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