ALUMNI PROFILES
Peter Doran '58
A Public Priority

Judi Garcia '63
Real People, Real Needs

Bob Duchesne '75
Egging Him On

Greg Ciottone '87
Drawn to Disaster

Harry R. Wiley '51

Charles J. Hely '68

Mike Swift '85

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing"--Oliver Wendell Holmes. Now I know a lot of us are playing and some are working and playing. And for some, their work is their play. How about you? . . . Bob Millett is the tennis pro at a local athletic club three days a week. . . . Did I mention that Dick and Connie Leonard Hayes have taken up hang gliding in addition to skiing this winter? Perhaps not . . . because it isn't true. It was suggested by one of our classmates that if nobody sent me any news I just make something up. I have a very creative imagination, so please send me something about your adventures or hobbies or maybe I will think up something really wild about you!

--Alice Jennings Castelli

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Edward "Ted" Weaver writes that he has given up running the RV park in Arizona, although he is still associated with it. He planned to spend some time in Florida this winter (North Port) and in Maine this summer (Waterville, Augusta, Prouts Neck and other places). His e-mail address is tedweaver2@juno.com. . . . Shirley Raynor Ingraham sees Joyce Hutchins and Mickey Rosenberg Rolland and spent a nice afternoon with them in Sarasota, Fla. She traveled to Orlando to hear information regarding Bill 1202 and the resulting amount of $78 million promised by Gov. Jeb Bush regarding nursing home insurance, which she and others worked so diligently to get passed. . . . Bill Burgess had a wonderful freighter trip this past fall (his fourth!). He boarded the 515-foot Polynesian freighter in Long Beach along with two other people, making a total of three passengers on the ship! The suite that he had sounds as luxurious as a top hotel. After leaving San Francisco, he headed for Tahiti and then Pago Pago, American Samoa. He writes that one of the most interesting things on his 10,000-mile trip was observing the phenomenon known as the "Green Flash"--it occurs just as the sun slips below the horizon. The international crew of the freighter was pleased to learn that Bill had candied ginger with him to help relieve seasickness. He is looking forward to his next trip. . . . Chrys Boukis Keene says hello to everyone and was glad to hear all the details of our wonderful 50th reunion. . . . Joan Millett Coon is a counselor for Choices, a Connecticut state organization that helps seniors with choices regarding Medigap insurance coverage. She is still playing bridge and is busy with her family and all their doings. . . . Please let me hear from you all so I can share your news with everyone. Thanks.

--Nancy Nilson Archibald

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This is the last opportunity I have to use this column to encourage all of you to get on up to Boothbay Harbor and Waterville for our 50th reunion. Those who tell me about their recent 50th reunions at Colby count the experience as their number one event of the year. For some it was the first trip back to Waterville since graduation, and they regret not having come back before. They are high in praise of the way the College orchestrates these events. The folks in the Alumni Office expect, and get, substantial leadership and participation from the committees of each reunion class. But they also carry out the hands-on functions such as mailings, reservations, banquet details and publication of the Class of 1952 50th Reunion Book. Speaking of which, we anticipate that the book will have arrived at your house by now. We hope you have found the autobiographies of your classmates as interesting as the editors did. If they were entertaining, we are sure you will find renewing old acquaintances face-to-face great fun, too. Remember, you will be a guest of the College while on Mayflower Hill. Rather like room, board and tuition, gratis. The pre-reunion event at the Spruce Point Inn is Dutch treat but with an event subsidy from the Alumni Office. Hikes (walks, if you please) through the Boothbay Harbor Land Trust properties and the new Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens as well as a cruise on the waters off Boothbay Harbor are planned. Tennis or a chaise by the pool aren't bad ideas either. So get your reservations in. We want to see everyone at Boothbay and Waterville in June.

--Paul M. Aldrich

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Mimi Price Patten sent a note to tell me that a few Colby friends got together in late September at the home of Nick Sarris '54 in Dover, Mass. Guests were George Bazer, Ed Fraktman, Lou Ferraguzzi, Ray '54 and Priscilla Eaton Billington, Joey Leader Creedon and her husband, Dick '52, Charlie Windhorst '54, Ted Rice '54 and Jean and Dick Anderson '55. I heard from Priscilla that they all had a great time. Mimi also sent a newspaper clipping from The Portland Press Herald reporting that Helen Koniares Cleaves is again the top producer in the real estate field in the Greater Portland area. The many awards she has received for her accomplishments at the Harnden Beecher office of Caldwell Banker include membership in the prestigious International Sterling Society, placing her in the top 25 percent of that company's associates worldwide. . . . You should not be surprised that I heard once more from John Lee. His travels in 2001 took him to Vienna, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest and Dresden. His next trip was just before the events of September 11: he went again to Maine to be a eulogizer and pall bearer for his benefactor, Peter Mills '34, of Farmington, Maine, who passed away on September 26. John feels that he wouldn't be alive today if he hadn't met Peter in China many years ago. Speaking of being alive, John said he had coffee and a doughnut at the Pentagon the morning of September 11 and then debated whether to remain there to have a haircut but decided not to do so. Thirty minutes later his old office was hit by that plane, and he lost some friends. One of his friends, however, was taking a "butt-break" in the courtyard at the time of impact; he told John that he was going to smoke forever! John now has seven grandchildren. His son-in-law is a Navy commander on the Carl Vinson--bound for this worldwide conflict, I am sure. . . . I stop at Colby's Johnson Pond picnic area for lunch every time I pass by on my way to Presque Isle. My loyal companion, Golden Retriever, enjoys the "run" and freedom from the car space as well. I have met with Ted Lallier a couple of times lately on legal business for me. We look forward to making the plans for our 50th as it will be on us before we know it. Happy New Year 2002 to everyone.

--Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

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Diane Chamberlin Starcher writes that she and her husband, George, spent a month last year in a chalet in the French Alps with their two small grandchildren and daughter-in-law. Then they babysat in Tuscany, Italy, while their son Bruce and his wife were on vacation. In October they went to Holland to attend conferences. At one, the European Baha'i Business Forum, Diane was in charge of registration fees, books and video sales and had to deal in seven different currencies. They planned to spend Christmas 2001 in Houston with their son Loren, then go to California to visit Diane's sister, Sue Chamberlin Trauger '60, before returning to France. In February they were to cruise with friends out of Italy to Spain, Morocco, the Canary Islands and Madeira. In her spare time, Diane does editing work for publications and prepares and leads three different study groups. . . . Art Eddy and his wife, Ann, after five years of delightful Cape Cod living, have returned to northwest Connecticut in order to be near their children. They are again living in Lakeville, Conn., where Art lived and taught for 33 years and where Ann has family roots dating back to Revolutionary War times. . . . Please keep sending your news.

--Helen Cross Stabler

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