When Chris Campbell read the "pathetic" e-mail message from her daughter, Caitlin Smith '00, she says her "motherly instincts were on full throttle." Caitlin was sick, very sick, from a viral infection that was sweeping the campus in late November, and Campbell was 3,000 miles away in Carmel, Calif. "She sounded miserable and that made me miserable, too," Campbell said.
Singing for their Supper
Who says you can't find a decent room in New York for under a hundred bucks? The Colby Eight found one for a song.
Early in December the Eight was scheduled to perform at the 100th anniversary
party of the New York City Colby Club, but when lodging could not be secured
for the group, Colby parent Donna Ritter (Ian Musselman '99), stepped in to
help out. Ritter and her husband, Martin, offered their home to the Eight,
actually nine, members.
Toppling Old Conventions
Twenty-five years ago, a comprehensive debate on the governance of the
College produced a radical re-engineering idea and ignited a controversy that
momentarily split the campus.
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