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The Colbv Alumnus

Fall 1974

The President's Page

THE SELECTION OF COLBY FOR A FORD FOUNDATION

Venture Fund grant is an event of major signifi­cance, and I am glad for the opportunity to explain its importance to our alumni.

In 1971 the Ford Foundation announced that a number of regional grants would be made to institu­tions of higher education, public and private, that had shown themselves hospitable to educational innova­tion in the past, and that demonstrated promise of openness to new ideas and the initiative to carry them out in the future.

That summer the first round of grants was made public, 12 colleges and universities in the west and Dartmouth, a special case. In 1972 twelve in the south, and in 1973, 12 in the north central area were chosen. In 1974, 12 were selected in the northeast, from Penn­sylvania to Maine.

The process of selection is of some interest. In­vitations to be considered were numerous, and over 175 colleges and universities, including Colby of course, in the northeast responded. This was about a year ago. After a screening of the credentials by a committee of Ford Foundation staff, 60 of these in­stitutions were visited by a consultant. Colby's visit, assigned to an experienced educator who had been a college president in the middle west, took place in February, a one-day affair during which we tried to give our official visitor, who as it happens had never visited Colby before, something of a feeling for the kind of college we are. When this complex process of campus visitations was completed, deliberations went on in New York, phone calls were made, and in due course the twelve grants were decided upon.

There is considerable variety among the recipients across the country. There are liberal arts colleges like Colby, Bowdoin, Wellesley, St. Lawrence, Swarth­

more, Colorado College, and Whitman; universities

like Vermont, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West

Florida, and California at Santa Cruz; experimental institutions, new and old, like the Grand Valley Col­leges in Michigan, Antioch in Ohio, Presco

"tt in

Arizona, and Appalachian State in North Carolina; urban establishments like Pace in New York and Roosevelt in Chicago; and one institution devoted to a rigorous, totally prescribed classical curriculum, St. John's at Santa Fe.

What do the disparate entities in this varied selec­tion have in common?

Primarily, it seems to me, in each institution there is recognition of and commitment to the principle that innovation is growth. It is our bulwark against in­tellectual stagnation. And yet recognition and com­mitment of this sort are not a license to anyone to try anything at all. Faculty and students are not encour· aged to try just anything simply because it is new. A far more profound issue than that is at stake.

The world changes, and so have colleges and uni­versities. It was characteristic of Colby to provide a fine education for its students one and three and six decades ago, and the times in between, and the times before that. But the world was different then, as it is very different now from anything that has gone before. The students in the seventies have certain intellectual needs and yearnings. We must fulfill them, and that is why we must live and grow in a process of continual change. What the Ford Foundation chose to recognize was a group of forty-nine colleges and universities who have committed themselves to this principle. And Colby, we are happy to say, on the basis of both its, past performance and its future promise, is among them. It is indeed gratifying that for the fourth time in twelve years Colby was chosen for a special Ford Foundation program.

What does the grant mean? The total amount is $ 150,000. In the first year, the academic year 1974-75, we will receive $75,000, to be spent as we see fit and duly reported at the end of the year to the Ford Foundation; in the second year, $50,000, to which we are expected to add $25,000; in the third, $25,000, to which we expect to add $50,000. Thereafter, in every year, it is my expectation that Colby will maintain in the annual budget our own "venture fund" of about $75,000. There will always be new and worthwhile things we will want to try, even if not all of them are successful. Academic venturesomeness is not a one­

time stratagem. Over a number of years now, Colby has developed

this kind of reputation among our peers. With the help of the Ford Foundation this characteristic, one of the hallmarks of the excellence toward which we con­tinually strive, can become permanent.

The Colby Alumnus 111974

The inside s+ory

The President's Page (facing)

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The Committee to Study the Future of Colby makes its recommendations

The Bixler Center: A Building Goes to 'i\Tork

C allege News

Books

Elms: The Battle With the Beetle

Sports

Class News

Bixler Center, page 5

Elms, page 16

CSFC Report, page 2

The Colby Alumnus/ Volume 64, Number 1 /Fall 1974

Published quarterly / fall, winter, spring, summer /by Colby College

Editorial Board/ Leslie Anderson '71 and Earl H. Smith

Design and Production/ Leslie Anderson '71 and Donald E. Sanborn, Jr.

Photography / CSFC Report, Bixler Center Essay, "The Face is Familiar," Leslie Anderson '71

Letters and inquiries should be sent to the editor, change of address notification to the alumni office

Entered as second-class mail at \.Yaterville, Maine

Postmaster, send form 3579 to The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901

Cover photograph: Leslie Anderson '71

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The CSFC Reports

A Summary of the Recommendations Made

by the Committee to Study the Future of Colby

to the President and Trustees

EVEN A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE

Report of the Cammi ttee to Study the Future of Colby must be­gin with the statement of the edu­cational purpose of Colby, as for­mulated by the Committee. All the recommendations that follow should be considered as having been evolved in the light of this statement: "Colby College is con­cerned with ideas and values as they are inherited from the past, as they are perceived in the pres­ent, and as they may be developed in the future. A sense of the breadth of human knowledge -gained through the disciplines of the humanities, the social sciences. and the natural sciences - is funda­mental to the liberal arts tradition, but the College also seeks to de­

velop the criti­cal and intellec­tual faculties by which students may discrimi­nate among ideas, may eval­uate their heri­tage, and may

Albert Palmer achieve intellec-tual and personal integrity. The College accepts the Socratic prin-

ciple that 'an unexamined life is not worth living,' and the College endeavors to nurture the excite­ment which accompanies the dis­covery of what is known and the formulation of new and individual perceptions.

"The intent of the College's aca­demic program is thus two-fold: to develop the historical sensitivity by which students may perceive the complexities of the present mo­ment in the light of the past and by which they may project the present into the future; and, simul­taneously, to develop the ability to make valid generalizations and to generate new ideas."

The first set of recommendations, 16 of them, have to do with the educational program and resources. There is no need to recount them in detail here, but it is clear that the Committee was in favor of es­tablishing genuine choices in the organization of the educational program, combining adherence to rather orthodox requirements with an openness to innovation and flex­ibility, making available both care­fully designed programs of study and carefully controlled opportu­nities for individual study and

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certain kinds of academically sound field experiences. In the area of field experience, the Committee in­sisted upon several criteria, includ­ing careful delineation of the ob­jectives of the program, specific design and preparation, and a con­sistent and rigorous system of evaluation.

A well conceived program for faculty development was agreed upon as an incentive to faculty scholarship. Such a program should include sabbaticals for appropriate purposes, supplemented by occa­sional research grants, reduced loads, and semesters off.

Procedures for evaluation should be developed, including self­studies and the judgments of both inside and outside evalu­ators, to em­brace all the academic de-

Francis Parker partments, ad-ministrative units, and administra­tive departments of the institution. The first cycle of evaluation should involve every office within the Col­lege, and should be completed

vithin five years of the adoption of his recommendation.

Among the most sensitive areas )f college administration are the >ersonnel policies. It was agreed >y the Committee that these poli­ies should be kept under careful crutiny, with special emphasis on uch matters as: compensation, in­·luding fringe benefits, which hould be maintained at a level ·ompetitive with the scales at com­>arable institutions in the north­:ast; promotion and tenure, which hould reflect the commitment of he college to the best teaching, .cholarship, and creativity, the :riteria to be merit rather than ar­ificially imposed quotas or propor­ions; proper techniques of recruit­nent, with full regard not only to 1bility but as well to equal oppor­unity; a suitable program of sup­

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port services for the faculty; ancl equitable work loads. A care­fully designed manual of per­sonnel policies, for both faculty and non-aca-

�obin Hamill '74 demic staff, "hould be developed.

It was generally agreed by the ::::ommittee that the present cal­�ndar (two semesters and the Jan­.iary Program of Independent )tudy) and the present size of the :allege (about 1,500 students) are 1cceptabk for planning for the foreseeable future. Expansion and :nodification of the summer pro­sram were seen to offer opportu­riities for constructive variety, not :mly in the already significant pro­sram of medical institutes but in a

riumber of other categories, such as the arts, preprofessional, and inter­:lisciplinary areas, and for the prep­nation of teachers.

Both admissions and financial aid came under the scrutiny of the

Committee and its task forces. Cer­tain limitations are built in, owing to such matters as geographical lo­cation, anticipated reductions in the pool of potential applicants, and financial realities. But it was agreed that our admissions staff should be equal in size and effec­tiveness to the staffs at other col­leges, that the alumni recruiting effort should be intensified, that mechanized systems of data collect­ing and processing should be im­proved, that advanced placement should continue to be employed and publicized, and that transfer students should be encouraged in greater numbers to apply. ·with specific regard to financial aid, the progress the College has made in keeping pace with increased costs is commendable, and the emphasis on loans as part of the financial aid package is proper and will increase in importance.

The system of student services (student deans, advising, clinical psychologists) should be brought to maximum effectiveness toward pro­viding a suitable environment for intellectual and social growth, de­signed with due regard for the dis­appearance of the philosophy of in

loco parentis in institutions of this kind. A study of student services, counselling, and advising should be undertaken, and as part of this study provision should be made for continual evaluation and improve­ment of the system. With regard to the perennial problems involved with intercollegiate athletics and fraternities, the Committee felt that the fraternity problems are being well handled at present, and recom­mended that a study of the role of athletics be undertaken in the near future.

With respect to the governance, organization, and administration of the College, the Committee felt

that commendable progress had been made in recent years. It was

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agreed, however, that a stu<ly be arranged, pref­erably with par­ticipation from outside the Col-lege, to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of

Arthur Champlin the administra-tive processes by which decisions are made, resources allocated, and priorities set. Mechanisms for fu­ture planning should be examined in this context.

The various means by which the College projects its identity to its alumni and the public were ex­amined, and it was agreed that a standing committee on college pub­lications should be established, to determine what audiences the Col­lege should reach, for what pur­pose, and with what means.

Close attention was given by the Committee to the library, the cor­nerstone of the institution. The recommendations are more specific than can be described in a sum­mary, but it was agreed that a study of long-range requirements be undertaken as soon as possible, covering such matters as space, the utilization of space, the expansion of audiovisual facilities, and so on. It was agreed that the quality of the library staff should be evalu­ated, a balanced acquisition policy established, the further use of com­

puters and cooperation with other

libraries explored, and in general that the library should continually

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be thought of in the context of undergraduate liberal educa­tion and of the scholarly world at large.

Computer programs, apart from the li-

brary and in relation to the total

institution, were examined, and it was agreed that provision must be made within the budget for a con­tinually more sophisticated com­

puter enterprise at Colby, for both academic and administrative pur­poses.

One of the most exhaustive of all the studies of the Committee dealt with the physical plant. It goes without saying that everyone agreed upon our need for the most effective and modern physical plant we can have, within the realistic limits of our financial capability.

The most obvious and pressing immediate needs are: (a) a science building, and extensive renovation of the existing science facilities; (b) a health center; (c) a theatre; (d) renovation of the Roberts Union to create a compre­hensive student center; and (e) the establishment of an appropriate en­dowment fund for the operation and maintenance of these new fa­cilities. The Committee recognized that it is not possible to arrange these needs in simple order of pri­

ority, since pri­ority takes into account the pri­macy of educa­tional purposes within the insti­tution, the in­terrelationships of the various

Lucille Zukowski building and renovation projects, and the avail­ability of funds for specific pur-po es. What the Committee has proposed is a comprehensive recom­mendation, all the components of which are not only desirable but necessary, all to be planned for completion within a reasonable

time as funds are found. The Committee examined in

depth the operating budget, and

recommended that the College

maintain and increase if possible

the gifts and grants for current use;

continue its investment policy of capitalizing on highest possible return as con­sistent with pru­dence and utiliz­ing cash balance for investment; examine re­stricted endow­

James Armstrong ment funds to­ward the possibility of wider utili­zation; maintain charges for auxil­iary enterprises to recover full costs; abandon the three-year cycle of tuition increases, maintaining Colby tuition at or slightly above the median among colleges with which Colby compares itself, and of course augmenting appropriately financial aid; and, finally, achieve effective utilization of human re­sources wherever possible to avoid increasing the size of the faculty if possible and to enable the College to maintain appropriate levels of com pens a ti on.

Finally, the Committee examined the development program over the past decade and more, and con­cluded that in the next decade a framework for total development should be established, with approx­imate figures as follows: (a) expend­able funds to be raised for the operating budget, $7,650,000; (b) capital funds for physical facilities, both immediate and long-range needs, $10,000,000; (c) endowment funds, including support of finan­cial aid, faculty salaries and en­dowed professorships, faculty re­search support, library resources, building maintenance, and innum­erable other purposes, $17,350,000. The objective of the total develop­ment program for the ten years

therefore should be set at 35,000,000.

Four appendices were attached

to the original report: (a) a list of

the membership of the thirteen

task forces, including both mem-

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bers of the CSFC and faculty and staff members and students who were good enough to give their services, the membership of a spe­cial committee on the performing arts, and other acknowledgments; (b) a detailed summary of the stu­dent survey undertaken in 1973 by nine students under the direction of Professor Morrione, representing a comprehensive attempt to de­scribe student activities and per­ception of the nature of the Col­lege's intellectual, academic, social, and physical environments; (c) an analysis of the endowment of 27 selected colleges toward establish­ing the amount of endowment per student (the highest was over $79,000, the lowest $7 ,560, and Colby in eighteenth place with $17,741); and (d) a description of the faculty vote on awarding of credits within the "flexible fifteen" category.

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------------------------ :11 The Committee

Chairman Francis H. Parker, philosophy and religion

Faculty James Armstrong, music R. Mark Benbow, English Arthur K. Champlin, biology Dorothy Koonce, classics Donaldson Koons, geology Thomas J. Morrione '65, sociology Lucille Pinette Zukowski '37, mathematics

Trustees Robert A. Marden '50 Albert C. Palmer '30 Wilson C. Piper '39

Student Robin J. Hamill '74

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"This is just so much better than the old sculpture studio. In the first place, it has windows!"

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"I want to get some pictures of people using this building," I told the sculpture student leery of the camera's eye watching him at work.

"Use it?" he responded. "Man, we live in it!"

So I suppose this essay could be called, "Portrait of a Lived-in Building." A build­ing beautifully fulfilling the function it was designed for. A building that works.

"/ like to paint in here [the Lenk Studio] in t morning. Things get really hectic after lunch."

"Practicing was always a drag when I was a kid. Now it's a break from studying that I really look forward to."

In the Art and Music Library you can slip on a set of headphones and lose yourself in Beethoven's Sixth for an afternoon ...

Theory students puzzle over musical dictation during a class in the new Stoll Theory Room, given in memory of Gerald Stoll '49 by his family and friends.

Opposite: Museum of Art tour guide Linda Day '74 explains to a group of first graders that Bernard Langlais' carving ·"Horse" is actually mounted on a barn door. More than 800 area school children visited the gallery in October.

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"They look like stuffed animals, but artists call them 'soft sculp­ture,' " the guide explains in refer­ence to Dahlov !pear's colorful calico creatures.

Harriett Matthews always has her drawing classes immersed in some­thing different. Today's lesson: spheres.

Photographs and text by Leslie Anderson '71.

Members of the Sailing Club explain their Jnogra111 to interested st11dents nt thf n1111ual Aclivitie�f Co1111111111ity Se1vice Fair.

Changes on the Board

Dwight Sargent '39, Hon. T\f.A. '56, who has been a trustee since 1958, has resigned from the board o(

trustees. Mr. Sargent is president of the Freedom of Information Center

at the Univ. of Missouri. He was a

member of the campaign and steer­ing, equal opportunity, honorary

degree, nominating, and planning

committees, and was chairman o(

the educational policy committee from 1970 to 1971.

Also resigning i Doris Kearns

'64. l\Is. Kearns, who earned her

Ph.D. from Harvanl in 1968, was elected to the board in 1971 as an alumni trustee and re-elected last year. The former White House Fel­low is a professor ot government at Harvard. She was a member of the e<lucational policy and stu<lent af­fairs committees.

Retu rning to the boar<l is Esther Ziskind Weitman, who was pre­viously a board member from 1958 to 1973. A graduate of Smith with a master's <legree from Harvard, Mrs. \Veltman is past <lirector of the Springfield Children's Stu<ly Home, a former fellow at Brandeis, and is

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an administrator of the Jacob Zis­kind Trust Fund for Charitable Purposes. She has served on the boards of American International College, Boston Univ. and Massa­chusetts State College. She was chairman of the educational policy committee during her first term on the Colby board.

Koe lb House Gi�

A Col by legacy that ex tends 130 years has been honored by Mrs. Howard E. Koelb of Pomona, Calif., who has presented the col­lege with her former Waterville home. The single family residence is on Mayflower Hill Drive on land a<ljacent to the campus.

The roster of Mrs. Koelb's Colby ties being honored by the gift is headed by a great-great-uncle, Silas Ilsley, 1834.

Other Colby relatives were her grandfather, George Boardman Ils­ley, 1863; her parents, Mary Saph­ronia (Morrill) and Reuben Lowell Ilsley, both 1891; and a brother, Dr. Morrill Leonard Ilsley, 1917.

Also included are five aunts: Lucia Haskell Morrill, 1893; Clara Prescott Morrill, Frances Horton Morrill and Grace Clementine Ils­ley Pa<lelford, all from the Class o( 189-1; and Gertrude Lois Ilsley Padel ford, 1896; a nephew, J ohu Lowell Ilsley, 1946; and a grand­nephew, Paul .Jonathan llsley, 1973.

Alumnus Receives Award

The Alumnus has received a special citation for its fall 1973 and winter 1974 issues from ACP RA, the American College Public Relations Association.

The 30 winners were selected by a jury which inclu<lcc.l Tony Jones, associate editor of Harper's, SuL­anne Levine, managing editor of MS., Celia Morris, senior editor of Change, anc.l Robert Ginna, senior e<li tor of People.

Echo Available

The Echo, a newspaper pub­lished weekly during the school year by Colby students, is available to alumni at an annual subscription rate of $3.00. Checks payable to Col­by College may be mailed to Bill Tuttle, circulation man­ager, The Colby Echo.

Arthur Eustis, Jr. Scholarship

The establishment of a scholarship prize in memory of Arthur Galen Eustis, Jr., has been announced by President Strider.

A member of the Class of 1952, Arthur died earlier this year. The prize has been established by his family and friends including for­mer associates at the C.F. Hath­away Company. Eustis joined the Hathaway firm following his grad­uation and was a vice president at the time of his death.

The prize will be awarded to a member of the junior class who has served on the coUege's dormitory staff or as an adviser to freshmen and who has exhibited Arthur's qualities of "integrity, leadership, warmth of personality and true concern for others." The selection will be made by student personnel administrators and dormitory head residents.

Long active in alumni affairs, Arthur was chairman of the Colby Alumni Fund Committee and from 1962-65 was head of the New York drive for the Colby-Ford Founda­tion Challenge Campaign. He had received a Colby brick for his service to the college.

He was the son of Mrs. A. Galen (Lorinda Orne) Eustis and the late A. Galen Eustis who was vice presi-

dent of Colby from 1950-59. Besides his wife Georgia (Roy '54), he is survived by four children, his mother, his brother Jon '69, and his sister Nancy '54 (Mrs. Paul Huprich).

Sacks on Irish T.V.

Prof. Paul Sacks, who last January led a group of students to Ireland for a seminar on Irish Political Studies, will return to Ireland in January to film a documentary for Radio Telefis Eireann, the nation­wide Irish broadcasting service.

The documentary, entitled "A Man of Respect," is based in part on his forthcoming book, The

Donegal Mafia, and recounts the exploits of Irish hero Neil Blaney and the operations of his political machine.

Professor Sacks, who spent last summer in Ireland doing research under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, has been a member of the depart­ment of history and government since 197 l. A specialist in the his­tory and contemporary affairs of Ireland, Professor Sacks has studied at the Univ. of Edinburgh in Scot­land and holds a resident fellow­ship at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. He has twice appeared as a commen­tator on Radio Telefis Eireann.

The Northern Valley Boys (Greg Boardman '73, fiddle; Dave Livingston, guitar; Chris Prickitt '73, banjo), a popular local blu�grass group, entertain members of the Class of 1978 at a picnic on the Dana Hall lawn.

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"Man of La Mancha"

Within the past five years, musical plays directed, produced, and per­formed entirely by students have become an increasingly important segment of Colby's cultural life. Beginning in 1970 with "The Fan­tastiks," the phenomenon became a tradition the following year with

"The Roar of the Greasepaint" and "Stop the \l\Torlcl, I \Vant to Get Off!" Last year's triumphant ver­sion of "Can Can" sparked some of its cast members to try their hands at meatier fare - "l\Ian of La l\Iancha" - to be presented No­vember 14 through 17.

