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This will be the last column before I hand the baton over to Lauren
Frazza! Thanks for all the news throughout the years and for making this
such a fun position. I look forward to seeing everyone at the 10th
reunion! . . . Andrew McIntosh is still working at
Keystone Investments in Boston and has almost completed an M.B.A. program
on-line through the University of Phoenix. In his spare time he pursues his
bagpipe talents with Tularch Ard, a Celtic music band that already has won
several prizes in competition. . . . Craig Welch is also
in the Beantown area and is the co-founder of a financial software company that
has explored the investment opportunities in former Soviet aircraft companies.
In 1994, Professor Al Mavrinac helped with some of his investigations. Craig
and his wife, Natasha, gave birth to a little girl last
fall. . . . Betsy Lockhart Casey was married last June on
Cape Cod, where Donna Perrine and Megan Patrick '89 served as
bridesmaids. Donna is currently a marketing communications analyst at Fidelity
Investments in Boston. Betsy and her husband recently relocated to Boston,
where Betsy continues to work for Tap Pharmaceuticals. Kim Ellis Fisher
had her first baby, Benjamin, last May. Unfortunately, Kim wasn't able to
partake in Betsy's bridesmaid activities. . . . Jeff Bruce
continues to be a copy editor and to utilize his design talents with the
sports department of the Seattle Times. Jeff has really enjoyed living
in Seattle. . . . Becca Bruce earned a master's in
community and regional planning from the University of Texas-Austin a few years
back. She has been working for a housing consulting firm that specializes in
building/rehabing low-income housing for the elderly nationwide.
. . . Leah Basbanes continues as a self-employed wetland
consultant and Conservation Commission agent for Dunstable, Mass. Leah has been
running her own business for four years after getting her master's in
environmental studies from Boston University. . . . Michael
Bukowski writes that he is renovating a 19th-century farmhouse in Wells,
Maine, on 125 acres of protected land. Michael works as a veterinarian in
Sanford, Maine. . . . George Belshaw is a motion picture
producer for Altar Rock Films in New York City. He married Dorothy Murray last
June. . . . Alexandra Motyka Duffy got her master's from
Johns Hopkins University and is a technical trainer/writer for Shimadzu
Scientific. She has two children. . . . Garret and Sue
Maddock Hinebauch love living in Colorado, where they both teach English.
They rented their home in Longmont, Colo., and moved in to dormitory housing at
the Dawson School, where Sue teaches. Their abode has great views of the Rocky
Mountains! . . . Christine Dixon joined Decisions Systems
Group outside of Boston last year and works on web site development for
Partner's Health Care, Inc., a collaboration of Boston and greater-Boston area
hospitals. . . . Amy Lumbard Holbrook and her
husband, Guy '86, had their first daughter, Sara, last fall. They are both
thrilled! . . . Joan Fortin graduated from Northeastern
University School of Law last fall and is psyched to be living in Portland,
Maine, where she serves as a clerk for the Maine Supreme Court in
Bangor. . . . Julie Karas was promoted from
rehabilitation manager to the physical therapy clinical supervisor for the
State of Rhode Island at Olympus Healthcare. . . . William
Kinney will complete his surgical residency in ear, nose and throat this
summer. He and his wife, Birgit, live in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with their
son, William Jr., 3, and a black Lab named Colby. . . . Toby
LaVigne received an M.B.A. from the Johnson School at Cornell and has
returned to the Worcester area. Toby works at LaVigne Press, a family business,
where he was appointed chief operating officer and is the fourth generation to
lead the family business. Toby recently bought a home next to the woods of
Spencer, Mass., and lives there with his black lab, Bear. . .
. Karen Hentz Merriam earned a master's in education last May and
loves living in Vermont. . . . Steven Masur "quit
`The Firm' and started an entertainment and new media law practice serving
individuals in start-up business entities." Some of his clients include
individuals in independent music and film. He says, "I still enjoy skiing,
windsurfing and playing loud music." . . . Rick Lanzi
finished his chief residency at the University of New Mexico in internal
medicine and is working in a veteran's clinic that provides medical support to
veterans, including Native American veterans, in four states.
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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