Colby Magazine vol. 91, no. 2

it's what we do...

When John Briggs '52 arrived at Colby in 1948, the College was beginning its move from downtown Waterville to Mayflower Hill. Those who lived or had classes on the old campus had the challenge of catching the Blue Beetle, a shuttle bus between the two campuses.

During his sophomore year, John learned of a 1923 Dort touring sedan that was for sale. His love of classic cars, and desire for freedom from the Blue Beetle, got the better of him and, with a loan from a friend and some creative financing, he bought the Dort and arranged with a local car dealer to make necessary repairs to the car. When he went to pick up the car he found that the dealer had exceeded the agreed repairs and cost-and John's budget.

Distraught, John turned to his trusted friend and mentor, Professor of English Alfred "Chappie" Chapman '25. Upon hearing the tale, Chappie gave John a harsh reprimand and left the room. Moments later Chappie returned with a check made out to the dealer for the full amount. Chappie warned that if John were to breathe a word about the incident, he would be out of the College.

Upon recounting the tale some 30 years later, John was amazed to find that many others had similar "Chappie stories."

it's what alumni do The Colby Alumni Fund 800-311-3678 www.colby.edu/afgift Every Gift Counts

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Better to Give Something is happening at Colby

as the community's penchant for service becomes a mantra. \Vhy? Scholars and thinkers, at Colby and elsewhere, provide some answers.

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Profiles in Service Colbians leave Mayflower Hill

and do important things for their communities, for their cow1tries, for humanity.

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Asking Why Colby activists question factors that

lead to need.

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From the Hill 22 president's page Colby's tradition of giving.

23 alumni Colby near top of list of colleges that

contribute graduates to the Peace Corps.

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24 on campus Hugh Gourley steps down; Julie

Millard (chemistry) takes a bite out of crime;

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WMHB; Q&A with Bets Brown.

28 faculty Lyn Mikel Brown (education, women's

studies) and Karen Heck '74 help young girls

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grow strong; Julie Millard (chemistry) uses murder to make science come alive.

30 students Colby helps "Free the Children;" stu­

dents fan out in Central America; Linda Cotter Internship Fund making it possible.

32 media Jeff Anderson (anthropology) on Arapaho

collision with non-tribal culture; Sandy Maisel (government) on Jews in American politics.

34 sports Andy Colligan

'94 died doing what he

loved; skier Robert Sannders '04 puts Colby first; Liz Frederick '03 breaks a pole-vault record.

36 development Freeman Fonndation grant fuels

exploration of East Asian culture; grants fund student/faculty research.

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class notes profiles 40 44

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Peter Doran '58

Judi Garcia '63

Bob Duchesne '75

Greg Ciottone '87

obituaries

The Last Page 64

A Dead Character 'Vl'riter Bill Roorbach finds that

reality casts a strange light on his fiction.

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Staff Gerry Boyle

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managing editor Bnan Speer

art director Robert Gillespie

alumni at large editor Stephen Collins 路74

executive editor Leo Pando

illustrator Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay

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media editor Joanne Lafreniere

production coordinator Karen Oh

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online coordinator Kim Aime, Molly Roberts, Chris Volk, Brian Speer, Jeff Earickson, Fred Field, Colleen Creeden

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contributing photographers Matt Apuzzo

'00, Edgar Allen Beem, Blake Hamill '02, '04, Leila Porteous '02, Fraser Ross '02

Gavin O'Bnen

contnbuting writers Administration William D. Adams, president; Earl H. Smith, executive assistant to

the president; Peyton R. Helm, vice president for college relations: Margaret Felton Viens

路77, d1rector of alumni relations

Alumni Council Executive Committee

'67, chair, '73, vice chair,

Lou Richardson Frank A. Wilson

'92, Hope Palmer Bramhall '56, '91, Heather M. Daur '00, Karl Dornish Jr. '54, Todd W. Halloran '84, Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90, Eric F. Rolfson '73, Christopher Tompkins '89, Philip W ysor '70

Rebecca Birrell

Shawn P. Crowley

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Letters Brush With Political Diversity I enjoyed meeting Peter Brush '03 on Q&A (winter 2 002 Colby). \Nould the col­ lege be brave enough to allow him space in the Echo? Or would the thought police send a raiding party to steal all the copies, as at many other campuses across the country;i I t is really sad to see so many words used to describe Diversity (except Conser­ vatism and other dreadful thoughts) by col­ leges aJ1d universities who advertise " Lib­ eral Arts" education! It is a good thing Peter was not in the U . S . S . R . 20 years ago.

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Burton Hi11ckley '48

Kennebunkport, Maine

H aving j ust read the winter 2002 edition of Colby I am saddened. The Q&A on page 38 is tragic. \Nhen we read that Colby's lofty goals are shouted from every page, especially diversity, there is apparently no political diversity accepted on tl1e campus. \Nhat, a Republican1 String him up!

Peter Brush ['03] sets a fine example as a person of principle and character. Too bad tl1ere are not more like him with tl1e gump­ tion to stand up and be counted.

The College has a responsibility of pro­ viding more than one side of political issues. The administration should take a notl1er look.

Lazarus Bassett Anent my friend Brad Mundy's charac­ terization (winter 2 002 Colby) of retirees as corpses "witl1 all the rights and privileges thereof." I'd like to counter with the Lazarus theory.

I 've been in various Colby classrooms ever since I "died" in '99-admittedly with tl1e begrudging reluctance of some of the admin istration (morticians?). But as M ark Twain and some of my Colby students have said, "The rumors of my deatl1 have been greatly exaggerated ."

The College does itself an acadernic dis­ service by consigning retirees to the grave when they could indeed occasionally dis­ pense "wit and wisdom" that will enrich the Colby experience for some young people who are not afraid to sit at tl1e feet of the experienced living dead.

Charles Bassett

Lee Family Professor, Emeritus Waterville, Maine

Change of Heart For person'.!! reasons, much too numer­ ous to mention, I elected to forego my annual contribution to me College's alumni fund. Yes, there was a smatteri ng of pain - but not very much. H owever, I have changed my m ind!

Volume 91 , number 1 of Colby magazine is at hand and I have been adm iring it. The improvement over past editions is evident in so many ways. M ost of all, I mink, the quality of tl1e magazine in so many respects, speaks volumes about the college i tself. In tl1e past I viewed Colby as a relatively unso­ ph isticated, back-water place that I would not care to attend myself were I to choose to do it all over again . But, now, my mind is changed; probably for good and for ever.

Hearty congratulations to everyone in \Naterville who shares responsibility.

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Leonard Cru/Sf '43

Gold ens Bridge, N.Y.

Cover Charge Colby is constantly recognized as having a beautiful campus. \Nhy not feature it on your cover i nstead of tl1at weird stuff on the Summer 2 00 1 - Vol 90? \Nhen alumni tl1ink of Colby in their annual givi ng or tl1eir wills that "artistic" mismosh is not very inspirational. Close your eyes and tl1ink about it.

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E.A. Wnllei- '49

San Diego, Calif.

Columbus, Ohio

Letters Welcome Colby welcomes your letters. Send them to Gerry Boyle, editor; Colby magazine; Office of Commun ications; 4 180 Mayflower Hill; \Va terville, ME 0-+901 , or by e-mail to mag@colby.edu. Length should be limited to -+OO words or less. Colby reserves me right to edit letters for length and clarity.

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Gleaned from Earl Smith's newsletter, FYI

Cl1emical Society in Orla11do,

September Tenure

Speed now will attend the next

Co11g·1-atulations to all se\ren

t\Vo AACR a1111ual meetings, in

candidates fo1- te11u1-e, \�rho \Vere

April 2002 and 2003. ''Tracy

granted it by unanimous vote

vvo11derfully exemplifies the best

of the trl1stees i11 January and \vho will be pro111oted to associ­ ate p1-ofesso1- fo1- 2 002-03. Tl1e

of a liberal arts training," reports

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Das Thamattoor (chemisuy), All Fired Up

list includes Bevin Engman

V\Then Bets

(a1·t); Russell Johnson (biol­

a volu11teer, in dance troupes and

Brown (corpo­

ogy); Marg·aret McFadden

011 the tennis court as well.

rate a11d fou11da-

(Ame1-ica11 studies); Anindyo Roy, Elizabeth Sagaser and Katherine Stubbs (Eng·lisl1 all);

call fo1- non1inees for

A new, interactive Web site intro­ ducing· the Joan V\Thiu1ey Payson

overstuffed chai1-, ''Now that's

ies).T1-ustee Colleen Khoury

so111etl1ing· I actually would

64 \\rl10 n1ade tl1e motio11, said,

''One of tl1e n1ost exciti11g· tl1i11g·s

Collectio11 of Impressionist and Post-In1pressionist art is online �th inforn1atio11 about the paint­

love to do." He1-b Wilson

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\riduals comi11g· fo1-wa1-d."

Payson, Online & Otherwise

ers, she said, f1-orn her

(gove1-n111e11t/i11ternational stud­

is to see the qualit)r of tl1e i11di­

tio11 relations) saw a Olyn1pic to1-cl1-bear­

and Jennifer Yoder

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who praises her achievements as

li1g·s and artists plus activities

(biology), 11er 11usband, 110111i­

for pri111a1y ai1d seconda1y school

nated Bets, enun1e1-ating· he1· n1any \rolunteer and civic credits, and

classes.Tl1e Payson Collection is

voila! Dece111be1- 28 vvas Bets's big· day toting· the flan1e for a quarter

exhibited at the Colby College

mile in tl1e Mancheste1-, N.H., a1-ea. Sl1e vvas 011e of about 7 ,500

Museum of Art one semester

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Wondering About Dad

torcl1-beare1-s on tl1e U.S. l·oster a11d said she checked ''brisk walk''

every t\Vo years and is currently

AJanua11' 15 USA Today article

as tl1e best pace he1- artl1ritis vvill allov\'. [See Q&A, page 27]

011 v:iew tlTiough June 23. If

about a 11evv book, Tl1e Wo11de1· of Gi1 ·/s, by contro\re1-sial family

you can't see the painti11g·s Janua1y the fund helped 18

tvvo ED phases. Tl1e 205 ED

in person, visit tl1e Web site

therapist Micl1ael Gurian quotes

stude11ts take li1ternships from

ad111its are a11 in1pressive and

(wvvv. v colby.edu/museunv

Lyn Mikel Brown (education

V\Thitesburg·, Ky., to Lal1ore,

dive1-se g·roup, including· 27

payson), built by Bonnie Bishop

a11d 11uma11 de,relopment). '''His

Pakistan, at i11stitutio11s fro111

ALANA students, and tl1e over­

and Karen Oh '93.

co11stlLiction of feminism is sin1-

Barclay's Capital 011 V\Tall Street

all pool's co111bined n1ean SAT

plistic a11d r1ot based on any fem­

to a11 org·a11ic fa1-m i11 Costa Rica.

score also 1-eached a 11ew peak.

i11ism I know,' says Lyn Mikel

Tlus was the 40tl1 a11niversa1y of

Brovvn, dir-ector of the wo111e11's

Jan Pla11 at Colby, vvl1icl1 i11 1962

Up To Speed

a11d a Jolmson Ave11ue in Water­

studies p1-ogra111 at Colby Col­

"''as tl1e fi1·st colleg·e i11 ilie i1ation

Traci Speed '03 is 011e of just 10

ville, there \\ras potential for

lege i11 V\Taterv:ille, Mai11e."

to cl1a11g·e to a 4-1-4 cale11da1-.

students i11 the counuy selected

confusio11 when 1-esidents fro111

by tl1e Arnerica11 Associatio11 fo1-

either called 911, so city plai1-

Presidential T horoughfares

V\Tit11 both a Johnson Heig·hts

Appalachian W inter

Another Bumper Crop

Ca11cer Research (AACR) for

11e1-s decided one had to g·o. As

Colby Ee/Jo Editor Ryan Davis

Applications for the Class of

a t\VO-)rear Science Educatio11

a 1-esult, Jol1nso11 Avenue, off

'02 was so in1p1-essed vvitl1 Tom

2006 l1ave a1·rived ft-0111 106

Awa1-d. The a\\rard follovvs 11e1-

Mayflovver Hill Drive, 11as been

a11d Pat Gish, wli111ers of this

different cow1tries and fron1

research and publicatio11 \\rork

renan1ed Strider Ave11ue in def­

year's Lovejoy jou1-11alisn1 a\\ra1-d,

e\re1y U. S. state except Nortl1

on syntl1esizi11g· rece11tly discov­

erence to Colby's 17tl1 president,

that he asked if he could spend

Dakota acco1-ding· to the Office

e1-ed ma1-i11e 111etabolites 1u.1ovvr1

Robe1L. E.L. Strider. Now

Jan Plan '�'01-ki11g· 011 tl1eir i1ews­

of Ad111issions. I11te1-est i11 ea1-ly

to affect several 11un1an tumor

fi11d Stride1-, \\rl1icl1 used to be

paper, Tl1e 1\tlo1111tai11 Eagle i11

decision re111ai11ed stro11g·, 'vith a

cells.Alread)r scheduled to pres­

\\TJ1itesbt1rg·, K)'· Tl1e)1 ag·reed

l·eco1-d 512 applications fo1- tl1e

ent her l-esearcl1 at tl1e Ai11erica11

Johnso11 (fo1- Colby's 15th presi­ de11t) jt1st dovvnl1ill fron1 Roberts

a11d invited 11irn to stay at tl1eir ho111e, a11d dL1ring· J a11t1a1y Da,r:is l1ad t\\'O fro11t-pag·e stories-

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011 a \\rater l1ortag·e iliat brougl1t Ollt the Natio11<:1l Guard and 011e 011 OA.)'Co11ti11 addiction i11 Appalacl1i<1. D<1,ris s:1: id l1e '''ould11't ]1;J\1e been ;:1ble to take tl1e inte1-nship v\•iiliout a schol­ ;1rsl1ip fro111 Colby's Li11da K. Cotter Inter11sl1ip Fund. This

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MOOSECELLANEOUS Allen LaPan and his stude11t post office c1-ew handled 3,007 incomi11g· packag·es fo1- Valentine's

Day. No count 011 the cards....Co11gratulatio11s to Larissa Taylor (histo1y), l-ece11tly elected to tl1e Executive Cot1ncil of tl1e Ai11e1-ica11 Catl1olic Historical Association for a three-year ter111....Colby beat Middlebury by 1,695 points i11 Februa1-y

19,013 to 17,318 i11 rock climbing·,

at tl1e Dartn1outl1 College Boulderi11g· Co111petitio11.... An NPR annot1nceme11t tl1at, after 13 years as a 11ost ot-All T/Ji11g·s Co11slde1·ed, Linda Wertheimer was to beco111e NPR's first Senio1- Natio11al Corresponde11t i11cludes iliis: ''Werthei111er is a graduate of Wellesley Colleg·e a11cl 11olds 11onorary deg·1-ees fron1 Colby College, \iV11eaton College and Illinois Wesleyan Unive1-sity."

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Savas Zembillas '79 (featured in

included accompanying His All Holiness

Colby, summer 2000) was ord ained a

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Con­

bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in

stantinople, who was in New York to attend

February in a ceremony in New York City.

a d inner at which former President George

His Grace Bishop Savas, as Zembillas

Bush and Barbara Bush were awarded the

is now ad d ressed according to church

Patriarch Athenagoras Award for Human

protocol, was an accomplished actor and

Rights.That same week the newly ord ained

occasional punk rocker at Colby, where

bishop was among church officials sched­

he majored in English and philosophy. He

uled to meet in Washington with the patri­

was ord ained Bishop of Troas and will

arch and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

continue to serve as chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archd iocese of America,

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But the bishop's d ays are not all d eco­ rum and d ignitaries.

based in New York.

ct � <fl UJ u 0 0 :r: u Cl'. <! x 0 0 0 :r: f­ a: 0

In attendance at his five-hour ord ination

his Manhattan offices. "The September 11

were prominent church officials from the

event hit us hard . I've been to Ground

U.S.and Greece, Zembillas's parents,

Zero many times, from Day 2 onwards, in

Steve and Stamatia Zembillas, of Crown

"' UJ UJ Cl'. "'

"It's been a busy time," he wrote from

the company of Archbishop Demetrios, as

Point, Ind., and Colby friends Robert Lizza

the Twin Towers collapsed on one of our

'79 and Sean Smith '79.

churches, Saint Nicholas ...and we have

Bishop Savas reported in an e-mail

cond ucted frequent memorial services on

to Colby that his recent church business

the site itself."

Avenue (for Colby's 14th presi­

about g·lobal warn1i11g. I11 Janu­

ends tl1at run. We n1ention it to

Greece, the Musical

dent). Bixler and Cotter drives

ary the West Sztssex Coz111ty Ti111es

i·ecog·nize his yeoman's se1-vice as

Paul Machlin (1nusic) and his

are both on campus, serving

ran an article about Fle1ning's

scribe, fo1· our inforn1atio11, of

65-n1ember Colby Chorale are

their eponymous buildings.

i1npending ar1·ival, helpi11g to

Colby stories g1·eat and s111all

off to G1·eece for spring break

beat tl1e bushes for folks who

but always brief. We also break

March 23-31, but it won't be all

knew the late Mr. Callendar.

the streak to n1entio11 that the

fu11 in tl1e sun for tl1e sing·ers and

Alunmi Cot111cil voted i11 Ja11-

tl1eir alu11111i chapero11es Kris­

New Top Bobcat Come July, Bro Adams will have seniorit)r among· the CBB

Wellness Done

ua1y to g·ive Earl the Er11est

tian Boynton '92, Hillary Egan

preside11ts after just two years

It's official. Colby's wellness

Marriner Distinguisl1ed Se1-vice

'79 and Kurt Kelley '99. The

as Colby's chief. That's because

requi1·en1ent has been cl1a11g·ed

Avvard this year. A tip of the hat

chorale will perfor1n several free

Bates trustees recently

to an extended orie11tation pro­

to tl1e erstwl1ile dea11.

concerts while abroad, includi11g

appointed Elaine Tuttle

gram called ''Fi1·st Year Supper

Hansen president effective July

Se1ninars," starting vvitl1 the

Olympian Connections

E111bassy staff i11 Athe11s. If you

1, succeeding Donald W. Har­

Class of '06. Instead of atte11d­

Who saw Hillary Klug '05

v.ron't be in Greece to catch thei1·

ward. I-Iansen co1nes to Maine

ing at least eigl1t well11ess lec­

wearing· a Colby cap on NBC's

prog·ram of Greek and America11

from Haverford College, where

tures, first-year students will

Olyinpics cove1·age? Tl1ere she

n1usic, including two n1adrigals

she is provost, and will be the

pa1·ticipate i11 five supper sem­

was, celeb1·ati11g witl1 brother

by Peter Re (1nusic, e1ne1·itus),

seventh president si11ce Bates

ina1·s cove1·ing the san1e t)lpe

Chris after he won bronze for

you can atte11d the chorale's

was founded in 18 55. Barry

of acclimatio11 issues. The fac­

s11owboa1·di11g. A couple of othe1-

spring· concert Saturday, April 6,

Mills is Bowdoin's 14th pres­

ulty approved the cl1ang·e at

Colby connections: 17-yea1·-old

at 7:30 p.111. ii1 Lorimer Chapel.

ident in 207 years. All tl11·ee

its December ineeting and the

Lindsey Kildow, daug·hter of

preside11ts will have taken office

Trustees concurred ii1 Janua1y.

Linda Krohn Kildow '74, took

Second Brody Award

on July 1; Adams ii1 2000, Mills

The carrot for stude11ts is a nice

sixth in tl1e alpi11e con1bined.

Ann Claire Williams, a federal

in 2001, Hansen in 2002.

dinner witl1 the progra1n; the

And the assista11t coacl1 of

judge in tl1e Seventh U.S. Cir­

stick is that they ca11't i-egister

the U.S. wome11's hockey team,

cuit Court of Appeals, will

On Jim's Callendar

fo1· sopl1on1ore classes t111til they

Julie Sasner, spent seve1·al su1n­

receive Colby 's Morton A.

Before Jim Fleming (STS)

con1plete the requiren1ent.

n1ers on ca111pus helping· Mark

Brody Distinguished Judicial

Serdjenian '73 with socce1·

Se1-vice Award here on April 1.

went to Horsham, E11gland, in

a perfor111a11ce for the U.S.

March, his visit was already

Writ Large

ca1np. Sl1e is the sister of

Willian1s, one of tl1e you11gest

news tl1ere. Jim is doi11g prima1y

For 18 years, Earl Smith wrote

Michael Sasner '83. Julie

pe1·sons ever appointed to a fed­

research on a scientist, Guy

and edited tl1e faculty/staff

coaches Cou1·u1ey Kennedy

eral judgeship, was the first Afri­

Stewart Callendar, who begin­

i1ewsletter, F17I, and i1ever once

'01, who spent a seaso1111ere

can American appointed to the

ning in the 1930s l1ad theories

did his i1an1e appea1· in it. Here

before n1oving to Mi1111esota.

Seventh Ci1·cuit Court.

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It was a sunny afternoon in January and, like a bus driver making a stop, Nick Snyder '05 pulled his Blazer up in front of Foss Hall. Snyder picked up Shawn Sato '05 and then drove downtown to the Albert S. Hall School, where, in the library, fifth graders were waiting.

Within minutes, Snyder, Sato and several other Colby mentors taking part in the Colby Cares About Kids program were talking about Play Station games, movies like Dumb and Dumber, the perils of having younger siblings. Snyder's friend Roy, who is 11,

A surge in community service reflects Colby tradition and national trends

showed him his class picture. "There you are," Snyder said, peering at the tiny photo as Roy watched expectantly for his reaction.

"Before you got your haircut."

It's a scene repeated at schools through颅 out greater Waterville as more than 160 Colby students fan out every week to play chess, tetherball, freeze tag, to listen as a kid reads aloud or just talk. The program got underway in September and by all accounts has been an overwhelming success. And it could have been much bigger, with enthusiasm at the College and in the community outstripped only by the limits of the 12-hour days of administrator Teresa Hawko '01. "I have more and more kids coming up to me and saying they want a Colby friend," said Moira Bentzel, a guidance counselor at the Hall School.

Christine Brennan '05 and Kristen Stewart at Albert S. Hall School in Waterville.

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Of c ourse, rnlu meering is n ot hing ne \\' on illayflower Hil l . The C olby \'ol unteer Center i s and has been a c onduit for hw1dreds of students \\'ho offer t he i r sen·ices to e \·erything fr om sta ffing t he ;.Ii d - illaine H ome less S hel ter t o c oa c hing juni or- hi g h basketbal l .

Students d o sen-ice-learning pr ojects fr om t he Belgrade Lakes t o G uatemal a . C B B abr oa d programs like t hat taught b y Ass ociate P r ofes or James \\"ebb (history) in Cape To\\'n , S outh A frica, l ast seme ter re,·oke around c ommunity sen·ice and senrice learning.

But is t his s ort of "gi,mg back " to t he larger c on m1w1ity s omet hing a u tom atica l l y ass oc i a te d with C ol b �·? Ass oci ate P r ofes s or M a r k Tappan (educati on a n d human devel opment) said, " I think it is n ot s omething C olby has instituti onalized-that t his is one of our central aspect , our i dentity-but I t hink it's t here ." Tappan, w ho for a decade has m·erseen C olby students w orking in area sc hools, said t he i nclusi on of c ommunity sen1ce as a pri ori ty in t he C oll ege's new trategic p lan \\'i l l hel p m o1·e t he C ol lege t oward m a k i n g ,· olunteering and sen-ice learning a m ore rec ogni zed part of t he C ol b v mis i on.

1 le ees C olby as being on t he cusp of a time w hen students will �ee it as t heir responsibil ity to make a c ontributi on to t he larger c ommuni �· w hile stil l undergraduates, to leave s ome s ort of legacy t hat \\Ould make t hem alumni, n ot just of C olby but of \Vatenrille and central illaine. " The energy is here," Tappan said. " The need is here. I t 's an ideal center here ." \nd t he pace of c hange in thinking on campus is acce lerating.

Ye �, President Bro Adam [see page 2 2 ] has made c ommunity sen ice a key element in t he C ollege's new Strategic Plan . Students n o" come to C olb�· 111t h c om rnuni �· sen1ce in t heir backgrounds and in t heir expectati on , acc ordi ng to Parker Be,·erage, dean of admis-

si ons. C ommun i ty senrice and service learning are bec oming part of a C olby educati on as m ore students l ook for ways to c ontri bute -and gain and apply kn owledge -beyond the peri meter of May flower Hi ll.

"It has a currency n ow t hat is accepted," said Tom Morri one '65, Dana Profess or of S oci ol ogy.

Tha t isn't t he case only at C ol b y. In fact, t he C oll ege is in step with a burge oning trend t oward se nrice learning and "ci vic engagement" at America's c ol leges and universiti es .

Members hip in t he B rown n iversi ty-based organizati on Campus C ompact, a clearinghouse for c om munity senrice in higher educati on, has nearly quadrupled since 1 99 1 , fr om 2 3 5 sc hools t o m ore t han 800. The percentage of c ol l ege stu d e n ts i n vol ved in c om m u n i ty service nearly u·ipled in just t hree years, from 1 0 percent in l 998 to 28 percent last year. A Jm ost three quarters of Campus C om pact's member sc hools have permanent c ommunity-service offices.

I f t he numbers aren't impressive al one, c onsider how far C olby has c ome in t he past few decades and how t hat re flects c hanges in thinking on campus and in s ociety at large.

In its early years, C olby to ok y oung men and w omen fr om Maine and bey on d a n d t u rne d t hem i n t o m i n i sters a n d tea c hers, and c om m u n i ty serv ice was d one i n a sec on d a ry sc hool or fr om t he pulpit. Later fraternity and s or ority members as well as i ndependent stu d e n ts pitc hed in to hel p t he less fortunate in t he c ommunity.

That et hos was and is pervasive, as e vi denced i n t he profil es that acc ompany t his story.

Buri n t he da ys be fore a C olby Vol w1 reer Center, comm wutyser vice was less formalized and happened on a case-by-case basis as an ex tracu nicular acti vity. F om1al educati on was largely c on fi ned to the classroom, and that boundary w ould stand finn for m ore tha n 150 years .

"Th inning Down" for the Needle Colby Cares About Kids. That's not only

their lives has an effect on grades, on

the name of the mentoring program that

hygiene, on self-esteem. Just in these terms

matches 150-plus Colby students with youths

it's a big success."

in local schools, it's Peter Harris's mission statement. Or one of them.

"Kids have attention deficit because

CCAK is only Harris's most recent volun­ teer or community service pursuit. The list of ways he has served his community, including

nobody's ever paid any attention to them,"

teaching, is a long one, and a theme of social

declared the plain-spoken English professor

justice permeates it. "I just get disgusted

after his composition class volunteered lit­

with the split between haves and have-nots. I

eracy tutoring to Waterville schools last year.

came from great privilege. I have trouble with

"E1ghty-s1x percent of the kids don't feel they can have a conversation with adults

my conscience. 'It's time to thin down for the needle,"' he said, referring to a line in

about drugs, alcohol. truancy, pre-marital sex.

"Pre-Mortal," a poem by Franz Wright, on the

You see how tiny a w111dow of opportu111ty

biblical word to the wise that it's easier for

the have o pass through. So why not ry

a camel to go through the eye of a needle

mentoring when you can?" said Harns. whose

than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom

comm1tmen

of God.

o ser ice learn1ng-commun1ty

service with a learn111g component-provided

Harns came to Colby in 197 4 to teach

the push to ge CCAK up and running. "The

American literature. In the '80s he moved

idea that somebody can alk with them about

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As late as 1 96 1 , when Morri­ kind of involvement. I 'd see it in one arrived at Colby as a student, my course eval uations. Students that remained the case. "What wo u l d s a y, 'J u s t goi n g d o w n that meant," he said, "is yeah , t o t h e homeless shelter wasn't you'd g o t o a prison, you'd go enough, d ro p p i n g in once or in the commwlity, but it would twice. \!Ve ought to have it as an be almost like a field trip. You'd option in the course."' walk around and you'd interview For sociology students, that somebody and then you'd come m e a n t more fi e l dwork. M o r­ back and talk about it in class. rione recalls an early foray that "Th ere was no di rect lon­ had an entire research methods ger-term involvement, a n d class d o i n g a house -to-house that's what was rea l ly l acking. survey in rural Waldo County.

Wi thin the curri c u l u m there " I t tru l y transformed the way was a r e l a tive u n a cceptance they saw l i fe in Maine in gen­ of the validity of this kind of eral," he said. "The stories are learning as part of the histori­ wonderful . " cal definition of what academia Over the years communi ty­ thought valuable. 'This is not Jeff Lederman '05 confers on math homework with James Swan at Clinton based learning el bowed its way real l e a rn i n g. I t's something Elementary School. Colby mentors visit with their 'friends ' twice weekly. into the curriculum but sti l l was you can do in the summers."' seen as being outside the core of Then along came something called "the Aexible fifteen," a chunk Colby's mission. It made its appearance early in science, with the of credit hours to be devoted to more experiential types of courses or now-traditional lake studies done by the Biology Department, but also projects. Still, most learning of this type was relegated to January Plans appeared in courses like the documentary filmmaking still taught by and was viewed as, if not second-class, then certainly as less significant Phyllis Mannocchi ( English). In the early 1 990s M orrione proposed than learning that took place in the traditional classroom. making community service a graduation requirement, mirroring what " G radua lly that changed," Morrione sai d . " And it changed by was happening in many of the nation's hjgh schools. That idea was faculty building these kinds of thi ngs into their regular courses . defeated, but only after heated debate.

Still, commwlity-based lean-Ung and service was gai1ling momentum As that started to happen, the students demanded . . . more of that

own poems, collected in Blue Hallelujah s ,

people from relating. " Literature has a way

winner of the Maine Chapbook competition

of illuminating that we're a l l the same. So it

in 1996. The ' 90s saw him turn toward the

breaks down barriers," he said.

downtown schools and community.

Early in Marc h , Harris paused to talk

To improve town-gown relations Harris involved himself with the REM program, a vol­

He used his position as faculty represen­ tative to the Board of Trustees in 2000-01 as a bully pulpit: "CVC is hou sed in a broom closet! I kept saying that. They were respon­ sive. I'm waiting for the shoe to drop."

on his way out the door to a weekend

unteer organization that works to improve the

Zen retreat.

economic and cultural life in greater Water­

for the College to keep the CCAK and CVC

ville. The redesign of the city's Concourse

programs going. And he'd like each academic

"They tell you to stop r u n ning your brain.

He believes it's enlightened self-interest

Just attempt to concentrate on your breath.

and creation of the Sterns Art Center were

program, from administrative science to phys­

That stuff appeals to me," he said. " Separa­

the best things to come out of it, he says,

ics to women's studie s , to make at least one of their courses intersect with the community.

tion is an i l l usion. We're not separate from

although he found it was n ' t the way for him to

one another. That's true on a molecular level,

go. He started paying attention to the Colby

" You can do this in any subject matter," he

and that's what poetry comes to. Everything

Volunteer Center.

said confidently.

should connect in a poem, so why shouldn't everything connect outside?"

At Waterville's I nland Hospital Harris still

Even though 200 students were involved

Making connections, overcoming separa­

in eve , they still needed a faculty member to

tio n , setting the College and students along

p u s h for fu nds and a bu dget. " We've tacitly

the road of social respon sibility . . .

leads a state-wide Maine H umanities pro­

ignored students' idealism and their capac­

" If I had a million bucks, I'd give it to

gram, Literature and Medicine: H umanities

ity for engagement," Harris said. " I f truth is

people who needed it," H arris said. " It's

at the Heart of Health Care. H ospitals are

in actio n , they were the con science of the

what a decent society would do anyway."

by nature hierarchical, he says, which keeps

institution."

-Robert G illespie

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h a p p e n e d in a vac u u m , a n d at Colby. The Colby \'olunteer e m e rge nce o f a refi r e d c i v i c Center was thri,ing and expand­ spirit d o e s n o t contradict the ing, ""ith dynamic student lead­ t e n e t s a n d t ra d i ti o n s of t h e ers a t the h e l m . The S tudent Coll ege or the coun try. Schol­ Gm·ernment Association started ars w h o h ave considered the C o l by Cares D a y, an a n n u a l i mp e t u s f o r v o l u n t e e r is m in spring eYent that sent hundreds A m e r i c a go b a c k a s fa r as of students into area communi­ Native American treatment of ties to do sen-ice projects. early European settlers, C h ris­ Facul�· members l i ke Tappan t i a n e t h i cs and the fro n ti e r a n d Assoc i a te P r o fessor Lyn tra d i tion of cooperation n oted :.\ I i ke l Brown (education a n d

by A l ex.is DeTocquevi l l e . h u m a n de,·e l o p m e n t) u n der­ B rian O'Connell, professor stood that sending education of public service at Tufts Uni­ students i nt o the schools ben­ versity and founder of the orga­ efited both secondaff schools n i zation I ndependent S ector, and the Colby students. " \Ve points out that in recent years fi rst started out thinking of it as it has been volw1teers who have more of a practicum e>.-perience Teresa Hawko '01 with a student mentor. Hawko coordinates the Colby Cares created everything from H os­ for the students," Tappan said. About Kids program, which matches area children with Colby students. pice to Alcoholics Anonymous. " I t soon became ob,·ious that Vol m1teer activists have pushed the environmental movement and students were performing a very valuable senrice." reforms in health care, education and rights for the disabled . .\ I an nocchi has been d i spatch ing student fi l m crews i n to the \Vhile govern ment has been driven by the people, the l ast two communi�· for more than a decade, creating documentaries on social presi dents-one Republican and one Democrat-both have made issue that ha,·e included \\·omen in ;\ Iaine \\rith HI\� the dedication community service a priority.

Bill Clinton, following in the tradition of fi refighters and other unsung heroes, the lives of exotic dancers. of Peace Corps creator John F. Ke1111edy, brought forth AmeriCorps. tudent de,·e lop relationships w i th their subj ects. " I r's the best kind of reaching for me," she said. " I real ly feel I'm teaching to President George \"T. Bush followed wjth his "faith-based initiative" and his post-September 1 1 call for all Americans to combat terrorism create ocial change." by performing commm1ity service.

Of cour e, this m·erlapping of com munity and classroom hasn't

A Col by Friend When

a

Chi l d Needs One

F..d1tor�r note: .Heg Rieger '02 began mentoring

to read and interpret the social co nstructions

11 I f l1ter;:ille fourth ,rt;rr1der earlier this year in

I have learned so much about in my educa­

" my Colby student" puts a smile on my face

the Coll'.\' Cirres .ibout Kids program. A Spanish

tion courses.

and makes me realize that I am something

llltl)Or 1111d edumtion mi1101; Rieger plans to go

mto tt•ad•mg after .rt;mdnation. !'.\

he a·as asked

Colb� ;::hy she 1s 11 111entor 1111d a·hat she

I th i n k many Colby students really take for

fourth grader. To hear a child refer to me as

special to her. She shows me off in the lunch

granted the position that they hold in society.

line and on the playground and writes about

Being a white, middl e-class woman, and a

me in her sentences for language arts. We

thm/..·s shl' 1s t1ffo111pl1shmg. This is rm e.\w1pt

student at Colby, has placed me in a position

swing on the swings and talk about events in

�(brr rrspons1'.

of power and privilege in society. By being a

her life, problems she is having and what she

friend and role model to a child who comes

wants to be when she grows up. She tells me

one little person who has . . . big dreams for

from a less privileged background, I give my

she wants to be a Colby student like me, and

herself and for her future. I can be someone

attention, encouragement and compassion to

then she wants to be a doctor.

1,1ho shows her hat 1f she keeps the tough

someone who really needs it. If I can make

and persistent at 1 ude she has at age 1 1 ,

a difference in the life of one child, I have

say goodbye, and I return to campus and to

she can ake down big challenges and hope·

begun to fulfill the responsibility that comes

being just an ordinary person again. I leave

full

1mpro e her life.

with the comfort and safety I often take for

mentoring each day excited to be a part of

ork1ng with m

granted in my life.

the life of this child and excited by all the

I can devote my attention and interest to

· mentee" has allowed me

to see be ond s at1st1cs and developmental

I want to add that mentoring has not been

After recess I walk her to class and

potential I see in her. She encourages me

and to gam a more real perception of

without reward for me personally. Twice a

1,1ha being an 1 1· ear-old girl 1s like today in

week , I get to be the " coolest person, so

can persist and hopefully will come true.

a commurnt

much fun and wicked smart" in the eyes of a

-Meg Rieger '02

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such as

ater 1lle. It helps me

that even when faced with adversity, dreams

" I t seems as if there is a call for renewal and a call for community service that we've not observed before, targeted at this age group," said Patricia ash, at I n d ependent Sector in Washington, D .C. And the call has not gone unanswered. Applications for the Peace Corps, for example, i ncreased about 40 percent in the weeks following the State of the Union address.

This cal l for volunteers to turn out on campus and elsewhere may be unprecedented in i ts scope, but it is also cyclical, following the nation's economic ups and downs. Associate Professor Bill Klein (psychology), who has studied the psychological causes a n d effects of a l truism, says people are more likely to be helpful to others "when their basic assumptions are challenged-such as the veil of invulnerability that was stripped from us on September 1 1 ." Klein also points out that while altruism can be a result of an economic boom, i t typically continues even when the boom has turned to bust because people have learned the benefits-for themselves and others-of conm1mtity service.

This current interest in volunteerism was spawned during a time of tremendous prosperity for some Americans but not for others, said Sharon Daloz Parks, author and a director of the vVhidbey I nstitute, a Washington-state-based nonpro fi t that is committed to addressing "environmental, spiritual and social challenges." But she maintains that all of us have a tremendous capacity for empathy, a trai t that is accentuated when times are good.

"As we see a growing gap in our society economically between those who have relative easy access to economic resources and those who are more and more marginalized, those who have more feel some human obligation to those who have less," she said.

Parks, who has written extensively on the ways i n d ividuals can change and contribute to society, said people who work hard to ensure they remain i n the "top of the economic hourglass" turn

to volunteering as an expression of their h u m a n i ty. Coll eges and u ni versities, she said, with their upwardly mobi l e populati ons, are ferti l e groun d for vol u n te erism . B u t worki n g in a soup k i tchen as a n extracurricular activity can a l so fa l l i n to the ca tegory of people w i th money and privi l ege demonstrati n g that to one anoth er by vol u nteering.

And while some cynics question whether volunteerism is about helping or resume building, others say that isn't necessarily a bad thing. If doing something for others is tied to careers, networking and making contacts useful in a job search, so be i t, said Patricia Nash at I ndependent Sector: "I think that's a fine thi ng. I t can benefit the i ndividual as well as the community."

But Parks wonders what message colleges want to send to their young comm u n i ty servers. "Yes, you shou ld do this when you're young and then you have to get serious about an eighty-hour work week? Or do we want to say to our young, you are going to have these experiences because you are going to be l iving in a yet more diverse, complex society with new ethical frontiers and we see this as a critical part of your education? " Parks says coll e ges can offer opportun i ti es for volunteering, but they also need to be mindful of their broader public purpose as i nstitutions.

Co11eges and universities can fi n d ways to engage in these activities in such a way that i t merely helps maintain the status q uo, she said.

Or they can turn volunteer activity i nto a learning activity that l eads to a dialogue between col leges and universities and the surrounding commw1ities-and addresses root causes of social problems.

I t's i mportan t, Parks said, "to ask what is the deep purpose, as individuals going through these schools, but a lso to ask that question i nstitutional ly. Vlhat do we mean to each other? How does the

A Good Shepherd for Col by Mentors Think of what it takes to get yourself,

although the number of participants dropped

Hall School in Waterville, there hadn't been a

your family, your children to their various

after the requirements were explained. Many

single dropout on either side.

appointments every week. Now consider what

students can't do both CCAK and a sport, for

i t would be like to get some 160 Colby stu­

instance. And anyone considering participat­

issues posed by uncertified volunteers. And

dents and area kids together.

ing was warned that they must be ready to

faculty have to give up some control when stu­

That's why Teresa Hawko '01 often is the one who turns out the lights in the Eustis Build­ ing at night. W hen Hawko, who coordinates , schedules, adjusts , fine-tunes and generally

make a fir m commitment.

"Hanging out with a kid is going to be a definite step to take," Hawko said.

Though the benefits for the children are

s hepherds participants in the Colby Cares

expected to emerge over a period of years,

About Kids mentoring progra m , talks about

some positive effects are already being felt.

commitment, she knows of what she speaks.

"We do see a difference in truancy," Hawko

Hawko became interested in service learn­ ing as a student and this year is an

said. The kids are always in school the day the mentor comes. Reading levels rise when

Critics of service learning raise liability

dents' experiences don't fit into course para­ digms. " But it's a myth that you'll lose aca­ demic rigor," Hawko said. " Service learning can fall into any discipline and be relevant."

"We're not looking t o remodel Colby," she added. "We want to m a ke it stand out."

And after Hawko goes her own way?

Colby h a s applied for another V I STA posi­ tion, sponsored by Maine Campus Compact,

AmeriCorps * V I STA worker a t Colby and the

a mentor reads aloud and goes through a

and it was expected in M arch that the posi­

CCAK site coordinator. Her work began weeks

book with them. They gain confidence " and

tion would be approved. Two candidates (cur­

before the volunteers went one on one last

can at least try to keep up with the academic

rent seniors) already had expressed interest .

fall with children in Waterville, Benton, Clinton

pace," Hawko said.

and Vassalboro. Three hundred sixty people expressed interest in the mentoring progra m ,

As of last January, according to Moira Bentzel , guidance counselor at the Albert S .

"Service learning is up and coming," Hawko concluded. " I f we don't get on the wagon, we're going to miss the big bus."

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\\'h i l e the C o l by C a re s A bo u t K i d s

q u e stion of the urro u n d i n g com m u n i ties

program sti l l i s i n t h e formative stages,

c h a n ge the \\·ork of the col lege' H m1· does

other Colby students have been working in

the presence o f the c o l l ege potenti a l l y

the schools for years and thei r con tribution

a ffe ct t h e surro u n d i n g com m u n i ti e s i n

can be measured.

positive w a ys ' "

Mannocchi 's daughter Jackie M a n nocchi

Colby students w h o sen·e as mentors i n the

for example, is dyslexic, and Colby students

chools a re l e s self-con cious about

have tutored her for three years through

w h �- the�- 1·o l u n teer and tend to a n swer

V\'atervi l le J un ior H i gh Schoo l . "They make

que tions about their motiYes 11·ith a shrug aid h e h e l pe d h i s

her feel speci a l , " M a nn occhi sai d . "That's

mother, a r e ource-room teacher i n Bangor,

e x a c t l y w h e re a C o l by t u to r h e l p s . I t 's

when he wa in high school bur had l i m i ted

somebody who can rea l l y relate to kids."

and a

mile.

n yd e r

e n·ice because he

Mean while, i n area schools some say the

pl ayed sports a n d had other obligations.

seeds of a long-lasting legacy have a l ready

t i m e f o r com m u n i �-

" \ \'hen I got to col l ege, I wanted to give

been p l a n t e d . H a l l S chool fo u rth -grade

back a l i ttle more," he a i d .

teacher Donna Richardson said the Colby

Sato, who 1·olunteered as a student i n

mentors offer children precious u n divided

Iowa C i �·, said he e:-.. -p ected t o do a s much

a tte n t i o n , that the c o l l ege k i d s a re role

o r more a t Col by, and not o n l y for the

models and that i n a n i d e a l world every

benefit of h i

child would have a Colby friend.

fifth-grade fri end. " I ne1·er

h a d a l i tt l e b ro t h e r so i t 's k i n d of l i ke that," he

Emily Hoberg '99 (top) and Kathryn Reber '00 spruce

a i d . " I j ust e n j o�· hanging our

up "Old 4 70; an historic steam locomotive in downtown

with h i m . " Col b�· ma�· supply the mentors, b u t for

Waterville. Hoberg and Reber were among students

counselor.

taking part in the first Colby Cares Day in 1997.

can't thin k of any drawbacks. "They have just

col lege students \\·ho li1·e in a community of I

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tO

" I get

tO

work with Roy."

" I thi n k i t's going beautifully. I

been a wonclerfuJ presence in the schools."

Roy, the 1 1 -year-old paired with Snyder, offered his endorsement.

2 1 -year-olds, the younger kid may be a welcome change. " I t's a

rea l l �· good opportuni �·, " Snyder said.

" I was enthusiastic and I ' m sti l l enthu­ s i a s t i c , " s a i d B e n t z e l , the H a l l S c h o o l

" I ' m very hyper on tJ1e clays tJ1at he's not here," he said. "The fi rst day, I 'm l i ke, ' H ey . . . Look a t my bodyguard."'

\ n d ha1·e an i mpact.

Trash Talk Over the Chess Board .\"1c/.: Snyder ' O5 is sitting nt r 1 ro1111d tnble i11

N i c k : Oh, no. Taking your stuff.

the li/imry 11t tbe .-1/bert S. Hnll School. W ith

Roy : She goes into my room

h1111 1s Roy,

and my brother's room, gets

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gmrler u:itb dnr/.:, wide-set

i:res and 11 puc/.:isb grin.

7he Ji1/lo< . 611g is n mippet from the ongoing

out stuff and plays with it in her room .

.-oll11bomt1011 that is Coll�v Cnres .-/bout Kids.

N i c k : You know, my little broth·

Roy : I 'm very tired.

ers, they take everything of

N ic k : Were you up late?

mine . They wear all my clothes.

Roy :

Roy : Now you know what

o. I ' m JUSt tired.

N ic k : Well. school can do that to you.

I ' m doing? I ' m leaving all my

Roy · Especially when you're doing so much

noisy toys out so when she

science. We talked about everything back

goes in there and tries to

from the beg1nn111g of school.

take them-

N ick

Oh. yeah. You're reviewing. Well, that's

N i c k : It'll set them off?

not hat bad. You get to touch up on what you

Roy : And mom will know

missed he first time.

she's up.

SP der }awns.

N i c k (to a visitor): We have a good time .

N i c k : Yeah, but in the fifth one I beat you.

Roy You're ired. too. I only stayed up until

Roy : No, we don' t.

Payback. Want to play some chess? I think we have time.

9 o c ock. M sis er went to bed at eight and

N ick: No, we have a horrible time. He beats

sl e ·s a four- ear-01d She doesn't fall asleep

me in chess. too.

(They start a game. In five or six moves, Roy

until I go o bed. I fa

Roy : N o , I didn't. We had a draw on the first

has the edge . )

morning I ge up and I !Valk 111to her room and

two. You beat me on the third one and the

N i c k : I ' m done. I should just forfeit now.

she has some o m stuff.

fourth one I beat you.

Roy: What are you trying to do? Save yourself?

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asleep and 1n the

It's hardly news that Colbians I eave Mayflower

H ¡I 1 1 and go on to do .i m portan t thi ngs for their . for human . for their countries, com m u n .ities, . ity. But the brea dth of their contributions, . from making a small town a better place to

I Policy , .is easy to take . shaping internat1ona for granted.

On the following pages are representatives I of many, many more alumni who see 't

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as their respons1b11 . . ity . to give bac k .i n . some way. Physicians who d o nate their time all ove r the world, actors w ho use the

. d us of soc1a . I ills â&#x20AC;˘ clergy who stage to remin . would be give . hope where there otherwise very little, teachers who find inspiration .in th e progress of a single child.

None of the su bjects here sou ght this atten­ tion. In fact, they pro bably would have . deferre d to others, given the chance. But they did n't get that chance here to s how what can

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d their stories are accompl ished by

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Oaiser K�an [ A Global View ] D j i bouti, a tiny former French colony on the Red Sea, has a prob­ l e m . The country's health syste m , while it i s the pride of northeast Africa and d ra\1·s patients from neighboring Ethiopia, Eritrea a n d Soma l i a , h a s pirating costs. T h e question: h o w t o better m a n age those costs w i thout adl'er ely affecting patient care?

A case study for a class in health economics? It cou l d be. But for Qai er K han ' 7 7 , i t' on the to-do l ist. A seni or economist and task team leader with the \ \ 'orld Bank, Khan tral'eled to Djibouti earl ier this year a s part of his ongoi n g work 11· ith health officials there.

Remedies for the excessiYe health-care costs i nclude a referral system a n d a switch from brand -name drugs to generics. K h a n a n d h i s team a re also looki n g at the spread of H I V/AIDS through o-a ffic moving through the coun try's port on the Gulf of Ade n .