"Man of La Mancha" marks the first official joint venture by Stu­dent Independent Theater and Powder and Wig. "It's really a co­operative effort," says producer John Orefice '75 (Bronxville, N.Y.). "Everybody is helping out - Pow­

der and Wig, faculty, alumni -

everybody!" New Powder and Wig director Richard Sewell has donated staging advice and cos­tumes from his Theater at Mon­mouth. Area alumni are also in­volved: the original choreography has been devised by Barry Wilen­sky '73 and Don Quixote himself is being played by Larry Cappiello '74. Larry, who made his debut last year in "Can Can," finds the part "demanding . . . exhaust­ing .. . and tremendously exhila­rating."

A special 22-foot ramp-like ex­tension to the Runnals gym stage is being built for the performance. "This should expand our capabili­ties significantly," commented Ore­fice, pointing out that visibility has long been a problem in the make­shift Runnals gym-theater.

Claudia Schneider '77 (Farming­ton) will be singing the throaty Dulcinea, with musical direction by Bob Luciano '76 (Easthampton,

Mass.). The production, one of two Powder and Wig enterprises slated for this semester, follows a weekend of one-act plays directed by Rich­ard Sewell.

-women's Studies Lectures

A series of lectures dealing with women as forces in the social, polit­ical and economic systems is being coordinated this semester by Prof. Judith Ferster of the English de­partment. Professor of sociology at the Univ. of Rhode Island and former Colby instructor Michelle Heitzman discussed "Early and Ad­olescent Sex Role Socialization and the Motivation to Marry;" Com­missioner of Business Regulations (and Maine's first female cabinet member) Roberta Weil presented a discussion of "Women in Executive Roles." Coming up: Joan Smith, professor of sociology at Dartmouth

The Face is Somehow Familiar .

Alumni

Return

as

College

Staff DANI.EL RAPAPORT '74, a dean's list student and Phi Beta Kappa grad­uate from Sharon, Mass., has joined the Eustis force as administrative staff assistant. An American Studies major, Dan was captain of the base· ball team his senior year.

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ANN TRAVER '74, coordinator of the college calendar, graduated with distinction in her English major. A Barrington, R.l., native, Ann spent her junior year in Vienna. A letter winner in tennis, she had a radio program on WMHB.

on "Women in Work: Appearance

and Reality" and Rumford lawyer Michael Gentile discussing affirma­tive action and sex-discrimination suits.

Elison on Japan

A book for which Prof. George Elison of the modern languages de­partment has acted as editorial con­sultant has been published in the Newsweek "Wonders of Man" se­ries. The lavish volume titled Kyoto concerns the history and arts of a city whose culture has long held a professional interest for Pro­fessor Elison.

Professor Elison is also the au­thor of the recently-published Deus Destroyed (Harvard Univer­sity Press), a study of the image of Christianity in early modern Japan.

A book on the Kabuki Theatre. which he co-authored with his for-

The college's first full-time com­puter programmer is KENNETH

ROBERTS 72. Ken, a math major from Framingham, Mass., did post­graduate study at the Honeywell Institute of Information Sciences and worked at Computer ldentics in Westwood, Mass. He is married to Gail Glidden 72.

Library Associates If you graduated from Colby within the last three years, you can become a member of the Colby Library Associates at a reduced. rate of $2.00. The Associates' purpose is to increase the resources of the library by purchasing rare books, manuscripts and letters which the library could not otherwise afford.

All members receive copies of the Colby Library Quarterly, a journal devoted primarily to Maine authors and to authors whose work is well represented by collections in the library.

Regular memberships are $5.00 annually; undergraduate mem­berships, 1.00. A subscription to the Colby Library Quarter/:; without an adjunct membership in the Library Associates is $3.00. Checks payable to Colby Library Associates may be mailed to Prof. Richard Cary, Curator of Rare Books, MiJler Library. An equiv­alent gift of books or other materials needed by the library may be substituted for the membership fee.

mer student Caryl Callahan '70, is expected to appear shortly in the UNESCO RepresentatiYe Works of World Literature.

Professor Elison is an associate in research of the East Asian Research

The newly-created position of as­sistant to the director of financial aid and career counseling has been filled by GARY WEAVER '68. A. grad­uate of Navy Officer Candidate School, Gary1 served three years as officer-in-charge of Navy diving teams in Hawaii, Alaska, and the Tonkin Gulf. He is currently com­pleting thesis research for his mas­ter's degree in political science fro111 the Univ. of New Hampshire.

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Center at Harvard Univ. and taught a course on modern Japan at Harvard last summer. He is cur­rently pursuing research on 16th Century Japan under a grant from Harvard's Japanese Institute.

CURTIS SEARS 73 is the new assistant to the dean of admissions. Curtis, a biology-chemistry major from Dal­ton, Mass., interviews prospective students and travels through New England representing Colby at high school college nights.

Wyman on Streaking The subject of streaking seems to ha\'e outlived the fad itself. Al­though an uncertain �faine spring had a limitinrr effect on the exercise at Colby, recurrent discussions at this college and elsewhere seem to center on a sociological analysis on the meaning of it all.

Unlike many college professors and administrators who labeled the craze as a return to the "good old days," Colby dean of students and English professor \Villard Wyman was troubled by those who lauded streaking as "a proper return to a better way." ·writing in Change magazine, Dean vVyman asked: "Jn a generation as liberated as this one - with coed everything, an

impulse toward unisexism and lots

of talk about the deflation of men and women as sex objects - what makes it so titillating to see people trot around naked?"

But the thrust of what he wrote, which has been widely re-quoted, is

And for FREE

Copies of the booklet describ­ing Colby's program of Affir­mative Action are available at no charge from the Office of the President.

Pre-Christmas Special

The Afuseum of Art is offering Maine and its Role in American Art at a special reduced rate of $6.50 (regular price $10.00).

Since almost every prominent American artist has lived or worked in Maine for at least a brief period, the book is, in a way, a history of American art as well as an account of cultural de­velopment in Alaine.

The 178-page volume, which features more than JOO full-page illustrations, many in color, is available by sending a check for $6.50, payable to Colby College, to the Museum Shop, Colby Col­lege Museum of Art.

be5t encapsulated in the last paragnph of his "Viewpoint" in Change: "There will be many an­swers to what that act (streaking) means, to what lies behind it. But who really kn0\\'5? And ... who

really can care� \Ve're safe again, !:>ecure enough to sit back and take it in, bemused - contemplating the cha�m that has grown between

these solitary bur!:> ts for freedom and the kind so many of us marched for I 0 !>hon years ago. It seems a remarkable distance. And a widening one."

Do Not Fold, Spindle ... Colby's recent hook-up with the Dartmouth computer system has greatly expanded the potential for

computer sen-ices to students, fac­

ulty and administration. Computer

programmer Ken Roberts '72 feels

that acce�s to Dartmouth's vast

data base will be especially helpful

to the social sciences departments.

The Colby terminal, which is pro­

grammed to speak several computer

languages, is already on line with

the computer at Bowdoin.

Dr. and Mrs. Bixler relax with Dr. and Mrs. Howard Hill '18 al a Honolulu Alumni meeting, held al the !tome of Roger '40 and Ruth (Gould '40) Stebbins.

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Early Reception of Edwin Arlington Robinson The First Twenty Years

RICHARD CARY

Waterville: Colby College Press; 1974; $ 12.50

From The Torrent and The Night Before ( 1896) to the posthumous King Jasper (1935), Edwin Arling­ton Robinson published a score of new volumes of poetry. For the first 20 years he was rebuffed by editors, disdained by critics, and virtually ignored by the public. With the appearance of The Man Against the Sky in 1916 he vaulted to a zenith of regard, and held his place to the day he died.

The consensus of recent literary criticism favors Robinson's work in the earlier period as his finer ac­complishment. The question there­fore persists: Why, when he was producing his best poems, was Rob­inson overlooked and underrated? Any effort to resolve this anomaly

must take into account the record­ed opinions of contemporary critics and the impact they ostensibly con­veyed.

To that end is gathered in this volume every known review, inter­view, and essay pertaining to Rob­inson which was published between 1896 and 1916, excluding appraisals of his two plays. Some 70 items are listed in Hogan's Bibliography and "\l\lhite's supplement. Personal search of more than 80 periodicals and newspapers by Professor Cary has uncovered approximately 90 additional entries. The full texts are presented as in the original publications.

To add to its value as a source book, Cary has recreated the phys­ical and psychological ambience of the times in nine introductory chapters, by annotating all com­mentaries exhaustively, by provid­ing biographical, historical, and bibliographical data on all persons and writings cited, by tracing Rob-

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inson's relations with some of the critics, and by juxtaposing his re­sponse to their uttered judgements.

Richard Cary, professor of Eng­lish and curator of rare books and manuscripts, has published two other books on Robinson, as well as some 30 essays on the subject.

Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution

PAUL WATZLAWICK, Ptt.D. JOHN WEAKLAND, CH.E. RICHARD FISCH '49, M.D. New York: W.W.

Norton & Co.; 1974; $7.95

An outgrowth of work done by the three authors at the Brief Therapy Center of the Mental Research In­stitute in Palo Alto, Calif., Change deals with how problems arise in human interaction; why they per­sist in some instances; and why they are resolved in others. Most of all, it examines how, paradoxically, common sense and "logical" be­havior often fail, while "illogical" and "unreasonable" actions succeed in producing a desired change.

The book incorporates concepts of human communication, inter­actional (i.e., marital and family) therapy, the pathogenic and thera­peutic effects of paradoxes (double binds), and of action-oriented rath­er than origin-oriented techniques of problem resolution.

vVhile the authors draw some of their examples from the field of psychotherapy, their premises re­garding problem formation and resolution are applicable in the much wider and more general areas of human interaction, including large social systems and even inter­national relations.

Dr. Richard Fisch '49 earned his M.D. from the New York Medical College. He is a psychiatrist with a private practice in Palo Alto.

Elms: The Battle

with

the Beetle

One of the few original Mayflower Hill elms and the largest on campus, this infected tree was cut last summer. Well

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ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENT OBSERVATIONS OF VISI·

tors to Colby's new campus during the two dec­ades prior to the l 960's was that Mayflower Hill was going to be even more handsome when the trees were grown.

Today, the trees are mostly grown and those who remember stark brick buildings on a barren hillside have cause to wince at the sound and sight of chain saws toppling campus elms.

It has been known for years, of course, that the elms were dying. But the fact has never been graciously accepted in a community where the "Elm City" is a sobriquet or on a campus where almost all of the trees, including the elms, were planted by hand.

Even before classes were held on the Hill, college crews were implementing a detailed landscape plan.

In a most dramatic project carried out in January, 194 I, ten 40-foot elms were planted on the approach to Lorimer Chapel. Transplanted with giant clods of earth protecting the roots, they were put in the frozen ground with the aid of earth-cutting saws, tractors and

over JOO years old, it grew across the road in the field op­posite Mary Low and Coburn Halls.

Mature elms, grown in a campus "nursery" about a half­mile away, were moved in the winter of 1941 to the lawns on the approach to Lorimer Chapel. Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds A nsel Grindall was then a member of the crew and worked on the project. Jn recen t years, he has supervised the removal of some of the elm trees infected with Dutch elm disease.

power winches. Nearly everywhere on the campus, holes had to be blasted into surface ledge to g ive young saplings of several varieties a pla ce to grow.

By a cruel coincidence, mos t of these trees reached ma turi ty abou t the same time tha t the Du tch elm d i­sease began i ts devas ta tion . Transm itted by a beetle, the d isease is caused by a fungus of spores wh ich clogs l ife-sus taining capillaries in the wood.

For the pas t several years, Richard J. Campana, pro­fessor of botany at the University of Maine, has served as a consul tant to Colby, Bates, Bowdoin and the state university in waging the ba t tle w i th the beetle.

While there is no cure, the persis ten t war has been fough t on three fronts - the application of an environ­mentally-approved spray, the direc t pressurized in­jection of "medicine" called Benomyl, and a program of sani ta tion by wh ich infected wood is removed and destroyed .

As par t of the sani ta tion program, some 30 elms have been removed in the pas t three years. More are sla ted for the saws next summer. Right now, there are abou t 200 elms le ft on the campus .

"We are s imply trying to d imin ish our losses ," says build ings and grounds superin tenden t Ansel Grindall.

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" A t the same time we are protecting the future beau ty of the campus w i th an amb itious tree planting pro­gram."

The memory of George Whalon, Mr. Grindall's predecessor as superintendent, was h onored last year with the es tablishmen t of the Whalan Grove of s ome 40 Amer ican beech trees near Johnson Pond. In addition, d ozens of p ine and b irch trees were p lan ted in the adja cen t area.

This fall, other areas of the campus were planted with a variety of saplings including green ash, p in and red oak, and sugar maple.

Landscape arch itect Carol Johnson, whose first work at the college was the natural setting for the newe5t dormi tory complex, has been the consultant for all of the new plan tings.

"We are planting more trees than we are cutting down," says Mr. Grindall, "and wh ile we may l ose the fight to save our elms, we w ill ne ver again ha ve to wish tha t the trees on campus would grow faster." E.H.S.

A sapling sugar maple, one of more than 40 new trees planted on campus this fall, is put in place in an area near Mary Low Hall. Saplings of red and pin oak as well as green ash were also planted in accordance with an over­all plan prepared by landscape architect Carol Johnson, a consultant to the college since 1966.

Sports (Ridgewood, N.J.) led the offensive charges, coach Ken Mukai 's highest praise went to goalie Jeff Sanderson '77 (Concord, N.H.) .

Responding to the pressure of filling the shoes of Bruce Car­michael '74, who allowed 13 goals in 11 games last season, Sanderson was superb, allowing just 0.86 goals per game through the first seven contests. "He's a super goalie," Mukai says. "He's tough and strong - the best we've seen this year."

See the next issue of Colby Today for a full fall sports season wrap-up.

Goalie Jeff San derson '77 pirouettes lo make a save.

Football

Colby's gridiron Mules have n i ne Winter Sports Schedule*

VARSITY BASKETBALL VARSITY S K I I N G months to recover from their bruis-

Dec. Merri mack A J a n . M a i ne Series at 2 9- 30 3 i ng season and contemplate a I n vi tational Lost Valley future which won't i nclude four J a n . J O U . H artford A 7 : 3o 7 M a i n e Series, U M F

outstanding seniors, but will in- J I Wesleya n A 3 : 00 at Sugarloaf

elude a talented corps of young 1 5 Ba tes A r 30 8 M a i ne Series, U M PG

lettermen. 1 8 Amherst A 8 : 00 a t Farmington 22 Tufts A 7 : 00 9 Maine Series, Bow-

Lost next fall will be the power 2 4 W P I H roo doin at Sugarloaf run ning of New England's all-time 2 5 M iddlebury H 3 : 00 1 7- 1 8 D iv. I I Meet a t

rushing ki ng Peter Gorniewicz 28 Assumption A 8 : 00 Windham College

(I pswich, Ma s.); the defensive lead- 29 Clark A 7 : 00 2 3 M a i n e Series, Colby

ership of Peter's co-captain Kevin VARSITY HOCKEY a t Farmi ngton

24-25 Div. II Meet at Mayo (Enfield, Conn.); and the Nov. 30 Boston State H 7 : 00 Lyndon State offensive line play of guard Ron Dec. 5 Lowell Tech. A 8 : 00

3 1 Div. 1 1 Meet a t

Ouellette (Bi<l<leford) and tight en<l 7 New Engl a n d H r oo Keene State

J a n . 4 - 5 Merri mack Mike Fletcher (Waterville). l nvitational A

However, coach Dick McGee and 1 3 Wesleyan A 7 : 3o WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

his staff can savor the prospect of 1 7 Middlebury A 7 : 30 Jan. 22 Bates H 3 : 00

the return of 12 lettermen who will 1 8 W i l l iams A 4 : 00 2 8 Maine H 3 : 00

be juniors and another bumper 2 1 U . Con n . A 7 : 30 2 2 Boston State A 8 : 00 WOMEN

'S S K I I N G

crop of eight lettermen from this 25 M e rrimack H 7 : 00 J a n . 24-25 Div. II Meet a t year's freshman class. The big hole 2 8 A I C H 7 : 00 Norwich to fill will be Gorniewicz, but the 3.1 H a m i l to n H 7 : 00 3 1 D iv. I I Meet a t Ba tes

rest of the squad will be seasoned. VARSITY TRACK

J a n . 1 5 Ben tley A VARSITY SQUASH

1 8 M a i n e A Dec. 7 U.S. Naval Acad.

Soccer 2 2 M a i n e a t Harvard A 1 : 00 Maritime H 7 : 00 Jan. 23 Bowdoin H 4 : 00

Defense remained the bulwark an<l 2 5 Ba tes H J : Oo 3 1 Rou n d Robin

offen e the weakness of the Mule 2 9 M IT H 7 : 00 at T ri n i t y A l : Oo soccer team this fall. Wh ile All- * through J a n uary 3 J Maine hal fback Peter Carman '76

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Class News 2 4 Mrs. Edward P. Tucker

(Marian Drisko) 2 Peach Tree Rd. Glastonbury, Conn. 06033

Greetings to all of you and especially to those who were unable to attend our 50th reunion. The summer A lumnus

listed the highlights of the festivities with a photograph of the group. To help you identify class members in the picture, here is a list of those present at the din­ner: John Berry, Bert Merrill, William

Weise, Percy Beatty, Charles Lewis, Joseph McGarry, Ralph McLeary, J. Harland Morse, Lawrence Putnam,

George Nickerson, Roland Payne, Joseph

Smith, Grenville Vale, Ruth Allen Pea­

body, Celia Clary Fossett, Lena Cooley

Mayo, Marion Cummings Mann, Grace

Fox Herrick, Donnie Getchell McCully,

Therese Hall Carroll, Ervena Goodale

Smith, Pearl Thompson Stetson, Mildred

Todd Weir, Mary Watson Flanders, Ethel

Reed Day, Anne Brownstone Prilutsky

and Marian Drisko Tucker. Sue (Sip­

preUe) Daye attended Alumni weekend

but had to leave suddenly on Saturday

afternoon because of a death i n her family, and does not appear in the class photograph. The social hour prior to the

banquet was a time to share reminis­

cences of college years and to renew old

acquaintances. Hilda Worthen, who had planned to attend but bad to cancel, sent along words for two songs for the occa­sion • Jack Berry planned a delightful program following the banquet, and true to his promise, it was "short and snappy". As a starter, everyone joined in singing Hilda's songs. Jack called on every '24-er to·relate what his or her plans are for the next 50 years. Surprisingly, these brief statements were interesting and amusing. Greetings were read from many who could not attend. It was a great treat to have Dean Rur;mals with us. She spoke briefly and entertainingly of Colby and in conclusion, speaking of herself, re­marked, "Old age is fine but 'tain't easy." I think we can all take pride in our rec­ord-breaking contribution to the Alumni Fund. As a finale, Joe Smith presented a slide program composed entirely of pictures taken during our four years at Colby. These pictures brought back a lot of memories. The festivities ended on a happy note but we wished more classmates could have been present to share i n this very special evening. Our new class officers are: president, Lawrence Putnam; vice president, Grenville Vale; Alumni Council representative, Ervena Goodale Smith; and I, your secretary, hereby submit opus no. 1 for the A lum­nus • In June, Joe Smith spoke before

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the Friends of the South Portland Li­brary and offered two suggestions for making the best use of old slides which are good but n o longer shown. One idea, applicable only to those who have a dark­room, is to make enlarged prints from choice slides for one's own enjoyment. But he feels a better idea is to make "essays" from a few dozen slides. These can be selected from disused slides or from new ones taken especially for this purpose • Frank Whitehouse Anderson has announced that be is a candidate for Hancock County Commissioner. Frank is retiring from the state senate a t the close of the year. He is the author of two books, Windfalls, a book of verse, and Bushed, a story of the Maine wilder­ness • Hilda Worthen is busy research­ing the genealogy of the Worthen family • Your class secretary accepted this job somewhat reluctantly, so she hopes all of you will cooperate with her by sending news items about yourselves. Let's show the young-uns that we are a "Heads-up" group! • Finally, thanks go to our out­going class officers, Joe Smith, Ralph Mc­Leary, Anne Prilutsky, and George Nick· erson.

