One of the things I've enjoyed most is getting mail from people I didn't
happen to know personally while we were at Colby. For example, Kirsten
Rossner, who wrote that she graduated from Boston University with a
master's degree in physical therapy and is now working in Charlottesville, Va.,
at a sports medicine center. She tells me that John Woods is also in the
Charlottesville area splitting his time between his third year of law school
and teaching skiing at a nearby resort. After graduation, John plans to move
his law practice to New Hampshire, where the ski conditions are even better.
Kirsten also says that Erika Sayewich '92 is in law school at the University of
Virginia and that Margaret Schwarze is due to graduate from Harvard
Medical School this spring and will be spending the months of April and May in
Panama learning Spanish--and, as Kirsten says, "doing medical things." Kirsten
saw Niles '91 and Sonja Wiberg Parker over the Christmas holidays. Sonja
graduated from Duke University with a master's in physical therapy and is now
working at a hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., where Niles is working on a
master's in museum studies. Suzanne Quill graduated from Boston
University law school in 1993 and is now practicing law in Boston. Andrea
Ciampa graduated from Suffolk University law school in 1993 and is living
in Pittsburgh, where her husband plays for the Penguins. Kirsten also knows
that Valerie Bryer Pettit and her husband moved to Atlanta, Ga., in the
fall of 1994 and that Malcolm Hill is living in Houston and finishing a
Ph.D. in marine biology. Malcolm is married with one son. Thanks for all the
news, Kirsten! . . . Andrew Eaton sent word that he
and Paige Brennan were married in May (their 6-year-old son, Justin, was the
ring bearer). Andrew is working in Illinois as a personal fitness consultant at
Multiplex Fitness Club. . . . Robyn Glaser wrote
from Sharon, Mass., where she was spending the summer studying for the bar exam
before moving to New York. Robyn graduated with a dual J.D./M.B.A. degree and
will be working in the corporate law department of the law firm Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison in Manhattan this
fall. . . . Chip Gavin sent a post card from
Washington, D.C., where he visited a bunch of Colby grads last winter. He
writes that Janet Boudreau, Scott Perley, Bill Aguiar and
Kathy McKiernan all seem well. I had dinner with Janet a while ago when
she was in the Boston area for a visit--she had just been accepted into the
M.B.A. program at Harvard and will be moving back to the Northeast this fall.
. . . Jen Milsop '93 and Jon Mil-lard bought a house this
spring. Jen is still working for Sears but on a new assignment as a store
manager, which makes for a much less hectic travel schedule. Jon is still
working as a credit analyst in Michigan Corporate Banking and was looking
forward to graduating from their relationship manager training program this
summer. . . . John Guerreiro has spent much of the past
five years doing molecular genetic research at the Wayne State University
School of Medicine in Detroit and received his master's degree in May. This
fall, John will be starting work on an M.D. at Michigan State University and is
trying for a position in their rural physician's program. He regrets that he
won't be able to attend reunion--he'll spend half the summer in Alaska and half
in Portugal. John's been in touch with Ly Furrow '91, who has just finished her
master's degree in fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University and will
be joining John in his travels this summer. Bruce Fougere '92, who is enrolled
in a computer program in Nova Scotia, stopped by to see John in
Michigan. . . . Jon and Nori Sterling Gale
wrote an update on themselves and their son, Tatum Monagan Gale, who was
born in December 1994. The two were married in August 1993 after living in
Seattle for two years and are now living in Portland, Maine, where Jon is in
law school and Nori is working as a graphic designer.
Class Correspondent: Laura Senier
Daniel Bowman is a business planner at Sony Corp., has a new condo and
will marry Rebecca Spoerri '88 this summer or
fall. . . . Mindy Rohrman Burgess received her
master's in experimental psychology from Hollins College in 1992 and, along
with husband Steve, is pursuing her Ph.D. at Florida
State. . . . Tremaine Cooper is an equestrian
cross-country and jump builder and designer and sole proprietor for
"Cross-Country Designs." He and his dog, Campagnolo, live mostly on the East
Coast but spend part of the year in Seattle and over in
England. . . . Beth Ackroyd, currently living in
Paterson, N.J., says teaching first grade is "quite an experience." She hopes
to go back to school, possibly this fall. . . . Eric
Adams has quit his paralegal job in New York and is now pursuing his law
degree at the University of Michigan. . . . Jennifer Wood
Jencks has taught at various private schools, run a marathon, graduated
from Smith College's School for Social Work M.S.W. program in August 1994 and
now is a social worker in a Rhode Island hospital while completing her thesis.
