The Class of 2010, 475 students selected from a pool of about nine times that many applicants, was welcomed to campus with a week of orientation before classes began on September 6. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Parker Beverage told the first-year assembly in Lorimer Chapel that the class represents 30 different countries and 34 states plus the District of Columbia. Members speak 30 languages or dialects. One student looked at 60 different colleges before choosing Colby. Another chose Colby because her parents for years called her "stubborn as a mule," Beverage said, adding that, "By attending Colby, of course, she could be a mule."
On August 30, COOTers (Colby Outdoor Orientation Trippers) on Flagstaff Lake heard the rumble of an approaching power boat, then a shout: "You look like you're from Bowdoin!" After a resounding "No!" the man in the boat asked, "From Bates?" This time students replied, "We're from Colby!" Turned out the men in the boat, professors
Whitney King (chemistry) and
Michael Donihue '79 (economics), knew that. They unloaded steaks and salmon and joined the group on the beach for a cookout. "They loved it," King said. Director of Outdoor Safety and Education
Jonathan Milne reports 99 percent of the incoming class participated in 53 trips. Including leaders that's more than 550 students out for four days with no serious problems or injuries.
With women's cross country fifth in the nation last year, volleyball defending as New England champions and one of the Sweet Sixteen nationally, and football the number two Division III team in New England in 2005, Colby's fall teams carry great expectations into the 2006 season. Field hockey, men's cross country, men's and women's tennis, crew, and men's and women's soccer also start competition in September with high hopes. Football fans can follow Colby's season online with WMHB webcasts.
Five years after September 11, a panel of people who were affected by, responded to, and have studied the attack will discuss its impact on society in a Goldfarb Center program scheduled for September 18. Panelists are Dr.
Gregory R. Ciottone '87, who was commissioned by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to write a book detailing disaster management for terrorist events; Associate Professor of Sociology
Alec Campbell, an expert in historical, political, and military sociology; and
Kate Vasconi, a Colby sophomore who watched the towers collapse from her school window and whose father was a New York firefighter.
See a list of fall Goldfarb Center events. It's one thing to travel abroad to fascinating places. It's another to travel with a faculty member who shares knowledge of a place gathered through decades of study. That's what alumni will do with Crawford Family Professor of Religious Studies
Nikki-Guninder K. Singh in India in February. Other upcoming trips include South Africa, the French Riviera, Italy's Lake District, Turkey, and Peru.
Read more in Colby magazine or visit the travel-study site for more information.
Joe Boulos '68 will be honored in Albuquerque, N.M., on September 16 by the National Guard Association of the United States. Boulos will receive the Patrick Henry Award, which recognizes civic leaders for exceptional service to the Armed Forces, the National Guard, or the National Guard Association. A former Marine pilot, now head of The Boulos Companies in Portland and chair of Colby's Board of Trustees, Boulos is being recognized for a 2004 party he sponsored in Portland for family members of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 1,200 service relatives attended and learned that a scholarship fund, seeded with $1 million from Boulos, would let returning soldiers attend any community college in Maine for free or use the money toward a four-year program. In less than two years, 187 such scholarships have been awarded.
Reagan Carey '01, senior manager of fan development for the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers and a former Colby hockey player, was a pioneer in girls' hockey. She "began playing organized hockey before all-girls teams were prevalent," she said in an August 7
Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. "I was definitely the only girl." Carey was one of four female on-ice counselors when 22 members of the Thrashers held a youth clinic. Read more online.
Final numbers are in from the Annual Giving Office, and the good news is that the Alumni Fund set an all-time record in the year ended June 30—$4,001,617, which is a 7.9 percent increase over the previous year. The Parents Fund also hit a new peak—$633,345—a 12.5 percent increase. "The Annual Fund is a major part of our operating budget—and the most flexilble part," said Vice President for College Relations
Richard Ammons, who said the fund is used, among other things, for financial aid and helps cover unanticipated expenses like higher oil prices. Thanks to all who contributed, and congratulations to Director of Annual
Giving Kelly Dodge '83 and the annual giving team, which is already two months into the 2006-07 effort.
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