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Colby Magazine Volume 90 Issue 3 Summer 2001 Article 11 July 2001 Alumni at Large Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2001) "Alumni at Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 90: Iss. 3, Article 11. Available at: http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol90/iss3/11 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colbiana at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ' 20s/' 30s- 1 940s •Si*h• Louise Chapman Dibble '27, ret i r i ng a fter 34 years serv i ng on the board of d i rectors of the Westbrook (Con n.) Public L i bra ry, was w ritten up i n the Essex, Con n . , !V lni11 Street News. Honored in 1988 by the Association o f Con n ecticut Library Boards as trustee of the year, D i bble has contributed for decades to the Westbrook com m u n i ty as educator a n d author. She taught Engl ish, French and Latin at Old Saybrook H i gh School for 4 1 years -:· Bern Porter ' 3 2 , a physicist who worked on the M a n h attan Project a n d went on to a career as poet and a rtist, is one of Bel fast, M a i ne's "colorful c h a racters," accord i n g to a When he moved to Bel fa st in Bm1go1· Dni61 News featu re l a st J a nua ry. 1 97 2 , Porter brought a l ong the I n stitute for Advanced Th i n k i ng, "a 'th i n k ta n k ' for the avant-garde." "My major focus," he sa id," i s to carry on some of the pri nciples of fusing physics with poetry and h u m a n i ty." Denths: Marjorie Rowel l Shane '27, Apr i l 25, 2 00 1 , in Port land, M a i ne, at 96 : ·· Elwood J . H a m mond '28, October 6, 2000, i n Weldon R. Knox '28, December 26, 2000, 94 ·:· Oscar M. Chute '29, Ja nuary 7, 200 1 , i n Evanston, I l l . , a t 9 2 ·:· Vinal G . Good '29, December 2 3 , 2000, in Sebago, M a i ne, at 94 ·:· Jean M . Watson '29, J a nu a ry 23, 200 1 , i n Fort Myers, F l a . , a t 9 2 -:· Evelyn Maxwell Bubar ' 3 0, M a rch J 8, 2 00 1 , i n Northampton, Mass . , at 93 : Merle C . Ryder ' 3 1 , 1\1 a rch 1 3 , 2 00 1 , i n Mystic, Con n . , at 9 1 ·:· Frances Rideout White ' 3 2 , October 6, 1 9 99, at 89 : William Malcolm Wilson ' 3 3 , Apr i l 5 , 2 00 1 , i n Waterv i l le , M a i ne, at 89 -:· Mildred Keogh Ti n ker ' 3 4, February 10, 200 1 , i n G a rd n e r, Mass., at 88 ·:· Charlotte Bates Brooks ' 3 5, M a rch 26, 200 1 , in Calais, Maine, at 88 ·:· Shirley Vincent Whiting ' 3 5, Feb rua r y 2 2 , 200 1 , in Bristol, Con n . , at 8 8 ·:· Lewis N. Brackley ' 3 6 , February 1 7, 200 1 , i n Farmington, M a i ne , at 86 ·:· Margaret Grover Jaffee '36, Apri l 2 1 , 2 00 1 , in H a l l a ndale, F l a . , at 86 : Merrill E . Powers '36, J a n ua ry 8, 2000, in Glens Fa l l s , N.Y., a t 86 -:· Edward M. Hooper '38, December 5 , 2000, in C h a rlotte, N . C . , at 83 ·:· Adele Bosco Nichols '38, December J 7, 2 000, i n H a l lowel l , M a i ne , at 86 ·:· El izabeth Solie Howard '39, April 8, 2 00 1 , in Worcester, M ass., at 82 ·:· Erwin R. Kaufman '39, M a rch 5 , 200 1 , in Cambridge, Mass., at 83. Lacon i a , . H . , at 94 : ·· i n Layton sv i l le , M d . , at ·· ·· ·· '20sf30s Please send your news c/o 1\1eg Bernier, Colby College Alumni Office, \ Vaten�lle, i\ Iaine, 0490 1 . 45 Congraru lations ro Joan Gay Kent on the recent publication of her new book, Oiscoveri11g Snnds Point: its Histo1y, its People, its Plnces. It is truly fasci nating ro read . . . . Helen Strauss ducked New Yor k 's late w i nter weather with her a n nu a l trip ro Florida, i n c l u d i ng a v i s i t w i t h A n ne Lawrence Bondy '46 and Gene. Helen, Muriel Marker Gould and I arrended New York's reception in J a n u H y f o r P r e s i d e n t " B ro " Adams. Everyone there was obviously i mpressed by h i m, his good \\'ishes a n d h i s i mporta m goa Is for t he Col lege. 1' l u riel and I are slated for a J u ne c ru i se of the Norway coast, round-trip from England \\'ith srops along the way, going as fa r north as L on g y e a rbyen in t h e N o r t h Cape . . . . "Thanks a lot" ro Bill W hit temore for using th is magazi ne's class news questionn a i re. He reports that last year he and Al ice not only visited Egypt a nd I ndonesia (ro upgrade scientific equipment he i nsta l led in 1 965) but also rook a trip around the world, with srops i n Romania, Japan, H a noi, Ho Chi i\ l i n h Cit)' (Saigon) and D a l at. They w rapped up Y 2 K w i t h a cruise o ft h e French Polynesian islands. During the course of all that, the \Vh irremores celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary'· . . . Dee Sanford 1'1cCunn and I a n (t\\'O more major travelers) planned ro ,·isit some ofian's fa mily in Scotland in .\ Iapnd Paris <l lld \'enice as \\'el l . -Xno711i Collett P11gn11elli 46 Thank ! ou, thank !·ou, .\ larie, Norma, Betty and Fred. Si nce I love read i n g you r news, I know your classmates will, roo. Perennial .\ lanhat tanite Marie Kraeler Lowenstein checked in first via e-mail "because you sounded so desperate." I was. She and Larry were just back from London and Paris-"great \leather, great time. Saw good theater in London including Life x 3, The Caretnke1; Long Oay'.r Journey into Night and ,Werrily We Roll A/011g Marie's work ing as senior consultant in development at the Fieldstone School preparatory to retiring in June after years of raising money for the school. . . . Norma Taraldson Billings, "'ho sounds as though she's fi nally retired, reports that Dick '47 is recuperating wel l , with h i s sense of humor sti ll i n place, after surgery for a brain aneurysm. G ra ndson S e a n , a fter gradu a t i n g summa c u m laude from t h e University of New Hampshire, joined the Peace Corps and last Aug·ust journeyed ro Uzbek istan, where he teaches English ro elem en ta ry school students. He picked up the language easily; l i kes the people; is enjoying a great experience. \Vatch for Gurney's seed catalogue w ith a photo of Dick hold ing big sweet potaroes that he and Ji II grow successful l y in 1' l a i ne . . . . \\'hen th is was being written, Elizabeth Scalise Kilham was planningan April move ro a new retirement community. By now \\'C hope Betty is happily ensconced in Brooksby Vil lage in Peabody, Mass. "Time to be carefree and just do as I please," says Betty. Happy Days' . . . All news wasn't as happy. Fred Leshane in 1' l iami is coping· with multiple health problems. He is minister emeritus of the First Unitarian Chu rch of Miami and visits the Unitarian Universalist Fello\\'ship i n Franklin, N.C., during the summer. He and Phyllis hope ro drive in thei r handicap-ele\'ator van ro their cottage in Hiawassee, Ga., this summer. Fred has a 5-year-old grandson in G a i nesv i l le, Fla., and a 2-year-old great-granddaughter in \'ista, Calif. Phyl lis writes, " Fred is no longer able ro speak or " rite but stil l votes h i s 'compassionate l iberal ,·ie\\'s' by absentee ballot with h is legal X." So, Rev. Dr. Fred, \\'e're sorry you \\'On't make reunion but glad ro hear your heart is al"'ays \\'ith Colby. \\'e admi re your courage, and \\'e'll be thinking of you . . . . Ar th is \\'riring in .\ larch, \\'e ha,·e no \\'Ord of reunion, but by the rime you read this it \\' i l l ha,·e come a n d gone. D i d \\'C ha,·e a good ti me or \\'hat' -.../1111e Lnv:rence Bondy / Alumni at La rge 1940s Correspondents 1940 Ernest C. Marriner J r. 10 Wa l n ut Drive Augusta ME 04330-6032 classnews1940@alum .colby.edu 1941 Bonnie Roberts Hathaway 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C Leom i n ster, MA 01453 978-343-4259 classnews1941@a lum .colby.edu 1942 1943 1944 c/o Meg Bernier Colby College A l u m n i Office Watervi l l e , ME 04901 207-872-3185 classnews1942@a lum.colby.edu classnews1943@a lum .col by.edu classnews1944@a lum .colby.edu 1945 Naomi Col lett Paga n e l l i 2 Horatio Street #5J New York, NY 10014-1608 212-929-52 7 7 class news1945@a lum .colby.edu 1946 Anne Lawrence Bondy 771 Soundview Drive Mamaroneck, NY 10543 914-698·1238 classnews1946@a lum.colby.edu 1947 Mary " Liz" H a l l Fitch 4 Canal Park #712 Cambridge, MA 02141 61 7-494-4882 fax: 6 1 7-494-4882 classnews 194 [email protected] 1948 David and Dorothy Marson 4 1 Woods End Road Dedh a m , MA 02026 781-329-3970 fax: 617-329-6518 [email protected] 1949 Anne Hagar Eustis 24 Sew a l l Lane Topsham, M E 04086 207-729-0395 classnews1949@a lum.colby.edu 47 I regret h a ,· i n g to report the death i n December of Lillian H i nckley Worcester, the result of a stroke following surgen·. L i l l ia n "·as one of t h ree si ters \\'ho a l l arrended Colb) . She leaves her husband and three sons. . . . ..\ few y-ea rs ago, Beverly Ben ner Cassara helped to e tabl ish the Sen ior Yolu n teer c0 L B y . s u M M ER 200 l I 37 A l u m n i at Large \ 1 940s- l 9 5 0 s a l so went Cleari nghouse i n Cambridge, ,\ l ass. This orga n i zation's function is to T h re e m o nt h s after open-heart su rgery, Robert A. Slavitt '49 was back practici n g l a w in t h e offices o f Slavitt, Connery & Va rda m is i n m atch w o u l d - b e ,·o l u nteers w i t h orga n i z a t i o n s t h a t c a n u s e t h e i r to O r l a n d o to see her granddaughter w i n a medal i n the h i gh jump i n the Ju nior Olympics. The Dyer fa m i l y now has a t h i rd i\orwal k, Con n . : "Total i m mer ion," decla re d a fea t u re a rticle i n t h e • orwa l k (Co n n .) Hom: SJa,·itt, who w rote t h e origi n a l d o c u m en t s generation at Colby: Matthew Bacon sa lvage t h e Titnnic, h a s owned r a c e horses, Dyer Bacon '54, and her husband, col lected a n tiques, h istorical a r t i facts and pottery, w r itten a book about a local potter and rem a i n s a raconte u r of a necdotes stem m i n g Robert, spent his first semester at enjoy i n g bei n g on the publicity com m ittee with her. If an)· Colb)· a l u m n i from h i s l i fe-long i n terest i n Jewish a n d I ri s h h istory. k i l l s . B e ,·erl)· works n e a r l y fu l l t i me i n e,·eral d i fferent capacities creati n g t h e r i g h t s for the clearinghouse, co-cha i r of fi,·e committee i n t h i s a rea among them. I 'm to 64-66 sum mer on May 10 and planned to pri l 10, 2 00 1 , i n " aterv i l le, School of Nursi n g at the end of .May. Richard H . Bright '4 1 , Apri l H, 2 00 1 , i n O l d At t h at t i me she expected to see g r a d u a te d from t h e Ya l e School be more than glad to find the perfect Denths: Caroli ne Piper Overfors '40, spot for you . . . . ,\ l a i ne , a t 8 3 Shi rley Lloyd -:· i ng account of her trip when she James A. Daly '4 1 , November 7, 2 000, in Seattle, "'a s h . , a t 81 ·:· Maurice D. Rimpo '4 1 , Febru a ry 5 , 2 00 1 , i n C am b r i d ge, i\ 1 d . , a t 8 2 ·:· Ruth Doris Peterson Stan ley returm . . . . As I write, John and '4 1 , A p r i l 8 , 200 1 , in Neptu n e , N.J . , at 81 I plan to be i n northern Spain in '42, i\ I a rc h 1 9, 2 00 1 , in A m herst, � lass., a t 80 .\ l ay. \\'e especial l)· look forward to Main '43, December 1 , 2000, in B rooksv i l l e , F l a . , a t 79 Saybrook, C o n n . , a t 8 1 T h o r n e has recently left for ,\ l a lta. I hope she w i l l gi,·e us an interest ,-i,iting the Gett)' ,\ l useum in B i l bao ·:· : ·· Stedman B. Howard ·:· Charles Frederick : ·· John M i lton Stillwell Jr. '43, October 20, 2 000, i n New Jersey, at and a side trip to the medie,·al wal led c i t y of C a rcassonne in sout hern France. Later I 'l l be ,·isiting a son 78 ·:· Albertie Allen Stetson '44, M ay 1 2 , 1 999, in Vi rgi n i a , a t 3 ·:· Marsha l l B . Hammond '46, October 24, 2 0 0 0 , i n P i t tsfi e l d , ,\ I a i n e , a t and h is fa m i l y in Germa n)-. . . . It's 6 ·:· E i leen McMahon Bills '47, Februa ry 2 5 , 2 00 1 , i n ,\ le r r i m ack, N. H . , a t 74 getting i ncreasinglr d i fficult to get 2000, i n Timon i u m , ne'' ' for the col u m n . Plea e help Dennis F. D u n n Jr. '48, September 29, : ·· 1d., at 75. 48 of Nursing. Five years ago Ma rie received the school's Outsta n d i n g A lu m n a award . . . . I n early 1\1arch we heard from Elaine Brow n i ng Townsley that her former roommate H a ze l Huckins Merri l l was in the Peabody Nursing Home in Fra n k l i n , N . H . E l a i ne u rged h e r t o recover so that they could attend reunion i n June. E l a i ne and her son, D u d ley ' 7 2 , were going to Florida for a short Gil Taverner w rote t h a t i n 1 98 1 h e re u n i o n s h e w a s a m a z e d at t h e went t o the S t . G eorge's School i n Rowen Schussheim Anderson and enjoys watch ing t h e games . . . . /-in/I Fitch M a r i e Machell M i l l i ken, who a l so vacation. She wrote that they had had me bring your friends up to <late on -.\ !my "Li:.,. niversity of Salama nca and in February moved to the campus. Betty attend her 50th reunion at the Yale . \ \'e'd your acti\ itie . the was to retu rn to R hode Island for the pot t h e a n nouncement and \\ Ould l i ke to ,-olunteer, don't he itate to c a l l (61 - ) '04, son of Bett y's si ster, l"ancy enough snow for a w h i l e . transformation. H a n na's daughter \\'e l l , '' e reached a m i lestone, �ewport, R . L , fo r a semester. I n her husband, Steve, a n d c h i ld ren o u r 5 0 t h '' e d d i n g a n n i ,·e rs a r y . February o f 1 0 0 1 h e completed 2 0 Sydney and Eric visited Colby last \\'e c e l e b r a t e d b r goi n g -Dnvid nud Dorothy 1Wnrso11 49 o new news from any of you or the A l u m n i Office, so as promised in my last col u m n I w i l l report on the )·ears o f affi l iation with the school. s u m m e r from D a v e n p o r t , T o w a . Dorado Beach Re O r t in Puerto Rico Alt hough now J i ,·i n g in Concord, Rowen teaches texti le arts a n d design the long letter from Jack accompanied b)· R ichard and Yi,·ian .\ l ass., i n semi-retirement, he is still at Augustana College i n Rock I sland, Jack l ives i n \Vayne, . M a i ne, west to M a h o ney. \ I ar'>Oll (brother and sister- in-law) the school h istorian and has written I l l . , and found the Colby art collec of Augusta, on A ndroscoggin L a ke. and one of our <laughters, .\ l a rsha two \'Olumes of the school's h i story. tion to be extensive and world-class H is whole career was spent in the \ lol ler. and her husband, Ed. The The newlr renovated, state-of-the q u a l ity. . . . Fish and \Vi l d l i fe Service and the \1 Cather '' a great, " ith S\\ i m m i ng, a rt G i lbert Y. Ta,·erner Arch i\'CS Corke Myers spent five weeks on Bureau of Commercial Fisheries on golf, good food and '' i ne . On J u l r 3 ,,·ere dedicated i n ,\lay . . . . Everett S a n i b e l I s l a n d on F l o r i d a 's west both the west and east coasts. So is it t l w , ) car Doroth) reaches another Rockw e l l wrote that they had a fun coast. She had lu nch in 1 ovember l ittle wonder that when he reti red he h1 rthda) '' i nter. He worked on a project i n with Deanie \\'hitcomb \Volf '49 became i n terested in environmental h ich a group of volunteers built and 1' l arsh a l l at their condo in Vero issues in general and the health of m i lesto n e ! . . . ,\ l a rv i n Jo l o " '' rote from h i ; h o m e on \\ E l i zabeth Coombs \ Li n h .1 \ \'me) arc! t h at he and Bett) forms, poured and fi n i shed 3 ,600 B e a c h . L a s t su m m er s h e v i s i te d A n d roscoggin L a ke in partic u l a r. a l ,o u:lehrated their -oth \1 edding feet of golf cart paths. He said that w ith Nancy Ardiff Boulter '50 i n For eight years he has been a volun .r n n i \ cr-.ar) \1 i t h 1 n t he last year. \ s people \\ere worried about "u old Rockport, ,\ lass. To h e r surprise she teer l a ke monitor testing for water man) of ) OU Ill.I ) rec.i l l , \ I a n in i'> a codgers" out there working, but he di scovered that Nancy owned the tran sparency and total phosphorous, \ OI U ntl'.er fi refi ghter, tm1 n constable i ndicated that they \1 ere none the house that E l i zabeth rented for a ch lorophyl l and d i ssolved oxygen .1 nd ch.1 1 r of l he loca I ion i ng boa rd of ''orse for the effort. Little theater fa mily reunion in determin ations. .1ppe.1k \dd1t tona l l ) . he ! '> Jn elected and <le!>sert theater were O\'er for says that she t h i n ks of Colby daily has been undertaken to attempt to offici.11 on no le" r h an fi, c up-i.,land the '' i nter, hut the choru \1 as st i l l becau e she wears, with pride, her determ i ne the ca use of a tota I a I gae ho.1 rd -. pra c t i c i n g f o r a n e n d of ,\ l a rch "st u n n i n g Seiko watch" designed for bloom in 1 999. Besides the biologica I u ken l he_lo, lm" on an e\c1t1 11g rour concert. I l e say Colbyites . . . . From Betty Dyer pol l ution, the l a kes o f V T a i ne a re s u f of t ht: 'iout h \1 0.:-.r . e-.pcc 1 a l l ) ha\ e to ]c;H e t he park for want of Brewster we received "greet i n gs fering from chemical pol lution . Jack '>Omet hing to <lo . . . . H a n n a Levine from Paradise," otherwise k nown as reports that h i s lake, li,e a �aples, Fla. She is enjoying ten n i s , is cont a m i nated w ith d io x i n , a noted \ l ore recent r ra , c l s h a \ e '.;c\1 \ l c \ lu 1 .rn d \ n 1ona . . . . \\ e rcce1\ c<l an c - m .1 t l from , enc H u nt er, \1 ho that he doe c h u s h e i m cont i n ues to not 19 6. E l i zabeth watershed su rvey nd roscogg i n , rct·end) h.ul .1 tolJ I h 1 p replacement hu') l i fe Dupont C i rcle in the gol f, S\1 i m m i n g a n d bridge. S h e carcinogen. T h ree paper m i l l s on and \1 .1' recm e r i n g at home. I l e natton \ tap1r a l . . he rem inisced about h a d a '' onderful m i l le n n i u m (2000) the Androscoggin R iver release it \ I J) flo,1 cr 1 l t l l 1 11 l <J4 and J'>ked celebration i n Naples with 1 5 fa m i ly d a i l y in their m i l l ions of ga l lons of Litl'.r. C . enc 't i l l co.1 che-. the l . 1 11coln '' h 1ch buildi ng., \1erc fi r'>l U\t.:d for members, i n c l u d i n g her bro t h e r, d ischarges. Jack states t h at this is a \ I 1ddk 'ithool g i rl-.' lu-.kctllJll rea m . cla.,.,c, on the nc\1 c.1mpu•,_ (Seem'> to Dick 0) er '41 . I n 1 999, Betty visited health issue but that the federa l a n d and t hl'.I t i n l '>hed '' i r h a n 1 1 - � record . me 1r \\ a-. c he \\·omen\ l'11 1on, no\1 .'pa i n , Port uga l , England, l rela n<l , s t a t e govern ments do l i t t l e about I le 1 11d 1urcd th .n ir \\ .1 -. tournament R u n n a l -. , .rnd later \ ! t i ler L1hra r ) . ) \\';1 le., and Scot land. Last fa l l she it-and t h at these big corporations \ l .i 1 n c .111 J t il J t he ,t i l l \\ hen -.he ret urned f o r h e r 'iOt h \1 ent \\ i l l do not h i n g until forced to. J ack m .l ) h ,1, L' the o l her h i p rcplaccd r i me 1 11 38 0 B ER •H w the Caribbean. I n :moo she goes on to say he enjoyed our 50th and t h a t you girls l ooked pretty s p i ffy, even w i t h o u t y o u r bobby sox . . . . By the time you read this, I w i l l have moved permanently to M a i ne , and we w i l l be e n j oy i n g s u m mer. I n t h e mea n t i m e , don't forget to send me you r news even i f it seems t r i v i a l t o you. -Anne Hagar Eustis 50 I received a lovely letter from Margaret ( Peg) RodgersJones w ith some great news. On February 1 7, 200 1 , she married her bridge partner, I rv i n g ( Nick) Nichols, w h ich, she com ments, "says a lot about h i s generous and forgiving nature." (As a bridge pl ayer, I a l so appreciate those q u a l ities!) Fred '49 and Grace Rutherford Hammond were a part of the celebration as wel l as Deb Smith Meigs ' 5 1 and Bess and Jack Keough ' 5 1 . . . . I was su rprised and sorry to learn from Jack Alex not long ago that we lost Richard Arm k necht. Jack w ro te, " \!\Then R ichard A rmk necht recently passed away our class lost a very valuable member. vVe had a n extremely suc cessful 50th class reu n ion m a i n ly due to the hard work of Dick. The class book was the l a rgest there had ever been. Dick was well k nown atthe Col lege for h is loya lty and hard work a nd w i l l be greatly m issed." -Alice Jennings Castelli 51 Henry Fales writes that he is 75. H e holds a part-time job ringing a cash register at Staples, teaches i n t roductory computer u s a g e to seniors at the local COA, a nd t he second week i n M a rc h he bega n teach i n g amateur radio a nd fourth grade science to a group of youngsters at the Orlea ns ( Mass.) Elementary School. . . . Shirley Raynor Ingra ham was one of t h ree ladies who represented their chapter of Florida L i fe Care Residents Association on the legislative tour of the capito l i n February. S h i rley took photos as 1 50 sen iors visited 78 legislators and left each w i t h a copy of the points assembled by Lt. Gov. Brogan's task force on issues a ffect i ng the elderly. S h i rley says that l iabil ity i nsurance prem i u ms for Florida's long-term care providers a re eight times the nationa I average. Florida law i s used u n fa i rly to sue nursing homes a nd a s s i s ted-l i v i n g faci l i ties f o r h uge amounts, she says, a n d tort reform is necessa ry. S h i rley v isited Rep. K i m Berfield and had a special v isit with Sen. Jack Latva la. She a l so led Clearwater residents to m a i l 400 letters to Ta l l a h a ssee. Legislators started heari ngs on March 6. 52 Prisc i l l a Leach, Fra m i n g ham, Mass., reports that she practices tai chi each morn i ng, power walks t h ree mi les t h ree days a week and between breaths is a volunteer at a sen ior center a nd the police station 1 She is work i n g on her fam i ly genea l ogy, having traced her father's l i ne back to 1 22 7. On her way for a two week visit to Star Island last sum mer, P r i s c h a n ced to m e e t a n d v i s i t w i t h Betsey Smart Merriam on t h e dock of t h e I s l e s of S h oa l s Steamship Company i n Portsmout h, N. H . . . . Helen Torr Exton, \Vash i ngton, D.C., a longwith her husband, is now retired from the diplomatic service. Their five chi ldren l ive a l l over t h e world, from H o n g Kong to London . Helen is teaching part time at a school that focuses on learning d isabi l ities . . . . Janet Hewins, Ph . D., San Francisco, a semi-retired c l i n ical psychologist, is taking the summer off to do some traveli ng, London in particu l a r. . . . Bob Ryley, who had a bit of su rgery last fa l l , claims to be healthy once aga i n . To prove it, he's back on h i s two-mi Jes-a-day wa I k regimen. . . . Tot mea n i ng to turn this colum n i nto a who's on/who's off the sick list bulletin, I nevertheless w i l l tel l you t h a t Bob H o o p e r c l a i m s n o t t o feel 7 0 i n spite of a quadruple by-pass i n March 2000 and angioplasty and a stent instal lation in J a nuary 200 1 . . . . Carl and Muffie Morgan Leaf,] udy and Herb Nagle, Jean and Bob Lee ' 5 1 and Sheila a nd Don Hailer have periodic d i n ners out together. They a re joined by C h arlotte a nd Lum Lebherz when the latter are not practici n g snow avoidance i n Florida . . . . Ellen Lewis H u ff, Old Tow n , M a i ne, besides playing t he viola in t he University of M a i n e orchestra and work i ng i n a food pantry, is active i n Literacy Volu nteers of America. She is cur rently tutoring a m id-50s person who has readi n g problems . . . . I asked our president, Norma Bergquist Ga rnett , to contribute a closing paragraph: "Greetings. Here we are1 Less than one yea r to go u nt i l our C lass of 1 95 2 w i l l be gatheri ng on J\ IayAower H i l l in recognit ion of our graduation from Colby o n ly 50 years ago1 Several class members a n d the A l u m n i Office staff have been p l a n n i n g specia l events and items to provide us with an outsta nding 50th reu n ion i n 2002 . A pleasant a n d rel a x i n g two-day pre-reun ion event in Boothbay H a rbor. A fu l l a n d i n formati ve reu n ion pub I ication, w h ich everyone w i l l h e l p w r ite th rough a compi lation of persona I photos and messages. A Thur day even i n g d i n ne r party put on by Colby j ust for us. Activity schedules for Friday and S a t u rday that i nc l ude somet h i ng for everybody, especially t h e t r a d i t i o n a l S a t u rd a y a l u m n i pa rade a t noon a nd o u r banquet a n d program that eve n i ng. i\ Iore deta i l s w i l l be mai led in the fa l l . Remember t h e charm o f Joh nson Pond on MayAower J f i l l ? Let's plan on gatheri n g a ga i n by its gent le b a n k s a n d re-experience i n 2 002 Colby's n a t u ra l beauty, academ ic vigor and the great traditional spirit of its a l u m n i ' Ciao, orma." -Paul ill. Aldrich 53 1950s Correspondents 1950 Alice J e n n i ngs Caste l l i 6 S a l e m Road Madison, CT 06443 203-245- 7 7 2 5 cla ssnews1950@a lum .colby.edu 1951 Nancy N i lson Arc h i b a l d 1 5 L i n d e n Ave n u e Scituate, MA 02066 781-545-4987 classnews1951@a l u m .colby.edu 1952 Paul M. Aldrich P.O. Box 2 1 7 Bristol, M E 04539 207-563-8744 classnews1952@a lum .colby.edu 1953 Barbara Easterbrooks M a i ley 80 Lincoln Avenue South H a m i lton , MA 0 1982 9 7 8-468-5110 978- 7 7 7-5630 x3310 Larry Taber resides f o u r houses from where he grew u p i n Madison, N.]. Larry moved there from New York City after work i ng 3 0 years for Union Carbide a s a computer consultant. He has volu nteered for the M adison Shade Tree Authority, wh ich was responsible for planting 1 1 ,000 trees. Now he serves as com missioner of the Madison Housi ng Authority and a lso serves on the fi nance committee for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark a nd as treasurer for the A I D S Resou rces Center. \\Then he is not busy with a l l t h i s volunteer work, he can be found either in his greenhouse or garden . . . . An i mpressive com m ittee has a l ready started work on the 50th reu n ion gift: Barbara Best Berg, Frank King, Paul Wescott a n d Nick Sarris, all under the leadership of Chase and Nan Murray Lasbury. . . . Ed Fraktman has a l ready had some fun conversations with such classmates as Roger Olson , Buddy Reed, Dick classnews1953@a lum .colby.edu 1954 Helen Cross Stabler 206 C restwood Drive North Syracuse, NY 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 5-457-5 2 7 2 classnews1954@a lum .colby.edu 1955 Ken Van Pragg P. O . Box 87 ( M ay-early Nov) G rafton , NY 12982 207-873-3616 22 Gold Drive ( Early Nov-May 6) Pt. St. Lucie, FL 34952 classnews1955@a l u m .colby.edu 1956 Kathleen Mcconaughy Zambello 135 l d u n a Lane Amherst, MA 01002 classnews1956@alum .colby.edu 1957 Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue 238 Sea Meadow Lane Yarmouth , M E 04096 207-846-4941 Skel ley, Paul " Rocky" Appelbaum , Robert " B ato" G ordon , D i c k Hawes, Gordon Marquis and t he late Phil Hussey, who I am sad to cla ssnews1957@a lum .colby.edu report passed away last ,\ l a rch 1 5. Ed and h i s w i fe, .\ larilyn, became grandparents for t he first time t h is past year. They have two gra ndsons: Aiden (born in Apr i l '00)-Ed aspires to see h i m a star goa l ie for t h e I rish Rovers-and lexander (born l a s t J u ly .+), a s t a r q u a r te rback i n - t ra i n i ng. Ed sars he a n d h i s " lovely" ,\ l a r i l y n celebrate t heir .+0th M a s s a pequa Pa rk, NY 1 1 7 6 2 1958 M a rgaret S m ith H e n ry 1304 Lake Shore Drive 5 1 6-541-0790 classnews1958@alum .colby.edu 1959 Ann Segrave Lieber 7 Kingsland C o u rt South Orange, NJ 0 7 0 7 9 9 7 3-763-6 7 1 7 cla ssnews1959@alum .colby.edu C0 LBY · SUMM E R 2 00 I I 39 Alumni at Large J 1 9 50s- 1 960s J n n i ,·er.,ar)· t h i J une. Congratula tions! . . . ,\l a rcia Curtis has been retired for I 0 1·ea rs a nd h a been enjm ing t i m e \\·ith her fam i l y of n ieces and nephews a \1·el l a s tra1·el i n g and keeping up "·ith old high school a n d college friends . .\ I a rcia till I i , e s i n Charleston. .C., but come back to :\"e,1 England to spend summers i n \\-aten·ille \·al le)·, � . H . She h a s taken up watercolor painting a n d belongs to the l i fe-long learning center of the College of Charleston. \ l a rciJ remembers ome h i gh point of her college days: the footba 11 games (someti mes in the now), singing in t he Glee Club, especially perform i ng "The \ l essiah:' and planting a smal l p i n e tree o n A rbor Da)' i n 1 95 3 , \1 hich i'> no11 4 0 feet h igh. \\'hat great memorie 11 e all share . . . . Ray Ducharme \\ i l l become professor emeritus at Smith College on June >O. �0()1 . . . . l heard from Barbara " Bobbi" Studley Barnette i n J a nu ar) . he said she " as wear)' of tra1·el1 11g b) a i r across the C-. . 1·isiting her fa rrnl) and glad to be on the Cape aga m , and ... he and I made plans to -,pend '>Orne time together after the -,no\1 melt ,,• I a h1 a)·s look fon1 a rd to h ,l\ mg ;ome persona l time from mr comen aror;h ip duties. . . Keep the ne\1 s com i ng. I f an) one '' a n t s Ill) e - m a r l address. j ust l e t m e kno\\ .11 1d rl l a n'" er. 811rb11m Easterbrooks .