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

Many members of the Class of '80 live in Maine. Herb Perry is in South Berwick with his wife and two daughters. He told me that he toils in 'semi-obscurity' as a newspaper editor for the York Weekly in York, Maine. . . . Dottie Foster Vachon is in Ellsworth with her podiatrist husband, three children, various livestock and pets. She works with her husband in his practice and also enjoys making creative photo albums and spending time with her family and friends. . . . Bob Bower resides in Cumberland with his wife, Nancy, and their three children, Maggie, Fred and Katherine. He works in Portland in labor and employment law and enjoys fishing for stripers. I wonder if these fish are as elusive in Maine as they are on Cape Cod! . . . Fred Madeira also lives in Cumberland with his wife, Trish, and two sons, John and Nathan. He is the VP of Strategic Accounts for Wright Express, a Portland subsidiary of Avis. . . . Pete '81 and Mary Lynah Bishop love living near the ocean in Saco. Pete is a stockbroker at Tucker Anthony in Portland and insists that playing golf is an important part of his job! Mary is the director of corporate and foundation relations at the University of New England. . . . Elsewhere, Ken Sacks is working in New York City for Citigroup in investments and finance. . . . Doug Martin, who lives in Wethersfield, Conn., with his wife, two sons and three dogs, works for the environmental consulting firm Marin Environmental. . . . Lisa McDonough O'Neill reports that she is living in the wilds of northwestern New Jersey with black bear, deer, wild turkey and fox in her back yard. She enjoys playing tennis, skiing and canoeing with her husband, Sean, and her son, Richard, 8. She hopes to get back into riding–at reunion she heard that Lisa Mackintosh lives a few miles away in Mahwah, N.J., and has two horses that need to be ridden! . . . Suze Connolly Levere is in W. Hartford, Conn., with husband Larry and their children, Julia, 6, and James, 4. She hopes to get into teaching using her master's degree in reading and language. . . . Ellen Mercer Papera and Johanna Rich Tesman traveled to reunion together with their oldest daughters and Johanna's newest little redhead. It was fun to see that their daughters are younger versions of their respective mothers! Ellen resides in Wyckoff, N.J., with husband Raymond and three daughters. She enjoys being involved in her children's schools and the community. Johanna and her husband, Barry '81, have two children, Emma, 9, and Lucy, 14 months. Johanna works part time for the school district evaluating children ages 3-5 with speech delays, autism and behavior problems. She also works in the private sector administering psychological evaluations. Her family is often the subject of commentary with all of its redheads, which includes children and the family cat! Barry is a mathematics professor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. He is the chairman of the department and is busy finishing a graduate math textbook. . . . Jack McBride lives in Concord, Mass., with wife Melissa and children John, Will and Louisa. He is a builder in housing development. . . . Jean Minkel lives in New Windsor, N.Y. Five years ago she started an independent consulting company in the area of assistive technology. Her company specializes in exploring options for mobility, specialized seating and other functional devices for people with physical disabilities. She had one of her projects shown on Dateline last year. Her company also provides education to health professionals about assistive technology. Jeannie enjoys spending time with her seven nieces and nephews, visits her dad on the Cape, has a mountain bike for off-road cycling and cashes in frequent-flyer miles for fun and unusual travel. . . . John Veilleux along with his wife, Diana, and son, Jed, 4, live in Maryland. He is an in-house lawyer for MCI World Class Consumer Business in wireless, local and Internet services. He still sings occasionally. . . . Barclay Foord is a software developer in New York City. He spends his free time camping, scuba diving and caving. . . . Charlie White, wife Mari (Samaras '81) and their four children, Charlie, Kalli, J.T. and Alec, moved to Madison, Wis., this past year when Charlie took a position with Land's End. His previous job was with Orvis in Manchester, Vt. They spent some time in Maine during last summer. . . . New father Peter Asher proudly reports the birth of his son, Michael Benjamin Asher, on July 18, 2000. Michael is keeping Peter and his wife, Angela, very busy. They live in White Plains, N.Y., in a home they have been slowly but steadily renovating. Peter works at Met Life in New York City as a project manager in one of their information technology groups. Angela is a marketing research manager for a Pepsi-Lipton partnership at Pepsico headquarters in Purchase, N.Y. Their cats, Fred and Ginger (yes, they are named after Astaire and Rogers), add to their family. . . . A classmate asked me to include this in the column: 'Whitey, Nellie says hi . . . send a message to mgearan@mediaone.net.' . . . By now I hope that you all have received your class newsletter with questionnaire. Please send your comments back to me soon. I will close this issue of our class news with this question for all of you to answer. Who is the most interesting person you've met since graduating in 1980, and how did you meet this person? I look forward to hearing from you with your answer–and your news.