26 Dr. Hilda M. Fife 6 Sherwood Dr. Eliot, Maine 03903

In the last A /umnus an item appeared about the death of William Elmer Fager­strom. On the basketball and hockey teams, "Fagie" was also managing editor of the Oracle our senior year. The class sends its sympathy to his wife and his two sisters • I welcomed letters from three of you after the spring issue of the A lumnus. Good friend Gabriel Guedj wrote i n June, just after I had mailed my summer column to Colby, about exciting fall plans - first to Europe (his folks all live in France) and to Algiers where he was born, then .home in l ate October and a trip to New England to see the fall foliage. He and Mirth, his wife, planned also to visit the Colby campus. After Christmas they will go to Mexico for sev­eral months. They travel in a "motor home," and between trips G abe serves as interim pastor in various churches in California. He adds, "We have one pray­er among many: that the Lord will permit us to be on Mayflower Hill for our 50th i n '76 and the 200th of our beloved country." Amen to that, Gabriel • Then a few days later came a letter from Duckie (Edith Grearson Money) telling of a recent mini-'26 reunion with Clara Ford Kilborn and Doris Dewar Hunt. She wrote also of having seen Esther Knudsen Shettleworth '27 on the west coast and Yi and Sully in Fort Lauderdale, who "were getting ready for their favorite state . . . M aine." Guess you and Pete get around, too, Duckie! • The third letter came from Tilly Gordon Fitts, just after the summer A lumnus

c ame out. As she wrote, she'd "strike while the iron is hot." I was so pleased to hear from you, Tilly. I'll bet there are other '26-ers who mean to write . (I mean to do a few things myself; the prob­lem is to do what I mean to do ! ) Tilly is m uch interested in bird-watching and would del ight in exchanging experiences with others. Her address is Lakeville, Conn. 06039. The other morning, Tilly, I was awakened by crows cawing four times, pause, re peat. I'd never noticed that pattern of four caws before. What a lot I have to learn! • A couple of weeks ago Christine Booth was hostess to another mini-Colby reunion at the lovely cottage where she and her sister spend a couple of weeks every summer. Leonette Warburton Wishart, Louise Steele, and Lib Kellett were there from '23, and Evelyn Kellett and I from '26. I spent several days in 1 une with Esther Wood at her old home in B lue H il l . Emily Candage E l l i s '27 w a s there, too, and Esther's Princess Primrose, her ador­ing and adored canine pal . Other mini­Colby reunions, anyone? They're good practice for our big one, come 1 976 • "Strike while the iron is hot, cl assmates!" Write me about yourself and your activi­ties, your ideas for our 50th, and your ideas on whatever. And share '26 news on your Christmas cards by sending them to me for this col umn . 2 8 Mrs. James McCroary

(Pat Towle) Stanley Rd. Winthrop, M aine 04 364

Our congratulations to Charlie Towne and Kent Pierce, our most recent bride­grooms! We all hope to meet the brides soon • In the last A /umnus there was an item about the D'Arnicos as recipients of the Distinguished Art Patrons award at the Skowhegan School of Painting an­nual Maine Awards dinner - congratula­tions. In a letter written in 1 973 , Gus l isted his hobbies as collecting 20th cen­tury etchings, l i thos, paintings, modern art ceramics and contemporary creative blown glass. Doesn't that sound impres­sive? The D'Amicos have traveled to Mex ico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Spain, and Portugal. In 1 972, he was invited to a G ridiron dinner in Washington, the only guest from the state of Maine • Claire Richardson MacDougal divides her time between Bangor and Bonita Springs, Fla. Her biggest hobby seems to be travel ing - in 1 970 an eight-week trip around the world, in 1 97 1 a six-week circle tour of Africa, and i n 1 973 a similar one in South America. At the reunion, she told u of a rather hair-raising experience on the l atter. Where to next, Claire? Her son is a surgeon and she is enjoying her first granddaughter • Since we are talking about Bangor people, Dick Drum­mond wrote that he enjoys golf, garden­ing, and bridge with bowling and cross-

"Each book is a new adventure" say bookplates in the volumes of the late FRANK c. FOSTER ' 1 6 . The books form the nucleus of the Frank Foster Library on A ppalachian Migrants, dedicated re­cently in Cincinnati. The library serves the Urban A ppalachian Council, local teachers, social science workers, commu­nity planners, Cincinnatians with "down home" ties, and the general public. The col/ectio11 was supplemented by memorial contributions from D r. Foster's many friends and colleagues, and includes cur­rent films, slide shows, and recordings. The library is unique in its specialization in research on urban A ppalachians, Cin­cinnati's second largest minority.

word puzzles running a close second in the winter time. He has eight grandchil­dren • I had a nice card from Nellie Dearborn at Christmas last year. She says that her interests are "boundless" and I believe it, she is as effervescent as ever. She spends a great deal of time with Bar­bara Weston Noyes '29 and her family in M adison • It was good to hear from Ed­na Turkington, "Turkey". She was always one of my favorite persons and I don't think I have seen her since we were grad­uated . She has retired and seems to l i ke all of the th ings that I enjoy, Audubon bird walks and the New England Wild Flower Assoc.'s lectures and field trips. She goes to the theater and concerts whenever possible, l ives in Texas and California in the winter and M alden, Mass., in the summer. She enjoys her church associations and especially l ikes walki ng - mountain, city or shore -and does a lot of reading, too. Do plan to be with us in 1 978! • Marion Daye O'Donnell was with us in 1 973 . She, too, l ikes traveling, gardening, theater, sports, and grandchildren. A few years ago she, Dot Daggett Johnston and I, with our respective husbands, attended a Coburn reunion in Waterville. M arion retired in 1 972 after teaching 27 years in the Sims­bury, Conn., schools. Dot, who did such a wonderful job for us at reunion t ime, is now living in South Dennis on Cape Cod, and enjoys gardening, oil painting and doing genealogical and historical re­search while taking good care of Doug. Now that I have retired, I want to pursue my own genealogical record a l i ttle fur­ther so you m ay see me some day on Cape Cod, Dot. 2 9 Jean M. Watson

6744 Winkler Rd. F-5 Fort Myers, Fla. 3 390 1

As I promised, I am giving you excerpts from the letters that were received by Cecil and Allan from those who could not attend the reunion. Grace Stone

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Allen acts as hostess in the Ruggles House and says that it is a beautiful house to visit • We were sorry to hear that Florence Young Bennett's husband was critically ill in the coronary care unit. She sent greetings to all • Oscar Chute was busy with Commencement at N ational College, Evanston, I l l . He is re­t i ring for the second time in order to take an assignment with a reduced workload so he can devote more time to h is ''fish­ing career" • Harvey Fotter and wife are retired and l ive among the flora and fauna in the beautiful Blue Ridge moun­tains. They both do volunteer work in a hospital and mental clinic in Asheville, N.C. H is wife paints and they both are active in caring for their flower and vege­table gardens. They have made several trips to Europe and plan to visit the Scandinavian countries this fall . The Fetters have one son in San Francisco, another in Connecticut, and a daughter in Camden • Don "Shorty" Fraser was entertaining his daughter and family. Another daughter, M argo, is taking a year off from teach ing to do graduate work. His son and his wife are also teachers. "Shorty" h as given up his daily writing commitment but is putting out a weekly newsletter for the First Presby­terian Church. He has moved to the country to a recently remodeled house. He says he finds the "class notes" in the A lumnus very reassuring. "I knew some of those scalawags who are today such outstanding citizens and I keep reminding myself that many of the young scalawags of today will become outstanding citizens and will help assure the future of our country and preserve our way of life" • Bea Palmer Frederick entertains her vis­itors at Disney World and finds it a fascinating place. She decided St. Cloud, Fla., was too far from Colby to attend reunion • Vinal Good sent an excerpt from Rotary District Foundation Scholar about his daughter who is going to be the first foreign student ever admitted to the Federal Univ. in Natal, Brazi l . She was preparing to give her first speech to the Rotarians in Portuguese • Phil Higgim could not attend the reunion because it conflicted with his first trip to England, Scotland and Wales • Rupe Irvine re­gretted that their previously arranged trip to Bermuda conflicted with reunion. H e promises to see us at the 50th • "Peggy" Tyler Jones got back to M aine from H awaii too late for reunion. She has spent summers in Harrison for the past 20 years. She spent last winter in Florida. Visiting her two daughters and five sons and 20 grandchildren makes life interesting for her • Dave Kronquist decided the distance from Fort Myers, Fl a. , to Maine was too great to cover for one special week-end. He sent his good wishes • Lowell Leland regretted that a final examination he would be adminis­tering at Bowling Green State Univ. the day before reunion would prevent his at-

tending • Leon Lepine is retired from the tire business. He was traveling audi­tor and general manager of a national company. He and his wife Katherine have one son who graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, interned at G eis­inger Medical Center, was called i nto service in Vietnam and completed his residency in dermatology at Walter Reed Hospital.

Doris and Lem Lord celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary this year with a trip to San Francisco and Honolulu where their youngest daughter is state co­ordinator for H awaii and the Pacific Basin for H.E.W. Lem is looking for­ward to part-time work in the field of counseling in Sudbury U nited Methodist Church. They will reside i n Marlboro, Mass. • Ruth Norton McKay and Ed­gar spend six months in Orono where he serves as senior consultant to the N ew England-Atlantic Provinces and Quebec Center of the U niv. of M aine, and six months in Bear R iver, N ova Scotia, near their daughter and son-in-law and 20-month-old grandson • Bunny Collins MacLean has been the research medical librarian for several years at Pondvil le Hospital, the first state hospital in the nation for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Continual research, basic and clinical, makes her work interesting and challenging and perhaps a breakthrough may come from these efforts. Her hus­band Jeff has m ade a remarkable partial recovery from a severe stroke of 1 1 years ago. Their three sons, an engineer, a de­signer and a treasury agent, are sources of great pride and comfort to them as are their sons' wives and seven grandchil­dren • Harold Newcomb is starting his 26th year as piano accompanist for vocalists at Gramp's Lounge in North Randolph, M ass. He is also working at the V.A. hospital, Brockton, M ass. He visits his son i n Hal lowell and h is daugh­ter in Augusta annually . His son is a mathematics instructor at Cony H . S. i n Augusta. H al writes "Tales of t h e Un­known" for the Kappa Delta Rho Quill and Scroll. Sometimes h is Colby friends figure in his stories • Harold Moskovit

and Bob Peterson sent greetings • Nathaniel Sills was celebrating his 40th wedding anniversary with bis three sons, two daughters-in-law and three grandchil­dren. H is business activit ies have taken him to all parts of the U.S.A., and all over the world. H is middle son grad­uated from Colby nine years ago and married a Colby student i n the Colby chapel • Inez Pelky Stalling and her first husband Charles Ide '26 bad two children, a girl and a boy, Jonathan Colby. Her second husband died in 1 972. Attendance at the United Methodist Church gives her opportunities to serve plus a host of kind Christian friends. She sent warm regards to her Colby class­mates • Our new class officers are

Ernest E. Miller, president, J. Drisko Allen, vice-president (re-elected), Eliza­beth F. Libbey, secretary, and Eleanor Butler Hutchins, representative to the Alumni Council. Thanks are in order to G. Cecil Goddard and Earle A. McKeeo, our other outgoing officers.

3 3 Mr. Reginald O'Halloran 32 Western Ave. Waterville, Maine 0490 1

Time and tide wait for no one. It is now a l ittle more than a year since our 40th reunion and less than three and a half years to the big affair. So start thinking of the time to come, and of the young folks you will be seeing then • Now for the summer scandals: Lib and Doug Allan are the proud "grammies" of a bouncing boy, a true candidate for a future football team at Colby. Needless to say I can readily see the sparkle i n their eyes. Who will pamper h i m the most? • Would you believe we have a new TV star in our group? The l ine forms on the right for autographs: Bertha Lewis Timson (antiques in Kenne­bunkport) appeared twice on TV display­ing and discussing antique silver in a knowledgeable and charming way • Marion Clark Harmon in Caribou is busy with various local activities. She sees Ruth Vose Janes and Mary Smith Strout from time to time. Her nieces and nephews keep her busy, and she enjoys summers at the lake • Lois Dean Springer welcomes friends in Brewer with a cup of tea and fi ne cookies. She, too, keeps busy with grandchildren • Anna Hannagan Furbush teaches English part-time at MCI, and loves it . This sum­mer she bad three boys aged 1 3 to 1 7 from a N ew York City Boys' Club for special instruction. They had a fine time and want to come back here for a full year's study. We are not sure whether it was Anna's good teaching or the M aine goodies she fed them that made the big­gest impression! Her oldest daughter has begun teaching and her second girl is a senior at U. M aine • The Rev. H. John Murchie recently marked his 50th year as a preacher, having begun here in M aine in 1 924 and served in several small communities before graduating from Colby and being ordained i n 1 934. After that he served several parishes in the Boston area and is now i n Woburn as interim pastor • Evelyn Stapleton Bums reports that her husband the Rev. Jackson Burns bas been appointed dis­trict superintendent of the Worcester­West area of the Southern New England Conference of the M ethodist Church. They have traveled in Europe and Asia. The Rev. B urns is also the author of sev­eral religious brochures • Ben Wil· Iiams received a Colby Brick this year. Last year U . M aine awarded him a cita­tion for outstanding civic and community

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affairs. H e took a l i ttle t ime to VISlt C alifornia and Hawaii and enjoyed traveling so much that he plans more. We are proud of Ben. You may see him - he is bent on calling on some old acquaintances i n his travels • Mal Wil­son is bouncing around central M aine giving his competitors a tough time. H e recently stopped i n for a chat and hoped for some cl ass news. We had a pleasant visit with a bit of Irish coffee to cheer. J ust as Mal left, something prompted him to burst into song and all the dogs at the vet's hospital next door joined in. That was a chorus!

34 Mrs. Donald A. Matheson ( M argaret Salmond) Lakeview Dr. China, M aine 04926

Our new class officers are: Franklin Norvisb, president; Ford G rant, vice pres­ident; Margaret Salmond Matheson, sec­retary-treasurer; and Louise Williams Brown, representative to the Alumni Council • Our new president Franklin Norvish, professor of English at North­eastern Univ., has received a d istinguish­ed service citation from the university for his 37 years in higher education • Our new vice president, Ford Grant, re­ceived an honorary doctor of science in business administration from Thomas College in appreciation of his 40 years of dedicated service to that institution. Ford also had a summer exhibit of both color and black and white photos at the Thomas Art Gallery. This was viewed with pleasure by several of his classmates • Congratulations to Samson Fisher, M . D., who has successfully completed certification examinations and been con­ferred a Diplomate of Allergy and Im­munology. Sam is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy and a member of the New England Allergy Society. H e practices on the staffs of Thayer and Seton hospitals in Waterville • Great to hear from Frank Allen who wrote of his enjoyment of reunion. H e has been busy since then working o n a campaign to increase the n umber of hours that his library can be kept open, m arrying off a daughter, and planning a September and October vacation to Eng­land with his wife • G reat also to hear from George Mann. He and his family not only enjoyed reunion but also had a wonderful New England vacation before returning to Houston. George sent along a fascinating 1 868 Farmers' Almanac which will be turned over to Colby.

Bill Millett sent an interesting letter ex­plaining why he could not attend our re­un ion. That same week his daughter and her husband, both students a t Yale Divinity School, were ordained as dea­cons in the Methodist church in West Virginia. We missed you, Bill • Our thanks to Frances Palmer for the pro­gram of the Boardman Memorial Service

which she attended, and at which the re­cently deceased members of our class were remembered. In July Frannie spent two weeks af a conference of the U nited Church of Christ, and i n August she was a participant in the Mass. Audubon con­ference "Focus Outdoors" • Joe Brog­den '35 , who started Colby with our class, visits often i n the J ackman area at his brother's Crocker Lake Camps. Don and I enjoyed talking over old t imes with him at a reunion in our cabin. Joe is now retired from textile manufacturing and l ives i n a condominium home i n Fletcher Woods, Kennebunk • Andrew Daigle was featured in the Bangor Daily News when he gave an interview from h is North Haven Island home at the time of President N ixon's resignation. Andy was a Secret Service Agent for 29 years, several of which were spent at 1 600 Penn­sylvania Avenue. N ice to hear from some­one from behind the scenes who remem­bers Mr. N i xon as "a warm, personable man of humanity and humor." Do write that book, Andy. Your classmates would be thrilled to read of your associations with M r. N i xon, F.D.R. , the Trumans and J .F.K. You know most of us have nothing but the creative writing of the free press for reference in these matters! • Portia Pendleton Rideout i s busy as ever. Since reunion she has flown to Seattle to visit her son, and is p lanning in the spring to participate i n a five week Mongolian adventure which will be an­other round-the-world trip • Ruth White seemed to echo everyone's senti­ments when she wrote that she had "a whale of a time at reunion." Now "Babe" is suggesting another get-together i n two years. How about that! • Finally, a word of thanks is due to our outgoing class officers, George Putnam and Paul Feldman.

37 Miss Sara J. Cowan 300 Allen Ave. Portland, M aine 04 1 03

Gerry Ryan has received special thanks and commendation from the president of Trial Court Administrators. Gerry has been editor of the association's publica­t ion The Column for the past year • Irv Gammon was keynote speaker at the annual national conference of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship in Rochester, N .Y., last summer and has a new book coming out anon • Ruth Yeaton McKee spends almost half the year at Ocean Point and the rest in Pasadena, Calif., where she does volunteer work at a drop­in center you may have glimpsed in the opening of "The Sting". Ruth has seen B uell and Evelyne Merril l '40 and went to the opera in New York with H annah and Bernard Burbank '39. lpie Solie Howard and Arlene Bamber Veracka, both '39, visit her at Ocean Point nearly every summer and l ast year she saw Peg

Jordan Lewis '35 • Phyllis Jones Oecbslie left the Portland area several years ago and has become a bona fide real estate salesperson with a Bangor firm. Phyl l is says sell ing real estate re­m inds her of the race-betting bug - ex­cit ing and sometimes it pays off! H us­band Tom and son Edward work for New England Telephone and son Bob is doing some interesting experiments with tropical fish. Phyllis has been a substitute teacher in the Eddington schools, chair­man of the cancer drive, and registrar of voters as well as working in the E. Ed­dington Community Church. For two winters the Oechslies have vacationed in Naples, Fla. • Summer of '74 found me visiting China Vil lage again. Louise Tracey has retired to her vil lage home which is j ust across the road from the home Bi l l and Peg Libbey Darlow have bought. Down the road a piece in Albion, M ac and Mil l ie (Caldwell '39) Stevens have been l iving in a big, beau­tiful old house for nearly 20 years • In August I did a so-called seminar on rubbing (1101 robbing) New England tombstones for the 2 1 st national conven­tion of the Junior Classical League, held at the Univ. of New Hampshire. Over l , l 00 young classicists from all over the country attended.

3 8 Mrs. A. Wendell Anderson (Dorothy Trainor) 30 Longfellow Ave. Brunswick, M aine 040 1 1

Marion (Dug) Dugdale was presented a Colby B rick - a symbol of loyal service to Colby - during Alumni weekend. She was commended for "strong and steady support of the college over the years". A member of the Alumni Council, aiding in policy changes and new programs, she is a member of the Boston Alumnae Assoc. and was a founder of the Colby Alumnae Club of Merrimack Valley. "Dug" l ives in Bradford, Mass., and is financial aid officer and purchasing agent at Bradford College. Sigrid Tompkins and I were so glad to be able to witness this tribute to "Dug" at the Friday night dinner for all alumni • Philip Hender­son is minister of the Memorial Baptist. Church at Hartford, Conn. Phil and his wife Barbara were given a large reception by the members of their former church tn Bedford, M ass. , where he served eight years. While i n Bedford, Phil was active in the Bedford M inister's Fellowship, the H uman Relations Council and i n commu­nity youth work. H e was also interim chaplain at the Veteran's Administration hospital, and worked i n therapy with the alcoholic unit at Metropolitan State Hos­pital in Waltham. After Colby, Phil earned a B.D. degree at Andover Newton Theological School, and did graduate work in religious education at Harvard Divinity School and at Princeton Theo-

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logical School. H e was a chaplain i n the Air Force from 1 94 3 to 1 946 and is a retired It . col . in the Air Force Reserve. The Hendersons were also honored at a reception by the Concerned Black Citi­zens of Bedford and the H uman Rela­tions Council for their various humani­tarian efforts • Helen Foster Jenison and Edward '40 l ive in North Scituate, R . I ., where Ed is a vice president of the Industrial Bank of R.I . They have a son Richard and a granddaughter. The Jen­isons are frequent travelers who have taken wonderful trips through Canada and Hawaii • Those of you who re­newed friendship with Dick and Eleanor Dow at our 35th reunion will be espe­cially saddened to hear that their only son R ichard Jr. '69 died in August after a brave fight against cancer. They have two daughters, Margaret who l i ves in Portland, and Barbara, who l ives in Naples, Italy, with her three sons. The Dows visit them every other summer. Dick is a salesman for heavy construction equipment, and Eleanor is an elementary school teacher.

