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Passing the Screen Test
Waterville festival's reputation grows as luminaries come calling.
   

Another Record Year for Alumni Contributions
   

New Alumni Building Announced
Future takes shape with plans for alumni center
   

Landscape Architects Visualize "The Colby Green"
   

The Club Circuit
   

Alumni Association Awards
   
 

 

ALUMNI PROFILES
Dorothy Cleaver '48

Janet Grout Williams '60
A Bird in Hand

Kathy McKechnie '79
A Lifesaving Career

Julia McDonald '99
A Desert Discovery

Beth Johnson Searing '99

Todd Miner '01
Opening the Door

Geoff Ward '02


Newsmakers &
Milestones

20s/30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s-00s

 
Profiles: Todd Miner '01  |  Geoff Ward '02
2000  |  2001

 

Profiles: Geoff Ward '02  |   Newsmakers & Milestones

 

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Hilary C. Smyth
134 Davis Avenue #2
Brookline, MA 02445
781-883-1903
fax: 617-248-7100
classnews2000@alum.colby.edu

Hello to the Class of 2000! Hope this finds you happy and healthy. Congratulations to Brooke Frappier and Craig Jude '99, who were married on June 22, 2002, and to Lisa Cardillo and Gerardo DeMarco, who were married in Italy at the end of June. . . . Tom Keblin and Sarah Cobleigh are engaged and planning a 2003 wedding. . . . Tacy Conard and Brian Quinn '99 are also engaged and moved to California in July to go back to school. They are planning a 2004 wedding. . . . Tim McGee and Amy Piaseczny '99 are planning their fall 2002 wedding in Lorimer Chapel. They are both currently working at Novartis Pharmacogenetics in Maryland and plan to go back to school in 2003. . . . Karen Macke and Will Barron '01 are also planning a 2003 wedding. Karen is attending Colorado State University for her master's in sociology, and Will has just begun his first season as a professional Scottish Highlands athlete. Congrats to all! . . . Annalise Blech graduated in August with her M.A. in Slavic languages and literature. She will be living in Moscow on an exchange at Moscow State Linguistic University until May 2003. . . . Jaclyn Rollins started graduate school at Salem State College for her master's in social work. . . . Charles "Chaz" Langelier is living in Salt Lake City and was admitted to the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Utah's College of Medicine. He spent last year volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rica. . . . Parke Burmeister spent last year teaching Latin at Thornton Academy in Maine, and Jessica Porter taught physics and chemistry at Rundlett Middle School in Concord, Mass. . . . Congrats to Patrick Burlingame, who was recently picked for a Fulbright Scholarship in Hungary. He will be attending the University of Szeged. . . . Carolyn Mordas finished her second year of studying physical inorganic chemistry at Princeton University and completed her master's degree. She is now a candidate for the Ph.D. . . . David Sherwood and Grace Price '01 are engaged... Jeff Libby and ,B>Reba Frederics were married in July at Colby. In attendance were Vanessa Wade, Whitney Lawton, Jeff Zia, Steve Horowitz, Rob Egleston '01, Ben Schlitt, Jason St. Clair, Mike Farrell, Miranda Jennings and Laura van Gestel... Chrissie Marzano is working at the Wilmark Group as a biotech/pharmaceutical recruiter and living with Lara Bonn and Kathryn Johnson. Chrissie ran in her first two triathlons this summer, and all three are still playing rugby on a national level with the Boston Women's Rugby Club... Keryn Kwedor is working at Rockport High School in Massachusetts in special education and visited with Mary Larios and Jason Gatlin out in Eugene, Ore., this summer... Skip Newberry is in his second year at UConn Law and worked for a federal judge this summer... Greg Madden just started his first year at UConn Law... Matt Janssen is in his final year of law school at Villanova and plans to clerk with a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court after graduating and taking the bar exam... Dave Ferguson is working on the show Third Watch and is living in New York City... Megan Davis and Jared Woodward-Poor spent the winter out in Denver and Park City... JR Rudman, Brian Hiester and Alex Moskos are living together in Allston, Mass., and Alex is working as a crime analyst in Boston.... Sarah Church and Philip Murphy were married in August in New Hampshire. Kate McLeay, Heather Daur, Mary Ann Shumacher amd Rebecca Rasmussen were all members of the wedding party, with many other Colby alums in attendance... Annalise Blech received her M.A. in Slavic languages and litratures in August and is currently beginning her Ph.D. requirements by spending nine months as the resident assistant for the UT Undergraduate Study Abroad Moscow Program in Russia... Melissa Bradbury is still working at Cushing Academy in the admissions office and attended Christine Casey and Ted Hutchinson's wedding in July. Also in attendance were Jenn Multari, Kelly Curlett, Sarah Cleary, Vanessa Wade, Keryn Kwedor, Dave Famiglietti, Jess Mulready, Carlos Dominguez and Julie Corbo... Morgan McDevitt is living in New York City and joined a rockband, Bellevue, this summer. He hopes that any Colby alums in the area will come out and see some of their shows. Join their mailing list at www.coollist.com... Greg Hanson and Ben Stockwell are living in Brookline Village, and Ben is workin at an economic consulting firm. They often see Jeremy Donovan, who is living in Coolidge Corner... Stephen Horowitz just started a master's program at Columbia in East Asian languages and cultures after spending a year and a half in Japan as an apprentice to a Japanese chef... Jim Mason is in his second year of graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is working on his thesis. He's studying barred owls... In August, Brian White placed third overall and first in his age group in Ironman Vineman in California! In October he left to teach English in Thailand for a year... Adam Craner is living in Seattle and is getting married next summer to Jolene Patterson. Adam is currently the marking manager in the e-commerce department of Eddie Bauer... Chris Bonafide is in his third year of med school at Penn State and is living with Amanda Adams '01... Kate Davies is living in Chicago and is in her second year of graduate school in cancer biology at Northwestern Medical School... Jenn BrownWhitney Thayer are planning a July 2003 wedding and are living in Fort Collins, Colo... Josh Foster was promoted to first lieutenant in the Marine Corps and is living in Merdian, Miss. He is currently in the advanced stage of jet strike training, flying the T-45C Gosshawk... Brenda Yun is back in Hawaii teaching ninth grade English and living with Diane Carr in Honolulu... Steph Baron is in her second year of physician assistant school in California and was married to Naren Vasudevan '99 in August... Christie Beveridge spent the summer in Juneau, Alaska, continuing at the Bread Loaf School of English. She is teaching English again this year at the White Mountain School in New Hampshire... Mari Masuda is living in Coronado, Calif., flying SH-60F helicopters for the Navy... Travis Keeling and Catherine Pinkerton were married in August and honeymooned in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness in northern Minnesota. They joined the Peace Corps and are leaving for Costa Rica in February!... Lindsay Shaker is getting her master's in elementary education at Boston College and was engaged in October. She will be getting married next summer on Cape Cod... Krikor Daglian is living in N.Y.C. and is the "city editor" for the New York edition of the Not For Tourists Guide to Manhattan... Kevin James has just begun the environmental law program at Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Ore... Elizabeth Haeussler is living in the mountains of Bozeman, Mont., and is working for an industrial design company as an anthropologist... Keep in touch!

