Colby Magazine vol. 87, no. 2

Spring 1998

What Cedric Bryant Sees

"No," said Miranda.

Allyn sighed. "Me neither."

The tunnel continued forward in a series of twists and turns. All around them was the fetid smell of pond water, a few more feathers, the greenish flotsam of algae.

"Where does this tunnel go again?" said Miranda. "lt goes everywheres, bud," said Allyn."Cen足 tral heating. Physical plant. MacLab. You could consider this the nervous system of the whole college."

technically, this tunnel doesn't exist. It ain't in the blueprints."

"Ah," said Miranda. "I get you."

They kept walking. A strange humming sound grew louder in the distance.

"Listen," said Miranda. "If this tunnel doesn't technically exist, then can I ask you a question?"

"Ayuh."

"Where the hell are we?"

quad, out in front of the new science building."

"What kind of funny did you mean, then?"

"Well," Allyn said. "What's funny is that,

There was a sudden squeaking sound as a

blinding light.

had clearly gone this way.

here were made out of some sort of shiny alloy.

Allyn looked over at Miranda." Boy, you are some detective, aren't ya."

The dark cavern was suddenly illuminated with

guess, I'd say we were underneath the main

They walked forward into the branch. The walls

"That's pond water all right," said Miranda.

"You can tell from the smell."

Allyn stroked his beard and looked around

turned around or something, but if I had to

"Nope," said Allyn.

dropped vertically. Below them was a frothing vat of water. The men sniffed the air and nodded.

him. "Well," he said, "I might have gotten

They stopped before a culvert that branched

"You mean funny ha-ha?"

The tunnel took a sudden bend, and the two men had to stop short. Before them, the tunnel

door into the tunnel creaked open behind them.

away from the main tunnel. The pond water

"Now that's funny," said Allyn.

said. "That's the guy."

Miranda looked over at Allyn. "What new science building7" Allyn looked at the detective pityingly. "You haven't been up to campus for a while, have ya7" "No, not for a year or two."

Allyn nodded. "They got 'em a whole new science building where that Arey parking lot used to be."

"All right," said a voice. "What are you boys doing in my tunnel?"

Miranda and Allyn turned to look into the eyes of an extremely fat man in a lab coat.

"Your tunnel?" said Miranda. "What do you mean, your tunnel?"

"Yah," said Allyn. "This here's college property."

The fat man began to laugh suddenly. "Col足 lege property," he said. "Whool" He dug into

"What's in it7 Offices?"

his pocket for a wrinkled hanky, wiped away

"Nope," said Allyn. "Well, maybe two or

some tears. "Shaddup," he concluded.

three offices. I think that guy what knows all the birds is in there."

"You mean Herb Spicy?"

Allyn nodded. "Ayuh," he

"Who are you?" said Miranda.

"I am Professor Beaker," said the man.

"Distinguished Hildegarde Honker Family Chair of Artificial Intelligence. You boys follow me, or I'll pound yuz."

"I'm Watt Miranda. And this is Lewis Allyn, head of physical plant."

"Shaddap," said Beaker.

They followed him through the heavy door, which he then closed be足 hind them, turning a heavy steel wheel to make sure the seal was airtight.

"Jeezamarooni," said Allyn, looking around at the room in which he now stood.

It was a windowless con足 crete bunker, filled with blinking computers, steam pipes, electronic hardware.

A console at the room's center was covered with hundreds of tiny dials. Each of the dials was connected to a small V. U. meter.

"What the tarnation is this place?" said

Allyn. "This place isn't supposed to be here."

"It isn't,"said Beaker.

"Artificial intelligence?"said Miranda. "! didn't know Colby had a department of artifi­ cial intelligence."

"What's tha ?"said Allyn.

mean he's not?"

"These? '' said Beaker. "These here are the grades."He shook his head. "La sa surprises

"He's disappeared,"said Miranda.

"Impossible,"said Beaker. "I have him right here on the scanner."He checked an oscillator.

this term,I'm afraid."

Another alarm went off,over on the far s1de

"Hey, hat's weird. Where'd he go?"

"ll doesn't,"said Beaker.

of the computer.Beaker flicked a sw1 ch,and

"! old you he's missing."

"Well then," said Allyn. "At least we're

a V.U.meter jumped into the red zone. "Hey,

'That'sn o good,"said Beaker."This could

finally gelling to the bottom of this."

A small alarm began to chime from the central console. "Hang on a minute," said Beaker.He moved quickly toward the ma­ chine. "Damn.He's not supposed to work

look at that. I just unsettled the dean of

throw off everything!"

faculty's latest lawsuit!And canceled his urn­

"Where's all the pond water7"said Allyn.

pike Transpass."

'Pond water?It's in the vat,"said Beaker,

"I'm lost,"said Allyn.

pomting o one wall."I need pond water for the

"Exactly," said Beaker. "You're all lost!

algae solution.I 's he secret source of power

A bunch a weasels.You think this college

fifty for Winkle ron 9000.Fifty percent water,

Beaker turned back to the men. "Some

would work if everything was really left up o

percent pond scum. "

clown in English almost got tenure, some

your pathetic little committees7Your l1ttle

schmo who writes funny jokes.Can you imag­

discussion groups?The student assembly?

ine that, a comedian on the faculty?"He shook

The administration?" He started to laugh

his head in contempt. "Good thing I was here

again."You want to know how long this joint

to put the kabosh on that,eh?"

would last if I weren't secretly running every­

here!"He turned a dial. "There we go."

"What do you mean,you stopped him?"

thing from down in this bunker?"He held his

Allyn said. "What do you have to do with it?"

thumb and his finger close together. "This

"What do I have to do with it?"Beaker said.

"What do you think?I run the whole college from down here.It's all part of the program."

M1randa and Allyn looked at each other,

the tunnels.

"Ah,"said Beaker, moving toward the door.

"Here it is now."

He turned the heavy metal wheel and

"But we don't have a department of artifi­

hinges.A moment later a large mechanical

cial intelligence," said Allyn,becoming an­

moose lumbered into the laboratory. It

noyed with this entire situation.

clanked forward on its steel legs,chewing

"It's a secret!" said Beaker. "You think

said. "They got 'em a whole committee on

people would like it if they knew the truth?"

tenure and promotion that makes all those

Allyn shook his head. "Most people don't

"The committee!" Beaker said,laughing

A that moment,a loud clanking came from

unsealed the door,which swung open on its

long,"he said.

confused."! think you're mistaken," Allyn

decisions.It's pretty serious business."

"Winkletron 9000?"said Miranda."What the hell is Winkletron 9000?"

I ike the truth."

on something.

"Behold," Beaker said. "The future of higher education!"

The electronic moose chewed for a moment

Beaker checked his watch. " Uh-oh,gotta

aga1n. "Oh,yeah,man,I almost forgot about

slow the clock down." He adjusted a knob,

them!"He got out the hanky to wipe the tears

then looked at the men.

"Gatta make sure

longer,swallowed,then belched. "!went up to

UMaine,"cried Beaker, "of­

fered them the technology.You know what

away. "Listen,those eejits on the committee

the clock on Miller Library is slow,just in

they did7They laughed in my face!I went to

just do what I've decided."He patted the ma­

case students accidentally get to classes on

Bates,said I'd give them the project for free!

chine."Like I said, it's all part of the program."

time.Well,what they think is on time,any­

Guess what-they threw me out on my kiester!

"You're demented," said Allyn.

Beaker turned a knob on the machine." De­

way." He cackled.

I went to Bowdoin,said I'd give them all the

"You're a madman,"said Miranda.

rights to the software!

Incredible: they told me

mented,am I?Examine your paycheck next

"Yes,"said Beaker."But I have tenure!No

to get lost!Told me I was insane!All those

month,okay?I just cut your salary in half."

matter what the courts and the dean and the

other colleges,they laughed at my experi­

"You say you control the whole college from

president and the Board of Trustees say!They

ments!Well,no one's laughing now• No one

down here?" said Miranda. "Through this

can't take that away from me!Certifiable,

will ever laugh again!"

computer,or whatever it is?"

huh?I'll show them certifiable!"

"I'm sorry I said you're demented," Allyn aid,thinking about his salary.

"Hang on a second,"Beaker said,checking hi watch. "Ah.Here we go."He fed a large croll of paper into a scanner.

The Flft Percent

stuttered to a halt.

Beaker smacked him smartly

Beaker," said Allyn. "We're looking or he

on the nose.The moose hiccupped,then made

dean.Ernie Smythe?You seen him?"

a giant sucking sound.

"Smythe?Smythe?" He chec ed a prin out. "He's supposed to be in his o fice. You

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Made in China

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from the hill

faculty file

Patrice Franko; tenured faculty; re earch in Bermuda.

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Senior Citizens

paging parents

ju r what d e it rake to be a dean'

Thr e senior wdenrs already are puning their i mprint on the world that awaits.

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For roymaker Dennis Ting '60, the challenge of running a giant factory in China isn' t a lway kid ' stuff.

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P u rsuing the Uni versal Particular

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Colby Where, Exactly?

The Wonder of It All

I enjoyed your piece on Linda Greenlaw [in the winter C olby ] , as we are very fond of Isle au Haut. But I bet you receive several comments on navigation. You place the Grand Banks at "45 degrees latitude and 45 degrees longitude." Those coordinates could also place you 1 ) ca. 300 m iles west of the Cro:et Islands in the I ndian Ocean, 2 ) ca.

860 m i les northeast of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, or 3 ) high and dry on the steppes of Daghestan, some distance from the Caspian Sea. Capt. Greenlaw would no doubt specify "45 north and 45 west."

[Also], did M ichael Donihue and Susan Mackenzie really start dating "while in Jon Weiss's l iterature class"? Hope their getting acquainted didn't cause too much distrac­ t ion in class--or did you mean "literature course"? (A course is a series of classes.)

Cordial greetings from your grumpy lei­ sured volunteer editor.

Thank you for your eloquent description of winter in Maine in "Fourth Floor Eustis" ( winter 1 99 8 ) . As a native, I can attest to the wonder of every season: in autumn, we wonder when the leaves will stop fal ling; in winter, we wonder when the snow ( and temperature) will stop fal ling; in spring, we wonder when the rain will stop fal ling; in summer, we wonder when the fog will lift!

Charles Ferguson Associate Professor of French and I talian, Emeritus

Deep Thoughts Thank you for the two articles in C olby (winter 1 998) about winter at Colby. The column "Fourth Floor Eustis" remarks that virtually all Colby generations claim to have experienced "the snowiest, coldest, most Arctic-like (winters) in the history of the school."

By your own records (page 1 6 of the same is­ sue ) , my freshman year at Colby, 1 970- 1 97 1 , truly was the snowiest winter ever-1 40 inches of snow.

Eight milder years later, I ettled in Maine, giving me the chance to experience lee torm '98 and 1 3 days without electricity.

The snowiest winter e,•er didn't chase me away from Colby, the Ice >torm wdl not chase me out of Maine, anJ I look forward to the beauty and chal­ lenge of another 20 wmters here! helley B1ennger Rau '74 Auhurn, Mame

Laura Preti P '02 Cape Elizabeth, Maine

What's the Word?

In the letters section of the winter issue of C olby you stated that the College still had a foreign language requirement. How well ! remember taking the RKE ( Reading Knowl­ edge Examination ) in 1 94 1 in French. Turk Hassan '4 1 took his in Arabic; M i l t Stillwell '43 used Spanish (at that time not a heavily used language ) .

Three summers ago I met a young lady on Cape Cod who was about to enter her Colby senior year. I asked about RKE and she said that she had not heard of any foreign lan­ guage requirements at Colby.

Was she uninformed or isn't an RKE test given anymore?

Ralph S . Braudy '44 Hyannis, Mass.

The RKE is no longer used, but similar tests are available t o measure language proficiency. The College offers five ways to fulfill its foreign language requiremenr for graduation. Prior to enrollment, studenrs can pass out of the require­ menr with a score of 64 or higher on the SAT­ I I Subject Test or with a 4 or 5 in an Advanced Placement language or literature course. Other­ wise , they must do one of the following: I) successfully complete Colby 's inrensive language program in Cuernavaca, Mexico, or Dijon , France; 2) successfully complete a sequence of modern or classical languages as spelled out in the College catalogue; 3) successfully complete a previously approved intermediate-level lan­ guage course at an approved college or univer­ sity .-Editors .

Corrections Due to a reporter' error, two names were mi spelled in the winter 1 998 issue of C olby.

The Waterville Fire Department chief ( "From the H dl") i Darrel Fournier. The co-autho r of Making M iracles Happen ("Books & Author ") 1 teven a1feh.

Volume 87

Number 2 Colby Staff:

Sally Baker executive editor Kevin Cool managing editor Brian Speer an director Roberr Gillespie Alumni at Large editor Stephen Collins '74 contributing editor Leo Pando illustrator Joanne Lafreniere sraff assistant Eliza Hoover '99 design assisrant Scou Perry, Melanie Guryanski, Brian Speer, Jeff Earickson, Dan Morris, Dean Abramson contributing photographers Cover Photo: Dean Abramson

Administration: William R. Couer, president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president for development and alumni relations; Earl H. Smith, dean of the College; Margaret Viens '77, director of alumni relations Alumni Council Executive Committee:

Joanne Weddell Magyar '71, chair; John Devine '78, vice chair; David Bergquist '61; James Bourne '81; Arthur Brennan '68; Lisa A. Hallee '81; Diana Herrmann '80; Gail Glickman Horwood '86; Anne Hussey '80; Stephen Langlois ' 85 ; Barbara Bone Leaviu '52; Lou Richardson McGinity '67; Susan Jacobson Nester '88; M. Jane Powers '86; Johnston Whitman '59 Colby is published four times yearly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty and staff of Colby College.

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p e risco p e

By Earl mith

Doing Our Part olhy h

ignec.l on with

overnor Angus King's program that encourage state bu incsses and other to donate u ec.l computers to public schools. For th past two years, even before King announced hi plan in hi�

tate of the

tate addre's in early February, olhy had been parceling out u'ed machines to area schools.

Th song was fir t sung by mith in the Paramount film

The Big Broadcast of 1932.It al o appeared later in Dinner at Eight. Wood, who attended in I 4- 5, wa a lawyer in Bar Harbor anc.l a member of the Marne s nate.The source i

From the King's Plamarion to Home Town Heritage, publi hed

by Peter Randall of Port mouth,

.H.

More than I 00 were given away last year, and now there

Net News

arc as many more ready to go to chool departments in

More than 74,000 people vi ired olby' Web ire in

Waterville, Win low, Fairfield and akland.

March, a 3 7 percent increase over the arne month a year

New PBKs

ago. About 70 gigabyte got moved around, the equivalent

From Bombay to hanghai and from Lo:, Angeles to outhwest !!arbor, 43 senior and a junior arc the newest olby members of Phi Beta Kappa.

Maine's Beta haprer secretary, Mills '57,

David

has posted the list, which, we won't fail to note, in ludes ZO-plu percent from Maine even though the state supplie· only 1Z percent of the student body.We alute them all.

Not One, But Two For the fifth time in this decade, olby has two of the nation'· 60 Watson Fellow­ ships.Joan Giblin '9 ( roughton, lass.) and Amy L •ons '9 ( randish, I\ Iaine) were chosen from 193 nominees s leered by 51 parriciparing mstitutions. ,'cvenreen colleges, including Bowdoin, had two. Twenty­ three others, including Bates, had one. Ten came up empt ·.

So You'll Know It is ·t1imed that the Slmg "\ hen the loon omes \'er rhe � lounram," made iamou,

by Kate �m1th, was \\Titten b\' harles Henr · \\ ood whde he

was'' student at olby.The inspiring mounram rs I\ lr.

J-.:earsarge near onwav, .H.

of about 700 meters of shelved book .In ur own alumni network, we find that a full quarter of all graduates since 1989 are con­ nected, including one third of those who graduated Ia t year. Back at the ranch, the most popular Web page continue to be the dining hall menus, where hungry students visited nearly 5,000 times in March.Egad, the dining hall menus turn out to be the most popular ire for rho e ju ·t admitted to the lass of ZOOZ a well. This could affect overall olby admission· marketing traregy. " ome to olby, ear well."

Faculty Notes Ira adoff (English) will share, wtrh Robert Bly, the Jewme ]. hesra k Poetry Pn:e fLlr the best poem publrshecl1n the Amencan Poern Ret'lt'll m 1997.

adl1ifs WL1rk '' part of h1'

il1rthCL1mll11! Cl1lle tiOn, Gr 1�mg, tll 1:-e pubII hed 1:-v the 111\·er,lt\' L1f lllmL1h Pre>>....)arne

\\'ebb h•,wn) ha, 1:-een n<lmed general ed1wr ot the new

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Moosecellaneous Return from the Ham olby' new

ompany :,urvey u ed to prepare

Alumni D1rectory show that 4,000 of the

ollege' 16,000-plus alums have e-mad addre·se ....The

ICC

torm re cue team from a

orth

arolma power firm

wanted to know why Marne folk built hou e· on the edge of the fielc.l and then put the1r outhou e m the m1ddle. omeone explained that the field. were lake and the outhou e were fi hing hack .... USA Today report that 97 percent of all U . .college now have Web 1te:,, and two percent more are in the proce of creating them....That arne paper ha cho en Colby' own Tina Goudreau '9 (Manche ter, .H.) for honorable mention on th1s year\ AII-U A College Academ1c Team.Tina' contnbutiom, m and out of clas , are a long a your arm.

Pre s erie in ecology and

arncle by Marilyn Mavrinac,

history, which will feature books about environmental hi tory in all regions of the world....Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (sociology) has been selected a the Robin I. Williams Jr.lecturer of the Ea tern ociological ociery

ementa a ociate profe or of

for 199 -99.The prestigiou appointment goes to scholar accomplished in the field who are able to addre theme of broad import. Gilke will present lectures at the society' annual meeting and at two colleges during the next academic year.

pre ident, told tru tees at the January meeting that he ,, e pecially addened by the 1ce

To Name a Few The third edition of The Parties Respond (Harper ollin Publi hers, Inc.), edited by andy Maisel (government), is dedicated to the olby undergraduates who have been andy's research as istant .

The textbook examme the 1996 natiOnal election and contemporary polittcal partie ....The Harmrd Educanonal Review ha publi hed (wmrer 199 ) an

education and human develop­ ment, on Coeducation, Gender

Equity, and School Reforms Twentieth Century France.

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Saving Trees Bill Cotter, Colby' 1 rh

torm damage to the ugar maple in front of Woodman Hall, one of the few trees left that pre-dare the Mayflower Hill campu . He wants the damaged branche tnmmed carefully and the tree pre erved m whatever hape.

Hi concern remmded olby' 17th pre ident, Robert trider, of bon mot arrnb­ uted to olby' 16th pre 1dent, eelye Bixler. eem., B1xler wa pa mg by the con,tru t1on .,lte of Woodman Hall orne t1me m 1951 and a\\ men With cham saw;, about to ut the old tree down.

B1xler ran up to rhem, wanng h1 arm , and ,hourcd: "WooJman, 'rare that tree 1"

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! from the hill Art i n a New L i g ht $1.3-million museum addition will showcase hidden treasures

By Kevin Cool

H

ugh Gourley, d irector of the Colby Museum ofArt,

pa sed from one room to an­ other in the storage area of the museum's lower level and with a sweep of his hand noted the hundreds of works housed there. " It' safe to say some of these paintings have never been on view in our museum," he said.

"We j ust haven't had the space to exhibit them."

A year from now, many ofthe painting in that storage room will be on display in a new wing pecifically designed to accom­ modate the museum's burgeon­ ing collection. The product of a !-million challenge grant from an anonymous donor, the ,000quare-foot wing is part of a 3 million project that also includes endowment funds for security, conser\'ation, traveling exhibi­ tions and student as istantships.

Con truction on the $ 1 . 3-mil­ lion building i scheduled to be­ gtn in june and be completed by next ummer.

The wing will house six gal­ lenes on two levels and include roughly 1 50 of the museum' heretofore unseen gems. "This wdl allow u to show art from

The new wing, far right, will add 8,000 square feet of exhibition space.

the mid-eighteenth century to the pre ent, which we've never been able to do," Gourley said.

"There will be a gallery for eigh­ teenth-century portraits, an­ other for nineteenth-century pa intings, one for primitive American art, as well as rooms for American impressionists and early twentieth-century artists."

An expanded exhibition from The John Marin Collec­ tion al o will be located in the wing, accommodating about two

dozen etchings, paintings and photographs added to the col­ lection in recent years, Gourley says. "We have the largest Marin collection of any academic mu­ seum in the country. The new gallery is three times as large a the current one [where the Marin works are exhibited]."

Los Angeles architect Fred­ erick Fisher designed the new wing, opting for a simple Geor­ gian structure. "Most of the col­ lection is early American and we

wanted a building that was con­ sistent with that," said Fisher.

"We imagined it as a house from that time period because most of this art was created for domes­ tic environments."

Gourley says patrons will be pleased to finally see some of the museum's finest pieces on di play. "Paintings are meant to be seen," he said. "Our collec­ tion will be much more visible now, not only here but in trav­ el ing exhibitions a well." +

Online, Not In Line ballot was not on a Web page vi ible from outside the campus network. A code was used to en ure that eligible stuuents could

Desptte a 70 percent voter turnout and I ,40 1 ballots cast, there were no l me at the poll:. in otter Union when tudem Government A sociation elections were held April . Vming was olby stuJenrs conJucteJ exclu tvely on the I nternet a parttctpateJ tn the fir t paperles electton tn the allege'

vote only once.

In the top race, Benjamin Langille '99 of Lawrenceville, N .j. , anJ runntng mate BraJen tc hitano '99 ofWelle ley, Ma s., won the race for GA prestdent anJ vtce president.

The GA\ onlme electton was helJ the same week that Yahoo! Internet Ltfe mag;ume announced that olby i , once agatn, one of "Amenca\ 1 00 Mmt-WireJ olleges."

5-year ht. tory. tuJcm-. could \'ote from any computer on the campu \local ncrwork, wherher tn rhetr Jorm room or publtc computer clu>­ tcr,. ruJent> abmaJ tht -.erne. ter haJ to vme by proxy '>tnce the I

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Colby Loses a Good Friend W ilson C. Piper '39, a life

olby

trustee and a stalwart upporter of the ollege for more than 50 year , died January 31 in H anover, A native of

. H . , at 79.

aribou, M aine, Piper

graduated from Colby Phi Beta Kappa, earned a law degree at Harvard and worked for the next 30 year at the Boston law firm of Ropes & G ray where

"The greater the strength of the natton. the greater tis responstbtlity to the global communtty

Unless

the U111ted States dectdes to become a fortress besetged by large and growtng armtes of the poor. tt should activelyfoster soctal change tn Lattn Amenca."

he was a prominent tax attorney.

Piper's broad and deep a ociation

Wilson C. Piper '39

wit and wisdom

with Colby included service on the

Alumni Council; the Boston Colby A lumni A ociat ion, which he led as president for several years; and the ollege's Board ofT rustees,

Nobel Peace Pnze wmner Oscar Arias Sanchez, former prestdent of Costa Rtca, tn an address tn Lonmer Chapel titled "Latm America. New Challenges for the 2 1 st Century"

which he joined in 1959.

President Robert E.L. Strider lauded Piper's commitment to

olby

in 1975 when Piper was presented an honorary degree. "It is impossible

to

single out his most important contributions," Strider aid. "To all his

"Slavery ts not just about chatns around our hands and feet If we cannot stand to have a black boss or a woman boss we are still enslaved."

labors for his College he has brought wisdom, insight and tolerance for

Samuel Pieh, descendant of

Am1stad freedom ftghter

Stngbeh Pteh, at a Spotlight lecture.

the inscrutable mysterie of academe."

The author of Colby' revised by-laws in 1958, Piper had leadership roles in all of the College' capital campaign over the past 40 years. He received a Colby Brick Award for outstanding service in 1974 and in 1983 was presented the Ernest C. Marriner Distinguished

ervice

Award. Piper Residence Hall was named for him in 1986.

The

lara Piper Professorship and Research Fund, establi hed in

1990 in memory of his mother, Clara

ollins Piper '14, supports

scholars in internat ional relations and environmental studies.

Predeceased by his sister, Prudence Piper M arriner '41, he is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mary "Peg" Piper; two daughter , Elizabeth Piper Deschenes '75 and Stephanie Piper; a son, Charles '70; and a nephew, John Marriner '70. +

Canvasing the Neighborhood Krista Brown '99 hope one day to be a doctor, so perhap it is appropriate that she has been busy this year making people feel bet­ ter. The bio-chemistry student from Ketchum, Idaho, has del ighted classmate and faculty

And in the Category of Best

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pre ionise painting .

"Hunin', heacin' and Leavin' in omparacive Perspective: East Asian Poetr)' and otmtry Music" Rob Lafleur, v isiting a sistant profes,or

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David 1-.lankin, PererA. \'Ia hos Lecture in

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that she dectded to produce a 1 Z-month calendar. '\ hen Dtrector of Off-Campu rudy Jon We�>> :,aw the calendar he agreed to pay for enough coptes to gtve them as ouvemr to 'tudent' and profe"or' 111 the Dt)On rrogram.

Brown abo patnted a wtnter' ene featunng �Idler Lt�rary and John on Pond and an tmpre"tonN 111terrretat ton of otter U n ton. elf-taught bur 111tere,red 111 pur-u111g mLlre f,Jrmal tra111111g, Bro\\ n

"The W olf, the \\' hore and rhe Asylum: The wry of Rome's Foundarion" orne II ProfesSL1r

While he tudieu in the Colby 111 DtJOn program last fall, Brown'

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say, 'he ha, �een en ouraged �\'her w,1rk wnh ;\,,,,Dnt Prote"or ot Art Benn Engman "I don't know a lnr a!--,Ju t rec.hntl{ue; I JU't pa111r," Brown -atd. "I e-rectalh enjovdo111g pa111ung, f, r orheq'e<lple. It ort Lll 111-ptre- me."

�he ht,n'r I '-t her de-tre ro enter the medtcal fteld. 'a\ ' Bro\\n,

htt -he .klmn' rhat "tf I c ncenrr.ued .1 - h.1rd n m\ !-- t o- hem

a- I d,l 1n m\ r.unung,, I'J h.l\'e a �etter G.P.:\" +

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Johnson Pond has had a problem for years, and Colby was determined to get to the bottom of it.

November

, 1997. Maine's fall election campaign

was in it last gasp and a surfeit of warm air blew over the

ment Committee blamed the decline of the watery 1con entirely on th ducks, accu ing them of rooting out plant ,

entire stat . At 8 o'clock that morning, Gus Libby, in hi

the nesting place of bug intended a the diet of mall fi h

hirt leeve , turned a long-handled wrench to open the

that, in turn, were meant to feed the big fi h who e job 1t

drain valve and begin the much-anticipated restoration

was to keep the pond churned up and healthy. The cus eJ

of Colby' Johnson Pond.

duck al o were peaking the Ph with their poop.

Supervi or of mechanical service and wise in the

A sternly worded committee recommendation that the

ways of rusted gears, Gus was ready. For days h had been

duck population "be maintained at a maximum of rwo

do ing the apparatus with Kroil ("The Oil That

individual "went unheeded, not only by beleaguered

reeps"). That, plus some heat from an oxy-acetylene

allege authoritie but al o by the duck , who multtpli J

torch and a few good whacks with a brass hammer, got

from the loave of day-old bread and mall fi he . Wor�e,

the water flowing through a 20-inch underground pipe to

the ducks soon were joined by legion

the far side of the occer field where it surfaced in an old

the closing of Maine' open dump to mo\'e to the campus

gully and gu hed on to the Me sal nskee

and live ff the lu h offal of tudent .

tream.

Back at the utlet, a ingle ring-billed gull back­ pedal d in the current, watching Gu with a wary eye. It n Pond bad! needed fixing. For

year , pond watch rs have fr tted over the bl omin rhino, h lple as this mo t plea ing for ground of a ka:illion photograph

!owl' turned areen.

A long ago a- 1969, when m

t on rh

ampu w re

stompina around about more global matters, rher ,,. re report some who \'ented O\'er the sad -hape of the pon :1. to the fa ulr ·that ·ear from th

ampu-

atural En\'1ron-

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it went.

La t pring the ice ank on Apnl 17. Two Jay later the hallow we t end

was easy to tell he was di gusted.

Truth be told, John

And

f gulls, forced b

f th pond '''a tn full bl om \\'Hh

pickerel weed. l t wa time for acti n, and the

oll ge

re p nded predictably-It formed a commmee. From that point on It was hard to ke p a �rra1ght face.

Plant n lmanne b1olo 1'-t�. en\'lronmental analy�t�. hydraultc engineers, landscape arch1te t;, anJ as orteJ oth r pec1alt t� w rkeJ hard on a re�wratton plan. For the only ttm through the enttre aJ\'enture, expert� ournumb red ktb1t:er�.

Text and Photos by Earl Smith

The Army Corps of Engineers politely wiped its hands of the the chief of the regulatory branch, who wrote that Johnson teve Mohr, Portland land cape wizard and a man who know an adventure when he smells one, signed on to help.

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) temporarily fretted over the fish until

In early eptember, armed with drawings and charts, he met

agents learned that the smallmouth bass that inhabit the

with President Bill Cotter and others to firm up a plan. Mohr

place had tapeworm. The department promptly proposed

explained that the gradual accumulation of some two feet of ilt, brought on by erosion, had lowered the water volume and increased nutrient levels with unwanted loading of phospho­ ru

that the whole lot of them be killed with rotenone and buried in the back forty. Alert to the political fallout of killing so many fish in plain view of local residents who

, thus accelerating eutrophication and macrophyte growth.

had for years been denied the opportunity to catch them,

Alan Lewis, head of the Physical Plant Department and a

the IFW offered a second option-use nets to move them

practical Maine man to the core, offered a satisfying summary:

to the Messalonskee Stream, where, it turns out, the

"After fifty years," he said, "her bottom' gone soft."

resident bass population is already wormy.

Mohr propo ed draining the pond, craping out the guk, and filling it up again. Cotter, who ha a thing about campu tidine s, was feeling the full burden of his office.

The College chose option two, whereupon the fisheries folk issued a pair of permits, one for relocating the fish and a second for the eventual re-stocking of worm less

He wanted assurance of uccess and clear water by

cou ins. These fish agents also aid they would be on hand

Commencement. Here folks normally given to precision

when the plug was pulled, to be on the lookout for any rare, threatened or endangered species. (The best they

became vague and tentative. Estimate on the time required to refill the pond after a proper cleaning varied from 72 hour to four month .

obody was making to launch Colby' agreed guarantee . In the end, Cotter one produced original (the econd great Venture of Faith

the Mayflower Hill campu and created the man-made r nd tn the fir t place).

Once word wa out, local, tate and federal regulatory agencte -undaunted by uncertainty of their juri die­ non -tnpped over one another in an un eemly eagernes w rarttetpate.

FtN m !me wa the local planning board, citing a �tatute requmng rermt' ton to make un·tghtly di tur­ hancc-, w any large ptece of ground-never mmd that the plot m que,non 1 normally under water or that the pmptbcd work wa atmeJ at tmpm\·tng the vte\\'. After a 'tllcmn hcanng, a pcrmtt wa granted.

could find was a strange turtle, a era between a Red lider and a Florida Cooter, evidence that not all the fooling around in that area has taken place in parked cars.)

Next of the permitter was the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), a most thorough and eriou bunch who ultimately is ued 10 pages of permissions including a nice placard to be po ted on location, a "modifi­ cation application" to record any change in plans and a "tran fer� rm" to be u ed in the event the allege got di couraged and decided to sell the pond to a new owner.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was mar tentative. Although there was some opinion that the allege needed a" on Point Di charge Permit" to flush the water out the und rground pipe-where the overflow has hccn ent ince 1930-the EPA folk let the draining go forward wtth a wmk and a nod, explaining that"technicali-

whole affai r with a startl i ng geographic observation from Pond " is not considered a water of the United States. " tie " prevented them from putting it all in writing.

The Army

orp of Engineers politely wiped it hands

of the whole affair with a tartling geographic observation

Juring an unauthorized \\'lin in 1 9 5 1. A woman from Oregon wrote h ping for word of the di covery of a d1amonJ ring, flung into the deep in an engagemem-bu t tng p1que 111

from the chief of the regulatory branch, who wrote that

rh early 1970 .

J ohnson Pond "is not considered a water of the United

alway rued the lo

tate ."A much as the Army would have liked to be

he never married the man, -he a1J, hut of a fine pi ce of j welry.

The origin of the my reriou mannequin urfaceJ a

inv lved, it simply wasn't pos ible.

well. Ari Oruker '93 e-mailed a confe 10n from J apan .

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (0 HA), a ked to have a look for any hazards in the

tor ( ourhall, Gi lli , We t & Morgan) found the rh111g

proj ect , came to the altogether ensible conc lusion that

during a pond treasure hum . It wa tak n to the He1ghts,

eem that, in

eptemb r 1992, he and a few co-con. p1ra­

the pond was, in fac t , going to be a whole lot safer without

howered and properly c lothed in

the water. Otherwise, they said, they worried that the

tood seminel outside the lair known a He1ght

olby b xer , where 1t l

muck might be so deep a to pre ent an "engulfment

( outhall, Oruker, Yormak & Ho tier) for the enme year.

hazard" to curious student . { l t wasn't chat deep.)

Late at night, after Commencemem 199 , 1t was, wtth

Armed with o.k. 's from the Planning Board, I FW, DEP, EPA, A

E and 0 HA, the projec t wa a go, Gu Libby

tearful farewells, returned to the pond. (They a keJ to have it back for their fifth reunion rh1

pnng, but the

pened the drain, and four days later the water was nearly g ne. Th rich bottom muck, expo ed to the unlight,

merchant who remed it to student rarry- maker' 111 197 2

promptly turned the pond into a giant petri dish.

and never or i t back.)

dummy was reclaimed by the rightful owner-a local

nee the rond wa emrty and somewhat drY, 0 m

For everal days, curious onl oker prowled the bank .

Hope that the pond would urrender mi plac d refri era­ tor' and olkswagens soon were da hed. In read, all that oul :1 be een were a few beer kegs and enouoh cement blo k to make a barn, dragged onto the ic

to mark

boundarie of long-ago ho key games.

The dis overy n ar the north bank of a ratr of booted legs, feet roimed sk ·ward, ·ent se Lint)' guard Jlmnw dge. l t wa� !1l)t J 1mnw Hoffa.

Dickinson rir-roeino to rh " I t 's either a mannequin or a dead man w1th t\\'t) \\'t't'den Ieos," Dickinson rroc laun d .

\' ord of the ()t)nd c lean111g St't'n �rr 'aci t'n the \\\)rld \' ide \ eb. 1\ lekin Lvon _ e-maded ht'm Ltttle Rt k, rk. , asking the crew w k er an eve t) U t il' r h1- w.1 llet, k),t · -

Gurney, who ha du more � lavtlower H dl ho[e, (and uprooted more underground cable�) than any man h1'tory, gor the b1d to remm·e the muck. bnefly by Th Grear Ice

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talleJ onlr

rorm t)f '9 , he and h1' men

workeJ through the Winter, 'crar111g up and amng off �om l 4 ,L Y) cub1 feet ot the 'tufi ( '' hich \,[h\ wdl keep W miX \\'lth 'and and make p\)\\·erfu[ loam tor Campu'

bwn' and garden'). n Februaf\· 2 , 199 , the Jl'h w,b JecbreJ fim-heJ. In a 111\'nth, the pt,nd t1dd .1n

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If your country's economy i s imploding, i f your currency is m free fal l ,

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if payments o n your dollar-denominated loan are months past d u e , you

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oerjadi ha a M ighty

Power Ranger on his desk. "It' my son's," ays

lorph;n

oeqal h , bouncmg the

popular pla tic action figure on a stack of paper marked 'Urgent.' " He thought maybe 1 could u e it tO bla t all of l ndone ia\ rroblerns away."

That a plaything could help save the

outheast Asian nation's

economy may be a l i tt le optimistic, but Denni Tmg '60 could o1ve anyone a reason tO bel ieve it. "When I wa a l i tt le boy m hangha1," ay the Hong Kong b i l l ionaire, " I was taught that anythmg cou!J happen.

It ounds l ike a c l iche, but my life i proof of that."

The king of Hong Kong' booming roy traJe, Tmg heaJ.., two pla t iC"> comran1e , Kader Hold ings and Quahdux I nJu tnal , whose rroduct-. include Power Rangers,

abbage Patch K1ds and

tar Wars acnon

figures ( 0 m d hon R2-D2 robot and counnng ) . They emrloy more than 1 5 ,

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hen:hen, the

hme-,e-de..,Ignated

re Ial

Economic Zone that border' Hong Kong.

Tmg's story, like that of many other-. m Hong Kong, 1.., enough to make

a Horatio Alger wannabe adort the Asian enclave a.., h1' new horne. Tmg\ iamdy tleLI mamlanJ

hma almo,t 5

year' ago w e are communbm.

The\ ,enled m H, ng J(,mg, where an mtlux ot refugee' JX1wered the temrory\ tr,ln,Ition fwm ,leery colonial b.lCb' ater w hummmg economic center. �'rite the lean \ ear, after \\',)rid \\' ar I I . Tmg\ t.uher made enough m,me\ with h1' Cl)mp.m\ tl) 'end l)ne )n w Germ,1m t,Jr a )\·eted allege ,Jegree and ,m,lther tll the L:.S. "\\'hat mattered w m\' father ml t," ,ay,

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future i1r h1' hddren thr, ugh eJucatiLJn." ,m,

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complex and demonstrate h i s

States. On the West Coast, where Ting stopped briefly to visit

l ove for phys ics-i n which h e

family friends, he had his first taste of American l ife. " I n Hong

m ajored at Colby. Tin g i s

Kong, we were always told that America had plenty of every­ thing," recalled Ting. "I found out that i t had too much of

proudest o f the Levitron, a

everything." I n contrast to a Hong Kong still hungry from

revolvi n g top that fl o ats i n

World War I I , America was a land of leftovers sitting cold on

m i d - air, co urtesy of two

a plate and j u mbo-size soft drinks that rarely were finished. "I

wel l - placed m a g n ets that spur

never saw so much excess in my life," Ting said.

o n the toy's spiral path .

When Ting arrived in Waterville, no welcoming commit­ tee greeted him. No buses picked up students at the now­ defunct train station. I n fact, Ting had to hitchhike up to Mayflower Hill. A dean of international students was a foreign concept, so to speak, and few people knew to dispense friendly tips on such things as how to set up a bank account in town.

Ting spoke good English, but the rapid-fire Northeastern ac­ cents caught him offguard. "People would say something," Ting recalls, "and I wouldn't know whether I should nod or shake my head." Worst of all, there was only one Chinese restaurant in town, he says, and "it wasn't very good."

Still, Ting's trans-Pacific ordeal could not compare with the anxiety hi father mu t have felt on the morning of December 9, 1 949, when he transplanted his seven children to begin a new life in British-ruled Hong Kong. A plastics manufacturer in hanghai, Ting's father left China when he realized Mao Zedong's reforms would stifle entrepreneurs. "In a place l i ke that," said Ting, "how could he keep his business spirit alive ?"

That same exuberance for business drove the multitudes of mainlanders who flooded Hong Kong during the communist takeover of China in 1 949 and later during the grim days leading up to the Cultural Revolution in the 1 960s. Between 1 94 5 and 1 9 5 1 , the enclave's population quadrupled, to 2 . 4 million people. Hong Kong grew up-mainly in t h e form o f j utting skyscraper , piling lives o n top o f each other in ever­ taller building . The mechanized crane was adopted as the territory's unofficial bird, and it worked through the night to accommodate the refugee who poured in from the north. Hong Kong was no longer "a barren island," as a British foreign ecrecary once called it, but a bustling city filled with savvy mall bu me men like Ting' father.

From a humble tart manufacturin g waterproof flashlights, Tmg's father eventually built a vast pla tic emerpri e in Hong Kong. The company' succe

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i land of capt tal i m on the natton'

States, playing Cold War hardba l l ,

outhern flank.

slapped a trade embargo o n China,

For Tmg, the openmg of outhern

ending Hong Kong' tradi t ional role

hma wa a dream come true. Unfet­

as condu i t to the north. I nstead of

tered by tdeologtcal concerns that

passing a dollar to China and c !leer­

might have con trained h t

ing a penny for its service , Hong Kong

Ttng pent the 1 9 0 unapologetically

realized that the buck uddenly stopped in its own Victoria Harbor.

etting up hop tn

econd,

border town,

father,

hemhen. An eene

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eager refugees needed job to j umpstart

cheap neon and the dark make that

their new l ives in Hong Kong. For

belche from factory cht mney . For

Ting and other tran planted industri­

the hopeful-whether they are a -

al ists, the chance to nurture Hong Kong' indigenous manufacturing sec­ tor proved irresistible. A surplus of

embly-l ine workers, prmtitute

Ting 's company i s part of a $ 5- b i l l ion toy industry i n Ch ina.

busy fingers quickly molded the strips of the Ting fam i ly business. Products stamped "Made in Hong

a way tat ton to better

l i ves in Hong Kong. But for too many,

of plast ic that formed the foundation

it end

up being home. Promi e of

annual wages far higher than the 4 3 0 that i the average tn the

Kong" flooded fore ign markets. Flush with cash, the Ting and

re t of China have attracted a flock of newcomer eager for a

other entrepreneurs watched their economy blossom.

joint-venturestake or a job in a start-up factory.

