95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yuhgo Yamaguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-354-0289 classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Lauren Pelz Kearney wrote that Lynne Moss married Paul Perricelli last February. They were married in New Jersey and live in Yonkers, N.Y. . . . Allison Wilkin Hallin graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1998 with an M.S. in molecular and cell biology. She returned home to Bend, Ore., and spent the winter season as a ski instructor at Mt. Bachelor. It was there that she met Brian Hallin, and they were married in Bend, June 16, 2001. Regina Wlodarski Kruger, who wrote that she and her husband, Keith, were expecting their first baby at the end of March, was present as matron of honor with Maylene Cummings Mitchell '96 and Margaret Suggs Herath as bridesmaids. Brian enjoyed his first trip to New England in September 2001 when they traveled to Maine for Maylene's wedding to Erik Mitchell '97. Allison and her husband currently live in Portland, Ore., and work at Oregon Health and Sciences University. . . . Erin Mansur is finishing up his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California-Berkeley on electricity deregulation and environmental regulation. He will be an assistant professor at Yale University next fall in a joint tenure-track position between the School of Management and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He and his wife, Jennifer Shatney, are going to be parents in July! . . . John Gorczyk and Kristen Bloomquist were married in San Diego on November 3, 2001, about 10 years after they met on COOT! In the wedding party were Colleen Diver, Jennifer Dursi Rothman '96, Virginia Stettinius, Nathalie Theard, Sung Park '93 and Scott Rothman '96. Other Colby guests included Jon Bowden '95 and Denise Mailloux '97. "It was a lot of fun to get all our friends from around the country together again," writes Kristen. "We honeymooned in Kauai and are back in San Diego, contemplating a move back east." . . . Kaatje Van der Hoeven got married in August 2001, in Walpole, Maine, to Mike Kraft, whom she met in Arizona. She wrote, "A number of Colby folk attended the wedding: Heather Beusse, KC Lawler, Tracy Patton Zschau, Beth Herbert, Kathryn Swaggart Erickson '94 and of course Auntie Al, our mailroom pal!" Kaatje and Mike live out in the Valley of the Sun (the Phoenix megalopolis--soon to be L.A. Jr.), and she's a full-time instructor of geology at Mesa Community College. . . . Faisel Zaman is working as a resident physician in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. He's the resident chairman of the medical education committee of the American Academy of PM & R. He's still into motorcycles and a member of the Southern Cruisers Motorcycle Gang. . . . Gerry Coakley got married last August to Rachael Millstein (now Rachael Coakley) in Chatham, Mass. He is working as an attorney in Chicago. . . . Fred and Heather Johnson Webster welcomed their first child, Gwyneth Marie, on February 6, 2002. They are all doing well adjusting to their new life with a baby and headed out to Hawaii in May for a short vacation. . . . Ariana Talbot Vance is still living in Laramie, Wyo., enjoying the outdoor adventures that Wyoming offers. Her husband was to graduate with his master's degree in May. "Most of my day is kept busy with my prides and joys," she says: Paige, 5, Hailey, 3, and Morgan, 1. "I work as a homebound teacher for the school district in my free time. Nothing too new and exciting, but I'm happy." . . . Scott and Kerry Knudsen Galson just returned from their Peace Corps adventures in Suriname, South America, and are working on freezing some of the fungus spots off their bodies in what has turned out to be a mild Chicago winter. "We're currently looking for teaching jobs in New England and expecting our first child (eeegad!)," writes Kerry. Reports indicate that Baby Galson will be born the end of July. . . . Noah Haverkamp is cooking in Knoxville, Tenn. . . . Sarah Bohlinger is living in Virginia, working on the pastry team at The Inn at Little Washington. . . . Bryan Carey moved back to Washington, D.C., to clerk for a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals. He lives in Woodley Park near the National Zoo. . . . In the past year, Jen Gennaco has taken vacations to Puerto Rico and Cancun, but her most exciting news is that she got engaged on Thanksgiving Day to Benjamin Smith, a Bates grad. They plan an August wedding. Cheryl Johnson Dutrumble, who will be in the wedding party, expect a baby in June. . . .Tobey