-Hilary Smyth

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Dana Fowler
353 East 78th Street, 11B
New York, NY 10022
classnews2001@alum.colby.edu

Everyone seems to be up to exciting things! Becky Munsterer began her writing career by having an article published in SKI Magazine (April '02) and finished her first marathon in Ottawa in May! Her college roomie Mandy Cochrane is living the good life in San Diego, working as a teacher in underprivileged neighborhoods, while Becky's other roomie, Abbie Parker, is living in St. Thomas . . . as does Marc McEwen. . . . Another runner, Lambie Bickford, still loves Austin and has run the Austin Motorola Marathon and the Vancouver Adidas International Marathon. . . . Kathy Manu and Colin McKee were in Ausi, New Zealand and Fiji with students exploring down under. Colin will return to the U.N. environmental program in Geneva, Switzerland. . . . Kimberly Schneider teaches English in Burkina Faso, West Africa, with the Peace Corps. . . . Katie Meyerhans and James LaLiberty '02 are working as park rangers in Grand Teton National Park and living in Jackson Hole. Katie is part of the fire-fighting team that puts out any wildfires that pop up around the country! . . . Also in Jackson are Ben Schreiner and Michelle Cook. Ben took advantage of J.Hole weather, skiing more days last winter than not. . . . Justin Ehrenwerth began his graduate program in philosophy, politics and economics at Brasenose College at Oxford and also began trying to break a bad coffee habit. . . . Whitney Dayton, working on a U.S. Senate campaign in Texas, is in charge of the Dallas fund-raising efforts. . . . Bill Goldman missed school so much, he's now obtaining an M.S.A./M.B.A. dual-degree at Northeastern University. . . . Having law problems? Jon Engel began his first year of law school at BU, and Beth Festa began her law schooling at UConn. . . . Danielle Fornes will resume teaching, along with Amy Bonnefond, at the Kent's Hill School. Danielle teaches French and coaches ice hockey and softball. . . . Congrats are in order for Michelle-Nicholle Rahmings, who is teaching history and English at Kent's, and Jeff Calereso as they announced their engagement for a summer 2003 wedding. . . . Brad Wand has been promoted from staff assistant to legislative correspondent on Capitol Hill. . . . Kelly Kenney, in Boston, is a sales assistant in a global investment management firm and works with Katie Firth. Kelly sees Michelle Farrell, who teaches Spanish in Methuen. Their bud Jennie Coughlin now lives in Australia. . . . Lauren Schaad toured the U.S.A. last spring with the Hampstead Players, a children's theater group. She and her partner performed two shows, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "Greek Heroes," before she left for Italy to study Italian in Lucca. . . . Stacie Galiger worked during the summer at the Leysin American School in Switzerland. Stacie spent her past spring break in Italy with Sarah Martin, who is enthusiastically into her second year at Notre Dame law school. She reports that Marylee Murphy, Jon Weinberg and Mike Liedtke are living in Boulder, Colo., and that Nate Johnson and Wynter Stinchfield are living in Mass. . . . Lindsey Rowland is working on her master's degree at Miami University of Ohio. . . . Roommates Janice Greenwald, Liz Oberlin, Stephanie Mendell, Sarah Culbertson and Kelli Hall live in Brighton, Mass. Janice works for Boston.com, and O.B. and Stephanie did City Year Boston (AmeriCorps). Sarah works for Kaplan, and Kelli is a media buyer for Donor Advertising. . . . Lisa Hart works at a day care facility but planned to move to N.Y.C. in August. . . . Jen Miller began grad school at Emerson, and Matt Huber began his Ph.D. in sociology at Northeastern. . . . Steve Bigelow teaches at Brighton H.S. . . . Jon Natkin has been doing research at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Sarah Belanger works at Citizens Bank and has a film internship. They miss Alison Aiello, who left for Prague to teach English. . . . Annie Miller works in a lab at Boston University while roomie Melinda Mraz rules the financial world at Dove Consulting. . . . Rob Webb jetted off to Vail, Colo. . . . Chad Creelman is a senior sales rep for SprintPCS in San Diego, Calif., and is doing a great deal of Web design on the side, surfing "and writing petitions for the Liberation of Sea Horses in the waters of Northern Liberia." . . . Mike Natenshon began taking acting classes at Suffolk. . . . In N.Y.C., Sarah Castille and Julie Langsdorf work at Columbia University at the Graduate School of Public Health doing research on women living with HIV/AIDS. . . . Tim Cassidy now works in N.Y.C., something financial. . . .

