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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Ann Dunlap LeBourdais
183 High Head Road
Harpswell, ME 04079
207-725-6883
classnews1976@alum.colby.edu
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The wonderful aura and reveries of an incredible 25th reunion continue to invigorate and inspire members of the Class of '76. We had the best attendance ever, with people coming from near and far. Luis de Corral, his wife, Lorraine, and two teenage kids flew in from Puerto Rico just for the event. Morgan Murphy came in from Switzerland and Joth and Karen Brown Davis from Seattle. We had a gala class dinner on Saturday night, where outgoing class president Scott McDermott led a sidesplitting roast of our class and our times at Colby. He then passed the silver chalice (is that what that thing is?) to incoming class president Paul Boghossian. If you missed the reunion, please make a note now to be at our 30th reunion, June 9-11, 2006. You won't regret it! . . . More class news: we have a mini baby boom going on. Pam Came is newly married and pregnant. Sherry DeLuca is pregnant with twins! Becca Guild Jenness just adopted child number three, a 7-year-old from Bulgaria. . . . In sports, Lynn Leavitt Marrison has two hotshot hockey-playing daughters, and Jim Gay and his son recently competed in a national fencing tournament. He is a family practitioner in Oak View, Calif. . . . Ed Underwood has 19-year old twin sons. One plays football for Purdue, the other for Michigan State--and one went to the Rose Bowl last year! . . . Robert Richardson still runs track and won the triple jump at the Master's Nationals. He did slow down a bit to get remarried last year. . . . Also remarried is Wendy Swallow Williams, who chronicled her previous breakup in a book called Breaking Apart. She is chair of journalism at American University. . . . The Class of '76 boasts lots of other educators out there. Karl Methven is dean of faculty at Proctor Academy, Joy Sawyer-Mulligan is teaching at Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., where her husband, Michael, is headmaster, and Diane Lockwood Wendorf is a minister of Christian education at First United Church in Oak Park, Ill. . . . On the civic news beat, John Lumbard serves on the conservation commission of New Hampshire, and Esther Smith Bozak judges dog agility contests in her spare time. . . . On the international front, Abdillahi Rijal is serving on a U.N. peacekeeping mission on the border of Iraq and Kuwait; he has also been on missions in South Africa and Cambodia. . . . I'm filling in while Jane Souza Dingman convalesces from an accident last fall. Please send news to me at adlleb@ol.com, Paul Boghossian at pobogie@aol.com or Jenny Frutchy Ford at frutchy@aol.com. Thanks!
--Ann Dunlap LeBourdais
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Ellen D. O'Brien
96 Soaring Hawk Lane
Leeds, Maine 04263
207-524-5701
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This is the last column before our 25th! I hope you are working out your schedules to attend our wonderful once-in-a-lifetime reunion weekend, June 6-9, 2002--I am really looking forward to reconnecting with our great Class of '77. Specific reunion details from Colby will be arriving in your mailbox soon. Don't miss 'em, and just do it--sign up and be there! . . . I didn't receive as much news this time, maybe because our computer has been on the fritz, but I did hear from a few of you. Marion Mauran Mariner still lives with husband Michael in Providence, R.I., where they've been for almost 25 years. Their children are Ted, a junior at Union College, and Maddy, a senior at Tabor Academy. Michael is still with Fleet, and Marion "continues to specialize in volunteer projects of all kinds." Over the years, she has been president of a foundation that runs a summer camp for boys in New Hampshire, a trustee of the Wheeler School in Providence and president of an eating club in Maine, and now she assists with the horses at a riding stable for the disabled. Marion writes that she and Maddy are visiting colleges all over New England and that Maddy, who really wants to go to school in Maine, is crossing her fingers for a spot in the Colby Class of '06. Marion says being "empty nesters" has been great for their sailing! They sailed to Cutty Hunk in July and had an absolute blast with Joth and Karen Brown Davis '76 and saw Steve White at the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, "a day of racing the most beautiful boats in the world--all wooden boats, some built by Steve's boatyard--followed by a night of ssshmoozing and frugging." (Ah, Marion, could you please bring a sign-up roster to the reunion?). . . . I also heard from Jerry Chadwick, who lives in Ellicott City, Md. He writes that he is still in the consumer products business and that his wife, Ligia, just returned from Barcelona, where she attended a conference related to a journal of Latin American literature and culture, for which she is the U.S. representative. She is also teaching grades K-6 at the Catholic private school their children attended. One of their children is now a sophomore at Towson University and the other is a freshman in high school. Jerry is looking forward to seeing classmates again this June and is working the phones for our 25th reunion gift to the Alumni Fund. Jerry, thank you so much. . . . Our classmates continue to make news; The Beacon-Acton edition of the Acton, Mass., weekly newspaper did an article on Kevin Convey, who is, as of May 2001, the editor-in-chief of the Community Newspaper Company. The article reports that Kevin lives in Brockton, Mass., with his wife and two children. Before he became editor of CNC, he worked for several other publications. As managing editor features/Sunday for the Boston Herald, he was in charge of the paper's arts, television, entertainment, lifestyle, food, travel and fashion coverage. This meant being manager of six departments with more than 60 editors, reporters, copy editors, graphic artists and production people. Kevin was also the articles editor at Boston Magazine, where he assigned and edited front-of-the-book columns and often wrote feature articles. . . . Lincoln County Weekly reported that Michael T. Martin was promoted to senior vice president, credit administrator, at the First National Bank of Damariscotta. Michael has been in the banking business for the last 24 years and lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife, Denise, and their children, Ryan, Kelly, Melissa and Katie. After graduating from Colby with a degree in economics, he attended the New England School of Banking at Williams College. He is past chairman of the Maine Group of the Risk Management Association (RMA). . . . Well, that's all the news sent to me this time, except maybe for a few e-mails that bounced back or are still out there somewhere. We do have a new computer now, so please send more news. And call your buddies to make reunion plans--the Class of '77 needs you for a great 25th reunion!
