on the

from service to other . . .

Class of 1 994 to "stop and do

"Ir doesn't seem po ible

ome seriou self-reflection so

to me a I approach my even

that we-the people, the com

class of '94 senior speaker kendra king urged her

tieth birthday in a week or

munity, the world-can move

classmates to push for positive change.

two, but it wa forty- ix year ago that I wa sitting out there

forward, hand in hand, united,

where you are now, bur ting to get out there and claim my

to denounce the 'ugly way ' of rac i m, sex ism, c lassism, world

take in the world, take a crack at anything. And I really hope

hunger and human strife that continue to directly, as well a

that you all feel that way now. Do it all. Don't be afraid of

ind irectly, devour us all. "It i time," she said, "we top itting at the table of

trying, of dreaming. Don't even be afraid of failure, f tear . We

ufferings of one another.

all stumble, we all fear, and that's what makes u human. But

humanity only to feast off the

none of us should ever regret.

. . . Those of u who have the fortune of feasting well in thi

one of u should ever it at a

grandchild' graduation and th ink: 'I wish that that were me

ociety mu t challenge ourselves to create a place and space for

tarting over again, there's so much I 'd do differently . ' You

all the 'Adam and Eves and their countle s generations' to be

have a lifetime of chances in your gra p right now, and don't

treated, a well as appreciated, equally."

lo e an of them. Don't gi e up on the chance to take a ri k,

Pre idem Cotter then took the dai to award the Condon

follow a vi ion, hug a ch ild, touch a life . . . .

Medal to Kebba Tolbert of Bronx, N .Y., and to introduce Bu h, who began his remark by lauding retiring College Marshal

" I hope you craft for your elve l ives enriched by serv ice.

Yvonne Knight ' 5 5 on 3 6 year of service to Colby. "Her son and

You can tart by reaching out to just one person. Maybe at fir t

I are members of a rank minority group," Bush quipped. "We

you'll give an hour to ome shut- in. Maybe ou can work on the

were both Republicans in the tate of Maine in the fall of 1 99 2 . '

weekend to teach the written word to an adult who doe n't

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e\·en k n n\\' huw tn rca J .

for t h e fi rst t i m e in t h e i r

May he you ' l l fi nd some t i m e

shor t , tno-�aJ l i ves, the e k ids

th e J ay j u� t t n h ul J a

got the chance to be l i eve in

londy k i d w h n d l )esn't h a v e

them�el ve, . That's where al l

a n y hndy e l � e \ mm:- \\'a i t i ng

mi rnc les start .

L l u r in g

for h i m . A n d when you J u,

" Pre:, i J e nr B i l l Cotter's

y , 1 u ' l l d i �c m · e r t h e m ost

t o l J me abo u t h u nd red� of

rowerful bri dge of a l l, the

Col by k id

human hridge of touch.

nther pro g r a ms -t he Home

who volunteer in

''Thornrnn W i kler wro t e

for L i t t l e Wanderers or the

a b l l U t t h e f orgotten , suffer

soup k i t c h e n or K lea r v i ew

i n g peo p l e whn l i ve l i k e

M anor, Char i ty Bal l, Hab itat

ghosts o n o u r s treets a n d of

for H u m a n i t y , many other

what we must do f or them. A n d h e said, 'There's a

land

shawn keeler '94 shares his diploma with his

p l aces . And I think t hey ' ve

father, gary, his sister, tracy, and his mother, linda.

f ound a rretty good example

nf the l i v i ng and a land of

r igh t h e r e i n y o u r p res id ent , because I was to ld by a secret informant that he's he lped the

t he d y i ng, and a br i dge is l ove, the l1n l y s u rv i v a l . ' I n too much of t h i s great land t hat b r idge i s c r u m b l i ng from d isrepa ir. Gu

health agency and the school for the deaf and the Red Cross.

out t here and fi x it, one out t retched hand after another. By

You see, it's not whether you ' re a pres iden t or whether you 're

doi ng t h i s you 're going to transform the l ives of a handfu l of

a stude n t , that's the k i nd of l i fe that you m ust carve for

people you touch , and you ' re go i ng to t ransform your own l i fe .

your e l ves, bl end ing pe rs o n a l a nd profess ional succes w i th a

A n d that's the geni us, rea l ly , of t h i s great and good l a n d . A nd

rich ness of ti m e spent caring for those who need you the mo t . "Your ed u c at i o n h a s gi ven you much-and as I said, for that

t h a t 's how you w i l l hel p renew i ts sou l-t hrough one sma l l act of c onsequence at a t i m e .

pr ice i t o ugh t to-b u t al though it takes you far it only goes so

"You d o n ' t have t o go very far for an ex ample. l want to t e l l you t h a t you don't have to

food for thought

look any further than the rows around you tod ay . You see, when I was preside n t I spoke about how A mericans c a n become one of a thousand poi n ts of l igh t , vo l u nt ee ri n g to h e l p e a c h other. A nd each day of my p residency I

Each year Colby fetes its honorary degree recipient at Commencement-eve dinners held in Roberts Union. Each of the honoree i introduced by hi or her faculty host, and each traditionally makes some remarks and takes que tion from the faculty and adminis tration guests. This year, the commencement speaker, George Bu h, was unable to attend the event,

n a med an offic ial point of l ight in recogn i t ion

but the other three honorary degree recipients, Chuck Close, Lucille Clifton and Come!

of the wonderful work done by individuals and

West, each spoke briefly.

orga n i z a t i ons all over this c o u n t ry r i p p i ng t h rough the shroud of neglec t w i t h w isdom and courage. Well, one of those poi n ts of l ight that I c hose was a student group r ight h e re on the c a mp us-the Col by Friends. A n d i n t h is group

Close, one of America's most famou contemporary artists, said Colby's job was to "keep betting on people." "I'm not omebody you would have bet on," Close said, recalling his school years as an exercise in frustration. "I wa learning disabled and nobody knew it," he aid, adding that the experience stood him in good stead for the shock and frustration of the paralysis that hit him suddenly in the 1 980 .

t h is year, your c las mates M ik e A ntonie l lo and

"I was at Gracie Mansion giving an award, and one hour later I was paralyzed from the

Kelly Boudreau have led Colby undergrads

neck down," Close remembered. He backed up his own decision to continue to paint by

determined to fight for t h is country's fut ure one lone ly kid a t a t i m e . Every wee k , I'm told ,

recalling the way his parents had supported his differences a a child, he said, and colleges like Colby ought to be havens where people can experiment with the things that makes them unique.

t hey brought fifty Waterv i l l e k i ds to c ampus

Clifton, a poet and a writer of children's books who teaches at the Univer ity of

and p a i red them up wi th Col by students one

Maryland, said she, too, is "a rebel of a sort." She talked about her parents, whose educations were slender but whose curiosity and love of books were boundless, about her succe sful and

on one, and some beautifu l mentor relation ships s tarted . They gave these borderl ine kids some hope, some options, some d reams. And

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fulfilled children and about the place of multiculturalism in the world. "This planet is a planet of color," she said, "and the norm for planets is color.Just because

far, and now you'\'e got to

"The American fam i l y has

e mpow e r yourse l v e s and this

h e en under � i ege in recent

is where it all begins nnw

time · . Both inJ 1 y i Jua l fo m 1 -

the rea l l ife .

li es anJ the id e a , the c nn

"My gra nd k ids say, ' Real

cepr, of an ent i re Ameri c a n

ity bites.' Okay, but i t a lso

fa m i ly. Bur I ' m C l ltW l l l C L'L I

chal l enge s . I lov e the story

that i r i� rhe t Llel nf fam i h·

about the guy that was at a

where t he ;1 n � \\'e r� t l l l l U r

Baptist church in Texas. And

pro h l e m� can he f m 1 nL I . �111Ll

afte r every ser\' ice he \\'as so

in rhe abence offa m r h \\'here

moved by the pastor's words

you as volunt e e rs can he i r.

that he would say, 'Oh, use

"l don't kno\\' if you re

me, Lord, use me . ' So fi nal ly ,

me mber when Barbara 1\'enr

former presi dent george bush greets honorary degree recipient cornel west prior to

up to W e l lesley to g i 1·e ll ' h;1 t

the pastor got ahold of him and said, 'The Lord has d e

commencement. to bush's right are honorary

c ont r o v e rs i a l g r a dua t i o n

after about four day of th is ,

c ided to call you, son. H e

degree recipients lucille clifton and chuck close.

wa� cons ide r ed tu be a rather speech. She had Raisa G or -

would like you to come to the Sunday School, sand down all

bache v at her sid e . And she sa i d something there that had a

the benche here and ha\'e them \'am i ·hed and read y for the

profound effect , certainly on me , and I think on many around

next Sunday.' So the following Sunday, the guy's still there and

rhe country. Because what she 'a id is, ' What happens in your

the minister i wonder ing , ' W i l l this guy respond ?' He gets up

house is far more important than what happens in the W h rre

and he finishes hi

sermon and the kid gets up and says, 'Oh,

House . ' And that' t rue . W e no lo ng e r fear another superpow e r. W e n o l onge r 11·orry

use me , Lord , u e me-but use me in an adv isory capacity.' You can't do it that way.

about a Berl i n Wall that d iv ides the free West from the

I love my elf doesn't mean I can't love ye u and others. omerime my student

ay they are

brutali:ed East. W e no long e r l i Y e each J ;1 y tired of talking about race. l a ure them that I am much more tired of it. Much." Clifton then read everal poem , including "Dear Jesse Helm ," which expre se her opposition to the gulf war. "The misuse of language in that war wa obscene," she said in introduction. "'Collateral damage,' 'friendly fire.' Collateral damage i people. How can fire be friendly?"

with the threat of a nucl ea r hol o caust . . . . But we\·e got to tu r n our a ttent ion to the e q u, d l y dev ast a t i ng threats in our own hom e l and , b cause here lurk the old en e m i es of the human sp i r i t -bi t t e rn ess , b igotry , despair.

West, a philo opher, theologian, political activi t and recent appointee to a joint

'My friend, the tough pol i tica l fi ghte r , gut

chool of Divinity at

p o l i tica l fighter Lee Atwater, d i e d too young,

profe or hip in the Afro-American studie department and the Harvard, said hi aim i "to po ·e

the be t of a radical democratic tradition" and to keep

alive "the be t of a very fragile experiment," democracy in America, by fo tering dialogue. "Two hundred eighteen year into th is experiment in democracy and we till have walls of demarcation," aid West, who e new book, Race Maners , examine j u t what it title implies. Despite what he called "a hunger in whites to interact with black and brown people, " We t aid whites are "trying to deal with tereotype " and"don't knowwhat to ay." To ensure that dialogue occur , he aid, "We've got some seriou work to do." In re pon e to the call by minority rudents at campu e aero s the country for eparate minority hou ing, West cautioned that each ituation wa different and hould be

and r ight near the end of hi

l i fe he a id thiY

'Whoe\ ' er leads us must be mad e t ) -peak to the spiritual \'acuum at the heart of American soci ety, thi tumor of the soul . ' . As president I anguished each day about ho11· to

fi l l the hollow in America's soul. And r f as

pre s i dent I had the power to g ive j us t one thing to the nation, it would have b e e n the re t u rn to

examined eparately but termed Balkanization, division and egmentation "dangerous." The more important i ue, he aid, i "qualitative interaction" among tudents. Cultivate

an inner moral compass , nu r tured by the fam i ly

a multicontextualism, he urged, a oppo ed to unicontextualism: a college might have all Catholic, all African American, all le bian housing groups, for i n ranee, b u t each group mu t be able to engage in dialogue with other group and be encouraged to move from

cont inue producing generations born num bly into despa i r ,

context to context.

must say that every choice is a moral action and

College campu es are places for dialogue, We t said, places to help overcome the impediments that society has placed before young people.

and valued by the community. W e cannot

free fall ing through soc iety. We

some things are simply morally wrong. "The rest of your l iv e

begin today. A Yale

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teacher once wrote: 'Whatever y u

behind Kevin Rothstein, who was

an do or dream you can do, begin it, for today has power, boldness

on crutches thanks to an auto mis

and magic in i t . ' So be bold in your

Portland to p ick h is parents up at

dream ing, be bold in your liv ing,

the airport.

be bold in your caring and your compass ion and your human ity,

man surprised All ison Guth by

hap he suffered while driving to

Dean of Students J an ice Kass

and then, when you sit at your

announcing that Guth would re

grandch ild's commencement half

ceive her d iploma in absentia.

a century from now, you'll look

That took a few minutes to sort

back at the tapestry of life and

out, but Kassman discovered that

you'll find it good. And that, dear

she had kipped a page in her

Class of '94, no matter what you

compend ium of seniors' names

accomp l ish, that will be your great

("And this is a merit year! " she

est success of all."

said ) , and by the end of the cer

Bush then rece i\'ed his honor

emony Guth had her sheepsk in.

ary doctor of laws degree along

"On your commencement day you

w i th fel low honorary degree re

ought to get your own diploma,"

c i p i ents Chuck Close, Luc i l le

Cotter said, call ing Guth to the

Cl ifton and Camel West. Clo e, a

stage once all the new graduates

world-renowned portra it pai nter,

were seated again. "Allison, please

was c i ted both for hi extraord i

graduates adam furber and andy carlson

nary talent and for his demonstra-

j oin i n a post-ceremony celebration.

tion of grit in continuing

paint

come up. We found it." When the ceremony ended the sen iors and their families and

after suffering a col lapsed spinal artery that left him paralyzed.

friends celebrated at an outdoor reception while Bush at

Cl ifton, who is a poet, children's l i terature writer, university

tended a VIP luncheon in the M i llett A lumni House. The

professor and former poet laureate of Maryland, was honored

former president elected to walk from the l ibrary to M il lett. As

for works that "celebrate commun i ty, weaving fragment of

he and Cotter and a coterie of Secret Service agents strode

personal and fam i l ial history into a d istinctly African-Ameri

down Mayflower Hill he was spotted from a passing car by

can-but transcendent-narrative." And West, a writer and

Matthew Curry, the son of Assoc iate Professor of Government

scholar of African-American and rel igious stud ies ( author of

J ane Curry. Stop the car, he begged, that's George Bush.

Race Matters) who spoke to a more-than-capac i ty crowd in

Couldn't be, his mother insisted. Matthew got h is way and

Page Common Room last fal l , received a long ovation from

sprang out of the car with hi camera-which Bush promptly

the seniors as he was ci ted for h is contributions to under rand

seized and handed to an a ide w i th orders to take a snapshot of him with the youngster. And at the luncheon itself, trustees

ing race relations.

handed their point-and-shoots to Bill Cotter and posed with

Then, in t i me-honored Colby manner, the members of the

the (other) president.

Class of 1 994 received their d iplomas one at a t ime, fi l ing across the dappled stage, some stopping to greet one or two of the

"Sm i le," Cotter said, over and over.

honorary degree rec ipients, and picking up their diplomas from

I t wa that k ind of day.

Cotter. Some tudents wore stalks of broccoli hanging from

Commencement Video Available Pau l Gregoire ' 7 1 of Colby's Audiovisual Department has produced a v ideo recording of Commencement '94, includ ing the full addresses of Kendra King and George Bu h and h ighl ights of the ceremony. Copies are avail able from Colby's Seavems Bookstore for $ 1 5 . Send order to '94 Commencement V ideo, Seavems Book store, Colby College, Waterville, ME 0490 1 . Please allow several weeks for del ivery.

their caps or from strings around the ir necks to tweak Bush, and others wore kente c loth stoles, but that was about as pointed as the pol itical commentary got. Parent j ostled pol itely in the area set aside for picture taking; various graduates-including J onathan M itchell, who wore a wizard costume-shot fists into the air and whooped in triumph; a small flock of press swooped toward the stage a Bush's nephew Billy Bush mounted the stage and got a hug from Unc le George; and the l ine slowed slightly C O L B Y

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What Can Colby's Alumni Council Do For You?

With m o re t h a n

1 00 m e m be rs , 1 t i s t h e l a r g es t o f Colby's a l u m n i c o m m itt e e s . I t c h o o s e s n e a rl y o n e-th i rd o t he C o l l e g e ' s B o a rd o f Trustees. I t has an active t a s k f o rce o n m i n o r i ty re c ru i t足 m e n t , ove r s e e s t h e C o l by C l u b syste m . pre s e n ts a n n u a l awards t o a l u m n i a n d ot h e r vo l u n 足 teers, helps c u rrent students f i n d i nt e rn s h i p s a n d recen t g ra d uates p u rs u e c a r e e r s , oversees ma i nte足 n a n c e of M i l l ett

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en ts by Sally Baker

a n n u a l Al u m n i F u n d d ri v e . I t s c h a rg e i s " to p r o m ote a n d to foster t h e best i n terests of C o l by C o l l e g e a n d to s t reng t h e n relat i o n s betwee n the College and its a l u m n i . " The C o l by Alumni Council o u g h t to b e a h i g h 足 prof i l e orga n izat i o n .

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It i s n ' t . M a n y a l u m n i report that t hey've never h eard of t h e cou n c i l or any of its activit i e s . Attendance at m e e t i n g s is spotty-u s u a l ly no more t h a n 30 percent of c o u n c i l m e m be rs part icipate. A n d although t h e cou n c i l works i n noteworthy a reas, it d o e s n o t h a v e a s a y i n m a n y of the m o s t i m portant aspects of C o l l e g e governance, i n c l u d i n g student affa i rs , f i n a n ces a n d aca d e m i c s . I n 1 99 1 , c o n c e r n e d that Colby wa s n ' t d o i n g a l l that it cou ld do to com m u n i cate with a l u m n i and to mon itor a l u m n i o p i n i o n , t h e Board of Trustees esta b l i s hed the Tru stee Com m ittee on A l u m n i Pla n n i n g , c h a i red by R ichard S c h m a ltz ' 6 2 . Com posed of S c h m a ltz, Davi d M a rson '48, Wi l l ia m H . G o l dfarb ' 68, Beverly Nalbandian Madden ' 8 0 , D o u g l a s Hatf i e l d ' 58 a n d Peter H a rt '64, t h e comm ittee ' s task was to study the m ission, goa l s , structure, effect iveness a n d v i s i b i l ity of Colby's a l u m n i program a n d to make reco m m endations for i m prove m e n t . Its report, i s s u e d late t h e following year, c a l l ed for t h e formation of t h e A l u m n i Council Structu re Tas k Force . That g ro u p-ch a i red by Hatfield a n d i n c l u d i n g Cynth i a A u m a n '80, J o h n Devine ' 7 8 , Meg Fallon Wheeler '66, Jackson Parker ' 76, Madden a n d M a rson-bega n meeting i n October 1 993 and identified what i t perceived to be t h e key i m pe d i m e n t s to the effect ive, eff i c i e nt operation of the cou n c i l :

• t hat m o s t a l u m n i s e e m u n aware o f the cou n c i l ' s existence o r , if t h ey a re awa re of it, do not u ndersta n d its structu re or pu rpose; • that m e m bersh i p on t h e c o u n c i l does not carry with it appropriate respect or prest i g e ; • that c o u n c i l o rs don 't feel a sense of accountabil ity t o a part i c u la r constituent g ro u p-or to anyo n e . As Hatfield puts i t : " I 've always t h o u g ht that one of the t h i ngs that brings mea n i n g to wo rk is accountabil ity, a nd the Alumni C o u n c i l h a s n ' t been accou ntable . I t ' s sort o f meandered alon g " ; • that t h e re a r e s i g n ificant f a i l u res o f c o m m u n ication between t h e College and the a l u m n i and among a l u m n i ; • t h a t a s hortage of rea l , m ea n i ngful work f o r c o u n c i l represe ntatives res u lts i n poor attendance at meet i n gs; • t hat t h e scope of t h e cou n c i l ' s f u n ct i o n s does not relate, i n many i n stances, to what is happe n i n g on ca m p u s o r i n t h e l ife of t h e Colby f a m i ly, a n d that some of t h e most reward i n g a n d i nteres t i n g aspects of the College are not wit h i n the cou n c i l ' s p u rview; • that t h e council has not provi ded t h e trustees with a sufficiently effective c h a n n e l for a l u m n i o p i n i o n when potentially d ivis ive issues s u rface; • that despite s i g n if icant prog ress i n recent years the re rem a i n s a l a c k of i ntegration between t h e work of t h e c o u n c i l a n d that of the boa rd; and • that t h e voice of t h e c o u n c i l i s seldom heard i n decision m a k i n g at the Col l eg e a n d does not ca rry t h e weight or s i g n ificance it deserves.

The task force exa m i n ed each facet of t h e cou n c i l a n d wrote a report, which was sent for comment to 500 c u rrent a n d former Colby vol u nteer leaders a n d garnered approx i mately 1 50 written responses. Respondents sa id t h ey welcomed t h e tas k forc e ' s candor i n acknowled g i n g t h e cou n c i l ' s v i s i b i l ity prob l e m , a n d t h ey reacted favora bly to the proposed new role of the cou n c i l a s a c o m m u n ications chan n e l . " I w a s part i c u larly pleased , " Hatf i e l d sa i d , " with t h e s i n c erity a n d t h e t i m e people took t o respond to those q u estio n n a i re s . I t was a very positive t h i ng . "

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Ta k i n g t h ose com m e nts i nto account, t h e ta s k force h a s i s s u e d another d raft set of reco m m endations for reva m pi n g t h e g ro u p a n d its work. The m e m bers a re sti l l s o l i c it i n g s ug g e stions f rom a l u m n i a n d wou l d l i ke to i ncorporate a s m a n y a s pos s i b l e i nto a f i n a l report. Alumni who wo u l d l i ke to partici pate i n t h e p rocess s h o u l d contact t h e ta s k force (see the b u s i n ess r e p l y card i n t h i s i s s u e of

Colby) . The d raft recom m e ndations a l so a r e

ava i l a b l e f r o m t h e C o l l e g e . I n e s s e n c e , t h e t a s k force has proposed several steps for b r i n g i n g t h e Col lege a n d i t s a l u m n i i nto closer contact t h ro u g h t h e c o u n c i l . Its goa l s a r e to i n c rease accounta b i l ity a m ong c o u n c i l m e m be r s . to m a ke their work m ea n i n g f u l a n d rewa rd i n g a n d to have the c o u n c i l take center stag e i n a l u m n i affa i rs .

Specifically, the g r o u p reco m m e n d s : • that c o u n c i l representatives be req u i re d to attend at l e a s t t w o of t h e t h ree m e e t i n g s each yea r ; • t h a t c o u n c i l m e m bers be g iven m o r e t h a n one c o m m ittee a s s i g n ment s o t h e r e i s l e s s c h a n c e t h a t someone wou l d h a v e to travel a l o n g d istance for o n e 90- m i n ute meeti n g ; • that. a s p a r t of the work of a new C o m m i ttee on A l u m n i R e lations a n d Com m u n ications, constit u e n c i e s be more c l ea rly defined a n d representa tives c o m m u n icate with t h e i r constituents at least once a year; • that, without expa n d i n g c o u n c i l m e m be rsh i p , more g ro u p s be represented d i rectly, perhaps by red u c i n g t h e cu rrent n u m be r of at-large m e m be rs a n d rec r u it i n g class v i c e presidents to s e rv e on the cou nci l ; • t h a t a l l c l a s s officers be i nvited t o o n e c o u n c i l meeti ng each year; • that t h e c u rrent c o m m ittee structure, now consisting of " action " com m it tees on a d m i s s i o n s , the A l u m n i F u n d , athletics, awa rds. career services, t h e M i l l ett A l u m n i H o u se a n d C o l by C l ubs, be expanded to i n c l u d e advi sory c o m mittees on acad e m i c , s t u d e n t a n d f i na n c i a l affairs whose agendas wou l d be developed i n con s u l tation with c h a i rs of appropriate tru stee comm ittees ; • that t h e H o u s e C o m m ittee be renamed t h e A l u m n i on C a m p u s C o m m i ttee and have its respo n s i b i li t i e s i n c reased to include working with Colby's a l u m n i relations staff o n t h e prov i s i o n of ca m p u s hospital ity for a l u m n i ; • that, w i t h t h e a i d o f a period i c i n te rest s u rvey, a w i d e r variety o f a l u m ni b e identified a s potential m e m be rs of t h e c o u n c i l a n d i t s c o m m itte e s ; • that one a l u m n i t r u s t e e report o n r e c e n t b o a r d a c t i o n s a n d del i berati ons at each cou n c i l meeting; and • that council c o m m ittee c h a i rs be i nvited to attend meetings of the corre spond i n g trustee c o m m ittees o r have c o u n c i l executive comm ittee m e m bers se rve a s l ia i s o n s to m u ltiple tru stee c o m m ittees.

Aft e r considering a l u m n i respon s e , t h e tas k force p l a n s to present a final report to t h e Board of Trustees in O ctober 1 994. "I a m very excited a bout t h e work that this group d i d , " H atfi e l d sai d . "This is a ded icated g r o u p of people a n d very p ro d u ctive . We d i dn 't waste a n y t i m e ; we got r i g h t down to b u si n e s s a n d ca m e up with t h i s report. A n d I h ope t h e t r ustees will move forward with it, not just receive t h e report with t ha n ks . "

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The Write Stuff

Two Decades On, Colby's Creative Writing Program Has Become One of the Best

by H aines Sprunt Tate

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n the first workshop session of h is introductory fiction

visiting professors such as poet Jane Mead, who taught at

writing class, Professor ofEnglish Richard Russo lays out

Colby last year.

the ground rules. After several lectures on the basics

More than half of the 57 students with concentrations in

character, point of view, plot-it's time to get down to busi

creative writing are EngLsh majors, but the rest are majors

ness. He tells the class that helping other writers by responding

from across the curriculum, including the sciences. Last year,

to their work is helping yourself.

according to Kenney, creative writing was the second largest

"If you can spot problems in other people's stories, you can

minor in the College. About one-third of the students concen

spot problems in your own," he said. Writers whose stories are

trate on poetry, the rest on fiction. Most start a sequence of

being "workshopped" aren't allowed to defend their work.

three workshops in poetry or fiction in their sophomore year,

After all, Russo tells them, no professional writer gets to sit

then add a fourth course that can include independent study

next to an ecLtor and explain a manuscript.

projects, honors projects or year-long Senior Scholar projects,

"The purpose of a workshop is to make a workshop

which result in a portfolio of publishable work and a public

unnecessary," he said. "Sooner or later, we're alone with this stuff. "

which began almost two decades Colby writers ever since. The

whose stories are �eing

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Kenney says that unlike some other writing programs, Colby

made Colby's program, by many accounts, one of the best of i ts kind in the nation.

them, no

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professional e nvironment has

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explain a man

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Ira Sadoff, a well-known poet and

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opens i ts i n t roductory-level courses to everyone; advanced courses require students to sub mit a manuscript to get in. But because class size is generally limited to 1 5 , students sometimes

face waiting lists-although most gain admission t o a course within a

semester of starting the process. "If you

fiction writer, came to Colby in 1 9 77 to

really want to do it, you have to be commit-

cLrect the program, building on the foundation of

ted to jumping through the hoops: going to the

creative writing classes taught in the '60s and early ' 70s by

registrar, getting your name on the lists and doing it, " Kenney

professors Jay Meek and Robert Gillespie. The writing faculty

said, pointing out that persistence is something writers have to

grew to include Susan Kenney, a prize-winning author of short

learn anyway.

stories and novels, and poet Peter Harris, both of whom were

Kenney attributes the students' high level of commitment

teaching on the Lterature faculty. (Kenney now cLrects the

and motivation, in part, to the program's reputation. " [It] is

program.) James Boylan, who has published a book of stories

known, and there are a number of students who come here to

and a novel, came in I 988, and Russo, author of three

do creative writing," she said. " I think it's really showing in the

acclaimed novels, j oined the faculty in I 99 I .

quality and level of the students that we have in the program.

The range represented by Colby's writing faculty i s a key

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all_g_w.ed to defend their work.

combination of a dedicated, taland courses that create a quasi

with students in other departments, put

" work s h oppe d' aren't

ago and has been encouraging

ented faculty, serious students

the Mary Low Coffeehouse and. along

Writers

Classes L.ke this are at the heart of Colby's creative writing progran1,

reading. Writing students also read their work in

We have students who do very good work."

strength. Russo points out that in many undergraduate writing

Two or three students each year go directly from Colby into

programs, students study with only one or two different

graduate school for writing, and more decide to return to

writers in a genre. " Here, when a student goes through the

pursue advanced degrees after a few years out. Recent grads

fiction regimen, in most instances that student will have

have entered the University of Iowa's renowned Writers'

stucLed with two, three and in some cases, four [teachers]," he

Workshop, as well as master of fine arts (M.F.A.) programs at

said. Student poets also are exposed to a number of cLfferent

the University of Arizona, Warren Wilson College and the

teaching and writing styles, thanks to faculty members and to

University of Virginia.

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Steve Orle n , former d i rector of the M . F.A. program at

at Colby was on par with what he's seen so far i n Tucson.

the U n i versity of Arizona in Tucso n, says the Colby alumni

Classes with Boylan instilled i n him "that love o f writing right

who come to that program arc better prepared than most

from the begi nning," he said, and he remembers as "amazing"

from other schools. H e names Colby, along with the U n i

a class with Kenney i n wh i ch she asked him to cut a I 2-page

vers i ty o f T cnnessee at Ch attanooga and Oberl i n

story down to eight.

College, as one of the three undergraduate

best poems for admission. " Those

to eight,"' Damrauer said. " And somehow I managed it, and i t turn-

M.F.A. program at the

wri ting, and ther a lso teach very

said. " Those people who apply

no way that I can poss ibly get i t down

former director of the

teachers seem to i ns p i re good

well about the basics , " Orlen

" I was like, ' t h i s story is s o great, there's

Steve Orlen,

programs whose graduates submit the

ed i nto a much better story. I had

University of Arizona, names

from those programs already know a lot o f basic stuff about

Colb

to exam i ne what elements of the story were working and what el ements weren't."

one of the three

Also at Arizona is poet Cecily

the writing o f poetry. "

von Ziegesar '93. After having

"I think what we do is close

taken virtually all of Colby's writ

enough to a graduate program

ing classes and assembled a Senior

without being that vocationally ori

Scholar portfolio o f poetry and fic

ented , " Kenney said. " We're turni ng

tion, she says she's met no surprises in

people out with l iberal arts degrees, and a

graduate school. One difference, though, is

lot of them go on to do other things. But they

i n the amount of contact with professors.

come out with an understanding o f what it's like to be

" I actually think the Colby program was more demand ing in a way, just because more attention was paid to each

engaged in the creative process of putting words together." Poet Alex Peary '92 has completed two years at the Iowa

student, " von Zeigesar said. In her M.F.A. workshop, she says,

Writers' Workshop. She was an aspiring fiction writer when

less of her work is discussed in class, and students seem

she landed in Sadoff s poetry workshop one semester-the

reluctant to take risks. " That didn't happen at Colby at all, " she

fi ction class was filled-and she says her years a t Colby helped

said. " Experimentation was encouraged, and you could really

her develop the confidence and " spine" she needed for the long

see your peers progress along with you."

hours of i n dependent work i n Iowa's much less structured

" The best part was just working closely with some of the

program. H er studies with Sadoff have remained important.

professors who really took an interest in my work. I really felt

"It was like being on fire that [first] semester. I t was great, "

like they cared, " said von Zeigesar, who credits Peter Harris

she said. " H e stJl conti nues to be one of the most amazing

with pointing her toward the writing program i n the first place,

teacher I 've ever had. In many ways, actually, a lot of the

after she turned in a creative piece instead of a critical essay i n

[facultyJ I 've had h ere can't hold a candle to h i m . "

h i s freshman seminar. She still counts Harris among the most encouraging teachers she's ever had. "No matter what you

Gregg Bach '87 considers his Senior Scholar project i n

write, he finds someth i ng good about it," she said.

poetry o ne of t h e best experiences he h a d at Colby. " I t w a s very challenging because I had something pretty major to come up

I t is notoriously d i fficult to make a l iving writing fiction or

with by the end of the year, and I would be facing a lot o f people

poetry, and so far, the Colby program does not boast a " big

who would be judging my work and j udging me by my work. "

name" graduate. Some have published poems and stories in

Graduate courses he enrolled in at the University of New

respected regional and national literary journals, but according

H a mpsh i re "didn't even come close to the level o f work being

to Kenney, it may be too early to tell what kinds of reputations the alumni-even the first to enroll i n the program-may

done at the Colby workshops , " he said.

forge. " I t takes a long time to get a career going so that you're

I n h i s first year of a graduate fiction program at the

really visible," she said.

U n i vers i ty o f Arizona, Craig Damrauer '92 says the teach i ng

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M any graduates have pursued sidelines to pay the bills.

to the University of Arizona's M.F.A. program th is fall. " I

Peary, for i nstance, has been a poet-in-the-schools, helping

mean, it's pretty hard t o teach someone t o write. The writing

kids learn to use their imaginations; Damrauer has worked as

workshops I 've taken are the best courses I 've taken here . "

a restaurant chef and is considering starting a catering business.

Davis says that far from b e i n g int i m idating, classes arc

The challenge i s to fi n d work that provides income but allows

like small writers' commun ities where " i t 's easr to talk about

the long periods of concentration needed to write.

your work. " Describing a workshop she had with Sadoff.

At least two Colby writers, Bach and Jody Zorgdrager ' 8 9 ,

she said, " H e was here to help u -and we were here to

have tried to solve that prob lem b y becom i ng teachers. Bach

help each other-produce the best wri t i ng poss ible."

teaches high school English and creative writing on Mount

Creative writing is a trickr subject to teach. " I t ' s every bit

Desert Island, M a i ne. His job consumes virtually all of his

as difficult as nuclear physics," Boylan said, dismissing those

time, Bach says, but he does get a chance to write i n the

who think wri ting classes are places where "everyone is sit

summer, and i n a few years, when he has a decade i n the

ting around holding hands and talki ng about their feelings. "

classroom under his belt, " that'll be enough. " He says he plans

Far from i t , h e says, and the tech n ical subtleties raised in his

to look i nto an M.F.A. program and pick up where he left off.

advanced fiction class-ranging from choosing a narrative

I n the mean time, he's trying to secure grants to l i nk student

point of view to creating verisin1ili tude-support his point .

writers from his school with others around the country on a

Russo jokes that teachers of creative writing g e t asked

computer network.

questions other professors don't, such as why they continue

Zorgdrager, an elementary school teacher i n Connecticut,

to teach when 9 5 percent of their students will not be

recently earned an M.F.A. i n poetry from Warren W i lson

come professional writers. But cluing someone i n on how

College, a low-residency program in Swannanoa,

to get published isn't the point. Sadoff says

.C., that requires intensive inde

Colby's program is committed to connect-

At its

pendent work by correspondence. She is now investigating grants and col her writing. years to think about how to feed the muse while making a living. They are concentrating on get

readi ng of l i terature.

best the program

lege teaching positions to sustain Current students have a few

ing the teach i ng of writing with the "Ifyou don't know Wordsworth and you don't know Keats, i t's

turns out graduates who

� "th capacity not only ·t

the

ion that but to

ting the most out of the program now, and they cherish the oppor tuni ty to work one-on-one with

goi ng to be really hard to be a poet, " he said, adding that at its best the program turns out graduates who have " the capac i ty not only to appreciate the vision that other writers have but to make their own vision."

accomplished writers and teachers.

Boylan says he wants students to

Darren Bruce ' 9 5 , a fiction writer

develop a love for the craft of l i terature

plan n i ng to do a n honors project thi s year,

that "speaks to their soul and makes a differ-

said he's been helped by "just being able to write

ence to the culture." Sadoffhopes they gain " some

and then have fourteen or fifteen k i ds read i t and talk to you

passion for the transformative properties of art-the way i n

directly about your story." Hearing a professor discuss a story

which engaging a work of art is engaging i n a relationship t o

in professional terms, h e said, "makes your writing feel impor

yourselfa n d t o t h e world, a n d h o w language provides you with

tant" and boosts confidence: "You start comparing your work

the skills to do that." Russo puts i t more s i mply. " I think that writing stories and

to the professionals', and in a way it makes you push yourself harder."

writing poetry makes you more fully human, " he said.

" [The facultyJ take i t seriously, and they have a clear vision of how to teach," said Emily Davis '94, a poetry student headed

Haines Sprut11 Tate 1s afreelance writer living i11 Wate-rvi//e.