And she married the person she had a crush on since the sixth
grade! . . . Christina Thompson and Andy Bess
are living in High Wycombe outside of London; she's looking for work in
London, and he is a chemist and sales/publicity manager for an environmental
testing agency. They hike, rock climb and travel whenever possible
and--following their wedding this fall--will embark on a sailing honeymoon in
Honduras. They told me that Lisa Twomey is teaching French and Spanish
at St. Andrews School in Delaware; Juliette Varga and Mike Rooney
are pursuing married life and their Ph.D.'s at U.N.H.; and Dave Moore,
Merideth Master and Jared Cornell are all living in San
Francisco. . . . Liz Helft married Don Darby '89 in
August 1994; '91ers attending the wedding were Jessica Butler, Cathy
Breen, Julie Daniele, Ashley Cornell, Caroline
O'Malley, Patty Masters and Tree Sullivan. The Darbys spent
their honeymoon in Bora Bora and are living in Menlo Park. Calif.; she teaches
high school English in Palo Alto. . . . Twisty
Gogolak, after being a bridesmaid in Cathy Breen's wedding last
December along with Liz and Jessica, will be celebrating her marriage to Tom
Dorion in the near future. . . . Lesley Eydenberg and
Dan Bouvier are also officially engaged. . . . Cherlyn
Neely and Steve Gorin '92 are the proud parents of Mindy Amanda. Cherlyn is
having fun being a mom but definitely plans to put her two tax law degrees to
work in the future. . . . Rob '90 and Tricia O'Sullivan
Hyland have just purchased and moved into their own house in Franklin,
Mass. She's a human resource manager at Filene's, and he's a consultant for
Anderson Consulting. . . . Sue Gouws is still in New
York City working for Paine Webber as an equity research associate. She
performed Mozart's Mass in C last spring (hey, Sue, me, too!) with one
of the two choral groups she belongs to. . . . Heidi
Meehan Grant is teaching eighth grade English at the John Jay Middle School
in Katonah, N.Y., after receiving her master's degree from Teacher's College,
Columbia University. She and husband Michael '90, who's working for the Katz
Corp. in New York City, married in August 1992 and are living in Mt. Kisco,
N.Y. . . . Lisa Gould, a practicing attorney after
passing the bar in '94, was married last
June. . . . Annie De Maria finished her seventh year
of sailing schooners last fall and is now working with the Great Lake Merchant
Marine. . . . Megan Finley is a member services
manager for the National Council of State Housing Agencies, a trade association
in D.C. lobbying for housing for low- to moderate-income people. She was to be
a bridesmaid in Stacy King's June wedding to Justin Verge
'90. . . . Catherine Giles is getting her master's and a
C.A.G.S. in school psychology and will graduate in '96. She is doing research
at Boston City Hospital and is keeping her skiing habit alive through teaching.
(Her only major change is that now she likes cats!) . . .
Corinne Hauser was married this June, with Caroline O'Malley as
the maid of honor. . . . Reunion is less than a year away.
Volunteers will be needed for various stages of this process. Your opinions do
count!
Class Correspondent: Portia Walker
This is mostly an
en-gagement/wedding/baby
column. Mi-Sun Cho is engaged to her long-time high school boyfriend,
with plans to marry this summer. . . . Laura
Armstrong is busy making plans for her September wedding in
Boulder. . . . Krista Lundborg is engaged and
planning a September '96 wedding in Newport,
R.I. . . . Cathy Ryan recently was engaged to Mike
Kolakowski and planning a summer of '96 wedding. . . . Margaret
Russell was proposed to in, of all places, Paris. Romantic! (She said
yes.) . . . Curt Beckwith is living in San Francisco with
his fiancée, Susanna Rhodes. . . . Jen Kosek
is marrying Matthew Walker this September. . . . In
August, Sarah Hamilton will marry Scott
Barringer. . . . Chris Ward and Whitney Adams
planned their July wedding for Cape Cod. . . . Kelly
Evans and Garin Arevian '91 are busy planning their wedding for Columbus
Day weekend in Chatham. . . . Other weddings: Cathy
Swaffar married David Douglas '91 last
year. . . . Sarah Bramhall married Josh Reynolds in
September '94. In attendance (in addition to myself) were Jeannette
Riddle, Liz Cimino, Dave Moore, Chris and Angela
Forman Toms, Pete Hocknell, Joe Savoie, Scott Alprin
(best man), Theo Von Wallmenich, Laura Kuske, Michele
Rowell, Andrew Finn and Josh Bubar
'93. . . . Tricia Baldridge, a third grade teacher
in Campton, N.H., was a bridesmaid in Michelle Fortier's wedding last
October along with Karen Wu and Mary Beth Heiskell. Melissa
Small (who is responsible for introducing Michelle to her husband, John
Biscotti) did a reading at the service. Also in attendance were Farah
Paradise, Yong Kwon, JC Klick and Mike
Downes. . . . Lisa Miller married Todd O'Connor '91
in June. . . . Karen Larson wed Chris Flint this past April.