"The soci a l fu nds a n d education projects-you c a n actu a l ly see a n i m pact," K h a n a i d , a t h i s \\rashington office before a return u·ip to D j i bouti in Februa r�·· " H ealth is a l i nl e more di fficult to see ." \ \ nile the grati fication may not be i nstant, that hasn't kept Khan from wearing a path between the

. S . and North Africa, the Middle

Ea t, Eu rope and Central Asia as h e impleme nts and tracks social wel fa re and education projects unden1Titten by the \Vorld Bank.

This pring h e expected to 1·isit I ran, the \ Vest Bank and I n d i a . H e has worked on transportation problems i n 7\ l adagascar and school b u i l d i n g in Yemen, and h e headed a study of the Ragging economy of the

e�·che l l es, the I nd i a n Ocean arch i pel ago. His report led to

a story i n the lntem11tio1111/ HemId 11-ibune, but most of Khan's work goes un noticed in the popular press.

For instance, I ran has been in the news in the

" [ Subsequent] events may have cha nged the facts b u t there i s a n . S . as part of

internal debate w i t h i n t h e b a n k between those of u s w h o work o n

President Bush' "axis of e1-i l , " but Khan i s in the middle of a study

poverty and social and h u m a n -deve lopment issues a n d those who are

of the effectiveness of I ran's social protection programs, including

financial sector specialists who sti l l bel ieve in tricKledown, " h e said.

1 1 e l fare

and pensions for the elder!�· and disabled. "The m i ssion

1 n J r,111 is 1 c� d i fferent from goi n g to other places," Khan said,

"\Ve have that i n tern a l debate within u s but I thi n k our s i de has won that i nternal debate."

"because I ran fceb total I�· isolated i n many ways from global trends.

Not that he bel i eves the critics w i l l go away.

.'o 11 hen

"The bank w i l l m a ke new m i stakes a n d somebody w i l l have to

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go to I ra n , 11 c spend a lot of time doing sem i nars,

a l mmt l i ke run n i n g a graduate schoo l . " C n u cs , i ncluding those i n t h e anti-globa l i zation mol'ement, " ould prefer th<H the \ \'orld Bank c l o e clo11 n that graduate schoo l . · 1 h e � chJ rge th<H t h e \ \'orld Bank h a s too often p u t \Vestern-style gl oh.1 l i n u on and economic interests first.

Other,, 1 11clud111 g J a n 1 l ogendorn, C rossman Professor of Eco­

point that out and we w i l l have to address i t, " K h a n said, adding that the bank w i l l con tinue to support globa l i zation but w i l l work to address the social costs associated w i th i t.

A native of Bangladesh, Khan earned a doctorate in economics at the

niversit:y of Pennsylva n i a , studyin g w i th Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1 99 8 . Khan went on to teach

nom i c , po1 m out t h <lt on]� one part of the \ \'orld Bank's tasks is to

at Bowdoin, then became a development consultant i n

di.:'i[!n ughrer budgets f or countries 11 here fiscal polic�· is beli e1·ed to

P h i l i ppines and Barbados.

he out of comro l . rhe human de1 elopmem side of the \ \'orlcl Bank 1 ' .1 ·· lc.u l i n [! l i [! h t '' 1 11 1 . ddressing social problems, 1 l ogcndorn sai d . " Be i n [! 1 . hle � ou the clout

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re,1 1 1 � .lCcomplish someth111g. \ I an� a 1 olunteer goes

out " i t h not h i n [! t h <H t h e� can rea ll� accomplish hc� ond generating [!< >ml 11 i l l . . . . People l i kL <J11ser arc 1 11 a pos iuon to make a real i m p.i ll rn d I t h i n k r h .n ·, 11n prcss 1 1 c . " l-. h .111. i n .ire h.i-L·d 111

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] Te now l i ves i n suburban Virginia with his w i fe , H a beeba, and

their two chil dren, Zainab,

7, ancl j i bran, l l , and describes his global l i fe as a balance l i ke yin and yang. " \Vhen you come [ h ome] from rural Yemen or rural M "adagascar, this is a h uge contrast," Khan said.

Though he travels 1 50,000 mi les or more every year on business,

he says his \ \ 'ori el Bank development work leaves h i m " m en ta l l y at peace." "l hope I'm havi ng a wide im pact," Khan said. "That's what keeps me going." -Gmy Boyle '78

Diane Zavots�� [ The Lives She Changes ] Diane Zavotsky '82 practices family

medicine in "med­ ically underserved" northern New Hampshire. Each winter she volw1teers in a clinic in the cena-al high­ lands of Gua­ temala, a-eating peopl e who other­ wise have no access to health care.

It's discourag­ ing to see sick people she simply can't help, but, Zavotsky said, "the handfu l of cases where you feel you real ly made a difference make it worthwhile." Like getting a baby with pneumonia to a hospital and l i terally saving i ts life.

Zavotsky confesses that her humanitarian instincts were mixed with selfish motives when she signed on. Beyond a break from winter i n New Hampshire, there's the slogan of her sponsoring organi zation : "The l i fe you change may be your own. " " It's h a d a dramatic impact o n my consciousness o f how we provide health care here," she said. Now when a patient complains about waiting three days for an appointment, she's tempted to say, "Try pushing your sick mother mil es to the clinic in a wheelbarrow."

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Kat�erine W�ite [ A Good Neighbor ] Common Ground Sanctuary is an umbrella of direct­ service, crisis-intervention programs serving one of Michi­ gan's largest counties, and Katherine \iVh i te '60 has been behind m uch of the organization's exponential growth in recent years. VVhite has been a behind-the-scenes problem solver, board chair-and the voice answering the crisis hotl ine Monday mornings for 14 years.

Asked about her i nvolvement, she repl ied, " I 'm a profes­ sional volunteer." S he traces tl1at to her years in Panama with the Peace Corps in tl1e late 1 960s and sees a network of roots for her volunteerism at Colby-in the quiet example of the late Professor Robert Reuman and in the "neighborhood" sensibility of tl1e Col lege, where she would help out someone down the hall and have the favor returned later. vVhi te's philosophy, from the Peace Corps, Common Grmmd Sanctuary and otl1er endeavors, is: "you work vvith someone else to enable them to express what they wish to do, and then you give them tl1e tools to accomplish that."

Otl1er people's progress gives her efforts meaning, she said. " Hopefully, someone is in a more optimistic state than when you started. "

[ Eyes Wide Open ]

Stephen Kidd '97, a graduate su1dent in tl1eater at Brown University, is a volw1teer counselor and program director at a free summer camp m ew York for inner-city children l iving witl1 AI DS. His one-man stage performance, "Sigh," is a a-ibute to one 1 3 -year-old boy who, Kidd said, "opened my eyes to what's important in l i fe."

"Sigh " interweaves monologues about a youngster dying of AIDS with an Ursula LeGuin story about a utopian city whose "perfection" depends on tl1e continuing misery of one child con fi ned to a dungeon. ](jdd hopes audien ces . will come away with an understanding of tl1e social alienation the AIDS kids feel "but maybe also lend a hand to help." .

Kidd accepts donations at his performances for The Starfish Foundauon, an oro-anization that he and several Colby friends established to provide year­ roun mentoring and guidance for AI DS children. He also instituted-and ran- The Run for Providence, a 45-mile ula-a-marathon from Boston to Providence, which has raised $ 10,000 for the Starfish Foundation's efforts to provide Christmas gifts to underprivileged children in the Boston area.

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S�eila Mar�s [ A Pat and a Kick l Once Sheila � larks's clients walk out the door, she never wants to see them aga i n . � larks '72 is a case manager at the H ampshire House o f Cor­ rections, a state prison for men in Northhampton, i\ 1ass. A fom1er social worker and probation officer, she is one of three managers for a unit housing about 80 inmates. Marks does initial risk assess­ ments, release plans and eYerything in between. "I tell people I feel like I ' m alternately patting guys on the back and kicking them in the butt," she said.

Her job has hardened her to the fact that for some people, it's too l ate to change.

-i-But the succe s sto­ ries keep her hope kindled.

'I feel I contribute in two ways," ;.\ larks said. "One is I feel my contribu­ tion make this place a little more sane and humane and ci,ilized, even in the jail. . . . And then I feel like I'm making some contribution to what happens to guys when they get out of here. I get letters and phone cal ls from people periodically sa�ing, 'Thank you. You made a difference.' �ot as many as I 'd like, but that keeps me going."

[ The 'Counselor' ]

Brian Connors

l l is clients are indigent, says Brian i\T. Connors '88, a public defender in the Colorado tate Public Defender's Office. � 1ost <He homeless, abused, tb·elopmentally disabled or mentally i l l .

"The�e are broken Ii, es," Connor s a i d . " B ut people have a right to defend themseh es before their freedom is taken away."

L phold ing the Si-.. th \mendment's guarantee of the right to coumel and the right to a court-appointed lawyer, Connors rr.n el� from his b.1se in Greele� through eight Colorado coun­ Gl'ies a day. n c •-. I le handle� a� nun� JS 2 "' \ ou're not gomg to '' in a lot," he said. " You're a counselor .l l Lrn . and the ' coun.,elor' comes through. You real!�- are a ..on.1 1 '' orker."

Connor., com:ede., that the job of public defender is not for e\ e� one . .. Bur '' hen � ou cou ld be our helping people '' ho trul\' . need help," he .,aid, ·· 1 can 't 1mag111e not doing it."

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[ Buddy System ] It's appropriate that when Anthony Shriver, son of Special Olympics founder Ewuce Kennedy Shriver, decided to start a program for per­ sons with mental retardation, he turned to an old buddy.

The friend was Mark Wylie '88. The program became Best B uddies International , a Miami-based orgaiuzation that places college and high school students in one-on-one relationships with persons with mental retardation. In the dozen years since its i nception, the program has served about 1 40,000 people. \iVylie, now director of publ ic affairs for Best B uddies, was the first employee. "It just kind of evolved," he said. "\iVhat we do is try to enhance their l ives by giving them opportuni­ ties to go out and do things that we take for granted: going to the movies, hanging out with friends, just going to the mall," Wylie said. vVylie now spends part of his time i n the company of actors and other celebrities who are Best B uddies supporters. But his biggest reward, he said, is the time he spends with receptionist Joyce Gold­ man, who has mental retardation. "She's the reason I come to work," he said. "She's amazing."

Ric�ar� Moss

[ Help with Learning ]

Richard Moss '70 has taught history at C.A. Johnson H i gh School in Colu.mbia, S.C., for 2 8 years-and held classes a fter school, visited students' homes and invited them to his, gently puslu ng them to excel . A white man, Moss maintains a warm relationslup with lus students, all of them black.

I n 1 96 3 , when local public schools reopened after resisting i ntegration for years, Moss hon­ ored lus father, an outspoken opponent of the school closings, by choosing to spend !us senior year at an all-black high school. "I think it had a direct effect on why I teach where I do and why I like teach ing the students I do," he told the Columbia Times-Dispatch .

C.A. Johnson draws students primarily from a low income, inner-city area. Kids deal '''ith unsettled home lives and work after school to help put food on the family table. Many sm1ggle simply to attend classes. \\'hen the opportunity to teach at C.A. J ohnson came along 2 8 years ago, ;\ loss knew h e would get along well with the students "and help '' ith learning, growing up, maturing," he said. "I felt somehow that r cou ld do something."

Patricia W�eeler

[ An Her children i

Patricia Root Wheeler ' 5 0 wears Levi 's 505 straight-leg jeans, men's sizes, because the knees hold up best.

At 7 3 , Wheeler spends most of her days on the Aoor, and eventu­ ally the j ea ns wear out and she gives them to her son who's a plumber-a profession that isn't as physically demanding as teaching pre-schoo l . \tVheeler eats macaroni and cheese for breakfast a n d watches Sesa111e Street so she isn't out of touch in her social circles. She knows there are dinosaurs in the backyard, that peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth, that nap time is necessary.

For 3 7 years, she has run Sand Box Nursery School, a small private pre-school i n a church basement in downtown Jaffrey, N . H .

J affrey, j ust north o f the Massachusetts border at t h e foot of Mt. Monadnock, is a working-class town built on New England saw and textile m i l ls. Everyone who can work, does. Few famil ies can afford a stay-at-home parent or a full-time babysitter.

That's been true for decades and i t's a big reason why Wheeler opened the Sand Box. It was the 1 960s, and though Lyndon B .

Johnson's Project Head Start was j ust getti ng off the ground, a government program in Jaffrey was sti l l decades away.

The Sand Box was to be an affordable half-day preschool, and Wheeler began it on a shoestring budget. Little has changed. She's sti l l in the same basement room, and the decorations and photographs that adorn the walls are patchwork from decades past. The school copy of The Little Engine Thm Could was purchased new, for 39 cents.

"The boy on the Aoor there, in the black shirt, I had his mod1er," Wheeler said. "I had Nathan's dad. The little one coloring right there, I had his aunt."

For years parents paid j ust dollars a day. The Sand Box abhors a fee increase and today they pay $ 1 0 a day.

"She's served d1e town well over the years," said Cyndy Burgess of d1e Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce. "She's vei-y motherly, and she's j ust done wonderful work for d1e children of d1is town . " In September, Burgess a n d t h e Chamber named \Nheeler their Citi zen of d1e Year, an honor they managed to keep secret until d1e night of the banquet-no small feat in Jaffrey. She was shocked to find out d1e whole night was about her. "She's always thinking of hersel f last," B urgess said.

Wheeler's husband, Ahn, died in a plane crash in 1 972, and she raised d1eir six children . Along the way she served duee terms on the Jaffrey School Board and sat on the Recreation Committee. S he's been a G i rl Scout leader, a deacon and a church trustee.

She taught Sunday school, and it looks like she will again, as church officials have said d1ey will end me program if they cannot find a teacher. For years, when only Boston hospitals had d1e technology to accept platelet donations, she would drive nearly two hours each way each monm to give blood. She's type 0 negative, d1e universal donor-and d1at's a phrase mat doesn't just apply to her blood.

For me past 1 8 years, she's se1-vecl as a court liaison for an early youth intervention program. Jaffrey pre-teens charged wid1 minor

crimes are sent to her. She sets up commw1 i ty service, makes sure they follow mrough and files the paperwork with me court.

Originally \V:heeler wanted to go into social work, and she got her Colby degree in psychology and sociology. Now she says she can spot in pre-school d1e children she'll likely be working wid1 six years doW11 d1e road-the ones whose parents don't or can't read to d1em, who don't get a fast start off me blocks in d1e race of life. "That's d1e toughest part," she said. "When you get assigned by me court to work with a kid you remember."

There are lessons to be learned in l i fe, and Wheeler begins teach­ ing d1em early. I t 's not just about d1e ABCs, though all Sand Box alumni enter kindergarten knowing how to write d1eir names. There are od1er mings to be learned, and one of mem gets reinforced every clay before snack. " Please and d1ank you helps to make me world a happier place to be," d1e chi ldren say in unison.

Afrer snack time is nap time, accompani ed by soft children's music from d1e record player. Just recendy, me school's original record player checked out after wee decades on d1e job, leaving \1'Theeler scrambling for a replacement. She plastered d1e town wim A iers seeking a used record player. In me encl, she shelled out $ 1 34 for a new one.

Her retired friends, who are more inclined to act their age, don't quite w1derstancl such passion.

But \Vheeler, who now has 27 grandchildren, says she w i l l con­ tinue spending her clays on me Aoor, wearing out me knees in her jeans, at least until her knees wear out.-J,fatt Apa:::;:::,o '00

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Melissa Wilcox [ D ivine Intervention ] � 1elissa \\'i lcox's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were Episcopal priests, and her grandfather ,,·ent on to become a bishop.

But el'en after job-shado11·ing two Episcopal priests during her senior year Jan Plan, \\'i lcox '9-+ says joining the priesthood was only i n the very back of her mind.

I t took a 1 997 sermon in S11·ahili, in a dirt-floored Anglican Church in East Africa, to hear her cal ling. The sermon was her own.

From 1 995 to 1 998 \\'ilcox worked as youth coordinator for nearly 7 ,000 youngsters in the Anglican Church in northwest 1anza­ n i a , about 1 5 miles from Rwanda. \\'hil e l iving in several refugee camps of up to 3 5 0,000 Rwandans who had fled ethnic violence, \ \'ilcox worked on ouu-each projects, such as AlDS awareness and pre1·ention, and 1·i sited 11·ith A I D S sufferers. In Africa "AlDS is such a shaming thing people don't tal k about it," she said.

During her foreign sen-ice \Vilcox was repeatedly asked to preach in Anglican churches but always declined because she wasn't theo­ logical ly u-ai ned. Rea l i zing that parishioners simply wanted to hear from her as a visitor, she agreed one week. "I looked up the read­ ings," said \ \'ilcox. "They were on the Holy Tri nity, which is the hardest concept to explain." \\'ilcox wrote her five-minute sermon i n Swah i l i , prepared to read it word for word. That Sunday, i n front of the congregation in the grass-roofed church, she placed a cooking pot with water atop three stones, the local cooking method, and explained who each stone represented. She asked what would happen if one was missing. l ne1·itably, when she removed one stone the water spilled onto the church' dirt Aoor. Riding her bike home, \Vilcox felt the pull to11«1rd an ecclesiastic l i fe.

I n 1 99 \ \'ilcox returned to the United States and entered the \ 'irginia Theological Seminary, from which she graduated last year. In September she became a deacon, and this Februa11• she was ordained <l� <111 Epi�copal priest at the Church of the Holy Comforter outside Ch icago. I n addition to preaching, she can now celebrate the sacra­ ments and �hare in "the most meaningful parts of people's lives." \ \'i lcO\ \ �cmc of ministr) 11·as shaped well before entering the pric�thood or sen ing in Tanzania. " I t's always been important for me rn be connected to �omcthing berond myself," she said. "From .1 theolog1c.1 l ,tandpoint, Cod created all of us. lo be right in your rel.1uon,h1p� 11 1 t h other�. it helps to be right 11 ith Cod." \ 11 omen\ ,tud1e' minor, \\'ilco\ 11 orked on a loc;1J domestic vio­ lence hot l i ne 11 hilc <H Col i>) . During her junior ) car, in Kenya, she cond ucu.:d .1 111omh-long mdepcndcnt project in ten ie11 ing 11 omen in refugee t'.l l l l P' · .ind ,he 'pent the ) C<lr <lftcr graduation 11 orking for the l ntcrn;H1on.1l Re,cue Co111mn tec\ Commi��ion for Refugee \\ omen .1nd Chi ldren, 11 111(.:h a""t' 11 1th refugee camps 01 crscas ;111d rc,eule111ull in the L n ned \u te,.

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In the broadest sense, ni.inisuy is a call to service, Wilcox says, and as priesthood is an offering to Goel, it is also an offering to the community. Wilcox's current pastoral duties at the Church of the Holy Com forter incl ude pastoral care of the el derly and home­ bound, ouu-each with a nearby African-American and Afro-Carib­ bean parish and participation with a soup kitchen on the north side of Chicago. Currently \tVilcox is looking into ways to assist tl1e " Lost Boys of Sudan," refugees from Sudan's two-decade civil war, some of whom resettled in the Chicago area. Her husband, whom she met in semina1y, is also an Episcopal priest.

"As priests we point people to tl1e holiness in their lives every clay and espcciallr on those clays when tl1ey need it tl1e most-in sickness and in death," said \Vilcox. " I f they can glimpse God through my 11 ork, I know T am ful fi l l ing my vows -"-A/icin Nemiccolo MacLeay ' 9 7

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Ro�ert lo�n� [ Mutual Understanding ] I n the course of serving his couna-y, Marine Corps aviator Bob Loynd '86 has gotten around.

There was Operation Desert Storm, during which he flew 3 5 combat sorties in tl1e pi lot's seat of an EA6B Prowler set up to jam enemy elec­ u·onics. There were deployments in Japan, Korea, tlie Phil ippines. There was a year at tl1e Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Univer­ sity-where Loynd earned a master's degree in international affa irs-and six montlis as a special­ ist in Cena-al Asia and Russia. . . now ti1ere are reguJ ar a·ammg " roa d trips And . in which Loynd and his crew of tl1ree, take off from Cherry Point, N.C. for destinations in tlie .S., none of which are more tlian a day trip (Cherry Point to Brunswick, Maine? Ninety minutes.).

Now a major soon to be made colonel, the American studies major entered the Marine Corps after graduation. Now he oversees a squadron whose sole purpose is to provide air support for Mari nes on tlie ground, and in tlie process, help otl1ers, too. " By going into some of tliese areas [ l i ke Afghanista n ] , we're also developing contacts wi tl1 tl1em and helping tliem develop economic condi­ tions tl1at will make life for these people a little bit better.

"There's definitely tl1e mutual understanding tl1at will be a positive benefit to all of tl1is." .

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[ A Common Pulse ] Nisha Purushotl1am '92 likens traditional Afro-Caribbean dru m m i ng to community building. "The full experience requi res tliat everyone falls into a common pulse and listens to what others are expressing, " she said. But solos are also important and "call for individuals." ' I \vo years ago Purushotliam, a self-proclaimed commw1ity organizer, founded tl1e nonprofit Rhytlim & Roots in Providence, R . I . , to ra ise issues of racial and economic injustice-from educational inequalities and lack of living­ wage jobs to racial profilin g-through drumming. She teaches traditional beats, composition and cultural history to predominantly working-class and mi nority children and teens in free weekly classes.

For Purushotham drumming is a creative expression mat can em power youtlis to recognize and analyze cri tically systems of oppression and ultimately alter social consciousness. Through discussion, reflection and origi nal compo­ sitions-often influenced by rap and hi p-hop-her students connect inj ustices tliey witness wi tl1 tl1eir potential to in fluence change.

"I don't want to direct what they do or how tl1ey affect political change later in life," said Purushotham. " I want to lay tlie foundation for tl1em to do it."

Am� Millett

[ Light in a Child I

All of Amy M i l lett's students have to stay after school.

Millett '01 teaches at tl1e Epiphany School, a free, private school for students in grades 5-8 in Dorchester, Mass. All of tl1e students' families are at or below tl1e poverty line. Many of tl1e students are in state foster care.

The school day at Epiphany is 1 2 hours long, eve1-y day. Students arrive at 8 a . m . , work in class until 3 o'clock. They d o sports, sit down for dinner, then study rn1til 8 p.m. "They love it," M i l lett said. "Most of tliem are happier here than they are at home."

She is, too. Pursuing her goal of teaching in an inner-city publ ic school, Millett was hired tlie srnnmer after graduation from Colby and plunged right in.

She teaches, coaches track, swim­ ming and cross-couna-y, Lives in Dorchester Like her students and visits tliem on weekends. "I never leave tlie job," she said recently, squeezing in a phone call while her kids were at recess. "I take it home. I take it ,v]tl1 me wherever I go."

I t's exhausting but reward­ ing, especially when children make strides, she said. "You see light in every child."

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Serving m eals at the local soup kitchen is just one part of the activist equation, says Jonathan White, visiting profes足 sor of sociology. The other is determining why

Campus activists question factors that lead to need

people end up at a soup kitchen at all-and then doing something about it.

White is one of the catalysts of a renewed political activism at Colby, a movement that he jump-started by bringing separate groups of activists together when he arrived o n Mayflower Hill almost two years ago.

Students have brought a growing roster of speakers, liberal and conservative, joined an e-mail list serve, established an activist newspaper, The Difference, and created a Web site that chronicles the history of activism at Col by (www.colby.edu/ education/ activism/).

Several students have gone to work for a United Nations-chartered organization that educates children about the realities of war (see page 30).

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Banding together in recent years, Colby students have tackled global issues. At left, students march at Colby in 1999 to protest the use of foreign child labor. Colby students (right) pause after being tear-gassed in Quebec City during protests at a trade summit last year.

" I think com munity service is one form of activism," \i\Thite said. "And i t's the most comfortable. I t's the most generally accepted and the most generally promoted, particularly by religious instin1tions. Somebody's hungry, you feed th em. H e l p them out. But don't question why they were hung1-y. Don't ques­ tion the systems that al low that. " I found I need to do both. If I just do the local helping somebody out, then I wonder when the madness is going to stop. I can feed this person today but I 'm sti l l goi ng to feed them tomorrow unless we change the policy."

Changing the policy is what Colby activ­ i sts are after, whether it be trade practices that al low exploitation of chi l d la borers or arms deals that supply land m ines that kill thousands of civi l ians. \!\Tork at a soup kitchen?

Yes, they do, but they a lso ask how 1 20,000 people can starve to death every day in a world that has enough f ood to feed them th ree times over. "Community service recogn izes a problem, but rarely the underlying cause," said J essica Kel lett 'O-+, "whereas activism hopes to address the cause and the solution."

I f that rubs some people the wrong way, so be i t, Colby activists say. Said K e l l ett: "Activism has been known to look outside the box, which may frighten Colby and its n1ai nstrea1n image." \Vhile activists tackle global issues, there is

also a need, as in community service, to address local problems. Kellett says Colby students should be more involved in issues that shape the economy and culture of Cenu·al Maine.

Like what? Kellett points out that Maine timber is exported across the border to Canada for processing, depriving rural Mai ners of jobs. And national chain stores are pressuring locally owned businesses, threatening to turn distinctive downtowns into ghost towns.

K e l l e t t envisions a C o l by - co m m u n i ty activist coa l i tion that cou ld be brought to bear on these problems and more. "Then, when a new Super vVal-iVIart wants to come into Waterville, the Waterville commun ity's [and] Colby's power and knowledge concern­ ing the issue ca n, one, actually take shape, and two, have an effect which represents the active, rather than passive, interests of the area, " she said.

And Kellett isn't the only sn1dent versed in these issues.

"These are intelligent kids who come to Colby, " \Vhi te said. " I f they're smart they have to know somewhere, at least in the back of their consciousness, that if somebody's starving and they're throwing food out, even i f they cou l dn 't ha ve gotten that food to that person, then something's going on with the world system. That they're connected.

They're part of that." \Vhite points out that when students leave Colby as a d u l ts, many of them ultimately

assume powerful positions, whether in busi­ ness, poli tics or elsewhere.

Colby's responsibility? " \!\Then they leave for us to have socialized them to be active participating citizens, who work, not j ust for their own good and the good of their family or their community, but for the good of society, and that means global society," \Vhite said. " \!\That they're doing here i s important and has an effect in and of itself but a lso so they have the skills when they go out. Lots of graduating students are out doing human rights now. And I L i ke that. Some of them are doing human rights in terms of doing programs to help feed people. And some of them are trying to affect policy. So it's on both levels."

And Colby students, who some see as sheltered from the world's problems by both their social class and an idyllic setting, aren't afraid to tackle daw1ting social issues, he said.

"You know there is racism and sexism and people kill gay people, and you know there a re children making your clothes," \Vh i te said. "You know thjs stuff but you're always told gro w i n g up, 'That's j ust the way the world is.'

But it doesn't have to be that way, Colby students are concluding after coming to an understanding of global connections.

"They know i t," \Vhite said. "i\ Iost stu­ dents react to it very positively. I t's a relief, because they\'e always wondered."

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From the H i l l

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The Liberal Art of Giving Wil l ian1 D . Adams, Presi dent Across the curricu l u m , i n each o f o u r i n te l ­

As they struggled to u nderstand the new

fu n d a m ental s e n s e o f o b l i ga ti o n t o others

\\' O r l d t h a t e m erged from the traged)' of

arising from the facts of our soci a l I i fe a n d

l e ctua l explorations a n d com m i t m e n ts, w e

September

1 1 , many Americans experienced

h jstory. Our i n d ivi dual l i ves u n fold w i t h i n a

n e e d t o keep o u r respons i bi l i ty " t o t h e worl d

a resurgence o f ci,·ic spirit and a\\' a re ness.

broader network of reciprocal dependencies

beyon d the campus" stead i l y i n view a n d i n

P r i ,·ate s upport for ,· i c t i m s o f t h e a ttack

and d u ties.

fron t o f o u r students.

and t h e i r fa m i l ies \\'as S\\' i ft and generous.

depend i n some way on t h e efforts and gi fts

B u t in a d d i ti o n to practi c i n g w e l l a n d

\ 'olumeer agencies and organi zations reported

of others. And so we are oblige d to complete

extensively t h i s b r o a d precept o f l i beral

i ncreased level

the circle-to give back to the world and to

learni ng, we a l so need t o take advantage o f

the others \\' ho gave to us.

m o re speci fi c a c a d e m i c opportu n i ti e s w e

of support. \'oter participa­

t i o n r a t e s b r i e fl y c l i m b e d , a n d p a t r i o t i c fee l i n gs blossomed. F o r the first t i m e i n 3 0 years,

of m i l itary service.

Thi

re n e \\'ed i n terest in t h i ngs public,

a l o n g \\' i t h t h e broad a \\' a k e n i n g to the i m p o r t a n c e o f i n t e rn a t i o n a l i s s u e s a n d u n d e r r a n d i n g, \\'as one o f the few positive ou tcom e

of the e n o rmous tragedy of last

fa l l . But ho\\' long ,,· i l l such i n terest l ast? I t's h a rd to say f o r certa i n . The forces th a t pull back i n to the shell of na rro\\' I)' private

a c t i ,· i t i e

a n d i n t ere ts a re p o w e r fu l .

t

Colb)· a n d on other col lege campuses, one s e n se

a l re a d y so m e t h i n g l i ke a rerurn to

busi n ess as u ua l , de pite efforts to keep these m a tters in the f o refront o f our conversations and t h i n k i ng. \ \'hate,·er their long-term i m pact on the nation as a '' hole, the e,·ent of

eptember

I I h<n e ser.-ed powerfu l ! )' (and I hope endur­ i ng!) )

How, at Col by, is this sense o f obligation

to

re m i n d us of the i m portance o f

c i ' ic engagement as o n e of o u r fundamental c d uc.n i o n a l go a b a n d ,-.1 l u e s . A m o n g the n1J n ) thing'> '' c a rc t�·i n g to f oster among our .,rudcnt

here, the commitment to make

a d i fference in the public sphere is one of the

m i ght h a v e t o so-engthen connections w i th "the world beyond the campus . " L1 our recent

I heard American college srudents ta l k

posi ti,·ely a n d seriously about t h e prospect

u

o one i s s e l f- m a d e ; a l l o f u s

I n o u r re c e nt th i n k i ng a b out the futu re of th e

t h i n k i n g a b o u t the futu re o f the C o l l ege, we have been i n trigued by the possi b i l i ty of b w l d i n g on Col by's eristi11g strengths i n

C o l l ege , we have b e e n

areas of p u b l i c and international affa j rs as one

i ntrigued by t h e poss i b i l ity

rea l m our precepts speak about. \Ve a l so have

of b u i l d i ng on C o l by's

learning and com m u n i ty service m ust be a

i m port a n t axis of connection to the p u b l i c decided that a greater emphasis on service

existi ng strengths i n a re a s

part of Colby's future.

o f p u b l i c a n d i nternati o n a l

b e t w e e n our a c a d e m i c p u r s u i t s a n d t h e

affa i rs a s o n e i m p o rta nt

t o teach t h e remarkable exa m p l e o f Col by's

axis of c o n n e cti o n to the p u b l i c rea l m our p r e c e pts s p e a k a b out. We a l so have

As w e th i n k about m a k j n g connections bro a d e r worl d , w e s h o u l d a l so take p a i n s own h i story of giving. L i k e most i n stitutions o f private h i gher e d ucatip n , C o l by is a place that s i m p l y wou l d not e x i s t wi t h o u t the steady a ffecti o n , attention and generos i ty of generations o f a l u m n i and fri e n d s w h o h a ve

d e c i d e d that a greate r

care d about this pl ace and h e l pe d i t grow

e m p h a s i s o n s e rv i c e

e x a m p l e o f the p o w e r a n d s i gn i fi c a n c e of

l ea rn i ng a n d c o m m u n ity s e rv i c e m ust b e a p a rt of C o l by's futu re .

mo'>L C'>'>Cnti;1 ! . Thar com m i t m e n t can a n d .,hould ukc m a n ) f orms in t h e ' ' i d c r \\'Or! d ,

a n d t h r i v e . T h e re is p ro b a b l y no b e t t e r soci a l reci pro c i ty a n d givi n g back t h a n the C o l l ege i ts e l f. vVe succeed today beca USC o f the c o m m i t m e n t of th ose who c a m e bef ore us.

I n this as in so many other areas, the most powerful teac h i ngs a re th ose that provi d e

o f couP.e, . rn d ' ' e canno t knc )\\ or predict

to be nurtured a n d connected to rea l peop le

compelling models o f the lesson. Colby is a

prec 1 ., e l ) the m<lll) path'> o ur '>rudcnt '' i l l

<l lld needs' One o f our "aca demic precepts,"

wonderful model of a lesson that is now more

rc1ke to I t '> rea l i 1;1tion. Bur \\ C c a n and must

the body o f pri nciples that describes Col by's

important than ever to our sn1dcnts and our

1 1 n p.1 n •lll under'>t•mding o f its fimdamcnral

d i stincti\ e ,·ersion of l i beral learni ng, poi nts

coun try. By teach i n g that lesson and other

' ;1lue and i m pon,1nce.

by i d e n t i fy i n g t h e i m p o r t a n c e

f orms of the l i beral a rt of givi ng, we make

an old ;1 11d deep t ra d i t i o n or

of " e \ p loring the relationships between

good on our fu n d a m ental com m i tm e n t to

mor.1! phdmoph) cla1 1rnng that '>UCh public

academic \\ Ork a n d o n e 's respon s i b i l i ty to

prepare our students f or lives of consequence

co m m i r 111e111

contribute to the '' orld beyond the campus."

and engagement.

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Colby tops list for Peace Corps volunteers per capita

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ach spring the Peace Corps releases a ist ranki n g col leges . and urnvers1t1es by the number of their alumm serving as Peace Corps volunteers. I t's a list publicized "to recognize the schools and the contributions they're making to public service," according to J ames Arena-De Rosa, manager of the Peace Corps' ew England regional office.

Colby, a rich lode of volunteers for many years, has climbed steadily in recent rankings and is now second in the nation on the list of colleges with w1dergraduate enrollments under 5,000. vVith 22 graduates active in the Peace Corps this year, Colby is tied w i th M i d dlebury and has just one fewer than Tufts.

That's a substantial contribution to the Peace Corps' mission "to promote world peace and friendship," particularly from a school w ith substantially fewer students or graduates than either of the other list-leading institutions.

The list has been tal lied for about a decade, and a cumulative list of active and former vol un tee rs released several years ago put Colby in the a l l -ti me top 2 0.

Jean O ' B rien Perkins '34 with her n i nth grade class i n B u lga ria, 1999 .

Those with a longer view will tell you the ranking is merely Jennifer Pope '96 was an international studies and French double a modern manifestation of an ethos that goes way back at Colby.

Jean O' Brien Perkins '46, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in her major at Colby who spent a term in Caen, France, and then studied mid-70s, said that "at Colby there was always a sense we should give Latin American economics and development issues with Professor Patrice Franko (economics). Eager to im merse herself in a developing back to the community and to a larger community."

"That was the general attitude of everyone in the school," she said, country, she found the Peace Corps offered the best package of referring to the Colby of more than 50 years ago. "My father went to safety, compensation and opportu nities to learn. The Corps sent Colby and it had been his attitude, too," she said. In the less-secular her to Mali (almost l i teral ly to Ti mbuktu), where she hel ped women world of her father's generation the parallel experience was missionary get started in small enterprises that al lowed them to start a nursery school. "VVhat I took away from it was a different perspective on work, which is a strong thread in the fabric of Colby's history. life," she said. She says she ga ined "a great Col by's emphasis on i n ternational study appreciation of what we have in the .S., contributes to i ts over-representation in the 'Nij i kai to fo l l ow' particularly a s a female."

Peace Corps' ranks as well. Colby ranks near I f yo u ' re a C o l by a l u m in To kyo , you For Perk i n s , who h a d raised a fa m i l y, the top of another annual list of the numbers proba b l y know that a n ij i ka i is an " after retired from teaching and lost her h usband, and percentages of students who opt to study party" that follows an event. N ESCAC a l u m n i the Peace Corps was an opportun i ty to see abroad. Arena-De Rosa sees how the College's scheduled one i n February a s p a r t of the another country and culture, not as an "ugly global i n te rests fu n nel a l u m n i toward the ongoing a l u m n i social whirl i n the c ity.

American passing through" but as a parmer.

Peace Corps. "Any student that goes abroad Colby a l u m n i have been getting together "You can do just so many of the Elderhostel for part of their education, it just sparks that for seve ra l ye a r s , t h a n k s to Ari D r u ke r t h i n gs before you say, ' I w a n t someth i ng interest in international ism," he said.

9 3 w h o w o r k s a t t h e Tokyo b r a n c h of more,"' she said.

For Colleen Spindler-Ranta '99, travel abroad Deutsche Bank AG. Druker, Kurt Neihbur ' 94 , Nozomi K i s h i moto ' 96 and others formed And she got someth i n g more . She taught was a big attraction for volw1teering. She spent the nucleus of the Tokyo Colby c l u b , which English in Sevl ievo, B u l garia, and she sti l l her jwuor year in Sweden and knew she wanted orga n i ze s d i nners i n centra l Tokyo every corresp o n d s w i th B u l ga r i a n fri e n d s a n d to u路avel more and to learn about other cultures few month s . e n j oys r e u n i o n s w i t h o t h e r Peace Corps after graduation. The Peace Corps had the Most recently, it's been N ESCAC events, vol u n teers s h e met t h e re . The t h i n g she best combination of travel and compensation, i ncl u d i ng the first N E S CAC d i n ner, held i n i s most proud of is a l i brary that she estab颅 so right after earning a degTee in geology she December. O n tap for Apri l : a N ESCAC bowling l ished and contin ues to support in Sevl i evo. signed on to go to Bulgaria to do environmental tournament at the Tokyo American C l u b .

-Stephen Collins ' 7-1 education in the town of Dobritch. '

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Collected Works

n e of t h e cl e a rest m e a s u res of t h e p h e n o m e n a l

gro\\'th of t h e Colby Col l ege M useum of Art under

t h e g u i d a n c e o f H ugh ] . Gourley

I I I is the fact that

e\'eryth i n g beyond the book-l i ned w a l l of Gourley's small o ffice was created on !L i s watch. \ \'hen Gourley came to .\ I ayflower H i l l i n 1 966 to become its di rector, the Colby m useum consisted of j ust two rooms i n the B i xler Art and .\ I usic Center. Since then the museum has grown by leaps and bounds, adding the J ette ,Galleries i n 1 97 3 , the Davis G a l l ery i n 1 99 1 , the Paul ] . Schupf \\r111g for the Art of Alex Katz i n 1 996 and the Lunder \"ling to house the permanent collection i n 1 999.

The collection has nearly doubled in size to more than

.+,000 objects since 1 966. The growing museum became a magnet for gi fts of important art such as the John Marin a n d Alex Katz collections, and i n 1 982 the establishment o f the J e re .\ bbott Acq u i s i t i o n Fu n d ga\'e Gourley a purchasing power that is the em�' of his peers. Focusing on the museum's strengths in American and contemporary a rt, C o urie �· bought daringly and wel l . The Sol Le\Yitt " a l l d n111 ing in the museum lobby and the Richard Serra

m i n i malist scul pture in the museum's courtyard speak to an aesthetic sophistication rare among college museums.

The Colb�· museum has the largest exhi bition space of an� a rt m useum i n ,\ l a i ne, and it faci lities, collections and C \ h i hitiom hm·e made i t one of the finest small college an m u '> c u m s in the c o u n t ry. :\'o,, , a fter 36 �·e a rs of

tb orion

to Colby and the Colby Coll ege ,\ l useum of

\ rt, I l ugh Courie� , - o, has ann ounced his retirement, cffcCU \ c J u ne 3 0. " I got to .1 .,mgc '' here

I felt I had done '' h a t l could

d o , " C . ourlc� .,,m l . " T h c fa ci l i ties arc all in place and tha t's ' c�

.,,n1�� i ng, a n d t h e col l ection

i'> headed in a d i rection

I fcc l good about, '' i t h an c m p h a ' i ' on contemporary art.

I t \ a l l togcther nm\ and can go o n . "

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Col? y's retiri� g museum director praised for his legacy

Both the museum a n d the collection have really grown through the loyalty and generosity of a fa i rly small number of people, but people who feel very su-ongly about the museum . " A s word of his i m p e n d i n g retirement spreads, praise for Gourley's extraordinary record of achievement is everywhere .

"The exce l le nce of the m useu m , '' said President Wi l l i a m D. " B ro" Adams, " i s due primari l y to H ugh a n d h i s exo·aordinary tenure. V i rtua l l y eve1yth ing i t has become i t has

WM HB'S New Wave When Colby r a d i o started up in 1949, it broadcast only three h o u rs a week from the tower of Miller Libra ry. A lot has c h a nged i n 5 3 years. I n fact, a lot h a s c h a nged i n t h e last two.

become because of him. H e 's done a n exceptional job driving the acquisitions program , he's

For a w h i l e in t h e ' 6 0s t h e s i g n a l was

done an excepti onal job rallying to its cause important and helpful people, and he's built

d e l ivered o n l y on campus t h rough e l ectrical

one of the best college museums anywhere . " " H ugh i s sort of l i k e a P i e d Piper,'' s a i d Gabriella De Ferra ri, a member of t h e museum's board of governors, one of i ts key supporters and former curator of the B usch Reisinger M useum at H a rvard. " P eople love to work with H ugh, because he's such a gentle, educated m a n . And artists adore h i m , because he respects tl1em."

Alex Katz, America's foremost figurative artist and tl1e artist most closely associated with tl1e Colby museum, said, " Hugh has a ve1y n i ce relationship witl1 tl1e artists l i vi ng there. He's j ust a ve1y n ice person and tl1at's unusua l . He's very n ice to a l l peopl e . " A summer resident of Maine, Katz sees tl1e Colby museum as an outstanding cultural asset not only for the College but for tl1e state as wel l . "He did a great job for the state,'' Katz s a i d . "The museum i s tl1e pre m i e r place in the state. He took it from noth i n g a n d look w h a t he d i d . " Artist a n d museum board member Daphne Cummings, whose fatl1er, Wt I lard Cummings, was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of tl1e museum, has know11 Gourley

o u t l ets. N ow W M H B h a s a n e w i m a ge a n d global reach t o g o with it, broadcasting l ive o n the Internet a s well as t h e a i rwaves, e m pl oy i ng a staff of a bo u t 1 0 0 ( m os t l y v o l u n t e e r s ) , sponsoring o n - a n d off-a i r events a n d garnering some of the strongest listener support a mong s m a l l col l ege radio stations. How d i d W M H B reach t h e top o f t h e cha rts?

"Well, there's no such t h i ng as bad press; said General Ma nager Lee L' H e u reux '03, from the station's d i gs in the basement of Roberts.

"When the station ran into trouble with the FCC i n 1999 [an i n advertent l a pse i n the station's l icens i ng ] , we received a lot of exposure in both the Echo and Watervil le's Morning Sentinel. The

ever si nce he came to Colby. "The museum has become all tl1at i t i s through H u gh 's caring

exposure took us from a few listeners to many

and com m i 011ent to q u a l i ty, to friends, and to tl1e love of art,'' Cummi ngs said.

more, from Colby a n d Watervil le."

Paula Lunder, a m1stee of the Col l ege who, ,.vitl1 her husband, Peter ' 5 6, made the

U lt i m a te l y, t h e exposure a n d co m m u n ity

challenge grant tl1 a t created tl1e Lunder Wing, found herself al most at a loss for words

response hel ped in W M H B 's redeve l o p m e n t .

when it came to characterizing Gourl ey's contribution. "I j ust can't express what he has

I n novative progra m m i n g such as the L i v e M u s i c

created," Lunder said. " I t i s amazi ng. \Ne ' re in a l i ttle corner of tl1e world here i n Mai ne,

Week held l a s t fall boosted listener n u m bers.

but H ugh's infl uence i s fel t in a much broader art worl d . " A n d Gourley h a s i n fl uenced generations of Colby students. \N. Mark Brady

'78, a museum board member and a noted dealer in Old M aster dravvings,

credits Gourley vvith giving him his i no·oduction to the world of fine art. As a student, Brady curated his fi rst drawing show under Gourl ey's careful eye. "The tl1ing about Hugh," Brady said, "is tl1at i n his exu-emely calm and cool way, he exerts a powerful i nfluence on people who o-uly love art. H e 's one of the last of tl1e civi l i zed d i rectors . " A n d his conu-i bution w i l l be appreciated b y a r t lovers f o r generations t o come, said former President Wi l l i am R . Cotter: "Thousands and tl10usands of people have H ugh to tl1ank for the facility, the qual ity of the collection, the qual ity of the exhibitions and tl1e way he mounted them. " Gourley w i l l b e thanked for h i s years o f service t o Colby at a ga l a lu.ncheon i n J uly, after which he seems i ntent on slipping away as-characteristical l y-inconspicuously as possible.

Gourley said he tentatively plans to return to Provi dence, R . I . , where he was born i n 1 93 1 , where he graduated from Brown Un iversity i n 1 95 3 and where he served as a curator at the Rhode Island School of Design museum for seven years before coming to Col by.

For many who have wirnessed i ts spectacular ascenda ncy, it is impossible to imagine

Each night W M H B featured a different ge n re of music performed live by groups h a i l i n g from as far as New York and Pennsylvania and as close as Mayflower H i l l .

Other events a n d features expa n d e d t h e a u d i e nce further. T h e station's a n n u a l holiday food d rive prov i d es t h e l a rgest d o n a t i o n of food to the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter, a n d live broadcasts o f varsity sports e v e n t s a n d i nt e r v i ews w i t h P r e s i d e n t B ro A d a m s h ave drawn a i rwaves listeners i n central Maine a n d I nternet listeners worldwide.

Despite the cha nges, some t h i ngs re m a i n constant. Among the most popular offerings are the student-run radio shows. This fall, 115 would-be DJs applied for 75 slots; the result was radio shows with names as varied as "Spinergy;' "Sounds All 'Round the World" and "Reagan Rock Rewind�

tl1e Colby College Museum of Art without H ugh Gourley at i ts helm, or, to be more

L' H e u reux, who comes from Water v i l l e a n d

exact, at i ts fron t door, tl1e casually elegant gentleman i n tl1e tasteful sweaters welcoming

h a d been a W M H B D J before h e enrolled at

visitors to tl1e museum he created.

Col by, encourages this diversity. " I f you've got a

"He i s not replaceable,'' said Alex Katz simply.

good idea, we'll make sure to get it on the a i r,"

"That museum," said Gabriella De Ferrari, "is H ugh . " -Ed<mr ;JI/en Beem

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wit & wisdom "It's basica l l y a h u ge resta urant; this was a

" I t 's not the c i v i l p o p u l ation [that's a

" I t h i n k the f u n d a m e n t a l tensions a re sti l l

c h a n c e to put out resta u ra nt-q u a l ity fare."

pro b l e m ] . The problem is that the fish

th ere. T h e gridlock is sti l l th ere. W h i l e we

J ody Pelotte, dining sen•ices production

spoils from the head and we a lways treat

have these sort-of i s l a n d s of consensus

the ta i l . It's time to cut the head . . . . If

right now, I t h i n k we' l l find, in the l o n g term,

M i l osovic is there [ o n trial for wa r crimes

th ey're relatively small and they won't kee p

in The Hague] that does not mean

us fro m goi n g back to what is n o r m a l h e re.

111m1(fge1; introducing a

m:u,•

lineup ofspecialties,

better china and fresher po1tions, as Dmw dining hall geared up fo1· second semester and the imroduction of "Ulti11wte Dining. "

" O n e of the reasons why En ron Corporation itself d id n 't give mo ney d i rectly to mem bers

the w h o l e problem is solved:'

And normal is a k i n d of gover n m e n t that

Oak Human Rights Fellow Sevdie Ahmeti, m1

most Americans a re pretty u n h a ppy with:'

Albanian Kosovm; on person-to-person relations with Serbs as opposed to 1·elatiom with the

of Congress was that it's i l lega l for the

Serbian government. (Her wo1·k is being used as

corporations to give corporate moneys to

evidence in i'v lilosovic's trial.)

Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government G . Cal Mackenzie, in a December 7 A J I

trust in govennnellf.

c a n d i d ates. But it's not i l l egal for them to give mo ney to the political parties, so En ron

Th ings Considered

st01)' 011 Americans' post-September 1 1

" It's a l a rger time for a l l of you to l ive t h a n

gave m i l l ions of dol l a rs to the political

it even w a s a decade o r two decades ago

" M ore t h a n j u st a fo r m i d a b l e work of

parties t h rough the soft money provisions

for the men and women of that ge nerat i o n .

historical synthesis, American Colonies [ by

that they rely on to get that access:'

There's somet h i n g a bout these mom ents

Government Professor Anthony Corrado, on XPR 's

Tal k of the �ation on Jrmumy 30,

discussing campaign finance refo1w proposals being considered by Congress.

A l a n Taylor

'77]

provokes us to contem plate

that gives a n opportun ity, a c h a l l enge for

the ways in w h i c h residents of North

greatness, that sometimes doesn't ha ppen

A m erica have dealt with d iversity."

in other eras:'

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin '64, talking

New York Times Book Review, Dece111be1· 2.

Reviewer Andrew R . L . Cayton in the

to Colby stude77ts about Life after September 1 1 , afre1· quoting Abmhm11 Lincolu on the

relative lack of opportunities for his genemtion to change the world.

The Tooth , the Whole Tooth and Nothing But. The p l ace: .\ la)'flO\\'er H i l l . The ,\ Io n t h : l'\o\·ember. The fictional cri me: a lcidnappi ng.

The piece of e\·idence that caught the attention of real-life police? A ransom note containing a child's tooth.

It all started \\'hen Associate Professor J ulie \ I i I la rd (chemistry) decided she needed some aurhentici�· in the preparation for a lab on the use of D A' \ e\·idence in a crime investigation.

The crime (concocted in i\ lillard's imagi nation) \1 as the kidnapping of a child in \\'atervi lle. Real D "'-' \ \I ould be extracted from che\\'ed gum, a cigarette butt and the child's tooth using Colby's srate-of-the-art D"\.\ equencer.

The lab \\ as one of _\ l i l lard's trademark efforts to s h o 11 rea l - l i fe uses for science ( S ee "J low \ \ e 'leach," page :? 9) . To set thi ngs in motion s h e m a i led the r;1 11so111 note on campus in C.S. mai l . It \\'as addressed to Jean-Paul C . n:enbn,1 r, a pseudon� m for Professor Paul Greenwood (biology).

The return ,1ddress. nea t ! � primed, \\ as " K idd A'appah, ,\ l ayflower 1 l i l l . " The C :hemistr� Depanm enr \\ a s i n f orm ed; the m a i l room < l l C :o l l l\ 11 as not. "] d i d n 't tel l J ),111 [ C)uirion. Fusris Ser. ice Cenrer supe1TisorJ," \Ii Ila rd swl. " I d1dn 'r rel I Ben [Therrien, mail recei\ ing superYisor] ." \ m l \1 hen rhe em elope came through, bells \I Cnt off (figurari\ el) , not lirer.t l l � ). \ \ irh the nanon 1n rhe gri p of Lhe anrhrax scare, the en\ elope 11 ,is des1g1u1ed a., ... usp1cious and C :olb) securit\ ll'as called.

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S u re en o u g h , i t w a s . B u t before t h a t h a d been established, t h e i nvestigation was rol ling. "I took i t very seriously," said \t\Tatervi l l e Detective David Caron. " I actually put out a na tiona I teletype."

The teletype caught the attention of the U.S. Marshal's Service, wh ich even tual ly was notified about the apparent misunderstanding. N i i ll ard, usually the lecturer, was on the receivi n g e n d o f a lecture from \Naterville police. She w a s i n f ormed that mailing teeth fal l s into the category of mailing body parts, which, not surpris­ ingly, i s illega l . \Vaterville Deputy Pol ice Chief J oseph Massey tol d ,\ I i i lard her academic thoroughness had serious implications. " I Ie said, 'T hope this is going to be a learning experience,"' M i l lard said. " I said, 'Oh, yes sir. "' But the police chief had one more gnawing q uestion: " [- l e said, 'Are ther real teeth ? ' f said, ' Yes. I have a six-year-old daughter. We have teeth all O\'er the place."'

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Editor's note: Brown is associate

Speaking of fun, seen any good birds lately?

dii·ector of corporate and fou11-

Well, on the way to work yesterday ( Feb. 5) I saw a bluebird. We had th ree in our Christmas bird count, wh ich was surprising. I think it's because it's been so warm. And yesterday on the way to work, one Aew up from the side of the road to the wire.

datio11 i-elations and a research scientist in biology. Prior to the Wi11te1· Olympics i11 Fehrttfl1)', she cmrierl the Olympic torch iii New Hampshire.

How exactly did you come to be a torch bearer?

We were sitting watching TV [ l ast Apri l ] and there was an ad on the television and I turned to Herb ! Wi lson, Brown's h usband and professor of biology] and I said, 'I don't often say this but I think that's someth ing that would be fun to do.' And it said i n the com­ mercial, go to this Web site, a Chevy Web site. H erb toddled off quietly. The next day he said, 'Wel l, I nomi nated you.'

H o w many nominations were there?

Two hundred and ten thousand. Eleven thousand five hundred were selected.

How did you hear?

An Ai rborne package from Nebraska. I come home and here's th is package waiting on my doorstep. We were ecstatic but we couldn't talk about it. They wanted secrecy.

Were there good souvenirs?

You could get hats, vests, pins, T-shirts. I didn't get that much of the paraphernalia. You could buy the torch, which I did do. I got suckered into it, and I 'm glad I did.

What d i d you do with it?

Actua lly I bought a special holder for it so it can be displayed . I brought it in to work yesterday.

What was most im pressive about the whole thing?

I t's only two-tenths of a mile but for that two-tenths you're the only person carrying it. You're it for tl1e world. I just felt i t was an honor and it was fun , particularly now (with the Olympics in progress) .

Your job at Colby i s behind the scenes. What i s it that you do?

Our office is charged with ra ising funds for Colby from corporations and foundations. We do that for government grants, too. Financial aid grants, grants for facil ities improvement, curriculum develop­ ment grants. Many sorts of things that affect student life.

What do you like about that?

I 'm doing this because I really enjoy the process of writing grant proposals. It's a specialty field in many ways, both within philan­ thropy and in general. Because there is the idea of being able to match up the mission of the College and the mission of tl1e founda­ tions. That itself i s a ski ll, but not only to match up needs at the Col lege with the projects that are being funded, but then to write a compelling proposal following tl1eir guidelines. To wrn somethmg after going through that is real ly, really, fun.

What is your science background?

I started out as a biology major and got my master's and Ph . D . in marine biology.

What was your specialty?

Com munity and population dyn amics of invertebrates that live in the bottom of the ocean.

You mean the bottom of the deepest oceans?

Someti mes. I 've done some deep-sea sampling. I specialize in the taxonomy of a group of invertebrates, too.

Where was this?

Un iversity of Delaware. After I left Delaware I went to a com pany ca lled Battelle Research Laboratories. They have ocean labs on both coasts. We had a lot of projects relating to offshore exploration for offshore oil and gas. We did the envi ronmental component of it.

How big are these invertebrates?

The ones I work on range from anywhere from two or three m i l ­ l i meters u p to centimeters.

Do they look like bugs?

Most of them look like little earthworms. There are a lot of crusta­ ceans related to sand Reas. Thi ngs that crawl arow1d the bottom .

Are you a different sort of person to go to the beach with, then?

Yes, I don't tend to sit around and worry about what shade my tan is.

I 'm looking at what's crawling in the sediment.

Do you keep a hand in your field still?

I still get requests. Since I came here I had two or three publ ications on tl1e bait-worm fishery. I did some work on the effect of the bait­ worm digging on the other things that live in the sediments. Our [ H erb and my) research project now is the effect of automobiles on wildlife. \Ne have transects that we walk. We measure them out, and by habitat. We walk those and report the things we find dead in the road. I t's amazing.

What do you find?

It varies, but after a rainstorm you'll find up to forty frogs in a mile-long sector.

Why does that happen?

Because they come out in the wet and they hop out in the wet. But we probably should ask Cathy Bevier [biology) . That's her specialty.

I can tell you the lowering of the population numbers of frogs may be not from pollution but from tl1ings l ike road kills. I t's a very applied sort of question. I tend to ask those kinds of things.

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h e re is no "typical girl," says Lyn N l i ke l B rown , associate professor of education

a n d human deYelopment a n d women's studies, and co-founder of the nonprofit organization H a rdy G i r l s H e a l th y Y\Tomen. J ust a s p l a nts h a ,·e d i ffe r e n t n e e d s d e p e n d i n g o n w h e re the)' gro,,-, she says, girls ha,·e d i fferent needs depen d i n g on whether t h ey l i\'e i n rural or urban com m u n i ties, are "·e l l off or homeless,

CRE ATING HARDl/\fSS ZONES

are w h i te or of color.

T h ro u gh H ard\' G i r l s H ea l th y Y\'o m e n , B ro\\' n , a l o n g w i th co-foun ders Karen Heck , _ -+ and L)· n n C o l e , i s crea t i n g " h a r d i n ess

zones" i n central :\ l a i n e-places where girls can expl ore , h<l\'e fun a n d feel s a fe try i n g new t h i n gs , " h e t h e r i t 's l e a rn i n g

fri c a n dance

m o,·e m e n ts o r using a power d ri l l

to

make Lyn M i kel Brown (education and human development) and Karen Heck '74 formed the non profit

a b i rd house.

Because girl quietly tend to internalize their

H a rdy Girls Healthy Women i n 2000 with Lynn Cole. The orga nization focuses on creating places

troubles, they need places \\'here they can e;qxess

where girls can express the i r fee l i ngs and be su pported. At right, El izabeth Sagaser ( Engl i s h ) leads

the full range of d1eir feelings, criticize die status

a poetry writing workshop.

quo and be supported, says Brmrn. " \ ou don't see gi rls goi n g i nt o h igh schools 11·i th machine guns," I led .,aid. " B ut they a re cutti ng themsekes, sta n·i n g d1emseh·es." \ Li n ) gro up'> tackle spec i fi c c u l tu ra l i ssues a n d pressures t h a t

to devote more than one day a year to girls," said H eck. H a rdy G i rl s H ea l my \Vomen was f o r m e d . " I t w a s a perfect c o m i n g togetl1er," s a i d B rown of t h e i r expertise and shared com m i tment.

a d olc-,cent girb gra pple 11 ith s u c h a s depression, bod)' image and

The orga n i z a t i o n 's h o l i s t i c a p p ro a c h means a d d ress i n g social

-,e\u<i l 1 i olence. l l o11 e, er, T l ard) G i r l s l'- I ea l th r \ \ 'omen b e l i e 1·es

issues specific to cenu-al Maine, l i ke isolation, poverty (scholarships

1 n looking

are ava i l able for those who e;111't afford the conference's five-dol lar

<It

the 11 h o l e girl and her re l a t i o n s h i ps , the ge n d e r,

cL1-,-, .md rnce '>) -,rem-, -,he encounters and the society in ll'hich she

fee) and l ack of opportu n i ty to connect with diversity or national

come-, of age.

and global issues.

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2 000, Bro11 n , l T eck and Cole

In addition to the G i rl s U n l i m i te d ! conference the nonprofit now 1 i rl s S a tu rdays for small gro u ps of g i rl s to explore

hcid ec1ch 11 orked e\ten-. ii el) on i'>'>Ue'> of girl'>' ph) sical and soci al

holds T l ardy

de1 e l o p m e n t in re>ec1 r c h , non profit .1 d m i n i '>tra t i o n , a c t i 1 ism or

cultu ra l and a rt topics. I n November five Skowhegan m i d d l e school girl , members of their school's civil rights tea m , went on a retreat 11·ith girls from the Penobscot ation. Near the encl of the clay, the

-.upport .,en ice-,. ln I <)l)l) the rn o 11 J'> a'>ked b) <l local fund to create the fir-.r ;1 n n u.1I C . 1 r l -, l n l 1 11 1 1 te d ' conference for fi�h through eighth srr.1de g1rk \l o re th;rn I ()() girl-, parnc1 p.ned, and b)

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Sko11 hegan girls in i ti ated a d i scussion on their I n dian m a scot w i th

how we teach Sonia Cacy could have used Associate Professor of Chemistry J u l i e

An employee of the forensic la boratory where the a na lysis was done

M i l l a rd a n d h e r J a n P l a n students i n C h e m i stry for Life, a course for

blew the w h istle on the s l i pshod procedures there , including false results

non-science majors.

del ivered at the request of prosecutors. I n the Cacy case, the res u lts

Cacy was convicted of m u rder i n the arson death of her uncle i n Texas in

were analyzed by forensic experts brought i n years after the Texas woman

1 9 9 1 . The elderly man was found dead in the b u rned r u i n s of his home and

went to prison. The results showed no evidence of ga s o l i n e at a l l , and

a fore n s i c lab reported detecting gasoline residue on his clothing. Cacy,

Cacy was pardoned i n 1998.

the o n ly other person in the house when the blaze broke out, m a i ntained her i n nocence, but the j u ry went with the expert. Cacy was sentenced to 9 9 years in prison.

A clue for future students: trust your own j udgment and q u estion the "experts."

M i l la rd says her students have the scientific background to do j u st

The case was reenacted in M i l lard's Jan Plan this year. Students, trained

that-in real cases where chem istry is a matter of l ife or death . '' I ' m

in the use of a gas chromatograph and interpretation of its analysis, acted as

not rea l l y wate r i ng down the c h e m i stry," s h e s a i d . " I ' m j u st putti ng

prosecution and defense-and as jurors. They l i stened as the "expert," played

it i n context."

by Chemistry Professor D. Whitney King, presented h i s findings.

The verdict on Mayflower H i l l ? Not gui lty.

In M i l lard's class, students d i d n 't bel ieve that the forensic evidence was

And the lessons a ren't lost on her students. " It's interest i ng," said Leigh C u m m ings ' 0 5 , a government major who served as j u ry foreman a nd said he's consi dering purs u i ng a career in

enough to prove Cacy's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That's what should

c r i m i n a l law. " It's not j u st a bunch of ra ndom react i o n s . You can see

have been done i n the Texas court, students learned later.

the relevance to daily l ife."

the Penobscot participants and left the retreat adamant for change. " Hardiness zones give girls space where they can raise issues that arc controversial," said Brown.

Hardy Girls H ealthy \Vomen also sponsors a fifth- and sixth-grade girls' basketba l l team through \Va terv i l l e Parks a n d Recreation, educates the commtmity through a free film and discussion series at \Vaterville's Rai l road Square Ci nema and holds a women's luncheon lecture series.

In four years the Girls Unlim ited' confer­ ence has grown to a capacity crowd of 1 5 0 . This spring's conference, "Creating the \.Vorld You \Nant," included a "J ust for Moms" program, along with 1 2 workshops for girls. In addition to sessions on science and drummi ng, a "\Vrit­ ing Poems, \Vriting Selves" workshop was led

by E l i za beth Sagaser ( En g l i s h ) , a n d C l a i re P ro n t n i c k i ( l i b r a ry ) h e l ped g i r l s e x a m i n e popu l a r s o n g l yrics a n d rewri te n eg a t i v e portraya ls o f girls o r women. "\Ve want to start discussions about what's rea l , " said H eck. "They're not n uts i f they don't look like models, or i f they don't want to look l i ke models."

In addition to expanding programming, the nonprofi t's in itial focus is on building a strong f o u n d a t i o n , draw i ng d i rectly from f l ec k 's and Cole's previous nonprofit administrative experiences. \Vi th the h e l p of a c h a l l e n ge grant last fal l , Hardy Girls Healthy \Vomen is working towards a community resource center and eventually hopes to hire a sta ff person and build an endowment.

"There's a lot of support for kids in \VatenTi lle, especially with the AJ fond Youth Center and Colby participation," said Bro>111, who grew up in blue col lar ;\ 1aine. "Creating relational hardiness zones in our communities and state is about preparing a garden for all variety of girls so they can bloom ." -rl./icin Xe711iccolo ,\lacleny '97 For more i11formntio11 nbollf 1-lnrr�)' Girls Healthy T V in11en, visit "L1'7r<L'. ha rr�i·girlsbenlthywo711e11. 01g

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Student activists press for change - nm"r

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h e n .\ 1 e g h a n F o l e y

'02 w a s a c h i l d ,

m e t the group and found

s h e w a s tol d t h a t s h e co u l d save t h e

an a b u n d a nce o f e n e rgy.

world-when she grew up. B u t her attitude

" \;1,'h a t T gave was a l i tt l e

was, u:hy wait? Kyle Kreiss

'0-t agrees. " Youth

a re the leaders of today," he said.

\ \ 110 do these students th i nk they are) For

bit of orga n i zati on," Krup­ ski said. Her request: mat stu d e n ts devote 10 hours

one t h i n g they are two of about two dozen

a week to research and to

members of a new student group a t Colby

check in w i th her weekly.

C h i ld re n d raw water a t a n i l legal school for Afghan refugees outside Teh ra n , I ra n , i n J a n ua ry. The ta n k was the only water source for 800 students who l ived i n s l u ms i n the southern part of the city. Sohra b

that is leading a global i n i tiative to raise young

Though s t i l l a work

people's awareness about war-affected k i d s .

i n p ro g r e s s , t h e Yo u t h

T h e Col by-based project, Youth

Ambassadors for Peace Project Web site (bui l t

mbassadors

Nos h i rva n i '04 visited the school d u ring J a n P la n .

and tha t's goi n g to make a d i fference."'

n i ted

a t Col by) i s a l ready a consi derable resource.

B u t w i t h g r i tty i ss u e s l i k e l a n d m i n e s

�ations Free the C h i ldren i n i ti ative. l t began

\Vi t h such i n fo r m a t i o n a s an e x p l a n a t i o n

and rape as a weapon of war, h o w do Colby

here when Jonathan \ \'hire, visiting i nstructor

of tl1e con A i c t i n Uganda by E r i n Bodner

s t u d e n ts c o n v e y h a rsh rea l i t i e s i n a k i d ­

of oci ology, was named d i rector of Youth

' 0 3 a n d other students' resea rch , t h e s i te

friendly man ner? "Not that hard," said Kristen

Am bas ador f o r Peace by Free the Children,

( www. freethech i l d ren.org/peace/) serves u p

Heim

\1 hich is run by ch i l dren of the worl d .

"the m o s t i ncl usive pieces o u t tl1ere on t h e

rea l l y i nt o k i d s . B u t it is d i ffi c u l t to know

for Peace, i s part of the decade-long

C h a rged w i t h l a u n c h i n g Free t h e C h i l ­ d re n \ n e w campaign, \ \rh i te 's next move was

' 0 3 , a n expert on both top i cs . " I ' m

w h e re to d ra w t h e l i n e: O n o n e hand, i t's

topic," White s a i d .

M a terials i n c l u d e a packet by J ul i e Brown

okay i f a kid cries, but total d i s i l l usionment i s

to recru i t h e l p . Col b�· student activists were

'03 exp l a i n i n g how to run a campaign, write

not tl1e goa l . \i\Te w a n t kids to k n o w t l 1 a t t h e

c a g e r to s i g n o n a fter t h e y h e a r d a b o u t

a press release and speak in fron t of l a rge

worl d still i s a good place."

Free t h e C h i l d re n 's

1 00,000 m e m bers ( a l l 3 0 countries), who

'0-t serve

The younger students have l i stened, and

as posters that students can download, pri n t

M a i n e has become a stronghold for Free tl1e

had a l rcad� tackled issues l i ke child l a bor,

and post t o publicize their school's Free t h e

C h i l dren, Kreiss said.

p<)I c rt� a n d h u nger a n d h a d s e n t

Children events.

under

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1 5 ,000

k i d s to school i n underde\·e loped countries a ro u n d the \1 or l d .

groups. G raph ics by Adam Saltsman

Exci tement among the Youth Ambassadors

A n o t h e r com p o n e n t of the p r o j e c t a t

for Peace is running h i gh a t Col by. But as the

Col by-a n d the real h i ghl ight, say the stu­

project gathers momentum, i t a pproaches a

·1 he C :o l h� group\ tas k : to do be hi nd-the­

d e n ts-h as been the opport u n i ty to go to

defi n i n g crossroads. I n May, Wh i te 's contract

scencs \1 ork for Free t h e C h i l d r e n 's next I H g proj ect, t i t l e d " \ \ ';1 r Is �ot a C a m e . "

,\ 1 a i n e schools to ta l k to younger students

as a two-year replacement in sociology w i l l

about these issues. " I t feels like a c u l m i n ation

e n d , and he w i l l take t h e U . N . charter for the

T h e cam1x1ign <lsb c h i l d ren

of [ourJ work," Saltsman said. " I t feels n ice

project with h i m . But the ma jority of Colby

\1 hen [ i tJ a l l pays off."

students i nvolved in the process say they're

ro

ru rn i n war

to� s. !'or each to� tu rned i n , spomors donate mone� ( ( ) \1 ;1rd b u i l d i n g schoo l s in a po t­

l n fact, the demands of the project's youth

in i t for the long h a u l .

outreach e ffort became so great that Foley set

"There w i l l a l ways be a part o f i t here,"

List fa l l , e;1ch Col l i� student became an

aside research on the Democratic Republic of

Kreiss said. "There a re j ust too many people

0 countries affecn:d b� war

Congo in order to focus on scheduling talks.

i n volved, and too m a n y p e o p l e who care

or ont: of fi\ t: i ssues th;ll p L 1 gue each of those

But she says i t was \\Orth the sacrifice: "I love

a bo u t i t to l e t i t go e n t i re l y. " I l e says the Colby group has a base a n d contacts. "And

conll 1 u 1one. npen on one of I

c o u n t n t: s . 'I he� \1 e re a s s i sted h� � h e l l e �

to \1·atch [ k ids' ] eyes get a l l big . . . get so

h ru p s k 1 . d 1 rt:ctor o f p ro g r ;1 m s f o r Fret:

e\cited . . . [ a n d to hear them say, J ' A l l 1 need

[we] kind of have that responsibi l i ty, too,

t h e C h i l d re n (< 1 1 1 d \ \ 'h n e \ fi a n c c e ) , \1 h o

to do is go and tell a fri end \1 hat 1 j ust heard,

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Jan Plan Goes South Melissa Rosales '04 has strong con­ n ec t i o n s to G u a t e m a l a . H e r fa t h e r was born there , h e r relati ves l i ve i n Guatemala City. B u t Rosales, w h o grew up in Memphis and Chicago, had a new perspective on the country when she spentJan Plan there-as the cultnination of a Colby course titled G uatemala's Social Deficit.

Taught by Patrice Franko (interna­ tional studies, econom ics), the course examined the socioeconomic problems that face the counu-y and the region, then offered students the opportunity to see Drew Mc Kec h n i e '04 with Joaq u i n , left, and Mateo at Campo de Colby Costa R ica, a project run by Colby firsthand what they had been studying students i n Hered ia, Costa R ica, d u ring Jan Pla n on Mayflower H il l . Said Rosales, upon Asked whetl1er she felt the group did someming to help the people her return to Colby: "You looked at it through a different lens."

Four students went to Quetaltenango, informally known as Xela, the of Xela, she said she hoped so. "Mostly I just tl1ink I was blessed second largest city in Guatemala. A dozen others, with less international by tl1em,'' Rosales said. l!lil l!lil l!lil i!lll experience, did their Jan Plan in Heredia, Costa Rica. Both groups Jn an w1relatecl Jan Plan, six students, including two first-years, spent mornings studying Spanish in a language school, and then the Colby sn1clents did some teaching of their own. Kristin Saucier '04, traveled to Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic to work on a who worked during high school with medical teams in o-ips to Latin library-building project. The students are members of the Colby America with church groups, opted for the Guatemala project for Rotaract Club, an affi l iate of the Vlla tervi l le Rotary C l u b . They herself. Vlli th Rosales, Amanda Murphy '04 and Elizabeth Holmes '04, came back to Colby with an appreciation for tl1e Dominicans tl1ey'cl Saucier tutored mostly indigenous 8- to 1 2 -year-olcls in English and met and a new perspective on the way of l i fe tl1ey returned to in math. She came away realizing tl1e situation for Guatemalans is more the U.S. "I tl1ink it's definitely given me a new appreciation,'' said John desperate than she'd believed studying it in the classroom. "There are Brighenti '03 . "J ust here, the way we go and get meals-we take it so many deep-rooted problems,'' Saucier said.

The Costa Rican contingent established someth _ing called "Camp so for granted. Down tl1ere you take what you can get and you're Colby Costa Rica," inviting local children to join them for arts, crafts, satisfied with it because tl1at's all tl1ere is."

Emily Goss '03 said she became discouraged at one point while sports, kite-making and otl1er activities. \!\lord spread quickly once in Boca Chica, with its burn ing garbage, power outages and meager the plan was announced. "The next morning tl1ey had sixty kids show resources.

"The rest of the group said, 'That's not the important up,'' said Franko, who tal ked about tl1e experience in terms of the tl1 i ng,'' Goss said. "They said, ' Look a round. Get to know these "sense of engagement" students found.

Rosales said she learned firsthand of tl1e h uge gap between rich people. Yea h , tl1ey're not out there making money but every clay and poor in Latin America and the f ormidable obstacles the poor means so much to them.' " I t's so easy to get caught u p in what's not i m porta nt. They face in Latin American couno-ies. But she also spoke of the "beautiful culture and beautiful people" in tl1e Guatemalan Highlands and said showed us tl1at. I t's not what you have, i t's what you do with what you have." she left wishing she could have stayed longer. .

Internship Fu nd is the Jan Plan Ticket The Linda K. Cotter I nternsh i p F u n d ,

Some of t h i s year's recipients (along with

M a ry Karottki '04, ASODECAH Ecological Farm

their i nternships) were Jonathan Allen '03,

Center, Costa Rica; Mel issa M i n aya '03, USM

students each year with stipends so that they

SUNY M a ri n e Scien ces, Stonybrook, N .Y.; Andriy

Hea lth Outreach Program, Maine and Dom i n i­

can afford to perform u n paid or low-payi n g

Avra m e n ko '04, Barclays Capita l , New York;

can Republic; Peter Rashkov '04, I n stitute of

internships. Th is past J a n u a ry, 18 students

Sarah Sandow '03, N a t u re Conservancy, Baton

Math, B u l ga r i a ; Pa m e l a Sawyer ' 0 3 , M c le a n

endowed i n 1999, provides a n u m be r o f Colby

Mountain

received the awa rd, a l l o w i n g them to work at a

Rouge, La . ; Ryan Davis '02, The

Costa Rican farm, an Ohio h igh school a n d a n

Eagle newspaper, Whitesburg, Ky. ; TyA n n Gentry

Mass.; Denell Washington ' 0 2 , I n n ovative P i l ots

i nvestm ent b a n k , t o n a m e a few places.

'02, Meadowd a l e H igh School, Dayto n , Ohio;

Divisio n , EPA, Washington, D.C.

Hospital/Harvard M e d i c a l Schoo l , Bel mont,

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Arapaho

Dislodged

Anthropologist Jeffrey Anderson finds tribal culture squelched by modern life

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\·e r t h e p a s t 1 5 0 years t h e N o r t h e rn

human and other-th a n - h u m a n (super­

Arapaho, who have l ived on t h e vVi n d

natural beings, a n i mals) i n the Arapaho

Ri\'er ReseDTation i n west-central \ Vyoming

quest

s i n ce 1 8 7 8 , h a \·e experi enced u p h e a v a l i n

mote l i fe movement.

to

acquire knowledge and pro­

t h e i r c u l tu r a l order, \'a l u es a n d r u l e s . J e f­

P i ty, u n l i k e t h e E u ro - Am e r i c a n

frey Anderson (anthropology) l ived w i th the

understanding o f the term, is the origin

i\orthern Arapaho for five years, learned their

of knowledge a n d proper action. An

l anguage, "watched on" (a reservation term) at

a ttribute of l e a d e rs h i p , p i ty-givi n g

soc ial e\'ents and consulted with knowledge­

o r d o i n g so m e t h i n g for t h e p e rs o n

able people. H i s book shows how old forms

or group i n a p i t i a b l e state-is not an

ha\·e broken down in the last generation as

emotion b u t a n action and a re l a t i o n . I t

the people han· been i ncreasingly exposed to

activates k i n re l a ti o n s h i p s t h a t b i n d t h e

Euro-American "whi te ways."

recipient

to

h u m a n i ty, thereby advanci n g

For h u n dreds o f �·ears, the Arapaho fol­

knowledge and t h e course of existence. In

l owed the b u ffa l o that f o raged and sought

return, the cosmic, n a tural and soci a l pro­

shelter 01·er a 1·ast area of the i\orth American

cesses harmoniously fac i l i tate the i ndivi d ua l 's

p l a i n s and Rocky :\ f ou n t a i n s . Arapaho l i fe

l i fe journey.

The Four H i l l s of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement Jeffrey D. Anderson (anthropology) U n iversity of Nebraska Press (20 0 1 )

The problems t h a t pla·gue t h e young Arap­ aho are the same that p l ague you n g people

the cycle of the seasons and

To the Arapaho, the i n a b i l i ty to receive

to a cending and descending the mountains

knowledge i s "craziness," or putting onesel f

i n all i mpoverished commwuties. The wlute

of Colorado. These mo1·e m e n ts, Anderson

i nt o a crooked motion rather than "walking

worl d pronuses greater freedom, education,

11 rites, are central to the Arapaho orderi ng

the straight path . " "Modern l i fe," Anderson

upward social mobi l i ty and s e l f-re a l i zation

of space and time and to what he calls " l i fe

observes, "with i ts competition and factional­

but o ft e n d e l i ve r s r a c i s m a n d b o u rgeo i s

mm emen t"-the traj ectory or course of an

ism, i s too fast, too loud, and thus crazy, i n

conforrnism-conu·adictions that foster chaos

indi1 idual l i fe.

Arapaho terms . "

and confusion, Anderson writes. Education to

was attuned

to

L i fe mOI e m en t, correspo n d i n g with the

-Z... fovement in modern Ii fe occurs over roads,

four point'> of the compass and the four sea­

Anderson says in his study of the problems that

Anderson studies the empowered responses

'>Om hpring/ea.,r/child, '>ummcr/south/routh,

Euro-American society i m poses on reservation

of the Northern Arapahos to these problems

one man is colo11ization to another.

follh1 e'>r/adult, 11 in ter/north/cid er), i s repre­

l i fe . H o uses a re scattered, a n d people v i s i t

and considers how myth, language, art, ritual

'>ented tigurati1 cl� a'> f o u r flat-topped h i l l s

i n freq u e n t ! �" Competition f o r mon ey, j obs

and identity have endured and changed over

or butte'> '>epc1 r.ned b � 1·a l le�·'>. \n i n d i 1· idua l

and other reso u rces i n te n s i fi e s soc i a l a n d

time. Mem bers of the commw'lity, both past

c l 1 m l h cl h i l l , '>Lin e� ., L h c 11 orld f or a time

cultural stratification among Arapaho fam i l ies,

and present, talk about photos and records,

from Lhe top. then de.,cend'> the oLher side to a

creating conAict with the symbolic f o rms that

buildings, art, stories, l i teracy and education,

Lrad itionally united the group. Roughly one

the land and their experience of everyday l i fe.

1 a l l e� he f on: a'>cemling to the ne\t h i l l to p .

P ro pe r m m e m e n t t h ro u gh l i fe 's stages

pcr'>on in eight remains A uent in the native

depend., on '·d01 ng thi ngs i n a good/correct

language. \s la nguage is lost, communication

l i terature on

11 c1 � . " 11 h 1 ch depend., on t h e acqui'>ition of

bcrn ccn generations dimin ishes; as the young

socioc u l tu ral study, it offers " knowl edge" to

h.nOll ledge . rhrce kc� I <l f Ue'>-pi� , respeCl, q u i e m e ., .,-., h a pc re l H i o m 11 ith both t h e

l o'>e respect f o r c i d e rs, co n fl i ct obstructs

the general reader who is w i l l i n g to " l i s ten . "

political dcci'>ion maki ng.

-Robert Gillespie

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The Fotl7' !-fills of Life fi l l s gaps in the

orth American I n dians. As a

Maisel Exami nes Jews' Pol itical Role vVhile Jews n umber l ess than 3 percent of the American popula­ tion, their i nvolvement in U . S . p o l i ti c s i s d i s p ro porti o n a t e l y higher-Jews account for 6 per­ cent of the House, 1 0 percent of the S e nate and even higher for Federal j udges, says L. Sandy Maisel , the William R. Kenan J r.

Professor of Govern ment.

Despite this significant politi­ cal participation, comprehensive recognition was scant. When Bella Abzug, a member of Congress i n the '70s, died in 1 998, newspapers cited her as the fi rst] ewish woman elected to the House. Forgotten was Florence P rag K a h n , who served from 1 92 5 to 1 93 7 .

"To no one source c o u l d a scholar or j ournalist turn to find both analytical and factual i nfor­ m a t i o n coveri n g the range of American Jewish political experi ­ ence," wrote Maisel in the preface to Jews in A 111e1·ican Politics. I n Jews i n American Politics Maisel created that source. His co-editor is I ra Forman, research director of the Solomon Project, whose m ission i s to educate American Jews about the history of Jewish civic involvement.

With an i n troduction by Sen­ a tor J o s e p h L i e b e r m a n , t h e book i s divided i n to three sec­ tions. "Themes, Trends, and Amer­ ican Political I n sti­ tutions" fe atures 14 analytical essays that examine vari­ ous aspects of] ew­ ish participation i n American political l i fe and American

govern m e nt over the l a st 2 00 years. Wri tten hy p o l i tical sci­ e n t i s t s , h i sto r i a n s , p r a c t i t i o ­ n e rs a n d j o u rn a l i sts , cha pters i n c l u d e " I s r a e l a n d B ey o n d : A m e r i c a n J ews a n d U . S . For­ e i gn Pol icy" and "At the S u m ­ m i t : P re s i d e n ts , P r e s i d e n ti a l Appo i n tm e n ts, a n d J ew s . " A s a reference source, Jews in American Politics i ncludes more than 400 brief biographic sketches of J ews who have played promi­ nent roles in American pol itical l i fe as wel l as numerous rosters of J ewish l eadership and voting patterns. The sketches, written by 25 individuals including Theresa vVagner '0 1 , i n clude S u p reme Court J ustice Ruth Bader Gins­ burg, 1 9th-century labor l eader S a m u e l Gompers and Ambas­ sador Robert Gel bard '64.

Maisel says that before start­ ing the project he was unaware of many of the early J ewish figures i n American pol i ti cs. He a l so was surprised by the signi ficant j ump in pol itical participation i n recent decades.

"By 2000 , J ews had become as promjnent in the political realm as they have been in the other aspects of American l i fe," wrote Maise l . "If analysts are worried that the best and brightest of t h e nation's leaders are turn­ i n g away from pol itics gene r­ a l l y, t h e s a m e cannot be said of the J ewish c o m m u n i ty . " -Alicia Nemic­ colo N lacLeny '9 7

c__r_ec_e_n_t_re_le_a_s_es���������) The Shipping News M i ra max Films (200 1 )

Long-lost Aunt Agn i s convi nces Qu ayl e a n d young daughter B u n ny to move to their Newfoundland ancestral home after a tra u matizing inci dent. Based on E . Annie Proulx ' 5 7 's 1994 P u l itzer Prize-w i n n i ng nove l , t h i s a d a ptation fo l l o w s t h e rebi rth of Q u ay l e , a h u l k i n g , inarticu late , third-rate newspaperm a n .

Out Cold

Screenplay by Jon Zack '93 Buena Vista Entert a i n ment (2001)

A l a s k a n s n owboard i ng b u d d i e s m u st band together when t h e i r beloved B u l l Mountain i s about t o be bought by a s l ic k s k i mogul from Colorado. Can the dudes save B u l l Mountain from lattes , yuppies and skiers ? Out Cold h a s teen a p peal-practical jokes, professional snowboard stunts and M i s s Sweden 1993.

The Urban Knitter

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Lily M. Chin Pen g u i n Putnam (2002)

W i t h c o ntem porary d e s i gn s , m a s t e r knitter C h i n takes knitting and purling to a new ge neration of H i p, Young, Urban Knitters ( HY U Ks ) . Among HYUKs profi led i s H artford law student Sarah Poriss ' 92 and her vintage-style cardi-jacket-perfect for standing out from the cookie-cutter, black-suit crowd.

Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and the Truth in Letters to the Editor

Ray Perkins Jr. '64, editor Open Court (2002)

War and peace are central themes i n th i s collection of letters to the editor from 1904 to 1969 by British phi losopher, mathematician and soc i a l reformer Russe l l . If those topics weren't enough , Russell a l so took on McCa rthyis m , civil d isobed i ence, split i nfinitives and more i n 300 w i se and witty letters.

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Money & i4 Markets

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CNBC Guide to Money & Markets

Jeff Wuorio '79

John Wi l ey & Sons, I n c (2002)

I n t h i s handy p r i m e r, personal fi nance jou rna l i st Wuorio tackles everyt h i ng you need to know about your fi nances and investments-from digging out of credit card debt to picking a full-service broker.

The guide i nc l u d e s a glossary ( n et a sset va l u e , anyone?) a n d freq uently asked q u e stions ( C a n I roll my SEP into a 401K? Short a n swer, yes . ) .

Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development

Martin J. Packer and Mark B. Tappan (education and h u m a n development), editors State U n iversity of New York Press (200 1 ) Jews in American Politics

Ta ppan and Packer cover new perspectives of cultura l psychol ogy with

L. Sandy Maisel (government) and

i n s ights on fem i n i s m , postmoderni sm a nd critical theory. Cha pters

Ira N. Forman, editors

i n c l u de Lyn M i kel Brown 's ( ed ucat i o n a n d h u m a n deve l o p m e nt )

Row m a n & Littlefield P u b l i s h e rs (2001)

"Adolescent G i r l s , C l a s s , and the C ultures o f Fem i n i n ity" a nd Ta ppa n 's own "The C u ltural Reproduction of M a s c u l i n ity."

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From the H i l l

Andy C olligan '94, former Colby athlete , died surrounded by people he l oved, which was just about everybody

A

n dy Col l i ga n '9-+ d i d n 't have c h i l dren and had never marri ed, b u t when h e was fatally su·icken by a bra i n aneurysm New Yea r's

Day, h e was urrounded by h i s kids.

Col l i ga n , 3 0, a former Colby hockey a n d l acrosse p l ayer, col l apsed

o n t h e b e n c h as he c o a c h e d the C h a r l e s to w n , M a s s . , M i te s , a hockey team for p l ayers a ges

7 to 9. H e d i ed the n e x t d a y a t a

Boston hospita l .

Coll i ga n , a fi nancial consultant, h a d coached youth hockey fo r s i x years, not because of any obligation but because he loved sports and c h i l d re n . His dedication to h i s young players was noted by friends and fa m i l y aher h i s death and a l so by the Boston press, w h _i ch at that time was i m mersed i n th e trial of a hockey dad who beat another father to death at an area rink.

"In the m i d d l e of thi tri a l , i t j ust seemed

to

be an i n credible frame

of reference that not all people invoked in sports, a t the youth level particularl y, are problematic," said the Boston I-fem/d's Joe F i tzgera l d , who wrote a col u m n about

o l l igan aher his death.

Fi tzgera l d said he was contacted by parents who asked that he write something that reflected j ust how much the coach meant to them and Col l i ga n ' pl a�·er . " ?\'ot to ha"e a kid i m·olved," F i tzgera l d said, "not t0

come from the tO\\'n where the program i s housed-rou're a si ngle

gu�·, got a girl , bought a house i n �'ew H a m ps h i re, tO be on the ice at eight o'clock i n the morning, there i s no reason tO be there, except that you lm·e tO be there.

"The seme I got from the parents who called m e was, this Coll igan gu� , he '' a� the kind of fe l l a tO whom you were grateful tO entrust your kids, � ou knO\\

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\nd that's got noth i n g tO do with winning or

lo�ing game�. '\'oth i n g at a l l . " B� J i l accounts, t h e a ffection Col l i gan showed f o r h i s players was returned \\ holehearredl � , as \\ <lS his lm·e for friends and fami ly. memorial sen ices and in '' ritten remembrances that \\ ere circulated after his death, he \\ as described as ebu l l ie nt , affectionate, a pran kster, a Im able rasca l . " ' fo be h i � friend \\ a s to embrace t h e ent i re package,' \\ rote Aram

G o u d so u 1 i a n '9-+. " I n re t u rn � o u rece i , e d the greatest re\\ a rd s :

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Andy Coll igan '94, a former hockey and lacrosse player at Col by. Col l iga n d ied J a n . 2 after colla psing while coa c h i n g a youth hockey ga me i n Cha rlestown, Mass.

Andy's uncon d i tional loya l ty, h i s gen u i n e pride i n you and stories tO treasure and share . " The stories t h a t w e r e rek i n d l ed a fter h i s d e a t h i n c l u d e d Col l i ga n g i \' i n g fr i e n d a n d N o b l e

& G re e n o u g h S c h o o l c l a s s m a te J o h n

"J ae" Coyne '9-+ a pep t a l k a fter Coyne's ea rly-deci sion appl ication to C o l by was d e ferred-a n d C o l l igan's was a ccepte d . T h e re w a s Co l l i gan d r i v i n g h u n d reds of m i les to m a k e a n appearance a t a fri e n d 's 3 0 th b i rt h d a y p a r ty, a n d C o l l i ga n c a l l i n g h i s s i s t e r to report exci te d l y that h e h a d been given a C h a rl estown sweatsh i r t

sports shorts by h i s hockey parents. H e said he had been "accepted."

Coyne said h e recently asked Coll igan to be a groom sman a t h i s weddi n g; 1 2 days l a te r, Col l i gan col l a psed on the bench at the Charlestown rink. Within days, the story of his untimely death was making the rounds not only with Colby friends but in greater Boston.

Charl i e Corey, who coached Col ligan in hockey and lacrosse at Colby, learned of his former player's death from teammates. Corey, who now coaches at Lawrence Academy, remembered Colligan as a player for whom the team 's success, not his own, was the only priority. 'i\Then teammates grew weary of the grind of training and practice, it was Coll igan who rallied them with his sense of humor, Corey said. "That's why you go into coaching and teachi ng-kids l ike him," he said.

In this case, the player grew into the kind of coach that players and parents remember. And in a serendipitous turn of events, Colligan's conu·ibution to the l ives of young hockey players will con tinue.

His family asked that Colligan's organs be donated. His heart was donated to 63 -year-old Peter Kenyon of Connecticut, who had been living with a mechanical heart-assist machine for more than three years. Kenyon, who told the Hnrtfonl Co11rn17t that he now has "the good, su·ong heart of an athlete," said he looks forward to a new life that will include public service.

Among Kenyon's goals: he wants to return to coaching youth hockey. -Gmy Boyle '78

F i n i s h i ng fifth i n t h e l e a g u e w i t h a n 1 1- 1 3 rec o rd , W O M E N ' S BASKETBALL e n tered t h e N E SCAC t o u r n a m e n t seeded fifth b u t

yielded 63-60 t o fourth-seeded W i l l ia m s i n the first rou n d . SARAH WALSH '03 led the league with

63 steals (three per ga me) a nd made the All-N ESCAC team . .

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during the regu l a r season, with strong performances by DAM I E N STRAHORN '02 , who fi n i s hed the

reg u l a r season second in t h e l e a g u e in s c o r i n g , averaged 2 2 . 9 poi nts p e r ga m e and w a s n a med t o t h e All-NESCAC tea m . . . . WOM E N 'S SWIMMING AND DIVING made a strong showing

at t h i s year's N ESCAC C h a m pion­ s h i p s . LAURA M I LLER '05 who

Heather Devito '05

went on to w i n All-America honor­ able mention at the national meet

and captain JESSICA KNIGHT '02 broke C o l by and N ESCAC records at the N ESCAC meet. Besides holding school records i n five other events, Knight ra nks third i n NESCAC h i story for most poi nts scored by any woman over four years . . . . The M E N ' S SWI M M I NG A N D DIVING season came to a tri u m phant fi n i s h at the N ESCAC s , where

Colby swimmers set 10 school and four N ESCAC record s . Knoc k i ng down three C o l by and two N E SCAC record s , JONATHAN ECK '03

A Vau lted Record Two Colby records in wom­ en's indoor track fel l this year and Colby sent three athletes to the National D ivision I I I champion­ ships in March.

Connie Beal '03 was seeded ninth in women's shot put going into the national meet and her 44' 3 . 7 5 " throw gave her seventh place, set a new Colby record and earned her AJl-America honors.

automatically qual ified for nationals and ranked third in the nation

Liz Frederick '03 set a Colby record, 1 I '3 -3/4", in the pole vault in Febru a ry, eclipsing her own Colby record. Seeded 1 2 th going i n to the nationals, she cleared 1 0 ' 1 0 -3/4" to tie for I 0th.

On the men's side, LeAndrew Rankin '03 was seeded 1 2 th in the 3 5-pound weight throw going into the national meet and finished 1 0th with a throw of 5 3 ' 1 0" .

after his first-place time i n the 100 breast stroke .

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Seeded third i n the N ESCAC tournament, the team had home ice i n the first round of the pl ayoffs for the first time s i nce 1 9 7 1 and defeated H a m i lton 7-1 . I n the semifi n a l s they lost to second-seeded Bowdoi n , which ultimately won the N ESCAC championship. Forward H EATHER DEVITO '05 and leading defensive scorer J I LL YOUNG '03

were named to the Al l-N ESCAC team . . .

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regular season i n sixth place with a 15-7-3 record. After u psetting third-seeded Hami lton 5-1 i n the first round of the N ESCAC tourney, the Mules were tied in the semifi n a l s with M iddlebu ry, the top-ranked team i n the nation , until the Panthers scored with 53 seconds left in the game and won 4-2 after a n em pty-netter. .

First 'First' in Ski ing

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HOCKEY went 13-6-1 on the season and fi n i shed third i n the league.

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TRACK AND FIELD saw strong i ndividual performances as KAR I M A U M M A H '04, CONN I E BEAL '03 and ELI ZABETH FREDERICK '03 all

Robert S a u nders '05 won t h e giant s l a l o m at the Dartmouth

qual ified for the national cham pion s h i p meet and recorded personal

Carnival i n Februa ry, m a ki n g h i m the first Colby a l pine skier to win a

bests at the New England Division Ill Invitati onal at the U n iversity of

Division I s k i i n g event. Ever.

Southern M a i ne. Frederick a l so ended as the leading point scorer in

The win q u a lified S a u n d ers for the NCAA Championships in Alaska

New England Division I l l . . . . Entering the national tournament ranked

i n March, where h e finished 15th i n the men 's giant slalom. Saunders,

1 5th , the WO MEN'S SQUASH team defeated two of its l a st three

of Park City, Utah , wasn't the only hot fi rst-year student on the team.

opponents and moved u p to 13th place. After dropping a match to

Also i n the national event for Colby was Warner N ic kerson '0 5, who

Penn 7-2 , the M u l es came back to beat Wellesley 7-2 and Middlebury

finished 33rd in the same event. I n the slalom the pair finished 23rd

5-4. Colby had lost to both teams earlier in the season . . . . The

and 28th respectively, giving Colby 60.5 team points, good for 17th of

MEN'S SQUASH team a l so ended on a strong note at the national

21 teams i n the national Division I championsh i p .

Howe C u p tournament, defeati ng its l a st three opponents , Rochester 8-1 , Tufts 8-1 and Wesleyan 5-4.

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Over t h e n e x t four years t h e C o l l ege w i l l receive $ 7 2 8 ,044 from The Freeman Fow1dation to: support a new faculty position in economics with a l i n k to East Asian studies e n h a n c e the p r e s e n c e of E a s t As i a throughout the curriculum • expand i nternships for students in East Asian countries b r i n g a d d i t i o n a l E a s t A s i a n c u l tu r a l programming to the campus.

Those initiatives will help make a strong East Asian studies program even stronger.

"I t's very exciting," said program chair Tamae Prindle, the Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature Qapanese).

In t h e l a st two or t h r e e years t h e Coll ege bol stered i ts com m i tment to the interdisci plinary program by adding tenure­ track positions in J a pan ese a n d C h i n ese •

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languages. Now the grant will allow Colby to hire an economics professor who specializes in Asian Pacific Rim cow1tries.

