Middlebury College magazine. Vol. 75, No. 1 : 2001

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M A G A Z I N E ^
Winter 2001
Volume 75, Number 1 I H A V E A F E E L I N G
W E ' R E NO T
Editor IN K A N S A S A N Y M O R E
Rachel Morton
Alumni Editor
Dotty McCarty
OH MY GOODNESS, look what they’ve done,” breathed Pat Judah Palmer ’57 to
Designer
her husband, Charlie (’57), as they entered Nelson Arena on the evening of
Pamela Fogg
the Bicentennial Ball. She was one of the first wave of dinner guests to
arrive—a wave that soon assumed tsunami proportions as nearly the entire student
Copy Editor
Regan Eberhart body took advantage of the invitation and swept in, looking for dinner and ftin.
They found both. But they also found Nelson utterly transformed. “Did this used
Production Assistant to be the hockey rink?” asked one young woman, sounding a lot like Dorothy after
Judy Nelson
landing in Oz. “Wow!” exclaimed Midds of all ages as they took in the starlit ball­
room, stretched before them, confirming the fact that “wow” seems to have survived
Editorial Assistants
intact, from the “like wow” beatnik ’50s into the “oh wow” hippie ’60s, and landed
Julianne Frisbie ’02
J. Trent Nutting ’02 upon the shores of the cyber-’OOs, intact, stripped down, and ready to party. As were
most of the alumni, students, and staff that night.
Editorial Office The students were certainly dressed for action, at least the girls were—teetering
Meeker House
on stiletto heels, drafty in backless gowns (one showing the ghost of Speedo tan lines),
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taffetta slips, and retro numbers requiring platforms and fishnet stockings. Vermont
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advantage of the night. The always-glamorous chemistry professor Sunhee Choi, in
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her fire-engine red gown, stood out like the beacon of fashion that she is. And half a
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dozen staff members, suited and coiffed, admitted that “When we’re not dressed up
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like this,we’re custodians.”The tireless President John M. McCardell, who for days on
end had been introducing speakers, welcoming guests, and bestowing honorariums
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and Bicentennial Medals, still looked marvelous as he presided over possibly the
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biggest dinner party he and his wife Bonnie would ever have to throw.
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The day before, when this field house was still a field house, it was teeming with
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tent people, light people, food people, and moving people—all intent on transforming
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Vermont into Oz. Costumed mannequins that on Saturday lent an air of elegance
Other College Offices and glamour to the ballroom, on Friday were a collection of arms and legs in plastic
(all area code 802) laundry baskets, transformed under the creative direction of Jule Emerson, costume
College Information: 443-5183 designer. And even tonight, unbeknownst to the crowd, behind the curtains constitut­
Alumni Office: 443-5183 ing the side walls of this impromptu night club, was a small army of dining staff,
alumni@middlebury. edu preparing the almost endless succession of dinners that were whisked out to one of
Admissions: 443-3000 the three buffet lines, hot and ready for the next wave of guests. By 10:00, the food
service staff began, tentatively, to poke their heads out of their base of operations and
The views presented are not necessarily those of
entertain the notion that this, the biggest magic trick of them all—hot dinner for
the editors or the official policies of the College.
3,000 in the field house—was completed.
Middlebury College of Middlebury, VT 05753, Later, students swarmed the stage and danced in what in more ordinary times
publishes Middlebury Magazine (ISSN-0745-2454)
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Middlebury Magazine is printed at The Lane Press in administrator, who had seen this Bicentennial Celebration
South Burlington, VT. Periodical postage paid at through several years of planning, wearily got into her coat and
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observed, “Marvelous night. Is it over yet?”—RM
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Couer photograph of Bill Heinz '37 by Eddie Adams.
Contents page photograph of mannequins by Bob
Handelman; costume design by Jule Emerson.
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F E A T U R E S D E P A R T M E N T S
28 BICENTENNIAL BLAST 14 ACADEMIC MATTERS
'/7îe amazing finale in a Prof. Eric Davis brings the
200tli birthday to remember. American election on-line.