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"This production is our tribute to Dorothy," Koonce said. program became an interdisciplinary major, performing arts is "She knew as much as anybody in the world about the subject." rich with courses plucked from art, classics, English, music and Howard Koonce has donned several hat since he came to the modern languages. W ith the 2 7 2 -seat Strider Theater in Colby in 1 96 3 as a member of the Engl ish Department, but Runnals Union and a program for Colby students in London none have fit so well that includes workas the one he's worn shops, seminars and si nce the late 1 9 70s attendance at 1 2- 1 4 in performing arts. plays each semes Act ing and direct ter, the Performing ing p lays is a natural A rts Department outgrowth of a life offers opportunities in theater that be to both majors and gan hi fir t year in minors for practical high chool when he experience in a l l earned a role as a area o f theatrical Welsh boy in the production, dance Aspen Players pro and music. duct ion of The Corn T i n a Wentzel, Is Green in Aspen, adj unct professor of Colo. He performed performing arts who in experimental the succeeded Koonce ater at Dartmouth in � as chair of the dethe early 1 9 5 0s. Dur partment last Sep ing his five years as a > tember, says Koonce N avy pilot in the late � " s i ng l e h a n d e d l y 'SOs, h e acted w ith propelled perform Koonce instructs Bacchae cast member Zach Geisz ' 94 . local theater groups i ng art forward . -some of which he formed-in Corpus Christi, Texas, and in Unequ ivocably." She gives h e r colleague total credit for Pensacola and J acksonville, Fla. His di sertation at the Uni developing the London seme ter, which she deems pivotal to versity of Pennsylvania was in Restoration comedy. And on the Colby program. "It provides tudents with such an ex top of the many productions he's been involved in as director perience that they couldn't get here. And it betters the or actor at Colby, he has appeared in plays at Maine theaters program when they come back," said Wentzel, who also has uch as the Park Street Players in Skowhegan, the Public high praise for the con ensus and collaboration Koonce fos Theater in Lewiston, the G aslight Theater in Hal lowe ll and tered in the department. the Theater at Monmouth. As a student, ay J ennie Holman '92, now artistic assistant " I 've been in and out of one theater group or another at the Williamstown Theater in Massachusetts, she wa im practically all of my life," he said. pressed that Koonce brought in outside directors as well as new I n 1 968-69, following a two-year assignment as assistant to faculty members Joylynn W ing and J im Thurston. While he President Robert E.L. Strider II, Koonce received a grant to maintained traditional views of theater, Holman says, Koonce also allowed students to seek out new playwrights and pursue investigate experimental living-learning units on other cam new ideas for techniques such as how to use space. She says that puses and drafted a curriculum plan for the College that aimed the increase in the number of graduates of the program and in to increase responsiveness to student needs. Koonce says that the number of performing arts minors "speaks highly of the the Center for Coordinated Studies, the program that grew out interest he was able to generate." of the plan, led d irectly to the creation of the program in Holman worked closely w ith Koonce on an independent performing arts as well as to other interdisciplinary studies and study in the Stanislavsky technique, in which an actor delves majors. The center, which he directed for e ight years, "was into her own emotions for the part she plays. For Shaw's Saint entirely interdisciplinary in its focus, it organization, and its Joan, Holman said, "I was dealing on a very personal level with ambitions," said Koonce, "so the performing arts program was Saint J oan's emotions. I t's a very intimate exerci e. He had the a natural k ind of activity for the center to be involved in." gift for making that experience comfortable." Other students The performing arts program that began in 1 9 76 pulled envied her relationship with her performing arts professors, ex isting courses together under its rubric-dance from the Holman said, "but that's j ust the nature of it. I t's a first-name Physical Education Department, for instance, and dramatic business. It's a collaboration." literature from the English Department. "Special topics" were "What we wanted to achieve when we created the major," invented in other departments. Courses in technical theater Koonce said, "was the sense that this is not an exclusive club and in acting were added gradually. Today, 10 years after the ). z

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but someth ing that work with, affil iates with, encourages and More than any other drama he could have chosen to helps train student -from wherever in this College-to be present, Koonce say , The Bacchae compels this conc lusion come l i terate about theater and to enj oy theater and to become about human life "in the toughest of all possible ways. You've 1 ifelong theater advocates. l think that's happening, and that' gotta bel ieve in thi , " he aid, adding, "This vi ion of reality a most gratifying experience ." that weld together the concrete and Koonce would be the fir t to say the ab tract and the ideal and the real that group effort is at the heart of per is overwhelming. The experience of forming arts, and he underscore the being in one of the e plays-when done capab il ity and harmon ious involve well-is enough to change your out ment of the staff. Like technical d i look forever." rec tor J oh n Erv i n , who w o r k in H is dealing with theatrical talent professional theater every summer, all at whatever stage of development, pro are work i ng professionals as well as fe s ional and amateur, at Colby and in teachers. Koonce speaks h ighly of Dick regional theater, have rewarded him, Sewel l , adjunct associate profe or and Koonce says, as he sees actor grow into the founding d irector and arti tic d i their character , reali:e the dramat ic rector, for most o f it l ife, o f t h e The thread of a play and become proudly ater at Monmouth. Dance teacher and aware of their achievements. choreographer Tina Wentzel's work is Koonce says that people with pro "of full professional cal iber. So while fess ional credentials working continu you have people who are teaching the ously with col lege-level tudent O\'er a l i terature of drama," Koonce said, period of ti me create a collaborati\'e "we're also deeply involved in the re aesthetic community. He thinks th is ality of the productions. " kind of collegial ity leads to a level of Staging The Bacchae w a s a good test achievement that regional theater or of his stagecraft, says Koonce, who Broadway, with its expensive musicals believes that all theater has on the one hand and twoto be credible-the audience Theater has been a constant source person shows on t h e other, has to accept it. Although don't aim at. Unlike regional of self-affirmation for me . In a way, or Broadway theater, ama hi crew even produced "a very c redible earthquake" not ever having made my living in teur performers and college that shook the floor under can dare to do production the aud ience ( "We were l ike The Bacchae. theater, I've been able to think ing of putting blotters He c i tes rec ent perfor make a life out of theater. under the seats, " he j oked ) , mances-JS , Tara Estra '94's h e says h e looked t o capture Senior Scholar production of the sense of a Greek locat ion by impressionist techniques As You Like le and an original play, Promenade, written by Zach rather th.an an actual appearance. By blocking and stage Geisz '94 and acted as a senior class proj ect. N one of these, de ign, J im Thurston created an abstract circular wall that Koonce ays, would have been staged at Colby before the gave the sense of a span of time. Wentzel's ta k was to translate advent of the Performing Art Department. the meter of poetic drama into movement and make the "The quality of choice as well a the quality of ach ievement chorus's song and dance, so fundamental to the action, fully has ju t gone through the roof," he aid . "These kid challenge real ized musical theater. themselves now. And they're so much more aware of what a theatrical challenge is." More d ifficu lt for audiences, Koonce say , are Greek tragedy's concepts of character and fate. The modem not ion th.at people During an operation last fall, Koonce's surgeon discovered can avoid or transcend d i fficulty has no p lace in Aristotel ian early cancer, so the road he'll take at this point is undeter mined. Options include an offer to j oin a theater company j ust tragedy l ike The Bacchae. Tragedy, he argues, is not something outside of P h i lade lph i a . Also temp t i n g i s down town you avoid; it is somethi ng you grow into and accept. Waterville's performing arts center, where the current owner "But that mammoth experience of real izing your destiny ha ambit ions to establish profes ional regional theater. after struggle and truggle and truggle to assert individuality i not essentially a depres ing story," he said. Aud ience and And Koonce ha thought, again, of organizing his own company. Wherever it m ight be, it would be ent irely in p layer alike are witness instead to "the abil ity to suffer that character. "Theater," he said, "has been a constant source of which mankind shouldn't have to suffer but does. Tragedy is self-affirmation for me. In a way, not ever having made my suffering to the ultimate extent, which fails to stamp the park l iv ing i n th.e ater, I 've been able to make a l ife out of theater." of divinity out of the human being."

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Dear Colby Friends, As Colby developed i ts plan for the 1 990s, we held extensive conversation w i th alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff and friends of the College. Tho e consultat ion reas ured us that, i n general, the Colby community bel ieve, the College is head i ng i n the right d i rection; i becom i ng tronger with each passing year; is well managed; and has remained true to it fundamental val ues, empha iz ing teac h i ng, c lose student/faculty relations and adequate financ ial aid for students whose fa m i l i e cannot afford the full cost of a Colby education. I n add ition, alumni and others have raised que tions about a number of matters on which they want more complete informat ion. The first ha

to do w i th the cost of a Colby education-both the reasons for past

increases and l ikely future costs-and I devoted my 1 99 2 - 9 3 annual report to that i sue. A econd concern re lates to the i sue of "pol i t ical correctnes ," and this letter addre se that topi c . Other i sues to be dealt w i t h i n future annual reports, or i n add i t ional letters, include: the i mportance of endowment, balanc i ng teac h i ng and scholar h i p , d i vers i ty at Colby and l i beral art a a preparation for careers and for l i fe . Pol it ical correctness ha

become an ambiguous a n d abused t e r m . Because Colby

students are concerned about perc e i ved threat

to their ab i l i ty to express their v iews

freely-threats that students frequently desc r i be a examples of pol i t ical correctnes spent a few m inutes of my 1 994 Baccalaureate addre s talk i ng about P.C. Thi

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incorporates many of tho e observations. Censorsh ip, even self-censorsh i p , wou ld constitute i ntolerable pol i t ical correctness, and every member of our community should do everything pos ible to see to i t that our fundamental comm i tment

to free i nqu i ry and free expression-"a free marketplace of

ideas"-is protec ted, above all else. At the same t i me , mo t endorse princ i p le of c i v i l behavior whereby we show respect for one another, part i cu larly those who are d i fferent and perhaps less powerful than ourselve . W ith freedom of speech comes the respons i b i l ity to u e that freedom w isely and to

understand the special atmosphere of a small, residential, academ ic community . Colby

tries to do both: max i m ize free peech and mutual re pec t . W h a t is P.C. ? In j ust t h e last few months, I h a v e encountered an array o f d isparate u e of the term.

• A N a t ion.al Public Rad io commentator declared that concern with d iversity i tself h a become "pol i t i ca l l y correct";

• a gay rights lawyer said that "homophobia is pol it i c ally correct"; • a South African newspaper, respond i ng to the des i re of black to change some c i ty names from those adopted under aparthe id, commented: "It would be entire l y unreal istic to expect any country to have had a h istory of unalloyed pol itical correctness";

• a recent survey of col lege presidents by U . S .

News & World Report

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important is i t to the fac u l ty at your inst itu t ion to be 'pol i tically correct ?'";

• in the recent movi e P . C . U . , the fi lm's stars throw meatballs at vegetarian ;

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• a conservat i ve column i t characterizes as "over eager pol i tical correctne s"

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Coca Cola advertisement in which a group of women are watching a han<l ome male constru c t ion worker; • a N orth Carol ina congressman calls President Cli nton "P.C." for trying to curb tobacco

sales to c h i ldren. As The New York Times reported, even American newspaper edi tors are d i vided on whether po l i tical correctness is a "force that is st ifl ing truth everywhere" or is "j ust a trend y new package for a collect ion of old compla ints, includ ing those ma intain ing that Am erica' new rooms were long ago capt ured by the poli tical left . " The edi tor of the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale compla ined that edi tor run the risk of being labeled rac i t or

sexist whenever they try to deal with important issues concerning our d i verse soc iety. Indeed , 3 8 of the 41 edi tor polled said that pol i t ical correctness was �rifli ng open d iscussions in the i r newsrooms. Stil 1 , the ed i tor of the Louisville CourierJournal said the fact remains that "words can brutalize-that there are limit ," and The Los Angeles Times has taken much critic ism for banning words such as babe, bra burner, Dutch treat, mailman, mank ind and deaf-mute, except when they are appropriate to the context. Not only i s the med ia confused about pol itical correct ness but Newsweek devoted much of one issue

sexual

correctness, and Time accused j ournalists such as The New York Times' A . M . Rosenthal, who asked black leaders to

take a public tand against anti-Semi tism, of enforc ing rac ial correctness. It is d ifficult to define exactly what we mean by P.C. It is almost alway u ed in a derogatory fash ion, but I would argue that, like chole terol, there are really two k ind of pol i t ical correctness-good and bad. I f one advocates that

We are trying to max imize free speech, espec ially in public lectures and in the classroom, sacred forums where the expression of any op inion must be encouraged. But we will

members of m inority groups be treated equally and w i th

not permit personal

respect in our oc iety, one may be assai led for be ing pol i t ically correct. Such an attack should be worn a a badge of honor.

attacks on individuals.

But anyone who engages in actions that abridge free speech is gui lty of bad pol i t ical correctness. Let me try to sharpen the d ist inction between these categories. Conservative J udge Robert Bork, nom inated for the Supreme Court by Pres ident Reagan, said i n a television debate last December, "Pol i t ical correctnes is part of a mood of rad ical ega l i tarianism which has taken hold. We are eeing it in the speech codes, which are j udging speech not by what i t objectively means but how somebody perceives it, over which the speaker h a no contro l . " Professor L i nda Green of t h e Un iver ity o f W isconsi n L a w School replied, "Pol i t ical correctnes i a c lever rhetorical phrase which turns a debate about rac ism and sexism i nto a debate about censor h ip . lf you can force u to d iscuss censorship instead of di c ussing rac ial epi thet or exual harassment or how we are going to transform our i nstitut ions i nto more d i ver e places, then you have et the terms of debate and prevented a d iscussion of the real issues." As the i r d i cuss ion developed , they seemed to agree on where the d ividing l i ne i between what I consider good and bad pol i t ical correctness. Bork, for example, condemned students at the Univers i ty of Pennsylvania who tole an

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entire press run of the student newspaper because they regarded one of its article as rac ist. He al o attacked a col lege that "put a profe sor through sensitivity train ing for a remark that really was not offensive in the classroom. That's pol it ical correctness," Bork said, "and that' what we object

to .

I agree with Bork on these two examples . Both were attempt to interfere with protected speech. Colby's pol ic ies would proh ibit the wholesale eizure of copies of the Echo or of any other student publ ication or the ripping down of not ice advertising a controversial speaker. Those are clear interference with free speech and should not be tolerated on a college campus. Colby' Student Handbook specifies: The right offree speech-which does not include the right to harass , injure , or silence others-is essential in an academic community and will be vigorously upheld. Infringing upon the expression of views , either by interfering with a speaker or b)' defacing or removing properly posted or distributed notices or materials , will not be tolerated .

Colby's Policies on Free Speech

I also agree with Bork about the sanc tity of the classroom and the

• Colby has no " peech code": academic freedom and

lecture platform. Colby' polic ies concerning the classroom state: "The tradit ion of academic free

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dom is a long and honored one . In tructors have wide latitude to

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conduct classroom se ions in cre ative and intellectually stimulat ing ways. In the cla room, text,

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ideas, values and objects should be pre ented so as to elicit maximum critical and emotional response. It seems unlikely any tudent could pass through the educat ion pro

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cess w ithout confront ing uncom fortable moments and ideas that are d isquieting." At the same time,

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students have the right to "partici pate in the classroom wi thout be ing hara sed or intimidated . " Thu , the d ividing l ine a t Colby

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freedom of expre sion constitute our most basic and cheri hed val ues. All members of the community have a right to participate in cla se and campu activities without being hara ed or intimidated. Member of the community can invite any speaker to d iscu s any topic on campus. Any firm or organization may recruit on campus. The faculty have w ide latitude to conduct cla es and encourage v igorou debate, ome of wh ich wi.ll inevi tably make ome student uncomfortable. potlight Event regularly feature debates on controversial topic such a abortion, gay i n the military, gun control, health reform and others. Di play of po ter and ymbols in public places on campu mu t leave room for proportionate di play of opposing or other points of view. Removing notices advertising peaker or meeting or confiscating bulk copie of student publications i a v iolation of free speech. College-spon ored event and organizations are open to all member of the community without regard to gender, religion or race.

is fairly clear. Admittedly, however, application of the guidelines can pose difficult problems. We are trying to maximize free speech, especially in public lecture and in the classroom, sacred forums where the expre sion of any opinion must be encouraged. But we will not permit personal attacks on individuals. Our regulations prohibit "hostile, intimidating remarks or phy ical ge ture directed at a person" because of his or her race, sex, sexual orientation, religious or national or ethnic origin ( whether "majority" or "minority"). Thi i similar to the Con ti tution' exception to the Fir t Amendment which allow government to prevent threat , intimidation and "fighting word ." Colby, as a private college, is probably not legally bound by the First Amendment, and we would be free, if we

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w ished to do so, to p lace restrictions on what facu lty could teach, which speaker we will have on campus and what students could ay. Some col lege affi l iated with re l igious or other spec ial interest groups impo e such restriction routinely. Even though private i nstitut ions have the right to restrict expression, we consider ourselves morally, if not legally, bound by the First Amendment, and we w i l l protect free speech on our campus. Still, we and J udge Bork agree that colleges should take action against those who verbal ly harass others. Bork said that the Fir t Amendment does not protect " peech which expres es no idea but merely expre ses hatred or obscenity or somethi ng of that sort"-and Brown U n iversity ought to d iscipline a student who was expelled for shouting racist and anti-Semitic remarks into a quadrangle. I think Bork would also agree that putting a swastika on the door of a Jewish professor, which occurred thi spring at Colby, is not protected speech under the First Amendment. Th i is intim idation; it expresses the kind of hatred for which there is no Fir t Amendment protect ion. Colby, along with Brown, Stanford, Duke and many other colleges, tries to sustain a commun i ty where everyone is treated decently and where vigorous d iscus ion of all topics is encouraged. We believe that thi k ind of community is central to our fundamental mission of helping each student develop her or his unique potential. Indeed, our catalogue has long declared:

Colby s tands for diversity , without which we become parochial; for respect ofvarious lifestyles and beliefs , without which we become mean-spirited; and for the protection of every individual against discrimination . In the classroom and outside , there is freedom to study , to think , to speak, and to learn in an environment that insists upon the free and open exchange of ideas and views . Finally, we believe that Colby has in place procedures that can convert a potentially explosive s ituation involving race, rel igion or gender into an opportunity for greater intergroup under tanding. Harassment issues at Colby, should they arise, will not be handled by the student j ud iciary, which is usually ill-equipped to mediate these potentially explosive s ituations. Under Colby procedure , a person who feels he or she has been haras ed and the person accused of harassment both select a representative to serve on a fact-finding and conci l iation panel whose other members are appointed from the relevant tudent or facu lty committees w ith an impartial convener selected by the president. In such a multiÂ party arbitration panel , all those concerned know that they are represented by sympathetic advocates within the panel and this is l ikely to encourage compromise and conc i liation. We at Colby have spent a good deal of t ime in the last several years refining our procedures concerning harassment and have reaffirmed the sanctity of free speech and the need for provocative presentations in the classroom and on the lecture platform. By definition, educational institutions must provide an atmosphere i n which learning can take place. Order is required for meaningful d iscussion, and support for everyoneÂ particularly tho e who are most vulnerable-is neces aty if they are to partic ipate in the educational process. We hope we have struck the right balance at the College, but we welcome comments of alumn i , parents, students and other members of our community who feel that Colby' current policies need to be strengthened or changed. The freedom to teach, to learn, to inquire and to express oneself comprise our most fundamental values. We must do nothing that w i l l compromise them.

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J ette Bequest Largest Ever to Colby - Sally Baker -

Tbequest and largest cash gift in its he College has received the largest

h istory, thanks to the generosity of the late Ed ith and Ellerton Jette. The gift, total ing approx imately $ 5 . 7 million, is designated for variou art-related funds at Colby. El lerton Jette, who was chairman and president of the C.F. Hathaway Com pany for almost 30 years, was elected to the Colby Board ofT rustees in 1 9 50 and served as its chair from 1 96 5 to 1 9 70. His serv ice to the College was extensive: in 1 9 5 2 he led the Greater Waterville Campaign that helped Col by complete the move to Mayflower H i l l ; he headed the Tru tee Planning Com mi ttee in 1 9 5 8 ; and four years later he was chair of the Leadersh i p G i ft Comm i ttee, which raised more than $4 million dur ing the Ford Foundation Ch allenge. Ed ith Kemper J e tte was c o -founder of the Friend of Art at Col by and worked with the Museum of Art staff on e a r l y e x h i b i t i o ns t h a t brought the museum to naEllerton and ti on al prom inence. The Jettes were w idely known as arts benefactors, especially in New England, and as d i ceming collectors. They were among the first to recognize and support the work of American l mpressionists in 1 9 7 5 they donated 96 American lm pre ionist paintings to Colby after the collection had toured the nation. Their other gifts to Colby include the American Heritage Collect ion of American primitive art and, as a donation to the Colby 2000 campaign, a collect ion of 1 8th- and 1 9th-century A merican por-

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traits by arti ts such as John Singleton Copley, G i lbert Stuart and Joseph Bad ger. Many of the portra its were repro duced for the 1 994 Colby calendar. The Jette Professorsh ip of Art wa established in the i r honor, and one wing of the M useum of Art bears the ir name. The Jette bequest will help support the J ette professorsh ip, the Edward H . Tumer Art Exh ibition Fund, the Jette Art Resto-

Edith Jette.

ration Fund and the Jette Art Acquisi tion Fund and will establish a fund for the Museum ofArt and Art Department. The annual income from that fund will be allocated by Colby's trustees. Ellerton J ette d ied in 1 986 and Ed ith Jette in 1 99 2 . "Colby w i l l not forget the e fine friends nor the ir contributions toward i ts present excellence," President Emeritus Robert E . L. Strider said at a memor i a l serv ice for Edith J ette i n Lorimer Chapel , "and both of them w i ll remain enshrined in the annals of the

college they helped moved toward its spec ial k ind of d istinction."

Chairs Get Padding

O magazine staff couldn't turn up any ne lonely research mole on this

organ izations that keep track of the num ber of endowed professorships at colleges and universities in the United States. She was really looking for statistics on the rate of in crease in chair giv ing on those campuses in any given t ime period. No such luck. And that's too bad, be cause if anything could make Colby's success in attracting new endowed chairs look bet ter than i t already does, it would be a fist full of charts and graphs comparing Colby to other college . Fortunately, however, the facts themse lves prov ide strong evidence. The an nouncement at the Trustees' May meeting by President Bill Cotter that two new cha irs had been endowed by trusteeJames Crawford '64 and h is wife, Linda (Johnson '64 ) , and by trustee J ane Whipple Codd ington ' 5 5 and her husband F . Chandler Codding ton, brought to 20 the number of endowed profe sor hips at Colby-up from three in 1 990-a 666 percent increase in j ust four years. The Coddington chair is as yet undesignated; the Crawford Family Chair in Religiou Studies, held by Professor of Religion Thomas Longstaff, was estab li hed in memory of religion professor Gustave Todrank. The gifts give Colby far more than bragging rights. A Tom Tietenburg, Colby' Mitchell Family Professor ofEco-

nomics, told Colby in November, the es tablishment of a new chair releases money from the College's general fund for aca demic support, o Colby can continue to devote significant money to recru iting and paying topfaculry member . Appoint ment to an endowed professorship i an e teemed achievement for any scholar and a way to reward the be t of the best. Donors ay that endowing a chair is among the most satisfying ways to gi e to Colby. The College couldn't operate ef fic iently if all gifts were strictly desig-

nated, but endowing a professorship- which co ts $ 1 . l million-i e pec ially meaningfu l . Such a gift enhances a fa vored department and acknowledge the value of a Colby educat ion in a donor's life and career. Many, l ike Crawford, c ite a particu larly influent ial or cherished professor when they explain the motirn tion behind a chair gift (see related story ) . To outside constituent -includ ing potential tudents-a college' total en dowment, including named professorship , is an indication of it quality. When high

school tudents and their parent scour college rating guides in books and in maga:ine such as U . S . ews & 'X'orld Repcm, they see evaluation that are based, in part, on endowment figure . AnJ ome foundations and other charitable msmu tion regard ucce sful fund rai ing as one measure ofa college':. worth mess fur grants. A long with providing funJ for finan cial aid, increa ing the endowment is among the core priorities of Colby' nexr capi tal campaign, which i �et to begin in the fall.

Crawford Chair Honors Dr. Todrank L inda Johnson Crawford '64 was a European history maj or at Colby. Her husband , tru tee J ame Crawford '64, majored in economics. So when it came ti me to decide which academic department shoul d receive the brand-new Crawford Family Profe orship, they chose . . . rel igion. Part of their reason ing can be summed up in two words: G ustave Todrank. « L i nd a and I both took cour e from Dr. Todran k , " Crawford said, recall ing the late professor of phi losophy and rel ig ion. "He was a wonderful teacher. He was warm and com pa sionate-j ust the kind of per on you enj oyed being with. But from a teaching perspec tive, he had a way of chal lenging everybody. We were [exposed to] formal doctrine growing up, and then we were t h r o w n i n t o more c u rrent thought a n d p h i l osop h ies. . . . He was a very low-key per son, very unassuming, but he had a way of talking about l ife and the importance of rel igion in life." Gustave Todrank Crawford remembers fondly invitations to Sunday n ight dinners at G us and Libby Tod rank's Waterv i l le home and l i tening to Todrank preach at service in Lorimer Chapel . He says he and Linda lost touch with Todrank and other favorite professor i n c l u d i n g A lfred K. "Chappie" C h a p m a n , W a l t e r Breckenridge a n d J im G i llespie-a his career took the family farther away from Colby. After a decade in the New York area, where their two c h i ldren were born, the

Crawfords moved t o Richmond, Va. , where they have li ved for 20 years. He currently is chairman and CEO of the J ame River Coal Company. "Eventually," Crawford aid, " I was able to get invol ved with the College through the over eer program and then as a trustee. But i t wa partly the e connection and friend hip that brought u back to Colby. There were a number of profe sors we had fond memorie of, and that made u want to re turn when we got the c hance. " The fir t overseer commit tee Crawford j o i ned wa to the Department of Philosophy and Rel igion ( now two eparate department , thank in part to the committee's recommenda tion) . In that ervice he met Profes or Thomas Longstaff, who has been named the fir t Crawford Family Professor of Re l igiou Stud ie . Crawford call Long taff a "wonderful peron" and say he's pleased with the chair's de ignation. "At this stage of it growth, the College really does need to have support in the areas of endowment and the funding of the educational program," Crawford said. «And I think this i a great way to do it, becau e you accomplish two things-Tom Longstaff i supported in his teaching, and the chair becomes a way to fund a particular department and it operating costs. It' good timing i n terms of the College's need and in term of what we feel is important. And it' n ice to be able to honor Dr. Todrank, too. "

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A Friend Indeed A beque t from the late Dr. B l anche

Department led her to become a College

Scholarship Fund in 1 983 to subsidize

benefactor, will be devoted to strength

Colby educations for deserving Maine

ening the hol d i ngs in M i l ler Library.

tudents from Lincoln, Knox and Waldo

Geer, a N ortheastern Uni versity soc i

Geer, who lived i n N orth Edgecomb,

ology profe s o r whose a d m i ration for

Maine, in her ret irement and who d ied

several members of Colby's Soc iology

than $1 m i l l ion for the Dr. Blanche Geer

last year, endowed the Dr. Blanche Geer

L i brary F u n d , e s t a b l i s hed form a l l y

counties. A t her death she left more

earlier this pring. I t w i l l b e used t o buy books and other educational materials for M i l ler Library.

Filling the Chair

"Dr. Geer's assoc iat ion w i th Colby

Colby's Endowed Professorships Charles Bassett

Patrick Brancaccio

Arthur Champlin

F. Russell Cole

J ohn and Caroline Zacamy Professor of English Les l i e Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences

Pugh Fam i ly Professor of Economics

Hugh Gourley

Friend , Director of the Museum of Art

Jan Hogendorn

The Gros man Profes or of Economics

L. Sandy Maisel

J ames Meehan

J ane Moss

Bradford Mundy Jorge Olivares

David Simon Thomas Tietenberg

Robert Weisbrot

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moments came in 1 98 7 , when her former

student Cheryl Townsend G ilkes was appointed to Colby'

sociology facul ty.

American Studies.

Oak Professor of Biological Sciences

Henry Gemery

G. Calvin Mackenzie

' S S , noting that one of Geer's proudest

a t e Professor o f Sociology a n d o f African

Clara C. Piper Profe sor of Environmental Studies

David Lubin

planned giv ing d i rector David Roberts

G i lkes is now John D. McArthur Assoc i

David Firmage

Thomas Longstaff

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Lee Fami ly Professor of American Stud ies and of Engl ish

was nurtured-and then furthered-by the Sociology Department," said former

Crawford Fam i ly Profes or of Religious Stud ies J ame M . G i l lespie Professor of Art and of American Studie Distinguished Presidential Professor of American Government

Geer received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopk ins University in 1 9 5 6 and became a noted prac t i tioner of symbol ic interac t ion fieldwork. An early and avid femi nist, she was co-author of Boys

in White: Student Culture in Medical School ( 1 96 1 ) .

She erved a s ed i tor o f several journals, including American Sociological Review, Social Problems and Symbolic Interaction and of a book, Learning to Work.

Alumni Alert A member of the Class of ' S l ha pledged

$ 1 m i l l ion to support a fund-raising ef fort for financial aid. And all Colby alum ni can help.

W i l l iam R. Kenan Jr. Profes or of Government

The donor and his wife, who pledged anonymously, want to establish the Col

Herbert E . Wadsworth Professor of Economics

ship A id Fund . The idea is for Colby

by Twentieth Century Alumni Scholar

Robert E . Diamond Professor of Women's Studies and of French M iselis Profes or of Chemistry A l len Fami ly Professor of Latin American Literature

alumni from the 20th century to bank on students of the 2 1 t-the first Twenti eth Century Alumni Scholars will be named in the fal l of 2000. The gift carries a cond i tion: the Col lege must raise an add i tional $ 2 m i l l ion in endowed financ ial aid funds from alumni before the end of the decade donations from parents, foundations and

J ette Professor of Art

other friends of the College won't be

M itchel l Fami l y Professor of Economics

counted toward the total. The pledge is the first of it size spe

Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of H istory Coddington Chair)

c ific a l l y earmarked for scholars h i ps at Colby.

Triple T hreat - Stephen Collins '74 -

a woman, as an African-American, as a v is i t i ng instructor f oc iology

Ii terary and as a l i terary e ayi ·r grounded

in ociology.

at Colby on a year- to-year appointment

Te l e v i � ion j ou rnalist and language

for the last three years, Sarah W i l l i e k nows first-hand about l i v ing on t h e

pund i t Edwin N ewman once wrote that "a large part of soc ial c ient ific practice

margin. A a ociologi t who t u d i e strati fication a n d oppression in ociety, par

consi ts of taking clear ideas and mak ing them opaque." But W i l l ie transcend

t ic u larly in race and gender relat ion ,

the tereotype of the academic ociolo-

demic paper t ir leJ " Playing the Devil'� Advocate: Defend i ng a Identity" u e

1ulti -Racial

autohiographical mate

rial-three "rac iali:ed moments" of her own life-to i l l u ·trate how subtly stra t i fication a n d oppre s i o n occur.

he \Hite

"There is a pec u l iar ideological bel ief for each ethni c/gender or race/ ex rnnfigu

W i l l i e al o has a thorough aca

rat ion in this country , but the

demic grounding in the mechan

ideology that Black \\'Omen are

ics of marginality. So i t should come as no sur

d e p e n d e n t- a n d t h e r e i .

prise that Willie, one of this year's new tenure- track fac ulty

de-cribe Black men-ha - con

m e m b e r s , check

in a

s l iohtly different ideology that vinced many people that I am unable to ex ist w ithout the w i l l

the

Col leae' fir t - e v e r appointee i n

t h r e e separate program . B e

of t h e government. I t w i l l b e supporting me in ome capac it\',

ginning this fal l he is a ten ure-track in tructor in ociology,

forc i ng . c hools to adm i t me,

African-American ·tudie women's tudie .

whether by 'gi,· i ng' me welfare,

and

threatening organ i:ations into hiring me . . . . " I n thi oc iety i f l am, on the

When the College's overseer que t ioned the idea of hav ing a fac u lty member w i th a foot m three cl ifferent boats, W i I I i e

other hand, "·h i re and male, and espec ially if I am a lso traigh t , Protestant a n d affluent, t h e mes

countered, " I d o n ' t e v e n have

sage, of which I am constant l y

three fee t ! " " I really ee it a

rem inded, i being one

boat, though ," he aid. " I t's one that cover everyth i ng. I t was a way for me to ay, ' I 'm not choosing one or the other . "' That per-

t h a t l am depen

Jent on no one. I am adm itted to c hool becau e I a m mart; I am hi red for a job becau e of my k i l l ; I am paid m y alary becau ·e

Sarah Willie

her acade m ic phi losophy and a world

gi t by analy:ing complex ·oc ial phe

I have earned it. I am responsible for everyone e l e. "After Karl M annhe im and Martin

v iew that re i t

c las i fication sy terns

nomena with elegant, d irec t and per-

Buber, after Howard Thurman and Maya

that u l timately leave ome people on the

onal prose. The fact that Maine Public

margins. " I refuse to be subd ivided; i t's a

Radio ha aired three of her essay dur ing the Maine Things Considered portion

Angelou, I would argue that we are a l l dependent on other for a l l o f t h e things

ception help

to exp lain both

rej ection of marginal ity."

that count in l ife . . . . To be human i to be dependent. To be human is al o to be

lowed me to find my center in another

of All Things Considered is evidence of her succe s and k i l l , whether it' "Car

agent

en e," he a id. "Moving away from oci

Dealer, Raw Deal" about a black woman

w i l ls. But the me ·age

ology into women' and African-Ameri

buying a u ed car in central M aine or

both you and me ob c u re these truth ."

can

"Over the Aby " about her parent ' 30th

" Be ing marginal in one en e has al

tudie

give

me more flexibility.

They are new fields, s t i l l defi ning them selve . Both are interdi c ip l inary , a llow ing many more tyle of presentation." W i l l ie ees her e lf as a teacher who coun els tudent , a a sociologi t who i

wedd i ng anniver ary. W i l l ie' focus on her own experience a a way of under randing and explain ing

invol ed in the

haping of our that

urround

When W i l l i e presented portions of " P laying the Devil' Advocate" a part of Colby' Women'

t ud i e Col loqu ia la t

winter, a stand ing-room-only audience

what' going on in oc iety i not confined

was clearly moved by the torytel l ing in

to her e x trac urricu l ar writing. An aca-

her scholarship.

h e used an anecdote

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abou t her encounter w i th a teen -aged

fi l l ed w i t h granJio ity anJ self- loathi ng, I

A fr i c a n - A m e r i c a n bag bo y a t a gro c e ry

ing connect ions. S h e quotes

ll ' a nt ed to he she who WL1uld w ipe out any

- rore tll i l l u s t ra t e her own s t ruggle w i t h

M i l l s , who a id , "Ne i ther the l ife of an

doubt i n h i · m i nd that peo pl e l ike us are

i n d i v i dual nor t h

b e i ng a m u l t i rac i a l per-on w i t h B l ack

not on the mm·e. I wanted to have gone to

can be under tood w i thout understand

A fr i c a n ance::.try ( her fa t h e r i s A fr i c a n - A m e r i c a n , h e r mother w h i t e ) . The hoy n o t i ced t h e s w e a t s h i rt s h e \\'a::.

Harvard for h i m . "

Wright

h istory of soc i e ty

i ng both . "

'"No,"' I said. '"Haverford. I t ' a d i ffer ent college . "'

" Au tobiography g i ves me a greater range to talk abou t t h i ngs . We can talk

\\'eari ng , \\' h i c h wa::. e mb l a : oneJ w i t h

Fol lowing W i ll ie's presentation, t h e

about hard t h i ng a l i tt l e more easi ly,"

" H a verford , " her a l ma inciter, b u t m isread

d iscus::.ion tn<1Lle i t c lear that her u e o f

she a i d . "Start i ng w i t h our own stories

the \\'orJ . "Did you rea l ly go to H a n·arcl ?"

a u to b iography i n c h o l arsh i p m a y h a v e

a l lows people to use their own stories and

the boy ask ed.

put her a g a i n o n the marg i n o f main-

meet u s . "

t rearn ·oci olngy. Asked how the Eastern

That's part icu larly i mportant i n a c l ass

Soc iological Soc i e t y reac ted when she

when the subj ect matter challenges stu

presented her paper, W i l l i e repl ied: "So

dents' mo t ba ic a sumptions-that men

" I \\'ished w it h e v ery t h in g i m 1 d e m e , \\' i th e\·ery choice I 've e\·er m a d e for m e

a nd not 'The Race .' that I h a d g o n e to Han·ard . That I could -ay to that boy,

far i t 's k i nd of met with tunned i lence."

are dependent on no one and respon

'sister done made good . . . . ' That he could

But he defended her first-person ap

sible for everyone e lse, for example. "Of

be proud of h i mself. That he could be

proach to soc iology , vvomen'

stud ies

ten t h e i r first react ion to me and to the

proud of m e. That the world was get t i n

and A fr i c a n - American s t ud i es as an ef

material is goi ng to be an angry one,"

fairer. In t ha t naked, bloated moment,

fec t i ve way of open ing doors and mak-

W i l l ie said of her teac h i ng experi ence.

Pundits and Plaudits

Print and broadcast media regularly call upon Colby faculty and staff to comment or provide background on a range of topics . Colby readers who wish to obtain copies of stories mentioned here may write in care of Managing Editor, Colby magazine, Colby College , Waterville , Me . , 0490 1 . Please include the reference number listed in parentheses for the story you want.

G irl Talk

tudies. A sociate Professor of English Cedric Bryant, in a

Boys may be boys, but apparently girls are often not

recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, pointed

given the same opportunity for self-expression. And that

out Gaines's universal appeal. "My students are over

may contribute to problems later in l ife, according to

whelmingly middle class whites, and sometimes I find that

Assistant Professor of Education and Human Develop

there are cultural reasons that prevent them from assimi

ment Lyn Mikel Brown, whose five-year study of 1 00

lating some work," he said. "But with Gaine there is an

adolescent girls was cited in recent articles in Mademoiselle

immediate identification, because he deals with timeless

and The Washington Post wire service. Brown said many girls experience a loss of self-esteem between the ages of 9 and 1 5 . Girls at those ages "lose their voice ," she said.

themes: love and hate and courage." ( A9402 )

Reserve J udgment

The Mademoiselle art icle discussed the difficulty some women have saying "no . " Brown says this "yes habit" form when adolescent girls' assertiveness is

the $64 ,000 question economic forecasters ponder as they attempt to gauge the effects of Federal Reserve policies.

