Colby Magazine vol. 88, no. 4

Fall 1999

will begin a farewell clubs as he approaches at will mail notices

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November 19

Washington, D.C.

November 20

Philadelphia

January 23

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The Natural

Kent Wommack ' 7 7 perseveres to preserve.

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Vying for Scholars

Colleges keep raising the bar to stay on top.

19

Millennium Story

What do Colby professors find most interesting about the 20th century?

2

readers write

Most assuredly not a trenchcoat ; early years is for toddlers.

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32

gifts & grants

Environmental excel lence attract attent ion; besting 50 percent.

from the hill

The elm-less Elm i ty; new numbers for W M H B; Y2K at a "most-wired" campus.

26

books & authors

John Pullen '35 rev is i ts Joshua Chamberlam later in l ife; Don nyder '72 vi it the mother he never knew.

periscope

Gleaned from Earl Smith's weekly new letter, F.Y.I. 4

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final period

More h istory is made on the Kennebec River.

student life

Undergraduate research goes year round; unique A lfond apartments opened.

28

faculty file

Who's running for Congre s and "'ho' not; studying francophone \\'Omen.

34

alumni news

35

classnotes

59

obituaries

profiles

36

Paul \VIlle,路 '路L

Jame, :-.lcConchie '63 48 el:-orah Palman '/44

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"Early Years" Is for Toddlers

On Diversity

ue of Colby maga:ine ( urn­

I am writing regarding a recent event that

mer '99) arrived here about a week ago. Ed

occurred at Colby that appeared in the most

[the Rev. Edwin H. Shuman '3 ] and I have

recent Colby alumni magazine. It is quite

The la t i

very much enjoyed reading the various ar­

obvious that Colby continues to struggle

ticles and feature . However, \\"hen we turned

with the same issues of"diversity" and "race"

to the

ection called Alumni at Large, we

that plagued the school when I was a student

were appalled to discover that anyone who

(19 6-9 1 ) . lt is d isappointing to see that the

graduated before 194 \\"as non-existent, with

arne liberal rhetoric and indoctrination that

the exception of Newsmaker Ray Farnham

was foisted upon my classmates and me is

'36 and a long list of alumni who had died.

till alive and well on Mayflower Hill. . . .

Do people at Colby think that anyone

While I detest racism in any form, l don't

over 0 years of age does nothing except sit

believe that the College has any right to

in a rocking chair and ruminate? . . .

provide "diversity training" to any of its

Why did omeone have to lump the 50-

students or faculty. If there are issues that

Piu group into "The Early Year " just as if

trouble any group of students at the college then the college has a responsibility to pro­

we were toddlers again I orry to be complaining but it trouble me greatly that Colby has apparently not

vide adequate forums for the students and facu l ty members to exchange ideas and dis­

reali:ed that our generation is living longer

cuss these prominent issue . The College

and doing more than ever before, even if a

should not endeavor to regulate or legislate

ltttle more slowly'

what students can and cannot say and think.

Marjorie Gould

human '3 7

West Oneonta, N . Y .

ing" is merely a way to restrict freedom of

Ill health has forced Fletcher Eaton '39 to sus­ pend h1s dunes as correspondent for the classes ews of those classes may

expression and speech . . . .

l think that it is time for Colby College to take a leadership role to teach its students the

be submmed directly to Associate Director of

qualities that all human beings share and that

Alumm Relations Meg Bernier' I in the Alumni

are common to all races and religions. Instead

Office, Colb) College, Waterville ME 04901.

of focussing on "diversity" and the qualities

Please also send suggestions for renaming "The

that make the student body different, why

Earl:- Years," and we'll adopt the best one.

can't the protesters focus on the qualities

continued on page 63

In the Trenches I enjoyed the article "Chari ie Bassett and his trademark trenchcoat prepare to leave Colby." I certainly wish him well in his future adventures. He sounds like my kind of guy. As a lifelong haberdasher, I wonder if I might be permitted a mi nor quibble. (And I know that Pacy and Ludy are looking over my shoulder as I type thi . ) The coat that you give a fu l l - page color photo to under the mle "Hanging I t p" may mdeed b e Charl ie' trademark, but It mo t a >uredly

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Volume 88

Number 4

Colby Staff:

Stephen Collins '74 executive editor Brian Speer art director Robert Gillespie Alumni at Large editor Leo Pando illustrator Karen Oh '93 designer Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97 staff writer Joanne Lafreniere staff assistant Brian Speer, Karen Oh, Scon Perry, Jeff Earicbun, Bridget Besaw Gorman contributing photographers From cover photo: Bridget Besaw Gorman

ately. This Orwellian phrase "diversity train­

marjories@prod igy.net

of 19 39 and before.

I f there are racists among the student body, then they should be disciplined appropri­

Colby

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Bo ron , Ma».

not a trenchcoat.

Administration: William R. Coner, 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: John Devine '78, Chair; Lou Richardson '67, Vice Chair; Eleanor Amidon '75; David Bergquist '61; James Bourne '81; Bruce Drouin '74; Ernest Fortin '51; Lisa Hallee '81; Diana Herrmann '80; Barbara Bone Leavitt '52; Joanne Weddell Magyar '71, Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90, Christopher Tompkins '89; Johnston Whitman '59; Alex Wil on '73; Philip Wysor '70 Colby i published four times yearly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty and staff of Colby College.

Audress correspondence to:

Managing Editor, Colby 41 1 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901-8841 or e-mail to: mag@colby.edu on the Internet: http://www.colby.euu/colby.mag/ Alumni Office

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By Earl Smith Colby Is 18th

teache a cour e on Daly. The People article wa; prompted by a court ru l mg upportmg B \ dec1 1on to force the tenured a oc1ate profe or to retire a a result of her per 1 renee 111 refu mg to teach men and women 111 the ame clas'>. Daly teache; both men and women, but eparately.

The unheal thy emphasb on college ran k i ng� a�idc, olby folb w i l l be plea�ed that the ollege held lo;e to la;t year'; pl ace ment among U. News & World ReJJort

rank i ng; of the "Be�t N at ional L i beral Am ol lege�." Col by wa� tied for l th, after being 17th in 1998. Bowdoin dropped two pla e; to 9th; Bate , four pla e , to 2 3rd. ther chool are A NE A mh•r t 2nd , W i l l iam 3rd, M iddlebury 5th, We�leyan lOth, Trinity 2 2 nd and onnect icut ol lege 25th.

Discover Colby's Back Yard

We Teach Best of Web

olby's caverns Book tore Web ;ire wa rated the .:tl site

by A ltaVista for folks searching for Maine books.

Wh ile most companies pay to have their si te· l i ted that high, Bruce Barnard and ompany j ust work to have a great ;election, excel lent resp01re for searche· and quality customer service.

M u h of the credit goe to Barb h utt, book divi ion manager and Web guru.

Best Buy

The eprember Kiplinger's Personal Finance Maga:::ine

ranks the "Top 100 Values in Private ol lege·," and olby A i:, 77 th. or all the E school· made the l ist. Those that d id include Amherst 6th, Will iams 2 7th, � 1 iddlebury 4)rd, Tuft· 51st, Bowdoin 61 st, olb 77th, Bates and Ham i l ton (tied ) '4th and Trin1ty ''th. ·

Boost for Books

olb •'s summer rear Book· l nstitute got e,·en mnre famou: with some fine publicity 111 • rthur Frommer', s ·ndi ·a ted column, "Budget Tra,·el." The fir;,t h.1lf Llf a J uly column in The CH' York D 1ih c!H'S and ebewhere . was a glow i no reCL1mmen la­ t ion for olby'· program that con -luded, "Anyone whL) treasures i �eas should CL1me awa w ith a refreshed set of perspecri,·es." ·

In J u ly the unday New York Times reported that "After years of hying away from the field, a growing number of col lege students, including tho e from e l i te l i beral arts colleges, now say they want to be choolreachers." In that article, Mark Tappan ( education ) said, "In rhe last lO years, the number of tudenrs in olby College's education and human development program ha doubled, to almost 1 00."

Long Peddle The Randolph (Vt. ) Herald

reported june 1 7 that B lak en ey anford '01 pa sed through, headed for the coast.

The We t oa r, that is. anford and Jacob Grant, both al ifornian , were riding 4,500 mile from right to left and raised more than ,000 for the Env i ronmental ouncil in anta Barbara. A ermonter told them that 1f you flatten the Green fountain , ermont 1· a large <1" Texm• . Havmg pedaled up ·e,·eral of them, the pa1r \\'il> mclmed to be!Ie\·e It. leanwhde, L)ming ea t from �an Franc1.-o on a b1ke, .J. \ all Ill ' 9 of Belgrade, lame, kept u' up to date wnh pu� lished d1,p.uch "each "eekend 111 rhe enrral :\I me :\ lommg

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Beetle Bob

Bob elson (geL1logv) 1' quoted at length 111 an article

about fireflie in the July Down East magazine. Down East tapped h is kn wledge-not of rocks but of beetle ( which i what fireflie are ). Explaining the function of firefly flashes, Bob said, "It' an internal b iochemical process u ed principally by female to attract males." Sometimes it's an amorous come-on; sometime it's to attract males of another species. "They'll come flying in," he said, "and the female will eat them."

Debra's Dust-Up

ome Boston ollege official were up er with Debra Campbell ( religiou stut.lie ) , quoted in the J une 1 4 i u e of People magazine in an article about the t.li mis al of that school' controver ial faculty member Mar Daly. "Bo ton ollege' clai m to fame are lary Daly and the football team," qu ipped Debra, who

Two of Ru Cole' h1olow, tut.!ent;, Darcy orne!! and Rachel Palmer, hoth '99 grad.,, have wntten a ;plent.!Id gLut.!e to the olby nature traiL The Illustrated booklet mrroduces elementary choolchddren to bas1c ecology through hand>­ on actiVItle , ant.! young rer who vi It the Mu eum of Art get a copy.

What's Brewing?

Four recent olby grad , who among them have degree 1n biochem1 try, molecular biology, physic and econom­ ic , tarred the oa tal Extreme Brewmg o. 111 M itl. tl. lerown, R. I., and rhe1r fir r batch of ewport torm Amber Ale wa to h1p th1 ummer. I n May an A soc1ated Pre tory about Derek Luke '9 , Will Rafferty '97, Brent Ryan '97 and Mark in lair '97 began: "Four college budd1e and a comummg pa s1on for beer might ounJ l ike a formula for d1 a-.ter. Bur to the young men tllllmg ;may m a hop at the �l 1ddletown Trade man enter, n' a bu me; plan."

Moosecellaneous

Charlie Bassett' warm pu., wa on page llne of the J u l) 16 hrom le of H1gher Educauon; he wa' featured amLmg L>ther revereJ . . college profe -.or wh,) retired rh1 ve.u A rrul) wonderful art icle on harlie lead an 111,1de 'eLtl 111 t itled \'Crappmg L:p holarly Career.... olh\ .md Jim \\'e tt' men\ cr'b' country ream ctmtmue> ro b....1 r rhe h 1ghe r uf collectl\'e GPA' , wnh the 'yuad po'tmg a 3 .574 to im1 h rh 1rd (l:>ehmd Hobart and r. �Iary\ Lini\·er It\) among all of rhe nauon\ Dl\'hlon I l l -hovk ... ]ani e Ka man w, recenth a ked bv the m1rh t)llege rru tee, ro rra\ el to 'e\\ Yorl anJ meet With rhem r0 d 1 cu ' 0lh\ re,Idenual hie pr�ram . . . .

Tamae Prindle ( Ea,r A'1an 'rud1e ) ha, been re-elecreJ pre,Ident L)f rhe J apane'e Language Teacher ' A >OCiarwn ot . 'ew England (JLT.>\-. 'e" Engl,nd ) . �

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The Erstwhile Elm City Colby and Waterville face challenges together B)' S tephen Collins '74

T

hroughout rhe country, col­ lege

and uni1·ersities are

forging new partnership wirh rhe towns rhey call home. Yale, rhe ntl·ersityofPennsyh-ania, Trin­ tty and Connecticut college are a few that ha1•e, very publicly, come co the aid of their distre sed cities.

Waterville, while miles and mag­ nitudes away from rhe problems ofHartford, Philadelphia and

ew

Ha1·en, nevertheless faces chal­ lenges as the economy shifts from manufacturing to

ervices and

technology and as markets be­ come global. Thu

Colby and

Waterville, with a clo e town­ gown relationship oon to enter It:. th1rd century,

!miG. to addre

are forming new

ne11· challenge .

Watemlle, home to Colby mce l

l 7 , e1·okes different

In the 1960s ( left photo) buildings between Appleton and Temple Streets, including the popular Parks' Diner, were razed Temple and Silver Streets are the heart of Waterville's downtown district. businesses on Main Street.

100 years in Oakland, likewise

wa a founding member of the

orne deni­

uccu mbed to the pressures of glo­

M id State Economic Develop­

Last spring, as the city gov­

:em of the old campu claim that

bal competition. Diamond Match

ment Corporation, formed in

ernment was reorganizing after a mayoral recall referendum, Cot­

memone for succe sive genera­ non

of

olb1ans.

the youthful ntalny of college

inOakland,rhe ki-Land Woolen

the early 1990s. When the

tudent 1;, 1111 ;,ed downtown. A

Mill in Clinton and Wyandotte

former

tern ' s Depar t m e n t

ter convened a Downtown Ad­

later generation 1 no talgic for

Industries in Waterville are other

Score building suffered forec lo­

visory Group to work on in-town

Park ' Dmer, Ome's, The Majes­

mothballed relics in an emerging

sure in 1996, Cotter mobil ized a

beautification and new public

tiC re,raurant and the warren of

post-industrial environment.

coali tion of nonprofit and cor­

events, new business develop­

porate sponsors who formed the

ment and waterfront redevelop­

Waterville Regional Arts and

ment along the Kennebec River.

rreer

cour'e m the 1960;,. :-.lam h.t

Today visitors coming from

berween Mam and Elm

th H were rerlaceJ by The

on­ treet

'>truggled m recent \'ear;,.

extt 3

on 1-95 have to negoti­

ate nme traffic lights and pa three

hoppmg centers to get

ommunity Center to buy the

Members of the group, predom i­

building and run it a a cul tural

nantly stakeholders in the down­

'l<>thu:r' Dunham\, Butler' and

downtown, and the route from

center. Colby trustees author­

town sector, have been working

t�.m\ do eJ m the 19 0 , anJ

extt 34 pa;,;,e;, the Elm Pla:a

l:ed the lead gift of

with thecity's new mayor, Nelson

100,000 co

Le\'lne' went out of bu me" m

,hoppmg center and a battery of

e tablish The Center. Today the

Madore, and new city admin is­

1 996 .1fter IL 7 year anchonng

fa t-food re raurant;,. The atel­

comrlex contains retail shops

trator, Ronald

the <>uth enJ of �1am

llte -.h oppmg c e n ter;, have

and

thu i a s t i c a l l y welcomed the

<xm

.tftem arJ, the

hor 'n a1·e

rreaJ actll'lt\ away from the

oncour'e

lllJ <.enter. That, coupled ll'lth

'urerm.ul..er m TI1e

d,> eJ

treer.

m f,t,·nr <>f 'urer wre' 1n

, uth mg ,h,'rrmg cent�r .

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nity organi:anon and rhe city

'" dl mgne ;, ro dri1·e to

he.1lrh of , lam

rreet.

While the downtown till has

January meetmg

its challenges, signs of progre s

rru,tee-. e tablt;,hed The Colby

abound. The employme nt rate

At the1r

ch.tl lengeJ the ecllnom1c

ol lege Downtown Develop­

ol h ,

ingel, who en­

support and interaction.

councd chamber .

Augu,r,l, B,mgor and Portl,md, h.1

ervice;., offices, commu­

IS

good, as mill job have been

ment Loan Program and ear­

replaced in other ecrors of the

reu>gnl:mg rhe 1mrorr.m<.e <>f ,1

marked up ro

economy. The

nhr.mt ut\ center, ha

lm1 -mrere,r loam ro encourage

fllnl.trJ lll <>ffer

reppeJ

l mdlton for

rc f'<l11'>1hlc development

.l">t'r.mce.

Pn�'1Jent \\'dltam R. \m er

()lJ h1,111c' d1.,rnct or

4

111

ro

rhe

keep

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hire company still turns out drc ; ;, s h i r t s a l o n gs i d e

the

Kennebec after a group ofMain e

Most Wired, Most Prepared "YZK Bugs To Be Remedied Late," proclaimed the headlme on an Associated Pre s story in

eptember."

o country in the world will

get all of the system fixed by January 1," the story said.

Detail

implied that one

hould think twice before boarding

commuter flight in Bulgaria on

ew Year\ Eve and that trusting

traffic lights in Angola could be d1cey once the date rolb.In the the health care indu try-"becau e doctor;, ho pttal and payment sy tems are o decentralized"-was runnmg behmd.

"YZK readines is of greate t concern in developed countncs >uch as the United tate because they are most dependent on mformauon technology," the AP reponed.And a college on the

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Life most-wired-colleges list i among the most dependent entitle> and, thus, may have the most cause for concern. olby ha taken the threat eriou ly. A contingency plannin[l task force is chaired by Raymond Phillip , director of mformauon technology services.

"Work has been underway ince the early 1990s to prepare the College' IT sy rem for the year ZOOO date change," Ph1ll1p re­ ported.By May, all campus systems were rated "fully compliant" With two exceptions-a few device that are part of johnson

onrrol

environmental control systems, which pa eel test this ummer, and a few older Windows microcomputers, which were fixed or replaced.

Questions raised about the relative preparedness of out ide vendor when Waterville created The Concourse. Today (right photo) the buildings between

and government agencies proved more problematic. The tarring date for this year'sjan Plan term wa pu hed back a day (to)anuary4) to help cope with the extraordinary travel volume that's anticipated and

investors brought it back from

with Winslow, where Crowe

ro

delay travel until rran portation sy rem check out.

the brink three years ago. LL

Rope set up a manufacturing

Phillips and department head have contmg ncy plan for the

Bean moved a call center into

plant in a former warehouse, and

electrical upply, food delivery, water supply, propane del"ienes, and

the JFK Mall and recently an­

an existing biotech and a preci­

banking services. A test of the College' phone witchmg hardware

nounced it will expand its holi­

sion machine firm were pur­

wa planned for the fall break.

day ea on

chased by new parent companies.

perations there to

year-round. The Moming Senti­

Unlike Hunter Thompson, who wrote in Rollmg

The Chinet Company, for­

nel put up a new building facing

merly Keyes Fibre, still produce

the only people who'll be safe to have a

astonguay quare several years

paper plates and container

people," Colby planner

from recycled materials on the

sobering reference from wh1ch to work: "The

Fairfield-Waterville town line,

ice

redesign and overhauL Both

and

both the re pon ivene

oncourse wa

haw's Pla:a and Elm Plaza hop­ ping centers r

ently announ ed

akland, Town

America between Waterville and

of

kowhegan remain one of

!anager

The Elm used

tratecreation of a high-te h bu i­

lost the last of ns stately elm'

m

be. In fact, Elm

th

ta k force' re­

port stated. o, m addition

Kennebec Regional Develop­

van

prepara­

ment Authorir •'s multi-million­

as a new economy emerge ,

tion,,

olby wdl

dollar First Park is a multi-town

ol by and the people who

initiative that won a srare11·ide

bridge the

competition for funding and

munit

'hould break ground next spring.

read·

A n

II'

bridge 'Outh of down­

town established a se ond link

in

spon,e capabihtie ,"

rreet

this summer. Bur in ome 11·a ·

, . The

ro

It' ad-

have five evaluation

oliege and rhe com­

team' mob1II:ed before

·

are prol'lng they're

midn1ehr January I

to

help \Vmervdle face

'ee 1f there are any ,ur-

the challenges common

pomteJ out

of the people

Iaine to disasters and

it'' more than It used to be, and

ness park near Exit

wdl be dead

the emergency re­

ity isn't what it

Michael Ro '74 h lped orche'­

torm of January 199

ome weakne e

the state' largest employers.

plans for expansion.

In

appi Fine Paper/ orth

fnend

are not panicky. But they Jo have a

spruced up with an ambitious

ago, and The

wne, "I am

hoarding bullets, many thousands of them.... After the year 2000,

w

pr�>e,, anJ they won't relax un­

ro SL1

man· small nwns rodav.

til Jan Plan '' underway.

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COL BY

CBB Consortium Opens Study Abroad Centers and the off-campus study pro­

International study opportuni­

help of an

6,500 award from

Weiss, direcror of academic af­

rie , long a priority at Colby,

the Andrew W. Mellon Foun­

fairs and off- campus s t u d y .

gram more broadly, is to balance

rook an important step forward

dation. The three colleges pro­

Colby establ ished a corpora­

the benefits of cultural immer­

rhi

fal l as rwo of three new

po ed the collaboration ro make

t i o n-C o l b y Co l l e g e U . K .

sion with the maintenance of

collaborat ive Colby, Bare and

the study abroad experience

Ltd.-and purchased a five­

Colby's academic standards. For­

Bowdoin center opened abroad.

more coherent and ro coordi­

story, 1 8 th -century b u i ld ing at

eign study usually is a powerful

The CBB London Center, ad­

nate it better with the home

19 Bloomsbury Square, near the

experience for students, but of­

mint cered by Colby, began its

campuse ' curricula. By pooling

British M useum and the Lon­

ten it is poorly integrated with a

maugural term eptember 6, and

their resources, Colby, Bares and

don School of Econ o m i c s .

student's program of study, and

t h e CBB Qu i r o C e n t e r i n

Bowdoin are able ro maintain

S i nce renovations won ' t b e

many programs are not as rigor­

Equador, r u n b y Bates, also

three programs that meet their

complete u n t i l t h i s winter, the

ous as officials at Colby, Bates

opened rhi

collective standard , giving stu­

two dozen students in the inau­

and Bowdoin would like. The

in

dents from all three institut ions

gural semester are i n rented

CBB programs are an innova­

ourh Africa, w i l l

a wider range of choices than

space a few blocks away. Occu­

tive attempt to provide the ca­

one college could offer by itself.

pancy and a dedication of the

thartic exper ie nce of l iv i n g

The CBB London Center is

Bloomsbury Square property

abroad along with t h e academic

fal l . A center ad­

m i n i rered b y Bowdoin Caperown,

offer course beginning in

ep­

rember 20 0.

The CBB study abroad con­

Colby's mo t ambitious satel­

ornum wa developed with the

l i te init iative ro dare, said Jon

w i l l take place in J anuary.

One goal of the consortium,

rigor that is a hall mark at all three Maine colleges.

While handsome terraces give Colby an advantage in national beauty contests, budgetary support and administrative appreciation also help Colby achieve the national ranking, Stockford ays. Equip­ ment, sod, irrigation, fertilizer and a half ton of grass seed each year aren't inexpensive, and neither are training courses for groundskeepers.

Perhaps most critical is the crew's belief in the importance of its work. Thirteen fu l l - t ime workers maintain the grounds and are augmented by seven ummer workers. Rodney Ferland is "one of our proudest," aid ground keeper Danny Huard. " You couldn't meet a nicer guy." Ferland, after more than 20 years at Colby, maneuvers the ll-foor mower around campus like a surgeon, tilt ing the side decks so they don't scalp the terraces and skil lfully avoiding obstacle .

Dana Jones, who is the athletic field triper, watches games on televi ion "ro see how straight their line are," said Stockford. Jones is such a perfectionist with the blue "C" on the football field that coaches of other Colby teams have requested exact replicas on their fields. " I t's the added things that we like to do," said Stockford. " I t dre es i t up." Now, with a horticulturi t recently added, "we have a

Groundskeeper Rodney Ferland operates an 11-foot-w1de mowerw1th prec1s1on,

very diverse crew," he aid. "There is very little we can't accomplish."

elp1ng keep Colby on the most beaut1ful campus list.

The ground crew maintains about lOO a res of lawn and ports and mow another 200 acres twice a year. " I t takes seven

Grounds for Approbation

field

(..<l lhv' c.unpu mm·eJ up ro numher f\\'0 m The Pnnceron Rev1ew's

people to mow and trim the entire campus," aid Stockford, describ­

.mnu.1l r.mkmg nf Amenca\ mmr heaut1ful c.ampu e>-hehmJ only

mg a ycle that endo Friday afternoon and begins again Monday morn mg. It take, one per>on two month to prune planting , and another perwn wao h�red this summer olely to remove weed .

1hc

nJ\er

Jt' nf RKhmnnJ.

reJ1t J. FreJnc.k Lu on, the ongmal

.1rd11teLt of thL �1.1, fl, m er Hdl campu,, crcJJt campu> leaJer> who JuJJLI<'U h c p.mJeJ the nngmal pl.m, anJ creJ1t the h.uJworkmg

Gemng th mg;, green in time for commenc ement is an annual

t lk m the PIH,K,ll Pl.mt Dcpanmenr

challenge, hut the most hect1

.mlll·LKrc• "-tuJcnt,

ho keep Cnlhy' 5

hudJmg>

p1th. n

'

the open 'pace' anJ

are >pent preparing for the

Whde to kford 1> clearly proud of hJ> unit's contribut ion to the number I wo rankmg, nobody IS restmg on any laurels. If anything , the rankmg ha, been a >pur to even h 1gher aspiration in the spirit of the

ex p an>J\·e

olh. "It' one of rhc f1r't thmg people

n<'ll c \dtcn dtn lOur," ,ud 'cnh

"Tit.H t 1r 1 11111 rc Jon 1 1m

day

openmg of chool .

hen renurk dut

l.t\\ 1�:> rh H ltlrol reJ them to

L

\\

t<

ktorJ, grounJ,

upcr\'1 or.

oiJ A \'I, c.u rental ad'>: "We're number two ;o we try harder."

rr,m1."

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wit and wisdom "We start here " D1rector of Intercultural Affa1rs Jen Roseboro,

("Why Are All the Black Kids S1ttmg Together m the CafetenaT), wh1ch

to the Class of '03 quot1ng the summer read1ng

advocated break1ng the silence about rac1sm.

"Real places are not defmed by arbitrary political boundanes" Gary Snyder Pulitzer pnze-w1nnmg poet, pioneering enwonmentalist and Zen Buddh1st. at a roundtable discussion on poetry and the bio-reg1onal voice.

"Courage and endurance."

Didier Kamundu Batundi, Colby's 1999-2000 Oak Human R1ghts Fellow, when asked what resources h e had to build and run a human nghts organization 1n war-torn Za1re

Lee L'Heureux '03, summer station manager at WMHB, spent his time

"The fat is i n the f1re . "

with lawyers and engineers working on a licensing snafu.

Brian W1ercinski '92, t o Charlie Bassett. lamenting both t h e sixth unanswered vars1ty goal and the g1rth of some of the alumni

Do Change that Dial WMHB-FM,

players in September's annual alumn1 men's soccer game

olby's community radio station, i going back on

the air this fall for its 34th year. Which wouldn't be news but for the

"It only took you 20 years to graduate'"

fa t that it hut down voluntarily in July and remained off the air for

BenJamin Humphreys '00, Student Government Assoc1at1on

the rest of the ummer while officials scrambled to get FCC approval

president, upon makmg B1ll Cotter an honorary member of the Class of 2000 follow1ng the State of the College address

for a new frequency.

(And before the hall cleared. plans were in motion to

This summer Lee L'Heureux '03 expected that his job as station

s1gn up Cotter for the Senior Pledge dnve )

manager during the months between his graduation from Watervi lie IIigh

chool and his matriculation at

olby would amount to "just

"If you bnng an apple for lunch, don t put 1t on your head

making ure everything ran smoothly." Trouble was, it didn't.

•

Dean of the College Earl Sm1th, explaining that though the

l n July he learned that WM HB had, for more than 10 years, been

campus

broadca·ring at 90.5 mH: even though it was licensed for 9 1 .5 mH:.

IS

an off1c1al Wildlife Management Area where hunt1ng

IS

banned, new signs were bemg posted 1 n the wake of a new Ma1ne law that perm1ts archers to hunt deer 1 n c1ty lim1 s

Only recently, when the Maine Public Radio network filed for the

90.5 frequency to fill in a weak sector in its coverage, did the problem come to light.

Research rc\'caled that in the 1 9 Os the people running \Y/ IHB filed to change its frequency from 9 ! .5 to accommodate

lame Public

Boyle Will Edit Colby

R.1diowhen it began broadca ring on 9 1 . in the Water\'llle area.Wnh <1 lack of continuity in the largely :.tudenr-run station, no one e\'er

Gerry Bovlc '7 '.author of f1,·e accla1mecl my,tery nnn:l ,mJ ,m

f�1llowed up on the application and the change \\'a· ne\'er appro\'ed.

award-wmnmg new,paper CLllumn, "Accorclmg been namecl managmg eel nor of

So instead of dealing with sponsors, schedules and re ord compa­ nies <1ll summer, L' Heureux worked wnh Dean Llf K<1S�m<m and D1rector of :tudent

began h1, eel nona! dutic' at

tudent Jan1ce

member at the

Ctl\'ltle, L1sa Hallen, lawyer' and

w

olbv m Oc tober,

encral .\lam.: .\lomm

t:ncmd ior I

engineers.His on-a1r experience m three year:. a> a \XI IHB OJ durmg

recemh ne\h ecltwr. He h.1, Llmtnbutccl frcclan

high school ser\'ed him well-he handled mecl1.1 mten·1ew, abt1ut

Colb). mcluclmg "Hangmg It

the situation like a prn.

Pr,lle"nr

been apprL)\'ed for \'i,l IHB

w

,1

111

the

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,t,1ft

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to

'ummer 1"uc, .1hour

harle- Ba"ett\ 1ttempt tL> rettrc. &>vic, whom

brc-r btll,k, Bordalm�,

re�ume broadcbtmg ,H k1w pLl\\er,

resume sending a stwnger s1gnal that helped build

h,1

re' le\\er h.we CLlmp.ueJ t<l R,>berr B. P.ukcr '5 . publt,hcJ ht

Hallen and L'Heureux repLlrted 1n September that ,1 ,,1lut1lm hac! enough to coYer the campus are<1, while It aw.llh F �

'p,"

Boy lc,"

olb) m.1ga:mc. B,l\ lc, who

appro' .1 1 tLl

111

[99 anJ a\\ m pub It

cor; e.1rh ne:-.r \ e,u. He rep bee J. Ke, 111

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non ot

oter

ool, who I> now

ecln,lr ,1f the -rani,1rJ L1\\ .::chtll'11 1lumn1 ma\!a:111e.

[,1yal corp, Lli

listeners in surrnundmg wwns.

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C O L B Y

Among U . S . rivers, the St. John holds a special mystique. Above the village of Allagash it has the longest stretch of wild and natural waterway ( 1 30 miles) east of the Mississippi. The river gained national attention in the 1 970s when construction of a dam-the Dickey­ Lincoln project-threatene d to make a lake of a substantial section of the free­ flowing river. More recently, sales of timber company lands for recreational lots in the North Woods threatened to break up the heretofore undeveloped riverbanks. Led by Kent Wommack '77, The Nature Conservancy spent $35. 1 million to preserve 40 miles of the upper St. John River and is interested in protecting more of the unspoiled land between its current holding and the first settlement, at Allagash.

l ncredtbly, Wommack did i r . And in swinging the biggest smgle con ervation land acquisition in Maine ince Baxter created hts namesake park, Wommack changed Maine, The ature Con ervancy, the nature of land pre ervation and him­ oelf. H e rat ed the bar on what was thinkable and changed the ocale of con en·ation-not j ust in Maine but in the nation.

And, he say , thi i only the beginning. There are still another 90 mtles of undeveloped land along the upper r . John ro prorect, a ll'el l as orher watersheds in Maine. He doesn't expect ro do tt all h i mself-there are other groups and other method> l:>e�tJes ournght purchase. I ndeed, only 10 week after the Con,ervancy announced i ts acquisition, t imberland owner Pmgree A"octateo sold the development rights to more than 754,00L acre' of tt' orth Wood holding to the e11' England Fnre,tr, FounJanon of Groton, Conn., for 2 mdlton. ignifi­ c.mrk, '<lme of the acreage abur-. the on ervancy's land on the r . John.

"I J,1n'r rh111k there\ another place 111 1a111e rhar equals the r John," \Vnmm<Kl mu,ed. " l r\ nor J U'>t any nver; tt 1 a n.Hllm,tlh ,tgnthLanr n.�"1urce, the longest, large..,r, mo-.r remote 11 t l,J..: m c" n1 o.:r kfr e.t-t of the � 11"1' tpp t . Ir' c lear rhar The • . nure 'on,er. .me\ .mJ th<hL < lf u clo eh .t"<Kl<HeJ wtth I t , t r o.: ne1 cr \.!<H n!.! t<l l e rhe ,,mu: ,tfrcr rht,. Once we hnt,h thh 1 r< > Je L t r herL·' n<1 !!<'111!.! h.ILk rn rhe 11 .ty we u,eJ rn work and rhc .tlo.: 11 e u o.: I rn \l<lrl-: . n . " hnm It' he,tJ,, ,no.:r' .11 R.tker L.tke r n I t ' J lll1Ltll ll1 111 1h the t\ ll t!.! . l' h .1 !o.:11 m t le 11 e't of Fnn Kent, rho.: upper 1 John 1 , t r!!u.-I H \ rhe 11 t l le t , lll< r un 1 t le l n1 e r m t he llrthL t r . l-llr

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some 1 30 m iles the river runs unferrered between rocky banks and towering standsofspruce. Unlike the more popular A llagash River to the east, the Sr. John doesn't arrract thousands of day­ trippers and overnight trekkers because i t lacks the lakes that guarantee summer-long h igh water. The easy canoeing season lasts from ice-out in late April or early May to early or m id-J une. " I f you go i n right after the ice-out and ride the h igh water, you'd berrer know what you're doing," Wommack warned, "and if you wait until after Memorial Day you'd berrer have a h igh tolerance for blackflies." Eighty percent of the scant traffic on the river happens within a week of Memorial Day. After that, the r . John is reserved for the purists who are willing to trade low water for outstanding fishi ng, a noticeable lack of motorized boats, and glorious i olation.

Kent Wommack has had h is eye on the St. John River since 1981, when he was a summer i ntern in the Maine office of The Nature on ervancy. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Wommack, now 44, had d t covered Maine when he arrended Colby Col ­ lege. " I n h tgh school, I was look ing for a small l i beral-arts college 111 ew England," he expla i ned. " I had never been to Maine before, but I happened to v isit Colby on a bright sunny day. I n the end, 1t ll'as the only school I applied ro . " He maJored 1 11 government and joi ned the Woodsman's Team, "a h1:arre little group of people who competed in conrc'r' of '<l\Vmg log> and throwmg axes at targets," he recal led 1 1 1th a gnn. That expmure to the woods was enough to 'end Wommack on to graduate school at the Yale School of FllrL,try and En1· 1 ronmenral rudtes and two summe r intern-

.

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When Kent Wommack '77 combined a Co!by degree in govern­

The policy angle IS appealing to prospective students because 1t

ment with a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and

1s an unusual maJor and because students are attracted to he not1on

Environmental Studies, he anticipated the type of interdisCiplinary

that, through policy, "I can change th1ngs, I can make a d1fference, "

grounding that Colby now offers in its environmental studies programs.

F1rmage sa1d. The capstone Problems 1n EnVIronmental Soence

In the 1 980s and early '90s, "We were a real oddity" among

course, a group research proJect for sen1ors, has been held up as a

undergraduate programs, said David Firmage, C lara C. Piper Profes­

nat1onal example of the value of real research 1n the undergraduate

sor of Environmental Studies and chair of Colby's interd1soplinary

learnmg process.

studies division. "We were the environmental science progra m . "

"Another part of 1t 1s our locat1on , " F1rmage sa1d. " Colby's place

Where other colleges tended t o have less sharply focused environ­

prov1des us w1th a student body that's really Interested m the outdoors

mental studies majors, Colby offered biology, geology and chemistry

and the enVIronment. We're lucky to be where we are . "

majors an environmental science concentration. An environmental

Last year more than f1ve percent o f Colby's undergraduates had

studies minor was added in 1 990, and when a major was added in

a maJor, m1nor or concentration m one of the environmental

1 99 5 it was i n environmental policy, drawing heavily on social

programs. There were 36 environmental policy maJors and 1 6

sciences, especially government and economics. " Students need

environmental stud1es m1nors whose maJorS ran the gamut from

tools rather than sim ply an appreciation for the types of problems we

anthropology to French stud1es to natural soences. I n add1t1on, 42

face and a desire to contribute, " Firmage said.

science majors earned a concentration m enVIronmental soence

County, at 4,800 acres, wa the chapter' large t holding among

i ng at the M a i ne N a t ure Conservancy's offices, then in

it 22 ,000 acre of pre erve in the tate. " I t wa in that context

Topsham. { I t is now in Brunswick . )

when I starred here that the

H e hasn't strayed far from Maine--or The Nature Conser­ 1 98

t. J hn R i ver wa

umber

ne on

onservancy ful l t i me in

my priority list," Wommack aid. "But even then i t wa pnmanly

after graduating from Yale. He canoed the upper St. John

becau e of the Furbi h lou ew rr and a number of other rare

vancy-since. Wommack j o i ned the

plants along the upper parr of the river."

in 1 9 4 , just a week before he married Yale cia mate Gro

Then, everal year ago, the national

Flatebo. (The couple now has three chi ldren: two boys, 7 and 9,

ature

on

rvancy

and a daughter, 1 2 , all of whom have been taught to paddle in

undertook a serious internal evaluation. F r decade , the trat­

the canoe Kent and Gro received as a wedding pre ent . ) I n 1 99 1

egy of saving bit

he b came executive d irector.

questioned, but now a pec ial

And in all that t i me , the

and pice

of w i ldeme

had never been

on ervation

t. John was never far from his

"We were winning a lor

mind, although perhaps not in the context and on the scale

f g od batt!

, but we were not

winning the war working at the calc we had b

that later developed.

explained. The

From its found i ng i n 1 9 5 1 in Washington, D.C., as an outgrowth of the old Ecologist

Union, The

ature

omm1ttee wa

asking whether the tac t ic were really effect ive.

on er­

n,"

om mack

on ervancy d cided to adopt a large- calc

trategy-"buy who!

ale 111 read of retad," a

omma k pur-.

vanc has alway prided it elf on being a c ience-ba ed con er­

it-and take a regional approach to con ervatlon thar followed

vat ion organi:ation. I t was in busine s to ave unspoiled parcel

biological and ecological boundane> rather than pol 1 t 1 al one .

of land an� the environment' biodiver ity, it broad range of plant and

Wommack

rather than quant i ty. " H istorically we've tended to be drawn to relat ively mall

ro

look

on en. an C)

arure

barely how. up."

an 1 hi ·rorically that has meant parri ular ·ires or habitat' with

lore to the pomt, \Vomma k que,tlon' whether reatlng tin� bland-. of bHxhve!'>ll:y am1d rhe hut:e

particularly rare plants or animal·."

hapter's a qu1S1t 1ons-alwa

on en·at1on

lame. 'J hen you look ar a mar of

Maine, for msrance, the work of The

that's where the sci nee was-we ould know for ure something was rare. The on ervanc focuse on biodiver-ir ' protect ion,

Iaine

national cha1r of rhe

ould imp! menr th1 k mJ of v1 10n," he -,a1J. " I began at what we had done 111

ire ," W mmack said. "That' partly because

nt i l recently, th

erv d a

ommittee. "It gave me the opporrun1ry to thmk about how we

nimal life, but the emphasis wa alway on quality

rream of development

make' -,en,e. " I f one lli our pre en.·e enJ, up urmunJcJ b� /­

·,

larr,, 1t pwbablv 1nm 't be nable 111 the long run," he

from w i l l ing sell ers-t nded to be along the l111esof 1 - a res here there. The Big Reed Forest Pre::.erve 111 Aroo rook and

mreJ out,

"anJ 1r\ nor g,1111g to -,en.·e rhc b1lxl11 CNI:'\ g >a! that we have."

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Wommack approached his board of

1 998, an unprecedented series of massive forestland sales was

directors with a proposal . Wagner Woodlands, a highly repu足

announced among the major timber companies. Eventually,

I n the pring of 1 99

table timber management firm that had worked previously with

almo t 1 5 percent of Maine changed hands-more than 2 . 5 -

the Vermont

million acres. Priceles water frontage and mountains were bought

arure Con ervancy, had a client interested in

bidding on 1 5,000 acre of International Paper ( IP ) forestland

and old throughout the North Woods while state government

in northwe tern Maine. The tracts included 40 m i les of the

and conservationists watched, helpless for lack of money.

t. John River. Essentially, the investor was willing to

That was the atmosphere in which Wommack met with his

trade the river frontage for the Maine Conservancy's support in

executive committee and won their enthusiastic approval to try

upper

to pull off the biggest deal in The Nature Conservancy's history.

the expected bidding war for the land.

Then he flew down to Washington, D.C., and met w i th John

The board agreed, and over the summer Wommack worked

Sawhill, the national president, and his staff.

with Wagner in evaluating the land and putting together a propo al that ultimately came in third when I P opened the bids

"I said that I recognized that this is not a project that we've

a year ago. "We were about 1 5 percent below the top bid,"

been talking about for the past year," he said. "I recognized that at 3 5 . 1 million this would be the largest financial commitment

Wommack said.

ever undertaken by The Nature Conservancy anywhere in the

Over the next two months, however, both the winning ovember, IP notified

world, by a factor of two-and we needed the money in six

Wagner that the 3 5 . 1 -million offer it had brokered was accept足

weeks. But if I can raise $ 1 0 m i l l ion in the next six weeks in

able if they could close the deal by the end of the year. But

pledges for this acquisition, I asked, will you loan us the money ?

Wagner's c lient had by then moved on to other properties. That

Much to their credit, they said yes."

bidder and the runne r-up dropped out. In

was when Wommack got hi good-news, bad-news call.

To hear Sawhill tell it, the answer was not only yes, but hell,

"Our fir t reaction wa , 'Right, how can we possibly do that?'"

yes. "We were very excited about protecting that much habitat

Wommack remembered. "Then it j ust occurred to me, how can

in such a vitally important region all at once," he recalled. Nor

we possibly

was Sawhill buying a pig in a poke when Wommack made his

no t

do this?"

