Fall 2012 Issue - Colby-Sawyer College

help with the transition to
the U.S. and small town
living. This year we had 80
families from surrounding
towns plus faculty and
staff from the college.
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Patricia Canby Colhoun
1122 Burnettown Place
The Villages, FL 32162
pccolhoun@gmail.com
I am happy to report that
I’ve had positive responses
to the new format of the
Alumni Magazine. Julie
Dougherty Egenberg and
John enjoyed 6 months
in Naples, FL, and returned
to Stowe, VT, for
the summer. Julie traveled
with a friend during the
last 2 weeks of Aug. on
a Hurtigruten cruise up
and down the Norwegian
coast. Sue Barto Monks
reported that Bill had his
10th surgery on Feb. 8 to
remove lesions on the
right lung and all went
well. In Jan., the Monks
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went with 12 others for
a theatre trip to London.
The 3rd week of Apr. saw
them visiting friends in
Nantucket. In June they
planned to take Heather,
their 15-year-old granddaughter,
to Ireland. Judy
Provandie Johnson visited
the campus this spring
with her grandson, who
hopes to play soccer in college,
and was amazed at
the changes. Judy is retired
but still subs in the local
school system and is very
active in the Friends of
the Belgrade (ME) Public
Library. Two of Judy’s
grandchildren are juniors
in high school and the
youngest, Ryan, is in middle
school. Judy visited NJ
to see her granddaughter,
Katie, play softball. Katie is
planning to attend Central
CT State U. In Mar., Carol
“Sherm” Sherman House,
Carol Whittemore Todd
and Ann “Meri” Skeels
Nielsen went with Judy
to Panama City, FL, for a
week. Sherm lives there
and was able to get a con-
do overlooking the ocean.
Claire Lippincott Flowers
wasn’t able to join “The
Colby Chicks,” who are
more like the Golden Girls.
They shared meals, played
bridge, swam, toured and
reminisced. Meri, her husband,
and their children
and grandchildren are busy
in VT. Sherm’s daughter
Bonnie and her husband
live in FL. Her other
daughter, husband and 4
grandchildren live in UT.
Carol still works for Amtrak
but is thinking of retiring.
Sharley Janes Bryce was
contacted by Charlene
Wolcott Gray after the
last magazine. They both
have daughters living near
each other in Seattle, and
their granddaughters go to
the same school. Sharley
is in Portland during the
summer and in Tucson
during the winter. Charlene
and her husband spend
their winters in CO, and
summers on Torch Lake,
MI. They have a home in
Rochester Hills that is near
their 2 sons and families.
We went on trips to Turkey and
Morocco, spent Christmas in
Grand Cayman with children and
grand-children, and went on
a cross-country trip last fall to see
some of the U.S. and visit our son.
Marsha Halpin Johnson ’59
Charlene has 5 teenage
grandchildren in MI; 2 attend
the U of MI and want
to be doctors. Another
graduated in June and
attends Butler in IN. Two
are in high school, so the
Grays follow their baseball,
lacrosse, golf and more.
Eleanor “Ellie” Tomlinson
has a new English Cream
Golden Retriever named
Lily. Ellie plays a lot of
squash, works in her
garden and makes sure
that Lily does not terrorize
her 4 cats. Ellie planned
to go to her 50th Reunion
at Colby College in June.
Anne Bishop Yetman and
her husband, Norm, are
retired. Norm taught at the
U of KS for 43 years and
Anne owned a gourmet
gift shop in Lawrence
for 26 years. They spend
at least 2 months each
summer in Stone Harbor,
NJ. Their daughter Jill
lives in L.A. with her family.
Their son Doug and his
family are in Denver, and
their son Sekouba and his
family are in Lawrence.
In May Anne and Norm
went to the Salzburg
Global Seminar for their
6th year. Brenda Hirst
Stone retired in 2006. She
earned a BA, MA and PhD
in psychology. She was
an elementary school
teacher and then worked
as a school psychologist.
In 2007 Brenda and her
husband, Greg, took on 2
Cockapoos, Higgins and
Eliza. They’re registered
Delta Society Pet Partners
and have been visiting