Colby Magazine, Fall 2003 Staff

Contributors:

Anthony F. Cristan

Anthony F. Cristan (Real Politik) has worked as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist in Wisconsin, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and, most recently, at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, where he writes frequently about city politics. He lives in Waterville.

John Roderick '36, (Taking Refuge in Japan) a Waterville native, joined the Associated Press in 1937 and has never worked for another news organization. An editor, correspondent and special correspondent, he covered China firsthand and interviewed Mao Zedong. He covered the fall of French Indochina, the creation of Israel and other historic events. Roderick lives part of the year in Hawaii and part of the year in a 1734 "minka" farmhouse in Kamakura, Japan.

Matt Apuzzo '00 (The Growth of the Gap) is a reporter for The Associated Press in Hartford, Conn. Prior to joining the AP, he covered organized crime and the drug trade at the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times.

Sara Blask '03

Sara Blask '03 (Knowing the Drill) has written for the Houston Chronicle and The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. A self-described nomad, she spent the past summer working for Outward Bound on Hurricane Island in Maine. Blask intends to pursue a career in environmental journalism and/or travel writing.

Colby Staff
Volume 92 Number 4

Gerry Boyle '78
managing editor

Brian Speer
art director

Robert Gillespie
alumni at large editor

Stephen Collins '74
executive editor

Leo Pando
illustrator

Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97
media editor

Joanne Lafreniere
production coordinator

Karen Oh '93
contributing online designer

Charlie McDougal
online designer

Brian Speer, Fred Field, Andrew Lichtenstein,
Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97, Greg Helgeson
contributing photographers

John Roderick '36, Sara Blask '03, Neha Sud '05,
Matt Apuzzo '00, Kate Bolick '95, Anne Marie Sears '03,
Anthony F. Cristan, Braxton Williams '99
contributing writers

Administration:
William D. Adams, president;
Sally Baker, executive assistant to the president;
Richard Ammons, administrative vice president;
Margaret Felton Viens '77, director of alumni relations

Alumni Council Executive Committee:
Frank A. Wilson, chair; Hope Palmer Bramhall '56, vice chair,
Boyd Allen III '75, G. Arthur Brennan '68, A. Francis Finizio '66,
Todd W. Halloran '84, Peter Merrill '57, Barry S. Potter '60,
Linda Mitchell Potter '66, Susan Maxwell Reisert '86,
Eric F. Rolfson '73, Rebecca Birrell Smith '92, Philip C. Wysor '70

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