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Laura Senier
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There is sad news for Colby 1990ers. For those of you who have not heard, Jay Olson was killed in a motor vehicle crash on Saturday, February 15. Jay had been visiting Colby friends in Kennebunk that day. There is a guest book at www.boston.com (go to the obituaries for February 17 and locate his name in the list) where you can read messages left by friends and family, and leave a message to pay your respects as well. . . . Congratulations to Kristin Sullivan, who married Kevin Stone last September in West Dennis, Mass. They live in Boston, where Kristin works for Charles Schwab and is working on an M.BA. at Boston University and where Kevin is a computer programmer. . . . Gretchen Granger Hartley and her husband, John, are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Lucy, in January. Gretchen and John are living in South Portland, Maine. . . . Matt Ovios received his master's in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and this spring reported to the U.S.S. Decatur as the executive officer. The Decatur, a guided missile destroyer, was built at Bath Iron Works and calls San Diego her home port. . . . Mel Balboni finished her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Orange County in June 2002, then became a first-year pediatric rheumatology fellow at Stanford University. . . . Tanja Gross Chevalier wrote that she was moving back to the States in April 2003, to settle in Chicago with her husband and two daughters, Sophie and Claire. . . . Matt Frymier and his wife, Cathy, recently moved to Tiburon, Calif. (just north of the Golden Gate Bridge), after living in the city for five years. They and their new puppy, Flash (a yellow Lab), love it there. Matt has been promoted to alliance director for strategic investing for Bank of America Securities. Matt has been with the firm, which focuses on making private equity investments in companies that help drive revenue to their business lines, since 1994. Matt hooked up with Doug Hall, Chris Haddad and Kevin Oates '88 for some skiing at Whistler this winter. . . . The Bangor Daily News ran a lengthy feature piece on Jeff Wheeler, who has made a name for himself in central Maine by recycling castoff computer equipment in local area schools so that students can log on to the Internet. . . . Thanks to all of you for writing, and keep those cards and letters coming!
--Laura Senier
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier
Jennifer Flynn
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Thanks to all for your updates! Any news not included below will appear in the next column. Emily Gallagher Byrne and her husband, Rick, had their first child, Abigail, in April 2002 in Nyack, N.Y. Emily and her family are currently living in N.Y.C. She recently bumped into Emily Metzendorf Samuels in the neighborhood on the Upper West Side. . . . Todd Urquhart and his wife, Karen, had a baby girl, Meaghan Audrey, on January 16. . . . Dakota (Glenn '92) and Greg Smith are living in Venice Beach, Calif., and had their first baby, Elijah Dov, in November. . . . Charles Leach joined Banknorth Massachusetts as vice president and portfolio manager. . . . Cathy Breen Gorodentsev is busy working at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard and lives in Needham with her husband, Zhenya, and their three beautiful children, Anya, 6, Gregory, 5, and Max, 1. Cathy told me that everyone had a blast at the June '02 wedding of Patty Masters to Kevin Correa in Lake Placid. Attendees included Caroline O'Malley Maynard, Julie Daniele, Andrea Solomita '92, Jessica Butler, John '92 and Tree Sullivan Brockelman and Ashley Cornell Pratt. Patty and her husband are moving to a new home in Georgetown, Mass. Caroline, who according to Cathy apparently missed her calling as a backup singer, joined the band at Patty's wedding. Caroline also just bought a house in her hometown of Needham with her husband and two dogs. Julie Daniele recently ran the Disney Marathon and is in a perpetual training mode for some sporting event or another. She is a lawyer with the Department of Corrections in Massachusetts. Ashley Pratt is working as a pharmaceutical rep, has two children and still teaches aerobics! Andrea Solomita is back in Boston (from Minneapolis) in the midst of a career change, having left her position in sports management to pursue her M.A. in elementary education. . . . Jenn Scott Anderson and her husband had their first child, a boy named Samuel Wyatt Anderson ("Sam") last fall. . . . Leaf Ives recently visited with Abigail Cook Russell, the mom of Alton and Sydney. She works for Loomis Sayles and lives in Hingham, Mass., with her