Nobody home
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Colby ranks second among all U.S. institutions in the highest percentage of students studying abroad in 1994-95, the most recent year for which data is available. First is Wofford College with 19.4 percent, then Colby with 16.8 percent and Bates with 16.1 percent.

With the winningest
Statistics developed by the Lancaster (Pa.) Sunday News show that Colby's men's basketball team is sixth winningest among all of the nation's NCAA Division III teams in the 1990s. Franklin & Marshall is first with a win rate of 89.3 percent, followed by Wisconsin-Platteville, 89.2 percent; Wittenberg, 84.1 percent; New Jersey Tech, 82.7 percent; and Colby, 82.4 percent. Salute Coach Dick Whitmore and a succession of fine teams.

In Colby's service
More than 25 Colby administrative and support staff employees were honored at the 15th annual Holiday Dinner Dance and Recognition Celebration on December 20. Honored for the longest service--30 years--was museum director Hugh Gourley, who also drew the longest and loudest applause when President Bill Cotter introduced him as the person most responsible for establishing Colby's art museum as "one of the finest among all colleges and universities in the country."

Whew! and thank you!
Even for a college that uprooted itself and built an entirely new campus, the fall spate of dedications and ribbon-cuttings was unprecedented. In a span of eight days in October, Colby dedicated the F.W. Olin Science Center, the Pugh Center, the Paul J. Schupf Wing, the art of Alex Katz, the Crawford Family Chair in Religious Studies and the Schupf Scientific Computing Center. Hardly anyone who works on Mayflower Hill was not touched by or did not have a hand in these events which demonstrate the extraordinary momentum of Colby.

We think so, too
Let's take heart in this quote from John Seigenthaler, chair and founder of The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, in his November Colby address when he became the 44th Elijah Parish Lovejoy Fellow: "Fortunately, there remain some schools of journalism still dedicated to the ideal that standards, values and ethics are important to those who commit careers to the challenge of the news media. But news organizations now must be aware of the need to reach out to liberal arts institutions for talented, informed journalists whose careers will be committed to that challenge to enlighten and inform."

Top of the Web
PC Computing Magazine has rated the Colby web site one of the top 1,001 on the entire Web and one of the 14 best of all colleges and universities in the nation. Other top-ranked educational Web sites include those of the Harvard Computer Society, MIT, Radcliffe, Smith, Stanford and the University of Maine. Congratulate Colby Webmaster Anestes Fotiades '89 and lots of others who have contributed to Colby's broad and exciting offering.

Goldstein is assistant v.p.
Linda Goldstein, director of corporate and foundation relations since 1990, has been promoted to assistant vice president for development and alumni relations. She replaces Director of Developement Eric Rolfson '73, who has accepted a position with Toast Technologies of Cambridge.

New athletic director
Marcella Zalot, assistant director of athletics at Harvard University since 1992, has been named to a new position as associate athletic director at Colby. A graduate of Smith College (B.A., economics) and UMass at Amherst (M.S., sports management), Marcella also will serve as senior women's administrator. At Harvard, her duties included serving as the Ivy League and NCAA compliance coordinator.

To name a few
Bets Brown (research associate in biology and associate director for corporate and foundation relationships) was given an award by Maine Governor Angus King in the fall, in appreciation of her work on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Casco Bay Estuary Project. . . . Maine Secretary of State Bill Diamond sent a salute to Jon Weiss (French and director of academic affairs), who re-drafted Maine's French language voting instructions, for use in the Nov. 5 elections. . . . Pat Brancaccio (English) conducted a seminar on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for one of the series of Literary Luncheons sponsored by Doubleday Publishers in New York. . . . Ed Yeterian (psychology) has received an appointment as adjunct professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. This is, of course, in addition to Ed's continuing Colby appointment, and formalizes a relationship he has had with BU for some time. . . . Ken Gagnon (administrative services), a Democrat, is the first Colby employee to be elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 20 years. . . . Dana Professor of Poetry Ira Sadoff's poem "Time and Space" was selected for The 1997 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology.