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We are off to other things. I wish we could say 'bigger and better.'"
Gretchen Groggel '03, SGA president, bidding farewell to the Board of Trustees, where she served as student representative last year.
"We'd rather do a lousy job in a good market."
David Pulver '63, chair of the trustees' Investment Committee, replying to a compliment about the committee's excellent work in a weak stock market.
"You have by now discerned that this is the joke edition of the baccalaureate address."
President William Adams, in his baccalaureate address on May 24 in Lorimer Chapel, after unveiling a new athletic mascot based on an image of Pedro, his family's potbellied pig.
"As Jan is fond of saying, he was smart enough to get into Harvard Law School, and even smarter to get out."
Jim Meehan (economics) introducing his colleague Jan Hogendorn at the annual faculty-trustee retirement dinner. Hogendorn, who retired after 37 years at Colby, spent five months in law school before finding his career path as an economics professor.
"My mum and dad were both teachers. I began my career teaching at university in Connecticut. It did not escape my attention that there is a limited time that you can teach management without actually doing it."
Bob Diamond '73, according to the Times of London, which profiled the chief executive of Barclays Capital on May 1. |
"It's been a great transition and a great merging of values that until recently nobody would have thought possible."
Kent Wommack '77, executive director of the Maine chapter of The Nature Conservancy, on his organization's move to large-scale land acquisitions through deals made with Great Northern Paper and other timber companies. Wommack was speaking on "Environmental Economics: New Strategies for Land Conservation" at a senior seminar taught by Thomas Tietenberg (economics, environmental studies).
"We didn't have courses like that when I was a boy. It was more like 'French Four.'"
Dean of Faculty Ed Yeterian, at the April trustees meeting, introducing Associate Professor of French Adrianna Paliyenko, who teaches a course titled Parisian Encounters: Great Loves and Grand Passions.
"Real diversity has helped Colby become a better liberal arts college. I know; I've been teaching here for 34 years."
Elderly white male Charles W. Bassett (emeritus professor of English and American studies) in his column, "I'm Never Going to Retire," in the April 3 Echo.
"The idea that the life of the mind takes place in a tower is going away. ... Theory chastens practice and practice chastens theory."
Peter Harris (English), to the Board of Trustees about the value of Colby's service learning initiatives.
"We really wanted to discourage the tactics of shock and awe."
Student Government Vice President Jill Gutekunst '03, explaining to the Board of Trustees recent student government campaign reforms aimed at changing the tenor and tactics of elections. |
"Here in Belgrade Lakes we use duct tape to keep our friends' TVs on ABC."
Retired Dean of the College Earl Smith, in an e-mail message to ABC correspondent Dan Harris '93, congratulating his protégé on reporting from Baghdad and Amman before and during the war.
"It's snowing heavily in New York. The Yankees have cancelled opening day!"
Dean of Admissions Parker Beverage, at an open house for accepted applicants. Hoping to convert the accepted students to members of the Class of '07, he was gleeful that Waterville wasn't the only place where snow threatened on April 7.
"I swear to you that in the course of the semester I will make you uncomfortable. That's what we're here for."
Margaret McFadden, (American studies) describing how she approaches the "challenge" in Colby's tradition of intellectual challenge when she addresses new classes.
"I should just move my sleeping bag in there."
Brie Drummond '03, quoted in the April 3 Echo about her relationship with the Olin Science Center as she worked on her senior thesis: "Selection of Native and Invasive Plants by Frugivorous Birds."
"You're doing what? Oh, God, what did you do to deserve that? Please don't humiliate us."
His parents' reaction, according to Evan McGee '03, upon learning he was elected senior class speaker for commencement (from The Colby Echo, April 3, 2003).
"They don't know how to nip."
President Bro Adams, explaining how carefully he handled the ferret "Moose" that Evan McGee '03 handed him during graduation, knowing from experience with his own ferrets that some really bite. |