The issue of woodland pre ervation was high on everybody's

pitch. The Nature Conservancy had already identified the St.

radar creen by the end of last year. Starting in the summer of

John River as a prime candidate for conservation. "The fact that

On July 2 1 , Kent Wommack '77, executive director of The Nature

of the campaign. Though the general solicitation from Conservancy

Conservancy's Maine chapter, received the Down East magazine

members hadn't begun, "we have a couple of hundred unsolicited

1 999 EnVIronmental Award from Dale Kuhnert '68, editor of Down

gifts from members and non-members," Wommack said.

East, and Governor Angus King H '99. Kuhnert compared Wommack's

That early success shows the enormous popular appeal of the

bold in1t1at1ve to save the upper St. John River with the late Governor

initiative, but challenges still ahead highlight the way Wommack's

Perc1val Baxter's efforts to preserve Mt. Katahdin and what is now

vision has raised the stakes in the land conservation game. The

Baxter State Park. Governor K1ng, in h1s remarks, praised Wommack's

Conservancy must raise another $ 1

v1s1on and placed h1m 1n the pantheon of Maine environmentalists alongs1de Baxter and the conservationists who created the Allagash Wilderness Watervvay

m

the 1 960s.

1

million for the St. John parcel足

more than twice what the chapter's last five-year campaign raised足

pius additional capital to carry on with plans for other important conservation initiatives in Mai ne-Cobscook Bay, Mt. Agamenticus,

"There's a f1ne l1ne between 'v1s1on' and 'catastrophe,"' a sm11ing

Merrymeeting Bay, Mt. Abraham, the Saco River, the Camden Hills

Wommac sa1d a the ceremony. He earned the "visionary" label, 1n

and offshore islands among them. "We're in completely uncharted territory for conservation groups," Wommack said. "There's no

part, because h1sgamble pa1d off. Twenty-four million of the necessary

$35 million for the St. John proJect was ra1sed 1n the f1rst n1ne months

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formula to follow. "

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For the Immediate future, Wommack' focu w d l be paymg

we could accomplish that much that quickly wa very appeal­

off the

ing," the president of the national organ ization added.

3 5 . 1 - m d l ion loan. He ha five year and expect to raise

0 percent of the money from pnvate Individuals, 1 0 percent

t i l l , there was that l i ttle matter of$ 1 0 mil lion in pledge that

from foundations and l 0 percent from corporation .

Wommack had promised. "Keep in mind that during our last

But he also recogni:e rhat "the proJeCt

capital campaign, over a period offive years, we raised 5 mill ion,"

1

not done when we

loan. I t ' c lear that norhmg wdl be the arne after

he explain . " o I was promising to raise twice that much money

pay off thi

in six weeks. To make a long tory short, by the time we do eel on

thi . " Last year' deal protect only a third of the undeveloped

December 30 we had just over

portion of the river, and Wommack admit to a certa in urgency

1 0 million pledged in hand."

and his father, David a North

back , " he rea oned. "Th ink about this. You can canoe 1 30 mdc

r., and other family members. Bert's Bees,

down the

arolina honey and bee wax company that got i ts start

in Main , promised another $2 m i l l ion through the Woods Wi lderne

trust in Rockwo d .

nee a S i te 1 developed, there' no tummg

to hield the re t . "

omc $ 3 m i l l ion came from the Rockefel ler fami ly-Richard

t. John to Al lagash, and you wdl not pa. a mglc

development or settlement. If we hadn't bought thi land, wa� It

orth

all going to get developed ?

ther leadership pledge

o, not

m

the fore eeable future. Bur

what happens if the next landowner choo e to put

came from Leon and Lisa Gorman, of L . L . Bean; Maine Con er­

m

the fir�r

ubd ivi ion here ? I t' gone. That qual i ty 1 gone forever."

vancy board chairman Joe W ishcamper and his wife, Carol;

t.

hcrry and Dav id H uber and the Huber fam i ly; and the

Eventually, Wommack would l ike to ee the enr1re upper

weetwater Trust, a Ma achusetts-ba eel foundation interested

John protected, "and if we can do that here, there are a lot of

everal other major contri­

other water heel i n Maine," he ob erved. "I really feel we have

in northern forestland preservation.

an obligation to do everything we can to protect the Mame we

butions came from anonymous d nors.

all know and love. That's our re pon ibil ity, not only a

"The e people stepped forward with pledges far beyond any

organ ization but a a generati n. l think rhi

phi lanthropic gift they've made in the past," Wommack said with a touch of wonder. "I think people did that because they aw

legacy that all of u w i l l be really plea eel and proud

that we have an opportunity here to leave a legacy in the

can't think of anything I 'd rather leave my kid ."

northern forest a large in scale as Baxter

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Reprinted by permission from (May 1 999) Down Ea r : Copyright 1 999 . All nghts reserved .

tate Park at a s i te that

an

i gomg to be a leave. l The

Magazine of Maine .

i j ust as important."

Besides moose. which are plentiful, land purchased by The Nature Conservancy on the upper St John River is home to dozens of endangered plant and an1mal spec1es.

Kent Wommack 77 says In July he reported that the second conf1rmed sight1ng 1n Ma1ne of a breed1ng pa1r o Canada lynx was made on he 185.000-acre rae

wh1ch 1s he

Conservancy s b1gges landholding Wommac ·s leadership 1n purchas1ng a tract tha 1mmense launched a new era 1n land preserva 10n

e •1ere

w1nnmg a lo of good ba les bu .·.e ere no

1nmng he .ar .or 1ng a

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by J eff Wuorio ' 79

As stu dents, parents and a l u m n i watch col lege costs creep u pward , t h e so u n d hey m a ke s l a p p i ng t h e i r foreh eads is often fo l l owed b y a q uestton : " W h y so m u c h ? " Or " H ow has it co me to t h i s ? " J eff W uorio

' 7 9 is a b u s t ness a n d

f i na nce w r i ter who retu rned t o Co l by t h i s fa l l t o try

to a n swer t h ose q uestt n s .

I n short, he fo u n d that com pet i t i o n a m o n g c o l leges h a s ratsed t h e q u a l t ty of progra ms a nd serv i ces; t h e i nc reased q u a l ity of programs a n d servt c es h a s ra i sed students' expectations; st ude nts' ex pectat tons h a v e t n c reased c o m pet t t i o n a mong c o l leges; a n d a ro u nd agai n . Wuono, w h o wntes for and

Money, Worth

The New York Times amo g other p u b l tcattOns. f t l ed t is report on t h e

va l u e of a Co l by educa 10 n a n d how the Col l ege has c a n ged 1 n t h e

20 years

s t nce h e gra u ate d .

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A

cartoon in a recent

eration, a keen eye for cost cutting and a c u lture of Yankee thrift and ingenuity. It has learned that success begets succes , as

ew Yorker depicts the interior

of a d ilapidated home-the curtains are shredded,

evident in the results of The Campaign for Colby, which w i l l come in ome 4 0 percent above i t s original goal o f raising 1 00

the walls peeling, the furniture threadbare. Equally d i heveled is the couple that occupies the center of

m i l l ion, setting a new standard for phi lanthropy in the state of Maine. Clearly, donors are eager to support a winning cause.

the picture. Their clothes are tom and their hair unkempt.

They look l ike war refugee .

Despite all that, it's inescapable that part of the cost of overall excellence shows up in tuition. The price of a Colby

The couple i beckoning toward a young man who i reach­ ing for the front door. He wears a handsome sport coat that only

education, as at Colby's peer institutions, is on the rise, and that is likely to continue. The comprehensive fee ( tu ition, room,

partially obscures a college letter sweater. Beneath one arm he carries a large textbook.

board and required fees) for the current school year is 3 1 , 580, right in line with Bowdoin ( 3 1 ,4 7 5 ) and Bates ( $ 3 1 ,400 ) . The

Caption: " on, can you spare a few minutes to talk about your t u i t ion?"

College Board, based in New York, estimates that, nationally, students paid roughly five percent more in tuition and fees at private institutions in 1 998-99 than they d id the previous year.

That bit of humor may well be lost on m i l l ions of Ameri­ cans-including many

olby fam i l ies-who are struggling to

cope with the escalating cost of higher education. With overall mall College

Colby's increase this year is only 3 . 8 percent, the lowest such increase in nearly a quarter-century and the continuation of a

Athletic Conference ( N E CAC) and in the Ivy League­

downward trend in the rate of increase over the last 1 0 years. I t's

tho e back home paying the bills are j ustified in wondering how

still more than inflation but meager compared to increases

yearly expense

topping

30,000--a figure consistent with

Colby' peer institution in the New England

the cost of a top-notch education soared into the stratosphere.

averaging 1 6 percent a year in 1 980, '8 1 and '82 . In a compari­

Even though neither of my children are college age yet, I

son of costs with other N ESCAC and Ivy League schools, the College currently places 1 4th among 2 1 institutions.

know I 've wondered. How could an education that cost 6, 760

Granted, you can j u xtapose numbers and stats until your

in my enior year have more than quadrupled in 20 years?

calculator disintegrates, but it still begs the question-just how

There are many partial ( and obvious) answers. The cost of

did the annual price tag top $ 30,000 ? Dean of the College

technology that barely exi ted 20 years ago, the inevitable rise

Earl Smith summed it up nicely: "We are in an

in salarie and other like expenses, sparkling new build-

arms race, and no one shows any sign of wanting

ing ri ing from the ground and renovations to older

to declare detente."

tructure built with more mode t re ource have all played their role in pushing the cost of a Colby

The battle is not merely fueled by other

education up.

institutions. As President W illiam Cotter

In fact, rho e and other factors boi 1 down

points out, prospective students also have

to a more fundamental explanation

lent a hand: "We certainly didn't start this,

for soaring college co t

but we simply would not be competitive if

among

the nation' top school . The

we didn't track what was happening at our

depiction of the couple in the

peer institutions and try to do better.

ew Yorker cartoon as

Student expectations have ri en and,

victims of a conflict ha an

when you're paying $ 3 1 ,000 a year,

element of truth in it be­

you have the right to expect first­

cau e, m many way , Colby

rate everything."

and other el ite colleges and

Standard

year's Princeton Review Bes t 3 3 1

a ryre of war \\'Ith one an­

Colleges guide l ist three Maine

orher-vymg to lure the be t

college

and bnghte r that they can,

( including Colby) in it "be t food" l ist. M iddlebury

to re rUit gifted faculry, tocon­

i ranked for "dorms l ike pal­

tmue to wm grant

for new

aces." Bates has one of the top

bUildmg and for new academ1c

20 college radio stations and

and extra urncular program .

Will iams is c i ted for the popularity of its intramural

That reLJuirc

an cxrem1ve

ar...cnal of 'urerlative pro­

sports program. Asso iate Dean of tudent Paul

gram,, fac d l t le and en·icc>.

To hudd the ar-,cnal, olh, ha

l

are high. This

un1ver ine are engaged in

John ton ays one uni­

rcl 1ed on 10

versity has its own math

ycar,ofh<�lanccd hudgcr ,

tutor on its own cam­

a lean and cHic icnt or-

pus cable television

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Pres i d e nt W i l l i a m Cotte r

channel. The tuto r does the daily problem et and take phone

on for 1 99 -99 how

call from student who need help. harp new bui lding and extracurricular pr gram and ser­ vice a ide, much

numerou . " I t wa an mtent ional pol tcy of the

f the cost of doing busines over the pa t two

decades boils down to increa es in salarie

and the

the ' 0 and '90 redu e it," aid

ollege'

financial aid program, which together make up roughly two­ third of to the

over the past 2 0 years 1 . 5 m i l l ion to

aid-that

tudent

trimmed the

table

tudenr-facult}

ratio from 1 2 to one in 1 979 to i t current level of n ine to one.

Overa l l , the median cla

1 0. 6

ize ha dropped from 19 111 1 97 9 to

its current level of 1 6.

m i l l ion. That, says Director o f Financial Aid Lucia Whittel e y ' 7 3 , dem n trate t h e

ame t i me maintain i ng a relatively

student popu lation, Colby ha

ol lege' grant budget has

s ared more than 600 perc e n t , from

to look at the �tudent-facu l ty rat io and to orter. "We've done j u t that-we've heen able

now and at the

of their abi l i ty to pay.

At Colby, w h i l e student charge

more

By increa ing the ize of the faculty from 1 2 5 in 1 979 to 1 9

ollege' mis ion to provide superlative academics to the

have i ncrea ed 46 7 percen t , the

1

ol lege dunng

to add faculty without add ing add it ional tudent ."

olby's overall operating budget. And both are central

most qualified tudents, regardle

olby at the very top m that group.

And the facu l ty i not j u t better compen ated, It

ol lege'

allege's "comm i t ment t o need-based

!early the change ha enhanced the

trad ition of clo e fac u l ty- tudenr col lab rat ion. I n

1 979 t h re were three independent major o n campu ; I

hould have the opportunity to develop

t year

there were 1 8.

their talent to their ful l poten t i a l , regardle s of their ab i l i t y

As College budgets have ratcheted upward , facu lty a lane

to p ay . M any colleges a r e n ' t able t o meet the fu l l need of a l l

and financ ial aid accounted for mo t of the increa e . Bur, a Matthew M i l ler wrote in rhe

adm i t ted students."

ew York Time Magazine earl ter

About two-thirds of Colby's student body receives financ ial

this year, "In mo t indu trie , compe t i t ion cur co r . I n htgher

assistance, and more than 60 percent of those students receive

education it park an arms race of amen i t i e that rat�e them."

"Dorm were a major con iderarion," J u l ia

grant or loans. "We are not a 'rich k ids' college," aid Peyton

lac Donald '99

R. H e l m , vi e president for development and alumni relations.

said, recalling her compari

"Qu ite imply, a lot of Colby student wouldn't be here without

Colby recognized rhar it needed to catch up wtrh r h e compen­

fi nanc ial aid . " Even though The Campaign for ends thi year, raised more than

t ion and i now in the m iddle of a

olby, which

Dana H a l l . Dana, con idered a purgatory-like entence when I

priority, he said, since the scholar hip end wment at Colby over a mailer percenrage of the financ ial aid budget than

was a tudenr-a tiny rep up from hanng a pup rent with 1 other people-now i pri:ed for tt comfort and >pactou., lJUar­

tho e at better-endowed peer inst i t u t ion .

When Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine rated the top

t r . The Anrhony-M irchel l - chupf re tdence hall-, and the

eptember i ue, Colby

If nd Re idence

ranked 7 7 t h in the nation. ( By omparison, Bowdoin wa 6 1 t 4th . ) As part of i ts analysi · the maga:ine u

a erage indd tedne

sivc fee romling more than grad- in the

graduate .

of 1 99

14,

d the

v irtually 1

edge in the la:.t _

how mu h the

back tll\\ ar�l

olby ha-,:

omplex and held, and mcre.t..,cd

the number L)f var,tn 'P'lrt

am,mg . 'E

:\

tr,lm _

to 3_ ( the mlbt

,ch,l 1 ! , ) :

0 I ncrea,ed r h e number Ll t 'tudenr luh � m d orgam:.mon fwm 3

w .-;

0 Built the cvmputer netwvrk mtra>tru rure trvm 1 2 com­ puter rermmaJ, w more than _ , i computer., and w t red

re ogni : i ng the importance of re rut t i ng an� rer a m mg the be't avai lal: le s holar-tea h rs. During the 1 9�' � )!by was some­ -cho,)b when t t came

·

number of t tem> 111 tt;

olby has made �a lane� a pnont\',

A

·ear�.

0 Expanded the arhlen

The other big ar a of bu �get increm.es '' faculry sa lane .

Be ·ond rh fa t that salarie- throughout academe ha,·e c l i mbed

E

lb

(!) Doubled rhe t:e of I dler L tbraf\ and almlN mpled the

on average . That

mher·t grads owing ub-ranr iall · le:s.

where in th m iddl of th

and to pu>h

per ent of '>tudenr re> t d mg on campu,.

A mong orher tmprovemenr' rhar helped gam a compcr i t t \·e

olby

average debt i · lower than or omparable to ·e,·en of the other ch ols in the "be·t ,·alue·" lt·t, wtth onl · A E e ight

faster than the inflation rate,

omplex were built to make up for bed b,r

in renovanon of older hall

e pite comprehen­

1 1 4,0 O for the i r four year·,

Ia- of 1 99 owed onl ·

owhere m tght the

impact of that program be better illu trared than the rebtrth of

financ ial aid fund , aid w i l l conrinue to be a fund-raising

and Bates

44- m i l l ion renovarton

program for all residence and din ing hall .

3 5 m i l l ion in n w endowed

1 0 values in private col leges in i ts

n when dectdmg where to enro l l .

e\·er\' dorm ro)m

(l)

The

allege paid its full prof ssor·. wherea, com pan-

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n ampu' tor Ethernet a ce,,.

Llllege\ effvrr' m mforman n technology have earned

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a spot in a l l three Yahoo! "mo t-wired cam­

educat ional experience but also in furthering

pu e " urvey , and, for students, the system

basic goa l s that the College has a lways es­

provides an information flow unknown to

poused. " It 's important to look at the value

prior generations. My c lassmate, now As-

of having students come to Colby who

ociate Profe sor of Economics M ichael

might otherwise not be able to attend, "

Donihue, not only posts discussion groups

said Whittelsey. " A d i verse student body

on l ine to encourage interaction out-

enhances the education of everyone here,

ide the clas room, he also taps the

and equa l choice and access to the Col­

Internet for up-to-the-minute data. "l

lege are ideas we want to support. "

can have a class at 9:30 and take that morning'

U l timately, t h e question of whether

unemployment statistics

an e d u c a t i o n c os t i n g more t h a n

right into the clas ," he said. "But I

$ 1 00,000 is a good b u y is o n e that

better be on my roe , because l

i n d i v i d u a l fam i l ies a n d s t u d e n t s

know the tudents w i l l already

m u s t wrestle with themselves. A s

have that data a well . "

Cotter acknowledges, there is n o

O u t i d e o f cia , students

s i m p l e y e s or n o answer. What is

go on l ine to check which

c lear is that the i mpact of a dy­

d i n ing hall i offering what

namic educational and l iving en­

menu. And where my peer

v ironment transcends d o l l ars

remember a Dance -with­

and cents: "At Colby, a stu­

Wolves- tyle

dent has an opportu n i t y to en­

stampede

twice a year at regi tration,

gage

the process is now completed

extracurr i c u l a r worlds that can

a l ma t entirely on l ine.

and

the choice everyone has to make

valid, how do you mea ure if Colby

for them e lves," Cotter said.

i winning i Here, roo, the number paint

The value in a Colby education is in the

tart with admissions. Appli-

growth. Dean of Facul ty Ed Yeterian says the Colby

cant increa ed from 3 ,0 5 7 srudents in 1 979 to 4,363 this year.

Plan and it

In 1 979, 3

logue, out! inc the College's goals, and that graduates can

percent were accepted; in 1 999 only 32 percent

were offered admi admi

10 precepts, published every year in the cata­

ion. Even more impressive are the early­

expect to leave M ayflower H i l l with a set of broadly applicable

ion applicant numbers-201 in 1 979, 46 1 20 years later.

skills that ensure their succes beyond college . ' Broadly app l i ­

Then there are the "win rates"-how often Colby won the

cable' is perhaps b e t exempl ified b y a student who arrives

tug-of-war when appl icants also were accepted at other col­

wanting to be a lawyer but leaves with an acceptance to

lege . In 19 9 Colby got 4 5 percent of the students also

medical school and who is fully prepared for e i ther.

accepted at Bate and only n i ne percent of those accepted at

The shock of a $ 3 1 ,000 price tag wasn't completely d u l led for me, despite a l l the changes for the better I saw at Colby.

That's still a load of cash, pure and imple. But, knowing all that

Bowdoin. Thi year Colby got 70 percent of appl icants also accepted at Bate

and 39 percent of the Bowdoin overlap

group. During the 1 990 ,

olby win rate went from negative

to po i nve \\'lth Colgate, Hamilton, Holy Perhap

the mo t compell ing

r

and Trinity.

tatistic , tho e that be·t

olby's growmg pr stige among peer in titution , are embod1ed m the tudent who choo e to attend the ol lege.

JU nfy

chola tiC Apwude Te t cores now top

Med1an combmed

1 , 300, a oppo ed to I , 1 00 20 year ago, and it' a decided ly more d l \·cr c popu lanon. In 1 979, only 2 3 percent of rhe rudent

arne from our 1dc

C\\' England ; by 1 999, nearly half

d 1 d . Where rhcre were tudcnr from I

forc1gn countnc� m

1 979, 4 natiOn arc now repre>cnred. Fmally, rhe number of auvc Atncan- Amen a n , Lanno, A 1an-Amen an and Amen an -,rudent ha grown from 64 m 1 979 r o 249 la t year.

De plte the ever-grO\\ mg pnce tag, olhy 1 mdeed \\' 1 11nmg, nlH mere!, m offenng tudenr a better, more complete

(

educational

really change them. And that's

But if the arms race analogy is

a compelling portrait.

in

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the College has accompl ished and how it ha grown for the better in the pa t 20 years-readin g all the wonderful numbers and eeing the phy ical transformatio n of the campus for myself-put that expense in perspective .

If the analogy of a war among elite colleges is accurate, and if one of the costs of the war i the pricetag on a Colby education, the victor in the conflict isn't nece arily any one

chool who e win rate is better or whose dorms parkle the mo t. The winners are the students who take ful l advantage of everythin g that chools such as olby have to offer. The price may he h1gh, hut it' money well spent on those who make the mo t of 1 t .

)eff \XItwrw ' 79 1 the author o f G o t Mone y ? ( 1 999 , Amacom Books) , a personal fmancial plannmg guide for young people .

Raffael Scheck

brotherhood and hope to a generation of teenagers (and their

Associate Professor of History

parents) with their pioneering work in commercial folk music.

Their success paved the way for many folk performers, including

Totalitarianism

the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob

The most important development of the 20th century is a

Dylan. The message songs that characterized the folk music of the

phenomenon that I would loosely call "totalitarianism," which i embodied in people uch a H itler and

'60s and '70s helped to shape the political and social opinions of

talin. I t signifies an

at least two generations. The sloop Clearwater was instrumental in

attempt to e tabli h total control of the state over the individual

making Hudson River fish nontoxic once again and still sails the

according to certain seemingly rational guidelines, u ing science

Hudson as an environmental classroom. Seeger was a constant

( or p eudo-science) and all mechani m of oppressive control.

public presence during both the civil rights campaign and the

Admittedly, no totalitarianism ever established complete

Vietnam antiwar movement, speaking and singing against vio­

control. But the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi and Stalinist

lence, injustice, bigotry and hatred in its many ugly forms. He

y tern are, in my view, keys to understanding the 20th century.

continues to campaign for peace, human rights and world har­

The econd half of the century, even after the defeat of H itler

mony through his music and personal appearances.

and the death of tal in, was played out in the shadow of their

Judging from my folk music sessions at Colby during the past

totalitariani ms, and the next century will till have to deal with them; the potential power of totalitarian sy tern

decade, Seeger is influencing yet another generation. This man is

has only

one of the truly great figures of the 20th century, a person whose

mcrea ed with the development of computers and biological

prominence derived not from political power or wealth or social

technology ( genetic ) .

status but from sheer determination, force of will and personal

While this view i pessimistic, other developments o f the

dedication. His entire life has been dedicated to making the world

cemury provided orne balance. Liberati m, the idea of civil

a better place.

right , the emancipation of non-We tern peoples and of women were crucial achievement of the 20th century, too, though the

Leonard S . R e i c h

1dea informing tho e movemem come from the 1 9th and even

Professor of Administrative Science a n d of Science,

1 th cemurie .

Technology, and Society

W i l l i am B e r l i nghoff

Henry Ford and mass-production

Visiting Professor of Mathematics

Henry Ford and the engineers working with him between 1 9 1 2 and 1 9 1 4, who created full scale mass-production methods for the Model T, led not only to mass mobility of American (and later

Pete Seeger: One-world citizen One of the mo t mfluennal people of the second half of this century has been (and till 1s) Pete eeger-folksinger, environ­ menta l ist, humannanan, paCifi'>t and one-world ltl:en who

world ) society hut also prodded industry to increase efficiencies, lowercosts and make profit on large volumes rather than high unit mark-ups. The process wa known as Fordization, and, while there have been many refinements, the basic techniques are still in use

prllmoteJ mulnculturah.,m for decade before It became the "in" thmg to do. eeger profoundly mtluenceJ at lea'>t three genera­ non of Amen can a well a ffi<ll1) people of mher nawmahtle'>.

producmg everything from jetliners to mobile phones. Applied well, the'>e techniques re ult in high quality and low price, an

He hecame ,1 ,oCial actl\"i t a a 'upponer nforgan1:eJ lahor 111 the '4L , anJ '50 a' part llithe AlmanaL mger \nth Wnlxl� Guthrie.

In rhe ')Q,, he anJ the \XIeawr hroughr rhe me";lge, of peace,

l B

unheatahle combmanon.

2

Electron i c Amplifiers

Ta mae Pri n d l e

A second set of sem inal innovations proceeded incremen­

Professor of Japanese

tally through the century, start ing w i th the invention and

Oe Kenzaburo

dev e l op m en t of electronic amplifiers and culminating in the

One of Japan' Nobel laureates in the field of literature,

mobile phone. Amplifiers, first based on vacuum tubes, were

e

Kenzaburo, born in 1 9 3 5 , has frayed the conscience of tunnel­

developed by Ambrose Flemi ng, Lee DeForest and research

visioned contemporary japanese people by bedding light on the

crews at GE and AT&T in the century's second decade. Tubes

meaning of a vil lager ver u

gave way to solid state w i th the invent ion of the transi tor at Bell

a c i ty dweller, a father wtth a

handicapped child versus a father with a "healthy" child, and what

Labs in 1 94 7 . Finally, integrated c ircu i t ry ch ips were developed

it is to be a c ity-dweller in earch of a v i llage within one'

by Jack K i lby at Texas I nstruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild

el f.

Oe has characterized the pre ent years a a godles , nuclear

Semiconductor in the late 1 9 50s. These d vices have been

age in which individual

central to the d e ve lo p m e n t of all k i nds of wired and wire less

have surrendered their per onal re­

sponsibi l i t i e to nuclear power and government authoritie . He

communications systems, as well a radar, computers, etc. With­

teaches that sani ty can be regained only by under tandmg anJ

out them, our world would be a very d ifferent place.

accepting diver i ty as an undiluted whole. The v i ton of the whole is akin to that of a transcendental god, which '' ould gtve

T h o m a s H . T iete n berg

Mitchell Fam ily Professor o f Economics

each i ndividual a vision of hi place in the human world . To tht

The World Wide Web

which draws on d i verse realitie that lurk in the naJ tr of t he

end, Oe brandishes a technique he name "grate que rea h>m,"

The predo m i n a n t "shaper" in modern l i fe has to be the I nternet

human p yche.

and the World Wide Web. They are shaping the process of globalization and transforming commerce, finance, c u lture and

I ra Sadoff

even geopol i t i cs. They provide previously unattainable access

Dana Professor of Poetry

to information, which is affect ing not only big-picture items

Sadoff listed 20 people off the rap of hrs head: john Coltrane , Enc

such as the world economy but many more spec iali:ed concern ,

Dolph)' , Balrhu (paimer) , Strat•insk)' , \Val/ace

including my own field of environmental pol icy.

tet ens , Trot k> ,

Berrolttcci and Scorcese , Einstem , FOR , F . Scou F�tzg,erald ,

This communicat ions revolution brings with it some enor­ mous benefits, including lower prices, the abi lity to hear both

Marrin Luther King, Pablo

Alice Munro, Ralph Ellrson ,

sides of every srory, etc. But it also poses some unprecedented risks, l i k e loss of privacy, a growing gap between those who use

asked him

to

A/lend�,

er11da , Garcra Lorca , Eli-::abeth Brshop, aul Bellou , Ho Chr Mmh

e xpand on the first .

olhy

new communi at ions technology and those who don't, al ien­ ation arising from an incr asc in impersonal contact and , impor­ tant ! •, a loss of control over the future. uch risks accrue to both

J o h n C oltrane

people an :1 ountries.

f,l l l,l we I h plav d ' cure ( 'o we can he '0 nrc:h t' valucJ h the world ) . \Vc'rc ,·crv rep lac c<�hl e . Tou much 'P•tcc he tw cc n mo­ ment' of mtcn,tt\ , tho,c ll1llll1Cnb when \'tt.t l t t\ 1:. o p:ctlp,thle, ") crankc,l up, there\ nn quc,nun vuu icc! that \ vu'rc tc tu a l ly

orhmg noumhe, u' l tke art. Too much of t he re't of l t fe 1

ntual, Jury. mmd-numhng combat wtth burcaucracv anJ c n -,c ­ le" h r e ra rc hv , hard work

Thomas Friedman's analysis of the impa ts of the communt­

rc,rnrccl tll llUr lab,lr, la!--,l r which

cnr ion revolut ion on globa l i:at ion and the impa t of globalt:a­ t ion on all aspects of modern l i fe in his book The Lexm and che

Q/iq•e Tree is espec iall · insightfu l .

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o technological advance,

ments that carmot be proved or disproved within the system.

no politician, no theory about the universe can accomplish that

Second, he showed that the statement that the system will never

feat. You live. There's a connection between heart and head, the

lead to contradictory conclusion is either one of these undecid­

alive, which is, after all, our project.

exterior and the interior. Art fills you with joy and fear, the kind

able statements or is false. Godel's result had an immense effect on

of openness and ero that's difficult to inhabit for long without

philosophy ( not only on the philosophy of mathematics but on

di comfort or demand for change.

philosophy in genera l ) . In many ways, it strengthened the anti­ foundationalist mood of 20th-century philosophy. At the same

Coltrane's intensity passes through the listener; his "sheets of sound" deploy the full range of emotion, from melancholy to rage

time, it suggested ( this was Godel's own interpretation, in fact )

to transcendence. The hi tory ofjaz: and race is inside the notes, but

that the attempt to reduce thought t o calculation was itself

he wa

doomed, and that there was something in human thought that

looking fonvard: his whole purpose was to find new

went beyond mechanical symbol pushing.

expre ion, to stretch and expand melody. He was devoted to growth and change; he was a elf-improver, moving from a not very

Karl Barth's theology

fluent member of the Basic band to creating music with such fonnal

Karl Barth's work is still, I think, the most important theologi­

flux, uch complexity and intensity, critics called it noise. But like

cal work of the 20th century. Though now somewhat out of

Beethoven he was not afraid of being demanding, of courting dtfficulty. Listen to hi "

fashion, his critique of the optimistic liberalism that dominated

many version of his beautiful ballad

the mainline churches in his time had a huge impact on theolo­

atma" over the years, how layered the feeling became, how

gians ranging from Bonhoeffer to N iebuhr. He may not have been

transitory. For Coltrane art erved not as di traction or enhance­

entirely successful, but he was attempting the right thing: to make

ment ( as it i for the privileged who abstractly value "culture"): it

theology be authentically about God as he shows himself to

brought ltfe to the forefront in all its pleasure and pain, reminding

people and not about human creativity and imagination. H is

u of how fulsome is experience, how delightful, why we must live.

writings are massive (one of the reasons he has lost some influ­ ence) but despite their seriousness are shot through with a

Fernando Q. Gouvea

humane and generous spirit. When most of the liberal theologians

Associate Professor of Mathematics

are forgotten, I predict people will till be reading Barth.

Kurt Giidel's formal mathematics

Comic books a n d comic strips

In the ! 920� and ! 9 30 , mathematictan and philosophers of

Comics are a 20th-century creation, though some proto­ comics appeared late in the 1 9th century. Though from the beginning comics have been treated as insignificant and not serious, they have emerged as a significant medium of expres­

mathemattc were trymg to develop foundations-trying to find .1

way of ,hmnng that mathemattcal tdea re t on a secure ba is.

The, wanted to expre' mathemattcs formally, using � rmal logtcal expre,,ton , then de<,cnhe the tep> m a proof m yntatic term' ( e.g., you're allowed tht

'y mhol

ro

sion. While there has been a lot of j unk published, there have also been a few arti tic triumphs in the genre. Pogo and Peanuts

tramform the formula by movmg

from here to there) and then prove that one could

both howed ( in very different way ) that serious and funny could come together, the classic adventure strip from mid­ century are till a wonder to read and graphic novels such as Art ptegelman 's Maus show that there is a good deal of life left in

ne,·erdem·e contradtctory onclu tom from tht, procedure, thereby en,unnc rhar marhemanc-, '' a' free of error. . GoJel' theorem

hlew a huge hnle m rhe'e plan . FiN, he 'howeJ that

'uHtctenrh mterc nne fnm1,1l

Ll

v

,my

rem would alway' include stare-

the genre. And, of course, there' the impact on popular culture, from upcrman and Batman to the Oi ney duck comic .

., .,

Science fiction c o m e s true a n d then comes untrue When science fiction writers tarred dreaming that we would conquer space and visit the moon and planets, most people

transformed the office so that no future pre idem could take a back seat. He set the agenda, spoke for and repre ented the nation. Each of h is uccessors had t

a sume tho

e

role .

thought the whole thing was ridiculous-daydreams to keep

After FOR, the government wa assumed to play a key role

young boys entertained. Then came the 1 960s and we actually

every citizen's life-as the employer of la t re orr, provider of

did it. And then, what no science fiction writer ever predicted­

welfare, guarantor of ecuriry in old age, regulator, collector of

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even more incredible than going to the moon-we got bored

taxes. Under FOR the federal government became prominent in

with i t , stopped the program, and forgot . I have heard that

our view of what the country meant. Wa hington became the

should we need to go to the moon today, we wouldn't be able to

center of the nation and Roosevelt became the

do i t without a new effort to develop adequate technology-that

United States became the world leader, the trongest and mo t

we don't even know how to build the big rockets anymore. I n

powerful nation, the po sessor of the ultimate weapon.

some ways, it's the most amazing story o f the century. W e d id something that everyone acknowledges as a great achievement and then promptly put it aside.

L. Sa ndy M a i s e l The William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government

ymbol. The

Sports: Branch Rickey a n d B i l l i e Jean M offitt King Branch R ickey and B i l l ie Jean Moffitt K i ng fundamentally changed the ways in which athletics affect A merican soc iety.

J ackie Robinson, a great athlete and role model, broke the color barrier in Major League Basebal l . Branch Rickey' fore­ sight and courage allowed him to do o.

one hould den igrate

Maisel said the list would be incomplete without Jonas Salk, for

the significance of Robinson'

efforts under the most trymg

discovering the polio vaccine , or The Beatles . He also suggested

circumstances. But it wa

Thomas Alva Edison , Henry Ford , Albert Einstein , Winston hurchill, Adolf Hitler (faT the wrong reasons) , Mohandas Gandhi,

repre entative of the corporate Dodger -who had the v1 10n to

leader, the

Rickey-the bu ine

bring Robinson into the league and who was will ing to

n

k h1s

Martin Luther King Jr. , Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein , Pablo Picasso , George Halas and RogeT Bannister.

position in basebal l by defying hi fel low ba eball execut ive .

Pol itics: Franklin D e l a n o R oosevelt

advantage in signing the great player> from the old

No single figure has domi nated A merican pol i tics as did Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the early 1 930s until h is death in 1 94 5 . Roosevelt deserves a place among the most important peopl of the century-not because of the record-setting length of h is service in the White House or because he led the nation out of the Depression or because he was a great wartime leader­ but because under h is leadership the role of government and of the president w re both transformed.

Roosevelt elevated the presidency to a posit ion of domi­ nance i n our national government. Presidents before him ha:l be n powerful figures who dominated their era . but FOR

Make no mistake, Rickey understood that break ing the color barrier meant that he and hi Dodger would have a compet1t 1ve egro

League. But that motive does not detract from the s1gmf1cance of the step taken by R ickey, Robm on anJ the Dodger . The extent to which rac ial barrier have been broken and port have come to be viewed a a place m

mencan oc 1ety where one

ucceeds ba ed on ability , not on race, can be rraceJ J 1 recdy w the integration of �laJOr League Ba>ebal l . That imporrant soc ietal ter taken

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the century, one for

which Rickey (orherw1se nor a rarucularly rra1 ewonhy mJI­ vidua l ) deserve recogn1t 1on.

Bdl1 Jean

loffitt Kmg Je,erve' more red1t rhan anyone for

ele\·armg the role of women m athleuc,. An exrraorJmarv renms rla,· er ll1 an era when few female athlete were well known, K mg rook on the cau'e ofwl)men' right . he led female t nms rlayer-o; m a fighr to a h1eve equahry \\lth the1 r male

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viral; they would be cajoled and coerced into accepting the

counterparts. More than that, she rook the fight to a national level a one of the early and besr-recogni:ed advocates of Title

existence of definitions of art and forms of aesthetic expression

IX. The benefits of participating in organi:ed sports, once almost

different from their own. Pollock's vision and the vi ion of those

solely open to young men, are now available to women through­

who appreciated him, as well as those who reviled him, changed

out the world. Billie Jean Moffitt King-an individual and a

the course of 20th-century art. Though my own scholarly

ymbol for a generation of women fighting for equaliry---de­

interest in art focuses on the M iddle Ages, I never look at a

er\'e recognition for the role he played ( and continues to play)

cathedral or contemplate its sculpture without realizmg how

111 haping American ociety.

much 1 learned about art, its vitality and its relevancy from seeing Pollock's work.

David L. S i mon

Cla i re Pront n i c k i

Jette Professor of Art

Head of Acquisitions, Colby L ibraries

Jackson Pollock Jack on Pollock changed my life, or rather seeing his paint-

Prontnicki said that after the shoorings at Kent S tate ( "and really , the

111g d1d. For the fir t time 1 reali:ed what relevancy meant; I had

whole Vietnam War" ) and Watergate , "nobody in my generation will

a en e I wa looking at a work of art constructed in a manner

ever trust the government again . " Roe vs . Wade , the moon landing,

different from anything el e I had een before. I couldn't stop

Henry Ford, WWI I , the pill, the Internet , Dr. Seuss , the end of

my elf from looking and rhus from seeing. The surprising thing

colonialism in Africa , Betty Freidan (The Feminine Mystique) , the women's movement and permanent-press shirts also made her list.

1 that rh1 cathartic experience occurred in a museum, specifi­ cally the Mu eum of Modern Art in

ew York. A mu eum is a

People: Rachel C arson

guardian of tradition, and the art mu eum does that most

Rachel Carson's 1 962 publication of Silent Spring first brought

forcefully, o in many ways it is an unexpected place to experi­

the dangers of modem pesticide to the attention of the general

ence real change.

public. Thi was the beginning of a major change in how we view

If the Impact of Pollock' work on me was strong, I was a

the natural world and our place in it. Instead of seeing nature as

latecomer, ee111g his works nearly a decade after they were

something "out there," which should be controlled by science, we

proJuceJ. More 1gn1ficant was the effect Pollock's work had on

began to realize that we are part and parcel of our environment.

h1' profe 10nal contemporane , the artist and art critics who came

ro

reali:e that art 111 the mid-20th century needed to

I nnovations: Television

expre ., alienation, d1 tractiOn and d1;comhobulation. After

Television has changed the nature of politics, advertising,

H 1ro hm1a, could the world, pamterly or otherwise, really be

recreation, childhood and neighborhoods. We now know (or

rhoul.(ht of a a rang1hle whole, compmed With logiC and hal­ .mceJ Ir

\\ nh

\\ih

think we know) celebrities better than we know our next-door

equanm1It) �

neighbors; instead of using their imaginations, k id watch TV

Pollock\ academic rrammg, much of It under the

and re-enact the scripts with plastic versions of the characters;

t u t cl.Ige of rhe figuratl\'e and narral l\'e pamter Thomas Hart

and political offices go to whomever can afford the most prime­

Ik:nt<ll1, rh.n .JlloweJ hm1 w hreak from cl<h'>ICal comtruct . The r<

time adverti ing and get the best five-second sound bites.

t' nf Jecon,rrucr 1on <�re nor planreJ far from Pollock\

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w

tolerate .mJ rhcn .lpprcc iare rhe per-.onal

.mJ rhe iJu!'\ ncr.H IC, n·en " hen It 'cem' fenlCIOU,,

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Of some 22,000 l iving Colby a l u m n i , only two were a l ive 1n 1 900, and only Dr. Merrill S.F. Greene '20, born July 1 7 , 1 900, entered the world during that centennial year. "I was conceived 1n the 1 9t h

M ichele Bac h o l l e

century, I lived through t h e twentieth century, a n d I ' m eager t o see

Visiting A ssista n t Professor of French

the beg i n n i n g of the twenty-f irst," Dr. Greene said during a recent chat in the living room of his home i n Lewiston, M a i ne.

Noam C h o msky I n 1 97 9 The New York Times Book Review called Noam homsky "arguably the most important intellectual alive . . . in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought."

A language theore t i c ian, phi losopher, intellectual h istorian, social critic and political analyst and an In t itute Professor at the

Dr. Greene i sn't the oldest living a l u m-a classm ate who I S three years older i s i nca pacitated a n d no longer receives Colby m a i l-but he i s a notable a l u m n us for much more than j u st lon gevity. He h a s nea r-perfect attendance at a l u m n i reu n ions i n recent decades, a n d h i s pa rtici pation i n t h e parade o f c l a sses h a s

M assachu ett In t itute of Technology ince 1 976, Chomsky is

become reu n ion tradition. He h a s been a generous donor t o the

a pivotal figure of our century.

Merr i l l and H a rriett Greene/Art hur Roberts F i n a n c i a l Aid Fund, a n d

In the 1 9 50s l i nguistics was mo tly concerned with how

a plaque i n Cotter Union acknowledges t h a t he a n d t h e l ate Mrs.

languages evolve. H is book Syntactic Structures ( 1 95 7 ) marked the

Greene gave the n a m i n g gift for the lobby.

beginning of modern linguistics. Chom ky' radical notion ha

Dr. Greene came to Colby from Athens, Maine, after President

been that language is part of the brain's hard wiring, that it i

Arthur Roberts visited Som erset Academy when Greene was a

innate and that all languages operate under the same general

student there. After Col by, he enrolled at H a rvard Med ical School,

principle in spite of superficial d ifference .

earn i n g a n M .D. degree i n 1 924. Early i n his career he spec i a l ized in

Chomsky's prodigious activity and restles intellect have led him to contribute to the fields of philosophy, psychology, biology, the hi tory of ideas, cultural anthropology, cognitive sciences and pol itical s ience.

homsky is the most c i ted living person and

ranks eighth overall among living and deceased. Science magazine said in 1 997 that no scientist, not even Ein rein, dominated his field so completely and for so long--over 40 year .

research and m a nagement of d i a betes. He retired from active practice a s a general practitioner at the age of 90.

