ALUMNI PROFILES
Roman Dashawetz '70
Medical Mission

Deanna Cook '88
Cooking the Books

Peter Sekulow '90
Ballpark Figure

Carolyn Szum '01
Air Cleaner

Staff Sergeant J.J. Lovett '96 & Sergeant Eric Anderson '98

Thomas Curran '02

Dee Sanford McCunn had a phone visit in March with Grace Keefer Parker. Dee plans to work with me--for which I'm very grateful--in an effort to reach more (all?) classmates to find out what's doing. So, Dee reports, "Grace and her husband are both retired. However, I think Grace will never sit still." Sounds about right. For example, Grace is very active in church work. Also, she was just elected Literary Volunteer Tutor of the Year. Summers, the Parkers sail in Great South Bay (N.Y.) in their 32-foot Bristol sailboat. Last summer they went with a group on a three-week sail to Chesapeake Bay. The Parkers have three children, an African son (Petero Sabune, an Episcopal priest at St. James, Manhattan) and two grandchildren. . . . Dee is heavy into volunteer work and organization activities (e.g., historical society and a camera club). By the time you read this, Dee and Ian will have completed a two-month jaunt around the country by car, if all goes forward as planned. . . . These words of great contentment from Louise Groves Holtan: "We all live in wonderful Maine." A retired long-time schoolteacher and principal, Louise says she's now "just enjoying life with my six kids, 15 grandkids and one great-grandchild." Once in a great while, she writes, she meets some Colby friends.

Naomi Collett Paganelli

Cloyd Aarseth writes from Sterling, Va., that he and Joan recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at a dinner hosted by their children--Joanne, associate regional counsel for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.; Keith, a treasury bond trader on the Chicago Board of Trade; and Carol, a wife and homemaker. Family members came from Texas, Florida, Illinois and Ohio for the festive weekend. Cloyd also writes that he still enjoys watching the educational documentaries on A&E's Classroom that he wrote, directed and produced years ago for Hearst and the U.S. Information Agency. He and Joan, after some years of attending graduations of grandchildren, plan to make the 50-plus reunion at Colby. We remember the impressive documentary that Cloyd did for our 50th. . . . Frank Heppner reports that he and Jeanne have moved to Orange Park, Fla., to escape the Maryland winters. They were sorry to leave their daughter, Karen, and three grandchildren back in Maryland, but they're now near their other daughter, Ellen, and grandchild. Frank says they bought a house in a six-year-old community and feel as though they're starting married life all over again. . . . Nice message from Dorothy Dunham Hobbs and Nancy Grahn Christensen '44, who live and play at John Knox Village in Pompano Beach, Fla. They say, "We live on a 66-acre campus beautifully landscaped with lots of amenities and activities to make life enjoyable in our golden years. Nan is into outdoor activities and I am an avid bridge player. We both exercise regularly in the pool. Do the rest of the 50-plussers feel as young as we do?" (Speaking for myself, it all depends on the day.) Dottie and Nan included a photo of themselves in bathing suits at the pool--a real testament to good living and water aerobics and probably some good genes, too. Hey, folks, send me news, either e-mail or the other kind.

Anne Lawrence Bondy

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Louise Kelley Rochester had lunch with me in Cambridge twice in the last few months. Both visits included a walk to the Science Museum to go to the Omni Theater, the first to see Kilimanjaro in preparation for the trip she made in November to Kenya and Tanzania on a three-week safari. It has been a great joy to see her. After her visit to Africa, she reported that in many different national parks set aside for the protection of African animals in the wild, her group saw elephants, zebras, wildebeests, lions, giraffes and more. They drove from one park to the next over very rugged, mostly dirt roads and saw much of the countryside and the poverty in which the people lived. Often they saw Masai in their red robes, walking with staffs along the roadside with their herds of goats and cattle. They had splendid views of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Lake Victoria, Lake Manyara with millions of flamingos and white pelicans, the Ngorongora Crater and the Olduvai Gorge, where the anthropologist Leaky had found early human bones. Louise said, "I surely won't go back again--but this had been the top of my wish list of places to see forever." . . . Tom Burke and his wife celebrated their 50th anniversary last August with 27 relatives on their daughter's farm in Indiana. This summer they plan to take a river cruise in Portugal and Spain. . . . As of this writing, John and I expect to take a cruise on the Mississippi from New Orleans, eventually reaching Chicago sometime in May. . . . See Beverly Benner Cassara's great news in the nearby "Newsmakers" note. Currently she is co-founder and co-chair of the Cambridge (Mass.) Senior Volunteer Clearinghouse, which matches seniors with opportunities to volunteer among its 100 agencies. . . . Please, please, send me more news of yourselves.

