95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yugo Yamaguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-354-0289 classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Sandy Bugbee graduated in May from Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., with an associate's degree. She is now an occupational therapy assistant and is working at St. Mary's hospital in Lewiston, Maine. . . . Anne McManus spent the summer at Oxford University, where she finished her master's degree in English through Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. She has been teaching for the past six years, the past two at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine. She teaches seventh grade English and social studies and loves it. In her spare time she likes to create as much art as possible. She talks on a daily basis to Christa Riepe, who is doing well, living in Park City, Utah, while she mends the broken bones of the U.S. Ski Team. Christa is returning to Boston this winter, where she will pursue a degree in athletic training. She has a yellow Lab named Kibo (appropriately named after the peak at Mt. Kilimanjaro, which she climbed a couple of years ago with her father and brother). . . . John Cannon '96 was also in Oxford this summer through Bread Loaf. . . . Christy Everett '94 is out in Alaska pursuing a degree in outdoor education and will then go on to start her "save the world" camp. . . . Kevin O'Grady '94 is working towards finishing his master's degree in geological oceanography. He has gone on two research cruises to the southern Pacific Ocean and once went down in the Alvin to collect samples from the hydrothermal vents! This spring he is going on a cruise in the Indian Ocean. . . . Karen Goodrich '96 is back in Boston working for Oxygen.com and finally has a place to live! . . . Kristen Bloomquist and John Gorczyk are engaged. They've been together since they met on their COOT in 1991, thanks in part to one of their COOT leaders, Katie Martin '92, who convinced them to go to the movies together when they got back on campus. They're getting married, just after their 10-year anniversary in October 2001, in San Diego, Calif., where they have been living since 1996. John's in grad school at USD and working for Chase Manhattan, and Kristen is an account exec at an advertising agency dealing exclusively with publishing and author signing events. . . . Kate Fabozzi graduated from Northeastern University in September with an M.S./M.B.A. She currently works for Price-Water-house--Coopers in tax and legal services and anxiously awaits the results of the C.P.A. exam she took in November. She is also training for the Hyannis Sprint Triathlon to be held in June 2001. . . . Sam White works as an editor in Boston, runs a poetry reading series, assistant directs children's theater and is the managing editor of VersePress. . . . Wendy Oram-Smith Marr is a teacher at Cresthill Middle School in Littleton, Colo., where she helped create a program called Voyagers for "at-risk" seventh grade students, a dream she made a reality. The teaching is very hands-on and project-based. There is a community service component, and they are outside the classroom on a field excursion once a week. She finds the work rewarding and challenging. Wendy and her husband, David, have a 5-year-old golden retriever named Sassy. . . . Beth Whelen is engaged to marry Andrew Thut in June 2001. She works at Circles, and he works at MFS Investment Management, both in Boston. . . . Stefanie Trepper and Matthew Feldman were married in New York in October. Stefanie teaches third grade at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York, and Matthew is getting his M.B.A. at New York University. . . . John Carolan and Sarah Christie '98 are engaged and have planned a June 2001 wedding. Sarah works at the New England Research Institute, and John is getting his M.B.A. at Babson. . . . Michelle Safter recently married Alan Epstein. The Epsteins live in Atlanta, Ga., where she works at the Arthritis Foundation as a manager in personal giving. . . . Abe Rogers moved to Boulder, Colo., in January. He has been coaching the Burlington YMCA Dynamo swim team (www.dynamo.org) in Vermont since 1996. Abe competed at the 2000 Olympic Triathlon Trials in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Boulder to focus on training for 2004. . . . Robin Ottoway is the president of Craft Brewing Guild in Randolph, Mass. The guild distributes beers from Belgium, Brazil and beyond to high-end and ethnic restaurants along the East Coast. They hope to branch out to wine distribution in the near future. . . . I bumped into Alice Amstutz McDonald on the Red Line the other day. She and her husband, Greg '94, are living in Cambridge, Mass. She is working at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. . . . And I (not Alyssa) am living in Cambridge, working at Mainspring, cooking part time in Boston and officiating at ice hockey games in the area. . . . Please keep sending news. –Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kim Schock classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	It's hard to believe that our five-year reunion is just around the corner. It