What a great response to the latest questionnaire! I received business cards with pictures, brochures describing businesses and a lot of the word "retired." Now see what fits. Nancy Shoemaker Dargle is currently living in Seneca, S.C., with four offspring at home. She has three other married daughters and five grandchildren to date. Twin sister Carol Shoemaker Rasmussen has retired from teaching. . . . Peg Hibbard Miller wrote from Gardner, Mass., where she is a real estate associate. She and husband Don attended a ship commissioning in Newport, R.I., last October. Ted '61 and I were also there and wonder how many times we saw them and didn't know it! Some of you may remember when Peg broke her leg in a skiing accident. She now guesses that she didn't learn a thing because she is still at it--skiing, that is. . . . P. (Pat) Anna Johnson is president of Open Hand Publishing Inc. in Seattle, Wash., a company that publishes adult and children's books that reflect the diverse cultures within the U.S. . . . Peg Jack Johnston lives in Denver, Colo., and is a business broker and partner in an electrical services business. . . . Dick Kenison wrote from Topsham, Maine, where he is a semi-retired music teacher and band director currently teaching instrumental music three days a week at the elementary level and loving it. . . . In St. Paul, Minn., Eloise "Didi" Camerer Klein is a writing instructor and consultant and is also developing a business in which she teaches illustrated journal writing and storytelling. . . . Penny and Henry Lapham are retired in Manchester, Mass., but keep busy with many activities in their community and in Boston. . . . Larry Lathrop, retired high school principal, and wife Donna live in Falmouth, Maine. . . . Bob Levine, a dentist in Wellesley, Mass., writes that he has become an accomplished scale model shipbuilder, with some of his work on exhibit in the Boston area at the Constitution Museum and Rowes Wharf Hotel. . . . Chet Lewis, a lawyer and assistant district attorney, state of Michigan, plans to retire eventually but says "the pattern in the Department of Attorney General is to continue working as long as the mind and body allow (and sometimes even when the body is pretty far gone.)" . . . Rebecca Hamaker Loose is a fashion coordinator living in Ephrata, Pa. She and husband Larry own a farmers' market and auction. They travel a lot, love it and hope there is time to see everything on their list. . . . Bruce and Charlotte Wood MacPhetres reside in Scituate, Mass. They are planning a Boston-Bermuda cruise with George '58 and Wendy McWilliam Denneen, Doug '58 and Judy Ingram Hatfield, Ted and Liz Boccasile Mavis and Debbie Wilson Albee. . . . From Falls Church, Va., comes word that Pete McFarlane, retired USAF colonel, is now working for Delfin Systems, has three children living nearby and no grandchildren, plays hockey twice a week when in town, travels a lot and looks forward to retirement, maybe in Colorado or Utah. . . . Doug Mathieu retired from IBM and moved to South Harpswell, Maine, and into the real estate business. He says it was a great change, and he will be happy to help anyone who would like to relocate to the Maine coast. . . . Sandra Myers Paap wrote from Shorewood, Wis., where she is a psychologist for the public schools. . . . Dick Peterson lives in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and is CEO of Minet, Inc., an insurance brokerage in New York City. . . . On a sad note, just before I sent this column off, Colby notified me of the death of Judy Miller Heekin on March 8, 1996. Judy fought a lengthy battle with cancer, and our thoughts go out to her family and friends. . . . I look forward to hearing from more of you during this next quarter. Please don't feel that you have to wait for a questionnaire--your news is always welcome.
Class Correspondent: Carolyn Webster Lockhart

I hope you will have seen all of the following at reunion and learned more. . . . Diane Scrafton Ferreira is still on the Big Island in Hawaii with her retired husband, John, on a ranch with more than 40 animals. Since she is still a professor of English at the Hawaii Community College, she commutes to Honolulu by plane. . . . . Janet Haskins Mandaville in Portland, Ore., is a writer and was going to Australia before the reunion (she was looking forward to seeing Judy Hoffman Hakola and Amy Eisentrager Birky). . . . Susan Parmalee Daney and her husband, David, a research engineer at Los Alamos in New Mexico, hope to return to Boulder, Colo., where Sue can return to teaching. Their youngest daughter just graduated from college. . . . Norm Macartney in Beaufort, N.C., owns a ceramic tile business called Tileworks in Morehead City and is a member of the masters swim team of North Carolina. He hopes someone knows how to find Bill Byers. . . . Tom and Dorothy Boynton Kirkendall live in Potomac, Md., where Tom took early retirement from COMSAT and now works as a consultant, which allows them more time to visit their camp in Maine. . . . The remaining respondents are in New England. Richard Gibbs was in the oil business and now has his own company creating industry business deals. . . . Willie DeKadt Juhlin is an ESL teacher, and she and Thor manage a nonprofit youth lacrosse club for middle school kids. She had talked to Nancy Larkin Connolly, who had attended a five-day national security seminar at the War College in Carlisle, Pa. Nancy and her husband, John, have just retired. . . . Scotty (Judith) MacLeod Folger has, in the last two years, been divorced, then retired, so she is loving being a "free agent" for at least a year before starting a new career, possibly in polarity therapy (massage). She crewed on a 75-foot schooner from Maine to Florida last fall and spent Christmas in Nepal with her daughter Phoebe. Daughter Hilary, a senior at Stanford, will attend grad school there. Scotty has visited Judy Chase and her husband in northern California. (I hope Judy has let Colby know her new address and name, since my records show she is still single in Nepal.) . . . Dick Fields changed jobs to get out of New York City and is now senior VP of Danecraft Inc. His wife, Kathy, retired as VP of Federated Department Stores and bought a business, The Crafty Yankee. Dick's daughter, Alison '95, was magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and captain of the Colby women's soccer team. . . . Art and Lee Holcombe Milliken are retired and focusing on volunteer activities and travel. They visited their son, Peter, and his