Many thanks to those of you who responded to the most recent mailing. It may be a while before you read about yourselves--I'm still working on the volumes I received last summer and fall! . . . Michael McNamara is an attorney in Point Pleasant, N.J., and his wife, Joyce, teaches French and Spanish. Their family includes two sons, John and Andrew, and a goldfish, Sunshine. Mike is active in St. Dominic Church, the Diocese of Trenton and the Bar Association. He wishes he were sitting in front of a Maine lake reading a good book, and he wishes he weren't aging. He probably has lots of company for that wish! . . . S. Ann Earon married Robert James Meli in March. They are living in Kendall Park, N.J., where Ann is group vice president of Infotech Consulting, Inc. Robert is a chief engineer with Johnson & Johnson. . . . Maryann Sartucci Andrews writes from Lakewood, Colo., where she is staff development officer for the Jefferson County Public Library System. Her husband, John, is a telecommunications engineer with USWest Communications. They have no kids but do have a 100-pound Bernese mountain dog, Hansel. Maryann is busy with work, collecting Lladro and nativity figures, traveling to national parks--and trying to get rid of 20 lbs. She feels not old . . . but not young either. She wishes she were pursuing a master's degree and also taking more time to do nothing. (I'm not sure those two things go together, Maryann.) . . . Spencer Wright currently is living in Sydney, Australia, on a two-year assignment with Interleaf, a firm selling high-end electronic publishing and document management software. He's active in music, of course, singing with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir. He performed the Britten War Requiem, conducted by Edo deWaart, and toured Verdi's Requiem with Luciano Pavarotti as soloist. He's enjoying the beers and wines of Australia and was looking forward to scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. . . . Diana Waterous Centorino is also a singer, busy with Nova Singers, Inc., in South Florida. She lives in Ft. Lauderdale with her husband, Joseph. Both are attorneys. They have three children, Michael, 13, Victoria, 11, and Scott, 5, and a dog, cat and parakeet. The pets represent the "food chain." . . . Robin Hamill is now living in Charlottesville, Va. She is continuing to work as an M.D. specializing in anesthesia and critical care. Her family includes John, 13, Laura, 11, and Jamie, 6. They have two black labs, a cat and some roaches, ants and houseflies. She spoke at the American Association for Respiratory Care in Cancun last October. She wishes she were lazing on her 80-foot yacht and that she were not cooking, cleaning, plumbing, etc. . . . Carter '73 and Rachel Hyman Zervas are living in Lansdowne, Pa. Rachel is a speech therapist and Carter an artist. They have a daughter, Claudia, 6, and two cats and a dog. Rachel finds working at a school for deaf children to be challenging and exciting. They attended Carter's 25th high school reunion last summer and came away feeling definitely middle-aged after dancing all night. . . . An old friend, Larry Kominz, sent a long, newsy letter from Portland, Ore., where he is a professor of Japanese language and literature. His family includes his wife, Toshimi Tanaka, Leo, 6, and Maya, 3. He keeps busy with Kabuki theater and classical Japanese dance. Larry has not been back to Maine since graduation day 1974 (Larry, how can you stand it?) but has traveled frequently to Japan for work and to visit family. He writes that both children are bilingual. . . . I'm about out of space. Hope this summer has found each of you healthy and happy!BR> Class Correspondent: Shelley Bieringer Rau

As this is my 23rd (!) and final column, I am including everyone whom I heard from recently. Hope I haven't forgotten anybody. . . . In her home in Auburn, Maine, Patricia Clark Estes has opened a polarity therapy practice, Woodbury Hill Polarity. Patti describes polarity therapy as "a very soothing form of gentle body work, as well as a natural health care system." She and husband Skip have one daughter and three sons between the ages of 11 and 19 and are homeschooling their 14 year old. . . . Barbara Miller Deutschle continues to homeschool their 9-year-old son, Chris. This year Barb hopes to be able to adopt their foster child, Sky, who has been in their care for two years. . . . Herrick "Rick" Drake writes that his career move to College Savings Bank has gone well and that he is still playing hockey in the over-30s league (which includes Paul Eichelroth '83), though Rick thinks that he might need to move up to "over-40s" before long. . . . Out in Scottsdale, Ariz., Jeffrey Frankel is the vice president of legal and international departments of MicroAge, Inc. He