But Hong Kong, thank to its own success, soon faced rising

veneer is communi t; the core i pure Adam

nly hen:hen'

Cheap labor was only one rea on that Ting decided to mve t

wanted service-sector jobs that taxed the i r brains and not their

in China. As the toymaker estimated the potential revenue from

bodies. As education levels rose, the mainland exiles were

1 .2 bill ion cu tamer , he realized that hi inve tment tn Tal\van

increasingly employed as bank tellers, not factory worker , and

could constrain his expansion opportunitie on the mamland.

Ting's father had to look elsewh re for manual labor. China was

"Travel proceeding to

closed for business. Be ides, Ting's father was morally opposed

if we rayed in Taiwan," Ting said.

to inve ring in a communist soc iety. But Taiwan, dubbed the

of Hong Kong's democracy movement, was pleadmg ht cau e tn

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renegade province by Beij ing ince the island p l i t from the

front of the U. .

mainland at the end of the Chinese Civil War, was bur ring

Ting was busy inspecting hi factone in

ongre

a few month before the handover, henzhen.

In the pa t few years, orne half mtl lton manufactunng JOb

factory on the i land, tak i ng advantage of Taiwan' cut-rate

have hifted to

export zones. By the t i me Ting's father di d in 1 976, Taiwanese factories were the backbone of the Ting fam ily bu in s.

future i ," aid Ting. "We are, after all,

Ting soon learned, however, that Taiwan was experienc­

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labor costs that threatened i t manufacturing sector. People

with cheap labor. I n the mid- 1 960s, Ting's father et up hi fir t

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h m a , and

inve tors l ike Ting hope to make tt even more -.o. Fifty- tx

ing the same grow ing pains that Hong Kong had undergone earlier. W i th investment pouring in-not lea t from the U . . ,

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which wa determin d that t i ny Taiwan would su ceed where h ina would not-the Tatwane e government communist

large t tradmg partner. Hong Kong\ lmk '' t th

f all foretgn mve tment pumped tnto the mamland

now goe::. thr ugh Hong Kong, makmg the terntorv

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::.trengthened, s )mew hat at the expense of the ternrorv\ trad i­

real i:ed that the island could thrive wt thout offen ng cheap labor to its richer neighbors, HLmg Kong and j apan. Tatwan\

t ional ly good t tes wtth the West. But

rising labor cosc omC ided w t th a r markaHe set of economtc reforms i n 0 ng X i aoping's hma. educed bv the po-.-, t b t l t t \

er, who clatm there has heen an eru,ton tn human nght ..,tnce

of attrac t i ng sorely needed fL)re tgn exchange a n d mve-,tment that could finance the country's de,·ek)rmg mfrast ructure,

Kong democratic tnstitution' onlv tn the wanmg da,, of t t> rule,

Beij i ng's economic :ars :et abL)Ut creat ing carefu l lY guarded

t t \'e C<.1Un tl that held tt' ftrsr fulh free elections le

htef Executive Tung

hee-hwa, Hong Kong\ unelected leaJer, dtsagree' wtth \Ve,tem­ the handLwer. He ts fond of noting that Bmatn granted Hong hurneJ\y pit)\\ tng human-nght, legt,lat ion through a legt-,la­

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that the owner's company rake

take over on J uly 1 , 1 99 7 . In Beij ing's

tens of m i l l ions in profits each year.

in

eyes, Governor Chris Patten, also

Unlike the edifices in Central, the

unelected by Hong Kong c itizens, un­

territory's business district that house

leashed democratic force , then packed

the massive British financial firm

up and sailed away, leaving China to

whose opulence was funded by the

deal with the chaotic aftermath. Ting

opium trade, these Chinese bu ild ings

i one of many who remain skeptical of

are utilitarian.

Britain's sudden crusade for democ-

N o t that ostentatiousness doesn't

racy in Hong Kong. "Great Britain

lure Hong Kong residents. Per capita,

never believed Hong Kong could rule

Hong Kong roads purr with the most

itself. Then when they were leaving,

Rolls-Royces in the world. In Ting's

they tried to make the place look demo­

mode t office, which is uncluttered by

cratic. It was a farce," he said.

Despite Ting'sdisillusionment wirh

Steel molds for toys are produced i n the factory's machin e shop.

Mont Blanc stationery sets or leather armchairs, two framed wall hangings

Hong Kong's former ruler, he believes

command attention. One is a poster­

democracy will have to thrive in the

sized photograph of Hong Kong busi-

territory for it to remain a regional center of business. "China

nessmen who convened in mainland China to press the flesh

has to realize that Hong Kong's future depends on the transpar­

with Chinese officials. The other is a framed certificate from the

ency of its in titutions," ays Ting. "If corruption creeps into the

Guinness Book of Records, commemorating the longest Rolls­

government, investor

Royce procession in the world. Along with some ZOO others, Ting

will leave. But China is not stupid

enough to let that happen."

took a Sunday afternoon off to line up his gold steed in a chrome

Whether Hong Kong can nurture its democratic roots in the

paean to mammon. The symbolism in not lost on Ting, whose

49 years it has to emi-govern irselfbefore China fully takes over

company started our selling tiny toy cars. "The matchbox cars

remain unclear. But one thing undeniably has changed since

co t about a nickel," he said. "The Rolls? A little bit more."

the handover, and that is the sudden prevalence of mainland

Other gadget captivate Ting's fancy. Unlike the simple molds produced by his father, Ting's creations are increasingly complex and demonstrate his love for physics-in which he majored at Colby. The 40-plus million Mighty Morphin Power

culture. The changing cultural dynamic is evident even in Ting's office.

ecretaries clatter in their native Cantonese,

then pick up the phone and quickly witch to Mandarin, the Chine e dialect poken in the mainland. English is rarely used in the office. (Ting's fluent Engli h undoubtedly helped win him some contract

with big-name client

like Mattei and

Bandai, and hi Mandarin proficiency wa helpful in e tablish­ mg h1 companie in

henzhen. )

Although proud of h i educational certificate -including a recent honorary degree from Worce ter P lytechni In titute, wh1ch rwo of h1 children attended-Ting i largely uncon­ cerned w1th other m re matenal trappmg of succe . H 1 office butldmg m Aberdeen, a ch1zophren1c neighborhood flanked on one 1de by nckety houseboat and on the other by tenlc factory butldmg , 1 unprepm e mg.

o 1gn of grandeur hmt

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Rangers that have oldiered out of Ting's factory may bankroll a glitzy Rolls, but Ting is proudest of the Levitron, a revolving top that floats in mid-air, courtesy of two well-placed magnets that spur on the toy's spiral path. "It's hard to keep all the action figure separate," said Ting, "but this top is unique. It pins on and on."

He pau ed and added, with a chuckle, "hopefully like Hong Kong will, so it can prove all its doubters wrong."

With levitating tops for Hong Kong and Power Rangers for lndone ia, Ting hopes his va t toy che t will help divert Asia from it mounting troubles. And if all el e fai ls, theailing regioncan take

1t cue from another Ting toy: a grinningp lasticdoll that, no matter how many time you pu h it down, always bob back up. +

a reporter for Tunc maga�me

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based m Hong Kong.

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Se n i o r C i ti ze n s Thr e en ior student already hav made an i mportant i mprint on the w rid

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f one u idn't know better, one m ight as ume M iguel Leffs story is fiction. A blonu-haired,

itt ing nexr ro the attorney, bur ofcour e I couldn't peak becau e I u idn'r have a ! teen e , and I wa

blue-eyeu Jew from Mex ico comes to olby and in four years, while earning v i rtually stra ight A '

pa ion to stand up anu pro ecute thi guy, and I

a s a double major in mathematic a n u govern­

thought, 'Maybe I 'd like a law degree. "'

ment, becomes an actor and a debate champion, helps prosecute ca es in wri tes speeches for a

an Oi go courtroom ,

alifornia congr

man and

passing note l ike crazy. I ju r felt tht

Leff decided in hi

j un ior year, Je pire his

convicri n that law wa his de t iny, to experi­ ence life in the business world. He tudied at th

works at Merrill Lynch whi le stuuying at the

London

London

wa a gu st peaker at a

chool of Economic . As humorist Dave

Barry would say, l am not making this up.

Leff left his native Mexi o year later appl ied to

ity in 1 994 and a

olby de pite not knowing

rage and

chool of Econ mic and in

ovember

olby fund-rai ing event

in London, where he exchanged greet i ng with Colby alumnu

harle Hogan ' 7 3 , vice pre i­

dent of investments at Merr i l l Lynch. " ] wrote a

where Maine was. "My m m and I flew to Au­

very aggre ive lett r telling him that I wanted an

gu ta and drove to Watervi l le . It was the first t ime

internship. ! told him that l would call in ten day

my mom ever saw snow and we were dri ving in a

to confirm that he r ceived the letter and to see

bl izzard , " he recalled. The admissions office was

if he wanted to give me an i nt e rview," Leff aid.

c losed when they arrived , so Leff and hi mother

Ten days pa sed, Leff called, got hi interview­

decided to make now angels in a drift nearby. I t

and the internship. He worked in pord: lio man­

was the beginning of a love affair with Colby.

agement at Merri ll Lynch, and though he en­

Linda

joyed it immen ely, he says, the experience u id

otter, as ociate d i rector of off-campu

studies, remembers meeting Leffat a r ception for

not di

uade him fr m a career in law.

first-year students the fol lowing fal l . " H i op n­

''Thank God l got into law chool," aid Leff,

ne s, hi warmth , his delight in being here were

who plans to art nd Vanderbilt next fal l . " I want

immediately evident," she said.

to do omething for rhi legal ystem. Though it'

Leff attack d h is studie w i th fervor in hi first

nor perfect , we can work with i t and fix i t . I 'm now

semester, earn ing a 3 . 8 5 GPA. "But, l thought ,

struggling with wh ther I want to become an

olby's about," he said. "You this is not what need to find a balance." That semester he became a U . . c i t izen , decided to take j apane e ( he even­

see myself someday being an attorney general or

tually minored in it) and received a pre tigiou internship with the ongre ional H ispanic Cau­ cus. He worked that ummer a an aide and spee h writer for ongre sman Bob Filn r from hula

ista, rh

alifornia c ity where Leff

internat ional lawyer or a criminal lawyer. l

an

upreme Court j ustice."

Lofty goals, but if h i Colby experience i any indication, Leff i on the right track. He ha a l i tes and fans in virtually every department at

olby.

A si rant Profes or of Mathematic Leo Ltv hn>, who al o happen to be Leff' favorite profe>>Or,

family relocated. " He d id so well in rhe intern­

call him, "the mathematical equtvalent of a pn

ship," said

bu i i . " L ff ays Ltvshirs "ts my fnend , my profe >or

otter, "that th congres·man tried to

persuade him

ro

accept a fu ll-t ime posit ion."

The following ummer Leff secured a position with rhe depury city attorney of an Oiegc1, !akmt Hammond. H e worked in the c n m mal d t \' tston, translat i ng documents, writing bnef an I bemg parr of a r�am responsible for �e,·eral 'l1Lwtctt ms. " n r ime I was m court <lnd ,,. were r rymg to prosecute rhis guy who ha i in,·en three time� under rhe mtluence of alcl1hol , " LeH '<ltd. "I \\'J'

and the guy who\ mo t mfluenced my !tfe here."

"The be r parr al:our

olby ts rhe profe., or'

and the raff. They know ·ou, they want to help ·ou, the · have fanh m you," Leffsatd. " I r h m k rhe

dec t ton to ome m

I 've made m m\' ! tfe.

l1lbv \\'a rhe \\'lse'r dec t,tlm l1lb\ ha' helped me dectde

what I want ffL1m tn\ pfL1fe"tonal and per,nn,ll ! tfe, what I want fl1r \\llue,. That\ -omerhmg I 'm gc1mg tl1 earn wtrh me. "-jod1 Be:-no ka '9

Busyness, As Usua l

W

hen Associate Professor ofEconomics and I nternational Studies Parrice Franko

needed a student w help organize an ourreach

which means 'white woman' in French. I t was a

program w raise awareness on international is­ sues, Abby Lamben '98 was the obvious choice.

able w allow students w do this kind of research."

Abby Lambert

a

Lambert also has had her share of cosmopolitan

community group, seeks "ro bring the interna­ t ional experience of Colby students w the Waterville classrooms," said Franko, a member of

experiences. During the summer of 1 997 she in­

the board. "When I spoke w my co-board mem­

and met President Clinron. "The most interesting thing was writing letters [ro answer queries]," she

'If anyone can do it, Abby Lamben can.' I didn't know how right I was." The acronym for the new program, Global Outreach, is an appropriate one-word summary of Lamben's college experi­ ence-GO. During her Colby career, Lamben has en­ joyed two years on the varsity ski team and been a COOT leader, chair of the International Stud­ ies Student Advisory Board, a Colby dancer and head of the Adults Reading w Children program at the Colby Volunteer Center. She's been an intern with U ESCO in Toulouse, France, and with the U.S. State Depanment M ission w the United Nations in New York City, and she par­ ticipated in the pilot program for the Ford Foun­ dation research program that sent her for three weeks inro Cameroon w study the progress of democratic change.

Assoc iate Professor of Government Guilain Denoeux, who coordinated Lamben's rrip w Cameroon, says that her energy and enthusiasm for learning are infectious. "Abby is clearly the kind of student who makes teaching at a place like this rewarding; he is intellectually curious, extremely articulate, engaging and dynamic and think fast on her feet. By taking herself w pendent re earch there, she demonstrated that she doe not hesitate w take on intellectual challenge that go far beyond the classroom."

While in ameroon, the first developing coun­ try he'd ever visited, Lambert interviewed news­ paper executive , dissident leaders and political offic 1al . he ltved w1rh a I cal family and con­ ducted all of her re earch independent ly, aided

by her fluency 111 French. "I really thought I was cra:y about a week beforehanJ," she said, laugh­ mg. "But then 1 JU'>t got there anJ hn the ground anJ wa-, l1ke, 'Ainght, I 'm here, l'J better go find pellple ro tnt en 1e'' . ' A bllut halfway through that 1 realt:eJ that 1 haJn't hn any -,evere culture 'hllck. 1 ) LI't g\)t fllL U,cJ . " Hl)\\ e\ er, ,he J 1J get a t<hte of '' hat 1 t '' a., ltke [l)

be a mtnLlrtr\ pcNm. "E,·er, once m a '' htlc, 1f

! happcneJ [l) 'CC ,tnllther \\ hne per,on

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terned at the State Department, where she served on the security advance team for a presidential visit

bers about getting this up and running this semes­ ter, despite a very shan turnaround time, I said,

Cameroon in January, and by conducting inde­

B '

fantastic experience. I t's so huge for Colby w be

Waterville

The M id-Maine Global Forum,

Al l Over the Ma p

I'd realize how ridiculous I looked . . . . There were always people calling 'La Blanche, La Blanche ! '

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to\\ n,

said. "Wewouldger everything from . . . u niversity professors suggesting policies on Iraq . . . w two girls in seventh grade asking for our support in helping end apartheid in South Africa. We didn't

want w have w tell the girls that there was a black president [in South Africa] so we j ust included a picture of Nelson Mandela."

Lambert, who transferred from Wellesley in the spring of her first year, has never regretted the decision. "One of the strongest points about Colby is that there isn't an intense competition among the students. I think that's the thing I most enjoyed here, j ust being able to work hard and have everybody else working hard," she said.

Even in her job hunt, she says, she found a sense of camaraderie. "I was expecting everybody to be cutthroat. There's a group of people apply­ ing to management consulting firms, and I was afraid that no one would tell anyone anything, but we've all been helping each other," she said.

Lambert will join the Carson Group, a financial analysis firm in New York, after she graduates.

David N ugent, associate professor of anthro­ pology, says that Lambert is one of the finest students he has taught at Colby. " [Lam ben's] com­ bination of intellectual gifts and individual integ­ rity made her virtually unique among the many exceptional students that I have had," he said.

Assoc iate Professor of French Adrianna Paliyenko agrees. "Abigail is the kind of person who fo ters a ense of community with her profes­ sors and with her peers. She engages ea ily with people and has a del ightful sense of humor. Abby i a joyou human being whom 1 will remember fondly," she said.

Perhap Franko best characteri zed Lambert in the following anecdote: "Surround ing the over­ eers vi it [for the I nternatio nal Studies Program] , Abby olic ited input from I S majors and helped get the troop out for the lunch and reception w meet with the vi ir ing committ ee. At the end f the reception I was left al ne with the overseer s ream. 1 asked what they thought of our students .

One over>eer captured it well. 'Abby Lamber t,' he ><liJ. ' raduatin g seniors don't come any better than rhat."'-Jodi Beznoska '98

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mag i ne the imperti nence. A college student wri tes to The Wall S treet ]oumal hallenging it�

i n terpretat ion of a debate between environmen­ tali ts and upporters ofa dam in nearby A ugu ta.

The parer respond

with a letter of it own, entially, "nice try, k id . " " ] think they were a little ticked off that some college k i d poked hole in their analy i ," said Geoff Bennett '98, the author of the letter, who

saying, e

subs quently had a similar letter accepted for publicat ion by The New York Times. The contro­ versy over whether the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec Ri ver hou ld be c lo ed wa the subject of a the is wri tten by Bennett, who concluded that rec l a i m i ng the fishery de troyed by the dam's presen e more than offset the cost of removing i t .

The thesis w a s t h e c u l m inat ion o f an exhaus­ t i ve re earch project that i n volved a pile of

ect ion of outhwe tern Montana near the

!ad t ­

son R i ver, 4 5 mdes from the neare t town. Bennett lived there in a mall cahm for about two month., fi hing during the day and workmg a'> a night cook mzly 8c1r &

at the local

n i l to pay expemes.

The experience '>OIIJ ifieJ hi'> love of fi.,hmg and the confidence that he

ould overcome age and

logi tical barners to achieve a goal, he '><lY'>· He organized a fly fi hing club the next fall at olby. The club attracted about 40 member' "and , to my amazement , we ended the fir'>t year with about three hundred dollars," Bennett said.

He sol icited a orporate sponsor, the fi hingequip­ ment manufacturer

rvis, secured college recog­

n i t ion and ensured that the c l ub would pro per beyond hi graduation. "The club is olid. It w i l l g o o n without me," h e said.

The idea for hi

the i

came while he was

documents " l i terally as high as my head," Bennett

fishing on the Kennebec River below the Edward

said. It also wa a capstone to an extraord i nary

Dam, Bennett say . The Jam, built in I

col lege career.

longer useful as a power source but significantly

Bennett could be a poster boy for the l i beral

3 7, is no

reduces the habitat for seven pecies of fi h, he

art . A double major in c lassics and economics,

says. "I didn't want to write a thesis like 'G

he also was a captain of the men's squash team for

Friend or Foe ,"' Be n n e t t j o k e d . " Professor ro

P:

two years and founded a fly fi h i ng c lub on cam­

[ M ichae l ] Don ihue ncourageJ me

pu . Bennett says he sees his interests, in and out

subject that intere ted me. It would never have

of the clas·room, as complementary. "Each has

occurred t o me that I could write a thesi

been a good foi l for the other," he said. "When I

involved fly fi h i ng."

get t i reJ of the numbers in economics, the clas ic study provide a good balance. The c lassics re­

Hi

do i t on a that

re earch inc luded dozens of hours of

interviews with local fishermen, hydrogeologists,

quires that you break down a piece into its com­

state offi c i a l , env ironmental experts and indu -

ponent parts, then put i t back together to try to

trial repre entative

understand it. The same proces works in eco­

benefit analysis that incl ude the valuat ion of

·.

U ing a sophi ticared cost/

nom ics. The analysis brings a more fu ll-bodied

the fishery affected by the dam, Bennett con­

perspect ive."

c luded that removing the dam made sense eco­

Ultimately, Bennett says, all of his col lege acti it ies have been studies of human nature. I n

nomically and environmentally. "H igh natural valuat ions result from the fac t that Edward

that respect, h e says, squash has been a s edu a ­

Dam blocks the passage of anadromous fish

tiona! a s any o f h i s classes. A co-captain hi junior

spec ie . . . . The removal of the Jam would allow

and senior seasons, Bennett was "a tremendow.

thi habitat to be repo·se sed and would greatly

asset off the court" as well as a fine player, says

inc rease their numbers," Bennett wrote m h i>

men's squash coa h Fred Brussel. Bennett received

the is. "The potent ml use of natural resource

a spec ial commendation as a s holm-athlete at the national hampi01rhips, where olby fin ished in

economics, which could ·et many precedent' m

the top I 2 in the count ry. "The athletics have been ver ' important to me developmentally," Bennett said. "The experience of working wirh ,1 group of people-resolving conflicts, moving everylx>dv toward a common goal-is �omethmg that I can appl · in m · professional hie."

Bennett is a passionate th fi�herman anJ that , too, influence 1 his college path. Dunng the 'um­

mer after his freshm<m year Bennerr ,mJ a Clluple of hinh schlXll huJJtes leoJecl w e'�'lllre the nite 1 �t,ue�. They �etrleJ m .1 reml)te west n

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F i s h i ng For An swers

this case , make this l demma one of natmnal Import . I ndeed, the valuauon of natural re­ sources Is what makes removal of E I war b D<1m the most compe l l mg opt ion ."

I n adJ n llln t l l pwducmg the letter m the Tnnes, Bennett anJ hi> thesi' Jrew the pr;me llf the Porrland Pres Herald. I n an l1p-eJ amcle, the rarer's echtofl;ll page edi[l)f, ,, l i J

t'Orge

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Bennett\ h nJ mg, were th,.lrllughh rer,ua­

'I\ e . " l 'm nllt 'LirC hl)\\ r he ,e , .ue g r,1Je !," , 'e,l\ ,)11 " wre, "hut 111 m\ J udgment thh l1lle Je,en e' ':\. "'-/(.:t m

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SALLY

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Cedric Bryant leans forward l ightly in h is chair, seeming with that small movement to fil l the space between himself and hi listener, whom he pins with h is eyes. "'harriet,"' he says, '"if i be you/let me not forget/to be the pistol/pointed."'

He allows the quotation, from a poem by Lucille Clifton H '94, to sink in for a few moments. Then his listener smiles-getting it, really hearing what the lines say-and Bryant beams back. He is all reacher, savoring the flash of recognition that signals a lesson learned.

ot to lose the moment, he quickly egues to a line from

b u l l i e -from taking your lunch. I t was a sort of desperate strategy that sometimes worked, sometimes didn't," Bryant ays. "They would either be convinced and go pester somebody else, or they wouldn't and they wou ld take your lunch anyway, or they would demand that you spit in it in their presence."

The family spent one year in Wam-"My mother worked very hard to get us out," Bryant says-and then moved to an upper-middle-class, mostly Jewish neighborhood i n West Los

Emily Dickinson: "�ly Life had stood-a Loaded Gun . . . . "

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astounde d to see students spitting into their food. "I learned that you did this in order to deter these roving gang -the

"Lucille C lifton and Emily Dickinson both signify on the

Angeles, where they managed several apartment buildings and

arne metaphor, the loaded gun, in these two poems that are

where Bryant attended high school. "This was probably an even

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TO

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separated by O\'er a hundred years. They speak

greater culture shock," he says, "but it was a

to each other," he says. The look on his face

benevolenr kind of culture shock . " Hopeless in mathematics because all the moving around

a k , l n't that omething1

he did disrupted his math education-he

Bryant, a peciali t in American and Afri­ can-American l iterature and chair of the En­

notes that he t i l l can't balance his check­

glish Department, has taught at Colby since

book-Bryant says no one on the high school

. He i among the most popular professors

faculty took much of an interest in his aca­

on campus-the Class of 1 994 awarded him

demic future. " I was a black student in a

the

predominantly white high school who played

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enior Class Teaching Award-and he

wa named Maine Teacher of the Year in 1 996

athletics and therefore fit a little too easily

by the Cameg1e Foundation for the Advance­

into stereotypes," he says. Still, his strengths

ment of Teach in g.

in reading and writing allowed him to spend

Bryant came to Mayflower Hill from a tenure-track position at Ea tern Washington began

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tate Uni,·er ity. Bur hi journey really

rural Arkansa before he was born.

three years on the school'

literary magazine and to take ad­

vanced English courses.

There were other lessons along the way. Bryant remembers his

H1s parents were reared in a smal l farming community. They

mother taking him and his siblings along on an apartment search.

l t ved on the same road, and both were members of large fam ilies.

tanding on the sidewalk in front of one small, appealing complex, Bryant noticed a woman standing j ust to the side of the

They left Arkan as in their early twenties to join the Great M 1granon of Afncan Americam from the c 1 t tt�'> m the

orth, pnnc 1pally

outh to industrial

h 1cago. When Bryant was a

'mal l boy the famdy mo\'ed from

h 1cago to Lo:, Angele>.

R!) anr' father and uncle had been stationed 111

al tforn1a dunng

World War I I and 'a'' It a., a place where everyone could pro.,per.

But the fam tl\ founJ thar l1fe coulJ be harJ rhere, too.

"I gre'' up Ill Lo Angele-. to the extent rhar anybody actually

gro'' ' up m Lo., Angcle-,'' B!)·,mr '><lY'· "Whar you do 1.,

\Uf\' 1 \'e

ch dJhollJ anJ <IJole,cence."

Bry.mt \ parent' 'epararecl '' hen h e '' . � , m J Unior h 1gh ,chool, .mJ he, h1' motheranJ h " hrother anJ ,l,ter mm eJ to Wat t'>, one

, ,f the p<tnre't 'ecrton' of the C i t ) It

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1 96 3, two ye < l r I dore

the \X1.ttt' nut,, .mJ Br, .mt, '' hu h.tJ heen l t ,·mg 111 ,1 lower­ " mid l le-d,t" nelghhorho,,J, '·l\ ' he e x p e n e n e J re,t l culture ,hocL" E,peu,tlh ,It 'Lh<lttl

"There· \\ ,1, ,1 !,!ntc,omc 'LenL' e n:f\ ,1.1, , " 1 rh peo p l e t:ett tng

hc.tten up. no ,,rJer 1n the d.h,ro<ll11 . rc.t her <>cc.t, ton,dh r.tpeJ 1 11 the h.tthroom,, th tng' ltkc th.n ," he '·''' He remem­ h�r' \'1 \ tJh h1' f t r,t J.t\ 1n the ,.J1 , ol lur1Lhroum, \\ here he \\ ,1

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curtains in the manager's office. She hurriedly drew the curtains closed. When the family knocked, she didn't open the door.

"It wa n't j ust about race," Bryant says. "It was about sexism and gender, too. My mother '' as a ingle parent with three kids." But, he adds, "There wa not any real bitterne s, it was more disappoint­ ment and shock. omehow we were able to understand that, well, th1., would be difficult. If we owned an apartment, would we really '' anr to take rhc risk of renting to a single parent with three very

healthy ktd'>, all of whom arc big for their agel" Rryant credt t his mother with passing along that generous out look . H e got her apprec tat ion for learning, too. "She was very prouJ of he r own h tgh -,chool diploma, " he says. "And in terms uf the peN mal a-. well <'�'> the '>Oc ial >tgn ificance of an educatio n .mJ of <l degree, her htgh '>chool diploma was every bit as tmportan t .1-. Ill) undergr< tduate degree was. Both were very hard­

won, ,mJ 111 term-, of the way-. 111 whtch degrees can be cataly ts fur up\\ .trJ mohdtt y , theyc -.erved the same purpose ."

Bry ,mr' grade-. \\ere good enough to qualify him for college , l ut four ) e.tr' at .t untver'> lt) "looked tmpossible," he say . Hi

mother worried that the fam i l y would incur a rna i ve debt , but with the help of a neighbor who went to L Angele ity College and knew there were fund avai lable for minority tu­

I wa

true, that Faulkner would acknowledge it a

aying wa

truth"), Bryant immer ed him e lf. 'The di ranee to be traver ed measurable not ju t imply in term of race, my being black and

w

dents at Californ ia's state universitie , Bryant applied and wa adm itted to an Diego tate U n i versity. He b came the fir t

Faulkner b ing white, but there were generational difference ,

member of hi

ence that would have t be negotiated in order for me t become

there were regional difference , ther were myriad kind of differ­

immediate family ever to attend c liege. Aca­

demic and ba k tball

authoritative ab ut Faulkner," Bryant ay . "What kept me com­

cholar hips helped with expen e , al­

though Bryant later turned down an N

AA

ing back to Faulkner over and over again wa the compelling way

cholar hip to

concentrate on hi stud ies.

until hi j u n ior year. "But at a m ment I can n

UN - HAM LET - L I KE .

C R EAT E

A

T H E R E

WAY

TO

raci m i what creatively pr pel led o much of hi fier i n."

Talking ab ut Faulkner almo t give Bryant an aura, a if the

longer remember

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A

n prej udice . Hi own

and hi own di comfort with hi cultur '

discomfort about rae

white American and European l i terature-almost exclu ively

YOU

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that Faulkner found to wre tie with hi

An Engli h major, he says he tud ied the traditional canon­

D I F F E R ENT

ACCOMM O DA T E

R E LAT I O N S H I P

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TO

COEX I S T

TO

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W I T H

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in time but still can recall emotionally, I read th p etry of Audre

air around him i charged.

Lorde and then learned, later, that she was black," he say . From

a complex tapestry around the word obverse, which occur in The

then on, though he never took a formal cours in the subject, he

Sound and the Fury when Quemin Comp on conclude that "a

was a voracious reader of l iterature written by African Americans.

n igger is not a per on o much a a form of behaviour; a orr

Reading on his own, he says, allowed him to "create [my] own

obver e reflection of the white people he l ive among."

panth

itting in hi

olby office, he weave

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Take not , Bryant in ists. "He didn't say rever e r conver e, he

n, [my] own canon, not having any traditional parameter

that w re imposed by a teacher or a profes or in a c las room. I think

aid obv rse . . . . What Quentin is recogn izing at that momem i that blackness and whitene

it fre d m to roam all over the map."

are not con tam , not ab olute , but

The depth f h is exposure to African-Am rican l iterature gave

are cultural constructions. A nigger doe n't in fact exi t in any

Bryant a chance to see how it is uniqu , especially since he also has

oth r way than inan ab traction, becau e it' the obver e reflecti n

read

xten ively ( to say the least) in other genres. Take, for

of the white people he lives among." When Bryam teache The

instance, the idea of evil. " I n African-American l iterature, the

Sound and the Fury, he illu rrate thi poim by a king a male

mod I of a hero is un-Hamlet-like," Bryant says, explaining that a

stud nt-if he' lucky there' one who matche hi

protag nist like Hamlet struggles with his inability to defeat evil.

plu inche -to rand with him, back to back, in the cemer of th

ix feet, five­

"In African-American literature, there i ad iff rent relationship to

room. Obverse. "Culturally, hi t rically, interper onally, racially

evil and to larg ideas like that. I t's more a matter that you create

c njoined, inextricably bound together and yet bound to ether in

a way to accommodate evil, to coexist with it. U l timately, what

a way that ha them oppo ing each other, not eeing each other."

Much as he appreciate "clas ic" American text , Br am ay

characters in G loria N aylor's fiction and T ni Morri on's fict ion and ther realize is that there's no uch thing a annihilating evil.

he d e n't bel ieve in a static canon, though what i tau ht withm

. . . Evil function like the second law of therm dynamics covering

th

nergy: it can change form, but it can't be de tro ed. The big qu tion bee mes, h w do I construct the right relation hip to a

profound effect on tudent . He ay he tre e to th

con traint

of a

politic of th

As a graduate student at the Uni er-it of ali� rnia at fri an-Ameri an l itera­

and it ha

ture and lit ratur in oeneral. Wh n it am t ime to elect a t pi n id r d Thoma Hard •-and � r his d t ral di ertati n, he

who e ideas of '

olb ,• 1=e ial c lie ti n of Hard • material -but r ngaoed hi head an :1 n t hi heart. "I wa n t auth th � und pa si nate a!: out it," h sa . "From th r ir was a -hort tep to

ion

A ked what the d i T nt

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It' n t a hange at all.

I -t

satd literature i

pa si nate about Faulkner-n t p) i tivel ofthe t i me it was !=a i n derived from p rplex i r · and fru tran n, as well as a gr at d a! of awe . "

that rrans

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n and Faulkner and th r have ulture,

mom m, an · pam u lar ra tal r thnt

ettino an ag nda bi, en ugh for a :1 ):en .rudent- ( " I w med abl r writ ab ut Faulkner and n b really ertam that whct b t

tc

and the

u ten, Bryam atd, " l n one w y ,

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p wer that the individual m the p

f the thin s I had alwa ·s been was all f the t ime.

ubtle but quite definite r p rcu

r th ' anon' are haped b · the p wer that a yllabu h

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e wh are

am.! what to mclude and wh

what to exclude i an act feither emp wermem rdi

Diego, Bryant taught American and

ne

can have

yllabu ."

"The deci ion about wh

an

W i l l iam Fau lkn r.

cour

con idering career in teaching that th y need to reco nt: "the

w rid, to a c smo , that's greater than I am, bigger than I am, that allows m to live in harmon with it-and with my elf."

di

eme ter- or year-Ion

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we're still trying to contend with. It's the reason we continue to

Bryant explained that in Du Bois's view, culture is a top-down

ghettoize the study of l iterature and why it's always a struggle to

phenomenon: the top tenth is supposed to be a civi lizing element

move toward a more comparative, cross-cultural, interdiscipli­

for everyone else.

nary approach." He says he looks forward to the day when "so­ called minority studies" are fully and seamlessly integrated into existing academic departments. "We'll know we're there when

"But," said a woman named N ina, "what if the tenth abandons the other ninety percent?"

Bryant's eyebrows lifted. Exactly. "I t's a white, patriarchal mentality he's borrowing," he said. " I t's operating with the same

we can drop the term 'minority,"' he says.

ideas as the people you are oppressed by, and the best you can do

Bryant h imself is most engaged with l iterature that deal

is assimilate, not stand out."

w i th moral imperatives-what Faulkner called the old veri­

His classroom is a scene of complete civility-and that's

tie . Y o u ' l l find those, he points out, i n all great l iterature. " It's art for the sake of human beings. It's art in the service of

important, Bryant says, because he wants students to be "com­

ociety and of social relationships," Bryant says. " It's art to make

fortable enough to say what they think, to specu late, to risk being

the world a better place. Since I was a child I've gravitated toward

wrong and to run that risk out loud. " He sometimes begins a

l iterature which at least seems to uphold that particular value.

course by saying that his students must accord each other the

. . . I t's always been writers who are passionately concerned,

presumption of good intentions. Otherwise, he says, the class

although not always explicitly or in a way that's didactic, with

cannot go where the material-slave narratives, stories about

moral issues, writers and texts that wrestle with the enormously

"incest, rape, love, death, hatred, evil"-takes them.

Students still falter, especially when it comes to the word

complex problem of how to be a good person."

Bryant brings that passion into the classroom, along with the

nigger and other inflammatory terms. But there comes a time,

belief that teaching involves "helping students experience the

Bryant says, when one "no longer has to consciously raise those

literature and the culture three-dimensionally, by taking writers

fingers to invoke quotation marks. Getting to the point where

off of the flat page and giving them body, making them stand up

that's not necessary is the measure of how well you've learned to

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negotiate conflict and crisis. Also, it's the moment when you've

He means it literally. A Bryant class is a performance­

moved beyond political correctness."

sometimes starring him, ometimes starring the students, some­

He gives an example from Toni Morrison's Beloved, when

times both-in which nothing takes place in the wings. It's all

Schoolteacher makes a list of Sethe's human and animal traits. I n

center rage, with Bryant pacing amid the tables arranged around

that context, Bryant says, "Sethe is not a Negro o r an African

him, backing up to within inches of a desk and stopping before he

American. Sethe is a nigger. . . . At the moment when one is inside

bump into it, speaking in long, richly textured sentences. When

Schoolteacher's consciousness, it is simply wrong, it's a distortion,

he quote a poem or a piece of prose he stands still, allowing

to use 'African American' when he's talking about Sethe."

students to focu on the words.

Bryant says he likes teaching at Colby because most of the

ln a meeting of his African-American women writers course

students who enroll in his classes "come prepared to be changed

thi semester, he read a pas age from a W.E.B. Du Bois essay, "The

in some way. They expect something not j ust intellectual but

Talemed Tenth," in which Du Bois contended that his race would

emotional to happen." One of the things his students seem most

be " aved" by its exceptional people, its talented tenth. Bryant

willing to do, he ays, is to get beyond the "cultural cannibalism"

ked the students to rate the e ay and to be a critical of it and of Du Bot as po ible. " I t' not always popular to cast tone at people

so prevalent in our society.

"It' something bell hooks writes about-ea ting the other," he

like Du Boi ," he aid. "You and I have to get beyond that."

The e ay u es the word men to repre em all per n , male and

says. "We eat each other' culture on the level of entertainm ent, but it doe n't affect us substantial ly as people. Look at supermar­

female. I that extst? Bryam a ked. How much latitude hould Du B ts get, gtven that he publi hed "The Talemed Tenth" in

ket , with their de ignated 'ethnic food' sections. You find tort illa in the same place you'll find gefilte fish and wa abi. I t's a vacation. ! t's tw week in the Bahamas. While you're there you might allow the hou ekeeper to do up your hair in dreadlock s, but

19 3 J ot much, accordmg to one female tudem. "Tht was the nme of woman uffrage," he a td. "But Du Bois and the men of the Harlem RenaL ance were talkmg pecifically to men."

Another tudent chtpped m that when Du Bo t ay "men" the tmpl tcanon 1 that men make better leader . nll another pomted

1 r could u e the tdea of a ralemed tenth ro keep a people down. "It' nor enough. A ract r could say, 'Only a remh, h your O\\ n admt,'>LOn, deserve the vote,"' he satd.

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you're going to be ure to un-dread lock yourself be� re you pass through the turnstile at U. . ustoms . . . . That' what makes it cann tbal t m , a one-dire cti nal consump tion of culture, not a rei anon htp to dtfferen e and to cultural orherne s that we allow

to uan form u , to add on to who we are. The great fear is that the cultural prox tmtty of the other, the clo enes of the other, is

somehow going to res u l t in some d i m i n u t ion of our�elve�: one

where '>tudcnt> arc genera l ! ) better off fmanc 1 a l h anJ acaJcm l ­

m i n us one, not one plus one equals t wo."

c a l l � and ,uc not t\ p1c,1 l h t h e fir't 111 t h e 1 r f,1m d 1e' to g o to

Members of m i nority groups have l i t t l e h01ce, Bryant '<1)''>, hut to form a relationsh ip w i t h the ma] o n t y c u l t u re . H e C l tC'> h i mse l f as an example. "When you happen to he V i rt u a l l y the

col lege, \\<1, 'ome t h mg R n , m t con,tdercd c.uefu l ly . " I \HlrriCLI a hour ah;mdon mg the other.,'' he '<1\ ' · Final!) , though, he heeded <1 long-,tandm!.! mfatuanon. " I t 11a'

only African-Americ an male over si x-five who 1 1 \·cs in Waterv i l le ,

c11 England," he '.1) . "In ht!.!h ,chon! I td l 111 lo1 c wnh the wo

M a i n e , acc u l t u ra t i on i s a given. I t 's n o t e v e n ;omc t h m g y o u '>top

rom<Jntl 1dca of

to t h i n k aho u t . W h i te people arc rarely 1 11 th1;

Rohcrt Fro'>t ,md Emd� D1ckm,on." Fro,t \ poem "R1rchc," 11 a'

ul t u ra l po" uon.

c11 England through rc,llllll!.! a l m le hn

much

When they arc in rough ly the same s i t uat ion, 1 t \ vacation, 1 t \

cspcc 1all� mflucntlal. "I gre11 up 111 a part of L\b

temporary. You k now you

many t ree'> of <Jny k md, .md I 11 a' C<lpt i i , H cd hy t he 1de;1 of ,1 11 h nc

arc," h e says. "Tha t'

an g o bac k t o t h e w a y t h i ngs u'>ually

an ovcr�impl ificat 1on,

ngelc' 11 1th not

tree 11 uh 'peel,, of hl.1ek Ill it' trunk ,mJ £!reen

b u t i t is h a rd for the majori t y to do t h i s

bn·c-,. Wh,n 111 the 11 oriJ 11·otdd rh,n b . 1k h ke ?"

w i t hout t remendous c rea t i v i t y."

