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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Lynn Collin Francis
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After Colby, Sigurd Winslow worked in Boston in survey research data management and as a certified Microsoft network engineer. Sigurd has returned home to live in Orleans, Mass., and enjoys the high quality of life on Cape Cod. He works as a carpenter and contractor remodeling homes, has reconnected with old friends, is involved with environmental testing of Cape waters and in his spare time says he enjoys being a "computer geek.". . . Congrats to Brian Neligan and wife Elizabeth on the birth of their first child, Margot Kellogg Neligan, born in May. . . . Janet Thacher Silva has her master's degree from UNH and was a middle school teacher for 15 years. She is the office manager for Silvamart Incorporated, a family business of convenience stores launched in 1995. Janet lives in Amherst, N.H., with her husband and two daughters, ages 8 and 10. Recently she traveled to Costa Rica, where she had a canopy tour in a tropical forest, went horseback riding and visited with iguanas and monkeys. . . . Jan Follansbee Binda, her husband, Charlie, and daughter Julia, 11, live in Stoneham, Mass. Jan works in public affairs and community relations at Sun Microsystems in Burlington, Mass. . . . Cindy Wigley Domack has been a geology professor for 18 years at Hamilton College in upstate New York, where she teaches paleontology, ocean science and meteorology. Cindy has been undergoing treatment for a rare autoimmune disease for six years. . . . Fred Madeira and his wife, Trish, celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary in May. Their lives in the Portland, Maine, area revolve around family, with their parents living nearby and sons, John, 11, and Nathan, 8, busy with skiing, competitive swimming, soccer and baseball. After a 15-year hiatus, Fred returned to sailing with the purchase of a 1985 Sabre 38 for cruising the Maine coast. He is the VP/GM for relationship management at Wright Express, a company that has had tremendous growth in the last 10 years. He regularly sees Jay Moody, Dan O'Halloran, Chris Bradley '78, Tim Hussey '78, Geoff Emanuel '79, Charlie Hurd '78 and Bob Kellogg '79 in the Portland area or at Sugarloaf. . . . Diana Small Snow has an M.B.A. from Boston University and is working at a real estate management company in Brookline, Mass. She is three years out from treatment for cancer. Diana and her husband, Rich, traveled to France in '02, visiting Paris, Mt. Saint Michel and the coast near Normandy. . . . Caroline Weeks DiProspero teaches second grade in Oakville, Conn. She has her master's in education with a specialty in remedial reading. Daughter Chelsea is 16 and on her high school tennis team. They enjoyed a break from New England's winter with an April vacation at a tennis resort in Florida. Caroline keeps in touch with Kay Lavoie '79, who is a librarian in Colorado. . . . Becky Brunner-Peters e-mailed from her home near Zurich, Switzerland. She was recently promoted to VP for U.S. law at Credit Suisse. Daughter Nicole, a second grader, is bilingual English-German and plays soccer. Becky plays tennis in her spare time and won a tournament early this year. Becky says that living away from the U.S. gives her a different perspective on U.S. world policy and strategies. . . . Tony Cunningham, a professor of philosophy at St. John's University in central Minnesota, is working on a book, a collection of essays on virtues in modern moral philosophy. He has almost completed an elaborate tree house he built with the help of daughters Flannery, 11, and Madeleine, 10, and continues to play the fiddle. . . . Elliott Pratt played hooky from work in February with Scott Butterfield, Mark Garvin and Scot Lehigh to enjoy a great day of skiing at Cannon Mountain. In the spring, Elliott coached his daughter's U-14 soccer team and enjoyed his daughter's lacrosse and sons' soccer, baseball and tennis games. . . . Commander Ken Branch has departed his Pentagon post to take command of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 based in Port Hueneme, Calif. He is pleased to be back with the SEABEES. . . . Sarah Stiles Bright recently published a book, Maine Lakes (Tilbury House, 2002), to benefit the nonprofit Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute in Nobleboro, Maine. Sarah wrote the text for this "very visual" coffee table book. . . . Catie Fulton Teeven reports with pride that her son, Casey, who enrolled in the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., in July, will be an important contributor to their swim team. Sister Ali is a sophomore this fall in the high school where Catie is a teacher. Gerry '79 changed careers in January 2002 and is now a mortgage banker. They continue to enjoy life in Florida. . . . Lisa McDonough O'Neill is looking forward to the challenge of putting together a 25th reunion yearbook. You all have received her letter in the mail. Please assist her in this project by sending her your photos from our lives at Colby. And keep the news coming!
