MILEPOSTS
Births: A daughter, Caroline, to Robert and Nancy "Kitty" Weyl Dove '80. . . . A son, Alexander Dixon, to David Mahl and Marian Leerburger-Mahl '84. . . . A son, Thomas Wilson, to Jeffrey '87 and Beth Henry Russell '88.
Marriages: Gay E. Shanahan '80 to James B. Goldenberg in Bedford, Mass. . . . Timothy J. Bernard '81 to Michelle J. Casavant in Chestnut Hill, Mass. . . . Gary H. Ruping '85 to Karen Willim in Burlington, Mass. . . . Heidi A. Arnao '86 to Mark G. Madison in Canton, Mass. . . . John S. Miller '86 to Samantha Brody in Ashland, Ore. . . . Suzanne C. Swain '86 to Stephen Masiello in Winchester, Mass. . . . William J. Derry '88 to Ann Eastman in Keene, N.H. . . . Kenneth F. Ginder '88 to Claire Adami in South Hadley, Mass. . . . Michael J. Kelley '88 to Sperry Wilson in White River Junction, Vt. . . . Susan J. Lochhead '88 to Matthew Yardley in Nashua, N.H. . . . Caroline C. O'Brien '88 to Robert M. Thomas '88 in Nantucket, R.I. . . . Celia G. Pastoriza '88 to Charles Welch in Lincoln, Mass. . . . Joseph P. Walton '88 to Janine Frostick in Easton, Mass. . . . Eric Zieff '88 to Julie Rosenblatt in Bloomfield, Conn. . . . Maryanna F. Marinos '89 to Jeffrey D. Baker '90 in Lorimer Chapel.

Steve Pfaff is living in Chelmsford, Mass., where he recently bought a house. He left his job in the law department at the City of Boston and has joined the law firm of Merrick & Louison in Boston. . . . Wayne '80 and Liz Burton Siladi are the proud parents of Rebecca Anne, born Labor Day 1993, which Liz says was a fitting day after 30 hours of labor. Liz is the director of gift planning at Radcliffe College, and Wayne is a senior engineer at Weidlinger Association. They have enjoyed hiking in national parks and skiing in the western part of the country but will have to wait now until Rebecca gets her first pairs of hiking and skiing boots. . . . Terry Morales Khorassani is living with her husband, Mohsen, and their daughter, Katherine Fatima, in Bronx, N.Y. They were expecting a second child in February of 1994. Terry is on leave from Citibank's credit risk information department. They have traveled to Florida to spend time with Terry's parents and also have traveled to Iran to visit with Mohsen's parents. . . . Jay Votta and his wife, Flo, live in Walnut Creek, Calif. Jay is a consulting actuary with Millman & Robertson in San Francisco. . . . Jeff Neville and his wife, Michelle, are living in Atlanta, Ga. Jeff is a vice president at Merrill Lynch, and Michelle is a vice president at Solomon Brothers. They have a daughter, Kelsey. Jeff writes that they are saving up enough money to build a new home. . . . Tim Springer is living in Minneapolis and writes that his environmental consulting business is doing very well. He also has been doing volunteer work in the area of bicycle transportation. Tim says we should look for Minneapolis to become the first major city to construct linked bicycle highways to make bicycle transportation fast, safe and pleasant. . . . Eleanor Campbell started law school at Rutgers University in New Jersey last fall. . . . Rick Schaub and his wife, Sue, are living in Centerville, Ohio, near Dayton. Rick is vice president of sales and marketing for Dolly, Inc. They have two sons, Douglas and Will. Rick writes that he travels often and attended a number of PGA tournaments last year. . . . Paulette Lynch and husband Ken Peterson are living in Monterey, Calif. Paulette is a fund raiser for the Family Resource, a child abuse prevention agency. Paulette says she is feeling more settled in the Monterey area now that she has bought a house. She is hoping to bring First Night festivities to Monterey. . . . John Yates is living in Munich on an 18-month assignment as a software engineer. He says he's having a great time in Europe and also wrote something in German, thinking we had taken a German class together at Colby! Sorry, John--I wasn't in your German class after all. . . . Bruce and Ellen Reinhalter Shain had a second son, born last spring, and have moved to Hamilton, Mass., where they built a new house. . . . Instead of sending all of you an annual survey, the Alumni Office will be sending out a survey to a fifth of the class at a time, so please look for that form and return it to me as soon as you can. Thanks for your help with the column.
