Reunion 96--Class of 1981
Many thanks to Steve Pfaff, Darlene Howland and Lyn Bruen Winter for organizing our 15th reunion. The reunion committee was so successful that Steve and Darlene are now engaged to be married at Colby in October. Best of luck to you both! Steve has served as our class president for the past 10 years and turned the ropes over to Faith Bramhall Rodenkirk at our reunion dinner on Saturday night. Our new vice president/Alumni Council member will be Kim Hokanson, and I will be staying on as secretary, so keep those letters coming in!
Our reunion weekend got off to a good start on Friday evening with a cocktail party in the Sturtevant Lounge, which served as our reunion headquarters throughout the weekend. The award for longest distance traveled went to Kim Wadkins Seymour, who traveled from San Francisco with her two children. We had one classmate from out of the country: Marisa D'Andrea Barber came from New Market, Ontario, just outside Toronto. Unfortunately, her husband and fellow classmate Bruce Barber was unable to make the reunion. Friday evening Scott '82 and Lynne D'Angelo Many had an unexpected visitor in their room. A very blond-haired little boy came into their room and announced he was getting into bed with them. Lynne told him she was not his mother, but he didn't believe her. So he climbed in. Finally he realized Lynne was not his mother and Lynne was able to return Andrew Dion to Ellen Owens Dion. Andrew, I can relate. Those "new" dorms are really strange. I couldn't find the women's room all weekend long and ended up using the men's room.
Saturday, Pam Ellis had a wonderful showing of her watercolors in the art museum. Several classmates, including Janet Blau Cobb, Kathy Dornish DuGrenier, Holly Mackin Anzani, Doug and Amy Parker Cook, and Bruce and Ellen Reinhalter Shain, were on hand to view the lovely Maine scenes Pam has painted. Saturday afternoon we had a barbecue. Skip Neville and Victor Vesnaver pitched in, flipping the burgers. Later Steve Pfaff awarded Skip and Victor the first annual Colby barbecue kit complete with baseball salt and pepper shakers for their efforts.
Saturday evening we had a class dinner in Roberts. President Cotter stopped by and said a few words. Our guest speaker was Cal Mackenzie, chairman of the Government Department. Cal gave us an update on what was going on at Colby and mentioned that technology in the classroom is playing a big part in higher education and will be even more so in the future. Saturday evening we returned to the Sturtevant Lounge and danced the night away to songs of the '60s and '70s (yes, even some disco) until our feet were sore. A number of us toured the new field house and wished we could somehow travel back to the future so we could take advantage of this amazing new facility.