Middlebury College magazine. Vol. 67, No. 3 : 1993

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Around the Hill

Clara Yu has research, outreach and
technology on the top of her agenda for
the language schools ... A new book
captures the spirit of the Writers’
Conference ...Frank Kelley (at right)
retires after 10 years of "making haste,
slowly.” ... DU is suspended ... Center
dedicated to honor Stephen Freeman.

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Cover story 20

The Class of ’93 got a great sendoff from Middlebury on May 23: Sunshine,
balmy breezes, and a challenge from civil rights advocate Mary Francis Berry.

Still waters run deep 26

In their research, Pat and Tom Manley of the geology department have
found some surprises beneath the surface of Lake Champlain (below).

Words and music 30

Midd’s music library and the Flanders Ballad
Collection are finally under one roof, in the
new Center for the Arts. Last of a series.

Departments

Editor’s Note 2

From the President 3

Letters 5

Faculty Notes 15

Book Reports 17

Sports 18

Alumni Newsletter

35

The Schools

37

Class Notes

38

Obituaries

75

On the cover: Mortarboards wheel skyward and smiles break out on May 23,
as the Class of 1993 celebrates the end of four (or, in some cases, more) years
of work at Middlebury. Facing page: A graduate lets the crowd know he made
it. Photos by Erik Borg ’67.

EDITOR’S NOTE

After another four years, it’s
so long again — and thanks

A s careful readers of the magazine
will recall, this is my second time
around as editor. I first took the
job back in September of 1982, after about
eight years in the newspaper business. I
stayed four years, until the summer of
1986, when I took a job with a start-up
magazine in Burlington, Vt. I wrote a fare¬
well column for the Summer ’86 issue,
implying that I'd keep in touch through the
class notes.

I didn't, of course, and so was not
heard from again in the pages of this
magazine until about three years later. By
that time, the start-up magazine had folded
up, and I'd moved on to a company called
Ski Racing International in Waitsfield, Vt.,
where I was managing editor of Ski Rac¬
ing , which calls itself “the international
journal of ski competition.” But when my
old job at Middlebury opened up, I ap¬
plied, and the College, in its wisdom, gave
me another shot. That was about four years
ago, in the late summer of 1989.

Well, as it happens, after another four
years, I'm leaving again. (I’ve now
“graduated” after four years at Middlebury
three times — with the classes of 1974,
1986 and 1993.) And I'm heading, again,
to Ski Racing International, which has
grown considerably in the interim. I'll be
mostly a management type, overseeing the
editorial and the production departments,
which are now responsible for several pub¬
lications, all ski-related.

Deciding to leave Middlebury wasn’t
any easier the second time around. As I
said in my “Editor’s Note” column after
returning in 1989, Middlebury is a place I
care a lot about. And I’ve enjoyed work¬
ing with people on campus and off —
alumni, students, faculty and staff. In par¬
ticular, I’ll miss working with Dotty
McCarty, the Alumni Newsletter editor,
without whom this magazine just flat
wouldn't happen. Her work, and that of the
dozens of class secretaries that she over¬
sees, makes Middlebury’s class notes sec¬
tion the best there is.

Fortunately, Dotty will still be around.
And taking my place at the magazine will
be Debby Hodge '60, who’s worked in the
public affairs office at the College, of

which the magazine is a part, for the past
10 years. Debby has spent most of her time
in recent years editing Midd Points , the
newsletter for faculty and staff here at the
College. She’s also contributed the occa¬
sional story to the magazine. With Debby
and Dotty on the job, the magazine will be
in good hands.

The last four years have been eventful
ones at the College. We’ve had three presi¬
dents in that time, which has meant a lot
of transitions, and a lot of uncertainty.
Since 1990, Middlebury has also been in
transition from a college with all-male fra¬
ternities to one with coeducational social
houses, a road that has not been without a
few bumps.

One of the biggest events of these past
four years came in the fall of 1990, when
the Dalai Lama returned to campus for the
“Spirit and Nature” conference. I feel
lucky to have been here both times the
Dalai Lama visited, for “Spirit and Na¬
ture” and the 1984 symposium on the
Christ and Bodhisattva; both events left
enduring impressions on anyone who was
here to watch and listen.

But what I'll remember most about the
past four years is the time I’ve spent talk¬
ing with Middlebury students. Despite all
the demographic doom and gloom you
hear about declining enrollments, Middle¬
bury has somehow been able to continue
attracting top-quality students, who also
happen to be top-quality people. When¬
ever I’ve interviewed students — whether
about their academic careers, their roles in
student government, or their success on
the playing fields — I’ve come away im¬
pressed with their intelligence and their
commitment.

So it goes. You’ve written “letters to
the editor” in record numbers over the past
few years, and while some have been less
than flattering, I hope you'll keep ’em
coming. It definitely helps us to hear what
you have to think about the magazine, and
about what’s happening on campus.

This time around, I know better than
to promise that I'll “see ya in the class
notes.” But I will make an effort to keep
in touch, and hope that you will, too.

— Tim Etchells ’ 74

Middlebury College Magazine
Editor, Tim Etchells '74 • Alumni Newsletter Editor,
Dotty McCarty • Associate College Editor, Debby
Hodge ’60 • Photography, Erik Borg 67 • Contribut¬
ing Editor, Karl Lindholm *67 • Production Consult¬
ant, Steve Metzler • Director of Public Affairs, Ron
Nief • Editorial office: Farrell House. Middlebury Col
lege, Middlebury, VT 05753. • Diverse views are pre¬
sented and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the
editors or the official policies of the College.

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Middlebury College

John M. McCardell Jr., President

Charter Trustees

Robert P. Youngman ’64, Chairman, New York, N.Y. •
Claire Waterhouse Gargalli ’64, Vice Chairman, Phila¬
delphia. Pa. • Patricia Judah Palmer '57, Secretary,
Wellesley Hills, Mass. • Dort A. Cameron III '67. New
York, N.Y. • C. Irving Meeker ’50, Portland. Maine •
Jonathan O’Herron, New York, N.Y. • Milton V.
Peterson '58, Fairfax, Va. • Jane Bryant Quinn '60,

North Salem, N.Y.

Term Trustees

William H. Kieffer III '64, Vice Chairman. Boston.

Mass. • Frederic W. Allen, Shelburne, Vt. • Ronald H.
Brown '62, Washington, D.C. • Sister Elizabeth Can-
don, Burlington, Vt. • James S. Davis '66. Boston. Mass.
• Magna Leffler Dodge '68, New York, N.Y. • Robert C.
Graham Jr. '63, New York, N.Y. • Antonia A. Johnson.
Stockholm, Sweden • Reuben Mark '60, New York,

N.Y. • Wm. E. Odom, Washington. D.C. • David E.
Thompson ’49, Panton, Vt.

Alumni Trustees

Pamela Nugent Czekanski '81, Boston. Mass. • Patricia
Sherlock Davidson '59, Boston, Mass. • Albert H. Elfner
III '66 • Churchill G. Franklin '71. Boston, Mass. • John
E. Martin '67, Irvine, Calif. • Martha Saenz '65, Chevy
Chase, Md.

Directors of the Alumni Association
Virginia V.V. Ziobro '82, President • Pieter J. Schiller
'60. Vice President • Jane Abbott Barry '38. Tri-State
Alumnae • Jennifer L. Blake '86, Athletics • Richard
Brown '88, Philadelphia Chapter • Marilyn R. Bruhn
'47. Continuing Education • Bruce K. Byers '55. Athlet¬
ics • George L. Cady '72, Annual Giving • Paula Carr
'82, Career Counseling & Placement • Jill T. Cowper-
thwaite '76. Denver Chapter • Dana M. Curtis '84,
Young Alumni • Adrienne Littlewood DeLaney '57,
Nominating Committee • Bronwen Williams Flahive
'70, Admissions • Lucy Newell Hancock '78, Boston
Chapter • Paula Hartz '60. Annual Giving • Karin Bloom
Heffeman ’82, Class Secretaries • James R. Keyes ’71,
Continuing Education • Heather Pierce Kingston '86.
Greater Burlington, Vt.. Chapter • Thomas J. Knox '84.
Washington, D.C.. Chapter • Sholomo Levy '86, Admis¬
sions • Richard J. Makin Jr. '84, Young Alumni • David
T.W. Minot '74, Hartford Chapter • Mark A. Patinkin
'74, Career Counseling & Placement • Alice Neef Perine
'47. Midd-Vermont Chapter • Asa E. Phillips III '79,
Nominating Committee • Stephen Ramos '76. Philadel¬
phia Chapter • Sally Green Risberg '54, Communica¬
tions • Richard G. Silton '80. Communications.

Ex officio: Ann Einsiedler Crumb '71. Director of
Alumni Giving • David W. Ginevan. Treasurer • Hugh
W. Marlow '57, Director of Alumni Relations • Susan
Veguez, Graduate Alumni

Middlebury College does not discriminate against any
individual on the basis of race. sex. religion, ethnic ori¬
gin, sexual orientation or handicap in any of its pro¬
grams or activities. In particular. Middlebury College
complies with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title IX of the
Educational Amendments of 1972. the IRS Anti-Bias
regulation, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973.

2 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

FROM THE PRESIDENT

Now go, remembering that college
is just one chapter in your education

By John M. McCardellJr.

The following is excerpted from
this year s Baccalaureate Ad¬
dress, given by President
McCardell in Mead Chapel on
May 22, 1993.

O ne of the most vividly
descriptive passages in
American historical lit¬
erature occurs in the final chap¬
ter of The Education of Henry
Adams , a chapter Adams titled
“Nunc Age,” Latin for “Now
Go.” In it, Adams recounts his
return from a European sojourn
in 1904. As he sailed into New
York harbor, he mused:

Power seemed to have out¬
grown its servitude and to have
asserted its freedom. The cylin¬
der had exploded, and thrown
great masses of stone and steam
against the sky. The city had the
air and movement of hysteria,
and the citizens were crying, in
every accent of anger and
alarm, that the new 7 forces must,
at any cost, be brought under
control. Prosperity never be¬
fore imagined, power never yet
wielded by men, speed never
reached by anything but a me¬
teor, had made the world irri¬
table, nervous, querulous, un¬
reasonable, and afraid. All New 7
York was demanding new> men
... men with ten times the endur¬
ance, energy, will and mind of
the old type —for whom they
were ready to pay millions at
sight.

New York. 1904. Seen
through the eyes of an old man,
a self-described “eighteenth
century man,” ill-prepared by
his education to comprehend
the chaos he perceived around
him. It is a reaction to what ap¬

pears to be an ever accelerating
pace of change, unfamiliar, dy¬
namic and, thus, threatening,
and requiring “at any cost” that
it “be brought under control.”

What had Henry Adams’s
education been? How well did
it prepare him to lead the sort of
life he might have wished to
lead? The reader turns to the
chapter entitled “Harvard Col¬
lege” for the answer. Adams
was a member of the class of
1858. His undergraduate years
were spent during the most tur¬
bulent period of American his¬
tory: the debates over slavery,
Bleeding Kansas, the birth of
the Republican Party, the can¬
ing of Charles Sumner, the
Dred Scott Decision, the de¬
pression of 1857. But one seeks
in vain for the merest clue that
any of these events penetrated
the denizens of Harvard Yard.
Instead listen to Adams’s ac¬
count of undergraduate life at
Harvard College in the 1850s:

Socially or intellectually, the
college w } as for him negative
and in some ways mischievous.
The most tolerant man of the
world could not see good in the
lower habits of the students. ...
The habit of drinking — though
the mere recollection of it made
him doubt his own veracity, so
fantastic it seems in later life —
may have done no great or per¬
manent harm; but the habit of
looking at life as a social rela¬
tion—as an affair of society —
did no good. It cultivated a
weakness which needed no cul¬
tivation.

What did Adams mean by
cultivating weakness? He con¬
tinues:

If it had helped to make men of
the world, or give the manners
and instincts of any profession
...it would have been education
better worth having than math¬
ematics or languages; but so
far as it helped to make any¬
thing, it helped only to make the
college standard permanent
through life. The Bostonian
educated at Harvard College
remained a collegian, if he
stuck only to what the college
gave him. If parents went on,
generation after generation,
sending their children to
Harvard College for the sake of
its social advantages, they per¬
petuated an inferior social type
... ill-fitted ...for success in the
next generation.

T welve years later,
Adams returned to
Harvard as a member of
the newly established Depart¬
ment of History. For seven
years he professed his subject in
the classrooms of his alma ma¬
ter. He found his students, he
writes, “excellent company. ...
Their minds burst open like
flowers at the sunlight of a sug¬
gestion. ... Their faith in educa¬
tion was so full of pathos that
one dared not ask them what
they thought they could do with
education once they got it.”
Adams did put the question to
one of them, and was surprised
at the answer: “The degree of
Harvard College is worth
money to me in Chicago.”

Perhaps this is why Adams
titles this particular chapter of
The Education “Failure.”

In the second half of the
book, the reader sees a man
once described as a “begonia,”
a mere ornamental, who never

quite fit in the Age of Grant,
Garfield and Blaine, who never
quite understood why, despite
all his advantages (grandson
and great-grandson of presi¬
dents, son of a Secretary of
State, graduate of Harvard),
neither he nor others of his type
and generation had been much
of a match for the self-made
men of the era: John D.
Rockefeller, James J. Hill,
Henry Clay Frick, Andrew
Carnegie, men who had drawn
at birth a far weaker hand of
cards than Henry Adams. But it
is also in these chapters of lat¬
ter day reflection that the book
takes on its full meaning and
speaks in clear tones to us al¬
most a century later.

“Every man with self-re¬
spect enough to become effec¬
tive,” Adams writes, “has had
to account to himself, for him¬
self somehow.” In these words
one catches the clearest glimpse
yet of what Adams would de¬
fine as the process and the pur¬
pose of education: to teach you
to “account to yourself, for
yourself, somehow.” In ac¬
counting “to yourself, for your¬
self, somehow,” you will again
and again be reminded of the
years you have spent at this
College, and of the mark you
bear as one of its alumni, and as
we shall recite tomorrow, of the
responsibilities, as well as the
privileges, appertaining to this
identity. Today and tomorrow,
then, mark not the end, but the
beginning, of that process of
accounting. And how well you
are able for the balance of your
lives to give that accounting,
will be the surest measure of the
value of the education you have
received at Middlebury Col¬
lege.

“The child born in 1900,”
Henry Adams wrote, “would be
born into a new world which
would not be a unity but a mul¬
tiple.” Adams tried to imagine
it and an education that would
fit it. If that statement accu¬
rately described the world
awaiting the child born at the
start of the 20th century, it no
less accurately describes the
world you will inherit at the

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start of the 21st: a world of
multiplicity in every respect, a
world that will not permit you,
if you wish to make your way
through it, comprehend it, and
prosper in it, to make, in
Adams’s words “the college
standard permanent through
life.” For unless you wish to
remain the perpetual collegian,
you must take what this College
has given you and continue to
grow. Nor will the College be
in 10 or 15 or 25 or 50 years
what it now is. This you may
come to lament, as all lament
changes in familiar and beloved
things. But, like you, the Col¬
lege must also continue to
grow, lest the standard of 1993
— which is no more the perma¬
nent standard than that of 1893,
1943 or 1973 — fix your alma
mater in irrelevance and con¬
sign us to history’s dust-bin.

Again, Henry Adams: “The
old formulas had failed, and a
new one had to be made, but,
after all, the object was not ex¬
travagant or eccentric. One
sought no absolute truth. One
sought only a spool on which to
wind the thread of history with¬
out breaking it.” Our modest
hope is that, over the course of
the last four years we have pro¬
vided you not with the spool it¬
self but with the knowledge and
the patience and the will to rec¬
ognize the need for a spool and
thus to fashion one of your
own, around which the thread
of your history, including these
last four years, may be wound
without breaking. No two
spools will be identical. The
separate threads will inevitably
be of different shades and
strengths. As year succeeds to
year the threads will lengthen.
At periodic intervals, they will
intersect. For some of you they
will become intertwined.

These threads will connect
what you see and hear and read
with your own critical faculties
and impose upon you the obli¬
gation, before you praise or
condemn, to understand. They
will join what you have learned
with the world you are about to
enter and which you will even¬
tually inherit, and demand of

you the highest standards of
citizenship. They will link you
with one another as alumni of
this College, and will enable
you to share the sorrows and the
joys life holds for you with a
special, indissoluble bond.

Having given you these
tools to shape and direct and
build your own futures and the
future of your world, we now
give you our blessing and let go
of your hand. “The clouds that
gather round the setting sun,”
Adams concludes in “Nunc
Age,” “do not always take a
sober coloring from eyes that
have kept watch on mortality;
one walks with one’s own
friends up to the portal of life,
and bids goodbye with a smile.”

And thus, tomorrow morn¬
ing, each of you walks up to
that portal, there to begin the
next chapter of your own edu¬
cation. “Nunc Age,” Now go —
softly, yet confidently, through
that portal. Know that our
thoughts and our prayers go
with you. Know, too, that you
are always welcome here. For
you are now part of the thread
of this College, a spool around
which 193 years of history have
been wound, without breaking.

“Nunc Age,” Now go —
and as you begin to account to
yourself, for yourself, some¬
how, may you continue for the
rest of your lives to strive to
broaden the reach of your own
limited understanding.

“Nunc Age,” Now go —
and, though now you may be¬
lieve yourselves to be educated,
may you never take yourselves
too seriously. And may you al¬
ways retain a sense of humor,
which is, after all, nothing more
than a sense of perspective.

“Nunc Age,” Now go —
and as you spin out the thread
of your lives, may you from
time to time lift your eyes to
these hills, from whose strength
generations of Middlebury men
and women have drawn confi¬
dence, courage and hope.

“Nunc Age,” Now go —
we bid you goodbye, with a
smile. We shall not forget you.
And we wish you well, until we
meet again.

4 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

LETTERS

ASP — not DKE or SE — was the first
Middlebury fraternity to admit blacks

The Middlebury College Maga¬
zine welcomes letters from
readers on the contents of the
magazine or on topics related
to the College. Letters may be
edited for conciseness. Letters
must be signed, and we ask that
you include your name, address
and a daytime phone number
for verification purposes. Send
your letters to: The Editor,
Middlebury College Magazine,
Farrell House, Middlebury, VT
05753.

‘Slug’ was first Midd
frat to admit blacks

Without wishing to detract
from the commendable steps to
eliminate racial discrimination
by both the DKE and Sig Ep
houses, but just to set the record
straight regarding the member¬
ship of blacks in Middlebury
fraternities: Both the New York
Times and Lawrence D. Geller
’62 in his letter to you that ap¬
peared in the Spring ’93 issue
are inaccurate. The first black
admitted to a Middlebury fra¬
ternity was Charles James, who
pledged Alpha Sigma Psi in the
1947-48 academic year.

James, a native of Philadel¬
phia and a veteran of World
War II, came to Middlebury in
1946. 1 believe that he was one
of two black students then on
campus. The year prior to his
admission to the Alpha
“Slugs,” this fraternity had
taken the step of withdrawing
from the national Alpha Sigma
Phi fraternity on the principle
that the membership and the
incoming pledge class did not
wish to support the practice of
racial and religious discrimina¬
tion that was then the policy of
the national.

I am pleased that I was able
to be one of the brothers who

A correction,
and an apology

A letter we received last
summer signed “Susan
Crandell ’73,” which we
used in the Autumn ’92 is¬
sue, was not, unfortunately,
written by Susan Crandell
’73. We don’t know who did
write it, but we do know that
we’ll be checking letters
more closely in the future.
Our apologies to Susan, who
is executive editor of the
American Express maga¬
zine Travel & .Leisure —
and, we discovered, very
understanding.

— T.E.

was privileged to participate in
both the decision to withdraw
from the national on those
grounds, and to accept Charlie
James.

DAVID L. PEET ’50
Bethel Park, Pa.

L.D. Geller’s letter to the editor
(Spring ’93), claiming that
DKE was the first fraternity at
Middlebury to admit an Afri¬
can-American, is in error. In
1948, I entered Middlebury as
a freshman and pledged to Al¬
pha Sigma Psi. At that time
Charles James, an African-
American, was already a mem¬
ber.

I recall being told that Al¬
pha Sigma Psi had been a chap¬
ter of the national fraternity,
Alpha Sigma Phi, but that when
the local at Middlebury could
not pledge either a black or a
Jew, the local dropped out of
the national. I also recall that
Charles James had a distin¬
guished career, including ser¬
vice at one time as ambassador
to Niger.

We used to joke around the
house that we were more like a
branch of Ellis Island than sim¬
ply a local fraternity since there
were so many different back¬
grounds to the members.

ALAN GUSSOW ’52
Congers, N.Y.

Editor s note: As David Peet
and Alan Gussow contend,
Charles James ’49 was, as far
as anyone knows, the first Afri¬
can-American member of a fra¬
ternity at Middlebury. (We also
received letters correcting this
historical error from Linwood
Meacham ’50, Louise Laverie
Bresky ’50, Walter F. Miner
’53, Walter D. Paterson '50
and Paul Vyrros ’48.) James,
who received his law degree
from Yale, went on to have a
distinguished career after
Middlebury. He practiced law
for some years in northern
California, where he was an
area director of the NAACP. In
1964, he began work with the
Peace Corps in Africa, as
deputy director in Ghana and
then director in Uganda. He
worked for the Agency for In¬
ternational Development in
Thailand and Vietnam, and
served as Deputy Assistant Sec¬
retary of State for African Af¬
fairs from 1974 to 1976. In ’76,
he was nominated as U.S. Am¬
bassador to Niger by President
Ford, and served in that post
through 1979. He received an
honoraiy degree from Middle¬
bury in 1977. After receiving
the letters from Peet, Gussow,
et al., we wrote to James and
asked him what his memories
were of that time. He sent along
a copy of a 1947 article from
the New York Post, reporting
on the actions of the ASP chap¬
ter, and a letter, which we ex¬
cerpt here:

“David Peet is correct in most
of his comments. I would make
only one correction or qualifi¬
cation. I was the only black un¬
dergraduate at Middlebury
during my years there, from
1946 until 1949. There were
several black graduate students
pursuing advanced degrees in
French.

“The decision of Alpha
Sigma Phi to admit black, Chi¬
nese, Jewish and whatever else
appeared on campus was coura¬
geous at the time. The national
office of the fraternity sent a
representative to the campus to
warn of the consequences and
to urge reconsideration, but the
fraternity persisted and was
dropped from the national as a
result.

“Disapproval, skepticism
and cautious acceptance of the
move permeated the campus.
The “Slugs” decided to make a
different kind of mark on cam¬
pus. They sponsored the author,
Catherine Drinker Bowen, who
spoke to a full Chapel; and an
international debate with a
Cambridge (England) Univer¬
sity team. I participated in that
debate with Phil Hull (’49). The
fraternity gained an “egghead”
reputation. This was an unusual
group of young men. They
were serious about the frater¬
nity. They were serious about
education at Middlebury. The
fraternity hoped to establish a
new tradition of constructive
contribution to the educational
environment. We dreamed that
the tradition would survive us
and be upheld by Alpha Sigma
Psi progeny. Apparently, that is
too much to expect of a
younger and less worldly-wise
generation. After all, most of us
were World War II veterans
and several years older than
anyone on campus except our
professors.

“By and large, the campus
was friendly, although one dean
of women came in for student
outrage when she suggested to
a female student who was a
close platonic friend of mine
that her parents would not ap¬
prove of her association with
me and she should hold herself

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available for other men on cam¬
pus.

“Bob Shadick (’50) was
one of my roommates, as well
as Andy Yang (’51) from
Tientsin. The internationally-
famous financier, Felix
Rohatyn (’49), then a refugee,
was one of those voting my ac¬
ceptance in the fraternity.”

Gays recognized,
respected in the ’30s

In your Spring issue I find two
surprising elements raised by
Jason Rosenbaum’s letter: (a)
his statement that your an¬
nouncement of the April
alumni panel discussion was
“the first mention, or
acknowledgement, of gay or
lesbian issues which (he had)
ever seen in the magazine,” and
(b) your editorial note on the
matter, which would seem to
imply that the subject had first
come up on the campus as late
as 1990.

Had Mr. Rosenbaum kept
eyes and ears open while a stu¬
dent at the College, he might
have been aware of a gay group
that regularly met during those
years, officially organized with
a faculty adviser. And if you, as
editor, had scanned issues of
the magazine for the past 10
years, you would have discov¬
ered many letters on the subject
of homosexuality at the Col¬
lege.

I might add that the prob¬
lem of being gay at Middlebury
goes back a long time before
Guy Kettelhack’s days — by at
least 40 years. In the ’30s, there
were a number of students, and
faculty members, who were
recognized as being gay — and
respected. It seems to me that
straights of the period may have
looked upon homosexuality as
a humorous aberration, but vi¬
cious homophobia, as we see it
today, was a later development
fostered by certain illiberal seg¬
ments of our society.

JAMES FECHHEIMER ’34
Glen Head, N.Y.

Editor s note: We did not mean
to imply that there had been no
mention of gays at Middlebury

in the magazine before 1990;
our intent was simply to demon¬
strate that the item in the Win¬
ter ’93 issue was not the first.

How we discuss gays
makes a difference

As one of the five lesbian and
gay alumni who spoke at the
first conference of gay and les¬
bian Middlebury students and
alumni back in November
1990, I found the second con¬
ference, in April 1993, to be a
very moving experience. There
were about 15 alumni this time,
and gratifyingly large audi¬
ences at the weekend’s events.
I was privileged to be present
when President McCardell,
who’d come to a scheduled
Sunday morning talkfest to give
a five-minute, we-welcome-di-
versity-at-Middlebury hello,
found himself in a spirited and
illuminating 40-minute dia¬
logue with numerous very
bright and articulate students
and alumni who gave him a
vivid picture of a wide range of
feelings and concerns. Presi¬
dent McCardell reminded me a
bit of another president, the one
we just elected to the White
House — someone I think the
lesbian and gay community can
genuinely claim as a friend,
even as we may need to remind
this friend of the urgency of our
plight. We still live in a fright¬
eningly homophobic world.

It struck me, as I listened to
people speak at this conference
both formally and informally,
that there is a kind of organic
acceptance we can encourage
simply by talking about our gay
experiences or gay friends (if
we’re not gay ourselves) as nor¬
mal. Maybe this sounds obvi¬
ous, but I’ve unwittingly found
myself at a cutting edge of pub¬
lishing recently in the books
I’ve written about sobriety and
recovery simply because I’d
moved in my case histories
from straight to gay to lesbian,
back to straight (to gay to ...), as
well as young to old to black to
white to rich to not-so-rich —
all without making a big thing
about it. The fact that my edi¬
tors and readers have remarked

on how unusual this flow was
surprised me at first: Doesn’t it
reflect life? But then 1 remem¬
bered the obvious and painful
fact that most “general audi¬
ence” media products — books,
magazines, ads, movies, sit¬
coms — mean “straight audi¬
ence.” Roseanne apart, we’ve
been pretty much completely
ignored, except as dangerous
and subversive weirdos.

Perhaps I can call on the
readers of this magazine with
whatever degree of clout (and
anyone who opens his or her
mouth to speak has some) —
teachers, writers, artists, par¬
ents, office-workers, communi¬
cators of any stripe — to make
similarly “normal” reference to
gay and lesbian people in their
work and their conversation.
Just talk about us the way you
talk about your neighbors, your
friends, your family, your col¬
leagues at the office. That is,
after all, who we are.

GUY KETTELHACK ’73
New York, N.Y.

Editor s note: An essay by Guy
Kettelhack on being gay at
Middlebuiy during his college
years, and of returning for the
first conference of gay and les¬
bian alumni back in 1990, ap¬
peared in the Spring ’91 issue
of the magazine.

Midd should rethink
ban on fraternities

Events surrounding moves by
members of the administration
and faculty over recent years to
banish fraternities and sorori¬
ties from Middlebury’s campus
and to prevent students from
joining off-campus groups have
finally induced me to write a
letter. Personally, if there has
been a positive side to all the
debate, it has been to force me
to consider a number of
changes which are occurring in
society and which I believe are
mirrored in events at Middle¬
bury.

This is not a letter in sup¬
port of, or against, the institu¬
tion of Greek letter societies.
Their merits and problems are
completely irrelevant to the is¬

sue at hand. It is also not espe¬
cially relevant that most stu¬
dents favor or disfavor the ex¬
istence of such organizations
(even though, currently, most
do favor them, as they did when
I was at Middlebury). The issue
is whether Middlebury under¬
graduates should be considered
competent to make their own
decisions, or whether the ad¬
ministration should be making
those decisions for them. Any
careful consideration of this is¬
sue can only lead to the conclu¬
sion that the administration has
succumbed to a case of political
correctness, of which one of the
primary symptoms is the appar¬
ent belief that someon in charge
is in a much better position to
make value judgments which
are “best” for the whole com¬
munity while ignoring the
rights of individuals.

Prospective college stu¬
dents in the United States have
an option unavailable to most
of their peers around the world,
and this is to be educated
broadly. In most countries,
those fortunate enough to re¬
ceive higher education are put
through curricula designed to
turn out historians by teaching
students history and biologists
by teaching them biology. A
primary ethos of liberal arts
education is the belief that
people should not be educated
by simply filling their heads full
of particularly pertinent facts,
but by forcing them to consider
alternative perspectives and to
make their own informed deci¬
sions, whatever the subject.

Those of us who have been
educated in such institutions are
often quick to point out that
much of the actual education
occurs outside of classrooms,
and indeed outside of
coursework entirely. The
achievements of Middlebury
alumni are strong testimony for
the effectiveness of this brand
of education. It is therefore un¬
conscionable to me that those in
charge of such an institution
could rationalize such a blatant
move to regulate the personal
behavior and associations of
students. This restriction is bad

6 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

enough when it applies to stu¬
dents’ activities on campus, but
it is an inexcusable breach of
personal civil liberties when it
is extended beyond the bound¬
aries of the College. I take some
measure of solace in the knowl¬
edge that such a ban cannot
possibly stand up under judicial
scrutiny.

One of the bits of history I
learned while I was majoring in
biology at Middlebury is par¬
ticularly relevant to the issue at
hand. During the middle of the
nineteenth century, shortly after
fraternities were first estab¬
lished, there was a vehement
move by the faculty and admin¬
istration at Middlebury to effect
their demise. At that time, one
of the primary arguments in
support of their position was the
contention that fraternity mem¬
bers were gathering to discuss
literature that was considered
outside the bounds of material
suitable for college students to
read. While at Middlebury I
was assigned readings from
Thoreau, Emerson and other
authors that were so reviled by
the earlier manifestation of
Middlebury’s faculty. I have a
strong suspicion that arguments
marshalled in the current wave
of antipathy towards fraternities
and sororities will appear simi¬
larly cogent when viewed more
cooly by our own descendants.

I repeat, the real issue is not
whether students should be al¬
lowed to join “single-sex stu¬
dent social organizations,” but
whether students should be al¬
lowed to come to their own
conclusions about this, and the
myriad other issues they are
forced to confront as they un¬
dergo the process of contribut¬
ing to their own education. As
an academic and an educator, I
am finding it hard to tacitly
condone the actions of the ad¬
ministration by supporting
Middlebury with my time or
money while the rulemakers
refuse to acknowledge a funda¬
mental tenet of liberal arts edu¬
cation. I look forward to a real
reconsideration of this issue by
the administration and faculty.
For the sake of the students, 1

hope it happens sooner rather
than later.

DAVID W. SKELLY ’87
Wollongong, New South
Wales, Australia

Editor s note: David Shelly
holds a Ph.D.from the Univer¬
sity of Michigan and is a post¬
doctoral research fellow in the
department of biological sci¬
ences at the University of
Wollongong. At Midd, he was a
member of Chi Psi.

Frat decision: 'Crude,
Stalinist’ policy

When I first heard that Middle¬
bury had adopted a policy that
guarantees total control over
the off-campus associations
and activities of undergradu¬
ates, I was worried. From my
unenlightened perspective, this
policy seemed like crude,
Stalinist problem-solving, un¬
worthy of an institution com¬
mitted to freedom of thought,
expression and association.

But your eloquent words
(as quoted in the Spring 1993
Middlebuty College Magazine)
have since eased my worried
heart. Not since Richard Nixon
— or Jimmy Swaggart — has
such pure truth dripped from
the mouth of a mere mortal. I
want to thank you for your cou¬
rageous leadership, and heart¬
felt commitment to what you
know is right.

There are many people out
there (foreign language stu¬
dents, math and science majors)
who may not have had the train¬
ing to appreciate your penetrat¬
ing and historic comments on
this off-campus issue. To help
those less advanced readers, I
offer this humble translation of
your words.

“Few issues in my 17 years
have been so vexatious ...”

Translation: Few faculty
and administrative campaigns
have been so flagrantly anti¬
freedom, and so directly anti¬
thetical to the Bill of Rights of
the United States of America.
Many people noticed that the
administration didn’t care
about student freedoms, and
that made it very difficult to

force through our contrived
policy.

The question of off-campus
organizations has been ap¬
proached “with a high degree
of intelligent, careful, sensitive
and open-minded consider¬
ation.”

Translation: If I use

enough noble and complimen¬
tary adjectives, no one will no¬
tice that the principles of free¬
dom were shamelessly by¬
passed so that a liberal faction
of faculty and administrators
could punish students with the
audacity for self-determination.

“As a community, we have
acquitted ourselves throughout
this exercise with great distinc¬
tion. All voices that have sought
a hearing have been heard.”

Translation: Before we
decided to punish students for
having independent, off-cam¬
pus associations without our
Big Brother approval, we went
through the motions. Everyone
was allowed to speak, we nod¬
ded our Big Brother head, pat¬
ted them on the back for partici¬
pating in the “community,” and
then we did exactly what we
wanted to do in the first place.

“ Many of those voices echo
through the policy that has
been adopted.”

Translation: If you are
dumb enough to believe every¬
thing else I have said, you
might even believe this.

“I am particularly appre¬
ciative of the time, care and en¬
ergy devoted to this issue by
student leadership.”

Translation: Thanks to the
Community Council and the
SGA for not raising the prickly
issue of student opinion. For a
minute there, I thought democ¬
racy might get in the way.

Congratulations, Mr. Presi¬
dent, on an issue well handled.
I am all the more confident that
under your leadership and guid¬
ance, Middlebury will remain
one of the top U.S. colleges at
which to obtain a B.S. degree.
Keep up the good work.

JOSH SARKIS ’91
Vancouver . B.C., Canada

Editor s note: While an under¬

graduate, Josh Sarkis was a
member of DKE.

Volunteers make
a difference for CC&P

Networking, information inter¬
viewing, gaining experience
through internships and brief
externship opportunities. These
are all critical elements in ca¬
reer planning today. The Career
Counseling and Placement Of¬
fice at Middlebury wishes to
acknowledge with great appre¬
ciation the 10,000 alumni and
nearly 400 parent volunteers
whose names are made avail¬
able to current students through
our Middlebury College
Alumni Computer Program.

These individuals are often
contacted by students seeking
career insights and advice con¬
cerning strategies for gaining
the skills and experience neces¬
sary for successful entry into
the marketplace upon gradua¬
tion. The wisdom, guidance and
inspiration shared by these ex¬
perienced professionals makes
a tremendous difference in the
lives of our students and in
CC&P’s ability to provide
timely and accurate informa¬
tion.

For all our readers who
have served Middlebury and
CC&P as described above,
thank you. If you’ve not had the
opportunity to connect with
current students to talk about
your career experience for
some time, or if you suspect we
need to update our records re¬
garding your employment sta¬
tus, please know we’d love to
hear from you. On the other
hand, if you are feeling a need
to take a break from such infor¬
mal career advising, we hope
you'll let us know.

Our alumni and parent vol¬
unteers are our most vital re¬
source. Thank you for the tre¬
mendous support you’ve ex¬
tended to CC&P and our stu¬
dents throughout this past year.
VAFERIE B.SZYMKOWICZ
Director of CC&P
Middlebury, Vt.

SUMMER 1993 7

THE

Yu has research, outreach and technology
on her agenda for language schools

W hen Clara Yu takes
over as Middlebury’s
✓ice president for lan¬
guages in September, she’ll in¬
herit the responsibility for one
of the College’s strongest and
best known programs. But Yu
does not intend to simply main¬
tain the status quo. She knows
that Middlebury has to push
forward, and quickly, to hold
on to its reputation as one of the
top schools in the world for lan¬
guage instruction.

As vice president, Yu will
succeed Edward Knox, who is
taking over for the retiring Ni¬
cholas Clifford as vice presi¬
dent for academic affairs. Yu,
an associate professor of Chi¬
nese, will be the first woman to
serve as a vice president at
Middlebury.

She comes to the job in ex¬
citing, if challenging, times for
language instruction in general,
and at Middlebury in particular.
For Yu, the excitement comes
from the possibilities for
growth and improvement in the
summer and academic year lan¬
guage programs. She’s con¬
vinced that Middlebury contin¬
ues to offer the best language
programs in the country, if not
the world. In the summer, the
campus is home to 200 of the
best teachers in the world, and
more than 1,100 top language
students. And during the aca¬
demic year, Middlebury stu¬
dents work on campus and at
the College’s Schools Abroad,
in France, Germany, Spain,
Italy and Russia.

Yu knows, however, that
the language teaching field is

Clara Yu feels the possibili¬
ties that technology offers in
language instruction have
only begun to be realized.

becoming more and more
crowded, and that Middlebury
is going to need “to be very
nimble, very quick on its feet”
if it’s going to continue to draw
the best students and teachers.
“More than any other part of the
operation at Middlebury,” Yu
says, “the language schools feel
market pressures acutely.” In
recent years, summer enroll¬
ments at Middlebury have
dipped, largely, Yu says, be¬
cause of competition from simi¬
lar programs at other colleges
and universities. “Middlebury
has always had a great pro¬
gram,” Yu says, “and our em¬
phasis on total immersion has
distinguished us. But now
everyone’s doing it. The Ivies

and others have awakened to
the fact that they have the space
and time in the summer to do
this.” She noted that one former
Middlebury summer school di¬
rector has set up a summer pro¬
gram, in China, “that in content
and length is much the same as
ours, and costs less.”

This makes it more impor¬
tant than ever, Yu says, for
Middlebury to get out the mes¬
sage that its programs are still
the best. And more important
than ever that the programs
continue to improve, to reflect
the latest trends in both lan¬
guage pedagogy and technol¬
ogy-

The summer language
schools, she says, “must cast a
wider net. and increase their
yields (the percentage of the
accepted students who end up
enrolling at Middlebury). It’s
clear cut that we need to put

more work into pub¬
licity, let more people
know that our l-to-5
teacher/student ratio
can’t be touched, and
that we really do have
the best teachers.
That explains both
why Middlebury
costs more, and why
it’s worth more. But
it’s also true that in
such a competitive
environment, and
with more and more
students needing fi¬
nancial aid, we need
to run our operation
as efficiently as pos¬
sible.”

Yu also hopes to
see Middlebury’s language
schools become a huge summer
laboratory to learn more about
cognitive processes and sec¬
ond-language acquisition. “We
need to be careful,” Yu says.
“Our teachers and students
aren't guinea pigs. But I think
it’s a shame that we’re not find¬
ing out how people learn sec¬
ond languages as adults, and
getting that information out.
We already have a great group
of people. Without being too in¬
trusive, we could find out what
they do that makes them suc¬
cessful teachers and learners,
and make that information
available to others.” Getting the
word out would be just a part of
a broader outreach program that
Yu envisions, involving profes¬
sional organizations such as the
Modem Language Association
and the Northeast Conference;
and the huge network of current

8 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

and former Middlebury stu¬
dents and teachers, who work at
other colleges and secondary
schools throughout the country
and the world.

Emerging technologies,
which have already had pro¬
found effects on language in¬
struction, will continue to chal¬
lenge Middlebury’s language
schools, Yu feels, and it be¬

hooves the College to be on the
cutting edge. As of the fall of
’93, two multimedia laborato¬
ries with 30 powerful worksta¬
tions will be available for ma¬
terial development and instruc¬
tion. And Yu, who has written
extensively on computer aided
instruction and the uses of tech¬
nology in education, can see a
day when advances in “virtual

reality” will make it possible
for a student “to put on a glove
and a helmet and be in Paris,”
experiencing the sights, sounds
and culture of another country
and using the target language
for interaction.

“My vision of the future —
instruction-research-outreach
— for the language schools
may seem ambitious,” Yu says.

A book on Bread Loaf captures the spirit
of a place, and of a community of writers

‘Like anyone who has returned to the moun¬
tain repeatedly, the sessions have tended to
blend over a decade. Ten years times twelve
days makes 120 days, only seventeen weeks
out of that decade — but whose vividness, no
matter how blended, has not diminished. In

that seventeen-week-long
Bread Loaf Writers’ Con¬
ference of the mind, with
a musician’s ear, I hear
the sublime aural quali¬
ties of certain readers. ...
As a musician I comment
on these readers’ tones,
their rhythms, their melo¬
dies, for reading is an¬
other kind of public per¬
formance. As a writer, I
place them here for another purpose, too, and
it must be simply put: I draw inspiration and
gain insight from the extraordinary alchemy of
their words on the page; their example is
enrichment itself.’

— David Haward Bain, who has spent many hours playing the
Stein way in the Bread Loaf Barn, writing on his years at the
Writers’ Conference, in Whose Woods These Are.

L ike most members of the
extended family that is
the Bread Loaf Writers’
Conference, David Haward
Bain knew he wanted to write
something about Bread Loaf
almost from the day he arrived,
back in 1980. The publication
of Bain’s first book, After¬
shocks , had helped him earn a
fellowship in non-fiction writ¬
ing for that summer, and it
wasn’t long, he says, before he
was “looking for a way to trans¬
late my own experiences and
the historical record into some¬
thing about the Writers’ Con¬
ference.”

This summer, 13 years
later, the result of Bain’s work
will be published by Ecco
Press: Whose Woods These
Are: A History of the Bread
Loaf Writers’ Conference,
1926-1992. The book, edited by
Bain and his wife Mary Smyth
Duffy, is put together in two
parts. The first is an historical
narrative by Bain, “Group Por¬
trait”; the second is a documen¬
tary section, in which photo¬
graphs from Bread Loaf are
juxtaposed with the words of
many of those who have been
important in the history of the
conference.

For Bain, the publication of
the book is the culmination of a
process that began in earnest in
1983, after his second non-fic¬
tion book. Sitting in Darkness ,
had been published. “I decided
to spend a year or so sitting in
the New York Public Library,
getting a start on amassing files
for a Bread Loaf book,” Bain

says. “I wanted to develop a
narrative, not just a simple
chronicle of 65 Augusts, but
something with a larger scope,
that would say something not
only about Bread Loaf, but also
about writers, and writing.”

The result, Whose Woods
These Are , is as much a history
of American writing and writ¬
ers in the 20th century as it is a
history of Bread Loaf. Bain
says he wanted to capture the
sense of community and fel¬
lowship that Bread Loaf repre¬
sents. “There really is no liter¬
ary capital in this country,” he
says. “We have a publishing

capital in New York, but no one
is flocking to Bloomsbury or
Paris. Bread Loaf, though, is
one kind of capital. With the
August light, the green and yel¬
low buildings, the natural set¬
ting — it’s a place where writ¬
ers are not just welcomed, but
affirmed; it’s become an idea of
community that writers can
carry around in their heads.”

Bain began to research his
subject in earnest in the sum¬
mer of ’83 and by the fall of
1984, he says, “I’d amassed
enough to know that it could be
done. I decided to focus on in¬
dividual writers during differ¬

“but it will expand our mission
and practice beyond what the
schools have been for the past
80 years; it will serve the lan¬
guage teaching and learning
communities better and more
effectively; and it will make
Middlebury the most valuable
open language resource center
for the nation.”

ent eras at Bread Loaf, roughly
by decade, a sort of group biog¬
raphy. I wanted to capture the
idea of community and conti¬
nuity that a simple year-by-year
chronicle wouldn’t present.”

The research was a massive
effort, but one that was often
enjoyable, Bain says. He
particulary relished reading
early works by important
names from Bread Loaf’s past
and present. “I’d read writers
whose reputations are now se¬
cure in their first published
works, when the outcome was
still very much in the balance,”
he says. “And there was this air
of potential and expectation,
reading Eudora Welty’s first
stories, for example, or Stephen
Vincent Benet’s earliest work.
It made me more aware of my
roots in the literary world, and
has given Bread Loaf an even
greater resonance.”

Bain spent a lot of time
checking out what Bread Loaf
attendees had written around
the time they were at the con¬
ference, and checking their
memoirs for references to
Bread Loaf. He had rosters
from the annual conference,
and wrote to many of those on
the lists. “I was writing to writ¬
ers, and I’d often get back four,
five or six-page singled-spaced
letters,” he says. Others called,
and he’d talk to them on the
phone for hours, eventually de¬
veloping “a nice thick file of
personal testaments.”

He also spent time talking
with those who’d run the con¬
ference, including Ted Morr¬
ison (“he opened a lot of
doors”); John Ciardi, with
whom Bain spent three days in
Key West, about a year and a

SUMMER 1993 9

Around.

THE

half before Ciardi’s death; and
two of Middlebury’s own, Rob¬
ert Pack, who just recently
stepped down as director, and
Sandy Martin, who spent many
years as an assistant director.

Bain and Duffy collected
thousands of Bread Loaf photo¬
graphs, too, and about 350 of
them appear in the 384-page
book, many of them in the
documentary section. “The
College's own photographs
were scattered all over,” Bain
says, “some in the Abernethy
Collection at the library, some
in the Bread Loaf offices, some
in the Public Affairs office.” He
solicited pictures from all over,
asking people to send him im¬
ages that could be copied and
then returned. From Dick and
Hildy Ross, who’d worked for
years at the Bread Loaf Inn,
Bain learned that a waitress
who’d been at the conference in
its earliest years still had a large
photo album full of candids,
including pictures of Robert
Frost.

But there were disappoint¬
ments, too: Bain heard that a
man who’d worked at the con¬
ference for years as an admin¬
istrator had a trunk full of pho¬
tos and records. When Bain fi¬
nally traced the man down, it
turned out that his wife had died
a year earlier, and in the after-
math he’d cleaned out the attic
of his house and burned all of
his Bread Loaf memorabilia.
Bain also heard a rumor (never
confirmed) that some years ago
a truck was backed up to a
building at Bread Loaf and
mountains of files were literally
shoveled in and taken to a
dump.

Outnumbering those horror
stories were the pleasant sur¬
prises, such as the discovery
that some noted authors without
obvious Bread Loaf connec¬
tions, such as the biographer

Richard Elliman and novelist
George V. Higgins, had once
worked at Bread Loaf and had
countless anecdotes from their
stints on the mountain.

And the mountain itself
plays a major role, along with
the man who loved it, preserved
it and eventually donated it to
the College: Joseph Battell.
Bain calls him “one of my fa¬
vorite historical characters,”
and says the book “is about his
Bread Loaf plateau as much as
it is about writers, and about
Battell’s feelings for the inn,
and for the surroundings. We
can’t all go out and buy a

mountain the way Joseph
Battell did, but we can learn
from that sense of steward¬
ship.”

The result of all the years of
research, reading and writing
— a large-format (8 1/2 by 11)
book with hundreds of illustra¬
tions — will be unveiled
(“trucked up directly from the
bindery, probably still warm”)
on August 20 at a Bread Loaf
party. Bain hopes that one
theme of this summer’s confer¬
ence will be a celebration of
Bread Loaf’s past: He plans to
have pictures, books and other
Bread Loaf memorabilia on dis¬

play throughout the conference.

“You often hear people
talking about the ghosts of
Bread Loaf, and I admit I’ve
felt their presence,” Bain says.
“Late at night, after a noisy
party at Treman, crossing the
west-running brooks, you can
feel the presence of Frost. We’ll
be honoring some of those
ghosts this summer.”

For information on ordering
copies of Whose Woods These
Are directly from the College,
please refer to the advertise¬
ment that appears on page 34 of
this issue.

Delta Upsilon suspended indefinitely

O n June 15, Delta Upsi¬
lon, one of Midd¬
lebury’s social and
residential houses, was sus¬
pended indefinitely as a social
organization by President
McCardell.

The president’s decision
followed a season of debate
over the future of the house,
which had been placed on pro¬
bation for a year during the
spring term for excessive dam¬
age to the house and failure to
comply with the College’s
guidelines on coeducational
membership and residency,
meaning that DU had too few
women members, and two few
women living in the house.

Immediately after members
were informed of the decision
to put the house on probation,
an additional several thousand
dollars worth of damage was
done to the house. The indi¬
viduals responsible for the
damage never came forward,
and house members decided to
accept any disciplinary action
as a group.

All of this led to two differ¬
ent recommendations to the
president: Ann Hanson, dean of
students, recommended that the
house be terminated. But after
a series of meetings, including
presentations by DU members,
the Community Council de¬
cided not to recommend termi¬
nation, but rather an extension
of DU’s probation through May
of 1995.

President McCardell's de¬
cision falls somewhere between
the two recommendations. Ac¬
cording to a memorandum to
the College community from
the president, the indefinite sus¬
pension means that “all activi¬
ties by or in the name of Delta
Upsilon are prohibited. Use of
any College house or other fa¬
cility by Delta Upsilon is not
permitted. No meetings, rush¬
ing, pledging, initiation or so¬
cial gatherings are permitted,
either on or off campus. The
officers of Delta Upsilon and
the Delta Upsilon Leadership
Council will be held respon¬
sible for any violation of the

terms of this suspension. Viola¬
tion of these or any other Col¬
lege regulations by members of
Delta Upsilon will, if the indi¬
viduals responsible are not im¬
mediately identified, result in
the termination of Delta Upsi¬
lon.”

While the president said
that “eventual reinstatement is
in no way assured,” his decision
allows the remaining members
of DU to petition for recogni¬
tion as a College organization
“no earlier than the fall of
1994,” with reinstatement, if
granted, not to take effect until
the fall of ’95.

The president said the deci¬
sion “reaffirms the College’s
commitment to providing a so¬
cial and residential environ¬
ment that encourages student
responsibility and accountabil¬
ity. It reminds us all that, as in¬
dividual members of this com¬
munity, we are expected to bear
ourselves with civility and con¬
sider always how our actions
reflect upon us and the integrity
of our institution.”

10 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

IN BRIEF

The American Association of
Museums, in its 1993 design
competition, awarded six prizes
to publications of the Middle¬
bury College Museum of Art.
Second prizes went to the
Norman Rockwell calendar
poster (a version of which ap¬
peared on the back cover of the
Autumn ’92 magazine) and to
the museum’s brochure, both
designed by Catherine Waters
of New Haven, Conn. First
prizes went to Waters’ design
for the museum calendar card,
featuring a Stuart Davis paint¬
ing, and for the exhibition cata¬
logue and the invitation to the
lectures sponsored by the mu¬
seum in conjunction with the
exhibition Hardy Holzman
Pfieffer Associates: Concepts
and Buildings. Another first
prize went to the museum
newsletter, designed by Kate
Chamberlin of Lyme, N.H. The
competition included 939 en¬
tries, of which only 40 received
first and second prizes. Also,
the museum received an award
of distinction in 1992 from the
Association of State and Local
History for its exhibition and
catalogue, Celebrating Ver¬
mont: Myths and Realities.

ate study of the history and
principles of the U.S. Constitu¬
tion. The award came from the
James Madison Memorial Fel¬
lowship Foundation, based in
Washington, D.C. The fellow¬
ship provides up to $24,000 to
be used in pursuing a master’s
degree. The awards are made to
those who wish to pursue ca¬
reers as secondary school
teachers of American history,
government or social studies.

Two American literature and
civilization majors at Middle-
bury, David Ferris and Cole
Odell, both ’93, were the
founders of a new regional pub¬
lication that appeared this
spring, the New England
Intercollegiate Literary Jour¬
nal. The first edition, which
came out in May, included po¬
ems and stories from eight New
England colleges. The publica¬
tion is believed to be the first
attempt to bring together the
best creative writing by under¬
graduates from colleges
throughout the region. The nine
poems and 11 pieces of fiction
came from a total of 20 students
at Middlebury, Williams,
Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Wes-

David Upham ’93, a political
science major from Pawling,
N.Y., has received a James
Madison Fellowship for gradu¬

Tliis spring , Keith Kelly ’94
offered some of his fellow
students a 100-level seminar
in fly-fishing.

leyan, Connecticut College,
Colby and Amherst. The
Middlebury contributors were
John Colpitts, Rebecca
Graves, Stephanie Johnson
and Anne Moore. Ferris and
Odell undertook the creation of
the journal as an independent
senior project. They helped pay
for the printing of the first issue
with funding from individual
contributors and a grant from
Middlebury College’s Friends
of the Library. To receive a
copy, send $7.95 to: New Eng¬
land Intercollegiate Literary
Journal , Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT 05753.

Work that first appeared in
Middlebury’s New England
Review , which is now celebrat¬
ing its 15th anniversary, has
recently won national recogni¬
tion. The title story of this
year’s Pulitzer Prize winner in
fiction, Robert Olen Butler’s A
Good Scent from a Strange
Mountain , originally appeared
in NER's Spring/Summer 1991
issue. In addition, poetry and
fiction from the NER has been
singled out for inclusion in sev¬
eral annual “best-of” collec¬
tions. Mark Jarman’s “Ques¬
tions for Ecclesiastes” and
Rodney Jones’ “Grand Projec¬
tion” will appear in Best Poems
of1992. Dennis Johnson’s short
story, “Rescuing Ed,” was

picked for New Stories from the
South: The Year s Best, 1992.
And Pushcart Prize XVIII: Best
of the Small Presses (1993-94
edition) will include Jarman’s
“Questions,” Mark Cox’s
“Sleep Apnea,” William
Matthews’ “Note Left for
Gerald Stem in an Office I Bor¬
rowed” and David Rivard’s
“Change My Evil Ways.”

Margaret Kline ’94, a history
major from Minneapolis, re¬
ceived the 1993 Andrew E.
Nuquist Award for outstanding
student research on Vermont
topics, given each year by the
Center for Research on Ver¬
mont at UVM. Kline’s study,
“Modernity and Morality:
Middlebury in the 1920’s,” was
based heavily on the archives
housed at the Sheldon Museum
in Middlebury. According to
history professor Jim Ralph,
the paper “was one of the finest
in recent years to emerge out of
the junior research seminars
offered by the history depart¬
ment.” Ralph, who is Kline’s
advisor, says the study “is full
of fascinating details about ev¬
eryday life in Middlebury in the
1920’s, ranging from the coun¬
try hospitality that could still be
found to the mixed emotions
about that new contraption, the
automobile. It is much more,
however, than a romantic, nos¬
talgic study. It offers an explicit
framework for understanding
the 1920’s: the struggle be¬
tween modernity and morality
(actually, traditional values). In
many ways, then, it follows the
line of thinking advanced by
Robert and Helen Lynd in their
classic Middletown , which
stresses that the ’20s was pri¬
marily an era marked by cul¬
tural conflict. But this study is
particularly noteworthy be¬
cause unlike most of the schol¬
arship on the 1920’s, it does not
focus on a city, but rather on a
small town in a predominantly
rural setting.”

SUMMER 1993 11

Gay and lesbian alumni discuss past, present and plans for the future

Some of the alumni ,
ft! students, faculty and
staff who took part in
the Gay/Lesbian/
Bisexual Alumni
Weekend , held at
Middlebury in early
April.

S eventeen alumni re¬
turned to campus on
April 3 and 4 for the sec¬
ond Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
Alumni Weekend, organized
by the Alumni Office, the Cen¬
ter for Counseling and Human
Relations and the Middlebury
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Alli¬
ance. The alumni — 10 men
and seven women — spanned
the classes from 1966 to 1992
and the Language Schools, and
included all five of those who
attended the first such weekend
event, held back in November
of 1990.

The major events were two
panel discussions held in Dana
Auditorium. The first dealt with
current issues facing gay men
and lesbians, and included an
historical overview of the past
50 years of gay and lesbian ac¬
tivism in the U.S. The second
panel discussion, entitled “On
Being Gay at Middlebury and
Beyond,” focused on the panel¬
ists’ experiences as students at
Middlebury, and their lives
since graduation. The weekend
also included a welcoming din¬
ner in the Chateau, a Sunday
brunch and a meeting with
President John McCardell.

T hree members of the
Middlebury faculty —
Greg Vitercik, music;
Katherine Ann Sonderegger,
religion, and Cates Baldridge,
English — were recently pro¬
moted to the rank of associate
professor with tenure.

Vitercik, acting chair of the
music department for 1992-93,
received his B.A. from Colum¬
bia and holds M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from the State Univer¬
sity of New York at Stony
Brook. His work with student
performers has included con¬
ducting the Middlebury Cham¬
ber Orchestra and acting as ac¬
companist and coach for senior
music majors giving their recit¬
als. His recent research has in-

The returning alumni ex¬
pressed unanimous apprecia¬
tion to the College for inviting
them back to share their expe¬
riences with students. For sev¬
eral, it was their first visit back
to Middlebury since gradua¬
tion. Discussions during the
weekend focused on future
plans, including the publication
of a newsletter and formation of
a gay/lesbian/bisexual alumni
group. Alumni interested in fur¬
ther information about this
group should write to Sage

eluded papers and articles on
Mendelssohn and Schubert, and
he has worked on the develop¬
ment of educational software
for music history and theory.
He joined the Middlebury fac¬
ulty in 1986.

Sonderegger, who joined
the faculty in 1987, received
her bachelor’s degree from
Smith, D.Div. and S.T.M. de¬
grees from the Yale Divinity
School, and a Ph.D. from
Brown. Her areas of research
interest are in the history of
Christian thought, especially
the German academic tradition,
the history of modern Judaic
thought, constructive system¬
atic theology, and modem sys¬
tems of thought.

Russell ’73, associate director
of Alumni Relations, at the
Kirk Alumni Center, Middle¬
bury College, Middlebury, VT
05753, or call 802/388-3711,
ext. 5187, or contact Liz Zale
’90 (see address below).

A new career network:
The Career Counseling &
Placement Office has an¬
nounced the formation of a
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Career
Network for alumni. Similar to
the previously-established
MiddNet, this network will in-

Baldridge received his B.A.
from Johns Hopkins and M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Virginia. His re¬
search has involved the works
of Hardy, Dickens and Bronte,
and at Middlebury he has
taught narrative fiction, poetry
writing, Chaucer, Shakespeare,
Milton and the 18th, 19th and
20th century novel.

Also, seven members of the
faculty were promoted to full
professor: Richard Dollase, di¬
rector of the Teacher Education
Program; Jeffrey Dunham,
physics; Michael Kraus, politi¬
cal science; Ronald Liebowitz,
geography; Andrea Olsen,
dance; Marc Riess, psychology;
and Ugo Skubikowski, Italian.

volve volunteers who are avail¬
able to be contacted by Middle¬
bury students and alumni to dis¬
cuss issues of relocation, career
concerns and sources of support
and services to members of the
gay and lesbian community.
Volunteers will also be excel¬
lent sources of referrals to other
Middlebury graduates and gen¬
eral contacts in their regions for
informational networking.

The new network is being
launched with three volunteers,
and additional volunteers will
be sought for two-year terms.
To be a volunteer, it is not nec¬
essary to have your name listed
in the magazine. The current
volunteers are;

In Boston: Liz Zale ’90,
network chair. Electronic Prod¬
ucts Coordinator, Houghton
Mifflin Co., 222 Berkeley St.,
Boston, MA 02116; 617/351-
5372 (W).

In Denver: Susan Ander¬
son ’81, 1162 Adams St., Den¬
ver, CO 80206; 303/388-9575
(H); 303/388-9578 (Fax).

And in New York: Ron
Najman ’69, 210 Wyckoff St.,
Brooklyn, NY 11217; 718/260-
9683 (H); 718/270-2696 (W).

For more information, con¬
tact CC&P at Middlebury Col¬
lege, Middlebury, VT 05753-
6111,802/388-3711, ext 5100;
fax, 802/388-6207, or one of
the alumni listed above.

Three receive tenure; seven named full professors

12 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

Frank Kelley steps down, after 10 years of ‘making haste, slowly’

it M arry, Magic and me —
all retiring in the same
year. How will the
country survive?”

Frank Kelley jokes about
his retirement. He won’t take
questions about it seriously.
“Haven’t thought about it for a
minute,” he lies. “I’m too
busy.”

He has prohibited all public
acknowledgements of his re¬
tirement. No parties with stu¬
dents he has known and loved
returning from far and near to
celebrate these last 10 years of
his 40 years in schools. This
piece is written without his
knowledge. (So sue me, Frank.)

This reticence is more com¬
plicated than modesty. It is a
combination of a Catholic sense
of sin and New England Puri¬
tanism and Eastern abnegation
of ego. We all celebrate his de¬
votion to young people and
schools and find it remarkable.
He sees it as an “addiction” and
regrets the price his family has
had to pay over the years for his
normal 80-hour work weeks.

Frank would like to slip
away from the College this
spring in the same way he left
the high school in Middlebury
after 25 years as Latin teacher
and principal, with his legacy in
his actions and in the memories
of students and colleagues, not
in public words of recognition.
We plead with him to accept
part-time work. He declines,
finding the idea “oxymoronic,”
a word he says he has learned
since coming to the College.
“I've never worked ‘part-time’
at anything,” he says. “I’m too
old to learn.” We’ll keep work¬
ing on him.

When pressed, Frank ad¬
mits he looks forward to the
next six months and visits to his
five children, now grown up
and spread out across the coun¬
try: Tim in Alaska, Liam in
Hawaii, K.C. and Anne in
Colorado; Dierdre lives nearby
in Burlington. He relishes the
idea of free time in the fall and

the chance to work with Anne,
his wife of 35 years (Anne:
“Seems like 105.”) around their
farm in Cornwall. He does
worry a bit about the winter.

In 1982, Dean of Students
Erica Wonnacott discovered
that Frank was considering a
change after so many years at
the high school. She and Steven
Rockefeller, then dean of the
College, knew of Frank’s gifts
with young people and leapt at
the chance to bring him into the
College community, creating
for him the position of Director
of Residential Life. Thus began
the Kelley decade.

During his 10 years here,
Frank has had an enormous
impact on the lives of students
and others. Hundreds and hun¬
dreds of students have been
warmed by his craggy smile
and his genuine interest in their
lives. His colleagues, too, have
been supported and inspired by
his calm demeanor, wise coun¬
sel and logistical brilliance.

One morning a couple of
years ago, a colleague asked
Frank what that particular day
held for him. “Bed storage,” he
replied, waving his clipboard.
“See all the names on this list?
They all built lofts in their
rooms. I have to run all these
students down and make sure
they return their beds from stor¬
age.”

The colleague groaned and
was glad his day promised
somewhat more variety. Frank
read his attitude and said, “No,
I’m looking forward to it. I’ll
talk to them for two minutes
about bed storage and 20 min¬
utes about their lives. Some of
my favorite people are on this
list. It’ll be a great day.”

Frank has spent many such
great days at the College. His
style and strategy are old-fash¬
ioned: He arrives at the College
between 6 and 7 a.m to catch up
on paperwork, works the cam¬
pus all day, and then attends
student meetings or social gath¬
erings until between 9 and 11

p.m. Then he goes home. This
is six days a week. He works
fewer hours on Sunday, but
compensates by staying later on
Saturday. He doesn’t sleep
much.

He eschews meetings, hates
conferences, and will not be
seen on the power lunch and
cocktail party circuit, such as it
is at Middlebury. He confines
his “schmoozing” and “net¬
working” to the student com¬
munity. He knows nearly every
student on campus by name and
is comfortable in every dining
hall, dormitory and social
house.

For Dean of Students Ann
Hanson, the value of having

At an end-of-year party,
front row, from left, Kathy
Follert y 87, Frank Kelley,
Dean of Students Ann
Hanson and RHA y s Karmali
Bhanji and Kristen
Gustavson; back row, RHA
Hieu Nguyen, Associate
Dean of Students Arlinda
Ardister and RHA y s James
Christian and Mara Gorman.

someone like this on her staff is
incalculable. “In a crisis, Frank
is the first person I call,” she
says. “Almost always, he has a
personal relationship with the
people involved and is crucial
to the resolution.”

He has knocked on the door
of severely depressed students
and walked them to the Coun¬

seling Center. He has resolved
a million roommate conflicts,
deliberately, with concern for
the feelings of both parties. He
has attended potentially out-of-
control social gatherings and
kept the lid on, not with authori¬
tarian pronouncements, but by
identifying students who have
the respect of their peers and
asking them to intervene. And
they do, because Frank has their
trust and he has put in time with
them in other, less volatile set¬
tings.

The favorite saying of this
old Latin teacher is “festina
lente,” or “make haste slowly.”
Frank Kelley gets things done
by not rushing them. He allows

students to “vent” (one of his
favorite words), to make outra¬
geous statements, without be¬
coming defensive or impatient.
He has a deep intuitive under¬
standing of the developmental
issues, and occasional absurdi¬
ties, of this age group. He gets
his way by not pushing, by re¬
spectful listening, by returning
to issues and problems again
and again, with all deliberate
speed, until the time is ripe for
a decision.

Frank has seen himself al¬
ways as a bit player in a larger
drama, working behind the
scenes, making sure the whole
thing comes off as conceived.
He loves to watch from the
wings. His most exhilarating
times at Middlebury have been

SUMMER 1993 13

the two conferences that occa¬
sioned the visits of the Dalai
Lama. He was intimately in¬
volved in these stimulating af¬
fairs, arranging things, unob¬
trusively, assigning tasks to a
legion of student workers.
“Frank was absolutely invalu¬
able,” says Steven Rockefeller,
the organizer of the confer¬
ences. “He is so wonderful with
people.”

“At this point in my life, if
I’m anything, I’m a Taoist,”
Frank says. “To have the Dalai
Lama here, to hear all this bril¬
liant talk about the common
bases of the world’s great reli¬
gions, was a real joy. I loved
being a part of it.”

Frank will be succeeded as
director of residential life by a
Kelley protege, Katherine
Follert ’87, one of Frank’s
original residence hall advisers,
or RHA’s. Kathy spent her se¬
nior year at Middlebury as the
house director in Allen Hall,
then was selected as one of the
first RHA’s. The RHA pro¬
gram, now in its seventh year, is
perhaps Frank’s most visible
legacy. RHA’s are recent
graduates who spend a year as
interns living in the dorms and
working full-time in the resi¬
dence hall system, under
Frank’s supervision.

“When the drinking age
went up,” Frank says, “it was
clear our dorms would feel the
impact. The social life would
move from downtown into the
residence halls. We needed
some help, not so much to be
police — to supervise, yes —
but to plan programs and to be
a presence. Not exactly peers
but not old folks either.” Luck¬
ily for Middlebury, Dave
Ginevan (treasurer and vice
president for administration)
and Olin Robison (then presi¬
dent) went along; the RHA pro¬
gram has since proven, many
times over, to be the right idea
for Middlebury.

After her RHA year, Kathy
Follert left Middlebury for
Washington, D.C., where she
lived and worked for six years
before coming back as Frank’s
assistant director last fall. “I’m

not trying to replace Frank
Kelley,” she says. “I’d fail if I
did. As a student at Middle¬
bury, I gained a great apprecia¬
tion for the way Frank works
with others. He was the most
fair and compassionate person
I had ever met. I came back this
year for the chance to work
with Frank and I’ve learned a
lot. My goal is to take his val¬
ues and ideas and adapt them to
my personality and style.”

In addition to Follert, Frank
has enjoyed a professional rela¬
tionship this year with another
alum from his first RHA class
in 1987, John Castle. John has
spent this year as the acting as¬
sistant dean of students. “Frank
Kelley represents Middlebury
to me,” Castle says. “I came as
a freshman in Frank’s first year,
was trained by him in the
dorms, and now I’m leaving
with him. I can’t imagine

On the board:
Two new names
and a new chair

T wo new members were
elected to five-year
terms on the College’s
board of trustees this spring:
Magna Leffler Dodge ’68, a
managing director in the bank¬
ing and corporate finance group
for Chemical Bank in New
York, was elected as a term
trustee; and John E. Martin ’67,
president and chief executive
officer of Taco Bell, was
elected as an alumni trustee.

Dodge, who received an
M.B.A. from the Harvard Busi¬
ness School, was managing di¬
rector of global loan syndica¬
tions and sales for Manufactur¬
ers Hanover in December of
1991, when Manufacturers
Hanover and Chemical Bank
merged. She’d begun work for
MH in 1975. In 1985, she
founded the firm’s media group
and eventually became its ex¬
ecutive vice president, a job in
which she managed the firm’s
activities with clients in the
cable, broadcasting, publishing

Middlebury without him.

“Without question, Frank is
a mentor to me. Frank defines
‘educator’ to me. My profes¬
sional goal is to teach in a high
school in Vermont, as Frank
did. I admire the way he works
with students and staff. He is
never autocratic. He gives
people responsibilty and then
nurtures them. He treats every¬
body with respect; he tran¬
scends systems and brings
people together. Very few lives
at Middlebury in the last 10
years have not been touched
significantly by Frank.”

A Middlebury parent, a
dean at a similar school, be¬
came aware of Frank Kelley
through his daughter’s some¬
times difficult first year experi¬
ence. “Every school should
have a Frank Kelley,” he ob¬
served admiringly. “But very
few do.”

and entertainment industries.
Dodge and her husband, David
’69, live in Bronxville, N.Y.

John Martin began his ca¬
reer in the food service business
in 1967 with the Canteen Corp.
and ARA Services, two large
food service companies in Den¬
ver. Three years later, he joined
Burger King as a restaurant
trainee, and was quickly pro¬
moted to restaurant manager,
region training manager and
then district manager for both
the company and franchise op¬
erations, later pioneering
Burger King’s expansion into
Europe. He worked subse¬
quently at Burger Chef and
Hardee’s, and joined Taco Bell,
a PepsiCo company, as presi¬
dent and CEO in 1983. Since
then. Taco Bell has gone from
a regional competitor to a na¬
tional leader and pacesetter in
the food service industry. Sales
have quadrupled and the num¬
ber of restaurants nationwide
has doubled. Among his major
innovations: the much-copied
“value menu” strategy, reduc¬
ing the prices of the most popu¬
lar items; and a program to fos¬
ter greater “ownership” of the

Having been inspired by
Frank on a daily basis for 10
years, I find it hard to believe
that any other school has a
Frank Kelley. His character is a
unique combination of practical
intelligence, an enormous ca¬
pacity for work, a genuine un¬
derstanding of young people
and their struggles, and a keen
appreciation for the life of the
mind. His leisure reading would
shame many scholars. He spent
two years taking Russian at
Middlebury (at 8 a.m.) so he
could speak with his Russian
major son at Dartmouth. We
haven’t even talked about his
sense of humor: he loves a good
joke, prank or satiric turn of
phrase.

He’s remarkable. If you
don’t believe me, ask any stu¬
dent who was at Middlebury
between 1983 and 1993.

— Karl Lindholm ’67

company by its employees.

Also this spring, Robert P.
Youngman ’64, a long-time
member of the board, was
elected chairman, succeeding
Milton V. Peterson ’58, whose
term as chairman had expired.
Youngman is the president of
Hovey Youngman Associates
Inc., an investment counseling
firm in New York City.

Claire W. Gargalli ’64 and
William H. Kieffer III ’64 were
elected as vice chairmen of the
board, and Patricia Judah
Palmer ’57 was elected secre¬
tary. Retiring from the board
this year after the maximum 15
years of service were Allan R.
Dragone ’50, a former chair¬
man of the board, and W. Kyle
Prescott ’49. Also stepping
down this spring as their terms
expired were term trustee Susan
Comstock Crampton and
alumni trustee Peter Decker
’57.

Re-elected to the board
were term trustees Ronald H.
Brown ’62 and Frederic W.
Allen. In addition, Gargalli and
Dort A. Cameron III ’67, for¬
merly term trustees, were
elected charter trustees.

