Enveloped by Cuba
Alumni gather to help Cubans on their own turf.

Medal Round in Sydney
Hilary Gehman '93 rows in the Olympics.

Alumni Club Circuit
Club News, upcoming events, etc.

ALUMNI PROFILES
Robert C. Gerrard '60
Tackling the case
of a lifetime

Kevin Leddy '77

Helena Bonnell
Gilman '78
Microsoft in the Middle East

Todd Coffin '83

Carolyn Treat '82
Turning art into a balm

Christopher Thayer '93

Michael Eash '94
Chopping champion

It was brought to my attention at our reunion in June that I have woefully neglected my duties as class reporter, in that many people were not aware that Janet Boudreau-Ceddia, our erstwhile class president, had a baby last spring! Janet and her husband, Chris, moved back to Massachusetts in February, are now living in Hopkinton and had a boy, Nicholas, in March. Chris has taken a new job doing MIS work for the Harvard Business School, and when Janet finishes her maternity leave she will return to consulting, through the Boston office of McKinsey. . . . Margot Wood Owen was one of a number of '90ers living out on the West Coast who couldn't make it back to reunion, as she has her hands full with her new son, Collum, born in January. She is living in the Seattle area and teaches seventh grade language arts. . . . Galen Lauman Kawaguchi is also living in Seattle and has a 2-year-old son named Aaron and a daughter, Maia, who was born in February. . . . Chris and Clare Deangelis Connelly were not able to come to reunion because they were expecting their fourth child on the Monday after reunion. They had another boy, and now have a really full house with three sons and a daughter. . . . Speaking of having your hands full, Rob Hyland and his wife had twin sons in February! Congratulations to all the new parents! . . . Sam Tucker tells me that he and his wife, Lindsey Salerno (a Hamilton grad), just bought a house in the Seattle area and are doing a lot of yard work. He is working for a dot com that helps nonprofits use the Internet, and he regretted that although his travels often take him back east, the timing just wasn't right to be able to join us for reunion. . . . Similarly, Roman Azanza and his wife, Sally, were in Madrid in June and couldn't get back to Maine in time for the festivities. Roman is finishing up a year-long training program with Cemex, an international cement manufacturer, and he and Sally welcomed their son, Roman Gabriel, into the world when they were stationed in Texas. Roman is already looking forward to seeing all of us at the 15th! . . . Liza Barber Moynihan graduated from business school in May 1999, and she and her husband, Tim, and 3-year-old daughter, Ella, welcomed a new baby boy, William Riley, in November. For good measure, they got a puppy last spring. Tim is working with Winstar Interactive in San Francisco, and Liza is staying home with the kids in Walnut Creek. Liza tells me that she sees Sara Madden Curran pretty regularly (Sara's daughter, Charlotte, turned a year old in February) as well as Gregg Jackson and Scott Myers, who are both living in San Francisco. . . . Michelle Perron completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts-Worcester in 1998 and moved back to her home state of Vermont, where she has joined a pediatric group practice and has a teaching appointment at the University of Vermont. . . . Andrew Eaton is living in Illinois. He and Paige Brennan got married in 1995 and now have three children (two sons named Dillon and James and a daughter named Kaitlyn). Andrew runs Eaton Sports and Fitness, which he says takes up a lot of his time, "and the rest is spent chasing after kids! Good thing it's my job to stay in shape!" . . . Nicole Sudduth Hamilton e-mailed me to say that she is still living in Virginia and working with Booz Allen & Hamilton, where she was promoted to a senior associate position last February. She and her husband, Gil, are doing a lot of landscaping and are politically involved to help protect the open space before urban sprawl encroaches any farther on their home in the country. This fall she and Gil will be traveling to Europe–Nicole is looking forward to Dijon and showing him the old stamping grounds from her freshman year at Colby. . . . Kristen Pettersen and Dr. David Miller were married on June 24 in a mountaintop ceremony, followed by a backyard luau reception and then a family reception in Greenwich, Conn. David is a surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive laparascopic general surgery. They love living in Alaska and plan to stay there indefinitely but also love having visitors and were looking forward to seeing Kristen Fryling '91 and Kelly Cogan in August. . . . Our very own Steve Graber is the author of a book called The Everything-Get-a-Job-Book. Based on his years of experience as a hiring manager at Adams Media Corporation, this new volume in the Job Bank series gives advice on everything from résumé and cover letter preparation to interviewing to landing and accepting a job offer. . . . Matt Hancock is still living in Casco, Maine, and working for Hancock Lumber, but he is now also head coach of the Lake Region High School girl's basketball team. . . . Jocelyn Jones is living in Boston and working as an attorney for the state, specializing in labor relations law. She was married in June 1999 to Terry Coles, also an attorney. . . . Justin Verge is working as a hospital administrator at Boston Medical Center/New England Baptist Hospital. He and his wife, Stacy King Verge '91, have a daughter, Samantha, who is about a year and a half old. . . . You guys are the best when it comes to keeping in touch! Dan Spurgin, Chip Gavin and I plan to use e-mail more and more to get news out even faster. To get on the bandwagon, send me an
e-mail (classnews1990@alum.colby. edu). We also took lots of photos at reunion, so stop by the class Web site soon and check them out. Keep those cards and letters coming!

