FYI: A Newsletter for Colby Employees

MELLON HONORS COTTER
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced that it will honor Bill Cotter for his achievement and his seniority among college presidents with a $200,000 grant that may be used for discretionary purposes. Bill says he will use the grant to work with the faculty in bolstering the Colby Precepts and to help in minority recruiting and campus support.

ON OUR KIDS
Three Colby children were in the world premiere of the ballet Holly and Ivy over the holidays -- Julie Yeterian (Ed & Margaret), Zeben Ashton (Cate & Don), and Anna Sagaser (Elizabeth & John). Performances were in Pittsfield and, later, in Camden.

OFF THE RHODES
Our list of Colby Rhodes Scholars skipped over William Carter, Class of 1938. So, Will Polkinghorn is the sixth. Before him were Jennifer Barber, 1978; William Carter, 1938; John Rideout, 1936; Abbott Smith, 1926; and Harold Soule, 1904. Carter and Rideout, it happens, were both at Oxford at the same time. Sorry Bill.

SOCCER COACHING COURSE
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America "State Level" coaching course will be offered by Mark Serdjenian on Sunday, January 17, from 1-6 p.m. at Wadsworth Gymnasium. The course is designed for youth soccer coaches (and parents and future coaches), particularly those working with 6-12 year olds, and is required for coaches of travel teams in Maine. Call Mark at 872-7915, evenings.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Fellowship
NSF / Physics & Astronomy
Inquire Personnel Office x3180

THELMA PLUSQUELLIC 1918-1998
Honor to the memory of Thelma Plusquellic, long-time secretary in the registrar's office and assistant to the dean of students, who died December 12 at her home in Waterville. Thelma was a staffer who, like so many others, masterfully managed things for her bosses with grace, charm and efficiency. She was popular among students, many of whom found a visit to Thelma was an adequate substitute for a visit to the dean. She had good advice and she knew the Colby ropes. A memorial service will be held in Lorimer Chapel on Monday, Dec. 21, 2 p.m. The Rev. Ron Morrell will officiate.

JOHN S. MIZNER 1932-1998
Colby mourns the passing of John Mizner, a 35-year veteran of the English department who has died of cancer less than a year after his retirement. John, who for various periods chaired both the department and the Humanities Division, became the Charles A. Dana Professor of English in 1994. He specialized in British Romantic poetry and introduced courses in literature and the history of the Holocaust and existentialism. Survivors include his wife, Alison; daughter, Sarah; and son, David. A memorial service will be held at Lorimer Chapel at 10 a.m. on Sunday, January 3.

OUR SYMPATHIES to Joan Sanzenbacher and Ray Philips, each of whom lost a parent in the days before the holidays ... to Margaret Mundy, whose brother died last week .. and to Missy Gurski, whose father-in-law, has also passed away ...

RECEIVE TRAVEL GRANTS
Candice Parent, a softball clinic in Cherry Hill, N.J. and the American Volleyball Coaching Association Convention in Madison, Wisconsin ... Veronique Plesch, presenting a paper for the International Association of Word & Image Studies at Scripps College in California ... Ankeney Weitz and Roger Thompson, the Association for Asian Studies in Boston ... Barbara Nelson, a paper for the International Association of Language Learning Technology at the University of Maryland ...

MOOSECELLANEOUS
Colby is not faring well in this holiday season .. many losses ... The dining room in Foss Hall is closed .. renovations are underway .. in the meantime, extra seats have been made in Roberts ... So, too, the Colby Museum of Art is closed through January 17 for renovations ... In 1954, 85% of Colby employees contributed to the Waterville Community Chest, now the United Way ... Those who have telephones that display numbers and names of callers will find that Gus Libby is designated as CPL .. now we learn this is an acronym for Colby Power & Light ... Dreamt is the only English word that ends in mt ... The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was conceived by the creator, Frank Baum, who looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z ... Northwestern University has agreed not to paint over a student's dormitory-room artwork after he filed a lawsuit in federal court to protect his rendition of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel ...