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

Changes! We have reached that age when transitions are finally producing some news. The Internet seems to be your preferred method of communication, and the College forwards your notes to me via a white mule. It's slow but does get to New Jersey. . . . Virgil Hervey (vhrv@yahoo.com) reports giving up his law practice in 2000 to devote full time to writing. His short story "The Overall Picture" was published in The Vincent Brothers Review and has been nominated for a 2002 Pushcart Prize. Virgil's stories, poetry, articles and reviews have appeared in 40-plus small press publications. . . . In January 2001 Nick Locsin and Sue Cook '67 moved to Amherst, N.H., where Nick (nick.locsin@compaq.com) is a product manager with Compaq Computer Corp. in Nashua. . . . Nancy Kendig Montagna (Nantagna@aol.com) has been working as a clinical psychologist in suburban Maryland. After graduation she reports turning down a Peace Corps assignment to Thailand in favor of marrying Don. They adopted two children from India who are now grown. She's now learning Spanish and exploring new challenges involving human rights and democracy projects with International Partners, which will network her to those in need. Nancy also enjoys "Yogarythmics (dancing all the moods and feelings of the seven charkas), African-style community singing, walks in the mountains, our two sweet llamas, gardening and all the good people in my life." . . . Bob Rogers (rrogers1@ashland.edu) reports from Ashland College, Ohio, that "I enjoy what I do, but it is not much to write about and watch." He's a professor in economics. Bob went to China last fall to present a paper and visited Beijing and Nanchang: "interesting but somewhat overwhelming." He says, "day to day things are not a lot different from what they were at Colby. Last night, I went to the Nook, which is Ashland, Ohio's answer to the old Silver Dollar." . . . Class president Sunny Coady reports on a summer '01 trip to Germany with Bucky and Anna Owens Smith and a July '01 sailing trip in Maine with Rick and Nancy Winslow Harwood and George Hooker, who was on a holiday from his home base in Bangkok. Sunny continues a heavy schedule on the board of Easter Seals Massachusetts. . . . Dave Fearon (fearon@mail.ccsu.edu) has been on sabbatical from teaching management and organization behavior at Connecticut State University and conducting studies on "knowledge management" with his son, Dave Jr. '89. With a book in progress, he concludes:"There's still teaching juice in ol' 'Doc' Fearon yet." . . . Marty Dodge (dodgemc@flcc.edu) continues with his woodsman competitions and took his annual trip to Alaska with students from Finger Lakes Community College "to fly fish for rainbow trout." The ninth trip is scheduled for 30 days this summer. . . . 2001 finished with my annual lunch with Jay Fell '66 and my old roommate, Frank Musche '66, and his wife, Susan (Brown). Susan and Frank are somewhere in the Canary Islands playing golf as I compose this column. Talk about a wicked slice. . . . Hail, Colby, Hail!

--Richard W. Bankart

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Illustrious classmate Bill Koster, former vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb and now CEO of Neurogen Corporation, a biotech drug development company, continues to garner attention in the press. A February 2002 article in the Hartford, Conn., Courant business section featured Bill under the headline "Old Hand at New Drugs; Discovery Still Thrills Neurogen's New CEO." Bill and his wife live in Guilford, Conn. He lists his hobbies as sailing, bicycling, hiking and fishing. . . . Colby '68 and Pat Berg Currier retired and moved to Maine from Maryland in December 1998. They love their view of the Ewin Narrows from their home in Harpswell, where Mary Sue Hilton Weeks has used her incredible skills as a faux painter and muralist to create a spectacular new guestroom for them. Pat and Colby also keep in touch with Janna Vaughan Kasarjian, Jack and Paula Mc Namara McConnell, Bruce '65 and Ruth Kelleher Hertz, Doug and Beth Adams Keene, Elaine and Craig Little and Mike and Fran Clapp Becker. Colby still works as a consultant part time, and the Curriers spent about a third of 2001 traveling Australia and England and around the U.S. from Florida to Alaska. . . . Diane Leach Wilbur also moved to Maine in December 1998 and hasn't regretted leaving Connecticut for a minute. Diane lives in Scarborough and is accounting manager for Portland's WCSH-TV, Channel 6. We get together in Portland often, the last time as Diane was anticipating an April vacation at a beach house in Charleston, S.C. . . . Nice to see that Charlie "Chip" Birlem is on the board of directors of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, which are located on a beautiful site in Boothbay, Maine. Charlie grew up in Southwest Harbor and moved back to Maine from Massachusetts when he retired from his controller position at GTE. Sounds like a trend to me. He and his wife, Ellen, live in Boothbay and have three grown children. . . . George Cain, father of George Michael, Lauren, Rachel, Anne and Suzanne, looked forward to his youngest (Suzanne) child's May 2002 graduation from Pitzer College in California and hopes that all five children don't feel graduate studies are a must. Two of the five are married--three daughters to go, then George says his theme song will be "Free at Last." He sent me his news in March, just as he and his wife, Sue, were leaving for Japan to visit daughter Anne '01, who is there for a year in the Japanese English Teacher Program. George and fellow entrepreneur Ed Burrell have established a North American division for a European software company. George tells us that Ed "is as feisty as ever. He has played rugby extensively and other sports where men who are 4 feet 11 inches tall can excel." Okay Ed, it's your turn. Tell us about your friend and business partner George. . . . Hat's off to our Colby Alumni Council representative, Linda Mitchell Potter, who is doing a great job of keeping us informed about Colby and giving us plenty of reasons to be proud of our alma mater. Linda is an active member of the Alumni Council, as is class president Fran Finizio, who is heading up the new career services group of the council. . . . As of mid-March my news barrel is empty and needs refilling. You can send your news to the College or directly to me via e-mail or snail-mail, free form or on the form in the back of this magazine. I even answer my telephone. . . . Waiting to hear from you.