Nicole Farkas married Ken Mogul on May 20. Nicole and Ken live in Albany, N.Y., where she is getting her Ph.D. in science and technology studies, an interdisciplinary study of science, technology and society. Ken recently started a recycling company. Nicole and Ken have been engaged since 1998 but waited to get married until after Nicole finished a year in the Netherlands doing research for her Ph.D. . . . Chris and Whitney Adams Ward had a baby girl, Lily Adams Ward, on February 1 and are now living in Hingham, Mass. Whitney has been working as an associate sourcing manager at Talbots for the past three years but is now taking some time off to care for Lily. Chris started a new job in July 1999 as an information architect at Krom Inc., a start-up interactive agency in Boston. . . . Carla and Matt Noyes gave birth to their second daughter, Tavia Katherine Noyes, on May 19. . . . Anne Bowie is living in Arlington, Mass., and still working as an adoption social worker at The Home for Little Wanderers, predominantly with foster children who need to be adopted. Anne was recently on WGBH Channel 2 talking with Emily Rooney about her work. Anne writes that Gina Marsico would celebrate her one-year wedding anniversary in August 2000. Gina and her husband, Matt, are building a home in Belchertown, Mass. Gina is a nurse, and both she and Matt run Wooley Mammoth Farm, an organic agricultural and sheep farm. Gina spins the wool into yarn and, as people remember, is an amazing knitter. . . . Kristen McMahon-Van Oss is married and a dolphin trainer at Sea World in Orlando, Fla. Did you see the profile on her in the summer Colby? . . . Dave Roderick is getting his M.F.A. in poetry at UMass-Amherst and has been the recipient of a competitive fellowship. He has poems published in several journals, so look for his work. . . . Amy Fang Lannon and her husband, Paul, are the parents of a baby boy, Joshua James Lannon, born September 11, 1999. Hilda Westervelt is his godmother. Amy is now the director of libraries for Bingham Dana LL.P., a law firm in downtown Boston. . . . Greg and Jane DeStefano Becker had a baby girl, Natalie Elizabeth, in August 1999. Jane is now working part time as a freelance writer. Greg is still with Johnson & Johnson. . . . Zack Shapiro just received a promotion to associate rabbi of University Synagogue in Los Angeles. . . . Josh Reynolds is half way through the M.B.A. program at the University of Michigan business school and spent the summer working for Bain & Company in Chicago. . . . Sara Bramhall Reynolds has just completed directing a wine auction for the fourth year in a row, the latest a benefit for the Ann Arbor Arts Center. Their post-M.B.A. plans are up in the air, but they hope to return to Portland, Ore.