Dr. Greene's selection for Col by's list of highl ights of the 20th century clea rly is World War II. Though he served in the Army in 1 9 18, the First World War ended before he was cal led overseas. He is a World War I veteran who said, "We were fortunate we did n't have to go."

In World War II he enlisted as a physician in the Army's 67th General Hospit a l Corps and served i n England and France. H 1 s

U rsula Reidei-Schrewe

recol lections o f those years focus on two Amencan pastimes­

Associate Professor of German

baseball and legal procedure. He was recrUited to p1tch m a celebrated baseba l l game held on a cncket f1eld and broadcast back

G erman Unification old War with the Berlin

to the States i n 1 945. He a lso was recruited to defend sold1ers 1 n the

Wall coming down in 1 9 9. That peaceful revolution was the beginning of a new era for the ent ire world. For Germany it ended

decision of the U.S. Supreme Court after the war. "I got a lot of

pol itical division and opened a ultural and intellectual landscape that had been disconne te � from de"clopments m the \Vest. Th1'

throat , " he sa1d of h1s explo1ts beat1ng h 1 s su penor off1cers in court

Mo t people connect the end of the

had a tremendous effect on Gem1an studies as a Lh�c1plme. Fom1er G[ R spe ialists, rather than being out of work, arc now ln\'Ol\'cd in the stu� • of the transitional process. The emergmg "\Vendc­ L iteratur" reflects the hanges in the public and pm·ate sphere.

Dialogues in\'olving author', media people. publishe� and rerre­ senrarives of e �u a tiona! and cultural m. ntunon' haYe become a ommon feature and are sharing a new public ClmSclou,ne.'

dock for courts mart i a l and says one of his cases was upheld by a favora ble publ icity, but a l i i was ever doing was cutting my own on beh a lf of h1s c l ients.

Back 1 n Mame he was chairman of the Republican Party m Lew1ston-"wh1ch 1sn't very m uch. 1t's such a Democratic c1ty, he confided He lives 1 n h1s own home i n the com p a ny of a Ins y c a l1co com panmn. "I call her my d a ughter. but I guess most people would . call her a cat. . he sa1d . rubb1ng her head Dr. Greene says he occasmn a l ly discu sses problems w1th the cat. "She doesn't do much. but she listens." he sa1d rem a rk1ng that it's a tra1t he somet1mes fmds 1 n people a s

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Lab Collaboration S u m mer research opportu n ities make learning stick

By Alicia ((

I

emiccolo MacLeay '97 board to

tried the typical college tu-

a career," A l le n said.

I n addition to the academ i c

dent job after fresh m a n

year-scoop i n g i c e c r e a m a t

experience, h e spent o n e d a y a

Ba kin- Robbin -and i t got old

week with Ken Viens ' 7 3 , learn­

p re t ty quickly," said Carolyn

ing about the brokerage business

Morda

a t A . G . Edward & Sons down­

' 0, a double major in

chem1 try and math. Two years

town. H e also worked a t Dick

later Morda wa e n conced in a

W h itmore's ( athletics) b a ket­

chemistry lab for the summer,

ball camp. Two more reasons

doing re earch with A ociate

A ll e n stayed a t Colby were the

Profe or Tom

proxi m ity of the H um e Center

hattuck, trying

and the Outi ng Club cabin.

to find binding constants for

Most student research takes

gue t -h o t complexe .

More than 40

tudent

place i n a lab, at a computer or in

re­

mamed at Colby t h i summer to

the library. Betsy Loyd '0 1 , an

a 1 t profe ors in re earch for

A merican studies major, got to

publications, experiments and

watch movies on the job. Part of

other project . Every academic

h e r r e s e a r c h w a s fo r D a v i d

d i cipline wa repre ented, from

Lubin's ( art a n d A merican stud­

p ychology to phy ic and mu ic

ies) book on the m a k i ng of the

to anthropology. A lthough stu­

1 93 3 film King Kong. Their goal,

dent remain on campus for vari­

said Loyd, was "to use the film as

ou

a springboard for d iscussing what

rea ons, learning underlie

them all. Concepts taught dur­ mg the academiC year are pur­ ued m greater depth, and new

l ife was l i ke for people i n the Professor Jim Flemming and Wes Baff '99 worked together this summer to build a Web site for the American Meteorological Society.

early 1 930s and what would pro­ voke them to make such a fil m . "

1dea are mve ugated. Opportu­

the American Meteorological

experience. Now he sees the com­

S h e also watched t h e 1 99 7

n i t ies to acqune new k d l and

ociety, working with Professor

puter screen as an empty canvas.

h i t Titanic with the remote con­

omen me even get author cred­

J i m Fleming ( sc ience, technol­

It '' h de working clo ely wnh a

ogy and oc iety } . Baff examined

Fleming said summer research

t ions right for another Lubin

profe, or are appealmg.

book project. She even edited

" I can do whatever l want."

trol i n hand, to get the quota­

the hi tory of the global warm­

like Baffs can "give the student

Morda , who pent Ia t urn­

ing-cl imate change controver y

orne national credentials." Hav­

some of the writi ng. "That part

nl­

and designed a 30-page Web ite.

ing their findings publ ished or

was really fun for me," said Loyd. " [ enjoy e d i t i ng , and i t was great

mer domg re earch at the

ver 1 t � of V e r m o n t and t h 1 s

"The project eemed l i ke a great

making presentations is common

,umme r a t olhy, sa1d, "although

opportunity to learn more about

for re earch assistants and bol­

to learn how i t works in the real

rhe1r fac d 1 tle' were greater m

omerhmg I had an interest in,"

ster their career prospects.

book publishing world."

o much I

Economics major Kirk A llen

Every researcher acquires skills

fee l like an expert. Before, I only

'00 spent h is summer research­

they wouldn't get from a class­

ours. That 1s prerry 1m­

had a superfic 1al under tanding."

mg two topics with two econom­

room lecrure. Allen say he gained

Although Ba f met regularly

ICS profe sors-with J i m Meehan

a better understanding of the re­

w1rh Flemmg, he re earched and

he stud1ed "The Organization of

search process by compi ling and

de 1gned the

Profe

presenting data-valuable tool

m trument w as actually nor l!ooJ

a

pre ,,.e for . 1orJa

olhy " .ud ,he remameJ m

\X',ncrnlle th" ummer N!c.au'e "n'

much e.b ler

m

in most careers and for the ana­

to

that\ m� 0\\ n, anJ at the end of

League and rhe M i nor Leagues,"

lytical re earch paper required of

um­

the -,ummer I can 'it hack and

and wnh Hank G e mery h e in­

'a� . 'I d 1d rh1 ' and he proud ."

ve ngated

mu .He pnme nmc ," 'he a1J. \\'e Baff '99 r.weJ <ln . by­ tl, w er H dl .!Iter gradu.Hlng

m

Je,lgn a re ean.:h \\' eh 'lte for

L 1\ '

10nal Ba eball: The Re­

lat ion h i p Between the Major

'e

,Jh(.)ut; j.mu.ll"\ and the

1te h1m elf. " I t 's

been n1ce to work on a project

�et re,earch

Jone w hen there ,ue no Ia '" IT)

a1d Baff. " I 've read

a>

numN!r, . . . the qualny of the1r

Baff c. Ia 1m' he w a

n't

om­

fnrrable w1rh om purer' and had n<l pro�rammmg or

. . I nternal m igra­

non m rhe 1 9 30 . "I knew going

t h is way: "Once ! learn a concept

mro sen1or year I

and use it in my re earch, it sticks

hould do

omerhmg that was a spring-

ch des1�n

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enior economics majors. Mordas explained the value of her work

with me for good ." +

U nique Alfond Apart ments Open eniors lived off

of whom are returning from the

campus during the 1 996-97 aca-

freedom of a junior-year abroad.

When 2 1 2

demic year, Colby commissioned

"We d idn't want all of the

a task force on residential life to

apartments to be the same ,"

study campus housing and the

Hammond aid ofthe four-, five­

effects this exodus wa having on

and

the

apartment include

allege. TI1e group c ncluded

that the void left by off-campus

i x - per on u n i ts . Every private

� �

bathrooms and k i tchenette

senior deprived Colby ofstudent

with all the appliances. While

leaders and hurt the residential

many seniors are intere ted in

life program. That was clearly a

preparing their own meals, all

problem; the Harold and Bibby

maintain a minimum meal plan

Jason St. Cla1r, left, and Matthew Boutet move 1nto a s1x-student sen1or

omp l e x ,

of 1 00 meals a semester. "They

apartment in the Harold and B1bby Alfond Res1dence Complex th1s fall.

which opened this fall t o house

don't need to be ent irely self-

removed for u to feel indepen­

than ! 00 re>Idcnt

dent ," said Donahue.

nothmg even clo e. "The no­

Alfond Residence

1 07 seniors, is the solution.

ufficient," said Hammond.

and found

The senior apartments, lo­

Tom Donahue '00 is one stu-

To allow maximum auton­

cated on the wooded hillside be­

dent who chose the complex, in

omy, governance of the complex

hind The Heights, are "a hybrid

part because he wanted to have

is in the hands of the re ident .

between living in a regular dorm

a choice between eating at a

No hall staff or faculty are in

AR

and living off campus," said Ron

dining hall or cooking for him-

residence. Instead, repre enta­

ofus rorren,"sa1d Donahue. "Very

Hammond, as ociate dean of stu­

elf. The location of the com-

tive from each of the 22 apart­

few of u

dents for residential life. The pur­

plex was another advan rage. " It's

ments meet weekly, advised by

apartment

pose of the complex is to provide

close enough to the regular cam­

Hammond.

cious a these for qu1te a whde."

greater privacy, independence

pus to make everything ea ily

another school with imilar elf-

olby

earched for

tion that 1t'

elf-governmg I'>

unique," Hammond a1d.

"The only problem 1 that the i> probably gomg to pml all are gomg to l1ve m as modern and �pa­

A dedica[ lon ceremony wa. held

eptember 30.

C h a rles Strom '03, of Newton, Mass., spent his s u m m er wi sely­

Most of the class of 2003 was born in

f i n i s h i n g up h i s basic Emergency Med i c a l Tec h n i c i a n tra i n i n g a n d , i n

1 981 . They were the firstgeneration raised

August, t a k i n g the cert i fication exa m . O n the way back from h 1 s

in disposable diapers and never in their

COOT, which took h i m i nto t h e mounta i n s on t h e New H a m ps h i re border,

lifetime was Yugoslavia a country. Colby's

his bus came u pon a 1 2-year-old i n l i ne skater lyi n g in the road w1th a

1 82nd freshman class is 490 strong,

head i n j u ry , bleeding a n d a possible broken a rm after be1ng h1t by a

emphasis on strong, and its members hail from

pickup truck. When the cry " I s a nyone an EMT?'' sounded, Strom was the only one close, a n d he was sti l l awa1ting h1s oHic 1 a l cert1f1cat10n

4 1 states and represent 25 countries.

from Massachusetts. He sta b i l ized the v1ct 1 m ' s neck and spine u ntil a n a m b ula nce arrived, helped get him i n a cerv1cal brace and onto a

1 98 1

backboard and acco m p a n ied h 1 m 1 nto the exa m 1 n at10n room at Tom H a n k s receives h i s fourth

R u m ford's hospita l .

Oscar n o m i nation for Saving

Private Ryan

W h e n the September Seventeen m a gaZine publi shed "Th i s Town Rocks 1 0 Best C1t 1es for Tee n s . " Nate Argu e l l e s '03 was a spo e s m a n for h 1 s

The a utomotive trend i s toward compact c a rs

hometown, B i l l i ngs, Mont., a n d p l u gged both c u ltural a n d outdoor opport u n 1t1es, from swmg d a n c i n g to mou nta i n b 1 k 1 n g "Colby rocks

Shakespeare in Love w 1 n s

too." he s a 1 d from h 1 s room 1 n God d a rd-Hodg 1 n s two weeks after

the O s c a r f o r Best Pict u re

l a n d 1 n g i n Waterville "People are really fnendly and here·s a lo Kim Ca rnes' Bette Davis Eyes wins

o do.

You're surrounded by really s m a rt people, and you can tal w1th them

the Gram my for record of the year

a bout a l most a nyth m g ..

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facu lty fi le

See Dick ( N ot) Run Maisel's controversial study of candi date emergence cont i n ues

By Stephen B. ColLins ' 74

I

t's the autumn of an odd-num­

Stone obtained the names of

the House floor and implied that

bered year, do e to the :ero

Democrats and Republicans con­

the N SF regretted funding it.

hour for tho e Congressional can­

sidered strong potential candi­

didare who must decide whether

Cand idate Emergence Study. " The initial study found that

The controversy did not fade

"the better they [potential can­

da res for Congress in 200 selected

after this symbolic attack, and

didates] were, the less l ikely they

U . S . House districts, whether or

things got hairy when the GAO's

would run," M a isel said. Often it

they are to make filing deadlines

not those possible candidates had

investigation ordered Maisel and

was a practical decision based on

for the 2000 national election.

shown any interest in running.

Stone to breach the confiden­

their sense that they couldn't

ext they surveyed these ideal

tiality of their informants ( con­

win against incumbents. But a greater concern was the percep­

to throw their hats in the ring if

Ask L. Sandy Maise l , the W i lliam R . Kenan Jr. Professor

candidates about their political

fi d e n t i a l i t y

of Government, about who is

ambitions, l ikel ihood of running

guidelines of the NSF and guar­

i s r e q u i re d

by

tion that Congress is no longer a place where people can solve the

running-and who i not-and

for office, perceptions of their

anteed in the human subjects

you'll get the informed insights

districts and incumbents, view

law gove r n i ng s c i e n t ific re­

nation's problems, a phenom­

of their chances of winning and

searc h ) . Colby and University of

enon M a isel attributes to the

what opportunities, costs and

Colorado attorneys entered ne­

success of the Reagan revolu­

benefits were associated with

gotiations with the GAO and

tion, which shifted power to state

the NSF's unsympathetic gen­

and local policymakers. That and

eeking a seat in the House.

Sandy Matsel

of an expert who has studied

The inquiry made some mem­

eral counsel and, at one impasse,

the perception that politics and

ber of Congress nervous. The

"were prepared to fight a con­

Congress are too negative and

initial mailing prompted calls

gress ional subpoen a , " M a isel

are held in low regard have had a

from about 20 congressional

said. At that point Rep. Barney

notable effect on people's will­

staffs, most of whom were moll i ­

Frank ( D-Mass . ) and others per­

ingness to serve.

fied once Maisel and Stone ex­

suaded Rep. Clay to ask the

The negativity-the partisan

plained the scientific nature of

GAO to wrap up its investiga­

bitterness-worries Maisel most.

the study, that it addressed 200

tion. The subsequent GAO re­

"I have always enjoyed having

districts and that it involved both

port blandly concluded that the

conservative students in the c lass­

Democrats and Republicans.

grant proposals "were submit­

room. ! love having someone like

One was unconvinced, however,

ted, reviewed, and processed ac­

Joe Reisert [assistant professor of

and this Congressman went on

cord i ng to the N S F's grant

government], who is very conser­

the attack. Rep. Bill Clay ( D­

policies and procedures."

Mo. ) i ued a pre

release in

J une of 1 997 ex pre

The political science lesson for

vative, in the department." Con­ gress, however, has changed greatly

ing "our­

Maisel was one of political power.

in the last 1 5 or 20 years and has

" nor runnmg I> now Mat el'

rage" that tax dollars were being

"Just because you know you're

lost the code of comity that per­

pn mar) re>earch mtere t, and

"wasted" when "there i never

right, and everyone knows that

mits friendships across the aisle,

tt\ al o rc,earch that generated

any shortage of good and quali­

you're right, doesn't mean you're

Maisel says.

more contnll'er,y than the

fied people who feel they could

going to come out ahead," he said.

"How do you maintain a civil

The sideshow overshadowed

debate when the other side takes an absolute position?" he asked.

ongre>> for three decades. Who

t iona!

a­

c t e n c e Fou n d a t t o n

erve m Congres:.." ptcked up the

research that reached interest­

tory, "our phone rang nonstop,"

ing conclusions and warranted

I t's a d i lemma that he attacks as

tone, a

atd Mat el. Clay and three other

a fo l l o w - u p s t u d y o n h o w

a teacher by making students rake

pwfe,,nr nf polmc.ll 'ue nc e at

Houo,e member> pre ;ed for mves­

pot e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e s ' v i ews

the side of a debate that runs

dk•

nganon of the :,rudy by the

change. "The

contrary to their own bel iefs.

( ' ' F ) would have pred tcted '' hen It otlereJ fund mg. . l.u,cl .md Walter n l \ er,lty of

u�l\ cJ

1 7 5.

oloraJn, re­

fmm rhe

F

f11r rhetr (. mJtJ ne Emergence r uJ 1 , 11 htch

, r ,m e J

111 1 997 .

When the pre

F's

F said 'ofcourse

tmpcctorgeneral and the General

you can apply,"' Maisel said of

Account ing Office (GAO).

the sequel s t u d y , " b u t they

the need

begged u not to." I n

cour e in politics as one founda­

Though the

F mve;nga-

ThL g,>. J I 11 .1 w unJer r.1nJ rhe

non c leared r h e >tudy <l> hemg

he and

J�u,t<>n·m,Jl..: mg prt><.o.:' nf pt>­

"full) comt'>tt.m t" wnh the rc­

from the

tone received

eptember

TI1e study's findings underline to

maintain civil dis­

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tion of a functional democratic

mith R i c h ardson

system. Otherwise, "you don't have

rho'e

11

hn

'ear h pmptbal the founJ<Jnon

Foundanon for a two-year study

run anJ e'r�ual h rhn'o.:

people dedicating their lives

11

ho

luJ agrccJ to funJ, Clay and ht

mlcd "Who Rum for Congress

making the system better," Maisel

u>lle.Jgue' ,tr rJ keJ rhc rudy nn

and Who Doe n't Run: The

said. 'That's scary as hell to me."

to.:nn.ll L<tnJtJ.ne Jo.:uJL• nor

ttl.

Ftr r , l.Jt,cl .mJ

2

to

Exceptional Facu lty Rec ruits Th is fa II, Colby welcomed new

search a s the best way to teach

members to the faculty, includ i ng

scienc e was another attrac t i on.

Three new Clare Boothe Luce

six assistant professors who are in

The ab i l i ty to recru i t a sea­

Assistant Profe sor� of Biology

we ll as in medical ant hropology.

tenure-track positions and Robert

soned and respected senior pro­

are Cathenne Bevier, J udy tone

Castaldo, chair of the Geology

fessor l i k e Castaldo to lead the

and Andrea Ti lden. Bevier, who

Department and the first Whipple-

geology program is a te tament

received her Ph.D. m ecology

addi ngton Professor of Geology.

to the value of endowed chairs ,

from the Univer I ty of

astaldo, who was the A l u m ­

onnecti­

otter aid. The

cut, bri ngs expert! e m an l lnal

n i Professor o f Geology at A u ­

W h i p p l e -Codd i n g t o n c h a i r ,

behavior and behavior ecology.

burn U n i versity i n A l abama,

given b y Trustee Emeritus J ane

holds a doctorate i n geology from

Whipple

Southern I l l i nois U n i v rsi ty. A

of 3 1 named professorships at

Gettysburg Coll ege graduate, he

Colby,

d c i ded to move to Maine, and

endowed in the past

from a large university to a small

President B i l l

Stone hold a doctorate in ecol­

addington '55, is one

ogy and evolut ion from the Un iver i ry of

ew York ar

rare tony

2 7 of which have been 1 0 years.

Brook and spec i a l i zes in pol l ma­

Six tenure-track posi tions also

evolut ion of flowering plants.

Pnnceron. H I

phy 1cal orga n i c c h em istry .

Robert Gastaldo

r i on biology, ecology and the spec ialty

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col lege, for the satisfac t ion of

were filled, inc luding a joint ap­

Ti lden earned a doctorate i n

er­

pointment in African-American

physiology from t h e University

Peter Dnmanson holds a JOint

teac h i ng i n a l i beral arts

" 1 a l ways had undergrads "1 a lways

studies and anthropology filled

fOk lahoma with pec ial izarion

appointment m East Asian �tud­

i n my lab," he said.

by Maritza Straughn-Will iams,

in neurobiology and compara­

Ies and h i tory. He earned hi'>

found i t a reward i ng t h i ng. I t 's

who completed her doc toral

tive animal physiology.

at that point that students de­

studies i n anthropology at the

c i de seriously what they want to

City U niversity ofNew York. he

r a n t profe s o r o f chemi t r y , ha

do." Colby's emphasis on re-

spec ial izes i n the Caribbean as

a doc torate i n c h e m istry from

r i ng.

Ph.D. in h btory and Ea t A�1an

Dasan T h a m a r roor, a s i s ­

language from Harvard U n iveriry and

peC i a i i :es m mtelle -

tual and cult ural history.

This new program reache a bn further

W h e n Professor S u e l l e n

and combines the resource of the French

( French ) started to p u l l together informa­ t ion and support for a new i n terdisc ipl i nary

Department with the International tudie>

program on French- pea k i ng women in Af­

program and other d iscipl mes m the hu­

rica and the Caribbean, she was amazed at

man i t ies and oC ial C ience . D1aconoff 1

how a campus in rural M a i ne is so thor­

particularly pleased that It ll' d l foc u

ough ly engaged i n i nternational affa i rs and

geograph ical regions and culture that arc

activit ies. " I t was rea l l y fanta r i c , " she said.

often not only underrepre enred m the

As a result of her i n i t iative, this involve­

formal c urnculum but are h i>toncally un­

on

dervalued by Western C I V I i i:ation.

ment becomes even deeper this semester.

Diaconoff was the leader of a coa l i t ion of

The program will mve rigare i �ue

facu l ty members who won a U.S. Department

civil oCiety through rhe tatu of women in

of Education grant to support a two-year proj ect titled "Focus on Francophone Women in Africa and the

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Suellen Diaconoff

tud1ed. The emergence of ne11 mle

orrh Africa and next year wdl

ro

expand trad it ional language in�rructiOn

w

'>(X.It>e..:o­

;mhhcan

Afnc,m anJ .

1

.lrt:

g11·cr . him

will the ch.1llen'!e

The pwgram <>ffer'> exc n mg <>pportumtie, t�>r ,tudenb thev enwll m the cour'e' t)[ nor. :\n Afn..:.m .mJ

I i rerature majors starred dropping, the department became the fir�r olby

nf

that they face m the C<>mmg century.

urriculum i n recent years. � hen the number� of French

c u ltural stud ies as we l l . In

ft>r

maker'>, IITiter'>, anJ artl'>t,__ w dl he exammed .

of the progressive revision' that the French Department ha made

at

or rernwne,

anbhean. on£11 rmgda1m'

women-mrel lectual politiC ian,, eJucatt>r'>, he.1 lrh-

Dean of Fac u lty Ed Yeterian see' the program a an exten�Ion irs

Afnca and rhe

nomic, political anJ cultural rran>ft>rmatitm in rhthC '>(X.ICtie wdl he

bring a foreign scholar to Mayflower H i l l for part of a seme rer.

w

olnnie'

the fom1er Fren h

of rraJmon anJ mr�<..l e rnity and

aribbean." The program

w i l l help add new courses in several department', w i l l offer ptr ible Jan Plan trip' to Guadalupe and

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of

w,b ,cheduleJ lt>r the hegmnmg of

mclude

ruher, all-campu' lecture are

m the t>tt mg, anJ ,eJt-m,tru t 1on.1l unn on

1 994-95 i t began offenng French >tudie'

11 hether

reule him ie m·al

Afncan anJ anhhcan

and d iscm·ered i t was a popular opt ion. h !any student' now double

language -pcrhap :\ rab1c, \\'olut. Bamb.1r and/ r Creole-w i l l

major i n French stud ies and internat ional studie'.

be adJeJ tc>

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olh ' 'rare-ot-rhe-arr Lmguage Re, ur e Center.

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books & authors

Chamberlain : A Hero for the Ages John J. P ullen '35 exami nes a hero he hel ped res u rrect 40 years ago

!, ·

By Harold B. Raymond, emeritus professor of History a way to train Maine youth for

advertising career in 1 96 5 and

more varied careers in the state.

in the appeal of his career to ordinary c itizens. H e was a c i v i l ­

never considered him elf a pro­

Chamberlain was as dedicated

fes ional hi torian, l a i d the

to public service as he was to the

ian-a professor-who met the

foundation for Chamberlain's

Union army, but his principles

grim test of wartime command

frequently got in his way.

and emerged as a hero a t a cru­

re,•ived

')� .· t '

JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN A Hero's

tatus ,,·hen he pub­

lished his first book, The Twen­

What Chamberlain failed to

c i a l m o m e n t . The r e l a t i v e l y

rieth Maine, in 1 9 5 7 . l n his new

learn was subtlety. After erving

s m a l l size o f the unit he com­

book, Pul len deals largely with

as governor he became embroiled

manded ( 400 men) make

postwar years

in a near civil war over a voting

skill, courage and calm maneu-

Chambe r l a i n '

Life & Legacy

JOHN J. PULLEN Joshua Chamberlain: A

and explains why his status as a

l ist dispute that ended in a siege

hero revi,·ed in the 20th cen­

on the state capitol. H is insis­

tury, after Chamberlain had

tence on pu uing that dispute

been subjected to repeated dis­

brought a bloodthirsty mob to

Hero's Life and Legacy

appointment and the gradual

his door and, more important,

Stackpole Books, 1 999

fading of his wartime glory. In

alienated him from politicians

2 1 6 pages

one sense, Chamberlain's l ife

across the spectrum.

A

reached its peak at Little Round

P u l len describes Chamber­

Top, where his leadership of the

la in's long decline-from 1 880

b u l l e t ripped through

Twentieth Maine quite poss ibly

until his death in 1 9 1 4 he suf­

J o h u a Lawrence Cham­

aved the Army of the Potomac.

fered from poor health, the rise

berlam' peh-i during a battle at

He went on to orchestrate one of

of a new generation, and di­

a., m 1 64. Cer­

the most moving gestures in mili­

minished prestige. But he re­

tam of death, he dic tated a fare­

tary h i tory when he in isted on

mained devoted to public duty,

wel l letter to his wife. When

saluting surrendering Confeder­

the pursuit of personal integ­

a;ked by two general what they

ate soldier at Appomattox Court

rity and patriot ism.

could do for him, Chamberlain

House-a decision that may well

He was a patriot with deep

reque red a promonon to bnga­

have cost him the illustrious fu­

emotional commitment to the

dter general, a rank awarded per­

ture that had seemed inevitable.

Union he helped save, but he

Peter burg,

'tmally h\

ly e

been forgotten. The answer lies

Pullen, who retired from an

. Grant.

his

The Civil War, like other ma­

was never an active abolitionist

vering at Little Round Top eas­

JOr Amencan war , produced a

and wa decidedly critical of radi­

i ly understood and fits into a

rh,n '><.ene m ht later book,}oshua

group of young men who found

cal reconstruction. Despite his

long American tradition of the

hamb.>rlam : A Hero's ufe and

fu lfillment and glory in military

own wounds, he was a firm be­

soldier rising to heroic achieve­

leader;h tp. However, the quali­

ltever in military virtues and the

ment in war.

that made orne men out-

heroic side of wartime service.

The struggle he maintained

rhar ,myone who 'eek:, a h tgher

t a n d m g on the b a t t l e f t e l d

Though these views have been

against an unfamil iar and an of­

wnrldh ofttee '' hen he thmk he 1

frequently were nor useful m polt­

critic i:ed by some 20th-century

ten hostile world, old age and

t tc and hu me;:,.

h t;torian , the U . . Army field

phy ical dec line is one old

manual on leader hip designates

diers must face. The heroism of

areer

hamberlain as a model mil itary

"doing the right thing no matter

through four fru rrat1ng one-year

leader. H t; ourage, c a l m devo­

what the consequences," drama­

J ohn J. Pullen '35 de:,cnbe

U!{Cll..') . "A thought whtch mu;t 'rnng

to

mmd," Pullen \\Ttte , "t>

dep.mmg from the world

cer·

1'

t te

I n a clear narrat ive, Pullen

tamh l<Xlkmg t<m ard the perpetu­ .ltt<m nf ht, tume ,md fame " h.tmf-erlam needn't h,l\ e w,

rned

H,tJ he dted rhar da\ ,

fo l l ow; Chamberl a m ' term'

a'

ht'>

,1 rem.trk.tHe leg.K\ of h<ln<lr,

'tghred,

.md hr,l\ en . A It

he '' enr <ln r 11!

,

'er\ e

,h

w ,h,

g<l\ em<lr

l a me ,md pre tdenr ,If ht'

,11 rna m.ttt:r, &m dom.

t ion

red n , Ch<1mherlam '' <l'> far­

( h.unh:rl.un \\Ould h.1 w t1ll lefr de en<.

gm ern or of Mame. To upporrmg muea ed

t<lun'm ,md nrher :-.. 1ame-ha,ed

ol­

duty and genuine com­

tized at Gettysburg, continued

pa >ton are VIrtues that endure

long after the glory of the war

hoth tn war and c t v t l ian life.

faded. Pullen' account ofCham­

ro

ne m tght a;k why

ham-

berlain's postwar career and the

1--erlam h<1 reemerged a a genu­

revival of his reputation is an

dependen e <ln ,e J ) mg r;m m,t­

me Amencan hero while many

essential part of the story of an

ten.ll . He rre 'ed edut:,ltlon a

other once-famo u :,oldter:, h ve

enduring American hero.

mdu,trle rh.tt reduced the '>tate'

3

Of TIMl

The Mot her H e N ever Knew

A N [)

Don J .

MlMORV

nyder ' 7 3 's 1 9-year­

on an elevator, the woman who e

old m ther died days after giving

de i res and fears nyder need to

the man who had never been

birth to him and hi twin brother.

know-" the one Without who e

t he ame after h 1:. young w1fe of

Of Time and Memory, the non­

touch our own worth me would

I0

fic tion story

forever be

f nyder' search

m

Abandonment and loneh­

fr iends, fam i l y and h usband, brings to l ife the mother he never

nes pervade this deeply mov­ ing story. nyder gathers all the t i me that other people had w1th

Of Time and Memory:

ging in the back fa pickup truck,

her and make the um of their

A Mother's Story

the young bride on her honey­ moon ki sing her husband a they

moment h i own. Along the

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ride all the way down l l floors

pages

fresh prints

month d1ed.

Gettmg at the heart of thb

doubt. "

for her in the memories of her

knew-the girl of 1 3 j i tterbug­

Alfred A. Knopf

k nown and fa llen m love w1th,

woman mean

gomg for the

heart . nyder\ lyncal pro e reache peak after ad, heauuful peak. In the weep of t1me and pace that overpower mother anJ father and nyder h1 m:.elf, h 1 own w1fe and four children prove

way he "finds" h is father, too, t h e pe rson h i s m o t h e r had

under tandably prec1ou .

the mi d - 1 500s who 1s cred1ted w1th keepmg Pans Catholic . The book i s a window on the religious and mtellectual climate of Pans at the

Writer on the Rocks: Moving the Impossible

time, and 1t challenges earlier works that suggested France was then

Linda Tatelbaum

i n the g ri p of eschatological ( "the-end-Is-near' ) angu1sh.

About Time Press,

1 999

Since publishing Carrying Water A s a Way of

Life i n

1 997,

essayist Linda Tatelbaum

Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father Isaac

D. Balbus '64

1 998

(Engl ish) has carved a niche writing about

Routledge,

homestead i n g , gardening and living without

Isaac Balbus '64, professor of polit1cal sc1ence at the Un 1vers1ty of

benefit of the electrical g ri d . In Writer on the

I l l i nois at Chicago, weaves three narrat1ves how h1s struggle to

Rocks she goes to the well again-literally, in

mother his daughter caused him to evaluate his relat1onsh1p with h1s

the first section, where she's down the hole

own mother; how theories of feminist mothenng and of narciss1sm

digging to get water flowing during a drought.

relate; and how historical changes 1n mothenng pract1ces expla1n the

The dry well is a metaphor for the blocked

popularity of Dr. Benjamin Spack's pnnc1ples Emotional Rescue 1s

writer, and the ghost of the late Edwin Kenney (E ngl i sh) as a mentor

feminist theory, psychoanalytiC theory, and 'men's stud1es at the1r

will be familiar to alumni readers.

very best," said one rev1ewer

Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media

The Complete Encyclopedia of Skiing (third edition)

B i l l Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

Robert

The Century Foundation Press,

1 999

C. Barnes '83

The Snowline Press,

B i l l Kovach (chair of Colby's Lovejoy Award Select1on Committee)

1 999

The th1rd ed1t1on of career ski Instructor Robert C Barnes '83's The IS

and Tom Rosenstiel use the Lewinsky scandal and Cl inton impeach­

Complete Encyclopedia of Sk1lng

ment to examine how the rapidly proliferating news media function 1n

reference for Instructors and all senous skiers

the new non-stop news cycle, which i s emerging 1 n an era of

Col o . , wntes that w1th 1nnovat1ons like deep-s1decut sk1s. "never has he

chang1ng mores about what is "fit to pnnt." Analyz1ng what was

reward for clear understanding and e ecttve educa tOn been grea er

reported when, by whom and with what sources, the authors "have been particularly vigilant 1 n trying to articulate the endunng values so much under assault," writes stam i n the introduction.

1 997 Lovejoy Fellow David

Halber­

touted as the 1nd1spensable Barnes of Keystone

other m e d ia School o f Velocity (CD)

Arthur Levering '75, composer

2 ( 999)

Composers Recordtngs Inc. (CR· CDS Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Franyoise Le

Th1s co ectton of compost 10ns performed by he Dtnosaur An ex

Picart and the Beginnings of the Catholic Reformation

Mus1c Ensemble and

Brill,

1 999

Larissa Taylor ( h1story), whose

anous other mustc,ans has been called e Boston G abe and

exc1 1ng lyncal polhe ul" by

Larissa J uliet Taylor

album by an Amencan composer I

1 992 book Soldiers of Chflst was

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Robert Car'

n

Fan are

e

e bes deb

eard

agaz,ne T o g

named the best fi rst book in medieval stud1es. follows up w1 h an

Le enng s nev. mustc •s pra sed

analysis of published sermons by Le P1cart. a popular preacher 1n

tmag,na 1 e arches ra ton and

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gifts & grants

Enhanc i ng Green G rants help envi ronmental stu dies p rogram B)' Stephen Collins '74

E

m· ironmental i ues are a n

Perkins Arboretum as an outdoor

increa ingly important and

laboratory and will fund environ­

popular field of study, and evi­

mental curriculum development.

dence suggests that among the

In September the College

prolifera t i ng academic programs

learned that the Andrew W .

available, Colby's i get t i ng no­

Mellon Foundation approved a

t iced. Top tudent are comi ng

proposal for several h u ndred­

to Mayflower H i l l to enroll in

thousand dollars "to strengthen

the program , and foundations

the environmental studies pro­

and individual have shown a

gram at Colby." That proposal

w i l l ingness-and even an eager­

i n corporates student research

Improvements in the 1 28-acre Perkins Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary on the campus will enhance its usefulness as an outdoor laboratory forenvironmental sciences and other disciplines.

as istantships, new off-campus

Award for I ntegration of Re­

endowments pay for student sti­

research partnerships for stu­

search and Education in 1 998,

pends each year.

ar hip to 1 0 Mas achusetts h igh

dents, a lecture series to bring

gets reinforced any t ime a stu­

M a ny students need the in­

chool enior who were plan­

outside experts to Colby and a

dent can spend the summer work­

come of a summer job to earn

ne -to upport the program.

A foundation that gave schol-

n i ng to rudy environmental sci­

coordinator to help arrange and

ing as a research assistant with a

money for school and expenses,

ence took notice this spring when

manage student internships in

professor.

explains Vice President for De­

t h ree of their scholars chose

environmental studies.

dation Student Research Fund,

velopment and A l u m n i Rela­

the J ana C. Rudnick Student

t ions Peyton R . Helm. These

Colby. The foundation, east Educational

orth­

Earlier this year, The Holli

ow, the Hollis Foun­

ervices, 1 nc . ,

Foundation, Robert Rudnick '69

Research Fellowship in Environ­

endowed positions combine the

o l b y to find out

and Vicky Kleinman P ' 3 all

mental Sciences and the Ralph

best elements of a paying sum­

more-and to invite the College

established endowed fel lowships

and Jack K leinman Student Re­

mer job and a valuable academ i c

to apply for a grant. This summer

for summer research assistants.

search Fellowship ( named i n

opportunity a s students work side

the foundation approved a pro­

Colby's emphasis on teac h i ng

honor o f Mrs. Kleinman's de­

by side w i th a professor. "There's

posal utled "Enhanc ing Envi­

through research, which was si­

ceased son, J ack '83, and late

a great need for these positions

ronmental Education through

m u lt a neou ly recogni:ed and

husband, Ralph) give Colby stu­

in the sciences as well as in soc ial

Fteld- BaseJ Learning," which will

supercharged with a

500,000

dents those opportunities i n per­

sc iences and the humanities,"

tmprove the u efulne s of the

N ational

c ience Foundation

petuity as the earnings of those

Helm said.

contacted

More than the Sum "We dtd tt!" crowed Peyron R. Helm, vice president for develop­

T h e College does n o t buy or ell m a i l ing l ists and guards t h e privacy o f i t s graduates rather zealously. Colby also wants to make

mem, upon leammg that, for the fir t t i me, m re than half of Colby's alumm-5 1 percem-parttctpated in the Alumni Fund drive.

giving as convenient as possible, so it ha established a new secure annual-giving Web site ( h ttp://www.colby .edu/afgift/) and the toll-free, 2 4 - hour number ( 800- 3 1 1 - 36 7 8 ) for individuals who

or that there has heen a dearth of rea om for the development

>taff w ro\\ , gtven the unprecedemed ucce s of The Campaign for olhv th.tt \\ rap' up tht year, hut the 50-percem alumnt part tc ipa­

wam the ea e of m ak i ng the transaction on the Web or by phone at any hour.

t ton go.tl ha heen a wugh nut tll crack.

P.trrtctpannn rate' are u,eJ by col lege ran k mg urvey and c h .t r t t.t h le founJat iom pen:et\ e p.trrtup.ttton a

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Once someone contributes, he or she will not be sol ic i ted again for the Annual Fund that year, Helm said, o responding to the first appeal ts the best olution for those who plan to give but feel

trength. They

mea,ure of "cu.,wmer 'an;,factton."

Rut , 1 the numher of n<m proftt nrg.tnt:anom ha exploJed and

overwhelmed by the volume of mail.

If wdlmg alumni keep track of whether they have contributed in any gtven year it will help maintain or even improve the participatio n rate, whtch ts tmportant for the College's successes to keep begetting ucce,ses. "Thts ts a berrer participatio n rate than half of the schools

rhetr tunJ-r,l l , t nfo! red1n tque' ha\·e l:>ec<lme more '>oph t;,t lc<HeJ and m '<ll1le c,t,e ,Jgfo!re

t\ e, Amem:.m ' recept t\ t t � to sud1 .tppeal, ha,

heen h.trJer to eng.tge. \X.'trh mformar u m .mJ .tppeal proltferanng . J p..l tcnn.tl J, m,lr ' .ltrcnnon '1'·111' hnnk mg, H m J tHtLulr for

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olh .tlum' J,m'r feel upport t\·e," he ,,uJ.

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que t ions bel w and on the back to let your c las mate in on what you've been dmng recently or hope to he Joing c\·entu,l ll) .

Have you moved ?

hanged careers ? Traveled ? Read a great book ?

This new questionnaire will be in each i sue of the magazine, allowing alumni to contact their cla

corre pondent t!1ur tune a year.

The past system for collecting news, ending separate letter once a year, wa unwieldy and nme comumtng for the -.ma l l taff in the Alumni Relations Office and the postage was expen ive. Now we look forward to heartng from you more than once a year!

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Alumni at Large

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Alu m n i Web s ite adds new se rvices with O n - L i n e Com m u n ity

By Stephen

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T www. olby.edu/alumni/harris.html, and a l l that a n al umnu; or he

o l by O n - L i ne Co m m u n i ty i s up and r u n n i n g a t

al umna needs to participate is the authenticat ion number pnnted on the mai l i ng label of this magazine.

The A l u m n i Relations Office set the Web s i te up to give olhy alumni an easier way to find old olby friends and the opportunity to get a permanent "@alum.colby.edu" e - ma d address that wdl remain the same no matter how often the owner change I nternet serv ice prov iders.

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Logging on is a simple, four-step proce .

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Go to http://www.colby.edu/alumn i/harris.html.

C l ick on "join now."

Follow the prompt for registering with the authent ication number printed on your Colby magazine mai l ing label. hoose an lD and a password. ( N ote that the lD cho en

The Alumni Connect1on' adds several new funct1ons to "The Blue Light , " Colby's alumn1 Web s1te

occupation. ew erv1ce , mcludmg space and tool to budd per­ anal Web page , w i l l be added a the on- l me community grow , said J u l i a rowe, Web and publ icat ion coord mator for developmen t and alumni relat ion .

becomes the prefix of the permanent e-mail address, and

neither can be changed . ) The d i rectory, which i s password protected so only olby alumni have access to it, can find alumni by name, c lass year, location o r

From Kosovo to Dja k a rt a

Alumni C o l lege G rowth Spurt Fifty-five people attended this summer' Alumni College on The American ivil War-a record number and a substantial spurt in what ha been steady growth dur­ i ng the six years that the program ha been offered. " l t was an enor­ mou succe s," said coordinator harle Ba ett ( English and Am ri an studies). "The ivil War is a popu lar topic that ap­ peals to a wide variety of people, but the word has begun to get spread, too, that thi i a great way to -pend a week."