(

For t hat reason Bryant approves of Colby's

t nne t unc he al'o 11 a' en h<JntcLI h\ Fro,t \

de-, "nption of an 1cc 'torm, but he pn:tt� much

req u i rement that all students take cour cs to

got over that dunng

fu lfi l l a "di versity" req u i remen t . " I t'· a place to

hN J•mu.1ry\ 'tunn . )

A-, i mportant a ' Br, ; m t \ Ea,tcm '\ ,l,h­

start ," he says. And as one of a few African­

mgton )Oh may h<Jvc hccn to h 1 111 and to tho'c

American men on the fac ulty, Bryant is, like i t

he taugh t , he al,o ha, had a profound unp,lCt

or not, a role model. "An Afri an-American

on Colhy '>tudcnts. Whar he refer' to <1' " l i !e ­

male get t i ng a Ph.D. in English from a fine

changmg cxpcncncc-," al mo't h a 1 c tu t a k e

graduate school doesn't happen easily," he says.

pia c 1 1 1 a c ia" �tudymg a 'tor, l1ke Tun1

"Over the last ten years, the average number of

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Ph. D.'s awarded to African-American males in l i terature and

black and one wh i te , who meet 111 an orphan,1gc and keep encoun­

Engl ish was three a year. I t wa" four or four point five for Afri an­

tering each other into their late zo,. 'The reader ncn:r k no11·,

American women. Ver us one hundred twenty for wh i te women

which i� white, which black," Br,·ant 'a''· "� !orn,llll ,,ud ,he

and n i nety f or w h i te men. I t 's a ridicu lou disparity.

wanted

"I had the benefit of graduate fe l lowships and wonderfu l men tors and a lor of good l uc k . And I believe the old Africanmcrican tru ism t ha t what goes around comes around. If you bel icvc tha t-or if you believe i n k a rma-you accept the re>pon­

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to

erao,e rac ial s1gn 1fier' to -,h011 ho11 unporr,mt r,Kc

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The reader 1 contmually compelled W 1dcnnh them r,1ua l h .

The act of doing that mcam you're

a l i m!! on your 011 n 'tore ot

racial prcj ud1ce�." When '>tudcnr' Lh,cu" the 'tor, , '\,1mc ,1 ,umc they k noll' ll'ho\ ll'har, and rhc1 are 'urpn,cLI to lc,1m rh

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except to be a po::.1t ive role mode l .

111 the cia.,-, don't o,harc rhe1r \ICII',. They bcgm to talk ,lb.,ur rhe1r

. . . M · st udents arc going ro be t h e bearer, o f u l r ure, they arc going to be i n posit ions ro e i t her cmrowcr nr di ::.empowcr, to

preJ LILiicc-.. Thl'> "' nor an cxerc1'e 111 .K,ll.lcmic re,1 l m!.!. T11" ' '

s i b i l i t y . I don't have a c hoice

e i t her move to the center or keep a t the pcnphcry group' of

about rcal-ll'orld expencnce,, a n d n \ ,1h1ur (lUr,ch-c, " Bryant and h" ll' lfc, G a d , lm e I ! \I n!! 1 11 , ! .1 me

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people, idea>, a l l k i nds of th ing::., in t h e 1 r formal and mformal

" on the ro;1d 'Por.1d1calh lllr ,1bour Ci!.!ht mont h ' lll the ' ' 1r ,,

i n terac t i ons w i t h people, reople who arc LhHcrenr from them.

a con,u ltanr tor a computer Cl llnp,uw b l'ecl m . I to lll\ " l l1 ke r he

That's wh

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it's enormous! · important tn me

w

be a pll'> l t l\'e

i n fluenc e in t he l i ves of my ::.rudenrs."

Bryant ::.ays he had >Ome qualm::. abllUt le<1\' l ng 111, Jllb at Eastern \Vash mgron i n 1 988; there , Wll, he had been .1 n1le mndel, and t he pn>l t l lln he fi l led ll'a' cre<HeLI tll t.1kc ach .mr.1ge nf h i s strengt h,. " I\ ! \' ,rudcn t> 11 ere rrecl,lml n,m th 11 ,1rk mg c l.1", st udents ll'h,, i n many m::.wnce' ll'ere t he ftr,r 1 11 II\ ILiu.1 1, 111 r h.: 1 r ex tended C1n1 1 he, tn g,1 t l l Cllllege. :\n I t herL' 11 er.: trl''-J U l' nr h students ll'hll \\'ere rwr II'CII prep,1 recl a ",Jck m1c.1lh . rh,,ugh there \\'ere \'l'r\' c l e;1rh· dcl11<1rC,lteLI ,lrl'.1' lll neeLI. d.:.1r ri.lCl'' II her.: I Clltdd make <1 ,hfterence," he

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1\bml.' I\ e !!,men rn knlm ," he

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"I l i k e the re, 1 p le . The1 're

hone'r <llld rhc1 're !.!encr,,u,-e,reu l l h tll ,tr,mg··r,. lr\ mt cr­ e,r mg; I 'ee mllrl' mre rr,1u 1 l b m d 1e' 1 11 . !.11 n,· rh.m I e1 er J,,! ,n ..;;, 1urhern

ahf,,mla."

He "'ukl h.n l' c h,,,cn r,l i i\·L· ,1m 11 here , , t L O ur e, tour 11 ,ltL h m.: Rr,.mr 111 the c i .J _., r,xlm ,.,1u ge t the t".:cl mg t h.n ch1 ' ' lc-n m , rh.n

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N ow We ' re Ta l k i ng Rea l Money O r , what does this have to do with the p rice of eggs in B razil ?

B)' Kevin Cool

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n the realm of international economics, where hard cur­

rency re traint and macro stabi­ l i:ation are standard fare and where words l ike "oligopoly" are uttered with a straight face, is it possible that there i room for a l ittle levity ?

Patnce Franko

Patnce Franko, assoc1ate pro­ fe;sor of econom1cs and Interna­ t iOnal ;tud1e , thmks so. An ad\'oc ate of the "case style" teachmg method, m wh1ch real­ ltfe 'cenano' '>er\'e a> the text'> for exammmg economiC theory, Fr,mko put' her -,tudent> -,qua rely IntO the world of hyper-mfla­ nnn, careenmg currenc1e' and p<l l l [ t .1l uphea' al m enrral and nuth A menca o,· er the pa,t n' o deud..:,. Sht.: dnw on nearly 2L \ L',tr ,,f e'pertencL re,earchmg .mJ '' ntmg .l r<>Ut the econo­ m lt.:' of rh.n rec�<m .mJ ,1 gtfr for d.mty m:.: rh prc<m-hean l.m­ cu.l ·e of mrern.Hilln.ll t.:C<lll<ll11-

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ic . And she does it with panache.

Franko wants her students to know the fundamentals of eco­ nomic crises and their resolu­ t ions but also to understand how such events affect people's lives.

on. Parents Weekend Patrice

In her c lass on Latin American

was running around talk ing to a l l of these people who m ight

economics, her "been there, seen

have connections down there, asking them if they knew any­ body who could help me. Her husband, Sandy [Maisel], said to me, 'She did more work for you today than anything. "' Franko says h e r i n terest in finding opportu n i t i es for students tems from her own un­ dergraduate experience. As a psy­ chology and economics major at Buckne l l , she had given no thought to graduate school until a mentor, professor Stephen Stamos, insisted that she con­ sider continuing her education.

"He got me thinking about the possibilities," she said. "That is both the goal and the gift I want to give my students."

Even after Stamos's interven­ t ion, however, Franko was not sure a Ph.D. was in her future.

"But a few hours after I got a call from Procter and Gamble offer­ ing me a job, Notre Dame cal led to tell me they were giving me a free ride [to attend graduate school there]," Franko said. "I was saved from a career in soap." he came to Colby in 1 9 6 after two year teaching at Trin­ Ity ollege and spent the 1 9909 1 academ1c year as an AAAS Fellow at the Pentagon working m mternar tonal ecurity affairs.

The cxpcrtence tempted her to con tder a career 111 poltcy work, ,he 'ay,, hut love of teachmg won nut. The cxpertcnce also ,nl tdtftcd Franko\ hel tcf that h.mJ,-on work " tth poltcy agcn­ ctt.: " cructal for faculty who tL'.I h tntcrnanonal aftatr,.

Embedded in her lecture on monetary p o l i c y d u r i ng the Bra:i l ian crisis of the 1 980s is a desc r i p t i o n of workers who purch ased goods early each month becau e the 70 percent monthly inflation made their paycheck v irtually worthless within weeks. "I need a way to teach economics to students whose economics tool boxes are different si:es," Franko said. "Ev­ ery student may not understand the intricac ies of inflat ionary economies, but they all have ex­ perience buying groceries."

Franko ays that ifshe seem to make learning enjoyable it's be­ cause she's having fun domg it.

"We ha,·e the best jobs in the world," he aid. "We get to col­ lectively talk and think about ideas all day. And they pay us for it."

A popular professor whose tie w1th student endure long after the rudent leave May­ flower H tl l , Franko IS respected both for her experttse and for her engagmg tyle. Those who have worked closely wnh Franko are part tcu larly grateful for her ad\'ocacy on the1r behalf. " he\ mcred 1hle. he works so hard for ,rudent,," sa1d jeana Flahl\'e '9 , an ad\' I ee anJ re.,earch a'­ "'rant of Franko' , " ho'e m­ termhlp m Wa,h mgron, D. ., Fr.mko ,1rrangeJ. "L1't fall ! " , 1 , try mg to fmJ ,1 C<mrae t w 1 t h .1 corporation 111 Guatem.tl.t for .1 re,e.trch p.tper I " •" workmg

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that" experience produces helpful illustrations for students. During an explanation of the role that the secondary market on bank loans played during the 1 980s debt cri is in Latin America, a student near the front of the classroom raised her hand. "I don't understand.

How do you 'buy' debt?"

Franko began, "Debt is an asset . . . " then paused. She reached down and picked up a paper off the desk, holding it a loft as she continued. "This paper is a note that says that you , Emily, owe me, the Bank of Patrice, one hundred dollars," she said. "The Bank of Patrice is risk averse-we don't want to take the chance that you won't repay the loan-and our costs of servicing this loan are h igh, so we sel l this note to Darin over here for sixty dollars," she said, walking with the paper to an­ other student's desk. "The note is still worth one hundred dol­ lars. Darin is willing to pay me sixty dollars for it becau e he knows Emily and he knows she's a hard worker and will pay off the hundred dollars , in which case he will make a forty-dollar profit. And the Bank of Patrice is happy because we have im­ proved our position by d ivesting ourselves of a risky loan."

Franko walked back to Emily's desk and waited for her acknowl­ edgment that she understood the example. When Emily nodded, Franko handed her the piece f paper. "Here," she aid with a gnn, "this i debt forgiv ness."

The class laughed. +

The Core of Discovery Bruce Rueger ha

unk to new

not l and. Rueger �u�pected h 1 rd�

depths i n hi search for answers.

a pos� i h l e earner> mce a n u m ­

A seni r teac h i n g as ociate

b e r of b i rd

pec ie 1

m igrate he­

in the Department of Geology,

tween the

Rueger wa puzzled by t h e quartz

A m erican m a m land. H e ana­

sand he was fi n d i ng in sed i ­

l yzed the �tomach content� of

ments from core sample o f Ber­

I S b i rd �pe c i e� from Bermuda

muda ponds and m a rshes. The

and found quartz gram 1 11 e1ght

sou rce o f t h e s a n d was an

of them. Of these eight, five­

e n i g m a : the islands of Bermuda

the ruddy turn tone, the com­

are c o m posed o f l i m e s to n e

mon � n i pe , the

land

and the

ora , the com­

above s e a level and volcanic

mon moorhen and the fulvous

rock below sea leve l . None has

w h i s t l i ng duc k-are

any s ig n i ficant quartz in it. A t

m igratory v i s i tors.

t h e a n n u a l meeting of the Geo­ logical

ommon

p u ndits & p laudits H i l lary Hang Tough Professor Jane Moss (French and women's s1ud1es) was a classmate of Hillary Rodham Clinton al Wellesley College and she approves of lhe stance the f1rs1 lady has taken on the prestdents alleged sexual tmproprteltes "There tS a lot of hypocnsy gotng on [among those crtltcal of Rodham C ltnton] · Moss told The Boston

Globe, and we should all be proud lhal Htllary hasn 1 nsen lo the batt, hasn l gotten teary or huffy, retreated tnlo a shell, dumped her husband or threatened dtvorce Whal shows tS her tnner strength and character and !hats what people admtre

Same Old Stories I n a letter lo Harper's magaztne, Assislanl Professor Julie de

R ueger c a l c u l a t ed t h a t i t

Sherb i n i n (German and Russtan) look exceplton to the c l atm lha

oc i e t y of A m e r i c a ,

would t ake between 1 5 ,000 and

ntne Anton Chekhov short stones had been newly dtscovered" by

Rueger presented e v idence sug­

62 ,000 m igratory birds v isiting

scholar Peter Constanltne "Russtans have been readtng hese

ges t i ng that North A merican

Lover's Lake each year to account

'dtscovenes' for over one hundred years . .. she wrote ·and Slavtc

b i rd

for the sand he found in the lake

scholars also know them well " Wtth an apprectaltve nod

n i ficant amounts of sand to the

bed. A core sample taken from a

Constanttne for maktng the stories avatlable to Engltsh speakers, de

i lands; a prac t ice, he says, that

depth of78 cemimeters, approxi­

Sherbtntn satd, "II is enough to presenl lhem as fresh translattons

probably has been occ u r r i ng for

mately 3 ,800 years old, contai ned

and to forgo the Anglocenlric sensaltonaltsm. Chekhov tS worth

t housands of years.

the same quartz crystals.

readtng in any language al any ltme."

may be transport i n g sig­

The sand has been m o t

orne

c ienti ts spec ulate that the bird

thorough ly studied in a core

have been depos i t i ng and in the

from Lover's Lake in Bermuda.

l a k e for t h e i s l a n d '

A fter rul ing out human a c t i v i t y

500,000-year h istory.

e n t i re

as a source of the sand, Rueger

The tart l i ng d iscovery g n­

conc l uded that some natural

erated a rash of med i a i n terest.

The Ottawa Citizen:

proce s had to be respons i b l e .

Rueger told

N o rmal w i nds a r e far t o o weak

" I t 's cool that you can put tho e

to carry sand - s i zed materi­

k i nds of fi ngerp r i n t s on

als over such a d i stance,

m i n e r a l -and e x c i t i n g

and hurricane w i nds typi­

t h a t other people find 1t

c a l l y originate over water,

interesting." +

10

Twisting Their Arm The slumptng Astan economtes are havtng an tmpact on counlrtes tn Laltn Amenca . accordtng to an arltcle tn Defense News lhal uses Assoctate Professor Patrice Franko (economtcs and tnlerna tonal studtes) as a source Franko ts an expert on defense and mtli ary issues tn Lattn Amertca She told the newspaper lhal Chtle s m i ltlary collects

1 0 percent of the nalton·s copper sale proceeds and uses

thai to buy arms. Stnce Chile's sales are focused on the Pact tC Rtm, lost Astan revenue will mean cutbacks for the armed forces

Hey, I Know That Guy! Walch closelywhen the credtls begtn l o roll dunng the movte Twilight starnng Paul Newman and Gene Hackman. Former professor of English Richard Russo co-wrote lhe screenplay for lhe ftlm along W1 h dtreclor Robert Benton. Russo and Benton collaborated tn

1 994 on ne

ftlm adaplalion of Russo·s novel Nobody's Fool whtch also featured Newman tn the lead role Russo currenltytS worktng on a screen adaplatton of

tS most recent nove

Straight Man

Fund Razing John

D

acArthur Assoc• a e Professor of Sor

o g y a n d A rtcan-

Amencan Slud•es Cheryl Townsend G i l kes commen ed on troubles of Henry Lyons. the

e

altona Bap s Convenlton U S A

leader who ts accused of embezzlemen o ct,urc,

f he

unds

mtsused those unds • G kes satd tr'l a Christian Century ar• c e "al he leas ' tS gross denomtna on rs orde

a

seal mcompe ence

looK bad and a

ne

o 1 ma es me angr1 • G

Unton Bap tS C urch

CambrtOge

a ma es

e

er

e s assoc a ..e m

ster o

Add Nine to Tenured Ranks

N

ine faculty members were

awarded tenure by the Col­ lege and will be promoted to associate profe sor next fall . uisheng Zhao (government) is an internationally k nown scholar on China and is editor of the]oumal ofComemporary China,

a publication he founded. Zhao joined the faculty in 1 993 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Uni­ versity of California, San Diego.

He has written three books on China and East Asia, including 1 997's Power Competition in East Asia: From the OUJ. Chinese WorUi Order

to

Post-CoUJ. War Regional

Multipolarity , which was named

Outstanding Academic Book of the year by Choice magazine.

Catherine Lowe Besteman ( anthropology) has dedicated the past seven years of research to the violent collapse of the state in omalia. he has written ex­ tensively on Somalia and the effects of its internal conflict, including a book currently un­ der review, tit led Disintegration from the Margins : ldentit)' , In­ equality and the

ightrnare of His­

he earned her Ph.D. from the Uni­ ver iryof Ari:ona and ha taught at Colby mce 1 994.

Mark Tappan (education and human development ) ha fo­ cu ed hts re earch on moral de­ velopment and t the author or co-author of three books on the ubJeCt, mcludmg the forthcom­ mg Cultural and ntical Perspec­ tory in Southern Somalia.

t t t es on Human Det·elopment : lmpltcanon for Theory , Research and Prawce. He earned a doctor­

are from Harvard m 1 9 7 nd JOined olhy' fa ulry m 1 99 I .

Bert� a-.ak t ( pant h ) , a )I by fa ulry meml:-cr,mcc 1 99 1 anJ a n a tt1·c mcml:-cr on nu­ mcr<lU' faculr1 commt ncc' and rrogr.lm,, h;h \\ nttcn anJ ruh­ lt,hcd on H t,p.mt l t rcr.n urc,

L B'

r

Front row, from left, Suisheng Zhao, Lyn Mikel Brown, Kim Besio, Larissa Taylor; back row, Mark Tappan, Elizabeth Leonard, William Klein. Not pictured, Catherine Lowe Besteman and Betty Sasaki.

risky behavior. He recently ap­ p lied this research to a study of Colby students regarding alco­ hol consumption. His articles have appeared in several leading psychology journals.

Kim Besio ( East Asian stud­ ies ) is a prolific writer and pre­ senter on Chinese language and literature. She has contributed a translation of Gao Xingj ian's Bus S top for a recently published an­ thology of contemporary Chi­ nese plays. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley, and has taught at Colby since 1 99 2 .

Larissa Taylor (h istory} i s a pecialiston Reformation France whose research has produced two books and plans for two others. he recetvcd the prestigious Her:og August Btbl tmek Fellow­ >htp m 1 997 and an EH sum­ mer 'ttpend to work on a book Ltntat tvcl� mled Images ofMary

multiculturalism and identity politics. Her criticism and analy­ ses of H ispanic texts has resulted in more than a dozen papers at scholarly conferences. She re­ ceived her Ph.D. at the Univer­ sity of California, Berkeley.

El i:abeth Leonard ( history) is a Civil War historian whose research has focused on women and their contributions during the war. Her second and latest book, All the Daring of a SoUlier: Women of the Civil War Armies ,

wtll be publi hed in 1 999. he has reviewed everal books on the Civtl War and presented her research m forums ranging from academtc conference to ctvic celebratton . A teacher at olby smce 1 992, she earned her Ph . D. from the Untver, t ty of al tfor­ nta, Rtver,tde. < Wtlltam Kletn ( p>ychology} JOined the olhy faculty tn 1 99 1 'oon after recct\ mg ht, Ph.D. from Pnn cton. l l t re,car h ha' mcludcd rhc tudy of o tal om­ pan,on' and rhctr tnflucncc on

.'vi agdalene m the An and Religion

of the Late Mtddle Ages and Ref­ ormauon. La>t year >he wa.

26

named book review editor for Sixteenth Century journal. A fac­

u l t y member at Colby since 1 994, she earned her Ph. D. at Brown Un iversity.

Lyn M ikel Brown ( education and human development, wo­ men's studies) is a recognized authority in the area of girls' psy­ chological development and edu­ cation. Her book Meeting at the Crossroads : Women's Ps)•chology and Girls' Development ( co-writ­

ten with Carol G i l l igan ) was a 1 992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She was a 1 994-9 5 recipient of a National Academy of Education Spencer Foundation Post-doctoral Fel­ lowship. Her new book , Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, will be publ ished this fal l .

Prior to coming to Colby in 1 99 1 , she earned an Ed.D. at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and spent two years as a post­ doctoral fel low at the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and G i rls' Development. +

p agi n g p are nts Wha t A Dea n Does Yeterian 's key duty he l ps d efine the College's pe rsonality

By S tephen Collins '74

E vic

dward H. Yeterian becomes

overwhelm tng ch01ce of the fac ­

ntty." l ie !nob for teacher' '' ho

olby' dean of fac u l ty and

u l t y a n d ad m t n t s t ra t or�. H t .,

can go beyond me re! ) prc,enrmg

record as an adm111 tstrator tn \ w ,

wel l -organt:ed and conct'<e mfilr­

p r e s i d e n t for a c a d e m i c I , taking over a

o w n department t' ternfic, horh

matton ro make a connectton wt rh

tremendous variety of responsi­

in terms of the people he\ re­

-,rudent> and develop a "pre encc"

b i l i t ies, in luding a lead ing role

crui ted and the ment onng pro­

m rhc c la,sroom.

in determ i n i n g where the

cess that supports them."

a ffa i rs J u l y

ol­

McArthur '>atd there w t l l be

Yeterian grew up in N e w

lege is headed as the new m i llen­

comtderahle turnover m rhe next

nium dawns. Yeterian r places

Bri t a i n ,

Robert L. M c A rthur, who has

of educ a t i on and the efficacy of

ing the growth year of the 1 960>

served as head of the fac u l t y for

hard work wer

and '70 rettre. Mentonng newer

onn . , where the value inst i l led by h i s

five year a' profes ors h t red dur­

more than I 0 years and who w i l l

parents a n d grandparents and

facu l ty members, dtrectmg the ten­

ret u rn t o teac h i n g d u t ies i n the

b u rn i shed i n t he mac h i n e shop

ure proce

Phi losophy Department.

where he got h i

first

ummer

member

and retammg fac u l ty who may wetgh offer'

j o b . That work e t h i c h e l p s

year term designed ro see the Col­

from competing msmuttom arc

e x p l a i n how he balances teach­

a! o important parts of the JOb.

lege through the remainder of the

ing, re earc h , frequent p u b l i c a ­

Yeterian was elected to a three­

ro

20th cent ury and the transit ion

t ion, admin istration, com m i t tee

job w i l l be

from Pre iclent B i l l

otter's ad­

serv ice and fam i ly l i fe ( he is

a m and morale in an era of ex­

m i n i tration to h i

successor's,

married and has a on and daugh­

treme l y l i m i ted growth

ter, both teenagers ) .

po i t ions, Yeterian a id he plam

which is scheduled to occur in 2000 or 200 I ,

Yeterian came t o Colby in 1 97

and has d ist i ngu ished h i m ­

s e l f as a teacher, a researcher and

maintain enrhust­ 111

fac u l ty

The a b i l i t y t o j uggle m u l t iple

to focu on what the College can

task is crit ical for the dean: "You

do \\' t t h l l1 i ts e x t t tng program>

otter said.

a l most have ro be a workaholic

and re ource . The

for that job,"

phasis ,,. t ! \ cont i n ue to be on

otter aid.

As dean and v ice president

an admin istrator. H is resume in­

preparing

ol lege's em­

t udenrs who know

c l udes a page and a half of entries

Yeterian w i l l

doc u m n r i ng ervice on Col lege

academic program and fac u l t y as

ate tnformat ion and who can

com m i t tees. Perhaps most no­

we l l as athletics, the l ibrary, the

solve problem

table, he has chaired the Health

art museum and the Regtstrar'::.

cate clearly and compe l l 111gl) ,

Professions Preparat ion

om­

Office. He "·t i l oversee spend111g

he 'aY'·

m i nce since arri,·ing at Colby,

for 1 11>truct ion and re::.earc h ,

Yetenan, who t' )l, eameJ

p rcenr

whtch rogerher make up h a l f of

h t, undergraduate de!ll'ee at T nn­

and he point::.

ro

an

upervise

ollege\ annual budget. "Ed

success rar e i n t he last de a de

the

helping

"· t i l be rernfi c , " ::.atd

o l b · graduates get i n to

" I t \ 1-er

medical schools. \V ith I I ·c;ns experience as chair of t he Psycholog · Depart­

olby's

·

!cArthur.

t m pnrt a n t r o ha\'\:

t ty

n l lege m Hanford,

from the

nt,·er, tt\' of

cru t t tnl! rhe mO>t qu.1lt! ted pe,,p\c

SchLXll bdtlre Ct1mll1!:!

w i l l rake a disr mgutshed re nrd

fM bcu\ty l''''tt tL1th Th.u de­

tmcurrent " l [h ht,

of su · ·ess as an adm i n tsrraror

f mc' the pcr'''n.1 l t t Y ,,t the

a

h igher le,·c l , where ht> leader­

,;hip \\' t i l affect all three <1C<1clemtc d i Y is inns cncomp<1Sstng - - k­ parr mcnt> and c tght ad l t t tt1n,11 inrerd iscipl tnary pwgrams. " Ed has enL1rmt1U> f;1Cu \ r y SUp­ pOrt , "

orrer satd." H e wa,; the

onnec t t ­

rtlltll!\ frtlm H a rn1rd , leJ t L ,\ I

rhe Soc i a l Sc iences [ t\'tSton, he w

onn . ,

degree 111 neuwanattlm\ and neu­

he t>."

\cgc C\'Cn .1ttcr t h e cl c .m\

L

ol­

term I'

' cr, �,,ncr ,,11cl.

cnm- nc\\ f.K ult\ member-. "I rn

w

en' t, t,, n rhcm

,1 , .1

w

member ,,t

the clcp.1rtmcnr .mel rhc �,, ll ccc m ccncr.1l-.1- p.1rr ,,t the - , mmu-

p o s i t i o n s . Yete r i an says he l oo k s fo r teac h e rs w h o can go beyond m e re l y p re s e n t i n g w e l l orga n i z e d a n d

tllh .

c o n c i s e i n fo r m at i o n t o m a ke a c o n n ecti o n w i t h

,,lh -er­

n.:e he ha- been an '1JJ u n L t

students and

rr,,t e--t>r tll ,1!1,1[\)m\ a n cl neur,>­ bt,llt \!\ .u the B.. >-tt1n Cnt\ er'lt\

Yctcn.m ,,11,1 rh.u when he rc­

p e o p l e fo r fac u l ty

be ton: gett tng a maoter\ and Ph. D.

re,pecred

ao

t h e m ost q u a l i fi e d

and communi­

cut. He eam.:d a po,tJnLtLlr,\1

ke1 rLlle ,,f the dean t ' rc­

d e an i s re c r u i t i n g

how to find and c r i t i c a l l y evalu­

::.omenne who t> a' ::.o!td and

ment and r wo ·ears as chatr of

A key role of t h e

Recogn i:ing that part of h t'

deve lop a " presence"

. le !tL.l l ,,h,x,J.

Ht- re-.: m.. h t rt e , r,, "'ri.Hn

,,n-!t t tt'll' -uc h

.1 -

' Puk m - m ,

in the c l assro o m .

,\t,e,l'e mJ tlthcr Jt-,�rJer- ,•I m''h'r t un.: t t,, n , . +

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I boo ks & authors Who Says Computers Never Lie? Chip p i n g away at the soul of technology

By Sally Baker minimum, removed the on-off witch from a computer's built­ in m icrophone. ot onl y would that save money when it came to

Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology Cambndge U n 1vers1ty Press

320 pages

A

few years ago, a woman in her m id-60 wa asked whether she thought she would own a computer someday. She said no. "If you plug one of those thmgs into the wall , can't some­ one from anywhere find out all about you 7 " she asked. At the nme, the question was funny.

But m these day of "cookie " ( the footpnnts you leave behind when you VISit a Web ite ) , us­ age map on hard dnve and com­ panle> that py on employee through the1r de ktop mach me , It -,eem> critically relevant. omputer>, e d 1 tor Batya Fnedman (a,o;oclate profe or of omputcr 'Cience) and the other contnbutor' to tl11> book ay, are roo k And !1 kc other tool'· they <1rc dc'lgned m do a certam jOb m .1 p.!rtlcular \\ a). In the1meh·e-,, r hc1 ha\ C no human value,, but the 1mphcnnom of omputcr u'e .m: fr.lught \\ 1th human ,.,1 luc'­ Jctmcd, ftlr the rurro-e' of thi' N'klk, ,1, ' .1llll:' th.u deal \\ 1th human wclt.uc ,md jU'tl e ,m 1dcr tht: c.·.1mple nf the Jt:,ll.!nc r' \\ h , ch.H(!t:J \\ Hh l..c cpm(! pnxlu t 1 n l t' .It .1

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building the machines, they said, but because users would no longer have to remember to tum their m ic rophones off, companies would spend less replacing dead batteries. But for the people u ing the computers, the always active m ic rophones presented d i lemmas involving privacy. omebody was plugging that machine into the wall, and no matter what management prom­ ised, it would always be possible for the company to make use of employee conversations in ways employees couldn't predict.

Then there is the fast-grow­ ing technology that will help driver navigate highways bet­ ter. The goal is to someday cre­ ate a fully automatic car that doe n't need a driver. uch a y tern, used widely enough, might prevent h ighway death .

But in the meantime, as the movements of car are increas­ ingly tracked by computers and satellites, omeone, somewhere, IS findmg out where we go and when we go there. The state of Kentucky' tounsm office used that k ind of m format 1on to mount a publ1c relatiOn a sault on anada, ha,•mg d1sco,•ered that almo t none ofthe anad l ­ an' who p a e d through o n the way to other outhern >tate> \\ <h 'taymg m·ern1ght m Ken­ tu ky Pol 1ce department'> and fcJcr.1l agcnCie,, the author, ><I) . a l ,n m1ght fmd mformatwn ,1bnut the habit, nf md l\ 1dual drl\ cr' ,·cn u,cfu l .

And '' h.H If the h o pnal ,oft-

ware APACHE, designed to rec­

the machines ) . The subject also

ummend whether doctors should withdraw l ife support from pa­ tients in intensive care-soft­ ware theoretically backed up by the j udgment of human profes­ sionals on the scene-were to become so apparently reliable that doctors trusted it too muc h ?

responded positively to random

"Within this social context , " write Friedman and co-author Peter Kahn (of Colby's Educa­ t ion and H u man Development Departmen t ) , "it may become the practice for critical-care staff to act on APACHE's recommen­ dations somewhat automatically and increasingly difficult for even an experienced physician to challenge the 'authority' of A PACH E's recommendat ion, since to chal lenge A PACHE would be to challenge the medi­ cal community."

One section of the book deals with the ways people interact with computers. In the essay "Computers Are ocial Actors," f r instance, the authors detail the results of five experiments conducted to see whether people treat computers as if they were human. In one experiment, the computers were programmed to put the subjects through a train­ mg exercise. Afterward , the sub­ ject were a ked to evaluate the computers' performance. Tho e who d id the evaluation using the computer were le s critical than thme who used a pencil and pa­ per. The first group wa u mg human norms for pol 1 tene .

They d 1dn't want to hurt the computer,· feel mgs (and a later expenment proved that they were not thmkmg of the pro­ grammer ' fecl mg; but thme of

2

flattery from the computers and evaluated computers with "male" or "female" voices along the l ines of common gender stereotyping.

A great feature of the book is that the essays i nc lude specu la­ tion on the ways informa t ion gathered about computers could be applied to pract ical situa­ t ions. "Computers Are Social Actors" suggests that because most of the feedback users now receive from computers is nega­ t i v e ( indec ipherable "error" messages and the l i ke ) , and be­ cause people respond so well to flattery from the computer, flat­ tery ought to be built into future software. "Software programs designed to aid users in perform­ ing unpleasant tasks would be ideal candidates for pos i t ive message systems," the authors write. "For example, many pro­ grams are designed to help users pay their taxes, balance a spread­ sheet or draft legal documents.

The results of this study suggest that incorporating a flattering feedback m e c h a n i s m w o u l d boost user enjoyment o f the e tedious undertakings." ot so fast, say Friedman and Kahn in the essay " H u ma n Agency and Responsible Com­ puting." If we give computers a human face { literally or figura­ tively ) , we'll encourage ourselves to think of them as if they really were people. People who can act intenti nally. People who can be blamed when their circuit fail.

Friedman and Kahn recount an experime nt that simulated a nuclear power plant failure. The ubjects, power plant operators,

had at their command an "ex­ pert" computer

ystem to help

them respond to the emergency.

But, even though the

ubjects

had instruction on the computer's

"Becau e nonanth ropomor­

fresh prints

phic design doe not encourage people

to

attribu te agency to

the compu t a t ional

y tem,"

Modernity at the Edge of Empire

Friedman and Kahn wnte, " uch

David Nugent (Anthropology)

capa b i l i t i e s , they assumed i t

design

Stanford Un1vers1ty Press

"knew" without be ing told that

sponsible comput ing."

can better

upport re­

Although 1t had been a nat1on 1n name

the cooling system had stopped

Thi book is a fasc inating ex­

opera t ing. The sc ient ist who ran

aminat ion of computer design in

was more like a collect1on of med1eval

the experiment said the theore t i ­

i ts ful l -blooded, mature tate. And

f1efdoms. The central government based

c a l , poten t i a l l y fa tal accident

i t is comforting to know that the

1 n Lima. was so weak that 1t had to rely on

happened because the plant em­

eminent scholar represented in

alliances w1th the anstocrat1c class to

ployees a umed that the com­

the volume are asking increas­

ma1nta1n even a semblance of control in

puter had certain information,

i ngly more prob i ng question

the country s out1y1ng reg1ons So. even

"pre umably the type of in� rma­

about the way people and com­

tion that any respon ible human

puters i n tersec t. The ramifica­

for nearly

1 00 years, Peru 1n the 1 920s

while the government was espous1ng modern ideals of sovereignty and of popular equality, people 1n

expert would know or attempt to

tions, they prove amply, go we l l

places such as Chachapoyas were controlled by rulers who got

find out in the s i tu a t ion."

beyond t h e plug in the wal l . +

power by se1zing 1t-and by virtue of the1r wealth and rac1al descent Confounding the models of Europe and 1ts colon1es. no bourgeo1s1e arose in Peru to supplant the upper class All the while

Just Desserts

these rulers cla1med to be bel ievers m E n l i g htenment concepts of self-governance and human d 1 g n 1 ty The common people saw the

Reading this gorgeous book while trying to knock off a few

contradictions between what aristocrats said and what they d 1 d

pounds before bathing-su it sea­

a n d t h e common people acted Reforms d 1 d not come from t h e top

son or after a resolut ion to give up

down or from the urban center to the countryside I nstead.

chocolate for Lent is i l l advised.

marginalized g roups i n Chachapoyas (wh1ch 1ncluded almost everyone except the elites) banded together labeled themselves

Nobody has that much w i l l power.

C i rque 2000 in N ew York and

barriers and mounted an armed upns1ng to unseat the anstocrats

dean of the pastry arts program

El pueblo brought the E n l i g htenment to Peru The example of Chachapoyas. David Nugent wntes does "much

at th Frenc h Cu l i nary l ns t i t u te.

to explam why oppos1t1onal models of state-build1ng and coerc1ve

He also is host of the public tele­

Dessert Circus

v ision series that bears the same

By Jacques Torres. Christ1na

name as the book.

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� I m u les on the move G ood and Gett i n g Better You n g , talented women 's basketball team adds experience

By Kevin Cool

C

olby's women' basketball team did some growing up season, says head coach

said. "She c learly established herself as the top first-year player in N ew England."

T r i c i a O'Brien, whose squad compiled an 1 -9 record and advanced to the finals of the ECAC championships. tarring three sophomores and two freshmen, the Mules over­ came their lack ofexperience with hard work and talent, led by first­ year sensation Kim Condon, who averaged 1 points and six re­ bounds a game. Condon, who al­ ready is on a pace to become a career 2 ,000-point scorer, was the first Colby women's basketball player to be named a District I All-American. It was one of a mantel-full of awards, including Rookie of the Year honor from E C A C , S t a t e of M a i n e , ECAC and the e w England coaches association. "She is a great k id; a quiet leader," O'Brien

But the key to Colby's suc­ cess was its team play, O'Brien says. "We're a dangerous team because we have several players who can step up and h it a shot when we need it," she said.

Sophomore Erin Cole-Karagory averaged nearly 1 3 points a game, and both Mandy Cochrane ' 0 1 and Jen McGonagle '00 scored in double figures several t imes. McGonagle led the team in rebounding.

The p layer who perhaps best personified the team was Su:anne Heon '00, whose cou­ rageous play after recovering from her second reconstructive knee surgery in less than a year inspired teammates. Heon spent much ofher freshman season side­ lined by a torn anterior cruciate

thi

Freshman Kim Condon led the team with 1 8 points per game.

ligament that was surgically re­ paired in time for her to rejoin the team last fall. In the Mules' eighth game, Heon "blew out her other knee," O'Brien said. That knee was subsequently repaired and Heon came back in time to play a handful of games late in the season. " he was in major pain, playing with a brace, but she wanted to be out there.

Watching her goout on the court and play, and play wel l , was a highlight of our season. She be­ came the emotional leader of the team," O'Brien said.

When Colby played in the E A em 1final against Trin1 ty-the a me team that Ia t year e l 1 1n mated the Mule from the tournamcnt-Heon had her best game. he >Cored I 7 pomts in the econd half"and played with her old confidcnce," O'Bnen aid, a' Colh\ won 7 1 - 5 1 to advance

Pool's Gold Led by All-American Geoff Herrick '9 , who broke three school records, the men's swim team finished 1 4th in the nation.

Herrick won two events, the 1 00 and 200 butterfly, at the ew England Championships, and placed second in the 200 freestyle, break111g Colby record in all three. H is time of I : 5 2 . 3 2 e w England meet record.

111 the 200 butterfly also set a new en10r co-captain Peter Bowden placed fourth in the 1 00 back troke wnh a new Colby record of 5 3 .0 . ophomore Jeff McClmkey placed s1xth in the I 00 back troke and fourth in the 200 bacbtroke and ;,et a new olby record of I : 5 5 . 5 9 in the 200.

The 0 free;,tyle relay team of Hernck , Bowden, Me loskey and JUnior Andy Brown wam to a th1rd pia e at the ew England meet and quahfied for national .

At the nMwnal meet, the men -,er two more chool record 111 the 200 and ")0 free't\ le relay , earned [\\'O AII-Amenca honnr' ,md fl\ e honorable mention A II- menca award�. Hernck w a' named AII-AmenL<ln 1 11 hoth the 1 00 ,mJ 200 butterfly, f 1n 1'h111� e1�hth anJ 1xth, re,peCt l \ ely. The 2 0, 400 and 00 tree rel.l\ , ,Ill pl.�eeJ .11nnng the wp 1 6 a J1d the 4 0 medley 1-- .JL k troke rd.1\ anJ )l.kCI,l,ke\ 111 the I

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to the tournament's final game.

W i l l iams then defeated the Mules 7 7 -66, but Heon and the team had moved one step c loser to their ultimate goal, O'Brien said. "The toughness that Suzanne showed rubbed off a little, I think , and that was im­ portant. This team has the tal­ ent and they work hard. When they combine that w i t h the toughness it takes to win against the top competition, they will be very, very hard to beat."

With her starting five return­ ing intact and another year of experience to build upon, O'Brien is optim istic about the M u le ' future. " W inning the ECAC, going to the national tou rn a me n t , those goa ls are within our reach," he said. "We would like to be the first Colby women's basketball team to reach the nationals." +

Tender Moments

sport shorts

Led by the record -break i ng performance of goaltender

cott

The women's hockey team sent sen1or M ea g h a n Sittler and

Bonnell '98, the men's hockey

freshman Courtney Ken nedy to the 1naugural women's All·

t e a m o v e r c a m e a m i dsea on lump to make the ECA The M u le

Amenca team S1ttler Colby's all- 1me leader 1 n goals, ass1sts and

playoffs.

po1nts. was an e1ght-t1me ECAC player of the week. Kennedy led

posted a season

the league 111 sconng among

record of 1 3 - - 3 , i n c l u d i ng a

defensemen

quarterfinal loss to t h i rd-seeded H a m i l ton in the E

A

track featured record-breaking

. Colby

performances by two Colby

lo t on l y one of i t fi nal s i x games

athletes Sophomore J a m i e

head ing i n to tournament p l ay after enduring a four-game lo -

Brewster threw t h e 35-pound

Terry Flynn '98

we1ght 56 feet. 10 mches.

ing streak earlier in the year.

