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Congratulations, Carol Beaumier
positions as a trustee of the College
ago. She trained to complete the event
e ryday simple and manageable activi
and the Arthur Andersen company. I quote from a press release: "The
and as a member of the Board of
as a benefit for the Leukemia Society
ties." . . . And another cla5smate is
Go,·ernors for the Colby museum .
of America . . . . Susan Colantuono,
ii ierro ?\ew York practice of Arthur
Thank you, Caro l ,
of Green Hill, J\ 1ass., wrote
Andersen LLP i s pleased to a n nounce
congratulations . . . . And speaking of
that Carol .\ I . Beaumier has joined
College trustees, Bill Rouhana has
in addition to
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recently in print. Ruth Shagoury
H ubbard co-edited a col l ection of
Room faT Joy fo l l owing a period of
essays titled
intense personal struggle. After this
We Want to Be Known: Leaming from Adolescent Girls. The
the firm as parmer i n the regulatory
married Amy
ewmark, whom h e
di fficult two-year period, she found
risk sen·ices practice . .\ Is. Beaumier,
m e t through business. A m y is a spe cialist i n technology investments. B i l l
that she had not only sunrived but
book "details practical strategies for changing curricula and building com
thrived. The book tel ls of "the tools that kept [her] from givi ng in to bit
grow up secure and strong. The es
formerly a managing director and fou n d i n g parmer o f The Secura Group, \\'ashington, D.C., ,,·ill lead the banking practice of Regulatory Risk Sen;ces in .\ Ietro l'\ew York." .\ Iost of \'OU may kno\\' that Carol holds a n honorary ii i .A. from Colby in addition to her B .A., and she holds
i s t h e chairman and c h i e f executive o f \YinstarCommunications, a telecom munications company i n i\ 1a n hattan. Best wishesl . . . I am wondering if Rhee Griswold Fincher has contin ued running marathons after her first, the Bermuda ,\ larathon of one year
judith kenoye
terness, anger, despair and other en e rgy- s a p p i n g e m o t i o n s . " It is a "blueprint based in deep wisdom for creating a more satisfying l i fe" and tel ls readers how to find joy not only i n "extreme experiences" but i n "ev-
For Her
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munities that help adolescent gi rls says, written by teacher researchers throughout the country, address top ics such as including strong female role models i n mathematics and sci ence to developing service learning programs to considering the special
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S h e may not be able to tell yo u , or her own
ago, so the cou ple has some u nd e rsta n d i ng of each other's positions.
fa m i l y , what she does every day a s a m a nager
While the NSA ca n 't te l l the public specifics a bout its activities, i t has
for the National Secu rity Agency ( N SA)-the
become more open recently. " U p until five years ago most Americans
govern ment's cod e-making and -breaking
d i d n 't know i t existed , " said Stoy. " N ow it's econ o m ics. You ca n 't
orga n 1zat1on a t Fort George M eade i n M a ryl a n d . She may not be a b l e to tell you how many people NSA em ploys ( it's i n the thousa nds)-or
expect people to pay you r b i l l s if they d o n ' t know what you d o . " With t h e attention come m i sconceptions. " M ost movies give a
what types of projects they work on or who their ta rgets a re . But J ud ith
negative i m pression a n d warped idea of what we d o , " said Stoy.
Stoy IS not a spy. "I have worked with some of the most bri l l ia nt people
Genera l ly people tend to focus on the C I A i n stea d . " T h ey ' re more h igh
that Amencans w111 never know a bout , " she said . She c u rrently serves as one of t h ree tea m leaders overseei ng 300 peo ple, m c l u d mg civi l i a ns , non-civi l i a ns and "a whole bunch of
profi l e , " Stoy sa id , and deserving of the spy l a b e l . "We're not spies. We do more scie ntific , techn ological researc h . " I n t h ree decades a t the N SA Stoy has wit nessed major tra nsforma
others . " many w1th l i nguistics, math , com puter sc ience a n d engi neer
tions, espec i a l l y with tec h nology. With i n a few months of joi n i ng she
Ing backgro u n d s . " M y JOb 1 s n 't to do the wor k , but to get them the tools
got a personal com puter on her desk. "This was
to d o the wor k , " she expla i ned .
u n heard of for an average America n , " she sa i d .
Stoy set out on a career w1th the NSA nearly 30 years ago as a
" M ost d i d n 't have a c l u e that there was s u c h
fore1gn la nguage a na lyst. It a l l began d u ri n g her senior year at Co l by
a t h i ng. Tec h n o l ogy revo l ution i zed h o w we
when she wa l ked 1 nto the College placement center and asked what
do busi ness a n d how we go after targets . "
she could d o w1th a R u ss1an maJOr. She was pointed toward gove rn
She said she has fo u n d fulfi l l ment i n
ment work "Gover n m e n t was n 't consid ered a n e m ployer of first
her career, even i f she can't tell you
renown a t that t 1 m e . " sa1d Stoy. She a pplied to the NSA figu r i ng she'd
what that is. S h e ' l l be e l igible for
work there one to two years and move o n .
ret i rement in five years. " I 've heard
After passmg a backgro u n d check, l i e detector test a n d psyc h iatric
from friends that the hard part of
exa m , Stoy JOined the agency m 1 9 7 2 . "You d o it on a leap of fa ith,
ret i rement is when there's a
because they d o n 't tell you what you ' l l be domg, " she sa id . " I ' m a very
world crisis a nd you can't fi nd
c u no u s perso n . I was a good fit . " Stoy spent the f1rst 1 5 years as a n
out what rea l l y ha ppened , " she
a n a lys a n d gra d u a l ly moved mto manage ment pos1t1ons.
sa i d . " I 've been i n volved with a
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he thousands of people who work at the agency there a re two
ypes· he world's experts on one s u bject (the N SA IS reportedly the largest e m ployer of mathemat1 c 1 a n s 1 n the U.S. a n d pe rhaps the world ) a nd others. l i ke Stay. who sh 1ft a reas repeatedly. Stoy says the N S A
lot of t h i ngs that a re i m porta nt to the world . " How7 She ca n 't say. -Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97
encou rages d1 e r s 1 1cat1on . I n c n s e s l i ke Desert Storm the agency needs people who ca n a d a pt a nd d o what's needed . Secrec
1s cruc1al to he N SA's m i SSIOn "We have to be careful not
o re eat t10w we d o wha we d o ." Stoy sa1d . "The rule IS ' n eed to k n ow.· J us because someone IS cleared , doesn't mean they need to kno
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1cult for a m h e s w h o a re kept m the d a r k . Stay's
h us ba n d . B i l l , JOi ned he agency a s an elec neal engmeer 18 years
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