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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Yugo Yamaguchi
124 Oxford Street #4
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-354-0289
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–Yuhgo Yamaguchi
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Kimberly N. Parker
72 Prescott Street
Everett, MA 02149
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It is amazing what guilt can do. One bad column and we have an absolute outpouring of class news. Let's get to it. I now have the specifics on Sandra Lund. She is an associate at Brown Bros. Harriman in Boston, she is engaged to William Sargisson, and they have planned a November wedding. . . . Erika Moore married John Coombs in an April wedding. . . . Cyndi Pomerleau married Corey LeClerc last July. Cyndi is a physical therapy grad student at the University of Minnesota. . . . Sarah Christie married John Carolan '95 last June in Hingham, Mass. . . . Kelly Winchester is engaged to Matt Nelson, and the two have planned a May '02 wedding in Kiawah, S.C. . . . Al Madrid is engaged to Jessi Schwarz. He's in his second year of law school at Temple. . . . Congrats also to Larisa Jovanovic and Rick Unruh, who are getting married in California this year. . . . Yawa Duse-Anthony is the maid of honor for Vanessa Newell, who is tying the knot in October in Ipswich, Mass. Yawa works for a small transportation planning firm in Andover, Mass. . . . Jenny Higgins is still in Atlanta working on a joint degree at Emory University: a Ph.D. in women's studies and a master's in public health. She also has a part-time position in the reproductive health division of the CDC, working on improving contraceptive acceptability in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. She traveled with Sarah Muzzy this past January through Mexico, drinking papaya juice and doing yoga on the beach. Jenny also reports that Morgan Filler is now ranked fourth in the world in open-water swimming. . . . Carter Davis lives with Steve Kidd in Cambridge, Mass. Carter is studying for the GMAT and getting in lots of skiing. Steve is working on a novel about his experiences in Malaysia while also training for the Boston Marathon and the 55-mile Starfish Run this fall in Providence. Carter also added that he is in touch with Marnie Eckelman. . . . Jennifer Robbins checked in with some interesting news: after graduation she moved to New York to work for former President Clinton's pollsters, Penn, Schoen & Berland. "After two years and one Lewinsky scandal," she moved on to work as a director at KRC Research & Consulting. This past August she left the rat race of Manhattan and is now back in Boston. Since then she's opened the Boston office of KRC, bought a townhouse and is engaged to Matt Doyle (congrats) and planning a May '02 wedding. Jen says that she and Deirdre Brochu catch up when there's time. Deirdre is juggling med school and work at a local area hospital. . . . Jami Fisher has been all over the place since graduation: Philly, Boston, Florida and now back to Philly with her husband, John Clark. They were married last June. She was teaching American Sign Language at a local public high school. . . . Stephanie Mann remains at the University of Michigan, planning to complete her chemistry Ph.D. in the summer of '02. She, too, is engaged, to Aaron Gabelnick, and has set an August '01 date. . . . Anna Thomson is an assistant art director at Action Marketing Group in Boulder, Colo. . . . Matthew Burgener remains with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). When he wrote, he was in Seattle working on a project and experienced the earthquake that rocked the area. He planned on quitting his job this summer to pursue his M.B.A. at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. . . . Meredith Walker resides in Boston and is working on her master's in art history at BU. . . . Tom Beedy lives in Manchester, N.H., and works for Gartner in its worldwide events division. . . . Alexandra Cornell lives in Burlington, Vt., where she is in the UVM College of Medicine. She sees a number of Colby people, among them Rima Carlson '96, Pete Manning '98 and Kelly Cueman, whom she meets every so often for coffee. . . . Sarah Holmes lives in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and continues her work as a handwriting and document examiner. She recently was court-qualified as an expert when she testified in probate court as to the authenticity of a signature appearing on a last will and testament. . . . Simone Kaplan received her master's in journalism from Northwestern, where she hung out with Jennifer O'Neill. After finishing, Simone moved back to Boston and is a staff writer at CIO magazine in Framingham. . . . Greg Moody is a staff writer/media relations coordinator on the public relations staff at Sweet Briar College. . . . Robin Pearah Gee and her husband sold their restaurant and celebrated the third birthday of son Zane in Boca Raton, Fla. . . . On the T I ran into Doug Ellinger, who works at Digitas and still lives with Jamie Harris. I also saw Bob Doak at a bar in Boston. He was very relaxed and very happy. . . . Erin Duggan still lives in Syracuse, covering city hall and writing about politics for the Post-Standard. Last fall she covered the Hillary Clinton-Rick Lazio race. She is teaching a reporting class at Syracuse, where she received her M.A., and is hoping to move to New York in the future. . . . Remember: our reunion is next summer. If you want to join the planning committee, please contact Buffy Clifford at blcliffo@colby.edu. If you have more news or announcements, please send them along for our next column. As always, I am your loyal correspondent (and absolutely loving it).
