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Alice Linscott Roberts '31
Alice Linscott Roberts '31, a Colby trustee, died August 31, 1994 in South Portland, Maine, at 84. She was born in Ripley, Maine, the daughter of A.E. Linscott, Class of 1898, and Grace Farrar Linscott '01 and attended Portland schools, graduating from Deering High School. After Colby, where she was an English major and member of Sigma Kappa and participated in Powder and Wig, she taught for a time in the South Portland elementary schools and also took further course work at Boston University and Gorham State Teachers College. She proudly continued her family's association with the College, serving on several fund-raising campaigns, as class agent and as president of the Southwestern Maine Alumnae Association. She also was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1954 to 1960, and in 1974 she received a Colby Brick for her volunteer service to Colby. Her other activities included the Altrua Club and the Portland College Club. Survivors include her husband of 62 years, Wayne E. Roberts '31, two sons, David Roberts '55 and John Roberts '60, a daughter in law, Ruth McDonald Roberts '55, five grandchildren, including Susan Roberts Dangel '86 and Linda Roberts Pagnano '88, and three nieces.
Raymond O. Knauff '33
Raymond O. Knauff '33, former board chair of the Federal Trust Company, died October 22, 1994 in Waterville, Maine, at 83. A Waterville native, he graduated from Waterville High School and from Coburn Classical Institute. At Colby he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He joined the Federal Trust Company in 1933 as a teller and served successively as treasurer, senior vice president and chairman of the board until his retirement in 1975. He served Waterville as alderman and councilman and as treasurer of several local organizations and held memberships on several boards of directors. He is survived by a daughter, Nancy Atkins, two granddaughters and a nephew and niece.
Clarence R. Lewis '33
Clarence R. Lewis '33 died June 24, 1994 in Wrentham, Mass. A native of Woonsocket, R.I., he was a member of the freshman football team at Colby and participated in the George E. Murray Debating Society as well as in many public speaking contests. During World War II he was in charge of ordnance work on merchant ships at the Boston Navy Yard. The College community was enriched by his years of leaderships gifts. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ahern-Lewis.
Harold M. Plotkin '34
Harold M. Plotkin '34, retired vice president of Sweetheart Plastics, died September 22, 1994 in Lawrence, Mass., at 83. He was born in Boston and graduated from Dorchester High School for Boys and the Huntington School. At Colby he was managing editor of the Echo, editor of the comic magazine White Mule and co-author-producer of the musical comedy Moon Madness (which in 1934 featured in its prophetic plot a landing on the moon). He began in business as an executive with Plotkin Brothers, a women's specialty shop in the Back Bay. For many years he was active in Boston civic affairs as a member of the development committee for the Prudential Center, as an officer of the Boston Convention Bureau and as a member of the Massachusetts Senate Art Committee. He was a charter member of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, a member of the Boston Yacht Club and a member of the University Club in Boston. An accomplished painter and poet, he became president of the Back Bay Association in 1951 and founded the Back Bay Art show, which later became the Boston Arts Festival. He also was an active member of the Colby Alumni Council. He is survived by his wife, Priscilla, two sons from his marriage to the late Phyllis Jacobs, a sister and three grandchildren.
Laurence A. Humphrey '37
Laurence A. Humphrey '37, formerly a manufacturing planner with Lockheed Aircraft Corp., died July 29, 1994 in California at 79. He was born in Pittsfield, Maine, and graduated from Clinton, Maine, High School. After two years with the Maine State Highway Department, he joined Lockheed Aircraft in 1939, where he was employed until his retirement in 1978. During World War II he served two years as a civilian technician with the 8th Air Force in Britain and a year as a corporal with the Army of Occupation in Japan. He was a journeyman with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and maintained memberships in the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Sons of the American Revolution. Several of his cousins attended the College. Survivors include his brother, Reginald Humphrey '36, and a son.
Carl R. Pizzano '42
Carl R. Pizzano '42 died June 1, 1993, in Manchester, Wash., at 74. He was born in Revere, Mass., where he attended high school. He also attended Kents Hill School. After service in the Pacific during World War II, he completed his economics major at the College in 1947 and entered the retail furniture business. For 40 years he was manager of the Poplin Furniture Co. in Framingham, Mass. He also served 28 years as a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, and by a son and two daughters.
Seabury T. "Buzz" Stebbins '48
Seabury T. "Buzz" Stebbins '48, a retired office manager, died August 13, 1994 in Bronxville, N.Y., at 71. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., he was raised in Hastings-on-Hudson and attended Hastings High School. At Colby he belonged to the Glee Club and Powder and Wig, competed on the tennis and track teams and was a member of Zeta Psi. In World War II he served with distinction and earned a Purple Heart for wounds received during the landing at Anzio, Italy. He belonged to the Admiral Farragut Post of the American Legion. For 40 years he sang with the Yonkers Male Glee Club. In 1988 he retired from his job as office manager for the William Hall Co. He is survived by a brother, Roger M. Stebbins '40, and a sister, Ruth Stebbins Cadwell '41.
Peter C. Nester '66
Peter C. Nester '66, formerly of Sippican Consultants, died in Jamaica Plain, N.Y., at 50. He was born in Melrose, Mass., raised in Shaker Heights, N.Y., and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City. After Colby he attended Officer's Candidate School in Newport, R.I., and served as a lieutenant in the Navy in Vietnam. After the service he joined Sippican Consultants of Cambridge, Mass., and was employed in architectural engineering in Saudi Arabia for six years. He later lived in New York City, where he worked as a florist. He summered in Falmouth, Mass., for most of his life and was active in the Falmouth Yacht Club, winning many trophies as a sailor. He is survived by his parents, Walter C. and Eleanor D. Nester.
Carol Hoffer Bassett
Carol Hoffer Bassett, who taught mathematics at Colby for 20 years, died February 5, 1995 in Waterville, Maine, at 63. Raised in South Dakota and Nebraska, she received her B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She taught mathematics at a high school in Iowa, then taught at the University of South Dakota, Iowa State University, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas. Following her marriage to Charles Bassett in 1956, she moved to Philadelphia, then in 1969 moved to Waterville when her husband joined the Colby English Department. After raising two children, she resumed her teaching career as instructor and assistant professor of mathematics at the College. She retired in 1994 as an associate professor emerita. She also was president, vice president and secretary of the Colby chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for 10 years. She is survived by her husband, a son, a daughter, a sister and several nieces and nephews.
Gordon W. Smith
Gordon W. Smith, a professor of modern languages at Colby for 42 years, died on December 5, 1994 in Waterville, Maine, at 87. Born in Wareham, Mass., he was educated in Middleboro, Mass., public schools. He attended Boston University as an Augustus Howe Buck Scholar, then studied at the University of Nancy and the University of Paris. He began his teaching career at Colby in 1930 after receiving his M.A. from Harvard University. Predeceased by his wife, Doris, he is survived by two nephews.