How much money should it cost to buy money ? That's

suppressed by well-meaning parent and teachers who try to help the girls be more socially acceptable. ( A940 1 )

Two Colby economist -As istant Professor Saranna Thornton '8 1 and Associate Professor David Findlay each offered their two cents worth in separate newspaper

Reading Between the Color Lines

article recently.

When studying the work of black author , white student h istorically have found the material to be somewhat gray. That is, they either mis interpreted it or j ust plain d idn't understand. But that appears to be changing as faculty aero s the country incorporate the writing of Ernest ] . Gaines-be t known for his novel The Autobiography ofMiss Jane Pittman- into literature

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Thornton told Investor's Business Weekly that Fed fund rate changes don't make any immediate impact on the na tion's economy. She estimated that it takes between six months and two years for consumers and businesses to react. Findlay, in a recent issue of the Portland Press Herald, a id the Fed's planned interest rate increase-designed to thwart nationwide inflation-might actually help Maine's

That caused some heartache for students and the i nstructor i n her early cour es,

of rac i a l m i

i n to soc ial work-a k i nd of t he rapy for

n or i t ies, sexual m i nor i t i es or adopted

the suhj ects he wa i n te rv i ew i ng. " I was

and

c h i ld r e n . Peopl e who a re n ' t even i n

l i k e a ponge , " h e . aid . " ! pent fi ve year�

my c lasses come by a n J s a y , ' M y room

h e i ng p retty unhappy . "

h e rec a l l tudent who ended up h a t i ng the material, h a t i ng her and m a k ing b o t h c lear w i t h s o m e unflattering rev i ews i n the i r course eval u a t i on form. .

whether they're member

e e you . '

W i l l ie , w h o s a i d ::. h e lackeJ a en e o f

There 's som e t h i ng about d i fference that

mate

aid I should come

fe l l owsh i p in Chi cago, h a -. f ound t h e

W i l l ie has re isted the temptation t o water down her mater i a l , to often the chal

people trust ."

a tmosphere i n Waterv i l l e m r e t o her

lenge to stude n t ' b e l i e fs or to reward

in grad u a t e ·c hool a t N o n h w e tern

t h e m with i nflated grades.

W i l l ie arrived a t Colby after five year

l i k i ng. She ha cour e and i

taken Adult Educat ion i n volved i n some c h u rch

U n i ve r i t y . Though h e desc ri bes Ch i

fun c t i ons and comm u n i t y programs i n

Her rapport w i t h student was e v ident

cago a s a v i bra n t , m u l t i ra c i a l c i ty, she

add i t ion to her w o r k o n Mayflower H i l l

d u r i ng the i n tervi e w for t h i art i c l e when

was bothered by the egregated nature of

and her wri t i ng. " I f there hadn't been a

the metropol i ::. w i th it

sense of c om m un i ty I certa i n l y wouldn't

a h a l f-dozen student came to talk to her

preJorn i n a n t l y

even though i t wasn't d u r i ng her posted

b l a c k s o u t h s i d e and p redo m i na n t l y

offic e hours.

w h i t e north e n d . I n add i t ion, the rigors o f

" B e i n g d iffe re n t i an i n v i t a t i o n to lots of

t udents who feel d i ffe re n t , " W i l l ie

grad uate

chool took t h e i r to l l on her.

have tayed," she sa id. Stay she did, and w i t h W i l l i e as part of what Dean of Fac u l ty Robert M c A rthur

too m u c h of a "grad uate-

cal led a "st u n n i ng" group of new tenure

a t i m e when lots of

c h oo l - as - boo t - c a m p " m e n t a l i t y , s h e

track fac u l ty members, Colby students

people are figu r i ng out who they are,

sa i d , and her research t o o often turned

s a i d . "Co l lege i

There wa

are the benefi c i aries .

economy. "Thi could, potentially, be a wa h for Maine .

The dishes are piling u p a t Colby, too, h e says,

In t h e long term , non- inflat ionary growth nationally will

noting that the College now has three of them, includ

help us," he said. ( A9403 )

ing one that tracks a Russian satell ite , Gorizon 7 . ( A940 5 )

Sanctioning Sanctions

Authority Figures

outh Africa ha installed its first democratic govern ment, but that probably would not have happened with out economic sanction from the We t. That' the v iew of

A recent p iece in the National ]ournal introduced a col lect ion of essay analyzing Congress's role in the

A oc iate Profe sor of Government and director of In

management of federal program . Among the e ay

ternational Studie Kenneth Rodman, who was quoted

quoted was that of Professor of Government G. Calvin

in a recent art icle in Investor's Business Weekly that such

Mackenzie , who said: "There is no consensus in either

anctions helped end aparthe id. "Economic costs imposed

branch, in the law or in the cholarly literature, on

by the international community played a ignificant role

where congressional authority properly end and ex

in influencing the decision

ecut ive authority begins."

of the white leader hip,"

Rodman a id . "They recognized that unless there were

"In fact," Mackenzie wrote, "they overlap con tantly

fundamental changes, they would never normalize their

alma t everywhere, and the only meaningful restraints

economic relation hip w ith the rest of the world." ( A9404 )

are those that are elf-imposed and polit ically driven." ( A9406 )

Colby's Favorite Dishes

Politically Speaking

Satel l ite d ishes were popularized by telev ision j unkie looking for rerun of old shows, but the technology that

Maine's wide-open legi lative races have kept Asso

brings "Rocky and Bullwinkle" into living rooms al o

c iate Profe sor of Government Tony Corrado busy

provides an important util ity for college . Sam Atmore,

analying election new for the past several month . He

aud iovisual librarian, explained the increa ed use of at

was recently cited in a Boston Globe article about the

ellite transmissions on college campuses in a J une is ue of

opportunitie for Maine candidate

On Sat, a program guide for d ish owner . "There is a lot more interest in mult icultural , international program

exposure at the Democratic state convention. Corrado

to increa e their

agreed that the practice of platform debate "has been

these days. Be ides all the

very important" in obtaining voter upport and that in

programming, the costs involved are much more manage

general " it's a wise strategy to u e the platform to lay out

able ,"

your po ition." ( A9407 )

m ing on college campuse

tmore told the magazine.

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Lubin Knocks Art off the Pedestal - Greg Gadberry reople very, D very angry. When you meet him, it' avid Lubin makes some

hard to understand why. Lubin is a smart, funny and, wel l , a pret ty regular k ind of guy. He speaks with ra ion and preci ion about everything from Amerirnn movies to the vagaries of rol itic to the hi tory of American art. He sl ide puns and jokes into his academic writing. He make fun of hi mself. Next to h is desk is a very un-professorial picture showing Lubin-laughing and up to h is neck in water-in a grand old fountain in Rome. So what's not to like? Ask some members of America's art establish ment. One called Lubin "an X-rated pornographer." Another uggested he made things up. Curators who invite him to art conferences wonder wheth er he'll "do a Lubin" while he i there. Do a Lub i n ? "ln a way, that worried me," said Lubin, the ] ames M. G illespie Profe or of Art and American Stud ie at Colby. "l wasn't quite sure what 'do a Lubin' meant." He grinned. " l think it has to do with unpred ictabil ity." It's more than that. Lubin and other scholar l ike him are storming the often-stuffy world of art and art critic ism and are k ic ki ng over the pedestal . These American studie scholars and art h istorians are un will i ng to view paintings and sculptures merely as th ings of beauty or examples of high culture. They a k new questions about old art-quest ions that make many uncomfortable. Those new questions and techniques have provoked fierce debates about art scholarsh ip and about the pur poses of art it elf. "A lot of art h istorians see themsel ve as the last bastions of Western culture against the barbarians," Lubin said. "And maybe that's why so many art historians are mad at me, because they think I ' m going t o open t h e gates a n d say, 'Barbar ians, come on in ! ' "

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Picturing a Nation: Arr and Social Change

is the large ·t and most comprehensive example of "do ing a Lubin" to date. The hook, released by Yale Uni versity Press, studies the lives and work of s i x Ameri can artists: John Vanderlyn, George Caleb Bingham, Rob ert S. Duncan on, Lilly Martin Spencer, Seymour Guy and Will iam Hamett. in Nineteench-Century America

Like other art historians, Lubin com ments on the techniques and talent that went into each artist's work. But from there he probes the personal, societal and even sexual influences that may have helped create their paintings. And he speculates on what viewers and buyers of those paintings may have thought of them. In the chapter on Duncanson, for ex ample, Lubin looks at a mid- 1 9th-century African-American artist who has largely been overlooked by modern audiences. Duncanson, who painted vivid and peace ful landscapes in the Hud on River School style, has been dismissed by some as de-

rivative and by others a a minor art ist. Lubin look beyond those critic isms. Lubin leads readers through Duncanon's work and influences and then ex plains the difficult and dangerous world that African Americans inhabited prior to the Civil War. Although Duncanson wa a free black man, he l ived in Cincinnati , where racial tensions were high and dan gers to blacks were always present. Lubin then speculate on how the pressures of pre-Civil War soc i ety may have steered Duncanson's art. He suggest , for example, that the calm and beautiful landscapes Duncanson created may have re flected the artist' inner wish for a calm and peaceful America with out lavery and rac ial v iolence. Much of what Lubin posits can't be proved-as he i quick to acknow ledge. "I invite you to laugh, scoff, be angry, scribble notes in the margin, write me a letter-and send it," Lu bin writes in the book's introduction. And neither does Lubin uggest that only a single interpretation is correct. ln many cases, he offers sev eral possible rea ans why a piece of art was done and what it means. He even offer contradictory explana tions. The idea is not to give readers the answer but to provoke them into finding thei r own answers. Some ofLubin's speculations may seem farfetched even to the most open-minded reader. Can a modem critic really psy choanalyze an artist through his works, espec ially an artist dead for alma t a cen tury and a half? Yet Lubin's writ ing is o killful that most readers will probably overlook the ir skepticism and follow along simply to ee where Lubin is headed. Hi explanations of 1 9th-century history and culture are well presented and believable. The specu lations and theorie that follow ri e logi cally and thoughtfu l l y from a solid grounding in h i tory.

Ab ent from Picturing a Narion i the academ ic arrogance seen all too often in cholarly work . Lubin add to that ap peal with a friendl y , personable writing tyle. Picturing a Nation is weighty and challenging. But i t has li ttle of the unin

farther than many art hi tory scholar!> , " aid Pamela Belanger, a istant c urator o f t h e Farnsworth A r t Museum in Rockland, Ma ine. "He ha hi own style. He' unique.

tell igible " art-speak" and academ ic j ar gon that bloats many scholarly works. " l ' m per a n a l l y very t h an k fu l for people l ike Dav id, who go out a l i ttle bit

worth's permanent collect ion, ha asked Lubin to submit chapter about art ist Thomas Eakins. From his chi ldhood in Ohio, Lubin,

l don't k now anyone q u i te l ike h i m . " Belanger, w h o is cataloging t h e Farns

Heroes Are Back Susanna Hofmann McShea '7 1 's quartet of unlikely sleuths has returned-this ti me to solve the my tery surrounding the death of a seminary student. Ladybug, Ladybug (St. M artin' Pre s 1 994 ) is the third in McShea's "Hometown Herne " series of mysteries ( ee Co lby , November 1 99 2 ) . I n this in tallment, the four e lderly, amateur detec tive McShea introduced in Hometown Heroes (St. Martin's 1 990 ) team up with a d istraught mother who e on i murdered at a mall, financ ially trapped Catholic sem i nary. The p lotting is tigh t enough-and the mystery deep enough-to please easoned aficionado of the form. Plausible culprits abound, along w i th a creelful of red herring . McShea also displays her talent for drawing complex character in ettings that are never quite what they seem. Idyllic, fictitious Raven' Wood, Com1. , is home to both senior executives and financially maxed-out wannabes. Families fall apart discreetly. Cri e calls for do ed doors. And St. Sebastian's Seminary, fighting for its life behind a facade of Catholic conservatism, house a few monsters along with its religious eekers. Readers of Ladybug, Ladybug are warned to take nothing for granted--except an intriguing tale.

Redefining J ewish Life Colby Professor ofEng l i h David uchoffhas teamed with U n iversity of Colorado Denver professor Kevin O'N e i l l in a new tran lation of Alain Finkielkraut's The Imaginary Jew ( Un iversity of N ebra ka Press, 1 994 ) . Finkielkraut, a French native born i n 1 949 to Holocaust survivors, published a French edition of this book of essays in the early 1 980s. In it he explores, among other top ics, the idea that the Holocau t perpetrated a loss of pre- war J ewish c u lture and memorie . H e says that sub equent attempt to describe that c u lture have lacked depth because writers have shied away from depict ing the full range of Jewish experience-either in ympathy for Holocaust vic tims or becau e they can't recon struct the m il ieu from i t ashe . One is left, he says, with ympathetic portraits uch a tho e found in the musical Fiddler on the Roof or the television series Holocaust, which de cribe paradigms ( and paragons ) , not people with rich and compl icated l ives. I n hi introduct ion to this volume, Suchoff says Finkielkraut, the author of e ight books incl ud ing a critique of the Klaus Barbie trial, i "clear-eyed and critical" in describing the ways J ews born during the Baby Boom have been robbed of their cultural heritage. "The Imaginary Jew," Suchoff writes, "describe the elf-contrad iction of contem porary J ew ish identity a a fam i ly affair. I n many ways, Finkielkraut' book can be read as an updated ver ion of Kafka' Letter to His Father, sharing its longing for the parents' c u l ture and resistance to ass i m i la t ion and accommodation as facts of Jew ish l i fe . . . . "Finkielkra u t argues that the po t- Holocau t effect was to hand down an empty and s i m u ltaneou l y inflated ense of what Jewi h identity m ight mean. Being a proud J e w became i m portant, i n other words, prec isely when the Holocau t robbed Euro pean Jewi h c u l ture of its content . M any parents, hoping to forget the horrors they underwent, silenced the very Yiddi h c u l t ure and ense of connectedness that t heir children longed to po sess."

now 43, ha taken the broad ,·iew. H is intere r- have been many, anJ :eroing in on a ingle field of stuJy proved difficult. I n 1 9 7 3 , he received a B . A . in Eng lish from Ohio tate U n i ,·er�ity. It wa hi fourth col lege. He had �tud ied in Ill inois and M ichigan and even in Lo Angele , where he made mov ies in the pre tigiou Univer ity of Southern Cali forn ia fi lm chool . After college , he drm·e a truck, wrote a novel and moved to Paris, where he watched subtitled A merican movie and courted a young American writer named Libby Warner. A l though the two had been introduced in the United tate , romance didn't come until Lubin hitch hiked through France and appeared a t a v i neyard where Libby wa pick ing grape . "We've been together ever ince," he said. The Lubins now have two chi ldren. Film was one of Lubin' early love · , a n d o i t remains. S ince coming to Colby in 1 98 3 , he has taught several classes on movies. But at the Yale A merican Stud ie program, Lubin became capt i vated by 1 9th-century American paintings, e pe c ially portra its. So in between wri ting mov ie reviews for the local paper, Lubin learned about painting, technique and theory from J ules Prawn, a renowned art historian and scholar. Lubin's first book, Act of Portrayal: Eakins , Sargent , James, was publ i hed in 1 98 5 . One of h is Yale professor warned Lubin that once i t wa publ ished , "the bullet wou ld be fly ing." Critic rai led at his speculat ion , c l a i m ing Lubin' theo ries were e ither too broad or j ust plain wrong. Lubin's contention that some of the factors motivating the most beloved 1 9 t h - c e n t u ry A me r i c a n arti ts w e re sexual sent trad itionali ts up the walls. S ince the printing of Act of Portrayal nine year ago, more and more cholar have opted to challenge entrenched view of art, and some scholars believe that Pic turing a Nation may find a much more re ceptive aud ience than Lubin's first book. The author, however, i n't so ure. He remembers all the y e l l i ng and screaming too well. But he know he isn't ready to narrow h is focu or conform to old bound aries of taste, tyle and knowledge. " M y work," Lubin said, " is abou t cros ing l ine . " +

Greg Gadberry is an arts and entertainment writer far the Partland Newspapers .

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Answers to First� Year Questions - J. Kevin Cool -

t is a ritual that occ u rs on doorsteps and

Roseboro ays keeping parents informed

in driveways and in the shadow of res

avoids misunderstandings later. She re

idence halls on campuses across America

Academic concerns are high on most

calls an i nc ident at an institut ion where

every fall. Parents say goodbye to their

parents' l ists. They often want their son or

she worked previously in which the

chi ldren on the first day of college.

daughter to select an academic program

mother of a student "came unglued" when

that will lead to a specific career. The

them with the campus and Colby people.

Even for the most secure mothers and

she dropped off her daughter for classes

fathers, the most sophisticated higher ed

liberal arts may be unfami liar to some

and learned for the first time that she

ucat ion "consumers," this is a day fraught

parents, depending on their own college

would be l iv i ng in a coed dorm itory .

background or experience, Serdj enian

with anxiety and ful l of anticipat ion. And

"Here was this tearful mother shouting,

there are questions. Lots of questions.

tions l ike, 'What is my daughter going

Mark Serdjenian '73, assoc iate dean of students, says Colby works hard to assuage parents' anxieties and to address concerns ranging from where to open a bank account to selecting a major. "First and foremost, parents are concerned that the i r c h ildren have a c h a l l e n g i n g e x p e r i e n c e or t h e y wouldn't be at Colby, b u t they also want that experience to be a comfort able and posit ive experienc e over all," Serdj enian said. Many of the parents' questions w i l l have been an wered b y t h e t i m e school

says. As a result, he said , "there are ques-

"We're in a partnership ; we are priv ileged to come in at th is stage of a student's life, but

to do with an East Asian studies ma jor ?' They want them to d ive right into pre-med or economics or something they see as a practical major. Luckily, l iberal arts colleges and graduates are being seen as a hot commodity right now, and with the help of Career Ser vices, I think we can put some of those concerns to rest." Regardless of the specific concerns, Roseboro believes the key to meeting

the family will always

parents' needs is opening a dialogue

be there . "

throughout a student's college career.

begins. The Dean of Students Office

and m a i n t a i n i n g a re l a t i on s h i p "The more informed parents are the better their relationship will be with

provides a hotline number during the summer for parents who want informa

'How could you d o this to me ? How could

the institution," she said. "We're in a

t ion. Serdj enian, who receives all hotline

you do this to m e ?' She was not prepared to

partnership; we are privileged to come in at this stage of a student's life, but the

c a l ls, says questions early in the summer

leave her daughter in that situation be

typically deal w i th cour e selections and

cause nobody had explained to her what

academic advising.

the l iving arrangements would be."

fam i ly w i l l always be there." Dean of the College Earl Smith points

"No matter how fam i l iar one is w ith

Colby produces a series of publica

to the Parents Executive Committee as

select ing courses at another college or

tions and special mail ings for parents.

another exampl e of Colby's comm it ment to keeping parents informed. "The

h igh school or prep chool, the unique

The Parents Handbook is a 62-page book

aspects of Colby's system bring a lot of

let that describes college pol ic ies, ex

Parents Executive Comm ittee aggres

questions," Serdj en ian said. As the summer progresses, the ques

p l a ins acad e m i c requ irements and is chock-full of helpful, practical informa

sively tries to identify parents' concerns," he said. The Execut ive Com m i ttee,

tions become more practical. "Early on, a

tion such as flight schedules in and out of

composed of a group of parents of cur

typical question m ight be, 'What does a

Portland and a l ist of restaurants in the

rent students, conceived the hand

first-year schedule Look like ?"' Serdj enian

Waterv i l le area. "We try to send parents

book to inform and assist parents with useful information.

said. "As the summer goes along, we get

more than j ust the bill," Serdjenian said.

questions l ike, "Should we send oversized

"They get the College calendar, the hand

Parents Weekend is also an important

sheets for the room ?"

book and several other things to help

component of Colby's outreach. Usually

them plan their year. "

held in late September or early October,

J eri Fraime Roseboro, Colby's new as

Parents Weekend provides an opportu

soc iate dean of students for intercultural

Parents who drop off their children

affa irs, said parents often feel " left out of

for COOT i n Late August may parti

nity for parents to reconnect w i th their

the loop" unless there is a systematic

c ipate in a day and a half of orienta tion activities designed to fam i l iarize

children and strengthen their ties with

attempt to communicate w i th them.

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hen two lake assoc i a t ions in protecting the water, both by working on Belgrade, Maine, hired Brian D. exi t ing condition in the water hed and Carlson '94 to spend h is summer mon i planning for the future. toring water qual i ty in four ofthe Belgrade "I was really amazed at the amount of lakes, they knew they were getting more work they were able to get done in a than the average ummer intern. Carlson graduated summa cum laude in May with distinction as a bi ology-environmental sci ence major and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He a lso h e lped write the book- l i terally-about water quality in McGrath Pond and Salmon Lake. Carlson and 10 other seniors in Biology 493 , Problems in Environmen tal Science, took learn ing beyond the c lassroom last year, working in the 5 , 7 1 3-acre watershed area for Salmon Lake in Bel grade and Oakland. Their study was hailed by con servation group , town officials and Maine DeBrian Carlson '94 prepares w exrract a water sample . partment ofEnvironmental Protection biologists for its quali ty , semester. . . . It was very thorough; I was thoroughness and u efulness in protect rea l ly impressed," said J eff Denni , head ing the lakes that feed Great Pond and the of watershed asse sment and planning for rest of the Belgrades. Maine's Department of Environmental "Land Use Patterns in Relation to Protection. "It' the k ind of thing we'd Lake Water Qual i ty in the Salmon Lake l ike to do for every watershed where Watershed," a 1 59-page compendium of there's concern about development. I t graphs, maps, scientific data, reports and provides a service that n o one else has the t ime or the resources to do." recommendations, was published in J anu Carlson, now i n the employ of the ary fo llowing a detailed presentation of the findings on campus last December. I t lake associations in a cooperative arrange ment w it h Colby, is spending h is summer concludes that water quality in Salmon Lake and adjacent McGrath (pronounced doing further testing on Salmon Lake, "McGraw") Pond five m iles west of Colby expanding ome of the tests to cover is not as bad as it has been in the past but Long Pond and Great Pond and working that future development could put the on grants and action plans to implement lakes at n k. More important, according the recommendat ions for protecting to biologists and residents concerned about Salmon Lake's water hed and environ . H i s regimen of tests include checking the lakes, it offers pecific suggestions for 41

the transparency of the lakes, measuring dissolved oxygen in the water and re cording acid i ty levels, all in add i t ion to monitoring the amount of pho phorus in each lake. "We have good data on Salmon Lake from la t summer; now we have to do ome thing about i t," Carlson said. Doing something about i t includes trying to implement recom mendations for improv ing camp road- o their dra inage d itches and diversion are more lake friendly. I t means ap plying grant from the tare' Department of Environmental Protec t ion to improve buffer s t r ip -tree or shrub plantings to filter runoff water as i t enters the l a k e . Carlson is al o working w ith code en forcement officers in Oakland and Belgrade to identify malfunctioning septic sy terns that may be harming the lakes. The j ob entails more research, such as expanding the cla s' inventory of the almon Lake watershed to include in pect ion ofa l l tributary treams. Carlson will also put together a pamphlet for landowner on the importance of p lant ing horeline buffer strips. Recognizing the value of both applied learning and community service, biology profes ors Russell Cole and David Firmage have developed the Biology 493 cour e over the last decade so that eniors ma joring i n biology w i th a concentration in environmental c ience can tudy a spe cific, troubled watershed. Pa t classe have focused on China Lake and East Pond; thi year was almon Lake' year. The cour e i tructured as if the tudents are

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This Research Was a Day at the Beach W ithout the details to d i . tinguish it, a ·rory about the activ i t i es of one Colby geology profes or and his student assistant could de-cribe a typical sum mer vac a t ion: they slept in tents and played in the sand . But Assistant Professor of Geology Paul Dos and Jeff Harri on ' 9 5 were invest igating groundwater movement at Ind iana Dunes N ational Lakeshore under the au pi ces of the

The pair also researched the possible effects of steel mill slag heaps on groundwater near Gary , lnd . , a project sponored by the Indiana Department of Environmental Manage ment. The research involved a week of sampling to determine the chemical composition of groundwater in the heav i ly industrial ized corridor along I ndiana' northern border. l t's

urvey. Located on the southern shore

an extension of di serration research Doss conducted at Northern I l l inois University and will l ikely result in a pub

of Lake Mi chigan, the Indiana Dunes beache have occa

lishable report combining data from both studies, Doss says.

N ational Biological

sionally been closed because of bac terial concentrations in

Harrison, who w i l l co-author at least one of the project

the lake, but pre\ im inary studies found even more bacteria

reports, say the experience enriched his under tanding of

in the beach groundwater. Doss and Harrison wanted to evaluate groundwater movement

find out the nature and

origin of the contaminants under the beach itself.

and apprec iat ion for hydrogeological fieldwork. " I 'm really grateful for the opportunity, and 1 think it's something I w i l l real ly u s e later," he said.

"lt was exc it ing re earch because it d i rectly affects public health," Doss said.

"Jeff assisted in every aspect of the proj ect, from in ta i l i ng wells to tak ing samples to interpreting the data," Do s said.

The project required Dos and Harrison to l ive in tents

Another of Doss's students, John Dawson '95 , worked

near the research. site and de ign pecial field procedures to

with Associate Professor of Geology Robert Nelson in a field

deal with the chal lenges of studying groundwater beneath. a

proj ect at the Great Bog wetlands in Maine's Belgrade Lakes

public beach. Working amid thousands of beach.-goers daily,

area. Dawson analyzed pollen samples from a sed iment core

Doss and Harrison dug well and extracted water samples for

20 feet long, which would indicate vegetation types over the past I 0,000 years. "The sample contain sediment from

analysis. They often had to return several time

to redig wells

de troyed by torm waves from the lake. To avoid tampering

when the last glacier moved through the area," Doss said.

from people on the beach, they buried test ing equ ipment and

"By analyzing it we can find out what c l imatic and vegeta

were constantly watchful to ensure the integrity of the ir data.

t ion changes occurred . "

an env i ronmental consult ing firm w i th a contract

tudy a spec ific problem. The

obj ect is to teach students how to ap

scient ists, lake a soc iat ions and town

Concerns a bout the water qua! i ty, fish

governments concerned abou t ac t i v i ty

erie

in the watershed .

Maine's lakes have spawned a gra sroot

and w i ldl ife habitat in central

proach a problem, develop a work-plan

Besides integrating computer appl ica

environmental movement in the form

and i mp le ment the plan successfully, ac

t ions, scient ific methods and report writ ing, the class proj ect gets into public

of lake associations whose mission is to

draw on tools and skills they've learned in earl ier course and learn new methods

policy as well. This year students worked with state-level environmental regula

qual ity and shorelands. The McGrath

as requ i re d . For the Salmon Lake proj ect,

tors as well as town official

who are

founded in 1 989 by a group of home

new material incl uded learn ing to use the

trying to write ( and get adopted ) land

owners and camp owners, i n c l u d i ng

Maine DEP's methodology for evaluat

Leonard Re ich, associate professor of ad

ing water qual i ty and calculat ing the

use ordinances that will protect the lakes. "It was really challenging-it was re

amount of phosphorus in run-off.

ally a big project," Carlson said. " I t seemed

bara A l len, who l ive i n Belgrade. A l len, the current pre ident of the assoc iation, said, "I think we're very lucky

cord ing

Cole and Fi rmage. Student

protect , maintain and improve water Pond/S a l mo n Lake A soc i a t ion was

min istrative sc ience, and h is wife, Bar

ampl ing and

l ike every few days we hit another dead

field researc h, students employ sophist i

l ine." The Problems in Env i ronmental

c ated computer appl icat ions, includ i ng

Sc ience c lass, which earned four cred i ts,

to have thi Colby study. lt will really

a geographic information system ( G I S )

was more work than Organic Chem istry,

help focus our efforts as an association ."

and a program cal led De ltaGraph for

which is a fi ve-cred it course, he said. But,

tables and graphs, according to Kristian

he was quick to add , the Salmon Lake

W h i l e lake assoc i a t i o n s , i n c l u d i ng Salmon Lake's, have served as watchdogs

Parker '94 of Celi ngy, S w itzerland. Af

study was one of the most valuable aca

within the watershed and as leaders in

ter scanning base maps into a Macin

demic experiences he had, and the 1 5 9-

publ i c e n v i ronmental ed u c a t ion and

tosh Centru s computer, students used

page report is an i mpressive add i tion to

awareness efforts, the Colby tudy give

the G I S program to create overlays with

the portfolio of every student who par

the Salmon Lake Association a l ist of

data on oil types and topography, thus

t i cipated, whether they're trying to get

concrete things i t can do to protect and

crea t i ng new maps that are u eful to

into graduate school or get a j ob.

improve water quality.

I n add i t ion to water

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THIRTIES Professor Norman D. Palmer '30, always a man of few words, as I recall, ha responded to my ques tionnaire with enough news and information to provide material for three of the e columns. I am thrilled to hear from him. By the time you read this, he and his wife, Gurina, who is of Norwegian de scent, will have pent two and a half weeks in orway visiting her numerous relative . Dr. Palmer has friend in many land , some of whom take his state of Washing ton to be the capital of the coun try. As an adopted Westerner, Dr. Palmer explain to these friends that, in the words of an editorial i.n the Chicago Tribune, "Europe e x tends to t h e A l legh e n i e s ; America lies beyond." . . . Evelyn Maxwell Bubar '30 has lo t her eyesight but writes a cheery letter in which he ay , "At 86, l do my own work, hou ekeeping and meals; Jeffrey [her son] does my vacuuming, tends to family du tie and takes good care of me. My general health is very good . " . . . Rod ' 3 1 a n d P e g D avis Farnham '28 boiled 1 ,400 gallons of maple sap this spring and got 3 5 gallons of syrup for their labors. Thi was at their winter cabin up north of their home in Hampden, Maine. They planned to attend the graduation from the Univer s i ty of Mi ouri of their ninth grandchild . . . . Lee '3 1 and Bar bara Merrick Brackett '33 l ive in Phillips, Maine. They have two

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children, nine grandchildren and 1 1 great-grandchildren. Lee ay he is slowing down a he gets older. But he works out on a Nordic Track regularly and want to play golf in Florida . . . . Evelyn Stapleton Burns ' 3 3 lo\'ed her 60th reunion and wou Id ha"e gone again in '94 except for the fact that her granddaughter in Florida was graduating from -chool down there at the -ame time. In recent year (' 6-'9 2 ) , Mrs. Burns has ser\'ed on a national board for peace and j ustice for her church. . . . Barbara Alden '33 play golf, walks, swims in Maine waters and audits courses at nearby Merri mack C o l l e g e . he J i ,· es in Ando\'er, Ma-s . . . . Charlotte Blomfield Auger '33 had an op erable cancer removed last year. She writes, "The experience has made me realize how fragile life is-and how very much 1 want to continue." Her grandson, Mat thew, is an honors tudent in gram mar school, where he is enrolled in the TAG program-Talented and Gifted. he would love to hear from her c lassmate- . . . . Harold Plotkin '34 exercise by thinking of walking. After 40 year of living in Marblehead, Ma s., the Plotkins have moved to a town orth h o u se on a pond i n Andover. I infer that they mi the ocean in Marblehead because Harold says he i putting a wave machine into their pond and will sprinkle kosher salt in the water. . . . Ellsworth Brown, eldest son of Harold Brown ' 3 5 , ha been appointed pre ident of Carnegie In titute in Pittsburgh. Harold, with his wife, [ abel, has moved into a retirement home-"a relief from condo duties." . . . J. Warren "Joe" Bishop '35 and four oth er -David ' 3 5 and Ann Trimble Hilton ' 3 5 , J ohn Reynolds '36 and Marguerite Mosher, widow of Bert Mosher '36--v isited an is land so perfect that they all agreed never to reveal its identity. If, by

writing to me, the name of the island gets into this column , Joe ay- Ann Hilton ll'i!I never forgive him. "Couldn't stand that," says Joe. Joe's wife has Al:heimer's disease and is in a nur-ing home bedridden and unable to c:1mmu nicate. Joe concludes by saying, "! love her and ha,·e wonderful memories. . . . Catherine Laugh ton Briggs '36 sent me a six-page letter (really, a long conversation ) . I kwed it a n d was flattered to recei\'e it. he retired in 1 98 1 after 40 years a an English teacher, although she did take time off when her children were mall. She has one on , two daughter and seven grandchildren aged 24 to 6 . . . . Jeannette Benn Beebe '36 had a slight uoke and light heart attack four years ago--w hich he ays "slows me down a lot, but I'm still attending the ballet in an Franc isco. " J eannette at tends Bible tudy once a week, where her pastor makes the cla very interesting . . . . The job of50-plus correspondent i full ofjoyou sur prise , such a when I hear from someone who was a close fr iend 5 7 year ago but with whom I had lost contact. That per on i Harold "Pete" Allen ' 3 7 , a fraternity brother and supportive friend with whom I had some great times back then. Pete' granddaughter, ia, is a cellist in the Greater Boston Youth Orche tra, a position that has taken her to Finland, weden and Norway . . . . In February, Edith Barron '38 attended an E lderho tel in e w Orleans, where she learned a great deal about the c i ty. She highly recom mends Elderhostel programs. . . . Classmates and friends of the late Philip E. Colman '38 are alerted that his clas year was listed incor rectly in the Boardman Service program. The Alumni Office re grets the error. . . . Bob Borovoy '39 is still working as a stock bro ker in San Francisco. He and his wife, Marilyn (Stanford U. '43 ) ,

have three chi ldren a n d fu u r Gardiner grand c h i l d r e n . Gregory ' 3 9 h a � sent enough material for a feature article. By j udicious excerpting, I will try rn do j ustice to the fa�cinating inf ur matic n he sent. A pn:e-winnmg photographer, Gard iner made Jide and photo· into a Yidel1tape, "Colby 1 9 3 5 - 1 9 39." 'ome of Gardiner's memorie , all pre sen·ed in his photograph are: 1 ) Flood-March 1 4 , 1 9 36-rook out car bridge. 2 ) Winter 1 9 3 7tudent strike; change in ,· isit ing regulations at Fo s Hall. 3 ) Fin Colby Winter Carn i\·al February 5 -6, 1 9 3 7 . 4) lee culr ture contest-W inter 1 9 3 LCA fraternity won first pri:e. 5 ) B l a s t s t a r r s c o n r ru c t ion of LorimerChapel, Augu t 1 , 1 9 3 7 . 6 ) Herbert Hoover receive� hon ora ry degree from Pre ident Franklin Win low Johrron- o vember , 1 9 3 7-at Waten· ille First Baptist Church. 7 ) Wilkie's history c lasses- 1 9 3 5 - 1 9 39 . ) City of Waterv ille 50th anniverary celebration parade-J une 2 , 1 9 3 . 9 ) Dedication and corner stone laid for Lorimer Chapel October 2 1 , 1 93 . 1 0 ) Cla s of 1 93 9 graduation, 1 1 8 graduate Monday, J un e 1 9 , 1 9 3 9 . . . More of Gardiner' material will appear in subsequent i sues of this magazine . . . . I am ure I speak for the whole class in wi b ing Stan Schreider ' 3 9 well in his courageous recovery from can cer, which took mu cle out of an upper leg. Fortunately for Stan, he has a wonderful wife, Judith (Quint ' 3 9 ) , to take care of him. Stan is tak ing continuing educat ion c lasse at Harvard. . . In February, Wilson Piper '39 and hi wife, Peg, moved from Wellesley to Kendall at Han over, . H . , a retirement commu nity. Their daughter, Elizabeth Piper De c h e n es ' 7 5, won a triathlon ( swim, b ike, run ) out in + Cal ifornia.

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Beach '42 states that she and her h usband, George Be;ich '4 1 , are spouses, partners and ignificant other� a l l at the ame t i me. At the t i m e of wri t ing, George wa wa i t i ng for the day that th ings wou ld dry up so he c o u ld play golf ( F. E . : That' not the George Beach 1 know ! Time was when George wouldn't let a h o w l i ng h l i z:ard keep h i m away from the

'42 works out ·even days a week desp ite a re ce bout with can cer. H e is 11·ork i ng on a projecr to ave the fore t · of Africa from

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dren : M argo ( Long '6 5 ) , Christo pher, Peter, Rob i n and Ellen. . . . Muriel Flagg DeShon '43 say that her 50th reunion far ex ceeded all expectations and that the re un ion book was out rand ing, thanks to Ross Muir '43 . T ra ve ls that he and he r h us band, Howard, enj oyed last year included driving the coasr ofCal i forn i a a n d t w o trips, one t o Nor way, Sweden and Denmark and one to Holland, Belgium and France . . . . E l i z a b e t h F i e l d Blanchard ' 4 3 works three days a week as a v o l u n t e er cha p l a i n a t

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hew, 50 years in the making. The Class of '44 had a plendid showing on J une 2 - 5 , 1 994, with 5 3 member · ofour war-tom cla s reuniting phy ically on the campus on Mayflower H i ll. We were hou ed in Dana Hall-wi th 328A re erved for our private rec e p t ion area-a great convenience for rho e of us who took ad vantage of the College's gen erou gesture. And we had perfect weather all four day . A Joseph Marshall lnformed me, "It' rare to have four or moredays in a rowwith plen did weather in this part of M a i n e . " A s a n a t i v e of Watervil le, Joe should know . Josephine ' 44 and Fred McAlary On Thursday, J une 2 , we had a reception and dinner in the M il lett Alumni Hou e. At 1 1 a.m. on Friday, two bu es took the c la to now Pond ( where I recall d i v ing into ice cold water on a trip with the Colby Outing Club in the spring of 1 94 2 ) . We went to Alden Camps on East Pond in Oakland for lunch, then returned to campus for the Alumni Awards Banquet and reminiscing in Dana 3 28A into the wee hours of the morning. On Saturday, we had hardly a moment to rest, what with counci l meetings, tour , the Parade of Classes at 1 1 a.m., the lob ter bake at 1 1 :30 and the reception and dinner at 6. By departure time on Sunday morning we old duffies had had i t ! Harold Vigue w a s r e p o n i b l e fo r planning several o f our meeting and trips and d id a great job. JoJo Pitts McAlary's presence was felt throughout the weekend. A you all hould be aware, she and Fred '43 worked tirele ly to edit the 5 0th reunion book that was sent to all class member in May.