–Kimberly N. Parker
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Allison L. Brown Flynn
6948 Avery Road
Dublin, OH 43017-2865
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On behalf of the Class of '98 I want to begin with a special remembrance of Ben Ling. Ben passed away on March 17 following an immensely courageous battle with cancer. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Ling family as we remember a good friend. . . . After two years with the Peace Corps in Morocco, where she focused on health education, water and sanitation, Kristina Straus traveled in Spain with Kendra Ammann and Darren Perry, who both live in New York City. En route home, Kristina stopped in Boston to see Joan Giblin, who's working at Wellesley College, and Peter Clark, who is teaching at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H. . . . Nicky Moody reports that she shares her Portland, Ore., neighborhood with Deb Shea, Brian Golden '97 and Aaron Bean '97. EJ Levin came to visit for a week from N.Y.C., ended up staying for three weeks and, after having such a good time, relocated to Portland a week later. EJ also writes that she, Deb Shea, Nicky Moody, Rebecca Allen and Mignon Winger vacationed in Whistler together. Becky lives in Vermont and works as a junior high math teacher, and Mignon is in film school in New York. EJ also adds her congratulations to Ken Raiche and Leah West, who are getting married this June. . . . Jackie Bates, who is in nursing school in Spokane, Wash., and ski coaching on the weekends, was married on September 9 to New Zealander Greg Hughes. Jackie looks forward to returning to New Zealand in the fall of 2003. . . . Back in Boston, Sara Rigelhaupt is assistant director of annual giving at LaSalle College, a job she took after much soul searching last summer. Her role is similar to her fund-raising responsibilities while working at Colby. Sara is engaged to Geoff Cramer, a musician and recording engineer, and planning an October 2002 wedding. . . . Sarah Eno lives with Claire Overgaag in Cambridge, Mass., and works at Harvard University in the development office. She writes that she ran a half marathon alongside Brian Gill, Andrew Littell and Pete Felmly last fall. Pete is a first-year law student at the University of Southern Maine and is living in Portland. Brian, who has been pursuing a master's at BU, planned to apply to medical school this spring. Brian lives with Andrew, who also plans to enter med school this fall. . . . Andrea Bassi is still in Boston finishing up her third year of optometry school and will start her one-year clinical externships in June. Her last six months of rotations will be in Miami, Fla., where she looks forward to seeing Meghan Hauptli. Meghan lives in South Beach, where she teaches inner-city children. . . . Kevin Thurston is working in Boston and plans to attend graduate school in the fall. . . . After three years in Boston living in Davis Square with Erika Ayers and Emily Record, KC McClelland decided to move back to her hometown of Los Angeles. KC is looking forward to spending a few months traveling before she settles down in California. . . . David Stern spent the summer of 2000 in northern Minnesota as a camp counselor leading canoe trips in Canada. Since then, David has moved to Denver, Colo., and is enjoying life in the mountains. . . . Marc Hachey is an engineering technician/staff geologist for a geotechnical-engineering firm. Marc lives in Encinitas, Calif., with his roommate from Hawaii. . . . Julie Fidaleo is finishing her first year of law school at the University of Indiana. She will be in San Diego working for a district attorney for the summer. . . . Alexander Sobel moved out to Columbus, Ohio, last fall for his third year of medical school. He hopes to wind up in Boston or Manhattan next year. . . . Shannon Baker was married in Columbus, Ohio, on December 30 to her high school sweetheart, Brad Klemesrud, an F-16 pilot. Amy Forrer and Jill Marshall were bridesmaids, and Fran Berry, Leslie Record, Sarah Ostermueller, Danny Kipervaser and Holly Grochmal were all in attendance. . . . Karl Dahlfred is teaching English to ages 10-21 in Thailand. He reports that "the food is great, spicy and cheap!" . . . Heather Golding, Maria Thompson and Alyssa Giacobbe just got back from Quito, Ecuador, where they visited Karen Schlein, who has been living there since November. Alyssa compares the trip to a "10-day COOT but with llamas, Ecuadorian police and cheap tequila!" . . . Andy Smith is in his second year of law school at UPenn and still loves it. He traveled up to Colby for the Blue Lights invitational concert ("which was a blast!") with Oppie, Tielman Van Vleck '99 and Jon Allen '00. Andy plans to start work at a law firm in N.Y.C. this summer. Next fall he plans to relive his Colby Writers' Center days when he teaches a first-year law research and writing course at Penn Law. . . . Devin Colman is still working at the Macalester College art gallery and making his own artmainly sculptures and drawings. He says he's looking forward to being neighbors with Rob Gold '96 when he moves to St. Paul this summer. . . . Also in the art world, Vanessa Hernandez, an art and antiquities dealer, is the assistant director of the Morning Star Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M.. . . . Wells Wheeler says he's somewhere in the gray area between medical researcher and ski bum. Wells is living in Park City, Utah, skiing at Alta and doing research in an immunology lab at the University of Utah medical school. He has been accepted to the University of Illinois medical school but is debating whether he wants to go. . . . Thanks to everyone for the updates! Keep writing!
