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Thanks for your responses. . . . Diae Decker is in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, class of 2000. . . . Brigid Jordan is living in Boston's North End and working as an embryologist at the Boston Fertility Lab in Brookline. . . . Elinor Gregory also recently moved to the North End--after skiing in Colorado for the past two years and traveling around the world in the fall a year ago. She is currently looking for a publishing job. . . . Tamiko Davies is a full-time nursing student in Portland, where she worked as a social worker for two years. Recently she traveled to Central America with Jeannette Morss. . . . Katy Donovan completed the Boston Marathon along with Mike O'Neil, Meghan Goughan, Jack Higgins and Chris Baynes. She writes that Cristen Herlihy is engaged and attending Tuck this fall. Also to be at Tuck in the fall was Shawna Huffman, who traveled in the summer after finishing her consulting job at Coopers & Lybrand in N.Y.C. Katy also writes that Willy Berglund is engaged. . . . Scott Greenfield is living in Missouri and working as an investment banker. . . . Alison Inch is the director of development for her high school alma mater, running the annual fund in addition to publishing all school materials. She is very active in outdoor sports. . . . A.G. Gillis is the director of marketing for a record label. He recently returned from a one-year stint in Southeast Asia as a manufacturing manager for an online service company. "Life is good," he writes. . . . Nancy Emerson has been teaching math at Concord High School in New Hampshire for the past year. She also is working on a master's degree in math at UNH. . . . Chris Gieszl is a corpsman in the Navy Seals. He joined the Navy a year ago and is currently completing Army Ranger school, then plans to go on to Special Forces Corpsman School as a paramedic. . . . Sean Greene is a student at George Washington University's master's program in international affairs. . . . Suzie Girard is working as a sales rep in Denver and recently had Kristen Ellinger visit for five days. . . . I'm passing the torch to Beth Curran, so this is my last column. Make sure and jot down Beth's address--all new class news should go to her. Thanks!
Class Correspondent:
Elizabeth Curran

Three more class members were married last summer! Tony Baldasaro married his long-time girlfriend, Kelli, in June. Tony, a biology teacher for the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, hoped to return to school for his M.B.A. . . . Susan Benson and Bruce Panilaitis were planning an August wedding. Sue was teaching kindergarten at a private school in Wilbraham, Mass., and Bruce, pursuing a Ph.D. in biology at Tufts, had been living with Tim Seston '93 and Scott Kadish, who was working in the advertising department at The Jewish Advocate in Boston. Sue wrote that Sandy Benson completed her R.N. and was pursuing her master's in nursing from Columbia. . . . Matt Lapides left his job as an analyst at Chase Manhattan in January and moved from the Upper East Side to the Village to pursue a career as a stage actor. He wrote that Matt McGowan works at a publishing company and Kimberly Valentine just moved to N.Y.C. . . . Also in N.Y.C. is Megan Campbell, who lives with Mike Koester and Matt Muszala '95 and works as an affiliate marketing representative for the Disney Channel. . . . Stephanie Cain, planning to move south by the end of last summer, was freelancing and working on her first novel, which is loosely based on her experiences at Colby. She is in touch with Lee Awbrey, working for Planned Parenthood in Boston, and with Beth Scoville, who is working with special children in Portland, Maine, while continuing to dance. . . . Donna Bacchiocchi is a special education aide at her old high school in East Longmeadow, Mass., and also teaches Spanish at a local Catholic school. . . . Emily Chapman is doing catalogue production at an auction house in Bolton, Mass. . . . Sarah Barker, doing research in ornithology for Cornell University, also works as a ski coach. . . . Annie Clougherty left last June to train with the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa. She will participate in a health/nutrition education program, working at a local health center with a native doctor or nurse, researching local food prices, designing programs and making home visits to train women in rehydration therapy for their children. . . . Devri Byrom left San Francisco last December and visited Molly Brown in Seattle before joining her family for Christmas in China. After spending three weeks skiing in New Mexico with Amy Clapp, she became a high school science teacher aboard a 131-foot gaff-rigged schooner sailing up the East Coast from the Caribbean to Boston and was hoping to be on another schooner back in the Pacific Northwest for the summer. . . . In June of last year Cole Conlin moved from Portland, Ore., to Canaan, N.H., to teach at a boarding school. . . . Pierson Bourquin is living in Sausalito, Calif., selling Internet services for The Well and enjoying the bay area. . . . Elliot Barry moved from Texas to Portland, Maine, to work as the assistant director of merchandising for the Portland Sea Dogs baseball team. He still sees Bonnie Johnson and invites anyone in the area to stop by the ball park. . . . After working at many different jobs, including teaching elementary school, Jennifer Chasin is looking into graduate programs in clinical psychology. . . . Julie Cyr, an integration teacher at New England Center for Autism, was planning to attend grad school this fall in speech and language pathology. . . . I have seen Ingrid Kristan, who returned from France and now works at Houghton Mifflin in Boston. I also heard from Lori Cohen, who was engaged to the Canadian she met during our spring break trip to Cancun sophomore year. She was planning to move to Australia.
Class Correspondent:
Alicia S. Hidalgo

Here's the latest on your classmates. Stefanie Trepper has been teaching kindergarten in New York while working on her second year of a master's degree in elementary education. She also traveled in Europe for a month. . . . Yuhgo Yamaguchi is also in New York, where he writes that he is enjoying his work as a portfolio assistant for Smith Barney. He has been spending time officiating at ice hockey games, mainly for kids but also for a few adult leagues. He told me that Chris Lohman is working at Penske truck leasing, Andy Vernon is working in mutual fund marketing at John Hancock in Boston, and Marc Rubin is a regional economist at DRI in Lexington, Mass. . . . Stephanie Tyrrell is living in Alexandria, Va., and working as a research analyst for an economic consulting firm. She wrote that Deb Fletcher is working at the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C., and that Lynn Thompson is teaching in Clinton, Mass. . . . April Armstrong, who started with our class before taking three years off to do several things including going to school in Connecticut, performing off-Broadway and assisting with the International DJ Expo in Chicago, is now back at Colby as a member of the Class of '98. She is keeping busy on Mayflower Hill as a Colbyette and president of Powder and Wig. She is still dating Shawn Campbell '93 and reports that she has seen Jaye Gennaco and Sara Campbell. . . . Kara Toms is on the field staff for a wilderness therapy program in Utah. She spent last winter teaching English in Ecuador and hiking in Chile. . . . Julie Rentz graduated from the engineering program at Dartmouth and moved down to Somerville, Mass., with Kristen Hanssen and Kathryn Cosgrove. . . . Regina Wlodarski writes that she recently bought a condo in Stamford, Conn., and is living there with her boyfriend, Keith. She is still working as a credit controller at Credit Suisse Financial Products in New York and was hoping to do some camping last summer. She let me know that Lenia Ascenso is working in insurance in Lynnfield, Mass., and living with her sister in Salem. . . . Delia Welsh recently became engaged and was due to return from Morocco, where she was on a Fulbright scholarship. . . . Susan Hale is working in Bethesda, Md., at Lockheed-Martin. . . . Allison Wilkin is beginning a master's in microbiology at UConn this fall. . . . I also started my first year of a master's program, in communications at Georgetown. Keep the news coming, '95!
Class Correspondent:
Alyssa Falwell


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