Colby Magazine, Summer 2002 Staff

Contributors:

Ernie Clark ("Endless Summer") is an editor at the Bangor Daily News and a former Maine Sportswriter of the Year. A Sports radio talk show host and co-founder of Maine RoundBALL Magazine, Clark also serves as color analyst for Maine Public Television's annual high school basketball tournament coverage. He lives in Dover-Foxcroft.

Susan Sterling ("Her Head on Straight") is a freelance writer who lives in Waterville with her husband, Paul Machlin, the Arnold Bernhard Professor of Music, and their children, Greg and Erica. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Best American Sports Writing: 1998 and the Marlboro Review. She has taught English and creative writing at Colby and Thomas colleges, and she is currently working on a novel.

Colby Staff
Volume 91 Number 3

Gerry Boyle '78
managing editor

Brian Speer
art director

Robert Gillespie
alumni at large editor

Stephen Collins '74
executive editor

Leo Pando
illustrator

Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay '97
media editor

Joanne Lafreniere
production coordinator

Karen Oh '93
online art director

Charles McDougal
online graphic designer

Andy Mills, Brian Speer, Jeff Earickson, Fred Field
contributing photographers

Ernie Clark, Elizabeth Poulin, Neha Sud '05,
Gavin O'Brien '04, Leila Porteous '02, Matt Apuzzo '00
contributing writers

Administration:
William D. Adams, president
Sally Baker, executive assistant to the president;
Peyton R. Helm, vice president for college relations;
Margaret Felton Viens '77, director of alumni relations

Alumni Council Executive Committee:
Lou Richardson '67, chair; Frank A. Wilson '73, vice chair,
Rebecca Birrell '92, Hope Palmer Bramhall '56, Shawn P. Crowley '91, Heather M. Daur '00,
Karl Dornish Jr. '54, Todd W. Halloran '84, Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90,
Eric F. Rolfson '73, Christopher Tompkins '89, Philip Wysor '70

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FEATURES:
One Pilgrim's Progress:
Larissa Taylor follows a route worn by faith

Earl Smith
After 40 years Smith leaves Colby a better place.

Endless Summer
Baseball writer Larry Rocca chronicles America's game

Strategic Plan
Colby prepares for the next 10 years

Commencement 2002