T h e gra n t, w h i c h i n c l u d e s fu n d i n g for cultural progra m ming, h a d a n a l most immediate visible impact on campus as the primary funding source for a performance

by Burlington Tai ko on February 1 6 . Tai ko, an ancient J apanese tradition, incorporates t h u n d e r o u s d r u m s , c o l o rfu l p a g e a n t ry a n d ri tu a l i stic choreogr a p h y i n fl u enced heavily by martial arts, and the performance d rew a huge audi ence from Colby and the surrounding area.

The grant also provides scholarships and funding for student internships in East Asia, and the fi rst round is to be awarded this year.

"The students are getti ng i tchy, " Prindle s a i d i n e a r l y 1\i l a rch ; " they w a n t to s e e t h e appl ication forms . " Besides provi ding a d d i ti o n a l means for s t u d e n t s to t a k e adva ntage of educational opportu n i ties i n East Asia, those funds '"vil l help Colby develop r e s e a rch - b a s e d p ro j e cts a n d in tern s h i p opportunities, including summer positi ons, for students working i n East Asi a . In part that will be accomplished by capitalizing on the College's l inks \ovith alunmi and parents in a wide range of leadership positions in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, I ndonesia,

J a pan, South Korea, Mal aysia, S i ngapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

This generous gift will help Colby to create a more visible, compel ling and contemporary program that will engage more students i n the study of East Asia, both o n campus a s well as in regions of the Pacific Rim, said President William Adams. Adams noted that the driving principles of the College's strategic plan11ing include a continued a strong commitment to international education as a core element of liberal learning and additional emphasis on project-based study, on campus and abroad.

"This grant will aid both initiatives and should call attention to our long and disti nguished commitment to East Asian studies," he said.

The Freeman Fmmdation was establ ished in Vermont in 1 978 by Houghton Freeman, Mansfield Freeman and other members of the Freeman fami ly. The foundation's main objectives include su·engthening the bonds of friendship between the United States and the countries of the Far East. Through education and educational i nstitutes, the foundation hopes to develop a greater appreci ation in the U n i ted States of East Asi a n cultures, histories and economies as wel l as a better w1derstanding among the peoples of East Asia of the American people, their institutions and purposes. -Stephen Collins '74

Don 't Take It for Granted A

$ 1 , 4 9 6 , 000

grant from T h e Pew C h a rita b l e Trusts wa s

CBB off-ca m p u s study program wa s l a u nched in

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awa rded to C o l by to cont i n u e Gove r n m ent Professor Anthony

from a n i n it i a l M e l l o n grant. To d a t e ,

C o rra d o 's " C oa l it i o n to Promote C i v i c D i a l ogue on C a m pa i gn

m e m bers a m ong the three c o l l eges have partici pate d .

with fu n d s

stu de nts a n d 2 5 faculty

F i n a n c e Refo r m . " In t h i s second year of the gra nt C o l by w i l l

$60,000 from t h e Merck

c o n t i n u e working with the Gree n l i n i ng I n stitute a n d the I nte rfa ith

Colby received a t h ree-year grant tota l i ng

A l l i a n c e Fou ndation a n d w i l l add the C o m m ittee for Econ o m i c

Company Foundation, t h rough the M e rck/ AAAS U n d e rgraduate

Deve l o p m e n t a s a new p a r t n e r o rga n izat i o n , expa n d i ng from

Science Research Progra m . I t w i l l su pport students working with

m u l t i e t h n i c -c o m m u n i ty a n d f a i t h - b a s e d c o n c e r n s to i n c l u d e

faculty mentors conduct i ng research at the i n terface of b i o l ogy and

concerns o f b i g p u b l i c a n d private corporat i o n s i n t h e study.

chem i stry, provide a summer st i pend for stu dent researchers a n d

The A n d rew W. Mellon Foundation awarded C o l by, Bates a n d

additi o n , scientists part i c i pating i n t h e M e rck Speakers Program

unde rwrite travel t o a n a t i o n a l meeting t o present the researc h . I n Bowd o i n

$490 ,000

to su pport C B B foreign study progra m s i n

South Africa , Engl a n d a n d Ecuador over the next three yea r s . The

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'2 0s/' 3 0 s - l 940s

•l·Mh• Bibby Levine Alfond '38 and her husband,

1 l arold

1 1 '80, recently offered a $5 00,000

matching c h a l l enge gra n t to the i\ l a i ne C h i l d ren's

1 lome

ow t h a t 's real toget h T­

for c:i nccr.

ncss1 There's p l e n ty of 1 1 1 i l eage l e ft i n o u r rusty bodies, mid we hope soon to

for Little \ Va nderers, a

be on t h e road ro recovery to celcbra re

non prof-it <lgency i n \ Vatcrville th<lt provides

o u r 5 8 t h w ed d i n g a n n i vers:iry i n

adoption and foster care a

i\ l a rch. See you a l l a t the 2002 Colby

well as many

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other services and programs for childre1 .

She W<lS a bo:ird member of the home for 1 2 ye;irs and has served <lS <ln honornry board member since l 980.

Reunion \ Vcekend i n . J u ne . " -f:mest C. 1\ /11rri11er]1:

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P h i l i p Buck is ret i red a n d

l i v i n g i n Northwood,

Bibby Levine Alfond ' 38

Deaths: Donald C. Freeman '26, December 7, 200 1 , in I l averh i l l , Mass., at 1 00 ·:· Mil­

dred MacCarn Marden '27, October 1 8, 200 1 , in "l"iJComa, \\lash ., at

= N el li e M. Dearborn '28, November 1 7, 200 I , in F,1 lmouth, M:1ine, at 95 ·:· Ola Swift Dacey '2 9, October 1 1 , 200 I , i n \ Vatervil le, Maine, :lt

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Jolm A. Chadwick '30, December 3, 200 I , in Cromwel l , Conn.,

: Vivian F. Russell '3 1 , October 22, 200 1 , i n Augusta, 1\ la ine, at

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1940s Correspondents

for h i s rep a i r-. At prese n t w e a re having " h i s a n d hers" chemot herapy

: Donald M. Bither ' 3 5 , October 2 1 , 2 0 0 I , i n Porth111d, Mai ne,

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a t 89 ·:· Ann Trimble H i l ton ' 3 5 , October 2 7 , 200 1 , in Boothb,1y H a rbor, Maine, at 86 ·:· Marcella Duoba '37, December I , 200 1 , i n Bra i ntree, Mass., at 8 4 ·:· Louise G. Tracey '37, October 2-t, 200 I , i n Watervi l l e, Ma ine, at 86.

. I L 1 1 is w i fe,

N\ a ry Reny Buck '42 , passed '1way on September 9, 2 00 1 . Phi l i p's son, i\ \ i ch:i e l , resides on Col l ege Avenue i n \ V:nerv i l l c .

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Betty Lohnes G r u d i n , who

l i ves in t h e Fox d a l c Com m u n i t y Ret i re111enr Cen ter, State Col lege, Pa., isa me111be r ofthe Centre Cou n ty branch of t h e Pennsylva n i a Prison Society. The

Tov. I 0 issue of the

eutre Daily T i111es reports on t h e

v a l u a b l e work t h a t m e m be rs d o , v i s i t i n g i n m at e s a n d often r :1 k i n g t h i ngs t o t h e m th;H they need o r want.

'20sf30s

c h i l d re n a n d great-gra n d ch i l d r e n ,

Carolyn C u m m i ngs C rn i n '59 and

m u c h m o r e often t h<rn t hey did in

tl1c existence of t h e prison l i br:1 ry.

Barbara Foster, daugh ters of Richard

S p r i n g fi e l d , M a ss . . . . M ay n a rd

Another one ski pped <1 favorite TV

O n e i n m a te credited the society f or

C u nunings '32, wrote a lovely tribute

Waltz ' 3 8 sent h i s q uestion n a i re from

show to meet i nstead w i t h society

to t h e i r father, w h o passed away last

h i s home in Exeter, N . \ \ . l l e h:is

members, who "treat us l i ke people,"

Alu m n i at La rge

1940 Ernest C. Marriner Jr. 10 Wa l n ut Drive Augusta, ME 04330-6032 207-623-0543 classnews1940@alum .colby.edu 1941 Bonnie Roberts Hatl1away 400 Atlantic Ave nue #34C Leo m i nster, MA 01453 9 7 8-343-4259 classnews1941@a lum.colby.edu 1942 1943 1944 c/o Meg Bernier Colby Col lege Alumni Office Waterville, ME 04901 207-872-3185 classnews1942@a l u m.colby.edu classnews1943@a lum.colby.edu classnews1944@a lum.col by.edu 1945 Naomi Col lett Paga n e l l i 2 Horatio Street #5J New York, NY 10014-1608 2 1 2-929-5 2 7 7 classnews1945@a lum .colby.edu 1946 Anne Lawrence Bondy 7 7 1 Soundview Drive

October 3 0. R i c h a rd h a d su ffered

created a rn l k, w h ich h e has :1 l re:1dy

he said . . . . I n ,1 brief note, Arnold

from cancer for about a year and a

presented t w i ce, " Fi rst 1 2 Years of

G rossman m e n t i o n ed thH h e 's ,,

Mamaroneck, N Y 10543

h a l f. Throughout the yea r he spoke of

t h e 1 1 i s to ry o f E xe t e r, " cove r i n g

ret i red dent ist, th<lt h i s w i fe, I l ope,

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h i s a n n u al trip to /\ \ a i ne in October.

hous i n g-, f ood, gov e rn m e n t , m i l i t i a ,

is an a rtist, and t h a t they h,1vc t h ree

l [e flew from Los Angeles to Boston

clot h i ng, e t c . I l i s o t h e r act i v i ties

ch i l dren and six grandch i l d ren . .

w i t h Cirolyn on October 1 6; they

i ncludevolunteeri n g f or the I Limpton,

Connie Daviau Bol \i nge1-, now a

rented <1 car <l nd headed to his w i fe 's

N . l l . , H i storical Society i\ l useu m,

Ci nci n n a t i:111, m:ide a t r i p last fo l l to

hometo w n of M i l o . M a ny of you

the board of the Rockingham County

Nov:i Scot ia a n d J\ \ a i ne, where h e r

may rem e m ber his l a te w i fe, Barbara

Society of Genealogists <l lld the State

brot h e r l i ves i n Port l a n d a n d her ,1 u n t

H a m l i n C u nunings '3 1 . 1 Te spe n t

Mayflower Society. I l e recommends

i n N o r t h Vassa l boro. U n f ornmately,

nvc days e n joy i n g t he company of

a book he re;1d recently, G1111s, Ge1ws,

Con n i e 's v i s i ts

h i s reh1tivc, Pearl l l a m l i n , w h o is

f111rl

tee!, by . ) :ired D i a mond. Along

ro

J\ l a i ne have never

coincided with ch1ss reu n i ons . . . . Bill

1 0 4, a n d t h e bea u t i fu l M .a i n e fol iage.

with h i s w i fe , K a t l1 l een, h e en joys

Whittemore seems a l ways to have

Al though h e was able to drive Pearl to

cooking and eati ng. l l is chi ldren and

major worldwide travel i n his l i fe. l f is

the si tes, h e began to experience more

grnndch i l d re n :ire scattered ;1cross

Y 2 I travels took h i m a n d

pain, and as a res u l t his plans changed

the cou n t ry. . . . M a 1·tha \Nakefield

Rom a n i ,1 to J a p;rn a nd Vietn a m . l n 200 I t hey w e n t to M u nich a n d South

l ice from

and h e returned to Ca l i f o rn i a w i t h

Falcone ' 3 8 ;1 11 n o u n ced t h a t h e r

h is cla ughter Barbara . f l is con d i t ion

new, very young granddaughter \\'aS

Africa (Victori,1 F:1 l l s), with nve days

worsened and h e died on October

adopted from C h i m1 <llld th;1t her one

on a ' i n t :ige tra i n a n d f o r however

30. H i s da ugh ters w r i te t h a t Richard

great -gnmdd:rn g· h ter was i n heri ted

long on a 1 947 Skymaster ai rcraft. Jn

w a s ;111 " u n u s u a l p e rson w i t h a n

i n the a l l -n:1turnl way. J l cr volunteer

November, B i l l c:i mc to New York

e x t r a o rd i n a ry l ove o f l i fe , a n d <l

;1ctivities i n c l u d e escort i n g fri e n ds

( t h e world's n nest ci ty) to attend

m u l t i n1de of frie n ds. I t is h a rd to

to t l1e doctor ;rnd rn k i ng shut-ins on

the i nsta l l a tion of J o h n G l e n n ":is

t h i n k of l i fe wi thout h i m . " . . . G ladys

sce n i c trips in the car. . . . This is the

a mem ber of the C i rcu111n;w i gator

True Phelps '32 v i s i ted M a i n e i n t h e

f i rst col u m n t h i s ye;1r, mid we hope that

Club (who Ile" :iround the \\'Oriel

fo l l of 2000. S h e h a d a good v i s i t w i t h

you :ind your fo m i ly are "'el l .

se\'eral ti mes1)." . . . Last fol l , those of

Ethel Watt C u 1·tis '32 and J ustina

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Tapia Aitken's h usband's ne\\ work

H a rd i ng J enlcins ' 3 2 . ln September

us here i n Ne" York " ho heard Laurn Doris R o s e H openga rtcn

1947 Mary " Liz" H a l l Fitch 4 C a n a l Park # 7 12 Cambridge, MA 02141 61 7-494-4882 fax: 61 7-494-4882 cla ssnews1947@alum .colby.edu 1948 David and Dorothy Ma rson 41 Woods End Road Ded h a m , MA 02026 7 8 1-329-3970 fax: 6 1 7-329-6518 classnews1948@a lum.colby.edu 1949 Anne Hagar E u stis 24 Sewa l l Lane Topsham, M E 04086 20 7-729-0395 fax: 9 78-464-2038 classnews1949@a lum.colby.edu

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of 2 000, G l adys and h e r h usb,1 n d

w r i tes, " L i ke old cars, my h usband

pl:iyed i n concert had <1 \\'Onderful

moved i n to a n i n - l a w ;1pa rt111ent t h a t

and l have been h<ll'ing our tune-ups and repa i r these past fe" years. l '\'e

tre<lt, a n d aftern a rds \\'e also h a d a

So good to hear from Faye O ' Lea1-y H a fford i n Al lagas h , ,\ l arne,

lo\'ely 1·isit in the Green Room " i th

currently ser\'ing as reception i s t at

their s o n b u i l t f or t h e m . Besides the advan tage of being all O i l one noor, they see the fa m i l y, i n c l u d i n g gra n d -

had two cancer oper:1tions, and 111y h usband has had open-heart surgery

Laura and l l ugh.

-,\'110111i Collett P11g1111dli

Tort h ,\ \ a i n e \ \ 'oods C h eckpoi n t .

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h e r " l 3 th l i nle book about t h e area," she said. "They are most!)' folk tales

Dr. Stephen S. Sternberg

with a basis i n the h istory of northern ,\ laine. The latest i s The Fnll of the Forest, about the changes i n lumbering

known composers from late med i eval

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to contemporary (aided with mu'>ic received the

on C Ds) a n d two by actors from

200 1 Fred Waldorf Stewart Award, bestowed

the 1' 1 i l waukee Repertory Theater,

annually by the deparm1ent of pathology at

wh ich were followed by a m usical

i\ lemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

evening at the Rep and a recital on

on an i n d i,·i d u a l who h a s contri buted

a reproduction of an 1 8th-century

Faye opened the school l ibrary to the

sign i ficantly to progress against human

p i a noforte. They a l s o e n j oyed a

public, adding a computer, printer,

neoplastic diseases. Sternberg has been

presentation by a raptor rehabil i ta ­

scanner and copier as well as many

associated with i\ ISKCC since 1 95 1 and has

tor, who brought her o w l and hawk,

books for adults and periodicals. At

sen1ed the institution as president ofboth tlie

present, she is setting up a bookmobile

medical board and the general staff

that ,,·ill del i\'er books to shut-ins

Philip Boyne

as told to me by those who h a ,·e lived them." S i nce the local school closed,

and those ''�thout transportation-all \'Olunteer. Another remarkably effec­

Kilham: " I '\'e l ived i n this fabulous r e t i r e m e n t com m u n i ty, B ro o ksb)' "\'i l l age in Peabody, ,\ lass., for se\'en

College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, recei,·ed the Honor Award for 200 1 from tlie

to practice oral and maxillofacial surgery at tl1e Loma Linda University ,\ Iedical Center in California.

aquari u m and making u p for lost time and the days when I lived alone i n a condo." In J anuary she planned to go to an Elderhostel on \ \'orld \\'ar I I and spend the \\'eek reli,�ng many of those days with others in the same age group. She says her son tra,·els the \\'Orld in his work as a "medicine h unter"-he goes into jungles and

rehabili tated but sti l l unable to be released to the w i l d . . . . John and I recently returned from London, one of our favorite places.

n fortunately,

a fter a day, J o h n began to suffe r pain from a s l i pped disc. S i nce a l l t h e m u s e u m s a n d g a l l e r i e s h ave wheelchairs, I was able to push him around and make tl1e best of a bad situation. Bur we're glad to be home

llfiil!fiM�lf11

again . . . . I hope my next column

'40, October 30, 200 I , in Strong, Maine, at 4 : Ellen Fitch Peterson '40, December 24, 200 1 , in Natick, ,\ lass., at 83 :· J oh n C. Eaton '4 1 , November 20, 200 1 , in Warm�lle, 1' Iaine, at 83 : Stanley Gruber '4 1 , November , 200 1 , in Brookl ine, i\ Iass., at 82 : David Brodie '42, November 24, 2 00 1 , in New York, N".Y., at 8 1 : Ruby Lott Tucker '43 , December 20, 200 1 , in Ne,1· Haven, Conn., at 80 : Arthur M. Barrows '45, July 2, 200 1 , in Rhode Island, a r 80 : Sumner Abramson '48, November 3, 2 00 1 , in New Bedford, i\ [ass., at /8 : J. P h i l i p B e rgq u i s t '49, October 2 4, 2 00 1 , i n Boston,

w h o h a,·e not w ri tten in several

dar Brooks by offers many opportuni­ Boston for theater, museums and the

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Pierre Fauchard Academy, another professional organization. He continues

months, and it just gets bener b)' the tie , and I am enjo)�ng going into

Dr.

nvo-year tenure as president of tlie American

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years. Classmates really would l i ke to hear from you. Please note that my new e-mail address i s m h fi tch @hot111ai l.com .

-1Wmy "Li:::!' Hnll Fitch

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B u rt Krumholz and Shelley

just ce lebrated tl1eir 3 0th wedding anniversa ry. Burt says he sti l l goes to the hospital every day and reports that his gynecologic consultative practice

returns with p l a n ts that are used in medicine. He also writes books

joined tl1ousands of other "pilgrims"

continue to support the Alumni Fund.

seems to be growing continual ly. Burt

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from all countries, races and religions

His letter ended with, " By the way,

a n d S h e l l e y found time to travel

.\mherst. These are good times and

i n the most mm'ing three minutes of

I turned 80 on 1 1 September. \\11at

for three weeks in British Columbia

I hope the)·'re good for all of )'Ou

silence i n memory. At that moment

a day ! " . . . 1\ 1ore travel i ng back and

and the Canadian Rockies and for

classmates." . . . Gene and I spent a

it seemed the world was united in

forth to China for Dana and H a rriet

another three weeks in Spain. Shel ley

great '' eekend with Hannah Karp

a community of concern and good

Nourse Robinson. He was tl1ere over

continues to win her share of golf

Laipson and ,\ like at their 10\·ely

will, making it even more difficul t

Thanksgiving w h i le H arriet stayed

t o comprehend tl1e hatred much of tl1e world feels for us. \ \ 'hat we must

tournaments,·and Burt came close in

an d \\ ich on the Cape.

home and hosted her sister, Fran

1 999, fi n i shing i n second place i n the

Nourse Johnston '49 and family, who

lege in \\'orcester in a \\1 E program

pray for, and work toward, and ''·ish

" B " group when he lost on the 2 0tl1

drove down from

ew Hampshire.

for, all of us, is that the community of

hole in tl1e fi nals. Burt's daughter

enior

I n September, both Harriet and Dana

Education), ' ' hich .\ like a n d Carol

concern and good \\'ill tl1at happened

Susan has been awarded her P h . D .

were i n Beijing for three and a h a l f

once for three min utes becomes tl1e

from Northeastern and teaches at

Robin Epstein both attended. ,\ l i ke

weeks, ending u p in Shanghai. S h e

realin· of our world.

s a i d , " Beijing just sparkled, fol lo,ving

U iV L i ss - D a rtmouth. His da ughter

crnft., beautiful '' ooden furniture in

and teaches etlrnobotany at

condo i n

I l annah teaches at ,\ssumption Col­ ( \ \'orce'>te r I n s t i t u te for

-r/1111e Lmnenu

h 1 -, '' orbhop. \ \'e had dinner with

Bondy

its bid to host tl1e Olympics." After the Chinese New Year, they were to

Larf) a t their elegant aparm1ent on

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11 ho says his health has impro,·ed due

I t's a wonder that they will have the

. trall'>'> '45 '' a'> there, roo. .\;, ,\larie

to great doctors and his wife, Jan.

energy to come to our 5 5 th , but they

,\ l a r i e K rae l e r L o w e n s t e i n a n d

Good news from Tom Bu r ke,

return

to

China for about a month.

comm e n ted . .. ,, e ' re all i n cred i b l )·

Last summer they took a nine-day

plan on coming and hope

luck) to '>ti l l be able to get together and

trip to the Canadian Rockies and in

of their friends . . . . Richard Sampson

en JO) . " \ l a n e 1., a remed profe.,.,1onal

to

see many

the fa l l had a se,·en -day cruise dm1 n

and his wife, Allie, \'isited ,\ laine for

'' llh the

the .\ l e\ i can R i , iera. T h e i r f o ur

a Thanksgi ,•ing week of re u n ions

'.:iemor Ren red F \eCUtl\ e'> program

children a l l ha,·e ad,·anced degrees.

with fa mily and friends. They were

One d a ughter i '> head of h u m a n

especially ha ppy to meet the latest

rc'>m1 rcc'> f o r l l e\1 i t t Packard in

member of the fam i ly, a little girl

a bank

named Sofiya from Siberia, adopted

LI'>

111 . e� more, Ind. One '>On, a la "'yer,

by one of their nephews and his wife.

under t.rn d '' h r h.1 ppened 111 ':e,1 ) ork C i n. . �e\ cra l da\ -, bter. 111 pam,

tcache., <lt <1 Ull l \ er'> If) in South Korea,

In October, Dick and A l l i e attended

.ind another '' ork, m I l ou'>ton , 'lexa'>,

an E l d e rhostel in

Ill accounnng and computer '>Cience.

\ \'i'>. Lectures included writings of

one '' ill

Stephen ,\mbrose, one on lesser-

fund r.1 1-,er and

I'• \I orkmg

a-, a ' ol unreer. . . . C .ene and I '' ere on a bo.lt off the co.ht of France on '.:iqm:mher 1 1 . " 1 th on l) ,1 -,crarch) r.1 d 1 0 ,rnd i magination

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L a k e G e n e ,·a ,

Linda is a tenured faculty member at Denison Universi ty, and Debra is about to receive her master's in p u b l i c health at Ui\l l a ss - A m h e rst.

Burt's professional accomplishments are 1mrnifold. He was named among the Best Doctors in

ew York, h i s

staff at Long I s l a n d J ewish Medical Center selected him the Best Teacher of the Year, and he has been elected to L i fe Fellowship in the American Coll ege of Su rgeons and the New York Obstetrical Society. T l e says that life has been good to him and he enjoys every day, even though the ,\ l ets and the Reel Sox did not shape up . . . . Gordon Mi l l e r attended the 2 00 I reunion in J une and the Alumni College in J u ly. At reunion he came

111 second at the annual Colby golf

town lost at least 1 2 residents, one

freighter i n Long Beach along with

scramble. H e and Jane had fun but

of whom was a dear neighbor of

two other people, making a total of

were disappointed that so few of our

Tom and Lin's . . . . Ann Jennings

three passengers on the ship1 The

class were there. H e wri res that he is

Taussig and Johll are now living in

suite that he had sounds as luxurious

able to get all the Colby news on the

ew Hampshire i n a rented house

as a top hote l . After leaving S a n

Vleb and is able to receive and send

while their summer home is under

Francisco, he headed for Ta hiti a n d

e-mail to fellow alum�ni . . . . Shirley

renovation. As yet tl1ey haven't sold

tl1en Pago Pago, American Samoa. He

Parks is a nursing home resident now livi ng i n Nlelrose, Mass . . . . Mariaima Nutter Wyer wrote that she h a d spoken w i t h Hazel Huckins Merrill

their house i n Virginia. Whi l e they

writes that one of tl1e most i nteresting

New Hampshire and made off with

the "Green Flash"-it occurs just as

i n early December and learned the

them all, including the wrought iron

sad news that H azel's husband, John,

hook holding some suet! . . . I 'm off

tl1e sun slips below the horizon. The international crew of tl1e freighter

died o n

ovember 2 5 . H a zel is

were in Seattle over Thanksgiving, a

tl1ings on his 1 0,000-mile trip was

black bear visited tl1eir bird feeders in

obsen•ing the phenomenon known as

in February for a three-week cruise to

was pleased to learn tl1at Bill had

currently l i vi n g i n a nursing home,

Antarctica on a

and M a rianna says that Hazel would

This is an Elderhostel trip tracing

relieve seasickness. H e is looki n g

enjoy hearing from her classmates;

Shackleton's footsteps, except I've put

forward t o h i s next trip . . . . Chrys

her address is 24 Peabody Place,

my foot clown on dragging l i feboats

Boukis Keene says hello to everyone

Franklin, l\. l H 0 3 2 3 5 . This summer

across the ice1 I ' l l report on penguins

and was glad to hear all the details

Marianna had a chat with Mim and

and seals in my next column.

Everett Rockwell, who live near her summer place i n vVolfeboro, N . H .

orwegian icebreaker!

-A1111e Hagar Eustis

candied ginger with him

to

help

of our wonderful 50th reunion . . . .

Joan Millett Coon is a counselor for Cho ices, a Connecticut state

Last fa l l , Marianna a n d Al took a

50

"We do not quit playing be­

organization that helps seniors with

river trip in Europe. They started

cause we grow old, we grow old

choices regarding N ledigap insurance coverage. She is still playing bridge

in Antwerp and went through the

because we quit playing"-O l iver

Netl1erlancls, Germany and France to

VVenclell Holmes. Now I know a lot of

and is busy with her family and all

Switzerland. They say tl1ey felt safe

us are playing and some are working

tl1eir doings . . . . Please let me hear

foll owing the September tragedies

and playing. And for some, their work

from you all so I can share your news

and found greater security especially

is tl1eir play. How about you' . . . Bob

with everyone. Thanks.

on the return trip from Zurich . . . .

Millett is the tennis pro at a local

\!Ve are back at our house at Admiral's

athletic club three days a week . . . .

Cove in J upiter, Fla., for the w inter.

It is rea l l y l i ke summer camp f or

Did I mention tl1at Dick and Connie Leonard Hayes have taken up hang

seniors-we are busy with golf, tennis,

g l i d i n g i n additi o n

ski i n g this

all of you to get on up to Bootl1bay

bowling and other activities. Altl1ough

winter' Perhaps not . . . because it

H a rbor and V.Taterville for our 50th

we live i n a community with canals and

isn't true. I t was suggested by one of

reunion. Those who tell me about

access to the i n ter-coastal waterway,

our classmates that i f nobody sent me

tl1eir recent 50th reunions at Colby

we leave our sail boat in New England

any news I just make someth ing up,

count the experience as tl1eir number

and use it there for the seven montl1s

so please send me sometl1 ing about

one event of the year. They are high

that we spend up nortl1.

your adventures or hobbies or maybe

i n praise of the way the College

I will think up something really wild

orchestrates these events. The folks

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and Linda Shaw Maguire tel l s of tl1eir new friend, Holland American

-Alice Je1111i11gs Castelli

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This is tl1e last opportunity I

have to use this column to encourage

in the Alumni Office expect, and get,

about you1 A long letter from Thomas

-Nancy Nilso11 Archibald

substantial leadership and participa­ tion from tl1e commi ttees of each

Edward "Ted" Weaver writes

reunion class. But they also carry out the hands-on functions such as

L i n es, who in the l a s t y e a r h a s

that he has given up run n i n g the

taken them o n three cniises: through

RV park in Arizona, although he is

maili ngs, rese1·vations, banquet details

the P a n a m a C a n a l , cru i s i n g t h e

sti ll associated witl1 it. H e planned

and publication of the Class of 1 95 2

Scandinavian countries, and t o Ice­

to spend some time i11 Florida this

5 0th Reunion Book. Speaking o f

land and St. Petersburg. In August

winter (North Port) and i n Maine this

which, w e anticipate that t h e book

tl1ey celebrated their 50tl1 wedding

summer (\ Va tervi lle, Augusta, Prouts

will have arrived at your house by

armiversaty and wonder how many of

Neck and other places). His e-mail

now. \Ve hope you have found the

you have accomplished tl1is milestone.

address is teclweaver2 @juno.com . . . .

autobiographies of your classmates as were entertaining, we are sure you wi l l

i n our column. The Jubilee Mass,

Shirley Raynor Ingraham sees Joyce Hutchins and Mickey Rosenberg Rolland and spent a nice afternoon

which started offtl1e festivities, began

I know of several who have, so if you care to let me lmow I can print a tally

i nteresting as the editors did. I f they fi n d renewing o l d acquai ntances face­

with them in Sarasota, Fla. She trav­

to-face great fun, too. Remember,

with " I ' l l Take You Home Aga i n ,

eled to Orlando to hear information

you will be a guest of the College while on i\ Iayflower H i l l . Rather like

K a t h l e e n " a n d " D a n n y Boy" a n d

regarding B i l l 1 2 02 and the resulting

closed w i t h "J\ 1 acNama ra's Band." Is

amount of

7 8 million promised by

room, board and tuition, gratis. The

]om Irish by any chance? On a more

Gov. Jeb Bush regarding nursing

pre-reunion event at the Spruce Point

sober note, Lin enclosed a n article

home insurance, which she and others

Inn is Durch treat but \1-ith an event

from the

worked so diligently to get passed.

subsidy from the A l u m n i Office.

Philadelphia Inquirer tel l i ng

of the impact tl1at tl1e September 1 1

. . . Bill Burgess had a wonderful

H i kes (walks, if you please) through

terrorist attack on the \Vorld Tracie

freighter trip tl1is past fal l (his fourtl1 !).

the Boothba)' H a rbor Land Trust

Center had on R i dgewood, NJ The

H e boarded tl1e 5 1 5 -foot Polynesian

properties and the new Coastal ,\ laine

1950s Correspondents 1950 Alice J e n n i ngs C a ste l l i 6 S a l e m Road Madison, CT 06443 203-245- 7 7 2 5 classnews1950@alum.colby.edu

1951 N a ncy N i l son Archibald 1 5 Linden Avenue Scituate, MA 02066 7 8 1-545-4987 classnews1951@alum.colby.edu 1952 Pa u l M. Aldrich P.O. Box 2 1 7 Bristo l , M E 04539 207-563-8744 classnews1952@a lum.colby.edu 1953 B a rbara Ea sterbrooks Mai ley 80 Lincoln Avenue South H a m i lton, MA 0 1982 9 78-468-5110 9 78-7 7 7-5630 ext. 3310 cla ssnews1953@a lum .colby.edu 1954 Helen Cross Stabler 206 C re stwood Drive North Syracuse, NY 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 5-45 7-52 7 2 classnews1954@a lum .colby.edu 1955 Ken Va n Pragg P.O. Box 87 (May-early Nov) Grafton , NY 12982 518-2 79-1696 22 Golf Drive (Early Nov-May 6) Pt. St. Lucie, FL 34952 561-344-5961 classnews1955@alum.colby.edu 1956 Kathleen Mcconaughy Zambello 1 3 5 lduna Lane Amherst, MA 0 1002 classnews1956@alum.colby.edu 195 7 Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue 238 Sea Meadow Lane Ya rmouth , ME 04096 2 07-846-4941 classnews195 ?@a lum.colby.edu 1958 Margaret Smith Henry 1304 Lake Shore Drive M a s sapequa Park, N Y 1 1 7 6 2 5 16-541-0790 classnews1958@a lum.colby.edu 1959 Ann Segrave Lieber 7 Kingsland Court South Orange, NJ 0 7 0 7 9 9 7 3-763-6 7 1 7 classnews1959@alum .co1b .edu

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Retirement i s a relative term for Peter Doran '58. "When h e was

l i n k between t h e c h a l le nges in rehabi litation

teach i ng, at least I knew where he was , " sa id his wife, Lois. Now she

and the lack of health ed ucation i n M a i ne's

finds it h a rd to tra c k which meeting her h usband is at, when a n d where.

pu blic schools. That got the attention of the

The sched u l e m ight be new, but for Doran the goal is the sa me-to

president of the U n iversity of M a i ne a t Fa rm­

provide M a i ners with tools to i m prove health t h rough education and

i ngton, who, i n 1 97 1 , a s ked Doran to spend a year there h e l p i ng develop progra ms in reha b i l itation services. " I ' l l j ust

prevention.

How d i d Doran's B . A . i n psyc hology from Colby evolve i nto two doctorates a n d a l ifet i m e i nvestment in health ed ucation? " Working i n com m u n ity and public health , I c o u l d reach a l o t more people u s i n g ed ucation as a vehicle . . . [ putting] a l o t more e m phasis on the va l ues of

be there a yea r, " Doran reca l l s t h i n k i ng a t the time. U M F held onto Doran for a nother 25 years.

In their own com m u n ity the Dorans bega n the ca m pa ign that created the Belgrade Regiona l Health Center, a non profit medical care fac i l ity that

wel l n ess, on positive health behaviors , " he said. " I d iscovered preve ntion

serves all a rea patients rega rdless of a b i lity to pay. The cou ple helped p u l l

and health promot io n . "

together a major benefactor, $20,000 i n f u n d ra ising, b u i l d i n g materia ls,

I n 1 966 Doran decided t o q u i t work a s " a profession a l student" a t the

a site (the old a ba ndoned schoolhouse nestled i n the middle of B elgrade

U n iversity of Southern I l l i nois-Ca rbondale a n d began looking for ways

Lakes vil lage), a primary care provider and a lot of el bow grease from the

to put h i s theory i nto practice. Settl ing with Lois on Messa lonskee

com m u n ity. In November 1 9 7 7 the Belgrade Regio nal Health Center's

Lake in Belgrade, Doran hit the ground r u n n i ng as a consulting

doors opened and have stayed that way ever si nce.

psyc hologist for the state. Within six months he was a ppoi nted by then­

Around the same time, Doran was o pe n i ng other doors for U M F

Gov. Ke n neth C u rtis

students i n the u n iversity's health ed ucation a n d re h a b i l itation services

to d i rect the Comm is­

progra ms, placing more t h a n 1 , 500 students in ful l-time i nte rnships with

sion on Rehabil itation

M a i n e health agencies. Today, Doran says, the vast majority a re sti l l

P l a n n i ng. By 1970

i n M a i n e . Some graduates work i n t h e same age ncies they started i n ,

he had worked with

some a re presidents o f hospita l s . " It's a mazing t h e k i n d s o f t h i ngs they

the Maine legisla­

do-way beyond my wi ldest d rea m s , " h e said .

ture to bring a bout

Over the years in h i s work in health a n d h u m a n services, Doran

a major reorga n iza­

has fou nd that "good ideas a re only as good as their t i m i n g . " With

tion of reha b i l itation

dedication and persistence, he and fellow s u p porters have made great

services.

Doran and fe llow preve ntion proponents sug­ gested that there was a

strides in health ed ucation a n d prevention. Whether he's lobby i ng to raise a i r-q uality standards for M a i n e's schools a n d workplaces or push­ i ng for reform of M a i ne's Workers' Compensation syste m , Dora n has taken responsi b i l ity for the wel l - be i ng of M a i ners.

Mai ners have honored Peter and Lois Doran for their outsta n d i ng work i n the com m u n ity. But the Dorans i n sist that their own good fortune is being a ble to live and raise t h ree c h i l d ren i n such a ·s u p portive environ­ ment. In short, they bel ieve that givi ng back is a m ust, and, Doran said , "a very i m portant, i nformative part of learning to live in a society. " -Leila Porteous '02 and fr eedom from the car space as

Botanical Gardens as well as a crui e

a l l h a d a great t i m e . M i m i a l s o

passed away on September 2 6 . John

on the " aters off B othbay H a rbor

s e n t a clipping from

The Po11/n11d

feels that he wouldn't be al ive today

well. I have met with Ted Lallier a

arc planned. Tennis or a chaise by

Press Hernld

reporting that Helen

if he h a d n 't m e r Peter in C h i n a

couple of times lately on legal business

the pool a re n 't bad ideas either. So

Kon.iares C l eaves is again the top

many years ag·o. Speaking of being

f or me. \ Ne look forward to making

get ) Our resen ations i n . \\'e want

producer in the real estate fi e l d

al ive, John said he had coffee and

the plans f o r our 50th as it will be on

to <,cc c' C f) one ar Boothbay and

in t h e Greater Portland area. The

a dough nut a t the P e n t a gon the

us before we know it.

she has recei1•ed f o r

morning of September l l and tl1en

-Pn11/ \ /. -1/dnch

her accomplishments at tl1e H arnden

debated whether to remain tl1ere to

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Beecher office of Caldwell Banker

have a haircut but decided not to

,\ l i m i Price Parten '>en t a note ro rell me that a fc" C :olb) friend.,

include membership in tl1e I nterna­

do so. Thi rty minutes later h is old

and her husband, George, spent a

ocie�·. placing her in

office was h i t by that plane, and

month last year in a chalet in the

got rog..:ther 111 IJre �eptemher at rhc

the rop :! - percent of that company's

he lost some friends. John now has

French Alps with their two small

home o f '-.' id. �arm ' 'i4

a'>'>Ociares " orld" ide . . . . J o h n Lee's

seven grandchildre n . H is son-in-law

grandchildren and daughter-in-law.

is a ;\°a1')' commander on the

Then they babysat in Tusca ny, I taly,

\ \ 'atcr1 1llc 111 J unc.

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DOi er,

\ 1.i., . ( . uc'>C.. " ere eorge Bazer. d Fraktman, Lou c rragu i Ra) ' ' 4 .md P r i c i l i a a ron B i l l i n !?'t o n , J oc )

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tional

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Ill

200 1 took him to \'ienna,

Cnrl

-Bnrbnrn Ensterbrooks J\1fniley

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Diane Chamberlin Starcher

Prague, Bratisla, a , B u d a pest a n d

V i11so11-bound f o r this worldwide

while their son Bruce and his w i fe were

Drc.,den. I I i '> ne\r tnp " as just before

con O ict, I am sure . . . . I stop at Col by's

rccdon and her hmband,

the c1 enb of September 1 1 : he went

on vacation. 11 October they went to

Johnson Pond picnic area for lunch

Holland to attend conferences. Ar one,

Did.. ·: 2, Charlie \ \lndhor-.r · - 4, l e d Rice · 4 and Jean Jnd Dick \ndi;r<,on

agam ro \ l ame ro he a eulogizer and

e,·ef) time T pa s br on my way to

the European Baha'i Business Forum,

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Presque Isle. ,\ l y loyal companion,

\ l 1 l l ., ' H , ofranrnngton, \ l ame, " ho

Diane was in charge of registration

Golden Retrie,·er, enjoys tl1e "run"

fees, books and video sales and had

to deal in seven different currencies.

HARRY R. WILEY ' 5 1

They planned to spend Christmas 2 00 1

in H ousto n with t h e i r son

What he used t o d o Work for t h e phone

L o r e n , t h e n go to C a l i f o rn i a to

compa ny.

visit D ia ne's sister, Sue Chamberlin Trauger '60, b e f o re retu rn i n g

What he's a l ways done H u nt d ucks and

to

deer.

France. In February they were to

Where he hunts In the woods of Jack­

cruise with friends out of Italy to

m a n , M a i n e , and in the marshes near

Spain, N lorocco, the Canary I s l ands

h i s home i n Sca rborough .

and Madeira. Diane also does editing

H a i l . " The field was white by the time it stopped. Our oldest son has moved back to Maine (Cumberland) so we now have a B & B for Colby trips . . . .

Thanks

to

a l l of you who have sent

pictures of reunion. I am making a great album f o r our 5 0t h . Peop le who attended reunion i nclude the fol lowing. Barbara Preston Hayes, who retired in 2 000 from the National

work for publications and prepares

Why he hunts " I t h i n k it's a basic i nstinct

Academy o f Sciences, and is available

and leads three d i fferent study groups.

of man . "

for private tours i f you are visiting

. . . Art Eddy and his wife, Ann, after

The greatest fee l i n g of h i s l ife "When

D . C. H e r daughter l ives i n Costa Rica

five years of delightful Cape Cod

I ' m deep i n the heart of the woods

and plays violin witl1 the National

living, have returned to northwest Connecticut in order to be near their children. They are again living in Lakevi l l e , Con n . , where Art l i ved and taught for 33 years and where Ann has family roots dating back to

somewhere . " What he does with h i s venison G ives i t t o people i n h i s condo­

m i n i u m association.

What he objects to People who want to curb h u nting wit h i n town

l i m its.

-/- lelrn Cross Stabler

Her son i s i n

physics. Nancy Carroll Luce started with a career in teaching, even nially attended the seminary and is now a retired Presbyterian m i n ister. She

Revolutionary War times . . . . Please keep sending your news.

Sym p h o n i a there.

Norfolk, Va . , getting h i s P h . D . i n

spends summers on Peaks Island, hour for a dozen 4 to 1 3 year olds

recently at a neighborhood holiday

and continues to serve as pianist and

open house. One guest was a vivacious,

Maine, with husband P h i l '57.Joanna McCurdy Brunso worked for the state of New York as a transportation

secreta1y f or her beloved church . . . .

very tall and handsome gray-haired

\Ni th the exception of a great

Betty Harris Sm.ith also is looking

lady who three years ago had moved

planner and has now retired to Green

visit from my roomie,JackJohnston,

f o nvard to our 50tl1 and to traveling

to our town's retirement village (the

Va l ley, Ariz. Chris Layer Larson

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and Ni tsy, and a brief note about the

more and more. Most recently, on

same one where Brownie Brown's

had a great driving trip down tl1e

Coddington family-Jane (Whipple)

9/ 1 1 , she and h e r fa m i l y f o u n d

mother had lived). It was Harriet

Cali fornia coast after attending an

and C h a d received the Overlook

themselves o n a beach i n Rhodes,

Bixler Naughton, daughter of Mary

arts and humanity Elderhostel in San

H os p i ta l L i fe t i m e A c h i e v e m e n t

unable to get a Aight back to tl1e

and ]. Seelye Bixler. I had bumped

Francisco. Audrey Tanner was back

Award for m a n y significant services

U.S., so they went to Tu rkey where

into Dr. Bixler, who was an alumnus

for her very fi rst rew1ion. I didn't

a n d c o n t r i b u t i o n s to t h e i r loca l

they sailed, snorkeled and visited

o f A m h e rst C o l l e ge, on c a m p u s

"interview" her as she promised

hospital-there has been little in the

small towns along tl1e coast. She sti l l

many years after graduation, and h e

send me an update. I am waiting,

way of good news . . . . Sad news first.

manages t o play a lot of tennis . . . .

remembered w h o I was and asked

Audrey' It was also the fi rst visit

After a long and difficult battle with

The Donald P. Lake scholarship

for Lou ' 5 5 by name. Harriet is a

award (which goes to tl1e outstanding

graduate ofS1nitl1 and is 80 years old1

for Mary Arm Papalia Laccabue's

A.LS, Betty Cuthbertson Crossen left th is l i fe . For those closest to

athl ete) was awarded

. . . The next day we met Bob Bruns

her, and there were many, she must have

(Mass.) H i gh School graduate, Chris­

and Evie for our biannual luncheon

a great sing-along led with gusto by

been an inspixation; possessed ofa qu.ick

t o p h e r J o h n D a l y- a n d D o n n y 's

as tl1ey stop on their way north to

mind and sharp wit, an effen,escent

grandson . . . . Jane Millett Dom.ish

Ve rmont. Another Bixler story to

Andy Anderson and Dave Sortor.

Babs FaJtings Kinsman and Warren

smile and i n fectious laughter, Betty

and Karl '5-+ find themselves well,

savor-Bob tl1rowi n g i n a basket at

trave l i n g a n d involved with their

the very last second to win the game

to make Datah Island, S.C. , their permanent home. They'll spend sum­

was very special to a l l with whom she was in contact. She was truly cherished by all, will be sorely missed, but never forgotten. I can hear her now, saying, "Mouse,geton with this stuff"-andso I shal l . . . . Dave and Ruth McDonald

Roberts recently celebrated their 45 tl1 wedding ann iversary. . . . Peter

Parsons reports that he is a l ive and well. Retired from teach ing at College of the Holy Cross, he plans on returning to his precious love, music, and he's on the record f or planning to attend our 50tl1 reunion i n 2 005 . . . . Kay Hartwell Philipps recently married Ed, whom she met on an El derhostel ski week, and biked in Europe th is past summer, where she met Nancy Moyer Conover ' 5 -+ while in Provence, France-and a l l because Ed wore a h a t from 1' 1aine. . . . Bob and Louise " Pinkie" Fall Achor are parents of four children and 1 3 grandchildren ranging from 6 to 1 6. She holds a weekly story

to

a M i lton

fa1ni ly-sometl1ing I am sure many

for Col by, and Dr. B. racing out onto

of us could also say. . . . Lee Culver

me basketbal l Aoorand enveloping Bob

Jolmson, a "snowbird" much l i ke

in a massive bear hug . . . . In September,

Jane and myself, recently attended

Janet Nordgren Meryweather had

her 50th high school reunion, also

a mini -reunion at her summer camp

attended by Bob and "Sistie" Restal

in Spencer, Mass., including us, Dave

Home, who Aew in from the \Vest

a n d Rosie Crouthamel Sortor,

Coast. Lee and her husband, Don,

Brown.ie and Bobbie Barnes Brown, Susan Miller Hunt, Jan Stebbins Wal s h a n d E l l i e S h o rey H a rr i s

are parents of four children and five grandch.ildren and are both retired . . . .

Dave and Nancy Robinson Roll.ins maintain contact with Dottie Dunn Northcott and her Colby roommate, Johanne Freiheit Broker . . . . To

' 5 7 . Jan's husband, Steen, h a s been activated by the Coast Guard to help at tl1e station i n Bar Harbor. At 76 he has passed his boards and is a fully

those who made contact, my thanks;

q u a l i fied crewman' . . . Liz Russell

to tl1e rest of my classmates-help'

Collins spent time last fal l i n Hawaii

to

husband, Ron. He brought along his guitar and a songbook, and we had

' 5 7 a re l e a v i n g New H a m psh i re

mers i n E l lswortl1, Maine. We missed

Jane Collins at reunion. Rwnor has it that she has retired

to

St. Augusti ne,

Fla . , one of my favorite places . . . . More reunion i n tenriews in my next column.

Until then, keep sending news.

-Kathy McConaughy Zmnbello

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All things considered, Bev and

Brian Olsen decided that the very best place for them to live year-round would be at Ocean Point, M a i ne, their surruner home for many years. \ \'ith very happy hearts, rney made tl1e move during the summer o f 2 00 l .

-so you won't have to put up with

and sent a wonderful picture of herelf

me when I ca l l , somet h i n g I am

with John Jubinsky and Tess . . . . We

going to attempt to do in '02 . I hope

attended homecoming this fal l and

you are having a peacefu l , safe and

welcomed the Sonors there as our

enjoyed those beautiful old cities and

new Alunmi Council reps. During the

especially loved the opera, symphon.ies

healthy year.

