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The Paranoids Were Right by John Wilke

New College students protesting the war in Vietnam sometimes joked about being under government surveillance - few took it seriously. But a series of requests filed in recent years under the Freedom of Information Act showed those fears were well founded: Documents declassified and released by the FBI confirm that New College students and faculty were placed under investigation by intelligence agencies during the Vietnam War era.

New College alum Jay Peterzell , working with the Center fo r National Security Studies in Washington, first unlocked the FBI's files on New College in 1980. His requests yielded hundreds of pages of teletype transmissions and copies of intelligence ft.les compiled by the FBI regional office in Thmpa, clearly showing that federal and local police agencies investigated political and civil rights groups opposed to President Nixon's policies .

The documents show secret files were kept on a handful of students, the college president and certain faculty members at New College. A 15-year-old high school student, a local businessman, black student leaders and students at other area colleges and universities who spoke out against the war also are named in the ftles.

The government's interest in New College was just a small part of efforts by the FBI, CIA, Secret Service and military intelligence agencies to track dissent on college campuses during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, according to a 1976 Congressional investigation. The investigation found widespread use of intelligence agencies for domestic political purposes.

The Tampa FBI files , covering local anti-war activity from 1969 to 1W2, confirm on the local level many of the fmdings of the Congressional investigation. But there is no evidence that such tactics as wiretapping, break-ins or mail interception, apparently in widespread use elsewhere in the country, were aimed at New College.

One target of the FBI's efforts was New College Professor of Religion Dr. William Hamilton, who made speeches at anti-war demonstrations in 1969. His name appears frequently in the files, accompanied by his criticisms of Nixon policies. Asked about the FBI's investigation, he called it "an incredible waste of time and tax dollars, and a frightening abuse of power and betrayal of trust" by the government.

Surveillance was stepped up sharply following the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four Kent State University students in May 1970. A "student strike" held during this period at New College " was completely effective for over a week" and the college was the only institution

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Writer) - Members of New Co Ill eg e ' sSl\ldent Action Coordinating Committee <SACC> claimed ~sterday the scheduled four-day campus strike lhe.re has the support or at least 95 per cent of the stu· dent body and also labeled r.he school as "Q.Ile cf lM few in

thesouthcntotal strike." The JattCT was a reference

to the Nt.>W College faculty not on!)· suspending c:\asses until .Monday but supportmg the strike effort and urging the en­lin~ college community to par· ticipate. This backs the con­tention of several student lead­ers who state the strike Is not

''agai.nst the college, but of the college."

J OSE PEREZ, a member of SACC, reported about 50 New College students will join the collegians' Washington march near lhe White HOuse while another 50 are actively en· gaged in coordinating deLails of new College's VBrious strike activities.

''All but 10 or 20 students out of 400 support the strike," he $aid. "TM minority (avon a protest but they don't see the be!H!fits of a strike."

One who opposes the strike Is Rob- Mallet, editor of Ca~ taln Jack, the campus news­paper. lo an edltt>rial, Mallet said the stl'ike will not accom­plish anything, "just flogging a dead dog. "

P.EREZ SAID plans fo r hxfay's march in downtown Sarasota. draft card tum-In and rally haYe been preUy well finalized. Parade permits have been cbtained and the proression route fi rmed up.

March participants - about 500 are expec:lerl - will co.n­vene al the federal building on Orange Avenue at 11:30 a.m. There. several students - the ccmmitlee estimates any­where from 10 lO 30 - will turn in their draft cards.

Altempts to have a repre­sentaUwe of the Selective Ser­vice Board. present faHed, Perez said. He quoled a board spokesman as saying all feder­al building orric:es will be c:\osed, the usual proceduM on Saturdays.

Student leaden said pre­viously that if a ''representa­tive cf the U. S. Ccvemment" daes not appear at the federal building. the draft cards will be mailed to P resident Nixon from the building cr the down­tawn post office, a half·bloc:k away.

FR0/11 THE federal build­ing, mar chers will walk ncrtb en Orange Avenue, then onto Main Street towards Bayfront Island Park. There, a rally will be held with six speakers _ h ..... ""w rnn.,., .. ,.l .,..t..nh

in the state to officially cancel classes. The FBI file said "Sarasota police report college administration and fuculty are in sympathy with the strikers." This information may have led to the establishment of what appeared to be an extensive file kept on NC President Dr. John Elmendorf.

Another member of the NC administration, who told the FBI he was "confidentially opposed" to draft counseling on campus, began to supply the Tampa bureau with regular information on the plans of political groups on campus. The documents show Sarasota police also had informants on campus.

One area anti-war group apparently subjected to extensive investigation was the Bay Area Coalition, a peace group comprised of students and fuculty from New College, Eckerd College, Manatee Junior College and USF Tampa. In one reference, "a confidential source who has provided reliable information in the past" infiltrated a meeting of the coalition, held at a Quaker church in St. Petersburg, where plans were announced for a peace demonstration " to protest growing militarism in our country."

The non-violent demonstration, held at the Bayfront Center in May 1969 and attended by about 250 people, protested an appearance by then-Selective Service Dir. Gen. Lewis Hershey. Principal speakers were identified by the FBI, and participants were photographed.

The fi les also show the FBI was monitoring black student groups on local campuses, and noted that "extreme hostility exists (in Sarasota) over the phasing out of Negro elementary schools." Individual NC students whom the FBI believed might participate in "sympathetic demonstrations" were named in the fl.les. The agency also conducted a brief investigation into the activities of a 15-year-old high school student who planned a public commemorative service for Martin Luther King.

According to the 1976 Congressional investigation, FBI offices in the 1960's and 1970's were monitoring campus "subversives," including opponents of the war, civil rights advocates and "those engaged in New­Left-type political activity." FBI agents were told to track the "loosely­bound, college-oriented" movement, with its "strong Marxist, existentialist, nihilist and anarchist overtones." And agents were instructed to investigate anti-war activists to establish their "potential threat to security," after which they would be placed on a "security index" of suspects "for detention in time of national emergency."

