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

CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jane Holden Huerta
classnews1960@alum.colby.edu

On June 18-26, 2004, June Chacran Chatterjee will lead another group to Cuba. Anyone interested can contact her at junec006@aol.com. Wouldn't it be fun if a group of us go! . . . Waring Blackburn writes that the St. Lawrence River is a wonderful place to view the world as they watch the tall ships, lakers and ships from around the world go by. Even with the magnificent views he says he worries about the state of the world and where we are headed. Grandchildren are a big part of their life, including babysitting 1-year-old twins. Landscaping projects seem to occupy a lot of time, but they also find time for bridge, entertaining and boating. Other activities include leading book discussions, writing, cycling and, recently, playing tennis. His trips include Vietnam and Singapore; Vermont, to help his brother build a camp; Jupiter, Fla.; and a boat trip on a 53-foot restored 1956 Chris Craft from the east side of Penobscot Bay to Clayton, N.Y., via the Cape Cod Canal, N.Y.C., Hudson River, Mohawk River/Barge Canal, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. . . . Sandy Myers Paap returned home (to Wisconsin) after spending July and August on the East Coast with family and friends. Her summer highlight was the early-July birth of a grandson in N.Y.C.Ñthe second child for her older daughter, Kim, and a third grandchild for Sandy. (Her younger daughter, Kris, expected her second child in January.) In mid-July Sandy joined Kim, her 2-year-old and the new baby for some R&R on the Cape. Jo Deans Auchincloss joined them there en route to visit her two daughters (both now living in Maine). Jo and Sandy have re-connected in recent years and enjoy a mutual sharing of their daughters and grandchildren. . . . Skip '59 and Joan Crowell Tolette, their daughter, Pam, and son-in-law, Eric, and their two grandsons, Kyle, 7, and Ian, 6, climbed Mt. Katahdin in August. You may recall that Skip and Joan met there 47 years ago, and the kids planned this trip as a kind of reunion. They saw lots of moose up really close, slept in the bunkhouse on plywood bunks for two nights and made it to the top with no complaints. They all returned to the 1000 Islands and were met at their cottage by son Mark and his wife, Mary Lou, and grandchildren, Robby and Anna. Skip is still working with Eric. . . . Don Freedman, who retired the first time after being in business for 30 years, plans to retire from teaching this year. He'll spend more time in Colorado, where his son lives, and in New York, where his wife will still work, but he'll remain mostly in the Berkshires. He is looking forward to spending more time taking courses, skiing and singing as well as to our next reunion. . . . Eunice Buckholz Spooner went on a cruise to Alaska in July and says the humpback whales, glaciers, and fiords were spectacular. In Juneau she met for the first time the instructor of an Internet course for whom she had been a teaching assistant for a number of years. . . . Steve Curley hadn't heard from Bill Hood '61 in more than 40 years, but the class news caught Bill's attention. After checking up on Pete Cavari '61, Bill got Steve's number before his short visit to Massachusetts, and Steve and Bill had a cup of coffee that lasted for 2 1/2 hours. Bill is an auctioneer and owns an antiques auctions house in Del Ray Beach, Fla. . . . Kay and Ralph Nelson visited the Antarctic in February with their daughter, Naomi. They remember the vast, mostly unspoiled, vistas of land and ice where "we are just spectators in a paradise where nothing dies of old age." But, they say, "It is good to be home. The floor does not rock to odd angles, the air no longer smells of Ôpenguin poo' and the drinking water no longer tastes like a chlorinated Pennsylvania stream." In July their grandson, Zachary Edwin Nelson, joined the family. Ralph writes that he "reminds us of the glory of God's creation and the finite span we have to participateÑfor better or for worse." . . . Jock and Pat Walker Knowles are up to eight grandchildren, the last one, Jonathan, born in December 2002. Pat and Jock entertained Betsy (Perry '61) and Ed Burke in Maine recently. Later they saw Ed's brother, Bob '61, and his wife. Jock's old hockey pal, Ned Platner, has had a rough time as his wife, Nancy, recently passed away. Many of the Knowleses' friends are retiring (Dick Lucier for one), but Jock says he's not retiring mostly because Pat doesn't want him at home! Jock, too, is thinking about our 45th.They also saw Bonnie (Brown '63) and Barry Potter in Maine. Barry is packing it in also. . . . Ken Nigro lives in Sarasota, Fla. Before this year he was operating baseball fantasy camps and cruises for the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers, but he knows Larry Lucchino, the new president and CEO of the Red Sox, and will operate both a cruise and fantasy camp for the Red Sox in 2003. Ken is looking forward to spending some time in Boston. . . . Please send me your correct e-mail address if you are not getting my e-mail requests for news. I have discovered that I have incorrect e-mail addresses for several of you.

