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Video pick of the year: Crimson Tide, starring Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington
and '91's very own Dan Raymont! Look for his performance as one of the
marines. He also appeared in Ed, two plays and a commerical and has been
doing voice-overs. . . . Deb Lloyd is enrolled at
Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, pursuing
her M.B.A. She's still studying Chinese in hopes of joining Stu Eunson
and Ron Thompson in Beijing. . . . Jane Maloney is
in her second year at the Amos Tuck Business School at Dartmouth and will
graduate in June '96. . . . Julie Moran is working
towards her Ph.D. in toxicology at the University of Colorado Health Science
Center in Denver. . . . Sally Hewitt spent her
summer working for the Boston Pops and on Martha's Vineyard as a
carpenter/painter/fence builder and is now getting her master's in
communications at Emerson College. . . . Audrey
Witteman has a new-found interest in politics through her job as manager of
communications at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.
When she started, she found a picture of President Cotter and former Colby
students--she is definitely home! . . . Katherine Roth
is a Ph.D. candidate in romance languages and literature (French) at the
University of Michigan and is beginning her dissertation. Her fiancé,
Alexandre Dauge, is also a grad student in the French program at UM. They will
be married July 27, 1996. . . . Lauren Knebel was
working in marketing communications and public relations in San Franciso and
saw Wendy Langdon and Laura Pizzarello. She is now pursuing a
double master's in international relations and international communications at
Boston University. She also said that Christina Tuccille is off
traveling in Asia. Laura has settled in San Francisco, has her master's in
graphic design and says, "yes, I am still dating Norwood Scott '89." She is now
a freelance designer and having a blast! She sees Hilary Robbins and
Bill Goodman quite a bit and saw Kristin Herbster-Davis.
. . . Meredith Palin is an arts administrator and client
relations manager for the French Institute/Alliance Francaise in New York City
and says that the activity of which she is proudest is attending the weddings
of her friends: Kim Norberg Burke, Stacy Porath Bruder and
Twisty Gogolak to Tom Dorian. She also has at least two more,
Ellyn Paine and Grace Liang to Andy Shpiz. Stacy Porath
Bruder and her husband, Christopher, just moved to Newton Centre, where she is
an account manager for Design Times magazine in Boston and he is a
tennis pro. She says, "in the last three months I've moved to Newton, started
a new job and got married--never a dull
moment!" . . . Erik Potholm is a media consultant in
D.C. . . . Iris Kelley is a development assistant at
Harvard, a part-time student and engaged to be married in April '96 to Ho Jin
Park, a mechanical engineer. Diane Osgood and Carol Rea Christie
will be in the wedding party. . . . Frederic
Ramstedt has done everything from painting houses to selling wine and
selling stocks to teaching English at a USM summer exchange program with Rissho
University. Now he is a registered sales assistant at Paine Webber in
Portland. . . . Becca Brackett, Karen Crebase
and Maryann Hutchinson were all guests at Christine Murphy
Abbatiello's wedding last April, in her current home of Atlanta. Christine
is a software consultant for the legal industry, and her husband, Tom '89, is a
salesman for Fukikura America. . . . Aaron Mosler
was spotted at a Colby Club of Boston event with his new wife, Stacy
Karp. . . . Jennifer Woods Jencks is going to become
a mother. Stay tuned.
Correspondent: Portia Walker
First the e-mail. Zach Shapiro is still in rabbinical school in Cincinnati. He spent the summer in Israel and looks forward to spending next
year as a student rabbi in Great Falls, Mont. . . . Norm
Stillman is at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
specializing in small animals and planning a June '96 wedding with Diane Osgood
'91. . . . Brian Meehan is also engaged--to Eraena
Bracy, a nurse at Children's Hospital in Boston. He is working as a residential
counselor for mentally ill patients while pursing his master's in
education. . . . Jennifer McLeod has worked at
UMaine-Orono for the past two years and recently became the webmaster for the
university's Web site. Jennifer wrote that Craig Mertens and Kris
McGrew plan a wedding for summer '96, Margaret Russell plans a
spring '96 wedding and Jon Thometz is pursuing a master's in education
after getting his master's in history at Marquette
University. . . . Mary Beth Heiskell is still
working at the National Marine Fisheries Service and will begin a master's in
marine biology through BU's marine program at Woods Hole.