R e m o V e r r e n g i a and Gene Struckhoff were cel ebrating 200 year of marriage. (They and two other broth er -in- law are married to the Brewer sisters of Waterville: 50 x 4. ) The prize for Stout Heart and Derring-Do should go to Helen Watson Boldi, who exhibited great courage by her pre ence and did not allow a physical handicap to -low her clown. The class voted Vivian Maxwell Brown life tenure a our president. Thehighlightof the week end activities was the Parade of Cla es. I wa honored to carry the banner and elected Frank Strup to a i t rne. This gesture on the part of the Cla ' 43 . of '44 to select me for such an honor-to the applause of spectators who lined the parade route helped ease the pain I endured in December 1 94 3 , when I wa not allowed to wear the cap and gown at that graduation ceremony becau e, in my haste to complete all requirements for graduation, I overlooked the foreign language reading knowledge requirement. A lthough I did receive my A.B. in ab entia with a later clas , i t did not have the same effect. Louise Callahan J ohnson, who received the Golden Apple for her teaching in the Weymouth Public Schools, brought Bob Sill en and Shirley Ellice Lord with her, and I brought Phil Nutting. Harry Levin appeared at the lob ter bake-and then di appeared. I doubt that he attended our informal gathering a I hardly had contact with him. But we won't have to wait 50 years for our next reunion. We are now 5 0-plus and have get- together annually. I hope we all can attend everal reunions in the year ahead. They are a lot of fun-and o no talgic.

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HEADLINERS During hi 4 -year career wirh rhe A sociared Press, corre pondent J oh n Roderick '36 covered tories in China, Pari, , Cairo, Jerusa lem, London, Hong Kono and V ietnam whi le interviewing both the famous and the infamou . Rod�rick' recent book, Covering China, about his career a· a joumali t empha ·i:es his work in China during Zhou En lai' admini rrarion. Zhou credired Roderick's work with opening the door of communication between rhe U.S. and China in 1 9 7 1 .

NEWS MAKERS Ida Phoebe Keen 'OS celebrated her 1 l Oth birthday on March l in Mount an Antonio Garden· retirement home in Claremont and Pomona, Cal i f. . . . Another alumna celebrating a birthday was Lucy Taylor Pratt ' 1 7 . When she turned 1 0 1 on February 2 5 , some 5 0 friend and family were on hand at the V i l lage Gate reAlden MacDonald '32 tirement home in West Hartford, Conn., for the occasion . . . . Continuing their philanthropic ways in Waterville, Maine, Ludy '2 1 and Pacy Levine ' 2 7 recently made the new for their 1 00,000 donation to the Waterville Boys and G irl Club. The donation will be u ed for the renovation and expan ion planned for the club . . . . Frances Thayer '30 wa recently granted honorary l ife member hip in the Warervi lle, Maine, branch of the AAUW for h e r 5 0- year a soc i a r ion w irh the orga n i zation . . . . Alden MacDonald ' 3 2 wa inducted into the Maine ports Hall of Fame

a 1 00-bed ( and growing) hos pital in Dade City, F la . , and loves it. She and husband Leon have four children: Arthur ( rhe Nerherlands ) , Bruce ( Holden, Main e ) , Dorothy (Contoocook, N . H . ) and Ann (Norrh Berwick, Maine ) . Grandchildren are age 1 8, 1 2, 6 and 2 . . . . Barbara Brent Biedermann '43 has j ust recov ered from the di covery that he belongs to the 5 0-plus Club. Writ ing from St. Croix, Wesr Indies, he ask : "Where did rhe time go?" While busy forgetting her age, Barbara travel a lor, having j u r retu rned from Egypt and Panama . . . . Edwin Alexander '43 ha retired afrer 3 8 year a a United Church of Chrisr pa tor. ln Brook ville, Fla., where he win t e rs w i rh h i s w i fe , A ug u s t a (Johnson '45 ) , he o c c a ionally fills rhe pulpit ar the pring H i l l UCC when the pastor is away. He i on the tenni court two day a week doing three-four er of double each day . . . . The Book

Comer (books you recommend ) : "Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are uncle ervedly r e m e m b e red , " W . H . A u d e n ( 1 962 ) . . . . "Pick up a book, read a page or rwo, and the world a r o u n d y o u r e c e d e s , " M a ry McGrory, Boston Globe, April 2 5 , 1 994 . . . . Wordfor Word by Andy Rooney-a wry look ar the world ( Edwin Alexander '43 ) . . . . Dis closure by M ichael Crichton " n o r g r e a t l i t e r a t u re b u r a provocarive peek at roday's mo res" ( Barbara Brenr Biedermann '43 ) . . . . The Bible (Jeanette Benn Beebe ' 3 6 ) . . . . A l l rhe book by W i l l and Ariel Durant ( Harold "Pere" A l len ' 3 7 ) . . . . Bridges of Madison County by Robert Wal ler-"so unu ual and well wrir ren" ( Rod Farnham ' 3 1 ). ( Harold Plotkin '34 call Bridges the be r book he has read recently bur note thar Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, al o by Roberr Wal ler, i rhe worsr ! ) . . . The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by

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under the pee ial cateoory of"Ou tdoor ports man. " ln ven ror of the Dai y Mae treamer Fly, MacDonald wa a registered Maine guide from 1 929 until 19 1 . H is trout fi·hing ucce through the years extend from a Maine record 6-pound, 1 2 -ounce brook trout in almon Lake in 1 93 2 ro a 9-pound, 1 0-ounce brook trout in Labrador, Canada, two years ago. As for a 11 his accolade , Mac Donald ays, "Don't pour it on roo heavy. I 'm j ust a guy who l ike · ro ii h, that' all." . . . Dorothy Dingwall '33 repre ented rhe College at the March inauguration of M ichael Easton as president of the Univer ·1ty of Maine at Presque I sle . . . . Linwood Palmer '42 wa named c o - c h a i r of J i m Longley' campaign to be M a i ne ' n e x r governor. . . . George A. Popper '43 wa honored for hi 40 years of dedicared service to the B'nai B'rirh chapter in Wesrfield. .J . , where h e h a erved o n variou committee and held the offices of treasurer and president.

MILEPOSTS Deaths: Carolyn Stevens Thompson ' 1 6 in

outh Yarmouth, Mas . , ar 98 . . . . Elizabeth Dyar Downs '22 in South Hadley, Mas . . . . Lerene Rolls Mowatt ' 2 6 in Hemp tead, . Y . , ar 7 . . . . Dorothy Wilson Irvine '29 in Concord, . H . , ar 85 . . . . Beatrice Miller Young '29 . . . . Walter S. Szlosek '30 in Springfield, M a s., at 7 . . . . John S. Davidson '3 1 in Harrisburg, Pa., at 86 . . . . Pauline Dorothea Berry '32 in Kennebunkport, Maine, at 8 1 . . . . Doris Campbell Wilson '32 in Barh, Maine, at 83 . . . . Ruth Hallinger Slaven '33 in Wesrmonr, .J . , at l. . . . Elliott A. Diggle '34 in a hua, .H., at 0 . . . . Ralph 0. Peabody '35 i n Daytona Beach, Fla., at 0 . . . . Arthur W. Bartel II '36 . . . . Katharine Watson Addington '38 in Torrance, Calif., at 7 7 . . . . William L. Gousse Jr. '40 in York, Maine, ar 7 4 . . . . John E . Ormiston Jr. '4 1 in Salem, Ma s., ar 76 . . . . A. Thomas Clark '42 in Augu ta, Maine, at 79 . . . . Charles A. Hannigan '44 in Lewiston, Maine, at 7 1 .

Allan Gurganus and Sailing by Colby profes or Susan Kenney intere ring, hone t portrayal of husband-wife emotional reac rions ro the husband' cancer ( Manha Rodger Beach '42 ) . . . . Leaving Home b y Art Buch wald-borh witty and serious ( Catherine Laugh ton Briggs ' 3 6 ) . . . . Retumingby Dan Wake field-de cribed by Bill Moyers as "The mo t imporranr memoir of the spirit I have read" ( Evelyn tapleron Bum '33 ) . . . Siibma rine by Tom Clancy-"My acrive duty during WWI I wa anti-sub marine patrol from the air, [dur ing which) I aw the importance of submarine . This book gives you a verbal and pictorial tour inside a modern nuc lear war hip, a mo t powerful weapon" ( tet on Beal '4 1 ) . . . . Peace , Love, and Healing by Bern i e . S iege l , M . D.-"there i s more t o healing than pill and operations"; How

ro Protect Your Financial Security from the nighrmare of deal ing

wirh nursing home expense "reve a l i ng , h e l p fu l . l oaded" ( El izabeth Field Blanchard ' 4 3 ) . . . . Angle of Repose b y Wallace Stegner and Truman by Da\'id McCulluugh ( Barbara Alden ' 33 ; Harold Brown ' 3 5 also votes for Truman) . . . . Profe sors we loved: Walrer . Breckenridge, Webster Chesrer, Edward J . Colgan , Arthur Galen Eusti , Herberr Carlyle Libby, Curti Hugh "Don key" Morrow, Herbert Lee "Pop" N e w m a n , G o rdon W i n l o \\" "Pansy" mith, E,·ererr Strong, J u l ian Taylor, Carl J. Weber, W i ll iam J ohn "Wilkie" W i lk in -on. Nore: T h e above l i r i b y no mean complete becau e l a m o n l y part w a y through the ava lanche of lerrer you sent. With out exception, your comment on all these profes ors are warmly affec r ionare. However, it may intere r you ro know rhat "Wil k ie" i recalled more ofren and with greater affec rion rhan any of + the other .

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dren for lengthy stays. He has developed a post-polio syndrome that has left him weakened in

A n o t h e r dead l i n e is due, and I 've j u>t re ru rnecl from a month on the road. I an and I watched >pr i ng in irs various rage of de ,·elopment as we headed nort h . We explored the O u t e r Ban k o f North Caro l i n a and retu rned

physical ac t i v i t i e but s t i l l active ment a l l y . Rohen has devoted h b l i fe to t he m i n istry, a n d he h a done r e e a rc h into the I ife o fJ oa b, nephew of King Dav i d . Robert w r i tes devo t i o n a l a r t i c l e for maga: ines and has completed a Chri ·tian adven t u re story for young people. ounds in terest

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bea u t i fu l ! We \' isi ted as many h istoric � i res a we could com forta bly manage . . . . I am in con ., ta n t need uf more responses, hut l thought r h 1s t i me I wou ld con cenrra r c on respon cs from two c l a s · m a t e s . R e v e r e n d Robert Holcomb, w1d wer, wr i tes from ew G l o ucester, Maine, that he no w I i ve s a lone hut v i s i ts hi s chi!-

ing! De�pite his pol io attack in l 950, Robert wa able ro gradu ate from Boston U n 1 ver ity with a S.T.M. ( ma rero f ·acreJ theol ogy ) , and he received c l i n i c a l t ra i ni ng a a hosp i t a l cha pla i n . H is memories of Colby inc l ude pla yi ng piano for conferences and friend a we l l a >erv ing rwo c h u rches, l i v i n g in H a r r l a n d , Maine, a n d commuting to Colby � r day c lasses. H is fi n a l year i n c l uded course at Boston Uni-

v e rs i t y a s w e l l as at e m i n a ry . . . . Joan Gay Kent shared her home la t summer with her grandclaugh te r, a sophomore from

tanford University. Her gra nd cl Joan to a lot of bright, healthy "apprentice" ad u l t . They d i scussed many concerns of inter-generational in terest and reached mutual under sta n d i ng and agreement on ideas. Joan's recent accomplishments inc l ude learn ing to operate a Mac intosh compu ter, VCR, Fax mach i ne, Xerox and answering machi ne. ome of these instru ments are necessary to help her perform as a copy writer as well as president of the Port Wa hing ron Public Library Board ofTrust ees, as a member of the Port Wa h i ngton H istorical Board and a a member of the town ofNorth Hempstead Hi toric Landmarks da ughter introduc

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"Winter Peace in Stonington ," by Virginia Brewer Folino '48, took third place in the watercol ors competition in the annual W a terville [ M a i ne] Area Art ociety' art how. . . . Eugene A. Hunter '48 received the 1 994 Carl Nel on Sport Achievement Award for his outstanding record a a high school coach. Hunter was honored at the annual E u ene A . Hunter , 48 g Club awards banquet held m Portland . . . . Cyril M. Joly J r. '48 was awarded the YMCA's highe t honor, the Red Triangle Award, at the annual pledge d inner in Waterv ille, M a i n e .

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We learned that Dixie Roundy Bebee moved from Florida to Rock v i l le, Md., ju t before Tex and I discovered her town of Crysta l River and its great sport of diving to see the manatee. Dixie wants to ee snow and her daughter Carol, who i on her way to a Ph.D. at George Wash ington ome 30 Co lby Univer ity. . . ites met for the second annual Clearwater reunion in February. Chuck '45 and Shirley Martin Dudley started it last year. All members in the ne ighborhood attended. President and Mr . Cot ter were there after v isiting alumni gatherings in M iami and Fort Myer . Snowbirds, try to attend one near you next February for wonderfu I surpri es. M ine wa get ting reacquainted with N ancy Grahn Christen en '44, who live in Pompano Beach. She is very

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In addition to his duties as attend mg pathologi t , Sternberg was chief of the hospital's autopsy services for 18 year ( 1 97 3-9 1 ) , president of the medical board from 1 978 to 1 9 8 1 and president of the general raff from 1 98 1 -83. He

" I had never left New York City prior to coming to Colby," ternberg aid re cently, "and I had only left my neighbor hood in Queen maybe twice before to visit Manhattan. I was completely naive." "My i ter's hu band suggested that getting out of [New York] would be helpful," recalled ternberg, who says it wasn't until h i first week at Colby that he realized his name wasn't pro nounced "Stoinboig." He say his brother- in-law, a phy i cian, "felt it would be easier for me to get into medical school coming from a small liberal arts college like Colby." Growing up, say Sternberg, there was never any question that he would be a doctor. H i father, uncle and a cou in all were doctors, his sister married a doctor, and h is older brother became a profe sor of pathology at Tulane University. "I [majored] in English because, a I recall, at that time the sciences at Colby weren't that trong, but the English course were so good that it more than made up for it," aid ternberg, an attending pathologi t at ew York City' Memorial Hospital and a member of the Memorial loan-Kettering Cancer Center. "I can't tell you how much I owe to Colby for my career. The classes, the contact with the other students, helping me become more sophisti cated--everything has impacted my work." After Colby, Sternberg graduated from ew York Univer ity College of Medicine in 1 944. H e was an intern at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland before joining the U.S. Air Force during World War 11, serving fir t as a medical officer and then a a flight urgeon captain. After the war he did hi residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. "I have been very fortunate with everything that' happened in my life," aid Sternberg, who has given 45 years of ervice since the day he arrived at Memorial Hospital in 1 949. lt was at Memorial in 1 95 8 that he met his wife, Dr. orma Wollner Sternberg, now an attending pediatrician at the ho pita!. Together they had two daughters, Ale andra and Su an.

active in tarting Florida's fir t cross-state hiking trail. Nancy brought all sorts of albums, in cluding a wonderful group photo of the 1 994 Chi 0 group. Oh,

those faces that jumped out to greet me. Jane McCarthy Craigie '44, Marge Owen Fallon '45, Rita McCabe ' 4 5 , Conn ie Daviau Bollinger '45, Lannie Lanouette Hughes '47, laura Tapia Aitken '45, Lois Loudon Cutler '45, how are you al l ? I'll send high-quality xerox copies to anyone wanting to see thi wonderful group. . . . After Tex and I attend one more

also is a professorof pathology at Cornell University Medical College, where he has taught since 1 97 2 . H i knowledge o f pathology-the study and nature ofdisease-i vast, but his talent as a writer has enabled him to communicate thi knowledge. H is cur riculum vitae bibl iography i· 1 2 page long with 1 40 entrie . He has written for The Wall Sr:reet]oumal, for book and encyclopedia and for a va t number of medical publications, and he i editor in-chief and founder of the American

Journal of Surgical Pathology. temberg also has edited two major work that have received high prai e. Histology for Pathologists, pub I ished in 1 992 by Raven Press, is now in its second printing and is considered the leading textbook in the fie Id of pathology. ln 1 992 the book took first place in the phy ician's category of the American Medical Writers Associa tion medical book award . A recently released econd edition of Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, a two-volume work edited by Sternberg and first published in 1 988 by Raven Pres , wa hailed by Modem Pathology magazine as "One of the real bibles in diagnostic urgical pathology." Hi many writings, awards and grants and hi work in the 1 950 with obel Prize winners George Hitching a n d Gertrude Elion testing cancer chemotherapy agents are, says Sternberg, all a part of his job. He has come a long way ince hi day of playing in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, he admits, but tho e memo ries help keep his di tinguished medical career in perspective. 'TU never forget my first Colby dance," said Sternberg, laugh ing. "A c la smate with whom l was dancing a ked if I were a ball player. When 1 asked, 'Why?', he aid it was because I had chewed gum in her ear all night. That wa probably the last time I ever chewed gum. I remember it like it was ye terday."

In the meantime, I wonder if I could make communication with a few who have not responded by mentioning their names here. We would ure l ike to hear from

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Beverly Benner Cassara

Jeanne Snowe Ainsworth, Rob ert E. Anderson, Elizabeth Rich mond Anthony and James C. Atwater for a start . . . . Dick and Marge Collins Marcyes, who live

For this issue, I will re port on two classmates who have not previ ously responded, and then on three who are repeats. l would like to note that I have a good backlog of interesting notes from faithful correspondents, which I will probably feature next time.

in Calabash, N .C . , spend their summers in outh Bri tol, Maine. Last year took them to Switzer land, France, Austria and Ger many. They enjoy regular visits with Colby folks, mo r ly from the

c l asse of '48 and ' 4 9 , a i t happens . . . . B radley Maxim lives in Au t in , Texa , is retired from his work as. a catalogue l i brarian a n d , n o w a widower, de votes his energies to the mastery of the alto c larinet, basset horn and bass clarinet. He participates in mu ical ensembles and does some taping of material for the bl ind. H e notes th.at his concern for the environment leads him to recycle and compost. . . . Lester Soule, who i also from Calaba h, N . C . , and a ne ighbor of the Marcyes, says he recycles every-

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ixty-some members o f o u r class have j ust had a joyous 4 5 th reunion. The weather was about perfect-a little cool, but bright sun. When we arrived, we found that our class was headquartered . �n Treworgy! Where? Referring to our campus map, we di covered it was in "fraternity row" and was, m fact, the former Lambda Chi house! On Friday, 2 3 of u met in Boothbay Harbor and elected to take a cruise on the 64-foot windjammer Appledore V. Leaving the wharf wa uneventful, but we barely had sail up before the N W wind began to freshen, and our peaceful cruise became an exc i ting ride with the lee side under water on occaion and a wave or two over the bow elici ting screams as the cold water hit. John Appleton i m ag ined the e v e n i ng news head l i n e : "Twenty-three members of t h e Colby C l a s of '49 lost at sea in Boothbay Harbor! " The Alumni Awards Banquet that evening was reported by rho e who attended to have been one of the best. Following the Parade of Classes on Saturday came the presentation of the gifts to the Alumni Fund fr m each re union class. Bud Nannig and Bob Latham presented the College with a check for $ 3 3 ,000! This, I believe, is the largest amount we have ever raised. Congratulations! Our reunion reception and duu1er this year were in Roberts Union. Cal Mackenzie, profes or of government, spoke to us of all the chang Thomas Maguire ' 49 and David Lynch ' 49. es we have survived Lt1Ce our days at Colby, and Sid McKeen regaled us with a ready stream ofone-liners on the changes not only m the world but at Colby since we were students. We mis ed all of you who were not there and hope you will make every effort to join us for our SOth in 1 999! In the five years I have been your correspondent I have reported all kmds of news, but never a wedding! In this, my final column, I am happy to tell you that Jean Desper Fitton married James Thur ton on May 1 0. The Thurstons are liv ing in Jean" house in Nobleboro, Mau1e. Jean Bonnell Day, who lives in nearby Damariscotta, Maine, stood up with J ean. Congratulations, Jean and J i m ! George I. Smith i s t i l l working a s a geologist at t h e U . S. Geological Survey and plan t o retire "wh� n the job becomes less mteresting than at present." John S. Choate has retired after teachmg phystc for 3 5 years- 1 0 years in Maine and 25 years m Lexington, Mass. (John, the memory you have of me in a Winslow elementary school must be omeone else because I was never i n Maine until I came to Colby in September 1 949. ) The news from Edward A. Waller i that he is still vertical and breathing! And Andrew B. Offenhiser is semi-retired but still domg some con u lting for American City Bureau, a national development consulting firm. Doris Koshina Lindquist writes that for the last five years, they have lived on the Eastern Shore m Maryland, gomg back across the bay maybe once a year. Livmg on the Wicomico River, in read of watchmg cars they watch tugboats, barges, pleasure boats and water-skiers. And the crabbing is great! The Office of Alumni Relations has notified me of the deaths ofMartha Roberts Schlick everal years ago and Alexander Richard on March 9, 1 994. Our heartfelt sympathies to the families of Martha Schlick and A lex Richard. The office also says that a few Class of'49 reunion T-shirts are available at $6 per hirt and Class of '49 ungla ses for $2. I f you're interested, please send a check payable to Colby College to the Alunmi Office, Colby College, Waterville, M E 0490 1 . A s your c las secretary, this column is my swan song. I t's been fun, and I look forward to seeing all of you at our 50th in 1 999! -Anne Hagar Eustis

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thing po ible and writes to hi congressmen and women encour aging more global control . Re tired fr m the furniture industry, he enjoys golf and tenni and d i rects the Prope rty Owners Association . . . . Roberta Mar den Alden of Yarmouth, Maine, and her hu band have enjoyed traveling in cotland and Eng land visiting a daughter. They've a l so been to the Canad ian Rockies, New Zealand and Aus tralia and Alaska. Bobbie does volunteer work at a grade chool. . . . Dorothy Briggs Aronson says that her children and grandch il dren last year celebrated her 40th Chri tmas in the house they built in Medfield, Mass. She is the lo cal historical ociety curator and ings with the local German Club. In addition to teaching German classes, she hike with the Appa lachian Mt. Club and went to Wa hington, D.C. , w i th the "Sangerchor" for the nation's first " angerfest. " he spends a much t ime as possible in Rangeley, + Maine.

Corre pondents: David and Dorothy Marson

Dorothy and I had a wonderful experience when I represented Colby at the induction of Harry C. Payne as the 1 4th pre ident of Williams College. After the re ces ional, President Payne told me that I would be having dinner with hi mother-in-law, who wa a Colby graduate. We dined with the family and had a Colby re union with Hannah Karp Laipson '46. David met the president of many colleges, and it was gratify ing to hear how highly they regard Colby and the respect and admi ration that they have for Bill Cotter . . . . Back in December we received the annual update from Aaron Sandler, who retired on October 29, 1 993, and is now liv ing in his new house in Sarasota, Fla. Sandy wrote a long and news filled letter. He write that he is fortunate to be alive, having ur vived a head-on automobile acci dent the week before he left Texas. One item worthy of note: he aid the air bag worked perfecrly. Sandy sent hi calling card and a picture

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laundry and proctored a new dor mitory under Dean Marriner and Profe sor Early. The chronology may not be precise but that is the sequence in which it wa writ ten . . . . By the way, Benj amin

Early was proctor in West Hall when we moved up to the new campus in 1 946. He really had to contend with a wild bunch of re turning veterans. Thanks to hi k ind nature l remained at Colby

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to graduate, for I am certain he could ha\·e had me expelled for my rran gre ion . Of course l am much better beha\·ed now. A k + Dorothy!

You used to roll over your CDs . . . . Now they roll over and play dead.

R o l l i n g over CDs used to m a ke good sense, b u t n ow m ost ba n ks a re pay i n g o n ly a 3 . 5 % retu rn . For a o n e-l ife g ift a n n u ity, C o l by pays betwe en 4 . 7 % a n d 1 1 % d e p e n d i n g o n yo u r a g e w h e n y o u m a ke t h e g ift. A n d y o u g e n e rate a c h a rita b l e i n co m e tax d e d u ction a n d re d u ce yo u r cap ita l g a i n s tax l i a b i l ity.

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Corre pondent: Nancy Ricker Sears

Gerry Frank, who best of all understands the pl ight of class corre spondents, again end up-to-date news. He considers himself now retired, although apparently he's as busy as in his days in advertis ing. Gerry has a deep and active interest in preserving and restor ing open space in and around Chicago, where he still lives. Gerry is a tree farmer and main tains a tree farm in Indiana 65 miles from his home. He has been pres i d e n t of the Openlands Project several times. A music lover, Gerry also has served on the president's committee of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has had a busy l ife of community ser vice over the years, supporting many local causes and a few po lit ical candidates. The months of J une through August find Gerry in Ontario on the Georgian Bay, where he says he especially en joys catching up on his reading. . . . Phil Shearman enthusiasti cally continues to serve as pastor of h is First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, Maine, a growing church with a large num ber of young families. I n the past Phil was mediator/arbitrator with unions and management in To ledo, Ohio, where he received a national award for his work with

the congregation in the inner city. A trong advocate for the appre c iation of the dignity of women and men, he served as state chair for fund raising for equality of all people across racial and ethnic lines . . . . Some of you will have received the 1 994 class letter by the time you read this. The letter will be sent to a quarter of the class at a time so that the news may be as timely as pos ible. Priscilla Tracey Tanguay is gath ering committees to work on vari ous aspects of our 4 5 th reunion and needs the support of all class mates. When you read the letter, please think about how you would l ike to participate. Even those who cannot attend can be part of it by ending a message or sup porting the College with a con tribut ion to the Alumni Fund or any other area of interest. Do reply to the questions concern ing reunion and send us news of yourself and others. Thus begins the renewal of friendships. And as we know, friendships are among + the treasures of one's life.

Corre pondent: Barbara Jefferson Walker

Donald Maheu, Dow ington, Pa. , has retired from paper manufac turing to a l ife of domestic and international travel and golf. Donald reads in ancient history and government and collects Civil War paintings by Don Troiawo and Don Stivers. His remembrances of Colby include travel between the campuses, lis tening to President Bixler, Pro fessor Fullam's history classes and informal musicals at the Deke House . . . . Dr. Ed Martin, Rum ford Point, Maine, semi-retired from h is medical practice, is writ ing a novel and some poetry. In May 1 993, Ed received an award from the U. of Vermont College

of Medicine for his service to medicine and to the community. Among Ed's memories of Colby are the track team, "the great group of independents of Champ lin Hall" and Dr. Bixler . . . . Bob and Nancy Nilson Archibald l ive in Scituate, Mass., where Nancy works for a law firm and has a "small but respectable" collection of shot glasses and Pair Point cup plates. Bob, who retired in 1 988 after 43 years in the National Guard and U.S. Naval Reserves, continues consulting for an ad vertising agency and also does technical writing contract work. In 1 964 he founded T aurine Bib liophiles of America, an organi zation of bullfight aficionados who collect taurine books. The membership has grown to 1 3 5 in eight countries . . . . Ruth Smart Thurston, Machias, Maine, has retired from her high school l i brary j o b and now enjoys quilting and Engli h handbell ringing . . . . John W. Pettengill is a national accounts manager for U n ion Camp in Indianapolis, Ind. Ten nis is his sport. . . . Polly Leighton Robertson, Newport Beach, Cal if., is a psychologist for a pre school assessment team and works with c h i ldren and their par ents . . . . I n Long Beach, Calif., are M i ldred (Thornhill ' 5 3 ) and James Reynolds. He has retired from his surgical pathology prac t ice and now practices golf and tennis . . . . Ted Weaver, Rose berg, Ore., having "retired three times," is now homeschooling a 1 2-year-old grandson, is "open to what's next" and because of ex tensive travel asks you to look for him in the RV campgrounds of America. Ted is proud of his "new-found patience" and "less hurrying." A mong h is Colby memories are the Blue Beetle, an A in philosophy and Dr. Averill. . . . Bob and Helen Palen Roth are in West Hartford, Conn., where Bob is president/owner of

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Mark Securitie , I nc . . . . J anet Clark Winters is the town clerk of Kennebunkport, Maine, and play a lot of dupl icate bridge. Louis "Marty" Patters o n , a great-grandfather, l ives in rela tive quiet on Peaks I sland in Maine. He both collect and i getting rid of books . . . . Jim Ta bor, Chesh ire, Con n . , has a granddaughter named Colby. He is retired from the insurance busi ness, collects tamp and Dept. 76 V i llages and is another Class of ' 5 1 golfer. . . . Lucille Tarr TwaddeI, Portland, Maine, re tired after 3 0 years of nursing, teaching nur ing and teaching medical language ar the Maine Medical Center, i now "clean ing our everything possible, espe c ially o ut-dated and outgrown clothe-." Spec ial memorie of Colby are k iing down the chapel lawn and helping c lear brush and tree for the newly donated ski slope. Lucy still ees her room mate Ann Morrison McCullum. . . . Shirley Raynor Ingraham, Clearwater, Fla., i retired as ad mini trative a sistant of Latch Key Services for Children and now takes cour es at t . Pete J un ior College, take organ lessons and is j ust beginning a collection of "family dres ed stuffed bear ." Great excitement for h i rley was attending her first-ever Colby alumni luncheon. President and Mrs. Cotter were in attendance as well a Ernie Fortin and a good friend whose husband is J ohn Lowell '4 2 . . . . Ray Reich, Chi cago, I l l . , has a private medical practice in two ho pita! . Colby memories include Onies and the Prince ofFront Street . . . . Alfred Thomson, newly retired from hi banking career, i now in Ven ice, Fla., and happily getting rid of winter clothe . Hi remembrances of Colby include "good room mates, good friends, cold winters, intramural sport , good basket ball team, lousy football ream, etc . " . . . Look for a new ques tionnaire and cla s letter. +

I t has been a long time ince I have seen so much snow in such a short time. Actually I saw the la t vestiges of snow in a nearby park where I exercise my golden re trieveron April 2 1 . Beryl Baldwin Punt writes from the Rochester area ( bet there wa a bit of snow up there, too ) , saying that he enjoys grandmotherhood. She has two grandchildren and two more on the way as of late April; they are her two daughters' children. o far, her on, who work on Wall Street in ew York, has no l ittle ones. Beryl, who retired in J une 1 99 3 , says, "a former art teacher and kindergarten teacher of 26 years, 1 found clas i:e i much too large if one wants to reach each individual. There are enough problems in this world that need special attention, par ticularly concerning young chil dren." Beryl added that she lo t her mother and father within 1 2 hours ofone another-after they'd l i ved happ ily roge ther for 6 5 years . . . . From Glen Ellyn, l ll . ,

Sally Mathews Maclean wrote a long letter about a very bu y year. "Talk about late bloomers," she says. "I will be 65 years young next May, and I am finally launched into my career. lt seem my chool ing in life experiences has pro gre ed far enough that cl ient are suddenly popping up all over the p lace-al l imply by word of mouth. I tarred in April 1 99 3 teaching Com munication for Clo eness at a center run by a friend of mine. lr wa originally planned as a four-ses ion class course, bur it became ongoing. Soon I will also be reaching ar another center in counseling-in workshops rather than in a er format. 1 tailor material to the needs of the individual and role play. Groups are limited to 1 0. " Sally has a son and daughrer-in law and rwo grandchildren in the Atlanta area, where her on i training to become a commercial airline pilot. She also has a daugh ter in the Glen Ellyn area, who i in charge of therapeutic recre-

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ation in a retirement home and u e her inging talent to help other . l must add that before Sally sent me this long letter, she sur prised me with a phone cal l ; we had a great time catching up on news of our re-pec tive families and occupations, and he also told me that he is having some fun participating in a chorus contest in Michigan. ally also mentioned another son who ha two chil dren. I hope I haven't left any of her family member out. Thanks for the nice letter, Sally . . . . I do want to add that my office now ha another Colby graduate, Li: chwartz '89, a wonderful addi tion to our staff here in the fi nance department; her d u t ies include accounts payable, collec tions and monthly storage bill ing. I am the senior employee in this department; it' fun to work with all these younger people. It keeps me on my toes and young-I hope. . . . The Alumni Office sent me notice of a death in our clas : Arthur Andrew Hauck d ied

NEWSMAKERS The YMCA' highe t honor, the Red Triangle Award, wa given to Kershaw E. Powell ' 5 1 at the annua l pledge dinner in Waterville, Maine . . . . David S. Crocket III ' 5 2 , professor of chemi try at Lafayette College, was awarded the J o eph Hardy Memorial Fund Award for hi 35 year of ervice to Lafayette . . . . One hundred thirteen Winslow Homer prints previously given to the Colby Mu eum of Art by Lee Fernandez ' 5 5 and others have been lent to the Cape Ann Historical Mu eum in G louce ter, Ma . , for one of the large t d i play of the work of the American illustrator and marine painter in New England in several decades. Fernandez was curator of the exhibition, which opened July 26 and runs through October 10 . . . . Barry M. Ginsburg '58 recently merged h i- com pany, Gin burg Craig & Associate , w i th Chelsea Group, and the merged corporation, Chel ea GCA Realty, went public on the ew Norman P . Lee '58 York Stock Exchange. . . . A econd book of poem by Ronald Moran ' 5 8 , Sudden Fictions, ha been published by J uniper Pres , the publi hing company in LaCros e , Wi ., operated by John Judson '58 . . . . Norman P. Lee '58 resigned as vice president and branch managerfor the West Hartford Center office of Fleet Bank to devote him elf full time to serve a local communi ty ervice organization, "The Bridge," a director of pecial projects . . . . James R. Mcintosh ' 5 9 , profes or of ociology and anthropology at Lehigh Univer ity, received Lehigh's Hillman Award for having done the mo t to advance the interests of the university.

MILEPOSTS Correspondent: Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

My post cards brought some welcome new after a t o u g h a n d nowy winter in t h e Boston area.

Deaths : Alma Ward McGowan

' 5 1 in Chandler, Ariz., at 64 . . . . Jacqueline Toulouse Morissette

' 5 1 in Watervi lle, Maine, at 6 5 . . . . J. Mahlon N iles ' 5 1 in K ittery, Maine, at 68 . . . . Fay E . "Bud"

Slingerland Jr. ' 5 1 in Reno, N ev . , at 63 . . . . Charles P. Barnes II ' 5 4 in Gardiner, Maine, at 6 1 . . . . Joseph Lovegren '55 in Portland, Maine, at 6 5 . . . . Jane Maddocks Seib '57 in Fre no, Calif., at 58.

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he 54/40-YES! reunion i history. Rewarding, enjoyable, Clas officers for the next five years were also announced: President memorable h istory. Close to 50 classmate- plu many spou es Ned Shenton, Vice President Judy Jenkins Totman, and the team and "sign ificant others" returned to the old DKE House ( Drum for secretary/treasurer, Bill and Penny Thresher Edson. Special mond Residence Hall ) j ust newly reno thanks go to Dave Wallingford, who vated on Mayflower Hill to attend the took over the leader hip of our clas a big event, J une 3 - 5 . The Class of '54 pre idem following the last reunion. He gathered from as far away as California did an outstanding job of organizing our and as c lo e as Winslow. For tho e who 40th, e pecially with the support ofBetsy were unable to join us, we're sorry you Powley Wallingford. weren't there-we m is ed you. On Sunday morning about 20 of u From the time the first people ar gathered on a unny pot near John on ri ved on Thursday afternoon, the Pond while the Rev. Victor Scalise weather cooperated to make this re conducted a moving memorial cere union far different from our 4 5 th, when mony. As the name were read out, it rained constantly. The weekend fea friends, roommates and other poke of tured several memorable activities, their remembrances of the e departed tarting with the first official get-to cla smates. It was truly a special event. gether on Friday night at the Award Afterwards, manycla mate and spouses Banquet in the Student Center. We attende I a uperb brw1ch at the home of were pleased that a member of our Karl '54 and Jane Millett Domish before neighboring cla s, Jack Deering ' 5 5 , departing for home or vacation-related received the Marriner Distinguished places. Be ides the wonderful gourmet Service Award for ervice to Colby. repa t erved, we al o "j udged" the en OnSaturday atthe traditional Parade tries in the famous name-identifying con ofClasses, c lassmates wore their pecially test: an ongoing, weekend-long hot designed T-shirts in Colby blue and gray, contest to name c lassmates pictured on Bob Cannell '5 1 (left) , Charlie Windhorst '54 and we were all pleased with the anblown-up preads from our yearbook, and Nicholas Sarris .54 . nouncement that the '54 fund-raising which decorated our reunion headquar effort was a huge success. With a 55 percent participation rate ( 1 1 2 ter . And the winner: Helen Cross Stabler, who named 1 1 4 of the classmates contributed) , we surpassed the $30,000 we aimed for by people in the pictures. achieving a net amount of$32,000. Many thanks to Sue Johnson and A thank-you to the College for the pecial ho pitaliry they all the people who telephoned, wrote and otherwi e helped us provided in our reunion headquarters with refre hments and mher accomplish this goal. ervices-it enhanced our many opportun itie to j ust get caught up At the c las dinner on Saturday night, we were treated to with each other informally through the weekend. We were all reminiscences of his career and the changes that have taken place especially pleased that Gene Floyd, along with hi wife, Shirley, came back to join us after 40 year . at Colby by Mark Benbow, who first joined the College as an English profe sor in our freshman year. Geology Professor Emeritu Watch your mail for a special Class of '54 follow-up letter, ome Don Koons also reflected on what he remembered of us a a c la s, additions to the 54/40-YE ! clas book, a complete rendition of all and later we heard remarks by Phi losophy Professor Dick Gilman. who attended-and more!

-Judy Jenkin.< Totman October 7 , 1 992. I also must re port the death of a class friend, Charles "Chuck" Barnes '54. He always attended the reunions of our class with his w ife, J oan Rooney Barnes. Our thoughts are with Joan at this time. +

Correspondent: Ann Dillingham Ingraham

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vices. She adds that she would like to hear from former room mate Joan Sawyer Perey and Ann Seguin Horne. . . Tony Leone writes with a correction to a previous report; he has six grand children, not four, and a even th wa due in J une. Tony adds that he "often thinks of Colby and the people I wish I had known to a greater extent than has been the case. I know they are a wonderful bunch of people, and I hope to come to the reunion in 1 995 so that I may enjoy the company of those who come back to Colby. I only wish that more would do so. " Tony continues to empha-

size the importance of di cus ing mental illness and feel a better job can be done of helping people through difficult time and itua tions. The government can play a role, and Tony says he i glad that Mrs. Gore is interested and that President Clinton' propos als include mental health issues. . . . A fine long letter from Ed ward Ducharme filled me in on his career in education. In 1 99 1 he capped 2 0 years at the Univer sity ofVermon t by serving as dean of the College of Education and Spec ial Services. After tak ing early retirement, he i now the Ellis and Nelle Distingui heel Pro-

fes or of Education at Drake Uni vers i ty in Des Moine , Iowa, where he and h is wife, Mary, are co-chairs of the department of teacher education and curricu lum studies and edit the Joumal of Teacher Education. His book, The Lives of Teacher Educators, wa + published in 1 99 3 .

Correspondent: Eleanor Edmunds Grout

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ter as many b i rds . . . . L u c y Blainey Groening a y that a s of J une she has been the new exec u tive director of Duncan Confer ence Center, Episcopal Diocese of outheasr Florida. " De l ray Beach is on the ea - r c o a r of Florida, j ust south of Pa lm Beach and north ofFr. Lauderdale," Lucy

Refuge and ea ho re as we! I as returning again for a week on Cape Hattera . It is always fun,

wrote. "Duncan Center i · a very attractive small center, Jeeping about 80, j ust three mile from the ocean. It has been a wel l managed center, and the former director has gone on to a larger camp and conference center." There i a director's apartment

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questionnaire, o it's time to pre pare another. In the mea nt ime, I ha,·e heard from a few classmates. Cynthia Fox Dancer, from J up i ter, Fla . , is a oc ial worker/rhera pi t tn a We t P a l m B e a c h i n - h tr p 1 tal p rogram trea r t n g chemical depenJency, Jepression and the l ike. Last ummer -he and her hu band, Dick, haJ a "hi· anJ her family reunion" and "a wonderfu l , jo)ful week" that m c l uded the \\'edding of C md y ' a n d former hu band G len'- son. Cindy has another on, Ke ith, whL) I ive in Houston, Texa , anJ

always rel iable but eventually I Jo get my mai I-so plea e, plea e write. I need news and you need + news. Thanks!

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eorge E. H a kell Jr. ' 5 5 has always wanted to give back to Colby what he felt it had given him. A scholar-hip fund allowed him to ray at Colby when he could not have afforded it him elf. Grateful for thi opporruniry, H a kell vowed to one day repay his "debt." Unfortunately, when he returned for a reunion in the 1 97 0 -the fir t t i me he had vi ired Colby ince graduating-he wa shocked at the condit ion of the College' phy ical plant. "Thedorm were wrecked. I went to my old fraternity hou e, the walls were ripped down. It wa j ust horrible," he aid. o Haskell returned to h i home on the We t Coast and for a while "separated himself" from Colby. Meanwhile, he was developing h i own corporate training company, which he later old , reacquired and then merged w i th a larger company. I n the 1 980 , at the encouragement of cla smate and alumni secretary Sid Farr ' S S , Ha kell returned to Colby for another visit. From the moment he stepped on campu , he ays, he knew thing had changed. "The chool wa beautifully maintained. And the student were much more respectful of thing that were going on," he aid. lmpre ed with h i meeting wi th faculty, ta.ff and especially President B i l l Cotter, Ha kell again began looking for way to pay back the College that had given him o much a a tudent. l n 1 990 he v i ired campu for three days, a t Cotter' invitation, to become an over eer. ow a member of Colby' Board of Trustees, Haskell feels firmly back in the Colby family fold. Hi experience as an overseer gave Haskel l a richer apprec iation for Colby' m i ion and i ts commitment to student . " I think the over eer program i out tanding from the point of view of what it can bring to the College, but al o in bringing alumni and other people 1-ack to get involved," he aid. " I thoroughly enjoyed both of my experience a an over eer-1 wa on economics and then I erved on the p ychology one a well-because you get to interact

with the students, which I l ike very much, and to meet and talk with all the profe sors in the department . " peaking from experience, H a kell says, the over eer program i one way to reconnect a l umni who have "drifted away" from the chool. Haskell believes per onal participa tion i a important as monetary support from alumni. "We've got many, many accompli hed alurrmi, and they could erve in many way , " he aid. "If you don'thave money, o whar ? You can give money if you have it, but even more o, participate, get involved with the chool." Ha kell al o ha created a cholar hip fund in hi name to support rudents with financial need. He ay h i scholarship program i inspired in part by a im i lar fund that helped him get through Colby as a tudent. "My dad and mom couldn't afford to end me here, and I came up on an ice hockey scholar hip, which ba i cally paid for my food and helped with tuition," H a kell aid. "Then I became the recipient of a fund created for deserving 'tudents during my last two year . I never forgot that and I alway fel t ' I 've got to give th.at back to the chool someday."' " I 'm ju t trying to help omeone come to this wonderful place who couldn't afford it. I j ust love to do that. That' j ust what happened to me; l wa fortunate to have omeone kind enough to give me the money to go to Colby." Haskell, who peak- regretful! about the time away from his family that hi career required many years ago, now delights i n the fact that hi two younge t daughter , age- 6 and , are growing up a Colby kid . " I've got them wearing Colby T- hirts and Colby hort , and they wear l ittle Colby pajama at night. I 'm trying to ee if one of my kid can come up here to chool," he aid. After all that has happened between Haskel l and Colby over the pa t 40 year , it would only be appropriate that the H a kell legacy continue in name a well a deed.

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hat a trear i r was lenge." Charlie Lueth to a t t e n d o u r ke's wife, Penny, also 3 5 th reunion, to see ounded great over the your dear faces and hear karaoke mike. y o u r s w e e t l a ug h t e r J oyce and C h u c k once again. A l l debts Foley (who se I l s seafood owed us by the weather to retailers along the man were paid in ful l , East Coast) will make a n d w e took advantage the pilgrimage to Colby of all the outdoor ac again next year to watch t iv it ies. Jack and Bar with pride as their son, bara Hunter Pallotta Charlie, graduates with organized an idyllic pre the Class of '9 5 . Mike reunion get-together at Riordan told a horror The Samoset in Rock story about trying to pick port, which was enjoyed up Bob Keltie at Logan by all anendees. Airport. Bob came up We're o proud of from Florida, as d id Bob Cyndy Crockett Men "Tank" Auriemmaand delson, who honored Bob '60and Pat Walters our c lass by receiving Marier. This sugge ts some po sible themes for Rita and Nash McCaully '59 oneofourschool'shighmini-reunions: a flock est accolade , a Colby of Floridian ! a bevy of Bobs? Brick, for her years of dedicated service a fund Pat Richmond Stull ells real estate in Dela rai er, interviewer and Alumni Council rep. ware; her husband, John, is an attorney. Kari Cyndy and Aaron sold their store, but Cyndy and Gary Hagerman combined reunion with a keeps her finger on the fashion pulse by howing visit to relative and traveled with their young designer c lothing in her home, by appoint children all the way from Hawaii. Brian '58 and ment, four months each year. Carole Jelinek Barnard love l iv ing in Maine; The Parade of Cla ses featured reports on they both sing with a large chorus. Jim and alumni contributions, and outgoingcla'S agents Sally Phelan Mcintosh brought !ides and photo Bill and Dotty Reynolds Gay delighted us w i th albums. We had a good laugh at how we u ed to the news that we not only reached but exceeded look, and our " ignificant others" were even the challenge pre ented by Ed Goldberg; many more amused. Denny Kellner Palmer teaches thanks to Ed for his mo t generous gift and to and repre enr our class on the Alumni Coun the Gays for their year of t ireless devotion to cil. Somerime he wears party hats! the Colby cause. When we gathered in smallish groups for Our class banquet at the Spa was elegant; some late nighr chatting, we eemed to talk Alumni Secretary Sid Farr '55 and Profes or more about our children rhan we did about Ralph "Roney" Williams ' 3 5 , who truly did not our elves; their good and bad life experience , need a microphone, poke to us, and i t was our their career , marriages and children. All the privilege to have Bill '48 and Karen Beganney stories were interesting, and we found that we Bryan '63 as our guests of honor. Our yearbook could relate to each other' situations. was dedicated to Bill, and i t was great to have There' much more, but I'll save some tid the opportunity to thank h im again for accept ing us 39 years ago in h is capacity as director of bits for the next column. ( I nc identally, the Alumni Office says that a few specially de admi ion . Our Colby Eight foursome (Jay, Ed, signed Class of '59 reunion T-shirt are avail Bob and Kee t ) ang beautifully and made us cry able for $6 per shirt. l f you're inrerested, plea e with their rendition of "Halls of Ivy." end a check payable to Colby College to the Bev (Johnson '60) and Keet Arnett set up Alumni Office, Colby College, Warerville, M E their karaoke system in our ho p i tality room, 0490 1 . ) Sincere thanks t o outgoing class presi and we rocked the rafters far into the n ight. Rita dent Skip Tolette, and all good wi hes to in Reilly McCauley's husband, Nash, knew the coming pre ident Ed Tomey, who already has word to every ong, and he and Bill Nicholson some exc i ting plans for our future. were strong competitors in the "Peggy Sue Chai-

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is married to a "del ightful Nor wegian wife." They have a Z-year old daughter, Katinka. Like many others who write, Cindy talks about her growing family and expresses what most of us prob ably think: "As I get older, family again becomes more important than anything else. " . . . Lois Munson Morrill also has a grand child , a li ttle boy named Eric, born to her daughter Laurie and her husband. Now that we are reaching a certain age, our re sponsibilities include caring for our parents and older relatives, but we also have the joy of caring for the grandchildren. Lois also included in her note some very ad news, which I had al o leamed from Beryl Scott Glover. Last December, Beryl suddenly and unexpectedly lost her wonderful husband, Bob. A lthough he wa a Bowdoin graduate, Bob was re ally an honorary member of our class and was part of many of the activities that Beryl took part in over the years. Just before writing this, I spoke with Beryl as she was preparing for a trip to I taly with friends. Anyone who has been in her posit ion of losing a spouse know how difficult it i to reume a regular, normal life. That trip was Beryl's first step. Now a residentofT u caloosa, Ala., Beryl is contemp lating returning to North Carolina, where they had pent so many years. As Beryl aid, her roors are wide and deep there, and one of their ons and h is wife l ive in Raleigh, where there is salt water and a friendly climate. La t December a memo rial service was held for Bob in Pearl River, N.Y., and was at tended by many of Beryl' cla s mates and friend . We extend to Beryl and her family our deepe t sympathy . . . . Keep in touch, people. And when the ques tionnaire arrives, do take a few minutes to jot down a bit of infor mat ion-or else this pace will be + for rent!

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Stars to the following for being the first to reply to the question naire: Dottie Baldridge Dzenis, Bradford, V t . , Bob Haggett, New H a r tford, . Y . , Larry Lathrop, Cumberland, Maine, J ohn Bailey, New Orleans, La., and Ann Dudley DeWitt, Oak land, Maine. In fact Ann DeWitt was so inspired she called me shortly afterwards to chat. She said that she notices how our generation is being squeezed at work between the downsizing of companie and pressures on all employee to do more, often for less pay. Recently she met Peg Barnes Dyer for lunch when Peg was in Maine, and apparently both talked at once and still caught up with all of each other's news! Speaking of Peg al o en ables her to receive the "better late than never" award after he returned the previous year's sur vey, which still proved inter esting . . . . Some of the news gathered from the questionnaire: J udith Sessler visited Colby a whi le ago and felt Watervi l le could use some urban renewal could this be a reunion project ? . . . Lee Holmes of Jersey City,

N .] . , j ust bought a second home in the wooded mountain of Co lumbia County, . Y . , and won ders if any of hi classmates are in that area. He'd l ike to hear from you . . . . Kathie Linscott Barrett sent ome of the I i terature for her re-election campaign for select man in Pembroke, Mass. Kathie looked very qualified-hope she won . . . . Maren Stoll Sherman Trembly wa about to escort a group of bikers through the horn of Holland as part of the "Bike for Your Breath" program of the American Lung Association of Maine. Sounds very healthy! Ron Gerber in San Diego ays that California's problems aren't as bad as we may have heard. He till l ikes the winters there, espe cially when he remembers Maine. . . Matt Gache is still teaching flying by instruments to students from various branches of the er vice . . . . And congratulation to Dick Lucier on his marriage last February to a former business colleague, H illary Garrett. They married in the English v i llage of Hampstead w i th long- time friends J oc k and Pat Walker Knowles attending. Our best wi hes for m u c h h a p p i n e s , Dick . . . . More news as your re plies come in. But it does look l ike quire a few of u are coming to our reunion next J une, so why don't you plan on doing that, too? +

Correspondent: Penelope Dietz Sullivan Well, i t seem to be working-the repl ies we got to the February 1 994 reque t were j ust the right amount to do this column. When you receive your letter reque ting news, please answer promptly and you, too, will see your new in print before it has moss growing on its north side! . . . Debby

Berry Denniston write from assau, . Y . , that he i rill writ ing a weekly new paper column in addition to raising calves and heifers, while her hu band, Roy, i teaching agriculture for ew York rare. ( i n Augu r her daugh ter is marrying "a young man they all l ike. " ) They have lots of "young bovine " now, bur Debby says last winter was o bad that by next winter they will get rid of them and she will be free to wrire her book. I ncluded in it may be the day that she and her room mates B renda B rowne, A n n Weir Ventre and Ginny Murphy Cragin were caught during Fresh man Week without name tags. The Kangaroo Court decreed that they had to wear long underwear for a day. Thank goodnes for long skins and kneesocks . . . . John Hooper has written for the first time ( in my memory) and tells of l i ving near Pitt burgh, which in his estimation can't hold a candle to Portland. He is a news paper publisher and hi wife, Bar bara, is a nur e . He has seven children, the youngest being 4, as well as two grandchildren. Evi dently he saw Marge and Dave Tourangeau before they headed for Tokyo. He would love to hear what Steve Chase and Frank D'Ercole are up to, and o would I. . . . From Orono, we hear from Scotty MacLeod Folger, who is looking forward to retiring some where warm in the winter and being in Maine in the summers. She now has her own apartment and is getting used to the peace andquiet ofhavingher own pace. She wa orry to miss the Febru ary gathering of the Boardmans, Dionnes, Laphams, etc., but she wa kayaking in Florida. How ever, she, Hilda Brown Daley, N a n c y C u n e e n B o a rd m a n , Townly Gamage Budde and Candy Castle Marsellus were planning a get-together in April. She is planning to go into m a -

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sage therapy and to volunteer in nursing homes ( and l would like to volunteer to be her gu inea pig while she prac tices) . . . . Speak ing of the Dionnes, Denny is now manager ofcorporate security and travel at The Analytic Science Corp. ( T ASC ) , while h is wife, Mary, is a marketing manager at Shiva Corp. This is his second career-he re t i red from New England Telephone after 3 1 years. They have all the chicks our of the nest and are enjoying their first grandchild, born in Decem ber. He wrote about the fun they had at the February gathering and mentioned that Wayne Fil lback '64, Henry Lapham '60 and Don Megarhlin '59 were also there. He wonders if anyone knows the whereabouts of Ted Hohlshuh '62. . G o r do n C u m m i n gs

checks in from Atlanta, where he is an assoc iate profe sor of physi cal therapy and is having a won derful time traveling to Braz il to share his physical therapy ideas ( this year will be his 1 1 th trip there ). Gordon is the only one of thi group of responder who i not plann ing to attend our re un ion in '96. The rest are looking forward to it. And l am looking forward to this weekend. Carolyn (Web ter '60) and Ted Loc kh a rt are coming from New Hampshire, and Bebe Clark Mutz and her husband, Dale, are coming over, so we are having a mini Colby re un ion. Have inv i ted Carla Possinger Short, too. So, until next time: be good and answer your questionnaires or send me a note on the information highway + (penny@opn ys.com ) .

Correspondent: Judith Hoagland Br i s tol

l hope that ome of you contacted Chri s Wood after our last is sue, after the new that Joan Tinker Wood died February 1 6 , 1 994, from cancer. My heartfelt sympathies are with you, Chris, during this difficult time. She was a neat lady. . From Scotland, l got a wonclerfu I letter from Mary Ballantyne Gentle. Mary has been spending this year in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program in An truther, Scotland, a small fish ing village off the east coast on the Firth of Forth. She is teaching what is comparable to fourth grade and having a wonderful experi ence beyond expectation. How-

HEADLINERS Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 , Connecticut secretary of state, received

the Republican Party's nomination for governor. If successful in November' elections, she would be the second woman and first Republican woman to hold the office.

NEWSMAKERS W. Donald Campbell '6 1 , a se n ior vice president for N M HC, was spotlighted in a feature in National Real Estate Investor. Campbell has 1 5 years of experi ence in working on Capitol Hill, most recently as the staff director of the housing and urban affairs subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Hou ing, Stephen Freyer '68 and Urban Affairs . . . . Funeral home owner Winthrop S . Smith Sr. '6 1 was featured in the fir t of a three-part article in the M ilford, Conn., Sunday Citizen on dealing with the death of a loved one . . . . Charles W. Carey '63 has been appointed managing director of Financial Consultants, Ltd., a sub idiary of the Fort Lauderdale-based law firm of Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell. Carey will assist in the structuring of financial transactions . . . . Lillian Waugh '63 , who is associated with the West V irginia University Center for Women's Studies, spoke on "What's New in Women's Studies" at the Fairmont, W.Va., chapter of the American A ociation of University Women's annual luncheon . . . . Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 addre sed the graduating class at Tiffin Univer ity. Goodwin's third book, Franklin and Eleanor at War: The American Homefront During WWII, is pending publication . . . . Democratic pollster and MacNeil-Lehrer New Hour regular Peter Hart '64 was at M ichigan' Albion College in February, where he spoke on public opinion surveying and offered advice for getting jobs in the field. Hart devotes one week a year to talk with tudents at small liberal

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ever, she does admit to homesick nes and huge phone bills. ( Her husband, Steve, has visited a few tim s, and she did get home for Chri tmas.) Mary said that the differences in the two school sys tems are major, and she will be writing up a comparison study. Mary also said that she, Nancy Rowe Adams, Lael S w inney Stegal and Patty Downs Berger had a wonderful reunion in Bo ton. Although they have taken different paths, they all felt that they had remained very much the same. Mary and Steve' youngest son, Stephen Jr., is getting mar ried in September, and their other son, Rob, is director of residential l iving at Johnson State College in Vermont . . . . Pat Farnham Rus sell, another elementary teach.er, reaches gifted and talented stu-

art college around the country . . . . James D. Henderson '64 has joined Boston Private Bank & Trust Company as execurive vice pre ident responsible for the company's assest management divi sion . . . . George M. Shur '64, legal counsel for Northern I llinois Univer ity, received the Thomas S. Biggs Jr. Award at the Annual N ational Conference on Law and Higher Education for his legal service to higher education . . . . Thomas A. Easton '66 was fea tured in the The Waldo Independent for his battle with the Waldo County ( Maine ) Sheriff's Department's censorship of reading ma terial for inmates . . . . Irving B. Faunce '67 ha been appointed executive director of River Ridge, the brain injury rehabilitation center for Maine. Faunce was formerly director of the center of occupational and environmental health at Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N .H . . . . Rev. Ledyard S. Baxter '6 7, minister of the First Church, United Church of Christ in Ludlow, Mass., was presented with h is doctorate of ministry degree from Hanford Seminary during worship service in the Ludlow Church on March 13 . . . . A recent article in the Portland Press Hera/a touted the successes of Joseph Boulos '68 as a real estate developer in Maine. His company has broken ground for Freeport Junction, a 1 6, 700-square-foot re ta i 1 center next to LL Bean . . . . Sports and media agent Stephen Freyer '68 wa the subject of a March feature article in the Boston Business Journal. Freyer, who signed fresh out of college as a wide receiver with the Denver Broncos, represented Bo ton Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque in hi last contract negotiation, which netted Bourque a five-year, $ 1 3 million deal. . . . Real estate spe cialist Edward M. Quinto '68 was profiled last March in the Manassas, Va., Ota Bridge Observer. . . . Thomas D. McBrierty '69 has been named v ice president and general manager for the western and central Massachusetts operations of NYNEX.

MILEPOSTS Deaths : Esther Ziskind Weltman, LLD. '66, in Cambridge, Mass., at 92 . . . . Glendon Newcombe Sr., M.S. T. '68, in Augusta, Maine, at 63. Marriages: Michael S. Sylvester ' 6 4 to Sarah E. Nash in New York City.

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they were in the midst of maple syrup season with 450 trees tapped, and said that anyone in the area is welcome to v isit. Last summer Pat and Rollie spent three weeks in Germany and surrounding coun trib and covered over 2,000 miles v ia car and train. They had Ger man host who really gave them the "grand tour." . . . Bruce Brown ays he's survived 22 years at Freeport H igh School as an Eng lish teacher, a sistant principal, gifted and talented coordinator and now as pecial ed teacher. Bruce has pent the last seven summers curating exhibitions for the Maine Coast Artists Gallery in Rockport (where Eric M ile '93 erved as a highly accompli hed intern last summer and where Bruce is looking forward to exhib iting paintings by ancy Goetz, Colby's newest painting profes sor) . He also said that he took rwo groups of students and adults to Paris in 1 99 2 and to Greece in 1 993 and went to London during Christmas, where he met up with his Colby roommate, J ohn Tuck er. Bruce ays that he would l ike to hear from Steve Kudriavetz '60, Bruce Montgomery '59, Phil Jan es and Peter Duggan. He asked if there i any truth to the rumor that Peter Houghton d ied. Can anyone enl ighten us on this? . . . Connie Fournier i an ESL teacher looking for a university position. Connie is also applying for a po tdoctoral fellowship to revise herd issertation-Undercur rents: The Experience of New Eng-

land Maritime Women- 1 7901 9 1 0-and publish it as a book. She received her Ph .D. in Ameri can studies from the University of Hawaii in 1 993 and really wants to teach American studies and/or women's history at the university level. Connie wil 1 spend this sum mer in Livermore Falls, Maine, and says that he ha made the decision to leave Hawaii after 1 4 year and also i s thinking of teach ing abroad, possibly in Japan or Europe. Has anybody gut some suggestions or contact for Con nie? . . . Ben Blaney is a Gennan profes or at Mississippi State Uni versity. H is wife, V irginia, is also an instructor of German and ESL. Ben and V irginia will have three ons in college in the fall: Wes, 20, a j unior at M iami of Ohio, and Bill and Ted, both 1 8, high school graduates in May . . . . If you sent in information and weren't men tioned in thi column, I will get it in the next issue. Keep those ques + tionnaires coming in! Correspondent: Barbara Haines Chase

Spring is most welcome thi year. Bill and I just returned from a week's exploration ofCape Cod and Nan tucket by car, bike and foot. The wannth and the flowers, not to mention the relaxed pace that a holiday encourages, were a wel come change from the bleak win ter landscape . . . . Jim Lapides is fir t VP and branch manager of Prudential Securities in New Ha ven, a position he has held for 20 years. He looks forward to the baseball season, recreational ten nis, his 2 5 th wedding anniversary and enjoying the en e of balance that age and experience have brought him. Son Matthew gradu ated from Colby thi year, and daughter Emily will attend Con necticut College . . . . The execu tive director of the Maine State Golf Association, Ralph Noel, divide his t ime berween Auburn, Maine, and Georgia, often Jekyll Island, winter home of h is "new wife" ( whom he neglected to name ) . Ralph loves h is work, find it stressful but creative. What a great combination . . . . Rod Pierce, president and CEO of the Stafford Savings Bank, writes that

walking four miles a day, the Nor dic Track, golf (which he play creatively) and love keep him fit ! Rod lost h i s wife, Trudy, in 1 990, but his social l ife sounds interest ing and somewhat my terious. To quote him: "stay tuned." . . . Allen and Rosemary Blankenship Hub bard are active in their commu nity of Charlotte, N .C. They sing in the church choir, work with Habitat for Humanity, were par ent of a foster child, support the Salvation Army and are involved in environmental concerns . . . . Brian McAlary, an anesthe iolo gist in Columbia, Md., is eager for a change in location--or possibly a new career! He is finding it difficult to work 1 2-hour shifts at SO+ ! Having lived with a physi c ian for 3 1 years, l can relate to h is plight. . . . Another Maryland resi dent, Marcia Achilles McComb, is manager of accounts receivable for a group of radiologists. She and her husband, Don, were plan ning to celebrate their 2 5 th anni versary with a trip to Scotland t h is J une . . . . C o n n i e Miller Manter truly filled both sides of the questionnaire, writing in be tween all of the lines and up and down both margins. Her message and her mission: "transfom1ational changes in education are vital to our country." Her vehicles for work are the Maine Department of Ed ucation and her own consulting firm. She teaches at Colby occaionall y and give conferences there. She and her h usband, Walter, have a commuter rela tionship but seem to find time to sail, ski and play together and with their ons, Jon and Todd. . . . Retired Air Force Lt. Col . Gordon Moog is service technol ogy manager for Toyota Motor Sales USA in San Piedra, Calif. H is pre ent "air activity" is hang gliding. Recently returned from the U. . ational Hang-G l iding Championship in Lakeview, Ore., he writes, "you re t, you rust." Some truth there; at the very least, you creak . . . . An intere t ing press release arrived from J . Wesley Miller, Esq. He has re cently edited Gus Edward's Legal Laughs : A]okefor Every]ury, origi nally published in 1 9 1 4 as a hand book for influencing Southern jurors with humor . . . . Dee Dee Wilson Perry, administrative a sistant for the Second Congrega-

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F.A.R.T. is not a four letter word ! lt' Fast Albert Racing Tearn ( order a team T-sh in ) . Yep, Cae sar Seferian i out to show Paul ewman how it's done. H i 1 2 year-old Porsche now sports "race legal specs," and Fast Albert went to racing school at Summit Point, W .Va., entered his first race there in J une '93 "under gentlemanly rule ( no intentional bangin' and rubbin', Bubba! )" and later drove at Pocono Raceway. He c e l ebrated SO there with a pit crew that included Kathy and Russ Ives, who drove over from ew J er ey. He finished the season at Li me Rock, Conn. , where he won his class. A l's daughter was mar ried in J uly '93, and usan (Cook '67 ) and Nick Locsin attended. Caesar's "best giveaway"-F inan cial Management for Program Man agers: Accoumability in Federal Program Opera cions-went to a second printing at the White House Office of Management and Budget . . . . Between holidays on the slopes in Oregon and log ging the Costa Rican rain forests, Eliot Terborgh reports a heavy travel schedule as pre ident of electone in Cal iforn i a . H is Chri tmas note mention China, Hong Kong, J apan, Philippines, Thailand, Lao and Russia. I won der ifhe ran into George Hooker in Bangkok or Sunny Coady in an a i rport ? . . . Jan B uffinton Browning, who i now w i th Charitable Insurance Agency in Gloucester, Ma s., sent me an invitation to the annual " o One Has a Party in February" open house. H alf the profits go to char-

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Class of 1 964 Dusty Rhoades threw us a whale of a party! I t began with a "tony little soiree" in a historic old tavern, where we all acted our age, and it ended with shoot ing the breeze on a Sunday morning, when we all looked and acted like col lege kids. With one big difference: we liked everybody. Over and over I heard, "Why didn't I know what a nice guy so and-so was when we were in college?" Peg Chandler Davey was back for her fir t-ever reunion, and it was a treat for all of us. Charlie Angell and Dick Friary appeared f; r the Portsmouth warmup , adding literature and limer ick to the general conversation. Robbie ( Gil-on '65 ) and Bob Drewes, newly elected class president, added grace and charm and avoir faire. Judy Fassett Aydelott came to Portsmouth and gave us the latest news on WLTN . Jon Allen drove up from New Jersey for all the events, even rowing the shell. Thank heavens Lee Scrafton Bujold was there, because we can't have a reunion without her. Her husband, Joe, is a great addition to the party, too. TI1e next generation was beautifully represented by Robin and Bruce Lippincott' daughter Sarah and by Candi ( Wil on '65 ) and John Haynes' daughter Kris, who were checking out admi sions stuff. Jan Young Heath has moved from Philly to Charleston, S.C., and drove up for all the festivities. George Shur, who ran much of the early class activities, was a very appreciative participant in all the action and excelled on the water! Another faithful attendee i Jim Harris, who came all the way from Is aquah, Wa h. Marilyn and Ben ( rley ) Beaver, Carol Worcester Place and Carol Haynes Beatty j oined us on the boat to the Isles of Shoals on Friday for a unny, warm, informative tour of Star I land and the Piscataqua River. The Awards Banquet wa held on Friday night in the atmospheric Student Center, where John Oaks, Joan McGhee Ames, Steve Schoeman, Candi Camp Lund, Marge Convery and BJ Willis Campbell were waiting for us ( we all looked pretty young, mind you, but BJ ha actually reversed the aging process) . After the banquet, there was partying at our headquarters far into the night. By the t ime of the parade the next morning, we had added PJ Downing Curtis, Will and Barb Mcfaul Cook, Susan Ellsworth, Colleen Khoury (and her perfectly charming spouse, David Karraker), Lemon Morang, Dave and Jane Lewis Sveden, Suzanne and Cliff Olson and Judy Van Dine. This was the first Parade of Classes for us, a lei urely stroll winding up at the stadium for the presentation of c la s gifts. Thanks to Jim and Linda Johnson Crawford, we had the highe t gift total of all the cla es: $ 1 ,292, 7 5 5 in Alumni Fund donations and capital gifts! After a j ubilant time at the Cla s of '64 lobster bake, we pent the afternoon under the few remaining willow around Johnson Pond and rowing Dusty's boats lazily ( well, mo t1y) on that water that we knew primarily as ice. The last of the returnee arrived in time for the class banquet: Bob Dyer, Keo and Ann Schmidt Nye, Jany and Phil Choate and Nat (Furlong '67 ) and Alfio Graceffa, who added football stories and memories and updates to the general din. After dinner, a letter from Larry Dyhrberg wa· read (he' on his way to Poland with the Peace Corps ! ) . I conveyed a few class stats and then read excerpts from Adlai Stevenson's commencement peech. Then came the dancing, and the Class of '64 di tinguished itself with energy, grace and enthusiasm! 1 994 Awards. Best Oarsperson: Peg Davey; Best Page in the Book: John Oaks; Be t Choreogra pher: Colleen Khoury; Proper Stroking in the Whitehall: George Shur ( although he lo t points for hitting the only rock in the pond) ; Best After Dinner Comment: Dave Sveden. M iscellaneou thought . Libby Nowers send her greetings to the motorcycle bunch. George ays he's biSoxual now. We sure missed Joan Phillipps Thompson's piano playing, although in our Averill headquarters it would have been air piano. If you want a copy of the reunion book (or the Stevenson speech), reque t one from the Alumni Office. And a few of the specially designed Class of '64 reunion tote bags also are available for $ 7 . 50. If interested, please send a check payable to Colby College to the Alumni Office, Colby College, Waterville, ME 0490 1 .