--Jane Holden Huerta

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Class president Penny Dietz Sullivan writes: "Time flies when you're having fun! Nancy Tozier Knox and her husband, Jim, came through D.C. when leaving their Florida winter home en route to their Maine summer home and stopped to see Bebe Clark Mutz. We all went out to dinner and had a great time talking about our last Colby reunion. Meanwhile, Paul and I are working our buns off in anticipation of someday retiring." Penny also reports that their company, GURU NETworks, is finally emerging in the real estate industry as one of the premier solutions for transaction management. If anyone in '61 attends either the RISmedia event or the NAR shows, they need to stop by and see Penny and Paul. E-mail penny@gurunet.net for an unforgettable mini-reunion. You might help plan our 45thÑnow less than three years away in 2006! . . . Bill Wooldredge attended Colby's summer '03 Alumni College and reported "a great time and fun to catch up with other Colby people, including Bob Hartman '60 and Tod Marchant '60." He adds, "We've traveled to Seattle, New England, Hawai`i and Michigan. Plan Cancun this fall and then back to Seattle to see kids and grandkids. Now fully retired and love it, doing a lot of community service work." . . . Peter Denman called to announce that he and his wife, Sue, were about to become my neighbors here on the Big Island of Hawai`i! Peter taught classics in Waimea at Hawai`i Preparatory Academy in the '60s, then earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan. He's currently teaching in Oklahoma, with a long-distance assignment in SingaporeÑwhich "requires" a stop in Hawai`i. We planned to meet in "cowboy country" when he arrived in October. The world gets smaller! . . . Your correspondent just returned from an annual spa trip to Carefree, Ariz., where she experienced the sensational Boulders Golden Door Spa. A friend who attended the decidedly more rustic Kauai YMCA spa I ran in the '70sÑcalled The Back DoorÑmade a pact with me to attend a spa somewhere in the world together every year. This was our 20th! After Phoenix via Aloha Airlines, where both a daughter and granddaughter are happily employed, my husband, John, and I took an Alaskan cruise via Vancouver, B.C., and the Inside PassageÑan awesome experience that included glacier hikes and horseback riding when docked in Skagway and Juneau. . . . Your classmates would be delighted to receive your news any time. E-mail diaferrei@aol.com or visit Hawai`i for a Pacific Rim reunion! Aloha.

