Greetings, Class of '93. As your newly appointed class correspondent, I would like to assure you that our litle niche in Colby magazine will never go blank again! Thank you for your informative letters--and keep them coming! . . . It would seem that some classmates have their collective knickers in a twist over never being in this column, so like a true representative I will begin by addressing the needs of the squeaky wheels! Hallie Hastert is embroiled in her first semester at UVA (business school) after putting some hectic years under her belt in D.C. She had news of Ben Marglin, who is climbing his way to the top as a scheduler in the U.S. Senate. Meg Wrenn is also grad school bound after spending a summer in Costa Rica. Hallie informs us that Kristin Archer and Chris Munro are both living in Denver, Colo., and loving the Rocky Mountain life. . . . Also in Colorado (Boulder) are Lisen Biersach, Jay Moore and Jason Barnes. Jay and Jason, both in graduate school at CU-Boulder, get beers together on occasion--maybe they rehash moments of White Mule rugby glory. . . . Also out West and back from a Chilean hiking/skiing jaunt are Mike Powers and Rob O'Neil--no doubt gearing up for another season of ripping up the slopes in Whitefish, Mont. . . . In a much warmer climate is Molly Bach, currently skippering a 61-foot yacht in the Caribbean and planning on starting her own provisioning company in Newport, R.I., come next summer. . . . Sarah Nagle writes that she loves her new job as a marketing associate in Los Angeles, loves her home, her boyfriend, Perry, and her life in general! Hallie also had word of Abigale Knapp and Jen Comstock. Abigale is living in Boston, where she was working like a mad woman (I can vouch for that!) for the campaign to re-elect Senator John Kerry. When all is said and done, she plans on moving to N.Y.C. Jen is in her second year at Cornell Business School, where she was visited last year by Chuck Martin when he was looking at schools. . . . Speaking of graduate degree recipients, Lesley Frymier received her M.S. from UVM, Chris West received his M.S. from Duke, and Kim Carlson, Beth Hermanson and Dave Crittenden are all bearers of law degrees! . . . Congratulations are also in order for quite a number of our classmates who are engaged or have gotten married. Louisa Merianos is engaged to be married in June '98 and is finishing up a degree at Georgetown in public policy. Dana McClintock was married this past summer, and his old roommates of "Schprockets" fame--Dan O'Grady, Jack Higgins and Jason Soules--were there to add to the revelry. Heather Perry and Richard Weafer are getting married in summer '97 as are Candace Killmer and Rod Corey and Jen Larsen and John Daileanes '92. . . . And three cheers for Emily Muldoon, who took third place for women ages 20-29 in the Portland Marathon last October! . . . I look forward to hearing from you all.
Class Correspondent: Elizabeth Curran

Since her return from Costa Rica, Amy Alderson has been an educator in maternal health care for a community clinic in Dorchester, Mass. She wrote about a weekend gathering last spring at the New Hampton School, where Jessica Hill was working as a teacher of physics and math and planning to teach marine biology for the Oceans Program at Phillips Academy in the summer. At that time Danielle Jamison, who completed studies for her master's in the math Ph.D. program at Brown, announced her engagement to Robert Benedetto. Also in attendance was Liz Stewart, a manager at a professional theater in Maine and an acting member of the board of a local children's theater. Amy wrote that Becky Proulx was working at a residential outdoor education center in Vermont as a ropes course and team-building instructor and that Jon Medwed was living and working in D.C. . . . Kamin McClelland now works as a media planner at Modem Media, an interactive advertising agency in Westport, Conn. . . . Back from her winter of skiing in New Mexico, Amy Clapp was living in the Adirondacks on Lake George last summer and leading bike trips. Amy saw Molly Brown, who was working for an insurance company in Seattle. . . . Heather Boothe, who was a teaching intern in San Jose and a park ranger for the National Park Services at Pt. Reyes National Seashore last summer, is now studying for her teaching credentials at Humboldt State. . . . While working as a faculty/research assistant at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Rebekah Freeman lived in Somerville with Kim Morrison '90, Heather Lounsbury, who works in Cambridge for Cyto-Med., a bio-tech company, and Carolyn Hart, who works in the Family Resource Center at MIT. Rebekah moved to N.Y.C. in August to work on a master's in higher education administration at NYU. She wrote that Chris Austin in Portland was great in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and that John Grady was directing and acting in Joey and Maria's Comedy Wedding in California. . . . Matt Campbell is working on a Ph.D. in atomic physics at the University of Virginia while living in a cottage on a farm north of Charlottesville. . . . Living at the base of 13,000-foot Mt. Sopris, Constanza Escudero is teacher assisting for the Basalt Schools in the Roaring Fork Valley, near Aspen, Colo. Last summer she did an outdoor/rock climbing/rafting trip with high school students through Aspen Grassroots. . . . John Dudek began his third year of graduate school in chemistry at Princeton and was in the July '95 wedding party of Karen Whitcomb, now teaching at Dedham High School in Massachusetts, and David Bryan, who enjoys his work at Fidelity. Also in the wedding party were Kristian Parker and Jay Sutherland. Kristian is enjoying himself at Duke as a graduate student in marine biology, and Jay, currently working at BU medical center, is excited to