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
Bruce Young
classnews1975@alum.colby.edu

Correspondent did not submit any notes for this issue.

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We are short on news due to summer vacations, but I received several automated responses from vacationers saying they would be in touch upon return, so we can be hopeful. . . . Rebecca Hushing McCole and her husband were in Denmark for a wedding and will fill in details later. . . . Work of both academic and income productive types continues, with these highlights: Kate Cone is working toward a master's and considering Ph.D. work. . . . Ambrose Cheung is currently professor of microbiology at Dartmouth Medical School and enjoys running in his free time. He planned to do the N.Y.C. marathon again this year. He says that Abdul Rijal is working at the U.N. . . . Janice Bispham has been promoted to assistant site director for an agency in Broward County, Fla., that deals with child welfare. In addition to this, she is deeply involved in community work. She claims to feel as young as ever. (You do, too, right?) Her news of Robert Richardson is that he is doing well in California and has a wife and son, whose names she did not divulge. . . . Rick Clunie wrote to share the feeling that is becoming familiar to many of us as our offspring reach college age. He and his wife, Kathy, have one high school senior still at home. . . . Lisa Wolman Haber keeps busy running her cruise business in Maryland while rescuing bichon frises with a group known as Small Paws Rescue. . . . The following is a list of long-lost but not-forgotten Colbyites. I have requests for word from or of these people. Can you help? In alphabetical order by maiden names if female: Dawn Beasley Washington, Toby Bobbitt, Barbara Bowers Palten, Barbara Brennan Silano, Janet Breslin Gilmartin, Patricia Brown, Nancy Coyne Cooper, Jennifer Easton McNeil, Nancy Gervais Finnegan, Margie Gingras-Allen, Sue Hannigen, Cindy Dawson Langer, Diane Lockwood Wendorf, Mary Mabon Colonna, Edith Metcalf Gingras, Janet Oken Nicholas, Diane Peterson, Janeen Reedy Adil, Shelly Robert, Tom Silverman, Liz Thommen and Tamara Woods. . . . We need more news!

--Jane Souza Dingman

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Thanks to all of my surprisingly sympathetic classmates who responded to my pathetic and shameless cry for help in the summer issue of the magazine. My diabolical plan worked (backfired, actually), and I was overwhelmed with news from many of you. A Class of '77 catharsis has apparently taken place. . . . Nick Jans has retired from teaching high school in Alaska to Eskimo and Tlingit Indian students to become a full-time professional writer and photographer. Nick is a long-time contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and is on the editorial board of contributors to USA Today. He has published several books, with three more in the works. His collection of Alaska essays, Going Alone, should be out soon. (His prolific writing is amazing, considering how hard it is for me to write a simple 10-page term paper in my M.B.A. program.) Nick will also be photographing the caribou migration in northwest arctic Alaska this year, as if he already didn't have enough to do. He says "hi" to his former football teammates and his old Zete compadres. . . . Deborah Cohen (now Dr. Deb) is a full professor of Spanish and Italian at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania (is there a better-named university anywhere?). Deb is excited about directing her own translation of the Costa Rican play Chapulines and Other Critters at the university's theaterÑsounds like it could be a Nick Jans book. Deb says that theater is a lot more fun than writing scholarly articles. She wasn't a theater major at Colby, but some of you may remember her riveting performance as the taxi driver in Harvey. After that virtuoso performance, I thought she should have played the taxi driver in Taxi Driver. . . . Bruce and Jennifer Davis Thomson write that their house is much quieter now that their daughter, Sarah, is a freshman in college. She is attending the geographically confusing Washington University in St. Louis (an excellent school, by the way). Jennifer says that her other two children are doing fine. Hana is a junior in high school and on the tennis team, and their son, Benji, is in eighth grade. Jennifer and Bruce say they are sorry they missed our 25th reunionÑand they should be, because they missed a great time. . . . Peter Cohn has changed careers and is now a New York City teacher of earth science at the Art and Design High School in Manhattan. He has gone back to school (like Rodney Dangerfield and me) at City College of New York to pursue a master's in education, which will take two or three years. Don't worry Peter, it will only seem like forever. Peter's wife, 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter are helping him cope with this major and admirable career change. . . . Jack O'Neil, former Colby hockey player extraordinaire, took pity on me and sent a ton of good stuff. Jack played in a golf tournament over the summer with Dennis Lundgren and says they birdied the 19th hole both days (if you're not a golfer, have someone who is explain). Dennis is in the insurance business and is president of Dunlap HRH in Auburn, Maine. He and his wife, Elaine, live in South Portland with their two children. Jack had the pleasure of working with Janet McLeod Rosenfield and others on our 25th reunion gift committee. He says it was great to catch up with so many classmates, including Larry Blanchard, John Tew, Mike Pappas, Jim Coderre and Mark Richardson (notice how I just mentioned numerous classmates without actually writing anything about them). Jack also spent some time in Cape Cod last summer with Bill '76 and Janet Macpherson Younker. Their son is a senior at Colby, and last year he spent a semester in South Africa with other CBB students (including your correspondent's niece, who is a senior at that inferior college in Brunswick). While on the Cape, Jack, Bill and Janet stayed up most of the night telling lies with Mark Drollinger, who was visiting from the Milwaukee area. Jack also sent news about Steve Cummings, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Karen, and six (count 'em) kids. Steve is co-head of investment banking at Wachovia Bank and in his spare time was preparing to run the N.Y.C. Marathon. He must get plenty of practice chasing his six kids around. Jack himself has been in the real estate development and construction business since graduation and in 1992 started his current firm with three other partners. Jack lives in Natick, Mass., and has been married to his wife, Carol, for 23 years. There are four kids in the O'Neil clan. His oldest daughter just graduated from BC, and his son is a junior at Bentley. His two younger daughters are in high school, and he says the prospects of them crossing the Maine border for higher education are slim. Jack and Carol have obviously raised some sensible girls.