\ lailey 54 I \\ J'> 'addened to learn that Barbara Fi her Dorfman ha'> died. ">ill " a ' a fell< J\\ Fnglish ma1or, a nd I n:rm:mher her at C :olb) <ls fu l l of Lncrg) and fu n . . . . bbott Rice, '' ho II\ e' in I l ml'>on , '\," _ l I . , has been lnr 1 " 1t h h" loca l church a nd the to\\ n \ code ofeth ic'> comm 1 nee '>i nee hr rl'.l l rcmuH from 'orthern F'>'>e\ ( r tmmtlll l t ) College f our ) ear' ago. I k .1 11d h" '' r fc. \ n n rc . a J .,o a rc .ll t l \ e 1 11 t hL \\ an.1 11 1d. ( , range 1 11 I l ud " >n 'anq \ lo) er ono, er h.1 hccn t r.1, c l r n(! to '>OlllC unu'>ual 1lc '! 1 11,ll J I >11 ' ' "iill \I Clll LO \ J 1d\1 a) \toll I<> oh,l'.n e goonc) h1nJ., a nd hl'.lped 1 11 .1 'tud1 of 'p1nner dolph in' ,l f tl'J p.1 r1 1np.n 1 11 g 1 11 t he \ muon P111k Dolph 1 11 "il'.n rcc .1 couple of } L.lr .l!l,<>. ( .ont.ll'l' 111.1de t h rough I l d e r h < > , t L I l e d h e r to d o l p h i n t ud r c . I n .1dd 1 t 1on. h e h,1, hcl'.n l >1 � J ll !! ,1 round outhl'.rn llohem1.1 I p11t l l n!! ch.1 ntcrelk· mu,h room' 1 \\1 cdcn. I r ke ot ha, of u,, ,he .i J,. , Jl rL .1round t he l ">. ' ' ''t ill !! h <r d 1 r ld n:n rn . d !!r.111dch rldrl'.n. " ith l \1 1 1 nc\1 l llll'. h,l\ rn g .1rrl\ l'.d JU't l.1 t 40 11:1,�'?¥@U;Em C h a i r m a n o f \Va l nu t Asset .\ I a nagement L L C Peter Bedel l '59 was fe atu red in a Philadelphia lnq11ire1· story tout i n g the success of the com p any. "'a l nut m a nages a bout $ 5 0 m i l l ion pri m a ri l y for fa m i l\' accounts and was lauded for its focus o n customer service, stron d iscipli n e and v a l ue i nvest i n g in a time of m a rket volati l ity. g llM"£i'm'¥11 Deaths: \Vi l l iam A. Tippens '50, Feb ru a ry 9, 2 00 1 , i n i\ I i l l i nocket, .\ I a i ne , at _/ : Vernon Core l l Jr. ' 5 1 , October 2 1 , 2 00 0 , i n Yorkto\1·n Heights, NY., a t 1 ·:· Richard F. Joh n son '5 1 , .\ l a rch l l , � 00 1 , i n Boston , ,\ I ass., a t l : Oscar Rosen '5 1 , p ri l ?, 20 0 1 , i n S a l e m , ,\ I ass., a t 7 8 : Philip W . Hussey Jr. '53, M a rc h 1 5, 2 00 1 , i n ;\aples, Fla., a t 69 : Kay Vivian M i les '57, February -+, 2 00 1 , i n \\'i l m i n gton, \'t., at 65 : Lucia Joh n son Stuart ' 5 8 , J a nu a ry 24, 2 00 1 , in G r a n d Rapids, M ich., at 64 : John B . Shoemaker '59, February H, 2 00 1 , i n P a l m etto, Fla., at 6+. ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· year. . . . \Vinnie Robertson l i l ler '' rote at Christmas that she and Nate '55 were plan n i ng a trip to Prague and Budapest. Last December was a special month for them "·irh the birth of their fourth grandch i ld . . . . Art Eddy and his ,,-ife, An ne, have sold their house on Cape Cod and a re mm·ing to Lake,· i l le, Conn., to be closer to fam i l y. . . . Joyce 'Witham S p e n c e r and C h u c k ' 5 3 l i l'e i n Colorado. They enjoy !>k i i ng right there in Colorado, too, but ha,·e been t r<n-el i ng a round the coun t ry ,·isiti ng friends and fam i k Their chi ldren and gra ndchildren ]i,·e in Las \'egas and Houston. This year the pencers plan to ,-isit Colby friends in Florida, t hen tnl\·el to Co ta R ica and cruise through the Panama Canal. \\'hat a tr<l\ el log our classmates cou Id concoct together' Please send your news. -I le/en 56 Christian School. This summer they w i l l be ,-o l u n teer i n g at a fa m i l y c a m p i n t h e mou nt a i n s o f l\'ew ,\ lexico . . . . Al Clapp stays so very busy with his second career in health care t hat he has no plans to slow down and take it easy. I- l e says he met Colby's new president at the Stamford, Conn., a l u m n i gatheri ng and was most impressed . . . . Charlie Morrissey is a lso busy i n a second ca reer-at Pepperdine as a professor of i n f o systems. Two of his k ids and fi,·e of h i s se\'en gra nddaughters a re sti l l i n the East, so he gets back this way often to see them, unfort u nately ne\'er at reunion time. He has stayed in touch with Colby-a son a n d daughter-in-law a re graduates-but has only attended one reun ion that I k now of. . . . i\ Iy next colu m n w i l l be our reunion news. Cross Stabler Dear classmates, thi " i nter '' e attended ma n)· sports e\'ents at \m herst C :ol lege whene\ er Colby was i n to\1 n . \ \'e had a great time " arch ing the '' omen's basketbal I team beat \ m herst and then \\'el lesle) to \1 i n t h e FC :.\C : D i,·ision l l I champion -.h ip'>, \1 hich \1 ere pla) ed here at \ 111 hcr'> t . \ \\ onderfu I cont ingent of C .olh) parents and grandparents .l! tclllf., hoth ha.,ketb,1 I I and hocke } , a n d ll " a h1 a� '> fu n t o don o u r C .ollll '>\\ Catsh 1 rt'> and root f o r our tcam'> . . . . .\ I a rgaret Da rby Per on rnd her hu-,llJl1d, Roger, a re ;ti 11 J j , ing a nd t r<l\ t:l r n g fu l l rune 1 11 their motor home. ' f he) con1 1 nuc their 1 olt11 1tcl'.r \\ ork " 1t h ( ,,1 111pc.:r'> On \ I r ,J< m . <l ll<l t h i -, '' r m cr found t hem 1 11 I loml.1 . \I hl'.rc t he� helped hu r ld .1 lll'.\I f.1Crl 1 t ) for ·r hl'. \ \ 1 11ter I LH en -Kathy ,\ /cC011a11ghy Zmnbello 58 athan Adams sent a very n ice note catch ing me up on h i s l i fe. His w i fe, n nel iese, ret i red from her position at the Austrian Embassy i n \\ 'ash i ngton i n June 2000. Then Nate and An nel iese moved "kit and kaboodle to our new log home near Ennis, ,\font., a small town i n the ,\ J adison Va l ley some 75 mi les north ofYel lowstone Park." Nate reti red in 1 99-+ a fter a 26-year ca reer a s a senior staff editor of The Reader's Digest research ingand 11 ritingi nl'estigative features on tra ns-national orga n ized crime ( R ussia) and terrorism (.\ I idd le East) and getting "fronted off" on the CBS fa·enmg .\'eu•s, Good .I lorning . /111enm, PBS, etc. I le also appeared before ' a riou<, congres'>iona I security, 1ntcl ligence and foreign affa i r'> com mrttees. �ate '>ay'> he -.rill does '>Ome security and risk a n a lysis studies for i nternationa I clients. I Iowever, he is h appy to be back in a part of the country where he spent h i s child hood. I f anyone i s ever i n the area, d o look h i m up . . . . Bob Saltz (rsa ltz@am rresearch.com) and his w i fe sti l l l ive i n Swampscott, 1' 1ass., but spent th is past wi nter in Scottsdale, A riz. They loved it so much that they bought a place on Gai ney R a nch and w i l l spend winters there. Bob has spent the last two years fighting prostate cancer, had two operations a nd radiation but at the time of writing had the good news that for the moment he is w i n n i ng the battle. He now spends some time counse l i n g others confronting this d isease. He retired from h i s l atest business venture, A M R Research, i n April 2000 but sti l l mainta i n s a n office i n Boston and a spot on the advisory board. Bob's daughter Judy has given him a 2 -year-old grandson , and h i s son was ma rried i n late w inter 2 0 0 1 . . . . Carol H a l l H u i and her husband, David, and daughter K i m are still living i n Sun nyva le, Calif., land of the rol l i ng blackouts. Carol "retired" from her work with a local bal let company because the company had gone i nto Chapter 1 1 . She had been work i n g w i t h the company si nce 1 985, get t i n g it i n to better funding categories. Dave a lso had a career cha nge but i s sti l l i n t h e computer fiel d . T h e i r daughter i s a n emergency room technician a t t h e loca I hos pi ta I i n San Jose . . . . I know you a re out there; let me hear from you. -Jvlargaret S111ith Hemy 59 J essica and Bob Cockburn sti l l l ive i n ew Brunswick, Canada, where Bob is a professor of English. H e edited the book Toward ,\ /aguetic North: The Oberho/t-::,er-i1 1agee 1 9 1 2 Canoe Journey to H11dso11 Bny, which was publ ished last October . . . . New Hampshire resident David Russell, who spent two years with us, ran for a seat i n the state representative race. He had served as a state represen t a t i ve si nee M a rc h 2 0 0 0 a n d i s interested i n land conservation and funding for education. Did you win, Oa,·id' . . . B i l l and Edo Foresman Donaldson have courageously ta ken the R\' plunge. They old their house last] une a nd have t raveled more than 1 0,000 m i les, seeing a nd learn ing a lot i n the process. They have a home base with rhei r daughter i n Connecticut, s o it is t h e best of both worlds. And they can choose whatever weather suits their mood ' . . . Please write to me, folks. I love hearing from you a nd am del ighted to report your activities to our classmates. -Ann Segrave Lieber 60 Ralph Nelson's news, wh ich a rrived in early November, com mented on the "i nteresting" time that I must be having with the politics i n Florida and Mexico (because I l ive in Florida and my husband, Juan, worked on Vicente Fox's election campaign in Mexico). I admit ! fou nd the situation in Florida so d isturbing that I m ight even become i nvolved in politics ' Ralph reports that on June 2 l he and h i s wife were blessed with a n eight pound, three ounce grandson, D a n iel Ross Nelson. I n October, Ralph a n d h i s wife traveled to Morocco for two weeks of touring the medieval markets a nd Roma n r u i n s , camping· i n t h e desert a n d m a k i n g many home v isits. R a l p h continues t o be active i n t h e Sons of the American Revolution, this year a s a mbassador for overseas recru itment, working with people in New Zealand, M icronesia, Canada and I re l a n d . . . . J o h n Kel lom recently reti red and moved from New England to H i lton Head I sland, S.C. He worked at Raytheon Company for 34 years, pri marily as a software engineer developing and testing air traffic control systems. Although e m p loyed in M a s s a c h u s e t t s , he worked on i nternational programs and had the opportunity for travel to Norway and Hong Kong. Now that they a re settled into their new home, he is busy work i ng on the "honey do" l ist before getting too i nvolved in church and music activities . . . . June Chacran Chatterjee and her hus band had a wonderful time at our very special reunion and are look ing forward to our future reunions. After the weekend, they drove th rough Tew England visiting fa m i ly and fri e n d s . Recently they ret u r ned from a six-week trip to India. They usu a I ly m a ke a 11 thei r own travel arrangements, but everything was clone for them during one week they spent travel ing th rough Rajasthan on the Palace on 'l\Theels, traveling by n ight a ncl seei ng the sights during the daytime. Their tra i n took them to palaces and forts in places such as Jaipur, Jaisa lmer, Joclhpur, da ipur and the Taj Mahal. They say they had their own beauti fu l compartment with private bathroom , the food was fantastic, the staff took care of them I i ke fami ly, and they wou Id be happy to provide more i nformation to anyone interested . . . . It is now 1 0 years si nce Peter Shays joined the pub I ications clepartment at Pri ncipia, a private educational i nstitution with two campuses-one for chi ldren pre-pre-school th rough h igh school in St. Louis and the other a liberal arts college j ust up the M ississippi River in Elsah, I l l . He started as editor and has been d irector for the past six years. He adores the work that, in addition to print publica tions, i nvolves both video and 'l\Teb communication. He a nd his wife of al most 3 5 years love the St. Louis area . . . . P. Anna Johnson survived the Seattle earthquake on February 28; here's a part of her description. "The jury on which I am serving in the Federal Courthouse had just been cal led back from a 1 5 m i nute break . . . when I felt the first tremor. . . . [T]he fel low juror seated to my right literally Aew over me on his way to the open doorway on my left. . . . I too leaped, and landed crouched on my k nees. . . . There must have been l 2 or 1 5 ofus huddled together on the floor, our a rms around one a nother. 'This looks l i ke a footba l l huddle' passed through my m i nd. Next to me on the right, a young woman . . . was terrified and I felt sorry for her. The woman said, ' I have a two-year-old daughter. I 've got to get home,' in a tone of voice that told me she didn't expect she ever would . . . . I hugged the woman tightly and said very calm ly, ' I t's OK. \l\Te're goi ngto be a l right.' . . . Chunks of plaster began fa 11 i ng from the cei l i ng and I rea lized this was l i ke no e a rt h q u a k e I h a d ever been in. This was i ndeed 'the big one' we have a l l been waiting for. The whole bu i l d i ng was being shaken apart . . . . Holding the young woman more tightly I said, 'You're a beauti ful person. You're a very beautiful person.' She was qu iet. Then the building stopped rol l ing.". . . Nancy S h o e m a k e r D a rgie h a s fi n a l l y retired (her words) from the U.S. Forest Service a ncl relocated to Forest, Va ., to be near part of the fam ily-who are scattered a l l over si nee she had seven chi ldren. Current count is eight gra ndch i Id ren and more expected. She spent Than ksgiving and early December \\'ith t\\' i n sister Carol Shoemaker Rasmussen at her lovely home on North Pond in Sm ithfield, Mai ne. Carol has become a grandmother of a beautiful baby girl, who lives with her parents i n Pennsylvania. They a re wel l a nd a re glad to have been at the reun ion a nd to have seen so many wonderful class members. Carol has visited with Judy Sessler about once a month since our reunion . . . . Dick '58 and Susan M acomber Vogt began their latest biking adventure on March 20, this time traveling from Key vVest to M a ine with a scheduled arrival date of sometime i n May. . . . I can add South America to the continents visited by our class si nce our reunion as I have just returned from a business trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where I found the Brazilians to be as energetic as ever. I hope to get lots of e-mail this Slt1117/Je7: -Jane /-loldeu Huerta 61 Our 40th reunion by now has become a memory for those who attended. I f you d i d n ' t m a k e it this ti me, you have only five years to get ready to attend the next one' . . . Speaking of memories, I was del ighted recently to fi nd in my e-mail box a long, nosta lgia-inspiring message from Diane Sadler Martin . This was prompted b y a phone call from "a fresh young voice from the Colby campus," as Diane described it, asking for a contribution to the Alumni Fund in honor of ou r reunion year. Although Diane left us after two years and graduated from the University of Virgi nia, she contrib uted some money to the fund. And some memories to t h i s col u m n : a m i nd-expa n d i ng course c a l l e d Problems i n Creative Th i n k i n g; Col i n MacKay's advanced freshman English course; roles in Powder and Wig productions of Under Milkwood, for which she learned to play the recorder, and A !Vlidsmmmr's Night Drea111, i n which she played Puck. Perhaps most memorable for Diane, a sou therner, was sno w ' To the consternation of roomm ates a n d staff, she i nsisted o n walking i n it, playing in it and even jumping i nto it i n a bat h i ng suit. . . . From H awaii comes word that Diane Scrafton Cohen Ferreira has received the U n i versity of Hawa i i 's Board of Regents' il ledal for Excellence in Teach i n g, which recogn i zes the i mportance that students, the faculty a nd the a d m i n i stration place on quality teaching. This a\\'ard pays tribute to faculty members for their extraordi nary level ofsubject mastery and scholarship, teaching effecti\·e- 1960s Correspondents 1960 Jane H o lden H uerta 2955 Whitehead Street M i a m i , FL 3 3 1 33 305-446-5082 classnews1960@a lum .colby.edu 1961 D i a n e Scrafton Ferre ira P i h a n a k a l a n i Ranch P.O. Box 249 Pa ' A u i l o , Hawa i i 9 6 7 7 6 c/assnews1961@alum .colby.edu 1962 Patricia Farnham Russell 16 Sunset Avenue H a m pde n , M E 04444 207-942-6953 classnews1962@a l um.colby.edu 1963 Karen Fors l u n d Fa l b 2 4 5 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02 138 6 1 7-864-429 1 classnews1963@a l um.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 l ley Avenue Apt. D2 Westwood , NJ 0 7 6 7 5-3607 20 1-664-7672 classnews1965@a lum .colby.edu 1966 c/o Meg Bernier Colby Col lege Alumni Office Watervi l l e , ME 04901 207-872-3185 classnews1966@a lum.colby.edu 1967 Robert G ra c i a 295 B u rgess Avenue Westwood , MA 02090 781-329-2101 classnews1967@a lum.colby.edu Judy Gerrie H e i ne 21 H i l lcrest Road Medfi e l d , MA 02052 508-359-2886 [email protected] 1968 N a ncy Dodge Bryan 7 Weir Street Extension H i ngha m , MA 02043 7 8 1-740-4530 [email protected] 1969 Sari Abul-J u b e i n 2 5 7 Lake V i e w Avenue Cambridge, MA 02 138 6 1 7-868-8 2 7 1 [email protected] COLBY · SU M M E R 2001 I 41 • A l u m n i at Large 1 960s n e s s a n d creat1nty a n d personal ,·alues beneficial to students. D iane i s a profe or of English at H awai'i Comm u n it�· College, where, accord i n g to the press release about the award, she i s a bril liant and masterful teacher known for her passion for teachi n g and helping students suc ceed, her dedication to her profession and her leadership . . . . A note from Regina (" Reggie") Foley H aviland mentiom that she and Carole Pope ha,·e been friends since j u nior h igh school, majored in French at Colby, roomed together one year i n \ \'ood m a n H a l l and upon graduation taught French (once i n adjoi n i n g classrooms!). Ther decided t o cel ebrate t h e i r 6 0 t h b i r t h d ays a n d Regi na's retirement from teaching t h i s p a s t J u n e . They spent two ,,·eeks i n France tra,·el ing from Paris t h rough Lron and Pro,·ence and ending up in � ice. ;\ lost of the t i me was spent being shown the sights by friends i n each of these loca les, who rook them to places they would ne,·er haYe seen on their own . They were e\·en chal lenged to a match of petn11q 11e or boules i n the vil lage square, but the French couple had the advantage. A re-match is scheduled gardner g0"0 ' .4 this year at Kennebunk Beach, ii l a ine, where Reggie a n d her h u s b a n d , Gerry, spend their sum mers. ( C a role and Regina a re practicing.) Reggie is enjoy i n g having time to spend with her three grandch i ld ren, who live nearby. . . . At t h i s point I don't know who will replace me as class correspondent, but you can always e-mai l your news to classnews l 96 1 @ alum.colby.edu a n d i t w i l l automati cally be forwarded to whoe,·er the class correspondent is. A l t h ough dragging news out of you i n time to meet publ ication dead l i nes has sometimes been frustrating, O\'era l l I have rea l ly enjoyed my term as you r class correspondent. Please ca l l or stop by i f you a re i n the Orono/greater Bangor a rea-we can write a note about it to the new class correspondent! -Jur�J' Hoffman I lakola 62 Our .+Oth reun ion com m i ttee is a l ready at work pla n n i ng a great Reun ion \\'eekend for June 2002. You should be hearing from Rich Simlci ns with more deta i Is . . . . El mer Bartels of Bedford , Mass., is com m i s s i o n e r of t h e ,\ J a s s a c h u s e t t s Rehab i I itation Comm ission . E l mer, a mg He may have been a fly boy once, but today he's as down to earth as And G ray knows herds. At one point he had they come. No longer nav1gat1ng harrowing combat missions a bove Vietnam, more than 30 horses on h is ra nch. U ntil his back Gardner B . Gray '64 has traded his aviator glasses for a cowboy hat. These days, G ray can be found watching over his thousand-acre ra nch 1n the southwest corner of South Dakota, though finding him 1s easier said started acting up, he saddled u p with the best of the m . It's not a cattle ranch, s o maybe that ma kes him ineligi ble for t h e title, but Gardner G ray is as close to a cowboy as they come. He only wears than done. It's a 20-mile d rive from the nearest town, and that's 20 miles of Wrangler jeans, because Levi's are too politically correct. Cowboy hats are South Dakota d riving. Gray makes the rounds in a d iesel-churning Dodge the only headgear he owns. He drives a tractor and shoots the sa me pickup truck with 185,000 miles on 11. He says it's going to hit 500,000 vintage single-action rifle as Will Rogers. m i les without a problem, which is good since he has to cut through his With three grown children a nd lots of time on his hands, G ray says he's neighbor's cow pasture iust to find a road into town. "Genera lly, when people come here, we either know they're coming or they're completely got everything he needs. "After you've lived for a period of time where any lost," he said with your name on 1t, well , you get used to that existence," he said . That's how this Colby cowboy likes 1t. time you go out could be your day, where they could have just made a bullet " It's qu ite an a mazing prospect, that you can die tomorrow, but it takes Tucked away alongside B lack H i l ls National Forest with his wife, Lyn n , your c i rcle of req uirements and it na rrows it dow n . and a hand ul o f horses, h e says 1 t doesn't take m uch t o keep him happy. If you 've got th ree square mea ls a day, a roof over you r head a nd you r health, everything else is It's a lesson he learned early. Fresh out of Colby, Gray io1ned the Navy and found his way into the VFP 64 fighter squadron. After more than 100 combat missions, his squadron had he grisly d •st1nct1on of having the service's highest fatality rate. When he wasn· in combat. he was flying reconnaissance, sk1mm1ng iust over orth Vietnamese strongholds 1n a plane fitted with cameras. After he war, he took a JOb as a pilot for Trans World Airlines, flying ou of Boston and New York City. Once you've barnstormed mobile infantry, however, he says flying the "friendly skies" 1s a cinch . " There'c; no comparison to having an e1ght-m1le straightaway in o S Louis and trying to land on an a ircraft earner while the hing s p1 Ching en degrees u p and down, '' he said. " I t's night and da p1lo 1ng is a young man's game, he said "The older you harder is to s art again, to start a nything over " �a s exac ly wha he did in 1990, packing his bags a'1d sh pp ng ou o Sou h Dakota os p ople ouldn t hke 1 Th y'd say it's too q u iet. oo rell".o e , ' he said " M ost people want t o b e surrounded by people I don· know why they do, but we're very herd or1en ed " 42 B MMF gravy. "-Matt Apuzzo '00 real-! i fe role model for everyone w i t h a d isabil ity, was recen t l y honored by the Massachusetts Comm ission A ga i n s t D i sc r i m i n a t i o n for h i s sign i ficant contributions, w hich have had an i mpact on the h u m a n and civil rights of countless i ndividuals. E l mer, who suffered a broken neck playing hockey at Colby, persevered and returned to Colby to graduate w i t h our class. \tVe a re pro u d to claim h i m . . . . Samuel Cohen of Waldoboro, M a i ne, has been elected to the board of Un ion Trust Co. A former d irector of the \tValdoboro B a n k , w h ich was recently pu rchased by U n i o n Tru s t , S a m h a s b e e n v e r y active i n com m u n ity a ffa i rs i n Waldoboro a n d h a s h a d a law practice i n that tow n for 31 years. H i s son P h i l ip, who joined h i m as a partner i n 1 995, h a s a son, M atthew, in the Colby Class of200 1 . . . . Bruce Kingdon is one of the first 10 to be i nducted i n to t he M a i ne Baseba l l Coaches Association H a l l o f Fame. B ruce coached boy's baseba l l a n d served as t h e school's a t h letic c l i rector at Mt. Ararat H igh School. . . . Al ice Webb l ives in Readi ng, M ass., w i t h husband B i l l . T h e i r s o n M ichael is to be m a rried i n October. A l ice worked on the recent election campaign of a loca l cand idate, w h i c h she says proved to be a lot of fun . Bi l l is about to retire from home health a id work . . . . Judy Hoagland Bristol should be returned from a t h ree week trip to Thailand. She and H arry enjoy being retired and doi ng their own thi ng. They just bought a new toy-a jet boat-a "last fl ing" to use at their l a ke house. J udy remi nisces aboutgoingto the Spa between classes to d r i n k coffee a nd play bridge and about catching rides to a nd from the campus from the chu rch downtown . H o w times have changed-now a l l the students have c a r s ' . . . Paul H ickey of ew York City has once agai n been nomi n ated for the Annual Daytime Em my Awards for outs ta nd i n g achievement i n set design for the drama series As the World Turns. Paul has been a set designer for C B S for the past 2 5 years, a nd this is h i s 1 0 t h nom i n at i o n . H e won t h e coveted award in 1984, 1 985 and 1 990. The 2 8 t h a n nu a l a w a rd s w e re to be presented at Radio City Music H a l l on May 18 . . . . Colleen "Jo" Littlefield Jones, who lives in Skowhegan , i\ 1 a i ne, cont i n ues a s a spec i a l ed teacher. Her son, A a ron, is a body bui lder and model. . . . Kathy Hertzberg of Contoocook, N . H . , plans to retire from teac h i n g next year. She h a s taken up kaya k i n g a nd white-water raft i n g w h i l e keeping up with her chorus group. . . . Lynn Kimball has retired ful l time to New H a rbor, M a i ne, where she is active in area chorus groups . . . . \tVe Russells a re enjoy i n g l i v i n g in H a mpden, M a ine, where we can be close to our grandchildren. Our fam i ly continues to be active skiers, snowshoers, bikers, h i kers and maple syrup m a kers. We spend summers i n the shadow of Mount Katahdin at the l a ke and enjoy returning to our M i l l i nocket home frequently. We have a number of '62 ladies now retiring to and l iv i ng in M a i ne. It would be fun to have a luncheon some fal l Saturday-maybe in conjunction with Homecom i ng? Let me lrnow if you might be i nter ested . . . . For those of you who send Ch ristmas letters, put me on your m a i l i ng l ist. I can only write what I receive. -Pnt Fnrnhn111 Russell 63 Ann Bruno Hocking would l i ke a l l those interested in pla n n i ng our next reu n ion to meet with her th is com i n g February in the Boston area. Please contact her at a n n hocki ng@ calcagni.com or 860-H9- 8 1 32. A n n is sti l l busy w i t h volu ntee r i n g a s president of t he \Va l l i ngford, Con n., K i w a n i s Club and w ith her real estate busi ness and is far from ret i r i n g. Her son Ross is gradu a t i n g from Suffolk Law Schoo l , and her son Ben ma rried a Colby graduate . . . . Fred Sears h a s l ived on H i l to n Head I s l a nd , S.C., w i t h h i s w i fe, Mary H ugh, si nce 1 992 . A retired I BM senior engineering manager, Fred spends t h ree months a year as a volunteer consultant overseas with Agriculture Cooperative Develop ment I nternation a l / Volu nteers i n Overseas Cooperative Assistance, a private, nonprofit group dedicated to i nternational agribusiness partner sh ips. His reward "is giving other coun t r i e s m a n agement advice on how to organ i ze, prepa re and support t h e i r in formation systems." Fred h a s w o r k e d o n b o t h i mp rov i n g fa rm i n g i n Ethiopia a nd i n building publ ic parks i n Bolivia . . . . William \tVitherell e-m a i l s that since 1 977 he h a s been l i v i n g a n d worki n g in Paris, where he i s the d irector for fi n a ncial, fiscal a n d enterprise affa i rs at the Organ i zation for Economic C o o p e r a t i o n a n d D e ,·e l o p m e n t , w hich is made up of some 30 advanced i ndustri a l country members. B i l l m a nages a la rge i n ternational secre tariat team of economists, lawyers a n d s t a t i s t i c i a n s respon s i b l e f o r c a r ry i n g out t h e O E C D 's pol i c y a na ly s i s a n d rese a r c h , i n c l u d i n g mandates such as countering bribery in i nternation a l commerce, money l a u n de r i n g a n d t a x e v a s i o n a n d strengthening corporate govern a nee world-wide. He enjoys the i n terna tional travel i nvolved, but he and his w i fe, Edie, now reti red from teach i n g, l o o k for w a rd to t h e i r reti rement years-they hope back in New England and closer to their five gro w n - u p c h i l d ren and f o u r grandchi l d ren . . . . Marsha Palmer Reynolds con t i n u e s commu t i n g from Stamford, Con n . , t o e w York City, where she teaches middle school science at The Chapin School. As t he Class 6 supervisor, she meets with all the parents of the grade a n d oversees the general wel l-bei ng of the 55 girls in Class 6. Her husband, John, is a teacher at the Tri nity School 1 11 .Y.C. They had a wonderful visit th is past fa 11 at their sum mer home i n 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 i\ 1ontrat '94, who spent her Jan Plan w ith them, and enjoyed a memorable visit to Myriam's family 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 fam ily. My m a i n pursuit conti nues to be development of the Susan B. Anthony birthplace museum in North Adams, i\ 1ass., where we hope to start some of the h istorica l renovations next spring." . . . Coral Crosman expects to be t h rough her "day job" a n d on to a nother related to her o w n writi ng/publishing business, Porphy r i o n Press, w h i c h p ro d u c e d h e r Re111e111be1'i11g the F11t11re; Poems ofPour Decades, 1 9 57-97 i n 2000. She hoped to go to Mexico this spring to visit her son and new daughter-i n-law, who is doing a Fulbright i n arts-related research there. I n her free t i me she enjoys her two grandchildren a nd has been reading an excellent biography of Herman i\ Ielville, the subject of her '63 Jan Plan-which gives her this "fu l l circle" feeling. . . . Pauline Ryder Kezer w rote at Christmas that it had been a healthy year-no more cancer' And she loves the flexibil ity of her own consulting business. She was a l l set to teach in Jordan a nd I srael for three weeks this past fal l but cancelled when the violence broke out in Ramallah, where she was to be teach i ng' She is sti l l singing i n t h e church choi r a nd i s busy with all the children and grandchi ldren . Her husband, Ken, is contemplati ng retirement from teach i n g i n June . . . . Karen Beganny Bryan has enjoyed her position as class representative to the A l u m n i Counci l . And through her Colby connections she renewed her acquaintance with Don "Skeeter" Megat h l i n '59, and they a re engaged to be married and w i l l l ive in Cotu it, M ass. She had news of Dee Dee Wilson Perry, who has been recover ing from both broken shoulders a nd a broken leg from a fa l l last l ovember. Dee Dee spent t h ree months in the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston and is fortunate at this point to be back a t w o r k . K a re n a l so h a s seen Bev '6 1 a n d L i z Rowe Lapham , who l ive in Mered ith, . H . , where Liz m a kes t h e "most beautiful baskets." . . . The Falb news is that we are buying a house in Cumberland, M a i ne. I am also busy keeping up with school activities. A wonderful Ch ristmas gift came in the form of a n early college acceptance for o u r older daughter. . . . Barb Haines Chase looked forward to an Elderhostel trip to Costa Rica this sprin g. This w i nter she a nd B i l l skied at Okemo for free as he is a volunteer i n t h e i r first aid station. She a nd her roommates Sally Morse Preston a nd M a ry Michelmore Hayes, who is i n the process of a s low recovery from pneumonia, p l a n ned a reu n ion t h i s spring. B a r b had a f u n t i me bei n g o n e of Al Carville's a ides f o r fun d raisi ng, as did Thomas Thomas, who called me. Bot h , and I 'm sure A l , too, s a y t h a n k s t o a l l who contributed and especially t h a n k s for the time spent chatti n g. -Karen Fors/1111d Falb 64 I t ried m y fi rst a l l - e - m a i l survey t h i s mont h . I m a iled to 92 addresses and received 16 a nswers. That's an u n heard of I percent. I have space to reproduce o n l y a part of the a nswers . . . . From your favorite say i n gs: " I nte l l i gence is l i ke a four-wheel drive; it enables you to get lost in more remote places." "You need ch aos in your s o u l to give birth to a d a ncing star." " I t's not the h o u rs you put in that count, what counts is what you put i nto the hours." . . . Some edited a n swers to how we can reduce teenage vio lence. "� [ ake the parents/guard i a n s responsible for damage a n d i nj uries c0L B y . s u M M ER 200 1 I 43 A l u m n i at Large 1 960s a s "· ell a s t h e perp (police jargon' )." " T h ere a r e t wo m a i n a re a s for pre,·ention-get rid of the guns and i ncrease parental contact, especially fathers. There i s a 1 most a 1 i n e a r relationship between gang member s h i p a n d no father in the home. In communities "·here fatherhood i s ,·alued and encouraged and big b ro t h e r/ b i g s i ster programs a re p l e n t i fu l , g a n g membersh i p a n d ,·iolence a re reduced for both boys a nd girls." " . . . we ha\'e to tra i n a l l i n t h e school com m u n i t y to recogn ize and report incidents or comments, which mar signal upcom i n g ' iolence . . . . Educators ha,·e to be fa r more sensiti,·e to the fact that ' i n cro\1 d' rejection of certai n people and groups is unacceptable. Di\'ersirr is more than race or gender-it is the acceptance of others regardless of ho,1 they d ress, what music they l i sten to, bod�· pierces. hairs�·les, economic statu , etc." . . . ome news came along " ith the sun·ey. .