14 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

FACULTY NOTES

Christopher McGrory Klyza

(political science) has recently
published “A Window of Au¬
tonomy: State Autonomy and
the Forest Service in the Early
1900s,” in Polity ; “Cars, Deer
and Ecocentrism,” in Wild
Earth ; book reviews in Envi¬
ronmental Ethic and Policy
Currents ; and has contributed
32 entries to Gale Publishing’s
forthcoming Environmental
Encyclopedia. In addition,
Klyza presented a paper,
“Ideas, Institutions and Policy
Patterns: A Study of Hardrock
Mining, Foresty and Grazing
Policy on the United States
Public Lands, 1870-1985,” at
the annual meeting of the
American Political Science As¬
sociation in Chicago, and
served on a panel that discussed
“Natural Resources Manage¬
ment and Regulation in the
United States,” at the annual
meeting of the Western Politi¬
cal Science Association in
Pasadena, Calif. ... A paper by
Jeff Byers (chemistry) and
Gregory Lane '92, “Radical
Addition Reactions of 2-
(Pheny lseleno)propanedioates
to Alkenes and Alkynes,” will
appear in the Journal of Or¬
ganic Chemistry. Also, Byers,
Brendan O’Leary 94 and
Amy Geffken ’94 recently
were awarded grants from the
Organic Division of the Ameri¬
can Chemical Society to attend
the June 1993 National Organic
Symposium in Bozeman, Mont.
... In February, Leger Grindon
(theater/dance/film-video) at¬
tended the 1993 conference of
the Society of Cinema Studies
in New Orleans, where he
chaired a panel on “The Boxer
and Boxing in American Film
and Television,” and delivered
a paper, “The Body and Soul of
the Boxing Film Genre.”
Grindon’s essay, “Witness to
Hollywood: Oral Testimony
and Historial Interpretation in
Warren Beatty’s Reds,” ap¬

peared in the March issue of the
journal Film History.
Suzanne Bocanegra (art) has
had one-person shows recently
at the California Center for the
Arts in Escondido and at the
Queens Museum in New York
City’s Bulova Center. Boca¬
negra has also received a grant
from the Marie Walsh Sharpe
Art Foundation.... The changes
in the former Soviet Union
have kept Tom Beyer (Rus¬
sian) busy keeping up with the
latest developments. Students
of Russian require up-to-date
materials to reflect the enor¬
mous changes that have taken
place since August 1991. Beyer
has recently co-authored Learn
Russian The Fast And Eun Way
for the Barron’s Educational
Series. The new book contains
current Moscow street and
metro maps, information on the
new independent countries
formed from the former Soviet
republics, as well as the latest
photographs and graphics of
currency, stamps, flags and
other realia that reflect the new
Russia. Beyer has also substan¬
tially revised Russian At A
Glance (Barron’s, 1991) to take
into account the new Russia
and its language. ... In 1993,
photographs by John
Huddleston (art) have been or
will be featured in one-person
exhibitions at the Hatton Gal¬
lery at Colorado State Univer¬
sity and the Watson Gallery at
Wheaton College. Huddleston
will serve stints as visiting art¬
ists at both schools in connec¬
tion with the shows. Also in
’93, video work by Huddleston
was to be seen at the Sawhill
Gallery of James Madison Uni¬
versity in Virginia, and was
screened at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Prague.... Richard
Saunders (director, Museum of
Art) delivered talks last year on
Albert Bierstadt, at the National
Gallery of Art, and on George
Berkeley, at the annual meeting

of the International Berkeley
Society. In March, he took part
in a symposium on John Single-
ton Copley at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts at the National Gallery. In
April, he gave a talk, “Pictures
Sometimes Lie: Dealers and
Deception in the Art Market at
the Beginning of the 20th Cen¬
tury,” as part of the Abemethy
Series at Middlebury’s Starr
Library. Recent publications
include an essay on art fakes for
the book The Portrait in Eigh¬
teenth Century America (Uni¬
versity of Delaware Press,
1993) and an essay on the life of
James Bowdoin III (1752-
1811) commissioned on the
200th anniversary of Bowdoin
College for inclusion in the
book, The Legacy of James
Bowdoin III. In September, he
will go on leave for the aca¬
demic year to work on an exhi¬
bition about fakes in American
painting and sculpture and on
Eastman Johnson, the 19th cen¬
tury American painter. ... In
October of 1992, Miichael
Kraus (political science) gave
a paper on “Settling Accounts:
Post-Communist Czechoslova¬
kia” at the Center for European
Studies of Harvard University.
In April of 1993, Kraus deliv¬
ered a talk in Washington,
D.C., on the subject of
“Decommunization” at a Con¬
ference on Post-Cold War
Communists in Central and
Eastern Europe. The confer¬
ence was sponsored by the At¬
lantic Council of the United
States and the International
Research and Exchanges
Board. The sponsors also
hosted a joint policy forum, co¬
chaired by Kraus, in which
about 60 diplomats, policy
makers and journalists were
briefed on the conference find¬
ings. ... Alicia Andreu (Span¬
ish) presented a paper on
Benito Perez Galdos at the
Kentucky Foreign Language

Conference at the University of
Kentucky in April; has two
book reviews in recent and
forthcoming issues of Revista
Hispanic a Moderna; and this
summer is taking part in a six-
week course at the School of
Criticism and Theory at
Dartmouth College. The course
is “The Interdisciplinary Im¬
perative: Modernity and the
Post-Colonial Condition,”
taught by Homi Bhabha, a pro¬
fessor of English at the Univer¬
sity of Sussex. ...An article by
Tim Spears (American litera¬
ture and civilization), “All
Things To All Men: The Com¬
mercial Traveler and the Rise
of Modern Salesmanship,” will
appear this fall in an issue of
American Quarterly. ... David
Macev (history), since 1991 the
director of Middlebury’s Cen¬
ter for Russian and East Euro¬
pean Studies, spent 1992 work¬
ing on a new book on the imple¬
mentation and impact of the
Stolypin Agrarian reforms in
Russia (1906-14). He returned
to resume his duties as director
in January. On his year away
from the campus, he spent
March, April and May conduct¬
ing research in the Central Rus¬
sian Historical Archive in St.
Petersburg, and also made short
visits to provincial archives in
Tula, Ul’ianovsk and Riga in
Latvia. While in Russia, he
gave a lecture, in Russian, at the
Institute of History of the St.
Petersburg Academy of Sci¬
ences. He also took part in an
international conference on
“Stolypin and his Reforms” in
Moscow, presenting a paper on
his research. The conference
papers will be published in both
Russian and French. At the end
of May, he visited China, giv¬
ing talks on contemporary So¬
viet reforms at various insti¬
tutes of the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences in Beijing
and Shanghai and at the history
department of Nanjing Univer-

SUMMER 1993 15

Stephen Freeman , vice president emeritus, professor emeritus of French and director
emeritus of the language schools shares a moment with President John McCardell during
the re-christening, in May , of the former SDU’s as the Stephen A. Freeman International
Center. A commemorative plaque on the building says: “The Freeman International Center is
dedicated in honor of Stephen A. Freeman ... in recognition of his distinquished service to
Middlebury College , May 8 , 1993. *.Let us build bridges.’ ” The final quote is a reference to
an article by Freeman , in which he called for the study offoreign languages , literatures and
cultures to offer students “the thrilling experience of real communication with other human
beings.” The dedication coincided with Freeman’s 95th birthday.

sity. In June, he visited the
Slavonic Research Center of
Hokkaido University in Sapp¬
oro, Japan, and gave a talk on
the popularity of Stolypin and
his agrarian reforms in Russia
today. In November of ’92,
Macey served as commentator
on two panels at the annual
meeting of the American Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, one on land re¬
form in Russia and Central
Asia, the other on women and
marriage among the peasantry
in 19th century Russia. An ar¬
ticle by Macey, “Government
Actions and Peasant Reactions
During the Stolypin Reforms,”
was published in 1992 in New
Perspectives in Modern Rus¬
sian History , published by St.
Martins Press in New York and
Macmillan & Co. in London.
Another article on the current
resurgence of interest in the
Stolypin Reforms, “Stolypin Is
Risen! The Ideology of Land
Reform in Russia,” appeared
this spring in Agrarian Reform
in the Contemporary Soviet
Union , published by Westview
Press in Boulder, Colo. ... This
spring, the Journal of Inverte¬
brate Pathology printed a paper
titled “Transfer of Incompat¬
ibility Factors between Stocks
of Nasonia (-Momoniella)
vitripennis” by Edward H.
Williams, M.S. ’74, Stanley
Fields ’76 and George Saul
(biology). Theses done by Wil¬
liams and Fields, completed
with Saul, constitute major
parts of the paper. Both Wil¬
liams and Fields are now active
in teaching and research: Fields
in microbiology at Stony Brook
in New York, and Williams at
Mankato, in Minnesota.... Ken
Pohlman (Museum of Art)
conducted a session in museum
installation techniques at the
Fall 1992 New England/Mid-
Atlantic Museum Association
meeting of the National Asso¬
ciation of Museum Administra¬
tors. Much of the session was
devoted to Pohlman’s installa¬
tion of “Bodystories,” based on
the book of the same name by
Andrea Olsen (dance), and one
of the museum’s inaugural ex¬

hibitions last October.... Alison
Stanger (political science) was
invited to present different as¬
pects of her research, on the
foreign policies of democratiz¬
ing states, at the Olin Institute
for Strategic Studies of the
Center for International Affairs
at Harvard in November, and
for a workshop on political
economy at the University of
Toronto in March. The Harvard
paper, “Interim Governments
and the International System,”
will be published in Interim
Governments and Democratic
Traditions , edited by Juan Linz
and Yossi Shain. Stanger re¬
ceived a Presidential Fellow¬
ship to participate in a Salzburg
Seminar in May on “European
Integration After the Cold
War.” This summer, she is
studying Czech and conducting
research in Prague on a grant
from the American Council of
Learned Societies. ... In 1992,
Emmie Donadio (assistant di¬
rector, Museum of Art) took
part in a panel discussion at

UVM on the art of Francis
Hewitt. Other participants were
the painters Ed Mieczkowski,
Ernst Benkert and Lance
Richbourg. ... Gary Margolis
(director, Counseling and Hu¬
man Relations; English) gave a
presentation, “New Thinking,
Old Practice: Issues for Con¬
temporary College Counselling
Services,” at a Greater Boston
Counseling Centers Confer¬
ence. He also presented a talk,
“Earlier Alcohol Intervention:
Strategies for College Counsel¬
ors, Administrators and Fac¬
ulty,” at a conference of the
Maine College Counselors,
held at the University of New
England. Also, poems by
Margolis will appear in an an¬
thology, Poems for a Small
Planet , to be published by the
University of New England
Press. ... An article by Paul
Sommers (economics), “A
probability distribution with
serious faults,” appears in Vol¬
ume 24, Number 4, of the Jour¬
nal of Recreational Mathemat¬

ics. The article examines pat¬
terns in the frequency of major
earthquakes in Southern Cali¬
fornia. The same issue of the
journal will include Sommers’
“Are Supreme Court Resigna¬
tions Non-Stochastic?” coau¬
thored by Katherine Buchan
’95. Another article by
Sommers, coauthored by Mark
Hamre ’95, “The Line-Item
Veto: A Reappraisal,” will ap¬
pear in the December ’93 issue
of the Atlantic Economic Jour¬
nal. ... Karl Lindholm (dean of
advising and off-campus study)
chaired a panel titled “Study
Abroad Adviser — Or Tight¬
rope Walker?” at the national
conference of the National As¬
sociation of Foreign Student
Advisers in June in San Fran¬
cisco. Also on the panel were
advisers from Harvard, Bran-
deis and Trinity (Conn.). Also
this summer, Lindholm will
visit northern England, Scot¬
land and Ireland with a group of
study abroad advisers.

16 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

BOOK REPORTS

With Eagles to Glory:
Napoleon and His
German Allies in the
1809 Campaign

By John H. Gill ’77;

Greenhill Books, London,

1992.

When Napoleon led his Grande
Armee against the might of the
Hapsburg Empire in 1809, his
host included over 100,000 al¬
lied German troops. From the
earliest imperial campaigns,
German soldiers had played a
role as the Emperor swept from
victory to victory, but in 1809
their numbers and fighting
abilities were crucial to his ul¬
timate success. Drawing on in¬
tensive research into previously
untapped sources, John Gill
examines the composition, or¬
ganization and battle history of
each German contingent, pre¬
senting quirks and qualities,
heroism and cowardice. Maps,
charts and tables illustrate de¬
tailed descriptions of the Ger¬
man role in the battles, marches
and skirmishes that scarred the
face of central Europe. Gill, a
major in the Army, is currently
assigned to Washington, D.C.

Voices of Beginning
Teachers: Visions
& Realities

By Richard Dollase, director
of teacher education;

Teachers College Press, New
York, N.Y., 1992.

Richard Dollase charts the be¬
ginning classroom experiences
of well-prepared, idealistic in¬
dividuals — liberal arts gradu¬
ates from select colleges —
who have decided, often with
some reservations, to pursue
careers in secondary school
teaching. In Part I of the book,
through in-depth case studies,
Dollase, head of Middlebury’s
teacher education program, il¬
lustrates the evolving class¬
room perspectives of four

promising newcomers to the
field of education. In Part II, a
composite portrait of all 38
teachers included in Dollase’s
study, he focuses on the dynam¬
ics of teaching, including class¬
room management, curriculum
and evaluation issues, and the
central question of what consti¬
tutes good teaching.

Excellence in U.S.
History: Preparing for
Advanced Placement

By Theodore F. Morse ’ 65;
Longman Press, New York,
N.Y., 1993.

Theodore Morse teaches Ad¬
vanced Placement history at
The Forman School in
Litchfield, Conn.; works for the
College Board, teaching teach¬
ers about Advanced Placement
techniques; and is one of the
readers of the actual exam each
spring. This second edition of
his study guide in American
history is recommended by the
Educational Testing Service for
AP students who want to learn
to handle documents, write
conceptual essays and deal with
historiography. New in the
1993 edition is an extended
chapter on the Reagan-Bush
years, and a section titled
“Writer’s Tips,” demonstrating
carefully crafted essays, which
have focus and supportive evi¬
dence.

Flight to Black
Hammer: The Letters
of a World War II Pilot

By Ted Withington, M.A. Bread
Loaf ’ 56; Biddle Publishing
Co., Brunswick, Maine,

In letters to his family and en¬
tries in a personal journal, a
young B-24 pilot describes his
coming of age during World
War II. Ted Withington, whose
family lived in Hawaii, was a
student at Harvard when he en¬
listed in the Army Air Corps. In

this book, he tells of his war¬
time experiences, from basic
training, to the flak- and
fighter-filled skies over Ger¬
man targets, to the harrowing
experiences he had being shot
out of the sky — not once but
twice. Withington retired in
1988 after a career in secondary
education, including 22 years
as headmaster of the Friends
Academy in Locust Valley,
N.Y. He and his wife of 45
years, JoAnn Souter, now live
in Brunswick, Maine.

Pilgrim’s Progress,
Puritan Progress:
Discourses and
Contexts

By Kathleen M. Swaim, M.A.
Bread Loaf '63; University of
Illinois Press, Champaign,
1993.

In this study of John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress , Kathleen
Swaim recognizes the author as
a major Puritan cultural figure,
and his best-known work as a
multilayered locus of cultural,
historical and theological, as
well as literary, systems.
Swaim’s book maps shifts of
cultural and theological empha¬
sis as Christian’s focus on the
Word and Protestant martyr¬
dom in Part I (1678) gives way
to Christiana’s characteristic
emphasis on good works and
the material reality of the
Church in the world in Part II
(1684). Swaim, a professor of
English at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, is
also the author of Before and
After the Fall: Contrasting
Modes in Paradise Lost, and
coauthor of A Concordance to
Milton s English Poetry.

After the Cold War:
Russian-American
Defense Conversion
for Economic Renewal

Edited by Michael Claudon,
professor of economics and

president of the Geonomics
Institute at Middlebury, and
Kathryn Wittneben, president
of the Enterprise Development
Information Center; NYU
Press, New York, N.Y., 1993.

This book reports on the pro¬
ceedings of a Geonomics Insti¬
tute conference on defense con¬
version, held in October of
1992 at Middlebury. The con¬
ference brought together schol¬
ars, business people and gov¬
ernment officials from the U.S.
and Russia, to discuss the chal¬
lenges of reversing decades of
military buildup, overcoming
generations of hostility and
converting bloated military-in¬
dustrial complexes to the post-
Cold War realities.

Heart of Lightness:
Experiences of a
Peace Corps
Volunteer in Africa

By Anne Grimshaw Kempers
’ 48; Peter E. Randall
Publisher, Portsmouth, N.H.,
1993.

In the late 1970s, Anne
Kempers spent two years as a
Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire.
She was not the typical volun¬
teer, since she was by then the
mother of four grown children,
and had been a French teacher
for 20 years. Almost ever since,
she’s been told that she should
put her experiences in writing,
and 15 years later, she has. In
Heart of Lightness (a title in
conscious opposition to
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness),
Kempers writes of her “totally
positive” tour of duty, and the
surprising challenges she faced
on “re-entry” into American
culture. Those interested in re¬
ceiving a copy of the book can
send a check for $12.50 ($10,
plus $2.50 postage and han¬
dling per copy) to Anne G.
Kempers, 17 Elmhurst St.,
Waterville, ME 04901.

SUMMER 1993 17

SPORTS

Motter, Olson take
national tennis titles

Helen Motter of the women’s
tennis team took home two na¬
tional championships at this
year’s NCAA Division III ten¬
nis tournament, held at
Carleton College in Northfield,
Minn.

Motter, a freshman, won
the singles title with a 6-4, 6-1
victory over Katja Zerck of
Kenyon College, and teamed
with Nancy Olson of Omaha,
Neb., to defeat Stephanie
Desmond and Pascale Muhl-
eman of Trinity College, 6-4,7-
5, in the doubles final.

Motter, from Kansas City,
Mo., was seeded third entering
the NCAA championships and
defeated two Williams College
players on her way to the finals.
In the semifinals, she beat top-
seed Penny Foss, 6-4, 6-1, the
first win for Motter in four

matches this year against the
Williams senior.

Motter and Olson, the first
Middlebury doubles team ever
to qualify for the NCAA cham¬
pionships, began playing to¬
gether in the fall of 1992, and
since then have gone 24-1, win¬
ning the Rolex Regional
Doubles Championships along
the way.

Motter is the first Middle¬
bury woman to win a national
tennis title, and only the second
player ever to qualify for the
NCAA’s; the first was Chantal
DenBroeder, last season. In her
one season of play for Middle¬
bury, Motter went 29-4 and was
the Rolex Regional Singles
Champion. Her efforts earned
her recognition as NCAA
rookie tennis player of the year
for 1993.

The men’s tennis team fin¬
ished its dual match season at 4-
4, and produced some strong
performances in the NESCAC
championships at Williams.
Rich Paterniti and Steve
Pozatek each made it to the
third round in “A” singles, and
teamed up to make it to the
semifinals in the “A” doubles,
before losing to the top-seeded
doubles team from Wesleyan.
Chris Butler and Lance
Klingler made it to the
quarterfinals in the “B”
doubles, as did Doug Tsao and
his partner Oman Sloan.
Klingler made it to the second
round in the “B” singles, and
Tsao made it to the quarters in
the “C” singles.

The men’s lacrosse team
nearly made it three ECAC
championships in a row. The
team had an up and down regu¬
lar season, finishing at 7-5, but
put together strong games in the

Ray Alcindor named
player of the year

Middlebury hockey player Ray
Alcindor was selected this
spring as the Division II-III Na¬
tional Player of the Year by the
American Hockey Coaches
Association. Alcindor was cho¬
sen from among five regional
finalists for the AHCA’s first-
ever College Division award.

Alcindor,who was also the
ECAC East player of the year,
was Middlebury’s leading
scorer for the past two seasons.
In 24 games this year, he had 18
goals and 30 assists for 48
points. During his four years on
the Panther hockey team, the
team’s record was 83-15-5, and
he led the team to an 18-3-2
record and the ECAC
quarterfinals this year. He was
the 1992-93 ECAC Player of
the Year, and was named to the
All-American and All-ECAC
first teams, the New England

At a dinner in Boston , Ray
Alcindor shows off his ECAC
Player of the Year trophy
with Julie Power y 92, who
now works at the ECAC.

Sports Writers All-Star Team,
the the AHCA East All-Star
Team.

“Ray epitomizes what col¬
lege hockey is all about by the

way he plays the game and con¬
ducts himself on the ice,” said
his coach, Bill Beaney. “His
game is characterized by tre¬
mendous speed, excellent puck
skills, great hockey sense, an
outstanding work ethic and a
dogged determination to be the
best. He is one of the most
coachable players I’ve had in
16 years of college coaching.
His leadership has been an inte¬
gral part of the success a young
Middlebury team has enjoyed.”

Alcindor received his
award at a banquet held in con¬
junction with the Shrine East-
West College Hockey Classic
in Bangor, Maine. In the Shrine
game, Alcindor had an early
assist, and later had a goal to tie
the game at 4-4. His East team
went on to win 6-5.

Alcindor, from Mount
Royal, Quebec, is the younger
brother of Marc Alcindor, who
was also an All-American for
the Panthers.

ECAC tournament, defeating
two teams to which they'd lost
during the season to reach the
finals. In the quarterfinals,
Middlebury beat Tufts 16-11,
and then beat Connecticut Col¬
lege in the semifinals, behind
Dave Low’s seven goals, to set
up a second straight champion¬
ship game against Bowdoin,
and the third in a row to be
played at Middlebury.

Before a large home crowd,
the Panthers jumped out to a
quick 3-0 lead, but Bowdoin
stormed back to trail only 4-3
after one quarter. Bowdoin then
outscored the Panthers 3-2 in
the second to tie the game at
halftime, 6-6. The third quarter
turned out to be decisive, with
the Polar Bears going on a 5-2
run and taking an 11-8 lead into
the fourth quarter. Each team
had three goals in the fourth,
with Bowdoin coming out on
top 14-11.

Middlebury’s Dave Fagan
had five goals in the game, and
freshman Charles Whinery had
four assists. All-American
midfielder John Atherton fin¬
ished his Middlebury lacrosse
career with a goal and two as¬
sists in the championship game,
and Low had a goal and an as¬
sist. Freshman goalie Ian Wolfe
had 15 saves.

The Panthers finished the
season at 9-6.

The women’s lacrosse
team also came close to making
it three ECAC titles in a row,
before falling in the finals of the
Division III tournament to Wil¬
liams, 5-3.

In the tournament quar¬
terfinals, the women jumped
out to an early 10-0 lead and
cruised home with 13-5 win
over Mt. Holyoke. Nicole
Kassissieh and Kim Griffith
both had four goals for the Pan¬
thers, and goalie Lissa Gipson
made 16 saves. In the semifi¬
nals, the Panthers defeated pre¬
viously unbeaten and top-

18 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

seeded Connecticut College,
12-7. Middlebury led just 4-3 at
halftime, but scored seven of
the next nine goals for the win.
Meg Martin and Griffith each
had four goals in the game, and
Kirsten Morbeck added three.
Gipson again had 16 saves.

In the championship game,
Williams was able to derail the
Panthers’ potent offense, win¬
ning 5-3, the same score by
which the Ephs had beaten
Middlebury during the regular
season. Williams held Middle¬
bury to one goal in the first half
and led 3-1. The teams traded
goals in the second half, and
Middlebury pulled to within 4-
3 with 8:27 left. But a goal by
Williams’ Kelly Faucher with
three seconds left sealed the
win for Williams.

It was the fourth year in a
row that the women’s team had
reached the ECAC final game.
The team finished the year with
a 10-3 record, and six players
were named Brine Regional
All-Americans: Griffith, Mor¬
beck and Kassissieh on offense,
and Meredith McLean, Kate
Chapman and Lissa Gipson on
defense. Kate Chapman was
also named to the 1993
Women’s College North-South
Senior All-Star Team, one of
only 40 seniors selected to play
from Divisions I, II and III in
the annual North-South game at
Johns Hopkins.

Kim Griffith, an All-
American in 1991 and 1992,
ended her career at Middlebury
as the most prolific scorer in
school history, with 189 goals.
She led the team this year with
53 goals and nine assists.

In baseball, Middlebury
finished the season at 9-9. One
of the highlights of the season
was a narrow 8-7 loss to Divi¬
sion I UVM at Centennial
Field. The Panthers trailed 7-1
going to the top of the ninth, but
scored six runs to tie the game,
highlighted by a three-run
double by Jeff Milks, an RBI
single by Matt Gorra and a two-
run single by Doug Mandigo. In
the bottom of the inning, UVM
loaded the bases, and a fly ball

over a drawn-in outfield scored
the game winner. Milks had
two hits and four RBIs in the
game.

Also this season, Middle¬
bury had an 8-7 win over Wil¬
liams; split a double header
with Southern Vermont Col¬
lege, including a 2-1 victory for
pitcher Tim Loescher; split a
double header with Colby, los¬
ing 1-0 and winning the second
game 4-3 in extra innings; split
two games with Castleton
State; beat Norwich 6-3 on a
seven-hitter by Loescher; and
split two with Albany State.

The men’s and women’s
track and field teams had
strong seasons and saw some
great individual efforts. At this
year’s NESCAC meets, the
men were fifth at Williams and
the women finished ninth at
Wesleyan.

The headliner this year was
freshman sprinter Nikola
Tarashev. At the men’s
NESCAC meet, Tarashev, from
Bulgaria, won the 100 meters in
10.94. At the New England
NCAA regionals, also held at
Williams, he finished second in
the 200 meters in 22.21.
Tarashev was also a member,
with Anthony Atkinson,
Terence Bradford and Branigan
Sherman, of a Middlebury
4x100 meter relay team that
qualified for the NCAA Divi¬
sion III championship meet.
The relay team ran well all sea¬
son, and actually won a heat at
the prestigious Penn Relays in
Philadelphia, running a 43.38
and beating Division I teams
from Penn State, Boston Col¬
lege and BU, among others.
The team was unable to run in
the finals because Atkinson,
who holds dual citizenship in
the U.S. and St. Lucia, had to
tly to St. Lucia for that nation’s
Olympic try-outs. He qualified
as an alternate to the team.

Also performing well at the
men’s NESCAC meet were
Greg Fisher, with a win in the
shotput; Foster Goodrich, first
in the discus; Gil Prado, third in
the 5,000 meters; and Jeff
Lindley, second in the long

jump at 21 feet, 3 1/2 inches.

At the women’s NESCAC
meet, Middlebury got a strong
performance from captain
Susie Caldwell, who finished
second in the 800 meters and
anchored the 4x800 relay team
that finished third. Jen Hutchins
had the top finish in the field
events, with a third in the jav¬
elin

At the men’s New England
championships, Greg Fisher
earned All-New England hon¬
ors and qualified for the NCAA
championships with a second
place finish in the shot. His
throw of 51 feet, 4 1/2 inches
broke, by one inch, the 25-year-
old school record set in 1968 by
Richard McMahon. Also earn¬
ing All-New England honors
was Kyle Hirsch, who was fifth
in the discus at 136 feet.

At the women’s New Eng¬
land meet, Caldwell earned All-
New England status three
times: with a third in the 1,500
meters; a fifth in the 800; and as
a member and anchor of the
Panthers 4x800 relay team,
which finished third. Also on
that team were Bethany John¬
son, Brooke Magnaghi and
Ruth Kelty.

Middlebury’s men’s golf
team got a late start on its sea¬
son because of miserable spring
weather, but had a creditable
performance at the NESCAC
meet, finishing fifth in the
championships that were con¬
tested at the difficult Williams
College course on April 24 and
25. Jon Hanlon led Middlebury
with a two-day total of 168.
Topher Smith had a 170, Zach
Peterson was at 173 and Josh
Pepin shot 177 to round out the
top four for the Panthers.

The presidents of the
schools in the New England
Small College Athletic Con¬
ference, which includes Midd¬
lebury, have voted to lift
NESCAC’s prohibition against
teams competing in NCAA Di¬
vision III tournaments. Being
implemented beginning with
the 1993 fall sports season for a
three-year trial period, the new

Alumni tee it up
September 10-11

The 1993 Gordon C. Perine
’49 Alumni Golf Tourna¬
ment will be held at
Middlebury’s Ralph Myhre
Golf Course Friday and
Saturday, September 10-11.
The tournament will feature
individual competition for
women, and individual and
team competitions for men.
The price is $40 per person,
which includes greens fees
for the tournament and for
an optional practice round
on September 9. Carts will
be available on a first-
come, first-served basis at
$17 per round. Housing at
Bread Loaf will also be
available, at $20 per person
per night. An informal
dinner is scheduled for
Friday evening, with an
awards banquet on Saturday
night. For more information
or to sign up for the
tournament, contact Gordie
Perine, Senior Development
Officer, Forest Hall,
Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT 05753,
802/388-3711, ext. 5195.

rules will permit NESCAC
schools to send qualifying
teams to NCAA champion¬
ships. The one exception: Foot¬
ball, in which schools will con¬
tinue to play eight-game sched¬
ules without post-season activ¬
ity.

Under the previous policy,
individuals from the NESCAC
schools — Amherst, Bates,
Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut
College, Hamilton, Middle¬
bury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan
and Williams — were allowed
to attend NCAA champion¬
ships, but not as teams, though
they were able to collect team
points. One exception has been
in skiing, where several
NESCAC schools have for
many years fielded teams for
the NCAA Division I champi¬
onships.

SUMMER 1993 19

A day in the
sun for 1993

For this year’s graduates, it was blue
skies, balmy breezes — and a challenge
from speaker Mary Francis Berry

Photos by Erik Borg ’67

ell, they lucked out. On May 23, the Class of ’93 caught an absolutely perfect Vermont
spring day for Commencement, held in the amphitheater formed by the back of Forest
Hall. Blue skies, bright sunshine, warm temperatures and a gentle breeze.

Commencement is always a good time, rain or shine, but the weather added extra lus¬
ter to the celebration this year — and the additional touches of whimsy that always seem
to surface when the sun shines on graduation.

For example: A relatively large subset of the graduates had attached small bits of pine boughs
to their mortarboards; balloons were everywhere, including a colorful array that was launched, in¬
advertently, from the seats and ended up lodged, waving in the breeze, in the top of the tallest tree
that overlooked the ceremony; and more than the usual number of messages taped to mortarboards,
ranging from the simple, declarative "DKE” to the more abstruse, such as one that said, "DA FEW.”
Da few, da proud, da Class of ’93? We’re not sure.

Perhaps the best moment of a glorious day came relatively late in the proceedings, during the
awarding of the diplomas to the individual graduates. That was when David Buse, a double major
in English and Spanish from Newtown Square, Pa., made his way, on crutches, obviously in pain,

up the ramp to receive his diploma, to a long and loud standing
ovation. Buse’s march was so extraordinary because this past
winter he’d been very nearly killed in a serious accident on cam¬
pus involving his mountain bike, a snowy sidewalk, and a snow-
removal machine.

At the time, it was believed he’d be lucky to be back in school
by the fall of this year (see the Spring '93 issue). But in a matter
of weeks he was out of intensive care, out of the hospital and back
studying at Middlebury, living in a specially modified room in
Forest Hall. And by the time Commencement rolled around, he
was able to get around on crutches, though with difficulty, and
he’d caught up with the work he’d missed; some professors were
working with him even while he was still hospitalized, including
Roberto Veguez of the Spanish department. He’d caught up well
enough, in fact, that he graduated summa cum laude. Phi Beta
Kappa.

Also honored during Commencement were the class valedic¬
torian, Ding R. Chun, and the salutatorian, Jonathan Edward
Beecher, both of whom also graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa
cum laude. Ding was a double major in economics and mathemat¬
ics, who received highest honors from the economics department,
and Beecher was a philosophy major, graduating with high hon¬
ors from his department.

Receiving honorary degrees at this year’s Commencement
were:

Mary Francis Berry, historian, lawyer and civil libertarian,

Greenery was in at graduation. Above ,
part of the pine bough crowd; facing
page , a serious garland.

20 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

this year’s Commencement speaker.
Berry, a long-time member of the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission, has written ex¬
tensively on civil rights issues, and is cur¬
rently a professor of public policy at the
University of Pennsylvania.

Allan R. Dragone ’50, president and
CEO of Akzo America Inc. in New York.
Dragone has been a College trustee for 15
years, and served as chairman of the board
from 1980 to 1989. He’s stepping down
from the board this spring, and will be¬
come a member of Middlebury’s board of
overseers.

Eleanor Jack Gibson, professor of
psychology emeritus at Cornell Univer¬
sity. In 1992, Eleanor Gibson received the
National Medal of Science, the nation’s
highest scientific honor, from President
Bush. She is the author of Principles of
Perceptual Learning and Development.
She now lives in Middlebury, and has
taught and done research at the College.

Richard Zanuck, a studio executive
and independent film producer for more
than 30 years. Zanuck’s films — includ¬
ing The Sting, Jaws and Driving Miss
Daisy — have won many Oscars, and in
1991 he received the highest individual
award offered by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, the Irving
Thalburg Award for lifetime achievement.
His most recent film. Rich in Love , had its
premiere at Middlebury College in Janu¬
ary.

Wallace Stegner, winner of the 1971
Pulitzer Prize for his novel Angle of Re¬
pose, and of two National Book Awards
for his fiction and non-fiction. Stegner,
who died in April from injuries suffered in
an automobile accident, was honored post¬
humously. He had long been a parttime
resident of Vermont, and was for many
years a regular visitor to the Bread Loaf
campus.

And Robert Mitchell, who served as
editor and publisher of the Rutland , Vt.,
Herald for more than 50 years. Because he
was known to be in poor health, Robert
Mitchell received his honorary degree at
his home on March 3, six days before his
death.

When it was her turn to speak, Mary
Francis Berry told the graduates, and their
family and friends who were spread over
the fields and hillsides behind Forest, of
the challenges facing our world and our
country as we prepare to celebrate the
millenium, and asked the graduates what
they were prepared to do to help. Her
speech follows.

What will history say
of us, 100 years from now?

By Mary Francis Berry

Thank you. Thank you very much, Presi¬
dent McCardell, members of the board of
trustees and all of those who are respon¬
sible for inviting me here on such a glori¬
ous Vermont day, in this wonderful envi¬
ronment for learning. I’ve always wanted
to come to this college, ever since, even
before Ron Brown told me how wonder¬
ful it was when he was a student here. I
always wanted to find out whether he was
born smooth or he became a smoothie
while he was at Middlebury. And I’m not
sure I know the answer to that yet, but I’ll
find out before I leave.

But it is to the members of the class of
1993 that I want to address my remarks. I
first want to congratulate each of you, and
of course I congratulate your parents and
your grandparents and your other relatives

and friends on this occasion. I also know
that you know that the faculty shares with
you the responsibility for your accom¬
plishment. I also want to congratulate
President McCardell and the other admin¬
istrators for knowing well when to lead,
when to intervene, and when to stay out of
the way. Which is the most important
judgment call that an administrator can
make in a college. I know that from expe¬
rience.

However, seriously, today belongs to
those of you who are graduating. You're
being recognized, your achievements,
even though others had a major role to
play. And I would like to ask you to re¬
member that the diploma you receive rep¬
resents more than academic attainment. It
signifies that you are a persistent person,
and that you can achieve whatever goals
you set for yourself for the rest of your
lives. Most of you came here in 1989, if I
count correctly; there may be an occa¬
sional one who came before that. But it

At left , Ding Chun , who
was the valedictorian for
the Class of ’ 93 . Below ,
the salutatorian,
Jonathan Edward
Beecher , with President
McCardell.

22 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

doesn’t matter when you matriculated, just
that you’re graduating today.

And many of you who sit out there
will be in positions of local, community,
national and international leadership as we
enter the next century. And that is who you
are. And that is what Middlebury College
has helped to prepare you to do. Everyone
of you has gained something here that will
enhance your lives. It may not seem that
way to some of you, if precisely the right
job or precisely the right law school didn’t
come through. But you’ve been taught
how to build on what you have. Your
achievements here at Middlebury College,
coupled with continued perseverance, will
make it possible for you to progress in
whatever you choose to do.

When I was asked for a topic for this
speech, I thought. Why do I need a topic?
But I guess I did. So. 1 decided that I would
choose as my topic Edward Bellamy’s
1887 Utopian novel. Looking Backward
from the Year 2000. In fact, what he did in
that novel was to look forward to a brave
new world. He commented on the defects
of the society of his own times by contrast¬
ing it with an ideal society. He noted the
end of the frontier, the growing organiza¬
tion of capital and labor, and a consequent
sense of frustration, and then described the
ideal society of the future. It would be a
place in which there would be no ruthless
competition; absolute equality of all citi¬
zens would exist. And poverty and injus¬
tice and crime would be eliminated; in¬
deed, all sordid human motives would no
longer be present.

Well, of course this Utopian novel was
Utopian, and what Bellamy hoped for
hasn’t happened, even though some
progress has been made as we near the end
of the 20th century and head toward the
21st. And I think that your education here
at Middlebury College creates a responsi¬
bility for you to help us in shaping a future
of even more progress beyond what we
have already achieved. And where do we
start? You don’t have to read the rather
strained dialogue in Bellamy’s tendentious
novel to find out. We know what exists at
this hour, in our own time, and we know
that what change takes place will occur
largely by your efforts. Surely, 107 years
from now, communications, changing so
rapidly, will make the world and all of
space and the planets a global world in¬
stead of a global village. Those of us who
have just gotten into computers and mo¬
dems and discovered the immediacy and
joys and frustrations of fax and Internet,
including the junk people send to you,
along with the good stuff, can imagine that

Mary Francis Berry , center , received
her honorary doctorate from President
McCardell, at left , and Dean of the
College John Emerson.

greater technological wonders await us,
even though we have no idea what they
will be.

But what of the poverty, injustice and
selfishness which stalks the world today?
Racism and fundamentalism of various
religious varieties. Nationalism, which
remains an evil force in many areas of the
world. What of that? What about war in
the Balkans, which always seems in my
historical memory to be about to break out,
or on the verge of just having been broken
out, if I may put it that way. What about
that? Will that continue to be a factor? We
know we have today growing anti-
Semitism, racism and bigotry in many
places in Europe, which have put at risk
large numbers of immigrants, Jewish
people and people of color. I was in Ger¬
many just recently, in Berlin, and I was
warned to stay out the Metro, subway, at
night, and to always dress very well so that
no one would think I was a refugee, be¬
cause they might beat me up. And so I had
to abandon my usual blue jeans and
sweater for something more staid.

Discrimination against women is re¬
surgent in Eastern Europe. The new poli¬
tics has meant a retreat on women’s equal¬
ity and the law and policy, as a side effect.
Nationalism and fundamentalism on the
rise throughout the world with unpredict¬
able consequences to come.

Will there in the next 100 years be
peace, finally, between the Israelis and the
Palestinians? What of China, one half of
the world population is Asian, and half of
them are Chinese. Not all of them are in
China, of course. China’s is the third larg¬
est economy in the world, just behind the
United States and Japan, and growing
faster. What about balancing human rights
concerns with the growth of the economy
in China, and the fact that we are seeing
their unevenness, more division between
rich and poor. What will happen? Will
human rights problems, poverty, AIDS
and drugs continue to stalk Latin

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The Grunge look? Or just someone
who thought paddock hoots would he
appropriate for an outdoor graduation?

SUMMER 1993 23

America? In Africa, how long must fam¬
ine, murder, maiming, a continuing clash
of political egos and disputes fomented in
the East-West dispute, continue? Will de¬
mocracy be quickly consummated in
South Africa? I visited with Nelson
Mandela when he was here for the inaugu¬
ration and he seemed to think democracy
would come this year, but he and DeClerc
and Buthelezi are transitional figures, too.
There’s more to come. We’ve just recog¬
nized the government in Angola after so
many years of supporting the warfare of
Savimbi and his butchers. Will there be a
political settlement to end the violence?

Also, 100 years from now, will the
international AIDS crisis be no longer
even a memory? And will famine in Africa
be a distant nightmare? And will environ¬
mentalism be so inculcated and ingrained
in the human consciousness that people
are bom recycling from the day that they
enter from the womb? And will that just
simply be a hallmark of everything we do?
And will there be halcyon peace prevail¬
ing in the world, or at least more peace and
less disruption than we have today? Will
the grandchildren and great-grandchildren
in Haiti tell each other stories of how Bill
Clinton kept his promises and helped to
achieve democracy in Haiti? Will that hap¬
pen? Will those be stories? Or will that
country still be subsisting under disorder,
chaos, poverty and a long-ensconced mili¬
tary dictatorship?

And then here in our own country, will
the gap between rich and poor continue to
widen, or will it narrow? Over 32 million
Americans live in poverty and about 40
percent are children under the age of 18.
Will students 100 years from today, as¬
suming there are students and I guess there
will be, learn that in the Clinton era the
economy picked up and we began to deal
with our structural problems and our desire
to have the civilization that good govern¬
ment and taxes pay for, while not paying
any taxes? What will they learn about that?
Will they learn that we started a compre¬
hensive plan for the poor of America:
housing, entrepreneurship help, loans,
money to pay for services? And what
about the homeless? If there are any
streets, will there still be homeless people
out of work, mentally ill people begging
and people saying about them, as an afflu¬
ent student told me the other day, that he
does not give money to the poor on the
streets because they might buy wine. And
I had to remind him that the Bible says,
Give alms to the poor, and not. Give alms
to the poor if you think they will not buy
wine. Will children learn that in the

America of the end of the 20th century we
got tired of knowing that among the 37
million people with no health insurance
are many poor mothers and fathers, who
when they hear an ill child cry out in the
night worry whether she is $5 sick or $50
sick or $1,000 sick? And if that parent
goes for care to the local government hos¬
pital, they will find, if it is still open, long
lines, crowded waiting rooms and people
dying without attention, as if it is a poor
Third World country, which is what it is
for all intents and purposes. Will they leam
100 years from now that Hillary Rodham
Clinton’s health care task force gave us,
finally, the answers to these questions.

And what of diversity? Will this be
remembered as the era when we began not
only to talk about including all of the
people who make up our country and ev¬
erything that is worthwhile and important,
that we really began to see our diversity as
a strength to celebrate, rather than a weak¬
ness? We begin this year with more diver¬
sity in the political arena than we’ve ever
had before. We’ve all acknowledged those
six new women in the Senate and all those
new people in the Congress of the United
States, people of color and women in the
Congress. We have noted this. But we
have also noted that the Select Committee
on Children and Families, the only com¬
mittee in the Congress chaired by a
woman, was abolished. We noted that.
And that the budget committee has no
women sitting on it at all. The Clinton
Cabinet certainly looks more like
America. We have two Latinos —
Cisneros and Pena; we have the two
Browns — Ron and Jesse, and soon to be
three with Lee, so there will three Browns;
Mike Espy and Hazel O’Leary; and we
have, finally, a woman in one of the old-
line departments, Janet Reno. But there is
no Asian-American Cabinet member, and
yet to be a major Asian-American appoint¬
ment. And I also know, from a reporter
friend of mine, who has to answer this
question for me every day, that at the end
of the day, when policy decisions are fi¬
nally and ultimately made, there are no
women and no people of color in the room
— unless Hillary happens to wander in
from the hall.

Will this be the era when we find out,
once and for all, what difference it makes
when we have more women and racial
minority men in office? Maybe we’ll
know that. And will this, and the years
after your graduation, be the period in
which we finally overcome sex discrimi¬
nation, and modify gender roles in order to
give opportunity to women, and men, to

make fair choices about employment, and
economic opportunity, about parenting
and freedom to enjoy their lives? And
what of sexual harassment? It is, of course,
illegal, but will this be the period when we
will have stopped having people pretend¬
ing that they didn’t do it, or trying to pre¬
tend that they did it, but what they did was
just friendship, or that whoever is com¬
plaining is overreacting? Will we over¬
come ageism? There are more complaints
of age discrimination filed by older Ameri¬
cans who employers want to get rid of
because they cost too much, than all the
other discrimination complaints filed with
government agencies. And will this be a
brave new world in which we implement
the Americans with Disabilities Act, so
that those who are disabled, in so far as
possible, become productive citizens? And
what of the climate of racism, which still
permeates this society more than 37 years
after Rosa Parks sat down on the bus in
Montgomery? African and non-white
Latinos or Hispanics, whether male or fe¬
male, whether middle class, upper class or
no class, suffer discrimination, in trying to
buy a house, or trying to rent an apartment,
buy something in a store. Being out of
context is very dangerous. You can be a
mayor, you can be a member of Congress,
you can be Oprah Winfrey or Johnny or
Suzie No-Name, it sometimes makes no
difference. Asian-Americans are subject to
harassment because they are seen as
advantaged. And African-Americans be¬
cause we are seen as despised. And His¬
panics are caught in between, depending
on what color they are. And so are gays
and lesbians, who are abused in many of
our communities.

Will there still be, 100 years from
now, friends of inclusion and diversity,
legions of them, but also many foes? Will
the opposition still suffer in so many ways
the snide remarks, the devaluing, the ig¬
noring, the statements about, If we could
only find someone who was qualified? On
campuses at predominantly white institu¬
tions like this one, will there still be only
a few black and Latino students, feeling
overburdened with trying to study and be
activists and to make change and to edu¬
cate white students, and trying to do all
that and balance it at the same time? And
will there be administrators and faculty
who are trying, and others who are sort of
tugging and trying to retard progress? Will
that still be going on? And will every black
American in a predominantly white insti¬
tution have to pay what I call “the black
tax,” of being overburdened by racism
while one tries to achieve something else.

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But will we be far beyond that? Will
we be far beyond that in that time? Will we
have long before the end of the next cen¬
tury found a way to defend freedom of
expression, and I’m speaking of hate
speech, while at the same time, respecting
each other? And will we be able to then
maintain an environment of civility and
order on our campuses? This I think is one
of the most important questions for this
next century. In other words, will there be
an end to racial polarization, as it exists
presently? That is a great task.

Now, we know that W.E.B. DuBois,
the great African-American scholar, first
to get the Ph.D. from Harvard, and so on,
and who was a prolific writer and thinker,
that he said that the problem of the 20th
century was the problem of the color line.
And he was right. In 107 years, at the end
of the 21st century, will another scholar,
and seer, say, the problem of the 22nd cen¬
tury will be the problem of the color line?
And will he be right? That I think is a
question for the hour.

And who is responsible. Class of 1993,
for the answer to this question? Now usu¬
ally when I ask this question someone
says, Well, we need leadership. And it’s
true that leadership can shore up and spur
on the committed and encourage those
who are not committed. People usually
think about presidents or CEO’s of major
corporations when I say leadership, but
there are other people who have been lead¬
ers, and who have set models, who have
been neither. Of course, there’s Martin
Luther King and Rosa Parks, and there are
other people; my mind immediately turns
to those I have watched, and who have
earned my respect time and time again,
such as Ralph Nader and his consumer
activism, from car safety to the federal pay
raise issue. There would be no safety belts
and air bags, which save lives every day,
if there had been no Ralph Nader. There
have been people who called Ralph all
sorts of names, but he is tenacious, honest,
smart and many people who hate him
should love him. Who will be the Ralph
Nader of the new century? Who among
you will be the Martin Luther King or the
Rosa Parks or the Ralph Nader? Who
among you?

I also think of people who have re¬
ceived no public notice, who never got
their 15 minutes of fame that Andy
Warhol says we all deserve, but who are
just as significant. I think of women, espe¬
cially, because women have, even if they
didn’t want to, most often had to exercise
public power in the background. In the
civil rights movement, I think of someone

that people have never heard of, most
people, Ella Baker, who was god-mother
to Martin Luther King and SCLC and mid¬
wife to the student protest movement, who
believed, she said, not in leaders, but in
followers. Not in the magic man or woman
at the top, but the people at the bottom
organizing. Who among you will be Ella
Baker? She knew that if the people will
lead, the leaders will follow. Think of the
lessons that she taught us, about how to
make change.

So it really is up to you, Class of 1993,
you and graduates all over this country this
month. People like you. And I would only
say to you that if any of you take to heart
what I’ve said, I hope that you will com¬
mit yourself in whatever way you can to
make the new century a period of greater
human progress. I ask, then, that each of
you will agree that for every day for the
rest of your life you will
do one thing in this cause.

That you will do some¬
thing in the cause of hu¬
man progress and social
justice, just one thing,
and that’ll be enough.

And I don’t ask you for
large measures. I’ve
learned over the course of
my life to be satisfied
with incremental change,
so long as it’s some kind
of change. You may do a
very small thing. If you
believe in praying, say a
prayer. If you hear a
bigot, and you can think
of no helpful answer, at
least walk away. What you do may be just
to try not to engage in racist or sexist be¬
havior, or behavior which is provocative
and which treads upon rights, yourself.
Think about the poor. Think about the
hungry, and not just at Thanksgiving or
Christmas. I mean, you eat when it’s not
Thanksgiving or Christmas. They would
like to, also. Do whatever you can. And
most importantly, you don’t need to tell
anybody what you did. As a matter of fact,
it would be better if you didn’t tell any¬
body. If you just did it every day. If you
would do something, whatever it is, and do
it every day, for the sake of the world, and
for our country’s sake.

Now I know when I speak about com¬
mitments and civic responsibilities and
grim realities and you are graduating and
it is a day of celebration, you may wonder
whether I know that life is not all commit¬
ment and responsibility. I do understand
that. I know that there must be time to lis¬

ten to music, to read, to reflect, to play ten¬
nis, squash, golf, even to rest. But if you
spent all of the time you could use in mak¬
ing positive change in self-improvement
and gratification, there will be no change.
And I can say to you that there can be no
real satisfaction in a life devoted entirely
to personal pleasure. We are all members
of the human family, and if one is to be
consumed by passion, my life teaches me
that there is no more worthy, all-consum¬
ing passion than the struggle for human
rights and greater opportunity in our soci¬
ety.

Now I know you worked hard (at least
some of you did) to graduate today. So in
closing I ask you to remember the words
of Dr. Benjamin Mays, who was president
of Morehouse College, that Martin Luther
King and other great African-American
leaders attended, and was a wonderful

After Baccalaureate on Saturday in
Mead Chapel , graduates Ben Gyepi-
Garbrah of Ghana , second from right ,
and, to his left , Rachel Allen from
Jamaica celebrated the moment with
family and friends.

man. He used to say at every convocation
at that college, this:

“It must borne in mind that the tragedy
in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams
unfulfilled. But it is a calamity not to
dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to
capture your ideal. But it is a disaster to
have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace
not to reach the stars. But it is a disgrace
to have no stars to reach for. Wherever you
go, whatever you do, remember: Not fail¬
ure, but low aim, is sin.”

Thank you very much. Thank you
very much, class, and congratulations.

SUMMER 1993 25

Still waters
run deep

Researchers Pat and Tom Manley
have found some surprises under
the surface of Lake Champlain

By Tim Etchells 74; Photos by Erik Borg ’67

T o look at it, you’d think Lake Champlain was tough enough to take just
about anything that humanity or the elements could throw at it. It’s over
a hundred miles long, more than 10 miles across at its widest point, up
near Burlington. Off Thompson’s Point in Charlotte, the lake plunges
down to 400 feet. And its grey-green waters can build up six-foot waves
in no time.

But the more scientists study the lake, the more convinced they
become that it is a fragile resource, and one that is more seriously threatened now than at
any time in its long history. And the more they study, the more they realize just how little
anyone really knows about the “sixth Great Lake.”

Tom and Pat Manley, two professors in Middlebury’s geology department, are now
part of an elaborate effort to discover just what is happening in Lake Champlain, and
why. Their hope is that the lake — and the plants and animals that live near and in it, the
people who boat on it, swim in it, drink its water, and live and work on its shores — will
not have to go through the pain experienced by some of Champlain’s larger Great Lakes
cousins.

Research on the lake was energized in 1990 with the passage by Congress of the Lake
Champlain Special Designation Act, which established the Lake Champlain Management
Conference (LCMC) and charged it with developing a comprehensive pollution preven¬
tion, control and restoration plan for the the lake. The act, and the LCMC, have brought a
steady stream of federal money to assist research and outreach projects on the lake; most
of the money has come from the Environmental Protection Agency, with smaller amounts
from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceano¬
graphic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Park Service. The
LCMC works with several other committees, organizations and agencies that have
become collectively known as the Lake Champlain Basin Program. One of those commit¬
tees is the Lake Champlain Research Consortium, which has been formed by several of
the academic institutions in the Champlain Basin, including Middlebury and UVM in
Vermont.

All this activity, and the grant money it has brought with it, have brought about a
mini-boom in research on and under the lake. And among the leaders are Tom and Pat
Manley, a husband and wife team who joined Middlebury’s geology department in 1989.
Pat is a marine geologist, whose primary interest is the bottom of the lake, while Tom is a
physical oceanographer, who studies the movements of the water in the lake, or hydrody¬
namics.

Before coming to Middlebury, both had more experience with oceans than with lakes,
and both continue with research on the high seas. But as Tom Manley says, “limnology
(the study of lakes) is not really very different from oceanography. The only difference is
the size of the body of water, and the amount of salt in it.”

Facing page: Aboard the R/V Baldwin, named for the late Brewster Baldwin.

26 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

In her work on the lake, Pat Manley
has studied both the natural structures on
the bottom, and the man-made artifacts
that have been left there over the thou¬
sands of years that Champlain’s shores
have been inhabited. “Not a lot is known
about the lake right now,” she says, “so
whatever we do, we learn a lot. For ex¬
ample, most people think the bottom is just
mud, but there are lots of different struc¬
tures down there. Knowing what’s down
there, and how it got there, will help us
understand what we’re up against in trying
to monitor and control pollution in the
lake.”

With the help of National Science
Foundation grants, the College has been
able to purchase equipment to help the
Manleys in their research. A total refit of
the College’s research vessel, now called
the R/V Baldwin after the late Brewster
Baldwin of Middlebury’s geology depart¬
ment, was one of the first steps. The Col¬
lege was also able to purchase a sophisti¬
cated side-scan sonar device that can pro¬
duce images of structures on the lake bot¬
tom, and a submersible video camera, usu¬
ally referred to as “the fish,” with propel¬
lers and controls that allow it to be “flown”
through the water at the end of a long
cable.

In her research, in which she’s often
joined by Middlebury undergraduates, Pat
has found some unexpected structures on
the lake bottom, such as furrows that im¬
ply consistent, relatively strong currents.
“The speeds associated with the currents
that would be necessary to create these
were surprising,” Pat says. She and her
fellow researchers have also discovered in
several places what are called “pock¬
marks,” roughly circular depressions, as
much as 30 meters across and one to five
meters deep. These may be associated with
groundwater welling up from the bottom
of the lake, or perhaps with seismic events
along what is called the Champlain Thrust.

Working with Art Cohn at the Lake
Champlain Martime Museum, located at
Basin Harbor, Pat has also discovered
quite a few man-made artifacts on the lake
bottom. Among the more interesting finds
were components of what was called “The
Great Bridge,” a floating bridge that con¬
nected the Vermont and New York shores,
between Mt. Independence and Fort
Ticonderoga, during the Revolutionary
War. Using the side-scan sonar, and later
examination by divers, researchers were
able to find 21 “caissons,” large boxes
made of timbers and filled with rocks that
anchored the floating bridge. Also discov¬
ered were three 19th century canal boats;

Lake Champlain is long and narrow ,
hut Tom Manley has found its
resemblance to a river ends there.

two 300-foot-long railroad drawboats;
pieces of an 1,800-foot-long railroad trestle
dating from 1872; four large iron cauldrons;
three vessels that were part of the British and
French fleets, dating from 1758 and 1759;
and a large number of other Revolutionary
War-era artifacts, such as cannons, muskets,
tools, bottles and anchors.

In addition to their archaeological sig¬
nificance, the caissons from the Great Bridge
have also provided hints about the move¬
ments of water and sediments along the bot¬
tom.

Another significant event in which Pat
Manley had a hand was the discovery, in
1989, of the wreck of the Sarah Ellen , a 19th
century sailing ship that went down in a vi¬
cious lake storm. Pat was on board a research
vessel owned by UVM, using the remote
video camera, in search of the Providence ,
one of Benedict Arnold’s ships. The winds
were not favorable at that site, so they
steamed to another spot, near the suspected
final resting place of the Sarah Ellen. “I was
‘flying the fish,’ and I saw something
square,” Pat recalls. “I said, ‘I think we’ve
found her.’ ” The discovery came in very
deep, very cold water, about 300 feet down.
Pat says that a wreck will decay quite
quickly at first, but then will reach an equi¬
librium. Later pictures taken of the wreck
show a ship in remarkably good shape, with
one of the masts still upright. Pat says that
if the ship were raised from the bottom, de¬
cay would begin anew. “The best place for
her might be right where she is,” Pat adds,
as long as she’s protected from souvenir
hunters. Last summer, as it happens, the
Coast Guard had to intervene when some¬
one, allegedly mistaking the Sarah Ellen for
a wrecked airplane, had grabbed part of the
ship with grappling hooks and was prepar¬
ing to pull it up. Pat says the ship “would
have been destroyed if the Coast Guard
hadn’t stepped in; as it was, part of the ship’s
railing was tom off.”

Tom Manley’s research, too, has turned
up some surprises. Most people, if they think
about the lake at all, think of it as a narrow,
river-like body, with water flowing slowly in
in the south, and slowly out into the
Richelieu River in the north.

“But we’ve found out that this is abso¬
lutely wrong,” Manley says. What he's dis¬
covered, together with researchers Ken
Hunkins from Columbia University and Jim
Sailor from the Great Lakes Ecological Re¬
search Laboratory, is that there are massive
movements of water within the lake that
dwarf the flow of water from south to north.

The discoveries were made possible by
the placing of sophisticated instruments on
moorings in the lake. Tom and his colleagues

28 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

placed temperature and current sensing de¬
vices at three spots in the lake — off
Thompson’s Point; near Juniper Island, off
Burlington; and near Valcour Island, off
Plattsburgh, N. Y. The devices are attached
to moorings on the lake bottom, with
cables that extend from the bottom up to
within 20 feet of the surface. Each moor¬
ing includes two current meters and a de¬
vice that measures the temperature of the
water along the length of the mooring,
every four meters. The devices record data
for six months, at which point they’re
pulled up, the data is collected, the moor¬
ings are cleaned and refurbished, and
they’re put back in the lake. Eventually,
the data collected will be fed to powerful
computers, which will grind on the num¬
bers for a while and produce what’s called
a numerical model of the processes that are
taking place.

This long-term study, supported at
first by the USGS and then by NOAA and
the EPA, has now completed its second
full year. It’s revealed that the movement
of water in the lake “is not anything like a
river’s sluggish movement,” Tom says.
What they’ve discovered is that the lake
has what is called an “internal seiche,” or
a shifting of water back and forth, and that
this brings about a tilting of the thermo-
cline, which is the boundary between the
warm surface water and the colder bottom
water. The effect is similar to water slosh¬
ing back and forth from one end of a bath¬
tub to the other, though the internal seiche
in the lake moves much more than the sur¬
face seiche.

“When the wind is blowing from south
to north,” Manley says, “the water piles up
in the north, and as it piles up, it tilts the
thermocline down. So at the southern end
of the lake, the usually deep, cold water is
closer to the surface, and at the northern
end of the lake, the thermocline dips down
almost to the bottom.”

The displacement of water is on a
comparatively vast scale, with six cubic
kilometers of water moving: three head
north, and three head south. And the dis¬
placement, or tilting, of the thermocline
can reach 20 meters. “That’s a tremendous
amount of water movement,” Tom says.
“It would take eight months to discharge
that amount of water through the Richelieu
River, but it can be shifted north and south
in a matter of two days.”

Champlain “responds very, very rap¬
idly to atmospheric events, such as high
winds from the north or the south,” he
says, “and there is almost constant move¬
ment, a tilting back and forth, about every
4 1/2 days.” Researchers have also deter-

On the stern of the R/V Baldwin , the
College's lake research vessel , Pat
Manley hauls aboard a device that
allows her to collect samples of the lake
bottom.

mined that the lake’s “resonance fre¬
quency” matches the normal length of lo¬
cal atmospheric events, which is three to
five days. So there is a “tuned” movement,
back and forth, and that, Tom says, is
“why we see such a high degree of activ¬
ity in the internal seiche.”

What you have, in effect, are two tee¬
ter-totters at work. One, the surface seiche,
moves a small distance, perhaps no more
than a few inches, and is barely noticeable.
“But that surface seiche is supported by a
huge internal seiche,” Tom says. “In high
wind events, you can tilt the teeter-totter
so far that the thermocline intersects with
the surface water, and bottom water can
actually be sitting on the surface. At the
other end of the lake, the surface water will
be on the bottom.” When the thermocline
is tilted so precariously, he says, if you
turn off the wind, or change its direction,
“the water really takes off. Then you get
surges, or bores, in which the water moves
very rapidly.” These bores can stir up the
bottom water, which can result in sedi¬
ments being resuspended in that water.”

This, according to Tom, is yet another
factor to consider when making manage¬
ment decisions about the lake. “If you
know that there is noxious stuff on the
bottom where a bore can stir it up,” he
says, “it could be resuspended and put
back into the system. It won’t just lie
there.”

He points to the case of the Grand Isle
fish hatchery, which has two intake pipes,
one near the bottom of the lake for cold
water, one near the top for warm. “The
director of the hatchery reported that they
were getting water from the deep pipe that
was so sediment-laden, even after being
filtered at the intake, that they couldn’t see
the fish in their tanks,” Tom says. “We’ve
been able to link that to a high wind event,
and a bore.”

After studying data from three moor¬
ings for two years, Tom and his colleagues
are adding two more this year, in the north¬
ern part of the lake. Each mooring and its
sensing equipment costs close to
$100,000; about 75 percent of the cost of
the new moorings will come from the
EPA, and 25 percent from Middlebury.
The researchers have also begun monitor¬
ing flows between some of the large north¬
ern bays and the main section of the lake.

Finding out how water moves in the
lake is, of course, crucial to making deci¬
sions about how to clean it up. For ex¬
ample, Pat says, Burlington is now putting
in a new pipe for its sewage treatment
plant that runs from Burlington harbor out
several hundred yards into the lake. “Right
now,” she says, “we don’t know enough
about the way the lake works to figure out
where that water, and what it holds, is go¬
ing to end up.”

To help make the crucial management
decisions that will be coming in the next
few years, Tom says, “we have to classify
the important processes that govern Lake
Champlain. We still don’t have a really
good idea of how the water moves. But
we’re learning.”

SUMMER 1993 29

Words and
music

The College’s music library and the
Flanders Ballad Collection have
finally found a home under one roof

By Tim Etchells 74; Photos by Erik Borg ’67

This is the last of three stories on the new occupants of Middlebury College's Center for the Arts.
In the Winter ’93 issue, we featured the performing arts, and in the Spring ’93 issue, the Museum
of Art. This time: the music library and the Flanders Ballad Collection.

/ J hen Jerry McBride, Middlebury’s music librarian, recalls what it took to move
k / the music library’s collection from the Johnson Building and Starr Library to the

^ M / the College’s new Center for the Arts, he sees bar codes.

For various reasons, the music library’s move to the new building was delayed
▼ ▼ several times, McBride says, “and this made it difficult to coordinate the different

people and departments that we needed. We were fortunate to be able to work with a
library moving company. They provided the equipment and the experience required to move a li¬
brary quickly.” In fact, getting all of the music library’s material, from both the Johnson Building
and Starr Library, over to the Center for the Arts took just four days.

Unfortunately, by the time that had happened, just three weeks remained before the beginning
of the fall semester. The music library’s computers still hadn’t been installed, and the records were
in need of updating: All of the books that had come to the music library from Starr Library were,
according to the computer records, still in Starr. Eventually, the staff had one week to change the
location information on about 6,000 volumes. “The music library staff,” McBride says, “spent lit¬
erally the entire week, eight hours a day, doing nothing but taking books from the shelf, scanning
the bar codes into the computer and returning the books to the shelf. I’m very proud the staff was
able to complete all this work under such pressure and open the library so that it could be used by
students on the first day of classes.” But, he adds, “I hope that I never have to go through anything
like that again.”

For Jennifer Post, curator of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection and the Vermont
Archive of Traditional Music, the move from Starr Library to the Center for the Arts was perhaps
even more difficult. Not willing to trust the job of moving the thousands of priceless and irreplace¬
able recordings in the collection to anyone else, she essentially moved it all herself.

But with those traumas receding in their memories, both Post and McBride are glad to finally
have their entire collections under one roof, and handy to one another. In the past, with part of the
College’s music collection in one building and part in another, it was difficult for students and
faculty to do research. In the case of McBride’s music library, recordings and printed music had
been in Johnson, with books and periodicals in Starr. “Library users who had information ques¬
tions were frequently referred to Starr Library because most of the books and periodicals were kept
there,” McBride says, “But then they may have found that a related question was best answered
by a reference book or the jacket notes to a recording, both of which were (in Johnson). After a
while, this becomes discouraging. Now that all of the sources are together, students can easily and
effectively study music in all of its forms, regardless of the medium.”

The spaces the collections occupy are both handsome and pleasantly quirky, in much the same
way as the other office, performance and exhibition spaces in the building, designed by the New

Facing page: Among the study carrels in the music library are, from left , staff members
Joy Pile , Jerry McBride and David Marcum.

30 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

SUMMER 1993 31

York firm of Hardy Holzman Pfieffer As¬
sociates. There are unusual angles and
oddly-shaped rooms here, a spiral staircase
there. Traditionally, McBride says, librar¬
ies are built as rectangles, so that the space
is as flexible as possible. “However, that’s
not very interesting architecturally,” he
says, “and what we have is a number of
rooms within the library perimeter that are
designed specifically for a particular pur¬
pose. It’s a different architectural idea
from designing a flexible, rectangular,
modular library, but it is working very well
for us.”

In the Center for the Arts, McBride
says, the amount of space available to the
music library is about double the total that
was devoted to the enterprise when it was
split between Johnson and Starr. “But it
seems like even more,” he says, “because
of the adverse arrangement of the space we
had in the Johnson Building. The old li¬
brary was not designed to accommodate
the size of the collection or the staff that
we had by the 1980’s.” The amount of
space for studying was also inadequate,
and it was frequently noisy because of re¬
hearsals going on nearby in Johnson. “Ba¬
sically,” McBride says, “the former library
was a place that students came to get ma¬
terials and left as quickly as possible. The

32 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

The Flanders Collection’s Jennifer
Post; at left is one of the Dictaphones
with which the collection got its start.

new library is a totally different atmo¬
sphere. During our last exam period, I
noticed that nearly every study carrel was
in use, and yet the library was quiet. That
could have never happened in the old li¬
brary. The new library is a distinctly invit¬
ing study environment that permits indi¬
vidual or group study. Students have ac¬
cess to computers networked to academic
computing for completing assignments,
and they also have access to our recordings
collection that they can use for class as¬
signments, or for pleasure. In many ways
it’s almost as comfortable a study area as
their own rooms, but without the distrac¬
tions of dorm life.”

As for Jennifer Post’s collections, they
now live in about three times as much
room as they had previously. “We now
have space for housing and building the
collections over the next 10 to 20 years,
growth space,” Post says. “And in the past,
we didn’t have a reading room, which we
do now, along with listening stations. The
move has provided a lot of positive
things.”

For Post and McBride, one of those

positive things is the proximity of the
music department, its faculty and students,
and many of the College’s best perfor¬
mance spaces. “I have a growing relation¬
ship with the music department because of
the move,” Post says, “because it’s right
here. There’s lots more use of the collec¬
tion. Before, it was basically only used
when I was teaching classes.” Post, whose
work with the Flanders Collection and the
Vermont Archive is on a parttime basis
(she also works in the reference depart¬
ment at Starr Library), has taught courses
on the folk songs of New England, world
music, women in music, and folklore in
Vermont.

For McBride, one of the best parts of
his new space is the four media rooms that
are now available for group listening,
viewing and studying. “The rooms contain
audio and video equipment and can seat up
to four people,” he says. “In these rooms,
students can gather to study and discuss
music on which they are working without
disturbing other people in the library.
Some of the best educational experiences
come out of this type of interaction. This
wasn’t possible before the new building.
There is also a small study room where we
will be able to have workshops on the re¬
search process in music.”

The new and relatively luxurious
home for the Flanders Collection and the
Vermont Archive is a recognition, perhaps
overdue, of the importance of the material.
The heart of the collection is a series of
field recordings of New England tradi¬
tional music — mostly Anglo-American^
but also some French-Canadian — made
by Helen Hartness Flanders over the
course of 30 years, beginning in 1930.
Two hundred and fifty of these are on wax
cylinders, made on an early version of the
Dictaphone machine. In the late ’30s,
Flanders switched to a disk cutter, which
used aluminum disks and glass disks
coated with shellac, both about the size of
a traditional LP. By the late ’40s, Flanders
had moved up to a tape recorder, which
used paper tapes, and about 125 of those
are part of the collection.

Flanders entered into a partnership
with the College relatively early in her
collecting, and in 1941 she gave the col¬
lection to Middlebury. In the beginning,
most of her material came from Vermont,
but she gradually broadened her reach to
other parts of New England. Around 1960,
Post says, Flanders stopped collecting re¬
cordings, and at about the same time, the
College stopped supporting her work. The
collection, though, had by that time grown
to include thousands of recordings, most
of them involving people singing ballads.
Many of the songs had been brought over
from the British Isles in colonial days; an
example is the song Scarborough Fair
(made famous by Simon and Garfunkel in
the 1970’s), which Post says dates back to
at least the middle of the 17th century, and
which was brought to the colonies and
adapted over the years, with New World
place names. The collection also includes
several thousand books, dating from the
late 18th century to the present, with most
coming from the 19th century; a large
number of “broadsides,” an early form ot
sheet music that included lyrics, but no
melodies, and were the way that music
was often passed down from one genera¬
tion to another; and Flanders’ notes on her
recording sessions and conversations,
along with a great deal of her correspon¬
dence.

After Flanders stopped her collecting,
the College put the material in a storeroom
in the library, and it was basically little
used until Post arrived at Middlebury in
1979. She spent time organizing and re¬
searching the collection, to put the various
items in context. As part of that effort, and
with the help of a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, Post spent
close to 10 years seeking out those who

had been recorded, or their families, to
find out more about the music on the disks
and tapes. She’s still in the process of writ¬
ing a book about her findings. She also
established a separate collection, now
called the Vermont Archive of Traditional
Music. This collection includes printed
material and recordings of folk music that
are more contemporary than what’s found
in the Flanders Collection. Among the
highlights of this collection are hundreds
of tapes from performances, between 1974
and 1981, at the Chelsea House, a folk
music coffee house in West Brattleboro
that attracted some of the biggest names in
folk.

Now that all of her material is right
upstairs from the music library proper,

Post expects to see a lot more use of the
collection by students and faculty. “It’s
really an incredible resource for students,”
she says. “There’s a lot of fun stuff in here.
Many of the songs are quite funny, and
some are even bawdy.” She says that
popular culture, which is what’s repre¬
sented in the Flanders Collection and the
Vermont Archive, is not often taken seri¬
ously by academics. “They prefer to teach
k the classics,’ ” Post says. “But this is our
past, an oral history that tells a whole dif¬
ferent side of the story of this country, and
one that can be very enlightening.”

The music library, McBride says, is
already seeing increased use, by students
and faculty, and that, combined with the
larger space and new equipment, has in¬
creased everyone’s workload. Most af¬
fected: David Marcum, the music library
assistant, who is in charge of circulation,
hires and supervises most of the 14 student
assistants, deals with library equipment,
and basically handles the day-to-day op¬
erations. Also working with McBride at

the music library is Joy Pile, the music
catalog librarian, who catalogs sound re¬
cordings and videos, along with some of
the books and printed materials. She also
supervises several student assistants.
McBride, Marcum and Pile all help library
users with reference questions.

Perhaps the most important difference
in the new space, McBride says, is that the
music library can now be what he feels it
was meant to be, “a place of quiet dyna¬
mism. It’s this treasure house of knowl¬
edge, experience and artistic expression
where people are free and challenged to
explore whatever path of inquiry interests
them. Music is such an elemental part of
the human experience that it touches ev¬
ery person in some way. The music library

Jerry McBride: The music library's
new home presents ‘a totally different
atmosphere' for those who use it.

provides materials through which connec¬
tions to other peoples and cultures can be
made.

“Libraries are likely to change almost
beyond recognition in our lifetimes, but
most people still think of them as these
places where books are kept. Music librar¬
ies will change in a different way from
general libraries, because music has such
a strong attachment to the past and to tra¬
dition, while at the same time being on the
cutting edge of new technologies, as we
can see most readily in the case of sound
recording.

“What’s important in the library is not
the collection or even its organization, but
how people make use of those materials,
how they interact with ideas and creations
expressed through library materials. It is
this human element that it is critical to rec¬
ognize and encourage.”

SUMMER 1993 33

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FAMILIES

It was pumpkin time in Colorado when the Kavcics visited from Switzerland.
From left , Boris Kavcic , Suzanne Webel Bovet '71 with daughter Claire , Ray
Bovet with son Colin , and Anne Yerpe Kavcic '71 picked the best ones for
carving.

Baseball was the order of the day last spring when the children of Phil '72
and Anne Lahey Kehl '71 got together with the offspring of Susan Fritsch
Faber '71 and Cyndy Bronson Altman '71. Andrew Kehl , Lauren Faber , Sara
Altman and Philip Kehl prepare to sharpen up their skills.

MARRIAGES

Susan Drummond and Tim Budd ’52
on December 5, 1992; 36147 N.
Springbrook Lane, Gumie, IL 60031.