34 WRITING FOR SPORT 16 STUDENT SCENE
The godfather of sportswriting Have you got Riddim?
■ Bill Heinz ’37 takes it into
(he last rounds. 18 BOOK MARKS
The tumultuous life and loves
oj novelist John Gardner.
22 SPORT REPORT
The renaissance of rugby,
football news, fall wrap-up.
26 OLD CHAPEL VIEWS
History and the American
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Middlebury College Keep ROTC Out ROTC Ordered Out
Board ofTrustees
The retired colonel who graduated from In response to Col. Corbisiero’s letter in
President Middlebury the year 1 was born thinks it the Bicentennial issue of Middlebury
John M. McCardelhJr. is shameful that Middlebury does not par­ Magazine, I think he will be glad to know
ticipate in mihtary ROTC and wants to that Middlebury did not discontinue
Fellows
Peter I. Bijur see it back. How retro! Maybe he forgets ROTC voluntarily. Unlike many colleges
Nicholas R. Clifford there were good reasons ROTC was at the time ofVietnam protests,
Churchill G. Franklin ’71
dropped. I’m flattered he at least remem­ Middlebury honored and maintained the
Frederick M. Fritz ’68
Nancy Coffrin Furlong ’75 bers that many of us protested against our ROTC program. There was an ongoing
Claire Waterhouse Gargalli ’64 U.S. military mis-adventures in Vietnam, effort to provide students of differing
Drue Cortell Gensler ’57
Robert C. Graham, Jr. ’63 even though he was abhorred by our outra­ opinions about the issues of the day the
Reed L. Harman ’68 geous conduct thirty years ago and thinks we freedom to express those opinions and
Jane W. Harvey ’85
were demonstrating against personnel, not continue in their activities, such as
Betty Ashbury Jones, M.A. ’86
Robert A. Jones ’59 policy. It’s probably a safe bet by now to ROTC. It was later discontinued by order
James R. Keyes ’71 say we didn’t get through to everybody of then president Jimmy Carter. It was an
William H. Kieffer III ’64
back then. Hell, Colonel, as long as you’re economic decision—not political. A num­
L. Dennis Kozlowski
Roxanne McCormick Leighton ’67 going backward in time like Billy Pilgrim, ber of ROTC programs in small colleges
Louis Marx, Jr. why not send your forces back to Nam were terminated at that time in order to
Garrett M. Moran ’76
today and open a can of whupass those Ht- save federal dollars.
Michael C. Obel-Omia ’88
Jane Bryant Quinn ’60 de buggers won’t soon forget? Make a Erica Wonnacott
Thomas P. Salmon democracy out of ’em, by god! Dean of Students Emerita
Frank W Sesno ’77
J. Lea Hillman Simonds ’69 Like many of his generation, the
John Spencer colonel may find his agreeable political ROTC Has No Place On
Polyvios C.Vintiadis
disposition taxed to accommodate the Campuses
Mary MacArthur Wendell ’69
Marna C. Whittington likes of me and others of mine. We were While it is customary to respond to articles
Kendrick R. Wilson III actively and patriotically disobedient in printed in Middlebtir)’ Magazine, I would
our opposition to the truly abhorrent con­ like to address one of the recent letters
Emeriti
James 1. Armstrong duct of our lying leaders and their inter­ concerning Col. John Corbisiero’s support
Mary Williams Brackett ’36 minable exercise in misery and destruction for the return of a ROTC program at
Dort A. Cameron III ’67
in Southeast Asia. The American people Middlebury. As a Midd alumnus and for­
Allan R. Dragone, Sr. ’50
Willard T. Jackson ’51 stiU tolerate such idiocy. Outrageous! mer soldier (turned conscientious objector)
