95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yuhgo Yamaguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-354-0289 classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Holly Martin is a science and algebra teacher at The Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury, Mass. She was recently the assistant athletic director at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass. In addition to her teaching duties, she coached the CM middle school soccer team. . . . T.J. Maines has been a social studies teacher at the Whitefield School in Maine for the past four years. He volunteered to have his head shaved if students raised $1,000 to help the families of New York Firefighters following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The kids exceeded their goal, raising a total of $1,777.41, which was sent to the New York Firefighters 9-1-1 Disaster Relief Fund. "It was a way to help out," T.J. said. "That's a lot of money, and a tribute to what the kids were willing to do." T.J. earned his master's in education at the University of Maine and planned a June 2002 wedding to Brenda Creamer, a language arts teacher at the Whitefield School. . . . Rev. Arthur Fairbrother will succeed the Rev. Lewis Cushman, retiring pastor of the Unionville Church of God in Steuben, Maine. Art grew up in Belfast, where Cushman was his pastor. Art said that he and his wife, Jennifer, a registered nurse, think of their ministry as a team effort: "I never make a decision about the ministry without consulting her first." They had their first child last year and have moved into the parsonage in the Unionville section of Steuben. . . . James Porter received his master's degree in physics from Cornell University in 1999 and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell in August 2001. He has a post-doctoral position as a research associate in the Dartmouth College chemistry department. . . . Brett Medwick completed a year of research at Yale University's endocrinology department and graduated from Sackler Medical School. He is now a second-year surgical resident at Columbia University St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospitals in N.Y.C. He was engaged to Keren Habari and planned a December 2001 wedding in Israel. . . . Lisa DeHahn is currently working with the homeless population in San Diego. "It's very challenging, but very rewarding. Living in San Diego is like living in another country. I've had the chance to brush up on my Spanish," she wrote. Last summer she was a bridesmaid for Naomi Devlin, daughter of ex-Colby professor Keith Devlin, at her wedding in Monterey Bay, Calif. "The highlight for me," Lisa said, "was dancing with Keith--I've had a crush on him since MA 111 my first year!" . . . Mike Rosenthal is living in San Francisco, working for Handspring. . . . Andrew Vernon and I had dinner with Hannah Beech and Beth Herbert a few months ago. Hannah is a Beijing correspondent for Time Magazine and is engaged to Brook Larmer, a correspondent for Newsweek. . . . Steph Cleaves moved to California with her fiancé. They are both park rangers at Yosemite National Park. . . . Rick Catino and his wife, Chrissy, welcomed daughter Anna Therese Catino on March 21, 2002. . . . Drew Matus and Rebecca Smith got married on April 13. Colby groomsmen included John Griffin and Mark Merzon. Drew works for Lehman Brothers in New York City as a vice president/senior U.S. financial markets economist, and Rebecca is employed by Pacific Investment Management Corp. as a financial writer. They live in New York City. . . . Peter Bennett '96 is working for the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento, Calif. When he's not working he's white-water kayaking in the Sierra Nevadas. He recently got back from kayaking in Ecuador. . . . Peter Karos married Sophia Bouloukos of Winnipeg, Manitoba, last Feb. 23 in Minneapolis, Minn. . . . Alyson Angino and Joe Germain were married on June 1, 2002. Michelle Grdina, Alisa Masson and Michelle Wyemura were bridesmaids at the wedding. Also in attendance were Jen Benwood and Barb Buse. Michelle Grdina survived her first Harvard reunion as the university's coordinator for the 25th reunion children's program. Alisa is working for GE Capital in Connecticut. Michelle Wyemura and Jen are both living in Seattle, Wash., and working in physical therapy after graduating from Northwestern University and Temple University respectively this past spring. . . . Regina Wlodarski Kruger and her husband, Keith, had their first baby, Megan Sophia Kruger, born March 25, 2002. --Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kim Schock 7432 Major Avenue Norfolk, VA 23294 757-423-3072 classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	Carol Strawn married Jim Fielbelkorn '98 in June 2001 in St. Paul, Minn. Carol is a program manager for an environmental remediation firm and is completing her master's thesis in environmental health. They live in Ann Arbor, Mich., with their 6-year-old Siberian husky, Stoli. . . . Rob