Hope
that all is well with the Class of 2000 and that everyone is happy and healthy.
I recently moved to Brookline, Mass., and am living with Jen Usher and Meg Lawson '99. When I was up at Colby in April for the
Colbyettes 50th reunion, I ran into Brenda Yun, who was finishing up her first year of grad
school in Boston. . . . Katie Mitchell recently finished her graduate school program at Lesley
University before moving to Hawaii (!) in August to teach kindergarten. . . . Christie
Beveridge was to be teaching
English at the White Mountain School in Bethlehem, N.H., after spending the
summer at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury. . . . Alexis Fine reports that she is working as an analyst at
Morgan Stanley in New York and living with Amie Mallett and Amanda Carucci. She and Amie rented a house in the Hamptons this summer with Morgan McDevitt and
Matt Todesca. . . . Megan
Davis is living in South
Burlington, Vt., and spent two weeks this summer in India with Kamini
Bhargava. . . . Jared
Woodward-Poor is also in
South Burlington working at the Sailing Center. . . . Mari Masuda is living in Corpus Christi, Texas, going
through flight school for the U.S. Navy. . . . Christopher Ix says that both he and Michael Gibson
'01 are in the Army pursing officer training programs. Christopher, an
engineer officer, completed Officer Candidate School this year, is attending
the Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard Wood and will be on his way
to Germany in October. Mike begins Warrant Officer Flight School at Fort
Rucker in Alabama in October, anticipates flying one of four different types of
Army aircraft. . . . Alex Moskos finished
up his master's at Northeastern University in June and says he will
probably stay in Boston. He wants to congratulate James Mason on his recent cross-country trip. . . . Living
in Portland, Ore., is Krissy Swanson, who is working for the Oregon Health & Science University
doing neurology research. . . . Courtney Ilgenfritz recently finished a year of study in China and
was joined by Erin Darling,
Kate Davies, Liz Hart, Carrie Keeling and Andy Miller for travel around China this past summer. This
fall, she, Carrie, Andy and Liz are moving to Washington, D.C., where Andy will
be working for the Washington bureau of ABC News. He received his M.S. in broadcast
journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University in June. . . . Michael
Siegel reported that he is
doing well in California. . . . . Lisa Cardillo was back in the States this summer after
spending a year teaching English in Italy. . . . Katie Reber finished her first year of the nurse
practitioner program at Johns Hopkins University and worked at the hospital
this summer as a certified nurse intern. She reports that Mike Farrell is enjoying his work as an admissions
counselor at Babson College, that Cipperly Good has been in Waterville working at the L.C.
Bates Museum and plans to start school in museum studies this fall and that Becka
Solomon spent the year with
AmeriCorps in California, Arizona and Alaska. . . . Caitlin Nelson is living in Portland, Maine, with Carolyn
Clark and Kate Henry and working at the Portland Museum of Art,
where she worked on the biennial art exhibit that opened in April. Carolyn is teaching
violin, and Kate is a management consultant at Baker, Newman & Noyes. . . .
Whitney Lawton returned
from Siberia and spent the summer in the States. She plans to head back to
Russia or possibly to Japan to teach English. . . . David Normoyle (aka “Bamboo”) is working for the
United States Golf Association in Colorado Springs. He is a fellow with the
USGA Foundation and helps to manage the USGA's For the Good of the Game
Grants Program, which makes golf more affordable and accessible for economically
disadvantaged youth and for individuals with disabilities. This summer he
worked at the U.S. Open and other USGA championships. . . . Adam Cramer is living in Seattle and working at Eddie
Bauer as an online marketing specialist. He reports that he has not run into
too many Colby people because it seems like they are all on the East Coast! . .
. But Karen Lee is on the
West Coast, in Oakland, Calif., as a pathology paralegal at an asbestos
litigation firm. . . . Tom Donahue will
be attending the University of Chicago this fall to start an M.A. program in
international relations. He also reported that Sambit Pattanayak is in New York working as an equity research
analyst for Lehman Brothers. . . . Brooke Frappier reported that she recently got engaged to
Craig Jude '99! They are planning their wedding for June 2002 before
heading to graduate school. . . . Take care and please keep in touch!
–Hilary Smyth
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