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C. Freeman Sleeper and his wife, Mamie, a U.S. Air flight
attendant, moved to Richmond, Va., last August. Freeman took early retirement
as professor of religion at Roanoke College last year and spent eight months as
a visiting scholar at Union Theological Seminary. He was able to finish a book,
The Victorious Christ: A Study in the Book of Revelation, recently
released by Westminster John Knox Press. In his spare time, Freeman enjoys
occasional golf and flea markets. He anticipates a trip to the Middle East in
early 1997 with a class from Union Theological
Seminary. . . . Carol Robinson Kurth and her
husband, Robert, live in Santa Fe, N.M., where he is a teacher and she enjoys a
part-time job caring for office plants. They have three sons, one a doctor,
married with two daughters, another a teacher and the youngest a grad student.
Carol and her husband sold their adobe mud house, which took 20 years to build,
to their oldest son. In her spare time, Carol enjoys gardening, family,
exercise and friends. When she thinks of Colby, she remembers "the beautiful
campus, good school, good people and for me a lot of growing up to do. Also
snow and meals of lobster, which I never learned to appreciate." Carol would
like to ask classmates, "how do you view life some 40 years
later?" . . . Last spring we sat next to Robert Hawkins
at a Colby luncheon in Beverly Hills. He subsequently sent us a newsletter. His
wife, Jeanne (Hallee '52), passed away in 1987 after a two-year battle with
cancer. Two of their five children are volunteers in the Peace Corps. Bob has
traveled to Kenya, Africa and Uruguay to visit them. According to Bob, both
trips were "exciting and a marvelous experience in being with grown-up children
. . . and having them in charge." Bob has kept active socially and for the past
three years has been dating a lady whom he has known for years. For the past
six years, he has been business manager for a large parish church and church
school. His first 20 years after Colby were with W.T. Grant, followed by
management positions with three different retailers. Bob is not sure what the
future holds, but he wished to continue working for several more years to build
up a little more financial reserve. . . . Last April, Judy
Holtz Levow '55, wife of the late Barry Levow, sent two news clippings
from Florida regarding their son, Larry, who had just been hired as head golf
professional at the Boca Raton Resort and Golf Club, reported to be one of the
most exclusive private clubs in the United States. Sounds like a proud mom!
Judy added, "Colby golfers are invited--maybe a discounted
lesson!" . . . Dave and Betsy Powley
Wallingford write from Sudbury, Mass., where Dave is owner of a petroleum
and chemical equipment business. Betsy keeps busy as homemaker, wife and
volunteer. She loves cooking, perennial gardening, bicycling and being a good
friend, mother and grandmother. One of their three sons is married with a
daughter--and the others are eligible bachelors! Betsy and Dave love to travel
both in the U.S. and abroad. They spend occasional weekends with her brother,
Mark '57, and his wife, Larry Walker Powley, on their boat, cruising the
waters of Long Island Sound and islands off Cape
Cod. . . . Eleanor Turner Swanson, a biology major
at Colby, ran as an incumbent town councilor in the Brunswick, Maine, election.
She has served four years on the council and been a strong advocate of
environmental issues. She also worked to bring back passenger train service.
. . . Another civic-minded classmate in last November's election
was Herb Adams, who ran for a district 46 seat in the Maine House of
Representatives. After earning his degree at Colby, Herb graduated from Harvard
Divinity School and later earned a doctorate in education from Harvard. He is a
retired Unitarian Universalist minister, having served congregations in Maine,
Massachusetts and Illinois. Herb and his wife, Mary, have seven children and 10
grandchildren. . . . Derek Tatlock and his wife live
in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he works as an oil and gas consultant. They have
three daughters and four grandchildren. Sailing and skiing are his favorite
spare-time activities. Derek and his wife took a three-week trip to Turkey,
half on land, half sailing the southern coast. He says, "Turkey is the best
kept secret in the world."
Marty Burger '58 is co-chair of the business and professional
division of the United Jewish Appeal Campaign Cabinet.
Deep-Seated Success
Retirement is no big vacation for Philip Hussey '53. Last fall,
after giving up his chair as president and CEO of the Hussey Seating Company,
one of the leading suppliers of spectator seating in the world, he headed off
to the Far East--on business. [CONTINUE]
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