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BCM Engineer in Philadelphia. Neil's doing environmental en gineering and is VP of federal programs. When not on the road, he and Jean "garden/remodel like c ra z y . " . . G i n n y M a r s h a l l Cosbey entered her first Senior Olympics and placed third in the women's 20K bike race in T ucon. he also completed herthird "El Tour de Tue on," a 1 1 1 -mi le perimeter bike race around the ci ty. Ginny would like to hear from Marnie Hale Fowler, Su san McGinley and Nancy Kendig Montagna. So would your scribe! . . Randy Antik' on ju t fin ished his first year at Colby. Randy has relocated to Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard, where he is president/CEO of Xpander Pak. urprise! Tom Boulette i alive and well and l i v ing in King ton , Mas . A long- time member with Art Beveridge in the broken penc il cl ub, Tom writes that he is " r. VP Nuclear" at Boston Edison Co. in Boston. With Arlene, his brideof26 years, he covered 3,300 miles on a Paris London-ln vemess- lreland-Paris tour in September 1 99 3 . Tom is on the board of directors of Yan kee Atomic Electric and Con necticut Yankee and recently was named to the board of "several hospitals." . . . Leah Aranovitch currently holds the "Ms. Ma ters Maine" title in competitive body building. Her son, Gator, ha joined her in her personal trainer bu iness, The Body Firm . . . . J oa n Copithorn Bowen wa elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the national honor ociety in business, based on being in the top 20 percent of her M . B.A. class . . . . Your scribe i off to Fin land as you read this . . . . Hail, + Colby, Hail'

Correspondent: Russell N. Monbleau

One seventh of your life i pent on Mon day . . . . My telephone survey turned up another three classmates from the "Not Heard From Files." My standard greet ing of "Hi, this is Ru Monbleau from Colby, and I'm not calling about money" still erves as a

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hen her youngest son, An drew, now 2 2 , entered nurs ery school 1 9 years ago , Joan Phillipp Thomp on '64 wanted to capitalize on her newly acquired freedom. "So I sat down and wrote a l ist of tho e things that I could do with my time," aid Thompson. "The only thing on the l ist that really appealed to me wa being a novelist." That afternoon, Thompson ays, she began to write. She gave herselfa liberal 1 0-year t ime l imit; if she hadn't published by then, she'd give up. W i th the help of a friend, and with only 39 page written, he sold her fir t man uscript to St. Martin' Press of N ew York. I n 1 978, j u t one year after he began writing, Marblehead was published. " I was very, very l ucky," said Thompson, who lives in Marble head, Mas ., with her hu band, Stephen '63 . "That doe n't usually happen ro first-time writer ." "Very few people w i l l have the opportunity to do what they really enjoy," Thomp on aid. "The trick is to find out what it is you can do and do it. Do whatever i t is that make you feel good. The rest will come." Thompson's second novel, Parker's Island, was published in 1 979, and her third, Interesting Times, reached bookstores in 1 98 1 . She wrote about life, romance and love in and around the north hore of Massachusett . After a 1 0-year publishing h iatu , and with Andrew preparing to enter college, Thompson says she felt the need to get back to writing eriously. She decided to write novels for young adult . In April 1 993, The Mudpack and Me was published by Pocket Books on the M instrel Book label, a subdivi ion of Simon & Schuster. Last May came The Terrible Turnoff and Me. Although intended for young readers, Thompson says her book are not frivolous. The Mudpack and Me details the hij i nk that occur when two eighth grade girls attend a summer health resort, one because she think he's fat and the other becau e her

useful opener. J ohn Harrington is rounding out 25 years as an attorney pec ializing in the niche egment of energy law. This wa h is fir t job out of law chool, and while he originally envisioned only a few years at this, it has grown into a field that he truly enjoy . His work involves repre senting energy-produc ing c l ient to meet federal energy and DOT requirement for the production of and inter tate transfer of en ergy-products. H is work is d ivided

m o th e r t h i n ks she's fat , a l though n e i ther g i r l is over weight. Thompson' ·equel, The Terrible Turnoff and Me, deals w i th a c la sroom experiment with television. Half the c lass the "brain "-mu t watch four hour of TV a day while the other half-the "couch pota toe "--can't watch at all. Main character Susan Hubbard, one of the "couch potatoe ," discov ers reading as an alternative to televi ion and i awakened to the undiscovered po i b i l i t ies the world offers. Thompson's stories deal with issue that all kids experience during adole cence. h e pur posely avoids theme uch as divorce and death. "Kids are getting enough books with all the other eriou stuff in them," said Thomp on, who al o has a son Christopher, 26. "I want to deal with lighter issue but till deal with i sues. I want to write about the thing that the children want to read, ornething with a me sage but that comes packaged with lots of laughter. "I haven't forgotten how horrible eighth grade was," Thomp son said, "and I have the mind of a 1 2 -year-old ! I think I can write what the kids want." Thomp on says she tries to convey her messages w ith humor, a va tly underrated device, in her opinion. She wants each child who reads her book to feel, "This per on understands me." Thompson has three more teen novels coming out within the next year, all to be published by Avon Book . Revolving around a group of kids involved in a drama group, the stories relate what happen when teen angst, acting and acne become a backdrop for theater performance . "I couldn't have predicted that this i where l'd be today," aid Thomp on, a French major who ay she took some Colby Engli h classes for fun but never felt l ike writing "all those long paper ." "I wa never a brilliant tudent and I'd never expected that I 'd be a writer," he aid, "but now I can't imagine not wri ting."

season sports, they still make time to take advanrage of the nearby bay for sail and power boating. . . . Ann Retherford Drinker, long of Quaker H ill, Conn., ha her olde t daughter, Amy, en rolled at the University of M ichi gan; at 16, son Eric is in high school. Ann's principal pastime include a lot of reading, family camping and gardening and an Elmer Fudd-type of relationship with what sounds l ike a h igh lo cal concentration of garden-bust-

50/50 between regulation com pliance and l itigation. John esti mates that there are fewer than a thou and lawyers in the country with his specialty. With their three daughter and two ons, he and h is wife of 22 year make their home in Annapolis, Md. Theirolde r completed hi sopho more year at Colby, and their youngest i 1 0-promising a chal lenging 10 years of child rearing and major educational inve t ment . W ith all k id active in

ing woodchucks. Her goal this year is ro harve·t more than 50 percent of what she plants, gain ing at least a moral victory over the local rodent . he is actively engaged in setting her have-a heart traps and then c ru i ing the backwoods of Connecticut look ing for release site . Vacation time is spent camping in the family' favorite pots in N ew Hampshire in the orth Conway area. . . . Jeffrey Morse is an ensthi . . . ane thesi . . . inject mind-alter-

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ing drugs for med icinal purposes (spell checker can only do so m uch! ) . Jeff said that he would be more responsive to the class cor respondent now that his 1 9-year old middle son has elected to attend Colby this coming fall. This led to the next obvious ques tion and a brain-teasing answer. "Oh, how old are your other sons?" "They are all nineteen." "How do you do that ?" "All at once they're triplets." His other sons are enrolled at Lafayette and Denison. Talk about your college tu ition shock. ( Their names are J ustin, Mathew and Ehren, con firming my susp ic ion that other than Huey, Dewey and Lou ie, you can't find three males names that rhyme. ) Jeff reports that he is j ust now getting back into a boyhood pastime ( sort of a "River Runs Through I t" experience, when h is father taught him how to fly fish ) . He j ust returned from a fishing trip to Flaming Gorge Dam in northeastern Utah, where the trout were large, active and

cooperative. He and wife Rowan, a real estate broker, enjoy sail ing on their 30-foot Freedom out of Portland, Maine. The boat sleeps six and makes for relaxing day trips and weekends. . . . I am now constructing this year's class ques tionnaire and hoping for enough stimulating questions to elicit a higher rate ofresponse, espec ially from the shy and communicat ing- impaired. Well, it's time to get ready for work and my morn ing look in the mirror, where I tell myself: "I am not bald-I am + follicly challenged . "

College in Massachusetts and Jonathan was a freshman at Tufts. Recently Led was back at school as he earned his doctorate in di vinity at Hartford Sem inary, Hartford, Conn. Led is proud that h is church is growing and says that they are on the verge of starting a building expansion pro gram. He reminds us that formal education can terminate with a ceremony and degree, but know ing what you believe and living those bel iefs is a cont inuing, life long process . . . . Sally and Tony Wilkins live in Hingham, Mass., with son Drew, a seventh grader. One form of recreation enjoyed byTony and Sally is sailing; come summer they can often be seen sailing a s loop out of the Hingham Yacht Club. Son J ay, it seems, tends more to the a iry than aquatic. After a stin t as an Apache helicopter pilot in the Army, J ay now commands a platoon at Ft. Hood, Texas. Tony has a com mand of h is own as vice president of Loomis Sales in Boston. . . . Jim

Correspondent: Robert Gracia

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"Yukon" Thomas will be cel ebrating his 20th anni versary with Panasonic, where he has worked these past two decades in the internal auditing department. J im's son, J im, graduated from Montclair State, N . J . , last June, and J im is just ifiably proud of this accomplishment . Another ac complishment worth a tip of the tam is J im's longevity as an active baseball player. He continues to catch and in a slight concession to h is ( our) age has joined an over-30 league, where he plays with two of his nephews. J im can still lift a fastball over the center fence at the old ball park; I won't say anything about what he does with a slider, lowand away. When not working or playing baseball, J im likes to travel about, taking in a Colby football or basketball game. In a recent trip he visited Eric Rosen, who works a an at torney for N YN EX. In addition to his legal duties Eric is very active in the Jewish Big Brothers of Massachu etts . . . . Stu Clay-

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On Saturday evening we were all in awe of Barry Atwood' he 2 5 th reunion was a definite success from beginning to end. video. It was fun to take a trip back in time to relieve some of the Our reunion committee did an outstanding job as one would memories we all hold of our year at expec t . Laurie Killoch Wiggins had r • 1' Colby. As the k ids would say, "It was everything undercontrol at all times. ., awesome ! " Thank you, Barry. We thank her and her husband, Dave Noonan outdid himself a Wayne, for all the time and effort chairman of the reunion fund-rai they expended on our behalf. ing committee. Our c lass raised Several classmate should be men $ 1 43 , 2 3 2 , which i close to the best tioned for their contributions to our ever raised by a 2 5th reunion clas , reunion. R ichard and Susan Gould with a 4 7 percent participation rate, Hennessey were kind enough to al � which is excellent. We were proud of low the class to have a cocktail party � ourselves when the money was pre at their home in Kennebunk on !ll ented to the College. Thursday. A l l reports indicate that A feature of the Saturd ay aft erthis party was a great introduction to 5;'q rn noon activities was a slide how and the reunion weekend. Sari Ahul.a nature walk given by Ed Woodin. I t J ubein also contributed t o the cocki was nice to see one of our classmate tail party by assisting in the food Edward Woodin '64 speaking in the arboretum. be a part of the campu -wide enter department. No one went hungry. tainment. Ed ha become well known for h i activities with the Rick Franz designed the T- h irt that became the conversa Maine Audubon Society. tion piece of the whole campus. Everyone wanted to read all the These people are only a few of the many who made our 2 5 th h i toric events he incorporated into the design on the back of the hirt. R ick also d id an excellent j ob on the reunion tote bags. ( A reunion a succe s. It was wonderful to ee old fr iends and renew few o f the T-shirts remain a t $ 1 2 apiece. The tote bags with the acquaintances from the past. Let's do it again for our 30th. My thanks to all of you who have supported my class column in 2 5 th reunion logo are $5 each. I f you're interested, please send a check payable to Colby College to the Alumni Office, Colby Colby over the past five years. My best to Diane Kindler, \'.lho will be doing the articles for the next five years! College, Waterville, ME 0490 1 . )

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man, a p ychologist in a private practice in Boston, special ize in forensic p ychology. tu, an ex ercise e n thusiast, is currently look ing into the effects of exer c ise on mental health from both a remedial and preventive perpec tive. When not working, tu is an avid traveler, logging many mi les in Southeast Asia. He re cently returned from Singapore. . . . By the t ime you read this col umn, J oel Irish will be traveli ng across the country with h is wife a he begins his sabbatical from t h e U n i v e r i ty of S o u thern Maine, where J oel has taught mathematics for many year . While traveling in the West, J oel will v i it his two daughters, one living in Seattle and the other in Sunnyvale, Calif. Before leaving for h is trip, Joel will re ign from his post on his local school board, a po ition he held for 23 year . . . . Finally, j ust before sitt i ng down to my word processor, I received a call from my column partner, J udy Gerrie Heine. She called to say that she had j ust a t t e n d e d the C o l by - Ba b on hockey game and saw, trange as it m ight eem, Lee Potter and Paul Cronin. Paul was there to see h is son core the first goal for the Mu les. Lee and Linda ( M i tc h e l l '66 ) were head i ng north to ski after the game. +

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We have lots of news this time. Ted Swartz ay he had no mid-l ife crisis until he read the que tion about grandchildren. He's sure we j ust graduated ( it is hard to believe it was 2 6 year ago). Hope the funk has lifted by now, Ted . . . . Bill Palombo, now d i vorced, has bought a new hou e in Port mouth, R.I., and invites any class mates traveling in the Newport area to top by. He ha three won derful children-Kris, A lex and Tim. H is new attitude is to "take things slow, enjoy life, have fun and take better care of my elf." . . . Jay Sandak and hi wife, Mary Sommer, are attorneys practicing in Stamford, Conn. He wa busy kiing at Bromley in Vermont every winter weekend and al o took a trip to Park City, Utah, in Febru-

ary. He claim he ha to go back to work to relax and re t up for the following weekend. He also re ports that according to hi sons, age 1 3 , 1 1 and 8, he has suddenly lost all of his cerebral qualities and k n o w n o t h i ng . . . . B a r b a ra Brown Ralston and hu band Larry and chi ldren J am i , 1 3 , Michele, 2 1 , and Alixe, 2 2 , plus assorted dogs have moved a lot over the years, but she says they are now in Idaho. After experi encing diverse area of the U.S., she truly loves the West and Boise in particular. Barbara is an educa tional therapist who specializes in teachingat-ri k children. This fall she will begin doctoral work at the University of Idaho. La t May he attended Alixe's graduation from Tufts University . . . . Last March, Patricia Davis Murphy and hus band Donal v isited their son M ichael '95 in Ireland, where Michael spent a seme ter in the Colby in Cork program. Daughter Lori (a sophomore at Brown) i also a world traveler, having spent her semester break w i th her Brown roommate's family in Ma dras, I ndia . . . . Bob Koons list his family unit as wife Jan, sons Brad and Matt, two llama and assorted other character that like to be fed. Since leaving Colby, Bob reports he ha "less hair, more que tions, fewer an wer , more money and therefore more bills." He still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up but is having "a helluva good time ! " . . . Ken Lane i n Bozeman, Mont., married Marcia Morrow in July. Third time's the charm, he says. He wants to start a family soon. He's avoided a mid-life crisis by staying active skiing, biking, hik ing, nowboard ing and roiler blading. Just when is it, Ken, that you get to practice medicine ? . . . Barbara Stanford Tremblay is currently the a si rant principal at Keene ( N . H . ) High School, her own alma mater. She and hus band Tony must be very proud of their children. Their oldest on, Andrew, now attends Bo ton Universiry Medical School after g r a d u a t i n g fro m H o l y Cross i n 1 99 3 . Adam, their ec ond son, enters his senior year at Dartmouth in September, and daughter Suraiya will be a j unior at Bentley College . . . . + That's all for now.

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Hope you're enjoying a great summer1 Be sure to mark your calendar for next year's reunion-June 81 1 , 1 99 5 . We've had two plan n i ng mee t i ngs, w i th another scheduled for fall; there are plenty ofopportunities to help make this a great t i me. Please j o i n i n ! . . . Let's hope Doug and Hazel Parker Smith will make Colby a stop on their "annual trip to New England" from their home in A hland, Ore. Doug is an optom etrist, and Hazel is a teacher ( me dia special ist ) . They enjoy ki vacations and wi lderness rafting with their two children, Erin and Ryan. Recent trave ls i nc l ude Yosemite, Yellowstone and Mex ico . . . . Chris Woessner an swered our survey from Tiburon, Cal if. , where he is senior v ice pre ident at Duff and Phelps In vestment Management Co. He says he does a lot of job-related traveling, love the San Francisco area and has two daughter at tend ing expensive colleges . . . . Rodney Buck was recently ap pointed sen ior v ice president-in vestment at National L i fe of Vermont i n addi tion to his cur rent po i t ion as president and CEO ofNat ional Life Investment Management Co. He has been with National Life since 1 97 2 , after earni ng h i s M . B . A . from Dartmouth . . . . Deborah Thur low Scott wrote that she was due to go on sabbat ical from Arkan sas College, where she is assi tant profes or of education. She also was completing her doctorate in

educat ional leadership and in struction at Memphis State Uni ver ity. Somehow, she found t ime to travel to London w i th her daughter, Mary A l ice . . . . David Dougan has recently completed a econd master's d egree at UMass. He is living in Mapleton, Maine, with wife Dawn. H is fam i ly includes a son, Beryl, dog, two cats and an iguana named Grim mey. He has founded Chem afe Consult ing, Inc . , a hazardou waste management and removal company . . . . David Schumach er calls Hallowell, Maine, home. He made a career change in '8 1 after completing his master's in education at Indiana Un iversity. ince then he has worked in schools in Portland and Bath and is now director of media services at Maranacook School. H is fam ily include two teenage sons, M a t t and Peter. . . . Another Mainer is Gary Woodcock, who is not only a long- t ime teacher but the owner, along w ith his wife, Brenda, of Round Top I ce Cream Co. , a mall wholesale/ retail premium ice cream com pany. He says he can't believe he now pays h is freshman roommate, Bruce McNamee, "a small for tune" to do his taxes when they used to study for calculus exam toget h e r ! T i mes change ! . . Addresses change too--l 've been spending my summer in the great state of Vermont after moving from Massachusetts. This fal l, bui lders will ing, I will become a M innesota res id en t . That add res w i l l follow but for now please send your latest news to me at One S tratton Gate Road , Ja + maica, VT 0 5 3 4 3 . Corre pondent: Nancy Hammar Austin

C lass corresponde n t Nancy Hammar Austin d e c l i n ed t o s u b m i t

class notes for this issue i n protest of the hate graffiti on campus last spring. In a letter to the ed i tor, she wrote: "Colby must be, first and foremost, a place where diversity of thought, expression and experience is not simply tolerated but actively encouraged and celebrated." Colby regrets any inconvenience + to the Class of 1 97 1 . Correspondent: Janet Holm Gerber

For tho e of you who have not heard from Ellen Muzzy Farnham

for quite a while-she has not moved again as she fears you be l ieve. She is till in Brunswick, M a ine, where her family has ettled after ight moves in 20 years. Ellen is recuperating well from major surgery. Following sev eral seizures, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It has been a terribly difficult t ime, and she wishes to be remembered to all her Colby friends to whom she has not been able to wri te . From al I of us, Ellen, our deepest wishes for a rapid and trong recovery. With special apprec iation I share Fleming Fallon's news, as this is the first t ime since graduation that he has written in. "Since Colby I've been to medical school, com pleted a residency in occupational and environmental medicine (pre ventive med icine ) , done a fellow ship i n epidemiology a t the Nat ional Cancer Institute and taught at Columbia University before coming to Sl ippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pa. ( three year ago ) , where l teach and conduct research. I'm also returning to Maine to teach a graduate course i.n research meth ods at St. Joseph's College in Windham for the fourth year. Probably one of the neatest things

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Brian J . Cooke ' 7 0 was named a partner for the law firm Amstein & LehrofWest Palm Beach, Fla . . . . J oan F. Katz

work of the Ma achu ett tate archaeological team directed by Constance Crosby ' 7 6 . The group is investigating a ative American burial ite recently found on Martha' Vineyard. . . . Attorney Mark Janos ' 7 6 and Edward Morri have formed the new firm of Janos and Morris in Newburyport, Ma . . . . Kevin Convey '77 was named managing editor of the Boston Herald and

'70 has been named M iddle-

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tor of the Department of Mental Retardation. Katz has been actingdirectorsince May 1 993 and previou ly erved a the clinical director for the M id d le ex/We t office . . . . President and CEO of Fleet Bank of M a ine M . A n n e O'Hanian Szostak ' 7 2 h a

will be in charge of the unday edition and features, entertainment and l ife tyle ection of the paper. Convey had previou ly erved a Sunday editor and executive c ity editor . . . . J ohn W. Gray ' 7 8 ha entered the race for th e Republican nomination for represen tative to the Massachusetts legislature. Gray previous[ erved in the legi larure from 1 978 to 1 984 and since then ha held a number of government po it ion . . . . Christopher Noonan '78 of Pre er vation ervices, I nc . , wa the guest peaker at a March lecture for the Brimfield ( M ass. ) Historical Commission. A board member of Historic Massachusetts, I nc . , Noonan spoke on "Cultural Re source Great and Smal l." . . . Michael R. Donihue ' 7 9 , an

Wayne C . Brown de Ponton d'Amecourt '73

been promoted to senior vice pre ident for Fleet Financial Group in Providence, R . l . , where she will oversee labor reduc tions and corporate communications. ln May he was awarded an honorary doctor of science in busine administration by Roger William University . . . . Fir tmark Corp., a Waterville, Maine-based financial ervices fi.rrn under founder and presi dent/CEO J ames Vigue ' 7 2 , wa recently honored as a designee in the 1 994 Blue Chip Enterprise Initiative Program, which recognize outstanding bu ines es acros America and is spon sored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nation's Business magazine and Connec t icut Mutual Life In urance Company . . . . Wayne C. Brown de Ponton d' Amecourt ' 7 3 lent over 70 works of art from his private collection for an exhibit at the Colby Mu eum of Art during Reunion Weekend . . . . The Mid Maine Morning Sentinel interviewed Gail Chase '7 4, who called her first term a a Maine state repre entative "an incredible education." Cha e aid, "a majority of the people are honorable

I've done is to write a cookbook on muffins. A econd cookbook on cooking with children is half completed." Thank you, Flem. . . . Also practicing medicine in Pennsylvania, Larry Linnell re cently joineda group medical prac tice in Towanda, where he is a fam ily practice phy ician. He al o has done medical missionary work in the desert of northea t Brazil and has served as chairman of Partners of the American Maine/ Rio G rande de N o r t e Braz i l Health Committee . . . . Also ven turing far south, Pat Downey Schannen visited Costa Rica in February on a U.S. government study grant. She is writing a school curriculum reflecting her obser vations of Co ta Rican culture and education. She recommends travel there-"beautiful country, friendly people." And she reveals a current obsession-horses. She is riding and taking lessons as much as possible . . . . I want to share an obsession I've had for a while. My

assistant profe or of economic at Colby, has accepted a one-year appointment as senior economi t with the Pre ident' Council of Economic Advi or in Wa hington, D.C. Donihue will work with senior members of the Clinton administration in preparing eco nomic foreca t and macroeconomic policy.

MILEPOSTS Births : A o n , Alexander Candler, to Jennifer and Paul Boghossian Ill '76 . . . . A daughter, Morgan, to K im Ann Woodward and Thomas Hearne ' 7 7 . Marriages: A n n e Marie Hobson '78 t o icholas P e arik i n Rye Beach, N . H .

chief priority is my family o f two son , J ustin, 1 0, and Taylor, 7 . And I teach art part time (also a c h i l d r e n ' coo k i ng/n u t r i t i on class-Flem, I ' m writing to you for your "cooking with children" book ) . But after that, I 'm running out the door as fast as I can literally! I 'm crazed with mara thon training. In the past year I've run in Houston, Boston, Twin Citie ( M innesota) and a crazy trail marathon in Connec ticut. I'm in training now for the Twin Cities in October and recently made a re ervation for a small chartered group that will go to the Arctic Circle next July to run the Midnight Sun Marathon. Does anyone else have the bug ? +

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Margaret McPartland Bean

Greetings! I hope that you are having a good summer! Twenty-fifth

high school reunions seem l i k e a milestone, don't they? . . . Jeanne I rving Angel ha earned her Ph.D. in English as a second lan guage and is teaching full time. She says that now she has no time for anything other than family, job and hou ework . S o u n d s fam i l i a r ! . . . J on at h a n F i n k teache geology i n Phoenix and is enjoying his toddler, Laurel. Recently, Jon was in Kyoto--at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species where he was involved in draft ing federal legislation regulating the wild bird trade. . . . Vincent Guess has moved from Maryland to Connec ticut and is enjoying the slower pace of life. He works as an attorney for the Pequot tribe. . . . Wendy Knickerbocker is a librarian and lives in a lovely spot in the Rhode Island wood . She mentions that their setting is as close to Maine a they could get and still be in Rhode Island! . . . Ida Dionne Burroughs sings

and teaches piano and voice. She i getting used to having both of her children in high school and mar v e l i ng a t the q u i e t . . Franc:s Dunn is in busine s in Tokyo and has two c h ildren , Lillian and Kenneth . . . . This i all of the news I have for now drop me a card and let me know + what you are up to!

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Susan Gearhart Wuest

I n March '94, Herrick "Rick" Drake was ap

pointed enior vice pres ident and chief marketing officer of College Saving Bank, which provides a patented saving-for college investment known as the CollegeSure Certificate of De po it. Congratulations! . . . W il l Tuttle sent me a newsletter. H ere's an abbreviated ver ion: Will de cided to trade in his teaching ca reer for a new life in music . . .

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traveled around the world playing his piano music . . . met his future wife, Madeleine, in Switzerland, and married in September 1 99 3 . . . has recording studio and home in Healdsburg, Calif., north of San Francisco. In 1 99 3 , W ill's third album, The Call, was born- 1 2 original solo piano piece , "each piece crafted and woven to create the experience of an inner musi cal journey." Madeleine's water color art graces the cover. . . . J im and Sally Hawk Gibson spent the past school year in Mon on, Maine, where J im was a middle school science teacher and they and their three k ids enjoyed the change of scenery. As of Augu t, the Gibson are back liv ing in Fryeburg, Maine . . . . In Rutland, Vt., are Tom and Jean Crowley Huebner. Tom is seniorvice presi-

dent of Rutland Regional Medi cal Center, and Jean is coordina tor of volunteers at a grade 4-6 intermediate school. They have two children, Ben, 1 4, and Emily, 1 1 . While inging in a combined choir fr m their church and one in Bennington, Jean met up with former Colby sociology profes or Arthur Kingdon, who i now an Epi copal prie t there. J ean com mented that she and Tom have found their l ive going in the same direction as many of their class mates: "we're each on a couple of comm u n i t y boards, struggl i ng with being over-committed and yet l ik i ng the opportun i ty to make a tiny difference." . . . After selling his practice in Salmon, Idaho, Buck Drew is now a den tist in "beautiful Sun Valley." Colby memories are triggered by

seeing Colby jerseys on the Sun Valley hockey rink. Buck's view these days: "l ife seems far richer and more easy-going for single parents, such as myself, than it is for my friends who are single without chi ldren ! " Buck's on Mark is 1 2 . . . . Mark Farrington is a si tant professor of English at George Ma on U n i vers i ty i n Fairfax, V a . He writes that h i s partner, Barbara E s tman, has publ ished a first novel, The Other Anna . Mark recommends i t highly, and h e i now working on a novel ofhis own . . . . In Decem ber, Janet Hansen organized a mini-reun ion for some ChiO' : Debbie Baker, Dianne Billing ton Stronach, Prudence Reed Kraft, Susan Conant Cook, Joan DeSalvo Mansour, Alex Anag

no t Theriault '76, Nancy Coyne

Cooper'76 and Su an Reed Parker ' 7 6 at tended . . . . In Au rora, Ma ine, game warden pecialtst Deborah Seel Palman is glad that Colby gave her such a broad introduction to many subjects and such a broad knowledge of biology, because, as she ays, "you never know what you will end up doing." Debbie is now doing laboratory research in forensics, a field she a l ways wanted to be in . . . . Alan '73 and Deborah Morre! Polackwich are new homeowners in Vero Beach, Fla. Alan is an attorney, Debor ah is a mentor at the elemen tary school, and they have two chi ldren, Je sica, 17 (just grad uated from h igh chool ) , and Scott, 1 1 . They are busy co-chair ing the United Way Campaign + for 1 994-9 5 .

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In the musical category, Mary the hands down winner not only forremem bering the words to Hail, Colby, Hail but al o for being able to contra t them with the new, gen der-neutral version. Accepting the award (a kazoo ?), she pro ceeded to lead a ometime rous> ing, sometime feeble sing-along z to the tune of O' Canada. Linda 9U> Krohn Kildow got a pedal award � for mix ing the lyrics of Kenni on and Wynette: "Hail, Colby, � Hail. . . Stand by your man" etc. ( N ice try, Lind a . ) Ellen Baxter ' 74 . Nancy Spangler Tiernan and husband Bill '77 made it out of the woods j ust in time to join the fun after a 1 20-mi le canoe trip down the St. John River in northern Maine, trading the company of moo e, bear, and an occa ional blackfly for that of classmates, spouses and the ir children. Among the official business of the weekend was the uccession of officers. Martha Bernard Welsh took over from Steve Horan as class president for the next five years. Artie Bell a sumed v ice presidential duties from Emily Wingate Ryerse. Michael J. Strone is the new A lumni Council repre entative, taking over from Ann Graves McAuliff, and, most important, Shelley Bieringer Rau relieved Steve Collins of secretary/corre pondent duties. Help Shelley out; send her some news. She's at 1 23 Hotel Rd., Auburn, Maine 042 10. And don't miss your last reunion of the 20th century-.XXV-the first weekend in June 1999 ! Ellen Baxter wa

button on the big VCR and study a frame featuring some of the peo ple who helped shape our lives during those crucial four (or more) years in college. It happened again in J une when 70 member of the Class of '74 attended our 20th reunion on Mayflower Hill. A commentator o n N PR re cently said of h is reunion that he felt like he was on a conveyor belt omewhere between people with smooth kin and flat stom ach and those sporting cane and hearing a id . Though Bob Harvard Jones ' 74 and Marie Tomassino and Reggie Blaxton both received honorable mention for best-looking guy with the least hair ( Reggie by de ign, Bob by genetic good fortune), we are happy to report that gray hair, lo s of hair and the need for somewhat larger trousers were the worst signs of wear exhibited by the Class of '7 4 revelers. Several people remarked that, other than the unfam iliar mu tache, Scott Ryerse looked like he d id on graduation day. However, no award was given for "most youthful" or "lea t altered" o that all 70 of us could go home secure in the knowledge that, had there been one, it might have gone to us. One might have thought that J udy Sidell Westerlund, who came from Stockholm, Sweden, would have gotten the "farthest from home" award, but she was trumped by Robin Mycock, all the way from Sydney, Au tralia. Domestic travelers included Howie Lazar, in from Anchorage, Alaska.

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From Jan Plan Student to Organizer

ix teen years after her J an Plan experience at Colby et in motion a career in ecological preservation, Abigail Rome ' 7 i working t o educate others about the dangers o f habitat destruc tion and rainfore t degradation. Rome's environmental education has taken her into the heart of subtropical forests in Ecuador, where la t J anuary she led a group of Colby students on a Jan Plan trip he sponsored and organized. The trip ha closed a circle that began Rome' enioryearat Colby at the Jackson Laboratory. " l sniffed yellowsnow," hesaid, amused. "We were trying to track pheromones that foxes use to communicate with each other." Indelicate details aside, the work spawned a pa ionforenvironmen tal cience. She followed up the Jan Plan experience with a semester of field tudy in Augu ta, where she catalogued endangered plant pe cie , then went on to tudy en vironmental science at Duke, receiving a master's in 1 986. In 1990 he joined the Peace Corp to work in an ecological preserve sup ported by the Nature Conservancy in the mountains of Ecuador. It was here that Rome became enmeshed in a classic truggle to balance hu man need with the pre ervarion of a fragile ecosystem. The reserve at Mt. Antisana incorporates about 300,000 acres of cloud forest and subtropical forest. I t is home to the spectacled bear, the only bear pecie in South America, and the Andean condor, both of which are endangered. The bears are hunted because they create a nui ance for corn farmers who have no other mean of income. Rome' goal i to provide ways for native people to protect Ecuador's natural resources and still make a living. Rome wants to encourage "ecotourism" to provide local in come. She hope to make Ecuadorians proud of the fact that they have the only bear species in South America and want to promote the bear as a touri t attraction without encroaching on the bear ' habitat and/or exploiting the local population. Drawing upon her work in Ecuador and inspired by her own experience in Colby's Jan Plan, Rome created an educational consulting busine s, which last January resulted in her second Jan Plan excursion, this time as an organizer. Rome designed the course, planned logistical detail and managed the project. The students stayed together at a camp at 1 3 ,000 feet on Mt. Antisana for the first three weeks of their experience, then eparated to conduct their various projects. Two tudents conducted research in an Ecuadorian community on the spectacled bear and on the

oropendula (a bird that local farmers call a pest), while other worked on a reforestation project inside the reserve. Rome say tudents on the trip were rewarded not only with the knowledge they gained but also with a feeling of accomplishment. "They really enjoyed feeling they were doing something concrete," she said. Several students told her they planned to return to Ecuador to continue their work. Rome believes students' embraced preservation efforts because they got their hand dirty, liter ally and figuratively, with the work involved. She call plant ing and nurturing trees in the re erve "a real joy." "You realize how much maintenance is needed [to protect the trees from human and animal traffic]," she said. Rome is organizing another J an Plan trip thi year. It will include a week of background study at Colby before departing for three week tO Ecuador. Rome admits she wishes she had more time tO immerse student in en vironmental projects. "l would like to ee the Jan Plan lengthened into a full e me ter cour e and work experi ence," she said. "January is too short. If you're trying tO experi ence a country, the more time the better." evertheless, the value ofJan Plan and field work cannot be overstated, Rome say . "I t al low tudent to get out there in the real world and ee how people live, see the way people work, ee how work gets done." Rome now works full time as an independent con ultant teaching cour es in Latin America and the United States and leading field trip to ecological research ite in Central and South America. In late June she traveled to Belize and tO Costa Rica tO participate in a field study. When he returns she will resume working out ofher Washing ton, D.C. , office organizing con ervation "exchange " between North and South American countries. Although the work is hard and the obstacles many, Rome is optimistic about efforts to pre erve ecosystems around the world. "I ee some mall successes in raising the consciou ne of people [about environmental i ue ]," Rome aid. Ecotourism, he says, offers a way to involve people who might not otherwi e participate in preservation measures. Person traveling to countries that pro mote ecotourism enjoy an educational experience "learning about nature and human hi rory" while increa ing their awarene about environmental issues in other countries and in their own backyard. "The is ue i preserving ecosy tern everywhere," she said.

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ur 1 5th reunion was a record breaker: the Clas of '79 finally enjoyed three days of gloriou Maine unshine in ucce ion, which allowed us all to leave w ith warm faces as well as warm feelings. We also broke the record for reunion giving for a 1 5 year cla s. Standing in for our very successful clas agent, John Lyman, were Betsy Bucklin Gray (outgoing president and new class agent) and reunion committee members Maria Macedo Dailey and Emily Grout Sprague, who presented President Cotter with a $65, 4 79 check. A large thank-you to John for all his hard work and to everyone who was part of this wonderful gift to Colby. I t was impo sible t o get a n exact count of all who attended becau e there was a lot of coming and going but those on campus at some point during the weekend included ( in no part icular order ) : Debra Wallace Peter and Betsy Bucklin Burbine (our class's standard bearer in the Parade of Cla es ) , Bill Leete, Stacey Cox Slowinski , Katie Cofsky, Russ Brewer, Gordon and Kathy Wall Hunziker, Kirk Paul, David Laliberty, Donna Drury Bleakney, Megan Thorn, Libby Maynard Gordon, Jack McBride '80, Nick and Kim Rossi Nichols, Ellen Grant, Meg Matheson, Ingrid Gjesteby Janes, Leslie Nichols Rosenblatt, J ulie Sydow Palmason, Andrea James Spangenthal, Blair Washburn Tracy, Bev Schnorr Larmie, Corinna Boldi Tamburini, Sara Frolio O'Leary, Sid Karl Mohel, John Lyman, Pat Collins, Beth Bailey Hodgdon, Hillary Jones, Laurie Borden Ahern, John Smedley, Lindy Williams, Jane (Sullivan '80) and Dwight Allison, Daisy Dore and Bill Muller. The above were accompanied by congenial and smiling spouses, children and friends. We may even have broken attendance record for 1 5year reunion cla se ; but record breaking or not, those who did attend were a happily enthusiastic group. The Clas of '79 clo ed the dance floor Saturday night. It is nice to know that ome thing do not change ( unlike hairline , wai t lines and other such mea sure of the pa sing years) . Our newly elected class officer were introduced a t our Saturday evening d inner: President Steve Earle, Vice President Jan Morris Whelan, Alumni Council Representative Janet Deering Bruen and Class Agent Betsy Bucklin Gray. Bob Kinney, our new ecretary-treasurer and class correspondent, couldn't make it but d id a k Mark McAuliffe to take notes. Also m i sing was Jane Venman Ledebuhr, designer of the excellent

class T-shirts and favors (and the "evil" mastermind of the diabolical but t horough l y enjoyable c lues chase ) . Thanks so much, Jane. We mis ed you ! ( A few of the shirt are available at $8. 50 per shirt, as well as a dozen tote bags at $ 1 0. Please end a check payable to Colby College to the A lumni Office, Colby College, Waterville ME 0490 1 . ) Many thanks to all of you who returned the que tionnaires; they pro vided an interesting picture of our diversity and lives ince Colby. A few major themes emerged, and some amusing statistics. For example, the most disliked song in the pa t 1 5 years seems to be "The Barney Song" (sung at full volume for the uniniti ated at the cla s dinner) , and the popular name for daughter eems to be Maggie or Margaret. We have clas mate all over the world in in teresting careers and situations ( al Gray ' 79 though it eems that many of us con ider our most important career to be parenting in thi often confusing and difficult world ) . A brief sampling: Catherine Courtenaye opened a show of her paintings at the Andrew Shire Gallery in Los Angeles on J u ne 1 0. Jan Raiha i practicing veterinary medicine in his homeland of Finland. Sue Fraser-Sullivan is parenting her two on and running a quilt and textile bu iness from her home in Lee, Mass., while battling breast cancer. Our thoughts and prayer are with you, Sue; plea e let us know how you are doing. An anonymou classmate who listed his occupation as ag/hydrology in Casper, Wyo., acknowledged sharing his life with 200+ bovine crea tures. Cal Cooper teaches fourth grade in Frankfort, Maine, and own the oldest veh icle, a 1 940 Ford tractor. Amy Davidoff has spent much of her time since Colby accumulating letter to put after her name but has finally settled on a career as research cienti t and assi tant professor of medicine at Wayne State Medical School in Detroit, M ich. Geoff Emanuel is in real estate investment in Manchester, Conn. Jennifer Morrison Eastabrook owns The Briar Patch, a children's book store in Bangor, Maine. I could go on, but I promi ed my successor to make the tart of his new job easier by turning over my notebook to erve as a database for his first couple of column ! It ha been a lot of fun hearing from all of you. I will truly miss my official job a class correspondent, but I will try to keep in touch in an unofficial way. Thanks for all the help and letters. Farewell until the 20th. -Emily Grout Sprague

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Hello, classmates! Bill Silverman has heard that Heather Finney is omewhere in Pitt burgh, and he wonders if anyone has any detail . ( Bill, my source tell me that you should try the c i ty of P i t t burgh telephone d i rectory under Eng . ) Bill and his wife, M argarida, celebrated the fir t b i r t h d a y of t h e i r d a u g h t e r , J oanna, in May ofthi year. eed le s to say, the advent of a child ha haken up the hou ehold a bit. Both of the e lder ilvermans are on the facu l ty of the med ical school at Pitt, where Bill spec ial izes i n gasteroenterology and M argarida does bone marrow tran plants. Despite impre ive professional credential , Bill has tens to as ure us that he "ha n't really changed much s ince Col by-just put a respectable veneer on what you remember. Life is fun and an adventure. I still miss the Outing Club and sleeping on top of the water tower. We still do that k ind of thing." Bill wonders if anyone has heard from Mitch Brown ( last mentioned in this column in 1 993 ) , Bob McAuliffe or Dave Galvin ' 7 5 . I have a print out from the College l isting the addresses of all our c lass member and i n exchange for a newsy note from you will be glad to honor specific requests. ( If anyone does not want his addres shared, plea e notify the College . ) . . . Mike Boyson has seen lots of '76ers. To bring you all up to date, M ike began the 19 Os in the Peace Corps, d id a tint with the U . N . Development Program in West Africa, returned to M aine in 1 983 and is currently a VP with Smith Barney Shearson in Portland. M ike i married to N ancy Grant, the twin si ter of E l len Grant '79 ( Kevin Carley's wi.fe ) , and the Boysons have a son, Oscar, 9, and a daughter Elise, 7. They live about two miles from the Carley . Also in the neighborhood are Harry Nelson, Ned Smith, Scott Pickett, Ted K irkpatrick ' 7 7 , Chris Foster and Lindsay Huntington Han cock. M ike reported gleefu l l y that he a n d Kevin thrashed Scott McDermott and Rob Anderson

in their 1 99 3 annual Ma achu -etts vs. Maine golf tournament. Massachu ett ha yet to win thi particular event. The Boy ons, who keep busy sk iing, hiking, bik ing and watch ing their kids grow up, saw Carrie Getty la t fa ll while he was in Portland j udging a beer - m ak i ng c o m pe t i t i o n . M ike wrote that h e thinks often and fondly of h is Colby times and wants to be remembered to all. Thanks for a great letter, M ike . . . . Arthur Levering i a composer who tud ied at Yale and Boston Un iver i ty after leav ing Colby. He studied composi t io n w i t h the 19 4 P u l i t:er Prize-winner, Bernard Rand , and ha been a fellow at the Aspen M usic Fe ti val, the June in Buf falo Festival, the orfolk Cham ber M usic Fest ival, the Bowdoin u m m e r Mu ic Fest i v a l and Yaddo. H e recen t ly rec e ived awards from the National En dowment for the Arts ( a 1 994 composer fellowship) and from Compo ers, Inc., of San Fran c isco ( the 1 99 2 Lee Ettelson Compo er's Award ) . Arthur's works have been performed in Britain, France and I taly as well as i n the U n i ted S ta tes. We should watch for Arthur's name in the program the next time we attend a concert . . . . G iven that I'm out of room, Peter Shaw' letter will have to wait for the next is ue. If you have been read ing the column all the e year and haven't taken a minute to write, please do o. We all really e n j o y c a tc h i n g up w i t h old + friend .

hake pearean Festi\'al. I would l ike to pa along Jenny'· compli ment to the Colby facu lty: "Each profe · ·or's indiv idual teaching style suited the course and made it much different from the other-. l got exc i red when something came up in one [class] that was con nected to a question I was work ing on, or making d iscoveries about, in another." ( If l can read between the lines, Jenny harks back, a l ittle ruefully, to her feel ings ofanonymity in our cla s. But I remember her as not just a face in a place. ) Jennifer send her love to Awetu S imesso. Please write and say you're "all right," Awetu. . . . I had a very friendly update from Laurel Van Stone-Lewis,

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whom I la t heard from in Decem ber 1 99 2 . Laurel and her hu·band, Rick, ha\'e mm·ed to M i l ford, Ma-s., putting off their dream of mm·ing to Maine-until maybe our 40th 1 Laurel continues to be a technical writer. he also wrote of her recent e\'entful trip to Dalla , T exa , o ·ren ibly to \·i,it her in law . Bur the "Ca r r i e gra:ing lands-Grand Canyon-Monu ment al ley- edona, Ari:. ( the centerof'Ne\\' Age' culture ) " rhat he also \\Tires of ound · like a wonderfu l e xperience . . . . To close, I recommend highly a ubcription to the Colby Quarrerl)' and the latest i ue devoted to the poet eamus Heaney . . . . Plea e write o there's more ro come. +

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North Reading, Mass., with their eight-month-old daugh ter and pur uing volleyball a an avocat ion. J ackie had been a payroll manager at Staples in Framingham and is exploring go ing back to work part t ime . . . Scott Butterfield, a resident of Blue Bell, Pa. , is a re taurant man ager for McDonald's. When he was in England he met up with Andy Goode, who is a dancer with the London Ballet . . . . At the end of last year, Eden Reicher Anker wrote that she and her husband had just completed more than six months of renovations on their 90-year-old house in Washington, D.C.-and that the wait wa worth i t ! Eden is back to work part time at the Department of Labor writing documents for procuring all kinds of hardware and software. Attention: Kim Hallock, Jon Crocker and Bill Linnell. Eden would l ike to know what you've been up to, o write to one of us! . . . For the past seven years, Michael Fanger has been vice president of Medallion Fund ing Corp. He's been enjoying the commute i n to Manhattan by train since buying a house in Westport, Conn. M ichael and his wife were expecting the ir econd child earlier this year. He'd like to hear from Steve Martin and Sue Miller. . . . Jay Moody continues to chase his four-year-old twins when he' not working as a geolo gist outside Portland, Maine. He reports that Warren Pratt

got married in J ack on Hole, Wyo., in September 1 99 3 . . . . Dur ing the past year or o, John Mon roe has traveled toeverycontinent except Antarctica. On active duty in the Navy, he is an ophthal mologist at Camp Pend leton, Calif., and getting more involved in hospital information systems consu lt ing. On Christma Eve 1 992 he was deployed with the Marine Corps to Somalia and spent two long months in the gun fire and treet violence in Mo gadishu . . . . After spending 14 1/2 months in A v ignon, France, site of her husband's fieldwork, LydiaMason i running a dorm at Miss Porter's School (her alma mater) in Farmington, Conn. "I t's somewhat of a biosphere setting: meals, housing, utilit ies, postal service all included so we didn't leave campus much all winter," he aid. Just what we all needed to survive this past New England winter! Lydia's son, Emmett, 4, is expecting a ibl ing this sum mer. . . . Geoff Becker, a reader of this column and not a partici pant until just recently, sent me a very nice note of appreciation. Thank you! Geoff's been a vi it ing fellow in creative writing at Emory University for the pa t two years and wa n't sure where he would be in the fall-" typical writer's life," he said. It was great to hear from you, Geoff, and I hope others who haven't had a chance to drop me a l ine will fol low in your footsteps . . Where are you R.P. H iggin ' 7 7 , Pat Collins '79, Al Danz '8 1 and Andrea Jame -Spangenthal ' 7 9 ? . . . Rick Redlon Jr., who started with our class but graduated from Vassar College, d ied last year in Bath, Maine. He most recently worked at New England Anti ques in Portland, and he lectured frequently on h istoric preser vation and developed a number of exhibits for the Portland Mu + seum of Art.

