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Seventeen transcriptions by Paul Machlin (music) of Fats Waller's
organ, piano and vocal performances will be published later this year
in the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States
of America series. An article in the March issue of Atlantic Monthly
magazine highlights Paul's remarks on the significance of Waller and the
time-consuming transcribing process. "Machlin was motivated to try it,"
says the article, "in part because he was frustrated at how often Waller's
work has been misunderstood by critics and historians who simply do not
appreciate his formidable keyboard technique and his inventive genius."
Brian and Dolly Brian Neligan '80 recently appeared as the dobro player in Dolly Parton's bluegrass band, which included such other bluegrass luminaries as Sam Bush, Jim Mills, Stuart Duncan, Byron House and Bryan Sutton. The band, with Brian, appeared on the David Letterman show and with Regis and Kathy Lee, playing the tune "Silver Dagger" from Dolly's album The Grass Is Blue. Bang Center The Weston Geophysical Laboratory's seismometer in the Colby vault, located underground between Keyes and Arey, is one of three in the Northeast used by the U.S. Geological Survey to pinpoint earthquake epicenters in the area. The other two are at the Weston labs at Boston College and at Dartmouth. The three meters give real-time seismological data, allowing scientists to locate and measure 'quakes within minutes. Credit, among others, emeritus geo professor Don Koons, who designed the original Colby vault; the late vice president Ralph "Roney" Williams, who found the money; and Professor Bob Nelson (geology), who keeps the place going.
Thanks to Ray Phillips (ITS) and Colby's Y2K Task Force, the millennium bug was as D.O.A. here as anywhere. "It was a complete dud," Ray said. There were several inconven-iences: Beginning January 1 the Class of 1998's Web page announced that members would have to wait "-17091 years" for their fifth-year reunion. People running older versions of Netscape had to upgrade before they could use secure Web sites. And though the vendor insisted it was not a Y2K glitch but would have happened "in any leap year," software that manages the dial-in modem pool went down December 31 and remained out of commission over the weekend. Have Books, Will Travel A recent Chronicle of Higher Education story reported a 15 percent increase in the number of American college students abroad and placed Colby eighth among bach-elor's-degree granting colleges with the highest raw number of students overseas. The figures (from 1997-98) showed that 351 Colby students went abroad. NESCAC schools in the list included Middlebury (second with 445) and Bates (17th with 253), though Colby had the highest percentage in NESCAC. Carrying Water and Webs Credit English Professor Linda Tatelbaum (she whom you might expect to eschew modern contrivances) with being the first faculty member in the history of Colby to file course grades using the Internet. Registrar George Coleman, who leads us to the modern age with such things, put out a call for grade entry via the Web at 5:25 p.m. on December 15. Within minutes, off-the-grid Linda had beaten all others, including computer geeks. Two New Directors Patricia Murphy, a professional engineer who has led the physical plant department at Bates College since 1996, has been appointed director of PPD at Colby and began February 7. Before taking the Bates post, she served three years as director of PPD at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Varun Avasthi, a veteran food services manager, began work as the new director of dining services in January. A graduate of Johnson & Wales, Varun has degrees in hotel restaurant management and in human relations.
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