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tele and presenting eminars as well as coordi nating en•ices for the residence . . . . Doug Howe now live in orth Andover, Mas . . . . When you get your questionnaire, please re spond electronically or in the old-fashioned way. We look forward to hearing from you. -Roberr Gracia and Judy Genie Heine
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Frank Dunton writes that h e is direc tor of fi cal operations and controller at the Univer ity of Ma sachusetts; his wife, Trish, own a travel agency. In the last two years they have been to Italy/ icily twice, to Scotland, Iceland and Germany and sailed all over the Canbbean. And what's even better, they're aim ing for Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Austria in the next two year . . . . Betty Sa vicki Carve lias is sorry she missed our 30th reunion-she heard we had a good time. (We did 1 ) She and her husband, John '66, and her dog, Sadie, live in Colche ter, Vr., where John is a professor of economics and Betty teaches biology. She changed schools after 23 years in one place and say change at our age is great ! She's had fun working m a new place with new program , colleague , etc. he, too, has been traveling extenS1\'ely. In the ummer of '97 she wa in Chma and in 1 99 went to Costa Rica and then to Mexico to a biology resen•e. he also spends lots of time on business trips to D.C., Colorado and a sorted other spots since she's on a variety of adv1sory boards. . . . Hal Childs lives in ValleJO, Caltf., with hi wife, Kathleen, and sons Gregory, 7, and teven, 5. He i a psychothera p1 t and executive co-director with the Califor nia Coun elmg In titute in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., and reports that last May he finally completed hi Ph.D. m depth psychology and ewTe tament mterpretation at the Gradu ate Theolog1cal Umon m Berkeley. He says it "only" rook 10 years and now he's trying to enJOY domg nothmg! . . . Had a Chri tma card from Betsy Clark Bungeroth, who report that >he changed JOb . he had previously been a gu1dance coun elor but now 1s the Mr. Wash mgron ( . H . ) Valley chool career coordma tor. he works for two AU's and the local econom1 councrl. Her daughter Becky spent her fall "emester on the coa t of Kenya, and Bet was eagerly awamng her rerum. Her other dauf.lhter, He1d1, 1> a emor m h1gh school and " a' accepted to Colby early dec1>10n. Yeah 1 Joe Jabar, who ltves m Watervdle and 1 an attorney w1th Dav1au, Jabar and Batten, was elected to the }.1ame Hou e on a platform of 'trarghrenmg out the mequme> m the 'chool tundmg formula, gl\ mg �1ame court more ar rennon Jue w mcrea,ed re pom1bdme> cau ed h bmdy courr matter,, anJ mcrea mg benef1t tor :>..1 ame worker . . . . Kenneth Borchers be came ra wr of the Lanca,ter ( . H . ) A sembly l.f God m Augu t. He recer,·ed h1 master of rheulog\ /dr,·m1t\ at the Bo,ton Unl\·er 1ty �ch, 1! ofTheologv. He and h1, w1fe, Elt:aberh, ha\ e rwo daughter,: Koren, 24, 1' a graduate of Gordon ollege and '" a rea her; Rachel, 1 9, •
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attends the University of Maine . . . . Joan Kidman is a case management officer for a new family court division. She represents the Maine counties of Cumberland and Y ork and will guide paternity suit cases and divorce cases involving children through the court until completion. he received her law degree from the University of Maine and from 1 99 1 to 1 993 was chair of the family law section of the Maine State Bar Assoc iat ion . . . . Last M arch the M a ine Legislature's judiciary committee unanimously endorsed the reappointment of Art Brennan to a new seven-year term as superior court judge. He was first appointed to the Superior Court in 1 9 4 by a Democratic governor. Seven years later he was reappointed by a Republican governer and now has been reappointed by an independent governor. . . . Ken Young lives in Hallowell, Maine, with his family and has re cently joined TechKnowledge, a company that provides information technology support ser vices, as director of operations. . . . I received only three questionnaires for this column makes for pretty slim pickins'! -Nancy Dodge Bryan
