00		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Hilary C. Smyth 134 Davis Avenue #2 Brookline, MA 02445 781-883-1903 fax: 617-248-7100 classnews2000@alum.colby.edu
	Rebecca Rasmussen is engaged to John Dalrymple and they plan an August 2003 wedding in Maine. Congratulations! . . . Christine Casey plans to be married on July 20 to her long-time fiancé, Ted. Christine is working at Fleet Bank as a portfolio manager in corporate banking. She reports that Kelly Curlett is stationed in Zambia with the Peace Corps until spring 2003 and is very happy and enjoying her work. . . . Emily Mantel is a member of Teach for America and lives in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where she is teaching fourth grade at Taylor Elementary School in Mercedes, Texas. She is very happy to be living a life that still includes spring break! . . . Brian Hanseth and Bill Polin recently visited Matt Smith, Mark Edgar and Pete Hans in New York City. . . . Josiah Babcock is currently working as a behavioral specialist in Old Town, Maine, after spending last year in Missoula, Mont. . . . In August, Megan Melamed will have her master's degree in environmental engineering from the University of Colorado and will have her Ph.D. in a couple of years. She is living in Boulder, Colo., along with Sarah Toland, Franny Marques, Mike Sbano, Katie Moulton and Hal Ferguson. . . . Limi Perry was married to Emanuel Bauer in December, and they now live in Frankfurt, Germany, where Limi works at Deutsche Bank teaching business English. . . . Dave Famiglietti finished his second year as a language teaching assistant in Germany in May and hopes to continue teaching English and geography in a bilingual program either in Germany or back in the States. . . . Rebecca Solomon is in her second year of AmeriCorps*NCCC as a team leader. She has traveled to Slidell, La., to restore wetlands, tutored elementary school students in Charleston, S.C., and done Habitat for Humanity in Richmond, Ky. . . . Jay Zarnetske is living in Porter Square in Somerville, Mass., with Ross Frankenfield. Jay is still working as an environmental consultant for CDM in Cambridge, Mass. He and Phoebe Lehmann '01 are planning a trip to Alaska this summer. . . . Jon Allen is in San Diego aboard the H.M.S. Rose. He is helping to get the boat ready for its upcoming role in the film The Far Side of the World, starring Russell Crowe. . . . Alicia Haines is in Pebble Beach, Calif., teaching history, coaching and serving as a dorm parent at the Stevenson School. She also ran in the Big Sur and Chicago marathons! . . . Jeff Daniels is currently spending a year in Australia working in film. . . . Dave Ferguson worked on the pre-production for Sex and The City's fifth season in Long Island, N.Y. He hopes to go to graduate school for visual communications in New York. He also reports that Danny Schmidt recently visited him in Brooklyn. . . . Jeremy Donovan was recently transferred from New York to Boston, where he is working in the audit department of Ernst & Young. . . . Katie Reber and Melissa Bradbury took a cruise this spring in the Bahamas, where they celebrated birthdays and graduation. Katie graduated with her B.S.N. in May. This summer she will be working at Georgetown University in the pediatric intensive care unit. She plans to attend the University of Michigan for her master's in nursing in the fall of 2003. . . . Please keep in touch and send your news to classnews2000@alum.colby.edu. -Hilary Smyth previous  |   top  |  next

 

	01		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dana Fowler 353 East 78th Street, 11B New York, NY 10022 classnews2001@alum.colby.edu
	Happy one-year anniversary! We have stretched to the four-corners of the globe. In Washington, D.C., Lisa Mark is a staff assistant for congressman Doc Hastings (Wash.). She lives with Jon Engel, who works for Maine¹s Tom Allen, and Vanessa Pickett, who works for a literary agent in Bethesda, Md., in a brownstone in Georgetown. (Jon confirms that the house is brown and is made of stone.) . . . Liz McGann teaches sixth/seventh grade at a private school in Virginia. . . . Pete Oppenheim works at the RNC. . . . Chris McLean barreled his way through his first year at Georgetown Law, and Robin MacColl finished her pre-med program in Baltimore. . . . J.C. Reeves works at KPMG Consulting, Dana Dupre works for Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, and Michelle Storkan is finishing up an internship at Sparber & Associates PR firm. They all see Jon Lay, Coy Dailey, Phil Coppage, Todd Miner and Jess Weisbein. . . . Jarrod Dumas has worked for Freedom House, a non-government organization promoting political and civil liberties worldwide. . . . Boston