00		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Hilary C. Smyth classnews2000@alum.colby.edu
	Dave Fergusonis working on Third Watch until the end of the season. He reports that Erik Bowie has moved to Williamsburg, Ian Smith is back in China teaching history, and Pete Hirschfeld is still in Vermont. . . . Kamini Bhargava is in her second year at the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music, where she is pursuing a master's degree in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy. . . . Nick LaRusso is also in Denver, working at ECollege. . . . Wilder Doucette is working on his M.D./Ph. D. program at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. . . . Krissy Lahtinen, currently a third-year medical student at Albany Medical College, has been engaged since July of 2000 to Derrick Aley, with plans to wed in May 2004. . . . Rebecca Solomon is working at Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C., and biking a lot. She sees Cipperly Good, Katie Reber and Janet Bordelon '01 from time to time. . . . Jessica Porter is in a biophysics Ph.D. program at UC-Berkeley. . . . Jason Gatlin and Mary Larios were engaged in December and are buying a house in Eugene, Ore., where they are both in graduate school. . . . Whitney Lawton is living in Mboyo, Senegal, a village of 1,800, doing rural preventive health education with the Peace Corps. She has one more year in her service and then plans to head to Japan and teach English for a year. . . . Karen Lee is a paralegal at Perkins Coie L.L.P., an asbestos-litigation firm in San Francisco. . . . J.R. Rudman is working at Lois Paul & Partners, a high-tech public relations agency out of Woburn, Mass. He is living in Allston, Mass., with Brian Hiester and Alex Moskos. . . . Emily Young started a one-year journalism program at Northwestern in January. . . . Alex Bahn is in law school at Tulane in New Orleans and will spend the summer at Arent Fox in D.C. before finishing up next year. . . . Skip Newberry is at UConn law and plans to live and work in New Haven this summer. . . . This summer Jon Allen will be sailing from the Caribbean to Newport, R.I., and then to Italy after working for Disney on the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean, starring Johnny Depp. . . . After graduation, Alanna Mingay lived in a rural town in the south of Honduras for two years, after which she returned to her hometown, Marquette, Minn., in June 2002. She is working at the local hospital and also coaching the NMU Wildcats women's club ice hockey team. . . . Jason Ri is currently in Japan, Shiga Prefecture, on the JET Program. His current position is "prefectural advisor" and counselor to other foreign (to Japan) English teachers on the same program. . . . Jeff Daniels is still in Australia, where he hopes to complete an independent documentary project based in western China. . . . Kristy Swanson traveled around China, Hong Kong and Thailand for a little over a month and is now back in Portland, Ore. She went back to Colby last September for the alumni soccer game and spent some time with Jen Goodman and others from different classes. . . . Brenda Yun and Diane Carr are living together in Honolulu, where Brenda teaches English and Diane teaches French. They both recently spent five days hiking on the Na Pali Coast in Kauai. . . . Chris LaPointe is working for the Trust for Public Land in Boston Project and is living in Salem, Mass. He graduated in May from the University of Vermont with a master's degree in natural resource planning and will be getting married this July 12 to Dalene Varney of Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . Amanda Rutherford got a master's in social work at the University of New Hampshire. She is working as a child and family therapist at a community mental health center and also attending Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, N.H., for a clinical psychology doctorate. She also bought her own house and spent the fall completely remodeling. . . . Kathryn Johnson is touring the world with Lara Bonn and Chrissie Marzano. So far they have visited Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Southeast Asia. . . . Jay Zarnetske and Phoebe Lehmann '01 live together in Cambridge, Mass., and are moving to Logan, Utah, this summer to begin graduate school at Utah State University. Jay will be studying river geomorphology and restoration. Phoebe will be in wildlife conservation and ecological modeling. . . . Keep sending your news! previous  |   top  |  next

 