--Mark Lyons

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Charlie Beckett and his family recently moved from Kennebunk, Maine, to Newtown Square, Pa. He writes that they all loved Maine and hated to leave the life of skiers in the winter and beach bums in the summer. Charlie and his wife have two girls, Lindsey, 14, and Melissa, 11. . . . Jeff Potter writes that he "keeps drumming away." He performs in the many musical numbers in the film Camp (IFC Films) that is now playing nation-wide. He would love to see anyone passing through New York City. Jeff can be found at Broadway's Nederlander Theater, where he has been performing with the rock-opera Rent for the past seven years. . . . Dian Weisman Miller is living in Manhattan, Kan., where she follows college football and works part time when she is not traveling. She writes, "I'm still mostly retired. I manage an H&R Block office for three months during the tax season and teach tax classes a night or two a week in the off-season. Life is good. Made it to Hawaii this spring. Only three states left to cross off my list. Next summer we're headed to Alaska for 10 days. We're heading to Spain next May for the wedding of one of our foreign exchange students. He was with us for six years, and we've been invited to sit in the front row of the church right next to his Ôother' parents. Wouldn't miss it for the world." . . . David Van Winkle recently was named chairman of the physics department at Florida State University. David and his wife, Tari, have three children, a dog, a bird and a pony. . . . Lina Veilleux Joyner is pursuing a career in residential sales with Century 21 in the Lewiston/Auburn, Maine, area. Prior to this move she spent six years working for the Social Security Administration in Rumford. She has two sons. . . . Janet and Jeff Bernard were featured on the This Old House Web site. They will be renovating their barn to make a cottage for Janet's parents. . . . Please keep sending us news. Thanks!