--Diane Scrafton Ferreira

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For some reason, Nancy Mac Kenzie Keating's columns have not appeared in Colby magazine. We both lack sophisticated computer skills although we keep trying. . . . We Russells with family and friends enjoyed a glorious summer at the lake, a true summer retreat with minimal amenities and no television. It is such fun to watch our three grandchildren, ages 2, 7 and 8, climbing over the rocks, jumping off the dock, paddling canoes and kayaks, swimming, picking blueberries, reading, enjoying imaginative play, sleeping out in the tent, imitating loons and picking wildflowers. . . . Elmer Bartels has been reappointed commissioner of rehabilitation in Massachusetts and is now serving his sixth governor and starting his 27th year in this post. He is also active on many nonprofit boards, including Wang Center, Massachusetts Bay Red Cross, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Commonwealth Corp. He and Mary report having a grand 40th wedding anniversary party in January '02 that included Elise and Henry Sheldon '61, Harry and Janet Stephenson Whittaker '65, Patsy (Houghton '61) and Dave Marr '61, Marge and Bill Barnett and Sharon and Bill Barnett '59. Mary tells Bump that he can't retire in the foreseeable future because he's having too much fun at work and she's having too much fun in volunteer community work, taking piano lessons and being a bell ringer at church. However, they hope to take lots of cruises in the future. . . . Anne "Dee" Cross Toole continues to live on Cape Cod and teaches French and Spanish in middle school. She also runs a private institute, L'Institut de Francais a Cape Cod, where she teaches conversational French and French literature to 30 private students ranging in age from 11 to 80! She married Bill Toole, a retired city planner, and together they have four grown children and one grandchild, Stanley, 2 and "Le Petit Prince" in her life! Dee takes six women with her for two weeks at a time to the Provence farmhouse she rents in the summer for mini-tours and lessons in French. Eleanor "Gordy" Hicks Weigle, Brenda Bertorelli Pates and Jeanie Banks Vacco have gone with her in the past. Gordy and Dee spent a week in Paris last spring and had a wonderful Easter at the home of French friends in the country. Gordy has two grown children and two grandchildren and is a social worker for the state of Pennsylvania. Dee and Jeanie occasionally get together for lunch. Brenda, who has gone to France twice with Dee, lives in Chicago, works with hearing-impaired students and has three grown children and three grandchildren. She also sees Kathy Hiltz Bauer a couple of times a year. Kathy and Jim Johnson visited Dee on the Cape this past spring. Dee, who took one hundred 14-year-olds to Montreal and Quebec in early June on an annual school trip, also is active on the board of the Cape Cod Writers' Center. Dee's memories of Colby and the parts that were most important were the friends she made there and still has in her life. . . . Janan Babb Vaughn writes from Reading, Mass. She and David have two grown children and three grandchildren. The Vaughns were building a new home in Camden, Maine, on the family lot where Janan grew up, and they hoped to move in last fall. They visited China in '01 and the Baltic Sea area last summer, touring St. Petersburg and the Scandinavian countries. . . . Ann Tracy, retired from her job at Plattsburgh State (N.Y.), enjoys teaching just one class a semester and intends to continue writing. I'll copy her great response about memories directly: "I remember hearing a reading of Under Milkwood in the Little Theater in the fall of my freshman year. I'd never heard anything like it. Forty-five years later it's still a favorite play, and I still hear Irving Suss's voice on the opening lines. I remember learning that one need iron only the collar and cuffs of a blouse worn under a crew neck. I remember how the dye from Oxford editions would run in the rain and streak our universal trench coats with blue. I remember English professors reading us their favorite passages around the fireplace in the WSU. I remember the tiny sandwiches that someone sold us late in the evening and how extravagant it felt to splurge on tuna. I remember wearing sneakers without socks in the winter (so there, Mom!) and stepping in puddles and how fast the ice water warmed up against the hot feet of youth. I remember tearing around the back roads of Oakland on the back of Dave Vogt '64's motorbike in those helmet-free days and feeling that I had arrived at new levels of cool. I remember reading Thurber aloud with Pris Gwyn Maulsby until we wept from laughter. I remember just once a year looking at the guys on the library steps in their blazers doing Greek sing, so pretty, and wondering for a confused, flickering moment whether I should have made the huge effort to be Fifties Normal. But I had no real aptitude (or taste) for it, so a good thing that the impulse was fleeting." As to what part of her life started at Colby Ann says that the "new start was a chance at a more intellectual religion than small-town Baptists had been able to provide. (I'm Episcopalian now.)" Thanks, Anne, for such a great letter. . . . I did lose two or three e-mails with the last virus so if you aren't mentioned within a couple issues, please send me another e-mail.