feels that he is having 10 years' worth of accomplishments in one year: marrying last April, inheriting an 8-year-old son and planning to finish his M.B.A. in January 1996! . . . Pamela Simpkins Gothner and family moved to Ridgefield, Conn., last February. Pam and husband Van are parents to Kate, 5, and Emma, 1, whom they adopted when she was six weeks old. When Pam wrote me, they had just moved and she was looking forward to emptying all those boxes! . . . In Highland, N.Y., Robin Urner Whitebay was very happily remarried in March and is now part-time stepmom of Cortney, 9, and Mathew, 5. She and husband Philip honeymooned in Costa Rica, where "the beaches, jungles, and active volcanoes all combined for a wonderful adventure." Robin feels fortunate to be one of the lucky few in the mid-Hudson Valley still employed by IBM, where she is business relationship manager. . . . Sim-Kuen Chan Gregory is kept busy and challenged as a full-time homeschooling mom and wife. Their oldest daughter, V. Mei-Ning, just finished her first year at Wheaton College (Illinois) Conservatory, majoring in piano performance as well as in wind ensemble. The other three children, Peter, 14, S. Mei-Shen, 12, and David, 9, play musical instruments. Sim has rediscovered the love of learning through tutoring Peter and homeschooling the two younger ones. . . . Mary Bastron Harper gave up practicing law to become "chief chauffeur and domestic engineer" in August 1994, when they built a new house that took almost a year to complete. Husband Mike '76 is a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic. Mary enjoyed playing USTA tennis and competing last year for a local athletic club, and then took up golf last summer because it is Mike's favorite summer activity. She only wishes that the ball were a little bigger! Their three children, Nick, 12, Sarah, 10, and Caitlin, 4, are very involved in athletics and music. . . . Yours truly and family visited Washington, D.C., over Easter break. A beautiful city to visit, though a very crowded week with busloads of school groups. We met up with Major Peter B. Coz in Alexandria, Va., where he is now living and where we even managed to fit in a trip to the local ice rink. Pete had just closed on a house, which he is now busy renovating in his spare time. . . . I have really enjoyed being your class correspondent for the past five years. Hearing from all of you nice people who kept me supplied with news brought back so many memories of Colby and helped me relive my youth! It's been fun. Thanks! [Nan Weidman Anderson will be the new correspondent for this class -Editor]
Class Correspondent: Susan Gearhart Wuest

One of the best stories I've heard in a long while came from Jenny Frutchy Ford last summer. It seems that, on the very day of her 40th birthday, she was carded. Even after looking closely, the checkout person at Star Market didn't believe Jenny. What's the address of that store again? Jenny's children are 5 and 7 and have joined Jenny in her love of skiing and swimming. Jenny rows a single scull on the Charles River and is an active volunteer in the public schools. Ed Ford has been back and forth to Jakarta with Harvard's Center for International Development this year. Jenny reported that Pam Came is in Buenos Aires. . . . Scott Butchart was married last August to Christine Fritz in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Among the guests was Lynn Thommen. Scott has been in the trenches teaching French and Spanish for the last 10 years at Brookline High School. . . . Among the respondents to the fall questionnaire was Nancy Anderson, who wrote that she and Graham Kislingbury are the parents of two girls, Anna, 4, and Lisa, 8. Nancy is a graphic artist by profession but currently is parenting full time--joining lots of our classmates as a volunteer in our children's schools and our communities. . . . Candace Campbell, of Great Falls, Va., is the executive director of the American Preventive Medical Association. She wrote that the APMA is the advocacy organization for doctors and others who use alternative/nutritional therapies. Her organization recently helped pass the dietary supplement bill, which dramatically affects the way the FDA regulates vitamins, herbs, etc. Her oldest son graduated from college in May and plans to become a chiropractor. Son Graham is entering college in September. . . . I also received a note from Ann Beadle, who lives in New Hampshire with her husband, Gary Millen '74, and 13-year-old daughter, Meredith. Ann's life has become even more challenging with her promotion to chief information officer at UNUM in Portland, Maine. Ann wrote that her family joined Julie Cassidy and her daughter, Cara Mia, for a hike up Mt. Chocorua last summer. . . . Karen Smith Clark