Ba--ett again recruited col­ league- from the faculty to teach a single theme for a weel m J ulv to a n audience of I n terested alumni and parents of current 'tudent'. E li:abeth Leonard and R i c h ard �\ l oss ( h 1 s w r ) G . akin bcken:ie and . nrhonv orrado ( government ) a nd Da\'ld ·

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Lu� in ( art and Amencan srud­ ies ) dis ussed h istory , pLllmcs,

Robert . Gelbard '64, confi rmed thi summer as the United tate amba.,.,ador to l ndone Ia, was he,1ded for that troubled nation 'hortlv after an m tern m i onal peacekeepmf.! force landed m East Timor la t month. H , , deploymenr was delayed while he \\Tapped up bu me ' from hi, prt.!\'1ow. P<"tmg 111 Bm n 1 .1 where h e was the Pre,Idenr\ speC ial repre,ent.lti\·e Robert S Gelbard '64 bef,lre .md dunn(! the KL"<'Hl en'' .

Ambao ador Gel bard, a career d 1pk1mat , ha, emert.:cd ·b Pnc ot' the tate Department' "hot t-'ll n,," in the wt,rd., ul :\,'lX:I.uc Pw!t: or of EconLlmic and l nte rnanona l , t uJ 1e P.u n c c Fr.m k cr--.m ,, c "

i mages and soc i a l trends in America during the Civ i l War. Morning lectures and d iscussions were augmented with afternoon programs and field trips. Part ici­ pants stayed in the Anthony­ M itchell- chupfdormitories and took ad vantage of everyth mg the

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campus has to offer-athlenc fac i l itie , arboretum t ra i l , na­ t ionally acc laimed food ser\'lce and the olby-Hume enter on !essalomkee Lake.

1umn 1 from eve!)· decade fwm the 1 910, to the '90s were repre­

ment onfi m1ed h h1 appcHntment 111 l ndone 1.1 .1 th.u c;ountry dealt With blt'l<.ld. heJ and Lhatb 111 Ea t Timor, dc mon,t r.mnn ' 111 rhc capit,ll and pr,)Hem wtth the lntern.mon.1 ! , !oncr.tn Fund.

In add n iLm tel h" ,t ,u u ' a .1 meml-ocr ' t olh ' !.1 ot 1 96 , veli'>arJ became .1 tlih\ p \Tent thi, e,H \\hen hi d.lll�hter, Al e \..111 dr.1 , enrtllled "' .1 mcmh�r ,>f the Cl.b ot 2 3. H t Wile and Ale\.andr.1' muthcr, A t kne Gelh.uJ, , dem _raphcr tn

:,ented, a1d l\!eg Bernier ' l , <b>O­ Ciare d1recror of alumm relan'm', and their re.p<.1nse '' <b enthLNa nc. "Bravo! " one partiCipanr \\T<lte on the CLlur'e ,·aluan,m. 'T,1 be 111 the room while Prclfe"<'T Ba -err 1.

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d,,mg hi, rhmg '' a pm !lege."

It wa' ,1 ,,1\YY ,1ud1ence, 8.1 "e rr ,,u d. "::;clme ,,i the,e pec>p le lne\\ mclre ,1bc1ur rhe I\ II \\',1r th.m 1 ,,.,,uld e\·er Jre.m1 c'l l ncl\\ mg."

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Ma king Con nections Alumni call me all the time to chat about politics or other issues. And it's not unusual these days, as my old students become important decision makers, that I'm the one doing the calling.

That's the thing about Colby.

Lives intertwine for the long haul. We may be teacher and student at one point, but then the roles evolve and reverse.

Cal Mackenzie Distinguished Presidential Professor of American Government

We share interests, we argue, we learn from each other.

The bonds between facu lty a nd students a n d a l u m n i a n d Colby h ave a lways been stro n g .

Yo u r g ift h e lps strengthen these special rel atio nsh ips.

G ive to the C o l by Al u m n i F u n d .

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N EWS M A K E RS An act of generosity by the son of Adrian Cloutier ' 3 1 made news recently when eorge A. Cloutier, a Maine native and Harvard graduate, endowed a 1 -mdlwn cholarsh1p fund for four Mame students to attend Harvard each year. Adrian loutier credited Colby with an Instrumental role in h is son's generous gift. " I f ! hadn't gone to Colby and given him thi great start in life, he wouldn't have been able to do what he d1d," said lou t ier, who wll l1ves m h is home of more than 40 years in Portland, Maine.

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1 940s Correspondents 1 940

B E F O R E T H E FORT I E S M I LESTO N ES Deaths: Doris Dewar H u n t ' 2 6 , April S , 1 999, in New Canaan, Conn . , at 94 . . . . Helen Kyle Swan ' 2 6 , April 26, 1 999, in Kingston, Ma s., at 93 . . . . Marjorie Dunstan ' 2 7 , May I , 1 999,

in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 95 . . . . Marie Holmes Ray ' 2 7 , May 1 8, 1 999, in Randolph, Mass . , at 9 1 . . . . Gladys B u n ker Bridges ' 2 8 , M a y 2 9 , 1 999, in Bangor, Maine, a t 94 . . . . Al lan J .

Stinchfield ' 2 9 , J une 1 7 , 1 999, i n Gorham, Maine, a t 93 . . . . Mabel Doll iff Craig ' 3 0 , J u ne 5, 1 999, in Claremont, Calif., at 9 1 . . . . Lee F. Brackett ' 3 1 , J une 9, 1 999, in Farmmgton, Maine, at 90 . . . . J e rome G . Daviau ' 3 1 , J une 1 4, 1 999, in Berlin, Conn., at 90 . . . . Barbara W hite Morse ' 34 , J u ne 1 , 1 999, in Springvale, Maine, at 86 . . . . Cleo Tuttle Henderson ' 3 6 , April 2 1 , 1 999, in Penacook, N . H . , at 86.

BEFORE THE FORTIES

J i m Bunting was a cryptanalyst and lingui t

Fletcher Eaton '39 has been unable to continue his column for the classes between 1 920 and 1 939.

Please send your news directly to Meg Bernier, olby College Office of Alumni Relations, Waterville, Maine 0490 1 ( m_bemie@colby.edu) .

W e hope t o hear from you.

with our National Security Agency. J im ha won first place in golf in hi age group at the Maryland pecial Olympic for the last three years. H is son John wa a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles for 1 1 years . . . . I sabel Abbott is into Elderhostel. he's also a traveler, having toured Greece in 1 997 and the Briti h Isles in 1 998 . . . . Class agent Bob Bruce 1 also an Elderhosteler, having experienced five of their foreign programs a well as many m the United S tates . . . . J oseph Burns and wife Catherine saw the America's up sailing race in Australia a few years ago. Their trip was the prize won by Catherine for an essay on that event. Some writer! They live in Mendham, N .J . . . . At Reunion Weekend la t J une the Class of 1 939 had a large delegation back for their 60th. But we can do better. Plan now ro return ro Waterville 111 J une 2000 for our 60th.

Let's celebrate the new year, the new century and the new millennium In tyle!

-Ernest C. Marriner )r.

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ur representatives a t 1 999 Reunion Weekend, enjoying gorgeous weather, were Doris Rose Hopengarten, Howard Miller,

W o r k m a n and I. . . . Phone calls from Charles "Chuck" Card and Myron "Mike" Berry were great substitutes for the written word. After the Air Force sent huck to Amarillo long, long ago, he stayed and became a cotton and m i lo rancher. He and Mary have no children. M ike, who celebrated his golden wedding anniversary in 1 998, now has nine grandchildren. He told me that Horace B u rr told him that Tom Elder was recently married . . . . Ruth Rowell Higgins reminisces about Tom Elder's stay in a ew York hospital during WW I I . She also reports on recent heart surgery performed on E l len Fitch Peterson in arasota. Ruth and son teve were moving from outh arolina to Albuquerque this year. . . .

Brewster Bran: was president ofGuardian om­ panie when he retired. H is son- are, respec­ t ively, a professor of organic c hemistry 111 alifornia, a ph ·sic i t in olorado and an attor­ nc · in h !assachusetts . . . . David Corron stdl dispenses college scholarships to h1gh school graduates up in "the county." He IS the execu­ tive director of the Ricker ollege Board of Trustees . . . . Ruth Emerson Duchacek reports that faith, fam i ly and fnends are unpc rtanr w her. he speaks for many c)f us! Two of her children, a bank compliance officer and a con­ tra tor sales representati,·e , ll\·e In \ ermonr as she does. he also has a daughter In regon . . . .

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In my efforts to mamtam close ties with friend and c las mates from long ago, I frequently come aero;, a humorous >tor or anecdote or >omethmg JUst to make me smde.

This time It wa a questionnaire returned ro me by orris Dibble. \ ell, sin e school he has fulfilled hi> dream to become a lawyer, an mter­ e>t >parked back at olbv, and has a l ove l y '' 1fe whom I am sure manv of \'c)U ha,·e mer. He h,1, four children '' he) ha\'e no\\ grcm n .md ha\ e children of their em n-e1ghr gr.mdchddren aged " ve::u, nghr d c)W n w - · , 'orn' retired frc)m his law career '' nh Dibbll', .l mpbell, and B.ub.1 and no\\ II"e' 111 Longmead,m , :\Ia" Hl' '' still a' nbranr a' e\·er. ,md 'In e we'\'e hl'ard trc)m him last, he ,a,·, he ha, �:rown older. '' '' r, betrer IOL)kmg, and h,1pp1er. He claim, rhar 1r " con-rant acr t\'H\ rhar keeps htm c ut t the

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Paul Willey '42 modestly judges his career as "spotty," and, i n

a s Buenos Aires a n d a s exotic a n d remote a s Antofagasta, C h i l e ,

fact, h i s academic and professional careers were both ridd led

and Cochabamba, Bol ivia. "Some places we f l e w had never seen

w1th interruptions. But "spotty" is a word that seems ill suited to

airplanes," he said . Qu ito, Equador, has a field elevation of

a pioneeri ng career that opened large tracts of South America to

1 0 ,000 feet, with mountains on all sides, rang i n g from 1 5 ,000 to

commercial aviation.

2 1 ,000 above sea leve l , and the old DC3s labored for altitude with

Willey graduated from Watervi lle H i g h i n 1 938 and enrolled at

no turbocharger. LaPaz, Bolivia, was a d i rt strip 1 3 ,400 feet

Colby's downtown campus. Robert LaFleur '43, a high school

above sea level. A route from LaPaz to Argentina was so h i g h it

classmate, did l i kewise. But like so many students of that era, the

req u i red pi lots to breathe supp lemental oxygen for five hours

two local fellows had their studies interrupted by a passion for

straight, though passengers got it only in emergencies.

flyi ng and an opportun ity to p u rsue it made possible by World

Wil ley returned to Waterville in 1 947 and eventually f i n i shed

War I I . LaFleur was killed i n the war (and Watervi lle named its

h i s last year at Colby while working 45 hours a week at radio

airport for him), but Wil ley, initially because of a quirk of stature,

station WTVL. " I was always a history and government b u ff , " he

took a different path-pioneering commercial air routes throug h

said, recall ing his mentor, Professor Paul F u l l am . "And I wanted

South America a s a pilot for Pan American-Grace ( Panagra)

to say I had graduated from someplace . " But the flyi ng bug still

Airways based i n Lima, Peru .

had him and he returned to Panagra i n 1 95 1 . During a six-year

"I tned to get into the Navy, the Air Corps and the Marine s , "

furlough from the airline he ran Col lar and Willey I n surance in

s a 1 d Willey, now retired and l i v i n g in Florida. " Each t i m e , the

Oakland i n the 1 960s. He was called back and spent 1 3 years

recruiting officer would look up at me and say, 'How tall are you ,

flying for Braniff before man datory retirement hit at age 60.

sonny?" A t six-four, he simply wouldn't fit into early mil itary

When he returned to Maine in the 1 980s, his wife (since

cockp1ts Tra1ned by the Col by-sponsored Civilian Pilot

1 943), Marie, decided she'd l i ke to have a Colby degree

T ra1ning Program. Willey took a position with Panagra

too. Marie Willey '85 graduated P h i Beta Kappa at

â&#x20AC;˘n 1 942 The work was sufficiently i m portant to

age 69. " P hys Ed req u i rement and a l l , " her

the Un1ted States' interests that he was

husband prou d l y reported.

protected from the draft and, later in life,

Wil ley sti l l exercises his interest in

rece1ved an honorable discharge from

h i story by p u b l ishing " PANAGRAm , "

the A1 Force for his service.

a newsletter for Panagra veterans

W 'ey recently p u b l i shed a

that helps maintain what appears

book compiling h1s colleagues'

to be a tight network of "/os

memo1rs H1s own accoun re-

pioneres del aire. "

calls 1y1ng places as fam11iar

-Stephen Collins

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rocking chair. Whether it is mental , phystcal, emotional, moral, econom ical, phi losoph ical or anything else, Norris is a man always domg something to keep active. He has served as a hospital volunteer ever ince his retirement even years ago. Norris Dibble is certainly a man to make Colby proud. But when asked what he learned at olby, h is response was surprismgly honest. He said, " ! l ived in the Phi Delt House, acr from Fos Hall. Quite often the women there dressed or undressed without pull ing the shade . ! learned more about anatomy there than

cnu e last wmter, vt tttng olomhta, Co,ta Rtca, etc., and go111g through the Panama anal a far as Lake Gatun. He recently had a phone vt tt wtth Beverly Booth, who ts dmng well . . . . Add Adele Grindrod Bates to the "hope-to-go" lt;t. Adele,

nately, Runnals Union, home of the trider stage, is all that now tand across from Foss Hall, which has just completed renovation.

-Bonnie Robens Hathaway

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Received n e w from Sun-

ny Smith Fisher, who is a "serious vol un teer" in N arraganset t , R . I . unny, a member o f S H O ( eniors Helping thers), volunteers on a number of commi ttees and directs a watercolor w rkshop at the com· munity center. After her husband's death, she says she wanted to con-

fornta octet� of Oral and Maxd lofactal ur· geon' a' an "mternattonally known researcher m hone phv tolog)- and tt' c l m tcal appltcatton m the fteld of oral and maxd lofac tal �urgery." ongratulattom, Ph t l ! . . . Remember back a few column' when

50th. . . . Helen trau s has been another heavy­

Project I n ternationa l ? 'i ell, mv tgnorance of the project brought forth the fol lowtng mforma·

duty

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olby volunteer and const tent reumon at·

tton: He rfer provtde' drfterent kmd of flXxl·

and France. Last spnng he managed one of our semt-annual .Y.C. tghtseemg events, tht ttme

and- mcome-prod u c m g a n r m a l s a long W t t h mtemtve trammg m anrmal hu bandry, env r ronmentally 'lmnd farm m g and com m u n t t y development to 4 countrre , tnclud tng the

newspaper interviews that the elf-published Death Under the Tall Pines was selling well enough to order a second prmtmg . . . A photo of Raymond Rogers '49 who volunteer> tn the " Born To Read" program at a Waterville, Maine, day-care center, appeared m the ummer issue of The Maine Humanltle ouncd new letter.

M I LESTO N ES Deaths : Ruth Berkelhammer Collis '40, January 6, 1 999, m

ew Bedford, Mass., at 8 l . . . . Richard C. Johnson '4 1 , June 6 1 999, m Sunnyvale, Calif., at 8 l . . .. Ruth Camerson avage '4 1 . December 30, 1 998, in H ilo, Hawaii, at 78. . . . atalie Moores Daggett '42, J une 1 6 , 1 999, in

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trip in early J une to Mayflower Hill. Reminder: while there, we'll be guests of the College. I 've talked with a few c las mates who, like me, are "hope-to-go's." That goes for all '45er whose names follow. Chuck Dudley, who erved so very well a lass president at our 50th, is a faithful reunion attendee. He and hirley ( Mar­ tin '46) have seen these Colbyite dunng the past year: Bill '48 and Bonnie Howard Atherton '44, anc Loveland Dennen '4 7 and Dor Allen oettman '46. The Dudley had a great trtp last winter to ew Zealand and Australia. They also travel regularly, to l i ami Bea h , l ndtanapolt>, Pasadena, M i nneapoli' and Hartford ( where they live when not tn Florida) tO \'tStt thetr ftve sons and daughters . . . . Ro: Kramer ha> at· tended many reunion and been a dedt ated oraduate over the ·ears, servmo on a vanety of olby committees, holdmg several offices . . . .

Betty Lohnes rudin, who 'ays the reunwn\ .1 po'sil: t l tty for her, talk· verv enthusta>ttcalh about li1·ing tn Foxdale V I llage, a retirement pia e in Pennsyh-anta . HappY fam t iY ne1": .1 new orandch i ld on the \\ av, 111 England. where her son lives . . . . \Y./e can expect w see �Iaurice Whitten, a l aine/Fionda restdent. at the ,, 1 . lege next J une. launce an� Dons enjl'Wd .1

Fergu on

tcndee. A I wnte tht5, he' travelmg tn England

After a career in new papers m Mame and Flonda, Horace Landry '49 has written a mystery novel in his retirement. He told everal

As you read thi , our 5 5 th reunion is just a few months away, and it's time to plan a

ancy Par on

ment ioned her volunteer work '' tth the Hetfer

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tinue traveling, she spent a sum· mer studying watercolor in I taly and Greece.

More recently she v isited Australia. he i a proud mother of two and grandmother of two.

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onnecttcut and keeps bu�y enough for two people, remember> fondly our very rectal

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I did in any c lassroom." My goodness. If that' what he learned when we went to ho I , I wonder what the k ids are learning today. Fortu·

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cottsdale, Ariz., at 7 .

a tour of hi toric Fraunces Tavern, plu lunch. oming ro the ctty ? Maybe coinctdentally we'll be having an outing that you mtght ltke to attend­ we'd love to ee you.

- aom1 Collwe Paganellr

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A

quick note from Jean O'Brien

Perkins with the Peace Corps m Bulgana tell usda e are goingwell. "Teachmg here rs really no different from teaching 111 the tate . Teen­ ager here are a great and a unpredrcrable." . . .

Norma ( "J i l l " ) Taraldsen Bill ings, an off and on soc tal worker, says she\ pretty much renred though he \'Oiunteer at church and at the Augu ta !ental Health ln,mute. Dr I.. '4 ha' e>tablt hed Day �lountatn Publtcanon,-te l l us more 1 he ay> the · ha1·e fl\·e wonderful grandchtldren, wtth one, ean �lc amara, a pre> rdennal scholar at H. And the1 ·eep Dr k's old home m eal Harb 1r II\ able fM the famtly to enjlll' · " l\ l t . De,err '' ' ur 'ummer treat," ,he ,ay>, addmg that thetr ftme" pro· gram 1' a i led "Garde n . " . arol Robin Epstein 1' makmg contmumg g,xx! pr I(!Te" after 'enou,, mmwann: 'urgerv .;; h e rettred 1.1 t :eptember tr,,m ,,x: t,l l '" rl... " tth t,hter L ue chr ldren .m d famt lte, ,md .1 teen pre!:!n:mc\ ' he re... enth p m:nrmg pr,,gram m \\\l r<.. e ,ter . h e l ped h e r ml> t h e r · e l e b r.He h e r I th btrthd,ll . . . Philip B y n e 1 , rt:LLll ertn!:! trum rw,, ,pm.l l , per.lt tL>n' .md 1\'L>rl... mg part t t me un re,e.1r h .lt L, ma Lmd.1 Unl\ er-rn . ledrc.1l enter. I n JanU.l[\ rh.t re..:et\ ed the Dt,tln· gut,hed .;;e n·t·e :\\\ ard tr,>m the S >uthern air-

( Aroostook ounr� for m t.mce) I t offers hungry fam r ltes around the world a way to feed them-.elvcs, he­ come elf-rel tant and help other,.

Antmal are reg ron appropnate and m tght be hetfer,, l lama , goah, rah­ brt , chtckem, honer bees or duck-.

I n the tradttton of "Grve a man a ftsh 1 Teach a man to ft,h," Hetfcr Proj ect make a drfference. In vol­ unteenng there, ancy help, make a dtfference, too . . . . o more quev ttonnarres wrll be maded to you. To save money and t11ne, the A lumnt Office wtll mclude a general que'>· t tonnarre m every t> ue ( four ttme a

year) of olby maga:me. o look for your and end tt to me wrth your new,. Thank .

-Anne Laurenee Bond,

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The larch 2 tssue of The Bo wn lob.: conta med an mtere t t ng artrcle about Margaret cott Carter and her Port mouth, H .. an· ttques shop, where she ells country furn iture, decoratl\'e acces ones anJ ant rque too k e \ • era! of her mmtature carpenter plane,, '' ht<.:h are mcrea mgly drft.tcult to fmd, were ptct ureJ. ow a grandmother of 1 4 and great-grand­ mother of two, 'he gamed an mtere't t n tlll > l from her I.n e hu,hand, " ho \\ a a dealer ,md colle tor and wtth \\ hom he founded thetr shop. �[o,t of '' h,n he 'ell, Me I th-ccntun tlX'I' he collcu' m Enel.md.

Tom Burke thank, e,·en·onc '' h,, 'cnt hrm w t he, th.lt he get we l l ta't and ,,ud th.H '' ,J, m11rc th.m 5l percent l1f the dh,. He ,,u d he had no tdea o manr people appreu.lted '' h lt he drd a c l.1 , agent and WlluiJ be h>rever gr.u du l . I t ' u c: '' hu are t,,re1 er gr lttlul tl> 'ou, T,,m, D roth) Brigg romon Cllllttnuc' toc ur.ue the , led held H Nl>rt<.. .l l -ll<.. let\ , '' ht<.. h " r l l h: celebrattn' r \ e.U' In 2 l.

Juh 2 / , the Bod tun � ·huheretn, \\ here he te c:he erm, n .mJ German h ru e , '' nh the e. pcLt.ltl n ot t\\ r three rh u ,mJ 'PeLtdt r, Tht ummcr, he pi nned to be hrkmt: n the :\dtr nd �. I.. i . 'e\\ Y rk.

Robert Bender l•n,tnalh tn the Cia .:r tdu'lteJ '' tth u liter return me trum the u.m , .r thc end f \'( rld \X'ar l l Unt r unatel) , he 1' til nJ u'm..:

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Sampson has three "excellent grandchildren."

(Aren't all grandchildren excellent? ) He and his wife live in Appleton, Wi ., and continue as reader in their respective churche . He is active politically a a member of the Democratic Parry, secretary of the th Congressional Disrrict and member of the platform and resolution commit­ tee, th Disrrict. . . . John and I have recently returned from a walking tour in the Corswold area of England, known for it history, villages of yellow lime tone buildings, gentle hills and stream . As a follow-up, we'll be walking inn-to­ inn in Vermont next week.

-Mary Hall Fitch

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We haYe had limited response to our last mailing-just three replies and a letter­ although David Choate provided plenty of in­ formation. Dave is retired, and he and Diane have fi,·e children and three grandchildren. His Colby roots are deep. His mother and father both graduated from Colby as did his sister, Constance Choate Trahan '46, and his brother, Paul. Dave's goal was to be an attorney and he went to Boston University Law School, but ultimately he left and graduated from the Andover ewton chool of Theology and wa a pastor In the west for 1 year . He then earned a master' degree from the University of Colo­ rado In public administration and worked in local and reg1onal government before finally becoming a realtor. He tutor Hispanic children In La Academ1a, a private school, reaching Denver h1gh chool "dropouts." He spends two to three months a year in foreign travel, owns a place near Cancun, Mexico, snorkels, golfs and takes canoeing tnp on Colorado rivers. Thanks, Dave, for that \'ery interesting ummary of your full and rewarding activities . . . . Peg Clark Atkins ha:. LX chddren, nine grandchildren and fl\•e daughter /sons-In-law. he and Harold are planning a tnp around the Baltic Sea and Intend to VISit Copenhagen, t. Petersburg, He! Ink I and 0 lo. They volunteer at their local pub he library, where Peg ha been a trustee for 2 5 year . The� also ra1se funds and help main­ rain a budding for the local G1rl couts and do numerou church actiVItle . Peg v1 1ted Marie Machell Milliken In rhe Denver area Ia t Oct<lber Dick Billings Included an Infor­ matl\·e 1-- wchure of h1s Da1 Mountain Pubhca­ tl<ln , '' h1ch doe de,ktop pubh>hing (h1 Web .lddre'' " W'J W.Bdlini':,Boobrore.com ) . Af­ rer olh he recel\·ed a ma>rer' degree from pnngj1eld .md a docrorare from La aile Um­ n:r It\ . He ha' had a d1,t1ngu1shed career of publ1c 'ernce and 1:-u,Ine, . By the way, he " a ded1mu' JU'tlce and not.lT\ pul:-hc and oH1c1ates .u w edding . ( \Vc Included rh.H Infnrmanon In the e' enr rhar anr of you young rers fwm '4 are pl.mmng marn.tge In the near future . ) David e�nJ How ell lement-w hnm <lffiC of you rna\ r.:c1ll w Dtnd\ r< 1m mare .tlon� w1th loyd A r-t:rh '46 In rhe proctor\ 'ulte In Headman H.1ll In 1 944 ha,·e h.td Lllntmumg corre· 'f'lmJenu: rhat 1' mh•rm.HI\ c .Ind .1 lor of fun. ..

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For Memorial Day weekend Howell planned to finish sawing up a 60-foot white pine he had cut down because it was dying. Then he was going to take a bike ride for exercise and finish up by going to Glacier Park for a picnic with his daughter's family. The following week he was scheduled to officiate in a soccer tournament called Three Blind Refs. The name of the tour­ nament was adopted from comments made by some of the players . . . . We went to Colby com­ mencement this year. David and our daughter Debbie took part in all the ceremonies. We had great fun meeting and having dinner with J udy Woodruff of CNN and AI Hunt from The Wall Street ]oumal, who were honorary degree recipi­ ents. George Mitchell was the commencement speaker and delivered an excellent address. Over the Memorial Day weekend we went to a wed­ ding in Florida, then drove to Sarasota and visited with Aaron Sandler and his wife, Sandra, before heading home. It was great for us to get together after so many years. In June we at­ tended the 50th wedding anniversary party for Phyllis and Bob Sage '49. Bob and David have been friends since they met at summer camp in 1 94 1 . . . . Please write us and tell us what is going on in your lives. You don't have to fill out a form-just send a letter so that we can provide interesting class notes for Colby magazine.

-Dorothy and David Marson

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Welcome to the 50-Plus Club! Wasn't that a grand reunion? I thought it was the best one we've ever had. It was great having so many of us back, but we missed those of you who were unable to attend. The Anthony, M itchell, Schupf dormitory complex is certainly a far cry from what you and I remember from our Colby days, with cable TV, phone and Internet j acks in every room ! And the wonderful meals and meal service didn't have much in common with the meals of our day either. Do you suppose that in 50 years the Class of 1 999 will be in equal wonder and amazement at the changes at Colby compared to what they remember? . . . ow that we are members of the 50-Plus Club, our class leadership i configured differently. Don Nicoll wdl erve as vice president of the 50-Plus Club, Don and Bob Tonge will represent us on the Alumm Council, and I am back for another tint a class corre pondent. Which brings me to the subjeCt of news-and perhaps you've no­ need, I haven't any! Hopefully, together and w1th the help of the technology that has devel­ oped In the mtervenmg five year since I was la t your correspondent, we can fix that. Fir t of all, the Alumm Office wdl no longer be ending out quesnonna1re to one-fourth of the class at a nme; que nonna1re> wdl now be Included m the olby magazine four t1mes a year. If you choo e to U'>e them, great, but I >ee m peru mg our new yearf-ook rhat man\ of u , Includmg me, are now on the Internet. And 1f you are ! Jke me, you would much rather >It down at your computer to keep m touch w1rh fnend and famdy. o when the >pmt mo,·e , 1t down and >end me your

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news. If you want to re pond to the questions on the questionnaire via e-mail or USPS or j ust Sit down and chat with your cla smates, I will be thrilled and do my best to transmit your news to the rest of the class. I don't want to hear any more excuses ("nothing has happened," "!/we haven't done anything or been anywhere").

We are all interested in what you are doing even if it's nothing! Whether you use e-mail or s-mail, please send me your news. Having j ust spent a weekend getting reconnected, let' keep connected. I will happily serve as the connecting link.

-Anne H agar Eusris

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As I write this I'm thinking with fond memories of the 50th reunion of the Class of '49, which Charlie '49 and I j ust attended. The weather was perfect and the campus looked beautiful. The trees have all grown and so has the number of buildings. (You will be amazed at the wonderful facilities at Colby now. Students today are extremely fortunate to attend such a lovely campus.) The group from '49 was an active, young-looking group that thoroughly enjoyed being together and seemed to like all the activities planned for them. I urge everyone attending our reunion to plan on going for the four full days, as it seemed to heighten the camaraderie among the group. June 2000 will be here before you know it, so we should all plan now . . . . Robert Armitage attended the 50th reunion in 1 99 7 as a member of the original Colby Eight and plans to be at ours. Bob, who has retired from a career in computers, lives in Binghamton, N.Y., with his wife, Bianca. They have tl1ree children and nine grandchildren . . . .

Alice Jennings Castelli lives in Madison, Conn., and has retired as an admissions director of a small private school. After Colby, Allie studied for an M.A. and an M.S., and she has three daughters, a son and four grandchildren. Allie and her sister, Elisabeth Jennings Maley, went to Prague, Czech Republic, last spring, and she also travels frequently to Colorado, Mexico and Florida. Like so many of our cla mares, Allie has fond memories of life at Foss Hall and classes with professors Colgan and the Comparettis . . . .

Charlotte Shoul Backman writes from Newton, Mass., that she and her husband, I rving, will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, as will many of us. They have a son and a daughter and four grandchildren. Charlotte is certainly active, playing tennis four to five times a week, going to aerobic classes, swimming and walking.

Charlotte make everal short trip each year to v1sit her daughter and family in Florida. Al­ though she hasn't been back to Colby, she plans to attend our reunion, she says, and fondly re­ members her contacts with President Bixler, who entertained at teas and welcomed honor students to his home. He was a favorite with all of u . . . . Philip Dine of Hanover, Mass., i rhink­ mg about cumng back on his work week, but he doe find time to take a couple of nice trips to Europe each year. He and Barbara have three

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ch ildren and ix grandchildren. Phil says he had such a good time at our 4 5 th , he plans to be there for the 50th. Hope to hear from more of you.

-Virginia Davis Pearce

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Athens for three day., cru1 e the Aegean ea

and end with a three-day tourof l tanbul. . . . ot to be outdone by our clas mate , m late pnng M im i and I spent nearly three week on a renree ' vacatiOn

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this is ue ? Believe it: lots offolks out there would enjoy hearing about you.

-Paul M . Aldrich

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seven grandchildren, a number of whom live nearby . . . . Barbara Gifford Whitepine reti red from the music department at Bowdoin four years ago and continue to l ive in Brunswick.

After a 43 -year vacat ion from the euphonium that she played in the

olby Band, Barbara joined both the Bath and Boothbay Harbor munic ipal bands. She works part time for Neigh­ bors, an organization providing services to the elderly, and also is a tive in several programs at the Brunswick enior enter. One such pro­ gram involves interviewing seniors and compil­ ing their stories for a book they hope to publish on recollections of life in the 20th century.

During the summer she often visits Hugh and A n ne Magee Burgess, who spend their sum­ mers in Maine . . . . Art W h ite, who retired as headmaster at The Hotchkiss School in Con­ necticut, and h is wife, ynthia, spend the win­ ter months in New myrna Beach, Fla. When not pursuing his dut ies as our class agent, Art cooks for a food kitchen and is active in a hi torical ociety, a men's garden club and the New myrna Beach Golf Club. ( The order given is not necessarily the order of time uti l iza­ t ion ! ) Cynthia and Priscilla Storrs Grummer, also living in New Smyrna Beach, are volun­ teer at The Harris House, a center for the arts . . . . Karen and Dave Robinson live in Alfred, N . Y . , where for the pa t nine years Dave has been village admin istrator for the vil lage of Arkport. In 1 9 6 he retired as regional adm in­ i trative officer for the New York State Depart­ ment of Transportation. Karen is a special education teacher in Hornell, .Y. They were in Maine for a week along the coast in April and made a vi'it to Colby, Karen for the first time . . . . Valerie and Bill Taylor, my maJor source of internet jokes both good and bad, l 1ve in an Dieoo, al if. Bil l's major acti\'lt)' now that he's retired from ew York Life and the U. . oast uard is with the retired semor volunteer patrol of the San Otego Pollee De­ partment. t-. !embers do vacation hou.e checks, bank patrols, elementar • school patrol- as the kids arrive and depart and "You Are ot Alone " ails on the elderly Jnd d1sabled. Btll 1· founder of the Rancho Bernardo ew Engbnd lub, which numbers ' 5 members. H e also I S a mem­ ber of the an Oieoo . -. oast Guard fiicers Assoc iation, " keep i ng the memon· a l l \·e. " alerie is a phi losoph · instructor at Palomar ollege. s I wrote, they were prepanng to th

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Before reporting fr m our "regular" contributors, I wanted to g1ve everyone the news from Jane Bailey Blood Strete. J ame ha been very busy ince graduation. She earned her ma ter's degree in theology, which, he ay , made her more of a "people" per on, and stud1ed psychology and writing, which i n turn led to publishing poetry. She eem quite proud of her effortS to c l imb 1 4 of the many White Moun­ tains of New Hamp hire and even orne of the Rockies. Somewhere in there he has managed to rai e a daughter and two on . Her daughter is now a lawyer; her ons are in the computer world. Back in the '70s she re-visited the cam­ pus, so now is the time for Jane to plan for our 50th . . . . Bob Wulfing write that h 1s minister son is a missionary in Russia, where he repre­ sents the Salvation Army. Bob is still tramping the golf courses m the good weather and skung the eros -country routes in the Vermont wmter months. He already says he IS plannmg on bemg at our 50th . . . . Loretta "Tommi" Thompson Staples said that he and Carolyn English Caci were taking an "extended paJama party" to Ire­ land in j uly . . . . I believe I already reported th1s new before, but Chuck pencer wrote that he went to the Antarctica w1th the George Pirie on a Univenty of l llm01 Alumn1 orgam:ed tnp . . . . AI Whitaker, a loyal ontnbutor to th1s olumn, ay::. he '' renred and enJOYil1-! four grandc h t ldren more often. H" w1fe " 'till ral'­ mg and showmg t-. lame oon at, . . . . Try ro keep up w1th Penn · Pendleton hult:. 'he recently mo1·ed after 22 ye,lr> 111 a brge hou'e ro a rownhou;,e m Portland, re. , and a[ ,,, ro a winter home m • urpn,e, An:. ,:'he hmt' th.u she belte1·e, e1·ervone ,h,,uld �::e r mro the h.1 b1t ,,f mo\'lng e1·ery !e11 year, J U ' t w get nd ,,t "quft . " It mu't be our age and all th.u .KLUmu­ lanon ,,i memenro, . . . . :\n 1 . rt1de m the ap.c oJ hromd.: abc ut laire �lacy Dubi tell' about her 011 neP.hlp and lnl'clh'ement m her iam t !v bu,me", ,1 blc-I... bu,me"-" h tc h we may ,ay " a man\ 11\.,riJ-but latre ha, J,me , hand--c'nJ,1b runnmg the

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and to meet Elizabeth Leonard, associate profes­ sor of history and head of women's studies, who gave a most interesting presentation on women in the Civil War. Nine classmates also spoke of their memories of Colby. Sunday a.m. we gath­ ered at the edge of Johnson Pond, where the Rev. Scalise, supported by Tom Hunt and Sue Johnson, conducted a special memorial service remembering classmates who have died. A delicious brunch, hosted by J ane ( Millett '5 5 ) and Karl Dornish at their lovely home, was a fitting finale to our N EWS MAKERS outstanding 4 5 th. Many thanks to Russell "Tubby" Washburn '50 was them and to all who helped make it the subject of a sports feature in the a success: Derek Tatlock and Ned Maine Sunda)' Telegram after he shot his Shenton for planning the pre-re­ age on the golf course at least eight union activities, Dave and Betsy times this year-and still counting in Powley Wallingford for organizing mid-August. Washburn, 77, was cited the picnic at China Lake, Larry as the top player in the Southern Maine Walker Powley for setting up our Senior Golfers Association . . . . Robert headquarters, Sue Johnson and Vic B. Parker '54 wrote the screenplay, Scalise for the class dinner, and the was granted cast approval and had a College for the fine hosp i tality cameo appearance in August in an A&E provided . . . . Being in touch with so Robert B. Parker '54 production ofhis 26th book, Small Vices , many classmates during our five-year featuring his trademark private eye, Spenser. term as class correspondents has been rewarding. Many thanks to all who M I LESTO N E S responded to our questionnaires, and keep the news coming to Helen Deaths: A ntoin ette Klament Townsend '50, June 7, 1 999, in Stabler. Each of you is needed Cross Timonium, Md., at 70 . . . . Jacqueline Dillingham Schlier '5 1 , to make this column a success.

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pany, even driving some deli,·eries. We are left wondering how a chemistry major makes a liv­ ing in such a business. . . . Priscilla Eaton Billington and I pent a couple of great days at Colby the first weekend of June. Actually, Priscilla wa there to fulfill her class duties at the Alumni Council meeting; I go along as support and enjoy the meeting as well. I was surprised and thrilled beyond belief to find my roommate, Diane Chamberlm tarcher '54, in attendance for her own reunion activities.

We always keep in touch, but it is o much more fun to meet face to face . . . . I ha1·e one sad addition to our new . Parvi: Chahbazi' former w1fe, Louise Peterson ' 5 5 , called me to ay that Parvis died July , 1 99 , in Teheran, I ran. ince graduation he had earned a master's degree at Tufts and a Ph. D. from Cornell and was a teacher abroad.

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fairway putter! With the '54 headquarters set up at the old DKE house (now Drummond Hall) we headed out to the Shorey compound at China Lake for a picnic, where Ellie Shorey Harris ' 5 7 was our most gracious hostess. The fun contin­ ued as more classmates joined the group. Friday evening, the Alumni Awards Banquet was held at Wadsworth Gymnasium, and a member of a neighboring class, Lawrence R. Pugh '56, retir-

Our 45th reunion has come and gone-a great weekend, at­ tended by 49 c lassmates and 3 1 guests. The campus looked beauti­ ful, the Maine weather was perfect and the company-the be t! We were orry that not all clas mates -Bill and Penny Thresher Edson ' 5 l , J une 22, 1 999, in Biddeford, Maine, a t 69 . . . . Barbara Hamlin could attend, but know that you were Hladky ' 5 2 , March 7, 1 999, in Pre-en-Pail, France, at 68 . . . . George mis ed 1 The early comers enjoyed As I write this column, Karl C. De Luna ' 5 3 , July 6, 1 999, in ew York, at 66. cocktads at the top of the Radisson and I have just had a wonderful 45th Ea t land Hotel in Portland on reunion of his class-makes me ex­ ing chair of the Colby Board of Trustees, re­ cited to think about ours in June 2000 . . . . A Wedne day evenmg. We arrived at our restau­ rant for dmner, only to discover that it had ceived the Marriner Distinguished Service letter from Beverly Mosettig Levesque men­ clo ed 1 5 mmutes earlier. ed Shenton sug­ Award. Back at the DKE house we continued tions the freshman year at Foster Hou e. One of ge ted another restaurant on the harbor, and catching up on old times and memories of our the ideas at a planning meeting was to try to find although only four lob ters were left for the five favorite profes ors, challenging classes, fraterni­ the shuttle bus that brought so many of our people who wanted them, 1t d1d work out­ ties and sororities, the blizzard of ' 5 2 , the car classmates from the old campu to the new!

Derek Tatlock grac1ou ly gave up h1s. Thursday that ended up in Johnson Pond, the car driven Wonder if we can find the Blue Beetle ? We could a.m. we took m the 1ght of Portland, including up the newly planted chapel lawn, the dorm have Bev and her gang all ride in the parade. Bev the Mu,eum of Art and hop along the water­ trays rhat made for great sledding and the "Blue and husband Paul pent leisurely time in Venice front. For lunch the group found It way to a Beetle," to mention only a few. On Saturday, visiting old friend ; they hope to be in Provence 'It-down puh, where the beer and lobster rolls w1th our bright blue and white umbrellas (45th and the Riviera thi year. . . . Sylvia Jennison '' ere deltc1ous. Thur;day afternoon, 2 1 class­ for '54), we were easily recognized in the parade Spike writes that she is "hanging in there" as she mate mer on rhe Jock for our sarlmg crur e of of classes to the Harold Alfond Athletic Center, continues to work as a docent and in develop­ ,J,co BJY ahoard rhe 5 -foor sloop Palawan. where each class was recognized for its contribu­ ment at the Portland Museum of Art; she also \VhJr .1 w onderful afternoon, With bnght blue tion to the Alumni Fund. Thanks to the out­ care for husband Walter who had a troke three ,J.. I e,, w .1rm un,hme and a hmk wmJ. Mary randmg orgamzatron of Judy Jenkin Totman years ago. Sylvia poses the question of travel anJ her reumon g1ft committee, '54 was recog­ opportunities devoted to the handicapped. Any­ u J t ,e, J ud) Jenkins Totman, Joyce Witham nr:ed (along With '59) for the highest class one have good references? She and Walter have pe nce r .m J Bill Edso n wok rhe hrunt of rhe parnc1patron among reunioning classes-ours eight children, 19 grandchildren and three great­ w ,l\ e rh·H 1-- wke owr rhe how Luckrl), rhe was 67 percent! We were proud of this accom­ grandchildren between them, and they have onh on:rho.1rJ lo"e were three har . DneJ off pl "hment and feel fortunate to have o many added a shih tzu puppy to liven up their new ,mJ refre,heJ, w e .1ll (our group <.:ontmueJ w cla"mate:. who care o much for our College. apartment. . . . Travel have been a part ofHarold muea't: m numher) mer fur e<�<.knrl and Jm­ Followmg the traJmonal lobster bake were cam­ ner .n l r. 1 r llo\ tloann� re raur.mt mrles .mJ and Betty Harris Smith's year off to Bermuda pus tour,, renn" and semmars, mcludmg one and to Provence in the falL She continues to own Lh.Hter LO n t m ueJ ,�s '"' renew ed o!J fnenJ­ prc,entcJ h) the Rev. Vic calise, "The Wi e and edit The Lincoln Review and to help raise two 'hrp , rei I\ cJ old menlllm: -.mJ .lJ<rccJ rhar Management of Gnef." On arurday evemng grandchildren. They planned a family gathering w e rcalh h.tJn't LhJngo:J th.H mud1 rn 45 yc.tr,, our C<lLkrad rcccpnon was helJ m the "well" n FnJa1 a m , the '54 •olt tc.tm Loro:J w ell rn tn Augu t when their daughter was to marry. our 1Jc Rohcrr- n10n, Junng whrch President the .llumnt tournament , t thl· \\'.ncr\ ri le oun­ . . . Renrement and travel are part of Kay Bdl Corter 'JX> ke ro us. lr " a' a plea'>ure to have Hartwell Thalheimer's life. For 3 1 years she was m lub, hcannt.: man) < t rl c \ OUnl.! " ruJ . ' A I Profc"or Emcnru Donaldson Koom JOtn us manager of Adoption ervices at Che ter County Joseph a\l' c. pert m'rructi<IT1' tn the u'e <>f the

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Congratulat ions, Kay 1 Now she has time to enJoy Elderhostel trips, walking and hiking in witzer­ land, bicycling in France. he had a great time visiting Diane Reynolds Wright at her beaut iful

her academic research on both cont l l1ent,, 'on harles IS a lawyer prepanng to work for the

home in Steamboat prings, Colo. Kay al o vi ired and biked along the Delaware Canal m ew Jersey with Jane Whipple Coddington. Great to hear from you, Kay . . . . Lou Zambello writes of his and Kathy's (Me onaughy '56) activit ies, encouraging us to get in touch with a classmate we cared about. And that should be part of our reunion goal, to encourage those who often don't get back to the College to join us in J une 1 999.

