Congratulations to Jenny Kiszkiss and Trent Cunningham on their engagement. They live in Maine, where Jen is taking grad classes at UMaine-Orono. . . . JJ Abodeely and Piper Elliott '02 announced their plans to wed. . . . Vanessa T. Sibley will be married to Joseph Mudd, a graduate of the University of Montana and a fellow Harvard Divinity student, on July 26 in Lake Forest, Ill. . . . Jodi Dakin let me know about the Thanksgiving celebration at the home of Abbie Parker and Marc McEwen in St.Thomas. Guests included Rachel Rokicki and Becky Munsterer . Rachel has been busy promoting many successful authors in N.Y.C., and I saw Becky on her most recent trip to the city. . . . Todd Miner left for Mali, Africa, with the Peace Corps in January. He's a natural resource management volunteer helping to stop the expansion of the Sahara Desert. . . . Deb Harris, also in the Peace Corps, is working as a health volunteer in Guinea. . . . Gena Chavez spent an exciting year in China and is now in London finishing a master's degree in Chinese studies at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. . . . Gina DiBella is working on a cataloguing project at the New London Public Museum in New London, Wis. . . . Karin Felmly earned her master's in education from Lesley College and is currently living in Portland, Maine, and teaching fourth grade. . . . Michelle Farrel also loves her job as a teacher--she's teaching Spanish at Bedford (Mass.) High School. . . . Kelly Falsani, upon a recent promotion, came to N.Y.C., where he chilled with Emily Mahlman, Brooke Fitzsimmons and Shaira Daya . . . . Teresa Hawko is the outreach/marketing coordinator in career services at Dartmouth. She lives in Vermont with Ryan Kane '02 and Patrick Olsen '02. . . . Tara Thwing is getting her M.A. in international affairs at George Washington University. . . . In Austin, Texas, Stephanie Nichols is enrolled in a doctoral program in mathematics education and also works as a research assistant on a project investigating the relationship between mathematical discussions and student learning. She also taught seventh grade math at a school in Round Rock, north of Austin. Thanks to Lambie Bickford and all the Colby alumni in Austin who have been keeping in great touch! Stephanie Mendell visited Austin in October. . . . Melanie Morin finished up her basic sciences at the UVM College of Medicine. In February 2002, after taking the national licensing boards, she moved to Portland, Maine, to start clinical clerkship at Maine Medical Center. Melanie is currently a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves and completed officer basic training last summer in San Antonio, Texas, after graduation. In 2005 Melanie will be an active duty physician for the U.S. Army. . . . Sarah Czok '00 and Tiffany Frazar are both in my class here at UVM. They were to begin their clinical clerkships in Burlington, Vt., in February. . . . Jen Carlson and Theresa Wagner both live in Portland, Maine. Theresa tracks mutual funds in Portland, and Jen does PR work in Augusta. . . . Liz Richards is in her second year at Cornell working towards a Ph.D. in art history. She's been a TA and is planning the History of Art and Archaeology Annual Graduate Symposium that will take place this spring. Liz sees her Colby roomies Jen Jost and Colleen Dugan as often as possible. Colleen is living and working in Boston, and Jen is working towards her Ph.D. in biology at the University of South Carolina. . . . Sarah Martin is in her second year at Notre Dame Law School. . . . Kathleen Riley has taken a break from her hobby as a rugby player on the D.C. Furies to begin teaching in the city's public schools as part of the D.C. Teaching Fellows Program. . . . Sarah Bruel has just begun working for Internews, a nonprofit that fosters independent media in emerging democracies. Kathleen also talks to Emily Stevens, who is working with emotionally disturbed boys in Portland, Ore., and Angela Pappas, who is working at a law firm in Philadelphia. . . . Pam Foxley works at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, Maine. She was on the environmental education staff, was a summertime wilderness trip leader for teenagers and next year will work for the outreach program. . . . Amy Millett, who teaches fifth grade reading in the South Bronx at Bronx Preparatory Charter School, started a track team with 11 of the children. . . . Ted Wallach has gone into the film business and started a company for film and theater. He was in pre-production for a short film to be shot in Copenhagen at Christmas. . . . Hillary Evans attends law school at the University of Washington in Seattle. . . . Reagan Campbell had a great trip to Montana in April '02. She taught in the Northfield Mount Hermon School's summer session and in August began a graduate program to earn her teaching certification and master's in education at USM this spring. She has seen Wynter Stinchfield, Nate Johnson, Chesley Davis and Carrie Mosca, who live in Beacon Hill and love it. . . . Betsy Loyd, still teaching at Hebron Academy in Maine, coached skiing this winter. . . . Mitch Hauptman has managed to keep jobs to a six-month max. He's been a trail crew and wilderness firefighter in Washington and coordinator at Buffalo Field Campaign in Montana, he's been part of a tri-national community service organization, he worked at an organic farm and sustainable lumber business in British Columbia and at historic restoration in El Paso, Texas, and he built a house for an underprivileged family in the mountains of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
-Dana D. Fowler
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