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

CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jane Holden Huerta
2955 Whitehead Street
Miami, FL 33133
305-446-5082
classnews1960@alum.colby.edu

Do any of you have more than nine grandchildren? Dick '57 and Susan Macomber Vogt, Cynthia and Jerry Guiles and Charlie '61 and Ann Dudley Dewitt all have nine. Charlie and Ann have settled into their retirement home on the water in Friendship, Maine, hoping to have lots of visits from their three children and the nine grandchildren. Her work as director of disability determination services was very rewarding, she says, as about $450 million comes to Maine citizens each year because of the decisions they made. . . . Hank Van Beever lives in Antigua. Retired from the charter yacht scene, he owns a small company that deals with on-board computer systems for yachts that base themselves in Antigua for the winter. He has four children and four grandchildren but is divorced and single now. He is sorry to have missed our reunion, but he invites any of his classmates or DU fraternity brothers to visit him in English Harbour. . . . After my rather desperate e-mail, Ken Nigro sent what he calls "useless information." He lives in Sarasota, Fla., and operates baseball fantasy camps and cruises for major league teams, among them the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers. Because he knows Larry Lucchino, the new president/CEO of the Red Sox, he'll operate both a cruise and fantasy camp for the Red Sox in 2003. He is looking forward to spending some time in Boston and hopes to visit Colby one of these days. . . . Ralph Nelson helps prospective members of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) who live outside the U.S delineate and document their descent from a patriot ancestor. As chairman of the international development council of the SAR, he leads six ambassadors in working with prospects from Hong Kong to Brazil to Denmark. In March, two weeks after 40 members of the SAR instituted a state society in Mexico, they presented Ralph with a distinguished service medal for his help in organizing that society. . . . Janice Rideout Carr is director of the honors institute and a program for academically talented youth at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, Calif. Janice, who is planning to work as long as it is still fun and rewarding, has traveled to Wyoming, Sierra Nevada, Moro Bay and the Mojave Desert. She talks with Eunice Bucholz Spooner a few times a year and exchanges Christmas cards with Janet Grout Williams and Bev Jackson Glockler. . . . After 30 years in the USAF and 10 working for a small company providing engineering and technical support to the Defense Department, Peter N. "Mac" Mc Farlane has retired completely. He lives in Evergreen, Colo., where, a bit late in life, he took up skiing (players on the hockey team at Colby weren't allowed even to look at a pair of skis). Mac also plays hockey on occasion but says the rinks down in the Denver suburbs seem like a lifetime away. With two grandchildren in Virginia, Mac and his wife travel that direction whenever possible. They took a cruise to the eastern Mediterranean last spring, visiting Athens, Santorini, Mikonos, Rhodes, Corfu and Katakalon in Greece and cities in Turkey, Egypt, Croatia and Italy. . . . Now retired, George '58 and Wendy McWilliam Denneen relaxed in the March sunshine of southern California, visiting their daughter, Sue, who teaches there and who was married there on the beach last August. Wendy and George are heading for Ireland in August after the wedding of their son, Matt. They are hoping finally to be grandparents! . . . Last August, Peter Van Alyea and Marian (his wife of three years) visited Waring Blackburn and his wife, Audrey (married two weeks earlier). They then drove across the top of New England, visiting Colby for his first time since our 25th reunion in 1985. Peter is still the owner and president of Redwood Oil Company in Santa Rosa, Calif., and in his spare time grows chardonnay, merlot and cabernet sauvignon grapes that they sell to Clos du Bois. They live in a farmhouse he built in the vineyard and go to Hawaii every winter to work on their golf (lost cause, he says) and to Europe every spring. . . . Ted and Liz Boccasile Mavis have two handsome, unmarried 28-year-old sons who are enjoying traveling and the single life just like their mother and father did! Liz is having fun working part time as a reservationist at the Saybrook Point Inn & Spa only five minutes from their retirement home, which overlooks Long Island. . . . Charlotte Wood MacPhetres enjoys her (new) career teaching learning disabled little ones. She loves living on the water in Minot, Mass. . . . Jean Foley is working just three days a week. The rest of the time she looks after her dogs, cats and hens, as well as husband, on 20 acres of land on the Missisquoi River. They have about an acre vegetable and flower garden and sell the extra produce at the roadside. Since our 40th reunion, she has been sporadically in touch with Sandy Mayer Zinman. . . . Doug '58 and Judy Ingram Hatfield moved out of their almost 200-year-old home and moved just 1.5 miles into a one-story home that they are renovating and expanding. Their children are all doing well, and they have three "grandgirls"--all at a distance, so most of their traveling lately is to see them. Judy bumped into Gail Longnecker Brown in Concord one day last fall, and they had a fun time catching up on each other's families. . . . Jack and Joanne Price Rockett are both still working, although slowing down a bit and spending more time in Lauderdale by the Sea, Fla. Their kids, Jolie and Will, are getting master's degrees, she in education and he in business. Will works full time at US Trust and attends NYU at night; Jolie, recently engaged, goes to Hunter and hopes to teach in public schools.

