Fall 2012 Issue - Colby-Sawyer College

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58A tough Place to grow,
A great Place to Learn
The college introduces its new field study program,
Alpine Communities, which takes students up into the
highest peaks of New Hampshire’s White Mountains
to explore the fragile flora that live there and learn
about how these communities adapt to severe weather
conditions and the impact of human beings.
editor
Kimberly Swick Slover
Associate editor
Kate Dunlop Seamans
Production Manager
edward germar
Class notes editors
tracey austin
michael gregory
Linda formichelli
Design
Harp and Company
Hanover, N.H.
Printing
r.C. brayshaw & Company
Warner, N.H.
On the Cover: This black-andwhite
archival photograph depicts
a group of Colby Junior College
students climbing Mt. Kearsarge on
Mountain Day in 1954. Mountain
Day is the college’s oldest, most
beloved tradition.
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Features
175 Years of teaching
and Learning
The school that began in 1837 has
had many names and identities, but
a belief in each student’s potential
and the transformative power of an
education in the liberal arts and
sciences has persisted.
A Life Steeped in history
Professor Emerita Hilary Cleveland
taught history and political science at
the college for 57 years, and she and a
long line of her family’s ancestors have
played important roles in the evolution
of the college, the town of New
London, the state of New Hampshire
and the nation.
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true tenure
Over the last 35 years, Janet Bliss and
Deborah Taylor have devoted their
lives and careers to creating the awardwinning
Windy Hill School and shaping
the academic programs at Colby-
Sawyer College.
Wide Awake
John Pelech ’02 is intense, relentless
and doesn’t sleep much. Empowered
by his education in business administration,
he’s found ingenious ways to
recycle the unrecyclable and turn it
into materials that fuel and sustain the
local economy.
Photo: Michael Seamans