--Meg Fallon Wheeler

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Pensions and Investments, a professional journal for the field, reports that Todger Anderson is president of Denver Investment Advisors. The company¹s Westcore brand mutual funds manage more than $7 billion in mutual fund assets. Along with his administrative duties, Todger is a portfolio manager on the Midcap Growth equity team. As more of us look forward to retirement, we¹ll need folks like Todger to shape up our portfolios after recent market conditions. . . . Ann Russell Starr responded to our e-mail request for news the very next day. She is living in Oakton, Va., with her husband, Michael, and her two daughters, Jessica, 18, and Victoria, 14. They moved into a new home a little over a year ago and have been in the process of getting it all together ever since. Ann retired from teaching and real estate when her children were born, and she¹s kept herself busy with volunteer work. For a while she was a very active day-trader in the stock market but has slowed her pace a bit the past few years. Anne says, "We still get out to our place in Vail several times a year to ski, but my old knees are not what they used to be. I had to give up distance running several years ago and have replaced my daily run with a variety of exercises ranging from yoga to spinning to weights. My oldest will be off to college next year (unfortunately she wouldn¹t consider Colby), and the youngest will start high school." September 11 had an impact on their family¹s routine when the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, for which her husband, Mike, is general counsel, decided to set up a program offering free legal help for 9/11 victims and families. "Mike is overseeing the N.Y.C. office, so since early November we only see him on weekends," she said. "It is a small sacrifice considering all the events. I have visited in N.Y.C. several times, but it is difficult with a busy household in Virginia. If any classmates are ever in the Washington, D.C., area, I would love to see them. We are about 14 miles west of the city." Ann planned to make it to the reunion this June, although it happened the weekend before her daughter¹s graduation and family was coming in from all over. She may not be able to be in Maine for as long as she would have liked. . . . It really is nice to be able to look up Colby classmates when you travel! During February school vacation, my husband, Carl, and I went to Arizona to do the Grand Canyon. Before we flew out of Phoenix, we had dinner with Mark and Sue Barden Johnson. They are both doctors in Paradise Valley, Ariz., and love living there. Sue wasn't able to come to the reunion because they were to head to Massachusetts for the marriage of their youngest son in early July. Last fall Sue attended a conference on smoking cessation in New Orleans and guess who her roommate was! Yes, her Colby roommate Doreen Corson Maines, who represented the state of Maine at the conference. The two of them had a wonderful time exploring the "Big Easy." . . . Mike Picher has been involved in Canadian Olympic team athlete arbitrations and was recently named to the panel of arbitrators established by Sport Canada for all athletic doping offenses. Mike and Pam (Cooper) were to be in Italy for graduation exercises at Canadian College Italy, the prep school attended by their daughter, Marielle, a function that unfortunately conflicted with the 35th reunion. They send their best wishes to everyone. . . . What have you been up to for the past 35 years? Please drop us an e-mail and let us know so we can include it in our next column.
‹Robert Gracia and Judy Gerrie Heine

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I received an interesting e-mail from Hethie Shores Parmesano: "In January I was sitting in the Amsterdam airport waiting for a flight to Nairobi when a gentleman walked up to me and said, 'Are you Hethie Shores?' It was Bob Lloyd. He was also on his way to Nairobi on business. We had a lovely chat, catching up on each other's lives. Now that's what I call a small-world event!" . . . The other news I have was gleaned from Colby's clipping service. Both John DeSimone and Paul Nelson, who each received master's as well as bachelor's degrees from Colby, began new teaching positions in Maine last fall. John is now technology teacher at Yarmouth High School, having taught previously at Sanford High School. Paul, who began his career in the Messalonskee School District and has 33 years of experience teaching science, has returned to teach biology at Messalonskee High School after having taught at Waterville High School for the previous three years. . . . Classmates, as you can see from the length of this column, I need you to e-mail me at once with updates on your lives.

--Nancy Dodge Bryan

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Correspondent did not submit any notes for this issue.

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