95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yugo Yamaguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-354-0289 classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Tip Mechel married Amanda Ward (Williams '94) in a July ceremony outside of Ouray, Colo., overlooking the Sneffles Range. They live in Austin, Texas, where he is working toward a Ph.D. in geology while Amanda works as a freelance writer and novelist. They met while at the University of Montana in Missoula, where they hope to return eventually. . . . Kara Toms and her husband, Dan Barnett, have moved to Luxembourg from Vermont for one year. . . . Sandra Jewers married her high school sweetheart, Damian Dow, in July in Bangor, Maine. In attendance were Kathy Christy, Kelly Spooner, Bryan Raffetto, Michelle Grdina, Michelle Wyemura, Alisa Masson and Craig Murray '96. Sandra says that she and her Colby friends played beer die at a table in the back of the reception! . . . John Gorczyk and Kristen Bloomquist got engaged last summer. They've been dating since the fall of 1991, when they met on their COOT. They live and work in San Diego, Calif., where they're planning to get married next October on their 10-year anniversary. . . . Regina Wlodarski Kruger finished her M.B.A. in December after going part time for four years while working in the strategic investments group at MasterCard. She and her husband spent most weekends this summer around Stamford, Conn., working on their house, but for fun she did get to try another new sport: surfing! . . . Rick Catino and his wife, Chrissy, relocated to San Francisco last fall. Rick is director of business development for a Boston-based Internet company. . . . Chris Fossella kicked off his eighth season as commissioner of the Colby Fantasy Football League and keeps in contact with Jim Zadrozny, Rick Catino, Tyler Rainey, Matt Morrissey, Mike Manning, Mark Porter and Mark Jackson. Chris and Matt are both engaged to be married, to Dana Antonellis and Kristin Healy, respectively. Jim married Marissa and Mark Jackson married Tricia Laravee this past summer. . . . Matt Barr is in Boulder, Colo., working as an EMT and in the ICU at Denver's Children's Hospital. He's applying to med school after having finished two years of post-baccalaureate pre-med studies at the University of Colorado. . . . Jason '96 and Betsy Robinson Phillips live in Minnesota. Betsy is a senior dental student at the University of Minnesota and hopes to graduate in May 2001. . . . Kathryn Cosgrove graduated in June from MIT's Sloan School of Management with an M.B.A. and moved to London to work for McKinsey & Co. . . . Peter Murphy teaches English at the Bromfield School in Harvard, Mass. He and his wife, Dawn (Kalloch '94), just bought a condo in Maynard, Mass. . . . After teaching for five years, John Dunbar has moved back to Vermont to work for his older brother in the family contracting business. He and his wife had a daughter, Keagan McKenzie Dunbar, on St. Patrick's Day. . . . Lauren Pelz and Christopher Kearney were married last July in Old Lyme, Conn. Lynne Moss, Emberly Nesbitt, Ann Neuhauser and Stephanie White attended. . . . Lyndsay Griffiths got married in July to Brian Schott of Stow, Mass., on the Mt. Washington on Lake Winnipesaukee. They met in Whitefish, Mont., where they now live. Elna Gordon, Jane Lundy and Sara Waldron were in the wedding. Lyndsay reports that Elna just moved from Whitefish to Ukiah, Calif., to teach high school English. One of her co-teachers is Adam Galvin '94. Janie just moved to Burlington, Vt., to finish pre-med classes, and Sara is attending graduate classes at the University of Washington for education. . . . Amy K.L. Borrell and David Berner moved to San Francisco in September after three years in western Massachusetts. . . . On August 5 Alyssa Falwell married Joe Ross in Winchester, Mass. Julie Rentz, Kathryn Cosgrove, Ben Damon, Kristen Hanssen Goodell and her husband, Ned '92, and Maureen Finn Schwartz and her husband, Eric '96, were in attendance. Alyssa and Joe had a great honeymoon in St. Lucia and now live in a house they bought in May in Litchfield, N.H. . . . Erika Troseth is back in the States after a couple of months in Cuba, and all she can think of is how to get back there again. She reports that Katie Bolick has just started at New York University in the school of journalism, where she is studying cultural reporting. . . . In May 1999 Margaret Suggs Herath graduated from the University of Illinois at Springfield with an M.A. in history. She works at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Ill. In June 1999 she visited Ariana Talbot Vance in Laramie, Wyo., and reports that Ariana is doing well and that her daughters are adorable! Margaret and her husband plan to visit Ali Wilkin in Oregon next June. . . . Megan Sweeny is living in Boston and getting her master's in art history at BU, where Meredith Walker '97 is also in her small program. Megan and Debbie Norris went up to Wells, Maine, last September to visit Tasha Walker Potter and her husband, Adam '96, their new addition, Nolan Walker Potter, and their dog, Colby. . . . Greg Walsh and Sarah Hamlin '96 got married in September in Chatham, Mass. Greg is an account representative at Clinical One in Woburn, Mass., and Sarah is an economic consultant at Innovation and Information Consultants in Concord, Mass. . . . Chris