MILEPOSTS
Deaths: Ernest T. Bernier '50 in Waterville, Maine, at 81. . . . William B. Riordan Jr. '53 in New York, N.Y. . . . Peter S. Stutts '55 in New Haven, Conn., at 60.

A funny thing hap- pened on the way to your next round of questionnaires for this column. They were all sent to the wrong class. I received a delightful return from Jerri Bost, Class of '65, saying that "by then (1965) I'm sure your class was already making quite an impact on the world." She said she liked the set of questions because they were "thought provoking," and she anticipates reading the responses. When the new questionnaire does get mailed to the right class--please respond! . . . Great news! The Class of '51 set a new record for percentage giving to the Alumni Fund--67 percent! . . . Ernie Fortin summered at the Belgrade Lakes and saw Vivian Bryan and his wife, Joyce (Wallace '52). Ernie enjoyed attending the Alumni College and especially taking a class on Shakespeare taught by Professor Mark Benbow in which no grades were given. He reports that the food was much better than what he remembers from working in the kitchens at Foss Hall and Roberts Union. . . . Ted Shiro brings pride to classmates by his induction into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. An inductee along with Ted was summer resident George Bush. Because of his multitude of sports activities over the years, Ted will have two (2) new hips. . . . Paul Kilmister was a candidate for election as a New Hampshire state representative. . . . Maury Ronayne attended the reunion of his WWII Army 280th Combat Engineering Battalion. . . . My recent adventure was a tenting safari in Tanzania. One highlight was the night six lions surrounded the dining tent as we ate dinner. They did not want us for dinner--they wanted the territory we had claimed. A sad adventure was going to Albany, Ga., to help victims of the Flint River flood move the entire contents of their houses to disposal heaps and then tear down walls and floors right to the studs and joists. I will return to help build back up. I have to. Check your Elderhostel fliers for the ones at Camp Hanover in Virginia. They are the ones I help with. I am going on my first Elderhostel as a participant to Antarctica. . . . By the way, what were you doing in 1965?
Class Correspondent: Barbara Jefferson Walker

Many thanks for a heartening response to my plea for news of you all. I can't include all the updates in this column, but there will be more to come. . . . Bob Kline gets top billing since he said this was his first response in 42 years. After 35 years in the aircraft business he has retired in a circa-1750 home near the Pemaquid lighthouse. Honest, he gave his phone number (207-677-3499) to encourage visitors. . . . The most frequently asked question that you said you would like to discuss with classmates was some form of: what influence have your years at Colby had on your life? For many of us who married intramurally, I'd say that it is beyond calculation. Norma Bergquist Garnet framed it in terms of the value of a liberal arts education, as a support for "life's realities." Specifically she cited Dr. Clark's class in logic. Though she thought it simplistic in her 20s, as "I try to follow the logic of today's politics," she writes, "the laugh's on me." Dave Morse gave the credit for his intellectual curiosity to his Colby years. He and wife Joan have moved their permanent residence to Boothbay Harbor. Ben Sears wondered whether we would make the same choice of college again. He writes that he and wife Nancy (Ricker '50) are both retired and enjoy occasional mountain climbing! (Son Ben, who is 1952 Class Baby--you are free to speculate on what that means--is a musician and has recently produced a tape/CD of American songs. The Boston Phoenix gave good reviews.) Richard Chamberlin says that the personal contacts from college are most important and that he still enjoys driving through Waterville. Herb Nagle still enjoys visiting the campus remembering the friendships, which he treasures more over time. Ron Milner also wrote a warmly nostalgic letter about his return for the 40th reunion and the renewal of old friendships, especially the girl he dated on his 21st birthday. . . . A Colby mini-reunion was a wonderful event for Mark '51 and me in September. Els Warendorf Hulm '51 and husband Jim (who should be awarded an honorary alumniship) hosted us in their beautiful lakeside home in Wolfeboro, N.H. Present were three from the Class of '51 and five from the Class of '52, and a finer looking bunch of Medicare recipients (some are and some soon to be) is rare indeed. The occasion was a visit from Baltimore of Nancy Nelson Cedrone and husband Lou. They live a "star-studded" life, since in Lou's role as arts critic for the Baltimore Sun they've had the opportunity to meet more celebrities and attend more glamorous events than anyone I know. Joan Kelby Cannell and husband Bob '51 came over from their home in Cape Elizabeth. Al and Joan Martin Lamont, who live half-time in Florida and half in Sunapee, N.H., do pretty good imitations of Greg Norman and Steffi Graf. Absent and missed were Dick and Bev Baker Verrengia, who have recently built a new home in Rockport, Mass. We had a wonderful time, and I came away congratulating myself on picking such wonderful friends all those 40-plus years ago.
