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Kim Schock
classnews1996@alum.colby.edu |
Christopher McMath finished up his second year of medical school at the
Kigezi International School of medicine in Cambridge, England, has been doing
clinical rotations in London and New York and spent 12 weeks in Uganda in East
Africa. He enjoys living in England and has found time to travel to Ireland,
Belgium, Germany, Austria and France. . . . Michael Sabin visited Angel Coyne last March, when--after
eight years of friendship--they discovered that they had the same feelings
for each other and were married in August. Angel is currently attending the Simon
School of Business in Rochester, N.Y., and Mike is still working as chief
software architect for GWI Software, keeping busy traveling between his current
home in Vancouver, Wash., and his new remote office in Rochester. Angel and Mike
spent the summer of 2000 in Vancouver, where they had a mini-reunion with
Chris Dawkins and his wife, Allyson, Nolan Yamashiro, Susan
Macauley and Dan Rheaume. . . . Kirstin Rohrer was married in
August to Gregory McPolin. Kirsten is working as an attorney to the United States
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Washington, D.C., where her
husband is also a practicing attorney. . . . Kristen Drake was married in
Granville, Ohio, over Memorial Day weekend to Dan Patterson, a fellow Peace Corps
volunteer whom she met in Niger, West Africa. Kristin and Dan live in Madison,
Wis., where Kristen is the workform development coordinator for the nonprofit
organization United Refugee Services of Wisconsin, which serves Madison. . . .
Corey Burnham, currently a law student at UConn, is engaged to be married
next year. . . . After spending the last four years teaching at the Tilton School
in New Hampshire, Anne Jurgeleit '97 starts a three-year physical therapy
doctorate program at Simmons this fall. She says she will miss the small-town
pace but is excited about all the opportunities that await her in Boston as well
as returning to the classroom as a student. . . . Jamie Geier married
Robert Stewart last October in Portland, Maine, where Martha Previte and
Rachel Simson were her bridesmaids and Jennifer Stewart Guay shared
in the celebration. After a honeymoon to Belize, Jamie and her husband settled in
New York City, where Jamie is enrolled in a doctoral program at Long Island
University. . . . Martha Previte is in her second year of law school at
the University of New Mexico and plans to move to San Diego with her boyfriend
when she graduates. She has enjoyed hot-air ballooning and horseback riding in
Santa Fe. . . . Abby Smith was married to Jason Derrig, from Billings,
Mont. They are currently living in Boston, where Abby is in human resources with
the Gillette Company and pursuing her M.B.A. at Bentley College. Abby and Jason
ran in the Boston Marathon with Tammy Smith, who is engaged to AJ
Wilkerson. Tammy and AJ plan an October wedding and have just bought a home in
Indianapolis, the hometown of her fiancé. Tammy graduated from Indiana
University's Kelley School of Business M.B.A. program and is working in marketing
for Eli Lilly. . . . Robert Gold graduated from NYU Dental School in May
and has moved to Minneapolis to work in the Veterans Hospital for a year. . . .
Alex Kean-Strong (husband Ben '94) is a social studies teacher at Needham
(Mass.) High School. . . . Margaret Harris Sanel (husband Scott '94) is
practicing law in Boston. . . . Courtney Sullivan works for a recruiting
firm and lives with Steph Lynyak in Boston. . . . Dori Desataul is
practicing law in Hartford, Conn. . . . Becky Lebowitz is living in
Florida doing photojournalism. . . . Jennifer Pope lives with Amie
Sicchitano, Brad Sicchitano '99 and Ben Langille '99 and continues to work at
Pathfinder International, an international family planning and reproductive
health nonprofit organization, where she does program management and has traveled
to Azerbaijan. Amie is teaching kindergarten in Wellesley, Mass., and has taken
up acting, hoping to make it to Broadway some day. . . . Dori
Morrison lives in Charlestown, Mass. . . . Kim Allen is in her second year
of law school at BC and interned at a firm in Delaware. . . . Patty Benson
was married last fall to Captain Brian Bechard. She and Brian are in Seoul,
Korea, while Brian finishes his last year of duty in the U.S. Army and Patty
teaches English and coaches basketball. . . . Laurie Catino Durkin is
still living in Cohasset, Mass., with her husband, Bob, her daughter, Jill South,
who is almost 2, and their second child, who arrived in August. Laurie received
her master's degree in early childhood education from Lesley College and is
currently substituting at a local elementary school. . . . Lesley Finneran
is a teaching fellow in Nepal working for the Cornell Nepal Study Program. .