Orphanidies is a graduate student at Duke University's Nicholas School for the Environment. He was awarded a National Network Environmental Management Studies fellowship, through which he will analyze the anthropogenic effects on coastal ecosystems in Narragansett, R.I. . . . Nicole Clavette and Sean Devine '94 got married in May in Scarborough, Maine. Nicole is a research associate at Digital Research, and Sean is an assistant football coach at UNH. . . . The Tunk River Sculpture and Gardens in Steuben, Maine, hosted a sculpture show this past August, which featured a basalt sculpture carved by Jesse Salisbury. This was the second year Jesse has shown his work at Tunk River. . . . Christopher Lohman moved to L.A. with his girlfriend, Abby Eskin '97. He works for Keane Interactive, and she attends law school at UCLA. . . . Shake McBride lives in Boston, where he is a copywriter for CGN Interactive. . . . Marc Rubin graduated from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University last May and traveled through Europe before starting work at Parthenon Capital in Boston. . . . Andrew Vernon lives in Cambridge and is the manager of e-commerce for John Hancock Funds in Boston. He ran the Boston Marathon last April. . . . Mike Rosenthal graduated from Harvard Business School in May and is working in San Francisco. –Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kim Schock classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	Greetings! As the new class correspondent, I want to thank everyone who has written in over the past couple of years, encourage those we haven't heard from to submit for the next class news and remind everyone that there are eight months and counting until our five-year reunion! . . . Laura Whittaker lives in Arlington, Mass., and is working on a lead poisoning prevention grant while studying for her master's in public health at Tufts. She is still seeing Jon Parsons, who is doing enzymology research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge. Laura and Jon saw Mike Branca, whose art is gaining recognition in Portland, and Amy Chamberlain, who spent the summer interning at an organic farm. They've also seen Mark Vigoroso, who is working hard at an Internet start-up and kayaking whenever possible. Laura still keeps in touch with Emily Guerette, who loves Denver but is thinking of returning to Boston for graduate school. . . . Nolan Yamashiro graduated from UPenn in August with his M.S.Ed. and is working at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton. . . . Mark Mortensen finished up his master's in computer science at Stanford in 1998 and is now enrolled in a Ph.D. program in organizational behavior. . . . Kevin Rice was married last year and after completing his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin in May is now doing a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry at Yale. He reports that Brett Wilfrid and Jen Hellman were married this past August. . . . Jeff Dunlap and Rebecca Duvall also were married in August, on Long Island. . . . Patti Abbot is still living in Boulder, Colo., and teaching fourth grade. She is engaged to Jim Arnow and will be married next summer. . . . Sarah Frechette lives in Burlington, Vt., and works in public affairs and development for a local hospital. In August she married Ryan Potts, a pharmacologist. Sarah met up with Rima Lathrop, who ran the Burlington City Marathon this spring and finished her first year at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. . . . Briana Thibeau finished her second year of law school at Boston College this past spring and in her free time recorded an album of original music with her vocal group. She has seen Kim Allen, who started law school at BC last fall. . . . William Yelle finished his first year at UMass Medical School and spent the summer in Portugal. . . . In August Niki Shinneman married Vincent Yarnot, whom she met while taking a swing dancing class. Niki is living in Seattle and is working part time for Optiva while studying for her master's of social work at the University of Washington. . . . Alane O'Connor was married to Kevin Wellenius in May in New Hampshire, a wedding attended by Claudia Wehmeier and Meghan Maguire. Kevin is Chilean, and Alane was able to meet much of his family during a backpacking trip they had taken to the Patagonian Andes of Chile and Argentina. Alane and Kevin are living in Cambridge, Mass., where Alane works at Industrial Economics and Kevin is a partner at Frontier Economics. . . . Suzanne Arnold completed her master's in English at the University of Virginia in 1998 and was recently promoted to senior researcher for National Geographic Television. She was married in August in New Jersey to Daniel Ennis, and they are currently living in D.C. Attendants included Patty Benson, Amie Sicchitano, Dori Morrison, Jen Pope and Nicole Dannenberg. Suzanne and Dan were able to catch Nicole's wedding to Jonathan Sorger at the end of their honeymoon and were planning on attending Patty's wedding in October. . . . Nell Prause was married to David Speerli in Groton, Conn., in August. I, along with Jennifer Felmly Wright (married to Shane '94 last October), Carinn Schurman and Carol Strawn were able to attend. Jen and Shane recently moved back to Maine from D.C., Carinn is living in Seattle, Carol is living in Boston, and I'm living in Richmond, Va., finishing my last year of medical school and applying for pediatric residency programs. I am engaged to Michael Kaplan '95, and we are planning a June wedding in California. . . . If your news didn't make it, keep your eyes peeled for the next class news column. –Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker 5382 Versailles Road Lexington, KY 40510 606-233-4666 classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