Class Correspondent: Edna Miller Mordecai

Travel was on the 1994 summer schedules for a few classmates. In July Rick Tyler and his wife, Ann, rode bikes from Banff to Jasper, Alberta, a total of 230 miles--in perfect weather. Later they went back to Ogunquit, Maine, for two weeks with their sons and grandchildren. Rick is still working and happy he can be taking a couple of trips a year. . . . Joe Bryant spent six weeks traveling to Florida and back, staying in Lakeland so that he didn't have to get out the snowblower for a season. Next spring he has set his sights on a trip to Alabama (and asks if there are any '53ers there). He still works at L.L. Bean between October and March. . . . Another transplanted New Englander is Sylvia Caron Sullivan in Nashville, Tenn. She says she travels back to New Hampshire for her summers to enjoy her family and grandchildren, ages 9, 3 and 1. This past summer she had a chance to get together with other alums and Bill Cotter at a meeting in Wolfeboro. In Nashville she stays busy serving on the boards of a mental health establishment that trains and finds jobs for mental health clients and of the School of Design in Franklin, Tenn. . . . Ginnie Falkenbury Aronson traveled to Scandinavia to be with her daughter, Pat, who was there for a year on a Fulbright. She writes, "It was wonderful, so clean, the sky so blue, and the phone never rang." Back in the states, she made two separate trips to North Carolina for conferences. She says she "suffered a little Lyme disease with a lucky recovery in time to play Grandma Ginnie" to her three youngest grandchildren, 3, 6 and 8, and also gave a celebration for son Andy's master's graduation from Rutgers. She adds, "Whew! This year all four of my children are working at the same time--a first." Now Ginnie is back to her music business, Mrs. A's Kinder Parent Musics. . . . Elaine Zervas Stamas wrote that she has been surrounded by workmen remodeling her home, all the time wishing she could be on the North Shore of Boston (with me), swimming in the ocean and eating fried clams. (Well, I swam in the ocean in Maine one Sunday and had no clams.) Elaine's most important news is Alexandra Elaine, her new granddaughter. Elaine says her life revolves mostly around music. Her husband, Steve, is chairman of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1993, the philharmonic's 150th anniversary, they toured with the orchestra to major European cities. She also sings with the Westchester Choral Society and serves on the board of a music school in Scarsdale. Elaine's other major involvement is with Colby, where serving on the Board of Trustees gets her back to the campus regularly. . . . Nan Murray Lasbury sent word from Florida that she and Chase spent the summer in Camden, Maine, settling their new home. They plan to spend six months there and six in Florida. During the summer they attended Chase's 45th prep school reunion and spent two nights with Shirley and Nick Sarris at Cape Cod. Nick and Chase were classmates at Tabor Academy. Nan and Chase planned to return to Maine in October for a visit to Colby and a parents weekend at New England College, where their youngest daughter is studying. A note from Ed Fraktman tells us that the Sarrises "are leading the life of Riley. They spend six weeks every summer at their family home on the Greek Island of Lesbos. The rest of the time is spent in Dover, Mass., writing his famous Xmas epistle and driving Shirley crazy. George Pirie has retired from dental practice at the University of Georgia and spends his leisure time at his home in Hawaii, surfing, playing golf and tennis and riding his motorcycle. Colette, his wife, says some guys never grow up. Lou (The Guzz) Ferraguzzi and his wife, Pat, traveled to Italy this past summer to discover his 'roots.' All Lou found was old IOU's from his buddies at the Phi Delt House. In reality, they had a marvelous time visiting Rome, Venice and Naples." . . . I am still working and enjoying home ownership, except when things fall apart, and love having the grandchildren now and then. My father used to say, "Glad to see you come, glad to see you go." I did get to Moosehead Lake with Hilary and Serge (grandkids) to visit with my son, Richard, who took us on a tour of the lake. That turned out to be "hairy" as the wind and rains came and the motor conked out, but we made it, and the children loved every minute of the ordeal. Also, I was treated to a tour of the Maine Maritime Museum by my daughter-in-law, a volunteer at the museum, and son, Peter, in September. . . . Thanks for keeping in touch, even though I have to prod a little. Thanks, too, to Nelson Beveridge, who treated Carolyn English Caci and me to dinner at a Bug-A-Boo restaurant in August just to talk over the finer points of news retrieving.