-Keu V im

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Pmgg

\Vhat a great surprise we had

. . . Pat Martin Maloney returned last October from a musical tour of Dresden, Prague and Budapest. She

football game against Bates ("·e won,

and organ concerts i n old Prague

no contest!), me sk'Y darkened, and

churches. But her family was relieved

for five minutes it was " H a i l Colby

to have her rerurn home safely. Pat

C O L B Y

· S P R I NG

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Alumni at La rge

1 9 50s- 1 960s

mw•MM:w11

'50, February 1 0, 200 1 , in Wellesley, i\Iass., '50, December 2 1 , 200 1 , in Chicago, Ill., at 73 ·:· 1yron B. "Pifil.J'" Thompson '50, December 2 5 , 200 1 , in Honolulu, Hall'aii, at 7 7 ·:· Thomas H. Jordan '5 1 , October 9, 200 1 , ii1 Tewksbury, ,\ 1ass., at 3 ·:· Eugene J. Pelletier Jr. '5 1 , October 30, 200 1 , in Boston, Mass., at 4 ·:· Daniel "' · Fenner '52, October 1 8, 2 00 1 , in Fort i\Iyers, Fla., at 7 ·:· Jefferson Scott Foster '54, December 9, 200 1 , in Ods H e ad , ,\laine, at 69 ·:· Toby Lunder Lugert '56, December 1 8, 2 00 1 , i n �aples, Fla., at 6 ·:· Domenica Tranquillo Rainer '56, ovember 1 5 , 2 00 1 , in Leesburg, \'a . , at 6 ·:· William C. Foehl 59 , November

Deaths: Robert F. Becker at

2 ·:· Gerald B. Frank

'

28, 2 00 1 , in DO\·er, :\1ass., at 65.

. . . Ever since September 1 1 , 2 00 1 ,

brought more than 20 member'> into

our lives a n d priorities have changed.

the Sons of the American R evolution

But we are sti ll i n terested i n hearing

i n the last th rec years and ha'> been

from you and reading about you .

n a m e d a M i n u te m a n , the h i ghest

t Smith 1-/emy

award presented to a member by the

Greetings a n d very best wishes

color guard page to see a photo of h i m

-ivln rgnre

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S A R . (Go to tl1e Delaware Society's

for a happy and healthy 2 002 filled

i n u n i fo rm . ) Ralph a n d K a y attended

wi tl1 only good thi n gs for you a n d

graduation at Emory Un iversity in

a l l tl10se y o u love. I t is my hope tl1a t

May 2 00 1 , when t h e i r d a u gh t e r,

you w i l l feel, as I do, the importance

Naomi, was awarded her P h . D . i n

of stayi ng in touch and that you will

American history a fter I 0 years of

send along news o f yourself, your

effort, much o f it scheduled around

family and your activities to share

her ful l -time job as a n archivist at

w i th our classmates . . . .

Emory. . . . A qwck update from

J oanne

George ' 5 8 and

Wendy McWilliam

says, " See you all at our -15 th . " . . . Last

awards ceremony. The i n formation

Woods

,\ lay and J un e , Larry '56 and

Diane

about Helen went d i rectly into what

year working at H ai-vard Universi ty,

bicycled, as

I had written about Caroline Hall Hui (the name was spelled H ai i n the

tl1e last 2 3 of them spent in tl1e offices

2 000 after 2 7 years ofteach i n g seventh

of the Harvard Alumni Association.

grade social srudies and fi nds herself

the United States-more than 3 ,2 00

article), making her the distinguished

Over the years she has had tl1e pleasure

so busy tl1at she doesn't know how she

mjles from Los Angeles to Revere

guest. The last sentence shou l d have

o f hosti n g several a l u m n i trips to

ever found time to work. George and

Schnauffer Zullinger

p a rt o f an orga n i ze d tour, across

recently celebrated h e r 42nd

Denneen.

Wen d y retired i n J un e

Beach, ,\ lass . ! An extraord i n a ry feat'

read: "Among the distinguished guests

such places as the Middle East, Russia

\Vendy celebrated the retirement by

They have been biking i n earnest for

at the awards ceremony was tl1e noted

a n d Eastern Europe . . . . I made

taking a cruise to Norway, Swede n ,

2 0 years, pedaling through Germany,

African-American actor, Ossie Davis."

two wonderful Colby-related trips

Austria, Switzerland a n d Ita ly, but

The sentence made sense, but I am

i n 2 00 ! . In tl1e spring, I rerurned

i n our opinion their trip across our

sure that Caroline was quite puzzled

to campus for the Colbyettes' 50th

Denmark, F i n l a n d , Estonia and Russia

Judy (Ingram '60) and Doug H atfield. They l e ft the cruise in

w itl1

country beats a l l ' D i a n n e says she

when she read the column . . . . Anotl1er

re u n i o n , a fu n - fi l led weekend o f

Denmark to strike out on their own by

feels terrific and 3 0 years younger. . . .

classmate who keeps i n touch is John

socializi n g and song. T h e 'Ettes of

ferry and tra i n . Vlendy and George's

Don't forget the big reunion coming

E des . John and his wife, Va lerie, have

today planned everything, including

daughter, Sue, who is a teacher i n

up i n J un e . Lots of excitement in the

seven children, n i ne grandch i l d ren

a gala concert fea nll"i n g songs and

California, w a s married last August.

w i nd and it appears that the rurnout

and one great-grandson (goodness').

singers from every decade. They are

They planned, long distance, for a

will be strong.

All n i ne grandcruldren are actively

a fantastic group of young women .

beach wedding, wi tl1 a

i n volved in sports and a re d o i n g

The concert was very well attended

the following week. They often see

outstanding work i n t h e classroom.

(folks were even sitting on the chapel

Si nce moving to Florida, Va lerie has

Aoor), and every group was cheered

Charlotte Wood MacPhetres, Deb Wilson Albee, Ted and Liz Boccasile Mavis and the H atfields-just had

o make )'Our plans

now, a n d we'll see you a l l i n J une.

-Guy n11d Eleanor Ewing V igue

. H . reception

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\'ery slim pickins this time­

been involved i n their church, and

on by the audience. Prof. Peter Re

ngni11.

Please take a few m i nutes right

at present she is having some of her

was our special guest. In November,

their w i n ter re u n i o n a t H a t fi e l d

now to fi l l out the questi o n n a i re

poetry published. John is sti l l active

I Rew to Florida to spend several days

House before Doug a n d J udy move

and put in a fact or two. Any and

with the Smithfield, R . J . , Lions Club,

with

a l l i n formation is welcome . . . . \ \'e

specifically i n the area of "cancer in

and

Jo have faithful responders.

Cyndy Crockett Mendelson Jane Mills Conlan at Cyndy's

reports that he a n d h i s w i fe, J a n e

(WVU class ot '60), have been enjoy­

to a new home .

. . . Pete Henderson

Helen

children," and he recently chaired

lovely condo in Naples. vVe went

is a s e m i - retired

tl1e annual golf tournament, raising

sightseeing, talked a n d l a ughed to

ing their f our grandchi l d ren (two in

professor o f education. She has been

several thousand d o l l a rs for t h i s

our hearts' content and were able,

l i ' i n g on � a nrucket I s l a n d for a

Nashv i l l e and two i n Orlando), their

cause . . . .

Cynthia Gardner Bevin's

with the uncanny ability that Colby

number of year

new lake house at Lake i\ 1 a rrin i n

husband, Doug, died after a four-year

alums seem to have, to take up where

acti' e " orking as a volunteer for The

Alabama, sa iling on t h e l a k e and on the

battle with cancer, and Cindy decided

we left off, no matter how much time

\frican .\ leering l louse. Helen is a

Gulf of Mexico out of Apalachicola,

to move to Grantham, N . H . , to be

has passed since our last get-together.

pre<,en·ation aJ, ocate in an area " here

F l a . , w h e re they make it a p o i n t

near her long-rime friends Dick and

. . . It is my sad duty to i n form you of

people ha' e been r u i n i n g historic

Ro b i n Hunter Cl utz,

to l a u nch t h e i r s a i l bo a t a t l e a s t

the deatl1 of

from cancer.

once a year for a week. H e is sti l l

Pay on Seager

and has been ,·ery

who have a

Bill Foehl,

home through "gut rehabilitation,"

weekend house nearby. Also living i n

J'> I l e len de.,cnhe'> it. I n addition

Si ncere condolences to L i n da a n d

t h e vicin i[)· is

contemplating retirement but says,

their family.

"when you enjoy teaching as much as

Lea Chase Frey. N'ow

th!'>, .,he continues to '>ing " i th

that Cindy li,·es in .N'ew England, she

her church and communi[). 1 l e r '>On

is lots closer (but not mo close) to

to

fin!'>hed h 1 ., Ph . D .

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-A1111 Segrave Liehn

1 do, and have as great a job as r do, it is a really hard decision . " He teaches

em 1 ronmental

her childre n . This past Thanksgiving,

engmeenng at C :larbon Cni\t!r'>i[),

Cindy " ent witl1 her daugh ter, Cici

publications department at Principia,

and her ol<le'>t <laughter, a'> reported

Be,·i n Gordon ' 8 5 , and her famil�· to

Faulkner U n iversi ty, where he has

a private educational instin1tion in

e a r l i er, h a ., wcce'>sfu l l )

been since 1 994, a n d has the summers

tn

Peter Shays

is sti l l with tl1e

with the graduate business faculty at

'> U n " e<l

Cene,·a and Paris. Besides Cici 's two

ath a n c:ed-'>tage I l o<lgk 1 m d 1 '>e<l'>e.

St. Louis. He and his wife of almost

children, Cindr has another grandson

off. They make a n a n nual summer

35 years love the St. Louis area and

I l c r ) ounge.,ubughtcr ha., remarried.

trek

" ho Jj, e<, in Connecticut. Although

expect to stay right where they are for

Mai ne, visiting fa mily a l o n g t h e way

many more years . . . . Kay and

to

Pete's home in C a r i b o u ,

a cb.,.,mate from the '-e" \ ork

her l i fe c h a n ged a b ruptly i n the

Botarncal C . arden'>. The editor of t he

'>prmg, Cind) '>3 ) s she kno\1 ., she " ill

column'> apologi/ed for lea\ mg out a

<,un "e \I 1th the Im e and support of

:\"elson, \\ as born inj une 2 000. Daniel

and more sailing . . . . Charlie '6 1

line about l lclen 1n m) column 1n the

her t h ree '>uper grandchildren and

i'> already a youth registrant with the

and An 11

" 1 11ter "'"ue. I \I rote about I l e len \

her \I onderful '><>n and daugh ter. She

Son'> of the American Revolution, in

moving to Friendship, Maine, next

w

" ork

,n

and 1t

42

C

Ralph

and stopping on Penobscot Bay f or a

1e lson's first grandchild, Daniel Ross

couple of days of lobster, fried clams

Dudley DeWitt

will be

the \fnun \ leenng I l ou'>e

al,o

knm1 1 f there are ani

" h ich Ralph <,en·e<, as ambassador

cLw, mem her'> I n mg near Grantham.

year when she retires after 32 years

dl'>lln !,.'lll '>he<l gue'>t'> at the

for overseas recru iting. R a l p h has

of state se1·vicc. Their oldest son, h is

L

BY

·

S P ll

,G 2

2

'"111 b LO

wife a n d three boys will take over

travel certa i n l y was a wond e r ful

their fam i l y home i n S i dney. They

events of9/ 1 1 , the week I was to write

choice for Sandra Nolet Eielson

plan to travel and become i nvolved

this column. The Russells have spent

a n d D e a n Q u i n l a n ' B oth s h a red

i n the local church and comm u n i ty.

summers at the lake for 34 years. \Ve

o u r October a n n i v e rs a ry d i n n e r

Ann also hopes to write and perhaps

now divide our time between cottages

i n " Pa n i o l o (Cowboy) Country, "

. Latchezar

in Monson near the Appalachian Tra il

Waimea, after a tour of Pihanakalani

and Norcross near Baxter Park and

do some consulting. .

" Lucky" Christov thought that his

Ranch. Sandy regretted missing the

M i l l i nocket. Both spots are a piece of

notion o f retirement seemed okay

40th but saw reunion photos and

heaven on earth. We added kayaking to

u n t i l he actu a l l y did it. H e tried

heard the stories. Sandy and Dean

our sports agenda this past summer and

in 1 99 5 , and the attempt proved to

later extended tl1eir stay i n Paradise by

are most anxious to purchase anotl1er

be less than successful. Having had

exploring the I sland of Kauai. By the

one for use next summer. . . . Thanks

his fi l l of partners throughout his

way, Sandy's daughter, Ke rry, recently

go to Rich Simkins and commi ttee,

investn1ent ban ki n g career, he's fi nally

purchased a fabulous 400-year-olcl

who are planning such a great -+Oth

gone solo with an aggressive format

country inn in Lebasticle Esparbai­

reunion for all of us on J une 7-9,

hedge fund, with which he is very

renque i n southern France. Check i t

2 00 2 . I hope many of you are marking

happy. Living and working i n Malibu,

out o n www.lamuseinn .com; let's keep

your calendars and making plans to

Calif., gets h i m up very early (5 : 3 0

Colby's i n ternational connections

attend . . . . Elmer " Bump" Bartels

a . m . ) , but they do q u i t a t 1 p.m.

strong-it's on my list. . . . .John and

has received yet another honor, this

I continued the celebration we began

latest award from his alma mater.

and teaching two fun1re Grand Slam

with Sandy and Dean by Aying to Las

The Colby C Club presented him

winners, namely his 7-year-old son,

Vegas, then returned to

evacla in

with tl1e 200 1 Carl Nelson Sports

Stefan, and his 7-year-olcl grandson,

December for the National Rodeo

Achievcmen t Awarcl. Elmer has served

Ai dan. These guys were born three

Fina ls-both daughter Lehua a n d

as commissioner of the Massachusetts

clays apart! He knows, he k11ows, but

granddaughterTiffany work f or Aloha

R e h a b i l itation Com m i ss i o n si nce

it's the truth. As Lucky says, after a l l ,

Airlines, which ensures optimal Rights

1 97 7 and helped establish the first

m a i n l a n d destinations f or your

Bay State 'vVheelchair Games and the

Lots of time f o r afternoon tennis

it is Cal i f o rn i a . . . . Todd Marchant

to

enjoyed our -+Oth reunion and at the

class correspondent, Scraf. . . . Dee

. S . S ports and Fitness Center for

urging of Sue and Bob Hartman and

Ann and Sandy Arens, at home in

the Disabled . . . . Judy Hoagland

Claudia Lawrence Rogers attended

North Carolina, mai led spectacular

Bristol returned from T h a i l a n d ,

the Alumni College. Although Todd

M a i n e coast p h otos

which s h e and H a rry f o u n d

is sti l l w o r k i n g , he and M a ri l yn

reunion attendees, confirming that

are travel i n g at a brisk pace-two

"The Samoset experience was really

in Bangkok during the New Yea r

weeks in Switzerland a n d I taly, the

special" and mentioning wonderful

(Songkran) festiva l . J udy w a s back

National Exchange Club convention

fri e n d s , the i n cre d i b l e d i n n e r at

at Colby at the encl of April for a

i n Greensboro,

a

Conti's, the sunset sail and the golf.

Colby 1oclay program. She says it was

cousin in Iowa in September a n d

Thanks for helping us remember the

wonderful to see tl1e improvements on

T.C., a visit

to

to

pre-40th

to

be a

most interesting country. They were

a K a l e i doscope J\i l e e t i n g i n m i cl ­

best, Sandy' He and Dee Ann plan

campus and tl1e fantastic new buildings,

October. H e is unable t o attend the

to

be back i n Maine f or Summer

but tl1e best part is still the relationship

2 002 Alumni College but plans a trip

\Veekencl 2002 . . . . Bob and Jeanette

to M a i ne i n July. . . . The big news

Benn Anderson wrote about their

Dick Poland, who lives in Hiram,

from J uan and Jane Holden H uerta's

full and active family l i fe in Houlton,

N laine, writes tl1at his son, Sam '04, is

family is that their sons, J uan '92 and

M.aine, where son Chris is active

a member of the Colby Eight. If my

Jon '95, both received their M . B.A. 's

i n D a d 's insurance business. \Nith

memory serves me right, Dick, you

i n terests in a l ocal radio station

were a musician also . . . . iV I arbleheacl,

(MAG T K I 00), a racehorse and health

Mass., artist Ellie Tomlinson's most

in May 2 00 1 .

-Jane Holden Huerta

between faculty and students . . .

care fund raisers, the Anderson family

recent paintings were on exhibit at

for

has a full plate. Jeanette's incredible

the "fower School i n September. The

co11veyi11gyom· 11ews: Consider replying

c h a l lenges with multiple sclerosis

exhibit included familiar Marblehead

via the alumni questionnaire included

are dealt with daily; she monitors

scenes, painti ngs both small and large

i n this issue. If you mail a holiday letter,

the latest research religiously while

of children, sailboats and beaches, as

fax me a copy with any i nformation

conti nuing pool exercise and vitamin

well as views i n Vermont and Maine.

of interest to classmates underscored

therapy. You are an inspiration to each

I believe Ellie is designing a second

(my fax is 808-7 76- 1 479). Respond to

and every one of us, Jeanette! . . . By

reunion T-shirt for our -+Ot11. I ' m

this question: \Vas there a fac u l ty or

the time you read this column, we'll

sti l l enjoying the one designed for

staff member at Colby w h o i n s p i red

be (al most) one year closer to our

our 3 5 tl1. I t would be nice i f you

w h a t you d o to d a y ?

\\T h o w a s

45th i n J une 2006. \\Tith "family"

could bring some of your work to our

this person a n d w h y do y o u remem­

ties more important than ever during

reunion, Ellie . . . . East Boston Savings

ber h i m o r h e r ?

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H ere a re some options

\Vr i te to m e

challenging times, we hope everyone

Bank has elected Bana Cohen

d i rectly at my new e-mail address:

from ' 6 1 will attend. Y\Tarmest aloha!

serve on the board of di rectors. Bana,

dianeferreira.dscferreira@verizon.net.

-Dia11e Scmfton Ferreim

Deliver your news by pre-arrangement at any Aloha Airli nes \Vest Coast

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to

a Swampscott resident, is the senior partner at Cohen & Company i n

My apologies for missing the

Boston . . . . Dick Schmaltz \\TOte that

desti n a t i o n ( O a k l a n d or O ra n ge

fal l dea d l i ne for the winter issue. The

he had just retired as chief im·estment

County in California or Las Vegas,

m111 s ition from an idyllic summer at

officer ofJ\ \T Seligman, in New York.

Nev.). Avoid snail or e-ma i l : travel to

the lake

Hawaii f o r insta n t del ivery1 . . . Hawaii

home and reality caught

He remains as a consultant. D ick

me by surprise, to say notl1 i ng of the

and his w i fe , Joan ( D ignam '63),

to

1960s Correspondents 1960 Jane Holden H uerta 2955 Whitehead Street Miami, FL 33133 305-446-5082 classnews1960@a lum.colby.edu 1!>61 Diane Scrafton Ferreira Pihanakalani Ranch P.O. Box 249 Pa 'Auilo, H I 96776 classnews1961@a lum .colby.edu 1962 Patricia Fa rnham Russell 16 Sunset Avenue Hampden , ME 04444 207-942-6953 classnews1962@alum.colby.edu 1963 Karen Forslund Fa lb 245 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 61 7-864-4291 cla ssnews1963@alum.colby.edu 1964 Sara Shaw Rhoades 76 Norton Road Kittery, ME 03904-5413 207-439-2620 classnews1964@a lum .colby.edu 1965 Richard W. Bankart 20 Va lley Avenue Apt. D2 Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 201-664-7672 classnews1965@a lum.colby.edu 1966 Meg Fa llon Wheeler 19 Rice Road P.O. Box 102 Waterford, ME 04088 207-583-2509 classnews1966@alum .colby.edu Linda Buchheim Wagner 199 Exeter Road Hampton Falls, NH 03844 603-7 72-5130 classnews1966@a lum.colby.edu

1967 Robert Gracia 295 Burgess Avenue Westwood, MA 02090 781-329-2 101 classnews1967@a lum.colby.edu Judy Gerrie Heine 2 1 H i l lcrest Road Medfield, MA 02052 508-359-2886 classnews1967@a lum.colby.edu

1968 Nancy Dodge Bryan 7 Weir Street Extension H i ngha m , MA 02043 78 1-740-4530 cla ssnews1968@alum.colby.edu 1969 Sari Abul-Jubein 257 Lake View Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617-868-8271 classnews1969@alum.colby.edu

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e l d e rl y mother l i ve., with Pam m

The people on campus are \'ibrant,

i\ Iass. Pete says Rich has the most

i n Rowayton, Conn., and a second

and you \1· i l l be truly a m a zed at

beautiful gardens and retail shop in

Bangor, and they have a '>um mer place

one on Spring Island, S.C. Daughter

the physical plant and what is avail­

Byfield as well as the Grog restaurant

in Forest Ci ty, ,\ 1ai ne. Pam took her

H e i de is Col br Class of '8 , and they

able to students. The m useum is

in

have four gra�dchiJdren. Joan pla);S

an unbelie,·able treasure as are the

d i sg u s t i n g l y young and

platform tennis and is ranked # 1 with

science fac i l i ti e s . " D i ck adds that

shape, w h i c h m i g h t e x p l a i n w h y

Henderson Ferguson '29. There are

her parmer i n Darien. Dick, whose

health is good, family is terrific, and

thei r daughter is ranked first i n

several summer folk at Forest City

maintain two homes o n t h e water, one

ewburyport. The Simkins are in gre a t ew

mother to Houl ton to l unch "'ith her mother's h i gh school classmate Ethel

major interests revolve around sports

there is plenty to keep them a l l on

England i n her ri ding class. I believe

with Colby ties: Bruce Snow '64,

a n d charitable endea,·ors, serves on

the move. I might add that Dick's

our class will gather at the Simki ns's

J a n e J oh n son M o rri l l '64, D i a n a \Veatherby ' 6 7 , A n n Jefferson Barnes

two library boards and on boards at

letter was written on September l I ,

place for a pre-reunion on Thursday,

Colb)'· Dick says, " As this w i l l be our

2001 .

June 6, 2002. Pete had just returned

'57 and Peggy Dyer Parcel '60. Pam

reunion year, I encourage all who can

that same week that he had just visited

to

.C., from 1 ew York

a l so d i n e d with Ann a n d Forrest

to make the pi lgrimage to \\'aten·ille.

with Pat and Rich Simkins in Byfield,

City when he wrote . . . . Pan1 Taylor's

Barnes '56 and Gordon Johnson '30,

.

. . Pete Duggan also wrote

judith mag '' I ' m l i ke the TV show The Pretender, " said J ud i Maga l haes Garcia '63. True, but u n l i ke the pretender, who helps others as a lawyer one

Charlotte,

rcia '63

s

blue, yel low-over printed material to a lter t h e con­ trast between the words and t h e page a nd deter­

week a n d a medical exa m i n e r or test pilot or virologist the next, Garcia

m i n e which combi nation of colors gives t h e best

has a ided real people i n real need . And all because of a d isa bil ity,

view of the world . The results a re sta rtl i ng. O n e little boy exc l a i m ed , ' I

u n d iagnosed for years, that t u rned out to be a blessing.

ca n weed 1"' s h e said . T h e t i nted lenses that worked for her, s h e says,

Words moved up and down on the page or looked j u m bled to her d u ri n g her days at Col by. She majored in S pa n i s h , she says, because

may help dyslexics and even autistic c h i ld re n . " I m a d e it my job t o f i n d o u t if t h e k i d s I worked with were l ea r n i ng

"everyone lea rning a foreign la nguage had the sa me learning problem I

d i sabled , " Garcia sa i d . She vol u n ta r i l y visited students' homes, only to

h a d , in the sense that you have to concentrate on every si ngle deta i l . "

d i scover mothers suffering m u ltiple sclerosis or l u pus or c h ro n ic fatigue

S h e stud ied i n M a d rid a n d after graduation went back to S pa i n t o teach

syndrome.

English for two and a half years.

After 10 years with the American Field Service placing American

" A l l these little things-you cou l d n ' t h e l p but con nect the dots , " she sa i d . "Scotopic sensitivity is hered itary. The c h i l d re n were all c h i l d ren

students with i nternational host fa m i lies and t ra i n i ng vol u nteers i n both

of c h ronic i m m u ne system problems. Then I was diagnosed with l u pus,

the U . S . a nd a broad, she spent more t h a n a year in Mexico as a

which was a nother piece of the puzz le . "

vol u nteer tea c h i ng S pa n i s h to foreigners a n d English to Mexica ns. I n

Garcia says she " d a bbles" i n resea rch on the con nections between

M 1a m 1 1 n t h e 1980s s h e moderated focus groups, primarily with Mariel

i m m u n e deficiency, scoto pic d isease a n d lea rning d isabil ities, even offer­

refugees from C u ba , a n d ended u p as a vice president of the company

ing herself as a research gui nea pig. Although a stroke in 1 997 forced

conducting the groups.

her to retire from social work, she sti l l vol u nteers as an l rlen screener.

"It was because of my education at Col by, because I was bili ngua l , t h a t I could d o a n y o f these 1obs , " she said. "You're taught t o f l y b y t h e seat o f y o u r pa nts . " S h e headed t h e personnel department a t a tem porary n u rs i ng service

An l rlen a postle, Garcia says she spots people strugg l i n g to read labels i n a grocery store or kids on the street whose getups declare them "goths" and offers names a n d add resses they can refer to for help. I n the long ru n , her scotopic d i sa bi l ity has been a boon, she says: " I f I

in M ia m i , served a s a hospice vol u nteer, then beca me a soc ial worker

had n't had the problem, I wou l d n 't be a b l e to i d entify it a n d recommend

in youth services 1n Texas. At a middle school she worked in a progra m

a remedy. "

called Red Flags of Lea r n i ng D1sabll 1ty. " Not u ntil I was fifty-fou r d i d I know I had a problem , " Garcia sa i d . The problem , first 1den­ t1f1ed by educational psychologist Helen

Garcia volu nteered to ma nage her town­ house com plex after she retired and vol u nteers today with 60 Plus, a Houston coa l ition of c h u rches and progra ms such a s Eng­

l rlen 1 n the early 1980s. 1 s scotop1c

l i s h as a Second Language. She a l so

sens1 1v1ty syndrome or l rlen syn­

cares for her 86-year-old mother.

drome. a sens1t1v1ty to l ight that causes words to move up a n d down o r a p pear a s black o r h lte spo s o n a printed page.

Vol u nteerism is swee ping the cou ntry since the September attacks, Garcia says. " Everyone i s focusing on what they can do for someone else.

Doc or-prescribed tinted eye­

That's why I can wa l k up to people

glasses offer a remedy.

and say, 'You've got scotopic . ' Now

Garcia rained o be a n l rlen screener, a n opera ion that nvolves laying p1ast1c letter size ransparenc1es of differing shades-green ,

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you see what I mea n , " she said , " a bout the l i bera l a rts . " -Robert Gillespie

and she is in touch with Suzanne

Burleigh Meyer, J ean Koulack­ Young and Comtie Fournier, who was doing a tour of teaching in Kosovo.

Thanks so much, Pam, for a l l the updates . . . . See you all in J u ne.

-Pat Fan1hm11 Russell

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Ann Bruno Hocking is sti l l

busy w ith volu n teering as president of the \Va l l i n g ford, Con n . , K iwanis Club a n d with her rea I estate business and i s far from reti r i n g. H er son Ross is graduating from Suffo l k Law School, and her son Ben ma rried a C o l b y g r a d u a te . . . . Fred S e a rs has l i ved on H i lton Head I s l a n d , S . C . , w i t h h i s w i fe, M a r y Hugh, si nce 1 99 2 . A reti red I BM senior engineering m a n ager, Freel spends t h ree months a yea r as a volunteer cons u l t a nt overseas with Agricu l ­ t u re C o o p e r a t i v e D e v e l o p m e n t I nternational/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance, a private, nonprofit group dedicated to i nter­ nationa I agribusi ness partnersh ips.

His reward "is giving other cou n ­ t r i e s m a n agement a d v i c e on how to orga n i ze, prepare and support their i n formation systems." Fred has worked on both i mprov i n g farmi n g i n Eth iopia and i n b u i l d i ng publ ic parks i n Bolivia . . . . W i l l ia m Withere l l e - m a i l s that si nce 1 97 7 he h a s been l iving and work ing in Paris, where he is the d i rector for ti nancial, fisca I and enterprise affa i rs at the Orga n i za ­ t i o n f o r E c o n o m i c C ooperation and Development, w h ich is made up of some 3 0 advanced i ndustri a l country members. Bi l l m a n ages a large i nternationa I secreta riat team of economists, lawyers a nd statisticians respon s i b l e for c a r r y i n g out the OECD's pol icy ana lysis and research, i ncluding ma ndates such as counter­ ing bribery in i nternation a l com ­ merce, money lau ndering and tax evasion and strengthen i n g corporate governa nce world-w ide. He enjoys the i nternational travel involved, but he and his w i fe, Edie, now retired from teaching, look forward to their reti rement yea rs-they hope back in New England and closer to their five grow n - u p c h i l d ren a n d f o u r grandc h i l d ren . . . . Marsha Palmer Reynolds conti nues com m u t i n g from Stamford, Con n . , t o New York City, where she teaches m iddle school science at The Chapin Schoo l . As the Class 6 supervi sor, she meets with a l l the parents of the grade a nd oversees the genera l wel l - being of the 55 girls in Class 6. Her husband,

J oh n , is a teacher atthe Trin ity School in N.Y.C. They had a wonderful visit this past fa l l at their summer home in

CHARLES J. HELY '68 What h e does Massachusetts Su perior

Biddeford, M a i ne , with Cile Tougas Nix, her new husband, Ken, and their two dogs. They are a lso sti l l close with Myriam 1\1ontrat '94, who spent her Jan Plan with them, and enjoyed a memorable visit to Myria m's fa m i l y i n Ivory Coast a few years ago . . . . A note from James McConchie says that " I am spending less time at the office and more time with my fa mi ly.

Nly m a i n pursuit cont i n ues to be development of the Susan B . Anthony birthplace museum in North Adams, Mass., where we hope to start some of the h i storical renovations next spring." . . . Coral Crosman expects to be th rough her "clay job" and on to another related to her own writi ng/pu bl ish i ng busi ness, Porphy­ rion P ress, w h ic h produced her

Re111emberi11g the Future; Poems ofFour Dewdes, 1 957- 97 in 2000. She hoped to go to Mex ico this spring to visit her son and new daughter- i n - l aw, who is doing a Fulbright in arts-related research there. In her free time she enjoys her two gra ndch i lei ren a ncl has been read ing an excellent biography of Herman Melv i l le, the subject of her '63 Jan Plan-which gives her this "fu l l circle" feel i ng. . . . Pauline Ryder Keze1· w rote at Ch ristmas that it had been a healthy year-no more cancer' And she loves the flexibility of her own consu lting business. She was a l l set to teach in Jordan and Israel for th ree weeks this past fa l l but cancelled when the violence broke out in Rama llah, where she was to be teach ing' She is sti l l singing i n t h e church choir a n d is busy with a l l the chi ldren and grandchildren.

Her husband, Ken, is contemplating retirement from teaching i n J une . . . .

Karen Beg·a11 11y Bryan has enjoyed her position as class representative to the Alumni Counci l . And th rough her Colby connections she renewed her acquainta nce with Don "Skeeter" Megath l i n '59, and they a re engaged to be married and w i l l l ive in Cotuit, M ass. She had news of Dee Dee Wilson Perry, who has been recover­ ing from both broken shoulders and a broken leg from a fa l l last November.

Dee Dee spent three months in the Spaulding· Rehabil itation Hospital in Boston and is fortu nate at this point to be back at work. K a ren a l so has seen Be,· '6 1 a n d Liz Rowe Lapham, who l ive i n ;\ lerecl ith, N'. H . , where L i z makes the "most beautiful baskets." . . . The Falb news is thatwe

Court j udge.

Where he went recently The People's

Republic of C h i n a on a j ud icial excha nge progra m .

H i s view o f the C h i n ese view o f c o u rt Not

a place to seek j ustice but a place to avoid at all costs.

What struck h i m a b o ut the C h i n ese j u d i ­ c i a l system The j udges work i n "a

system that expects the accused to a l ways confess . " What h e apprec iates now The funda mentals of the English a nd

American j u d i c i a l syste ms a n d "the t h i ngs we ta ke for granted . " The legacy he'd l i ke t o leave " T hat I cou ld contri bute to people

having t h e i r cases resolved and leaving the cou rt with a sense of hope . "

are buying a house in Cumberland, M a i ne. I am also busy keeping up with school activities. A wonderful Christmas gift came in the form of an early college acceptance for our older daughter. . . . Barb H aines Chase looked forward to an Elclerhostel trip to Costa Rica this spring. This w i nter she and Bill skied at Okemo for free as he is a volunteer in their first aid station. She and her roommates Sally Morse Preston and Mary Michelrnore Hayes, who is in the process of a slow recovery from pneumon ia, plan ned a reunion this spring. Barb had a fun time being one of Al Carvil le's aides for fund raisi ng, as did Thomas Thomas, who ca I led me. Both, and I 'm sure A l , too, say thanks t o a 11 who contributed and especi a l l y thanks for the t i me spent chatting.

-Karen Forslund Falb

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This will be the most out-of­ date column you have ever read. I asked you a l l what you were doing for Thanksgi,ring, and here are your answers' . . BJ Campbell wrote, "I will spend Thanksgivi ng "'ith my parents in Bradenton, Fla . . . . My mom has become legally blind due to eye problems and laser surgery that didn't work, and my dad is drifring further into his Alzheimer's. I t "i l l be an i n teresting few clays and a chance to reconnect with my parents in person and share this part of their lives with them." BJ said her son, Da,,i d, and Ii.is \life, Liz, were expecting twin daughters sometime in February or ii larch. " I 've started knit­ ting for them," she said, "something I ha,·en't clone in rears, and which

I began at Colby while waiting for the dining room to open." . . . Judy Fassett Aydelott has been to Prague, Budapest, etc. She "got sick with the Buda Pest! Actually Pete's was low­ gracle pneumonia . . . recovered from that for two-plus weeks and then on to care for daugh ter, Barb, who was expecting twins in December but delivered Brady E l isabeth and then Ty Peter Mountain on Tovember 6." . . . Jean Martin Fowler was in Kusadasi, Tu rkey, on September 1 1 , "completing the 'vacation of our dreams' around the !V [ecliterranean on a cruise," with extensive tours, including Nice, Florence, Pompeii, Ven i ce and Athens. "It feels very strange to be away from home and family when your country is attacked.

I am sti l l working for Johnson and Johnson. I have a global responsi bili ty, so I travel around the world. This is sti l l very interesting for me-I am especi a l l y fascinated with the Asia Pacific region . . . . After September 1 1 , J &J asked us to hold back on travel for a while. I was scheduled to be in 1\. I a l aysia in October but canceled the trip." She said she looks forward to the next reunion at Colby. . . .

Diane and Dick Friary vacationed in \ Vashington state. For the trip, Dick bought 2 0 paperbacks by mystery writer Robert B. Parker '5-1--"You're right i f you think I would spend a vacation in a libra ry," he said-and was happy to find, among the expected detecti,,e stories, Love and Glory, "an unexpected coming-of-age love nm·el (if that's a genre)." Dick says he was surprised to find that the story begins "·ith Colby students on il 1ayflower H i l l-and that Onie's, "if the novel

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is t o b e belie,·ed," sen·ed underage

great-grandparents in their 90s (a

drinkers in the 1 950s . . . . Th.is Thanks­

couple of years ago we went to their

giving was Gloria Shepherd's

70th wedding anniversary)-so there

rum

to prepare dinner. "I ordered smoked

should be about 30-plus people. My

ham and turkey from Harrington's

daughter wi l l be home from college

in Vermont," she said. " I just hope

for the event- very much something

that the package arrives on time;

I look fonvard to." . . . Barb Carr Howson was to spend Thanksgi,ring

otherwise this will be a vegetarian meal. In addition, as plan A, I intend

Day in Gaithersburg, M d . , at her son

to make some of the Thanksgiving

.\ I.ichael's house, with his wife and

dishes from the :\'"o,·ember issue of

daughter, age 2. David is now a grad

Gomwet magazine. . . . As the time

student at Yale's Drama School, going

approaches and I begin to feel less

for his .\ l . F.A. in meater management.

ambitious, ho,,·ever, some items are

.\ I. ichael works at a globalization firm

being removed from my plan A menu

in .\ Iaryland and goes to Georgetown

and items from plan B (frozen and

Law at night (third year). Lesley

canned foods) are replacing them.

works for an insurance company in

I have to get a burst of energy to

Towson, N ld. And Susan is a junior at

go back to plan A. After a l l , it

is

Bryn i\ Iawr College in Pennsylvania.

Than ksgiving, and guests deserve

"All will be mere1 I will just kick back,

a gourmet meal." . . . Lois Lyman

hug a lot, and listen to them all," she

\\TOte: "It has been a n unsettling year

said . . . . I found it very refreshing

for us, personally as well as nationally.

l ast T h a n ksgi v i n g

I lost

brother to brain cancer last

all the normal ways you would be

spring, and my sister, who lives in

celebrating, and I felt quite linked

Ill\'

to

to all of you. J\Iay your summer

is i n the middle of the terrorism

be as warm and comfortable as last

upheavals. She ,,·imessed the plane

Thanksgiving was.

crash at the Pentagon as she was

P l an fo r R et i re m e nt?

read about

\'irgirua and works i n l\'ashington,

driving by, had her office (two blocks

To o B u sy J u g g l i n g L i fe to

-Sam Shaw Rhoades

from the \\'hire House) evacuated,

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i n fo@tewhey.com, report a m i n i ­

If you're like many Colby alumni you're too busy building a career and raising a family to spend much time planning for retirement.

But planning while you're young is important,

G l oria and John Tewhey,

especially in light of the latest changes in the tax code.

\\ ere at the Capitol, had to be tested

rew1ion i n Gorham, N iaine, last Jw1e

for And1rax. I can't persuade her

a s .\ i ay - L i s a n d Jay Gro n l u n d ,

Colby's Deferred G ift Annu ities can

to mo,·e back here-she's an urban

J i m Morang '6-t, B i l l Snow '66 and

per on and would go nuts in rural

Dave Svenden '6-t gathered for a

- help with retirement planning

,\ laine." Lois ran imo Bobbie Rob­

Tewhey n ep h e w 's w e d d i n g . . . .

bin

Walker at a blood drive in

Linda Wakefield Larou, laro u @

- help you avoid most capital gains tax on appreciated assets

Camden and reports that " i t was

sunydutchess.edu, reports that she

lcl\ elr to talk with her. I think as we

is an associate professor, depart­

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get older our college friends mean

ment of English and humani ties,

e\·en more to us." . . . Sue Sawyer

at Dutchess Community College in

McAlary said that the .\ lcAlary crowd

Poughkeepsie, N .Y. . . . Dana Abbott,

i!> mo' ing to Chicago so Brian can

dabbon@ACSDefense.com, e-mails:

start a ne\I c l i n i cal job at Rush­

"After almost 10 years in

Pre'>b) terian ,\Jedical Center. ":\'"or

� . H . , we are in the midst of moving

looking forn ard to being in the ci ty,

into our new home in ;\ lontgomery,

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And best of all, your gift annuity ultimately will help build Colby's endow­ ment-for scholarships, faculty development and other Colby needs.

Tashua,

but there <,hould be lots to do," she

Ala., where I 'm opening a new office

'a id. "Thanksgi,·ing " i ll be in our

for ACS. Clair and I are bod1 excited

nC\\ apartment in Elmhurst." . . .

about the climate change after die

provide a si:able and immediate tax deduction

If you are age

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and your annual i ncome for l i fe at 65 would be

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endless winter i n N . H . \Ve did note

'' ill hmt a'> usual and I enjO) that . . .

that pulling up roors was much harder

Not sure when you will retire? Ask for an illustration of our flexible

our famil) doe'> it poduck st)·le !>O it's

no\\ than for our 2 1 Air Force moves."

deferred gift annuity. I t gives you a deduction now and

not a huge ta.,k for an) one, and I like

. . . ,\Jso on the move are Ann and

not ha' 1ng to lea' e home . . . . Our

Bud

lets you decide later when to begin receiving payments

Joan ,\ I c

l a rvin, .\ l u l e 8 8 7 @ aol .com.

that the football follO\\ ers

Bud '' rote that they "sold their ru rn ­

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the II\ mg room (and ll'>ten to Tb1·

to\\ nhou!>e in nea rby l Iooksett to

address, p h o n e n u m be r and bi rthdates of

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cn10) <,ome COUlltf)' Ji,'ing. l kne\I It \\ J'> J good mO\ C \\ hen f S3\I the

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the footh ill,

mai ntenance ere'' arri' e to mO\\ my

Steve G reaves, D i rector of P l a n n e d G i v i ng, or

of the 'i1c rr,1' . .. It\ ah' J) ' a h1g e' cnt

Ja,, n and clean up the lea' es. l keep

read Chri,tma., idea magazine'>

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i ntended b e n e fi c i a r i e s to: Sue C ook, Associate D i rector of P l a n n ed G i v i n g C o l by C o l l ege, Watervi l l e, M a i ne 04901 phone 207-872-32 1 0 or fax 207-872-3073

fu n d r a i s in g f o r severa l o r ga n i ­ z a t i o n s . " . . . C h a r l i e B o n sa l l , carbon s a l l @ a o l . com, reports t h a t he and Yolanda " a r e well and en joy­ ing our two l i ttle granddaughters.

Although we live in Utah, we get back to Waterville freq uently to visit parents and other relatives. S i n ce retiring from the FAA in 1 998, I have done some consul ting engineering work and even tried long-haul truck drivi ng for a while. Every l i ttle boy wants to drive 1 8-wheelers1 As one of my retirement projects, I am working on a history and soldier genealogies ( l , 1 2 3 ) for the 1 3 th Maine I n fantry Regiment. If you have ancestors (or think you might) who served i n that regiment, I would like your inf orma­ tion, and I can share a great deal of information with you." . . . Theresa and John Bragg spent two weeks i n spring 'O l on a cruise through the Panama Canal wi tl1 Dave Watterson '67 and his w i fe, Cathy . . . . Pat Campbell of Saco, M aine, exhibited in the 200 1 Portland Museum of Art Biennial tl1at featured 88 works by 5 8 artists chosen from 8 3 1 applicants.

Pat has a n M.F.A. in textiles from the University of Georgia and an M . F.A. in fiber from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and has been on the faculty of a number of universities and art insti tutes . . . . The Chrisonas 200 1 mai l bag disclosed tl1e fact that Tom Donahue is sti l l "chasing, counting and inventoryi ng wild horses in the \Vind River range o f \ Vyoming in the company of tl1e Shoshone people. f f you haven 't ridden a t a wild, mad, uncontro l l e d ga l l o p a m o n g w i l d musta n gs across open coun try, I recommend, frankly, that you not do so. I was never so scared i n my l i fe.

It was thri l l i n g, but definitely not habit forming. I did learn a lot about Shoshone l i fe, and a huge amount about wild horses, l i fe i n a tepee, and just how eight to 10 hours each day in the saddle i n wild country can affect proAigate I rish teachers of Spanish l i terarnre who inhabit 5 8-year-old bodies. I now know exact61 why God created J ack D a n i e l s . " . . Hail, Colby, H a i l i -Richard W Bm1kart

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Colby has forwarded to me a fascinatingaccountofAllen Thrnop's f our- m a n , 1 8 -day trek across the J u n e a u Icefield from Skag\\'ay to J u neau last spring. E i ghty-pound packs, whiteouts, avalanche dangers, airlifts, snow Aeas, wolverines-this was not a trip for sissies1 \Vant to read

about it yourselves? Contact me1 From] uncau we go to Istanbul, where Jan Holt Arsan and her husband, •

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Noyan, have a view of the Bl ack Sea and the Bosphorus from their faculty housing at Koc Universi ty, w h e re Noyan teaches accounting and finance. J a n works half time f or Georgia State U n iversity developing an international fund-raising program.

She has spent more than nine years in Istanbul since 1 965 . . . . Congrarnla­ tions to Dr. William H. Koster on h i s September 200 1 appointment as CEO of Ieurogen Corporation, one of the nation's leading drug discovery and development companies. B i l l 's impressive resume includes 30 years' experience as a respected scientist, executive and leader i n his field . . . .

Good to have news of Steve Rand, who lives i n Plymouth, N . H . , where he works in his 92 -year-old fam ily hardware business. Hobbies include golf, travel, Rotary and visits with his granddaughter in San D iego. Steve sees E1·ic Werner on Eric's annual trip home from England. Steve also inquired about Bill Kittredge. The C o l l e ge says that B i l l d i e d Aug. l 0, 1 98 8 . . . . Connie Midworth DeUmuth's four grandchi ldren are just two hours away from her home in Phi ladelphia, so she and Ten-y, her husband of 34 years, get to play with them often. Connie is a part-time consultant i n chil dren's mental health.

A priority now is to see the world cheaply via backpacks, hostels, etc., with recent o·avel destinations includ­ ing Newfoundland and the South Pacific . . . . 81·i11g the l1Vr1r f-10111e1 is the t i t l e o f Barry Wil l dorPs recently published novel portrayi ng tl1e advenrnres of a newlywed student activist couple put to the test by their efforts to organize Marines against the Viemam \Var. Barry drew upon his own experiences at Camp Pendl eton in 1 970-7 1 . He lives in San Francisco with his w i fe of 3 3 years and has tl1ree grown daughters . . . . Russ Monbleau is sel f-employed i n the insurance business. He writes, " F i fteen years ago, if anyone would have suggested that someday I'd be an insurance salesman, I would have taken him out back and beaten him to death. The upside, however, is that this career can last f orever, which is only a few years short of my current projected retirement target." Russ rem a i n s committed to youtl1 sports programs and is the New Hampshire State Babe Ruth Softbal l commissioner. . . . \ \'hat a surprise to ha\'e a long e-mai l from

Judy Kelley Casey after a l l these

a somber theme emerged. Recent

years1 Her l i fe has not been easy, but J udy is a survivor, or, as she puts it, "a tough old broad," having experienced c h a l l e n ges such as di vorce, brain surgery, tough-love parenting and a recent car accident. The good news is she's here to tel l about it a l l , has two great adult kids, is a social worker living in Marion, N.Y., and is looking f orward to reti ring and movi ng back to Maine someday. J udy went back to Colby last summer, visiting Connie Day in Ve rmont on the way. She hopes to be i n touch with more Colby friends and sends her best to a l l . . . . Another surprise-an e-mail from Peter Fellows of Cha rlotte, N . C. Tw ins Nicole Louise and Drew Hobson Fellows were born to Pete's son and his wife on December 4 (the same day my granddaughter Emma Louise vVheeler was born!). Pete writes w i th pride of w i fe Cathy's Principal Fellowship award and her dil igence in furthering her education in school administration . . . . The year 200 1 was a n eventful year for Ted Houghton, grandfather of five.

A diagnosis of tongue cancer i n May led to surgery and radiation and then good news of a clean bill of health in October-al l cause "to think about 'tl1e meaning of l i fe."' Ted retired in September and awaits tl1is spring's acquisition of a Class C motor home for lots of future road touring. Jeff Quadland of Ontario, Canada, visited Colby '66's Ted in October. . . three geology majors a l l spent tl1eir careers in the profession and sti l l com­ municate reg·u larly with their mentor, Dr. Donaldson Koons, reports geolo­ gist Peter Anderson. Peter listed a mil lion recent Colby connections even though he hangs out i n faraway California, where he had a recent visit from Allen Throop. Peter came east at Thanksgiving and spent an even ing at Dag Williamson's home witl1 Dick Dunnel and Fran Finizio, "refinmg tl1e art of lying." Chrisonas was spent in Buenos Aires visiting wife Elena's relatives and friends. An alumni i ntervie\\'er, Peter is impressed with the caliber of Colby applicants he's meeting tliese days . . . . E-mail is a great news gathering tool. But paring

e-mai l s from classmates have con­ tained reminders that regular screening

down your life stories to a few details due to sp,1ce limitations feels brutal.

Don't let it keep )"OU from staying in touch. And contact me i fyou "·anr more news of anyone mentioned abO\·e.

-.\'atalie Bowerman Zaremba

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As we prepared this column,

f or cancercan be l i fesaving1 Therefore, this column is going to become a public service a n n o u ncement to re m i n d classma res o fthe importance of regular scre-:: n ings . . . . Our first message was from Eric Rosen, who just had s u rgery for prostate can cer. T h e doctor told him that he got it a l l ; the reason-early d iagnosis. Eric wrote, "I had no symptoms, but had my PSA test a n n u a l ly. l t was only slightly above normal, -+.8. It is a difficult surgery but wortl1 it. So, I u rge a l l o u r classmates t o b e tested annual ly.