John Wilke , a reporter on The Boston Globe, graduated from New College in /981 and from Columbia University in 1983. He has published news anicles in Th e New York 1imes, Washington Post , Miami Herald and other newspapers and magaz,ines. Before joining The Glolu, Wi/k~ was a reporter for Business Week in Washing/On.

Fourteen years at New College, which is almost twice as long as I have spent in any other location, combined with the throes of middle age would stimulate some reflection under any circumstances but do so particularly now that I am back at New College after spending a semester at the University of Pennsylvania.

The time at Penn was exhilarating. To be in a major research university, to participate in the regular meetings of the research group, to have available more seminars and colloquia than one has time or understanding for, to sample the amenities of the city - W.C. Fields notwithstanding - are reasons why a leave is essential. One returns rejuvenated and eager. But one also returns eager because there is no place like New College. Research is more intense at Ph.D. institutions, and students at other places may be as good as New College students, but only at New College are the teaching and scholarly enterprises so intertwined and so sustained by a commitment from both faculty and students. Most of all, the whole thing takes place under an ethos of rigorous standards set in a very flexible structure.

The contract system is the wonderful device which encapsulates both our standards and our procedures. It permits everything; it is limited only by the responsibility of the contracting parties to themselves and to each other.

"Stop gushing," you say, "we know all that." But the values that dim under daily pressures become more vivid from the vantage of distance and the perspective of another institution. Furthermore, the power of the contract system is not widely used and the ethos of this place bears reaffirming for both new and old faculty. The alumni can and should remind us of our principles and have done so effectively when they returned for the recent reunions. Indeed the reunions of the last couple of years have been a most delightful development. Let us hope they continue to be well attended. Come on down if you at all can.

The new library has already become a part of campus life and an excellent addition it is. New College goes forward with stability in pleasant surroundings. It does so on our terms because the powers that be have left us alone out of benevolence and clear thinking. I do have some concern for the future, however. Since USF at Sarasota is expected to grow and since institutions tend to become top heavy and rigid, New College may become a neglected program on the Sarasota campus. There are only hints of this threat so far but it should be kept in mind by those who keep the vigil.

Some things never change; I still play basketball with students who seem to be of a constant age and agility. But time does pass; each year I know better what I should do on the court but the body responds more sluggishly. At any rate I am glad that each year some students are interested in semiserious basketball. It is a good way to maintain a healthy spirit.

Peter Kazaks is a professor of physics at New College.

Our apologies to Sharon Matola -

Despite information to the contrary in the last Nimbus, the government of Belize has never supported the Belize zoo tinanciallv and has no intention of doing so in the futur~.

Mark your calendar now for the 1987 New College reunion on May 22, 23 and 24. The targeted classes are '67, '72, '77 and '82, but, as usual, any and all are welcome. Andrea Deeb '82 and the agents for the targeted classes are completing plans for the weekend. You'll be hearing more soon.

If you fondly recall the Environmental Studies Program as an operation located in Caples Hall and run almost single-handedly by John Morrill, you're in for some urprises.

In the first place, the program is no longer housed in Caples Hall. It moved to the Carriage House (Caples garage) that had been virtually unused since the college acquired the Caples Campus. The new space fits the program like the proverbial glove.

With the advent of the Environmental Studies Steering Committee in 1984, faculty shared guidance of the program with the coordinators and a student representative. John Morrill represented Natural Sciences on this committee for the first few year . Now, biologist Sandra Gilchrist is sitting on the Committee, along with philosopher Bryan Norton, sociologist Penny Rosel and student

Leslie Miller. Six students are currently working toward

areas of concentration in environmental studies. Senior projects range from two on Sarasota Bay to gopher tortoises to Celtic bird symbolism.

Anthony Andrews, anthropology, had published "La arqueologia historica en el area maya'' in the proceedings of the XVII Mesa Redonda de Ia Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia (Mexico, 1984) ; "The Isla Cerritos Archaeological Project , Yucatan, Mexico" (with Tomas Gallareta) in Mexicon, VIII 3 (1986); and "A Review and Synthesis of Recent Postclassic Archaeology in Northern Yucatan" (with Fernando Robles) in Late Lowland Maya Civilization (J.A. Sabloff and E.W. Andrews, eds.) published by the University of Mexico Press (1986).

Essays by Robert Benedetti, provo t, and Cris Hassold, art history, will appear in a new Florida Endowment for the Humanities reader on cultural literacy. Benedetti has been asked for the third consecutive year to read grant proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities youth grant program.

Pat Bryant, library, has left New College to travel with her husband and then to begin work on a Ph.D. The campus community wished her farewell with a cookie feast in College Hall. Pat's mailing address is P.O. Box 20299, Bradenton, FL 34203.

Jack Cartlidge, fine arts, did a 12-foot sculpture which was used for demonstration purposes in a tape produced by Nancy Adams '82 for her master's thesis at the University of Massachusetts on cognitive and creative thinking.

Soo Bong Chae, mathematics, attended the International Congress of Mathematics in Berkely in August. The congress meet~ once every four years.

Justus Doenecke, history, recently travelled to Washington, D.C.. to read media grant proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In June Doenecke served as a commentator for the session on schism at the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., and served as program chairman for the annual meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations at Georgetown University.

Eugene Lewis, political science. was a panelist at the National Meeting of the American Political Science Assn. in Washington, D.C.. in August where he presented a paper, "CoUision Between fum1al Research and Participant Experience." His ''Public Entrepreneurship and the Teleology of Technology" was accepted for publication in the journal, Administration and Society. The book Leadership and Entrepreneurship, which will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1987, contains a chapter, "Admiral Rickover and Technological Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Navy, " by Lewis.

