New news: Eric Beaverstock, senior software engineer at Crosfield Inc. in Manchester, N.H., was named "1995 PPI person of the year." (Endless speculation on the possible origins and implications of PPI are omitted, but fellow techies will figure this out in a nanosecond.) He also reports starting a new business, Simplified Computer Systems Inc., for which he developed some new investment tracking software for Windows. Last summer he and Elizabeth traveled in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. He's also on the board of trustees of his church in Hudson, N.H. Their daughter graduated from UNH in June '95, PBK and magna cum laude with a dual degree in English-journalism and psychology. Eric was a math major at Colby, an ATO, a member of Newman Club, Powder and Wig and Math Club and manager of varsity basketball. Eric arrived at Colby in Sept '61 from Nashua, N.H. (Since he was the only one to respond to the last request for news, you may detect some padding in this column. Hint, hint.) . . . A call to Lew Krinsky brought news that he was host to a college fair in Houston last April. There is growing interest in Colby in Texas, he says, due to the glowing reports in the press and positive feedback from recent area graduates. Last January, Lew hosted a dinner for Houston area folks featuring President Cotter. Later, his daughter, Liz Cotter, and four Up with People cast members were Krinsky house guests when Liz and her choral group put on several concerts. In May, Lew's daughter Lauren was married and daughter Dorey graduated from U of Texas. . . . Your correspondent will be in Prague as you read this. . . . News from the past: Bucky and Anna Owens Smith's son Nathaniel graduated from West Point with the class of '94. . . . Leah Aranovich reports that her son Zachary is at Dartmouth, class of '97. . . . Sometimes it all comes together: Denis Carter writes he is "watching my adult children raise children who are healthy, happy human beings and knowing I have contributed something very special to the next generation." . . . Russ and Karen Jaffe Brown saw their daughter, Stephanie, graduate from Kenyon College in '93 as an English major. Son Gregory followed at Kenyon in '95 with majors in political science and music. . . . For those of you writing out college checks: annual charges are tuition $1,250, room $300, board $450, sickness and accident insurance $22, student activities fee $24--$2,046 (textbooks, supplies, beanies, personal expenses are in addition). Well, perhaps I've gone too far back! $1,046 of this amount was due 1 Sept '61 for our first year on the hill. . . . Ma Tripp is barking "No signs--no eat." You have finished Alice Through the Looking Glass? . . . Hail, Colby, Hail!
Class Correspondent: Richard W. Bankart

You know you are getting old when you just can't stand people who are intolerant. . . . This being my last column, I have run through the records to see how close to my original objective I got. Over the past five years, between the columns in the magazine and the annual class letters, I've reported news of 154 of the 336 names on our class list (30 of them hadn't been heard from in the previous five-10 years). Somehow, I had this silly idea that I'd get to cover 80 percent or more of the class, but I guess five years just isn't enough time. . . . Dr. Charles Rabeni has been invited by the New Zealand National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Ltd. to attend meetings and collaborate with other scientists to exchange research and design and execute field research in river restoration. Charlie was selected for this project due to his unique research in stream ecology. I only found out about it because Jane Farnham Rabeni, mentioning Charlie's modesty, slipped the article into the return questionnaire. Thanks, Jane. . . . The University of Louisville held a memorial concert for Dr. Randall Holden '65, late husband of Pam Harris Holden. The program, held last September 3--what would have been their 29th wedding anniversary--included music by Bernstein, Verdi, Coltrane, Schubert and others and readings from Shakespeare, e.e. cummings and Esther Wood '26. Randy's lifelong dedication and accomplishments in the world of music were celebrated. A chair in the North Recital at the university also has been dedicated in Randy's memory. . . . David "Dee" Erdman's upcoming trip to Alaska conflicts with our 30th reunion, and he regrets that he will not be able to attend and renew old acquaintances. Dee is the dean of admissions and enrollment at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. He is also the director of the Foundation of Excellent Schools, a non-profit organization that raises support from foundations and individuals to improve the quality of public education. (So who's helping the lousy schools?) He is