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Laura Senier
38 Pitts Street
Natick, MA 01760
508-653-7927
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These e-mails just keep pouring in! I especially enjoy getting news from people who have been out of touch for a while. For example, Matt Ovios e-mailed recently to let me know that he was promoted to lieutenant commander in the Navy last year (congratulations, Matt!). He recently returned from a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea, where he was on the staff of the commander of Task Force Sixty. They left the U.S. a week after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and spent six months tracking and boarding merchant vessels suspected of supporting Al Qaeda in the Mediterranean. Upon returning to the U.S. in February, he and his wife, Carol, moved to Newport, R.I., where Matt is pursuing a master's degree in national security affairs at the Naval War College. After a year at the War College, he will head back to sea as the executive officer (second in command) of a frigate or destroyer. For the time being, Matt and Carol are enjoying being back in New England and hope to return to Colby for Homecoming in the fall. . . . Cinda Jones wrote that after 10 years of working in Washington, D.C., for a variety of nonprofit associations, she has returned to help run the family's land and lumber company in Amherst, Mass. . . . Last fall Bob Lian made partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L. L. P. Bob works in the firm's labor and employment practice group. His practice is focused on helping companies solve complex workplace disputes, with an emphasis on litigation stemming from union corporate campaigns, as well as cases arising under federal and state labor and employment laws governing wages and hours of work, workplace safety and equal employment opportunity. . . . Also celebrating recent promotions are Debbie Adams Murray, who became an assistant vice president at BankNorth last fall, and Meredith Hart, who became director of the production division of Dascenzo Creative, Inc. . . . More sobering news in from Nicole Doria Sudduth Hamilton, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last August. In her words, "it stinks but isn't fatal, and we caught it at the very earliest stage so there's a very good chance that I'll never develop any disability . . . at least there's medication now--just five years ago there was nothing." When she wrote, she was looking forward to a two-week trip to Costa Rica with her dad to celebrate his 70th birthday. She is still working at the consulting company Booz Allen & Hamilton and worked most of last year on a project in the Everglades. . . . I got a reflective and inspiring e-mail from Kerri Weise Augusto. Kerri and her husband, Jonathan, traveled to Cambodia in April 1999 to adopt their son, Nate. They had planned to wait until Nate was 5 before returning to Cambodia to adopt a younger brother or sister for him. But fate intervened. Last spring an acquaintance contacted them about adopting her unborn child. They agreed, and in August welcomed a daughter, Taevy Shauna Marie, to their multi-racial, multi-cultural family. Kerri writes, "Since Taevy's birth I have been stopped countless times by strangers who stare at my Caucasian daughter and my Asian son, and state (not ask, state!): "Oh, how nice. You adopted one and then had one of your own." I smile in return and tell them the truth: "Actually, my husband and I have been twice blessed through the miracle of adoption. And these children are both mine." Kerri plans to return to her job as professor of psychology at Becker College. . . . I hope to hear from more of you soon!
--Laura Senier
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jennifer Flynn
16 Lakeville Road #12A
PO Box 102
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
classnews1991@alum.colby.edu
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Lesley Eydenburg Bouvier
26 Swallow Drive
Hollins, NH 03049
classnews1991@alum.colby.edu
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Hello everyone! If you do not see your news below, I will be sure to write it up for the next one. Promise. . . . Tim Christensen-Kirby (aka Whaler) writes that he and his wife, Theresa, are potters running a shop named Muddy Bird Pottery in New Hampshire. They are in the process of buying a house and workshop in Milton, N.H., and will be moving there with their two dogs and five chickens. He also tells us that he won best in show at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, N.H., for his sculpture of four seven-foot high earthworms. Congratulations, Whaler! . . . Jeff LaCourse recently opened a mortgage company in Toledo, Ohio. He is also coaching hockey at his alma mater high school and has been