wife in Beijing, then went skiing in Manchuria. They also took a cross-country ski trip with David Hunt '63 and his wife behind Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colo. . . . Carol Davidson Jack and her husband also enjoy skiing in Aspen. They hope to sell their New York home and retire to their camp in Maine, then take a leisurely trip across country, visiting friends and relatives along the way. . . . Hank and Anne Lehman Lysaght have three grown children--a landscape architect (who landscaped Oprah's and Tom Cruise's homes), a mechanical engineer and a Ph.D. candidate who is teaching astronomy and physics. . . . President of Junior Achievement of Maine is John Hooper. He retired from the newspaper business and is now "doing as a paid executive that which I did as a volunteer." He and his wife, Barbara, have a his, hers and ours family: his four, her two and their 7-year-old daughter. . . . Regina Foley Haviland and her husband, Gerry, have "four children--all employed!" She keeps in touch with Sandy Goodwin Nelson and Carole Pope Wilcox. . . . Happy to be out from under tuition bills are Bob '59 and Wendy Ihlstrom Nielsen. He is an insurance broker and Wendy runs the office. She occasionally runs into Carolyn Evans Albrecht in New Cannan, Conn., where both live. . . . Diana Sherman Luth enjoys the "empty nest" by traveling with her husband, Ulrich, on his overseas trips (Thailand and Singapore recently). Their eldest son graduated from Colby in '92, the younger one from Colgate. . . . My husband, Paul Hill, and I retired from IBM and started Open Systems Associates, a consulting and software development company. The fully integrated system we are developing for the real estate industry will make finding and purchasing your next home much more pleasant and efficient. . . . Judy Hoffman Hakola will take over the job as class correspondent. Thank you for all the kind notes along with your responses. I really have enjoyed my stint as class correspondent.
Class Correspondent: Penny Dietz Sullivan

Bob Reinstein, who left government service in April 1993 after 20 years, is executive vice president for Washington International Energy Group and has lived since 1994 in Rockville, Md. Bob served as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state from 1990 to 1993, chief negotiator on the U.N. treaty on global climate change and chief negotiator for the U.N. treaty on ozone layer protection. His partner, Satu Nurmi, is a lawyer in Brussels, where Bob also lives and maintains an office. He has traveled all over the world and says that maybe he will "retire in 10 years to teach at the university level." . . . Craig Malsch married in April 1995 and moved to a new house on a canal in Venice, Calif. Craig is vice president of sales in textile printing and wife Barbara is in medical lab marketing. Craig's son just started at Vanderbilt and his daughter is a sophomore at St. John's School in Houston. The Malsches cruised to Alaska at the end of June and take weekend trips on their Harley-Davidson '95 Dyna Wide glide. Craig also enjoys playing with classic cars. . . . Cy Theobald is director of college guidance at the Kent School, wife Jean is an admissions officer and their two grown sons are in Kansas and New Hampshire. Cy retired as varsity football coach after 22 years and used one of his first free Saturdays to watch Colby beat Trinity on a last second TD catch by one of his former Kent captains. Cy went to Colorado on school business a while back and hooked up with Bink Smith and John McHale. . . . Garth Chandler writes that Bill Bryan '48 now is at the Maine Veterans Home in Bangor and suffers from Alzheimer's disease. I agree with Garth that all of us were blessed to have Bill as Colby's director of admissions and endorse Garth's request that we write to Bill at the Maine Veterans Home, Room B13, 44 Hogan Road, Bangor, ME 04401. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Karen (Beganny '63). Garth has been an attorney for 28 years and is married to Judith (Thompson '63), a computer programmer with Garland Middle School in Bangor. Garth was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease last year but reports that chemotherapy worked, and he and Judy planned to travel the northern U.S. this summer. . . . Bill Barnett is a special investigator for insurance claims, and wife Marjorie is an emergency room RN at the Lowell General Hospital Trauma Center. Until 1991 Bill traveled extensively throughout the U.S. as corporate director of safety for Omni Hotels. Bill is active in fresh and saltwater fly fishing and is an avid hockey fan. They have two sons. . . . Jim Bridgeman and wife Jean (Eielson '63) retired January 1 after Jim's 28 years with Allstate. Their new home in Park City, Utah, has the Wasach Mountains as a backdrop for their skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, biking, golf and water sports, and Salt Lake City is nearby for cultural activities and professional sports. They invite Colby friends to look them up. . . . After 25 years in the ski business with Head, Lange and Raichle, Henderson Colley is also retired. He has a wonderful goal of 100/100/100, which means 100 days each of skiing, golf and tennis. With places in Denver, Vail, Vermont and Florida, he keeps moving. Is retirement boring? He says he's "too busy to work." . . . Bruce Brown is a high school special education teacher in Freeport, Maine, where he has been for 25 years. He's also been an English teacher, assistant principal and coordinator of the gifted and talented program. Last summer he spent six weeks in England and Scotland with teachers at Oxford and later went to the Edinburgh Festival, the Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides. . . . John Chapman lives in Brunswick, Maine, with wife Allison, a middle school music teacher. Son Brian is a musician, daughter Abigal is college hunting and son Joe is at Kent's Hill School. . . . Brenda Wrobleski Elwell is still a national account manager, having survived three major layoffs. Her daughter is working on Wall Street, but her son is entering college, so although she says the corporate treadmill is wearing her out, she has to work into her 70s! Last year she and her son hiked Arizona and New Mexico and also made a European trip. This summer she planned a trip to the Middle East and a visit to a Syrian friend. . . . Plans are underway for our 35th next June. Who wants to be a class officer or rep? Any ideas for activities? Please let me hear from you.
