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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Daine Scrafton Ferreira
Pihanakalani Ranch
P.O. Box 249
Pa' Auilo, Hawaii 96776
classnews1961@alum.colby.edu
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Reconnecting! It could only be good--and it was! The Class of
'61's 40th reunion began at the Samoset Resort in Rockport with the
return of more than 20 stalwarts anxious to relive the rafting experience of the
infamous 35th reunion . . . this time with a return to calmer waters. Our sunset
cruise on the award-winning (Sailboat of the Year) wooden ketch Morning in Maine,
ending by moonlight, offered ample time to update and reminisce. Our
"rockbound coast" pre-reunion activities were initiated by a welcome
cocktail party generously hosted by past-president Bev Lapham and
his wife, Liz (Rowe '63). Then, thanks to insider tips from Scotty
MacLeod Folger and artist friend Tom Sullivan, the group discovered
Conti's On the Waterfront. (The bread covered an entire round table and the
menu rolled down from the ceiling on butcher paper!) Another tip led pre-reunion
culture hounds to the Second Read Bookstore in Rockland for a unique glimpse of
coastal Maine. Meanwhile, golfers relaxed on the links, as did swimmers in the
pool and fitness buffs on walks to the lighthouse and beyond. For the 45th, in
2006, plan on the pre-reunion activity for a quality-time opportunity to
reconnect with class friends! . . . Sandy and Nancy Cunneen
Boardman, Norman '58 and Charlotte Clifton Lee,
Hank and Anne Lehman Lysaght and Mitzi and Quimby
"Q" Robinson and family were among the impressive crew
at the Samoset. A highlight of the 40th weekend was witnessing Bob
Burke receive the Marriner Distinguished Service Award at the Alumni
Awards Banquet. Bob has always "been there" for
Colby--you're an inspiration to us all, Bob! Proud partner Donna and
son Michael joined the thunderous applause. . . . Cheers particularly to those
classmates returning to Colby for the first time since graduation. The lobster
bake/chicken barbecue following the Parade of the Classes was, for many, the
first chance to greet friends not seen the night before: Bob and Jeanette
Benn Anderson joined the festivities along with Dee and
Sandy Simpson Arens. Bob North, Marsha and
Sy Blum and Scraf enjoyed the tradition of visiting
Gifford's (formerly Rummel's) for ice cream in Waterville.
Mary Sawyer Durgin, Dick Fields, Tom
and Marilyn Blom Evans, Jane Bowman, Ed
'60 and Betsy Perry Burke, Iris Mahoney
Burnell, Ann and Steve Chase, Dottie John
Christmas, Ed '62 and Ginny Murphy Cragin, Christa
and Frank D'Ercole and Margie Chamberlain
Davis all returned to Colby. Joining them were: Ann (Dudley '60) and
Charlie DeWitt, Mary and Denny Dionne, Harriet
Lunt Duer, Sue Fourcade Erskine, Toby and
Ned Gow, Regina Foley Haviland, Carol
Davidson Jack, Joyce Jordan Jasenski,
Jocelyn Keil and Tom, and Dorothy Boynton
Kirkendall. Jim and Nancy Tozier Knox attended, as
did Carol Walker Lindquist, Janet Haskins
Mandaville, Judy Parker Millen, Lee
Holcombe Milliken, Bob '59 and Wendy Ihlstrom
Nielsen, Joan and Rush Oster, Bob '60 and Bonnie
McGregor Otis, Carole Ann Pope, Margaret and
Gene Rainville, Penny Dean Robb, Bob and
Marge Kemp Roxbrough, Elizabeth and Ed
Ruscitti, Donna Sample Sparks, Ed and Anne
Lovell Swenson, Maggie and Pete Teel and Marjorie and
David Tourangeau. . . . The Saturday afternoon presentation faculty
included Judy Hoffman Hakola, who, to a standing-room-only
crowd, delivered "Storytelling in the Electronic Age." Your class
correspondent for the past five years, Judy met 20 deadlines for us--thanks,
Judy! . . . At Millett Alumni House we enjoyed a lavish Saturday evening
reception and class dinner, presided over by Bev Lapham. Colby
President Bro Adams and his wife, Cathy Bruce, delivered a special welcome, which
included Bro's disclosure that Bill Clough had been his