–Lynn Collins Francis

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I received an e-mail from my old roommate Terry Jacques, who is living in central Pennsylvania. In 1997 Terry co-founded a nonprofit group called Equalogy, whose mission is to produce positive social change around issues of equality. They utilize interactive educational theater to raise awareness of violence against women. Terry says that after years of working with a battered women's shelter and rape crisis center, it feels good to be out there changing people's attitudes about these issues. She says the program has really opened people's eyes, and she believes they are truly making a difference. After having worked in education, theater and domestic violence and sexual assault, she has managed to combine her whole career history into a single focused effort. Terry works behind the scenes and hires professional actors to perform the plays. They have been touring colleges and universities from Maine to West Virginia, presenting interactive plays about acquaintance rape and dating violence. Last September their program was presented at Colby as part of the first-year student wellness seminar series. Terry also wrote that Barbara Bullock visited her last winter. Speaking of Barbara, she asked me to put in a word for our class Web site (www.alumniconnections.com/colby/) and for signing in. It would be nice to get more people to write in our guest book, especially with our 20th reunion coming up. Barbara says the site is low tech but if anyone is interested in revamping it, let her know (beb2@psu.edu). Barbara is back at Penn State after a sabbatical, a part of it spent in Paris. She is now working to get a new graduate unit in linguistics up and running by 2001. . . . Pam Ellis ran into both Elisabeth Eustis and Jeff Goliger at the Portland, Maine, Sidewalk Art Show. Pam recognized Liz in an instant and says Jeff is living in southern California, changing careers from medical research to computers. He has a 7-year-old son. . . . Harvey Coco sent me an e-mail after seeing how many of our classmates live in Vermont. Harvey and his wife, Deborah, and three daughters, Olivia, Sophie and Hannah, live in Old Bennington, Vt., where his dental practice, which specializes in implant and reconstructive dentistry, has been located since 1993. His daughters are all avid skiers and horseback riders. They bought their first horse a year ago, and to their surprise it gave birth to a foal last June. Kate and Marc Jeton '82 are godparents to the Cocos' oldest daughter, Olivia, and are happy to report that they are moving back to Maine. . . . Also living in Vermont are David and Amy Haselton Bolger. Last July they welcomed a son, Liam, into the family to join big sister Sadie. Amy is enjoying being a stay-at-home mom. . . . Margaret Libby had a showing of her animal paintings and pastels at the O'Farrell Gallery in Brunswick, Maine, last spring. . . . Gary Smith is producer, rock group manager and co-owner of Fort Apache Studios in Cambridge. According to The Boston Globe he was planning on spending last New Year's Eve in a lean-to made of palm fronds on a deserted beach on Kauai. . . . Richard Demers bought a house in Moorpark, Calif., last December. Last March he joined a new telecommunications start-up firm, Integrated Micromachines, in Pasadena. The company received its first round of venture capital funding last May to develop optical switches for optical telecommunications. His position there is project manager for 3-D systems. Rick says he has wanted to join a start-up company for many years, but the opportunity didn't arise until now. The timing was right! . . . I recently read in The Boston Globe that Bob Ruzzo is an attorney for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority but is leaving to join the Massachusetts Housing Finance Authority….I recently attended a great 40th birthday party for Steve Rowse '83, who lives not far from me in Harvard, Mass. . . . I hope you all are planning on attending our 20th reunion, June 8-10! Please keep e-mailing!

