It actually happened. Phil Norfleet called home! He reports from San Diego that he's alive and well and working with Jack Nicklaus (yes, the Jack Nicklaus) in developing golf courses and resort communities. Phil keeps in touch with "Big Bill" Anderson, who, according to Phil, lives in Massachusetts but spends much of his time traveling around the country shooting wonderful photographs. . . . One of the most interesting of many e-mail messages came from Ann McEwen, letting me know of the arrival of Michael McEwen Thomson on March 7. Michael weighed in at a healthy 11 lbs. 15 oz. Mom, Dad and older brother Jamie are proud as can be. In addition to caring for her new son, Ann is working on a retail catalogue for Sheaffer Pen's worldwide market. (By the way, if anyone else in the class is thinking about giving birth, please note: there will be an award for newest mom or dad at our next reunion. That's the good news. The bad news is that the next reunion is in the year 2000. So far, Ann, you're in the lead.) . . . I feel honored that Jean Macalister Royall sent me her first response in 25 years. Jean lives with her physician husband, John, in Rumsen, N.J. The Royalls have a daughter who graduated from Princeton in 1994, a daughter who graduated from Skidmore this year and a third daughter who will be a junior at Duke. That's a tough road to follow for their son, who is still in high school. . . . "Little Bill" Aldrich is a veteran of the Internet. In fact, he and two partners have founded Jacquard Systems Research, a company that re-engineers legacy software. (Sounds impressive. I have no idea what that means!) In his spare time, Bill is an avid outdoorsman who has skied through the Pemigewasset Wilderness to make a mid-winter ascent of Owls Head. . . . Chris Crandall e-mails from the great Northwest that she recently "retired" (at least for a while) from her job at Microsoft to spend more time with her son, Sam, 6. Chris managed a high-end developer training group. Chris's husband, Chris Harris, carries on at Microsoft alone while Chris is learning how to weave and enjoying being a full-time mom. . . . Not quite as far west is Clare Bonelli. Clare and her husband run The Old Benton Place, a bed-and-breakfast in Sonoita, Ariz. I have the brochure if you're interested. Clare is the clerk of the local elementary school district governing board, on which she serves with another Colbian, Foster Drummond '52. . . . Jon Weems writes from wild and wonderful West Virginia, where he has been at his "temporary" job on the staff of West Virginia University's Core Arboretum for the past 18 years while he figures out what he wants to do with his life. Jon and his wife, Donna, designed their own home on the shore of Cheat Lake, and he serves as the commodore of the Hog Wallow Yacht Club. . . . Deborah Thurlow recently was promoted to director of teacher education at Lyon College in Batesville, Ark. Deborah writes that she recently earned her doctorate in instruction and curriculum leadership. Congratulations, Deborah! . . . I do have more responses, but I don't have more room, so you'll have to tune in next time to see which classmate I can embarrass the most! There has been some interest in putting together a Class of 1970 e-mail directory. If you're interested, e-mail your e-mail address to me at my e-mail address and we can mail everyone's e-mail address to everyone at their e-mail addresses. Simple, isn't it. . . . We've found Phil Norfleet, so, Stu Rothenberg, phone home!
Class Correspondent: Steven Cline

This is my last article, written just before our 25th reunion. Since the reunion update book includes so much information about many of us, I thought I'd end my tenure as correspondent with another kind of reminder about the things and the times that were our days on Mayflower Hill. Here's the play list for the first '67-'71 musical retrospective being created to help set the stage for the reunion. This is the Love Song section. (Other themes include Sun and Rain Songs, Songs about People, Places and Getting to Them Songs, and of course Protest and the Counterculture Songs). Enjoy this blast from the past, and as always, Be Brave. With Love, Nancy. . . . "Eyes of a Child" (Moody Blues), "Hello, Hello" (Sopwith Camel), "Happy Together" (Turtles), "Reach Out, I'll Be There" (Four Tops), "The Rain, the Pack and Other Things" (Cowsills), "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb), "59th Street Bridge Song" (Simon and Garfunkel), "Daydream Believer" (Monkees), "Brown-Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison), "Love Is All Around" (Troggs), "Laugh, Laugh" (Beau Brummels), "Walk Away Renee" (Left Banke), "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" (Young Rascals), "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (Vanilla Fudge), "Sunshine of Your Love" (Cream), "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Iron Butterfly), "Midnight Confessions" (Grassroots), "Do You Wanna Dance" (Mama's and Papa's), "Moondance" (Van Morrison), "Love Story Theme," "These Eyes" (The Guess Who), "Without Her" (Blood, Sweat and Tears), "One" (Three Dog Night), "Once I Had a Sweetheart" (Pentangle), "Maybe" (Janis Joplin), "Need a Man to Love" (Janis Joplin), "Somebody to Love" (Jefferson Airplane), "Love the One You're With" (Stephen Stills), "Touch Me" (Doors), "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Roberta Flack), "Something" (Beatles), "First I Look at the Purse" (J. Geils Band), "Happy Birthday, John" (Janis Joplin).
Class Correspondent: Nancy Hammer Austin