\ Iari lyn a nd Ben Beaver's son John '9:2 was m arried last summer, and after a fe,1 rears in the fi nancial ser\'ices bu;iness has returned to school for an .\ l . B .. \ at Babson. Their younger son , Da' id, is '' orking in the Boston a rea. Ben say h i s business, Executi\'e Search, "sti l l seems strong in pite of the cries regard i ng the economic s\0,1 do\1 n." Ben ha been asked to ta kc o' er the class agent role from Karen Knudsen Day, and he Sa)'S he .. ,, i l l no doubt be pestering you from time to time to support the Jim B u n n ing, R-Ky., and living in A l e x a n d r i a , ''a ; d aughter Chapin g r a d u a t e d from Boston Col l ege Carroll School of Business with an .\ 1 . B .A. in .\ Iay. The ;\ lechems enjoy seeing Paul '68 and Adele Fac i n i .\ Ia rtin '68, Frank Parker and Jon Choate. Jack \\Tote: " Doris, this w i l l be the year we bury the 'curse of the Bambino"" . . . Jim Simon has a patent for a medical device, # 6 , 1 8 9,533, wh ich can be seen on "''1·w.uspto.go\' (the U. S. patent office \\'eh site: click on search and search for existing patents, then i nput #). Basical ly it i s an i mprovement for ER docs, p a ramed ics and E .\ I Ts and for m i l itary use-for i nt ubation with built-in suction and l ight. J im's 1 7-yea r-old son, who contributed the idea of chemical lumi nescence (such as H a lloween l ight sticks-type technology), shares the patent. J i m says, "hope I c a n find a manufacturer. H a,·i ng a patent is I i ke b e i n g a h a l f- w i t ; you a re on l y h a l f way there." . . . ,\ ladie and J i m Harris spent �ew Year's weekend in Long Beach, \\'ash., near the mouth of the Columbia R iver. They stayed at a world class bed-and-brea kfast, the Shelburne I n n , which features the Shoal water, a "·orld-class restaurant. Jim was there because his company is distributing a cookbook titled Best of Tbe Ark & .Hore produced by the owners of The A rk-yet a nother world-class restau rant in n e a rby ='ahcotta. " I f it sounds l i ke we ate wel l," Jim writes, "we did1 There are JAMES SIMON ' 64 What he does Flight doctor a n d i nventor. What he i nvented A device that i l l u mi nates a n d clears a patient's obstructed trachea at the same time. Who teamed up with h i m His son R o bert, a high school J u n ior in Ti buron, Ca lif. H o w it works Using chemical l u m inescence. H ow the idea was hatched When R o bert Simon sai d , " Why d o n 't you use those Halloween lights?" What J a mes S i m o n says ab out that That was the breakthrough " What happened next A patent was issued to father and son earlier tr s year m o m ent C o l l ege.·· . . . Ja k .\ T ec h e m 1 ' cni< >) I ll !_! ,I ccond CHcLr I ll C \CCU l l \ L ,c.1 rch . rnd con,ulrmg w the com mun lt) .11 1 d region a l l u n l.: mg 1 1 1du,tr) I ll r hc '-orthc,i ...t. �on John '<H " pre" 'ecruar) to L . . Lnaror . 44 'c' cr.1 1 ot her tern ti( c;111ng places in the .1 n : ,1 that horder on '' orld class at \1 hich \I C d1d /IQ/ CJ[ hcC,J USC or umc rnnstr.1 1 nt s onl) ." . . . Betsy rocket t T� son- m i t h\ nc\1 pro 1 cc t , t he \ ·1rgm1.1 Thu rston I lea I mg C .ardcn, I nc., an educational nonprofit offer ing psychosocia I support a nd comple mentary therapies for women with breast cancer, opened i n m id-Apri l . S h e added, " I hope it becomes a dancing star for many others with breast cancer." . . . i\ 1 a rtha and George Shur purchased a condo i n Sa rasota, Fla., and hope t o spend a n i ncreasing a mount of time there. Their son, A a ron, i s work i n g i n cancer research a t the niversity of \\'ashi ngton and w i l l be applying to med school. Becky is a jun ior at ,\ l ia m i of Oh io, majoring i n graph ic design. George is sti l l general counsel at Northern I l l i nois niversity and says he has been fortunate to be able to travel a round the country pre senting papers at professiona l meet ings . . . . Joan Phillips Thompson's sons a re working in Boston so the clan is united geograph ical ly for the first time in more than a dozen years. She a n d Stephen a re h a v i n g fu n now that he's retired. They made a trip to Austral i a/Kew Zealand last yea r and a Kenya safari this ,\ I ay. "'Cultivating our garden,' as it were," she writes. "My writing is sporadic; as age encroaches I find the short story becomes very appealing." . . . Dick Friary responded to the "favorite saying" question with a couple of H . L. .\ lencken's bon mots: "For every problem, there is a solution-si mple, neat a n d wrong" a n d " d u ! te r y is time-consu m i ng, expensive and l i kely to be humil iati ng." Dick writes, " I must have expended 5,000 words on fai led efforts to work this latter quote i nto my last book, for the tasks of drug d iscovery, development a nd registration share the same features as adultery. But l had to give up before fi nding any form u l ation s u i table for young ears, si nce the senti ment expressed was negative. A fterall, I was rel I ing them that the pharmaceutical i nd us try was a source of decent jobs for entry-level chemists." -Snrn hnw l?bondes 65 . . . So I 'm driving back on 1 -95 from Ch ristmas with ,\!om on Cape Cod . I 'd just had a n ice lunch '' ith Susan Brown 1usche, her hll ,band ' and my old roomie Frank '66, and Jay Fel l '66, and 'long about �e" London, Con n., there a re loud C\plo,ion� under the hood and the '72 E.ldorado C :\' roll� to a halt. A1\A rescue' me and say,, " \ \'e'l I look at l l tomorro\\ ." So ''here exact ly am l? \ frer some deep thought-an ep1phan) . Rick a nd 1 ancy ·win slow Harwood must l ive around here since he was recently i n the subm a rine bu i ld i ng busi ness and I 'm near the G roton s u b m a r i n e store. Says 1 , "would you b e able to put m e u p for the n ight ' " A friendly voice says, " Yes, i n deed ' " and that's how I came to spend two del ightful days with the H a rwoods i n t h e i r beauti fu l home i n East Lyme, Con n . vVe h a d a chance t o do some birdi ng. On a frosty December a fternoon we spotted bald eagles, Brant geese, com mon and hooded grebe. R ick and Nancy were i n the final stages of planning yet a nother trip to visit George Hooker i n Thailand. As I was leaving in my rental car (repa i rs took 1 9 days) to ret u rn to New Jersey, Sunny Coady appeared with a gigantic dog for a New Yea r's weekend visit. She is fi nishing her term a s board cha i r w i t h i\ 1 a ssachusetts Easter Seals and enjoying a travel fi l led retirement, i ncluding St.John, V. I . , w ith the H a rwood s a nd England and Italy with a n iece . . . . The Alumni Office forwarded a n e-mai l from David H atch (dav i d h atch@ hotmail .com). Dave is teach ing high school Spanish at Burli ngton H igh School in T assachusetts. He has been a volunteer fu nd raiser for Cystic Fibrosis for the past five years, and he conti nues to volunteer for one professiona l ten n i s tou rnament a year at the I nternationa l Ten n is H a l l of Fame in Newport, R . I . He says, " I 'm just a n usher, but T get to see some great tenn is." . . . Whitfield Robbi n s reports that he is sti l l with the confectionary division of Nestle and work ing on i nternationa l projects. He and Pat have six grand ch i l d ren and a re active in t h ei r chu rch in Delaware, Oh io, where Pat's parents moved four years ago. He says they enjoy Oh io but also enjoy getting back to New England " i f o n l y once a yea r now-maybe more after reti rement." Their youngest daughter is in grad school at I ndiana University. . . . Gayle Lenz M itch e l l was na med to the Coldwell Banker I nternationa l P resident's E l ite i n J u l y 2000. T h a t p u t s her i n t h e top -+ percent o f 70,000 sales associ ates worldwide for this fu ll service provider of rea I estate services. She is acti\•e i n singing i n the Tri n ity Church chancel choi r, chairs the community mea Is program and is past president of the ewcomers Club and PTO for Northborough M iddle School. . . . Elfie Hinterkopf's book, lntegmting Spirituality in Co1111seli11g, was published recently in a Japanese translation. . . Pat Campbell was one of three Colby graduates chosen to e x h i b i t at the 2 0 0 1 Port l a n d , M a i ne , M u s e u m of A r t bien n i a l t h i s past spring. H e r work a lso was featured in the 1 998 bien nial (math majors may detect a Y2K program at this point, but that's what they gave me) . . . . I 'm saddened to report that Susie Walker Ostrem's husba nd, Don, passed away i n May 2000. Her new address i s 24077 East L a keshore, Bigfork, MT 599 1 1 . . . . In 1 997, during their first meeting in more than 30 years, Jerri Hamilton Bost and A llen '66 andJanet iVleyerTh roop '66 talked about walking across the Golden Gate Bridge. A yea r later Jerri was diagnosed with bone ca ncer. On July 7 last year the group rea l ized thei r goal on a celebratory w a l k . Two other survivors o f major surgery d u r i n g the last few years, Elena a n d Peter A n derson '66, j o i n e d the w a l k a n d t h e celebrations after wards . . . . Tom Donahue sent a long Ch ristmas letter with news that he's in his 22nd year at Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, Calif., where he teaches five sections of advanced placement Spanish l itera ture in this exclusive prep school. He said, " We a re in the happy position of being the only real game in town . . . so can conti nue to take about one in four applicants, mea n i ng that anyone who m a kes it to the senior year, where I teach them, combines the best qual ities of Einstei n , Lassie and Faye D u naway." Tom spends sum mers doing I ndian stud ies: "Sleeping in a teepee that had remarkable a mounts of scurrying animal l i fe once the fire was out and eating a Blackfeet diet (meat, meat, stew, meat soup, stew a nd more meat) and sleeping on a buffa lo robe he! ped rem ind me of how glad I am we Irish i nvented civilization." . . . Hope you've had a chance to respond to Harold Kowal's request on beh a l f of the A l u m n i Fund . . . . H a i l , Colby, H a i l ' -Ricb11rd vV Br111 k11rt 66 Ted Houghton w rites that he and Liz are look ing forward to reti rement in the fa l l , after 30 years of civ i l service with the govern ment. For the past 10 years, Ted has been chief of meteorology for the A i r Tariona l Guard-lorsoffun, h e says, and lots of friends. Their challenge now is figuring our what's next. They have a great home right on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay and hate to M�iai1MMii€11 Diane Cohen Scrafton Ferreira '6 1 , a professor o f English a t Hawai'i Com munity College, received the niversity of Hawaii's Board of Regents' Medal for Excellence i n Teaching. The award pays tribute to her extraordi nary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity, and personal v a l u e s b e n e fi c i a l to s t u d e n t s : The M a s sa c h u setts Com m i ss i o n A ga i n s t Discrim i nation recognized E l m e r C. Bartels '62 with the Comm issioners Diane Scrafton Ferreira'61 Award, which honors i n d ividuals who have made significant contributions to the human and civil rights of conununity residents. B a rtels has been commissioner of the Massachusetts Rehabil i tation Commission, a state agency devoted to helping people with disabilities, since 1 97 7 : Bruce W. Kingdon '62 has been i n ducted i n to the Maine Baseball Coaches Association H a l l of Fame. Baseball coach at Mr. Ararat H igh School, ]{jngdon was selected for his i n tegrity, professionalism and a b i l i ty teaching the game. ·· ·· llMl!i?iMM•• M111 Ti11ges: Elfie Hinterkopf '65 to Stephen Biles. De11ths: Daniel F. Madden J r. '60, February 1 9, 2 00 l , i n Ayer, Mass., at 63 ·:· J udith McCarthy Truax '64, March 24, 2 00 1 , 111 Chatham, Mass., at 5 8 : Gary W. Elliott '68, April 3, 2 00 1 , i n Hamilton, Ohio, a t 5 5 . ·· leave. However, their twins, Kate and Geoff, and four (soon to be five) grandch ildren are a l l back in western Massachusetts, so they w i l l probablv head back up that way. Ted's worst memory of Colby was swea t i n g out comprehensives, a n d t h e best memory is of snowy w inter evenings. Ted's phi losophy: life is great and way too short-have plenty of good laughs and enjoy it a l l . H is hobby rem a i n s the sa me-st i l l bu i ld i ng model R R s . . . . Terry Saunders Lane writes that she has recently changed jobs and is now the di rec tor of pol icy, research and eva lua tion at The Boston Foundation. Congratulations, Terry! . . . Robert Sears sends greetings from J\ I a n i la, Phi I ippines, where he is the executive d i rector of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Ph i i ippi nes, Inc. He reports that he plays lousy go! f on some of the world's best courses-but it's great fun . . . . Janice Holt Arsan w rites that she and Noyan have moved to Istanbul, Tu rkey, where Noyan is work ing at Koc Uni,·ersiry reach ing fi n a nce and accou nti ng. Janice continues to work for Georgia Stare Un i,'ersir�· (Atlanta) but from her home office in Tu rkey and on ly on a ha! f-ti me basis.Jan ice is charged with laying the groundwork for an i nternationa I fund-ra ising program a n d depends on e - m a i l a n d the I nternet to do much of her work. Jan ice loves worki ng part time and the chal lenge of developing a new program. Ir has been a pretty smooth transition to Turkey for the Arsans as Jan ice had spent a total of eight years in Tu rkey back in the '60s and '70s. Their daughter is starting a master's program in teaching Engl ish as a second language and plans to retu rn to Tu rkey once she completes her degree . . . . Susan R umsey Strong i s the i nterim pro,·ost at Alfred niversity this year. She is a lso vice president for enroll ment management at the university. Hus band Pau l '6-+ conti nues as Kruson Disti nguished Professor of English Literature and d irector of the uni versity honors program at A l fred. T h e i r son, ..\ l i ke , i s work i n g i n J\ l a nhattan for Sothebys.com. Their daughter, who completed her Ph.D. in Engl ish literarure ar l\'C-Chapel H i l l last rear, married Oa,·id Yan Hook at their summer cottage on the coast of ..\ Ia ine in June 1 999, and they now l i,·e i n ..\ laine with their golden retriever puppy. David runs the \Vine Spectator \Yeb site. Pau l and Susan enjoy trave l i ng to Italy, France and other locales together, someti mes enticing thei r c h i ld ren to go along. -Nat11lie Bowen11rm Zrn'e111 b11 67 On a cold Saturday in January the 35th reunion pla n n i n g committee held its first meet i ng in Bosto n . Class president Phyl lis Jalbert was joined by Lee Potter, Lou McGinity Richardson, Patty W h ittemore J e n k i n s , B i l l Va nderwe i l , Bob Gracia a n d J udy Gerrie Heine. That's a committee sure to get thi ngs rol li ng' Mark your calendar for the fi�t weekend inJ une 2002 so thar you can be part of the events . . . . Nic k Hadgis e - mailed that he is dean ofthe School of Hospitality J\Ianagemenr at \ \Tidener University ( Robert ]. Bruce '59 is president') Last yea r Nick's i nternational consulting took him to U k ra i ne on a SA I D project to help the U k rai nians develop a strategic plan for the development of thei r tourism i ndustry. He enjoyed giving guest I ecru res at a few of thei r un iversities as well as conducti ng workshops for i ndustry and publ ic sector leaders. On news closer to home, his son Demetrios graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and is work ing for Bloomberg i n N .Y. C. His daughter, Ch rissie, w i l I graduate m agna cum laude from niversiry, and his son American ,\ l ichael is a sophomore at Fra n k l i n a n d ,\ l a rs h a l l . H i s w i fe , A n n a , cont in ues a s head of the lower school at the Shipley School in Bryn i\ Iawr. N'ick says anyalumni passing th rough the Phi ladelphia a rea are welcome to stop for a visit. . . . Painti ngs by Ann Christensen were exhibited in Oaks Bluffs on ,\ l a rtha's Vi neyard, ,\ lass., last sum mer. She became a graph ic designer after graduation a nd later studied at H ar\'ard and the Boston ,\ Iuseum school, and in 1991 she was the w i n ner of the Faber Bi rren Nation a l Color Award for expressive use of color. An article about the show sars that her work has brought her to the forefront of the a rt community and is collected worldwide . . . . Chop Hardenbergh is sti ll in Yarmouth, ..\ l ai ne, publish ing h i s twice-month l y newsletter on operat i n g ra i l roads, "At l a n t ic Xortheast R a i l s and Ports." The Cnita rian Cni,·ersal ist Church there prm·ides a commun ity for his fam i ly (his wife a nd k ids Ch loe, 8, a nd C , y c0LBy . s u M M E R 200 I I 45 A l u m n i at La rge J 1 960s- l 970s 1 2). Chop shared a b i t of h i s n e w l i fe phi losophy: " H itting 56 ga"e me the i mpetus to t h i n k about death. Xo,,· I use my new socks right away i nstead of waiting for the old one to wear out ! " . . . Irv Faunce and his ,,·ife,Jan, a re busy raising Kathy, 1 3, Gordon, 1 2 , and Sasha. JO, "the three k ids we brought i nto our l i \'es in 1 997." I r" is a d m i n i straror of the Kennebun k ;'\ u r i n g a n d Rehab Center, where he ays deli,·e r i n g health care to the elderly i an ad,·enture e\·ery da)'· I n addition, :\ l a i ne go,·ernor Angus K i n g appoi n ted I n· t0 the State Board of Em·ironmental Protection l a st s u m mer (ch a i r of the board i s John Tewhey '65 ) . Jan is sti l l a teacher at Biddeford H igh School a nd acti\'e with the Ken nebun kport Conser\'ation Commission and the Growth Plan n i ng Board. I rv says, "Xo retirement in sight! How about a Colby Rock for the person who has started o,·er the most: ee you at the 35th i n 2002. Didn't t h i n k I would be i nterested i n the chi ldren's program at the reu n ion , but I a m 1 " \\'e l l , I n·, '' e're sti l l expecting you t o be our d i n ner :\ lC and to orga n i ze that traditional oftball game . . . . " Be i ng a grandparent is awesom e ! " Sally Ray Ben nett tel l s us. Sal ly's son .\ lat the'' and h i s '' ife, Sandy, presented SJll) and Charlie with their firsr grandch i l d , a girl n amed Abiga i l . W h i le a l l ) continue i n her posi r ion 1 11 school gu idance at South K i ngstO\\ n , R . T ., Charlie has been de,elopi n g h i s c u l i n a r y sk i l l s a s he mo, es i nto h i s second year of reti rement . S i nce C h a r l i e e njoys '' ooth\ ork i n g i n addition to cooking, he m ight ha,·e rime to create some l[erm for bab) \higa i l . Sall) 's other '>On, \ l 1chael, recent!) mcl\ ed from R hode 1.,I and to \'irginia, '' here he teache., 111 rhe '>ame <,chool '' here hi., brother \\ Orh. La'>t Jul) Sal ly\ daughter, K n '> l l , <l lld her hu<,band, '\; e r l , ' 1.,l[ed fa rn r l ) 111 R hode I sland " h r le the) \\ ere on \ acanon from thc1 r po.,mon., at the Bnn.,h '>Choo! 1n \then'> . . . . Rhode 1.,Iand seems to bL a theme 111 m) l i fe . Recent!) a' Carol and I '• ere '' a l k mg do'' " \ \ 1dcndon 'It rcct 111 PrO\ 1dencc I hLJ rd 111) ru rnc ca l ied. I tu rned to 'Ct thL radiant ,mrle of Rut h incon cagu II a ,he '' J\ ed .lt U'> " hr le .,he " .11t nl for .1 tn >lle) . Ruth ha, been I I \ 1ng .llld \\ ork 1 11g i n Prm 1dcnn: ti>r 'omc time and ":em ., to Im e rhe . '"col lege . . u rno , p here 'o prc.,ent 1 11 t h H p a r t o f t h e C i t ) . C a ro l and I " ere i n Prm idcncL' look ing 46 B · s /MER for furniture for our recently pur chased sum mer/soon-to-be-reti re ment house i n Charlestown, near the R hode Island south shore beaches. fa·en this e\·ent had a Colby twist as we d iscO\·ered that our realtor i s a K D R , Ray .\ Iott '69. . . . Do you (or )·our techie offspring) have some time on your hands' \\'e'd l i ke the Class of 196 to enter the digital age and have its o,,.n \ \'eb site on the Colbr page. Let us k now i f you can lend a h a nd. -Robe11 Gmcin n11d]mfr Ge1Tie Heine L i fe In c o m e G i ft P la n s I nvest You r M oney i n C o l by and Watch It G row 68 l'fo e-mail from a ny ofyou; just a couple ofnews items forwarded from the Alumni Office. Ken Young has been named Lewiston's downtown development manager. In addition to O\'erse e i n g i m plementation of the downtown master plan, he w i l l a lso m anage a n d direct downtown de,·elopment, encourage new busi ness i nvestment, ma rket a nd promote the downtown a nd provide s t a ff support to the 1 5 member Downtown Ad,•isory Board . . . . Ken Davis has been h i red by Ocean National Bank as lendi ng and business development officer based in Portsmouth, N . H . He has more than 20 years of experience i n the commercial banking i ndustry t h roughout southern i\ I a i ne and J\'ew Hampsh i re . Congratu lations to both Kens . . . . Classmates, please send news1 -Nancy Dodge 81yr111 69 G reet i n g to a l l classm ates. :-\o, this is not another solicitation for the Annual Fund; l have taken on the duties of being your class correspondent. This is my first time doi ng this, so please bear with me. l ha\'e a bunch of notes from many of you . . . . Cathy Seymour Nelson di' ides her spare time between the presidency of the \ 'ermont chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America and helping with her 87-year-old mother. . . . ue Newbert Goodrich's daughter Sara was accepted to the Colb) Cla!