Williamson is living the high life in Washington, D.C., spending much time at the National Zoo pondering the diversity of life. Recently graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a master's in regional planning, he is employed as federal policy program manager at American Farmland Trust. Much of his work involves cooperating with a coalition of environmental organizations trying to influence the reauthorization of the farm bill, which promises to allocate significant increases in funding for agricultural conservation programs that will slow urban sprawl, improve water quality and restore wildlife habitat. He'd love to hear from friends far and near. . . . Holly Martin is a science and algebra teacher at The Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury, Mass. She was recently the assistant athletic director at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass. In addition to her teaching duties, she coached the CM middle school soccer team. . . . Andrew Vernon and I had dinner with Hannah Beech and Beth Herbert a few months ago. Hannah is a Beijing correspondent for Time Magazine and is engaged to Brook Larmer, a correspondent for Newsweek. --Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kim Schock classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	Suzanne Kulin graduated in May with an M.S. in communicative disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was married to Tom Moffitt '97 in September. . . . Sheila Grant was married to Christopher Orphanides '95 last June in New London, Conn. Bridesmaids were Heather Hunt, who is in her second year of medical school at UMass, Kathy Alexander Romeo, who had her first child, Grace Kathryn, in September, and Gretchen Rice King, who is a Web producer at Pearson Education eVentures in Somerville, Mass., and was married in September to Kevin King. Others who were able to share in the special day were Kate Radley, Lee St. George MacGregor, Ann (Sprole '95) and Jamie Cheston (along with many other members of the Class of '95). Sheila and Chris are living in Providence, R.I., where Sheila is an early childhood education consultant and Chris is pursuing an environmental graduate degree at Duke. Gretchen and Kevin enjoyed a honeymoon to Hawaii and currently reside in Newton, Mass. . . . Michael Daisey is a former Seattle dot-com employee who was recently featured in the arts section of The New York Times for his one-man show about the high-tech meltdown. His "21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com" is playing at the Henry Street Settlement. . . . Michael Branca graduated from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Georgia, New Mexico and Maine, including Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville. . . . After five years of teaching history and philosophy, most recently at the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, N.Y., Gerry Perez has begun an M.F.A. program in filmmaking at the Columbia University School of the Arts. . . . Simon Dalgleish is living in San Francisco and has a marketing role for Charles Schwab in the Schwab private client group. Simon swam in the Escape from Alcatraz race in September. . . . Nicole Jalbert and her fiancé, Kevin Pirani, attended Katherine Holliday's wedding in August along with Nina Leventhal, who was recently engaged to Matt Paquin '98 and is planning a 2003 wedding, Rachel Wolf Preti, Adam Charron and Heather Duley Gleason, who brought along her daughter, Madison. . . . Meghan Maguire is in the Peace Corps in Honduras working in municipal development with an emphasis on IT. She says she loves every minute of it. . . . Clair Pagnano is living in New York City and is working as a corporate associate at the law firm Stroock, Stroock and Lavan. She saw Kim Allen, who was working as a summer associate at a law firm in Delaware, and Nancy Zierman, who made a stop in the city on her way back to Boulder, Colo., from Europe, where she had spent the summer. Nancy is in the M.B.A. program at the University of Boulder. Clair also sees Ines Velasco, who lives in the Big Apple and who, along with Danielle LeGrand, was able to attend the wedding of Patti Abbott to Jim Arnow in Boulder, Colo., last June. Patti and Jim live in Boulder, where Patti is a literacy teacher and Jim does quality assurance for a data imaging company. . . . Matthew Russ has cut back on his work in the Colby Admissions Office to pursue his love of painting and recently had his oil paintings on display in Scarborough, Maine. . . . Brian Duffany spent three years working in environmental consulting