I'll be the first to claim bragging rights to the title of proudest new dad (and certainly newest proud dad). Diane delivered John Edward Veilleux Jr. on April 25 and is enjoying a temporary assignment as stay-at-home mom. By August, I hope to have replaced her for a few months in the role of Mr. Mom. . . . Also contending for the title is Weld Butler. "He has big hair. We're going to keep him," says the gushing father of Calvin Koch Butler. Weld, an investment advisor and president of Harbor Advisory Corporation in Portsmouth, N.H., describes wife Sarah's occupation as "engineering domestic." . . . Tony Cunningham teaches at St. John's University in St. Joseph, Minn., where he was the first recipient of the Robert Spaeth Teacher of Distinction Award last year. He has run St. John's honors program for the past two years and last fall directed the school's international education program in Galway, Ireland. Spouse Mickey (Mullen '81) is also teaching (art) and is an art historian. They have two girls, Flannery Claire, 4, and Maeleine Louise, 2. . . . Scot Lehigh is now a columnist with The Boston Globe, and he and wife Marsha are the parents of twin baby girls. Scot reports that he is co- director of the New England Chapter of PETA (Society for the Protection and Ethical Treatment of Animals) and would like all Colby alums to know that lobsters have feelings too. . . . Cornelia Armbrecht Brefka recently surprised husband Mark '77 with a 40th birthday party. The big Colby crowd included Terry O'Brien '78, Bill '78 and Joann Barry Getchell '78, Dotty Farrell Shelton '78, Hilary Morton Shontz and Susan Sullivan Hinrichs. Cornelia and Mark live in Greenwich, Conn., with their two boys, Paul, 5, and Henry, 1-1/2, two dogs and 202 worms (Paul's), courtesy of godfather Terry O'Brien '78. . . . Valera Butler Crofoot, a chef and food writer, was the 1996 recipient of the Julia Child Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She and musician husband Charles live in Monkton, Md. . . . Cathy Palmer is development director for the Lund Family Center in Burlington, Vt. . . . Julia Greenwood Kreutz writes from Decatur, Ga., where she lives with husband David and daughters Johanna and Gretchen. They were all looking forward to the Olympics, particularly since Decatur is host to Ireland. As a physical therapist/rehab program manager with Theratx Inc., Julia recently made the transition from patient care to management. In addition to her professional life, she enjoys teaching her girls to play piano and to swim. . . . Jonathan Covell owns a landscaping business and is assistant boys' hoop coach at Nauset Regional H.S. He and wife Susan live in Brewster, Mass., with their daughters Jessica, 7, and Katherine, 5. . . . John Carpenter writes from North Yarmouth, Maine, where he and wife Ronni-Jo (Posner '78) live with their twin boys, Scott and Robert, 8, daughter Allison, 5, and a large yellow lab named Dusty. John's a partner at the Portland law firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson and reports that Ted Tinson is CFO of Health Plans, a managed care provider, and that Dan O'Halloran recently married and moved with wife Jane to Yarmouth. . . . Susan Clark lives in Alexandria, Va., where as president of Bryce Executive Air Catering she caters to the needs of business and political highflyers. The firm serves corporate and private jets at the major area airports, and Susan is particularly looking forward to catering another Presidential campaign. . . . Marjorie Smith Bose moved into a new home in Derry, N.H., and traded in her title as marketing manager of a small software company in Cambridge to start a consulting business out of her home. She and husband Ron also are expecting a baby. She recently received a visit from Janet Fisher Gronneberg and had lunch with Mary Lynah Bishop, Robin Gathany Shea and Debbie Pugh Kelton. . . . Linda Alter also has moved her office "in- house" and now represents software manufacturers selling educational software to schools in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. She lives in St. Paul, Minn., with writer Carol Krawczak. . . . Ken Branch is a lieutenant commander, CEC, USN, and waxes poetic about the challenges of his new job as operations officer for Naval Amphibious Construction. During the last nine months, his group has been responsible for moving Marine, Navy and Army units from ship to shore in Korea, Thailand, Campuchea, Central Europe and Egypt. When at home, Ken, wife Maria Murrell- Branch and daughter Makalea Mae live in Coronado, Calif.