	Congrats to Amalie Gosine, who married Australian Cameron Howard. Betsy Eisen, Erika Moore, John Coombs, Rebecca Zacher, Erin Brenner (the maid of honor) and Kerry Propper were all in attendance. . . . Congrats also to Patrick Doyle and Amanda Randolph on an August wedding in Mystic, Conn. . . . Dan Lavergne had a June wedding in Texas. He works for Southern Bell Telephone Co. and lives in Odessa. . . . Kelsey Miller participated in the Boston to NYC AIDS Ride 6, a 275-mile, three-day fund raiser for research and treatment for HIV/AIDS. . . . Doug Schultz has lived in Jackson, Wyo., for the last three years, working and playing on the Teton Range. He spends his workdays devising fund development tactics for a nonprofit group that serves individuals with disabilities and brain injuries. Even though he's doing good work, he says he misses his family and friends back east. On a trip to N.Y.C., he was able to see Ryan Mayhugh, who remains at MBNA, Bob Hart, who works and lives on the Upper East Side, and Bow Stratton, who is in Boston. . . . Susanna Montezemolo is at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton for a two-year master's program in public affairs and urban and regional planning. She ran into Josh Oeltjen, who is also there pursuing his Ph.D. . . . Tom DeCoff is working for the Federal Reserve in Boston. . . . Cindy Pomerleau started her master's in physical therapy in June at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. She's engaged to Corey LeClerc and has planned a July '01 wedding in Maine. . . . Denise Mailloux works in the division of adolescent medicine at the University of San Francisco as a research associate on a grant with the California Wellness Foundation assessing adolescent health risk behaviors in three Kaiser Permanente clinics. She was living with Beth Traglia (who has since left to travel in Greece and Peru with friends) and Emily Greenstein, but Denise has since moved in with Jon Bowden '95. She reports that she's very happy and that the Colby crowd in San Fran is growing by the minute. . . . Alexander Ammerman taught computer science and English at the elementary levels at the American International School in Cairo, Egypt, after graduation. He also traveled throughout the Middle East and Africa gathering qualitative data on the role of alcohol in traditional cultures. After two years, he returned to the U.S. to complete a master's in English at Boston University last summer and is now at the International College in Beirut, Lebanon, teaching high school English within the contexts of French, Lebanese and U.S. high school curricula. . . . Andrew Kruppa and Peter Nealis graduated from Ohio State Law School, and both work at law firms in Cleveland, Pete for Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz and Aronson and Andy for Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff. Andy ran into David Barr, who is in his third year of law school at Case Western and says that Dave misses the East Coast. . . . Scott Lilley spent his summer fishing and cooking in Nantucket before returning to teach fifth and sixth grade science in New Canaan, Conn. . . . Sarah Ummel is working at the University of Chicago as a fund raiser in the medical center. She escaped to do some camping and hiking in Kettle Moraine, Wis., in the summer and was looking forward to becoming an aunt for the fourth time. . . . Jen Mason, who is no longer in Denver and is training in N.Y.C. before moving to London sometime in the New Year, spent a day at the beach with Molly Bracken early in the fall. Molly is now at Princeton working in the admissions department. She was able to catch up with Matthew Burgener briefly during his layover in Denver. He's still at Andersen Consulting and is currently in Texas. . . . Jennifer Soules started a master's program in biology at Boise State University; her thesis will focus on winter wrens in western Washington. . . . Christopher Sullivan, Steve Papagiotas, Adam Elboim and Cherie Galyean were all in the wedding party for Welling Lagrone and Heather Derby's October nuptials. . . . Anthony Moulton (you remember, the artist formerly known as Tony) currently lives with Craig Lundsten and Annie Kuniholm '98 in Arlington, Va. Javier Fernandez is also in the D.C. area and hangs out with Anthony on a regular basis. The word on the street is that Javier and Anthony are skydivers now and get their kicks jumping out of planes from 14,000 feet. Anthony is also an account executive for America Online. . . . Monika Thiele has been working in the conservation field since graduation, first at the Center for Marine Conservation and then at the World Wildlife Fund, where she's been since '98. She is a project coordinator in the marine conservation/endangered seas program and loves it. . . . Henry Lo is a field representative for California State Assembly person Dr. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles). . . . Andrea DeHaan, who had her grant to teach English in Germany renewed, spent last summer in the States and Greece. "But now I'm back in Dortmund, Germany," she writes, "where the weather is quite a step down from Greece but where the beer is the best in the world." . . . Jon Sterling is at UConn Law School and is also working on becoming an Adirondack 46er. . . . Steve Suomi currently teaches English, coaches track and field and is a dorm parent at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg, Va. Greg Moody lives right down the road, and the two hang out fairly often. . . . After graduating from the Yale School of Nursing in May with a master's in nursing, Robyn Snapp Gustafson was certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner. Currently she works on the maternity floor at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo. . . . Amy Stengel spent the summer in Europe studying European community law before returning to Tulane for her second year of law school. After school she plans to head back to Colorado to practice environmental law. . . . Lucas Penney, Jerrod DeShaw and Andy Pease moved into a new place in Brookline. . . . Tony Rosenfeld dropped me an e-mail from Romania while visiting the area. . . . That's all the news. Hope everyone's well. –Kimberly N. Parker   top  |   next

 

	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Allison L. Brown 3280 Manchester Way Drive Westerville, OH 43081-8852 classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
	Hello, Class of '98! Thanks for keeping in touch and providing such great updates! . . . Congrats to Sara Rigelhaupt, who is engaged to Geoffrey Cramer, a musician and recording engineer. They plan an October 2002 wedding! . . . Tessa Gurley started her first year of teaching first grade in North Andover, Mass. She has been living in Brookline and is just one class away from finishing her master's in elementary education at Lesley College. Tessa reports that Courtney Cataldi is still living in Nantucket and that Ellen Bruce in D.C. is applying to law schools. . . . Elena Kavanagh recently moved from Boston to New York and is applying to design school. . . . Alexander Howard has had enough of the life of a freelance on-line designer and has moved to a more permanent position at Bain & Company in Copley Square, Boston. He works with Kaushik Sen and Brenden Gmyrek. . . . Brian Gill (also living in Boston) started a master's program at BU and will be applying to medical school in the spring. He is living with Andrew Littell, who also has taken up medicine. Brian reports that Joel Grossbard is studying child development at Tufts and will appear on the children's TV show Zoom this fall. Look out for him! . . . Andrew Porter and Casey Piche are living with Justin Harvey '99 in the North End of Boston and report that they spent "plenty of time on boats, beaches and golf courses this summer . . . now on to snow!" . . . Amy Cote is still living in Biddeford, Maine, and in her third year of teaching high school social studies at Massabesic High School. When she wrote she was in the middle of her soccer season and was to begin coaching basketball soon. Amy also has been keeping in touch with Alison Kelleher, Lauren Hoisington and Eric Anderson. . . . Peter Manning is in his second year of med school at UVM. He spent his summer visiting California for the first time, canoeing in northern Ontario and doing an internship in wilderness medicine. . . . Jessica Rice is now living in Washington, D.C., and works for a new environmental nonprofit company dealing with sustainable forestry. She's been fortunate to do some great international travel with the organization and is also directing a female a cappella group in D.C. . . . Derek Luke reports that business is booming at the Coastal Brewing Company in Middleton, R.I., and that plenty of Colby grads have been there to enjoy it. Coastal Brewing was founded by four Colby alums and has reported outstanding progress. This fall they unveiled a new special ale in a flashy cobalt blue 750ml bottle. If you are in the area be sure to swing by! . . . Kari Christensen is jet setting across the country in her job with Southwest Airlines. She writes that she loves her marketing job with Southwest and certainly enjoys the benefits. Kari recently received her pilot's license and took Beth Deschenes, one of her first brave souls, for a ride! . . . Dave Bernstein just moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., to begin the editing of his novel, which is a culmination of two years waiting tables by night and writing the novel by day. If any of you know of an agent/publisher, give Dave a call. . . . Susan Matlock is also living in North Carolina now and has begun law school at Wake Forest. . . . Josh Walton has been working as a mechanical engineer/technician at the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer project in Flagstaff, Ariz. His two-year stint will end in February, but he reports that he has enjoyed his time traveling to the Grand Canyon, Colorado and New Mexico for mountain biking and Ultimate Frisbee tournaments. . . . I am excited to share that Terry Flynn and I were married in Dallas, Texas, on November 18, 2000. We are currently living in Columbus, Ohio. . . . Keep writing! –Allison L. Brown top  |   next

 