>; of '05. I l er other daugh ter, K<1ren Lee '96, i engaged to Stuart Brigham \ \'ales '96 (I thought I '' a'> '' nung about the Class of '691). \ la rge Colh) '' edd ing i> plan ned for 'leptemhcr. . . . Scb \ l amo ·�o a nd R id Lc\1 "' '6 a rc looking to get i n touch '' 1 t h member'> o f the '' i n n i n g C o l h) track team for a po'>'>lhlc reun ion thi., '>pnng. \n) '69cr'> on r h at team oughr to contact R ick at r.,] )()@aol.com. ! "hat lllU'>t mean ) OU , Tom \ l a� n a rd ' . . . C h ri I f you are age 65 70 75 80 85 and you g i ve ( for a g i ft annu ity ) 2 5 ,000 2 5 ,000 2 5 ,000 2 5 ,000 2 5 ,000 your charitable deduction would be and your annual i ncome would be 8 , 3 66.00 $9, 362.50 1 0, 394.00 1 1 ,503.75 1 2 , 5 1 9.00 1 ,6 7 5 .00 1 ,800.00 $ 1 ,97 5 .00 2 , 2 2 5 .00 $ 2 , 600.00 When you invest in Colby through a life income plan, your money helps u provide cholarships to deserving tudent , u tain gifted faculty and build our endowment. At the ame time you may be able to reduce your e tate taxe , le en or eliminate capital gains l iabi lity and increase current income. To fi nd o ut how easy i t is to set up a l i fe i ncome arrangeme nt, contact: Steve G reaves, D i rector of P lan ned G iv i ng C o l by C o l lege Waterv i l l e, M a i ne 04901 p h o n e 207-872-3210 o r fax 207-872-3073 C hristensen is now spl itting h i s time between serving as a selectman in M e r r i m a c k a n d serv i n g as a representative in the New Hampsh i re l e g i s l a t u re . T h i s past year Dave enjoyed extensive travel. Sounds l i ke reti rement to me . . . . Bill Lyons has been appoi nted The R ichard H . Larson Professor of Tax Law at the University of Nebraska and this spri ng was a visiting tax professor at the Vermont Law School. But Bill is not the only tax lawyer i n our class. Rob Rudnick is a busy and successful tax atto rney in the Was h i ngton, D.C., area . . . . Phil Johnson and his wife, Brenda, are in the Ch icago area, where Phi I is a pastor for two Seventh-day Adventist churches in the western subu rbs a n d Brenda works as a chapl a i n for Hospice. . . . James Barys is the master teacher at The Academy of M athematics and Sciences, where 86 exception a l ly talented high school students attend. The a c a d e m y is a col l a b o r a t i v e effort o ft h e Commonwealth of M a s sachusetts, \iVorcester Polytechnic Institute and the school systems of the state . . . . Donna Massy is a l ive and wel l a long with her three k ids and the new pup, Simon . . . . Ted Williams continues his successful writingca reer in fish and wildlife mat ters . . . . Lee Woodman was former executive producer of Smithsonian Entert a i nment. During her 1 6 years she produced a n d d i rected m a n y award-wi n n i ng exh ibitions, films and television specia Is. Lee a lso consu ltecl f o r The Patriot, the M e l G i bson movie set duri ng the Revolutionary War. The John F. Kennedy Center recognized the former teacher as a M a s ter A r t i s t Te a c h e r i n t h e Visual a n d Perform ing Arts . . . . My Casablanca Restaurant in H a rvard Square has been the meeting place to many of my Colby classmates and friends. Recentl y I enjoyed v isits w i t h D ebbie ( \iVi l l i a m s ' 70) a n d Steve Anderso n , Moses Silver man, Robert Hark and Douglas Kant . . . . Please keep your news comi ng, and you are always welcome to v isit me at the Casablanca. -Sari Alml-J11bei11 71 S o m ehow I s e e m to h a ve missed the last couple of deadl ines for this column. I have enjoyed hea r i ng from everyone, and I apologize for missing my com m i tment. I a m still teaching seventh grade math in public school and teach ing business part time at Roger 'Vil Iiams University. Plus I 'm sti ll doing the volunteer work for the homeless and getting ready for m y 1 0th I ro n m a n t h i s sum mer. . . . Rob \iVi lson wrote a long time ago that he was getting married to Marion Abrams, an art teacher in Am herst, Mass. His stepdaughter w i l l be look ing at Colby this year. . . . Susanna Hofm a n n McShea was written up i n the Ridgefield Press on the publ ication by St. M artin's Press of her new mystery novel featuring R idgefield persona I ities . . . . Charles Colgan was quoted recently in the Morning Sentinel as he offered his v i ews on the s t r i k e at the Bath I ron 'i\Torks . . . . One of Margaret Shehan McLean's co-workers wrote an article in the Ha111ilton- We11hr1111 Chro11icle about her recovery from her recent stroke . . . . I also got a news clip on Paul Spiess's candidacy for M assachusetts state representative from Am herst. . . . Fred Osborn has returned to the Episcopal Church Foundation a fter two years with the Nature Conservancy of New York. H is first granddaughter, Lila, was born to his oldest son, Hank (the juggler), daughter Ellie was married i n '99, his youngest son, Graham, is finishing at Vanderbilt University, and his wife, Ann, just fi n ished a master's in forestry at Ya le . . . . Mike Smith writes of DKE actions to get rooms at the old D K E house for the reu n ion. H is daughter Chelsea is sta r t i n g at t h e U n iversity of South Carolina. His older daughter, Daniel le, is a sen iorat Syracuse. M ike ran into Dickie '70 and Cath Delano Moss i n South Carol ina . . . . Ted Weissman, presiclentofBeta Corpora tion, a small biotech recruiting firm, recently visited Sue Lieberman i n southern California. She is the sole proprietor of Paris 1 900 in Santa Monica's unique Main Street section and sells Victorian dresses and other fine period items . . . . I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion ' -James Hawkins 72 For this column i was forrnnate to receive e-ma i ls from several of you and also some news articles from the Col lege . . . . Twirl i ng to the Latin beat, Susan and John Koons were photographed during dance lessons i n Fairfield, i\ Ia i ne . . . . Photographed and featured in the Quincy, ,\ Jass., Patriot Ledge1; Bruce Haas detai led the work of b a n k lenders. As a corporate lender h i ms e l f, B ruce explained the personal, technical and marketing sk i l l s used i n his a rea of work . . . . Cathie Joslyn was i ncluded i n an article about Clarion University's faculty a rt exhibit i n Clarion, Pa. I n addition, I 've learned that Cath i e has been awa rded a Fulbright scholarship to teach and study mounta i n tex t i les i n Peru during spring semester 2002. \i\Tow1 And over the Ch ristmas holidays she v isited Colby sculpture professor Ha rriett Matthews, who was on sab batica l in Athens, Greece. . . . Donna Power is getting married as I type this i n March' After today, she is Donna Power Stowe. Congratula tions, Donna. She continues as VP of research and design for Earth Force, which is a national env i ronmental and c i v i c e d u c a t i on a l nonp ro fi t headquartered i n Alexandria, Va . She reports a "fabulous experience this past September as a fellow at the Salzburg I nstitute i n Salzburg, Au s t r i a , a t te n d i n g a week- l o n g i n t e rn a t i o n a l sem i n a r on youth and civic participation." She regu l a r l y sees Debbie C h ristensen Stewart . . . . Sti l l teach ing skiing at Vai l , Colo. J im Colburn says he has "added the third 'M' to my l i fe (The three M 's are Marriage, Mortgage and Management)-stressfu l, but I enjoy the responsibi lities of manage ment (including profitabi l ity)." H e added a favorite memory: "the Valone brothers as homecomi ng 'queens,' a humorous, w i ld, upside clown kind of thing to do." . . . Kathy McGirr visited Egypt for two weeks over C h r i s t m a s to celebrate t u rn i n g 5 0 and says, "\tVhat remains after 3,500-5,000 years is nothing short of astonishi ng." She writes that she has "made the fi rst steps to re-organ izing my life for the future. \i\Th i le sti l l i n a responsible position a t Fidelity I nvestments, I have moved to a VS schedule starting April 1. My hope is to use my Mondays off to garden, play ten nis, do various charitable acti' ities I am i nvolved i n , take time to 'smell the roses."' Kathy has had contact with Linda Wackwitz (lawyering in Denver) and Jennifer Dean (now Kurtz), who is living outsi de I n d i a napol is. Kathy says Jamie Aronow is sti l l in N.Y.C. work ing for a radio-advertising fi rm, Steve Sullivan is at Raytheon i n govern ment property accounti ng, and Judy Berringer runs a travel agency in N.Y.C. . . . I had the good fortune of speaking on the phone to a few of you. Judy Ioreland Spitz coached me t h rough the col lege 1970s Correspondents 1970 Brenda Hess Jordan 141 Ta nglewood Drive G l e n E l ly n , IL 60137 630-858-1 5 1 4 classnews1970@a l u m .colby.edu 1971 N a ncy Neckes D u m a rt 19 Deergrass Road Shrewsbu ry, MA 01545 508-842-1083 classnews1971@a l u m .colby.edu 1972 Ja net H o l m Gerber 409 Read ing Avenue Rockvi l l e , M D 20850 301-424-9160 classnews1972@a l u m .colby.edu 1973 Jackie N ienaber Appeldorn Mohonk Mounta i n H o u se New Paltz, NY 1 2 5 6 1 914-255-4875 classnews1973@a lum.colby.edu 1974 Robin Sweeney Peabody 46 Elk Lane Littleton , CO 80127 303-9 78-1129 fax: 303-904-0941 classnews197 4@alum .colby.edu 1975 Bruce You ng 20 Applewood Aven ue Bi llerica, MA 01821 978-443-64 17 classnews 1975@a l u m .colby.edu 1976 Jane Souza Dingm a n 8 0 5 River Road Leeds, M a i n e 04263 207-524-5701 classnews1976@a lum.colby.edu 1977 E l len D. O ' Brien 205 Fernwood Ave nue Dave n port, IA 52803-3606 319-359-4665 classnews1977@a l u m .colby.edu 1978 Robert S . Woodb u ry 484 Bridge Street H a m i lton, MA 01982 9 7 8-468-3805 fax: 6 1 7-951-9919 classnews1978@alum .colby.edu 1979 Cheri Bai ley Powers 6027 Scout Drive Colorado Spri ngs , CO 80918 7 19-532-9285 classnews1979@a l u m .colby.edu c0 L 8 y . s u M M E R 200 I I 47 \ A l u m n i at La rge 1 9 70s adm issions process, as I a m new to this with my fi rst h igh school senior parenti n g project. She has been t h rough it twice \\"ith her two oldest boys. She also shared stories of teaching fi rst grade in a religious p r i \·ate school n e a r her home in \ \'aterford, Conn . . . . Sandy 1'1anoo gian Pearce i s head of the Engl ish department at :\ lorehead Uni\·ersity in Fargo, � . D . . . . John Cresson l i \·es in Rorersford, Pa., happi l y married f o r 1 2 years t o \\·i fe Cheryl. They a re both eagerly learning to sail, taking lessons along the :\ la ryland coast and a n x ious for another :\ [ ai ne \·acation . . . . Ed Morin and Barbara \Ne l d o n - M o r i n l i ve i n B r i s t o l , ,\ l a i ne, where they have been since 1 987. Ed does l arge construction projects at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and Barbara i s a consultant to fi nancial i nstitutions managing l a rge enterprise-level projects . . . . From your several e-mails . . . Joyce Bemak H a nes writes: "i\ Iy big news i s that after 2 0 years in a l ittle house, Lee and I have moved to a la rger house in Old Lyme, Conn., mostly to have a bea uti fu I showcase for our collection of antiques. \Ve continue to e x h ibit in 2 0 antiques shows national ly, and I am also doing some freelance writing. I see Sally Chester Wil- l iford at some of the shows i n the Balti more/Pen nsylvania area, and we 'do lunch' whenever we get the cha nee and I can escape from my booth. Turning 50 was a bit traumatic, but a year of celebrations-including a weekend in ew York with Kath Foley certai n ly helped." . . . And from C a rolyn Dewey came t h i s e-ma i l : "After l i ving i n orwich, Vt., for the past 1 2 years I a m sel l i ng my home. Great place if anyone i s i nterested. I w i l l continue t o study cran iosacral therapy until June of 2002 . However, I a m not sure where the winds of change a re going to set me down at this point." . . . May the - winds of change and the pa�sage of time be good to a l l of you. Keep the messages com i ng. -]flnet /-10/111 Gerber 73 Greetings to a l l of you as we collectively approach that milestone bi rthday. I k now some of you (mysel f i ncluded) w i l l seek out Colby friends to help celebrate (comm iserate') the i m mi nent a rriva l of those i nvites from A A R P. I 'd also love to pass along words of wisdom from any of you about this major l i fe transition. E-mail me at [email protected]. . . . Tow some updates from several classmates who have e-mai led news. Jonathan 2 When the prod ucer of a Discovery Channel doc exact moment he fel l in love with hockey at a Colby game. Melpignano says umentary, a feature film or a television commercial he was sta nding behind the goal when Ben Bradlee '70 skated down the right wants specific footage, he can turn to David Melpig side and drove a slap shot into the goal's upper left corner. "I was hooked nano '72 and his Boston-based company Stock Video. From acrobats to for life," Melpignano said. He now makes hockey highlight films for local high Zorro, cityscapes to wildlife, sports action to time-lapse sequences, Stock schools ( " It gets me into a lot of games , " he said) and incl udes a special deal Video owns 10,000 archival newsreels, educational and industrial shorts, on his Stock Video Web site for anyone who calls and says, "Go Red Sox . " travelogues, documentaries and feature films. Add to that nearly 12,000 hours of film and video news footage dating back to the early 1970s and there's a good chance Melp1gnano can find what you need-within reason. "We have a list of the most bizarre requests that come i n , " said Mel p1gnano, who founded Stock Video in 1985. "Some a re funny. People During the past 2 5 years Melpignano has seen the industry change most d ramatically in the technology it uses. "Today the same effects that it took me four days, a roomful of equipment and $30,000 to produce can be accomplished inside a porta ble d igital camera costing $900 , " he sa id. But h igh-tech equ ipment will only get you so far. "The technology JUSt don't think a bout them . " They include requests for women picking changed , but the sa me skills that worked in the past will work just as well spaghetti from trees 1n Italy or a point-of-view shot from a small plane flying now," he sai d . " If you can be creative, if you write well and if you enjoy over an Iowa field at night. All of his business 1s Internet driven, he said, with 10 to 12 requests for footage coming in every hour. The company 1s able to fill approximately 70 percent of those, although some are 1mposs1ble. tel l i ng stories with images and sounds, you can be successful in the fi l m a n d video busi ness. " Melpignano's introduction to film and video prod uction came from his father, who shot home movies of birthdays, anniversaries and the like. "Somehow it seeped into my bloodstream , " said Mel pignano. "He Melp1gnano doesn't JUSt d uplicate footage for others, though. He's also pres1den a nd executive producer of Stock exposed me to some of the mechanical aspects of shooting and splicing fil m . " Last Christmas Melpignano gave his Video's parent company, Greystone Produc mother a fil m he edited from his late ers Corp., which produces commercials, father's unused footage. corporate and public relations films. docu mentaries and more. When choosing what stones to tell in doc umentaries. Melp1gnano says that sometimes 1 comes down o economics. "When we did gambl ng 1 was coming u p for a vote 1n Massachuse s and we fel we could sell prior o he elec ion , " he said MeJp1gnano has ,us started a documentary on Bos on's 1n he new earn men's oo ball enthus1as who remembers he COLB" · SU .1 l [ R 2 time, wants to devote some creativity to his own feature film work. " Earl ier I was much too busy trying to pay the bills with contract film work to be a ble to put the energies and finances together to do a fiction feature fil m , " he sa id. " Now that much of our business revolves around l icensing stock footage I have more time to devote to some of my own projects. " league. a natural or a sports 48 Now Mel pignano, who writes short stories a nd nonfiction in his spare -Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97 01 M�la'¥1�@@¥11 Mil ler began h i s message w i t h t h i s i ntrigu i n g open i ng: " I n 1 9 7 3 1 moved to Cam bridge, M ass., and thence to author of Fly Rod Crosby: The Woman between M assachusetts a n d Europe Who Marketed Maine (Ti l bury House, for severa I years, studyi ng meditation Gardiner, M ai ne), the story of Cornelia a n d coffee h o u s e s a n d a r t . " H i s Thurza C rosby ( 1 8 5 4- 1 946), wh ose message goes o n to describe lots of n e wspa p e r c o l u m n c h ro n i c l e d h e r h appen i n gs si nce gradu a t i o n . He hunting and fishing exploits i n Maine's s t u d i e d phys ics a t the U n i versity wilderness for nearly 3 0 years. Issued the o f \!\Ta s h i n g to n ; t h e n be c a m e a fi rst Maine Guide l icense in 1 89 7 , she computer progra m mer in Colorado, a also toured the s k i i n structor, a pilot, then a husband Denver. H e worked with a Boulder ortheast promoting M a ine a t various sportsmen's e x p os i and, i n 1 989, a father to Jonah, now his law degree a t the Un iversity of news clipping when '67 should have Earle G. Shettleworth J r. '70 is co Switzerl a n d a n d I t a ly, a lternat i n g in the s i x t h grade. In 1 994 he ea rned crew apologizes for send i n g me the Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. '70 tions ·:· Vaccines are val uable i n prevent ing disease before antibiotics are needed, said Frank ]. Malinoski '76, assistant vice president, clinica l affairs, gotten the cred i t . . . . I had lunch with Linda K ro h n Ki ldow, a nd she tells me she is in e-m a i l com m u n i c a t i o n w i t h a group of o u r classmates . . . . Send me a n update or two, guys' Happy s u m mer! -Robin Sweeney Penbody J5 After I wrote about Deborah Marson's longevity with G i l lette a couple of issues back, Kevin Manion w rote in to chal lenge Deb's record. He just celebrated h is 2 3 rd a n n iversary with Presray Corp,, a manufacturer ofengi neered rubber products. Kev in law fi rm for six years and then last vaccines, at Wyeth-Lederle Vaccin e s in Radnor, P a . Interviewed i n is di rector of western sales and has November hung out his own s h i ngle Product Management Today, Malinoski said today's vaccines are a key been l iving in C a l i fornia si nce 1 980. in Boulder, where he practices i ntel weapon i n the fight a ga i n s t i n fectious d isease. On the personal front, Kev i n got lectual property a n d computer law ma rried last year and bought a home mM!hhMb¥11 and business investment as well as business, cri m i n a I and tort I itigation. i n suburbia. The ma rriage not only brought Carrie i nto h is l i fe but a l so H e w rites, " We l ive i n a l ittle house in Deaths: Francis S. Merritt H '7 1 , December 2 7 , 2000, i n Belfast, the trees on a h i II with lots of a n i m a l s M a i ne, at 83 i ndoors a n d outside. \Ve s a i l , s k i , Was h i ngton, D . C. , a t 48. r i d e , read, view and l i sten ." . . . Robin Barnes e-mai led a generous i nvita R ick G a w t h rop a n d Roger Sherman w o u l d l i k e Reginald G. B laxton '74, M a rch 1 1 , 2 00 1 , i n -Jackie Nieunber Appeldorn 74 7, a n d Jeffrey, 5. Kevin says t h a t he enjoys playing M r. Mom each day w h i le Carrie works in Los Angeles, but he you tackle these i m portant issues. tion to our ent i re class. H e w rites, " Robi n Ba rn e s , : ·· Carrie's two sons, D a n i e l , Con n . , serving as V P and r u n n i n g a wonders what some of h i s classmates JO-branch reta i l banking div ision i n m ight m a ke of h is transformation. Hudson, M a ss. Daughter Carrie i s Kevin occasiona lly hears from Terry I a j u n ior at Sewanee in Ten nessee, Reil ly, who teaches at the Un iversity t o a n nounce t h a t t h e M a y flower received a newspaper article about and daughter Li ndsey is a freshman of A l aska in Fa i rbanks. He says t h at Metaphysical Society has extended Michael Roy, O a k l a n d , M a i n e 's at Pomona Col lege i n C a l i f o rn i a . Terry and h i s fam i l y have adapted m e m b e r s h i p re t ro a c t i v e l y to t h e town m a nager, who received The Their horses, clogs, cats, gol d fish quite well to life in Alaska a fter moving ent i re Cl ass o f ' 7 3 , i nclud i n g even M a i ne Town a nd City Ma nagement a n d rabbit a l l stayed home a n d t h e re from Flori d a ' . . . Another C h a r l i e H o ga n . vVe l c o m e , new Association's 2000 Leaclersh ip Awa rd. seem prepared t o l ive forever' . . . I classm ate who is still i nvolved in members' \Vh i le the M M S req u i res M i ke has been one of the driving received a n ice note from forces beh ind the region a l business Cheryl Booker Gorman. I n response to academia is Ted Snyder, who is i n his no clues, we do expect strict ad herence to the ru Jes, which a re self-evident. p a rk to be bu i l t i n O a k l a nd . He m y C h r i s t m a s letter ment ion i n g Virgin ia's Darden School, a business Wel l , we might have to expl a i n them s t i l l plays ice hockey, and both h i s o u r son's freestyle s k i i n g activities, school located i n Cha rlottesvi l le. He Greetings from Colorado' t h i rd yea r as clean of the University of to Hogan." Anyone else who needs teammates and work associates say Cheryl ind icated that she and her is a lso kept fa i rly busy with his fa m i ly, a n expl a n a t ion can reach Robi n at it is his spirit of teamwork that h a s fa m i ly have never sk ied out west and w i fe Kim and kids Al ison , Jeff and [email protected] . . . . Gary Lawless w rites that during the l a st m a d e h i m successfu l . . . . G a i l Chase is a lso in M a i ne and h a s been hope to come our way next year. I Kev i n . Teel proudly reports that he w i l l be e-m a i l i ng recom mendations, is president of basketba l l operations year he h a s given poetry readings at serv i ng as M a i ne state auditor. G a i l i s a former legislator a nd certi fied Cheryl ' . . . MaryAn n Sartucci Andrews e-ma i l s that she is fi n is h i n g for A l i son's s i x t h grade basketba l l festivals in Ita ly, Latvia and L i thu ania. H is latest book, i ntern a l auditor. She l ives in Unity, up her master's degree i n education assistant coach.)Jeffis t a k i n g a fter h i s Cnribudismo, tea m . (The fancy t i t l e translates to was published in Naples, T ta ly, i n M a i ne . . . . Steve Kelsey w i l l begin w ith a specialty i n human resource father and is developing i nto q u i t e a 2000. Congrats, G a ry. . . . And the a new job i n Ju ly, travel i n g all over d e v e l o p m e n t at C o l o r a d o S t a t e run ner. Kevin is also t a k i n g after h is press i ncluded i n formation about Tew England as coord i nator of a Un iversity. S h e says work i n g fu l l father, but in h i s case he is struggl i n g Margaret McPartland Bean, who project for the Episcopal Province t i m e a n d studying f o r a m a s ter's t o p l a y gol f a s w e l I (?) as Ted . . . . Mary now holds the i mpressive position of of New England cal led " H a rvesters degree has been tough. She won't be \i\Thiting has been named an associate deputy d i rector of t h e Maine State Partnership." T h i s is a col laboration darken i ng t he doors ofa h igher learn to the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Housing Authority. Appoi nted last of all seven Episcopal dioceses of i ng i nstitu t ion aga i n soon ' fa l l , M a rgaret h a s held a number of the six positions i n the M a i n e State Housing A u t h o r i t y si nce s h e s t a r te d w i t h t h e agency i n 1 994, a ncl s h e a lso worked f o r the state of M a i ne as an educa tion coord i n ator f o r the b l i n d and visua l ly i mp a i red. I n her newest position, J\l[ a rgaret w i l l focus her energies on such housi ng issues as homelessness, s e n i or hou s i n g a n d downtow n rev i t a l i zation. Kudos to you, Ma rgaret, a n d best of luck as Ann Fou ndation board of t r ustees for Bicknell Christensen declares, "A l l t h i s year. Si nce the foundation was seminaries and the national church is delightful here i n Florida." A n n establ ished in offi ces t h a t w i l l be d e v e l op i n g a l so wrote t o correct a n error i n Dr. Herbert Dow, founder of the ew Engl a nd states, t h ree . . . i n wh ich s h e received 1936 i n memory of Dow Chemical Co., it has donated resources a nd new models of m i n is the last try. Steve w i l l continue to l ive in plaudits for an exh ibition of her art. " I more than only wish that the newspaper clipping orga n i zations and programs, i nclud Durham, Con n., at least until h i s daughter fi n i shes h igh school. H is w i fe continues to work for t he Yale C h i l d Study Center as a c l i n i c a l social worker. . . . Jeff Barske sent me a brief, albeit amusi ng, e - m a i l saying he is s t i l l i n Thompson, Colby 287 m i l l ion to various about 'my' a rt accompl ishments were ing ge n e ro u s s u p p o r t for h i g h e r true1 I have the a rtistic talents of a education. As an associate, M a ry w i l l gnat." The "real" A n n Ch ristensen b e i nvolved i n board d i scussions and is Class of '67 and a J\l lassachusetts the program selection process. M a ry a rtist whose paintings are shown a nd s t i l l l ives i n collected worldwide. The magazine rently serves as t h e c h a i r of t h e c0 L B y . s 1 a i ne a n d a l so c u r uMMER 2 00 I I 49 I Alumni at La rge 1 9 70s- 1 980s b o a r d of trustees for her c h i l d ren's her 2 5 t h year in P h i ladelp h i a . A big school . . . . B i l l W h idden o n ly booster of her adopted hometown, h a d t i me to drop a q uick note from she wou ld love to give a ny fel low the P a c i fi c l\"onhwest, as he a n d Colby fol k s a tour. J u l i e works as the DAVI D REA ' 7 1 H i s j o b English teacher a n d department chair at Laconia ( N . H . ) H igh Schoo l . h i s fa m i l r ("· i fe Heather, daughter "telephone goddess" at First Consu Ir Cou rmer, , and son I a n , -+) were i n g G r o u p , a d ,· i s i n g c o m p a n i e s b u s y s p e n d i n g t i m e t r a ve l i n g i n on t h e telephone e q u i p m e n t a n d Baja, .\ lex ico, a n d play i n g a lot of sen-ices they need a n d helpi ng them ten n i s . . . . Pam Bradley B urton has i mplement t h e i r use. !\"ext household One way he d i sti nguishes h i mself i n been appoi n ted senior vice president project i s to c o n s t r u c t a m o s a i c t h e c l a ssroom By teach ing students the of m a rketing for the Protege Group o u t o f b ro k e n t i l e s a I I o v e r t h e Charleston to i n terest them i n The Great in London . She w i l l be responsible back garden wa l l s w i t h t h e help o f Gatsby. for de,·elopi ng strategies and services h e r partner. . . . R e a d i n t h e local for P rotege's client in Eu rope and the U.S. Prior to t h i s position, Pam ,,.a ( Portland, .\ I a i ne) press about Kevin Carley. .\ lore than 2 1 /2 years ago What he shows stude nts stu dying The president of Global Buzz .\ I a rketing, Kevin left i nvestment m a nagement What h e w o n The Colby Col lege Out sta n d i ng Ed ucator Award for exce ptional d i sti nction i n the classroom. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A photo of h i mself boating down Messalonskee Stream on a handmade raft, part of a Colby sophomore year project. a n i n ternational services company firm R . .\ l . Davis for a sabbatical i n t h a t supported technology companies B e l i ze with h i s fam i ly a n d stints with global l�·· . . . Special congratulations a re in order for B i l l a nd Cat hy nesia and P a l a u . H e was recently What h i s principal has to say " David Rea is one of the finest faculty McGerigle Taylor, who celebrated n a m ed exec u t i ve d i recto r of the members that I have had the pleasure to work with , " sa id J o n t h e i r 2 5 t h wedd i n g a n n i\'ersary i n .\ l a i n e \\'aten· i l le late l a s t year. Cathy and recently a ffi l iated w i t h t h e national the ;\"arure Conservancy i n 1' 1 icro u d u b o n S o c i e t y, w h i c h M e mber of The ba nd " Twisted Teachers , " which has performed at school talent shows. Freema n . " H e is a n i nspiration t o his peers a n d students because of his u nselfish service and enth usiastic teac h i n g . " B i l l were m a r r i e d in the .\ l i l l e t Audubon. Between t h e ]v l a i ne soci- A J u m n i House on campus not long ety's eight chapters and 1 7 sanctuar c h i l d ren, E l i sa , 1 1 , and Angela, 8 . after graduation, when most of us ies, Kevi n is in cha rge of-+O employees T h e y l ive i n Cornwa l l -on-H udson, i n col lege t h i s past fa l l , M ichael at were wondering why the "real world" (85 in the s u mmer), 1 0,000 members l'\.Y. Charles is a partner i n a law the wasn't what we had a n t icipated. A n d and 3,000 acres of land . . . . fi r m in New \Vi ndsor, h a n d l i n g real at San D iego State. T h i rd son, Bria n , you're one o f the lucky ones who'\'e Peter Labombarde wrote that Maureen Kel liher has joined Citizens B a n k . figured it out, write in and share your secret with you r classmates. s o m e of us are s t i l l wonderi ng. I f (tw i n s) started t he i r fre s h m a n year U of Colorado a n d Ch ristopher estate, estates a n d trusts. H e reports 1 1 , i s i n t h e s i x t h grade. J o a n ne that he is sti l l passionate about s k i i n g w ri tes, "of course we a re a l l too Peter continues t o work on h i ri n g a a nd s o i s h i s fa m i ly-they spend their you ng to rea l ly have k ids i n college, new artistic d i rector/conductor for w i nter weekends at S k i \Vindham i n righ t ) " R i ght 1 To keep her m i n d -Bruce Yo.1111g the l\"ew H a mpsh i re Symphony and t h e Catsk i l ls. They a lso love to play off her nearly e m p t y nest, s h e m a n has agreed to act as plan ned giving ten n i s , i n - l i ne skate a n d bike. H e ages h e r o w n busi ness, I n formation Heather Fin ney Eng wrote agent for our class. Kudos to Peter l a ments (is t h i s our c l a s s l a ment ? ) Tech nology P a r t ners, a h i gh-tech that she and husb a nd J a mes ha,·e a nd h i s w i fe, I rene, who w i l l cel that there just doesn't s e e m t o b e executive search firm in Forest City, ! i , e d in s u b u rb a n P i t tsbu rgh f o r ebrate t h e i r 2 0t h a n n iversary i n enough t i me for "all the demands, C a l i f. (www.itp.com). Along w i t h t h e p a s t H )·ears w i t h t h e i r two August . . . . req u i rements, meeti ngs, activities, s o n Brian s h e i s pl a n n i ng t o add a n kid , Da\ i d , 1 3 , a n d Rob i n , 1 1 . After a long a special hello to roommates hobbies and sports t h at now fi l l additional four-legged member t o spend111g the fi r t IO years of their B i l l Campbell, Wal ly Gorman and t h e calendar." He is rea l ly look i n g the fam i l y (they a l ready have two 76 D a n Dittman sends . , Heather works Lew K i ngsbury '77. Dan and his w i fe forward to our 2 5 t h c l a s s reu n ion dogs and two cats), a puppy t h a t ar the Cni, ersity of Pittsbu rgh in the a re sti l l ''ery busy in Seattle with in June 2 0 0 2 . So, all ' 7 7s, f o l low t h e y w i l l t r a i n a n d soc i a l i ze f o r G raduate School of Public I lealth, their company, Dittmann Graphic Cha rles's lead, m a rk you r calendars, t h e i r newest endeavor, G u i d e Dogs do111g medical research computing, Design and Advertising, completing get away from all those requ i rements for the B l i n d. J o a n n e wou ld love \1 ork 1 ng " ith Ji, er t ransplantation their debut and demands and come to the 2 5 t h . I t to hear what re.,ca rch and t r;n e l i ng to transplant Sticksh i ft A n n i e and the Overdrive w i l l b e great1 u p to . . . . center'> 1 11 San Francisco, the .\J ayo and playing in \'a rious festivals and tow Howell ( a l ex a n d ra . l . howel l @ cohen@ rock m a i l . sru.edu) is a n asso Cl 1 11 1c and Omaha, '-.'eh. In the last ,-enues i n \\'a s h i n gton state. ;\'°ow d a rtmout h . e d u) w rites t h a t she i s ciate professor of S p a n i sh and I t a l fe,1 \ ca r'> ,he h a ., <lone more '' ith t h a t the earthquake is over, D a n sti l l work i n g in H I V/A I D S resea rch i a n a t S l i ppery Rock University i n '>OC10-p,� cholog1cal and qualit) of i m ires e' eryone to "come o n o u t to at the VA Hospital in \ V h i te R i ver Sl ippery Rock, Pa . Last October she m a rriage i n :\.Y. D for the blues band • • • Alexandra Levin Kathleen Keegan is Deb Cohen (debora h . \ l 1 h e 1 mcr\ p a t i e n t '> Seattle for a gig." . . . After nearly four J u n c t i o n , Vt . , and teach i n g p a r t tran slated a J\1exican play, .rn d t h e i r c a re g l \ Cr'>, q u <t l i t ) of years Ii' ing and work i n g overseas in t i me at Dartmouth iV T ed ical School, and di rected it under the title 011/y l i fe for older paucnt'> \1 ho req u i re Zagreb, Croatia, for the U.S. firm where she is a n associate professor Vo11. The play was a great success, 11H:ch a n 1c.1 l \ Cn u l at 1011 , t reatment \I PR l , J ed Snyder has returned to i n the department of m icrobiology and she was able to get fu n d i n g to l i fe '> t u d 1 c '>'. for depn:"1011 , <:tc. )he reports t h at \\ 'a <,h 1 11 g ro n , D . C . _ \ s of J a n u a r y th<: 111 u,1c d<:gr<:<: 2 . 