Class Correspondent: John Veilleux

Darlene Howland has been elected vice president of the Boston Association for the Education of Young Children. Darlene is the director of the early childhood program at the Wellesley Community Children's Center. In her spare time she is active in community theater and recently played the role of Anna in The King and I with the Wellesley Players. Nancy Welsh Isbell, Ellen Owens Dion, Lynne Winter Bruen, Janet Blau Cobb and I went to see the play. Darlene was marvelous as always! . . . Mimi Pratt Valyo has moved with her family from California to Simsbury, Conn. Now Mimi is able to visit with Brian Picard and his wife, Gisele, who also live in Simsbury. Brian and Gisele have four children--Christopher, Andrew, Michael and Laura. Mimi says she is glad to be back in her home state, but it has been an adjustment after being away for many years. Mimi's daughter Alison called her to the window to see a man "mowing the snow" (using a snowblower). She and her husband, John, are building a new house in Simsbury. . . . Scott Murchie is living in Mt. Airy, Md., and is a geologist working at Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. Scott writes that he is working on a camera and spectrometer on Near- Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, which was to be launched by NASA in February. Scott and his wife, Karen, have a daughter, Andrea, and two cats. . . . Sarah Swager is living in Hartsville, S.C. She is the dean of students at Coker College in Hartsville and is in the final phase of her dissertation at the University of Michigan for her Ph.D. in higher education administration. She hopes to graduate this year. . . . Victor and Ginny Bulford Vesnaver are busy with three children in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Victor is assistant vice president of sales for Regency Systems Solutions, a division of Hyatt, and Ginny is a full- time mom and part- time administrative manager at Deloitte & Touche. . . . Karen Baumstark Porter is a clinical psychologist and lives in Omaha, Neb. She and her husband, Randy, have a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and two dogs. Karen got her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1990, got married in 1991 and went into private practice the same year. This year Karen became a partner in the private practice where she has been working, Kairos Psychological, P.C. . . . Glenn Currier is a physician in Wellington, New Zealand. His wife, Linda, is also a physician, and they have a son, Thomas Harry Currier, born in September 1995. They have traveled throughout the South Pacific and Australia and now call New Zealand home. . . . I received two e-mails. One was from Dale Oak, who has been working for the Committee on Appropriations for the U.S. House of Representatives, managing the computer operations office. Dale and his wife, Janet, spend most of their free time chasing their 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son around. He saw Jim and Laura Littlefield Bourne at an event last fall of the Maine State Society, an organization in Washington, D.C., for people with a Maine connection. Dale ran into Champe Fisher in Arlington, Va., where they both live. . . . Kim Hokanson, also an e-mailer, married Dennis Stein last September at the Bowdon (!) College alumni house. Several Colby grads were in attendance: Cathy Dwyer, Sandy Whatley '80, Alastair Caperton '85, Sara Hill '84 and Eliza Dorsey '81. Kim is still working at the development office at Harvard and is living in Watertown with their two dogs, Kodak and Brownie (Dennis is a photographer), both rescued from the Humane Society. . . . Please keep writing!
Class Correspondent: Beth Pniewski Wilson

In Rockport, Mass., Susan Hartley Brisson and her husband, John (an assistant professor at MIT), have two children, Sarah, born in 1991, and Jack, born in 1993. Along with part-time consulting work for a telerecruiting company (college admissions), Susan is kept busy with carpooling, volunteering for Sarah's preschool--and two large Newfoundland dogs! . . . Jonathan Baskin's relocation to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has resulted in an increase in the purchasing of SPF 15 sunblock! Jonathan has a top PR job at Blockbuster Entertainment as a VP of corporate relations. This is a new job for him, and he enjoys the professional challenge. His wife, Elizabeth, is working part time in the PR field. Their daughter, Catherine, was born in 1995, and they have two cats, Felix and Roger. A great book that Jonathan recently read is The True and Only Heaven by Christopher Lasch. . . . Chris Cameron has started a marketing communications firm that specializes in the recreation and food industries. With his experience at Smartfoods and more recently at Mountain Bike Magazine, the business is pulling together much faster than expected. His wife, Susan, is a direct marketing consultant, and they are expecting their second child in October. (Peter Wilson Cameron was born in 1994 and rode his two-wheeler without training wheels on his second birthday!) Chris occasionally sees Carson Stanwood and Tim Dawson. . . . Paul Veilleux is currently director of instruction, Combined Logistics Officer Advanced Course. Since 1988 Paul has been stationed in Belgium and in Frankfurt, Germany, and was deployed to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield/Storm, for which he earned the Bronze Star. At the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., he served as a trainer for logistics units from all over the U.S. Since 1994 Paul has been in Fort Lee, Va. He and his wife, Andi, have two children, Christopher, 9, and Ryan, 6. Andi organized and runs a family support group for 350 employees and for all the students in CLOAC (up to 360 at any one time). Rounding out the family are Charlie the dog and Samantha the cat. . . . Mary Rudolph Black is practicing law with her partner and law school classmate at their firm, Black & Pontisakos. Her husband, Peter, is a manager, and their twins, Sophia and George, were born in 1994. Mary is curious about Ingri Gunderson Lombardi--please write in! . . . Jeffra Becknell moved to California. She and partner Liz drove across the country in a U-Haul towing a Ford Explorer while Wilbur the cat got to fly TWA. Jeffra is getting an M.Ed. at UCLA and is teaching at Dorsey High School in inner city L.A.--just like Dangerous Minds--only she says she doesn't look like Michelle Pfeiffer and has yet to learn karate. She's finding L.A. fun, has managed to find a hockey team to play on and has been an extra on a sitcom. . . . Tim Cross and his wife, Ann Philbin, have recently returned from two years of working in Warsaw, Poland, where he was country coordinator of the Civil Society Development Program. They were expecting their first child in July. . . . After four years in Dubai, UAE, Suzy Teare Morris has moved back to London. Her husband, Mark Morris, returned to London with Merrill Lynch as executive director, International Private Banking. They have four daughters--Logan, Nellie, Catharyn and Annie. Suzy and her family get back to the States every summer to visit Princeton and the Cape, and they also get together with Janice McKeown, Annie's godmother. They also keep in touch with Colleen Glovins Casey but have not seen her for a few years. . . . Terry Smith Probst is a bank administration officer with Atlantic Bank in South Portland, Maine. She and her husband, Steve, had their first child in November 1995--Adam Morrison Brobst checked in at 8 lbs. 12 oz. and 21.5 inches. Everyone is happy and healthy. . . . I want to thank you all for taking the time to write and send news. I also want to remind everybody that next spring we'll be having our 15th reunion! As the time gets closer, we'll be sending out more information.
Class Correspondent: Mimi Rasmussen