husband, Rick. . . . Susan Cummings Wiseman e-mailed that "the fall of 2002 was a wild ride for us. In one week, we made an offer on a new house (in Winchester), sold our old house (in Winchester) and found out we were expecting our third child." Sue also says that her son, Jack, is attending preschool with Dean Zioze's daughter, Alexis. . . . Andrew Williams completed an internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He, his wife, Sharon, and his son, Levi, moved to the Navajo Indian Reservation in New Mexico, where he is completing a National Health Service Corps Scholarship. He was recently appointed to be chief of staff of Northern Navajo Medical Center. . . . Tim Chistensen-Kirby and his wife, Theresa, are working on their house, built in the early 1800s. "Every time we take off a board or take down a ceiling, there is a new surprise, but it is a well-built house," she wrote, "and I think no amount of tinkering on my part will be its end. We are still making pottery and sculpture under the name Muddy Bird Pottery and are selling in shops all over New England. Anyone in Milton, N.H., should stop by for a visit." . . . Matthew Dumas continues to live in Versoix, Switzerland, working at Procter & Gamble as global brand manager for Vicks cough medicine. He and his wife, Melanie, just welcomed their second child, Bennett Hugo. . . . Pete Antall and wife Ingrid live north of L.A. and had their third daughter, Sabine, this winter. . . . Alan Yuodsnukis works at L.L. Bean and is quite busy with his two daughters, Alesa and Emily. He also sits on the Brunswick school board and capital planning committee while he's enrolled at USM to pursue the goal of teaching high school history. Alan wishes to send greetings to Julie Walker, Jan Fortin Bancroft, Jamie Gruener and Heather McLeman Fata. . . . Liz Helft Darby, her husband, Don '89, and daughter, Hannah, recently welcomed the arrival of their new baby boy, Alexander (Zander). . . . Matt and Becky Streett Melander live in St. Louis, Mo., where Matt is working as a resident in orthopedic surgery. Becky continues to work as a copywriter for EF Education in Boston. They hope for some visitors as she claims there's more to St. Louis than the Arch. They recently got together with Kim Merriman, who has been living in London for the past few years. I recently had dinner with Becky and Matt, Dan Bouvier and Jessica Butler in Cambridge and got the scoop on some other classmates. . . . Caitlin Sullivan and her husband, Drew, had their first child, Lily, in May 2002. They split their time between Portland, Ore., and the Oregon coast. . . . Edie and Keith Thomajan also live in Portland and have a 1-year-old son, Harlan John Thomajan. . . . Carol Cumming has relocated to Greenwich, Conn., and is working in marketing for Synapse in N.Y.C. . . . Liz Morse lives in Boston, Mass., and works for the Partners Organization. . . . I recently had coffee with Jason Mazzola, who is doing great working for the TJX Companies in Framingham, Mass. He and Lizzie (Frado '92) live in Natick with their twins, Jessica and Jason. Our Jason still picks up the lax stick each week playing in a local league.
--Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
William Higgins
bill.higgins@ebinsurance.com
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At a recent open house at a local Hingham, Mass., nursery school, my wife and I bumped into Erika Saywich Buell and Chris and Whitney Adams Ward. Chris and Whitney have two children, Lily and Sam. Whitney is working for Talbot's as a catalogue specialist, and Chris is an information architect in Boston. They informed me that Art Steinert is back in Boston and working at EDU Ventures, that Hal Paul and his wife, Jennifer, moved from N.J. to Colo. and that Terry and Helen Hopkins Kellogg had their first baby, Carl, in August. . . . Greg '91 and Dakota Glenn Smith had their first baby, Elijah, in November. . . . Lisa Black is living in Seattle and works as a yoga instructor. . . . Phil Aberbach married Michelle Kopinski last September. . . . Jen Robicheau Yagnesak wrote that she is living in Maryland with her husband, Scott: "We were married on the beach (Block Island, R.I.) in September 2001. We've been together for about seven years now. So far, our only 'kid' is our yellow Lab, Madeline. I am now VP of the computer division of Johns Hopkins University." . . . Sherri Bossie Garvey checked in for the first time in 10 years. She worked as a compensation and benefits specialist for an insurance company and then for Fidelity Investments, then enrolled in and graduated from BU's full-time M.B.A. program with a concentration in marketing. Since then she has been working for Infogames Interactive, a computer and video game publisher, as a brand manager with