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Tony '80 and Mickey Mullen Cunningham

had a second daughter, Madeleine Louise, last August. W i t h two young d a ughters, Mickey writes that she now knows the real meaning of exhaustion. M ickey's book on the German American sculptor Heinz War neke will be published by the University of Delaware Pres in 1 994. Tony is a professor at St. John's Univer ity in Minnesota, and they live in nearby St. Joseph, Minn . . . . Leslie Kaplan is l iv ing in Boston and is managing direc tor of the IQ) Cipolla Group, an a d v e r t i ing company. Les l ie writes that he renovated a Bo ton brownstone in 1 993 and in 1 994 will be getting married to J erry Knopf. . . . Tory S n eff Schulte i living in Sterling, Va. She is directorofbusine ervices at Open Networks Global er vices, a telecommunication com pany. She and husband David have two daughters, Courtney and Delaney. Tory says she got out of the re taurant business af ter five years and went to work for one of her cl ients. I t is an upstart telecommun ication company specializing in international long d istance sales. She hopes to travel to the U.K., where they have an office. Tory adds that she went to Lisa Denham's wedding in New York last September. Toni Ciota C h a n d l e r and S u san Wolff Weiser also were there . . . . David Rocks i l iving in Prague in the Czech Republic, where he i a j o u r n a l i t w r i t i ng for t h e Chicago Tribune , Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle among other new papers. He and Jacqueline Lucas were married on a c l iff in outhem Portugal in 1 992 , with Andy Frenkiel in at tendance. They have been travel-

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Runner magazine in J u ly. Coffin's recent Maine road racing triumph include the 6 5 th Annual Portland Boys and G irls Club Patriot's Day 5 -mi ler and the Veryfine/Sugarloaf 1 5k . . . . Rachel Graham '87 was admitted to the North Carolina Bar Assoc iation. She currently work in Washington, D.C. , a a legi lative aide.

Susan MacKenzie '80 ha been awarded a research fellowship by the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard to research and write a book on international effort to implement ecosy tern manage ment . . . . Trudi A. Chase '8 1 , a taff member at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewi ton, ha been certi fied i n hematology and med ical oncology by the American Board of I nternal Medicine . . . . Christopher Susan McKenzie '80 E. Landry '82 has been named de velopment officer at H istoric Deerfield, I nc. , where he will coordi nate annual fund raising and a $ 1 2 m i l l ion capital campaign . . . . The Central Maine Morning Sentinel named Michael P. McGee '82 Boys' Basketball Coach of the Year after h is Lawrence Bulldogs won the state championship with a 20- 2 record . . . . Todd Coffin '83 , former All-American steeplecha er, was profiled in New England

ing throughout Eastern Europe. . . . Katie Critchlow Luther is liv ing in Mandan, N . D. , and is an environmental geologist. She and her husband, Mark, also a geolo gist, have two children, Megan and Jed, one dog, two cats, four guinea pigs and about 25 chickens on a 40-acre farm. Last winter Katie visited Boston to present a paper and had dinner with Janet Blau Cobb, Ellen Owens Dion, Nancy Welsh Isbell and me. . . . John Andrews is living in Salt Lake City, where he is an assistant attorney general for the state of U tah. He is responsible for the legal work for Utah's 3 mill ion acre of state lands, which also includes environmental and for e try law. He and wife Kathryn have a daughter, Emily, born in 1 993. John wa the best man at Ken Sharples's wedding in Snow bird, Utah, in 1 993. Other c las mates in attendance were Wayne and Jan Johnson Gombotz and Kathy Dornish . . . . Steve and Debbie Paul Healey had a daugh ter, Caitlin Ro e, who was born last J u ly . They are l i v ing in Holli ton, Mass. Debbie is a se nior financial analyst and Steve works in technical upport for ybase, Inc . . . . Margaret Libby is l iving in Oakland, Maine, and i the a sistant lide librarian at Colby. She and hu band Harlan Bailey have a daughter, Emma L i b b y B a i l e y , born i n 1 99 2 . Margaret's olo how o f drawings

MILEPOSTS Births: A daughter, Elisabeth Iolanda, to J ohn and Jackie Low Chee '80 . . . . A daughter, Allison Marie, to Lynn and Randy Mitchell '86. Marriages : David G. Perry '80 to J u lia Bohlen in Washington, O.C. . . . Mary Beth Boland '85 to Thoma J. Haut in Andover, Mass . . . . Deborah A . England '85 to Charles J. Gray in Boston, Mass . . . . Sarah S. Wood '85 to David R. Langdon in Manchesterby-the-Sea, Mass . . . . Marianne Palmer '87 to Robert 0. Ferrarini in North Scituate, Mass . . . . Amy Rosen '87 to Matthew Moran '87 in Rhinebeck, N .Y . . . . Cindy Ann Cohen '89 to David C. Fernandez in Raymond, Maine . . . . Cherie Ann Poulin '89 to M ichael L Szustak in Auburn, Maine. Deaths : Valerie Anne Spierling in New York, N .Y . , at 26

and paintings at the Colby Mu seu m ofArt, "Regarding the Self," was about reclaiming the female figure as active and unidealized. Margaret writes that she was the m atron of honor a t D e A n n Lewis's wedding t o Henry Coll last September. Also in atten dance were Tom Stall '82, Dave Condon '82 and Mary Jane Bate '82. DeAnn was recently pro moted to vice pre ident at Key Bank of Maine and finished her master's degree in public policy and management at the Muskie In titute at the Un iversity of Maine . . . . Heidi Proctor Baxter and her hu band, John, are the proud parents of N icholas John, born last November. Heidi i liv ing in Wellesley, Mass., and is a v ice president of product market ing for Fide l i ty I nvestment . Heidi ays that she keeps in touch w ith several cla smates, includ ing Karen Orloff, Laura Lit tlefield Bourne, Diane Young, Susan Wolff Weiser and Toni Ciota Chandler, who ha moved back to the Bo ton area. +

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Mark Heroux is a chief counsel attorney for the I RS. He and h is wife, Marc ia, have two chil dren: Benjamin, born 6/30/90, and Carol ine, born 9/2 1 /92 in

Guam while he was there a the tax counsel to the director of the Department of Revenue and Taxation for the government of Guam. Mark wonders what h is former classmates are up to now, and where people are liv ing. He ran into Peter Thomas in the Denver airport upon Mark's re turn from two years in Guam and Asia . . . . Becca Badger Fisher does not recommend living ex tremely close to the epicenter of an earthquake! Along with her report that they had minimal damage in the quake, Becca sent news of the birth of Kyle Christo pher on 1 2/2 1/93. Becca and fam ily l ive in Granada H i lls, Calif., and would love to hear from any cla mates or Colby people in the L.A. area. . . . Linda Zee is cur rently living in Carlisle, Pa., and teaching at Dickinson College. She completed her Ph.D. at Indi ana U . in J uly 1 993 in Latin American literature ( pecifically women writers, literature of the fanta tic and indigenous litera ture ) . . . Matt Figel sends in an update that he and h is wife, Linda, had their econd daughter, Erin Dora, March 1 6, 1 994, and that life is great. . . . Sarah Lickdyke Morissette sent in a lot of news. While visiting Lavinia Stefani in Paris, Sarah became engaged to Garry Morissette. Her December 1 1 , 1 993, wedding wa- well at tended by classmates. Kim Smith McCartney was maid of honor,

and other gue ts included Doug McCartney, Diane Conley LaVangie, Wende Davis ( who c a me from San D i ego ) , J ed S a n toro and Helen Dooley J ursek. Sarah reports that Helen and her husband, Ted, had big news-Laura Ruth J ursek made her debut November 1 1 . Kim and Doug McCartney also were ex pecting this summer. Sarah and her hu band, Garry, are l iving in Andover, Mas . , with hi ·on , Gregory, 8, N icholas, 6, and Lulu, their Maine coon cat. I n the past few years Sarah has taken up scuba d iving and has been doing a lot of ski ing, hiking and traveling. She is currently a retirement product manager with Fide l i ty I nvest ments and loves her job. Garry, a former N aval aviator and now a commander in the N aval Re serves, is a marketing manager for a systemsconsulting company. arah is looking forward to being in touch with Jeff Brown, who recently returned with his family to the U . . from South Africa.+

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W itho � t your infor mation, I cannot report a thing. If you don't end me a letter, why not give me a ring? You know my name and addre s, it's clearly noted here.

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Were each one of you to send an update, you'd all hear me cheer! The dead l ines are quite frequent, I' ll offer them again: They're May 1, August 1 , Octo ber 1, December I and Febru ary I , and then I del ight in sharing your letters with all of our class. But if this column is empty, I might feel l i ke an a-. So, get your news right to me. I 've done a lot in the way Of trying to make you feel gui lty for not sending some my way. Without your personal highlights to liven up this column, You will all be somewhat di ap pointed, and l will be solemn. Ha ten to your PC, to your blot ter and your pad. Do send your letters often, make • ir a new fad 1 Correspondent: Amy E. Carlson

Greetings! As th is is my final column, I 'd like to take a moment to thank each of you and let you know how much l have enjoyed keeping in touch with you all for the past five years. Maura Cassidy will be our next c lass secretary, and I 'm sure she will enjoy the posit ion as much as I have . . Sharon Stella Q uigley wrote from Lockport, I l l . , where she and her husband, Daniel, are raising their two children, Ryan and Sarah. The ir third child was due on J une 7 . Since graduating from Colby, Sharon received her master' in public policy. She is currently working as a ful l-time mom and in her pare time is involved with a local economic development group. . . S o n i a Kaloosd ian Hale is the owner of a graphics design studio ( the Sonia Hale tud io) in Brook l ine, Mass. She and her husband, Brian, have enjoyed traveling to Greece, Ire land and England as well as throughout the United States. . . . Thomas Gratzer al o l ives in the Bo ton area. Tom graduated from law school in 1 990 and cur ren tly works as a personal injury lawyer in Massachu etts, Maine and Washington, D.C. . . . Jes sica Gwynne Schum wrote that she and her husband, Shawn, are l iving in Cincinnat i, Ohio, and

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Class of 1 984 The Class of '84 reunion welcomed back to Mayflower Hill many classmate and their families. Several of us arrived Friday night and checked out ome of the old haunt "down town" l ike Silver treet and You Know Who e. Later that night the class gathered at the old DU Hou e for a party . . . includ ing Deb and Dana Hanley, George and Sarah Chapin Reardon, Beth and Bob Brooks, Trish ( Martin '86) and Harry Raphael, Todd Halloran, Parris Pelletier, Cindy Mulliken Lazzara, Mary Kate Whalen, Lauren Mogenson, Kitty Wilbur, Tracy Weiner, Diane Perlowski, Kam McClennan, Debbie and J ohn Ayer and Lisa and Bill Sheehan. Some of the class stayed there ( including many former residents) while the rest of the class tayed at Johnson. Saturday morning brought incredible weather. A few folks, including Marlene Schmidt, Sara Hill, Charlie Boddy and Pete Saccocia, went down to Bonnie' for breakfast. At 1 1 a.m., the c lass-led by Mary White Garrity, Karen Melino, J i m Cruick hank '85, Derek Tarson, Kim Fitch, Bernie and Kaiya Vi ttands Hefele, J e ff N o t t o n s o n , Tammy J o n e s Howe, Sarah Woodhouse, Denise Brunelle Priess, Sarah Ludwig White and her husband, Kathy Soderberg Downing and Carolyn Sterge Gluek-partic i pated in the Parade of Cla ses down to the foot ball field, and we pre ented a check to President Corter for over $ 1 2 ,000-a record for our class! A barbecue followed. I n an exciting volleyball game that afternoon, some of the star players were Carolyn Sterge Gluek, Bernie Hefele, Nils Gjesteby, Kathv Shaw, Lori Sturgeon Davi , Joy Valvano, Craig Alie, J ulie and Todd Halloran, Derek Tarson, Tri h Martin Raphael '86, Karen Melino, J im Cruick hank, and John and Sarah White '84 with son Timmy . Kit Williams. We were joined by our Colby student host, Wilfredo Rodriguez '96. Saturday n ight, a good turnout for our class dinner included Hall Adams, Caren and Paul Baker, Kevin and Daire Fontaine Starr, Dave Ballou, Tim McCrystal, Jeff Rosenberg, Jeanne and Tim Crowley, Mike Day, Tom Gratzer, Eric Van Gestel, Sally Lee, Fran and John Karoff '85, Dave Scales and L i a and Blll Sheehan. Joyce McPhetres wa our speaker. She inspired and challenged u with memorie· of the year at Colby and what had happened wh ile we were there first peer counseling program, fir t coed fraternity, the fraternities abolished-and a ked u to tell ome of our stories to the group. I talked about the day the Mary Low dorm taff invaded (and conquered) Todd Halloran and the Coburn staff. Tammy Jones Howe remin isced about mud volleyball fun. Lorie told a great rugby tory contra ting the Colby style of gearing up for a game with our competitor' tyle, and Ro ey regaled us with a story about a quick trip from Colby in a borrowed car for ice cream-in Danvers, Ma . And then Joyce talked about the many change in the world since we had left, l ike eeing the end of apartheid in South Africa and the end of the Cold War. She talked about how we had all changed . . . and some of us thought now that the idea of a great Saturday night was going to bed at 9:30 p.m.! And-since many of u had gotten a first pair of glasses recently-a we look to the future, Joyce challenged us to follow our dreams. The new class officers were announced: Valerie Miller, president; K i t William , vice president; Maura Cassidy, ecretary/treasurer; Charlie Boddy, A lumni Council representative; Tracy Stoir Ramsey, head class agent. After dinner, there wa a dance i n the commons area. Most of the class went over there and hung out and talked, and some danced. Sunday morning, as we rounded up to depart, the class was served Bonnie's coffeecake at DU. We thank Lynn Magovern '90, Wilfredo Rodriguez, Kim Krueger and the Colby staff for helping make our reunion such a success. And a special thank to Mary White Garrity and the class officers, who did such a great j ob coordinating everything. It was great to ee everyone!

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that both are working for Procter and Gamble. After Colby, J essica received her M . B. A . from the Darden School at the University of V i rginia. Jessica and Shawn recently spent two weeks cycling throughout the south of France. . . . Serge '8 1 and Raphaelle Camille Sondak are the parents oftwo children, Victoria Helena, 6 , and A l e xander Marcus, 3 . When asked what she wished she had more t i m e t o d o n o w , Raphaelle commented, "Go back to Colby for a semester! " . . . J ohn Gagne wrote that he graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery at the University of Maryland in 1 990. He and his wife, usan, l ive in Watertown, Conn., w i th their pets Ginger, Maggie, J u n ior and G iG i . . . . Dierdre Gallagher McDonald live i n Wayzata, M inn. , with her husband, Wes, and son Scou, 2. Dierdre says she never expected to leave the East Coast and live in Minneapolis, but he loves it. After Colby, Dierdre received her M .B.A. from Wharton and is cur rently a marketing manager for General M il ls. In her spare time she tutors Native American chil dren in a "second start" early el emen tary p rogram . . . . Debra (Tierney '83 ) and Dana Hanley l ive in Paris, Maine, where Dana i a state senator, attorney and bu ine owner. Debra is an envi ronmental sc ient ist c urrent l y p u r u ing her M . B. A . . . . J eff Nottonson and Mary J ane J ack man live i n Boston, where he works as a real estate trust officer for Fleet I nvestment Services. Since Colby, Jeff has continued to take classe in mu ic composi tion and performance at Berklee College of M usic . . . . Catherine Bischoff Lawrence wrote that she and her husband, Scott, who have been married for three years, are liv ing in New York C ity. Catherine i v ice president at National Westminster Bancorp currently working in corporate product sales, and Scott work for Sony M usic Entertainment. They traveled to Australia for three week last fall. . . . James Schwei zer wrote from Okayama, Japan, where he is the general manager for the lkayama I nstitute of lan guage . He and his wife, Yumi Kawahara, have a on, icolas Kenj i, 2, and a dog, Ripley. J im

admi ts he doe n't run into many Colby grads in Japan but wi hes he d id . . . . That's all for now. Once again, it's been a real plea sure keeping up with you all. +

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Would you believe that our 1 0th reunion is le s than a yearawayl We are looking for volunteer to serve on the reunion committee along with Kate Lucier O'Neil and Pam Alexander from Colby. Kelli Crump, our class president, would welcome your phone call if you have any questions or would like to volunteer. Please call Kelli at ( 6 1 7 ) 444-0796 and give her a hand . . . . Roy Hirshland and his wife, Chris, are I iving in Concord, Mass. Roy is working for Spaulding & Slye, a commercial real estate firm based in Boston, and was promoted to vice president this past winter. Roy writes, "l still have all my hair, although still fighting the old expanding waist line." . . . Lou and Susan James Geremia had their first child, Elizabeth Jane, on December 1 7 , 1 993 . They are both involved with the Philadelphia Colby Alumni Club along with Elliot Kolodny, Stacey Kessel and Laurie Herlihy

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Murphy . . . . J ulie Briggs wa married to Brent Bursey on J une 25 in York, Maine. He i a geo graphical information spec ialist for American Management Sys tems in Arlington, Va . J u l ie's m a tron of honor was K r i s t i Hazlitt, who w a married o n April 30 to Fred Wickham in upstate New York with Julie as her maid of honor. . . . J ohn E. Anderson Jr. i a vice pre-ident at Ander on Motors, Inc . , a new truck dealer in Rhode Island. He has three c h i ld ren, John I l l , Mary and H i l l ary ( 6 , 4 and 2 respec t ively ) . . . . Chris Feiss had a baby! Anna Leigh Feis was born on Sept. 28, 1 993. Chris i an analyst at Alex, Brown & Sons in Baltimore, Md . . . . Cynthia Jeck Davis's son, Blaine Robert Davis, was born on J uly 1 5 , 1 993. Cynthia is a re earch scientist living in New York, N . Y . . . . Paul Hause is the owner ofCaroline St. Books in Key West, Fla., and ha not seen now in five years . . . . Lynn Brunelle is living in New York and working as a senior editor at Workman Press. Her first book as an editor has been published ( In

at Mark M i l l iken Gallery and American Craft Museum. he is also a writer for Mera/smith maga zine. Lynn and Mark Howard are l i v i ng h a pp i l y i n B rook l y n . . Cathy Fasolino i� getting her master's degree in nutrit ion at Boston Un ivers i ty . . . . Lau rie Christos Gerard wa married in J an uary 1 99 3 to Christopher Gerard. She i the <lirector of de velopment of a boy's school and lives in Manhattan' Uprer West ide. Laurie regularly ees Cathy U rstadt B iddle and W e n d y Howard Epstein . . . . M J Georges is attending We tern Maryland for a library media peciali t de gree. She is living in a new home in Gaithersburg, Md . . . . Sean "Hoops" Hooper i alive and enjoying life in upstate New York. He is a district managerfor McNeil Con umer Products Company. I have a part-time po ition with Key Education, I nc . , administer ina the KEV AS vocational as sessment system. Enjoy the rest of + the ummer!

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chemi try for kids ) , and he is working on a second book called Scientific Goofs, to come out in the fall. Lynn is till working as a metalsmith and showing jewelry

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velopment manager. Any class mates passing through the area are encouraged to look him up. I'm sure I speak for John when I recommend that you leave your spraypaint at home before trav el ing to see him. (Thanks to John's parent for keep ing us informed 1 ) • • • Beth McSorley is curren tly working in property management around Cape Cod. he purchased her fir t home there last summer and enjoys sai l ing the waters of the cape during the warm months . . . . Den i s Foley and his wife, Katy, live i n Sharon, Mass . , where Deni is a fi l m buyer for Hoyts Cinema

Corp. Denis spent last summer in cla ses at Suffolk Uni versity, where he is pursuing an M . B. A . . . . Lars and Barb Falcone Smith were last seen negotiating for their first home in Londonderry, N . H . Lars, a n assoc iate at heehan, Phinney, Ba & Green, works in corporate law, and Barb is a fourth-year therap ist at New England Rehabil itation Hospi tal. When not working, golfing or biking, the Smi ths try to keep up with Chris and Cind y Lloyd Brogan, Brian and Laurie Clark Cornwall and Cindy Fal lon . . . . Sara and Charlie McCabe love the ir northern California

home in San Jose. Chari ie, a tech nical support engineer for Apple Computers, is also an active com munity volunteer-planting trees and maintain ing the c ity's pub lic gardens. The McCabes see Kevin Farley in nearby Sunny vale regularly . . . . Karen and Ned Stinson had lots to brag about last December, with the birth of their second child and the fea ture of 2-year-old Mary Anna on the inside cover of the Lord & Taylor Christmas catalogue . . David Epstein describes his oc cupation as "Jack f all Trades." He teaches grade school science and swimm ing, anchors the

Channel S TV ( Boston area) weather, attends grad school at Boston College and also serves as an R.A. at BC. ( Yes, he is admit tedly crazy ! ) . . . Nancy Gold berg writes from her home in South Portland, where she is a fu ll-t ime English instructor at Southern Maine Technical Col lege and a part- t ime tutor at Southern Maine Learning and Counseling Center. . . . Lindsay ( Carrol l ' 8 7 ) and G eoffrey Alexander are settled at home in Marblehead, Mass. Geoff c laims to be a professional student, earn ing money for school as a charter captain for Bay State Cruise Lines.

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ello, everyone! I r was great to see many of you at the reunion, and I'm till trying to catch up on all the reunion re pon e that were sent in. I d id manage to take down a few note at the all-campu party that weekend ( too bad the Lemon heads couldn't make it, although the Red Light Revue was pretty good ) , but some one absconded with my notes for a while ( Manure ! ) , so I'm not quite sure what i fact and what is fiction. Anyway, here goe : Bill Carr, who ha graciou ly ac cepted the responsibilitie of class vice president for another term, graduated from Emory with an M.B.A. with the dis t i nc tion of being both class president and marshal at the graduation ceremonies. Quote of the weekend: "This napkin Scott Turtel • 89 smells l ike the seacoast," he said at the class dinner, "or maybe it's my hands from the lob ter bake." We'll never know. Dana Hollinshead i finishing up a master's in pub l ic policy and public administration with a concentration in women's stud ies at George Washington University in D.C. Last summer she was involved in local government on the Vineyard and plan to move to the Southwest after graduating. Nicole Schamban graduated from BC Law in 1 992 and is practicing law in New Mexico and skiing 30 days a year at Taos. As someone wrote on my note : "Nicole i the cooles t ! " Newlyweds Robert and Hilary Barnes Hoopes made the trip to Waterville from their home outside D.C., where Rob is with Inde pendent In urers ( a lobbyist group, I believe ) . Rob and Hilary were married last October. Nancy Mahon i a corporate trainer at The

Boston Co., while also getting her M.B.A. at BU. Also in Boston is Brenda O'Sullivan, who went through the training program at Arthur Andersen before ettling in the cor porate accounting department of TJX, the parent company for T.J. Maxx and Hit or Miss clothing stores. Here' where my notes get a little fuzzy: Louise Tranchin ("Gail" to her close friends) was reported to have written a book about all the ha hing clubs in Warsaw, Poland; An kara, Turkey; Guadalahara, Mexico; and At lanta, then to have married a grave digger before winning the Louisiana lottery; now she's living the easy life in Maine in the sum mers and wintering in St. Martin. Yes, you heard it here first! And Kirk Koenigsbauer couldn't make the reunion; he was reported to be so depressed over Kurt Cobain's death that he couldn't leave Seattle and the big part he plays in the grunge movement out there. Wendy Dauphinais recently announced her marriage to Krist Nelson on J uly 30. They are build ing a house in Deerfield, N.H. Wendy i working for Bristol-Meyers Squibb pharmaceuticals as a business territory manager and also getting her M. B.A. at night. Maria Douglass couldn't make the reunion either, also with good reason. She's a permanent resident alien of Russia and the first American to live in the city ofTver, a few hours north of Moscow. Maria manages an agribusiness development program, funded by U S DA commodities grants managed by the National Cooperative Bu ines A sociation, and spends half her time in the field with farmers and the other half dealing with bureaucrats. Great reunion, great news. Thanks to all.

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After a four-year absence, Matt McArdle returned from h is writ ing and traveling excursion in Asia and bunked w ith the Alex anders for a week last summer. . . . On a final note, congratulations go out to Peter and Meg Frymoyer S tebbins on the birth of their first child . Baby Emily arrived in early March and is, we hope, al lowing her proud and weary par ents some shut-eye by now ! Best wishes to everyone for contin ued happiness and success. +

Correspondent: Lucy Lennon Tucker

G re e t i ng s , c la s s . I don't have too much to report, but what I do have is exci t ing. I heard from a few classmates who have writ ten to me about how their fam i lies have expanded recently. From Fairbanks, Alaska, Tanya Thom as Pinder wrote that she'd 1 ike to dispel the rumors about Alaska' weather. Tanya explained that although i t i very cold in the w inter, it i beautiful in the um mer and actually reached 1 1 0 degrees at one point last year. She a l o wrote that they do not have six olid months of dark ne s followed by six olid month oflight. (They do, howe er, have about 18 hours of darkness in the winter and 1 8 hours of day l ight in the summer ! ) Tan ya and hus band Reg l ive with their two boy , Reggie, 3, and Reid, 1 , at Fort Wainwright, where Reg is a mili tary policeman i.n the Army. For the time being, Tanya has put her law school aspiration on hold and is teaching paralegal studies course , English literature and grammar for Central Texas Col lege at the post. Tanya asked i f ! knew the whereabouts ofHeather C. Anderson, whom she lost track of after gradu a t ion. U nfortu nately, I don't have a current addre s, so if you're reading this, Heather, drop me a line to let me know where you are and what you're up to. . . . Philip Parry wrote from Merrimac, Mas . , that he married Denise Stevens in October 1 99 2 and that they had their fir. r child, Emily Lynn, Sep tember 1 2 , 1 99 3 . Philip passed

the Massachusetts bar in 1 99 3 a n d is working with the l a w of fice of MacGragor, Hart, Traki mas and Spurling in Haverhill, Mass. . . . Allyson Goodwin and her husband, Mark Short, wel c o med t h e i r son, T. J o rdan Goodwin Short, into the world on February 3, 1 994. A llyson is still very much enjoying her po sition as director of annual giv ing at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N .H . . . . Brad Fay and h is wife, Diane, celebrated the new year with the birth of their first child, Brendan Robert, on January 5 , 1 994. The three Fays are living i n Greenwich, Conn., from which Brad com mutes into midtown Manhattan, where he i a vice president of Roper Starch Worldwide, a pio neering public opinion and mar ket re earch firm. . . . Last bu mot least, I heard from Marianne Campbell Hockenberry in San Francisco, where she and her husband, Tim, proudly announced the arrival of Maxx Campbell Hockenberry, born February 1 9 , 1 994, and weighing a very healthy 9 lbs. 10 oz. To quote Marianne, "He' a real j oy ! " Marianne has been living in northern Califor nia since 1 98 7 , when she came out to as ist Professor Wei brot with the book he was writing, Freedom Bound. She now has her own bu ines , with one full-time assistant, repping commerc ial photographers! he works with all the major adverti ing agen cie , primarily on national ac count ( ike, Pep i , Kikkoman, Apple Computer, Avia, ju t to name a few ! ) . She met Tim in California, and they married m 1 992. Tim i a full-time musician ( inger and keyboard player) and ha a band that plays in the Bay Area . . . . That i all the news I have for now. I 'd l ike to thank all of the above for taking the time to fill us in on all their exc i t ing news, and I 'd also l ike to con gratulate all of you on the births of your children and wish you ucce on that very important next stage of your l ive -parent hood! Hope to hear from more + of you soon!

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Get ready to come back to campus this fall for a fun-filled Homecoming Weekend ! We have a schedule packed with great activities, entertainment and athletics, w i th plenty of t ime to catch up with old friends. Look for the card inside this issue and make your reservations today !

1 994 Homecoming Schedule Friday, Oct 7 , 1 994

9:30, 1 0: 3 0, 11 : 3 0 a.m. & 1:30, 2 :30, 3 : 30 p.m. All day Noon- J O p.m. 4:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

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Campus Tours Classroom open house ( p ick up schedule and room location at registration desk) Homecoming Weekend Regi cration rudent Center Lobby Field Hockey v . Will iams 90th Annual Colby N ight Dinner, honoring the late J immy Hayes '76 as the "C" Club Person oi the Year ponsored by the Colby "C" Club *Stu-A Movie, House of Spirits Powder & Wig presents "American Buffalo" **Limited searing Tom De Luca, hypnotist Alumni Open House, ·pon ored by Ludy '21 and Pacy Le ine ' 2 7 Powder & Wig presents "American Buffalo" **L imited earing

* Payable at the door **For tickers plea e send $3 per person (checks payable to Colby College) to: Valerie Mitchell, Colby Perform ing Art , Waterville, ME 4901. Please indicate dare and how nme.

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Field Hockey 1• . U. Mass Lowell Football 1·. We leyan Men' occer v . Clark Tour of Colby Mu-eum of Art and Jette and Davis Gallerie· with Mu eum Director Hugh Gourle) Tower tours View Waterville Area from atop M i ller Library Departmental Receptions: Histol) , American tudies, Mathematics, Cla 1cs, Economics * tu-A Movie, House of Spirits Powder & Wig presents "American Buffalo" **Limited earing "1 964" The Tribute: Concert/Dance parry

* Payable at the door **For tickets please send 3 per per on (checks payable to Colby College) to: Valerie Mitchell, Colby Performing Arts, Waterville, ME 0490 1 . Please indicate date and how time.