Head coach J i m Tortore l l a said

Bonne l l , who establ ished a

the losse; may have hel ped the

;chool record goals aga inst aver­

team mature. "The adversity we

age of 2 . 0 5 , teamed with fe l low

·urvi ved in the m iddle of the

goa l ie J ason

season says some thing about the

ail-E

A

1n 1 970 by Mike Salvetti

'99 to provide o l i d defen e.

n ior Terry Flynn, who was hon­

our school as the defe n d i n g

orable men t i on a i l - E

England DIVISion I champion­ ships E m i l T h o m a n n

E

the team in scoring. +

,

e­

AC, led

'71

Brewster placed f1fth 1 n t h e New

defen eman Rob Koh

character of the team , " he aid.

champion ."

break1ng a record established

here l l a '99 and

"We were exc i ted to represent A

M e n ' s i ndoor

'00

became the f1rst Colby runner to break 50 seconds 1 n the 400

Meaghan S1ttler '98

meters mdoors when he ran a

49.96 at the New England champ1onsh1ps and placed f1rst among Division I l l competitors

Sophomore Ken A l l e n emerged as a

prolifiC scorer dunng the men's basketba l l team's 1 4-9 season Allen averaged 1 7 . 5 points per game and tw1ce was named

String Music

NESCAC Player of the Week Junior James Spidle averaged 1 2. 8

Fred Brussel's men's squash

every pre ea on goa l , includ ing

team had the best season in the

reac h ing the B fl ight for the fir t

program's h istory , w i n n i ng 1 7 of

t i me. "The B fl ight is ::.ort of l ike

2 1 regular season matches and

the D i v i ion I I compe t i t i o n

advancing to the B fl ight of the

within t h e tournamen t," Brus el

A A tournament. olby ended the regu lar ea­

said. "Essential ly, it's the best eight teams out·iJe of the I vie . "

and was named by coaches as the

fi rst-ever w i n> over Corn e l l ,

nat ion'� most i mproved team .

Frankin & Marshall,

Rrus�cl said t h e ·quad met nearly

Roche ter. The M u les were E

A

the team\

avy and -I

m

play and won the CBB.

Fre::.hman

l ike

!o::.t

atemhon,

a l uable Pia ·er,

::.hared Rook ��� of the Year hon­ or::. with Pre::. ton A mo, '0 I .

e­

n ior Geoff Bennett recei ,·ed the , cholar-

t h letc A ward a t the

n<H IOnal tourn,unen t . " T h e r e " '' n ' t

be

man1

t h i , , e ,l > <l l1 , " B r u " e l , ,l i d .

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t '' m .u c he' l.. n'"' I n g rh,H e \· ­ Michael Natenshon '01 (foreground) and David Dodwell '98.

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Theyerl The women placed as high as fifth 111 the EISA diVISIOn

They consistently placed three sk1ers 1 n the 20s w1th semor capta1n Jenny Lane crackmg the top 15 tw1ce Lane also became Colby's first female nord1c sk1er to qual1fy for the NCAA nat1onals

and sen1or Peter M a n n i n g was the team·s th1rd leading po1nt scorer at the season's f1nal carnival. t e a m was l e d by C h r i s t i n a Haas

The women's a l p i n e

'01 who became t h e f i r S Colby

skier 1n five years to qualify for the NCAA championships Stephanie Graber David Riss

'01 was th1rd alternate o he championshipS

'01 who fm1shed 1 n the top 20 In five races paced the

men·s team R1ss was third 1 n the super g1ant slalom and e1gh h 1 n t h e g 1 a n t slalnrn at he Rolex Jun1or Olymp1c champ1onsh1pS Women ' s squash f1n1shed 1 1 - 1 3 and came 1 n 12 h a the Howe Cup agamst the nation's top competition Sen1or tr·-capta1n Sonia Totten was 1 6 - 1 0 Both she and tn-capta1n L i n d sa y Hayes competed a the Individual na 10nais Martie Stewart

,ch''''" t ,l i.. I n !! u ' l i gh t h ,l i t e r "Fr,Hn t h i , pLHnt ,,n

The nordic s k i

t e a m h a d "a very successful season " s a i d h e a d coach Tracey

For the men , sophomore Tim Bertram placed 29th 1 n three races

1 7 victories were

Among it

son ranked 1 3 th, the h ighest ever,

po1nts per game a n d led t h e team i n rebounds

number four ma ch dunng the Brown a

he

uies

'99

'99 won

e

1rs -e er con es aga ns

The women ' s swim team p.aced

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e v England Champ1onsh ps Sen or co-cap a•n Alice

Wong bro e Coact' Sura D u Bow

n a t1rt'e o

0

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'92 s 00 breas s ro e record

88 Jur or Laura Feraco bro e 4 75 b

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gifts & grants

A Teacher ' s G ift Esther E. Wood '26 touched students' lives for half a century ; now she's doing it again

By Ket•in Cool

W

hen Esther Wood '26 ar­

rived four years ago at the annual conference of the Maine Federation of Business and Professional Women, she was years old, an accomplished writer and educator who that n ight would be i nducted into the M aine Women's Hall of Fame.

Esther Wood '26

The women a sembled knew that the retired teacher whom they were hononng wa> ras;,tonate about education. J ust how pa;,­ 'tonate they >OOn learned when Wood ra,,eJ out a qui: on U . . rre,tdent' and a ked them to 'end the an"1·er to her home. " I fell tn love \\ tth teachtng the ftr't year I taught at �ton­ mgwn lm I 9261 anJ I never fell nut nf n , " 'a t J WnnJ, no\\ 92 , m J ,t i l l gntng 'tmng. For nearly 5 "l year' he tntluem.eJ 'tudenb a' ,1 teacher; her recent gtft nf "' fnr endnwcJ 'chnlar­ ,htp' .u 'nih " t il heir future genl:f.lttlln' ,1, \\ ell. &1rn t n I 9L 5 t n the ,,1me Blue H t ! l . . l.une, netghf-,,rhn,,J \\ here ,he ,ull II\ e,, \X1,,,,J ,,11 ,

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Wood also wrote extensively for newspapers and magazines fol­

she was determined from age 4 to go to Colby. "Long before I even knew what a college was, I was

lowing her retirement. Her ar­ t icles have appeared in Down East, Woman's Day , Maine Life and The Christian Science Moni­ tor, and for more than 20 years her column, "The N ative," ran

telling adults that I was going to Colby when I got big," he said.

At 1 7, she left for Waterville with a trunk from her father, dresses from her mother and a 1 0 gift from her Aunt Fan, who e admonition to work hard fel l on deaf ears, says Wood. "] was more interested in enjoying myself than doing my school work ," she said.

It wasn't until her sopho­ more year that she began to take her studies seriously, says Wood, sparked by Colby professors Herbert Libby '02 , J u l ian Tay­ lor, Class of 1 6 , and Edward Perkins. Perkins, a geology pro­ fe sor for whom the Perkins Ar­ bore t u m is n a m e d , was so enthusiastic, Wood recalls, that he would sprint to the outdoor classroom, leaving h is tudents behind. "People with hort legs were late for his lectures," she aid, laughing.

After graduation, Wood was h i red to teach Latin at the tonington Public chool for the "extraordinary" alary of 1 , 1 00, she ays. Two years later, he enrolled at Radcliffe, where :,he earned a ma ter' degree.

Folio" tng a hort t tn t at a Pm fteld preraratory chool, she began her ·H -year teach mg ten­ ure at the Gorham tate Teach­ er' College, now known a:, the ntl'er,ny of outhern Matne, \\ here ,he <1bo erved for a ttme a' Jean.

The authnr nf three book , tnclud tng the acdatmeJ Deep Ru()[ A \ 1am� Lcgac) a[,out her L h t ldho,)J < m thc n1,J>t of i<unc,

in the Ellsworth American.

Wood's inrerest in education and a d e s i r e t o honor her family combined to produce the 300,000 gift, says Sue Conant Cook ' 7 5 , assoc iate director of planned giving. In addition to the scholarship money, Cook says, the College will receive Wood's decades-long collection of daily journals. President Bill Cotter thanked Wood for her "extraordinary generosity."

"The assoc iation between Colby and Esther Wood has spanned v i r t u a l l y the e n t i re twentieth century, and the schol­ a r s h i p s she ha e s t a b l i s h e d w i l l conrinue that association through the twenty-first century and beyond," Cotter said.

"When I came to Colby I l a c k e d s e l f- c o n f i d e n c e a n d wasn't sure I would measure up," Wood said. "By the time I gradu­ ated I knew I would be a suc­ cess." She says she hopes her gift w i l l simi larly empower future Colby students.

"One of the greatest days of m y l i fe was the day C o l b y granted me an honorary degree [in 1 97 1 ] ," she said. "] j ust love that college . " +

Maine Students Get a Boost Maine students who choose Colby will have new financial aid opportunities thanks to a grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation of San Francisco. The foundation awarded scholar­ ship endowments totaling $4 million to provide funding for students from Maine attending Bates, Bowdoin, Colby or the University of Maine System. Each institut ion will receive $ 1 million to be used for undergraduate scholarships.

The endowment will enable a number of qualified students who have demonstrated financial need to enroll in the M aine in titutions. The 0 her cholars will be selected by each insti­ tution. Those selected will retain the scholarship for all four undergraduate years provided that they maintain full-time status and good academic standing.

The Osher Foundation was established in 1 97 7 by business­ man Bernard Osher and his family to provide financial support for the arts, education, the environmen t, health care and social and community projects. Osher i a native of Biddeford, Maine, and a I 94 graduate of Bowdoin. He i the chairman of Butterfield & Butterfield Auct ioneer:,, a an Franci co-based auction house.

"I grew ur in Maine, and I know what a truggle it is for many Maine fam t l ies and their tajented son and daughters to cope w t t h the co ts of col lege ," Osher said. " I t is grat ifying to rro v tde thi;, endowme nt gift so that future generation s will have tht opport u n t t y . "

32

al u m n i at large Alumni Trustees Nominated The Nominating Committee

of the

of the Alumni Council has placed

olby Fnend of Art.

aminated for a first, renew­ 1

in nomination two alumni for

able term

the po ition of alu mni trustee,

'66.Cere, who re ides m Ann Ar­

bor, Mich., and t.Louts, Mo., 1· a

with three-year terms to begin at ommencement 1 998.

profe or of Englt h at the Untver­

Nominated � r a second term is

sity of Mtchigan.

Audrey Hittinger Katz '57. Katz lives in

ilver

Anne Ruggle Cere

olby over eer

pring, Md., and i

he hal> been a mce 1997.

he

al o ha been involved m a num­

vice pre identofData-Prompt, Inc.,

ber of alumni activ t t t e

a data processing company. Katz

event . If elected, her term as

serves on th

alumni tru tee would begin tht

tudent Affairs and

Technology c mmittees of th

and

ummer and run through Com­

Board of Trustees and is a member

mencement 200 I . +

A Real Lifesaver

A group of c i a mate> from 1950 gathereJ for a mint-reunton

m

A German hepherd search dog and its handler, Ronda Luce '74, were credited with saving the life of a 65-year-old Alzheimer's patient

Grantham,

. H. Gmny Davt Pearce <Jnd

onme Lcon.1rd

Haye (far left) played ho>t to the group, '' h tc.h al o mcludcd:

recently when they di covered the woman lying in a shallow creek four

ancy R tcker

hours after he was rep rted mi ingfrom a care faciliry in Poulsbo,Wash.

ear ,

harlotte

randall Gr<\\' e , Dale A very anq Archff Boulter, Glon,\

Ben on, Joan Fo ter Barndt ' 51,

Luce and her dog, Dyna, found the patient within minutes of the

Gordon Goldman, Pn c tlla Trace} Tanguay, Eli <Jbeth Jennmg.,

start of a coordinated search. The patient later fully recovered at a

Maley, Mary Lou Kdkenny Borah and Beverly Deschene> Ltbhy .

local hospital and has returned

Not pictureJ is Patty Root Wheeler.

to

her retirement h me.

Luce, a phy ician, lives in Wildcat Lake, Wash. +

Fletcher Eaton '39 42 Perry Drive Needham, MA 02 1 92 6 1 7-449- 1 6 1 4

prom t ion to national sale manager for Wallace

countmg. He h<b recently recetn�J ,1 d t,tm­

Manufacturing (Garden Tools) as the mo t

glll hed erv1ce award for educ,ltm' fmm the

memorable event in h 1s life . .

.

.John Leno ' 4,

uncle of J ay Leno (of the Tonight Show), mourns the lo

of h is lifelong fnend Merton Curti ' 3 1 .

On a happier note, he had the plea ure of

EARLY YEARS

or i h '34 m

meeting c ia mate Franklin

I nstitute of 1anngement Accounr.mr- . .

Charle R. "Moo

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Dolan '3

.

Dr.

ha, n:turned .1

quest lonnatre 111 \\ h 1c.h he 1' a , k eJ

ro

n .tme ht,

w1fe or rarrne r- t f a p pl toHe. " he\ mll't •p­ pl tcable," .,ay'

lllo e of \\ tie J e an e tte Fly nn

Dolan, whom he marned 5 3 years ll!l>. Fll r ' I or

Leonette Warburton Wishard '23 wants to

al ifornia for the fir t t t me m 22 year . Mr.

attend her 7 5 th reunion-if she can get a ride

Leno celebrated h t 90th birthday on J u ly 30,

seven years nO\\ , t'.loose

from Bridgeport,

1 99 7 . He keeps active and enJOY baseba l l , foot ­

Dt k ) With three fnend, and the1r " 1 ,. .,, h.1ve

onn . , to Waterv i l le.

celebrated her 9 5 t h birthday in

he

crober and

-ays she doesn't drive that far anymore.

he

ball and horse racing .

. .

. R u t h Marston Turner

'3 7 finds that the pas mg years have left her . . .

keeps i n touch with Melva Mann Farnum ' 2 3

older. Her son and famdy l i ve m Ruth's old

but wonders if there are any other member of

hou e but butlt on an addmon for her and her

the lass of 1 92 3 to whom she could write. .. .Margaret Davis Farnham '2 ha been

cocker

pamel, Luke, before they moved m.

Ruth would lo,·e ro hear from c la"mate' al­

understandably upset by the dearth of news

though she fears that few \\ t i l remember her

about her c lass. I looked and the on I ' '2 er from

becau.e she l l \·ed at home 111 '\ arer\ l l le . . . . Ed

whom I have heard recently is Ruth M E o . .Y . .. . Helen base he l ives in Batavia,

'

\\Tt tes: "F<.)r an upcommg game

\\'tth Tuft

ol lege ( c t rca 1 9 36 ) , The Ro.cun

Pardey '30 has sold her house of 45 years and now l ives i n a mall apartment attached w a i th her are two pergranddaughter's house. onal friends-two long-haired C<lt>... . John had, ick ' 3 0 had a never-ro-be fc)rgotten :.end­ off party when he ret i red from h1s 'en•1 -e " 1th the Y I A . Those whom he had served fe)r 'l) m<tn · years were deepl · reluct.m t w ,ee btm go... .J anet Locke J a k ' 1 feeb th.lt her husban l's 9 rh bmhday pa rt \' \\'.ls the meht memorable event in her l i fe. \'\'b y � All the h i ldren were present down to the late't

arrival. . . . Frances E . Libb · '3 1 ha:. mew ed w a nursing home. harlene )\ lanc1r, m Greenheld. /<. lass . . . . Paul " Red" Feldman ' ' 4 reg.uds h1,

Hooper

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Laura Tapia Aitken '45 went straight from teaching primary

" M y fam i l y worried how I ' d survive the cold. I ' d never seen

grades to teaching at Will iam Paterson College only to find herself

snow. 1 took to it," she said. She learned how to ski on the slope

in the middle of a national debate in 1 970: when should children

in front of Lorimer Chapel; she snowshoed. " I spoke such good

be introduced to formal learning? The offspring of the contro­

English and had blue eyes, I d idn't look l i ke the stereotypical

versy: she established the first early childhood education courses

Hispanic, but I gave a lot of talks to the Lions C l u b and others

and co-founded the early childhood education program at Will­

about my heritag e , " Aitken said. A psychology major, she says

iam Paterson, now a university.

she still remembers how much the College was concerned about her "academically and personal ly," and she still keeps i n touch

An emerita professor since July 1 996 but still active in the

with Colby friend s .

field, Aitken has maintained all along that young children learn differently from older children. "Kids are sponges for education , "

Aitken attended school on a scholarsh ip from the Institute of

s h e sai d . "They're ready t o learn a lot o f things, b u t not necessar­

I nternational Education, the same program that saw her through

ily reading at three . "

an M .A in psychology from Wellesley in 1 946. She received an

Committed t o gaining increased status for early childhood

additional master's degree in education from New York State

education because of its lasting effects, she continues to fight for

University in 1 963 and a Ph . D . from Fordham University in 1 982.

a stringent certification program, the key, she says, to training

She also has served as community liaison for the Latino Higher

teachers prepared to deal with the needs of children as they learn.

Education I n itiative, which encourages Hispanic students to

"You tend to teach the way you remember being taught, which

attend college and return to their communities as teachers and

was formal, d i rected-the numbers, the alphabet in a didactic

role models.

way," said Aitken, the mother of two. "Kids would learn more,

I n retirement the Aitkens-d istinguished professors who are

more easily-about classification, how things fit together, how to

only the second couple to be granted emeriti status at Will iam

find out things-if the teachers got this early

Paterson-continue the world travels

childhood education training . " Today, she

they undertook in earlier years. They've

says, more than half of the states recognize

returned to I n d ia, have been to Turkey

early childhood development as a sepa­

recently and p l an a trip to Sicily. Hugh

rate area of teacher certification.

Aitken has published a book.

Aitken and her husband, Hugh, a prize­

And to make sure that her younger

Winning composer of more than 80 mu­ Sical works, former chair of the music department and dean of the school

colleagues carry on the debate about

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teacher certification, Laura Aitken says she continues to review manuscripts

of arts at William Paterson, met when

and tests and serve o n committees,

Hugh was an A1r Force cadet tra1n-

"keeping a couple of fingers in profes­

1ng at Colby 1n 1 943. Laura arrived from

sional pies."

Panama C1ty

-Robert Gillespie

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from Penn State U n iversity, active in the United Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife, Marion Crawford H u tchinson ' 3 9, two daugh­ ters, one son, five grandchildren , six great-grand­ chi ldren and two sisters. We extend ur deepest sympathy to Marion and the family. . . . tudents on campus used to do a doubletake when the Bavis t w i ns, Elizabeth Bavis Decker '39 and

spring live m Vermont . . . . Two of our cl

on

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Maine. One of them, John '66, 1

Ernes C Marnner RR # 1 . Box 1 8 1 5-P

a computer

programmer. Margery Lier Reed, a w1dow mce

1 991 when Walter d1ed, taught French and Latm

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North Monmouth. ME 04265 207-933-2401 207-685-4939

Eleanor Bavis Broughton ' 3 9 , went by. No one could tell them apart. But now you can. I have here before me a picture of the twin made in

"antiqu ing, collectmg, gardenmg, walk mg,

August 1 997 in w h ich it is clear that Ellie i wearing two-tone shoes and Libby is wearing

Norway ( candmavm , not Mame) enabled Marge

1 42 Turnp1ke Road New lpsw1ch. NH 0307 1 -3522

to visit cou in and ee where her parent were

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in high school until her retirement.

he has rwo

chi ldren and four grandchildren and enJOY nowmobiling--good health." A recent tnp to

plain white. And how do I know which is which ? They wrote their names on the picture. . . . Wade '39 and Eleanor Tolan Hooker ' 3 6

b rn . . . . My on John '70 spent a few days help­

regard t h e arrival o f their first great-grandson as

went back to Fermi lab near

being the event to surpass all events. They call

you read this, I 'll be back from two weeks in

the new arrival "The Great One." . . . Norris

Croatia. Have a great ummer!

ing me recover fr m the Ice torm of'9 and then

Dibble '4 1 states that h is birth, 2 / 1 /20, is the most memorable thing that ever happened to him. He reti red from h is law practice in 1 99 1 and now is a hospital volunteer. H e and h i wife,

h 1cago. By the time

-Ernest C. Mamner

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Best of wishes to one and all for 1 99 .

1 94 1 Bonnte Roberts H a haway

1 942 Marlee Monroe 1 429 Elm Street. Box 53 P 0 Box 53 Alden. NY 1 4004-0053 7 1 6-937-7 1 34 1 944

May it be a healthy and enjoyable year, and may

Viv1an Maxwell Brown

Helen, took a Panama Canal cruise on a ship of

I hear from

the Holland American Line-a great success.

Dibble declared themselve Cruise Happy in

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you. A letter from Helen and

orris

-Fletcher Eaton

1 99 7 . In J anuary they went on the Hol­

Over the years I have perfected an affin­

the Panama Canal With shore trips at Grand

land-American Line crui e from Florida through

ity � r misfi ling things. So naturally I carefully

Cayman, Costa Rica and Guatemala. "Wonder­

placed a fine letter from Ruth Hendricks Maren

ful," declared Norris. ln Augu t they took a

in the wrong file, and I couldn't find it when it

cruise from Vancouver through the Inside Pa -

came t ime to write my last column. The letter

sage to Alaska a far as Glacier Bay and back,

turned up in my file of papers pertaining to

another great vacation. On J u ly 2 their l Oth

Malta, where I vacationed last year, and now I

grandchild was born.

can report that our former class corre pondent

dened to learn of the death of a fellow Phi Delt,

spent a week on a houseboat on Lake Powell Ia t

harlie Dignam '39. They ee Olga and Bob

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ad­

year with members of her family. I've enjoyed

Bruce '40 frequently. . . .

h u eboating on Lake Powe ll, and I recommend

one else, I ' l l share our new . My hu band, Hank,

ince I heard from no

it. My apology to Ruth for this tardy report . . . .

at age 80 is still flying. He ha his own plane at

Our c l a s has had some great occupations.

Fitchburg, M a s., airport and has several stu­

Tilley was for 30 years a police­

dents whom he' teaching to fly whenever our

woman with the Metropolitan Police Depart­ ment in our nation' capital. he now walks and bikes for exerci e and seems to be spending her

winter weather permits. Being a homemaker

Constance

L.

hurtl ing between Vermont and Florida, with an occasional stay at her home in Gaithersburg, Md . . . . Way acros the counuy, Roger and Ruth Gould Stebbins enjoy an ac­ retirement

tive retirement in equim, Wa h. R ger had bypa s urgery last year and has resumed golf, oil p a i n t i ng and trave l i ng . They have t h ree pinne ,

granddaughters . . . . Constance Pratt wh lives in Barre, Ma s . , ha two school teacher daughters, one on who e ngage in plant engi­ neering and constru t ion for Bell Atlan[lc and n who is director of planning and develop­ hio. onn1e re­ ment for lermont aunt , tired from her job as supervisor of a ho fHtal

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laboratory. he and husband Bru e are m good health . . . . R u t h Blake Thompson 1 a w1dow in Montpelier, Vt. he olunteer � r mentall ·

chall nged adulr-. Last year he va a[ loned on e is in the aribbean. Her daughter IS a u:.­ tom br ker, and her two surviving sons ( a third

mputer tea her and computer anal st respe r ive! • . All three oftson died in 1 977 ) are a

keeps me partially busy, but I'm a lay mim ter m our church in Lunenburg, Ma

., where we nil

attend. Thi involve v1 l(lng our " hur-ms" and hospital ized, partiCipa[lon m orne erv1ce and

preaching about once a year. I ' m al o a board

member f a great pia e m Fnchburg called The Center for Well Bemg. I put m everal hours

L A R G E

1 940s Correspondents

mates live in Mame. Barbara Towle Wheeler and husband Al ' 3 7 ull operate Wheeler' Camp now Pond ( n w Me alonskee Lake) m Oakland. Their three ch ildren are all m central

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1 945 Naom1 Collett Paganelli 2 HoratiO Street #5J New York, NY 1 00 1 4- 1 608 2 1 2-929-5277 1 946 Anne Lawrence Bondy 771 Soundv1ew Dnve Mamaroneck. NY 1 0543 9 1 4-698- 1 238 1 947 Mary " Liz" Hall Fitch 4 Canal Par #7 1 2 Cambndge, MA 02 1 4 1 6 1 7-494-4882 e-ma1l John_FI!ch@msn.com 1 948 Dav1d and Doro hy

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41 Woods End Road Dedham. MA 02026 6 1 7-329-3970 ax 6 1 7-329-65 1 8

mo t week helpmg With maiimg and keepmg certam records for the rwo d1re tor . Thev are

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helpful to many people by offerm them health re ring and adv1 e on how to t y or get we ll. lt' a happy, lovmg and edu a[lonal mnumerable participant .

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1 949 Robert M Tonge Sr 5 Greyloc Road a erv1lle, E 04901 207-873-2 7 1 7 ax 207-877-9040

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doing quite well these days. he has for the February 1 deadline for thi to have Home Health people each column, l found my elf wishing we N EWS MAKERS day to help with dressing and bath­ could share our thoughts by phone in read of in writing. Remember the "The most wonderful event in Donald C. Freeman '26's life was his ing; Meals on Wheels come with marriage to Isabelle Brown." That statement in the fall 1 997 Colby calls J ojo and l made before our 5 th her d inner and a cleaning lady maga:ine was picked up last February by the Lawrence ( Mass . ) reunion1 It was great talking to you comes once a week. With these i n d i v i d u a l l y and hearing your Eagle-Tribune, which devoted a feature t o the Browns' 70-year helper , she is able to stay in her thought firsthand. ow what l wish marriage . . . . Vesta Alden Putnam ' 3 3 was presented the award apartment, which she appreciates. for excellence in accommodations during the annual Unity Dinner l could hear from you is how you all . . . We do have a returned member made out during these horrible win­ at the Bangor ( Maine) Civic Center. She and her husband, George of our class, J ame s Collins Atwater, '34, have owned Alden Camps in Belgrade, Maine, for more than ter storms. Plea e know that our who entered Colby with the Class 40 years . . . . Eleanor Rose Viles ' 3 7 was one of several area artists thoughts are with you. As many of of 1 944, went into the service, fin­ contributing original paintings to "Raise the Roof," a raffle to you know, WaterYille was ,·ery badly ished college with the Class of 1 94 7 hit by ice storm -twice. Thousands improve the Lajos Matolcsy Art Center in Norway, Maine. and is now back with us. Welcome were without heat or electricity. back, Jim, and please let us hear Colby's field hou e was made availM I LE POSTS from you. He lives at 7460 1 8th able as a temporary helter and had Street, Marget, FL 33063 . . . . I need Deaths: Arthur J. Sullivan '22, Dec. 1 2, 1 997, in Pawling, N.Y., at a peak of 4 5 people. The news some news for my next column: no 96 . . . . Elizabeth Kellett Craven ' 2 3 , Feb. 7, 1 998, in Florida at arttcle I received, dated January 1 3 , news, no column!

96 . . . . Norman W. Foran ' 2 3 , Nov. 6, 1 997, in Boca Raton, Fla., rated that the city was i n a tate of -Vivian Maxwell Brown at 9 . . . . Lona Fowles Gardyne '23, Dec. 27, 1 997, in Gorham, emergency and that the ational Maine, at 96 . . . . Marguerite Rice Lary ' 2 3 , ov. 1 5, 1 997, in Guard troop were helping with M any thanks to several Frederick, Md., at 95 . . . . Alice Manter Brown '24, Jan. 30, 1 998, clean-up and relief. In a letter dated '45ers for taking the time during in Waterville, Maine, at 96 . . . . Agnes McBride Gates '24, Feb. 1 9 , January 2 5 , Jojo wrote that she and the very busy months of November 1 998, in Epsom, . H . , a t 95 . . . . Kendall B. Howard ' 2 5 , Jan. 9, Fred d1d not lose their power during and December to answer our class 1 99 , in Northport, .Y., at 95 . . . .

Elsie Frost Rapp ' 2 6, Nov. 24, the torm but had just had a three­ news questionnaire. FYI, the ques­ 1 997, in Danbury, Conn., at 93 . . . . C. Stan l ey Corey '28, Feb. 25, day stretch of rain, free:ing rain and tionnaire is mailed to a quarter of 1 99 , in Green Valley, Ariz., at 90. . . . Katherine B. Greaney '28, now. Rockport had flooding rains the class each time, and everyone Dec. 25, 1 997, in Bethesda, Md., at 9 1 . . . . Sydney P. Snow '28, on January 24 after a night of five­ receives just one a year. It's great, Mar. 14, 1 998, in Oakdale, Mass., at 92 . . . . A. Louise Cone '29 , degree temperature. They had to be though, if you drop me a line any Feb. 27, 1 998, in Townsend, Vt., at 90. . . . Elsie Lewis Everest '29 plowed out four times in one week! time you have news to share, ques­ Jan. 28, 1 998, in Plattsburgh, .Y., at 89 . . . . Charles W. Jorda he al o wrote that the Waterville tionnaire aside . . . . Ed Smith re­ '29, ov. 3, 1 997, in Auburn, Maine, at 89 . . . . Lillian Collins shelter moved back to Mr. Merci ports he had a trip to the M irimich MacLean '29, Feb. 18, 1 998, in Quincy, Mass., at 90 . . . . Harry 0. aftere1ghr day m the field house . . . . area of New Brunswick that was Ashmo�e Aug. I , 1 997, in Oceanside, Calif., at 88 . . . . Henry There ha not been much news from special to him because he met many F. Deetjen 3 1 , Oct. 5, 1 997, in Portland, Maine, at 9 1 . . . . Florence cla mate , but JoJO shared their relatives he'd never known. Gene­ Connors Vickery ' 3 1 , Apr. 3, 1 998, in Goffstown, N . H . , at Chn tmascard news with me, which alogy is one of his current doings, as . . . . Roger B. Draper '32, Sept. 1 6 , 1 997, in Largo, Fla., at helped. B err y Wood Reed wrote in are yard work and having "a gin and 88 . . . . Genevieve Garran Waterhouse ' 3 2 , Feb. 2 7 , 1 998, in New her card the ad news that Marcia tonic on the deck." Answering our Bedford, Mass., at 8 . . . . Lawrence C. Good ' 3 3 , Aug. 28, 1 997, in Wade Priscu d1ed on August 30. question re the world's great prob­ Houlton, Maine, at 85 . . . . David S. Sherman ' 3 3 , Dec. 1 6, 1 997, in he and Berry were roommates at lems today, Ed cites "voters' lack of Boston, Mass., at 7 . . . .

Filbert A. Silveira Jr. ' 3 3 , Dec. 23, 1997, olby , and Marc1a VISited Betty for morals." . . . Hazel Brewer War­ in Dartmouth, Mass., at 87 . . . . Robert H. Brann '34, Feb. 2 1 , 1998, a few day m Augu>t. Betty sa1d he ren, who's chairperson of beautifi­ m Brunswick, Mame, at 7 . . . .

Dorothy Higgins Matheson '34 had pent the pa t year leammg to cation, planted 1 ,800 daffodils in Oct. 2 5 , 1 997, in Waterville, Maine, at 85 . . . . Margaret Duerr Hil l l \·e alone after the death of her her town (Centerville, Mass . ) . Her ' 3 5 , Dec. 3, 1 997, m Newburyport, Mass., at 84 . . . . Amy H.C. hu,hand, Ron '43, m 1 996. he 1 special trip was to Scandinavia last Thompson '36,Jan. 24, 1 998, in Las Vegas, ev. , at 82 . . . . Catherine mm domg 'orne volunteer work and year-to Stockholm, the Norwe­ I vani in Anicetti '3 7, Oct. 1 1 , 1 997, in Lewi ton, Maine, at 1 fine. Another classmate, Earl gian fjords ( five nights on a steamer) I . . . .

Arthur F. Hannigan '3 7, Dec. 2 1 , 1997, in Camden, Maine, ovemher 23 m Merrill, d1cd on and Copenhagen. As for the world's 4 . . . . James Lawrence Robbins '37, ov. S, 1 997, in ear mont at Bradenton, Fla. He 1 >urv1ved by h1 great problems, Hazel's one-word Mame, at 4. . . . tan ley J. Washuk '37, Nov. 1 8, 1997, in Tucson w1fe.

An mtere,nng note from answer: "people." . . . Joe Strup feels Am., at 2 . . . . Hammond I . Bender '38, ov. 4, 1 997, in Fall ancy Pattison McCarth Her that Ma rge Owen Fallon's idea of R1ver, Mas,., at I . . . . Harold M. Wolman '38, Mar. 26, 1 998, in 1->rothcr, AHxm, an mremat10nally house swapping for vacation has &Non, Ma"·· at l . . . . Robert V. Canders Jr. '39, Feb. 8, 1 998, .tccla1med 'culptor .md pamter and " interesting possibilities." He lives m tamford, onn., at 0 . . . . Esther MacBride Parsons '39 , Dec . f,>undmg member of }.f,Hne 1>a't in Hampton, Va., and for Marge 2 2 , 1 997, m Key ol,my Beach, Fla., at I . . . . Wilson C. Pipe r '39 :\rn t,, \\ ,1 h,morcd w1th"A Tu' an ' and whoever else might like to ex­ j.m. 3 1 , 1 99 , m Hanover, .H., at 79.

Cclchr uwn" m Lmct>ln, Mamc, m plore the pos ibilities with Joe, he Juh 1 997 .tnc\ .t n d j ,,e c d c br. ue J ugge ts preparing a list (go for it cmcr 1 11 Wa h mgto n, D. ., for four week thc1r 5 th '":JJmg mn11·cr,ary m Scptcml->cr.

Joe) of interested house swappers. Name an after two ma,,l\·c hearr ana k : "HI> heart 1 0 . Joy Patti<,on ook " rotc th.u her><>n, T1mo­ addre e are in our 50th reunion book . . . . d.un.ll!cJ th.n they cannm do by-pa surgery." th1 , h"l �d to comp le te h1' .H,>und-thc-\\orld Woody Tarlow tells us he's crossed the U .S.A. Btll 1' .It humc now Barbara Blaisdell Libby cpiL 1 01 .ll,!e .tr� unJ hn,rm.l,tlme. He left fr,Jm 16 nme in the pa t eight years. Woody looks rcp<>rt' rh.H the pneumon1a >he had been uffer­ Forr L 1uJerJ.tle, rl.l , l\\ ll 1 e.tr .1go. In their beyond the border and see "globalizat ion and tnl! Junn�.: rhc f.1ll 1 now gone, and she was nJ 'hn,rm.h ' 1rd tl JuJ' .md FrcJ. Btl! '4 1ts Impact in every corner of the world on our ID<'k tng toTII.lrJ to Chn nna., With her grand­ Bonne1 Ho" ard Atherton " r te rh.1r rhc1r datly l ive " as the world's great pr blem . . . . "" . .

Taq Hood Finney " rote that she 1, n B ll Jr h ,J I-nn t n the \ �tcr,m' . !cJ1c 1!

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Ronald Roy, who l ives in W inslow, Maine, te lls us he's attorney and chief counsel of the tate l a i ms Commission . H is wife, M i ldred, is a legal secretary, so their cont i n ue to be a very busy household . . . . Grace Keefer Parker writes that despite retirement her days are fu l l and that they s l i p by faster and faster ( I 've noticed ) .

Among other things, he and her husband, Dick, have journeyed to Mozambique on a Vol ­

for the best. I n any case, three weeb t n ouch a

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went for a �wtm hefore d111ner. ) They are rea l l y

vast country doe'>n't qual tfy me to make judg­

look1 11g forward t o t h e 50th reu n ton. . . .

ments. If you're com tdenng a trtp there , do tt.

Le

I t wtll be a memorable expenence.

Please

hl md Hont have three cht ldren and 'even gr,mdch t !Jren. They were le;n 111g for I rae! on

send ,orne news 1

-Anne Laurence Bond'!

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Decemher 20 to attend the 3 3 rd World Zwn t't onventwn

In the htghly regarded Englt h publtca­

tion The

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ine wrtte from Bo,nton Beach, Fla , that

ollecwr, David Weber hds an colophon,

tn J e r u a l t! m . .

E l i .: a b e t h

orke M •e rs h,�, three cht !Jren dnd

oomb

etght grandchtldren; ht!r hu hand,

harle,, ha'

unteers in M ission church team, repairing a dam, painting hospital r oms and confronting

es ay on the denvatton of the word

other problems of extreme poverty, the de truc­ t ions of war and a huge number of landmines.

"Many of the 90 percent c i v i l i an victims are

we tern Turkey. He say , "tht

endtng up in early I th-century London may

he hope to k t agatn thl' wt nter wtth "roomte"

even have had >orne prompttng<, 111 my member-

Jan McKenney Murph and 'aY' th.n hefore we

children," she writes. " I n a v i llage in Mozambique

olby Ltbrary A octates

whtch ha

tts earltest root'> 111 what " today

hip decades ago 111 the

c t rcuttou-. tale

" " cht ldren ,md 1 4 grandcht!Jren, a total of n 1 11e cht ldren and 22 grand h t !Jren. The} mu't nt!t!d a progr,tm

to

tdenttfy ;1l1 tho e relattn:'

know tt w t l l he ttme for the h1g 5 th. l

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in 1 99 5 , several chi ldren col lected crap iron to sel l to buy food. When they to k i t to be weighed

and its student book collect111g group." If any

rt!ally u:.� she \Htte,. I don't k m l\\ ,thout you,

cia s member would l ike an offpnnt of the ar­

Betty, hut l am 27; tt\ my body that t

at the market, the metal exploded, k i l l i ng I I

ticle you may contact htm at 63 Lathrop Dnve,

70 . . . . Hazel Huckins Merrill wrote of a

chi ldren . " I ndeed, Grace finds our lack of care

Stan� rd,

cent trtp to Aruba wtth daughter Don' and

for chi ldren to be the world's biggest problem.

J u l y , Jane Rol lins v is t ted Lillian Hinc k ley

grandson Tyler, 1 5 , and hll',hanJ John .

. . . Vacation travel: Helen Strauss revi ired

Worcester and Adela ide J ack McGorn l l '46 at

Ginnie Hill Field ;ays .,he re ently ,o)J the old

A 94305 . . . . W h t le 111 Ma111e Ia t

over n:­

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Rome last fal l , and Muriel Marker Gould and I

Adelaide'

ummer home on Deer Isle. A usual,

I 0-room hou<.e, bought a ntce condo wtth lot' t'f

are off on another trip together in May-to

Jane pent a month in Britall1 111 the early fal l ,

people around and ts enJO)'II1g the 70, Ralph

Normandy, from Rouen to G iverny to the World War l l landing beaches.

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ollett Paganelli

ornwall, Dor et and

. Dick

ampson and wife

spent two week on a "Northumbrian Pi lgrim­ age" that covered northern England and south­

"People helping people i the big tory"

in M a i ne's brutal J anuary ice storm, according

to

pending several days in the Isle of Skye. .

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cotland, an area that wa the K 1 11gdom of

Northumbria in the seventh and eighth centu­

( " Bunny") pa.,.,ed away two year' <�go and tt h,l been rough, but thank-. to fam t ly and many wonderful fnends he

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111111e say tt was a htg move from Fa t rfteld to Waterv t l le . . . . Howell

lement 'ent me a bl.tck

hear (photo) that appeared 111 ht:. yard '" a ,e) f .

my fa i t hfu l W a t e rv i l le corresponde n t ,

ries. They concentrated on the place that were

appo111red g u e t. H e >ay-. that unfortunately the

Charlene Blance Ray. N i ne days without power

holy prior to the 1 1 th century. They found the

reunton ts out for htm :.111ce he wtll he rcferee111c 1 11 a elect occer ea>on and that league w t l l l-e

( read heat, l ight, stove, water, refrigeration)

weather wonderful and the other tour member

brought out the best i n everybody and provided

congen ial and also enjoyed bookshops, ca ties, a

111 fu l l sw111g by then. (

a bright spot in a bleak t ime. The same senti­

steam train ride in Yorkshire and museums in

Montana he may be the only referee for hun­

ment was voiced by Norma Taraldsen Bill ings

Durham, where they attended a memonal ser­

dreds of mtle

in Augusta, where during the arne n i ne day

vice for Princess Diana in the cathedral. . . .

excuse . ) He ay that 111 a way he em te' u' l t \'lng

"Neighb r were wonderful," getting together

Beverly Benner Cassara and her husband were

clo e to Colby and be111g able to ma111ta111 our

for mutual

both featured in recent article

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harlene and

papers. He wa referred to a. " the qu111te ennal

would have mt. ,ed ee1 11g much of the countn

Wendell moved the c ntents of their refrigera­

lovable professor" 111 an arttcle that dealt wtth

at the expense ofGent!ral Electnc, .md without

tor to a sn w bank; Norma and Dick '48 wal ked

hi former profe sional l ife and hi pre ent inter­

the tran fer to Kentucky he would h.n e m • "ed

to the Y to take showers and carried water back

est in writing murder mysterte . Beverly wa

ht; wtfe of 45 year,. . . .

from the church for flushing. Both

interv iewed about her work organt:111g a c t ty ­

Piccirillo \\Tttes from Vt!ro Be'l h, Fl.1 , th.u ,he

upport. They are now plann i ng a

Happy Party to celebrate survival.

rma and harlene spoke of a Bangor radio station' storm

watch ( if you had a battery-operated radio) with creative tips l ike how to make terno at home. harlene emphasized olby's spec ial neighbor­ l i ness-turn i ng the field house into a he Iter for 700 Waterv i l l ians and feed ing the multitude during th whole ordeal. A different tory came from Jean O'Brien Perkins over on the coast­ hers wa a 6-hour outage, but Jean heat \\'tth wood stoves and has compo t mg rotlet , so ·he had re latively little i n onvenien e. But Jean did provide a coop for the column. he's leav­ ing i n J u ne for two and a half years wtth the orp in B u lga r i a ! he'll b e t e a h 1 11g Peace e all \\'tsh her Engl ish-as-a-second- language. in her new areer an 1 look torgreat uc e ward to news fla hes from our new toretgn correspond e n t . . . . \ hen you read th ts 111 lay, ene and I will be phorograp hmg hl ue-fc)l)(ed boobies and other i n habttants of the a lap<lgcb I slands. Last fal l we were in hma. The change' and the I a k f changes sin e l was there m 19

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irginia Brackley

wide program for sen10r volunteers a n d educat­

and her hu hand,

ing local organizatton about the vanou. k111d

cht ldren, 24 grandcht!Jren ,md twn great-gr.ll1d­

of work sen tOrs can do.

c h t ldren.

he has put out a bt)l1k let

li r ing 50 agencte look ing for sentor volunteers and the k inds of sktll

they 'eek. Beverly ha

publ tshed three books, her ftrst 111 1 962 about women\ chang111g tmage, and the latter two on adult edu atton.

hirley Ll yd Thorne and I

recently had a del tghtful lu nchecm wtth her.