Gold, who lives in St. Paul doing a dental residency in the Minneapolis Veterans Hospital, received a visit from Aran Ryan, who was on a five-state tour of 10 Super Eight motels. . . . Erica Casano Spater lives in New York City with her husband, Kitter, and works as a business analyst with Columbia House. They were married last December in Saratoga, N.Y. . . . Kylie Jessica Taphorn is an attorney at a small Sacramento, Calif., firm that specializes in juvenile law. In May she married Chris Thoma in Mendocino, Calif. . . . Linnea Basu is working at Northwestern Mutual in Boston. . . . Don Saucier married Mary Cain, with Sandler Passman as his best man and David Palmieri '97 as an usher. His Ph.D. in experimental social psychology earned him a faculty position in the psychology department at the University of Kentucky. . . . Rebecca Trufant married Christopher White last September in Massachusetts. Rebecca works for Investors Bank and Trust, and Christopher is with Hemisphere Financial Services. . . . In April 2001, Michael and Elizabeth Dunn Allen had twin boys, Nicholas Durham and Jakob Kenneth. . . . Meghan Fossum is director of leadership giving at Trident United Way. . . . Karen Goodrich married Stuart Wales last September. Karen works at Oxygen Media, and Stu works for Thomas Weisel Partners. . . . Jill Picard lives in the San Francisco Bay area and married Michael Paine in August 2001. Jill is a software designer for the GAP, and Michael is the director of Costa Rican Adventures. They met in Lesotho, Africa, while Michael was a Peace Corps volunteer and Jill was a Watson Fellow. Jill sees Jess Wolk, who is a massage therapist and getting her master's degree. . . . Todd Guilfoyle married Sarah Leach in June 2002. Todd is a senior client manager at Fidelity Investments, and Sarah is an account executive on the Royal Caribbean advertising account at Arnold Worldwide, Boston. . . . Danielle Beaudin and Iain Bamford married in April 2002. She earned her M.L.S. at UNC-Chapel Hill; Iain received his M.B.A. from Duke. . . . Keith Albert successfully defended his chemistry Ph.D. thesis, titled "Microbead Array-based Artificial Nose: Explosives Detection and Simple/Complex Odor Discrimination." Yes, he used an artificial nose to detect explosives. His work was featured on ABCnews.com as well as in a Tufts journal. . . . Tamela Spaulding Perkins entered a master's program in early intervention/early childhood special education. . . . Jonathan Bardzik is in the Isenberg School of Management M.B.A. program at UMass. . . . Cathy (Neuger '97) and Gregg LeBlanc bought a house in Sudbury, Mass. Gregg is a senior associate with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Cathy is a senior researcher with Deloitte and Touche. . . . James Howley, a consultant for Valve Source, Inc., was married in May 2002 to Renee Jalbert, a biomedical engineer at Biomerieux. . . . Lori Kalisz married Ryan Stattenfeld in Pittsfield, Maine, in June 2001. Lori is a history teacher, Ryan is a chemistry teacher, and they live in Sterling, Va. . . . Kerry Ackerman enrolled in the full-time cabinet- and furniture-making program at North Bennet Street School in Boston. . . . Melissa Taylor finished her internship at UMass Memorial in Worcester and is currently in her pediatric residency. She is looking forward to Bernadette Graham's wedding in February 2003. . . . Anna Goldsmith has been doing screenwriting in her free time. . . . Daniel Deitch started his own business a few years ago, providing technology and computer training and counseling to individuals, home offices and small businesses. . . . Dave Marx started his own photography business in Montana and did a beautiful job providing the photography at Tim Lieberman's wedding. Tim is working at Amazon.com as a product manager for eBooks and digital music and sees Conrad Saam, who just moved to Seattle and is the director of sales and marketing for an interactive agency called Smashing Ideas. . . . Casey McCullough began his urologic surgical residency at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pa. In his free time he has been writing book chapters as well as snowboarding and playing forward on his old medical school's roller hockey team. . . . Andrew Meeks finished his second year at the University of Vermont law school, where he will graduate with a joint degree in law and a master's in environmental law. He is enjoying Vermont with his 2-year-old golden retriever, Skyler, who he says helps keep him sane. Andrew also likes to escape to Boston to catch up with Chris Greenfield. Chris and Cate Kneece Wnek had a busy year. Chris started Tufts Dental School, and Cate completed her M.B.A. at the University of Maine last May, finishing first in her class. They bought a condo in Salem, Mass., and Cate is working as an analyst at Fleet Global Market. . . . Woody '97 and Anne Robinson Pollack live near San Francisco and had a boy named Nolan Foster in September 2001. Anne works in a law firm in Oakland representing cities and public agencies. Woody works for a start-up called Panasas. . . . Grace Jeanes completed an M.B.A. at UMass and has been raising money for the Merrimack Valley Animal Shelter in Lowell. . . . Roger Binggeli lives in Waltham, Mass., with his wife, Melanie Macbeth '97. Roger recently started a business program at Suffolk University while also working as a senior compliance specialist. Melanie is a student at the New England College of Optometry. --Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker 37 Melendy Avenue #2 Watertown, MA 02472-4108 classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
