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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Nancy Neckes Dumart
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Gary Burfoot, a semi-retired attorney in Connecticut, ran in the 2003 Boston Marathon with his brother, Amby, the 1968 Boston Marathon winner. They ran with various other family members. . . . Michael Moschos lives in London with his family. His daughter, Ellie, is graduating this year from the Chelsea School of Art and Design, and his son, Stamos, is a first-year history student at University College, London. Mike reports that he and wife Despina recently took a brief sailing holiday in the Aegean Islands. . . . Jerome Layman enjoyed skiing with Paul and Jane Hight Edmunds during the winter of 2000. He disclosed that Paul has a new bionic knee. At the time Jerome wrote to me, he had just returned from a week in the Cayman Islands with his daughter and five of her 17-year-old girlfriends. He had heard from Larie Trippet. . . . Chip Altholz wrote that he and his wife, Linda, were in the process of remodeling their home. He was planning to produce two CDs over the summer and was opening an office in L.A. although continuing to live in Highland Park, Ill. He would love to hear from Jim Peterson. . . . Ann Lyle Rethlefsen received a doctor of education in leadership from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in June. She teaches on special assignment from the Winona Area Public Schools at Winona State University, where she was to begin her fourth year as a professor of education methods courses. Ann had been in touch with David '70 and Carrie Horsley Durkin. . . . Jon Stone's home-building company in Florida was purchased by a public company, BMHC, which builds about 6,000 houses per year in Florida. Jon's youngest son, previously reported as 6'5" and 270, was second string defensive end this past year as a sophomore at UVA. . . . Rob Wilson and his wife, Marion, are living in North Hatfield, Mass. Rob, who is director of the Veterans Education Project in Amherst, was featured last April in a personal profile in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. . . . Thanks for keeping those updates coming!
-Nancy Neckes Dumart
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Janet Holm Gerber
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Delinquent I have been! To atone, I will cram every bit of news I can into this column. . . . Dee Fitz-Gerald Sockbeson, wife of tribal attorney Henry '73 (son Henry goes to Worcester Polytechnic Institute), has resumed part-time work as a librarian near their home in Connecticut. Henry represents the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, which owns Foxwoods Resort Casino. Last year was a big travel year for the Sockbesons, including a trip to D.C., where they saw Colby friends, the Scimonellis. . . . Also in Connecticut, Bob Brown (two children in college) is in his 30th year of teaching world history, Russian and Middle Eastern history at Southington High School. His work includes many foreign excursions with students (over 20 trips to Europe and Russia) and many student exchanges. He also recently co-chaired a state-wide state teacher's union task force on drug and alcohol abuse by students. Not too long ago he saw Bill Johnson and also Al Levine '71 and Bill Simons '71-all at a SABR baseball convention in Boston. . . . Kathleen Otterson Cintavey (daughter at Lehigh University and son a Colby '97 graduate who as a lieutenant in the Navy was in Operation Enduring Freedom) is the director of curriculum and instruction for an Ohio school system and also an adjunct professor. . . . "To continue the terrific time we had at the 30th reunion," Susan Benjamin Griffin says of meeting Anne Emerson and Steve Sullivan at Anne's home in Brattleboro, Vt., for a weekend last fall. "Steve's fitness campaign has him looking terrific, and Anne was in fine form as a result of maintaining her lovely country home and keeping up with her very athletic daughter and their many resident animals." Anne took the three of them on a tour of lower Vermont, "and all this was capped off by a late, rainy day lunch reminiscent of our times spent in France and a market stop to buy the biggest pumpkin we could haul home-30-plus pounds! We laughed remembering how D.G.'s little orange tree had sufficed at 5 rue Segrais and all the fun we had there on our fabulous junior year abroad!" . . . Approximately 100 Boston high school students spent the summer in full-time, paid positions at FleetBoston Financial as part of Boston's Summer Jobs Program. Said Anne O'Hanian Szostak, FleetBoston Financial's executive vice president and managing director of human resources and diversity, "Fleet is proud to be providing Boston's students with summer jobs. Young people who are given an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills, relating academic subjects to the workplace, learn the value and dignity that comes from a job and become valuable citizens within their community." Approximately 15 students spent 90 minutes each workday for six weeks in on-site classrooms, being prepared for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System by Boston high school teachers. . . . The end of this year will begin a new chapter for Nancy Round Haley (oldest daughter at the University of Rhode Island studying biomedical engineering). A 30-year career at the Rhode Island Department of Health Forensic Toxicology Laboratory will make way for retirement! (And thank you, Nancy, for presenting at our 30th in regards to your profession in forensics.) Meanwhile, the Haleys have traveled far and wide during the past year-Captiva Island, Fla., for a family reunion, Germany to visit her daughter doing her fourth college year abroad at the University of Braunschweig (and to ski the Alps!) and the Dominican Republic. Nancy reminds us all of a motto she tries to live by: "Live well, Laugh often, Love much!" . . . Bill Alfond e-mailed: "Have retired after 30 years with Dexter Shoe Company. Looking forward to spending more time in Maine giving more time to Colby trustee duties. One of my children, Kenden, spent a couple years working in education and this fall [2002] has returned to get her master's in Boulder, Colo., in art therapy.". . . Here in Rockville, Md., I too have a child of college age (oldest son at the University of Colorado-Boulder). As our children leave the nest, I'm sure most of us would agree that life's pace does not slow down. I, in particular, keep "running" with my second son (a junior in high school), my wonderful job at a local private school, keeping up with the maintenance on my pretty old home . . . and staring at the lists of all the other things I should be doing as well! Best wishes to all of you.
