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Greetings! Lydia McAnerney e-mailed
a lengthy note; she is very busy with son Andrew, who just started
kindergarten, daughter Rebecca, 4, and working as the external relations
coordinator for Tapestry Folkdance Center in Minnesota. On a recent trip to
New England, the McAnerney clan got together for a mini-reunion
with Joe and Noël Barry Stella, Jim '78 and Sue Conant Cook
'75 and Sam and Karen Smith Gowan and their families. Another mini-reunion
took place over the Fourth of July weekend--Joy Sawyer-Mulligan,
Heather Finney Eng, Julia Stewart, Wendy Swallow Williams and
Kathy Jewett Sutherland met on the Eastern Shore in Maryland. They
reminisced about freshman year in Butler and caught up on news of children,
spouses and/or significant others, careers, etc. Joy reported from Ojai,
Calif., that she just returned to teaching English after working for nine years
as director of admissions and financial aid at The Thacher School, the oldest
boarding school west of the Mississippi. . . . Doug
Rooks, who lives in Gardiner, Maine, and is editor of Maine Times,
wrote that he was elected president of the Maine Press Association,
representing all of Maine's daily newspapers and virtually all of the 48 weekly
papers. He has been a guest lecturer at a few Colby classes and is busy with
Emlyn Brian, 16 months. . . . It was great to hear from
Linda Wallach Schroeder in her first reply to a Colby newsletter. She
reports that her biggest challenge is trying to simplify her life and maintain
her sanity: Lin has five busy children, ranging in age from 4 to 15. She's
married to Dan Schroeder, a research chemist with Bristol-Myers
Squibb, whom she met while at grad school in Colorado after Colby. To
complicate matters, their house is under
construction! . . . Bill Silverman, M.D., reported
that he is assistant professor of medicine, division of gastroenterology/liver
transplant, and that his wife, Margarida Magalhaes, M.D., works in the division
of hematology/bone marrow transplant. Both are at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center. Two daughters (Joanna, 4, and Pombie, 2) occupy virtually all
their spare time. While in Seattle, Bill visited with Dave and Mary Sue Naegle
Galvin '75 who, he reports, live in a houseboat on East
Lake. . . . Harry Nelson wrote from North Yarmouth,
Maine. In addition to being the operations manager for Jotul of North American,
a subsidiary of the Norwegian Stove Company, he is a Little League coach for
his three sons. He has seen plenty of Colby friends in the Portland area,
including Mike Boyson, Kevin Carley, Scott Pickett, Jed
Kirkpatrick, Megan Thorn, Chris Foster and Ellen
Grant. . . Another Maine resident, Kate Cone, just published
her first book, Pub Tours New England, a travel guide to brewpubs and
microbreweries. Currently writing a series of detective novels, she lives in
Harpswell with husband Bob Teberge '74 and children Samantha, 15, Burke, 12,
and Megan, 6. . . . Cathy Worcester Moison wrote
from Lyndell, Pa. A homemaker and school volunteer, she's busy with children
Eileen, 6, and Nathan, 4; husband David is an
economist. . . . I've received lots of mail lately. Keep
writing (or e-mail) so I can share your news!
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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