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Elizabeth Livingstone Field '52
Oct. 18, 2012, in Baltimore, Md., at 82. She taught school for 31 years in New Jersey and raised two children as a single mother after her husband died in 1971. She is survived by a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
David James Pape '53
Aug. 15, 2012, in Fort Myers, Fla., at 83. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps before attending Colby. From the 1950s through the 1970s he worked as circulation manager and then business manager at the Waterbury Republican and American. After retiring he enjoyed boatbuilding and fishing for stone crabs off the Florida Keys. He [cut off]
David E. Lavin '53
March 14, 2013, in New York, N.Y., at 81. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology at New York University, worked as a research fellow at Harvard, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and CUNY’s Graduate Center and Lehman College. In 2009 he received the prestigious Grawemeyer Award and an Outstanding Book [cut off]
Janice Holland Smith '54
Feb. 11, 2013, in Seattle, Wash., at 80. She lived overseas with her family for many years. A lifetime member of the Episcopal Church of the Atonement in Tenafly, N.J., she was also class agent for her 50th Colby Reunion. She is survived by her husband, Bill, two daughters, and grandchildren.
Carol Plavin Shapiro '55
March 19, 2013, in Winslow, Maine, at 79. In the 1970s she worked at the Waterville High School library, and in the early 1980s she became the first woman to serve as a state of Maine liquor commissioner. Her greatest joy was her family, and she was an exceptional wife, mother, and grandmother. She is [cut off]
Daniel Yarchin '56
Sept. 14, 2012, in Southern California, at 78. He worked in retail and as a sales representative for men’s shoes and described himself as a free spirit. He had a son, and he was predeceased by his former spouse, Toni Carol Jaffee ’57.
Merabeth Dogherty Donaldson '56
Feb. 25, 2013, in Shelburne, Vt., at 79. She graduated from Colby Junior College before enrolling at Colby and later earned her M.Ed. from Worcester State. She was a full-time homemaker and a longtime Girl Scout leader. An accomplished pianist and organist, she was also a passionate Red Sox fan. She is survived by her [cut off]
Robert D. Barnes '56
Feb. 20, 2013, in Gilbertsville, Fla., at 79. After graduation he studied fine arts at University of Pennsylvania. He was a sculptor and owned Robert Barnes Sculpture Casting. He was a museum curator, college teacher, designer and builder, traveler, sailor, and gardener. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Natalie, and a brother.
Georgia Johnson Manin '59
March 5, 2013, in Nice, France, at 75. She worked at the Smithsonian in Cambridge, Mass., in satellite tracking and in the computer section before moving to Europe. She met her husband, Dr. Jean-Pierre Manin, and settled in Paris, where she held programming jobs at an operations research institute and an airline telecommunications network agency, [cut off]
Rogers Swan Chase '63
Jan. 8, 2013, in Harwich, Mass., at 72. He spent five years in the Navy before joining his family’s electrical and sales firm, C.C. Pierce Co. Inc., from which he retired as president and treasurer. He had two sons including Philip T. Chase ’92.
