95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yuhgo Yamaguchi classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Anne McManus and Matthew Hurlbut '96 got engaged in February 2003. Ann received a master's degree from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and is teaching and coaching at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. Matthew is teaching and coaching at Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall, in Waltham, Mass. They plan a June wedding in Marion. . . . Tachou Dubuisson e-mailed news and a correction. Other than the announcement of her engagement--she's now announcing that their ways have parted--she says that "things have been going really well for me. I am still a self-employed model and have been traveling all over Europe for the past 18 months. If all goes well, I will be doing a TV show starting in the fall. I just signed a year contract with Reebok to do print and runway advertisements for them. I'm having a blast!" . . . Lindsay Bennison Jernigan reported that she and her husband expected their first child, a baby girl, due to arrive April 14. . . . Alice Tilson graduated from the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School in May and moved to Madison, Wis., to work for Kraft in marketing. . . . In the fall of 2001 Kara Toms and her husband, Dan Barnett, moved to Vermont after living in Luxembourg. They bought a house in Georgia, Vt., and had a baby girl, Celia Marie Barnett, on June 5, 2002. . . . Congratulations to Jennifer Benwood and Conrad Saam '96, who got engaged in Hawaii in February. They plan to wed this fall in Seattle. . . . Regina Wlodarski Kruger left her job at MasterCard to stay home with her daughter, Megan, who turned a year old in March 2003. "It has been great," reports Regina. They planned a trip to northern Maine in May for Susan Hale's wedding. . . . After practicing law in San Francisco for two years, Stephanie Pennix Berntsen got married in June 2002 at Meeks Bay, Lake Tahoe, then moved to Seattle. She and Seth "had a beautiful wedding and were joined by Michael Kaplan, Fred and Heather Johnson Webster and the newest Webster, Gwyneth." Steph reports that Fred and Heather are doing well and hosted a fabulous Christmas party last December. Steph is also in touch with Stefanie Trepper Feldman. "She's having a great time in New York with husband Matt and their beautiful daughter, Dakota," writes Steph. . . . Scott Koles is working in Lincoln, Mass., for Cybase, a software company. . . . Kelly Spooner is a physical therapist living in Eagle, a town outside of Vail, Colo. She skis more than 50 days a year. . . . Frank Schroeter is a site interpreter at Grant Cottage atop Mount McGregor in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The 18th U.S. President, Ulysses S. Grant worked on his memoirs at the cottage until his death in 1885. "So much of the original items are still here, and that's quite unique," Frank said in a local newspaper article about him. "When I heard about this place I thought [volunteering] would be a great idea." . . . Matthew Tangney received his master's in education from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. After teaching at Arlington High School he is now a Spanish teacher at Milton High School. He also coaches freshman girls' lacrosse and freshman boys' soccer at Milton High. . . . The September 2002 issue of Vogue magazine published an article by Kate Bolick on writer Tess Slesinger. . . . Sean McBride's advertising campaign for Friends of Boston's Homeless was recently featured in Communication Arts magazine's advertising annual. Out of more than 10,000 entries worldwide, his was one of only 300 accepted. The campaign also won gold at the 2002 Hatch Awards, honoring creative excellence in advertising in New England. Sean got engaged earlier this year to Britte Pettazzoni. --Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT c/o Meg Bernier, Alumni Relations classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	Kit and Erica Casano Spater both attend graduate school at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Erica's studying for her master's in interior design. . . . Jason Kidwell is living in Newton, Mass., after moving back from the SF Bay Area last August. He married Jennifer Branas on August 24, 2002, outside Harrisburg, Pa. Justin Van Til '95 was best man, and JC Panio and Jesse Wilcox were two of the groomsmen. Mike Keller '95, Alex Chin and Mary Thach '98, Adam Norman, Ben Russell '97 and Matt Morse '98 were all in attendance. JC is still working for Labatt USA and currently lives in Buffalo. Jesse got engaged to Tomira Wasielak in March and recently bought a house in Westport, Conn. Adam Norman is living in Newton and getting his M.B.A. at BC. . . . Christian '95 and Gwen Nicol Citarella and daughter Mattea Rose, born in April '01, moved to Stratham, N.H., and are thrilled to be back in New England. Gwen had been working as a nurse in a pediatrics practice in Montgomery County, Md., before they moved. Now she's staying at home with Mattea while Christian teaches math at Exeter High School. . . . Kirstin Rohrer McPolin and her husband moved to Red Bank, N.J., after three years in