in Park City, Utah, and two years working in real estate in New Jersey. He is currently in his first year of a master's program in city and regional planning at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. . . . Meredith DiMenna's band, Belle Canta, was selected as one of the 10 quarter-finalists out of thousands of entries for the New Music Award for the American Music Awards. The band performed at the CMJ Music Marathon in N.Y.C. to compete for the five semi-finalist spots. . . . Martha Previte is in her last year of law school in Albuquerque, N.M., and will move to San Diego with her fiancé after graduation. She will be married in Boston this summer, and Rachel Simson, Jamie Geier and Kerith Grandinetti will be in the wedding party. . . . Ryan Sullivan is a medical intern at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He has been married nearly two years and enjoys spending time with his wife, drinking red wine and sleeping in his spare time--which he says there isn't much of. . . . Jen LeBel is working as a firefighter/paramedic in Pittsfield, N.H., and recently started grad school at Notre Dame College to become a physician's assistant. . . . Sarah Gelman is the director of alumni relations and the head coach of the girls' varsity ice hockey team at the Nichols School in Buffalo, N.Y. . . . Niki Shinneman was married in August to Vincent Yarnot, whom she met while swing dancing. They are living in Redmont, Wash., where Niki is busy completing her master's in social work. She also works in radiation oncology, helping families and patients cope with cancer diagnoses, and continues to teach voice and piano lessons. . . . Maxime Hibon was sent by his company back to Paris to work in a partnership with Paris's leading modeling agency and represents their clients for endorsements, licensing and brand-making exposures. . . . Carol Strawn married Jim Fielbelkorn '98 last June in St. Paul, Minn. Carol is a program manager for an environmental remediation firm and is completing her master's thesis in environmental health. They live in Ann Arbor, Mich., with their 6-year-old Siberian husky, Stoli. . . . Rob Gold is living in St. Paul, Minn., doing a dental residency in the Minneapolis Veterans Hospital. He received a visit from Aran Ryan, who was busy doing a five-state tour of 10 Super-Eight motels. --Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker 37 Melendy Avenue #2 Watertown, MA 02472-4108 classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
	What is going on? Here's the latest. April Armstrong is planning a July 2002 wedding at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut to Shawn Campbell '93, a software engineer designing games for WorldWinner.com. They just bought their first house in Auburn, Mass. April is the lead singer for the Boston band Common Ground and performed with them at the Top of the Hub in Boston on New Year's Eve. She also has a solo CD and many singing gigs supported by her day job as a vet tech. She and Shawn see a multitude of Colby grads regularly! . . . Jennifer Soules is still in Idaho working on her master's in biology. When she wrote, she was headed to western Washington for her second year of data collection on the winter wren. . . . Birth announcement: Heath Laycock and wife Kelly welcomed daughter Samantha into the world on October 26. . . . After living in San Fran for four years, Emily Lappen has decided to move back to Boston. She currently works as a marketing manager for a digital technology company and really loves what she does. On the day she wrote, she and roomie Emily Greenstein had a tea party with a number of the Colby clan living out there: Adrienne Clay, Denise Mailloux, Beth Traglia, Sue Hesselbach and Austin Briggs. . . . Danielle Herget completed her Ph.D. work in theater history at Tufts and is currently an A.B.D. She hopes to complete everything by December so she can begin teaching. In her free time, she's been teaching in an after-school program in Boston. . . . Robin Pearah Gee lives in Wellington, Fla., where she is the corporate office manager of three restaurants. . . . Heather McVicar is teaching and coaching at Holton Arms, a private school for girls in Bethesda, Md. She is also running a tour company, Archer-East. She spent last summer traveling around Turkey preparing for her first company tour this June. . . . Barb Gordon is living in Los Angeles and taking writing classes and skating in a women's roller hockey league. She recently appeared in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle that featured women's ice hockey. She did the skating