Don Clark ’69, P’05, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso from 1969 to 1971. Clark received an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1973 and worked for USAID from 1973 to 2007 on the Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mali, Uganda, and Senegal. Clark also served as mission director in Uganda, Senegal, and Nepal from 1994 to 2007. Since his retirement in late 2007, he has been building a house in New Hampshire and done two two-month consultations for USAID. One trip was to design a girls’ education project in Burkina Faso and the other to serve as acting mission director in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He plans to head to Mali later in October to help the mission conceptualize its new development strategy.
Michael Cuzzi ’98 is a vice president with Vox Global Mandate. He is a political, communications, and advance veteran of presidential and congressional campaigns. Most recently, Cuzzi served as the political director and deputy state director for Obama for America in New Hampshire.
As one of the first employees of the campaign both nationally and in-state, Cuzzi helped build the Obama campaign organization from the ground up, hiring staff and growing the organization from five to more than 105 staffers in New Hampshire. Cuzzi built and managed campaign political relationships ranging from state and local elected officials to party officials, grassroots activists, community leaders, and interest groups across the state. Cuzzi used these relationships to organize and mobilize a statewide political infrastructure to function in support of campaign messages and strategy through traditional press events, Web site features, e-mail blasts, blogs, voter contact, and issue-specific surrogate events.
Cuzzi also has worked in human resources for Akzo Nobel, a Fortune Global 500 company based in the Netherlands, managing corporate recruitment initiatives for all of Akzo Nobel's North American business units. Prior to that, Cuzzi spent two years in central Maine as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer focusing on early childhood literacy projects.
Deborah Wathen Finn ’74, P’07, president of The Wathen Group, provides consulting assistance to clients on strategic planning, market positioning, and transit and rail operational issues. She previously served as senior vice president and global director of transit and rail for CH2M Hill. In that role, Finn led the development of the firm’s public transportation practice, increasing its geographic and industry recognition throughout major metropolitan regions in the U.S., western Canada, and the U.K. As the previous officer-in-charge of the HNTB New York office, she led its expansion in the New York market, specifically focusing on the transit industry and security related-services post 9/11.
For over a decade Finn held leadership positions in public transit agencies. She has extensive operating experience in public transportation including commuter rail, light rail, and bus and paratransit operations. She also has played a leadership role in strategic and regional planning throughout her career. She has a track record for developing and implementing innovative outreach programs for complex public policy issues.
Jacquelyn Lindsey Wynn ’75 is a communications consultant at Inter-Tel, where she has acquired over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. She has helped with creating marketing strategies and training to negotiate with vendors. As a project coordinator she learned the telephone systems and applications she now sells. Over the last seven years she has become a top salesperson of telephone equipment and applications. Some of her major clients are household names and major players in the business world.
After graduate school Wynn started working with International Business Machines (IBM) as a systems engineer. There she held numerous positions while she grew and developed. When she left IBM, she had over 15 years experience in the computer industry with application marketing development and technical marketing and implementation. She has extensive teaching experience and experience overseeing and coordinating the planning, development, and execution of marketing plans to enhance customer acceptance and to increase revenue.
Mark Lyons ’77, P’12, project vice president for Wheelabrator, joined the company in 1990. He is responsible for managing select new waste-to-energy facility development projects in the U.S. and Canada and for managing several revenue-generating activities at Wheelabrator’s existing waste-to-energy facilities, including the company’s scrap metal recycling business and special waste/assured destruction program.
Lyons also manages Wheelabrator’s ash treatment and beneficial use business activities, which include marketing the company’s patented ash stabilization technology, known as the WES-PHix Process, to waste-to-energy plants and ash recycling facilities in North America and Asia.
Before joining Wheelabrator, Lyons was vice president and regional landfill manager for Browning-Ferris Industries. He was the solid waste regulatory program coordinator for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from 1981 to 1984 and also worked for the Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Kathryn Slemp ’05 has been employed by Health Dialog Analytic Services and based in Boston, Mass., for over four years. She has held various roles, including positions on the Evaluation Services and Program Management Teams, and has earned four promotions.