2 0 0 I, he i'> employed " ith the I'> not forgotten a '> Tu Voz, and medicine. She and her husband, bring the playwright, Felipe C a l van, Scott, a re stayi ng very busy with to campus for the world premiere i n English. In addit ion to trave l i n g , h <: h a ' t u rned t o '>1 11 g 1 n g, p n m a n l ) D ) nCorp corporation i n \ lexandria n1 0 teenage sons, Cameron , 1 7, and F n gli,h l·hor;t l mu,1c 1 11 t h e i r '> m a l l J'> a '>enior national securit) ad,·i l\"are, 1 5 , and a daughter, C a roli ne, freq uently t o Mex ico, s h e has a l so F p 1 ,copa l i a n church choi r. a nd h a , '>< >r. . . . Don't forger to <,end a long 5. They spend most of their off-work visited I ta ly and Spa i n recently a nd renu i ned i n contact \I 1th frc:.,h m a n \ ou r ne\1 ., <,o 1t can he '>hare d ' Butler I Lt l l huddK' JO) \ l u l l i a.111 . K a t h ) Je\\ e t t l a n d . J u l ie '' a l lo'' t C \1 J r t u t her .111 d \\ e n d ) '>p<:a k l llg \\'i l l i a m s - I Ii/rm• Jones a" ) er 11 Ro_i• hours reno\'ating their Lyme, N . I I . , w i l l be goi n g to A rge ntina a nd B ra z i l home a n d d ri,·ing t h e boys t o hockey t h i s s u m m e r for the first time. k e l <cfra n l.; e l <: a rt h l l ll l.. . n et) la'>t that "if anyone i'> in the a rea, please <,top b) and ' isit." . . . Joanne K a rl i n nuded rn . d '>ept<:mhcr. I k h.1 ., het:n m a rried G i u d ic c l l i (joane@itp-i nc.com) I ives report' t h a t , h <: ' l l he cddir.t u n g to Deni'>e for 1 5 ) t:Jr'> and ha'> n1 0 i n Ca l i f o rn i a . I !er t \1 0 oldest boys of J u l ie '>t<:\1 ;1 rt. ,he 50 C0L v · L -Ellen games C\ er) '' here. Alexandra write<, I heard from C h a rles Fra n 78 D. O 'Brien T fyou wrote a n d don't see your ne\\ s for an issue or two, keep the fa ith. f'll get to it. A n d keep those e-ma i l s and letters comi ng' . . . graduation in October 2000 on an hear that they rea l ly m iss the good Oppen heimer in Boston from S . G . 8 0-clegree clay. She gets a k ick out of the fact that students now get a ol' U.S.A1 Ron D e s b o i s r e ce n t l y j o i n e d C I B C Cowen's B o ston office. Ron i s a di rector-investments and w i l l assist h igh net-worth i ndividual and i nsti tutional cl ients with thei r in vest • took the break unscheduled . . . . Liz • 1980 -Robe1·t S. Woodbmy 80 1980s Correspondents Great news. I 've got a fu l l satchel for next time. " fa l l brea k" after only having been there for about four weeks and feels we were tougher' Of course, some just • Lyn n C o l l i n s Fra ncis 16 Oakridge Road Deb Clark elson l i l'es in Darien, Conn. She works part r i me ments. H e and his w i fe, Carl a , l ive Dugan has two new chapters for at General Reinsurance Corporation in \Vest Newbury w i th their t h ree a geology text titled The Earth ls while squeezing in room parent duties Sudbury, MA 0 1 7 76 [email protected] 1981 Stephanie Vrattos sons, Andrew, 1 3 , Leo, 1 1 , Jack, 9, Shri11king. I n August 2000 she was i n and trips (six r i mes a week) to the and daughter M a rgot,-+. Ron coaches 84 Crescent Street Cambodia for a regional conference local hockey rink with her t h ree boys. Auburndale, MA 02466 youth soccer, basketba I I and baseba 1 1 that included delegates from 1 2 or so She reports that Andy Huber '79 is 781-891-1348 in West Newbu ryand stays fi t by serv di fferent countries th roughout Asia. running one of their Darien Youth classnews1981@a lum.colby.edu ing as a member of the National S k i Two of the participants contracted Hockey leagues and rhar she l'isitecl Patrol at nea rby Bradford Mountain ugly a i l ments and needed medical in H a v e r h i l l . He has c o m p l e ted attention, so she wh isked them to 1982 several triathlons and t h ree Boston the SOS clinic in Phnom Penh. The Peter Forman on Cape Cod last sum mer. . . . Jane Dibden Schwab is the senior pastor M a rathons. In h i s spare t i m e he atten d i ng doctor was J i m Cousins of Covenant Chapel in \Varervi l le, 6 1 7-492-1002 classnews1982@a lum.colby.edu with Dawn and h i kes as a member of the Appa lach i a n '75, whose daughter is now a Colby M a i ne.Jane, her husband, David, and Mount a i n C l u b. . . . Nancy Piccin has fresh man. Liz called it "serendipity fam i ly recently purchased a home in a new job with a brokerage/market person i fi e d . " And L i z's a s s i s t a n t North Vassalboro. She enjoyed the research company ca l led OTA/Off a t t h e I n t e rn a t i o n a l Rep u b l i c a n inaugural festivities for " Bro" Adams T h e R e cord R e s e a rc h . S h e is a I n s t i tute i n \Va s h i ngton, D.C. , i s at Colby last fa l l .Janecan be reached ar senior technology reporter, wh ich Peter J\ 1 acken zie, w h o i s t h e son covch @mint.net . . . . Everett Briggs ancy describes as a cross between a of Colby Professor of Government has been on an educational adventure reporter and an a n a lyst. OTA/OTR Cal Mackenzie. Liz is happy, wel l , cal led the p e r fo r m s m a rketpl ace checks on "wicked" busy a n d sti 11 h a s fond mem The goal of the project is to l i n k various compani es, i ndustries and ories from Foss-\Vood man . . . . citizens, educators a n d students o f sectors, attempting to con fi rm or Winer says another Than ksgiving 50 cities in 2 2 countries along h i s refute \Va I I Street expectations by has passed so it must mean it's t i me bicycle r i d e route. Everett hopes Gary Tew M i l lennium R ide. i n terview i n g custo m e rs, di stribu for the V\Tiner fa m i l y to move aga i n . that h is journey has provided great t o r s a n d o t h e r p e o p l e who a re T h e i r k i nderga rtner told h e r teacher opportu n i t i e s for s t r e n g t h e n i n g k n owledgeable i n speci fi c a re a s . that i nvas one of the fa m i l y traditions international a n d inrercu lrur a l under They t h e n com p i le t h e i nterviews to move every year. The most recent standing between people of the U. S . i n to a 2 , 0 0 0 -worcl report t h a t is is a short move from one side of and other countries. Stories, jou rnal presented to thei r salespeople, who Denver to the other, where they a re articles and pictures taken have been then present i t to cl ients, primarily work i n g on yet another dream house loaded onto the expedition's \Veb site portfolio man agers at in stitutional that they hope w i l l be ready to move at www.new-m i l lenium-ricle.org. He investors (mutual funds, hedge funds, into by the encl of 2 00 1 1 A l l fou r has completed h is bicycle tour and etc). Taney loves two t h i ngs about k ids a re in public school i n stead of is now settling into h is Connecticut her new job. 1) She can work at home b e i n g home-schooled so t h a t h i s home . . . . but sti I I put her 4-yea r-olcl daughter, w i fe, Don na, can recover her l i fe . enjoying the gender imbalance in h is Rachel, i nto day care ( " I s a nyone G a ry is now with I B M after being home. He and his wife, J u l ie, have t a k i n g m a rk e t s h a re - Oo11 't eveu thi11k about taking that paim into the livi11g room-away from Sun in your "purchased" earlier t h is year. . . . Nick two daughters, ages 3 and cl ient base ? " ) 2) The company has David Perry reports I . . . . Amy M i m i H. Rasm ussen 2 19 Lexington Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 1983 Sally Lovegren Merchant 24 Easy Street Mt. Desert, M E 04660 207-244-0441 fax: 207-244-9445 classnews1983@a lum.colby.edu 1984 Cynth ia M. M u l l i ken-Lazzara 18 Sunshire Avenue Sausal ito, CA 94965 415-332-3542 [email protected] 1985 Sue James Geremia 87 Centre Street Dover, MA 02030 508-785-8366 classnews1985@a lum .colby.edu 1986 c/o Meg Bernier Colby College A l u m n i Office Watervi l l e , ME 04901 207-872-3185 classnews1986@a l u m .colby.edu Levintow sent an increclibly i n terest Page Oberg and her husband, David, i n g e - m a i l from L a gos, N i geri a . have been married for 20 years. They 1987 He's been there si nce September have six c h i ld re n , rwo in college Jane Nicol Manuel 8 Wentworth Drive a rea l l y awesome pleasure trip once 1 999 with h i s fa m i ly for a two-year and four teenagers. Amy works in a y e a r. No s t r i n gs a t t a c h e d , n o gig with the State Department as Providence, R . I . , ar t h e ! a ll' fi rm meetings, just a b i g party. Sounds a l a bor/pol i t i c a l officer w i t h t h e of H i nck ley, A l len & Snyder doing Alix Land wrote U.S. Embassy in Lagos. I t i nvolves corporate, business and tax mergers from Por t l a n d , O re . , where she's a n a lysis and reporti ng on political and acquisitions and rax a1·oidance l i ved with her husband, Barry, for and l a bor events and i s sues a n d counsel. She reports that her l i fe is 1988 the last 10 years. Two yea rs ago promoting . S . i n terests with respect a great combination of fa m i l y and c/o Meg Bernier l i ke J a n Pla n ' . . . she opened a private practice prov id to core labor standards, pri1·atizarion, ll'Ork . . . . i n g mental health counsel i n g for trafficking, H I V/A I DS traini ng, ere. and her husband, Earl, established a i nd i v iduals and couples. By choice, Pol itica I officers a !so serve as glorified tour guides for h i gh-lel'el l'isitors, mi I itary Christian center at Fort Bragg she and Barry have no k ids (sounds terri fic) and lots of freedom to enjoy the t h i n gs they love- h i k i ng, kayak i ng, garde n i n g, tra1·el i ng, read i n g voraciously. . She sees a l l the '78ers ll' ho h a ve tll'O o r t h re e k i ds a n d ll'Onders i f there a r e others o u t there who took her path. S he ret u rned to Colby for t h e fi rst t i me s i nce Linda Clark Hammons Beverly, MA 01915 9 7 8-921'-6084 fax: 52C-833-62 1 4 classnew!;1987@a lum.colby.edu Colby Col lege A l u m n i Office Watervi l l e , ME 04901 207-872-3185 in Fayettel'i l le, �.C., in �m·ember classnews1988@a lum .colby.edu and Nick's clone pieces of 1·isits br l 997 to share the Gospel ll' ith sen-ice 1989 ,\ l acleleine A l bright, Dick Gephardt, "'h ite House Fel i ows a n d , most men and ll'Omen, pro1·icl i n g Bible Anita L. Terry studies, friendship and home-cooked 501 Wa rwick Street recently, h i zzexcellencr B i l l C l i nton. meals. L i nda and Earl hal'e learned the St. Pa u l , MN 5 5 1 1 6 Nick says that Nigeria is fasci nating and deep!)' troubled. Y\'h i le it's an sacri fices made br the men and women 65 1-698-9382 incredible experience for l'\ick, Kar hr and h i s th ree k ids, it's no surprise to who sen·e our country. . . . Larry ' 1 and Tina Chen Starke recently fax: 651-848-1 182 classnews1989@a l u m .colby.edu mol'ed from H ou s t o n , Te x a s , to C O L B Y · S U M M E R 2001 I 51 1 980s Alumni at Large \Vayne, i'.]. T i n a i s a senior geosci is in t ra i n i n g to swim in a couple of is a n av a l a rc h i te c t . T h e y e n j oy EJ is t a k i n g leave from teac h i n g at entist w i t h Foster \\'heeler Environ marathons . . . . Tony Cunningham is sa i l i n g in the s u m mer on Buzzards t h e University of Colorado Col lege mental i n ;\ lorris Plains, and Larry i s a a professor of phi losophy at St. John's Bay. . . . regulatory affa i rs scientist w i t h Orga University i n M i n nesota. He spent president of profession a l services at non, I nc., in \\'est Orange . . . . Mike the fal l semester of 2000 teaching in Broadbase i n atick, Mass. Nancy t h e architecture a n d design fi r m he l l ison l ive i n Spiddal , I reland, and plans to teach and her husba nd, Fred, recently went founded eight years ago. The fi rm C h icago, I ll . ;\ l i ke is the senior \'}> at the otre Dame i n on the Broad base president's club trip h a s grown of sales for Antee Corp. They had an Fremantle, Austra l ia, i n the fal l of to Kona on the B i g I sl a nd of H awa i i . t h e y a r e work i n g on p ro g re s s i ve early C hristmas present last year when 200 1 . He has a book com i n g out t h i s They stayed a t t h e YVa i koloa V i l l age designs for residenti a l , commercial Quaid Grayson C h i l ders arrived i n fa l l on eth ics a n d l i terature from and snorkeled a n d saw lots of fish. a n d i nstitutional projects arou nd the Ta ney and Fred's t h ree c h i l d re n country. J\lluch of the work is i n the C h i lders a n d w i fe n i versiry of Nancy Welsh Isbell is vice of A rc h i t e c t u r e a n d Pl a n n i n g to pursue development of Arch Eleven, to e i g h t pe rson s , a n d one o f Chicago's snowstorms o n Dec. the 1 1 , weigh i n g in at 9 lbs. 1 oz. Congrats \\rhen not teachi ng, he is lea rn i ng to a r e B r i a n , Scott and Kate. Eleanor \t\ 'est, and they are strivi ng to build to the new parents1 ,\ l i ke adds that he play the fiddle . . . . Geoff Becker is Campbell and I are joint godmoth i n a sensitive, sensible way i n this rea l ly enjoyed t i me spent at reunion teach i n g creative writing at Towson ers to Kate. All t h ree c h i l d ren a re landscape. "'' h en not on the job, E .] . last June . . . . Here is a n addendum University in Balti more, i\Id. One of i nvolved in hockey a n d skati ng, which spends t i m e s k i i ng w i t h h i s older daughter at the loca l h i l l , snowshoes Herb Perry's news previously n iversiry of C a l i fornia Press. his stories, " B lack Elvis," was selected keeps Nancy and Fred very busy. . . . I reported. \\'h i le h i s job as editor at by E . L. Doctorow for Best A111e1·icn11 just had my 14th a n n iversa ry work i n g occasi o n a l l y and m o u n t a i n b i k e s . the Short Stories 2000. I f you are ever i n fo r \Vest Group, formerly k nown As he reflects on h i s teac h i n g experi to York Weekly keeps h i m busy, he is i nvolved in d a u g h ters H a n n a h Fells Point, stop b y to hear Geoff play a s \-Ve s t P u b l i s h i ng. I work w i t h ence, he says he is gratefu I for the a n d Jen n i fer's sports and activities. the blues on his electric guitar at the the company's on l i ne product cal led teach i n g a n d patience exh ibited by H i s w i fe, Kath�·. i s a professor of Ful l ;\ loon Saloon. \Vestl aw, wh ich is used by attorneys, Bob Reu m a n , Pat Onion, R ichard -Lynn Collins Francis judges, law students, l ibra rians a n d Moss, Harriett Matthews a n d others just about anyone who needs t o d o d u r i ng his t i me at Col by. H e took Charles Gordy took the posi l a w research. My accou nts i nclude their example q u i te often in front of in the Class of '80. Gerry '79 and 81 tion of di rector of planned giving at l a rge and medium-size law fi rms i n his own classroom a n d hopes that Catie Fulton Teeven l ive i n Coral Yale n iversity last M a rc h . Charles Boston . . . . This is the last col u m n his words and actions have s i m i l a r Spring , F l a . , w i t h t h e i r chi l d ren, reports that the new job i s going very I w i l l b e writing f o r o u r class. I have resonance . . . . Casey, a h igh school sophomore, and wel l and that he and h i s w i fe, Jane, rea l ly enjoyed hearing from you over news from Heidel berg, G e r m a n y, where he has been stationed si nee occupational therapy at the Univer sity of i'ew England in Biddeford, ,\ l a i ne . . . . \\'e ha,·e some educators Ali, a seventh grader. Catie is a social were expecti n g their second ch i l d the past 10 years, first by m a i l and studies teacher at a local h igh school. i n ,\ 1ay. Their first ch i ld, C l a i re, i s lately by e-ma i l ' She enjoys m a k i ng a d i fference in her 3 . They l ive i n G u i l ford, Con n . , i n tudents' l ives and reports that she is a n 1 4 0 Cape that Charles says suits 1 998 i n t h e V Corps G - 4 ( Logistics). -Beth Pniewski Wilson 82 Paul Veil leux sends In Apr i l of 2000 he was deployed to the B a l k a n s for six months to work i n a better student than she was at Colby them wel l . . . . a she takes courses toward a master's and her husband, Dave, recently built @ m a i l a ndnews.com) continues part Macedonia (a degree. he sti l l runs every morn i n g a bea u t i fu l new colo n i a l home in t i me work as a school nurse i n a new with personnel from 19 countries). Ellen Owens Dion Ann Ren ner Stillwater (astill the H Q o f K F O R R E A R i n Skopje, ATO headquarters " it h their dog, B e l l e , a boxer. A n d ;\ 1 a rion, ,\ 1ass., designed by Dave's district at Claymont midd le school D u r i n g this t i me Paul's w i fe, Andi, Gerry, Casey and A l i ha,·e a l l been dad, an architect. El len and Dave in rural Ohio. She says she's trying took ca re of their two boys, C h ris and i m m i n g c o m p e t i t i ,·e l y, C a s e y have t h ree c h i ldren, A my, Andrew to work proactively a n d will offer Ryan, thei r cat and a golden retriever ran k i ng nationall�· i n h i s age group for and Benja m i n . El len is work i n g i n stop-smok i n g classes-for the eighth puppy. "'' h i le in Macedon ia, Paul the backstroke and butterfly. Gerry t h e .\ Ia rion school system, a n d Dave graders who want to quit! Her husband received the news that he was selected is a h igh school science teacher in t h e to be the professor of m i l i tary science S \\ MAURA SHAU G H N ESSEY '83 What she manages M FS I nvestment M a nagement's $6 bi ll ion Capital O p por h e d id in the Bal kans. On Iovember 1 , 2000, Pau I was promoted to I ieutena nt nomics, Amos Tuck School of B usi ness geological s i te s . They 're a l ready colonel. . . . Ad m i n 1strat1on , the Federal Reserve begi n n i ng plans for a trip to Alaska in of Paris i n spri ngtime-massive ra i n 2002 and welcome input from others a n d local flood i n g w i t h a promise o f who have driven there. . . I was wi nter being left beh ind. Kam h a s pleased at the response to my last been l iving i n Paris since 1 9 8 3 . Her prospects. Why she s e l l s a stock The valuation m a kes her u neasy or there's a cha nge 1n the stock's funda menta ls. H o w she c h a n ged her fund's strategy when she took over Dlversiflca1on. "I h i n k my No. 1 pos1t1on 1n the fund 1s like a 3 percent weigh ing. I don't think one stock 1s good enough to be 12 percent of any fund B ut that 1s iust me " What M o r n i ngstar I n c . said a b o ut her '"The fund's success owes much to Sha ughnessy's d•sti nct1ve strategy. Although its occasion a l l y la rge stakes overseas could spike volatility, there's reason to believe this fund wil del iver. " M E R 2 Meritorious Service Medal for the job west a n d d i scovered lots of great ative to its history, peers a nd growth � a l so has been awarded the Defense bling in Rei k i , yoga and homeopathy. The fa m i ly took a 1 0 -week trip out tive va lue-how a stock 1s tra d i ng re l u and activities, and Ann has been dab The route t h a t t o o k her there Colby eco Her strategy for evaluating a stock Rela C ') L B Y · S and ROTC batta l ion com ma n der at the University of Connecticut. Paul tu nities F u n d . B a n k , H a rvard M a nagement Co. 52 s a m e district. Their t w o chi ldren, ages H a nd 10, have myriad i n terests 0 Kam McCully writes re q u e s t from ce r t a i n c l a s s m a t e s daughter, Lucie, just tu rned 9. Kam b u t am embarrassed t h a t I did not keeps in touch with ask and David Condon to w rite; I 've Catie Hobson Kathleen Shea and would love been wondering where he is these to hear from other people . . . . Paul days . . . . and E.J. Meade writes that he and his w i fe, Bridget K l auber, have S a r a h Perry beca m e PA D I Divemasters last sum mer. They spent been spen d i ng a lot of t i me with their a week diving and tou ring the island mo daughters, El iot, 5 , and of Kauai last September and found Tora Ferris ,\ leade, born August 29, 1 999, it a n amazing place to scuba dive. at their home in the mounta ins west of Some of the underwater h ighl ights Boulder, Colo. The weather at 8, 500 i n cluded seeing tu r t I es, dolph i n s , feet abo' e sea level is fickle-though frogfis h , t w o l ionfish, a mon k seal E.j. say� the spruce, pine and snow and a Spa n i sh Dancer nud ibranch rem i nd him o f .\1 a i ne. After 10 years, and s w i m m i n g in a cave with sharks. M�la'41M@!&ll Th is s u m m e r t h e y ' l l spend seven been t a k i n g some t i m e to catch up days d i v i n g in the Red Sea. A fter and contemplate his next moves. He work i n g as a payroll m a n a ger, with remembers that Pre�ident \i\Ti J l i a m Peter Forman '80 has been appointed processi n g payroll being her p r i m a ry Cotter encouraged us a lways t o have a chief o f staff by Jane M. Swift, acting duty for the past eight years, Sarah book at h a nd and has enjoyed m a k i n g Republican governor o f Massassachu was excited about starti ng a new job a d e n t i n h i s extreme backlog o f as a compensation an a lyst at Fidel setts read i n g. . . . Usua l l y I report what at Banknorth Group, Inc., i n Portland, ity Investments in M a rch. Andrea Brantner joined Sarah for a drive to Diane Zavotsky's island s u m mer I hear from you, but here's one case planning processes and procedures for the future. As I write t h i s column i n M a rc h (one son i s fra n t i c a l l y a n n i v e r s a r y. . . . studyi n g w h i le t h e other is off with David S t rage Maine, recently expanded to i n clude where I feel at l iberty to project into home to celebrate D i a ne's wed d i n g reports that i n August 1 99 8 , he, my husband at an a l l-star basketball h i s w i fe , L a u r a , and t h e i r t h re e practice) I 'm singing with Andrea d a u g h t e r s - S o n y a , l 1 , K a t y a , 9, Boce l l i'scompactdisc, wh ich reminds and M i sha, 7-moved from Geneva, me that in Apri l , the Colbyettes w i l l Terry Smith B robst '82's duties ·:· commercial admin istration throughout Banknorth, where she is a n assista nt vice president in the commercial depart ment ·:· E l izabeth E . J o hnson ' 8 5 , director o f Strongest Link AI DS Services, Terry Smith Brobst '82 I nc., was featured in the Danvers Herald for her work with the Da nvers, M ass., agency, which offers H IV Switzerland, to Sevenoaks in Kent, have a reunion at Colby. Colbyettes England. David l e ft Digital when from the classes of the '50s to the it was taken over by Compaq and present are to gather on campus to joined A ndersen Cons u l t i n g (now enjoy each other's company, si ng, Accenture) as a n associate partner perform and reu n i te. From our class, i n their electronics and h i gh-tech Barb Leonard, Nora Putnam Dunn group. Laura is currently senior vice and I are to be joined by Pam E l l i s '8 1 , guilty. Morin has since begun forensic dentistry work for the state president of H R for the A merican L i z Yanagihara Horwitz '80, Sally medical examiner i n Augusta. I nternet Company Digitas. Unfor Ludwig-\Vhite '84, M a rt y MacM i l tunately David h a s had a recurrence lan ' 8 1 , A n n Brach man Meltzer '84 of the brain stem tumor that fi rst and Dorcas Benner R i ley '80. \Vatch appeared in 1 996, and he's currently for photos' . . . The w i nter in M a i ne related education and provides support services for people living with the disease ·:· Wate1-ville, Maine, orthodontist B rian ]. M o rin '85 aided in a homicide investigation when he made im pressions of the teeth and teetl1 bites of a murder suspect and matched them to bite marks in another attack to which the suspect had pleaded llM!•MMW?• Mm-ringes: Catherine J. Palmer '80 to Daniel T. Smitl1 in New trea t i n g it w i t h severa l cycles of was truly wi nter-ish this year, u n l i k e London, Con n . ·:· Joshu a D. S ha p i ro '87 to Suzanne J uster c h e m o t h e ra p y . . . . I hope t h a t m a n y p r e v i o u s w i nters i n rece n t a t M ayfai r everyone h a s m a de a note o f t h e h i story. I heard from dates of our reun ion-June 7-9, 2 00 2 . and H oc h w a l k i n New York, It's a b i g one-our 2 0 t h 1 You' l l be \'Vaterv i l l e and own land in Vli nslow, recei v i n g i n formation in the m a i l that s k i i n g and snowshoeing were t h roughout t h e y e a r a b o u t p l a n s s t i l l enjoyable due to the bounty of Dan Marra Barb Leonard, w h o l i ve i n f o r t h e reu n ion, s o m a r k i t o n your snow. Barb a l so said that Dan is calendars now' "neck deep" i n law school. I a m sure -1V li111i H. Rns11111sse11 83 I can tel l you that it was excellent to see Dan and Barb at the Colbyette T h a n k s to t hose who took the time to write or call w ith news' Noble Carpenter wrote in M a rch 2 0 0 1 that he was to ski with Tyger Nicholas out in Va i l , Colo. \Vhile reunion in Apri l ' . . . Kevin and Anne Geagan McGrath sound wonderfu l . T h e i r son, Patrick, who w a s i n a strol ler last t i me we saw h i m at our Colby 1 5t h reu nion, has now tu rned there, they hoped to see Gates Lloyd, 3. . B i l ly Lloyd's bro t h er. Tyger was La J o l l a , C a l i f. , w i t h h i s w i fe, J a n , . Chip Rooney now l ives i n bringing his son, H a rry, and Noble's a n d t h e i r s o n , C h a se , 2 ; a n e w c h i l d ren Nicole and Ned were also baby daughter arrives i n J u ly. Chip, goi n g. Noble is m a naging d i rector who moved last yea r from Boston Farms, N.]. ·:· Brian G . Kaplan ' 8 9 t o Lambeth N.Y. Bii-ths: A daughter, Katherine " Katie" Domar Ostrow, to Alice D. Domar '80 and Da1rid Ostrow ·:· A son, Asa Ford Merri l l , to M a rdee Sanchez and Benjamin B . Merrill ' 8 1 ·:· A son, Camden \Vhi p p le Filoon, to Gretchen and John W. Filoon i l l '83 ·:· A son, Ethan I s aac S n yde r, to Susan Goldstein and Ian M. Snyder '84 ·:· A daughte r, Betl1 C h ristine Ni les, to Andrew and S haron D u cey Niles '87 ·:· A son, \Vi lliam Wi lder Brown, to C h ristopher F. '88 and Elizabeth Wilder Kerney Brown '88 ·:· A son, Jordon \i\Ti l l iam Samuel Cassel, to Steven and Melissa Ruff Cassel '88 ·:· A daughter, Sienna \i\Thite Probert, to Sharyl A. White ' 9 1 and B rian W. Probert '88 ·:· A daughter, Heather Lee Baughan, to Max and Robin Tren d B a u ghan '89 ·:· A daughter, Julie Rose Brewer, to Paul and Kim Murphy B rewer '89 ·:· A daugh ter, Caroline "Ca l l ie" Decker, to M e l a n i e and Byrne J . Decker '89 ·:· A d a ughter, Ca mille Eva Serat Gilvar, to Leslie Middleton '89 a n d .Ma lcolm Gilvar ·:· A daughter, Phoebe de \'oe Tomplcins, to Katherine and C h ristopher R . Tompkins '89. at J ones L a n g L a S a l l e A me ricas, a n d loves C a l i f o rn i a , remembers I n c . . . . Check out the \Veb site t h i n k i ng d u r i n g a rugby tour to Deaths: B radley A. Livermore ' 84, December 1 9, 2 000, w w w.electri cmotors.com to get a L a Jol la in 1 9 8 1 over spring brea k , gli mpse of Mike Col l ins's Cal i fornia " \i\fhat a great place t o l ive ' " Madison, \i\Tis., at 3 8 . compa ny, Adva ntage M a nu factu ri ng. he's l i v i n g proof. . . . T h i s J\ l a rch I J\ 1 i ke's w i fe, Lya n n , sent a messag·e t a l ked briefly with ow John Lemoine, that M i ke is wel l a nd busy at the whose fa m i ly had been outside-yes, company and that t hey a re raising you guessed it-m a k i ng snow men. four sons i n I rv i ne, Calif. . . . Duncan Gibson is currently in New H a mp They were all wel l , and John and Dianne (Gru ndstrom '84) are busy L. Lynch, Paul a Donahue Kerwi n Andy Hanson. and -Sa/fr Lovegren .\ Jerchnnt 84 111 l i v i ng and work i n g i n Hol l y woo d, Ca I i f. He's i n "the business." Gregory i nv i t e s e\•eryone to take a l o o k at h i s \\'eb s i t e (www.gregoryleek 1 a rsh a l l enyon.com). I looked i n , and it's very w rote t O say that she and husband wel l done; i t looks as i f Gregory has Kathy M u sser s h i re t a k i n g some w e l l -deserved a n d p ro d u c t i v e l i v i n g i n S a c o , Gordon '83 had their first child, a boy, been doing some independent fi l m s t i me off. He'd been w it h Business J\ l a i n e . . . . I n m y ne,·er-end i n g on ;'\"o,· ember 2 7, 2000. \\'elcome a n d theater i n southern C a l i forn i a Express a i r l i nes, wh ich was bought search f o r helpers as associate class to Aidan :\ IacGregor :\ I a rsh a l l . The a n d pre ,· io us l y i n :-; e w E n gl and . by American Eagle. D u ncan's New agents, some of the classmates I heard :\ l a r s h a l l s relocated to Pom fret, Anyone looking for the c l assic lea d i n g H a mps h i re headqua rters were closed from were Diane Pete rec Reynolds, \'t., from Boston i n 1999, and both m a n should gi1·e h i m a buzz . . . . David al most a yea r ago, a step D u ncan A n ne Edwards \Vesterman, Aviva Sapers, Peter Scheetz, Theresa are exploring new career possibi l i Rosenberg w rote a n update t h a t t i e s. he h a s t h ree beaut i fu l d au ghte rs : anticipated well i n advance, so he's . . . Gregory Lee Kenyon is C 0L B Y · S U MMER 200 I J 53 Al u m n i at Large ! 