Washington, D.C. She is the water policy analyst for Clean Ocean Action, a local nonprofit environmental group. In August she spent time with Corey Burnham, Courtney Marum and Kristen Drake at a bachelorette weekend for Corey in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Courtney, Kristen and Kirstin were bridesmaids at Corey's wedding last September. . . . Michael Levine is an ensign in the commissioned officer corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., on a 224-foot government fisheries research vessel that takes scientists all over the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, he operates the ship to complete various scientific missions for NOAA. . . . Kylie Taphorn married Chris Thoma on May 26, 2002, in Mendocino, Calif. Kylie and Chris live in Sacramento, Calif., where she is a lawyer practicing juvenile law. Folks at the wedding: Linnea Basu, Carey Page, Nozomi Kishimoto Reichow, Kate Lawn '97, Chris's father, Michael Thoma '67, and Stephanie Paul, who was married in Florence, Italy, to Kyle Lynch last July. They moved into their new home in Alexandria, Va., in May 2002. Nozomi started a new job at Deutsche Bank in June 2002 and still lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her husband, Brent. . . . Danielle Beaudin and Iain Bamford, both of Hoboken, N.J., were married April 20, 2002. Danielle earned her M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is employed by Guy Carpenter, Manhattan, N.Y. Iain graduated from Durham University, England, earned his M.B.A. from Fuqua School of Business in Durham, N.C., and is employed by Management Consultant in Manhattan. . . . Ken Wilson is living in Greensboro, N.C. . . . Casey McCullough recently got engaged to Andrea Hlobik (Muhlenberg '99) at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. He's a urology resident, and Andrea graduates from medical school this June. . . . Rachel Moritz and Matt O'Connell got engaged last August and planned their wedding for April on Cape Cod. The wedding party was to include Beth Dunn Allen, Dr. Maura McLaughlin and Ben O'Connell '99. Matt teaches seventh grade math and science in Cambridge, Mass., and Rachel is a market research analyst for a network security company. . . . Chris Greenfield lives near Davis Square in Somerville, Mass., and works at Investors Bank and Trust as a senior project manager. He sees a lot of Rebecca Trufant White. His girlfriend, Renee Hillier, rooms with Jessica Boyles, and they both teach at the Carroll School in Lexington. Chris, Ethan Platt, Chris Johnson, Andy Meeks and Jake Churchill '97 get together regularly to rip it up. . . . Brian Emme is flying F-18s for the Navy out of Virginia Beach. . . . Martha Previte graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law a year ago in May and then married Jason Botten, a research scientist originally from Minnesota, in Boston in August. The Bottens are living in San Diego, Calif. . . . Andrew Rice has become a full-time peace activist with September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows as a result of his older brother David being killed in the WTC on 9/11/01. In November he was at Colby as a guest of the Religious Studies and East Asian Studies departments to speak, along with Seiko Ikeda, a Japanese woman who survived the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. They talked about their experiences as victims of violence and war. Andrew is engaged to marry Apple Newman in July in Grand Junction, Colo. . . . Brent Felker married his grad school sweetheart in Huntington Beach, Calif., last summer and took a trip around the world for the honeymoon. For the past three years they lived in London, England, where they ran a performance company. They now live in Massachusetts. Brent, a marketing associate for Jacob's Pillow Dance, also dabbles in filmmaking and completed his first short. . . . Susannah Kowal is living in the Boston area and working as a physical therapist in outpatient orthopedics and pediatrics. She attended a baby shower for Kim Woodman Coronati's baby boy in late December. . . . Ruth Bristol, still in neurosurgery residency in Phoenix, got engaged to another neurosurgeon, Felipe Albuquerque, and planned an October 2003 wedding. . . . Bill Epps is currently living in Austin, Texas, where he's at the University of Texas at Austin for a Ph.D. in history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations with Latin America and teaching an intro rhetoric and composition course. He also says he's "exploring, and enjoying, the incredibly vibrant music scene in Austin and practicing my banjo." . . . Beth Atkinson lives in the grand (and very flat) land of Indianapolis, Ind., doing her residency in emergency medicine, and says she absolutely loves it. Her favorite part of residency is being a flight physician on their helicopter rescue service. . . . Jill Picard was married last summer and is now Jill Paine. She's been living in San Francisco for last two years with Ashley Malcolm '97, who was also married last summer and is now Ashley Laakso. "We have been happily living in a house shared by us and our new husbands!" says Jill, who is still working at the corporate headquarters for Gap Inc. --Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