–Michelle Fortier Biscotti

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All right! This is more like it! And I only had to break a handful of kneecaps to get you all to start writing to me! . . . Chris Chamberlain moved from D.C. to Manhattan with his fiancée, Brenner Brown, a year ago last summer to pursue his M.B.A. at New York University. He worked at The New York Times as an analyst in the strategic planning division and had a part-time gig at FAO Schwartz, doing PR for the Barney show. He frequently hangs out with Emily Slater, Jason Oberfest '94, Sue Furlong, Doug Morrione and Dave Nicholson '94. . . . Peter Caruso and Carolann Ball had a June wedding in Portsmouth, N.H. She is an officer of Mellon Private Asset Management in Boston, and he is a partner in the law offices of Peter J. Caruso in Andover. . . . Chuck Martin got married to Kristen Johnson in August 2000 in Chatham, Mass., and they are living in the Back Bay, Boston. Kristen is a second grade teacher in Wellesley, and Chuck is an equity research analyst for SunTrust Equitable Securities in Boston. . . . Chris "Westy" West is engaged to Kyle Elizabeth Dyer and planning a fall wedding in Denver. Westy received a master's degree in environmental management from Duke, is the executive director of the Douglas County Land Conservancy in Denver and has his own consulting practice, Conservation West. . . . Also in Colorado is Kate Mazuy, who finished her master's in psychology and is living outside of Boulder. . . . Sarah Steindel Keating was recently promoted to director of admissions at Keystone College, where she has worked since 1995. . . . Also employed in the world of academia is Tim von Jess, who is enjoying his career in development for the Eaglebrook School–a boarding and day school for boys in Deerfield, Mass. Tim's wife, Jodi, is a clinical social worker. Tim (whose e-mail address is tvonjess@eaglebrook.org) says, "classmates in the area, please stop by!" . . . John Poirier reports for Reuters in Washington, D.C., where he covers the Securities and Exchange Commission. . . . Mike Eckel is also a reporter–for the Associated Press out of Montpelier, Vt.–and his stories sometimes run on NPR! . . . Congratulations to Sarah Nagle Spataro and her husband, Perry! Sarah gave birth to Ryan Harris on April 26 and is loving motherhood! She writes that Meg Wrenn recently moved to Michigan to study for the Michigan bar and that Abigale Knapp is currently working bi-coastally, in N.Y. and in San Francisco, doing PR for a dot com company. . . . Emily Muldoon graduated from RISD this spring and is moving back to Boston to work at Razorfish as a designer. She let me know that Rich Taylor and Ashley Weld '92 married in July in Kennebunk, Maine. Emily and Jen Porter were bridesmaids. Emily also reported that Chris Thayer was in an issue of People magazine as one of this year's Most Eligible Bachelors! Chris manages the Appalachian Trail huts . . . . Best wishes to Amy Stickney and Paul Lavallee, who were married in June in Rumford, Maine. Amy is an occupational therapist in Chelsea, Mass., and Paul is a brewer at the Casco Bay Brewing Co. in Portland, Maine. . . . Kevin Darling is my gym buddy, and we chat while we get huge. He told me that Chris Baynes completed the 2000 Boston Marathon in 2 hours and 56 minutes! He also let me know that Paul Froio and his wife had a son, Noah Joseph, on February 9, 2000. . . . Another new parent is Michelle Parady Malach, who had her first baby–Abigail Rose–on April 23, 2000. Michelle is working at Apple Computer in the special education division. She and her husband are building a new home in Apex, N.C. . . . Greg Burns recently moved back East with his wife, and they will be new parents by the time this column is printed! He says, "No, we are not finding out what sex! The only thing we're fairly certain of is that it's a Burns!" He wrote that Dan "Slash" Connolly '92 and his wife, Kim, just had a baby boy, Ryan Daniel. Dan is living in California, where he received his M.B.A. from St. Mary's, and is working at Nortel and at a start-up called UrbanEvents.com. Greg, Dan, and Ryan Friel skied together in Park City, Utah, this past March. Ryan went back to Alaska this summer to the Fishing Bear Camp as a head guide. . . . Reena Chandra married Keshav C. Rajpal on August 1, 1999, in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Madison, Wis., and received her master's in public health from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Currently she is living in Chicago and working as an independent public health consultant for the Illinois Department of Public Health, helping to implement their Robert Wood Johnson Turning Point Grant. These grants are given to many states to create strategic plans to improve each state's public health system. . . . Keep the news coming! Hope you all are healthy and happy!

