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Colby-Sawyer College Alumni Fall Festival Class of 1944–65th Reunion Jane Cowles Parmenter (left), and Jane Cooper Fall. Alumni of all ages had a grand time at the Fall Festival Gala Celebration, which featured New Hampshire’s premier party band The Nines. Pati Woodburn Cloutier ’83, singer for The Nines. Louise Moser Stoops ’54 and her husband Bill. Julien Frey ’04 and Julie Murray Dimakis ’04. The weekend ended with a special ceremony honoring inductees to the Colby-Sawyer Athletic Hall of Fame: (Fourth and fifth from left), Matt George ’98, Suzanne Horrigan Campbell ’78, and the 1998–99 Women’s Basketball Team represented by their three captains (far left, l to r), Melissa Eckman Binette ’99, Alison Gulubicki ’99, and Kristen Diachisin ’99. Alumni Awards To learn more about this year’s alumni award recipients, please visit www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni/awards/index.html Tony Librot ’94 (left) accepts the Young Alumni Achievement Award from Professor of Business Administration Tony Quinn. 34 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Kristen Peterson ’08, recipient of the Graduate Award, with her proud parents Mark and Anne. Director of Alumni Relations Tracey Austin (right) presents the Alumni Service Award to Marsha Halpin Johnson ’59.
Unimagined Opportunities: �� The goal of my 2009 sabbatical was to experience first-hand the native cultures of the Mayan and Incan peoples of Central and South America in the hope of discovering the connections between ancient traditions and contemporary practices. To this end I spent 15 days in Belize, a week on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, and another nine days visiting Peru’s Sacred Valley and Lake Titicaca. During these excursions, I encountered remarkable ancient sites situated deep within the earth, in caves like Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal and Barton Creek and Mexico’s underground cenotes (crystal clear reservoirs of water used by the Mayas throughout the Yucatan). I explored magnificent ruins located high in the Peruvian Andes at the incomparable Machu Picchu and the rambling structures of Pisac and Ollantaytambo. Sheltered by overhanging mangrove trees and surrounded by a rainforest containing iguanas, anteaters, howler monkeys, yellow crowns, green kingfishers, and flocks of colorful parrots, my Mayan guide and I paddled a kayak down the river used by natives for hunting and fishing for hundreds of years. In all I toured and studied ten historic sites Kayaking through the mangrove tree jungles of a river in Punta Gorda, Belize, where iguanas and anteaters kept me company and I was serenaded by howler monkeys and a flock of parrots. by Professor Patrick Anderson Looking down on the magnificent ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. in Belize, five in Mexico and six in Peru, all of which provided me with a physical sense of the world inhabited by the Mayas and Incas. I experienced first-hand the landscapes and dwellings, the flora and fauna, the sights and sounds and smells in which the native populations thrived centuries ago—and in which many still carve out their lives today. No single moment of my sabbatical can equal the first glimpse I had of Machu Picchu as the mist began to lift at daybreak on Easter morning and a rainbow stretched over this magnificent mountaintop retreat, the only Incan enclave not discovered and destroyed by the invading Spanish in the 16th century. Also among my most memorable experiences was the time I spent with the Shos, a Mopan Maya family who live deep in the jungle of southwest Belize in the tiny village of Na Luum Ca, which translates to “Mother Earth.” Never was WINTER 2010 35
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