95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yuhgo Yamaguchi classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Katherine Marshall married Brian Meuse, a UMass graduate, in October 2002. Jennifer Gennaco and Michelle Friedland Gagnon, nine months pregnant with her second baby, celebrated with them. Trina (now Jeanae, her middle name) McKenzie Osborne, who got married in January 2003, was supposed to attend the wedding but was ill and couldn't make the trip. Katherine and Brian live in Woburn, Mass., and both received their master's in library science from Simmons College (Brian in 1999, Katherine in 1997). They have two rabbits, Ralph and Alice, and a cat, Moto. . . . Matt and Emily Fantasia Hayes welcomed a daughter, Abigail Fantasia Hayes, on May 27, 2002. They have relocated and settled in Sudbury, Mass. . . . Jason Reifler is a doctoral candidate in political science at Duke University, studying American politics generally and campaigns and elections specifically. He got married on July 12 in Houston, Texas, to Amy McKay, a 1997 Rice University graduate and also a Ph.D. candidate at Duke. Andrew Barnett '92, Greg Belanger '93 and Noah Learner attended the wedding. Jason and Amy honeymooned in Italy. . . . Abe Rogers is the assistant men's and women's varsity swim coach at MIT. He lives in Boston. . . . Ariana Talbot Vance is a homebound teacher for her local school district in Wyoming but is currently on maternity leave. Aiden Cale Vance joined her family on April 25. Ariana planned to spend her summer camping, traveling and enjoying time with family and friends. . . . Amanda and Tip Meckel are headed back to Maine. After getting his doctorate in marine geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin last May, Tip accepted a one-year teaching position in the Geology Department at Colby! Amanda's first novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, is enjoying great success, and she looks forward to joining the writing community in Waterville. They expected their first baby in September. . . . Todd and Marissa Shaw Glowac are expecting their first child this fall. . . . Jennifer (Jaye) Gennaco got married last summer to Benjamin Smith, a Bates graduate. Cheryl Johnson Dutrumble was a bridesmaid. Also in attendance were Dan Bar-Zeev '92, Craig Mertens '92, Kris McGrew '92, Drew and Jennifer Coffin Hoyt '92, Shawn Campbell '93, April Armstrong Campbell '97, Kathy Marshall Meuse and Rachel LaFollette '98. The couple honeymooned in Jamaica, where they became certified SCUBA divers. In April they visited Iceland and enjoyed the geothermal hot springs, waterfalls, geysers and glaciers. . . . Jen Benwood and Conrad Saam '96 got engaged while on vacation in Hawaii in February and planned a wedding on September 20, 2003, in Seattle. . . . Fred and Heather Johnson Webster are thoroughly enjoying Seattle and their new life with their daughter, Gwyneth, who is 2. Fred is now working for Glaxo Smith Kline pharmaceuticals. Heather, a stay-at-home mom, and Fred got together with some friends for Heather's 30th birthday this January in New York City. Karyn Rimas Patry '92, Jen Larsen Daileanes '93, Rachael De Costa and Mike Kaplan were some of the friends that joined them for the festivities. Fred went to Scotland for a 10-day golf tour with his dad and brother in August to celebrate his 30th birthday. . . . Sarah English is still working as an associate director of admissions at The Art Institute of Seattle. She and Lisa Kenerson recently vacationed in Costa Rica to celebrate turning 30 this year. Sarah planned on her first triathlon in August and was to attend Meg Sweeny's wedding on the island of Nantucket in September. . . . Faisel Zaman is going to be in Salt Lake City, Utah, working in physical medicine and rehabilitation, focusing on sports and musculoskeletal medicine, and then will be at the University of Pennsylvania doing an interventional spine fellowship with the top spine doctor in the nation. He's still riding his motorcycle and continuing to customize it. He went to Myrtle Beach's Bike Week in May. In the musical area, he's having a tough time finding people to jam with. "No one comes close to Mike Murphy on the drums and Matty Barr on the bass," writes Faisel. "Any chance someone will put up the funds for an Atrocity reunion?" . . . Chris and Lindsay Bennigson Jernigan welcomed their first child, Aliza Cathryn Jernigan, on April 3. --Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT c/o Meg Bernier, Alumni Relations classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	Ruth Bristol, in neurosurgery residency in Phoenix, got engaged to another neurosurgeon, Felipe Albuquerque, and plans an October 2003 wedding. . . . Bill Epps is currently living in Austin, Texas, working at the University of Texas at Austin for a Ph.D. in history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations with Latin America; he's also teaching an intro rhetoric and composition course. He says he's "exploring, and enjoying, the incredibly vibrant music scene in Austin and practicing my banjo." . . . Jill Picard was married last summer and is now Jill Paine. She's been living in San Francisco for the last two years with Ashley Malcolm '97, who also was married last summer and is now Ashley Laakso. "We have been happily living in a house shared by us and our new husbands!" said Jill, who is still working at the corporate headquarters for Gap Inc. . . . Lee St. George MacGregor and her