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computer. . . . Jan West Williams of Crosswicks, is treasurer of their Eastern Star chapter. They This fall they visited Greece and Turkey . . . .

N.J., writes that she and husband Harry are still recently returned from a 1 0-day vacation to Gordon Miller writes that both he and his wife, working at their company, Williams Builder, P.E. I . and to visit their roots in Maine. "Drove Jane, are retired. Gordon is a former vice presi­ Inc., which was selected as the Remodeler of the around the Colby campus on our way through," dent of Barry Wright Corp., and Jane is a former Year in 1 997 by the National Association of Lynn says. "Always building going on. Some trust officer at the law firm of Bowditch and Home Builders. Jan conducts seminars around different from when we were there. In fact it is Dewey in Worcester. They continue to do the country at conventions and meetings. They a lot different from when our son Peter gradu­ Elderhostels, and Gordon goes on Caribbean have three children and six grandchildren­ ated in 1 973."

Other travels during their retire­ windjammer cruises two to three times a year and five cats-but still manage to travel. They ment include the U.K. twice, Iceland, the either with his "kids" or by himself. He still plays just returned from a trip to Rome . . . . golf at the Worcester Country Club, Another classmate still working is where he was president about 2 5 Barbara Starr Wolf. She is an agent N EWS MAKERS years ago. H e does aerobics and for concert artists and cultural pro­ pushes autilus weights around two " I 've always been a ham, " Janice motions in Brazil and is active in the to four times a week but says he Pearson Anderson '52 told the Brazilian/Argentine Cultural Insti­ ceased to question his motivational Harwich ( Mass) Oracle. The former tute. Pinky says traveling is a con­ reasoning for aerobics. Exercise? elementary school teacher returned stant way of life for her-visiting Heart maintenance? Coed exercis­ to the stage after 4 1 years and has had Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Europe ing? Fun? Work? If that was a mul­ roles in a dozen Cape Cod produc­ and Israel as well as the U.S., namely tiple choice exam, Gordon, we know tions . . . . Barbara Scott '52 recently Boston and Florida, to see family. the answer. You may be retired but was made a member of the Order of She has two children and two grand­ clearly you are not gone! He is look­ Canada, the country's highest non­ children plus friends all over the ing forward to our 50th.

Joan Hall Parker '54 military honor, for her service as a world. Last June she received an -David and Dorothy Marson politician. When she retired in 1 99 5 , Scott had served eight terms honorary fel lowship from Hebrew as alderman on the Calgary, Alta., city council. . . . Improper University of]erusalem, and in Janu­ Allen I. Dublin is an attor­ Bostonian profiled Joan Hall Parker '54's community activism. ary she was part of an official Brazil­ ney who lives in Gilford, .H. He After careers as early childhood professor at Endicott College and ian delegation to Hebrew University and his wife, Gloria, have three Tufts and director of curriculum and instruction for the Massachuwhen Brazilian President Fernando children, Lee, William and Robin. setts Department of Education, she is involved with several Bos­ H e n r i q u e Cardoso r e c e i v e d a Robin lives in Alaska, where Allen ton-area philanthropic organizations, including Community doc tore honores causa degree there. and Gloria have visited . . . . Carol Servings, which works with home-bound AIDS patients.

Carpenter Bisbee is a retired teacher She hopes to implement, together who says she enjoys having a 49 in with the Colby Museum of Art, a M I LE POSTS her address ( 4 7 Fahey Street, Belfast, tour to Brazil in the fall for the ME 049 1 5 ) . Her family numbers I nternational Art group in Sao Deaths: Donald M. Jacobs 'SO, Nov. 5 , 1 997, in Tampa, Fla., at four children and 1 4 grandchildren.

Paulo . . . . Alan Silberman ofStam­ 70 . . . . Thomas A. Simpson '5 1 , Dec. 1 4, 1 997, in Northport, Her oldest graduated from UVM as ford, Conn., president of P. Silber­ Ala., at 7 2 . . . . Oliver S. Fader Jr., Dec. 2 5 , 1 997, in Delray Beach, a physical therapist last June-and man, Inc., a real estate and retail Fla., at 68 . . . . George C. Palmer '53, Sept. 2 1 , 1 997, in Santa in August married a Ringling Broth­ carpet business, is another unretired Cruz, Calif., at 66 . . . . Robert W. Hough '56, Feb. 1 9, 1 998, in er clown! Carol, who travels fre­ classmate. Of course, Alan is put­ Boston, Mass., at 64 . . . . Richard A. Hunt '59, Jan. 1 7, 1 998, in quently to many interesting places, ting his three children through colFairfield, Maine, at 60. planned on Israel, Jordan, Turkey, lege right now, so with college costs Russia, Costa Rica, Morocco and what they are today he is still work­ Caribbean, Florida, western national parks and pain last February and Sicily in March . . . ing. Daughter Lauren is a senior at Barnard, Alaska. Hawaii is scheduled in 1 998.

Alice Covell Bender ( 1 3 1 4 Kala Kana Ave. Alison is a sophomore at Colby, and Bobby is a =90 1 , Honolulu, H I ) is now retired. After 34 -Roberc M . Tonge Sr. junior at Kent School. Alan and his wife, Mary, years, she and her spou e, Joe, decided to leave traveled to visit Alison in London when she was When you read this it will be spring, but thetr roomy old home near the University of on her Colby program and to I taly during as I write we are recovering from the Great Ice Hawaii and move to a senior high ri e only a Lauren's semester abroad . . . . Rev. Charles Storm. Here in the New London area the dam­ mile away. he says it will be a change from trees Smith, retired from Fairfield University, is now age was extensive, and we were without power and quiet to a nny apartment in an urban an interim pastor at Smithfield Avenue Con­ for four days. Cooking and huddling around a ewng, but she 1 ure they will adapt to the new gregational Church in Pawtucket, R . I . He is also small wood stove ceases to be a novelty after a addres . . . . Lynwood P. Harriman has retired president of the board of directors of Hamilton couple of days. Waterville was badly hit, we as a upenntendent of chools, and Donna House, a nonprofit senior center in Providence. learned from taff who came to the dinner we ( Elltott '4 ) 1 remed manager of the ew He and his wife, June, plan to travel to Prague, Bedford office of the Massachu ett Dtvt ton of attended for The Campaign For Colby. ( We Czech Republic, to visit with his son, who is were the oldest graduates there! ) Learning about Employment ecumy. n.ey have three chtl­ spending a year there.

Colby' plans, we applaud the idea of requiring dren: Peter '73, Mark and Lynda and even -Virginia Davis Pearce all student to ltve on campus in the near future. grandchildren. After remement I 0 year ago, wme L '11 , he pent three year a dtrector of Campus ltvmg was a major part of our college It works! The e-mail address works! The expenence, a fact reflected tn many of your Ma.ontc educanon for the Grand Lodge of first news I received was from Harvey Kirstein, que uonnatre . . . . Havmg seen my e-mail ad­ ns tn Bo ton. "It made a ntce rran ttlon M Danvers, Mass., from whom there had been no dre , Henry Fale Jr. ' 5 1 ugge ted that I tell you from a htgh- tre. JOb to omethtng more relax­ response for years but to whom "the e-mail ease about using J un , whtch 1 free e-mail not con­ mg [be ore] full remement." owaday he' appealed." (Now let's hear from you ! ) Harvey nected to the Internet. If you are interested, mvolved tn 14 Masom bodte tn both the York has been in the travel business since 1 97 6 and is contact Juno or have omeone on the Internet and ow h Rtte , nil holdmg offi e tn about now president of Hartours, Inc. He says they run c ntact them so It can be downloaded onto your tx o them Donna 1 Worth · Marron, and Lyn "deluxe upscale programs worldwide"-for,

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was quite a Jungle sightmg, too . . . . Please let

the Jewish Museum in New York. Some thi ngs Harvey thinks could not happen at Colby today

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are painting Bowdoin's Polar Bear statue and cancelling classes because the Blue Beetle bu from downtown froze . . . . Anne Foshay "Fosh" Kershaw, Mered ith, N . H . , is the retired busi­

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But for a 1 2 - hour outage, the Aldnch hou ehold

She now travels mostly to the West Coast to visit fam i ly or the Maritimes to trace her gene­ alogy . . . . Harvey K i rstein and Ernie Fortin

was spared. La t winter we took a trip to Iceland.

must have compared notes because Ernie al o refers to painting the Polar Bear and the frozen

we reply, "No. Not all winter. Last year we went

Beetle. (So who

Englander do go outh. AI and Joan Martin

did paint the Polar Bear? Did

An interesting country.

ow when people a k,

"Do you actually pend the wmter m Maine ?" to Iceland." That

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Lamont moved from M a sachu ens to

helped stuff YBLOC in the tiny car?) Ernie has

Fla., following Al's retirement from optometry.

retired from 39 years of desk work with the Bell

Last fall they toured the Greek Isle . . . . Dave

tuart,

system into volunteering. For hi enthusiasm,

Morse, a retired radiologist, and Joan, a retired

spirit and dedication on behalf of the College,

nurse, live in nearby Boothbay Harbor over­

Ernie received the Colby Brick Award last

looking the Sheep cot River, Southport Island

J une . . . . A letter written to Maxine "Mickey"

and Townsend Gut. N ice. Dave coord inate a

Rosenberg Rolland's holiday friends was cop­

writers' group. They spend the month of March

ied to me for news. (Good idea-maybe

you

in Sara ota, Fla. , earching for birds and 'gators,

next year ! ) I feel as though I now know the

playing tennis and walking the beach. A lso

whole fam i l y , including the dog. M ickey does

nice . . . . Shirley and Bob Kline have left Con­

not name the firm he has been w i t h , but she

necticut and have taken up permanent resi­

has recently moved from customer serv ice to

dence at what wa their vacation hideaway here

sales. She wri tes of trips to Turkey, Poland

in New Harbor. And they travel to Califor­

and Germany. O n weekends at home she

nia . . . . Mel Lyon, after 20 years of teaching

rollerblade ! . . . Robert A . Ingraham, Sanibel,

psychology at the Univer ity of Copenhagen,

Fla., and Palermo, Maine, is appreciative of his

left his tenured professor hip and returned to

good health as he now becomes a retired clergy­

the U.S. He and Nancy live in Little Rock, Ark. ,

man. Of Colby he recalls helping fight forest

where he is research associate profes or of psy­

fires at Hollis Center in the fal l of '47. He is in

chiatry and behavioral science at the Univer­

awe of what is happening now at Colby that

sity of Arkansas for Medical

could not have happened when we were there.

worked for 30 year on method of testing anti­

ciences. Mel ha

. . . Dan Hall, Duxbury, M a s., has retired a a

schizophrenic medications. He al o ha

social worker at Pine Street Inn Transitional

a novel involving

Homeless Shelter-which he got into follow­

its relationship to scientific way of looking at

ing his teaching career-and now does part­

the universe . . . . Nancy and Jim MacLean con­

time work and is building a new hou e. One of

tinue to live in Toledo, Ohio, and divide their

his sons, like Dan in the teaching profession, is now at a school in Romania. In an wer to "what

ville visiting two daughter

could not happen at Colby now that happened while you were there," Dan writes: ice hockey games played outside on natural ice . . . . Henry Fales, Orleans, Mass., is till trying to help me conquer my computer! I'd never have made it through olby if I had to be computer literate as well a English literate! Henry ha recently volunteered to be the ecretary for hi high school cia . . . . If any of you see a blue olby ' 5 1 T-shirt from our 40th reunion weekend

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candinavian mythology and

travel time between I ndianapolis and Jack on­

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and four grand­

ch ildren . . . . Lucy and Ronnie Milner are in Gros e Point, M ich., and continue to manage the hotel bu ine s, with a fa1r amount of travel here and abroad over eeing pr pertie and eek­ ing out new one . . . . Dick ' 5 1 and Evelyn Walker Mack are retired in Wmche ter, Ma . ,

find 1 t ' a treat to be able to plan one's nme and, to te t thi , enjoyed a trip to Bm1 h Columb1a and an Ala ka cru1 e . . . . And down on the

being worn by someone in India, it i mine­ accidentally left behind in ovember when I spent three week there seeing the Taj Mahal and tea plantation . . . and p verty . . . but

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is an interpreter for Plymouth Plantation. Alan says he is "enjoying the pleasures of retire­ ment-more time for my intere ts of gardening, woodworking and music." He is still involved with the public schools as a supervisor of student teachers for Bridgewater State College and as chairman of a 1 5-member middle school build­ ing committee. According to Alan, he is in Here it is again-another reunion year. excellent health and enjoys working on his 2 7l hope a lot of us make the effort to join in on the acre wood lot, which is under forest manage­ fun . . . . Mimi Price Patten join me to say, ment. For the past four years, he has interviewed "come back for our 45th in June." At this writ­ prospective Colby students for the Admissions ing she is probably spending time at her Sugarloaf Office . . . . Abbott Rice has retired as director condo; she says she doesn't ki, j ust watches of the placement office at Northern Essex Comeveryone else enjoying winter munity College. He and his wife, ports . . . . Phil Hussey asks the Annie, a registered nurse, live in same que tion: are you all coming in Pat E rskine Howl ett has retired six times but Hudson, N . H . They have nine June? He ay- he still works spring grown children and one grand­ and fal l , then takes the summer, was back at Golden Gate U n iversity for the daughter. Abbott is considering re­ sailing the Maine coast from North spring semester teac h i n g the capstone course turning to work on a part-time basis, Haven l land. During the winter he having recovered from major sur­ plits his ttme skiing ugarloaf and for the M . S . to p u b l i c relati ons can d i dates. gery last summer. He is involved in finding someplace warm for the re­ local government as a member of mainder. AI Hibbert ays he keeps the Hudson sewer utility committee. He's also said she felt like the intervening years had stood in touch with Phil as well as with Roger active in the Grange and is founder of the local till. Sometimes reunions can make us feel this Olson. . . . an Murray Las bury al o asked me community garden. . . Ted T u r c h a n is way . . . . Colby sent me a questionnaire this to " ell 45th" and hopes that some of us can semi-retired in Orlando, Fla., having worked as time around, so I guess that l should add a note attend pre-reunion activities a well. Mail ings a manufacturing rep and sales manager for will be sent out soon while she and Chase enjoy or two. l am still working; sometimes l wonder Autolite National Homes. His wife, Luly, is a if it is just to keep up on the bills. There are the Flonda weather. . . . l think that Ray '54 teacher. In response to our question "What always quite a few from the local veterinarian, and Priscilla Eaton Billington may have headed aren't you doing but wish you were?" Ted re­ m that direction because I tried to reach Pri cilia since l have three animal with health prob­ plied, "love to travel . My wife and I, when we lems. My 5-year old golden retriever has a thy­ around the fir t of J anuary to thank her for can get away, tour South and Central America roid problem and has to be on medication the endmg the "my tery play," which is sure to be rest of his l ife; my 1 0-year old cat has diabetes, and the United Kingdom." Ted seesMel Phillips the htgh!tght of Reunion Weekend, when some so l am now quite adept with insulin and sy­ ofus wt!l be transformed mto " tar ." . . . Charles in Orlando . . . . Joan Somerville Walsh , who ringes; and the young cat (picked up in the park, "Bo" Fisher wanted to know if any ATOs has two grown sons, is still adjusting to widow­ starving) has leukemia. Two years ago when remember "The Greek Tragedy." I love to read hood. After 25 years as a second grade teacher, Pete Bell visited me, we were talking about the the comment that c lassmate wme about Colby she has retired to "full-time homebody and all sad state of my front lawn; it i still "sad" because memones. Bo say he wt!l never forget Mike that that entails-gardening, papering, craft­ Loebs, athletic dtrector/teacher; he was small in my town imposed a water ban from pring into ing." She has traveled to California to visit her fall. If the town sees fit to lift the ban and my tature, Bo says, and loaded wtth c lass-like son, taken a bus tour to Branson, Mo., and spent landscaper isn't too busy, l hope to see some olby. We can bnng back the e memories in a week in Rome, Italy. Joan is active in the green by reunion time. l do look forward to a June . . . . AI Hibbert ays he remember burn­ Methodist Church as pianist, president ofUMW mini ski vacation in February with my two mg freshman beames (do they nll have to wear and the food cupboard. She ha seen Meredith athletic grandchildren, who love to outrun me tho e now-a-days?) and pendtng two night tn Mitchell Van Breitenfeld, who moved from on the lopes. ee you in June.

Brun wtck Jatl for pamnng the Bowdom Bear ew Jer ey to Colorado prings and is a literacy -Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey blue . . . w hoops . . . . Almo t all the men men­ volunteer. . . . Diane Chamberlain Starcher tion foot hall '' hen compemion was ltvely agamst writes from Chambery, France, where she is a UMame, Bowdo111, Tnntry and oast Guard. I , Art Rothenberg responded to our lat­ volunteer with European Ba'hai Business Forum est que nonnatre from his office in Great Neck, to<l , remember the excttement o n the field, and her husband is a management consultant w.w.:h111gcheerleader Pam quire Coleman nde N . Y . , emphatically rating that he does not and secretary general of the EBBF. Their two con tder htm elf rettred. As a certified public the o!b, Whttc Mule, led h1 a fellow cheenng married sons and grandson are living in the accountant, he 1 "try111g to keep my clients out partner . eorge Pirie sent a btt of news States. Diane is very much interested in women offinanctal and tax troubles and d tfficulties." In ,tlong " tth hts memoncs. He calls them hts entrepreneurs and in "micro credits" for the respon e to ourquestton "What aren't you doing "ftr,r,," 1 c , ftr't c.ar, 1 9 34 madster; ftrst dare, poor. She poke to the Women's Associations but " tsh you were?" he said, "making lots of D r a; rocker Hodgdon, ftr't roommate, Dana in Barcelona, Spain, and Moscow last October money." Art has seen Peter Fishbin, who is Andersen, ftr t 'k' Ic--on, r.tught hy Dana, ftr t and to an adult education class, and her research tm·olved 111 real e tate construction (home im­ �,,[f le o n, h Red O'H.tll<lT,II1 '5 and Bobby article on thi subject ha been translated into pmvements and renovations), and herman outhw i k, ftr,r lo1 e .mJ how w tall 111 and our several languages. he is secretary of the local aperstein, w ho wtnter 111 Phoentx, Ariz., after uf ,,tmc H< .t[,o ment t<ll1ed the htg 'now,wrm Ba'hai admini trative body in hambery and 'cll 111 g ht., lumbe r ) ard and rettr�ng . . . . Alan R. of 1 95 2 , w htch I ,t[,o remember, ,t 'llll1t! of u' lead two cia es for adolescent Ba'hai boys Lindsay wnre' from hts home tn M tddleboro, !rum rhe c. u.l end ,,f L.tmpu rre kcJ up the ht!l and girls . . . . Phil R e i ner-Deutsch works as \1.t'-., where he rcttred tn 1 995 after 3 5 year 111 Bruce t< JUmp <>If the Dc:ke Hou e roof. an Amtrak travel clerk ( bus specialist) in Los cJuc,mon, tnduJmg 2 7 year' a a mtddle school icRo\ ,,�, th.n no m.nra h 111 muc.h cold, Angeles. According to Phil, he has not retired pnnctp.tl Hts '"fe 1 a fifth grade reacher, and " 111d md n 11 w c: endure d , rhe 'rnn� rh.H becau e "I still have b i l ls to pay. Amtrak thur J,tughtcr, .1 graduate of Wheaton ollege, fllll< w ed \\ eTc l tnt,h!tc.; Bruu• h n<lll IHmng ,l could go bankrupt, 30-60 days hence. The

rive-substitute teaching for Barbara and church mini terofmu ic for Bob. Lastsummertheycruised in the Bahamas with their family, which included two sailor grandsons under age 5. And may you all have mooth ailing this summer, too1 -Paul M . Aldrich

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biography of Brig. General John Chambliss, confederate We t Pointer. H istory is in his blood-he came back to his father's roots in Washington County, Maine, to do genealogy re earch. . . . l had a long Christmas letter from Sally Matthews MacLean. She sent so much family news, it would take up a whole column, so l will share some of her thoughts. he says she remembers fondly her two junior-year room­ mates, P�iscilla Eaton Billington and Barbara S tu dley Barnette ( Priscilla, who was so good­ hearted and funny; Bobby, who was so genuine ) . ally corresponds with Leona Knowles very often. When visiting with her last summer, she

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-Bill and Penny Thresher Edson

Your letters are always intere ting and appreciated. Eloise Larned Petrik i living in Beavert n, M ich., with her husband, tephen, whose great cook ing he enjoy ; auerkraut and dandeli n wine she mentions a pecialtie . he continue substitute teaching . . . . A windJam­ mer cruise into Belize and Honduras wa a pecial trip for Bob and Barbara " is tie" Res tall Horne. They enjoyed visiting Mayan ruins and sn rkeling and "mugginess and buggine s." Bob and is tie did come East for Thanksgiving to be with family and t visit friends in Melrose . . . . I t wa s o nice to hear from my sophomore year roommate, Nancy Winter Ludwig. he and Lew have new addre e -Vermilion, Ohio (on Lake Erie ) for most of the year, with winter months in Naples, Fla. Nancy ha retired from teaching and writing and now works as a chi ldren's naturali t. She and Lew attend Eld rh stel in all parts of the country. Nancy remembers the night freshman hazing began­ and she says hello to Ann Dillingham I ngraham and Louise "Pinkie" Fall Achor . . . . Travels to Hawaii and Prince Edward Island are on Kay and John Mac k lin's favorite travel pots. John continues to practice internal medicine and wi II think about retirement in 1 999. H is memories of our class years are of chem and bio labs and good fr iend S i d F a r r and th late B i l l c h iebe . . . . Peter Parsons continue his teach­ ing at Holy ro s l iege. He works with premed students while teaching bi chemistry, immun I gy and cancer. Peter is planning a sabbati al in 1 999-time to travel and read. In addition to wife Joy and two children, Pete Honda Accord, "which ha mentions his ' 2 7 9,000 miles on it and won't quit." He remem­ ber the quad, the pond and the grand piano and organ in the chape l . . . . A resounding " o" to the question of retirement came from A l lan Landau, who is a partner in a Bo>ton law firm.

He and Paula have two married htldren: a daughter, olby ' 4, and a on, who has moved to London with his family. A l lan says London ts a grand j u mping-off pomt for travel tn other ountries . . . . When Hugh Ma Donald thmk­ ba k on ur ol lege years, he remembers the " !onrreal Express" blasttng the campm., so tf your dorm room w mdow was open, you ould not open the �oor; an� the smell of paper mtll sulfur was unpleasant. ow rettred, Hugh selb haklee vitamins part tune. He wants to feel

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with A I R and hoping to travel to Turkey on a

t h e i r golden years . . . . J a n e t N ordgren

five-week international exchange. Her four chil­

Meryweather wrote of a pending trip to Norway

dren are well and her grandchildren "fantastic."

in the spring. She and Steen escape to Florida

. . . It was very special to hear from Barbara

each winter as well. . . . Please let's hear from

Hardigan McLaren-a first! Barbara and hus­

some long-lost classmates. And don't forget the

band Parker moved to Orr's Island, Maine, in

countdown to our 45th reunion.

-Kathleen McConaughy Zambello

1 99 5. Parker has an expon business in Brunswick, and since Barbara has retired as a legal secretary she helps him and also finds time for tennis and hospital volunteer work. She remembers her

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ments, and daughter Emily i s a Ph.D. candidate in psychology. This seems to be music day in the column, as I note that Bob Pettegrew still enjoys playing jazz piano. We were lucky to hear old "Pets" play a few tunes for us at the reunion . . . time evaporated. Bob is not retired but still going full-tilt with Robert Pettegrew Assoc.

M anagement Consulting. He and Hope are sell­

Hello, folks. That this column made it

ing their home of 20 years and building a new

in time for the deadline wasn't because of great

home in the back woods of New Hampshire. He

great freshman year living at Foster House with

organizational sense on Ellie's part. Sally tries

calls it a tree house; I thought he meant dream

roommate Nancy Greenberger Schmidt. Bar­

her best to keep me on time, as does the Alumni

house. Hey Bob, bring pictures to the 4 5 t h ! . . .

bara and Parker have four children and six

Office, but, as Les Wyman Randolph, Shirley

We have news ready for the next round but can

grandchildren . . . . When Bruce McComb looks back on his Colby years, several professors come

Lincoln Rigby, Bess Atkinson Scott and Jeannine White H i lton can say from roommate

always use more. Send your replies to Sally, and she and I will put it together. Bye for now.

to m i n d : Robert P u l len ' 4 1 and Walter

experience with me, "Once a procrastinator,

-Eleanor Shorey Harris and Sally Dixon Hartin

Breckinridge in economics and Alfred Chapman

always so." I heard this was National Procrasti­

' 2 5 and Mark Benbow in English. Bruce contin­ ues his work with the Massachusetts Depart­

nators Week and almost decided not to send this in just yet. I n addition to better late than never,

ment of Environmental Protection. He has three sons and two granddaughters to enjoy . . . . "Any­ one for bridge?" asks Dorothy Dunn Northcott.

I also tend to misplace paper. Sound familiar,

column before our reunion . . . . Janice Klem

former roomies? So to those of you who have so

Benicek is the coordinator for Literacy Volun­

kindly sent your news to Sally and me, if you don't appear here, please drop another line to us

works two days a week. She lives in an active

or to the Alumni Office. Two that I know I

senior community in Shrewsbury, participates

That was a familiar question as we waited for meals or stalled our studying. Dot and J i m are adju ting to country life in Marlborough, . H . , and do enjoy the arrival of two grandchildren. She remembers the fun of Dunn House and the bus ride to the campus . . . . I hope we can all continue to support the College. It is so apparent that our four years were meaningful in many different ways.

-Jane Milieu Domish

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There are more letters than space, but

I ' l l try to include as many as I can in this last

teers of Greater Worcester, Mass., where she

in various activities and spends a fair amount of time babysitting three grandch ildren. If she retires in June,

J udy B rown D i c kson is sti l l way up i n Kongiganak, Alaska, teac hing E nglish-as-asecond-language to grades 1 -4 . She's t h i nking of reti ring in two years, and when that happens she wi l l go back to an earlier love-weaving.

Janice hopes to return to the type of volunteering work she did in the past, teaching English to non-En­ glish speakers, as well as doing ex­ tensive traveling . . . . Jan Pratt Brown is indeed a professional pot­ ter. She has a studio in the home she shares with her husband, David,

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As 1 write this, the last day

in Ithaca and produces a line of stoneware in several glazes. Jan says, "potters

of January, we are winging our way East, having escaped three weeks of winter with a trip to ourhern Cal ifornia and Arizona. It is always

should have are Roberta Santora Hindert and Marietta "Hank" Roberts Burrowes. At least, those of us at reunion last June got to see Hank

way up in Kongiganak, Alaska, teaching En­

fun to rendezvous with classmates-Mary Ann Papalia Laccabue for an overnight in Tarzana, Cahf., where we departed with a bag of hand­ picked grapefruit, which we enjoyed for the rest of our trip. Mary Ann and Ron are planning a

and have fun catching up with her. Also at reunion were Bob Pettegrew, Peter Merrill and Brian "Bo" Olsen, all of whom have recently

glish-as-a-second-language to grades 1 -4. She's thinking of retiring in two years, and when that happens she will go back to an earlier love­

sent notes. Having been inspired by his organi­ zation of the reunion return of the Colby Eight,

weaving. Despite the distance, she plans on attending our reunion . . . . After 34 years Larry Cudmore has retired from Sears. Larry and his

vim soon with Jim and Jean Pratt Moody in ara ora. Our week in Scottsdale also gave u everal vasats wath herry and Don Rice for golf, hakmg and dinmg . . . . I was disappointed that Carol Moore Hutchins wasn't at her Mesa, Am., address thas wanter when I tried calling her. Carol was the person responsable for antro­ ducmg me to Colby. Our famalae had met at Interlochen, M ach., when we camped together for many ummer . Carol mvated me to dnve to Warervalle wath he r and look at Colby, and "the re

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hastory." he and her hu band, Bruce, reured near Interlochen, m Traver e Cary . . . . Classmate recently JOmmg the remement ran mclude Harry and Lynn e , Warren ' 5 7 and Bah Falting Brook a

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Bo went on to Homecoming last fall for the Colby Eight 50th anniversary concert. Groups from all the decades were represented, but ac­ cording to Bo, the '50s group that we knew and loved blew away the competition. He says Tom Brackin and Peter Merrill will confirm that (sure, with a real unbiased opinion ! ) . Speaking of Peter Merrill, in addition to being VP of A.T. Kearney, a consu lting firm, he continues to love ha music-he plays jazz piano and recently wrote his first vocal group arrangement since 1 958. That Colby Eight reunioning must have been ansparational ! Peter and hi wife, Carole, are ba ed m Chacago but would like to be living m Mame. omeday, Peter . . . . Also enjoying musac m h as lafe, Dick Phillips writes that he play m two banJO Dax aeland bands. Sounds like fun. Dack had planned to go mto teaching but ended up on Wall rreet and has been a stock­ broker mce graduation. He's now first vice pre adent wath Gruntal Co. on John follows m rho e foot etp a a VP wath Fadelaty Invest-

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don't retire ! " . . . J udy Brown Dickson is still

wife, Jane, who live in Pocasset, Mass., have six grandchildren, the last of whom was a boy to carry on the surname. Larry is now fully retired and thoroughly enjoys this new l ifestyle . . . . I n Wellesley, Mass., Nancy Derderian Bagdasarian works with her husband in the family business of building supplies. Their two daughters and fami­ lies live in Salt Lake City, so much time is spent traveling between the Boston area and there­ when they're not p l a y i ng golf. . . . Frank Cowperthwaite sent wonderful pictures ofhim­ selfand his handsome twin grandsons. Since his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1 978, Frank has been working in residential real estate in northern Virginia. He is a five-year survivor of cancer, considers himself most fortunate to still be here, is staying in shape and enjoying life! He still considers himself"tied to the land and the rich Maine soil," so he tries to do a bit of gardening in Virginia. He would really like to be a gentleman farmer and write c h i ldren's

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books . . . . Angela DeCarlo l ives all the way out

trips. Bill manages a brokerage office and keep

in San Francisco. For many years she worked in

in touch with fellow ' 59er Tom Bailey and

medical research and biotech but wa recently

Dave R u s sell . . . . Engli h prof. Bob Cockburn (Canada) coache hi school' rugby club. Bob

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in humanit ies and l i terature and in general

del ivered a talk to a large audtence at the Wd­

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having a great t i me, as well as having t i me to

derness

travel to Costa Rica in January . . . . Peter and

Lazarus (

Mary Ellen Chase Bridge are in Burlington,

position as dean of the

V t . , and technically retired, but that means "to

UC-Davis. Gerry has

be t i red again," so they keep busy in various

achievement and ha helped the medtcal chool

community activities, especially musical activi­

to take a giant rep ahead; he look forward to

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ties. They found they enjoy house swapping­

rejoining the faculty . . . . Carol andq ui t Ban­

Jud1th HoHman Hakola

their first was a home swap for three weeks in

ister ( M i n n . ) has retired a executive dtrector of

8 Charles Place

Carmel, Calif., giving them the opportunity to

the women's council that provide hou mg and

attend the world' largest tradit ional jazz fe ri­ val in Sacramento . . . . Nathan Adams has re­

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is pre ident of I nternational Security Report.

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Patnc1a Farnham Russell

H is wife, Annelie e, is still with the Austrian

extremely pleased to say that I have had a

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second successful mammography. My dear lady

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sider h i mself really retired as he ha always been

cia mates, is it time for your mammography ?

involved i n security consulting "vis-a-vis M iddle

. . . Please keep writing. I love hearing from you!

East and Asia" when he was with the magazine.

-Ann Segrave Lieber

He is also doing a book on events, people and

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Art Calfee and his wife, Booje, live in

his wife, Kay (German ' 5 7 ) , are in Falmouth,

Falmouth, Mass., where Art owns an insurance

M a ine. Kay is a "house frau" now, and AI is still

agency and recently wa named the Chamber of

the owner-president of S & D, Inc. ( M idas) with

Commerce Outstanding Citizen of the Year.

eight stores in M a ine, but this coming April he

Art is chair of the Falmouth de ign review

hopes to retire offic ially, giving over the busi­

committee and project chair of the Falmouth

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work on the house , fin ish bui l d i ng a n a irplane

ment . . . . J une Chacran Chatterjee wrote from

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Berkeley, Calif., where she ha lived since 1 9 7 2 . h e i s a professor o f

panish and department

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hotu, had a heart

transplant a year and a half ago, which J une calls "a miraculous procedure."

he is on abbatical

Greetings! I hope you're having a happy

thi year, and they have made three trips-to

and healthy '98 ! Betty Lou N y man Wright

Mex ico and Guatemala and a rwo-month trip to

( R. I . ) is executive director of a shelter for home­ less women and ch ildren. B.L. is also an or­

Roberta Jeromin Nelson in iio Paulo. "A great

dained deacon in the Episcopal Church. he and husband Peter spend a erne ter in London every three year while h is tudents participate in a theater program . . . . John B rook ( . Y . ) i a V P at CB -TV. He wa elected to the Board of

Brazil, Argentina and Ch ile. They stayed with trip ! " say June, who would like to hear from anyone who lives in the Bay area . . . . "What

ago . . . . J u l i e a n d B i l l C h a p i n ( . H . ) , empty-ne sters n w , are taking lots of satlmg

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ahead, J hn! . . . Retiree Lloyd Cohen ( ali f. ) umpires high school softball and i re-entering the world of high school football offic iating . . . .

Frank Bernyk ( a l if. ) was honored as Em­ hool. ployee of the Year at 1onta isra H igh l ely w i t h h a n d t apped worked G l ad

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Waltham, Mas ., with her hu band, August. . . .

Melba Metcalf Boynton ( Maine) will reme after 2 year of teaching. he and R n plan to t r a v e l a n d hope to p l ay g o l f at M y r t l e Beach . . . . Prior to her 1 997 retirement, Glad s

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Fire Commissioner in 1 996, ran in the t OOth anniversary Boston Marathon and ran the .Y. Marathon a a guide to a di abled per on. Go

Ralph Galante remed a a pdot for Amencan Airlmes in ctober; h t wtfe, Jane, al o remed.

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tired as a senior editor at Reader's Digest and now

flyfishing around the globe . . . . AI Dean and

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downsized. Angela has been taking some courses

ymposium m Toronto . . . . Dr. Gerald

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Alteri n g Cell Structures

When the Saudi Arabian government searched worldwide i n t h e m i d - 1 980s f o r an architect to design a master p l a n f o r its correctional facilities-"in hopes of combating their image that if you steal a loaf of bread they cut off your han d , " said David

Another of Ziskind's correctional projects, New York's Rikers

Zisk1nd ' 6 1 -the Saudis' research came up with two names: Paul

Island, includes replacing some of the older structures "like in the old

Silver and Ziski n d . The two, who already had been a team for

James Cagney movies" with mini mall s , which guarantee less

years, designed the Saudis' system.

inmate movement and are safer and easier to operate. But Ziskind

Ziskind has been involved in some 1 50 other justice projects

says he's not happy with the way the industry is going generally.

s1nce he became interested in the late 1 960s i n correcting the

Because most prison violence occurs when inmates come together

d e p l o r a b l e e n v i ro n m e n t s i n

at, say, the commissary or chapel, he believes the

Amencan prisons. A founding

delivery of services in future prisons will happen in

partner of STY/Silver & Ziski n d ,

the cell on TV screens: "Press a button, you get

an engineen n g , plan n i n g a n d de­

education. You want the commissary,

Sign group that employs more than

push home shopping. The inmate is

1 ,000 people in this country and

getting more and more isolated.

abroad, he is committed to social

There's no re-socialization . "

reform through improving the qual­

Even though he h a d no de­

ity of life for 1nmates. H e has been

sign background before at­

sought out by 1 n st1tutions and gov­

tending Pratt I n stitute for h i s

ernments around the world and

architecture degree, Ziskind

has received numerous honors

says design came easily to

and awards for planning and de­

him because Colby's "whole

s1gn1ng 1nnovat1ve and humane

liberal arts program-psychol-

just1ce facilit1es

ogy, sociology, economics­

Z1sk1nd believes that his re­

kind of molded me to do what I

cent work on Tzalmon prison i n

d o . " A veteran of projects i n

I s rael which was featured i n The New Yorker last October, i s his

areas as diverse as I ndone­

incarceration i s , " he

s i a , G u ate m a l a and P u erto

sa1d Tzalmon embod1es ·all the issues-from natural light to

Rico, he advocates a year's study abroad as a requirement for

con rolled movement. An 1nmate·s cell w1th bookshelves, earth

architecture school-and for undergraduates as we l l .

bes

'The building IS not the punishment

tones and light entenng through a sizable w1ndow, looks like a

Until two years ago Ziskind held an adjunct professorsh i p at

spartan dorm1tory room which IS no surprising. since the me­

John Jay College, where he taught master's degree candidates

dlum-secunty pnson IS based on the concept of a campus

from fire and police departments how to keep build ings, from jai ls

Beyond 1a1hng .nma es Z1sk1nd says Tzalmon a1ms to reduce the

to offices, safe and secure. And he and Paul Silver are co-authors

s resses of 1ncarcerat1on to 1mprove he rehabil itative program

of a book, Institutional Architecture. " I ' m most proud of my three

If there IS go1ng to be

grandchildre n, thou g h , " Ziskind adds wh ile mulling over "a seven­

and advance an mma e s educat1on re abil1 a 10n

ey can do 1 1 n th1s fac11ity

he sa1d

year ret1rement plan" that could culmi nate in his return to teaching.

-Robert Gillespie

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Pleasures ? Knowing what you know now, would you have fol lowed the same life pat h ? What changes would you have made ? What advice do

free day at Colby, perhap., we

you have for the younger generation?" . . . Bob Haggett wrote from New Hartford, N . Y . , where

ptgs ( a

he is director of institut ional advancement at Mohawk Val ley Community al lege. He and Luc ie plan to retire next p r i ng and relocate to a new home on the coast of Maine. They al o

and plan ned our weekend-.. For an update on the

h..:r e-mdd addre" to the

ice storm's tmpa t on the ampu , check out tht.,

Pages remmd., me to urge you to d,l the same.

plan to spend three or four w inter month in the mid-South . . . . Continuing in education are Bob

hould gtve

belated thank to all the uprort taff who kept us warm and dry and .,afe whtle we dt"eLted fetal olby memory from Peggy Bartlett

ray)

Webstte: http://www.colhy.edu/alumnt/re.Jdtng/ torm .html. . . . Penny Dietz

ul l i van .1nd her

mcluJmg a carer1 11g -,er. tce-a career she ay .. he hardly knew e x t ted when she was at olhy. . .

n e-matl me s.1ge from Marg:ieCham-

berlain Davi tdlmg me that she has JUSt added olby A l umnt Whtte

of Februar, 4. only I S ot U' were Jt,teJ I know many more of you are "wtred" be ,lUst: vou often

hu band, Paul H t l l , em out a c lever, rhymed

'end me news vta e-m.1 t l . And tt\ fun tn recetve

hri>t mas card evtncmg reltef that the three­

an c-matl me ,,tge begmn111g, "I w,1, brow,mg

year project to develop thetr real e'ltate ,oft­

through the

and Liz Chamberlain Hu s. Bob i a profe or at hamplain a l l ege in Burl i ngton, Vt., and Liz

olby 'J h t te Page when I aw Y\IUT

ware, GURU, ts about to come to fnn t 10 n . A'

name" .

hop on the Web md n.l\'tg,ue to

many of you dtd, they exprcs,ed pnde

thetr

http://colby.edu/a lumn t/w ht tepages By the '�ay,

does private tutoring. They enjoy sai l i ng, eros c untry skiing and ten n is, and golf i their

chi ldren,

om-m- law and grandc h t ldren . . . .

we are sttll lookmg for .,omeone to 'et up a \Veb

"new" sport. Retirement beckons in two to three

letter de cnbed wonderful travel adventure -

Bob and Jeanette Benn Ander on'

year . . . . P. Anna Johnson (e-mail: openhand@

from Marco I s land to

aol . com ) i in

Foxwood Ca ino

eattle, Wash. In her spare time he sings with The Raging Grannies, a group

whose purpose is to "to build a world which we

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Jeanette hasn't l e t multtple sclero

, mcludmg

six months of takmg an mappropnate medtca­

w i l l be happy and proud to pass on to our

tion, slow her down.

grandchi ldre n . " She invites us to vi it on the

date on the late t research developments on M

Web ( www,igc. apc.org/ragi nggrann ies/). Anna

w h i l e runnmg a

al o would l i ke us to k n w that D i x ie Mack l i ve

in a rest home and would love to hear from her

he continue> to keep up to hak lee vttamm busme

. . . Carol Trigg Friedley wrtte from

o

page for our

hmtma

quaw Val ley to the eastern

.

