Colby Magazine, Spring 2002 Staff

Contributors:

Edgar Allen Beem ("Gourley's Collected Works") is a freelance writer and art critic who lives in Yarmouth, Maine. He is a frequent contributor to Boston Globe Magazine, Down East, Yankee, Maine Times, Art News and Photo District News. He is the author of two books, Maine Art Now and Maine: The Spirit of America as well as forthcoming book on the landscape paintings of artist Neil Welliver.

Matt Apuzzo '00 ("All Her Children") covers crime and courts for the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times and is a regular contributor to Colby. His work has appeared in the Providence Journal, Dallas Morning News, Portland Press Herald and Waterville Morning Sentinel.publications.

Colby Staff
Volume 91 Number 2

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
online art director

Kim Aime, Molly Roberts, Chris Volk, Brian Speer,
Jeff Earickson, Fred Field, Colleen Creeden '02
contributing photographers

Matt Apuzzo '00, Edgar Allen Beem, Blake Hamill '02,
Gavin O'Brien '04, Leila Porteous '02, Fraser Ross '02 contributing writers

Administration:
William D. Adams, president
Earl H. Smith, executive assistant to the president;
Peyton R. Helm, vice president for college relations;
Margaret Felton Viens '77, director of alumni relations

Alumni Council Executive Committee:
Lou Richardson '67, chair; Frank A. Wilson '73, vice chair,
Rebecca Birrell '92, Hope Palmer Bramhall '45, Shawn P. Crowley '91, Heather M. Daur '00,
Karl Dornish Jr. '54, Todd W. Halloran '84, Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90,
Eric Rolfson '73, Christopher Tompkins '89, Philip Wysor '70

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