husband, Stuart, welcomed a boy, Emmett Alasdair MacGregor, on September 21, 2001. Lee took the year off from teaching to take care of him and says they all are healthy and doing well. . . . Jamie Geier is working on her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Columbia University and lives in New York City with her husband, Rob. She keeps in close contact with Rachel Simson D'Antonio and Martha Previte Botten. Rachel still works for JP Morgan and lives in Ridgefield, Conn., with her husband, Bob. Martha moved to San Diego after graduating from law school and lives with her husband, Jason. Jamie's sister-in-law, Jennifer Stewart Guay, works in real estate and is living in Biddeford, Maine, with her husband, Norm. . . . Chad Sisson and his wife, Karen Bossie, D.O., live in Grand Rapids, Mich., with their daughter, Edin, 2. Last November Chad successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in zoology-"Life history dynamics of nudibranch sibling species in the genus Dendronotus in the Gulf of Maine"-at the University of New Hampshire and was scheduled to graduate in December 2002. He says he was "employed as a full-time stay-at-home dad" but planned on teaching part time last spring at Grand Rapids Community College. . . . Robert Gold wrote that he lives in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. (tale of the headless horseman) and works as a dentist in the Bronx and in Rockland and thoroughly enjoys it. He planned to get married last spring to Bettina Gold ("just a coincidence, no relation yet"). He goes mountain biking and skiing with Amy Phalon when she has time off from her job teaching English at Montclair State College. . . . Last year, Rima Lathrop Carlson was a fourth-year medical student at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. While she was interviewing at the Family Practice Residency Program in Anchorage, Alaska, she and her husband, Brian '94, got together with Carrie Califano, Sarah Charnecki '95, Jeff Harrison '95 and Sean '91 and Jenny Dorsey Skaling '93. . . . Jean-Michel Picher, a.k.a. Piche (jmpicher@yahoo.com), after working in Democratic Party campaign politics for a couple of years, living in Idaho with Emmett McCarthy and Chuck Bowen and traveling overseas to see a few things, finished his third of four years of an M.B.A/law degree at the University of Western Ontario "because I've got no idea what to do when I grow up. Thanks, Colby!" Piche, Emmett, Sarah Hamlin Walsh and Hillary Brennan McKellar were all proud to stand with Chuck Bowen and Betsy Low as they were married in Falmouth, Mass., last October. Among others in attendance were Brad Smith, Ryan Sullivan, Sean McBride '95, Matt Mannering '95, Greg Walsh '95, James Colligan '95, Mark Porter '95, Brian Seidman '94, Pete Luber and Krista Severson. . . . And another Class of '96 wedding! Rachel Moritz and Matt O'Connell were married on April 12 in Falmouth, Mass. Bridesmaids included Maura McLaughlin and Beth Dunn Allen, and groomsmen included Ben O'Connell '99. Alison Werner, Emily Guerette, Laura Whittaker, Mike Montgomery, Erika Moore Coombs '97, Dennis Nations '95, Matt Tangney '95, Bill Bradley '95, Jason Hallee '95, Drew Serbin '94 and Christian Drucker '94 were all in attendance. . . . Anybody want to step up and be the next class correspondent? --Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
	The news has been piling up, but I was so engrossed in American Idol that I missed the last deadline! Michael Doogue spent time in Ecuador after graduation for a few weeks of climbing volcanoes and roaming the Amazon basin with Adam Wolk and Erwin Godoy, after which he started graduate work in electrical engineering at Dartmouth. After graduation from Dartmouth, he took a job designing integrated circuits for a Concord, N.H., company called Allegra Microsystems. He married Kristen, whom he met while at Dartmouth, and the couple now lives in Manchester, N.H., where they are renovating a historic home. Mike recently attended Adam Wolk's wedding; Adam married Io Nami on January 19, 2003, on the sandy beaches of Pacific Grove, in Calif. Adam is in his fourth year of medical school at UC-Davis, and at this time it looks like he will head back to D.C. for his residency. . . . Rico Del Sesto has finished his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Utah and is now in Colorado Springs "doing research at the Air Force Academy," he writes, "working through a National Academies of Science fellowship on materials for military/defense (no, I'm not making bombs, as everyone asks)." . . . Lauren Graham married Adam Harkins on February 4 on a beach in the Bahamas. After a week, the Harkins returned to their home in Portland, Maine. . . . From the Chinese New Year, February 12, to May 23, 2002, Tim Andreae did a fast from all wheeled transportation. He spent 101 days in a row without "getting any wheels between my feet and the ground." He received lots of press and comments that "apparently our society has arrived at such a pace that a person can make news by simply walking." Get in touch with him at wheelpast@yahoo.com. . . . Amanda Magary scheduled an August wedding to Greg Kice in the Napa Valley. She writes that she's been living in San Francisco for the past three years and working as a clinical social worker at UCSF Children's Hospital in the oncology and bone marrow unit. She's lived with Austen Briggs for the last two years, but Austen is moving off to start a new chapter of her life