Class Correspondent: Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

As class correspondents for the next five years, we should get a steady flow of news from the questionnaires that will be sent from the Alumni Office to one fifth of the class at a time. The first group has been sent, but unfortunately we have received no responses. Do write and keep us informed of your activities. Rather than have a blank '54 column, we decided to make a few phone calls to classmates. Bill "Super" Ganem and his wife live in Plymouth, Mass., where he has owned a tool rental business for many years. They have four grown children. One son works with him in the family business, and a daughter is working in a bank while attending law school. "Super" has contemplated retirement, but not just yet. He was planning a get-together with Bob Fraser, Bob "Ace" Parker and Ed Fraktman '53. . . . Dick Beatty and his wife, who live in King of Prussia, Pa., have five grown children and seven grandchildren, the oldest being 15. After Colby, Dick spent many years teaching in Rockland, Mass. He then changed to a sales career and is now in the mortgage end of real estate. His family is in good health, and at this time he is not ready for retirement. Dick talks with "Super" occasionally but has not been back to Colby since the mid-'60s. . . . Nate '55 and Winnie Robertson Miller would have enjoyed coming to our 40th reunion, but graduation and weddings interfered. In Mt. Kisco, N.Y., for the past 15 years, Winnie has supervised the customer service department of a company that sells screen printing supplies. Before that she says she "took on a new career each time we moved." After earning a master's degree in finance, Nate worked for General Mills and later for their newly formed apparel division. Winnie is not yet ready to retire, but Nate has numerous interests and hobbies, so retirement, which he plans for next June, should be a busy time. Both of their children are married: Katie and her husband are social workers in child protection, and she is completing her master's degree; Scott graduated from culinary school and is living in Bremerton, Wash., while his wife is a medical school intern at the naval base. . . . Al Trumpet, who lives in Teaneck, N.J., is married and has three children. After leaving Colby, he attended accounting school and Hunter College. His first job was with Lehman Bros. on Wall Street. For the last 29 years he has worked for IBM as an accounting manager. He retired two years ago and loves it. Al spoke with Gene Floyd before and after our reunion. He hasn't seen Colby classmates but did see Roger Montgomery '53 several years ago. . . . Mary Belden Williams and her husband, Gordon, live in North Hatfield, Mass. They couldn't make our 40th because it conflicted with his 50th high school reunion. Their oldest son, Darryl, now manages the family farm, but Gordon continues to work long hours. They have four children and seven grandchildren with two more expected next spring. Their daughter earned a master's degree in nursing and is working as a nurse practitioner while studying for her state boards. Mary, who has taught teenagers for 35 years at the Clarke School for the Deaf, plans to teach one more year and then retire. . . . Please write! Your classmates enjoy hearing your news.
