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This is my half-way column as class correpondent, mid-way between our
20th and--gasp!--25th reunions. . . . Kudos to Kate Cone
'76 for sending an update on disk about Bob Theberge. "Bob is reluctant
to toot his own horn," Kate says, "but I thought some of his classmates might
like to know what he's been doing lately." Bob has a successful contracting
business in the Bath/Brunswick, Maine, area. "Got a new home to plan or old one
to remodel?" asks Kate, whose first book was to be published in March. Their
family includes Megan, second grade, Burke, 13, and Samantha, who is in high
school and looking at colleges. . . . Robin and
Catherine Morris Killoran have moved to Huntsville, Ala., where Robin is
marketing manager for SCI. Cathy is involved in marketing nutritional products,
Vitaminoplus and Thermoenergythin. They have two granddaughters, identical twin
girls, 3 years old. . . . Maria and Dean Florian are
in Wilbraham, Mass., where Dean is president of a family-owned independent
insurance agency. He says business is excellent and growing! Dean feels he is
in the prime of life with a terrific wife and two daughters, Sarah, 8, and
Amanda, who was born on his 40th birthday. Thanks for writing,
Dean! . . . From "hot Houston" write Kent and Cindy Vietor
Kahle. They have three kids, Carter, 14, Walker, 12, and Page, 7. Cindy is
on the board of St. John's School, Kent is an investment banker, and they like
to travel to cool places. . . . S. Ann Earon and Robert
Meli have moved to a new home on the sixth fairway of a golf course in
Skillman, N.J. Ann is a management consultant, and Robert is with Johnson &
Johnson. Daughter Sally, 18 months, will soon be taught to retrieve golf balls
if her father has his way. . . . Thomas and Deborah
Wathen Finn are also in New Jersey, where Debbie is superintendent of the
Raritan Valley Line, NJ Transit Rail Operations. Children James and Stephanie
are both in middle school. Debbie recently visited Cathy Morris Killoran,
regularly sees Pam Brownstein and ran into Rachel Hyman Zervas's
daughter (wearing a Colby t-shirt) at a rest stop on I-684! Debbie enjoyed
volunteering as an alumni interviewer for Colby last year, finding that Colby
continues to attract quality young people. . . . Kenneth
Lipstein and Pam Brownstein, both attorneys, live in Scotch Plains,
N.J., with sons Jeremy, 12, and Andrew, 9. Pam is executive editor of the
New Jersey Law Journal and runs on-line seminars for
attorneys. . . . Guy Freeman and Anne Menard '75 are in
Carlisle, Pa., where Guy is a photographer and Anne directs the National
Resource Center on Domestic Violence. Guy enjoys Carlisle, exhibiting and
teaching photography and raising Nicholas, 14, and Lindsay, 13, out of the
city. . . . Closer to home, Bonnie Nielson writes to
recommend a book--Having Our Say, The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years,
by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney. Bonnie is recently divorced and deciding
whether to stay in Maine. Zach, 15, plays soccer, sings and plays trumpet.
Torrey, 12, also loves sports and music and plans to attend Colby or
Bates. . . . John Ladkey enjoyed visiting Colby for the
alumni swim meet last November, his first trip to campus since
1984. . . . On a sad note, Phyllis Brown Vinson passed
away in Boulder, Colo., last November, after a long battle with cancer. Phyllis
and I spent many, many hours together at Colby, and her death affected me
deeply. Her husband and 15-year-old son are doing well. . .
. I'm out of space, more next time. I'm glad to be able to e-mail this to
Colby so I don't have to venture out into the latest batch of this winter's
snow/ice "weather event"!
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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