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	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Allison L. Brown Flynn 6948 Avery Road Dublin, OH 43017-2865 classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
	The countdown has begun! We are fast approaching our five-year reunion. You will receive reunion updates in the next few months, so be sure to mark your calendar for June 2003! . . . Earlier this year Farrell Burns won the Kiawah Island Women's Marathon in North Carolina, placing first out of 3,000 runners! Farrell lives in Charlotte, N.C., and continues to excel as a runner. Great job, Farrell! . . . Around the globe . . . After three years serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, Alice Wong is headed to Johns Hopkins for a joint M.S.N./M.P.H. degree. Alice spent the spring back home in California working for a nonprofit health organization. . . . Kristen Paratore has traveled the world over the past few years. Her adventures include working in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia for seven months, rock climbing in southern Thailand, hiking and working on an organic farm in New Zealand and traveling through Laos and southwest China. During this period she spent some time working as an editor of an environmental magazine in Washington, D.C. Recently, Kristen landed in Boston, where she is pursuing a master's program in international educational policy at Harvard's School of Education. . . . Eric Anderson was called into active duty with the U.S. Marines in the middle of January 2002. He has been in North Carolina training with his unit (Garden City, N.J.) and expects to be on active duty until at least January 2003, with the potential for an additional year. . . . Back in New England . . . Dan Noyes moved back to Boston after living in D.C. for three years. Dan is teaching at Fenway High School, where he "loves the school, the kids, the diversity and the challenge of teaching in an urban environment." . . . Tricia Claussen is living in Boston with college roommate Liz Shanley, who just recently received a promotion with Putnam Investments as client service associate in downtown Boston. Tricia is busy working for TRC Environmental as a project manager. Liz and Tricia have spent much time with Sara Woodberry, who has made the trek up to Boston from her third year of vet school at UPenn, and with Kari Christensen, who was promoted from her position with Southwest in Manchester, N.H., to southeast director in Southwest's Providence office. . . . Out on the West Coast . . . Sandra Hughes Goff and her husband, Marc, celebrated their two-year anniversary in July. Sandra and Marc have been living in L.A., where they are attending a two-year acting program in which Anthony Hopkins volunteers as a teacher. Sandra was cast in an episode of the Drew Carey Show this past spring and hopes to be considered for a regular role in an ABC sitcom this fall. . . . Laura Jordan reports that she is still living in San Francisco--she is working as senior promotions manager at Virgin Mobile--but plans to move to New York with her company in early 2003. Laura runs into Montine Bowen, Justin Fredrickson, Kristin Crowley and Emily Larsen in the Bay Area from time to time and says they are all doing well. . . . After completing his master's in music performance and composition at the California Institute of the Arts in 2001, Harris Eisenstadt has been busy performing in Los Angeles. When he is not traveling for his performances, Harris spends a few days a week teaching music to kids for an arts education organization. . . . In New York City . . . Lizzie Ivry left Washington, D.C., for N.Y.C., where she attends graduate school at NYU. Lizzie is living with Jen Rose, and they were looking forward to attending the wedding of Julie Williams (now Helentjaris) in July. Congratulations, Julie! . . . Also in New York, Kristen Wilson is attending SUNY-New Paltz for her master's in education and certification to teach high school biology. Before landing at SUNY, Kristen was instructing for Outward Bound in Maine and plans to do so for the next few summers. . . . After graduating from law school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Tara Falsani was heading to New York, where she begins work this fall. . . . In school . . . Kristina Smith is still living in Providence, R.I., where she is in her final year at the Rhode Island School of Design