responsibility for the company's preschool computer game line. She lives in Rowley, Mass., with her husband, Brian '91, and daughter, Gillian, who was 2 in May. . . . Molly Beale and Laurence Constable got engaged last July and planned a June 7 wedding in N.H. Elaine Bueschen O'Grady (living in Burlington, Vt.), Jen Nehro Patriacca (proud puppy owner) and Sarah Block Wallace (living it up in Denver) are to be in her wedding. She also said that Anne Maddocks Michels was soon to be a new mother. . . . Amy Moody married Michael McGrath in the fall of 2001. The McGraths live in South Boston and are expecting their first child in August. Her work as an attorney at Goulston & Storrs continues to be rewarding. "In my spare time I have gone back to my childhood love, horses," she wrote--"two thoroughbreds, one of which I competed with this past summer." She keeps in touch with Lisa Miller O'Connor, who has two kids and works as a nurse practitioner at Mass General, and Sherri Beals, who is teaching and living in Maine. . . . Patricia Baldridge Wickliffe enjoys living in Nottingham, N.H. (where she teaches the third grade), with her husband, David (he went to UNH), and their two dogs. . . . Chris Flint sent an e-mail: "Karen (Larson) and I live in Barrington, R.I., with sons Andrew, 4, and Tucker, 2. In December I was promoted to assistant AD at Bryant College, where I also coach women's soccer. Karen still works for Textron in Providence and occasionally sees Erica Gregg Tamburini, who is a lawyer in the city. Bob Gramling and his family recently moved to Providence, but due to hectic schedules we haven't been able to get together." . . . Laura (Fogarty '93) and Matt Nerney expected their first child. . . . Kelly Harris Kenny has been living in N.Y.C. for 11 years. She worked in children's publishing and then in interior design before retiring to be a "stay home" mom to 1-year-old Owen. She married Gene Kenny, a Holy Cross grad, in June 2000. . . . Marah Silverberg Derzon lives in Columbus, Ohio, and received her M.S.W. from Ohio State University. She is currently staying home with Sidney, 2, and Matthew, 6 months. . . . John Cook is a busy man. He wrote, "My partner, Gabriel Speyer, and I recently moved from San Francisco to Corona del Mar. We will be getting married in 2004. Last November we traveled to Australia, where I competed with my San Francisco Tsunami teammates at Gay Games VI. The result? A gold medal in the 4x50 relay, where our team set a Gay Games record." . . . Kent and Kimberley Kennedy White, married in November 2001, live in Tampa, Fla., with their dog, Scout. She received her master's in physical therapy from Nova Southeastern University and practices in Tampa. She is still competing in road races and was headed up to Boston in April to run the Boston Marathon. . . . Aaron Davis was promoted to vice president of syndication at Aon Risk Services in N.Y. . . . Chris Malcomb is a sixth grade teacher in Berkeley, Calif. He received his master's in education from the Lesley College/Shady Hill School in 1997. . . . Chris Richards checked in from Newport, R.I. "I am married to an incredible woman, Kelly," he wrote. She was captain of the William and Mary lacrosse team, earned her master's at Harvard and is working on her second master's through Northeastern, where Chris is soon to join her in the program. They recently celebrated the birth of a son, Matthew. Chris has been teaching high school English and coaching in Newport and says he is up for Teacher of the Year after winning it in the last school district at which he taught. He's been Coach of the Year for the state of Rhode Island in boy's track for the years 1999-2001, and he coached the 1999 state football champions. "I'm living my dream," he said.
--William Higgins
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Beth Curran
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Sarah Lee is engaged to HK Park, who "kidnapped" her from Somerset, Pa., where she was covering the story of the trapped coalminers for MSNBC. Sarah will be married in October in Palm Beach, Fla. Last fall she completed her sixth and seventh marathons (in D.C. and Philadelphia), and she just began an evening master's program at Georgetown in international studies. She keeps in touch with Amy Dzija Driscoll, who was expecting her first child last December. . . . Shawn Campbell and April Armstrong '97 were married in Mystic, Conn., on July 20, 2002, and had their reception at the Mystic Aquarium, with lots of Colby folk in attendance. Shawn is still working for WorldWinner.com as a software engineer/game programmer. . . . Jamie Perlman finished his first year at the Marshall School of Business at USC in Los Angeles. . . . . John Veilleux is an attorney in Portland, Maine. . . . Brandy