C. Irving Meeker ’50 I am hopeful that Middlebury College in the U.S. Army I must disagree with Col.
Jonathan O’Herron
Patricia Judah Palmer ’57 will make no effort to establish ROTC. If Corbisiero.The purpose of the ROTC
Milton V. Peterson ’58 the colonel doesn’t like the way things are program is to prepare young men and
W. Kyle Prescott ’49
now and were then, maybe he should women to be leaders in the military; and
Raymond J. Saulnier ’29
David E. Thompson ’49 heed the advice we heard many times the purpose of the military is to fight and
Hilton A. Wick from people like him back in the old days. win wars. War, no matter how it is justified,
Robert PYoungman ’64
America . . . love it or leave it! represents the depths to which we, as
Offîcers of the Corporation Shameful, ain’t it? humans, can sink. Having a program, such
Churchill G. Franklin ’71, Chair John Cochrane ’74 as ROTC, sends the message that
Betty Ashbury Jones, M.A. ’86, Vice Chair
Boise, Idaho Middlebury implicitly supports the military.
Garrett M. Moran ’76,Vice Chair
Betsy Mitchell Etchells ’75, Secretary While 1 agree that we should honor
F. Robert Huth, Jr.,Treasurer
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the sacrifices and achievements of those
who have served, I do not believe it is the
mission or place for any educational insti­
tution to support the aims of the military
through a program designed to indoctri­
nate individuals into a subculture which
seeks to perpetuate the justification of war
as a means to conflict resolution. 'rounJ here,
Succinctly put, the ROTC has no
time doesn’t stand still.
place on any campus, let alone in a liberal
arts community with an international mis­ It lau^lis, smiles
sion to promote understanding amongst
and plays in tlie sun.
peoples and to help students—according
to the 2000-2001 General Catalog—“to Whether it’s golf, watersports,
see beyond the bounds of class, culture,
tennis, a visit to the Lake
region, or nation." Instead of seeking bet­
Champlain Maritime Museum,
ter prepared military leaders, we should
or quality time together, a vacation
look to schools like Middlebury to pre­
at Basin Harbor is a time to
pare students to think creatively, critically,
reconnect with your family
and humanely to solve national and inter­
and with yourself
national problems outside traditional para­
digms before escalating to war.
Dan Morris ’95
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Appreciated ’ 800-622-4000 www.basinharbor.com
Having witnessed the wholesale trashing
of Middlebury s ROTC program in the
early 1970s by staff, faculty, and student
body alike, 1 was pleasantly surprised to
t / l w t
read President McCardelFs eloquent dedi­
cation of a memorial to those distin­
guished graduates who paid the ultimate
price in our nation s wars. Perhaps our
alma mater has turned over a new leaf in
its relationship with those who proudly
wear the uniforms of our country’s armed
forces. Thank you. President McCardell!
Arthur A. Lovgrcn Vermont's Only
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M.A. German ’69 Community
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1 read with great interest, in the
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Bicentennial issue, the article by Kim Asch
on Julia Alvarez, the acclaimed writer and • New Friendships
political e.xile from the Dominican • On-site Long Term Health Care
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It would be appropriate to point out, 1
believe, that this is not the first time the
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ers and scholars. Many of them came to
this country and joined the Middlebury
Summer [Language] School, where they
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created a world-class center of Hispanic
Memories of Middlebury studies. The College was privileged to
receive Joaquin Casalduero, Americo
Castro, Francisco Garcia Lorca, Jorge
Y e a rb o o ks a va ila b le fo r Guillen, Jose F. Montesinos, Tomas
1 9 8 8 -2 0 0 1 Navarro, Pedro Salinas, and many others
O rd e r y o u rs fo r $ 3 0 .0 0 of equal merit and prestige. The Spanish
School also contributed to the develop­
ment of a younger generation of exiled
O r d o n a te to K a le id o s c o p e
intellectuals: Carlos Blanco Aguinaga,
a n d b e c o m e a B ice n te n n ia l Claudio Guillen, Juan Marichal, and my
Y e a rb o o k P a tro n husband Roberto Ruiz, all of whom had
left Spain as children and would go on to
distinguished careers in writing and edu­
C a ll G a rre tt a t
cation.