–Beth Pniewski Wilson

Hello to everyone! My apologies for missing the last issue. SJ Lickdyke Morissette sends news of her second daughter, Kyra Suzanne, born in October 1999. Kyra is much loved by her big sister, Laura, 4, and brothers, Greg, 14, and Nick, 12. S 'retired' from Fidelity Investments in '98 but rejoined part time nine months later. Garry and S still live in Andover, having added on to the house again to make room for their expanding family. S spent a special afternoon in Boston with Ann Skinner Rider, Kim Smith McCartney, Dianne Conley Lavangie and Mary Lee Santoro, wife of Jed Santoro. Ann, a children's book editor for Knopf, was in town for a book conference. Kim, a pediatrician, lives in Sudbury, Mass., with husband Doug McCartney and children Will, 9, and Blake, 6. Dianne, active as ever, lives in South Portland, Maine, with husband Paul and daughter Meaghan, 13. . . . Abigail Smith sent news last April, when winter was just right around the corner in New Zealand. At 45' S (Colby is about 44' N), they get a cold wind right off Antarctica. Abigail and her husband are both professors in the division of sciences at the University of Otago. Abby enjoys teaching marine geology (in the last few years they have had junior year abroad students from the U.S.A., including some from Colby) and also gets to lead field courses on their research vessel–which she would enjoy more if she didn't get seasick! Baby David was born in December 1998, and their oldest boy, Ned, 5, started school this fall. Abby wants to know if she's the furthest away correspondent, and I think she is, but let's hear from other far-away classmates! . . . Tim Dawson joined the Internet world and heads up business development, structuring partnerships and alliances with other Internet financial services companies for mPower, the leading Internet-based investment advisory company. Last spring Tim went to Austin for Brian Sharples's second wedding. Also there were Mark Avery and Ken Sharples '81. . . . Amy (Thompson '83) and Chris Landry live in Conway, Mass., with their boys, Ben and Dylan, 4 and 2. After 12 years in the museum field, Chris recently left to become the director of development at the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. Amy is executive director of the Children's Museum at Holyoke. . . . Andrea Brantner lives in Stamford, Conn., and works as in-house counsel at GE Capital Aviation Services, Inc. She loved her two years in Seattle, with Mt. Rainier and Lake Washington right outside her window, but wanted to be closer to her family in Maine. Andrea plays golf weekly in a league and spends summer weekends playing golf or traveling to Maine to see her nieces or to hang out at camp with her parents and brothers and their families. She occasionally stops by Colby to see the new buildings and to lunch with her former roommate Meg Bernier '81. She also gets to see Dave Fanger occasionally in New York and stays in regular touch with Sarah Perry, Diane Zavotsky, Midori Yanagihara, Karen Enegess, Emily Cummings and Susan Robertson Kuzia. She would love to hear from more people, and people are always welcome in Stamford–a mere 50 minutes by train from N.Y.C! . . . Bob Benjamin and wife Lynne had their fourth child last April. Liam Henry joins older sibs Bobby, 11, Caity, 9, and Jessie, 4. Bob is still teaching English and coaching at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn. He was promoted to captain in the U.S. Army Reserve and is currently serving with the 1179th Deployment Support Brigade at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. . . . Susan Hatch is the editor of a trade magazine, Technology Meetings, and is working out of her home in Essex, Mass. She recently returned to work after time off following the birth of her son, Simon Peterson. . . . Nancy Smith Daley and her husband, Joe '77, recently relocated to Kingfield, Maine, after almost 20 years at Bridgton Academy, where Nancy taught English and Joe was the dean of students and a football coach. They have three sons, Michael, Thomas and Patrick (15, 13 and 12), all competitive winter athletes–Mike went to the Junior Olympics last year and came in 10th in the slalom–and they moved s
e boys could attend and train at Carabassett Valley Academy full time. Nancy, who got her master's in literacy from Norwich University, teaches English at CVA, and Joe is the assistant headmaster and coaches skiing. He's also the ski rep in Maine for Dynastar and Swix wax. . . . Sharon Dulude has spent the last five years as a social worker at various elementary schools in rural Maine, working with emotionally and behaviorally disturbed kids and their families. Having been through some tough times herself and survived, Sharon decided to put her experiences to a positive use. Sharon also has a part-time photography business doing some weddings but mostly landscapes from which she creates cards. She rides her horse, Sandman, as often as possible and is working with another social worker to establish a therapeutic riding program for troubled kids. When she wrote, Sharon and her husband, Tom, were living in Wells, Maine–and looking forward to Labor Day when all the tourists would go home! Sharon sends congratulations to Heidi Wass Murphy '85 on her newspaper and would like to hear from Laurie Leavis. . . . Paul Maier and his family have moved back to New England after 18 years of living in New Jersey, Colorado and Chicago. Wife Jane, son Kal and daughter Paige are all getting used to the New England way of life in Marshfield, Mass. Kal's third birthday was spent with Jon Schwartz (godfather) and his family, Kim, Sam and Anne. In the business area, Paul's company, ENTEX IT Service, was acquired by Seimens AG last April. This has kept the executive team very busy and has created great synergies for their clients. . . . Thanks to everyone who wrote in. As always, we all love hearing from you.

