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

CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jane Holden Huerta
2955 Whitehead Street
Miami, FL 33133
305-446-5082
classnews1960@alum.colby.edu

Eunice Bucholz Spooner is doing a wonderful job with our class Web site. Direct quote from Eunie: "What a wonderful 40th reunion! The committee deserves a round of applause. The 1960 class Web site has photos taken over the weekend. You can click on any picture for a larger version. If anyone has other photos to post, please e-mail or snail mail them to me. No names have been placed with the photos to protect the innocent." In July, Eunie attended the Alumni College (Sports and Leisure: Mirror of American Culture), where the Class of 1960 had the most students attending: David Wiggins, Claudia Lawrence Rogers, Todd Marchant and Bob Hartman and his wife, Sue. Eunie reports that required reading was very enjoyable and that they had two lectures each morning by Colby professors. Eunie learned from Todd Marchant that he is very active in volunteer activities, including the Exchange Club at the local, district and national levels. Pictures that I had friends take with my digital camera are posted on the Colby class Web site along with 40th reunion ones. I am already looking forward to the next Alumni College in 2001. . . . Jim Haidas's eldest son, Van, is a senior at Colby, where he is rooming in Pepper Hall–the same dorm where Jim lived during his first year at Colby in 1956. His youngest son, Michael, in his junior year at Brown, was at the University of Glasgow for the fall semester. Both boys worked all summer with Frances and Jim in running their two restaurants on Cape Cod. Jim was very upset that he couldn't manage our 40th reunion; however, he was looking forward to Parents Weekend on October 7. . . . Peter N. "Mac" Mc Farlane decided it was time to correspond with his classmates and sent a wonderful news-filled e-mail to bring us all up to date. Mac retired from the Air Force in September 1990 after 30 years and began work with a small technology firm, Delfin Systems, in Arlington, Va. He continued with Delfin until April 2000 when he decided, with help from Sheri, his wife of 16 years, that it was time to really retire. Mac and Sheri had moved to Evergreen, Colo., in September 1998 with a second retirement in mind. They purchased a 34-foot Winnebago and have been seeing a lot of the country, including a five-week trip to the East Coast, visiting Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. They also visited the area around Moab, Utah, with its fantastic natural wonders of Arches National Park. As you can tell, Mac is enjoying retirement. He has not played hockey for about a year but expected to be getting back into that soon. Their home is in a very hilly and wooded area at nearly 7,800 feet, which makes skiing at elevations around 12,000 feet much easier. Mac always looks forward to news of other classmates in Colby magazine, so please send me lots of news. . . . Ralph Nelson tested our e-mail system by reporting that he and his wife, Kay, were awaiting the arrival of their first grandchild and won't have any real news until that is safely accomplished. In May they took a 10-day trip to France with the Sons of the American Revolution, and Ralph was in the color guard, which helped to place a wreath on the grave of General Lafayette. They had private guided visits to the ancestral chateaus of French General Rochambeau and of Lafayette and stayed several nights in a chateau that has belonged to the Kergorlay family since the year 1000. The wine and cheese and weather were wonderful, they report, and they recommend France to other tourists. . . . Nancy Shoemaker Dargle planned to retire from the USDA Forest Service at the end of the year. Her twin, Carol Shoemaker, told her about our great 40th. . . . Had a wonderful e-mail from Jo Deans Auchincloss, who attended her first reunion and enjoyed being there as much as we enjoyed having her. Jo had lots of family around at the reunion: her mother, Louise Murray Deans '31, attended her 69th reunion, accompanied by Jo's brother and his wife, John and Gretchen Deans, and Jo's daughter Lee came up from Portland to join the family for the lobster bake. After the reunion, Jo tracked down Sandy Myers, her junior year roommate at the Bixlers'. Jo and I would like very much to see a lot more e-mail addresses in the directory (part of the Colby Web site). She has volunteered to collect e-mail addresses from some of her Colby friends. I would appreciate help from all of you. Please send all your news by e-mail to classnews1960@alum.colby.edu, and it automatically will be forwarded to me.

I was delighted to hear from Penny Dean Robb, with whom I shared four years of Powder & Wig activities. Penny, who lives in Manhattan and works at Carl Fischer Music Publishers, reactivated her interest in drama last year by joining the St. Bart's Players, a non-professional theater group that uses the facilities of St. Bartholomew Church on Park Avenue. This past summer she participated in a Shakespeare workshop on delivering the Bard's sonnets dramatically as opposed to analyzing them academically. Graduation was a performance in the St. Bart's courtyard, an event that brought back memories of her favorite English teachers, Mark Benbow and Powder & Wig's long-time director, Irving Suss. . . . As I write this column in mid-September, I am enjoying the first non-teaching semester of my semi-retirement. Although as recently as a year and a half ago I planned to teach until forcibly evicted from the classroom in my dotage, I woke up one morning and realized that there were lots of things I wanted to do that I'd never have time for if I kept working full time, so for the next few years I'll be teaching just spring semesters (from late January to mid-May). So far I am loving every minute of it, even though I have come to my office nearly every day anyway! . . . Bev Lapham reports that the Reunion Planning Committee met September 16 and made great progress in planning our 40th reunion. Pre-reunion activities will start June 7 at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, Maine, with golf, sailing on a schooner, museum visits and other activities to suit all tastes. The on-campus part of the fun will begin the evening of Friday, June 8. Saturday the 9th will be the big day, with the alumni parade (can you find your old freshman beanie?), a lobster bake and a special surprise event just for us in the afternoon. Our class reunion dinner will be Saturday night in the "new" Spa in the Roberts Building. The planning committee is developing several other ideas to ensure that this will be the most memorable reunion yet. You will get more details in a newsletter as the time draws nearer, but keep in mind that the most important ingredient in a successful reunion is you. Whether or not you have come to other reunions or kept up with classmates, start planning now to come to this one–it just won't be the same without you! . . . And don't forget that you can very easily send me news for this column via Colby's e-mail forwarding service. Just address your message to classnews1961@alum.colby.edu and it will be passed along to me. My regular mailing address appears with the other 1960s class correspondents' addresses within a page or two of this column–just browse around until you find it.