Recently Slemp was promoted to senior reporting product manager on Health Dialog’s Evaluation Services Team. Her responsibilities have included evaluating market demand for specific reporting needs through research and client interaction, initiating new product development and lead business requirement gathering efforts, designing templates and detailed specifications to meet internal and external customer needs, and consulting with customers regarding overall reporting capabilities.
Slemp has also assisted with designing and documenting the question set and scoring models for Health Dialog’s health risk appraisal application, the Personal Health Assessment; consulting on program operations for new international client implementations; and creating detailed, analytic maps using GIS software. Slemp graduated from Colby summa cum laude with a degree in biology—neuroscience.
Franc-Eric Wiedmer ’90 is the operations coordinator at Virginia Tech and oversees all operational aspects of large leased multidisciplinary life sciences research buildings. His responsibilities include developing strategies to advance progress toward shared resident goals, overseeing maintenance of the physical plant and designated major equipment, and serving as the primary contact for communication with external contractors. He also develops programs to ensure compliance with university policies for use of regulated research materials and adherence to local and state fire and safety regulations, and he maintains detailed records of building operations and expenditures to facilitate reconciliation of cost-sharing among several administrative units.
Michael Lee ’03 is a private art dealer with the Lee Gallery in Massachusetts. The Lee Gallery specializes in vintage photographs by well known photographers. Lee’s clients include art museums and private individuals.
John Mulcahy ’76 graduated from Colby with a major in music and pursued an M.F.A. in theater direction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After numerous directing jobs at regional theaters and opera companies in the Midwest, he moved to New York City and changed his focus to musical direction. He worked as a conductor and keyboardist on Broadway, in national and international tours, and in regional theaters. Having had enough of show business a few years ago, he returned to Columbia University and earned a B.S.N. in nursing (he had spent the first two years of his Colby career as a pre-med student). He recently moved back to Maine and continues to work as a musical director, stage director, and registered nurse.
Lauren Uhlmann ’06 is the programming assistant for The Boston Jewish Film Festival, where she manages film research, corresponds with national and international filmmakers, and works closely with the artistic director on arts administration. Additionally, she teaches literacy in the Learning Center at the Nathan Hale Elementary School in Roxbury, Mass., where she also serves as an academic mentor through Boston Partners in Education. Prior to moving to Boston in 2009, Lauren worked for Plum TV in Sun Valley, Idaho, and Telluride, Colo., as a producer, editor, and morning show host. In 2008 she earned an M.S. in journalism from Boston University, where she produced an independent thesis and professional project on feature reporting with the broadcast journalism department. Uhlmann majored in English at Colby.
Aaron Blazar ’05 works as a vice president for ATLANTIC•ACM on projects ranging from market sizing and forecasting to corporate strategy for the wireline and wireless telecom service provider markets. Blazar has a broad perspective on the telecommunications industry combined with expertise in market segmentation, market analysis, market entry strategies, and statistical analysis. He has coauthored a wide range of reports on the U.S. enterprise and wholesale telecommunications markets and has written articles for IP Business News, The Prepaid Press, and Intele-Card News Magazine, and he has had his analysis quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Capacity magazine. Blazar has a B.A. in economics from Colby and has done postgraduate work in finance and accounting at Northeastern University.
Michael O’Brien ’00 is a vice president and head of global trading at Eaton Vance. He manages a team of traders responsible for trade research and execution throughout the world. Prior to Eaton Vance, O’Brien was employed at Brown Brothers Harriman and Wellington Management Company. He earned an M.S. in finance from Boston College. Michael is a CFA charter holder and a member of the Boston Security Analyst Society.
Michelle Riffelmacher ’03 works in the securities finance division at State Street and has been at the company since October 2003. Her first job was in operations, covering client sells for the international-equity trading desk. She was responsible for sells specifically in the European fixed income and Canadian equity and fixed income markets. After two years in operations, she applied for a trading job and landed on the U.S. equity trading desk in December 2005. Initially, she was responsible for pricing out and lending a multi-billion-dollar book of medium rate securities as well as IPOs (initial public offerings). She is currently building the company’s non-cash book for foreign-owned U.S. equities with U.K. brokers.