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Just as Professor Alvarez recalls the
classical adage, “Ars longa, vita brevis,” we
o r S e n d O rd e rs to: might mention that memory is invariably
K a le id o s c o p e shorter than history. This is why 1 would
like to remind present-day Middleburians
M id d le b u ry C o lle g e
of one of the most brilliant chapters in
M id d le b u ry, V T 0 5 7 5 3
w w w .fro g h o llo w .o rg their academic and intellectual past.
Beatrice Koffmaii Ruiz, M.A. Spanish ’56
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Memorialize Duke
Many of us have heard President
McCardell talk about Middlebury College
being a 24-hour learning experience.
Some of our best lifetime lessons were
learned outside the classroom. For those of
us who were fortunate enough to play for
Duke Nelson, we learned that respect
^ h e .^M iddlebury ^ n n for your fellow competitor and the extent
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football, golf, men’s ice hockey, women’s
ice hockey, and lacrosse, as well as director
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May, 2001
Many of us believe that Duke should
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June, 2001 G R E E N be memorialized by Middlebury College.
Since Nelson Arena has been replaced by
UnusualS mToaullr sG troo uEpu rSoipzee • bAu lialdnidnmg oarnk the S,4O* ^ 2^i2j • Comcopnlitmineennttaarly Kenyon Arena, however, plans have been
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of |Hi|toric . afternoon
D. Tours Travel snacks into a multipurpose recreational space for
j «Closeto students, staff, and intramural sports. The
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President restaurants Duke Nelson Recreational Center will be
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nity. Most important, it will preserve the
name of Duke Nelson with a premier
Blueberry
recreational facility—a lasting tribute to a
man who meant so much to many of us.
H ill
If you are interested in helping to advance
this project, please contact one of us, or
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“A Woman’s Place,” in the Fall 2000 issue.
Adventurous Cuisine
As World War 11 approached in early 1941,
R E S T A U R A N T
President Paul Moody heard that Peggy Cream of Garlic Soup
Woods ’42 and 1 were planning to get
married. 1 was working in New York for Just twenty minutes north of Middlebury on twenty-five picturesque acres
the MacmiUan Company in the college
department, a job Dr. Moody had helped 1868 Route 116 North • Bristol, Vermont 05443
me get in June 1940 when 1 graduated. 802.453.2432 • www.marysatbc.com
He stopped Peggy one day in Chapel (she
sang in the choir) and said, “You know,
there is no rule that says a married woman
cannot go to Middlebury. It’s that they THE
have run off and got married without our
knowledge and so we have no choice but CLEAN
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to ask them to leave.” {In Doco Parentis pre­
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So in June ’41, with the Draft Board We specialize in services for individuals and
breathing down my neck (1-A), 1 quit my provide our clients with a bi-monthly newsletter.
job, and Peggy and 1 got married in the
Chapel by Dr. Moody. And in the fall, we Social Screens Address
moved into a small cottage on Adirondack Environment
SOCIALLY
View (still there), making Peggy the first Women & Minorities
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married woman to attend Middlebury
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and both of us the first couple to live off- FINANCIAL
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Corporate Citizenship
Paul Eriksson '40 SINCE 1985
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Put Hugh on Cover
Hugh Marlow personihes the spirit of the
College with heartfelt enthusiasm. After For more information ca II 800.809.6439 or write:
graduation 1 moved to San Francisco and The Clean Yield
worked with several other grads to create Garvin Hill Road
a Bay Area Alumni A.ssociation. We con­ Greensboro, VT 05841
tacted the College and Hugh was put on www.cleanyield.com
the case. Instantly he became our number
one supporter and our touchstone to the
W 1 N T E 1*. 2 0 0 1
College. He stiU can recall the restaurant
Independent Living for we met at to discuss how to get it started!
Now we live in Colorado and just attend­
ed the Alumni Lacrosse reception in Vail.