–Judy Hoffman Hakola

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Perhaps because we are mid-stream between reunions, news is slim, very slim indeed. Since the e-mail blitz from the Alumni Office fails completely in its purpose of generating news, Barb Haines Chase and I are putting heads together to see if we can go forward to a system that works. So send in news on what you and your families are doing to: Karen Falb, 245 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138 and kff245@aol.com as well as classnews1963@alum.colby.edu. Our family news is not earth-shattering either. We are looking at colleges for our "rising senior" daughter at Concord Academy and have seen 13 so far. We are now at the point of deciding whether we want a college one-hour from home or three hours! This August I had fun on a trip with the two daughters, seeing many schools in Vermont, the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut. Colby still rates high with its energy if not its location. One night between Skidmore and Vassar we stayed at a town called Saugerties, and it turns out that the only person I know who is familiar with that area is our own Jeannette Fannin Regetz, who with her kids spent many a happy summer vacation there. Jeannette is looking forward to joining her husband, Fred, in retirement in a year or two. She still enjoys her teaching of remedial reading to lower grade students in an Arlington, Va., public school and enjoys having their two children, Suzann and Jonathan, working nearby. She's had news from Dale Ackley Pluta in Vienna,Va., that she and her parents and sister this summer enjoyed a return visit to Colby with a nostalgic picnic in front of Louise Coburn. She was impressed by how good it felt to be back and how the campus had not lost its old feeling. . . . I'm told that the Miller Library architectural model has been returned to the College, thanks to J. Wesley Miller. It now resides in the Colbiana Collection in Miller Library. . . . The classmate who deserves thanks for sending in news is Judy Spear, who freelances as an editor specializing in art and architectural history and environmental issues in Lancaster, Mass. Much of her time this year has been spent in advocating for the preservation of Lancaster's historic town green and the classic symmetry of its 1816 First Church, designed by Charles Bullfinch. Feeling that a proposed addition to the church would not only change the church's architectural integrity but also diminish the space and character of the town green, Judy has written numerous articles and letters published in local papers pointing out how historic buildings and their original landscape are important for a "deeper understanding of historic events and their concepts" and that it is important to be responsible stewards of historic monuments and common areas. This advocacy has been a challenge as the Massachusetts Historical Commission recently ruled that the addition as currently planned by the church can proceed despite an earlier assurance that because of its landmark status the preservation restriction in place could not be eroded. Hopefully, Judy and other concerned preservationists can turn the tide.

–Karen Forslund Falb

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Candi (Wilson '65) and John Haynes dropped in yesterday for a quick visit full of laughter. (My son, Andrew '90, also was home, and having inherited his father's sense of humor, he's good company.) John is still with Monsanto, which now has another name, but he's making a lot of noise about retirement. His Colby roommate, Dick Friary, has done just that, retiring from Schering-Plough after 27 years. Dick and Diane moved to Big Sky country–Stevensville, Mont.–just as the fires arrived. Apparently they were unscathed, as I've heard nothing to the contrary. Dick had sent me a cartoon from The New Yorker that featured Doris Kearns Goodwin. How famous can you get! . . . Joan Thiel Hadley has also moved west–to Scottsdale, Ariz. She has three grandchildren now, she and her husband do a lot of day hiking, and Joan has been volunteering with Alzheimer's and cancer patients. Says it has taught her how lucky she is. . . . Dorothy Thompson Herrin has a grandchild in Texas and another on the way. She's still teaching special education in Vermont. She's been a Reading Recovery teacher for four years and loves this model for helping young children learn to read. . . . I've had a long and interesting letter from Steve Schoeman. Steve has two daughters, but I'm sorry to report that he lost his wife, Ellen, in July of 2000 after she fought melanoma for nearly two years. Before her death, however, he had the good experience of being a Hansard Scholar, working in the office of a member of the House of Commons in London. He took full advantage of the Houses of Parliament as well as learning a great deal about the under side of England. . . . I've spent this year doing some things I've had on the back burner for a long time. I drove south in March to visit many former neighbors, Navy friends and classmates. In May I went to England with four friends from Kittery. A family wedding in California was an occasion for a lot of reunions. And in August I went to Alaska, a land that defies description: it is so vast and empty yet teeming with wildlife. Back here in Kittery I'm enjoying my hobby of church cook. I do dinners once a month and luncheons once a month for between 25 and 80 people. It's a lot of fun. . . . Take five minutes now to tear out the class news page at the front of this magazine and tell me something you spent a lot of time on last week. Or send it by e-mail (classnews1964@alum.colby.edu). I'll print the most interesting responses.

–Sara Shaw Rhoades

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