Walter Wang ’99 is the founder and managing director of Sunflowertax, LLC, an alternative energy tax and incentive consulting company based in San Diego. He advises on energy-efficient retrofits and implementation of alternative-energy solutions for commercial and residential buildings. He also advises on structured investments in commercial and utility-scale alternative-energy projects. Wang previously worked as a corporate tax consultant advising both public and private companies in all areas of taxation, including mergers and acquisitions, net operating loss utilization, executive compensation, and compliance with FIN 48. Wang earned his law degree and M.L.T. from the University of San Diego School of Law. He is a member of the AICPA Energy Policy Task Force cap-and-trade subcommittee and consumer subcommittee.
Coy Dailey ’01 grew up in Jersey City, N.J. After graduating from Colby, he worked for seven years in Washington, D.C., at the Georgetown Day School teaching middle school math. He also taught geometry and algebra to highly accelerated middle school students. He was the assistant varsity men's basketball coach and assistant coach for middle school boys' lacrosse. For the 2008-2009 school year, Dailey taught middle school math at the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, N.J., where in addition to teaching he was assistant coach of the football team and head coach of the freshman basketball team. He currently works at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., teaching middle school math.
Steven Earle ’79 has served as the director of the office for diversity, ethics, and access for the New York State Education Department since 1990. The office is part of human resources management providing oversight, advisement, and policy development and implementation regarding issues of diversity planning and management as well as workforce development.
Earle facilitated the development of a New York statewide training initiative called "Managing Diversity, The Business Imperative" and will be sharing parts of this training with the Colby community. Having held director positions at various colleges in both student affairs and admissions throughout his career, Earle is able to draw on his breadth of experience in higher education to share with us best practices and the business case for diversity efforts.
Javanese Hailey ’03 was born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y. After having the opportunity to do a student teaching practicum and taking an Intro to Sociology course, Hailey pursued a sociology major. While at Colby, she was a peer mentor, an active member of SOBHU, and a founding member of the Coalition for Institutional Accountability. Upon graduation she moved to the Washington, D.C., metro area, where she has just entered her seventh year as a middle school math teacher. In May 2004 Hailey earned her M.Ed. with a concentration in middle school math from Lesley University.
Anne Graves McAuliff ’74, P’08, ’13, is an assistant special education director in the Waterville area. She earned an M.Ed. in special education from Boston College and has held a variety of positions in the field including special education teacher, director, and consultant, as well as a position with the Maine Department of Education.
In these various jobs she has worked with students with learning disabilities, behavioral challenges, emotional disturbance, autism, mental retardation, and physical disabilities. Her experience includes developing special education programs, consulting with classroom teachers, supervising and evaluating staff, hiring personnel, coordinating professional development opportunities, writing grants, and participating in the litigation of special education cases. McAuliff was instrumental in the early 1990s in closing the segregated programs for students with severe disabilities and promoting integrated programming in central Maine’s public schools.
In conjunction with her special education positions, McAuliff has been executive director of CMIS, an organization dedicated to providing professional development opportunities for educators and community members to promote positive educational and social outcomes for children. In this position, she coordinates various educational events and opportunities, facilitates collaboration between agencies and organizations, and works closely with the Maine Department of Education to promote the CMIS model of professional development throughout the state.
Rashad Randolph ’02 has been involved in the world of academia since graduating from Colby. He has taught every level of Spanish from sixth grade through college at some of New England's most prestigious independent schools. Shortly after graduating from Colby Randolph attended Harvard and earned an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury. Recently he returned to his hometown of New York City and currently teaches various levels of Spanish at the Packer Collegiate Institute. Randolph also teaches for the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy during the summer. He has been a devoted advocate for numerous diversity initiatives. While at Colby he was a member of the football, basketball, and track teams, the chorale, the jazz band, and Colby Sounds of Gospel. He is excited and honored to be back on Mayflower Hill.