have had a few papers published. . . . Sarri Salman, aka Sarge, transferred to Colorado State and is studying chemistry and having a wonderful time. . . . Stephen Cranfill, who attended Colby through his sophomore year and then transferred to Northwestern, wrote that he would be the best man at the September wedding of Josh Lutton and Laura Pavlenko in Colorado. . . . Billy Bush is an on-air personality and public affairs director at WARW-FM, "Washington D.C.'s Classic Rock." He lives with Roger Hughes, Vinny DelGreco and James Kaleigh, who started law school at American University this fall. . . . Susan Benson and Bruce Panilaitis were married in August, honeymooned in St. Martin and live in Bedford, Mass. Sandy Benson was maid of honor; Lorin Knell and Scott Kadish were also in the wedding party. Susan is now a pre-K teacher in Chelsea, Mass.; Bruce is president of the Tufts Graduate Student Council. . . . Eric Burger, doing an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arizona, wrote that Susie Belknap also moved to Tucson and is teaching in a grade school. . . . Congratulations to Missy Fraser and Ted Gramer, who plan an August wedding, and to Kelly O'Rourke and Leif Merryfield '93, who are also engaged. . . . Tony Baldasaro has a new job as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch. . . . I also have a new job, as a human resources rep for Town & Country Fine Jewelry Group.
Class Correspondent: Alicia S. Hidalgo

The response to the survey question on what you miss about Colby is generally the same: everyone seems to miss certain professors, hanging out in the Spa and having their friends nearby. Most of us seem quite happy to be exploring a new city, retiring our year-round winter wardrobes and experiencing things that were tough to come by in Waterville! And a number of us are far from Maine. Emma Spenner is in the Peace Corps in Malawi, working with Malawi's Department of National Parks and Wildlife, where she is confronted daily with the urgency of environmental conservation. She has been traveling around Africa and planned to climb Kilimanjaro with her father in December. She wrote that Karin Lapping is working for Earth Watch in Cambridge, Mass., Bruce Mason is traveling through Central and South America, and Laura Finn is pursuing an acting career in New York City. . . . Sabrina Austin in San Francisco has a new job as a research assistant with Montgomery Securities in the tech sector. She also has traveled to France and Italy. . . . I heard that in September Susie Rankin headed to Ecuador to teach English with WorldTeach. . . . Marty Krowlewski is in his second year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Last summer he did an internship at a clinic in Boston. . . . Carolyn Caswell is an events manager for a software consulting firm in Boston. . . . Tachou Dubuisson recently moved to Boston, where she is working as a sales representative with Bank of Boston. She wrote that Michelle Brumfield is teaching in Chicago and that Heather Johnson is engaged to be married to Fred Webster. . . . Sara Charnecki is a research technician in the cardiology department at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, where she also has volunteered in the post-anaesthesia unit. She is hoping to go to med school next fall. . . . Brendan Cavanaugh was set to begin Rush Medical College in Chicago this past September. He had been working as an emergency room technician at New England Medical Center in Boston, where he had been living with Mike Murphy, who is doing research at Mass General. . . . Becca Apollon is now an admissions counselor at Colby. . . . Before moving to Seattle, Sarah English was an assignment editor for Fox 60 News in Hartford. She drove cross country after graduation with Deb Norris, who is now living with Michelle Liu and Meg Sweeny in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Sarah says that Kate Kraft and Jeff Ball are living just a few blocks from her in Seattle and that Patricia Jurrians is also in Seattle. She added that Annie Girton and Josh Gravin are living in San Diego and that Chrisanne Loll had visited her before starting her new job in Boston. . . . Debbie Butler began a master's program in social work at Boston University last fall. She was planning to live with Alice Amstutz in Boston. Debbie and Missy Smith drove cross country last July. . . . Lissie Dunn is teaching high school English in Tucson, Ariz. Deanna Loew is in Tucson with her and hopes to start grad school next fall. Lissie told me that: Nicole Breen started grad school for physical therapy at Simmons College, Jason Mahoney is at law school at the University of Pittsburgh, Mike Frasier is working in Telluride, Sean "Shake" McBride is working toward a master's in English in Boston, and Pete Gates is working for Fidelity in Boston. . . . John Smith is now the EMT in charge of new technologies at Maine Medical Center in Portland. . . . Jan Dutton '94 received an M.S. from Penn State in atmospheric science. . . . Lisa DeHahn is living in Portland, Maine, doing social and human services work at a teen shelter for Goodwill Industries. She directed Wind in the Willows at Portland Players and also has done a little acting. She has become interested in the Society for Creative Anachronism and spent a weekend dressed in period garb, eating period foods, etc. She says that Michael Daisey is scoping out the theater scene in Seattle and that Sandy Bugbee is happily employed in Burlington, Vt. . . . Karen Andreas says she is still enjoying her job at The School for Field Studies and has found time for new hobbies: scuba diving (in the Caribbean last winter), harvesting fresh garlic and basil, and papermaking. She reported that Jenn Aengst is in Jackson Hole and that Carrie Miller is in the Peace Corps in Madagascar.
