ALUMNI PROFILES
Gardner Gray '64
One Last Landing

James Simon '64

David Rea '71

David Melpignano '72
Taking Stock

Maura Shaughnessy '83

Jennifer Massengill '88
Cell mate

Mala Rafik '93
Cause and effect

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56 Dear classmates, this winter we attended many sports events at Amherst College whenever Colby was in town. We had a great time watching the women's basketball team beat Amherst and then Wellesley to win the ECAC Division III championships, which were played here at Amherst. A wonderful contingent of Colby parents and grandparents attends both basketball and hockey, and it is always fun to don our Colby sweatshirts and root for our teams. Another benefit of living in a college town. . . . Margaret Darby Persons and her husband, Roger, are still living and traveling full time in their motor home. They continue their volunteer work with Campers On Mission, and this winter found them in Florida, where they helped build a new facility for The Winter Haven Christian School. This summer they will be volunteering at a family camp in the mountains of New Mexico. . . . Al Clapp stays so very busy with his second career in health care that he has no plans to slow down and take it easy. He says he met Colby's new president at the Stamford, Conn., alumni gathering and was most impressed. Al has a cousin who lives in my end of town here in Amherst and hopes we can become acquainted. I'll give her a call. . . . I got a reply from Charlie Morrissey after my e-mail inquiry, and he is also busy in a second careerat Pepperdine as a professor of info systems. Two of his kids and five of his seven granddaughters are still in the East, so he gets back this way often to see them, unfortunately never at reunion time. He has stayed in touch with Colbya son and daughter-in-law are graduatesbut has only attended one reunion that I know of. . . . My next column will be our reunion news.

--Kathy McConaughy Zambello

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It seems we don't need the amount of space we used to require. Responses are very few. If you want to keep us in business, please try to respond to the e-mail you receive from the Alumni Office or send in the questionnaire that comes in Colby magazine. . . . Nathan Adams sent a very nice note catching me up on his life. His wife, Anneliese, retired from her position at the Austrian Embassy in Washington in June 2000. Then Nate and Anneliese moved "kit and kaboodle to our new log home near Ennis, Mont., a small town in the Madison Valley some 75 miles north of Yellowstone Park." Nate retired in 1994 after a 26-year career as a senior staff editor of The Reader's Digest researching and writing investigative features on trans-national organized crime (Russia) and terrorism (Middle East) and getting "fronted off" on the CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, PBS, etc. He also appeared before various congressional security, intelligence and foreign affairs committees. Although living in a town that boasts 850,000 trout, Nate says he still does some security and risk analysis studies for international clients. However, he is happy to be back in a part of the country where he spent his childhood. If anyone is ever in the area, do look him up. . . . Bob Saltz (rsaltz@amrresearch.com) did send an e-mail and had a lot of news. He and his wife still live in Swampscott, Mass., but spent this past winter in Scottsdale, Ariz. They loved it so much that they bought a place on Gainey Ranch and will spend winters there. Bob has spent the last two years fighting prostate cancer, had two operations and radiation but at the time of writing had the good news that for the moment he is winning the battle. He now spends some time counseling others confronting this disease. He retired from his latest business venture, AMR Research, in April 2000 but still maintains an office in Boston and a spot on the advisory board. Bob's daughter Judy gave him a 2-year old grandson, and his son was married in late winter 2001. . . . One night I had a phone call regarding Colby fund raising, but it was from a former postgraduate roommate, Carol Hall Hui. Carol and her husband, David, and daughter Kim are still living in Sunnyvale, Calif., land of the rolling blackouts. Carol "retired" from her work with a local ballet company because the company had gone into Chapter 11. She had been working with the company since 1985, getting it into better funding categories. Dave also had a career change but is still in the computer field. Their daughter is an emergency room technician at the local hospital in San Jose and is thinking of taking the paramedic course in the fall as well as working on a certificate for operating room technician. . . . And there you are. I know you are out there; let me hear from you.

–Margaret Smith Henry

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59 Jessica and Bob Cockburn still live in New Brunswick, Canada, where Bob is a professor of English. He edited the book Toward Magnetic North: The Oberholtzer-Magee 1912 Canoe Journey to Hudson Bay, which was published last October. . . . New Hampshire resident David Russell, who spent two years with us, ran for a seat in the state representative race. He had served as a state representative since March 2000 and is interested in land conservation and funding for education. Did you win, David? . . . Bill and Edo Foresman Donaldson have courageously taken the RV plunge. They sold their house last June and have traveled more than 10,000 miles, seeing and learning a lot in the process. They have a home base with their daughter in Connecticut, so it is the best of both worlds. And they can choose whatever weather suits their mood! . . . Please write to me, folks. I love hearing from you and am delighted to report your activities to our classmates.

--Ann Segrave Lieber

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