3 9 Mrs. Peter Veracka (Arl ine Bamber) 363 Walpole St. Norwood, Mass. 02062

Greetings to all! This column is written by your new class correspondent. Ed B urke sent me the complete l ist of our class officers: president, Lester Jolovitz; vice president, Elizabeth Solie Howard; secretary-treasurer, Arline Bamber Ver­acka; Alumni Council representative, Sally Aldrich Adams • Before I con­tinue, I want to thank Judy Scbreider for good and faithful service. As our previous class correspondent she wrote many let­ters and columns and I'm sure there were times she wished that more classmates kept her informed of their doings. So, classmates, if you are one of those who have meant to answer a questionnaire or respond to an appeal for news for the A lumnus, decide to do it now.

The 35th reunion weekend was a fine one. Some of us d idn't get there by Fri­day morning to go on the Boothbay H ar­bor boat trip but we heard how much it was enjoyed. Virginia Kingsley Jones who l ives in that lovely region said the ride was wonderful and that she went to places she hadn't been for years. The dinner Friday night was a chance for all of us to renew associations and make new ones, too. I think some of us tried to catch quick glances at name tags. After all, a lot of years have passed and other causes - gray hair, middle-age spread, beards - have contributed to changed appearances. But, then there would be a smile, a laugh, or a tone of voice and you'd recognize someone. I t was an ex­citing experience to meet old Colbyites and to get caught up on the news of the

college. Congratulations, Wilson, you've earned that Colby Brick! • The dinner Saturday night at the Silent Woman brought out a few additional classmates and Marjorie and Phil B ither '30 came to be with us. We were pleased they chose our class reunion. Everyone at the dinner stood up and presented a capsule auto­biography. The few incidents we heard aroused a desire to find out more and to compare notes. No one sounded disheart­ened by or unappreciative of the past. It was good to be together. The guiding spirit of our class reunion was Doggie Dore and we do thank you, Doggie, for your hard work and sincere hospitality. I think your popularity and the love and respect the people at the college so ob­viously have for you made us feel special, too. The college was generous to us. The package deal was a real bargain and the lovely gathering at President and M rs Strider's home was a gracious way of reaching out to us • Lastly, I'd l ike to thank all our outgoing officers - Charles Dignam, Maynard Irish, Judy Schreider, and Doggie Dore - for a job well done. 4 2 Miss Barbara R. Holden

1 1 5 Lynnfield St. Peabody, M ass. 0 1 960

It isn't everyone who includes a v1s1t with Princess Grace of Monaco in a trip to Europe. Bob Rice of Olympia, Wash., and his teenage daughter Shelley had that thrill during their visit to southern France in J uly. Bob wrote the Princess in M ay, recalling to her that their brothers used to compete in single sculls racing champion­ships in Pennsylvania and New York in the 1 940's. B ack came an invitation to call at the palace on July 1 5. Shelley is now the envy of all her girlfriends, and I am sure the rest of us would l ike a personal account from Bob of his conversation with charming Princess Grace. Bob also visited his French pen pal of over 40 years, now a doctor in Roubaix. We'll be looking forward to seeing Bob and his pictures at the next reunion • Clarence Reid, assistant principal of Oxford H il ls H .S. in South Paris, was honored by 90 members of the faculty and friends at a dinner when he retired last J une. H e joined t h e West Paris schools in 1 948 and became principal in 1 95 l. He had been assistant principal at Oxford Hills since 1 96 1 . Happy retirement to you, Clar­ence! • John L. Thomas, Jr., was in the news again, this time as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the State Senate from District 1 8, seeking the office vacated by Cyril M. Joly, J r. '48 of Waterville. John is a former repre­sentative to the M aine State Legislature and a past Republican state committee­man. He was a delegate to the GOP na­tional convention in 1 960. A Waterville attorney, John is president of Thomas College in Waterville, and very active in community affairs.

43 Mrs. Fred L. True (Hilda Niehoff) 81 Elm St. Georgetown, Mass. 0 1 830

N amed to the re­cently created board of advisors for the C o l l e g e M e n t a l Health Center of B o s t o n , I n c . i s James W . Moriar­ty, Wellesley Hills, M ass. In 1 966, this center became the country's first com-plete health main­

tenance organization for the psychiatric care of college students. J im has a most impressive record with John Hancock M utual Life Insurance Co. starting in 1 94.6 where he is now vice president. He has four children and one grandson. He and Evie (Gates '44) attended her 30th reunion at Colby • Geraldine Fennessy Parker continues to teach the 3 rd grade and went on a cruise in December and to Europe in the spring. H us.band George is a pension plan consultant • Shirley Hain­er Gulesian, R.N., and husband Albert owned and operated the Lincoln (Maine) Hospital for 23 years. They closed i t in 1 970 when a new regional hospital was built. She has one daughter and four step­children. For winter vacations, they go to their home in Boca Raton, Fla. • Mar­jorie McDougal Davis of Sanford has now acquired a daughter-in-law. Re­member, Marge has eight children. What a household she and Cl iff have. No won­der they vacation in Jamaica • George H. Jahn of Scituate, M ass., is chairman of the social studies curriculum in the public schools there. H e is another gar­dener but does this in Sanbornville, N.H. He and Hope plan to retire i n fi ve years when they will concentrate on sports and travel. They have a granddaughter, whom they hope will graduate from Colby i n 1 996. That's really in t h e future • Bar­

bara Philbrick Mertz of Corsicana, Texas, spent the summer cooking. I must qualify that remark, although Barbara really made it. She and husband Robert, an ophthalmologist, have three children - a married daughter in Alaska; a son who is a med student i n France; and a son who is a senior pre-med at Tulane. The boys were home for the summer for the first time in several years, consequently the cooking. Some time ago she saw Alden Wagner '44 in Dallas • Norman Porter lives in Natick, Mass. He has two mar­ried daughters and two grandchildren. A clergyman, he is chairman of three Masonic Clergy degree teams and ex­ecutive secretary of the Preacher's Aid Society. In 1 970, he received the Stowell Scholarship for study and travel i n the Holy Land. Norm recently saw George Whittier, a chaplain at the U.S. Gov't Hospital at Togus. He frequently sees

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Prof. Everett Strong, who also l ives in N atick. Please extend best wishes to h im from the class of '43 • Jeannette Niel­son Braddock is another impressive rec­ordmaker. An assistant in pharmacology at the Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, Jean has been appointed director of the Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Prod­ucts project. CTCP, widely known as the "poison bible'', lists the ingredients of al­most everything and their degree of toxicity. Would you believe the volume weighs seven l bs.? J ean joined the UR Medical staff in 1 964. As I write this, I wonder if she can really spell, much less pronounce all of those Jong words. H us­band Tom, our very own '43 vice presi­dent, has a tremendous folder of his own. He is an independent market researcher. They live in Pittsford, N .Y. • Eleanor Smart Braun.muller, whom I know would understand every word Jean says, h as re­cently joined the board of health (she says as "the token woman") in Basking Ridge, N.J. Her daughter thoroughly enjoyed her first year of teaching at Annapolis • Frank J. Miselis, M . D., l ives in Uncasville, Conn., and has three children and two grandchildren. Fran k travels a n d flies a n d spent some t ime this year in Europe • George A. Popper, a marketing manager from West­field, N.J . , has two sons - one is in i n­surance, the other is entering medical school • Iiach Shapiro Mellioo, a Springfield, Va., chemistry teacher and sponsor of an "It's Academic" team · on WRC-TV, has taught all over the world. I wish I could go into detail about the many places she and her husband Harvey have been. Harvey, USAF retired, is gen­eral manager of the Postal Service. Iiach would l ike to know of other '43-ers in the D.C. area; also, someone from the class of '42 who worked on the "It's Academic" team. Any clues as to the person? She says she is getting to be a "bona fide" southerner with a Massachu­setts accent • Mike Jacobs of Rye, N .Y., is president of a firm (his, l ikely) but M ike, I can't read your writing on that important fact. M ike has four chil­dren, spent a week at a tennis camp and travels. H e is looking forward to going down the Allagash with his two sons. Can we al l picture that? Cheers! • Thomas Farnsworth of Warwick, R.I . , director of the Rhode Island Center of Academic Achievement Co., Inc., i s so enthusiastic about his work that he will travel any­where within reasonable l imits to explain the program of this independent school for children with learning disabilities. Tom has two sons • And now for Sidney Rauch. He is working on a series of six vocabulary books for junior and senior h igh schools. Book 1 of "World of Vo­cabulary" (published by Learning Trends, N .Y.) became available in September. Sid spent April in Rome and M adrid; visited New Orleans in M ay; and saw bis son in M issoula, Mont.

Helping Hawaiians Find a Place in the Sun

The education and welfare of Hawaiians, "their place in the sun with everyone else," and "a new sense of involvement" for Hawaiian people in one of the na­tion's largest estates seem�d close on August 15 when the State Supreme Court of Hawaii announced its selection of Myron B. "Pinky" Thompson '50 as a trus­tee of the $200 million Princess Bernice Pauabi Bishop Estate. The appointment, which will run until Myron, a 50-year old , three-quarter Hawaiian, turns 70, was immediately given banner headlines and hajJed as "a milestone" for the estate. A Honolulu A dvertiser edi­torial claimed, "Not only does Thompson understand

the concerns and problems of the Hawaiian community, and especially its disadvantaged members, he is able to articulate them."

M yron, who turned down a number of invitations to run for lieutenant governor, told the Honolulu S1ar-B11//e1i11 after his trustee selection: "This bas always been my dream - to help our people - and the Bishop Estate is the vehicle for that dream."

Princess Bishop, whose estate includes large land holdings, left a will specifying that part of the estate's annual income must be used for the main­tenance and education of orphaned and indigent children, with preference for those of Hawaiian descent. M yron is the first of the five trustees with special interests and experience in the educational, cultural and social prob­lems of Hawaiian youth, bringing to his new post experience gained as head of social services and housing since 1 97 1 , and as administrative director for Gov. John A. B ums from 1 967-7 1 .

"The best way t o achieve equality for Hawaiians i s through the children," Myron commented, "and the Kamehameha schools ( run largely through the Bishop e tate) are an excellent vehicle. The programs developed there can influence the public education system and benefit all of our children."

44 Mrs. Louis E. Boldi (H elen M . C . Watson) 62 Prospect St. East Hartford, Conn. 06 1 03

Our incredible luck weatherwise held over from our 25th reunion, perhaps be­cause at least two '44-ers, Harris Graf and Viv Maxwell Brown, espoused to two '49-ers, were enjoying the 25th special -boating on Boothbay, etc. • Woodman H all was the jumping residence of such couples as Bill '48 and Ginny Howard Atherton, Lou and Helen Watson Boldi, Bill and Doris ( Bl anchard '45 ) Hutch­eson, Warren and Bil l ie McDougal, J i m '43 and Evie Gates Moriarty, and Bob St. Pierre and his wife.

Special reunion note to Bil l ie and War­ren McDougal: Watsie's gold-rimmed bi­focals were found, watermarked but in­tact, in the boathouse in August by Valerie Craig of the development office after previous searching in the l ake in J u ly. (Al though the specs had already been replaced, I sti ll say the expedition to the Outing Club was my finest hour of the weekend - in pile of the expense for the spare pair) • Rus.sel E. Brown, D.D. , now l iving in Norristown, Pa., has been featured in the Needham, Mass., Times. He has been a speaker at the First Baptist Church there in connection with his work as secretary for planning of Baptist International Ministries •

Bill Hancock, who was with our class before joining the AAF in 1 942, has been named chief of police in Ogunquit. Shot down over I taly in WW II, Bill escaped twice and was back with the Al l ied forces for a year before the end in '45, after which he and his mother oper­ated the Ogunquit Lobster Pound until he went into police work with the state troopers and later the New England Crime Intel l igence Service • Nancy Grahn Christensen is back l iving in Florida and working for the Fort Lauder­dale Travel Service again, after finding upper New Hampshire no longer suited to her l i fe style. She went to South and East Africa last fall, then Trinidad and Tobago. She and Tom cruised this spring on the Lindblad Explorer through the western Caribbean, visiting old M ayan ruins in Chichen l tza, Tikal, and Copan. They snorkeled off Belize at Glover's Reef, Isla de M aize off Honduras, and Isla de Providencia. Nancy's son, Jeff Heatley, is working with her husband, Tom Christensen, in his lawn sprinkler and answering service businesses, while Phil Heatley is in the guidance office at the Un iv. of Texas at El Paso. Step­daughter Debbie Christensen '72 has been working in publications at Dana Hall in Wellesley and is now going to journalism school at Syracuse Univ. Tommy Christ­en en is majoring in musical composition

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at B . U. • Please write and tell us about the activities of the Colby Clubs in your areas. The Hartford group sponsored a country cookout in Farmington on Sun­day, Sept. 8, and Margo Beach Bjorn '65 invited the Connecticutites to picnic at her home preceding the Coast Guard evening football game in October.

Our new '44 class officers are Louise Callahan Johnson, president; Evelyn Gates Moriarty, vice president; Helen M. C. Watson Boldi, secretary-treasurer; and Harold Joseph, Alumni Council represen­tative. Special thanks go to our outgoing officers: Harold Vigue, William Hutche­son, and Burton Shiro.

48 Mrs. Harman Hawkins (J anet Gay) 22 Heights Rd. Plandome, N .Y. I 1 030

It would appear that there is a great dearth of news for the cl ass, but hope­fully things will be better next time around. In the grandparents department, Cy Perkins writes that Christopher Ed­ward Perkins arrived in December of 1 973 - Colby '96? Add Bill Bryan to the l ist, too. His daughter had a l ittle girl in M arch and a son, Bill Jr., in No­vember, 1 973 • Gabriel Hikel i s per­sonnel manager of the Irving Tanning Co. of Hartland. He was previously as­sociated with Burlington Industries • Residents of Guilford have established the Regional Hospital Lightbody Fund in honor of Harry and Peggy Lightbody who recently celebrated their 25th wed­ding anniversary. Harry, a staunch sup­porter of the area hospital concept, has been practicing medicine in Guilford for 20 years. He recently returned from a trip to New Zealand where he partici­pated in the International Health Con­ference.

49 Mrs. John W. Taussig, Jr. (Ann Jennings) Pinnacle Rd. Amherst, N.H. 0303 1

My first assignment as your new class secretary is to thank Jeannie Sheppard Silva for the fine job she has done for so many years. It wi l l be a real task to fill her shoes. Your new class officers are L Charles Rastelli, president; Alexander Richard, vice president, and our alumni counc i l representative is Lucile Farnham Sturtevant. Re-elected for a three-year term on the alumni council was Jean Hillsen Grout, who was also elected Council chairman (or is it chairper on?), so our class is an active one. We missed lots of faces at reunion weekend but those of us who made it had a memora­ble time. After the first shrieks of recog­ni tion (or the desperate attempt to recol­lect names without looking at name tags) our reunion was in ful l swing. It did take a little while for me to answer to

"Jenxie" again, but I'm sure that "Pooch­ie", "Peetsie'', "Bugs", and "Peanllt" had the same problem!

From Thursday evening at the Al umni House, to the delightful cruise around Boothbay H a rbor, the alumni dinner on Friday, the great lobster and clambake Saturday noon where they seemed to feed thousands effortlessly; and our lavish buf­fet hosted by Robert Sage on Saturday night, the returning '49-ers enjoyed them­selves immensely. Paul Bourne preached Sunday's sermon in Lorimer Chapel as the weekend drew to a close. M any thanks go to Ed Burke, Don Leach, Bob Sage, and all the others who helped in the planning and organization of the weekend. It was just fabulous! • Bev Barnett Ammann and Marty Bennett Headley are going to help gather news for this column but those of you who have not sent in your questionnaires, please do so. We have five years to get ready for our 30th and we want to hear from everyone • A special thank-you goes to the outgoing c lass officers: Rob­ert Rowell, David Lynch, Jean Sheppard Silva, and Donald E. Nicoll • I am so sorry to have to end this on a sad note. Paul Golden passed away suddenly on August 1 2th. Our sincerest condolences go to his wife Joan (Seekins '50) and his children.

5 0 Mrs. William B. Maley (Elisabeth Jennings) 479 Ridge View Rd. Orange, Conn. 06477

Pat Jensen l ives i n Hamden, Conn., and is professor of library scie11ce at Southern Connecticut State College. She is a doc­toral candidate i n educational media at the Univ. of Conn. When I talked with her she was about to leave for Europe, having just fi nished teaching summer school. This past year has been particu­larly busy for Pat. In addition to her job and studies she was president of the New England Library Assoc. • Both A m e (Jennings) and R u d y Castelli were award­ed advanced degrees this spring. Rudy received an M . B . A . from the Univ. of Hartford. H e is director of price control at Kaman Corp. in Bloomfield, Conn. A l lie got her M .A. i n elementary educa­tion from St. Joseph College i n W. Hart­ford. She works with children who have learning disabilities at a small private school. They l ive in M adison with their three sons. Their married daughter l ives i n Lyme. Allie and R udy were i n H awaii a year ago and visited with Pinky (My­

ron) and Laura Thompson, who have two sons and a daughter in college • Fred

Philljps h as joined the First N ational Bank of Damariscotta as vice president of public relations and branch admin­istration. H e and his wife Cecilia have two children and l ive i n N ew-

castle . Cecil i a works i n the learning disabil ities program i n Bristol • Jay Hiruon, editor and publisher of the Calais A dvertiser, received a journalism award for h is support of "mimy of the principles of the forestry industry, includ­ing multiple use of land as wel l as con­servation" • Bob Marden has been named as the civilian aide to the Secre­tary of the Army for the State of M aine. He received his credentials during cere­mon ies at Fort Devens, M ass. Bob will be a "man on the scene" to keep the Secretary informed of matters i n the in­terest of successful interrelationship be­tween the mil itary and civilian commu­nities in the area • Bob Rosenthal is vice president of the M aine State H ealth Planning Council . The Council 's function is to give direction to health care in M aine and avoid unnecessary duplication of equipment and faci l i ties. Bob is in contracting real estate development • Herbert A. Perkins, Jr., has been pro­moted to senior information systems analyst at the U . S. Maritime Admi n. i n Washington. He earned h i s M . B.A. from American Univ. l ast May • I hope that by the time you all read this you will have received a questionnaire. Please let me hear from you! If you don't l ike questionnaires just send me a note about you and your fam ily. 5 1 Mr. Charles S. Mcintyre

27 Elm St. M arblehead, M ass. 0 1 945

Bob Lee bas been re-elected to his second two-year term on the Alumni Council • Warren J. Finegan has been elected vice chairman of the Alumni Council . War­ren was awarded a Colby Brick in 1 97 3

for outstanding service t o t h e college • Bob Staples is a new vice president estab­lishing a programming center for his company, Home I nsurance, Inc., in Man­chester, N.H. Tommi (Loretta Thompson '53) is a librarian at Pelham, N . H., H igh School • J ean ( Lyons '53) and her hus­band Arthur Shulkin won a free trip to Europe as a result of Art's territory being # 1 i n a nat'l. sales contest of Climax Packaging • Maury Ronayne has re­turned from an overseas assignment with NA TO in Brussels, Belgium, and is as­signed to the Pentagon. This fall he has resumed his part-time teach ing with a course in Human Behavior in Organiza­tions at Northern Virginia Community College • Richard H. Gass, with his wife J ane, spent a weekend at the home of M aury Ronayne in Alexandria, Va. , last summer. Maury and Richard hadn't seen each other in 20 years. 5 2 Mrs. Altou Lamont

(Joan M artin) 7 Clubhouse La. Way l and, M ass. 0 1 778

Herbert H. Richardson of Southboro has been named head of the MIT engineering department. On leave in 1 970, Herbert was a scientist for the U .S. Dept. of Transportation where he was an advisor on science and technology matters. While at the Dept. of Transportation, he helped develop procedures which have helped eliminate aircraft hijacking • An ex­hibition of the photographic works of David Morse, M . D., of Northampton was shown at the Cooley D ickinson Hos­pital. Dr. Morse, a radiologist at Cooley Dickinson , h as been interested i n photo­graphy, both monochrome and color, for

The More She Knows, the More She Knows She Doesn't Know

Norma Bergquist Garnett '52, despite a master's from Brown and a Ph.D. in education from B.U. last J une, looks forward to further study. As she puts it, "The more knowledge I pick up, the more I realize how much I don't know." As bead of the foreign languages department at Toll Gate High School in Warwick, R . I . , s h e has established a rapport w i t h h e r students and other teachers that four years ago earned her the title of R.I. Teacher of the Year.