is still where the most members of our class have staked out space. Jake Civiello continues to work as a cost estimator for national defense projects. . . . Sam Clark works at the Center for Children, teaching autistic kids with Jen Bubrick. . . . Pierce Cole, a devotee of Boston, returns to his hometown of Wells, Maine, to manage his parents¹ motel and write some mortgages on the side. . . . Jeff Guerette will work in Maine this summer at Pine Island Camp with Chris Brunet, Alena Cianchetti and Matt Reeber. . . . Payal Shah lives with Ann Levy, Deb Harris and Caroline Rosch in Cambridge. Payal works for EF Education, a cultural exchange company, Annie and Deb work for Harvard, and Caroline works for Mass General Hospital. . . . Steph McMurrich is also at Mass General, as a research assistant in the Harvard bipolar research program. . . . Lindsay Prichard works temporarily as a secretary in Medford, Mass., and even though it¹s the ³pits,² living with Darcy Lynch makes up for it! Darcy works in Watertown, Mass., at the Perkins School for the Blind. They spend time with Sarah Cavanagh, who is training to run a marathon in Alaska, and Jane Stevens, who works at the Beacon Hill Civic Association. They were awaiting Melissa Schuler¹s move to Boston in April. . . . Sarah Belanger interns for Errol Morris, a documentary filmmaker, at his studio, Globe Department Store, in East Cambridge and lives with Jess Alex and their cat, Myles. . . . Kelli Hall, also in Boston, lives with Sarah Culbertson, Janice Greenwald, Elizabeth Oberlin and Stephanie Mendell. Kelli is an assistant buyer for an advertising agency downtown called W.B.Doner. . . . Alison Aiello was in Prague for a four-week international teaching program, hoping to secure a teaching position in Florence. . . . Steve Bigelow teaches at Brighton Public H.S., and Lisa Hart teaches a pre-kindergarten class in downtown Boston. . . . Jen Miller works for Children¹s Hospital. . . . Nyasha Pfukwa lives in Beverly, Mass., near Anna Randall and is the coordinator of international and diversity programming at Endicott College. . . . Yuki Kodera lives in Somerville and works at the New England Center for Children as a special ed teacher for students with autism and severe behavioral disorders. . . . Sarah Richards returned to Boston after walking the Dublin Marathon in October to raise money for leukemia research. She teaches six autistic boys at the New England Center for Children while working toward her master¹s in counseling psychology part time at Boston College. . . . Meghan Short spent the fall in Seattle working on a 60-foot sailboat, then returned to Vermont to teach skiing. In March she began a marine science teaching position on a 100-foot historic schooner on the Delaware Bay in N.J. . . . Danielle D¹Entremont works at Yale University as a research assistant, lives in New Haven and applies to med schools. . . . Sam Allen is at an Adventure Learning Center facilitating rock climbing and ropes course work while he applies to grad schools. . . . Amanda Adams lives in Hershey, Pa., teaching high school math at the Lancaster Country Day School. . . . Teresa Hawko works at Colby with AmeriCorps*VISTA in a new mentoring program (Colby Cares About Kids) involving Colby students and local kids. . . . Betsy Loyd is working at Hebron Academy in Maine. . . . Also in Maine, Angela Ridlon and Marybeth Maney are living in a farmhouse in Windham. Angela is currently in a master¹s program in social work at UNE while interning at a school in Saco as a school social worker. Marybeth teaches English at Lake Region High School in Naples. . . . Melanie Morin and Tiffany Frazar are in med school at UVM. Melanie is a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves right now and after graduation will be an active duty military doc. . . . Hilary Evans is in Seattle in her first year of law school at the University of Washington. . . . Dave Fuente is doing well in Indianapolis in his fellowship, and Dave Riss, Sara Lovitz and Asher Ghertner are enjoying the great life out in Boulder, Colo. . . . Jon Weinberg, who also lives in Boulder, is the lead systems engineer at a small start-up named Inteface5. . . . Thad Fowler works at Small Press Traffic literary arts center and is pursuing an M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University while painting and playing blues keyboard. . . . More California boys: Evan Reece works for Hotwire.com in SF and is tearing up the Tahoe slopes. He reports that Bill Getty works in a cheese shop, Justin Amirault takes night classes on classical music, and Matt Cohen, now living outside the city in Tahoe, works with a company that makes new age musical instruments. -Dana Fowler top