Joanne Weddell Magyar '71 recently began a four-year term as an overseer at the College. Currently the chair of the Alumni Council, she also served on the recent presidential search committee.   •   Carol M. Beaumier '72 is a new partner in the regulatory risk services practice of the Metro New York practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. A Colby trustee and member of the Board of Governors of the Colby College Museum of Art, she was a founding partner of The Secura Group in Washington, D.C.   •   A Bangor Daily News story on women "in jobs that, when they were girls, were held by men" featured Sara J. Burns '79, president of Central Maine Power Company in Augusta, Maine. Burns also was a presenter at the April conference of the Maine chapter of the National Network of Women Leaders. In June she served as honorary chair of the American Heart Association Ladies Golf Classic in Bath, Maine, an event intended to help draw attention to the issue of women and heart health.

Deaths: Elizabeth Peters Goettel '42, February 4, 2000, in Overland Park, Kan., at 78  •  Lewis E. Weeks Jr. '42, December 20, 1999, in Potsdam, N.Y., at 79   •  Perley M. Leighton '43, March 21, 2000, in Portland, Maine, at 77   •  W. Emmons Taylor '43, February 28, 2000, in Mechanic Falls, Maine, at 78   •  Charles Kramer '48, December 1, 1999, in Norfolk, Mass., at 74   •  Daniel J. Klein '48, November 13, 1999, in San Mateo, Calif., at 75   •  Howard F. Staples Jr. '48, February 28, 2000, in Waterville, Maine, at 76.