1940-49 Alumni Donors

The following class lists recognize all alumni who have made gifts to the Colby-Sawyer Fund and/or for capital and endowment purposes. Colby-Sawyer Fund gifts are unrestricted or restricted for current use and support the college's educational and co-curricular programs. These gifts are expendable within the fiscal year in which they are received. Capital and endowment gifts are contributions received by the college for equipment, new and renovated facilities, special program support, and for endowed and memorial funds. Leadership societies and giving clubs are recognized and included in these lists.

1940

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $700.00
Participation: 13.6%

Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Judith Verrette Christiansen
  • Marguerite Biggs Lovelace *
  • Virginia Tousley Nordbeck

1941

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $2,125.00
Participation: 12.0%

The Susan Colby Society
  • Mary Westberg Francis *
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Joan Russell Desmond *
  • Arlene Dawson Knapp

1942

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $3,200.00
Participation: 16.7%

The Mt. Kearsarge Society
  • Katherine Gordon Ridgway ^
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Barbara Leary Parrish *
  • Lois Wetsel Schweizer
  • Ruth Kerney Scott *
  • Barbara Molander Warner

1943

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $895.00
Participation: 21.2%

The Eugene M. Austin Club
  • Janet Thompson Smith *
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Priscilla Coan Barnes *
  • Eleanor Davis Howard *
  • Jean Marquier Molloy *
  • Frances Morton Nugent *
  • Shirley Mowry Reichenberg *
  • Margaret Morse Tirrell ^

1944

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $1,710.00
Participation: 21.1%

The Eugene M. Austin Club
  • Jane Cooper Fall *
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Jeanne Losey Bole *
  • Gertrude Woods Boyd *
  • Ann Tilton Carpenter *
  • Laura Stone Cutler
  • Gloria Hirsch Flanzer *
  • Ann Norton Merrill
  • Elizabeth VanGorder Minkler

1945

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $460.00
Participation: 20.8%

Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Susan Roberts Bean *
  • Leah Keever Cotton *
  • June Mitchell Douglas-White
  • Rosemary Beede Fournier
  • Nancy Dean Maynard *
  • Gloria Wells McCreery
  • Nancy Erickson Murphy *
  • Elizabeth Bryant Parker *
  • Shirley Glidden Splaine *
  • Barbara Macaulay Watkins *

1946

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $6,705.00
Participation: 30.2%

The Susan Colby Society
  • Lila Labovitz Fried *
  • Nancy Olcott Moreland
  • Ramona Hopkins O'Brien *
  • Beverly Walker Wood *
The Eugene M. Austin Club
  • Priscilla Beardsley Glenn *
  • Mabel Livingstone Pattridge *
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Barbara Bell Clark
  • Mary Phinney Crabbs *
  • Jean Schabacker Donati
  • Dorothy Wallsten Drake
  • Constance Foster Henry *
  • Lois Lippincott Lang *
  • Helena Fortuna Szepan *
  • Jean Arnold Taylor *
  • Barbara Arnesen Wheaton *
  • Frances Randall Wood *

1947

Class Agent: Cornella Fay Wilder
Colby-Sawyer Fund: $2,840.00
Participation: 34.8%

The Eugene M. Austin Club
  • Agnes Cornell Cook *
  • Margaret Fish Langa *
  • Jocelyn Newton Schermerhorn *
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Marcia Jacobs Adam
  • Elizabeth Anne Doele Curran *
  • Jane Messeck Does *
  • Nancy Stead Duble
  • Jeanne Courtemanche Gay *
  • Renee Goldblatt Gilbert
  • Martha Turner Klenk *
  • Josephine Symons Lee *
  • Marjorie Johnson McClelland *
  • Virginia Schofield Mueller
  • Martha Worth Oberrender *
  • Marion Nickerson Paulson *
  • Barbara Hunt Peirson *
  • Polly White Phillips *
  • Priscilla Dobbs Ritz *
  • Joan F. Rosie *
  • Betty Funk Smith
  • Nancy Nutter Snow *
  • Cornella Fay Wilder *
  • Mary Leigh Woodrow *

1948

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $56,968.72
Participation: 25.3%

The President's Society
  • Natalie Davis Rooke *
The Susan Colby Society
  • Barbara Hamilton Hopkins *
  • Nancy Hobkirk Pierson
The Eugene M. Austin Club
  • Madelon Pennicke Cattell *
  • Eleanore L. Hodson * ^
  • Carol Weissenborn Smith *
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Sylvia Jacobs Alden *
  • Beverly Johnson Bitner *
  • Frances Wannerstrom Clark *
  • Priscilla Irish Demos
  • Lewis Booth Edwards
  • Sallie Fillebrown Hofmann
  • Heloise Pike Mailloux *
  • Carol Shoemaker Marck
  • Olga Kavochka Mayo *
  • Sybil Adams Moffat
  • Patricia Bentley Nye *
  • Patricia Anderson Schmitt *
  • Barbara-Jane Smith Thompson *
  • Phyllis Harty Wells *
  • Janet West Williams *
Capital and Endowment Fund Contributors
  • Natalie Davis Rooke

1949

Colby-Sawyer Fund: $4,390.00
Participation: 19.6%

The Susan Colby Society
  • Buffy Boffa Cafritz
  • Ann Wray Upchurch
Colby-Sawyer Fund Contributors
  • Cynthia Overton Blandy
  • Annabelle Gates Broderick *
  • Helen R. Casciani *
  • Barbara Chernin Feldman
  • Dorothy Glover Grimball *
  • Jimi Persons Halstead
  • Patricia S. Hammond *
  • Elizabeth See Hill *
  • Ann Poindexter Ives *
  • Constance Dickinson Johnson *
  • Joanne Hogg Loomis
  • Elizabeth Reynolds Matthews
  • Miriam Coffin Ragsdale *
  • Anne Hull Sargent
  • Lois Patterson Sligh
  • Sally Harlow Terry *
  • ^ Deceased
  • * Five or more consecutive years of giving