-Allison L. Brown
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Lindsay Hayes
130 Long Neck Point Road
Darien, CT 06820
203-655-4664
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It was fantastic seeing Kristy Gould and Billy Riley in N.Y.C. recently. Kristy still works as a graphic designer for a fashion advertising company in Boston. Billy enjoys his work at an IT consulting firm and lives in Charlestown with Ray Lang '00, who works for American Express Financial. . . . Tony Pasquariello moved to New York from Boston for a nine-month training program as part of his advancement at Goldman Sachs. . . . I caught up with Lelia Evans recentlyshe's so happy in San Francisco. Lelia works for a PR firm, loves her little apartment and tries to get to places like Big Sur and Tahoe as often as possible. . . . Scott Whitlow is working as a research assistant at the Harvard Medical School while he's taking classes. . . . Delphine Burke has left to travel around the world. . . . I run into Chris Ucko occasionallyhe left the dot.com world behind and is moving into finance. . . . Christie Browning and Adam Rana '98 moved into an N.Y.C. apartment together with their pet hedgehog. At their housewarming party, it was great to see Ben Langille, who loves law school at BC. . . . Heather Fine still works hard for Senator Lieberman in D.C., and she's considering law school for her future. . . . Lt. Dave Nasse is going to be a father! Dave's wife, Nancy, is due in mid-August. . . . Alex Parrillo works in Boston for the Internet company Jenzabar and travels nationwide for business development. . . . Emily Etchells teaches Spanish and horseback riding and coaches a defending California state championship lacrosse team at the Thacher School in southern California. . . . Anne Nettles is with ReadBoston AmeriCorps*VISTA at the South Boston Neighborhood House, where she assists in promoting and incorporating literacy into local childcare programs. . . . Larry Spollen is a pre-school teacher and says he loves his job. . . . Trinity College hired Matt Williams as an assistant coach for men's lacrosse and men's soccer. . . . Penjani Mphepo, who lives in D.C., spent last spring in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia; Penjani is working to develop an Internet device geared for developing countries. . . . Jack Coomber lives in N.Y.C. and works in publishing. . . . Jessica Gilbert lives in Maine and works at Sunday River. . . . Abby Healy is working at Rockefeller University in N.Y.C. . . . Ron Russo moved back to N.Y.C. . . . Aaron Whitmore is settling into the Southern California lifestyle and having fun. . . . Martha Rogers works at Houghton Mifflin and lives with Greg Parzych in Somerville, Mass. They enjoyed a six-week European jaunt last spring. They often see Ben Sigman, who lives close by in Cambridge, Mass., and works for an environmental consulting firm. . . . Brendan Bloom and Christina Holmes traveled in Southeast Asia for four months and are moving to San Francisco this spring. . . . Ben Armiger is living on his family farm in Maryland and has a job with a boat charter. He spent the summer working for NOLS in Alaska, where Anne Hutchinson joined him for the road trip back east. Anne, who has a new puppy named Banjo, is looking into graduate schools. . . . Abby Manock has made the career move from self-proclaimed ski bum to starving artist. Abby's doing some illustration work, and she lives in Portland, Maine, with Caroline Savory. Caroline loves her job at an executive search firm. She misses John Bishop and Michele Machalani, who were living in Portland but took off for Nepal. On the way to Nepal, John stopped in Nigeria to visit with his parents, and on the way home this spring John and Michele planned to swing through London. . . . Cate Tynan enjoys life in the suburbs but commutes into N.Y.C. for her job at Broadway Books, a division of Random House. . . . Chasey Hewes also works for Random House in the special markets department. . . . Christina Scannapiego is furthering her education at the San Francisco College of Art while tending bar at a Haight-Ashbury joint. Christina lives with Dan Rizza, Peter Edwards and Mike Baru. . . . Laura Neale spent last year in Culebra, Puerto Rico, and then took off for Cuba and Central America. She now lives in Santa Fe, N.M. . . . John "Rocki" Kurucz works at an environmental monitoring company in Portland, Maine, and spends much of his free time reconstructing an old Land Rover and planning a boat-building project for the summer. . . . After spending much time in the Pacific Northwest, Doug Connelly was taking the NOLS instructor course this spring. . . . Eric "The Goat" Cook has been teaching math at the Waterville Valley Ski Academy and will go back to the AMC trail crew for a third summer. . . . Newt Briggs moved from Oakland, Calif., to Las Vegas, Nev., after an exciting tour of the Southwest on his new motorcycle. He works for Habitat for Humanity and plans to move to Texas this summer. . . . Amy Frankel lives in Boston. . . . Wilson Everhart is teaching at Holderness for a second year. . . . Eliza Hoover is a graphic designer in Boston. . . . Tiffany Antkies is moving to San Francisco. . . . I'm still living in N.Y.C. and have taken on a new job as the youth director for sixth through 12th graders at St. Luke's Parish Youth Program in my hometown, Darien, Conn. I love it. Graduate school awaits for the fall, but I haven't yet decided on schools. Keep your updates coming!
–Lindsay Hayes
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