A Road Marked with Kindness
Sarah Eustis '96, discovers middle America

Sittler Settles in as Pro
Meaghan Sittler '98, joins Canada's National Women's Hockey League (NWHL)

The Mettle to Be an Ironman
Jonathan Kaplan '94 proves he's an ironman

Alumni Trustee Nominees Announced

Alumni Club Circuit
Club News, upcoming events, etc.

ALUMNI PROFILES
Charles Card '40
He's and old cowhand

Sarah Hudson '69
Her students are real lifesavers

William "Ted" Williams '69

Carter Newell '77
Fiddling with mussels

Helen Muir Milby '87
She throws a political party

Stephanie Rocknak '88

Sig Schutz '94

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I hope you all have responded to the letter from Bill Haggett indicating that you are planning to join us in June for our big 45th reunion. Our two days at the Sebasco Harbor Resort should be great fun. It is a delightful place, right on the bay, with kayaks and canoes to rent. A group can rent a cottage, or couples can rent rooms in the lighthouse. . . . Our class started with 219 freshmen, and 197 graduated, or 90 percent. (For comparison, the Class of 1999 graduated 520, or 84 percent of those who entered, although several more finish within two years.) We have 16 members listed as "lost," and I hope some of you responded with information after getting the list. Of our class, 120 have responded with cash gifts to the College. This is a good percentage, but we can do better before June. . . . Our meeting in June at Hope Palmer Bramhall's included nominations for our next set of class officers. You will be asked to vote on same before the reunion, where they will be announced. I will tell you that Dave and Rosie Crouthamel Sortor have agreed to be Alumni Council representatives and that I have agreed to keep writing this column as no one has come forward asking for the job! . . . Susan Miller Hunt and I again traveled out to the Berkshires in July to take part in the week-long Berkshire Choral Festival. We both plan to sing with the Colby Reunion Chorus next June. . . . Joyce Frazier Fraser goes striper fishing each summer as part of the annual Girls Shoal Troll, sponsored by her local angler's club. Her son Barry is a commercial tuna fisherman in the fall. Having read The Hungry Ocean by Colby's own Linda Greenlaw '83, I have great respect for all serious fishermen. If you haven't already, you owe it to yourself to read this book. We are hoping that Linda will agree to be one of the authors speaking at our reunion. . . . Best regards.

–Kathy McConaughy Zambello

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Responses have improved a bit using our new e-mail system, but news is still not as plentiful as it was via the old method of questionnaires mailed to each of you. E-mail is quick and easy; take advantage of it if you don't want to use the questionnaire in the magazine. . . . Ann Willcox Loftin has been adjusting to a new life since her husband died last August. She still runs the family's small advertising specialty company and lives on an island in the Charleston, S.C., harbor but also is fixing up the beach house for lots of family and friends to visit. Ann traveled to Connecticut in October to see her mom, who celebrated her 98th birthday in September. . . . Jim Bishop has had a film script kicking around Hollywood for 10 years. According to Winston Churchill, the first rule of life is never, never, never give up. Jim never did, and now a big Hollywood group has flashed the green light on his script, which centers on a World War II hero who returns home and can't cope and becomes a guerrilla. Raise the glasses at Onie's, says Jim. . . . John Edes and his wife, Valerie, now live in Boynton Beach, Fla., but he is still a registered representative for Phoenix and maintains an apartment and office in Providence, R.I. John has become very involved in charitable work, specifically with the Amos House, a home in Providence for the homeless, and he was recently written up in an article in the Providence Journal for befriending a homeless man who had once been a high school basketball star. John and another man have become a mini-support system for this fellow and have gotten him back into the union and are trying to get him work in construction. When asked what special memories he had of Colby's former presidents, John told about the time that he and several friends asked President Bixler if they could watch the World Series in color at his home, and President Bixler very generously invited the boys. John also has fond memories of Professor Jim Gillespie, who helped many of the students in their studies as well as their personal situations. . . . Cynthia Gardner Bevin has retired after 20 years of teaching history in Johnstown, Pa. Cindy and her husband, Douglas, recently had their third grandchild. Their daughter, Cici '85, has become president of her class and has a son and a new daughter. This past June the Bevinses' second home in Connecticut was nearly destroyed in a storm. Two houses were featured on national television during the storm, and these houses belonged to Cindy and to her mother. Cindy's family was very grateful to Robin Hunter Clutz, who helped get them back into their home and get their lives back together. . . . We are all about the same age, and most of us are certainly not ready for the rocking chair, especially Susan (Macomber '60) and Dick Vogt. In the summer of 1999 Dick and Sue flew with their bicycles to Seattle and biked across the northern part of the United States to Kennebunk Beach, Maine. They biked alone, camped out (some moteling), ate great quantities of calorie-laden food and completed the cross-country trip in about 90 days and totaled 4,104 miles! They averaged about 50 to 60 miles a day and had a wonderful time exploring back roads and small towns. Susan wrote a daily journal, which can be seen on their Web site (www.conknet.com/jvogt). The trip had been planned for 10 years, and they started training six days a week in February 1999 until they left in mid-June. The training consisted of spinning and biking. In March 1999 they sold their home of 30 years and moved in with their daughter temporarily. Upon returning from the bike tour, they bought a motorcoach. Last February Dick drove the motorcoach to Florida to see the Yankees' spring training (Susan thought this was a guy thing and stayed home). This March Dick and Sue plan to take the motorcoach to Florida and bike from Key West to Eastport, Maine, about 3,000 miles. Their son will drive the motorcoach to New Hampshire, and then the Vogts will take off for the summer and fall in Canada and Alaska, going wherever the winds blow them. When not on the road, the Vogts enjoy their nine grandchildren, produced by their four children, and everyone lives in New Hampshire, the home base for these vagabonds. If you have any thoughts of hitting the highways and byways of our country, do get in touch with Sue and Dick. . . . And that is it for this time. As I said, you are doing better, but I still need to hear from more of you. Take care.