. . Jay Ireland is living in Brooklyn working for NetZero as an
advertising representative. . . . Katherine Holliday is in her second year
of a clinical psychology Ph.D. program in San Diego and was married to Tom Sohn
in August. . . . Tamela Spaulding Perkins married her high school
sweetheart, Kris, in December 1999 and is working as an educational technician
and developmental therapist for children with autism. She and Kris are living in
Searsmont, Maine. . . . Sheila Grant married Chris Orphanides '95 last
June. Gretchen Rice, one of Sheila's bridesmaids, is engaged to Kevin King
and planning a fall wedding in her hometown of Westford, Mass., and a honeymoon
in Hawaii. She and Kevin currently live in West Newton, Mass. . . . Katie
Taylor married George Kennedy '97 in June 2000 in New Jersey, with Sarah
Hamlin Walsh, Hillary Brennan (who was married in October to Todd
McKellar) and Elizabeth Low attending. Katie is working as an HIV
specialist for Abbott Laboratories. . . . Sarah Frechette Potts was
married in August 2000, and after a honeymoon to Brazil she and her husband moved
to Burlington, Vt., where they live with two pugs and 16 snakes. Among those
attending the wedding were Nick Miles, Jen Dursi, Nate
Davies, Sarah Hare, Janie Lundy '95, Lynn Thompson '95 and Laura Finn
'97. Sarah has traveled frequently to England with her husband to visit his
family. . . . Carolyn Sheppard married Darrell Oakley '94 in August
at Old Sturbridge Village in Mass. Carolyn is the creative director for New
England Ancestors, the newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society in Boston. . . . John "JJ" Lovett married Allison Gail Spill
of Freehold, N.J., in Spring Lake, N.J., in September a year ago. Attendees
included Drew Nicholas '90, James '91 and Jessica Case Lewis '89, Kurt Whited
'91, Cory Snow '91 and Lisa McMahon '92 as well as David Zazzaro, formerly the
men's lacrosse coach. . . . Julianne Erickson married John Bond '94 in
October 2000 at the Historical Society in Holliston, Mass. Since it was close to
Halloween, they decided to have a gala masquerade theme, and Susan Macauley
(maid of honor), Dan Rheaume, Alison Werner, Deirdre
Foley, Shawn Keeler '94, Chris and Andrea Bowman Rogers '94, Laura Keally
Heywood '94 and Steve '93 and Chrissie Coleman Simchock '93 joined in the fun.
Julianne received a master's degree from Boston University and is executive
secretary for the general counsel's office of Boston University, and John is
employed as a provider relations consultant for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare in
Quincy. They live in North Attleboro, Mass. . . . Megan Brennan was
engaged to Edward Johnson and planned an August wedding. Megan is a legal
recruiter at Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar in Boston, and her fiancé is a
research associate with Korn/Ferry International in Boston. . . . Jenney Smith
is finishing up her master's in education program at Lesley College in
Cambridge, Mass., focusing on arts in education to be certified to teach pre-K to
third grade. . . . Kim Verner lives in Somerville, Mass., and works in the
professional development department of Tom Snyder Productions. . . . Martine
Kaiser is living in Seattle, attending the University of Washington for her
M.B.A. . . . Ann Savage has been on the move, first to D.C., then to
Connecticut and now to Phoenix, Ariz. She is a paralegal and thinking about law
school in the near future. She adopted an abandoned dog named Foster, started
scuba diving and has been hiking a lot. . . . Emily Graham recently
received a master's degree in library science from Indiana University (where she
was classmates with Rachel Lapkin '95). Back in Maine on a two-year Island
Institute Fellowship to help develop the library at North Haven Community School,
she loves island life. . . . Whitney Glockner is living in California and
working for a software start-up called Intraspect. She has kept in touch with
Laura Brezel, who lives in San Francisco and works for an architectural
firm and sings in an a cappella choir in her free time, and she used to see
Anne Cohen before she moved to Hong Kong to work for a Chinese start-up.