Shafter Chapman attended the wedding of Claudia Tejada and Michael Riley in November '02 at the Woodend Audubon Society in Chevy Chase, Md. The happy couple live in Alexandria, Va. . . . Corbett Bishop runs his own safari outfit (Corbett Bishop Safaris) in Tanzania, offering guided tours in both Kenya and Tanzania. Recently Corbett organized porters, food and camps for the Mt. Kilimanjaro IMAX film crew. Corbett and his wife, Camilla, have two children. . . . Reena Chandra Rajpal and her husband, Keshav, welcomed a baby girl, Noor Saara, on November 18, 2002. ("Noor" means "light of my eye," and "Saara" means "precious" in Urdu.) They live in Madison, Wis., where Reena is preparing to go back to work--doing fund raising, she hopes, for the University of Wisconsin. . . . Ben Merowitz is a senior copywriter at Lowe Grob Health & Science, where he collaborates with account services and executive teams in building brands, launching products and developing client marketing and advertising materials. Previously a senior copy writer at TMP Worldwide and JWG Associates, Ben earned nine national creative awards. . . . Dana Scott Blum finished his M.A. in econ at the University of Colorado and got married in August 2000 to Mary Margaret McCroskey, from Memphis, Tenn. They live in Boulder with two dogs and spend all the time they can hiking and skiing the Rockies. Dana's a senior research analyst with PRIMEN, an energy consulting company. He specializes in "market research on distributed energy: fuel cells, microturbines, sterling engines etc." . . . Ginny Fowles works at Bowdoin College in their Upward Bound program. She is also president-elect on the board of directors of the Maine Educational Opportunity Association, whose mission is to increase access to higher education in Maine. . . . Meredith Leclaire-Bradt lives in The Netherlands, where she is a marcom manager for Esaote-Pie Medical, a company manufacturing and marketing ultrasound systems for obstetrics and gynecology. . . . Lesley Frymier lives in Annapolis, Md., and is an environmental policy analyst for the Maryland General Assembly. She recently got engaged to Bill Cook, a naval architect, and is gearing up to sail in the ROLEX International Women's Keelboat Championship in September. . . . Ellie North wrote that Joe McKenna and family are doing well on Cape Cod. . . . Dave O'Shea and Carolyn Hart '94 are still living in Michigan. . . . Flint Hobart is in D.C. and, last I heard, consulting and keeping busy. . . . Corey and Andrea Fravert live in Portland, Maine. "I am trying to move back to Maine--you know, the way life should be," she says. A nurse practitioner working at Saint Elizabeth's in Brighton, Mass., she travels as much as possible and was to go to Japan in March. Andrea sent congratulations to Beth Cronin and husband Josh Bubar, who recently had their first child, Duncan. Beth teaches English at Newton North, and Josh is the chair of the English department at The Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School in Waltham, Mass. They spend their summers in Maine. . . . Also in Maine are John Southall and his wife, Krisy Nordgren '94. John is an attending physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland and recently was honored with the national award for academic excellence by the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association. . . . Another Maine-iac, Shawn Lambert, is the principal of Telstar high and middle schools. . . . . Robbie Robbins teaches sixth grade social studies in Concord, Mass. . . . Michelle Parady Malach completed an M.S. in biology at the start of the year. She and her husband had their second child, John Michael, in April. She and her husband became the co-directors (with another friend) of Blue Mountain Cross-Country Camp, which is an annual week-long running camp for high school runners. They planned to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary in Jamaica at the beginning of March. She hears from and sees Beth Tilton Lake regularly and was looking forward to a week with her and her family this June. . . . Betsy Arden Rickards and I recently visited Nick and Louisa Merianos Anastasopoulos and their new son, Will, born in December '02. . . . Jeremy Samuels is a fund raiser at the United Way in Houston and is father to Nathaniel, born in June '02. . . . Louise Jalbert Brogan's son, Jeremy Paul, also arrived in June 2002. Louise and family live in upstate New York, where she works as a lead biochemist at the General Electric Global Research Center. . . . I hereby hand the torch to a new class correspondent! It's been great hearing from you all over the past five years, but it's time for a fresh perspective. I wish you all continued success, health and happiness.