Class Correspondent: Alyssa Falwell

Kathy Alexander works at Cambridge Montessori School and lives with Gretchen Rice and Heather Hunt. Heather does lab research at Mass General, and Gretchen is queen of video editing at Media 100. . . . Patty Benson, an associate consultant at Bain and Company, lives in Boston. . . . Suzanne Arnold is in graduate school at the University of Virginia. . . . Tatum Calder is a statistical marketing analyst at Wareguard and lives in Summerville, Mass., with Simon Dalgleish, Dori Morrison and Kim Allen. Simon is an associate consultant at Arthur D. Little, Dori is an operations associate at Case Shiller Weiss, Inc., and Kim is a custody accountant at Investors Bank and Trust. . . . Karen Bossi and Chad Sisson are engaged and plan to be married next summer. . . . Kevin Grimes Smith lives in a trailer park with Phil Svor while both are students at Auburn University in Alabama. . . . Evan Berman is pursuing graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Georgia. . . . Tammy Jo Smith and Cindy Kelley cohabit in Belmont, Mass. Tammy works at State Street Bank, and Cindy works in the office of the president of Radcliffe College. . . . Ruth Bristol is a medical student at Tulane University and welcomes the change to New Orleans! . . . Maylene Cummings is in an M.A./Ph.D. program in German at the University of Minnesota. . . . Kristin Carr lives at home in Beverly, Mass., and works full time as the manager for Eastern Bank. . . . Hillary Brennan moved from Texas to Boston and hopes to find a job in biology/marine biology or environmental science. . . . M. Adam Brown lists his occupation as flasher and table dancer who acts and sings for the masses. . . . R. Scott Ames is assistant to the director of the Goldfars Foundation. . . . Marc Small teaches freshman math and coached soccer at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. . . . Carolyn Donahue is a Ph.D. student at UVM in the department of microbiology and molecular genetics. . . . Heather K. Duley works in management development for MBNA America. . . . Katherine Campbell lives in California and instructs at Catalina Island Marine Institute. She writes that Tobin Scipione and Erin Mahon came for a visit during their cross-country drive. . . . Dori Deis also lives in California and works as a production assistant at Carsey Warner Productions on the sitcom Townies. . . . Keith J. Albert is a graduate student in the chemistry Ph.D. program at Tufts University. . . . Caleb Dolan joined Teach for America and teaches reading in eastern North Carolina. . . . Danielle R. Beaudin works in public relations as an assistant account executive at Miller/Shandwick Communications in Boston. . . . Patti Abbot is getting her master's at Lesley College while interning at the Pine Point School. . . . Kristen Drake is headed for the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa, to work in natural resource management and agroforestry. . . . Jen Pope is also a Peace Corps volunteer, in Mali, West Africa, and loves every minute of it! . . . Courtney Marum is getting her real estate license in Connecticut. . . . Dani LeGrand works at an outdoor science school in Sonora, Calif. . . . Kirstin Rohrer enjoys law at Vermont Law School. . . . Corey Burnham is a paralegal in Hartford. . . . Carmen Spear is an editorial assistant at an investment research firm, R.L. Renck & Co., in downtown Manhattan. . . . Nicole L. Jalbert works at BU's School of Medicine in the department of dermatology for a doctor doing research on melanoma and various skin diseases. She also is going to school part time at BU's School for Education. . . . Margaret Harris is a paralegal at the law firm Brown and Rudnick in Boston. . . . Sofie Trevor, who works for Teach for America, lives with Rachel Kleinman in N.Y.C. . . . Sheila Grant teaches at a preschool in Sudbury, Mass. . . . Lee St. George attends Lesley graduate school while teaching full time and coaching soccer. . . . Kaitlin Graham lives with Beth Atkinson in Boston, where Kaitlin works at a hospital and regularly sees Doris Desautel, who is a law student at Suffolk University. . . . Qi Wang and Adrian Calder are both in the engineering program at Dartmouth College. . . . Tyler Walker teaches at Applewild School. . . . Abby Smith is trying her hand at human resources while living at home in Matapoisett, Mass. . . . Keep the letters coming!
Class Correspondent: Amie Sicchitano