Lesley Harper *54 and Frederick M.
Miller on September 15, 1992; P.O.
Box 456, Rye Beach, NH 03871.

Susan Bakker and Bruce Chapin ’73
on February 6,1993; 1665 Placer Circle,
Livermore, CA 94550.

Catherine Rogers *73 and Arvo Henifin
on June 6, 1992; 5 Arrowhead Ct., Sa¬
vannah, GA 31406.

Jill Andrea Landry and James R. Stoner
Jr. 'll on May 24, 1991; 809 Newton
St., Gretna, LA 70053.

Sara Morrissey ’80 and Jeffrey Gunn
on October 10, 1992; 4308 N.W. Jon
Place, Corvallis, OR 97330.

Anne Caudill ’81 and Todd Goertzen
on September 12,1992; P.O. Box 1615,
Silverthome, CO 80498.

Alisa Joyce ’81 and David Barba in
July 1992; 727 Gage Drive, San Diego,
CA 92106.

Anne Leggett ’81 and Daniel Billman
on September 14, 1991; 13740
McDonell Road, Anchorage, AK 99516.

Trish Intagliata and Caleb Rick ’82 on
October 17, 1992; 148 Laidley St., San
Francisco, CA 94131.

Jayne Gilbert Benz ’83 and John Henry
Chipman Jr. on June 20,1992; 611 Los
Robles Ct., Danville, CA 94526.

Linda Shepherd and Brian Cabral ’83
in December 1992; 121 N. Eastgate
Way, Manchester, NH 03109.

Kelly Hickey and Miguel Fernandez
’85 on June 27, 1992; 1509 Park Ave.,
#3, Baltimore, MD 21217.

Sarah Beck ’86 and John Tokar in July
1992; 196 Crater Woods Drive, Peters¬
burg, VA 23805.

Donna M. Engel ’86 and William Cox
on May 25, 1991; 147 Turner Road,
#85, Holliston, MA 01746.

Allison Price and Michael Green ’86

on January 17,1992; 1015 Aoloa Place,
#428, Kailua, HI 96743.

Susan Bahr and David Gumbart ’86
on November 21, 1992; 74 Lee St.,
Middletown, CT 06457.

Melissa Kontoff ’86 and Akram
Eljamal on December 19, 1991; 174

Laurelwood Drive, Hopedale, MA
01747.

Kristin Roberts *86 and James Asbury
on May 26, 1991; 98 N. Prospect St.,
Burlington, VT 05401.

Susan Schornhorst and Cliff Romig
’87 on September 19, 1992; 48 Haight
St., #18, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Kristine Benoit ’88 and Michael
Chochrek on October 3, 1992; 395
Harvard St., #4, Brookline, MA 02146.

Cristine Meredith 90 and Shawn
Miele *88 in October 1992; 10 Somerset
Drive, Rumson, NJ 07760.

Marianne Paige Triggs and Gordon
Smith ’88 on August 21, 1992; 65
Church St., Greenwich, CT 06830.

Charlotte Bergmans and Amer
Siddiqui, both ’89, in January 1993;

1400 10th Ave., #3, San Francisco, CA
94122.

Heather Bohr *89 and Tom Unterseher
in May 1992; 87 E. Green St., #210,
Pasadena, CA91105.

Elizabeth Wilson and Christopher
Dutton, both ’89, in August 1992; 601
W. Cliveden St.,#B 11 -B, Philadelphia,
PA 19119.

Elizabeth Swire and Charles Falker
’89 in September 1992; 70 E. 12th St.,
#10A, New York, NY 10003.

Britta Heuer ’89 and William Roper in
October 1992; 742 Mt. Auburn St.,
Watertown, MA 02172.

Jennifer Lowance and Reynolds
Salerno, both ’89, in August 1992; 717
Hawley Lane,#27, Stratford, CT06497.

Nicole Paul *89 and Robert Grover in
August 1992; 505 Columbia Ave., 1st
Floor, Lansdale, PA 19446.

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Christine Peaslee 89 and Marc
Criscitelli in September 1992; Bigelow
Commons Apts, #6206, Enfield, CT
06082.

Laureen Scaia '89 and Michael Mathon
in June 1992; 25 Baycrest Drive, #309,
South Burlington, VT 05403.

Lisa Seiden '89 and Gerald McGowan
in October 1992; 100 E. Hartsdale Ave.,
#6E, Hartsdale, NY 10530.

Lisa Borchardt ’90 and Mitsuru Hoshi
on May 30, 1992; 1705 Lei Lehua St.,
Hilo, HI 76720.

Jennifer Faulkner ’91 and David
Campbell ’90 in September 1992; 334
4th St., #2, Troy, NY 12180.

Judith Wright ’90 and Timothy
Battista ’91 in August 1992; 2202
Sherman Ave., #C1, Evanston, IL
60201.

NEW ARRIVALS

A daughter, Natasha Marie, joined Mim
and Hamilton Sporberg 74 on Janu¬
ary 24, 1993.

A daughter, Sydney Margaret, joined
Jan Carney ’76 and Geoffrey Knisely
’75 on May 29, 1992.

A son, Gregory, joined Joanne Scott
’75 and John Rubright on September
15, 1992.

A son, Cameron Way land, joined Mary
and Greg Adams '76 on December 17,
1992.

A son, Benjamin, joined Stan '76 and
Jane Schwarzer Fields ’77 on Decem¬
ber 23, 1992.

Twins, Emma and William, joined Lisa
and Steven Groo '76 on September 27,
1992.

A son, Christian Keane, joined May
Ricci and Gary Holmes ’76 on Febru¬
ary 5, 1992.

A son, Joshua Benjamin, joined
Suzanna Sherry ’76 and Paul Edelman
on May 20, 1992.

A son, Samuel Ryuta Stemgold, joined
Ellen Rudolph and James Sterngold
’76 on May 12, 1993.

A daughter, Jordan Brogley Webb,
joined Joycelyn Brogley and Douglas
Webb ’76 on March 13, 1992.

Twin sons, James Christopher and John
Michael, joined Maria and Richard
Caswell '77 in December 1991.

A daughter, Caroline Elizabeth, joined
Stephanie and Steve Maire ’77 on
November 30, 1992.

Halsey Alexander Vandenberg was
born on November 3, 1992. Her
parents are Fred and Marjorie
Williams Vandenberg ’80.

Hannah Joy Wallenberger Rudow
was born on June 20, 1992. Her
mother is Andrea Wallenberger '85.

A daughter, Ellen Catharine, joined
Karen and Jay A. Taylor '77 on April
22, 1992.

A daughter, Elaine Stebbins, joined
Deborah and Duane Wilcox 'll on
December 27, 1992.

A son, James Patrick, joined Rick and
Sue Tomlin Kinney 78 on November
19, 1992.

A daughter, Anna, joined Matt and
Barbara Lange Nelson ’78 on July 26,
1992.

A daughter, Hilary Lloyd, joined John
and Macy Lawrence Ratliff '78 on
January 25, 1993.

A son, Caleb Andrew, joined Joy and
Steven Smith '78 on November 20,
1992.

A son, Nicholas Milan, joined Valerie
Havas ’79 and Matthew Schwab ’81
on April 30, 1992.

A son, Kevin Leslie, joined Paul and
Katie Driver Murphy ’79 on July 21,
1992.

A son, Travis Dean, joined Leslie and
Larry Petzing '79 on February 10,
1992.

A son, Halsey Alexander, joined Fred
and Marjorie Williams Vandenberg

’80 on November 3, 1992.

A son, Ross, joined Nancy and John
Amato ’81 on February 17, 1992.

A son, Robbie, joined Lisa and Todd
Deburlo 81 on July 24, 1992.

A son, Ryan Hampton, joined Christine
and Robby Higgins 81 on January 14 ,
1992.

A son, Nathaniel, joined Gunnar and
Alice Tower Knapp ’81 on August 23,
1992.

A daughter, Kara Ingraham, joined
Kenny and Sue Butler Lehman 81 on
September 19, 1992.

A daughter, Austin Marie, joined Eliza¬
beth and Dave Nalen ’81 on March 31,
1992.

A son, Charlie, joined Stephen and

Mara Quigley Prutting ’81 in April

1992.

A daughter, Rebecca Catherine
Lombard Roe, joined Benjamin and
Linda Feldmann Roe, both '81, on
December 13, 1992.

A son, Ian Hamilton, joined Elizabeth
and Tony Trase ’81 on January 9,1992.

A son, Philip Buckmaster, joined Jay
and Sue Dutcher Wagley ’81 on Sep¬
tember 28, 1992.

A daughter, Charlotte Mclvor, joined
Kate and David Wilson '81 on June 28,
1992.

A son, Peter Joseph, joined Laurie and
Bill Cahill ’82 on February 14, 1992.

A son, Aidan Case Sheahan, joined
Casey and Tara McMenamy Sheahan
’82 on October 29, 1992.

A son, Henry James II, joined Andy ’82
and Kathy O’Connor Sidford ’83 on
September 29, 1992.

A daughter, Celine Constance, joined
Marc and Bettina Bretz Terfloth ’82
on December 19, 1992.

A son, Zachary Patrick, joined Roger

and Marv Ann Petkiewicz Wilmarth

’82 on December 26, 1992.

A daughter, Hannah Kathleen, joined
Timothy and Elizabeth Davies Aiken,
both '83, on November 10, 1992.

A son, Ryan Robert, joined James and

Mary Ann Boehm Dougherty ’83 in

April 1992.

A daughter, Aurora Page, joined An¬
drew and Amanda Hurt Fegley ’83 in
December 1992.

A son, Kyle William, joined Carolyn
and Jonathan Seamans 83 in October
1992.

A son, Aidan Francis, joined Skip 83
and Beth Dor ion Wyer 85 on Decern
ber 8, 1992.

A son, James, joined Laura and Blair
Chestnut 84 on July 5, 1992.

A daughter, Hannah Louise, joined Rich
and Sarah Ball Damberg 84on March
5, 1992.

A son, Jack, joined Jennifer and Larry
Goldstein ’84 on July 14, 1992.

A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, joined
Doug and Ellen Shammash Hotvedt
’84 on October 8, 1992.

A daughter, Tessa Constance Lank
Fortier, joined Heather Lank '84 and
Peter Fortier on March 27, 1992.

A daughter, Lucy, joined Margaret and
Joshua Rabinowitz ’84 on July 28,
1992.

A daughter, Rebecca L. Nelson Wolfe,
joined Gretchen Nelson and John Wolfe
’84 on August 13, 1992.

A son, Dylan Scott, joined Scott and
Kathy McDermott Moore 85 in Au¬
gust 1992.

A daughter, Hannah Joy, joined An¬
drea Wallenberger ’85 and Scott
Rudow on June 20, 1992.

A son, Meade Faxon Atkeson, joined
Jamie and Krista Faxon Atkeson ’86
on November 25, 1992.

A son, Benjamin Robert, joined Nick
and Cathv Gagne Peacock, both 86,
on October 1, 1992.

A son, Preston James, joined Jeff and
Jen lies Seavey, both ’86, on February
10, 1993.

A son, Finn Bennett Stem, joined Chris¬
topher and Bettina Thompson Stern.

both ’86, on February 7, 1993.

A son, Andrew Scott, joined David and
Denise Paige Lietz ’89 in July 1992.

A daughter, Rebecca, joined Tom and

Patricia Bauman Norton 89 in April
1992.

36 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

THE SCHOOLS

FRENCH

Joseph (iiovanini (M.A. 68), an ar¬
chitectural designer and critic, was
married in Venice on December 24,
1992, to Christine Janet Pittel, a
freelance journalist. The head of a New
York design concern that bears his name,
he is a graduate of Yale and received his
M.A. in architecture from Harvard.
...Maurice Gagnon (M.A. ’61), a dis¬
tinguished scholar of French literature
at Montclair, N.J., State College, was
recently presented a citation, insignia
and medal of honor at the Parliament in
Quebec City after being named laureate
by the Conseil de la Langue Francaise
of Canada. A native of Woonsocket,
R.I., he also received double honors at
a separate ceremony in France. The
medal of honor and parchment of the
order are in recognition of “his out¬
standing contributions for many years
to the support and development of
French language and life in the Ameri¬
cas.” He has been an officer of numer¬
ous international and national learned
associations. A graduate of Providence
College, he holds a doctorate in Ro¬
mance languages from the Univ. of
Pennsylvania. A resident of New York
City, he is the author of nine books and
more than 100 studies in continental
French and Francophone literatures.
...Gerard-Roland Le Tendre (M.A.
’71) recently received the French
government’s highest academic award,
having been named Chevalier of the
Order of Palmes Academiques by
French Minister of Education and Cul¬
ture Jack Lang for his promotion of
French language and culture in the
United States. The award, which is the
academic equivalent of the French Le¬
gion of Honor, was to be officially
awarded in a ceremony at the French
embassy in May. A teacher at Taft High
School in Connecticut, he has been
affectionately dubbed “Froggy” by his
students who over the years have be¬
stowed hundreds of stuffed frogs, pic¬
tures, and other “frogabilia” upon him.
He teaches literature, language and
“how to comport oneself when in a
French country.” Bom in New Hamp¬
shire, he didn’t speak English until he
was 14 years old, and earned his B.A.
and M.A. in music from Yale Univ. An
accomplished pianist, he also writes,
records and performs songs of Franco-
American history. ...Christopher J.
Callahan (M.A. ’76) was recently
awarded tenure at Illinois Wesleyan
Univ., where he has been a member of
the foreign language department since
1989. He earned his B.A. from the Univ.
of Notre Dame and his doctorate from
Indiana University. ...Daniel J.

Hubbard (M.A.’83) of Fredericksburg,
Va., recently received his doctorate in
accounting from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute in Blacksburg. He is a member
of Beta Alpha Psi, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta
Gamma Sigma, the Academy of Ac¬
counting Historians, the American Ac¬
counting Association and the Russian-
American Congress. He received a
master’s in accounting from Virginia
Tech (1985), a B.S. in applied physics
from Georgia Tech (1981), and a B.A.
in French from George State Univ.
(1979). ...Lucille Daniel (M.A. ’86) has
been named editor of the Chelmsford
Independent in Acton, Mass. Since join¬
ing that newspaper as a staff reporter in
1991, she has contributed to several
award-winning pieces. As a freelance
writer, her works have appeared in nu¬
merous publications and she is working
on a book that chronicles the life of
American Indian activist JoAnn Tall.
...Carl Little (M.A. ’86) has been named
director of public affairs at the College

O B I T U A R

1936

THEODORE SANTEE WHITFORD.
M.A. English, of Providence, R.I., on
August 17, 1992. He had a long and
distinguished career as a teacher of
French and as a swimming coach. A
graduate of Amherst, he also attended
the Univ. of Nancy, the Univ. of Paris
and the Univ. of Zaragoza. From 1928 to
1931 he taught French and was swim¬
ming coach at the Manlius School
(N.Y.). He served as a staff sergeant in
the U.S. Army aircommunications sys¬
tem, was a teacher at the Moses Brown
School in Providence and, after retire¬
ment, taught French at the Lincoln
School. He served as president of the
Rhode Island Modern Language Asso¬
ciation from 1957 to 1959.

1961

BOB HERSHEY, M.A. French, of
Bennington, Vt., in 1992. He received
his B.A. from Williams and taught in
secondary schools, retiring from
Woodbury Forest in Virginia as the
head of its language department in 1982.
He is survived by two sons and a daugh¬
ter.

of the Atlantic in Maine. He was previ¬
ously an editor at Windswept House
Publishers in Somesville and, prior to
that, the associate editor of Art in
America magazine in New York City.
He graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1976 and has his M.F.A. in writing
from Columbia. He is the author of a
collection of poems, 3,000 Dreams
Explained , and an art book. Paintings
of Maine.

SPANISH

Virginia Lawreck Muzquiz(M.S.’91)
and her husband, Victor, recently in¬
corporated Aztec International, a com¬
pany dedicated to promoting the Span¬
ish language through study abroad op¬
portunities, private classes and tutori¬
als, and interpreter services. She has
left Deerfield Academy to pursue a
Ph.D. in Spanish at Washington Univ.
in St. Louis.

I E S

1971

MARY MARGARET O’HEARN,
M.A. Spanish, of Toronto, Canada, in
November 1992. She taught Spanish,
Portuguese and English as a second
language in Kingston, Ontario. She is
survived by her husband, Alan Radecki,
and two pre-school sons.

1975

JANET M. MORRIS, M.A. French, 45,
of Canton, Mass., in March 1993. A
native of Canton, Mrs. Morris attended
Boston State College. She taught French
and Spanish at Easton Junior High
School for a number of years until she
was forced to retire because of multiple
sclerosis. Mrs. Morris was active in the
Great Books Society of Canton and the
Massachusetts Multiple Sclerosis Soci¬
ety. She leaves her husband, Philip J.
Morris; her parents, Paul and June Cash;
two brothers; a sister, and several nieces
and nephews.

FACULTY

At age 89, Nicolette Ringgold, who
was Mile. Pemot when she taught in the
Middlebury French School in the ’30s,
is an author, linguist, tutor and foreign
traveler. She had been the attache at the
Institut de Phonetique in Paris before
teaching at Wellesley College. At
Middlebury she met Gordon Ringgold
(M.A. ’33). Following their marriage,
they taught for many years at William
and Mary College. Although a hemor¬
rhage deprived her of most of her vision
10 years ago, she maintains her busy
life style in Williamsburg, Va. She is
constantly reading one of the American
Foundation for the Blind’s Talking
Books, which she describes as “abso¬
lutely fantastic.” The Foundation re¬
cently published her timely and useful
book. Out of the Corner of my Eye, a
personal account of living with vision
loss in later life.

1977

STEVEN D. HOLCOMBE, French, of
Philadelphia, Pa., on June 27, 1992.

1983

DOUGLAS GASS, Spanish, 29, of
South Hadley, Mass., on November 25,
1992. He earned a B.A. in history from
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in
1985. He taught English at the Ameri¬
can Language Institute in Lisbon, Por¬
tugal, and earned his M.A. in 1990 from
Tufts University Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy. Active in international
relations, Mr. Gass was self-employed
in that Field at the time of his death. He
is survived by his parents, Wayne and
Marilyn Talbot Gass.

SUMMER 1993 37

Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

THE CLASSES

HIGH NOTES

Natalie Dunsmoor ’35 has been a Literacy Volunteer for more than 15 years.
She was honored with an award for her service at a recent Literacy Volunteers
convention in Denver.

The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies has established a
fellowship fund in honor of Peter Stanlis '42 commemorating his scholarship
and service.

Bob Beattie ’55—former Middlebury ski coach, one-time coach of the
U.S. Ski Team and for many years a skiing commentator on TV—was inducted
into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in February.

Barry Croland '59 has been selected as one of the best lawyers in family
law by the publication Best Attorneys in America. Barry is a partner in Stem,
Steiger & Croland law firm in Paramus, N.J.

Our thanks to one of 1960’s class secretaries, Jean Seeler. for pointing out
how many of her classmates have served the College as faculty, staff or
volunteer leaders: Jane Brvant Quinn and Reuben Mark are currently
College trustees; Pieter Schiller is vice president of the Middlebury College
Alumni Association; Paula Hartz is an MCAA director and a co-chair of the
Annual Fund Executive Council: Russell Leng is a professor of political

science; Deborah Van Hodge is associ¬
ate college editor; Ed Sommers is direc¬
tor of gift planning, and Breck Lardner
is a gift planning officer.

Virologist H. Alan Wood '63 heads
the Boyce Thompson-Comell research
team that completed the first field release
of a genetically-engineered virus in the
U.S. A genetically-altered virus is de¬
signed to kill a target insect—such as the
gypsy moth—without persisting in the
environment. Dr. Wood has co-founded a
new biotechnology company, AgriVirion,
to develop viruses which can be used as
alternatives to chemical pesticides.

Richard Voniacka '68 has received an Outstanding Service Medal from
the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for providing
medical training to enlisted military medics.

Dr. Rick Hodes ’75 is the medical director for the American Joint
Distribution Committee. Living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he runs a clinic for
displaced people, works with tuberculosis patients and, among many other
duties, commutes to Kenya and Somalia to work with refugees and war victims.
Last year he made a documentary for PBS with Dr. Ruth Westheimer (yes, he
says, that Dr. Ruth) about th efalashas, or Ethiopian Jews. In 1991 he was part
of Operation Solomon, which transferred 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

Michael Mulligan '75 has been appointed the eighth headmaster at the
Thacher School in Ojai, Calif. His wife, Joy Sawyer Mulligan (M.A. Bread
Loaf ’82) is director of admissions at Thacher. Married in 1981, two years after
meeting at Bread Loaf, the Mulligans worked together at Governor Dummer
Academy before moving to Thacher in 1986. In addition to his administrative
duties, Mulligan continues to teach English and a world religions course, as well
as coaching soccer and lacrosse. At Middlebury, Mike captained an ECAC
champion lacrosse team and received a scholar-athlete award at graduation. The
Mulligans’ daughter, Annie, is three years old.

George Carr 'll is the sculptor of a Bill Clinton plaster-cast caricature
that received national attention in The New York Times , The Washington Post
and on the Joan Rivers Show. The toga-gowned bust is available in D.C. gift
shops.

Andrea Koppel ’85 won an Emmy last November for her series of reports
on Haitian life since the September 1991 coup. Andrea is a reporter for WPLG-
TV in Miami.

Last summer, John Safford ’88 skippered the top boat in the Star Class
Atlantic Coast Championships. The Star is the Olympic two-man keelboat. The
name of Safford’s boat: Rosebud Cafe , after the now-defunct Middlebury
hangout.

Michael, Annie and Joy Mulligan

20

Class Secretary: Mrs. Julius Kroeck
(Elsa Holmstrom), 376 Central St.,
Acton, MA 01720.

A Christmas card to Estelle J. Foote
elicited the following letter from her
nephew, Ralph A. Foote: “I am writing
to you on behalf of my aunt, Dr. Estelle
J. Foote. She does not do any letter
writing these days, although she is in
reasonably good health. She enjoyed
receiving your note, but it was lost
when she was transferred to a retiree
home. Estelle now lives at Shard Villa
in Salisbury, Vt., a neighboring town to
Middlebury. Shard Villa is operated in
a lovely old and historic mansion, set in
the country, with attractive views and a
peaceful atmosphere. Estelle does quite
nicely. She spends a great deal of her
waking hours enjoying one of her life¬
long favorite pastimes of reading. She
also attends Project Independence some
days weekly, which gives her a chance
to get out and meet with a different
group of people.”

Carolvne Hay ward Reed of Port St.
Lucie, Fla., reports that she is “93 years
young and in perfect health, as I never
go to a doctor. I drive my car every day,
play a lot of bridge, am president of a
club and active in the Woman’s Club—
for two years I’ve been asked to be in
the fashion show. I read a book a day,
large print. I live alone and do a lot of
baking to give to my friends.”... J. Louis
Donnelly of Holland, Pa., just retired as
treasurer of the Twining Village Resi¬
dents Association.

23

Class Secretary: Mrs. Allen C. Clifford
(Catherine Robbins), 15 Carver St.,
Brandon, VT 05733.

The deadline for these notes preceded
Reunion Weekend, but we were antici¬
pating that four people from the Class
of 1923 would be able to attend our 70th
Reunion: Helen Abel Brown (from
Raleigh, N.C.), Catherine Robbins
Clifford (from Brandon, Vt.), Esther
Langwill (from Glastonbury, Conn.)
and Grace Provencher Way (from
Brookline, Mass.). We were to be housed
in Gifford Hall, near Mead Chapel where
Saturday morning convocation occurs.
Our Saturday luncheon was planned at

38 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

President McCardell’s home and our
banquet Saturday evening in the
President’s Dining Room in Proctor
Hall. We received a report from Helen
Abel Brown, informing us that she
spends her free time teaching English to
foreign students. We hope to have more
news to report after the Reunion.

24

Class Secretary: Mrs. Frederick M.
Meek (Amy Hunt), Box 447,
Kennebunkport. ME 04046; telephone
(207) 967-2440.

Ruth Eddv Pratt’s daughter writes
that Ruth’s son and his wife visited her
last summer to help celebrate Ruth’s
90th birthday. The next day they went
to the reunion of the Theresa High
School where Bob and Dot spent most
of their school days and where Ruth and
Russell had both taught. The following
weekend they spent in Bridport, Vt., for
a Pratt reunion where they saw all the
cousins. Ruth thinks of Midd class¬
mates often and sends love to them. She
was saddened by the death of Stanton
Harris who had been best man at their
wedding. ...Al and Anna Wilkinson
Pratt attended an alumni luncheon of
Al’sclassmates at Amherst College last
year. A friend drove them and they had
a great time. Anna says that her hus¬
band has attended so many Middlebury
reunions with her that he feels like a
part of Middlebury as well as Amherst.
They are still living in their home, where
they have lived for 53 years, and are
doing well. ...Muriel Morey Doolittle
has evidently moved to a new residence
at 300 Parsippany Road in Parsippany,
N.J., but a letter forwarded to her there
has been returned. If anyone knows
Muriel’s exact address, please notify
your secretary.

25

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Donald D.
Fredrickson (Dorothy Johnson), 199
Central Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940,
and Dr. Ward Oliver, 35 North Grand
St., Cobleskill, NY 12043.

It is with sadness that we learned of the
death of Dorothy Tillapaugh Headley
on February 28,1993, of complications
resulting from myelofibrosis, a disease
of the blood. Her son, David, assures us
that her quality of life remained high for
most of her last months. Dot was bom in
East Harland, Conn., and grew up in
Torrington. She worked her way through
Middlebury, where she was a member

of Pi Beta Phi sorority and completed a
double major in English and home eco¬
nomics. After graduation she became a
home economist for the Vermont Ex¬
tension Service, traveling the back roads
to help families in the Montpelier area.
Following their marriage in 1931, she
and Arthur A. Headley moved to
Florham Park, N.J., where they raised
two sons. She was actively involved in
Girl Scouts. PTA, Little League, Cub
Scouts and AAUW. After Art’s retire¬
ment from Roger Smith Hotels and
Dot’s from the Morris County Mental
Health Association, in 1967, they moved
to their remodeled shipbuilder’s home
on the Bay of Fundy in St. Martins, New
Brunswick, Canada. There they helped
found a senior citizens group. Dorothy
was active in the Quaco Historical and
Library Society, as well as writing a
food and nutrition column for the Sea¬
side News. Art died in 1975. In 1989
Dot moved to Eaton Rapids to be near
son Dave and his family. In Michigan
she enjoyed her duplex across from the
Grand River, where waterfowl, boat¬
ers, canoeists, walkers, bicyclers, jog¬
gers and fishermen frequented the quiet
neighborhood. She attended musical
luncheons at the Senior Center, enjoyed
productions at the Eaton Rapids Com¬
munity Theater and participated in a
congenial AAUW group. She is sur¬
vived by her two sons, Richard and
David; three sisters, Mildred Loveland,
Enid Tillapaugh ’29 and Helen
Tillapaugh; two granddaughters and two
great-grandchildren. Dot served two
terms as class secretary, the first from
1955 to 1960, the second from 1990
until her death. A collection of Dot’s
letters to her family, written from
Middlebury in 1921-24, can be seen in
Starr Library where they are preserved
as part of the permanent collection.
They supply a lively look of what life at
the College was like during the ’20s. A
memorial appears elsewhere in this
magazine. ...Dr. Ward Oliver has gra¬
ciously agreed to serve as co-secretary
for our class. We welcome him and
remind everyone to send news fre¬
quently to your secretaries.

26

Class Secretaries: Elizabeth Goodale
Murray, R.R. 1, Box 396, Perkinsville,
VT 05151, andLindley W. Robinson, 33
Christian Ave., Concord, NH 03301.

Dick Allen writes from his retirement
home in Hartford, Conn., that he is well
situated there. ...Dana Hawthorne re¬
ports that since his severe stroke in
March 1989 he has been in Santa Fe,
N.M., confined to a wheel chair. ...The
College and I (Lindley Robinson) seem
to have lost track of Frank Chubb,
James Tucker and Clyde Waite. Let
us hear from you if you happen to read
this. ...Yours truly (L.W.R.) suffered a
valvular heart attack in January. It
caused me to gain 18 pounds in 8 days.

all excess body fluids, and my blood
pressure to go down to 90/50. My doc¬
tor ordered X-rays, a CAT scan and an
echo-cardiogram to find the trouble.
New medicines got rid of the excess
body fluid in 10 days and got my blood
pressure back to normal. Now I’m feel¬
ing much better and hope to be back to
normal soon. ...Dorothy Simonds
Palmer of Montpelier is one of our
classmates who is able to live in her
own home. She has her husky dog as a
companion. Although she had been
hoping for snow so she could go
snowshoeing, the February storms
brought so much snow that it was too
deep for her. She is a hockey fan and
watches it on a Canadian station. Dot
has used her fireplace a great deal this
winter, since she has her own woodlot
and a neighbor who cuts wood for her.
In December she visited Ruth Mehuron
McGill at Four Seasons in Northfield.
Ruth reported the ’26 news for many
years. ...Miriam Colby Sunderland
(89) and husband Jack (93) have sold
their car and are now grounded in St.
Albans. Miriam still corresponds with
classmate Marion Swift Carter, who
lives in Whately, Mass., with her daugh¬
ter, Virginia. The Sunderlands have
three great-granddaughters, born in
1992: Margaret Ryan born in May,
Rachel McKewicz bom in July and
Alanna Gaylord bom in August. After
20 years as market gardeners, Jack and
Miriam retired. Then they learned about
a chiffon squash developed by the Uni¬
versity of New Hampshire. Seeds can¬
not be purchased because they cannot
be stabilized, but Jack’s nephew Ro¬
nald Sunderland now grows it on the
family farm and stores it in the family
cellars until ready to market. It is sold
locally in small amounts (up to 20
pounds) in plastic bags ready to be
cooked. Chiffon squash peels like an
apple and has a small cavity four inches
deep. They reported that 800 pounds
had gone to Boston markets each of the
last two weekends. At times Jack and
Miriam help prepare the squash for
market during a family coffee hour.
Sounds like a very specialized family
business. ...Looking out of her
Perkinsville home windows on Febru¬
ary 17, lines from James Russell
Lowell’s “First Snowfall” repeated
themselves in Betty (ioodale Murray’s
head: “The snow had begun in the
gloaming and busily all the night been
heaping the field and highway with a
silence deep and white. Every pine and
fir and hemlock wore ermine too dear
for an earl and the poorest twig on the
elm tree was ringed inch deep with
pearl.” Some people have flowers named
for them as in the lovely story of Mrs.
Miniver , who had a red rose named the
Mrs. Miniver! In contrast, Betty was
delighted when a 90-lb. Holstein heifer
was named “Betty,” because she was
bom on Betty’s 89th birthday, February
19, at Harold Greenwood’s farm in
Springfield, where Betty’s daughter
Barbara Ann Murray is employed.

27

Class Secretary: Miss Julia B. Austin,
38 E. Parkside Terrace, Bane, VT
05641.

Joseph L. Finnegan writes: “Ten great
days with Paul and Betsy in New Jer¬
sey. Participated once again in the great
Christmas ceremony at the cathedral in
North Newark. Enjoyed the modern
version of Girl Crazy by the Gershwin
brothers at the Schubert. All the old
music, plus great staging! Dinner at the
Rainbow Room, with a clear, fantastic
view of ‘the greatest city in the world.’
This old hockey player enjoyed the
skating at the Rockefeller rink—from
an armchair! Joined eight dear old
friends at the Baltusrol Country Club
for New Year’s Eve. A chilly but won¬
derful visit! ...Elizabeth (“Lisbo”)
Hack Simons has become visually dis¬
abled so that she can read very little,
even with magnification. She still writes
beautifully, however. She is happy to
note that Hal Phillips is still touring the
world and speculates that he must be the
strongest of ’27. She enjoys occasional
visits with Judy Austin and she misses
keeping in touch with Peg Sedgwick
Mertens. Up until last year, she was in
frequent telephone communication with
Gunny Elfstrom Carlson. When their
communication came to a sudden end,
Lizbo got in touch with the authorities
to find out what had happened. She
learned that Gunny is still in the same
retirement home but in a different sec¬
tion, due to her Alzheimer’s disease.
Writing to her through a Mr. Chapman,
who is in charge of her affairs, she sent
a letter and some snapshots of Gunny
and her husband in earlierdays, of Lizbo
at Mead Chapel and of four freshman
friends dressed (as the sophomores had
ordered) in yellow bibs and bright green
berets, sitting on the cannon in the
Middlebury park. Mr. Chapman said
she seemed pleased with the pictures
but came back again and again to the
Chapel on the Hill and to the girls on the
cannon. “That,” says Lizbo, “shows her
deep love for Middlebury.” In closing,
she writes her classmates: “In this dark
time in our history, we have little
strength left to help mankind. Let’s use
what energy we have in prayer for our
country and the world. Prayer changes
things.”

28

Class Secretary: Mrs. J.D. Coombs
(Miriam Sweet), 13 Highland St., Con¬
cord, MA 01742.

We couldn’t believe the first message
we received of Bill Donald’s death on
March 11, 1993, his 89th birthday. He
was about to leave on a cruise when his
doctor sent him to the hospital with
pneumonia, which proved fatal. Bill

was an extraordinary class secretary.
Elected with Jane Carrick Oviatt in
1988, he continued as secretary follow¬
ing her death in 1990 and was very busy
organizing and anticipating our 65th
Reunion (May 28-30, 1993) at the time
of his death. When first elected, he felt
out of touch with his classmates and
began a five-year pattern of personal
visits with many of you. New England,
Florida and California were all on his
route. Bill enjoyed the personal con¬
tacts and also enjoyed writing the col¬
umn, sharing with us his Rotarian travel
adventures. He was determined to see
the Moody Area established. Fortu¬
nately he got to Middlebury last fall and
did see the cabinet he had helped to
design. He was busy with plans and
enthusiastic about our 65th Reunion.
He wished no mourning, just happy
memories. You will remember that his
wife, Louise, died in August 1992. I
hope some of you will write to his
daughter, Diana Bates (Mrs. Lee) at
P.CX Box 1539, Julian, CA 92036. Bill
prepared for Middlebury at Vermont
Academy, Saxtons River, Vt. At
Middlebury he established college
records in both track and cross country,
and was athletic editor of the 1928
Kaleidoscope. A member of Alpha
Sigma Phi, he participated in fraternity
track and basketball, and was a member
of the cast of Charley’s Aunt. A memo¬
rial appears elsewhere in this maga¬
zine. ...We also regret to report the
death of George Eaton on January 29,
1993, in Montpelier, Vt. He prepared
for Middlebury at Bradford (Vt.) Acad¬
emy. Bradford also gifted us with Zella
Cole Hibbert and Marguerite Kent
Fitzpatrick. At Middlebury, George
regularly won speaking contests. The
contests were in English, but he would
have been equally comfortable speak¬
ing in French. He was a member of our
Kaleidoscope board and was active in
dramatics and in the French Club. We
don’t know how he managed it, but one
of his best memories was of maneuver¬
ing Prexy Moody into “untenable posi¬
tions” in some of their chess games.
George enjoyed our reunions and, when
we last saw him, he told us about his
satisfying volunteer service to people
starting small businesses. Please turn to
his memorial in this issue. ...Our next
column will report on our long-antici¬
pated 65th Reunion, but the rest of this
column was prepared by Bill shortly
before his death. It begins with thanks
from Bill. Mimi Sweet Coombs, Hank
Ferryand Zella Cole Hibbert to those
who couldn’t come to Reunion but
whose letters and good wishes were
greatly appreciated. ...Earl Hindes
wrote: “Wish I could come. I’ll be up in
the Smokies, remembering the 5th to
the 50lh I did make consecutively, and
the 60th, too. My love and best wishes
to all survivors. Sail on, ’28.” ...Alice
Brown Nielson sent her best wishes
from their new home (121 Trinity Lakes
Drive, #226, Sun City, FL 33573). She
needs help with walking but, once in the
car, enjoys drives with husband Pete.

SUMMER 1993 39

Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

ALUMNI

CALENDAR

July TBA

Boston Harbor Cruise.

July 15

New York Harbor Cruise.

August 11

Tri-State Alumnae Luncheon, at
the Kirk Alumni Center.

September 1-5

Alumni College XVIII, at Bread

Loaf.

October 16

Middlebury College Alumni

Association annual meeting, in
Middlebury.

October 16-17

Homecoming Weekend.

For more information on these or other events, contact the
Alumni Office, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753,
802/388-3711, ext. 5183.

...Eva Marshall Douglas had some very
special family events with son Paul in
British Columbia on her late May cal¬
endar. ...Storrs Lee wrote toZella from
Hawaii that he and Mary Lou could not
be with us. ...Al Leahy claimed that he
was not in top MC condition. ...Fred
Whittemore's heart problems restrict
his activity. ...We invited loyal Middle-
bury supporter Fred Coombs, who had
enjoyed coming to reunions with the
late Florence (Philipsen). but he did
not feel up to the trip. ...We would have
loved to have Ruth Blanchette with us,
but her health, too, does not permit
travel. She has moved to 45 Meriden
Ave., Southington, CT 06489 to be near
her daughter, Jean Blanchette St. Clair
’64. She would appreciate notes and
calls (203-216-8010). ...We have lost
another classmate. Theodore “Ted”
(“Goody”) Goodwin died on January
2,1993, in Dennisport, Mass. When we
last heard from him, he was enjoying
retirement from his science teaching
career, spending summers in Dennisport
and winters in Key Largo, Fla. The son
of Frank and Eva Goodwin, he was bom
on March 28, 1907, in Marblehead,
Mass., and prepared for college at the
high school there. After getting his M.S.
at Harvard, he was a chemist at Perth
Amboy, N.J., and then a high school
science teacher, returning to chemistry
as an instructor at Norwich University
and Marlboro College, Vt. He found
time in college to sing in the Men’s
Glee Club and he belonged to the Dra¬
matic and French clubs. He enjoyed
backpacking and mountain climbing,
writing in 1978 that he had had to give
up the latter. We express our sympathy
to his wife, Catherine. A memorial ap¬

peared in the Spring issue. ...Bill re¬
ported frequent phone conversations
with Eva Marshall Douglas in Penney
Farms, Fla. He marveled at her vitality
and acuity. ...The same held true for
Helen Revere Hatch, who was to be in
Costa Rica with her son at Reunion
time. In late February, Bill and Helen
attended a Middlebury alumni luncheon
meeting in Sarasota. Gordie Perine ’49
was, as usual, the personable MC. He
introduced John McCardell, our new
president, who held our rapt attention
as he gave us his comments on the
“State of Middlebury Today.” His brief
and candid talk underscored the theme
that no college, wedded to the status
quo, could survive for 192 years. ...Drop
a line at birthday time to Storrs Lee
(August 3), Helen Bailey (August 8),
Margaret Moody Rice (August 27),
Marjorie Cross Smith (August 28),
Marguerite Kent Fitzpatrick (Sep¬
tember 24), Emily Lobdell Smith (Oc¬
tober 1), Helen Revere Hatch (Octo¬
ber 23) and Gwendolyn Thatcher
Whalley (October 30).

29

Class Secretary: Dr. Raymond ,/.
Saulnier, 230 Heron Point,
Chestertown, MD 21620-1676.

Last August, Fred ’27 and Evelyn Jones
Ives celebrated their 63rd wedding
anniversary. I am sure they celebrated
with their son, two daughters, seven
grandchildren and Five great-grandchil¬
dren, all of whom visit frequently with
them. Evelyn and Fred still live in

Holden, Mass., in the house they have
occupied for 50 years. They still sum¬
mer on Block Island, R.I., though nowa¬
days for a shorter period. The Friends of
Block Island, including Evelyn and
Fred, have worked to preserve it as one
of the “Twelve Last Great Places of the
Western Hemisphere,” as it is now offi¬
cially designated. Evelyn’s activities
include “church, volunteer work, read¬
ing and bridge,” but no longer the for¬
eign travel she and Fred used to do.
...Ron and Fredrika Alexander Bur¬
rows—’’both 85 and showing our age,”
says Ron—have been settled for many
years on Craigville Beach, in
Hyannisport, Mass. Because Freddie
has vision problems, they no longer go
to Europe, nor vacation in Mexico, but
“the Cape” is a lovely place, and there
they raise Morgan horses, walk on the
beach (“beautiful sunsets”) and enjoy
the attention of two married daughters
who live nearby. ...Again I have been
telephonically in touch with Carolyn
Woodward O’Neill, my ever-reliable
aide in this reportorial task. Carolyn is
in good spirits and in good hands—a
daughter nearby—and attended the mid-
February luncheon that brought about
20 Middlebury people to an elegant
Florida restaurant to hear a report on the
College from John McCardell, our new
and much-admired president. ...As for
my own affairs, Estelle and I are settled
now in a retirement facility in this pleas¬
ant “Eastern Shore” (Maryland) com¬
munity, also with a daughter (Alice)
nearby. It is not easy to get anywhere
from Chestertown, a feature of the place
that they say gets more attractive as you
get older, but I have a studio in town
complete with such materials and equip¬
ment as will (hopefully) keep me in
touch with what is happening in the
world (quite a lot nowadays). One of
our pictures (DuBois's Third Avenue
El) made the trip to Middlebury last fall
to help celebrate the opening of the new
Center for the Arts, but is now back
home. We hope to make that trip soon
ourselves, certainly in 1994 to celebrate
the 65th reunion of the 1929 class.

30

Class Secretary: Mrs. Beecher W. Dudey
(Helen Kendall), 220 Ash St., Corinth,
NY 12822.

The Class of 1930 Scholarship was
awarded to James R. Wilson ’95, a
double major in French and Spanish
who is living in the Chateau. He has
already spent a summer at our French
School and hopes in the future to study
in both Paris and Madrid. (His twin
sister is a student at the Univ. of Maine.)
James works in the music library in the
new Center for the Arts. He is involved
in the Midd choir and also helps with
theater make-up when he is needed.
...Christmas letters brought news of our
classmates. Nathalie Hall Jones (1010
Waltham St. #F13, Lexington, MA

02173) enjoys her new residence and
would enjoy visits from any of her
Midd friends. ...Grosvenor Crooks
says he is still “poking along” at
Havenwood, where he says there are
three other Middlebury residents.
...Wallace Greens wife, Evelyn (Clem¬
ent) ’32, reports that with some help she
is able to care for Wally at home where
they are visited by family members.
Indeed, they have even been able to
visit their loved ones occasionally.
...Fred Dirks feels that Middlebury is a
second home to him. He has friendly
relations with the faculty and adminis¬
tration. Last September he participated
in a three-day lecture series for eco¬
nomics students. ...Ginny Knox has
changed her lifestyle. No more golf,
gardening and bowling. Her friend and
tenant, Esther Langwill ’23, sleeps
downstairs now and Ginny prepares all
meals. ...Howard Huntress, who is a
whole year younger than the rest of us,
promises to share with us any news he
gathers about classmates. ...Wilhelmina
“Kitty” Hayes is older than the rest of
us, because she worked nine years be¬
tween high school graduation and en¬
tering college. Kitty recalls being un¬
able to attend our 35th Reunion because
she had suffered a broken hip. Return¬
ing from a two-year stint in Africa, she
was knocked down on cobblestones in
a marketplace in Fez, Morocco. Kitty
did get to other reunions and is still with
us “in spirit” at each gathering. ...Ruth
Potter Bode says that her great-grand¬
children liven up the scene from time to
time. ...Lloyd Mann enjoys the Florida
weather. He sings in the church choir
and does his own yard work at age 90!
In August he and Harriette celebrated
their 63rd wedding anniversary.
...Ralph Woodbury visited Bermuda
and sailed around South America, re¬
turning through the Strait of Magellan,
along the East Coast to Buenos Aires
and Rio. ...In July Bob Herrick saw
Sanford Witherell in Maine and vis¬
ited a daughter in Denver, Mass. He
visits his other daughter each year, too,
in Greensburg, Ind. So Bob is not a total
Floridian. ...Bert Nylen has recovered
nicely from a minor stroke. He quips,
“Anyone can grow old. All you have to
do is live long enough.” ... Mary and
Carl Howard are helped by canes as
they follow along “the cool sequestered
vale of life.” ...Larry Wilson broke a
hip and encountered several other diffi¬
culties in ’92. His wife, Eleanor, has
trouble with her knees. ...Muriel John¬
son Thorne says she is pleased about
the way things are going at Middlebury.
Aren’t we all? President McCardell
seems to be doing very well. ...Lib
Parker Andrews' Christmas greeting
included a recent picture of her. Good
idea! Let’s have some more pictures.
...Hugh McKee still plays his har¬
monica, participating in 38 programs in
'92. He played at the Christmas hospi¬
tal party and in other programs in
Champlain, Ellenburg, Peru and
Mooers. He does volunteer work at his
hospital and transports patients. On the

40 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

first Monday of each month he calls
bingo at the Elks Lodge. His wife, Dudie,
lets Hugh do the dishes. Hugh admits to
having a few aches in his joints, but says
he feels fine most of the time. Inciden¬
tally, his son graduated from Ithaca
College and his daughter from the Univ.
of Connecticut. ...Carolyn Lee Allen
now lives in Pleasant Manor in Rutland,
Vt. (P.O. Box 6761, 05702). She par¬
ticipates in group activities, watches
movies and enjoys having people
around. ...We are sorry to report several
deaths. Nita Leland Willits is at peace
since September 1992. ...Ralph
Hammersley died in February 1992.
His son Brian is in the computer field.
...Hazel Downing Orts died in April
1992 after a three-and-a-half year battle

I with cancer. ...Ruth Sturtevant

Pierce’s husband, Hal, died at age 90 in
May 1992. Ruth is reached in Michigan
c/o Dante R. Zanoni, 7741 Randy Drive,
Westland, MI 48185 or Room4B, 28349
Joy Road, Westland, MI 48185, where
she gets care because of her heart. ...We
must also report the death of Margaret
Cecelia Kocher Nozell on February
13. We are indebted to Ginny Knox for
the following synopsis of her life: Mar¬
garet and her late twin sister, Eleanor
Mona Kocher Wallace were bom De¬
cember 13, 1907, in New York City.
Eleanor died in 1978. Graduates of
Suffern High School, the twins entered
Middlebury in 1926. While Ellie was
majoring in physical education and earn¬
ing her “M” sweater in record time,
Margaret was majoring in home eco¬
nomics, living with the late Francelia
Rose (Howe Haff) for several semes¬
ters at the Homestead. The twins were
members of Phi Mu sorority. On gradu¬
ation, Margaret worked at the bank in
Suffern and, in 1931, married John
Nozell, whose career was in banking.
Sons Richard and John were born in
1933 and 1935, respectively. Her hus¬
band died in 1968 and, in 1972, she
moved to Clearwater, Fla., where she
became a hospital volunteer and a bell
ringer at the Presbyterian Church. Her
travels included Europe, Hawaii, the
Orient and Canada. In recent years I
was fortunate to share a happy period of
her life, because she occupied my up¬
stairs rent for three summers. We took
wonderful trips to visit the late Nita
Willits in Scotia, N.Y., and Betty
Norman in charming Lititz, Pa., and
also to Bread Loaf in the fall when I
attended the seminar for class agents.
We send the condolences of the Class of
1930 to her family.

31

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Edward W.
Toomey (Mary Stolte), RD 3, Box 301,
Grafton, VT 05146 (May 1 to October
26), 17615 W. Hwy. 98, Panama City
Beach, FL 32413 (October-May), and
Mr. E. Parker Calveit, 6251 Old Do¬
minion Drive, 4225, McLean, VA 22101.

Some of our classmates continue to
travel. We received cards from Rich¬
ard (Dick) Fear, who was in London
for his annual trip for the theatre season,
and from George ’32 and Natalie Lewis
Emery, who traveled to Scotland and
Ireland in fall 1992. During the winter,
the latter also traveled to northern Vir¬
ginia where they entertained the Parker
Calverts who are newcomers to the
area. ...As for further classmate travels,
the Walton Crockers moved from Cape
Cod to Portland where they could be
near their children. Like so many of us
who have moved in recent years, it was
amusing to learn from Walt and Elsa
that they shared the common problem
of being unable to find some items after
moving that they were sure they had
packed. ...After our many reunions
which have so often been attended by
our better halves, we are saddened when
they are lost to us. Now we regret to
report the death of Bob Lake, husband
of Gwendolyn Mason Lake. Although
Gwen was invited to join her son and
family in Baltimore, she plans to stay
on in their town house in Rome, N.Y.
...Have any more of you ’31ers had
grandchildren who have graduated from
Middlebury? Lucy Booth Goodwin’s
grandson, Christopher Hopkins ’ 87, has
received his M.A. from Bread Loaf.
Now that Lucy has a new car, those of
us who go to Tri-State meetings hope
that she will come to at least one gath¬
ering in ’93. ...It was wonderful to have
a line or two at Christmas from Vir¬
ginia Cole who stays cheerful even in
Montpelierchill. ...Are any more of you
feeding birds or taking part in the an¬
nual count? Helena Dundas Rayner
has new bird feeders to which tufted
titmice, nuthatches, chickadees, wrens
and purple finches flock. She also en¬
joys the winter waterfowl: hooded mer¬
gansers, buffleheads, canvas-backs and
Canada geese, to list but a few. ...It was
a short but sweet mini-reunion at
Panama City Beach for Harriet Eliot
and Mary Stolte Toomey. Fortunately
five glorious days succeeded the previ¬
ous rain. “Shadow” and I both enjoyed
a short telephone chat with Ruth
Morrison Wilcox, who anticipated
joining Eleanor Foote Cartmell at a
nearby Middlebury gathering in Florida.
Both were looking forward to meeting
our 15th president, John M. McCardell
Jr. ...The latest word from Kenneth
MacClelland and Jo told of their jour¬
ney to Vancouver, once again for a
family wedding—Nora’s this time.
Some weeks later the honeymooners
entertained four-score or more with a
picnic at Will Rogers Park. Fun for all!
Jo will retire in about a year. Then the
Macs hope to move further north to be
nearer family. ...As usual Marian Tolies
Chase and Phil are busy. In February
they were engrossed in making a map of
the 50 houses displaced 30 years ago by
a flood-control project. The map is part
of theircontribution to Henniker’s 225th
celebration. ...Congratulations go to
Priscilla March on receiving her 15-
year service pin from the Deerfield

Museum. She had also received news
from Nathalie Lewis Emery on a card
mailed from Martinique. Nathalie and
George ’32 were flying on from there to
Jamaica. ...It was lovely to receive a
note from Marshall and Prudence
Ingham Montgomery. They recently
had the pleasure of greeting President
McCardell at a luncheon in Boca Raton,
where he was accompanied by Gordie
Perine '49 and Mike Schoenfeld ’73.
Monty and Prue enjoyed our new
prexy’s report and were pleased to have
the parents of present-day students asked
to pass on the undergraduates’ com¬
ments on Middlebury of today. ...It was
with deep regret that we learned of
Virginia Bland Smullen’s death on
November 3,1992. Ginny was not only
a sports enthusiast, but also a truly blithe
spirit. She spread joy and later comfort
as well to patients, friends and family.
We extend belated but heartfelt sympa¬
thy to her son, William Bland Smullen,
her daughter, Joan Hall-Feinberg, her
six grandchildren and her two great¬
grandchildren, as well as to her sister
Winifred Bland ’34, with whom Ginny
came to live three years after the death
of her husband. Of her marriage she
wrote, “We had a good life.” Certainly
she herself always enriched the lives of
others. ...We were sorry to learn of the
death of “Sandy” Claflin ’32 on March
18, 1993. We send our condolences to
Theta Conant Claflin. Theta and Sandy
recently celebrated their 59th wedding
anniversary.

32

Class Secretaries: Dr. and Mrs. GrayN.
Taylor (Georgiana Hulett), 182
Lancaster St., Albany, NY 12210.

Alice Cady Russell was awarded hon¬
orable mention at a juried art show of
the Westerville Art League. Her entry
was a watercolor of a sunflower on a
dark green background. She is again
secretary of her resident’s association.
As co-chairman of its library commit¬
tee, she has tackled the task of catalogu¬
ing a collection of 2,000 books. ...The
Rev. George Owen and wife Esther are
still enjoying retirement with occasional
professional activities. Last winter they
purchased five-month passes for air
travel, planning to use them to visit
some of their 18 grandchildren and 24
great-grandchildren who are scattered
about in California, Texas, Minnesota,
Colorado and Maine. He reminds us
that he inherited 16 of the grandchil¬
dren and 22 of the greats when he and
Esther were married in 1980. While at
home, George enjoys his woodworking
shop and Esther her well-equipped sew¬
ing room. ...We have a new address for
Josephine Saunders Taggart: 161
Sacked Road, Westfield, MA 10085.
She is located only three miles from her
former home, but is now “a bit out in the
country” where, she writes, “it seems
like a new world and I love it—less

traffic, fewer exhaust fumes, larger
yards, downstairs bedroom—all the
good things for growing older. Also my
daughter and her family are with me.”
...Of course, not everyone could make
our 60th, and Jeanette Burgess Lane
was greatly disappointed to miss the
event. She reports that she is feeling
considerably better after a long, slow
battle to climb back from a potassium
deficiency. ...May Clark Stevens spent
Thanksgiving with her daughter and
family in Syracuse and Christmas with
her younger son and family in Hyde
Park, Vt. She was “glad the election and
inaugural are over. I sure was caught up
in both. Now we will bite the bullet.”
...Last August Peg DeWitt went to
California with five friends via Amtrak
and Glacier Park. They attended the
Conference of the International Fed¬
eration of University Women and met
women from all over the world. ...I).
Temple Braymer and wife Marion
announce the arrival of their first great-
granddaughter. ...George Emery and
Nathalie (Lewis) ’31 enjoyed winter
holidays in Martinique and Jamaica.
They had dinner in Washington one
evening with Parker Calvert ’31 and his
wife, DeeDee. The Calverts are in a fine
retirement home in McLean, Va. George
sent your class secretaries an interest¬
ing article from the January ’93 issue of
Conde Nast Traveler. In the article,
entitled “One Man’s Piece of America,”
Ron Powers (a visiting assistant profes¬
sor at Middlebury) extols the strong
sense of “place” which characterizes
the town of Middlebury. Powers claims
that this is due in large part to the fact
that our Middlebury College takes seri¬
ously its responsibility to act as steward
of the town’s fortunes. The College is
“a safeguard, insulating the town from
the extremes of either decay or
hypergrowth.” He declares that Midd
enriches the town economically; it nour¬
ishes the town spiritually. It protects the
town as well as its campus, for“over the
decades its board of trustees has pur¬
chased nearly six thousand acres of
farmland around the town’s perimeter
and in adjoining townships. The result
is a kind of rural preserve.” ...Arnold
(“Scrap”) Melbye has been honored
again with a certificate of appreciation
from the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History at the 17th annual bird carvers
festival. ...Peripatetic Betty Brown
Hearne is still marveling at the great
time enjoyed at our 60th Reunion. Fam¬
ily weddings, graduation and a family
vacation filled her time from April to
July. She admits she arrived home “a bit
frazzled and worn from the hectic pace,
but filled with great thankfulness for
my family and friends.” Betty is on a
residents’ advisory council, fulfills
church responsibilities and volunteers
at an elementary school. Who says you
have to“stay put” in your 80’s?! ...Gray
and Georgiana Hulett Taylor are elated
that their granddaughter, Susannah
Church, will be entering Middlebury
this fall. She is the daughter of Betsy
Taylor ’69 and Richard Church '66.

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33

Class Secretaries: Mrs. W. Dale Brown
(Miriam Barber), 22 Horizon Drive,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and Mr. Clark H.
Corliss, 214 Pineridge Court,
Mandeville, LA 70448.

Your retiring secretaries, Phil and Helen
Easton Carpenter, want to thank all of
you who have sent cards and notes.
Helen is having more heart problems
and, because of her tiny fragile vessels,
is not a good candidate for bypass sur¬
gery. So Phil is learning both house¬
keeping and nursing as the doctors work
out a medical course of therapy. They
especially thank Ginnie Whittier
Warthin for preparing this column as
1933 pro tern class secretary. They are
also pleased to announce that Miriam
Barber Brown and Clark Corliss will
serve as our class scribes for the new
term. Their addresses appear above and
all are encouraged to provide them with
news. ...Ring Pratt suffered “a couple
of heart attacks” at Christmas time and
after five weeks in bed is out again on a
somewhat restricted regime. He too was
considered for surgery but also seems
to suffer from fragile vessels. He is
doing well on medication, though thinks
doctors’ orders re spirits somewhat lim¬
iting. ...Helen Wooding says that Milton
Wooding doesn’t always know her but
remains his gentle, polite and kindly
self and is grateful for all attentions.
...Altha Hall Holbrook has post-polio
syndrome and is having a bad time with
her legs and feet. She had a knee re¬
placed last spring and is now hopeful of
great assistance from a new brace. ...Mil
Buffum told Ginnie Whittier Warthin
that her only outings entailed visits to
her doctor, while Fen Buffum s were
back and forth to the bam where he
cares for four horses, in spite of all the
huffing and puffing. But, as Mil says
cheerily, “at least it gets him out.” ...Now
for the real estate transactions. Ev Gould
sold his house within a week of putting
it on the market, so the address we gave
as temporary will now be permanent.
...Joan Rowland Glassburn and Ed
have moved into a new retirement cen¬
ter: Longwood at Oakmont, 500 Rte
909, #G27, Verona, PA 15147. They
too are learning a new way of living.
...Art Amelung now admits that he
should have settled in Vermont but gives
his new address as Pine Run Commu¬
nity, #1 Quince Cluster, Doylestown,
PA 18901. ...Lou and Clark Corliss
have no regrets about their move to
Mandeville, La. (address above). Clark
has become a hospice volunteer and
they are busily sinking new roots. ...Jack
and Marian Ball Davidson continue to
enjoy their Floridian existence, though
they admit to playing less golf, while
Prof H use continues to play great Geor¬
gian golf. ...Now to our travelers: Ruth
Nodding Hopkins enjoyed a super trip
to Switzerland, covering much of the
Italian-speaking area. ...Marguerite

Hunold Ross and John have vacationed
in Bermuda and Niagara Falls and have
enjoyed several overnight excursions
with an active senior group. ...Marge
Haynes Lacher and Halvor drove to
New Mexico in their van to see their
daughter, Katherine, receive a master’s
degree in landscape-related architec¬
ture. Another trip took them to Wash¬
ington Island, Wis., where Marge cel¬
ebrated her 80th birthday. ...Howard
and Faith Kellogg Dailey have visited
in Rhode Island and Maine, driven to
Florida and celebrated their 50th wed¬
ding anniversary since their last report¬
ing. ...Lyle Glazier volunteered togive
a course in independent study (African
and African-American literature) at
Southern Vermont College. ...Johnny
Hartrey is quite handicapped but gets
about with crutches or a walker... Harry
Wells produced three new great-grand¬
children in 1992! ...Perky ’39 (Marianne
Monroe) and Mel Glazier have four
grandchildren in college—at Middle-
bury, University of Maine, University
of Oregon and Canterbury, New
Zealand. ...Greetings and cheery mes¬
sages have been received from the fol¬
lowing good friends who had nothing
of great import to impart: Doug Short,
Mary Duryee Weeks, Dottie Britnell,
A1 Painter, Dot Cornwall Cheney,
Mini Barber Brown, Marion Holmes,
Red and Luella Page, Ted and Lois
Lewthwaite Walter, Betty Nesbitt,
Red Yeomans, Alice Denio Rulison,
Boyd and Emmy Lou Nothnagle ’34
Brown, Rose and George Siipola and
the Bookstavers—David and Rachel
(Booth). ...We are happy in our memo¬
ries of Barbara Truman Lindgren
and saddened to have to report her death
on January 5, 1993. Our love and sym¬
pathy goes out to her family. A memo¬
rial appeared in the Spring issue of this
magazine. ...We must also send our
condolences to the family of George A.
Colclough, who died on January 28,
1993. George was bom in Stockbridge,
N.Y., and prepared for Middlebury in
Hillsdale High School. At Middlebury
he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon,
played in the band and participated in
intramural sports. In retirement he en¬
joyed traveling and developed consid¬
erable skill in repairing antique clocks.
His education and career are outlined in
a memorial which appears elsewhere in
this magazine.

34

Class Secretary: Mrs. Ruth Ells Crane,
P.O. Box 1077, Coe St., Winsted, CT
06098.

A note from Thelma Croft Fisher says
she has been slowed down somewhat
by a hip replacement. She still manages
occasional visits to her daughter, who
lives in Manhattan Beach near Los
Angeles. She also plays some bridge,
takes some senior-sponsored bus trips
and enjoys the symphony. She says she

is still plugging away on her life history
and enjoys having the class involved.
...Dot Smith Wright has sold her mo¬
bile home in Venice, Fla., and is renting
a two-bedroom apartment in
Charlottesville, Va., where her daugh¬
ter and family live. She says watching
two grandchildren (ages 6 and 7) grow
up is a pleasant change from being with
old folks her age all the time. Her ad¬
dress appeared in our Spring column.
...Gertrude Hewitt Lathrop wrote a
long letter, apologizing for not writing
sooner and also telling of some interest¬
ing activities she has enjoyed. In Octo¬
ber of 1991 she, along with two cousins
and a friend, flew to St. Paul, Minn., and
boarded The Mississippi Queen for her
last trip of the season down the big
river. They enjoyed many side trips,
including Hannibal, Mo., birthplace of
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), going
up the 630-foot arch in St. Louis and
seeing some of the famous Clydesdale
horses at the Annheuser Busch plant.
Last summer she and husband Earl cel¬
ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
with a party attended by six of their
children and their families. The family
dinner was held at the Waybury Inn and
the celebration was taped on a VCR so
they can re-enjoy the whole event.
...Thanks for all the news. Keep it com¬
ing!

35

Class Secretaries: Alma Davis Struble
(Mrs. Robert) 1977 Marlboro Road,
Kennett Square, PA 19348, and the
Rev. Leland Hunt, 10 Murray St.,
Norwalk, CT 06851.

During a recent Literacy Volunteers
convention in Denver, Natalie
Dunsmoor received an award for more
than 15 years of service. Your secre¬
tary, Alma Davis Struble, was pleased
to learn that a fellow Kennett Square
resident had met Natalie in Denver.
After the convention Nat went on to
visit one of her second grade pupils who
is now a clinical psychologist in Boul¬
der. During a drive into Fort Estes Park
they rounded a curve and “there before
them in a sunny Field were hundreds of
elk!” Her year has been filled with
family gatherings, much volunteer work
and two wonderful trips back to Midd—
one for her 17th Bread Loaf Alumni
College session and one for alumni
weekend in May ’92. She is looking
forward to showing her Valentine video
at our 60th and lately she has found the
time and energy to make more than 55
valentines herself. ...Mildred Aubrey
Monagan has been busy sorting the
acquisitions of more than 18 years of
living in the same place. Like a lot of us,
she and Walter are moving to less stress¬
ful living arrangements. This May they
were hoping to move to Wake Robin, a
new community in Shelburne, Vt.
...From Jean Wiley Zwickel comes the
report that they are slowing down,

though I see little evidence of that. On
her next visit to her friend in Pleasanton
prison, Jean hoped to make a sidetrip to
visit Marge Clark Headley. Besides
prison visits, Jean dedicates much of
her time to working on behalf of Puerto
Rican independence. She recently pre¬
sented a workshop on Puerto Rico at the
Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom at Tacoma, Wash.
The Spanish translation of her book is
beginning to be circulated in Colombia.
Her son, Daniel, continues his singing
and his efforts to market Hexadec, the
computer card game he invented.
...Louise Fleig Newman wrote from
Fort Worth but her letter gives little
evidence she spends much time there.
Besides family visits she flew to Mary¬
land to visit friends, made a trip to
Rochester to enjoy the Lilac Festival,
and made a side trip to Akron. Summer
found heron Pleasant Pond, Maine, and
then in Southwest Harbor. In the fall
she visited Ellis Island where her fam¬
ily first set foot in America. During her
travels in and around New York she
found the old familiar places were as
nice as, or better than, her recollections
and that the changes were interesting,
not devastating. ...Avis Fischer has
completed the move to her new apart¬
ment and she and her friend are very
happy with the change. The life, as they
had hoped, is easier. During the Christ¬
mas holidays, Gertrude Knight
Cleverdon spent a day with Avis in the
new apartment. Gert’s son lives nearby
and Avis’ move makes a visit easier.
After Christmas, Avis was spending the
winter in Puerto Rico. (As snow is fall¬
ing abundantly here in Pennsylvania, I
envy you, Avis.) ...Like the Phoenix,
Faith Arnold Diver and Howard arose
from previously-reported disasters and
by May were on the road through Ver¬
mont and New Hampshire, stopping for
a delightful lunch with Lael Sargent
Mancib. In October they drove to
Cornell to visit son Jeff who gave his
father a quick lesson in computers. They
spent Thanksgiving with daughter
Marjorie in Connecticut, where she is
social service director for Groton.
Faith’s Christmas card was a picture of
their handsome grandson, Nicky, ex¬
changing a long, loving look with what
must be his favorite horse. ...Carroll
and Virginia Easier Wilson spent their
second September in Austria. In Febru¬
ary there was a family gathering, with
15 in all! Ginny’s brother, Don Easier
’36, and his wife, Carol (Wheeler) ’36,
and brother-in-law Allison Beebe '38
swelled the number of Midd graduates.
...Your secretary spent a snowy yester¬
day delivering Meals on Wheels and
frantically organizing the notes you have
read. Do you remember receiving a
yellow card on which you could write a
sentence or two and send it to Midd?
One of you made use of that card. Come
on, the rest of you, search out that card
and use it. ...Your other secretary. Lee
Hunt, had a recent telephone conversa¬
tion with Don Brown of Jacksonville,
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or three doubles at tennis weekly, to
keep in trim. They visited their daugh¬
ter in Evergreen, Colo., last September.
Son Donald II had flown his Cessna 6
across the country, bringing his family
to visit his father and mother—much to
the delight of the latter, who were en¬
chanted with their two teenage grand¬
daughters. ...Matt Korwin of
Marysville, Calif., rejoices over the end
of California’s six-year drought. Rains
this past winter, however, have tipped
the scales a bit far in the other direction.
Matt says that snows in the Sierras were
the deepest in a number of years. He and
wife Jeanette, he says, “go along at the
same leisurely pace and wonder about
the future.” ...Phil Mathewson, writ¬
ing from Florida, says this was the 21st
winter that he and Jean have spent in the
South. They were heading back to Ver¬
mont early in May to start their garden.
Perennials and wildflowers were to be
in the forefront this year. ...Warren
Brown of Bemardston, Mass., is the
patriarch of an extended family of four
children, 12 grandchildren and 22 great¬
grandchildren, his wife’s progeny from
a former marriage. ...Your secretary
continues as part-time pastoral assis¬
tant to the rector of a neighboring Epis¬
copal church. He is also priest-in-charge
of the remnant of a parish divided over
the issues of prayer-book revision and
the ordination of women. ...Again our
column ends on a note of sadness as we
report the death of Larry Seelye last
November. Larry was a member of Chi
Psi, received his numerals as a member
of the freshman cross-country team,
and played in intramural sports during
his last three years. A memorial ap¬
peared in the Spring issue.

36

Class Secretaries: Ed and Ruth
(McNulty) Howard, Mountain View
Estate, 19125 N. 93 Ave., Peoria, AZ
85382.

Apologies to all of you who have to hear
about the beauties of the desert and of
Arizona as the price for reading this
column. This past winter, however, we
have seen another side of the desert—
wet desert (a contradiction in terms),
with dry river beds becoming raging
rivers, 12 times normal rainfall and all
of the heartbreak and misery that come
when homes and farms get washed
away, sometimes leaving the land use¬
less forquite a while. Fortunately, we’ve
had no damage in our immediate neigh¬
borhood. We hope the more than 30
tribes of Native Americans hereabouts
have deleted the Rain Dance from their
repertoire, at least for the present. Your
secretaries’ lives are going well, with
no very high peaks and no very low
troughs (if life is like a wave)—sort of
a flattening out, and that is not at all bad.
I doubt if we could stand the excitement
of any great high. So if we get in touch
with you, and you tell us you aren’t

really doing anything and don’t have
any news, you are wrong. The fact that
you are still in motion is, at our age, big
news. So drop a note. Please! ...After
many months, word comes from the
house of Hamilton Shea. (As happens
so many times when hearing from one
of you, we are transported back to the
days in the ’30s when life was mellow
and we were callow fellows and unso¬
phisticated gals.) Ham writes, “We have
just gone through an emotional phase
and, hallelujah, we will survive. I refer
to the decision to lop off the old home
place and all the work and get into a
retirement community where we can
enjoy independent living, as long as we
can manage that, but where other levels
of care are available right there if and
when needed. We have found a delight¬
ful place outside Richmond (where two
of our daughters and families live) and,
as soon as we sell our home, we are on
our way. There is a good Gary Player-
designed golf course there and a regular
program of activities one can get into or
ignore as the mood suits. I am hoping to
find a down-and-dirty regular gin
rummy or poker game at which I can try
to supplement my lunch money to the
level of two Manhattans instead of the
more sensible one.” Ham, may the Great
Planner cause a plump pigeon to roost
in your new neighborhood. We wish
you well! They have taken a large unit
so that Dottie can hang onto the things
she particularly prizes and they will
soon be off into a new phase of their
lives. There will be much, much more
from the red-headed Irishman with the
still sharp mind and truly caustic wit
and tongue in the next issue. ...Dick
Chase sounds both busy and content.
He has high praise for Pres. John M.
McCardell Jr. The Chases attended his
inauguration. Another member of ’36,
former trustee Mary Williams
Brackett, had as her partner in the
processional Ron Brown ’62, Secretary
of Commerce. Dick tells us that he and
Anne have made the decision to “back
off a bit” from their very extensive
motor coach traveling. They have trav¬
eled to all but one of the Canadian
provinces, every state in Mexico, and
all but three states in the U.S.—175,000
miles in all. To quote, “It seems appro¬
priate that our efforts should be devoted
to our country life style. Summers de¬
voted to flower gardens, vegetable gar¬
den and small orchard providing ample
food supply during the growing season
and food to freeze for the winter. Win¬
ter devoted to skiing, downhill in south¬
ern Vermont. Still trying to get together
with Gus Brooks for some cross-coun¬
try,” but, at the time of his writing, there
was little or no snow cover. Dick’s
spring hobby is a small maple sugaring
operation which provides 25 to 30 gal¬
lons of syrup. He also continues to play
trombone and baritone in a “very fine”
town band. He sends his best to every¬
one. ...Speaking of Gus Brooks, I called
Dick Hubbard just about an hour or so
after Dick had lunched with Katie and
Gus. The Brookses were headed for a

skiing date with Rett Hanson
Herrington and her husband. I cer¬
tainly admire the way many of you
handle that white stuff and manage to
get more out of it than a sore back from
shoveling. Dick Hubbard speaks of
about four and a half feet of snow around
his house. The temperature that day
was in the low teens, but a few days
earlier, taking into account the wind
chill, it had been 40 or 50 degrees below
zero. Somehow when I hear that report,
the rain in Spain or on the plain or here
in the desert doesn’t sound all that bad.
...After a number of attempts, I man¬
aged to reach Dr. Bill Carter at his
Princeton, Mass., house. He is well and
retired from his professional duties at
Clark Univ. in Worcester, Mass. His
knowledge of Middlebury is current
and he still returns to Vermont for a
period of time in the summer. I tried to
entice him to put some of his thoughts in
a letter and I hope he does, because it
will be well worth reading. ...Doug
Hall’s death came at the end of October
and his memorial appeared in the Spring
issue. His wife, Caroline, has been kind
enough to supply me with more infor¬
mation. Doug was a KDR. He was bom
in Brooklyn and lived there until he was
six, at which time the family moved to
Larchmont, N.Y. He graduated from
MamaroneckHighin ’32andfromMidd
in '36. He worked for the U.S. Tobacco
Co. in New England, was drafted in ’41,
spent a year as an enlisted man, then to
O.C.S. and then four more years in the
Army. He was sent to Hawaii, where he
met Caroline and was married in Sep¬
tember of ’42. Most of his Army career
was spent in Europe. Went into France
on D-day plus two and through Europe
with Patton’s army in an anti-aircraft
unit. The Halls lived in Baldwin, N.Y.,
and in Chappaqua, each for five years,
while Doug was working for Burlington
Mills and Pacific Mills. He joined 3M
in 1956, so the Halls moved to
Mahtomedi on White Bear Lake near
St. Paul, where they lived for over 20
years. His three daughters were married
there. Doug was active in the Methodist
church and in the Masons. The Halls
moved to Florida in 1978 and, to quote
Caroline, “he thoroughly enjoyed his
retirement life—golf, swimming, trav¬
eling and those great reunions at Middle¬
bury. Two years ago he was diagnosed
as having Parkinson’s disease and de¬
clined very fast. He always had such
fond memories of his college years!”
Our hearts go out to you, Caroline, and
to your daughters—Barbara in Califor¬
nia, Betty in Bangkok, Thailand, and to
Beverly in Denver. He will be missed.
...We are always chilled a bit when we
realize we are one less. To those of you
who haven’t been in touch, I say again,
please , we all want to hear from you—
even just once, even just a few lines. We
all touched each other’s lives just by
being part of that freshman class in the
fall of ’32. You probably wouldn't be
reading this 61 years later if you didn’t
feel, ‘way down deep, that you are still
an integral part of Midd ’36. ...By the

way, the Class of ’28 has assembled a
“Moody Area Collection” in the north¬
east comer of Kirk’s great hall. They
are asking us to check our personal
Midd memorabilia for appropriate
things which might be added. He was
Prexy to us too. Drop a line to us if you
can respond to their request and we will
give you info as to where to send it.
...Although an operation has somewhat
slowed down Barbara Warner Barry,
she still continues her volunteer work at
the hospital where she is in charge of
food for the snack bar. Volunteer work
at the library also keeps her busy. She
spends holidays, Christmas and Thanks¬
giving with her sons. She and Anna
Mayo keep in touch regularly. ...In
Denver, Colo., Dorothy Rich Dollahite
keeps in touch with Harmony Buell
Cooper, Mary Dansereau Howard
and Frances Wilkinson Russ. ...Melba
Spaulding Lombard remarks that her
days are just routine, but her enjoyment
of her children and her grandchildren is
uppermost in her life. She is a volunteer
at the Dover Craft Shop. Although her
husband suffered a heart attack a year
ago, he is fine now with much improved
hearing and walking. ...Jean Barton
Cotton is still exercising on the tennis
court twice a week, weather permitting,
and plays bridge with a golf club group
that plays bridge all winter. The day I
spoke with Jean (February 25), the tem¬
perature was 5 degrees, not good for
tennis but great for bridge. Jean says
she and Dan are just doing run-of-the-
mill stuff but were planning a trip to the
Gaspe Peninsula this summer, and were
looking forward to seeing the last of the
snow and ice that had kept them some¬
what housebound in winter. ...Jean
Edgerton Orr is still running the
Stetson Library as a volunteer activity.
She has put her house on the market and
is making plans to move to Bangor,
Maine, where she will be closer to a
medical center for health reasons, the
most immediate being cataract opera¬
tions. ... Armistead and Eleanore Cobb
Lee made their ritual Vermont visit in
May to visit daughter Rebecca Lee
Samanci ’70 and her family. Rebecca
and her husband have started a small
business, Cobbs Corners, selling pates
to shops and supermarkets. Their ac¬
countant tells them they are among the
few who have prevailed in a new busi¬
ness venture. At Christmas time, the
Lees visited their California daughter
and her family, which includes three
grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
The two married children of Eleanore’s
late sister-in-law, Betty Baker Cobb,
live in Oakland, so they had a real Cobb
family reunion. ...A card from Louise
Hutchinson, Travis ’34 and Maggie
Leach Harris reported that they were
enjoying the ocean, the birds—espe¬
cially a nesting bald eagle—church and
the choir at Bootgreen Gardens, Myrtle
Beach, S.C. Son Stephen drove Maggie
and Travis to Myrtle Beach after they
toured Gettysburg with an autotape.
This was such a moving experience that
it “sparked” them into a study of the

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Civil War while there. ...Russ and Jerry
Kevan Philpott attribute their good
health in part to lots of exercise and they
hope it keeps up. “We have just re¬
turned from a Caribbean cruise which
we thoroughly enjoyed. The British are
so amusing and so much fun! Our table
for 10 was always the last out of the
dining room. So now back to routine.
However, it has finally snowed in
Montreal so I will get out my downhill
skis. I don’t ski on artificial snow—
don’t trust my skis. Of course I'm okay,
it’s my skis that do funny things.”
...Doris Wall Roberts was planning to
be back in Tucson, Ariz., for a couple of
weeks in late March visiting her daugh¬
ter, Nan. We were hoping to play golf
during her stay. ...Mavis Jones Little
spent a couple of nights with Dode at
Marco Island, Fla. In February Dode
had a trip to Mexico—a week in Merida
on the Yucatan with friends and a week
in Oaxaca, which she loves because “it
still retains the Old World atmosphere,”
and then a few days in Mexico City. She
camped with Nancy and family in New
Mexico and Utah, seeing the gorgeous
canyons along the way and doing a bit
of white water kayaking. She is still
carrying on her “little” wholesale biz in
shell lobsters and is presently working
on a large order for Acadia National
Park in Maine for over 5,000 of the
critters. “It’s hard settling down to work
in Florida when I really want to be out
on the lovely golf course I belong to.”
...By the time you read this, Ed and I
will have attended a Midd alumni re¬
ception at the Phoenician Hotel in
Scottsdale. Bill Deacon ’91 reports that
100 fellow graduates live in the Valley.
Hope someone attending will be a bit
older than our grandchildren! We’ll fill
you in later. ...Late news flash! Ed
Howard! HOLE IN ONE! March 5,

1993, at Union Hills Country Club, Sun
City, Arizona!