1 9 80s Shelbr, 9 , Amanda, 7 , and Whitney, 3. Da,·id a n d h i s w i fe, K a ren, ,·isited C indy and Warren B urroughs i n Japan l ast summer. D av i d reports that Nath a n Emerson is trying to get on the buy.com golf tour, Nils Gjesteby is i nto one of the "purer" martial arts and is a serious body builder, John K aroff ' 5 has a career in rea l estate and is a local publ ic speaker on stress m a nagement, a nd Brian Hesse is doin g well and at l a s t report was teach i ng h i s k ids gymna tics. . . . Deborah Sleeman D a n i l o ff h a s mO\·ed to the B a y area. S h e and h e r husband a nd their three children moved to ;\ fountain View, C a l i f. , a fter h e r h u s b a n d w a s recruited for a new j o b with a biotech comp a n y in Palo A lto. iVelcome to the San Francisco area, Deborah . . . . Tom Delea wrote from Swampscott, ;\ lass., where he's l iving with his wife, Pearl Singhakowinta, his son, Jackson (born at the end of 2000) and his Bermese mounta i n dog, Fanny. Tom is a senior consultant at PAI , a n economic research a nd consulting organization located in Brookline. Pearl sel ls real estate in Boston's Back Bay and South End. They have fi n ished the fi rst phase of a rehab to their home and plan to start the next phase about the time this column gets to you. Tom enjoys the location of their house-he's able to go to the beach a l l year long. He's been doing a lot of s u r fi n g a nd has m a d e surf trips t o Costa R ica, Mexico and H awaii. He and Pearl p l a n ned a trip to Portugal this April . . . . A n n "Feta" Poolos Bai ley is living in the D.C. a rea with her husband, Stephen, and her two daughters, A lexandra, 7, and Stepha n ie, 3 . She works "virtu a l ly" for VHA, I nc. as di rector, health i mprovement. It's an a l l i a nce of not- j ennifer massen gi Ce es8 I The idea of treating d isease and inj u ry with for-profit hospit a l s headqua rtered in Dallas, but she does qu ite a bit of trave l i ng. She's been keeping in touch with quite a few people from Colby but is wondering what has happened to Lore S t u rgeon Davis . . . . Sally Lee has started a \Veb site for our class; let her k now ( lee@m it.edu) if you want to help or have a ny ideas . . . . Ian S nyder is currently acting director of defense and i ntel l igence analysis, BTG I nc., in Fai rfax, Va. In 1 999, a big year for I a n , he bought a house i n May, got his doctorate i n i nternational relations from the n iversity of i\lla ryland, �a where you wa nt them to go. " a routine 1nject1on of raw human cells was Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, spinal cord i nj u ries, once iust a pipe drea m . For neurobiologist strokes and other serious cond itions would bow Jennifer Massengil l '88 and her pioneering before such powerful medicine, she predicts. biotech colleagues at ViaCell Inc., it's The sou rce of the cells also can moving closer and closer to reality. be a h u rdle. ViaCell obta ins its "There's a real bottleneck in cel l ular medicine, and we've developed the technology material by the com paratively con troversy-free method of conserving to break the bottlenec k , " said Massengi l l , a resea rch sc1ent1st at the Massachusetts-based biotech firm. "We're on what some people would ca l l the cutting edge 1n cell a m pl1f1cat1on . " blood from otherwise d iscarded - u m bilica l cords. Some leukemia patients a l ready receive injections of the cord blood in the hope that Massengill earned a P h . D. in neurobiology at the Univer sity of California at Irvine a nd went on to become one of four original path-breakers at Breeders, Inc., when 1t was born 1n a Worcester b1otech its stem cells wi l l help beat the d isease. Massengill and her colleagues a re trying to supercharge that pro cess by m ixing pla i n cord blood with incubator su1 e 1n 1997. She 1s now one the purified material made by ViaCe l l . of 100 employees a t V1aCell, the merged "We a re going t o b e a ble t o treat ma ny, many d iseases, " she said, looking i nto the company that conducts both cellular research and re all ban king of cord blood. •lli•••••llilil•••il• future. " I have faith in the medical com The merged company, which formed 1 n m u nity. The technology is com ing. " 2000 and quickly obtained $60 million in venture capital, expects to ViaCell also is a retail bank for cord blood . For a fee, parents can conserve conduct c' n ical tests of its cell expansion technology in h u mans this year. The race 1s o n . the blood cells of their child's own umbilical cord as a sort of futuristic insur "We're not alone." Massengill said, " but there aren't m a n y compa nies. It's in he single d1g1ts " Forbes magazine put the n u m ber at i ust two when 1 c ed V1aCell as one of the leaders in the d rive to produce pure a nd Though excited by the u pcom i ng cl inical trials and often still working in a wh ite coat in the lab, Massengill j ust as often finds herself in the field , mass1 e quan 1 1es o rare und1fferen 1a ed h u ma n cells. Scientists believe he pristine material could be a key to the future of medic ne because he raw cells could be programmed for specific iobs or, al ernat1vely, would sim ply know what o do all on their own , given the nght env1ronmen " I you can ge enough o hese cells a nd enough of them to be pure enough , " Massengill said, "you ough to be a ble to get them to go 54 C. C L tJ Y · 5 U I.< � R 0 I ance policy that could be invaluable if medicine can master its manipulation. p1tch1ng for V1aCell's patented process to expand the treasured stem cells of human biology. She credits her Colby education with helping her fill a particular niche at V1aCell, giving her the opportunity to work both in and outside the lab with sc1ent1sts and nonsc1en!lsts and, she hopes, to bridge the gap between the m . " I can't emphasize enough how i m portant a l i bera l arts education has been to me," Massengill sa1d.-M. F. Chip Gavin '90 a l s o i n i\ l ay, a n d m a r r i e d S u s a n a re j u s t t i red ! " . . . G o l d s te i n i n November. H e a n d sent a note in late February '' ith Susa n l ive i n \ ' i e n n a , Va ., a n d have news of a second ch i l d on the way. a son, E t h a n I s a a c S nyder, born He and h i s w i fe are l i v i n g in s u n ny October 26, 2 0 0 0 . . . . Thomas S o u t h e rn C a l i f o rn i a w i t h t h e i r K. Biro( w rote to s a y that he, h is 2-year-old . . . . Lastly, hats off to m e rci a l l e n d i n g w i t h Fi rst ,\ l a s \\'a l t h a m , ,\ [ a s s . , P e t e r ' s C o l b y w i fe , Cheryl, a m i ssiona ry, a n d thei r Leslie Woron Corner, who w rote i n sachusetts Bank in Fitchbu rg, i\ l ass. roommate, is a l so a regu l a r visitor Tom Vali note to figure out where I a m i n time and Sandy Calhoun ' 9 1 of .\ lystyc l'\ew space. Stay tuned. .\ ledia in Portland, and J i l l Taylor nd write. - �Venc�y Lapham R11s 87 I [ a r r i s o n ' 8 8 , who O\\ ns Fitness \ \'orld, a gym i n Lewiston . P h i l i p P u rcel l is i n com Stephan B r u e c k n e r of B a y Fi n a n c i a l i n I O -year-old son, A l len Herbert, are after a 1 6 -yea r si lence ! . . . As al ways, He l ives i n M a rl borough with his to f , .-A., where he is sign i n g up new l i v i n g i n Vi neyard l l aven, M ass. Tom you r news is greatly appreciated. w i fe, J u l i e, and two ch i l d ren, Sarah, clients. Peter a lso keeps i n touch with -Sue Ja111es Geremia 6, a nd Ph i l i p A nt hony, 2 . . . . Greg C iottone a n d h i s w i fe , A m a l i a , f o r m e r room m ates Dr. I have a weird feel ing writing a n d t h e i r t h ree c h i l d ren J i ,·e i n t h i s , because I 'm writing it i n .\ l a rch. was promoted to station m a n ager of \\'est m i n ster, ,\ l ass. I l e h a s joined icholas Papapetros and h i s '' i fe, ,\ n d rea , Ted Jobes a nd h i s ' ' i fe, L i z , and larten Jenkins. Peter a nd h i s " i fe G i l l ( j ames-p-gi l l @ By the t i me you read it, it w i l l be the fac u l t y a t l l a r v a r d ,\ l e d ica l just built a ne"' home on four and a hot m a i l . com) w rote recently from June and our 1 5t h reunion will have School, where he is d i rector of the h a l f acres in ,\ l i not, just outside of Austra l i a . After backpack i n g for t wo passed. Yet I have no way of k nowing divi sion of internation a l disaster and Auburn. The i r c h i l d ren a re Tyler, 9, A lex, 7, Olivia, 6, and A ngel ica, a . S . A i rways faci l ity. - C)l/lthia 111. ,1 /u/likw-Lrr:::::,a1Y1 8 5 James 86 a n d a h a l f years a round the world if I will have successfu l l y coerced emergency medicine. I l e m a nages and then l i v i n g in London for five another member of our class into v a r i o u s p ro g r a m s in e m ergency 5. . . . yea rs , J i m and his w i fe, Pa u l a , moved t a k i n g over this job or if I will s t i l l and d i saster medicine a round the Q u i n n i\ l atthew was born last Au Merridith Belden Mol loy's to Paul a's hometown of Brisbane, be stuck with it-oops-I m e a n still world, i nclud i ng overseeing 14 EJ\ ! S gust, j o i n i n g brother J a mes, 5 , and Austra l i a , in M a rch '97. H e h a s t h ree h a ve t h e honor o f con t i n u i n g a s t ra i n i n g centers across t h e former sister E r i n , 3 . ,\ lerridith and Todd c h i l d ren u nder 5 a n d seems to love your class correspondent. A n d I can't Soviet n ion. I- le a l so works c l i n i '86 sti l l l i ve i n Cumberland, .\ T a i ne. t he Brisbane l i festyle. As he puts it, rem i n isce about the reunion because c a l l y a s a n e m e rgency p h y s i c i a n ,\ lerridith reports that Dan and Lucy " t he weather is great, cost o f l i v i n g is it hasn't happened yet, w h i le at the at l i a rvard and i s serv i n g a s t h e Lennon Tucker just had their t h i rd fi ne a n d the I i festyle is laid-back." J i m same t i me I can't u rge you to attend president of Emergency ,\ Jedicine boy, R i ley, i n February. She sees is now work i n g f o r Legato Systems, because i t has a l ready h a ppen e d . \'isions I n ternational, a non-profit Lucy often a nd regul arly talks to an A m e r i c a n s o ft w a re c o m p a n y Y i kes, T 'm con fused, so I better just corporation t h a t speci a l izes i n Connie Gal lagher Loescher, who is based i n C a l i f orn i a . . . Bev Rice Tedeschi had a nother baby-a boy, do the news for either the last or emergency a n d d i saster m e d i c i n e nestled i nto H a no,·er, � . 1 1 . , '' ith her the 20th time . . . . Brigid Hoffman t ra i n i ng f o r u n i q u e appl i c a t i o n s husband, Peter. ,\ lcrridith a nd Lucy Troy l icholas-in i\ l ay 2000. She ma rried John Patrick M u rry I l l in around t h e globe. On top of t h at, h e a nd her grow i n g fa m i ly built a house September in New York City. . . . Fred com m ands i\ 1 A-2 , a federal d i saster i n Plymouth, N . H . , near where she '87 and medical assista nce team that operates teaches h igh school biology. . . . Tom had a baby girl , L i l a , in December. as part of the Nat ion a l D i sa st e r Claytor is s t i l l in Southeast Asia . Lila joins sister Bridget, -+. G a i l is .V ledica l System . . . \ Vhen t h i s col u m n was written, he the ,·ice president of global content Bill and Erin Borgeson Castelli l i ve i n ,\ ! a ryland visited Con nie and Jen Erlandson Ayers two sum mers ago . . . . Sharon D ucey N i les recently spent t i m e with Cheryl Lindenberg 1cCue and Alison Como Goyette and t h e i r had been Fl y i n g a long the Bu rmese at Zagar S u n·ey, w h e re she is i n with their chi ldren, E m i ly, 6,Jul i a , -+, border work i n g on a fi l m for Norn charge of t h e editorial department and El ise, 2. Erin h a s worked for The due in .\ l ay and h a s Cassie , 7, Drew, called " E x t i nction." He a l so had been of the popu l a r restaurant and travel Nature Conservancy's international 5 , and J o h n , 3, at home. Cheryl, \\'ho assisting with a project cal led " i\ 1 iss guides . . . has t\\'O daughters, Taylor, 7, a n d and Thomas Outerbridge Paul Tu rci con t i n ue to r u n program for t he past 1 2 I /2 years and S i a m " by Fl y i n g a 1 92 -+ Trave l a i s is t he d i rector of annual givi ng. B i l l Dayne, 3 , l i ves in R a y n h a m , ,\ l ass., biplane across T h a i l a n d , Laos and t h e i r New York-based environmental is t h e V P/director of go,•e rn ment a small rural town \\' ith horses and Vietn a m into China. He h a s been co n s u l t i n g b u s i n e s s , City G re e n , affa i rs for the ,\ l a ryland Association cows on the same street. Great for work i ng as well to help set up the Tim I nc. T h e y w rite, " C i t y Green is now for Realtors. He h a s one more semes raising kids a nd easy to get i nvolved m issa rtok Fou ndation . . . . competing to develop a composting ter of law school at the as she has done '' ith her daughter's Worthi ngton w r ites t h a t he a n d faci l ity in the Bronx, a glass recyc l i ng of i\ l a ryland at Balti more and then h i s w i fe, Kathy, h a v e j u s t adopted facil ity in upstate New York and a t a kes the bar t h i s sum mer. . . . t hei r second l ittle g i rl from C h i n a . Kearney is 5 1 /2 a nd i\ I ason i s 3 . . Andrew Gail Glickman Horwood . . n iversity k id s . A l ison has a I -yea r-old, Kate, and was due i n ;\ J ay. S h a ron was al o G i rl Scout troop . . . . Peter Melissa H ruby Bach continues to '' ork a s a n a rt i st barge-to - ra i l waste export facil ity A. Steele and h i s \\' i fe, Laurie, started and o"·ner/operator of her O\\ n tou r to serve N.Y.C. after the closure of a biwee k l y n e \\'s paper, A n d rew encourages a nyone i n ter Fresh K i l l s Landfi l l ." . . . Times, ested i n adopt i n g from C h i n a to Shapiro h a s recei,·ed tenu re as a c o n t a c t h i m at a w o r t h i n g t o n @ home.co m . A n d rew is now a partner Steven T11'in City two years ago in Le\\' iston business, G loucester G u ided Tou rs . T h e business h a recei,·ed a l l k i nd s Aubu rn , the second-la rgest metro of press a n d i profe s s o r of p h y s i c s at G u i l ford politan area i n ,\ I a i ne. " \ \'e used to pick" designation i n Col lege in Greensboro, l'\.C. After m a ke fun of the L.-A. a rea when l lmkee .1/agrr::,ine Guide to Xeu· England. l l e r other given a n "ed i tor's i n a software com pa ny special izing in Colby he earned h i s doctorate i n \\'e \\'ere at Colby, but no,1 it is the jobs i nclude perso n a l secretary to education a l software for secondary geophysics from i\ I I T a n d a !so taught best place to be in the state," Peter a choreographer a nd home h e a l t h schools. His " m a i n product" i s a fu I ly at Colby. . . . w rote. ch ronicles a i de to a y o u n g lady '' i t h s p i n a bifida. v i s u a l b u s i n e s s s i m u l a t i o n ca l l e d of 55 contemporary art ists chosen the re,·iral ization of the Le'' iston .\ l e l i s sa's son, O ' .\ l a l l ey, is now \'i rtual B u s i ness. Feel free t o check it to exh ibit t he i r work i n t he 2 0 0 1 Aubu rn area and features the mo,·ers 7. . . out a t w \1· w. K nowledge,\ [ atters.com. Port l a nd ,\ I useum of A r t Bien n i a l in and shakers responsible for its rebi rth. st i l l l i,·ing i n Guada l a j a ra , .\ Iexico, . . . Portland, ,\ I a i ne . Andrea Sarris was one Twin City Times Elseke Membreno-Zenteno is . . Robin Clisby Pelczar recei,·ed her general bank After a ne\\·spaper career on Cape e n j o y i n g l i fe w i t h h e r h u s b a n d sends excit i n g news of another a rrival Cod and i n Boston, Peter is pleased a n d two ch i l d ren, .\ l a r i a n a , -N'at h a n iel R ic h a rdson Sch m uch i n g diploma t h rough the American to be back in .\ I a i ne-Peter has run A l fonso, 3 . Both c h i l d ren are i m olved Karen Killam Schmuch also . 7, and I n stitute of B a n k i ng i n .lune. She and i nto se,·eral Colb�- a l u m n i i n L.-.\., in gym nastics, and her daughter was with her fa m i ly in Rowley, ,\ I ass., her husband, Ted, hope to mo,· e i nto i nclud i n g �ancy Briggs .\ [ a r h a l l ' 2 get t i n g ready for her first compet i where "big sister ,\ l a deleine i s enjoy t he i r newly built house i n Center of�a nc�· .\ la rshall Commun ications t ion. Besides t h e c h i ld re n , El seke i n g her l it t l e brot h e r, t h e dog i s I b rbor, K T-I ., t h i s fal l . . . . \\'e l l , that's i n K i n gfield, Ken You ng '6 , t he keep fee l i ng neglected, and ,\ lorn a nd D a d it, so T guess T ' l l go back to trying do,1 nto\\ n m a n ager of Le" iston, chocolate L ab, K e n y a , a n d o t h e r was born on July !-+, 2 000. She Ii,·es bu y " it h her ga rde n , h e r c0LBy • su M M E R 200 I I 55 .. Al u m n i at La rge 1 980s- 1 990s motherly duties. H e r brother, Poncho '89, and h i s w i fe, Jess, had a baby g i r l , E l i s a C l a re , on D e c e m b e r 3 1 . . . . Nancy A . Di Bernado h a s been n a m e d d irector o f sales f o r The Setai Resort & Residences being built i n i\1iami Beach. After receiving her master of arts from Emerson, Nancy served with BC, I nc., i n New York City for more than 1 1 years i n marketing and public rela tions, most recently as d i rector of corporate projects and synergy. She a ls o completed t h e program for developing m a n agers at S i m mons College in Boston . . . . M ichael M a n n i ng was named a partner in the firm of i\ixon Peabody LLP i n Boston . He received h i s law degree from Suffol k n iversity. . . . Remem ber to support Colby by sending in a gift to the A l u m n i Office, and start m a k i ng plans to come back to :\ laine next J u ne for our reu n ion . -Jane .\'icol .1ln11uel 89 Scott Tu rtel w ro t e from Tokyo, where he has worked as a fi nance manager for I mel for the past year. cott a nd Erin ( DeChristopher '8 ) had a baby bO)' named :\ Iatthew Caleb on December 26, 2000, and also have a 3 -year-old, �athaniel. . . . Liz Schwartz nderson got married i n eptember to ;\ l a r�· Anderson. They li\ e in Edina, :\ l i n n . , and Liz i'> the marketing coordi n ator with a sales support team at Dain Rauscher, an i m·estme nt firm in t he Tw i n C i t i e s . L i z reports t h a t i n J u l y J i m 1 ovick a n d h i s w i fe , :\ l eg, had a bah) , -\ ri Joshua . . . . The ubiqu irous Andrew "J\1arty" Dodge ha., publ i<,hed mo books, i ncluding a romance 110\ el. You can check them out at '' '' \\ .lupusandco.com . . . . h ri LeG a u lt ha. mo, ed from \ l 1a m i back to '\e'' England-not a good '' i nter to do that, Chris. I l e \I orb i n \ \"oods Hole for the �Jt10nal \ l a n ne Fi.,heries . en ice. I le a n d h 1 ., \I 1 fe , D i a ne , ha' e a daughter, \1 ho \1 d i begin k i ndergar ten r h i ., fa l l , ,111 d a '>Oil, '' ho\ not fa r heh i n d her. . . . Chmnne ( \ l urph) '<) ( ) and Tom bbat i e l l o recenrl) mm ed to \ L id 1.,on, Con n . , and Tom '>t arred \I ork for Oracle Corp. do111g h u " n e " d C \ e l o p m e n t . ·1 om a n d C h n'>t l lle ha' e rn o l ittle one'>, Cb re, �. rnd Ben. :'i mont h'> . . . . Jen n i fer Jo eph '>pent tht '\e\1 ) e,1r 1 n L . \ . '' n h Jeff Bero-er. then \1 em to �t. Thoma-, 1 11 [·cl1ruar) . Je n n 1 fer 1 . '>t i l l J nunagt:r \I 1 t h C a p C r c m 1 11 1 frmt � i oung. . . . Robin Trend Baughan 56 L 6 · c M E R 2 O ! reports that she a nd her husband had their t h i rd (and last) child i n ;'\'°ovember. Robin keeps up with B i l l Carr, w h o w a s recently promoted a t Amazon.com . . . . Melissa Trend Staid also had a baby recently. Little Holly was born two d ays before C h ristmas . . . . Scott Wentzell and h i s wife, Lisa, had a son, Scott \Ye n t z e l l J r. , l a s t No,·ember 1 7. The \\'emzell s l ive i n Farmington, :\ I a i ne . . . . Brad Schlang is married, has three sons a nd l ives in Cleveland. He is a partner at Eton Financial Ser\'ices and w rites that " i f a nyone is i nterested i n the best way to gift $ 1 m i l l ion to Colby, let me k now." \Ve' I I get right on that, Brad . . . . \Vord has it that Mark Cosdon, Tim Burton and John Reynolds were spotted together in N".Y.C.John is a busy guy, writing for "Celebrity Death match" and showing his short fi l m to audi ences in Ph i l ly. :\Iy mother spotted Tim on 60 ,Uinutes a few months ago. He is participating in trials for a vac cine for A I DS . And i\ lark, I presume, i s sti l l teachingat Augustana College in Rock I sland, I l l . . . . As for yours truly, I am awaiting a visit from Tracy Gionfriddo. \Vish us luck as we try to get tickets to the Final Four right here in :\ I i n neapol is. And don't forget to send me your news 1 - Anita L. Terry 90 Kelly Cogan wrote in with the happy news that she married Ed Calnan i n February i n Salem, Mass. Mya-Lisa King and her husband, Jack, were in attendance with their new baby boy (they a l so h ave a 3 -year-old daughter, Tessa). Other Colby connections at the wedd i ng included Kristen Fryl ing '91 , Jay '89 and Jess Butler Stabile ' 9 1 and the ,·enerable Charlie Bassett. I n a d d i t i o n to celebra t i n g her own nuptia ls, Kelly attended the wedd i ng reception for Kristen Pettersen and Da\·id ;\ f i l ler i n �O\'ember 2000 i n 1\ nchorage, ,\laska. Kristen and D a,·id had a s m a l l ceremony last June on a mountai ntop i n Alaska and are no'' J i, ing i n Eagle Ri,·er, near \ nchorage . . . . \n editing error in the la t ColbJ had Dyanne Kaufman marr) rng J a me'> I [ ayes ' 9 1 . She's marr) ing a.James l l aye'>, all right, but her O\\ n Jame'> I I aye'>, not Colb) \. "I hope," .,he declare'>, "m) clas'> marcs \1on't he surpn<,ed to '>ee a d i fferent J•lllle'> I la) e'> at the \1 ed d r ng '. " . . . Doug H a l l I'> '>t i l l Ii' ing 111 PortLrnd, \ L u nt:, and \\ Ork 1 n g as a firefighter. I l e al.,o ha ., heen coach ing Bergen & Pa rki nson in Ken nebu n k , diving at Colby, where their senior M a i n e , a s a n a s s o c i a te attorney male placed t h i rd at ESCAC and with the busi ness and real estate made it to nationals. Doug recently law group. H e lives i n Scarborough purchased a three-fa m i l y apartment with h i s wife, M ichelle, and thei r building i n Portland-on Waterv i l le daughter, Laura. Street-and by fun ny coincidence -Laura Senier one of his tenants i s also a Colby grad and two others grew up i n H i a l l 1 I am very much look ing \Vaterv i l le. Doug i s happy t o report forward to seeing you at reun ion that Dave Freed and M a rc Enger this year. Because this is m y fi n a l '89 are engaged, although not to each column, I a lso hope you w i l l consider other. Both are planning fa ll wed volunteering for the class secretary d i n gs . . . . Beth Kubik is completing p o s i t i on or nom i n a t i n g a fr iend her doctoral program in c l i n ical psychology at t h e n i versity of who can m a k e the com m itment. I wou l d be happy to answer a ny J\ I a i ne a nd will do a year-long fel low questions you m ight have about the ship at Boston University next year. position . . . . Some "old" news: Lori I n the sum mer of 1 999 she married Wright w rote that she is work in g Tucker H anson, a M iddlebury grad as an attorney, senior manager o f who shares her love of s k i i ng. Beth regulatory affa i rs at M C I vVorld writes that Amy Farmer-Michaud com. She joi ned Chip Smith there and Mark Michaud were expecting in 1 999. . . . A my Davis was mar a baby in Apri l . They a re l iv i n g r i e d on M a y 2 8 , 2 00 0 , to A n d y i n Burlington, Vt., where Amy i s Brydges . . . . Ch ristine Tuccille d irector o f membership, volunteer Merry was ma rried back i n 1998 to programs and special events at the Shelburne i\ luseum (a large art and J i m Merry, a nd she l ives in t he San Francisco Bay area. She completed outdoor h istory museum s i m i lar to her master's degree in design at San i\ Iystic Seaport). Mark is the executive Francisco State University i n 2 000 di rector of the Vermont Democratic and was hopi n g to b i ke t h rough Party ( l isteners to Vermont radio Eu rope after graduating. . . . J i m wi II often hear h i m i nterviewed on McVay wrote i n l ast yea r that he was pol itical happen ings). Beth also tel ls living i n Pittsburgh and had gradu me that Chandra Goldsmith i s a ated from West Virgi nia Un iversity landscape architect in the Ch icago law school . At t h a t t i me he was area and recently won a national work ing for his father, and he'd had competition for one of her designs small roles i n several movies (Suddeu for a state park in M ich igan . . . . Joe Death withJean-Claude Van Damme Li lore is living in Los Angeles, work and Ki11gpi11 with Woody H arrelson ing on a book about gender theory a n d R a ndy Q u a i d ) . He a l so h a s and work ing as a \Veb site producer been coach ing a high school hockey for Bold New \ Vo rid (www.bnw.com). team ( Bethel Park) that won the He spent five years after graduation 2000 A A A State Championsh ips i n teach i n g at a i\ 1ontessori school, Pen nsylvania . . . . Shawn Crowley then, as he says, "dropped out" to is happi ly married to Kristi n , and pursue art and activism for three they live i n .Y.C. H e is a V P at Fidel years i n Tucson, then moved to L .A. ity, sel l i n g their proprietary 40 I (k) to fi n ish the book and develop a program to smal l/m id-si zed employ one-person multi media performance ers i n the N .Y.C . area . . . . Karie piece. H e encou rages any Colby B utton H a m bly was work i n g on friends who are pass i n g t h rough \Va l l Street but left last year to Southern Cal i fo rn i a to look h i m study at the Columbia n i versity up. . . Rudy and Erika Dresser i\1edical Center to become a nurse Pe nczer are l i v i ng i n Bethel, M a i ne, practitioner. She hopes to special ize where Rudy teaches mathematics at i n pediatric oncology. . . . Jim H ayes Gou Id Academy. Erika i s at home sent me news last year that he has been with their 2-year-old son, Nicholas, studyingat Columbia n iversity Law and their new baby, Rebecca, horn School in N.Y.C. Last s u m mer he got i n February. . . . T.J . and Melissa a job as a s u m mer associate at W i l Organek D upree celebrated the liams & Con n a l ly i n vVashi ngton, birth of their daughter, Charlotte D. ., and he will be clerk i ng for Chief L o u i s e . T h e ) a re I i ' i n g in t h e J a m a ica P l a i n section o f Boston, Justice \tVi l l i a m You ng i n Boston starting in January 2 002 . . . . Mer and T.J. i s '' ork ing at the Boston edith Palin left 1.Y.C. last year to Consulting C roup . . . . G lenn K. Powel l recent I) joined the la\1 fi rm of pursue an M . F.A. in costume design 91 at the Ya le University School of D rama and i s now l iving i n New H aven, Conn . . . . Thank you aga i n t o a l l of you w h o sent i n news. I m iss you a l l and hope you are healthy and well. -Jennifer Wood Jencks 92 Sarah Hamilton Barringer just gave birth to her fi rst child, H arold H a m i lton Barringer. . . . M e l i s s a S m a l l i s s ti l l l i v i ng i n Kents H i l l , M a i n e , a n d work i n g o n her d issertation i n educational psychology from UConn . Meli ssa, h u s b a n d S t e p h e n a n d t h e i r son Joshua just welcomed their second son , Isaac, to the fam i ly. . . . Helen H op k i n s K e l logg was m a r r i e d t h i s p a s t fa l l a n d n o w l i v e s i n Newburyport, Mass . . . . Tracey McCormick h a s spent the past five y e a r s l i v i n g in and around Denver, Colo. She's back i n school pursuing her master's in English at the University of Colorado, Denver. Tracey writes that getting her degree w i l l be the ful fi l lment of a pact she made with Julie Trodella Bruneau the n ight before graduation-to be i n Colorado in 10 years and teach ing at a u n iversity. Julie and Tracey w i l l finish up at the University of Colorado at the same time, and w h i le J u l ie w i l l most l i kely head on to a doctoral progra m for medieval studies i n English, Tracey expects to share her newfound k nowledge with her bar customers "or somet h i ng similarly profound." . . . Chris and Karen Larson F l i nt recently bought a new home in Barrington, R . I . They have a 2-year-old son, Andrew, and were expecting child number two i n April. Karen works for Textron Financial in Providence, and Ch ris is coaching at Bryant Col lege i n Smithfield . . . . Jen Kosek Walker and her husband welcomed thei r second child, Sara Madeleine, last November. . . . A n ne Maddocks and B i l l M ichels '93 were married i n Dorset, Vt., i n M a y 2 000 w i t h more than 60 Colby alumni present' Best man Torin Taylor was accompanied by groomsmen M i ke Rosenblum '93, Scott Reed '93, Marshall