busy with his boy, Matthew D. LaCourse, born on September 2, 2001. . . . Emily Gallagher Byrne has been living in Nyack, N.Y., for the last three years with her husband, Rick, whom she married in May 2000. They expected their first child in April 2002. In the meantime, she is working hard in the communications group at Unilever Bestfoods. We know whom to hit up for coupons for Lipton, Hellmann's, Skippy and Ragu. . . . Tom and Katie Kaliff Reeve recently welcomed into the world their first child, Bethany Autumn, on September 28. Both Katie and Tom are teachers at Lincoln High School in Rhode Island. . . . Margaret Mauran and Andy Zuccotti '92 live in Rutland, Vt., and their son, Nicky, is 2 years old. Both Margaret and Andy are teaching and coaching. . . . Audrey Wittemann recently made a career change, leaving 10 years of PR work to begin a master's in urban planning at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Audrey will be married to Herbert Wennink by the time this article hits the press. Rumor is that they were to honeymoon in the Caribbean. Audrey has been able to do a lot of fun traveling this past year with trips that have taken her to the Oregon coast, Rome, Holland and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake. . . . Melissa LaBarre Thors writes that she and her husband, Thor Thors, had a boy, Gardner Dickinson, on September 11, 2001, in N.Y.C. Gardner was born at 8:54 p.m. and weighed 8 1/2 pounds. . . . Also on the baby front: Jane Maloney-Chitakara gave birth on October 20, 2001, to a boy named Aiden Dev Chitakara. . . . Elizabeth (Leaf) Ives Gurr and her husband, Stewart, also had a beautiful boy, Christopher Ives Atherton Gurr, on March 6, 2002. . . . Susan Cummings Wiseman welcomed her second child, Mackayla Susan Wiseman, to the world on June 21, 2001. She and her big brother, Jack, are getting along amazingly well. Susan also tells us that Colleen Halleck was married in August 2001 to Ray Taylor in New Hampshire. Susan was a bridesmaid. . . . Marnie and David Unruh had a boy, Morgan David, on July 18, 2001. His uncle, Richard Unruh III, is Colby '97, and his grandmother is Dawne Wiswell Unruh '64. (Do we think Morgan will have some pressure to spend his college years in Waterville?) David is a senior major gift officer for Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where they have lived for nearly seven years. He often sees Candi Green, who also lives in Pittsburgh. . . . Elizabeth (Libby) Marsh graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in December of 2001. She is currently in Bangkok on a Bates Fellowship to research the commercial sexual exploitation of young women and girls. Prior to that she was a Michigan Refugee and Asylum law fellow working at Human Rights Watch in N.Y.C. investigating human rights issues surrounding the repatriation of Afghan women refugees from Pakistan. Good luck, Libby! . . . Tamar Snyder Stanley has been appointed a member of the firm of Baker Botts LLP. She works in the tax field. . . . Susan Gerstberger wrote in for the first time since 1991. Good to hear from you, Sue! After graduation, Sue worked in Washington, D.C., at the National Institute of Health (NIH) for seven years doing HIV research. In that time she also went to graduate school at George Washington University and received her master's in forensic sciences (M.F.S.). In June 1998, Sue became a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, where she met Kyle Goggin (they were engaged in September in sunny Harbour Island in the Bahamas). Sue and Kyle have been working in N.Y.C. for the past three years. Sue had quite a scare last September as her job took her to the middle of Ground Zero on the 11th. Sue and Kyle are planning a September 2002 wedding on Martha's Vineyard. Sue often sees Joe Brennan, who is a special agent on the presidential detail, and she keeps in touch with Alex Wyle Eastman, who has her veterinary degree and lives in Salinas, Calif., with her two kids and husband (also a veterinarian). . . . Shannon Johnson and Ben Ames have bought their first house in Arlington, Mass. Shannon is working at a nonprofit called Row As One Institute, Inc. (trying to get paid for her habit), and Ben continues to write up a storm at Design News magazine. Ben also finished his first book, Hikes in Massachusetts. It was due out this spring. . . . Sally Hewitt is living in Maynard, Mass., and working in Concord, Mass., as a producer at Simon & Schuster Audio's Pimsleur Language Programs. Last year she became a mountain bike racer in the New England region and races for Team Rage, a Boston-area club. She is also playing second-chair trumpet in the Symphony Pro Musica, a symphony orchestra in the metro-west area. This is her 10th year there! She is also a trumpet soloist in area churches. . . . Write soon!
--Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Beth Curran
64 Dane Street #1
Somerville, MA 02143
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P>Hello one and all! Mike Eash, still an active lumberjack, placed second in the Stihl Stock Saw competition in the summer of '01. Mike is a jewelry maker when he isn't getting paid to saw logs. . . . Mike Zhe was to be married to Lisa Tetrault in May. Mike is a sportswriter for the Portsmouth, N.H., Herald. . . . Mike Rosenblum married Dr. Elizabeth Agnew in September '01. . . . Mike Genco got married in September to Lisa Hartford in Orono, Maine. They currently reside in Chesapeake, Va. . . . William and Katherine Rogers Roberts welcomed daughter Alice into the world on December 12, 2001. Her brother, Henry, turned 4 in April. . . . Diane Decker graduated from Cornell Veterinary School this spring and will be relocating to D.C. to do a year of intensive post-graduate training. . . . Caleb Cooks is a director/executive producer at Edgeworxs in N.Y.C., where he will be overseeing their television and film projects. Prior to moving to N.Y.C., Caleb was a producer at PBS headquarters in Alexandria, Va., from 1997 until August 2001. He is also currently developing an adaptation of a hip-hop theater play titled "Rhyme Deferred" to be produced as a two-hour television series and DVD presentation. His first project as an executive producer for Edgeworx, created in collaboration with the National Geographic Channel, was a 30-second public service announcement regarding the backlash that Muslim Americans are experiencing as a result of the tragic events of September 11. . . . Steve "Gung-Ho" Holsten was to be married on June 1, 2002, to Erin Zodrow. Erin is a fourth-year medical student starting an ob-gyn residency in July. Steve is in his third year of general surgery residency at the Medical College of Georgia and performed 19 kidney transplants in three months during his transplant surgery rotation. Steve writes, "I'm in the best shape I've been in a long time thanks to diet and exercise. I play some competitive Ultimate here in Augusta, Ga. Hope all my old Colby friends are well." . . . Karyn Rimas Patry, husband Jeff and children Layne and Emlyn live in Hookset, N.H., where Karen is a business systems analyst at EDS. She writes that she is planning a family vacation this summer with Paul and Angela Tennett Butler and their two daughters. Karyn also sees Jen Larsen Deileanes and reported that Heather Johnson Webster and her husband, Fred '95, gave birth in February to a daughter, Gwyneth Marie. . . . Jim Cronin recently opened a satellite office in Chico, Calif., for the Web design firm Z57 Inc. He writes, "I have been with the San Diego-based company for two years and am very happy. Check us out at www.Z57.com . . . Sibel Akbay Nicholson is living and working in London for the Reuters News Agency. . . . Jay '94 and Sharon Rosen DiPietro had a beautiful girl, Rose Camille, in January '02. Sharon and Jay live in New York City, where I visited them recently--along with Kat Creeden, who has relocated to the Big Apple and is planning a November wedding in Chatham, Mass., with her fiancé, Erik Skulte. . . . Beth Foohey recently got engaged to David Moore and is also planning a November 2002 wedding, on the Cape. Attending the wedding will be Sue Kairnes Baker, Sarah Oelkers, Erin McTernan Aaron, Kristen Schuler Scammon and Sue Liacos-Dix. . . . Kimberley Blatz Orbell and her husband, Phil, recently gave birth to a baby boy. Kimberley and Phil were married in October 2000 and live in Front Royal, Va., where they work for the public school system. Kimberley is a truancy counselor. . . . Dan Sevilla spent the last four years as an Army Ranger and is now in the Army's physician's assistant program. . . . Claudia Tejada writes that Paul and Brandy Shafter Chapman recently relocated to New Canaan, Conn., and purchased a home. Claudia works as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., for the environmental organization Defenders of Wildlife and is getting married in November in Chevy Chase, Md. . . . Kristen Zilling Kreuzcamp expected her second child in April and is enjoying being a full-time mom in Peterborough, N.H. . . . Laura Steinbrink Novak is the executive director of Cleveland, Ohio, Bridge Builders, a nonprofit organization, and is keeping busy with her toddler son, Brandon. . . . Tom '90 and Jule Gourdeau Whelan have a new daughter named Molly and live in Freeport, Maine. . . . Sheri Petelle got married in the winter of 2002 to Paulo Marnoto '94. They got engaged in Paris in February '01. . . . Patricia Thorpe Tweedie is a primary care physician in Hope Valley, R.I. . . . Please keep the news coming! Let's hear from some more Mikes! And some of you MIA types, for crying out loud!