An NEH Fellow at Princeton. John Macinnes, French, participated in a seminar on "Modern Critical Theory and French Narrative" during the summer. The University

The Coordinators ESP Coordinators Julie Morris '74

Jono M~ler '74 are busy. As this anicle bemg edrted they are on leave in San serving as volunteer leaders of the Siena Julie serves on a number of state-level boards dealing with coastal issues jurisdiction, and non-game wildlife. 'Jono serves on a Myakka River Advisory Board has been chairing a state-level summit environmental leaders. Julie recently with Jim Feeney, provost's office, to

experiential education conference in ~ ..... ""'!l·''•• where she had a change to visit with OOlii'J.\•• Litwin '73.

Friends of the Program

Longtime ESP supporter and former trustee Jack Q-Peter son died . Jack supported research and printing costs for many ESP projects. Maynard Hiss, student of flatv.uoc~s, E~P booster, and son of NC founder PbDJip HISs, has returned to Georgia and is doing graduate work at FSU.

of Florida will publish his book on o~••ucram:•· and his article on Baudelaire was accepted French Forum. The summer at Princeton also a honeymoon for John and his bride.

Princeton Univers ity Press has Good Families of Barcelona: A Social of Power in the Industrial Era by McDonogh, anthropology. He edited in Catalonia: Images of an Urban publi hed in September by the U Florida Press.

Berkeley MiUer, sociology, helped his Claudia lawrence, Admissions, deliver second son (Nathania! Lawrence June ll. During the rest of the ummer conducted research and wrote. In he presented a paper, "Union Political Power and Public Sector Evidence from the American States, at the Annual Meeting of the Sociological Assn. in New York City.

Numerous poem published Mac Miller, literature, include: "They to Call" in Ripenings; "De Rerum 2087" in The Magazine of Speculative "Dance'' in New York Pulpsmith; "Foreclosed, it's ... " in The Beloit

writing for his book on the nnreall\'1:11'11 values of environmentalism.

Terry PaUs, Spanish, ''Jehovah's witnesses in

two-month NEH Seminar on music Harvard University during the

David Schatz, Russian. spent three as a summer Research Associate at University of Illinois studying the narrative analy i . Schatz is currently on "Reminiscence and Epiphany in

Nineteenth - and Early Russian Short Fiction," a collection on short stories by Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Babel, and Olesha. He has invited to read his paper on Olesha's ("The Chain") at a meeting of the Formalist Circle at Oxford University

year. David Smillie, psychology, travelled

Eastern Europe during the summer. delivered a paper at the Dubrovnik. Interuniversity Center on "Sc>e io,bio·Jogll~ Origins of Social Strati fica tion," and a on "The Biological Evolution of Systems" at the International . Human Ethology meeting in Turzmg,

Germany.

The Changing Face of the Campus Officials dedicated the new University of South Florida at Sarasota/New College Library complex on Saturday, November 1, on the patio of the building.

The library is west of the pedestrian bridge which forms a gateway between Manatee and Sarasota Counties and connects the east and west sides of the campus. Following a ribbon-cutting to officially open the building, there was a reception and a tour of the new facility, a 70,000 sq. ft. complex which blends

the best of classical library tradition with the latest advances in technology and design. The new building which will hold 325,000 volumes and seat 400 people was completed at a cost of over $6,000,000 including furnishings. It is equipped

with a computer system that provides access to all the Florida state universities, a national data base of bibliographic information, and an on-line computer­assisted bibliographic retrieval system.

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Above, front entry and courtyard of the Library, with casual seating around the planters to provide outside conversation areas. Left, view of the interior shows the atrium inside the entrance, the periodicals rack, and the stacks on the first and second floors.

networks Over the course of my full recruitment travels I have

met and spent time with numerous alums. Time and again they have asked what they could do to help our efforts in admissions, generally shaping the query in the form of a rhetorical question. I've pondered this question over time until fma!ly it has led to a simple answer: Anything! So many are hesitant and skeptical that they could contribute anything, yet anything is precisely the answer!

Admissions is a small operation with a big task; we have nowhere near the staff or the funding to cover all the bases in as comprehensive a manner as we would like. Your help can enable us to continue to go even further with our efforts to make contact with as many potential candidates and enrollees as possible, in hopes of culling the best of the lot to join the ranks of the Novo Collegians. Besides, who are better judges of potential Novo Collegians than Novo Collegians?

So just what is anything? Helping out can take on simple proportions. Lertin~ us (me) know you are out there willing to help, and how we can contact you, is a start. Being able to ask you to talk with a student in your area who is interested in the college gets us to one more prospect whom we might not otherwise see. Even if you graduated some time ago, the experience has remained largely unchanged today (save for some kind of loose affiliation with the state). You are also a valuable source of direct input into the question of life after New College. Whatever form this may have taken, how well did New College help to prepare you for it? This type of contact is very

meaningful to prospective students, as are congratulatory phone calls or notes to admitted students in your area . Remember this is New College. We are never talking big numbers - even one contact helps.

Representing the college at a college night or fuir in your area gives us coverage we normally would not have. Each year we must pass up many which we would like to attend simply because five people can't be in eight states on one night. Devoting one night a year to New College helps maintain contact with some of the best secondary schools and their students on a far more regular basis than is usually possible for us.

In some areas, alumni chapters have gone way beyond this kind of activity to include the hosting of prospective and admitted student receptions. If even one student comes to us from an effort I ike this it is worth it. The folks in Atlant, Miami and Washington have been very successful with receptions. Last year's admitted student reception in D.C. helped us immensely - thirteen students ultimately enrolled from D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia.