--Ellen D. O'Brien
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Robert S. Woodbury
484 Bridge Street
Hamilton, MA 01982
978-468-3805
fax: 617-951-9919
classnews1978@alum.colby.edu
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Given everything that we all have been through in 2001, I hope this issue of Colby finds everyone happy, healthy and enjoying the company of loved ones. . . . At least two people were happy to see recent mention of Bill Hough in this column. John Lumbard '76 wrote that while bumming around Europe after graduation, he ran into Bill in the audience at the opera house in Vienna. He's tried to track Bill down since, but no luck. Sharon Culf-Gorman, who says she hasn't seen Bill in 15 years, also would love to hear from him. I don't have Bill's e-mail address (Colby probably does), but theirs are jlumbard@lumbard.com and wallygorman@cs.com, respectively. Write to them, Bill! . . . Mary Rolerson Hebert lives in Kennebunk, Maine, and is a seventh grade teacher in language arts. She's been married for 24 years to Donald Hebert, who is the CFO at USA Telecom. They have two sons, Scott, 19, a freshman at Savannah College of Art and Design, and Brian, 15, a competitive downhill mountain biker. They also have a dog by the wonderful name of Colby! She claims to have no milestones in her life (although two teenage sons are big ones) because she keeps staying back in seventh grade. However, she will soon become an "official" mountain bike race marshall to keep up with Brian as he travels the country as a downhill and dual slalom competitor. Mary does this as she retires from the x-c circuit due to one concussion too many, but she wants to remain in the sport. Also, she's a snowboard instructor for the Maine Handicapped Skiing program at Sunday River. . . . Microsoft transferred Helena Bonnell Gilman to Paris to their Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters to take up the position of corporate communications manager. Previously she was based in Dubai for five years as a marketing manager covering 11 countries in the Middle East. Although Helena found this job extremely exciting as she worked with high government officials and sheiks, she's happy to be back in a truly Western world. Her husband is retired and enjoying volunteer work and raising their two boys who are 10 and 12 and attending the British School in Paris. She says the best part of their life is returning to Maine each summer for six weeks at Pine Island Camp on Belgrade Lakes. . . . It's time for the Winer family to move again. Gary Winer and his family moved only one mile from the old house to the new, and he feels that this short distance is the reason why the movers weren't pulled over and arrested by the police for the first time in the last three moves! They are living in Broomfield, Colo., and love it. Gary's still with IBM (racking up frequent flyer miles again after a three-year stint in Denver). Donna (Bowdoin '78) works at a local psychiatric hospital. They are both looking forward to their 25th reunions. . . . Dr. Steve Lary, who lives in Camden, Maine, received his advanced therapeutic glaucoma license from the Maine Board of Optometry. This enables him to prescribe glaucoma medications. After Colby, Steve graduated from the New England College of Optometry and practiced with an ophthalmologist in central Maine for 10 years, during which time he lectured internationally for the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. He has operated his Camden practice since 1993. . . . Nancy "Pickaxe" Piccin forwarded a very flattering article about old friend Rus Lodi, football star at Franklin (Mass.) High before excelling on the gridiron at Colby. Rus resigned as editor-in-chief of Community Newspaper Co.'s west unit to become director of public affairs for the Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund of Boston, a self-supporting state agency that helps develop and preserve affordable housing. The article is replete with praise and admiration for Rus (no surprise, I've been harboring such feelings myself since 1974) from co-workers at all levels. Rus was described as "an old-style editor with a loosely knotted tie and rolled-up sleeves." Brings back memories of him jammin' for a final in the Pit freshman year, except for the tie. . . . Another red head, Ellen Geaney Scarponi, wrote that in April 2001, having decided that the details of a big wedding were going to get the best of them, she and Bob flew to Captiva Island, Fla., and got married on the beach at sunset. And yes, it was just as romantic as it sounds! They met in 1994 but postponed marriage until Ellen's daughter, Kate, graduated from high school--with honors from Merrimack (N.H.) High School in June. In August, Bob and Ellen delivered Kate to Taylor Hall at . . . Colby College! Ellen's not sure who had more fun that day, Kate or herself. She was reassured that Janice is the dean of students (she started the same year we did). In October, they moved into their new home in Canterbury, N.H. They love the house and being in the country. In December, after 15 years with AT&T, she did what she's always wanted to do and accepted a position as the director of strategic business development for Eastlantic Advertising and Public Relations in Manchester, N.H. She maintains her board position with the Manchester Boys & Girls Club and currently serves as the president. By the way, she's psyched about our reunion in 2003. . . . Remember, first come, first served, if you want to replace me as class scribe in June 2003.
--Robert S. Woodbury
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Cheri Bailey Powers
6027 Scout Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
719-532-9285
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