--Beth Curran
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Tracy K. Larsen
1821 Pacific Coast Highway #1
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
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John "Drew" Serbin is living in Rye, N.Y, after completing work assignments in Poland, the Philippines, Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas, Nev. He hated the travel and started a third-party logistics consulting firm in N.Y.C. in September 2001. He sees Monique and Christian Drucker, who were married in October 2001 in Buffalo, N.Y. Christian is director of Web development at Quinnipiac University. . . . Annie Clougherty lives in Somerville, Mass. She is in her second year of Northeastern University's physician's assistant program and will graduate with a master's degree in September. She is engaged to Kevin Emerson '96, an elementary school science teacher by day and soul/funk band drummer by night. They plan a wedding at an inn in southern Vermont on September 21. . . . Laura Heywood and her husband, Reid, live in Kennebunkport, Maine, and expect their first baby at the end of August. . . Jay Hartshorn is in her first year as an assistant track and cross-country coach at Syracuse University. Kebba Tolbert is also on the staff. . . . Cecily Totten is teaching seventh grade English in Winthrop, Mass., and attends the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury during the summer. She will be at the Juneau, Alaska, campus this summer. . . .Kendra King is an assistant professor of political science and African-American studies at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University in 2000, and her first book, Old Problems, New Policies: Grassroots Politics Revisited, is under review at several presses. She is also a Colby overseer. When not teaching and researching, she travels as a political consultant and during the summer of 2001 went to Paris and Oslo, Norway. . . . Sara Ferry Gyan and Ross Nussbaum saw Greg and Erin Crossland Christopher at the Duplex in N.Y.C., where Greg performed with his a cappella group. Erin is at AT Kearney, Ross is a VP at Solomon Smith Barney, and Sara is still with American Express, heading up global campus and diversity recruitment. Sara wrote that after being displaced in the aftermath of 9/11, they are looking forward to moving back into their headquarters at the World Financial Center this summer. . . . Jeff '93 and Connie Huffine Zlot are living in Marin County. They keep busy with their golden retriever, Junia, a breeder for the Guide Dogs for the Blind program in San Raphael, Calif., who was about to give birth to her second litter of puppies (seven or eight were expected). Connie works at Genentech. . . .Andie Sulak and Stacey Warner live in San Francisco, not L.A. Stacey is working for Rockman et al., which is an educational consulting firm. Andie hopes to finish her M.S. in range management at UC-Berkeley this semester and plans to begin the Ph.D. program in the ecosystem sciences department at Berkeley in the fall. Andie moved to S.F. from Berkeley in November. . . . Heather Johnson and Braydon McCormick got married on September 15, 2001. They had the wedding at the camp her parents run in New Hampshire, and all 200 guests (including many Colby friends) spent the weekend there with Heather and Braydon. Heather, a professor of sociology at Lehigh University, and Braydon, a project manager at MetLife, bought a house in Bernardsville, N.J., last summer. They visited Heather's Colby roommate Jen Morrow Slavin and her husband, Anthony, in Palo Alto, Calif. Last fall they celebrated the birth of their goddaughter, Catherine Makeda Flavious, the daughter of Roxann Greenaway '93. . . . Heather Eskey will graduate from Brooklyn Law School and start a job at KPMG in N.Y.C. . . . Karyl (Brewster '93) and Zachary Brewster-Geisz have a 2 1/2-year-old son, Drew, and are expecting a baby in August 2002. Check out Zach's Web site (www.irtc.org) to see his animation "Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object," which won the Internet Ray-Tracing Competition's animation contest for the first quarter of 2002. Karyl threw Zach a surprise 30th birthday party in January. Doug Hill, who is finishing his Ph.D in social psychology at the University of Maryland, attended (among others). In October 2001, Karyl and Zach attended the wedding of Amy Duncan '93 and Jason Kirkfield '93. Beth Tabor Robinson and her husband attended as did Pete '95 and Dawn Kalloch Murphy. . . . Sigmund Schutz is an environmental litigation and media law attorney in Portland, Maine. He was recently elected vice chair of the Portland chapter of the American Red Cross. . . . Terry Meehan will marry Anita Sommers in August 2002. He is pursuing a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the marketing director at Very Special Arts in Madison. . . . Danny Katz was to marry Kimberly Nesvet this June. He is employed at Fidelity Investments, and she is a preschool teacher in Weston and an adjunct professor at Quincy College. . . . Maria DeSimone was to marry Wayne Carlson this spring or summer. She is the manager of information systems at Environmental Health and Engineering, an air quality consulting firm in Newton. Wayne is an industrial engineer at EH&E. . . . Paulo Marnoto and Sheri Petelle '93 are planning a winter 2002 wedding. He is an attorney and she is a teacher at Manchester Essex Regional High School. . . . Alison Meyer Hong has been appointed to the faculty at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. She is the director of college guidance and the faculty adviser to the yearbook committee. . . . Karlene Burrell-McCrae is the associate director of the intercultural center at the University of Pennsylvania.
--Tracy K. Larsen
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