Dostal '93, Tyler Merritt '93, Ed Ramirez '94 and Chris \l\Ti lder '93. Bridesmaids i ncluded Kristin Wal lace Livezey, Sura Dubow, Molly Beale, J e n Nehro Patriacca a n d Elaine Bue schen. A n n e recent l y gradu ated from medical school at Columbia University and is curreml y a n ob-gyn resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital . B i l l is a 1 998 Columbia Busi ness School graduate and i s employed i n business development at VCommerce Corporation . . . . Tanya Nygaard is l iving in San Francisco and working for UC Berkeley Exten sion, managing and coord i nating the travel/study programs around the world . . . . Rob DeLello and wife Kathy have been married for six years and have two children, A n n ie, 2 1 12 , and Tom my, I . Rob recently visited with E r i n (Kelly ' 9 1 ) and Chuck DiGrande at Chuck's 30th birthday party. Chuck and Erin have a 2-year-old daughter, Maggie, and were expecting their second child i n May. Other party guests included Terry Reidy, an assistant d istrict attorney in Boston, Greg Mahoney, who recently bought a house with his wife in Walpole, Mass., and Jim Dionizio and his wife, D i na, and their son, Nicholas. Jim had been tra i n i ng rigorously for the Boston Marathon . . . . Todd Alexander compl eted the master's program in city and regiona l plan n i n g at Cornell (May 2000) and now l ives in Portland, Maine, working as the d irector ofnew business development for Maine & Company, a private, statewide economic development orga n ization. -Michelle Fortier Biscotti 93 Marshall Dostal is l iving i n .Y.C. and writi ng comedy fo r a \l\Teb site ca l led Heavy, which can be viewed at www.doctorcomedy.com. Marshall sees a lot of B i l l Michels, Dan Harris, Chris Wilder and Mike Rosenblum, who also l i ve i n M a n hatta n . Spea k i n g of D a n , Emily Muldoon, who just recently got engaged, said she was listeni ng to ABC News recently and recogni zed the steady, reassuring voice of one very poised reporter' I , too, have seen Dan on TV and I just have one question: was he that good looking at Colby? . . . Also i n .Y.C. is Tim Merrigan, who is a district manager for EMC. He recently caught up with a few of his Colby buddies at the Superbowl and reports that Eric DeCosta is l iv i ng in Baltimore and is the head scout for the Balti more Ravens; Steve Hatch is begin n i ng h i s residency as a proctologist i n Oregon; Bob Ward is a l s o i n L.A., perform ing i n com mercia l s ; and Gregg Suffre d i n i just opened a chai n of pizza restaurants in Boston cal led Surfy's Sl ices. Tim h i mself j u s t m i ssed the fi n a l roster cut play i ng football i n the XFL for the N.Y. H itmen. I checked, and Tim confirms that this is all true. Pretty i mpressive, guys ' . . . Mark Radcliffe is a copy writer at an ad agency cal led Nerve in Portl and, Ore, w r i t i ng commercials, radio, print ads and finishing his fi rst novel. . . . Also i n Portland, Ore., is Scott Greenfield, a senior fi nancial analyst at I ntel. He has seen Nive Filipo, who works for Intel in Santa Clara, Cal i f. Scott attended Jen Bierwirth Shurman's weddingin ovember i n Phi ladelphia and said it was "very elegant." Also attending were John Poirier, Karen Lipman and Sarah Inman. Scott and h i s w i fe a re plan n i ng a trip to I srael this sum mer. . . . Lots of weddings and babies! Amy Duncan and Jason Kirkfield were engaged last summer and w i l l be ma rried October 6, 200 1 , on Cape Cod . . . . Mike Tracy marriedJennifer Conley in Boothbay Harbor, M a i ne, last July, and they moved to Hamilton, Mass., after honeymooning i n I re land . . . . Catherine Coyne is l iving i n London a n d was getti n g married this spring to Nlat Lown. This romantic Englishman proposed to Catherine and then whisked her off to Boston to celebrate with friends Stephanie Goff '94, Tracey Hardman '92 and Marty Hergert. Catherine works for the I mperial Cancer Research Fund . . . . Jason Soules married Piper Mc Tealy in February and is l iving in Cambridge, Mass. Jason sees a lot of his ex-roomies, who were his best men. Jack Higgins is l iving i n Cambridge as wel l, Dana "Doogie" McClintock is working at CBS i n T.Y.C. and expecting a bundle of joy i n June, and Dan O'Grady is up at UNH "playing with lobsters" and finishing up his Ph.D . . . . Libby Repass Dumas and her husband, Dave, had a son, Caleb R ichard, i n October. . . . Simone Cella Miller gave birth to Catherine Julia on February 28. Simone received her M.A. from Teachers Col lege at Columbia last year and is l iving i n Springfield, .]. . .. Laura Steinbrink Novak had a baby boy, Brandon Scott, last September. Laura is the executive di rector at Cleveland Bridge Build ers, a nonprofit organ i zation she co-founded, which offers leadership s k i l l s tra i n ing for civica l ly active young professionals. She writes, " I keep i n close contact with Brandy S h a fter C h ap m a n , w h o w o r k s fo r Liberty Mutual a n d l ives with her husband, Pau l , in H i ngham, 1990s Correspondents 1990 Laura Senier 38 Pitts Street Natick, MA 0 1 7 60 508-653- 7 9 2 7 cla [email protected] by.edu 1991 Lesley Eydenberg Bouvi e r 6 1 4 C M a i n Street Winchester, MA 01890 J e n n i fer Flynn 16 Lakev i l l e Road #12A J a m a ica Pla i n , MA 02130 cla ssnews1991@alum .colby.edu 1992 Michelle Fortier Biscotti 8232 Arbor Drive S h rewsbu ry, MA 01545 508-845-6507 fax: 508-845-6483 cla ssnews1992@a lum .colby.edu 1993 Beth C u rran 64 Dane Street #1 Somerv i l l e , MA 02143 classnews1993@a lum .colby.edu 1994 Tracy K. Larsen 3 7 56 Normandy Drive La Canada, CA 9 1 0 1 1-4155 classnews1994@a lum .colby.edu 1995 Yuhgo Ya maguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-354-0289 classnews1995@a lum.colby.edu 1996 Kim Schock 3201 Copper Mill Trace Apt. J Richmond, VA 23294 classnews1996@a lum.colby.edu 1997 K i m berly N. Parker 72 Prescott Street Everett, MA 02149 classnews1997@a lum.colby.edu 1998 Allison L. Brown Flynn 6948 Avery Road Dub l i n , O H , 4301 7-2865 classnews1998@alum .colby.edu 1999 Lindsay Hayes 130 Long Neck Point Road Darien, CT 06820 203-655-4664 cla [email protected] 2000 H i lary Smyth 29 Marl borough Street Apt. #5 Bosto n , MA 02116 6 1 7-266-5440 classnews2000@a lum.colby.edu c0 LBy . s u M M E R 2 00 I I 57 A l u m n i at Large I 1 9 90s k' 4 m ala Cause a nd Effect to the Women's R ights Network-an orga n iza As a fourth grader in Dubai, Mala Rafik '94 was asked in school what she tion designed to em power women a round the wanted to be when she grew up. Rafik answered without hesitation. " I want world with the knowledge of thei r human rights. to be a lawyer," she wrote, "so I ca n help people out of hard situations. " She beca me the program d i rector for this i nternational h u ma n rights Today that's what she is-and does. That scrawled statement from fourth grade ha ngs on the wa l l of Rafik's orga n ization prior to joining its board of advisors, on which she conti n ues law office in Boston, the latest stop on her career path as a h u ma n rights to serve today. In add ition to serving the Women's R ights Network, Rafik attorney. That she's achieved her child hood goal is remarkable, though not also gained va lua ble experience i n the law as a n attorney for the American entirely u nexpected . "Growing up, it's all I ever wanted to d o , " she said . Civil Li berties U n ion. Today she is a n attorney with Rosenfeld & Associates of Bosto n , a fi rm Rafik was raised 1n Dubai in the U nited Arab Emirates by an I ndian Catholic mother and a Pakista n i Muslim father. For as long as she can ded icated to sec u ri ng hea lth care coverage, pa rticula rly for those suffering remem ber, she says, she has objected to the injustices that everyone, from chronic i l l nesses. Rafik sees the work that she does now as h u ma n especially women , 1 n Ara b countries must accept. There is no freedom rights work. "You can't have civil rights u n less you have you r hea lth , " she of speech in Duba i , let alone freedom of the press, says Rafi k, reca l l i ng said. In a ca reer that req uires her to deal with d istressing and emotional the frustration she felt as a young girl when the letters of protest she situations, her consolation is the knowl- a nd her mother sent to the nationa l and local newspapers were edge that she is making a d ifference in systematica lly ignored. the world . -Anne Garinger '01 B ut at Colby, Rafik sped along her chosen path. M idway through Rafik's freshman year, the G ulf War broke out. At a town meeting-style d iscussion a bout the conflict in the M iddle East, Rafik met P rofessor Kenneth Rodman (government) for the first time. A bond formed , and Rafik took all of the classes that Rod m a n taught while she was at Colby. Rodman remem bers being im pressed by Rafik's idea lism with respect to 1nternat1onal h u ma n rights issues. With Rod ma n 's guidance, Rafik com pleted a senior honors thesis on the international responses to the Cam bodian genocide. "I credit P rofessor Rodman for encouraging my passion for human rights work, " she said, " [for) teaching me the fundamentals that I would take into the working world and making me thi n k 1n a more global perspective a bout human rights and how so much can be seen as human rights work . " Following graduation from Colby, Raf1k earned a law degree rom Northeastern U niversity. Her course of s udy, which focused on feminist a pproaches to i nter national law as well as on 1nternat1onal law, led Rafi k \ l .w •. , a n ti " 1 t h r i s i e Col e m a n i m c h oc k . " h o t h e i r ne\1 horn. . . Carrie S m i t h a n d is edito r at Computer \\'orld. D u p u i s moved t o J\ 1o n t a n a , where I rece n t l y ret u rned from a n adven he i s focu s i n g on h i s w r i t i ng. I -le is Fidel i t ) . She " rites, "T ' i s i ted \1 i t h t u re with him in C h i n a , where he l i v i n g w i t h Beth Fi a l ko a nd Sarah K r i s t i n e D e u p re e C r a m e r on demonst rated the e ffect i veness of Poh l '9+. Ta-TanishaJa mes i s l i v i n g \ l a rr h a \ \'i neyard this past s u m mer. the ' J\ longo l i a n \Var Cry' in fight i n g i n N.Y.C., fi n i shed h e r l a w degree from Ford h a m and is work i n g for a \1 1 t h F i d e l i t ) i '> il n asc,oci ate 1ned i a d i rector at ,1 n d recent l ) g o t a not her promo t io n . . . . l a u d i a Tejada I '> I I \ 1 n g a n d \1 ork 1 11 g 1 11 t h e D.C. a re,1 .111d \1 ork'> I '> for Defender-, of\\ d d l i fc . . . . \nd 110\I She \l a'> out ea'>t after spend i ng t he off d a n ger." . . . Lesl ie Campbe l l f or t he proud lbd-, ' Jeff " B i sc u i t " <, u m mer i n t h e Caribbea n lead i ng a l so sends news from Ko�c a n d h I '> \1 1 fe \I elcomed 1 1 a n n a h P {. , where judge. A l ison Davis h a s been l i v i n g '>t udent'> on a program i n \I h ich she she recent l y "became a vict i m of t h e i n B u e n os A i res t h e p a s t c o u p l e \1orkcd 1 11 t h e local com m u n i t ) _l .1 11e i nto t h L \I orld o n October � 5 . J e ff ro dot-com laroff c a rn age c u r re n t l y o f years a n d cont i n ues t o work i n a l c,o happe n i ng." S h e \I rites, " I a m r a k i ng adve r t i s i ng. L e s I ie occasion a I l y hears t rnuss, \I ho I '> I i ' i n g i n t h e r i me off to r n k e advant age of from Rob McCarley, who graduated w t h e cu l t u re in 0:.Y. C : . a n d to become from med school in D.C : . a n d h a s been .1 l m l e I I J n n .1 h ( 1· l i n he t h ) . t o o ' F n k \ lonen .,on '9-t. L e s l i e Fry m ier a tcmporar) member of r h e ' l a d i c'> doi n g h i s residency i n Bosto n . Rod " .111 eight h grade te.1 cher 1 11 1 -, \1 ork 1 n g for r he \ J u� l a n d Stare \I ho l u nch' cro,1 c l ," a n d s h e says 1i, 1ng '>he\ accept i n g ne,1 med ia job lealb 1' ,111 ;J t tOrlle) .II \\ d d m ;l ll , f l a rrold, \I len , D1 \on i n Ch 1ugo . .rnd . . . Rod a n d ace K i I I mer Core) h.n e Y.. rmout h . \ l .1 1 ne. ,rn d C.rn dace j ., ra k 1 11 g c.ire of h u ' 1 n e " •H h o m e \ I 1 r h 58 lBf · S ME h e l p c l e a n up t h e bc,1che'>. .,a,1 t aci I C . n:errn 1ch, Con n . , a n d I '> engaged \,,emhl) and I '> u m ner L e m o n I '> i n in \ n napo l 1 , . I fong Kong 1 11 " .Y.C. She reports t h a t K e i t h -Beth C11rm11 94 A n d ie S u l a k i s work i ng o n her ,\'L S . i n environ mental science a n d graduated from t h e U n i versity o f 2000 he moved to M a i ne and joi ned T h i s past August she left the rat policy at the University o f C a l i f o rn i a M a i n e School of L a w i n '99 a n d for race of M a n hattan and is now back at Berkel ey. A n d i e wrote thatJ eff '93 K PN IG Consulti ng as a m a n ager i n a yea r had h i s own cri m i n a l defense Connie Huffine Zlot moved the h i gh-tech practice. H i s clients i n Boston. Si nce then she's opened and law practice in \V i n t h rop, i\l l a i ne. M a r i n C o u n t y i n Novem b e r a re all Japa nese fi rms so he travels the Boston office of K RC, bought a In J a n u a ry 2001 he joi ned the law to Tokyo often. He was to marry townhouse a nd is engaged to 1\ 1att firm of Petruccel l i & M a r t i n , L L P, Doyle (congrats) and p l a n n i n g a Emily Chapman started Tomomi Uwasu, h i s girl friend of s i x in Portland as an associate attorney. M ay '02 wedding. Jen says a new job at M I S Tra i n i n g I n stitute years, in Te nri, Japan, on A p r i l 14. He l i ve s i n B r u n s w i c k , M a i n e , in Fra m i ngham, i\l lass., writing and w i t h h i s g i r l fr i e n d , S h a ron H i g to 2 000. Con n ie is work i ng f o r Genen tech . . . . -Th1cy K. Lnno11 97 Deirdre Brochu is j uggl i ng med school and work a t a local a rea hospita l . . . . Jami Fisher h a s been a l l over the place editing i n m a rketing commun ica gins . . . . tions. She i s s t i l l singing a n d acting studying at D a rtmouth a long with I now have the specifics on Sandra Lund. She is an associate at i n loca I chorus/theater. In August she Jay Sutherland. Last spring he went Brown Bros. H a rri m a n i n Boston, Florida and now back to P h i l ly with saw Marine! to Nicole Farkas '92 's weddi ng to she is engaged to \Vi l l i a m S a rgis her husband, J o h n C l a rk . They were Ken Mogul and saw K a ren Oh '93 son, a nd they have plan ned a Novem m a rried last J u ne. She was teac h i n g (she l i ves i n M a i ne on a fa rm), Eric ber wed d i n g . . . . American S i g n Language at a local Mateo, who i s living in C h icago. She a lso wrote that D.C. Gagnon got m a rried last s u m mer and that Andy Carlson is getting m a rried this J u n e . . . . K imberly Valentine is l iv i n g in Denver, Colo., and work i n g for J anus as a m a rketing Andrew Kulmatiski is M i les '93 and Betsy Maclean (both l i v i ng in Brook lyn). He plans to go Erika Moore ma rried John Coombs in an Apri l wedd i n g . . . . Cyndi Pomerleau si nce graduat ion : P h i l l y, Boston, public h igh school. . . . Stephanie Mann rem a i n s at the Un iversity of on a climbing trip that he won to Mt. m a rried Corey LeClerc last J u ly. ,\ l ichigan, p l a n n i n g to complete her K i l am a n j a ro with h i s gi rl friend . . . . l n Cyn d i is a physical t h e rapy grad chemi stry P h . D. in the s u m mer of m a n ager. She went to Jeff December 2 000 C a ro l y n Read student at the University of M i nne '02 . She, too, is engaged, to Aaron wedd i n g in August a nd saw graduated from the University of sota . . . . Sarah Christie m a rriedJohn G abel n ick, and has set an August 'O I M ich igan with a master's i n publ ic Caro l a n '95 last J u ne i n H i ngham, date . . . . h e a l t h a n d a m a s t e r ' s i n soc i a l J\ l ass . . . . tant art di rector at Action ,\ l a rketing Carter's Matt Lapides, Matt McGowan, Tor i n ' 9 2 and Anika Smith Taylor, Ed a nd Kara Gilligan Ramirez, Kevin O ' G rady, Kent B on h a m , Pete DelGreco, John Utley and B i l l '93 Anna Thomson is an assis work. She is l iving i n Ch icago and Kelly Wi nchester is engaged to Matt Nelson, and the coord i n ates a h i gh school-based two have plan ned a May '02 wedding Burgener rem a i n s with Accenture health cl i n ic and health education i n K i awa h , S . C. . . . (f ormerly A n d e rsen C o n s u l t i n g) . and A n ne Maddocks M ichels '92 . In p ro g r a m for t h e C o o k C o u n t y is engaged to Jessi Schwarz. He's ! Ie plan ned on q u i tting h i s job t h i s September 2 00 0 K i mberly attended Department of Public Health . . . . in h i s second year of law school at s u m mer to pu rsue h i s ,\ L B . A . a t A l l i s o n G u t h We l l s's we d d i n g a nd saw Elizabeth Labovitz, Jes sica Matzk i n , M ichelle Tadros, Abigale K n app '93, Laura M i l ler Thompson, Stephanie Goff a n d I ri na McCreery. . . . Ben Morse Elizabeth Wal lman i s sti l l teach ing Tatick H igh School i n Temple . . . . Congrats also to Larisa Jovanovic and Rick Unru h , who a re School of Busi ness . . . . Natick, Mass. She w i l l b e traveling getting m a rried in C a l i f o rn i a t h i s to the Ga lapagos Isla nds i n J u ly and year. . . . Yawa lead i n g a h i k i ng trip i n Colorado m a id of honor for at BU. . . . in August . . . . who i s tying the k not in October ,\ l a nchester, N . H . , a n d works for G a r t n e r i n i t s \1 o r l ch1 ide e 1·ents ecology at Kevi n O'Grady is Al Madrid Duse-Anthony i s t he Vanessa Newell, Group in Boulder, Colo . . . . Matthew the U n i 1·ersity of \'irg i n ia's Da rden Meredith Wa l ker resides in Boston and is worki ngon her m a ster's in art h istory Tom Beedy l i \·es i n a nd h is w i fe, K ris, bought a house i n fi n ishing up h i s master's in earth sci in Ipswich, Mass. Yawa works for a Topsham, M a i ne. He is work i n g as a ence at U N H . H i s study of the geo small transportation pla n n i ng firm di vision . . . . process engineer at Fi rstTech nology chemi stry of deep-sea hydrothermal in Andover, Mass . . . . Jenny H iggins l ives i n Burli ngton, \'t., where s h e Alexandra Cornell in Standish, developing automotive vents, or "black smokers," has ta ken is s t i l l in Atlanta work ing on a joint i s i n the U \' i\ 1 Col lege of ,\ ledi s e n s o r s . T h e y h a ve a baby g i r l , h i m on two research cru ises that degree at Emory University: a Ph.D. cine. She sees a number of Colby Megan, a n d were expect i n g a second have used the research subma r i ne in women's studies and a master's people, among them R i ma Carlson g i rl at the encl o f May. . . . Cameron A l v i n to collect the hydrothermal in publ ic health. She a l so has a part R ic h a rd s o n h a s b e e n l i v i n g i n A u id samples from the bottom of the t i me position in the reproductive '96, Pete ,\ l a n n i ng '98 and Kelly C u e m a n . . . . S i m one K a p l a n western North Carol i n a si nce '95, ocean . . . . Lisa Conley i s teach i n g health division of the CDC, work i ng recei\'ecl her m aster's i n jou rn a l ism w o r k i n g f o r the N . C . O u t w a r d sevent h and e i g h t h grade rea d i n g on i mprov i ng contraceptive accept from Northwestern, \I here she hung Bound School as a field i n structor and Engl ish at a m iddle school i n abil ity in countries in Sub-Saharan out with and course d i rector. She is currently Ba ngor. S h e a lso coaches field hockey A frica a n d t he i\ l i d cl le East. She fi n i s h i n g, Si mone mm-eel back to Jennifer O'Neill. A fter the associate pro g r a m d i rector at and track and co- d i rects the school traveled with Sarah Muzzy th is past Boston and is a staff \1 riter at C/O NCOBS's Cedar Rock Basecamp. l n musica l . She fi nished an i ndiv idua l l y Jan uary t h rough J\ lexico, dri n k i ng t he fa l l of 2 000, she joi ned with 50 designed master's program in educa papaya j u ice and doing yoga on the magazine in Fra m i ngh a m . . . . Greg Moody is a staff 11 riter/media rela other women to take part i n G i rl s tion in December at the University beach . . . . ofJ\ 1 a i ne at Orono . . . . T nJ u ne Kathie Carter Davis l ives with Steve Kidd i n Cambridge, ,\ l a ss. t i o n s coord i n a ro r on t h e p u b l i c o n t h e Move, a 3 , 8 8 3 - m i l e b i ke ride Tew York, Pooler wi 11 complete her residency Carter i s studying for the G i\ I AT lege . . . . N.Y., a special project of O ut w a rd i n e m e rgency m e d i c i n e a t J o h n s and getting in lots of s k i i ng. Steve husband sold their restaurant and Bound . . . . Bruce a n d Sue Benson Panilaitis purchased t h e i r Ii rst home H o pk i n s H o s p i t a l i n B a l t i m o re . is work i n g on a nove l about h i s celebrated t he t h i rd birthday of son I n J u l y s h e is m a rrying D r . Sean experiences i n ,\ I a laysia while also Zane in Boca Raton, Fla . . . . On the i n Tewksbu ry, Mass. Sue conti nues Toomey at Colby's Lorimer Chapel. t ra i n ing for the Boston ,\ [ a rathon T I ran i nto a s a k i n d e rga rten teacher in t h e After a honeymoon to Hawai i , ther and the 5 5 - m i le Starfish Run t h i s works at Digitas and still l i 1·es \1 ith Chelsea public schools. Bruce w a s to w i l l move to Seattle . . . . John fa 11 i n Providence. Carter a lso added Jamie Harris. I also saw Bob Doak at receive h i s Ph . D . i n biology i n May fi n ished his P h . D . i n chemistry at that he is in touch w i t h a bar i n Boston. He was \'ery relaxed from Tufts Un iversity and w i l l begi n Pri nceton l a st fa l l . He now l ives in Marnie Eckelman . . . . Jennifer Robbins work t h is spring on a postdoctoral \\'el lesley, ,\ lass., and recently began moved to New York to work for still l i1·es i n S} racuse, co1·ering cit} fe l l o w s h i p , a l s o at Tu ft s . B r u c e h i s postdoctoral at H a rvard in the former President C l i nton's pol lsters, a n d Sue h a v e two foster s o n s , Rob, astro-physics department . . . . Penn, Schoen 6, a n d M i k e , 5. Underwood was a business de\·elop years and one Lewi nsky scandal," the H i l lary Cli nton-Rick Lazio race. Sue's sister, l ives i n t h e D o m i n ican ment m a nager at Pandesic (a joim she mm·ed on to work as a di rector She is teach i ng a reporting class at Republic. . . . venture oflntel and SAP). In October at K RC Research & Cons u l t i ng. yracuse, where she recei\·e<l her from Portland, Ore., to Sa ndy B e n s o n , B rad Patters h a l l Dudek Rob c- Berland. "After two relations staff at S11 eet B r i a r Col Robin Pearah Gee and her Doug Elli nger, \I ho and 1·ery h appy. . . . Eri n Duggan hall and writing about politics for the Post-Standard. c0LBy . Last fa l l she CO\'ered s u M M E R 200 I I 59 A l u m n i at La rge 1 9 9 0 s-2000s i\ l .A., a n d i s hopin g t o move t o "N"ew York in the future . . . . Remember: our reu n ion i s next summer. If you want to join tbe p l a n n in g committee, p l e a se contact B u ffy C l i fford at blcl i [email protected]. -Kimberly . Parker 98 On b e h a l f of t h e C l a s s of '9 I want to begin with a special remembra nce of Ben L ing. Ben passed away on ,\ l a rch 1 7 fol lowing a n i mmensely courageous battle with cancer. O u r thoughts and prayers go out to the L i n g fam i l y a s we remember a good friend. . . . fter two years with the Peace Corp i n ,\ lorocco, where she focused o n health e d u c a t i o n , water a n d s a n i t a t i o n , Kristina Straus traveled i n Spai n w i t h Kendra A m m a n n and Darren Perry, who both l ive in Kew York City. En route home, Kristina stopped in Boston to see Joan Giblin , who's work ing at \Ve l ie ley College, and Peter l a rk , who i s teach i n g at Brewster Academy in v\Tolfeboro, l\'. H . . . . icky Moody reports that she shares her Portland, Ore., neighborhood with Deb Shea, Brian Golden '97 and Aaron Bean '97. EJ Levin came to visit for a week from :\".Y.C ., ended up staying for three weeks and, after having such a good time, relocated to Portland a week later. EJ also writes that she, Deb hea, :\'icky ,\loody, Rebecca A l len and Mignon Winger vacationed in \\' h i tier together. Becky lives in \'ermont and works as a jun ior high math teacher, and ,\ l ignon i i n fi lm 5chool in i':e" York . EJ a lso adds her congratulation to Ken Raiche and Leah e t, \I ho a re getting married this June . . . . Jackie Bates, who is in nur i ng school i n pokane, \\'ash., and ski coaching on the weekends, \1 as ma rried on eptember 9 to i':e\1 Zea la nder , reg J lughe. . Jackie looks forn <lrd tc> returningto i':e\1 Zealand 111 the fa ll of2003 . . . . Back in Boston, a ra Rigelhaupt i5 a5 istant di rector ofannual gi, ing at La a l le College, a 1oh .,he wok after much soul sea rch ing la'>l summer. I !er role is similar to her fu nd-ra 1 s 1 11g respon ihil iues " h i le \1 ork 1 11g J l Colhy. Sara 1s engaged t0 C .eoff Cramer, a musician a nd record mg eng 1 11eer, and plannmg an October 2002 \1 edding. . . . arah vergaag Eno I I \ es \I 1th la i re 111 C :a mbndge, \ l a . . and \I orks at I l a n a rd L n l\ erslt) 1 11 the de, elop ment office. ,' he \1 ntes that she ran a half marathon a longside Brian i l l , ndrew inell ,1nd Pere Felmly la s t 60 C0lB Y · Su M M E R 200 I fal l . Pete is a fi rst-year law student at the n iversity of Southern 1 a i ne and is l iv i ng i n Portland. Brian, who has been pursuing a m aster's at BU, planned to apply to medical school this spring. Brian l ives with Andrew, who also plans to enter med school this fa l l . . . . Andrea Bassi is still in Boston fi nishing up her t h i rd year of optometry school and w i l l start her one-year clinical externships i n June. Her last six months of rotations will be i n i\liami, Fla., where she looks forward to seeing Meghan Hauptli. Meghan l ives i n South Beach, where she teaches i n n e r - c i t y c h i Id ren . . . . Kevin Thurston is working in Boston and plans to attend graduate school in the fa 11 . . . . After three yea rs in Boston l iving in Davis Square with Erika Ayers and Emily Record, KC McClelland decided to move back to her hometown of Los Angeles. KC is looking forward to spending a few months traveling before she settles down i n California . . . . David Stern spent thesummer of2000 i n northern M i n n esota as a c a m p cou nselor leading canoe trips in Canada. Si nce then, David has moved to Denver, Colo., and is enjoy i n g l i fe in the mountains . . . . Marc Hachey is an engineering tech n icia n/sta ff geolo gist for a geotechn ical-engineering fi rm. Marc l ives i n Enci nitas, Calif., with h i s room mate from Hawa i i . . . . Julie Fidaleo is finishing her first year of law school at the University of I ndiana. She w i l l be i n San D iego working for a district attorney for the summer. . . . Alexander Sobel moved out to Columbus, Ohio, last fal l for his t h i rd year of medical school. . . . Shannon Baker was mar ried in Columbus, Ohio, on December 30 to her h igh school sweetheart, Brad Kleme ru d, an F- 1 6 pilot. Amy Forrer and Jill Marshall were bridesmaids, and Fran Berry, Leslie Record, Sarah Ostermueller, Danny K.ipervaser and Holly Grochmal were a l l i n attendance . . . . Karl Dahlfred is teach ing nglish to ages 1 0-2 1 in Thailand. I I e reports that "the food i great, spicy a nd chea p 1 " Heather olding, 1 a ria Thompson a n d I ssa i a c o b b e j u s t g o t back from Qu ito, cuador, \I here they ' isited Karen chle i n , \1 ho h a s been Ii' ing there since :\'o' e m her. \ lyssa compares the trip ro a " I 0-day COOT but 11 irh l lama'>, Ecuadorian poltce a nd cheap tequ i l a ! " . . . ndy mith is in his second year of la11 school ar L Penn and still lo1 es it. I le m11 elctl up to Colb) for tht: Blue • • • · Lights i nvitational concert ("wh ich was a blast' ") with Oppie, Tielman Van Vleck '99 and Jon A l len '00. Andy plans to start work at a law firm .Y.C. t h is summer. Next fa ll he m plans ro relive his Colby \Vriters' Center days when he teaches a fi rst year law research and writing course at Penn Law . . . . Devin Colman i s sti l l working at the M a ca lester Col lege art gal lery and m a k i ng his own art-mainly sculptures and drawings. H e says he's looking forward to being neighbors with Rob Gold '96 when he moves to St. Paul this summer. . . . Also in the art world, Vanessa Hernandez, an art and antiquities dealer, is the assistant di rector of the Morning Star Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M . . . . Thanks to everyone for the updates' Keep writi ng1 -Allisou Brown Flym1 99 It was fantastic seeing Kristy Gould and B i l ly R iley i n .Y.C. recent ly. K ri s t y sti I I works as a graphic designer for a fash ion aclver tisingcompany i n Boston. Billy enjoys his work at an IT consulting firm a nd l ives i n Charlestown with Ray Lang '00, who works for American Express Financi a l . . . . Tony Pasquariello moved to New York from Bosron for a n i ne-month tra i n ing program as part of his advancement at Goldman Sachs. . . . Heather Fine sti l l works hard for Senator Lieberman in D.C., and she's considering law school for her furn re . . . . Lt. Dave Nasse's wife, Nancy, is clue i n m id-August. . . . Alex Parrillo works i n Boston for the I nt e rn e t c o m p a n y J e n zaba r a n d t ra v e l s n a t i o n w i d e for b u s i n e s s development. . . . Emily Etchells teaches Spanish and horseback riding and coaches a defending Ca lifornia state championship lacrosse team at the Thacher School in southern California . . . . A n ne Nettles is with Read Boston meriCorps*V I STA at the South Boston Neigh borhood House, where she assists in promot ing and i ncorporating literacy i nto loca l chi ldcare programs . . . . Larry Spollen is a pre-school teacher and says he loves h i s job. . . Tri n ity College hi red Matt Williams as an a5sistant coach for men's lacrosse and men's soccer. . . . Penjani Mphepo, 11 ho l ives in D.C., spent last spring in I long Kong, Si ngapore and ,\ lalaysia ; Penjani i work ing t o develop a n r nternet device gca red f o r develop ing count ries . . . . Jack Coombe1· lives in i': .Y.C. and works in publ i;h ing. . . . Jessica Gilbert I ives in ,\ 1 a i ne and works at Sunday R iver. . . . Abby H e a l y is work i n g at Rockefe l l e r n iversity i n I.Y.C. . . . Ron Russo moved back to .Y.C. . . . Aaron W h i t m o r e i s s e t t l i n g i n to t h e Southern C a l i f o r n i a l i festyle a n d havi ng fun . . . . Martha Rogers works at Houghton M i fA i n and l ives with Greg Parzych i n Somerv i l le, M ass. They enjoyed a six-week European j a u n t last spri ng. They often see Ben Sigm a n , who l ives close by in C a mbridge , M a ss., a n d works for a n envi ron me n t a l consu l t i n g fi rm . . . . B r e n d a n B l o o m a n d C h ri s t i n a H o l m e s t r a v e l e d i n Southeast A s i a f o r fou r months and a re moving ro San Francisco t h i s spri ng. . . . Ben Armiger is l i v i n g on his fam i ly fa rm in M a ryland and has a job with a boat charter. He spent the sum mer work ing for OLS i n Alaska, where A n ne H utch inson joined him for the road trip back east. A n ne, who has a new puppy named Banjo, is look ing into graduate schools . . . . Abby Manock has made the career move from self-proclaimed ski bum to starvi ng a rtist. Abby's doing some i l l ustration work, and she l ives i n Portland, M a i ne, with Caroli ne Savory. Caroline loves her job at an executive search firm. She m i sses John Bishop and M ichele M ach a l a n i , who were l iv i n g i n Portland but took off for l epa l . On the way to Nepal, Joh n stopped in Nigeria to visit with h i s parents, and on the way home this spring John and M ichele planned to swing th rough London . . . . Cate Tynan enjoys I i fe i n the subu rbs but com mutes into N.Y.C. for her job at Broad way Books, a d ivision of Ra ndom House . . . . Chasey Hewes also works for R andom House in the special markets department. . . . Ch risti na S c a n n ap i e go is fu r t h e r i n g h e r education at t h e San Francisco Col lege of Art while tend ing bar at a Haight-Ashbu ry joint. Christina lives with Dan Rizza, Peter Edwards and M i ke Baru . . . . Laura Neale spent last year in Culebra , Puerto R ico, and then took off for Cuba and Central America. She now lives in Sa nta Fe, l .M . . . . John " Rocki" Ku rucz works at a n environmental mon itoring company i n Port land, Maine, and spends much of his free t i m e recon structing an old Land Rover and pla n n i n g a boat-bui lding project for the summer. . . . After spend ing much time in the Pacific l orthwest, Doug Connelly was raking the OLS i nstructor course -�'3'A¥M�a&ll The Houston Chro11icle recently reported on the career of Corbett Bishop '93 , who leads six to 1 2 photo safaris a year in East Africa and Tanzania. Bishop previ ously led more tl1an 40 trips up Kenya's Mt. Kil imanjaro for an adventure-travel company. " To g·et i nto those a reas where you can find true adventure and exploration," he said, is "what I have been pursuing a l l my l i fe" · · Ma rk D. Radcliff '93 contrasted "Western" casualness witl1 "Eastern" assertiveness Carrie L. Clough '98 in a Maine Times article last J anuary. Compared wiw laid-back attitudes developed in the less-wreatening western climate, we Portland, Ore., ad writer concluded, we rugged weather of his native Maine "humbles us, challenges us, forces us to . . . better prepare ourselves for what l ies ahead" Carrie L. Clough '98 sang in College choral groups and in operas and now has won plaudits from The San Frn11cisco vVeekly for her "elastic, auworitative . . . elegant and worldly tones" in tl1e self-titled debut album by Call and Response. The quintet was cited for "crafting some of the most persuasive pop to come along in ages." : : ·· :: : mM•Mt·M¥11 to M ichael Mullen in Melrose, Mass. · · Sandra A. Sundwall '9 1 to Stephen L. Phillips in Hartford, Conn. John M. Beaver '92 to e a w er A. Shaff in Belmont, Ma ss. Ronald C . Martin Jr. '93 to Kristen M. Johnson in Chatl1am, Mass. Lawrence M. Rulison II '94 to Jennifer A. Manganello · · Mark C. Gallagher '94 to Christa N. FigLiolini in Cumberland, R.I. · · Kristen M. Hanssen '95 to Edwin B . Goodell II ' 9 2 in Lexington, Mass. · Matthew J . Morrissey ' 9 5 to Kristen E. Healy in Tewburyport, Mass. · Karen E. Spires '95 to Derek M. Finkelman · Patricia A. Benson '96 to Brian Bechard in Concord, Mass. · · Sarah E. Hamlin '96 to Gregory T. Walsh '95 in Chawam, M ass. Sherrie A. Sangster '96 to Benjamin G . Bielak Jr. in Hanover, Mass. · · Rachel K. Wol f '96 to Brian Thomas Preti in Daronouth, M ass. Catherine C. Neuger '97 to Gregg A. Le Blanc '96 in vVh ite Plains, N.Y. · · Katharine S. Williams '97 to Shawn T. Bauer in Tiverton, R.I . Maniages: Michele A. Friel ' 9 1 ·· ·· : : : H ·· :- : : :: · · : : ·· : ·· Births: A daughter, : Grace Chrisikos Arendell, to Robert L . Arendell · · A son, Collin �Wil liam A son, John 'Tardio, to Corrine Hauser '9 1 and Douglas Tardio Robert Quinn, to Robert and Patricia Shepard Quinn '91 · A daughter, Sienna vVhite Probert, to Sharyl A. White '9 1 and Brian " W. Probert '88 · · A son, Nicholas "Nid·y Mauran Zuccotti, to A daughter, John "Andy" and Margaret Mauran Zuccotti '9 1 Corrigan Mairead Farnham, to Erin Minear '92 and Timothy A daughter, Emma Rose Kane, to Martin and Farnham ' 9 1 Joselyn Hiller Kane '94 · · A daughter, Madeline Baker Perfetti, to Michael and Sara Palmer Perfetti '95 . '9 1 and Stephanie Christikos-Arendell : ·· .. : .;. : · : ·· : Deaths: Benjamin D. Ling '98, March 1 7, 2 00 1 , in Tulsa, Okla., at 2 5 . this spring. . . . Eric "The Goat" Cook has been teaching math at the \Vatervi l le Va l ley Ski Academy and will go back to the A l\ 1C tra i l crew for a t h i rd sum mer. . . . Newt Briggs moved from O a k l a n d , C a l i f. , to Las Vegas, Ne\'., after an exciting tour of the Southwest on his new motorcycle. He works for Habitat for Human ity and plans to move to Texas this summer. . . . I 'm still l i v ing in N.Y. C . and h ave t a ken on a new job as the youth d i rector for sixth t h rough 1 2 th graders at St. Lu ke's Parish Youth Program i n my hometown, Darien, Con n . I love it. Graduate school awaits for the fa l l , but I haven't yet decided o n schools. Keep your updates comi ng' -Lindsay Hayes 00 I hope that you are all doing well. I am sti l l working at Testa, H urwitz & Thibeault, L L P, as a corporate paralegal and am living in the Boston area. I often nm into Colby grads and can report that Kristyn Morrissey and Eric Wallach have recently moved to San Francisco, where they l ive near Travis Keeling and Catherine Pinkerton. Last fall Eric worked as a production assistant for the movie The lvlexicn11, a n d although h e wasn't in the credits his foot was in the movie' . . . Jeremy J(jdde, who is also living in San Francisco, sent the following news. "I am now engaged to my girlfriend of four years, Beth (not a Colby grad)' \,Ye are planning on being married next summer. I also ran into Mike Siegel at a bar in San Francisco in February. vVe had a great night but just a bit too much to drink." . . . Bradley R u s s e l l is l i v i n g in Somerv i l l e , Mass., and i s working a t The David Rockefeller Center for Latin Ameri can Studies at Harvard University. Last summer she and Chris Con nell drove across country to Califor nia . . . . Michael Farrell is working as an admissions counselor at Babson College in vVellesley, Mass., and says that it's much nicer (and more fun) to be on the other side of the college process' . . . Megan Davis is working for AmeriCorps*VISTA as the men toring coordinator for the Burlington School District and is LivingwithJared Woodward- Poor i n B u r l ingto n , Vt. J ared is working f o r a 'Neb hosting company in South Burling ton . . . . Chris Bonafide is in his first year of med school at Penn State College of Medicine. H e also reports that Matt Davis and Rachel Palmer '99 are getting married in J une1 Congratulations, ,\ Iart! . . . Ken Allen is working for T. Rowe Price in Baltimore and often talks to Tom Donahue and Sambit Pattanayak, who are both li,·ing in N"ew York City. . . . Matt Smith is working at Credit Suisse First Boston on the corporate trading desk in N"ew York a n d is l i v i n g ,,· i th M ark Edgar, who is work ing at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown . . . . Whitney Lawton reports that things are going well in Siberia and that she is heading back to the States in J u ly . . . . L1 December Cipperly Good completed a 1 7-da y transatlantic voyage from tl1e Canary Isla nds to Antigua, and she is cur rently doing AmeriCorps and teach ing museum studies to high school sn1dents at the Good \Viii-Hinckley School in H inckley, Maine . . . . Jaime Cassidy is going to E l Salvador in ] une with the Peace Corps . . . . Carrie Russell and Greg de St. Maurice are both teaching English inJapan . . . . Lisa Cardillo, also teaching English, is living in Rome . . . . Meghan Matschke and Tracy Freuder are both working a s e n v i r o n m e n ta l con s u l ta n ts in Washington, D .C. . . . Christine Dorr is also living in \ Vashington, D.C., and is doing tl1eJune Aids Ride from Raleigh, N.C., to D .C. with Wendy Heywood . . . . Mari Masuda graduated from the U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School in October and is currently in Corpus Christi, Texas, for primary pilot training. . . . Krissy S w a n s o n is l i v i n g in Port l a n d , Ore., and i s working a s a research assistant/tech at Oregon Health Sci ences University. . . . Vanessa Wade recently finished her master's in psy chology atTufts niversity . . . . Laura Van Gestel is working at the Perkins School for the Blind in \iVatertown, Mass . . . . After living in Los Angeles, Amanda Ganong moved to Boston, where she is working in research at the Channing Laboratory, which is associated with Brigham and v\To men's Hospital. She will be working on vac cine development and drug screen ing for new antibiotics . . . . David Ferguson has been working as a production assistant and was working on a project for a David Copperfield show. . . . vVill Kendall is living in Boston with Tom Reynolds, Geoff Mason and Darren Powell. \Vi i i wanted to report that Darren i s now working at \Vellington Management and spends many nights volunteering at the Brighton animal park, where he feeds the geese. Thanks for the update, "'ill. . . . Laura Gagne is Ii,•ing in N"ew Orleans and teaching 2 5 "highly energized" first graders ,,;th the Teach for America program. he misses Colby but enjoys living in i'\ew Orleans and survi1·ed her first Mardi Gras . . . . Take care and keep i n touch. -f-lilmy Smyth COLBY · S U M M E R 2 0 0 1 I 61 0 B I T u A s E I R artist in canvas and paper, oils, acrylics .\larjorie Rowell Shane ' 2 7 , April 2 5 , 2 00 1 , in Portland, :\ laine, at 96. ser.·ed in t h e Na1-y during \Vorld Mancle F. C o l e ' 3 3 , J a n uary 1 8, 200 1 , in Sebec, ,\ Iaine, at 93 . After h e was a homemaker \\·ho raised \\'ar II and the Korean Conflict. A senring in the Na1y he managed the Sherrymike Pottery in H a l lowe l l . She graduate of ,\ L H . Fishman Store i n Brnttleboro, is survived by her daughter, Cheryl three children after her hu band wa kil led in the \\'a r I I . J a n et outh Pacific i n \ \'orld ur.i,ing are her daughter, . Heyer, two on , Loui P. and John R . hane, i x grandchildren and 1 1 great-grandchildren. 200 1 in :\'ewto\\·n, Conn . , at 94. H e tonier Graduate School \'t., for many years before managing Tichols, her son, Michael Nichols, the company's stores in Houlton and a sister, tliree grandch ildren and a 25 Calais, ;\ Iaine. An <wid outdoorsman great-grandch i l d . years a t Colonial Bank & Trust. He a l l h i s l i fe, h e is survi1·ed by nvo of Banking, he retired in I 97 1 a senior 1·ice president and western regional manager after more than er.-ed on numerous local committees and commissions and was an actil'e Elwood J. Hammond '28, October 6. 2000, in Lacon i a . � . H . . at 94. supporter of the C o l l e g e . H e i s He recei,·ed his D.:\ I . D . from Tufts :\ l i ller Dental chool i n 1932 and conducted and collage. For 4 3 years she operated su rl' i ,·ed b)· t w o s o n s , Te rri l l S . '63 and Lyndall L. Mil ler, a stepbrother and n1·0 grandchildren. Elizabeth Solie Howard '39, p r i l 8, 200 1 , i n \Vorcester, Mass., at 82. She half-sisters, a half brother and se1·eral nieces and nephews. worked at H a rvard University and �'illiam Malcolm Wtlson ' 3 3 , April 5, 200 1 , i n \Vaterville, i\ laine, at 89. Connecticut General L i fe I nsurance \\'inner of tl1e Condon i\ 1edal at the botany professor Richard Howard. Co. before her marriage to Harvard College, h e lettered in tennis and She traveled the world assisting with 23, 92 . was AJl-,\Iaine in footba l l and AJl collecting, discovered a tropical plant, America in hockey. H e was a teacher Pitcnimia eli-::.abethae, he recei1·ed a master's degree i n and coach before ser.ring in the Navy in her honor and was coauthor of \\'eldon R. Knox 2 8 , December 26. 2 000. i n LartonS\· i l le, :\ I d . , at mathematics from Columbia Uni1·er during \Vorld \Var I I and later worked six botanical publications. She was a sity and taught at se1·eral schools, for l 111·estors Di,·ersified Services, generous supporter of the College. 94. After recei,·ing a ma ter's degree in including Ricker Classical I nstitute, I nc. As a member of the board of Her husband and nvo daughters, nvo education from the Cni,·ersityofCon Ricker College and \Yilliams ,\ lemo di rectors of the National Alliance for sisters, a brother and six grandchildren necticut he er.-ed as a regional super rial Institute in :\'e"· London, Conn. the ,\ lentally Ill he was a national survive her. intendent of Connecticut schools. H e She was a Colby trustee and member crusader for ser.rices to aid people also taught matl1ematics a t Canterbury of tl1e Alumni Counci l . Predeceased who suffer from mental i l l ness. I n School in '\e" .\ I i iford before retiring b)· her sister :\ Iary \\'atson Flanders 1 982 in the earh L 9 '0 . '24, a dental practice in Laconia, ;\T. H . , unti l his retirement in 1 9- 1 . ur.-i,·ors include hi daugh ter, Carol Hopkins. Uf\i,·ors include his Jean 1. \\Tatson '29, 2 00 1 , i n Fort ,\ l)·ers, she is January Fla., a t un·i1·ed by her si ster daughter'>. Barbara \ \'ood and Ph)·l l i s E l i zabeth \\'atson Gern· Losa\\ . a si'>ter, i x grandchildren and se1·eral nephews and nieces, including eight great-grandchildren. ,\nne Ger�· Gasset '60, '27 and that was named Viola Economu Moran ' 3 9 , J anuary 1 5 , 200 1 , in San Di ego, Calif. , at 82. h e was awarded a Colby Brick. H e is survived by his wife, Barbara, She senred in t h e t\l'O sons and a daughter, a sister and Corps during \Vorld \Var sel'eral ni eces and nephews. Korean Conflict, reach ing the rank and a grand . S . Navy Nurse II and tl1e of lieutenant. Later she worked as a niece, Lisa Collett Hook ' Mildred Keogh Tinker ' 3 4, Febru a�· 1 0, 200 I , in Gardner, ,\ l ass., at 88. public healtl1 nurse. Survil'ors include She taught English in \Vestminster, her brother, Efthim Economu '44. and from Evelyn l\laxweU B u b a r '30, ,\ l a rch 1 , 200 1 , in :\'orthampton, ,\ lass., at 93. A homemaker, she is sun·il'ed )'ears taught a t Gardner H igh School. I 9r to l 966 " a<, <>uperintendent of b) her son, Jeffte)' Bubar, and nieces Predeceased by her daughter, Joan Sheila] ellison Tennant '40,J anuary 1 8, 200 1 , in Boston, J\ 1ass., at 82. the F 1 ans ton school di trict, \\ here he and nephews. Ti n ker \Vood '62 , she leaves her After serv i n g a s a C i v i l D e fe n s e years, John Tinker, l ieutenant in J\i letl1uen, J\i lass., during 0 car .\L Chute '29, J a nua�- 2 00 1 . 111 E, ,111 ton, I l l . . at 92. He earned a doctorate in education at the L nin!r'>lt'I of l l l inoi ach oc,1red integration and con olida tum of '><.:hools. .\fter retirement he '>Cf\ ed the commu111n as a member husband of i\Ierle C. Ryder '3 1 , ,\ l arch 1 3 , 200 I , i n .\ Iystic, Con n . , a t 9 l . During rn . d le.1C lt:r of man) ci' ic organiza \\'orld \\'ar I I he sen·ed in the Coast uon . \ur. " or' mclude his daughter, Guard Re en-es . • \fter the war he was \ 1 1 1'cm \ \ .11 tle) . three grandch i l d ren 1.11d t h ree gre,n-gr,111dch1ldren. ,\ l a s s . , for four years and 62 her husband, ,\ lorell ,\ loran, a son and 20 for a son, three grandchildren and four \Vorld \Var I I , she began a career as great-grandchildren. a homemaker. She is sm-vived by her daughter, Priscilla Herrington, nvo sons, Peter and Paul Ten n a nt, eight and market Edward 1 . Hooper '38, December 5, 2 000, in Charlotte, �.C., at 8 3 . H e i n g for the cl�· cleaning company sen·ed witl1 tl1e i':al'y in the Soutl1 sister and brother, three nephews, a niece and numerous cousins. 1 ice president of sale grandchildren, a great-grandson, her F. L . \\'atkin . Later he \\Orked for Pacific during \\Torld \ \ 'ar I I , then 23. Flectric Boat in Groton, Conn . I I e is worked as a sales representative in 111 \ehago. \ L ime, a r 94. I l e sun i1 ed by h i s 11 i fe of 64 years, .\.lice Cha rlone until he started Edward I 0th \ \ ounta111 Rrder, a son, a daugh ter, a sister, a I)" '''on duri n g \ \ orld \ \«ir I J ,111d later .\ 1 . Hooper & Associates, where he James A. Daly 2000, in Seattle, brother, n i n e grandch ildren and I 0 was president and C E O until h i s Col by, where he e a rn ed A l l - r ew grea r-gra ndchi Id ren. retirement in Yinal 2000 , . :.ood '29. December ,en ed 111 thL \nn) ' \\ .1' .1 1udge J<h c >eare ar Fort \ I cade, \ f.>T.1 du.1 te of "orrhea'>tern Lrn \ Id 1 98 . Predeceased b y h i s first \\·i fe, Helen Le\\ i I l ooper » 3 '4 1 , November 7, \Vash . , at l . After England honors in football for three , years, he served in the Navy during \ \'oriel \Var I I . H e had a long career \chool. hL ,111d h" 111fe. Dorot h ) . H arry _\ I . 3, 200 1 , he is suffi,·ed by h i s w i fe, Carol O JlLrJtnl l "hL 111 Farm i n grnn. \ J a i n e , a r 9 2 . ! l e T l ooper, a daughter and son, a grand in Seattle commercial banking and 'en ed 111 the daughter, four stepch ildren and I l retired from the Bank of America as step-grandchildren. a 1•ice president. I le is sm-vived by his eh,1go \gene) . a re.i i e'r.ne a nd 1 11 u r.11 1ce bu 1ne'>'. for H u ff ' 3 2 . J anua� \rm) during \\'orld 1111 1rL th.111 4 0 ) e.1 r- I le ,i1,o 'en ed 111 \ \ ar IT and 11 a'> a ded icated member thL \ l. 1 1nL '>en ate and " a' a member of of rhe ''" .:r.1 l oni.1 111 z.1 aon,. I l e lea1 e' of h" career he 11 orked 111 1 anou'> h1, 11 1te. a 'on. a d.rnghrer, a grand,on po'1t1om for the st•He of \ l ame. I l e Adele Bo co Nichols '38, December 1 - , 2000, in Ha llo" e l l , .\ [ aine, at 86. .111d 1 �he attended Cooper Union for the .1 cl\ Il f.>T.rnddaughter. F mesr F. \ l i l l e r ' 2 9. _lanua� � l . 62 B \mencan Legion. For mmt ,ur. I \ e d I>) h 1 ., 111fe, F l i nheth, a wife of 5 1 years, Sally Da ly, a daugh ter, '' rer, numerou'> 111ece' and nephc" ., \th ancement of .rnd four 'repch ddren. '\e11 York Cit) and was a multimedia cience and \rt in a son and five grandsons. Charles Frederick Main '43 , Dec 1 , 2000, in Brooksv i l l e, Fla., at ember 79. I le served 11 ith the Coa t Guard in the Pacific during \Vorld \Var I I . After teaching a year a t the Col lege, he earned M.A. and Ph . D . degrees at H arvard and for almost 40 years taught at Rutgers University. John Milton StillwellJr. '43 , October 20, 2000, in New Jersey, at 78. He served in the Pacific during World War I I with the First Marine Air Wing. He retired in 1 99 1 afrer a 3 5 -year career as salesman and vice president with the New York textile products company Morgan-Jones, Inc. Albertie Allen Stetson '44, May 1 2 , 1 999, i n Virginia, a t 7 3 . She owned and operated Security Reali ty in Van Nuys, Calif. Richard F. Armknecht J r. ' 5 0 , December 1 8, 2000, in Concord, Mass., at 72. After service as a Navy lieutenant during the Korean ConA ict, he received an M. B.A. from Harvard in 1 954. From 1 969 to 1 985 he was vice pres i d e n t of fin ance for the Wi l l i a m Carter Co. of Needham, Mass., and later was associated with the sports marketing and financial services firm Kazmaier Associates of Concord. H e leaves his wife, Ruth Armknecht, his daughter, three sons, a sister and brother, 10 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Elizabeth Pierce Braley '50,January 4, 200 l , in Augusta, Maine, at 74. She graduated from An dover-Newton Theological Seminary and for 3 0 years taught elementary school i n San D i ego, Calif., and in Bridgton, Rockland, Augusta and South Port land, Maine. She is survived by her daughter, Darlene Farr, a grandson, her sister and brother and a nephew. David G. Montt '50 , January 1 3 , 200 1 , in Hyann is, Mass., at 78. A \Vo rid \Var I I Army Air Force veteran, he was a New England district sales manager. He is survived by his wife, Leila Montt, rwo sons, rwo daughters, including Sandra Montt Carter '82, and six grandchildren. William A. Tippens 50 , February 9, 200 1 , in M i l l i nocket, M aine, at 78. He was a radioman in the avy during \Vorld \Var I I . For many years he worked as an insurance and real estate broker in M i l l i nocket, where he was active in civic and fraternal organizations. Predeceased by h i s brother, Frederick E. Tippens '-+8, he is survived by h is wife of 52 years, ' Shirley Tippens, a daughter, a son, five grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Vernon Corell Jr. 5 1 October 2 1 , ' , 2000, i n Yorktown Heights, T.Y., at 7 1 . He served i n the Army during the Korean ConA ict, then began a long career in the oil industry that culminated with Exxon. He is survived by his brother, Paul Corell, and a nephew and niece. Richard F. Johnson ' 5 1 , March l l , 200 1 , in Boston, Mass., at 7 1 . He was director of music at several churches in the Boston area. Previously he founded Johnson-El ms, a diamond blade manufacrnringcompany, and later worked in fimd raising for Ketchum Corp. in Pittsburgh and in sales for Presmet Corp. in Worcester, Mass. He is survived by his three daughters, Kara Johnson-Craven, Mary Johnson and Disa Cheston, a sister, six grandchildren and nephews and nieces. Philip W. H ussey Jr. ' 5 3 , March 1 5, 200 1 , in Naples, Fla., at 69. Following service in the Navy Seabees he took over the family business, the Hussey Seating Co. in North Berwick, Maine, and as chairman ofthe board and chief executive officer led the company to worldwide prominence. Active in numerous civic organizations, he was a lso a trustee and long-time benefactor of t11e College and was awarded a Colby Brick in 1 99 3 . His efforts to promote business develop ment in Maine and New England were honored with the Philanthropy Award for Northern New England in 1 998. He is survived by h is wife, Mart11a De \Nolf H ussey ' 5 5 , three sons, i nc l u d i n g Ti mothy ' 7 8 and Richard '89, his daughter, Anne E. Hussey '80, his brother, Peter A. H ussey '57, his sister, his stepmother and eight grandchildren. Barbara Fisher Dorfman '54, Janu ary 2 1 , 200 I, in New Britain, Conn., at 68. She received a master's degree in education from Boston University and taught second grade. Later she worked for RSVP in H a rtford, Conn . , a n d w a s active in numerous com munity organizations. She leaves three daughters, Kim, J i l l and Susan Dorf man, four grandchildren, a brother, many nieces, nephews and cousins, including Carol Plavin Shapiro ' 5 5 , a n d a friend, J o h n Baker. Kay Vivian Miles '57, February -+, 2 00 1 , in Wilmington, Vt., at 65. She taught in schools in New York and Vermont before earning an M . L. S . a t the University o f vVashington. Afrer several library posts in ew York and M assachusetts she received a residential care manager's certificate and constructed, owned and managed And Miles To Go, a residential care home for th e elderly in Vermont. Survivors include her brother, Wil liam Mi les, two nephews and a cousin, Janet H. PAeger '42. companies, including I n ternational Paper and James River Corp. He leaves his wife, M ary J a ne Elliott, his mother, a son, two daughters, a brother and sister and two nieces. Valerie ]. Noble '69, Tovember 2 5 , 2 000, in Cape Cora l , F l a . , at 53. She was an elementary school teacher for 25 years i n Cumberland and Phippsburg, Maine. Surviving are her mother, 1V1i ldred Noble, two sisters, a brother and many nieces and nephews. J udith H. Wiggin '57, February 7, 200 1 , in Sanford, Maine, at 6 5 . S h e received a master's degree from Harvard University and taught grades three through seven in t11e Lexington, M ass., school system for 3 5 years. She was a member, secretary and deacon at First Baptist Church in Sanford. Surviving are her mother, Jeannette \Viggin, and several cousins. Daniel F. Madden Jr. ' 6 0, February 1 9, 2 00 1 , in Ayer, M a s s . , at 6 3 . H e received a master's i n guidance counseling from Boston College and after teaching social srndies was a counselor at the Acton- Boxborough Regional High School for more than 30 years. He also coached football, tennis and Little League baseball and was an avid runner. H e is survived by his wife, Katl1erine Kies Madden '59, a son, t11ree daughters, four sisters and three grandchildren. George E. Bitgood '6 1 , December 1 2 , 2000, in Old Saybrook, Conn . , at 63. H e was employed with Cummins Metropower, Inc., and served the Cummins Engine Co. for more than 3 0 years. He leaves his wife, Paulette Bitgood, three daughters, two sons, five grandch i l d ren, a brother and several nieces and nephews. Judith McCarthy Truax '64, March 2-+, 200 1 , in Chat11am, i\1ass., at 5 8 . S h e worked as a foreign service officer for the State Deparanent for many years before reti ring i n 1 99 7 and moving to Chatham from Havana, Cuba. S urviving are her husband, Terrance Truax, her mother, two sons, a daughter, a granddaughter and several nieces and nephews. Gary W. Elliott ' 6 8 , April 3, 200 1 , i n Hamilton, Ohio, at 5 5 . H e was a quality control engineer and field tech ni c a l representati,·e o f Smart Papers in Hamilton. He was previ ously employed by se,·eral paper Reginald G. Blaxton '74, March 1 1 , 200 1 , in \Vashington, D . C . , at 48. He received a master's degree from the Episcopal Divin ity School in Cam bridge, Mass., and was an Episcopal priest who served as special assistant for religious affairs to two mayors of Was h i ngton , D . C. He helped found the Washington AIDS Partnership and was vice president for programs at the Greater \ Vashington Urban League. He is survived by his half-brot11er, Wi lliam Colley Jr. Bradley A. Livermore '84, December 1 9, 2000, in Madison, \Vis., at 3 8 . He earned master's degrees in philosophy and social work at the University of \Visconsin and lived in Madison, where he succumbed to complications of diabetes. He leaves his parents, Shaw Jr. and Nancy Livermore, his former wife, a daughter and a sister. Benjamin D. Ling '98, ;\1arch 1 7, 200 1 , in Tulsa, Okla., at 2 5 . A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a magna cum laude graduate of the College, he was a legislative assistant on agriculnire policy for . S . senator i\ 1 i ke Enzi. He leaves his parents, Richard and Margaret Ling, following a coura geous battle with cancer. Francis S. Merritt H 7 1 , December 2 7 , 2000, in Belfast, Maine, at 8 3 . He worked as a painter and printmaker and was the founding d i rector of Haystack Mountain School of Crafrs. ' Survi,�ngare his wife, Priscilla,\ lerritt, two sons, a brother, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 1orman S. Smith, February 2 8 , 2 00 1 , in Portl and, ;\Iaine, a t 9 7 . H e was a n associate professor o f education a t tlie College from 1 945 to 1 968 and a long-time resident of Peaks Island, ;\ laine. Sun,iving are two cousins, Philip Shearman and :\ Iarjorie Burns. c0LB y . s u M M E R 200 1 I 63