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	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Brian M. Gill classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
	Julie Gwin lives in Los Angeles, Calif., and is the director of education at North Hills Prep School, a school serving students with exceptional needs. She is currently working on her credential and master's in special education. . . . Chip and Sara Scarborough Graham were married on September 28, 2002, on Martha's Vineyard in what was supposed to be a horrible hurricane of a weekend. Instead it was sunny and beautiful! Sarah Kramers and Lis Pimentel were bridesmaids. Other Colby folks who made the trip included Rachel Westgate, Jon Blau '94 and Jon Zack '93. Honorary Colby kids (they went before they graduated) included Jason Delong and Heather Milano Bisset. Chip and Sara are living in Belmont. . . . I'm doing marketing and PR for Berkshire Mortgage Finance, a privately held commercial mortgage lender. I've been here for just over a year and it's great. I handle all of the firm's press and media relations and do some graphic design and event planning, too. . . . Paul Caruso dipped back into ornithology for an afternoon as he took part in Maine's Christmas Bird Count trying to pin a number on the incredible amount of native black-capped chickadees. . . . Abby Lambert writes that she is still living in the Bay Area and just started a new job at the UC-Berkeley Institute of International Studies. She also got engaged last September and was planning a July wedding in California. . . . Jessica Rice reports that she has changed jobs and is now working in special events for an environmental group in D.C. She also had a great time running her first marathon last fall. . . . Nathan and Tessa Gurley McKinley were married last August on a beautiful day at Brooksby Farm in Peabody, Mass. Ellen Bruce, Elena Kavanagh and Courtney Cataldi, who is engaged and is getting married in Nantucket on Sept. 19, were all bridesmaids; Kim Olson and Christina Jacobson were also in attendance. Tessa and Nathan are living in Arlington and love it. . . . Emily Record writes from the windward side of Oahu that she was married April 4, 2003, to a Marine Corps pilot, Capt. Carroll Lane, on Maui. She enjoys the hiking, swimming, pretending she's kama'aina (local) and keeping in touch with the barnyard back home (her mules and his Williams purple cows). She says, "We are hoping to be able to move back to New England later this year so I can return to a career. Mahalo and aloha!" . . . Victoria (Tory) Archibald writes that she has returned to the Bay Area from Capitol Hill. She is working at Edelman Public Relations' Silicon, the world's sixth largest PR firm. Last spring she traveled to Sayulita, Mexico, to go surfing for a couple of weeks and ran into Christie Beveridge '00 and Jennifer Kassakian '00 and then took a separate trip to New Zealand for a couple of weeks in the fall. Catherine McDonough '99 also came to visit her in San Francisco last summer. . . . Kirk Schuler is still living in San Francisco and is teaching junior high school. . . . Vlad Dorjets received his M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and is now working for the emerging markets group at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Washington, D.C. . . . Shannon Baker graduated with her M.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to complete a residency in family practice. . . . It was great to see everyone at reunion. I hope to run into you again soon! Brian M. Gill top  |   next

 

	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	Mark your calendar now for June 4-6, 2004. We want everyone at our five-year reunion! No excuses!--it will be a blast! Scott Whitlow, Wilson Owens, Delphine Burke, Heather Hunter, Kate Lowe, John Doyle and I are on the reunion committee, and you'll be receiving information about the reunion before long. . . . Shana Dumont received a master's degree in art history from Boston University in '01, then interned at the Smithsonian Institution office of architectural history. Shana is now the manager of Hurst Gallery in Harvard Square, Cambridge. She ran the 2002 marathon in Washington, D.C., with Anne Nettles and Christina Holmes. . . . Alex Wall reports struggling through his first year of UMaine Law. . . . Ali Mian is the head physics teacher at Barrie School in Silver Spring, Md., and recently submitted an introductory high school physics textbook for publication. . . . Anna Tesmenitsky passed the Massachusetts bar exam and is living in Portland, Maine. . . . Matt Paquette moved to Sacramento, Calif., after a lengthy road trip through the western national parks. Matt is a scientist at Framatome ANP, an environmental consulting firm. He spends most of his time on rivers throughout the Sierra Nevada Range doing wildlife, fluvial and recreational fieldwork as part of the federal hydropower relicensing process. . . . Kris Murphy transferred from a microbiology lab at the University of Wisconsin Veterinary School to the stem cell research lab at UW's Primate Center. Kris will work on the research needed to someday provide neural and pancreatic tissues