. . . And the birth: Steve Gorin and Cherlyn Neely '91
welcomed their second child, Mindy Amanda, in December
'94. . . . Older news: Suzanne Bober was
between jobs, having experimented with architecture and Wall Street, and thinks
grad school will be in the picture soon. . . . Lisa
Churchill finished her M.S. in geology last December at the University of
Michigan and planned to return to Maine with hopes to work on Maine fossils and
paleontology. . . . Last fall I headed north to Boston for the
weekend of the Head of the Charles. Chris Frothingham and Meredith
Johnson had one of the Good Beer Parties, and in attendance were Polly
Sheridan, Ben Beatie, Kris Boynton, Curt Stevenson,
Mark Longsjo and Poppyann Mastrovita '93 (who were getting ready for
their November wedding), Suzanne Regnier, the clan from Michelle
Fortier's wedding who stopped by afterwards and Amy Davis '91. My apologies to
those I left out. At the Head of the Charles, I found Bryan Chase and
Shannon Johnson '91 taking care of the Colby booth. Also there were Becky
Graham, Jen Greenleaf, Andy Rhein, Matt Brown, the
crew from Chris and Meredith's party and many
more. . . . Kudos to Donna Burbank for sending the
first update via e-mail. My address is kmartsmb@aol.com
Class Correspondent: Katie Martin
Josh Eckel, assistant director of student
activities at Colby last
year, lived in Waterville with Ali Meyer and spent time with Jon
Blau, who operates his own advertising and marketing business. Josh saw
Greg Christopher in Jackson, Wyo., last Christmas vacation. Erin
Crossland joined Greg, who hopes to attend architecture school in the fall.
Josh also has seen Jen Morrow, who lives in Belmont, Mass., and works as
a lab technician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston. . . . Daniella Araujo is a psychiatric
technician in the children's unit of the Jackson Brook Psychiatric Hospital in
Portland, Maine, and plans to study clinical psychology in grad school this
fall. . . . Steve Doherty is in grad school at UNH,
working on a Ph.D. in chemistry. . . . Julie Cyr traveled
cross country with Laura Keally last summer. She lives in Brighton and
works as a teacher of special needs children. . . . Kate
Diana also traveled around the country--with her sister--and now lives in
Boston, where she works as a corporate paralegal for Sullivan &
Worcester. . . . Carolyn Hart, staff assistant with
Bay Bank's Private Banking Group in Cambridge, lives in Somerville with
Rebekah Freeman, who works at MIT as an assistant for government and
community relations. They see Heather Lounsbury, who works in Boston
(not Seattle!) for Gillette, doing research and development for the deodorant
department. . . . Marile Haylon is a graphic
designer with Bradford Advertising in Connecticut and had an ad published in
the April Yankee Magazine. . . . Chris Rogers and
Andrea Bowman are engaged and planning a summer '97
wedding. . . . New York news: Sara Ferry, a
management associate with Citibank, recently did some recruiting/interviewing.
She wrote that she and Kamin McClelland attended a Colby party thrown by
Candace Killmer '93 and Carrie Smith '93. Sara has heard from Gretchen
Stone, who is working for a headhunter in Connecticut and studying physical
therapy, and Milly Noyes, who is substitute teaching while waiting to
hear from grad schools. . . . Sean Hayes is a capital
markets equity analyst for Merrill Lynch and says his brother, Jim '92, is
still in the Peace Corps in Ukraine. . . . Laura Eanes
teaches math and coaches lacrosse and soccer at Blair Academy, a boarding
school in New Jersey. Laura and Chris Abbott made a trip to Boston to see
Ethan Spencer and Ham Thompson. . . . Tara
Estra is an associate producer for NewsTalk, a new cable network in New
York. She also plays soccer with the Metropolitan Women's Soccer League and is
producing a film version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream. In
May, Tara biked from San Francisco to LA in the California AIDS
Bike-a-Thon. . . . Katherine Bordwell lives in
Portland, Ore., and hopes to go abroad to teach English.
. . . Matthew Gaines is an information consultant for
UNICEF in Seattle. Having just returned from Croatia, he writes that he has a
new perspective on how great America is! . . . Kerry
Enright received an M.A. from the School of Education at Stanford and hopes
to find a job in the bilingual education field. . . . After a
few months living in a co-operative house in Boulder, Colo., David
Holtzman planned a six-week hike in the Rockies and hoped to work on a
farm. . . . Classmates abroad: Heather Eskey has taught
at the Washington Institute of Languages in Kumamoto, Japan, since July '94 and
will stay through December. . . . Tori Esser works in Paris,
France, as meetings coordinator for an international association of businesses
in the food industry (in Madrid, Munich, Atlanta and Geneva). Tori has seen
Ingrid Kristan, who was teaching in a French school on a Fulbright
scholarship. . . . Terry Meehan is back from Ireland,
living in Somerville and doing medical research at Children's Hospital.
. . . Heather Vincola, Christy Lynch and Kerry
Sheehy share an apartment in Brookline, Mass., where a brunch St. Patrick's
Day weekend brought together Missy Fraser, Marika Schwartzman,
Colleen Brennan, Megan Harris, Tracy Larsen, Tracy
Karsch, Ashley Short, Kristen Zier, Krista Nordgren
(working for a publishing company in New York) and Babs Coulon, a
research coordinator in the youth marketing department of Houston Effler, a
Boston advertising firm.
Class Correspondent: Alicia S. Hidalgo
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