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Cosby & Colby |
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A Raft of Joy |
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No Hunting |
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Robed in Vermillion |
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Service Learning
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Our Own Hilary |
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Set in Pompano
James Boylan (English) has signed a four-book contract with HarperCollins
and 17th Street Productions for a new series of novels aimed at the college
market. Television rights go to Fox. The series, set in Pompano Beach,
Fla., begins appearing in late fall 2000.
Cosby & Colby
Carol Fuller, erstwhile lieutenant in the development army, and
entertainer Bill Cosby LL.D. '92 share the same dentist--the father
of Allyson Goodwin '87, another escapee from the fund-raising shop.
Carol and Cosby were both getting teeth fixed on a recent morning, and
Bill was wearing the Colby sweatshirt given to him at commencement in
1992. Carol praised his choice of apparel, and Cosby allowed that he was
wearing the shirt at the taping of his TV show later that day.
A Raft of Joy
In September more than 20 students took to Johnson Pond in homemade
rafts to compete in an SGA-sponsored regatta. Teams had one hour to build
rafts (no dorm furniture or boating materials allowed) before racing them
across the pond and back to the cheers and jeers of a substantial gallery
of spectators. "Love Boat," captained by Jon Allen '00 and made
from two inflatable women and two inflatable Darth Maul chairs, was the
quickest to capsize, just 15 feet from shore. The fastest entry was a
Huck Finn-style raft skippered by SGA president Ben Humphreys '00.
Humphreys's team spent $250 on air mattresses and other materials to capture
the $200 first prize.
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Hunting
If you think it goes without saying that there is no hunting allowed
on the Colby campus, it ainít so. Because of a new law that permits bow
and arrow hunting within municipal limits, there are some hunters who
think it is open season on the Colby deer herd. Not so. Colby is private
land. The campus is also an official State Game Preserve. Our land is
posted. More signs are going up. Meanwhile, if you bring an apple for
lunch, donít put it on your head.
Robed in Vermillion
When
Charlie Bassett (American studies) was on the cover of The Chronicle
of Higher Education in July, one might have concluded that only a
South Dakotan could say "there's no place warmer" than Maine. The president
of the University of South Dakota recognized a South Dakotan and an alumnus
when he saw the piece, and he invited Bassett to give the 2000 graduation
speech in Vermillion, S.D. Bassett, who earned a B.A. there 45 years ago
and stayed on to get an M.A. in 1956, says he'll be back here in time
for Colby's 179th commencement on May 21.
Tony a Brookings Fellow
Tony Corrado (government) has been named a Senior Fellow
of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he will work on
campaign finance issues and assist in the development of a Web site tracking
new legal developments in campaign finance law.
Service Learning with Impact
The East Pond Association has made a partnership with the Colby
Environmental Studies program to deal with the pond's elevated phosphorus
content. For the past two years, East Pond, the headwater of the Belgrade
Lakes chain, has experienced unpleasant algae blooms. Colby students,
working with Dave Firmage (biology), developed prevention and remediation
recommendations for presentation to the association board in December.
Students began measuring phosphorus concentrations and taking lake sediment
samples last winter and continued their studies through the spring. During
the summer, Carrie Brooke '00 (Summit, N.J.) and Jon
Brooks '99 (Chester, Vt.) lived and worked at the pond.
Our Own Hilary
Hilary Gehman '93 was named to the U.S. National Rowing
Team after finishing fourth in the women's quadruple sculls at the World
Rowing Championships at St. Catherine's, Ontario, in August. Hilary is
the rowing coach at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore.
Scholar Athletes
Women's volleyball and men's nordic skiing top the list of teams
with the highest average GPA over the last academic year. Cross country
was second among women's teams, and alpine skiing was third. Cross country
also took second among the men's teams, with tennis third. Twenty-three
of the 32 Colby varsity teams (16 men, 15 women, 1 coed) had average GPAs
of 3.0 or better. Last year Colby had 708 athletes in 32 varsity sports,
93 of them dual- or tri-sport athletes. To these add 467 students in 10
club sports and nearly 1,500 competitors in 14 intramural sports. (Yes,
there's some overlap or we had 2,675 students in 1,739 beds.)
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Forty new faculty include three Colby grads--Tina Beachy '93,
Jim Cook '78 and Bernadette Graham '96. . . .
We've seen a photo of a North Carolina car carrying the license plate
1 COLBY . . . that's Shannon Baker '96, former
SGA president and now a med student at UNC-Chapel Hill. . . . Peter
Harris (English) had a poem in the October Atlantic Monthly.
. . . Jonathan Kaplan '94 is policy advisor to Tipper Gore,
wife of the U.S. VP and Democratic candidate for president. . . .
The seismograph in Colby's geo department got what Bob Nelson calls
"an absolutely spectacular" record of the October 16 earthquake in
southern California. . . . Susan MacKenzie '80, who teaches
the Jan Plan course The Greening of Faith and is director of the World
Council of Churches' spirituality and stewardship program, was named
Conservationist of the Year by the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club.
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