. . . Now the Pony Express mail: Felicia Gefvert left
teaching, spent a few weeks in Europe over the summer and is now working in
management for Starbucks Coffee. . . . Jodi Ernest
graduated from law school in San Diego in December '94 and is living in
Greensboro, N.C., working in real estate while studying for the N.C. bar
exam. . . . Bill Higgins is side-by-side with
Derek Bettencourt at Sun Life of Canada out of Chicago. They've had
visits from Mark Flaherty, Brian Mulvey, Bill Foster and
Chuck DiGrande '93. . . . Laura Weymouth Horne spent
two years in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, where she met her husband (as
of September '94). She is currently the director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters in
Brunswick, Maine. . . . Jay Hermsen wrote from
Savusavu in the Fiji Islands, where he has spent almost two years in the Peace
Corps. He was to return to the U.S. in December and was thinking about graduate
school. . . . Heather Hamilton is in grad school at
Emerson, pursuing a master of fine arts and planning for a June '96 wedding in
Chatham, Mass. . . . Kim Ereminas is braving her
fourth winter in Minneapolis, working as the director of development for a
nonprofit organization. . . . Chris Frothingham,
still living in North Andover, is applying to medical
school. . . . Andrew Finn, after long hours and lots
of hard work, is now one of the youngest pilots flying for American Eagle after
training there since January '94. He is currently checking out the major
airlines, including United, Delta, American and
Northwest. . . . Grace Grindle is still teaching
high school Spanish with Teach for America in North Carolina. This past summer
she raised more than $6,000 for Habitat for Humanity by rid- ing her
bicycle from Seattle to Asbury Park, N.J. . . . Mike
Gorra and Michelle Tupesis were married in March '95 and are living
in Ithaca, N.Y. Mike is in his third year at Cornell Veterinary School, and
Michelle is working toward her master's in education. Bob Gramling,
George Linge, Katie Drowne, Karen Santoro and Amy
Vreeland were in the wedding party, just a few of the 26 Colby alums in
attendance. Katie finished her master's in English at UConn and last year
worked at the Colby Writers' Center before moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., to
begin a Ph.D. program in English at UNC. . . . Camper Dan
Belvin called from Fort Bragg, where he serves in the 3rd Special Forces
Group; he was looking forward to a stint with the Airborne Division jumping out
of airplanes and was hoping for no more broken bones.
. . . Garin Arevian '91 and Kelly Evans were married in
October in Chatham, Mass. Chuck Leach '91 (who is working at Bowdoin in
communications), Scott Allen '90, Rachel Klein, Nicole Dauteuil
Begin, Helen Suh and I were in the wedding party. Also in attendance
were Peter '89 and Laurie Meehan Reed '88, Becky Graham (who just
produced her first feature film), Sandrine Dufils '89, Jack Higgins '93, Grace
Liang '91, Andy Shpiz '91, Eric Johnson (who is living in Milwaukee and
working for Strong Mutual Funds), Dave Edelstein (back at Princeton
after spending the summer in D.C. working for the Council of Economic
Advisors), Mark Boles, Andrew Eldredge, Lisa (Miller) and
Todd O'Connor '91, Sean '91 and Megan Fitzpatrick Lucey '94, Deb Brown '91,
Steve Collier '91, Steve Marshall '91, Clark Weber '91, Steve Swartz
(just recently transferred to Montreal with Morgan Stanley), Poppyann
(Mastrovita '93) and Mark Longsjo, Chris '90 and Clare DeAngelis
Connelly '90 and Billy Burke '91. . . . I am now working as
a marketing manager at Donna Karan for DKNY Hosiery, Eyewear, Accessories,
Shoes and Menswear in Manhattan and am finally enjoying my job. Now all I have