It is a simple blood test. I want to thank classmates Dr. Jim Bright, Jim Thomas and Jim Wilson . J i m Bright provided valuable medical guidance for me, and he, Jim Thomas and J i m \Vi Ison gave moral support. The Colby connection was very important to me in the last few months. Fi nal ly, if any of our classmates have a similar problem they can contact me and I w i l l be glad to support them i n any w a y through w h a t is a stressful process. I n early generations, prostate cancer was never talked about. It is more so now and shoul d be because there are a lot issues for men to deal witl1." . . . Our next contact was from Mike and Pam Cooper Picher. i\ l ike says that the last two years have been tryi ng. "As I think you know, our good friend, Geep Simonds, died of colon cancer i n the fa l l of '99.

I was with him virtually until the encl. v\Then I gave tl1e eulogy at his memorial service, Pam was recovering from her own colon cancer surgery in Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.

Because of Geep's experience, we both scheduled full colonoscopies, and it looks like it saved Pam's l i fe.

Her tumor was well developed but had not crossed the colon wall, so while they removed half of her colon, there "'as no need of chemo. So far, \\'ith close fol low-ups, a l l has been O.K. They say rwo years is a good tl1reshold, so we are thankful, positive and hopefu l . " . . . I e-mailed the messages from Eric and ,\ like to Bob Gracia, my parmer in \\Tiring this column. H e quickly e-mai led back, saying, " I ronically, the day I read Eric's note \\'as but a week after I \\'aS told I had to make the same decision, and I was on the phone to Eric that afternoon. I can tell )'OU that it was \'ery comforting to tal k to him and benefit from his experience, and I join Eric and ;\ l i ke in urging all of our

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A l u m n i at la rge

l 960s- l 9 7 0 s

in hi story from the

with the

. S . J ustice De pa rtm ent ,

as di strict attorney f o r K e n n ebec

John A. Grieco Jr. '62 was honored by the

b e e n widely varied. I taught f or a year

East Haven, Conn., High School Alumni

at Bloomfield College in New J e rsey,

commissioner of the Maine Workers

Association at its annual Hall of Fame and

but l i ke so many academics in the

Compensation Commission .

Distinguished Graduate A\\'ards Dinner. In

early '70s I was caught in a budget

his senior year at the school, Grieco was

crunch and went into industry for

captain and catcher on the state champion baseball team and was leading scorer on the all-tournament team as a member of the state champion basketball team

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pharmaceutical executi,·e Dr. William H .

Koster '66 has been named chief executive

William H . Koster '66

n i versiry o f

G h a n a . S i n c e then, m y career h a s

officer of 1'\eurogen Corporation, one of the nation's leading drug di scovery and de,·e lopment companies

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The Ya m p a

\'alley (Colo.) Business a n d Professional Women named Jeanne Miller

Whiddon '68 Business and Professional Woman of the Year. The first woman elected Routt County treasurer, she was cited for her dedication to creating opportunities for women to succeed in business.

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Deaths: Edmund E. "Bud" Field '63, December .+,

200 1 , in Austinburg,

Ohio, at 60.

and Som erset counties, and a s a

-Nancy Dodge Biyon

years. For the last few years, I've

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been teach i n g h i story a t S u ffo l k

members o f the c l a s s this q u arter.

Nothing to report from a n y

Community Colle ge a s an adjunct.

So, guess what1 You'll be receiving

In tl1e interim, I was married to a

a q uestion n a i re from the Coll ege

journalist, Ben Thomas, but widowed

before long, w h i ch makes it rea l l y

i n 1 99 1 . vVe had no children. For fun, !

easy f o r y o u t o get i n formation into

breed and show pedigreed cats and am

my hands. I'U take it from tliere1 . . .

a Cat Fanciers' Association approved

I 'm writing this in early December,

j udge. I n add ition to tea c h i n g at

witl1 temperatures h e re in suburban

Suffolk, I teach at a private high

Chicago a mild 50 or so. It does make

school and do programs i n otl1er

f o r perfect hol iday shopping weather,

schools about a n i m a l s . I ' m also a

however-beautiful l ights in the ciry

freelance writer." . . . The next tl1ree items were gleaned from Chrism1as

f o r shopping ease1 As we l i ve the

for a011osphere and sweater weather

cards: I heard from Betsy C lark

last few days of 2 00 1 , a year that has

B ungeroth tliat she was flying to

changed us all in many ways, my wish

H awaii to spend Chrism1as with her

to you is for health, safery and loving

two daughters. Becky was flying in

relationships in a wiser new year. May

from L.A., and Heidi was stopping

we all count and cherish the blessings

t h e re o n h e r way home from a

it has been fa r too easy to assume

classmates to get regular checkups

break: she and her husband, Don,

semester in Australia . . . . Mary J o

are our birtliright while we are ever mindful o f tliose in pain and need. I t 's

and to put up with the inconvenience

visited tlieir son Aaron, Colby '03,

Calabrese Bauer w a s on h e r way

o f screeni n g tests." . . . And now

who was studying in Rome as part

to

spend Chrisonas witli her

a tough world out tl1ere. Let's pledge

for the good news1 Irv Faunce was

of the Temple Un iversity program.

daughter, Chrissy, who is planning

to make it a little less tough, however

very happy recently to make contact

Their older son, Adam, graduated cum

to

witl1 long-time "lost" alumnus Dana

laude in May of 'O l from the College

Jo is also l oo k i n g f o rward

Gladstone. He' a happ�·semi-retired

of Engineering at the

n i versiry

1 1 -day Alaskan cruise i n J uly. . . .

L.A.

to

be married next summer. J\ lary to

and whenever we can.

an

-Brenda Hess Jordan

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actor Ji,·ing in Los Angeles, Calif.,

of ,\ J a ine and is currently a naval

Nancy Thomas Fritz wrote from

enjoying l i fe wi tli Ophelia, his -year­

architect at die Portsmoutl1 Shipyard.

old daughter. H is son.Jason, J i ,·es out

J oyce and Don have an antiques and

PrO\ridence, R . I . , tl1at she has changed her job from teaching ESL to being

there also and recently announced to

collectibles business named i\ l a inely

tl1e di rector of adult education. She

announcement t h a t Duncan Hewitt was chosen from among hundreds of

Hello, classmates' Congratula­

tions are i n order on the rece n t

Dana that he wants to be an actor!

Retro. Most of their sales are out

and her husband, Greg, have spent

eno·ies to exhibit in the 2 0 0 1 Portland

The College has Dana's add ress and

of state, but tliey do currently have

tl1ree Ch rism1ases in their Providence

Museum of Art Biern1ial . . . . Craig

phone nu mber. I le says he'd love

two outlets in group shops in i\Iai ne.

rental house w h i l e building a house i n

Dickinson wi·ote that he ran die

Linda

Their area of expertise is in mid-

Bristol. Although it h a s taken much

M a i ne Marathon last October. He

(.\ 1 1 tchell '66) and Lee Potter became

2 0th-century furn iture and collectible

longer than antici pated, she says, it's

ran by Terry

proud grandparents when their grand­

je\\·elry. . . . As you can see, all of

turning out even better than tl1ey'd

7, said hello to Howie Yates, who was

t0

hear from classmates. . .

Wyman 's street at mile

daughter was born on Thanksgi,;ng

us need

slow down and reassess

imagined. And they find l iving in

out walking his dog around mile 9,

morni ng. Ben, the �·ounger of die

o u r p r i o r i t i e s in l i g h t of recent

Providence convenient and delightful.

and grabbed a water bottle and some

Potter'>' rno

Ji,·es in l l i ngham,

developments in die world and in the

They are empry-nesters now that

energy gel from Debby B i ttenbender

\ l a.,.,. The older Potter son, Drum

· ' , \\ a., , 1.,1ting f or the holiday, and he

lives of our own classmates. One way

daughterJ u l ie isa freshman at Oberlin

Col lins '72 at mile 1 4 ( Dave was

tl1at you can reconnect would be to

C o l l ege. T h e i r d a u ghter Cara is

allegedly out singing in tl1e church

and hi'> \\ 1 fe, Su.,an, announced that

plan to attend die 3 5 th reunion' I f

finishing up her master's degree at

choir). Craig added that he had valuable advice a n d encouragement from Gary Burfoot, who completed

!.Om,

tO

Lee and Lmda \\ d i be grandparent!.

you ha,•en't a l ready made plans to

Oregon State and i n May w i l l be

again th1., .,pnng. Be'>t \\ I'>hes tO them

go, Jo it 110\\ . Pick up the phone

living on an icebreaker for six weeks

all. . . . J oyce Dcmkowicz H en c k l e r

and contact some of } our friends

on a scientific research expedition in

the London M a rathon in April 2 00 1

e-mailed, " � 1ncc I \ \ J'> a t C :olb� f o r

from your fra ternity or sorority, your

die Arctic. Their son, Pete, is doing

and has run maratl1ons all over the

onl)

roommate; or the people who lived ne\t door ro you as a freshman. l t

film editing in New York Ciry. .

world. Craig reported tl1at tl1e day

Joseph Jabar was nominated f o r a uperior Court judgeship by Maine

before the event he spoke with Bill Glennon, who in reaction to Craig's

on cam pm 1 11 J une.

Go,·ernor Angus King and confirmed

run ning the marathon asked, "\!\That

-Robo1 Gmci11 ([Jld ]11rfr Ce1T1e /-leine

by the Senate this fa l l . Joe served

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n1·0 terms in the ,\ 1 aine H ouse of

service w i l l be h e l d ' " . . . Chip

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L \ l ame f or

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he able to tca<.:h \\ hen I got out, I am ,1

J)lt of a mutant." \ Li) he .,o, but .,he\

gone on

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j ( )I <.:C rcurcd (<1 ftcr ){) .I ear\) from the .L �'' ero,1n o f \ la ine, \\here .,he \\ ,1.,

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director < f ma1or �TJ ft., 1 11 the Offi<.:c of

L Il l \ cr., 1 � De' elopmenr. Jo) <.:e then

.1.,.,umed the pmt of Cf( ) of the Pmc

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be a good time! See you

Rece l \ Cd an update from Judy Thoma

·· rm getung

w

1n Shirle), '\' . Y. :

that a g e ( 5 5 ) \\ hich

Representatives as a Democrat from

Altholz reported t h a t he and Linda

1 996 to 1 999 and currently is an

were planning trips

attorne}

in the \\'aterville firm of

\Vest Pa lm in tl1e wi nter. l l e spends a

tO

Las Vegas and

hnng., no">talg1a for the good old day'>

J abar, Batten, R i n ger & ,\ l u rphy,

comiderable amount of time in L.A.

\mcncan Red

on \ Li) flo\\ er 1 1 ii I . \ ftcr I left Col b) ,

\\here he ha'> practiced since 1 979.

managing clients in the film and TV

Cro" 1 11 Bm gor, \ L une, after a hnd

I \\ ent to C . hana and got a degree

I le pre\ iow. ly '>en·ed as a prosecutor

business. H e hoped to drop in on

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Dave Nelson in the spring . . . . Ted \!Veissman wrote from southeastern Iowa, where he often sees Alan Colby

flew in from Puerto Rico. Morgan Murphy came in from Switzerland and Joth and Karen B rown Davis

'70, C indy Jevne Buck '72 and B i l l

from Seattle. We had a gala class dinner

Goldste i n ' 7 2 . Ted is involved in developing wind fa rms throughout the M i d west, and h e sti l l e n joys

on Saturday night, where outgoing class president Scott McDermott led

swimming, running, biking, sai l i ng and skiing. Ted also finds time to have a second profession practicing transcendental meditation and the TM Sidhi program .

-Nn11cy Neckes D11111mt

JJ

Although I have heard very little from class members this fal l , t h e events o f September 1 1 have overshadowed whatever else has taken pl ace these last few months. My heartfelt condol ences to those o f you w h o l o s t friends, co-workers a n d relatives in t h e tragedy in N e w York City. . . . Wells Pile writes that once he compl eted a t h ree-year, $3 -1Ttil lion capital campaign to build an environmental education center for the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, he left to take a position as di rector of development and marketing at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island.

H e and his wife, J\1 arguerite, enjoy sail ingon Narragansett Bay. They also revived weekly " Beetle Cat" racing at Edgewood Yacht Club (whatever that may be1) after a 2 7 -year hiatus.

They have sons in high school and a daughter at Colorado State . . . .

Anotl1erclassmate who is contributing to tile field of heal tl1 care is Kenneth Viens, who was e l ected chair of tile MaineGeneral Health board of di rectors. Ken is a certified financial planner in Waterville, where he has been active i n numerous community organizations. His activities include serving on the board of trustees of Thomas College, as a member and past president of tl1e \Naterville Rotary Club and as president of the Waterville Area Industrial Develop­ ment Corporation. These are but a few of tile ways Ken contributes to his commu.nity. H e and his wife, J\l l a rg·aret (Felton '77), have two sons, Nicholas and Daniel. . . . That's all tl1e Colby news I have. May 2002 bring peace and prosperity to us a l l .

-Jackie Niennber Appeldorn

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The wonderful aura and rever­ ies of an i ncredible 2 5 th reunion continue to invigorate and inspire tl1e Class of '76. We had the best attendance ever, witl1 people coming from near and far. Luis de Corral, his wife, Lorraine, and two teenage kids

a sidesplitting roast of our class and our times at Col by. He tl1en passed tl1e silver chalice (is tllat what that thing is') to incoming class president Paul Boghossian. If you missed tile reunion, please make a note now to be at our 30th reunion, Jw1e 9- 1 1 , 2006.

You won't regret it! . . . More class news: we have a mini baby boom going on. Pan1 Can1e is newly married and pregnant. Sherry DeLuca is pregnant with tw ins' Becca Guild Jenness just adopted child number three, a 7-year-old from Bulgaria . . . . Lynn Leavitt Marrison has two hot shot hockey-playing daughters, and J im Gay am! his son recently competed in a national fencing tournament. H e is a fa m i ly practitioner in Oak View, Calif. . . . Ed Underwood has 1 9-year­ old twin sons. One pl ays football for Purdue, tl1e otller for Mich igan State-and one went to tl1e Rose Bowl last year1 Robert Richardson still runs track and won the triple jump at the Master's Nationals. He did slow down a bit to get remarried last year. . . . Also remarried is Wendy Swallow Willian1s, who chronicled her previous breakup in a book called Breaking Apnrt. She is chair of journal­ ism at American University. . . .

The Class of '76 boasts lots of otl1er educators out there. Karl Methven is dean of faculty at Proctor Academy, Joy Sawyer-Mulligan is teach ing at Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., where her husband, Michael, is headmaster, and Diane Lockwood Wendorf is a min.ister of Christian education at First United Church in Oak Park, I l l . . . . John Lumbard serves on tile conservation commission of Tew Hampshire, and Esther Smith Bozak judges dog agility contests in her spare time . . . . Abdillahi Rija1 is serving on a U.N. peacekeeping mission on tile border of l raq and Kuwait; he has also been on missions in South Africa and Cambodia . . . . I 'm fi l ling in while Jane Souza Dingman convalesces from an accident last fal l . Please send • • •

news to me at adleb@aol.com, Paul Boghossian at pobogie@aol.com or Jenny Frutchy Ford at frutchy@ aol . com. Thanks' -rhm 01111/np Le8011rdais

JJ

This is tl1e last colunm before our 2 5 th 1 I hope you are working

out you r schedu les to attend our wonderful once-in-a-l i fetime reW1ion weekend , J une 6-9, 2002-I am rea l l y looking forward to reconnecting witll our great Class of ' 7 7 . Specific reunion details from Colby will be arriving in your mai lbox soon. Don't miss 'em, and just do it-sign up and be tl1ere1 I did hear from a few of you. Marion Mauran Mariner sti l l lives witll husband M ichael in Providence, R . I . , where they've been for almost 2 5 years. Their children are Ted, a junior at nion College, and M addy, a senior at Tabor Academy.

Michael is sti l l with Fleet, and Marion "continues to special ize in volunteer projects of all kinds." Over tile years, she has been president of a foundation that runs a summer camp for boys in New Hampsh i re, a trustee of tl1e \Nheeler School in Providence and president of an eating club in Maine, and now she assists wi tll tile horses at a riding stable for tl1e disabled.

Marion wrote tllat she and Maddy were visiting col leges all over 1 ew England and tllat Maddy, who really wants to go to school in Maine, was crossing her fingers for a spot in tl1e Colby Class of '06. Marion says being "empty nesters" has been great f o r their sai l i n g ! They s a i l e d to Cuttyhunk inJ uly and had an absolute blast with Jotll and Karen Brown Davis '76 and saw Steve White a t tile Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, "a day of racing tl1e most beautiful boats in tile world-a l l wooden boats, some built by Steve's boatyard-followed by a night ofssshmoozingand frugging. " . . . I also heard fromJ erry Chadwick, who lives in E l licott City, Md. H e writes that h e i s stil l i n the consumer products business and that his ,vife, Ligia, just returned from Barcelona, where she attended a conference related to a journal of Latin American literature and culture, for which she is the U . S . representative. She is also tea c h i n g grades K-6 at the Catholic private school tlleir children attended. One of tlleir children is now a sophomore at Towson niversity and tl1e other is a freshman in hjgh school. Jerry is looking fomard to seeing classmates again tll i s J une and is working the phones for our 2 5 tll reunion gift to tile Alumni Fund.J erry, thank you so much . . . . The Bencon­ rlcto11 Edition, a weekly il l assachusens newspaper, did an article on Kevin Convey, who is, as of ;\ lay 200 I , tile edi tor-in-chief of tile Community rewspaper Company. The article reports tllat Ke,'in lives in Brockton, •

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1970s Correspondents 1970 B renda Hess Jord a n 1 4 1 Tanglewood Drive Glen Ellyn, IL 6 0 1 3 7 630-858- 1 5 1 4 cla ssnews1970@a l u m . colby.edu 1971 Na ncy Neckes Dumart 19 Deergra ss Road Shrewsbury, MA 0 1 545 207-524-5 701 classnews19 71@alum.colby.edu 1972 J a net Holm Gerber 409 Read i ng Avenue Rockvi l l e , MD 20850 301-424-9160 classnews1972@alum.colby.edu 1973 Jackie Nienaber Appeldorn Mohonk Mounta i n House New Paltz, NY 1 2 5 6 1 845-255-4875 classnews1973@a lum.colby.edu 1974 Rob i n Sweeney Peabody 46 Elk La ne Littleton , CO 8012 7 303-978- 1 1 2 9 f a x : 303-904-0941 classnews197 4@a l u m .colby.edu 19 75 Bruce Young 20 Applewood Avenue B i l lerica, MA 0 18 2 1 9 7 8-443-6 4 1 7 classnews 1975@a l u m . colby.edu 1976 Ann Dunlap LeBourdais 183 H igh Head Road H arpswe l l , M E 04079 207-72 5-6883 classnews 1976@alum.colby.edu 1977 Ellen D. O ' Brien 96 Soaring Hawk Lane Charlotte, VT 05445 classnews1977@alum.colby.edu 1978 Robert S . Woodbury 484 Bridge Street H a m i lton , MA 0 1982 9 7 8-468-3805 fax: 6 1 7-951-9919 classnews1978@a lum .colby.edu 1979 Cheri Bai ley Powers 6027 Scout Drive Colorado Springs , CO 80918 7 19-532-9285 classnews1979@alum.colby.edu

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president, credit administrator, at the

\Ve do have a new computer now, so

Before he became editor of C�C, he worked for se,·eral other publications.

As managing editor features/Sunday

First 0-'"ational Bank of Damariscona.

please send more news. And call you r

.\ I i chael has been in the banking

buddies t o make reunion pla ns-the Class of '77 needs yo11 for a great

business for the last 2 -+ years and Ji,·es in Portland, .\ Iaine, w i th his

2 5 tl1 reunion 1

opera house i n Vi enna. I le\ tried

to

track B i l l down since, but no luck.

Sharon C u f f-Gorman, who says she h a s n 't seen B i l l i n I 5 years, a l s o w o u l d love t o h e a r from him. I don't

for the Boston Hemld, h e was i n charge o f t h e paper's arts, tele,ision,

w i fe , Denise, a n d their c h i l d ren ,

e n tertai n ment, l i festyle, food, travel and fash ion cm·erage. This meant

Rya n , Ke l l y, .\ I e l i s sa a n d K a t i e .

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being m a nager of six deparm1ents ,,·ith more than 60 editor , reporters,

a degree in economics, he attended the l"e,,· England School of Banking

have been through i n 2 00 1 , I hope this

\\'r i t e

Reierson Hebert I ives in Kennebunk,

copy e d i tors, gra p h i c a rt i sts a n d production people. Ke,in w a s also the articles editor at Boston .Hngn-:,ine,

a t \\"i l l i a m s C o l l ege. H e i s past chairman of the .\ Iaine G roup of tl1e Risk .\ Ianagement Association

issue of Colby finds everyone h appy, healthy and � njO)�ng the company of

'' here he assigned and edited front­ of-the-book columns and often wrote feature a rticles . . . . J\lichael T. .\ Iartin was promoted to senior \ice

(R.\ IA) . . . . \Yell, tha t's all the news sent to me this time, except maybe for a few e-mails that bounced back or a re sti l l out there somewhere.

robert d

How far would you go to raise money for you r local cha rity? Lots of people would make phone ca lls, but how many would ride a snowmobile with more than 200 raw eggs crammed inside their coat?

About 13 years ago Bob Duchesne '75 ca me up with that sc heme for a fund raiser that has become a tradition i n M a i n e . "You know what

O 'Brien

have B i l l 's e-mail address, but theirs

Given everything that we a l l

a re j l u m b a r d @ l u m ba rd . co m a n d w a l lygorm a n @cs.com, respectively.

-Elleu D.

to

them, B i 1 1 1

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M a ry

.\ 1aine, and is a seventh grade teacher

loved ones . . . . At least two people

i n language arts. She's been married

were happy to see recent mention of Bill Hough in tl1is colu m n . John Lumbard '76 wrote that w h i l e bum­ mingaround Europe after graduation, he ran i nt o B i l l i n tl1e audience at the

for 2-+ years to Donald H e bert, who is the CFO at SA Telecom. They have two sons, Scott, 1 9, a freshman at Savannah College of A.rt and Design, and Brian, 1 5 , a competitive dow n h i l l

is clear t h a t he h a s been a t r u e leader i n several cha rity fu nd raisers a nd com m u n ity-related activities.

Besides ga l l iva nting with squashed eggs on snowmobiles at cha rity events, Duchesne a lso has served as president of the Down East B ig B rother/

would be fun ny?" Duchesne reca l led asking. "What if we j ust put raw

Big Sister Program in M a i n e . " Ra ising money is easy, but getti ng vol u n ­

eggs 1n o u r snowsuits for the [snowmobile] ride a n d listener pledges

teers for somet h i ng a s i ntensive a s be i n g a Big B rother or B i g S i ster

would m a ke the tota l . " The a n n u a l Snowmobile R i d e- I n has raised

is d ifficult, " he said . H is i nvolvement with the Big Brother/Big Sister Pro­

a bout $ 1 20,000 over the past 12 years for the Pine Tree Camp, a

gram started a bout 14 years ago when he proposed a fund -raising idea

s u m mer ca m p for handicapped c h i l d ren and a d u lts. When asked the

for the progra m . Suddenly Duc hesne fou n d h i mself a board m e m ber,

total n u m ber of raw eggs he had to carry i n h i s jacket last year,

vice president and eventua l l y president. Although h e is no longer

Duchesne replied with a c h uckle, "two h u n d red twenty-five . " For a nationa lly renowned broadcaster, the job a lone can be time consu m i ng, but for Duchesne giving back to h i s com m u n ity is all part

i nvolved with the Big Brother/Big Sister P rogra m , he fondly recollects h i s commitment w i t h the orga n ization.

For the past five years, Duchesne has acted as president of his local

of the territory. " People recognize that you a re willing

chapter of Mai ne's Aud u bon Society. His responsi bilities i nclude everything

to help a n d that you have leadersh i p a bi l i ­

from fund raising to membersh i p recruitment to leadtrig field trips.

ties, " h e said . "Then 1t sort o f f i n d s you . " Although Duchesne credits most of his involvement 1n com m u n ity service to his radio station . 0106.5, 1t

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So what does Duchesne d o when he isn't work i n g with va rious com m u n ity service projects? H e c la i m s that h i s career i n rad i o devel­ oped "completely by accide n t . " Duchesne began working for Waterville's WTVL rad i o while atte n d i ng Col by. After spe n d i ng a few years in the Washington, D . C . , a rea with one of America's top cou ntry m u sic stations, he and his wife, Sa n d i , moved back to M a i ne , where he i nte nds to stay. " I j ust love it in M a i n e , " he sa id with a s m i l e as a snowstorm raged outside the Ba ngor studios.

Duchesne's career i n radio has soared since his days wo rking with WTVL. H e received the 1994 " Personal ity of the Yea r " award from the Country M u sic Association . "I had better seats than Alabama , " he sa i d . " They were sitting i n t h e row beh ind m e . " He concedes he h a s been i nvolved i n other co m m u n i ty-related activi­ ties but c l a i m s that some of them a re s i m ply l i n ked with the rad i o statio n : " I t's the rad i o station a n d I ' m j ust a joc k . " H a rdly s o . Du­ chesne's i nvolvement with The P i ne Tree Ca m p a n d the Brewer Eco­ nomic Deve lopment Corporation says otherwise. Sti l l , Duc hesne m a i n ­ ta i n s t h a t i nvolvement 1 n one's com m u n ity is "just natura l " a n d says h e 1s s u re t h a t he is l i ke every other Colby grad uate . " J ust a bout everyone I know from Colby ends up doing somet h i ng l i ke what I do a nyway, " he sa i d .

-Fraser Ross '02

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mountain bi ker. They a l so have a

Geaney Scarponi, wTote that in April

dog by the wonderful name of Colby' il lary will soon become an "official"

2 00 I , having decided that the details

mountain bike race marshall to keep

die best of them, she and Bob Aew to Captiva Island, Fla., and got married

u p w i t h B r i a n as he trave l s t h e country as a down h i l l a n d d u a l slalom competitor. Also, she's a snowboard instructor for the Maine Handicapped S k i i n g program at S u nday R i ver. . . . M icrosoft transferred Helena Bonnell Gilman to Paris to their E u ro p e , M i dd l e East and Africa headquarters to take u p the position of corporate communications manager.

Previously she was based in Dubai for five years as a marketing manager covering l l countries in the M iddle East. Her h usband is retired and enjoying volunteer work and raising their two boys who are 1 0 and 1 2 and attending the British School in Paris.

She says the best part of their l i fe is returning to M aine each summer for six weeks at Pine Island Camp on Belgrade Lakes . . . . It's time for the \Viner family to move again. Ga ry Winer and his fa m i ly moved only one mile from the old house to the new in Broomfield, Colo., and love it. Ga ry's sti l l with I B M (racking up frequent Ayer miles again after a three-year stint in Denver). Donna ( Bowdoin ' 7 8) works at a local psychiatric hospital. They are both looking forward to thei r 2 5 di reunions. . . . Dr. Steve La ry, who lives in Camden, Maine, received his advanced diera peutic glaucoma l i cense from the Maine Board of Optometry. This enables him to prescribe glaucoma m e d i c a t i o n s . After C o l by, S teve graduated from die New England College of Optometry and practiced with an ophthalmologist in central Maine for I 0 years, during which time he lectured internation ally for the Pennsylvania Coll ege of Optomen-y.

He has operated his Camden practice since 1 993 . . . . Nancy "Pickaxe"

Piccin forwarded a very Aattering article about old friend Rus Lodi, footba l l star at Franklin (Mass.) H i gh before excelling on the gridi ron at Col by. Rus resigned as editor-in-chief of Community Newspaper Co.'s west unit to become director of public affa i rs for die Massach usetts Housing Parmership Fund of Boston, a self­ supporti ng state agency that helps develop and prese rve a ff o rd a b l e housing. R u s was described a s "an old-style editor with a loosely knotted tie and rolled-up sleeves." Brings back memories of him jammin' for a final in the Pit freshman year, except for the tie . . . . Another redhead, Ellen

ll�'a*'Mlli@i€m John E. Wentworth '73 is president of

of a big wedding were going to get

on die beach at sunset. And yes, it was just as romantic as it sounds' They met in l 994 but postponed ma rriage until Ellen's daughter, Kate, graduated from high school-with honors from Merrimack ( N . H . ) H i gh School in June . In August, Bob and Ellen delivered Kate to Taylor H a l l at . . . Colby College' She was reassured mat Jan ice is die clean of students (she started the same year we did). l n October, they moved into their new home in Canterbury, . H . Tn December, after 1 5 years widi AT&T, she did what she's always wanted to do and accepted a position as die di rector of strategic business development for Eastlantic Advertising and Public Relations in Manchester, N.H. She maintains her board position with the M anchester Boys & Girls Club and currently serves as die president. By the way, she's psyched about our reunion in 2003 . . . . Remember, first come, first served, if you want to replace me as class scribe in June 2003.

-Robert S. W oodbmy

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This year marks the l Odi year that Penny Janzen Winn and Patty Val avanis Smith h a ve co-edi ted the e m p l oyee newsletter for the I nternational Data Group in Boston.

Patty anc! M ark Smith live in Andover, Mass., and are involved in sports and other activities with sons Jason, 6, and Dean, 4. Mark is die vice president of operations for Dacon, a construction ma nagement company in Natick, M ass. Patty has been a Colby overseer since 1 999 and lastyearwas involved in a review of the Adiletics Deparmient.

She is active in die Colby C Club and would like more adiletes from the Class of '80 on die membership list1 I n formation on the club is at www.colby.edu/a l u mni/c.club . . . .

Karen Caine Babbitt is a fourth grade teacher in Dartmoudi, Mass.

H er husband,] ib, runs Babbitt Steam Speci a l !)' Company and Standard Fastening in New Bedford, J\ Iass.

The Babbi tts spend summers sailing in their Pearson or at their children's sailing regattas. Emily is a freshman in high school, and I ke is in seventh grade. Other seasons are spent on soccer fields or skiing. Karen saw Cornelia Annbrecht Brefka, her husband, Mark, and son Paul in Barrington, R.J., during the Optimist

Moosehead Manufa cturing Company in Greenville, Maine. He says he is but the fi gurehead of the company: "The 'company' is everyone who works here and makes the company what it is." \Vhatever, said the American Furniture i\ianufacturers Association, which represents hundreds of U.S. manu facturers and suppli ers in the fu rniture industry, and named \\'entworth to

its board of directors : Tim Glidden ··

'74 is the new di rector of Land for Maine's Joseph Jones ' 7 5

Future, a

I 0- m i l l i on a n n u a l program

committed to protecting Maine's natural landscape. A Maine Times article reported that he plans to integrate land management, natural resomce protection and biodiversity into the program's traditional focus on saving scenic and waterfront property in the state : Joseph Jones '75 is the new dean of the school of education and ··

social sciences at Messiah College in Grandian, Pa. He senred previously as chair of the deparm1ent of justice education at Taylor University .;. Linda J. Frechette '79 recently received the Edward L. Bernays Award from tl1e Maine Public Relations Counci l . A past president of the council, she has operated her own public relations firm in Yarmoudi, Maine, for seven years : The American Public I- I ealtl1 Association honored Angela D. ··

Mickalide '79 with the Sarah Mazelis Award for outstanding public healtl1 education. She has served as the program di rector of the National SAFE K I DS campaign for l l years.

mw•Mt.mtm Deaths: Carl P. SnyderJr. '78, April 1 7 , 2 00 1 , in Richmond, \'a., at 45 : Otto J. Goldstein '79, November 3, 2 00 1 , in Cali fornia at 46. ··

N a t i o n a l s l a s t s u m m e r. A n y o n e planning a s a i l o n Buzzards B a y or Vi neyard Sound tliis summer, please give Karen a ca l l . . . . Leslie Mitchell writes from Darien, Conn., diat she works in N.Y.C. and is involved in die New York Colby alumni club.

Leslie is eagerly waiting die arrival of her new pet, a "Aunk out" Labrador retriever from the G u i d i n g Eyes progra m . S o n i a Tu rcotte Fois recent!)' visited with Leslie during a business trip. Sonia, her husband, Andy, their sons, Anclrew ancl Tom my, and thei r new golden retriever live in the \ 'ash ington, D.C., area . . . .

Dan and Cathy Palmer Smith have moved to North Concord, 1 . I-I . , where they are enjoying l i fe i n the country. Cathy works at Ci tizens Bank i n ,\ Ianchester, and Dan is working on projects local ly. They recently n·avelecl to South Carolina and Ve rmont \'isiting fa m i l y a n d friends . . . . JeffHickson and h i wife, Barbara, 0\\1i \\lie! Bird Gardens, a unique business in xbriclge, .\ l ass., that diey started four years ago for people who want to feed and help wild birds. J eff, a ph1·sics major at

Colby, has worked in a nuclear po" er plant; he also has been an outdoors educator and an energy conservation expert with a couple of patents to his name and has strong feeli ngs about preserving the environment. J e ff describes their store as a "New-Age L L. Bea n " wid1 its large variet)' of original items. \\'ilcl Bird Gardens also has shows on birds of prey, sells kayaks, gives lessons on the nearby Blackstone River and publishes "\ \'ilcl Bird Gardens N"ews." This qua rterly newsletter not only includes in forma­ tion about birds and the e1wironment; it also includes in formation about health and well-being.Jeffsees himself as an eclucatoraboutoutsicle and inside wellness . . . . Alice Domar is back at work full time since having daughter number two, Katie, i n December 2000. Her sister, Sarah, is in kinder­ garten mis year. Dr. Domar is known for her knowledge on self-nuturing for mothers and women in the workplace and for her 11·ork in inferti l i ty. She has a book on mind/body inf� rtility clue out in the fall of 2002 and hopes that her next book will be on stress management for the working mom.

C O L B Y

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Alumni at La rge

1 9 80s

S h e h a s been i nten·iewed on the

the Crohn's and Col i ti s Foundation of

Today sho\1- and has been included in articles i n People magazine and Parents

Boston . . . . Beth Pniewski Wilson e-mailed news of her r\vo-week trip

m a ga z i n e _ . . . H e n ry Kennedy

to

recently was the incumbent running

included stop i n Cairns, Ayers Rock,

for a seat on the board of di rectors

Alice Springs and Sydney and travel to

for the school administrati\'e d istrict

Tasmania. Beth is now serving on the

ll�'a1$1fi@@;fII Robert M. Ruzzo '81 has been appointed d e p u ty d i rector o f the M a ssach usetts H o u s i n g Finance Agen cy, the l e a d i n g

ustra l i a in November, w h i c h

provider o f affordable housing in Mas­ sachusetts. He has served MassHousing as general counsel since September 2000 ·:· A Chro11icleofPhi/a11thropy a rti cle detailing the

i n Cumberland, .\ laine. His concerns

Alurrmi Council, on the admissions

were for long-range financial planning

sub-committee . . . . Jonathan Light

a n d controlling costs i n the schools.

e - m a i l e d that h e 's currently U . S .

fund-raising success of Vermont Academy

He li\·es in Cwnberland \1;th his wife

treasurer for Bf\'P Paribas a n d recently

and children, ages !-+ and 1 2 . . . .

in Saxons River, Vt., featured "the soul

received h i s second-degree black

Accordi n g to a .\ la)' 'O l ne\1·s clip

belt i n shotakan karate, which he's

of the school , " Thomas C. Oxholm '86 .

from a weekly paper i n Plymouth,

been studying for about eight years.

.\1ass., one of the candidates for town

H e says h e was unhappy to m i ss

moderator \1·a s Michael Bradley.

his classmates at die latest reunion,

.\ l ike i s a former member of the

but his ! -+-year-old r\vi n boys had

fi n ance com m i ttee i n Plymouth, the

sporting events that weekend. He

tomi h e grew up i n . I hope that )'OU

said the same happened to Peter

got the job, .\ l i ke' . . . Bo Preston

Cocciardi, with whom he keeps in

sent me a recent e-mail 11·ith a very

regular contact. Jonatlian wrote, "as

entertaining report on h i s (fictitious)

'.1·i tli many this age, it seems tliat the

l i fe. Since getting to know him at our

parents' schedules revoh•e around the

last reunion, I was able to glean out

kids' schedule." . . . Greg Pomeroy,

of the b.s. that he is well and enjoys

an orth oped i c su rgeon , l e n t h i s

bringing up his daughter on the north

professional expertise to the " Body

shore of .\ 1assachusetts . . . . I also

\Vise" column in the

had a series of \'ery funny e-mails

Herald for an

from a group of Phi Delts. Scott

injuries i n joggers . . . . Josh Burns

Portland Press

article on foot and ankle

He has been on the staff at the academy, Robert M. Ruzzo '81

h i s a l m a m a ter, for 1 2 years, nme a s development di rector.

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Bi11hs: A son, Philip Taber Koechling, to Jeff and Kit Williams Koechling '84 : A daughter, Emily Sheehan, ··

to

Sheehan '85.

iVJmTiages: Joseph J.

Andrew '85 and Barbara Wilkes

Deburro '83 to Kristen Hachadourian in Ostervi l l e ,

M as s . ·:· Margaret S. Foster '88 to R. Pretlow Majette in Portland,

;

.\1laine . . Ellen]. Meigs '88 to Paul F. Carchedi in Millis, N.H. ·:· William F. Reed '88 to Jennifer K. St. Martin on Cape Cod, Mass. ·:· Kimberly L.

King '89 to Orion E. Poplawski i n Boulder, Colo.

Butterfield and Scot Lehigh had

purchased die M t . Abram Ski Resort

Deaths: William F. White Jr. ' 8 3 ,

d i fferem accounts of a recent get­

in Lock l\ l i lls, 1\ Iaine, last Iovember.

N.H., at 3 9.

together at an I rish pub in 1"e1non,

. . . As for me, Kevin Fahey '80 and

October 2 2 , 2 00 1 , in Sunapee,

.\ l a s s . , with E l l i ott Pratt, M a rk

I are still living i n \Vashi ngton, D . C.

Garvin, Laurie Foster and spouses. I

I 'm working as the accountant f or

almost belie1·ed Scott B . , then decided

the design and construction group at

for Salomon Brothers Inc . . . .Jonathan Salem Baskin lives in Glencoe, I L i . ,

that cot L. may ha\·e more credibility

\\'ashingron Hospital Center, which

a n d works at a consu lting firm special­

Bodi of these clients a l low Carolyn to

due to his position as a journalist at

is, l i ke a l l hosp i t a l s , u n d e rgoi n g

izing in demand-chain management

pursue her love of music, nurtured at

It is good to know

constant construction a n d renovation.

solutions using die Internet. His wife

Colby in the Glee Club and the chapel

\\'e see Jamie and Laura Littlefield

is getting her master's in education,

choir. She would love to arrange for

Bourne regularly-J a mie's at EPA

and his daughter just completed first

a Colby group to come to a concert

(and our new class president), and

grade . . . . In the past year, Scott

L a u r a 's a l obbyist for t h e Food

Sopbos has appeared in the critically

with either or'ga n i zation . . . . Cindi Moor Young is currently living i n the

Harvey Coco e-mailed: ",\ Iy

.\ l a rketing I nstitute. J amie, Laura,

acclaimed Cherry Red Productions

S.F. Bay area. Cindi is an attorney but

ife, Deborah, mr three daughters,

Kelsey and Jonathan live in McLean,

pl ay, 7

in D . C . ,

is working as a paralegal for ChevTon

\Ta . . . . I 'd l i ke

Tbe Boston Globe.

that Butter ha n't changed1

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\\'hen

11 ill I hear from the rest of )'Ou'

-Lynn Collins Francis

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0 1 1 1 ia,

'ophie and Hannah, and I

Deadly Dwm-ues,

Classical Orchestra, which performs regularly at Faneuil H a l l in Boston.

hear from everyone

h a s done a national commercial for

Texaco, which allows her to also be a

ha1 e mo1 eel from our home in Old

at least once during my tenure (if only

the Council of I n dependent Bankers

mommy to her three sons

Benni ngton, \'t., to a 60-acre horse

so tliat I can confirm the news bits I

and did his seventh year with the

six months). Colleen Glovins Casey

farm in Paillet, \'t. I ha1 e returned

get from the clipping sen·ice).

to pla) mg hocke) in an adult league after not pla1 ing '>ince m)' freshman

to

-Eli-:.abeth Stiller Fabe)'

(5, 2

and

M a ryland Rena issance Festival as

moved to the Bay area about two

court poet John Skelton. Scott also

years ago, and tlieir husbands and

traveled to California, spending time

chil dren-Colleen and Joe have r\vo,

) ear at Colb) . \ I ) brother-in- la11,

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K u rt Binder h a s become

in L.A. and Palm Springs and hiking

5 and 2- have become good friends.

Ste11 art 'itol.. e.,, ,., the head cre11 coach

partner of the Boston-based law firm

in the San J acinto wil derness. He

Cindi is also in contact witli good

at C :olb) . and ht'> 11 1 fe, Be'>5, i; teaching

.\ lorrison, ,\ l a honey,

,\ l il ler L L P.

also met with Peter Golden '80, who

friends Beth Feldman and Susan

Fnglt.,h." . . . .\like

ronan 11 as

Kurt practices in the \ \ 'orcester office,

i s now a casting di rector with C B S .

Prendergast Basilesco and also has

promoted to 1 ice pre'>ldent of ale-, ar

concentrating in emplorment law,

Scott is in his third year o f teaching

'\orthland Steel 111 Reading, \ l a;.,_ . . .

commercial l i tigation and general

heard news recently of Steve Brown,

high school English and drama at

Eddie Ludwig, Dan Ferguson and

Emil) L i n de m a n n t u a rt '' reaching

hu-,iness practice . . . . David Znami­

Pa rkda l e H i gh School i n Pri nce

'e' enrh grade 'c:tence ar Falmouth

erow ki i-, pre;ident of l l a rtford

N T ike Fraser ' 8 3 . They all had a lot

George's County, ,\ Tel . . . . Carolyn

h a rlcs

Im e.,tmem \ l anagemcnt, a subsi diary

of fun together during the Colby

( \ !J 1 11e) \ l 1ddle . c:hool. . . .

Berry Copp has shifted her marketing

of The I l a rtford Financial Sen-ices

years, and she wishes them all the

ord1 I I . the director of planned

con ulting practice from the corporate

C . roup. Dai td had been senior \·ice

best. . . . Karen Varnum Matt has

) ale L 1111 er'1r\ , ha., been

11·orld of conference companies and

�lec:r�d to the hoard of lm:c:ror., of

worked for the past eight years as a freelance graphic designer and part

1._ri 1 1 n

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pre'>tdcnt and C I O . \\'ith hi'> ne11

publishers to the nonprofit arts world.

the '\ at10n.1 l Co1111111ttee on Planned uclcr 11. 1., profiled ( r 11 1 ng . . . . Joel

re.,pon..1htl1 ne.,, he 0\ cr>ee; all ofThe

Caro l ) n is executi ve d i rector for

I l a rtford\ 11 orld-11 1de im e'>tment

time for a local prin ter. Last summer

Boston Ceci lia, one of the oldest

/ /1 l'tt!d 1. rnde 111 '\'m em her 111 a .t frer he 11 a' honored for h" 11 ork for

operanom. Dai id prc1 tOu'>I) 11 orked

choral groups in Boston, and is the

she became associ a te di rector of

for \ema L i fe and Ca.,ualt) Co. and

development at the Devereux Center

d i rector of marketing for Boston

in

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R u t l a n d , M a s s . , a res i d e n t i a l

treatment facility for chil dren and

each of our classmates to reach out to fam i l y and friends . . . . So many of you

at Colby1" (I have a fee l i n g that

emotional needs. H e r responsibili­

receive letters from tl1e College asking

s h e 's n o t t h e only o n e . ) M i c k i e

ties i n c l u d e fu n d - r a i s i n g , p u b l i c/

you to give back to Col by-letters

w o u l d l o ve

adolescents with special behavior a n d

of Maine than I ever did when I was

to

h e a r from fe l l ow

community relations and marketing

from Val Spencer Poulos and from

Colby alums in the

as well as designing the newsletter and

me as your head class agent and

(msimpson@concorclpartners.com o r

other publications for the organiza­

ca lls from our associate class agents,

2 02 -62 5 - 2 2 06) . . . . Carol Eisenberg

tion. She keeps in touch with Jay

Barbara Leonard, Abby King Dig­ gins, Diane Peterec Reynolds, M i ke Schafe r, J ake Filoon and Duncan Gibson. Thanks to all of

sent word that she enjoyed a visit

is a youth group advisor at her church, and one of the kids from the group

you who do give in countless ways

Peaks Island, where Carol lives with

and to those of you who will take

her husband, David Si mpson '86, and

started at Colby this year and loves

the time to answer our calls or to

daughters, Maxine, 7 , and Charlotte,

it. Karen says it's nice to know that

stop long enough to listen. \Ve are

4. Megan Casey and her husband,

Colby is sti l l the great school it was

begi n n i n g the plans f o r our 2 0th

Chuck Parker, and daughters, Fallon,

when we were there. Karen and her

reunion, and meetings have a l ready

7 , Bridget, 5 , and Anna, 2, joined

fam i l y visit Maine every summer,

begun as we put in place ideas and

the gToup from tl1eir home in North

and she says her boys, S e a n , 1 3 ,

teams of classmates willing to be a

Ya rmouth, M a i n e . Everyo n e h a d

and Stephen, I 0, are reaLly looking

part of the uccess of our 2 0tl1. Please

great fun kayaking, sai l i ng, biking

forward to the 2 0th class reunion this

watch for updates or invitations. I f

and playing with Carol's new flock of

J une-they had so much fun at the

you are interested, contact me to see

chickens . . . . Linda Carroll Higgins

1 5 th1 . . . Diane Zavotsky lives in

what's happening. \Ne want everyone

shares news of the birth of a daughter,

northern Tew Hampshire, practicing

to plan to attend in J une 2 00 3 1 Make

Nora Virginia H iggins, on June J 5 ,

family medicine full time as well as

it one of your priorities . . . . I have

2 00 l 1

enjoying family l i fe with her husband,

little news to share right now and will

siblings, Molly and Tommy, making

Polimeno ' 8 J and Lynn ( D 'Angelo '8 1 ) and Scott Many and sees Bob Reynolds ' 8 1 weekly at church. Karen

D . C.

a re a

last August from Mary Alice Weller­

Mayan, her husband, Paul, son, Alex, J 2 , and daughter,

atalie, 8, out on

Tora joins 2 -year-olcl tw in

Daniel McClenahan, and daughters

hold it for my next column. Please

"life in the Higgins household quite

Hayley, J O, and 1ess, 7 . Recently she

consider gerting in touch with me

the adventure ' " Linda acids that she

incorporated the practice, assumed

soon. Best to a l l .

has resigned her position as assistant

-Sa/61 Lovegreu !V len-hnut

the role of medical d i rector of a fam i l y planning c l i n i c serving the

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d i rector of study abroad at UVM to be a full time mom to her tl1ree

H i , everyone' This column

babes." . . . Rob Baldwin writes

based clinic in Pittsburgh, N . H . , the

will be short and sweet. . . . Heather

that he and hjs wife, Betty Dennis,

nortl1ernmost town in tl1e state. . . .

Nicol wrote to say tl1at she and her

are botl1 P h . D . students and live in

ELien Heubsch Anderson left her

husband, J i m, had a second child,

Orono, Maine, with tl1eir 2-year-olcl.

job in development at Connecticut

Sylvia Jane, born on August 29, 2 00 1 .

. . . Mike Muir began his update

College for the position of director of

Her brother, Alexander, i s about 2

witl1 "lots has happened since my last

annual givingat \Nheaton College. She's

a n d adores h e r. Heather a n d her

writing." In August 'O J J\l l i ke married

looking forward to seeing everyone at

family are still living and working in

Ta mmy Ranger, a sixth grade teacher,

community and helped staff a school­

tl1e reunion in June . . . . I hope that

London . . . . Kit Williams wrote that

and they are now a blended family

those of you who are waiting until

she and her husband, Jeff Koechling,

with four children-April, 1 6, Aimee,

tl1e last m i nute decide to come to the

had a beautiful baby boy, Philip 'Tuber

1 6, Sam, 1 2 , and Chris, I 0. They live

reunion, and those who haven't really

Koechling, on November 7 , 2 00 1 .

in Fairfield, Maine. M i ke acids that

thought about it decide to come, too.

