ALUMNI PROFILES
Susan Woodward '64
A Lifelong Learner

Doug Smith '70
A Different Cargo

Janice Bispham '76
A Place to Come To

Caleb Dolan '90
A Worthwhile Struggle

Patrick Burlingame '00

I was delighted to hear from Barbara Starr Wolf with news of her family. She and her husband, Wolfe, have moved from South America back to the Boston area after 41 years. They sold their home in Brazil and will be dividing their time between Jamaica Plain and southern Argentina. Barbara and Wolfe's two children and four grandchildren are planning a trip to Switzerland this summer to celebrate Wolfe's 80th birthday. Wolfe made his home in Switzerland until his family moved to Argentina in 1939. . . . Kerm and Susi Goldey Morrison are considering a trip to Scandinavia in late summer. Susi and Kerm have organized a number of very successful group trips over the years. If this happens I am hoping to join the group, and I'll be sure to include it in a future letter if it works out. . . . My sister Ann Jennings Taussig '49 and her husband, John, are selling their home in Williamsburg, Va., and moving to their now completely renovated and winterized summer home in Wolfeboro, N.H. My two sisters and I planned our third annual mother-daughter weekend (always a hilarious event!) at Ann's home on Lake Winnepesaukee the last weekend in June. This is the season for family reunions, so please telephone me at 203-245-7725.

Alice Jennings Castelli

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Eddi (Miller '52) and Mark Mordecai traveled to California to visit with their son and daughter-in-law and their newest grandson. They also had a family gathering in New Hampshire over the holidays. . . . Helen (Palen '52) and Bob Roth stay in touch with several classmates in the Connecticut area. They had a great visit with two of their three kids during the holidays. . . . Ernie Fortin writes that he hosted another successful annual Colby alumni gathering at his place in Sarasota, Fla. President Adams attended to discuss the ";state of Colby"; and the efforts to complete Colby's strategic plan for the next decade and to answer questions from the group of about 60 people. Bob Brotherlin, Mickey Rosenberg Rolland, Shirley Raynor Ingraham, Wes Freeman, Nancy and Dick Birch and Norval Garnett were among those in attendance. Ernie and Patti toured Tuscany, Italy, in the fall and had a trip to Maine to celebrate his mom's 97th birthday! . . . Bill Burgess, who has been a high school drama teacher in Tucson, Ariz., for many years, was recently honored with the establishment of a scholarship in his name for the benefit of the Live Theatre Workshop in that city. . . . Now we can look forward to being a part

Nancy Nilson Archibald

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Our grand celebration of 50 years since graduation has come and gone. But because the deadline for this column was March 15, and I am not gifted with the art of making accurate reports of events yet to come, I am not able to tell you just what a grand celebration it truly was. I can't tell you that the weather co-operated with sunny skies throughout. (If it did rain, that would be good news worth reporting as we have been experiencing a drought here in Maine for nearly a year.) Nor can I tell you the banquets were great. (Who was responsible for those charred Brussels sprouts? And for that matter, who ordered the Brussels sprouts in the first place?) Or that the music led by members of Colby's 1952 singing groups was inspirational. (OK. So what if a little too much vibrato has crept in over 50 years!) I can report to you, however, that Sandy Pearson Anderson has agreed to be our class secretary and Colby magazine correspondent, and thus a full report on our reunion will appear in Sandy's first column in the fall issue. I have appreciated the opportunity to write these notes for the past 20 issues. Please keep Sandy apprised of your post-50th activities. We all look forward to reading about them via the Pearson perfect prose.