went back to school full time to become a nurse-midwife. She is juggling school with parenting Sarah, 9, Molly, 4, and (canine) Abby, 1. Karen and her husband, Fred, reside in North Reading, Mass. . . . Speaking of obstetrics, Peter Labombarde shared the joyful announcement that he and Irene are the proud parents of twins. Evan and Jocelyn were born in October 1994 and join their sister, Katherine, at home in Nashua. Peter's final comment is poignant: "We look forward to our next trip to Colby, which will probably be for our 20th--to think we came to the 15th with a dog, and a few years later we have three kids . . . ! Life is odd, and so wonderful." . . . Becca Guild wrote that she and her family recently returned from visiting family and friends in Switzerland and Germany. Becca and her husband, Kevin Jenness, have two children, Charles and Louisa. . . . We heard from David Kavanaugh recently. He and his wife, Noreen, have three young sons and reside in Needham, Mass. David is a tax lawyer. Thanks for writing, David! . . . Andy Gleeman also took time to write. He informed us that he and his wife, Beth, have a son and a daughter now and still reside in Fairfield, Conn. . . . Kim Koza Harris figures that she hasn't written to us for at least 10 years. Kim and her husband, Michael, are both teachers at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Their family includes two boys: Lech, 10, and Will, 4. In the years since we last saw Kim, she completed her Ph.D. in English at Indiana University and then taught at Rollins College before relocating to a "saner life" in Iowa. The Harris family has taken advantage of Central College's study-abroad program in Mexico and hopes to travel to China soon. . . . In the space in the questionnaire where one indicates the occupation of one's spouse, Mark Helmus wrote "optometrist/wife extraordinaire." We all knew that Mark is a perceptive guy! . . . The College informs me that it is time to begin planning our 20th reunion, to be held in June 1996. Our class officers will be contacting many of you to ask for help. Please write or call if you have ideas for the reunion.
Class Correspondent: Noel Barry Stella

Meredith Bean Eley let me know of the birth of her second baby boy, Benjamin Bean Eley, born August 21, 1994. His older brother, Samuel, whom I remember at our 15th, is now 2 1/2. Their father, Donald, is an assistant professor at Maine Maritime Academy. . . . Deborah J. Cohen, now a Spanish professor, writes: "I finally landed a tenure-track job. I'm in my second year at Slippery Rock U., Pa., and I really enjoy it here. . . . I have two articles being published . . . both are the result of my ongoing research on popular theater in Honduras." Deb is breaking away to Australia and New Zealand next summer. . . . And Chas Cowing, I am sorry we misspelled your son's name, Grayson Muller Cowing. You print very well. It was my error. . . . Priscilla Bondy Dube writes that Cary was 4 in April and Simeon 2 in October. Tempus fugit! The busy attorney writes: "seems like all we do is work, cook/clean, etc., play with the kids and go back to work--it's too hectic but mostly fun. I wouldn't trade it for anything." . . . Nancy E. Epstein lives in Austin, Texas, where she is a state legislative advocate--health care, agriculture, food and nutrition. At this "mid-life" juncture, she is deciding whether to go or not to go to naturopathic medical school in the Northwest--Portland or Seattle. She'll let us know. . . . Mark E. Fishbon, another busy attorney, has two daughters, Talia, 5, and Ann, 3. He writes comically of his wife as a "budget analyst" and of the younger Colby graduates in his neighborhood, with emphasis on the new law clerk ("younger than me, again") working for his firm. . . . Terry C. Fjeldheim is doing something I had never heard of up until now. He writes: "I went back to school and received a degree from Ohio State U. in perfusion. Now what is a perfusionist? It is a person that runs a heart lung machine during open heart and heart transplant operations. During the operation I become the person's heart lungs." Now that is pretty good medical writing. His wife, Nancy, manages the geology department at Brown University, and Nicole, 11, and Zachary, 9, are in elementary school. . . . Stephen A. Ford and his wife, Beth, live in State College, Pa., where he is professor of farm management at Penn State and where she is finishing her Ph.D. in agricultural economics. Their first daughter, Emily Blythe Ford, is 15 months old. They write: "All we do is work and raise our child. We hope to move back to the South someday." . . . Peter L. Garrambone works for the U.S. Pharmaceutical Group of Pfizer, Inc. in New York City. His wife, Jane, a chiropractor, mothers their two boys, Peter III, 4, and Tommy, 2--"Kids keep us very busy"--and over the past two years the couple has built a new home in northern New Jersey. . . . H. Jeffrey Gottesfeld has been very good keeping me in touch with how one can sound like a good lawyer, creatively. Jeff writes: "Leslie--FYI, we got the film deal--it is with the same folks who made Circle of Friends!