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Kaari Busick sent lots of news from Seattle. She's no longer
working for Microsoft but is now with a small company that teaches Windows
Programmers. She wrote that she keeps "running into Colby people in parking
lots and bars, not that I spend all of my time in either, but I still wear my
Colby swimming sweatshirts so Colby folks stop and ask if I went there." She
also said that Amy Price is in Tahoe and doing well as a wedding
coordinator, planning weddings for the famous and
not-so-famous. . . . Cheryl Mealey Cowherd and her
husband, Joe, were living in Maine, where she was teaching French, but they are
now expecting and will move soon to Darien, Conn. . . . Maria
Arroyo Shaghaghi and her husband, Yazdan, had a baby boy last
year. . . . Bob and Sue Banta Gallagher
expect to be returning to the States this spring with Bob's N.Y.C. firm.
They've been living and working in London, where Bob has been gaining
experience in the insolvency consulting practice and Sue has been with Harrod's
as a distribution project manager. They had a mini Colby reunion in the French
Alps with Don Darby and Bill Carr, who joined them for a week of
skiing at Meribel. They've also had visits from other Colby grads, including
Don's wife, Liz (Helft '91), who spent a few weeks last summer taking courses
at Oxford to supplement her teaching skills in Palo Alto. Bob and Sue have been
able to travel to the French and Italian Rivieras, Holland, Scotland, Ireland,
Germany, Prague and Paris and to take many weekend trips to the English
countryside, but they also are looking forward to settling somewhere in
southern Connecticut. . . . Melita Marks vacationed in
London last summer before she began business school at
Thunderbird. . . . Kirk Koenigsbauer is reported to be
doing well in Seattle with his wife, Neen, and their chocolate Lab,
Sophie. . . . Krisan Evenson has been immersed in
her Ph.D. work lately. Her dissertation on the Quebec Independence Movement
combines political psychology and citizenship-attitude formation and examines
the role that textbooks play in whether children grow up to be "citizens" or
join separatist movements like the one in
Quebec. . . . Jennifer Joseph has been in Pittsburgh
for the past five years. She was in D.C. doing "political stuff" but returned
to Pittsburgh to work for Deloitte & Touche for a few years. After getting her
M.B.A. and M.S. degrees in the management of information systems, she became a
senior consultant with Ernst & Young. She wrote that she loves her job,
although it requires a lot of traveling. Look for her in Houston this
spring. . . . Jon Nash has but one request for his
classmates: Go forth and multiply! Jon has been hard at work with a company
called ChildLife, Inc., a 50-year-old company in Holliston, Mass., that
manufactures those "green-painted wooden swingsets" and cool space trolleys
that some of you might recall. They were featured on the PBS special This
Old House a while back as well. . . . Ethan (Zeke)
and Maria Vallis Wing announce the birth of their son, George Zachary,
December 26, 1996, eight lbs., three oz., and 21-1/2 inches. They are back in
Seattle after taking year-long sabbaticals from their jobs. Zeke is a customs
broker focusing on trade issues in the Pacific Rim, and Maria has begun her own
business, an after-school program to help children strengthen literary levels
and basic math skills. They are still getting used to the concept of year-round
gardening (a foreign concept to a New Englander) and often see Lane
Wilkinson pedaling off to his M.B.A. classes at UWashington. After working
for Harley-Davidson last summer, Lane's now an expert on leather! He spends his
free time avalanche surfing in the Sierras and searching for other adventure.
The Class of '89 now has a web site where you can read up on classmates and
contribute news. It's located at http://www.colby.edu/classof/1989/
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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