seems like just yesterday that we were freshmen, and look at how far we've all come. . . . Bernadette Graham is in her second year as a teaching assistant in the Biology Department at Colby. She reports that Melissa Taylor is in her fourth year of medical school at the University of New England and is engaged to be married to Jesse Beckwith in June 2001. Bernadette also met up with Nancy Zierman, who is in an M.B.A. program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and with Anne Robinson Pollack, married to Woody '97, who just graduated from law school last spring. . . . Tasha (Walker '95) and Adam Potter are busy with their new son, Nolan Walker Potter, who was born last April. . . . Susannah Kowal graduated in December with a master's in physical therapy from the University of Florida and moved back to Boston in search of some much-missed snow as well as a full-time job. . . . Nozomi Kishimoto was married in Hawaii in November to Brent Reichow, whom she met in Tokyo, Japan. Maid of honor Kylie Taphorn reminisced about Colby along with Linnea Basu, Catherine Page, Kate Lawn '97 and Nozomi as they played hearts at the condo the first night they were in Hawaii. . . . Stephanie Paul graduated with an M.B.A. from Georgetown University last May. . . . Michael Goode is a second-year law student at William and Mary, where he has helped to revive a failing legal fraternity and is an editor of a journal. . . . Cindy Starchman is teaching English at an all-boys Catholic prep school in Lakewood, Ohio, and is planning a July wedding with fiancé Mark Hurby. . . . Brian Stenger has been working with Andersen Consulting for the past three years and recently proposed to his girlfriend, Cathleen Thorrez, in Yosemite. They are planning to get married in June. Brian also reports that he has been traveling quite a bit recently, including a 20-day safari in Kenya and Tanzania with his parents and Mike Sabin and a trip to northern California to visit Bryant Johnson, who is working as a creative ad man in San Francisco. . . . Lesley Finneran finished a master's degree in Asian studies at Cornell University last summer and has moved to Nepal for the year to work as a teaching fellow. . . . Grace Jeanes is pursuing her M.B.A. at UMass and has found time to be a teaching assistant as well as to travel to London this past fall. . . . "Big Earl" Lewis finished the first year of his Ph.D. program at SUNY-Stonybrook last May and spent this past summer working in a lab in Germany. . . . Nate Howell was recently married to Julie Howell, whom he managed to convince to move up to Boston with him from her home in Virginia Beach. Nate reports that he attended the September wedding of Gregg LeBlanc and Cathy Neuger '97 along with 22 other Colby alums, including Simon Dalgleish and Lauren Iannotti, who were part of the wedding party, Andrew Steckler, Noah Wepman, Jeff Sklarz, Nick Lambert and Rachel Simson. Nate also attended Ken Fowler's wedding to Melissa Libby in October. . . . Rachel Moritz and Matt O'Connell are living in Waltham with their cat, Zooey. Matt is teaching junior high school, and Rachel is working for a security software company called Qiave Technologies. Rachel and Matt recently met up with Maura McLaughlin, who is attending Tufts medical school and keeps in touch with Beth Dunn Allen, who is living in Oklahoma. . . . Brett and Jen Hellman Wilfrid write that their August wedding in Door County, Wis., was a mini Colby reunion. Attendees included Jill Picard, who is now living in San Francisco and working for the Gap, James Loveland, who is living with Jen Vogt '97 in Portland, Ore., and is in grad school for counseling psychology, Tim O'Reilly, who is working on an organic farm in Oregon, Will Sandalls, who is working for a recording studio in Boston, and Julia Tatsch. Brett and Jen are currently living in Madison, Wis., where Jen is working for a nonprofit environmental organization and thinking about doing a teacher certification program and Brett is working as a substitute teacher and studying to get his teaching license and a master's in educational administration. . . . Happy reunion and keep the news coming! –Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker 5382 Versailles Road Lexington, KY 40510 606-233-4666 classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
	Hey, how is everyone doing? I hope you're having a wonderful new year. I know, I know, you're dying to know who got married and/or engaged, so I won't keep you in suspense any longer: Sandra Lund is engaged. To whom? I don't know. All I know is his first name, Will. See, if you people would actually drop me an e-mail sometime, this info would be complete! . . . John Ginn was married to Jenn Iverson in Fort Worth, Texas, late last fall. The couple will reside in North Carolina, where Lieutenant Ginn will be flying Cobra attack helicopters. Classmates in attendance at the wedding included Glenn and Gregg Forger, Jamie Harris, Doug Ellinger, Hobie Antik, Seth Blumenthal, Tom Beedy and Jerrod Deshaw. The weekend was a good time for all in attendance, as the Yankee crew headed down to the Deep South. On Friday night following the rehearsal dinner, the Colby posse took Ginn to Billy