When the Admissions staff travels for New College, we always seek to stay with alums. Not only do we have the chance to trade insights, anecdotes, and concerns about New College past and present, but we are also able to save significant sums of money. Over the length of my fall travels alone - to Chicago, Washington, Baltimore and Northern Virginia- alumni hosts and hostesses enabled the Admissions Office to

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save $1,800 to $2,000 in hotel charges, a significant portion of our total travel budget. This savings represents two weeks of additional recruitment elsewhere. Or additional publications. Or office supplies. Or the opportunity to capitalize on a book like The Public lvys.

Anything means anything. (Apologies to Doug Berggren and other philosophers.) JVur help means greater success in doing all we can to continually better our student body and the College. Whatever you can give is exactly what we can use.

Ed Custard

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New College roundation Vice President ~

Your annual contribution to your alma mater, NEW COLLEGE, could multip!Y itself, particularly if give~

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tions for contributions are allowed in this current tax year whether you itemize or avail yourself of the stan­dard deduction. Also, the income tax rates are higher this year than they will be next year. In addition, many alumni are employed by organizations that provide matching funds for educational contributions. As New College alumni, you can readily see the multiple ~Be;; tors involved in making a sizable contribution ~ December 31. 1986, to the school of your choosing,

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New College Nimbus Editorial Board Robert Benedetti, Ed Custard, Jim Feeney, Linda Olivieri, Pat Rozar, Mary Ruiz '78, Rab Thornton, Carol Ann Wilkinson '67

. class notes sixties

Kathleen Dively Coty '67 is in full-time private practice as a psychotherapist in Brookline, Mass. She's Jiving in Wellesley, looking for a second busmess, and getting married in December in Florida.

Carol Ann (Childress) Wilkinson '67 became the New College Alumni Association Coordinator in October. She and husband Dan Jive in Bradenton with daughters Jenny (10) and Shari (4).

Fay Clayton '67 has been working with Admissions in the Chicago area. She sent word about a "lost" charter class graduate, Karen Inge Fryklund '67, who's also practicing law and living in Chicago.

Richard '69 and Dierdre Fennessy WaDer '68Jive in Hawaii on the slopes of Mauna Kea with their children, Sylvan (15) and Caitlyn (9). Dierdre is the administrator for a Montessori School and Richard is an agricultural consultant, landscape designer and manager of an orchid farm. One of their neighbors is Erik Hazelhoff w'67 who's currently spending six months in Thailand. John Peters '67 and his wife, Laura, have visited with the Wallers in Hawaii.

Reunion In Baghdad By The Bay by Provost Benedetti

I enjoyed immensely the chance to meet alums in the San Francisco Bay area on my trip out the first week of October. Mark Hwnbert '78 hosted a party of some 60 folks. The happening of the evening was the arrival of David Pini '72 from the Charter Class. David promises to come again to Sarasota for this spring's reunion. Good wine and better conversation was had by all.

I saw, among others, Eric Berg '82, Natalie A. Compagni '82, Susan (Alkema) da Silva '71, Mark C. Davis '80, Mark E. Davis, John S. Dynis '78, Carol Flint '78, Tim Hartnett '81, Jerry Houston, Grace LI.Thrra, Michael A. LtTorra '81, Steven L. Lin~e.r '80, Don Lundell '69, Marc Madden '72, Deborah A. Manson '80, Alexis Mayer (Barbara Pfeifer) '77, Sandra A. Morrill '79, Mai Nikitovich '72, Rebecca (Becky) Powers '77, Laurel Roth '71, Ed Stres '70, Jeanne Thomas, Ross Ackennan Vachon, Claudia Willen '79, Gary Williams '69, Christine Wynne '73, Arlana Young '78.

seventies Bis Bald, the informer, sent word of an anonymous

meeting held last spring on the fifth floor of a London bank. Included in the gathering were four NC graduates ('73, '73, '83, '85), two of whom were musicians during New College days. Another installment is promised.

Bruce Allen "70 says he has finally met and married a most wonderful woman. Ellen has her Ph.D. in Colonial History and works for N.Y.S. budget. Bruce is in his 14th year as an independent accountant and financial consultant. John '73 and Judy Kaye Lentini '73 participated in the wedding. Michael Curry '71, who recently visited Bruce, is now teaching at Shimer College in lllinois and working on multiple books. Bruce says visitors in the Albany area are welcome at his pre-revolutionary Dutch homestead on the Hudson River.

Kit '70 and Sharron Arbuckle '71 live in Okanogan, Wash., with their children, Daniel (7), Ian (3) and Joel (l). Kit teaches math and computer science at the local community college after having earned his M.Ed. (Heritage College, '85). Sharron is busy raising the next generation and homemaking. They'd like to hear from "other NC types".

Tessy Brungardt '76 cruised through Sarasota this full in her bumble-bee bus with husband Dre' and son, Skylar. Reversing the trend of some graduates, Tessy is moving from the West coast to the East, where she will be rolfing.

EDen Muratori '84 sent the following clipping from the Tallahassee Democrat of Sept. 24, 1986:

Robert G. Brunger '75 "has been accepted for membership in the American Institute of Certified Planners, a professional affiliate of the American Planning Association. Brunger is employed by the Bureau of Local Resource Planning in the Department of Community Affairs."

Kathleen Capels '70 has moved to Laramie, Wyoming. She's a free-lance consultant and is engaged

to Terence Yorks who teaches at the University of Wyoming.

Linda Convissor '74 and Bruce Guild w'67 proudly announce the birth of David Eli Convissor Guild on October 13, 1986.

Tom Corwin '74 has become the Acting Director of the Division of Budget Services at the Dept. of Education.

Marcy Denmark Manning '73 writes she is "still working toward my M.B.A. and trying to market my cartoons ("Wired for Weird") to syndicates (preferably non-crime-related) and/or publishers." Son Justin turned 9 recently. While husband John's company keeps trying to promote her, she's rather hoping to get away with the playful work of cartooning. Marcy saw Becky Thomson w'73 and her four children recently.