also a consultant for independent schools. Dee and Susan have just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary and have a daughter, Lindsay, 12. Dee and Lindsay are golf partners. . . . Janna Vaughan Kasarjian recently earned a master's degree in English as a second language. She reports that her older daughter just completed her own master's degree and that her second daughter has a big wedding coming up in the next year. . . . Barbara Ackerson McClure was to marry Bob Vogler, her business partner, on May 25. They have purchased a new home in Ridgefield, Conn. . . . Bill Snow joined Barber Foods in Portland, Maine, as the VP of human relations. . . . Erik Thorson reports that the major event in his life over the past year was joining AARP. Please. . . . In a sign of the times, Karen Riendeau Remine took an early retirement package from NYNEX and has been hired back as a consultant. She also has earned the title of docent for the Staten Island Zoo, where she is a certified rabbit and guinea pig handler. (Karen asks that you not laugh, and I believe I need to add no editorial comments here.) . . .  Linda (Brooks '68) and John Perkins recently celebrated John's sabbatical with travel through the UK, study at Oxford and a ride on the Orient Express. . . . Frank Neal and wife Stacey were part of a group that flew to China last summer and combined sightseeing with adoption. The Neals now have a 13-month-old daughter, An Fei, meaning "safe flight," who is reported to be happy, in good health and showing signs of developing a good sense of humor. . . . After many years of searching, Claudia Fugere Finkelstein succeeded in finding her birth mother in Montreal, Canada. She also has discovered two half brothers, a niece, a nephew and aunt and uncle. Claudia's journey was the subject of an extensive article in the Portland Press Herald. . . . Connie Day proves that there are still gains to be made in life, even at our age. She reports that as the children have gone out on their own, she has become the primary breadwinner again. "It has been my fate to finance one husband's education, one husband's incorporation and one husband's retirement, but hey, this one cooks!" . . . Natalie Bowerman Zaremba has graciously accepted the responsibility of class correspondent for the next five years. It has been my pleasure to serve you, and I trust you will all support Natalie as she takes on this task. . . . We are starting to reach that point where we have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet. Best wishes.
Class Correspondent: Russell N. Monbleau

Joe Candido, professor of English at the University of Arkansas, has recently published a text explicating the subtleties of Shakespearean drama. Joe was considering attending our 30th reunion if he could arrange a different date for his yearly trip to the home of The Bard, where he teaches a group of graduate students. . . . Marty Gliserman, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, has published Psychoanalysis, Language, and the Body of the Text (University Press of Florida), a fascinating study examining the presence of the body as the core phenomenon of the novel. . . . Bill Vanderweil writes that his son Peter was a freshman at Colby as he follows in the footsteps of Bill and wife Cathy (McManus '68). They live in Hingham, Mass., where both are active in community affairs. . . . Susan Monk Pacheco and husband Jaime live in Dayton, Ohio, where they practice medicine. In their precious spare time, they work on their brick Colonial house, which, according to Susan, needs some medical attention. In June her daughter, Cristina, graduated from Colby and her son, Benjamin, graduated from high school. Susan has just completed two years as chief of staff at Children's Medical Center in Dayton and has been teaching pediatric residents and medical students at Wright State University Medical School. . . . In Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Dick Lemieux continues in his practice of oral surgery. After a period of adjustment following the dissolution of a 25-year marriage, Dick reports that he recently spent 12 days aboard a 100-foot boat in the Red Sea with eight other scuba divers. The diving has led to a new hobby, underwater photography. When not diving and sea kayaking in Casco Bay, Dick finds time to play an occasional hockey game--for instance, the alumni game at Colby, where he teamed up with former mates Paul Cronin and Lee Potter. . . . Caroline Kresky informs us that her law firm, Branch, Pike and Ganz, has merged with a Florida firm, creating an organization with nearly 500 attorneys in three states. Caroline continues to practice in Atlanta, specializing in commercial litigation and products liability. . . . Clemence Ravacon Mershon teaches and tills the soil in Pennsylvania, where