English teacher at Holderness! . . . For many returnees, the highlight of the
reunion was Bill "Hoody" Hood's lively and
professional after-dinner auction. Just about everyone was involved, through
donation or acquisition. Among the most exciting items bid for hot and heavily:
Sy Blum's vintage baseball card; Dick Fields's priceless
"vintage" Colby windbreaker; a one-of-a kind "nostalgia"
package, including Debby Berry's "Ode to a Frozen Toad";
the "Winter-a-Week in the South" five-bedroom home in Myrtle Beach
and a "Hawaiian Dream Vacation, complete with "Working Randy"
(you had to be there). The auction raised more than $2,000 for Colby. . . . No
one knew for sure, but rumor had it that Claire Lyons danced away
Saturday night. . . . Your new officers are Penny Dietz
Sullivan, president, Nancy Cunneen Boardman, vice
president/Alumni Council representative and yours truly, class
correspondent/secretary. . . . George Nix agreed to help set up a
class Web site, so stay tuned for a great way to post reunion pictures and news.
Most of us realized, once again, that time just can't separate friends;
we'll always be the one and only Colby Class of '61! We missed each
and every one not attending--please plan to join us by checking the Web
site, sending your stories and marking your calendar now for the 45th in June
2006. Aloha!
--Diane Scrafton Ferreira
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Patricia Farnham Russell
16 Sunset Avenue
Hampden, ME 04444-1617
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Greetings from Maine. As I write on a beautiful, warm and muggy June day,
'tis time to be heading to the lakes and cottages. Per usual I wish that I
had more news for you. (My classmates are not very helpful!) The biggest item is
a follow-up to my April news: Paul Hickey has won his fourth Emmy. Paul,
who has been designing sets for CBS-TV for the past 25 years, received his Emmy
for his outstanding set designs for the drama series As the World Turns.
Congratulations, Paul. . . . Ed Kyle and wife Penny both retired last
October and have graduated from tent camping to trailer camping. Recent travels
took them to the Outer Banks, Florida, Maine and all points in between--I
assume with the camper. Their son, Ted, was married this past August to a
terrific lady, although she did go to Bowdoin. They skied in Vermont with Barbie
(Haines '63) and Bill Chase and in New Hampshire with
Allie Weller. Tough life, I agree. . . . Linda Laughlin Seeley is a
new first-time grandmother to Matthew Seeley, born in May to son Scott. . . . We
became grandparents (for the third time) to Meg Eleanor, born in May to our son
Andrew. Daughter Margaret Russell Ewalt '92 completed her Ph.D. in Spanish
at UVA and has accepted a teaching position at Wake Forest. . . . That is it,
folks. Be marking your calendars for June 2 for the big 40. Linda Seeley and Ed
Kyle have indicated they plan to come.
--Pat Farnham Russell
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Karen Forslund Falb
245 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
classnews1963@alum.colby.edu
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News from Ed Winkler is that he has stopped working because of
cancer, which has necessitated one major surgery to be followed in the future by
a second. Now, while undergoing chemotherapy for eight months, he is working hard
on his own personal Web site (edwinkler.com) as
well as doing sculptures. I checked out the Web site and found that he has
included photos of his latest art endeavor, which is a personal
"Stonehenge" circle of large granite stones in a field. He commented,
"I'm waiting for the Martians to land in my back field. Things are
properly aligned with the summer solstice." This Web site was updated on
June 16. Let's hope that he was pleased with the positions of the stones on
June 21! Ed would really love to hear from his friends during this time. . . .