Bob's, known as the largest honky-tonk bar in the world. The place included a "live bull ring and about seven thousand of your closest Texas friends." Harris and Beedy line danced with the locals under the watchful eyes of all there. At the reception the next day, Brett Nardini '96 led the alums onto the dance floor (why is this not surprising?) to the Michael Jackson tune that rocked many parties back in the day, "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough," immediately preceded by a spur-of-the-moment River Dance routine. The night (or morning, if you prefer), ended at 5 a.m., with, as Deshaw recollects, "my last image being of Jamie Harris wearing a silver wig (who knows where that came from) and the bride's garter over his suit pants." Say no more. . . . At a party that is becoming legendary in some circles, Lucas Penney, Deshaw and Andy Pease threw a great holiday gathering at their new place in Brookline, Mass. Galen Carr, who has been promoted to full-time scout by the Red Sox, was in attendance, as was Ben Russell, who has moved back from the West Coast, Andrew Black, who still calls San Francisco home, and Jennifer Lawrence. If you have some time, check out Lawrence's business venture, Diva Designz (www.divadesignz.com). She markets hand-painted glassware and home accessories as well as custom designs for interiors. Tony Rosenfeld, also at the party, has settled back in Boston for the time being after his extensive travels abroad and is a cook at the French restaurant L'Espalier in Back Bay. He continues to write for the Globe. Jenna and David McLaughlin were there, too. Dave is an assistant men's basketball coach at Stonehill College. Patrick McBride made the drive up from New Jersey, where he remains in the office of athletic media relations at Rutgers while working on his master's in communications. The pleasant surprise of the night came from David Bruinooge, who made a much-welcomed appearance from New York. The Nooge is working for VH1 and on his screenplay as well. . . . I had the opportunity to go dancing with Anthony Moulton over the holiday break. He works for America Online in Virginia and reports that Javier Fernandez recently moved back to Miami. . . . Chad Higgins is in law school at George-town in D.C. . . . In case you haven't noticed, I've moved to Boston and am the Web content manager for City Year. It's a nice gig. We'll see how long it holds my interest. And for those of you scoring at home (or alone), this is job number five for me since graduating from the Hill. If Cotter's predictions are correct, then I should have two more changes to go. Hmmm. . . . I haven't heard from a lot of people. Drop me a line, though, and I'll definitely get your info into the next one. Be sure to get in engagement and wedding announcements for inclusion on the hot list. Stay true. –Kimberly N. Parker   top  |   next

 

	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Allison L. Brown 3280 Manchester Way Drive Westerville, OH 43081-8852 classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
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	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes 292 West 92nd Street, Apt 5C New York, NY 10025 classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	Andy Hutchins and Jonathan Sickinger got married in July. Patrick Cramb, Chris Bunge and Doug Comeau were in the wedding party, and Melanie Puza, Jessica Banos, Sharon Capobianchi and Linda Hayes all attended. Andy is working at Mass. General Hospital as a research assistant in the depression research clinic, and Jonathan works at Cambridge Associates, where Andy Niner and Mike Salerno also work. Sharon is engaged to Brendan Burke; Sharon and Brendan both attended Braintree High School. . . . Bill Hinton married Allison Appling in November, with James Spidle, Natasha Detweiler and Doug Hickman in attendance. Bill and Allison are camp directors of Camp La Junta, an all-boys summer camp in Texas. . . . Katie Quackenbush and Eric Gordon '96 were married in November. . . . Sandra DuBarry got engaged in October to Jesse Laflamme, a Bates graduate. Sandra is currently coaching the novice men's and women's crew team at Middlebury College. . . . Rachel Palmer and Matthew Davis '00 are engaged to marry in June; they both live in St. Louis. . . . In January 2000 Alison Tetler married Issam El-Ayadi, whom she met during her study abroad program in Morocco. They are happily living in New Orleans, and Alison is about to finish her master of public health at Tulane University. . . . Rebecca Plummer earned her master's in chemistry from the University of Michigan. She and Jake Berg live together in Ann Arbor and are planning an October wedding that will include Will Barndt, Josh Young, Kris Murphy (who got married last summer) and Dennis D'Angelo . . . . I must apologize for a very misleading mistake in the winter issue. Oliver Griswold has, in fact, held onto his surname. Oliver lived out west for five months before landing in Manhattan last fall. He and Crans Baldwin both work at circle.com, and Oliver, Ned Eustace and Braxton Williams kick it from Houston St. to Hell's Kitchen in N.Y.C. . . . Dave Wilkens and Molly Pindell moved to