--Janet Santry Houser and Lea Jackson Morrissey

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Put the dates June 4-6 on your calendar and plan to join Janet Deering Bruen, our class president, as she throws a big 25th reunion bash. . . . Congratulations to Randy Papadellis, recently appointed Ocean Spray's chief executive officer. Randy has served as president and chief operating officer for the cooperative for the past three years and led Ocean Spray on an interim basis since last March. . . . In September 2002 Brian Hoffmann joined the New York City office of global law firm Clifford Chance as a senior partner in their M&A department. Brian is married to Lynne Murray, a former New York City official. They have two children, Dylan Cameron, 5, and Caleigh Katherine, 3. Two dogs reside with them in the Westchester suburb of Purchase, N.Y. . . . Carl Lovejoy is the assistant headmaster for external affairs of the Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, N.H. His oldest, Ben, completed his first year at Boston College, transferred to Dartmouth and graduated from Deerfield AcademyÑin that order last spring. Matt, his second son, is a freshman at Deerfield, and Nick, the youngest, is a sixth grader at Cardigan Mountain School. . . . Sue Viger Randall wrote last spring to say that her husband was deployed most of 2001 in the Air National Guard. She was very glad to have him home (and, we hope, not called up again). She stepped down from the board of directors of Camp Fire Boys and Girls (Maine chapter) and is always looking for someone to donate time at their Camp Fire/Camp Ketch in Scarborough. Her twin sons, 11, were off to camp for three weeks, and the family planned a two-week vacation in Canada. . . . Ross Moldoff has worked for 10 town managers in his 20 years as planning director for the town of Salem, N.H., where he assists the local planning board and conservation commission with their duties. He says he has enjoyed teaching several continuing education courses on city planning at UNH. His wife, Amy, is an elementary music teacher in the local school system, and they spend most of their spare time raising their two daughters, Emily, 12, and Allison, 9. . . . Tim '80 and Anne Luedemann Hunt write from their home in McLean, Va. Anne works part time at Imagination Station, a children's bookstore, and has been assistant manager for seven years. She volunteers in the libraries of their children, Gillian, a sixth grader, and Colin, a tenth grader, and also serves on several committees at their Quaker Meeting. Last spring the family sailed on a boat in the British Virgin Islands with Bill Mills and his family. . . . Susan E. Oram is a family cash management officer in the family division of the Maine District Court. Susan attended Vermont Law School and graduated from the University of Richmond Law School. A partner in the Lewiston law firm of Bonneau and Geismar since 1986, she practices in the areas of family law, child protection and protection from abuse. . . . Congratulations to David Surette for being nominated for a Cambridge Poetry Award in the "best love poem" category for his poem "Forever and Ever." The Cambridge Poetry Awards are given out every March to the poets of Massachusetts. David is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Malden and Muckers, Grinders, Hangers, Hackers and Huns and has placed poems in literary journals such as Peregrine, Poetry Motel and Button. He is co-editor of Selected Poems from The Daily Grind. (I hope that David and Kathy (Small) are planning to attend the 25th reunion.) . . . David Ashcraft was promoted to managing director, but it came with a move to North Carolina from Chicago. The family (including Eric, 11, and Katie, 8) decided to stay put, so after 20 years with that employer he left for a smaller company. David has seen his old roommate, Dave Allen, on his travels. He writes that Dave has traveled extensively to Europe and Asia (for pleasure, not business!) . . . Leslie Taylor recently changed jobs, becoming the school secretary at a brand-new Massachusetts charter school that opened in the fall. Affiliated with Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound, the school sits on a beautiful 18th-century farm in Greenfield, Mass., where her family moved last year into a big old farm of their own. Leslie and her husband, Nick Plakias, assist daughter Zoe, a senior at the Academy at Charlemont (where she has Gerrit White as a teacher) with the college search. Leslie asks that Kay Lavoie Lowell send in some news. (I can say that Kay and Nate '77 were last seen in Greeley, Colo., on the campus of Northern Colorado University, where Kay was working at the Michener Library.) . . . Dave Vivian is currently a senior vice president for Tower Ventures, which develops cell phone towers throughout New England and upstate New York. His wife, Rachel, is a professor in the education department at Springfield College. His son, Daniel, 12, spent a week at the Cooperstown Dreams Park, and son Nate, 7, won his baseball championship earlier in the season. Dave said that he has had e-mail from several former ATO alumni: Steve Kirstein '80, Dwight Allison, Pete Goodnow and Bob Kinney, but they weren't able to hook up due to various family commitments. Dave, maybe you can nudge them to attend the reunion and get together that way.

--Cheri Bailey Powers

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