--Lynn Collins Francis
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Sally Lovegren Merchant
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At our 20th reunion in June, record numbers of our class returned to Colby to reminisce, find fellowship, share old and new stories and plan the next time we can get together again. Names of those making it back for the weekend can be found on Colby's Web site (www.colby.edu/alumni/reunion). President "Bro" Adams made a quick visit to welcome us on Saturday evening, and it was great to hear Coach Dick Whitmore, the speaker for our class dinner. Later, Dick and his wife, Mary Kay, lit up the dance floor when Jerry Jeff Walker, sponsored by the Class of 1978, played for Colby alumni. Our weekend was complete with fair weather, a soccer game, nights spent in Grossman, Treworgy and Pierce (Tau Delta Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha and Zeta Psi), some classmates making their own beds, the parade of classes, plenty of children, a chicken, hamburg and lobster bake in the field house, the Class of 1983's record-breaking reunion gift to the College, walking and running some of the paths and trails we remember most, listening to Barb Leonard (director of the division of community health, Maine Bureau of Health) offer a talk and discussion about the epidemic of obesity, checking out the deals in the Colby bookstore, pizza deliveries at midnight, hearing the group After Eight, off-campus enjoyment for some, breakfast in Dana, Colby picture frames as handy mementos, and much, much more. I'm honored to say that during this wonderful weekend I received a Colby Brick Award. (Highlights of the weekend also can be found at Colby's Web site.) For our 25th reunion we want to increase everything: from the numbers of classmates returning to campus to the numbers for participation and generosity in giving to the Alumni Fund. Thanks to each and every class member who fulfilled a pledge. . . . Curt '82 and Deena Schwartz Ball live outside Philadelphia, Pa., with their daughters, Erica (ninth grade) and Lydia (seventh grade). Deena works at a nonprofit art center teaching children. She also paints watercolor landscapes and has had her paintings in both local and national juried exhibitions. Curt works as a commercial construction estimator. . . . Ed Higham, his wife, Jean, and their kids, Devon, Kyra and Brendan, live in Armonk, N.Y., where Ed works for Prudential Financial in corporate mergers and acquisitions doing international acquisitions in insurance, asset management and brokerage areas. . . . For the last 12 years Karla Hostetler has moved around the world as program director for the NGO Aid to Artisans in various countries. Karla's now settling down in Antigua and has started a business with a group of eastern Caribbean hotels creating arts marketing opportunities and jobs for Caribbean artists and artisans. This year Karla was anticipating starting a family with the adoption of a child from Kazakhstan. Karla (karlavt@together.net) would love to hear from old friends. . . . Late in June, Dan Matlack and his family were due to arrive home from a sabbatical year in France. Dan returned to his teaching job at Noble & Greenough School and hoped to be able to draw many different lessons from the year in France. . . . Deb Bombaci Pappas started a new job at Courion in Massachusetts, and Jim Plumer has left Bowdoin College for Amherst College to coach. . . . John Northrop, also in the process of a change, was hoping to find another position in Vermont, where he and Judy live and where Judy works. . . . Starting her third year of law school at Temple University in Philadelphia is Athena Andrews Rodbell. She had been working for the EPA and in state government as an environmental engineer for nearly 10 years, doing solid waste and hazardous waste-related projects. She hopes to combine her interest in environmental law with bankruptcy law. She and her husband, Phillip, and children, Sophia and Phoebe, moved to Philadelphia a few years ago when Phillip took a job with the U.S. Forest Service doing urban forestry. The family planned a summer visit to Maine. . . . Ann Poncelet, living in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, John, and 7-year-old Chantal, was promoted to associate professor in clinical neurology in the fall of 2002. Ann has gone twice a year to Boston to teach in the Harvard-Macy Program for Physician Educators. She tries to sail and play music when she has a little time. . . . Summer school to study Arabic was the destination of choice for Jennifer Thayer Naylor. She's been working with a former NYU professor on a project called The Afghanistan Digital Library to help collect, digitize and make available via the Internet and CD-ROM/DVD Afghanistan's published heritage dating from 1870 to 1930. She's also part of a team developing a new initiative for some NGOs to reframe the Palestinian issue by calling attention to women and children and the ways in which Israel is not respecting family rights through certain policies. A trip to Washington in May offered Jennifer her first lobbying experience. She also said "yes" when Colby invited her to be a writing mentor for the Posse Foundation, which is sending about a dozen kids to Colby this year. Jennifer and her husband, Duncan, have two children, Duncan, 7, and Persephone, nearing 6.
--Sally Lovegren Merchant
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