{"id":1164,"date":"2013-02-27T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/?page_id=1164"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:28:54","slug":"ludy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/colby\/ludy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludy and Colby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ludy and Colby: A Lifelong Love Story<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Michelle Wang \u201916 (January 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> for the full version of this study, summarized below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When Ludy died, his funeral was in the chapel at Colby College. The chapel was packed, and what brought spirit to your soul and tears to your eyes was when the entire football team solemnly walked in to respectfully take their seats and paid tribute to the man old enough to be their great grandfather but ageless enough to be their buddy.<\/i> \u2014\u201cLudy Levine Scrapbook\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/span><\/a><\/span> Ludy Levine, Pacy Levine, and Howard Miller, at their store’s “Colby Corner.”<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lewis \u201cLudy\u201d Levine (\u201921), the \u201cageless wonder boy,\u201d along with his \u201csport maniac\u201d brother Percy \u201cPacy\u201d Levine (\u201927), were the charming examples of a Jewish family with deep local roots. Both of the brothers went to Colby and, as far as people remembered, \u201cThey loved it!\u201d According to Sara Arnon, Ludy\u2019s niece, Ludy was an active member in the fraternity ATO even though Colby fraternities had already begun to blackball Jewish students in 1920s. Ludy\u2019s nephew Bill Alfond recalled, \u201che volunteered over the years to be associated with his fraternity in the sense that he might be a Big Brother or whatever the terminology was called at that time.\u201d Ludy apparently loved to be this Big Brother. He carried on this love and care about Colby\u2019s students and made it a lifelong career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ludy, in his nearly 100 years of life filled with love and care, never got married. Sara explained, \u201cLudy told us: \u2018I’m not going to get married\u2026I’m going to put all of my eggs in two baskets: family and Colby.\u2019 \u201d As he entered his second half of life, Ludy decided that he was going to devote his passion to his extended family and beloved school\u2014Colby.<\/span><\/p>\n

One big aspect of Ludy\u2019s love towards Colby was sports. Charlie Miller (\u201969) described Ludy and Pacy as the \u201cpenultimate Colby supporters. They probably cared more about Colby football than the guys on the football team!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides the maniacal passion for sports, Ludy was quite involved with alumni activities. Ludy was honored at the 1969 homecoming dinner for his dedication to Colby for trying to attract prospective students to Colby with all his efforts. As Sara recalled,<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you were bringing your child to Maine to look at summer camps and your child was 10 years old, he would tell you: \u201cAnd don’t forget to go to Colby! Don’t forget to go look at Colby, because you are going to want to send your son there!\u201d\u2026 He loved the school. He thought that there was no place better!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This relationship was not a one-way dedication, but rather a reciprocal rapport. Colby responded warmly and respectably to Ludy\u2019s deep commitment. The school would assign students to accompany Ludy and Pacy while they were roaming and rushing by the sideline simply to make sure they wouldn\u2019t get hurt. On Feburary 8, 1981, Colby threw a fabulous 80th Birthday Party for Ludy to celebrate his 80 ann\u00e9es of warmth, friendliness, and dedication to Colby. Sara recalled her uncle\u2019s excitement about this tremendous party,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My uncle was thrilled for days and weeks that they were giving it to him. They promised to give him one when he turned 100. As he was aging and getting older, he would ask: \u201cAm I 100 yet?\u201d He literally died within six months before his 100th birthday. I mean it was sad for him, because he was almost there.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Ludy was almost there. He loved the party that involved all his friends and family and, most importanly, Colby. While he was waiting for the big 100th birthday party, he was waiting to spend some enjoyable time with those people he loved and cared about. Colby obviously cared about and loved him, too. The school spent much effort not only to prepare his party, but also to invite him and his brother to various school events and to collect and preserve tons of detailed materials about Ludy and Pacy. As one of Colby\u2019s most loyal sons, Ludy maintained this beautiful relationship with Colby until God took him away.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to forget that there once was such a lovely and warm man who cared about Colby\u2019s students; a man who decided not to get married in order to serve his beloved school; a man who reached out to anyone who needed help without asking anything in return. It was no surprise that the sports team boys marched in his funeral. Colby was Ludy\u2019s family as well, and family is all about love and support, which Ludy embraced the whole time in his lifelong love story with Colby.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ludy and Colby: A Lifelong Love Story Michelle Wang \u201916 (January 2013) Click here for the full version of this study, summarized below. When Ludy died, his funeral was in the chapel at Colby College. The chapel was packed, and what brought spirit to your soul and tears to your eyes was when the entire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164\/revisions\/1172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}