We made it! Our wartime class started out so big on the old campus, got so small on an unfinished Mayflower Hill and changed so drastically by the time we were graduated. We are 50 years old, spread all over the United States and far beyond. Here's to us--to those who kept their distance as well as to the ones who remained close to the College. You folks have gone on in your own lives, but you are part of us. There are people in our class that I think of regularly, people who I wish could think on our rich freshman days together and then blend those memories into a reconciliation. We shared a lot. . . . The excitement for me in collecting news for this column has been surprising you with telephone calls. Also I discovered the fax machine, and I now have my first computer, a second-hand, very old Apple, a freebee like my first black and white television. I did get a letter from China, however, from Jenifer Ngo, known as "Jade," Class of 1995. She has been in a graduate program at the Johns Hopkins Center in Nanjing, China. Last year she went to Europe, and on a tour of Bergen, Norway, met Anne Lawrence Bondy. . . . This is our last regular class column, and we now graduate to the 50-plus column. We are so healthy, and we've done so many things--it is appropriate that we bring ourselves and all our abilities into the year 2000 and the 21st century.
Class Correspondent:

Roberta Marden Alden has three married children and, when she wrote, was expecting to be in Honolulu in May to welcome a fifth grandchild. She and her husband are both retired and do a lot of traveling, most recently to national parks in the Southwest. She continues to hear from Emily Gardell Hueston and Joan Hunt Banfield. . . . Ronald Coe is a physician still actively practicing internal medicine in Camden, Conn. He and his wife, Eleanor, have a married daughter who has one son and two stepsons. . . . Tom Burke calls himself a "professional amateur golfer" and his wife a "household engineer" and "life master bridge player." He plays golf three times a week, volunteers at his HMO clinic in town and loves cruises. He has cruised to Montreal, Quebec and Scandinavia and will be in the Orient for 14 days in October, when he hopes to see Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson. Tom has four sons. One heads affirmative action for Hewlett Packard in Oregon; the second is a banker/farmer in Indiana; the third teaches at ULSAN University in South Korea; and the fourth works for Pizza Hut in Phoenix while pursuing a master's degree in computer science. I think you all must have heard from Tom in his role as class agent for the Colby Alumni Fund. He is particularly eager to find more classmates willing to contribute because of Colby's four-year Participation Challenge. As he said in his last letter, "During each of the next four years, every new donor gift will trigger an additional $100 to the Alumni Fund." So all of you Colbyites who have been remiss should get out your checkbooks now. Also we all should be thinking about what we want to do next year for our 50th. . . . John and I are leaving soon for three weeks in Spain and Portugal and hope to be in England, France and Germany in the fall. I continue with my volunteer work at Recording for the Blind and fixing dinner once a week for homeless people in Cambridge, while John is at his computer nearly full time trying to get his third book to the publishers before the end of the year. P.S. Please don't forget to give serious thought to the Alumni Fund.
Class Correspondent: Mary Hall Fitch

We received no response to our most recent mailing requesting news of the Class of 1948. Nevertheless, we will carry on by telling you that we just returned from a 10-day trip to Israel. It was Dorothy's seventh visit and my first. Before we left I was concerned about our safety due to the recent bus bombings and the rockets up north, but we were never in any danger and the trip was very enlightening and enjoyable. . . . We just received a letter from Marvin Joslow detailing the latest news on Martha's Vineyard and urging us to call him as soon as we sailed to the island for an overnight stay. . . . We received a helpful note from our class agent, Peg Clark Atkins, suggesting a number of classmates we might contact by telephone to obtain material for the next issue of Colby. She also wrote that our class is fifth in participation in the Annual Fund with 119 donors. Peg notes that it would be nice to have 70 percent participation for our 50th reunion, and only 11 more donors would do it. Peg has been a tireless worker for our class, and both Peg and Colby deserve our support. . . . You do not have to wait for the Alumni Relations Office to send out a letter requesting class news. Just write to either Dorothy or David Marson at 41 Woods End Road, Dedham, MA 02026. This section of Colby is one of the first that everyone reads. We will include all the news that we receive.
Class Correspondent: David and Dorothy Marson