--Pat Farnham Russell

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Elizabeth Doe Norwat and her husband planned a trip to Quebec and Montreal in July. She has enjoyed her first year of retirement, which included substitute teaching and teaching evening classes at the local community college in Lake Winnebago, Mo., where they live. She was looking forward to taking more Spanish graduate courses. . . . Lois Meserve Stansel is active in her church teen mentoring program in Selah, Wash., and leads a Bible study group of high school senior girls. She enjoys being on the board of their Arabian Horse Club and on the show committee for the annual Labor Day weekend show. Her oldest daughter's husband, who is in the New York Air National Guard, finished a tour of duty in the Iraq war. Their youngest daughter graduated with honors from Multnomah Bible College. . . . During the good October weather last fall, I got out my old Outing Club black and red lumber jacket from Levine's. It's still in fair condition, and, I'm proud to say, still fits! There are a lot of good memories locked up in that old jacket. Do any of you still have yours? . . . The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education's summer 2003 edition lists a sampling of distinguished black alumni of the nation's highest-ranked universities, and Colby is proud that our classmate, Beth Brown Turner, is included as a theater professor and administrator at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Not only has Beth written and produced several plays, she co-founded and is the publisher and editor of a bimonthly magazine, Black Masks, which features information about black performing literary and visual arts. . . . Again we congratulate Susan Comeau for receiving this year's Ernest C. Marriner Distinguished Service Award in honor of her long and important service to Colby in various alumni activities. She has served as class agent for the Class of 1963 and director of the Boston Colby Alumni Club. In 1979, she was elected to the Alumni Council, on which she served for six years, chairing its Awards Committee for two of those years. Sue also was chair of the Alumni Fund, and she received a Colby Brick Award in 1986. She has been a very important member of the Board of Trustees for a considerable number of years. . . . In her e-mail, Marsha Palmer Reynolds states how much she enjoyed the "wonderful reunion" and seeing many of us excited and enthusiastic about the College. Her news includes a good description of the difficult weather for summer vacations this year. "My husband and I spent the summer in Maine at our home in Biddeford. We tried to do some sailing but the weather was, at times, so foggy and rainy that our plans just sank. Meanwhile we brought our dogs (adopted) through continued obedience training and final training to be therapy dogs at nursing homes and children's hospitals. They are both certified to do so, and we did volunteer at two nursing homes in Maine. It's a terrific experience for dogs and humans!" . . . Mary Dexter Wagner lives in Wantagh on Long Island. She says, "Where else can we enjoy the beach all day and then see a Broadway show that night?" Mary is still in the antiques and collectibles business on a part-time basis, and she and Wayne are enjoying their two granddaughters and were looking forward to another grandchild in December. I want to include what Mary wrote in September while still feeling the glow of the reunion: "Our 40th reunion was the best! The College Reunion Committee was so organized and provided a wide variety of activities for everyone's interests. We especially enjoyed Saturday night, listening and dancing to Jerry Jeff Walker, thanks to the Class of 1978. Our own 1963 class committee did a great job, too. Penn Williamson's Outward Bound activities were once again enjoyed by allÑa special icebreaker for classmates and spouses! Our class dinner was memorable, and I enjoyed the informal speeches of our classmates. This year's reunion favor, the tote bag, made dozens of trips to the beach this summer. A great idea! My husband, Wayne, always feels welcomed and included in our reunion activities. I guess the College feels that way as well, as his photograph is in the summer alumni magazine on the Reunion 2003 page! Thank you to all the Reunion Committee members who worked so hard to make this one of the best!" What a great testimonial to get us motivated to return to Colby for our 45th reunion in 2008.

--Karen Forslund Falb

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I attended Alumni College last summer with Lynne Urner Baxter '65, and we had a particularly good time. There were about 40 attendees, all housed in the new Anthony-Mitchell-Schupf residence halls. Our dorm was just beautiful inside and out. They were completely overhauling Averill while we were thereÑeven the windows were being replaced and alterations being made to the exterior, bay windows and such. The stairs in front of the chapel were also being reconstructed. It was a busy place, with soccer camps and football camps and other activities for various ages. Alumni College takes place every year, offering study of an interdisciplinary topic. Last year it was "The Small Town, Its History and Future." We heard lectures on the American small town of 1830, demographics for towns c. 1900, read short stories and saw three movies based in 20th-century small towns (Our Town, Peyton Place, The Last Picture Show), had a presentation by the Maine Development Foundation on revitalizing downtowns, heard talks and discussions led by several professors and still had a chance to enjoy the campus and museum and pretend we were students again. I'll be glad to tell you more at reunion, our five-year opportunity to slow down, think back and ponder all that has transpired since June 7, 1964. . . . Morgan McGinley was elected vice president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers Foundation and vice president of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. The latter is a newspaper industry watchdog group dedicated to enhancing open-government laws and practices. Morgan is editorial page editor of The Day in New London, Conn., where his wife, Lisa, is night city editor. . . . Susan Woodward writes, "Over the past year I was co-author of a book about real estate in North Carolina (How to Make Your Realtor Get You the Best Deal). I now have 20 boxes of books in my dining room and am starting to make some efforts at marketing itÑit's quite exhilarating to be a published author! Still trying to get the discipline and structure for writing in my life on some sort of regular basis. Have been reading Stephen Covey's First Things FirstÑdiscovered in the first chapter that I'm addicted to urgency. I should have realized that just looking at the calendar in my database management programÑeverything related to business was in red and marked Ôhigh priority.' No wonder I never got around to painting and writing!" . . . George Shur retired as general counsel at Northern Illinois University. Last spring he served as the assistant dean on Semester at Sea, a program administered by the University of Pittsburgh that takes 650 students (from all over the country) around the world. That's right, George sailed around the world: Miami, Nassau, Cuba, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, India, Japan, Korea, Alaska, Canada and Seattle "for three-and-a half-months and got paid for it," he writes. "The nature of the SAS academic program is quite rigorous and gives students a real understanding of social, religious, political and economic issues in the countries visited and how these nations and cultures interact with one another, with the United States and internationally. Fascinating stuff! My favorite country was South Africa, a nation of stark contrasts and great hope and utterly gorgeous scenery." Their scheduled visits to Vietnam and China were canceled due to SARS but that gave them more time in Korea and Japan. Also on the voyage was Jody Harvey '68. George and Martha remain in DeKalb and have more time for each other and their children, who now live in Seattle (Aaron is a second-year med student at the University of Washington) and Chicago, where Becky is a graphic designer. They hope to get to Greece in the early spring. . . . Colleen Khoury, dean of the University of Maine School of Law, received the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, given to women lawyers who have achieved professional excellence in their fields and influenced other women to pursue legal careers, opened doors for women lawyers in a variety of job settings that historically were closed to them, or advanced opportunities for women within a practice area or segment of the profession. Colleen is one of five recipients of this year's award. Recipients from past years include former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Brandeis professor Anita Hill, former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder and Bella Abzug. . . . Bruce Lippincott is active in environmental riverine protection in Illinois, doing research and presentations on a wide variety of subjects. He is now a principal in the firm of Lawler, Matusky & Skelly Engineers as well as vice president of the Illinois Environmental Council. He writes, "At the moment, I am working with some colleagues on developing some leading-edge science on assessing the effects of certain industrial discharges on receiving water bodies. It is really neat stuff and a new way to look at these issues by combining mathematical modeling and standard mortality information." On the home front, their daughter, Sarah, Army combat medic, is serving in the 30th Medical Brigade in Baghdad at least until February. When Bruce has some spare time, he spends it hunting and fishing in far-flung places. Bruce has written lots of interesting information that I have had to severely edit. Come to reunion to get all the details!

--Sara Shaw Rhoades

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