J<:t,.,. Any volunteers ? .

We all

end our hel,ned but he.trt!dt 'Ymr.uhtes ro Willie

De Kadt J u hlin and her

s O ll\

.md d.lUghter

Wdl te's husband, Thor juhlm ' 59, dted hN ye.u . . .

ome of you wdl be recet\'lng que rwnn,urcs

about the '>a me ttme th,n Y<'U re et,·c th t ., 1 ue of

olby. Plea-.e fill them out and mad them to me before you lll t'>place them! I f you have mterestmg

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unnver,

news but no que ttonnatre, JU'>t wntc or e-m,ul 1 .,

me. Wtthout you, there

no column

-)udHh Hoffman Hakoln

Ore., where he and Dave moved after hi rettre­

classmates (c/o Gould Farm, Monterey, MA

ment. They are glad to have the time to pur ue

0 1 2 4 5 ) . . . . Gayne and Gail Carter Rescher

a wide range of outdoor activttte a we l l as to

l ive aboard a 5 5 - foot sai ling vessel currently

enjoy their chi ldren and grandch tldren. Reca l l ­

not makmg tt to the reunton. 'he w<J' tn the

docked in H i l to n Head,

m td t of a trtp to the

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Jane Genner Kreb 'ent her regrets h)r

.C. She i work ing on

i n g cu rfews and other regu lat ions for women,

a book about intuition and invites us to send any

arol wonders how today's young college stu­

account of an i n tu i t ive experience to her c/o

dents manage to survive when they have to set

years of teach m g and ha-; tarted a ne''

Barca, S k u l l

their own l i mits . . . . Ginny Wriggins Hochella

wtth

reek Marina, P . O . B x 2 2047,

H i lton Head,

2992 5 .

a i l ay

he is always

and her husband,

orman, l tve i n Medway,

:ech Repu b l tc ,md

Germany . . . . John Hilton has rett red ,Jfter 2 5

ts a fu ll-t tme nur'le. Th y are l tvmg tn Edgerton,

i nterested in the richness of idea people have

Ma s., where she is an elementary ch ol l tbrar­

Mmn . . . . Patti Millett Kent

who have attended l i beral arts schools and have

ian.

Thoma'>ton, Mame. Hubby

a c las ical education.

he wants to know if our

a l l her careers ( including c l iege professor and

l iberal arts ba kground has served us wel l . . . .

medical researcher) "except perhaps parentmg."

he c latms that

olby prepared her well for

1

a l t br.Ht<Jn m

huck ha' rett red

bur Patti has no mtenttom yet.

f rhetr three

on , one t> domg h ts re.,tdenq m Internal

�10. ye.tr ago from bemg a teacher of the de,tt to techntc.tl w·nter. he and her hu .. band, Dor,m, l tve m Beverly, Ia .... . , where D )ran 1' ,1 tutor l<)f Up­ ward Bound Jean and her d.Jughter were pl.m­ nmg to >tudy p.m t h tn �!ext o tn . 1 rwn-wed.: mtemtve pwgram. Jean h,l\ a 3 -ye.u-old gr,md­ 'on . . . . Muff ymonds Leavitt t - m ' cup,1ttLm,JI ther,lpt't md 1 ' pr<)cr tm d treLt<lr t,x the l i tk>rn t l Porter\' l l le De, clopment 'enter 111 'he ,m d &1yd h.1\·e t \\l) ,,m,, both e"·mg m the N.n ,. The tnp e,J st t,,r our reuntun h.t, rem­ f,>rc:ed �lutty\ de, t re t ' 'rend mme ttme n the· <),Jst H, '' well we remember th 1t our E.Jst I th \)lh reunt<lll w .Js the ,, ·c h h n ot �lutt .md R.wd\ h ,,n n m< 'n

( G i nny, are you sugge t i ng our housemother

medtcme and one J USt graduated fn1m

I nd . , where she is a col lege profes or. Last sum­

weren't paren t i n g role model ? ) . . .

Jean Koulack- Young changed c.Heer l

mer

Folger was del ighted to have both of her daugh­

ally Walker Simpson wrote from

ash v i l le,

ally went on a month- long trip to Austra­

cotty

l ia and New Zealand and v i ired schools and

ters return home for extended vtstts thts past

universities in both countries . . . . After a year

summer.

f be i ng sem i - retired, Jane Wiggin

u l l ivan,

tn

he i- applymg her recent trammg m

polartty therapy m hosptce work . . . . Peggy

Houston, Texas, went back to school ro become

Bartlett Gray, who was at

a massage therapist.

before completmg her studtes at the

he find it a natural pro­

olby for two years nt\'Cr,tty

gression from teaching and i exctted about this

of 1ame at Farmmgton, ts kept bus · and happ\

field because she see the need for complemen­

do111g \'t lunteer work m

tary programs

augment traditional medtcme. he sa s, "If anyone had ever told me that I would be getting A's in anatomy and physiOl­ ogy, I 'd have sent them packmg t ) a psycht<1·

her hu:.band, Harvey, has rettreJ, the\ ha\ e

trist.

mazing whnt age, expenence and some wisdom an do." . . . lr ts otw10us fmm your letters that most of u> are cont mumg to lead

mother w hen he r s<)ns were gr,m 111g up.

i ntere·ring and chal lengmg 1 1\·es, and maybe our outlook an be attnl uted to the l tberal arr, ba koround ment ioned b · G a d . Th.mk you t�)r

fr,)m ht, L1m t l \ \ h,)me m D.uten,

ro

cont i n u i ng to share your news and exrenence,.

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As I write thts m early Febntary, m.m\ of us in the state of lame are st t l l rect)\'ermg, both ph ·si al l · and rsvcht)kwtca l h , trom the rear I e torm of '92, e,·en as we re.1d .md he.u ab ut terrible new storms on the \'\'est and E.1,t oasts. As we think back w our relatt\ e lv c.ue-

onnectt ur.

ow that

more ttme for sk1 1ng, rennt,, golf and tr.n e l . tn lud111g a t n p t o � h m a a \e.u ag,). 'he 'a\ s 'he

t> gr.ue!ul that ,he w a' able w be .1 'ta\-.H-h•'me lal­

raham, w htl pr.K tt es denthtr\

colm " andy"

Y , de,c:nl e' ,1 reu:nt m<we <mn . , tt) a wwnh,)use m \\'htte Pl.un' ,h 1 "/>1 Jd)u,r­ m \Vhtte Pl,un,,

menr " He

1'

,en 1111.! ,1, pre,tdenr

t)l

L ucer

orthwe.,tem Mutual Ltfe. Hts wtfe, K Hen,

rhe 1 . 5

member Ft, e c,,unt\ De nt. l l s,, ten . .1tter h,n me t:<'mrlete I 1 term

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pre-tdent ,,t rhe

, 1ew \ t�rk A�.l lt'm\ ,,t Dentt-tn

[ en[l'r'

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He 11, ' w t ­

, l l e � t' , t :--; oler Eie[.,on, w ho ,\[,

t nd u c: t t'cl t n t <l t h e A m e n �

J,,w n,t:ecl ht•r II\ me 1rr m �cment- w hen 'he m,we,l tr,,m Lunenber �· . !.1" . t) 1 r \\ nhou­ c,,nd 'mmtum 111 � l tJdlet 1n, [ , ' " ' her ne'' qu u­ ter'

She h-1, nm three m-h u-e r u ' 111e '"'•

be, 'l'<nt the l but '' ere n the rr

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ning an Outward Bound-type activity (age ap­ physically, mentally and spiritually . . . . Brian J udy, celebrated their 2 7th anniversary recently. propriate) for Saturday afternoon in Waterville.

McAlary lists his professions as physician and They moved from Hartford, Conn., to ew Please do plan to be there. Kim said that his Pop-Pop, and wife Susan's (Sawyer '64) as ad­ Bern, N .C., in January 1 997. Judy is a Teddy wife, Gail ( Price), recently received her real Bear and doll collector . . . . Bob Marr ends m i n istrative assistant and G randmother. estate license and sold her first house. Con­ Hmmm, guess they have reached that special kudos to J udy Hoagland Bristol for keeping us gratulations! Kim also told me that Meg Wall stage of their l ives. Brian, who has reduced his all in touch over the years. Bob and his wife, Sheldrick died of cancer back in November.

Patricia, live in the .Y.C. area, where he is a clinical practice and increased his consulting Meg had visited Gail's greenhouse last summer, and educational activities, still wishes he were supervisor at Camp LaGuardia . . . . Hank Phillips and Gail said that the disease was taking its roll. teaching at Colby. Sue and Brian spent May '96 and wife Dedra are living in Pottstown, Pa., We'l l surely miss Meg in J une . . . . That's all our taking her mom to Scotland and Ireland for her where Hank is a trade marketing manager. They news for now. See you when the have two daughters and an 1 8daffodils are blooming on May­ month-old grandson, a great joy, flower Hill. says Hank. They recently visited N EWS MAKERS -Barbara Haines Chase Scotland and would like to explore Susan Ferries Moore '63 has been named vice president-environ­ Elderhostels upon retirement . . . . mental affairs of the Georgia Pacific Corp. Since 1 993 she has It is January, and Dusty Dick Poland writes from H iram, served as the company's director of environmental policy, training and I are j ust back from 1 0 days in Maine, that his daughter, N icole, and regulatory affairs . . . . G. Arthur Brennan '68 was unani­ the British Virgin Islands. On a joined the Class of 200 1 at Colby mously endorsed by the Maine legislature's j udiciary committee for sunny afternoon, deep in the grot­ this fall. Hurray! . . . Dick Mittle­ reappointment to a third seven-year term as Maine superior court man, an attorney in Providence, and toes of The Baths on Virgin Gorda, j udge. Newspapers report high praise for his fairness in the court­ wife Linda, a real estate broker, have we encountered a nice-looking room. . . . Joan Gutman Kidman '68, past chair of the family law two married ons and three grand­ party of people. After cheerful ban­ section of the Maine State Bar Association, is one of the first children. They celebrated their 3 5 th ter, we discovered that no less than caseworkers in a new Maine family court division that will focus on wedding anniversary in June. Con­ five of them were Colby graduates, paternity suits and divorces involving children. gratulations! . . . Anne Ticknor classes of '58 and '88 among others.

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McNeece is a special educator in Had I a pencil and paper in my M I LE POSTS Boxborough, Mass. She and Rob, a bathing suit, I would now be able to systems analyst, have six children tell you who they are, but alas, just Deaths: Margaret Wall Sheldrick '63, Nov. 6, 1 997, in Worcester, and three grandchildren. They have be content that our good colleagues Mass., at 5 5 . . . . Shepard J. Kantor '65, Aug. 28, 1 997, in New added on to their second home on can be found almost anywhere.

York, N.Y., at 53 . . . . Charles C. McDowell '65, Mar. 9, 1 998, in Cape Cod and are now spending . . . Mail has been sparse this month, Tempe, Ariz., at 54 . . . . Karen C. Jensen '66, Sept. 1 4, 1 997, in mo t weekends there. Anne says the final mailing of the 1 997-98 Anchorage, Alaska, at 52 . . . . Catherine Hennings Anderson that, as a teacher, she loves summer questionnaire containing questions '67, Dec. 2, 1 997, in Rockland, Maine, at 5 1 . more with every year that goes suggested by you. A quick response by . . . . Rollie and I are off to e cape from Bob Gelbard, currently in the snow and ice with a Caribbean cruise­ 80th birthday. ( What a great idea! Think I ' l l Washington, D.C. , as special representative of celebrating 3 5 years of wedded bliss. Keep the mention it r o m y son-in-law . ) Brian defines the President for implementation of the Dayton letters, notes and news coming. success as "Looking forward to the next day."

Peace Accords, states that he and wife Alene -Patricia Farnham Russell Terrific outlook on life . . . . From Tallahassee, have a daughter, Alexandra. . . . Sue Sawyer Fla., Anita Nourse Largent sends sad news of McAlary never expects to retire but is learning This may well be my last column, and the unexpected death of her 22-year-old daugh­ to be a good grandma these days, with both I look forward to reading news gathered and ter, Amanda, from an asthma attack. To help daughters and their three grandchildren nearby. written by my successor, Karen Forslund Falb. keep her memory alive and continue her inter­ They also have two horses and eight cats! . . .

It has been an interesting experience, and it's ests in social work, Anita and her husband, Dawne Wiswell Unruh has moved to Yankton, fun to get news firsthand from far and near. . . .

Wayne, are providing every child who goes to S.D. Her son Rick graduated from Colby in Jay Fraze writes from Denver that he has re­ the local Refuge Hou e with a stuffed animal.

1 997. On the question of how far women have cently joined Verio Colorado, an Internet solu­ We extend our sympathy to you both . . . . Bill progressed she answered, "We have come far, tton company that owns more than 25 local and I had an interesting and fulfilling experi­ but still need to find a balance of home and Internet companies in the U . . Jay welcome ence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in mid Novem­ career. C h i l d care is by far the m a j o r anyone who visit Denver to call him. or ber. Haiti i the poorest country in the Western concern." . . . E-mail from Barbie Carr Howson Hemisphere, with little or no infrastructure, but happy With the two feet of snow that fell there brings news that she has a new job as coordina­ last ovember, he much prefers golfing weather. the people are beautiful and appear happy in tor of the college and career center in the A Red ox fan, though geographically removed, spite of the condition under which they live. guidance department at Meadowbrook High We worked a part of a group of seven in several Jay defme ucce a domg better m baseball School. . . . And Jack Ryan reports that he ran medical institutions and cl inics, providing basic than they have done recently . . . . Byron into Mark Benbow, now living in a retirement care to children and familie . The need is great, Petrakis and h1 w1fe, Gayle, are ttll m the home in Maryland, and believe it or not he is and we will certainly go again sometime. We re taurant bu me m ew Hamp h1re. He ay teaching courses to fellow residents. The guy returned from the tropic to full-blown winter. he never antt 1pared that thi would be h1s lme doesn't know when to quit. The resident I know Gue s you've heard it's been a bit icy and brisk of work when he left Colby. Though Byron at the home says he is brilliant and that he gets hereabouts . . . . I poke With Ralph Kimball last wmes that the grey hair m h1 beard have a lot out of the discus ions. evenmg ro check m on reunion plan . The almo t enmely replaced the black one , he trav­ -Sara Shaw Rhocules econd pre-reumon gathenng for New England eled ro A them, Greece, m ctober of 1 996 ro alum wa on February 7. K1m ays that motiva­ run m the l OOrh anmver ary of the fir t Modem In motion! . . . Randy Williams and tional speaker Thomas Moore has been secured Olympic Marathon Quite an a compli hment Mary Jane left their Marblehead, Mass., home a; our peaker for aturday mght f Reunion for a gray-bearded guy He 1 IIvmg up ro h1 with a homemade chocolate birthday cake to Weekend and that Penn Williamson is plande mmon of ucce. : raymg f1t and healthypresent to their daughter Ali in Casablanca,

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Morocco, last fall. Joined by another daughter, the family visited Fez and Marrakech before flying to Bamako, M a l i , A l i's Peace Corps vil­ lage assignm e n t . R a ndy dusted off h i s M .

Kellenberger French but alas, t h is i s a Bambara­ speaking land. "When we arrived in the vil­ lage," he writes, "all the school chi ldren were given the rest of the day off, and the workers came in from the fields o everyone could join in a dancing festival in our honor." . . . Nancy Godley Wil on teaches French and English-as­ a-second- language at Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts, Natick, Mass. Nancy and John

much an adventure m person a 1t had been m my dreams mce sixth grade . . . . Had, Colby, Had!

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"choo e and cut" marker-how exciting! . . .

Paula Chapin Hartford reached me by phone I hope I rook note accurately)

one evenmg (

that he 1 fi nally

and report that he ha been hvmg and workmg a a ong wmer m a hvd le, Tenn . , mce l 976.

taking a step that wdl fulfi ll a hfelong dream. In October, she and hu band Barney Hamby '64

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Connie Day wme

he ha been wmmg for

Y Mu 1c for nme

broke ground for a 1 0-acre hor e fac d t ty-a

It t of reJeCtion that come before ucce

bam, sand ring and half mde of pht -rad fence.

mg tarred wmmg ong

Connie'

proud of her

horse will re tde there al ng wtth

several boarder lesson

who come for trammg and

in jumpmg and dre age.

he admtt

that she will not qutt her day JOb-ed i t i ng of

spent two weeks in South Korea over Chri tmas visiting their son Ben, who is stat ioned in Pusan

scientific texts and trade book . . . . Gary Knight

as a second lieutenant in the U . . Army. Nancy

cla mate at busme

says, " A fascinating gli mpse into Asian society

August he saw

at a t i me of high crisis . . . a wonderfully, warm,

Win, at a finance committee meeting for the

ng-wmmg accomph hment .

Daughter Marna 1 marned, has three chddren and own Aeg• B1cycle

functions Ia t summer. In hu band,

o. m Belfa t, Mame.

onjeff 1 a re orr manager, pendmg tht wmter at

ugar Loaf, Park

1ty, Ut h .

- atal1e Bowennan Zaremba

wrires that he was dehghted to run mto two u e Leach Winch'

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v1deo are rdl gomg

trong-lot of reque

arnved along wtth hol t ­

industrious people. We had a chance to meet

Old Orchard Beach As ociatlon and was m­ vited back t

who are musicians at Walnut H i l l . " . . . Patti

plea ant mini-reunion. In eptember, while at­

for her cla

R a y mond Thomas , community volunteer,

tending the annual convention of Maine A o­

video retro pect1ve .

spends most of her t i me as board chair of the

ciat ion of Commumty Banks m hi capacity a

Mule K tck Fhck

Bucks County, Pa., Planned Parenthood Asso­

assoc iation pre ident, he met Linda O'Connor

cla� had a great tmpact on the

ciation. A meeting of that group in Phoenix

McDonough, wh

Lou Richardson McGinity wa

afforded a visit to Pam Harris Holden '66, who

band, Lee, enior vice pre ident, inve tment , of

their cottage for a short and

had accompanied her hus­

mith Barney in Bo ton. Gary i

erving a

( hav­

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the famil ies of several of my Korean students

started with us as a '65. "She's great and trying

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to start a Colby club in the area," says Patti. "[

Maine's director on the National Board of Inde­

al o saw Bryan Harrison Curd. Both look

pendent Banks as well a on a couple of national

great." . . . Tom Donahue and J udy pent a week

committees, along with running his own bank.

with leader all over the world and wa lookmg

in Mexico v i i t ing their daughter Kelly. Toma ,

He continue a a tru tee of the

forward to attendmg a conference m Europe m

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chool of

he IS a ub mute teacher. Cece also wor La Leehe League I nternat10nal.

wtth

he corre pond

you may reca l l , had numerous tales of a mis­

Banking at Williams. He report that son Enc is

March.

spent youth w ith the mythic Gaspar in the

a pilot with the U A F but i

eriously con ider­

V ISit Tikal and Mayan ctvt hzanon 1te and to

country. Tom is in h is 1 9th year at Harvard­

ing following up on his pre-med major at the

Venezuela for "adventure travel," to ee Angel

Wesrlake

chool in Hol lywood, Cal if. , where

U . . Air Force Academy and applying to medi­

Fall (a lifelong dream) and to exper.ence

he teaches advanced placement Spanish lit­

cal chool. I n November Eric and hts wtfe will

Amenca'

erature, H ispanic studies and a seminar on

have their first child. Daughter Kathy ha now

bee mmg chapter adv1 or ro rhe Alpha Delta P t

Argentine, Chilean and Uruguayan authors.

re igned from the Air Force after not being

chapter at A l legheny Colle e ha b r ught her

He's al o director of financial aid. He's re­

as igned near her hu band ( also a U AFA grad)

clo er to the college cene. Her hu band, Hom r,

placed the buck i ng bronco, Bubbles, w i t h "my

and is expecting their second child. . . .

beautifu l sorrel quarter hor e, Wi llie." Tom

Footer Hummer reached me through e-mail,

wrltlng a b

ays he ha taken up archery: "The safest place

and I wa del ighted to hear from her ()hummer@

guage. Thetr famdy mclude a daughter,

cl inic.ne t ) .

Helene, a

for any animal in the forest is standing between me and the target." . . . Stu Rakoff ha been self-employed as a management consultant ince 1 994. His pec ialty is helping c l ient "leverage their inve tment in people and infor­

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( l ibrarian ) , and hu band ) 1m 1 a cernfied health physici t.

he recently traveled to Guatemala ro

multi -raCial culture.

1 a profe or of French and Ru

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1an who 1 bu y

k on the teachmg o fore 1gn lan­ on, Andre, who

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tudenr from Venezuela. Ecology and org n1c

j u lie, I a writer hving near Boulder, Colo., wtth

farmmg on the1r own farm have led them to

ue's granddaughter, Maddte ( how dare they

rudy ben•gn way o pre

r"mg and enhan mg

mation technology to better serve their cu • tamers." . . . Whit Robbins continues as a enior scient ist/chemist with Nesrle R&D I nc. i n Mary v i lle, Ohio. He writes: " leading a lar e

live o far away 1 ) , on joe 1 fim hmg h t degree

the earth . . . . Bob Merrill e-ma ded h 1 re po

in hi tory at Penn tate, and younger daughter Janey 1 a JUntor m htgh chool, a mu lCtan,

to the cla

addre e are on a nearby page. ) He nd h 1 w1

photographer and cholar. The bt

Ph) l h , hve m

team in a special proj ect . . . be t new i the u anna fr m graduat ion of our daughter tarr Welle ley i n May ' 9 7 . " . . . Ann

Yankee

Widmann has starred a new bus m e m Danen, onn.-Pet i t Pals, LL . he also doe volurt Ret treunteer work at the tony Brook ommunity . . . . Ginger G ddard Barne reported that several lassmates had gathered to celebrate the marriage of her daughter Beverly Ia t ctober I I . Attending were unn ' ment

harhe Coady, Mar ia Harding Anderson , and Pam Plumb are , B b and J u d • E •ge Dalton and usan and hris Brown . . . . La.r summer I v is i ted I tanbul, Tro • , Ephe u • am s, Mykono s and antor t n l . It wa JU't as

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a radtatl n

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an extended ( two-three month) tnp through months. She and her husband, Joe, are gutting other daughter, Kelly, teaches in a private school the Southwest thi spring, his first long vacanon and completely renovating their old farmhouse in San Diego. Bob is a big college basketball fan since medical school ! He's looking forward to (even considering the possibility of a future bed­ and they got DirecTV just o they can watch Reunion '98 . . . . And so should we a l l ! Please and-breakfast). One of their favorite activities games-especially the UConn Huskies! . . . I n reserve the first weekend in June for our 30th.The is antiquing, searching for articles for their home. case you're watching the Disney Channel and reunion committee has been working hard to Their family includes two daughters, Ana, 1 3 , think you aw Fred Hopengarten, you're not provide a fun weekend with varied activities. and Allie, 1 8, who's a freshman a t Endicott losing it1 Hi daughter Annie went to Camp Hope you all can join us, starting on Thursday College, plus a dog and two cats. They also love Waziyatah in Harrison, Maine, Ia t ummer and evening at a Maine coastal re orr. to sing with their music ministry for fun and to was in the bunk where a Disney film crew -Mary ]o Calabrese Baur uplift their spirits . . . . "Life is still synonymous worked on a serie called Bug juice, which will air 1 episodes in 1 99 . Watch for the scene with hockey," says Jeanne Amnotte McCarthy: Sometimes it may take a while, but you both sons, Jeremiah, 2 1 , and Liam, 1 8, are mem­ where Fred and his wife, Betty, drop their daugh­ can count on the Class of 1 970 to "phone bers of the Harvard varsity team. Jeremiah, the ter off at camp. They've signed the release, but home." Finally, Nicky Pach has let us know captain, brought home 1 6 teammates for Thanks­ sadly, there ' l l be no residuals . . . . George what's going on in her life. Her honor, J udge giving dinner, so no empty nest syndrome yet, Markley is enjoying the joys and benefits of Pach, has seen her pet project come being hi own boss a he opened his to life. l n December 1 997, the Fam­ ole practice law office last year in N EWS MAKE RS ily Drug Treatment Court of SufFairfield, Conn. George and Chris folk County ( Long I sland ) was ( ahabedian '70) live in Fairfield, Anne O'Hanian Szostak ' 7 2 has been appointed executive vice inaugurated with J udge Pach pre­ and Chris teaches English in nearby president of Fleet Financial Group. She continues in her role as siding. N icky, her husband, Steve, Wilton. Their son, Todd, lives and corporate director of human resources . . . . The Brunswick Times also an attorney, and their sons works in Boston . . . . Helen "Penny" Record credits Gary Lawless ' 7 3 , co-owner of Blackberry Books, a Jake and Charlie live in Hunting­ Powell O'Brien ha used her under­ publishing company that publishes little-known authors, with ton Bay. The day before N icky's graduate education in art very well "making books that would otherwise be forgotten become 'part of letter arrived, Alice Ryan sent a as she does some work in de ign for the conversation of the community."' . . . Stephen Woerner '73 is nice note and an article from The the ational Archives and reno­ Cranston, R . I .'s new finance director. . . . To combat the decline New York Times about N icky and vates houses in and about her home in the Maine fishing industry, Jeff McKeen '76, Carter Newell ' 7 7 rhe new court. Alice and her chil­ of Arlington, Va. Helen and hus­ and Chris Davis ' 7 8 , operators o f the Pemaquid O y ter Co., dren, John and Karen, live in Brook­ band Larry, a lawyer running a con­ recently offered a course in shellfish biology, hatchery culture, lyn, N . Y . , where Alice is-what sulting firm in the nation's capital, harvesting, processing, sales, marketing and starting up an aquac­ are learning about the empty nest else ?-an attorney. ( Does anyone ulture business. . . . In an article titled "What 1 5 Leading Hi tori­ else see a pattern emerging here?) phase of life a their older son gradu­ ans Are Working on ow," The Chronicle of Higher Educarion ated from Harvard last year and their Alice is about to do something very reports that Pulitzer Prize-winner Alan Taylor ' 7 7 hopes "to younger on i a sophomore at the special to celebrate a milestone produce a synthesis around the tangled interrelationships of I iberty arne school. . . . Peter Gurley and birthday. ( Don't worry, Alice. A and slavery, autonomy and dependence that involved all of the his wife, ue, live in Concord, Mass., lor of us are turning 50 this year. colonial and colonized peoples of North America." where Peter owns a seafood market­ We're still younger than our class­ ing company. Daughter Megan is a mates who turned 50 last year ! ) M I LESTO N ES fir t-year student at the Univer ity This summer, Alice will b e riding Deaths: Sydney S. Thibeau '78, Mar. 1 1 , 1 998, in Milbridge, of Delaware, and Te sa is Colby in the American Lung A sociation's Maine, at 4 2 .

'9 . . . . Alice Hubert Gardner is a "Big Ride," traveling 3 ,000 miles psychotherapi t in private practice from Seattle to Washington, D.C. north of Boston. Her hu band, Alice, one of 6,000 people riding, David, 1 an engineer working in water treat­ especially since the boys are home often for F has to raise a minimum of$6,000, and each one ment, and her on, Andy, a recent Middlebury and L ( food and laundry) . . Susanne Gilmore of us can help. If you're interested in supporting grad, 1 d mg b1ochemical re earch in Iceland.

MacArthur reports that her son, Cory Snow her efforts, please send a pledge to Big Ride After graduating from the University of Mas a­ '9 1 , is teaching Engli h in the same school and Across America, American Lung Association, chu errs, daughter arah teache music. Alice department as she. She finds it wonderful to 6 1 70 Central Ave., Suire A, St. Petersburg, FL discuss teaching literature and writing with him and Dav1d were plannmg a tnp to Austria, 3 3 707. Please include Alice's name and her where they can h1ke and Altce can paint. . . . and claims to have pirated several of hi ideas. rider number ( 1 29 7 ) on your check. If you want ally Ray Bennett find a vanety of way to he and her other son, Scott, went to Paris last more information about the ride, contact your keep her elf acnve. Recently ally ed1red her year-h1 fifth trip and her first. He showed her local chapter of the ALA or contact Alice father' book about the Fmmsh commumty m around and he mterpreted. "It only took me 3 2 ( amryen@aol.com ) . What did you do when you Cape Ann, Ma . La t ummer she wa ap­ years to get there, but i t was even more beautiful turned 50? . . . l apologize to Greg Carbone. pomted acnng d1rector of gu1dance at Kmgston than I had unagm d," she said . . . . Richard Greg responded to a questionnaire a long time Lewis, pre 1dentof Richard Lew1 Communica­ H 1gh chool m Kmg ton, R . I . , but the acrmg ago and it got buried in my "files." Greg, a Ph.D. may connnue for some nme becau e at th1s tion Inc. of .Y.C., ha recently formed an psychologist, lives in Portland, Maine, with his moment ally 1 nil m the corner office . . . . We affiltanon w1th a 1mdar PR and ad agency in wife and three daughters. He has a part-time look forward to heanng from lot more of the Pan , to go along w1rh affiltarwns m Washing­ psychotherapy practice and is executive direc­ ton and Tokyo. They prov1de a variety of mar­ Ia of 1 96 7 . tor of his own p ychological a sessmenr organi­ -Robert Gracl£1 and ]tuly Geme Heme ketmg >erv1ce . . . . From God' country in zation. A trip to vi it relatives in Italy has got Montana, K e n Lane says he 1 enJoying ski Greg thinking about developing a business that 'ea>on. He v1 1ted Dalla , Texa , for the bar Maxine Allison Ander n, a ltbraf\ requires him to travel to Italy. l think you'll mtt=vah of Bob Ai ner's son and also VISited have a lor of offers for help, Greg! . . . JeffLovitz, med1a pec1alt,r, w me fm m E. Fa1rf1eld, t., With Bill Goldfarb, Lew Knmky '65, harlte rhar he' enJOi tng w orkmg p.1rr nme th" \ C.tr M.D.-sound like a mid-sea on replacement Lcnn '67 and Arthur Wh1te '70. Ken's plannmg TV how, doe n'r it?-is a family physician in after hanng had two 'urgene m the l.1,t 1 2

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many community actl v l t le . Alan 1 an attor­

license and wa

elected as a "community hero" ored­

nest . . . . Libby Brown Strough had an inter­

din

esting year i n 1 99 7 . After 23 year

ch i ldren have moved from Be 1 ru t to Bahram.

at Pratt

Whi tney, Libby found herself a "free agent."

ahawi, h 1s w1fe, Mahal, ami their three

orredm 1 111 bank111g and work

for Ban4ue

She took orne t i me for R&R and in April began

Pan bus . . . . Jonathan Miller ha embarked on

her new j b as program director, enterpri e

rwo new careers-the law and

management onn.

ystems at Aetna in Hartford,

unds really important to me; e pe-

c ially when Libby's project team includes more than 200 pe pie. Libby and her hu band, Bob, were planning on chartering a large

ai lboat,

complete w i th captain and crew for a true get­ away vacation in Believe i t

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work111g on h 1s pilot'� cert ificate and roller­ bladl11g. He and Arleen have an on . . . . Margaret Lichtenberg

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enJ0y111g her

4-year-old, M 1chael, and her JOb a5 a oftware design manager.

he peab of em non I see 1 11

t. Maarten this pring . . . .

many letters-the JOY and wonder of parenting

r not, I ' m begi n n i ng to run out of

as we l l a concern about ag111g as we watch our

information about y u guys. 1 pledged t

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parents grow older . . . . That's all the new for

vide a column for each issue, and l intend to live

this nme. I h pe to ee you at the reun1on 111

up to my pledge. However, if you don't want t

J une. Until then, end new !

hear about Laura ( Struckhoff) and me and our family, you've got to send me information about you ! Please take a m i n u te and jot me a l i ne.

Even ea ier, send me an e-mail. I t won't hurt a bit . . . . Bob Saglio: phone home!

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Auburn, we were without power for 1 3 long,

want to know all that people are ending me,

dark days despite l iving n a ma111 road clo e to

you w i l l ju t have to go to the next reunion in

town. Apparently we have unusual transformer

200 I ! . . . Peggy Wiehl Gilfoy lives in herborn,

on our c i rcuit, all of wh1ch were blown. Re­

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J ack. He enjoy collecting silver, jade and north­

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western I ndian masks . . . . Mark Chamberlain

water and burned a lot of candle . The kido were

ha two

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Small literary journals regularly bite the dust, Jennifer Barber

Brookline home, she does the typesetti n g and gets Salamander

'78 acknowledges-but she started one anyway. " I t's a labor of

camera ready for the printer. The thousand copies of an issue go

love , " Barber said . "It gives you a great feeling to be able to read

to subscri bers, bookstores and l i braries.

a poem, find it exciti n g , get it p u b l i shed. Having a say in what

Even though Salamander has been reviewed favorably i n Small Press Review and received an NEA grant that also set it apart from

people will read-it's gratifying . " Going strong since 1 992, h e r magazine, Salamander, has

other journals, raising funds is a constant battle, Barber says.

n u rtured young writers, publ ishing the work of a dozen or more

Interns from colleges, mostly aspiring writers who want work

poets, two stories and a non-fiction memoir in each of its twice足

experience, help out with fund-raising events and with manuscript

yearly issues. After Barber earned an M . F .A. from the Colum bia

screening, proofreading, stuffing and stam p i n g . " It's a total mom

Un iversity creative writing program in 1 984, she says she saw "a

and pop shop here , " said Barber, whose sister-in-law, Nancy

lot of newer writers whose work really was exciting" coming out

Spargo, has been with the magazine from the beginning. Barber's

of graduate writing schools only to find there weren't many

husband, Peter Brown, is Salamander's fiction editor.

opportunities for them to publish. One of her goals i n starting her

Barber was the first woman in Maine to win a Rhodes Schol足

Brookline, Mass. -based l i terary journal was to "counteract the

arsh i p . A Senior Scholar i n poetry at Colby, she says she enjoyed

feelings of powerlessness. It's having a voice."

her two years at Oxford studying medieval l iterature but came

Wnters from Wales, the Ivory Coast and Pakistan and a new

away convinced that she "wasn't cut out to be a medieval scholar

translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Russian novel The Master

and work on decaying manuscri pts . " Twenty years after her days

and Marganta have added an international tone and dimension.

as a gymnast at Colby, Barber jokes that "they won't let you on the

Barber says she likes translations "because writers in different

balance beam after twenty-five"; but recently, she says, after her

cultures may make different claims or take different li berties from

son , Jeffrey, 9, started tae kwon do lessons, she took it u p , too.

the ones we're used to making or taking-which expands the

She still attends modern dance classes.

range of possibilities available to us as readers and writers . "

And-"a l ittle here and there"-she has

T h e development o f desktop publishing made

p u b l i s hed her own poetry. She'll appear

Salamander possible, says Barber, who learned

soon in Take Three. 3, the third book i n a

production language" as coordi nator of the

series that introduces three poets in one vol 足

production schedule at John Wiley & Sons 1n

u m e . " I t's like a first book , " Barber s a i d . " I t ' s

New York and continues to freelance for

been nice t o do a t t h e same t i m e a s

publ 1shers 1n Boston On a com足

Salamander. "

p u te r 1n t h e a t t i c of h e r

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camp on Sebec Lake . . . . Bruce and Pauline Morin Lyons are in tandish, Maine. Pau l ine teaches sixth grade, and Bru e is an engmeer for Fairc h i l d em iconductor. Pau l i ne recetved the

drawmg, W'llkmg and generall� enJO�tng l t fe to

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the grand tou r of Hawa u . " ! t wa., upplN!d to he

t:mg tn t h e he.1lrh c.ue mdu,tr\ , '' l t n ng t n

report t n .

he and her huo,hand, Ton�. cel­

1 997 Elementary ch ol onservation Teacher of the Year Award for rece iving a national grant, with which her class built a nature trail along

the tnp of a l t feume," he s.Jy'>, "hut we a l ready

l.metta, G.1 He repc>neJ th.u he h.h twt> 'on ,

want to go hack ! " Frtend'> Deborah Morre l l

Amm, 1 5 , .mJ Kyle, I I , and th.u he wok tnp'

the river by their school ( b lazed with the help of Ameri orps volunteers ) , raised and relea ed

Chri

salmon, which w i l l thrive in ebago Lake, and taught the younger students i n the chool about

I t t . . . . Here's the amwerto a 2 5 - year-old nddle:

loc.tl the,uer; hL 'taneJ behmJ the ..:ene' but

"Preppte's real name

Malcolm Fo ter He, h"

'' .1 'oon rec rutted to be on ,t,tge .mJ h,J, ,1p­

wtfe, Le , and four k tds l t ve tn Annapol", where

peMed m m.m\ perft>rm mce' He '' t.: u rrenth

he's a stockbroker for A.G. Edwards

rehear,tng to return

ongratulat ions, Pau l ine! . . . Brian MacQuarrie enjoys h is work a a Boston lobe reporter. He's traveled to New Orleans to cover the uper Bowl, to M iami � r the Ver ace mur­

pol l u t ion.

der and to England wh i le covering the Louise Woodward au pair murder trial. . . . Mary Beth and Mark Pestana are i n Grand Rapids, M ich., where Mark i associate professor of phi losophy at Grand Val ley State U n i versity.

ongratula­

Polackwich, Betty L o u M e

all

Robillard,

to

erm.my md Au,trt,l l.t't ummer. . .

l nCl:

Beale Bur h read ,md Brenda Lincoln

agam, the volume of e-m.ul nutp.Ko.:' n.1 t l m.u l '

Lake are all on Betsy's "who I keep up wtth"

Bob \ einste i n conttnue' to be tnn>lveJ tn

1

on .

,._

Lmu' 111 You're a w<xl

harltc Broun, \\ tth perform.m..:e' ,..:heJ­

What we're all wondenng ts how that leave.,

Man .

him enough tune to coa h

u leJ for t h " 'I nng. Bre.1k

t . Mary\ H tgh

chool hockey team and '>erve on the London

a leg . Bob! . )a) ne utton 'enJ, her bt.:,t '' ''he, to .tll tnt:m

sler

he\ current!) ,1 'enwr proJeLt

Town Foundation and as a fac u l ty member at

her' of our cl,"' ·

Anne Arundel

manager wtth EEl

ommuntty

ollege. You're sttll

a my tery, Preppte . . . . As for me, our firm had the pleasure of ho t111g a

olhy sophomore t h ts

ommuntcatH>n,,

,1

puhltL.t·

nom anJ ommun tc.utnn' ltrm tn A le .mJn.1, a., whtle hu,hanJ John '' VP, mert.:h.mJt,mg,

t ions on the birth of h is son last J u ly, an event

past January for J an Plan. J u l ta H u mes '00 was a

for

that he says cut h is sleep time in half. He al o has

del ight to have in the stud to and worked much

ttme t

a 3 - year-old daughter. Mark' book, Moral Vir­

harder than I can ever remember workmg dur­

Wei h corgt and entenng the Jnc' 111 cnmpe t t ­

rown Book . J ayne reported th.H thetr ,p.m.: occuptcJ by r.m111g ,e,·eral Pembrnke .1

tue or Mental Health ? , was p u b l ished Ia t

ing January.

w i nter. . . . 1n Reading, Mass., Norman and

ful curiosity, a w i l l i ngne s to try anythtng and a

and they are hopmg for other,!

Sandra Spurr Michaud are busy raising Russ,

great sense of humor, which I a sociate wtth a l l

moved to

1 2 , and Lucas, 10, both mu ician .

o f my Colby friend . J u l ia learned, a I d t d , that

has been there ever '>tnce, '' tth the except ton ot

and works at the chepens

architects do a heck of a lot more than draft a l l

a few year> to ftnt'h her educ,Hton .md

Eye Research Institute, and Norm is a research

d a y and that a good l iberal a r t educatt n t s a n

president of the PT

andra is co­

he brought wtth her that wonder­

tech at Mas General. . . . I ' m out of space­

excellenr b a e � r that profe

more next t i m e !

humbl ing momenr came a -Shelley Bieringer Rau

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tton ; one Jog earned team boat

champtnn de,tcn.lttnn,

pnng,,

. . Li.: T ain t o r

olo. , tn 1 97 o.:

md

1rn .1

.P.A. de tgnatton. Lt: \\orb <I' .t clt-emplo)o.:d

ion. The truly

.P.A. and t<Jke ttme off to htke, htke .mJ c.1mp

we were tradmg

111 the summer; '>he '' <Jctt\'e wtth mm hoemg

tories about Colby escapades and I wa mu mg myselfback into my coed days when she ca ually

and cro s-counr� kung tn the wtnter .

. • .