37

Class Secretary: Mrs. Barbara Hopkins
(Barbara Gregory), 1021 W.
Devonshire Road, Delafield, W153018,
and the Rev. Loring D. Chase, 10 Surry
Hill Drive, Keene, NH 03431.

and has been teaching as an English
intern at Middlebury Union High
School. She has stage managed two
plays at the College, plays in the college
jazz band and has been asked to con¬
tinue teaching a children’s theater course
by the elementary school in Middle¬
bury. “Whether I will get much sleep
this term remains to be seen! ” she wrote
at the beginning of spring term. “But
receiving the Middlebury Class of 1937
Scholarship is surely an incentive to
continue to work hard academically
and to remain deeply involved in Col¬
lege and Middlebury community life.”
...Ramona Ford Emory moved to Or¬
egon last April, and has enjoyed living
there, despite the winter’s rain and snow.
In November she went to Australia,
New Zealand and the Fiji Islands and
loved it all: Cairns, the Great Barrier
Reef, Kuranda, Sydney, Canberra and
Melbourne. ...Doris Cutting writes
from Belmont, Mass., that she keeps in
touch with Middlebury friends, includ¬
ing Mary Taylor Stocker, Doris Ryan
Pitcher and her once-roommate
Catherine Branch Erasure. ...Bea
Lindgren Zaremba still has her gift
shop on Cape Cod (in Chatham). She
enjoys having grandchildren nearby,
ages 24 months to four years, and a two-
year-old great-grandson. ...Janet Gray
Willis writes from Honolulu that she
has been through 12 months of cancer
recovery. “Thank heavens for wigs!”
she quips. Her advice: “Don’t ever turn
down chemo because of what you may
have heard!” ...John ’38 and Carol
Bloom Chalmers rejoice in the birth
(on December 4, 1992) of their first
great-grandson, Zachary Rockow
Chalmers. Their grandson, Seth
Chalmers Janus, is a member of the
Class of ’95 at Middlebury. Carol and
John recently enjoyed a 10-day stay in
southern Jamaica with nine of their
immediate family. They stayed in two
double cottages with kitchens and baths,
but with no electricity or hot water.
However “a friendly local community
and living in a very different culture,
with ocean swimming and some hiking
and leisure to visit as a family, all made
for a real treat.” ...Marshall Sewell Jr.
is “trying to avoid Medicare as much as
possible,” so he keeps fairly busy as
program chairman of the residents’ as¬
sociation in his Whiting, N.J., adult
community. He “wrote an article for
our state hospital journal on ‘under¬
standing retired people’ (as if I did).”
Though he missed our 55th Reunion, he
and wife Joyce “spent a beautiful Sep¬
tember day in Middlebury walking
around campus and having lunch with
Walt and Bobbie Carrick ’40 Brooker."
...Charles and Ruth Schaeffer ’36 Saw¬
yer both attained the age of 78 in Janu¬
ary. Charlie is still teaching anatomy at
UCLA—his 52nd year on the subject
and his seventh as a volunteer. Daugh¬
ter Joan is in biochemistry at UC Irvine,
“cloning genes and I can’t understand
her papers!” The Sawyers get to see
their grandsons fairly often since the
family lives only 50 miles away. “The

older one plays the trumpet and re¬
minds me of my alternate major in
music at Midd,” writes Charlie. ...Ruth
Van Sickle Dyer has been coping with
macular difficulties that beset her vi¬
sion, but is happy to report, “I can still
walk!” Her New Jersey Alumnae Group
(including Dot Mathison Scott,
Eleanor Milligan Dormorit, Mildred
Moore Sheehan and Ruth Furness
Lombardy) had aget-together recently.
Vannie rejoices in her Blue Hills, Maine,
son, and her nearer-by son, daughter
and grandchildren. She has been busy
with the reunion committee for her high
school class. Working on preparations
for that 60th reunion make her deter¬
mined to get to our 60th at Middlebury.
...Muriel (Juno) Jones Corbett says
it’s “amazing how close to the begin¬
ning of the notes the class of 1937 has
become! Can’t be we are among the
oldsters, can it?” Juno and husband
Ross “have given up motorhoming, af¬
ter a 7,500-mile trip last summer to 22
states, including participating in an arts
and crafts show atop a mountain in
western Arkansas—in fog, wind and
cold weather. Loved the canyons of
Utah and the desolate plains of western
Nebraska. It truly is ‘America the beau¬
tiful’!” Juno is still volunteering at the
hospital and singing in the church choir,
“but am finding the high notes are get¬
ting VERY high and squeaky!”
...Caroline Elliott Dorst continues to
make music, both with a piano program
in New London, N.H., and singing in a
chorus doing Bruckner and Haydn with
the New Hampshire Symphony.
Caroline spent a week in Paris with her
daughter: “Want to know the cost of
things? $4 at the Louvre for a glass of
orange juice.” ...A sad note: Paul
Foster's lovely wife, Audrey Dimm
Foster ’39 died in February. Her obitu¬
ary appeared in the Spring magazine.
Our hearts go out to you, Paul. ...Nancy
Blanchard Britton writes from the
Baysmont Retirement Center in
Kingsport, Tenn., where she’s had a
successful interocular implant. She’s
enjoying a dulcimer class and keeps
busy with DAR, Audubon, church ac¬
tivities and the secretaryship of the
Baysmont Assoc. She'd love to share
walking with anyone who might visit
Kingsport, which is only a few hours’
drive from the Smoky Mountains.
...Herb Ellison helped organize the
Fellowship Fund to help residents of
Wood River Village in Bensalem, Pa.
The fund has now reached a quarter of
a million dollars and is going strong.
During the planning stage. Herb re¬
ceived good advice from Walt Brooker
and Marsh Sewell, and many a Wood
River Village resident thanks them all.
...Marion Gerling Church wants her
Midd friends to know that she bought
the stamps for Christmas cards, “but
just couldn’t stand the pain of writing
the messages” telling that her son had
died. She hopes next Christmas will be
more jolly. “Think of all of you often
and wish you’d stop by.” ...A letter
from Robert Zuck's wife, Florence,

Did you know that the Class of ’37 has
a Fund, and awards a scholarship? The
Fund was established at our 25th Re¬
union, and has provided a scholarship
since our 40th Re¬
union in 1977. This
year the scholarship
was awarded to
Anna P. Nolin ’95.
Anna graduated
from Gorham (N.H.)
High School, where
she carried off all
kinds of honors from
all sorts of involve¬
ments. At Middle¬
bury, she’s a regular

Anna P. Nolin ’95 on the Dean’s List, |

informs us that he is seriously ill and has
moved to a nursing home near his son in
Rhode Island. We all certainly wish
him the best. Cards and letters may be
sent to him at The Holiday Home, 30
Sayles Hill Road, Manville, RI 02838.

38

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Herbert Ellison
(Virginia Fischer), Wood River Village,
3200 Bensalem Blvd.,#C102, Bensalem,
PA 19020, and Bruce Brown, RD 2, Box
167, Hamilton, NY 13346.

By the time you read this, we will have
had our 55th Reunion. We had a good
return to our questionnaire in February
and, based on that information, we sent
the whole class an update on many
members. Please keep these lines of
communication open. ...Em Hebard
sent no biographical notes but did indi¬
cate that he would be in Middlebury for
the 55th. ...Ray Brainard was sorry to
say he could not attend. ...Albert Riccio
wrote that Jess and Art Barney cel¬
ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
in November 1992. Their children and
grandchildren helped them celebrate
this momentous occasion. ...We were
sorry to hear of the death of Bob Cairns
on January 28. He had planned to attend
our 55th and had even made reserva¬
tions at the Inn. However he was diag¬
nosed with lung cancer and lived only a
short time after that. ...We were also
saddened by the death of Roland V.E.
Johnson. Dr. Stephen A. Freeman spoke
at his memorial service at Mead Chapel
on January 19, 1993. Dr. Freeman was
serving as vice president of the College
in 1947 when Roland took up his duties
as chaplain. At that time, required daily
chapel was under much discussion.
Attitudes were changing and men re¬
turning from combat were uneasy with
the ritual of chapel. As a result, chapel
requirement was varyingly changed
from daily to three times a week. We
quote from Dr. Freeman’s address:
“Roland was very wise in this difficult
situation. Showing great tact, he tried to
make the chapel service not only a
center for the expression of the reli¬
gious tradition of the College, but also
for its social and personal contacts. A
current phrase, long used, continued to
be, ‘I’ll meet you on chapel steps.’
Besides the scripture reading and hymn
singing, he sought to make chapel a
source of good advice and guidance on
their personal relationships and their
academic opportunities and responsi¬
bilities. His talks were always well
thought-out, low-key and tactful. Very
modest, he also invited faculty mem¬
bers to give short talks on some aspect
of the academic program or some item
in the College calendar. Besides his
important role as chaplain, Roland also
taught in the religion department. He
helped to shape the training of students
going into the ministry. His own expe¬
rience as a pastor, and in the Army,

44 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

made him very helpful. By his modesty
and thoughtfulness, he related well to
the students.” Roland’s memorial ap¬
peared in the Spring issue of this maga¬
zine. ...Herm Benner reports a change
of address: P.O. Box 2655,
Kennebunkport, ME 04046. Is this just
a seasonal change? ...Phyll Malcolm
Mithassel left Seattle on a freighter in
January for a long trip to the South Seas.
This is only one of many such adven¬
tures Phyll has included in her life.
...The Autumn issue of this magazine
will bring you news of the May re¬
union—in case you were unfortunate
enough not to be able to join us at
Middlebury.

39

Class Secretary: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
N. Murray (Gertrude Bittle), P.O. Box
303, 6 Wilson Road, Cornwall on
Hudson, NY 12520.

A great letter from Freddie Wheeler
thanked us for the birthday card and
brought us up to date on family activi¬
ties, including wife Ginny’s 104-year-
old grandmother, who lives with them.
Ginny and Fred do occasional antiquing
and enjoy rare weekends in Savannah
and Charleston. They have three sons
and one daughter whom they see on
holidays. The Bill Herrmanns, Rob¬
ert Rathbones, Doc Lane and Frank
Avery keep in touch with the Wheelers.
Fred’s winter golf was interrupted by
nine straight days of rain, more rain and
fog. They are planning on the 55th.
...Congratulations to Borden and
Louise Roberts Avery for their long
and successful years as innkeepers. We
heard from many sources that they have
sold Lake Morey Inn. Louise wrote that
they will maintain ownership of the
Lake Morey Golf Course and surround¬
ing property. They are staying in their
lovely home on the hill overlooking the
lake. .. Ruthie Coleman Skinner,
Margie Walsh Vertonneau and Bev
Browning Gilbert met for lunch in
Montpelier after the holidays. ...The
Len Andersons celebrated their 50th
anniversary last summer. They visited
their daughter and her husband and
their two grandchildren and have done
no other traveling. Len is still golfing
and is looking forward to the 55th.
...Bill Herrmann and Doss have sold
their house in Grafton, Vt., and have
settled permanently in Williamsburg
Landing, Va. They celebrated their 50
years of marriage in the Tyrolean Alps
in Austria and then toured Germany by
car. Bill is still acting as consultant to
air carriers. At time of writing, he was
working with Tower Air on arrange¬
ments for Hying troops to Somal ia. They
have visited both children and grand¬
children. One visit entailed driving a
Ryder truck load of furniture to
Bartlesville, Okla. ...Bettie Letson,
Coco Farrier Wade, Pat Brewe
Chadwick and Beth Heward Jackson

attended a reunion in Conway, N.H.,
with fellow “sailors” from Victory
Chimes days. John and Betty Reixinger
Mettler were part of the group.
...Roland Anderson and Alice are re¬
covering from an automobile accident.
Alice continues to write every day and
has three novels on tap, but progressing
slowly. Their daughter in Dallas has 3
“J’s”—James, Joseph and John. Rollie
is still in his Spanish studies and was to
use them in Guatemala for four weeks
in July. He recommends All the Pretty
Horses for good reading and the movie
Howard's End. He adds, “Life is good.
Hope the same is true for all Thirty-
Niners.” ...Mary Lou Race Tonge and
Stat moved to a new home in
Spartanburg, S.C. last year. Their niece
and husband supervised the construc¬
tion. Stat plays golf year-round and
Mary Lou “putters” seriously in the
garden. They plan to Hy up for the 55th.

. B.G. Heldman deVeer is occasion¬
ally giving lectures on American art
history. Bob’s medical problem is re¬
sponding to therapy. Many of his aging
golf friends share his problem and en¬
joy talking about it. Highlights for the
deVeers in 1992 included family din¬
ners at the Old Deerfield Inn, Block
Island vacation provided by a daughter,
a trip to Athens and a cruise of the
Greek Islands and a stop-over at
Ephesus, Turkey. ...Olive Holbrook
Nagle says she had no exciting news, in
spite of being in Washington for the
election and inauguration. A big divi¬
dend for living in D.C. is the
Smithsonian, where Olive has signed
up for her third music-related program.
“Schoolboy” Rowe (Dr. Robert A.) ’38
is one of the most popular Smithsonian
lecturers. He is also music director of
the Amadeus Orchestra in Virginia.
...Bill Watt is making plans to maintain
only one home. He and Priscilla will
spend most of the year at their “condo”
on Hutchinson Island, after the home in
Smith Mt. Lake in Virginia is sold.
They hope to do a little traveling.
...Tom’s Johnstown buddy, Ed King,
writes that outside of a detached retina
and dental problems they are doing
well. Mary is still active in church mu¬
sical activities. She gave a benefit con¬
cert for Hunger Relief in Amsterdam,
N. Y. Their summer at Caroga Lake was
taken up with visiting family and friends.
The King grandchildren are all juniors:
one in Colgate University, one in
Watkins Glen H.S., and one in
Johnstown High. ...Anneand JoeTrask
went ballooning with friends in Octo¬
ber. Quiet, peaceful and the fall foliage
was beautiful. They can exchange ex¬
periences in the air with the Jacques in
’94. ...Mel ’33 and Perky Monroe Gla¬
zier report that they have had a healthy
and happy year. They enjoyed visits
from all six of their families. Grand¬
children are in colleges spread from
Middlebury and Maine to New Zealand.
...Forgot to include last time that Bob
Cushman reported that our class tree
dedicated at the 50th is doing well. ...So
many ’39ers have mentioned the great

work Ray and Ruthie Coleman Skin¬
ner did as class secretaries. They were
all saddened to hear of Ray’s death.
Ruthie continues to be a source of infor¬
mation from classmates and is a real
support to us. All your cards and letters
are great. Keep them coming. Hope you
all read Bert MacFadden’s letter. He
does a great job as our class agent and
deserves our support. ...Continuing our
search for missing ’39ers, we are look¬
ing for news of Richard Franklin,
George Greene, Emily Seaman
Hadland, Claudia Bassett Kinraide,
Ruth Brennan Margulies and Vern
Nvstrom.

40

Class Secretaries: Bob and Bobbie
Plumer Alden, 51 Otterside Court,
Middlebury, VT 05753.

Your secretaries did not send out the
annual letter this winter because this
year the College is sending cards to all
alumni on a quarterly basis. We hope
that you will send us news when you
receive a card. ...Verna George Bain is
still very busy volunteering, and still
enjoying in-town/out-of-town and state
and country walking trips. She remains
on the board of directors of Walkabout
International of which she is a group
leader. As we in Middlebury were but¬
toning up for the winter, Vema was
busy putting in plants to bloom all win¬
ter in San Diego. That sure would be a
welcome change. ...John and Jean
Sweeny Hancock were off to Chicago
to spend Christmas with their daughter,
Cindy. ...Lois Gillette Thorkilsen and
her son, Eric, did some sailing last sum¬
mer on their boat around Block Island,
Portsmouth and Newport. ...Bobby
Peek Loftin reports that she is still busy
writing and that she enjoys swims in the
pool in her spare time. ...Jean Rose
Cozzens was happy to report an un¬
eventful year. She enjoyed a visit to
northern Michigan, where she visited
her brother, Neil, at his summer place
overlooking Portage Lake. Jean keeps
busy with the League of Women Vot¬
ers, of which she is on the Dallas board.
...Betty Carpenter Metcalf wrote that
she and Gerry are doing well now, after
both had a few health problems during
the year. She was back into her favorite
activity of cross-stitching, making col¬
ored-picture mats to decorate her kitchen
walls. ...Winter Alumni Weekend be¬
came a real winter wonderland, as the
long-awaited snow came just in time to
provide the best skiing of the winter, up
to then. Both nordic and alpine enthusi¬
asts were able to enjoy the foot of new
snow on the trails. ...It was with sadness
that we received word of the sudden
death of Betty Allen Clay on Decem¬
ber 2, 1992, at her home in St. Croix,
V.I. A memorial appears in the obituary
section of this magazine. We extend
our deepest sympathy to her husband,
son, and daughter at this time. It was

nice that she and her husband were with
us for our 50th. ...Lute Buttolph writes
that he is enjoying winters in Florida,
not far from his dear friend “Cool” Park
’39, and summers on Skaneateles Lake.
The fall of ’91 he enjoyed a Tauck tour
of New Zealand with a WWII army
buddy. The Buttolphs and this couple
had lived together in the States before
he and Lute were sent overseas. On July
5, 1991, he and Marge celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary. Last spring
Lute and three of his army buddies Hew
to Europe and retraced their steps
through England, the Normandy
beaches, the Battle of the Bulge and on
into Germany, and of course three days
in Paris. He’s still healthy and having a
ball.... Dave Goodell and his wife, Polly,
spent two weeks in Italy last Septem¬
ber. Going as a tourist, he found it much
more pleasant and quiet than the year he
spent there in 1943 and ’44. They really
enjoyed this visit. He adds they both
now know at least some of the places
that the V-Mail only referred to as
“Italy.” ...Charlie Straight and his wife,
Paula, celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary with a dinner and dance at
their VFW. They have gone almost two
winters without a killing frost, which is
remarkable for central Florida. Both his
crotons and powder puff plants were
looking great and he had his fingers
crossed for the rest of the winter. ...Hal
(Jordon enjoyed a trip last fall from his
Walnut Creek home to Portland, Ore.,
to visit his son, a doctor at the V.A.
hospital in Portland. The highlight of
his trip was a visit to the “big dam” on
the Columbia River. Hal says it is well
worth a side trip, as the many exhibits
are very well planned and explain all
about the dam and its many benefits.
...Last June, Bob Zurbach joined a
delegation from Pasadena attending the
“Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, oth¬
erwise known as the United Nations
conference on environment and devel¬
opment. He and his oldest grandson
also traveled from the Amazon rain
forest to the Iguacu Falls on the border
of Brazil and Argentina. ...Ralph Swope
and his wife, Helen, had four big events
in 1992. First, they had earthquakes of
7.1,6 and 6.1 hitting their area. Second,
they celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary on May 4,1992. Third, and
still on the subject of weddings, Helen
Hew to New Jersey to attend the wed¬
ding of a grand-niece—just before the
big twister along the East Coast. The
fourth big event was Ralph playing
Jorgy, a lead role in the North Coast
Repertory Theater’s production of All
That Money Can Buy. That was the
same role played by Gregory Peck in
the movie. ...John Gale welcomed his
second granddaughter on November 17,
1992. The baby’s father is Kenneth L.
Gale ’76. Hopefully she will be class of
2014! ...On January 27, Marje Burditt
Striker was looking at a foot of new
snow and all the pines and laurels bowed
with white. Her Hock of juncos—true
snow birds—have called for her to scat¬
ter seed. Her days are full with grand-

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Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

children nearby, and she has become
more involved with prison programs,
especially alternatives to violence,
strengthening her belief in personal re¬
habilitation.

41

Class Secretaries: Topsy Wadlund
House, RD 1, Box3039, Hyde Park, VT
05655, and Lester W. Ingalls, P.O. Box
583, Middlebury, VT 05753.

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?” From the frigid climes of an
old-fashioned Vermont winter, en¬
hanced by the crystalline beauty that
surrounds us, we offer the balmy sum¬
mer news. ...Steve Arnold responded
to our birthday greeting: “Thanks for
your efforts in making the 50th a very
memorable occasion. Maybe fate will
be kind to us and we can do it again on
the 55th. This past year has been very
unusual from a gardening standpoint.
Even the raccoons are taking more than
their fair share of my sweet com.”.. Tom
Bennett writes, “We continue to have a
rather active life in our college commu¬
nity with both Cornell and Ithaca Col¬
lege athletics, concerts, plays, etc. We
also play golf in season and tennis year
‘round. Two of our six grandchildren
are now in college. During the year we
get down to Hilton Head, where we
time-share a villa for several periods of
climate and interest change. We had all
the family members, 14 of us, down
there to celebrate our 50th wedding
anniversary. We continue to enjoy rela¬
tively good health for which we are
thankful.” ...George “Bud” Berry has
endured three major medical problems
which took him to the Mayo Clinic on
as many separate occasions since our
50th in 1991: a ruptured lower back, a
prostatectomy, and removal of his right
eye, injured in a fall at home in Florida.
The good news is that he is recovering
nicely from it all. While Bud and Jane
were vacationing in Alaska last year,
Hurricane Andrew blew across Pump¬
kin Key Largo with devastating effect.
The D/S Amteco, his “second love,”

The Middlebury contingent on a
recent trip to the Galapagos Islands
included Dorsey Milot ’81, Mary
Eimer Leinbach ’42, Meg Buscher
Andrews ’42 and Bill Andrews ’42.
Dorsey works with the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution in
Massachusetts.

broke from her moorings and was driven
ashore. Fortunately, she was not holed
and was subsequently picked off the
beach by a 100-ton crane on a barge and
was towed to Miami for repairs. The
destruction of vegetation was tremen¬
dous. It took three people two days to
cut and clear a path from the dock area
to their house. Bud sends thanks to all
who lent their support with cards, flow¬
ers and friendship through all of these
travails. Hang in there, friend! ...A nice
letter from Mai Frieberg: “Big news is
that we took a garden tour of 19 days in
November in New Zealand and a tour
on our own for nine days in Australia,
winding up at our daughter’s digs in
Richmond, Calif., to decompress. The
tour was great fun and the trip of a
lifetime. In Wellington, N.Z., we caught
up with a former member of daughter
Sarah’s Sierra String Quartet, who is
now a violinist with the New Zealand
String Quartet. In Hobart, Tasmania,
we renewed our acquaintance with a
descendant and namesake of the sub¬
ject of my dissertation at Brown, the
well-known governor of Massachusetts
just before the American Revolution,
Thomas Hutchinson.” In May the
Freibergs anticipated joining daughter
Sarah in Regensburg, Germany, where
her baroque trio would perform. Prior
to that, Mai and Mildred planned to be
on an Elderhostel in Vienna and the
Salzach. Hope that it all worked out!
...Bob Martin reports, “Had 50th wed¬
ding anniversary 11/21/92. All news
from our part of Miami (South) is of
Hurricane Andrew. All conversations
deal with some aspect of Andrew—
damage, insurance, progress of repairs,
etc. Our yard damage was tremendous,
house damage moderate. The shingles
on our roof are just now (February)
being put on, five months after the
storm. It will be many more months
before other repairs (plaster, insulation,
windows, kitchen cabinets, carpet, tile)
are done. We hope to return to
Killington, Vt., for a fourth year in July
and August.” ..."Dingy” Wright “made
it to Vermont this past August to a
family reunion. There are eight broth¬
ers and sisters, 82 years down to 60. The
youngsters call us the ‘big eight,' all of
us intent on keeping it that way.” He
hopes to stay longer in Vermont in ’93
so that some of us can get together with
him. He reports that daughter Carol is
still an RN in the emergency room and
working on her M.S. from Georgia
Southern. As for Ding, “I’m still hold¬
ing my own with the rest of the septua¬
genarians on the golf course and enjoy¬
ing life.” ...Betty Stratton Loomis
writes that Dick had a triple by-pass and
other surgery last Thanksgiving. All
went well. They had both saved up a
number of inside jobs to do while he
was recuperating. She and Caroline
“Buttsie” Butts Dodge talk weekly on
the phone. ...During the winter months,
Connie Girard Brown keeps busy with
a book discussion group, a theater group
and the Friends of the Library board.
The library needs to expand, so there

will be lots of work ahead. ...Edith
“Grimmie” Grimm Miller is taking
courses on what appears to be a full¬
time basis. She’s enjoying courses in
linguistics, literature, music and politi¬
cal science! ...Bud and Gerri Lynch
Palmer finally got the Elderhostel urge.
Their first was at St. Simon’s Island,
Ga., and they loved it. They have led a
quiet life since her hip replacement last
September, but did take a visit to the
Florida Keys. ...Dodie Lathrop Riggs
went to Florida very early last winter—
before Thanksgiving. She had never
spent Xmas in Florida before and the
“Christmas lights outlining palm trees
and plywood snowmen set up on green
lawns seem incongruous when the tem¬
perature is 75-80 degrees.” Dodie is
busy with golf, swimming, long walks,
etc, but still volunteers at the local hos¬
pital. ...In 1992 Mose and Betty
Wolfington Hubbard had many things
to celebrate: college graduation for two
of their grandchildren, the Tall Ships in
Boston, the beach at Cape Cod and their
50th wedding anniversary. As for their
other two grandchildren—one is a se¬
nior at NYU and a budding actress, the
other a third-year student at Vermont
Law School. They planned to attend an
Elderhostel in Philadelphia in March
and were dreaming up other trips. ...Sam
Bertuzzi had such a good time at the
50th that he’s hoping to attend the 55th.
Less than three years off, as you read
this. Can it be? ...Elinor Dziobek is still
working—including overtime—as a
secretary at the Dennis Union Church
on Cape Cod. She does a lot of child
sitting as she has grandchildren nearby.
One of her best friends is Barbara
Wood Verlick. ...Last August Bob and
Polly Potter Tesar took a long cruise in
their boat from Plymouth, Mass., to
Mystic Seaport and up the Connecticut
River as far as Portland. They loved the
river, but were surprised to find it so
shallow. Then they took off for Wash¬
ington, Idaho and Montana. On a side
trip to the International Peace Park in
Alberta, Canada, they got caught in the
earliest snowstorm on record—wear¬
ing summer clothes. Before winter
really came, they spent two delightful
weeks in Brittany and Normandy. ...Ed
and Peggy Waller Glazier enjoyed their
’92 trip to France so much that they plan
to return in '93. ...Mabel and Nelson
Easton went in a different direction:
they enjoyed a cruise to Alaska. ...Dick
Treat and Jean are still talking fondly
of the 50th. It was Jean’s first trip to
Vermont and they are looking forward
to the next trip. Son R.L. Treat II served
24 years in submarines and now works
for the Washington, D.C., subway sys¬
tem. R.L. Treat III is presently in the
U.S. Marine Corps. Dick and Jean send
their best wishes to all. ...Mary Kiely
White writes that there’s nothing new,
“which at our ages is good news.” At
the end of May ’93, they planned to
travel to Alaska with brother Ray ’40
and his wife, Martha. Mary and Roger
were there 21 years ago and have al¬
ways wanted to return. ...The Whites

may run into Charles and Doris Wolff
Bartlett with Doris' brother. Richard
Wolff ’48, who will be part of an RV
caravan to Alaska in June-July ’93.
Doris and Charles celebrated the birth
of their first great-grandchild and 10th
grandchild in '92. Among other activi¬
ties, Charles directs volunteer tax aides
forthe local AARP program. ...Mildred
“Becky” Becker Elefante reports that
Michael fell and cut his eye just before
Thanksgiving. “One week and two op¬
erations later it was necessary to re¬
move the eye. At home on December
2—positive attitude—drives car—looks
distinguished with black eye patch.”
Becky herself continues to play viola in
the Central Florida Symphony. She is
involved in Great Decisions (Foreign
Policy Assn.) discussion group for the
sixth year and she is Bible moderator
for the Presbyterian Women’s Circle,
among other things. She and Michael
worked for the Clinton-Gore campaign
and were delighted with the outcome.
New zip code for Becky: 34481.
...Ginny Brooks Hutton was recently
elected to honorary membership in the
Sanbomton (N.H.) Conservation Com¬
mission. Ginny served on the Commis¬
sion for many years. In addition, the
commission named the very first trail it
cut on town-owned land the “Virginia
Hutton Trail.” Congratulations, Ginny.
She and Red keep very active in their
new location in Laconia. In addition to
running an exercise class three times a
week, Red draws a monthly cartoon for
the Ledges Bulletin. But, to quote Red,
“time seems to move much faster than
it used to and we move much slower.”
...Ruth Carpenter Donnell says that
she sees few classmates between re¬
unions, although she does occasionally
see Nickie Bory Decker in Kissimee,
Fla. In January, Ruth and John attended
their 15th Elderhostel near Albuquer¬
que, N.M., and spent a few weeks tak¬
ing photographs in the area. ...Our class
agents, the stalwart Helen “Westie”
West Burbank and the intrepid Gil¬
bert Hubbard (sometimes a.k.a.
“Mose” or remember when “Bud”) wish
to remind us that there are several me¬
morial funds to which you may direct
your annual giving contributions. They
include the Class of 1941 Memorial in
the Alumni Endowment, the John
Crawford Trask Memorial Scholar¬
ship Fund and the Albert W. Coffrin
Memorial. You may allocate all or part
of your gift to our College by a written
designation when you pledge or pay.

42

Class Secretaries: Mr. and Mrs. Wil¬
liam Andrews (Margaret Buscher), 107-
A Heritage Village, Southbury, CT
06488.

It’s hard to believe that ayear has passed
since the “fabulous 50th.” Our class¬
mates have been busy and we can pass
on some bits of news. ...A few breaks

46 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

last winter— Helen Hooley Young
broke her wrist just before Christmas
and Meg Buscher Andrews her leg.
Both survived and are now doing fine.
Meg and Bill Andrews joined John and
Mary Eimer Leinbach on a trip to the
Galapagos Islands and Costa Rica. We
had a wonderful time and highly rec¬
ommend it. ...Received a report that
Bill Hennefrund had a photography
exhibition in January at the Shutter
Speed Gallery in Middlebury, Conn.
...The alumni office has notified us of
the death of two of our classmates. We
send our condolences to the families of
Carl E. Congdon Jr., who died on
February 13, 1993, and Donald S.
Putnam, who died on December 9,
1992. Their memorials appear else¬
where in this magazine. ...Peter and
Eleanor Thomas ’44 Stanlis summered
in Scandinavia. In January he lectured
on Robert Frost at the Caxton Club in
Chicago. Pat Kane MacFadden was
his guest at this presentation. A fellow¬
ship fund, “The Peter Stanlis Fund,”
was established in his honor for schol¬
arship and service by the American
Society for Eighteenth Century Stud¬
ies. Pat MacFadden took her first
Elderhostel trip to New Orleans in April.
She would like to hear from any class¬
mate looking for a partner in these ad¬
ventures. ...Dorothy Milligan Schuck
has done some traveling. While in New
Mexico she visited Sue Hulings
Ottinger and Harry. At home she does
volunteer work at the local hospital,
church and the Heifer Project Interna¬
tional. ...We do have renowned class¬
mates. John Corbin will be listed in
Who's Who in the South and Southwest,
honoring his work in teaching law.
...Dixie Davis and Dottie are making
good use of their motor home. They
toured New England last summer and
in 1993 are planning to tour New York
State, Eastern Canada and Cape Cod.
He's still playing golf and scoring well.
...Let us hear more from you. We have
such an active and interesting class and
we want to pass on your comings and
goings to our classmates.

43

Class Secretaries: Mrs. J.G. Kriehle
(Amanda Sanhorne), 3646 Tolland
Road, Shaker Heights, OH 44122, and
Dr. S. Peter Nikitas, 41 Stonehenge
Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201 .

Outgoing Secretary Kay Sempepos
Silliman reports: “Our revels now are
ended” and our 50th class reunion has
become a happy memory. Soon you
will receive the 50th Reunion wrap-up,
including impressions of and reflec¬
tions on our four-day celebration, writ¬
ten by Ibi von Thurn Frawley and Bill
Hawkes. The Autumn issue of the maga¬
zine will contain what you're all wait¬
ing for—individual updates from all
who attended the reunion, as well as
communications from those who

couldn’t or didn’t. ...My recent note to
Marian Day Dryer was answered by a
friend of hers at the Vedanta Centre in
Cohasset, Mass., who wrote as follows:
“I am so sorry to have to tell you that
Marian passed away on December 6,
1989. She entered our community in
the spring of 1982. What a wonderful
person she was! Fun, a hard worker,
wonderful with retreatants and guests,
sharp as a tack. Her character, integrity
and deep faith made her an inspiration
to all of us. Marian had brain surgery in
May 1989 to remove a malignant tu¬
mor. Sadly it developed again and she
passed away, nursed and cared for at
our home and surrounded by love and
appreciation.” Marian transferred to
Middlebury from McGill Univ. in her
junior year. She taught French for many
years in the public schools of Brighton
and Great Neck, N.Y. A dedicated
teacher, she encouraged many of her
students to follow in her footsteps as
French majors at Middlebury. A me¬
morial appears elsewhere in this maga¬
zine. ...This issue of class notes brings
with it a partial changing of the guard.

I (Kay Sempepos Silliman) am turn¬
ing over my responsibilities to Amanda
Sanborne Krieble. It has been a joy to
have close contact with so many of you
for the past four and one-half years. I
will miss your calls and letters. Peter
Nikitas will continue as co-class secre¬
tary for the next five years. It’s a win-
win situation—continuity and new
blood!

44

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Charles A.
Brown (Elizabeth Broadhent), 1190
Princeton Lane, West Chester, PA
19380, and David Stebbins, 5 Brennan
Drive, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010.

Planning for our 50th Reunion began in
earnest last February when John
Cadwell, Bob Crooks, Helen
Beardslee Johnstone, Mike Kolligian,
Marmie Jolivette Manning, Hugh
Taft and your class secretaries met at
Middlebury to lay the groundwork for
what, with your help and attendance,
will be a glorious Class of '44 celebra¬
tion. Your secretaries are attending the
50th Reunion of the Class of '43 this
May to “walk through” the four-day
event. Dave’s wife, Irmy (Nierhaus)
'48, co-chaired the 45th Reunion of her
class at the same time. Dave may be a
slow learner but all this exposure might
help. You will have heard from us be¬
fore you read this but we want to make
sure that you save the dates of June 2,3,
4 and 5, 1994, and make every effort to
be there. Also, whether you can or can¬
not attend, please send in ASAP your
“biography” with a current snapshot for
the Class Yearbook. Everyone should
be included in this book. ...Jean
Milligan was enjoying 10 inches of
snow in Burlington, Vt., when we talked
to her last. She must like cold weather

because she spent Christmas in Calgary
and New Year’s in Vancouver, visiting
relatives. She said they didn’t have the
usual “Chinook” warm front that comes
into Vancouver from the Alaska cur¬
rent so it was a cold and windy holiday.
...Eighteen months to two years of ser¬
vice on the federal grand jury in White
Plains is keeping Jane Landes out of
mischief. The duty of the jurors is to
hear evidence and to decide whether or
not a crime has been committed. If the
accused is indicted by the grand jury, he
or she will then go to trial. Jane finds it
extremely interesting, but cannot dis¬
close anything about the cases being
reviewed. ...Irving Wakeman is re¬
covering well from surgery. ...Neil
Atkins had the misfortune to have a
heart attack the day after having suc¬
cessful back surgery, but he is also
recuperating well. ...Pat Noe Bursaw
spent the winter in warm Naples, Fla.,
while Bill ’41 toils away in the cold
North at his oil business. She came
home for Christmas and Bill visits
Florida from time to time. They see a lot
of their eight children and spouses and
their grandchildren in the summertime
at the old farm they have in East
Randolph, Vt. ...Doris Orth Pike was
in Washington, D.C., for festivities the
week before Clinton’s inauguration,
with her husband, Otis, former Demo¬
cratic congressman from New York.
Otis, who writes a nationally-syndi¬
cated political column, stayed on for
the inauguration but Doris returned to
Riverhead to pursue her ESL (English
as a Second Language) teaching and
her activities as a trustee at Dowling
College. On February 11, Doris pre¬
sided at graduation ceremonies and
awarded an honorary degree to Pedro
Serra Bauza, an international author,
Spanish publisher and patron of the
arts. Doris has been on the board of
trustees for 17 years and enjoys the
work tremendously. As a teacher in the
ESL program, Doris says she has “36
students from 21 different countries, all
learning English. A great challenge. I
love teaching them.” ...Another trustee
in our class is Ruth Wheaton Evans.
Ruth is vice chairman of the board of
Andover-Newton Theological School
in Newton, Mass. As such, she chaired
the education committee in their search
for a new president. Mission accom¬
plished. Ruth and Chuck live in a con¬
dominium complex overlooking
Worcester. They Find it “liberating to
be able to come and go as we please."
Ricky sees Nancy Reed quite often, as
she is in Worcester helping to care for
the grandchild of a friend who died.
...Marjorie Jolivette Manning was
watching the inauguration ceremony
with her 93-year-old fatherthe day Betty
talked to her. Marmie moved back to
Vermont to be with her dad and says
he’s a remarkable man. They had a
houseful of family over Christmas and
New Year’s and were enjoying the calm
after their departure. It was a beautiful
sunny day, January 19, and Marmie
was about to go cross-country skiing

outside her home in North Bennington.
...Mary and John Cadwell toured Por¬
tugal in March. We’ll hope for a report
later. ...Barbara and Hugh Taft plan a
trip to the northwestern United States
and Canada in the fall. ...Another trav¬
eling couple are the Louis Menands,
who were in Europe all of April and
most of May. ...Pete Harris was ex¬
pecting a “surprise” 70th birthday
celebration on April 27. He and Bar¬
bara have decided to sell their 50-acre
property in Sanbornton, N.H.—com¬
plete with Christmas trees and tennis
courts. ...Edna and Brick Uphain vis¬
ited Daytona Beach, Fla., in May to
celebrate Edna’s 50th reunion of her
Army Nurses group. Brick had a com¬
plete knee replacement last spring and
is working on rebuilding his leg muscles.
...Jeanne Chatfield Addison and Ed
ward took their first trek to Europe last
year. From Heathrow they “Brit Railed”
to the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of
Clyde, Jeanne’s ancestral home area.
Following visits to Glasgow, Edinburgh
and York, they trained to London where
they spent seven days. They then joined
a bus tour leaving on an overnight
steamer for Holland, returning 14 days
later on a catamaran from Calais. Their
trip took them to Volendam,
Amsterdam, Cologne, Heidelburg,
Rothenburg, Oberammergau, Munich,
Venice, Lucerne and Paris. “A whirl¬
wind trip, but fun!” ...Barbara Dixon
Morton is enjoying mobile home re¬
sales in Venice, Fla., but spent last
summer in New Hampshire closer to
the kids and grandchildren. One daugh¬
ter is a librarian in Mystic, Conn.; one is
a paralegal in Boston; another is an
accountant; her son is associate director
of admissions at Harvard Law School.
Two of her five grandchildren are in
college (at Wheaton and UVM). Col¬
lege age grandchildren, however,
doesn’t mean you still can’tenjoy square
dancing and yoga! ...Gertrude Night¬
ingale Gettel writes from Melbourne
Beach, Fla., that she still enjoys com¬
petitive tennis, occasional bridge,
aerobics, nautilus and biking. Three
trips are planned each year to visit the
Gettel sons and families (seven grand¬
children) in New Hampshire, Texas and
California. ...Bill and Ingrid Monk
Stevenson traveled last September from
their home in Midlothian, Va., to
Lansdale, Pa., for a family gathering of
27 people to celebrate the baptism of
the youngest of their 15 grandchildren.
Other travels include a week in the
Grand Canyon area in October and a
week in London in December, followed
by a couple of days at a castle in Wales
where they saw the New Year in. “Fan¬
tastic!” ...Peter Johnson, son of Leight
and Shirley West Johnson, was mar¬
ried the day after Christmas in Mary¬
land, making three weddings in the
family in 1992! Their daughter, Sally,
was married March 21 in Mead Chapel
at Middlebury. Christopher was mar¬
ried September 12 in Middlebury. Pe¬
ter, the most recent bridegroom, is a
prosecuting attorney in Baltimore

I

SUMMER 1993 47

Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

County, Md. ...Thanks to all of the
above for contributing to this issue.
Without you there would be no Class of
’44 column. So keep us informed on
what’s new (and old) in your life. Your
classmates want to hear from you!

45

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Winslow
WetherbeeJr. (Barbara Boy den), 1642
18th St., Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223,
and Alan Wolfley, 22 Canaan Close,
New Canaan, CT 06840.

News from Darien, Conn., former
howntown of Harold T. McDonald,

M. D., informs us of “Old Timers” Com¬
munity Honors awarded him. As the
Kaleidoscope indicates, Hal started with
us in the fall of 1941 but left after
freshman year for Fordham and WWII
Navy service, followed by a doctorate
degree in 1950 from New York Medi¬
cal College. Hal serves on the staff of
the community hospital in Ellenville,

N. Y. ...Al and Jo Higgins Wolflev
welcomed a sixth grandchild, Andrew
William Wolfley, bom in Bogota, Co¬
lombia, on December 28, 1992.
...Selden Gifford Thomas died on
December 16, 1992, after a brief ill¬
ness. A native of Watertown, Conn., he
graduated from the Taft School in 1941.
He was a member of Beta Kappa frater¬
nity at Middlebury and graduated with
high honors. The Class sends sympathy
to his brother, Truman Thomas ’42, and
to his sister, Louise Lorensen Forbes
’52, of Deerfield Beach and Marathon,
Fla., respectively. A memorial appeared
in the Spring issue of this magazine.
...We need more news from the men of
our class. ...Bob and Lois Faulkner
Dawson acquired their third grandson
recently, bringing the grandchildren
total to seven. Lois is still enjoying life,
especially the hiking, in the mountains
of North Carolina. They have been on
seven Elderhostels and hope to go on
more. Fascinated with New Mexico,
Arizona, Colorado and Utah, they plan
another trip there soon. .. Helena Cioffi
Stoffel still enjoys the excitement of
living in Washington, D.C. Since she
thought Middlebury only bred Repub¬
licans, she is delighted to see Ron Brown
’62 as a Cabinet member. Helena does
some volunteer work and lots of
babysitting. She is thankful that she and
husband Al are still in reasonably good
health. ...Ruth Jean VanNoy Buell
retired in January 1989, after 12 years
as medical administrative secretary at
Prince George’s Medical Center. She
reports that she has been busier than
ever since then, doing church work,
helping to feed and clothe the homeless
and being involved in politics. Ruth
Jean has been widowed since 1977 and
lost her younger son, Tom, in an auto
accident five years ago. In 1990 she
went to Europe and saw the Passion
Play in Oberammergau, Germany. She
has seven grandchildren nearby and her

eldest grandson lives with her. ...Elaine
King Dandh’s play, Two Worlds , has
been produced by Pro-Teatro. Set in
Guadalajara, the humorous plot revolves
around a “gringa” from New York, her
maid, their families and their different
lifestyles. Elaine commented that she
based the comedy on her personal expe¬
rience of living in Guadalajara for six
years. Elaine and her husband left for a
trip to Thailand and India in December,
planning to return to Mexico in late
March. ...BA Evans King is delighted
to live in the same town as her Middle¬
bury roommate, Barbara Walters
Mudd. Their paths cross frequently,
particularly over shared environmental
concerns. BA says both she and Barbie
have served as “Queen of the Dump”!
Barbie has done a remarkable job of
making recycling an important activ¬
ity, working to get the bottle bill passed
in Massachusetts, and energizing a net¬
work of like-minded souls throughout
the many towns in the area. They also
share news of children and grandchil¬
dren and have occasionally gotten to¬
gether with Al ’44 and Hedy Hogg
Boissevain and Jo Kirk Komow. BA
and husband George traveled to Greece
and Seattle last fall to visit some of their
children and grandchildren. They travel
frequently to keep up with their seven
children and 10 grandchildren. ...Jim
and Midge Harwood Greer are enjoy¬
ing their new home in Nottingham,
N.H. They enjoyed a month in St. Pe¬
tersburg Beach last winter, and spent a
day with Win and Baba Bovden
Wetherbee, who were vacationing a
few miles up the beach. Jim and Win
managed to get in some tennis and of
course Midge and Baba got caught up
on the news. ...George and June
Robinson Reenan took a Canyonland
tour last fall. They particularly enjoyed
Bryce Canyon. At Thanksgiving they
had all 16 of their children and grand¬
children with them, a merry time for all.
In October Char Hickcox visited with
them in Endicott. George and Char
played a little golf. After the holidays,
June and George headed for Panama
City Beach for a three-month stay.

46

Class Secretaries: Mrs. DonaldT. Means
(Mary Nasmith), 3414 Miller Heights
Road, Oakton, VA 22124, and Sheila
Schmidt (Hamilton) Rowland, 1152 East
St., Southington, CT06489.

I (Mary Nasmith Means) find that one
of the benefits of being a class secretary
is the contact with classmates I haven’t
kept up with over the years. It’s really
fun to hear about the varied interests
and activities of our Middlebury class¬
mates. ...Since her retirement, Mary
Anderson Williams has been very ac¬
tive in Senior Olympics, both in swim¬
ming (she loves the backstroke) and in
track (she does both the broad jump and
the long jump). Mary competes in both

the Northern Virginia SeniorOIympics
and also the State of Virginia Senior
Olympics held at Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg each year. Mary was a gold
medalist in both the 50-meter and 100-
meter backstroke last year in Blacksburg
and she also won a silver medal in
throwing (a frisbee, she said with a
laugh. Don't laugh, Mary. I’m im¬
pressed!). Mary has attended several
Elderhostels, most recently (in Janu¬
ary) a study of the coastal ecology of St.
Simon’s Island, Ga. Mary also took up
tap and line dancing about a year ago.
She performs several times a year with
a group of about 10 dancers. She sounds
bubbly and happy—must be all that
goodexercise. ...Jean Anderson Battey
Lewis has been dancing and writing
about dance for years. I remember read¬
ing dance review columns in the Wash¬
ington Post over the years with the by¬
line Jean Battey Lewis. When I called
her to chat I was ashamed to admit that
I didn’t really know to whom I was
speaking until she gave me her maiden
name. Then I found her picture and of
course I remembered her. Jean was a
war bride, married in October '44. She
moved to Colorado when the Navy sent
her husband there, and then to Japan
where they lived for five years. In addi¬
tion to rearing three children, Jean found
time to teach both dance and choreogra¬
phy. She has been a devotee of both
ballet and modem dance since herteens.
Her college teacher, Dorothy Madden,
later left Middlebury and became the
driving force in creating a fine dance
program at the Univ. of Maryland, be¬
fore leaving to start her own performing
company. Jean travels about the U.S.
evaluating different dance companies.
When I called, she had just returned an
hour earlier from Italy where she com¬
bined a pleasure trip with a business trip
connected with La Scala. Jean’s daugh¬
ter, Megan Battey ’79 (slide curator in
the Middlebury art department), was
married to George Todd (Middlebury
College music prof.) last May and the
two have spent the past year in Venice,
Italy. Megan is fascinated with archae¬
ology after two digs in Italy. Jean and
husband Paul had a marvelous time
visiting the newlyweds in Italy. Jean is
the dance consultant for the National
Endowment for the Arts. She has taught
many courses in dance appreciation with
the Smithsonian Institution in their resi¬
dent associates program and recently
taught “Looking at Ballet” at the
Kennedy Center. ...Doris Smith
Earnshaw has partially retired from
teaching at the Univ. of California,
Davis. In the winter of ’93 she was
teaching a course on women writers of
Africa, Asia and Latin America. “Last
summer was special—four grandchil¬
dren and my three children were to¬
gether for a holiday in Davis.” ...Mary
Elizabeth Cummings Nordstrom (10
Inverness Road, P.O. Box 4225,
Pinehurst, NC 28344—note new box
number) is VP for Nordstrom Associ¬
ates, husband Everett’s home-based
fundraising consultant service. Ev is

now enjoying four unscheduled days
per week. Mary says that “Pinehurst has
been our best move of many over the
years. I joined the NC Poetry Society,
the NC Writers Network, and am an
ongoing active member of American
Guild of Organists.” She has five chil¬
dren and four grandchildren. ...Helene
Jacober Siegel is happy that Gerry's
retirement has brought her the opportu¬
nity of taking care of their two wonder¬
ful granddaughters, ages 3 and 18
months, two days a week. Helene went
to her 50th high school reunion in May
for which, she says, “Barbara Busing
Harris worked very hard and did a
great job. Where did all those old people
come from? Had a great trip to Italy in
September. Play tennis with Paula
Knight Jeffries ’41 every week.”
...Helen Riggs Rice keeps busy with
the Beirut Reunion Group (people who
used to live, go to school and/or work in
Beirut, Lebanon, where Helen grew up)
which meets every other year. She is
also deeply into genealogy. The Rices
traveled to Turkey in 1990, while this
year they went to both England and
Iceland. She attended two high school
50th reunions—one for her American
Community School (Beirut) and the
other for Newton (Mass.) High School.
Hubby George plays and works on pipe
organs. He is also on the board of a local
little theater. They enjoy seeing their
six grandchildren often as two sons live
in town (Omaha) and their daughter
lives in Kansas City. “Our Midd class
reunion is only three years away—hope
both George and I can make that.” ...Last
year, Bob and Peg Romer Jones Hew
to Genoa, Italy, where they boarded the
MV Victoria for a six-week cruise
around the coast of Western Europe—
Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Guernsey,
Dover and Amsterdam during the first
two weeks. Peg writes, “Though we
had both been to England more than
once we had never been to Canterbury
which is a short train ride from Dover.
We passed down the Roman Wall, had
a proper Ploughman’s Special for lunch
in a pub and then walked where the
Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, et al., had
walked before us. How do you describe
the glorious prayer that is the Cathedral
itself, lifting your eyes and your soul
heavenward?” Had a quick phone call
(on February 20) from Peg an hour
before she was leaving for a trip to my
first homeland—China. They were to
visit Beijing and Xian, take the Yangtzee
River cruise, then Shanghai, Guilin,
Guanzhou and Hong Kong. Peg prom¬
ises to write in detail after their return.
...Just as Helen Riggs Rice is active in
a Beirut Reunion Group, I am involved
with the Shanghai American School
Association, having the fancy title of
2nd vice president (fortunately a fig¬
urehead-type job so far). The SAS
classes of '42 and ’43 are having a joint
reunion on May 21-23 in Arlington,
Va., and I’m on the committee. It looks
as though we’ll have quite a group, as
125 have registered. There are so many
interested in China in this area that we

48 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

often have get-togethers. The camara¬
derie that exists between those that grew
up in China is amazing to our spouses
who at times wonder why we want to
see each other so often. We look for¬
ward to hearing our speaker, Nien
Cheng, who wrote Life and Death in
Shanghai , the story of her life and her
daughter’s tragic death. Arrested by the
Red Guards in 1966 during the Cultural
Revolution, she was subjected to count¬
less interrogations and almost seven
years of solitary confinement in the
attempt to make her confess that she
was a “spy for the imperialists.” Unable
to break her, they finally released her
from jail in 1973. One friend to whom
I lent the book told me she felt every
American should read it to realize how
much we take our own freedoms for
granted. ...Don and I enjoyed a visit
with Cliff and Jane Drury MacLeod
in December. The MacLeods were in
Alexandria for a week to see the sights,
some relatives, the Hellekjaers and the
Means. Jane and Cliffs family are all
fine. Their 10 grandchildren are all in
California. Jane reports driving to
Vancouver, B.C., for a meeting of Clan
MacLeod, after which they took a bus
tour through the Canadian Rockies to
Calgary and back via Fort MacLeod,
spending a day in Victoria before head¬
ing back to sunny Claremont. ...Per and
Mary Jane Selleck Hellekjaer had a
veritable feast of travel this year, begin¬
ning with a trip to Morocco and Spain.
“Morocco was fascinating. Put it on
your list! Spain had gotten very touristy
and expensive since we were there 15
years ago,” In August they went back to
Norway with a side trip to Berlin via a
Norwegian bus line. They also drove a
rental car about 250 miles north of Oslo
to Roros, near the Swedish border, an
old mining town and a living museum
of 300-year-old houses and mine build¬
ings. Mary Jane and Per have had fam¬
ily reunions in North Carolina with
Mary Jane’s brother, Pete, and sister Jo
Anne Selleck Woolsey ’48. In Novem¬
ber, they had the unforgettable experi¬
ence of spending four days as guests of
Lady Bird Johnson in Texas—two
nights at her Austin home and a night at
the Ranch in Stonewall. They enjoyed
VIP tours of the Library and Wild-
flower Center and personal tours by
Mrs. Johnson of Austin and her Texas
Hill country. They found her to be a
walking, articulate encyclopedia of
Texas history and flora and fauna. They
then flew to Houston to meet a couple
they had traveled with last year in Indo¬
nesia. Together they took a day trip to
Galveston and also spent several hours
at the new Space Center at NASA.

47

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Robert E. Fry
(Betsy Hornaday), 405 Vassar Ave.,
Swarthmore, PA 19081, and Mrs. Ben¬
jamin W. Heath (Joyce Walsh), 13
Marble St., Brandon, VT 05733.

We begin with a letter from Joshua
Tyree. Joshua Tyree? Who’s he? Why,
he’s the recipient of our Class of 1947
Memorial Scholarship for ’92-'93! And
here’s what he says: “I’m writing not
only to express my pleasure and thanks
for receiving the honor, but also to tell
you a little bit about myself. I am a
sophomore and an English major from
Madison, Wis., lured to Middlebury
because of its outstanding reputation in
English and literary studies. My plea¬
sure is writing: stories, poems, any cre¬
ative or imaginative project, and I am
involved with Frontiers as a member of
the prose board. Though I plan to write
all my life, my career plans (if a young
man my age can be said to have career
plans) and interests lie in publishing,
editing, or some other connection with
the world of books and literature. I am
also involved with a new organization
which holds poetry readings at the
Gamut Room (in the basement of
Gifford) which gives anyone with guts
the chance to express their deepest feel¬
ings to a large and (usually) generous
crowd. I am taking full advantage of the
various winter sports here and am tak¬
ing in once again the stunning beauty of
the mountain winter, the snow-covered
buildings and white forests and Fields,
the rushing icy beauty of Otter Creek as
it winds through the town—all mag¬
nificent. It’s a first-rate place to be at
any time of year, and I feel it tinges my
academic learning with the true touch
and rhythms of nature.” Wow! Good
choice! ...A Graduate Award in History
has been established in honor of Fred
Williams by a former student, “in rec¬
ognition of Professor Williams’ out¬
standing teaching and service at Michi¬
gan State University.” Now an emeritus
professor, Fred invites us to “stop by for
some cheer, chat and chow” at their
summer place on Walloon Lake (776
North Shore Drive, Walloon Lake, MI
49796) between May and September.
Fred wrote about the Wharton Center
and some of the fascinating details of
arranging the third presidential debate
there. ...Eric Bunzel claims that he
“flunked retirement.” He retired in Oc¬
tober 1991, “after 22 years of fascinat¬
ing involvement in international mar¬
keting of steel at Cargill, Inc.” In less
than a year he took on a management
consulting job which takes him to Bos¬
ton and eight other branches once a
month. He enjoys touching base with
classmates. ...Alice Delorenzo
Stansbury writes from Fairfax, Va.,
that the freedom of this time of life is
marvelous. Almost ready to retire from
Mobil, they are about to travel to Eu¬
rope and are putting off the decision of
where to settle down. ...Liz Young
Condon Anderson was planning a trip
to South Africa in March and April. Her
youngest, Marcia Condon, who gradu¬
ated from Middlebury in 1980, was
married in Berkeley last June. The whole
family celebrated there. ...Victor
Springer (new address: 111 N. Everett,
#306, Glendale, CA 91206) and his
wife visited their daughter and husband

in La Paz, Mexico, on the Baja Penin¬
sula last June—the hottest in 50 years!
Their young people are missionaries
there. ...Carolyn Leach Gorman, who
received her master’s degree in coun¬
seling from Johns Hopkins Univ. in
Baltimore, is now a counselor for the
AIDS Service under the department of
psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. She is
wonderfully enthusiastic about the ex¬
hausting work. ...Joanne Buckeridge
Booth and Cap reported the great fun
they had taking part in the pre-inaugu¬
ral activities last January with thou¬
sands of others from all over the U.S.
On Inauguration Day they joined the
spectators along the parade route and
waved to president Clinton. “Living 20
minutes away from Washington, D.C.,
continues to be exciting!” ...We were
sad to hear from Lynn Bruhn about the
November 22, 1992, death of Mary
(Polly) Belcher Dello Russo in Albu¬
querque, N.M. Polly and Lynn went to
high school together in Westfield, N.J.
Polly was a member of Delta Delta
Delta sorority and was active in the
Mountain Club, Choral Society and
College Players. She married Robert
Dello Russo of Westfield, N.J., in 1946
and divorced in 1971. For a number of
years Polly had suffered from deterio¬
ration of the spine which had required a
number of operations. Before her move
to Albuquerque, she was a resident of a
nursing home in Plainfield, N.J. While
in Westfield she was a member of the
First Congregational Church and a long¬
time member of the Westfield Advance
Club. We extend our sympathy to her
family. A memorial appeared in the
Spring issue of this magazine.
...Marjory Nelson Bench has moved
to Venice, Fla., Helen Swan Cawood
to Brandon, Vt.; and Eunice
Goodfellow Ratnaike to Glendale,
Calif. (Why did the press have com¬
ments about Hillary Rodham Clinton
keeping hermaiden name? We’ve been
doing it since before she was bom!) ...A
chance encounter with Janet Kraft
West out walking on Bainbridge Is¬
land, Wash., one sunny Sunday revealed
more of her travel plans and continuing
work at the HELP LINE Center there—
an ongoing saga. ...How about a snap¬
shot from your mini-reunions? Any
book or movie recommendations? (Any¬
one else catch Tous les Matins du
Mondel) Joyce and I will gladly share
your addresses. Let us hear from you!

48

Class Secretaries: Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Kellogg (Marya Steele), 7 Murdock
Court, Middlebury, VT 05753.

Outgoing Secretary Fran Van Cleve
Smith begins her report with special
thanks to Boh Kellogg for his wonder¬
ful job of putting together the news
items for our Reunion newsletter. ...Al¬
though Helen Thwaits Buttel (766 S.
Front St., Philadelphia, PA 19147) was

away and wrote too late to be included
in the newsletter, she wanted to express
her appreciation for it, “with all of its
wonderful reprints of ’44- ’48 newsclips
from The Campus, as well as the won¬
derful notes from so many people whom
we all know and love.” She regretted
having to miss Reunion, but she and her
husband were to be out of the country at
reunion time. John M. Hale, in Au¬

burn, Calif., is still enjoying full-time
work. His community involvements
include a homeowners association and
the governing board of a senior nutri¬
tion program for central California. He
also spends some weekends hiking and
camping in the Sierra. ...Last May, Janet
Kohler enjoyed an Elderhostel at the
SEA, between Falmouth and Woods
Hole, Mass. Another Elderhostel in
September took her to the Adirondacks.
Staying in cabins on Indian Lake, they
took in the Adirondack Museum, vis¬
ited Sagamore and enjoyed a boat ride
on Raquette Lake. In June, she had a
fabulous Amtrak trip all around the
country, with stopovers in New Orleans
and Seattle, a day in Chicago and a
nine-day visit in Grand Junction, Colo.
...Doris Maurer Thompson is
babysitting grandchildren Thompson
and Taylor Limaneck in Shelburne, Vt.,
and Kaylee Thompson in North Granby,
Conn. A visit to Jack and Nancy
Rindfusz Bates (both ’42) included golf
and a Clemson football game. Perry is
busy with tennis, golf and volunteering
at the Midd town library. Dave ’49 is
busy with tennis, golf and volunteering
at Porter Hospital and Porter Nursing
Home. They have spent three weeks in
Antigua for 16 straight years, plus many
two-week stays in Virginia and South
Carolina. “Tough life,” she concludes.
“Retirement in Vermont is terrific.”

.. Stew Washburn sent a postcard from
Canal de Panama. He was Caribbean
cruising “Mo Bay,” Costa Rica,
Cartagena and Aruba. Funny thing is
we were also at the Panama Canal on
December 1. My husband was stationed
there 50 years ago in the Army Air
Force. ...News arrived from Anne
Saurman Myers, “a voice from the
distant past.” She and Bill are in full
retirement. For 12 years they owned a
B&B on Cape Cod, which they allude
to as their “early retirement.” They were
fortunate to sell the property last spring
to coincide with the availability of a
perfect home on the water, less than a
mile from the inn. Last summer, all five
children and nine grandchildren visited
them. They were recently on an
Interhostel trip to Bavaria with Joan
L’Episcopo Muset and joined trips
planned by Mini Wade and Charlie
Butts touring the Inner Hebrides is¬
lands off Scotland. They enjoyed a din¬
ner reunion with Nancy Cheesman
Baetzhold and Mim Wade Butts, as
well as a hasty luncheon with Betty
Reid Buzby in New London, N.H., on
their way to the Trapp Family Lodge.
She closes, “Hope to see you at the
Reunion next May.” ... We have some
new addresses to report. Margaret

SUMMER 1993 49

Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

I

Curtis Burckes prefers Box 74, Calais,
VT 05648. She works for Washington
County Mental Health in Montpelier,
Vt. ...Christ Christ is at 286 Bertha
Bums Road, Inman, SC 29349. ...Joan
Sherman Riebow is at 14C Pinehurst
Manor, Pinehurst, NC 28374. ...We have
new phone numbers for Elaine Pankopf
Cummings. 908-232-7374, 908-464-
1718; and J. Anne Saurman Myers,
508-432-3712. ...Robert Todd is no
longer with Citibank NA in New York.
His phone is 805-969-4318. ...Sylvia
Smead Gallagher is no longer at Pio¬
neer Valley Regional School.. ..Kather¬
ine Rapp Nathan (prefers Mrs. Kather¬
ine Nathan) is no longer at Grumman
Data Systems in Woodbury, N.Y.
...John H. Fitzpatrick has an addi¬
tional phone number: 413-298-4670.
...Lawrence C. Thompson is at 12705
S.E. River Road, #704E, Portland, OR
97222. ...We received many news items
which arrived too late to be included in
our 45th Reunion booklet. Louise
Planck Terry (112 Ocean Ave.,
Bayport, NY 11705; 516-472-0108)
attended the German School at Middle-
bury last summer and enjoyed renew¬
ing her contact with the College. As the
secretary of the Long Island Chapter of
the American Association of Teachers
of German, she was recently nominated
co-chair of a foreign language confer¬
ence to be held on Long Island in No¬
vember. ...Thomas J. Whalen (19
Cherry St., Bridgewater, MA 02324;
508-697-2058) retired on September 1,
1988, as superintendent of schools in
Weston, Mass. He has served for 20
years as superintendent in Pittsfield,
Brockton and Weston. He is now an
adjunct professor at Bridgewater State
College as well as an educational con¬
sultant to several school districts. He
and wife Julie have five children: Thom¬
as J. Whalen III (an anesthesiologist in
Vermont), Christine T. Samas (a clini¬
cal psychologist in Northhampton,
Mass.), Patrice Wilson (an attorney in
Newton, Mass.), Denise Conway (an
attorney in Manhasset, N.Y.) and Mary

Gans (an attorney in Weston). James

R. Campbell (14301 Yosemite Court,
Rockville, MD 20853; 301-460-5676)
was employed by United Airlines from
1948 until his retirement in 1989. He
had several assignments, the last and
longest of which was account executive
for government and military sales. A
resident of the Washington, D.C., area
since 1950, he continues to travel to
many interesting places around the
world and enjoys leisure pastimes of
gardening and woodworking. ...Edith
Titus Harman (Box 585. Middlebury,
VT05753; 802-388-2782; work—508-
744-0991) has announced her intention
to retire as of January 1994! “Leaving a
position I have enjoyed so much is not
easy and would be untenable were it not
for the desire to spend more time with
children and grandchildren who are
spread throughout the country. If any of
you are ‘on the road,’ please put Salem,
Mass., on your itinerary. You can be
sure of a red carpet welcome at the

House of Seven Gables where I enjoy
the beautiful waterfront ambiance night
and day, as I reside in the historic site as
well as work there. There is plenty to
see and do in this historic city and we
would welcome your visit. ‘Home’ con¬
tinues to be Middlebury, Vt., with vi¬
sions of Orleans, Mass., (Cape Cod) as
a shared retreat in retirement.”
...Patricia Malone Bothwell (RD 8,
Deer Hill Road, Carmel, NY 10512)
was sorry not to be at our 45th, but
hopes for our 50th. She was recently in
Orlando, Fla., where husband Bruce
was doing an interview for a superin¬
tendent search. Pat and Bruce run a very
successful educational consulting busi¬
ness. While in Florida, they visited St.
Augustine, Gainesville, St. Petersburg/
Tampa and Long Boat Key, and went
down to Sanibel and Captiva. The high¬
light of their trip? Their meeting with
Pres ’47 and Joan Spross Carr. “We
drove to New Smyrna Beach, had lunch
at a charming restaurant by the water
and then walked the wonderful board¬
walk across the dunes. Joan and Pres
have moved to Vancouver Island—
which isn’t exactly next door. They
look great, and I think all ’49ers age
gracefully!” The Bothwells traveled a
lot in 1992, including a February week
in San Diego; a week in July “among
the infamous Adirondack black flies”;
two and one-half weeks in Hawaii in the
fall (arriving one day after the devastat¬
ing hurricane Iniki); and nine Novem¬
ber days at Sea Pines, Hilton Head
Island, S.C. They enjoy working with
wood, refinishing antiques and garden¬
ing. Her three kids and Bruce’s two are
fine and they have a grandson. Pat closes:
“I've always had a good feeling about
Midd, and a favorite memory is the way
the Chapel looked against a brilliant
sunset—and nothing has moved me so
much as the ‘Amen’ sung by the choir.
Happy Reunion.” ...Bob Fuller (P.O.
Box 24268, Gallows Bay, St. Croix,
USVI 00824; 809-773-9298) and wife
Mary still reside on Saint Croix, but are
listing their property for sale. They hope
to relocate to the Southwest and look
forward to traveling and visiting their
seven grandchildren. ...LiviaRemmler
Rosman (1010 Keeler Ave.. Berkeley,
CA 94708; 510-525-1883) has four
children: Ian (MacDonald Oceanogra¬
phy Ph.D., married, two children—
Colin, 3, and Basil, 4 mos.), Karin (in
science education, getting her M.A. in
public administration), Rick (aerospace
engineer for Boeing in Seattle) and
Rebecca (gemologist and jewelry de¬
signer in L. A.). Husband Richard (Ph.D.
psychologist for Kaiser Hospital for 27
years) is retiring in June. They’ve been
married over 35 years. Livia is a Ger¬
man teacher (Adult School and UC
Berkeley Independent Study), a docent
at Audubon Ranch (sanctuary for her¬
ons and egrets), a tour guide and peren¬
nial language student (working on Span¬
ish; has had many summers of study in
Heidelberg, Germany), an avid trav¬
eler, a hiker and sometime skier. She
closes, “See you in Vermont!” ...Phil

'50 and Sue Cooke Turnbull (12806
St. Andrew Drive, Kansas City, MO
64145; 816-942-8723) are enjoying re¬
tirement lifestyle, although she notices
she seems to go to a lot of meetings.
After never living any place longer than
six years in their married life, they’ve
now been in Kansas City for seven.
Unfortunately, none of their seven chil¬
dren and five grandchildren live in the
area. They visited Roy and Bev Bovnton
Kinsey in Fountain Hills, Ariz., last
February and have seen John O’Connor
’50, Bob Simpson ’50 and Jane Baker
’49 in the East, and see Lee Cuniff
Ketzel '49 who lives in nearby
Lawrence, Kans. Their children gave a
surprise 40th anniversary party for them
on December 26 in Scotch Plains, N.J.
John O’Connor ’50 was in attendance.
Phil and Sue continued the celebration
with a t wo-week cruise in January to the
Caribbean and through the Panama
Canal. Sue keeps in contact with Ann
Walthall Kittredge. who now man¬
ages a resort called McCall’s Beach
Castle in Longboat Key, Fla. She sees
Jean Webster Skoien from time to
time. Says Sue, “Can you believe it’s
been 45 years—almost—since our
graduation from Middlebury?! We’re
looking forward to Reunion.” ...Dick
and Edith Pinckney Williams John¬
son (Christmas House, Byfield, MA
01922; 508-465-8044), both retired,
grow practically all of their own pro¬
duce and have a small flock of hens.
They have four generations at their
house for Christmas, including seven
grandchildren. For civic contributions
they monitor radiation from the
Seabrook nuclear power plant and test
water in the rivers and estuaries for
Massachusetts Audubon. Edith plays
the viola with a small chamber orches¬
tra and Dick serves on the boards of a
conservation organization and a his¬
torical society. ...We regret to report the
death of Robert H. Hoaglund on No¬
vember 29, 1992, and of Donald B.
McGuire Jr. Bob’s memorial appeared
in the Spring issue; Don’s can be found
elsewhere in this magazine. ...We re¬
ceived a thank you note from the recipi¬
ent of the scholarship of the Class of
1948, Alyssa Sveden ’94, who is an
English major with a specialty in cre¬
ative writing. “I am concentrating in
social and personality psychology. This
year I am a Junior Counselor living in
Stewart. I also spend a great deal of time
working in the admissions office as an
office aide and tour guide coordinator.