David Disend '75 celebrated September nuptials with Meridith Miller '73. David was recently honored by the Council for Tax-Advancement and Support of Education for improving alumni giving over 70% during his brief tenure at Rutgers Preparatory School. David and Meri have established their home together at 501 N. Lincoln St. , Arlington, VA 22201. David is Director of Development at Georgetown University.

William Dudley '74 recently left his economic analysis position with Morgan Stanley to assist with interest rate forecasting at Goldman Sachs.

Zelia Ellshoff '70 is working on a Ph.D. in systematic botany at the University of Hawaii while teaching general science labs and the occasional summer course. Her daughters, August and Coral, are now IS and 9, even though Zella says she's not old enough to have children that age!

Monte Fisher '78 received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin, followed this past May by a J.D. from Columbia. He's currently a clerk with Judge Friedman of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Next year, he'll be joining the DC office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom as an associate. He's married to Julie Luke, an architect, and has a cat, Psychokitty.

Carol Gaskin '74 Jives in Sarasota and writes inter­active preteen fiction. Written in the second person, the books have several possible story lines, depending on the whim of the reader. Her most recent book is Secret of the Rnyal Treasure, part of Bantam's Time Machine series.

Jeffery Goldhagen '73 finished his pediatrics residency and Master of Public Health at University of Minnesota. Since then he spent a year in Thailand working in refugee camps, was director of Emergency Services and is now Director of Medical Education at Minneapolis Children's Medical Center. He has a two-year-old daughter. He and his fan1ily are headed to Gondar, Ethiopia, to work on a rural health project at Gondar Medical College. He's anxious to hear from anyone who remembers.

Elaine Goldenberg '79 spent 1985 touring the East Coast with "Sesame Street Live." This past summer she directed a children's performing arts camp and wrote and directed a children's play. She's recently engaged to Richard Katz, Jr. and resides comfortably in West Los Angeles.

Cynthia Keppley '77 received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Thlane University. She's now assistant professor of anthropology at Central College in Pella, Iowa, specializing in Asian cultures.

Monika Klein '75 has a 4-year-old in kindergarten and a 13-month-old still cutting teeth. She was married on 7/5/86 (big celebration in Bermuda) ; completed her lOth restaurant review for a NYC newsletter; was promoted to a corporate VP in charge of a new division; and in her "spare'' time ...

Shery Litwin '73 is a partner in a Seattle business, Edible Landscape Services, which specializes in functional as well as beautiful home landscaping.

James D. Miller '72 received his J.D. in IIJ?S from Yale University where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He is a resident partner in the Washington, D.C. office of King & Spalding.

Family Friends, the program Meridith Miller Disend '73 directs for the National Council on the Aging, was one of 30 top winners from among more than 1500 organizations registered in the Presidential Citation Program for Private Sector Initiatives. The award was presented by President Reagan in a June White House ceremony. Family Friends provides, through volunteers 55 and older, in-home assistance to chronically ill and disabled children and their families.

Thorn Miranda '75 is government affairs officer­regulatory affairs for The St. Paul Companies. He joined the company in 1985 as senior government affuirs manager. Before that, he served as staff member

of the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee; associate regulatory counsel for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; and legislative programs director of the American Nuclear Energy council.

Patrick Moscatello '74 received his J.D. from Georget<mn University Law Center in 1980 and since then has been practicing in Honolulu when not surfing.

Margaret Pizzi Schaller w'73 has returned to the United States after 10 years in France. She's working as Director of Research & Property Management for Hoffman Associates, Lighthouse Point, Florida.

Bryan Reid '74 was recently appointed President and CEO of the East River Insurance Company. He and his wife, Joyce, are enjoying life in Bermuda where the company is headquartered and looking forward to the birth of their first child in May 1987.

Marc Rudow '75 and wife, Debi, welcomed their second child, Caleb Zachary, on July 31st. They say "he has fuscinated all of us, especially his big brother, Joshua. Life sure is sweet."

Linwood Sawyer '73 says principal photography is one-third complete on his screenplay for the new Richard W. Haines film. The title alternates between "Nemesis" and "Invasion of the Alien Thrrorists." He also was lead writer on a feature-length performance musical set in Mahattan's SoHo district.

Gina Schatteman '75 received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in microbiology in 1981. Gina is currently performing postdoctoral research in neurobiology at the University ofWashington, Seattle. She delivered a paper in November in Washington, D.C. , at the annual convention of the Society for Neurosciences.

Vivian Tseng '74 received an M.A. in political science from Yale University in IIJ77 and a J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1980. Vivian is associated with the Boston law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot.

Ross Ackerman Vachon w'74 is moving to Berlin, West Germany, "for a while for spiritual succor."

Chris Volz '75 received his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgeta..vn University Law Center in 11J78. While there, he was an editor of the Journal of Law and Public Policy in International Business. Chris practices in Washington with the firm of McKenna, Connor & Cuneo.

Theresa Sue Weber '75 received her Masters from Purdue University in 1980. Terry now works as a marketing manager for Quantek, a petroleum industries services company, in Thlsa, Oklahoma.

Cathy WeDs '74 would like anyone in the LA metro area who's interested in informal NC social gatherings to contact her at P.O. Box 691396, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

We received word from David Dykstra that Curt Worthington '74 is a neurosurgeon at the Charleston Medical Center. He has returned to Charleston following five years of specialty training in Montreal.

In Memoriam George louis ZoU '19 died in April 1986 after a

brave stm e with a renninal illness, in Fmnciscq, California. He was 29 years old.

eighties

AI Beulig sent news of five NC alums who graduated from University of Miami Medical School:

Jennifer G. Collins '81; interning at Marshall University Afftliated Hospital in West Virginia.

lonnie M. Draper '80; interning at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Johns Hopkins.

Robert P. Henry '82; interning at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach.