Joanna Buxton Gormley writes that after 18 years as
assistant to the headmaster and registrar at Roxbury Latin School (a boy's
independent school in the Boston area, grades 7-12) she has retired to tend her
gardens, get back to her aerobics classes and just sit down to read the paper
every day. Her husband, Tom, retired three years ago. They have two grandchildren
by their son Tom, who is a lawyer in Boston. Their son Tim, an R.N. at Spaulding
Rehab in Boston, was married last summer and lives in Norwood, Mass. She says,
"I certainly don't feel 60, although I reached that milestone in
June!" . . . Ruth Pratley Madell sends greetings from
Kansas, where she continues enjoying her work as the grants manager/budget
director for the Kansas Humanities Council. She had a wonderful trip last fall,
visiting her daughter, Kristen, who worked in Bordeaux, France, for six months.
She says that eating foix gras in Fois, driving through the Pyrenees, wading in
the Mediterranean, visiting Arles and Avignon and seeing Mont Saint Michel and
Paris was like a dream come true. Ruth has enjoyed other trips, including a
recent excursion to Chicago to see her son, Peter, and one to San Francisco in
September for Kristen's wedding. . . . Helping me collect more class news,
Tom Thomas sent in a recent article, "A Cook's
Tour," from the food section of his local paper, The Intelligence
Record of Buckingham, N.J., in which he and Patti (Raymond '65) are
pictured preparing mushroom ravioli in their kitchen. Patti is chopping up
ingredients while Tom is rolling out sheets of pasta. Last year as members of
Virtuoso, a group of travel agents who specialize in "deluxe
experiences," they took a four-day course with hands-on classes at the Le
Manoir's Ecole de Cuisine, a school founded in Oxford, England, by the
well-known chef Raymond Blanc. Some quotes in the article capture the essence of
Tom Thomas: "England is not famous for its food. In fact, it's famous
for bad food, but that's a bad rap. I can't think of a single thing I
didn't like." And "a great chef makes food that's fun to
eat. . . . I expected to get my hands dirty and eat good stuff when I went, but
fun was also an important part of each day." Recipes now part of the
Thomas's repertoire include tartare of smoked salmon and Thai fish soup.
Sounds like friends should visit the Thomases. . . . . David
Columbia, a classmate for freshman and sophomore years, is the subject of
a recent article in the weekly newspaper The New York Observer. After
starting some small businesses in the '60s and '70s, he moved to
Hollywood, where he worked in the movie industry. Living in New York since 1992,
he has become a successful society reporter, editing a column, "Social
Diary," in Quest magazine for five years before moving to
Avenue as editor-in-chief. In September 2000 he created a Web site, NewYorkSocialDiary.com,
which each morning presents what happened the night before at society functions
in the city. The article observes that he is successful because he is very
likeable and nice to the people he covers. Look for the feature article on David
in this issue. . . . Keep sending in news even if it seems like nothing of
interest, such as turning 60 this year and/or getting used to retirement. We are
all acclimating to our new decade and find comfort in sharing the experience.
-Karen Forslund Falb
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Sara Shaw Rhoades
76 Norton Road
Kittery, Maine 03904-5413
207-439-2620
classnews1964@alum.colby.edu
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My e-mail survey of the quarter pertained to libraries: How is yours? Are
library cards a thing of the past? What is your favorite memory of Miller
Library? . . . Here in Kittery, Maine, we no longer have cards; my name is in the
computer so I just tell them who I am when checking out. Our library is healthy,
although odd--one building for fiction and one for non-fiction. I frequent
the library infrequently--usually to get books or books on tape for a trip
or research on something that has popped into my head and puzzles me. My memories
of Miller library are few, owing to the nature of a math major and never enough
money for breakfast in the Spa. However, at the foot of the front stairs while
standing in a long line waiting to buy textbooks, I met a talkative freshman
named Dusty Rhoades. The moment is actually preserved in a picture on page
62 of the 1961 Oracle. . . . Joan McGhee Ames reports that
Manchester, N.H., has a healthy library, which also is used for health
screenings, book groups, historical society meetings and so forth. They still
have cards, but they are electronic. Joan says she visits the library about once
a month for books and periodicals, adding, "I always found Miller Library a
beautiful and inspirational setting. I loved the carrels when they arrived and
made private study very easy." . . . I received an enthusiastic reply from
Marjorie Convery: "I go to the library every day, 40 hours
per week, as I am the director of the Vineyard Haven Library on Martha's
Vineyard. I am happy to report that our library is thriving. We just completed a
$1.2-million renovation and expansion and are getting a new computer system . . .