Class Correspondent: Beth Pniewski Wilson

Donna Curran Stock sends news from Grafton, Mass., that Brendan Michael was born last May 4, joining brothers Ryan, 5, and Trevor, 3. Donna currently is working part time as the associate director of the Tufts Veterinary Fund. Her husband, Bill, is an area manager at Acherly Communication. Something that Donna has not yet done but is still hoping to do is ride in a hot air balloon. . . . Cindy Rich Dana and husband Chuck also have an addition to their family: Hollis Anne, born last June 4, joined older sibling Taylor. One month later Cindy and her family relocated to Jakarta, Indonesia. Let's hope Cindy will send another note to let us know about life in Jakarta. . . . John Crowley and his wife, Kimberly, had an exciting summer and fall. Their second child, Jose Patrick, was born July 19, when older sister Katelyn Nicole was 2 1/2. John received his M.B.A. from New Hampshire College in September and accepted a position as vice president, general manager for People's Choice TV in St. Louis, Mo. They moved in November. . . . David Strage is constantly on the move. David has been relocated to Geneva, Switzerland, as the executive assistant to the president of Digital (Europe). The liberal definition of Europe seems to include South Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, so David finds himself in many places except Geneva! David and his wife, Laura, have three girls--Sonya, 5, Katya, 3, and Michele, 1, who are learning to speak French, ski in the Alps and go catalogue shopping (an admirable trait, as the prices in Geneva are outrageous!). David has not kept in touch with too many classmates--he reiterates a common theme among the letters I receive--not enough time. For David, time is the enemy, and he's not sure that he's winning the battle. But he would like to remind people that Geneva is a great place to visit any time of the year. . . . As for myself, I took a break in September from immunology research at the Center for Cancer Research at MIT (10 years) to work on a small organic farm in West Cork, Ireland. It was really hard work, but the physical labor and working outdoors was a really nice change from being stuck indoors all day in a lab. I didn't even mind mucking out the barns! . . . If you haven't sent a note in a while, or if you never have, why not send in a post card to let us know what you're up to?
Class Correspondent: Mimi Rasmussen

Thanks to those who've written and responded to my post cards and, now, to a class questionnaire. Pam Kovaly O'Brien wrote while on vacation in Bermuda, happy to tell us about the birth of her daughter, Courtney Anne (Aug. 15, 1993). Pam, who works full time as a product marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp, says she and her husband have enjoyed watching Courtney grow. They live in Sudbury, Mass., and Pam loves her family neighborhood and five-minute commute to work. . . . From time to time, I send out post cards to random classmates fishing for news. Richard and Sue Sheehan Schwermer responded to one of my cards, writing from Sue's quiet bedside in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Sue was due with their second child. Their first, Joshua, is 4. During Sue's second pregnancy, she had some time at home and kept working as director of job and business development by using computers, modems and telecommuting. The region she works with in Utah is called "Mountainland" and includes such areas as Park City, Deer Valley and Provo/Orem. The economic development areas are typically tourism, manufacturing and high technology. She works closely with WordPerfect Corporation and Novel and hopes their recent merger will help challenge Microsoft. In 1991, Sue had the opportunity to present one of their programs to the Ford Foundation and Harvard University. It was named one of the top 25 government innovations of that year--"proving Utah isn't as backward as some think!" Rich passed the Utah state bar in 1986 and practiced law until 1990. He then became the state administrator for the justice courts and is now over the court system for Utah, working with all the judges and the legislature. Sue keeps in touch with Kelly Burke Corwen, Debbie Bombaci Pappas and Beth (Sabino '84) and Tom King. They also see Chip Rooney about once a year. . . . Sue Desrochers Patterson wrote recently from San Mateo, Calif., where she's living with her husband, Kelvin. She still works for Deloitte & Touche (one of the "Big Six" public accounting firms) as a senior manager. Sue met Kelvin in Connecticut. . . . he moved to San Francisco . . . when she was through with an assignment at the end of 1992, she opted to be relocated to San Francisco . . . Sue and Kelvin were engaged in October 1993 . . . and married in May 1994. Sue keeps in touch with Heidi Dickman Taylor, Terri Lewis Clevenger, Tammy Reagan Williams and Kathy Regan. . . . From Portland, Maine, Abby King took a minute to write from her desk at Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, where she's practicing law. Abby joined the firm in January 1992 after working for two and a half years at Pierce, Atwood, Scribner. Before that, she clerked one year for the Maine Supreme Court. Abby works with a couple of Colby grads, John Carpenter '80 and Tony Perkins '82. Outside work, she stays busy, too. She ran the Maine Marathon in 1992 but a car accident in 1990 curbed her running, and she doesn't have plans to do any more right now. Instead, she's been biking a lot and has done the American Lung Association Bike Trek from Sunday River to the Samoset resort for the last three years. Abby's parents moved from Wellesley, Mass., to Camden two years ago and have a summer home in Islesboro, so Abby spends a lot of time in the mid-coast area. She bought an 1850 antique cape house in Cumberland Foreside and enjoys time working around the house and garden. . . . New Year's resolution: write news to Sally. Hope that little post-it note adorns the homes and offices of each one of you! Send photos and updates soon!