--Jane Holden Huerta

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--Daine Scrafton Ferreira

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By the time this news is published, our 40th reunion will be over. I hope I'll gather so much news at the reunion that the next several columns will be too long. . . . I had a great phone chat with Jan Griffith, who is dean of Georgia State University School of Law in Atlanta. Jan is one of the few women in our class who pursued a career in law or medicine. How times have changed. Jan is an avid supporter of Colby and has steered students to Colby. At the moment, daughters of two of her peers attend the College. We had a good, healthy discussion on the values of a liberal arts education. . . . Paul Hickey has again been nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his work on set design for As the World Turns. He has won the award four times. Good luck, Paul. . . . Gerry Tays wrote from Washington that after 30 years with the National Park Service, he joined Washington State Parks as a volunteer only to be hired soon thereafter to begin a program in historic preservation. Gerry has just been notified that he is to receive a state historic preservation officer's award for outstanding achievement in historic preservation, specifically for "Outstanding Achievement in Public Education." Gerry mentioned also that he was the only geology major in our class. I find that hard to believe! Congratulations!

--Patricia Farnham Russell

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Planning for our 40th reunion is underway. Keep the first weekend in June 2003 free and plan with friends to come. Any ideas on the reunion should go to our president, Ann Bruno Hocking, at bootyann@aol.com. . . . Al Carville reminds us that this should be "The Reunion" not to be missed as we should all still be in good form. "It should be bigger than our 50th!" . . . Nancy Reynolds Jensen hopes to make it and sends a hello to Jane Melanson Dahmen and Barbara Haines Chase. I saw Jane Dahmen at the opening of her show of oil paintings of Tuscany landscape at the Powers Gallery in Acton, Mass. With Susan Comeau and Bonnie Brown Potter also there, it was like a mini-reunion. In February we were at the funeral of Peg Chase Macomber '27, Jane's wonderful aunt, whom many of you may have known at Colby when the Macombers lived on the second floor of Roberts. At that time, Bill Macomber '27 ran the summer institutes and clambakes at Colby. It was actually my family's connections with the Macombers, starting at Camp Medomak in Washington, Maine, that brought me to Colby. . . . Jo-Ann Wincze French writes that a layoff a year ago from General Electric Lighting in Cleveland turned into a blessing as she is now working for Venture Lighting only minutes from home. Her mother is still doing well, and she is enjoying her three young grandsons who live nearby. . . . Judy Spear has returned to Maine from Lancaster, Mass., and is now living in Brooksville. Continuing her freelance editing in art history and involvement in local land-conservation networks, she loves the "tonic effect of the salt air and breathtaking vista--some 500 feet from the Atlantic" of her renovated bungalow. . . . Although she retired four years ago from the CIA, Midge Walton Holmes continues living in McLean, Va. She has two new passions: oil painting and senior women's softball. She and her husband, Chris, visited and skied with Mary Lee Grant McIntosh and her husband, Terry, at their new home in Wintergreen, Va. They also frequently see Silvia Caillet-Bois Bonta, who lives in Bethesda. . . . Michael Sylvester and his wife, Sarah, have enjoyed getting back to the Colby campus--"the place looks great!"--as they have a son at the Hyde School in Bath. . . . Allen and Rosemary Blankenship Hubbard celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Living in Charlotte, N.C., Allen is doing part-time environmental consulting and is involved in local environmental justice projects. Rosemary is between jobs but keeps busy with three grandsons, including Michael, 5, whom they are raising. . . . A quick note from Ceylon Barclay has him in Azerbaijan and Russia for the next six months. . . . In Cohasset, Mass., Patti (Raymond '65) and Thomas Thomas have been enjoying their infant twin grandsons--sons of Bob Thomas '88 and Carrie O'Brien '88--and had just returned from a "great week" in London. . . . James McConchie is semi-retired and very busy with his wife and two daughters restoring the Susan B. Anthony birthplace in Adams, Mass., as a center for women's causes and studies. . . . On a personal note, I did get up to the dedication of the new Crawford Art Studios in the fall and was happy to see Professors Miller and Meader and also the new student studios being used so well. Be sure to see them and the art museum on your next trip. And keep those e-mails and letters coming for some class news.