--Beth Curran
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Tracy K. Larsen
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Elizabeth Labovitz married Noah D. Smith last August in Gloucester, Mass. They are now living in Providence, R.I. . . . Lauren and Erik Cole-Johnson had a baby girl, Ingrid Alana Cole-Johnson, in June 2002. . . . Amy Wrentmore and Jan Dutton also had a baby girl, Sydney Elaine, in June 2002. They still live in Charlottesville, Va. . . . Ethan and Milly Noyes Stephenson expected their first child in March. . . . Last November Trezlen Drake became a staff attorney with the Catholic Social Services Immigration and Refugee Services Program in Anchorage, Alaska. . . . After completing a two-year tour of duty in Juneau, Alaska, as an associate attorney for Earthjustice, Chris Wilde moved to N.Y.C. to start a staff attorney position with Riverkeeper, another "green group." . . . Chris Rogers is a systems engineer with Fiberlink Communications in Norwood, Mass. His wife, Andrea (Bowman), works with Creative Memories, a part-time, direct sales organization offering materials to preserve photos and stories in photo-safe scrapbooks. Tyler, their son, is 4, and Abby is 2. They still live in Clinton, Mass. . . . Stephen Doherty and Emily Webster plan an August wedding. Stephen is a senior scientist for Cambridge Scientific Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. . . . Wendy and Eric Tracy moved from Cambridge, Mass., to Freeport, Maine. He is working at UNUMProvident in Portland. Wendy (Middlebury '95) is a crisis counselor at Ingraham in Portland. They recently purchased a home in Falmouth. . . . Scott Kadish and family moved to West Long Branch, N.J., where he is the youth services director for the Jewish community center. His daughter, Cassie, turned 1 last November. . . . Bruce and Sue Benson Panilaitis had a baby boy, Jack, on January 6, 2003. . . . Sadie June Curtis was born on January 7, 2003, to Todd and Jessica Haskell Curtis of Marlborough, Mass. . . . Ally and Chris Sharpe welcomed a boy, Parker, in November 2001 and expect their second child in July. . . . David Gabriel and Wendy Whitehead married in January 2003. David runs his family construction company, R.J. Gabriel Construction, Inc., and Wendy is a project manager in the Centre for Leadership at Deloitte & Touche. . . . Skye Stewart planned a wedding to Stephen Sanzon in March 2003. Skye works at the Harvard Common Press in Boston. Stephen is with Creative Start in Waltham. . . . Lori DuBois is a reference instructor and librarian at Williams College. Previously she was a professor in library instruction and administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. . . . Sandy Benson moved back from the Dominican Republic and is a nurse anesthetist currently doing locum tenums around the U.S. as a way to see some of the country. She also was training to run the Alaska marathon in June. . . . Larry Rulison, a reporter for the Baltimore Business Journal, won a first place and two second-place awards in the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association's 2002 Editorial Contest. . . . Jonathan Thomas moved to California in 1996 and worked as a senior software engineer for Hewlett-Packard. In '99 he moved to Exodus Communications (now a cable and wireless service), where he was promoted to architect and later manager. Now he is a senior software architect at ActiveReasoning. He is also the co-founder of a new digital media company RonJon Inc., (www.ronjon.net), which specializes in digitizing videos (e.g., VHS to DVD conversion for special events). On December 31, 2000, he married Ayodele. He was ordained to deaconate ministry a year ago at Jerusalem Baptist Church in Palo Alto, Calif. . . . Elizabeth Wallman finished her fifth year of teaching high school in Natick, Mass. She and Roger Davis got engaged on February 17 in St. Martin during a Caribbean cruise. Sometime this summer they plan a move south. . . . Brian Seidman lives in Portland, Ore., with his girlfriend, their year-old Visla puppy, Samson, and 3-year-old cat, Mookie. Brian is still working from his home office for Excelergy, a software company in Boston. He travels a lot for his job and recently made a trip to Japan. Brian saw Conrad Saam '96, who is playing rugby for a men's club in Seattle and had a game in Portland, Ore. Brian will be the best man for Patrick Smith (Oman) and Stacy Huggins '96, who are getting married in September in Chicago. Patrick lives in Chicago doing tax consulting for PWC. . . . Ami and Jeff Cotter expected their first child in April. They live in Newton, Mass., and Jeff is a product manager at New Balance. . . . Matt Gaines lives in Brooklyn and works as a physical therapist at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. . . . In July 2002 Jac Coyne married Kimberly Stimmel in Iowa City, Iowa. Kimberly, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Iowa, heads off to her residency in San Francisco in June. Jac, who was to graduate in May with a master's in journalism, worked for the UI department of sports marketing. . . . Carolyn Read lives in Chicago and works as a health education coordinator for Cook County Department of Public Health in a school-based health center. She will marry Rob Anthony, a coordinator of homeless services for Lake County, Ill., on September 28, 2003, in New Hampshire. . . . Alice (Amstutz '95) and Greg McDonald and baby Molly are all doing fine! After graduating from Boston University with an M.B.A. and M.S. in information systems, Greg recently started a job with Evergreen Investments in Boston.
--Tracy K. Larsen
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