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

Contacts from classmates are scarce indeed. Must mean everyone is extremely busy--hopefully in good health and enjoying their families as well as themselves. . . . Judi Holtz Levow recently moved permanently to Lake Worth, Fla., from Weston, Mass., much closer to her son and his wife in Delray Beach and her grandson, who lives in Pt. St. Lucie. She has an interest in being a part of a South Florida alumni group. . . . Katherine Flynn Carrigan, with degrees not only from Colby but Harvard as well (M.Ed.), has moved back to Maine (Rockland) together with her extraordinary collection of children's Christmas books. The collection is not only on display in libraries/exhibits but is also available for children to read. This season, Kathy, a busy teacher of, and advocate for, migrant students is mentoring migrant teachers in several coastal communities. She is the mother of two with two grandchildren, now college students. I'm certain if you contacted her (see the Colby directory) you would be enthralled with her stories about her collection. . . . That's all there is from the Class of '55, although I have run into Stan Mathieu '57 and his wife, Jan, on the beaches of southern Florida and recently had a great visit with Sheila Freckmann Mc Laughlin '56. Perhaps by the next publication of Colby, we will have more contacts to report on.

--Ken Van Pragg

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A long letter from Frank Huntress reminded me of all the good times a year ago at our reunion--John Marshall leading our third kazoo parade to great applause, our Kennebec River cruise, our luncheon at Sally and Bill Haggetts. We got to experience living in one of the new, comfortable dorms. We had 81 show up on campus, and our reunion gifts totaled $80,290 to the Alumni Fund and nearly $2.7 million in overall gifts. I still have news to report from this event and hope it is still relevant. . . . Fred Moorhouse lives in Greene, R.I., and sees classmates at his Mt. Hermon reunions. He reports that John Nasse is an M.D. living in California and that Bob Savage is in New York. Fred ran into Bob Carver, who is on our missing list, at Narragansett Beach. He lives in Lancaster, N.Y., and is involved in fund raising in the Buffalo area. . . . Nancy Mc Leod O'Brien has worked for a nonprofit housing agency in Great Falls, Mont., for many years and has won many awards both for her work and for her extensive volunteering in her community. She has two children in New York and one in California. . . . Hugh Anderson retired in 1994 after 30 years as a pilot with UAL. His wife, Naomi, was a water safety instructor with the Red Cross and a Special Olympics coach for 18 years. They have retired to the Carolinas, where John Ziegler and Linda stop to visit them on their way back and forth to the Florida Keys. . . . As for more recent news, Bill Wyman reports that his new knee is working and he will be able to lead his mule train into the high Sierras this summer. . . . Lyn Brooks Wey is up and walking again after a successful spinal fusion operation to correct a back problem. . . . Lou '55 and I have signed up to go on the Alumni College trip in Tuscany in June. Several of his and my classmates are also going so it should be great fun. We are taking Italian lessons now and find them difficult. I keep reverting to phrases I learned in French class in high school and at Colby. It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks! My next column I will report on this trip. . . . Richard Abedon will continue to live in Wellington, Fla., even though he has joined Strategic Legal Solutions, which is located in New York and London and handles law firm mergers. He sees with increasing frequency Colby friends who are now coming to Florida--Peter Lunder, Allan Landau '55 and Dave Slater. . . . We attended the winter alumni meeting held in Boston and were present when the Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 racing scull was dedicated. Many crew team members were there to hear Doris's gracious acceptance speech. She may be the best "no notes" speaker that I have heard. . . . Judge Allan "Reggie" van Gestel '57 also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award. . . . Please keep your news coming.

--Kathy McConaughy Zambello

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Judy Brown Dickson e-mailed from Anchorage, Alaska (see, e-mail is useful!). She reports that there was so much snow this winter that drifts reached the tops of buildings, allowing the kids to get up on the roof. This past February Judy received her teaching contract for the next school year and decided, despite the amounts of snow she had experienced, to go for another two years as long as her health holds out. During her Christmas break this past year, Judy went with three friends to Hawaii and spent some of the time with her son, Fred, who lives in Kona. During this summer she plans to be in Bar Harbor to visit more of her family. . . . As you may know, Harry and Joan Shaw Whitaker have returned to live in Massachusetts after spending several years in Las Vegas. They are in Plymouth and recently completed their dream addition of a three-season room to their home. . . . I had a wonderfully newsy letter from a roommate of many years ago. Ellie Fortenbaugh de la Bandera wrote from Cape Coral, Fla. Ellie's husband, Jorge, passed away in September 1999 after a long illness. Ellie is in Florida from October to May and then drives north to New Jersey, where her son, Jorge Jr., and his family live. Jorge has given her two grandsons, and at this writing her daughter, Cristina, had a daughter and was expecting again. Ellie officially retired in 1996 from the administrative office of the Courts of New Jersey (AOC), but she is now a part-time employee when she's in New Jersey. (She can still work for them from Florida using e-mail.) In New Jersey, Ellie tests interpreters. She will prepare the first draft into Spanish, then a Bolivian and a Spaniard, who are employed by the judiciary and are accredited to translate into Spanish by the American Translators' Association (Ellie is accredited in both directions), review them and make suggestions, which she decides whether or not to implement. As long as all this work doesn't interfere with golf, Ellie is willing to keep going. And this so-called part-time work also involves some nice travel. One visit not work-related was a trip to New Hampshire to see another old roommate, Dorothy Greenman Ketchum, and her husband, Wil. They thought it must have been about 40 years since they had last seen each other. (How can that be when we graduated just a few years ago?) . . . Jane Daib Reisman wanted me to reassure you that she and husband John do travel together. When I wrote about their trip to the United Kingdom with Jack and Sue Bower Hendrickson, it sounded like John wasn't along, but he was. Sorry, Jane. . . . Bob Saltz claimed he would never retire, but he and Lynne have decided to give in and are now thoroughly enjoying their winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz. They are involved with the art community in greater Scottsdale, both in spectator and sponsorship modes. They also have taken an interest in fund raising and support work. Top of their list was a 9/11 golf tournament that they helped launch as well as prostate cancer support work. As you know, Bob is a cancer survivor. Bob continues to run (jog?) at a gentlemanly pace and golfs. They have three grandchildren, a grandson in Vermont, and two step-grandchildren in Arizona. Also, Bob wanted you to know that the '58 Tau Delts remain in constant contact and hope that their next event will be a reunion at the home of David and Sheila Campbell Rhoades in Colorado. . . . Thanks to those of you who take the time to send those e-mails. I hope more of you do so. Have a great summer.

-Margaret Smith Henry

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