Fall 2009 Contents

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Features

More Than Mentors

More Than Mentors

Begun in the classroom, relationships between professors and students thrive beyond Mayflower Hill.

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Silver Lining

Silver Lining

Economic woes can inspire positive life changes.

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From the Hill

Students Help "Sustain Mid-Maine"

Summer interns partner with communities on strategic sustainability initiatives

Q&A: Noel James

New associate dean of students and director of the Pugh Center on bringing the community together and addressing things that can divide it

Books: A Passion for Giving Poetry Place and Time

Books: In Wisconsin, Asking Age-old Questions

Health Minded

Charlie Hale '06 aims to do for global health what Teach for America does for education

Magnetic North

MEDIA

The Making of Machismo

Professors Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan deconstruct media messages sent to boys—and suggest tools for parents

Alumni

Spotlight

Frank Norvish '34

A Gift for Languages

Gary Lawless '73

A Man of His Words

Amanda Hallowell '93

Island Grown

Caitlin Colegrove '06

World Changers

Alumni Class Notes

 
 
 
 

Editorial & Opinion

From the Editor

Often we see the common threads that connect stories in Colby. Sometimes it takes readers to make the connections for us.

That was the case for the summer issue of the magazine, which included the cover story on Jeronimo Maradiaga ’09J, who succeeded at Colby by overcoming hardships at home in the Bronx. The issue also included an essay by Richard Whitecar ’75 detailing his post-Colby experience with bipolar disorder. Maradiaga, a Watson Fellow currently traveling the world studying different definitions of success, was faced with poverty and homelessness early... Read more »


 

Contributors

  • Alexis GrantAlexis Grant '03

    (“Silver Lining") is a journalist who is writing her first book, a travel memoir about backpacking solo through Africa. Until May 2008 she worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle.

     

    Adam Howard

     

     

    Adam Howard

    (“From Privilege, a Call for Social Justice") is associate professor of education and director of the Education Program. His research and writings focus on social class issues in education, especially on privileged youth and schooling.

     

    Melanie Brown

     

     

    Melanie Brown '13

    (“Magnetic North") is the winner of the Colby magazine Class of 2013 essay contest. Hailing from Denver, Colo., she is an avid fiction writer and poet, and a member of the Cellar Door creative writing club, the chorale, and the Colbyettes.