While in Florida this pa t winter, Kathy and Lou, who still has c lose contact with fraternity broth­ er , visited the Gil Alfanos. Lou says he and Kathy are adjusting to the fact that their grand­ chi ldren are leaving New England . . . . Another fir t-time writer is Sara Keeney Richardson.

Welcome! Sally is in Bethesda, Md., where she ha recovered from n n-Hodgkins lymphoma recently and just retired as admission director for an independent school; her hu band, Allan, is a retired physicist. Travel now occupy some of their t ime as well as history courses, cooking and volunteer work-they have been to outh and entral Africa to visit children, to Belize and to Fran e on a barge trip; summers are in Nova coria. he says second marriages are great. Sally wonders where Taffy Mahoney is. (The direc­ tory says Taffy is in Sunapee, . H . ) . . . We have word of w isdom from Barbara Kearns Young­ hanse after her husband's six-way bypass opera­ tion in March: pay c lose attention to our bodie .

Barbara and Allan are avid dancers, ballroom and tap ( their e-mail says dancingduo@j uno.com ) !

They have added performing on rage t o their ac tivities-a new awareness for Barb, to find how much he enjoys performing. President Bixler, happy and lobster are among her favorite memo­ ries, and she and Allan hope to make it to reunion . . . . Karl '54 and I had a grand visit to Tu'cany with Paul and Germaine Michaud Orloff this spring. We never had a meal we didn't like, and the wines were out tanding. We had home rentals in Barbarino and

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wa • to travel. . . . ongrarulations ro Larry '56 and Jean Van uran Pugh for their devotiOn and generosity to our College. At commence­ ment they were awarded honorary degrees­ quite an accomplishment ! I felt very proud to be in the audience as they put the hood on Jean\ robe-! knew her when! Da\·e "7 and Anne Burbank Palmer were 111 luded 111 the ie,tivmes that surround honored guests at commence­ ment . . . . I will c lose With my new favonre quote from arrison Keil lor: "B well. Do oood \H'rk.

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kdl and volunteermg everal days a week at her ho pnal gift hop . . . . Dan Yarchin ,., 'em i ­ remed from t h e hoe busme and 1Iv 111g 111 L a Mesa, aiif. , where he reports that he\ a "free pirit," driv 111g a Yolk wagon bus and fly111g radiO-controlled airplanes-a wanna-be h1pp1e!

He fondly remembers Dr. Bixler, On1e' , The Elmwood and Joe Peres. Don't we all! . . . Pat Hennings Thompson sends ad new from Wayland, Mass., that her hu band and our c lass­ mate, William R. Thompson, passed way 111 February. Bill was very active 111 community and relief organizations and wdl be orely missed.

Our heartfelt condolence to Pat . . . . Robert Weiss write from tamford, onn., that he IS the chief operating officer of a marker1 11g re­ earch firm while wife arah is CEO. The famdy include two children, two grandch dtlren and one dog, which should cover mo t of the ba e for research subjects . . . . I have new that Pat McCormack H u l tgren and husband are now living in Palm Beach Gartlen, Fla. H w about some news, Pat ? . . . So long for now.

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As we advance thr ugh the years, re­ tirement seems to be the main activity along wnh change of lifestyle and addresses. Gideon Picher (gid@edh.net) will be retiring a pre 1dent f Maine urf, Inc., a transportation engmeenng firrn, and forming a corporation. G1d's w ife, Annette (Wyman '59), now the company' busmess man­ ager, i a published freelance wnter. They have four children-graduate of MIT, otre Dame, Princeton and Johns Hopk111s-who have pro­ duced five grandchildren o far. The youngest daughter li\·es in France o G 1d anti Annette \'IS It annually . . . . Charlotte ( lifton '6 1 ) and om1an Lee (seahawk@home.com) now live full time 111 ara ota, Fla. When they wrote to me In the early spnng, they had J USt returned from a crUI'e through the Panama anal, "truly the eighth wonder of the world." . . . Bill Orne and h" \\ Ife, Fran ( whome l @ pis. net), ha\·e renred tL1 umre1 �. . . . Lois 1.acomber ( h iayhyankee@Juncl.(tlm) '' pre"denr and ottice \ olunreer d the Yankee ounCII A YH and '' a[,,, he,, tel den�[,,pment ch, urper-on. Part of the year ,he II\'e' 1 11 \V 111d'c1r, onn., then 'pend, a fe\\ mc,nth, e,Kh ye.tr u , her \'a'at lcm home 111 HniiJ.l\ , Fla. Lo,, '' crea1-.1unt to three young,ter,. . . Bruce Blancard 'P<'nt

recently celebrated their 40th anni\·er,,Jr, La t • larch, Harry and Joan haw Whitaker (Jwhit626 1 1 aol.com) mo\'ed l:o.Kk t11 �h"a­ chu,ett' ( Plymouth) after havmg 'l'ent 'en:ral wonderfu l year' 111 La Vega,. They deCided l,t,t Winter to return Ea t to he ne.1rer t<' t,J m i h ,md fnend,, but they ha\'e fond memone' ,,t their l ife and new fnend' fn>m La' Vega,.

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Her hu hand, Von, " the .Jgncultural director tor B1rd' Eye de Mexico. By mm Ruth h;1, prol:o,Jblv been up to A la:.ka; ,he \\ a' plannl11!! a tnp tnr the end of J u n e and wa' hnr m g

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J udy Brown Dickson . . . . Marian Woodsome Ludwig- pringer " 'rill teac h mg mu'IC m Lunenburg, Ma:.s., hut l n e on ape od Her hu;band, Wolfe, 1 'ales man,Jger fnr a kylight corporation. In March, Manan haJ a gr,md re­ umon at the home of Wilma McDonald awyer and saw j udy Hince quire, Marilyn lark and Cindy Allerton Rocknak. And thi pa t �1.1\ Manan hecame a grandmother for the 1 2 th nme1 • • • ew ha l:oeen 'carce of late. A' vou have een, the 'ummer '"ue of ollr. m.1g.1: 111e conta111ed a general que tionnaire rh.u \\ Ill no\\ be u etl for feed111g thi column. Plea'e fill It out and add any 111formation you would like to 1'·1" on tO your c lassmate,. In the future, n>u m.l\ hnJ orne added quest ion;, JU't a wu ha\·e 111 the old questionnaire,.

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accord111g r o 'orne ot the r,l\'e rc\'Ie\\ ' 1 '\'e re­ cen·ed, 111clud111g an unhn1ken 'tre.1k 11f rertecr weather. Alter Fnda\ lunc.h md a \'1 It t11 the Farn,worth � J u,eum 111 R,xkl.m J lnr the \\ lln­ dert'u l Wyeth exhibit ( ,1 1 1 l:oe 1unfulh .1 rr.111geJ h ar le Jelineck Barnard ) , .1 'Pmted grour nt af>,,ur 2 rrcxeeded w \\ uu\' l l le .md met ur with d.1"m.ne' , H Th.: Heicht-, our de,Ign te I hc,me tnr the weekend :\r c.heck - m , e.1�h <tlum recel\·eJ , J "meffi\11'\ [:,. >k" I.. O nt,l ln111g rhoto' and \\ ntten m.uen.1 l trom the ') '• d, ng '' nh plenty ,,f 'P·''-" lc1r nc\\ rhlllO,, n me anti ,JJ­ Jre ' II'r- md mem •r 1rdi.1 tr m our rcun1 n Thank, w Keet rnett t r the tdc mJ the k . A

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ing guests included Tom Brackin ' 5 7 , Bo Olsen ' 5 7 , Peter Merrill ' 5 7 , Dave Adams '5 , Bob Marier '6 and Terry Lee '6 1 . There was hardly a dry eye in the house when the Eight began to ing; they were till so good that all the inter­ venmg years j ust melted away and the '59ers were young again. Our gratitude to Jay for his hard work m getting this fabulous group to­ gether once more. aturday brought the alumni parade. The Class of '59 was well represented, courte y of Mike Farren's efforts, with each person wearing orne article of clothing that said "Colby" on it. We were proud to be the leadmg clas in total gift to Colby and had the pleasure of presenting a giant check for nearly 2 million to our favorite school. Most of this record amount was in the form of capital gifts; we approached our annual giving goal with a total of about 6 ,000. incere thanks to all who contributed to this successful campaign, and much appreciation to Dave Bloom and Ed Goldberg for their fund-rai ing efforts. The lobter luncheon, indoor this year, was a delicious a e\·er. Our class dinner was held in our resi­ dence dorm, a new departure this year. The ltghtmg wa oft, the table decor and atmo­ phere were plea ing, and enthusiasm reigned upreme. Pre 1dent Cotter dropped by for a visit, and gue t speaker Professor Cal Mackenzie talked about the social/world events that were begin­ nmg or marurmg during our college years, thus debunkmg the nonon that "nothing happened m the '50s." He covered the civil rights move­ ment, the begmnmg of the women' movement, the defeat of the French in Vietnam, setting the stage for U . . mvolvement there, the beginning of the space race and Elv1 's arrival (no, he was nor seen m the building dunng dinner! ) . It was easy to ee why Cal 1 such a force on campus.

Outgomgcla s pres1dent Ed Tomey proved once agam that he 1 truly Rena1ssance Man, with his shepherdmg of the clas through all the intrica­ Cies of the weekend and h1 wonderful hosting of the clas banquet. He pre ented each of our honored gue t ( Robert mder, Coltn MacKay, John 1mp:,on, johnjo eph and Cal Mackenzie) " 1th memor, books and pec1al Cltanon , which he wrote. Thank , Ed, for your mspmng leader­ 'hlp. unday brunch was al o m our dorm.

H,J\'Ing all cla"-related acnv1t1es m one loca­ tion re,ulted 1n record attendance at the e events and pronded lor of per,onal contact and a great \'Cnue for 'avmg good-bye. A alway , the pre­ ' ,ulmg feelmg, were urpme and deltght, as old fnend'hlp' rene" eJ and new fnend'h1ps formed.

Then! were m.my campu' .:hange -ne" or re­ modeled bulldmg,, altered walkways, new way ol org.m 1:mg reunllln domg,-but the funmest ,,, all " a the di,Ul\'er, that the dorm laundr) n m nm' 1--o,ht cnndnm m;Khmes' Qu1te a dtHerenc.: lwm rhe d.1\' nl dorm coun II, cur­ h:\\ , qutet h<>Ur , gr,J ctou ltnng and house m< rher . 'rx>n retlectl<ln, l kmd of ltked our en\ twnment 1--e ner; 1.!<1 ltgure. To 'urn up, a •rear ume wn' had ( olo 1r acu>mp.mted hy u'" ,t •ntlt<:. mr orher) h ffi<lre th.m 6 '59er .

Locked into your stocks ?

lf the prospect of capital gains taxes has you feeling that you can't afford to sell appreciated stock, yet the recent volati l ity of the market has you wishing you could lock in some of these gains, you might want to contact the Planned Giving Office at Colby.

For more information, please contact: Steve Greaves or Sue Cook Office of Planned G iving, Colby College, Waterville , Maine 0490 1 phone: 207-87 2 -3 2 1 0, e-mail: scgreave@colby.edu or sfcook@colby.edu internet: www .colby .edu/planned.giving

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. . . I was devastated at mis ing our reunion, but I hope I 've conveyed i ts joy and success with the

same enthu iasm I fe lt through all the plannmg essions. And to yndy and Aaron, Pat, ue, Ed and M a i c h , Keet and Bev, J ay and hris, M i ke and Trish, J a n i e , Carol e , A rleen and every­ one e lse who sent good thoughts my way, my warmest thanks. A l t hough my ear problems remain unresolved to date, I enter i n to my tenure as your c i a pres ident with eagerne and pleasure .

-Anne Segrave Lteber

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Beginning this ummer, questionnaires

will no longer be mailed out from the Alumni Office. I n order to save time, paper and money, a general que t ionnaire will be inserted into all

olby magazines for alumni to fi l l out and return to class correspondent . This will avoid the wa it to receive your questionnaire once a year and

seemg cia :.mate at the 40th. . . . andra Myers Paap has been tn the M t lwaukee area 111ce 1 969 and finds that hard to believe! he '' a chool psychologt t wtrh two marned daughter hut 1 "begmn111g to th111k about remcment ltfe, travel, and all of that." andy ay> .,he collect' every­ th mg-and need to get nd of half of n . That also �ounds famtltar1

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olby recent ly, bur :.he always enJoys dm mg hy when >he doe:. get to Mame to che k our new butldmg proJect�, ere . . . . ! lope you all had a good summer. We have been dtvtdmg our ttme between ew Hamp;hne and Rhode bland, where Teel works dunng the week. Book on tape are great and were 111vented for the likes of I nter�tare 495, where you can 'r even get a cup of coffee and the major enterra111ment IS watchmg people pass you at the peed of heat, along wtrh

will give you the opportunity to inform me about change and news in your lives every

occasional displays of road rage ' . . . Plea:.e make u e of the new que nonnatre system. Otherwt e, I'll be forced to re orr to Kay Wh t te'> threat ro make thing up. And remember the 40th'

three months! Perhaps t h is change al o will

-Carolyn Web ter Lockhart

inspire s me of you who never respond to let the rest of us hear from you. Your classmate really do want to know what you are doing. Each issue bri ngs us three months closer to our 40th re­ union. We all received a letter from Kay White about the planning and hope many of you will give some thought to helping. This is our re­ un ion-so let' make it a great one. The more people who have a part in it, and the more who return, the better it will be . . . . Maybe Don Mordecai will attend. He says he ha n't been back in eight years but has heard good things about olby. Don is currently living in Wa h ­ ington, D. . , b u t planned t o move t o N e w York ity in September. He is assistant head of school, administration and finance at Maret School in D. . Hi wife, Pat, is assistant to the presiding bi hop for admin istration of the National Epis­ copal hurch. They have sold a house in Litchfield, onn . , and bought one in Castine, Maine, which is rhe one they hope to ha,•e when they are down to one liv ing space. Don writes that they have four children, ages 29 ro 34, in the throes of self-evaluation and earning a liv­ ing. ound familiar? . . . Chet Lewis is still an assistant ar rorney general in tl ichigan, concen­ trating on tax-exempt bond finance work. H ts wife, Fran es, remains a proof reader for rhc legislative sen·i e bureau of the Michtgan Leg­ islature. Their younoer daughter IS l l vmg at home while pursuing a doctorate, another daugh­ ter is an attorne • 111

1 inneapohs, and thetr son olby '95 graduate who is takmg engmeer­ ing ourses at l\ l i htgan �rare ntverstry. Thev have tra\'eled on bus111ess and found wne to explore some oi rhetr desnnanons. bur rhev abo travel se,·eral wnes a year to \' tStt ag111g p.u ent'

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her ''' "' in onnec ricur and Rhode Island. they colle r books beyond rhetr abdtt\ tll re.1 J them, but the · ha,·e nor been accumuLuinc food, etc . , in anr ictpation oi Y _ !..:: . He ha' abL) heard from Ralph els n, who ts \'er\' act I \ e 111 the Delaware �AR.

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Hmmm . . . not one 1 11gle que non­ naire returned this quarter. But 111 my devotton to my responsibilities as class corre·p ndent, 111 early J une I hopped a plane to Portland, re . , 111 pursuit of news of classmates. O.K., I admtt the primary reason for the trip was to vt tt my younger on, who ha ettled in that del tghrful city. However, while I wa there I pent a won­ derful day with Jan Haskins Mandaville. You may remember that J an ha been 111 the habn of escaping Portland's rainy wtnters by tak111g ex­ tended visits to Australia. he ha recently found a less drastic solution to the one drawback to Portland's charms by acqutnng a second home in northern Oregon on the dry tde of the mountains, where she wtll gladly trade colder temperatures for sunsh111e. . . n a sad note, I have to pass on new of rhe death on May I of Hans Veeder from cancer. Ht good fnend and former roommate, Sandy Graham, descnbed Hans as "btgger than life. He '' as always the eternal optimi r and unttl h ts last breath re­ ma111ed that way. He \\'til be sure I) mt"ed by ht' many fnends." We )0111 andy 111 'endmg our condolences ro Hans's \\'tfe, Pol h , .md rhetr famtly . . . . I n rht> tssue, you wtll f111d a genert que,twnnatre, whtch the ollege ' ' l1LH\ 'tnl:! tn read oi the c lass-,pectftc yuestll nn,ure' rhar were sent ro our homes 111 the p,1 ,t. Plea'e ft ll tr our ani send tt ro me sL> I won't h,1,· e tL) CLmtmue trymg to m tl .u e non-new' to m.1ke ,1 CL>lumn.

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Carolyn Webster Lockhart 1 70 County Road ew London, NH 032 57 603-526-9632 fax 603-526-802 1 toe hart@ ds.ne

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Judy Hoffman H a ola 2 5 Charles Place Orono, ME 04473 207-866-409 1 J ud t t h . ha ola@umt marne edu

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Patncta Farnham R ussel' 1 8 1 Mame Avenue Mliilnocket. ME 04462 207-723-5472 prussell@ka t . net

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Karen Forslund Falb 245 Brattle Stree Cambndge, MA 02 1 38 6 1 7-864-4291 KF F245@aol com

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Sara Shaw Rhoades 76 Norton Road Kittery, ME 03904-541 3 207-439-2620 fatrwmdsc@aolcom

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Rtchard W Ban art 20 Valley Avenue Ap . 02 Westwood, NJ 0767 5-3607 2 0 1 -664-7672

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Natalte Bowerman Zaremba 1 1 Ltnder Terrace Newton, MA 02458 6 1 7-969-6925 6 1 7-266-92 1 9 x 1 07 nzaremba@har org

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Robert Gracta 295 B u rgess Avenue Wes wood.

A 02090 7 8 1 -329-2 1 0 1 Bob_Gracta@broo line mec ed Judy Gerrre Heone 21 H t Jeres Ad ed eld, MA 02052 508-359-2886 hetne,g@aol com

Lm rhe IL)llowmc: It n>u wen: 1->ecmnmc , ,,ur CL>llece career ,1 !!.1111 ( ,lt L>lh , <)I LL)Urse ) , '' ,,ufJ Y<)U chr•o-e the ,,1 me m<lJ<)r? It '''· \\ h\ ? It not, '' h,H \\L)ulJ \'L)U maJL>r tn? \\ h\ : It \ <lU h.we 1!1\ c.:ner.1 l 111rere't que,t t<m' n>u'J l tk.: t<) h.n e m.: pL>'e w the re't L>l L>ur d.1 --m He' tn turur.: CL)Iumn,, )U't let me knL)\\ .

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History on the Block

On Columbus Day weekend of 1 998 James McConchie '63

creati ng a nonprofit organization so the house will qualify for

read i n the Boston Globe that suffragist Susan B. Anthony's

certain funds as a charity. McConc hie says there is less bureau­

birthplace was for sale. McConchie mentioned to his wife, Linda,

cracy in setting up the foundation than he anticipated. "The

that the h i s orical home i n Adams, Mass . , was on the market. They

process hasn't been lengthy," he said , but he i s hesitant to define

saw the house that day, by the afternoon they put in a bid, and at

a time line. He hopes to start renovations by next summer.

S u san B . Anthony's father b u i l t the home i n 1 8 1 7 , and she

4 p . m . McConchie, an attorney, signed the papers. The real estate agency had 230 i n q u i ries by the next day.

was born there i n 1 820. H e r fam i ly moved to G reenwich, N . Y . ,

Of the q u i c k decisi on to buy, McConchie said he and Linda

i n 1 826, b u t t h e house stayed i n the family u n t i l 1 920 when the

had previously thought of "getting a project for retirement . " A

Quakers took over and ran it as a museum through the 1 940s.

res1dent of L i n c o l n , Mass . , McConchie is presid ent and owner

Because of its previous role as a museum the house conta i n s

of the Recreation G roup, which owns and manages area

extensive archives, i n c l u d i n g photos a n d drawings that w i l l aid

health c l u b s . Linda is executive d i rector of the Freedom Trail

i n the restoration process. McConchie p l ans to return the home

Foundation, which coord inates educational program m i n g , fund

to its condition d u r i n g Anthony's residence.

raising and marketing for 1 6 h i storical sites along the Freedom

" I t will be Spartan. Her fam i l y was Quaker," he sai d . Most of the

Trail 1 n Bosto n .

renovations will be cosmetic and will involve stri p p i n g away what

S 1 n c e January the c o u p l e h a s solicited suggestions from

was added after Anthony's residence-six layers of l i noleum, for

commun1ty residents and historical groups on how the house

example-until the house looks as it did i n the early 1 820s. "Our

should be used. McConc hie says he has observed heig htened

goal i s to historically renovate it as much as pos-

Interest 1 n such historical treasures and hopes that once the

s i b l e , " said McConc hie. Given the fam i ly's com­

our-bedroom house is restored, it can serve as a museum and

mitment, failure is impossible.

women·s stud1es center 1n the Berkshires. Its location, equidis­

-Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay

tant from several women's colleges, is idea l .

L i n d a and t h e couple's two daughters, Elizabeth and L1ndsay '98. own the house as partners in Fa1lure I s Impossible. the company McConchie set up to buy the property

The company's name

comes from Susan B . Anthony's famous 86th birth­ day speech. When she died soon after, the line became a slogan for the suHrag1st movement McConchie says 1 1s appropnate that the women in h1s fam1ly own the house

We have a very femininely-based household "

H 1 s daugh ers who plan to help run the establish­ men

lo e the property

he 1dea and the house "

cConc 1e says he f1rst th1ng he learned about 1stonca1 restorat1on was "don t do anythlng­ e professionals

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cial izes in conducting polygraph examinatio n .

H is work often takes h i m to Maine, so he fre­

quently manages stops on the Colby campu , where he visits the chapel to reflect on life. Jim says i t came as a complete surprise when he had a pacemaker installed in January 1 998 because he had no symptoms, j ogged daily and was in excel­ lent health. He urges all of u to have

really have JU t

htfted vocations. Judy find'

three w�:eb after he reti red from >econdary ,chool coumel 111 g . After a honeymoon 111 lre­

church, for Homele

is J i m's dentist, and he sat with Ed Kyl e and Bill Chase at the Colby­ Tufts game Ia t fall. Jim sent along interesting articles and news on Dee Toole, who was a Massachu ens Teacher of the Year finalist for '97 and attended the National Teacher Forum in Washington . . . . Richard Robbins, who lives in Claverack, N . Y., and hi

harleston, S .

., has made

Bnstols find t i me for travei-Caiiforn ta, Ea tern

"vtrtual offtcc, on-l111e coun,elm�.: prac t ice."

Europe, Washmgton, D.

grad u a t i n g from N e w E n g l a n d onservatory of Music . . . . Kathy Hertzberg sent her best from Con­

.-and were anttctpat­

mg a three-week crut e to the Far Ea t tn

ctoher

hare! H t l l .

. . . And congratulation' to Marty Dodge, who mamed Kan

loner' 111 J une 1 99 . 1\.lart\

from

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, wa named Vermont' 1 999

Advocate of the Year by the U. .

mall Bu:,me s Accountant

mall Busmes:, Admmt rration

( S BA ) . The publicat ion Pracrical Accountant named h ts firm one of the top 1 5 independent CPA firms m Chabot '66 of

ew England . . . . Gregoire

ewburyport, Ma s . , played the role ofLe

arrareur

in a French-language produc tion of the play "Encore une fm:,, st vous permettez" at the Acadian Festival m L d le, Mame, m J u ne . . . . J udith A . Mos edale ' 6 8 was named t h e new head o f the Hunter McQuire School, a K-5 school m Verona, Va. been head of the lower school at Ptke

ommunm

l'llege of the

.Y , where he I' ,1 profe"or of comerv,Hion and de­

F111ger Lake ,

Michael D . Flynn '6 1 , managmg dtrector of Gal lagher, Flynn & Co. , PL

., "here Bob has 'tarred a

'�hbatical lea\"e for the '99- \.0 vear

he had

chool m Andover, Mas'>.

velop 111 g "a cour e focu,cd on [ani ecologtcally ,u,tamable 'oc tety . " He

1' al,o trave ling the wdderne" tn A la,ka . . . . Congratu latton' to Leah Aranovitch, who'e d.JUghter, Jennte Pht Bet<� Kapp.1

Ohenan '99, wa

and the only Mame re'ident to reach the f111 a l' for the RhoJe, shtp program ( her

cholar­

anta 1\. ! ontc.t,

al tf., cla :,mare B t l ! Polk mghorn dtd become

olby\ >txth RhoJe,

chola r ) . Leah and her 'On Gator

M I LESTO N ES

scores, most recently for A Soldier's tended Colby for two years before

land, cot! and and \ ale,, the newlywed' mo,·ed to

name as a composer of musical

Daughter Never Cries. R ichard at­

Pet>, at a thnft hop and a

a board member of a con ortium of churche . The

a yearly EKG! Recently Dick and Toole and Kathy Hiltz Bauer visited

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volunteenng a full -time Job: workmg for the

Jeanne Banks Vacco, Dee Cross J im in hi new home. Phil Gregorio

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continue tn the per onal rra111mg

Deaths: Carol Wickeri Castine '60, J une 1 8 , 1 999, m Plattsburgh, N .Y . , at 6 1 . . . . . Ellen McCue Taylor '6 l , J une 29, 1 999, m alem, Ma s., at 60 . . . . Sandra Jean Shaw '66,June 26, 1 999, m Yarmouth, M a i ne, at 54.

field. . . .

ongratulanom

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Myles

Denny-Brown. He ha been hu'>y a' an 111ternational economt t '' tth the U . . Dept. of Commerce, Ofttce of Telecommun ication . !\.lyle' reporr-,

cord, N . H . , where she is a math pro-

"[After] four year:, of negon<.Hion

fessor. She says retirement is coming up fast for

with other family member . J udy has j ust fim hed

that l parttctpated 111 , both m \Va,h 111g ron and

her. . . . Lynn Kimball, who retired after a long

a genealogy class at Rice. Their 27 -year-old son,

Bru

teaching career, plans to relocate permanently to

Wes, and three dogs complete their household . . . .

ment wtth the European

her home in the Pemaqu id Point, Maine,

Doug and Gail Macomber Cheeseman are wild­

ognmon of Approval for Telecom Equtpmenr . "

els, [we] reached a bdareral trade agree­ mon on Mutual Rec­

area . . . . I enjoyed a recent lunch with Pam Tay­

life tour leaders in Saratoga, Calif. Doug has

ongrarulation t o t h e Den i Carter , who

lor in Bangor, Maine, where Pam is a geriatric

retired from teaching and now can lead their

celebrated rhetr 20th weddmg anntver,ary wtrh

soc ial worker. . . . The grapevine tells me that

safaris ful l time: to Australia, Afrtca, Amarcnca

a tnp to Hawa u . He\ a rherapt'>t and hum.m

my former roomare J o Sexton Hardy has old her

and South America! ( I 'm still waitmg to partiCI­

system comu lrant

home in Dixfield, Maine, and moved to the

pate in one of their adventures 1 ) Thetr son and

wtth organt:attom regard 111g emotional 111 t e l l t ­

Rangeley Lake area. . . . The campus looked beau­

daughter are both still going to college . . . . Hoop­

gence 111 t h e work place. He a l , o ha a conttnu-

tiful in June when Rollie and I were at Colby for

er Cu tler write from Marblehead, Ma s., where

111g 111 teresr 111

Reunion Weekend to attend the Boardman ve -

he is the ftre captam and where hts wtfe (of five

pers, the service that honors all Colby alumni

years ) , Joan, is a nur e. Between them they have

J u dy Eyge Dalton 'aw Ken and ally Thomp­ son Br ·an at the Tuft,-Colby game m Ot.toher '9 along wnh Rick Davi<;, J ay r nlund ,

who have died in the past year. Both our daugh­

five grown children, and the grandchildren JU>t

ter-in-law, who died in October, and my mother,

keep on coming. Hooper say:, he ha:, 3 2 year, wtrh

who pa ed away in April, were honored. It has

rhe fire department and c uld reme. However,

been an unusual year for the Russells.

ur planned

he doesn't know what he'd do and JUSt ltwe' hts

retirement became instead a job change a we

work. " Best de , the new guy' keep me young ! " . . .

undertook the task of caring for our two very

Mary

young randchildren. I've found being a second­

an e and Peter D uggan live m

harlone,

., where he recently renred a' 'ale, and

time-around mother as enjoyable as the ftrst nme

marketmg

ex epr for rhe age and energy factor! . . . Bob and

emplo ·ed as a YZK mformanon tech. Thetr d,1ugh­

P for Lm e, Inc., and \\ here , 11r,

Pat Downs Berger live in Brookline, i\la s. Bob

ter Le,lev

is a surgeon and Pat a mo·tly remed phystctan

bu-;y comulnng f�lr two large

who work· part rime as the school phystctan for

compame' and

la·sachusetts

ollege of Art. Pat enJoys com­

wa, to

and c ctence

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get marned m J u h . Pete keep' tm,umer tund

tm the hoard of

harltltte Art,

tlunc tl. He recenth It 'r ht, f.nher,

petitive ice skating and pamtmg, and rakmg nme

bur he W<b hapr\ w he.u fwm ,e,er.l l C<X)j

to "smell the roses" is htgh on her list. In 1\ larch

tnend,, 111cludmg Dr. Stndcr. \'\',,rd, Lll \\ t..J >m

she went skiing in Ira! · with ancy Rowe Adams and Boothba ; Harbor fnends. The Bergers' two

rrt)m Pete: " Keer wur hc.1 lrh. 'tmrlth ,,,ur ltk and enJtl\ en•r, d.1 \". t,,r It I ' rruh .1 !!I tt 1ll \our

daughters are both oroam:ers for weliare' k)\\

tTtend, C\ en nt)\\ and then." Th mk,, Pete. l

in ome rec ipients, I lana 111 :an Fmnctsco and hana '9 in lew York It\' . . . . J udy H agland Bristol \\Tires from Houston. Judv and H.1 m

thmk we Ctlu!J 1 . l l rake the,e " ,,rd, r, heart

have both retired , J udv from edu ·anon and Ham· as a stockbroker, but like so manv L)thers thev

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n;!r.1tubnl n_, !-r,, Bob Beech in r,

newlY wed w Eileen ,,n \'.1 lcnttnc ' Dl\ [ 'N ,

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W111ona, l\. l 111n., workm�.:

an,·e Amencan tradmon.,

Roberta Gil o n Drewe , h r i Bro\\ n md many from t rher L la"e' The " ht>k �:,.tn� re­ turned to the Dalton home for po,r-c.une lev t t vtne,. ongra r ul.n ton , , t<l<>, w t he D,t lron daughter' on a ,·er,· hu,, J une '99 D.tuchrer = l recet\'ed her �I B A. frt>m T ut.k L hool lt Darrmtluth and " il' m.trned, =2 cr tdu.lted trom , 1YU T�sLh L h t>o l ot Ftlm, md = 3 !,!r.tJu,Hcd from \VII !tam,.

And JO\ <>U' L >n (! r tui..Hwn' to

ed .m d Ly nn rner Bauer ' n thetr re I!.!­ n .1t t t l11 tn>m the hn,ken penul t. lub. " I t' been 1 lon t t me '111L e \\ t:'n: been 111 t<>u.:h" w a the tlpt:n111!! l111e m , " unJcrtul letter " tr h nt:\\ , rh.u ho rh .uc a l t,·e .mJ \\ e l l .md It, m � m

Gem ,burg, Pt. ( rhe, \ e mnred Lia marc ' I' t r ! ) . A '9 1 Jo" n 1:m� • ·�d) nd bu\ ( L, nn ) cnJcd " ur Yur •� !ttc t \ lc " m n Dte � . H 11 cn:r, a rei non to .:n bu r..: ha , II " .:d m re rr.m4utl pur un to tlow cr L nn', tl\ J h, h ,.c no" b.:t. omc he " m her 'ev.:nth \ .:ar

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Adams County library, and together they oper­ ate Hope Springs Antiques and regularly travel to auctions and antique shows. They've also bought and are restoring a pre-Civil War home.

"Starting over hasn't been easy, bur we survived with health and humor intact and have evolved from panic and resentment into contentment."

Ned and Lynn plan to anend our 3 5th reunion J une 2-4, 2000. . . . Your reunion commirtee, led by Bud Marvin ( 603-66 -67 3 7 ) , had its third meeting in eptember and is working up plans for a fun-filled reunion. If you have some thoughts, contact Bud or me or any of the planning committee members: Marcia Harding Anderson, Ginger Goddard Barnes, Chris Brown, S u n n y Coady, R i c k and N a n c y Winslow Harwood, J a n Wood Parsons . . . .

Hail, Colby, Hail!

-Richard W. Bankart

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Here's what classmates have been up to lately. Eric Rosen e-mailed that he took early retirement as an artorney from Bell At­ lantic and has started his own practice in Framingham, Mass. He i also quite busy with community ervice work. He's an officer of Temple Beth Am in Framingham and is a Big Brother with the Jewish Big Brothers and Sis­ ter of Greater Boston. A recent book, Lost in the Vrctory, recounts the story of young men ltke Eric whose fathers died in the war. ( Eric's father wa killed in action in World War I I before Eric was born . ) His participation i n the proJect prompted him to found the American World War II Orphans etwork. He's also an anrmal lover and has a standard poodle of his own, but he volunteers for the Greyhound Protecr ron League . . . . Roberta "Sookie" rockwell Weymouth lives in Winthrop, Marne, wrrh her husband, Carl. She's a staff nur e at Togus, the Maine Veterans Adminis­ tration Ho prtal. he finished a B . . in nursing rn December 1 99 and hopes that it will make her more flex rble rn thrs time of rapid change rn the health care field. Carl has been downsized out of JObs rwrce. ookre ay , "Looking for jobs makes us que non what rs mo t important to tr, to marntarn and what parts of our lives we can change." he' qurte proud of her chddren.

Her 'on, Todd, 1 an engrneer. He and hrs wrfe, 'anc\ , w ho rs a teacher, JU t bought the�r first hou'e rn Vrrgrnra. Therr daughter, Heather, make, Jewelry and rs a wame . he bought a .Y . . . . Tom "frxer-upper" rn Rochester, Me rumm e-maded that a story about hr 'ugarhou'e brought more than 400 vr rtor rn one Jay to ear ugarhouse food and maple ,yrup. He ay' that the hronrcle people drd a gL'OO JOb and w ere real nrce peo pl e to work wnh, 1-- u t he W<b too busy bodrng maple syrup w get up w the house w 'ee the program ' Tom 'a\'' free pul-- l rcr ty wa' good for h 11n thrs year: "I gm the hronr le pre e, \\ a' featured on a channel 22 pnngfreld ( �fa". ) prece, [gor] a \\"nte-up rn the unda\ pnngfreld ne\\·,paper and one mennon and two arncle al--o ut my

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place in national magazines (Country Home Magazine, Travel Holiday Magazine, and New York Magazine ) . Nothing like free advertising!

Farming ain't easy, but it beats living in the ci ry doing a 'real j ob ! "' . . . After 2 7 years in the Washington, D.C ., area, Bill Walker has relo­ cated to Cape Charles, Va., on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, where he does envi­ ronmental consulting. H is wife of 14 years, Ann Hayward Walker, is president of Scien­ tific and Environmental Associates ( SEA), Inc. They have an 8-year-old son, Thomas. They're still working hard (don't use the "R" word much) but are enjoying their little town, their office, home and sunsets across the Bay. After cleaning out his desk, Bill e-mailed asking if it was too late to get a copy of the reunion video.

Never roo late for "Mule Kick Flicks," Bill. If any of the rest of you would still like a copy, we'll put you in touch with Bob Field, our own c inematographer. . . . Our mailbag is com­ pletely empty! We've read all our e-mail mes­ sages! Help ! Please fill out the questionnaire at the back of this issue and send it to us. We haven't missed an issue in the last seven years, so don't let us blow our streak.

-Robert Gracia and ]udy Gerrie Heine

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Susan Davidson Lombard, who lives in Dalton, Mass., writes that she is a "profes­ sional volunteer" and that her husband, David, is a publisher's representative for Jostens. Their daughter, Bethany, 2 7 , is director of residence life and student activities at Dean College in Franklin, Mass. Their son, Derek, 2 5 , is assistant �o the deputy commissioner of parks and recre­ ation for the City of New York. Susan had the pleasure of becoming reacquainted with Judi Whipling since they both serve on the execu­ tive board of the Massachusetts State Chapter of the PEO Sisterhood. Susan and David cel­ ebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Sep­ tember. Susan says, "Please thank our classmates for their generous support of the Alumni Fund­ they are the best! " . . . In 1 994, Bob Hughes returned to his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., with his wife, Lynn, after a four-year assignment in England. He continues to work in the maga­ zine publishing production industry and is cur­ rently director of manufacturing operations for McGraw-Hill. His daughter, Katherine, attends Colby this fall as a member of the Class of 2003, and he 1 lookmg forward to seeing Kate and Colby dunng the next four years . . . Jane Morrison wntes that on Jo hua Bubar '93 mar­ ned Beth Cronrn '93 at olby in J u ly. Son eth, who anends outhern Vermont College, was be t man. Doggres Igor and McDuff did not artenJ ( Igor recently VISited a dog p ycholo­ grst). Jane lrves rn Appleton, Marne, and is communrty relatron manager for orthea t Health. Two and a half years ago when she moved to a new, smaller house, he purged a lot but nll had to budd a garage last fall to get her Junk out of fnend ' houses. ay she can't re rst a bargarn in an antrque ba ket or old farm .

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implement. She collects mossy stones from her 1 2 acres to line perennial beds. In October she photographed Brenda Cornfield Robe r t s ' daughter's wedding in Halifax, where Lystra W i l son G reeves ' 6 7 and J a n n S e m o n i a n Czarnetzki made it a reunion. Jane says Brenda and her family are wonderful and her home near the infamous Peggy's Cove is beautiful. . . .

Shirley O'Neal Morales lives in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, with her son, Moses, 1 5 , who plays football, soccer and paintball, and her daughter, Miriam, 1 1 , who loves ballet and drama. She reaches fifth grade at a private school and sees the occasional dolphins j umping since the Caribbean is right outside her classroom window. She's been there for the past 1 0 years (she arrived two weeks before Hurricane Hugo and spent three months without electricity and six months without phone ! ). She has writren several classroom plays and lots of poetry and gets the chance to use her Danish with local Danish residents as well as tourists. Shirley says it's summer year-round and sure beats Waterville winters! She wonders if there are any other Colby classmates living in the Caribbean . . . . A newsletter from Anna Gideon Holzhausen ar­ rived from Burbach, Germany, where she and her husband work for Wycliffe Center, whose goal is to translate the New Testament into languages into which it has never before been translated. Her husband, Andreas, edits the newsletter, and Anna serves as librarian and assistant in the candidate office. Their son, Stefan, 22, married last year, and he and his wife, Kristine, are studying commercial art to­ gether in college. Their daughter Christa, 24, is in nurse's training in Cologne; daughter Linda, 1 4, lives at home.

