\ l arilyn also has been following Pe ter Hart '64 with his Political Focus Group and Doris Kearns Goodwin '64, whom everyone must know through her books and TV appear ances . . . . Beverly Benner Cassara and Ernest recently returned from Alaska, where they visited their son and had an adventurous weekend fly ing90 miles into the interior ofDenali National Park. She was really im pressed by the thousands of peaks in the Alaska Range, many like McKinley, snow covered year round . . . . As ] write, John and I have just returned from a week i n Chicago and will leave for a week in New York City-both times spending most of our time in museums. In October we planned a walking tour in Provence . . . . Please send me news for the next issue of Colby. \!\That have you been up to, what experiences have you enjoyed, and what may your future plans in clude? And how about hearing from some of you men? -J\fary "Lie:,'' Hall Fitch
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Elizabeth Day B ulger's hus band, Derek, is a retired Episcopal clergyman. Their family consists of two sons and their wives plus one granddaughter and a grandson born on J uly 4, l 999. She met her husband while a student at Colby and worked at the College in the "dim past. " Her e-mail a ddress i s dbugler@ b l a ze netme.com . . . . Fran ( Peetzie '49) and Jack Kimpel relocated to Enola, Pa., after half a century as Hoosiers. J ack (fjkpenn@cs.com) wrote to keep us up to date on C huck Sanborn, who lives in Baltimore. They spent a day togetlier at an Orioles game, walk ing from die city market to the inner harbor and then on to Camden Yards. Chuck a l so stays in touch w i th C harlie Cousins . . . . Peg Clark Atkins reports from her summer
home in Onset, Mass., that her family consists of s i x c h i l d ren and five in laws plus nine grandch i ldren. She and H a rol d celebrated t h e i r S Oth <l ll n i versary i n J u n e , and Bertha G ra v e s N o l l m a n a n d H a t t i e V.'h ite H a n n i ge n attended along with 1 3 0 others as Peg and H a ro l d renewed t h e i r vows a t t h e church i n M i d d l eboro where they were married. Peg wrote that she re c e i v e d a l etter from J\l l a ri a n n a N u tter Wyer, who reported that Shirley Parks had moved from a rest home in \Vakefield to the i\ I e l rose Care Center. She also said that she spoke with Kay Brine and was plan-
Counterpoint, Robert DeCormier '4 3 's new nine-member a cappella chamber chorus, made its debut on Labor Day weekend in Vermont. During his long career in music, DeCormier has worked with H a rry Belafonte and with Peter, Paul and Mary and has cut a number of albums. H i s television credits include a BBC series of folks songs, an Emmy Award-wi nning Belafonte special and several Public B roadcasti ng System concerts -:· Gene Hunter '48 was inducted Gene H u nter '48
into the Maine Sports Legends Hall ofHonor at a ceremony in Waten�lle. A four-year
starter on Colby's baseball team and a member of the Maine Baseball Hall ofFame, the long-time high school baseball and basketball coach and athletic di rector concluded his distinguished career at South Portland High School.