I km"'

everyone ha;, bu>y l tve;,, but do nnt forget ttl ko.:o.:p

Andrea Ward Antone and her hu -

menr ioned ome experience of her mother' -a

us posted. You ;m e-matl ( ,roy [ 11m,une.rr.u>m)

band, A I , are enjoying the nuances of OU[hern

grey-haired woman only a year my sentor! . . . A t

or w·nte to hare your new''

cooking since their move to Lebanon, Tenn., to

a memonal service for Betsy Neidich m

be c loser to A l 's ex tended fam i ly. Andrea con­

port, R . I . , last J une 1 4, Deborah Vose patd

-\'alent' June Ro,

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t inues to practice physical therapy, a vocation

tribute ro Bet y'

she d iscovered while volunteering at Waterv i l le'

energy and her courage. Deborah told the 300

the Montca L. frac;J, ( my wmJnw t>verli><>k, thl·

Thayer Hospi t a l .

he credits her l ifelong appre-

people at the servtce that Betsy, who lo>t a

federal court houo,e m \V l,hmgton ) , \ Our l e ­

iat ion of music and art to her l iberal arts

three-year battle with utenne cancer, was pa ·-

voted corre,pondenr fmd' htm,elt " t h t ng nnh

ionate about "art, dance, film , foretgn lan­

that there " a' a ,honer le.Jd t t me betw o.:cn the

education . . . . Dr. J i m Cousins

tepped into another culture late last ummer when ervmg as the A ia Emergency As i ranee medical of­

ficer at I rian Jaya, Indonesia's Tembagapura Hospi t a l . He says h is patients mcluded expatn­ ates w i t h colds and migraines and native wnh malaria, TB, leprosy and malnutrit ion: "It was ulture shock and contrast between modern and p r i m i t i e soc i e t i e s l i v i n g n e x t to e a c h urtis Johnson, nother doctor, other." . . . and h is wife, Jacquelme, keep thetr prac uce 'tateside. Borh are dent ists and ltve tn �car,dale, .Y., where k ids J anme, 7 , and J a.mme, 3 , mu't have the best-lookmg teech m the count) . . .

The H u ebners , T m and Jean ( row ley ) . • 1re get t i ng their first taste �.,f the ltfe wtd1 no WL>T· . , ert�.>rd ries, as their e ld st, Ben, enrerered H 1 ol lege ! .1 st fal l . Th.u le.1\'e' Em t h , 1 5 , w h�.> ke ps them bus · w t t h her buddtng .K nng c.1reer (and 1 don't remember e t rher T�.>m nr Je.m 'L' much as reading for .1 L>lb, prc>duc t tnn-gene pools are hard w ftgure ) . . . . Bersv Toop>

D' A m o re fi nallv checked m f1.> 'c>nle" rh.u she's b en roo busv r,l tstng nn> .K t l\'e 'L'n'· needlepL)tnring. c rc>cherm g, p.ltntmg . re.1 dmg,

inregnty, her pa

ton, her

ttt111g here at wt>rk, lo..>kll1g t>ut "' ·r

guage. And she loved people. Her wtt enabled

t t me

her to patnt a ptcture of fnend and acquamtan­

Then perhap, tht, ct>lumn coulJ prm tde \ Ott ,

ces, whtch made them all >eem charmtng and

my dear reader,, wtth '''me "re.1l" nc\\ ,, ltkc h w

funny. Knowmg her hapeJ my attttude about

the photog, amu,e them,eh c' '' hen the\ 're n lt

col lege-to me tt " a place to make ltielong

f

olumn ,ubmt"tOn .mJ pu(-.lt�.: mon

t.1lkmg the P But gl\ en the n'k th tt w e'll m

fncnd and a han e to develop mtere. b m all

etther have .1 new pre,tJcnt

sort> of rh111g that ha\'e nothmg ro do wtth

t t me you re.1J th", prudcnLe Jtu tte, th t t \ Our

ne\ profe,>ttmal ltfe. \Vhen 'he bought a 'tack

'c:n(-.e confme h t m,elt ro the nwre rr,tJ t t t n I

l

1 ne\\ \\ 1r h the

of new,paper' and maga:me' �.me �unday m�., rn­ mg n1.>t long after gradu.u wn, ,he .hkcd the drug,wre ca,hter, ' [ c) I get a J"count lc'r bemg w ell- re.1J ?'

.

. I k n�.m th,u ,he gave me 1 , gtft­

tL> 'ee the ahurdttte' m ! t ie .mJ wt t1.> embraLe tt w tth m, " h�.,le he.1rt .md 'L'ul."

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director . ice to hear from you, Rob. . . . ick Jans ' 7 7 received some seriou pub in Jon Krakauer's recent book, Into the Wild. The book chronicle the final journey of a suburban Wash­ ington kid who decided to spend several months in Alaska literally in the wild, tarring out with only a rifle and a 2 5-lb. bag of rice. Nick corre­ sponded with Krakauer following the publica­ tion of the tory in Outside maga:ine, and that correspondence was featured in the longer book ver ion that followed. I thought it was pretry good joumali m, as was Krakauer's later effort, Into Thin Air, which told the story of an ill-fated ascent of Mt. Everest in May '96 . . . . Getting back to earth: Pat Hotchkiss Bakir writes from Amman, Jordan, where she is a freelance engi­ neering consultant. Pat and husband Hamed have two kid : "I am now coaching Little League and beginning to enjoy the elementary school years," he writes. "We pend a lot of time in Pale tine with my in-laws and are enjoying a multi-cultural environment." Let's see, Little League in Amman, yep that's multi-cultural in my book (but can you match flag football in Kabu l ? ) . Pat asks that any Colbyites traveling through her area please look her up . . . . Gary Winer committed treachery by wedding a Bowdoinite. Then he got even by having four girls. Gary lists Donna's occupation as lion tamer, noting that "[ think I had another daughter. It's hard to keep track anymore." o comment on the selection of pronouns here. Gary and pride will be winging DownEa tward for the reunion (and Bowdoin' ) . . . . Gerry Boyle continues to win kudo for his Jack McMorrow novels. The latest, Potshot, garnered very positive reviews in The NY Times, Publishers Weekly, etc. McMorrow, a freelance reporter doing a story on a cannabis advocacy group m Maine, gets involved with orne erious drug dealers. But aside from being a first-class thnller, the book is also an unflinching look at the characters and landscape of central Mame. Potshot is Gerry's fourth McMorrow novel. . . . Lyn Hildebrandt Holian and hus­ band Kevm celebrated the arrival of a happy new baby to JOin daughter Kane last summer. Lyn wme that he now has company on the orth hore mce Bill and Joann Barry Getchell moved there. Lyn, who IS workmg out of the home as a freelance ed1tor, 1 hopmg to make it up to Waterville thl June . . . . Pete heerin wa kmd enough to Jot do" n ;,orne thoughts about olby on h1 un:ey re>pon e. Pete 1 a ucces ful dent 1st m Beverly Hdl but clearly recall bemg coun­ 'eled hy >I by' B1o Department not to apply to dental , hoot Pete wme : "They msp1red me madvertentl\ h the1r 'nobhi'hne ;, by the1r negannry, w hecome ;ucce,;ful." Good for you, Pete. My gue" 1 that one tend w hnd narnm mmd, almo t anywhere one I nob, to wh1Lh I '>a\ "dleglllnm non arhorundum." . . Well, folb, that\ .1ll 'he wrote. There 1 ,nil -..> me un.m­ '\\ ered m.l ll. 111dudmg .1 long .md \'Cf\ n1cc [;,ncr trum L.A. King, " ho 1 .m Eri'L"P tl \IL.lr m Gnnndl, [,m.l, .mJ , aJ note fr,•m H u guen e Duteau alahuddin, \\ hll i<ht her hu,h.md n<>t

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too long ago very suddenly and unexpectedly.

Huguette, l wish you well, as I'm sure many of your classmates do. Unfortunately, l 've exceeded my space allocation yet again. Send your new stuff to Woody. See ya . . .

-Nicholas Levintow

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A short but sweet column this time around. Larry Sparks is vice principal at Avon High in Avon, Conn. He and his wife, Nancy Blackbom, have two children, Daniel, 2, and David, born New Year's Day this year. Being the father of two small children and the vice princi­ pal of a building full of teenagers is a challenge. . . . Linda and Kirby Rowe celebrated their 2 1 st wedding anniversary in 1 997 and have two beau­ tiful daughter , one a freshman at the Universiry of Florida at Gainesville and one a freshman in high school. Kirby operates a home inspection business in Port Charlotte, Fla., and is also a former high school classmate of mine from Waterville High! . . . Steve Singer and wife Kim­ berly Borman are building a house in Lexington, Mass., not too far from Boston, where Steve is chief of communications for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ( home of the J immy Fund) .

Their two boys, Matthew, 2 , and icholas, 5 , are anxious to move into their new home but will have to wait until this summer. . . . Rick Read e­ mails from Hartland, Vt., where he has lived since 1 989. Rick and partner Bettina live on a 20acre farm with beaver pond and views of Mt. Washington. Rick's travels since graduation (this is his first appearance in this column, according to my records) include Australia, Silicon Valley, Massachusetts and Vermont. He recently went back into business on his own as a computer consultant, which keeps him both happy and busy . . . . Cheri Bailey Powers write from Colo­ rado Spring , where she and husband Tom are enjoying Tom's retirement after 20 years in the Air Force (particularly his longer hair). Their girls, Kay leigh, 1 0, and Meredith, 4, are active in all the usual things, including soccer, and keep heri and Tom on their toes. Cheri had a visit thi fall from Kathy Bleakney Pawley and family to round out a bu y 1 997 . . . . We are busy here in the Washington, D.C., area breathlessly follow­ ing the late t foibles at the White House . . . . I n January I talked t o Joe P iatc z y c , who i s a princi­ pal 111 a succe ful insurance bu iness outside of Kansas Ory. We spent orne time talking about rea onable vacanon spot for families with small children, and I hope to see Joe in the late spring here m Wash111gton, where he has clients . . . . I may have m1splaced an e-mail or two in the last couple of month;, so 1f you sent me something and don't ;ee 1t, please resend to qkinney@ llgm.com or kk111ney®erol .com (my wife' e­ mad at home).

-Robert Kinney

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Th" column, contnbuteJ by Joanne hannon O'Donnell, 1> ded1cared to the memory

.md life' work of our fnend and cla'>>mate Ann I bee Hoefle, " ho d1cd 111 M 1dJlcbury, Vt., on

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January 1 8 after a year-long battle with cancer. he is urvived by her hu band, lain '82, her son, Colin, 6- 1 /2 , and her daughter, Kiera, 4- 1 /2 .

S h e was predeceased by another daughter, Kaylee, in 1 990. Ann received a certificate in special studies at Harvard University's Extenion School in 1 988 and since 1 992 was the administrative and publication cooordinator at M iddlebury's Salzburg Seminar, an organiza­ tion based in Austria that promotes ongoing international educational dialogue and ex­ change. She also served on the board of direc­ tors of the Otter Creek Children Care Center in Middlebury and was committed to the love and care of children. Ann will be remembered by all who knew her for her many talents and her love for family and friends that was evident in every­ thing she did. She had a great fondness for quilting and gardening as well as an adventurous spirit that led her to travel to Europe and Africa and across America. On their cross-country trip, Ann and lain were able to help build a home for Habitat For Humanity, volunteer on a working farm in Idaho and work in a soup kitchen in Utah, to name a few of their efforts along the way. Ann always gave much of herself to those around her. She was always kind and supportive, and she had a quiet determination that allowed her to accomplish expertly and seemingly effortlessly anything she set her mind to. At her memorial service, attended by some 400 people, Amy Parker Cook '8 1 read a prose poem called "Promise Yourself" by an unknown author, which expresses how Ann lived her life and from which we can all learn: "Promise your­ self to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. To be just a enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the pa t and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile." Ann has left with us a tremendous legacy for which we are all proud and grateful. We will miss her greatly. News will be forthcoming about a Colby memorial fund to be establi hed in Ann's memory.

-John Veilleux

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In 1995, Mark "Boomer" Bloom quit his job as a technical writer in Ma sachu ens, packed up some stuff and moved his wife, cat and pider plant to outhern California. He found a new job within a month with America Online and now lives in scenic Laguna Beach, in "desolate" Orange ounty. Please feel free to contact Mark ( MHBloom@aol.com) . . . . Pam Ellis had her watercolor paintings featured in two national magazines. Her work is in the "Calling Card " section of the January 1 998 Victoria magazine and also in the January edi-

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t ion of The Artist's Magazine, which included a four-page article by John BicH rd, a contribut­ ing editor, describing Pam's watercolor tech­ n ique. Pam sent me a beautiful colored brochure

tor of d 1 8 h l 1ty cla1ms for U ance in

UM L1fe I nsur­

A T

have two daughter�-Tracy, a l most , and Kelly, a l most 6-and car; T nck ter and

nuggb. John

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and h 1s fam ily enJOY the nearhy tate park and

John Ve11teux

also enJOY the C i ty-they are J U t 25 m i le' north

7 1 04 Sonne

has a 6-year

ld daughter, B thany . . . . On the same day I received Pam's letter I received an e­

of Manhattan . . . . Th 1� pa t year Linda Zee

mail from B ruce and Marisa D'Andrea Barber, who l i ve in Toronto and welcomed their fir t

program at Unca

c h i ld , son

ameron, into the world on January 2 , 1 998. Marisa writes that she and Pam get together at lea t once a year. Pam and Bethany

ardy ! , wh1ch a 1 red on De ember I 2

went to Toronto for a v i i t last Apri l , and Marisa and Pam took Bethany to see Beauty and the

on her master' in taxation at Bentley College.

Beast. . . . R ick Schau b recently moved to Day­ ton, Ohio, after having l i ved in Texa for three

makes her much more focu ed and hetrer orga­

tarred a new )oh a

d � rector of the

pan1'ih

ol lege, where he 1 an a 1 -

rant profe sor. Lmda recently competed on jeop­ he found

Court

Derwood, M D 20855 JOhnvellleux@Compuserve.com 1 98 1 Beth Pn1ewsk1 Wdson

the experience very nerve-wrack mg but a lot of

P 0 Box 602 Harvard, MA 0 1 45 1

fun . . . . Laura Gagliano

508-456-8801

Going back to

ordstrom

chool a

IS

workmg

an adult, she say ,

n ized- he ha three grown stepch i ldren, one

e-ma1l be h .wdson@westgroup.com 1 982 M1m1 H Rasmussen 63 ReservOir Street

years. He is senior v ice president of marketing at

rep-granddaughter, a daughter, Leslie, who 1s

Even flo, the biggest company in the baby prod­ uct business. Rick and h is wife, ue, and their

al most 6, and was expecting another baby m

two sons, D uglas, 8, and Will, 6, spent last

John Hancock . . . . Wendy Van Dyke has been

Christmas at their Maine vacation home about

on leave from teaching at We l le ley M 1ddle

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one hour north of Colby. They returned last

School in Wel les! y, Mass., to spend t i me w1th

Sally Lovegren Merchant

February for their annual father/child winter

her daughter, Sarah El izabeth, who wa born in

24 Easy Street

weekend. Ted Taylor and h is son, Cam, joined

May '97 . Wendy

them along with 1 0 other dads and k ids.

heroines and favorite people to t a l k to i ight

Richard Demers left Rockwell after having

now! Her

worked there for eight year . He now works for

schoo l . Her husband, Gardi Fiske, i a phy ic

W .J . Schafer Assoc iates, I nc., in Calabasas, Calif.

t acher at Plymouth

March! Her hu band, Ken, is a enior officer for

ay

other moms are her

tepson, Aaron, i

fi ni shing h igh

orth H igh School i n

Cambndge, MA 02 1 38 6 1 7-492· 1 002 e-mail: mhras@MIT E D U

Mt. Desert. ME 04660 207-244-0441 fax: 207-244-9445 1 984 Maura Cass1dy

H i trip lets-Yuhki ean, Tomoki N icholas and

Plymouth, M a s . . . . R ichard P . Robinson,

H i tomi Tiffany-are now 9 and keep Rick very

a n i n vestment real estate broker i n Concord,

38 lrw1n St #3 Wlllthrop, MA 0 2 1 52-1 2 1 3

are invol ved i n karate, and

Mass . , is on the governing cou n c i l of the

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H i t mi does English rid i ng with her dad. Rick

Com merc i a l l n ve tmem Real Estate I nstitute

says he has lost touch with

and travels a lot, mo t recently to

6 1 7-563-4 1 4 7 e-mail maura.cassldy@fmr.com

h ih-

hien Hsu '80,

who l ives in Taiwan. l fanyone knows h is where­

ew Or­

leans. He does a lot of h i k i ng at Pre idential

abouts, please contact R ick ( rdemers®wjsa.

Range in

com ) .

Sarah and Blair. . . . Ann Renner S t i l l wat r

. . Peter Clerkin is l i v i ng in

h icago,

ew Hamp h i re w i t h h 1 daughter ,

! I I . . . . Stewart Babbott is l i v i n g in Long­

( ars@uakron .ed u ) received her school nur e

meadow, Mass., and recently joined the inter­

certification in December. Her husband, J D,

nal medicine fac i l i ty at Bay tate Medical Center

receives h is science teacher certification t h 1s

1 985 Barbara Knox Autran 573 7th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94 1 1 8 4 1 5-379-35 1 9

doing both teaching and patient care. H is wife,

May. Ann, who has been working hard to

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ece l ia, i a ped iatrician. They have two c h i l ­

j uggle fu l l - t i me work and fam d y and part - t ime

Wendy Lapham R uss 206 Cheltenham Road Newark. DE 1 97 1 1

dren ages 4 a n d 2 - 1 /2 . . . . Lawrence L . Ander­ son I l l is l i v ing in G u i l ford, Conn., and is the wner and president of Ander on Technolo­ gies, I nc . H is wife, Kathryn Mack, left her Wh1te

chool ing, a i ms to spend le about the daily ha

t i me worrying

le and to g1v herself more

t i me with the fam d y anJ for her elf to relax.

Chri Renner, 1 I , 1s m the marchmg banJ and to

House posit ion as d i re tor of conomic affair

was i n v i ted

for A i a last year, expecting a daughter in March of 1 997. Larry pend his free t i me doing mam­

J u n ior h 1gh honor banJ; Robm, 7,

tenan e on sailboat and ant ique houses. 1 can relate to the latter! . . . Terri ( Lewis ' 3) anJ John Clevenger , re l iv i ng in outhport, c nn.

They have two chi ldren, :: m l ! n 7 , and Drew, 5. and both have become low n h i l l skiers. John "

a managemen t consu ltant for 1end.m t)nsult­ onn.; Tern 1s the estport, roup in ing president ofTL Healthcarc ommumcat1 ) m .

They bought a new house 111 \' e'ton , onn . ,

last sprino and w i l l be busy Jomg rent1\ .ltlc)n,.

John wants to know why there �>n'r a olb\ lub � r people in Westcheste r and F.mfJelJ counties, whi h would be mt1re Ct)nvemen r rh.m oing

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John

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-B.:ch Pn1<:11 ·/..1 \\' '1bm

ajarian has a ne\\ Jt1b

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ew York. He and hJ> w1fe, K 1 mherly,

of her painti ngs-lovely Maine scenes around the Rangeley, Ma ine, area where Pam l i ve . he

busy. The boy

I

play in the d istnct' ail-s hool "

very

arah Fox Whalen i J ,·es 111 Rhode

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Ari:ona and went horseback riding and hiking and camping in the Grand Canyon. Ellen, a C.P.A. at Meyer Regan & Wilner in Fall River, Mass., and Chris, an accountant with Technic, I n c . , in Rhode I s l a n d , l ive in Seekonk, Mass. . . . Diane Zavotsky reports that she had a wonderful time at the 1 5-year reunion visiting with Sarah Perry, Andrea Brantner, Kathleen Shea and the many others there. Diane is hav­ ing fun being a country doctor and a mom. She and her husband, Daniel McClenahan, have two children-Hayley, 6, and Tess, 3 . . . . Suzy Teare Morris has returned to the States after 1 4 years abroad-1 0 years i n London and four in Dubai. Su:y and her husband, Johnny, who works with Merrill Lynch, have bought and are renovating the farm that Johnny grew up in.

They have four daughters: Logan, 1 0, ellie, 8, Catharyn, 6, and Annie, 2 . . . . Susanna Schneider has lived in Beijing, China, for the past eight years. As a volunteer over a six-year period, Susanna established the first ongoing training programs for foreign busine ses for the American Chamber of Commerce. She will re­ turn ro the U . S . in two years ro settle down . . . . Eric Ridgeway invites alumni to enter the Fourth Annual Lake Pend Oreille Long Bridge wim being held on Saturday, August 1 , 1 998.

It i a 1 . 76 mile open-water swim that has gained in popularity since Eric first organized it in 1 995. For more info check out the Web site ( www. keokee.com/longbridgeswi m) . . . . On a sad note, lain Hoefle' wife, Ann (Albee '80), passed away this January after a battle with cancer. Our thoughts are with lain at this time. Please see the ' 0 class column for a tribute to Ann. -Mimi H . Rasmussen

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I hope you have signed up to attend one or all of the reunion days in June. We have planned some nme for quiet talking as well as acttvltles that hould bring you back to where we met, mo t of us in 1 979. The campus has changed agam and looks magnificent. Our class ha planned a beer ta tmg with Scott Russell, Craig By trynski and Kelly Dodge and perhaps wtth Doug Maffucct '7 and ht cia . Plan to bnng your old or new wagon to pull kids in for the parade on aturday. We'll be decorating the " agom at olby, �o tf you have room, bring whatever you want/have for ornamentatton. . . Barb Leonard and Dan Marra wrote soon after hn,tma to ·a� that they were qutedy catchmg up on new " htle the woodstove dtd tt thmg. Ltkc many other,, they lo t power dunng the Great Ice torm of 1 99 here 10 Mame. t-.1an\ were affected by e:-.rended power outages, l<hl work Jay,, no ,hower,, no fre'h food, etc.

You n.unc tt. olb1 e1·en 'crveJ a' a he Iter for .1 " eel for homc[e, and Jt,placeJ folks whose h<1tnc' had turned cold and dark. Dan and Barb -ounJ grc It .mJ 1rc ,uymg bu 1 , a' al" ay Dan {ada k -e nt hello, from a ne" aJJre'' tn . \:edh.tm) 'b' He 'ee Jake Filoon, Rob Leary, hri chmidt md Ricky Manley, to n.tmc .1 fe\\ H� tnd " tfc Allt,t>n 'Pt:nd pl en r 1 of ttme

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with Hannah, 5 , and Nathaneal, 3 . . . . Jennifer Thayer Naylor sent along a card when she was j ust about due with her and hubby Duncan's second baby. They should arrive in June at reunion with their hands full of kids { l itde Duncan is almost 2 ) and loads of wipes and kid parapherna l i a . J e n n i fer is webmaster for Cablevision and uses some of her M iddle East know-how as she edits articles and manuscripts, trying to stay current . . . . David Niles's fax arrived from Littleton, Colo. Laurie and David now have two children, Gareth, 3, and Olivia, 2 . Laurie stays with the young ones who are not yet in school, and David is a physicist at the ational Renewable Energy Laboratory, study­ ing cells for a l iving. They are active in their church . . . . Sue Desrochers Patterson and her husband went to Australia in March. Both have new jobs and yet found time to sell their condo in San Francisco and buy a house in Belmont, Calif. They spend time with family and friends and always welcome visitors. Sue is manager at External Reporting at Sun M icrosystems, Inc . . . . George and Deb Bombaci Pappas sent their news after snowstorms had dumped almost two feet of snow on their Litdeton, Mass., home.

Lexi, their dog, is a yellow Lab who was about to enjoy the family's addition: baby boy or girl in February. We are going to miss you guys at reunion-we'll fill you in and send photos! . . .

Back in Big Sky, Mont., Jacqueline Poisson Persons is j uggling working at her store, J . P .

Woolies, and taking care o f her daughter, Hayden, 1 . Jacquie's hubby, Brandy, a fly fish­ ing guide in the area, helps with the afternoon shifts with Hayden. They have enjoyed their daughter immensely . . . . I told you I'd get a holiday greeting card from Kevin and Karen Nickerson Purcell. They have a new address in South Dennis, Mass., and the whole group is setding in. Many thanks for the card, Kevin and Karen, Katie and N ick. See you at reunion?

Bring your old Radio Flyer wagon or Litde Tykes wagon so we can decorate it and use it in the parade . . . . 1 hope we see Linda Greenlaw in June and can get her autograph-maybe on the Vanity Fair article ( October '97 ) wherein Linda i nominated by the magazine to its Hall of Fame. If you didn't know, Linda has been off­ shore fishing since before we knew her. She was the fir t female swordfish-boat captain in New England and "remains one of the best captains 10 the industry, period." My husband had just read about Linda in Sebastian Junger' The Per­ fect Storm and was simply in awe of her talent and accompltshments. ( If you mi sed it, Colby ran a long arttcle on Linda in the winter issue. ) Hat off to you, Lmda. Hope to see you at reunton . . . . An edtttng error in the last i ue turned our Margot Hurlbut mto an unknown Margot Hubert. Another error made it our that Li: Murphy Kloak ha three boy . Wrong! The hoy' are Peter and Georgte; Lucte i definitely fem le. The edttor begs our forgtvene . . . .

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the many fields of interest we've taken up. So many have changed fields, changed directions, changed l ives. I hope that you will all consider a trip to Colby in J une to spend some festive time together as well as to share more quiet times. Sure do hope to see your name tag there!

And please take time to thank Vicky Col e, graphic designer from Encino, Calif., who de­ signed and arranged for the printing of our sweatshirts. Thank you, Vicky!

-Sally Lovegren Merchant

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Nancilee and Paris Pelletier got mar­ ried in August '97 under the eyes of many Colby alums, including his dad, Eugene '56, Walter Peczon '86, J ason Pelletier '8 1 , Phil Amarante '86, Jim Martineau and Bill Bartlett '86. Paris recendy completed his M . B.A. at Suffolk Uni­ versity. They continue to live on the beautiful Boston waterfront . . . . Jane (Mackenzie '83 ) and Scott Morrill live in Oregon. Their houseful includes Kenny, 1 1 , John, 8, David, 5, Britt the exchange student, Shelby the dog, Babe the pony, Stewart the turkey and many unnamed chickens! Scott is an appointed municipal court judge for the city of Tualatin, where they live.

He serves on the Tualatin parks advisory com­ mittee and was past president of the Chamber of Commerce. Scott wishes he could do more traveling . . . . Paige Lilly and husband Bob Stephens live in Blue Hill, Maine, where Paige is a museum research associate. They have one child, Lorna, almost 3, but were expecting a second in January. Paige does volunteer work for the state museum and archive group, which also serves as a great networking and profes­ sional development opportunity; and she vol­ u n teers for a fledgl i ng magaz i n e , Hope , documenting humanity making a difference.

She completed the master's degree program at the University of Southern Maine in American and New England studies. When they find time, they cruise the Maine coast in their 30-foot wooden sailboat . . . . Kathryn Soderberg Down­ ing finished her C.P.C.U. and is a vice president at ISU Soderberg Insurance. She also teaches Spanish at local hospitals and Salem State Col­ lege. She and husband Brian traveled to the Cayman Islands for a wedding last year. . . .

Cathy Bischoff La w re nc e loves London. She and Scott moved there recendy from N.Y.C. as Scott took a transfer with SONY Music to become director of Online Europe, and Cathy is taking the opportunity to enjoy the city. They have traveled a great deal throughout Europe both for Scott's business and for pleasure and have received many overseas visitors in the city. ( We recendy corresponded via e-mail-a great way to send your news to me ! ) Cathy saw J ulia Blanchard '85 and family while they were in London, and I caught up with Julia while they broke up the trip from London to Los Angeles by staying overnight in Boston . . . . Tracy Sotir Ramsey and her hu band had their third child, Grace, who joins Jack, 4, and arah, 2 - 1 /2 . The Ram ey live in Belmont, Mass., and spend their

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and is involved in the adopr-a-park effortS in Marblehead . . . . Kit Wil­ liams is back in school for a master's in geology, which is a change from her un iversity admin istration clays.

Kit is also consul t ing on the MWRA Tunnel project as a research as is­ tam. She married J eff Koechl ing during Hurricane Bertha. . . . Lisa Wormwood is l iv i ng in Medford, Mass., is a managing editor and has a daughter, Tarrah Skye Tibbetts,

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also writing a book that tracks the history of a Small Planet." I can see why, since she writes they w i l l settle (Joyce wants Maine, Doug wants major law firm in Delaware. He and Wendy had that since graduation she has biked across 1 8 Colorado) . Oddly, neither seems to want to stay a daughter, Julia, last September and are loving U.S. states. When not pedaling her small planet in their current home, Moscow, Idaho. Joyce every day with her . . . . Mark Pagnano is an saw Charles and Nina Shah Rohrbasser when vehicle, she works as a senior forecast planner orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Jack­ they were visiting this summer from Switzer­ for Stratus Computer and recently purchased a sonville, Fla. He's written a dozen medical jour­ house in Maynard, Mass . . . . Here's my favorite land, where they live with their 1 -year-old son, nal articles and five book chapters dealing with slogan: "Ch-ch-ch-Chia. Ch-ch-ch-Chia Pet! " Benjamin. She didn't mention if they brought knee and hip replacement and been able to train Keep writing. their pets . . . . Lindsay Ruppel also had an im­ and teach other surgeons how to improve their Wendy Lapham Russ pressive pet ownership list to share. I t includes techniques of total knee and total hip replace­ a horse, a cat and something called a ment. Mark and his wife, Linda ( Roberts '88), Thanks to everyone for the great news! "minidobbie." Is that anything like a budgie? who's a lawyer, have a son, Brian, 2 - 1 /2 .

There seems to be a lot of exercising, living in Lind ay l ives in Woodbury, Conn., and has her . . . Krissy Davidson Young has twin girls, aged cool places and producing little ones! Leading own graphic design business. She says she does 7, and a 2-year-old son and is a band and choral the runners is Karen Lawes Webb, who ran the "a lot of freelance work for ASP ," which looks teacher as well as a private piano instructor. She Honolulu Marathon to benefit the Leukemia from her handwriting like it stands for Ad­ and husband Steve, a self-employed lobsterman, Society while she was five months pregnant vanced Sonic Poisoning Systems, but that might just built their dream home in Vinalhaven, (Jonah then arrived in April '97 to join step­ not be right. . . . I was pleased to hear that Maine, and are loving it . . . . Jennifer Carroll brother lsah). Karen and husband Timothy, Ethan Wiesler and his w ife, Mindi, have three Schildge writes from London, where she's been dogs and a cat as well as a 7 -year-old daughter both family physicians, l ive in Seattle, and living for three years with her husband, Dan, named A llegra and a 4-year-old son named they're due again in June. Karen definitely has who's in the U.S. Navy, and son Jack, born last no free time! . . . Elizabeth Sedor ran her first Zachary. Ethan is an orthopedic surgeon and August. They've been traveling all over Europe Mindi is a ballet dancer. I wonder who has time marathon last October. She recently moved to and the U.K. ( and c limbed a 2 ,900-foot peak to walk all those dogs? The Weislers live in Minneapolis with General M ills and got en­ when Jack was eight weeks! } . . . . Chris Van Winston-Salem, .C. . . . Final pet news: Lars gaged to Thomas Nordlie. They just bought a Horne writes from Alexandria, Va., where he and Barbara Falcone Smith have a West H igh­ house and a sailboat and will be racing together and wife Vicki have two kids, Tori, age 1 8 land white terrier ( is that anything like a next summer. . . . Andrew Rudman just re­ months, and one due last December ( I don't minidobbie?} adopted a year ago. They live in turned from a week in Vienna, where he served know what they had ) . Chris is Goffstown, .H., where Barb is a president/owner of The CVK physical therapist and manager of an Robin S c h u lman writes that h e r favorite s logan Group & CVK Reprographics . . . . outpatient rehab clinic and Lars is an ·attorney. He is also working on his Melissa Raffoni has just joined is "The B i cycle: Vehicle fo r a Small Planet." I Inc magazine to help launch a di­ master's in intellectual property at Franklin Pierce Law Center. . . . Not vision called Inc Eagles. Her kit­ can see why. She writes that s i n ce grad uation content with dogs and cats, Meg ten, Lux i , is keeping her busy. And she has bi ked across 1 8 U.S. states.

Fryrnoyer Stebbins planned a trip to she j ust got back from Costa Rica, Africa this past January, where she which she says was fun. . . . Tanya went on safari with her mom. When Thomas Pinder is an adjunct Enas a member of the U.S. delegation to the not riding around in jeeps and wearing khaki glish instructor in Maryland. Tanya, husband Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Pre­ clmhes, Meg takes care of daughters Sarah, 1 , Reg, and sons Reggie, 6, and Reid, 4, live at the and Emily, 4. Meg and her family, which in­ paratory Commission. He l ives in Arlington, Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and c l udes husband Peter, l i ve in Chatham, Va., with his wife, Judith, and their twin boys, would love to know if other Colby grads live .J . . . . Mike and Sue Pearson Marchetti aid N icholas and Nathan . . . . Karen Schneck and near them. . . . I have run out of my allotted m their letter, "When we Ia t wrote we had only her husband are both executive chefs in upstate space. Happy summer to all New York and recently catered a small private one child-now three ! " The Marchetti clan -Jane Nicol Manuel mcludes Amanda, 5, Peter, 3, and Ellen, 7 Chri tmas party in honor of Hillary Clinton. month . Mike, an orthopedic surgeon now in Karen says it was a great honor and very excit­ Guy '86 and Amy Lumbard Holbrook res1dency at UMas Medical Center, will com­ ing. They're also renovating a townhouse to welcomed Sarah Constance in September '96. open a B&B and encourage everyone to visit plete a fellowsh1p in ports medicine m Minne­ Guy works in portfolio management, and Amy historic New Paltz, .Y., where they are . . apoll next year. ue says she finds raying at is a part-time Web project manager. She writes, Roma Vasa Rothman recently traveled to home w1th the kid more challengmg than the "Family has become very important-a baby far France, Portugal and India but is now back at bu me world. Wa1t unnl he has to pack up all outweighs job satisfaction." Many classmates work in Baltimore as a child and adole cent rhe1r ruff and dnve them to Mmne ora! . . . echoed Amy's sentiments, including R i c k harlle and Hilary Breed Van Dusen wel­ p ychiatrist. Her husband, Richard, is an emer­ Keigwin, who rook a paternity leave from his gency medicine physician . . . . Peter Voss and comed daughter Manka m October. Hilary now job a chief of registration support branch/pesti­ h1s w1fe, Kendall, are back in .Y.C. after three work a> an acqu1 man ed1ror for Hememann, cides at the U.S. Environmental Protection year m Paris and four in the U.K. He work as an educational publ1 her m ew Hamp h1re, Agency. Rick and Tracy mention the wonderful a n k finance manager at AIU. He reports that and lives m Marblehead, Ma . he races ad­ change in life since marriage and the birth of he recently hiked m upstate ew York in two boat both ummer and w1nter and wnte , "I their son, Ben . . . . Beth Kellogg Getto is also feet of now wnh ven Dubie and David gue' thme day of rowmg through 1 c e on the thrilled with her career as a full-time mom to ullivan. AI o reportmg on ven is Jonathan Belgrade Lake prepared me ! " . . . Robin Hannah, 2. Beth and husband Steve '87 live in Russ, who wnte , " ven was married to Cameron cheuer 1 pur umg a graduate degree m pamt­ Pennsylvania . . . . Marc and Meg Galloway Howe '92 m Mame and a good nme was had by mg at the a\·annah ollege of Art and De 1gn Pearce look forward to introducing their daugh­ all." Both Jonathan and w1fe Wendy ( Lapham m Georg1a. I n i l have a few bare walls m my ter, Marina Victoria, at reunion. A senior mar­ pa1nrmg, ' 6) were m the weddmg. Jonathan contmues to hou'e 1f yo u 'd like ro -;end me keting manager at M C I , Meg enjoyed her teach h1 tory at the U of Delaware and peclal­ hulman w m e> that her fa­ Robm. . . Robin three-month maternity leave and was visited by l:e m the h1 rory of Amencan bu mess. He' ,·ome logan 1 "The B1cycle: Veh1cle for a New Yorkers Bevin Dockray Gave and J il l -

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Heslam. She also reports that Suzanne " S u s u " Maclachlan a n d h e r husband, W e b Fletcher '87, are new Boston homeowner s . . . . Norm N avarro attended medical school at Pennsylva­ nia State at Hershey and now practices as an Ob/Gyn i n a small southern town ( pop. 9,600 ) .

Norm reports that he and h is wife, arah, and baby E m i l y are "learning to speak southern and have grown fond of grits." . . . Tom Jester and wife J en ( s ister of Kristin G i b l i n ' 8 7 ) welcomed their second c h i ld, N a than, in J une. Daughter H a l l i e is 3. A n architectural h istorian, Tom is a second-year student in the architecture pro­ gram at the U n i versity of Maryland. . . Eiko and Jeffrey D y m ant icipated the birth of their first c h i ld in February. Jeff, who is nearing completion of h is Ph. D. in Japanese h istory and

M i tchell :md chddren El tza J ane, 5, and l abel arah ( " Libby " ) , 3 - 1 /2 , enJOY thw new home m Barringt n, R . I . Dave, who remam wnh Fleet at ional Bank m capttal leastng, brew beer m the ba ement whde Le he, a comptroller for Nort h East Health

are, launche

her home­

ba ed hand-pa m ted fu rn i t ure busmes . . . .

1

A T

has been l tvmg m eattle and workmg as a PR ta­ reporter and new caster for the local wmten a couple of books on non. He' al teenage refugee

. . and co-wrote a

m the

book called Home Tree Home about buddmg your own treehou e. He ha cont inued wtth h t mustc and play., m a trlp-hop band cal led badukan eattle as we l l a a l t ve

Stacey ( M endel sohn ) and Jo h Marx and

that ha5 gtgs around

daughter

legi lative government pur utng "environmen­

Internet how Ia t December. He al'o wrote that Dan u l l ivan bou h r htm'>elf a boat and hou e on ape od and l' o bu y that he refu.,es w v1 tt

tal ly appropnate pohcie , " and

any other

a l l te, 2 - 1 /2 , celebrated the btrth of

Nathan Andrew in Augu t . josh work

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county

tacey Joe part­

t i me paralegal work.

-Lauren Frazza

89

o

ear

t. . . .

l'>

eattle

ped tatnctan bur able to get out Ia er ;admg and htkmg on weekend .

. . I s e r GaJiogl

Eric Piesner j ust returned to Hawa i i with h is wife, Rae, and son, Jonah, after a brief stint at

daughter, Adelaide, i reportedly beautiful and

gtrlfriend that ltke h ts trange habtt.

-Deborah

Harvard. Eric is considering opening h is own

learning many new ( and unprintable) words!

law practice . . . . Toby LaVigne was named

Bill and Bebe attended Ponch Membreno'

Dr. John

irard, who l bu'iy With h 1 pnvate ('r<1CtlCe a'> il

Bebe ( lark '90) and Bill B u llock are liv ing in Arl ington, Vt., where Bill 1 a retad fishing buyer for the Orvi ompany and Bebe is finishing her master' in educatiOn. Thetr

w i l l be on the job hunt i n Hawa i i , tells u that

L A R G E

wttcheJ

from bankmg to marketmg and recetveJ hl'> M . B.A. from Fuqua chool of Bus me' at Duke.

A l though ht famdy untt now con N s of Harry the Houseplant, he dtd wnte that he mer a

90

Grc?enc

president and CEO of LaVigne I nc . , a commer­

wedd ing Ia t eptember along with J u lia Dodge,

c i a l print i ng company . . . . Ed Barr, a banker at

L y n n S u l l ivan, Sam and Nora McQ u i n n

'92 were marned Ia t August m

Credit Su isse First Boston, and wife Jennifer

Conkling and t h e i r n e w son, Bill Morgan, J ake

Va. M ichael i a wmer and ed1tor for I nfo, I nc. , in Bethe da, Md., and Elame 1s an attorney.

Michael

iven and Elame Bue.,chen harlotte v d le,

Pierce '89, a seni r editor at Elle magazine,

U l ick '90 and Geoff Zentz '9 1 . . . . W i l l iam ' 7

balance c i t y l i fe i n the Big Apple with sail ing on

and Caroline Knowle Clapp have been busier

. Bill Evan and Enn Flemmg were al o mar­

their restored classic sailboat in the Hamptons.

than ever since the birth of their econd c h i ld,

ried Ia t Augu t and are l tvmg m the Wa h mg­

Ed informs us that Jon Earl is get t i ng married,

Caroline Stewart Clapp, in August 1 997.

Brannon Claytor i

is the supervisor for a exual as ault hotline and

John Linder a a legtslanve a.

Comm i t tee as octate coun el. Enn 1 employed

a father ( and doctor) to

a l l ie

ton, D .

. , area. Bdl work

t w i ns, Dave Caspar j ust had a baby, and Chris

also completing her M . . W. at Bo ton College.