Whitney learned how to paraglide in New Zealand. . . . Nicole Jalbert
lives in Porter Square in Cambridge Mass., with Kevin Pirani. Kevin is
currently working at Cambridge Associates and was to receive his M.B.A. from
Boston College last May. Nicole received a master's in teaching as well as a
master's in higher education administration at Boston University and works at
their Center for English Language as the testing coordinator. Nicole was in
Rachel Wolf's wedding a year ago in September in Baltimore, along with
Nina Leventhal and Katherine Holliday. . . . Nick Lambert is
in Maine working as the director of advertising for Sunday River. He occasionally
sees Amy Phalon, who is the news bureau supervisor for Killington in
Vermont. . . . Josh Eldred is a trade coordinator for Antiques America and
helped to launch Antiques America, the premier Internet site for antiques.
--Kim Schock
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Kimberly N. Parker
72 Prescott Street
Everett, MA 02149
classnews1997@alum.colby.edu |
Where are you going on June 7-9, '02? Put it on your calendar right now:
fifth-year reunion is coming! Wanna help out? Drop us an e-mail and we'll
put you on a committee. . . . Matthew Burgener was engaged to Mery Brown
in April; they have a May '02 wedding slated in Fayetteville, Ark. Matthew, who's
living in Charlottesville, Va., also is in Matt Nelson's June '02 wedding.
. . . Audra Winston has a July '02 wedding planned to Tim Bailey. She is
currently the managing editor at Brown Publishing Network, a small educational
publishing company in Wellesley, Mass., where she's worked for the past three
years. She also attends Babson's part-time M.B.A. program. . . . Sue
Hesselbach is engaged to Mike Pierce, who proposed while on vacation in Bali.
. . . Larry Benesh and Rebecca Hoogs were married in July.
Andrew Morton, Bow Stratton, Doug Schultz, Bob Hart
and Ryan Mayhugh met in Vegas for Larry's bachelor party, and, says Larry,
"amazingly, we all survived." Larry is still working for Microsoft in
Seattle. Andrew is finishing his first year of acupuncture school in San Diego,
and Bow is still working in Boston. Doug continues to live the good life in
Jackson, Wyo., and Bob is "keeping himself out of trouble (for the most
part) in N.Y.C." After taking the summer off to travel, Ryan started this fall at
Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. . . . Chris Cintavey is a lieutenant
(jg.) stationed in Japan. He has traveled through Asia and Australia and earned a
medal for his deployments. . . . Monika Thiele left the World Wildlife
Fund in D.C. and headed to the Philippines to work on a marine/coastal management
research project. She studied marine protected areas, sustainable tourism and the
local fishing industry before moving to Seattle for grad school. . . . Matt
Logan reports that he "quit driving a desk in Boston and am traveling
the world, starting in New Zealand and working my way through Australia, Asia,
Africa and ending in Europe." He anticipates being back in the U.S. in '02. . . .
Yawa Duse-Anthony is in Andover, Mass., where she remains with KKO. She
recently moved into a nice house in North Reading. . . . Linc Farr is
still in New York working as associate producer on the show Justice Files,
which is co-produced with ABC News and airs on the Discovery Channel. . . .
Wendy Morris filled us in on the West Coast contingent, saying that
Jennifer O'Neill finished her master's in journalism at Northwestern and
was planning on moving out to San Francisco. Michelle Lin is moving from
San Fran to Chicago to attend Northwestern as well for a graduate degree in
marketing. She sees Wendy Ridder, who is the director of investment
relations for a biotech company in San Jose, and Liz Baker, who is leaving
her job with NETC, a travel company for high schoolers, to pursue her interests
in marketing and event planning. . . . Kara Marchant Hooper spent the
summer traveling around the West and catching 19 major league baseball games in a
month with her husband. Along the way, they caught up with JJ Eklund,
Austen Briggs and Ellie Peters. Austen remains in San Fran and
recently left public relations to work in sales and marketing for Zurich Scudder
Investments. . . . Anna Thomson is still in Boulder. She works for Action
Marketing Group, a division of Warren Miller Films, as the assistant art director
in a three-person creative department. She works on specialty promotions and
marketing for such clients as Nike, Levi's, AmEX, Dockers, Dannon and others.
After doing some skier-cross racing, Anna's given up competition and is enjoying
the "general recreation of skiing." She was among a group planning a summer
reunion in Tahoe with Molly Bracken (who works in admissions at
Princeton), Mary Rosenfeld (who's practicing law this year in Boston),
Wendy Morris and others. . . . David Bruinooge is moving offices
from VH1 to Lifetime. He traveled around Paris, the Normandy beaches, Belgium and
Amsterdam for a couple of weeks in April. . . . Dana Cease was accepted at
Georgetown University for business school. . . . CJ Polcari finished his
last year of medical school at Loyola and was in Guatemala on a medical mission.