her son, Andre, skipped his senior year of high school and is a dean's list student at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Clemence's daughter, Claire Helene, is also a top-ranked student. Clemence traveled to southern Africa a couple of years ago and also took a 10-state tour in the States on behalf of a Quaker organization. She reports that the ventures were eye-opening regarding differences in thinking about ecology, sociology and theology. . . . Tom Watson remarried in December 1994. His wife, Karen, has a daughter, Kristen, 16. Tom has three children: Katherine, 26, Willy, 25, and Bonnie, 21. Besides being a Colby overseer, Tom is a lawyer in Wilton, Conn. . . . If you need a real estate attorney in the San Francisco area, look up John O'Reilly. He writes that he's never been married but enjoys the freedom and great social and cultural activities in the city. He takes a six-week vacation every year for recreational travel and so far has been to 57 countries. He's active with Zero Population Growth and the SF bar association. Even with that busy schedule, he works out at the club four times a week! . . . The 30th reunion is in the planning stages. Be sure to keep your calendar open for June 6-8, 1997! The committee will be meeting again on September 28 in Boston, and we invite anyone who'd like to assist to contact us so that you can be kept posted about the meeting location. So far, the plans include the possibility of a "pre-reunion" at the Samoset on the Maine coast, a "Hopeless Open" golf and tennis tournament, a BBQ at Johnson Pond on Saturday and a video for the class dinner. Please dig out your boxes from the attic and plan to send along whatever you find to aid us with the video! . . . We're sorry to hear that Jean Philson Sommers's husband passed away in May 1993 after an extended illness. She's still at her job at Coopers & Lybrand in Wayne, Pa., and has agreed to help the committee make calls to classmates about the reunion. Her dad is still in Oakland, Maine, so she plans to combine a visit with him and the reunion. We agreed that she should ask him along to be part of our class activities.
Class Correspondent: Robert Gracia and Judy Gerrie Heine

Lee Urban is now executive director of Peabody House in Portland, Maine, a home for people in the advanced stages of HIV disease. He manages operations at the home and has formed a new organization to provide home health care to those with AIDS who still live in their own homes. Lee shares his life with his wife, Nan, a school social worker, and their four children, ages 5 to 18. . . . Thomas Rippon, a business executive in White Springs, Pa., has been appointed an overseer of Colby. Tom has three children--two adults and a 10 year old. . . . Steve Ward of Darien, Conn., serves as VP of finance for a company that was sold by Kodak and bought by Sanofi, Inc. His family includes wife Sandy and children Steve IV, Chris and Kimberly and two golden retrievers. . . . Writing from Stamford, Conn., Jay Sandak and his wife, Mary Sommer, are law partners at Sandak, Friedman, and Sommer, where they deal with general litigation, excluding criminal law. They have three boys, ages 14, 13 and 10, who are involved in soccer and weekend ski trips to their winter home at Bromley Mountain in Vermont. Trips to Park City and Whistler have proven that the kids are quickly outpacing their parents. . . . Last year Mary and George Rideout officially became "empty nesters" as their youngest, Kevin, left for school, but they were extremely busy establishing a new school, Westgate Christian Academy, in Weston, Mass. As of February 1996, it enrolled children from preschool to grade one and in September will expand to grade six. Much work was needed to receive state licensing. George runs two foundations, chairs missions and is also chairman of the elders at Westgate Church. . . . Betty Savicki Carvellas is kept busy serving as president of the National Association of Biology Teachers as well as continuing to teach full time. She writes that her good friend and mentor, Jane Abbott, is a past president of NABT and a '41 Colby grad. . . . Chris Austin Barbour writes that their daughter, Karen, is a freshman at Goucher College in Baltimore, and that makes her think of the college experience from a brand new perspective. She thinks more highly of Colby than ever. . . . Stewart Armstrong of Concord, N.H., sends news of a different job. He's now the principal of a 5-8 school, where he's excited to be bringing about the growth of a true middle school. He and his wife, Joy, a high school drama coach, have moved and are enjoying condo life (no yard work!). Their daughter Kristen is a sophomore acting major at Emerson College in Boston, and Jennifer is a freshman dance major at NYU.
Class Correspondent: Mary Jo Calabrese Baur