William Marvin '65 was named Manchester (N.H.) Citizen of
Year. . . . Tom Easton '66 is the author of a new
novel, Silicon Karma.
Births : A daughter, Caroline, to Michelle and Larry Dyhrberg
'64.
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Three cheers to those of you who didn't let your class news
questionnaires get lost in the holiday mail. Without you there wouldn't be much
of a column. . . . Dick Fields writes from
Lexington, Mass., although he works in Providence, R.I., as senior vice
president for corporate sales and marketing for Danecraft, Inc. He is proud
that as a single parent he raised Alison '95, who he claims was "a better
student and athlete than I ever hoped to be." . . . Wes
Jordan, who was with us for a while before transferring to the University
of Maine, is retiring in June after 32 years at Maine, where he became head
athletic trainer and associate professor of physical education. Wes is an
internationally respected trainer who has been honored by election to the
National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame (1992), the Maine Baseball
Hall of Fame (1995) and the State of Maine Hall of Fame
(1996). . . . Scottie (Judith, actually)
MacLeod Folger is another recent retiree, although she "retired" into
another profession. After many years in special education, she has become a
practitioner of polarity therapy, which she describes as a field focusing on
energy as a healing force. She has twice made extended trips to Nepal, once to
see her older daughter, Phoebe, and once to visit her Colby roommate, Judy
Chase. Her younger daughter, Hilary, is a graduate student at
Stanford. . . . Ginny Wriggins Hochella is another
multi-career classmate. She worked in cancer research in Philadelphia, taught
zoology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and now is an
elementary school librarian in Massachusetts. Her son and daughter graduated
from college last year. . . . This issue's prize for most
dramatic career change, however, goes to Bob Gannon, R.N., who went from
being assistant to the president and division general manager at
Martin-Marietta to gas station manager in New Hampshire to staff/charge nurse
at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H. Bob unknowingly revealed
that he is nonetheless a mere mortal when he admitted that, although he has a
new Gateway 2000 computer, he hadn't yet figured out how to turn it on. I'm
sure that by the time you read this column he will have conquered that
challenge too and will be using it in his efforts to help reintroduce wolves to
northern Maine and New Hampshire, another of his
interests. . . . Speaking of today's communication
technology, I was delighted to hear via e-mail from two more classmates. Dan
Hodges is coordinator of testing at Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore.
He spends a good deal of his work day using computers to provide essential
support for both students and faculty. Like many of us, he is an empty-nester;
his daughter and twin sons are all in graduate school. . . .
Gale Holtz Golden Hartstein e-mailed from Vermont, where she is a
full-time psychotherapist specializing in sexual concerns. When she remarried
five years ago, she acquired two more sons and four grandchildren. She has
traveled to Israel, Japan, France, and Germany. . . . Have you
recently received a class news questionnaire that is lying around gathering
coffee stains? Did you come across your old questionnaire when you were
cleaning up after the holidays? Do you not have a questionnaire but still have
some news to share? My addresses (paper and electronic) appear in these pages
as well as the bottom of the questionnaire. Let me hear from you!
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