Jorge R. Rabaza '82; interning at Jackson Memorial Hospital , Miami.

Johan M. Suyderhoud '80; interning at NYU Medical Center.

Charles Brown '84 was one of seven American students chosen to join seven Yugoslavian students in a Smithsonian Institute seminar, "Yugoslavia: Federal vs. Regional Relationships." He's in the Eastern European doctoral program at Indiana University.

Mike Calinski '83 is still in the Sarasota area developing his ESP-dubbed CRABITATS and trying to interest bay polluters in investing in his innovative water cleaning and stone crab producing systems.

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class notes eighties cont.

atalie Compagni '82 ~ay~ C was a great preparation for her career. "After ob~ervmg insanity at close range, I feel ready to do something about it . rather than participate m it. My private practice in psychotherapy is flourishing and I'm also working at a psychiatric hospital in Berkeley."

Laura Coogan '85 is a m1dsh1pman at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York She's crewing on a 51' Morgan sailing y<~cht and hopes to see the world by ship.

Jason Glance '86 is teaching English at the YMCA m Changhua, Taiwan. After travelling in mainland Chma next summer. he plans to attend George Washington Univer,ity.

Robert Glazier '82, in his third year at Nov-.t Law School, is Executive Editor of the law review. He says "Incredible: at New College I could never get my own paper\ m on time, and now I'm in charge of making sure that other people meet deadlines." A ftcr graduation he' ll clerk for Judge Dan1el S. Pearson of the Third D1strict Court of Appeals. in Miami .

Jean Huffman '82 h~ taken a job as Park Biologist at Myakka River State Park, joining Lisa Siegfried '84. Accordmg to ESP Coordinator Jono Miller '74, Jean's interdisciplinary background of photography, botany and fire studies provided unique credentlab for the biologiM position . "The system works," says Jono.

David Johanson '83 says he broke out of law school in San Fmncisco and went on to receive h1s M.A . from the University of Florida where he was apprenticed under novelist Harry rews. To support himself while he writes, David teaches English at Santa Fe Community College m Gainewille.

Laura Johnston '86 IS at U C. Chapel Hill, where she has a teaching apprenticeship in the Russian Language and Literature program.

Cindy Lakes '85 married David McCan '86. David IS a graduate student m anthropology at Brandeis.

Phil Lumsden '81 is attending graduate school at U niversiry of Massachusetts. He and his wife, Cia Romano '83, live in Northampton .

Eileen McMahon Engel '82 married Gregory Engel on April 20, 1985, at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in Sarasota. The reception was held

at Cook Hall . She's a Training and Support Specialist for Radio Shack in Clearwater.

Karen Montgomery '82 1s gamfully employed as a piano teacher, active m St. Louis area music teacher organizations and playing classical dinner music in a hotel dining room. Masters work at Webster University may be m the plans for 1987-88.

Juliana (Poulsen) '80 and Michael Moseley '80 live m Freeport, Fla., with sons Nathenael (4),

Jeremiah (3) and Jonathan (1) .

K)m Palmer '85 work.\ for Mission Financial Services, Sarasota. She and her associates are developing a proJect wh1ch involves raising capital through charitable gifts of life insurance.

Bret Pettichord '86 and w1fe Leslie proudly announce the b1nh of the1r ~on , Zachary, on June lOth at the Sara~ota Birthing House. Bret is a factotum at the newly opened Rehabilitation ln~titutc of Sarasota

Cia Romano '83 is domg art design and layout for The Da1ly Hampshire Gazette in Nonharnption, M~s.

Mary Bane (Snyder) Stevens '83 recently spent four months m Belize working with the Southern Belize Archaeological Project. The most important find w~ an undisturbed May<~ tomb from the late cla~sic period. Mary Bane b working toward her doctorate in archaeology at SU Y. Albany. When not studying or digging, she lives with her husband, ex·

ew College professor Dana Stevens, m P.<1nama City, Panama.

Peter Sponolios '86 sends word that, m the words of Keith Richards, "I'm gonna walk before they make me run."

Matt Wahl '84 is 1n the third year of the M.D./Ph.D. program at Vanderbilt and part of a small research group that studies cell growth control. He refers to a story related dunng Developmental Biology by John Morrill and says, " Now I work down the hall from Stan Cohen , a 1986 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, and 'the biochemiM down the hall' of JBM's yarn."

May Wu '83 received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama, moved to New York and is working for a producer of a television documentary series on Asia. She's also pursuing various film and theater projects and fixing up her apartment in a ''developing area" of Brooklyn .

alumni association news

Alumni Association Elections

WA TED - cw College alums to run for election to the Board of D1rcdors of the. cw College Alumni Association

In accordance with the provisions of the try laws, nine members at large of the Board of Director' will be rl~:cted next ~pnng to serve two-year tern1s. The ballot wJJI he included m the spnng 1ssue of imbus QUALIFICATIONS- Any member of the Alumm A SOLJat1on may run tor ekd1on to the Board. 'rou ~ hollld be an cnthu Ja~IIL supporter of • 'ew College and be willing to dCVl>te sc,eml hours a month to a sociation-rclatcd al:liviucs. HOW TO APPLY - ~nd a wntten application to ew C'ollcge Alumm As.~ociat1on, ommatmg Committee. 5700 Tamta1n1 Tra1l. . arasota, f· L 34243. lndudc m your apphcatu>n a tatemcnt in wh1ch you agr<C to attend. at )nur own cxp JL\C, three meetings per ve.tr of the Board ot D1rcctnrs (these conmLide With the fall and wmtcr meetmgs of the f'Ounda!lon Iiustees and 'ew College graduatiOn) and to partiCipate activelv in the uffail"' of the Board of Directors. You may al.:o .... ant to mclude in your .tpphca!lon additional mfomJatllm about your ell.

The deadline for suhm1tttng your application is J,tnuarx 23 1987.

Membership In Alumni A<>sociation

In the Member hip section of the ne"' bylaws fbr the Alumm Associatton. you'll sec that all graduates of New C'ollege arc autnmatitc'lllly members. If you are not a gmduatc of New College. hut have completed at le.tsl <>11 ucadenuc term and want to continue on the mailing list of the Alumm Association (that s ho"' you get nnhus), plea e use "What's Gnu'?" to let us know.

The First Year In Retrospect Mary Ruiz, President

The New College Alumni A sociation marked its first anniversary at the November I, 1986, meeting. The board gathered at Cook Hall on the Saturday morning after a Halloween Palm Court Party, drinking coffee out of the old New College china and eating spudnuts from the box.

Carol Ann Wilkinson '67, the as~ociation's first Alumni Coordinator. wa~ introduced along wiU1 the board's newest member. student trustee Carla Schroer '86. The trea~urer' report and plans for a $50,000 fund-raising campaign took on an added ·ignificance now that the board has a payroll and a commitment to endow a New College scholarship. The first set of bylaws. reprinted in this issue of Nimbus. were hammered out line-by-line and officially adopted.

The New College Alumni As ociation violates all the rules of conventional wisdom in the foundation and operation of alumni groups. Typically, college and universities set up a sizable eed fund to hire a professional organizer and fundraiser who is then expected in succeeding years to raise his or her own salary and operating costs. Alumni are treated to the same polish and sophistication as donor\, in the hopes they'll join the ranks of those donors.

The founding of the New College Alumni Association was heralded with insufficient funds to cover its own mailing co ts. (I still worry about meeting our mailing costs.) We have survived to date, without any staff, based upon the willingness of New College employees and alumni to volunteer their personal time to publish newsletters and plan reunions. As alumni, you have not been treated with polish and sophistication. The association regularly misses its publication deadlines and is truggling in its efforts to launch a belated fund-raising campaign.

Despite the homespun nature of New College's efforts, there is a profound wisdom in its approach. Provost Bob Benedetti makes little secret of his goal for the association. He foresees a time in the next twenty years when the majority of current fuculty will have retired. Dr. Benedetti has a deep and abiding belief that the stewardship of ew College's mission

Linda Sue Yoder '83 lives m Sarasota, is an RN and anticipates resuming that profession. at least for a while.

ESP REU.aON

.Juno filler '74 scm word of a casual afternoon re ·mon for local F P t}pes la\t sprmg The event wa:-. ~cheduled to COI"Cide with a VI it by Jud Harve~ '79 who 1 workmg on ah marshe at the Umver ity of V1rgm1a where veteran of the 1971 spoil1sland study t:d Connor '74 1 tcadung P.aul Carl'iOn '72, another JXlftlclf'lllt m the 1971 Sf· rudy, i now workmg with D R m <it Peter burg

Beth flus ey '84 attended the party and met Jud, pnor to departmg for the Umvemty of V1rgima. Beth ef• 'iam.'iOta after worl:mg on a vanety of pro ects with former LSP C'oordmator Ernie F-sW\ez at Mote Manne Laboratory Other attcnoee me ludcd Cindy Roes lcr '83 and andy Morrill '79 who have cmncid tall both moved t th San hanL Bay area 'iandy turned r a u and natural land p1ng hu left after a product ve tmt a With 'iarll! ota C' unty a ural Rc '75 and teve S 11 !'!.. '80 r

made the scene Mark taught a oourse at 5prmg on eoa tal proces , and Rh rxla nat,ve plant> appears m a number of Flonda new papers. Although fallaha ee re ident Ross Burnaman '80 couldn't make 11 dO\\n from the capital, law student and fonmer trustee Janet Bowman '82 d1d (,al') Montin '72, loc'lll consultant and now amember•>fthe C' Alumni Board of Director, and h1:-. .,.,ife were mere. as "'ell as long-time friend and former fltcult) member Bill Tiffan).

Special thanks go to David Parsons '75 for his assistance in compiling the class notes.

and identity in the years ahead must be entrusted to its alumni. The college trusts its students with their education, is willing to trust its alumni with the college's futu re.

The work has already begun. When the New College Trustees met in October to plan for the year 2010, alumni chaired three of the four trustee discussion group . A planning document for the year 2010 will be mailed out soon to all alumni to solicit their views. This year. alumni addressed both the graduating cia s and the incommg class.

In retrospect, this first year has been highlighted by the generosity of many alumni who donated thei r ski ll s, weat equity, long distance phone bills and financial re ource . In the second year of the Alumni A sociation, the board is working toward building the capacity of our organization to provide services to alumni and to support the college. We're convinced that you, as graduates of a new college that violated all the rules of conventional wisdom in its own establishment, will respond to your association's urgent need for financial and moral support.

Bylaws of the New College Alumni Association ARTICLE I- ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE

The New College Alumni Association ("Association") is hereby organized as a non-profit association adjunct to the New College Foundation, Inc. Its purposes are to promote communication among Alumni and between Alumni and New College, to sponsor activities and events for Alumni, to advise the Provost of New College and the President of the New College Foundation, Inc. of Alumni concerns, and to provide financial and other assistance to New College in carrying out its educational mission.

ARTICLE II - MEMBERSHIP

I. All graduates of New College shall become members of the Association upon graduation. Any person who has withdrawn from New College after having completed at least one academic term shall become a member of the Association upon advising the Secretary of the Association in writing of his desire to become a member.

2. There shall be a general meeting of all members of the Association in the Spring of each year in Sarasota , Florida.

ARTICLE Ill - BOARD OF DIRECTORS

I. The Association shall be governed by a Board of Directors, which shall consist of all Alumni members of the Board of Trustees of the New College Foundation. Inc. , and nine (9) members-at-large, to be elected from the membership of the Association. The Provost of New College shall serve as a non-voting ex-officio member of the Board of Directors.

