Colby Magazine, Fall 2002 | Alumni | Class Notes: 80s Newsmakers

	Passing the Screen Test Waterville festival's reputation grows as luminaries come calling.

	Another Record Year for Alumni Contributions

	New Alumni Building Announced Future takes shape with plans for alumni center

	Landscape Architects Visualize "The Colby Green"

	The Club Circuit

	Alumni Association Awards

	ALUMNI PROFILES Dorothy Cleaver '48 Janet Grout Williams '60 A Bird in Hand Kathy McKechnie '79 A Lifesaving Career Julia McDonald '99 A Desert Discovery Beth Johnson Searing '99 Todd Miner '01 Opening the Door Geoff Ward '02 Newsmakers & Milestones 20s/30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s-00s

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Gary H. Ruping '85, owner and operator of Ruping Builders, Inc., in Billerica, Mass., was awarded the Donald Van Greenby Builder of the Year Award. Given by the Home Builders Association of Massachusetts, a division of the National Association of Home Builders, the award goes to the builder who exemplifies both state and local leadership in the industry. Ruping has completed 260 homes since 1986.

Marriages: Elias J. Newfel '84 to Eleni Lampros in Lynn, Mass. * Carol A. Kenerson '87 to James D. Wilson in Hull, Mass. * Emily J. Isaacs '88 to Paul E. Modiano in Jaffrey, N.H. * John T. Reynolds '89 to Michelle J. Galanter in New York City, N.Y.

Deaths: Thomas Lincoln Downey '85, June 7, 2002, in Connecticut, at 39.

FEATURES:
A Global Forum
An alliance with the United World College is giving Colby an international flavor and perspective.

On Terror's Trail
Brian MacQuarrie '74 looks for the sources of hatred that spawn violence and finds more.

All Business
Ted Snyder '75 runs a business school and tells us about it.

School Across the Bay
Kristine Davidson Young '87 and Barney Hallowell '64 dedicate themselves to their students on North Haven Island.