to do is move out! . . . Please keep the mail coming. My
e-mail is kmartsmb@aol.com
Correspondent: Katie Martin
Hello to everybody! Kristin Owens has
relinquished her duties as author of this column; I, Bill Miller, am now doing it. Thanks for
the responses to the partial mailing. . . . Karyn Rimas
is working for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston. She is
engaged to Jeffrey Pantry, whom she met at the wedding of Angela Tennett
and Paul Butler. The wedding is set for January 6,
1996. . . . Sheri Petelle is a Spanish teacher in
Lawrence, Mass. She spends her time grading papers and seeing the religion
teacher, with whom she was fixed up by some of the students. "Things get a
little tricky," she writes. . . . Laura Lepler is a
second grade Spanish teacher in Denver, Colo., after she finished grad school
and received her teaching certification. She has a year-old black lab named
McKinley. . . . Kristin Ostrom is working in the
dermatology lab at the B.U. School of Medicine. She is engaged to Andrew Allen
and will be married July 6, 1996. She started nursing school this past
summer. . . . Candace Killmer has moved from N.Y.C. to
Cambridge, Mass. She is working at Coopers & Lybrand in Boston and is
living with Cristen Herlihy, Michele Kennedy and Mary
Fitzgerald. . . . David Rea is a litigation legal
assistant in Philadelphia, "enjoying life." . . . Ellie North
has moved to Allston, Mass., and is researching infectious diseases at
Boston University. She writes that Beth Cronin and Josh Bubar
spent the summer in Aruba, teaching at the International School of Aruba.
She also writes that Andrea Walker is living in Portland, Maine, where
she spends most weekends outdoors fishing, biking and
camping. . . . Sarah Burditt is living in Little Rock,
Ark., facing a "drastic adjustment in culture, weather, terrain and attitudes"
after moving from the Northeast. She writes that Sarah Inman stopped by
on a road trip from Rhode Island to New
Orleans. . . . Shannon Roy is living in San
Francisco and working as a freelance photographer. She rides her mountain bike
and says she drinks far too much coffee. . . . Jamie
Perlman is living is Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has a five-year
record contract. . . . Dana McClintock is living in
Hoboken, N.J., where he is a publicist for CBS. He is engaged to Jenna
Macunochie (Bates '94--he apologizes). . . . David
McCarthy is a newlywed. He married Jayce McCarthy on August 12, 1995, in
Connecticut, where Tim Merrigan was his best man and Chris
Baynes, Paul Froio, Shawn Jenkins and Will Berglund
served as ushers. . . . Amy Partridge-Barber is in her
final year as a student in Boston College's master's of social work program.
Her husband, Ken Barber, is a life insurance underwriter at UNUM in Portland.
. . . Naomi Pietrucha is enjoying living in New Jersey
and working in N.Y.C. as a special projects coordinator for Cancer Care, Inc.
She had previously been in Washington, D.C., with Holly Coxe.
. . . Jorma Kurry was married July 1, 1995, to Karin
Killmer '90 in Camden, Maine. He is currently a grad student in Russian
linguistics in Iowa. His wife is a professor/coach at Iowa Wesleyan
University. . . . Sue Krolicki is living in
Cambridge, Mass., and working at a transportation planning and management firm.
. . . Elizabeth Rogers is living in Portsmouth, N.H. She
has joined a writing group and recommends everyone read Ernest Hebert's The
Dogs of March. . . . Katherine Rogers Roberts is
living in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, William. The two have traveled
throughout the U.S. . . . I hope to hear from you soon!
Correspondent: William Miller, Jr.
Most of the news is from questionnaires mailed last summer.