–Mimi H. Rasmussen

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This past summer I heard from Sue Kallio '82 and Mark Green, who live with their children, Christopher, Connor and Meghan, in Bedford, N.H. Mark is vice president of sales for Silknet Software, a provider of Internet-based customer service software. Mark has enjoyed taking the company from a small start-up in 1995 to a very successful IPO as of May 1999. Mark gets back to Colby every year to participate in the alumni basketball game. He says it's a great way to connect with the likes of Rick Fusco, Roy Dow '84, Jim Gaudette '84, Tom Zito '81, Bill Storey '82 and many others. . . . Rick Hemond sent some news from his home in Acton, Mass. He and wife Beth and girls Rachel, 4, and Olivia, 2, get back to Colby three or four times a year, since Rick's wife was born in Waterville and her parents are former professors Bob and Dorothy Reuman. Rick continues to run marathons and finished his third N.Y.C. Marathon in November 1999. . . . Chris Schmidt sent me a photo of Colby alumni by the seashore at his June 2000 wedding in Massachusetts to Susan Moynihan. Chris says he gained an instant family in Abigail and Siobhan. At the wedding were Jake Filoon and Gordon Marshall. . . . From Alexandria, Va., Nancy Goers Hubbell and her family announced the birth of son Nick in July 2000. Nick's big brother, Jack, is 6. . . . From Lund, Sweden, Stacey Sorensen wrote of news in her life. The new bridge between Sweden and Denmark is the first connection since the Ice Age, and Stacey says she's enjoyed walking across the bridge, about five miles. She also has ridden a few times around Lake Vattern, which is a 300-km round trip. Stacey's also dancing and learning to play Swedish folk music on her violin. . . . When I cry out for news from you folks, I often send it via e-mail. Therefore, I have a greater chance of hearing from you at your convenience. It works for me, so please keep responding. Works for most of you, too, I note. . . . The only piece of mail I received that involved a postage stamp came from Sean McNamara. Sean and his wife live north of Atlanta, Ga., and were expecting their first child, a son, in November. Sean is director of product planning for Saab cars in the North American market. Working for Saab means that Sean may someday move back to Detroit, since GM bought Saab. The card Sean sent to me depicts a retired 1939 GMC in a 'serene Appalachian mountain setting.' . . . Maine vacations this year lured ML and Mark Tolette and their family to the Fox Island Thorofare in summer and to Sugarloaf in winter. . . . Chip and Martha Driscoll Kelley, their children and John Northrop and his girlfriend, Erin, ventured to Belgrade, Maine, in August to visit Joyce and Jamie O'Neil and their family. . . . Tony and Dede Arruda Perkins and their three daughters joined Pajes Merriman Sterman and her family on Martha's Vineyard for sun and fun. . . . Kelly Dodge checked in with hellos and reminded me that Todd Coffin was to run the Bar Harbor Half Marathon in mid-September. . . . Joyce and Paul Lezberg now live in Brunswick, Maine. . . . In Wilton, Conn., Carol McQuilling McMorris now works for Country Living Associates. Carol's working toward a master's in business administration at New York University. . . . In New York City, Scott Stein's office is in Chelsea Market. I had suggested to Scott that his boss, Oprah Winfrey, might enjoy a visit to the busy and beautiful summer world of Mount Desert and Acadia National Park. Scott said that he'd like to be back in Maine sometime but really enjoys New York for now. He's working for Oxygen, and Oprah is one of his bosses, after a fashion. Mostly it's Scott and '400 or so sisters,' he says, working to create a television and Internet network from their offices in Chelsea Market. . . . Thanks to everyone for the news, and I hope more of you will send some my way when you have a minute. Happy New Year!

