ALUMNI PROFILES
Melvin Lyon '52
Curious Behavior

Marjeanne Banks Vacco '62
Challenge Match

Karen Craft '77
No Place Like Home

Alicia M. Rodriguez-Connolly '78

Mary Schwalm '99
Down to the Wire

Kyle Garry '00

Carol Eisenberg reports enjoying a visit in August from Mary Alice Weller-Mayan, her husband, Paul, son Alex, 12, and daughter Natalie, 8, out on Peaks Island, where Carol lives with her husband, David Simpson '86, and daughters Maxine, 7, and Charlotte, 4.  Meghan Casey and her husband, Chuck Parker, and daughters Fallon, 7, Bridget, 5, and Anna, 1 1/2, joined from their nearby home in North Yarmouth, Maine. Alex talked about playing (and narrowly losing) the state championship in Delaware Little League baseball this summer. Carol says, "We had fun kayaking, sailing, biking and playing with our new flock of chickens."

--Sue James Geremia

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Everyone continues to be very busy, and I continue to be amazed at all the diverse things people are doing. For instance, Ben Diebold is still grinding away on his dissertation. "Literally," he wrote, "since I have a fellowship in a nuclear reactor to convert 7,000-year-old potsherds into radioactive dust. In the summer I will be excavating a late Neolithic town in Turkey, and in September I'll be part of the first group of U.S. excavators in Iran in 22 years. Hope they've cleared those landmines!" We do, too, Ben. . . . Congrats to Willa Cobb on the birth of Ethan (November 2000) in Portland, Maine. She is "loving motherhood and lucky to be able to stay at home" with her son, who at six months "is already 22 lbs.--maybe a future Colby Mule!" Willa is still in touch with Cathy King Ewing, who had a baby girl, Maxine, in February. . . . Andrew Jeske continues as a senior writer at Saatchi & Saatchi in N.Y.C. and lives in Westchester with wife Laura and son Sam, 2. They recently spent an afternoon with Tom Fisher '86 and family, and Andrew says that he felt very old while watching Sam and Tom's son, Nathan, play together. . . . Bill Clendenen completed his M.B.A. at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 2000 and is still working for Divers Alert Network as their VP of training. Bill, his wife, Laura, and son, Troy, love living on their small horse farm with their three quarter horses, three cats and one dog. A small coincidence is that Michael and Michelle Tupesis Gorra '92 live just down the street with their daughter, Maddie. Michael convinced Bill to play soccer in the Sunset League, and their team won the championships! Yea, Bill! . . . Congrats to Tim and Terie Scally Kinsella on the birth of their son, James, in April. He joins big brother Cole, and all are doing well. . . . Another big congrats to Karen (Croff '88) and Scott Bates on the birth of their baby, Andrew, in June. I haven't actually spoken to Scott, but I heard they are getting some sleep and enjoying their little guy. . . . . Whitney (Kelting '88) and Steve Runge are in Pune, India, where Whitney is researching for her second book on Jainism. She'll become an assistant professor at Grinnell College in January, and Steve continues to write poetry and a novel and has begun branching out into nonfiction. . . . Kelly Powers wrote, "Same company, 11 years later and I'm still in Beantown. I finally bought a place of my own--a condo in the Fenway area. Great location. Walk to work. Still running a lot. Completed my fourth Boston Marathon--all for Dana Farber cancer research. Have started swimming and may attempt a triathlon or two this summer." (Let us know if you did, Kelly.) . . . Elaine Mullen Philbrick has a great new hobby--competitive ballroom dancing. She competes in the amateur divisions and was going to the Nationals in August in Salt Lake City. She and her partner do American-style both smooth (waltz, tango, foxtrot) and Latin (mambo, rumba, cha cha, swing). Fortunately, her husband, David, is very understanding and relieved for being off the hook and not having to dance so much! Elaine wrote, "Once you get over the surreal experience of sweating profusely in fake eyelashes and 3-inch heels, it's a very fun and fantastic experience!" They'll be competing in Boston on October 7, so go and cheer them on! . . . Art Nagle says that after four years in Vegas he has accepted the position of upper-school director at Wayne Country Day School in Goldsboro, N.C. He moved there in June along with his wife, Kim Hamer, and son, Langston, and daughter, Pallas. He would love to hear from any Colby alums in the Raleigh-Durham area. . . . Congrats to Geoff '86 and Lindsay Carroll Alexander on the birth of their baby, Garrett, who was born last March. He joins his big brothers Will, 7, and Curtis, 4. . . . And the news from newspapers: Eric Zolov, assistant professor of history at Franklin & Marshall, has been awarded a $35,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2001-2002 academic year. Eric's project, "Miracle of Miracles? Examining a Critical Juncture in Mexico's Post-Revolutionary History, 1958-1963," focuses on the impact of the 1959 Cuban revolution on Mexico's mounting domestic critique of revolutionary regimes. Eric earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1995. . . . Mike Manning has been named a partner at the law firm of Nixon Peabody and will continue to focus his practice in the areas of corporate and business law. He received his law degree from Suffolk University in 1991, cum laude. . . . Our reunion is next June, so put it on your calendar and start planning your trip to Maine with your classmates. Reunions only come every five years, and if you don't make the trip you'll miss out on rekindling old friendships, seeing the campus and reliving the "good 'ole days!"