Karen Forslund Falb

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Paul Tessier has been getting a lot of press in Maine lately as he seeks a seat in the Maine Senate after three terms in the Legislature. Well known for his interest in economic development, Paul earned his master's degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, retired from the Army in 1993 as a lieutenant colonel and currently works as clinical director of the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers in Waterville. His daughter also serves in the Maine House, an unusual father-daughter team. . . . Morgan McGinley, who received the Stephen A. Collins Freedom of Information Award for his long-term commitment to citizens' right to know, continues to be tireless in testifying, lobbying and writing legislation concerning freedom of information. . . . Bob Gelbard spoke at Colby last November on terrorism, a subject he knows firsthand from his long, recently completed career in foreign service. . . . Gloria Shepherd received a certificate in Web page design from the New School University. "I am not a programmer," she wrote. "My knowledge is the creation of images for the Web and building sites." She says that the Class of 1964 Web site is still under construction, but if you have photos to post, please get permission from the people in the photo, then send the photo to her. . . . Dick Larschan got together with George Shur last summer. "I was at Notre Dame for a five-week National Endowment for the Humanities program on Anglo-Irish literature," he says, "and decided to take a side-trip to Illinois, where I popped in on George and Martha (Shur, not Washington). Both of us agreed we hadn't changed a bit in the intervening years since he and I, His Ambassadorship Bob Gelbard and Steve Schoeman bunked down in Averill a mere 42 years ago." Dick's daughter, Alexandra, just finished looking over Colby. "I was quite impressed," Dick says, "that I'd somehow managed to get in there (obviously some things have changed in the intervening 42 years!)" . . . Jon Allen still works as an independent consultant in electronics and applied physics, but his main client now is a solar photovoltaic company that is developing better panels to turn sunlight into electricity. "I really enjoy the work," he said. . . . B.J. Campbell's son, David, and his wife, Liz, gave birth to twin girls Feb. 22. These are her first grandchildren, "and I am in awe of them already," she wrote. "Having had two sons, I am really having fun with pink and girl things.". . . Jerry Shapiro, now chairman of the counseling psych graduate department at Santa Clara University, says he's surprised to be "enjoying some parts of it. One of those is that it's a constant excuse to avoid finishing my next book." His daughter is a sophomore at Willamette U. in Salem, Ore., and is planning to spend her junior year in Ecuador; his soccer and water polo player son is about to enter high school. Jerry's wife of 21 years is also a psychologist and professor. They live in Los Altos, Calif., and would love to see any of you who are traveling through or who live in the vicinity. . . . Susan Woodward wrote that she has her own real estate company "at last, with three associates at present--we specialize in selling beautiful homes to wonderful people who don't whine much and are lots of fun to work with!" She has two granddaughters in New England and a third due in June in San Francisco. . . . Barbara Carr Howson is back in school in a graduate program in school counseling and hopes to finish by May 2003 "so I can work a few years before retiring! Better later than never, I say! I don't remember school being so hard!" Two of her sons are in grad school also. She, one son and her Bryn Mawr College daughter will all graduate in May 2003. "In sum," she says, "I am just grateful for every day and for being able to follow this dream." . . . Mike Robinson reports that he and Carol (Ingerman) are about to embark on a new adventure in life. Soon after he graduates from Bangor Theological Seminary he will be ordained as a UCC (Congregationalist) minister. They hope to be called to a church somewhere on the coast of Maine so they can get more "boat time" on their sailboat. Their son, Brian, lives in St. Louis and is expecting his second child. Their daughter, Ann, is in Hopkinton, Mass., has a very active 3 1/2-year-old and is hoping for a second child soon. "Grandchildren are just the best there is in life," he said. Mike's report on his family company and the economy in northern Maine, however, is sobering. He says the population of Millinocket and E. Millinocket plunged 25 percent between 1990 and 2000 as the fortunes of The Great Northern Paper Company fell on hard times. "Much of the land and many forest products businesses in northern Maine have been bought up by Canadian firms," he says, "and many of us fear our part of Maine will eventually become a national park." . . . Lynne Davidson, still the chair of the organizational behavior and communication department at New York University, McGhee Division for Adult Students, says she loves teaching adults and her subject area. Last summer she started consulting to JPMorganChase, helping in the redeployment and counseling of employees whose jobs were eliminated. She wrote that on September 11, "I switched my schedule around so I was not down by the World Trade Center for the first time in months. A miracle I guess. However, the first plane flew over my apartment in Greenwich Village (the "frozen zone") and I witnessed both towers implode! Two days later I joined other senior consultants and began conducting group debriefings and crisis interventions for all JPMorganChase employees. Some of the most difficult yet rewarding work I have ever done."

--Sara Shaw Rhoades

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