Deaths: Halsey A. Frederick Jr. '40, August 24, 2000, i n B ryn Mawr, Pa., at 84 ·:· Rowena Buzzell Funston '4 1 , S e ptembe r 6, 2000, in Vancouver, \Vash., at 80 : Weston MacRae '42, August 9, 2000, in Winter Haven, Fla., at 79 : Mary Foster Kimball '4 3 , September 29, 2000, in Concord, N.H., at 80 : Wendell F. Phillips '44, July 2, 2000, in M oores town , I .] ., at 79 : William H. Tobey '44, October 1 , 2000, i n Brunswick, Maine, at 77 .;. Richard R. Fellows '45, April 2 5 , 2000, i n South Hamilton, Mass., at 7 8 .;. Helen Small Martino '45, Octob er 1 5, 2000, i n Portland, Maine, at 77 ·=· Eldridge P. Wallace '47, September 8, 2000, in Lewiston, Maine, at 74. ··
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ning to visit Hazel Huckins Merrill after Labor Day. Peg received a Vol unteer of the Year Award from the G eneral Federation of \!Vomen's Clubs of Massachusetts . . . . Evie H elfant Malkin had a family reunion at Acadia National Park in June at tended by 20 people. She continues oncology social work at Mass Gen eral but with shorter hours than in the past. She recently met Bob '46 and Harriet Glashow Singer '46 in Providence . . . . Kay "Veisma n J affe (mjaffe2 7@aol .com) said that her major effort these days concerned getting out die vote for the Novem ber 7 elections and being certain that the issues were understood. She was also excited about her "coming great grandmotlierhood" (which may be a bit presumptuous since her grand daughter's wedding was planned for October 2 000!). She recently heard from Hanna Levine Schussheim and Phyllis O'Connell M u rray. Both Kay and husband ,\ like are well . . . . Phil S h u l man continues to work as a volunteer for The International Di plomacr Council, which plans itiner aries for foreign v i s i tors to San Francisco who are sponsored by the State Department tlirough our em bassies all over the world. Due to the people he has met i n his role he has
had reciprocal visits to Africa and the ,\ liddle East. Recently he was elected a Fellow of tlie Royal Geographical Society in London, an honor stem ming from his interest in 1 9th-cen tury British explorers in East and Central Africa and his ''is its to a dozen Islamic countries . . . . David C hoate e-mailed about a safari in Kenya and Tanzania, saying, "It was a magnifi cent experience1 Almost as good as a college education." In October he and his wife were going to China for the second time, planning to go up the Yangtze River before it is dammed up, then doing some "minor trek king" in Tibet before relaxing in Bali and renirning home by Thanksgiv ing. They go to N"ew York frequently to visit their granddaughter, 4. Other than that they play golf and tennis a little and "rearrange our picnires." . . . A wonderful article in the fa l l 2 00 0 issue of the Colby Heritage Club publication " Planning .\ latters" dealt with tlie establishment of the H arriet S. and George C. Wiswell J r . [ ' 5 0 ) Chair in American Constitutional Law. The article traced the \\'iswells' Colby h i tory and their business ca reers. It also cited the motivating factors for thei r gi ft and their inter ests and values that caused them to select American constitutional law. I t
further states that "tlie individuals that truly will benefit the most from tliis planned gift are the future stu dents of Colby." . . . Marguerite Jack Robinson wrote that she and her husband, Roger, and her sister, Adelaide Jack i\lcGorri ll '46, often go t0 the Salmon Falls, Maine, area. They recently ''isited the home of Kate D o u g l a s \Viggi n with the Buxton Hollis H i storical Society. M a rguerite also wrote that her 45th wedding anniversary would be spent at Boothbay Harbor and Capitol Is land . . . . A year ago Elaine Brown ing Townsley and her partner sold their business, Rails and Crafts I nc., to a hobby shop in Lebanon, N.l I . , b u t she works two days a week in the new store. And she still collects toy trains ( Lionel and American Flyer). In October Elaine and her sister were to leave for a 1 0-day trip in I reland to visit their I rish family. She says that she sees Hazel H uckins Merri l l ev ery so often . . . . ,\ l issing from this column is our annual report on visit ing Betty a n d M a rvin Joslow in i\ Ienemsha on ,\ lartha's Vineyard. This was a very marginal summer for sailing as either the weather, the cur rent or our schedule prevented us from that annual ''isit. After Labor Day Dorothy was off to Israel for a few weeks, and then we attended the inauguration of President \Villiam D . Adams at Colby before heading to our house i n J upiter, Fla., in early Tovember. \ \'e planned to return north for Than ksgiving and then spend the rest oftlie winter in Florida. In J anuary 2 0 0 1 we will celebrate our SOth wedding anniversary . . . . On a sad note, we recently learned of the death of George M . Kren. George was a professor of h istory at Kansas State University for decades before he retired last ,\ lay. He was born in Linz, Austria, which was also H itler's childhood home. George and his sis ter were shipped to England when George was 1 2 , but the family even nia l ly was reunited in the United States. \\'hen he became old enough he enlisted in the Army and served in a Europe-based i n fa n t ry u n i t i n \\'oriel \\'ar 11. H e w a s a widely pub l ished historical writer and wrote and co-wrote books that dealt with H itler and the Holocaust. He a l so wrote books o n photography and personal computing. -David and Doroth)' ,\ /arson
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