Mary "Liz" Hall Fitch

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Peg Clark Atkins announced the arrival of her 10th grandchild. She reminisced about how she enjoyed our 50th reunion and concluded with a statement that she would see us at our 55th. . . . Phil Shulman sent us a post card from London telling us that he fulfilled a long-time fantasy by visiting Khartoum, Sudan, along with his friend, Ruth Knotek. As a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Phil likes to take advantage of their facilities and lectures. . . . Kay Weisman Jaffe wrote to us detailing her suggestions for making the 55th reunion an event that would have good attendance. We forwarded her letter to the Alumni Office for consideration of some of Kay's excellent suggestions. We correspond, via e-mail, with Norma and Howell Clement, who agree that being a guest of the College for classes 50 and over is quite attractive. They pointed out, however, that flying in from Montana is quite costly. . . . The Alumni Office forwarded us a detailed letter from Betty Dyer Brewster dated December 2002 and sent from Naples, Fla. It was a Happy Holiday letter to all of her friends and provided details of her travels, her reunions with friends and her presidency of NaplesEars SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People). Betty described in great detail her travels, tennis, golf, swimming, boating and hiking. . . . We just received e-mail from Marvin Joslow, who reports that winter on Martha's Vineyard was "horrific" this year. Marvin and Betty thought they might attend the 55th reunion in June. . . . We had a great winter in Florida and returned north in early April. At this time we expect to return to Jupiter in May for a few weeks to close the house and play some golf.

David and Dorothy Marson

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This is the issue when we hear from our classmates in Belfast, Maine! Sidney B. McKeen sent me the following, which I quote verbatim. "Anne Fraser Baer '48 and I entered Colby together as freshmen in the fall of 1944, and we dated throughout our years there, first on the old campus and then on Mayflower Hill. I lost a year-plus to the U.S. Navy, so she graduated one June before I did. We went our separate ways, and each of us ultimately married and became parents of one boy and one girl. We lost complete track of each other over the years, except for occasional items in the class notes. In September last, a widower for three years, I decided it was time to find out what life had been like for her. I did a 'people search' on the Internet, using her name and the state (Florida) in which I was told she might be living. Yahoo returned phone numbers for several Anne Baers there, and I began dialing. "Speaking," said the third woman who answered, and we held a mini-reunion by phone, during which she informed me that her husband had suffered a fatal heart attack 14 months earlier. Many letters and phone calls later we met for the first time in 53 years. On Jan. 11, we were married in Belfast, Maine. We plan to spend our summers there and our winters in Punta Gorda, Fla. Hail, Colby!" Congratulations, Sid and Anne! . . . Carol Carpenter Bisbee writes after her recent trip to Antarctica that she is "still a very happy penguin!" Her favorite penguins are the Gentoos, who are playful, attentive parents and monogamous. She reports that "Going through the ice pack was exciting--watching the Adelies toboggan on the ice floes, dive in the frigid water and porpoise behind our Zodiac. We even had a Gentoo jump into our Zodiac, look around, decide we weren't the 'right sort,' and dive out. Crossing the Drake 'Lake' because it was so calm, we had an early wakeup as orcas were spotted a mile away. There must have been a pod of 18 or so, and did they ever perform for us. Came right up to the bow and presented their 'babies.' Quite a show, with two separate pods of humpbacks in the background! Best show I have ever seen, including Sea World!" . . . Richard G. Wattles and his wife, Elinor, live in a retirement home, Dunwoody Village, Apt. B211, Newtown Square, Pa. Two sons live nearby, and one son lives in Nantucket, Mass. They have "three beautiful daughters-in-law" and seven grandchildren. They also have fond memories of "three wonderful years at Colby." Their first son was born Rick's senior year. . . . A note from Mary Landry informed us of the death of her husband and our classmate, Edgar Landry, on December 22, 2002, at the age of 87. Our heartfelt condolences to Mary and her family. . . . I look forward to hearing from more of you in the not too distant future.

Anne Hagar Eustis

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