Jess Matzkin returned from a year of teaching in Ecuador and is pursuing
an M.A. in American studies at the University of
Wyoming. . . . Heather Johnson worked as a legal
case manager in Charleston, S.C., but is now enrolled in a Ph.D. program in
sociology at Northeastern. . . . After working in Denver
for a political consultant on a U.S. Senate campaign, Bonnie Johnson
returned to work in a summer camp for inner-city kids in New Hampshire and
planned to move to Boston in September. Elliot Barry lived an hour away
from her in Colorado but is now interning with the Tyler Wildcatters, a
baseball team in Texas. Bonnie also says that Melissa Wilcox went to
Africa for two years to work with women refugees and that Amy Clapp,
back from her bike tour of New Zealand, now leads bike tours in Vermont. She
also says that Devri Byrom is in San Francisco with Andy Rossi '93,
Michelle Satterlee and Janet Powers; Jess Cornwell works
for a publishing company in Boston; Jon Mitchell works in Portland,
Maine; Paul White enjoys his job in Minneapolis; and Jim
Lindstrom, Kim Kessler, Adam Furber and Jason Sudano
are all in N.Y.C. Thanks for all the news,
Bonnie! . . . Liz Moody works as a legal assistant
at Debevoise & Plimpton in N.Y.C. and lives in Brooklyn.
. . . Jessie Newman, who participated last May in the
California AIDS Ride from San Francisco to L.A. to benefit AIDS research, was
still in Denver and planned to study physical therapy after completing all the
prerequisities. She was looking forward to a vist from Babs Coulon and
Tracy Larsen and hoped to visit Steve Warwick and Michelle
Mathai in Seattle. . . . Marinel Mateo likes
working for a real estate company that purchases old abandoned apartment
buildings in poor neighborhoods in Chicago, renovates them and rents them out
to low-income families. She enjoyed a visit from Emily Chapman, who
finished grad school and works for a publishing company in Massachusetts.
Marinel wrote that Jenn Wolff teaches in Bangor, Andrea Stairs
moved to New Hampshire and teaches English at a middle school in Derry and
Andy Carlson, at Colby soccer camp last summer for Coach Serdjenian, now
teaches in southern Maine. . . . Ali Meyer, assistant
director of admissions at Colby, is looking forward to recruiting in western
and southern states this year. . . . Ben Morse received a
B.E. in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth, where President Clinton spoke at
the graduation. Ben is now a manufacturing engineer with Texas Instruments
Motor Control Division in Attleboro, Mass., and sees Jen Hurd, who works
as a computer consultant with Quality Solution in Stoneham,
Mass. . . . Heather Lounsbury works as a chemist for
the Massachusetts Waste Water Recycling Program and lives in Somerville with
Rebekah Freeman, Carolyn Hart and Kim Morrison
'90. . . . Josh Lutton's new job in technical sales
support with Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group in Illinois has taken him
to India several times. He writes that he is happy to be still dating Laura
Pavlenko. . . . Laura Miller moved from D.C. to
Nashville, Tenn., to work for Lamar Alexander's presidential campaign. She and
Jack Nestor are on the campaign trail together and hoping to work in the
White House in '97. Jack wrote that his good pal Mike Malony is
engaged. . . . Katie Morrison is in a
four-year-program at San Francisco Theological Seminary, pursuing a master's of
divinity and preparing as an open lesbian to become a pastor in the
Presbyterian Church USA, which at this time will not ordain her. She is one of
the authors of Called OUT: The Voices and Gifts of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgendered Presbyterians. . . . Carie Nelson
"survived" her first year at Syracuse University College of Law, worked at the
U.S. attorney's office in Syracuse last summer and continues to work on the
Journal of Legislation and Policy during the school
year. . . . Congratulations to Junko Kito Saito, who
married Juw Saito last June! She and her husband work in the foreign ministry
of Japan, and she hopes to return to the U.S. as a diplomat in the future.