I would like to extend my thanks to you
and your classmates for making it pos¬
sible for me to be at Middlebury.”

49

Class Secretaries: Mary Ashworth
Anderson, 5431 Crestline Road,
Wilmington, DE19808-3625 (302-737-
3403), and Boh Trimmer, 398
F earrington Post, Pitt shorn, NC27312.

Barbara Girard Scali has been a para¬
legal for over 40 years and she has no
plans to retire. In son Joe’s law office,
the “younger women keep her from a
‘fuddy duddy' outlook.” Husband Nick
retired as president of the Middletown
(N.Y.) Savings Bank in August 1992,
after 40 years in banking. He continues
as president of the bank’s holding cor¬
poration and is on three other corporate
boards. They have seen much of the
U.S., travel annually to Europe and
enjoy walking in the Alps. From
Middletown, N.Y., they have easy ac¬
cess to Manhattan for the opera, sym¬
phony and museums. Taking two Ital¬
ian courses per term, Barbara says she
is functional, but not yet bilingual. The
Scabs’ second son, Tom, who gradu¬
ated from the Univ. of Rome, is bilin¬
gual. He’s a senior resident in internal
medicine at Long Island College Hos¬
pital (Brooklyn Heights, N. Y.). Son Joe
and his lawyer wife have a son and
daughter. Barbara’s sister, Connie
Girard Brown, graduated from Middle¬
bury in 1941. Barbara reports that
Harold Suresky is in business in nearby
Goshen and is “an outstanding commu¬
nity member.” ...Barbara Schobinger
Short retired in 1992 as a librarian with
Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
Husband Abram retired in 1968 as as¬
sistant postmaster in Westfield, N.J.,
where they live. Formerly an avid golfer,
she now enjoys swimming and reading.
In 1990, they stayed in Ocho Rios,
Jamaica, where they climbed Dunn’s
River Falls, took a tour across the moun¬
tains to Kingston and visited the farm¬
ers’ market daily. They want to tour
more of Jamaica. ...Tony ’50andCleone
Jones Sporborg retired 15 years ago.
Cleone was director of a remedial read¬
ing program staffed by volunteers in a
home for neglected and dependent chil¬
dren. Tony was director of curriculum
in the Newtown, Conn., public schools.
Cleone has served on the boards of
several organizations, including
AAUW, Mental Health Assoc., Red
Cross and Jr. League. Of their three
children, son Hamilton graduated from
Middlebury in ’74. They have five
grandchildren, ranging in age from 16
years to newborn: “We are decidedly in
the girl business—four girls to one lad.”
Their daughter, Harriet, who experi¬
enced extreme difficulties following a
heart transplant, strongly urges every¬
one to sign their driver’s license to
become an organ donor. She owes her
life to an organ donor. The Sporborgs
visit Scotland twice yearly, returning to
favorite spots and visiting favorite
people. Tony climbs mountains, a sport
referred to in Scotland as “hill walk¬
ing.” (Some hills!) Cleone keeps in
touch with Bob Simpson, Rachel
Adkins Platt, Becky Belisle Baute,
Priscilla Davis Ballou and Doris
Queren Oddsen. ...Frank 48 and Mary
Cole Williamson (P.O. Box 341,
Castleton, VT 05735; 802-468-5523)
retired in 1992 to her 200-year-old fam¬
ily home on the historic Main Street of
Castleton. “Life in this small village is

50 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

busier than life in suburbia!” They can
walk almost everywhere, including
church, historical society and library,
all places where they volunteer. They
enjoy many entertainment attractions
at Castleton College, as well as playing
a weekly bridge game there. Their daily
two-mile walk around the cemetery is
popular with all the village walkers.
Last year, they climbed Camel’s Hump
with their son and his wife! They have
a daughter in Corpus Christi, a daughter
in Fort Collins and a son in St. Louis.
Mary and Frank lived for 30 years in St.
Louis where Frank was in the chemistry
dept, at Washington Univ. Mary was a
homemaker until their last eight years
there, when she was affiliated with the
Conservatory and Schools for the Art.
Mary hopes to see all of us at her first
and our 45th Reunion, June 3-5, 1994.
She keeps in contact with Dot Morse
Cooper and Priscilla (Keetsy) Noyes
Crosson. ...Barbara Bishop has writ¬
ten a scholarly article, “The Holy Spirit
Is God the Mother.” Four First-class
theologians have told her it is very
significant and she is seeking a pub¬
lisher. While Barbara continues to net¬
work toward new monastic forms, she
survives by being a part-time church
secretary. “What’s the opposite of
‘yuppie’? That’s what she is.” ...Ed
Sullivan reports from the outskirts of
Middlebury. He and Spence Wright
went up to Northfield to watch Norwich
entertain Middlebury at hockey. Presi¬
dent McCardell strolled by with his
youngsters, stopped to chat and thanked
them for coming up. Ed says they are in
a good position to see and hear Pres.
McCardell on occasion and he sees him
as a great person to represent our Col¬
lege. “Take advantage of any opportu¬
nity to read, see and hear him. Spence
and I came back home in 12-below
weather on a crystal-clear night, sur¬
rounded by great snows left and right—
and at times under. You can all imagine
this trip in winter, up from Route 100 to
Bread Loaf and then Ripton and easing
down and out to our frozen solitude on
Lake Dunmore. All this under a bright
cradle-moon with Venus a bit under.
‘Good night,' and Spence heads for
Cornwall. We ice-fish, walk the woods,
read the books, look to hockey games
(there’s Kyle Prescott, who doesn’t
wear a hat ever!), take advantage of
College programs, live on fresh air and
enjoy offspring growing up. My
Peggy—with garden club, church, his¬
torical society—is always doing things
for others. (She also lost the biggest
pike of the year ’92!)” ...Jim Coursev,
of Dundalk, Md., has retired twice. He
worked for Baltimore County for 31
years in guidance and administration.
In June ’92 he retired as a civilian
employee of the Army. Jim and wife
Mary have three children. He was busy
planting seedlings (in the basement)
when I talked to him. Jim has a Middle¬
bury neighbor: Lucy Humphreys Grif¬
fin ’29. ...Larry Smith, of Pittsford,
Vt., claims that his most strenuous ac¬
tivity is letting the dog in and out! Larry

taught and coached football and skiing
at St. Albans School for Boys in Wash¬
ington, D.C., for 20 years. He also ran
Camp Sangamon (which his parents
started in 1922), but he recently turned
the executive directorship over to his
nephew-in-law. (Larry has 12 grand¬
nieces and nephews!) Still active in
town affairs, Larry is chairman of the
town auditors and is involved in the
Pittsford Historical Society. He sees
Pete Cady ’60, who practices law in
Pittsford. Larry’s siblings are all Midd
graduates: Jim ’40, Dave ’42 and Jean
Smith Davies. ...Ray Hartshorn lives
in Lancaster, N.H., not far from the
Canadian border. As the owner of Maine
Mack, he is the truck distributor for
Maine and half of Vermont and New
Hampshire. He drives 50,000 miles a
year on business, flies his own plane
another 20,000. (He was a navigator-
bombardier in WWII.) He has a private
airstrip with a hangar from which he
flies a Lake Flying Boat—which comes
with two paddles as standard equip¬
ment. He recently purchased 6,000
acres, with two lakes, which he hopes to
develop as a recreational area. The roads
are in and he is logging the area. Ray has
three children—including daughter
Nancy ’78—and three grandchildren.
...Bob Brown, who was part of the 3-2
program between Midd and MIT, re¬
ceived his degree in civil engineering
from MIT, followed by a master’s in
city planning. Semi-retired from the
New England River Basins Commis¬
sion, he has been working for L. Daven¬
port Boyd, realtors. He and wife Carol
have three children—including son
Steve ’81—and six grandchildren. Bob
and Carol live in Weston, Mass., and
until recently spent their summers in
Saltaire on Long Island. ...Dick Hill, of
Montpelier, Vt., sounded particularly
mellifluous on the phone and no won¬
der! He worked for six years in radio
broadcasting for a small station in Ver¬
mont. He also sold time, managed and
did whatever needed doing. He was the
state director of the Vocational Reha¬
bilitation Program until 1984. His hobby
is ham radio and he is an eclectic
reader—everything from poetry to tech¬
nical materials.

50

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Robert
Kings land (Elly Flett), Foster Hill Road,
West Brookfield, MA 01585, and Mrs.
F. R. Young (Anna Sherwood), 24
Whitehall Ave., Edison, NJ 08820.

In December, Walter and Barbara
Wesselman Stark moved to a house on
Lake Norman, about 40 minutes north
of Charlotte, N.C. They enjoyed an
Elderhostel week at St. Andrews-By-
The-Sea in New Brunswick, Canada,
last October. The Starks now have a
grandson inCollege! ...JoanSanderson
Rickers, “mother-of-the-bride,” hopes
that you all noticed the photo from

daughter Heidi’s wedding on page 76
of the Spring issue. Heidi ’88 and Mark
VanEveren were married in January of
1991. ...Lois Rapp Mcllwain reports
that husband Bill ’51 retired in Febru¬
ary 1992 after many years as a VP and
director of personnel of Grey Advertis¬
ing. Lois works one day a week as
advertising director of Main Line Party
Rentals. Their son, Rob, lives nearby
with his family. Lois and Bill were
hoping to head for Louisiana for Mardi
Gras and to visit their daughter, Shari.
...Frank and Val Field McNamee have
a similar arrangement: Frank is retired,
Val works. They do some traveling,
play golf in the Moss Creek-Palm Beach
area, and enjoy court and lawn tennis as
well as squash in Philadelphia. Their
children are all nearby. They point out
that “despite money being tight, con¬
struction slow, aches and pains, physi¬
cal pleasures limited and John O’Connor
in the CIA, life is great.” ...Evelyn
Brite Janaro has dedicated three years
to learning to play the mountain dulci¬
mer: “One is never too old to learn to
play something NEW!” She teaches,
plays and thoroughly enjoys her hobby.
...David L. Peet “married off’ his
youngest daughter, Melinda, and ac¬
quired three grandsons this year. Dave
was happy to see Ron Brown ’62 and
Felix Rohatyn ’49 involved in the presi¬
dential campaign. Dave and his wife
serve as host family and tour guides for
the Pittsburgh Council for International
Visitors. They would be happy to wel¬
come classmates as well. ...John R.
Burleigh retired in October 1992. He
and his wife plan to remain in Atlanta
through the 1996 Olympics, “but with
plenty of visits to New England.”
...James R. Nugent is still in private
practice (internal medicine) full time
while teaching at Georgetown Medical
School. He mentions some traveling,
including a trip to England, and claims
fourchildren and five grandchildren, so
far. They spend weekends at their Chesa¬
peake Bay cabin. He was anticipating
his 40th reunion at Georgetown Med
School. Speaking of reunions, remem¬
ber that our 45th Reunion is coming up
in 1995! ...Nancy Warman Pihlcrantz
says “hello to all the gals from Hillside
1946.” For 15 years, Nancy has been
“leading a quiet single life here in this
pleasant little resort city on the bay in
northern Michigan.” After 22 years of
full-time work, she has opted for Social
Security and part-time work. Her son,
Dave ’73, will soon have his Midd 20th
reunion. Nancy wants to know where
Jim Shapiro has gotten to. Phone her at
616-947-5909 (444 State St., Traverse
City, MI 49684). ...Bambi Ellsworth
Lamere is happy to report that after a
long, six-month ordeal with breast can¬
cer, a mastectomy and chemotherapy,
she is now “feeling very well, both
physically and emotionally. Joel ’49
and the children are all well. Their love
and support was the wind beneath my
wings.” ...The Class of 1950 Scholar¬
ship Fund was established in 1980 at
our 30th Reunion. Income from this

fund is used in support of financial aid.
Gordie Perine ’49 reports that the prin¬
cipal in this fund is now $14,332.07.
Elaine Anderson ’94, the ’92-’93 re¬
cipient of this scholarship, has written
to thank us for our “continued generos¬
ity” with scholarship money. An inde¬
pendent scholar, Elaine is majoring in
creative writing, American literature,
women’s studies and English. She is
also working towards teacher certifica¬
tion, having spent the January term
interning in English and creative writ¬
ing classes at Middlebury Union High
School. Elaine also hopes that her
Middlebury education will help her to
become a “great novelist.” ...We re¬
ceived the sad news that “Babs”
Bostelmann Elwell died in February.
A memorial appears elsewhere in this
issue. She was such a remarkable woman
that her many activities could not fit
into one brief obituary. We would like
to add here that she was an instructor at
Community College of Vermont, co¬
editor of the Windham Childcare Assoc.
Newsletter, director of the Windham
World Affairs Council, past president
of the Windham County Children’s
Museum, and a member of Planned
Parenthood, the American Diabetes
Assoc., the AAUW, and a founding
member of the Brattleboro League of
Women Voters. We send our love and
sympathy to Corky, her husband of 43
years, and to their family. We’ll miss
this warm, giving and talented woman.

51

Class Secretaries: Helen (Reid) and John
Gilmore, 128 Bungalow Ave.,
Greenfield, MA 01301.

From the Campus Journal in The New
YorkTimes comes the Middlebury, Vt.,
special report. According to this article
more Middlebury alumni marry each
other than do graduates of any other
college. Former students recall hearing
variations of this theme from at least
three Middlebury College presidents.
Furthermore, the College’s alumni re¬
searcher found that the Class of 1951
has been the most amorous with 29
percent! ...Since retiring from nursing,
Lynne Rask Bowman has been teach¬
ing English as a second language to a
Spanish speaking boy. She also volun¬
teers at church and at school with kin¬
dergarten children. Her three children
are doing well. Ty has a photo lab in Los
Angeles; Mark and Penny work in Con¬
necticut; Susan works on a farm which
is a residential treatment center for the
mentally ill. ...Pat Ray Christiansen's
first letter to the editor of The New York
Times appeared in the travel section of
Sunday, November 15, 1992. In case
you missed it, she wrote in response to
Stephen Drucker’s “Choppy maiden
voyage” (October 11), in which he de¬
scribed the calamities visited upon the
passengers of the cruise ship Crown
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York to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pat and
Don. also passengers on the ship,
thought the Crown Jewel was a pol¬
ished gem. “Contrary to Mr. Drucker’s
experience, the library was filled with a
great selection of paperbacks and the
shelves remained well stocked through¬
out the voyage. The food was fine,
although the service was slow. And
how about the daily 4 p.m. ice cream
bar with all the fixins! Unbelievably,
we somehow managed to drift in at the
opportune time each afternoon.” (Sec¬
retarial comment: Knowing Don, he
was probably waiting from 3 p.m.!).
They agreed with Mr. Drucker that
“Smitty and the Ray Kennedy enter¬
tainers were great. We also enjoyed the
talents of Tony Pantano, Australia’s
answer to Mario Lanza.” ...Joan Allen
Armour’s Christmas note observes that
Norm ’53 continues to be involved with
a local asset management company
which will shortly become a private
Connecticut chartered trust company.
Becky and Piper are working at the
Willie Matthews Gallery in Denver,
Colo., doing styling and setting up props
for photographers doing ads. The
Armours’ newest grandson, Christo¬
pher, arrived July 8, 1992. His parents
live in the Boston area. Another grand¬
child, Britta, daughter of Tim Armour
’82, was bom in January. Son John ’80
lives in Washington, D.C., and works at
the Brookings Institute. Son Paul works
in the real estate and investment depart¬
ment of the Hartford Insurance Group.
...Bill and Jeanne Flauss Keiter cel¬
ebrated the marriage of their youngest
child, Susan, on October 3, 1992. At¬
tending the wedding were David and
Charlotte Clarke Hay. The Hays re¬
port a new grandson, Alexander, bom
in March of’92, to Tom Hay ’80 and his
wife, Jenny, residents of Evanston, Ill.
Char sounded delighted to be babysitting
while Jenny did Christmas shopping.
Char and Dave went to the Yale reunion
in St. Croix in April and then visited
friends in England when the English
gardens were at their peak. ...Over La¬
bor Day weekend John and Helen Reid
Gilmore celebrated the marriage of their
oldest son, Stuart, and Teresa Lenihan.
Ushers included sons James Gilmore
’81, a trader at Jeffries & Co. in Los
Angeles, and Bob, president of Gilmore
and Watters Inc. Granddaughter Bea
(daughterofMark ’79 and Sally Gilmore
Gordon ’78) was the flower girl. Stuart
is studying for a master’s in science at
Harvard. Sally and Mark are cattle and
sheep ranchers in Buffalo, Wyoming—
where the Gilmores all spent Christmas
cross-country skiing. ...Betty Nelson
Esterson, who has been in market re¬
search for 38 years, found 1992 a year
of enormous change. When she arrived
in Britain in 1951 she worked for Mars
(3M). Fourteen years and three children
later she started her own company, Tay¬
lor Nelson. In 1986 when her company
went public, it was the eighth largest in
the United Kingdom. When Taylor
Nelson acquired one of the Maxwell
Companies, AGB, early in 1992, it be¬

came # 1 and, as Betty says, it was “time
to move on.” She then became CEO of
the Princess Royal Trust for Careers, an
organization that looks after people who
cannot make it on their own. Her chil¬
dren are all fit and happy. Catherine is
a hospital senior registrar in obstetrics
with two daughters under two. Chris is
in Holland, marketing environmental
products. Nick is married and is the
deputy head of languages in Sheffield.
He was spending 1993 in the Ukraine
and possibly 1994 in the U.S. ...Ed and
Jean Maintain Higgins have welcomed
a new grandson, Edward Higgins Berke,
son of Nancy Higgins Berke ’77, who
lives in New Hampshire, as does her
sister Carol. Daughter Susan is another
New Englander from Yarmouth, Maine.
They feel they are blessed to have all
their children and their nine grandchil¬
dren living so near. Jean and Ed were
planning a BIG trip, scheduled to begin
in February. After a stop to see Linda
and Dick Allen ’53 in Easton, Md., they
planned to continue to Hilton Head,
N.C., to visit with Jim and Beth Huey
Newman. Alex and Anne Meyer
Marshall were to be visited next in
their winter quarters in Venice, Fla.
From Venice the Higgins’ journey was
to turn north toward the Florida Pan¬
handle and on to Kingwood, Texas, to
see Paul and Marianne Folke Lin¬
coln. If all went well, they hoped to get
up to see Neil and Gladys Tanner M vers
in Estes Park, Colo., before returning
home.

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Peter K. Race
(RuthEldridge) P.O. Box 103,Boxford,
MA 01921, and William H. Barber,
19504 Gallatin Ct., Gaithersburg, MD
20879.

Chuck Lauer continues as corporate
VP of Crain Communications Inc. and
publisher of Modern Healthcare maga¬
zine, whose “rebirth” and current status
as “the premier business news maga¬
zine for the industry” is credited to him.
His successful book. Soar with the
Eagles , now in paperback, has been
acclaimed as “a powerful book” em¬
phasizing “common sense and distilled
practical wisdom” in the achievement
of personal and professional excellence
and success. Chuck addressed students
at his old high school (Nichols School,
Buffalo, N.Y.) in December; addressed
the American College of Healthcare
Executives in early March (Chicago);
and hosted a well-attended lunch for
Middlebury President John M.
McCardell, Jr., in January at the Chi¬
cago Athletic Association. Chuck keeps
his hand in ice hockey, playing every
weekend with son Randy and a great
group of former college players at Lake
Forest Academy. ...Paul Faris is still
preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Located with wife Geneva in remote
“Arizona cactus country” about 90 miles

northeast of Phoenix, he plans to con¬
tinue in the ministry “as long as He
gives me a sound mind in a sound
body.” ...Charlie Ratte, having retired
in 1991 as Vermont state geologist, is
completing a two-year visiting profes¬
sorship at the Univ. of Kentucky. He
has combined “a little travel and
sightseeing” with an enjoyable position
in the dept, of geological sciences. He
and wife Judy are fanatical fans of the
superb UK basketball team and have
also enjoyed thoroughbred horse rac¬
ing, picking eight of 10 winners on
Derby Day in ’91. In June, the Rattes
were returning to 4 Chestnut Hill Road,
Montpelier, VT 05602, while looking
for another adventure in ’93-’94. ...Jim
Hutchinson reports that he is semi-
retired, working part time for Nestle
Beverage Co., and still enjoying east¬
ern Tennessee with its four seasons and
mountain country. ...Bob Bowser and
his wife take great pride in the ongoing
career of their son, an Air Force captain.
With extensive training and experience
in jet fighters and C-12, he was com¬
pleting a tour of duty in Korea and
commencing training in the C-141 this
summer. ...Tim Budd married Susan
Drummond on December 5, 1992. Son
Andy served as best man and two other
children (with spouses) were present
for the celebration. A “delightfully
sunny and warm” trip to Hawaii fol¬
lowed—and ended all too soon. Susan
has a daughter, Sara (16). Tim contin¬
ues as associate dean for economic de¬
velopment at the College of Lake
County. Tim caught up on 40 years with
Jim Olson (originally from nearby
Waukegan), when Jim visited from
Oregon recently. ...Nancy Harrison
Bove is still heavily involved in Lit¬
eracy Volunteers, tutoring twice a week,
training others to be tutors and teaching
trainers for the state organization. Nancy
also volunteers for FISH, delivering
food to inner city families, has joined
the Unitarian Society and is a liaison
and volunteer in the Headstart program
in New Haven. For recreation, she prac¬
tices yoga and does watercolor“off and
on.” Nancy’s husband, Joe, retired last
July, so they’ve had more time to visit
their three children and five grandchil¬
dren. Their two sons are Vermonters,
Bruce in Brandon and James in Jericho,
while daughter Susan is in Simsbury.
Conn. Nancy ended her note with,
“We’re happy and healthy!” When I
(Ruth Eldridge Race) finish some vol¬
unteer curriculum preparation for the
local schools, Nancy has piqued my
interest in helping out in the literacy
program nearby. ...Liz Loemker
Furber reports that “retirement is
great—but busy!” How true this seems.
How did we ever find time to work? Liz
and Ed ’51 retired from the Manches¬
ter, N.H., area about two years ago to
Southport, Maine, where they are still
working on their house: “all very liv¬
able, but still too many doors to paint.”
Liz says that “Southport is a wonderful
place to be: two worlds—the winter and
the summer. The winter full of ‘home

grown’ activities with the bright, caring
people who live here, and summer full
of relatives and good friends who can’t
stay away from Maine.” Liz and Ed
enjoy taking visitors for a sail. Their
plans for the “mud season” included a
trip to South Carolina, with visits along
the way to Marji Dawson Storrs ’54,
Lincoln Furber ’53 and Line’s daugh¬
ters Edith ’85 and Sarah ’89. Liz and Ed
now have two sons in the Portland,
Maine, area: Win and wife Cordelia
Pitman, both ’85, and Tom ’83 and wife
Laura. Son Bill lives in NYC, a good
visiting stop on the way south. A lot of
Midd connections in this column! ...In
the last issue I mentioned two similar
fall trips to France which the Races and
Brewsters (Carol Whitham ) had taken.
Now I can report new grandchildren for
each family in late 1992. The Brewsters’
second grandson, William Lane
Brewster, was bom in Boston on No¬
vember 11 to son Toby and his wife,
Rebecca. The Races’ third granddaugh¬
ter, Elizabeth Rose Race, was bom on
December 18, also in Boston, to Alan
’80 and his wife, Cathy. For anyone still
employed in the education field, you
may be receiving the magazine Cable
in the Classroom ; the editor of same is
A1 Race. ...Our Class of 1952 Scholar¬
ship Fund, which was established in
1977 at our 25th reunion, now has a
principal of $114,653.85. The income
is to be used in support of financial aid,
with preference given to students from
middle-income families. Prospective
tuition costs are staggering and I’m
glad the Class of ’52 will be adding
some support for students. ...Keep those
cards and letters coming! Share news of
your lives and adventures. We look
forward to hearing from you.

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Class Secretary: Mr. Robert C. Kelly. 7
Governors Lane, Shelburne, VT05482.

By the time this column is published
our class will have completed its 40th
Reunion. At this writing, Irv Morris is
laying the groundwork for an outstand¬
ing event and all in attendance will be
up to date on current class news. Don
Beers has been working hard to in¬
crease our participation in giving to the
College. If you have not yet made a
pledge, the need is still there so please
make the effort. ...Clementine
Wininger Gregory, of Ashville, N.C.,
is enjoying time with her children. Her
job as a medical social worker keeps her
busy, but she is looking forward to
retirement, volunteer work and travel.
...Dick Allen wishes he could say that
he is happily retired, but he isn’t and
can't. He is president of the Chesa¬
peake Bay Maritime Museum and he

was looking forward to our 40th Jack

and Norma Loesch Carney are still
living in Rocky River, Ohio, but Cape
Cod will be their retirement home for
half the year in the future. They have

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purchased a 1740 house in West
Harwich, Mass., and are now busy gut¬
ting and remodeling it. ...Judy and Rob¬
ert Prosser are living in Vero Beach
during the winter and on the coast of
Rhode Island in the summer. More or
less retired. Bob is still a partner in RSF
Partners and is still a member of the
New York Stock Exchange where he
has worked for almost 25 years. ...Dick
Steinman reports that the last of his
nine—that’s right, nine —kids has left
home. He celebrated by building a new
home with very few bedrooms. He keeps
busy with wildlife conservation organi¬
zations, a reasonable amount of work¬
ing in real estate development and, ap¬
parently, running a lumber business. I
don’t know if that adds up to retirement
ornot. ...Lyman Allen of East Thetford,
Vt., writes that he is enjoying his explo¬
rations into the pathways of spiritual
growth. He recently joined a Course in
Miracles group. He says it all began
back with Prof. Reg Cook ’24 who told
us always to “keep our minds open and
be seekers.” ...Anita Bland Andreasen
says hello and asks those visiting the
West Palm Beach, Fla., area to call 407-
833-3057. ...During a sabbatical from
American Univ. in Washington, Link
Furber is creating a course on the his¬
tory of broadcast journalism—which
means he’s spending his time listening
to old newscasts from the ’30s and ’40s
and screening early TV news efforts by
the networks. ...Anne Coleman
Zehner, Jean Overhysser Arneberg
and Pat Pattyson Eckley got together
for a pre-reunion mini-reunion last Janu¬
ary. ...Elizabeth Darling Sherburne
reports that her Middlebury French
worked well during their stay last year
in Nice. Elizabeth heads the alumni
interviewing group in Nashville. ...Also
living in Nashville, Bob and Peg
Davidson Zone are members of the
Yacht Club with the Sherbumes. ...We
are sorry to report that Bob Parker
broke seven ribs. He didn’t say what
caused the breaks. His son, David,
teaches Latin American history at
Queens College in Kingston, Ontario.
David and wife Marcia produced a
grandson on January 3. Daughter Anne
was married last June to Ira Shield,
while Steven and Debbie live in
Manchester, Conn. ...Bob Arel is semi-
retired but doing consulting work in the
area of instructional task analysis for
Orlando area firms. He is also active in
church work. ...Since the blizzard of
’93, Marilyn Buist Scott is thinking of
retiring to a warm climate when the
time comes. She still works for IBM
and is taking courses, including Lotus.
A trip to the Dominican Republic was a
highlight of her spring. ...The College
informs me that many classmates are on
the move. The longest move seems to
be Ed Perrin’s from Cambridge, Eng¬
land, to Seattle, Wash., while the short¬
est was Don Beers’ move from 3325
Bayshore Blvd. to 2413 Bayshore Blvd.
in Tampa, Fla. Others include Pat
Pattyson Eckley from New Jersey to
Lake Ariel, Pa.; Bruce MacKay from

Pennsylvania to Venice, Fla.; Cedric
Sherrer from Lake Tahoe, Calif., to
Redmond, Ore.; Don Faber from Ft.
Lauderdale to Vero Beach, Fla.; Wil¬
liam Harding from California to Vir¬
ginia; and Pat Tyler Turner from
Waltham to Ipswich, Mass. ...The Kellys
are still at the same address, struggling
with a depressed motel business, cop¬
ing with two boys in college (Andrew at
Babson and Scott at Springfield) and
working hard to make our mail order
business profitable. We’re happy to be
alive and healthy and able to look for¬
ward to retirement at the end of the
century. I’ll be turning over this
reporter’s job to classmates in the near
future. ...Pat Hamilton Todd wrote the
following letter concerning her friend,
Jane Weitzel White, who died on
March 5, 1993: “She was my Middle¬
bury classmate, a special friend and
confidante, and a Vermont neighbor.
We parented, renovated and built
houses, commiserated about Vietnam
and Watergate, supported women’s lib,
turned 40!—and delighted in our hus¬
bands’ special relationship. Our chil¬
dren grew and became friends. Eventu¬
ally, we shared widowhood and grief—
and then, the joys of grandchildren.
During much of this time Jane dealt
with the emotional and physical chal¬
lenges unique to a cancer patient. She
accepted her disease with graceful dig¬
nity, seldom discouraged, always cou¬
rageous. She became an active volun¬
teer with the American Cancer Society,
bringing her special encouragement to
others in her community through her
work with Reach for Recovery and Road
to Recovery. Concern for the needs
others—her family, an elderly Vermont
farmer, countless friends, cancer pa¬
tients—sustained her throughout her
long illness. Jane’s practical outlook,
self-reliance, constant good humor and
thoughtfulness inspired all of us who
knew and worked with her. We will
miss her.” Her memorial appears else¬
where in this magazine.

54

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Peter B.
Marshall (Cecily Mattocks), 290
Goodale St., West Boylston, MA 01583,
and Peter L. Simonson, 105 Lower Fly¬
ing Pt. Road, Freeport, ME 04032.

Not all the news is of retirement plans
and activities. Roger Chapin recently
founded Retrofit America to be part of
the new explosion in conservation tech¬
nology that enables at least a 20-percent
reduction in total electric bills. He re¬
ports that they are the “Super Team” of
retrofitting and are very environmen¬
tally friendly. For introductions to
CEO’s of big companies, Roger offers
a special finder’s fee to Midd alums.
His number is 619-291-5846. ...Mike
and Kathy Donohue Hall have en¬
joyed some insightful and interesting
lectures by Dr. Baird Whitlock, former

American literature professor. The
Whitlocks and Halls are all residents of
Belfast, Maine. ...Maggie Moreau
Willett writes from Cheshire, U.K. The
Willetts spent three weeks visiting New
England last spring. Highlights of their
trip included a visit with Hazel Hoxie
Greaves and a family reunion on Cape
Cod, attended by 40 family members

(Midd-count: eight). lean Tibbetts

Pentland is treasurer of Jefferson Rub¬
ber Works, a manufacturer of custom
molded rubberparts in Worcester, Mass.
When not balancing the books, Jean
and Dick enjoy their four grandsons
and their boat, moored in Jamestown,
R.I. ...Margie Dawson Storrs stopped
to see the Pentlands last winter on her
way home from skiing at Waterville
Valley. ...One can always count on
Chuck and Maureen Kane Steineeke
to return their postcard post haste. News
is of their children: John ’82 is the father
of a baby daughter; Ann is getting a
doctorate in English; Patty is a student
at General Theological Seminary.
Chuck plans retirement next year, after
which Winter Harbor, Maine, will be
home for part of the year. ...New ad¬
dress for Lesley Harper Miller is Box
456, Rye Beach, N.H. Lesley was mar¬
ried to Frederick M. Miller (Yale ’48)
on September 15, 1992. ...Joan
Emerson Sleinkofer reminds us all
that we are eligible to participate in
Elderhostel activities. Joan is
Elderhostel coordinator at Paul Smith
College. Among the list of special events
are biking, hiking and quilting. Although
spring is their busy time, Joan hopes to
make the 40th Reunion. ...Caroline
Apfel Stouffer responded to the post¬
card with a news-filled letter. She’s still
singing on a limited basis for fun. She is
chair of the Hingham (Mass.) Demo¬
cratic Town Committee and coordi¬
nated the local campaign for the Clinton/
Gore ticket. She attended the Demo¬
cratic National Convention as a del¬
egate and for the past three years has
been working with the Massachusetts
Coalition of Democratic Women, whose
purpose is to help more women get into
elected office. John is retired from teach¬
ing and they enjoy sailing out of Cape
Cod. ...Leah Wallat Odden spent two
weeks at Christmas in Rheims, France,
where daughter Danielle is an assistante
d’anglais. After many years of playing
golf she recently had the thrill of mak¬
ing a hole-in-one. ...Dick and Mary
Ann Bourbeau skied with Karl and
Lois Robinson Limbach last winter in
Squaw Valley, Calif. ...Pat and Bill
Carpenter are dividing their time be¬
tween Vancouver Island and St. Peters¬
burg Beach, Fla. ...Bruce Marshall, son
of Peter and Cecily Mattocks Marshall,
head hockey coach at UConn, was
named National College Division Coach
of the Year. We haven’t strayed too far
from the rinks. In closing, we need to
hear from more of you. Peter Simonson
and I are trying to reach everyone dur¬
ing our tenure and the success of that
goal depends upon your responses to
our queries. With our 40th Reunion a

year away, we need wide participation
to make the event memorable.

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Class Secretaries: Scotty MacGregor
Gillette, 2309 E. Lake of the Isles Blvd.,
Minneapolis, MN55405; Junie Stringer
DeCoster, 726 Linwood, St. Paul, MN
55105; and Judy Zecher Colton (Mrs.
Roger), 3 Long Marsh Lane, North Oaks
Farm, MN 55127.

Bob Beattie was inducted into the Colo¬
rado Sports Hall of Fame in February.
...The Boston Globe has a great article
about Jerry Doolittle’s new mystery,
Bear Hug. So off to your nearest inde¬
pendent bookstore! ...Charmian
Lamble Cretnev writes that she and
Warren have a new grandbaby, Riane
Isabella. She is their first. ...Junie
Stringer DeCoster and Steve, along
with Susan and Earl Samson, report
the birth of three grandchildren in 1992!
Emma Samson was born to Ed and
Diana in August, and twins Henry and
Peter were bom to Trip and A Hyson in
December. ...We would like to remind
you all that at our 25th class reunion we
established a Scholarship Fund. The
principal in our fund is $40,877.07.
...We have address changes for Bob
Beattie (402-AABC, P.O. Box 4580,
Aspen, CO 81611), Anne Johnson
Clark (P.O. Box 33, Manset, ME
04656), Patricia Blake Stimson (233
River St., P.O. Box 553, Norwell, MA
02061), Marjorie Vanleuvan (245
Cherry Ave.. #22F, Watertown, CT
06492), Malinda Collison Wolter (P.O.
Box 581, Norfolk, CT06880); and John
Zabriskie (518 Overlook Drive, Flat
Rock, NC 28739).

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Class Secretaries: John Chase, 2000
Sage Canyon Road, St. Helena, CA
94574; Virginia Collins Emerson, 15
College Road, Wellesley , MA 02181;
and Maureen Craig Seamans, 12
Pelham Road, Weston, MA 02193.

Retirement is somewhat of a joke in my
(John Chase's) family because, as my
kids say, “Dad doesn’t like to use the
‘R’ word.” I tell them my life is in
“transition” from one career to another.
Since we’re at an age where transitions
do occur, it’s interesting to note how

classmates are handling them. Jim

McCrea writes that he accepted an
offer forearly retirement April 1. What’s
next, Jim? ...Dick Powell, who retired
from Rohm and Haas in December 1992,
is still exploring full, partial or limited
retirement plans. Dick recently attended
a one-week Philadelphia Phillies base¬
ball camp and pitched 21 innings with
20 strike-outs and batted .400. Obvi¬
ously Dick chose the wrong career.
...Helga Neuse Whitcomb thinks re-

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tirement is wonderful. No wonder! She
and husband Dick went to Elderhostels
in Denmark, Sweden and Finland last
spring, as well as in New Zealand and
Australia in January and February 1993.
In between times they’re cheap air-fare
junkies, with trips to Arkansas, Ver¬
mont and Washington state. “The rest
of the year is still open,” she says.
...Lynne Atherton awaits summer in
the Midwest to till “the ‘north 40”’
(that’s 40 square feet of flower garden).
She quit a 40-year habit with the ciga¬
rette, works out at a nearby fitness cen¬
ter and sings in a large choir. She was
planning to be in San Francisco in May
for daughter Roxanna’s graduation from
San Francisco State. ...Tom Hart re¬
tired from GTE Corp after 32 years to
form his own manufacturer’s rep
agency, now three years old. He’s still
playing competitive basketball and a
lot of golf. Greensboro, N.C., seems to
agree with Tom, his wife of 33 years
and three of his four children. The other
offspring still lives in Madison, Conn.
...Paul Doering says he is far from
retirement and still sailing. His three
children are spread from Pennsylvania
to a mesa in Santa Fe, N.M. ...Shirley
McMahon Oktay, MD, is another who
says “retirement is not an option.” Medi¬
cine, singing in a choir and raising a
teenager keeps her busy... Jerry Ocorr
completed his M.A. in speech commu¬
nication last summer at the Univ. of
North Carolina. He still runs the Foun¬
dation for the N.C. State Univ. College
of Veterinary Medicine. He has also
taken on the duties of executive director
of the N.C. Medical Assoc, on an in¬
terim basis. loan Rehe Wilkinson

(743 Bear Creek Circle, Winter Springs,
Florida 32708) and her husband have
moved to the Orlando area and she is
“adjusting.” She unfortunately had to
leave her job at the Reader's Digest in
New York but is editing a book for them
on a freelance basis. She and her hus¬
band have three children still in school
and would love to hear from visitors,
especially those from the Northeast.
...Jody Newniarker Crum is teaching
“Kitchen Kapers,” an after school en¬
richment program in the Indianapolis
township schools. She’ll take time for
her annual spring European FlowerTour
to see the tulips and is booking another
tour October 8-23 to the Alps and South¬
ern Europe. Interested? ...Another trav¬
eler is Mary Anne Thorne Lewis who
lives in Santa Fe. She recently returned
from a month in North Africa to view
crafts of the area. She continues to hold
fiber-related workshops in her studio
which brings in teachers from all over
the country. If you want to be on her
mailing list, contact her at #14 Wilder¬
ness Gate, Santa Fe, NM 87501. ...Tom
and Sally Thomson Clark spent a fall
weekend in Minneapolis with John and
Helen Starr Ackerman in their
townhouse overlooking an urban lake.
They took in such local attractions as
the Walker An Museum and the Guthrie
Theater. ...Motivating classmates to let
us know what’s happening in their lives

isn’t easy. That’s why we appreciate
the efforts of Jack Kettell who has
undertaken a personal campaign to elicit
class news. He achieved success with
his freshman roommate at Hepburn,
Jack McDermott, who says that he
hasn’t seen or spoken to a classmate in
30 years. He did return to Middlebury
last summer and showed his wife, Ji
Hong, his old room in Hepburn. He
promises to return for our reunion in
1996! Jack teaches courses in litigation
and patent and trademark law at Loyola
Law School in Los Angeles. This spring
he was teaching Japanese law for the
first time. He is very involved in
Loyola’s faculty exchange program and
was personally leading a faculty group
to Beijing and Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
this summer. His travels have already
taken him to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong,
China, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, In¬
donesia, Malaysia, India and Sri Lanka.
No wonder Jack hasn’t been to Ver¬
mont much of late! In the spring of 1994
he expects to take a sabbatical to Japan
where he intends to write a textbook on
Japanese law. Sounds like a busy and
interesting career and we look forward
to catching up with Jack in three years.
...The Class of 1956 established a schol¬
arship fund at its 25th Reunion in 1981.
The principal in this fund is now about
$123,500. The most recent scholarship
recipient is Carrie MacFarlane ’94 who
is in Kyoto, Japan, for the ’92-’93 aca¬
demic year in a program affiliated both
with Kyoto’s Doshisha University and
Middlebury College. Carrie is living
with a host family which is “hospitable,
lively and funny.” Whenever she doesn’t
understand something, her host mother
will act out the vocabulary in charades
until Carrie says the magic words, “Ah,
wakarimashita”—I understand! Carrie
taught two English conversation classes
during the year and was returning to
New Hampshire in May. “Thank you.
Class of 1956, for awarding me a schol¬
arship for my senior year. My family
and I greatly appreciate it!” ...On a sad
note, I read in the San Francisco
Chronicle of the passing of Rodney E.
Reid on January 28 in San Francisco.
He was a vice president of the Federal
Reserve Bank and collapsed and died at
a bank luncheon, apparently of a heart
attack. He was a career employee of the
bank for 26 years and supervised bank
holding companies and agencies of for¬
eign banks operating in the nine west¬
ern states. His memorial appears else¬
where in this issue. ...We must also
report the January 24, 1993, death of
Susan Little Kramaric. Although suf¬
fering with cancer for three years, she
remained in the words of her husband,
Peter, “a brave and positive person.”
Susan and Peter were able to vacation in
Southeast Asia, Hawaii and Costa Rica,
and together they rejoiced at the wed¬
ding of their daughter, Karen, in Ver¬
mont. Classmates who wish to express
their sympathy may write to Peter S.
Kramaric, 242 Branch Brook Road,
Wilton, CT 06897.

57

Class Secretaries: Mrs. Alexandrine
Post Koontz, 204 Tatoket Road,
Branford, CT 06405, and Mrs. Eliza¬
beth O'Donnell Wallace, 201 Asbury
St., South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Looking through the class list for calls
I (Xanie Post Koontz) wanted to make
to add to the cards received (thank you!),
I realized that I had just been visiting
within a few doors of Townie and
Maxine Vought Hoen inOwings Mills,
Md., and not known it. New secretary
resolution #1: Get to know the territory
or miss a Midd! Call first! Maxine is VP
of Nations Bank there; Townie raises
money for the Independent College
Fund of Maryland. They both eagerly
await news about Webber Hoen’s Peace
Corps placement as a recent master’s
physics graduate from Stanford. ...Ann
Eckels Bailie, after telling me about the
town of Sommers in my new home
state, reports having worked for H & R
Block for seven years. She and her
husband, a store manager for J.C.
Penney’s, were looking forward to a
trip to Egypt and Greece. ...Derek
Evans, an almost neighbor, moved this
summer with his wife and children—
Jared (8) and Peggy (6)—from Fairfield,
Conn., to Trumbull. Derek wants those
who knew his brother, Steve, freshman
year to be informed that he recently
moved to San Antonio. ...Don Sanders
has taken early retirement from Scott
Paper where he had been for nearly 20
years, most recently as head of the
consumer tissue/towel business. Who’d
have guessed as they pulled the very
best down from the market shelf? Don
has started birdcarving and re-started
golf. ...Charlie Sykes sent a message
after trips to Somalia and Ethiopia with
other representatives of non-govem-
mental organizations: “The conditions
and human suffering were the worst I
have seen in 35 years. The relief work¬
ers, Somalis and expatriates, live under
terrible conditions, but go about their
work with great courage. We had long
discussions with the United Nations
officials about the need to engage So¬
malis in the peace keeping efforts.”
...Sheldon Dean has been recognized
yet again for his work in materials engi¬
neering by his appointment as Air Prod¬
ucts Fellow at his firm, Air Products
and Chemicals, Inc. Sheldon holds 12
U.S. patents. ...Holly Goodhue Van
Leuven is approaching 20 years as a
trial consultant in her organization.
Genesis Group. We hope Holly will
write again so we can accurately report
on progeny in our next episode. Do we
read 16or 26 grandchildren?. ..Frankie
Hall has left New England. Now direc¬
tor of student programs for the Assoc,
of American Medical Colleges, she re¬
ports loving D.C. and environs. ...As
always, Charlie Palmer would like to
hear from any and all of us. He advises
us that it is customary for him to change

jobs every 32 years, most recently from
Advest to Legg Mason Brokerage. He
and Pat went to the Galapagos Islands
and Ecuador recently. ...It is with regret
that we write that Judy Holmes Van
Schaick died on October 15, 1992.
While earning her B.A. at Middlebury,
she was involved in Theta Chi Omega
sorority and the College Choir. We
extend our sympathy to her daughters,
Kathryn V.S. Brown and Elizabeth Van
Schaick; to her sister, Nancy Holmes
Lambom; and to her father, Harold T.
Holmes of Lakewood, N.J. A memorial
appeared in the Spring issue of this
magazine.

58

Class Secretaries: Mary Roemmele
Crowley, 24 Giorgetti Blvd., Rutland,
VT 05701, and Joseph E. Mohbat, 551
Pacific St., Brooklyn, NY 11217.

We’d comment on how wonderful our
35th Reunion was, but for the fact that
this is being written in the snows of
February. Though it probably was won¬
derful, we must allow for the Unpre¬
dictable Hand of Fate and avoid com¬
menting further on an event you readers
know happened but we don’t yet. ...If
you notice a sudden upturn in the for¬
tunes of the Slovak Republic, it’s prob¬
ably because Lang Bell is our man in
Bratislava. Having last year resigned as
chairman and CEO of the Connecticut
bank he had rescued from the buzzards,
Lang eschewed the R-word and de¬
cided “to refocus my life and career.”
So he “joined up with the U.S. Treasury
Department as a senior adviser to the
chairman of the General Credit Bank,
which is the largest commercial bank in
Slovakia, for a two-year period.” Lang
and his new wife, Judy, live at
Druzstevna 6, 83-104 Bratislava, Slo¬
vak Republic. “The life in Slovakia is
different, to say the least, but I feel I am
at the cutting edge of change as the
country moves from communistic forms
of governing into what we call in the
West a democratic free-market
economy. The struggle will be long and
painful, but I’m hopeful that I can make
a difference on both a macro and micro
basis. It’s not all work and no play, as
Judy and I have traveled a great deal
throughout Eastern and Central Europe.
The change in lifestyle suits me just
fine. I plan to follow this career path for
about the next five years or so. Then:
golf!” ...Mary Bachman Wright has
become not only a grandmother but
“the typical doting, obnoxious type we
all dread running into.” Mary sold her
home of 23 years and moved into a
condo in the Washington suburb of
Rockville, Md., where, she reports, “I
really love my simplified lifestyle.”
...The day after Reunion. Barbara Bang
Knowles was slated to move from Penn¬
sylvania to Maine (9 Seely Road. Bar
Harbor 04609), where she is the new
associate director for research and se-

54 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

nior scientist at the Jackson Laboratory.
“Come visit this paradise and catch up
with the years,” Barbara writes. Daugh¬
ter Amanda was graduating from Penn
in May; son Jared has a year of grad
school remaining. ...In Salem,
Katharine Williams Souter continues
to work as a tax economist for the
Oregon revenue department. She is also
president of the local Soroptimist Club.
Two of her kids earned their master’s
degrees last year, David in administra¬
tion (Yale) and Barbara in geology (U.C.
Davis). (Darn! Now your scribe’s re¬
minded of Charles Welby.) ...(Jordon
and Mary Loomis Simms of Dover,
Pa., have married off all four Simmslets
and have reaped four grands for their
efforts. “Wiz loves working in a fabric
store and Gordy still sells woodwork¬
ing machinery, now as a distributor,”
the forever couple reports. Both still
sing in the church choir and the York
Symphony Chorus. ...Mike and Connie
Crabbe ’59 Dehlendorf returned from
Florida, where they ran into former
Midd Prof. Paul Cubeta, who was teach¬
ing a one-month class in Shakespeare at
Vero Beach. “We spent a few great
evenings reminiscing about Middle-
bury,” Mike writes, and “then the three
of us had dinner with Mike ’59 and
Lynde Suddeth Karin ’62, who live in
Vero Beach.” ...Joe Mohbat, follow¬
ing his policy of a career change every
other decade, has joyfully shuttered his
12-year-old law practice and is now
program director for INFORM Inc., a
NYC-based national non-profit envi¬
ronmental research organization that
seeks practical solutions to the environ¬
mental problems plaguing the planet
through such best-selling books as
Making Less Garbage, Paving the Way
to Natural Gas Vehicles, Reducing Of¬
fice Paper Waste and A Citizen’s Guide
to Promoting Toxic Waste Reduction.

59

Class Secretaries: Mrs. William W.
Locke (Noel Caseley), 1326 Stillwater
Road, Lancaster, PA 17601, and Henry
Pete Erbe Jr., 12 Longview Ct.. Hun¬
tington, NY 11743.

Barry Croland was selected as one of
the best lawyers in family law by the
publication Best Attorneys in America.
His own family news is that he has eight
grandchildren—two with additional
Middlebury connections, being the
daughters of Lizabeth (Sarakin) ’84 and
Jennifer ’86. Barry and his extended
family were planning to get together for
a long weekend in Middlebury during
July. This event will replace their tradi¬
tional Alumni Weekend at Middlebury,
so he will be missing that for the first
time in many years. ...Bob Copp re¬
ports that Fred Bowman recently re¬
tired from California Lutheran College
but continues to be actively involved in
activities there. Bob also passed on
information that Fred and Hank Moody

were together for Thanksgiving a couple
of years ago. ...Speaking of Hank
Moody, he wrote that 1 992 was another
record year of sales and profits for
Panamax. Panamax produces power
protection products that protect against
“surges” (natural and accidental) that
interfere/disrupt information process¬
ing of all types—computer, cablevision,
TV, etc. Hank’s second company,
Fitmax, producing fitness products such
as sports bottles, roller-blades and bik¬
ing accessories, was a proud sponsor of
the Summer Games in Barcelona. While
Hank travels in Guatemala, Mexico City
and the U.S., his son, Myles ’90, enjoys
a career in marketing. Erica ’92 is in
Boston doing graduate work at Harvard
and Northeastern. ...Steve Cohen, who
has spent 25 years in the practice of
urology, is serving as chief of urology
at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. His son,
Michael ’89, is a practicing attorney;
daughter Laura ’92 is a pharmaceutical
rep in the North Carolina area. Steve
and his wife spend weekends in a cabin
in West Virginia, bird watching and
fishing. He’s “looking forward to retir¬
ing from work—but not too soon.” At
the time of our conversation, Steve was
celebrating having been married to wife
Susan for one-half his life, putting him
in the “first day of the second half of his
life.” He doesn’t see any of his contem¬
poraries in the Baltimore area and closes
with “Are you there?” ...Bill Hahn is
pursuing health and happiness in Bel
Air, Md., with wife Mary Jane, two
daughters and two grandsons. He had
26 marvelous years in the Army (would
have stayed for 30, had it not been for
politics). Bill prides himself on being
the “Chief Baby Sitter.” ...Phil Buley
was anxiously awaiting daughter
Samantha’s return after a year in Tas¬
mania, Australia. She will be a fresh¬
man at Susquehanna Univ. Phil enjoys
the peace of country living in Cornwall,
Vt. ...Jim McGowan was expecting his
book Les Fleurs du Mai to be out in May
’93. He and Anne had visited their new
grandson, Benjamin, in Las Vegas twice
since his birth in March. ...Phil and
Tammy Kuebler Hodges were paid a
visit by Bick Bicknell as they were
enjoying a glorious month at Lake
Dunmore. ...Bob Jones presented an
unprecedented gift of $ 10 million to the
Harvard Divinity School as a part of its
175th Anniversary Celebration. Bob
first came across the Divinity School’s
literature 15 years ago while attending
Bible study in San Francisco. “So many
questions came out of Bible study that
I began buying books to find some
answers,” said Bob. “After a while it
became almost a hobby of sorts. Wher¬
ever I traveled, I would stop in book¬
stores and buy books. It didn’t take me
long to realize that some of the best
literature was coming out of Harvard
Divinity School.” Bob said he gave the
money to the Divinity School in part
because of his high regard for the
school’s faculty but also because he
wanted to send Harvard a message. “I
want Harvard and the Divinity School

to think of their constituency as not just
Harvard graduates, but everyone in the
United States,” Bob said. “Harvard rep¬
resented a light in the midst of a great
deal of confusion regarding religion,
even resentment in some cases. It’s the
Divinity School’s prescription to
counter this confusion by searching for
the truth and then disseminating that
truth in a way that is understandable to
lay people like myself.” ...Doris
Brassington Rich acquired a new
grandson in December 1992. Her other
daughter, Susan, is in L.A. trying for
her big break in motion picture produc¬
tion (directing and writing), having
graduated as valedictorian from
UCLA’s Motion Picture School. Doris’
son, Jack, continues at Boise State Univ.
in Idaho. Doris loves her sunny Florida
clime, but has some winter nostalgia for
Vermont snow. ...Sally Wagner Hague
moved from Montana three years ago to
Bloomington, Minn., where husband
Bill is a psychiatrist with Group Heart
(HMO). Sally volunteers in the mental
health field, studies voice and music
theory and is also an avid birder. They
hike and cross country ski, enjoying
Minnesota’s wilderness and Lake Su¬
perior. ...Ailene Kane Rogers, a high
school biology teacher, has a grant to
research the biological changes in the
Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge Great
Marsh, near McLean, Va. She has our
deepest sympathy for the loss of their
youngest son, Daniel, in February 1992.
...Noel Casely Locke has a first grand¬
child, the son of oldest son Clay, who
graduated from the Kellogg School of
Management (Northwestern) last June.
Husband Bill is group VP of industry
products and Pacific rim sales develop¬
ment for Armstrong. His constant inter¬
national travels cause some suitcase
packing for her, as well as some inter¬
esting visitors at home. In between,
she’s on the local Planned Parenthood
and American Heart Association boards.
Their youngest, Jenny, is a Midd “first-
year.” ...Our 35th Reunion is scheduled
for June 3-5, 1994. Please mark your
calendars!

60

Class Secretary: Jean Seeler, Windmill
Farm, 18 Upland Lane, Armonk, NY
10504, and Lars T. Carlson, 14478
50th St., S., Afton, MN 55001.

Ladies first! Nancy Mumford
Mulvey’s son, Steve, was married in
October 1991. They had only two weeks
advance notice, which eliminated all
the fuss and stress. All the immediate
family were present for a simply lovely
day. Nancy heartily recommends it.
Daughter Kathy, who has worked her
way back east to Boston, from China,
California and Washington, D.C., now
works for an anti-nuclear-weapons
group. Don has retired to a new career
as house husband while Nancy contin¬
ues working for the Massachusetts State

Dept, of Mental Retardation. They have
a new pet in their empty nest, a black lab
cross adopted from the pound. ...Emily
Adams has been doing a lot of genea¬
logical research over the past few years,
especially during the winters on Grand
Isle. Summers are for gardening. The
rabies epidemic has come to northern
Vermont. Emily knows a number of
people who do not go out without being
armed. Emily says that not only does
she NOT have a gun, but she doubts
very much that she could manage to hit
any object if she did, including her
newly-repainted bam! ...Paula Hartz
is doing publicity for the book she co¬
wrote with Don Sloan, M.D. Abortion:
A Doctor’s Perspective!A Woman's
Dilemma was published in January.
Weekends Paula sings in a choir in
Highland Park, N.J., where she occa¬
sionally meets Ann Wagner
Kaizerman for an ice cream sundae in
the Corner Confectionery. She also
keeps in touch by phone with Jan Fisher
Barstad in Tempe, Ariz. ...Breck and
Sue Hibbert Lardner’s home address
is 44 College Street, Middlebury, VT
05753. (You can talk to them without
Breck asking for money!) Sue spent last
summer working for the biology dept.,
organizing and graphing hundreds of
pages of data collected by student in¬
terns who were out in the field (under¬
water) studying aquatic weevils. The
bugs have a passion for Eurasian mil¬
foil, a particularly noxious weed that is
clogging more and more lakes. (The
Jan./Feb. issue of Vermont Magazine
has a long article on milfoil.) Those of
you who have infested ponds will be
happy to know that the biology dept,
has a continuing grant to introduce these
wonderful weevils into infested waters,
with the hope of the future destruction
of this aquatic weed. Sue spent the
winter studying for the Vermont real
estate exam. Son Sam is in Moscow
working on a master’s in Russian.
Gretchen ’87 is married, lives in New
Jersey and travels extensively organiz¬
ing conventions. Peter resides in a 6 x 6-
foot space in Kumagaya, Japan, teach¬
ing English. His Japanese is improving
as is his “bow.” Because all persons
must leave their shoes at the door, and
there was no way he could hide his feet
when he wore his Xmas gift of Woody
Jackson black and white cow socks, he
received more than bows! Grins! ...John
and Mary Vaughn LaPlume quit their
respective jobs last fall in Minneapolis
and purchased a convenience store cum
gas station in Kalispell, Mont. They
hoped to lower their stress levels by
being their own bosses. But when the
plumbing backed up, the heating went
out, and two gas pumps broke down on
New Year’s Day, that appeared to be a
dubious premise. Fora while they rented
a house on beautiful Flathead Lake. In
April they moved into their new home
at 1525 Three Mile Drive, Kalispell,
MT59901. ...And nowforthe guys! Sid
Dickson sent a half-inch thick package
covering 32 years of what’s been going
on in his world. Sid is divorced, owns a

SUMMER 1993 55

Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

tree moving company in St. Michaels.

out traveling on any paved streets or
highways (aside from crossing them at
right angles). He celebrated his 50th
birthday by entering the Incas Rally in
Peru. He once shipped his motorcycle
to Iceland because he heard the riding
there was “different.” Sid’s picture is
on the cover of the September 1992

issue of Trail Rider magazine. Jim

Tracy and daughter Megan ’90 win the
long distance prize this time. Megan
has been with the Peace Corps in
Mongolia since July 1991. Last sum¬
mer Jim visited her in Ulan Bator for a
week. He reports that Mongolia is a
strange mixture of Soviet and Far East¬
ern culture. The Mongol people are
warm and fun. The countryside is a
little like Switzerland, but more primi¬
tive and rugged. Megan and Jim spent a
few days in Beijing on his way home.
Son Jim works in the Washington, D.C.,
area for a computer services company.
In 1989, Jim Sr. joined a similar start up
business which, he reports, is progress¬
ing reasonably well despite the reces¬
sion. ...Lloyd Graybar was also on the
move last year. In May, he spent three
weeks visiting Germany, Poland, Hun¬
gary, Austria and Switzerland. And in
August he had a grand time visiting
with Dick Dennison in Pittsford, N.Y.
Lloyd is a professor of history at East¬
ern Kentucky Univ. and lives in Rich¬
mond, Ky. ...Jim Wright's comments
apply to us all: “When your son is a
better athlete, when your daughter hits
30 years of age, and you can’t clearly
see your toes, it’s time to seek the
sympathy of those in a like station in
life. I wish some of you would stop in
Bethlehem, Pa., if you can still travel.”
...Thanks to everyone who sent cards
and letters. Do keep in touch. Your
classmates read this column first!

61

Class Secretaries: Steve Crampton, RR
1, Box 127, Tarbox Road, Jericho, VT
05465, and Lee Kaufman, 161 Three
Mile Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901.

Jane Werner Bonnesen (9028 Lark¬
spur Lane, Eden Prairie, MN 55344)
may hold the current record for grand¬
children in our class, with a total that

has swollen to seven. As the marketing
support manager for Amsdahl, Jane
covers an area in the upper Midwest
which includes Minnesota, Wisconsin,
the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska. She
won the field business conference award
for her 1992 performance. All those
grandchildren have not tied Jane down
either. She visited Spain in 1992 and
planned trips to Alaska and Prague in
1993. Jane reports she ran into Carol
Nicholson Fryberger at President
McCardell’s reception in the governor’s
mansion in St. Paul. ...Janet Linderoth
Bohren (9581 Fox Road, Clayton, OH
45315) works at the Univ. of Cincin¬
nati. Janet’s Bearcats had made it to the
sweet sixteen, at the time these notes
were being prepared. Janet is directing
two research grants with local school
districts to develop science teacher ex¬
pertise by using multi-media technol¬
ogy to improve learning in middle
school. ...It was great to hear from
Howard Mettee (220 Ridgewood
Drive, Boardman, OH 44512), who has
jumped right into the new frontier for
business development—Eastern Europe
and Russia. He spent August and Sep¬
tember of 1992 in St. Petersburg as an
International Rotary Volunteer assigned
to help stimulate small business. He
came away with the names of 49 enter¬
prises and institutes who are interested
in establishing trading partnerships with
American counterparts. If anyone is
interested in exploring the possibility
of establishing relationships with a
Russian business or institution, Howie
would be glad to act as the catalyst. He
can be reached at 216-726-0363. ...Lois
Ry man Lewis has certainly diversified
her life and interests recently. While
continuing to work as a tax preparer and
as a nurse, Lois has ambitiously en¬
rolled in a master’s program in special
education, early childhood, at Cal State,
Los Angeles. She loves the challenging
return to college life and the deja vu
experience of tackling the library, buy¬
ing books and registering for classes.
Her daughter, Jennifer, is a third grade
teacher; younger daughter Kathleen was
to receive her teaching credentials in
June. Bravo to Lois for jumping back
into life with both feet after the unfortu¬
nate loss of her husband. ...Received
some news coupled with good advice
from Judy Stenger Johnson (7301
Rebecca Drive, Alexandria, VA 22307).
Judy has taken a new job with Earth
Share, a federation of 40 environmental
groups. In a cooperative effort to raise
funds for the activities of all 40 groups,
Earth Share does workplace fund rais¬
ing through campaigns in cities, states,
corporations and the federal govern¬
ment. One could not put it better than
Judy: “It’s fun to put your talents where
your heart is! Do your Earth Share!”
...Since graduating from Pomona Col¬
lege in May 1992, your eastern
secretary’s daughter, Kathryn
Crampton, has been serving an intern¬
ship with the Wildlife Habitat Enhance¬
ment Council in Washington, DC. Not
only is she a great source of pride to her

Md., on the Eastern Shore, and has a
daughter attending Washington Col¬
lege in Chestertown, Md. You may
remember that 25 years ago Sid and a
co-driver completed the London to
Sydney (as in Australia) road race mara¬
thon, in a non-factory-sponsored 1968
Rambler-American. As of this writing
(March) Sid is at it again, gearing up for
the 25th anniversary re-creation of the
event that has been called the last great
intercontinental auto race. Once again
the only American entrant, Sid is driv¬
ing a pre-1969 vehicle. He has also
completed some wonderful motorcycle
events. He rode 4,000 miles coast-to-
coast, across the U.S., off-road —with-

parents, but she is providing us with
new perspectives and educational ex¬
periences. It is exciting to see the devo¬
tion these kids have for improving the
environment—as long as it’s tempered
with common sense and a spirit of co¬
operation, not merely an extension of
the NIMBY philosophy. ...We are
pleased to report the exciting news that
Willard M. Reger (123 E. Middle St.,
Hanover, PA 17331) was married on
May 22, 1992, to Elizabeth Esther
Hostetter. Congratulations, Bill, and
welcome, Elizabeth, to the Middlebury
family. ...The last note is one which
reflects a great personal loss for your
secretary. On December31,1992, Judy
Remington Parsons died in Burlington,
Vt., after a courageous battle against
cancer. Judy and her husband. Rod ’62,
and my wife, Susan Comstock
Crampton ’63, and I were privileged to
share a unique and wonderful friend¬
ship that extended over 30 years. It was
one of those chance things—four young
people from diverse backgrounds whose
paths merged at Middlebury and whose
lives then continued in lock step there¬
after. The cadence of our lives at times
defied belief. Judy and Susan each had,
or would have had, three of their chil¬
dren within a couple of months of each
other. They also each lost a child. The
Parsons left Middlebury and went west
for further education and training, ar¬
riving back in Vermont at the end of the
’60s. The Cramptons left Middlebury
and went south for further education
and training, arriving back in Vermont
at the end of the ’60s. For each of the last
20-odd New Year’s Eves we have been
with each other to catch up on family
and to usher in each succeeding year.
The essence of Judy Parsons can be
summed up in two key words: DEVO¬
TION to her beloved husband. Rod, and
DEDICATION—sprinkled prudently
with a strong dose of discipline and a
no-nonsense attitude—to her kids,
Debbie, Roddy and Brad, and to the
light of her life during her last difficult
times, her grandchildren, John and little
Jake. Judy was a tax specialist, first in
Susan’s CPA accounting firm and later
establishing her own business. Through¬
out her professional career, Judy was
what I call a “turn to” person. Because
of her wisdom, her upbeat can-do atti¬
tude, and her genuine concern for oth¬
ers, people turned to Judy as a sounding
board for their professional, social or
personal problems, seeking her counsel
and advice. Judy’s other love was the
family’s summer home in East Hamp¬
ton, L.I. Although Judy’s death robbed
her of years with the people she most
cared for, her husband and her family,
she knew, and we should not forget, that
she had already accomplished what she
truly wanted from life: a wonderful
marriage, coupled with the pride and
realization that she and Rod, working
together, had provided important op¬
portunities and benefits to their chil¬
dren in terms of ribrocked values and
educational experiences. And her chil¬
dren in turn have taken those gifts and

opportunities, used them to the fullest
extent, avoided the pitfalls that sur¬
round youngsters growing up in these
complex times, and blossomed as truly
wonderful human beings. Daughter
Debbie, after graduating from St.
Lawrence, lives outside Burlington, runs
a daycare center, and gave Judy the joy
of her first two grandchildren. Oldest
son Roddy, after receiving his Ph.D. in
chemistry at UVM, is pursuing post¬
doctoral work at the Univ. of Califor¬
nia, Berkeley. Youngest son Brad is a
junior at Stanford, which meant a lot to
Judy since Rod obtained his Ph.D. de¬
gree from Stanford in 1965. Rod can be
reached at Bean Road, Charlotte, VT
05445.

62

Class Secretaries: Leslie Dearborn
Cronin, 16320 Batchellors Forest Road,
Olney, MD 20832, and James D.
Shat tuck, 59 Wesskum Wood Road, Riv¬
erside, CT 06878.

Lucy Beckley Cole (Lucy IV) reports
heavy involvement in the recent elec¬
tion year, campaigning heartily for Perot
(and voting for Clinton), working on
two congressional campaigns and pro¬
moting a candidate’s forum. Wonders
of wonders, according to her daughter,
she’s also on her way to computer lit¬
eracy. Oldest daughter Lucy (Lucy V)
is a first year student at the Univ. of
Redlands; daughter Genie is active in
theater and dance; 7th grader Stew has
become a prodigy trumpet player; hus¬
band Ross is lawyering away. ...In Geor¬
gia, Jim Warburton has a good thing
going at Emory Univ. where he is si¬
multaneously teaching Spanish and see¬
ing the world—last year, Guatemala
and Honduras (twice), Costa Rica, Spain
and Portugal. ...Sounds like Craig
Lloyd also has a good thing going in
Georgia. A professor of history and
director of archives at Columbus Col¬
lege, Craig has been researching the life
of Eugene Bullard, the world's first
black combat aviator who flew for
France in WW I. Bullard’s odyssey
included boxing and vaudeville careers
before the war and ownership of night¬
clubs thereafter. Craig's odyssey? You
guessed it! Research summers in Paris,
which he has enjoyed with wife Caryl,
a French professor. ...Linda Ross
Sinrod writes, “As the proud parent of
a lesbian, as well as the aunt, daughter-
in-law and cousin-in-law of gays, I have
become active in the Gay Rights move¬
ment. More and more evidence shows
homosexuality to be physically based,
especially twin studies. Parents have to
come out as well as gays to break down
the stereotypes. I would enjoy hearing
from other classmates who are parents
of gays. You may write to me at 6053
River Drive, Lorton, VA 22079 or call
703-550-9582.” ...Hilda Wing reports
from Silver Spring, Md., that she con¬
tinues at the FAA, working on selection

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systems for air traffic controllers. She
adds, “My curiosity is not disinterested
in what changes Mr. Clinton will make!

It should be noted that I live beyond the
Beltway.” ...Grant Weier has made
good his intention of early retirement
from Delta Airlines and is teaching part
time in the aviation department of North¬
ern Kentucky Univ. ...Cynthia Cooper
Bracken is also planning for retire¬
ment. She and her husband have pur¬
chased a building lot near Williamsburg.
...And it sounds as though Linda
Beauregard Vancini has already made
that move to a life of leisure. She’s
enjoying lots of golf and idyllic times in
Johns Island, S.C. ...John Pribram, for
one, is maintaining a somewhat more
rigorous schedule, having just been
appointed associate dean of the faculty
at Bates College. He and Hope Brown
Pribram are the parents of two daugh¬
ters—Sarah, a graduate student at St.
Michael’s College, and Margaret, in
her first year at Connecticut College.
...Tom and Marren Ward Meehan are
cleaning up at local paddleball tourna¬
ments. They report that they attended
an Inaugural Ball with John and Betty
Allen Hornbostel, who are awaiting
the next four years with bated breath.
This, too, shall pass, John. ...Gil Owren
was in fine fettle for a weekend reunion
with Andrew and Carol Keyes ’63
Ferrentino at Skytop in Pennsylvania.
He did, however, refuse to strap on the
boards. ...Keep us posted on your sum¬
mertime activities. Have a good one!

63

Class Secretaries: Jane Bachelder John¬
son, 625 Talamini Road. Bridgewater,
NJ 08807, and Robert W. Clarke, 63
Mountain Road, Hampden, MA 01036.

News of your 30th Reunion will appear
in this space in the Autumn issue. Hope
you were able to be there!

64

Class Secretaries: Patricia Lynch
DeMas, 3774 Ashford Lake Ct., At¬
lanta, GA 30319, and Robert J. Baskin,
805 A St., SE, Washington, DC 20003.

R. Gordon Werner (205 N. Oakhurst,
#34, Aurora, IL 60504) has moved to
the Chicago area where he is working at
AT&T Bell Labs. He hopes MiddKids
will call when in the area. ...Fred Strife
is happily practicing pediatrics at
Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital. His
wife, Janet, also works there as a radi¬
ologist. One of their four children has
finally joined the work force, while the
others are struggling at various stages
of their education. Fred says they still
visit Vermont and think often of great
friends from Midd. ...John Wallach is
the founding editor of WE, the first
Russian/American independent news¬

paper, a joint venture between Hearst
and Izvestia. They are publishing
350,000 copies a week in Moscow and
50,000 in the U.S. (in Russian and Eng¬
lish). Advertising is welcome from any¬
one looking to make a fast buck, or
ruble, according to Editor Wallach. His
third book. The New Palestinians , co¬
authored with his wife, Janet, is now in
the bookstores. ...Last year, Judith K.
Williams was appointed VP, quality
improvement, at VITAS Health Care
Corp., which is headquartered in Mi¬
ami, Fla. ...Anne and C. Richard
Hawley last year celebrated their 25th
anniversary by taking a four-day, 184-
mile bike trip on the Chesapeake &
Ohio canal tow path from Cumberland,
Md., to Georgetown (D.C.). In another
milestone, Dick’s daughter, Katie, is
receiving her master’s degree from
UVM. ...Richard W. Maine was ap¬
pointed president and CEO of Hyperion
Credit Service Corp., of Glastonbury,
Conn., an indirect subsidiary of
Hyperion Partners L.P. Dick had been
serving as executive VP and chief in¬
vestment officer for Connecticut Mu¬
tual Life Insurance Co. ...Sally Wil¬
liams Allen has a new address: 38 Rue
Saint Sulpice, 75006 Paris, France. She
manages the alumni office there for
INSEAD, the Institute of European
Business Administration in
Fontainebleu. A widow with a daughter
at Columbia, a son at Yale and a daugh¬
ter U.S.-college-bound next year, Sally
comes to the States frequently. She
even returned to her hometown to vote.
...Daniel R. Vantassel recently
downsized in a move to a condo com¬
munity. Two of the four kids have left
the nest and, with no more lawns to
mow, Dan now finds time for finishing
a novel, building an Adirondack guide
boat and rollerblading. His daughter,
Amy, had the opportunity to watch the
filming of a new A1 Pacino movie at her
school, Emma Willard. Dan is looking
forward to the 30th—and his first—
Reunion.