Philip weighted i n at 1 1 lbs.1 Kit is

after getting his doctorate, he became

The more people, tl1e more fun1 I

taking a f our-montl1 leave from her

an assistant professor of education at

hope to see many of you tl1ere1 Thank

job at an e1wironmental consulting

the University of Maine at Farming­

you for sending in news1

firm, ENSR, to spend time with Philip

ton. His specialties, which include

and his sister. . . . I hope everyone

educational technology, middl e-level

is doing well. Please drop me a line

education and motiva t i n g u n d e r­

-i'vli111i H. Rns11111sseu

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These columns are written in

advance, so while I ' m writing tl1e holidays are in full swing in December.

Folks are u·ying to keep it all togetl1er.

K i ds are clamoring for h i nts, and snow falls just enough to make you wonder if everything on your cramped schedule can stay in its place or have to

be resch e d u l e d . Our economy

has shifted, al tl1ough our priorities remain the same and have become even more pronounced. J\ 1any of us, as you often hear me say, are over -+O and have made l i festyle changes of our own, all the while evaluating the q u a l i ty time with loved ones near and far. This is a time to encourage

so I can share your news witl1 tl1e

achievers, take his work all over the

class. AJ I the best.

country. He is also half-time d i rector

-Cynthia N I. N ful/ikeu-La;::::,nrn

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Michelle "Mickie" Linder Simpson writes tl1at she is married

of a $500,000 technology grant from the

. S . Departn1ent of Education

to prepare teacher candidates f o r using technology effectively. . . . Beth

and living with her husband, Dave,

Towle Locke and her husband, Tim,

and th ree cats in t h e i r house i n

wrote to announce the birth of their

\Vashington, D . C. J\ lickie currently

second son, Brendan Crosb)' Locke,

works in c o m m e rc i a l real estate

on October 2 3 , 2 00 J , in Cambridge,

development a n d h a s earned two

;\ lass. Brendan joins his older brother,

master's degrees since lea,' ing Col by.

She adds, " I don't think tl1at's made

Teddy, who is -+. Congratulations,

me any smarter, unfortunately ' " She

Galvin has J i ,·ed in Bl oomsburg,

Beth and Tim 1 . . . Deirdre " Dede"

spent her last summer vac;1tion in

Pa., for the past few years. She is

J\ 1ai ne and comments that she "spends

program manager of the Berwick

more time now enjoying the beauty

Health and \\'ellness F0tmdation, a

1980s Correspondents 1980 Lynn Col l i n s Fra nc i s 1 6 Oa kridge Road Sudbury, MA 0 1 7 7 6 classnews1980@a lum.colby.edu 1981 El izabeth Sti l ler Fa hey 4740 Connecticut Avenue, NW #610 Wa sh ington, DC 20008 202-363-8535 classnews1981@al um.colby.edu 1982 M i m i H . R a s m u ssen 219 Lexington Ave nue Cam bridge, MA 02138 6 1 7-492-1002 classnews1982@a l u m . colby.edu 1983 Sa l ly Lovegren Merchant 24 Easy Street Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-0441 fax: 2 07-244-9445 classnews1983@a lum.colby.edu 1984 Cynthia M. M u l l i ken-Lazzara 18 S u n s h i re Aven ue Sausal ito, CA 94965 4 1 5-332-3542 classnews1984@a lum .colby.edu 1985 Sue James Geremia 8 7 Centre Street Dover, MA 02030 508-7 85-8366 classnews1985@a lum .colby.edu 1986 Andrea V. Sarris 499 Cutts Avenue #2 Portsmouth, NH 03801 603-433-4439 (h) 603-868-4490 (w) classnews1986@a l u m .colby.edu 1987 Jane Nicol Manuel 8 Wentworth Drive Beverly, MA 0 1 9 1 5 9 78-927-6084 fax: 520-833-62 1 4 classnews1987@alum .colby.edu 1988 Dean A. Schwartz 94 U pland Road Concord , MA 01742 classnews1988@alum .colby.edu 1989 Anita L. Terry 5 0 1 Warwick Street St. Pa u l , MN 5 5 1 1 6 6 5 1-698-9382 fax: 6 5 1-848-1182 classnews1989@a lum .colby.edu

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Al u m n i at La rge

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p u b l i c charitable foundation. S h e

and brought back some great Colby

back at the Pub (or somewhere close

Heidi Arnao said, "get in there ! " . . .

is also a freelance \\Titer. Dede a n d

memories1

by!) . . . . Cheers

"No news is good news ! " Sometimes

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I am thri lled to add that

to

2002 !

Plense send

1

h e r h usband, J erry \Yemple, have

during the 200 1 holi days, another

an e-mail i f you have a minute even

one can use that a s an excuse1

two children-Kyle, 9, and Jamila,

i mpromptu reunion occurred when

i f i t's just to say hello'

apologize for the lack of a September

6 . Dede writes that i n August 2 00 1

a m i n i - reunion near .\ l inneapolis,

Katie Hollander Adan1s, Cici Bevin Gordon, Laurie H e rlihy Murphy, Dawn Gale LaCasce and I joined

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.\ linn. Hannah Blake, Perrin Boyd

�I I

forces for a great night of catch ing

Alas, the torch has passed from guru

up i n .\ Iaine. To no one's surprise, by

class columnist Wendy Lapham

to

Donald B. J ackson o r J e ssica Tru s l o w ' O u r n e w s

thei r fami]jes made for a terrific time

evening's end it seemed l i ke we were

me. Dicky Deering just laughed, and

sources report t h a t l a s t s u m m e r,

she met se,·eral Colby friends for

' 6 and Charlene Crocker ' 6 with

-Sue Jnmes Geremin

column; however, after September 1 1 , there wasn't much

Greetings, Colby classmates'

to

to

say, or a n ything

report' So, send 11ews1

ha ppened

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T h e moment G regory Ciottone '87, com mander of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team ( D MAT)

partici pate a n d took h i s fi rst t r i p to Armenia . " The tremendous hardship witnessed , t h e need for Western medical

Massach usetts-2, saw the fi rst World Trade Center

care a nd t ra i n i ng and the ge n u i ne kind ness of t h e people hooked m e , "

tower colla pse on television on September 1 1 , he

s a i d Ciottone.

knew h i s unit was headed for what would come to be known a s " G round Zero . " With i n m i n utes his beeper went off and he was bou nd for what h e descri bes as " pretty much h e l l . " Ciottone, a n emergency room physician at Boston's Beth Israel Dea­

After com pl eti ng his residency he became the d i rector of U M ass's I n stitute of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (I D E M ) , which later evolved i nto the Division of I nternational Disaster and Emergency Medi­ cine ( D I D E M ) . With I D E M Ciottone hel ped develop a n emergency a n d

coness Medical Center and a faculty member at H a rvard Medical School,

d isaster-medicine tra i n i ng center to better t ra i n Eastern E u ropea n a nd

has worked on the Central Massach usetts level-one D M AT unit (one of

former Soviet U n ion medical t ra i ners with fa cu lty from their own country.

25 nat1onw1de) since 1994 and has been its commander since 1998. H i s

There a re now 16 centers, which have educated more t h a n 3 5 ,000

56-member u n i t w a s t h e fi rst o f f o u r t o arrive at G round Zero and set u p

medical practitioners.

three o f the four medical stations with i n t h e a rea's i n ner peri meter.

C1ottone's previous de ployments as D M AT commander included the

In 1999 Ciottone formed EMVI to conti n u e his i nternational med icine work outside of the medical sc hoo l , a n d i n 2001 h e moved the D I D E M to

northeastern ice storms, the Egypt Air crash of 1998, H u rrica ne M i tch

H a rva rd , where h e now d i rects the Division of I nternational Disaster a n d

and the a rrival of Kosova r refugees at Fort Dix i n 1999. In February

Emergency Medicine at Beth Israe l .

Ciotton e was sched uled to leave for Salt Lake City for the 2002 Wi nter Olym pic Ga mes.

The World Trade Center d isaster defied a n y compariso n .

"The s1tuat1on was J u st horri ble , " Ciottone sa i d . H i s D M AT u n it was used to treating the casualties of a d isaster, but in New York there weren't any to treat. They waited , wa nting to help the victims, but nobody was pul led out a l ive. "It took a n emotional and physical tol l , " sa id Ciottone. "You always wanted people t o come o u t of t h e pile . " T h e scene sti l l was extremely dangerous, a n d search a n d rescue workers a n d fi refighters at G ro u n d Zero were i nj u red on a regular basis.

C1ottone's unit treated 300 to 400 patients dai ly. While most a i l ments were m i nor. l i ke respi ratory problems and spra i n ed a n kles, they also i ncl uded strokes, heart attacks and t h i rd-degree burns.

And many of the a i l ments weren't physica l . Mental hea lth profes­ sionals were necessary for both patients a n d workers on the site to handle the stress. Mem bers of C1ottone's u n it, mea nwhile, had to kee p in m i n d that 1n order to be effective pract1t1oners of d i saster and e mergency medicine they had to keep their own emotions 1 n check.

"We were working l i ke crazy," h e said .

That from someone whose usua pace is full speed .

C1ottone ,s a lso founder and CEO of the non profit Emergency Med c1"e V1s1ons In ernat1onal ( E MV I ) , which i m proves emer­ gency IT'ed1cal care deli ery a n d d i saster response worldwide t1 rough education a nd tra i n i ng.

H e became 1nvol ed in 1nternat1onal medicine i n the early 1 990s d uring ti1s res1denc at the Un• ers1ty of Massa c h u setts M edical Center T h e school was 1 r nt1at1ng a proiect to a d m i n 1s er tra i n ng cou rses i n pre-hosp1 a l medicine n the former So 1et Un on a nd Eastern Europe C1ot one was asked to

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America, t h e Cari bbean and J a pa n . " A l ittle effort goes a long way, " Ciottone realized d u ri n g h i s i n itial t r i p t o A r m e n i a , many trips ago. And a great effort can m a ke a world of d iffere nce.

-Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '91

C h e c k e r b o a r d , L t d . , a speci a l ty printing company in J\l lassachusetts, appointed Don as the d i rector of marketing, and J essica has become the assistant principal of Concord­ Carlisle High School i n Massachusetts. . . . Congratulations are also in order for Rev. Doug Scalise, who became one of the youngest recipients of a D i stinguished Alumni Award from BU School of Theol ogy. Last spring he was joined by his father, Rev. Victor Scalise ' 5 -+, for a speci al father/son weekend at t h e B rewster Baptist Church, where Doug is the senior pastor. . . . The Fourth Annual vVomen in Arts Con ference brought me back to Mayflower H i l l in the fal l to screen the documentary I had produced on H elen Nearing. After 1 5 years as a J\llaine resident, I 've moved to N . H . , where T produce f o r New Hampshire Public Television. Athens 2004, here I come-the Olympic Games is my latest venture' . . . Rumor has i t that Joan Handwerg is somewhere in Mex.ico . . . . Last I spoke with Nomrn Delaney, she was missing in action traveling somewhere i n the United States . . . . George Samaras is i n Portland a n d ru ns m a rathons. . . . vVhat do Laury Shea, Sue B. Whitney a n d Kristen Giblin Lindquist a l l have in common' Stay tuned for the next column' -Audi-en V Sarris

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I hope some of you are sti l l honoring t h e resol utions y o u made on J anuary I . I'm writing this at the beginning of J anuary so I have h i gh hopes for my money management, exercise plan, patience with my boys and books I hope to read1 \Ve' re in planning mode for the reunion in June. J hope by now you've made your plans to come to M a i ne and talked to a few friends about making the trek. It promises to be a fun-fil led weekend with lots of time to catch up and remin isce . . . . v Vonderful news from John and Kathi H a mett Linger about the birth of Jack T. Linger on December 3 1 . Congra tulations to both of you 1 Charles H e rrera wrote looking f o r Ed Michaud's current address. I f anyone knows Ed's address, or i f you're reading this, Ed, please write to Charles at cherrera@ix.netcom.com. Rumor has it that Ed's in the J\ Ii dwestsomewhere, married with a few kids . . . . Kris Kelley "Vilkinson wrote from Napa, Calif. , where she lives with husband J\1att and stays at home with their daughters, Kaitl in, 6, and Elli, -+. They •

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have planted a four-acre vineyard of Chardonnay grapes, which will be bought by Acacia \Vinery, and this year will be tl1eir first harvest. Kris says she's in close touch with Carol Kenerson, who's getting married in the spring . . . . Janice and Rich Strock just completed a nine-montl1 tour of the U . S . , covering 3 0,000 mi les and 3 7 states, driving a sma l l Volkswagen and pitching a tent in all but the most inhospitable conditions. A few h i g h l i ghts i n cluded h i k i n g in the Grand Canyon, tl1e Great Smokey Mountains, snowshoeing i n Bryce Canyon, a shuttle launch a t Cape Canaveral and visits to many battle­ fields. They visited with Roma Vasa Rothman, who is married with two beautiful chi ldren, and with Tris Korten and Marco Loretto, who both l ive and work in M i a m i . Rich a l so has been busy ru nning mara­ thons, having completed the Boston M a rathon i n 2 000 with a personal best of 3 :06. H e a l so stays in close contact w i th Scott S l ater '88, who lives in Boston with his wife, Kay, and new son, Benjamin. R i ch says h e 's l o ok i n g fo rward to s e e i n g everyone at reunion . . . . I read in the Manchester ( Vt . ) Journal that Colleen Balch will be tea c h i n g m i d d l e school science courses a t the L o n g Tra i l School . . I think Kris Davidson Young is tl1e only one who commutes to her job-as a K-6 music, band, chorus and piano teacher-in an open outboard boat, and i t's in Maine! Her motto is "no bad weather, just bad clothing" as she goes from Vinal haven to North Haven Island. Kris and her husband, Steve, a lobsterman, have twin daughters, Alex and Li bby, 1 1 , and a son, Matthew, 6.

Kris has been president of a nonprofit organization that has raised $2 mil­ lion for library enhancements and a new Vinalhaven school/community auditorium that is currently under construction . . . . VVhile i t's on your mind, ca l l a classmate and make your plans to come to Maine in J une. I f you would like an updated address or phone number of a friend, e-mail me a t classnews l 987@alum.co1 by.edu or Tina Zabrinskie Constable at rconstable@randomhouse.com, and we can get i t to you. I hope you are a l l wel l . Y\'e'll see you in J u ne!

-Jane Xico/ ,\ lrm11el

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\Vitness a pairofour classmates as they claw tl1eirwayup tl1e corporate ladder: Chris Brown was named a n associate of Flansburgh Associates,

a Boston-based a rch i tectural a n d interior design fi rm, and Ga ry A. Donaldson J r. was promoted t o assistant vice president in t h e finance department at Ban knorth Group in Portland, Maine . . . . Meanwhile, Carol Ann Beach was a member of a discussion panel hosted by the Women in Sport Management Club at the niversity of Massachusetts; Carol is an assistant atl1letic di rector at Mt. Holyoke College . . . . Also in academia, Whitney Kelting was recently honored by the Friends of the Owen D . Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence Universi ty, who held a reception to celebrate the publication of her book Si11gi11g to the Ji11as: Jain Laywowen, ll lrmdal Singing

and the Negotiations ofJni11 Devotion, published by Oxford University Press.

Check it out on Amazon . . . . Stefanie Rocknak had some o f her wood sculptu res exhi bited a t the Fi rst lational Bank of Damariscotta and in Saratoga Springs. One of the pieces, " Figurehead," is made of the same wood from Sierra Leone that was used to recreate tl1e slave ship A 111 istad at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. . . . Roxanna E . F. Pitkin a n d James Pao·ick J\1cKeever were wed in \Voodstock, Vt. . . . John Davie wri tes from N . Y. C. t h a t he a n d his wife, Kristin ( H ock ' 9 0 ) , h a d their second c h i l d , Merritt Bussell, a daughter, in April 1 999. il l erritt arrived hot on tl1e heels of her sister, Carson Frances, who was born in February 1 99 8 and takes spiritual guidance from her godfath er, Jeff England '89. John is sti l l practicing real estate law-now with Morrison Foerster LLP a fter about five years with Skadden, Arps. The Davies recently visited Harold and Kirsten Rider Geiger and tlieir two kids, Harry and Sara h . John went rock climbing with Dave Caspar; Dave and his wife, Nancy, live in Chappaqua, N.Y. . witl1 their l:\vo sons, Justin and Noah.John writes tl1at Jon Selkowitz lives in Jackson, \\Tyo. , but was in Port i l l o , C h i l e , recently shooting some ski photos . . . . Ellen Meigs married Paul Carchedi in .\ l i l l i s, Mass., on Oct. 6 . Various Colby folk were in attendance, including Ellen's mom, Deb Smith ,\ l eigs ' 5 1 , Heidi Kampersal Petrosino, Patty Rush '87, Lisa Kilmer '87, Kim Bernard Bodnar '90, J ulie Karas and Elena Stamoulis. The ha pp�· couple recently bought an antique Cape in Belli ng­ ham, ii lass., and is working on various home impro,·ement projects. Ellen

is a vice president in mutual fund operations a t State Street Corporation in North Quincy, i \l ass. . . Chris Patterson and his w i fe, Eli zabeth H utter, are living in Concord, J\ l ass.; Chris works for lax.ware as a product manager. . . . Melissa Brown Bride and her husband packed up the kids and moved near Exeter, N . H . , after 1 2 years of living the boarding school l i fe a t St. Andrew's i n D e l a w a re . . . . Brian Smith teaches cri minal justice at \\Tesrfield State College, in \Vestfield, Mass., where he lives with his wife, Debbie, and their young son, Connor. . . Hansi Hals, \I ho lives in Port Angeles, \\'ash . , with son Peter, 4, daughter Laci , 2 , and husband Tom, just joined the staff of a local t r i be f o r river system and salmonid h a b i ta t resto ra tion.

H a nsi recently saw Sarah Doherty J\1asonis, who lives in the area with h e r h usband, Rob, and works at the University of \Yashi ngton . . . .

T n Novem ber, Michael Bukowski­ Thall and his wife welcomed their second c h i l d , H e n ry . . . . Paige Alexander Sato writes from New Jersey that she is getting her master's at Seton Hall and working part time as PR director at the local Y\VCA. In her spare time, she plays hockey and helps her husband with their two kids, Sam and Emi . . . . Todd Wallingford is in his seventh yea rat l r udson (,\ lass.)

H i gh School, teaching h istor)' and Airting 11�th fel lo11 faculty members.

Apparently his efforts paid off, as he and Jen Pupa, witl1 whom he teaches an American studies class, were engaged over die summer. . . . Melissa Ruff Cassel is dean of students at \ \'alnut Hill School in N"atick, ,\ las . She and her husband, Steven, welcomed their first child, Jordan, in February 2 00 1 . . . . Brent and Karen Hentz Merriam live in the Burlington, Vt., area, where they both work at Burton Snowboards. K a ren has sent me a bevy of e-mails, all welcome of course, including one with pictures of Burton's annual meeting in Va i l .

I f s h e ever sends them your way, be sure your spouse or boss isn't looking o,·er your shoulder when you open them up . . . . Ann and I moved to Concord, ,\ lass., where our house has become 11 edding central as we iron our details of our April nuptials in "'ales. . . Look for more news on the "'eb.

-Denn A. Sch1L'r11t::,

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M I KE SWI FT '85 What he i s A master reporter for The

Hartford Courant.

Who said so T h e New England Society

of Newspaper Editors, when it gave h i m t h e award.

What the judge sa i d , exactly Swift's work

"should be req u i red rea d i n g for all j o u r­ n a l ists, from the greenest rookies to the

'87 and M a ry Brown DiSandro, Christina Theokas and Gretchen

me to say that he is working with

Granger Hartley '90 . . . . I was happy

consulting fi rm. I le was hoping to

NSI Partners, a small e-commerce

and fortunate to get together wi tl1

sponsor a Colby student in an intern

Tracy Gionfriddo and Doug St. Lawrence i n October; Doug was

his wife, Ki m, planned to relocate

lucky enough

position in J anuary, and then he and

meet my adorable

from D . C. to Colorado Springs in

Johanna, now 6 months old . . . . Keep

May. He is interested in knowing if

tl1e news coming1

any '90ers are in the Colorado Springs

to

- Anitn L. Teny

area . . . . I hope to hear from more of you in this new year.

grizzled vetera ns."

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What Swift has written a bout Ha rtford

happy holidays and are enjoying a

redevelopment, downtown pa rking trou­

peaceful new year. I happen to know,

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bles, the city's failed effort to land a

however, that at least a few '90ers are

or what we saw, September 1 1 has

National Footba l l League fra n c h ise, to name a few topics.

What he said when he got the award " I a m rea l l y proud and h u m ble

. . . that I got nomi nated by The Courant."

The rest of the q u ote Swift sa id many of h i s peers at the newspaper

a re eq u a l ly deserving.

What that proves The h u m ble part is true.

-Lrmm

I hope you all had warm and

Senier

Regardless of where we live

expecting big surprises in 2 002 1 Anne

changed everything. For the members

Pollock and her husband, John, are

of the extended Colby community

expecting their second ch i l d in J\ lay.

lost or killed in the tragedy, the Class

Anne is currently at home wi tl1 tl1eir

of'9 l extends its deepest condolences.

da ughter, i\ Iega n , and often sees

Sheri Berger B ronstein, who is

. . . In J a n ua ry 200 I , Gretchen McCarey eloped and married her

working at Bank of America in New

long-time "significant other," Robert

York City. . . . Jill Cote Rakowski and

Burkitt, i n \ Voodstock, Vt. They now

mi tran lated, and his daughter, Faith,

Kate, in August. Katie lives in Cal i ­

her husband, Rob, are expecting twins

live in Brookline, Mass. Gretchen

became his dog, Faith . I hope she's

fornia, as does Ruth Bender, who

in

w r i tes, " a fter gett i n g my C . P. A . ,

not offended, Ste,·e. Another oops

works at the Tides Foundation and,

.\ lass., a;id are both management

I h a v e b e e n working i n t h e asset

from the fall 2001 column: Ingrid

as we know, travels often to exotic

consultants Oill is back with Andersen

m an agement a n d v e n tu r e c a p i t a l

Kasaks-i\loyer wrote to say that

locales. Katie and Ruth see Beth

Con s u l t i n g a fter a b r i e f h i a tu s ) .

i ndustries. A t t h i s t i m e , I am the

Greg Cro n i n ' 6 coaches for the

Bitoff Odom when she is i n S F

. . . \Vi i i and Kirstin Campbell

director of finance for a family office

I s l a n ders, not the Rangers. Sorry,

visiting her parents; Beth, her husband

Wilcoxson celebrated an addition

outside of Boston." . . . David Unruh

Greg. I ngrid also reports that she and

and daughter Jive near Venice, Italy.

to

the fami ly, a gi rl, Emma J ane,

and his wife, Marnie, recently had

Quinn are reco,·ering from taking

Finally, J e n n i fer writes that Kate

i n June 2 00 l . They are l iving in

a baby boy, Morgan D a v i d , a n d

Carson, now a lmost 1 , to \\'alt Disne)'

Appleton Fitzpatrick l ives in South

Concord, .\ l ass., where Kirstin works

everyone is doing wel l . . . . Emily

\\'orld for a week . . . . Kerri Hicks

Hami lton, .\ lass., with husband John

as a marketing and graphic design

Gallagher Byrne Lives in Nyack,

mai led " i th news of her l i fe and her

'86 and their two little girls . . . . \\'ith

consultant . . . . Tanja Gross Cheva­

with her husband, Rick. They were

adorable little redhead, Teddy, who is

a little help from the Colby alumni

lier and her husband, Paul-Henri,

married last year and are expecting

4. Kerri " orks on reall)·cool academic

network, Shaun Dakin has a new job

\\"elcomed another daughter to the

their first child in April 2 002 . After

IT projects at Bro"·n . Last summer,

at Fannie .\ Iae in D .C. He and his

family in July 2 00 1 . Claire is doing

a brief s ti n t at a "dot-bomb" i n

pri l 1 They are living in \Valtham,

.Y.,

Kerri, Scott Jablonski and his \1·ife,

wife bought a house in Falls Church,

wel l , and her big sister, Sophie, is

New York City last year, Emily is

\ ! aria, attended Bill Sp e a rs 's wedding

\'a . , and he writes that after 9/1 1 , life

very proud of her. Tanja has lived

now working in communications for

in northern .\ lass . . . . Ka t hy Hollister

has changed in D.C., but it remains

in France for nearly eight years now

Unilever Bestfoods i n New J e rsey.

is an i nternist in carborough, .\ Iaine,

mostly tl1e same, thank God. Amen

and is very happy with her growi ng

and

married to .\lichael Danielski

to that, Shaun . . . . Li the new baby

fam i ly. . . . Rudy and E ri k a Dresser

. . . As for others expecting, Caitlin S u llivan writes that she and her

and ha> a 6-month-old d a ughter

department, Adair Bowlby-Joskow

Penczer a l so had a baby girl, i n

husband, D rew, will have tl1eir first

named .\n n a . Kathy l i 1·es around

and her husband welcomed

January 2 00 1 . Their son, Nicholas,

chi l d in thespring(May 3 1 to be exact.)

I '>

riane

chwarze

Rose on .\ larch 2-t, 200 1 ; Adair is

is now 3 and is getting along well

She also says that she was recently

a daugh ter,

working three days a week at the

with his new little sister. . . . Janet

promoted to senior vice president of

11 rite that Nancy pellman, her hu band and little boy

Richmond Area Health Center in

Boudreau-Ceddia had a daughter in

global sales and marketing for the

Richmond, .\ I a i n e . In their great

September 2 00 1 . J i l lian Christina is

software company govO

he

house on the Kennebec, she and

doing very wel l .Janet and her husband,

tions. . . . Christine Tuccille Merry

al.,o " rite'> that Kim King married

husband Pete also have a little boy,

Chris, also have a son, Nicholas, who

a n d h e r h u s b a n d , J i m , a re a l so

Onon Popal011 .,1..i last summer in

erge, and a most spoiled rom1·eiler,

is about a year and a h a l f older

expecting-a baby boy. I n April 200 1 , tl1ey bought and renovated a house.

the corner from Gretchen

1 l a rtle) '90, \1 ho ha G ra ce . Kath)

1 l'>ltc=d la'>t J une from California.

E Solu­

Bouldc=r, Colo . . . . Got a ne\\ s-filled

\ndi . . . . Laurie and J o n

ash sent

tl1an J illian. They live in Hopkinton,

c;-nuil from Je n n ife r

11 ord of the birth of their first ch ild,

,\1ass., and Janet is plarming to return

Christine is working as a freelance

ept. 26 . . . . Justin and

to .\ 1cKinsey Consulting when her

graphic design er, \i\Teb designer and

11 ho II\ C'>

m

ooke Rotman,

\ \btborough, \ l ass.,

and kc=cp'> ' c� bu'>) cha>ing after \ l a r t h t.: \1 , \\ ho

I '>

� - J e n m fe r a n d

babel, on

ue Chaffee Cuyler had a little boy,

maternity leave ends . . . . And amid

mural painter and is currently serving

\ l atthe\\ J ustin, l a t April 1 0 . . . .

all tl1is baby girl news, I also heard

on the American I nstitute of Graphic

h e r h m l w 1 d a r c C\pccnng another

La'>t but not lea t, Shel l ey Horton

from John Hayworth, who had a

Artists (AIGA) board of di rectors as

ho) 1 11 \ 1 3 ) . Jcnmfer \l ntt:'> that '>he

01 on and Brad '90 welcomed their

son in February 200 I . H i s name is

the environment chair. . . . Leaf Ives

,cc' . \ l e l i n d a

0\1 n lo,abel on .\ far 9. habel join; big

john Hedges HaY'1orth (they call

Gurr and her husband, Stuart, were

B a rone often. \ lclmda 1., the d i rector

brother Zack at home.

he lie) reports

him I l edges), and he has a big sister

that .\ f c l ita .\ l a rks and Da\ e . hacter

expecting a baby in Febrna1·y in sunny

of ,ale' .md nurkcung at the: Fhot

named .\ largaret, born in April 1 999.

Bermuda. The island will never be

I lord 111 Bmron. and \udrt:) I I \ t:>

ucd the knoton a beautiful September

john and his wife, .\!artha, are li,•ing

the same again . . . . Felise Glantz was married on Sept. 22, 200 I , to Rob

he rnn and . udre)

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\ndO\ �r Jcnmfcr aJ.,o report., that

Ka t ie The Losen

old b e rg and her

hu,h.rnd h.1d their ..ccond thughrcr,

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I l a rp.,,1 e l l , \ l a i ne. Lot'> of

in �Tash\0ille, Tenn., and John made

Colh) 1te'> at the ceremon) , including

da)

partner in his la\1 firm in J anuary

ue Banta G a l l a gh e r, Jeff

Kisse l l , witl1 Katie Thomas Trites '93

100 1 . . . . Tom i\ I c C l i n tock e-mailed

as the maid of honor. Felise writes

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Bob and

that everything "was a bit crazy as we were to be married at \iVindows on the \Vorid, 1 07th Aoorat the World Trade Center. After bei n g downtown in the center of things when everyth ing h a ppened on S e ptember 1 1 , you certainly rediscover what is important.

Rob and I ended u p getting married on my parents' gro u n d s i n Long Island. It was more special than we could have ever imagined." Congrats, Felise and Rob' . . . Ly Furrow gradu­ ated from Oregon State's veterinary school this spring (after earning a master's in fisheries and wildlife from Michigan State!). In May 1 999 she married John Guerreiro '90, who is currently a resident in family practice at Tri pler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii . They are enjoying living in Hawaii with tlleir three cats. . . . As for some a t h l etic feats: Walker Fenton completed a 24-hour, four-man mountain bike race, and Shawn Crowley ran tlle 200 1 N.Y.C. Marathon . . . . Jessica Butler contin­ ues to cause trouble in Beantown when she is not working hard for Autex, a T h o m s o n F i n a n c i a l compa n y.

S h e also survived her fi rst baby­ sitting assignment with Jack Brockel­ man, John '92 and Tree Sullivan Brockelrnan's I year old . . . . Maryann Hutchinson married J a red Grimm in October o f 2 0 0 0 . G re tch e n McCarey Burkitt was a bridesmaid.

Other Colby folks at the wedding incl uded Stacey O'Brien, Karen Crebase , Judd Braverman '92 , J ustin '90 and Stacy King Verge, Megan Finley FitzGerald and Sherry Berger Bronstein '90. M a ryann and J ed live in Beacon H i l l , and she works for Grantham Mayo and Van Otterloo & Company in downtown Bosro n . . . . Patty Masters has decided to tie the k n o t and p i cked J u n e 2 3 as the big day. Congrats, Patty1 Dan Bouvier and I are living in Hollis, N . H . Dan recently joined an ortho­ pedic practice in I a s h u a , where he specializes in sports orthopedic surgery. I am working for H S BC Securities in debt capital markets. . . . Keep tllose updates com ing' E-mail soon' • • •

-Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier

92

I hope you have marked your calendars for our I Otl1 reunion, J une 6-9, 2002 . Your registration in forma­ tion was mai led in N la rch, and plans are being final ized. So head back to the h i l l , enjoy the company of old and new friends and celebrate the wonderful experience we all had at

Colby. See you tllis June!

-Nliche!le Fortier Biscotti

93

\Vrap your brain around this:

you have exactly one year to h i re a babysi tter, wash that gray right out of your hair, lose the joe, get your tolerance back up and make your plans for our 1 0-year reunion . . . .

In tlle meantime, here's a l l tlle news that's fit to print. Shawn Campbell and his fiancee, April Armstrong '97, bought a house in Auburn, Mass., and are planning a J uly 2002 wedding in Mystic, Con n . Shawn is a software engineer, designing and program­ tTting games for \tVorldWinner.com.

Their wedd i n g pa rty will include many Colby folks, including Megan Winchester Caradonna and Mike Zhe . . . . Mark Muir and his wife, Christine ( Dash '94), had their first daughter, Ainsley Christine Muir, in J une. Weighing in at 6 pounds l ounce, she is " just wonderfu l ! " Mark i s working a t Cisco Systems i n Lowell, Mass . . . . Speaking o f 'Cisco, Mike Saad is Living in San Francisco and works as the offi ce admin istrator for tlle S F office of a Seattle corporate law firm, Perkins Coie L L P. Mike keeps i n touch with Eric Most, Kristen Schuler Scammon and Janine Deforge Howley and keeps busy by training for maratl10ns and raising money for the S F A I D S Foundation through h i s affi li ation with tlle AIDS Marathon Training Program in San Francisco. Go M i ke ' . . . Also in Cali fornia is Jim Cronin, who l ives in Chico and works as a commerci a l \Neb designer a n d consultant. H e sends Rob McCarley and Kim Carr his best and says he is sorry to have missed tlleir wedding. . . . Last fall, Lisa and John Veilleux had twin boys, who join their 2 -and­ a-half-year-old brother in Portland, Maine, where John is an attorney at Norman, Hanson and DeTroy LLC. . . . Heacl1er Vultee Shilale gave bi rtl1 to twin girls, Chloe Lynne and Noelle E l i zabeth, on October 1 0, 200 1 , in Westerly, R . I . H eather sends news of Daphne Foran Lessard, who had her first child in late December, and Greta \tVood, who bought a new home tllis past summer. . . . Kevin Flynn and his wife, Laurie (Si lver­ man '94), had a baby boy, Timotl1y, and a l l are living in Betl1esda, Md., where Kevin is an attorney for an environmental law firm in D . C. . . .

Amy Duncan and Jason Kirkfield married in October 'O I in Mashpee, Mass. Colby alums in attendance

1990s Correspondents

i n cl u d e d M a ry Anne Sheridan,

Patrick Mannix, Ken Wi lcox, Kristin Burati, Karyl Brewster­ Geisz, Dave Smiili and Kaj Jensen.

Jason and Amy traveled in Switzerland and Italy for their honeymoon . . . .

Jen Cowles Snyder is working at Macromedia, a \Neb software and s o l u t i o n s compa ny. J e n says, " I have been there almost a year-a sheer miracle in today's high-tech economy." She sti l l keeps in touch with Jason Soules and is currently living in Boston . . . . Warren Kelly has spent the past eight years teaching middle school bil ingual science and math in N.Y.C., Lima, Peru, and New Mexico. H e recently started a fine arts degree at tlle Rocky Mountain Col lege of Art and Design in Denver and is currently showing paintings, drawings and insta l l ation work in Denver. Warren plans to move back to Taos, N.M., as soon as possible . . . .

I hope this edition finds you a l l happy, heal tl1y and embracing tlle maturity and wisdom of your early 3 0s . . . or trying to, anyway. . . . Look for more news on the \tVeb. -Beth C1t1Tm1

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Katrina Greenfield Han eve It

is teach i n g E n g l i s h as a second l a nguage at Shane Global Vi llage English Centre in Victoria, B . C. She and her husband recently bought a house. This past spring she went to a U2 concert witl1 Martine Kaiser '96, who is in grad school at the of V\Tashi ngton . . . Cina Werilieim's fi ance, Ada m , proposed this past summer on a mountain overlooking Edinburgh, Scotland, and tlley plan to get m a rried a ro u n d her 3 0th birthday next year. She sti l l works as a management consultant at i\1onitor Company. . . . Marina Netto Grande Campos married Rafael Campos i n September 1 99 9 i n C h i cago, where they both attended the M . B .A. program at the University of Chicago .

This past spring they returned to Brazi l . Rafael is an associate consultant at Booz A l l e n & H a m i l ro n , a n d M a rina is a manager in strategic pl aiming and business development at Te lemar, the largest telecom operator in the country. They l ive in the neighborhood of Copacabana in Rio de J a neiro with their i\ Ialtese puppy, Bidu . . . . Sean Gibbons, a producer for Ct\� in \\'ashington, recently saw Ben Garrison in Boulder, Colo.

For his 3 0th birthday he ,1·ent to Spain with his girlfriend, and last spring he spent a week in St. ;\ I aanen .

1990 Laura Senier 38 Pitts Street Natick, MA 0 1 7 6 0 508-6 5 3- 7 9 2 7 cla ssnews1990@a l u m .colby.edu 1991 Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier 2 6 Swa l low Drive Hollis, NH 03049 Jenn ifer Flynn 1 6 Lakevi lle Road # 1 2A J a m a ica P l a i n , MA 0 2 130 classnews1991@a lum.colby.edu

1992 M ichelle Fortier B i scotti 4 Shearson Drive Shrewsbu ry, MA 0 1545 508-845-6507 fax: 508-845-6483 classnews1992@a l um.colby.edu 1993 Beth Curra n 64 Dane Street # 1 Somerv i l l e , M A 0 2 143 cla ssnews1993@a lum .colby.edu 1994 Tracy K. Larsen 1821 Pacific Coast H ighway #1 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 classnews1994@a l u m .colby.edu 1995 Yuhgo Ya maguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cam bridge, MA 02140 6 1 7-354-0289 cla ssnews1995@a lum .colby.edu 1996 Kim Schock 7432 Major Avenue Norfolk, VA 23294 757-423-30 72 classnews1996@a lum.colby.edu 1997 Kimberly N. Parker 37 Melendy Avenue #2 Watertow n , MA 02472-4108 cla ssnews1997@a l u m .colby.edu 1998 Allison L. Brown Flynn 6948 Avery Road Dub l i n , OH, 4301 7-2865 classnews1998@alum .colby.edu 1999 Lindsay Hayes 130 Long Neck Poi nt Road Dari e n , CT 06820 203-655-4664 classnews1999@alum.colby.edu

,1-ith Bower H i mes '95 crewing o n a sailboat called Polyphngus in the Hei neken Cup Regatta (they took second place in their class) . . . . Brian

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1 990s

recently e lected chair of the board

Seidman moved t o Portland, Ore.,

for tl1e young advocates cou ncil for

,,·ith h i s girlfriend, Kristen, and their

c

A ,1/nine Sunday Telegram editorial sup­

Planned Paren thood of the R o ky

w i t h Excelergy. . . . M i k e King

ported a tentative deal between The

Mountains. She a l so took an eight­

was n a m e d t h e h e a d boys' l a crosse

Hancock Land Company and the Forest

day, 1 00 - m i l e backpack i n g trip in

coach at Choate Rosemary H a l l in

Society of ;\ Ia ine to put I 0,000 acres

the \\'eimeniche Wi l derness area of

C o n necticut. . . . Andr a Stairs

of the compa ny's 2 2 ,000 acres off-lim its

Colorado . . . . John and Colleen

mo,·ed from Denver to Boston i n

to developers. Company president Matt

cat, :\ Iook.i e . H e i s sti l l w o r k i n g

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H a ncock '90 s a i d the future of the

September t o ,,·ork on h e r P h . D . in education at B oston College . . . .

forest products i n d u stry in southern

Janet Powers graduated i n ;\ Iay from Emory

i\ 1 a i ne-and h i s fa m i l y 's 1 5 3 -year-old

niversity i n Atlanta, G a . ,

business-depends on the effort

w i t h an :\ L B.A. and a n :\ 1 . P. H . S h e i s n o w ] i ,·i n g i n R)·e, :\'" . H . , a n d working i n Portsmouth fo r a socia l l y

care . . . . Donna Bacchiocchi is the manager of technical senices at the Bentley College Libra ry. She's sti l l living in J amaica Plain, ,\ lass . . . . :\Iatthew a n d Kamin McClelland

1acomber bought a house in \\'alnut Creek, C a l i f. , j ust outside o f San

One of

for early-career environmental leaders,

Matt Hancock '90

the Switzer Environmental Fel l owship,

responsible mutual fun d company as a n eq u i ty analyst cm·ering health

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the country's most prestigious fellowships

was awarded to Andrew Kulmatiski

'94, a

Ph.D. candidate in ecology and enviroiunental studies at Darm1outh College.

The award aids 20 outstanding young environmental leaders in developing expertise to address America's consen•ation challenges

'99

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took first prize in color photography at the aiurnal juried art show

sponsored by The Richter Association for the Ans in Danbury, Conn.

Baff's exhibition, "Colors of Pakistan," was on view in several locations in 2000-2 00 1

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B r e n n a n T h o rn d i k e w e l co m e d Abiga i l (Abby) Faye into t h e world on September 1 5 . She weighed 4 l bs., 2 oz., and was I 7 inches long at birth.

After a few weeks in the hospital, she came home and is doing extremely wel I. . . . M a rk and Ingrid Kristan Renzi welcomed their daughter, Antonisa

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( N i a ) , on September I 7 . . . . Ally and Chris Sharpe welcomed thei r son, Parker John , on November !-+. . . . If you e-mai l ed me a ny pi es , I forwarded them to Col by, so look for more news on the \Veb.

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95 Jesse Salisbury

is a scul ptor

Antone C. Tavares '99 won the ·ward 6 seat on the \Vatenrille, Maine,

in Steuben, J\1aine. His large stone

di rector for :\ Iodem ,\ ledia, an interac­

city council, ousting the incumbent councilor and former head of the

sculptures have been shown at the

tive m a rk e t i n g agen cy. Last year

Democratic city committee.

College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor

Francisco. She is an associate media

she was a bridesmaid i n two Colby in i\ l a nche ster, Vt., a n d Josette H untress to Thomas H o l l a n d in :\'"orth Carolina . . . . Jessica Haskell and Todd Curtis were married in August in Little Compton, R.I. The '' edding pany included Holly Labbe,

1eehan and :\ lany Hergert '93 . Other C o l br attendees: Jen­ nifer \Valker-Johnson, Ryan and C h ristine Messier Feeley, Donna Bacchiocchi, Sally Zimmerli '93 and

Terry

Tim Se ton '93 , Beth Cronin '93, Josh Bubar '93 , ] a)· :\loore '93, :\ I att

'91 and Laura Foga rty l\'erne)' '93 a n d Geraldine Da,·ies De George '66. lC>dd teac he s in Brookline, and] essica I '>

getting an Ed . .\ I. in coun eling

P'>) cholog) from B ll . They Ji,·e i n J a mai ca Plain, \ las<, . . . . Carolyn

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H a rt m a r r i e d D a ' e O' h e a ' 9 3 1 11 � ep t e m be

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t. George

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at te nda n ce, includ­

mg Rebekah Freeman,

ara Ferry yan, H eather Lounsbury, i\l a ri l e I la) Ion Borden, Jessie l\'ewman, John rady, Elliott Barry, Bonnie John on a nd D,H 1 d\ cou'>m, John 1 1 u g b c ., · o:i. Caro l ) n and Da' e are .,nil 111 \ l i c h 1 gan , a n d C : a ro lr n \\ 111 '>Oon be an oftic1al candidate for the P h . D . 111 L-.�.

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<render h1'>tof\. at the L nl\·er.,1n. and �

of \ l 1 ch 1 ga n. Carol) n a J.,o ''

an d the "Exhibition of Contemporary

ll�ii!MM:@ll

weddings: Sara Ferry to Rick Gyan

A r t, 2 00 1 " at J\ 1 iyazaki Airport i n

'91 to Renee K. Pierce in Burlington, Vt. : Kimberly L. Kennedy '92 to Ke n t \Vh i te in C a l i stoga , Calif. : Shawn R. Behling '93 to Gary M. Keller in Arden, W:Va. : Chris­ topher H . Chamberlain '93 to Deborah B. B rown in Duxbury, Mass. : Amy E. Duncan '93 to Jason M. Kirk.field '93 in Mashpee, i11ass. ·:· Sarah K. Inman '93 to Joseph Longo III in New Orleans, La. ·:· Andrew P. Nemiccolo '93 to Amy E . Rosenberg in Kansas Ci ty, lv lo. ·:· Michael D. Rosenblum '93 to Elizabeth B. Agnew in Edgartown, i1 1ass. ·:· Staci L. Strauss '93 to Erik K . Mortenson '9-+ in Tarrytown, 1'.Y. : Kate B. Diana '94 to Patrick L. Glenn in Cambridge, Mass. : Jessica S. Haskell '94 to Todd A. Curtis '9-+ in Little Compton, R . I . ·:· Kathie L. Pooler '94 to Sean Toomey in Waterville, Maine : Eric L. Tracy '94 to Wendy S. Russell in Rochester, N.Y. ·:· Jens C. Kueter '95 to Colleen E. Garvey in Westerly, R . I . : Elizabeth D. Whelen '95 to Andrew F. Thut in Darien, Conn. ·:· Lori K. Kalisz '96 to Ryan Stanenfield in Pittsfield, Mass. : Tatum A. Calder '96 to Samuel ] . inclair i n l\ew Canaan, Corui. ·:· Sarah B . McCarthy '96 to \Villiam S. .\ lood in Harnich Port, i1 1ass. ·:· Rebecca A. Hoogs '97 to Lawrence S. Benesh '97 in Great Barri ngton, \'t. ·:· Amy C. Letizia '97 to Daniel J. Wheadon '97 in Buchanan, N.Y. .;. Sandra H. Lund '97 to William \ \'. Sargisson in Rye, .\lass. : Vanessa K. Newell '97 to Paul Hession in Ipswich, .\ lass. :· Betsy Marie Eisen '97 to Mark Parada in New l lampshire : Cindy L. Pomerleau '97 to Corey Leclerc in Brunswick, .\ Jaine ·:· Carole 1 . Re i d '97 to \ \!lien B. Bird in Andover, Ma s. ·:· Jon J\ I . Vore '98 to Courmey E. Curran in il lerrimack, N.H. : Sandra C. Du Barry '99 to Jesse C. Laflamme in St. Johnsbury, Vt. .1 lmTinges: James M. Lamberti ··

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January 2, 2002 , in Boston, Mass.,

Wilfredo Rodriguez-Alvarez '96, l\o\•ember 5, 2 00 I , in

Phoeni\, .\riz., at 17.

a n n u a l l y at Peter a n d J a n e \ Ve i l 's

Tun k River Sculpture a n d Gardens G al ler y i n Steuben . . . . Michelle Grdina is now worki n g a t Han1ard University i n tl1e class a n d reunions

office of the Al umni Association . . . .

Jen Ancker reports tl1a t s h e i s sci I I at Atalanta/Sosnoff in N.Y.C. as the d i rector of marketing for a l ternative i nvestments. She spends her time p i t c h i n g therr hedge fu n d , S a bre Parmers L P, and workin g w i tl1 H edge

Fw1ds Care, an organization devoted to tl1e prevention of child abuse and the treatment of those w h o have

been v i ct i m i ze d . Jen reports that

Anna Redmond is getting married i n August 2002 to her business school sweetl1eart and tliat Alice Tilson is back in North Caro l i n a atte n d i n g business school at Kenan-Flagler. . .

. Bruce Mason is now t he publicity di rector at Overlook Press in N.Y.C. and sti l l throws a mean party1 . .

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Jeffrey Ball a n d Brigitte S pencer were married in late August 200 I i n Ogu n q u i t, M a i ne. Sean McBride,

Peter Gates and Josh Gravin were in attendance. Sean is living in Brookline, ,\ !J ass., a n d is a copywriter f o r a n advert i s i n g firm i n Bosto n , Peter re ce n tl y moved back to Boston from

te th a t

i

J a p a n . J esse a l s o shows h i s work

San Francisco to take a job at State

re-.1denaal W\\ers at Boston llni,·er­

U C B , a p h a r m a ceu ti cal company

\pril 2 00 :' ; Rebekah 1., the re 1denr

S l r) ;

\ m Ex i n

in Cambridge, ,\ l ass . . . . J essie

.'.\: c \

York; a n d ! l eather \1 orks fo r

have a son, Tu rner. Sean also reports

d 1 recror at one of th e unde gr adua te

Newman Ji, e '> in Den\'er and was

that Jason Mahoney is a lawyer i n

f'l l 1on and Bon111c arc gemng m a rr ed 111

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a ra i'o \\ rk i n g at

Street, and josh and his w i fe, Kristen,

New Orleans and is engaged, Bill Gillis lives in N.Y.C. and is the news

schools and currently teaches at Gorham . . . . Anna Goldsmith is

editor for Small Comp11ti11g Business

l i v i n g in Cambridge, Mass., a n d started a business writing company called The H i red Pens . . . . Eric Gordon, who moved with Duracell from Boston to Connecticut, was married to Katie Quackenbush '99; attending were Roger Binggeli, who

magazine, and Mei Yue Chau i s engaged a n d p l a n n i n g a wedding in New H a mpsh i re i n the summer. . . . Marc Rubin is moving to San Franci sco to open the C a l i f o rn i a office of Parthenon Capital. . . .