pursuing a master's in landscape architecture. Kristina plans to complete her degree in May 2003. . . . Emily Levin lives in Arlington, Va., and attends law school at George Washington University. . . . Kevin Soja moved to the New York area to attend a master's program in education at Columbia this fall. . . . Kevin Thurston has been traveling the globe while attending the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies in Bologna, Italy. Kevin is back in D.C. this fall for his second year. . . . Alex Sobel graduated from medical school and began a five-year internship and residency in otolaryngology and orofacial plastic surgery in Columbus, Ohio, this fall. . . . Brian Gill was to begin his first year of medical school at Boston University School of Medicine this fall. . . . Wedding Bells . . . Ryan Costello was to be married to Tara Weiske on July 13. Ryan and Tara, a graduate of UNH, live in Portsmouth, N.H., where Ryan works in the database department of Liberty Mutual. . . . Kristofer Hamel was to be married to Iva Ilieva '99 on August 11 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Kris is currently pursuing a master's in international relations at Georgetown University. . . . And congratulations to Susan Matlock, who is engaged to be married in Oregon on January 11, 2003! . . . Thank you for keeping in touch. I encourage each of you to pick up the phone and say hello to an old Colby pal! top  |   next

 

	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes 130 Long Neck Point Road Darien, CT 06820 203-655-4664 classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	Kea Watson lives in San Francisco and works as a stage manager at ACT. This summer she was to go back on tour with the Reduced Shakespeare Company working on their new show, The Reducers. . . . After four months of crazy transition from downtown N.Y.C., Oliver Griswold landed in Arlington, Va., ready to jump into politics, or journalism, or activism, or feminism, or whatever. . . . Will Guthrie works in construction in New Jersey. . . . Jonathan and Andrea Hutchins Sickinger live in Ann Arbor, Mich. Andrea finished her first year of grad school for a master's in social work at the University of Michigan. Jon is an investment analyst in the university's investment office, which oversees the endowment. . . . Katharine Lawrence was thrilled to head off to the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the fall. Katie is in the arts in education program and is looking to earn her master's degree. . . . Jessica Gilbert and her dog, Watts, are loving their lives in Portland, Maine, where Jess works for the local CBS affiliate. . . . Heather Davidson has been working for two years as resource coordinator for the E.F. Schumacher Society, an environmental nonprofit in southwestern Massachusetts (www.smallisbeautiful.org). She moved to Boston and back into the world of job searching in April and was looking forward to reconnecting with Colby friends there. . . . Anne Hutchinson has been living in Charlottesville, Va., for a year and working for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. She runs the Virginia watershed education program. Anne and her co-leader have a canoe rig and travel all over the non-tidal Virginia watershed running education programs. She loves Charlottesville and is in an art co-op (for fiber art) and lives with her puppy-dog, Banjo. . . . Peter Downing is a staff assistant for Senator Olympia Snowe in D.C. . . . Ben Armiger is a sailing education director for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michael's, Md. . . . Billy Riley picked up and moved to Wyoming to relish the lifestyle out west. . . . Craig Jude married Brooke Frappier '00 on June 22. Both are employed as research assistants at Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. . . . As for Sandra DuBarry Laflamme, please note a correction: On June 9, 2001, Sandra and her husband, Jesse, were married in St. David's, Pa., not St. Johnsbury, Vt., as was noted in the milestones section of the last issue. Sandra is currently working as a reading and writing teacher for K-2 at the Danville School in Danville, Vt. In the fall Sandra was to enroll in a teacher certification program at the Upper Valley Teaching Institute so that she can become an elementary school teacher. . . . After three years working in D.C., Renee Lajeunesse headed to N.Y.C. in August to go to Columbia University's Graduate School of Social Work. She is looking forward to N.Y. life. . . . Heather Fine successfully completed her first year at Dickinson law school. She spent the summer in D.C. working for a judge. . . . I graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education and spent the summer at the Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School working as assistant dean and college counselor, which I loved. This fall I'm working in the dean's office in residential life at Williams College. . . . Keep the updates coming! --Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next