–Beth Curran

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Heather Post married Wayne LaFrance on April 15 in Plymouth, Mass., with Bonnie Dewsbury Chase '92 and Frances van Huystee as bridesmaids. Also at the wedding were Matt '93 and Michelle Severance Isham and Jenn Hurd Diozzi and Stu Pitrat '93. . . . Paul Matthews married Shyla Ruffer on May 13. Paul is working as the chief of staff for state Rep. Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester) in Boston. . . . Deanna Huston married Marc Maclean on May 20, followed by a honeymoon at Disney World in Florida. . . . Elizabeth Tabor and Michael Robinson were married on June 3. She received a master's degree in library and information science from Simmons College in 1998 and is currently the acquisitions librarian for the Roger Williams University Law Library. . . . Julie Cyr and Joseph Gibowicz bought a house in Sudbury, Mass., and were planning a July wedding, with Marci Schwartz Cincotta, Laura Keally Heywood and Kim Kessler as bridesmaids. Julie received a master's degree in speech from Emerson College in 1998 and opened a private practice for speech and language therapy with two partners in Arlington, Mass. And congrats to Marci and her husband Eric on the birth of their baby boy, Benjamin, in April. . . . Benjamin Doyle and Karen Parr planned a September 2000 wedding. He is employed by Aprisma Management Technologies. . . . Lawrence Rulison and Jennifer Manganello also planned a September 2000 wedding. He is currently a reporter with the Baltimore Business Journal. . . . Mark Gallagher is engaged to Christa Figliolini and planning a December wedding. Mark is the district director for U.S. Rep. Edward Markey. . . . Alex Bici is working in the leveraged finance group for Deutsche Bank in New York City and at night is studying for his M.B.A. at NYU. . . . Tracy Karsch graduated from St. John's Law School in June and will be working at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath and Cannavo in New York City. . . . Marika Schwartzman graduated from business school at Duke in May. After traveling for a month in the Greek Isles and Prague she planned to start a job with Hughes Electronics (they own DirecTV and are working with AOL on a satellite-based Internet access project) in a finance rotational program. Marika will be moving every eight months over the course of two years, starting off in Gaithersburg, Md., then moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Greenwich, Conn. She would welcome any visitors. . . . Jess Drislane finished her first year at Northwestern U's Kellogg business school and worked this summer at Offroad Capital, a venture capital firm in San Francisco. Jess also qualified for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, so look for her on the show! . . . Jim Lindstrom finished his first year at Tuck (Dartmouth's business school) and worked this summer in Boston at the Parthenon Group doing consulting and private equity. . . . Megan MacDonald recently left Forrester Research in Boston and planned to start business school at Babson in the fall. She ran the Boston Marathon in April along with Stephanie Goff, who works in the alumni relations office of Harvard Business School. . . . Michelle Mathai is still living in New Zealand working for the State Department. She will be in New Zealand until October 2001, then is off to places unknown. . . . Janet Powers is living in Atlanta and going to Emory University to get an M.B.A. and an M.P.H. This summer she worked at an Internet start-up company in Atlanta. Congrats to Janet, who completed the St. Anthony's Triathlon this past spring in Clearwater, Fla. . . . Josh Eckel moved to London on July 1 for a temporary assignment with his company. He will be rearranging the parts distribution in Europe and anticipates that the project will last about six months. He wrote that in June Jon Blau had the grand opening for his second island gallery on Martha's Vineyard featuring original works by island photographers. . . . Gavin Davis is living and working in Bermuda as a financial advisor. . . . Kristen Zier just received a master's of science in nonprofit management from the New School for Social Research. She is a senior development officer, major and planned gifts, at Lighthouse International, a N.Y.C.-headquartered nonprofit that serves the visually impaired throughout New York state. Kristen got married in September to Mike Pietraszek '93. Megan Harris (who is living in Aspen, Colo., and also recently got engaged) was the maid of honor. Mike and Kristen are living just outside of N.Y.C. in one of the small towns along the Hudson River, and neighbors include Aaron and Diana MacKendrick Kielhack '93. . . . Colleen Brennan Thorndike is a senior brand manager at Holland Mark Edmund Ingalls in Boston. She got married in November 1999 to John Thorndike in Boston, Mass. Heather Eskey was maid of honor and Erin Brennan '95 was in the bridal party. In attendance were Marika Schwartzman, Kristen Zier and Mike Pietraszek '93. . . . Chris Austin, a senior group disability underwriter for UNUM in Portland, Maine, just appeared as Jesus in the Portland Players production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Greg and Erin Crossland Christopher made the trip from N.Y.C. to see the show. . . . Elizabeth Wallman finished her second year teaching science at Natick High School in Natick, Mass. She will be returning again next year after escaping to Maine for the summer, followed by 10 days hiking on Cape Breton Island in far eastern Nova Scotia. . . . Jason Sudano earned his M.B.A. from Cornell. He was in Copenhagen, Denmark, on an exchange program and planned to travel around Europe for a month before starting at Chase on July 1. . . . Jennifer Sullivan purchased a farm with her fiancé in Midland, N.C., and established a business training horses and riders for dressage and jumper competitions. She specializes in rehabilitating racehorses who don't "make it" at the racetrack and training them for new careers. . . . Thanks, everyone, for all the news!

–Tracy K. Larsen

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