for transplant. Kris and his wife also moved into their first home, in Mt. Horeb, Wis. . . . Katie Lovett lives in Chicago in the Wicker Park neighborhood. She is the advertising client service specialist at Orbitz, an online travel site. Katie works with all of the advertisers and manages their campaigns. . . . Carrie Dube is planning her October wedding. She moved from Arizona to Chicago and works at a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in the northern suburbs. . . . Waterville city councilor Antone "T.J." Tavares, D-Ward 6, is making headlines all over the place in the Morning Sentinel. . . . Jesse Dole graduated from Suffolk Law School in '02. . . . Teal Axt teaches biology and physical science in the Weston (Mass.) public school system. . . . Andy Wnek finished his Air Force flight training and is now based in Bangor, Maine, where he will fly jumbo jet refuelers on missions for the Air National Guard. . . . Ben Waterhouse is a full-time Portland, Maine, firefighter. . . . Matt Sawatzky passed his second level of his C.F.A. and is still a bond trader for John Hancock. . . . Mike Salerno is still an analyst at Cambridge Associates. . . . Ross McEwan moved back to Denver, Colo., where he joined up with his dad to work in sales at his father's company. He also coaches hockey. . . . Larry Spollen was living in Galway, Ireland, with his wife, Linda Evans Spollen. Larry recently published poems in Stepping Stones, an Irish magazine. He's now at the University of Vienna in medieval studies and plans on a Ph.D. in monastic orders and their ideas and influence on territorial occupation of foreign lands. . . . Abby Manock lives in Boston and is doing a post-baccalaureate program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. . . . Nate Jue and Pete Shapiro worked at a French-language study abroad program in Nice, France, and traveled around Corsica over the summer of '02. Nate then moved to Tallahassee, Fla., and grad school at Florida State University in the ecology and evolutionary biology program. Nate plans to focus on fisheries-related research. . . . Dave Wilkens left San Francisco and last summer led a group of 15- and 16-year-old kids for 300 miles on the Appalachian Trail for Overland. Dave then took an outdoor educator's course with NOLS. . . . Leanna Hush moved to North Carolina for a master's degree in city and regional planning at UNC-Chapel Hill. . . . Katie White is working on her master's in public administration at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. . . . Lisa Berry deferred graduate school in North Carolina for a year and moved to Watertown, Mass., to live with Courtney Smith, who was entering her second year teaching English at Woburn High School. Lisa is an environmental planner in Southborough, Mass. . . . Kristen Haley works at the Department of Environmental Protection in Portland, Maine, and lives in Farmingdale. . . . Meredith Couslon did her second year at Tufts veterinary school and lives in Grafton, Mass. . . . Jessica Banos finished her master's at Tufts and is a school psychologist in the Boston area. . . . Kari Pearson, a professional sales representative in the CNS division of Janssen Pharmaceutica, will relocate to the Raleigh, N.C., area with her dog, Jasmine. . . . Carrie Peterson lives in Thetford, Vt., and works at the Global Health Council in Norwich. . . . Steve Kajdasz completed his first year of medical school at Dartmouth. . . . Dubek Kim and Sarah Richards '01 are getting married in August. . . . I spent a January weekend with Karena Bullock, Lelia Evans, Kristy Gould, Katie Lawrence and Katie Rowen '01 in New Hampshire--we had the best time catching up. . . . For many of our classmates, April 12 was a very special day, as Kristina Stahl's lacrosse jersey was retired at Colby. Many friends and loved ones gathered for the emotional and beautiful dedication in honor of Kristina's life and impact on the Colby athletic community. . . . Allison Birdsong is moving this summer to Lake Placid, N.Y., where she will be teaching ninth and 10th grade Spanish at the Northwood School. Allison also will be the head lacrosse coach and assistant ice hockey coach and will lead wilderness activities in the fall. . . . Greg Pope is in business school at Tuck. . . . Dylan Commeret is looking hot as a model in recent issues of the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog and Men's Journal. . . . Kristi Jacobi still works at Exploration and loves it. During the summer she is the director of programming; during the year she is the assistant to the head and gets to travel for recruiting and to plan trips and classes. Kristi works with Jess Alex and Ben Liston. Recently Kristi flew to Chicago, picked up Laura Houston and flew to L.A., where they saw Doug Lyons and Sean Foley. . . . Katie Gordon teaches English at Newton (Conn.) High School. . . . Emily Ellis is the program director at Camp Beech Cliff and will supervise numerous outdoor educational programs. . . . Greg Domareki graduated magna cum laude from Maine School of Law and was admitted to the practice of law in Supreme Judicial Court Justice Susan Calkin's chambers in Portland, Maine. --Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next