Keep those class questionnaires coming, and I won't miss an issue, I promise. Ruth Drapeau Hunt wrote from Brunswick, Maine, that she and Phil, who is U.S.N. retired, celebrated their 50th anniversary in February. They have four sons and three grandchildren. . . . Nancy Parsons Ferguson and husband Bob are doing a lot of traveling from their home in Holden, Mass. They have five grandchildren, the youngest in the first grade, the oldest at the University of Miami. . . . Fay O'Leary Hafford, who lives in Allagash, Maine, lost her husband, Lee, to a heart attack in 1993. However, she has now completed another book, Beans and Biscuits, Tales of the Lumber Camps. Fay is starting her next one, Wouldn't That Frost Ya, on her computer. "I'm living life to the fullest," she said. "I've taken up painting. There is so much to do and to see. I would like to hear from Lois Manning, who was my best friend at Colby." . . . Betty Anne Riker Howell and husband Wally spend summers now in Greensboro, Vt., and winters in Englewood, Fla. They have just been to England and Portugal. As volunteers they drive the elderly for the Interfaith Caregivers program. . . . Pleeeze come to our 50th reunion at Colby. We are such fine folk.
Class Correspondent: Nancy Jacobsen

Cal Dolan and his wife both have retired from teaching, he from chemistry, she from English. They have five children and five grandchildren, one of whom is a graduate of Penn State and already married. Wintering in Naples, Fla., has made a great difference in his golf game, Cal says. He also does a bit of gardening and bas-relief sculpturing. He hopes everyone in the class is planning to attend our 50th reunion in '97. . . . Ray and Tossie Campbell Kozen divide their time between Maine and Florida, attend Colby functions when in Waterville, and occasionally see Colby friends in Florida. Their son, father of three, has been named the Joseph Newton Pew Jr. Professor of Engineering at Cornell. Tossie and Dorrie Meyer Hawkes will be working on our 50th reunion. As I think everyone will agree, they did a great job on the 45th. . . . Just ask Marilyn Hubert, who says she enjoyed it so much that she went to her grade school and high school reunions in 1993. She and G.I. Smith '49 retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, Dept. of Interior, in January, but she continues to volunteer in their library working on the geologic names dictionary, her chief effort since 1967. She participates in the Colby Club of Washington, D.C., and local Phi Beta Kappa association, recent meetings of which looked at the U.N., the Human Genome Project and the Campaign for Global Change. . . . Larry Kaplan retired from Kent State University in 1993 and has been teaching military history at Georgetown and consulting for the Pentagon. . . . Among our busiest is Betty Wade Drum, who belongs to several women's groups, practices the organ two hours daily, directs two bell choirs, sings in choir and volunteers in her local library and food pantry. She loves to knit, read, go to concerts and plays and keep active walking and hiking. In March she attended an Elderhostel in Italy, visiting Rome, Pisa and Florence. . . . Dottie Cleaves Rodgers Jordan says she and her husband "have traveled extensively--like our days are numbered." In the last two years she has been in Ireland, seven countries on the continent, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Cook Islands, Ecuador, Panama Canal, and several interesting spots in the United States. While working for Outward Bound, her oldest son, Scott, died in 1990; her younger son and his wife work for L.L. Bean. Dottie volunteers as an advocate for deaf groups, on the board of Maine Center on Deafness and the Deaf Advisory Group of Augusta. In March she and Emily Gardell Hueston celebrated their fifth anniversaries--married the same week! . . . The daughter of Ruth Jaffe Gordon is a psychiatrist, married with three children. Her son is also married and is the father of two children. Ruth spends time on the Cape and Florida, both of which she loves, and recently had lunch with Dick and Marjorie Collins Marcyes. . . . John and I celebrated our 50th anniversary March 10 in the Caribbean. This May, after a party given by our children, we spent three weeks in the Alps and one in Germany with son Bob and family. Later we flew to L.A. to see another son in his new home and in August planned to have a week with all our children and grandchildren on Lake George, N.Y.
Class Correspondent: Mary Hall Fitch

So little news arrived that we had nothing to put in the April issue. Please drop us a note and let's hear what is going on and how you feel about issues at the College or anywhere else for that matter. . . . Natalie Pretat Arnold filled out our October questionnaire. She lives in Foster, R.I., where both she and her husband, Franklin, are retired. They have four married children and (at the time) nine and a half grandchildren. She also has a dog and a cat. Natalie, who says she is "disturbed by man's inhumanity to man," has been a volunteer at Harvard Health and has attended two Elderhostels, which she says are "really great." . . . Ruth Rogers Doering writes from Schenectady, N.Y. She is an instructor in computers and accounting at a business school and a part-time tax instructor and preparer. She writes that the jobs are fun--teaching subjects she likes and dealing with people. Ruth says her work also leaves her time to spend what she earns on travel. She added that her youngest daughter (of three) completed her Ph.D. in math at the University of Wyoming in May and now has a job teaching at a small liberal arts college, just as she had hoped. Ruth has traveled extensively in New Mexico and the Dakotas and into Saskatchewan, the Gaspé and Hudson Bay, and she planned to go to Spain in June and Labrador in August. She writes that life seems so full with working, traveling and church activities that she has not addressed recent Colby issues but has concentrated on local and social issues at state and national levels. She went to her 50th high school reunion at Rumford, Maine, in '94, the first time she had been back since she left for Colby. . . . In December we received our annual newsletter from Aaron Sandler, who is now retired and living in Sarasota, Fla. He was going to have lunch with Carl "Gumbo" Wright '47 the following day and also was hoping to visit Lenny Warshaver '49 in Palm Beach. . . . This winter Carol Silverstein Stoll Baker accompanied us to Wellesley College to hear Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 speak to the Boston Colby Club. We were joined by Warren Finegan '51 and enjoyed a fascinating evening. . . . We received an interesting letter from Peg Clark Atkins. She has to be Colby's most enduring class agent, and she has done an outstanding job. She writes that our class has reached an Alumni Fund participation rate of 68 percent, which is surpassed by only a few classes. She mentioned that she had heard from Barbara Keith Herrington and "Chick" Bailey. She recently saw Shirley Smith Chellquist, who told her that she and Carl are planning to move to North Carolina. She also heard from Millie Schnebbe Riordan and Bud and Bobo Brewer Folino. Essentially all mentioned are well, some have exciting plans for the future and many continue to stay in touch with Peg. . . . Helen Knox Elliott wrote that thanks to her training as an English major she had two poems published by The National Library of Poetry. Helen and her husband, Charles, are relocating to a retirement community near Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C. . . . Recently, David visited Bob Lee '51 at Bob's business, Hotwatt, toured the plant and saw their main line of heating elements being produced--a very interesting afternoon. David retired, at long last, on January 13 but still works consulting and traveling for the company. We expect that he will reduce his work schedule very soon since the boat is in the water and ready to sail. We spend a good part of the summer in Falmouth on Cape Cod and would welcome a visit from a classmate. We keep Hero, a dark blue sloop, in slip #20 at Falmouth Marine on the west side of the harbor. If we are not out cruising we promise you a warm reception.
Class Correspondent: David and Dorothy Marson