2. The Board of Directors shall meet three times annually in Sarasota, Florida, to coincide with the Fall and Winter meetings of the Board of Trustees of the New College Foundation, Inc. , and with New College Commencement. A quorum shall consist of one-half of aU members of the Board of Directors, in person or by proxy.

3. There shall be no general proxies. In order to be valid, a proxy must be in writing, must be addressed to another member of the Board of Directors, and must authorize that member to vote as specified in the written proxy on behalf of the member giving the proxy.

4. The term of office for members-at-large of the Board of Directors shall be two (2) years, beginning and. ending upon the date of the general meeting of the Association. 5. Elections of members-at-large of the Board of Directors shall be conducted in the Spring of every odd-numbered year, commencing in 1987. 6. The fact of an upcoming election of members-at-large of the Board of Directors shall be communicated by the Board of Directors to the members of the Association in the Fall

of each year preceding a year in which an election is to be held. 7. The permanent Alumni members of the Board of Trustees of the New College Foundation, Inc. shall constitute a Nominating Committee. Any member of the Association wishing

to become a candidate for election to a position of member-at-large of the Board of Directors shall apply for nomination in writing to the Nominating Committee prior to the deadline set by the Board of Directors. All such applications shall include a statement in which the applicant agrees, if nominated and elected, to attend, at his own expense, three meetings per year of the Board of Directors, and to panicipate actively in the affairs of the Board of Directors. The applicant may also submit to the Nominating Committee any further information that he wishes. ·

8. The Nominating Committee shall carefully screen all applicants for nomination and shall certify as many applicants for inclusion on the ballot as have met the requirements of Paragraph 7 of this Article. The Nominating Committee shall be responsible for preparing a ballot containing the names of all nominees, listed alphabetically. The Nominating Committee shall be responsible for sending a copy of a ballot to each member of the Association, receiving all returned ballots, tabulating election results, and certifying such results to the Board of Directors.

9. Each member of the Association shall be permitted to cast votes for nine (9) candidates on the ballot. Write-in votes shall be permitted. I 0. The nine (9) candidates receiving the most votes cast shall be elected members-at-large of the Board of Directors. Should a write-in candidate be elected, he shall take office

only upon his agreement in writing to accept the responsibilities of the of.fice and to attend, at his own expense, three meetings per year of the Board of Directors. II . Vacancies among the members-at-large of the Board of Directors shall be filled by majority vote of the Board of Directors at its next regular meeting. 12. A member of the Board of Directors may be removed from office by a two-thirds majority vote of the remaining members of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IV- OmCERS I. There shall be a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer of the Association, who shall be elected from among the Board of Directors, annually at its Spring meeting. 2. A vacancy in any office shall be filled by majority vote of the Board of Directors at its next regular meeting. Should the office of President become vacant, the Secretary shall

serve as Acting President until the next regular meeting of the Board of Directors, at which time the vacancy shall be filled by majority vote of the Board of Directors. 3. An officer may be removed from office by a two-thirds majority vote of the remaining members of the Board of Directors.

4. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Association, and shall have general supervision over the business of the Association, subject to the control of the Board of Directors. He shall preside at all meetings of the Association and of the Board of Directors. He may sign disbursement authorizations and shall sign other legal or official documents on behalf of the Association. He shall supervise all voluntary or employee administrative staff of the Association. He shall serve as a liaison between the Association and the Alumni Chapters, New College, the New College Foundation, Inc. and the University of South Florida. He additionally shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.

5. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of the Association, the Board of Directors, and the Executive Committee, and shall send copies of all such minutes to members of the Board of Directors. He shall be responsible for maintaining a list of the names and current addresses of all members of the Association. He shall preside over meetings of the Association or the Board of Directors in the absence of the President, and in such event shall designate another member of the Board of Directors to record the minutes of such meeting.

6 . The Treasurer may sign disbursement authorizations and shall maintain a full and correct statement of the accounts of the Association, and shall present the same to the Association and the Board of Directors at each of their meetings.

ARTICLE V - COMMITTEES I. There shall be an Executive Committee, consisting of the President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Provost of New College (sitting ex-officio), which shall meet, in person

or by conference call, at all such times as it deems necessary between regular meetings of the Board of Directors. It shall possess and exercise the power of the Board of Directors in the management of the business affairs of the Association, except that any action taken by the Executive Committee may be rescinded or modified by majority vote of the Board of Directors at its next regular meeting. The President shall preside over all meetings of the Executive Committee and shall report to the Board of Directors at each of its meetings upon all actions taken by the Executive Committee.

2. There shall be a Nominating Committee as provided in Paragraph 7 of Article ID. 3 . The Board of Directors shall establish such other permanent or temporary committees as it from time to time deems appropriate.

ARTICLE VI - INDEMNIFICATION

The Association shall indemnify and save harmless any member of the Board of Directors of and from liability resulting from any suits, actions, or judgments arising out of his conduct in good faith of the affairs of the Association, or arising out of the mere fact of bis membership on the Board of Directors. Further, the Association shall pay all costs, legal expenses, attorneys fees or any other charges that said member of the Board of Directors may incur in the defense of any claim, suit or action that may be instituted against him in his individual capacity based upon his conduct in good faith of the affairs of the Association, or upon the mere fact of his membership on the Board of Directors. This Article shall not apply to any member of the Board of Directors who violates any federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation ; or who undertakes any act outside his capacity or authority as a member of the Board of Directors , or that exceeds or violates any mandate of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE Vll - GENERAL 1. These By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds majority vote of the Board of Directors at any of its regular meetings, provided that notice of the proposed amendment has been

given in writing to members of the Board of Directors at least seven (7) days prior to the vote. 2. When used herein, the masculine pronoun includes reference with equal force and effect to the feminine.

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