Class Correspondent: Sally Lovegren Merchant

In a few short months I will be relinquishing my duties as class secretary, and I am looking for my replacement. If this very prestigious position appeals to you, please drop me a line--I am now accepting nominations for secretary as well as for all class officers. Now for the news. . . . My family visited Peaks Island, Maine, last August for the marriage of Meghan Casey and Chuck Parker. Carol Eisenberg was Meghan's matron of honor. Also in attendance were Leslie Robinson and Diane Albert. It was a wonderful wedding, with the reception at the Fifth Maine Regiment, which had a gorgeous view of the ocean. . . . Manoj Kanskar is a physicist working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. . . . Tracy Gowen is an assistant director of financial aid and admissions counselor at Sterling College in Kansas. . . . Janet Lamoreau Cyr writes from Oshkosh, Wis., where she is development director for a regional nonprofit agency. Her husband, Tom, was in Alaska for several months, and Janet was able to spend about a month there last summer. Their ultimate goal is still to get back to Maine, but the Midwest continues to be very pleasant in the meantime. . . . Nancy and Gregory Shefrin announce the birth of their first child, Zachary Lee, on July 26. Greg is an assistant vice president at the Bank of New York in New York City. . . . Brad Whitaker and his wife, Karen, had another little girl, Molly Elizabeth, last March 29. . . . Kristen Johnson Wyco moved to Virginia, bought a small farm and--most important--had another child, Dylan Robert, on Nov. 20, 1993. His sister, Gretchen Mary, is now 2. . . . Life is fun right now for Sheryl Larson Mortensen. She and her husband, Rod, are enjoying their 2-year-old son, Todd. Rod is mayor of Newington, Conn., and Sheryl is a first grade teacher. She writes that Laura Kozloski is in Miami, Fla., finishing work on her Ph.D. . . . John O'Toole writes from Rutherford, N.J., where he bought a house that he expects to spend years fixing up. . . . Edward Pfister is an associate attorney with Steel, Hector & Davis in Miami. The pro bono work he did for the firm after Hurricane Andrew earned him an award at the annual ABA convention in New Orleans. Edward and his wife, Susan, have two children, Lee, 12, and Katie, 3. He enjoys golfing, sailing and scuba diving. . . . Suzanne Krumm Yerdon is the director of industry affairs at MFS Communications Corp. in Chester, N.J. . . . After two years in the working world following Colby, Andrew Myers returned to academia. Over the next three and a half years he earned a law degree and an M.B.A. at Boston University. After the bar exam, he spent a month in Thailand. Andrew now works at O'Connor, Broude & Aronson in Waltham, Mass., as a senior associate concentrating in corporate and securities law, primarily representing emerging businesses. . . . Terry Martin is a teacher in South Portland, Maine. He completed a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at the University of Maine and entered a master's program in history at the University of New Hampshire. His son, Sean Evan, is almost 3. . . . Anna Sandstrom writes that she is still slogging through a Ph.D. in medieval/renaissance French literature. . . . Deb Lindberg Thoresen celebrated the birth of her second child (a daughter this time) on July 4. Her name is Kari. . . . Andrew Worthington works as a vice president for commercial lending at Shawmut Bank in Manchester, Conn. He ran a political campaign for a state senate position. Did your candidate win, Drew? . . . Happy New Year! I look forward to hearing from all of you in the coming year.