Acquiring a doctorate was not a simple task . It meant two trips weekly to Boston after a full day of teaching, plus ful l summer se�sions. But all her studies

have not precluded her involvement in G irl Scouts, PT A, church and com­munity choirs, and the vice-presidency of her church.

Her classes are total immersion in Spanish language and culture. Students prepare native dishes and have parties marking national fiestas. Two days before she received her doctorate from B.U., her students surprised her with a gorgeous cake inscribed, "What's Up, Doc?"

N orma and Norval '5 1 , a bank investment officer, are the parents of N orval , Jr. , a junior at Bryant, Nancy, a Colby sophomore, N i ls, a senior at Cumberland High, a nd N eale, a sophomore at Cumberland.

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many years. For the l ast two years he has had prints accepted in the Northeast­ern Regional Photography Exhibition held at Mount Holyoke College • Mar­garet Pierce Weller, a doctoral candidate at the Univ . of Maryl and, is l isted in Who's Who A mong A merican Women . She is also l isted in Who's Who in Inter­national Social Service. She is presently the d istrict director of C athol ic Social Service,s • Patricia Merrill Pratt, l iving in Medfield, M ass., is the resource ad­visor with the Early Chi ldhood Center, a Title I I I project • Carol Thacker Scott, l iving in Old Saybrook, Conn., re­ports an eight-week family trip across country to Cal ifornia and British Colum­bia i n their Winnebago trailer. I t was an educational as well as a sight-seeing trip as they studied our country's geology as well as the history of the American In­d ians • Betty Brown Holmes, l iving in Santa Barbara, Cal if., reports the family spent a six-month sabbat ical leave in Hong Kong in 1 973 . Her husband is a professor of biology at the Univ. of Cal i ­fornia • Col . Walter Hayes has been reassigned to Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, where he is professor of mil itary science. He is building a sum­mer home in N ags Head, N .C . Wal ter's new home address is: 7 1 98 Wil l iamsburg La., Colonial Park; Terre Haute, Ind. 47802 • Th is newsletter is a l i ttle brief because at the same time this report was due Al and I were in the process of pack­ing our son Gary for his init ial trip to Colby as a freshman.

5 3 Mrs. Peter Van Alstyne (Carol Carlson) 33 Grey Rocks Rd. Wilton, Conn. 06897

Frank King, president and treasurer of the insurance firm of King and Cushman in Northampton, Mass. . was recently named chairman of the J 974 membership drive of the greater Northampton Cham­ber of Commerce • The Runyons, Phebe (Dow), J ack and five children, who were residents of Westport, Conn ., for over 15 years, took the big step l ast win­ter. They sold the i r house in Westport and moved to a farm, complete with horse, goat and gardens, in M iddlebury, Vt. • Tommi (Thompson) and Bob '52 Staples have left the New York environs for the north - they've moved to Am­herst, N.H. , where Bob, vice-president of Home Insurance, is establ ishing a pro­gramming center for his company. Tom­mi is the l ibrarian at Pelham, N . H . , H igh School. Thei r daughter J an is a sopho­more at Colby • Roger Huebsch is vice president, Duralectra Division, of Katahd in Industries, Inc. , and has moved to Natick, Mass. • Dave Harvey was appointed dean of faculty at Mitchel l College, New London, Conn . He had been dean of students at the college from J 958 to 1 969· when he left to study for his doctorate at the Univ. of Connecticut • Kitty Kistler Wallace '52 travels to Washington, D.C., several times a year as AAUW's representative from the San Francisco area to the U nited States N a-

The First String of the 1980 Colby Mules ?

These stalwarts of the Yarmouth (Mai11e) Youth Hockey league are all so11s of Colby a/11m11i.

Back row, from left: Mary Ja11e Dougherty (Mrs. STEVE '5 7), G ERRY PARKER '6 / , DENNY K E L L N ER PA L M ER '5 9, ELLIE EWING VIG U E '5 7, G UY V IGU E '5 7, DAVE O'BRIEN

'58. Fro11t row, from left: Tom Dougherty, Phil Parker, Joh11 Palmer, Joh11 Vigue,

Peter Vigue, Da11iel Vigue, Da1•e O'Brie11, A ndrew O'Brie11, Jeff O'Brie11.

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t ional Commission for UNESCO. Russ '52 is vice president - marketing for Homestake M ining Co. in San Francisco, and their oldest son Steve is a student at the Univ. of California in Santa Barbara • Helen Koniares Cleaves writes how much she and Bob enjoyed skiing Vail last J anuary, beautiful snow after years of Eastern ice. The Cleaves' daughter Pam is a freshman at Colby this fal l, accepted last December under Early De­cision. 55 Mrs. John W. Deering

(Ann Burnham) 27 Hedgerow Dr. Falmouth Foreside, Me. 04 1 05

After a most beautiful Maine summer, it's hard to believe Thanksgiving is near­ly here. I enjoyed hearing from Alice Beale Gleason, who was visiting nearby. She is continuing her education by taking courses and teaching a half day, five days a week • Cathy Flynn Carrigan and her children stopped enroute from Che­beague Isl and in Casco Bay, where she has spent her summer vacation for the past 29 years (making her a mere infant her first summer, we both agreed) • Only an invitation from Jean and Regin­ald "Archie" Anderson could entice the Deerings to leave Maine and head south to Cape Cod to visit their lovely new home. Jean is a whiz at managing two large homes, fabulous flower and vege­table gardens, chickens, pigs, ponies, m any town activities and her four great boys, Arch included • Also in Maine visiting thei r parents were Dave and Ruth Roberts. Col. Dave has been transferred from Panama to Langley Air Field where he is director of operations for the 5th Weather Wing • Pinkie Fall Achor writes from Alexandria, Va., that she is st i l l ardently interested in politics. She continues to run her Political Opinion Library • Joe Lovegren, with Becky's help, has moved his office and showroom to the newly restored, picturesque "Old Port Exchange" area near the Portland waterfront. He shares the second oldest brick building in Portland with the pop­ular Hollow Reed restaurant. H is archi­tectural products exhibits are as intrigu­i ng as the displays in the many shops in this fascinating area • Barbara Ayers Haslam and Susie Capen Stutts are study­ing art together and enjoying reminiscing about art classes with Prof. Carpenter. Barb had a one-woman show at a local 1-ibrary where 1 9 of her pictures were ex­hibited for a month • Barbara Miller Kolade is l iving in N igeria with her chil­dren and new husba nd . She moved there in 1 970 to become the principal of Bodijo International School • A l Schmitt has been teach ing German at Brown Univ. since 1 969. He has published some 20 books, textbooks, articles, and reviews deal ing primari ly with German l iterature of the 1 8th and 20th centuries. He has

his Ph.D. and received an honorary M . A . from Brown i n 1 970 • A l Landau has been re-elected to his second three-year term on the Alumni Counc i l . Congratu­lations! • Our oldest daughter, J anet, goes for an i n terview at Colby tomorrow. I'm suddenly feel i ng t ired and m uch old­er, so wil l c lose now. Let me hear from you !

57 Mrs. Guy J . V igue (Eleanor Ewing) Sisquisic Trail Yarmouth, M aine 04096

What a perfect summer we had' The two days of rain in J uly found us visit ing Joe and Ellie Shorey Harris and their gang at camp on China Lake. We all had fun despite the rain drops. Vita and Jerry Ventra and their two chi ldren visited our home on their way to Valley Stream, N.Y., from their annual M aine fishing vacation a t the Bel grade Lakes • I received a welcome letter from Diane Schnauffer Zullinger, catching me u p on their Pennsy lvania news. Diane has sub­mitted pieces of t in that she has sten­cil led to become a member of the Na­tional Stenci l l ing G u ild • Judy Lowrey Ingram, her husband, son and daughter live in the Buffalo, N . Y., area where they all enjoy winter outdoor sports • M ac Harring is a dentist in Acton, M ass. The ski bug has bitten him and his wife Bar­bara and their children. They take to the slopes of Tenny M t. and Stowe whenever possible • Tony G lockler writes from Belle Mead, N.J . , that he is a senior sys­tems analyst and project administrator f Educational Testing Service. He keeps in touch with Nancy and Bil l Spence and Ken Haruta • J udy Corkey Devine says she is the "keeper of a busy family" in Closter, .J. (Where is that? rve been in Maine too long!) Her three boys have her on the run with their many athletic events • Bill Chappell, his wife and two children l ive in the heart of ew York C i ty, on Park Ave. Bill is vice president and director of Clark, Dodge and Co. and loves city l iving. The Chap­pells also enjoy their cottage i n Carmel,

.Y. , on weekends and d uring the sum­mer • M any of you wi l l remember Betty Strong Miller who left Colby at the end of our sophomore year. She is now a pre-school teacher in Paoli, Pa. , and in her spare time teaches in the Power Squadron and sai ls a 29-foot Columbia sloop • Harry Carlson and his f am i l y l ive in Cleveland He ights, Ohio, where Harry is secretary of the Lincoln Electric Co., the world's largest manufact urer of arc welding equipment and electrodes • This probably won't su rprise anyone -Paul and Jo H ayward Haines are in New Delhi, India (as of 1 97 3). J o is an edu­cation researcher (but i n l arger print Jo wrote "artist"). H e r h usband teaches French and wri tes poetry . Their t ravels have taken them to I ndonesia, Ceylon

C . RICHARD PETER­SON '60 has been a p p o i 11 t e d vice president - finance and administration with Fai1field and Ellis, Inc. , a Boston i11sura11ce broker­age firm. He joined the company i11 I 9 72 as treasurer and comptroller.

Richard, a graduate of the Program for Management D e 1·elopme111 of the Har-1·ard Business School, is the Boston Colby A lumni Clu b 's represenra1i1·e to the A lumni Co1111cil.

and J apan • Now for some Yarmouth news. Steve Dougherty is general man­ager for Cumberland and York Distribu­tor . the sou thern M aine d istributors of Schl itz and Heineken.

5 8 Mrs. John D. Ludwig ( M arian Woodsome) 38 Francis Ave. Lu nenbu rg, M ass. 0 1 462

Fal l greeti ngs to al l . Peter G. Bridge has been appointed dean of faculty at Cham­plain Col lege in Burl ington, Vt . • John Edes has been n amed commerc ial super­visor for New England Telephone and is now in the company's headquarters i n Boston • David O'Brien h a s been ad­mi tted as a partner in the H . M . Payson & Co. Jn ve tment Bankers in Port l and • In M ay Margaret Siebrecht Steffensen re­ceived her Ph.D. i n l ingu istics from the U n iv. of I l l inois. With her husband and daughter, she wi l l travel to Australia via Europe and return via Tahiti. Bora Bora. and some points in South America and M ex ico • John Ludwig has been elect­ed to the Lunenbu rg School Committee for a one year term • Carlos Davila has expanded his Brussels-based export­import busi ness to inc lude agencies in Lima, Peru; Miami. M ontreal , and New York City. H is firm· name is Cadimpex.

5 9 Mrs. Will iam C. Gay, Jr. (Dottie Reynolds) 9 Harbor H i ll Rd. Huntington Bay Hunt ington, N . Y . J 1 743

I am del igh ted to begin my fi rst column a the new class secretary with news of several im pressive appointments. I re­ceived word that Don Megathlin was elected president of the M aine Assoc. of Pl anners at the assoc iat ion's annual meet­ing. Don is now the Portland City P-lan­ning Director • Carl Cobb resigned as medical editor of the Boston Globe in April to become d irector of public affairs at the Chi ldren's M ed ical Center i n Bo ton • Special congratulations

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go to Bob Bruce. Bob. who left the Colby development office i n J 969 to be­come the d irector of development at Bard College, and then become Bard's vice president in J 970, ha now been ap­poin ted president of the col lege. The bac kground inform ation �ent to me on Bob's career after his Colby grad uation is truly outstanding. He ha� received an M . A. degree and a Fulbright grant, been named i n the 1 969 Who's Who of Out­standing Young Men in A merica, been a college i nstructor, been the recipient of a national award for development materials a t the A merican A l u m n i Cou nci l nat ional convention, and has been a consul tant a nd a panelist for nu merous assoc iations, councils, and conferences. We all wish you the greatest success in this new position, Bob.

On a sl ightly lesser scale. I have news of the election resul ts of the class of 1 95 9 . Congratul ations go to Steve Levine, president. SaJly Phelan Mcintosh, vice­president, and Bill Foeh l, Alumni Council represen tative. I have the po�ition of sec­retary-treasurer • This past J une was our l 5th re union. which proved to be a great weekend indeed . Physical ly, we a l l looked about the same. I did notice some with grey ing hair. and some w i th bl ond hair where it used to be dark. Sancy had long hair and Sanka had short hair and someone had no hair at al l ! The weather was sunny and plea ant. and groups gath­ered by J ohnson Pond, or toured the cam pus, or wandered around Watervi l l e. or sat on the Wood man l>teps. There were lectures and meeti ngs to attend. dinners to go to. lots of free t i me, and the chi l ­dren were kept bul>y and ha ppy by a fi ne crew of babysitters. Did the Jeff ever re­cover? M any of us arrived there en masse and unan nounced for Friday night d in­ner , thanks to Dick Russell's o rgani za­t ional powers. Norm G igon k�pt us laughing with a l ively two-day tal kathon. and the Colby Four. Bob M arier '60. Ed Tomey, Keet A rnett, and Jay Whitm an, brought back many a memory with a fanta�tic rendition of " M ood Indigo· · . We partied la te in to Saturday night. tal king with old friendl>, and better s t i l l , finding new friends in cl assmates hardly known in undergrad uate d ays. All in a l l , the en­t ire weekend was outstanding, and I urge you now to make plans to come to the 20th. Those who came were David antl Rita Reilly Leytze, J ay and Ch ris Rand W hitman, Dick and Sue Moulton Russell,

Norm and Peggy Bradbury G igon, Keet

and Bev (Johnson '60) Arnett, Dave and N ancy Bloom, Bob antl Mary Twiss Kop­chains, Al '58 and K ay G erman Dean, John and Sue Fetherston Frazer, Donald

and Harriet Freeman, Sancy B uxton Scheele, E d and Karen Tomey, Tom and J ocelyn Connors, Bill and Sharon .Bar­nett, Bob '58 and Joan H offman Tbeve,

Bob and Clare Bums Drinkwater, Jin1

and SaJly Phelan Mcintosh, Bil l Nichol-

son, Bob '60 and Patty Walters Marier, Lee and Carol Oberparleiter, Carol Sand­quist Banister, B rian '58 and Carole Jelinek Barnard, Steve and Sandy Levine, Don and J udy (Dignon '60) Cote, Peter and Liz Hay Wilkinson, Danny and Judy Colbath Drinoo, Don and Lois (Munson '58) Megathlin, Bill and Linda (M ackey '60) Foehl, John and Patricia Johnson, Tom Bailey and his wife, and Bill and myself. Letters came from Stanley Paint­er, Ann Segrave Lieber, John Shore, Arthur Goldschmidt, Bill Chapin, and Bob Kellie.

In closing, a special thank-you goes to our outgoing class officers: Robert Bruce, Robert Kopchains, Barbara Hunter Pal­lotta, and Janice Cronk Marston.

6 0 Mrs. John Y. Keffer (Katherine White) 237 Wyckoff St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1 1 2 1 7

A s we rush through fal l, we have a few memories of summer vacations. Ed Burke and his fam ily enjoyed two weeks on Cape Cod, while my husband and I relaxed and swam at Stone Harbor, N .J . When I returned, I found my vegetable garden overgrown by squash, which we are making a staple of our diet! • To add to the information which appeared in the last column, Air Force Major Steve Kudriavitz received the Distinguish­ed Flying Cross and three awards of the Air Medal for aerial achievement in Southeast Asia. Steve was an EC-4 7 navigator and was awarded the Flying Cross for a mission during which he flew through bad weather and under threat of hostile fire to support friendly ground forces. Steve lives in Davis, Calif., with his wife Terry and three children • Russell Peppe '59 has been appointed pastor of the Auburn United Methodist Church. The Peppe family, which in­cl udes three children, l ikes to camp, and Russell's hobby is photography. He was previously pastor of the Methodist Church in Gorham • Dick Tyson has been elected vice president of Concord­Carl isle, Mass., Community Chest which, in addition to his job as assistant vice president of a Boston bank, will keep him pretty busy • And George Auchincloss has changed jobs and is now an account executive with Spenser Trask and Co. in Albany, N.Y., while his wife, Jo (Deans) is freelancing in fund-raising and admis­sions publications for secondary schools and summer camps. Well, that's all -hope you're having a nice fal l !

6 1 Mrs. Roy T. Denniston (Deborah Berry) R.F.D. l N assau, N.Y. 1 2 1 23

Ernie Trowbridge was cited by the 1 97 3 edition of Outstanding Young Men in

A merica for "outstanding abil ity, accom­plishments, and service to the commu­nity." He received the honor for his ac­tivities with the Brookfield, Conn., Jay­cees, including the presidency of that organization • 3000 miles away in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Foley have announced the birth of a daughter, Robin Kristine, on J une 28. The Foleys live at 2566 Car­penter St. • An indication of the feel­ing some Colbyites have for the college was i l lustrated for me this summer when I received a telephone call from a man who had attended Colby back in the days before it moved to Mayflower Hil l . He had never graduated, but he does receive the A lumnus, which is where he'd seen my name and address. He lives some­where on the other side of Nassau and works as a pressman at one of the big Albany printing plants. His call was in­spired by the section of Time his plant had just printed; that was the issue with the picture of the Colby women's hockey team. His account of life at Colby when he was there was fascinating; a couple of the older professors I had known in the late '50's he had known as young in­structors.

63 Mrs. Peter French (Jo-Ann Wincze) 2507 Rose Dr. Glenshaw, Pa. 1 5 1 1 6

The responses t o m y questionnaire are still pouring in. If you haven't answered yours yet, it's never too late. A mill ion thanks to those who did answer. It makes my job a lot easier and very en­joyable. Among those who must have mailed the questionnaire back the same day it arrived was Pen Williamson, who's still deeply involved in Outward Bound. Pen is presently working on a $ 1 mil l ion fund-raising effort for a new building complex for the school. Pen and Bev are enjoying Warren and working on their 1 7 89 house • Jess Marchese i s an at­torney and lives in Farmingville, N.Y. , with his wife Dorothy and children Kim­berly and Jess Jr. • Skip Stinson is also an attorney and is president of the Bath Area Chamber of Commerce. He's involved with industrial development and downtown rehabilitation. His wife Lucy is a city councilor • Roger Jeans is professor of East Asian history at Wash­ington and Lee Univ. • A former first grade teacher, Mary Dexter Wagner keeps very busy: she's program chairman for her PT A; associate committeewoman of the Wantagh, L.l., Republican Club; volunteer for Congressman Norman Lent; in many church activities; a mem­ber of the selection committee for the U.S. Air Force Academy; and she plays on a PT A softball team. Husband Wayne was j ust elected to a three-year term on the school board and Mary managed bis

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campaign • Whit Bond i s a real estate consultant and just became an active member of the S:Jciety of Industrial Realtors. For the past two years Whit has been working on a house in Marion, M ass., which he has contracted to move from one location to another • Trilla Putnam Minkel has moved to Wilton, Conn. Her husband Steve is assistant to the treasurer at Cheseborough-Pond. Tril la was a nursery school teacher • Edward and Dian Emerson Sparling are renovating an older house, maintaining a huge garden and enjoying life in the foot­hills of the Rockies. Dian is an instructor in the Lamaze method of childbirth and her husband is assistant professor in eco­nomics at Colorado State Univ. • Stephen and Cynthia Smith Whitaker live in Watertown, Conn., where Cindy is ac­tive in the League of Women Voters and is youth co-ordinator for her church • Herb Gottfried is assistant professor of art history at the Univ. of Wyoming, hav­ing taught architectural history at Ohio U. Herb and Sandra hope to learn to cross country ski this year • Marjorie De Motte Welch will be finishing her master's in education in guidance and counseling in May and hopes to move back to Maine next summer • Joe and Dale Ackley Pluta with their two sons l ive in M anassas, Va., where Dale is a systems analyst for Sperry-Univac in D.C., and Joe is manager in a real estate firm. Dale reports that Jeannette Fannin Regets recently returned from two years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and l ives in Arlington, Va. • Heading back to the city and their brownstone are Robin and Peter Ketchum. Peter just finished direct­ing and writing a film with Robert ("How to Succeed in Business" etc.) Morse called "Flower Pop!". Peter is also editor-in­chief/vice president - guidance associ­ates with Harcourt Brace and World. Then in his spare (?) time Peter paints and last winter held a one-man show with 17 of his works • Another attorney classmate is Mark Sanderson. M ark is also into real estate and farming and owns a 1 50-acre farm in Connecticut with pigs, horses, and cows • Anna Radwany-Cuffo keeps busy as an interior designer, makes jewelry, weaves, main­tains a big garden and is active in NOW.