	01		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dana Fowler classnews2001@alum.colby.edu
	Liz Hubbard and Jared Fine '98 got married in Rhode Island last September and had a beautiful honeymoon in New Hampshire. Her roommates Cindy Rosenbaum, Becky Schechter and John Logan took part in the wedding. Elizabeth Hoorneman, Sarah Goodrich, Mike Alto '00 and Matt Apuzzo '00 were also there. Jared even sang at the reception! They're back in St. Paul, Minn., and Liz is working full time at the biomedical library at the University of Minnesota while getting her master's degree in library and information science. . . . Yuki Kodera lives in Somerville, Mass., and started grad school at Lesley University in Cambridge for a master's in intercultural relations with a concentration in international student advising and education exchange. . . . Evan Reece, Justin Amirault and Matt Cohen still live in San Francisco. Evan commutes to Napa during the week as a crop duster and also works nights as a wine taster (he loves anything with a chestnut flavor). Justin is still writing poetry and hoped to be published by last Christmas. Matt spends his weekdays volunteering for the tollbooth for the Golden Gate Bridge. . . . Stu Luth made his N.Y.C. acting debut in Dangerous Liaisons. Emily Dupill, Emily Mahlman and Laura Montgomery were among other alums in attendance for opening night. . . . Michelle Chandler was recently asked out by Justin Timberlake at a GQ photo shoot but declined because she has a rule about not dating boy band members. . . . I welcomed Lelia Porteous '02 to my office at Lachapelle Representation, owned by Linda Lachapelle '77. The three Colby women here are taking the photography world by storm. -Dana D. Fowler top

 

	02		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lydia Terry classnews2002@alum.colby.edu
	Hillary Lavely is living in Atlanta working for the Turner Company. . . . Jed McGraw is working for a law firm in Washington, D.C. The case he's currently on is a trial in Austin, Texas, so the firm sent him down south for the next few months. . . . Chris Collopy, Jimmy Garrett and Aaron Bond are also living in Washington, D.C. . . . Scott Tucker, who is living in Boston, is engaged to Kate Gardiner '00. . . . Also in Boston are Trevor MacDonald, Jenna Wasson, Bliss Woolmington and Andrea Graffeo. Trevor recently started a new job with city planners on the Big Dig. Jenna also started a new job, and Andrea is in graduate school. . . . Billy Spencer was offered a job in Boston and will move there soon. . . . Piper Elliott is living in Seattle and is engaged to marry J. J. Abodeely '01 in August. . . . Also in Seattle is Vanessa Willson. Vanessa's clothing line is flourishing. . . . Katie Harris, Jen Smyth, Brooke Brisson, Lizzy Rice and Abby Kussell all live together in Aspen. Katie and Jen are teaching elementary school, and Lizzy is teaching at a ski school. . . . Blake Hamill started a new job in New York City. She was to move in with Fraser Ross, who is also moving to the city. Leila Porteous, also in New York, recently started archiving past episodes of Seinfeld at the New York Public Library. . . . Anna L'Hommedieu is still in Spain working on her Watson. She will return to the States in August. . . . Jess Bennett and Max Sadler moved to Portland, Ore. . . . Kevin Bracken and Cameron Gammill are traveling in New Zealand. . . . Cory Gammill is teaching at the Avon School and plans to take a cross-country fishing trip this summer. . . . Gabe Duncan-Roitman is living in Denver, as is Eddie Watters. . . . Paul Basmajian is coaching skiing in Park City, Utah. . . . Pete Kraft is teaching and living on a farm in Boulder, Colo. . . . Bobby Nagle is playing hockey in Czechoslavakia. . . . A surprisingly large Class of '02 contingent lives in Idaho. Mike Ames is in Sun Valley working as an investigative journalist. Chatham Baker worked for the ski school in Sun Valley in the winter and recently was hired by the Forest Service to hunt the cougar population in the Wood River Valley. Megan Thomas, Molly Currie, Katie Rauch and I are in Sun Valley as well. Megan works alongside Mike at the newspaper while pursuing a professional skiing career. Molly works for the Tourism Board and helps to research and promote the local après-ski venues. Katie works for the Sun Valley Magazine, and I work at a preschool and kindergarten. We have recently signed up for "Your Life As a Sitcom" but are still in the interview process.

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