–Sally Lovegren Merchant

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Hello to everyone! While I have your attention please take a moment, get the questionnaire out of the back of the magazine, fill it out and send it in so I will have more news to share with the class. Thanks for your help with this. . . . Tammy Jones Howe filled out her questionnaire and shared the following: she and her husband, Scott, are living in Ipswich, Mass., and enjoy playing with their two children, Phoebe, 5, and Charlotte, 2. Tammy is working as a mom and part-time forensic psychologist. . . . Karin McCarthy e-mailed from Marblehead, Mass., where she is on maternity leave. She just had her second child, Griffin William Atkinson, on May 23, 2000. He joins older brother Tucker, 2, two cats and one dog. Karin was to return to work in October as director of corporate relations in the president's office at UMass (in downtown Boston). Her job entails working on an initiative to create 'UMASS on-line,' building corporate partnerships to get job opportunities for UMass grads, scholarships and sponsored research. Every summer at the beach in Maine she sees Mia Rosner and her husband, Larry Roop '81, who live in L.A. She also runs into Tom Cushman '85 every once in a while; he also lives in Marblehead Mass. . . . Jeremy Springhorn e-mailed to announce that he and his wife, Erin, have a new addition to the family: Ethan Harris Springhorn was born March 3, 2000. Jeremy reports that he has watched the company he helped to start grow from a seven-employee company with no product to a 110-employee vertically integrated biotech company with a market cap of one billion. They now have eight clinical trials underway for two products and two other products in pre-clinical development. Jeremy is directing early research and development. Erin, a pediatrician, works part time at a private practice in Madison, Conn. When schedules permit, Jeremy and John Gagne play golf. He also keeps in touch with Andrew Davis '85. . . . Brewster Burns e-mailed that he has two children, Caroline, 1, and Christopher, 3. Brewster claims that he's doing the typical mid-life stuff: 'added to the house last summer, painted this summer.' . . . Another classmate reports adding to her house in Wellesley, Mass. Carol Hildebrand and her husband, Don Eburne, spent six months remodeling their house from the bottom up. Luckily they received shelter from Leslie and Geol Barnes '85, who live near them. They remodeled while Carol was pregnant; they now have a 'new' house and a daughter, Olivia, born March 22, 2000. Carol feels she can objectively say Olivia is 'quite wonderful.' Carol is also senior editor for a brand-new business/technology magazine called Darwin Magazine. It's a project of CIO magazine. Look for it on the magazine racks soon. Carol sees Laura Mahoney McGovern '85, Sue Chase Downes, Donna 'Dino' Altenpohl and Dawn Lepanto Taylor. Carol reports that Dawn and her husband, Davis '81, live in Holliston, Mass., and have a daughter, Piper, 4. . . . Sally Lee e-mailed from Danvers, Mass. She's still working at MIT and seems quite happy with her work. She's able to pursue her art career on the side and has done some digital illustrations for various publications. She's continuing with her painting and has received a second fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. You can check out her work at http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sally/. She also has a few paintings at Arts Research Associates in Hamilton, Mass…. Please see the on-line article (http://courant.ctnow.com/news/special/ne/suicide1.stm) on the late Charles Tenney. It is a wonderful, heartfelt eulogy for Charlie. . . . That's all the news for now, so please take a moment, get the questionnaire . . . (you know the rest). Hope to hear from you soon.

–Cynthia M. Mulliken-Lazzara

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