--out now. Cherie and I are writing screenplay together." . . . Emily C. Graham writes about her new daughter, Marisa, born September 1993, the baby girl she adopted from Guatemala. . . . Christine McKeown Burry writes of her graduation from the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., earning a hard-wrought master's degree in national security studies, and of Bill's and her celebration sail to Nova Scotia. . . . Amy Schenck Frankel is going through a career change and has moved from cosmetics marketing to being a partner in producing corporate film and video for broadcast advertising. She loves to rollerblade, ice skate and do yoga with her son, Drew Frankel, 8. . . . Last but not least (and out of my self-devised alphabetical order), Nancy P. Garnett Thomas is an assistant professor of culinary arts at Johnson and Wales University, R.I. Her husband, Donald, is a heavy steel fabricator, and she writes that she is "enjoying a second childhood raising my two kids," likening the challenge to playing Power Rangers with a 40-year-old body! . . . Thank you all for jotting me a Q on your spring break, have a very relaxing, seemingly endless summer vacation, and we'll see you in the fall.
Class Correspondent: Leslie A. Ramsay

Help! It took a while, but I finally realized that the "Contract with America" is really a contract out on my job and on thousands of other feds doing regulatory enforcement. There are several legislative initiatives floating around Capitol Hill right now that would abolish enforcement of OSHA, the job safety and health law, as we know it. Maybe somebody thinks this is a good idea, but they probably never had a refinery blow up in their hometown or lost a relative in an industrial incident. If you have any thoughts on this, please write me, or better yet, your congressional representative. . . . Jim Bull writes from Menlo Park, Calif., that he knows he's getting old now that his 11-year-old daughter, Katie, swipes his Green Day and Pearl Jam CDs. I have to admit my kids are not at that stage yet, although every time we get a babysitter, I end up having to rewind my copy of Eraserhead. Jim and wife Erin are college textbook editors and also have an 8-year-old son, Sam. . . . Hanna McCrum Henderson moved out to the Phoenix area two years ago. Although she enjoys the Southwest, she returns to the Blue Hill area of Maine every summer with husband Kris and daughters Morgan, Whitney and Emma-Claire. Hanna reports that she caught up with Chris Bradley and Leigh Morse last summer. . . . New Jersey is a "nice place to live," writes Betsey Judd Butler, who lives in West Windsor. Betsey and Rich are kept busy by Claire and Brett as well as by too many activities and volunteering commitments to count. I share Betsey's views on the state, especially the South Jersey area, where we get away every summer. . . . My predecessor as class correspondent, Susan Gernert Adams, is still producing television news in New York for NBC's Dateline. Susan broke the record for most interesting travels last year with a trip to Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Prague. She ran into John and Pam Cleaves Devine, Jack and Lisa Mathey Landry, Dean of Faculty Bob McArthur and Professor Charlie Bassett at a recent Colby fund raiser at the United Nations. . . . Lucinda Kearns Hepp recently made the career change to full-time mom from the "super mom, career woman rat race" and reports she is very happy. Lucinda and Rick are planning to celebrate their 10th anniversary with a little hiking in the White Mountains. Lucinda, Rick, and 4-year-old Elizabeth live in Shrewsbury, Mass., and would love to hear from Colby alums. . . . The next time you are sitting in the ballpark munching a hot dog, look down--you may be sitting on a product of the Hussey Seating Co. Tim Hussey is the chief operating officer of the company and reports that demand is up, especially in the Far East. Tim also notes that he heard from old roomie Les Morgan, who is still in Bangladesh doing medical missionary work. . . . Finally, I want to thank everyone, including the Alumni Office, for the new arrangement on class surveys, which is keeping me well stocked. One small quibble, though: now that the survey/questionnaire has been reduced to one page, that's all anyone writes. Please flip it over and keep writing, even if it's only malicious rumors and gossip. After all, that's what keeps me going in this job!