for Heidi Klum's character! . . . Cary Charlebois is living in Boston and ran in her second Boston Marathon this spring. . . . Morgan Filler finished up her 2001 International Marathon Swim season ranked third in the world for women. She is now living in the D.C. area and attending the Baltimore School of Massage. . . . Linda Jenkins recently got engaged and is planning her wedding for the spring of 2003. She and Morgan planned a trip to Las Vegas in May to attend Sue Hesselbach's bachelorette party. . . . Katie Scheffel writes: "I have spent the last five years living in either Oregon, Utah or Colorado working with wilderness programs and living the life of an outdoor enthusiast. In April I am moving to N.C. hoping to work for an environmental consulting firm. I am looking for a change of pace and am extremely excited to get back east." . . . Doug Schultz is working as a deputy clerk for the U.S. District Court at a courthouse in Jackson, Wyo. He met up with Margot Higgins for a beer while she was in town and coerced her into a 6 a.m. climb and ski before her meeting. I think she made it on time. . . . Rush Hambleton continues to build up his yacht support business, Bluewater Logistics. He was planning to move to Newport, R.I., and is still busy with Land Rover (off road) Rallies. . . . Sarah Holmes is finishing up her master's in psychology at Boston University. This summer she plans on opening a Boston branch of her company, Pentec Handwriting Consultants. Pentec specializes in handwriting and document examination, personnel selection and jury and trial consulting. . . . Jennifer Lawrence checked in from the West Coast and reports: "Still working on my business, Diva DesignZ, which was recently featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. If anyone needs a wedding gift, check out our wedding gallery on our Web site: www.divadesignZ.com (don't forget the 'Z'). Traveled to China this summer and Aruba this January. And I celebrated Wendy Ridder's birthday (she's returning to school to pursue her M.B.A.) with Wendy Morris (who is climbing the PR corporate ladder)." . . . Rob Gimpel lives outside N.Y.C. in Rockland County, N.Y., and works for a geophysical consulting firm called NAEVA Geophysics. He was about to leave N.Y. and move to Maryland to open and run a D.C.-M.D. metro area office for his company. . . . Liz Baker loves her new job as the director of annual giving and alumni relations for a private school in San Fran but was still looking forward to returning to Boston in the summer. . . . After completing her master's in journalism, Jennifer O'Neill recently became an editorial assistant for Allure magazine. . . . I completed my M.Ed. in secondary English teaching at Boston College and will be employed somewhere within the Boston Public Schools system by this fall. --Kimberly N. Parker   top  |   next

 

	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Allison L. Brown Flynn 6948 Avery Road Dublin, OH 43017-2865 classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
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	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes 130 Long Neck Point Road Darien, CT 06820 203-655-4664 classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	After two years as a health education volunteer in Moldova, a former Soviet republic in Eastern Europe, Katie Frank now lives at home in Maine, looking into grad schools and a job. She has seen Ben Waterhouse, who also lives in Cumberland. Ben is on the Portland Fire Department. . . . After graduation, Kit Connolly spent a year skiing in Breckenridge, Colo. Now he lives in Harvard Square and works at a VC-funded Internet company in Wayland, Mass., writing finance and health articles for an online newsletter, He plans on heading back to school next fall for an M.B.A. . . . Last year Katie Haas taught third grade at a charter school in Chapel Hill, N.C. Before leaving at the end of the summer to travel to Portland, Ore., she met up with Becky Pollard, Renee Lajeunesse and Sharon Capobianchi Burke for a reunion in D.C. Katie is having a good time experiencing life on the West Coast. . . . Robyn Osborn graduated from American University with an M.A. in psychology in January 2002, then left for a two-month trip to Australia to visit some pals. She plans to attend school for a Ph.D. in psychology. . . . Bill Hinton lives in Davis, Okla., where he is a full-time camp director for YMCA Camp Classen. Bill and his wife celebrated their first anniversary last November. He is training for an Iron Man in the spring of 2003. . . . Ryan Aldrich is