Susan Buttner Lavelle says she is "getting wrinkles, but I still don't feel like a `grown-up'!" She and her husband, Allen, live in Irvine, Calif., with two sons, three dogs and a cat. Susan is a social worker for Orange County, working with the developmentally disabled. . . . The menagerie at Judy Moreland Spitz's home has been trimmed significantly. She and Bob are down to a guinea pig and a Labrador retriever but "still have three kids." Who took the goats? Judy is back to teaching. Mom, Dad and the three sons will drive to Atlanta for the Olympics this summer and hope to see Ann Bonner Vidor. . . . Congratulations to James Vigue of Waterville upon the success of Firstmark Corporation. He's president of the NASDAQ company, which is seeing record profits. Jim made a point of recommending William Cooper's Town as good reading for us all. Written by Colby grad Alan Taylor '77, it is the story of the founding of Cooperstown, N.Y. . . . "Mev" Verrengia Woessner is in Denver with her husband, Bill. She is owner/director of the Denver Bar Association Placement Service, he is an attorney, and they have two daughters, Amy, who works for an ad agency in N.Y.C., and Katie, a junior at the University of Puget Sound. . . . Jack Williamson and his wife, Jody, live in Birmingham, Mich. Jack is professor of design studies at the University of Michigan and executive director of the Design Michigan Program. He had two books published in 1995: Community Design Management and Our Design Universe, which he co-wrote for a public design center in Nagoya, Japan. . . . On a much smaller scale, I continue in the art field, teaching preschool through eighth grade art at a private school in Rockville, Md. I also teach preschool cooking and preschool "fitness." I keep fit by running--I still enjoy marathons--but my two boys, Justin, 12, and Taylor, 9, are my primary focus and keep me entertained and challenged with their thrills and spills.
Class Correspondent: Janet Holm Gerber

Lois Leonard Stock is happily self- employed as an artist/illustrator in Portland, Maine. She is teaching herself to draw and paint on her computer and would love to receive e-mail (Loie@eworld.com). . . . Michael Savage, his wife, Martha, and their two children have moved to New Zealand. Michael and Martha are both teaching there and loving it. . . . Mark Serdjenian has been men's head soccer coach at Colby for 20 years. Mark is also Colby's associate dean of students for academics. He and Tina (Murphy '72) have three children, the oldest a freshman at Brandeis. . . . Kathy Stover Spencer is the director of rehabilitation at Goodwill Industries in Portland, Maine. She and husband Larry have two teenage children and are aging gracefully (like the rest of us!). . . . Anne Douglas Stanek is very busy as a mother of four, kindergarten/first grade music teacher and host to an AFS student from Paraguay. . . . Ellen Kornetsky has made many changes in her life in the last year. She has moved into a house, graduated from the University of New England with an M.S.W., been hired as assistant director of an adoption agency and married Dennis Pickering, inheriting two teenaged stepchildren and two dogs. . . . Robin Barnes is a full professor of history at Davidson College. He and his wife, Ann Lee Bressler, have two children and find life in North Carolina pleasant--but they still miss the North! . . . Gwynelle Dismukes has challenged the status quo in her books Affirmations for a Year- Round Kwanzaa and Afrikan Alkhemy. A quote from the latter: "Time is the very expression of our lives. The gift of life, however short or long, however productive or wasteful, is only a gift of time." Gwynelle performs Spirits of Our Ancestors, a celebration of African- based spirituality, which involves poetry, music, dance and original songs. . . . Ingrid Svensson Crook is feeling the freedom of having both children in school! She took a trip to Germany, Sweden and Denmark with her parents and visited the place where her ancestors lived for many years. Uncannily, the names of the children living there now are nearly identical to the names of her own two children! . . . Ron Majdalany is busy maintaining a veterinary practice and running a llama farm in Great Barrington, Mass. He and wife Jane Laning have a 3- year- old daughter. . . . Margaret Lichtenberg is delighted with her son, Michael, and works the "mommy track" at her software development job. . . . Jonathan Miller is an attorney in Boulder, Colo., and has been publishing articles on the law. He, Arlene and son Jonah ski, bike, sail and ride horses. . . . Susan Rennau works as nurse coordinator for a fertility clinic at University Hospital in Salt Lake City. She and husband Rick Hoffman have twin girls. . . . Ken Eisen was married to Ann Hutchinson in November 1995. Congratulations, Ken, and good luck with the rebuilt Railroad Square Cinema! . . . Please be sure to send me news of your adventures. The requests for information come only once a year, so don't put them aside!
Class Correspondent: Margaret McPartland Bean