--Jane  Nicol Manuel

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Some time ago, in one of those increasingly rare moments of decisive action, I volunteered to serve as our class correspondent, taking the reins from the capable Lauren Frazza. Moments later, our classmate and my dear friend Anthony Fazzone, with whom I remain in almost constant contact, charitably told me I had made yet another misstep in a long string of poorly calculated moves. In a very one-sided phone conversation that seemingly went on for days, my candid counselor inventoried, in painstaking detail, all of my shortcomings, inadequacies and episodes of faulty judgment and concluded that we all would be best served if I just went away and left everyone alone already. I thanked the good doctor (more on that later), hung up the phone and slunk off to hide under my bed. Weeks passed. I became hungry. Finally, late this morning, my fiancée (more on that later, too) was able to coax me out from under the bed and, after providing me with some soup, convince me I am not all bad and that, at the least, I should take a bath. It's now eight or nine hours later, my renewed sense of purpose is long gone, and I remain frozen at the laptop, desperately trying to think of some witty way to begin my tenure as the Class of 1988 correspondent. Never one not to give up, I guess I will just relay what news I have and be done with it. I joined Hilary Seward, Chris Whelan, Shawn Holt, Jon Earl, Greg Gatlin '89, Chris Preston '89, Tom Abbatiello '89, Dave Longcope '89 and Fran Scola '87 at the absolutely fantastic wedding of Peter Weltchek and the striking Sara Starr in San Francisco. Pete is at Banc of America, conquering the real estate investment world. As for our other classmates in attendance, Hilary is in Boston, working at Hunneman; Chris works at Morgan Stanley; Shawn is in San Francisco, working, last I knew, for something computer-related; and Jon runs a family business in N.J. . . . Also recently wed are David Rosen and Donna Axel (twin sister of Brian Axel '89). . . . Margaret M. Schafer was married to Joseph W. Gallin on May 12, 2001, in Kirtland, Ohio, with Nina Colhoun and Laurie Meehan Reed as bridesmaids. . . . Carrie O'Brien and Bob Thomas live in Cohasset, Mass., with their beautiful daughter, Nonie, their young twin boys, Nathaniel and Henry, and a professionally schooled chocolate Lab. Bob runs Turnstone Property, which specializes in the restoration and adaptive reuse of older buildings in and around Boston. . . . Also in the property business is John Seidl in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and young daughter. . . . Anne and Rob Young welcomed baby Maggie in November 2000; she joins older brother Jesse, 2. . . . Amanda Howland wrote that she was expecting baby number three in January '01; here's hoping all went well. . . . Guy '86 and Amy Lumbard Holbrook are in Duxbury, Mass., with daughter Sarah and young Guy Jr. . . . Brian Probert and his wife, Sharyl White '91, report the birth of their first child, Sienna. . . . Down on the Cape, Eric Vander Mel and his wife celebrated the birth of Christian, who joins siblings Lucy and Eric. . . . Ann Armstrong Baines and her husband have two children, Grace, 5, and Max, 1 1/2. . . . Josh and Stacey Mendelsohn Marx are near Seattle with kids Sallie and Nate, ages 5 and 3. . . . Pat Clendenen is a litigator with Mintz, Levin in Boston; he and wife Patty (Haffey) have three kids. . . . Not to be outdone by all this, Chris Gilman and her husband ran the Chicago Marathon. . . . Stef Rocknak completed her second year as a visiting professor at Connecticut College, while Kate Walker is a bit farther west, serving as a counselor and coach at Mullen High School in Denver. . . . Kristin Sween Landeis is down the road in Wyoming with her husband, "a real cowboy," six horses and two dogs. . . . Another cowboy, at least in his own mind, is good old Anthony Fazzone. As of our last phone conversation (about an hour ago), Tony was still a doctor, living in Burlington, Vt., selflessly easing suffering and saving lives. . . . As for me, I am engaged to the truly extraordinary Ann Williams. We are busy gearing up for our wedding, which will be held in North Wales, U.K., where Ann grew up. We live in Newton, Mass., with our two cats, one of whom is sitting on top of my head right now. Ann heads up design at Stride Rite while I serve as director of planned giving at the Noble and Greenough School (forewarning to Sydney Cook, Ellen McCarthy Mueller, Rob Travis, Brooks Patterson and Chris Patterson, all Nobles '84). . . . Keep the news coming to classnews1988@alum.colby.edu.