-Nancy Dodge Bryan

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As I write my last column I am aware that many of us are experiencing milestones and periods of transition-children leaving home and starting (or finishing) college, parents ag­ ing, career moves, and the birth of grandchil­ dren and children . . . more of the former than the latter. . . . Don Clark is now in Senegal as the director of the United States Agency for International Development. Don transferred from Uganda, where he had been stationed for the four previous years. Don and his wife, Connie, invite Colby friends to join them to view great sun ets from the westernmost tip of Africa. The eldest of their four sons, Alex, is a student at Colby . . . . William Antonucci and his wife, Tina, have a toddler son, Benjamin. Bill also is celebrating the milestone of having his two older boys in college, Thomas at UNH and Zach at Wesleyan (Conn.) . . . . Ed Beard writes that he is fac ing the transition to l ife as an empty-nester; he is gerting ready to sell his oversized house a daughters Katie, a college student, and Kristen, a high school senior, move on in life . . . . Winning a golftournament on his brrthday while vacationing in Scotland was Gary Austin' milestone-given , he say , his

A L u M

ski lls as a golfer. Gary's daughter, K i m , married

Laura and l are prepanng for a VISit to Waren:dle.

t h i s year, and his son , Aaron, is erv i ng as a

It amazes me that our daughter Wht rney, our

N avy officer in the Persian G u l f. . . . Peter and

"baby," 1s now a htgh school emor and rhar

Mary Holden Brown ach ieved the m i l estone

she'

of having their son, Jeffrey, graduate from olby.Their daughter, Jenn ifer, w i l l graduate

long before we JOin the rank

actually cons1denng

olby. l r won't he of empt}·ne,r­

ers-a club that we are not lookmg forward to

from the Col lege next year . . . . In a recent ques t ionnaire I asked, "What have you done

jommg! I'm glad to report that a few of you have

that you never a n t i c i pated when you left o l by ?" Some of your answers: erving a a school comm i t tee member and church trustee

ful column . . . . Mark Zaccaria has had a turbu­

been in contact, so I am able to write a meanmg­ lent few year . After seven years m

ew Jer'IC}

(sounds like a sentence, doesn't t t ? ) , Mark moved

( Barry Atwood ) ; starting a pol i t ical consult­

hi family to Atlanta only to find that h t'l pos i ­

ing business i n a b i g city, Cleveland, i n a big

t i o n with a

tate, Ohio ( Bi l l B u rges ) ; and stopping skiing

. . ubstdtary o f a U . K . company

a po iti n wttl1

English d e p a r t m e n t a t Camden/Rock port

Rhode Island. C ngrat to Mark, ht wtfe, Ruth,

( M a i n e ) H igh School, gave up s k i ing after

and their c h i ldren, Adam, Kate and April for

many years of coach ing, a l though she s t i l l

with tanding two house sales and rwo move m

coache t h e girl's c ross country team. S h e writes

a very short period of time. Whew!

that she never antic ipated that she and her

Harvey is one of many c la mate

husband of 3 0 years,

devoted her l ife to education. A! tson 1

harlie, would serve a

chool's week - long sen ior trip to Washington, D.

. One memorable trip involved a meningi­

D.

omtec I nforma tion

y rem m

.

.

.

Ali on

who has now

entering her 30th year ( could that be pos tblel) of teaching at Messalon kee H igh

chool m

Oakland, M a i ne , where he heads the foretgn

h i ldren's Hospital in

language department. An arricle in the Central

. for the whole gang. Penny and Charlie

Maine Morning Sentinel earlier this year recog­

t is care and a trip to

are think i ng of mov ing fu l l t ime i n to v ideo

n ized A l ison's efforts. More than 700 tudent

prod uct ion after long teaching career . . . .

a t "Ole Mess" ( I 've always wanted to write

Craig Stevens wri tes that he never wou ld have

that ! ) take a foreign language, includmg an­

a n t i c i pated becom i ng an " a c a d e m i c a n i ­

c ient Greek and Lat in. Way to go, A l i on! . . .

mal . " . . . W h i l e w e are deep i n to transit ions,

Phil Wysor, our man on the Alumni Counc i l ,

some t h ings never c h ange. l n e s R u e l i u s

dropped m e a l i ne a while ago. Ph d and Debbte

Al temose wri tes o f visit ing Colby a number of

( Stephenson '68) are the parent of Adam '95,

years ago, heading to her old stomping ground

Nat ( Bowdoin '97 ) and Jessica, a

of the biology b u i ld i ng and catching Bruce

be in 2003 ! I n early 1 998, Phil became a parrner

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i n a seven-person law firm, G i l le pie & Wysor,

looked up and said, " H i , l ne ," as if 20-plu year had not passed . . . . Another person who

and this summer the Wy ors wdl celebrate then 30th wedding anniver ary. l there anyone m

h u ng around the biology b u i l d i ng, Connie

our c ia

Tingle Grabowy, is l iving the good country

lives in Westfield, N . J . , and is rhe manager of

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life i n Harvard, Mass . , with her husband, Dick,

the Athletic Balance Sports store. Kandy IS a

and her c h i ldren, J u l ia and N ic k . Being a true

brea t cancer survivor and IS,

friend,

"doing fine" and "enjoying l ife" wnh her yellow

Valene Jones Roy 38 Hunts Pom Road Cape E l izabeth. ME 04 1 07 207-767-0663 sroy1 @matne rr com

who can top 3 0 7 . . . Kandy Ander en

111

her own words,

i n central Massachusetts last

Labrador retriever, Piper . . . . If! 'm read111g Alan

w i nter. We spent much of the next day to­

Colby's area code correc tly, he 1 1 \·es 111 lowa. He

hockey game

gether, our boys bonded over N i ntendo, and l

is an upper chool pnnctpal and photographer,

got a much- needed break from the hockey

and he travel frequently, nde a " k111ny me"

tournament scene. My own transit ion these

bike and "ha fun" wtth ht family, whtch 111-

days i n c lude hav i ng c losed my private psycho­ therapy prac t ice ( ooodbye managed care) and

cl udes wife Donna, a homemaker, and tepch d ­ dren D a m , an armt, mustctan a n d college

start ing a new program i n post-adopt ive er­

student, and Adnen, a htgh school J U n ior ' ho 1 '

in Portland. ase • is the soc ial en• ices branch of the Annie asey Foundation, which supports a w tde E.

vices for

a e

Fam i ly S n·ice

variety of efforts to -rrengthen commun i t ies and i mprove the l ives of c h i ldren. I am exc ned about my new job and glad to ha\'e ma �e the peak i ng of c h a nges, thts I S nw last c )lumn. I hope I ha,·e represented you well. and if I have left out somethmg you wrote It I> on! because of l i m i tatiOns of t ime and space. c hange.

ly best to all of you , and please sray m touch \\' i t h my su cessor.

-OILlne E .

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Kindkr

As I sit do\\11 to \\Ttte thts column.

L A R G E

1 970s Correspondents

Fowles s i t t i ng beh i nd a m icroscope. Bruce

onnie j o i ned me at one of my on's

A T

wa eliminated. Rest! tent as ever, Mark landed

( Penny Post Crocket t ) . Penny , who head the

c h ief organizers and chaperons for their h igh

I

an actress and dancer. . . . I t \ taken nearh· k1ur year , bur rhts column ha, totalh '' tped <1Ut mr \'a r ;,torehouse of 111format1on ai:-><1Ut cia" mem­ bers. To keep t h t' C<1lumn 111tere,nm.'-It 1' 111teresnno, 1,n'r t t ?-1 need

to

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C 0 L B Y

Blazing a Trail

Deborah Palman '75, who became Maine's first female game warden i n 1 978, notched another first when she was named 1 998 Maine Game Warden of the Year. Though she made history as the first woman ever to win the honor, Palman d i smisses the attention that accompanies the term " p ioneer." She prefers to be recog­ nized as a law enforcer and forensic sc1entist. "I never found being a woman to be a big issue , " she said.

Palman is at home in the woods, having hunted and camped as a child, and says she chose her career because she "wanted a challenging job working outdoors with wild­ life " While at Colby she taught shooting and hunter safety to youngsters for two summers at the Vermont Fish and Game Department's conservation camp. Immedi­ ately after graduat1ng with a biology degree, she earned a master's 1n wildlife management from the University of Maine. Not

wildl ife forensic laboratory, where she analyzes meat, hair and

content always to s1t behind a desk or work in the forensics labs, she

blood samples to identify w i l d l ife. "Now that there's D N A [testi n g ]

dec1ded to take on the game warden's job of law enforcement.

w e c a n 1 0 . the i n d ividuals , " s a i d Palman. She c a n link animal

Desp1te her academic background and commitment to wild-

remains found i n the forest to frozen meat i n a poacher's freezer

Ie. and desp1te passing every test, Palman waited two years for

and establish how many animals a violator possesses.

her warden application to be accepte d . She then completed

Besides the presence of more female wardens, Palman says

e1ght weeks of trai n i n g , includ1ng passing the same physical

she has noticed other changes since she started . "There were

requ 1 rements as the men and classes on first aid, firearms,

periods when not h i n g went on, just h u nters and fisherme n , " she

courtroom procedure. self-defense speech, and map and com­

said. Now there are more people out i n the woods and thus more

pass read1ng After two weeks of applied trai n 1 n g , she graduated

problems. I t is variety, however, that makes her job interesti n g .

1rst 1n her warden school class

"There's no typical d a y , " she s a i d . "Some o f t h e best is saving

As a d1str�ct warden Palman enforces Ma1ne's f1sh and w i l d l ife

people's lives when they're lost or i n danger. The worst i s having

laws 1n seven towns east of Bangor She also deals With acc1dents

to pick up the pieces when someone's done something stu p i d . "

and a1ds 1n search and rescue Though wardens generally work

"To b e successful you have t o b r i n g a broad range o f q u alities

alone Palman has tra1ned a couple of partners over the years­

1nto the job , " said Palman, who also received an Exemplary

German shepherds--and

now work1ng w1th number three.

Service Award 1n 1 995. It's a nice h i storical footnote to have been

Anna S1nce tra1n1ng her f1rst dog 1n 1 980, Palman has become

the f1rst woman game warden i n Maine. Game Warden of the Year

d 1rector of the can1ne unit The dogs track cr1m1nals lost people

more accurately acknowledges Palman's determination and her

and InJured an1mals and detect ev1dence at cr�me scenes

own broad range of qualities.

IS

I n add1t10n to f1eld ass1gnments, Palman 1s a spec1a!lst at the

-Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay

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'97

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computer t e l ephone proj e c t s and B r i t e Vo1ce Systems i n C a n t o n , M ass. Whde h e was 1 n M e a , Ariz., Bill i m o n s and h 1 s on J oe v is i ted for two weeks . . . . F red 0 born 1 l i v i n g i n " at Rock" in Garn o n , N . Y . He j us t went back to work i ng for the Episcopal h u r c h as d i rector of p h i l a n t h ro p i c serv i c es and is a c t ive w i t h several local profi t s . H 1 s oldest son i s e x pe c t m g a c h i l d ( th e i r fir t grandch i l d ) , h i s daughter was to get married a t " at Roc k " t h i s s u m m e r , and h i s youngest

maJor mde tone, age 50. He encnura�e'

d:b

-

mates to e-mad h u n ( nahawiz� batelco.com. bh ) . . . .

. · . border ,

lmer to

hri'>tie Pope

Capaldo live m Oah die, On t . , JlN out, Ide of Toronto, where .,he 1� a mother and home Jay­ care provider.

he and

four chi ldren-

tcphcn '74 are p,Irent

1ck, I , M1ke , 1 6,

I I , and Emily,

to

'harlt1tte,

and to border collie, J,l k, I

They have been fmter parent

to

1 6 chi ldren over

the last I 0 years, for 'tay' rangmg from two day' to

I 7 months. Her children are actl\'e m hocke�,

son i s t a k i n g a year off from Vanderb i l t U n i v e rs i t y . . . . N i c k a n d S u san Hard i n g

soccer and roller hockey.

Preston a r e busy w i t h t h e i r k i Lodge/ B & B , M o u n t a i n F a r e I n n , and w i t h coac h m g a t W a t e rv i l l e V a l l e y a n d e i g h t -week summer t ra i n i ng programs at B l a c koom b , B . . , Lake

so that she may f111J a "real" JOb m nmc w pay for

hn tic " hack 111

school takmg cour.,cs In computer programmmg the university.

he and her family v"I ted Grand ro

the

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L A R G E

band J<� ' 7 5 tatted the 'nlll\ ater 11-lonte 'on �cht11.1I m Old Town 1 5 \"l'.Jrs a go 111 .1 ramblm� white h<.1U e ; the\ l i n� lll1 the urrer two floor ' the prc,Lhr•ol ocwp1e' the ground tk>or, and the elcmcnt.lf\' prngram '' htlused 111 space rt'nteJ from the Inc 1l H,,[.,. F 1 1n d r P,m,h G reat Jnh�

M ichael

al lahan wrote fn,m Se n t lc .

In .1dd l t ltm w workmg '' 1 \"P n t m.1rkermg, , l i ke, ,1lnng with wile T.1m1e, "" ner/d m:LtPr ,,f a ht'fon:-anJ-.1fter 'ch!l<1l center,

.m:

three hnys, Jn,hu,J , Je"c ,mJ T,,h

. . AnPther

re.mng

e,ntle re,Idcnr, Dan Dittmann, en,ls h1 hc't regards

ro

former Lhums B i l l

a mp be l l ,

Wa l l )

orman anJ Le'' l< l 11g,huf\ ' 7 7 Dan .m,l w1k , larr h,1 .1re graphic Je,Igncr' . m J Ct1ntinuc w

u an

chink,

perform In a h l u e ,fwc � h a n J . .

apaldo g1rb.

hmne

McMu rrey wrote

Canyon recently and al,o saw who is godmother

\1

to

Doug

repnrt t h a t he h,l, nwved

P l a c i d and N e w H a mpsh i re . The i r son We is

i n v i te

off to U n ion College, and T i m i a freshman

through Toronto to look them up . . . . Thanb to

merger of the Glohal PwJect Gwur " 1 th the

a t N e w H a m p ton

all of you who re�ponded. Any of you who have

G lobal

new to hare, plea;e kx1k for the general ques­

now re,pon"bk w i t h

tionnaire 111 this Issue of

Bank. . . . Keep th,n nc\\

c hoo l .

-]ames I lawkins

73

What fun it is to receive mail from

olby classmates. l often pull out my wel l -worn

olby c lassmates who are travdmg

from you and pa mg along information about

picture the per on sending me news. So tho e of are perennially 20-something. My most recent

111g,1pore

•

to

Hnnl! Kong a

-Jackie

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,1

re u l r of .1

yndicat inm Gwup, tor \\ h1ch he '' 'h,1,e :-.l m h .H t .ln cnmmg '" I c.m

>hare I t \\ Ith the c i a " !

\ 'alene }one Rn,

what's happening 111 your II\'e .

copy of "Faces and Place " and my yearbook to you who wrote, be assured that in my mind you

olby. I enJOY heanng

from

ienaber Appeldom

I imag111e that everyone has had a busy

77

The

eiley fam i ly mon:d to Burlingtlln,

Vt., thi Augu.,t1 We f111d our-el"c' ,1 lre,1dr ,1 lmle

spring, a my mailbox has been less than fu l l '

homesick, but thought, of great kung and s.ulm�

olby mail comes from near and far. Near to

Several o f u

so clme by and the easy di,tdnce' tnen:rp\ here m

were In the process o f '>ending

olby is Gary Lawless, a Maine bookse l ler/

ch ildren off to col lege In the fal l ; I 've bumped

teacher/poet, who writes that he is currently

inro several of you at college 111format10n :,ess10m

up1

teaching creative writing and environmental lit­

and/or campus rours! Good luck ro the cia-,, of

l\.ladi"(111, W1s., and deeph ,1pprecnte the wel­

ew England ( e,·en • • •

l a me ' ) keep u' f i red

tvly "'ter and f,umh recenth m1wed

to

erature at Bates. . . . Farther away is J udith

2003 ! . . . David Christie wrote from L111colnvd le,

come and genemu' help frnm Karen

McDivitt, chief of communication, di vision of

Maine. He' a sale man for Atk111s Pnnt 1 11g In

Crossley, her hu,band, Alan, and their Lhddren,

nutrition and phy ical activity, Centers for Dis­

Waterville, while wife Kath leen Is a cw.tomer

ease

advocate for c redit card gian t M B

ontrol and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga. She

A.

ot e\'ery­

u tafo;on

am, 1 2 , and tw1m Hannah and C.1leh, IL ,-\rmeJ With an execun,·e �! . B.A. degree, K.1ren '' the

has left academia for the t i me being and now

one ha col lege-age kids: Da\'Id and Kathleen

'en1or d1recwr ot de,·elopment t,,r the umver It

heads a team trying to improve Americans' nutri­

welcomed their first, Anna Carol Chmtie, m

oi 'J ''consm

tional habits and increase their level of physical

March! We hope you're enJopng tho,e 2 a.m.

"life '' ,tdl cra:y, fun and wdd With chdJren, \\11rk,

activity ( hers included ! ) . She finds thi

feed111g as much as your note 111d1cate.,1

tr.l\·el and outcl.11.1r adYenturc' "

work

•

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•

Dave

hr•ol nf BLhinC" .

•

he \Hitc, th.n Mark Brefka

Carol

and Melissa Waldron Raue are about to under­

ha' enJoyed '>(1megreat mung, n.l\'II.!<ltinl.!

Chalker McDowell resides in Beverly, Mass.,

take another mi lesrone-fu lfill111g a dream of the

the 1 997

both i n teres t i ng and reward i ng . . .

.

CWIX1rt -Bcmlud.l

111 ,1

1

J --H m

''::lmL: 1 d.l\ ''

and works as a school psychologi t. Al though

last se\'eral years. Mell ,sa ' planned ro enroll 111 the

For you �lidwe tern l.md-k>e ked tl.ul.mdcr-, th.!t's

daughters Amy and tvlolly are grown and out on

phyoiCian as>IStant program at the Yale Un,,·er-

ta,t � \Vhcn he's 11l1t ,,u lmg, , l .uk

their own, the nest isn't quite empty: husband

I ty 'chool of �ledicine 111 Augu'r. Alth,,ugh

harley has retired from his work as a physician,

ohe'll be extremely bus) With a ,·er1 demandmg

( ArmbrcLht ' l ), " '\t 11t 't:rL:e.mt" rn P.llll, Henr� , 4, l!<1 1 Je n rerneq:r 'len .md pnnl.!er 'P m­

' ' .1

Grccm' �<:h,

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have two kids, Erica, 1 2, and Todd, 9. Todd the bat. The address confirmed that I had reason for [WO year . She was delighted to receive a recent will travel with his mother to W.Va. for the to be concerned-it was sent to "Mrs. Bobbie e-mail from Eric Clise, a friend who transferred U.S. N ationals in karate-he took a gold and Woodbury." It was great to hear from Jeff after freshman year. "l hadn't talked with him silver in last year's championships. The fam­ a for manager VP-resident is Wheels Wheeler. since 1 974 . . . the glories of technology!" . . . !t was i ly also traveled to Israel and Jordan last First Albany Corp. in Boston/Wellesley and has great to hear from Carter ewell, an aquaculrur­ winter. . . . Linda Stahl Tribble sent a newsy three kids-Jay, 1 4, Tucker, 1 1 , and Katie, 7 . ist, marine biologist and fiddler living in e-mail. Linda c laims that J im, a portfolio man­ He c laims that in addition t o attending o u r 20th Damariscotta, Maine. Hi English wife, Kairy, ager at CIBC Oppenheimer in Boston, already's teaches mu ic and plays the trumpet and the reunion, he spent last summer "chewin' some baccy." He's looking forward to a big turnout for got the "big R" ( retirement) on his mind, but fiddle. Their children, Maise, 1 5, Brendan, 1 3 , and first, they've got three kids to put through the 25th and expects Sandy "Roe" Buck to get Megan, , also are musicians, playing among them college. All the kids are in high school, and now the violin, trombone, sax and guitar. Since 1 986 Jerry Jeff Walker to perform. Also, he's looking Linda's returned to school with her sights on Carter has operated an oyster company with Chris for a Colby reunion at Fenway Park this year. becoming a C.P.A. and developing an at-home Let's do it! . . . Abby Rome works for Amazon Davis '7 and Jeff McKeen '76, farmed mussels at business. Their oldest daughter, Jenny, graduAdventurers, an independent consultant in conGreat Eastern Mussel Farms, and worked with the ated from Scituate High and is a mem­ Maine Legislarure on funding for R&D ber of the Colby Class of 2003 ! (This in aquaculrure. (Like mussels? Carter says after she claimed she wouldn't concheck out eatmussels.com.) He has also N EWS MAKERS sider her parents' alma mater. Hail, been the U.S. delegate to the ICES A photo of Anthony Maramarco ' 7 1 appeared in the August Colby, Hail! ) Son J immy, 1 6, does working group on aquaculrure-environ­ Smarr Money magazine after he assumed management of the football, hockey and wrestling, and mental interactions and hopes to finish Babson Value Fund this year. He co-managed the fund for three daughter Lindsey is a freshman at his Ph.D. in marine biology in 2000. He years before taking over from his colleague and predecessor.

Scituate and does drama . . . . Sally fiddles each year at a fiddlers conven­ . . . "'Jesus Wept': Reflections on HIV Dis-ease and the Churches Pearce is a state scenic byways coor­ tion and with Jeff McKeen in the Old of Black Folk," an essay by Reginald Blaxton '74, appears in the dinator in Colorado who says her fam­ Gray Goose. . . . Ann Lyons, one of my book Dangerous Liaisons : Blacks , Gays, and the Struggle for ily unit includes a cat, a good garden favorite freshman-year Sturtevant Equality , published in June. and time to play golf and ski. This dormmares, just bought and moved into summer she worked with 2 3 local her childhood home in Newburyport, M I LESTON E S groups on designated scenic byways Mass. Ann is a licensed independent social worker on a team doing intensive and on a d m i n istering 96 grant Marriages: Zachary Wechsler ' 7 7 to Michelle Powell in Ma­ family intervention. he was looking projects. Her job will now be dedirina del Rey, Calif. forward to spending time on Plum Is­ cated to this work as she will give up land and in the local state park in spring the history part (environmental as­ Births: A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Bourdelais, to Susan and ummer. . . . Brian "Crowman" sessments, historical surveys) after 1 3 Wadsworth ' 7 7 and David Bourdelais '78 . . . . A daughter, McDormand also lives in Massachusets, years. Following last year's reunion, Dulce M.A. Nettey, to Robert and Marcia Gomez Nettey where he has worked as a machinist in she had lunch in Denver with Dave ' 7 9 . . . . A daughter, Grace Dwight Stevenson, to Jack and an atrcraft engine business for the last Donegan and Kevin Gliwa and realJodie Dwight Stevenson ' 7 9 20 years. Bnan' wife, Marian, is a nurse, ized they know some ofthe same people and they have four children: Jacqueline, out in Colorado. It's a small world Deaths: Kristen Capers B a i le y ' 7 2 , June 26, 1 999, in Belmont, 24, a emor at Bradford College; Kevin, after all! . . . John and Pam Cleaves Maine, at 48.

1 , a fre hman at the University of Devine also sent an e-mail. For the Chtcago; Anna, 1 7, a high school sethird year in a row John's on campus mor; and Kerry, 1 5, a htgh school fre hman. Brian servarion and ecotourism, especially in the trop­ four or five times chairing an overseer commit­ coaches htgh chool basketball and referee high ics. In spite of forays to Central America and tee, and he started a two-year term in J une 1 999 school football m Lynn and spends some time at elsewhere, she always returns to her Colby roots as chair of the Alumni Council. Pam re-entered rhetr ummer home at Cold Stream Pond in East by vacationing on a small island off the coast of the workforce for the Maryland Association of Lowell, Mame. He wants to know "What's up with Maine. Abby writes that she finally has settled C.P.A.'s as director of their in-house marketing KDRs' And JTB I I I , C], Chooch, Spaceman, down and consolidated all of her possessions in program that handles C.P.A. continuing educa­ Jo h T, ere., where are you?" . . . Sue I nches has a a house she bought from a friend outside of tion. They missed last year's reunion for a middle ne" JOb wtth the tare of Mame as dtrector of the Washington, D.C. (Silver Spring, Md. ) . She school graduation of daughters Kim and Sarah, Mame Department of Manne Resource , where also says he'd be happy to organize an ecotour 1 5 and 1 3 . . . . Peter Torres is an arborist. He 'he "work_., on de,•elopmg fishene and eafood for any Colby alumni who are interested . . . . AI and hi spouse/partner, Ava-Marie Stone, a Sheehy, a researcher at the University of South­ proce,,mg, wtth lor of mrere;nng people and psychologist, live in the other Portland ( Or­ t"ue,." ue and her hu;band, Bob esstons, an ern Mame in Portland, lives with his wife, egon) with two black woolly animals . . . . Jane Su an, a clinical social worker, son Mike, 1 2, orrh Yarmouth, organic farmer, l tve tn Brox is getting a huge amount of prai e and one dog, four cars and a rat (female, l assume) Zach Wech ler recently marned Mame. notoriety for her new book, Five Thousand Days M IChelle Ptmell He work m the department of named Rargtrl. . . . Lorraine Thompson writes Like This One. This book follows Here and No­ from Ene, Pa. he IS an organizational develop­ rhe At torney General of al tforn t a , and where Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN ment consul tam, and her spouse/partner, Gerald New England Award in 1 99 5 . These books Mtchdle recel\·ed her M.F.A. from Harvard m Ro ron, Ph.D., IS a re earch scientist. Their describe the emotional trains of returning home and 1' .1 dt,·elupmenr d t recror wnh '9 anng Haw k Lane, famdy unit, whtch mclude:, two ferrets, was CB . . \XInre me ar 96 to her aging family's farming home read after plannmg a btrdmg rnp to Costa Rtca. At Case 5445, or ar nedeyolmen@ harlorre, VT years of living away and moving into the future Western la;r year Lorrame uccessfully defended rogerher.ner. \X'onderfi..tl heanng from all of you. as the torch is pas ed from one generation to the her doctoral dt errar10n on learnmg skdls for -Ellen D. O' Bnen next. A sample review from The New York Times profes tonal . . . . Peter " pike" Sheerin wnte Books Review: "A poignant account of return from Beverly Hdls, where he' a dentist for the l recem:!d a letter " trh a return add res and recommitment. . . . Brox describes crisply of "Duke Wildman," '' ht h 'cared me nghr off moneyed and beaurtful. He and hts wtfe, ancy, yet with great feeling." Jane is also the recipient

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The sun, bright and glorious, touched Katahdin on J une 5, soon to awaken our little campus on a hill. ome ofourcla mate were up with the dawn, "fun" running. oon the rest of the campu stirred, and the day came alive with the sound of children and the smiles and laugh­ ter of friend . For many of our c lass, graduati n had been their last real glimp e of olby, and much had changed on campus. Yet the fam i l iar dominated, and soon the smells of lobster and drawn butter beckoned visitors to the field house and the traditional reunion fea t. Old friends rose to greet each other. Hugs, k isses and smiles were exchanged. Toasts were made to old friends and new-found friends. The afternoon became a blur. As day turned to evening, the c lass reas­ sembled for dinner in Roberts U n ion. New faces appeared, memories were shared, and more glasse were raised. Dinner was served, and Steve Earle, our graciou class president for the last five years, welcomed all and then bid us adieu, making way for the new administration of the remarkable and unchanged J a net Deering Bruen, who will be assisted by Vice President Kirk Paul and Secretary/ orrespondent Cheri Bailey Powers. Bates ( ! ) professor J ohn Smedley entertained us with a presentation on the phys­ ics of acoustics, which Mark McAuliffe umma­ rized succinctly ( if not altogether academically) as "How you touch it matters, where you touch it matters, and you should touch i t often ! " John then provided a little jazz guitar interlude, joined on harmonica to the surprise and delight of all,

by Eric Spangenthal, husband of Andrea James Spangenthal. J anet then took charge, ordering tables cleared and dancing to begin. And we danced till 1 a.m., outla ting our teenage DJs, then ret ired to the old LXA house ( now T reworgy ) for a scrapbook tour of Colby fur­ nished by J ulie Sydow Palmason. Sunday morn­ ing came a bit too soon, perhaps, and the sounds of farewell oon echoed across the campus. A few intrepid souls made the short drive to Bonn ie' in Winslow for breakfast, and a few more intrepid souls dined in the beautiful new cafeteria in Dana Hall. All too soon Waterville was fading inro rear v iew mirrors. In addition to those already mentioned, these friends also made the trip, and the lass of 1 979 and Colby are grateful for their presence: Laurie Borden Ahearn, Dwight Allison, Gayle Amato, David Bernier, Bruce Brown, Deb \.Vallace Burbine,

Tom '80 and Maria Macedo Daile •, Dwight Darrow, M i ke Donihue, Peter Dwyer and nrh • , Hillary J ones Egan, Geoff Emanuel and Laurie, Monique Fecteau, Bruce Forsle Robin Towle Gl n n and Dennts, Peter Goodnow, •,

Libby Maynard Gordon, Betsy Bucklin Gra · and Peter, Cindy Flandreau Helfrich and J tm, Li: ( Yanagihara "L) and Barr · Hormvit:, �lark

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Cheri Bailey Powers takes over the rems, and I wish her much enjoyment. Please keep Chen busy by writing often and by encouragmg your clas mates to write also. My be t wi he to all for continued happiness in your live . As alway , tf you get to the D.C. area, look me up.

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Last June I returned to Colby for my father' 50th reunion and was surprised to find that four of us in the C!assof'8 1 had parents in the Class of'49. Liz Stiller Fahey's mother, Anne Houston tiller, Meg Bernier's mother, htrley Fellows Bernier, and Elisabeth Eustis' mother, Anne Hagar Eusti , were all 111 the Ia of '49 wtth my father, Ed Pniewski. Lt:, who recently got her master' in public account111g, marned Kev111 Fahey '80 last m•ember 111 Bradford, onn. (where her parent have ettled) and are ltv111g 111 wa,hll1g­ ff ' 0 was the best man, and ton, D.C. Dan many other Colby frtends and famdy were 111 attendance, 111clud111g Li: Pi::uro 0 off. leg recently bought a hou'e 111 Watervdle, he 1' the a oct ate dtrector of alumnt relation' at oily and dtd a wonderful JOb 1f orgam:mg the Ia" ot '49 reumon weekend. Elisabeth Eu,tt' I' work111g ar L.L. Bean a' a '\ eb ma,ter. I .1 l,o ran mw Kathy Dornish Du renier\ mnrher, J ane :-. l d lett Dornt h ' 5 - , who told me th.1t K.u h\ recent!\ \'tstted Leslie Kaplan Knopf at her ht'u'e 111 eorgerown, :-.lame, .mJ tha t Le,!te " 1' e xpeL t ­ mg a 'e ,mel bah 'm' m 111u te .

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Deb Cook ha JOined rhe Maine Science and Technology Foundation in Augusta as vice presi­ dent of commumcations and government rela­ tiOns. Deb had been wirh the Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce after attending graduate school at rhe Muskie Institute of Public Policy at the Umvers1ty of ourhern Maine . . . . John Marrhew marned Eh:aberh Halvorsen last june m Middletown, R.I. john 1 a director of rhe global emergmg markets debts division of Merrill Lynch m ew York, and Elt:abeth IS a resident m psy­ chiatry at Mount ma1 Ho pita! m New York . . . . la>t August Pam Ellis had her wonder­ ful watercolor> di>played at The Art Gallery at hmtma> Cla»Ics and Collectibles m Rangeley, �lame. Pam and her two children, Bethany and Connor, hveon theeastshoreofRangeley Lake. . . .

Margaret Libb • abo had her am<·ork displayed­ at the Harror Art Galler,· at UMass-Bo ton. The 'htm wa, called "Between Morher and Chdd," worb m mixed media. . . . La,t June, even of u fwm the CJa,, of' l went ro the Top otch Resort m ::.rowe, \'t , ro celef,rate the b1g 40! Ellen .

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tiona! Marine Fishery Service in Gloucester, Mass. His wife, Pamela, is a registered nurse, and they have two children, Abigail, 6, and Grant, 4 . . . . Susanna Schneider wrote from "some­ where in China," where she was director of finance with M annesmann Rexroth Changzhou Co. Ltd. Susanna returned to the U.S. in Au­ gust, but during her 10 years in China she learned a new language and how to operate a company in a multi-cultural environment and now has a keen eye for evaluating businesses. he sums up her 1 0-year experience: "What was I thinking I" . . . After eight long years, says Dave Worster, he has completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of orth Carolina at Chapel Hill. This fall he began a one-year postdoctoral appointment teaching dramatic literature in Duke University's drama program. Dave's wife works at Duke as an executive assistant to one of the senior vice presidents. They live in Chapel Hill with their rwo children,Jennie, 7, and John David, 2 . . . . Ellen E. Smith Sicard is a C.P.A. in Rehoboth, Mass., and her husband, Chris, is a precious metals controller. They have two dogs-Jake, a sharpei-mix, and Teddie, a beagle . . . . Beth Ellis Tautkus and her hus­ band, Keith, both teachers, have four children: Jason, 1 1 , Katie, 9, Jenny, 5, and Austin, 3. The family moved from Virginia to Connecticut in August of '97 and plan to move into the new house that Keith is building in Ellington, Conn.

Beth, who is teaching at her old junior high school with some of the teachers she had when she was a student, is also in the Air Force reserves and drills at Fort Devens, Mass. She sees Sue Kallio every few months, and she and Co l l e e n P l o u rde Harvey visited D e n i s e Glennon, her husband and their new daughter, Lucy . . . Ann Renner Stillwater is a part-time school nurse, and her husband, J D, is a first-year high school physic teacher. Chris is 1 3 ; Robin, 8, has finally joined the rest of family-making them a family ofbookworms. Ann' latest favor­ Ites are Miriam's Kitchen, Tuesdays with Morrie and My /shame!. Ann declares that her renewed intere t in health and spirituality probably quali­ fies as a mid-life crisis, but she knows that by takrng time for these things, she is happier and more at peace than she has ever been. Ann would love to hear from John (T.P. ) Jackson, Mary Jane Bates, Lee Zalinger and anyone else they all hung out With . . . . Sarah Fox Whalen 1 a physrcran' assistant, and her husband, Rob, r a boat burlder. They have two children, Hannah, 5, and J 1mmy, 3. arah reports that life r> good and contentment r h1gh. he often see Ellen Huebsch Anderson and her family.

Ann kinner Rider 1 a children's book editor and senror eJ1tor at Houghton Mrfll m-Jed antoro\ company, too. Ann and her husband, Thoma , ha,·e twochrldren, Molly, 6, and hns­ topher, . . . . Richard Robinson sent a qurck note hefore lea' mg for a brkrng trrp through l t�h . RILhard " a '>enror VP wrth Real Estate Im·e,tmenr,, and h" w1fe, Hilary, " a retarl huyer. They ha,·e two grrb, arah, 9, and Blarr, .

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7 , and a cocker spaniel, Madison, 5 . They re­ cently moved to a new home in Concord, Mass., to accommodate their expanding family-they are expecting another baby . . . . Diane Zavotsky has been busy as chief-of-staff at Upper Con­ necticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, N.H., where she is finishing a two-year term as a family physician. Her husband, Daniel McClenahan, is a nurse anesthetist. Diane had fun this past winter teaching Tess, 4, to ski. Hayley is 7 . . . . Carolyn Treat is in her sixth year a an art therapy teacher and residential coun elor with Shalom House, Inc. of Portland, Maine, an agency supporting individuals with mental ill­ ness. This past April, Carolyn, who is also a sculptor, organized an exhibition at the Danforth Gallery in Portland featuring artwork from more than 40 clients, most of whom she had worked with at Shalom House . . . . J u lanne C u l l y Wright is fiscal administrator with New En­ gland Tech in Warwick, R.I. Her husband, Bill, is a consultant for State Street Bank, and they have two boys, Conor, 7, and Aidan, 3 . . . . Cathy Leonard Swain is a Spanish and French teacher at the college and high school level. Her hus­ band, Stuart '83, is a math professor. They live in Jonesboro, Maine, with their children, jacob, 1 1 , and Gretchen, 7, a golden retriever and two cats . . . . Bill Storey and wife Cheryl had a son, Walker Charles Storey, on February 26, 1 999.

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Steve Rowse reminds us to buy Very­ fine juices constantly, wherever we go. As VP of foodservice and vending sales for Veryfine Prod­ ucts, Inc., he's hoping that our increased con­ sumption of the juices will increase his children's chances of going to Colby! Steve says he and Anne Marie, who live in Harvard, Mass., with daughters Hilla:ry, Rebecca and Sarah, see Nick Silitch and his wife, Regina, in New Hampshire a lot in summer. Nick is currently SVP of investor relations with the Bank of New York and lives in the West Village of ew York. Steve also stays connected wid< Jamie Town, who is on the road a lot for Rugby, a London-ba ed building prod­ ucts distribution company that bought Winter Corp., the company Jamie has been wirh for more than 10 years. J amie and Ann have a on and daughter, Dylan and assidy. Steve asks, "Where's Ellen Mcintire?" . . . Sonya Thompsen wrote from Redondo Beach, Calif., where she i newly married to J eff Halsey. Both work for New Line Cinema, onya as senior VP of business affairs and Jeff as director of post production. In their pare time, they've been working on a house they bought to fix up . . . . Becky Crook Rogers, an independent rep for Excel Communications, and her family have adjusted well to life in Salt Lake ity, Utah, and planned to camp a lor on week­ ends and to visit Alaska this summer. . . . Nancy Simm 1 director of long-term care insurance at Ward Financial Group in Avon, Conn. She sound great and ha enjoyed the outdoor , hik­ rng, rock clunbing, camping, kiing, and golfing. he's heen in touch with Karen Purcell, Karen

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Foster Palmer, Margaret Gardiner, Lindy Lowell Birse and others, and she wants to know where to

find Lee-Anne Famolare and Peggy Hessler Moore. For a few years, Peggy I ived in my area of

the world near Ellsworth or Surry, Maine, but her family moved. Peggy, you need to write or e-mad me. You, too, Lee-Anne. In fact, I'd like to have you all e-mail me a quick hello, complete with your correct/preferred e-mail address to which I could send a note now and then . . . . I heard from Maria J obin-L ee ds , whose family has just moved into a newly renovated house in ambridge, Ma s. Maria's consulting is "in a nice phase now," she says. She' got an interesti ng HIV -preven­ tion job in three central African countries. It's all research and recommendation done from Ma sa­ chu ett -no travel to Africa. . . . Also in Massa­ chusetts is Debbie Bombaci Pappas and her hu band and son. he had just een tephen King's Storm of the entury, which was filmed on location in outhwest Harbor, Maine, minutes from my h me. Deb had also just read about Linda Greenlaw's part in The Perfect S torm in the Chronicle and in Colby magazine. Deb's comment about Linda: "What an amazing woman ! " Look for Linda's new book, The Hungry Ocean , A wordboat Captain's]oumey . . . . Kelly Dodge has become assistant director of annual giving at Colby. I 've met with Kelly and with Dave Beers '85, who is director of giving. You may get calls from me as class agent, so please take it easy on me and j ust whip out your checkbooks the first time around. Let's show we can all participate to bring our numbers of givers and gifts upward. We will continue to need helpers, and if any ofyou would help, l would appreciate more e-mail in this vein!

It was great to talk with everyone whom l may have called . . . . Duncan Gibson wrote from Rochester, N . H . , where he works for Business Express Airlines. Business Express was bought by American Eagle, but he hopes to stay in ew England. He has enjoyed being more and more active in the arts and has been a big supporter of the olby museum and the Cape (Cod) Mu eum of Fine Art . . . . Joni and Tom W i l lia m s are in Holbrook, Ma'S. Tom is a physician's assistant and an educational coordinator in the orth­ eastern Univer ity P.A. program, and Joni is a graphic designer . . . . Kevin and Karen Nickerson Purcell have been on ape od for about two years. Kevin is doing hospitality consulting whde Karen is home with their two children . . . . l had a quick chat with Grace Reef one evenmg 111 June. Her three children were busy, and Grace sounds super, as always. he is director of 111ter­ gm·ernmental relations for the hildren's De­ fense Fund in \' ashington, D. . . . . l encouraoe ever ·one to connnue to send m the questiOn· naires and write a little hello each wne. \'\1e'll all remember these when we're 111 our sen1or yean..

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Please contacr me 1f you \\'.U1t an e­ mail address for any classmates. Recenth·, e,·. eryone seems to send news \"Ia e-m:lll-wh1 ch

has been great' . . . am taley was promoted to deputy d1rector of Rea on Public Policy In tl· tute and now over�ee the production of more than SO ;rud1e; and repom publi�hed h the thmk tank m a f1>cal year. He cnntmues to d1rect the Urban Future'> Program for RPPI . He sui! lives 111 Ohw and contnbutes penod1c ar­ ticle to the Dayton Dally eu· a' a member of Its board of community contributor,. He say th1 mean that he gets to pontificate one or two times a month on urban policy Issue-. m Dayton and Ohw! . . . Leon Buck I'> an attorne� m Wa hington, D.C., where he has been hvmg since graduatmg from lloward Umverslty Law chool 1 0 years ago. For the past two year , Leon was ch1ef of staff/legislative director for on· gre swoman heila Jackson Lee from Houston, Texas. He also worked on the Clmton l mpeach­ ment proceeding Ia t year. ince February 1 999 he ha been an attorney for the Hou;e J ud1C 1ary ommittee and wa named the m1nonry coun· sel for the Immigration and Claim ubcommlt· tee. Leon i married to Munel Evan -Buck, who is director of development at the Close-Up Foundation, and they are both active m Demo­ cratic Party politics. Leon keep in touch w1th Veda Robinson, Patricia Shelton, Sheryl Battit,

Todd Robinson '85, a phy ician for the .S. Navy, and Dr. Roma Vasa Rothman ' 7 , a 'psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins UniverSity m Bal­ timore, Md. Recently, Leon accepted an ap· pointment a a Colby overseer. . . . In January '99, Donna Altenpohl (aka Dino) and husband Bill Deasey had a daughter, M 1chelle Bradley, who join her brothers, Will, 6, and Zachary, 4.