Class Correspondent: Judith Hoagland Bristol

I know you will be reading this issue of Colby in the heat of midsummer, but as I sit at my computer, I see daffodils nodding in the woods and the smallest of buds at the tips of the tree branches--a welcome sight after this endless winter! . . . As the owner of Wellesley Farms Landscape in Wellesley Hills, Mass., Richard Sharron also welcomed spring, I'm sure. Richard enjoys hiking, is active with the National Weather Service and the American Meteorological Society as a weather observer and is involved with his golden retriever, Bismark, in pet therapy at nursing homes. He is also interested in birding and traveled with the Massachusetts Audubon Society to Alaska in 1993. This man claims to be "happy, healthy and active," and it sure sounds that way! . . . Owen Mark Sanderson and his wife, Freda, a property manager, live in Coventry, Conn., where Mark is an attorney. He enjoys golf and investing in stocks and bonds. The Sandersons recently traveled to Europe and the Hawaiian Islands. . . . Richard Varney is facing the challenge of building a new business at a time when some of us are contemplating retirement. His business, The ChangeCrest Group, Inc., a human resource management consulting firm, started in 1994 and, he reports, is doing well so far. Richard's wife, Donna, is a hospital volunteer in Morristown, N.J., where they live. The Varneys enjoy vacationing in Bermuda, apparently often. . . . Fran Jones Vitaglione is coordinator of the Discovery Room at the N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences. During the Christmas and New Year's holidays, she and her husband, Tom, visited--via Hawaii--their younger son, Sandro, at his Peace Corps assignment in Thailand. She says, "It was the trip of a lifetime!" . . . Jim Westgate is a teacher of English as a second language and of cross- cultural communication at the International School in Bangkok, Thailand. He sent me an article, published in a parent auxiliary newspaper, titled "Twenty- six Years After: The Reunion of an American Teacher and his Vietnamese Students." It is a moving account of Jim's return to the town where, as a volunteer for an international organization, he taught boys in the local school from 1966 to 1968, the height of the American war. This April Jim planned another trip to Vietnam. . . . Ed Winkler, a neighbor of mine in Claremont, N.H., is self-employed at Wink Inc. as a private consultant. His artistic talents are seen in his wood sculpture, large abstract shapes carved from cherry, butternut and pine. He also writes poetry and is active in the men's movement. Ed, who is a member of the 35th reunion committee, says this will be the first he has attended, but as the son of a Colby student and the parent of a Colby student it's about time he joined in a reunion celebration. . . . Pen Williamson writes that his son, Joshua, is teaching theater at Bates. He also reports seeing Al Carville teaching skiing at Sugarloaf on weekends. I heard that Al had retired from Hannaford. Way to go! Sail in the summer, ski in the winter. 'Tis a good life. . . . Ralph Kimball, class president, would like all to know that Renaissance '98! is coming to Colby in June 1998. That's the theme for our 35th reunion, selected by the planning committee at a meeting in Waltham, Mass., on April 20. Twenty- four volunteers met and appointed three committees: theme, chaired by Ann Bruno Hocking; publicity, chaired by Ed Winkler; and gift, chaired by George Swasey, our class agent. Renaissance '98! promises to be a fun time for all. If you would like to help, please give Ralph a call at 508- 755- 1873. . . . Bill and I enjoyed watching spring come to our new home. We are very busy working outdoors to repair the damage done by construction to the land surrounding our house. Basically we're encouraging things to grow--plants, that is, not black flies. Please keep in touch.
Class Correspondent: Barbara Haines Chase