"Toymaker" is Dono Springer's occu­pation and he spent this past summer showing his marvelous toys at craft fairs all over New England • Janet MacColl Krakauer is a teacher in Roanoke and has also been working at the Science Museum of Virginia with programs and field trips for children. J an et has had articles on natural history published in popular mag­azines • Jon Hall seems to be keeping busy these days as administrative assistant to President Strider, and assistant profes­sor of English at Colby • Dave West· gate is a loan officer at the Fall River N ational Bank and has been involved in civic and charitable organizations.

6 4 Mrs. Benjamin C. Potter, Jr. (CeCe Sewall) 42 M iddle St. Lexington, M ass. 02 1 7 3

The Alumni Office h as asked me t o an­nounce our newly elected class officers who will serve for the next five years: Jon Fredrikson, president; Marcia Phillips Sheldon, vice president; CeCe Sewall Pot­ter, secretary-treasurer; and Bentley Beav. er, Alumni Council representative. As your class correspondent, I'll speak for the other officers in hoping that you wil l communicate with us any news, sugges­tions, complaints, or whatever; and we hope to keep in touch with you via this column, questionnaires, and class news­letters.

We had a successful I 0th reunion at the college on a spectacular weekend in June - the weather was incredibly per­fect! Friday evening many of us gath­ered at the Alumni House and then back at the dorms to renew acquaintances. Saturday morning there was time to ex­plore the campus before the tradit ional lobster bake i n the mammoth new field­house, followed by many of us congregat­ing by Johnson Pond for more conver­sation. That evening the Class of '64 h ad a roast beef dinner at Roberts Unjon and once again wandered down to the Alumni House where we talked with faculty, staff, and other old campus friends. Many thanks to Al Graceffa for his efforts in organjzing this successful class d inner. The following classmates joined in some or all of the festivities of the weekend,

many accompanied by husbands, wives, children, or friends: Ken and Ann Schmidt Nye, Don and Sally Saabye Gilbert, Mike and Carol logerman Robinson, Dave and Jane Lewis Sveden, Dick and Marge Convery Zipser, Roger and Joyce Arnold Isbister, Ben and CeCe Sewall Potter, Martha Schatt Abbot, Joan Mc­Ghee Ames, Judy Fassett Aydelott, Lee Scrafton Bujold, Anoe Gellhom Camp­bell, Sally Page Carville, Bea Hodgdon Chase, Barbara McFaul Cook, P.J� Downing Curtis, Barbie Darling, Sue Ells­werth, Cindy Fischer, Sherry Worthley Horton, Martha Hincks Kellogg, Karen Knudsen, Carol Haynes Lyman, Linda Field Mattox, Nancy Mitchell Miner, Nancy Green Schatz, Barbie Gordon Schoene°"·eis, Marcia Phillips Sheldon, Cindy Carroll Smith, Lois Lyman Smith, Catharine Camp Sylvester, Judy Van Dine Sylvia, Jonathan Allen, Ed Bak�r, Ben Beaver, Paul Brown, John Bush, Joo Choate, Joe Drummond, Bob Dyer, Larry Dyhrberg, John Friberg, Art Ful· man, Dick Geltman, Al Graceffa, Dennis Hammer, Jim Harris, Bruce Lippincott, Mcrg McGinley, Jim Morang, Al Olivet­ti, Cliff Olson, Bill Pollock, John Robin­son, Nick Ruf, Steve Schoeman, George Shur, Jim Valhouli, Joo Vore, and Carl­ton Winslow. I hope I have included everybody - thanks to J oe Drummond for sending .me the l ist.

Now for a few notes on some dass members: Judy Milner Cocbe is currently completing her Ph.D. i n child develop­ment under a grant funded by the Child

September 1 2 was Colby Night at the Mets, when 75 alumni from the New York City A lumni Assoc. converged on Shea Stadium for a pre-game reception and choice sears for the game against St. Louis. If pitchers Jerry Koosman and Tom Seaver look tired, their record-breaking 25-inning game had been played the night before. Pictured from left: DICK SCHMALTZ '62, president, N YC A lumni A ssoc.; Koosman; Boe ANTHONY '69, group sales representative for the Mets; Seaver; and A lumni Secretary Eo BURKE '60.

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G uidance Agency i n Del aware. In addi­t ion, she continues to work part-time as a cl inical psychologist • Peter and G ail Koch Cooper l ive in M arlboro, Vt., where Peter is director of admissions at M arlboro College. Gai l was recently ap­pointed director of G reen M ountain Camp for girls between the ages of 7 and 1 5 . The Coopers have two children, Sheldon (5) and Amy (3) • Jack and Diana Lockwood l ive in Hawaii where he is an attorney and also chairman of the executive directorate of the Windward Coalition of Churches and is involved i n working for a merger of several Protest­ant denom inations into an ecumenical organization. Diana is busy in her own field as president of the Windward Artists Gui ld which staged a mult i-media, al l ­H awaiian exhibition in April • N o doubt m a n y of y o u s a w where Doris Kearns was cited by Time magazine as one of 200 men and women "l ikely to provide the U.S. with a new generation of leaders." Doris, an assoc. professor of government at Harvard, also wrote the review for the book A II the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Wood­ward for the J une 9 issue of the New Y 01 k Times book review section • A special thanks goes to our outgoing c lass officers: Robert Drewes, Kenneth Nye, Karen Knudsen and Doris Kearns.

6 6 Mrs. Randall L H olden (Pam Harris) J 1 2 1 East Watson Dr. Tempe, Ariz. 85283

As our Arizona temperatures begin to de­cline under the 1 00 degree mark, New Englanders are hearing the beautiful sound of colored leaves crunching under their feet. A dozen years ago we were entering a new experience as college freshmen. We acquired the tools for a rewarding life and each member of the class has found his rewards i n a different way • E d Derderian received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State Univ. on J une 1 • Paula McNamara has been appointed public information officer at the Institute of Living i n West Hartford, Conn. • Brad Simcock i s teaching sociology at M iami Univ. of Ohio • Bill Snow is industrial relations manager for the M aremont Corp. in Saco • Chuck Soule continues his work as bank representative for the Federal Reserve B an k of Phi ladelphia • Sue Ebinger S�ncer l ives in Marshfield, M ass. Her husband is an attorney for the city of Boston. They have two children • Su­san Rumsey Strong and her husband Paul '64 both work at Alfred U n iv. (N.Y.). Sue is reference l ibrarian for the Scholes Library of Ceramics and Paul is assistant professor of English l i terature • Pete Swartz runs h is own real estate business i n the Boston area • John Tara is as­sistant district attorney for Plymouth

County in M ass. • Allen and Janet Meyer Throop and their two-year old son Henry thrive on the outdoor life in Rose­bery, Tasmania, Australia. Under Allen's leadership the local Outdoor Club h as be­come very active, including a publication on "walks". Jan is secretary of the Arts Council and also writes a weekly news­paper column • Karen de Cormier Tiregol and Omer and their two children J ive in Istanbul where Omer is an elec­tronics engineer for the Turkish airl ine • Tom Treiber is a cl aims auditor for the Travelers Insurance Co. in H artford • Sue Turner teaches English as a second language to Puerto Rican children at the Potter Thomas Bil ingual School in Phil­adelphia • Jerry and Dede Wilson Van Atta l ive in San Francisco where Jerry is a sales representative for the Bank of America and Dede is administrative sec­retary for the Mayor's Committee to Re­store Haight-Ashbury • John Vermil­lion is a natural gas sales representative for Texaco in Midland, Texas.

Peter and Linda Buchheim Wagner work at Applecrest, the Wagner family apple business in North Hampton, N . H . • While Woody is practicing a s a fam­ily physician in Lambertville, N . J . , Heidi Fullerton Warburton is studying Chinese • Mary Sue Hilton Weeks and her hus­band G ene have purchased a century-old house and are completely renovating it. Mary Sue is an avid gardener and also creates small woven items for sale in a Newburyport, M ass. , craft shop • Eliza­beth Hernberg Went has moved to Kil l­ingworth, Conn. • State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of America has announced the promotion of Eric Werner to senior investment analyst • M eg Fallon Wheeler, Whizzer and their two children have moved to Holden, Mass. Whizzer has been transferred by the Norton Co. to Worcester to be purchasing agent for one of its divisions • Diane Leach Wil­bur worked part-time while David com­pleted his graduate work i n business at Tuck School at Dartmouth • Sandy Shaw Wilhelm is a newspaper columnist for the Portland Press Hera Id and the Maine Sunday Telegram • Dag Wil­liamson is an underwriter for John H an­cock in Boston Peter Winstanley has returned from two years in Paris and is now director of international finance for Standard Brands, Inc. , in New York • Wayne Winters writes that he is in pri­vate l aw practice with the firm of N . M . Silverstein in N e w H aven. H e is concen­trating on federal and state income, estate and gift tax laws, and representing cl ients in civil and criminal tax l itigation • Nat Bowerman Zaremba is a speech therapist in the Newton, M ass. , area. Frank '64 is an architect for H uggens and Tappe in Boston • Rick Zimmermann is working for a master's degree in urban and reg­ional planning and concurrently a law de­gree in the joint "planning-Jaw" program at the Univ. of Iowa. In addition, he is a

research assistant in the planning depart­ment at the university. Two sons keep Stephanie '67 busy while Rick is studying. 6 7 Natalie Graceffa

1 8 Deer Run Augusta, M aine 04330

Eric Meindl and Vicki Watson were mar­ried Dec. 1 6, 1 972, in Tampa, Fla. They were scheduled to move into a .condomin­ium l ast February. Eric has been pro­moted to chief forecaster of the WTVT weather service • Phil Kay, M.B.A. at B .U. in '72, was promoted to territory mgr. with Burroughs Corp. sell ing com­puters in the greater Boston area • Gail Robbins Henningsen teaches in a small private school for emotionally disturbed/ soci ally maladjusted students; George is an attorney working in E. Orange. They and their three boys were in B ay Head last summer enjoying the N .J. shore • Carla and Doug Schair are the parents of Gi l l ian Bridget, born J an. 20, 1 973 • Jim Eisenberg has his Ph.D. and is a medical student at Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine • Fred Beyer and Leslie Leech from Milwaukee were married Aug. 30, 1 969, in Wakefield, Mass. They are now in West Lebanon, N . H . When I beard from him last year, he was attending Amos Tuck School of Business • Marsha Penti-Vidutis is a computer programmer for the Regional Campus Libraries Technical Services Center of Indiana Un iv. She is study­ing for a Ph.D. in folklore at Folklore Institute, Indiana Univ. Marsha and R icardas Vidutis were married March 9, 1 97 3, in Bloomington, Ind. • Tim and Peggy Radley and Mark (2 Yi) moved in­to their own home in Wolfeboro. Tim is a contractor "going it alone" and is still leathercrafting • Carol Beers i s on Beacon St. in Boston and is a security analyst. She is active with the Appalach­ian Mt. Club and does white water canoeing and hiking • Woody and G ai l Berube are in Webster, N.Y. , where Woody plans consumables for all Xerox products. He received his M.B.A. from Rochester Inst. of Technology • Jeff and Sharon Browning, Lisa and Eric are in Walnut Creek, C al if. Jeff left G uam and the Air Force to become a medical service representative for Roerig Pharma­ceuticals in San Francisco • Ruth Elliot Holmes, husband and son N icholas Stone (born J uly 27, 1 973) as of l ast year were in Belgium. She writes, "Even with the events in the U .S. as they are, there is sti l l no country that comes close to all of our American opportunities" • Parker

"Chip" Wood brought us up to date. After graduation he traveled and joined the Army in early '68. H e graduated from OCS and went to Viet Nam, leaving the Army in '7 1 with the rank of captain and landed a job as production control mgr. in Monterey with a small manufac-

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luring company which produces packag­ing m achinery. He sails, cycles, and plays tennis and invites anyone traveling through Carmel to come visit • Eric Williams moved from Alexandria, Va., to Seattle, Wash., as a realty officer with GSA • Robert and Chris Goldstein are in Waltham, M ass., where he practices J aw. A while ago they spent three weeks in Europe with a rented car - "Beauti­ful" • Last year Phil Stearns bought a lakeside residence in Stafford Springs, Conn. He is sti l l teaching English at Manchester H.S. In 1 972 he attended Cauis College, Cambridge Univ., and in the summer of '73 returned to England, bringing a group of 10 former students • Dave and Marcia Wilson and M ichelle have moved to Dover, N .H. Dave is a CPA in Portsmouth. They were expecting their second child last M arch • Bruce Logan finished his in­ternship at Harlem Hospital and at last report was an emergency room physician at H arlem. H e had hoped to head for Africa last spring • A year ago Cindy Paquet bought a ranch house in the coun­try in Will iston, Vt. She participated in the U . S. Women's Amateur Golf Cham­pionship and Women's Trans-National Golf Championship and tied for third in the qualifying round • Barbara Fitz­simmons Hughes and Rus moved from Mexico City to D.C. where she has re­sumed working as an international rela­tions analyst. R us is a member of the State Dept. 's 24-hour watch. Barbara re­ports that Eric Rosen is in Georgetown and enjoys his work as a lawyer for a private firm in D.C. • Phyllis Hoar is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at the Univ. of Washington and has been a teaching assistant in undergraduate courses • Nancy Schade Clinton and Dick moved to Geneva in J une of '73 and planned to stay three years. N ancy re­ceived her B.A. from B .U. and M.B.A. from Centre d'Etudes Industrielles where she is a student now • Stephen and Tonnie Katz, Matthew (3) and Jennifer ( 1 ) moved in December from Cambridge, Wales, to Framingham, Mass. Steve is an attorney in Boston • Sarah (Shute) and Lome Hale welcomed J ames Isaac on Jan. 1 1 • Paul and Connie Hill The­berge returned to Wellesley, M ass., fol­lowing a year and a half in the Hague, Netherlands. Connie works at Wellesley College in the news and publ ic relations office and Paul is publisher of a new golf magazine of the New England States • Lennie O'Connor has been named man­ager of the consumer finance dept. of the First N ational Bank of Boston • Kurt Swenson is a partner in a law firm in Manchester, N .H ., and is chairman of the N .H. Bar Assoc. committee on citizens' rights. He, Elaine, Todd and J ake l ive in Contoocook, N . H . • Leo Amato was promoted to the position of loan officer of Depositors Trust of Portland. He is married to Jane Batson and has one son,

Anthony • I received a nice letter from Sue Daggett CuUen. She and the girls, Christine (6) and Katie (2\12 ), are now at 1 0 1 Linden Lane #6 in Thiens­ville, Wis. 5 3092. Sue says she would love to see or hear from old friends • Diane Pierce Murphy and Jeff '68 wel­comed Patrick Colin on Feb. 27. HI can't say enough about natural childbirth. J eff has accepted an engineering position with Fellows Corp. of Springfield, Vt. , and we have bought a new home in the country with five acres and a pond ." She reports that "Bert (Roberta) Kochi is in N . Y.C. and Lorraine Rudman Armstrong i s sec­retary to her husband in his law office."

6 8 Mr. Stephen D. Ford Apartment D-24 275 G len Riddle Rd. Glen Riddle, Pa. 1 9037

Bill Tsiaras received h is M . D. from the Univ. of C incinnati recently. H e had previously studied at Dartmouth Medical School where be concentrated on neuro­physiology and published two articles on that subject. Bi l l and bis wife Nancy (Meyer) are back in New England where he continues study in internal medicine

at Brown Univ. • Bill McKinney bas been appointed sec­retary for research and education of the Un ited Church B oard for Home­land M inistries. Bi l l received his M .A . a n d M .Div. de­grees from H art­f o r d S e m i n a ry

Foundation and was ordained a Minister in the United Church of Christ in 1 97 1 . Presently b e i s a candidate for a Ph.D. at Penn. State Univ. In b is new position, Bil l will evaluate current projects and plan new programs in evangelism, church extension, and re­ligious education. Bi l l was a featured speaker a t the A lbion Woodbury Small Symposium at Colby in M ay • Shirley O'Neal Jensen b as completed a course in "invisible weaving" which, combined with her long experience in embroidery, knit­ting and sewing allows her to offer the local community a badly needed service while staying at borne to care for her farn.ily. Shirley indicates that her com­mercial venture is gaining wide accept­ance in the Brattleboro, Vt., area where the Jensens live • Phil Merrill won the Democratic nomination to a M aine State Senate seat from Portland in the primary election • Bill and Pat Palombo be­came the parents of a second child, Alex­ander William, on August 10 • Mike Caulfield has accepted a position with the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. M ike received his M .B.A. recently from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth • Bob Birnbaum

obtained a n M.A. in M ay from the Col-

lege of St. Thomas in St. Paul, M inn. • Jeff Lathrop continues h is activities in skiing, having been selected as a coach of ski teams which competed in Italy and in V ail , Colo., this past summer. Jeff did manage to get some free time while in Colorado and located Ted Allison who, J eff states, is l iving on the Continental Divide at 1 1 ,000 feet above sea level • I regret that this col umn is so brief, but I can publish only what I learn from you or the Alumni Office. Also, you may have noticed a delay in the publication of items after you have sent them to me; this is due in part to a two- to three­month period required by the Alumni Of­fice to prepare each issue of the A l11m1111s.

6 9 Miss Cherrie Dubois 9 Tennyson Rd. Reading, Mass. 0 1 867

Summer is long gone and school is well underway for those of us who are teach­ers or students. At least it was a sunny summer season • Congratulations to Mike Rothschild, who received a $5,000 fellowship from the N ational Endowment for the Arts. With only 1 54 recipients in the country, this is certainly an honor • Lynne Lesyk Heidel has received her master's from the Univ. of Rochester, has married a doctor, and is expectinig a baby this fall . She has done some teach­ing and hopes to enter law school • Ed Beard recently received bis l aw degree from Suffolk Law School in addition to an M.B.A. Ed plans to hang out his shingle in Medfield, Mass. • Bill An­tonucci has completed a course at the Hartford Insurance Group on commercial and personal lines of coverage. Bill works for C . M . M ixer in Wolfeboro • N ichols College heard the word from the Rev. Bruce McLean, who spoke at the col­lege's commencement. Bruce is minister of the First Congregational Church in Norwich, Conn. • For those who didn't make reunion, we were a small group as many live too far away or have small children to care for. Dick Upton came up from New Jersey, wh�re he is affil iat­ed with a bank. He gave me b is business card, which I put in such a safe place that I now can't find it • John Kearns is at Northeastern Univ. getting his Ph.D. in psychology • Vicki Carter Cunning­ham, husband J im and their two kids are now in Torrance, Calif., where they have bought a home. J im, who got his Ph.D. from Stanford, is working for TRW Sys­tems • Another class member in Lowell, M ass., is Geoff Little, who is the assistant general manager for the Wame­sit Industrial Park.

As for me, my summer has been a bit unusual. It began with pulled ligaments from a softball game I had the week school closed. I spent two and. a half weeks in a cast and a total of five weeks on crutches. When I finally could drive again, I tried to m ake up for lost time.

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A L D E N (DE N N Y) WILSON '69 has been appointed ex­ec11tii;e director of the Maine Com­mission 011 A rts a n d Humanities. De1111y, one of 80 applicants for the position, did grad­uate work in art h istorv a s a n

NDEA Title I V Fellow a t Cornell Unir. in 1 969- 70. 111 1 97 1 he was chosen by the National Endowment for the A rts in Washington, D .C., to sen·e an internship with a state arts council and was assig11ed to the A ugusta Office. He has been an associate with the Maine Commissio11 since 1 972 and recently sen•ed as act­ing director. The Commissio11 is an in­dependent state agency which provides funding and technical assistance to cul­tural organizations and actil·ities in the state.