that will give us 16 access points to the Internet. . . . Technology has given
all libraries a new lease on life as we now have access to more than one million
titles in our network database, and we have infinite access through the Web to
undreamed of resources." Marge, whose fondest memory of Miller Library is
"studying in the carrels and drinking coffee in the Spa," adds
that her library was named last year as one of the top 10 libraries in the
country for a community under 5,000. Marge also reported on her tour of China
last fall: "We started in Beijing, went to Louyang, then Xian, Guilin and
Shanghai. We then took a week cruise on the Yangtze River starting from
Chongching, where the Flying Tigers had been based in WWII. It was a fascinating
trip, where everything you saw, from the street vendors to students studying
English, was both exotic and culturally intriguing. . . . I am really hoping to
do some more traveling in China now that I have been there." . . .
Barbie Carr Howson wrote that her library branch was
recently enlarged and that the library system in her county "seems to be
healthy."She said, "I do have a library card (looks like a charge
card with a magnetic stripe and all). Since I have gone back to work I rarely use
the public library. Usually when I do it is to take out a video or audiotape. As
for fondest memories of Miller Library-one was my interview in front of one
of those big windows across the front. . . . Another could be sitting in the
stacks, studying and watching a snow blower toss white clouds above the roof of
Johnson Hall. And of course the English muffins and lemonade in the Spa during
study breaks. This line of thinking makes me very nostalgic. Sometimes my life at
Colby seems to have been all a dream. Ever thought so too?" . . .
Jim Harris wrote that the Issaquah Public Library is about to open
a brand new and much expanded building that has been 18 months in construction.
But, he says, "I only go to the library when I have books to donate or to
public meetings in its conference room. Because I am in the ‘book
business' I get all the books I need or can possibly read at very good
prices (sometimes free). . . . I tried to use Miller Library for
studying but could never get comfortable at the tables. Then somebody would come
along and ask me to join a bridge game in the Spa or the dorm." He says he
has donated money to the History Department at Colby over the years to purchase
books for Miller Library; however, "My fondest memory of the
library is to see furniture that my parents donated and that my nephew used 25
years after we graduated." . . . Non-library news came from PJ
Downing Curtis, who attended the Colbyettes reunion last April with
Martha Farrington Mayo and had a great time. "It was
the 50th reunion of the group, and there were Colbyettes there from the Class of
1952 to the present day group. . . . Each decade had a separate color, and there
were about nine from the '60s. (We were green!) . . . It was especially
great for me to connect again with Judy Kolligian '67, who sang second
soprano with me. We had a great time singing together again and helping each
other to remember our parts! . . . The music is a great bond and singing again
brought back lots of great memories. I look forward to seeing all of the other
'64s at our next reunion in 2004!". . . Jim Simon
advises us to "check out this Web site of a new medical device my son and I
just received a patent on,
www.illumitube.com." How wonderful to be working with your son on new
and exciting things! . . . Sue Sawyer McAlary sent a breezy
note: "Kids and grandkids doing fine--hope to see them all this
spring--maybe some more news by then." . . . If you'd like to
add your two-cents worth on libraries or anything else, please write to me!
-Sara Shaw Rhoades
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