Class Correspondent: Mary Alice Weller-Mayan

Please forgive the huge donut hole in the last column. (Next time a lack of news strikes, I'll just sketch some real incriminating stuff.) Let me thank two of the major saviors. I ran into Martha Smith, who recently relocated from Washington, D.C., to work at Talx Corp., a company specializing in voice-response technology in Boston. Both she and Karen Croff are living in the same building on Beacon Hill (and faxed me a beautiful rendition of their up-to-date "dirt"--that we should all be receiving an invitation to Karen's wedding to Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and that Martha has started dating Tommy Lee Jones after their passionate meeting on the set of Blown Away). Karen has begun a new job at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as the acting curator of education. They reported that Chris Brown and Lisa Kerney, married a year ago last July, also are transplants from Washington to Beantown. Lisa is getting her master's degree in education while Chris, already armed with a master's in architecture, is working at a firm in Cambridge. . . . Charlie Lord was transferred from Boston to Nashville, Tenn., where he is working for CNA Insurance. . . . Rick Angeli is the person to call if you need any tickets to any big sporting events. He's working at International Management Group in Newton, Mass. . . . Chris Hurley also joined the bandwagon back to the Boston area and is in the midst of completing his M.B.A. at Northeastern. . . . Ginger Nowak married her long-time beau, Paul Wehrle, last August amidst the beautiful scenery of Newcastle, Maine. Ginger is practicing general law in Bath, Maine, after graduating from the University of Maine School of Law in 1991. . . . Hope Worden also tied the knot in Maine when she married Chris Kochenbach last September on the Sebasco Estates. . . . Matt Stetson, Greg Cunningham, Mike Cantara and Joanne LaMarre all recently performed the nuptial ritual . . . the latter to each other! Mike and Joanne are living in Arlington, Mass. Matt Stetson and his wife, Kristin Beard, reside in Freeport, Maine, where he works for Seafax in Portland. Greg Cunningham married a fellow law student from Franklin Pierce Law School, and they also have settled in Portland, where they both practice law. . . . Tom Charlton married Katherine Nielson last August in Chester, Vt., and Eric Zieff announced his marriage to Julie Rosenblatt in Bloomfield, Conn., last June. Classmates in attendance included David Caspar, and Scott and Kristen Foss Smith, Scott Parks, Jeff Cohen, Gary Donaldson, Roland Cheyney, Paul Carmillo, Zach Abrams and John Davie. Eric reports that he has entered his fourth year in the clinical psychology program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and hopes to graduate in the fall of 1995. He and his wife are living in Salem, Mass. . . . Sheila Rudolph tied the knot in October. She is still working as a technician in arthritis research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Congrats to all the recently married! . . . Tanya (Goff '89) and Stew Richmond have been living in southern New Hampshire. Tanya is an attorney in Concord, N.H., while Stew is commuting to Boston Law School after four years of teaching history at a boarding school. . . . Dean Schwartz passed the New Hampshire bar exam and was admitted on October 31. He is associated with the firm of Gallagher, Callahan and Gartrell in Concord, N.H. . . . Doug '86 and Jill Wertz-Scalise recently celebrated the first birthday of their boy, Nathan. They live just south of Philadelphia, where Jill completed her master's in social work at Bryn Mawr and Doug is the minister of a Baptist church. . . . Kris Hoitt Nason recently finished her master's in social work from Boston College and is working with foster children through Casey Family Counseling in Portland, and Michelle Cheeseman just completed a master's in education at Harvard University following two years in Quito, Ecuador, on a Fulbright Scholarship. . . . Martha Smith and Karen Croff also let me know that Jackie Lavigne is braving the streets of Baltimore, Md., where she is getting a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology at Johns Hopkins University, and that Becca Bruce is at the University of Texas-Austin getting a master's degree in urban design. . . . Todd Jepson recently started as an English teacher at the Wilbraham Munson preparatory school. Unfortunately, Todd's year-and-a-half expedition from New York to Nome, Alaska, via canoe and cross-country skis has been indefinitely postponed due to an injury to his partner's back. Todd hopes to continue this project in the future. He has the support and faith of many Colby friends. . . . I appreciate all the news!
Class Correspondent: Sara Dickison

Hello, classmates, and greetings from the land of Guinness! I'm spending most of the fall in Ireland researching the voyages of eighth-century Irish monks and enjoying the famed pub scene here along the way (just had to do the "Literary Pub Crawl," being the English major!). Part of my research took me to Iceland early in September, where despite bad weather, bad roads and bad food (try putrified shark meat for a change!) I made it around the Ring Road and got some good information. . . . Last summer I met up with a few Colby grads in Wyoming. Tim Felt '91 and I were both students on a National Outdoor Leadership School's instructors' course. Tim is teaching at the Verde Valley School in Arizona in between climbing adventures in Bolivia and Argentina. Catch him in the sequel to A River Runs Through It. I subsequently led a course with Sarah "Scottie" Scott '93 up in the Absarokas and made NOLS history as an all-women's instructors' team. Watch for us in Patagonia! Scottie, who's contemplating a run on the professional woodsmen's tour, is out in Pinedale, Wyo., with Thad Gemski '90, who blazes trails for the Forest Service. Another NOLS instructor and Colby grad, Sue Miller '82, is part of an all-women's team climbing an 8,000-meter peak in Nepal this fall. . . . Yes, I do have news of our class. Scott Turtel and Erin DeChristopher '88 announced their engagement last September. They are both in Seattle. Congrats and best wishes! . . . I have recently learned that Valerie Spierling died last March. Her many friends at Colby remember her warmth and laughter. She will be missed.
Class Correspondent: Deborah A. Greene