Class Correspondent: Bill and Penny Thresher Edson

Slowly but surely I am sending questionnaires out to our class. The questionnaire is dated August 1994, but many of you won't receive it until much later. I have tried personalizing the form and have already received enough responses to put together a column for this issue of Colby. In the meantime the Alumni Office is trying a new approach to the correspondent system. Besides changing the format, the office will now automatically send out a questionnaire designed by the class correspondent to a fifth of the class approximately one month before each of the column deadlines. As I had already sent out my own questionnaire to everyone, I will bypass this new system for now. Just keep those replies coming! . . . Burt Angrist, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical School. He, his wife, Anka, and daughter Laurel, 14, live in Manhattan near the hospital and school. He does not consider himself retired. In his spare time he does "outdoor stuff," especially rock climbing. In the past year his daughter has gotten good at this, too. They also go canoe camping, hiking and snorkeling on vacations. Burt has continued friendships with Doug Miller and Pete Vlachos, and maybe we can hear from them. . . . Robin Hunter Clutz writes from Williamstown, Mass., where she is a business manager for a real estate firm and her husband, Richard, is a general surgeon. Their son, Andrew, is married and has provided the first grandchild, Abigail, born March 3, 1994. Daughter Susannah is a ski coach in Park City, Utah, and second daughter Caroline has one more semester at Middlebury College. Robin sees Cyndi Gardner Bevin (their first grandchildren are only two weeks apart). The Clutzes have bought a small house in New Hampshire, where they have run into Carolyn (Webster '60) and Ted Lockhart '61 at the grocery store. Robin has also recently taken up painting. . . . Our former correspondent, Marietta Pane, has retired from the Navy and is now teaching English and political science at South Seattle Community College. In her spare time she does some "out-of-control" gardening. But she must be much better than she lets on. As a board member of the Seattle Historical Society, Marietta is doing the landscaping for the last log house standing at the birthsite of Seattle. She has no more space to dig holes in her own garden, so she has branched out into this marvelous project. All the plants will be native to the place and time of the landing, so the "challenge is not only good design but also authenticity." . . . Marcia Griggs Atsaves and I keep in pretty close contact. We have visited Marcia and her husband, Mario, several times at their Virginia home. They also have a beach condo at Bethany Beach, Del., where they spend just about every weekend they can, weather permitting. It's a wonderful place to relax and unwind from the stress and strain of running a business in Washington, D.C. Marcia and Mario have two married sons, and both sons have added granddaughters to the family. Son Alex and his wife and daughter, Erin, live near Marcia, and Alex works in the family business. Son Andrew lived in California with his wife and daughter, Caroline, who was born this past May. By now Andrew's job has taken him to Mexico City, and he and his family have moved to a wonderful home there for a few years. . . . Last July, Harry and Joan Shaw Whitaker moved from Newton, Mass., to Las Vegas, where they can enjoy 360 degrees of mountain views. They have both retired but are still looking for work--"we're too young to retire." Harry and Joan have one daughter, MaryBeth McIntyre '82, who has one daughter of her own, Kelly Devin. Joan writes that she and Harry "made the big move and truly love the desert, mountains and climate." If anyone is in the vicinity, they would love to see you and give you a tour of the sights away from the "strip." . . . I hope your new year is healthy and happy and full of resolutions to answer questionnaires from Colby. Also, give some serious thought to the requests you receive regarding the Alumni Fund.
Class Correspondent: Margaret Smith Henry

At this writing, Marty and I are preparing feverishly for a wonderful trip to Italy to visit our daughter, who is spending the fall semester there. She'll be our official guide in Venice, the three of us will explore Florence together, then Marty and I will move on to Rome when Beth returns to school. Young people today have such wonderful opportunities . . . it's only right that we oldsters should tag along for at least part of the ride! . . . In most aspects of life, the old adage "No news is good news" is appropriate. In the case of a class correspondent who never hears from anyone, however, no news is definitely bad news. So, how about bringing joy to your correspondent's heart by writing of the events in your life that you'd like to share with your classmates. I look forward to your letters!
Class Correspondent: Ann Marie Segrave Lieber