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Leslie Kaplan and her husband, Jerry Knopf, are living in
Boston, where Leslie is a senior vice president of Hill Holliday, an
advertising firm. They have traveled to Turkey, Greece, Australia and the
Virgin Islands and were expecting their first child last May. Back in 1995,
Leslie attended the weddings of Kathy Dornish DuGrenier and Mark Federle
'83. . . . Dave Bolger is living on Bainbridge
Island near Seattle on an old dairy farm and is a third and fourth grade
elementary school teacher in an alternative program. He writes that Frank
Wirmusky is training teachers in Lithuania using Langston Hughes's
poetry! . . . Amy Haselton has moved from San Diego
to Roanoke, Va., where she is president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the
Blue Ridge. She has visited with Joanne Terry Swanson, her husband,
John, and their two daughters in Ashville, N.C. Amy drove across country while
making her move, traveling through Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas,
Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. . . . Karen Pfeiffer Jones
and her husband, Owen, are living in Peekskill, N.Y. They have two sons, Andy
and Alex. Karen and Owen job-share
at the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. in New York City, where they are both
information specialists in their large corporate library. This allows them to
keep up their careers and have one of them at home, too! Karen writes that the
Internet is becoming a more important information source for corporate
librarians. Karen has spoken with Karen Baumstark Porter, who is a
psychologist living in Omaha, Neb. Karen has a daughter, Mary. . . .
Peter Cocciardi is living in Middleton, Mass., with his wife, Leslie,
and children Matthew and Emily. For their 10th wedding anniversary Peter and
Leslie took a cruise from Boston to Bermuda on the Royal Majesty.
Unfortunately, they hit hurricane Felix, never made it to Bermuda and ended up
in Nassau and Freeport instead. They were hoping to take the cruise again last
summer with the kids and finally get to Bermuda. Peter, I hope you made
it. . . . Lawrence "Andy" Anderson and his wife, Kathryn Mack, are
living in Guilford, Conn. They were married in 1996 and honeymooned in Tuscany
and the coast of Italy. Andy is president of Anderson Technologies, a
manufacturing company. . . . Rick Schaub and his wife, Sue,
are living in Plano, Texas, with their two sons, Douglas and Will. Rick is the
president of Priss Prints, marketer of children's and infant's room decor. Rick
writes that they prefer Dallas winters to those in Massachusetts and Ohio. He
has seen Ted and Lisa Gale Taylor, who live in Knoxville, Tenn.
Last February they were planning on taking their sons and Ted and Lisa's son
Cam on an ice fishing trip to Maine. . . . Valentine Talland and
her husband, Nagesh Mahanthappa, are living in Cambridge, Mass. Val is the
conservator of sculpture and decorative arts at the Gardiner Museum in Boston.
They have traveled to Indonesia and India and are hoping to get to Central Asia
in 1997. They were expecting their first baby last
February. . . . Diane Young is living in Stamford, Conn.,
and is a real estate senior investment officer with TIAA-CREF. She visited
Heidi Proctor Baxter in her new home in Topsfield, Mass., with her new
son, Andrew. Diane writes that Karen Orloff Maddox was expecting a
second baby last year. . . . Carol Arness, a carpenter,
is living in Madison, Wis., with her partner, Rose Stanek. They have two
shelties and have recently completed remodeling of their home. .
. . Jean Siddal-Bensson started medical school at the
University of Massachusetts in Worcester last fall. . . . That's
all for now. Please keep writing! The Class of '81 now has a web
site where you can read up on classmates and contribute news. It's located at
http://www.colby.edu/classof/1981/
Deborah Bombaci Pappas '83 was named marketing director at
Lightbridge Inc. in Waltham, Mass.
Births: A son, Edward Jack, to Dave and Alex Gauss Andrews
'81. . . . A son, Aidan Patrick, to Bill and Jullane
Cully Wright '82. . . . A son, Patrick Jack, to Regina
and Mark Federle '83. . . . A son, Joseph John, to
Joseph and Paula Donahue Kerwin '83. . . . A
daughter, Erica Nicole, to Karen and Jim McKenzie
'83. . . . A daughter, Anthea S., to Adam Weiss
'83 and Becca Cunningham '84. . . . A daughter,
Eleanor, to Julie and Hall Adams III '84. . . . A
son, Owen, to Eric Coumou '84. . . . Twin sons, Kyle
James and William Clay, to Julie and Todd Halloran
'84. . . . A son, Kyle Patrick, to Jehane Zakher '86
and Paul Johnston Jr. '87. . . . A son,
Rory Elias, to Michael and Maren Nelson Nagem
'86. . . . A son, Alexander Ronald, to Gary and Sara
Whittle Stoffel '86. . . . A daughter, Anna, to
Jennifer and Peter Murphy '87.
Marriages: James F. Lafrance '81 to Susan Mortell Donovan in
Laconia, N.H. . . . Abigail Drury King '83 to
Jeffrey Mark Diggins in Dark Harbor, Maine. . . . Leon
C. Buck Jr. '84 to Muriel A. Evans in Washington,
D.C. . . . Carol J. Hildebrand '84 to Donald B.
Eburne inWest Boxford, Mass. . . . Elizabeth P. Eddy '85
to Henry W. Griffin III in Worcester,
Mass. . . . Kelly A. Vandal '85 to Amos L. Gulezian
in Haverhill, Mass. . . . Elizabeth W. McSorley '86
to David R. Baker in Osterville, Mass. . . . Kimberly
Ann Ryan '87 to Nigel Paul Ekern in Greenwich, Conn.
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