Class Correspondent: Nicholas Levintow

Cal Cooper, wife Carol, kids David, 5, and Meghan, 3, along with assorted dogs and cats, are living the good life in Frankfort, Maine. Cal teaches grade four and is a pumpkin and Christmas tree farmer to boot. . . . Laurie Borden Ahern, husband Daniel, son Colin, 8, and daughter Haley, 4, reside in Middlebury, Vt., where "Bordeaux" works in administration for the Porter Medical Center. . . . Mark Dalton, wife Cami and children Anna, 5, William, 2, and Kathryn, 1, live in America's last frontier, Alaska, where Mark is director of environmental services for HDR Engineering in Anchorage. He notes that children dominate their lives (along with the occasional moose?). . . . The Reverend Eric Duff was married in June 1994 to Betty, and--in addition to his duties as pastor of St. Albans Episcopal Church in Arcola, Calif.--inherited three children, Joe, 20 and April and Mac, both 18. Eric also has another "flock" to deal with--two dogs, three cats, four cockatiels and one parrot! . . . Leslie Chanler Brooks sent me a beautiful picture of her 15-month-old son, William Tucker Stuyvesant Brooks. Leslie, husband Doug and son reside in Locust, N.J. . . . Barry Horwitz and wife Liz (Yanagihara '80) live in Newton, Mass., with their kids, Michael, 10, and Alison, 7. The family recently took a fantastic ski vacation to Utah. Barry is vice president for marketing for Bradlees, Inc. . . . Felicia Johnson has a new address, Tolland, Conn., right outside of Hartford. She and husband Jude Boucher have a 20-month-old son, Solomon. Felicia is currently on leave from her teaching job in the Hartford school system. . . . Mary Zukowski Hurd and husband reside in Freeport, Maine, with their youngsters, Matthew, 4, and Rebecca, six months. Mary is an office manager and David is in computer sales and support. . . . Elizabeth Bailey Hodgdon is an adaptive skiing coordinator for Maine Handicapped Skiing (MHS) at Sunday River in Bethel. She writes that Sunday River and MHS have developed a program in cross-country skiing for people with disabilities--using kicksleds, pulkas and sit skis! Husband Matthew is a park ranger. . . . Betsy Bucklin Gray, husband Peter, Emily, 6, and Maggie, 4 1/2, just moved into their first house (c. 1859) on a quiet country road in Mendon, Vt. Betsy invites the entire class to come visit (and says thanks for your support of the Alumni Fund!). . . . Geoff Emanuel is a newlywed (July 1994, to Laurie) and now lives in Simsbury, Conn. He says he is very happy and that he still sails frequently with Bob Kellogg in Maine. . . . Kyle Harrow is a Ph.D. candidate at the U of Toronto, pursuing a degree in exercise and behavioral science. Kyle says husband Rich Kantor is very tolerant of this latest excursion into academia, and she notes that Angela Mickalide has provided her useful counsel on the quest for "Dr. Harrow." . . . Cindy Flandreau Helfrich completed her first marathon in March (husband Jim's fourth), but it wasn't enough to allow them to outrun the terrible rains in northern California. Cindy reported that they were getting a bit moldy. Cindy and Jim have three wonderful children, Jack, 6, Carly, 4, and Ted, 3. . . . The mysterious Kathy Bleakney Pawley and family live in Troutville, Va. (near Roanoke). Kathy is an attorney with the Social Security Administration down in them parts and had lots of news about other classmates that she promised to send me, so stay tuned! Please write!
Class Correspondent: Robert Kinney