I went camping with friends, spent a week with my family in Saco, and visited my mother in Ogunquit. As soon as the ankle was all better as far as walking was concerned, it was time to go back to school. Sigh! • Up in the sky around Edwards Air Force Base in Calif., you might see Gary Austin, who is part of a special Air Force team evaluating a brand new jet fighter, the F- 1 5 Eagle. Since the plane can fly better than 1 ,600 miles an hour, you'd better look quickly • Diane Reid Kopta has been busy since graduating from Katy G ibbs. After working for a paper company in Con­necticut, she moved to Vermont to work on a federally funded welfare reform project. She was married last February. Now she does transcription for medical publishers in Connecticut, where she lives with her husband Bill, a builder and de­signer. Diane had her first original cro­chet design published this past spring • Dan Todzia is in Florida where he works for Dean Witter, Inc., a brokerage house. He received bis degree from the Univ. of Reno after a stint in the army • Dan reports that Dennis Casey was in Florida last winter and that Steve Canders is an attorney in Presque Isle. Steve and Anna (Thompson) had their first child. Dan also tells us that J ohn N ishaj ima '68 runs a hotel in Orlando, Fla. Dan invites all Colbyites who are in Stuart, Fla., area to drop by; he's the only Todzia in the phone book • Our new class officers are: Jon Eustis, president; William Lyons, vice-president; Cherrie Dubois, secretary­treasurer; and PauJa Joseph Eustis, Alum­ni Council representative • We were saddened to learn that Dick Dow died of cancer August 1 4, and extend our sym­pathy to his parents, sisters, and h is wife Emily (Eaton '7 1 ).

7 0 Mrs. J. Richard Irving (Laura Schmidt) 1 0 1 Lawton Blvd. Toronto, Ont.

A few farflung notes . . . After complet­ing her three-year stint with the Peace Corps, Donna Sundeen spent eight months coming home through Thailand, Laos, Burma, Ind ia, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and Greece. Donna writes that "highlights were stay­ing · with Hi l l tribe people in Laos and trekking for three weeks in the H imala­yas of Nepal" • As a break from work on his dissertation, Peter Mackinlay visit­ed Mexico City and explored the ancient ruins of Uxmal and Chichen Itza in the Yucatan • Eileen Boeroer's European jaunt this year included a tour through the Iberian peninsula • On the domes­tic scene, Jeff Parness has graduated from the Univ. of Chicago Law School; he is employed as law clerk to the Hon. James B. Parsons of the federal district court for the North District of I l l inois • Judy Freedman, who has been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, recently took time off for a Caribbean cruise. While at Suffolk Law School, she was editor of Prose, a national newsletter for women l aw stu­dents • Steve Cline and Laura (Struck­hoff) have moved to New Hampshire where Steve is operations manager with

WRLH-TV in Lebanon • Earle Shettle­worth has been made architectural his­torian of the M aine Historic Preservation Commission • Peggy Elkus is l iving in a suburb of Pittsburgh where she has de­veloped a resource class for emotionally disturbed children. 7 1 Mrs. Paul M. Edmunds, Jr.

(Jane Hight) 244 Walnut St. Westfield, N.J . 07090

Many of our classmates finished graduate school in J une. Tom Gallant received his M . D. with honors from Baylor College where he was elected to the National Honor Society for medical students. Tom will intern at the Medical Center Hos­pital in Burlington, Vt., and hopes to practice medicine in New England • Richard Brindle graduated from Andover Newton Theological School, receiving a master of divinity degree. He was or­dained J une 1 6th and became associate pastor at the New M ilford, Conn., Con­gregational Church in September • Deborah Nelson Baxter is the new public l i brarian in Orono. Debbie received her master's degree in library science from the Univ. of Maine • Another J une graduate was Bruce Hubbard who re­ceived his master's from American Inter­national College in Springfield, Mass. •

Alumni Council Nominates Trustees

At its annual meeting Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Council renomi­nated trustees Eugenie "Jean" Hahlbobm Hampton 'SS and William L. Bryan '48. Newly nominated to a three-year term is Charles P. Barnes II 'S4, who was appointed by the executive committee to fill out the term of the l ate Lester Weeks ' 1 5. Mrs. Hampton, former Alumni Association vice president, lives in Topsfield, Mass., and teaches second grade. Mr. Bryan is assistant dean of admissions at the Univ. of Maine. He is a former Colby coach, assistant dean of men and director of admissions. Mr. Barnes, a third gen­eration Colby graduate, received his law degree from Harvard in 1 960 and is a partner in the firm of Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley, Thaxter and Keddy of Portland. A past chairman of the Alumni Council, Mr. Barnes headed alumni delegations to Con-Con I and II.

Article VIII, section 2 of the Alumni Association Constitution provides that other alumni may be nominated by petitions signed by I % or more of the alumni body and filed with the executive secretary before Feb. I , 1 97 5 . If there arc no nominations b y petition, t h e council w i l l declare election of nominees named above at the winter ( 1 975) meeting.

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Marian Agnew was awarded a master's in social work from West Virginia Univ. • Linda Chester was married August 1 0, After Colby, Linda attended the Univ. of Connecticut graduate school in Latin and received her master's • John Zacamy, who is attending Amos Tuck Business School at Dartmouth, was named a Tuck Scholar. The award recognized outstand­ing academic achievement. CongratuJa­tions, Zac! • Jerome Layman has been appointed an assistant manager at Nor­folk County Trust Co. in Massachusetts. Jerome is also attending Babson Grad­uate School • Charles Jones has joined the Maine Security Agency, a firm pro­viding security and protection for private businesses. Charles was a former pro­bation and parole officer as wel l as a special agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. • Paul and I saw many of our class­mates last summer, among them, Dave Ohlin and Greg Barry. They are sharing an apartment in Boston while Dave works at a ban k and Greg attends Suffolk Law School • Rick Blackbum and his wife recently bought a house in the Sebago area. Rick is working in real estate assessment • Al Ackley spent the summer working at the family liquor store and sailing on Long Island Sound • Linda Ruggles Hiler began a master's program in library science at Rutgers last summer and is going full-time this fall • Leslie Anderson has moved to a 70-acre "country estate" in Oakland, and can see the infamous blue l ight of the l ibrary tower from the front porch. Anyone wan­dering through the campus this fall can find her holed up on fourth floor Eustis • I started work on my master's in read­ing specialization last summer, but am going the slow, n ight school route • We were saddened to learn that Emily Eaton Dow's husband Dick '69 died of cancer August 1 4 . Emily is personnel assistant at Maine Savings Bank and lives at 1 9 Eastern Promenade, Portland 04 1 0 1 . 73 Miss Gail Andrews

'5540 N. Morgan St., Apt. 302 Alexandria, Va. 223 1 2

Thanks t o a n overworked mailman and many interesting letters I have lots of news this time. Anyone who did write and whose name doesn't appear in this issue will be in the winter issue • Wayne Browu plans to spend the fall dancing with the Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe. He is also teaching and bolds the position of asst. principal at Fieldstone School in New York City • Ingrid Svensson bas been granted a fellowship by the grad­uate school of Ohio State Univ. for four years in the foreign language dept. •

Cindy Santillo spent her summer working at ABC-TV's Eyewitness News and CBS Television City in Los Angeles. She is studying for her master's degree in tele-

v1s1on • Peter Garrity sends "a special hello to my many friends at KOR." Peter is a staff geologist with a Cambridge con­sulting firm. He recently completed a six­month canoe trip the length of the N ile River • Janet Hueners spent her sum­mer in Cambridge as an extension stu­dent at Leslie College doing her student teaching. She plans to move to California shortly • Leona Sidelinger St. Clair is working for the U .S. Postal Service in Sierra Vista, Ariz., where her husband is stationed at the U .S. Army Electronic Proving Grounds • Judy McDivitt plans to be a "rich and famous librarian" as soon as she completes her degree at the Univ. of Maryland Library School. She is currently working at the library of Penn. State Univ. • Carolyn Clarke has been working as a psychiatric aide in Norman, Okla. She spent her summer in Augusta working at the Health and Wel­fare Dept. as a social worker aide. She and David Gleason were married in August • Judy Gundel is a graduate student in molecular biology at U .C.L.A. • Doug Hufnagle is a second-year grad­uate student in chemistry at U.N.H. H is wife Sara (Chase '72) is working in the data processing dept. of the Strafford Na­tional Bank in Dover, N . H . Doug men­tioned that he saw Blair Janes in Boston where Blair chaired a weekend symposi­um on benzene pyro catalysts • Martha C.T. Wetmore is a painting graduate stu­dent at the Univ. of Iowa. She plans to complete her M.A. in December and will then stay on to work for her M .F.A. • Matt Powell is assistant buyer in men's sportswear at the Jordan M arsh Co. He and Sue McBratney '74 were married in August • Dean Eaton is teaching French at Marlboro High School in N.H. • Anoe Huff spent the past year teach­ing French at the jr. high in Hingham, Mass. During the summer she traveled west to Colorado, Salt Lake, the Tetons, and Yellowstone. She planned to take a bike trip this fall from Massachusetts to Virginia • Mark Serdjenian is teaching third grade in Waterville. He and Tina (Murphy '72) were married in July and spent their honeymoon on Nantucket Is­land • Jim Putnam is a student at Emory Univ. School of Medicine. He comments, "One year of med. school down, three to go. Would rather be in Maine than Georgia" • Diane Gis­

mondi Butler is the sales manager at a department store in Birmingham, Ala. Her husband Burton '72 is a student at the Univ. of Alabama working for his master's in criminal justice. They just completed their VISTA volunteer com­mitment at Miles College in Alabama • Deborah Wilson and Brett Bayley '74 were married i n August. Brett is the as­sistant manager of Beneficial Finance Co. in Laconia N .H. • Laurie Williams completed her M .S. in library science this past spring. She is working in Manches-

SUE FEINBERG '7 3 has been selected to fill the newly created post of performing arts co­ordinator of the Maine State Com­mission on A rts a n d Humanities. Sue, who was twice chairman of the Student A rts Fes­

tival, has the sizeable task of creating for the Commission a workable plan for assisting tours by state performing groups - and implementing it. She is also staff liaison for performing artists, helping them with grants procedures and contacts in the field. She also represents Maine on the first regional project of New Eng­land's state arts councils: a New England Touring A rtists Registry.

ter, N .H. , as an elementary school librar­ian • Joy Branscombe Carr is working in Boston as a Christian Science nurse. Her husband Ned '72 is a graduate stu­dent in elementary education • Jean Beckman is studying chemistry at Indiana Univ. • Janet Carpenter is a tutor in reading at Brookside School in Waterville and is house-sitting for the year in Oak­land • That's all the news for this time. Hope everyone is having a great fall. Please keep in touch. 7 4 Miss Debbie Marden

30 Chiswick Rd. Apartment #2 ·

Brookline, Mass. 02 1 46

Since there wasn't too much time to re­ceive many answers to my questionnaire, most of my gossip stems from word-of­mouth and my own prying. From my explorations, I have found out that Sean Barry and Barbara Thayer were married on August 3rd in Concord, Mass., and are now living in California where Sean is attending Golden Gate Law School • Liz Belsky worked at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for the summer and will attend the Univ. of Pennsylvania in the fall, studying anatomy • Becky Bolton and Linda Krohn planned to leave the U.S. for a tour of Europe in Septem­ber, returning sometime in December, while Vincent Lomax returned from a trip to Europe and is spending bis leisure hours as a minister of Jehovah's Wit­nesses • Cheryl Booker bas a full­time job as a paralegal assistant for Nutter, McClennen, and Fish in Boston • Steve Colella and Bruce Drouin are apartment-mates this fall in the Boston area while Steve attends New England Law School and Bruce works full-time. Steve was a carpenter last summer, while Bruce managed a movie theater in Kenne-

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bunkport • Jane Dutton was married earlier this summer to a Univ. of Maine student and is now living i n Orono • Chuck Jewitt and Cathy Phillips are now "hitched" and living in Maryland, where Chuck teaches at a private school • John Faulkner will be teaching and coaching football in Oakland this fall, while Laurie Thompson· will also stick around the Colby area, and continue to work in Stem's of Waterville • Jill Gilpatric was a "Katy Gibbs girl" this summer, and Cathy Morris took a few courses at Northeastern Univ. in special education. Cathy continued at Northeast­ern this fall • Karen Heck could be seen around Colby this summer, as she was working in the Admissions Office. But, she has departed for Washington, D.C., and a possible job • Diana Krau� teaches in Princeton, N .J ., while Jackie Olivet attends DePaul Univ. in Chicago • And then there's Peter Law­son and Bob Preble who painted houses in Maine during those hot months of summer • Bonnie Nielson has taken the big step and joined the armed forces • Mark O'Connell found the perfect job for himself last summer. He was a bartender in Bar Harbor • Vicki Park· er was walking the beaches of Maine all summer and is continuing to do so for a while this fall, as she is employed by a geological society • Scott Ryerse and Emily Wingate said their vows towards the end of September in Minnesota, while Neal Williams got it over with earlier. He was married to Gretchen Van Tassel '73 in the Colby Chapel during August • Gay Peterson is attending a New York graduate school this fall studying to be a paramedic, and Patty Rachal can be found at Harvard study­ing in the area of political science • Sonja Powers took a few summer courses at the Univ. of Maine/ Orono and is now teaching school around that area • Robin Sweeney has gone through a train­ing program for the Zayre Corp. and is presently working in a Zayre's in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio • Debbie Wathen has headed out that way where she is attending Northern Illinois Univ. in DeKalb • Carol Wynne pre­fers to stay around her alma mater, so she started work at the Waterville Mental Health Clinic i n September • Donald Toussaint worked in a rubber company in New Hampshire during the summer months and is now a graduate student at the U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Man­agement • Meanwhile, Bob Theberge is waiting to bear about a couple of re­search projects with the Maine Depart­ment of Marine Resources, as well as hoping to get into the U n iv. of Maine Graduate School of Oceanography. He tells me that Don Joseph is teaching Eng­lish and coaching football in Brunswick • Denise Bradley worked for a water chemist over the summer and is attend­ing the Univ. of Maine School of Law.

Milestones

Marriages

Dr. Charles E. Towne '28 to Evelyn Hamilton H anscom, J une 1, Waterville. Robert Browne Lunt, Jr. '63 to Bonita L. Izzo, J une 29, Cape El izabeth. Andrew P. Houlahan '64 to Margaret Ann Meo, J u ne 8 , Marblehead, Mass. Stanley L. Dubitsky '65 to Estee Rosen­thal, August 4, Troy, M ich. Jay K. Gronlund '65 to M ay-Lis P ihu, September 8, 1 973, Pelham Manor, N . Y. James Laws McCabe '65 to Louise Beachboard, J une 8 , Bryn M awr, Penn. Peter E. Farnham '67 to Sharon E. Ames, A ugust, Dover, M ass. Sally A. Connor '68 to Larry A. Parks, August I 0, Augusta. William R. Hunter '68 to N ancy R. Hol­tham, August I O, Framingham, M ass. Janice A . McGhee '68 to Jeff Adams, August 1 1 , J affrey, N . H . Bradford A . Merritt '68 t o Deirdre E . Flaherty, Medfield, M ass. Robert L. Solar '68 to J ane M. Alston, J u ne 23, Hampton Falls, N . H . Jan K. Volk '68 t o J ul issa M . Anapolle, June 23, N ewton Centre, Mass. Stephen A. Goodwin '69 to Mary Louise M ecklenburg, M ay 1 9, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Susan 0. Johnston '69 to Lawrence W. Morse, August 1 7, N ewburyport, Mass. Charles T. McGee '69 to Rebecca S. Ralph, J une 8, South Freeport. Diane L. Reid '69 to Will iam A. Kopta, J une 8, Georgetown, Conn. Judith A. McLeish '70 to Douglas R. Gordon, J uly 20, Tewksbury, Mass. Nicolette M. Pach '70 to Stephen Kun­ken, August 1 7, Dedham, Mass. Steven E. Saporito '70 to J anice Adrienne Bowlby, M ay 26, Lynn, Mass. Dana-Jean Spallholz '70 to Gary E. Plummer, August 1 4, Portland. Joyce A. Amero '7 1 to Raymond A. Champi, J une I , E. Wal pole, M ass. Linda A . Chester '7 1 to Edward J .( Kostka, Jr. , August 1 0, Wil ton, Conn. Patricia S. Hamilton ' 7 1 to Michael J. H ambro, J une 9, Springfield, M ass. Judith S. Kenoyer '7 1 to Will iam G . Stoy, J r., A ugust 1 0, Scarborough. Terry A . Towne '7 1 to Raelene M . Smith, J uly 1 3, N ewport. Wentworth (Charlie) Boynton, Jr. '72 to Robin Thren, J uly 28, Clinton.

Bruce W. Dumart '72 to Paula A . Cock­erham, August 3, Sarnia, Ont. Christine Murphy '72 to Mark R. Serd­jenian '73, July 1 4, Dracut, M ass. Dudley W. Townsley '72 to Rueva Alvi Dunn, J une 22, Laconia, N . H . Cindy M . Canoll ' 7 3 t o Ronald Joseph, August 1 0, Schenectady, N .Y. Carolyn Clarke '73 to David Gleason, August 1 7, Augusta. Susanna DeMers '73 to Peter Card '73, June 24, Trumbul l . Juan DeLaValle ' 7 3 to M artha Little­field, March 30, E. Benton. Diane L. Gismondi '73 to Burton W. Butler '72, August 24, Newtown, Conn. Li.nda J. Kagels '73 to Eugene H. Schultz '7 1 , April 20, Newtown, Conn. Kathryn J. Knight '73 to John S. Lowe III '73, August 1 7, Lorimer Chapel, Waterville. Gretchen VanTassel '73 to Neal E. Wil­liams III '74, August 3, Lorimer Chapel, Waterville. Deborah Ano Wilson '73 to Brett T. Bayley '74, August 3, Tilton, N . H . Thomas K . Lizotte '74 to Leslie W. Hall , May 3 1 , Dover-Foxcroft. Susan G. McBratney '74 to Matthew L. Powell '73, August 3 1 , So. Dartmouth, M ass. Catherine M. Phillips '74 to Charles F. Jewitt '74, August 3, Newcastle. Barbara M. Thayer '74 to Sean P. Barry '74, August 3, Concord, Mass. Helen Marie Eagleson '75 to Peter M. Garrity '73, August 3, Newton Lower Falls, Mass.

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Judith E. Souviney '75 to Wallace La­Fountain, J une 8, Lorimer Chapel, Waterville.

Births

A daughter, Alyson Joyce to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hoagland '55, M ay 3 1 . A son, Christopher Charlton, to Patricia (Charlton '65) and Charles Jacob, J une 6. A daughter, Robin, to M r. and Mrs. Robert A. Foley '61, J une 28. A daughter, Shana Dee, to Drs. Patricia (Downs '62) and Robert Berger, August 2. A daughter, Elisa Chamy, to Sandy (Miller '67) and Richard Lapcbick. A son, Patrick Colin, to Diane (Pierce '67) and Jeffrey R. Murphy '68, Feb­ruary 27. A son, Alexander William, to M r. and M rs. William Palombo '68, August J O. A son, Gavin Lee, to Vicki (Carter '69) and J ames A. Cunningham, J une 1 5 . A son, Nathan John, to Mr. and Mrs. William Geoffrey Little '69, February 1 1 .

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Deaths

Nellie Worth Hatch, 1 903, March 24 in Dallas, Texas, age 93 . Born in Bradford, M rs. H atch was a graduate of East Cor­inth Academy. She was a teacher at Brewer H igh School, Bangor High School, and Montpelier Seminary. Mrs. H atch was the wife of the late Rev. John H atch, a M ethodist minister who was president of Montpelier Seminary. The H atches spent many retirement years in St. Petersburg, Fla., and summered in Hampden H ighlands. A son, a daughter, two great-grandsons, a great-granddaugh­ter, and a great, great-grandson survive.

Bertha Robinson Wheeler, 1907, M ay 8 in Paramus, N .J . , age 90. Born in Port­land, M rs. Wheeler was a graduate of Yarmouth H igh School. She was em­ployed as a high school teacher and as a bank clerk in Bethel and Phill ips. She later became assistant librarian of the Bethel Public Library, and worked sev· era! years as a correspondent for the Portland newspapers. M rs. Wheeler de­voted over 50 years of her life to service in the United Methodist Church, teaching adult classes in the Old and N ew testa· ments. She was a member of Delta Del ta Delta.

Her husband Lyman died i n 1 96 1 . M rs. Wheeler leaves a daughter Mary and a nephew Cecil Robinson '3 1 .

Helen Louise Cochrane, 1908, April 25 in Augusta, age 85. Born in Moulmein, Burma, M iss Cochrane was a graduate of Coburn Classical I nstitute. She was employed as a private secretary, as a teacher, and as a legal clerk in the office of the attorney general of M aine for 1 6 years, retiring i n 1 959.

She was the daughter of J ames E. 1 880, the niece of Wilbur W. 1 885, and the sister of J ennie M. '04, who died in 1 969. M iss Cochrane was a member of Sigma Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. A sister Ethel survives.