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Correspondent: Laura Senier

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Time for a reality check, folks! Plans are already in the works for our fifth-year reunion! Get out your calendars right now and mark down the date: June 8-9, 1 99 5 ! Ami now the news . . . . Graham Powis writes from New York with the happy new that he will be married in August. He's currently working in Equity Capital Mar kets at Bear Stevens, an invest ment bank in New York, and his fiancee, Diane Romley, is a Ph .D. candidate in clinical psychology. The wedding will take place in New York, and Paul Tolo and Geoff Bysshe will be ushers. Paul is still living in Seattle, and Geoff is working for "a small firm which manages money in New York City," as Graham puts it. . . . Jeff Cox sent me a letter a few months ago to bring me up to date on his life since Colby. After graduation, he joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in Zaire for almost a year until civil unrest caused the Peace Corps to pull out of the country. He returned to Massachusett and worked as a carpenter before land ing a job at Long Island Univer sity, where he's been the assistant director of tudent activities since September 1 99 1 . He's been busy ever since, advising the 400 inter national students and upervising the over 80 c l ubs on campus while attending night classes for h is M.A. in English. Like Graham, Jeff also will be tying the knot in A u g u s t . H i s fi ancee, N ic o l e Girardi, received a master o f fine arts last May from Long Island University. Jeff says he got a letter from Marc Winiecki and Tom Sherry on their cross-country bike tour (a photo was included of the two of them on their motor cycles wearing Santa hats ) . Jeff also heard from Dan Spurgin,

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who's working at the Lawrence Indian Center in Kansas . . . . Bob Scott wrote to me in April just before taking off to Brazil for a classical guitar tour. Bob's work ing on his master's at the Univer sity of Massachusetts-Amherst and released a CD this pring (see profi le, page 7 5 ) . He was very much looking forward to the trip to Brazil, but he was also looking forward to coming home because he, too, has a wedding to plan. . . . Lynn Magovern passed on ome news he had heard, that Scott Schinneier is working in Hungary. That's all he's heard, so if you're reading this, Scott, write in and tell u more1 l also talked with Mohamed-Said Eastman re cently. He has changed hi name to Said Eastman and is working in the marketing department of Bos ton Financial and Equity Corpo ration. The entrepreneurial bug has b i t ten Said, and he has founded his own company, called ERA Trade International, an im port/export distribution firm. Said ran into Andrew Doolittle a while ago. Andrew is living in Watertown and working as a re search assistant at Bo ton Univer sity Medical Center. . . . That's all for now. I moved to Arlington this spring, so I'm orry if any new didn't reach me, but keep those letters and phone calls coming! +

Correspondent: Portia Walker

No guys, J une's edition was not a figment of your imagination. We are back for good. I j ust received a letter from Renee Blanchard, who is glad to be done with her requirements and can now focu on her re earch at the University of l l l inois . . . . I also heard from Amy Havel, who is out in Seattle having a great time working as a volunteer coordinator at the Se-

attle Children's Theatre. She is also keeping up her play writing and says, "Write to me!- 1 4 5 4 E. Harrison St. , #1 0 1 , Seattle, Wash. 98 1 1 2 ." She also told me that Sam Sharnik is now living in B o u l d e r , Colo . . . . C h e r l y n Neely has certainly been busy. She earned her J . D. in tax law in May from NYU and will receive her LL. M . in taxation in Decem ber, also from NYU. Did l men tion that she is married to Steve Gorin '92 and ha a bouncing baby boy named Steven Todd, born J u ne ' 9 3 ? Whew-Go Cherlyn ! . . . l also j ust heard from Stacy Porath, who has been working for Penn well Publishing for three years now. She was re cently promoted from sale asso c iate to regional sales manager of New England and New Jersey. . . . J us t t a l k ed w i th Tracy Mungeam, who is doing very well with UNUM. he wants to move back East sometime oon to be closer to Ron Barberan, who works in New York , al o for UNUM. According to Tracy, UNUM truly appreciates a good Colby education: along with her and Ron, Matt Dumas and Chris Brownsey are both working in their New York offices, and Pam Newsome is wo�king in one of the ir Maine offices. Tracy also mentioned other '9 l ers living out in Chicago-- S helly Mac Connell, J.C. Kiser and Andrea Prochniak. . . Bonnie Van Der Sluys is in med school in Mary land . . . . Christine Kerrigan, who along with Rebecca Streett is working for E.F. Foundation for Foreign Study, is in Massa chusetts . . . . Rabia Mirza is liv ing with her husband in Texas. . . . Rich McCann is teaching in N ew Jersey . . . . Dan Bowman is working for ONY in New Jer sey . . . . Sara Vacco and Brian Carlson, who is in law chool right now, are both living out in Colorado and rumored to be dat·

Crossing Musical Boundaries i: M a particular genre, and some can identify a

usicia s usually can trace the origins of their inspiration to pecific artist who e work influenced their own, but Robert Scott ]r. '90, is even more precise. He remember a l ive concert performance by c las ical guitari t Andres e govia a the defining event of h i musical development. He wa 1 1 year old. "Here wa this tired old pan i h guy playing mu ic like I never heard before. H e completely re defined what guitar was and what music was," cott recalled. Fifteen years and thou ands of practice hours later, Scott ha e tablished h i mself as an accompli hed classical guitar ist. He recently won a Rotary International cultural exchange grant that funded a concert tour of Brazil , where his olo perfor mances won c r i t ic a l pra ise . Scott's j ust-released debu t al bum, Works from Doblinger Haupcsrrasse, features composi t ions by Bach, V i l la- Lobo , Wei s and Dowland and mu ic of 1 9th-century Spain. Scott' career route has been unorthodox, which may account for hi ability to cross mu ical bou.ndarie comfortably. Mo t classical guitari ts are products of conservatories, where rehearsals are crammed into 1 6-hour day and performance take the place of term paper . But Scott developed hi mu ical di ci pline in Colby' Department of M usic, where practice time wa off: et by hour in the l ibrary re earchingmusic history and theory. That academic grounding, he ays, gave him a richer under rand ing of music and enable him to "perform in an appropriate context that makes it more authentic." "I perform better when I know what wa happening in hi tory what the compo er were thinking, writing, feeling, Scott aid, "to make tho e connection berween my elf and the com posers. I wouldn't trade my liberal art education w i th a conser vatory education." While he was a t Colby, Scott say , he was a curiosity, the only clas ical guitari t on campu . He accepted virtually any gig offered, from Board of Tru tee receptions to c las dinners, "anybody that called," he aid, laughing. After graduating with a B.A. in mu ic, Scott won a Thomas J .

Wat o n Fellowship t o tudy and edit the guitar music o f Brirnh compo er Sir Lennox Berkely. When Berkely died uddenly, Scott in tead made a concert tour of Europe, giving 7 0 informal and formal performances in 14 countrie at ome of the finest halls on the continent. "That was the best year of my career o far," cott aid. "I played London, Vienna, Pari . I ' l l never forget performing at the Bosendorfer Concert Hall in Vienna. It' thi wonderful hall where all of my heroe have performed-Beethoven, Schu bert, Mahler. I could feel their gho ts there." La t year, while he com pleted cour e work for a master of education from the Univer sity of Massachusetts at Am her t , Scott began to merge hi musical and intellectual pasion . "I was teaching guitar there, and I was al o a case man ager for their learning disabil i ties office," he aid. " I t j u t seemed natural to combine the two, to offer mu ic lessons for students with d isabilitie ." Through improvisation, ear training and mu ic theory, cott ay he' found way to help learning-di abled tudents de velop abstract thinking k i lls and unlock their memory ca pacity. He hope to u e his finding in doctoral -level re earch on human cognition. "I'll never leave music, though," aid cott, who was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanitie Younger cholar grant for hi transcription of the l ute music of John Dowland. He ha performed with the Leningrad Chamber En emble and was in vited to play at the Bombay Madrigal ociety concert series in India. He ha been featured on radio and television broadcast in the U . . and England and continues to give l ive performance in thi country. "I till practice about twenty-five hours a week. Cla ical guitar is one of the most per onal mediums for musical expre sion," cott said. " I t' a mall ymphony, with i t own ba , its own melody. I t can accompany itself. "I realize I have a long, long way to go before I even begin to get to the in trurnent' potential. But I don't think about i t l ike it' a journey anymore. I t' j u t what I do every day."

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i n March on pring break from Vanderb i l t Law Schoo l , which

have been hearing wedd in g bells for c rtain '9 l ers: Dante Self,

t h e rabbi n i c al program at H e brew Un ion College i n Cinc in

who is the d i rector of sales for the H o l i day Inn in New H a ven, Con n . , i n o w married t o

nat i . Once a month he goes to the Upper Pen i nsula of M i c h i g a n , where h e ac ts as t h e student

she starred last fa! l . She told me that Karen Dunn opted to joi n the s ki patrol at S t ow e rather

D o u g Barto lomeo, a pol ice of ficer in Con n . ; Christine Macone was a b r i d es m a i d , and Peter

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work i n g for Fangoria magaz ine in their art depart ment , and Dave

Douglass are now married.

lndovino at ten d ed . Kim Der rington Knighton was plan n i ng to a t tend Christ i ne Macone's J u ne wedd ing, i f her fir t baby due at the end of the month agreed to i t ! Yes, everyone, baby ! Con gra t u l at ions, K i m 1 Paige Brown and Amey Knight were both

nam ings as we l l as the bar m i tz vah of a congregant. Accord i ng to Anne Bowie, Zach was back at Colby i n April for a BMR re un ion, along with Roger Schul

man, Becky Graham, J en Green leaf, Ben Beatie, J en Coffin and Elizabeth Kowal. Anne a lso i n formed me t h a t Gina Marsico has left Waterv i l le and is now

bride ma ids, Shawn Crowley wa· an usher, and Trish O 'Sullivan

l i v ing and work i ng in Vermont at Eckard Youth Fam i ly A l ter

Hyland and Kim Webber at tended . . . . l a l o heard that Kurt Whited has been teac h i n g En

n a t ives W i l d e rn e·s Camp for Troubled Youths. he plans to be there for a t least a year and so fa r is h a v i n g a w o n d e rfu l t i m e . . . . K i m Kennedy wrote from arasota, Fl a . , where she ha been l iving for a year and a half and loving it. he recen t ly left her pos i t ion as the d irector of soc ial erv ice at a s k i l led nur ing home to beg i n work a a med ical a sis tant in an out-patient physical therapy c l i n i c that pec i a l i zes i n ports a n d orthopedic inju ries. She has plans to return to school i n 1 99 5 to pursue a degree i n

glish i n J apan for the last year and a half and is going on a s i x m o n t h fea r l ess e x ped i t i o n t o Ch i n a , R u s s i a , T i b e t , N ep a l , Vie tn a m a n d I n d i a ( part o f t hi s trip is being funded by N orth Fac e ) . . . . H e y , does everyone remember John Lovett ? He' re turning this spring from Soma l i a a n d Project Hope, is re-entering Colby and w i l l graduate in e i ther '95 or '96. Welcome bac k ! Keep i t coming, Class of '9 1 ! +

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phy ical therapy. She also h as plans to run in the 1 99 5 Disney World Marathon! . . . John Cook wrote from Bo ton , where he re cently landed a pos i t ion in the office of admi si ons and financ i a l

than con ti n ue at BU Law. Aaron Davis is studying at Tulane Law, and Annie Varanese con t i n ues to I ive i n Prague . . . . Kris

ten McMahon recently left her po i t ion a a marine mammal tra i ner at the I nd ianapo l is Zoo to head to Cleveland, Ohio, where she w i l l be at

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with the k i l ler wha les and w h i te sided dolphin . . . . Laura Arm

strong wrote fro m M i sso u l a , Mon t . , where s h e i studying en v i ronmental econom ics a t the U n i versity of Montana w h i l e re s e a rc h i n g "r e s ou r c e - effi c i e n t housi ng c o n truc t ion." I m is ed her la t March when l headed we t to Bou lder to ski Va i l and W i n t e r Park w i th J eannette Riddle. We became U . . k i Team groupies, a s the World were at Va i l and the U . S . Na t ional were in W i n ter Park. We met up with Tommy Moe and Picabo Street a t the local bar and had a blast! After my Colorado expedi t i on , I fin a lly landed a job as marketi ng coordinator for a company in tamford, Conn. a l though 1 am hop ing to go back to school in fall ' 95 i n educa tion . . . . Kelly Evans i s j ust about

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to fin i h her M . A .T. program at Bo ton College and hopes to land a teac h i ng po i t i on i n Bo ton for the fal l . . Rachel Klein has plans to start a degree program a t

year- long advent ure with U p W i th People, where she

of Arts and Sc iences. H is other aspi ra t ions i n c l ude break ing the

U P e n n i n September i n educa + t ion admin istra ti on .

v i s ited the flooded M id wes t, N ew England and then Europe: S w i t :erland, Germany, France a n d t h e

icy waters from Peak I s land to Portland and develop i ng an en trepreneurial vent ure . . . . Matt Noyes, a graphic artist at L L . Bean, does a l o t o f layout and i l lustrat ion for the catalogue and

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in ternal projects. He also con t i n u e s to do the artwork he began at Colby: he has sold over 2 0 steel c u l p tures and was j ust commis-

1 99 3 ! Here's the news s i nc e the l a t i sue: Former S t u - A pre i d e n t Bill Higgins i in Chicago, I l l . , work-

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Nancy Putnam has

N etherlands. She g o t a b ig u r p r i s e u p o n her arrival h o m e in January-her h igh school swee t heart, Ch r is Ben t l ey , proposed. They w i l l be married on October 29, 1 994. She also p lans to return to graduate chool with hopes of

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ing for Sun Li fe I nsurance. A lso employed by Sun L i fe-in Bal t i more, Md .-is Mitch Rogers . .

Rich Blumenthal is c u rrently a counselor for the Outward Bound program in Florida . . . . Mike Zhe recently moved to Boston, Mas ., sports reporting there. . . Ben Trevor is currently to try out h i

l i v i ng and work i ng in Portland, Maine . . . . On the other coa t,

Anny Mahoney is us ing the Japa nese she learned at Colby in her new h o m e t o w n of Por t l a n d , Ore . . . . Jason Soules is currently working as an analyst for Fleet in Boston. He was recently trans ferred from Pro v i d e n c e , R . I . , where h e w a l i ving w i th Greg B u r n s , a l so an a n a l y t w i th Fleet. . . . Angela Tennett has returned to her hometown of Bangor, Ma i ne, where she i s em ployed by Merr i l l Sav i ngs Ban k . . . . J ule Gourdeau i fi n i h i ng up a year of teac h i ng at Buck ingham, Browne, & N ichol in Cambridge, Mass . , w h i le com p l e ti ng her master's in educat ion through Lesley College . . . . Jack Higgins i s work i ng as an analyst w i th Needham & Co. . Dan O'Grady is doing research a t the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infir mary i n Boston. A lso in Boston are Jon Zack, who i s working and wri t i ng for a major radio stat ion downrown, Kristen Suslowicz, who i s employed a an exec u t i ve adm i n istrative assistant in I nter nat ional Place, and Ben Marglin, who i working as a manager i n a posh store on Newbury Street. I n add i t ion, Steve Simchock, Amy Devin, Amy O'Mara and Liz Winslow are all currently l iv i ng and working in :he greater Bos ton area . . . . Spec ial thanks ro Ja on Soules for providing me with much of the information for this column. Keep the correspon dence coming-there are many of you who haven ' t made Colb)1 + ye t ! Take care.

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Charle P. Barnes ' 5 4 , a noted Port land, Maine, lawyer, d ied May 8 in Gardiner, Maine, at 6 1 . Born in Albany, . Y . , and a graduate of the Albany Academy, he followed both grand fathers, hi father and three unc les to the Col lege. After Army service from 1 9 54 to 1 9 56, he studied at Harvard Law chool and in 1 960 moved to Portland, where he j oined and later became a partner i n the law firm known today as Perkins, Thompson, H inckley and Keddy. He and h i wife, J oan ( Rooney ' 5 3 ) , re ided in Cape E lizabeth, where he erved on a number of town committees and boards and wa Cape E l izabeth town attor ney. During his College day , his lead ing roles w i th the Colby E ight, the G lee Club and Powder and Wig laid the foundation for an accomplished career as actor w i th the Port land Players and tenor soloist w i th the Port land ymphony Chorus and church choir in Portland, Cape El izabeth and Winthrop. He also wa an avid outdoorsman who was inter ested in the Maine woods and in all aspect of fore try and the h istory of the lumbering i ndu try. He was a member of the Northern Forest Lands Counc i l and of the Maine H is torical Soc iety. In 1 990 he moved his law pract ice to Augusta and settled i n W inthrop, becom ing a member of Rotary Club in both towns. Equally invol ed in College affair , he wa a delegate to the Const i tutional Con vention, was president of the Southern Maine Colby Club and for many year erved on the Board ofTrustees. He wa elected chair of the Alumni Counc i l in 1 96 and was awarded a Colby Brick in 1 976. Besides hi wife, he i urvived by two sons, a daughter, two sisters, includ ing Barbara Bame Brown '56, and two grandchi ldren.

CAROLYN STEVE S THOM PSO ' 1 6 Carolyn Steven Thomp on ' l 6 d ied Apri l 1 2 i n South Yarmouth, M a s., a t 98. Born i n Portland, Maine, h e attended h igh school i n W i ndham, Maine. An Engl ish major and memberofDelta Delta Delta sororiryat Colby, she part icipated i n ba kerball and dramatic and was president of her senior c lass. After two year of teaching at Mor e H igh School i n Bath, Maine, he married Paul Thompson ' 1 6 and thereafter immersed herself in her family, commun i ty and chool act i v i ties. he was the mother of four children, 1 2 grand-

chi ldren and several great-grandch ildren. She and her husband were lifelong supporters of the College, and her tru t w i l l now go to scholarships for Colby students. Survirnr include her daughter, Martha T. Wa hbum.

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Avis Barton Bixby ' 2 2 , a former high school teacher, d ied February 2 3 in West Springfield, Ma s. She was 9 5 . he was born in Westboro, Ma s., and attended local schools. he later studied at the Rhode Island School of Educa t ion and at the University of Mas achu ett . After a long career a a reacher of Engl ish. French and Larin at Westboro H igh School, New Salem Academy and Athol ( Mass. ) H igh School, he retired in 1 960. Following the death of her husband in 1 966, she returned to work as a hou emother at the Univer ity of M assac huse t ts at A m herst and at t h e orthampton ( Mass. ) chool for G irls. For over 50 year she was a resident of New alem, Mas . , where she was a librarian and member of the Central Congregational Church. She is urvived by her daughter, Rebecca Bixby Casey '4 , a son, Allan B ixby, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

L E RENE ROLLS MOWATT ·25 Lerene Rolls Mowatt '26, a homemaker, died December 1 2 , 1 99 3 , at 8 7 . She was a native of East Peru, Maine, where she made her home for most of her life followi ng her marriage in 1 9 2 7 to J ame Mowatt. he was the mother of three children. urvivors include her daugh ter, Mae K incaid.

J AM E S J. H A R R I S "2 7 Jame J . Harris '2 7, a ale man and Colby over eer, d ied March l in Fort Lauderdale, Fla . , at 9. Once featured in Time magazine for hi marketing rraregie a head of Guest Pac Corporat ion, he concentrated on the college market to b u i ld brand loyalties. Long before his appointment a a Colby overseer, he was committed to student uccess. He esrab l i hed an endowed Colby fund, the James J. Harri Prize in bu ine s administrat ion, to recognize rudent who e excellence in course work and who e leader h ip point to a s ignifi cant contribution to busine management pract ice and to oc iery. He saw to it that many tudent received financ ial assistance,

anJ h e orened doors i n rhe marker 1 11g and corporate management field>. H 1, mtere'r in >tudent ucce · \\'as lauded in the Colby Brick c i tation he recei\·ed in 1 98 3 . Sun·in1r, 1 11 c lude h i s son, James E. Harri · '64, and h i > nephe\\', c o r r J . Turrel ' 9.

DOR I S C A M P B E L L WI LSON ·32 Dori Campbell Wi lson '32, a long-rime so c ial worker, d ied April 2 3 in Bath, �!aine, ar 3. he was born i n L i tchfield, Mame, and attended Barh school and M or·e H igh School. he taught Lati n and English at Cherryfield Academy for two years after gradu ating from Colby and, following her marriage in 1 9 3 5 , was a ubsti rute teacher in rhe Bath school y rem. In 1 954 she began 2 5 years of ervice a a soc ial worker in the M a i n e Department of Health a n d Welfare in rhe d ivision of child welfare. he a l o was a ho p i ta! \·olunteer and a member of U n i ted Church of Christ Congregational. he i ur vived by a ·on, Stephen P. W i lson, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

R U T H H A L L I GE R S LAVE ·33 Ruth Hallinger Slaven '3 3 , a homemaker and volunteer worker, d ied April 2 2 , 1 990, at 1 . A native of ew jersey.she l ived in W e tmont, .J . , for most of her life. he worked as an execut ive ecrerary before adopting a daugh ter in 1 946. A 40-year volunteer w ith the Red Cross, she received pec ial recognition from the organi:ation in 1 9 7 5 for her ded icated ervice. he was a communicant of the Epi copal Church and a l icensed lay reader of the Grace Church in Haddonfield, .J. She also served as econd v ice regent of the Haddonfield chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution.

M A RGA R ET RAYM O D SMALL ·34 Margaret Raymond Smalt ' 34, formerly a- i tant d istrict d i rector with the Maine Depart ment of Heal th and Welfare, d ied J anuary 9 at 8 1 . he was born i n Caribou, Maine, and l ived most of her life i n the Waterville area. She was a 1 9 3 0 graduate of the Aroostook Central I ns t itute i n Mar H ill. In 1 964 he

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earned her M .S. in soc ial work from Boston University. She worked for more than 30 year in the Maine Depamnent of Heal th and Welfare, beginn ing as a child welfare worker. Even tually she became a d istrict supervisor and th n a istant d istrict d i rector in the Augusra and Skowhegan offices. She i ur v ive<l by her niece, Carolyn McLeod .

RA L P H 0. P EA BODY ·35 Ralph 0. Peabody ' 3 5 , a businessman, d ied March 5 in Daytona Beach, Fla. , at 80. He was a nat ive of Houlton, Maine, where he at tended local school . Out randing in ba eba l l a n d football throughout high school a n d col lege, he played semi-profe sional baseball with the Hou I ton Collegian . After graduating from Colby, he went on to teach at Edward Little H igh School in Auburn, Ma ine. He also worked for Metropolitan Life prior to join ing the U.S. Navy in 1 94 3 . When he returned to Houlton after the war, he joineJ his father and brothers at the J ame . Peabody Co. , distributor> of John Deere farm machinery, where he re mained until his death. Surviving are his wife, Phyllis Peabody, two son , three daughter , a tepson, a stepdaughter, 1 1 grandch ildren , three great-grandchildren and a sister.

G EO RG E T. G R AC E '36 George T. Grace ' 3 6, a ret ired real e tate at torney, d ied in February in Bal Harbour, Fla., at 8 1 . Originally from Brooklyn, he at tended Brooklyn Law School and wa admit ted to the bar in 1 9 3 . W i th the Em igrant lndu trial Bank he became expert in govern ment-financed hou ing developmen t, and in the 1 940 he began his own legal practice, Grace & Grace, spec ializing in u t i l i z ing FHA fi nanc ing to develop large m idd le- income housing projects throughout New York City and the rest of the country . He represented many of the country' lead ing real estate developers before ret iring from ac t ive prac t ice in 1 98 7 . Predeceased by his brother, Thomas G. Grace '2 1 , he is survi ved by his wife of 55 years, Marie Grace, four daughter and five grandchildren.

KAT HA R I E WATSON A D D I N GTON '38 Katharine Watson Addington ' 3 8, a volun teer worker, d ied in Torrance, Cal if. , Sep tember 2 2 , 1 993. She was born in Concord, N . H . , and attended East Orange ( N .J . ) High School. Act ive in sports at Colby, she was a member of S igma Kappa sorority and was v ice pre ident of her senior c lass. She served with the WA YES during World War I I . Her fa ther, Harry B. Watson, Cla s of 1 897, an uncle and everal cou in all attended the College. She is survi ved by two children, Steven Addington and Linda Montgomery, and one grandch ild.

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W i l liam L. Gousse J r. '40, a research liaison spec ializing in infect ious d iseases, d ied May 1 5 in York, Maine, at 74. He was born in F a i rfi e l d , M a i n e , and gr ad u a t e d from Lawrence H igh School . After earn ing his Colby degree in chemistry and biology, he worked for General Motors in Fram ingham, Mass., then served in England, France and Germany during World War I I , attain ing the rank of captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. In 1 9 50 he j oined the Upjohn Phar maceutical Company as a pharmaceutical sales representative. He became hospital ales rep resentative and in 1 9 7 1 was appointed med i cal cience l i aison in t h e infec t iou d iseases div ision, where he was respon ible for fac i l i tating t h e exchange of n e w >cien t i fic infor mat ion am ng re earchers in New England med ical center , industry and academia. He ret i red in 1 98 2 . A re ident of York for 20 year , he i survived by his wife, Polly Gous e, two sons, fi\'e grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Gilbert Peters '42, USAF, d ied February 22 in Tampa, Fla. , at 74. A native of Benton, Maine, he was a graduate of Will iams High School in Oakland, Maine. In the course of winning 10 varsity letters, he wa All-Ma ine in basketball, All-Maine twice as a first baseman and state champion twice in both the indoor and outdoor state high j ump. As a command pilot in the Air Force, he was awarded the Bronze Star and numerou other military decorations for his d ist inguished ser vice. He served 2 1 years before retiring to St. Jame · City, Pine Island, Fla. After retirement, he worked as a sale d ivision manager for the Prudential Corp. Interred at Arlington Na tional Cemetery with full mil itary honors, he is survived by his wife, Nancy, three daughters, a on and three grandchildren.

J O H N E . O RM I STON J R . 4 1 John E . Ormi ton J r . '4 1 , a long-time town offi c ial in Marblehead, Mass., d ied March 20 in Salem, Ma ·s., at 76. He wa employed by the American Woolen Company and Ameri can Felt Company. A World War 1 1 Navy veteran, he was a long-t i me Marblehead, Mass., town official as wel l. He served as a member and chair of the Marblehead chool committee for 25 years and also was a member of the park and recreation committee and of the Marblehead housing authority. After mak ing hi career as a sale representative with andoz, Inc . , a New York-ba ed chem i cal company, he ret i red and began work as a con u ltant for the Worce ter textile mill Crompton and Knowles. He held member ships in the Corinth ian Yacht Club and the Boston Yacht Club. He is survived by his wife, Annie Ormiston, three sons, including M ichael J. Ormiston '79, a daughter, three grandsons and a granddaughter.

A. TH OMAS C LA R K 42 A. Thomas Clark '42 d ied April 17 in Togus, Maine, at 79. A native of Sidney, Maine, he was educated in Farmington, Maine, chools. During World War I I he served with the U.S. Naval Group again t the Japanese in China. After the war he returned to Farmington, where he owned and operated the Farmington Coca-Cola Bottling Company forover 50 years. He served on several town committees and was a member of the local Masonic lodge. He is survived by hi mother, two sons, a daughter, six grandchildren, a great-grandchild and sev eral nieces, nephew and cousins.

WA LT E R R . TOW LE '48 Walter R. Tow le '48, a Methodist mini ter for over 50 years, d ied March 20 in She l ton, Conn., at 77. He began hi min istry during his stud ies at the Bangor Theological Sem i nary, when h e served a s p a tor for even churches along the coast of Maine. He gradu ated from Yale Divinity in 1 9 5 2 , then served as min ister for several churches in the New York and Connecticut area. After retiring in 1 982, he was interim pastor for three Congre gational Churches in Derby, Conn. He was a ninth-generation de cendant of Governor Wi ll iam Bradford of Plymouth Colony and an active member of the Mayflower Soc iety. He is survived by his wife, Patricia T wle, three ons, four grandchildren and his brother.

A L E XA N D E R R I C H A R D '49 Alexander Richard '49, a Maine educator, d ied March 9 in Skowhegan at 7 1 . Born in Madi on, Maine, he attended the local schools before entering Colby. He joined the Air Force in 1 942 and received numerous decora tions, including the Purple Heart, for his ser vice in Europe with the 460th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force during World War I I . He retired in 1 976 as a colonel in the Maine Air National Guard and continued to serve in the Air Force Reserve. He made his career in edu cation as a teacher and coach at Dixfield H igh School and at Madison Memorial High School, where he was the principal for 19 years. He received his M.S. in education from the Uni versity of Maine in 1 95 3 and a certificate of advanced studies in 1 969. Following retire ment, he served five terms in the Maine state legislature. He wa a member of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame Honors and Selection Committee and the Madison Area Chamber of Commerce and was president of the Madion Area Health Counc il. He received numer ous commun ity awards. Surviv ing are his wife, Shirley Richard, two brothers and four sisters.

B EVE R I DG E A TITT E R I GTON '49 Ann Beveridge Titterington '49, a teacher, died November 1 9, 1 99 3 , in N ew York at 6 5 . She was born i n Boston, Mass. , and attended Scarsdale ( N . Y . ) High School. She was a phy ics and mathematics major at Colby and after doing graduate work at Columbia Uni versity and Hofstra University wa an engi neer with the Long Island Lighting Company during the 1 95 0 . In the early 1 960 she taught at Farmingdale State Un iver iry, then became the owner and director of a nursery school and kindergarten in Central Islip, Long l land. She received a master's in education from Dowling College in 1 976. She i sur vived by her son, Ronald T itterington, and by her daughter, Katherine Prior.

T ACOU E L I E TOU LO U S E M O RI S S ETTE ·5 1 Jacqueline Toulouse Morissette ' 5 1 , a French teacher, died March 3 1 in Waterville, Maine. She wa 65. A native of Waterville, she at tended local schools. After graduating from Colby, she did graduate work at the University of Hawai i and City College of New York. In 1 966 she was awarded a government grant to participate in the overseas National Defense Act Institute for advanced study of French in Anger, Franc e . She t a u g h t French in Waterville school and in Ship Bottom, N.J. She also worked as a buyer for Stem Brothers in New York City for many years. he is survived by her husband, Clifford Morissette, and by stepsons and stepdaughters.

J. MAH LO N N I L E S '5 1 J. Mahlon N iles, former principal at Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, died March 27 in Kittery. He was 68. Born in Waterv ille, Maine, he was raised in Bath, Maine, where he at tended Morse High School. He was a veteran of World War I I and the Korean War, serving in the Navy and the Marine Corps respec tively. H e earned an undergraduate degree from Ricker J unior College as well as from Colby. He also studied at the University of Maine, where he received h is master's degree in education and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. M aking his career in education, he taught and coached at several high chools around Maine. He erved as headmaster of George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill and for 19 years was principal of Traip Academy. H e retired i n 1 98 5 but con tinued working at Portsmouth Savings Bank in Portsmouth, N . H . , until recently. He be longed to several professional organizations, including the executive committee and the educati al policy committee of the Maine State Principals Association and the Hancock County and Franklin County Teachers Asso ciations. He also was a member of the Society

of Mayflower Descendants and the ons of the American Revolution. Surviving are his wife, Edythe N iles, three children, five grand children and a brother.

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F.E. "Bud" Slingerland J r. ' 5 1 , a Bel l Atlantic executive, died December 29, 1 99 2 , in Reno, Nev., at 6 3 . A native of Wellesley, Mas . , he left Colby to serve in the Navy. He began work with telephone companies in the early 1 9 50s, eventually becoming an executive w i th Bell Atlantic. After retirement from Be ll, he worked for AT&T I n t e r n a t i o n a l and Ameritech International in the Far East and other parts of the world. He i urvived by h is wife, Margaret Preston Slingerland ' 5 1 , three daughters and his s is ter- in- law, Barbara Preston Hayes '56.

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John H. Perey ' 5 4 , an insurance adjuster, died January 1 7 in Wilke - Barre, Pa., at 65. Born in Brooklyn, N . Y . , he served in the U. . avy during World War 11. After graduating from Colby, he worked in insurance in Wilkes Barre. Recently, he was self-employed as a freelance writer and also worked in furniture restoration unt il retiring last year. He is sur vived by his wife, Barbara Brockway Perey '56, four daughters and 1 1 grandchildren.

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David T. Amidon ' 5 5 , a machinist, died March 2 in Framingham, Mas ., at 6 1 . Born in Worces ter, Mass., he attended North High School. For 35 years he was a machine operator at the former Henley-Lundgren Co. in Shrewsbury, Mass., before retiring in 1 989. He was a mem ber of the Teamster Union Local 1 70 and an honorary member of the American Legion Post 2 3 4 in Worcester. He leaves hi wife, Effie Amidon, and four children.

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Mary Ellen Guiffra Falck ' 5 7 , owner of a gour met foods business, d ied February 1 6 in Marblehead, Mass., at 58. She was born in Montclair, N .J . , and was a graduate of Lacordaire Academy in Montclair. She also attended Catholic University. A resident of Marblehead since 1 963, she was a speech pathologist and spec ial needs teacher at Marblehead High School for many year . Later she founded Truffles, a gourmet foods and catering business and also worked in a local greenhouse. Surviving is her husband, Erling Falck, a daughter, her parents, Frank and Ethel G uiffra, two brothers and two si ters.

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Joan Tinker Wood '62, a database operator, died February 16 in Peapack-Gladsrone, N .J . , a t 5 3 . h e was born i n Gardiner, Mass. A t Colby she w a a history and government major and a member of The Colh)· Echo raff. A resident of Peapack-Gladsrone for 29 year , she had been a database operator at Rafa no & Wood in outh River, .J . , for 1 0 year . he was a member of the Bernards H igh chool Booster Club and was a den mother with a local Cub Scour Pack. he also was a member of t. Luke Episcopal Church in Gladstone, where she taught Sunday school. Surv 1\'111g are her husband, Christopher Wood '62 , twu ons, her parents, John and M i ldred Keogh Tinker '34, and a brother.

G LE DO H . N EWCOM B E . M . S . T. '68 Glendon Newcombe '68, a high chool ci ence teacher, died March 4 in Augusta, Maine, at 63. A native of Augusta, he was a graduate of Hallowell ( Maine) High School and earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Maine and his master's in science educa tion from Colby. He taught at the Un iver ity of Maine and at Skowhegan H igh School before moving to Cony H igh School in Au gusta, where he was department head and taught science for 26 year . Surviving are his wife, Elaine ewcombe, and hi mother and stepfather, M uriel and M. Arthur Boynton.

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John Alexander ' 7 5 , an LL. Bean employee, d ied in Auburn, Maine, on J anuary 3 0 at age 40. He was born in Westfield, N .J . , and at tended Colby as John Szabo. He was a drafts man for Maine Cascade Iron Works, then in the early 1 980 was employed in real estate in M iami, Fla. In recent years he worked at L L . Bean in Freeport, Maine. A body worker and hands-on healer, he also was on the staff of Spring H i l l in Ashby, Mass. Surviving are his parents, Edward and Joan Szabo Alexander, and a brother.

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Richard 0. Redlon J r. '80, a historic preserva t ioni t, died on Apri l l 5 in We t Bath, Maine, at 36. He was born i n Bath and attended Morse High School. He also attended Vassar College, graduating in 1 980, and d id graduate work at Bo ton University. He moved to Portland, Maine, in 1 98 3 and for five years worked w i th Greater Portland Landmarks. I n 1 988 he joined New England Antique in Portland. H is interest in historic preserva tion led him to develop a number of exhibits for the Portland M useum of Art, and he gave numerous lectures on perservation. Surviv ing are his parents, Richard 0. and Marion

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DAVI D SA T O R O '83 David Santoro ' 8 3 , a concierge, died February 1 7 in Dal las, Texas, at 34. He was born in Melrose, Mass., and graduated from Reading H igh School. He was employed as a concierge for the Harvey Hotel in Dallas. Besides his parents, Evelyn L . Mortel and William D Santoro, he i survived by his stepmother, two sisters and two brothers.

E VA L E R I E A S P I E R LI G '89 Valerie Anne Spierling '89, died of cancer March 1 3 in New York City. She was 26. After graduating from Colby, where she was a government and an history major, she at tended Sotheby's Works of Art Program in London and went on to become an appraiser of old master paintings, English silver and French furn iture for the Tepper Gallery in New York City. Predeceased by her father, Frank Spierling ' 5 9 , she is survived by her mother, Penelope Dean Robb '6 1 .

E ST H E R Z I SK I N D WE LTMAN , L L D. '66

Esther Ziskind Weitman, a phi lanthropist and Colby trustee emerita, died on April 30 in Cambridge, Mass., at 92. She was born in Lowell, Mass., graduated from Smith College in 1 9 2 2 and earned a master's degree in edu cation at Harvard University in 1 924. As a trustee of the Jacob Zisk ind Trust for Chari table Purposes, a trust created by her brother upon his death, she oversaw the contribution of funds and build ings to a number of institu tions of higher learning, includ ing the Jacob Ziskind Research Building at New England Med ical Center, Ziskind House at Smith College and the Ziskind Memorial Lounge at Boston University. The trust also endowed programs at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and at Brandeis, Brown, Harvard and Yale as wel l as Colby, where she was responsible for the Ziskind Fund for East Asian Studies and served as a trustee from 1 9 58 to 1 9 7 3 and 1 97 4 to 1 97 7 . A long-time resident of Spring field, Mas . , she was a founder of the National Council of Jewish Women's Scholarsh ip Clearing House, a charter trustee of the Mas sachusetts Board of Higher Education and a trustee of the New England Medical Center. She also held trustee positions with Hebrew College, American International College and several other educational in titutions. ln 1 976 she was awarded the Smith College Medal for her leadership as a servant of higher educa tion. She leaves a daughter, Etienne Squire, a son, David, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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Standing Against Hate 1 was delighted to read in the J une issue of Colby about the campus community's response to anti-Semitic sentiments that appeared in March and April. I was further pleased to read about the Philip Morris Foundation grant that funded the "Tolerance on Campus" student film . Reading the article on Josette Huntress, a feminist Miss Maine, gave me great joy. ( As a lesbian feminist, I was very proud of her peaking at the Gay and Lesbian Pride rally in Portland in J une. ) The celebration and honoring of diversity appears to remain a part of the Colby experience. I am happy to know that Elijah Lovejoy's legacy to his Colby descendants is repre ented not only by an annual guest speaker but also in practice. Thank you, a lso, Joel Simon, for your lovely tribute and memorial to Mark Frisch in the J une issue. Mark was a classmate of mine, and 1 wish that I had not lost touch with him. He was a fine and charming man.

Martha Smith Mickles ' 7 1

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

A Dry Subject I am a sophomore at Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., planning to spend my junior year abroad in Ch ile. I have been on the Colby mailing list for ome time, and I always look forward to receiving mail from your College. Today the mai l carrier delivered the article "Flight of Discovery" by Sally Baker (January '94 ). The de criptions ofTom Claytor's bravery and adventures were very enthralling and well written, but I feel obligated to make one correction. Claytor is quoted on page three as stating that "the Namib Desert is the oldest and driest in the world" ( my emphasis ) . After receiving my assignment from Rotary International o f Vallenar, which borders on the Atacama Desert in the northern part of Chile, I've done quite a bit of research on that beautifully diverse country. Every book I 've read resoundingly announces that the Atacama takes, far and away, the title of the drie t place on earth. Some parts of that desert haven't seen rain for centurie , while Yallenar averages eight centimeters a year. I wasn't sure how to contact Mr. Claytor, so I thought I'd write to you, to let you know that the Atacama is more dry than the Namib! Jessica M. Franz

Portland, Ore. A National Geographic Explorer segment, "Flight Over Africa , " about Claytor's voyage will air in two parts , Sept. 1 1 and Sept. 1 8 , at 9 p . m . eastern time, on WTBS-eds.

Upon Further Review My husband and I were delighted with the publication in Colby (June '94) of Betty Anne Royal Spiegel's review of Maine to the Wilderness. However, we found one error. Near the middle of the fir t column (p. 23 ), the sentence should read, "Another Colbian, John J. Pullen ' 3 5 , author of The Twentieth Maine, wrote the book's foreword." Jane Soule Engert '42

Washington, D.C.

Correction I n the J une issue of Colby, the caption for a photo of Cicely Finley '94 on page 9 was misidentified. She is shown in performance with the Colby Dancers.

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