in Tokyo. . . . Yawa Duse-Anthony was selected as an "emerging professional" by WTS and presented at its conference in Boston. . . . Susanna Montezemolo graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton with her master's of public affairs and urban and regional planning. She was married to her fiancé, Mark Kugler, in Rome immediately after graduation. Upon returning to the States, she will begin work in D.C. as a policy analyst to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, office of policy development and research. . . . This August marked the end of a nine-year (yes nine-year!) living-together of Andrew Pease and Lucas Penney. Breaking up is hard to do, but Lucas is off to business school at Cornell University. . . . Danielle Herget received her Ph.D. in theater history from Tufts and is currently a professor of theater at Emmanuel College in Boston, where she plans to stay for another year. . . . Morgan Filler is starting her own massage therapy business, living in Berkeley, Calif., swimming a race across Lake Tahoe and learning belly dancing. . . . Welling and Heather Derby Lagrone reside in Nashville, Tenn. Heather received her M.B.A. from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, and Welling recently completed his first triathalon. . . . Hilary Peterson is engaged to be married. She is teaching high school English in Aspen, Colo., and finished her master's at Bread Loaf over the summer. . . . Sarah Dimare graduated from Northeastern University School of Nursing with a B.S.N. and works in Boston's Children's Hospital on the cardiac floor. She lives in Brookline and sees Em Lappen, Em Greenstein and Beth Traglia, who live nearby. Ciao . . . -Kimberly N. Parker   top  |   next

 

	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Brian M. Gill classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
	Kate Conklin ran the Boston Marathon on April 21 with Stephanie Small, helping get her through the final five miles of the race. Janice Greenwald '01 met her at the finish. Kate recently saw Alyssa Hughes, who was visiting Boston from L.A., where she's preparing to apply to veterinary school, and at a pre-marathon party she also caught up with Kristin Wildman, who was to graduate from UConn Law School in the spring. Kate is working on her master's in counseling and college student development at Northeastern University in Boston, where she also works full time in undergraduate admissions. . . . Christine Vaughn just graduated from the University of Michigan Law School. After the bar (fingers crossed) she's headed to Washington, D.C., to work at the Washington Lawyers' Committee, where she'll be representing kids with serious mental health needs who are being inappropriately institutionalized. Christine received a fellowship from the Skadden Foundation to work on this project for two years. She still keeps in touch with Emily Record Lane and sees quite a bit of Lizzie Ivry, who is living with her boyfriend, David Cooper, in N.Y.C., having just graduated from a public policy program at NYU. . . . Matt White writes that he, Paul Conway, Jon Olinto and Andy McCullough formed a band called The Hugh Jorgens Band and would be playing this summer in Boston. They play cover songs as well as some of their own original stuff. . . . Kristen Paratore just finished a master's program in international education policy at Harvard's School of Education. She also got engaged to Roger Bock, whom she met in D.C. about three years ago, and they're moving to Berkeley together so he can start a Ph.D. program in computer science and electrical engineering. They hope to get married next summer. . . . Kate Westhaver finished up a year of teaching creative writing at the University of Oregon, where she earned her M.F.A. last year. She had a great time at the university but left this past spring to move to a homestead in southern Oregon, where, along with Matt Kuchar '97, she'll be living for the next year as part of a wilderness writing residency. They will be caretaking a 90-acre property, doing lots of writing and hopefully avoiding any close encounters with black bears! Kate says she loves Oregon but misses Maine and Colby! . . . Pete Manning was married to Christina Scully on May 10 in Arlington, Vt., with Christian King and Guy Hughes '99 as groomsmen. After a short honeymoon in the Florida Keys, Pete and Christina returned to Burlington, Vt., for his graduation from the UVM College of Medicine. In July Pete was to begin a residency in Ob/Gyn at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Christina, a third-year resident in pediatrics at Yale, will join Pete in Portland when she completes her program. . . . Katie Taylor is still living in San Diego and finished up the second year of her master's program in marriage and family therapy at San Diego State University. During their summer break, Courtney Cataldi and Katie planned to run the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon-their first! . . . Joel Grossbard is starting a Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle and has begun breeding Siamese kittens, if anyone is interested. . . . David Goldman was married on May 18 in New York City. In attendance were Jared Fine, Matthew Strobl, Andre Smith, Jonathan Bolton, John Brunero, Jennifer Johns '97, Emmanuel Thomann '00 and Karen Hoch '00. . . . Jon Sauter writes that he has been enjoying married life with his wife, Amanda, and is glad that so many Colby friends could make it to the festivities in Buffalo last September. Jon completed his second year as assistant to the dean of arts and sciences at Niagara University and was to start on a Ph.D. in higher education administration in the fall at the University of Buffalo. Sounds like everyone is doing well! Brian M. Gill top  |   next

 

