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Ethan W. Shapiro has been an associate dean at Phillips
Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., for about a year now. Since 1991 Ethan has held
the Harlan E. Ellis instructorship. He teaches Russian, is currently the head
of Soule Hall and is the academy's varsity wrestling coach, whose teams have
consistently won Class A and Prep School Championship
titles. . . . Heartwarming it is when the Colby folks send mail
my way since I get to see news clippings from afar. Such a mailing brought me a
photo of a smiling Jake Filoon and his betrothed, Gretchen Munn, who
plan to wed in fall 1997. Ms. Munn is employed by Boston International
Advisors, and Jake is employed by Fleet Financial Group.
. . . Dan Matlack said he saw Cory Humphries Serrano '85
at the playground. No doubt Dan and wife Allison took the kids, Hannah, 4, and
Nathaneal, 1, to get a workout on the swings near their home in Needham, Mass.
Dan says his job of Latin teacher at Noble & Greenough School is stressful so
this trip to the playground may have been a way for Dan to wind down. He runs
the middle school community service program so he stays connected to the
neighborhood through Allison's interaction therein. . . . David
Niles's letter included a photo of the family, which consists of Dave, wife
Laurie, son Gareth, 2, and Olivia, 1. The family looks very healthy and happy.
David says he has a great job and poor funding and works at the mercy of
Congress's vicissitudes. Paid by the federal government, he is currently a
scientist who "builds and measures next-generation
solar cells." Noting that the budget is worsening, which translates into a
shrinking job market, David thinks he'll wait until the kids are a bit older to
venture out on a career change. Laurie as mom spends her time with the kids and
has a few moments to do aerobics and jazzercise. Tennis is David's game of
choice, when he has time. They live in Littleton, Colo., and love the
neighborhood. David has kept in touch with several Colby physics professors and
even had two Colby students come to his lab to work during Jan Plan about two
years ago. Love the news, Dave! . . . Skiing is John
Northrop's life, in essence. He's able to ski from 25 to 30 days a year and
challenges anyone in our class to keep up! John is still living in the
Burlington, Vt., area (10-plus years now) and currently works for Bruegger's
Bagel Corporation, traveling to train management personnel on point-of-sale
and store management systems. He likes the work and the countrywide travel.
John sees Tom Colt '85, who's at UVM, Adam Weiss, who teaches at Essex
Jct. High School, Phin Gay and Stephen and Nancy Pratt Hurley
when they visit Cindy Trone and her family in
Burlington. . . . Ann Poncelet is enjoying life in
the Bay Area with her husband John Toupin. Ann is a neurologist on the UCSF
neurology faculty, and John is a computer programmer. They are expecting their
first child this spring. . . . Deb Bombaci Pappas started
a new job at the end of 1996 as director of marketing for Lightbridge, Inc. in
Waltham, Mass. The company provides customer acquisition and retention
solutions for carriers (such as AT&T Wireless and Sprint Spectrum) in the
wireless telecommunications industry. At Christmastime, Debbie and George
were receiving plenty of snow and enjoying winter deer
sightings. . . . Kevin and Karen Nickerson Purcell
and family have moved, "again," said Karen at Christmastime. They are somewhere
in Atlanta, Ga., as Kevin has taken on a new hotel management position there.
No further details are available to us yet. . . . I often
write a few personal passages in this column that, for space reasons, get
edited out. Hoping this one is not, I would like to commend our class for past
giving practices as evidenced in the most recent tome on financial gifts to the
College. We had 141 donors from the past year, and our giving is improving. Let
us ready ourselves to break some of those records in terms of being a class
with great increases in giving as well as the numbers of our class who are
giving. Remember: your consistent gift in any amount is what counts. Please do
not feel that a "small" donation is of lesser value. We should strive to see
our class participating as fully as we can at our own personal levels and be
proud of our gifts to Colby as a group. Happy spring and summer!
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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