Robert R. DeCormier '43

How about a concert at Carnegie Hall in honor of your birthday? Last May the New York Choral Society celebrated the life and music of Robert R. DeCormier '43, music director of the society for 17 years, on the occasion of his 80th. DeCormier has written works ranging from choral to ballet to Broadway scores and conducted the Robert DeCormier Singers on tours throughout the United States and Canada. For many years he was conductor and arranger for Harry Belafonte and has been music director for Peter, Paul & Mary for the past 20 years * The late Dominic M. Puiia '48 was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in June. He played basketball, football and baseball at Colby and was a member of the East-West College all-star team in 1946 * Dexter, Maine, native Horace P. Landry '49 published his second suspense novel in June. Death on the Rocks takes place in Ellsworth, Winter Harbor, Augusta and Bangor and begins in 1947 in a college town on the Kennebec River. "I changed Colby College to Chamberlain College, for the Civil War hero [Joshua Chamberlain]," Landry told the Waterville Morning Sentinel.

Deaths: Ruth Lewis Nowlan '41, June 14, 2002, in Foxboro, Mass., at 83 * Gerald D. Robson II, July 5, 1999, in Pleasanton, Calif., at 82 * Saul Millstein '42, May 28, 2001, in Roseburg, Ore., at 81 * Harold L. Rhodenizer '42, April 24, 2002, in Bethlehem, Conn., at 81 * Olivia Elam Davis '43, December 23, 2000, in Dublin, Ohio, at 80 * Justin O. Johnson Jr. '43, November 15, 1999, in Hancock, Maine, at 79 * Chester W. Arthur '44, January 22, 2002, in Keeseville, N.Y., at 80 * Kenneth J. Dolan '45, May 15, 2000, in Bangkok, Thailand, at 75 * George H. Lewald '45, May 18, 2002, in Weymouth, Mass., at 78 * Ardis Wilkins Holt '46, July 8, 2002, in Presque Isle, Maine, at 79 * Jeanne Snowe Ainsworth '47, May 12, 2002, in California, at 76 * Joyce E. Curtis '47, June 29, 1999, in Maine, at 72 * Donald C. McCoy '47, February 14, 2002, in California, at 76 * Norman G. Epstein '48, August 12, 2002, in Swampscott, Mass., at 78 * Alice Covell Bender '49, June 24, 2002, in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 74.