Active Seniors i
I was delighted to see Hugh there. He
warmly welcomed me and my husband
Overlooking beautiful Lake (a non-Midd grad) by name, told tales
Champlain and the Adirondacks of working in Aspen, gave a brief history
of the alums in my year that had played
the game that day, and offered to carry'
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Fantastic article on a person who truly
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I was momentarily saddened, as I’m sure
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Marlow instantly knows so many alums
by name. I always thought I was the only
one he remembered. Guess we all
thought that. That’s what makes him
û u s e ^ n n
unique.
Joseph E. Molibat ’58
Brooklyn, New York
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I am so happy that you included the elo­
quent quote from David Shipler’s 1988
conunencement address in a beautifril
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I remember that speech quite vividly, as
I’m sure aU of us do who graduated with
Mr. Shipler’s son Jonathan that day.
T h e N e w Mr. Shipler’s message made clear what
an enormous privilege it was to have
M i d d l e b u r y F l y F i s h i n g C l u b
earned our education at Middlebury and
is s e e k in g d o n a t io n s o f g e a r ! the equally enormous responsibilities that
such privilege entailed. He didn’t throw
• waders • rods • reels • flies • “make-a-difference” bromides at us; he
used his impressive journalistic skills to ask
a c c e s s o r ie s • id e a s • r e s o u r c e s •
us pointed questions about how we
would use our degrees, not only to
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improve our own circumstances, but also
M egan Sm ith at Student Activities,
to tackle larger problems in the real
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M iddlebury College world. He was brilliant, he was funny, and
M iddlebury, VT 05753 he was warm.
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Wlio could ever forget the moment McCardeU’s dedication (Fall 2000 issue). could call John Kingman “a diaper dandy
when, in the midst of congratulating us Perhaps because of their preamble I was a flat out stud,” he didn’t. But he would
all, Mr. Shipler singled out Jon, recounting drawn to the obituaries of those so recent­ have if Dick had been a sportscaster in
one of the first moments he’d seen his ly departed. I noted that starting with the 1961.1 would like to blame this error on
son, as a small boy with a “distant look in passing of Philip Brower ’31, age 91, that, my former English professor Hank
his eyes,” standing on a road in Vietnam. except for four graduates, all male Midds Prickitt, but, as Hank would point out, my
He praised Jon for flilfilling his mother’s who were cited in the columns through irremediable incompetence with the lan­
dream of earning a college degree in that of Albert Davis ’71, a span of some 40 guage and usage is well documented.
America. Imagining the journey to get to years, had served in the Armed Services, Paul Witteman ’65
that field house put my diploma in a mostly in World War 11. And not to be New York, New York
whole different light. overlooked was the WWII service of
Okay, it’s been twelve and a half years, Florence Hubbard ’33, and Elizabeth Tolerance Needed
but I’ll bet you my memory is pretty Baker ’38.1 find this an eloquent post­ Let me add my voice to that of Alden
accurate. That’s the kind of commence­ script to Middlebury’s celebration of its Anderson ’68 regarding love and respect
ment address you get from a Pulitzer veterans who, as they pass into history for one’s fellow man. He is correct in stat­
Prize-winning journalist and a proud dad: continue to demonstrate Middlebury ing that from them flows tolerance—peri­
a memorable one. And so is this issue of graduates’ dedication to preserving our od. Is it coincidental that his letter is fol­
the magazine.Thanks. and Canada’s ideals and freedom. lowed by one entitled “What It Means to
Virj^ima White ’88 Raymond E. Bell, Jr. be Educated”? How can anyone with a
Charlottesville, Virginia Army of the United States, Retired decent education even question the
M.A. German '66 “implications. . . before any action is taken
WWII Vets Pass Into History Cormvall-on-Hudson, New York on this extremely complex issue.”
Thank you for the letters of John (President McCardell’s words)? Get a life!