Paul M. Aldrich

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Each Christmas I get a few greetings with notes and photos. Sally Mathews Mac Lean sent me detailed news of her family, with attached pictures. Lately one of her favorite pastimes is listening to books on tape, and from the looks of all her activities with the grandchildren, this makes good use of her time. . . . Speaking of holiday cards, Bobbie Studley Barnette sent a super photo-card of herself, surrounded by her daughter, three grandsons and three granddaughters. . . . A couple of years ago I received a card that was signed "Bob," and that was a mystery to me. This past holiday it had a return address. Mystery solved I went through my printout and found that Robert Grindle is the person who sends the attached compliments. . . . I have another sequel to the Larry Taber tree story. Remember that I thought he personally planted thousands of trees in Madison, N.J.? The mayor and council decided that not only did he know all the trees, he knows everyone in town as well as the history, so now he has been appointed borough historian. . . . E-mail brings the news that Chase and Nan Murray Lasbury will have a triple celebration on July 12, 2002. It is their 50th wedding anniversary, and they share this date with the wedding anniversaries of their oldest daughter in Tucson (her 25th) and youngest daughter in Connecticut (her 5th). . . . Loretta Thompson Staples has taken on new volunteer work for the library at the Baltimore Museum of Arts: cataloguing Sotheby catalogues now and Christie's in the future, all done online so that she can take breaks now and then to view the beautiful things they sell. . . . Harry O'Brasky e-mailed that he had sold his Medway, Mass., home and moved to an "over 55" community in Middleboro. Before they moved and put their belongings in storage, they took a trip to Europe and England. . . . Virginia Falkenbury Aronson retired, moved and found herself busier than ever. She is a board member of the Richmond Choral Society, receptionist for the ministry to the homeless and working poor and one of the fund raisers for our 50th. Ginnie's seven children have supplied her with endless jobs of "sitting" and "dog walking." Somehow she has found time to travel to Germany, the Czech Republic and Greece, where she visited Sophia Hadjigeorgiou Krallis '54. She is off to Ireland this summer. . . . Florence Fisher Krejci says her news is "so ordinary," but I found it so interesting that I wanted to share it by quoting her e-mail. She wrote, "I retired in 1993 and in accordance with the old cliché, I have never been busier. First we had an earthquake (known as the 1994 Northridge earthquake, but slightly misplaced), but since my condo was almost directly over the epicenter, the full force hadn't yet reached the surface. Thus, while I was shaken to the core and had large amounts of breakage, my home was spared serious damage. In June of that year, I finally got around to marrying my dear Milan--like the fictional Fr. Tim of Jan Karon's Mitford, he was 63 years old and had never been married before. And yes, that makes us memorable, 'two Italian cities!' Thus our marriage has been a retirement project, and it has certainly kept life interesting. We have traveled a fair amount, to New Zealand and Australia to visit my eldest daughter, to the Czech Republic to visit his cousins, to Israel, all around the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, to various parts of Canada. As 2003 dawns, we expect to be en route to the Panama Canal and will add several new countries to our record. Three years ago we bought a newly constructed house, so decorating and landscaping has been quite a task, one that will probably never be quite completed. We live in the heart of the San Fernando Valley (of which he is a native) and within the city limits of Los Angeles. Most of our activities involve the Episcopal Church in some measure, and I am in my second three-year term as president of the Order of the Daughters of the King in the Diocese of Los Angeles, a spiritually oriented organization of about 650 women in this six-county area. My only major diversion other than church activities is membership in a Girl Scout alumnae group, Troop 007. (No, we're not secret agents we're licensed for anything!) My three daughters (the Aussie, who works for the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and lives in Canberra a one-time computer professional, who now home-schools in suburban Philadelphia and a priest, chaplain of an Episcopal day school in the Pasadena area) have provided me with five grandsons and two granddaughters ranging from 4 to 16, of whom only the two youngest boys are close enough to see with any regularity. More excuses for interesting vacations! We do plan to attend the 50th reunion next year, although I am far from ready to become part of "Fifty-Plus," as Colby magazine puts it. We'll drive as we usually do, visiting friends and family and sites of interest to us all over this exciting country. . . . I still keep in touch with some of our classmates via Christmas notes but almost never see anyone. We do occasionally get together with Ray '52 and Merry Crane Evans '52, and we're hopeful that we can include Mel Lyon '52 in the next gathering. It's no comfort to be the 'baby' of the group!"

Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey

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We were very sad to hear that Josephine "Jody" Peary died in February in Sarasota, Fla. From 1968 to 1996 Jody worked at the Asolo Theater and was executive assistant to the producing artistic director, Howard Millman. Millman said, "She brought such a love of life to this organization. I never saw her be anything but positive and cheerful." We remember her energy and enthusiasm from Colby days. . . . Ben and Diane Stowell Duce have a new granddaughter, Alicia Rose Duce, born December 27. They write, "We now have six grandchildren, three boys and three girls, and are enjoying them all as well as our retirement." . . . Annie and Abbott Rice live in Hudson, N.H., where they keep busy with church and Grange activities. Abbott has also been serving on the town of Hudson ethics committee. . . . Dot Forster Olson spends her time on watercolor paintings, quilting, tennis and golf as well as doing some accounting work and homebound teaching. She and Roger '53 have a cabin in Monson, Maine, where they spend time in the summer. . . . Paul '59 and Marty Cornish Downing also have a vacation home, newly acquired, in southwestern Massachusetts. They are enjoying their nine grandchildren and playing bridge. . . . PJ Moore Blair and Bill have a different hobby--traveling to dog shows with their Pekinese, bulldog and dachshund. . . . Joan Dawes Litteer walks, golfs and plays bridge. She also volunteers in the local (Liverpool, N.Y.) high school library and with Reach for Recovery, a group sponsored by the American Cancer Society. . . . Beverly Barrett Nichols lives in Jamul, Calif., south of San Diego, which Bev says is like paradise. She has a big garden with year-round flowers. She and her husband between them have 12 grandchildren. One of the high points of the last year for Bev was going on a tour to China. She says she learned a lot about China and was very impressed by the friendliness of the Chinese people toward Americans. . . . It is clear that retirement years remain busy but very enjoyable. Colby Thompson Lowe, however, is still hanging in there with substitute teaching in Westport, Conn. . . . Again, I invite you all to send your news for the next column.

Helen Cross Stabler

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