still the assistant director of admissions at Kent School but doing a lot of traveling. He went to Germany and Switzerland in January. . . . Jon Zarecki spent the summer of 2001 at the American Academy in Rome and began work on his Ph.D. in classical philology at the University of Florida last fall. . . . I am happy to say that Spencer Velott, who was diagnosed with cancer last October, is on his way to recovery. He was invited to speak to the Vermont Legislature in February on behalf of the nursing lobby, hailing them for their hard work and asking for more funding, because a nurse discovered his cancer. Spencer lives in Burlington, Vt., with his pug and is the director of business development at Media Solutions International, a marketing firm focusing on the marine and fishing industry. On weekends he's a ski instructor at Smugglers' Notch. . . . Betsy Adams teaches at the American International School in Cyprus, Nicosia. . . . Anna Tesmenitsky completed law school at Northeastern University and got engaged to Eitan Priluck of Brookline, Mass. . . . After living in San Francisco for two years working in a lab at UCSF, Diego Muilenburg started at Georgetown Medical School last fall. He spent summer 2001 traveling in Peru, Bolivia and Costa Rica with Tracy Freuder '00. Diego and Tracy live together in D.C. . . . Corey Kessler reports that he eloped to Hawaii, where he raises wild pigs, drives cattle by horseback and hunts for pirate treasure on his boat, The Wrestler. . . . Becky Pollard left her reporting job in D.C. and headed off to Japan on April 1 to travel. Becky is planning on freelancing and waiting tables this summer somewhere in New England before hitting graduate school in the fall. . . . Jodi Siviski is engaged to marry Jon Pataki '97 in August. They both live in Norwalk, Conn. Jodi graduated with a master's degree in occupational therapy from Tufts in the fall and works as an occupational therapist in Connecticut. . . . Kelley Martin is an analyst for Wellington Co. in Boston. . . . Christina Repp works for Fleet in Boston. . . . Annie Flanagan lives in Stamford, Conn. . . . Jess Williamson worked at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for two years and is now at Yale for a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. Jess worked in the same chemistry lab as Josh Young during rotations. . . . Melissa Murphy graduated in May from Boston College Law School and in September will begin working in the litigation department of Sulloway and Hollis, LLP, in New Hampshire. . . . Brad Sicchitano has been teaching in Brookline, Mass., at an elementary school for the past three years and is completing a master's at Boston College. Brad got engaged to a fellow teacher and will be getting married in October. . . . Alex Wall, who is still working at The Edge in Augusta while teaching 11th grade English at Winthrop High School, was recently accepted into law school. . . . Liz Williams moved back from Spain to L.A. She works with a Los Angeles County courthouse for RAND, a large nonprofit research organization based in Santa Monica, as a researcher investigating second and third time DUI offenders. . . . Andrew Wnek spent the last year at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas completing undergraduate pilot training with the Air Force. In March he began advanced training in Oklahoma, where he will get checked out as a copilot in a KC-135 Stratotanker (fuel tanker for air refueling). He'll be flying this aircraft for the Maine Air National Guard unit located in Bangor starting in August. . . . Arin Novick teaches first grade in public school in Manhattan. . . . Amy Montemerlo is a suburban reporter at the Waterbury Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury, Conn., and getting her master's in journalism at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. . . . Jon Hiltz, who works for MetLife Financial Services in Farmington, Maine, made Leader's Conference, which is being held in Cancun, Mexico, in July. He also qualified for the Million-Dollar Round Table that takes place in Nashville, Tenn., in June. He will head to financial planning school in the fall. . . . Nate Bradley is a commercial real estate broker in Denver, Colo. . . . Mackenzie Dawson is getting married in July in Boston and then moving to N.Y.C. to start at the NYU school of journalism. . . . Matt Olsen is living in D.C., where he is finishing up his master's in international peace and conflict resolution at the School of International Service at The American University. --Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next