65

Class Secretaries: Polly Moore Walters
(Mrs. Kenneth), 100 Grandview Ave.,
Fort Collins, CO 80521, and Frederick
W. Stetson, 123 N. Union St., Burlington,
VT 05401.

Summer is coming in, signaling the end
of lilacs, dandelions and buttercups,
and reminding us of favorite flowers
and happy mem’ries: Dunmore days,
norgling nights, classes that suspended
time and sunmotes. Now we are off to
other duties while another generation
moves through those green hills of Ver¬
mont. ...After long research and work,
Ann Fowler LaBerge (2814 Mt.
Vernon Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24060)
is pleased that her book. Mission and
Method: the Early Nineteenth-Century
French Public Health Movement, was
published in 1992 by Cambridge Uni¬

versity Press (N.Y). Now she is work¬
ing with 10 other historians on a histo¬
riographical work reassessing French
clinical medicine. Her family, includ¬
ing two teenaged daughters, two dogs
and two cats, seems to have survived
intact. ...Fred Noseworthy (1 Surf Way,
#139, Monterey, CA 93940; 408-373-
6407) has joined forces with two former
pro football players and a pro golfer to
start a pro sports golf association. They
bring together pro athletes and associ¬
ate members to play golf in their tourna¬
ments. This ought to tickle the fancy of
several ’65 golfers. ...Since last No¬
vember, Susan Phibbs Brezenay has
enjoyed her new job as director of stu¬
dent health services at Mount Vernon
College in Washington, D.C. “It’s near
home so I can walk in good weather.
Seeing patients as a physician assistant
proves very satisfying.” Sue attended
the presidential inauguration and has
high hopes for the new administration.
She would like to hear from classmates
who are visiting the area. ...Paul
Prentiss (1229 N. Jackson St., #303,
Milwaukee, WI 53202) has moved
downtown and is enjoy ing the 15-minute
walk to work, weather permitting. He
attended the Midd area alumni gather¬
ing in January to meet with President
McCardell. Son Mike is a junior at
Duke and daughter Sharon is a fresh¬
man at Sarah Lawrence. “Where,” he
wonders, “does the time go?” ...Nancy
Smith (1209 Rose Glen Road,
Gladwyne, PA 19035) writes that she,
husband Jay and son Lane (9) visited
Hawaii in the summer of 1992 and
stayed with Diane Takamune Ander¬
son and her daughter, Lolly. “Even
though 22 years had passed, during
which correspondence was the only link,
we soon caught up and were able to get
into some ‘meaty’ discussions about
modem day events. It was truly a memo¬
rable visit.” The Smiths were looking
forward to hosting Diane and Lolly in
the Philadelphia area this summer (and
extend an invitation to any other ’65ers).
Anticipating a future trip to Alaska,
Nancy asks, “Do we have any class¬
mates there?” ...Jiffy Starr Johnson
(2054 Coronet Lane, Clearwater, FL
34624) has been selected to chair the
Clearwater-Kaluga “Friendship City”
delegation. The purpose of the delega¬
tion is to try to establish business, cul¬
tural and humanitarian ties with Kaluga,
a Russian city 125 miles southwest of
Moscow. Jiffy reports that she didn’t
get to McDonalds in Moscow during an
official visit in August ’92, but she did
stay with a Russian family who re¬
turned the visit in February of ’93. Sud¬
denly Jiffy regrets not having studied
Russian at Midd, but with her flair for
languages, I expect she’ll soon be able
to communicate well enough. ...Nancy
Sherman Walker received her master’s
degree in social work in May of ’92.
She is working with Lutheran Social
Services in Washington, D.C., where
she helps mentally ill patients move
from St. Elizabeth's Hospital into the
community. Husband John Walker,

still director of admissions at Episcopal
High School, enjoys interviewing stu¬
dents in the area who are applying to
Middlebury. Their son, John Walker
’88, was married in June 1992 and works
in New York City for Saatchi and
Saatchi. ...William “Terry” Wright
(Box 279, Forestville, CA 95436) is
back teaching after a year’s sabbatical
in Franconia, N.H., where he spent his
mornings writing a book and his after¬
noons skiing. The momentous daily
decision revolved around whether he
and his wife should downhill or cross¬
country. He finished writing the book
back home in California last fall, so
now we await word of its publication.
...In February I (Polly Moore Walters)
decided to brave the fickle weather and
commit to attending the mid-winter
Midd gathering down in Denver. This
was the first time I had gone in nearly 20
years, when I last went solely because T
Tall was there. I’m hooked; I’ll go
again. The topic was environmental
studies and the crowd was varied and
attentive. My favorite finds were the
young men who had recently gradu¬
ated. They gave me hope for our son as
he faces outward mobility this fall to
points unknown on his hero’s adven¬
ture. ...Please keep in touch as you all
seek and find your own.

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Class Secretaries: Carolyn D. Holmes,
38 Glenwood Road, Upper Montclair,
NJ 07043, andThomasR. Easton, 10456
Burke Lake Road, Fait fax Station, VA
22039.

Bill Barstow (P.O. Box 240261, An¬
chorage, AK 99524, 907-349-7070)
focuses on the three major concerns of
us all: personal —Bill is still loving and
enjoying Alaska, competed in the World
Masters Cross Country Ski Races in
March 1992, and broke a collar bone
while mountain biking (“ouch !”);/£//??-
ily —children Billy '88, Craig (West
Point ’94) and Meghan ’94 have spent
considerable time with Bill in Alaska;
and professional —bankruptcy trustee
work is still brisk and exciting. ...Alan
Magarv (1440 16th Ave., San Fran¬
cisco, C A 94122,415-661 -0537) elabo¬
rates on his work “on a huge historical
novel set in the time of the Hundred
Years War and Wars of the Roses (so
why did I major in American history?).”
wife Kerstin is director of the 300-acre
Mission Bay Project in San Francisco.
Their children, Kate (8) and Karin (6),
“grow more wonderful by the minute.”
...Several of the following contacts with
classmates were made around a theme—
or, more precisely, around a Forest West
lounge 24-hour bridge game. Joyce
Smith Mills (7 Central St., Winchester,
MA 02539,617-729-3346) remembers
the “Red Riding Hood’s Hood” jigsaw
puzzle with which classmates (the
dummy and various kibitzers) occu¬
pied their time (consider a round puzzle

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with all of its pieces the same color red).
Compare the creative challenge of fit¬
ting pieces together solely through in¬
tricate shape differentiation with new-
style electronic game challenges of
Nintendo or Genesis. My, how the world
has changed (or maybe not). Joyce has
not kept up with the game of bridge but
has enjoyed her part-time work with
husband Quinn, who teaches at Harvard,
as well as volunteer work for recreation
programs and for her church in Win¬
chester, Mass. Joyce has also been study¬
ing Japanese, has worked on her high
school class’ 30th reunion, and has got¬
ten involved in family genealogy, re¬
porting that “it’s like playing detective,
searching for clues and putting puzzle
pieces together.” (Red Riding Hood’s
Hood strikes again!) Daughter Lisa (17)
is an accomplished cellist preparing to
enter Harvard in the fall; Shirley (13),
an oboist benefiting from an incredible
music program at Phillips Andover, is
doing well both academically and so¬
cially—”1 think she will turn into a
telephone soon!” By the way, Joyce
remembers that the bridge players spent
several months putting the hood to¬
gether. More later. ...Shirley Frobes
(1741 Tustin Ave., #9A, Costa Mesa,
CA 92627, 714-646-8472) spent some
years in Boston before moving back to
Salt Lake City. She earned her graduate
degree in economics from the Univ. of
Utah, enjoying the outdoor lifestyle in a
canyon where she could ski from her
back door—remember, she had skied
for the state of Utah in high school!
Shirley and her significant other, Steve
Nelson, moved to Costa Mesa, Calif.,
about four years ago, when the market
for commercial construction was prom¬
ising. The lifestyle change has been
dramatic. Shirley reports that the cli¬
mate is indeed wonderful and she en¬
joys living near Newport Beach. She
has pooled her English major at Middle-
bury with the economics degree and
works as an editor for Kenneth
Leventhal & Co., a CPA firm specializ¬
ing in the real estate industry. The geo¬
graphic trade-off has given her much-
appreciated cultural advantages in the
arts and entertainment. Shirley, who
has been working for Middlebury, in¬
terviewing candidates for admission, is
pleased to say that the caliber of appli¬
cants is excellent. ...Don and Joanne
Meissner Houston (305 Maple St.,
Contoocook, NH 03229,603-746-3435)
returned to Contoocook in 1977, build¬
ing a home close to both of their fami¬
lies. Joanne recalls that when the elec¬
trician installing a newly-made chan¬
delier asked if the connection should be
made so that the fixture could be moved,
Don responded, “No, where I’m going
from here, the chandelier is not.”
They’re still in the house! Joanne has
worked part time for the Institute for
Trend Research, a small company spe¬
cializing in economic forecasting. Don
is the administrative manager of
Crathem Engineering which serves the
cardboard folding industry. Daughters
Kim (22) and Wendy (18) have been

actively involved in sports. While Kim
has graduated from UNH with a busi¬
ness major and will be entering the
management training program at Yan¬
kee Book Peddler, Wendy will con¬
tinue her softball, basketball and field
hockey career, attending UVM this fall
to major in physical therapy. ...Back to
Red Riding Hood’s red hood, Suzanne
Pineau Engler (1991 Bahia Way, La
Jolla, CA 92037, 619-483-1623) re¬
members that a lot of people worked on
the puzzle, sometimes for hours at a
stretch. In fact, it may have been a
marathon effort that resulted in the
completion of the round red attraction,
and it may have been the red that caused
the near-adolescent silliness which put
the pieces back in the box only a few
minutes after the puzzle’s completion.
Then again, it may have been caffeine
overdose. It seems Forest Westers often
collected quarters and drew lots to de¬
termine who would run down the hill to
buy the next pound can to feed the
lounge coffee pot. For as long as the
bridge game lasted, the coffee pot stayed
on. The grocer down the hill must have
retired well off! Well, Suzanne still
does jigsaw puzzles and manages to
stay in touch with some of the Forest
Westers, especially Holly Hartley,
Carolyn Sharp Hamilton and Nan
Haeffner Mahland. Three years ago,
Suzanne and husband Bob moved to La
Jolla with her children, Emily (13) and
Gregory (9). They are regularly joined
by Bob’s children, Eric (11) and Mat¬
thew (8). The whole family enjoys ski
vacations. Emily is a swimmer and
dancer; Gregory enjoys soccer,
Nintendo and performing annually in
the Nutcracker Suite at San Diego’s
Civic Center. Bob is a cardiologist as¬
sociated with UC-San Diego and with
the V.A. Hospital. Suzanne has contin¬
ued her interests in education, having
enjoyed her work with the Association
of American Medical Colleges in Wash¬
ington, D.C., but now focusing on what
she terms “The Gap”—not a retail store,
but the continuing difference between
median test scores of children of the
majority and those of the minorities. In
southern California, it is the native Span¬
ish-speaking children who are not pro¬
vided appropriate language and cul¬
tural support to promote success.
Suzanne has also become involved in
local politics and harbors a desire to
continue her earlier entrepreneurial ef¬
forts (The Needlework Attic is still be¬
ing operated successfully in Bethesda
by her sister). Suzanne often visits the
East Coast and was about to embark on
a five-day trip to Washington with Gre¬
gory. ...Holly Kasson MeGinty (12153
Charlotte, Kansas City, MO 64146,816-
942-1853) lives with her husband of 17
years, Jim, and their 14-year-old beagle.
Jim retired from the U.S. Postal Service
two years ago. Although Holly was
temporarily at home recovering from
an operation, she has been returning to
the local brokerage firm where she has
worked part time for 15 years. Holly’s
travels over the years have included

vacations in Florida—Jim enjoys fish¬
ing and hunting—and she would like to
visit New England again. Holly would
like to be remembered to Lvn Fulton
Hayden and remembers 8 a.m. ice skat¬
ing classes at the Field House (“where
your hair frizzed up as soon as you set
foot inside”). ...Ward Whipple (75
Squire Hill Road, New Milford, CT
06776, 203-354-3342) and wife Deb
Ewen were just about to celebrate son
Ben’s third birthday. Ward’s older chil¬
dren, Heather (27) and Ward III (24) are
pursuing careers in academia and mu¬
sic, respectively. Heather graduated
from S warthmore and works at the Cen¬
ter for Astronomical Studies at Harvard.
She wants to pursue a Ph.D. and has
strong interests in science fiction. Ward
III, who attended the Univ. of Dela¬
ware, is a sales representative for a
company supplies tapes and CDs to
retail outlets and has interests in writing
and playing music. Wife Deb is a con¬
sultant with Personnel Corporation of
America, juggling professional and pa¬
rental responsibilities. Ward reports that
raising a child in the ’90s is very differ¬
ent from in the ’70s. He feels much
more like a participant and notes that “it
is really terrific!” Ward has followed a
banking career, with five years in the
trust department of First National Bank
of Boston, 18 years in the trust area of
Scarsdale National Bank. On January
20, 1989, George Bush and Ward both
began new jobs. George is now out of
work, but Ward has developed trust
related business in an SEC-registered
investment advisory company. Capital
Management Corporation. Ward and
Deb are exploring the juggling required
of “dual income/career with small child/
children” families. ...First there were
hippies, then yuppies; soon there were
dines; now we have discs, or is it slipped
discs? But each of us have the same
three concerns Bill Barstow raised .per¬
sonal, family and professional (not nec¬
essarily in that order). As far as Red
Riding Hood’s red hood riding
roughshod over Forest West, some of
us barely remember the red. beyond the
bloodshot eyes of late night bridge—
and certainly we have changed our tol¬
erance for caffeine, for now coffee
comes in an orange pot.

67

Class Secretaries: Susan D. Patterson,
67 Robinson Parkway . Burlington, VT
05401, and David E. Robinson, P.O.
Box 748, Amherst, NH 03031.

Here in northern Vermont, where your
class secretaries live, we are having a
great old-fashioned winter with lots of
snow and wonderful skiing. As I write
this on March 1, we missed breaking
the February snow record of 33 inches
by just half an inch! Remember those
Middlebury winters, with bright sun¬
shine, below-zero nights and moun¬
tains of snow? That’s what we have this

winter. Ironically, because of publica¬
tion schedules, you'll be reading this in

July, wearing short sleeves.Judith

Pierpont. who teaches English at
Cornell, reports that herotherpassion is
now gardening. The high point last sum¬
mer, says Judy, was the arrival of a ten¬
wheeler load of manure for her 80 by
60-foot garden. This summer she'll
spend a couple of weeks in Santa Fe
visiting her parents and brother. But
who will mind the weeds while she’s
away? ...Craig Ehrich's son, Jason,
graduated last December from the Univ.
of Colorado. He’s working in Boulder
while applying to graduate school in
cultural anthropology. In northern Man¬
hattan, Craig reports that he is “dusting
off old summer skills and coaching
basketball in a Police Athletic League
for 8 to 13-year-olds in Washington
Heights once a week.” ...Phil Ross and
family skied Smugglers Notch for a
week at Christmas time and went on the
town in Burlington with Tom and Su¬
san Davis Patterson. The Pattersons
also visited with Ann and Ford Cole,
who came up for Middlebury Alumni
Winter Weekend. ...Dee Martin Mont¬
gomery has a new job. She's now an
account executive for Killington Tele¬
vision. ...Wink Baldwin was unable to
come to Reunion last May because of
the death of his mother. He and his wife
Jane are in the midst of moving to
Baltimore (2114 Webb Lane, Baltimore.
MD 21209), where Wink will be an
associate professor of pathology at Johns
Hopkins, with primary responsibilities
in research. ...David Robinson, your
reporting secretary, has started a
master’s degree program in counseling
psychology at Antioch New England in
Keene, N.H. His wife, Felicia, is seek¬
ing work as a nurse midwife. They can
be reached at (603) 673-2339. If you are
visiting Vermont or New Hampshire,
we urge you to contact your class secre¬
taries. We may be able to visit with you,
and we certainly want to know what
you are up to. One final note: We asked
all of you a question about Baby
Boomers in the spring issue. Because
the class notes are written long ahead,
we will not have those responses for
you until the fall issue. So be on the
lookout!

68

Class Secretaries: ShariGalligan John¬
son, 230 Hopkinton Road, Concord,
NH 03301, and Dr. Bentley C. Gregg,
418 East St., NE, Vienna, VA 22180.

Looking at all the snow outside, it’s
hard to believe you will be reading this
when the flowers are blooming and our
reunion is a fond memory. ...Linda
Burley Glaser (Binnenhof 12, 6715
DP Ede. Netherlands) has returned to
her former job with Elsevier Science
Publishers in Amsterdam, after helping
husband Robert establish his company.
She has taken up golf and is “struggling

58 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

NEW YORK
Michael R. Bassett ’80

(Chairperson/Law)

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue
599 Lexington Ave.

New York, NY 10022
B: (212) 326-3929

James R. Cohen 75

(Advertising)

Bozell

40 W. 23rd St.

New York, NY 10010
B: (212) 727-5345

Susan S. Cohen 78

(Insurance)

Crum & Forster
211 Mount Airy Road
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
B: (908) 953-3025

Tracy Howell ’85

(Publishing)

890 West End Ave., Apt. 1G
New York, NY 10025
B: (212) 888-2700

Valerie Taylor, M.A. Italian 76

(Magazine Publishing)

New York Magazine
755 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10017
B: (212) 880-0755

Kirsten Hegan ’87

(Marketing)

Bristol Myers Products
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154
B: (212) 546-4321

Seeking additional
New York volunteers in:

• Capital Markets

• Commercial Banking

BOSTON
Jay Houlihan 79

(Chairperson)

Boston Capital Ventures
Old City Hall, 45 School St.
Boston, MA 02108
B: (617) 227-6550

Melissa D. Mills ’82

(Marketing)

USA Today
100 Unicorn Park
Woburn, MA 01801
H: (617) 932-0660

Pieter Schiller ’60

(Financial Services)

1373 Monument St.

Concord, MA 01742
H: (508) 371-1858

Scott Helmers 73

(Data Communications/
Telecommunications)

107 Colonial Drive
Andover, MA 01810
B: (508) 683-4414
H: (508) 470-3445

Russell E. Brackett 79

(Management Consulting)

CSC Index

Five Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
B: (617) 499-1561

David B. Fischer ’82

(Banking)

Silicon Valley Bank
45 William St.

Wellesley, MA 02181
B: (617) 431-9904

Charles C. Palmer ’57

(Brokerage)

Legg Mason
99 Summer St.

Boston, MA 02101
B: (617) 951-9862

David D. Wallace ’50

(Architecture)

Wallace, Floyd, Associates Inc.
286 Congress St.

Boston, MA 02210
B: (617) 423-4440

Maryanne Herlihy Ulian ’84

(Marketing)

IBM

404 Wyman St.

Waltham, MA 02254
B: (617) 895-2771
H: (617) 868-2095

David W. Foss 74

(Publishing)

Harvard University Press
79 Garden St.

Cambridge, MA 02138
B: (617) 496-2624

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Bruce Brennan 72

(Chairperson/Law)

509 East Capitol St.

Washington, DC 20003
H: (202) 543-6810

Peter Zinsser ’63

A Z Trust Services
35 Wisconsin Circle, Suite 225
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
B: (301) 718-3778

Linda Feldman Roe ’81

(Journalism)

Christian Science Monitor
910 16th St. NW
Washington, DC 20006
B: (202) 785-4400
H: (202) 667-4465

John Scharfenberg Jr. ’87

(Federal Govt.-Legislative)

Professional Staff

B371A Rayburn House Office Bldg.

House Banking Committee

Washington, DC 20515

B: (202) 225-2258

PHILADELPHIA
Lisa Bazemore ’82

Morgan, Lewis & Backius
2000 One Logan Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
B: (215) 963-4864

VERMONT

J. Kenneth Sowles ’80

150 Porter’s Point Road
Colchester, VT 05446
B: (802) 864-8181

FLORIDA

Margaret B. Cox ’81

969 Haas Ave. NE
Palm Bay, FL 32907
H: (407) 724-8468

LOS ANGELES
Kevin O’Leary 78

Williams, Woolley, Cogswell, et al.
200 Oceangate, Suite 700
Long Beach, CA 90802
B: (310) 495-6000
H: (818) 761-7868

Midd Net

Conducting a job search or contemplating a career change? A MiddNet representative may be able
to help. These volunteers can discuss their own experiences as well as refer you to other graduates
in their region. The MiddNet program is not a job placement service, but it can help you find
information that will add to your success in today’s ever-changing job market. Those using this
service will help others by keeping MiddNet volunteers informed of their progress and by offering
feedback on suggestions they’ve received. For more information, contact Career Counseling &
Placement at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, 802/388-3711, ext. 5100.

William T. Whelan 79

(Law)

Palmer & Dodge
One Beacon St.

Boston, MA 02108
B: (617) 573-0100

Don Siegrist 78

(Software Development)
Healthcare Decision Technologies
300 Massachusetts Ave.

Acton, MA 01720
B: (508) 263-6300

Scott McAdam ’88

(Commercial Finance)

Fleet Bank of Massachusetts
28 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
B: (617) 346-1553

Heidi Hunter Siegrist ’80

(Education)

9 Clarkes Road
Amesbury, MA 01913
H: (508) 388-4539

Maureen Nardone 77

(Non-profit)

31 Llewellyn Road
West Newton, MA 02165
H: (617) 244-1379

Jocelyn Samuels 77

(Federal Agency-Attorney)

4606 Overbrook Road
Bethesda, MD 20816
B: (202) 663-4643

Amy Dale 78

(Federal Govt.-Executive Branch)
4605 B-1 S. 31 Road
Arlington, VA 22206
B: (301) 492-5818

Seeking additional
Washington volunteer in:

• Social Services / Health Policy

CHICAGO
Ed King ’81

Tribune Company
435 N. Michigan Ave. #2100
Chicago, IL 60601
B: (312) 222-3891

DENVER

Jill Cowperthwaite 76

636 Vine Street
Denver, CO 80206
H: (303) 355-8656
B: (303) 399-2962

SAN FRANCISCO
Mark Wilcox ’86

First Deposit Corp.

88 Kearny St.

San Francisco, CA 94109
B: (415) 627-8292

SAN DIEGO
J. Mark Guinther 70

5750 Pray St.

Bonita, CA 92002
B: (619) 699-8244

HOUSTON

Karey Dubiel Dye ’83

Vinson & Elkins
1900 First City Tower
Houston, TX 77002-6760
B: (713) 758-1114

SEATTLE
Sheri A. Doyle ’80

Pacific Northwest Journeys
3209 South Dearborn
Seattle, WA 98144
B: (206) 329-9520

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL
Jody Reis Johnson 77

1544 Oakdale Avenue
West St. Paul, MN 55118
H: (612) 457-0040

HARTFORD, CT
Susan M. Banville 78

107 Elizabeth St.

Hartford, CT 06105
B: (203) 727-5431

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
Robert E. Luce ’59

Hay Management Consultants
One Landmark Square
Stamford, CT 06901
B: (203) 324-4800

Alumni NewsLetter

to pass the written and practical exams
required for a license to play the game.”
Perhaps we should institute that prac¬
tice in the U.S.! She enjoys flying with
Robert, who has his pilot’s license, but
assured me that she was planning to fly
KLM to reunion. ...Elizabeth Austin
Page is manager of information tech¬
nology planning at Texaco Chemical.
She is also an officer of the Chemical
Industry Data Exchange. Her son, Aus¬
tin, is a senior economics major at U.C.,
Santa Barbara. Her other son, Joel, a
junior in high school, recently won an
internship in Washington in the office
of Texas Congressman Bill Archer.
...Nikki McCausland has started a new

career as a cruise specialist at a travel
agency in Potomac, Md., after 17 years
in Montgomery County government as
a division chief (she retired in July
1992). ...Jake (Jeer called last month
with news of the BBQ business which
he and his wife started in addition to
their fancy sign/graphic design busi¬
ness. He’s living in Bridport and doing
landscape painting. He had a show at
the Southern Vermont Art Center in
Manchester, Vt., early in June. Last
fall. Theta Chi had a mini reunion at the
Belmont over Homecoming Weekend,
which brought together Jake, Bill Burke
’66, Dick Wien ’66 and John Lord ’67.
...Katv Gutchenritter Lissbrant (P.O.
Box 79, Eveni, Swaziland) moved to
Swaziland after three years of teaching
at the American University in Cairo.
She was married last summer to Nigel
Nichelson, a Brit, who is the project
director at the water board in Mbane.
Katy is looking for work, loves living in
Swaziland and welcomes anyone who
is in the area. ...Rita Lavin Gore is now
working at a different bank, Carney
Bank in Boynton Beach, Fla. She has
also moved to a different condo (6227
Coral lake Drive, Margate, FL 33063).
Her son has joined the Navy and is in the
Great Lakes area; her daughter was
graduating from Florida State Univ.
this May. ...Susan Caughman and
Gerry Goodrich sent news of the ar¬
rival of a daughter, Hope Lindley, bom
September 18, 1991, in Hangzhou,

China.John Marks (Rt. 1, Box 100,

Ettrick, WI 54627) left Save the Chil¬
dren Federation in July of 1992 after six
years as the country director in Somalia
and Sudan. He worked for the UN Sec¬
retariat in Somalia from mid-October
1992 to mid-January 1993 in Baidoa
and Kismayo. ...Rick Vomacka wrote
that he received the Outstanding Ser¬
vice Medal from the Uniformed Ser¬
vices University of the Health Sciences
for providing medical training to en¬
listed military medics. He also received
an Outstanding Alumnus Award from
Phi Kappa Tau national fraternity for
the same activities. Congratulations!

69

Class Secretaries: Elinor Livingston
Redmond, 1235 Sawyer Road, Cape

Elizabeth, ME 04107, and Wendy Cole
Singleton, 16342 Sunset Valley Drive,
Dallas, TX 75248.

We are pleased to Find so many of you
sending in youryellow postcards! Keep
them coming. ...In Los Angeles, Nancy
Breuer has a consulting business in
workplace HIV/AIDS education and
scriptwriting for corporate and educa¬
tional videos. Both parts of the business
are thriving and she loves self-employ¬
ment. Her husband. New Testament
scholar Scott Bartchy, is her business
partner. They run 5K and 10K races in
their spare time! ...Also from California
(156 Hillcrest Road, Berkeley, 94705),
Susie Cummings Goodin writes, “One
year after the firestorm burned our home
to the ground we have poured the foun¬
dation to build a new home. Our four
children, Amanda (14), Rebecca (10),
Sarah (8) and Kate (6) plan to make an
indelible impression on the garage slab
when it’s laid—Rob and I will be satis¬
fied with a simple walk across the thresh¬
old.” She thanks the alumni office for
finding a yearbook and a diploma for
her. ...David Nelson also has a new
address (4265 Fairway Villas Drive,
Alpharetta, GA 30202). Transferred
from Dallas to Atlanta in summer 1992,
he reports he’s glad to be back in a place
with hills and trees! (Sorry, Wendy.)
...Clemens A. Werner Jr. has been
elected president of Wolcott Trust and
Savings Bank in Wolcott, Iowa. ...Leslie
Blau and two other attorneys from
Winston & Strawn in Chicago have
started their own establishment, Blau,
Eberhardt & Kokszka. Their primary
interest is general civil and commercial
litigation with a emphasis in commod¬
ity futures, bankruptcy, insolvency and
creditors’ rights. ...Ginny Hopper
Mead still runs her own corporate train¬
ing company in Annapolis, Md. She
also serves as a volunteer speaker for
the Nature Conservancy and finds it
enormously rewarding. Her daughter,
Heather, is a sophomore at Middlebury;
son Christopher is a senior in high
school. ...David Sayre and his wife are
adding the finishing touches to their
new home on Cumberland Island, off
the coast of Georgia. They are helping
market a new firearm safety product to
prevent gun accidents involving chil¬
dren. ...From Baltimore, Myra Martin
MacCuaig writes that her family has
now broken its record for longevity in
one area—8-1/2 years! Myra is back in
school, working toward a master’s in
pastoral counseling at Loyola College.
School plus being full-time mom to
children ages 13, 11 and 5, as well as a
part-time enthusiastic volunteer at
church and children’s school, keeps her
busy. ...Two of our classmates were in
the news recently—one was Lt. Col.
William knowlton, who retired from
the Army last August; the other was
Eric Bass, a puppeteer who appeared in
Burlington with the Sandglass Theatre.
Eric has performed extensively in Eu¬
rope and has headlined at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festi¬

val and at the Jim Henson Festival of
Puppet Theater in New York. ...Finally,
Kathy Rouse Carr wrote of the chal¬
lenges of single parenting while chang¬
ing her job from teaching gifted and
talented children to being a fifth grade
teacher and team leader. She avers that
she is “in love with my job and the kids.
It doesn’t seem right to be this happy
duringa work week. I won’tcomplain!”
She and herchildren went tent camping
last summer (it rained every day). Kathy
has a good reminder for us all: “I am
really looking forward to our next re¬
union.” Me too! It’s less than a year
away. I don’t know where the heck 25
(TWENTY-FIVE) years have gone, but
I hope you can all plan to come back to
Middlebury and compare notes!

70

Class Secretaries: Sue Thompson, P.O.
Box 326, Mystic, CT 06355, and Andy
Wentink, P.O. Box 356, Hohokus, NJ
07423.

Birgit Jacobsen McCone has moved
back into San Francisco (2979 Jackson
St., CA 94115) and opened a studio for
the teaching of painting techniques. She
teaches painters how to think artisti¬
cally and artists how to be business
people. In the past 15 years, Birgit has
worked for designers, contractors, show¬
rooms and private clients on custom
finished projects. ...In February, Mary
Swanton (3314 N. Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, IL 60657) started a new job as
client services manager for Burson-
Marsteller public relations office in
Chicago. ...Gary ’71 and Star Bright
Higginbottom have moved to Bangor,
Maine (1004 Buck Hill Drive, Veazie,
ME 04401), where Gary is working for
a software mapping firm. Star is trying
to move her computer consulting to
small businesses. Their son, Jacob, is
attending Lehigh Univ.; daughter Becky
is a senior at Orono High School. “Life
goes too fast!” Star adds. ...Sherman
White is still assistant ski school direc¬
tor at Smugglers Notch, Vt., a full-time
job from November through April.
Sherm is also on the board of directors
of PSIA and PSIA-E and practicing law
in the off-season. He’s married with
two children, Jocelyn (17) and Andy
(15). “If anyone comes to Smugglers,”
Sherm writes, “look me up.” ...Woody
Jackson moved eight miles, from “the
deep country of Addison, Vt., to 60
Seminary Street in Middlebury, “so I
can be close to the beloved College”
and also so one daughter can attend
Middlebury Junior High and “my wife
won’t be just a taxi driver.” In April ’92
Woody and Rick Lapham traveled to
Tibet and by train through China, where
they got together with Marshall Adair,
who was U.S. Consul General in
Chengdu. ...J, Griffith Strasenburgh
and wife Suzanne have three children,
ages 16,15 and 12, two horses, two cats
and a dog. They live in New Vernon, |

N.J. (P.O. Box 203). and spend sum¬
mers in Truro and S’Conset. Mass. ...In
August, Andy Wentink was appointed
director of the Louis Bay 2nd Library in
Hawthorne. N.J. ...David ’68 and Dottie
Shea Weinstein write that their young¬
est daughter started high school last fall
and their eldest is a junior at Middle¬
bury. Dottie is studying for a master’s
in natural resource planning at UVM.
She continues to work part time at
Planned Parenthood where she’s been
an option counselor for four years. “It
keeps me sane,” Dottie comments, “in
a world I share with William
Rehnquist!” ...Rebecca Lee Samanci
and husband Yavuz have started a spe¬
cialty foods business called Cobbs Cor¬
ner. They have fun products—
mohammarra (spicy hot spread),
hummus, babaghahoush and tabouli—
in stores all over Vermont and also in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire. At
last report, business was “wildly suc¬
cessful.” Rebecca and Yavuz (RD #2,
Fairfax, VT 05454) have three chil¬
dren, Rachel (16), Emily (12) and Noah
(9). ...We express deep sadness for the
entire class at receiving news of the
death of Suzanne Eerraris Valby on
October 24, 1992. Our sincerest sym¬
pathy and support goes out to husband
Gary.

71

Class Secretaries: Dr. Susan R.
Thornton, 54 Pennsylvania Ave.,
Binghamton, NY 13903, and Sandy
McDowell, R.R.l, Box 1240, Shelburne,
VT 05482.

It appears that Sandy’s recent threat to
fabricate news has had the desired ef¬
fect! Thanks to all who wrote in. ...In
Fort Collins, Colo.. Lvnn F. Zinn is
enrolled in a doctoral program in edu¬
cational leadership (administration) at
the Univ. of Northern Colorado. Part
time she is also coordinating the imple¬
mentation of a reading program to meet
the needs of at-risk children in grades
one and two in Fort Collins. ...Dr. Curtis
C. Marder received his private pilot
license in November 1992. He is in
practice in cardiac, thoracic and vascu¬
lar surgery at Marquette (Mich.) Gen¬
eral Hospital where he’s chief of sur¬
gery. Curt and wife Shannon have two
daughters, Kate (1) and Emily (7).
...Denny and Maureen O'Bryan
Shanahan report that Denny was re¬
cently promoted to colonel and assigned
as deputy commander of the U.S. Army
Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Fort
Rucker, Ala. He was also recently
elected a Fellow of the Aerospace Medi¬
cal Association. He continues conduct¬
ing research into injury prevention in
aircraft crashes. Maureen recently co-
authored two papers with him on injury
analysis in U.S. Army helicopter
crashes—at no cost to the taxpayer!
Maureen continues to do computer con¬
sulting for small businesses, provides

60 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

gratis computer support for four non¬
profit community organizations and
designs computer-aided needle art. As
a family, they travel extensively, bass
fish and continue to support son Mike’s
high school baseball team. ...Barbara
Horiuchi received her master’s from
the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of
Management at Northeastern Univ. She
is the senior director of Hobart Devel¬
opment Co., headquartered in Chicago.
She reports a new suite number at her
home address: 505 No. Lakeshore Drive,
#4109, Chicago, IL 60611. ...Susan
Secord, who moved west over 13 years
ago, now calls Boulder, Colo., home.
She was remarried in 1989 to Chris
Hoffman. “My number one job right
now is being mom to our 19-month-old
son, Benjamin. I'm also working part
time with a local community college
where I manage training programs for
private industry. I’ve been a student of
Tibetan Buddhism and Native Ameri¬
can traditions for many years. When¬
ever I can make time, I also enjoy
skiing, white water rafting and back¬
packing.” ...Linda Rogers Fruits is a
part-time writer for a media company
specializing in corporate video and multi
media. Husband Dennis and son Greg
(8) fill in all her spare moments. ...Our
farthest flung correspondent for this
round of news, Anne Yerpe Kavcic,
writes from Nussbaumen, Switzerland:
“Well, here I am back in Switzerland.
Never thought I’d be here so long—it’s
been 11-1/2 years! Life sure takes some
funny turns. We took a quick two weeks
last fall and visited, among others,
Suzanne Webel Bovet and family in
Boulder, Colo. It was a great visit—the
children are really fun to be around.
Claire was two then and Colin nine
months. Suzanne is carrying on her
father’s business of pharmaceutical
advertising ‘objets d'art’ and Ray is
still with the Center for Atmospheric
Research as a computer programmer.
Boris and I still have engineering and
secretarial jobs, respectively, and are
still riding Western style—it’s getting
more and more popular in Europe!”

72

Class Secretaries: Jennifer Hamlin
Church, 11151 Summerfield Road, Pe¬
tersburg, Ml49270, and Judy Wing ham,
417 Guildwood Parkway, West Hill,
Ontario M1E 1R3, Canada.

Here comes the judge! Martha Sosman.
who holds a law degree from the Univ.
of Michigan Law School, was sworn in
as a Superior Court Judge for Massa¬
chusetts on January 26. Four years ago,
Martha was a founding member of one
of the Boston area’s first all-women
law firms: Kearns, Sosman, Hagerty,
Roach and Carpenter. In an article in
her hometown Concord Journal, Martha
describes her recent appointment as “a
very big step.” It certainly is, but we
know that Martha will do well and we

wish her all the best! ...We also have
word from two other legal beagles of
the Class of ’72: Elliot Polebaum is a
partner in the international law firm of
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &
Jacobson. He is with the Washington
office, where he specializes in complex
civil litigation and international arbi¬
tration. And Andy Merdek has been
named vice president-legal affairs and
corporate secretary for Atlanta-based
Cox Enterprises Inc. Cox publishes 17
daily newspapers and owns 24 cable
TV systems and 20 TV and radio sta¬
tions across the country. ...As I (Judy
Wingham) shovelled two feet of snow
from my driveway, I received word
from Chris Downs that “after five years
of island life (in St. Thomas), it was
time for a change.” Chris and wife
Paula now live in Connecticut, where
Chris continues to work with Chase
Manhattan, but is now with their new
regional bank, headquartered in Bridge¬
port. ...Becky Patterson Bruns writes
from Forest Park, Ill., that she has left a
corporate position with Budget Rent-a-
Car to become an independent consult¬
ant in leadership and organizational
change. (Her new business number is
708-771 -7041.) She apparently has her
hands full, what with building her busi¬
ness and acting as a “full-time stepmom
to precocious 10-year-old Nicholas,
who really keeps me on my toes. We
play poker, go skating and fight over
the Macintosh!” ...Bill deSalvo reports
in from Fort Wayne, Ind., where he has
been the director of Canterbury School
since 1989. “In addition to running the
high school, I teach classes in sociology
and ethics. The former can be attributed
to Dave Andrews and the Midd sociol¬
ogy department, the latter to the broth¬
ers of D.U.” Bill’s wife, Jode, is a
concert pianist who shuttles between
the East Coast and the Midwest. Says
Bill, “We’re already fighting over
whether the kids (age 4 and 1) will be
musicians or football players!” ...Dr.
Badri Pande is in Kathmandu, where
he is employed by IUCN-The World
Conservation Union/Nepal. As envi¬
ronmental education program coordi¬
nator, Badri attended the World Con¬
gress for Education and Communica¬
tion on Environment and Development,
held in Toronto last October. ...Tucked
inside a lovely Christmas card (hand¬
made, as it is every year) from the
Longmeadow, Mass., home of Debby
Soule Mcllrevey was a smiling portrait
of a grown-up looking second grader
and a note that could have been written
by many of us: “She’s growing up so
fast, it’s incredible!” Debby’s Julia is
an avid reader, athlete and troll collec¬
tor. In response to her daughter’s ad¬
vancing age, Debby has “somewhat
hesitantly” re-entered the real estate
world. “I think it will be fun,” she says,
“once I figure out how to juggle it with
teaching Sunday school, serving as vice
president on the P.T.O. (which means
president next year) and working on a
committee to fight homelessness.”
Debby’s husband, Hugh, runs Paine

Webber investment offices in Hartford
and Middlebury, Conn., and tinkers with
old cars in his spare time. ...Torie
Osborn has become executive director
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force (NGLTF), the nation’s oldest gay
and lesbian civil rights advocacy orga¬
nization. With 25 years of activist work
and organizing and advocacy training
behind her, Torie sees her new position
as “the perfect challenge,” and she is
looking forward to the opportunity to
“craft some clear goals for the organi¬
zation and for the future.” ...Former
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Doug¬
las has published a book. A Book of
Opinions brings together the more than
3,000 opinions issued by Jim and his
deputy, Paul Gillies, during their 12
years in office. This is an often amusing
primer on local government, providing
the answers to such points of law as
what to do if a farmer continually spills
liquid manure on the town highway and
what to do about the neighbor’s tree
branches hanging in your yard. It’s also
chock full of historical trivia. So, all
you Vermonters (and Vermonters at
heart), rush to the phone and order a
copy! ...Still in the world of politics,
Bronxville, N.Y.. resident Kathy
Mulligan Lord has taken up the posi¬
tion of executive assistant to Audrey
Hochberg, the new state representative
for the 88th District. Kathy is located in
Hochberg’s district office in
Eastchester. (Tel: 914-723-1115).
...Madeleine Phu Dung Li is an inves¬
tigator forthe mental health department
in San Jose, Calif. “Although my con¬
tribution is minimal,” she says,”I am
glad I can lend a hand to [these] unfor¬
tunate people.” Madeleine's parents and
sisters also live in San Jose, having
emigrated from Viet Nam. “They love
this country and especially the Ameri¬
can people,” writes Madeleine. “I was
right to have chosen the U.S. to carry on
my education; it was a privilege.”
...Have a wonderful summer, every¬
one! And try to send us a postcard or a
note with a photo from your summer
vacation spot. We’ll put them in up¬
coming issues, so that we can continue
to enjoy summer all year long!

73

Class Secretaries: Kathryn Winsberg,
4808 Moorland Lane, U1006,Bethesda,
MD 20814, and Dean Nikitas, 7 Second
St., 419, Pittsfield, MA 01201 (413-
445-5082).

Reunion will be over when you read
this. Hope you made it and hope you
had fun! Here are some news items
which were received in February ’93.
...From Julie Witt Reis and husband
Tom ’70 (1223 15th Ave., San Fran¬
cisco, CA 94122): “We were visited by
Cilia Stone Stevens and her husband,
Jon, and their children in July ’92. In
August ’92 Anne MacLeod visited us
in San Francisco and accompanied us to

Hawaii. Tom and I visited Anne in New
York in late September ’92 for an early
celebration of our 20th wedding anni¬
versary. I will visit Anne in New York
and Cilia in Chelmsford, Mass., in April
’93 when I take our daughter Anne (age
16) on a college tour, including Middle¬
bury. Will also visit Ginny Lambe
Guaraldi in New York.” ...Also writ¬
ing from California, Bruce Chapin re¬
ports his February 6 marriage to Susan
Bakker in Colorado. They honey¬
mooned in Telluride and now live at
1665 Placer Circle, Livermore, CA
94550. ...Out in Frenchtown, Montana,
Lance Collister reports: “I'm still in
my own business doing international
marketing. If I miss the reunion it will
be because I had to be in Switzerland on
a business trip which could not be re¬
scheduled. I’ve also lately been involved
in developing a business to introduce
portable CD players for rent in national
parks (to provide tour information and
education for visitors). Still playing lots
of volleyball and doing lots of tele-
skiing.” ...Marty Schuster writes, “I
got married last summer to Peggy with
Jim Hurd as my best man. Other grads
in attendance were Ross Fruen, Peter
Hitch ’70, Tom Hitch '75. I’ve been
traveling the world, thanks to my high-
tech start up company. A trip to India
opened my eyes to many things that my
Midd geography professors never
warned us about!” ...From George
Schirtzinger (3705 Wentwood Drive,
Dallas, TX 75225): “Completed first
year in Dallas. We enjoy Texas very
much, even more now that we are feel¬
ing more settled in. Went to Taos in
March and got all the family on one ski
run at the same time for the last run on
the last day!” ...Molly McKitterick’s
second book, Murder in a Mayonnaise
Jar, was scheduled for publication in
April ’93. It’s a sequel to her first book,
The Medium is Murder, which won a
Suntory award. ...John Akers was
“looking forward to seeing friends at
our 20th.” ...From Keith Oberg: “Sub¬
urban Washington, D.C., living, work¬
ing on house and garden and raising a
family—Kathryn (9), Alex (5)—work¬
ing for the federal government (Inter-
American Foundation, a small agency),
married 12 years to Jessica Mott. Look¬
ing forward to returning for our re¬
union.” ...The major change in
Catherine Rogers Henifin's life last
year was her marriage on June 6, 1992,
to Arvo Howard Henifin of Portland,
Ore. A former merchant marine officer,
he was studying for a second career
when they met, and has since graduated
from the Univ. of Georgia Law School.
She reports that several Middlebury
friends were able to attend their wed¬
ding, including Ginny Clark Potter ’72
and Diantha Bartlett Howard '70, who
were vocalists, and Lee Ferry Wohlers
’72, who read a prayer during the cer¬
emony. Arvo practices law in Savannah
and Catherine teaches English part time
at Armstrong State College while “wres¬
tling my dissertation to a conclusion.”
She would love to hear from old friends

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Alumni NewsLetter

at 5 Arrowhead Court, Savannah 31406.

74

Class Secretaries: Barry Schultz King,
P.O.Box 77, R ipton, VT05766, and Jim
Ware, 90 East Bare Hill Road, Harvard,
MA 01451.

Many thanks for all of your notes. Please
keep the yellow cards coming in. Barry
and I really appreciate hearing from
you as that’s what makes this job fun.
...Dr. Peter Lindblad. who specializes
in internal medicine at the Fallon Clinic,
is living in Rutland, Mass., with wife
Anne and three sons, Scott (6), Mat¬
thew (8) and Andrew (10). The
Lindblads live near Mt. Wachusett Ski
Area where Peter is having a great time
teaching the boys to ski. ...Bob Bower
lives in northern New Hampshire, about
40 miles from the Canadian border. He
enjoys both the summers and the win¬
ters out in the wilderness, but occasion¬
ally gets back to Maine to see the fam¬
ily. Working for the James River Corp.,
Bob manages two paper machines which
produce 90,000 tons of paper each year.
...Dr. Mary Kane writes from
Barrington, III., that she and husband
Vem Kerchberger now have three chil¬
dren: Eric (7), Matt (5) and Anne Marie
(2). They are involved in “the full round
of school, soccer and TigerCub Scouts.”
Mary continues in her solo practice of
gastroenterology and enjoys full-time
patient care. ...Anne DuVivierrecently
moved into a new home (3013 Cleve¬
land Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008)
where she lives with her husband. Bob
Green, and dog. ...Chris Brown and
wife Debbie named their second son
Nathan Andrew after the hurricane.
Nathan was bom on August 24, 1992,
and joins his brother, Justin (3), in
Chelmsford, Mass. Chris is the man¬
ager of information systems at Analog
Devices. He still manages to get out
occasionally to play bridge with Tim
Counihan ’75, Mark Sullivan ’78 and
me (Jim Ware). ...Trudie Thompson
has been learning the Korean lan¬
guage—her “first language learning
experience since Middlebury—and she
reports it to be a very difficult language.
She was planning to put her new skills
to work at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul,
starting this summer. Trudie requests
that anyone visiting Korea in the next
few years should look her up at the
Embassy. ...After eight years directing
the Massachusetts Office of Dispute
Resolution, government and service are
embedded in David O’Connor’s bones.
And so he could not resist the offer to
become Chief of Staff to the Governor’s
Secretary for Administration and Fi¬
nance. “Now my days are consumed
with budget debates, collective bargain¬
ing and wolfed lunches. Any restless¬
ness that arrived with my 40th birthday
has been quite happily consumed.”
...Cameron Brown seems to be enjoy¬
ing life in Norwich, Vt., with wife Leslie

Baker-Brown ’84 and son Robert Wil¬
liam (20 mos.). Cameron runs a small
property and construction management
company. He designed and built his
own house four years ago. He and Leslie
make sure they get in plenty of golfing
and skiing and both have been racing on
the master’s circuit. ...Jim Kelly and
his family (Terri, Abby, Jessi and
Patrick) are back in Columbus, Ind.,
after five moves in nine years. He com¬
pleted graduate school at Cornell and
has been working for Cummins Engine
Co. since 1976. Jim states that “the
entire family considers Jimmy Buffett
the poet of our age, and I’d like to think
I resemble ‘a pirate at 40.’” ...Several
people noted that they are looking for¬
ward to our 20th Reunion which is just
one year away. If you can save the first
weekend in June 1994, come and join
the class. I’m sure no one looks a bit
older (but boy those college students
sure look young).

75

Class Secretaries: Tim and Carol
Blakely Counihan, 2 7 Percy Road, Lex¬
ington, MA 02173.

So much news to share this time! We
send congratulations to many new par¬
ents! ...Jim and Paula Welles Sheehan
welcomed their first child, Samuel
Carver, last summer. Paula ended her
“ 15-year career with Citibank last year
when they closed their Seattle office.
Now that Sam is old enough for daycare,
I’m back looking for a new job. My
husband is an officer at the Canadian
consulate in Seattle.” ...Daughter Eliza-
Eve Sophia joined Jimmy and Sandy
Chizinsky Leas in October. Eliza-Eve
joined sister Zoe Justine (5). They have
bought a house in Vermont (37 Butler
Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403)
and Sandy is “a full-time mom for the
time being, although I plan to do
freelance editorial work again within
the year.” Sandy claims that “giving
birth to Eliza-Eve was my first all-
nighter since college.” Sandy’s hus¬
band, Jimmy, works on patent filing
and strategy at the IBM Essex Junction
plant. ...Debbie Eaton Stirling's third
child, Thomas Jeffrey, was bom in Sep¬
tember, joining sisters, Michell (12)
and Nellie (2). Debbie writes, “We’re
lots busier and having a great deal of
fun.” ...Anna Christoff Weiss has two
sons, Alexander (6 mos.) and Christo¬
pher (2-1/2). Anna is taking a leave of
absence from her job as an accounting
instructor at IVY Tech. She and her
family live in Ft. Wayne, Ind. ...Malou
Flato paints tile murals and watercol-
ors in Austin (3501 Green way, Austin,
TX 78705). She would love to see any
old friends passing through. ...Another
Texan, Kate Brennan Loughrey is a
video producer and on-air talent for the
Texas Education Agency, where she’s
been for over three years. She spent the
six years before that at KLRU-TV, the

PBS affiliate in Austin, as a producer
and television broadcast anchor/mod¬
erator (a.k.a. “on-air talent”). Living in
Austin, she and husband Terence have
two daughters, Brennan (8) and
Marianna (6). Kate writes, “Contrary to
popular belief, this part of Texas is not
flat, sandy and dry. Lots of modest hills
and lakes. I don't miss the cold and
snow shoveling, but I do miss the au¬
tumn glory.” ...Also working for public
broadcasting, Sara Meyer is the pro¬
ducer for Minnesota Public Radio news.
New address for Sara and husband Pe¬
ter McLaughlin is 3530 Edmund, Min¬
neapolis, MN 55406. ...Libby Paddy
(463 S. Gulf Road, Belchertown, MA
01007) writes, “I’m finishing up my
doctorate. I’ve been working in the
field of addiction and recovery. I work
with individuals and families and run
teen groups in schools. I also have the
privilege of working with survivors of
physical and sexual abuse. The courage
and honesty people share inspires re¬
spect and a greater sense of what it
means to be human.” ...Ellise Neel West
lives with her family in Maine, 15 miles
from Sugarloaf USA. She writes, “Ski¬
ing friends coming this way are more
than welcome to look us up. I have gone
back to school and expect to have my
RN in spring ’93. I have two children,
James (8) and Christina (6). They keep
me busy. Right now, I’m building a
gingerbread playhouse for them. The
projects never seem to stop!” ...Con¬
gratulations to Mike Mulligan on his
appointment as the eighth headmaster
at the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif. He
started his Thacher career as dean of
administration in 1986, becoming as¬
sistant headmaster and dean of students
in 1988 and interim headmaster last
spring. Michael and wife Joy (Sawyer)
met at Bread Loaf and worked together
at Governor Dummer Academy in
Byfield, Mass., where he taught Eng¬
lish, history and economics, and di¬
rected college placement. Mike and Joy
have a daughter, Annie (3). At Thacher,
Mike teaches English and a popular
world religions course and has coached
lacrosse, soccer and gymkhana. He also
finds time to ride his quarterhorse,
Duster, on pack trips and to sing in the
Belvederes, a faculty singing group
specializing in barbershop and doo-wop
tunes. ...Chris Tower Zafren writes,
“Our exile from Alaska is almost half
over. We can’t wait to get back to the
Great Land. Besides, California needs
to lose a few people! We’ll be happy to
volunteer.” Chris continues to work as
a school psychologist, while husband
Ken interns in the emergency room of
Kern Medical Center. ...Marcia
McCary Mavo is working on her M.A.
in Adlerian psychotherapy and coun¬
seling. She writes from Wayzata, Minn.:
“The end is finally in sight! My hus¬
band Geoff and I remain busy with five
children. The latest arrival is Christian
McCary Mayo (1-1/2).” ...Meredith
Parsons was married to David McComb
on March 28,1992. From Bolton Land¬
ing, N.Y., she informs us that she is

“still up to the same things. More con¬
certs than opera lately: Mahler. Wagner,
Berlioz, Bizet. We’re closer to Midd
and enjoying occasional visits there.”

..Helen Gatling-Austin is living in
Charlottesville, Va., with husband
Bruce. Since retiring from the theater,
where she was a lighting designer, five
years ago, she has got a second master’s
degree in physical therapy (PT). She
now works as a PT specializing in pa¬
tients with chronic and severe pain.
Helen writes, “We love our home—
dogs, garden, etc.—and don't miss NYC
a bit.” ...Russ Marrazzo writes from
Miami, Fla.: “We’re still rebuilding/
remodeling after hurricane Andrew,
even though our damage was a minor
$45,000-550,000!” Russ spent the 48
hours during and after the hurricane at
the South Miami Hospital, where he is
chief of surgery. He and his wife had
their third son, Daniel Kevin, in Febru¬
ary, joining brothers Joe (5-1/2) and
Nick (4-1/2). Russ writes that his older
sons have been busy as “actor”/models,
having done television commercials and
print ads for Playskool, Kids ‘R' Us,
several department store chains and
European magazines. ...Tony and Anne
MarieThompson Miller and their fam¬
ily had a busy fall in Lilbum, Ga. Anne
writes, “After 10 years in a house that
measures 1,000 square feet for five hu¬
mans and three cats, we moved into a
house over three times as large this fall.
The move means a longer commute for
Tony, but the children are happy in their
new schools and the space is wonder¬
ful.” ...David Cherashore writes from
La Jolla, Calif.: “Grace and I have two
children, William (5-1/2), now in kin¬
dergarten, and Nancy (4), now in nurs¬
ery school—with luck, both on their
way to Midd! Look us up whenever
you’re in San Diego. There's lots of
room at the hotel!” (David is executive
VP of the Catamaran Hotel.) ...Joan
Carpenter Troccoli says that “life is
great in the most typical city in the
USA. I’m enjoying being director of
Gilcrease Museum, the home of one of
the best collections of American art,
American Indian artifacts and histori¬
cal documents in the country. My hus¬
band, Robert, an audit P.I.C. with
KPMG Peat Marwick, and I just moved
into a great old house (2116 E. 32nd
Place, Tulsa, OK 74105) and we’re
having fun decorating it in the two
minutes of free time we have each day.
Y’all come down and see the museum!”
...Jerry Buffa has been with Hewlett-
Packard for the past five years, manag¬
ing large sales and systems integration
deals. “But,” writes Jerry, “that’s not
enough! So I’m still playing jazz and
building guitars on the weekends.” Jerry
lives in Dana Point, Calif., with wife
Toni and their children, Nicola and
Coleman. Jerry sends his best to you all.
...Steve Knowlton. a physics professor
at Auburn Univ. in Alabama, recently
had the pleasure of visiting classmate
Peter Durkee and family in Seattle.
“We reviewed his copy of the Kaleido¬
scope and, after much discussion, con-

62 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

eluded that we were indistinguishable
from our senior year pictures.” ...If only
we were all so lucky! And on that note,
‘til next time.

76

Class Secretaries: Marion Adler, 530
N. Linden, Oak Park, IL 60302; Thom¬
as Hitch, 1180 Lyman Ave., Wayzata,
MN55391; and William Kuharich,3726
Whitehall Drive, Destrehan, LA 70047.

Scott and Alice Raymond Thomson

report that they “have recently become
Wisconsinites (Cheeseheads!).” Scott
is an assistant professor of biology at
the Univ. of Wisconsin in Parkside.
Alice is teaching community nutrition
courses part time at Mount Mary Col¬
lege in Milwaukee. “Considerable time
is also devoted to shepherding Raymond
(8) and Elsie (4) through their ever¬
growing list of activities.” ...Irene Calvo
and Peter Glick are living in Seattle
(1221 N.W. Norcross Way, Seattle, WA
98177), having brought in a partner to
manage Peter’s Ice Cream Parlor in
Brooklyn. Irene and Peter, who are tak¬
ing a year off from work, are home
schooling their children, Jared (6) and
Roxanne (3). “It’s great to have time to
get to know this great city and the
mountains nearby.” They would enjoy
hearing from old friends in the Seattle
area. ...There’s a lot of news from Beryn
Frank Harty, starting with a new name.
In June 1992, Beryn and G. Richard
Harty were married in a double wed¬
ding ceremony, with Beryn’s mother,
on the beach at Compo Cove, Conn.
Rick is the director of internal audit at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach,
where Beryn is manager of pathology.
Beryn and Rick “survived” Hurricane
Andrew, although they had to evacuate
Miami Beach. Apparently things have
calmed down, as Beryn writes “we are
living happily with our two cats and two
parakeets” in a new condo on the ocean
(6767 Collins Ave., #1902, Miami
Beach, FL 33141). ...Cindy Regan
Greiman has been living in Montana
for almost 10 years. For the past Five,
Cindy has been the director of advising
at Carroll College in Helena. Cindy and
her husband, who is an engineer, spent
the fall of 1991 teaching English at
Xian Jiaotong University in Xian, China.
Their daughter, Lillie, is eight years
old. Cindy writes that “Montana is a
great place to visit—so anyone who
wants to come, we have plenty of room.”
...Cynthia Brady Burdakin was busy
last spring co-chairing a two-day project
for high school and middle school girls.
Called “Explorathon: Expanding Hori¬
zons for Girls in Science,” it was jointly
sponsored by the Birmingham, Mich.,
branch of the American Association of
University Women, the Cranbrook In¬
stitute of Science, and the local high
school. ...Kevin Hundley, wife Vir¬
ginia and son Tyler have been living in
Cornelius, N.C., since August 1991.

Kevin was sorry to miss the Middle-
bury sports team reunion last October,
but that weekend he was at a women’s
soccer tournament in Washington, D.C.,
where he bumped into John Carter ’73.
This was Kevin’s second season of
coaching women’s soccer, and his sec¬
ond straight winning season. Way to
go, Kevin! ...Also from south of the
Mason-Dixon line, we heard from Bob
Pender, living in Falls Church, Va:
“Aware of my historic difficulty under¬
standing women, the Lord—in her wis¬
dom—has surrounded me with them;
Victoria and I have two daughters,
Alexandra and Caroline.” ...While on
the faculty at Penn State, Jonathan
Phillips has been working on a patent
application relating to “a class of cata¬
lysts with unique composition and un¬
precedented selectivity and activity for
isomerization/hydrogenation of hydro¬
carbons.” Jonathan writes: “Will we get
rich? NOT!” In his leisure, Jonathan
still jogs, rides his bike and tries to
cross-country ski when there is enough
snow. ...Betsy Baetjer Mayer recently
moved into a townhouse in Baltimore
(209 Gaywood Road, Baltimore, MD
21212) with her two children. Jody (10)
and Tommy (8). Betsy is working for a
gilder, restoring gold leaf mirrors and
frames. She recently heard from Joan
Carroll and Lise Hewitt, both of whom
are doing well. ...Richard Hodges
started his own consulting firm in May
1991, assisting companies in managing
telecommunication and utility costs.
Richard writes that he is “still single”
but “not traveling around the country as
much as before.”... Jane HaddenGeisse
reports from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, that—
along with raising her two children,
ages 4 and 8—she takes courses in
counseling and trains thoroughbred
horses for jumping. She is also playing
ice hockey again which she says “is a
hoot”—even though they don’t get on
the ice until 11:00 p.m. Sally Courtney
Biggar ’80, is Jane’s next-door neigh¬
bor. ...Alison Christie Keeney is still
living in Cairo, Egypt. Her daughters,
Jennifer (11) and Christina (6) attend
Cairo American College, where they
are members of the swim team. New
additions to Alison’s household include
two Austrian long-haired daschund
puppies and an Egyptian Arabian filly,
“to keep the other horse happy.” ...Closer
to Middlebury, Kip DeMoll reports that
he and Melinda rented the Vermont
country house they built last year and
moved into Burlington (512 North St.,
Burlington, VT 05401). Kip is in a
residential construction partnership.
Their daughter, Brianna(2-l/2), is “do¬
ing perfectly after a scary heart proce¬
dure.” Kip’s other children, Grace (17)
and Zach (13), “are thriving in Califor¬
nia and visit twice a year.” ...Anne
West became a group brand manager
within Helene Curtis' consumer prod¬
ucts division, where she is responsible
for the company’s antiperspirant and
deodorant products, as well as manag¬
ing the company's Hispanic marketing
program within the U.S. Anne has been

with Helene Curtis since 1987. ...David
Sibley reports from La Habra Heights,
Calif., that he and his wife of three
years, Suzanne Hollands, have an 18-
month old daughter, Claire Frances,
“who brings us immeasurable joy.”
...Betsy Kuphal Wyckoff continues to
work at Bank American International,
traveling as a private banker to Europe
and Mexico. Last year she organized a
large investment conference in Mexico
for the Financial Women’s Association
of New York. ...Finally, we have an
impressive number of new births to
announce: Gary Holmes and Meg Ricci
welcomed a son, Christian Keane
Holmes, on February 5,1992. ...Steven
Groo and wife Laura were doubly
blessed with twins Emma and William,
on September 27,1992. “Life with twins
and a toddler (older sister Molly, 2-1/2)
is absolute chaos,” but Steve and Laura
“are loving it.” ...Suzi Sherry and hus¬
band, Paul Edelman, have a son, Joshua
Benjamin Edelman, bom in May 1992.
...Jan Carney and Geoffrey Kisley ’75
are the parents of Sydney Margaret,
born May 29, 1992. ...Mary and Greg
Adams report the birth of a son,
Cameron Wyland, on December 17,
1992. ...Douglas Webb and his wife,
Joycelyn Brogley, are the parents of a
daughter, Jordan Brogley Webb, born
March 13, 1992.

77

Class Secretaries: Virginia L. Jones,
250 County St., Taunton, MA 02780,
and William R. Thicks tun, 76 Utica St..
Clinton, NY 13323.

Sculptor George Carr has been selling
a plaster cast caricature of Bill Clinton
in gift stores around the D.C. area.
Gowned in a Roman toga, the bust has
received national attention in The New
York Times, The Washington Post and
on the Joan Rivers show. “No one has
mentioned the name of the sculptor,”
George writes, “but I’m not complain¬
ing.” ...Cappv Jackson has been oper¬
ating her own freelance photographic
business since 1977. She specializes in
equine photography, for which she has
won numerous awards—most recently
1992 Photo of the Year from Chronicle
of the Horse, and 1992 Best Editorial
Black and White Photo from American
Horse Publications. She’s also photo¬
graphing 20-30 weddings a year, and
has corporate clients as well. ...Patricia
Wilson, a dance instructor at Marlboro
College, choreographed a series of origi¬
nal dance works, “Images to Grow By,”
which were performed in December
1992. ...We are sorry to report the Octo¬
ber 28, 1992, death of Thomas J.
Andrews. He was born and grew up in
Lawrence, Mass., where he became an
Eagle Scout and graduated from Cen¬
tral Catholic School in 1973. At Midd
he majored in English, played on the
football team and was active in Zeta Psi
fraternity. His career is outlined in a

memorial which appears elsewhere in
this magazine. Extended Wings Inc.,
the company he founded, was involved
in the promotion of many films, includ¬
ing Ghostbusters, La Bamba, Alien 3,
For the Boys, Edward Scissorhands
and Ghostbusters II. We extend our
sympathy to his family. ...Christine
Lansdale Willis writes that since the
birth of two daughters, Elizabeth (2-1/
2) and Ann (6 mos.), she is “slowly
getting back into my pottery studies and
the business of making pots and teach¬
ing ceramics to AFS students and lo¬
cals” in Thessaloniki, Greece. ...Rich¬
ard Caswell excuses himself for hav¬
ing missed last spring's reunion on the
plea of twin boys James Christopher
and John Michael, who arrived in De¬
cember 1991 to join brothers Ricky (7)
and Mark (4). Richard and wife Maria
admit that “life with four boys under
seven has been exciting and hectic, to
say the least! Proud grandpa Richard H.
Caswell I ’48 hopes they all go to
Middlebury.” ...Scoft Markus has left
law practice to pursue a full-time me¬
diation (“not arbitration”) practice for
corporations and insurance companies.
His wife, Barbie Donnell, is
puppeteering for Easter Seals and teach-
ing English as a second language at the
Univ. of California at San Diego. Their
daughter, Katrina, turned three in Feb¬
ruary. ...Demie Moore Leekoff and her
new husband, Alan, live just outside
Salt Lake City (9086 Quail Hollow
Drive, Sandy, UT 84093). Alan teaches
skiing at Snowbird in the winter and “is
trying his hand” at real-estate off-sea¬
son. Demie writes, “Contact us if you
want a condo or house close to five ski
areas!” She continues her position as
international marketing manager with
AQUATROLS, thanks to “super” mod¬
ern communication systems which al¬
low her to live in Utah and work for a
company headquartered in New Jersey.

... Katie Lange Dolan was recently pro¬
moted to executive director at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Flushing, Queens.
She and husband Peter and sons Timo¬
thy and Christopher live in Larchmont.
They try to head north to the Berkshires
most winter weekends for skiing. ...A
lot has happened to Carol P. Wallace
(16 Strawberry Hill, Wallingford, CT
06492) since her last visit to Midd in
1982: “I’ve been married, moved to
California, worked with Hughes Air¬
craft in Fullerton, then Peat Marwich in
Costa Mesa, moved to Michigan, more
manufacturing work in Battle Creek
(yes, it is the cereal city), divorced,
moved to Connecticut and am currently
working with my dad at Cooper Instru¬
ment. My, how time (and life) flies. Hi
to Toots Towne and Jennie Martzloff.'
...Jim Stoner married Jill Angela
Landry on May 24, 1991, on the out¬
skirts of New Orleans, with Peter
Minowitz ’76 and Professor Murray
Dry in attendance. Since 1988, Jim has
been an assistant professor of political
science at Louisiana State Univ. Al¬
though “you won't find it on most best¬
seller lists,” his book, Common Law

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Alumni NewsLetter

and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and
the Origins of American Constitution¬
alism was published in June 1992 by
Kansas Univ. Press. ...David Grier has
a new job as director of the University
Honors Program at George Washing¬
ton University (where he has worked
for several years). For a speaker’s series
this year on “Revolution,” he convinced
Frank Sesno to speak on “Revolutions
in TV News.” Frank, Kathy Sanderson
and all three of their kids spent January
in Middlebury, where Frank taught a
winter term course on “The Media and
the Message.” The course involved
“speaker-phone appearances by such
luminaries as George Stephanopoulos,
Senator George Mitchell and Larry
King. The students—and the teacher—
were fascinated.” Meanwhile Matthew
(8) attended third grade at Mary Hogan
School. Back at home, Kathy has re¬
sumed her graphic arts business, but
they all hope to return to Middlebury
again this summer. ...Patty Freeman-
Ly nde, who is working on a master’s in
social work, has two children in el¬
ementary school. “Call now,” she says,
“to reserve floor space for the 1996
Olympics” at her home in Athens, Ga.
...Alexandra Bernstein (308-C Cedar
Crest Apts, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401) is a
co-editor of Simulation & Gaming, an
international journal of theory and re¬
search. Her extensive travels in 1992
included Scotland, England, France,
Grand Canyon, Michigan, New York,
Russia, California and Oregon. She
plans 1993 trips to Romania, Italy, Rus¬
sia, Hong Kong, Japan and Atlanta. She
is also doing freelance copy-editing,
with a background in technical writing,
“so anyone who needs a copy editor
should write.” ...Jim Buxbaum mar¬
ried Amanda Thomas, “a retired
Ringling Brothers clown, actuary and
Peace Corps volunteer” who is now
teaching high school math. Still prac¬
ticing emergency medicine in Wash¬
ington, D.C., Jim is assistant medical
director of US ASSIST, an interna¬
tional travel assistance company. ...Bar¬
bara Kritchevsky has moved to a new
house in the country (385 Knoco Cove,
Eads, TN 38028), with five acres of
land and neighbors who have pet pigs
and geese. ...Richard McKeon (Zion
Episcopal Church, 18 Oak St., Dobbs
Ferry NY 10522) is parish priest in
“sleepy Dobbs Ferry,” living with two
dogs, Yale (mutt) and Sperry (Welsh
corgi), in a 24-room rectory with a great
view of the Hudson River, and so “wel¬
comes friends to come and stay.”
...Chuck Andres (57 Red Hill Road,
Branford CT 06405) and wife Donna
(married in July 1989) have two chil¬
dren: Michael (2) and Lauren (9 mos.),
as well as Donna’s teenage daughter.
...Karl Miran has “concluded from
careful, unbiased study of reunion pic¬
tures that our class is not only better¬
looking, but younger-looking than the
class of ’82. We are not sure why, but
tentatively conclude going to college in
the Reagan era aged them prematurely.”

78

Class Secretaries: Lucy Newell
Hancock, 15 Amber Road, Hingham,
MA 02043, and Robert K. Race, 21
WillowdaleRoad, Topsfield,MA 01983.

News of our gala 15th Reunion will
appear in the next column. Here is the
latest news in the meantime: In January
1993, Carolyn McIntosh Buchholz
became a partner in the law firm of
Patton, Boggs and Blow, with her of¬
fice in Denver, Colo. Her practice em¬
phasizes environmental law and litiga¬
tion. Carolyn is in her second four-year
term on the Lafayette (Colo.) City Coun¬
cil and she also teaches environmental
law classes at the Univ. of Denver and
at the Colorado School of Mines.
...Marty Cleary, wife Annelisa, and
children Colin (4), Daniel (3) and Caitlin
(1) live on a 200-acre farm in north¬
western Illinois where they raise com,
alfalfa, soybeans, cattle and horses. Pro¬
fessionally, Marty is doing family prac¬
tice, including obstetrics, in a small
town nearby. He has also been elected
president of Freeport Clinic S.C., a
multi-specialty group practice with 30
physicians. ...In January 1993, David
Salem was named president and CEO
of the Investment Fund for Founda¬
tions, a non-profit membership organi¬
zation founded in 1991 to address the
investment concerns and responsibili¬
ties of charitable foundations. Prior to
accepting this position, Dave was a
partner in the investment management
firm of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo
& Co. of Boston. Before that, he was a
managing director of Cambridge Asso¬
ciates, which provides investment and
financial planning services primarily to
not-for-profit endowed institutions.
...Although we haven’t heard the out¬
come, Zoe Peterson Erdman was a
candidate for the Vermont state legisla¬
ture last fall. Zoe lives in Williston, Vt.,
with husband Fred Erdman ’75 and
their three children. Zoe has been a VP
with the Vermont Banking Department
of State Street Bank. She has also served
as deputy secretary of development and
community affairs under Governors
Kunin and Snelling, been a VP of the
Merchants Bank in Burlington and
worked as manager and a loan officer of
the Vermont Industrial Development
Authority. ...Court Chilton reports that
his daughter, Cyana, is the smartest,
most beautiful, talented, athletic child
ever! He says that Jeff Plank's daugh¬
ters are already intimidated! ...Rick
Lansdale biked across the U.S. last
summer—3,264 miles! He notes that
Nebraska is long and flat, Iowa is sur¬
prisingly beautiful, and the hardest hills
were in Pennsylvania. In his fourth year
teaching English at the Taft School in
Watertown, Conn., Rick’s fellow teach¬
ers include Barclay Johnson ’57, Linda
Saamijoki ’75, Peter Frew ’80, Baba
Ashby Frew ’81, David Hostage ’76
and Andrea Baier ’85. In his depart¬

ment of 16 people, eight earned their
M.A.’s at Bread Loaf! Rick finished his
M.A. at Bread Loaf/Oxford in 1982.
...Carol Smith Graves and family have
moved from Fort Leavenworth, Kans.,
to Aberdeen, Md., where they continue
their army life. Carol heads the division
teaching supply management to officer
courses in the Ordnance School. Ralph
is the deputy for military construction
in the Baltimore District of the Corps of
Engineers. Beth (5) is in kindergarten;
Frederick (3) is a busy pre-schooler
who wants to be a Ninja Turtle when he
grows up! The Graves live one mile
from the exit off 1-95 so, if you are
traveling through Aberdeen, you are
welcome to visit. Their number is 410-
272-0871. ...Kevin O’Leary left Shell
Oil Company and is now a partner with
Williams, Woolley, Cogswell,
Nakazawa & Russell in Long Beach,
Calif., practicing products liability, en¬
vironmental and business law. Kevin,
wife Karla, and children Katie (3) and
Alexandra (6 mos.) enjoy living in south¬
ern California. ...Rob Connerty is di¬
rector of marketing and sales for Olin
Skis at the company’s world headquar¬
ters in Stowe, Vt. Rob has worked for
Olin since 1978, first as promotions
coordinator and then as a salesman.
...Marti Mayne has left the Mount
Washington Valley Chamber of Com¬
merce and become the Northeast re¬
gional property marketing manager for
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers. She is
responsible for marketing and promo¬
tion of seven factory outlet centers in
Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and
Cape Cod. Marti has a condo on the
Maine coast and another in the New
Hampshire mountains overlooking
Mount Washington. ...Joyce Rowe
Cassidy has been promoted to VP at
Casco Northern Bank, where she will
be responsible for the management of
the bank’s municipal banking portfo¬
lio. Joyce was employed at Bank of
Boston from 1986 until she joined Casco
Northern in 1991.