Correspondent: Alicia S. Hidalgo
Bryan Carey is a paralegal at Covington & Burlington in
Washington, D.C. He says that Gino delSesto is working towards his
master's at GW, Brett Santoli is at Cornell Law School and Patrick
Tedesco is studying German in New York. . . . Also in
D.C. is Jennifer Ancker, who after spending the summer out West hiking
and white-water rafting, works with Beth Timm and Peter Duback at
an environmental consulting firm. She wrote that Madelyn Meyn was
working in New York City but planned to move in with her in D.C. in
December. . . . Joe Schwartz, working at JP Morgan,
and Anna Redmond, working in finance, are living in
Brooklyn. . . . Alice Tilson is working in North
Carolina. . . . After traveling out West, Bruce
Mason is living in New York before moving to Rhode
Island. . . . Alysa Cohen has an internship with a
graphic design and advertising firm in D.C. and is living with Brian
Rayback, who is attending Georgetown Law School. She writes that Josh
Radoff is teaching high school physics in Richmond, Va., and that Caleb
Mason is studying philosophy at Columbia. . . . Kate
Kraft and Jeff Ball are living in Seattle, as are Heather
Johnson and Fred Webster. . . . Rachel
Lapkin has also moved to the other coast--to Portland, Ore.--and Lisa
Kenerson is out in Sun Valley, Idaho. . . . Reported to
be living in Breckenridge, Colo., are Dave November, Toby True
and Erika Lichter. . . . Margot Salmela
is teaching in California. . . . After driving cross
country, Meredith Brent settled in San Francisco, where she is a
qualified mental retardation supervisor and liv- ing with Adam Rubin,
Laura Shmishkiss, Lane Schuck and Liz Kawazoe. Just around
the corner are John Joys and Sabrina Austin. Lindsay
Bennigson also is living in San Francisco, where, after a summer of leading
outdoor trips in New England, she moved to work as a counselor for troubled
teens. She writes that Lissie Dunn taught in Omaha, Neb., and plans to
move to South Carolina and that Hilary Anderson is working for an energy
conservation firm in Cambridge, Mass. . . . Chad Bauld,
who recently moved back to Nova Scotia after being in the States for seven
years, is taking classes and working at the Royal Bank of
Canada. . . . Scott Galson is working at WEFA in New
York. . . . Kerry Knudson is teaching English and
coaching basketball at a private high school in
Connecticut. . . . John Dunbar has returned to his
alma mater, Vermont Academy, to teach math and science and coach the cross
country team. . . . Brian Schwegler is attending
grad school at the University of Chicago. . . . Leah
Babcock is working as a legal assistant at Bank of Boston and living with
Andy Vernon and Chris
Lohman. . . . Stephanie Brewster is a staff
assistant for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. She writes
that Erin Mansur is also working in D.C. and that Kristen Fowler
is working at Harvard University. . . . Nicole Clavette
is living and working in Portland, Maine. . . . In the Peace
Corps are Tuck Evans in Kyrghyzstan, John Costenbader in Mali and
Carrie Miller in Madagascar. . . . Jason
Reifler is interning with the Democratic National Committee in
D.C. . . . I am a legal assistant with Dow, Lohnes &
Albertson in D.C. and live with Stephanie Pennix, who, along with
Jennifer Merrick, is a legal assistant at Arnold &
Porter. . . . In the D.C. area are Mike Kaplan, a
legal assistant, Rachel Kondon, Virginia Stettinius, Deborah
Fletcher and Stephanie Tyrrell. . . . Jill
Gardner was married to Derf Harlow in Ellsworth, Maine, on Columbus Day
weekend. Attending were Kristen Hanssen, who is working at the
Massachusetts State Laboratory Institute, Kathryn Cosgrove, who is a
research assistant at the Federal Reserve in Boston, Julie Rentz, who
along with Chris Fortune and Dhumal Aturaliye is studying
engineering at Dartmouth, C.J. Just, who is working in Portland, Maine,
and Sarah Bohlinger, who is working in
D.C. . . . Jesse Shapiro is a legal assistant in
Greensboro, N.C. . . . Liz Graupner teaches biology
in Texas. . . . Missy Smith and Debbie Butler, who
is living with law school student Emily Fantasia, are doing City Year in
Boston. . . . Ben Damon is a computer consultant in
Boston. . . . Steve Davis is working with his
father's insurance company in Needham, Mass. . . . Please
keep us all updated!
Correspondent: Alyssa Falwell
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