Dino still works for CIG A Healthcare as di­ rector, business development, and ays every· thing is hectic but wonderful. She 1s sorry she missed the reunion but expected to ee Carol Hildebrand, Sue Chase Downs, Dawn Lepanto Taylor and Laura Mahoney McGovern ' 8 � at

the end of J une . . . . Karin McCarthy and her husband, Doug Atkinson, had a baby boy on January 3 1 . Tucker Dougla wa:, born dunng half time of the uper Bowl; one of rhe1r docrors actually came m to announce the score Just as Tucker wa born' Kann 1s takmg an extended maternity leave from her position as the direc­ tOr of corporate education at the nl\·er lr\ of lassachusetts. he started With u � Ia" a little O\' er a year ago and ha> d1recred the unl\ ·r,lt\\ efforts to coordmate '\"stem-\\ 1de re,pon'e' w bu,me>> workforce need,. Kann expeueJ w return to work part tune m J u h anJ I' .11''' explonng the po, , Ibd l t \" ,,t tarnng her ''" n busme>,-a gardenmg enterprhe .11med lt . he l p­ mg the not-,o-ereen-thumbeJ ,,t the \h>rlJ! They ,nll [i,·e m � larblehead .mJ ,hare rhe1r ,eas1de ott age '' 1 th b.1 h T u d .e r, J J,,!:! .mJ t\\ O car-. . . ally Lee repL>rteJ th.H )Ur d.1 " m h had .J b,, ur peL)ple at reunll'n b u t rh lt the 1 Sth attenJ.mce I' u,u,1 lh lc"' due tL> I J m t l ie and Yl'ung kiJ,_ .::: h e -:uJ It ''a, t u n w !:!d t knl1\\ 'l'me cl.l"m.l te' better \\ nhL>Ut the h _ cwwJ S.1 lh \\ ,, , a-cepteJ .u an .Ut lc m , [\xl.mJ m .1lift rn1.1 , .md .u tenJeJ ll r the _ ·

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month of Augu,t. he also recently returned to Bermuda tor 'orne ln'l'lrHwn, pamt lng and relax·Jtlon . . . Paul Arthu r , a teacher linng m 1\.obleboro, �l.1 1ne, h.1 fm1 hed h1' Ph.D m phdo,orh� Paul 1' also mvoh-ed <n th canoe racmg on both wh1te " ater and fl.n. Th1' 'urn­ mer he planned a 1 .4 5 -mde sea ka\nk tnp from Burlmgton, Vt , to :-.. t .mhattnn ' 1.1 the , t .

Lawrence R l\·er, orthumberl.mJ 'trait ,md cna'>t of 1ew England . Tom · 2 anJ \'i k i ro u c h ley Dougherty are livmg m Roger,, A r k , with Megan Katharme, 9, .m J A lexandra Le1gh , 4. V1ck1 I'> a m e mbe r of the jun lt>r Aux d t.lt\ , whose pnmary focus 1' bettenng the li,·es of women and c h ddren m neeJ 'he al,o 'erve' t>n the PTA as an execut l < e bl>arJ member .mJ a ha1r of the art'. program \' 1ckl I' 1 l'o actl\· e m her church-teachmg relig1nu' eJLIC lt lon .md workmg at the hdJren\ enter-anJ 1 J leader for the G1rl cout . he cont mues w rl.w tenm; on a . . Tenn1s A"ncl<Hton le,J gue team at their country club. V1ckl anJ To m 'ull ki m Colorado for a pnng break e\·en· vear!

They also vt,lt ew EnglanJ annual!) m the ummer. . . . Erick Piper hao JOmed ecumy :-.. t u­ tual L1fe ebraoka a nce pre, Ide nt o f the work.1te market> diVISion . . . . Kenn tarr ' 5 wa,appomted to the posmon of chieffmancial off1cer dt M dlen· mum Pharmaceutical , Inc . He recel\·eJ a m.hter\ degree m corporate finance fwm Bo,ton College . . . . Thank> for 'endmg m Item' for the column all the e years' Hore all 1 well! .•

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Jacque I me Tjon 1eu" ;mJ Brian M rin VISited Pam, France anJ HollanJ. They are pwuJ godparent-' to abnela Languet. . . John ollins wntes of h1 Jaughter, A h "a , m h1' weekh col­ umn, "! learned there I' a k>cJl 'K1ds' ollege he!J on aturday at Thoma :-.. toore ol lege m Memmack for 'g1hed anJ talenteJ' chdJren age' 4 to 1 4. Featunng small hand ·tm cl.t"e' With mles like 'What\ 'r O..x. '' .mJ 'Nr...-..J lc he.JJ tone,' and 'Ft "1ls: Fact' .mJ Fun ' Ah· '·1 1' onh 2, and I'm womeJ al:x>ut her bemg l, ,._.. he <'11 .1 collegecampU>. You see, ,he\.t hn!.!CJuiCednnker." . . . Bruce Hickey h.b been n.tmeJ l ne ot live ne\\ partners at D.1v, Bem H,m trJ LL P tht b.r!_!c t Eli:.abeth Edd) Ia" fmn m <'11ne<.:rllut .

Griffin ha, J<>meJ P1ct<.:e An,,x-..J 1- m Hh>tne\ m the \\ <>rkers' C<>mpen' 1t11>n ;.!t<>up Tim a l e LrLh'eJ p.uh' With Paul B ums m n.1J 1 " h1lc n.x.k L llmbm!.! m Bu!_!.Jl:xx> Pr<>\ ll1L l ll P 1rk nd had ,l '"l,tl">ulou' mJ JJ\ enrur• ' \\ ec \\ lth rerteL.t \\ e.nher ·· J ulia Fan\ ell- la\ t , 'c \ bu � l. l " . , h.t- hee n de�. tL.J t > x: t\ <.: •n thc . l rJ of tru, tee, juha h � >ll e!_!e of :\rt m,trudL>r at EnJ t.: >tt lle!.!L mJ h [ at Tult, l.Jnl\ e N t\ . hn tine Peter en n R�bert , \\ 'e[[, \\ ere mlmtJ t tht: uth "hurLh m t n nJ \\ 1ll rna e their h me m r 1 5th nnual

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Brennan and his wife, Sylvia, who

free to call or write to me if you're

bought a new house in Alexandria,

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interested in volunteering for the position and would like more informa­

Va., this spring and celebrated their

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tion about what is involved . . . . Marcie

In May, Andrew T.

'80 was

l Oth anniversary this summer. . . . A

Campbell McHale has been incred­

named director of the Atlantic Salmon

big welcome to Y ana Tudek, born in

ibly busy with twins, Sam and Claire,

Federation's U.S. programs. Goode, for­

January to J ' Amy Allen and Bob

1 , and Madeline, 4. It has been an

merly with The N ature Conservancy

Tudek. She joins sister A ylee, 3. They

ama.:ing year for Marcie-"incredibly

and The Orvis Co., works in Brunswick,

live in Bristol, Vt . . . . Another big

busy and fun1 " She is working part

Maine . . . . Anthony Perkins '82 of

welcome goes to Molly Rains, also

time at home but has found it difficult

Gorham, Maine, was named senior

born in January, to Doug and Joyce

to get much work done. She says, "I

technology, computer and e-commerce

Seymour Rains. They live in Turner,

will probably put career plans on hold

attorney at the Portland firm of

Maine . . . . A big high five to Anne

until my children are older. I am en­

Bernstein Shur when the firm an­

Butter for herpromotion to director of

joying time at home with them." . . . Vera Hoffman Obeso has three

Anthony Perkins '82

nounced in J u ly the creat ion of

quality assurance for the Foreside Co.

TechVentures Group, a consulting

She lives in Freeport, Maine, and trav­

children ( ages 3 , 5, 6-1/2 ), four goats,

affiliate . . . . Elizabeth S. Ketcham '83 became director of develop­

els frequently to India on busi­

7 5 chickens, one cat, three

ment for the Baltimore Museum of Art last year. She oversees

ness . . . . A big welcome back to Peter

dog and one runle, and she's looking

membership, annual giving, corporate relations and special events

Coley, who survived a month-long

for llamas! Vera planned to travel to

for the museum . . . . In June James R. Gaudette '84 joined The

trip to Kamchatka, Russia, where he

eattle in May, drive up the Alcan

Onstott Group, a Boston-based executive search firm, as an execu­

tagged sea-run trout and salmon with

and stan work on 1 60 acres of raw

tive search consultant . . . . Jim King '85 recently was named news

an environmental team. When not fending offgrizzly bears in the Ru ian

two sheep,

land. Vera and her husband, Greg,

anchor at WPRI- TV, channel 1 2 , the CBS affiliate in Providence,

plan to start a sustainable/organic farm

R . I . . . . Melinda Pittis '89, a teacher at the Lexington School for

rundra, Peter is vice president at Pru­

and a community-supported agricul­

the Deaf in Jackson Heights, N .Y . , was awarded a summer research

dential Securities in Boston . . . . A big

ture (CSA) unit using draft-horse

fellowship by the American Physiological Association.

power and a solar-wind hybrid energy

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ystem. They are located between the Alaska Range and the Chugach Range, with 360-degree "awesome" mountain

thank-you from the Home Depot in Melrose, Mass., where Kevin andJoyce

Sutton Anderson continue to pour

Marriages: Elizabeth S. Ketcham '83 to Clement G. Cizewski I I I

vtews . . . . Fred and Kristin Hazlitt

i n Wayne, Pa . . . . Ned Case '87 t o N ancy Lawrence i n Wrightsville

Wickham just "finished the construc­ tion of a new house overlooking en­ eca Lake in upstate New York. We did

Brewster, Mass . . . . R . David Genovese IV '89 to Julia R. Ix in

most of the design ourselves. We are enJOymg having no neighbors but deer, turkey and rabbits and having family nearby." . . . Ttm and Beth Towle Locke announce the birth of their first chtld, Edward Everert (Teddy} Locke, born May 1 5 , 1 99 . . . . My family j ust spent our first mght in our newly pur­ chased home mOakland,Calif. l apolo­ gt:e for the

econd address change

dunng my term as class correspondent, but we are cenamly exctted and a little overwhelmed. mcettsoundsas ifmany of our clas:.mates are JOLn mg the ranks of homeowners, how about you veter­

Beach, N.C. . . . Leonard C. Sciarra '88 to Gerri L. Lasch in Greenwich, N.Y.

Kelly Burke Corwen '83 . . . . A son, Paul Richard Ramsey, to David and Tracy Sotir Ramsey '84 . . . . Twins, Curtis William Grellier and Elizabeth Winslow Grellier, to Rick and Alison Cox Grellier '85 . . . . A daughter, Alexis Katerina Kotsiopoulos, to Arty and Monique Reed Kotsiopoulos '86 . . . . A son, Quin Peters, to Brian and Linda Michaud Peters '86 . . . . A daughter, Merritt Bussell Davie, to John '88 and Kristin Hock Davie '90 . . . . A son, Peter James Koenigsbauer, to Anita and Kirk Koenigsbauer '89.

Deaths: Scott Croll '86, May 2 , 1 999, near Juneau, Alaska, at 34 . . . . Peter B. Murphy '87, July 1 0, 1 999, in Rangeley Planta­ tion, Maine, at 34.

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pa\ attennon now. Fu'\t, l owe a btg apology ro

Pete r Taubkin, who I '>Ort of miSrepre»ented m the 'pnng �,ue. Peter love; ht> JOb a> \'ICe president of gcwernment relanom and public affau> for Ttme

from Lindsay, 8, and James, 6. . . . A big invitation to those interested in nursefinishing up her degree as a nurse mid­ wife and would love to talk to inter­ ested cla mates about it. She and her husband, Brian Clark '85, live with their three daughters, Taylor, 6, Kaelen, 4, and Madison, 2, in Essex Junction, Vt., and were expecting their fourth child in August. . . . A big salute to Jim

Campbell, who has returned to active duty with the Maine Army National Guard while also finishing a Ph.D. in military history at UMO. He and his wife, Judy Richards Campbell, live in Bangor with theirchildren, Catherine, I I, Margaret, 8, and James Jr., 6. . . . A

ans ;,enJmg a few handyman nps1 I'll

-Barbara Knox Autran

into renovating their historic Victo­ rian house. The�· get help, no doubt,

midwifery. Kristen Feifert Clark is

Births: A daughter, Meghan Kathleen Corwen, to Robert and

pnnt them m my next colurrm.

their "hearts, souls and bank accounts"

big hello to Jill Myerow Blinderman, he and his wife, Keiko, plan to be drinking [n Bali on

who found time to e-mail me despite her busy life in

New Year's Eve '99. And in case that isn't cool

Fairfield, Conn., with her husband and two kids,

enough for you, Gio also wins hands-down in the

Ryan, 8, and Tyler, 4. Jill works for Professional

"dream JOb" category. He lives in Tokyo, where he

Detailing Network, which provides sales personnel

ts

a film cnnc for the ]apan Times, moonlights as a

to pharmaceutical companies. Remember our days

ful career as

as R.A.'s in West Quad, Jill? . . . And finally, a big

OJ m Tokyo clubs and also has a succe

a mustctan . . . . I'm sending a big "I hear ya" to Geoff

reminder to all of you to complete and mail the

pre.ented With the 1 999 Bra,·eheart AwarJ from

Alexander, who IS remmded almo t daily that he is "not the carefree 20-somethmg that [he] used to be." Geoff and hts wtfe, L111dsay Carroll Alexander

me your news, since you won't receive a separate

� 1tm,tne.' fur People \\'tth AID 111 recog­

' 7, live 111 Cape Ehzabeth, Mame, with their sons,

to say in our carefree 20s, it's "no biggie" } . That way

nmun ofhL' ompany' worbn th the AID Coun­ Cil of , orthea,tern . . Y. Although life keep htm bus\ . Peter glaJly fmJ> nme w be wtth ht> wtfe, tober 27, 1 99 . .

Kathv. and 'on, atl1an, born

Will, 5, and Curtts, 2. Geoffworks as an mvesrment

I'll have even bigger stuff to report next time.

Warner Cable m Albany, ' .Y. In June he wa> �upport

. . I owe a btg thanh to Giovanni Fa=io for tellmg me what "arak" L ( Bahne.e nee " me) That'> what

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ad\'t'>Or wtth a Portland ftrm . . . . A btg congrarula­ nom to Thomas Blair, who got mamed

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a chef, are opening a restaurant ( fine dining} in

. More btg congratulanom to Stephen

Brook lyn, fu lfilling a goal they set when they

tal market> for Bear York.

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met. ( Lisa, send us the name and location . ) They have two boys-M iles, 4 , and T h o, 1 .

L isa wants her x-country team member to know that she' still running as slow and steady as ever and would love to hear from them. he ees C h r i B re na - Cofs k y , who now ha three c h ildren and is a great mom 1 . . . Nancy and ed Case had a beautiful, barefoot, beachside wed­ d i ng in Wrightsville Beach, N. . The beach was temporarily clo ed for their ceremony, which was attended by Natasha and Brian Low, J o y Pratt, onnie and Ken Vopni and Karen and Tim Hennessey. Afterwards, Ned and Nancy went off to Costa Rica for their honeymoon . . . .

I n J une, Katie and Eric Green welcomed a g1rl, Annie, who joins her 2-year-old i ter, ell. . . .

Tony and Pam Blanchard Harrington moved back to an Franci co after a short return to the East oast. Tony was rei cated . . . . Tina Zabriski Constable say l ife is grand with pencer, wh arrived last August. She' back at work, which makes the juggling act all the more interesting. he and husband Rob have enjoyed getting involved in their community of Pelham, N .Y . , where Tina is o n the board o f t h e Newcomers Group. he also has joined the J unior League and helped orche trate a lively Valentine's Day party for 1 00 wheelchair-bound senior c i tizens! . . . M ichael and S ta c y Mathews Bushey have two chi ldren, Mathew, 3, and Audrey Rose, born Ia t March. They live in M ilford, Ma Joe and Helen M u i r M i l b y are the proud parents of arah, 2. Helen says her job as director of development � r a poli t ical group on Capitol Hill seem a lot easier than trying to keep up with arah! Helen had a great time catching up with other alums last May for Kathleen and Tim O ' Donnell's wedding in the Washington area.

Marianne MacDonald Wessman ( who wa ex­ pecting twin in eptember-ch i ldren ><3 and #4 ) , Tom Hubbard, Tim Bonang ( engaged) and cotty Hunter were amongst the group who attended . . . . Ben Diebold continue his tudies and travel . He is gearing up for another field ea on in Turkey, excavati ng a large neolithic town near Antakya ( Ant ioch ) , which is h is di serration research. "I t's a n ice change from digging in yria, though I enjoyed that al- ," he write . He expected co be back 1 11 ew Haven in ctober and welcomes visit rs . . . .

Paul and Leslie C h i n B urke write that "Paul opened up his own law firm Ia t year in Andover, where we recently bou ht a house. \ e celebrated our second anniversary by spend­ ing two weeks travel ing throughout Thadand.

And we're the new parents oi a son, L1am Thoma-, born m J une." . . . Hannah Howland J udson had a son, Turner, last February and >ays he's been great. Hannah has happdy qu1t her JOb as a graphic designer and IS teachmo art and de-ign part t ime at a small olleoe m h 1cago.

"I'm home as much as poss1ble," she say>, "but m · husband and I are snll findmg nme w pamt and ior our band-. L iie IS gocxi ! " . . . \\ ilia obb and "a mar\'elous man [she] met at work," Fred !ercer, were married m !arch and are hapr1h·

ltvmg on I:.astern Prom m Portland, lame, where Wdla IS a freelance graph1c artl t . he moved from .Y. . and m1"e the h1g City' . .

Heather Anderson h ristensen ran her f1r t marathon last January at D1 ney World .�� part of the Leukem1a Team 111 Tram111g; she 'ron­ sored a lmle g1rl with leukem1a and rm;eJ 4, he was look111g forward to another race hut a� he's pregnant It'll have to wal t ! . . . J i m ull ivan contnbuted the follow111g tnbute. "After a hoat1 11g accident J uly 1 0, Peter Murphy drowned 111 Moo elookmegunnc Lake. Long hefore the lake waters cla1med h1m at 34, Murph had already figured out that the be t way to lead ltfe wa to live as 1f the next Jay would be h 1s la;r. That wa; h1s gen1u . He ltved 111 the pre;ent teme, ex­ ploiting every moment. He wa bn ll tant w1th laughter, better at l t than anybody. Remember the z1g-zagg111g grace he brought to olby' rugby field and how he made a ballet tage out of the mogul fields at ugarloaf. Remember the way he u ed to conduct our evenmg from a turntable, playing the anthems from Peter Gabriel and U2 that would et us oanng. Re­ member that he' one of the few people you'll ever know who wa truly lit from with111 , and that so many of us will be haunted by the echoe of all that laughter until we do what he' done too soon already."

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Our l Oth was a rousing success, with more than 1 7 5 ' 9ers mak111g the tnp to May­ flower Hill. I t wa the best-attended reumon 111 olby's h istory. Unfortunately, I can't It t every member of our class who wa there, but I'll continue to wnte about reumon 111 upcom111g columns. ( A lso, don't forget to send 111 the handy que t ionnaire m th1s 1ssue to keep me up to date . ) Jenn ifer Joseph helped k1ck off the weekend by providing "mixers" for Fnday's crowded cocktad party. Among those at the party: Bill Carr, who w1th the help of Kirk Koenigsbauer ( and a mean goatee) got a JOb at Amazon.com and moved to eattle 111 July; Melissa Early Ruwitch and M'evie Mead, out from t. Lou1 ; ancy pellman and husband Paul; usan cott tu ker and husband Fred. I thought J ulia Lewis Peter on arne a long way for the weekend, but Pam \ oolle · made the JOurne from rear Bnra111. Althoug leg C h r i s t i e couldn't make I t up from Pc)rtl.tnd, we had a reun iOn lunch there on Fnda\ " 1 th Demet r,t 1aras , T rac G i onfr iddo and Kev in P l u mmer. Doug H a l l '9 kept Fr1d,ty\ part\ gomg w1rh a keg on Runnals H d l . at whrch J i m o n n o l h· ' s \\ ,I s t he cmh serwus l n J UT\ rero r r e d . - a t urd.w ' s c l ,t s s p.tr.t de brought out mcbt c)t u s , s,)me l0c)kmg n\l)re t i red t h a n o t h e r s . T h a n k - t<) )l l a r g a r e t hri H a r t n e t t , \\ h e) h e l red m e ( 111 .J Tom p k i n .1nd B i l l B u l l c k am ,m g c)[hers ) ur c l.tss t d l.:d the -arn the c lass b.m ner >t.l l rs fcH the c l.tss r�<.tUrt!, ffi l i1Us, unt:-ortu­ llJtel\ , L v n n ulli,-an \ j,,g : me ' t us, h e Dan Brandeis .md Dan Whitin , ·arne m h t r ·

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The Ia s o f 1 99L wei omes a whole crew of ne\\ k1ddm. M i k e and Deb Wood O'Loughlin had a baby boy, onnor . !akolm, on Apnl 24, 1 999. ( De b n�roed . ! rke 1m the comb111atmn of earn us Angus . . . or '' .I s l t w be Angus, eamus�). They'rt! 111 onnectlCut, '' here ! rke 1s compler111g h1' rt! 1dcnc\ 111 r td!olog\ , bur wdl mo"e next year w Rcx hc rer, ! 111n., where )1! 1ke wdl hegll1 ·1 td lowshlr It the . !.1\'o lm1c . Dand 1nd Erica H ffmei ter upple h.td a baby g1rl, Delane\ , 111 Dt!ccmber The\ sttll hve 111 Brun"' �ek, )Ib111e, " h •rc D.l\'e \H>rk at the • '.t\ al Arr -t.ltH>n. rah Ha, ne Rei II · and her hu,h.md. R,1b, h .w c 1 m R, f,h1e, I Thedl\ e 111 . \�'' York ' m , " hen: .u l u 1 n e e rresdent wnh A' at, r :\ K: t c rpn I )II m.u:emcnt Gr,•ur .md Roh 1 a ,. Ic c pre 1dent '' 1th Dcm.tld, m Lut 111 ,t n J Jenrette. H h '' mes, " . h hrm h s been o tlc 1hle I c.m h.n·e ffi\ �;,tke .md e.u It, too . . . m\ c reer t ke up ,t te'' d t\ J '' eek, Jnd the ro:= s t 1 re n t w n h R c f,b1 e h 1 rerteu, N: " u o:= I m 111t 111 m' •

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her husband, Jonathan, rra1·eled ro Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to adopt a six-month old son, ate Vireak Augusto. Kerri writes, "It was an ama:ing adventure that left us feeling the deepest re pect for the people of this war-rom country and deep­ est love to this little boy who has become the center of our universe." Kerri has recently seen Karen CuiffoBookerand herdauohter, Lindsay, and has heard from Kerri deForest Jarosz, who is li1·ing m Waten·ille and working as a reading pecialist in a public elementary school. Kerri and her husband, James '90, keep busy renovat­ ing old house and caring for their rwo dogs and a cat. . . . John Hayworth and his wife, Martha, had a baby girl, Margaret Manning Hayworth, on Apnl 20, 1 999. Her godfather is Chip Smith . . . . te1·e ' 9 and Karen Faunce Rand recently moved to Jericho, Vt., where Steve is a district manager with Hannaford Brothers and Karen is a full-time mother ro Mitchell, 3, and a baby due in July . . . . Stefan and Lisa Ensign Timbrel! ex­ pected thetr first child in June. They are living in ew Hampshire, where Stefan works as a real e tate broker and Lisa plans to be a stay-at-home mom for the fir t year. . . . On the wedding and engagement front, I have heard that Tom Whelan IS engaged to Julie Ann Gordeau of Wenham, Mass. Julte Ann received her master's from Lesley College and teaches elementary school in Freeport, Maine, and Tom is an a sistant vice prestdent at Bath avings Institution, al o in Freeport. They planned a July 1 999 wedding. . . . James Clifford married Gwen C. Allen in December m Portland, Maine. They will live in Falmouth, Mame, whtle Gwen complete her work at the nmh College School of Social Work. James works at the law firrn of Bernstein hur awyer & el on . . . . Scott Perley mi­ grated from Washmgton, D.C., to Los Angeles last fall to pur ue a master's degree in urban plannmg at UCLA. H t tudte focus on 'u tamabtltry, prawl and transportation i ues related to destgn of more funcuonal and livable cttte,. He 'a\'' he recently ran mto Chris Taylor, who h abo at UCLA m hts second year of law ,chool And he has heard from Dave Coleman, w ho ha' \\ andered out to the Bay area and ts hu"lv de1 elopmg '\orne useful ptece of the Internet." con 'aY' he ts "enJOytng the warm cit me' of Lth Angele,." . . Christina Wright IS m . 'e\\ ) ork ·n\ workmg as a food \\Ttter. Her recent collahor:mon wtth Jacque Torre , the p.l,tr\ chef at Lc Ctrcque, De serr Circus ar Hom�, h a , he en puhlt,hed ro rave re1·1ews (check 1t our on Am:1:nn.com ! ) he loob forward ro co-producmQ rhe rhtrd de"err-cookmg ,how and h<><lk m rhe 'ene' Kristina Wemple olden lt1·e, m !1.1t. Llllrel. , J , and t> wo rk mg 'h a re,c m:h a '<><=tare tor rhe . 'ammal &1ard of �1edtc. l hammer'. Her hu,hanJ, John, 1' a cott L apr.l tn \\ Hh rhe C . · . Atr Force ulli,·an :md h t ' w tit:, Da1\ n, are lt1 mg m Bn,rol, Conn , 11 here �nm reccnth- JOmcd LHchftcld Hd[, Orrhoped tc A"<X tate' m Ttlrnngwn .md Margaret Dawn h .1 ph v tu.m\ l"t'tanr. am"Gret hen" chw ar:e 1' ,ull It\ mg m

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Becky Graham e-mailed to say she is in Boston and still working in TV and film. Her last exciting project was working on Jeopard) " when it came ro town. She al o wrote with lots of news. Jenn Pelson Hopkins has been living with her new husband, Pat ( Bowdoin '92 ), in Singapore for the last year, teaching fourth graders at an American school. Jenn and Pat were to be back in Maine in J uly for the big wedding they didn't ha·Je before leaving for Japan. J en Greenleaf is engaged to someone she met while working at Reebok. They were to get married at the Colby chapel in August before moving to Germany, where )en's fiance j ust got a job with Adidas. ancy Putnam Bentley and her husband, Chris, j ust became the proud par­ ents of Meghan Margaret Bently in March.

Sarah Hamilton Barringer is living in London with her husband, Scott, and loves her job teaching grade school. Sarah and Scott just came back from a safari in Africa. )en Kosek Walker is living in Pennsylvania and getting ready to move into a new house with husband Matt and 2-year-old son Zack. And Elizabeth Kowal is finishing her last semester at North­ eastern Law and will graduate this May . . . . Tom Powers was engaged to Moira Monteith and was planning a September wedding on Long Island. Tom is currently an analyst at a Manhat­ tan law firm, and Moira is training to be a flight attendant. . . . John Brockelman was named executive director of the Massachusetts state GOP. According to an article in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, his first priority will be ro recruit candidates for the state election in the year 2000 . . . . Jennifer McLeod got married on May 29 in Maine to Robert Finch. They're livmg in the Boston area, where Jen is the assi rant director of communications/electronic publishing ystems at Bentley College . . . . Laura Weymouth-Horne is living in Portland with husband Peter and children, Andrew, 2, and arolme, gomg on l . Laura ays she loves being a ray-at-home mom . . . . Deborah Fuller writes from Bo ron, where she is working toward a master of art at The ew England School of Art and Destgn. he wa plannmg a July wedding on Martha's Vmeyanl to Edward Berger, a software engmeer . . . . Felicia Gefvert-Montezemolo 1 workmg roward her M.B.A. at tanford and expects to graduate m June 2000. Felicia is lt\'lng m Palo Alto wlth husband Lorenzo, a nemork engmeer, and see Katie Martin fatrly often. Kaue 1 workmg m rhe area at un !1.1 tcro,y>tem . . . . J odi Erne t wn tes from Greensboro, .C , where >he 1 a partner m a local law ftrm. In her spare ume she\ workmg on her golf game and cn)oymg her parents' \. 1L3t ltln home m Hd ton Head . . . . K i m

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a physical therapist at an outpatient ortho­ paedic clinic. The November 1 998 edition of Advance magazine, a trade journal, published Kim's research on low back pain and irregular menstrual cycles in female distance runners. . . .

Mark Longsjo reunited with several former Colby Eight members for Colby Day at Fen way Park. The group sang the national anthem be­ fore the Red Sox lost to Baltimore, 3 -0.

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to this column, writes that he flew up to Alaska recently to visit Ryan Friel, a head guide at Fishing Bear Camp in the summers; winters he spends skiing in Montana. Greg says that Ryan had a ful l-page color picture in an issue of S kiing magazine Ia t winter! What a stud! Greg is living in Silicon Valley with his wife, Carrie, and is doing well at International Data etwork Services . . . . Sarah Burditt also was recently out west, visiting Kristen Mobilia and Anny Mahoney. Kristen just received her M.B.A., and Anny recently graduated from architecture school. Sarah also has news of John Poirier, who is working in D.C. for Reuters, and of Gretchen Skea, who just moved to ew Zealand to continue her biology research . . . . Also in a land far far away is Sibel Akbay, who is in London working for the BBC. . . . Back in more familiar territory is Karen Beauchesne Charette, who is a senior inventory buyer at L.L. Bean in Freeport, Maine. She was married last fall, and Louise Jalbert and Tamiko Davies attended . . . .

Mike Eckel is also in Maine-Bath, to be ex­ act-where he is a staff reporter for the Times Record. I recently saw M ike at the Central Square World Fair in Cambridge, Mass., where he was traipsing around with Emily Muldoon.

Emily finished her first year at RLSD and was living in Boston for the summer. . . . Also in Boston is Sasha Galland, who was recently promoted to marketing associate at the Museum of cience . . . . Also here in the east are Emilie Abair Barmashi, who is living with her hus­ band, Alex, in Bethel, Conn., Diane Decker, who is at Cornell studying veterinary science, and Vanessa Lloyd Beauchaine, who is a third grade special ed inclusion teacher in North Attleboro, Mass., where she lives with her husband, John, and her two stepchildren . . . .

Katy Donovan has one more year of business school at Babson and i the a sistant director of marketing at the Greater Bo ton Chamber of Commerce. he and Mike O'Neil planned to be married Ia t August . . . . And in more wedding new , Kathleen Bartlett married Lt. Christo­ pher chneider in March of 1 999 . . . . Amy O'Mara married Roger Moore and honey­ mooned in Portugal and Ireland; J ill Moran Baxter was the matron of honor. . . . Jason D o r i o n was married to M a rgot almela '95 . . . . J u l e Gourdeau is engaged to Tom Whelan '90 . . . . Karyl Brewster-Geisz and her

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Missy Fraser-Gramer, planning trips to I reland and Cal iforni a this pa t summer, wrote that Bobby '93 and Kerry Sheehy Ward were moving to al ifornia when she fi n ished H a r v a r d ' s b u s i n e s s c hoo l . . . . M a r i k a Schwartzman completed her fir t year a t Duke, and Tracy Lars e n , Christy Lynch, Jes ie Newman and John '93 and Krisy Nordgren Southall all met up in Breckinridge for a hort ski trip in March. Krisy works for a vet in Denver while John is doing hi residency . . . .

Rebekah Freeman got her master's in higher ed administration from N YU and works as a re i­ dential college director at Washington U. in t.

Louis . . . . Sara Ferry works for American Ex­ press in N.Y.C., and Heather Lounsbury works in Cambridge. Marile "Bump" Haylon, with an ad agency in Boston, planned a J uly wedding to David Borden, and Sara, Heather, Rebekah and Carolyn Hart were bridesmaids. Carolyn wrote that after graduating from Boston College with an M.A. i n h istory, he and Dave O'Shea '93 moved to Ann Arbor, where she began a Ph . D. program in U . S . women 's history . . . .

O th e rs p l a n n i n g weddi ngs i n c l u d e M a rc Maclean and Deanna H u ston, a production manager for Coed Sportswear, who bought a house in Farmington, N . H . , and a new rott­ weiler puppy named Jake; Rob Diozi and Jenni­ fer H u rd, system manager for ITI New England Management, who visited D u e Trac in J apan and saw Meredith Gregory in Bo ton; Erik and Kathryn " Toddy" P ierce Hobbs, biology teacher at the Providence ountry Day chool in R . I . ; and Michael Robinson and E lizabeth Tabor, who received her master's of l ibrary and informati n science from Simmons and was promoted to acqui itions librarian at the Roger Williams U. School of Law Library ( M ichael is an attorney in Brockton, Mass. ) . . . Holly Labbe, of ewport, R . I . , completed her master's in dance at a e Western Reserve and returned home to get married and look for a college tea hing post. . . . Torin '92 and Anika Smith Ta lor were married in August '9 and live in Boston. Anika earned an I. . in social work from olumbia and works at The las achusett ociety for tbe Prevention of Cruelty to Chil­ dren . . . . Jonathan Kaplan, still work ing 111 onoress and a proud owner of a condo in D. . , spends a lot o f time riding and racing hts new road bike . . . . J ennifer "Jay" Hartshorn, as !S­ tant track and field coach at olbv for the past three years, attends orad school at - m t t h ollege . . . . Last spring Heather incola spent a month in Japan as part of her I. B.A. program at Babson . . . . J ulie Ackerman, assoetate pro­ ducer for ourt TV's documentary untt, ts earn­ in broadcast J )Uma!tsm ina her master'- deoree 0 fr m olumbia's raduate chool oi Journal­ ism. J ulie hears from {ichelle atterlee, whc) ts

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Ben Garrison l tve 111 Boulder, Heather Johnson, a Ph.D. candtdate at orth­ eastem, i workmgon herdt ertatton and teach­ ing sociology classes. . . . After !tvmg tn pam, Alex Kavanagh tarred graduate school at M IT. . . . Michael King was lookmg forward to a fun pring coaching the var ity !aero e team at hoate Ro emary-Hall after travelmg 111 Italy . . . . In J une I left Houghton M tfflm and now work as an H.R. genera!t t for Putnam Investments in Andover, Mass. This is my last column, and I thank all of you for helpmg me fulfill my dutie a cla correspondent for the past five years.

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Stephanie White ( stephan ie.whtte @wholefoods.com) ha been living 111 Jamatca Plain, Mass . , since graduation ( aside from a 1 0month stint in Boulder, olo . ) . he had been working in information y rem mtegratton for the Bread & Circu stores in the Boston area but was set to start school in the fall of'99 for v10!tn making and restoration. Stephame reported that Ann Neuhauser is completmg a rna ter' degree in fisheries management 111 England . . . . Lynne Moss is an editor at American Arcist maga:me in .Y.C. . . . Emberley e bitt to pursumg a g r a d u a t e d e g r e e t n c re a t t ,·e w r t t t n g a t Cornell. . . . Lauren Pelz t s teachmg pamsh at Lawrence Academy 111 Groton, t-las . , and Matt Barr is taking cla se , prepanng for the t- 1 AT, and trying to grow out a bad hatrcut 111 Boul­ der . . . . CongratulatiOns to Margot almela anJ Ja on Donon '9 on thetr ugust '99 ,,eJdmg Both Margot and Jason teach ht,torv anJ c )Jch at he;,htre Academy 111 onnectt ut . . . . John D unbar, a teacher at Pace AcaJem\ 111 Atlanta. was engaged to marn J u ! t e o,l\ 1' 111 J une '99 . . . . Mike Y u nes had a bu'\' fe,, mc)nth' tht, sprmg: he graduated trom T ulr- � ledt<.al Schcx)l 111 � Lw and marned Su,an o'tello 111 J une Kate La\ igne ( k lan[!ne jae.l ,tern m.l" · ''r!!) 1' !tnng wtth � brk Bc)le, '92 111 the Be 'wn uc 1. where -he worb as the d tre wr ,)t r rc) [! r a m' tc)r J un tor :\chte,·ement .m d �lark h an .K.:clunt manager t o r Te.1 -h t,H Amt.!rtC.l H Le,) Burnett. . . . hrisanne Loll " 1' the m.m.l[!cr t a mutual fund re,earch !!r,,ur m the & 'r n arc but >tarred c1t Jec'r[!eW\\11 rht- tall m the m,_,t.:r'­ D u � ia a u le' t, oi puHtc rolte\ rr ><.::ra m

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a private detective and his iden­ t i c a l twin . . . . A n n e J u rgeleit N EWS MAKERS teaches at the Tilton School, where she is a language learning center William I. Evans '90 was named staff specialist, dorm parent, coach and director of the U.S. House of Repre­ director of the outdoor program. She sentatives' rules and organization sub­ plans to take some classes and apply committee. In June the National]oumal for her master's in physical therapy said he "got off to a quick start, exam­ in the fal l of '0 1 . . . . J onathan ining proposals to improve civility Cannon l ives in Manchester, Vt. among members." . . . Douglas Belkin He is thrilled to have been hired '90 was named full-time religion writer

by N ASA to install the stereo in at the Palm Beach Post, a position the the new international space sta­ paper described as "an exalted beat." . tion . . . . Joy Christoferson is in . . Cameron Howe Dubie '92 received Cameron H . D u b i e '92 a n a c c e l erated B . S . N . - M . S . W . her master's degree in education from nursing program at Johns Hopkins Harvard University this summer. . . . Barbara Coulon '94 was School ofNursing. She will receive featured in G lamour's August issue. She is director of trends at the her B.S.N. and become a registered agency Youth Intelligence in New York City, and she forecasts nurse and then plans to go directly trends for Coca-Cola and MTV among other clients . . . . Joshua into a master's program to become a Morris '96 is off for a year of volunteer teaching in Ecuador under family nurse practitioner. Joy sees the auspices of WorldTeach, which is based at Harvard.

Caleb Dolan, who teaches in North Carolina . . . John Daly is working M I LESTO N ES for a private environmental con­ Marriages: Kate Carswell ' 9 0 to Timothy Schmoyer in Lenox, sulting firm in Boston and is ap­ Mass . . . . Thomas G. Powers '90 to Heather H. Davis in New­ p l y i ng to gradu a t e school for port, R.I. . . . Sally Richards '90 to Michael Lehr in Simsbury, e n v i ronment a l l a w . . . M a r k Conn . . . . Samuel Tucker '90 to Lindsey Salerno in Weston, Mortensen completed his master's Vr. . . . Marc Gilbertson ' 9 1 to Whitney Kaulbach in Craftsbury, in computer science at Stanford and Vt . . . . Shannon B. Johnson ' 9 1 to Benjamin B. Ames ' 9 1 in started working on his Ph.D. in or­ Lincoln, Mass . . . . Kathleen A. Kaliff ' 9 1 to Thomas A. Reeve ganizational behavior. . . . Ben Otto in East Providence, R . I . . . . Shelly A. MacConnell ' 9 1 to David spent '97 -'98 traveling in Central J. Kunath in Sanford, Maine . . . . Amy R. Selinger '92 to Mark America. He was awarded the B. Elefante in Madison, Conn . . . . Elizabeth P. Arden '93 to '98-'99 Rotary International Am­ James W. Howard '93 in Harwich Port, Mass . . . Karen N. bassadorial Scholarship to Tanza­ B e a u c h e s ne '93 to Scott A . Charette in Scarborough, nia, East Africa, and left in January.

Maine. . . . Laura K. Fogarty '93 to Matthew G. Nerney '92 in He planned to study Swahili for six Barrington, R . I . . . . Rodney Gerdsen '93 to Casandra Taylor in months, then travel and work in Aiken, S.C. . . Jocelyn R. Hiller '94 to Martin P. Kane in Nepal and Tibet before returning to Hartford, Conn . . Elizabeth A. Dunn '96 to Michael Allen in the U.S. late this year. . . Rima Norwell, Mass.

Lathrop Carlson returned from the Peace Corps in Congo, Africa, after Births: A son, Zane Gee, to Chris and Robin Pearah-Gee '97 . . . . A -Alyssa Falwell civil war broke out in the capital daughter, Merritt Bussell Davie, to John '88 and Kristin Hock city in June 1 997. Rima and her Davie '90 . . . . A daughter, Delaney Supple, to David and Erica Michael Goode was ac­ husband, Brian '94, planned to go Hoffmeister Supple '90 . . . . A daughter, Jessica Lee Coffin cepted to Wtlltam and Mary chool back to school this fall. . . . Shana Hoyt, to Drew '92 and Jennifer Coffin Hoyt '92 . . A son, of Law. Pnor to that he wa workmg Berger works for a nonprofit organ­ Andrew Ferenc Brewster-Geisz, to Zachary '94 and Karyl a' a paralegal m Bmton . . . . Jennie ization in N .Y.C. called Just Food.

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Anderson t' teachmg at hady Htll She plans to coordinate a program chool whtle 'tudymg for her for community-supported agricul­ rna ter\ m elementary educatton at Le ley Col­ runs a dog ledding guide service in Montana . . . . ture with low-income communities in N.Y.C. lege m Camhndge, Ma''· he wme that Ben Susannah Kowal is in a master's program in and farmers in N.Y. state. Before this, Shana Freeman t> a OL tmtructor and has been tn phy teal therapy at the University ofMiami. spent two months interviewing lobstermen along BaJa, the PaCtfic orthwe t and Ala ka. he Jason Kidwell moved from Boston to an jose the coast of Maine about management of the .md Ben " til be marneJ m Augu t 2000. . . and ts an account executive for PR ewswire. fishery. She says that Amy Darling left Nepal Heather Gerry lt,·c, m Watertown, Ma s., and He wntes that he, Ju tm Van Til '95 and Matt after working with the Pitzer College Semester Ct)umel, trouhleJ gtrl, at Germa111e Lawrence Mor e '9 recently kied m Tahoe, that JC in Nepal Program and planned to travel through­ chtlOl 111 Arl111gwn. �1a" Heather plan to Panio ts domg h1 best to supply southern New our Australia visiting family . . . . Amy Phalon is attend 'orthea tern for an �1. . 111 coumel111g England wtth Labatt and Rollmg Rock beer working with Killington, recording weather re­ P'\ Cht)logr J a m i e Geier rece1'·eJ her and that J e e Wilcox moved back to Connecti­ ports and attending a master's program in ma,ter\ 111 puhltc health and " a' to tart her cut and l t ve w t th J C and M t ke K e l l er English . . . . Kim Woodman is attaining her '95 . . . . Anna Goldsmith t a graduate tudent Ph D. m ep1Jem10logy at olumhta Un1,·er tty. rna ter's in education in N . H . . . . George -he 1' head111g to Tan:ama and plan to cl11nh ar U H m a creanve non-f1ct10n program.

Samuels live in Brooklyn and is an economics Currently he t wntmg a sene of arttcles on Ktl1manJaro With her ltance, Roh tewarr . . profes or. . . . Ruth Bristol is in her third year of Amenc.an teenagers for a J apane e company.

Ja I reland t a loan t)ffKer ar am hnJge �1ort­ med1cal school at Tulane . . . Carrie Califano he 1 abo \Htt tng an "a> told to" book about gage Group. He 'a'' rhat Christian Denckla will join the Army JAG corps when she gradu-

an M.B.A. student at Dartmouth. In the off season from school, Doug played summer baseball for the Yawkey League in Boston. . . . In one of those strange coincidences of the world, I received a note from Wendy Oram-Smith Marr ( wmarr@ceo.cu dener.edu) on the same day as the tragic shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Wendy is not only living in Littleton but is a teacher there-but at the middle chool where he reaches eighth grade language arts. Before moving to Colorado, where she and her hus­ band, David, recently bought a house and are enjoying fixing it up, Wendy was reaching on the borderofMexico as part of Teach for America . . .