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jackie Nienaber Appeldorn
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I was disappointed that I was unable to attend our 30th reunion, and I hear that those who did enjoyed the weekend immensely. I haven't yet heard all the details, but the early reports say the Class of '73 was housed in what is now called the West Quad (Robins, Chaplin and Pepper), which now features separate women's and men's bathrooms. Alex Wilson did a fine job at the reunion dinner reviewing The 10 Best Things About Being Over 50 (I am really sorry I missed that!) and introducing Professor Morrione, who spoke about what Colby was like in the 1970s. Merrilee Bonney won the prize for coming the longest distance as she traveled from Amsterdam. Lloyd Benson, Lisa Kehler Bubar, Debbie Mael-Mandino, John Krasnavage and Carol Chalker McDowell recreated a familiar scene, playing bridge into the wee hours of the morning. And thanks to Robert E. Diamond Jr., the Class of '73 took top honors in donations. Bob contributed $6 million to the College! Since arriving in London seven years ago, Bob has become head of Barclays Capital and Barclays Global Investors. According to a May 2003 interview that ran in The London Times, Bob is reputed to be one of London's highest paid bankers-and his office in London's Canary Row features a framed cover of an issue of Colby magazine. Congratulations, Bob, on your success and many thanks for your generosity to our well-loved alma mater. . . . Gary Lawless has been awarded a Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship in poetry. Co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick and publisher of Blackberry Books, he has published numerous collections of poems and has read his work at poetry festivals and readings in the U.S. and Europe.
--Jackie Nienaber Appeldorn
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Robin Sweeney Peabody
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I am still catching up! Doug '73 and Cheryl Booker Gorman visited us while skiing and looking at Colorado College with their son, Bobby, and daughter, Katie. By coincidence, Twila Purvis Sehnert's husband, Russ '75, was taking their son Will to look at CC the same day. So we had a mini reunion over dinner and let the kids marvel at all the parental reminiscing. Twila and Russ live in New Jersey, and their oldest son, Steen, attends Colby. . . . Gay Peterson's son, Anders Wood, is also at Colby, a member of the Class of 2007, while Gay's daughter is a freshman in Farmington, Maine. Gay is still with L.L. Bean, and her husband, Rob, continues to coordinate the adult ed program in Portland. . . . Checking in after 30 years is Henry Schea, who lives in Delaware with his wife of 23 years, Lisa. They have home schooled their five sons. Henry works in Philly at a biotech firm that is developing cancer vaccines against melanoma and ovarian cancers. He has been in the field for 20 years, which has been exciting. His big 50 highlight was a trip to Paris and Lyon with Lisa. . . . Robin Hamill-Ruth is still running the Pain Management Center at UVA. Her four oldest kids are college age or just beyond, but the two younger ones still need all that parental attention. Robin coaches 7- to 11-year-old baseball and enjoys it despite her Colby IFL experience! Robin and her husband, Roger, bought 22 acres and a cabin on Calf Mt., where they escape to enjoy sunsets over the West Virginia mountains. . . . Russell Harris has owned and operated Harris Appraisal Service in Reading, Mass., since 1994. Prior to that he was a residential and commercial appraiser for several companies. He is now a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. . . . Judy Sidell Westerlund e-mails from Sweden, where her second child, Annika, just graduated from high school, participating in the Swedish post-ceremony tradition of running out of school, jumping on decorated trucks and driving through the town, blaring music. . . Jeff Barske writes that he has left the banking industry and is considering new career options. Meanwhile he is finishing a six-year term as vice chairman of the board of education and continues to be active in the Lions Historical Society. Recreation takes the form of horses, a camper and travel. London, Wales and Anchorage were all on the itinerary this past year. . . . Russell Wahl sent news that he has been teaching in Idaho for the past 18 years but was to teach at Harvard this summer. He was looking forward to being back in New England. . . . Candace Burnett was a 2002 Educator of Excellence in New York state and was honored at the English Council's conference in Albany. She has taught communication arts, social studies and Latin in N.Y.C. for 12 years. She shared Martha Bernard Welsh's big birthday and reports that Martha is still the dynamic individual she met in Foss in 1970. . . . I still have some news left for next time, including word of a 50th birthday/Colby reunion that 13 Colbyites had in Wisconsin in May. Stay tuned.
Robin Sweeney Peabody
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