Corbisiero, Paul Parks, and Richard Barnes Dandy? Not Yet Barbara Slate Abbott ’54
and their reactions to Middlebury’s For those astute readers who wondered Cape Vincent, New York
Veteran’s Reunion and President how it would be possible that Dick Vitale
tel I 800 829 5325 fax (01 I) 562 263 0595 email [email protected]
www.skiportillo.com
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U P H I L L
Drive Nets Book Bonanza
There were 350 col ­ Page 1, including schools,
lected IN AlLIZCaNA, libraries, adult literacy pro­
1,170 in Kenaicky 175 grams, preschools, and after­
in Alaska, and 420 in Maine. school programs. In many
No, these aren’t numbers of instances, Middlebury alumni
disputed voting ballots, but just also assisted the programs as
some of the impressive results tutors or reading partners.
of Page 1, a national book Leigh Updike Johnson ’56,
drive organized by alumni on Nancy Cheesman Baetzhold
G R A N TlTAKERS
the occa.sion of the College’s ’48, and other organizers in the
Bicentennial. Indianapolis area encouraged
Officially concluding on local alumni to donate a total
P IE T E R B R O U C K E (history of art & architecture) A
October 21, Page 1 resulted in , of 232 books to 13 Head Start
leave in Rome to investigate and reconstruct the Augustan pre­
the collection of more than centers in their region, where
cursor to the extant Hadriantic temple. NEH
22,000 new books, a sum children’s books about Hispanic
equivalent to the number of all families and books that explain
J E F F R E Y C A R P E N T E R (economics) Study of bar­
living Middlebury alumni. The issues to children—divorce,
gaining behavior with colleagues from University of California,
undertaking is the largest vol­ death in the family, and single
Berkeley, and University of Minnesota. MacArthur Foundation
unteer effort in the College’s parenting—were much needed.
history. Robin Burnham Owen
P A R K E R C R O F T (history of art & architecture)
“We’re thrilled but not sur­ : ’75, a resident of Bozeman,
Expenses associated with a public art display. Vermont Arts
prised that our alumni respond­ Montana, collected a whop­
Endoument Fund
ed with such energy and enthu­ ping 790 books. Most will be
siasm,” said Bonnie McCardeU, used to establish permanent
D A N A FIELMREICFI (visiting scholar) The role of thy­
chair of the national Page 1 lending libraries in two shelters
roid hormones in the development of stress-related pathologies.
project. for children and battered
NSF’s POH-TIE program
Book collections formally women—the Bozeman Area
I
began after the launch of the Battered Women’s Shelter and
PAT M A N L E Y (geology) With colleagues from the U.S.
program in January and con­ the Livingston Area Battered
and Australia, to develop a record of climate and oceanographic
tinued for nine months until Women’s Shelter. Children
change in Antarctica due to global warming. NSF
November. who stay at the shelters will
The project offered a way receive the remaining books as
J A M E S RALPFI (history) Research on the return of the
for the College’s alumni, par­ ; Christmas presents.
World War 11 veterans. Harry S. Truman Library Institute
ents, and friends to participate Along with fulfilling an
in Middlebury’s Bicentennial immediate need for new books
PETE R RYA N (geology) l.Development of a Web course
while responding to the needs at organizations around the
on Native American mine waste and acid mine drainage issues.
of their local community or country. Page 1 has had several
Montana Tech, University of Montana
state. Alumni were encouraged other positive outcomes.
either to donate a book or to Alumni in Indianapolis and
FIELEN Y O U N G (biology) Examination of the pollination
arrange an event—from elsewhere have been reunited
relationship between bumble bees and jewelweed. NSF’s
potluck dinners and children’s for the first time in several
POWRE program
parties to school read-a-thons 1 years. Ingrid Punderson ’88,
and workplace book drives— Middlebury College associate
F R A N K W I N K L E R (physics) Ongoing research related
where they collected books director of alumni and parent
to the remnants of the supernova of 1006 AD.
from guests or participants. programs, also reports that
More than 50 coordina­ alumni in Washington, D.C.
tors—most of whom were and a number of other loca­
alumni—identified programs in tions have decided to make an
47 states and the I.District of annual event of their efforts to
Columbia for participation in collect books. —Sarah Ray
Melinda Atwood '99, Bonnie McCardell, and Ingrid Punderson '88 worked
with alumni volunteers from Alaska to Maine to collect over 22,000 books
for the Page 1 national book drive.
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