alumni profilesLinda Greenlaw '83
English
» Read the Colby magazine articleAuthor of best-selling memoir The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey. Described in The Perfect Storm as "one of the only women in the [commercial fishing] business, she's one of the best captains, period, on the entire East Coast."
Peter Hart '64
History
» Read the Colby magazine articlePresident of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a leading public opinion research organization. Frequent commentator on national politics and director of Wall Street Journal/NBC News polling.
Henry J. Sockbeson III '73
Government
Tribal attorney for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, working in the tribal offices in Ledyard, Conn.Ron Ryan '62
Economics
Chief Operations Officer of the Philadelphia Flyers. Ryan was an All-America hockey player at Colby.Alice Domar '80
Psychology and Biology
Director of the Center for Women's Health, Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Author and assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School.Gregory Ciottone '87
Biology, Chemistry-Biochemistry
» Read the Colby magazine articleEmergency room physician and Harvard Medical School faculty member. Ciottone founded the nonprofit Emergency Medicine Visions International to help improve emergency medical care delivery and disaster response worldwide. A member of the Massachusetts Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), he was among the first to be called to work at the World Trade Center disaster site.
Thomas Warren '82
Biology: Environmental Science
» Read the Colby magazine articlePolicy analyst with the National Marine Fisheries Service's Northeast Region Office. His division, Sustainable Fisheries, is responsible for the management of commercial and recreational fisheries in federal waters stretching from Maine to North Carolina.
Mari Masuda '00
Music
Officer in the U.S. Navy. Masuda flies Sea Hawk helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln.Savas Zembillas '79
English and Philosophy
» Read the Colby magazine articleBishop of Troas, Greek Orthodox Church, and chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Doris Kearns Goodwin '64
Government
Author of four books, including the Pulitzer Prize winner No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Homefront in World War II. Frequent television and radio commentator on presidential history and baseball.Michael Federle '81
English
»Read the Colby magazine articlePublisher, Fortune magazine. Previously worked for People and Life.
Michael Daisey '96
Performing Arts
» Read the Colby magazine articleActor, satirist, and star of his own one-man off-Broadway show, "21 Dog Years: Doing Time@Amazon.com." In an upbeat New York Times review, the show is described as a lampoon of the contemporary corporate culture spawned by the dot.com boom . . . and Daisey as reminiscent of "Chris Farley, Jack Black, and the evil doll Chucky."
Robert B. Parker '54
English
Author of more than three dozen best-selling mystery novels, including 30 in the Spenser series, which was the basis for the "Spenser: For Hire" television series.Robert E. Diamond Jr. '73
Economics
Chief Executive, Barclays Capital, a major international investment bank.Barbara Coulon '94
Art and Administrative Science
» Read the Colby magazine articleDirector of Trends at Youth Intelligence, a New York marketing consulting firm.
Caleb Q. Cooks '93
Sociology
» Read the Colby magazine articleDirector, writer, and executive producer for Edgeworx, a New York television and film production company. Cooks, who got started in film with a documentary on race he made for a sociology class at Colby, worked with Orlando Bagwell on the PBS series Matters of Race. He has produced films about tolerance on campus, AIDS in South Africa, and an emerging art form that fuses Hip Hop and theater.
Mary Schwalm '99
American Studies
» Read the Colby magazine articlePhoto editor for Associated Press. Worked for the AP at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Eric Fleischman '02
Computer Science
Support engineer for Microsoft in Dallas, Texas.Annie Proulx '57
English
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News, the PEN/Faulkner award-winning novel Postcards, and three collections of short stories, That Old Ace in the Hole, Accordion Crimes, and Close Range: Wyoming Stories.Alan Taylor '77
History
Historian, author, and professor of history at the University of California at Davis. Taylor is a regular contributor to The New Republic. His book William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1996. A review in the New York Times of his recent book, American Colonies, said, "More than just a formidable work of historical syntheses, [it] provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity."Dan Harris '93, Government
ABC News Correspondent
» Read the Colby magazine articleAfter graduation, Dan Harris started filing stories for the NBC television affiliate in Bangor and quickly moved through the ranks--as news anchor for Maine's NBC affiliates, later at New England Cable News Network, and now as a regular correspondent on ABC's World News Tonight. Harris covered the hijacked plane that went down in Pennsylvania on September 11, led the press corps in Kandahar in Afghanistan, and reported from Iraq in thebuild-up to the war there.
Patricia Davis Murphy '68
Physics
President and CEO of GeneWise; pioneering geneticist specializing in cancer research
After Patricia Murphy cared for her sister, Barbara, who died of ovarian cancer at age 24, Murphy decided to go into genetics--"to find out the basis of her disease." With a Ph.D. in human genetics and post-doctoral work at Yale Medical School, she succeeded in producing the first blueprint of a healthy BRCA1 gene--a gene where mutations result in a high likelihood of breast, ovarian, prostate, or colon cancer. Her work in testing and counseling patients helps break the cycle of pain in families prone to these cancers.
Elizabeth Allan '74
East Asian Studies
Senior Vice President, Scudder Kemper Investments
Elizabeth S. Allan was interested in language and culture when she majored in East Asian studies at Colby and spent her junior year in Japan. She went on to earn a master's in East Asian studies at Indiana, another in sociology at Princeton, and an M.B.A. at NYU, and she lived and worked in Japan for more than four years early in her career. On Wall Street, the unusual depth of her background in Asian studies turned to gold. She worked for the Japanese firm Nomura Securities before opening Scudder's first Tokyo office in 1987.
Kent Wommack '77
Government
» Read the Colby magazine article, "The Natural"As Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, Kent Wommack combined a government degree from Colby, a master's from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a reverence for nature into a career in land conservation. In 1998 he engineered the largest land conservation initiative in The Nature Conservancy's history. In doing so, "he raised the bar on what was thinkable and changed the scale of conservation--not just in Maine but in the nation," according to Down East magazine.