The campus never looked better! The buildings were gleaming, and the trees gave our campus a true New England look. No longer can you see Scott Paper from the library steps or the campus from I-95.On Thursday night, about 16 of us gathered at the Snow Squall restaurant in South Portland for a reception and dinner hosted by Tim and Adora Clark Hill. Plans changed during dinner as the planned boat excursion on Casco Bay on Friday became a picnic at the picturesque Two Lights State Park on the coast. Bill and Shirlee Clark Neil, Sunny Grigg Coady, Ruth and Harold Kowal, Rick and Nancy Winslow Harwood, Louise MacCubrey Robbins, Bob Rogers, Kay Parker Gordon, Gloria and John Tewhey, John Cornell, Marcia Harding Anderson and others were spotted. Eliot Terborgh and Rand Antik, who had arrived too late for dinner, joined us for the Friday picnic.On Saturday, Marty Dodge led a dozen of us in a morning nature walk through the Colby preserve. Colby professor Tom Morrione presented an update of his "Colby in Perspective: 1970 As a Turning Point." Since this was 1970's 25th reunion, attendance was good and audience participation lively.May-Lis and Jay Gronlund returned with their son Peter. Their daughter Melissa, making a college tour, joined us and took the opportunity to talk with Nancy Ryen Morrione in Colby's Admissions Department. Yes, Caesar Seferian was there (without the Porsche) and so were reunion T-shirt designer Chris Brown and his wife, Susan. (Reunion 1995 T-shirts are still available, so please call the Alumni Relations Office if you would like to purchase a Class of '65 shirt.) Also there were lanky Lew Krinsky and
his wife, Ellen, Charlie '63 and Pam Plumb Carey, Laura and Mike Gilman, Bob and Judy Eyges Dalton, David and Louise Melanson Belknap, Nancy and Arnie Repetto, Nick Locsin, Richard and Margo Beach Long, Bill and Fran Holmes Varney, Arthur Schwartz, Norman and Joss Coyle Bierman, Linda Stearns and Terry and John Bragg. There were unconfirmed sightings of John
Morris and Ned Baxter.Class agent Harold Kowal presented the reunion check of $144,508 during the parade of classes festivities before the traditional lobster bake. Outgoing class president Rick Davis and his wife, Gail, had to return for a wedding and left the Saturday evening class dinner in the able hands of v.p. Ginger Goddard Barnes, who introduced our new president, Bud Marvin, and new v.p. Tim Hill. Tim also becomes our representative to the Alumni Council, replacing Patti Raymond Thomas, who attended with her husband, Tom '63. As our class dinner in a banquet room off the old "pit" in the library broke up, many classmates made it over to the new Spa, where the '90s had a live band. Our Sunday brunch was in the "new" Spa.<We had a wonderful time, but we missed you! Some things change: five gourmet coffees are available at the new Spa, Rummels is now Gifford's (but cones were 25 cents on Saturday!), the Two Penny Bridge is closed (but you can sneak through the fence). And some things don't: the pay phone on second floor Averill still has an "out of order" sign on it! Hail, Colby, Hail!--Richard W. Bankart
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