San Francisco in December. Dave works at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology at UCSF. . . . Pete Vanderweil reports that his quest to become a dot-com millionaire was, alas, unfruitful, so he has moved on to a new passion: beekeeping. He's interested to see what all the buzz is about. And he sends a shout out to all his White Mule homeys. . . . Will Guthrie is living in New York City. . . . Andy McLetchie finished his first year of law school at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. . . . Michelle Foster earned her master's degree in elementary education from Lesley College and now works as a first grade teacher in Topsfield, Mass. . . . Jon Zarecki lives in Gainesville, as a master's student in classical studies at the University of Florida, and plans to spend the summer in Greece and Italy. Jon sometimes sees Catherine Garland, who is also in the graduate school at UF. . . . Deb Bossio, Kristin Fairman and Teal Axt are also planning a trip to Greece this summer to catch up with Jennifer McElhinney, who is currently teaching in Showbak, Jordan, as a Peace Corps volunteer. Teal is still working at BWH in Boston and is getting her M.A.T. in biology and French on the side. . . . Steve Mosca left Boston and is currently in law school in Rhode Island. . . . Siddha Parker and Lisa Berry moved from D.C. to Boston in September. . . . Lauren Rothman, who is in N.Y.C. and still working as a trend analyst for Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve, conducts fascinating research to understand what's driving the culture by connecting the dots between fashion, technology, spirituality, even food. Lauren often hangs out with Eli Cohen and Samantha Bender. . . . Bryan Cunitz moved to Seattle and works at the U of Washington as a research engineer for the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound. Bryan lives with Dominic Giaudrone, who works as an environmental engineer for URS. Bryan ran into Chris Einstein in Seattle, where she lives, too. . . . Jason Stauth is living with Mike Doogue '97 in Concord, N.H., and they are both working for Allegro Semiconductor as electrical engineers. . . . Colleen Schwartz is working diligently on her Ph.D. in astrophysics at UC-Santa Barbara. . . . Eamon Briggs lives in Monterey, Calif., and works at Light & Motion Industries as a mechanical engineer designing bike lights and underwater photography equipment. . . . Becca Leslie and Nate Jue work just north of Key West as environmental educators at a program called Newfound Harbor Marine Institute. They spend their days teaching kids between fifth grade and high school about marine biology and taking them snorkeling and exploring in their local marine habitats. Dave Bryan lives on a neighboring island. . . . Anna Thompson is in her second year of medical school in Chicago, and she spent last summer working at family practices in Maine. . . . Andrew Wnek was recently commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force after being selected for a pilot training spot with the Maine Air National Guard. Andy has been attending undergraduate pilot training with the Air Force in Del Rio, Texas. . . . Steph Sharples and Shelby Thi-bodeau finished a year of AmeriCorps in Los Angeles, working in a literacy program called Rolling Readers as VISTA volunteers. Steph traveled this past fall with her boyfriend through Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Peru. . . . Robyn Osborn and Matthew Olsen, who are both still living in D.C., got a dog, Murphy; they adore him. . . . Andrea Wooley is in St. Louis at Washington University doing her Ph.D. in immunology. . . . Jon Hiltz works as a financial representative with MetLife in Augusta, Maine. . . . Mary Schwalm has moved to New York to take a job as a photo assistant with the Associated Press. . . . Alex Parrillo works in Boston for the Internet company Jenzabar. Traveling nation-wide, Alex holds an integral position in the company's business development, product direction and Internet-based software management. In November, Alex met up with Tyler Dewing and other Colby grads living in San Francisco. He also talked about the spectacular Halloween party thrown by Justin Harvey, Casey Piche '98 and Drew Porter '98, where Matt Sawatzky sported a fabulous costume. . . . Emily Etchells teaches Spanish and horseback riding and coaches the defending California state lacrosse champs at the Thacher School in southern California. . . . Anne Nettles is a ReadBoston AmeriCorps*VISTA worker at the South Boston Neighborhood House, where she assists in promoting and incorporating literacy into local childcare programs. . . . Larry Spollen wrote a touching article called "From Descartes to Diapers: Being Ruined for Life" for the spring 2000 FOCUS (Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Northwest), in which he writes about his life as a teacher in pre-school. "I pictured myself as a mountaineer or a rock star," he wrote, "not a pre-school teacher." Larry is doing very well. . . . Matt Williams, former Colby All-America, was hired by Trinity College as an assistant coach for men's lacrosse and men's soccer. –Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next