. . . Steve Kidd will attend Brown this fall to pursue his master's in
dramatic arts and theater. . . . Andrea DeHaan, bit by the rock-climbing
bug while in Germany, is now back in the States. . . . Julie Lovell is
currently living in Annapolis, Md., where she is in an accelerated nursing
program at Johns Hopkins and hoping to get into some sailing with the idea of
living on board in the future. . . . Jason Klein is the curator of the
Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, a 179-acre park in Rye that is part of the
Westchester County Parks Department on Long Island Sound. He is responsible for
all aspects of the park, including the habitat management projects that he's
received grants for. . . . Linsay Cochran has been living and working in
Eugene, Ore., but returned to California for a second summer of ecology
fieldwork with birds. The first summer she studied and hiked a 500-mile section of the
Continental Divide trail in Colorado. . . . . I've begun pursing my M.Ed. in
secondary English teaching at Boston College. Thanks for the news!
--Kimberly N. Parker
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Allison L. Brown Flynn
6948 Avery Road
Dublin, OH 43017-2865
classnews1998@alum.colby.edu |
Greetings, Class of 1998! I hope all of you enjoyed a fantastic summer! Monica
Staaterman certainly started her summer with a bang. Congratulations to
Monica for successfully finishing the San Diego Marathon in less than four hours!
Monica was cheered on by Kirsten Staaterman and Julie Fidaleo, who
spent the summer working at home in San Diego for a judge before preparing for
her second year of law school at Indiana University this fall. . . .
Cindy Lohman was also in San Diego this summer, visiting her brother and
taking surfing lessons. Cindy lives in Arlington, Va., and is working for the
National Science Foundation as a science assistant/biologist. . . . Sara
Boulian still loves life out in Seattle, Wash. Sara is a designer for Gas
Powered Games, who will be releasing their first computer game (published by
Microsoft) this fall. She writes that she has had a blast helping design the game
for the past two years. . . . As many of you are heading back to the books for
master's degrees this fall, Nathan Radcliffe, who is back for his third
year at Temple Medical School, writes, "it's just like going to Colby,
except that I am in a very dirty city, knee-deep in extraordinarily contagious
and virulent diseases, spending every waking moment awkwardly memorizing an
endless stream of medical minutia and keeping all social contacts to an absolute
minimum." . . . Dave Fenton just began a two year M.B.A. program at
Babson. . . . Hilary White is heading to Yale to begin a physician
assistant master's program. Hilary spent the past year as a medical assistant in
Breckenridge, Colo., and had the opportunity to travel to Peru last May. . . .
Holly Kozlowski moved from Canton, N.Y., where she has been assistant
director of admissions for St. Lawrence University, to Ithaca, N.Y., where she
begins law school at Cornell University this fall. . . . After traveling in the
Greek Islands and Egypt this summer, Liz Castagneto is heading to
Massachusetts for her first year of medical school at the University of
Massachusetts. . . . Andy Smith spent the summer in New York City working
for a law firm. Andy is beginning his third year as a law student at UPenn,
where he is editor in chief of the Journal of Constitutional Law. This
fall he will be a writing instructor, teaching first-year law students legal
writing skills. . . . Congratulations to Kristin Elfering Dieng on the
birth of her son, Ismaael, in April 2000. Ismaael developed bilateral pneumonia
and spent a month in the neonatal ICU after his birth, but he's now a happy, wild
1-year-old. Kristin and her husband live outside of Washington, D.C., in Silver
Spring, Md., and are expecting another baby in December. Kristin works full time
as an Africa risk analyst in Vienna, Va. . . . Ellen Bruce will move from
Washington, D.C., to Chicago this fall. . . . Anne Miller graduated with
an M.A. in math from the University of Texas at Austin this summer. She recently
moved to Atlanta to work for Hewitt Associates as an actuary. . . . Nick
Lombardi is still living just outside Davis Square in Somerville with Ed
Kostrowski. Nick just started a new job in downtown Boston as an editorial
assistant at Course Technology, where he's working with Bryan
Raffetto '95 and Heather Markham. . . . Andrew Porter and Justin
Harvey '99 delivered a sailboat to New York from Guadeloupe by way of Bermuda
this summer! Andrew concluded, "After intense research and the compilation
of large amounts of raw empirical data, we confirmed that Red Sox games are
on TV in Freddie's Bar in St. Georges . . . the Official New England Patriots Bar
of Bermuda." (Andrew will be heading back to Freddie's during football season to
confirm this.) In September, Andrew will return to Maine (Kennebunkport) to go to
The Landing School in the boat-building course until June 2002. . . . Leah
West and Ken Raiche were married on July 14. After their wedding in
Minnesota, they headed out to Bend, Ore., to live in an "outdoor activities
Mecca." Leah and Ken visited Oregon in April and loved it! Leah writes that they
are "looking forward to being 20 minutes from skiing!" . . . Thanks for all
of your updates--please keep writing!! I look forward to hearing from
you!