--Dean A. Schwartz

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My first "new" news for this column comes from Steve Wilson, who is now the CFO for a company he didn't name. His wife, Kristin, works at MSNBC, and they have a 2-year-old beagle, Faith, two cats and "many" fish. They live in Arlington, Va. . . . Ingrid Kasaks Moyer sent an e-mail from north of the border, where she and Quinn have three kids and Quinn has his own business, Moyer Aggregates. She reported that they were hoping Toronto wins the bid for the Olympics to keep construction booming. Ingrid recently saw RB Klinkenberg '87, and Quinn ran into Greg Cronin '86, who is a coach for the N.Y. Rangers. . . . Doug St. Lawrence took a spring trip back to Colby and also saw Meg Christie play a leading role in Zorba! in Portland. . . . This has been a rough year for Tripp and Heidi Lombard Johnson, so please keep them in your thoughts. Heidi's mom had another brain tumor, Heidi discovered more melanoma on her back, and their youngest son, William, has spinal cord dystrophy and is not likely to walk. Heidi writes that Matthew, 3, and Abby, 5, will just have to do the walking for him. . . . In response to Dawna Zajac Perez's request, Mickey Beck reports that he is a software recruiter for Adept Inc., and has recently moved from Cambridge to Arlington, Mass. He was married last June to Purvi Patwari. Professor David Mills '57 and Andrew Richter '90 performed some of the music at the wedding ceremony. Dawna, you can e-mail Mickey at beckpatwari@mediaone.net. . . . Carolynn Bell writes that she is leaving St. Paul's School in Baltimore to start a Japanese language program at Our Redeemer School in Honolulu. She's looking forward to living near her family again. . . . Dave and Cindy Cohen Fernandez live in Londonderry, N.H., and spent Memorial Day weekend in Maine with Suzi and Matt Sotir, Rob and Hilary Barnes Hoopes, Kristin Palmer and Charlie and Ellen Billey Donaldson '91. Cindy writes that Matt "continues his quest to rule the insurance world," Kristin teaches in Westfield, Mass., and Rob and Hilary live in D.C. and are expecting their third child. In the small world department, Cindy discovered that her daughter is in nursery school with Kathy Keller Garfield's little girl. . . . June 12 saw the screening of John Reynolds's short film, Priesthood, at Flickapalooza in Santa Monica. I hope you found a place to sleep in L.A., John. . . . Congratulations to Maria Luisa Arroyo, who completed her Ph.D. exams in Germanic languages and literature at Harvard this spring. Maria also won the department's teaching fellow award for German--no surprise to anyone who knows her. Matt Sotir gets around, because Maria reports that she ran into him heading to a meeting at the Harvard Faculty Club. . . . Robin Trend Baughan is trying to track down Kristin Palmer and Alison Wright. E-mail her at robinb@propeninc.com, folks. . . . Laura Thornton Pellegrino and her husband, Dave, had their second daughter, Katherine, last September. They live in New Canaan, Conn., and often see Catherine Andrew Rogers, who is expecting baby number two. Laura recently spoke to Kim Murphy Brewer and Maria Vallis Wing, her Colby roommates. . . . John and Lucie Bourassa Dvorak have lived for the past year in Ohio, where John has finished a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery and Lucie attended culinary school. They recently moved to Lexington, Ky., where John will be in private practice and Lucie will either pursue culinary arts or practice law. . . . Maria Douglass is still in Moscow but is hoping to return to the States soon with her husband and two kids. She is working on her M.S. in science and technology commercialization at the University of Texas-Austin. . . . Shaun Dakin and his wife, Saleena, moved to D.C. this summer to be closer to family. Shaun is working at webMethods as a product marketing manager, and Saleena joined a private pediatric practice in Fairfax, Va. Shaun recently saw Rachel Tilney, Mike Diamond and Julia Smith. . . . Keep the news coming!

--Anita L. Terry

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