95		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Yuhgo Yamaguchi 124 Oxford Street #4 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-354-0289 classnews1995@alum.colby.edu
	Mark Jackson was named director of football operations at the University of Southern California for former New England Patriots head coach Pete Carroll. Mark was a special teams' coach for the Pats in the 2000 season. . . . Erika Troseth recently visited Hannah Swenson and Hannah's new niece in Portland, Ore. Hannah is in grad school in Austin, Texas, and reportedly lives in a pink house. Erika now lives in N.Y.C. and sees Kate Bolick often. . . . Fred and Heather Johnson Webster are expecting their first child in January 2002. They are obviously very excited. They live in Bellevue, Wash., with three cats and two dogs. . . On a less happy note, Matt Gaudet suffered a severe neck injury while on vacation in the Caribbean. A trust fund has been established to help the Gaudet family defray expenses associated with Matt's care. Donations can be made to Merrill Lynch, Attn: Wayne Helm, Suite 4400 U.S. Bank Place, 601 Second Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55402. Checks should be made out to Merrill Lynch for the account of Matt Gaudet, account number 673-29E18. We wish Matt all the best with his recovery. . . . I ran into Noah Learner, who works at Cambridge Bicycle near Central Square. He is doing freelance Web design work as well. He was (a) shocked that my COOT shirt was still in wearable condition and (b) very helpful with my bicycle questions. . . . Mike Rosenthal, my roommates, Andrew Vernon, Joshua Eckel '94 and I flew out to L.A. to visit Christopher Lohman this past July. We drove to Inyo National Forest and hiked up Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 (14,494 ft.). There were several bouts with altitude sickness, but we are all okay. We ate a lot of Mexican food while in L.A. and hung out in Santa Monica as well (sadly, there were no celebrity sightings). Chris is working for Alchemisity, a Web design company out there. I am now working full time as a cook at Salamander restaurant in Boston. Marc Rubin, Josh Eckel and I went down to Martha's Vineyard in September to visit Jon Blau '94 and celebrate his 30th birthday. His fiancée, Heidi Bowles, threw a big clambake for him and his island and non-island friends. JB now owns two poster galleries on the Vineyard. While there we also ran into Sara Scarborough '98. -Yuhgo Yamaguchi   previous  |   next

 

	96		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kim Schock classnews1996@alum.colby.edu
	Some reports that didn't make the last issue . . . Megan Brennan planned an August wedding to Edward Johnson. Megan is a legal recruiter at Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar in Boston, and her husband is a research associate with Korn/Ferry International in Boston. . . . Jenney Smith is finishing up her master's in education at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., focusing on arts in education to be certified to teach pre-K to third grade. . . . Kim Verner lives in Somerville, Mass., and works in the professional development department of Tom Snyder Productions. . . . Martine Kaiser is living in Seattle, attending the University of Washington for her M.B.A. . . . Ann Savage has been on the move, first to D.C., then to Connecticut and now to Phoenix, Ariz. She is a paralegal and thinking about law school in the near future. She adopted an abandoned dog named Foster, started scuba diving and has been hiking a lot. . . . Emily Graham recently received a master's degree in library science from Indiana University (where she was classmates with Rachel Lapkin '95). Now she's back in Maine on a two-year Island Institute Fellowship to help develop the library at North Haven Community School, and she loves island life. . . . Whitney Glockner is living in California and working for a software start-up called Intraspect. Whitney has kept in touch with Laura Brezel, who lives in San Francisco and works for an architectural firm and sings in an a cappella choir in her free time, and she used to see Anne Cohen before she moved to Hong Kong to work for a Chinese start-up. Whitney learned how to paraglide in New Zealand. . . . Nicole Jalbert lives in Porter Square in Cambridge Mass., with Kevin Pirani, who is working at Cambridge Associates and received his M.B.A. from Boston College last May. Nicole received a master's in teaching as well as a master's in higher education administration at Boston University and works at their center for English language as the testing coordinator. Nicole was in Rachel Wolf's wedding a year ago in September in Baltimore along with Nina Leventhal and Katherine Holliday. . . . Nick Lambert is in Maine working as the director of advertising for Sunday River. He occasionally sees Amy Phalon, who is the news bureau supervisor for Killington in Vermont. . . . Josh Eldred is a trade coordinator for Antiques America and helped to launch Antiques America, the premier Internet site for antiques. . . . Brian Duffany asks, "Any other Colbyites at Cornell?" After three years living in Park City, Utah, working in environmental consulting, then two years in New Jersey working in real estate ("huge culture shock and lifestyle change"), he is now in his first year of the master's program in city and regional planning at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. He can be reached at bld25@cornell.edu. --Kim Schock   top  |   next