--Allison Brown Flynn
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Lindsay Hayes
130 Long Neck Point Road
Darien, CT 06820
203-655-4664
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Recently I ran into Gina Espinosa-Salcedo, who finished her master's
degree in public health last year. She'd been working as an injury prevention
consultant for the Department of Transportation and was just hired by the
National Cancer Institute to serve as their partnership coordinator. Gina lives
in Colorado Springs with boyfriend David Normoyle '00. She let me know that
Bryan Rund was working in Idaho for the summer. After spending this last
year in D.C., he will be attending graduate school at American University in the
fall. . . . After working for SkyHawk sports camps in San Francisco, Adam
Davis moved to Virginia in April and has a new job. . . . Brad Sicchitano
finished his second year teaching at Dexter School in Brookline, Mass., and
drove across the country this summer to participate in a NOLS course for outdoor
educators in Alaska. . . . David Burke is working at Triumvirate
Environmental in Cambridge, Mass., and is living in Haverhill. . . . Chris
Einstein is working in Seattle and living with Kate Litel. . . . .
Annie Flanagan lives in Stamford, Conn., and works for African Portfolio.
She designs safari trips and is currently traveling throughout Africa on
business. She is applying to serve in the Peace Corps next year. . . . I also ran
into Chelsea Palmer, who after earning a degree in massage therapy at the
New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts in Santa Fe in June 2000 is now working in
Vermont at Cone Editions Press, a digital print-making studio. She's learning all
about digital photography and printmaking. . . . Mackenzie Dawson is
engaged to Nick Parks, a BU graduate! They plan a June 2002 wedding, and Sasha
Brown and Carrie Dube will be bridesmaids. . . . Josh Waldman
and Andrea Keisler have been living in Portland, Ore., for more than a
year and a half. Andrea just finished up a year as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer
doing cooking and nutrition classes through the Oregon Food Bank for people at
risk for malnutrition, and she was hired on as a full-time employee. Josh works
in central Oregon, teaching geology, archaeology and arid lands ecology to fifth
and sixth graders at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument through the
Oregon Museum of Science and Technology. . . . Lauren Rothman and Jason
Gerbsman are still together and going strong after five and a half years, even since
Jason moved to Israel and became an Israeli citizen in June 2000. He just began
his service in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he hopes to be selected for the
naval branch of the military. When he's not on the base, Jason lives in Jerusalem
with friends. . . . After graduation Robin Torbeck moved to Bar Harbor,
Maine, and with her two older brothers is a puppeteer--they're called the
Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers. They make their puppets, which are very muppet-y
looking, and they travel all over Maine. Robin lives with Kristin Engel
and Beth Lang. . . . As a baseball advisor for a sports management
firm, CSMG Sports Ltd., Laura Feraco helps professional athletes
straighten out their lives. She works mostly with the Latin American clients and
all of their clients who are playing ball in Japan. . . . Last fall Jenny
Harvey-Smith decided that she had had enough of her office job at Outdoor
Research, Inc., in Seattle, so she moved to Hood River, Ore. She works on the pro
ski patrol at Mt. Hood Meadows. Over the summer Jenny was a firefighter and
fought wildfires for the State Forestry Department of Oregon. . . . Arin
Novick finished up a master's program for teaching in Boston. . . . I am
headed to graduate school at Harvard in September to work on my master's degree
in education. I look forward to catching up with all you Bostonians! Keep the
news coming.
--Lindsay Hayes
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