	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	Weddings galore! Alex Quigley got married last June to Ashley Slate, a UNC grad he met in Teach For America. Raj Khunkhun, Brian Quinn and Lyle Bradley were in the wedding. Alex and Ashley live in Indianola, Miss. Alex finished up his fourth year teaching second grade, and Ashley works for a youth development program called the Sunflower County Freedom Project. . . . Melissa Thouin got married on Memorial Day in New York to Todd Federman, whom she met the first year she moved down to D.C. (Andy Weinstein '98 takes credit for that one). Melissa has been in D.C. the last few years, involved in research at the children's hospital, and her husband-to-be was getting his M.B.A. at Duke. Chris Einstein (who is living in Seattle and starting a grad program in environmental policy), Kristen Paratore '98 (who moved to Berkeley upon finishing her master's in education) and Laura D'Afflitti (living in D.C. and finishing her second year in law school) were in Melissa's wedding, and all have since gotten engaged to wonderful guys as well! Others at Melissa's wedding included Kate Lowe (who moved to Connecticut in the fall and recently was engaged to Wilson Owens), Meg Lawson (living and teaching in Boston and also recently engaged), Kate Litle (in Seattle on an environmental research project), Jo Reardon (teaching in Maine), Payal Luthra (recently accepted in Harvard's architecture program), Jason Flesh and Jenna Hannibal (teaching in Maine). . . . Last September, Anna Thompson married Peter Ward of San Marino, Calif. Attending were bridesmaids Lauren Graham Harkins '97 and Carrie Peterson, groomsmen Ham Thompson '94 and William Thompson '06 and readers Abby Lambert '98 and Johanna Reardon. Both Anna and Peter graduated from Chicago medical school and are headed to Burlington, Vt., for residency. . . . Jason Gerbsman and Lauren Rothman got engaged in March and are planning a June 2004 wedding-they've been together since the first month of freshman year! Lauren has her own company and does trend forecasting and brand image consulting. Jason was to start business school in August at Georgetown. Lauren is moving to D.C. after four years in N.Y.C. They went to San Francisco to visit Kelly Williams and her fiancé, who are having a wedding this fall. . . . Stephen Mosca, of North Kingstown, R.I., received his juris doctor degree from the Roger Williams University Ralph R. Papitto School of Law last May 17. . . . Braxton Williams is a reporter for The Daily Progress, a newspaper in Charlottesville, Va. . . . Christina Schleicher has been in Vail, Colo., four years this fall, working in the public relations department for Vail Resorts. . . . Emmett Beliveau finished his second year at Georgetown Law and worked for the Patton Boggs law firm in D.C. this summer. . . . Andrew Wnek, promoted to 1st lieutenant in November 2002, is still flying the KC-135 Stratotanker, a Boeing 707 fuel tanker for the Maine Air National Guard. Andy flew missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in December for 14 days out of Incerlick, Turkey. He was put on one year of active duty in February in preparation for the war with Iraq, which kept him extremely busy flying missions out of Bangor refueling C-5's and C-17's, Air Force cargo aircraft transporting soldiers, equipment and supplies to the Gulf. . . . Chris Davis and Doug Connelly finished climbing in Thailand and trekking in Nepal before they both started grad school in the fall. . . . Chris Einstein is engaged to a cool guy in Seattle. . . . Chris Connolly is halfway done with a master's in integrated marketing communication from Emerson College and is living in Boston's Back Bay. Chris was enjoying the challenge of training for a few triathlons over the summer. . . . Kelly Field covers social policy (especially health and education) for Congressional Quarterly in Washington. . . . After Eric "Goat" Cook got his master's in mathematics at the University of Utah, he switched over to the architecture department. . . . On finishing almost two years as the program director for an NIH-funded research study on obesity treatment for African-American women, Robyn Osborn will start a Ph.D. program in medical and clinical psychology at the Navy Medical School in Maryland (the same school where John Maddox is currently working on his M.D.). Robyn plans to continue her work in medical psychology by focusing on exercise treatment for the overweight and obese in ethnic minority groups. This means she will be in Washington, D.C., for a few more years at least. Robyn is also training for her first marathon, which will take place in early November. . . . Jason Flesh finished his graduate program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine in San Diego. He passed his national licensing exams in both subjects and moved back to Portland, Maine, to start his private practice. . . . Joshua Davis graduated from law school and will be moving to D.C. to study for the bar and begin work at Arnold and Porter. . . . Laurie Roberts is studying at the Yale School of Public Health. --Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next