–Margaret Smith Henry

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Guess my begging and pleading have paid off! Delighted to report that I've started receiving news from '59ers once again after a lengthy dry spell. . . . Carlene Price White runs Animal Episodes in Massachusetts (having turned a hobby into a strange but very real business) and recently finished a stint as motorcycle crew with her daughter for the Boston-New York AIDS Ride, a three-day affair requiring 600 volunteers. These rides have raised millions of dollars to fight this dread disease. . . . Trish and Mike Farren visit their eight grandchildren as often as possible. Mike is still holding the fort at Manchester (N.H.) Airport while Trish does hospice nursing and consults at an assisted living facility. They see Vera and Dick Morrison regularly and also have seen Bill Nicholson, Marilyn and Bob Greer '61 and Fran and Boyd Sands. They even watched Bob Auriemma's grandson play hockey at New Hampshire College. And the generations march on! . . . Dr. Louis Leotta has been named professor emeritus of history at St. Bonaventure University. Lou earned master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University and retired in 1997. . . . Peru has been home to Giselle and Jim Plunkett for 35 years. They have five grandchildren, and Jim directs IESC, an overseas version of SCORE, founded by David Rockefeller. He's currently setting up a new activity in receptive tourism in Peru, so those of you with wanderlust, contact Jim at plunkett@terra.com.pe and he'll show you the Incas! Jim also has a home video of the '59 class reunion available for $20 U.S., including postage from Peru. . . . Dr. Bob Younes is still active on the board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He'll soon go with other board members to Lebanon to open a pediatric cancer treatment program affiliated with St. Jude at American University of Beirut Hospital. Then he'll join his family in India for a tour with his in-laws, who were missionaries in that country. Bob is also conference chair for The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation and is active with the Rene Moawad Foundation, which supports literacy, health, agriculture and crafts programs. . . . Elaine and Paul Reichert are active in the U.S. Power Squadron, and both teach safe-boating classes in Florida. Last spring their annual river cleanup group collected more than a ton of debris from the river. Paul also assisted in the second grade at a local school. In the meantime, he and Elaine were expecting their sixth grandchild. Paul reports that Al Wilbur is newly married and that Bob Keltie is goal judge for the Florida Panthers in the NHL. . . . By the time you read this I will have participated once again in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk on October 15. Ladies and lady-associates of the Class of 1959, is it time for your mammography? . . . More news next time, I hope; I'll do my part if you'll do yours!

–Ann Segrave Lieber

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