Patterson is "very happy." . . . Mary Mc H ugh

She and B i l l are thinking about teaching abroad

by Congre man

i

in the next couple of years . . . . Shaun Dakin

chairman of the Rules

an assistant professor of pol i t ical science at

Merrimack College and work ing on her disser­

got married last October to

t a t ion at Boston Col l ege . . . . John and Margot

cian in her last year of residency.

aleena, a pediatri­ haun i the

ongre.,,m· n

for

olomon of

1

rant and Rules ew York, the

ommmee, as a legtsla­

t ive a si rant . . . . Lauren Ciampa and Jeffrey We t were engaged Ia t ummer and planned ,m

Glockler Liffiton, who l ive in Somer , N . Y . ,

senior segment leader in the electromc com­

April weddmg. Lauren work for Eaton

were ant icipat ing t h e birth o f their first child i n

merce department at Federal Expre

ration, in Peabody, Mas ., and Jeff works for the

Apri l . Margot works a s a ecretary for Akzo Nobel Chemicals, is a member of the fire and rescue team and looks forward to returning to teaching biology and receiving her rna ter's in biology. Margot report that Jean Denapoli re­ ceived her master's from Tufts Veterinary School in behavior. Jean seems to have her own l it t le farm w i t h her small herd f she p, three herding dogs, one cat and one ewe ! . . . Eleanor and Eric Vander Mel have had a busy year. Eric, a VP in corporate finance at Fleet, writes, "After l i v ing in R . I . for the last n i ne years (six of whi h I 've been married ) , we decided t have a k id ( Eric J r . ) , build a house ( in East andwich, r1ass. ) and e l l o u r e x i r i ng h o m e a l l at t h e s a m e t i me." . . . Ph i l a n d Lorin Haughs Pratle ex­

pect their first c h i ld i n Ma '· Lorin, a managmg d i rector at a promorion agency m onnectl u t , oversees market i ng a n d promotiOn ' for rhe Heineken ac unt and th rough work ha' mer

John McEnroe, John Popper and Blues T ra\'· eler. h and Phil remain a t l\'e wnh gt>lf and paddle tennis. . . . her I P wers 1a ·ette loves her j b as a legal ed i t r for the eu· York l..a u

. b u t hates h e r rw -three h 'Ur he sa ·s she reallv can'r <.' mplam sin e life with new husband Ttm: " � larned hie IS n w wonderfu l , even thou,h 1t t<. 1k rwo rnes r )

]oumal i n commut e.

.Y.

get i t righ t . " . . . David and Leslie M.igliacc hio

d wn in

Memphis, Tenn . . . . After eeing the plu h new

antucker

chool Dt tnct. . . . Karen Faun e

dorms at Colby during a vi it for the alumnt

Rand 1

swim meet, Tripp and Heidi Lombard Johnson

language art

are a l i ttle worried over what the cost of t u i t ion

orpt>·

teachmg

eventh and etghth

and

oc tal studte' at

carborough M tddle

hool.

•rade l a me'

he taught fnr 1 x

w i l l be i n 20 1 3 for their 2-year-old daughter,

years at t h e elementary .,chool leve l , m luJmg

who a ked if she could go to Colby omeday1

three year

Heidi wrote while he wa eight month preg­

. . . Christy Law Blanchard "a htreJ by

nant with the i r second chi ld-be r w1 he figur­

the Bay of Rhode I lanJ a.., J � re tor of cnmmu­

a

a

pec tal educauon te K hcr .l\'e

ing out the working-mother-of-two rou tme!

ntcanom. Prevt u ly,

. . . A I o at the swtm meet were Randy Barr and

m u n tc a t lOm d t re tor for t h e gove r n m e n t

hi 9-monrh-old daughter, arah, and Rob Young

accountabdtty pmject m Washm •ton, D. ' . . .

Dover orri -York nJ her hu,b mJ, B d l . re­

and ht new puppy 1 . . .

cott Harvey and

hrNy \\ OrkeJ as com­

ht wtfe, Tammy, have had much to be thankful

cently bought a hou'e m Port l mJ,

� r tht pa t year: the btrth of thetr dau hrer,

h h mshmg up an ap('lllntm nt a' � ]udt tal derk

lary Alma ( M ta ) , and wtth ancer. m

cott'

uc es,ful battle

c tt and Tamm · b u hr .1 hou'e

udbury and are bu>\' renovarmg rhetr

skt hou'e wtth j.1y

lame

rabde '9� and Doug Hall

'9 . . . Maria Dougla and Heather Whtti rJ '9 are lookmg tor orher I by alumm l t v m m

iL , ow or el ,ewhere m Ru 'Ia. �lana ha, a <.) lb1· 'ncker m her .u wmJo" and gather' bus me" carJ, t f alum> bur W<. uld l i ke t0 ,t,trt n alumm lub twer there. E-m.1 d her :n ' mu 01 � m.u n :.. ru tiv u have an1 ne\\ - 1 , 1.tn.1 l, .l em r te h nl)lo_ tmrlementatl n man:t�er .u the l n ­ enter m ternat ll>nal "uen -e Tec h n lo ' � k 'CO\\ . _he and her hu,b. nJ, \' len, h ,.e 2 \e.U-l1l.:l .:lau�hter, � I t h ela. . Gern· Hadden

for the Oregon

rc. Dover

ourt of Aprea!,, .mJ Bdl '' ork

ior Intel. L 't 'ummer they ' t 'neJ ver' r.�r­ ent , who are 'tat toneJ m Ltthu 1n1 1 w tth he Pea e orr . ar I L b , 1 l t v mg m \X1a hmgwn, D.C.. mJ w rkmg ' '

nonal r r.1 de lawy er

he

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m

'' orkmg n

mtern l· boo k on

the mrernatl )nal hum m n h t ot \\ Omen, t r wht h Hd l1f\ Rodh 1m l mt n " r te the t rt:­ " ord and wht h w , t be puh l t hed h1 the

A menon Bar A " •L l1 t tun tn t: rl} 1 99 . �1 rth P liard Whiteman ltve m c land. w here he w rk t h e puH t

h

lrh

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C O L B Y

Giving Peace a C h ance

Special Envoy Robert Gelbard '64, President C l inton's ch ief d i p l omat i n Bos n i a , who for the past several months has tried to n u rture a tenuous peace, isn't the only Colby presence i n the war­ torn Balkan state. On the grou n d , helping to keep that peace, i s ROTC at Colby through U M a i n e because of commitments to

Specialist Adam Cote '95.

football and baseball, so I f i g u red that at age twenty-four, this was

A member of the 81 Oth M i l itary Pol ice Company out of Tampa,

a good time , " he sai d .

F l a . , Cote has been i n Bosnia since October and won't come

Cote, w h o enl isted a s a m i l itary police officer, h a d expected

home until May. He says the situation there is as chaotic as news

to transfer out of his Florida u n it to a reserve u n it i n Maine and

reports suggest, but the people he has met give h i m cause for

attend law school , but those plans changed when Bosnia c a l l e d .

optimi s m . "The vast majority of Serbs, M us l i m s and Croats I 've

H i s u n i t was activated shortly after h i s b a s i c trai n i n g w a s com­

met on my patrols are very appreciative that we're here , " he said.

pleted i n August last year and the n , after a two-month tra i n i n g

"They're working hard to reb u i l d their country . " And there's a lot o f reb u i l d i n g t o b e done, Cote says. "To say

exercise, he left f o r Bosnia i n October. He says he arrived

this country has been devastated would be an understatement.

"expecting to see g u n -toting lunatics roving the streets" but was

Whole towns , cities and vi llages have been completely wiped

surprised to see j u st the opposite. "What I have found for the most

out. The most difficult part is seeing the refugee c h i l d ren and widows. A generation of husbands and fathers have been

part are kind and hard-working peop l e , " he said.

........ ... 1'!"!!1 . -.

1

Moved by the deprivation of the people and the c h i l d ren in partic u l ar , Cote has organized a pro­

killed," he sai d .

Cote's u n i t is located near the town o f Brcko ( " b i rch­

gram i n his platoon to provide candy and toys for

co"), one of the most hostile sites in Bosnia. There has been

local k i d s . "The program i s n 't l ife chan g i n g , but M&Ms and comic books real l y make the i r

no d i rect engagement of the American peacekeepers by

day , " he said. He a l s o i s exploring schol­

insurgents, nor does Cote expect any. But he concedes

arsh i p opportunities for college-age stu­

that some Bosnians fear the presence of the U . N .

dents who have the ski l l s to study in

troops I S merely postpon i n g a n inevitable future

the U . S . but lack the funds.

conflict by the warring parties. "They see this

Cote is a firm believer i n the

as sort of the halft1me show between wars , "

U n i ted States' role as peace­

Cote said An international studies major at Colby,

keeper and he sees hope for

Cote bnefly pursued an act1ng career fol­

Bosnia's future, but there is pro­

lowing graduat1on He appeared 1 n several

fou nd sadness at the losses

nationally telev1sed commercials, 1nclud1ng a

i ncu rred by the people he sees

Nike ad that appeared d u ring halft1me of the

every d ay on patro l . " T h e

1 996 Super Bowl He decided to JOin the mil itary

graveyards are overcrowded ,"

he says, for the same reasons many others g1ve:

he said.

-Kevin Cool

a des1re for a d i sciplined life and a sense of duty to h1s coun ry

I had always reg retted not do1ng

5

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St. Andrews. They were married in December of our senior year at Colby, and Martha moved to Scotland soon after graduation. he submi t ted her Ph.D. the is last November and i currently doing research on the relationship between per­ sona l i t y and cardiovascular disea es. Robert , a

Rumford, , l a me.

he wmes that he ha been

a summer cottage . . . . L

become a verennanan, after already complermg a ma>ter\ degree m f, hene' and wildl ife has traveled to Alaska, Portuga l ,

band, M i ke, who v isited Martha and Robert m Scotland last spring, current l y l i ve in h1 cago

r n a ( ,o u n d

and just bought a house . . . . Kirsten Rossner is in harlottesville, Va., working on her Ph.D. m

Finley

W1dmeyer Baker Group.

sports med i c i ne . K i rsten writes, "[ really, really

runnmg mce

l i ke it. ! never thought I 'd return to school again

t 1 me to see fnends and travel. . . .

after my rna ter's, and here l am." K i rsten ees

Gile was marned Ia r J uly to cott

house, also in

harlottesville, and says h talks

to Gretchen Sch warze "whenever I 'm fortu­ nate enough to get through to her on her pager."

rudymg to

Furrow 1

development officer for the comsh Ep1 copal Church. Nancy Dean Cacciopo and her hus­

John Woods occasiona l l y ; he just bought a new

many, England, the

1

pa m, Ger­

zech Republic and Au'­

rough ! } w n h h e r r ra v e l m g

ompan10n, John '"

he

uerre1ro '90 . . . . Megan

a 'enwr account execur1ve w1rh rhe he ha

p1cked ur

olby and w�;he., he had mort! atherine techer.

workmg as a chool psychologiSt at chool m

omerv dle, Mas ., and

ht!

barter

cott mon i ­

t o r c l in ical tnals for phamaceut 1cal compan1es. he says

IS

he

r h n l led ro be marned bur 1s

K i rsten al o heard recently from N i les '9 1 and

srres ed by roo much work! ( That seems to be a

onja Wiberg Parker, who have the cute t son,

ommon theme wHh most everyone I hear

Noah, who turned 1 last November. K i rsten

from ! } . . . . The winter issue of

wonders about and would l ik

the

to hear from

1 990s Correspondents

d1vorced, remarned, bought a hou'oe, had ,e,·­ eral JOb promotion aml 1 currently renovarmg

ad new

olby reported

that Peter l ndovino d1ed last

Tracey Bishop, Jay Olson, Rachel England

November fol lowing a hir and run accident.

Castle, M ike Doubleday '9 1 and Randy Grover.

Peter, who had run h i ninth marathon 1 n

hl­

1 990 Laura Sen1er 1 Par man S ree a 1ck. MA 0 1 760 508-653-7927 e-mail· lsen1er@bu edu

1 99 1 Jenn1fer Wood Jenc s 540 Prospect S ree Seekon . MA 0277 1 508-336-7049 e-mail klwi540@aol.com

1 992 M 1chelle Fort1er B1sco 1 232 Park Avenue #5 Hoboken. NJ 07030 2 0 1 -798-5662 e-mail slsmb@ny1 phshmo.com

1 993 El1zabeth Curran 64 Dane Street #1 Somerville, MA 02 1 43

You're in luck, K i r ten, because 1 j ust today

cago t h e month before a n d had a goal f runnmg

received an e-mail from Rache l , who says she

one in every

spent the past four year working f r M icrosoft,

graduate school for h 1s M . B. A . at

most rec e n t l y as prod u c t ma nager for the

Un iversity . . . . Karen Crebase graduated from

Alic1a S H1dalgo

Harvard

5 Albemarle Stree #4 Boston, MA 0 2 1 1 5

M i c rosoft N e t work.

he and her husband,

rare, had recently returned to yracu e

chool of Education and is the v 1ce ew

Lyman, who were married in March '97, re­

principal of two elementary

cently relocated to Vermont, where Lyman w i l l

Hampshire . . . . Stacy O'Brien i work111g a a

begin s c h ol t h is Augu t f r hi teacher's cert i­

re earch analy

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business trip. Beth l ives in New York City, where he works for hristie's auction house . . . . Recently 1 reported that Tracy Elmeer was liv ing in

last October in Massachusett and that both she and J ennifer Abbatangelo attended the wed­ ding . . . . 1 t i l l have letters from 1 7 of you but nor rhe spa e to print it all. o hop on O\'er to the

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this past May . . . . Eric and Adria Lowell T umer are busy in Maine working ar Kents Hill School.

Eric is the director of admissions and financial aid and Adria is the dean of students and direc­ tor of college guidance. Both were preparing to attend Deb Stinchfield's wedding in August. . . .

David Provencal wrote from M iddleton, Conn.

He recently received his Ph.D. from UC-Berke­ ley and was hired by Bristol-Myers Squibb . . . .

Andrew Wellnitz is living in omerville, Mass., and wed Karen chwarr: on October 1 9 . Andy writes that he lives close to Andrew and Mich e l e R o w e l l F i n n , Adam Belanger and Chris Malcomb . . . . Tabby Biddle spent last year trav­ eling in Nepal and outheast Asia before re­ turning to the West Coast, where she worked as an outdoor educator for the summer in northern California, Idaho and Wyoming. Now she's planning to move to London with her boy­ friend, who i being transferred by Citibank.

Once over eas, Tabby expects to travel orne more and work as an E L teacher. . . . Nancy Putnam Bentley and her husband, Christo­ pher, are l iving in Palm Arbor, Fla. Nancy teaches remedial reading in elementary school and Christopher is a nuclear medicine tech­ nologi t. Last urn mer they were in Maine for a family reunion and also spent time with Becky Graham, Jen Greenleaf, Deb Brown '90and )en Pelson . . . . Chris Arnold is now in San Fran­ c isco working as a reporter for National Public Radio. Thi wa a welcome change for him after five year of eating lots of pasta and shopping in thrift tares eking out a living as a freelance reporter/producer (hi words, not mine} . . . .

Suzanne Bober is in N.Y.C. taking psychology clas e at Columbia and working on the N . Y .

Colby Club W e b page with Helen Walker '93 . . . . Meredith Corbett Doherty is living in orfolk, Ma ., and working as a third grade teacher tn Franklin. Hu band Gary '90 i al o a teacher-at Btshop Feehan in Attleboro-and a coach. They've spent time visiting Todd '9 1 and Li a Miller O'Connor in thetr home in Arizona and fixmg up their own hou e on the lake . . . .

Peter Andrews and h1 w1fe, Heather, are busy w1th thetr new daughter, Abtgail, born tht pa t Augu t. Heather and Peter were marned in Au­ gu t 1 995, JUSt before he tarred law school at Penn tate.

-Mtcltelle Forner Btscow

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Hello, everyone! I am gomg to cut nght to the cha,e th1 nme, a I have a venrable truckload of new to relay. Jon Yormak wntes Y . . (w here he 1s an attorney} that h1s from mo t 'athh mg accomplt,hment 'ince May '9 3 wa' when he ",erved a the 'en1or as,octate m the large,t rm·ate-ro-rubltc REIT tramacnon m Wall t. h1 tory ." ( I don't kmm what REIT 1 etther, !:-our It 'ound' damn good ) He 1 abo the chatrman of the youn� rwfe, IOn<ll, JI\'I'IOn of the hildren\ He.m ng Jn,ntute, wh1ch focu'e' <ln ra1 mg m<mey for de.1f children He a),o wme' th.u John outhall w1ll 1:-oe gradu.mng twm oluml:-ot,l �1ed�e.l l chool m May. He ·

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John: it sure ounds l ike you'll have a lot to talk about at reunion in June! . . . Speaking of med school, Tasha Worster also is graduating in May, from UVM School of Medicine. Her com­ ment- "Looking forward to the fifth-year re­ union to catch up with everyone! "-certainly encapsulates my sentiments exactly! . . . Patrick Robbins, who is a department supervisor at Barnes & Nobles in Augusta, Maine, queries, "Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" and informs us that his current favorite word is "cachinnate." ( Hold on a minute while I look that up. ) Well, Pat, I am sure you'll be cachin­ nating all the way to the bank when your short story is publi hed in an anthology this spring, selling exclusively at Barnes & obles nation­ wide. Congratulations! . . . And Scott R ee d is busily cross-pollinating careers as he pursues two vastly different and yet equally impressive occupations: investment strategist and figure skater! He writes, "I was working on Wall St. but not content . . . then I realized I had true talent as a figure skater and could compete on a cham­ pionship level." Perhaps he can show us the height he can get on his triple salchows at the AI fond Arena during reunion. What do you say, cote? . . . Leslie Tane is happily self-employed as an art director/graphic designer in Hoboken, N.J . Her most satisfying moment came when she designed the covers for Newsweek during the 1 996 Presidential campaign. There's something for the resume ! . . . Jason "Chuckie" Soules has also struck out on his own down in N .Y.C., where he started a new consulting company, EHS Partners, LLC, with three colleagues from his old firm. I am assuming he signed the appro­ priate non-compete agreements. And Jason, it has been roo long! Perhaps we can wax nostalgic at reunion over a couple of frothy Milwaukee's Bests! . . . Sarah Nagle (who will be Sarah pataro by the time this is printed! ) is a market­ ing associate at a software company in Long Beach, Calif. She writes that she and Hallie Hastert both got engaged on the same night, in the same city, during the same hour! A cosmic pas de deux, no? . . . Katherine Rogers Roberts i also working in the marketing arena, down in Dallas, where she lives with her hu band, Wil­ liam, and her doggy, Allie . . . . Chri harpe '94 ent me some e-mail recently, informing me that he shopped in a Kmart in my hometown !

He also wrote that he i an editor for a company called Automotive Information Center and is l tv mg tn Charle town, Ma . Welcome to Beamown, Chris! . . . Also living in Massachu­ >etts and named "Kris" i Kris Owens Dorogi, who was marned to Csaba Dorog1 on Chebeague I land, Mame, m July 1 997. everal members of the lass of '93 were m attendance, including kip Harris, Anthony Couvillon, Mike Zhe, Bill Hokanson, Jason Goldberger, tephanie Pulver, Megan Winchester and Mark Muir . . . .

Our late't anJ greate t legal eagles are David Rea anJ Emil later. Dav1J 1 fin1shmg up at B.U , h a, acc e rteJ an offer at a large Philadel­ rhta f1rm anJ 1 engaged ro be marneJ m Augu t

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'98. That is two months after reunion! Emily is studying at Brooklyn Law in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., where she just bought a swank apartment.

She writes that Sue Furlong still loves Denver, where she teaches math and science to middle schoolers, and that they are planning a trip together in August to I reland. That is also two months after reunion ! I t's amazing how these things work out! . . . And what would a quar­ terly class notes column be without a reunion plug? Here is a deal if ! ever heard one: If Monica Lewinsky is still making headlines by the time this is printed, then I will personally buy every member of the Class of '93 who takes part in reunion a drink at The Safari Bar (or whatever it's called now } ! Do I know something you don't?

Well, you'll never know if you don't show . . .

-Eli zabeth Curran

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Last summer Jon "JB" Blau opened a retail busines called J aba's in Oak Bluffs, Manha's Vineyard, selling island photogra­ phy, prints, T-shirts and posters. Josh Eckel was a manager and Dani Araujo, J ulie Cyr and Laura Keally Heywood also helped . . . . After backpacking and sailing in Kenya, Kimberly Stern began her second year in occupational therapy school at Washington U. Medical School in St. Louis . . . . Since graduation An­ drea Stairs·earned her master's in education at BC, taught in N . H . and moved to Denver, where she teaches English at a uburban high school. . . . Last summer Eric Tracy, an attor­ ney at Ropes & Gray in Boston, visited his ister, Kristy '99, in Mexico and Jennifer Chasin in L.A. Jennifer is pursuing an M.S.W. at USC while counseling combat veterans at the West L . A . V e t e r a n s A d m i n i s t r a t i on M e d i c a l Center. . . . Planning t o attend business school at Duke in the fal l , Marika Schwartzman works as a research analyst at Associate for I nterna­ tional Research, a consulting firm in Cam­ bridge . . . . Jennifer Wolff, who received her master's in social studies in education, teaches in Bangor and hopes to work in I reland this ummer. . . . J e n n i fer S i rois teaches h igh school French in Gorham, Maine . . . . Skye Stewart left Penguin to work for HarperCollins as a pub l icist in children's books. She gets toge ther w i t h J oc e l y n H i l l e r and L ee s Patriacca . . . . J ennifer Sullivan, in business with her sister in Nonh Carolina, trains and breeds horses, with her thoroughbred stallion, opper, as the fou ndation ire . . . . Mark G a l l a g h e r , who j o ined Congressman Ed Markey's taff after graduation, was promoted to Markey's executive assistant in charge of district pre relations and telecommunications. . . . Last May Carie Nelson graduated from yracuse U. College of Law, and Kenneth Ongalo-Obote graduated from B Law School.

Kenneth moved to Capetown, outh Africa, to complete a law internship . . . . Josette Hunt­ ress, co-director of a ummer camp for girls at the Maine chool of Science and Mathematics m L1me tone, began a master's program at

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sonal banking offi cers for MBNA A merica i n M a i ne, were marned

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last May . . . . W h d e domg a n ex ternsh ip a t H agyard Dav tdson

Bobby DiVito ' 9 5 pl.tyeJ ever.1l rolt.: m a proJucuon of \\:'hac, Duran� ' , ,1

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J u st i n Brow n , actively pursu111g a l i fe of music, moved to cause

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and planned to spend t i m e w i t h Steve Warwick . . . . A econd-year m e d i c a l s t u d e n t at U V M , J a y A l lard gets down to Boston t olby grads. . . .

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ara Barker and

Elizabeth Banc roft ;pent a day on Mon hegan I l a n d last s u m m e r . a r a , a research biologist at t h e o rn e l l U . L a b of

rn i t hology,

was train ing for a triathlon and planned to cont i n ue mountain bike rac ing i n the from

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h icago, Coll een Brennan

bought a house with her boyfnend i n K i ngston, Mass . , and worb as a n a counL exec u t i v e at W t ker­ sham, Hunt,

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B u rger, pursu111g h �> t . F . A . 111 pnetf\ and tec1eh111g at the . n!An:ona, " n1te th.u Darren DeMon s i , whn flntshed hh Pe.tCe Llrp' Jut1e'

Inca, Debbie Fit:patrick .mJ Krist i n K i n g a l s o 1 1 \·e 1 1 1 TucsLm. . . a\'in D a ' i s 1 1\'eS and works Lll1 the lorth Sh,>re ''' H,1\\ ,1 1 1 i n 'i est

pursue , m � t B.A 1n the L1 ll . . . m • Alderson �> ,1 g r .1Ju .u e 'ru,lcnt 111 nur,e­ tm dw l fe ry at Yale . . . . In h1s ftr'r \l',lf c>l me.h­ cal schOLll at Tuft, ( nc r n u r,mg ,, h,>cll 111

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Gulley I l l '94 to Karen L. chofield 111 Wayland, Ma;,s . . . . Tra y 111

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dent at Simmons) , ikki Breen ( also a grad student at Simmons, for physical therapy) and Stephanie Tyrrell (who lives in the D.C. area and recently ran in the Marine Corps Mara­ thon) . They honeymooned in the Canary Is­ lands and Spain and went to Lima, Peru, over Christmas to see Rafael's family. Debbie is a meeting planner at the ational Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and she and Rafael live in Arlington, Va . . . . )aye Gennaco is teaching language arts to seventh graders in Revere, Mass., which he says has been the greatest challenge of her l ife but well worth all the hard work-she's really enjoying working with the kids. he has seen Cheryl Johnson, a rna ter's student at BU, and Betsi Silverman, a law tudent at BU . . . . Erica Fertig had been working on the new Sharon Stone movie di­ rected by Sidney Lumet but now ha started on pre-production for her own movie.

-Alyssa Falwell

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How's it going, '97 I I hope the new year is finding everyone somewhat well rested and happy. Zoe Kaplan lists her occupation as "traveler" and writes that she spent her summer in Boulder, Colo., living with Linsay Cochran, working and li tening to bluegras music. Dur­ ing the fal l she worked in the mountains of ew Hampshire, and this winter she has been wait­ ing tables and playing music in Sea Ranch, Calif. Her future plans involve going down to Costa Rica to meet up with Colby alumni and applying for the Peace Corps . . . . Liz Fagan is a seventh and eighth grade science teacher for Teach For America in Long Beach, Calif. She

also has traveled up and down the California coast competing in such races as the M ission Bay 2 5 K in San Diego in early November and the Run to the Far Side ! OK in San Francisco.

Li: was planning on running in the L.A. Mara­ thon at the end of March . . . . Meghan Jeans is also residing on the West Coast, in Petaluma, Calif., as a naturalist-teacher at an outdoor science school. . . . After working as a manager for Bloomingdales in New York, Mika Hadani left the United States for London and is a graduate student at the Central School of Speech and Drama, pursuing a variety of things in the theatrical field . . . . More news from California: Austen Briggs drove cross country with Tony Hernandez after graduation and now lives in San Francisco, working as a public relations account associate . . . . Danielle Herget is a master's student at Boston College and also teaches dance in Scituate, Mass. She writes that she attended Kelsey Miller's wedding to Sal Sciascia . . . . Rob Gimpel is a geologist and is temporarily filling in for John Baptiste, who, coincidentally, works for the same company­ and broke h i s leg p l a y i ng rugby d u r i n g Homecoming . . . . Jenna Klein i s a copywriter for L.L. Bean in Freeport, Maine . . . . Anna Hamlen is an advertising/sales representative at a local newspaper, The Park Record, in Park City, Utah, where she lives with Dylan Rothwell.

She recently traveled through ew Zealand and Australia . . . . Sarah Holmes is a handwriting apprentice, studying to become a full-time hand­ writing and document examiner. This spring she plans on opening a Cambridge, Mass., branch of her mother's company, Pentec, as wel l as

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Arthur J. u l l ivan ' 2 2 , Dec. 1 2 , 1 997, in Pawling, .Y. , at 96. He was pre ident of Zeta P t fraterntty and had a four-year athlettc schol­ ar>htp at Colby. He attended Harvard Graduate chool of Bu mes and was a merchandt ing manager for Mar hall Fteld and Abraham rrauss, pectall:mg m home furnt hmgs and oftware. un·tvor mclude ht wtfe, Imogen. orman W. Foran ' 2 3 , ov. 6, 1 997, m Boca Raton, Fla., at 9 . He was a manager wtth the John Hancock Mutual Ltfe In urance Co. m Ohto and e" Jer>ey for many year . He "'a a member of Zeta P 1 fraterntty and >en·ed the ollege a a cla' agent. un'l\'or mclude ht relJttve orman F Foran. ardyne ' 2 3 , Dec. 2 7, 1 99 7 , tn Lon a Fo" le Gorham, :0.1ame, at 96. he was an elementary and m tddle ,chc)01 teacher tn \'ermo:1 t , Kennebunkport, :-..l a me, and Falmouth, Mame un·t\'Or include three nephew' and a ntece. l II )

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Marguerite Rice Lary ' 2 3 ,

ov. 1 5 , 1 997, in Frederick, Md., at 95. She earned an M.A. from Columbia University Teachers' College and was for many years the head of the English department at Scarborough ( Maine) H igh chool, where she also was the coach for school drama productions and speaking contests. ur­ vtvors mclude her on, Ralph, her daughter, J celyn Lary Mostrom ' 5 7 , and a granddaughter, Allison Lary G ldsborough '84.

Elsie Frost Rapp '26, Nov. 24, 1 997, in Danbury, onn., at 9 3 . A homemaker and ubstitute

teacher of language at Bethel (Conn. ) High chool, she was acttve on the local school board and wtth the Amencan Red Cro . Predeceased by her brother, Ernest M. Frost '3 , she 1 sur­ vtved by two on , three daughter , nme grand­ chi ldren and >everal nte es and nephew .

Katherine B. reaney '2 , Dec. 2 5 , 1 997, tn Bethe>da, Md., at 9 1 . A re,·ered htgh chool

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taking a trip to Switzerland in the summer. . . .

Jenny Higgins i a Ph.D. student in sociology at Rutgers in New Jersey. She al o manages to find time to work as a residence counselor in one of the undergraduate dorms, overseeing the pro­ gramming and discipline for 2 5 0 first-year stu­ dents. Jenny joined Morgan Filler at Colby in November for the alumni swim meet, where both had a blast. Morgan recently purchased a Mazda M iata for her trip out to California. . . . Mary Hofmann is l iving in Brighton with Kelly Hagan and Leah Tortola and is a research technician at Boston College. he reports that Randy Hall is in graduate school at UCLA for economics . . . . Tay Evans is the assistant to the manager of Coastal Processes at M I T Sea Grant and living in Wayland, Mass. Over the summer she worked on a wildlife refuge in west­ ern New York studying marsh birds . . . . Simone Kaplan is an editorial assistant at PC Week and l ives in Cambridge with Amanda Bligh, who i an investment assistant with the Fleet Invest­ ment Group. . . . Kate Charbonnier works for the Carson Group in ew York and lives with )en Robbins. She writes that she work with Wendy Ridder, that Josh Oeltjen is working in a lab at Harvard and that )en Mason is interning for a congressman in Germany while looking forward to beginning grad school in the fall. . . .

Mark Mcinnis is a p.c. consultant for I BM and is living in Newton . . . . If you haven't checked out the Web site for our class, I highly recommend it.

The page is your best way to receive updated information on class happenings and news. Take care and I hope to hear from you soon!

English teacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase H igh School, she retired as supervisor of English for Montgomery County, Md., public schools. She was involved in many professional organiza­ tions and traveled extensively. Survivors in­ clude her nephews Robert and William Wallace.

Charles W. Jordan '29, Nov. 3, 1 997, in Au­ burn, Maine, at 89. He taught in Auburn and Richmond, Maine, and was principal ofWalton Jr. High chool and of Web ter Jr. High School in Auburn. In 1 96 he became director of edu­ cation services for Mechanic Falls, Poland and Minot. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, he erved the College as class agent. Predeceased by hi father, Archer Jordan, lass of 1 89 5 , and hi three brothers, ranston '24, Archer Jr. ' 2 7 and Barnard '40, h e i s survived b y h i s wife, Myrna, his son, Charles Jr. '60, and a nephew, A. Anthony Jordan '68.

Roger B. Draper ' 3 2 , ept. 1 6, 1 997, in Largo,

F l a . , at 88. He was employed by the E pmo; Fruit Company in Puerto R ico. He b survtved by h is wife , Helen, and h is on.

brother,. R tchard '45 .md Arthur P.u

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Earle K . Merri i i '44. Ckt. 2 , ! 997. m lk1denwn,

Fla , at 7 5 . At

Lawrence C. Good ' 3 3 , A ug. 28, 1 99 7 , m Houlton, M a i ne, at 8 5 . A potato grower ami shipper, he operated Good Farms I n c . 1 11

Monticello, Ma ine, and wa act i ve 111 many c i v i c and fraternal organization . He IS urvtved by h i wife, Florence, h is son, two daughter,, two brothers, two si ter , n i ne grandc h i ldren and two great-grandch i ldren. . herman ' 3 3 , Dec. 1 6, 1 99 7 , m Bm­ ton , Mass., at 8 7 . A pi neer in the treatment of tuberculosis, he founded the pulmonary phy'>t·

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degree m clcmcntlr) c Iu�.l! mn tmm

a n d on t h e fac u l t i e of T uft a n d B o t o n umver­

cea-.ed by h t:. brother, Robert J ,tcoh '49. he "

sit ies. H e leaves h is wife, Barbara, a brother, a

;urvtved by h" wtfe of 4 7 year,, 11-laqonc, a 'on,

si ter and h is cousin,

two daughter:., an A F daughter, h " mother, h t '

1 99 7 , m Rock l.md, . I line, I t 5 1

>toter, Eli:aheth J acob,

Detrnlt, &1 t<m .md

Vermont a'> teacher .md ad mmi'tr.1tor,

he became hcadma'>ter of Kent'> ! ! ill

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Tuscalom.a , A l a . , at 7 2 . After 'ervtcc m hoth onfl tct, he wa'

Mathe on, two sons, two daughters, 16 grand­

World War I I and the Korean

chi ldren and 10 great-grandchildren.

a profe:. or of mmeral engmeenng at the verstty o f A labama m

Catherine lvanisin A n icetti '3 7, Oct . 1 1 , 1 997,

by his father, Erne>t

in Lewiston, Maine, at 8 1 .

sun·tved by h" ,,.,fe,

he was a home­

Tu'caloma.

o. in Lt;,bon Falls, Ma ine. daughter,

he ts survtved h) a

. 'unp,on ' 1 6, he ,, u"e, and two 'on,.

athey Bienkowsk i , a ·on, Frank J .

Beach, Fla., at 6 .

He worked a'> a huildmg

operation manager for \XIcntworth ln,ntute of

A n icetn J r . , a sister, and three grandch i ldren.

Technology, tmmon,Collcgeand H.m ardCc,m­

Arthur F. Hannigan ' 3 7 , Dec. 2 1 , 1 99 7 , m

out,tandmg cm:en ,l\\ard'. He '' 'un t\·ed by h"

amden, Maine, at

4. After service tn the

Navy during World War I I , he returned to h�> dental practice in

mumt) Health Plan and recctved 'evera ! L I \'IC and

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Oliver

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maker who asstotcd her hu band in the opera­ t ion of their fam i l y bu ines , Kennebec Frutt

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sioner of hea lth and hospital services for the c n y

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Dorothy Higgin Matheson '34, Oc t . 25, 1 997,

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u c 2 , 1 99 7 . m

hepard J. Kantor ' 6 5 . 'r nrk.

ology laboratory, tuberculosi treatment and alcoholic rehabilitation program at Bo ton ana­ torium. He al o was an a istant deputy comnw,­

heldon R. Rudntck ' 36.

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I at) , a daughter and 'on, twn 'tcpchtldren,

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lelrose, Mass., whtch he eorge C. Palmer '5

later operated with h is son, Arthur F. Hann tgan Jr. '70. H e 1s sun·l\·ed by hts w tfe, Loui'e, f,,ur

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som, four daughters, etght grandchildren and

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two great-grandc h i ldren.

,el 1-.:mplnved C<'mputcr pn1gramm tng Clm,ul t.1 nt,

James Lawrence Robbins ' 7 , ov. ' , 1 99 7 , m 'earsmon t, la me. at c 4. He wa' a French m.1Jl'r and member of Lambda ht Alph.1 fr,Hermry ,,mp<lll) 1 11 President of Rohh111. Lumber earsmont, he held man) leaclcr,h q ' r,,le, m

industry organt:cHton s and " .b .K tl\ e m numer· ' ous C IVIC gwups. un'I\'Or' 111clude ht' '<111', h 1s cl.lllghr e r . R,,berr.1 mes, a J and J e nness Rohh111s \ alker '6 4 . •md .1 .:,,u,m. � I t ! Ired Fenwtck �' rarrert ' " .

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• I fi nal p erio d ' Bob's' Cha n g i n g Face Roberts U n io n has been many thi ngs to many people i n its 50 years

By Robert Gillespie

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f buildings were baseball play­

nursery for faculty and staff chil­

ers, Roberts U n ion would be a utility infielder. Year after year,

dren in the early '80s. Today, a long corridor gives pas age to the offices and classrooms of the Psy­

Roberts has delivered in key itu­ ation -meet i ng the changing

chology Department.

Down on the ground level a

needs of generations of students.

Originally the men' union when it opened on February 1 4 , 1 94 7 ,

small portico has covered the side entrance since the day Roberts's roof let fly an avalanche of snow

Roberts has been taken apart and put back together again and again.

a n d ice on i nf i r m a ry n u rs e Priscilla Sargent, b u t t h e barber shop on the ground-level corri­ dor is long gone. In 1 9 7 7 the radio station moved in, followed

Where else does a bookstore sport a fireplace and a pottery studio rub elbows with a radio ration .

Current students affectionately call the building "Bob' ."

In the beginning, Colby' in­ firmary occupied the entire east wing, a warren of beds and offices and exam rooms presided over by Dr. Clarence "Doggie" Dore '39, College physician from 1 949 to 19 1. From 1 95 3 to 1 964, head nurse arah McGraw Fortuine '26 lived on the second floor, "the ick girls' floor," said her daugh­ ter, ancy Fortuine We tervelt '54. Profe or Emeritus Bill M iller, who JOined the Art Department in 1 9 56, ays he remembers "hear­ mg torie of Dr. Dore carrying a d mg coed up the stairs." The men trudged to the floor above.

The onginal centerpiece of the fir t floor, spac1ou eavem Lounge, extended through arch­ way along much of the corndor; tudymg and card playmg went on around fireplace at both end of the room. Dean of the College Earl m1th, who JOmed the olby raff m 1 96 2 and became the fir t d1recror of rudent acttv1ne I X year' later, JOke that he "went to Robert to be where the aC[1on \\ a,." \ hen rudent a ( 1 \ 1t1e ,

located to the left of the fir t floor lobby, mo\·ed to the new tudent Center m 1 9 5, the ecumy Departmen t rook over 1t >rot MaJor renovation of RobC.. 0 L II )

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Can you g uess what now occupies t h i s space in Roberts? Formerly a lounge, Seaverns Bookstore resides here.

erts in 1 9 7 8 created a second ground-floor dininghall and new pa facing each other across a dug-out courtyard and saw the bookstore take the p lace of caverns Lounge. Real logs in one of the fireplaces in Seaverns Bookstore s t i l l look ready to l ight, although operations man­ ager Bill Pottle says the dampers are too rusted to use. owadays, Personnel Services and the Outing Club occupy space in the old infirmary wing of the fir t floor. In the late '60s, the oppo ite wing of the first floor wa home to the Paper Wall, a coffeehou e offering entertain­ ment. In 1 97 3 it became a pub; 2 5 year later, wall paintings are ttll v1s1ble between office parti­ non at the far end of the book­ store. At one pomt, East As1an tud1e wa m there, too.

Two of the ongmal apart­ ment 1mmed1atel} above were occup1ed by the late Admm1 rra­ ti\'C 1ce Pre 1dent Roney Will­ lam ' 3 5 and by the famdy of Bdl 1acomber ' 2 7 , d1rector of adult 64

education. In 1 970-7 1 , six women lived in this area of the econd floor and six men lived on the third, "the second or third coed group in the Roberts commune," recalled one of the participants, Jon Linn ' 7 3 . ( Th is arrangement fol lowed from l i m i ted coed din­ ing in Roberts that began soon after women edged into Averill Hall on the men' side of the campus i n 1 964 . ) The Robbins­ Hurd- mith banquet and lecture rooms on the second floor of Roberts also housed men when bunk beds were moved in to handle overcrowding in the fal l o f 1 9 79. "In today's parlance," said Regi trar George oleman, "they bonded in their adversity."

The third floor originally wa a large, open area of pool and Ping­ P ng tables, soft lights and ciga­ rette moke. In the 1 970s, "the loft" aw Powder and W ig and dmner theater production even after tnder Theater opened in 1 976. Weavmg and other craft in the '60 and '70s al o found a n1che on the third floor as did a

by the Echo. Across the hall the pottery studio looks as it d id 2 5 years ago even after its recent expansion into a storage area.

"Fads come and go," said Bill M iller. "It's pottery now, not weav­ ing." For a while it was photogra­ phy. A darkroom on the pond end of the second floor awaits revival of the Camera Club.

The Art Department moved to Bixler in 1 9 5 9 , the infirmary to Garrison-Foster behind the chapel in 1 976, the Spa to the Student Center ( now Cotter Union) in 1 98 5 . Such changes were always anticipated: the Roberts Building, which honors Arthur J. Roberts, Class of 1 89 1 and College presi­ dent from 1 908 to 1 9 2 7 , was de­ signed for the coming and going of any number of student and de­ partmental activitie .

In the summer of 1 999, Rob­ erts will undergo another make­ over when a wall between the two exist ing d in in g rooms comes down. Efficient erving lines and new equipment will relieve today' peak-period overcrowding, says Gordon Cheesman, associate di­ rector of physical plant. Back in 1 94 7 , the Alumnus declared Rob­ erts "an essent ial cog in the May­ flower Hill plant." That, at least, hasn't changed a bit. +

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