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Cathy Cyr Latvis's two children, Pe ter and Andrea, graduated from college ( Hamilton and Amherst) on the same day in 1 997. Cathy writes that her children "energize, motivate and inspire" her. She is director of guidance at orth Yarmouth Academy, and husband Bill '66 owns Jokers family entertain ment centers in Portland, Maine, and Ports mouth, N.H . . . . Alice "Buff" Huse Tanner lives in West Kingston, R.I., with her husband, Richard, and two of their four children. Her eldest son, Andy, works in a sound tudio and plays in a band in Los Angeles. Her elder daugh ter, Sara, is a recent Harvard graduate. Alice notes that she cruised through Waterville a few years ago and introduced her family to Bailey's hotdog . . . . AI o on a culinary voyage, Dan Woloshen rook a 1 996 trip to intere r his daugh ter, Judy, in Colby. She enjoyed a Whipper's sub while he mi ed Tony's subs. ( Despite the great food, his daughter chose to attend Michigan.) Dan, a lawyer, and his wife, Donna, live in Fairfield, Conn. His recent mile tones include "buying low and elling high," convincing The ew York Times Magazine to use larger type and coming m econd during his appearance on jeopardy ' . . . Sally Rogers i a psychologist and college professor in Denver, olo. She is the rec1p1ent of a grant to study autism. Sally and her hu band, John R. Brown, have two daugh ters, Amy and ara, who they ay are great kid and great mng players. ally would love to hear from Annie Montgomery and Cha rlene Horan . . . . Alden Wilson, director of the Maine An Comm1 ron, ltves m Wrsca set with his partner, Don ha e. Denny ha two grown chil dren, ean and hannon . . . . Vicky Stewart Talbert has a new addre s (9205 Lakeshore Dnve, Plea ant Prame, WI 5 3 1 5 ) . . . . Stuart Ro enfeld and h1 w1fe, Maltm Bhushan, have a
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new son, Ajay, born in February 1 997 . . . I see former campu radical Anne Pomroy '70 on occasion. Anne, now an attorney based in Old Orchard, Maine, asks that Henry Thompson phone home . . . . Sharon Timberlake has been doing some substitute teaching and recently taught auto mechanics, which I do not believe she studied at Colby. As I write this, Sharon is about to travel to Africa for a month. She'll spend most of her time in Ghana and will meet up with Alison MacDonald, daughter of Janet Rathbun '70 and her husband, Peter. I got to gether with Janet and Sandra Haimila '70 this pastsumrner, and we laughed ourselves illy. . . . You roo can laugh yourself silly, eat Belley's dogs and Whipper's subs and pizzas-but only if you attend our 30th reunion. The plans are great, and the list of attendees is growing. Sign up now! .
-Diane E. Kindler
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My quest for the longest Colby mar riage in our class brought some interesting re sponses. OK, OK, I'll share them with you. Brenda Handleman Sidman writes from Vancouver, Wash., that she and husband Steven got married in May of 1 970, a few weeks before our graduation. They've lived on the left coast for the past 20 years. All three of their daughters are in college at the same time ! Je sica, 2 3 , is a graduate student at the University of Michigan; Angela, 2 1 , is a senior at Macalaster College in Sr. Paul, Minn., and Hillary, 1 8, is a freshman at the University of California at Santa Cruz . . . . Rod Buck and wife Sandra ( Hutcheson '7 1 ) have been married only since June of 1 97 1 . They live on their 70-acre farm in Calais, Vt. Rod has been with National Life insurance Company since 1 97 2 and currently heads their investment operations. Sandra did not write about herself, but she tells us that their kid are doing well. Brennan, 2 3 , a Cornell graduate, is a landscape architect in the "other" Portland (Oregon) , and Chri , 20, is a junior majoring in international studies at Colby . . . . Karen Knapp Lyons writes that she and Bill '69 have been married for almost 29 years. Karen notes that she is aware of 1 1 AD Pi/Pi Lam Colby marriages and that all 1 1 are till intact. That just blows me away. Who says that no good came out of the fraternity/sorority system! . . . In writing these columns, I'm truck that a lot of our classmate have sent one or more of their children to study on Mayflower Hill. That really makes a positive tatement about the old alma mater ( and shows that we produce some bright kids, roo ! ) . I know that teve '69 and Debbie Williams Anderson have had both of their children graduate from olby. Is there anyone in our class with more than two Colby offspring graduates? Plea e let me know . . . . Lyn Schwarz Promisloff dropped me a line from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Lyn i a homemaker, and her hu band, Bob, is a pulmonary/critical care physician. Their son, David, is a freshman at Emory University, and their daugh ter, arah, is a high school ophomore . . . . Carl Baer got married last sum-