Stuart Luth writes that he moved out of Hoboken and into lower Manhattan. He's still working in the stock plan services department at Salomon Smith Barney. . . . Anne Cain just returned from a year in Japan teaching English in Nagano, rice harvesting in the fall, climbing Mt. Fuji in the spring--quite an experience! This fall she is living in San Francisco. . . . Mead Rust is working at the History Channel. . . .Tom Savage is still saving failing companies. . . . Emily Brooks whips up the ad campaigns for AT&T wireless at Ogilvy & Mather in N.Y.C. Emily, Julie Langsdorf, Michelle Chandler, Rachel Rokicki, Melissa Alioto, Caroline Blair and I lived it up this summer in the Hamptons. Michelle hand-selects models for GQ,. And I want to announce my upcoming engagement to Bode Miller (I'll be telling him soon, I'm sure). To others who have already announced marriages, congratulations! Kate Isley married Kenny Rausch this August in Burlington Vt., before heading to Hawaii for the honeymoon! Kate is now looking into law schools... Rob Painter and Anna Randall also are newlyweds. Betsy Loyd attended the wedding, as did Jackie Ogutha, Nyasha Pfukwa (who is getting her master's in intercultural relations at Lesley University, along with Yuki Kodera), Kate Thurman, Binah Palmer, Laura West, Gareth Osborn and Elizabeth Hoorneman... Grace Price and Dave Sherwood '00 got engaged this past JUly and are planning to be married next June... Kyle Garry is working at the U.S. Golf Association Foundation with fiancee April Hunter, who works as a counselor for The Children's Arc, a local facility for troubled adolescent girls, and their yellow Lab, Colby... Dave Riss and Sarah Lovitz have lived in Boulder, Colo., since October '01, worked for the Fund for Public Interest Research and campaigned for Greenpeace for a couple of months. Sara played semi-pro soccer for the Mile High Mustangs, and Dave was a kayak instructor and spent all his free time kayaking class-five creeks around the state. Both are now researching grad schools. Asher Ghertner is now at UC-Berkley for grad school...Ray Mazza enters his second year at Carnegie Mellon, aiming to graduate in 2003 with a master of entertainment technology degree. This summer he worked at Kodak's reserach center in Rochester... Liz Frankel is the literary assistant at the Manhattan Theatre Club, a large off-Broadway theater... Mark Paustenbach finished a master's degree in politics at the London School of Economics and is now enrolled at Columbia U. in the Graduate School of Journalism... Lisa Hart now lives in N.Y.C. and is taking classes in interior design. She sees Liz Oberlin, who is working for a start-up City Year group, Brian Kessler, in his second year of law school at Columbia, and Corey Stranghoener, who lives in Hoboken and works at a fine gifts store.

-Dana D. Fowler

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