	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes 292 West 92nd Street, Apt 5C New York, NY 10025 classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	Let's talk about Jason Cherella, who is out in the Hollywood Hills. Working as a talent coordinator for MTV, our star hockey goalie has hung up his skates to work on many of MTV's shows and backstage for their award ceremonies. . . .Steph Patterson and Jodi Eidt '97 got married on September 23 in Atlantic City, N.J., and Abby Healy, Emily Etchells and Melissa Maguire were all bridesmaids. . . . Erin Steven got married in Seattle in September and spent the honeymoon in Hawaii; Kristy Gould and Jenny Harvey-Smith were in the bridal party. . . . Jake Berg and Rebecca Plummer are engaged, and several classmates will be in their wedding. Jake is a grad student at Columbia University while Rebecca is at the University of Michigan studying chemistry. . . . Paul McDermott is at Vermont Law School, enrolled in their joint degree program of J.D. and master's of environmental law. During the summer Paul worked as an EMT at a nonprofit camp for inner-city children. . . . Samantha Sarno lives in London doing cancer research and is working towards her Ph.D. in molecular genetics. . . . Noah T. Chung is a second-year Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. . . . Brent Fraser finished his first year at the University of Arizona Law School and is working at the U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix. . . . Chris Bunge finished his first year at the University of Connecticut School of Law and is working in a litigation firm specializing in white-collar crime and commercial litigation in Hartford. . . . Martha Healy finished her first year in the medicinal chemistry department at Kansas University. . . . Robyn Osborn and Matt Olsen are in D.C., where they are both grad students at American University. Matt is in the school of international studies pursuing a master's degree in international conflict studies, and Robyn is pursuing a master's degree in psychology. Prior to grad school, Robyn and Matt drove cross-country to Utah, where Robyn was an AmeriCorps*Vista volunteer for United Cerebral Palsy of Utah and Matt was a snowboarding instructor at Park City Mountain Resort. . . . In the fall of 2001, Christian Frazar will receive a master's of science in microbiology at the University of Montana in Missoula. Christian studies environmental microbiology, and over the summer he worked at the Environmental Protection Agency in D.C. and lived with Sarah Banner, who is working as an investigative reporter for a nonprofit news service; she's planning for grad school next fall in international relations. . . . Andrea Wooley is living in St. Louis, Mo., and working towards her Ph.D. in immunology at Washington University. Andrea took the year off after graduation and traveled the Philippines. For five months she did mission work with pre-school kids and college students through an organization called Care Corner. . . . Anna Tesmenitsky spent summer 2000 working as a summer associate at the American Civil Liberties Union in Philly. Last year Anna completed her first year of law school at Santa Clara University but has now transferred to Northeastern University. . . . After traveling in New Zealand during the fall after graduation, Mary Schwalm moved to Boulder. Mary's dream came true as she landed the opportunity to go down to Australia for the 2000 Summer Olympics and work for the Associated Press by taking photographs of the events. Mary planned to travel around Oz until November and then move to Portland, Oregon. . . . Nicole Fallat just moved to New York City after spending last year in Seattle working for a start-up venture capital firm. In N.Y.C., Nicole works in the press office at the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, and she lives with Paul Magyar in Park Slope. . . . Lt. David Nasse is in the Marine Corps and in flight school in Pensacola, Fla. Dave's message to all is, "Go Mules!" . . . Lt. Karen Smith is in signals intelligence school and has received orders to North Carolina. . . . Danielle Driscoll was in Spain last year and received her master's in Spanish with the Middlebury Language School in Madrid; she's using her Spanish now in Beverly, Mass., at Sensitech Inc., where she is in international marketing. . . . Braxton Williams and Oliver Williams are moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan; Braxton is still working at Penguin Putnam in the marketing department. Braxton, Ned Eustace and Crans Baldwin love the social scene on the Lower East Side. . . . Nate Jue is teaching marine science in the Florida Keys. . . . Adella Mikkelsen is still in Taiwan completing her Watson Fellowship. . . . Jen Lavigne is moving to N.Y.C. after having traveled around Turkey. . . . Katherine Golfinopoulos is enjoying Morocco, where she's a Peace Corps volunteer. . . . Cate Tynan works in the editorial department of Broadway Books at Random House in N.Y.C. and lives in North Salem, N.Y. . . . Kea Watson worked as a stage management intern last year in Trinity, R.I., at Trinity Repertory Company and spent her summer in N.C. teaching sailing at a camp. This fall she left for Scotland on a theater tour with the Starving Artists. (We all must remember them at Colby–"Road Movie" and "Viper's Opium.") . . . Keep your updates coming! –Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next