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You know what? This "phone home" stuff really works. First Phil
Norfleet and now Stu Rothenberg. I'm sure many of you saw Stu on TV
during the election. He appeared on Meet The Press and This Week With
David Brinkley, to name a couple, and served as CNN's House races analyst
on election night. Stu publishes The Rothenberg Report, a newsletter on
House and Senate races and presidential politics and gives speeches on
politics. In his spare time Stu is married and has two children, 12 and 14. Stu
writes that Bob Saglio was in the audience at one of his speeches. Sags,
phone home! . . . Lynn McKendry Stinchfield reports that
in August she, husband Rick '69 and daughter Holly climbed Umcompadre Peak and
the Vetterhorn in Colorado (her first 14er--it sounds impressive, but I have no
idea what it means!). For an encore a month later they crossed the Grand Canyon
north to south. That's tough enough, right? But they did it in eight hours on a
95 degree day. Does the term overcompensating apply here? I get worn out from
pushing the buttons on the remote. Hey, give me a break! It's hard work with
all those cable channels. . . . Mike Self is alive and
well and living in Charlotte, N.C. Originally in the Class of '68, Mike liked
our class so much he hung around to graduate with us in 1970. It seems to have
been a wise decision. After several years of professional hockey, Mike settled
down and married Elaine, a "24-hour-a-day volunteer" and church secretary. Mike
and Elaine have a daughter, Allyson, who is a sophomore at NC State, and a son,
David, who is a high school senior. David has a tough college choice
ahead--Harvard or the U.S. Naval Academy. A word of advice Mike: They'll pay
your kid to go to the Naval Academy. At Harvard you pay
them. . . . Dee O'Heron Pederson, who did start with our
class but left in our junior year, sent a nice note. She graduated from the
University of Minnesota and still lives in Minnesota, where she works as a
teacher's assistant and in the after-school program at a local private school.
Dee's only update from our reunion book is that her youngest daughter now
attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Hey, Dee, tell your daughter to
look up my youngest son. He's just down the road from her at Beloit College.)
Dee would love to hear from Susan Goldman and Betsy Record
Clemons. I'd like to hear from them, too. Susan and Betsy, phone
home! . . . Todd Smith reports that he's the
director of human resources for National Semiconductor in South Portland,
Maine. Todd's wife, Sarah, a stained-glass artisan, is the younger sister of
Bob Ewell '71. The Smiths have two children, 9 and
7. . . . Kudos to Debbie Fitton Mansfield. Colby
sent me a ton of press clippings about Debbie's selection as the Maine
Middle-Level Educator of the Year. Her principal described Debbie as "a leader
who is open-minded and sincere." What a nice thing to say. I would be quite
pleased if people said those things about me. By the way, Debbie is married to
Steve Mansfield. The College hasn't sent me any clippings--not even
grass clippings!--about Steve, so I can't tell you what he's up to. Steve
Mansfield, phone home! (This "phone home" thing is beginning to be
fun.) . . . Well, I've come to the end of my alloted space
for this column. If you've written or e-mailed and have not yet seen your name
in print, please be patient. There is a long lag time. I am writing this column
in January (sorry Patriots fans, but Green Bay was the better team) and
you are reading it in May. I will get everybody in--especially since
I've got three more years worth of columns to write. Please help me fill them.
Let me know what's happening in your lives. Nicky Pach, phone home! The
Class of '70 has a web site where you can read up on classmates and contribute
news. It's located at http://www.colby.edu/classof/1970/
Ann Lyle Rethlefsen '71 received one of the 24 fellowships in the Bush
Educators Program for mid-career educators in
Minnesota. . . . Robert Diamond '73 was featured in
a Euromoney magazine article. He is director of the fixed income
division at the investment bank BZW. . . . Michael Roy '74
is the new president of the Maine Municipal Association.
. . . Gail Chase '74 was named treasurer of the Maine
Children's Alliance. . . . Elizabeth Knight Warn '76, has
been promoted to senior vice president in the retail mortgage department at
Peoples Heritage Bank. . . . Lynn Thommen '76 is
director of development for American Ballet Theatre. . . .
Steven R. Singer '79 joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as chief of
communications and principal spokesman.
Births: A daughter, Abigail Grace, to Neil and Donna Dee Genzlinger
'78.
Soaking Up Knowledge
The Flood probably won't do us in, but water--or
the lack of it--might. Thirsty big cities are expropriating more and more water
resources from rural agricultural areas and creating a wave of controversy in
the process.A century ago, rivers flowing from the mountains helped support year-round ranching in the South Park area near Denver. Today, says Cathy Kindquist '78, an assistant professor of geography at Radford University in Virginia, cities like Aurora, Colo., are buying up water rights to ensure their own growth, and ranchers are being devastated by the loss of their water. [CONTINUE]
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