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Class Secretaries: Sharon Flack
Mussomeli, 6817Market Square Drive,
McLean, VA 22101, and Katie Weidman
Jones, 314 San Saba Drive, Portland,
TX 78374.

Sorry for the blank column last issue.
We didn’t coordinate our moves well!
Now that both secretaries are back on
the mainland, keeping in touch should
be easier! ...Leslie and Larry Petzing
and son Drew, welcomed Travis Dean,
on February 10,1992. ...Valerie Havas
and husband Matthew Schwab ’81 have
two kids, Hallie Elizabeth (4) and Ni¬
cholas Milan, who was bom April 30,
1992—the night L.A. was going up in
flames. They’re all crowded into a
Brooklyn brownstone, but they’re near
a park, museum and botanical garden.
It's not Vermont, but they have actually

cross-country skied in the park! Valerie
is writing and editing on a freelance
basis, mostly for the U.N. She echoes
the sentiments of many of us: “Life of
new parents isn’t very exciting sound¬
ing—just carseats. Sesame Street and
endless loads of laundry, and multiple
purchases of Pampers! But of course,
it’s quite wonderful.” Just wait till she
gets to Cub Scouts, Brownies and mu¬
sic lessons! ...Andrea MacRitchie sent
me (Sharon Flack Mussomeli) an in¬
vitation reading “Let’s party till the
sheep come home (they stay out later
than the cows).” I’m sorry I missed the
housewarming party in October (the
card wasn’t forwarded from Sri Lanka
until November), but her new house in
Westfield, N.J., sounds great. Andrea
noted she was sending me the card
“even though you put that stuff in the
Midd mag—you must be hurting for
news!” The truth hurts, Andrea, but I'm
big enough to admit it—and to beg
everyone to write his or her own news,
or that of classmates! ...Katie Driver
Murphy’s second son, Kevin Leslie,
was born on July 21, 1992. Kevin has
“his dad’s look, his brother’s laugh,
Katie’s voice, and RED HAIR.” Katie,
husband Paul, Daniel and Kevin live in
Reston, Va. ...Robin Yurkewicz writes:
“My husband (Marc Restuccia) and I
are thrilled to announce the arrival of
our newly-adopted son, Matthew Louis
Restuccia, bom July 26,1992. This was
a very open adoption and I was able to
be at the delivery the night Matt was
bom. My husband says it’s a constant
battle to keep me in the work force so
I’m happy to take some time off and
then go back to doctoring part time.
Anyone interested in adoption who
would like to talk to someone who’s
been through the trials, please feel free
to contact me.” ...Mark Nejame is an
attorney with general practice, concen¬
trating in real estate and wills/trusts,
with the law firm of Cooley, Shrair in
Springfield, Mass. He’d like to hear
from Nick Morgan, George Varga
and Jeff Robbins Janet Jones Shipp
was recently in a local dance perfor¬
mance with Luciano Nicasio’s (’78)
daughter. Janet is still working on her
MBA and employed by a commodity
trading firm while her husband is in law
school. She has heard from Tyrone
Wilson ’81, who spent part of 1992
traveling around the country with a play
with actress Julie Harris. Janet also stays
in touch with Sarah Eddy Ward ’78,
who’s living in the D.C. area, is married
and has two children. ...Dana Yeaton
went to Russia in December for a two-
week tour of To Bed with Betsy, a com¬
edy commissioned by the Open Stage
Theatre. ...Amos and Jeanne Goldman
Shepard live in the suburbs of Provi¬
dence, R.I.—same town as Leslie
O’Hare Strolla. Their two sons are 7
and almost 4. Jeanne is working full
time as a lawyer in a small general
practice firm, doing primarily litiga¬
tion, environmental and business law.
“Wish my husband would win the lot¬
tery so I could retire and be a suburban

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mom playing golf and tennis and going
to the pool! Would love to hear from
Sarah Crisafelli Jennings!” ...Kim
Collins Parizeau gave birth on August
13, 1992, to Molly Louise Parizeau,
who joins big sister, Katelyn (5) and big
brother Douglas (3). ...Dave Howell
left his position as a securities broker to
become part of the Univ. of
Pennsylvania’s development effort
while he completes a master’s in liberal
arts. He and wife Lou-Ann have two
children, Heather (8) and Ryan (6).
Dave joined Skip D’Aliso in central
New Jersey for a mini-triathalon last
summer. ...Steve Martel joined the
Turner Group in April of 1992. He had
worked previously as a mechanical de¬
sign engineer in Maine and Massachu¬
setts, specializing in heat recovery and
cogeneration systems. ...Michael
Weaver is “still alive, still in New
Jersey, still young. Working at carpen¬
try for a living; studying voice and
singing like mad all the time. My brother,
Phil, and I have a foothold in Ver¬
mont—17 acres near Stowe. We’re
ready to build if something peculiar
happens and we end up with a lot of
extra money.” ...Louis Bacon and his
wife, Cynthia Pigott, returned to the
States from Paris in January and are
now in Greenwich, Conn. Louis also
announced that third son Louis Dillon
Kidder Bacon was bom in London on
March 15,1991. ...Brooks Stevens says
“my husband and I are thrilled to be
parents!”Twins Merrill Maguire Brady
(6 lbs. 3 oz.) and Tomasen Butler Brady
(6 lbs. 6 oz.) arrived on May 20, 1992.
Brooksie would love to hear from Terry
Jones Rosencrantz. ...Sue Whitton
Goodenough, husband Andy ’77 and
daughters Kathryn and Kyle welcomed
James Whitton Goodenough on Sep¬
tember 10,1991. ...Betsy Clark can be
reached if anyone is passing through at
138 Hastings Place, Syracuse, NY
13206. She is finishing a Fellowship in
infectious diseases—’’and who knows
where to afterwards?” ...Carol Zuber
addressed the Stowe Women’s Club
last year on the topic of genetics and its
role and effect in our society today.
Carol is the coordinator of the New
Jersey Pregnancy Risk Information
Service at the Institute for Reproduc¬
tive and Perinatal Genetics at the Univ.
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jer¬
sey. Her specialty is teritology and she
has been a guest lecturer for the AMA
across the country. Carol completed her
master’s at the Univ. of Pittsburgh and
was instrumental in the development of
the “Pregnancy Hot-Line” now deliv¬
ering information in many major hospi¬
tals across the country. ...Greg and
Karen Jackson ’80 Birsky announce
the birth of daughter Michelle, who
joins sister Carolyn (4). ...Stephanie
Dickson Halpern’s son, Zachary,
joined sisters Megan and Courtney on
July 14, 1990. “Mark and I built a new
house in Basking Ridge and moved in
last summer.” ...Jamie and Susan
Greene Turner, now of Medfield,
Mass., belatedly but joyously announce

the adoption of their daughter, Kelsey
Grace, born July 15, 1991, in Rutland,
Vt. They have begun the process of
adopting their second child by means of
a compassionate open adoption with
the help of Friends in Adoption of Ver¬
mont. They’d be happy to share their
experience with anyone considering
adoption (508-329-5796). Sue has taken
time out from teaching “to be a full time
mom and is dabbling in Discovery
Toys.” ...John Goodman was promoted
to associate professor at Harvard Busi¬
ness School in July 1992. ...Casey
O’Brien Blondes writes that “Jeffrey,
Devin (5), Sarah (2) and I moved tem¬
porarily (?) out of Paris two hours south
to renovate an old farm in the Touraine.

I haven’t been confronted with so much
mud since spring thaw at Middlebury!
The switch to isolated country life has
been a challenge, especially since I
have even fewer opportunities to prac¬
tice English. But Jeffrey does have
ample time to paint. Four landscape
shows this past year have kept him
busy. We are on the Loire Valley Cha-
teau/Vignobel route (tel: 47 94 26 56)
should a weary tourist pass by!” ...Rob
Meldrum and his wife, Kelly, met Doug
Jenkins on Upper Captiva Island in
March for a week-long vacation. Doug
and Rob co-wrote an article for the
Sheboygan Law Review titled,
“Buddyism and Judges: Dealing with
Denial.” ...Larry Blinn is “practicing
radiology and trying to get a new house
together. Otherwise getting some trav¬
eling in, including some great skiing.
Also desperately trying to become com¬
puter-savvy. Stop by and say hello if
you’re in western North Carolina!”
...Deirdre Browne Smith says she’s
“happy and busy learning about this
adventure called life with three won¬
derful children: Jasper (8), Violet (6)
and Harry (6 mos.). Recently I’ve gone
back to school and am working towards
a bachelor’s in Nursing-RN, and hope
toeventually work in midwifery. I would
really like to hear from Midd class¬
mates! Write to me at 42 Lakeshore
Drive, Danville, IL 61832.” ...Nancy
Limbacher Meyer wrote last summer:
“Boston set the stage for a mini-
Mischord reunion. Majie Zeller orga¬
nized the get-together for several of us
who happened to be in New England at
the same time: Dorrie Fuchs was in
from D C.; Joanellen Sullivan Hurley
and herchildren, Sean and Caitlin; Jane
Hosie-Bounar ’81 and her two girls,
Maya and Anna; and me and daughter
Katie. Melissa Carr swung by to drive
Dorrie to the airport, so a good collec¬
tion was assembled. Even though cer¬
tain voice parts were dearly missed, we
sang our Java Jive and Walchin’ the
River Run amidst happy tears!” ...Russ
and Ellen Perkins Green and daughter
Rachel (8) welcomed Benjamin in July
1990. Since being part of a women’s
delegation to El Salvador at the signing
of the peace accords (January 16,1992),
Ellen has been working part time as a
staffperson for the Romero Interfaith
Center in Philadelphia. “Although a

certified teacher, I have worked as a
full-time mom and part-time other jobs
(including teaching reading at the col¬
lege level) since Rachel’s birth. I’m
also back into bagpiping after a 14-year
sabbatical. Hey, Hamish, do you still
play pipes?” ...Michael Sirois has been
named associate medical director for
Health Centers, Community Health
Plan, Vermont Region. He will be re¬
sponsible for activities at CHP Health
Centers throughout the state while con¬
tinuing to see patients at CHP in Berlin,
Vt. ...David Littlefield and Karen
Stolley ’77 now live in Atlanta where
Karen ’ s an associate professor of Span¬
ish at Emory Univ. David runs Littlefield
Asset Management from his office at
home where daughter Kathleen (4)
keeps things lively! ...Jenny Skoble
writes she’s married “(this is the first
time) to Lou Levinson, a video tech
person and all-around great guy! I’m a
litigator in Los Angeles, world capital
of vicious lawyering. All old friends
and acquaintances, please call (213-
461-8510) when you’re in or near my
neighborhood (the fabulous Hollywood
Hills).” ...Lora Schofield Ilhardt lives
in Glen Ellyn, Ill., with husband Kent
and children Alex (3) and Peter (1).
“After spending six years at a large
Chicago law firm working crazy hours,

I decided to move to an in-house lawyer
position with Sara Lee Corp. in 1988.1
switched to three days a week after the
birth of our first child and am still Sara
Lee’s only part-time attorney. I love
it!” ...Jonathan Glass is “settled down
in Baltimore—now assistant professor
of neurology and pathology at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital. Recently finished
playing This Old House with our tum-
of-the-century home. Emily and Abigail
are now 6 and 4 respectively, and lov¬
ing life.” ...Having packed away our
Aloha shirts, flip-flops and hula tapes,
Katie Weidman Jones is working on
getting accustomed to life in the “Great
State of Texas.” We’re searching for
just the right Western hat and boot
combination—if sachallenge! My hus¬
band is the theater liaison officer for
Mine Countermeasures Group Two and
spent the spring and early summer in
the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea and Bay
of Biscay, riding a British minesweeper
as a member of a multinational NATO
force and participating in a variety of
exercises in Denmark, Belgium, France,
Portugal and Spain. Andrew (5) and
Elbe (3) continue to remind me that
mothering remains my full-time job!
...News has arrived from the four cor¬
ners of the earth! Karin Malmstrom.
in Hong Kong, is leading the kind of life
most of us can only dream of fondly. In
early 1990, she quit her international
marketing position at Commercial Met¬
als in Dallas to start her own consulting
firm, Malmstrom Associates Orient, and
to pursue her interest in publishing,
writing and photography. Her work of¬
ten takes her to China, Southeast Asia
and, most recently, to Vietnam. She
writes for Business International publi¬
cations—a member of the Economist

group—has co-authored, published and
marketed a book called The Man With
the Key is Not Here—A Key to What
They Really Mean in China and, as of
the summer of 1992, was completing
another book entitled The Decadent
Picnic Handbook—Recipes for Survival
and Enjoyment ANYWHERE. Stories
from this last book have been appearing
in a weekly series in the Hong Kong
Standard newspaper. She also wrote
the 1992 edition of The American Ex¬
press Guidebook to China , the guide¬
book which is distributed worldwide
through AMEX travel-related services
offices. Karin’s photos are represented
by a photo library in Hong Kong and are
published in Asian newspapers and jour¬
nals. She aims to do assignment work
for international magazines. Karin says
there are quite a few Midd alums in
Hong Kong and that any Midd class¬
mates traveling through should give a
call attel/fax 852-574-5404. ...You don’t
have to travel regularly in the Orient for
your classmates to care about your
news—please write!

80

Class Secretaries: Robin Putnam
Ahmann, 2521 Grand Ave., Everett,
WA 98201, and Rich Silton, 68 Wesson
Terrace, Northboro, MA 01532.

It’s wonderful being able to share news
about classmates we have not heard
from recently. Thanks to all who have
been sending in those little yellow cards.
...Matt and Barbara Lange Nelson
celebrated the birth of their daughter,
Anna, on July 26,1992. Barb continues
to work as a medical writer in the Chi¬
cago area, but she and Matt are working
part time so that they can take turns
being at home with Anna. ...Rick and
Sue Tomlin Kinney welcomed their
first child, James Patrick, on November
19, 1992. This spring marked the
completion of Sue’s ninth year with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. She is the
assistant director of development for
the orchestra. Rick is a partner with the
law firm Lynch, Brewer, Hoffman &
Sands in Boston. They would love to
hear from classmates at 13 Pine Ridge
Road, Wellesley, MA 02181. ...Fred
and Mar jorie Williams Vandenberg
celebrated the birth of their son, Halsey
Alexander Vandenberg, on November
3, 1992. ...John and Macy Lawrence
Ratliff and daughter Katy welcomed
Hilary Lloyd into the family on January
25, 1993. Macy managed to wait until
the power came back on in their house
after the inauguration day storm hit the
Northwest. ...Stu Alden is a consulting
actuary for Towers Perrin in NYC. He
writes that he loves the job, but not the
city, so his family is still living in Phila¬
delphia and he commutes every day.
...Congratulations to Carol Thickstun,
who received her Ph.D. in Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian literatures from the
Univ. of Minnesota in March 1992. She

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Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

was thereby promoted to assistant pro¬
fessor of Spanish at Lake Forest Col¬
lege in Illinois. Last October she at¬
tended the wedding of Sara Morrissey
and Jeff Gunn in Corvallis, Ore.
...Louise Burpee is enjoying life on
Lake Murray in Irmo. S.C., where she is
a partner in a small animal clinic. Hus¬
band Randy's veterinary surgery prac¬
tice has enlarged to a group specialty
practice. They stay busy keeping up
with son Will (2-1/2) and multiple dogs
andcats. ...Steve and Liz Bruch Rotholz
plan to stay in the Washington, D.C.,
area where Liz is running federal fit¬
ness centers, as well as training fitness
instructors and personal trainers. After
finishing his ob/gyn residency in June,
Steve planned to join a practice in Alex¬
andria, Va.... Marna Mraz has changed
her name to Marna Ehrech, but she’s
still living in Raleigh, N.C., and enjoy¬
ing it. She gets together with Elsa and
Andy Kimbell on “cold” (40 degrees)
North Carolina winter afternoons to
exchange Vermont winter stories. Andy
and Elsa celebrated the first birthday of
their daughter, Luiza Mona, on January
13. Kimbell Construction Co. is busy
building houses for all you “damn
yankees” moving south (yankees visit,
damn yankees stay). ...First we hear
that Simon Gerlin passed his CPA
exam. Now we hear that he has been
promoted to senior associate in the au¬
dit practice of the Boston office of Coo¬
pers & Lybrand. Congrats! ...Fred
Andresen has discovered the joy of
doing snow curtsies (telemarking).
When he’s not “freeing his heels,” he’s
working as the person in charge of all
machine vision software at Adept Tech¬
nology. ...David Andrews, who spent
several years teaching Russian at Co¬
lumbia, now teaches Russian at
Georgetown Univ. in Washington, D.C.,
where he was honored in the fall as one
of that university’s most outstanding
teachers. Kudos! ...Lorilyn
Chamberlin loves being the mother of
three kids—David (6), Stephen (4) and
Caroline (20 mos.). She enjoys spend¬
ing time with Grace Brown Smith and
her family, who have just moved to the
Chicago area. Grace, husband Peter and
daughter Lauren have just landed in
Illinois after four moves in 10 years.
Peter is director of trade marketing for
E.J. Brach Corp. Grace is enjoying her
time at home with Lauren. ...In Cleve¬
land, Sally Biggar Terrell notes that
her three children are growing up
quickly and are now 10,8 and 5. ...Betsy
Bryan Kohnstamm admits that she
has been living in The Last Best Place—
Whitefish, Mont.—for six years now.
“You’re always welcome to visit, but
don’t move here!” Betsy’s projects this
year were helping to build a new
Montessori school and teaching daugh¬
ter Mary (4) how to ski. ...Libby Halpin
has moved from Seattle to Poison,
Mont., to work with the Flathead Indian
Tribe. ...Susan Hawkey Springer
would love to hear from friends she met
during her freshman year at Middle-
bury (P.O. Box 257, Seldovia, AK

99663). She moved to Alaska in 1981,
married a petroleum engineer and
worked for ARCO for seven years. She
worked in remote sites all over the state,
including several offshore rigs. Since
1989 she has been at home as a full-time
artist with her own greeting card com¬
pany, selling in Maine, Alaska, Japan
and Seattle. She also runs a bed and
breakfast. She and her husband have
two field trial springer spaniels and lead
a semi-subsistence lifestyle, doing lots

of hunting and fishing.John Tokolish

has moved from Berlin to Moscow,
where he is working for the Interna¬
tional Finance Corporation (c/o IFC
Hotel Metropol, Teatralny Proezd 1/4,
103012 Moscow). With the fall of com¬
munism in the USSR, he has been busy.
He led a project for the privatization of
small shops in the Volgograd region
and has begun a similar project in
Tomsk—Siberia! In January he was
starting work on auctioning off shares
of large Russian companies. ...I have
heard, via the grapevine, that Susie
Estes Wolter and family have returned
to the States from Germany. Where are
you? ...Keep sending us all of your
news!

81

Class Secretaries: Elaine King
Nickerson, 48 Lake Ave., Unit BR9,
Woburn, MA 01801, and Sue Dutcher
Wagley, 4060 Hanover, Dallas, TX
75225.

Robert Turner writes that he is enjoy¬
ing Duluth, Minn., with his wife and
two daughters (ages 4 and 5). He spends
quality time on the ski trails and volun¬
teering as a Spanish teacher at his daugh¬
ters’ school. ...David Wilson recently
became a partner with the Reynolds,
Motl, Sherwood and Wright law firm in
Helena, Mont. He also became the fa¬
ther of Charlotte Mclvor on June 28,
1992. ...From Wisconsin. Terry
Stanton reports that he and Mary
Davidson were married in October 1991.
As the manager of Carlisle Publishers
Services, a prepress and editorial op¬
eration, Terry would enjoy hearing from
classmates also involved in college and
professional book publishing. ...In chilly
Minneapolis, Caren Hoffman-Smith
is director of informational systems for
the National Marrow Donor Program,
the national organization responsible
for matching volunteer bone marrow
donors with patients. She sees a lot of
Connie Buran Schreck and Christine
Bishop in the Twin Cities. ...Cecily
Chilton Matthai writes that she is en¬
joying balancing motherhood with
working in sales/marketing for a new
squash club in Baltimore. ...H. John
Walter is busy at Christ Church Epis¬
copal School where he is director of the
middle school and construction super¬
visor of new middle school facilities.
He recently visited Japan to set up a
student/teacher exchange program and

he was named Teacher of the Year by
the school newspaper. ...Steven Gabriel
received his Ph.D. in mathematical sci¬
ences in May 1992 from Johns Hopkins,
where he is now a visiting assistant
professor of mathematics. ...After five
years as a professor and psychologist at
Nova Univ. in Ft. Lauderdale. Jim Tay¬
lor is loving life in Aspen, Colo., where
he has a sport psychology consulting
practice and is writing a book—that is,
when he is not skiing, mountain biking
or hiking. ...In Abilene, Texas, Carolyn
Allen Miller is busy completing a
master’s degree in English, as well as
working in the writing lab at Hardin
Simmons. ...Tony and Elizabeth
(Princeton ’84) Trase are loving par¬
enthood with Ian Hamilton, born Janu¬
ary 9, 1992. They were planning to
move soon into a new home on the
Charles River in Needham, Mass.,
where they can canoe and enjoy the
outdoors out their front door. Since
receiving his MBA from Babson last
summer, Tony has been working in the
corporate finance department for
Millipore Corp. ...Joseph Smith is liv¬
ing in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was
recently promoted to account supervi¬
sor with Creswell, Munsell, Fultz &
Zirbel, a Young & Rubicam company.
...Janice Gadaire is doing graduate
work at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, while
working at Ares-Seronco of Norwell,
Mass. ...Mark Holzbach is living hap¬
pily in Tokyo but says he often dreams
of Vermont and Maine. Last year he
was promoted to the board of directors
of Asaca Corp., a manufacturer of
HDTV and robotic media changing at
Tripler Army Medical Center in Ha¬
waii. This summer he was to start a
fellowship in neuroradiology at UCSF
in San Francisco. ...Malik Mufti re¬
cently received his M.A. in Middle
Eastern studies from Harvard. While
completing his dissertation on Pan-
Arabism and state sovereignty in the
Middle East, Malik has joined the fac¬
ulty of Tufts and teaches several classes
on the Middle East. ...From Silverthome,
Colo., Anne Caudill writes that she
was married to Todd Goertzen on Sep¬
tember 12, 1992. ...We hear that Dave
Buzbv, Steve Willis, Chris West, Luis
Fernandez and Carl Erdman had a
reunion on the ski slopes of Park City
this winter. ...Among the happy news of
growing families, Mara Quigley
Prutting reports that her youngest of
four, Charlie, was bom in April 1992.
She and husband Stephen have lived in
Valencia, Calif., for three years.
...Gunnarand Alice Tower Knapp had
their third child, Nathaniel, on August
23,1992. Alice is enjoying a break from
teaching to be a full-time mom. ...Dave
Nalen welcomed his daughter, Austin
Marie, into the world on March 31,
1992. ...Nancy and John Amato have a
son, Ross, born February 17,1992, who
joins sister Carrie. They are enjoying
the Bay area, where John is a tax man¬
ager for Price Waterhouse, and they
already look forward to seeing class¬
mates at our 15th Reunion. ...Jay and

Sue Dutcher Wagley welcomed their
First child, Philip Buckmaster, on Sep¬
tember 28, 1992. Sue has a home busi¬
ness, WagleyTales, designing and mar¬
keting Mother Goose related products
for children. ...Christine and Robby
Higgins have a son, Ryan Hampton,
bom on January 14, 1992. ...All is well
with Cynthia and Peter Price after the
birth of their son, Jordan Colovas, on
March 23, 1992. ...Lisa and Todd
Deburlo have a son, Robbie, who joined
brother Winn on July 24, 1992. They
live in Taos, N.M., where Todd is a
building contractor and Lisa a fiber
artist. ...Kenny and Sue Butler Lehman
welcomed Kara Ingraham on Septem¬
ber 19, 1992. Last summer they moved
to Concord, N.H. (26 Maple St.), where
Kenny is clerking for a federal judge
and Sue works for Baybanks Bank.
...After almost three years in Beijing as
producer for ABC TV, Alisa Joyce
returned to this country in February
1992, was married in July, and lives
with her neurosurgeon husband, David
Barba, in San Diego (727 Gage Drive,
San Diego, CA 92106). ...Please let us
know your news!

82

Class Secretaries: Alison R. McGhee,
3441 Girard Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN
55408, and Charles H. Robinson Ill,
118 Paradise Ave., Piermont, NY 10968.

Betsy Horne took a leave of absence
from her job as a marketing research
moderator for Creative & Response
Research in order to return to Midd for
the 1992 French summer language pro¬
gram. After seven weeks of life in Battell
with a roommate, Betsy reports, it’s
“never again!” She turned to the Ralph
Myrhe Golf Course for salvation. After
the program, Betsy spent a week in
Greece, followed by 10 days in Paris
and two weeks in Provence. She is now
back at work in Chicago. ...Karen
Sturges-Vera moved to Washington.
D.C., after Middlebury, to study inter¬
national relations at George Washing¬
ton Univ. In 1983 she started working
for the Library of Congress. While
studying in Paris in 1986, she married
Ivan Vera, a Caracas native. Back in
Washington, Karen finished her
master’s in 1988. Ivan and Karen wel¬
comed their son, Alex, in September
1989 and their daughter, Katy, in Janu¬
ary 1991. ...Heidi Reichenbach (197
Commonwealth Ave., #2, Boston, MA
02116) writes that “it only took 10 years
since graduation to finally get a job in
Boston and move. It would take an
awful lot to move me from here now!”
...Carla Straessle Compton (38
Langford Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada
M4J 3E3) is a speech writer and infor¬
mation officer for the Ontario govern¬
ment. Her son, Lucas, was bom on
February 27, 1992. ...Peter and Grace
Brown ’80 Smith report that “after four
moves in 10 years we now find our-

66 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

selves in Chicagoland (2N122 Nulhem
Drive, LaFox, IL 60147), where Peter is
director of trade marketing for E.J. Brach
Corp.” Grace is at home with daughter
Lauren (3) and looks forward to going
back to teaching biology “someday.”
They’d love to hear from anyone who
finds themselves out that way. ...Dan
Urbach has finished his medical train¬
ing and writes from Beaverton, Ore.,
where he is practicing as a locum tenens
physician in internal medicine. ...Alison
Bartle Adair reports from Hollywood
that she has attained her UCSB certifi¬
cate in microcomputer office manage¬
ment and is working as an executive
assistant at Apogee Productions... .From
the Oakland hills, Greg Murphy writes
that he spent two weeks rock climbing
in Switzerland. Although he was un¬
able to get onto the Eiger due to weather
and deep snow, he managed an adjacent
peak which he climbed in “hideously
deep and unconsolidated snow. A solo
attempt on the Matterhorn was also cut
short due to deep snow. However, the
whole experience was a blast.” Greg
was also planning a ski trip near Seattle
with David Cole. On the work front,
Greg has become a registered geologist
in the state of California. He also re¬
ports that he and fiancee Annie “finally
got rid of RJ (John) Hake! Thank God
he’s gone.” RJ has moved to San Fran¬
cisco where, according to Greg, he is
“openly soliciting silverware for his
stark new apartment.” Greg has mes¬
sages for Steve Kiernan—Steve, call
on weekdays instead of weekends—
and Doug Woodsum, who should drop
him a letter if he would like “about a
million” corks that Greg has been sav¬
ing expressly for him. ...Donna
Winham writes from her new house
(36251 62nd St. E., Palmdale, CA
93552) that she is sorry she missed our
10th Reunion but was in the middle of
classes. Donna is working on a doctor¬
ate in public health at UCLA, where she
also works for a body composition lab.
In the lab, she reports, “we do a variety
of interesting things, but primarily look
at variation in the distribution of body
fat and cancer risk, along with a lot of
dietary analysis for levels of fat and
other nutrient intakes in relation to can¬
cer. Also look at bone density and diet
for risk of osteoporosis.” Donna’s dis¬
sertation topic is a study of nutritional
risks for stunting of growth in Egyptian
toddlers. Donna and Mark welcome
any Middlebury visitors to the Los
Angeles area. ...Michael Kountze
(13758 E. Fourth Ave.,#9-206, Aurora,
CO 80111) was expecting to finish his
MBA at the Univ. of Colorado in May.
...Peter Campbell has moved to Man¬
hattan, where he loves his marketing
job at Colgate-Palmolive. He has re¬
cently been enjoying lots of work-re¬
lated travel to Europe. ...Alison
McGhee has enjoyed spending time
with Jeff Legro and his wife, Janet,
who moved last summer to a big Victo¬
rian house in St. Paul, Minn. At the
Univ. of Minnesota, Jeff is an assistant
professor of political science, special¬

izing in international relations. Janet is
a minister at Macalester-Plymouth
United Church in St. Paul. ...Also in St.
Paul is Nick Gardner, who expected to
graduate from Hamline Univ. School of

Law in May.Jeff Clarke has been

keeping busy with business school ap¬
plications. Jeff spent several winter
months in Europe, coaching and travel¬
ing with the disabled cross-country ski
team. ...Jane Oski, who has completed
half of her pediatrics residency at Johns
Hopkins, continues “to love the work
despite the obvious strains. In July 1994
I will be moving west to the Bay Area to
pursue a three-year research fellowship
in pediatric hematology/oncology.”
Jane hopes to focus on the pathophysi¬
ology and treatment of sickle-cell dis¬
ease. ...In Middletown, Del.. John and
Hannah Felton Lyons, are “thoroughly
enjoying being parents to our two-and-
a-half-year-old Rachel.” John is in his
second year as chairman of the history
department at St. Andrews School, while
Hannah continues to be quality assur¬
ance coordinator at an oncology-spe¬
cific home care agency. They saw
Bobby Hill at a wedding over Christ¬
mas. Hannah has also seen Bettina
Bretz Terfloth, Laura Tenbroeke
Rumbough and Lori Geiger Carlton.
...Speaking of Bettina Bretz Terfloth
(3461 Holton Ave., Montreal, Quebec,
Canada H3Y 2G4), she writes that she
and husband Marc “have been in
Montreal since November ’91, and I’ve
been busy with our oldest daughter,
Stephanie Erika. On December 19,
1992, we had another little girl, Celine
Constance, and doubtless she’ll keep
me occupied for a few years, too! I
would love to hear from anyone plan¬
ning to visit this beautiful city!” ...Lots
more news from the baby front: Joe and
Jane Simon Fritz (3549 Burch Ave.,
Cincinnati, OH 45208; 513-533-1191)
are having loads of fun with their son,
Joseph Peter Fritz III, who entered the
world on March 28,1992. ...On May 8,
1992, Sara Grove and her husband,
James Alexander Macaulay, welcomed
Emily Dearborn Macaulay. ...Laurie and
Bill Cahill had a second son, Peter
Joseph Cahill, on Valentine’s Day, 1992.
...Curt Ehler and wife Sandra (Rider
College ’84) announce the birth of their
son, Ethan Frederick, on September 6,
1992. ...Evelyn Elder Jeffries is a re¬
search analyst for the U.S. government.
She earned her master’s from George
Washington Univ. in security policy
studies in May ’87, then moved to
Augsburg, Germany. In 1992, she and
husband Robbin L. Jeffries moved to
England, where they will be stationed
until April 1995. Evelyn and Robbin
welcomed Samantha Nicole Elder
Jeffries in September of 1992. ...Casey
and Tara McMenamy Sheahan had
their second son, Aidan Case Sheahan,
on October 29, 1992. Brother Caelin is
two and a half. Tara says she’s “a full¬
time mom.” ...In Newburyport, Mass.,
Andy and Kathy O’Connor '83 Sidford
welcomed the arrival of their first chi Id,
Henry James II I, on September29,1992.

Andy opened his own architectural of¬
fice last January. ...Chris Gagne, liv¬
ing in Longmeadow, Mass., has been
named VP of management sales, trust
and investment department, for the
Springfield Institute for Savings. Chris
graduated from the New England School
of Banking in 1986. ...Jon Warner is
regional VP of sales and marketing
(Virginia to New York) for Employer
Benefit Plans, a managed care com¬
pany specializing in self-insured health
plans for companies. Vicki (UVA ’82),
Jon’s wife of five years, is a marketing
manager for a Swedish company. Jon
and Vicki are self-described DINKS
and were planning a move to mainline
Philadelphia in the spring, John also
writes that “I am healthier today than at
any time during my college career,
thanks to exercise and a low-fat diet!”
...Meredith Wade has left her school
outreach position at the Museum of
Science in Boston. During the week,
she now lives in Burlington, Vt., where
she observes elementary and secondary
school science teachers and helps imple¬
ment new ways of teaching science. On
the weekends Meredith can be found at
her home in Putney, Vt. ...Caleb Rick
was married on October 17, 1992, to
Trish Intagliata (Central Conn. State
’80) and was elected to the board of
directors of St. Paul’s Elementary Prep
School in Oakland, Calif., last Septem¬
ber. Caleb writes, “I love my wife, love
my new house, love my work at the
Sierra Club! Guess I’m pretty lucky!”
What a way to end the column! Keep
those notes and cards and phone calls
coming.

83

Class Secretaries: Allison D. Burroughs,
2429 Locust St., #202, Philadelphia,
PA 19103, and Kenneth F. Edwards, 9
Aerial St., Arlington, MA 02174.

Kim Risedorph is finishing her disser¬
tation on modern Chinese history at
Washington Univ. in St. Louis. ...Also
in the Ph.D. business is Tim Taylor,
who is completing his in musicology at
the Univ. of Michigan. Hopefully Tim
wasn’t sidetracked by the crushing loss
the Wolverines suffered in the NCAA
basketball finals. ...Speaking of sports,
Geoff Proctor was one of four Ameri¬
cans named to compete in the World
Cyclocross Championship just north of
Venice. Cyclocross combines riding and
running with a bicycle. Geoff finished
only 4:45 behind world champion
Henrik Djemis of Denmark. Henrik is
also the world mountain bike cham¬
pion. .Helen Hammond is pursuing
an opera and concert career. She has
already performed in South Africa. ...On
the other end of the globe are Mark and
Jeanne Hammond Larsen. They are
still operating their commercial salmon
fishing net operation on Kodiak Island
every summer. Jeanne claims that they
get plenty of help from their 2-year-old,

Molly. ...Fred Taylor has been elected
to serve a three-year term on the board
of trustees at the Webb Waring Institute
for Biomedical Research... .On the baby
front, Jonathan Seamans and wife
Carolyn welcomed Kyle William in
October, joining his brother, David. Jon
and his wife say that “life is now one big
blur.” ...Also welcoming child #2 was
Mary Ann Boehn Dougherty who
brought Ryan Robert into the world in
April ’92. ...Amanda Hurt Fegley gave
birth to Aurora Page at the end of ’92.
Amanda is working part time as the
U.S. representative for a marina in
Antigua, W.I. ...Barb T urney Heussler
reports that Betsy Briggs Feighan has
a new son, Alexander. Betsy is living in
Cleveland and has started her own pedi¬
atrics practice. Barb still works part
time at the Securities and Exchange
Commission in Washington. ...Rick
Abrahamson has joined his father’s
ophthalmology practice in Cincinnati:
“It feels great to be done with my train¬
ing and get started in the real world.”
...Brian Cabral married Linda Shep¬
herd in Beverly, Mass., last winter. Brian
has finished his service as a naval flight
instructor at Naval Air Field in
Pensacola, Fla. He is now a first officer
with Norwest Airlink in Manchester,
N.H. ...Carl Paulsen is living in Savan¬
nah, Ga., where he is doing research
and lobbying on fish conservation for a
small national non-profit organization.
Carl supplements his work with some
sea kayaking. ...Parker Sutton is di¬
rector of marketing at the R.E. Michel
Co., while working toward his MBA at
Loyola in Baltimore—definitely a full
load. However, when the load gets
lighter he hopes to resume sailboat rac¬
ing on the Chesapeake during his free
time. ...Quinn Wagner has also com¬
pleted her training and is now a Public
Nurse Practitioner with a master’s in
public health. Now working part time
for the Center for Disease Control, she
plans to look for a long-term position—
hopefully in Africa. In the meantime
she’ll be in the Atlanta area, welcoming

any Midd alum visits. ...Kwang Chul
Whang is running his own commercial
real estate and investment firm in Wash¬
ington. Kwang and his wife have two
children, ages 6 and 3. ...Dave Winchell
has moved to Philadelphia to begin a
research job at Penn. ...Jackie Vanacek
and Sue Bayler Kotila are still spend¬
ing time in California together. Jackie
has been promoted to a marketing man¬
agement position for H-P in Delaware,
where she is a 10-year veteran, but she
goes to Palo Alto frequently. Jackie
would love to hear from fellow Midd
alums in the Delaware area. ...Peter
Merrill and Harriette Mauran, who

were married July 13,1991, continue to
enjoy life in Marblehead, Mass. ...Chris
Rice writes from Jackson, Miss., where
he and some colleagues, in collabora¬
tion with the John Perkins Foundation,
have launched a new national magazine
called Urban Family , aimed at people
with aconcem for urban America. Chris
is also publishing a book. More Than

SUMMER 1993 67

Alumni NewsLetter

Alumni NewsLetter

Following the October 24, 1992,
marriage of Marilyn Weiss (Trinity
’86) and Andrew Cruickshank ’86,
Middlebury friends celebrating with
them at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in
Boston included, from left, Joel
Solomon ’86, Charlene Surprenant
’86, Patrick Cronin ’86, Jake Brown
’87, Elizabeth West ’87, Bert Welling
’54, Christopher Coates ’86, Barbara
Barry Coates ’86, Stephen Batista ’86
and Susan Hahn Svendsen ’63.

Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of
the Gospel, which was scheduled for
release by InterVarsity Press in May.
Chris’s wife, Donna, is a home health
nurse and they have a son, Benjamin
(2). ...Finally, Rima Al-Turki writes
from her home in Saudi Arabia that her
two daughters, Tamara and Rayna, are
both doing well. She recently resigned
as director of the Down’s Syndrome
Center where she worked for three years.
Happily, she and her family have to¬
tally recovered from the experience of
living in the basement of their house
during the Gulf War.

A Mead Chapel wedding on August
22,1992, was followed by a
reception at Hadley Barn to
celebrate the marriage of Adrienne
Dougherty ’86 and Rob Martin ’87.
Middlebury friends included (all ’86
unless otherwise indicated) Amy
Ffield, Tim Egan, Lisa Hillner, John
Zaccaro, Elaine Cissi, Juliet
Lambert, David Dougherty ’92,
Erika Lederman, Jay Kahn, Dina
Moakley, Jim Sullivan and Maura
Webber.

A New Year’s celebra¬
tion in Boston brought
one of your secretaries
together with Mike ’82
and Sally Burke
McNamara, Brian O’Sullivan, Kevin
B. D’Arcy, Tom and Martha Keenan
Baldwin, Bill and Kim Schlegel
Boscow, Ron Klein. Barry McPherson
’82, Dave Friedman ’83, Joe Sullivan
’83, Dave ’85 and Kerry Polzer Morton
’88, Beau Coash ’82, Ed McGrath ’82,
and Chris ’83 and Martha Turnbull
Higgins ’85. Brian
O’Sullivan reported that
he had made an annual
pre-Christmas visit to the
Village Smokehouse with
Kevin D'Arcy, Jon
Good, Jeff Connolly,
Ron Klein and Tobv
Daley. ...Lots of Minne¬
sota news. Doug and
Ellen Shammash
Hotvedt are enjoying
their new roles as parents
of Sarah Elizabeth, bom
on October 8, 1992. In
January, Ellen and Doug
attended a Middlebury
gathering at Governor Amie Carlson’s
residence to meet President McCardell.
Others at that get-together were Fran
Mehen, Chris Pierson and Ed
Schaefer. Ed informs us that he will be
moving to Indiana soon to assume the
presidency of a group of banks for
Norwest Corp. ...Anders ’85 and Sally
Lindwall Knutzen still live in Roches¬
ter, Minn., with Kanga, a yellow lab.
Sally coordinates educational programs
and Anders is a third-year radiology
resident at the Mayo Clinic. Last winter
they had a fun weekend with Craig
Davis, who was visiting from Los An¬
geles. ...Rick and Phoebe Twichell ’86
Peterson are enjoying life in Clifton,
Va., with daughter Cara. Phoebe is a

84

Class Secretaries: Cecil
Marlowe, 2322

Lamberton Road, Cleve¬
land Hts., OH 44118; and
Kristin Smith, 143 Chest¬
nut Ave., Jamaica Plain,
MA 02130.

68 MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE

“most-time mom and part-time graphic
design artist." Rick is having a great
and challenging time working in real
estate with his dad and brothers Jon ’86
and Steven ’88. He was looking for¬
ward to this year’s “Goodfellas’’ Golf
Tournament. ...Peter Elwell and his
wife, Wendy Harrison, are buying their
first home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.,
where they welcome visitors. Peter is
assistant to the town manager in Palm
Beach. Last year, Peter and Wendy
traveled to Italy for two weeks with
family, and to Russia for two weeks
with a delegation representing the In¬
ternational City/County Management
Association. Highlights of their trip in¬
cluded two days in Florence and shar¬
ing the Russia trip with Peter’s dad.
Corky Elwell ’50, a retired town man¬
ager. ...Annika Turitz (Walleriusg 2,
41258 Goteborg, Sweden) is managing
director for SAS Service Partner Air¬
port Restaurants, a company operating
restaurants and airline catering services
at nine airports in Sweden. She would
love to hear from Middlebury friends.
...Cynthia Morrison, husband Bosse
and sons Fredrik (4) and Kristofer (2)
live in Ekebo, Sweden, where Cynthia
recently returned to work at a local
Montessori pre-school. Cynthia de¬
scribes Freddy as “the thinker” and
Kristofer as “Mr. Mischievous.” In
1992, Cynthia and Bosse spent two
weeks in France and took the boys to the
States for a month. They welcome visi¬
tors, so drop by when you visit Sweden.
...Blair and Hillary Stewart Peterson
have bought a new house in San
Anselmo, a small town near San Fran¬
cisco. Hillary still sees West Coast
alumni, including Dr. Brad Erazee and
Nick Podell. She also looks forward to
catching up with Erich Pessl and Will
Porter, who reportedly live nearby.
...In southern California, Dave
Wagstaff is VP of Corporate Finance-
Deautsche Bank AG, Los Angeles
branch, covering U.S. Fortune 500 cus¬
tomers on the West Coast. He writes
that Rick Makin was his partner for the
ninth year in the Gordon Perine ’49
Alumni Golf Tournament and they fin¬
ished in third place! He welcomes visi¬
tors to Santa Monica. ...Clay Ernst left
the Navy after seven and one-half years
and is now pursuing an MBA at UCLA’s
Anderson Graduate School of Manage¬
ment. ...Greg ’81 and Debbie Cliff
MacKay (526 Gardenia Lane, Vero
Beach, FL 32963) have two children,
Allison (2) and Jan (6 mos.). ...Chris¬
tian Itin graduated from Cornell Uni¬
versity in 1985 (B.S.W.), and from the
Univ. of Denver in 1987 (M.S.W.). A
course director and instructor for the
Colorado Outward Bound School since
1989, he plans to return to Denver for a
Ph.D. in social work. ...Dale Dewey left
New York in the beginning of 1989,
spent one year in Geneva, two in Lon¬
don, and now lives outside Paris with
his wife and son, Dylan. Dale has been
working in the perfume industry for
fouryears.... Having received herPh.D.
in psychology from Emory Univ.,

Laura Flashman is doing a post-doc¬
toral fellowship in clinical
neuropsychology and neuroimaging at
the Univ. of Iowa Mental Health Clini¬
cal Research Center in Iowa City.... Re¬
becca Bay less Theobald, husband
Chuck (Purdue ’84) and daughter Sarah
(2), have returned from a year’s assign¬
ment in Paris. Chuck spent his time
working for Federal Express, while
Rebecca studied French and organized
weekend travel. Now back in Mem¬
phis, Rebecca works part time and vol¬
unteers for the local neighborhood as¬
sociation and the youth symphony.
...Sarah Ball Damberg and husband
Rich (Notre Dame ’82) welcomed
daughter Hannah Louise to their family
on March 5, 1992. Sarah is a freelance
editor; Rich works for the Clean Air
Officeofthe U.S. EPA in Durham,N.C.
...Also in Durham, James, the first child
of Laura and Blair Chesnut was bom
on July 5, 1992. Blair is in the master’s
program in electrical engineering at N.C.
State. ...Jennifer and Larry Goldstein
welcomed their first child. Jack, on July
14, 1992. ...Jennifer Pattee married
George Frost on August 1, 1992. They
live in Gilford, N.H. ...Mike Graham
and Julie Greene-Graham live in An¬
chorage, where Mike teaches junior
high English and phys. ed., as well as
coaching cross-country running, ski¬
ing, and track and field. A part-time
elementary school librarian, Julie spends
the rest of her time with daughters Ariel
(3-1/2) and Mariah (2). ...Also in An¬
chorage, a daughter, Rebecca L. Nelson
Wolfe, joined John Wolfe and his wife,
Gretchen Nelson, on August 13, 1992.

• Paul Quinlan reports that he is leav¬
ing Jackson Hole, Wyo., after two and
one-half years of private legal practice
and skiing. He is returning to Salt Lake
City where he will work as a public
defender for the Salt Lake City Legal
Defender Association. He recently skied
Snowbird with the Utah Middlebury
alums, including Steve Moynahan.
Drew Schembre ’83, John McIntosh
’85 and TomGavigan ’86. ...Liz Hruby
is also in Salt Lake City, finishing law
school at the Univ. of Utah. After gradu¬
ation, she will practice family law fora
Salt Lake firm. ...Elizabeth Rand mar¬
ried Quills (Leo) Algeo in September
1990. Their son, Benjamin Baker Algeo,
arrived on January 7, 1992. Liz contin¬
ues as a senior health scientist at
ChemRisk in Portland, Maine. She spot¬
ted F.W. Nugent in a Portland pub,
whereupon F.W. reported that he had
spent time in the Peace Corps in Mali
(West Africa). He has been applying to
medical schools while working on fin¬
ishing boats sailing out of Portland har¬
bor. ...Last but not least, some Middle¬
bury cheer was spread in the French
Quarter during Mardi Gras this year.
New Orleans was the lucky host-city of
Cracker, Silk and Lunchpail. Word
has it that the town will never be the
same.

85

Class Secretaries: Toni Mauck, 198
Lambert St., Portland, ME 04103, and
Phil LeTourneau, 5903 Tokay, N.E.,
Albuquerque, NM 87107.

Chris Beck was one of 13 employees
named to Chubb Life America’s 1993
management development program in
January. An actuarial student at Chubb
Life, Chris has worked for Zion’s First
National Bank in Salt Lake City and
R.D. Smith and Co. in New York City
since receiving his MBA from New
York Univ.’s Stem School of Business.
...Anne DiVecchio was recently pro¬
moted to portfolio manager, asset man¬
agement division, at Wells Fargo Bank
in San Francisco. While studying for
level three of CFA, she has also been
working with other alumni to form a
Bay Area alumni group. ...Skip ’83 and
Beth Dorion Wyer announced the birth
of their third son, Aidan Francis, on
December8,1992. ...Cecelia Faulkner
is a counselor at an alternative day
school in Virginia Beach, Va., for chil¬
dren with behavioral and emotional
problems. She is also pursuing her li¬
cense as a clinical social worker, teach¬
ing skiing and keeping fit by running,
rollerblading, biking and camping.
...Miguel Fernandez married Kelly
Hickey on June 27,1992. Miguel is still
working on his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins
Univ., while coaching the JHU rugby
team. ...After completing her master’s
in international relations at Johns
Hopkins Univ. School for Advanced
International Studies last year, Anne
Hambleton went to work as an interna¬
tional affairs officer for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra¬
tion. Anne enjoys living in Washington
and was planning to begin competitive
horse riding in the spring. ...Lyn
Hermann married Warren Grace on
June 19, 1992. Midd alums in atten¬
dance were Lissa Briggs, Suzanne
Poulin Rowan and Flynn Ford ’83.
...Scott Iodice, still a Baltimore resi¬
dent, recently made a trip to Ecuador,
where he climbed two 20,000-foot
peaks. ...Emily Johnston has a variety
of fun jobs in Seattle. She’s a climbing
guide for Rainier Mountaineering, a
pro ski patroller at Crystal Mountain, a
co-owner/manager/guide/factotum of
Orion Expeditions (a whitewater raft¬
ing company), a program faculty mem¬
ber at the Lakeside School, an alpine
skiing coach for Team Snoqualmie, and
an occasional Outward Bound instruc¬
tor! Sounds exciting! ...Randy Allyn
(Plotkin) received her master’s in so¬
cial work from Temple Univ. and now
works as coordinator and therapist of
the Southern New Jersey Regional Re¬
source Center for the Deaf, working
with the mentally ill. She is living out¬
side the city of Philadelphia in
Fairmount Park, but plans to relocate to
the “Big Island” of Hawaii with partner
Malia, who is finishing her Ph.D. at the

Univ. of Pennsylvania. ...Ward Joyce
was finishing his master’s in architec¬
ture at the Univ. of Minnesota this spring.
His thesis explores strategies for repair¬
ing our inner cities. ...Don Hall is fin¬
ishing his MBA at Duke Univ.’s Fuqua
School of Business. ...Andrea Koppel
has been a reporter for WPLG-TV in
Miami for the past two years. She has
been to Cuba twice and recently re¬
turned from her second trip to Haiti.
She won an Emmy last November for
her series of reports on Haitian life
since the September 1991 coup. She is
sailing and studying Spanish for fun.
...Anders and Sally Lindwall ’84
Knutzen still live in Rochester, Minn.,
with their infant-substitute Kanga, the
yellow labrador. Anders is a third year
radiology resident at Mayo. ...Karen
Kraus Skalla finished her master’s in
nursing and is now a staff nurse in the
intensive care unit at the Veterans Ad¬
ministration hospital in Durham, N.C.
She also recently published an article in
a professional journal. ...Chris Lande
is still working as an attorney in Des
Moines. He has avoided acquiring a
wife, child, mortgage or minivan, and
notes that he voted for the other Elvis
stamp. ...Andy Neuman and wife Tara
Jeffries and dog Sam have lots of fun
living in Boulder, Colo. ...Kathy
McDermott Moore announced the ar¬
rival of son Dylan Scott in August 1992.
Kathy is enjoying being a stay-at-home
mom with Dylan and daughter Hayley
(2-1/2). ...Sara Ramseyer Klein gradu¬
ated from Hastings Law School in 1990
and married classmate Tom Klein. They
both work in San Francisco, Sara as an
international trade lawyer for Baker
and McKenzie and Tom as a labor law¬
yer. They hoped to move to Europe in
the summer. ...After completing her
M.Phil. in geography at the London
School of Economics, Rachel Riemann
Hershey returned to the States to work
for the U.S. Forest Service in Radnor,
Pa. ...Suzanne Poulin Rowan works
for IBM. She is enjoying her daughter,
Kaitlin (16 mos.). ...Still in D.C.. Jodie
Silverman began working as Senator
Tom Harkin’s press secretary in Febru¬
ary. ...Meg Storey, who received her
MBA from Dartmouth Univ.’s Tuck
School of Business in May 1992, is a
marketing assistant for General Mills in
Gloucester, Mass. ...After receiving his
Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth
Univ., Ernie Trujillo moved to Bor¬
deaux where he is working on
postdoctoral research. He was happy to
find that he has a Midd neighbor there,
Eileen Angelini ’87. ...Andrea
Wallenberger and husband Scott
Rudow welcomed their new daughter,
Hannah Joy, on June 20, 1992. Besides
mothering, Andrea sings as a soprano
with the Baltimore Symphony Chorus,
studies voice, and serves as a job coach/
translator for recent Russian immi¬
grants. In addition, she is the Baltimore
alumni interview chairperson. Andrea
challenges classmates Peter and Liz
Thompson Hotvedt, Mike Nealey,
Cece Pearson, Noriko Akiyama,

David Richardson, Mary Conceison
Devaney, Blake Herron and Sonia
Krotkov to write in and bring us up to
date on their lives. ...Martha Witbeck
married Paul Chamberlain in August
1992. They live in New York.

86

Class Secretaries: Kathryn Cater, 1087
Club Place, Atlanta, GA 30319; Lyle
Fulkerson, 99 Perry St., Brookline, MA
02146; and Chris Peters, The Roosevelt,
2220 Walnut St., 406, Philadelphia, PA

Sarah Thompson ’88 and Lyle
Fulkerson ’86 were married on
November 28, 1992, in Lawrence,
Kansas. The Middle bury smiles
belong to, front row, from left,

Henry Romaine ’86, Judith Johnson
Thompson ’61 and Chris Peters ’86;
back row, Bruce Johnstone ’86, Tom
Farrell ’86, Sheila D’Arcy ’88, Mark
Foster ’86, Torrey Wise ’88, Rob
Gilpin ’86, Peter Thompson ’61,
Judith Tichenor Fulkerson ’56, the
newlyweds, Teresa Arent ’88, Jamie
Orvis ’86, Kate Grund ’88 and Mark
Boyle ’88.

The August 1992 wedding of Pamela
Gelson and Ronald Palmeri ’86
provided a mini-reunion for many
Middlebury friends: from left (all ’86
unless otherwise indicated), Rob
Gilpin, Jan Gray ’88, Ginny
Thomas, Tom Farrell, Susan
Gavlick Ballard (holding J.D.
Ballard), David Ballard, the
newlyweds, Henry Z. Persons, James
Orvis, Christopher Peters, Arne
Heggan, Mark Paradis and Bob
Sakaniwa.

19103.

Van Dorsey is an as¬
sociate attorney for
Venable Baetjer &

Howard in Balti¬
more, Md.

... Wendall S.

Churchill also works
in Baltimore.

Wendall obtained a
master’s in landscape
architecture in 1991
from the Univ. of
Virginia. ...Also in
Baltimore, Bessie
Cromwell is direc¬
tor of admissions at her alma mater, the
Bryn Mawr School, while teaching
English and coaching tennis. ...David
V. Guerra married Megan Thanner in
August 1992 and lives in Kensington,
Md. He is finishing his Ph.D. in physics
from the American Univ. through
NASA/GSFC (Goddard Space Flight
Center). ...Andy and Gabriela Geutner
Fellows are living in Vienna, Va. Andy
works for IBM and Gabriela is taking
time off from residen¬
tial real estate to take
care of two daughters,

Christina (2) and Jes¬
sica, born November 3,

1992. ...Sue Whitty
and Andrew Zehner ’ 84
are also living in Wash¬
ington, D.C. ...Marg¬
aret Gill is teaching
Italian to undergradu¬
ates at the Univ. of
North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, while working on
her master’s in com¬
parative literature.

Margaret planned an
autumn move to Long Island. ...Mel¬
issa Kontoff was married on December
19, 1991, to Akram Eljamal, whom she
met during her 1985 Midd-Mainz ex¬
change program. Melissa celebrated
their return to the U.S. (after six years in
Germany) with Igor and Vicky Litz
(who now live in Queens), Nicole Rivet,
Lee Galban ’85 and Amy Snyder Weed.
Amy is practicing corporate law at John
Hancock and working on her new house
in Marblehead, Mass., with her hus¬
band, Rick. ...Victor Kommerell is
still the personal assistant to the CEO of
Leipzig Trade Fair in East Germany.
The Trade Fair is 826 years old—older

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than the Frankfurt Trade Fair. Victor
was recently at the U.S. Department of
Commerce to build interest in the Trade
Fair. ...Stuart Johnstone has written
and self-published his second guide¬
book, Mountain Biking New Hamp¬
shire: A Guide to the Best 25 Places to
Ride. Stuart spent most of last year
doing “research” throughout the state.
Stuart’s first book was Mountain Bik¬
ing Near Boston. ...Kelley Meade is
completing the second year of her pedi¬
atric residency at Boston City Hospital,
where she has been named resident of
the week twice. She recently partied
with her neighbor. David Kornhaber,
who continues his day job at Block¬
buster while writing, writing, writing at

January 2,1993, was the wedding
day of Sarah Albano ’87 (M.A.
Bread Loaf ’90) and Robert
Wascura. Celebrating with them
were Paul Hubbard, Gail Harrison
Hubbard ’87, the newlyweds, Elaine
Chanute Burg ’87, Paul Burg and
Patricia Phaneuf (Bread Loaf ’90-
92). Not pictured were Fred ’50 and
Dottie Bigelow Neuberger ’58.

Along the Delaware River, Charlie
(Susan) Groth ’87 and Dan Tuft
(Pitt ’77, Princeton Theological
Seminary ’80) celebrated their
November 28, 1992, marriage with,
from left, around table, Jim Shands,
Betsy Bass Shands ’87, Stephanie
Houtzeel ’87, Trish Clary ’87, Joann
Dwyer Etka (M.A. Spanish ’87)
holding Catie Claire, Steve Etka '87
holding Patrick, Bernard Condon
’87, the bride (standing), Emily
Thayer Benson ’87, Peter Benson
and the bridegroom.

night. ...Bruce Genereaux is still liv¬
ing in Phoenix, Ariz. ...Henry Zee Per¬
sons, who is specializing in environ¬
mental law, was due to graduate from
Chicago-Kent Law School in spring
1993. Henry spent 10 days skiing in
Colorado with law school friends. He
notes that “the quest for the ‘perfect’
woman continues. Who knows....”
...Kathy MacMillan finished her
master’s in environmental science at
UVA. Kathy is looking for a job at an
environmental consulting firm in Rich¬
mond, Va. ...Ann B. McCollum was
graduating in May 1993 with a M.Ed. in
counseling from UVA. She was look¬
ing for a school counseling position in
northern Virginia or Colorado. Anyone
know of anything? ...Nick and Cathy
Gagne Peacock, of Tampa, Fla., an¬
nounce the birth of their son, Benjamin
Robert, bom October 1, 1992. ...Jamie
and Michael Rawding’s son, born
August 24, 1991, was given an incor¬
rect name in a previous edition. Their

son is Alexander James Rawding.Jeff

and Jen lies Seavey were joined by
their second son, Preston James Seavey,
on February 10. 1993. ...Jamie and
Krista Faxon Atkeson welcomed son
Meade Faxon Atkeson on November
25, 1992. ...Sarah Beck is in her fifth
year of teaching high school history.
Sarah taught three years in Durham,
N.C., one year in Clarksville, Tenn.,
and this year in Petersburg, Va. In July
1992, Sarah married John Tokar (Vir¬
ginia Tech ’86), a captain in the army.
They were moving to Germany for three
years in June. ...Catherine Stifel is the
production manager in the publications
department of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art.. ..Lawrence Ewing has returned
from a two-month national tour with
the San Francisco-based dance com¬
pany. Lawrence is enjoying life as an
actor-dancer-singer. ...Virginia L.
Gates is an environmental chemist in
Prudhoe Bay, 10 miles from the Arctic
Ocean—where it is dark from Novem¬
ber 20 until January 20. She reports that
she fends off polar bears and curious
arctic foxes on a daily basis. Ginny,
who received her M.S. in oceanogra¬
phy in 1992 from UC-Santa Cruz, works
for Kuparuk Industrial Center.
...Michael Green writes that 1992 was
“the best year of my life.” He married
Allison Price of Sacramento, Calif., on
January 17, 1992. He got out of the
Marine Corps with a nice separation
package in October 1992, and he found
an incredible job with CIB A-GEIGY as
a pharmaceutical sales representative
in Hawaii. Last, but certainly not least,
Mike completed the Ironman Triathalon
World Championship in Kailua-Kona,
Hawaii. The distances were a 2.4-mile
open ocean swim, a 112-mile bike trek
and a 26.2-mile run. Congrats, Mike,
for all of the above! Mike’s wife, Allison,
is director of human resources for Straub
Hospital and Clinic in Hawaii, while
working on her master’s in public health
administration. ...Rebecca Hart re¬
cently displayed her “Corazones
Valientes” exhibit of 43 folk paintings

by eight rural Costa Rican women at
Macalester College. Becky developed
this collection during her Peace Corps
service in a small village in the San
Carlos region of northern Costa Rica.
She also helped create a kindergarten
program and organized a women’s soc¬
cer team that competed with neighbor¬
ing villages. Before joining the Peace
Corps, Becky was a VISTA volunteer
in Oregon, working with elderly His-
panics. Becky has obviously made a
great impact on many people’s lives!
...Kris Roberts Asbury is a unit claim
manager for Allstate Insurance Co. in
Williston, Vt. Husband Jamie (UNH
’85, UVM ’90), whom she married on
May 26,1991, is an electrical engineer.
They live in Burlington with their two
cats, Yodel and Nutmeg ...Rich Sobel
has moved east from Phoenix to Stony
Brook, L.I. He is working for Sea Spray
International, which manufactures
metal pools. Margaret Gill traveled to
Lyons, France, with Rich to act as his
translator at a convention. Margaret
passed her master’s exam in January.
...Ginnv Thomas was in NYC inter¬
viewing in February. She finished her
MBA at Kellogg this spring. ...Jen
Kemp won a grant for a class project on
Egypt at the school where she teaches in
Brooklyn. ...Lynne Beers, who received
her master’s in social work from NYU
this spring, is working for an adolescent
agency in the Red Hook section of
Brooklyn. ...John Griffith is teaching
English at the Montgomery Bell Acad¬
emy in Nashville. ...Mark Paradis
coached basketball at Middlebury Union
H.S. this spring. ...Don and Carol
Scarbeau ’87 Guidi have bought a house
in Raleigh where Don is a sales rep with
Gaspari, a paper products company.
...David Gumbart was married to Su¬
san Bahr (Bethany College) on Novem¬
ber 21, 1992, and honeymooned in
Sonoma, Calif. Dave reports “All is
well in Connecticut.”

87

Class Secretaries: John A. Castle. RFD,
Box 86. Derby, VT05529, and Cameron
C. McClearn, 891 Massachusetts Ave.,
#7, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Greetings! As you read this on a warm
summer day, remember it was written
(by John Castle) the weekend of the
Blizzard of ’93—by candle light,
huddled next to the wood stove in my
rocking chair. Seriously, though, Ver¬
mont had one of the snowiest winters in
recent history. Strange as it may seem,
there was even snow for Winter Carni¬
val this year! ...Catherine McLusky
who is teaching fifth grade outside of
Atlanta, Ga., would love to hear from
any folks in that area. ...Jennifer Speir
is teaching elementary school French in
Chapel Hill while she works toward
completing her M.A. at UNC. ...Bill
Nadel writes that he “graduated from
Thunderbird, the American School of

International Management, in May of
’92. Now working for GLAXO Inc. in
San Francisco.” Something about
“Thunderbird” and “GLAXO" that
draws attention? Maybe it’s just me?
...Doug Weekes is putting his MBA in
marketing from Indiana Univ. to work
in North Carolina for RJ Reynolds with
the Winston brand. ...Tracy Harris is
living in London and studying painting
conservation. ...Robert Albritton is a
computer analyst for the National Acad¬
emy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
...Wendy Gates Fink recently joined
the law firm of Wildman, Harold, Allen
and Dixon in Chicago. It must be inter¬
esting working for a firm with a partner
by the name of “Wildman.” Well, it
must be because Don Hindman is work¬
ing there as well. ...Congratulations to
Andy ’86 and Gaby Geutner Fellows
on the birth of their second child, Jes¬
sica. ...I got a note from Ramiro
Prudencio: “Don’t send the ransom—
I’ve escaped!” Word is he is holed up in
D.C.? ...Tal Birdsey is still recovering
from the Braves’ loss in the World
Series and takes his frustration out on
7th and 8th graders at the Paidia School
in Atlanta. Tal was on schedule to com¬
plete his master’s in English at Bread
Loaf this summer. ...Michael
Ehrenstein is working fora law firm in
Miami. “Still enjoying sunny south
Florida’s beaches, windsurfing, scuba
diving and boating in my free time.”
Sounds good! ...Barb Marvin is an¬
other of the young educators. She
teaches and coaches in Bethesda/Chevy
Chase, Md., and has been taking a group
of students to Honduras each summer.
...Paul Phillips is off to begin his law
career in Atlanta. ...Dan and Elizabeth
Wimberley Piekarsky are in
Bloomington, Ind., where she is pursu¬
ing a master’s in education and Dan is
studying for a career in opera. ...Jerry
Iannotti. who was married last sum¬
mer, is now living and working in Con¬
necticut. ...Paul Hayt was another to
go. He and his wife are living in NYC.
Paul has his own law firm in Soho.
...Vinnie Ziccolella is doing that law
thing in Chicago. ...Dorn Napolitano is
working the commodities exchange and
living with John Bohan. ...Diane
Abendroth and her husband, Richard
Anderson ’88, are skiing, hiking and
scrimping in Jackson Hole. Diane is
working for the Wyoming Fish and
Game Dept., while Rich is working for
Jackson Hole Guide. ...Shannon Seaton
Boyd and her husband spent some time
hiking across a national park in Tasma¬
nia last fall, after which they settled into
their new house in Montana. ...Jean
March was married to Timothy Furbay.
...Cici Mulder is living in a dorm and
working in publications at the Walnut
Hill School in Natick. Mass. ...Lisa
Preston is teaching at the Iolani School
in Honolulu. She spent last summer in
St. Petersburg, Russia. ...Sarah Hebb
is putting a master’s in social work into
practice working with substance-abus¬
ing women and their newborns. Sarah,
who threatens to become a true trans-

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plant, is involved with the Bay Area
Alumni Association along with class¬
mates Scott Sunsbury and Kristen
Hoberg. ...Sarah Clark married Wil¬
liam Baskin ’85 last August; they live in
Boston. ...After teaching Spanish at
Virginia Episcopal School.,John Ashley
has joined the flock of others in law
school. He enrolled at William & Mary,
but only after going to the Olympics
with 18 high school students last sum¬
mer. ...Steve Kirkpatrick is still work¬
ing in Connecticut with a whole bunch
of Midd folks in the sports management
and marketing business. ...Paul Bottino
is practicing law in Boston. Keep prac¬
ticing—you’ll get it sooner or later!
...John Zehner is living in D.C. and
teaching/coaching at his beloved BBC
High School. ...Tim O’Connor is still
in Buffalo. (Sorry to hear that! Hey,
how about those Bills?) ...I still manage
to run into some folks in and around
Middlebury. Tom Funk is around but
planning an epic bike trip through East¬
ern Europe. ...Anne Klinck Cluss is
working in the Health Center at Middle¬
bury. ...Kathy Follert was recently
chosen to succeed Frank Kelley as Di¬
rector of Residential Life. ...That’s all
for now. Keep the news flowing, and
stop by if you’re in town!

88

Class Secretaries; Pam Lawson Quinn,
55 Otter side Court, Middlebury, VT
05753, and Jim Calise, 2521
Woodwardia Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA
30345.

In this, our Final issue, Jim and Pam
wish everyone our best. We have en¬
joyed trying to keep track of you all, but
now someone else will have all ot the
fun! Thanks to all of you who sent in
information over the years. ...Begin¬
ning with the weddings, Frances Fox
married Ashish Chowdhary on Decem¬
ber 19,1992, in a civil ceremony and on
January 28,1993, in a Hindu ceremony
in New Delhi, India. They both work
for Hughes Network Systems, Frances
as an editor/proofreader in the publica¬
tions department and Ashish as a soft¬
ware engineer. ...Scott Me Lei Ian mar¬
ried Karen Marquard (Colby ’84) on
January 5, 1991. They live in Brussels,
Belgium, where Scott is the European
division manager for Windsor Indus¬
tries. ...Sarah Thompson married Lyle
Fulkerson ’86 in Lawrence, Kansas,
over the Thanksgiving weekend. See
the picture for the many Midd guests
attending! ...Kristine Benoit married
Michael Chochrek on October 3, 1992,
in Falmouth, Mass. Kristine is a print
production manager for Chadwicks ot
Boston, a clothing company. ...Gordon
Smith married Marianne Paige Triggs
in Springfield, Mass., on August 21,
1992. They live in Greenwich. Conn.,
and both have their master’s degrees in
education. Jeff Granatino was the best
man at their wedding. The many other

’88ers in attendance are shown in their
wedding photo. ...Now for those pursu¬
ing further education. At the Univ. of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. Kim Stone is
working on two master’s degrees—one
in public policy and the other in popu¬
lation planning. Last March she ran a
two-day national conference, called
“Women in Politics and Policy.” ...Meta
Schrenk. who has her master’s in inter¬
national studies, worked on the envi¬
ronmental staff for the Clinton cam¬
paign. ...Kim Maynard is now a li¬
censed school psychologist, having fin¬
ished her master’s program at North¬
eastern Univ. ...Antoinette van Zelm
is pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the
College of William & Mary, where she
received her master’s. ...Mo Omori,
who received her master’s in applied
linguistics from Georgetown last May,
is now an instructor there. ...Catherine
Vanaker Smith moved to Washing¬
ton, D.C., after graduating from BC
Law School. She now enforces hazard¬
ous waste statutes for the Environmen¬
tal Protection Agency. ...After receiv¬
ing her master’s in library science at the
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in May ’92, Mary Catherman became
the science cataloger at the library of
Virginia Tech. ...Christopher Phelps
has a master’s in electrical engineering
from Washington Univ. in St. Louis
and has started his Ph.D. research in the
same department. To commemorate his
achievements, he and his girlfriend,
Bonnie, went skydiving! ...Lisa Kring
is an assistant account executive at Lord
Dentsu & Partners in New York City.
She received her MBA from Emory
Univ. last year. ...Completing his first
year of an MBA at the Wharton School
in Philadelphia, John Chaplin is fo¬
cusing on emerging markets in Eastern
Europe. He tells us that George Lee
and Victoria Lewis are both attending
Wharton as well. ...Andrew Waine is
finishing his MBA from the Faqua
School of Business at Duke. He was
planning to return to New York upon
completion of his MBA. ...Odisseas
Makridis is a Ph.D. candidate in the
department of politics at Brandeis Univ.
His research is on the history of politi¬
cal thought. ...Paula Ricciardelli is
graduating from George Washington
Univ. Law School during reunion week¬
end, but sends her best wishes. ...Nick
von Moltke is attending Kellogg with a
few other ’88ers: Bruce Wimberly,
Dave Peak, Jon Wilson and Mike
Lounsbury.Jeremy Fryberger re¬

turned from New Zealand where he
spent 10 months at the Univ. of
Auckland. He has graduated from the
Univ. of Colorado-Denver School of
Architecture. He works for Salmela
Fosdick, an architecture firm in Duluth,
Minn. ...Chris Dollase is in law school
at the Univ. of Maryland. His wife,
Kristin Crowder Dollase, is a techni¬
cal writer in the communications prac¬
tice of Alexander and Alexander Con¬
sulting Group, an employee benefits
consulting firm. ...Melissa Perry
Penton is an insurance agent with State

Farm Insurance. She and husband Russ
and their two kids live in Cordele, Ga.
...Leslie Clements is working as a de¬
signer and import/export coordinator
for an international jewelry wholesale
manufacturer in Philadelphia. ...Diane
’87 and Richard (Anderson)
Abendroth are living in Jackson, Wyo.
Rich is working for Jackson Hole Guide;
Diane is working for Wyoming Fish
and Game. ...After three years working
for American Express in Asia, Michael
Dow is now back and working with the

South American region.John Safford

is skipper of a two-person, Olympic
class, one-design sail boat. He has been
sailing this boat in his spare time forthe
past eight years. Last summer, he won

Scotland was the setting of the
marriage of Marion Brune '88 and
Guy Paterson on August 8, 1992.
Kneeling on the far right is Diana
Stuart Sinton '88, the maid of honor.
The bride is the daughter of
Frederick and Jean Waller Brune
'64.

