ALUMNI PROFILES
John Tewhey '65
Land Mark

Jeff Potter '78
Cooking the Books

Lisa Perrotti-Brown '89
Good Taste

Zach Shapiro '92
Place of Honor

My collaborator and pal, Dee Sanford McCunn, had very good phone visits last summer with Dot Chellman Bonneau (Topsfield, Mass.) and Tom Linzee (Marion, Mass.). Both Dot and Tom shared some of their Colby memories. Dot, who reports that no remnants of the old campus remain, remembers being covered with soot from passing trains while sunbathing during freshman year on the back porch of Boutelle House. Other reminiscences: movies at the Opera House, struggling to go to an 8 a.m. class when it was snowing and coffee breaks at the RR station. After Colby, Dot married and had three sons. She lost her husband quite young, but having studied occupational therapy, she was able to practice and to support her boys. One of Dot's recreational interests is making dollhouse miniatures and their furnishings. . . . Tom's Colby experience lasted one year, followed by service as a B-17 radio operator. On his 25th mission, the plane was hit by gunfire over Germany. During a sharp descent, the right wing was on fire, the hydraulic fluid and landing gears were affected, and the plane was full of white smoke. The pilot was able to reach Belgium, where the crew bailed out and landed in a field of rock-hard frozen furrowsÑthe temperature, 5 degrees F. With small arms fire all around, Tom, with a badly injured knee, got behind a knoll; a First Army vehicle picked him up; he was interrogated to make sure he wasn't a German spy in an American uniform, then removed for medical attention. In 1948, Tom earned a degree in business and industrial management at Boston University and went on to a successful career in that field. During his year at Colby, Tom had a well-remembered hazing incident. He had to hitchhike to the University of Maine and get the president's signature, which he didÑin the middle of the night. The good-natured president wrote, "Best wishes to the Phi Delta House at Colby."

--Naomi Collett Paganelli

By the time you read this some of you may be awaiting a blizzard, but as I write, we're awaiting a hurricane. It's 80 degrees and a beach day. It's a long way from write to read. . . . I received an interesting note from Cloyd Aarseth regarding his 1981 award-winning documentary on Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream. The producers of a new MGM movie, Barbershop 2, want to incorporate a clip in the movie now in production. Further proof, says Cloyd, that "old motion picture biographies don't die; rather they preserveÑin sight and soundÑpeople and places and events and make them all come alive." What a nice legacy, Cloyd. . . . And a nice note from Faye O'Leary Hafford, who's just published her 14th book on the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Her books cover history, folklore and a bit of biography. Her latest book is Checkpoint Chatter with a subtitle of "Tales of the North Maine Woods." Faye says she has dedicated readers from all over the country. She also opened the old schoolhouse library for the town. The school has been closed for many years and the children are bused to other towns, but thanks to Faye the townspeople have a library. . . . Do you remember a Colby saying, "It's a nice life if you don't weekend?" Well, we've just proved it's a great life if you do weekend. Gene and I just waived goodbye to Hannah Karp Laipson and Mike and Carol Robin Epstein, who with Larry and Marie Kraeler Lowenstein and Helen Strauss '45 came for the weekend for fun, food, conversation, laughs and reminiscences. Everyone is active, involved and loving life. Try it with some of your Colby friends; it will add years to your lifeÑlaughing does that. . . . Unless I heard from some of you before December, this is my last report. Write or e-mail (grandmaalb@aol.com).

--Anne Lawrence Bondy

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Dick Sampson says that he has had a busy year as a reader at his church, writing letters and petitioning on environmental and senior issues and enjoying his vegetable garden. He, his wife, and Ron Darroch '57 and his wife attended an Elderhostel on Prince Edward Island, where they learned about the culture, cuisine and history of the island and had several field trips and entertainment sessions consisting mainly of folk music played on fiddles, mandolins and accordions. Both Dick and his wife are in good health, Allie having had a rapid recovery after a hip replacement. While in Maine on the way to PEI, they stopped at Colby to see the Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy exhibit at the art museum. . . . When Dana and Harriet Nourse Robinson were in Portsmouth, N.H., recently, they visited Margaret Scott Carter at her antique shop. Harriet says that Scotty just never ages and looks the same as she did at our 25th reunion! (Can we have her secret?) Harriet's niece played in a doubles tennis tournament with Bob Tonge '49 in York, Maine, last summer. Dana and Hattie celebrated their 55th anniversary this year. . . . David C. Weber and his son, who teaches philosophy at Omaha Community College, spent two weeks in Zimbabwe and Botswana last summer. One of the highlights of the trip was flying in an ultralight plane over Victoria Falls. During their safari, they had close views of many kinds of wild animals and 166 species of birds, including the rare Pel's fishing owl, wattled crane, martial and tawny eagles and the malachite kingfisher. . . . Louise Kelley Rochester's summer was incredibly busy and "one of the best" with all of her grandchildren, mostly in their teens, visiting. She has a huge house near the beach in Duxbury, Mass., which is the perpetual gathering place of the whole family. Three of the young ones got drivers' licenses during the year! . . . Harold Joseph '44 went to Colby in the fall of 1940 when the tuition was $125 a semester. He graduated in our class after spending several years in the Pacific as an infantryman in World War II. Last fall, the Lawrence High School Alumni Association of Fairfield, Maine, honored him with one of three Bulldog Awards that were presented in the Waterville Elks Lodge. Harold is president of Joseph's Clothing and Sporting Goods in Fairfield. . . . I'm sad to report the death of Helen Jacobs Eddy on September 1 in Portland.

--Mary "Liz" Hall Fitch

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Howell Clement wrote to us in August that he and his wife, Norma, "were surrounded by forest fires but none of them were really close." They had a record dry spell and heat, and he saw many "choppers" with water buckets going "to and fro." For those of you who do not recall, Howell and Norma live in Kalispell, Mont. . . . Ruth Rogers Doering sent us her new address as of August 20, 2003. She is now living at 2475 Brookshire Drive, Building 9, Apartment 73, Niskayuna, NY 12309. She decided it was time to sell her house and thus eliminate the leaf raking, snow shoveling, lawn cutting, stair climbing and all the unnecessary possessions accumulated over the last 35 years. The new address is an apartment in the same neighborhood as her former home. Telephone number and e-mail address remain the same. . . . Doug Borton wrote that he thoroughly enjoyed visiting with classmates at our 55th reunion even though his wife, Doris, was unable to join us. On his way home he stopped in Braintree, Mass., to visit with Robert W. Sillen '44. Doug was to celebrate his 50th year as a member of the Society of Actuaries at its annual meeting at Walt Disney World in October. While there he was scheduled to moderate a panel discussion on executive benefits. In November he was to be a facilitator at the society's fellowship admission course for new fellows in McLean, Va. Doug writes, "Keeping active in professional affairs has been one of the rewards of my retirement." . . . Burt Krumholz e-mailed that he and his wife, Shelley, joined a different golf club and met a fraternity brother, Paul Ostrove '53. Burt added that Paul surprised him by reintroducing him to Kenny Jacobsen '50, whom Burt had not seen for 50 years. Burt celebrated his 50th New York Medical College class reunion and received awards from the New York Medical Society and the Nassau County Medical Society for 50 years in the practice of medicine. He also received the Ob-Gyn Professor of the Year award from the Junior Fellows of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in New York state. Burt and Shelley will begin their annual sojourn to Boca Raton, Fla., in late December. If any classmates are in the Boca Raton area he invites you to call him at 561-852-8683. . . . We had a reunion in July with Betty and Marvin Joslow at Martha's Vineyard. We spent the summer sailing, and when the weather was iffy we played golf. We returned to Jupiter, Fla., in October.

--David and Dorothy Marson

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Although I haven't heard from any of you, I managed to glean some news and even made some on my own! In August, I drove my RV with my daughter, Elisabeth Eustis Paine '81, to Colorado to visit my son, who lives in the Arkansas River Valley just below Salida. We had a great tripÑdid one white-water trip down Brown's Canyon and, most important, saw my son's new home site that he has carved out of a steep hillside with gorgeous mountain views on three sides. The excitement on the way home was the blackout in Ohio and New York. We were one day behind it but had no trouble pumping gas, which was our main concern as we trekked across the area. In early September I took one more step towards being a "bionic woman" by having a total left shoulder replacement to go with my two hip replacements. I'm in the early stages of therapy, but the prognostication is excellent. I shall be thrilled to get back to my more active lifestyle of biking and sailing. . . . Martha Loughman Shepard and I recently staged a mini-reunion of 16 Hedman Hall with our third freshman roommate, Priscilla "Pat" Armour Neumann. Martha hadn't seen Priscilla since the end of our sophomore year when Priscilla forsook Colby for Katie Gibbs. Would you believe we didn't have any trouble finding something to talk about! . . . In the summer issue of Colby we heard from Carol Carpenter Bisbee, who had just been to Antarctica. In July, she tried the top of the world, spending a month in Alaska. I haven't heard from her, so perhaps she's still there! . . . I recently visited the exhibit Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy at the Colby College Museum of Art. This was a special presentation for Colby and Bates alumni. The first person I bumped into was Hope Harvey Graf, whom I frequently see as we both live in Topsham, Maine. Later on I saw Joan Smith Rogers! I thoroughly enjoyed this traveling exhibition of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Colby is the only New England venue for this national tour, but in the summer of 2004 it will be in Fort Worth, Texas. During September 2004 to January 2005 it will be in Honolulu and in March to May 2005 in New York. If you enjoy history and particularly New England history, this is a worthwhile exhibit. While in the art museum, I visited the scene of our 50th reunion dinner and was reminded that our 55th is in June. Unbelievable, but mark it on your calendars anyway!

--Anne Hagar Eustis

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