Volunteers

Colby is pleased to acknowledge individual class agents and classes that made particularly outstanding efforts for Colby during the 2008-09 fiscal year. Created in 1979 and awarded annually, these important milestones have been officially marked by the College for more than 30 years

  Colby Fund Class Awards

The Trustee Development Committee
The Trustee Development Committee oversees Colby's development, alumni relations, and public relations efforts. Members of the 2007-08 Development Committee are listed below:

Gerald Dorros H’01 P’93 ’96 ’98 ’01, chair Ann Marie Connolly P'07, vice chair John Devine '78 Robert Diamond Jr. ’73 William Goldfarb '68 Todd Halloran '84 Emma James '04 Colleen Khoury '64 Seth Lawry Paula Lunder H'98 William Oates Jr. '65 Lawrence Pugh '56 Robert Rudnick '69 Michael Sylvester '63 Nancy Weiland '65 Robert Hoopes Jr. '89, Alumni Council Executive Committee chair Hilary Smyth Wirtz '00, Colby Fund Committee chair Miles and Katharine Prentice P'08, Parents Executive Committee chairs

The Colby Fund Committee
The Colby Fund Committee is an arm of the Alumni Council and is responsible for working with the Colby Fund Office toward meeting fund-raising goals to support the College's current operations. Specific tasks assigned to the committee include assisting in setting the annual Colby Fund goal, working with Colby Fund volunteers, and participating in leadership solicitations. Membership on the committee includes the chair, who also serves as a member of the College's Development Committee, and committee members who help oversee the work of the Colby Fund volunteers. The Colby Fund chair and members each serve three-year terms. For 2009-10 its membership includes the following:

Hilary Smyth Wirtz '00, chair Laura Pavlenko Lutton '94, vice chair Stephen E. Chase '61 Kelly A. Doyle '89 Joan F. Katz '70 Carreau C. Mueller '05 Judith Jenkins Totman '54 Timothy M. Williams '08

Class Agents
More than 600 Colby Fund volunteers are asked by the College to help raise gifts from their fellow classmates each fiscal year. Approximately half, or 300, work exclusively for either their reunion or anniversary gift programs. Class agents are the principal Colby Fund volunteers for their classes, and Colby has begun to rely more and more on its volunteer corps in the solicitation process. Success in meeting both the dollar and participation goals each year, as well as the overall campaign goal, is based upon the volunteers' work in reaching out to fellow classmates and alumni.

  Class Agents and Reunion Gift Committees

Colby Fund Volunteer Awards
Colby is pleased to acknowledge individual class agents and classes that made particularly outstanding efforts for Colby during the 2008-09 fiscal year. Created in 1979 and awarded annually, these important milestones have been officially marked by the College for over 30 years.

The Joseph Coburn Smith '24 Class Performance Awards
Joseph Coburn Smith's roots were deep in Colby history, and the College was always a large part of his life. He served as Colby's first official director of public relations, as a long-term member of its Board of Trustees, and as chair of the board's Development Committee. Joe always was alert to ways in which the College could raise money. The Smith awards honor reunion and non-reunion classes that show the best overall performance based upon the total number of donors, percent participation, and dollars contributed.

Winners of the Joseph Coburn Smith Class Performance Awards

Classes with fewer than 100 members:	The Class of 1946
Classes with 100 to 200 members:	Judith Jenkins Totman ’54 and the Class of 1954
Classes with 201 to 300 members:	Jean Martin Fowler ’64 and the Class of 1964
Classes with 301 to 400 members:	Jennifer Frutchy Ford ’76 and the Class of 1976
Classes with more than 400 members:	Kathryn K. Weiler ’04, Derek E. Taff ’04, and the Class of 2004

The Young Alumni Participation Award
Awarded annually to the class with the highest participation rate of classes that have graduated in the past nine years, including the most recently graduated class.

     Winner of the Young Alumni Participation Award:
     Kathryn K. Weiler ’04 and Derek E. Taff ’04 and the Class of 2004

The Michael L. Franklin '63 Reunion Participation Award
Created in 1994 in honor of Mike Franklin, who led his 25th reunion Class of 1963 to a 69-percent participation rate during 1987-88, this award recognizes the reunion class with the highest Colby Fund participation rate. Past winners include the classes of 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951 (three times), 1952, and 1954 (three times), 1955, 1957, and 1958.

     Winner of the Michael L. Franklin '63 Reunion Participation Award:
      Judith Jenkins Totman ’54 and the Class of 1954