Jennie Alice Grindle, 1910, February I O i n Concord, M ass. , age 84. M rs. Grindle, whose maiden and married names were identical, was born in Blue Hi l l and grad­uated from George Stevens Academy. Be· fore her marriage to the late Thomas Grindle 'J 2, she taught school in East­port and Machias. The G rindles were residents of Lexington, M ass., for over 50 years.

Mrs. Grindle was a member of Chi Omega. She is survived by three daughters, eleven grandchildren, one of whom is N ancy DeAngelis '68 (Mrs. Daniel Morgan), and three great-grand­children.

Chester Hanson Pierce, 1 9 1 1, M ay 25 in Portland, age 8 3 . Mr. Pierce, who at­tended Colby from 1 907 to 1 908, was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He was a grad­uate of Coburn Classical Institute.

During World War I Mr. Pierce served in France as a captain i n the artillery, and was a member of the Army Reserve for 26 years. He was office man­ager for the Burroughs Corp. in Portland, and later was associated with the Chene­vert Realty Co. in South Portland until bis retirement 1 0 years ago.

Mr. Pierce came from a family with a long history of Colby ties. H is grand­father was James H. Hanson 1 84 1 , and he was the son of Sophia Hanson Pierce 1 88 1 . Mr. Pierce's son Phillips '45 was killed i n France in 1 944. His wife of 50 years, Marjorie Phillips, died in 1 967. He was a member of Delta Upsilon.

Eva Pratt Owen, 1 914, Hon. M.A. 1947, September 20 i n Vassalboro, age 84. Born i n Clinton, she was a graduate of Coburn Classical Institute. With her hus­band Robert ' 1 4 as principal, she acted as dean of girls at Erskine Academy until 1 9 1 8 when they became the youngest principals Oak Grove School bad ever had. For more than a half-century the Owens guided the development of the school, building i t from its original 22 acres to the over 500 acres of groves, ponds, bridle paths, playing fields, lawns and gardens that surround Oak Grove­Coburn today. Mrs. Owen planned each of the ivory-covered Tudor buildings that compose the quadrangle. During the Owens' 52-year tenure, the school became a highly-respected school for girls. Mrs. Owen received honorary degrees from Colby and the Univ. of M aine in 1 947 for her work i n education. That same year she established a n endowment fund in memory of her mother Della Dewey Pratt. Mrs. Pratt bad been an acclaimed artist, and income from the endowment is used in administering the art depart­ment.

Mrs. Owen was a member of Chi Omega. Her husband Robert died last year. She is survived by a sister, a cousin, and a nephew.

John Franklin Pineo, 1 914, June 1 5 in Albrightsville, Pa., age 83. Born in Ken­nebunk, Mr. Pineo was a ,graduate of Lawrence (Mass.) High School. He at­tended Colby from 1 9 1 0 to 1 9 1 2, and was a graduate of Springfield College. Mr. Pineo wa5 a Y.M.C.A. secretary for 35 years, serving i n Butler, Pa.; Everett, Mass.; Lawrence, Mass.; Hartford, Conn.; and Metuchen, N.J. From 1 948 to 1 955 Mr. Pineo was finance secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. He also served as a Quaker minister i n South Durham and Westport, Mass. Mr. Pineo was a member of Delta Upsilon. Surviv­ing are bis wife Ruth, two sons, one of

whom is J. Franklin, Jr. '42, a daughter, 10 grandchildren, and one great-grand­child.

Ralph Albin Bramhall, 1915, LL.D. 1954, former Colby trustee, July 23 i n Sarasota, Fl a., age 8 3 . Mr. Bramhall, who was one of Maine's foremost banking figures for many years, was a native of Belfast. He was a graduate of Coburn Classical In­stitute and served as an infantryman in the A.E.F. during World War I. Mr. Bramhall, who began bis banking career as a cashier in a Belfast bank in 1 9 1 6, was chair;:nan of the board of Maine Bonding and Casualty Co. He entered the financial scene in Portland in 1 924. Four years later he was elected a vice president of the Maine National Bank. He was a treasurer of the Maine Casual­ty Co. from 1 929 to 1 939. The firm be helped found became Maine Bonding and Casualty in 1 943 when it started writing general fire insurance.

Mr. Bramhall was a Colby trustee from 1 929 to 1 9 34, and established a scholarship endowment in 1 96 1 . He was a director of the Maine National Bank and former president of the Maine Bank­ers Assoc. Mr. Bramhall was awarded a doctor of laws degree by the college in 1 954. A member of Delta Upsilon, be was the brother of Theodore (Ted) '24, who died in 1 964. He leaves a nephew and a niece.

Alden Watts Allen, 1916, August 4 in Eastport, age 80. M r. Allen was a na­tive of Camden and a graduate of its high school. After graduation be was a teacher and coach at Ricker through 1 9 1 7, an ensign in the navy through 1 9 1 9, and principal of M ilo, Shead Memorial, Rockland, and Steams high schools from 1 92 1 through 1 934. He was superintendent of schools at Calais and Rockland from 1 9 34 through 1 94 1 . Mr. AIJen was a salesman for Laidlaw Broth­ers and Milton Bradley School Supply Co. until 1 952, when be was appointed superintendent of Eastport schools. He retired in 1 959. Mr. Allen was a mem­ber of Delta Upsilon. He leaves his wife Wilma, two sons (one of whom is Fred '50), a daughter, 10 grandchildren, and a sister. Another sister Lucy ' 1 7 died in 1 95 8 .

Vivienne Wright Dunn, 1916, J u l y 30 i n Ojai, Calif., age 8 0 . Mrs. Dunn, born i n Wiscasset, was a graduate of Wiscasset Academy. When she entered Yale for graduate work in English in 1 9 1 8, she was the only woman enrolled. She also did graduate work at the Univ. of North Carolina, Montclair State Teachers Col­lege, and the Univ. of California at Berk­eley. During World War II she helped uncover German spies at Montclair State. Mrs. Dunn, elected class poet for the class of 1 9 1 6, had a volume of verse pub­lished in 1 970. She was a teacher for

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over 20 years, and in 1 97 3 retired to Grey Gables, a home for retired teachers in Ojai, Calif. She leaves two sons, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchil­dren.

Alfreda Bowie Rand, 1920, August 10 in Lewiston, age 7 6. Mrs. Rand, born in Portland, was a graduate of Portland High School. A teacher in Gardiner and Framingham, Mass., she married Dr. Carleton Rand in 1 924. She had been a resident of Lewiston since 1 926. Mrs. Rand was a member of Sigma Kappa. Besides her husband, she leaves three sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren.

Arthur Roy Mills, 1921, July 1 in Dover, N.H., age 77. Mr. M ills, a native of Monticello, was a graduate of Ricker Classical Institute. He was former presi­dent of the Granite State Co-Operative Bank and vice-president of the Granite State Savings Bank. Manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Dover District office for 26 years, be retired in 1 969 after 40 years as a company man­ager.

Mr. Mills, a member of Delta Upsilon, was the brother of Donald '25, who died in 1 96 1 . He leaves bis wife, the former Helen Mooney, a daughter Helen '49 (Mrs. C. Frederick Reilly), a son, a granddaughter, and two brothers.

Frederick Jones Pope, 1921, August 14 in Augusta, age 84. Mr. Pope, a graduate of Oak Grove Seminary, received his mas­ter's in education from Harvard. He taught science in Cambridge and Read­ing, Mass., where be had been head of the science department. During World War I he served overseas with the volun­teer Ambulance Corps. For the past 32 years Mr. Pope was a summer resident of Welch's Point i n East Winthrop. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He is survived by several cousins.

Elizabeth O'Donnell, 1922, August 22 in Waterville, age 75. A Winslow resident, Miss O'Donnell taught in the Waterville school system for 48 years. She is sur­vived by several nieces, nephews, grand­nieces, grandnephews, and cousins.

Mildred Otto Ashcroft, 1925, March 28 i n Vineyard Haven, Mass., age 7 3 . Born i n Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Ashcroft stud­ied institutional housekeeping at H annah Harrison School and worked 10 years as a church hostess and housekeeper in Washington, D.C. She was the proprie­tress of the Crocker Guest House on Martha's Vineyard for nearly 40 years, selling the business in 1 97 3 . She is sur­vived by a son and two grandchildren.

Paul Raymond Depew, 1926, last March in Pittsfield, Mass., age 68. A lifelong resident of Dalton, Mass., he was a grad-

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A Matter of Will Power

The college has received a bequest in excess of $20,000 from the estate of the Rev. Will iam Henry Crawford, J r., who died in 1 9 7 3 . Rev. Crawford, a 1 9 3 1 graduate of Harvard College, was a longtime summer resident of M aine who retired to bis home in North Belgrade in 1 967. He bad been one of the founders of the Colby College Belgrade Lakes Downeast Scholarships Program.

uate of its high school. At Colby M r. De­pew was an outstanding baseball player, and went on to play professionally in the old New England League. For 25 years Mr. Depew was employed by Crane and Co., retiring in 1 968. He leaves his wife Theresa, a son, two daughters, a brother, and seven grandchildren.

Leonard Rossie Finnemore, 1927, June 17 in Augusta, age 68. Mr. Finnemore, born in Caswell, did graduate work at Harvard and the Un iv. of Southern Cali­fornia School of Social Work, and earned his master's degree at Boston Univ. School of Education. He earned his Certificate of Advanced Study from B.U.

He was employed by the State of M aine for 37 years, serving as supervisor of the Dept. of Education, Vocational Rehabilitation Division, Disability De­termination U nit; in the Dept. of Health and Welfare Division of Public Assist­ance; and as director of the Upward Bound Program at the Univ. of M aine at Orono. In 1 97 1 M r. Finnemore came out of retirement to direct the United Homemaker Service.

Survivors include his wife Maxine (Everett), a son, three daughters, a broth­er, two sisters, and nine grandchildren.

Robert Cummings Chandler, 1928, M ay 29 in Augusta, age 68. M r. Chandler was a native of Columbia Falls and a grad­uate of its high school. He received his master's in education from Bates College in 1 942. During World War II he served in Arizona and the South Pacific as a member of the Army Air Corps, and re­tired as a lieutenant colonel.

M r. Chandler taught chemistry at Ed­ward Little High School in Auburn from 1 929 to 1 942, and worked as a chemist for the Dept. of Health and Welfare from 1 948 to 1 965. A member of Lamb­da Chi Alpha, Mr. Chandler was mar­ried 43 years to the former Helen Mer­rick '28, who died in 1 972. Survivors in­clude two sons, two brothers, and three grandsons.

Norman Leonel Picher, 1929, July 29 in Waterville, age 69. A lifelong Waterville resident, Mr. Picher was a graduate of local schools. He was a retired plumber and a partner in the Gedeon Picher Fur­niture Co. Mr. Picher leaves two sons, one of whom is Gedeon '58, a daughter

Annette '57 (Mrs. Kenneth Houston), one brother, four sisters, and 1 1 grandchil­dren.

William Charles Foster, 1932, April 22 in Presque Isle, age 68. Born in Forest City, he was a graduate of Ricker Classical In­stitute and earned his master's degree in education at the Univ. of M aine. M r. Foster, an educator fo.r 34 years, taught nine years in Princeton, serving five as principal. He was principal of Washburn High School for l 0 years and superin­tendent 18 years. The W.C. Foster School in Washburn was named in his honor. He retired in l 969.

Mr. Foster, a member of Delta Up­silon, was married to the former M axine S. Foster '3 1 , who died in 1 969. He leaves a son, two daughters, a brother Carl '33 , a sister, and six grandchildren.

Hayden Elon Fairbao�, 1934, July 13 or 14 in Phillips, age 62. M r. Fairbanks, a lifelong resident of Phillips and a grad­uate of its high school, had been spend­ing the weekend at his cottage there. In 1 932 he became postal clerk at Phil lips and, except for service in the China­Burma-India Theater with the Fourth Postal Regulation Section during World War II, was employed by the postal service until his retirement last year. He was appointed postmaster in 1 967. Sur­viving are his wife, the former Dorothy Haley, and a daughter.

Fred Barker Roberts, 1934, December 1 7 i n Fullerton, Calif., age 6 1 . Born in Stevens Point, Wis., M r. Roberts was a graduate of Whitewater City (Wis.) High School.

Mr. Roberts, who served in the Army during World War II, was program ad­ministrator at the Univ. of Wisconsin Management Institute from 1 948 to 1 954. He then served four years as training officer and assistant to the general man­ager of the northern region of the Chesa­peake and Ohio Railroad, and as a con­sultant on management development. From 1 95 9 to 1 97 1 he was a training specialist with the Autonetics Division of North American Rockwell Co.

M r. Roberts was a student of Ameri­can Indian lore and a collector of Indian art, and was an adopted member of the Santee Sioux tribe. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. Surviving are three sons,

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two sisters, a brother, and four grandchil­dren. M r. Roberts was the cousin of Eleanor Barker '37 (Mrs. John Mccar­gar) and Rosamond Barker '33 .

James Law Maynes, Jr., 1940, June 1 9 in Beverly, M ass., age 58. Born in Everett, M ass., Dr. Maynes was a graduate of Mt. Hermon School and attended Colby from 1 93 5 to 1 938. He received his D.M.D. degree at the Univ. of Louisville School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Maynes was a pioneer in the use of general anes­thesia for a wide range of dental opera­tions and procedures. He designed and built the North Shore Dental Clinic in Beverly, which was for many years one of only two such facilities in the United States.

His survivors include his wife, the for­mer Cora Beard, a daughter, a son, a brother, and his mother.

Ruth Henderson Leckie, 1943, February 4, 1 973, age 5 1 . Mrs. Leckie, born in Richmond, attended Colby from 1 939 to 1 940. She was a graduate of Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School and held several secretarial positions before her marriage to Donald Leckie in 1 945. A resident of Medford, Mass., she leaves her husband, a brother Phillips '38, and a sister Chris­tine '54 (Mrs. Ralph H. Harper). An­other sister Teresa '36 died in 1 955.

George Andrew Ernst, 1950, M ay 15 in Johnston, R.l . , of wounds presumed in­curred in a gun-cleaning accident, age 52. Born in Kansas City, Kansas, and a grad­uate of Wyandotte H igh School in that city, Dr. Ernst attended Colby from 1 946 to 1 948 and received his M .D. from Bos­ton U niv. Medical School in 1 95 1 . Dr. Ernst bad a private gynecology and ob­stetrics practice in Providence. He was on the staff of Providence Lying-In, Rhode Island and Roger Williams Gen­eral hospitals.

Besides his wife, the former Rita Mat­teo, he leaves a daughter, a son, and the following Colby relatives: two sisters-in­law, Kathleen Matteo Hancock '45 and Eileen A. Matteo '44; and two brothers­in-law, William P. Hancock, Jr. '44 and Frank E. Hancock '45.

Douglas Edward Wax, 1962, of leukemia J une J 3 in Ann Arbor, Mich., age 33. Dr. Wax was a native of Brookline, Mass., and a graduate of Browne and Nichols Preparatory School. He received his master's from Boston U niv. in 1 964. After a year at Harvard, be earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Boston College in 1 969. Following post-graduate train­ing on a fellowship at the Reiss-David Child Study Center in Los Angeles, Dr. Wax went to the U niv. of M ichigan. He was assistant professor of psychology at the U niv. of Michigan Medical School at the time of his death. During his illness

he wrote a treatise on doctors as patients which, in the words of a colleague, "may well become a classic." He is survived by his wife Ann, a son, and his parents.

Richard Whitmore Dow, Jr., 1969, of cancer August 14 in South Portland, age 27. Born in Gardiner, he was a graduate of South Portland High School. Mr. Dow was a math teacher at South Portland High School where he was coach of the girls' tennis team and was active in the South Portland Youth Hockey Assoc. He and his wife Emily (Eaton '7 1 ) were sum­mer residents of South Brooksville. Mr. Dow was a member of Lambda Chi Al­pha. Besides his wife, he leaves his father (Richard Sr. '38) and mother, his grand­mother, two sisters, and an uncle, Nor­man '37.

Faculty

John Alden Clark, professor emeritus of philosophy, August 3 1 in Waterville, age 67. Professor Clark, born in Ahmed­nagar, India, received his A.B. from Amherst in 1 929 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1 9 3 5 . He taught philosophy at Carleton College in M i nnesota, Earl­ham College in Indiana, and at the Univ. of North Carolina in Greensboro before serving in the U .S. Army, Ad­jutant General's Dept., from 1 942 to 1 946. Professor Clark joined the depart­ment of philosophy and religion at Colby in the fall of 1 946, and became its chair­man in 1 950, serving in that capacity un­til 1 97 1 . He retired i n 1 972. During the past two years he had been a part time teacher at Unity College.

During his teaching career he spent sabbatical terms of research at Columbia Univ., the Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Harvard. In 1 96 1 -62 he was a Fulbright lecturer in India. Professor Clark edited a book, The Student Seeks an A nswer, published by Colby College

Press in 1 960. He also published a num­ber of articles in philosophical journals on the general topic of ethics i n relation to the social sciences.

At a memorial service in Lorimer Chapel, John Clark was eulogized by pro­fessors Gustave Todrank and Yeager Hudson. Professor Todrank spoke of Clark and his life of "a sort of transcen­dental ecology," an ecology where we "touch each other deeply and leave traces there." Professor Hudson added, "He created about him a climate both of the seriousness and importance, and of the excitement and delight of learning. Gen­erations of students have testified to this; and every one of us here who have known him have experienced it, for it permeated all that he did."

Professor Clark is survived by his wife, the former Mary Ann Scott, two daugh­ters, one son, a sister, and a brother.

Honorary

Earl Wa1Ten, LL.D. 1963, former chief justice of the Supreme Court, July 9 in Washington, D.C., age 8 3 . Born in Los Angeles, J ustice Warren put himself through college and law school at the Univ. of California. He spent three years in private practice before enlisting in the Army upon America's entry into World War I. Discharged with the rank of sec­ond lieutenant, he obtained an appoint­ment as a deputy in the Alameda County district attorney's office and remained a public employee for the remainder of his working years until his retirement as chief justice in 1 969.

In his 1 3 years as district attorney, Jus­tice Warren won a reputation as a crusading prosecutor, tough but compas­sionate and fair. As governor of Califor­nia, he modernized mental institutions, put through legislation regulating lobby­ists, and championed the Central Valley project for the public development of hydro-electric energy. When he ran for a second term as governor in 1 946, he did so on the record of legislation which extended enlightened and progressive help

) Word bas been belatedly received of the deaths of the following alumni:

Ragnhild Iversen Tompkins '08, M ay 30, 1 97 2

Bertha Bryant Farwell '09 Lizzie Phair Huggard '09 Charles Mahloo Crummett '21,

December 6, 1 972 Charles Fremont Ross '32 Richanl David Gruber '45, De­

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to the state's unemployed, handicapped, elderly, and mentally ill. He won the nomination of both major parties and was resoundingly re-elected.

By then Justice Warren had become something of a national figure and was chosen as Thomas E. Dewey's running mate in the 1 948 presidential election. They were defeated in the only election Earl Warren ever lost.

In I 952 Gov. Warren was a serious contender for the GOP presidential nom­ination at a convention in which Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft were the frontrunners. The nom­ination went to Eisenhower on the first ballot, and the vice-presidential nomina­tion went to California's junior senator, Richard M. Nixon.

In the final days of his third term as governor, Warren announced he would not run again. A few days later, in Sep­tember 1 953, Fred M. Vinson, then chief justice of the United States, died sudden­ly. President Eisenhower promptly nom­inated Gov. Warren to fill the position.

Warren came to a court diminished in prestige and deeply divided, not only by ideological differences, ,but by personal hostilities among its members. It was a measure of his qualities of leadership that the new chief justice was able to bridge these divisions from the outset of his tenure.

One of the great controversies of American history came before the court at the very beginning of Warren's chief justiceship: the question of whether state-enforced segregation on the basis of race is constitutionally impermissable. The unanimous decision of the court that "separate but equal" has no place in the field of public education was a landmark in American jurisprudence.

Perhaps the most controversial of all his decisions was handed down in the Miranda case of 1 966. The decision held that the police must warn any arrested person, before questioning him in con­nection with a crime, that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he makes may be used against him, and that he is entitled to consult an attorney be­fore or during any interrogation.

In 1 963 Earl Warren was invited to Colby to take part in the college's sesqui­centennial observance. In his address, de­livered on the day of Maj . Gordon Coop­er's 36-hour space flight, he deplored the nation's l ack of progress in the social sciences at a time when such tremendous advances were being made in the physical sciences. President Strider observed in conferring the degree of doctor of Jaws upon Justice Warren that Colby has "long stood, in theory and in practice, for equality of opportunity for all human be­ings" and that Justice Warren had bril­liantly served the principles of democ­racy.

Justice Warren leaves his wife N ina and six children.

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