Debbie Fletcher Muniz (dmuniz@ mail.duke.edu) has moved to Dur­ ham, .C., where she is the weekend executive M.B.A. program coordi­ nator for the Fuqua School of Busi­ ness at Duke. Debbie's husband, Rafael, and Stephanie Tyrrell are both students in the Fuqua M.B.A. program. Debbie also reports that Lissie Dunn is living in Ari:ona and was planning a wedding for the fall of '99. . . . ikki Breen graduated from immons in May '99 and is now a phystcal therapist. . . . Dee Loew is working at Stmmons and living in Boston, and Jason Mahoney gradu­ ated from law school in May '99 and t movmg to New Orleans to work at a law firm . . . . Reminder: our re­ umon ts commg up j une 2-4. tart plannmg to make it up to Waterville, and get rho e urveys back to Carrie Farber or e-matl me Wtth questtons1 .

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harles

chwab . . . . Grace

Jeanes l ives in Dun table, Mass., with her part­ ner, Leah Basbane '88, and works m the devel­ opment office at Harvard Busine s chool. Grace and Leah have three dogs and a cat. race sn l l

both the &>ston Marathon and her ma,ter\ m

occupational therapy at Bo,ton

Un1ver�1ty and 1

111volved 111 '1x month 111

He rook �orne nme out rh1 'lummer to 'toP by olby and to Vl'llt

anada before head111g hack

we t . . . . Katie Me

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marriage

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new job 10 December a' m

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Rebecca Hoogs lett her jOh 10 Boulder, olo.,

hospnah . . . . Adam Wolk 1 beg111n111g medi­

where he occasion a l ly sees

-Arnie Sicchitano

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p l a y i c e hockey in a league in M arlborough, tacy Joslm '97 .

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execu!lve ,1( Edelman Public Reht l()n Fr,mc i'>Co. rector

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m.uketmg k1r the

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usanna Monte:em lo now work, tnr the

t iona! Abortion and Rcproducrwn R 1ght' Ac­

Clatlon ofTn.1l Lm·yer ot

tion League 111 D.

la!lve and legal re,e.uch. 'he wme

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. Alana

th.n Pat

Prills, abo a fir t - year law '�Chool 'urvi\'Or, n i l

order of the day. Kate Charbonnier and J osh

c a tche; Bob Dy lan �how' when t h e t i me

program at the 'm1th,oman l n,tltut lon

Oeltjen have officially t ied the knot. Lot

al lows.

and th.n

olby people in attendance. Wendy Ridder

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through a sene; of tryout 1 11 hope' of mak 1 11g

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reported that the ceremony wa wonderful and

a professiOnal b a ; k e t b a l l t e a m . . . .

the couple looked radiant.

n the engagement

MacMillan l ives 111 Brooklyn and worb a' a

Jenn Ma on moved to Oenq:r, r.meJ her m.l,tcr'

beat, congrats go out to Kara Patterson, Katy

re earch and development 'pec Jal1't for Helen

ar the

Bakeman and Jenna Klein . . . . Lauren Gra­

Keller I nternational. He caught up w1th Brian

Penn,

ham has left her job doing cancer re earch and

Golden on a VISit to Lake Tahoe . . . . A contll1-

moved hJck to Flonda after IX month' 10 l-.!.1n· ­

moved to

gent l i ving in Buenos A 1 res- H i l lary Ross,

land and I '> a manne ecology f1eld 1mtrucror 111

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n1ver,1ty of Dem·er and heg.m \H)rkiOg ,lt t:hoen and Be r h n d. .

J u lie Lovell

Key Largo, teach10g ch ddren about the et:nlngy

·ay , " I want to fly big jets." . . . Patrick McBride

Olste n- invite anyone who' Jntere,ted to orne

of coral reef , mangrove' a nd e.1 gra

remain at Rutgers U n iversity and was recently

down for a v1sit. H d lary IS leav111g 'oon to tra,·el

a n t i C ipated gomg

promoted to assistant d i rector of athlet ics

around Austral ia and Eu rope for a year . . . .

Mose . . . .

communication . . . . Joshua Woodfork com­

Hilary Peterson 1

mo,·ed down ro the

pleted his master's in American studies at M ichi­ gan

tate and is pur u ing h is Ph . D . at the

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n i l teach111g English 111 Den­

olo., but spent the ummer 111 M 1ddlebury'

Breadloaf English graduate program . . . . Does

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Tony Moulton, Carter Davi . John B.m) '9 and ToJJ Pol10g '9 . . . . Kara Marchant r m the an D1ego Rock 'n' Roll , lararhon .md r.11 eJ

U n iversity ( M aryland . . . . Amanda Magary is

anyone remember Pres1dent

in a master's program in social work and law at

speech in which he aid we'd change jobs, on

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average, at least SIX t i me

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j uven i le rights d i v ision . . . . David Bruinooge

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with Steph Andriole '98, plann111g on establish­

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predecea,eJ hy her hu ,b.m J, R<,hert

Lucy Taylor Pratt ' 1 7 , February 1 2 , 1 999, in

Melva Mann Farnum ' 2 3 ,

Farmington,

Portland, Ma 111e, at 9 . A reacher, ' h e mo,ed ro

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years and

Japan 111 1 92 7 With her ml"ltmary hu,hand,

Banf1eld ' 4 7 .

chool Program for 50

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at Hartford Public H igh i n the Hartford years.

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he is survived by her son, Leon Pratr, and

volunteer ar I m manuel Bap!l't Ma111e

several nie es and nephew .

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S hoo l , cademy 111

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nson Academy and \V 1::.ca.>et

gran khddren and 1c gre,u-gr.mdc h ddren.

lame.

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daughter, Dons Taylor H u ber ' 4 5 , five grand­ daughters, inc l u d i no J ean H u ber Edmond,on '8L, 1

three daughter,, H dda Farnum ' u.: nll ' 4 9 . Eli:.l­

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great-grandch i l 1ren and three gre.H­

great-grand c h l ldren.

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Ruth J a meson Robinson ' 2 3 , Apnl l , I •N9, 111 Vernon, onn., ar 98. he was a reg1,rered nur'e ·ears bv I\ !anc he,rer ( <ll1 n . ) emplo ·ed for _

1\ !emorial Hosptral. Predeceased bY her hu,­ band, hester L. R ob ms<)n ·- - · ,he 1' ,un·tved , brc)ther, rhree b • a son, \' i l lard L. Rolmson, 1 grandc h i ldren and four grear-grandch dclren

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Institute in Hololulu. She is survived by her nephew, John P. Dunstan '60.

Marie Holmes Ray '2 7, May 1 , 1 999, in Randolph, Mas ., at 9 1 . A World War II vet­ eran, she was the owner, editor and reporter of the Bridgewater ( Mass.) Independent newspaper for 3 years until he retired in 1985. Prede­ ceased by her husband, Kenneth B. Ray, she leaves no known relatives.

Myrtle Main Sherman ' 2 7 , March 2 3 , 1 999, in

Augusta, Maine, at 95. She studied at the Uni­ versity of Maine, McGill, Harvard and the Sorbonne after graduating from Colby, and for 3 6 years she taught at Maine Central Institute and Cape Elizabeth High School. Her husband, Ernest Healy herman, predeceased her. Sev­ eral cousins survive.

Ruth Plaisted Robinson '29, April l 3 , 1 999, in

Farmington, Maine, at 9 1 . A homemaker, she was a long-time member of the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Mass. She is survived by her son, Ronald Robinson, four sisters, a brother and many nieces and nephews.

Allan J. Stinchfield '29, j une 1 7, 1 999, in

Gorham, Maine, at 9 3 . After serving in World War II in the Philippines he returned to Maine as chief orthopaedic surgeon at Togus Veter­ ans Hospital and was on the staffs of Augusta General Hospital, Gardiner General Hospital and Sisters and Thayer hospitals in Waterville.

He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Ruth Hutchins Stinchfield '28, two daughters, two nieces, three granddaughters, a grandson and three great-granddaughters.

Mabel Dolliff Craig '30, June 5, 1 999, in

Gladys Bunker Bridges '28, May 29, 1 999, in

Bangor, Maine, at 94. She taught school in the towns of Brooks, Lincoln and Bangor, where she served for 2 5 years. Predeceased by her husband and brother, she is survived by two cousins.

Claremont, Calif., at 9 1 . She was a director of religious education in the Congregational Church in West Roxbury, Mass. After her mar­ riage to the Rev. Andrew Craig, she served with him in churches in Maine, Massachusetts and Colorado and was everywhere a community leader. Her husband of 65 years survives her.

Marion Morrell Nickels '32, March 3 1 , 1 999, in Portland, Maine, at 88. She is survived by her son, Charles N ickels.

Hildred Nelson Wentworth ' 3 2 , March 8,

1 999, in Millinocket, M a ine, a t 88. A mem­ ber of Phi Beta Kappa and salutatorian of her class, she taught English at Lawrence H igh School in Fairfield, Maine, and at Stearns H igh School in M i l l inocket. She is survived by her husband of 60 years, George, three sons, a sister and four grandchildren.

Dorris Moore Cox ' 3 3 , February 23, 1 999, in

Sebring, Fla. , at 87. After teaching high school English for several years, she worked for The Reader's Digest Corporation, and she filled her later years with travel. Survivors include her two daughters, Lee Cox Graham '69 and Susan Grant, nine grandchildren, a great-grandchild and four nephews and nieces.

Waterville, Maine, at 92. A teacher for several years at Winslow High School and a member of the Colby Alumni Council, she was prede­ ceased by her husband, Lawrence D. Cole '30. he is survived by a daughter, Virginia Cole Henkle '65, a son Lawrence D. Cole Jr., two grandchildren and a great grandson.

1 999, in ashua, N.H., a t 90. A teacher before and after raising a family, she retired in 1 974.

She was predeceased by her husband, Reed W. Davis, and is survived by three children, 1 1 grandchildren and 1 0 great-grandchildren.

Walter L . Dignam ' 3 3 , May 6, 1 999, in Win­ chester, Mass., at 87. He concluded a 42-year career with New England Telephone as vice president of personnel. He also was active in many community organizations. Survivors in­ clude his wife of 6 5 years, Grace, his daughters, Judith Dignam '60, Joyce Dignam Flynn '62, Joan Dignam Schmaltz '63 and Janice Dignam Stabile '72, his sisters, Mary Dignam Murphy '3 1 , Ellen Dignam Downing '35 and Alice Dignam Grady '38, and a granddaughter, Heide Schmaltz Lasher '87.

Margaret Davis Farnham '28, April 1 8, 1 999,

Verna Green Taylor '30, October 1 7, 1 998, in

John P. Sherden '33, March 23, 1 999, in

m Hampden, Maine, at 9 1 . She taught Latin at orth Anson Academy and later taught at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. She served Colby a cla agent, on the Alumni Council and on the Admissions Committee, and she and her late husband, Rodenck Farnham '3 1 , both were awarded Colby Bncks. The Farnham Writ­ ers' enter wa named tn their honor. urvivors mclude her children, Alden Sprague ' 5 3 , Pat Farnham Russell '62, Jane Farnham Rabeni '66 and Barbara Bngg , and her three grandchil­ dren, Jeffrey Ru ell ' 7, Ttmothy Farnham '9 1 and Margaret Ru:. ell Ewalt '92.

Scarborough, Maine, at 90. She taught in sev­ eral schools before becoming assistant librarian at Thornton Academy. She was an active mem­ ber of the United Baptist Church of Saco for many years. Surviving are a niece, Athena Keller, and several great-nephews and great-nieces.

Monterey, Calif., at 87. He served as deputy chief of staff for logistics at the Pentagon and in various Army ordnance corps assignments from 1 93 1 to 1 965. Later he was self-employed in investment management. He is survived by his wife, Catherine, two sons, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Cornelia Adair Cole '28, February 1 3 , 1 999, in

Arthur B. Levine '2 , January 20, 1 999, tn

Palm Beach, Fla. , at 92. He graduated from Han·ard La" chool and owned ht own general pracnce tn Waren tlle, �lame. He also had a 'ucce"ful career tn brokenng ecurtttes. He ts 'un 1\·ed hy two on , Robert and teven Lev me, a J:-.rorher and two grandchildren.

Doroth · E . Deeth '29, !\larch 2 3 , 1 999, m

anra Ro,a, Caltf , at 90. he earned her nur mg degree at the Cntver'tr\ of htcago and held ,en�ral pedtatrtc nur mg po,mom before be­ commg dtrecrorofnur'e at r. Franct Ho,pttal tn altiornta. The ollege a" arded her an hon­ oran ma,rer of 'uence degree m 1 9 5 5 .

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Lee F. B r a c k e t t ' 3 1 , j une 9, 1 999, in Farmington, Maine, at 90. During World War II he served as a Navy intelligence officer. For many years he was a federal game warden with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Barbara Merrick Brackett ' 3 3 , a son and daughter, nine grand­ children and 1 3 great-grandchildren.

Jerome G. Daviau '3 1 , june 1 4, 1 999, in Berlin, Conn., at 90. For 40 years he practiced law in Watervtlle, Mame, which he served as ciry solici­ tor. He also wrote Maine's Life Blood, a pioneer arrack on mdustrtal pollution and the destruction of Mame's ftshenes. He is survived by hi wife, Ruth, hts on, Robert Daviau '68, a daughter, se,·eral grandchtldren and great-grandchildren.

Walter B. Lovett '3 1 , January 29, 1 999, m Port Orange, Fla., at 92. After rettremenr m 1 974 he moved from e" Hampshtre to Flonda. Ht wtfe, Luctlle unnmgham Loven '32, predeceased htm.

Uf\'1\'0r mclude ht >On, Walter B. Lovett Jr.

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Barbara White Morse '34, J une 1 , 1 999, in

Springvale, Maine, at 86. Before her marriage she was a teacher at Lee Academy and at Oak Grove School. A member of many civic orga­ nizations, she also was a researcher and author of many articles on Victorian art tiles for na­ tional antiques publications. Surviving are a son, a daughter, Sally Morse Preston '63 , and two granddaughters.

Laurance E. Dow ' 3 5 , February 22, 1 999, in

Willimantic, Conn., at 85. An Army veteran of World War I I , he was city manager of Belfast, Ma ine, commissioner of Waldo County and administrator of Waldo County General Hospi­ tal. He is urvived by his wife, Mira, three sons, three daughters, eight grandchildren, three great­ grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Charles J. Caddoo ' 36 , March 1 2, 1 999, in Florida,

at 87. He was a teacher and coach in Washburn and Caribou, Maine, until 1 94 1 , then taught in

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Milton, Mass., until h is retirement in 1 974. Predeceased by h is brother, Wil­ liam H . addoo ' 3 2 , he i urvived by his wife of 65 years, Dai y, two son , a sister and several grandchildren.

Bryn E. Parry '0 1 died J u l y 1 9 of acctdental carl-.on monoxtde

poisonmg at a olby fnend' home m laryland after a car wa-, left running in an attached garage near where he wa leeptng.

An English and performmg art double maJor at olby, he wa active in Performmg Art� and Powder Wtg drama producmm and was on the Jean' It st. he t urvtveJ by her parent , Andre"' and Mary Klem of Alexandna, Va., and a younger '>t ter, Letgh A. Parry.

C leo Tuttle Henderson ' 3 6 , April 2 1 , 1 999, in Penacook, N . H . , at 86. he was a teacher and principal at M i lo ( Maine) Elementary chool for 1 4 years and a librarian at Garland treet J un ior H igh chool in Bangor, Maine. he is survi ved by three daughter , Gayle LaVallee, Joan Hender on and J ane Bunting, two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and several n ieces and nephews.

Barbara Frazee Haynes ' 3 7 , March 1 2, 1 999, in

Bath, Maine, at 8 3 . he was an active member of several community and church organizations.

Surviving are her three daughters, Carol Young, haron Haynes and Barbara Witham, four grand­ children and five great-grandch i ldren.

Richard W. Dow '38, April l l , 1 999, in South

P rtland, Maine, at 82. He served with the Navy in the Pacific during World War I I . For many years he was a heavy equipment sale man for outhworth Machine and N .A. Burkett.

Predeceased by his son, Richard Dow Jr. '69, he i survived by hi wife of 5 years, Eleanor, a daughter, h is brother, orman R. Dow Jr. ' 3 7 , and six grandchildren.

I rene Rockwood Johnson '38, J anuary 1 , 1 999, in Petersham, Ma s., at 8 2 . She worked for the Baltimore, Md., Visiting Nurse As ociation and for the ambridge, Ma s., Visiting ur e Asso­ c iation. he was active in anti-war demonstra­ t ions during the V i et na m War and as a ommitted Quaker spent t i me in pri on. he I aves her husband of 56 year , Ru sell John on Jr. , tw son-, a daughterand four randchildren.

I ra L. M c G o w n ' 3 , eptember 26, 1 99 , 111 Bang r, 1aine, at 2. After erving with the Marine orp :luring World � ar I I he wa· a data proces i ng manager w i t h Bangor and roosrook Railroad from 1 9 5 1 to I 6 and wtth Bangor Hydro-Eie tric o. from 1 96 until ht retirement in 19 . urvi\' r include h t \\'tfe, Marouerite, a son and a daughter.

1 99 , tn l nd t, na, , ugust at 1 . He sen·ed in the Arm • dunng \X'orld War I I . urvivors in lude his son.

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Harold C. Paul ' 4 3 , Mar h 6, 1 999, m carborough, Mame, at . He wa a a\' avtator and tl tght mtructor m World ar I I . profe,­ ton I a tor nnd theater manager, he "'a a prole or of peech and theater t on ord olle 'e m � e't Vtrgmta for 2 3 year . unwmg <1re ht-. \\ t e, Jthr)n, two daughter , e t ly L7ne!! and Detrdre P,ntl ' 5 , n d ht., 'on, l tchael Paul ' 7 .

Mary Lill ia n Hea l y Orr ' 3 9 , February 1 5, 1 999,

in Reston, Va., at 3 . A ecretary, tea her and homemaker, he i urvtved by her hu>band of 5 3 year , Forre t, tw daughters and a on, two brothers and five grandchtldren.

Donald B. Read ' 3 9 , March 29, 1 999, m Frank lin, . . , at 5 . He had a long career tn the insurance indu try and wa a member f several in urance a sociation . urvivor mclude hi wife, Barbara.

Millicent B lling mith ' 4 , December 2 , 1 99 , m � a h 111gton, D. . , at 77 prm tpal of Jonathan La" H tgh Mtl ord, onn., unttl her remement m 1 9 7 . h e erved o n a number o f educatton commit· tee and connnued to 111g 111 her I{ ,11 ongre­ gattonal hur h h01r. Prede eao,ed hy her daughter and granddaughter, he t un t \ eJ by her tHer, D lore. Bol l 111g.

Barbara White Haddad '44,

Mildred Colwell P a u l H. Landry ' 3 7 , April 2 6 , 1 999, in Waterville, Maine, at 86. After service a a quarterma ter first class in the Navy during World War II he was a c lerk with the U.S. PostaI ervice f r 32 years. urvivors include h is wife, Ceci le, a on and tepson, two granddaughters, five isters and many nieces and nephews.

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teve ns ' 3 9 , February 9, 1 999,

in Waterville, Maine, at 8 1 . he taught for three years before her marriage to Machaon E. teven '39, then made her home in Mame and rai ed four children. Survivor include her chtldren and a grandaughter, Lauren tevens '0 1 .

Ruth Berkelhammer Gollis '40, January 6,

1 999, in ew Bedford, Ma . , at I . A ew Bedford resident for more than 50 years, he leave two sons, Leonard Gol l i and teven Gollis, a daughter, Margery trauss, a tster and three grandchildren.

Richard C. Johnson '4 1 , June 6, 1 999, in unny­

vale, Calif., at I . After teaching philo ophy at Harvard for three year , he had a long career as a business executive with the Georgia-Pacific r­ poration and with Ro eberg Lumber. un•tvtng are hi wife, Geraldine, four ons, two daughter , 1 3 grandchildren and his fnend, Joy tanton.

Ruth cribner Rich '4 1 , larch 6, 1 999, m Portland, Maine, at he was an Englt h teacher in everal lame ,chool dunng World War l l . Later -he was a homemaker, hurch worker and \'Olunteer tn ommuntty organt:a­ tton and proJe t,. he t un't\•ed by I er hu'­ band of56 year , E:Iwm . Rt h, a daughter, rwo sons, a 't>ter and ftve grand htiJren. ameron avage '4 1 , De ember l , 1 99 , H t lo, Hawau, at 7'. he \\'J' a natt\'e t)f and ltfelong re,tdent of Hawau.

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ovember 2 5 , 1 99 , m Provtdence, R . I . , a t 76. h e part tc t · pared m numerou rage produ ttom a n d en·ed a pre tdent o the lo al garden club tn umber­ land, R . I . in Provtdence ,he 'erved everal cluh and c mmtttee and volunteered or other non­ profit r antzatton . he ·� o,urvtved hy two om, E. Alexander Haddad and hmtopher HaddaJ, two daughters, Jane Haddad and Latla Haddad, a t ter, and three granddaughter .

Ethelyn Fletcher Fergu on '4 , Januar, 2 , 1 999,

m Bangor, Ma111e, at 72. he wa> a ho,JI teacher for many year 111 Madt m and wa' a tt\·e tn everal Ban r or am:attom. un•t,·or 111 Jude her on, Btl I Fergu n, a '>�ter and two nephe'' '· Eileen Lanouette Hughes '4 ,

tober , 1 99 , 111 Floren e, I taly, at 7 . he wa' a reporter and a corre p ndent for L1fe maga:me. Later he " a' a JOumaltst wtth Ufe' Rome hureau and •note a column for the Rome Dml) mcncan he left to be orne dtre tor of publtc relatton ,l[ 1ew York ntver tt\ and later Jt Fllrdh.lm 'nl\ er­ 'tty. he • ., ur\ tveJ by her tWll Jaughrcr , , lar, Larkm Hu he' and Kathleen M urp h y , .1 hrother and four grandchtiJren Fran e Te r r

· P \\ er '4 , J.mu:uy 1 5, I 9, m Fayette, �\lame, ,H 7 1 'he W{>rkeJ .u the t.lmtly b u , t n e ' • Terry', Br.l tdeJ R u g hop, tn \X'aten·tlle, :\lame, then mm cd the bu me , to Fayette anJ umttnueJ <>pentll1g the turc unnl her de<1th. un·tvof'> m..JuJe her hu h mJ, Ketth Po•• er, ft>ur d.1ughrer , a te on, mJ ever tl �:ranJchtiJren mJ �'feJt·!.,'TinJ�.:htiJren

Bettina Barter Richard on '42, Febru.m _ I ,

1 999, tn Flonda, at 7 7 . he " '· ' the fm.m 1.1 1 se retary for the �wnmgton ( , lame) :\letht'ld­ tst hurch ft1r m 1re th.m 4 \ e.l f'> :md " 3' :1 tt,·e m the Red rt the Republt ·an P1rr\ anJ many orhert1r ant:.H ttm,. She h 'Uf\ 1 \· e J h h e r huchrer. ,l ll\ R tce. rwo grand- m and -e' er.1l ow;m,, m ludm' O..m na Barrer Btlltm:' 9.

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Robert L. Brigham ' 5 1 , December 7, 1 99 , in

Paul K. McDermott ' 5 4 , August 7, 1 998, in

orth Port, Fla. , at 67. He worked for Life maga:: i ne a an editor in ew York, correspon­ dent in Chicago and bureau chief in Moscow.

Later he was co-owner of the York County Coast Star in Kennebunk, Maine. He is survived by his wife, Rebecca, two daughters and his brother, Chester Brigham '50.

Providence, R.I., at 65. A Korean Conflict vet­ eran, he wa a Wall Street petroleum analyst for 2 5 years before his retirement. Besides his wife of 40 years, Priscilla, he leaves a son, a daughter and five grandchildren.

Robert V. Reid ' 5 1 , January 1 , 1 999, in

William R. Thompson 5 6 , February 2 7 , 1 999, in Wayland, Mass., at 64. A financial manager for General Electric Corp. and Digital Equip­ ment Corp. before he retired, he also was an active community volunteer. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Ann Hennings Thompson '56, a daughter, a sister, Anne Thompson Hennessy ' 5 2 , and a stepbrother.

Jacqueline Dillingham Schlier ' 5 1 , J une 1 8,

Malcolm Remington ' 5 7 , ovember 1 998, in Massachusetts, at 66. He attended the College after serving with the Marine Corps in Korea.

Later he was general manager of operations at Servend Inc. Survivors include his wife, Louise Ann Mullin Remington '58.

Peter J. Coney ' 5 1 , February 20, 1 999, in Tuc­

on, Ari:., at 59. He was a world-renowned geologist who taught at the University of Ari­ :ona. urvivors include Darlene A. Coney. al.em, Mass., at 69. For more than 3 5 years he was dtrector of finance for the Honeywell Corpora­ tion in variou locations in the United States. urviving are his wife, Sheila, a son, two sisters and two granddaughters.

1 999, in Concord, Mas . , at 69. She was a lab­ oratory technician and erved on the staffs at Brown Univer ity and Children' Hospital in Boston, Mass. he also worked as a paraprofesional and substitute teacher in the Concord elementary schools. Survivors include her hus­ band of 46 years, Robert, two sons, three daugh­ ter , her father and eight grandchildren.

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Btddeford, Mame, at 69. he was a teacher in Omaha, eb., for several years before she moved mto real e tate. For a time she operated her own agency. mce 1 990 she wa employed as the town clerk of Kennebunkport, Maine. urviv­ mg are her son, Timothy Winters, two daugh­ ter , Barbara Anderson and usan ormandin, a brother and ister and four grandchildren.

Barbara Hamlin Hladky ' 5 2 , May 7, 1 999, in

Pre-en-Pad, France, at 6 . A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, he earned a Fulbnght cholarship at the orbonne. he rettred to France in 1 9 5 after teachmg Engltsh and foreign languages m the outh Portland, Mame, school system. ur­ \'tvmg are her hu band, Franct Hladky, three 'on and a daughter. ancy ewman Tibbetts ' 5 2 , March 1 2 , 1 999, m Portland, Mame. at 69. he recetved a master's degree tn oc tal work from Bo ton Umver try and wa a cltntcal oc tal worker at ommuntty oumelmg enter tn Portland for 30 years. urnnng are her hu band, Earl Ttbbett>, her daughter, her brother and her cou'tn arol arl on Van Alst) ne ' 5 3 .

George C. De Luna ' 5 3 . Julr 6, 1 999, t n 1 ew York, at 66 For more than 3L ,ear he 'en ed 1 nee pre>�dent at Itt bank, e unry Pact he and

l rnng Tru t tn ew York, London and Toronto.

He " ,unwed b, ht' wtfe, BarbMa E te De Luna '5 , three 'on , ht' mother anJ brother.

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Mendham, N . J . , at 62. After many years in real estate, he became director of property manage­ ment for the General Services Administration and later held various positions in federal and state government. He leaves his wife, J ane, a son and daughter, two sisters and several nieces and nephews.

Alan S. Rhoades '64, April 14, 1 999, in Kittery,

Maine, at 5 7. He served in U.S. Naval Intelli­ gence, retiring after 22 years with the rank of lieutenant commander. He also was chairman of the Kittery planning board. Survivors include his wife, Sara Shaw Rhoades '64, his son, Andrew Rhoades '90, his daughter, Abigail Rhoades, a sister, and his nephew, Peter A.W. Aykroyd '00.

James E. Lambert '66, March 9, 1 999, in Vine­ yard Haven, Mass., at 54. He erved as manager, vice president and president during a long career in banking in Maine and MassachusettS. Survi­ vors include his wife, Judy, and three children.

Carol Wickeri Castine '60, June 1 8, 1 999, in

Plattsburgh, .Y., at 6 1 . She was employed by Pan-American Airlines, a Wall Street law finn and Exxon Corporation before her marriage to Kenneth Castine. Her husband, two brothers, a sister, two nephews and a niece survive her.

Leon T. Nelson Jr. '60, April 1 4, 1 999, in

Janet Clark Winters '5 1 , June 22, 1 999, in

George M . Gross Jr. ' 6 3 , May 1 , 1 999, tn

Boston, Mass., at 6 1 . He was president of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, the Greater Roxbury Chamber of Commerce and Lolech Enterprises, and he served the College on the Alumni Council and as an overseer. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Charlotte, his daughter, his mother, ister and three nephews.

Sandra Jean Shaw '66, J une 26, 1 999, in Yarmouth, Maine, at 54. She began her journal­ ism career at Newsweek magazine and after moving to Maine in 1 970 was a reporter for many local newspapers, including the Portland Press Herald, Maine Times and Lewiston Sun Journal. Survivors include her husband, John C. Orestis, her daughter and her sister.

Stuart M. Rosenfeld '69, January 2 1 , 1 999, in Madras, India, at 50. He was a professor of chem­ istry at Smith College and the author of many articles and books on organic chemistry. He leaves his wife, Nalini Bhushan, a son, his mother, a brother, a sister and many relatives in India.

Robert G. Taitt '60, March 22, 1 999, in Alex­ andria Bay, N.Y., at 6 1 . He worked in advertis­ ing sales for newspapers and The Reader's Digest and was a lifelong freelance photographer. He is survived by his wife, Frances, three daughters, hi father, a brother, two grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

Belmont, N.H., at 48. She was a grade 7-8 English teacher in Belmont. She leaves her husband, Thomas J. Bailey ' 7 3 , two sons, her mother, her brother, Robert S. Capers '7 1 , and her sister, Nancy apers Mellen '72.

Ellen McCue Taylor '6 1 , June 29, 1 999, in

Robert G. Campbell ' 7 6 , March 1 2, 1 999, in

alem, Ma ., at 60. She was assistant to Colby's dean of admissions and also wa as ociate dean of tudent before moving to Ma sachusett , where she was active tn several volunteer orga­ ntzanons. he leaves her husband, John Taylor, her mother, a Sister and a brother.

Cornelius, N.C., at 45. He was a Boeing 7 2 7 pilot for U.S. Airways and an instructor ofother pilots.

Survivors include his wife, Vicki, his parents, his brother, two sisters and several nieces.

Patricia E. Wil on '62, May 1 8, 1 998, in Cullowhee, .C., at 5 7 . he wa electronic resource> l t brartan at Western aro l t n a Un1vermy\ Hunter Ltbrary. Prev1ou l y she worked at Key>tone ommun1ty College and Fro>thurg tate Umvers1ty. he 1 surv1ved by two daughters, Kate and Karen KraJeSkl, her mother and her brother.

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Kristen Capers Bailey ' 7 2 , June 26, 1 999, in

Scott L. Croll '86, May 2, 1 999, near J uneau, Ala ka, at 34. Rai ed in national parks, he worked for the National Park ervice in several parks around the country. He was part of a coastal mapping team at Glacier Bay National Park when his plane crashed. He is survived by h1s parents, Stuart and Ellen roll, his brother, several aunt , uncle and cousins.

Kenneth W. Bergen, L.H.D ' 8 7 , May 1 1 , 1 999, tn Lmcoln, Ma ., at 87. He was an expert on estate plannmg and tax law and a founder of the Boston Tax Forum.

Readers Write continued from p.2

that all C lby students share ? Can't we make "unification" a c rnrnon goal ?

Final ly, I want to express my support � r any active students that think analyt ically about the world around them. My que tion is why are these same protester not marching to Washington to protest the i llegal wars the Clinton Admini trationhas involved ourcoun­ try i n ? Why do we not hear of any pr tests on behalf of the 85 innocent men, women and chi ldren that d ied in Waco? Are the students not concerned that the Clintons have i l legally used F. B.! files and the I .R.S. to threaten and intimidate pol itical enemies ? I realize that the maj rity of the faculty is of the l iberal bent, but have the students been so indoctrinated with this left ist rhetoric that they fai l to see other significant issues beside "diversity training" and "in titutional racism?"

Gregory M. Jackson '90 San Francisco, Cal if.

On Discrimination

In order to combat the past effects of d iscrimination, the government and institu­ t ions l i ke olby grant preferences to pro­ tected c lasses. Preferences in employment.

Preferences in education. Preferences i n con­ tract ing. Preferences in terms of weakening the presumption of innocence when d iscrimi­ nation is alleged. Preferences in having the g vernrnent provide advocacy and lawyer­ ing, includ ing prosecuting civil suits.

Preferences for one group are d iscrimina­ tion against others. The one group that will never get such preferences is m iddle-aged white male . Perhaps that is fair. As a middle­ aged white male, however, I 'd have to be meshugenah to upport such a system . . . .

No one should be d iscriminated againstr for-on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, d isabil ity or sexual orientation. Mart in Luther King under tood that. Ward onnerly un­ d rstands that. I f polls are to be believed, mo·t American· understand that. I ronically, the only ones who don't understand it are King' pol i t ical heirs in the d iversity polit­ buro, who are apparently well repr ·enred on Ia flower H i l l . I have a dream roo-of an m rica that doesn't put people in boxe· marked ra e, gender and tribe.

Jon Rei man ' 7 7 l\ lachias, Maine reisman@nemaine.com

Deans Shortchanged

Shari n g the Spot l ight?

W i l l iam L. Bryan ['4 ) d1ed December 24, 1 998. George T. icker on ['24) d1ed Decem­ ber 29, 1 99 .

Bill Bryan attended Wdl 1arn ol lege, leaving to erve in the oast Guard dunng WWI I . After the war Bill completed h 1s edu­ cat ion at Colby. After graduation Bdl be­ carne directOr of adrni ion and erved m that capacity for the next 1 5 years. In 1 946 George N icker on returned to olby, serving ne year as d i rect r f adrni ion . He then became dean of men, erving in that po ition for the next 20 years.

These two remarkable men influenced the l ives of thousands of Colby tudents, both in their official capacity and off carnpu as well.

They are remembered respectfully and fondly.

Colby acknowledged the passing ofthese two men with an inadequate article in the spring '99 issue of Colby. In that issue neither man was noted in obituaries. In the summer '99 issue of Colby again neither man was l isted in the obitu­ aries. It is my opinion that you have short­ changed the admiration, the memory and the influence of these two very specific men. They deserve better from their college.

We feel 1t 1 1rnportant tO clan!)· Wal ter Wang' respom 1 b d ity 111 brmging K a t i e Koe tner to addre t h e Colby community ( umrner '99, " harmg the pot l ight") . . .

We were plea>ed that Wang minally brought Koe tner to Colby m the pnng of 1 99 7 . Her program 1 mcred1bly effe uve, e pee �ally a exual a ault on carnpu' 1 an under-addre ed 1 ue. However, we feel 1t 1 1r n 1c that Wang boa:.ted Koe tner wa h1' "rno t powerful" program dunng h1 three­ year reign a GA cu ltural cha1r, becau:,e he wa adamantly oppo ed to her returnmg to Colby the fol lowmg fall a a part of exual A ault Awarene s Week . . . .

When Laura [D'Afflm1 '99) approached Walter requesting fund to bnng Koe tner back t Colby, he adamantly refu ed. In the overnber 1 3, 1 997, Echo, Wang tared, "We can't afford to program the arne thmg. year after year. . . . There are o many different people out there." .

Our experience With Wang and h1 rcfu.,al to bring Koe mer back to Colby d1rectly con­ tradicts hi tatement that exual a ault 1 ",1n important topic and It d e n 't get talked a hour much. It has everyth mg to do with fee lmg ,,1tc on carnpu ." A very rec nt graduate who have struggled to bnng the e 1 ue to l ight at Colby, we felt that we could not let h1' com­ ment stand without further ontext. . . .

Lynne D'Amico McKee '58 Hampden, Maine Newsworthy or PC?

I want to register my objection to your comments on GBL TA [Gays, Bisexuals, Les­ b ians, Transgendered and A l l ies) in the um­ mer 1 999 issue ofColby ["Periscope"]. l t seems Colby is bowing to pol it ical correcrnes by promoting and encouraging membership in an organization focused on certain exual behavior. Of cour e, studenrs and alumni are free to practice ex a they wi h, and th y are even free ro form organi:ation that promote their own brand of ex, but I believe the College hould not encourage memb r h1p 1 11 any group dealing with exual beha\'lor. 1 would f el the same wa · if your column dealt with an r an1:anon promotmg hetero>exual behavior, although 1 doubt th1 would be con 1dered n ,,. worthy. l ha,·e enjo ·ed your column of new about olby m the pa,t and lO<)k fof\\ ard to ,eemg It a am m the futur .

Ross A. 1\ I old ff '79 alern. J H .

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A Watershed Breakthrough Dam med since 1 837, the Kennebec runs freely from Waterville south

By Stephen Collins

A

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n old Ethiopian saying goes,

for 1 6 2 years would have been

"Beware of tagnant water

part i a l l y underwater. A s I ap­ proached, a panicky beaver

and calm people."

Twenty year

charged out, dived for where the

ago, the first

time I launched a canoe on the

water used to be and rumbled

Kennebec between Waterv i l l e

down the 1 2 -foot bank, flat t a i l

and Augusta, I endured both:

over teakettle. Before I w a s done

passive companions who let me

laughing a second beaver leaped

plan the trip and then carped

headfirst on to a log. A third rolled

quietly about the utter lack of

down, equally undignified.

current and a pe ky headwind

ow, a l most three months

that turned our Saturday idy l l

later, new lodges have been b u i l t

i n t o an a ll-day slog-a-thon. Back

in eddies t h a t d idn't e x ist b e ­

then the river hadn't ful ly recov­

fore. A fat beaver cavorting in

ered from more than a century of

front of m y canoe smacked the

service a a sewer and dump. As

water in the t rad i t ional way­

Mark Twain aid of the M issis­

w i t h its t a i l this t i me . L i fe is

sippi: "Too thick to drink and too

getting back to normaL But normal is a relative term.

thin to plow."

The victory at Edwards Dam freed

Returning to the scene of the teve Brooke

1 5 m iles of the river from indus­

'67, the man who led the fight to

trial bondage. But there are 1 0

grime thi fal l with

remove Edward Dam and let the river run free, I found plenty of

On July 1 , water smashes through a breach (at left) in Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River, setting a national precedent for river restoration.

evidence that the clean water leg-

a company's abil ity to make a few

1 !anon of the 1 9 7 0 has helped.

megawatts and a few bucks.

or everyone shares our enrhusiasm though. For those with

And m tead of calm people and

For environmentalists it was

tagnant water I enjoyed dynamic

more dams on the 1 00-plus m i les up the Kennebec to its headwa­ ters at Moo ehead Lake.

The

1 7 t h - c e n t ury E n g l i s h

different visions for a water hed,

poet J ohn M i lton wrote, " I f the

an unprecedented triumph. On

the Edwards dec ision was a Wa­

waters of truth flow not in a

an old crib from the log drives,

terloo that set a troublesome pre­

p e r p e tu a l p r o g re s s i o n , t h e y

Brooke's Trout Unlimited bud­

cedent. Power companies c i rc led

sicken i n t o a muddy pool o f con­

d ies had posted a " We l come

the wagons. Bass fishermen with

for m i t y and trad i t io n . " Steve

backed the nver up from Augusta

Back" sign for stripers, salmon,

outboards lament the steep gravel

Brooke and h is a l l ies went 1 5

norrh to Waterville. When the

and sturgeon, and as we paddled

bank , the shallow water and a

rounds against the conform ity­

Jam \\'a hreacheJ on july 1 t the

I watched him eye pools and ed­

boat ramp that stops 20 feet from

and-tradit ion tag team to get the

event wa a national new

tory.

d ies as only a fly-fisherman can.

the water. One river dweller who

lower Kennebec to flow freely

The order to remove Edward Dam

In 25 years canoeing Maine riv­

planned to repair seaplanes in his

again. H e t e l ls me striped bass

marked the fir t tune the Federal

er> I never welcomed a standing

retirement is p l a in out of l uc k .

a l ready have been spotted rol l ­

Energy Regulatol)

wave over the bow and into my

companion

and a bn k current

with frequent nffle and rip .

For 1 62 year

Edwards Dam

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n

told an unw d l mg dam owner

lap unt i l

eptember, when the

A n d then there are the bea­ ver , who weren't consulted.

ing a t the foot of the dam in Watervil le-the first t i me ince

"rough luck"-that the puhhc'

Kennebec summoned its long­

The day after the dam was

Colby fou nder J eremiah Chap­

mtere

oubtlued energy to splash Into my

breached I spotted high on the

l i n's l i fe t i m e . "Now what ?" I

Mad Rl\·er Explorer.

west bank a big beaver lodge that

imagine them asking.

t

and the welfare of almon

and tnped ha

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T�e C ivi l Wa r Era at tf.te C o i L ., B o o "Afo re

A U t lu: D a rittg o f tit £ Soldi£r b y Elizabeth Leonard.

Associate Professor of H i story

All the Daring of the Soldier tells the fascinating stories of the women who worked i n the Civil War as spies. as daughters of the regiments or disguised as male soldiers. Leonard has combed archives.

JoA it H a C lt a Ht b E: r l a i tt :

A H E: ro 1A LifE: a tt d LE: g O C 'f by john j . Pul len '35

memoirs and histories to unearth stories of the hidden and forgotten women who ri ked their l i ves for the blue or gray. She i nvestigates why these women chose unconventional ways to help their cause. I n doing so. she pre ents a striking portrait of the lives women led in the 19th century and of their ability to break t hrough traditional constraints of Victorian womanhood. Among the stories are t h o e of Belle Boyd. a proud Confederate loyalist and key player in hold the Shenandoah

tonewall jackson'

struggle to

al ley; Annie Etheridge. who e

four years of courageous work in the Union Arm earned her a Kearne Cro

for Bravery; and

Emma Edmonds. who enli ted a

arah

"Franklin

Thompson." remained with h r reg1ment for t\\ O ear

D u r i n g the past two decades J o hua Chamb rla1n ha emerged as a modern icon. featur d m th

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The CIVIl War.

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