Alyssa Falwell Ross had a boy, Aidan Thomas, on August 2 4 (they missed sharing a bi rthday by a mere 3 5 minutes'). Maureen Finn Schwartz, J ulie Rentz and Kristen Hanssen Goodell came to see Aidan recently, and he has his first official Colby outfit, tl1 a n ks to M aureen ' Alyssa, her husband, Joe, and Aidan have a house in southern New Hampshire, and Alyssa is now back at work as a manager o f public relations for M.atrixOne, a tech nology company in \tVestford, Mass . . . . I went out to Los Angeles to visit Chris Lohman and Abby Eskin '97 in November. Along with enjoying the fabulous weather, Abby is attending law school at U C LA a n d Chris is working f o r a Web design fi rm .

-Yuhgo Ym11ag11chi

96

Megan Nicholson, i n her second year of medical school at tl1e U n iversity of Rochester, received a speci al visit from her Colby room­ mate, Kristen Zolla, from Boston.

Megan is thinking about returning to Maine for her residency training . . . .

Melissa Taylor graduated from the UniversityofNew England College of Osteopatl1 ic Medicine in Biddeford, M a ine, where Karen Bossie was one ofher classmates. Mel issa was married in June to Jesse Beckwith, who is witl1 Bell Atlantic, and she occasionally sees Bernadette Graham, who is workiJ1g in the Biology Department at Colby. . . . Grace Jeanes is working on her M . B.A. at UMass-Lowell and is a teaching assistant in business finance. In her free time, she traveled to I taly with her family and has started taking drum lessons . . . . Earl Lewis finished his second year of a Ph . D . program in molecular microbiology at SUNY- Stony Brook and celebrated passing his qualifier exam by taking a vacation to Greece. . . . Hillary Brennan is a project coordinator at A n a d ays P h a rmaceutica l s ; her husband, Todd, is a regional sales di rector with the Yankee Group in Boston . . . . Georgia Brian completed USM's ETEP progra m, worked as an eel tech I I in a multi -aged classroom in Scarborough, interned in Portland

married Melanie Macbeth '97 lastJ uly 111 ew Hampshire, Eric Schwartz, married in May 2000 to Maureen Finn '95, and John Mendez. John and his wife, Melissa, welcomed their first child, I atalie, in May 200 l and reside in the Boston area with tl1eir two border col l ies. John traveled to Montana in September 2000 to the wedding of Tim Lieberman and Brittany Briggs and is currently working as an IT manager in global process development at EMC. . . .

Joy Christoferson was married in J une in Amherst, Mass., after she and her husband, J 0!111, received master's degrees from Yal e University, hers in nursing and his in environmental studies. They moved to Seattle . . . .

Zachary Knox was married last year and is Living in Delaware working for MBNA and training for triathlons . . . .

Dan and Kristen Drake Patterson are working on master's degrees at tl1e University ofWisconsi n-Madison in the I nsti tute for Environmental Studies. She is studying conservation biology and plans to return to Mono Lake, Calif., this summer for her thesis work in environmental education.

Kristen was able to catch up witli

Corey Burnham, Kirstin Rohrer McPolin and Courtney Marum in a mini -reunion in tlie \tVhite M ountains of N . H . last October. . . . Casey McCullough graduated from the Phi ladelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in June and is doing his internship in Philadelphia. H e pre­ sented his research at the American r o l og i c a l Association n a t i o n a l meeting in California last spring . . . .

Joshua Morris finished his first year of teaching at tl1e Dublin School after having spent time teaching English in Ecuador. . . . Bill Epps is pursuing a master's degree in Latin American history after spending last summer in Ecuador perfecting his Spanish. . . . Rebecca Mawn finished her tliird year teaching second grade and is currently working as a turor and living witl1 Susannah Kowal, who is a physical therapist at a hospital in Salem, Mass. . . . Caroline Ketcham is working on her Ph.D. in motor control at Arizona State University.

She is doing research on Parkinson's d i sease and traveled to London last summer to present her work at the world conference of neuro l ogy. . . .

Aaron Schlechter received his master of arts of landscape design from the Conway School of Landscape Design in June. H e is engaged to Jennifer Fraulo and attended the wedd i n g of Brian Stenger in J u n e . Brian is a fu l l -time M . B.A. student at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC. Aaron and Brian also attended Mike Sabin and Angel Coyne's wedding i n August, along with Nolan Yamashiro (best man), James Howley and Chris Dawkins. M i ke and Angel honeymooned in soutliern France . . . . Adam Muller received a master's in economics from Tufts Universi ty, finished a two-year stint at Charles River Associates, an economic con sulting firm in Boston, and is employed at D L F Capital biotech firm in Boston and working towards his M . B.A. at tl1e M IT school of management. . . . Dori Desautel was a bridesmaid in Courtney Sullivan's wedding in September. Dori keeps in touch witl1 Kaitlin Graham, who graduated from the Uni versity o f Texas grad school for social work, a n d Beili Atkinson, w h o is in medical school at Vanderbilt. . . . Look for more news on tlie \tVeb.

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April Arn1strong and Shawn Campbe l l '93 bought a house i n Auburn, Mass., a n d plan a J u ly 2002 wedding in Mystic, Conn. April is singing with a Boston band a n d working at a veterinary clinic, and Shawn is a software engineer, design­ ing and progra m m i n g games f o r World\tVinner.com . . . . Congrats also to Susanna Montezemolo, who is engaged to Mark Kugler. They have a June 2 003 wedd i n g planned i n Rome, Italy. She's taking a year off from graduate school to complete a fel lowship witli Consumers Union, m a i n l y doing policy ana lysis and lobbying in D . C. . . . Lauren Graham is getting hitched tO Adam Harkins in February 2003 on a beach in tlie Bahamas . . . . Linda Jenkins was recently engaged and has set a spring 2003 date . . . . Cailiy Neuger and her husband, Gregg Le Blanc '96, are stil l living in New York City. Carny remains in tlie business intelligence sen>ices at Delaine and Touche bur planned to transfer tO tlie Boston office early tliis year tO start her group's service line in New England. She's

been in touch with Becky Briber, who is a law student at ortheastern, and Kelly Winchester and her fiance, Matt Nelson, who just moved back to Boston. Catl1y also reports that Christine Brown I rish is a first-year residen t a t Maine Medical in Portland and that her baby, M adeli ne, turned l last December. . . . Karen Hoppe is sti l l teach ing and bought a house outside Portland with her boyfriend, Andrew. . . . Dave Wright continues to work at Deutsche Bank in ew York . . . Hilary Peterson is livi n g in Bozeman, Mont., where she teaches Engl ish. She reports mat it's been fun catching u p with Margot H iggins, who recently moved tl1ere . . . . After tying tlie knot in October, Vanessa Newell and husband Paul Hession bought a house in soutl1ern ew Hampshire . . . . Heam Laycock and his wife, Kel ly, welcomed daughter Samantlia Renee into the world on October 26. Congrats' . . . Jennifer Soules is in her second yearofgraduate school at Boise State niversity, where she is studying winter wrens in the forests of western Washington . . . .

Matthew Toms married Kathleen Kohatsu in October in Keene, . H .

Otliers in attendance included Scott .

Monteiili, Kate Gluck, Stephanie Healy and Katie Scheffe l . The couple currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio, where Katliy is pursuing her M . F.A. in modern dance at Case Western Reserve and Matt is working as a chemical dependency counselor witli inner-city youtli. H e also occa­ sional l y leads trips and teaches in Latin America . . . . Yawa Duse­ Aniliony checked in after being the maid of honor in Vanessa Newe l l 's wedd i n g a n d reported that Rick Unruh a n d h i s w i fe , J e n n y, just moved to Cambridge. She remains in Andover and has a spare bedroom should anyone cruising tlirough need a place to crash . . . . Linc Farr is sti l l working in 'New York as a writer a n d a s s o c i a t e p roducer o n t h e s h o w Justice Files, which is co-produced witli ABC News and airs on tlie D iscovery Channel. Between seasons, his com­ pany is producing a documentary for H BO on tlie events ofSeptember 1 1 , a behind-me-scenes look at tlie activi­ ties of tlie city government, featuring interviews with Rudy Giuliani and his commissioners . . . . Jon Levin is in his final year at uffolk Law School.

He is engaged tO ELizabetli Aloupis and plans a J une 2003 wedding . . . . David Regan did a short stint drilling for oil in \\'yoming (where, he reports,

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Medical School. Scott and hi'> room­

" I saw absolutelr no fellow Colby

. . . Dagan Loisel is in hjs second

school director of K I P P : Delta Col­

grads, or \·ery many other types of

year of graduate school a t D u k e

lege Preparatory School in Helena,

mates, Dave Neskey and Ezra Dyer,

human "), and now he djgs up old

ruversiry. As part of hjs program,

Ariz. Scott writes tl1at they plan to

hosted a party this fall, where I also

gas stations, pumping contaminated

Dagan traveled to Costa llica last

open their doors to 7 5 fi ftl1 graders

saw Amy Erdmann (sti ll in accounting

ground\\·ater as a n environ menta l

summer and will go to Kenya in the

in the fall of 2002 and grow to a 5-8

and studying hard to complete her

consultant i n Portland, ;\ Iaine. He's

near future. He says he's enjoying

school over a four-year period . . . . Pete

tests), Raj Khunkhun, Brian Quinn

also been writing and playing songs

the obsession with college basketba l l

FelmJy is sti l l living in the Portland,

( Raj and Brian a re roommates in

in a heavy, but happy, rock band. H e

that exists down i n North Carolina1

i\ 1aine, area and w i l l be working tl1is

Cambridge), Kate Lowe (who con­

recently visited Noah Owen-Ashley

Dagan wrote that Ethan Pope is

summer at a law firm speci alizing i n

tinues to work at Investors Bank and

and Anna O'Connell i n Seattle and

working a full-time job in mental

employment a n d education . . . . Jared

Trust), \.Vilson Owens, John Doyle

keeps in touch with M ari sa Nopakun,

health care and working towards a

Fine is engaged to El iza beth Hubba rd

(\Nilson and John live in Stamford,

who lives in Somenille, ;\lass . . . . I n

graduate degree in his spare time.

'0 1 ' The} bom live i n M i n nesota and

Con n . , and work in Greenwich),

h e r thfrd year at Dartmouth Medical

Ethan lives i n Brookline, i\Iass., and

plan a September 2002 wedding in

C h ri s Rogan (in the

Schoo l , Kara Patterson i s most

sees Paul Caruso and Alex Howard

Rhode Island. Jared is sti l l working

working h i s tai l off in medical school),

i n terested i n obstetrics or pediatrics.

on a regular basis. Dagan also reports

on his P h . D . . . . Congrats to Mila

She ran in quite a fe\\" N'e\\" England

that Charles Costanzo is Living with

Dickson, who was married to Dr.

Sbezad Habib (living with his brother in .Y.C.), Melissa Gerbi (in

races last year and won the Covered

or near a whole flock of '98 grads in

Peter Rossi in New Orleans, La., on

marketing at Blue Cross Blue Shield

Bridges Half Marathon. She's run

\Vashjngron, D.C., including Eben

ovember 3 , 2 00 1 . Many '98 Colby

and loves it) and Jesse Dole (getting

into Treb Becher, who is in hjs first

grads were in attendance, including

married') . . . . Delphine Burke got

year at D.\1S . . . . Dave Hali lives and

Peck and Chris Coakley . . . . Last sunUTi er KC McClelland left Boston,

back from her trip around the world

works in the

pper Valley, where he

traveled th rough Europe for six weeks

i s applying for graduate schools for

and relocated to Los Angeles. I n

Tara Falsaru, Meghan Fallon, Liz C astagneto, H i l a ry Whi te a n d Cindy Lohmann; M e g Greene was

next fal l . . . . Amanda Sprang moved

September she started a s an invest­

a bridesmaid. Mila and Peter wi l l be

Dublin, I reland, where she is working

Tavy a n d

and l i ves w i th Ben Liston '00 i n Boston . . . . Jennie Record moved to

from Seattle to Houston in October

ment analyst in L.A. She reports that

in New Orleans until J u ly and then

and living . . . . On October 7 , 2 00 1 ,

to start a job w i t h ExxonMob i l .

she is "mjssing Boston, but loving

move to \Vinston-Salem,

I n February she w i l l b e moving to

the warm weather and being closer

Peter w i l l complete his residency

S a k h a l i n I s l a n d , Russia, which i s

to home!" . . . Also in Los Angeles,

at Baptist Hospital (\\Take Forest

directly north o f]a pan, as Exxon.,.\ Iobil

Harris Eisenstadt firushed hjs M . F.A.

Un iversity Medical Center) in radia­

Jacob Berg and Rebecca Plummer tied the knot . D e nnis D'Angelo, Will Barndt, Kris M u rp h y and Josh Young were i n the wedding pa rry. Heather Davidson attended. . . . Ben Langille is in his second year

.C., where

prepares for first oil in 2 00 5 . She

at the California I nstitute ofthe Arts in

tion oncol ogy. i\ I i l a curre n tl y i s

estimates she wi l l be there for several

music performance and composition

di rector o f cultural projects for the

year . . . . Liz Baker is the di rector of

last spri ng. H a rris currently lives

New Orleans Jazz Festival. . . . Jenny

at Boston College Law School but

annual gi\ing for Cathedral School

and works in L o s A n g e l e s a s a

Lane enjoys her work as an admission

w i l l be in N.Y.C. this summer as a

in San Francisco . . . . Hyun J u ng is

freelance musician and teacher. . . .

counselor at Clarkson Un iversity. I n

summer associate at the law fi rm

enjoying classes at the Kennedy School

In Providence, R . I . , Kristina Smith

h e r " free time" s h e is a volunteer

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett . . . .

at Han•ard . . . . Since graduation,

is i n the second year of a three-year

coach for some of the amletic teams

Robbie Koh is in school at U1\T£

Mark Adelman has been Senator

master's degree program in landscape

at Clarkson, h i kes tl1e Adirondack

in Maine and has two more years to

Olympia Snowe's legis lative a i d e

archi tecture at the Rhod e I s l and

Mount a i n s and sti l l enjoys skiing.

finish his master's in physical therapy.

( a d v i i n g on the i ssues of trade,

School of Design . . . . Tara Falsaru

Jenny recently became engaged to

In J a n u a ry, Robbie went back to

foreign a ffa i rs and the j u d i c i a ry)

will graduate from \Visconsin Law

Ethan Townsend, who went to St.

Colby for two montl1s of a clin ical

and di rector of correspondence. He

School this ;\ 1ay and move to

Iew

Lawrence University and is now a

rotation and worked witl1 Tim Adams

lives "·i th Dana Cease and Lauren

York to work in a litigation practice.

ski coach . . . . Look for more news

and me sports "'teams smack dab in me

Bayersdorfer outside of D . C. Dana

. . . Kate Laurence graduated from

on the \Veb.

is pursuing hi :\ I . B. . at Georgetown

Boston

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middle of hockey season. . . . Sarah Nadeau lives in an apartment i n

Our Gift Commi ttee volun­

tant at Beny, Dunn, McNeil & Parker.

niversity in J anuary witl1 a

\\ hi le Lauren i a sixth grade teacher

joint master's degree in international

in northern \�rginia . . . . Look for

relations and environmental policy.

more ne\\ on the \\'eb.

. . . Since returning from the Peace

teers will make a big effort to step up

Corps l ast year, Kristina Straus

class support of the Alumni Fund this

. . . S a rah H ew i n s a n d A l e x i s Azar moved t o Sydney, Australia, to work and play for me next year.

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Portland, Maine, a n d is a n accoun­

has taught marine science for an

year by calling and writing many of

P l a n n i n g for our fj ,•e-year

em•ironmental education nonprofit.

you over the next few months. Please

C h eck

reunion has begun. I kno" a number

Kristina teaches kids of a l l ages,

demonstrate your commitment to

www. l 8hourfl i ght.com. One ni ght

of you ha' e been im·oked in this

who travel on field trips to visit the

funding the Colby education and

out on tl1e town tl1ey ran into Dylan

proce'>'>, and "e all look forn ard to

90-foot research vessel where she

experience f o r furure c l asses by

Commeret and Ken \\Tilson '96,

the fir'>t of man� cla

" orks! Kri tin a, who l ives in the

supporti ng their effort and givi ng

who live two blocks away from them' . . . Samantha Bender is in tl1e post­

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reunions' . . .

.ongratulation'> tO Devin

o u t t h e i r a d v e n tu r es

at

olman on

San Francisco Bay Area, also just

to tl1e fund1 . . . Now that I live in

Jennifer her on'

completed her first marathon, which

ambridge, I have Colby run-ins

baccalaureate program at Columbia

De' in and Jennifer plan an October

was for the Leukemia and Lym phoma

much more often. Katie Lawrence

and getting ready for vet school. . .

. Crystal Brakke moved to Boston

h1<i engagement

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ociery. . . . Kevin Th u rston is in

still works at Harvard. Lelia Evans is

the \ l acaJe.,ter College art ga lle�

Bologna, Ita ly, in his first year at the

back from San Francisco and works as

and is now working in recru itment

in

johns l lopkins School of Ad\'anced

a Spani h teacher at a local elemenra1y

with Teach For America . . . . Contrary

.\larty Elw ell on h1'> marnage to Beth

I nrernational

rudies. Ke\1n ays that

schoo l . Kristy Gould, sti l l at Totl1

Kuch111.,ki on Ocrnber 10, 200 I , at the Fmmanuel College chapel 111 Bo'>ton .

to what was written in tl1e last issue,

5chool i5 going " e ll and Bologna

Brand I m aging, went in on a ski

Kristin Engel and Beth Lang are

a lot of fun . . . . For the past

house in Stowe with Billy Riley,

not living with Robin Torbeck in Bar

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Paul, \ I inn . . . . Congrats to

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month'>, Scott Shi rey has been

Ross McEwan, C h ris Fleming,

Harbor. Robin moved to Venice, Fla . ,

Jon Barry '98, ,\ l i ke \".'ood '00 and

f o r the winter, Kristin is in Boston

Beth graduated from Fmmanuel in o tello and Denni 1 99 . Rvan . o l l u m " e re u'>hers in the " edding,

part1c1pa t:1ng in the Fi5her

Leader'>hip Program. Pending charter

others . . .

Scott Wl1itlow is doing

working as an ana lyst for Broadview, a

and Alice \\'on� " a' a lmde maid.

apprm al, Seem " i ll be the founding

great i n lab research at H a rvard

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bank, and Beth is living in Cambridge,

They are planning a J une wedding

England, with her husband, Jonathan

i n Poland . . . . And Limi Perry was

H ughes. They got married in October.

married on Tovember 29 to Emanuel B a u e r. Congratu l a tions, a l l I . . .

Nikki Monchik is l i ving in New York City and working as an analyst a t J P Morgan Chase i n tl1e leadership development program . . . . Paul B e rube is in his second year o f graduate school in tl1e department of microbiology at the Un iversity of vVashington-Seattle and enjoys living iii Seattle . . . Faitli Anderson is working as an analyst for a small economic consulting firm in \Vashii1gton, D.C., and is a volunteer firefighter/EMT for the Burtonsvil le VFD in Montgome1y County, Md . . . Nick LaRusso, Ben

Beth earned her master's in England two years ago . . . . Kristy Tracy is in Portland, M a i ne, and in her second year of law school at tl1e University of Maine School of Law. Kristy recently got engaged to John Dawes of Cape Elizabeth, Mai ne, and tl1ey will be getting married on May 2 5 , 2002 1 . . . Jennie Oberzan, who has been working for the past two years in \Vashington, D.C., as the assistant to the executive di rector of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a national nonprofit advocacy gToup, recently married David Verse!, with Katie Quackenbush Gordon as a bridesmaid. Jennie and her husband own a house in Ta koma Park, i\l [ d . , b u t hope to relocate to M a i n e . . . .

Liz Bayne is living in Boston and got m a rried to Ethan B u d iansky i n August. Mariek Schmidt a n d Jill Morneau read selections in the ceremony, and Cam M c Donough '00 and Laura Mitchell were brides­ maids; Ali Tetler and Anne Nettles attended. Liz is looking forward to going to the Peace Corps in Senega l . . . . David Wilkens loves h i s l i fe as a matl1 teacher at a sma l l private school north of San Francisco . . . David Black has returned from California, where he managed a club, and is now working in the snow sport industry as the di rector of partnerships for SnoCountry vVorldwide, based i n Lebanon, N . H . . . . Carrie Dube sti l l lives in Arizona, where s h e is working on her master's in chemistry. Carrie is engaged to James Plucinski. They met in graduate school and plan a fall 2003 wedding. Mackenzie Dawson will be a bridesmaid . . . . John Evans is working on his Ph.D. in biophys­ ics at tl1e University of Michigan, using X-ray crystallography to study proteins involved with cardiovascular disease . . . . Look for more news on the Web. .

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There are q u i te a few engage­ ments to report1 Sarah Church is eng·aged to Philip M urphy (a very nice British man), and tl1ey a re plarmingan August wedding in New H ampshire.

This fa l l , Sarah plans to head to graduate school to become a teacher. . . . Carlos Dominguez and Jessica Mulready are planning ro be married in September 2 00 2 ! . . . Wojciech Wieckowski is sti l l in Boston and is engaged ro Suzanne Stonehouse '98.

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Mackay andJared Woodward-Poor are living in Park City, Uta h . Ben and Nick work at the Park City Mountain Resort, and Jared works at a nearby rental shop . . . . Dave Ferguson is living in Brooklyi1 and working at Behrman Communications, a leading P R firm for healtl1, beauty and fitness clients. He hopes to make a move into tl1e entertainment industry in the spring . . . Jason Gatlin, Sarah Cleary and Mary Larios are living i n Brookline, Mass. Jason and Mary are applying to graduate school for the fa l l . . . . Last fa l l , Courtney .

Genovese, Jenn Lisk, Jessie Davis and Jen Goodman took a m i n i ­ vacation to New Orleans. They ran into Al Bahn, who is at Tu lane Law School, and Rebecca Solomon, who is a team leader witl1 An1eriCorps NCC. She is leading a team of 1 1 in tl1e Southeast region of the U.S. and is currently working on a project with the U . S . Fish & vVildl ife Service near New Orleans . . . . Vanessa Wade is at the School of Psychology at Tufts as wel l as interning at Concord-Carlisle High School. She w i l l be a bridesmaid in Reba Frederics and Jeff Libby's J uly 2 002 wedding at Colby. . . .

Melissa Bradbury is working i n t h e adm issions office at Cushing Academy. S h e moved out o f the freshman boys' dorm and is now livi ng off-campus in what is called the "faculty dorm." She also coached figure skating this past fall . . . . Tom Reynolds is living in Boston with Mika Steffensen and is working at tl1e Joslin Diabetes Center. . . Bill Polin spent this fall as an assistant coach for the Darm1outh footb a l l team . . . . Jon Allen s e t sa i l i n November aboard a 90-foot sailboat bound for Bermuda and St. ,\ lartin.

After a stay o n the islands, J o n returned ro Newport ro s a i l t h e .

H . M . S . Rose through t h e islands o f tl1e Panama Canal a n d then up to Baja, where he will remain aboard for tl1e winter as crew to help with the fi lming of an upcoming H o l lywood movie . . . . Kate MacLeay and I recently traveled from Boston to visit Katie Mitchell and Scott We lch ' 9 8 i n H a w a i i . Katie i s tea c h i n g kindergarten a n d ran in t h e Honolulu M a rathon in December1

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Col by's newest members of the real world have really taken l i fe on with fu l l force by diving into extraordinary things1 Michelle Cook moved to Catalina Island, Calif. , and has been teaching first hand marine science to students. . . . Katliy Ma nu is living in Budapest, Hunga ry, teaching English and writing for an English­ speaking paper. . . . I n T.Y.C. I often see roommates Michelle Chandler, Rachel Rokicki, Allyson Giard and Brooke Fitzsimmons. M i chelle is working in the fashion deparonent at GQ Mngn-::.i11e, Rachel is a publicity assistant at Basic Books, Ally is in grad school at Columbia working towards her master's in creative writing, and Brooke is publicizing books at a small PR firm. Brian Newman also lives in N.Y.C. and reports that roommate Paul Neundorfer, who works for Lehman Bros., is in his first off-off­ Broadway play . . . . I ran into Tim Cassidy and Mead Rust at an T.Y.C. party. Mead is working for the History Channel, and Tim is about to set sail for the Caribbean . . . . Betli Festa is living in Man hattan and works for the District Attorney's Office. . . . I also run into Melissa Alioto, who works for CondeNast Travel ler, and her roommates, Caroline Blair, a paralegal, and Beth Maloney, of Deutsche Bank . . . . Julie Lai1gsdorf also has chosen N.Y.C. as her home, and so did Ann Farley, who also works as a paralegal. . . Across the way in Pi ttsburgh Justin Ehrenwerth and Eric Lantzman are roommates.Justin works as a Coro Fellow ameliorating antagonisms in world race relations, while Eric is in his first year at the Un iversity o f Pittsburgh ;\ 1edical School and prepares to heal people . . . .

Venola Mason works for Franklin i\ Iarshall Col lege in Lancaster, Pa., as the graduate intern for multicultural programming . . . . In Baltimore, Sarah H oward attends J o h n s H op k i n s Un i,·ersiry School o f �ursing, while up i n ,\ laine, Lauren Stevens is teaching at Hebron Academy.

2000s Correspondents 2000 H i lary Smyth 134 Davis Avenue #2 Brookl i ne, MA 02445 781-883-1903 classnews2000@a lum.colby.edu 2001 Dana D. Fowler 353 East 78th Street, 118 New York, NY 10022 classnews2001@a lum .colby.edu

Down in Austin, Lambie Bickford is working at a small technological holding and acquisition firm . . . . In Massachusetts, Kate Isley is working as a paralegal at Smith and Dugan and announced her engagement to Kenny Rausch, former Col by assistant hockey coac h 1 . . . J unko Goda is working at Dana-Farber Cancer I n s titute in Boston a n d l i ves i n Brighton with Shuba Srivatsan and Jess M u l ready '00. And what would Boston do without Lou Distasi, Andrew Tripp, Denny Clark and Jared Beers provi ding great weekend e n terta i n m e n t in t h e i r luxurious aparonent! Mindy Mraz, working for Dove Consulting, and roommate Annie Miller often join these guys, while roommates Becca Bischoff, Jen Bubrick, Abbie Parker (who Brian Newman told me works for NASA) and Jenny Kiszkiss throw t h e i r own soi ree s 1 J e n n y reports that Trent Cunningham is a high school algebra teacher in Maine while coach i n g JV basketba l l . . . Jodi Dakin does business development for TOCCI in Massachusetts. She is dancing ballet again and socia l l y drinking beers ";th Abbie . . . Rob Webb works f o r the law fi rm of Ropes & Gray in Boston, while Em Dupill and Laura Montgomery are roommates and paralegals in N.Y. C. . . . Kristin Moresi has worked for Governor Swift's press office in Boston, i\ Iass., ince July. . . . Gina DiBella lives in London and works on a museum internship . . . Freddy Perowne is playing hockey in Yugo­ sla,;a1 . . . Emily Mahlman, m y roommate, is gainfully employed at CBS �ews in �.Y.C. while I make sure the magazine world always has plenty of photographers to keep it a l ive. Em and I have a l so dipped our hands into the fabulous world of interior decorating . . . Look for more news on the \\'eb. .

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Donald C. Freeman '26, December

S c h o o l . H e i s s u rv i v e d by two

Marcella Duoba '3 7, December I ,

Balsley '69, two grandchildren and

7, 2 00 1 , i n H averh i l l , . Mass. , at 1 00.

H e taught English at HaverhiU High

daughters, Ruth \Na l dman and Janet

2 00 1 , i n Braintree, Mass., at 84. She

two great-grandchildren.

\Vi n q u i st, two grand c h i l dren a n d

was a registered nurse for the Visiting

School from 1 92

fi v e great-grandchildren.

N u rse Association of Boston and

to 1 95 2 . Later

he served as principal of the school

John C. Eaton '4 1 , November 2 0,

\Va l diam Hospital prior to working

2 00 1 , in vVatervi lle, Maine, at 8 3 . H e sen1ed in the Army Medical Corps

district for 1 4 years before becoming

Vivian F. Russell '3 1 , October 2 2 ,

i n administration at the VA Medical

assistant superintendentand ultimately

2 00 1 , i n Augusta, . Maine, at 9 3 . For

Center i n Brockton, Mass. She held

in Europe d u r i n g \i\Torld vVa r I I .

superintendent. H e was a member

3

years she taught in public and

memberships i n several organizations

For 3 5 years h e was a construction

of many professional and civic orga­

private schools i n J\ l a i ne, New York

and societies. Her sister, Ann Duoba

superintendent on hospitals, nursing

n i zations, i n c l u d i ng the \Vh i ttier

and J\ 1assachusetts, the last 24 years

Lawrence ' 3 4, and several cousins

homes, c o m m u n i ty b u i l d i n gs a n d

Birthplace, which he served as a trustee

at Kents H i L I (.i\Iaine) School as head

survive her.

schools, including Colby's Mayflower

and president, and in 1 99

Louise G. Tracey ' 3 7, October H,

of 58 years, Barbara, two daughters, two brothers, including Fletcher Eaton

he was

of the English department, drama

chosen as one of the people who

d i rector a n d d e a n o f g i r l s . S h e

Hill campus. Survivors include his wife

shaped the course of Haverh ill. He is

was active in several civic organiza­

2 00 1 , i n vVatervi lle, Maine, at 86. She

suni,·ed b)' his "ife of 3 years, Isabelle,

tions, including the . Maine \\!omen's

received a master's degree i n early

' 3 9, four granddaughters, a cousin and

two sons, a brother, five grandchildren,

Temperance Union. She is survived by

childhood education from Columbia

many nieces and nephews.

three great-grandchildren and several

four cousins and other relatives.

niversity and taught in elementary s c h o o l s in Augusta, M a i n e , a n d

Stanley Gruber '4 1 , November 7,

Richard Cummings ' 3 2 , October

Hartford, Conn. During and follo,,ring

2 00 1 , i n Brookline, Mass., at 82. After

1 i ldred MacCarn Marden ' 2 7 ,

3 0, 2 00 1 , in Santa Barbara, Calif. ,

vVorld \Var II she served with the

recovering from wowids he suffered

October 1 8, 200 1 , in Tacoma, \Vash.,

at 9 1 . B o rn in Burma t o missionary

Unitarian Service Committee working

as a paratrooper in die

at 97. A native of . Millinocket, i\laine,

parents, he served American Baptist

with displaced chil dren in Germany,

invasion during World \i\Tar I I , he worked for the Veterans Admin istra­

nieces and nephews.

Tormandy

she taught at \ \'atervi.lle High School

churches i n Cambridge, J\ lass., and

Greece, Egypt and Ethiopia. Prede­

until her marriage in 1 9 3 1 . For 1 1

Troy, N.Y. He also worked for the

ceased by her sister, Helen Tracey

tion. Later he was founding presi­

years she was a caseworker for the

Board of I n ternational M i nistries as

Lykins '40, she is survived by her

d e n t of several b a n k s , i n c l u d i n g

state of \\'ashington's Department

head of public relations. Following

brother-in-law, three nephews, two

North Qui ncy Co-operative B a n k

of Public Assistance. Survi,ing are her

his retirement in 1 97 5 he was an

nieces and several cousins.

a n d Chesmut H i l l Co-operative Bank

son, \ \'esley H . .\IardenJr., her daugh­

interim pastor at three \Vest Coast

ter, .\ Iary A. .\ lorgan, seven grandchil­

churches. Predeceased by his wife,

Rufus A. Brackley '40, October 3 0,

by his ,vife of 47 years, Esdier, two daughters, including Elizabedi Gruber

dren and nine great-grandchildren.

in M assach usetts. H e i s s u rvived

B a rb a ra H a m l i n C u m m i n gs ' 3 1

2 00 1 , in Strong, Maine, at 84. H e

and his si ster, Lora Cummings New­

earned a master's degree in second­

'78, a son, Andrew B. Gruber '80,

ellie 1 . Dearborn ' 2 8 , i\'"ovember

comb ' 3 7 , he is sur\rived by his two

a ry school p l a n n i n g from Boston

three sisters and six grandchildren.

, 2 00 I , in Falmouth, .i\ l aine, at

daughters, including Carolyn Cum­

University and for many years was

9 5 . She earned a master's degree at

mings Crain ' 5 9, six grandchildren

a teacher and principal i n schools

David Brodie '42, November 24,

Boston lJniver ity in 1 929. After two

and five great-grandchildren.

i n Mai ne, Massachusetts and Rhode

2 00 1 , i n New York, N . Y. , at 8 1 .

years in im·esanents with i\'"ational

Island, including 2 7 years as a reacher

During vVorld vVar I I he was an

and principal in die East Greenwich

i n te l l i ge n c e o ffi cer opera t i n g in

Ciry Bank in Portland, .\1aine, she

Donald M . Bither '35, October 2 1 ,

taught business and typing for several

2 00 1 , in Portland, Maine, at 89. A

( R . I . ) school system. Later he was a

enemy-held territory ,vitJi the Office

decade; at Portland Junior College

Portland resident for 3 5 years, he was a

self-employed lumberman and was

of Strategic Services and received five

and Deering High School.

certified public accountant employed

active in many community organiza­

Bronze Star commendations and die

no immediate survi,·ors.

as auditor of Canal National Bank

tions. Predeceased by his brother,

Legion of Merit Medal. After die war

w i ft Dacey

and, until his retirement, by Blue

Lewis N. Brackley '36, he is survived

he was a steamship executive H e is

Cross of,\ [aine. Sur.•i\ring are his wife

by his ,vife of 63 years, Dorris, three

survived by his sons, Edmond and

200 I , in \ \'ater\·ille, .\ l a i ne, at 94. She

of 58 years, Ruth, three sons, including

sons, rwo daughters, 1 2 grandchildren,

Robert Brodie, and his sister.

a ;ecretaf) at the ,\ Jaine Public

James ,\ 1 . Bi di er '66, six grandchildren

1 1 great-grandchildren, diree step­

and four great-grandchildren.

gra n d c h i l d r e n , two great- great­

Ruby Lott Tucker '43, December

grandchildren and numerous nieces

20, 200 1 , in New Haven, Conn., at

Ola '"i"

he leaves

'29, October 1 1 ,

I Teal th ..\s ociation for seven )·ears an<l retired in 1 967 after 2 3 years '' 1th the I nternal Re,·enue Ser\·ice in

Ann Tri m b l e Hilton ' 3 5 , October

\ugmta, \ J aine. She i

2 7 , 2 00 1 , in Boothbay Harbor, ,\ J aine,

Sur\ i' ed by

and nephews.

80. A third grade teacher in the Old Saybrook, Conn., school system until

at 6. A homemaker, she de\'Oted much

EUen Fitch Peterson '40, December

the 1 970s, she also served on many

ofher life tovolunteering,,ith hospitals

H, 2 00 1 , in Natick, Mass., at 8 3 . She

boards, including die Acton Public

'30, December

and l i brarie , the Girl Scouts, the

earned a degree in l i brary science from

Library and the Shoreline YMCA, and

), � 00 1 , 111 Cronrn e l l , Conn . , at 9 7 .

Y.\ IC.\, the Congregational Church

Simmons College and was employed

was a volunteer at i\1 iddlesex Memoria I

three 111ece; an<l a nephe\1.

hadwick

John

I l e '' orked f o r 40 ) ear<, '' 1 t h Y.\ lC.\

and the .\..\ LI \�

ur. i, ing are her

in several li braries throughout her

Hospital and die Blunt Library at

) < rn r h group' 1n Bangor, \ l a m e , and

hu;band of 65 years, Da,·id R. Hilton

career before retiring from the ,\1orse

Mystic Seaport. Survivors i nclude

L1 nn and \ \'orcc.,ter, \ l a'>'>. Larer

' 3 5 , four <laughters, a sister, 10 grand­

I nstirute Li brary in Natick. She leaves

her husband of 5 8 years, \Villiam E.

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children, eight great-grandchildren

her husband,

ruart Peterson, rwo

Tucker '42, two daughters, including

and niece; and nephe11 .

daughters, including Jean Peterson

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grandchi l d ren, including Stephanie Sharples '99, a brother, two sisters and numerous n ieces and nephews.

Arthu r M. Barrows ' 4 5 , J u l y 2 , 2 00 1 , i n Rhode Island, a t 80. After serving with the Army Air Force in World \i\Tar I I he was employed as an engineering assistant in el ectronics with Bell Laboratories and \tVestern Electric. Survivors include his niece, Betsy Leerssen.

Sumner Abramson '48, November 3, 200 1 , in New Bedford, Mass., at 7 8 .

H e received t h e Bronze Star for h i s service i n t h e European, African a n d Middle Eastern Theater campaig11s in \i\ Torld \tVa r I I . He earned a degree from Boston University Law School and was a practicing attorney in maritime law in Boston and in maritime and general law in New Bedford. Survivors include his sister, Ruth Lipsett, and a niece.

J. Philip Bergquist '49, October 2+, 200 l , in Boston, Mass., at 74.

He served in the Navy during \i\Torld War I I and was recal l ed to active duty during the Korean Con A i ct.

He taught at Newton (Mass.) H i gh School and at Bridgton Academy in Maine before becoming assistant city clerk in Tewton and president of J . P. Bergquist & Associates, apprais­ ers of real estate. He a l so served as grand master of the Masons in J\! [assachusetts. He leaves his wife, Barbara, two sons, a stepdaughter and stepson and three grandchildren.

Gerald B . Frank '50, December 2 1 , 2 00 1 , in Chicago, I l l . , at 7 3 . I n the late 1 950s he worked for Einson Freeman advertising and rose to the position of vice president before starting his ow11 advertising firm, G . B . Frank I nc. He was known as "The Mayor of Clark Street" for his active involvement with urban greening groups dedicated to improving his Lincoln Park neighbor­ hood. He is survived by his sons, Daniel and Jonathan, a daugh ter, Louise, a brother and six grandchildren.

Myron B. " Pinky" Thompson '50, December 2 5 , 2 00 1 , in Honol u l u ,

Hawaii, at 7 7 . Throughout h i s l i fe he served his state and his nation: on the Normandy beachhead in World 'War II, as executive d i rector of Hawa i i 's department of Social Services and Housing, as chair of the Land Use Commission and as a founder o f t h e Native H a waiian H ea l th Care system. He served f o r 20 years as a trustee of the Bishop Estate, where he helped develop the early child hood education program, and was a founder of Alu Like, which fun n eled federal money to native Hawaiians in job training, health, housing, education and native rights.

A leader of the Polynesian Voyag­ i n g soci ety, he was in l a rge part r e s po n s i b l e for t h e r e n a i ssance o f n a t ive H a w a i i a n cu l tu re . H e is survived by h i s wife, Laura, a daughter, two sons, a brother and sister and five grandch i l d ren.

Jefferson Scott Foster '54, Decem­

Thomas H . Jordan ' 5 1 , October

November 1 5 , 200 I , in Leesburg, Va . , at 67. She attended Laval University in Quebec and the Sorbonne in Paris and worked at the United Tations for five years. She retired i n 1 999 after 25 years as a stockbroker with Ferris, Baker, \i\Tatts in Rockville, Mel. Surviving are her moth er, Frances Tranquillo, two children, a grandson, a sister, five nieces and a nephew.

2002, i n Boston, Mass., at 3 0, of a brain aneurysm. He earned a master's degree in business administration at Boston Col lege and was a financial consultant for several firms, including Fidelity of Boston and Keene I n c. of Lexi ngto n, M a ss. H e was the beloved coach of a youth's hockey team, and donations may be sent to The Charlestown Youth Hockey Association, c/o Andrew T. Coll igan, P.O. Box 2907 1 2 , Charlestown, MA 02 1 2 9. He is survived by his parents, Thomas and Sheila Colligan, three sisters and a brother.

William C. Foehl '59, November

Wilfredo Rodriguez-Alvarez '96,

2 8 , 200 1 , in Dover, Mass., at 6 5 .

After Navy service h e practiced l a w in \t Vellesley, Mass., with Foehl & Co. An amateur actor and guitarist, he was a founding member of the Centre Streeters, a bl uegrass band with whom he performed for 25 years.

He is sun,ived by his wife, L inda Mackey Foehl '60, four chi ldren, three brothers, including Stephen J\ I . Foe h i '72, a n d five grandch i ldren.

November 5, 200 l , in Phoenix, Ariz., at 27. After receiving his master's degree in chemistry from Arizona State University he taught chemistry at Scottsdale Community College.

H e also worked for Arizona State University and Arizona Reproductive Speci a l i sts. He leaves his mother, J l i riam Alvarez-Batista, his brother, \ a grandfather and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

Edmund E. "Bud" Field '63 , Decem­

Owen Pettingill H'79, December 1 1 ,

ber 9, 200 1 , i n Owls Head, Maine, at 69. After serving as a Navy pilot from 1 95 4 to 1 959 he earned an M . B.A. at Columbia Universi ty. He was senior vice president a t Casco Bank & Trust until 1 989, then worked for Maine I n f ormation Systems before retiring as vice president of Data Processing at Maine Credit Union. H e is survived by his wife, Mol ly, two daughters, i n c l u d i n g M a rgaret Scott Foster Majette '88, and two sisters.

Toby Lunder Lugert '56, December 1 8, 200 1 , in Naples, Fla., at 68. She retired as a field di rector of a market research company. Survivors include her husband, George Lugert, a daughter, her mother, two brothers, including her twin, Peter Lunder '56, two stepchildren and four grandch ildren.

Domenica TranquilJo Rainer '56, 9, 2 00 1 , in Tewksbury, Mass., at 7 3 .

He worked a s a n accountant f o r 3 0 years f o r H artford I n surance and for Commercial Union I n surance Co. H e is survived by two sisters, Geraldine Abruzzi and Ann H i nton, a niece and a cousin.

Eugene ]. Pelletier J r. '5 1 , October 3 0, 200 I , in Boston, Mass., at 7+. He served in the Pacific during \i\Torlcl War I I . After graduate stu dies at the I n stitute of Paper Chemi stry in Wisconsin he was co- foun der, treasurer and chief operating officer of Pelletier & Milbury Corp. in Danvers, Mass. He is survived by his wife, Stacia, two sons, Eugene J ason Pel letier ' 8 1 and Parris S . Pel letier '84, a granddaughter, three sisters, a brother and several nieces and nephews.

is survived by his wife, Alicia, his mother, tw o sisters, four nephews ancl a niece.

Carl P. Snyder J r. '78 , April 1 7, 2 00 1 , in Richmond, Va . , at 4 5 . H e was owner a n d proprietor o f \Viz Auto \Nash, Inc., i n Wi l l i amsburg, Va . Survivors include his long-time companion, Raymond C. Griffis J r. , three brothers, a sister a n d a cousin.

William F. White J r. '83 , October 2 2 , 200 1 , in Sunapee, N . H . , at 39. H e practiced dentistry in Salem, Mass., with h i s father, \tVil liam F. \\'hire, who survives him.

Andrew F. Colligan 9 4 , January 2, '

Daniel W. Fenner ' 5 2 , October 1 8 , 2 00 1 , in Fort Myers, Fla., at 8 7 .

Following a successful business career he served as vice president of Bangor Theological Seminary, then became m i n ister of Grace Congrega tional Church i n Framingham, J\ Iass., before return ing to the seminary i n 1 96 5 .

He w a s t h e father of two sons and a daughter.

ber +, 200 I , in Austinburg, Ohio, at 60. He served in the Peace Corps in Chile from 1 96+ to 1 966, then earned an JI ! .A.T. at Antioch-Pumey Gradu­ ate School. He taught at Austin burg's Grand River Academy, where he also was col l ege counsel or, admissions and al umni director and newsletter editor, until he retired in 2 00 1 . He

200 1 . He taught at Carleton College and the Uni\'ersityof,\ l ichigan before becomi n g director of the Laboratory ofOrnjthology at Cornell ni\'ersit:y.

An extraord i n a ry photographer of '''ilcl l i fe, he wrote many books and articles, and h i s guides to bird-finding became classics.

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ay Bill Roorbach

either. Because that's how evil wins-it d resses

all their privilege a n d bra i ns? What was the point

est Color, which went on sale just a couple of

up as good, a nd since it is w i l l i n g to destroy, as

of making fiction, or teac h i ng it7

weeks after the World Trade Center towers came

good is not, it has an adva ntage from the sta rt.

Coop H e n ry saves the day in the novel, but

O n September 1 1 , 200 1 , I was supposed to

o n l y the day. He co u l d n 't save the world . H e 's

I 've got a terrorist in my fi rst novel, The Small­

down a nd the Pentagon got hit. This cha racter, Hodge Henry, is the older brother of my protago­

start class at Col by, where I was teach i ng a

only fictional, for one reason . B ut h u m a n nature,

nist, Coop. Hodge H e n ry did h i s bad deeds in the

semester as a visiting professor. I d rove over there

it turns out, the real thi ng, abhors peace. And

late 1960s a nd wou l d n 't have been ca l led a ter­

that morning (it's a bout a n hour to Waterv i l l e from

human belief i n all its va rious forms, all its va ri­

rorist then, by most people, or by the med i a , but

where I live in M a i ne) l i sten i ng to the radio in a

ous b l i nd stabs at the truth, can not l ive a n d

probably called a " m i lita nt. " And what's peculiar

k i nd of rol l i n g shoc k-of cou rse, the death, the

let l i v e , at least n o t i n the hands o f t h e stu pid ,

about Hodge Henry is that the gesture he and

destruction, the awful whiff of fundamentalism,

a nd stu pid , it appears, is who's in charge, world­

many a real bad guy in those days was making

the probable loss of friends (later confirmed) was

wide. Meanwhile, hope returns, that other h u m a n

got its start in the a nti-war movement. H i s logic

the core of the shock. But the waves from the

t h i n g . O h , peace, love. Write a bout that, k i d s .

(and that of his real counterparts, the Weather­

attacks rippled out and caught the sti l l -echoing

T h i s is fiction class, after a l l .

m e n , the Yi ppies a n d many others) was some­

waves of earlier shocks from my col lege years,

t h i ng along the l i nes of fighting fire with fire, and

those Vietnam years, a l l the gentle stuff certa i n

Bill Roorbach, a 2002 NEA fellow, is the author

h i s methods (and theirs) were just as wrong as

h i ppie-patriots l i ke m e bel ieved , a l l the stuff we

of three new books: B i g Bend, T h e Smal lest Color

what they were protesting, which was prima r i l y

marched for, while a l l the while a squawking

and I nto the Woods. He lives in western Maine.

t h a t little w a r 1 n Vietnam, in w h i c h some 1 .65

welter of more violent phi losophies took advan­

m i l l ion people d ied, some 50 thousand of them

tage of the confusion in o u r heads a n d hearts, of

American fellows the age of Hodge H e n ry, who in

the chaos i n our cities, and of our fear.

the novel d ies i n his own horrible way, at home 1 n America , at the age of 22. The book is a bout Coop H e n ry's ongoing struggles with that death,

smart but just started weeping, and the kids

a nd with the various tra u mas of the era, ongoing

that cou l d , they cried , too, a l l for thei r own

unto m iddle age.

reasons. B ut for me it was a bad d ream

These anti-war warriors, these m i l itant paci­ fists, these wa l k i n g oxymorons, these moronic

recu rring, some 1d 1ot's idea that violence was the way, a nd the sure bet that

sages, they were very charming, some of the m ,

violence wou ld be seen as the sol u-

a n d h1iacked various corners o f (let's call 1 t ) the

tion, the spoiled h istory of humankind

h 1 pp1e movement with thei r angry logic a nd ant1esta bhshment rhetoric, bringing many a peace­ lov1ng kid a nd squishy t h i n ker along with them on what were essentially pathological a nd not just poll 1cal m1ss1ons.

Because of that charm, I had a hell of a 1me writing my novel. My character, Hodge, kept coming off as a l i keable guy, a k i n d ly big brother to my protagonist, merely a man with a pol1t1cal conscience. It wasn't till I came to d raft

1 ,000 , 006 tha I figu red the book's problem-my man Hodge was very bad , a cri m in a l , a k i l ler, a n d I h a d o ma e h i m e r y b a d , 1 n s 1 d e and o u t , and no be coled by his charm, a n d 1 n the end not let my pro agonis , good old Coop Henry, be fooled

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