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the Atlantic Coast Championship, which
made him and his crew the top boat in
this highly competitive district. The
trophy he holds is a beautiful silver cup
which has gone to the winners since
1930. The name of the boat is the Rose¬
bud Cafe, afterthe infamous Midd hang¬
out. ...Best of luck to all classmates and
good luck to the new class secretaries!

This gathering on the Cape was
occasioned by the marriage of
Deborah Tripp '88 and Philip
Budden on August 29, 1992: front
row, Steve Feldman '88, Deb Payne
'85, the newlyweds, Chris Higgins
'83 and Tim Tripp '88: back row,
Martha Turnbull Higgins '85, Jen
Karin Clegg '85, Nat Saltonstall '88,
Paul Jensen '85, Toni Mauck '85,
Matt Caffrey '88, Nancy LJmer '85,
Liana Discepolo-Caffrey '88, Cecil
Barron Jensen '85, Granthia Lavery
Preston '59, Laura Bull Bailey '85
and Nicole Porino Bloomfield '83.

89

Class Secretaries: Kristen Canfield
McBurney, 2 Commercial St.,
Marblehead, MA 01945, and Timothy
O'Shea, 90 Willow St., Garden City, NY
11530.

The Class of ’89 is now less than one
year away from our 5th Reunion! De¬
tails will follow in the coming months,
but do your best to re¬
serve the weekend of
June 3-5,1994,forour
reunion. ...Amer
Siddiqui and Char¬
lotte Bergmans were
married last January
in San Francisco. In
attendance were no
fewerthan 20 Middle¬
bury alumni, includ¬
ing Susan Hamill who
is working in the Bay
Area for Levi Strauss
and Co. ...Emily
Scudder and Ed

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Alumni NewsLetter

The Midd banner was unfurled at
the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in
Boston when friends gathered to
celebrate the marriage of Liana
Discepolo and Matt Caffrey, both
’88, on January 2, 1993. Holding the
banner with the newlyweds is Dimitri
Nionakis '88. Behind them are, from
left, all '88, Chris Dollase, Kristen
Crowder Dollase, Kristi Garrett
(behind Kristen), Motoko Omori,
Vicki Wright, Christine Hrycyna,
Andre Berot Spring, Nancy Hudson,
Mark Miley, Antoinette van Zelm

Teufel ’88, who were married in June of
'92, live in Washington, D.C., where
Emily is working on her master’s in art
therapy at George Washington Univ.
...In October of ’92, Britta Heuer mar¬
ried William Roper in Arlington, Mass.
They were lucky enough to have
Howard Fauntroy sing at the cer¬
emony. ...Heather Bohr and a good
number of Midd alumni weathered the
Los Angeles riots of ’92 to attend the
May wedding of Heather and Tom
Unterseher. Heather works for Cultural
Designs, a firm which develops Ameri¬
can pop culture media products for ex¬
port to Asia and Latin America. ...Chris-
islee married Marc Cinslitelli in
September ’92 in Connecti¬
cut. Living in Enfield, Conn.,
Christine was preparing for
law school in the fall.
...Charles Falker married
Elizabeth Swire in early Sep¬
tember of last year in New
York. Charlie is working for
Astrogamma, a financial
software company based in
Manhattan. ...Patricia
Baumann and husband Tom
Norton live on a small farm
in West Virginia, where she
teaches piano. Their first
child, Rebecca, was bom in
April ’92. ...Denise Paige
Lietz announce the birth of
son Andrew Scott in July
’92. ...Nicole Paul was mar¬
ried to Robert Grover in
August ’92. Nicole works as
a German and Russian trans-
lator in Lansdale, Pa.
...Aniko Nakazawa
Delaney has finished a one-
year fellowship to study
Japanese in Yokohama at the
International University
Center for Japanese Lan¬
guage Studies. ...Laureen
Scaia married Michael
Mathon in June ’92 in
Williamstown, Mass. ...Lisa
Seiden married Gerry
McGowan in Purchase,
N.Y., last October. Lisa is a
portfolio analyst for Chemi¬
cal Bank in Manhattan.
...Elizabeth Wilson and Chris Dutton
were married in August ’92 in Concord,
N.H. Elizabeth is an elementary teacher
at the Springside School in suburban
Philadelphia, while pursuing her
master’s in science and education at
Penn. Chris is studying to be a veteri¬
narian, also at Penn. ...Jen Lowance
and Reynolds Salerno were married
amidst torrential rains and gale-force
winds in North Carolina last August,
when Hurricane Andrew paid an
uninvited visit. Forty-four Midd alumni
braved the ankle-deep mud to enjoy the
festivities! ...It sometimes seems that
these pages are filled with fun facts
about our classmates, but that is not
always the case. We are deeply sad¬
dened to let you all know that our class¬
mate, Greg Davison, was in a very
serious accident last fall in Manhattan.

Gathering for the marriage of
Rebecca Martin '88 and Frank
Connard on August 8, 1992, were
Sarah Thompson Fulkerson '88,
Lyle Fulkerson '86, Dave Low '93,
Mary Beth Pryor '88, Marc Boyle
'88, Sheila D'Arcy '88, the
newlyweds, Ellie Waud '88, Cynthia
Martin Brown '85, David Brown '85
and Torrey Wise '88.

He is on the long and difficult road to
recovery from a serious and debilitat¬
ing head injury. Please feel free to con¬
tact either Tim or Kristen if you would
like more information about how you
might help with Greg’s plight. ...Con¬
gratulations to Melinda Leitch. a
teacher in Elkton, Md., who recently
won praise for some of her art works
demonstrating watercolors as well as
the art of stippling, a pen-and-ink tech¬
nique of creating an image comprised
of thousands of dots. Melinda’s work
has been exhibited in Delaware, Cali¬
fornia, Vermont and Colorado... .Cindy
Wasser graduated from Lewis and Clark
Law School in Oregon and has relo¬
cated in the D.C. area. ...Susan John¬
son graduated from Suffolk Law School
last June. ...Eric Frye is working for
Coudert Brothers in Manhattan this sum¬
mer as he prepares to waste the hours
away in his last year of law school in
Washington, D.C., this fall. ...Jay
Abella is pursuing a master’s in health
administration at UNC at Chapel Hill.
...Chris Loewald is finishing up his
master’s degree in international eco¬
nomics and European studies at the
Nitze School at Johns Hopkins in Bal¬
timore. ...Wajeeh Nasser received his
MD degree last May and is “going into
primary care with a slant on wilderness
and sports medicine.” Wajeeh’s ulti¬
mate dream is to actually locate the
fabled Sasquatch and then treat him for
athlete’s foot. ...Susan Conley is writ¬
ing poetry at UC San Diego where she
“has taken up surfing and teaches un¬
dergraduate English.” She recently
spoke to Emily Hall, “who is happy at
the University of Wisconsin at Madi¬
son, getting her Ph.D. in literature and
feminist studies.” ...Laura Andrews is
still working hard at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn. ...Brian Green is in
his fourth year of dental school: “I am
working on patients now, and I antici¬
pate going on for an advanced general
dentistry program after finishing
school.”...Jim Hackett isquickly mov¬
ing up the corporate ladder, working at
Nike’s corporate headquarters in
Beaverton, Ore., as a training special¬
ist. ...Amer Diwan is in his fourth year
in the computer science Ph.D. program
at UMass, Amherst. He received his
M.S. last year and has spent a year
studying at Carnegie Mellon Univ. in
Pittsburgh doing research on his thesis.
...Robin Bucaria moved to Monument
Valley, Utah, to teach English on a
Navajo Reservation, after teaching in
Haines, Alaska, for a year. Robin writes
to say that her job also includes “cos¬
tuming, writing and producing a Native
American show with Pow-Wow, danc¬
ing, singing, drama and history.” Robin
and her students hope to take the show
on tour. ...Amy Smith is working on a
master’s in public policy at the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard. ...Af¬
ter two years in the White House Press
Office, Kristen Hyde has found work
with Senator Robert Dole’s office as
the assistant press secretary.... Viviana
Rodriguez, who works at the Washing¬

ton Post , has finally learned to ski in
Maryland—after spending four years
of college in the Green Mountains.
...Christine Jacobsen lives in Paris
where she is a project assistant manager
for Ralph Lauren. ...Remember to keep
our 5th Reunion in mind for next spring,
and please contact us to find out more
information about Greg Davison.

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Class Secretaries: Mary Stechschulte,
2018 W. 91st St., Leawood, KS 66206,
and Paul E. Needham, 3 Monument
Circle, Hingham, MA 02043.

Another summer is here, our third since
leaving Middlebury, and ourclassmates
continue to embark on exciting endeav¬
ors. We send our congratulations to

several pairs of newlyweds.Judith

Wright and Tim Battista ’91 were mar¬
ried last August. Living in Evanston,
Ill., Judith is completing her masters at
Northwestern and Tim is working at an
environmental consulting firm. Tim is
also volunteering at the Shedd
Aquarium/Oceanarium, where he has
had some interesting encounters with a
beluga whale. They hope to be back on
the East Coast soon. Jackie Geer and
Diahann Klein were in the wedding
party. Jackie is working for Booz, Allen
& Hamilton, a management consulting
firm in Philadelphia, where Kelly
Kennedy also works. Jackie is looking
into grad school for environmental
management programs and occasion¬
ally sees Pam Rosser. ...Dave
Campbell and Jennifer Faulkner '91
were married in September ’92. Dave is
halfway through his master’s in ac¬
counting at SUNY Albany. ...Cristine
Meredith and Shawn Miele ’88 were
married in October ’92. ...Paola
Venturini loves her job with Hyatt in
Argentina and enjoys traveling in Bra¬
zil and Chile. She heard from Rob Skiff,
who is teaching in an American school
in Bogota, Colombia. ...Others abroad
include Anne Sellers, who is teaching
math in French to 8th grade students in
Guinea. She plans to attend grad school
in international development when her
Peace Corps tour is over in the fall.
...Elizabeth Toder continues to write
gushing letters about her Peace Corps
experience in Thailand. (Her photo ap¬
peared in the Spring issue, page 81.)
She’secstatic about hersimple, wooden-
stilt, no plumbing abode. She welcomes
visitors and anyone considering the
Peace Corps to contact her. She had
dinner with Mona Meyers Wheatley
’56 in Bangkok last winter. Mona’s
non-Midd daughter, Linda, is the assis¬
tant Peace Corps director for health
projects in Thailand. ...Laura Farley is
still kicking the soccer ball around and
working for Adidas in Germany. ...Kelli
Naylor has been attending St. George’s
Univ. Medical School since last Au¬
gust. She will be on the islands of
Grenada and St. Vincent for three more

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semesters, followed by a semester in
England, then back to California until
spring of 1996. She plans to graduate
with an international degree from the
United Nations and to be certified in
family practice. ...Kristen Nelson, who
received her master’s degree in poli sci
from the London School of Economics,
is pursuing career opportunities in the

international market.Jaime Holmes

returned from five months of travel in
Zambia, Zimbabwe, Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and 14 states. He’s
returning to an environmental scientist
position at a consulting company in
Boulder, where he
bumps into other
Midd kids. ...Lyss-
andra Barbieri-
Williams has been
living in Crested
Butte for a couple of
years. She is teach¬
ing French at the el¬
ementary school and
trying to get those tele
turns down. Husband
Jason ’89, a research
analyst for the resort,
snowboards and
paraglides on a daily
basis. ...Andrew
Krugman was voted
best new teacher of 1992 by the Con¬
necticut Association of Independent
Schools. He teaches history and coaches
tennis at Kingswood-Oxford School.
...Steve Fitzpatrick, who is in his last
year at Albany law school, has accepted
a job with a law firm in New Jersey.
...Betsy Winchester was in Alaska for
the winter. She missed
Colorado living, so planned
to return to Steamboat
Springs this summer.... Rob
Gray was with the Bush/
Quayle campaign and is
now working as press sec¬
retary to Congressman Pe¬
ter Blute (R-Mass.).
...Hank Mayer is finishing
his second year of med
school at the Univ. of Pitts¬
burgh. ...Susanne Johnson
has completed her course
work for a master’s in coun¬
seling at the Univ. of Illi¬
nois. Now she’s working
on her thesis on responsi¬
bility attributions in romantic relation¬
ships. ...Devon Daney is a member of
the U.S. Biathalon Team (that’s cross¬
country skiing and shooting). She com¬
peted in the European Championships
and World University Games in Poland
in the winter. Her goal is to make the
1994 Olympic Team! ...Andrew
Guggenhime graduated from Wells
Fargo Bank’s credit management train¬
ing program. He has moved to Newport
Beach and is now working as a loan
officer in the bank’s real estate loan
workout group. ...Eric Paquette gradu¬
ated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti¬
tute in May ’91 with his M.S. in opera¬
tion research and statistics. He spent the
winter in Jackson Hole skiing and then

The Class of *88 was well repre¬
sented at the marriage of Marianne
Triggs and Gordon Smith '88 in
Springfield, Mass., on August 21,
1992. The bride and Betsy Phillips
Kohl '91 are seated in front; second
row, John Theiss, Frank 7.ecca, the
bridegroom, Murray Kohl and Scott
McAdam; third row, Don Brantley,
Denver Edwards, Jeff Granatino and
Bill Meagher; fourth row: Chad
McClennan, Mickey Kelly, Michael
Dubzinski, Barry Van Gerbig, LJ.
Russell, Nathaniel Saltonstall,

Steven Peterson and Timothy Tripp.

Emily Scudder '89 and Edward J.
Teufel '88 were surrounded by
Middlebury friends following their
marriage on June 13, 1992: seated
in front, from left, Marc Boyle '88,
Sheila D'Arcy '88, Bart Gummere
'83, Susie Leahy Gummere '89 and
Eric Winter '89; middle row, Valerie
Hegarty '89, Margaret Gibbs
Warren '89, Annie Shepherd '89, the
newlyweds, Barbara Howd Miller
'65, Miles Lilly '88 and Brandt
Williamson '88; back row, Bill
Warren '88, T.R. Lazo '89, John
Renwick '89, Scott Scudder '64,
Eddie O'Mara '88, Richard Miller
'65, Steve Ames '64 and L.J. Russell
'88

began his job search. ...Nancy Frost
Bland has been working for Carney,
Sandoe & Associates, an educational
placement agency in Boston. ...Natana
J, Delong-Bas was completing her
master’s in Arab studies at Georgetown
Univ. ...Minii Gottesfeld was in her
last semester at Univ. of Pennsylvania
Law. ...Bill Schwartz taught for a se¬
mester at Carrabassett Valley Acad¬
emy in Maine and is going to med
school this fall. ...Colleen Quinn is
getting a master’s in journalism at North¬
western. ...Fanning Hearon received
his master’s in Spanish from NYU in
June 1991, then spent the next year in
San Francisco. Now he’s teaching at
Woodberry Forest in the rolling foot¬

The January 16, 1993, celebration of
the marriage of Charlotte Bergmans
and Anter Siddique, both '89,
occasioned a San Francisco
gathering for (all '89, unless
otherwise indicated), from left,
Langdon Cooke, Charles Lamson,
Cynthia Vaughan Lawrence, George
Lawrence, James Parke Logan,
Philip Conner, Margaret Beeman,
Addison Strong, Robert More, the
newlyweds, Charles Butt (behind
newlyweds), Stuart Maeder, Sara
Johansson (friend), Adam Horowitz,
James Zanze, John Ward, Susan
Hamill, Maura Phelan, Haydn
Cutler and Elizabeth Hollister
(friend).

hills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Moun¬
tains. He writes that he is “molding
young minds and enjoying the academic
calendar once again!” ...In NYC, Lory
Myerson is working as consultant/of¬
fice manager for The Daily Telegraph
in their New York
office. ...Leanne
Potvin is an associ¬
ate product manager
on Keri lotion at
Bristol Myers
Squibb. ...Meghan
Walsh works in the
design studio of Ba¬
nana Republic and
loves it. ...Last we
heard from George
Clifton, he was dili¬
gently writing a book
and a screenplay
based on the life of
his little brother.

...Summertime means Midd weddings,
and we’ll be looking for the photos.
Please send all your news!

91

Class Secretaries: Karmali Bhanji, Box
4202,Middlebury College, Middlebury,
VT05753: Brum Bank. 6420 Goldleaf
Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817; and Sara
Bremner, 225 E. 95th St., #21G, New
York, NY 10128.

Well, summer is finally here. I hope
everyone is Finding some time to get
outdoors and do the things we do best.

The marriage of Lisa Seiden '89 and
Jerry McGowan (Boston College
'89) took place in Purchase, N.Y., on
October 10, 1992. Celebrating with
them were (all '89, unless otherwise
indicated), from left, front row,
Bridget Fitzgerald, Kathleen
Brigham, the newlyweds, Hilary
Seiden '93, Laura Levering
O'Connell and Maura Phelan; back
row Chris Hiland, Kathleen Murphy
'90, Tim O'Shea, Mike Subak,
Lowrey Sullivan '90, Joan Viebranz
'88, Graham Goldsmith, Susan
Golkin, Karin Von Estorff John
Renwick, Jill Erickson and Will
Carey. Not in the photo: T.R. Lazo
and Bruce Anfindsen.

SUMMER 1993 73

Alumni NewsLetter

Three '89 friends — Catherine
Cardwell, Melanie Friedlander and
Adrienne Buda — vacationed
together for a week in Cancun,
Mexico, in April.

Carolyn Tracey '90 married Daren
Gill on June 27, 1992, in Westport,
Conn. Gathering to celebrate
afterward at the bride's home in
Wilton were Von Rollenhagen
(Bread Loaf M.A. '86), Phoebe
Paine Gause '90, Andy Bucknam
'86, Kristen Potter '90, the
newlyweds, Lory Myerson '90, J.P.

Tracey '85, Phoebe Wood '90,
Kristen Homer '90 and Alexandra
Mahoney '90.

Our classmates seem to continue to
spread out and prosper. ...Following an
exciting summer in Barcelona and fall
in Washington, Kim Dillon settled in
Jackson Hole. She is living with long-
lost Asia traveler Diana Smith, who
spent the past year and a half in Hong
Kong. ...Speaking of Asia, Cristina
Sala-Porras is living in Tokyo and
studying at Waseda Univ. ...Also in J-
Hole are Robin Folweiler, Bill Tobin,
Mike Chalmers and Pat Berry. ...In
Seattle, we find Sarah Garner,
Catherine McGrady and, as of July,
Brian Bank, who is officially becom¬
ing “Banker” the Investment Banker..
...San Francisco claims Mark Ely and
Deb Nelson. Deb is said to sell over¬
priced art to overly-wealthy people.
...Also in the Bay Area are Holly
Foskett, Bob Hinkle and Meghan
Schwartz. Holly is working at the V.A.
Medical Center; Bob and Meghan are
probably up to too much mischief to be
addressed. ...Lucy Randolph is a re¬
cent transplant to the area as well.... Pam
Honsberger is working hard toward
herdegree in medicine in southern Cali¬
fornia. ...Kendra Hutchinson is earn¬
ing her medical degree at UVM. ...Con¬
gratulations are in order to Carrie
McCusker who was named head coach
of Bowdoin’s nordic ski team. Let’s
hope she remembers that Panthers are a
far superior breed than the polar bears.
...Hoo-rah to Bill Hoyt who received
his commission as a second lieutenant
in the Marines. He has been accepted
into the aviation program and, after a
stint at Quantico, Va., he’s off to flight
school. Remember “Officer and a
Gentleman?” Yeah, right! ...I guess we
can also congratulate our truest politi¬
cian, with the name
to match, Andrew
Friendly. After
crashing and burn¬
ing with Gov. Du¬
kakis, Andrew has
hit the jackpot.
When he is neither
flirting with Chelsea
norchanging Socks’
kitty-litterbox,heis
a personal aide to
President Clinton.
This allows him to
travel everywhere
with the president
and do other cool
stuff—which you
pay for! His book will be out in four
years and six months (down payments
on orders can be sent to Class Secretary
Brian Bank). ...Washington has many
more ’91ers: Jon Norling works as an
energy policy analyst. Melissa Menta
is in marketing for a small theater. Todd
Capute is mastering the finer aspects of
journalism. Cassie Robbins works for
the Discovery Channel. Beth Levison
is a researcher at the National Geo¬
graphic Society. Nicola Bradley con¬
tinues to stress while working toward a
master’s in Russian area studies at
Georgetown, while consulting for Booz,
Allen and Hamilton. Duncan Evans

works at Riggs Bank, handling other
people’s money (and supposedly al¬
lowing them to keep some of it). Nando
Zucchi is a newly-licensed stock bro¬
ker, living with Rich “the Richmeister”
Heald and Marc Parsons, who both
work on Capitol Hill. Margie Sheehan
is officially in D.C., but has been living
in the “where are they now?” files for
quite some time. ...Graduate schools
are being swarmed by more and more of
our class. Marvbeth Dingledy and
ShireenTabechian just completed their
first year of law school at William and
Mary, where Matt Warren and Jeff
McMahan finished their second. Tom
Chambers is also at W&M, where he is
studying history. ...Craig Hajduk is
enrolled in a one-year program for or¬
chestra management run by the Ameri¬
can Symphony Orchestra. This program
has taken him to Boston, Spokane and

Ft. Worth.Julia Paulk is working at

the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
Atlanta, which is where Gretchen
Loree lives as well. .. .Harry Rezzemini
is also in Atlanta, where he volunteers
for a food service and recovery pro¬
gram for the homeless. ...Chris
Emerson works at the Landing School
of Wooden Boat Building in Rehoboth,
Mass. ...Becky Castle is halfway
through her one-year Rotary Ambassa¬
dorial Fellowship in Costa Rica. ...From
the jungles of Costa Rica, we go to
Hamar, Norway, where Barney Hodges
and Chris Clark have gone to train for
the Olympics in Lillehammer. Six
months to go guys! GOOD LUCK! ...If
anyone finds their way to Pittsburgh,
Johannes Ernharth is there waiting
for you! He says hi to everyone and
hopes to see you soon. ...Sabina Wister
works in an auction house in Philadel¬
phia. ...Alex Heros is in Memphis,
where he is the regional manager for
Latin America for Crews, Inc., a safety
glass manufacturer. He hopes to estab¬
lish a regional distribution office in
South America soon. ...After what must
have been a stellar year behind a bar at
the Phoenician Hotel Resort in
Scottsdale, Ariz., Bill Deacon has been
promoted to director of restaurant sales.
In this position, he is responsible for six
restaurants at the nationally-renowned
resort. ...Jeff Collins is doing very well
in Zimbabwe, where he is finishing his
second year with the Peace Corps. Over
Christmas he traveled all over southern
Africa, running into Stephanie Blair,
who was just starting her stint with the
Corps. He said she’s doing great. ...Fi¬
nally, New York still claims many of
our classmates. Tara Kasaks is work¬
ing for Cato Gobe and Associates, a
strategic imaging firm (they came up
with that really cool clear Gillette de¬
odorant stuff!). ...New York is still home
to Thea Migel, Kim Shephard, Susie
Dalrvmple, Janice Turecki, Steve
Quinn, Ray Strong, Eshun Khan and
Mustafa Topiwalla. Rumor has it that
John Waldron is still in the city, but
he's also in the mystery file. ...Speaking
of mystery files, Send info to us! The
Boston contingent has been particu¬

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larly bad about sending information, so
let's get with it! Take care, everyone,
and see you at HOMECOMING!

92

Class Secretaries: Leslie L. M. Cone. 40
College St., Middle bury, VT05753. and
Viraj M. Mirani, 427 N. Cleveland St..
Arlington, VA 22201.

Yes, there was as much snow at Midd as
we all used to envision there would be
when we came as freshmen! It was fun
for a while, but after spring break we
just wished it would all go away.
...Stacey Fallon is having a great time
in Moscow, studying the gymnastics
situation in Russia for her Watson Fel¬
lowship. ...Mila Pavek, Denise Getty,
Devera Hadden, Becky Fair and
Gavin Svmes are also in Moscow,
where they have been known to get
together to celebrate events of extreme
cultural significance—such as the Su¬
per Bowl—and to reminisce about
Proctor’s salad bar. ...Jen Kaufman is
also in the former Soviet Union, living
in Pskov. ...Sara Weale returned from
teaching English in Moscow with no
definite plans, except to go back to
Moscow soon. ...Tiffany Winne was
planning to go to Siberia with the Peace
Corps but opted for a warmer climate,
heading for grad school in New Mexico.
...Annie Rimoin left for Africa in May
with the Peace Corps, ending up in
Benin instead of Togo because of the
revolution. ...Audrey Waters joined
the Peace Corps in February after
completing her internship at the U.N.
last September and working as a radio
news reporter in the D.C. Metro area.
...Noelle Stevens is volunteering at the
Princess Basma Center for Disabled
Children on the Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem. ...Nils von Zelowitz and
Jon Bicknell, living together in Madrid,
are using their master’s degree studies
at Midd Madrid as the excuse for pursu¬
ing careers as bullfighters and musi¬
cians. They specialize in everything
from new wave punk to Spanish bal¬
lads—Julio Iglesias joins them occa¬
sionally in their jam sessions. In their
spare time they are active in a competi¬
tive backgammon league and Jon has
been honing his dishwashing skills, as
has Nils with his cooking skills. They
write that “Spain is tododebajoel sol!”
...Maria Vrachnos, who lives only one
block away from Nils and Jon in Madrid,
is teaching English there. ...Bruce
Bender is teaching in China. ...Helen
McCabe spent the year at the Johns
Hopkins Center in Nanjing in Chinese
Studies. She traveled throughout China
in January. Helen will attend Washing¬
ton Univ. in St. Louis this fall, working
towards an M.A. in Asian studies. ...Pete
Hirschmann is reported to be in Hong
Kong. ...Cathy Lee is spending the
year in Seoul. Korea, working for an
international law firm. ...Kristen
Bermudez was also in Seoul for sev-

eral months this spring. ...After com¬
pleting Chinese summer school at Midd,
John Heywood helped to sail a boat
from Turkey to Sicily. He then found a
position as a crew member on a yacht
sailing from the Canary Islands to the
Caribbean and then all the way to Aus¬
tralia. He should arrive Down Under in
September, after which he plans to look
for a job in the Far East. ...Hannah
Covert is in Costa Rica with the World
Teach Program. She teaches English
and environmental education in Jan Vito
for students in grades 7-11. ...Lydia
Ramos is in graduate school in Puerto
Rico. ...Christine Bastianelli finished
her internship in the Dartmouth Col¬
lege Health Service and then headed to
Europe for a couple of months. ...Matt
Saldivar moved to NYC in the spring,
contemplating a return to school to study
theater. ...Brian Huff just missed all
the excitement at the World Trade Cen¬
ter, where his office is on the 92nd floor.
He was skiing in Jackson that week.
...Marian Darrell, Blakely Anderson,
Jill Sagner, Chris Bushey, Lyle
Humphrey and Gillian Morris are all
living in NYC, according to Lisa Healy.
A paralegal in downtown San Fran¬
cisco, Lisa spent last summer in Vail
with Corky Mather. ...Carla Huek is
living in NYC, assisting a French chef
with the opening of a new restaurant in
Manhattan. She is frequently seen with
Clare Burns, who decided that with a
background in pre-med, English and
French, law was the obvious choice for
her. ...Justin Ayers is staying with Paul
Cusimano in Manhattan while he ac¬
tively pursues a career in the music
industry. He also works at HM V Records
on 86th and Lexington. ...Mike Ben¬
jamin is working fortheenvironmental
division of Booz Allen Consulting in
D.C. Mike lives in the deep, dank cellar
of Dave Rickard’s house. ...Jennifer
Schumaker is in D.C. working forMike
Murphy Media, a Republican media
consulting firm. ...Susan Liu has com¬
pleted her first semester at the National
Law Center at George Washington
Univ. in D.C. ...Steve Schrodel is also
in D.C., hoping to continue his political
career by getting a congressional staff
job. Steve managed the campaign of¬
fice for Clinton, Leahy and Dean in

east-central Vermont. Janet Phelps

is working as a reporter for a trade
publication in D.C. ...Living in Alexan¬
dria, Va., Laura Cohen is legitimately
pushing drugs for TAP Pharmaceuti¬
cals, a subdivision of Abbott Laborato¬
ries. ...Shannon Connell is a research
analyst at Economic Analysis Group in
D.C. She lives with Ana Suarez and
Holly Mead.Jackie Proulx is teach¬

ing English at a private high school in
Killington, Vt. ,.J)ave Berry is living
and working in Richmond, Va. ...l.aura
Hayes lives in Colchester, Vt. ...Max
Chuangus is studying law at the Univ.
of Florida and is living with Dan Coyne.
...Jason McGowin is making full use
of his varied talents by delivering piz¬
zas and skiing in Jackson. ...Also using
his Midd degree creatively is JJ

Gilmartin, who is working as a bellboy
somewhere in Idaho. Apparently he has
a very attractive uniform. ...Shawn
Emory spent the fall in New Mexico
learning to build adobe houses. She
helped to rebuild an adobe church on
the Picuris Indian Reservation. Now
working for an architect in Jackson,
Wyo., she supplements her income as a
prep cook at the Mangey Moose.

. Brian Schilling went out for a wild
weekend in Las Vegas, where he ran the
Las Vegas marathon in a personal best
time—thanks mainly to the hot pursuit
of a large gentleman named Mike the
Fish, chasing him and screaming some¬
thing about marked cards. ...After barely
surviving the armed robbery in broad
daylight of the bank where he worked in
Chicago. Tom Kovach decided to take
some time away from the Windy City
and reassess his life. So he headed to
Virginia where he spent a couple of late
nights sharing local culinary treats with
friends. He was so moved he decided
that upon returning to Chicago he would
open a Gusburger stand, specializing in
eggburgers and whipped cream cakes.
This business venture may take a while
to realize since his new job at IDC,
which expands upon his experience as a
class agent, will take most of his free

time. ]on I^irr has also changed jobs.

He now works for Peterson Consulting
in Chicago. ...Kate Larocque is work¬
ing at the Stone Environmental Educa¬
tion Center in Groton, Mass. ...Lisa
Balaschak is working for her state rep¬
resentative in Massachusetts. ...Amy
Hillier, making a bid for the Guinness
Book of World Records, has switched
jobs nine times in the past few months
and continues to interview. ...Jon
Young is processing loans in a bank in
Boston. ...Ann McNally is going to
school in Boston. ...Mimi Warendorf
is teaching 3- to 6-year-olds in a Boston
Montessori school. Mimi and Amy
Gannett live down the road from Car¬
rie Harasimowicz, Erica Moody,
Caroline Leary and Jessica Kubek.
Jessica is a legal assistant in the envi¬
ronmental law department of Bums and
Levison. ...Mary Blanchard, living in
Boston with Nellie Perera, is working
at Legal Seafood at Copley Place while
taking pre-med courses at Northeast¬
ern. ...Lindsay Smith and Tom Garrett
spent the spring driving cross country
in twocars, using walkie-talkies tocom-
municate while on the road. ...Mike
Summersgill, unable to handle the re¬
ality of a Democrat in the White House,
headed to the Caribbean to sail around
for a week before beginning to master¬
mind a triumphant Republican return to
power in '96. He and Dave Freeland
toured the country this spring to “meet
the little people” and mooch off of
various Midd alums. ...John Swanson
is passing anatomy in med school and,
as is typical in the hard-working life of
a med student, has found time to fly
over to Paris for a vacation. ...Brian
Willing is back in Connecticut from his
stint in Saudi Arabia where, he reports,
the Red Sea coral reefs provided plenty

of scuba diving opportunities. ...Garon
Jones remains in Saudi Arabia with
Bob Dovle. Garon is taking a course in
Arabic while Bob has immersed him¬
self in the local culture so much that he
has threatened to join a group of
Bedouins and flee into the desert.
...Miha Zajec is in Connecticut, work¬
ing part time for his dad, as well as
working at a horse stable in Greenwich.
...Jill Morris is working forachildren’s
record company. ...While traveling in
Colorado, Katherine Beal stopped to
see Susan Scheer in Aspen. ...Karen
Olsen moved off the ranch in Telluride
and is now living in a 1
supporting herself with
two jobs. She was manag¬
ing to ski quite a bit and
would love mail at Box
3351, Telluride, CO
81435. ...Heather
Pedersen is teaching and
coaching at a small pri¬
vate school in Colorado
Springs. She enjoys all of
the skiing, mountain bik¬
ing and hiking she gets to
do in the Rockies.

...Tammy Caruso is in the
process of getting her
MBA at Cornell’s John¬
son Graduate School of
Management. Although
she enjoys the college at¬
mosphere, she says she still misses Midd.
...Tom Armbrecht is in a five-year
French doctorate program at Brown
Univ. Despite the heavy workload, he
has found time for bridge, two-stepping
and the gay pride committee. ...Ben
Rosenfeld braves the riots, fires and
flash floods to get to work at Paramount
Studios, where he works as a script
consultant. He writes, “Thank God for
parents and old bedrooms, but thank
God the whole world isn’t a suburb of
Los Angeles, too!” ...Megan
Underwood is in a management train¬
ing program with an industrial supply
company, McMaster-Carr in Long
Beach, Calif. ...Chip Muir traveled in
Europe after graduation and managed
to catch some of the action at
Wimbledon. Then he coached football
at his old high school, Windham High,
helping his team to be runners-up in the
State championship. Now he’s in
Pensacola, Fla., in Aviation Officer’s
Candidate School on his way to becom¬
ing a Naval Pilot. ...Fiona McDonald is
working as a desktop publishing opera¬
tor for the American Institute of CPA’s
in Jersey City, N.J. ...In Pullman, Wash.,
Todd Kafka is supplementing his gradu¬
ate work at Washington State Univ. by
teaching labs for the WSU equivalent of
Midd’s “Rocks for Jocks.” He finds the
experience challenging and frustrating.
...Marlene Orantes is working for the
Ministry of Finances at Guatemala City.
As the adviser for international com¬
merce, she works closely with members
of the International Monetary Fund.
...Following a month-long trip to East
Africa, Jen Jolliff is back at Nature’s
Classroom in Alabama, teaching envi-

Thomas Press '91, Susanne Press
'89, Paul Testa '91 and Dave
Liebmann '91 were happy to be at
Vail before mud season hit.

ronmental science. ...After floating be¬
tween the bayous and bistros. John
Ervin writes that he is finally thinking
about getting a job. Anyone heading
south should stop by Baton Rouge and
visit. ...In case you haven’t heard, three
members of our class stayed in M idd for
a year as RHAs. Hieu Nguyen, Mara
Gorman and James Christian all did
an incredible job at Midd this year and
managed to avoid the real world for a
little bit longer! Mud season at Midd
was rather prolonged and we all re¬
joiced when we no longer had to wear
boots to fend off the snow, ice and mud.
Please keep in touch!

93

Class Secretaries: Kathryn Virkler,5137
Purview Drive, Charlotte, NC 28226,
and C hristopher Pi elder, 4367Schenley
Farms Terrace, Pittsburgh, PA 152/3.

What are your plans? Send news of
your adventures to one of your class
secretaries!

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Alumni NewsLetter

OBITUARIES

1915

ELISABETH THORPE VOSS, 96, of
Stamford, Conn., on May 13,1988. She
served as secretary to the director of the
Middlebury summer session in 1911. A
native of Shelburne, Vt., she married
John C. Voss ’14 who became a teacher
of Latin and Greek in Brooklyn, N.Y.
He died in 1947. She is survived by her
daughter, Jean Voss Fenn ’44.

1917

HELEN ELIZABETH LINNELL
DEWHIRST, 98, of Asheboro, N.C.,
on March 30, 1993. Mrs. Dewhirst
taught mathematics at Willimantic
(Conn.) High School following Middle¬
bury, while her future husband,
Theodore H. Dewhirst ’17, served in
the Air Corps. Predeceased by her hus¬
band and a son, she is survived by a
daughter, Jean Newton, six grandchil¬
dren and 10 great-grandchildren. Mrs.
Dewhirst returned to Middlebury 70
years after her graduation, when she
was honored as the oldest alumna in
attendance at the 1987 reunion.

1917

LOIS BODURTHA ESTER, 98, of
Southampton. Mass., on April 24,1993.
Mrs. Ester received her R.N. degree
from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School
of Nursing in 1924. She was an instruc¬
tor of nurses at institutions in Califor¬
nia, New York, Pennsylvania and
Maine, retiring in 1956 as director of
the nursing education department at the
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in
Northampton. Her husband, George H.
Ester, died in 1934. She leaves several
nieces and nephews.

1921

LUCY STEARNS JENKINS, 95, of
Bennington, Vt., on March 11,1993. A
teacher in St. Johnsbury, Waterbury
and Bennington, Vt., she married
George R. Jenkins in 1922. She was
associated with the Order of the Eastern
Star, the AAUW, the Second Congre¬
gational Church in Bennington and the
Putnam Health Care Auxiliary. Prede¬
ceased by her husband and by two sons,
she is survived by a son, Steams Jenkins;
a sister, Priscilla Jackson; 10 grandchil¬
dren and 10 great-grandchildren.

1922

ELSIE S. SCOTT, 93, of Greenfield,
Mass., on February 27,1993. She taught
chemistry, physics and general science
at Northfield Seminary (now Northfield-
Mount Hermon School) from 1925 to
1964. In 1957, she was named the state’s
outstanding secondary school science

teacher by the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. A charter member of
the Northfield Seminary Church, she
was active in the Northfield Historical
Society, the Dickinson Memorial Li¬
brary and the Trinitarian Congregational
Church. She is survived by two nieces
and two nephews. Her sister, Beulah
Scott Cross ’23, died in 1991.

1924

MARJORIE MILES CAMPBELL, 91,
of Wilton, Conn., on January 16, 1993.
Transferring after one year, Mrs.
Campbell graduated from Wheaton
College in Illinois. Her husband, Dr.
Carleton Campbell, died in 1984. She
leaves a son, Carleton Campbell Jr.; a
sister, Dorothy Miles MacLeod ’24;
and four grandchildren.

1924

MARGARET BROWN HOUSTON,
89, of Madison, Conn., on March 18,
1993. She taught high school English in
Litteton, Gardner and Hingham, Mass.,
from 1924 until her marriage to Bradley
R. Houston in 1932. Besides her hus¬
band, she is survived by three sons,
David R.. Richard F. and Daniel B.; a
sister, Elizabeth Brown Heame ’32;
seven grandchildren; and five great¬
grandchildren.

1925

DOROTHY TILLAPAUGH HEAD-
LEY, 89, of Eaton Rapids, Mich., on
February 28, 1993. As a home econo¬
mist employed by the Vermont Exten¬
sion Service, she served families in the
Montpelier area. Following her 1931
marriage to Arthur Headley, they lived
in Florham Park, N.J., until they retired
in 1967 to St. Martins, New Brunswick.
She had lived in Eaton Rapids, Mich.,
since 1989. Predeceased by her hus¬
band and by a brother, Howard, she is
survived by two sons, Richard and
David; three sisters, Mildred Loveland,
Enid Tillapaugh ’29 and Helen
Tillapaugh; two granddaughters and two
great-grandchildren.

1926

VIOLA PALMER HOUGHTON, 88,
of Concord, N.H.. and Chebeague Is¬
land, Maine, on March 23, 1993. In
1928, Mrs. Houghton earned a master’s
at the Bread Loaf School of English,
where Robert Frost was one of her
instructors. She taught high school Eng¬
lish and Latin, served as a Girl Scout
leader, and worked as a psychiatric
social worker at New Hampshire Hos¬
pital. Predeceased by her husband. Dr.
C. Winthrop Houghton, in 1982, and by

her sister, Ethel Palmer Higgins ’28, in
1964, she leaves a son, Winthrop P.; a
daughter, Patricia Prescott; four grand¬
sons; two great-grandchildren; two sis¬
ters and several nieces and nephews.
— Betty Goodale Murray '26

1926

FRANCIS S. IRONS, 91, of Montpe¬
lier, Vt., on March 19, 1993. Mr. Irons
was the superintendent of schools in
Bennington Southwest District for 15
years and then joined the Vermont State
Education Department in 1945 and
served for 20 years as director of voca¬
tional rehabilitation. He was executive
secretary of the Vermont Council on
Aging and was planning consultant for
the Vocational Rehabilitation Division.
In 1991 he was recognized by the Mont¬
pelier Rotary Club as “Distinguished
Citizen of the Y ear.” His wife, the former
Lillian Coutts, died in 1991. Survivors
include four daughters, Jean Brown,
Ruth Clark, Carol Irons and Morgan
Irons; a son, Paul Irons; 13 grandchil¬
dren and five great-grandchildren.

1927

CHARLES O. ADAMS, 86, of Ellicott
City, Md„ on March 19, 1993. A 1930
graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr.
Adams practiced law in New York City
from 1930 to 1934, after which he prac¬
ticed in Middlebury, Vt., from 1935
until retiring in 1973. He served as
director and officer of many organiza¬
tions, including the National Bank of
Middlebury, Columbus Smith Estate
Trust, Middlebury Savings and Loan
and the Middlebury Hotel Corp. He was
a trustee of the Middlebury Community
House Association. Predeceased by his
wife, Catherine, in 1991, he is survived
by a son, Charles A. ’59, two grandsons
and several cousins. Mr. Adams’ grand¬
father was Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury
Class of 1864; his parents and several
aunts and cousins also graduated from
Middlebury.

1927

HELEN CHURCH MALLORY. 89, of
Lancaster, Mass., on February 14,1993.
Mrs. Mallory taught high school Eng¬
lish, history and mathematics in the
Rutland, Vt., area. After moving to
Massachusetts in 1940, she taught at the
Atlantic Union College in South
Lancaster, retiring in 1965. She was a
member of the Village Seventh Day
Adventist Church of South Lancaster, a
lifetime member of the Presidential
Commission Task Force and a member
of Citizens for a Sound Economy. She
is survived by her husband of 52 years.

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Clark L. Mallory; ason, Paul H. Mallory;
five grandchildren and three great¬
grandchildren.

1927

ELLIOT F. STEARNS, 87, of DeLand,
Fla., on March 10, 1993. Mr. Steams
taught science and mathematics and
was a coach in the Tarrytown, N.Y.,
school system from 1935 until his re¬
tirement. He is survived by his wife,
Emelene, a daughter, Janice Vercruysse,
and one grandson.

1928

WILLIAM KENNETH DONALD of
Fort Myers, Fla., on March 11, 1993,
his 89th birthday. After Middlebury he
studied at the Walton School of Ac¬
counting and received his MBA from
New York University. His accounting
career began with Coopers & Lybrand
and continued as treasurer and director
of Massback Hardware Co. of New
York. A dedicated Rotarian, he repre¬
sented his local club at six international
conventions. His wife, Louise, died in
August 1992. He is survived by his
daughter, Diana Bates, two grandchil¬
dren and one great-grandchild.

— Miriam Sweet Coombs ‘28

1928

GEORGE HARVEY EATON, 86, of
Montpelier, Vt., on January 29, 1993.
He was a training officer and analyst for
the State of Vermont Department of
Employment and Training. In retire¬
ment, he was a volunteer for SCORE
(Senior Corps of Retired Executives),
giving advice to people starting small
businesses. His first wife, Muriel
(Carey), died in 1962; his second wife,
Olive (Brooks), died in 1976. He is
survived by a nephew and three step-
grandchildren.

— Miriam Sweet Coombs '28

1928

ALICE BROWN NIELSON, 86, of Sun
City, Fla., on December 15, 1992. She
taught biology at Simsbury (Conn.) High
School and remedial reading at
Renbrook School in West Hartford. She
also wrote short stories for children and
served as a Girl Scout leader for 20
years. In 1978, she moved to Sun City
where she was a member of the United
Community Church. Predeceased by a
daughter, Barbara Nielson Heath ’54
and a sister, Esther Brown ’25, she
leaves her husband, Peter, and a grand¬
son.

1930

RALPH HAMMERSLEY Jr., 83, of

Daytona Beach, Fla., in February 1992.

drove for the Red Cross Motor Corps

many societies and made presentations

brother, George, and by a daughter,

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He continued his education at the Univ.

during World War II and continued as a

on his area of expertise throughout the

Diane. Survivors include his wife of 50

of Oklahoma and was associated with

Red Cross volunteer. She also volun-

world. He served as a medical officer

years, Claire (Halbach); two sons, Gor¬

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Blue Cross-Blue Shield for 41 years.

teered for the Meals on Wheels pro-

during World War II, retiring as a com-

don and George; one daughter, Wendy

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During World War II, he served as a

gram. Her husband, Norman, died in

mander in the Naval Reserves in 1974.

Single; and four grandchildren.

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captain in the Adjutant General’s De-

1973. She leaves a son, William; a

Surviving are his wife, Dorothy

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partment of the Army. His wife, Elinor

daughter, Pamela; three grandchildren.

(Milligan); a son, William P.; a daugh-

1940

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(Horn) died in 1975. He is survived by

and a great-grandson.

ter, Dorothy Plessner; a sister, Deane

GORDON E. EMERSON JR., 76, of

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a son, Brian.

Berry Thomas; and four grandchildren.

Stratham, N.H., on April 25, 1993. Mr.

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A brother, Robert H. ’42, died in 1985.

Emerson was involved with real estate

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1930

RALPH I. WILLIAMS, 82, of

development in Boston in various ca¬

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MARGARET KOCHER NOZELL, 85,

Claverack, N.Y., on August 1, 1992. A

1938

pacities until his retirement in 1987. He

of Suffern, N.Y., on February 13,1993.

graduate of Franklin & Marshall Col-

ROBERT E. CAIRNS, 77, of East

also held positions with John Hancock

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Her twin sister, Eleanor Kocher Wallace

lege, he retired as general foreman,

Longmeadow, Mass., on January 28,

Mutual Life Insurance Co., Cabot, Cabot

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'30, predeceased her in 1978. She was

Columbia County Highway Dept., in

1993. Mr. Cairns worked for the

and Forbes, and Bay Financial Corp.

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married to John Nozell, a banker, in

1971, after 42 years of service. A World

Monsanto Chemical Co. for 43 years,

He was director of Gulf-Reston,

1931; he died in 1968. Survivors in-

War II veteran who served in the Ord-

retiring in 1978 as research director.

Watergate Improvements and DMI

elude sons Richard and John, eight

nance department of the Army, Mr.

His wife, the former Evelyn White,

Coral Gables. He also served on the

grandchildren and nine great-grandchil-

Williams is survived by his wife.

died in 1983. He leaves three sons,

Mass. Housing Finance Agency and

dren.

Bernice.

Robert E. Jr., Richard W. and John F.;

other civic organizations. In addition to

— Virginia Knox ’30

a daughter, Laura Dugre; a sister,

his wife, Margaret (Jones), Mr. Emerson

1933

Heather Bly; a niece, Elizabeth Bly

is survived by three sons, David, Chris¬

1930

GEORGE ALBERT COLCLOUGH,

Fitzpatrick ’62; five grandchildren; two

topher and Jonathan; two brothers.

MARGUERITE BROWN SHAY, 83,

80, of Hillsdale, N.Y., on January 28,

great-granddaughters; and a friend, Ann

Wendell and Everett; and nine grand¬

of Somerville, Mass., on December 23,

1993. He taught and directed visual

Kennedy.

children.

1992. She taught French, Latin and

education at Hillsdale High School un-

English at Somerville High School from

til his retirement in 1970. He did gradu-

1938

1942

1932 to 1940. A member of the United

ate work at the Univ. of Mexico, UVM,

JEAN L. WALKER, 77, of Acton,

CARL E. CONGDON Jr., 72, of

Reformed Church, she was active in

Cornell and New York University (M. A.

Mass., on March 2, 1993. Miss Walker

Orrville, Ohio, on February 13, 1993.

Somerville on the library board, in the

’44, Ed.D. ’48). He is survived by his

graduated from the Modem School of

Mr. Congdon served in the Army Air

Rotary Anns, the Civic League and the

wife, Carolyn Stone, and sons Lindsley,

Applied Art in Boston in 1938. Prior to

Corps during World War II. He held

AAUW. Survivors include her husband,

George and James, to all of whom his

her retirement, she was a commercial

positions in Orrville and Rochester,

George; a son, Robert; a daughter,

classmates extend deepest sympathy.

artist in New York City. She is survived

N.Y., before continuing his career in

Donna Cameron; a sister, Ramona

— Phil and Helen Easton Carpenter

by one brother, Lloyd R. Walker, four

Cleveland, where he retired from the

Brown Fleming ’27; and three grand-

’33

nieces and one grandniece.

Higbee Co. in 1973. He returned to

children.

Orrville in 1980. From 1961 to 1990 he

1934

1939

served as a director of the Orrville Sav¬

1930

DONALD R. MacQUIVEY, 79, of

HELEN J. COLE, 77, of North Carver,

ings Bank. His wife, Susanna (Rieley),

WILLIAM A. SHEPARD, 84, of East

Palo Alto, Calif., on April 30, 1993, of

Mass., on March 1, 1993, after a long

survives him.

Montpelier, Vt., on January 2, 1993.

cancer. A graduate of Stanford, Mr.

illness. After earning her M.S. from the

Mr. Shepard graduated from Norwich

MacQuivey became an electrical engi¬

Simmons School of Social Work in

1942

University and was employed by the

neer specializing in telecommunica¬

1946, she served as a medical social

DONALD S. PUTNAM, 71, of

state of Vermont for 26 years, retiring

tions. He was a foreign affairs officer

worker in Minneapolis, Minn.; Water-

Lakeville, Mass., on December9,1992,

in 1972. His wife, Jane, died in 1980.

with the State Department and contin¬

bury, Conn., Lakeville, Mass., and in

after a long illness. Mr. Putnam re¬

He is survived by a daughter, Sally, and

ued to do consulting work with ITU/

Wareham, Mass. Failing health neces¬

ceived his master’s from Brown Uni¬

two grandchildren.

UN, UNESCO, Brazil and the Com¬

sitated her retirement in 1975. She is

versity (1947) and served in the U.S.

merce Department. His wife, the former

survived by a brother, Theron M. Cole.

Coast Guard during World War II. He

1930

Edith James, died in 1983. He is sur¬

was a member of the English depart¬

MURIEL JOHNSON THORN, 83, of

vived by a daughter, Jean Foot; a son,

1940

ment at Hamline Univ. in St. Paul,

Old Deerfield, Mass., on April 10,1993.

Glen; and a sister, Marian Ritchie.

ELISABETH ALLEN CLAY, 73, of

Minn. Survivors include a brother.

She was librarian at Dickinson Library

St. Croix, Virgin Islands, on December

Stearns Putnam, and two daughters,

in Old Deerfield for 40 years, retiring in

1935

12, 1992. During the war years, Betty

Elizabeth Tomlin and Genevieve

1987. Her husband, Franklin H. Thorn,

LESTER H. BENSON, 78, of Fort Lau¬

was a medical social worker with the

Phares.

died in 1963. Survivors include a son,

derdale, Fla., on January 28, 1993. He

Red Cross. She received a master’s

John F.; a daughter, Wilma D. Colella;

served in the Army Air Corps/Air Force

from the New York School of Social

1943

three sisters, Madeline Spencer, Theo

in World War II and was recalled to

Work, Columbia University (1947), and

MARIAN DAY DRYER, 68, of

Sawyer and Wilma Begg; a grandchild

active duty in Germany, 1950 to 1952.

then worked with Child and Family

Cohasset, Mass., on December 6,1989,

and several nieces and nephews.

In Bolton Landing, N.Y., he taught

Services in Honolulu where she met her

of a brain tumor. She studied at the

mathematics and science, coached all

husband. They lived in New Jersey from

Univ. of Rochester, in Madrid and in

1931

sports and served as vice principal. He

1953 until retiring to St. Croix in 1980.

Paris, earning her master’s at the Middle-

FLORENCE PORTMAN CANEDY,

later served as superintendent in

She is survived by her husband. Bob,

bury French School in 1956. She taught

84, of Bernardston, Mass., on April 21,

Philmont, N.Y., retiring to Florida in

son David, daughter Pamela, and two

high school French for many years in

1993. Retiring in 1972, Mrs. Canedy

1977. Survivors include his wife,

grandchildren.

New York state, most recently in

was a 25-year French teacher in the

Kathryn; three sons, George, Jeffery

— Boh and Bobbie Plumer Alden '40

Brighton and Great Neck, encouraging

Dalton and Greenfield, Mass., school

and Steven; and five grandchildren.

many of her students to become French

systems. She was a lieutenant in the

1940

majors at Middlebury. She spent the

Navy WAVES from 1943 to 1945. She

1937

GORDON R. ELLMERS, 78, of Fort

last seven years of her life at the Vedanta

leaves her husband of 50 years, Edward

EDGAR P. BERRY, 78, of Cataumet,

Edward, N.Y., on April 9,1993. A 1941

Centre in Cohasset, Mass.

N. Canedy, and several nieces and neph¬

Mass., and New York City, of

graduate of the Univ. of Pennsylvania

— Kathryn Sempepos Silliman ’43

ews.

Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Berry received

School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr.

his M.D. from the University of Roch¬

Ellmers started a veterinary practice in

1943

1932

ester School of Medicine. He served as

1944, which became a partnership in

WILLIAM J. PURCELL, 71, of Pom¬

EVELINE VINTON WELLS, 82, of

director of plastic surgery service at

1956. His son, Gordon, joined the firm

pano Beach, Fla., on March 3,1993. An

South Windsor, Conn., on March 24,

Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, retir¬

in 1980. He served as an officer or

Army veteran of World World II, he

1993. After studying at a business col¬

ing in 1984. He also served on innumer¬

board member for many organizations

participated in the Battle of the Bulge.

lege, Mrs. Wells was employed in a

able committees in medical and com¬

and received the Liberty Bell Award on

After receiving his doctorate from Co¬

bank and worked for a newspaper. She

munity activities, was affiliated with

May 1, 1990. He was predeceased by a

lumbia, he was a mathematics profes-

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sor at Chicago State University for 40
years, retiring to Florida in 1988. He is
survived by a cousin, Pauline Martin.

1944

GEORGE FREDERICK WIEMANN
III. 71, on February 3, 1993, of cancer.
Following distinguished service as a
bomber pilot in World War II, he earned
a business degree at Columbia and spent
most of his business career in the mo¬
tion picture and television industry. He
lived in Manhasset and Shelter Island,
N.Y., until moving recently to Stuart,
Fla. He is survived by his wife, Dolores
Balzac Wiemann ’46; a son, George
IV; daughters Nancy and Constance;
and five grandchildren.

— David T. Stebbins ’44

1946

STEVEN GILBERT SPEAR, 67, of
Dumont, N.J., on February 25, 1993.
Serving in the Navy (1944-46), he par¬
ticipated in the post-war atomic bomb
tests at Bikini. He graduated from the
Univ. of Michigan’s School of Naval
Architecture in 1951 and worked for
National Bulk Carriers for 17 years as a
naval architect, designing the world’s
largest bulk carriers for oil, wood pulp,
bauxite and liquid natural gas. He also
worked for Exxon and Burmah Oil Co.,
and served as a consultant for marine
lawyers. He is survived by his wife,
Shirley; a brother, Moncrieff J. Spear
’43; fourchildren, Robin Ingalls, Linda
Goemer, Julie Grofsik and Kenneth
Spear; and four grandchildren.

1948

DONALD BALL McGUIRE Jr., 69, of
New Gloucester, Maine, on February
17, 1993. A 36-year underwriter for
Aetna Life and Casualty, Mr. McGuire
retired in 1984 as manager of Aetna’s
employee benefits division in Portland,
Maine. He served in the 2nd Cavalry
Group under Gen. George Patton in
World War II. His lifelong commit¬
ment to community service benefited
many organizations, including the PTA,
Rotary Club, Opportunity Farm for
Boys, the United Church of Christ, New
Gloucester Historical Society, United
Way, Maine Medical Center and the
YMCA, as well as Middlebury Col¬
lege. He is survived by his wife of 44
years, Nancy Weale McGuire ’48; chil¬
dren Valerie Rich, Janice Raab, Ken¬
neth McGuire and Laurie Houston;
seven grandchildren; and a sister Janice
Rothery.

1948

JACKSON B. PARKER, 69, of Lin¬
coln, Mass., on February 26, 1993, of
cancer. He served as a Navy pilot in
World War II and later in the Naval
Aviation Reserve. He studied at MIT
and worked for his father’s machinery
design and sales company, becoming
president in 1973 and retiring in 1988.
He is survived by his mother, Irene; his
wife, Jacqueline; two daughters,
Kathleen and Elaine Hawkes; one son,
Richard; three brothers, Francis D. ’39,

Stanley C. and Harold P. '44; and one
grandson.

—Francis D. Parker '39 and Harold P.
Parker '44

1949

DAVID W. GRANT, 69, of Farming-
ton, Conn., on March 8, 1993. Prior to
his retirement in 1985, Mr. Grant was
an officer of the employee benefits di¬
vision of Aetna Life & Casualty Co.,
with whom he had been associated for
36 years. He worked in Seattle, Alaska
and Hawaii before moving to the home
office in 1958. He leaves his wife of 45
years, Betty Jean (Welsh); a daughter,
Jacqueline; three sons, David W. Jr.,
Stephen W. and Robert L.; a brother,
John L.; and five grandchildren.

1950

FRANCES BOSTELMANN EL-
WELL, 63, of Brattleboro, Vt., on Feb¬
ruary 11, 1993. She took graduate
courses in early childhood education
and became a lifelong activist and ac¬
knowledged expert on quality public
education and services for children. A
recent member of the Vermont State
Board of Education and the Vermont
State College Board, she taught at the
Brattleboro Nursery School for 17 years,
serving as head teacher and director for
14 years. She is survived by her hus¬
band, Corwin Elwell ’50; a son, Peter
Elwell ’84; three daughters, Cathleen
and Colleen Piantadosi and Christine
Elwell; and two grandchildren.

— Eleanor Flett Kingsland ’50

1950

LEONARD A. RICE, 69, of Pottstown,
Pa., on April 18, 1993. An Army vet¬
eran of World War II, Mr. Rice was
employed as a reporter for the Reading
Eagle Newspaper Co. for the last 27
years. Survivors include his wife, Mary
(Fink); a son, Leonard M. Rice; two
daughters, Sharon Dimarco and Susan
Fronccak; and five grandchildren.

1953

JANE WEITZEL WHITE, 61, of Lin¬
coln, Vt., and Williamstown, Mass., on
March 5,1993, of cancer. Her husband,
John M. White ’52, died in 1987. She is
survived by her mother, Arlene Weitzel;
a sister, Mary Jo Smyth; a brother,
Frederick Weitzel ’56; three sons, John
M. Jr. ’77, James S., and Douglas S.
’85; and three grandsons. A member of
the United Church of Lincoln and an
active volunteer for the American Can¬
cer Society, Mrs. White was quick to
show her concern for others and was
always ready to help and encourage
those afflicted with cancer.

1955

GERARD R. CUGINI, 59, of Bell¬
ingham, Mass., on April 25, 1993. A
self-employed architect with over 20
years of experience in commercial, resi¬
dential and institutional projects, Mr.
Cugini received national design awards
for several of his projects. He is sur¬
vived by his father, Raymond Cugini; a

son, Gregory Cugini; a daughter, An¬
gela Cugini; and a sister, Joan Cugini.

1956

SUSAN LITTLE KRAMARIC, 58, of
Wilton, Conn., on January 24, 1993, of
cancer. She married Peter S. Kramaric
in 1959. Residents of Wilton for the
past 18 years, they lived in New York
prior to that. In addition to her husband,
she is survived by her daughter, Karen
Dean; her mother, Ruth Little; and a
brother, Thomas Little.

— Virginia Collins Emerson ’56

1956

RODNEY E. REID, 58, of San Fran¬
cisco, Calif., on January 28, 1993. A
career employee of the Federal Reserve
Bank in San Francisco, he began as a
bank examiner and in 1988 was pro¬
moted to vice president. He collapsed at
a bank luncheon and died of an apparent
heart attack.

1958

DEWEY I. CLASON, 56, of Shrews¬
bury, Mass., on February 18, 1993. He
earned a doctor of optometry degree
from Mass. College of Optometry in
Boston, served in the Army Medical
Corps and was a self-employed optom¬
etrist in Worcester for 33 years. Dr.
Clason was a leader in many organiza¬
tions, including the Massachusetts So¬
ciety of Optometrists. In 1977, he served
on a federal group designed to curb
abuses in the Medicare program in
Massachusetts. He is survived by his
wife, Beverly; a son, Kurt; a daughter,
Karin; his mother, Edith V. Clason; a
brother, Richard; and a grandson.

1961

JUDITH REMINGTON PARSONS,
53, of Charlotte, Vt., and East Hamp¬
ton, N.Y., on December 31, 1992, fol¬
lowing a brief illness. A devoted wife
and mother, she volunteered her time
and energies to the Charlotte Central
School as a teacher’s aide. She worked
as a tax preparer with Gallagher Flynn
and Co. for nine years, after which she
joined Gail Proctor, CPA, as a tax spe¬
cialist. Survivors include her husband.
Rodney L. Parsons '62; a daughter,
Deborah Donnelly; two sons, Rodney
Jr. and Bradford; two grandsons, two
sisters, one brother and many nieces
and nephews.

— Steve Crampton '61

1977

THOMAS J. ANDREWS, 37, of Los
Angeles, Calif., on October 28, 1992.
He attended Bread Loaf School of Eng¬
lish, held a teaching fellowship at
Phillips Academy and, in 1978, became
dean of students at Brentwood School
in California. In 1981 he began work in
the Film industry at 20th Century Fox,
later moving to Columbia Pictures as
creative director in video and market¬
ing. As the founder and president of
Extended Wings Inc., Tom was instru¬
mental in creating music videos to help
market motion pictures. He was chosen

an Outstanding Young Man in America
in 1981 and received many awards in
the film industry, including Columbia
Pictures’ Chairman Award in 1986 and
Ad Week’s Rising Promotion Star in
1989. He is survived by his brothers,
David, John and George, and by his
sisters, Ellen Christianson and Cathy
Martin.

— William R. Thickstun III '77

1979

DIANA JORGENSEN WESTNEY, 35,
of Rupert and Bennington, Vt., on March
1, 1993, following a long illness. She
held a master’s degree in science from
the University of Vermont. She is sur¬
vived by her parents. Dr. and Mrs.
Howard J. Westney; a brother, John
Westney; and a sister, Clarissa
Nadhemy.

1987

JANET M. BULLENKAMP, 26, of
Ashton, Md., on January 16, 1992. She
had hoped to combine her interest in the
theater with her skills in spinning and
weaving to work in the Field of costume
design. She did volunteer work at the
Baltimore Opera, at the Summer Opera
Theater in Washington and was em¬
ployed for a time at Center Stage in
Baltimore. She is survived by her par¬
ents, Peter and Lola Bullenkamp, and a
sister, Marjorie Zotto.

BEQUESTS

From the estate of Ralph W, Pickard
’37, $50,000 for the Annual Fund.

From the estate of Jane D, VVhamer
’48, $159,003.53 to establish the Jane
D. Whamer ’48 Memorial Scholarship
Fund.

From the estate of Roger P. Cleveland
’28, $5,000 to establish the Roger P.
Cleveland '28 Memorial Scholarship
Fund.

From the estate of Edna G. Hinds 27,
$5,000 for the Annual Fund.

From the estate of Isabel I.
Baumgartner ’37, $4,529.64, bring¬
ing the total bequest to $51,029.64 for
the general endowment.

From the estate of Jean Foard Colton
’43, $683.85, bringing the total bequest
to $32,414.83 for the general endow¬
ment.

From the estate of Donald H.
Whittemore, S541.45, bringing the to¬
tal bequest to $2,223.45 for the Annual
Fund.

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ment to improve the curve.

Now we’re in the ’90s, and
although we’ve been called the
PC generation, the apathetic
generation and even the MTV
generation, I don’t believe
we’ve found a fitting label just
yet. These trends that I have
been sharing with you scare
me. I didn’t come to college
merely to become an able body
for the work force. I didn’t get
good grades because it would
get me into grad school. I came
to learn how to share ideas with
others, to think independently,
to come into my own, so to
speak, as a human being. I
think that is what I found here,
yet sometimes I fear this expe¬
rience is too rare. I’m a Liter¬
ary Studies major, and for
those of you who don’t know
much about it, it’s distinguish¬
ing feature is a comprehensive
exam on more than 100 of the
greatest works of literature in
the world today. Once most
students see the list, which
ranges from Homer to Goethe
to Dostoyevsky, they run
away. However, 10 of us, per¬
haps mentally deranged, stuck
it out for four years and made
it through the dreaded Winter
Term. And the amazing thing
about it was that it was the best
academic experience of my
entire life. Our group, whose
areas of expertise ran the
gamut from ancient Greek and
Latin poetry to modern Chi¬
nese literature, spent 24 days in
the Fletcher Room of Starr Li¬
brary discussing, arguing,
fighting, ranting and raving
about literature. By the time
the comprehensive exam came
around, we had almost forgot¬
ten that that was the reason we
had been studying in the first
place. The exam might have
signaled the end of the month,
but it did not even remotely
capture what we learned. If I
had to name the one thing we
learned it was that our study of
literature was just beginning.

I don’t know of any other
major on this campus that al¬
lows students to conduct their

own study as a group for a
month. Why doesn’t this hap¬
pen more often? Are students
uninterested in learning just for
learning’s sake? Is it too hard
for the faculty to evaluate this
kind of learning in our society
so obsessed with grades? Is it
because it won’t get us a job
with the World Bank or help us
on the LSAT’s? I don’t believe
that is the case, especially here
at Middlebury. Perhaps more
opportunities to interact this
way would encourage students
to see learning as a top-floor
path to personal development,
as opposed to a path to the top
floor of the World Trade Cen¬
ter and an office, with a
jacuzzi, overlooking the entire
city. We’ve had the good for¬
tune of being in a small com¬
munity filled with students
from different backgrounds
and different nations. We’ve
studied abroad, not only in
Europe, but in Vladimir,
Beijing, Bali, Israel, the list
goes on and on. If we the stu¬
dents and faculty take the re¬
sponsibility, we can recreate
that ideal academic setting of
the Middle Ages. That atmo¬
sphere, which, well, which al¬
lows intellectual enthusiasm to
triumph over debauchery.

So it’s not over. We can’t
just go out and get cushy little
jobs and lead cushy little lives.
We can’t, that is, if we really
want to call ourselves students.
We, like Chaucer’s Oxford
clerk, must have a moral obli¬
gation to “Gladly learn and
gladly teach” for the rest of our
lives. That’s the reward, or the
price we must pay, for being
students. If we cease to criti¬
cally analyze and challenge the
world as we challenged our
professors, then we cease to be
students. If we cease to be stu¬
dents, then what are we? Toad¬
stools. We might lose the facts,
figures and faces when we
leave here, but let’s not let our¬
selves lose the spirit that moti¬
vated us through it all, a spirit
that has endured through the
ages and which must be pre¬
served to make life worth liv¬
ing.

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STUDENT TALK

Reinventing the wheel: What Midd
can learn from the medieval model

By Lisa Horwitz ’93

What follows is a slightly condensed ver¬
sion of this year s Phi Beta Kappa Ad¬
dress. Lisa Horwitz, a Literary Studies ma¬
jor from Plainfield, N.J., graduated in May
summa cum laude, with highest honors.

Hello, everyone, and thank you for com¬
ing to Middlebury’s Phi Beta Kappa cer¬
emony. Originally, I had planned to share
some thoughts with you about the mean¬
ing of life; however, that seemed a bit am¬
bitious even for a Phi Beta Kappa cer¬
emony speech, which is
too early on a Saturday
morning, so I decided to
tackle the meaning of
student life, instead.

As I was reading
about the history of stu¬
dent life over the ages, I
was surprised, yet some¬
how comforted, to dis¬
cover that students have
been up to the same type
of barbaric antics as we
have since universities
began. We clever, inno¬
vative, creative students
who thought we were
actually doing something new and excit¬
ing at college have essentially been
reinventing the wheel every four years.
For example, students have been getting
themselves in trouble for “drinking, gam¬
bling, profane games, immodest runnings
and horrid shoutings” since the Middle
Ages, according to Hastings Rashdall’s
Student Life in the Middle Ages.

Hazing of first-year students existed
long before fraternities. There is one fa¬
mous hazing ritual recorded in the late
15th century of two upper-class students
investigating the source of an abominable
smell, only to discover that the source is a
new student, who they pretend is a wild
boar. They mock the student’s supposed
wild glare, extremely long and hideous
ears, ferocious tusks, etc., and decide to
give him an operation. They smear his face
with soap, clip his ears, cut his beard, re¬
move his “tusks” with a saw, and so on.

Then, just in case the operation proves to
be fatal, they force the student to make his
last confession. As penance for his sins, he
must provide a banquet for his new mas¬
ters and comrades. And you thought that
Midd social houses were rough.

The universities also had an early form
of the honor code. Instead of taking atten¬
dance, monitoring exams or enforcing the
rules, they had students swear an oath that
they had complied with the regulations.
My personal favorite is the student oath
not to wreak vengeance by knife or dag¬
ger upon the examiner. Maybe we should
add that to our honor code.

Yet despite the ab¬
sence of discipline and
domestic supervision
and the easy degree re¬
quirements, the universi¬
ties were still centers of
intellectual achieve¬
ment. And the key to
their success was that
students and teachers
from all walks of life
lived together. The con¬
stant interchange of
ideas with other people
fostered a kind of intel¬
lectual enthusiasm that is
impossible in isolation.
This attitude toward learning forms the
framework for the modern university. It
has increased or decreased in importance
depending on the times.

American universities are a product of
this attitude, yet we’ve added a few tradi¬
tions of our own, some for the better, some
for the worse. Fraternities are a uniquely
American invention, bom out of the spirit
of revolution in the 18th century. They
were a means through which students at¬
tempted to gain power over the faculty.
They started out as small, select bands of
men pledged to secrecy, whose purpose
was friendship, mutual protection and
good times. Among fraternity members,
grades had little value. Students judged
each other by their own set of standards,
not the school’s. Success on the athletic
field, in journalism, in literature, and
among your peers was what counted. Col¬
lege, Helen Horowitz tells us in Campus

Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the
End of the 18th Century to the Present ,
was a place to develop the intellect, make
connections and acquire good taste.

The Industrial Revolution brought
about great changes. An expanding middle
class attended college to train for the pro¬
fessions. By 1880, women, African-
Americans and Jews were admitted with
increasing frequency, although they were
rarely included in the social life. The cur¬
riculum changed from explaining the ways
of God to exploring the ways of man. Col¬
lege became the gateway to a better life,
and grades took on a whole new meaning.

During the 1930s, schools became
centers of political rebellion. Due to the
Depression, many students were scared
about their prospects for the future. They
turned to Marxism and socialism for the
answers. Women became an increasingly
important part of the social scene, and the
sexual liberation of the ’20s freed them to
participate in many of the same hedonis¬
tic activities as the men.

After World War II, this rebellious
spirit changed to American loyalism,
which lasted until the 1960s, by which
time students were getting fed up with the
factory mentality of producing an able
work force. They demanded increased in¬
tellectual challenge from the curriculum
and recognition of the individual’s per¬
sonal academic interests. They were tired
of the elitism of fraternities and developed
a more communal social atmosphere.
They protested football and fraternities,
segregation and discrimination. They
dropped the barriers among themselves
and put them up against the older genera¬
tion. Their strength of community is what
fostered their success. When the Vietnam
War started and there was talk that stu¬
dents with low grades would lose their
draft exemptions, the real protests began.
The students were motivated to fight
against the war not only by moral opposi¬
tion, but also by self-preservation.

After the tumultuous ’60s, the ’70s
ushered in an age of “grim professional¬
ism.” Once the war ended and the reces¬
sion hit, students adopted a very serious
attitude toward grades. Because the job
prospects were better, students favored the
sciences and technical fields over the hu¬
manities. The norm of student behavior
was docility in the classroom and hell-rais¬
ing on weekends. This trend continued
into the ’80s, with competition in some
schools so fierce that students reported
wrecking a classmate’s science experi-

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Summer Celebrations

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^-Aimmertime gives us many
reasons to celebrate at Middlebury:

• Students begin their new lives after
benefiting from their Middlebury
experience.

• Alumni reacquaint themselves with
Middlebury at their class reunions.

• The Annual Fund successfully ends
its 1992-1993 fiscal year.

Middlebury salutes your participation
as involved alumni, parents, and
friends in the 1992-1993 Annual Fund.
Your continuing support is vital in
keeping the Middlebury Experience
alive for all present and future
students.

The Annual Fund: A Return to Middlebury

THE STRENGTH
OF THE HILLS

“Visions of Nature and
Challenges for the Environment”
September 1-5 Bread Loaf

Six courses taught by Middlebury faculty
focusing on the natural world. Alumni,

HOMECOMING WEEKEND

October 16-18

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information on these and other alumni
events: (802) 388-3711, extension 5183.

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