As I begin my stint as class secretary, I would like to give a hearty thank-you to Noël Barry Stella for all of her tireless work as class secretary for the last five years. Her columns were always informative; if I can do this job half as well as Noël did, I will be lucky. . . . Our 20th reunion in June was a tremendous success, with nearly 80 classmates (plus various combinations of spouse/partner/friend/child/children, etc.) in attendance. All the weekend activities were a lot of fun, everyone looked great, and it was wonderful to catch up, especially with classmates who had not been back to Colby in 20 years. Plans are already underway for our 25th reunion in 2001. Mark your calendars now. . . . It has been several years since we heard from Janet Gorman. She runs her own business and still works on writing a historical fiction trilogy while keeping busy with daughter Courtney, 11. . . . Craig Spencer, a biology professor at South Dakota's Augustana College since 1991, lives with wife Suzy and daughters Elizabeth, Sarah and Louise. They recently built a log cabin, sans power, television or telephone, in northwest Montana and will spend summers there. . . . Joth and Karen Brown Davis love living in Washington, but they miss New England and try to return to Maine every summer to visit Joth's family. Joth works as a consultant in aquaculture while Karen works as a mediator specializing in family cases and special ed.; together they run an oyster and clam farm on Hood Canal. Karen reported that children Justin, 11, Hannah, 9, and Caleb, 6, ski, sail, play soccer and baseball--and attend school and participate on sports teams with Danny Mallove's children. Danny and family recently moved to Bainbridge Island. . . . Mike Harper and wife Mary Jo Bastron '75, as well as children Nicholas, 13, Sarah, 11, and Caitlin, 5, continue to enjoy life in Minnesota. Mike coaches hockey, spends his free time exploring trout streams in southeastern Minnesota and the Rockies and recently was appointed director of both the neurology residency training and the electromyography programs at the Mayo Clinic. . . . Becca Guild wrote that she and husband Kevin Jenness have two kids, Charles, 5, and Louisa, 3, and a new parakeet. This past winter they spent three glorious weeks in Germany and Switzerland. . . . Andy Gleeman lives in Fairfield, Conn., with his wife, Beth, Drew, 5, and Emma, 2; he often travels to Spain, Singapore, Japan, North Korea, Mexico and other countries to promote cookies for Pepperidge Farm, where he works as international marketing manager. . . . Marty Hubbe is a senior research scientist in the paper industry; wife Liz Barrett '80 works as a teacher's assistant. Marty reported that son Allen, 9, takes karate while daughter Gerilyn, 7, is into gymnastics, and the entire family plays the piano. . . . Keep those completed questionnaires coming. I would love to share your news!
Class Correspondent: Valerie Jones Roy

I promised our class president, Steve Roy, that I would mention our 20th reunion, coming next June 5-8. I hope to see all you '77ers there. Set aside a few days and get away! . . . Chris McKeown Burry is division chief for the futures division at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Chris and her husband, Bill, sailed to Cape May, N.J., via Chesapeake Bay. Chris keeps in touch with Steve Parks '76, once a hiking buddy of mine, and says Susan Woods stopped in to say hi on a business trip to D.C. . . . Jonathan D. Fenton has been teaching fourth grade in Thetford, Vt., for three years. Corinne, Jonathan Michael, Charley the golden retriever and cats Pumpkin and Halloween were expecting a baby to join their family unit on October 27!. . . . Joanne Karlin Giudicelli, president of an executive staffing firm in Redwood City, Calif., still plays competitive adult soccer three to five games a week (after work). She adds, "Just got my first motorcycle--Honda Shadow 600." . . . John M. Glynn II is president of APOLLO Technical Sales, Inc., a firm he started out of his home--an example of the growing home office lifestyle. His family is Mary Ann, John III and Rachel . . . . On tour with their Anne Frank and Me, Jeff Gottesfeld and Cherie Bennett will play the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, S.C., the Performing Arts Company in Los Gatos, Calif., the Children's Theatre in Lexington, Ky., and the American Jewish Theatre in N.Y.C. . . . Tom Green is a specialty food broker in Brattleboro, Vt. The biggest change for Tom and his wife, Connie, is twin sons Sam and Peter. . . . Ehrhardt Groothoff became chief of the Department of Public Health's paramedic division in San Francisco. He says, "Accepted to seminary. Hope to start in fall." His partner is Grace. . . . Jeff Bernard '78 directs marketing at Bunyan Systems. Jeff and Janet have a son, Andrew, who is now past 5. They just came back from a vacation in Maui. . . . Tom Grossman and his wife, parents of Ariel and Micah, are partners at Grossman and Grossman. Friends can e-mail him at attorney@grossmanlaw.com or "come visit me on the Web!" This is just a slice of where we all are at--not dieting on a large planet. (Remember Diet for a Small Planet?)
Class Correspondent: Leslie A. Ramsay

Greeetings from Washington! It's hard to believe that by the time you read this column we will have chosen our next President. From this vantage point, election year '96 has yet to really heat up, but I suppose much was on hold while we desecrated the Olympic spirit for a few weeks. But the medal count is over. . . . Trying to get back to some older mail that there wasn't room for last time around, I ran across a nice note from Peggy Keate Landwehr, who is an attorney in Jefferson City, Mo. Peggy worked for the Missouri Attorney General's Office for 10 years before resigning to stay home and raise Rebecca and David, 9 and 7. Peggy's husband, John, is also an attorney. . . . Also keeping busy shepherding the kids through school and soccer practice is Leslie Stiller Kissner. Leslie and husband Ray have three children, Emily, Ben and Andrew, and now hail from St. David's, Pa. . . . Dian Weisman Miller is in real estate in Panama City, Fla., with Century 21. Dian and Mark at last report were housing four exchange students from Spain, Germany, Korea and Greece. Dian took a long road trip to the desert Southwest last year and hoped to avoid the hordes at Yellowstone this year. . . . Donna Dee Genzlinger reports that daughter Emily will be ready to take the field at the softball game come next reunion. Emily has made the all-star team for the Cranbury-Plainsboro softball league. Donna hopes that Colby will award softball scholarships by the year 2004. . . . Doug Kaplan has opened his own law firm, Kaplan & Grant, in Portland and reports that things have settled in nicely now that he's his own boss. Doug occasionally sees Rick Abrams and Susan Kenyon and Robin and Jeff Shribman down in Lexington. Doug is married to Ann, a photographer, and has a son and a daughter. . . . I retrieved a long-misplaced note from Alice Jellema that puts my prose to shame. Alice writes: "I'm associate rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Baltimore, Md.). Shortly before I got here last July ['95], the sanctuary was a featured setting for a rather energetic scene in John Waters's film Serial Mom. Reality is somewhere calmer. I was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in December of 1992 and came to Baltimore by way of southern Virginia, where North and South make a habit of surprising one another. I put maple syrup on grits and they cancel school for a prediction of one inch of snow." Alice goes on to boast that she has succeeded in growing her own watermelons, gotten her dog, Vashti, to stop eating linoleum and books and passed the Maryland auto inspection "by doing a lot of Bondo work on the rear quarterpanels." Alice gets my vote for Renaissance woman of the year! . . . Send me your suggestions for special events that you might want for our 20th reunion. I promise to pass them to the proper authorities.
Class Correspondent: Nicholas Levintow