 

	97		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kimberly N. Parker 99 West Street #1 Newton, MA 02458-1349 classnews1997@alum.colby.edu
	Tom Moffitt reports that he and a couple of friends started a small company in Wisconsin that does food and beverage development. Their basic philosophy is to create new products that will appeal to teenagers and young adults. His latest product is called Moovitz Caffeinated Candy (www.moovitz.com), which he says is "meant to provide a quick caffeine fix for over-worked and exhausted students like our former Colby selves." . . . Linda Jenkins cut 14 inches of her hair in January to send to a nonprofit organization called Locks of Love (www.locksoflove.com), which provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children. . . . Heather McVicar moved back to D.C. after earning her master's in international development from the London School of Economics. She teaches at the Holton Arms School and has started a tour company with her boyfriend that will take its first group to Turkey next year. . . . Dave and Alicia Nemiccolo MacLeay bought a house in Rome, Maine, that Dave works from as a Web developer/consultant. In June, they rode in the Trek Across Maine for the American Lung Association of Maine. Last winter they took up ice climbing and got in some hiking, canoeing and climbing this summer. . . . In the summer issue I reported that Larisa Jovanovic and Rick Unruh were getting married in California this year, which made it sound as if they married each other. Rick wrote to say that his bride was Jennifer Smith, now Jennifer Unruh, and that they have moved to Cambridge, Mass. . . . Congrats to Stephanie Mann, who was married in August to Aaron Gabelnick. Heide Girardin Hassing was a bridesmaid. Stephanie is now living in Swartz Creek, Mich., and plans to receive her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan in August 2002. . . . Dan Wheadon and Amy Letizia were married in New York on August 3, 2001. In attendance were Drew Heffner, Dave Javier, Tom Killilea, Caroline Guy, Tim Pellett, Karen Blaisdell Faiman, Meg Carlan, Sue Higley, Morgan Pecelli, Bridget Neville and Javier Fernandez. Dan and Amy live in Wakefield, Mass. . . . West Coast update from Sue Hesselbach: Tony Hernandez, Emily Lappen, Emily Greenstein, Scott Chandler, Denise Mailloux and Beth Traglia were all on hand to celebrate her engagement to Mike Pierce (a September 2002 wedding is in the works)! Sue has been visited by JJ Eklund from Colorado, Linsay Cochran from Oregon and Sarah DiMare from Boston. . . . Hilary Peterson just moved from Aspen to Bozeman, Mont. She sees Margot Higgins often as she just moved there, too. Hil was at Bread Loaf in Vermont this summer with a variety of Colby grads. . . . Treb Becher was teaching health education to immigrants in Providence, R.I, working mainly with Latino and Cambodian families. Then, in August, he started at Dartmouth Medical School, where he says "it's hard, but it's great to be back in the woods." . . . Hope everyone is doing well. There was a mix-up and the information that was sent to my old job never reached me. If you sent an e-mail update, please send it again and I'll include it in the next column. --Kimberly N. Parker   top  |   next

 

	98		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Allison L. Brown Flynn 6948 Avery Road Dublin, OH 43017-2865 classnews1998@alum.colby.edu
	I hope this letter finds you, your friends and your family safe. The tragic events of September 11 have touched us all in many ways. Thank you for your outpouring of wishes to the Class of 1998 during these difficult times. . . . Many of you are on the move these days. Rich Taylor is delighted to be back in northern New England after working in the theaters of New York and Chicago as a director and publicist; he has decided to focus his attention on his first year at Vermont Law School, where he will study to become an environmental attorney. . . . Jon Bolton left his job with a health care justice at a small nonprofit in Maine to start at Columbia Law School. . . . Graham Nelson and Kirsten Staaterman moved from their hometown of Boston to Chicago this past fall. Graham was one of a select team chosen to open up the new Chicago office for Digitas, Inc. Both are doing well and enjoy the Windy City. . . . Andrew Porter moved last fall from Boston to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he is attending The Landing School for boat building. He spent last summer with Adam Wysor '95, Justin Harvey '99, Tom Bjorkman, Jason Myler and Casey Piche. . . . James Harris is living and working in Boston as a corporate paralegal with Zurich Scudder Investments, Inc. He began taking French classes in the fall in preparation for a tour of France in the spring. . . . Stuart Willson is working in healthcare investment banking at UBS Warburg in New York City. He spent last summer balancing his time between the office and surfing in Amagansett. "Next summer," he writes, "probably more of the same!" . . . Hilary White is at Yale University pursuing a master's degree in the physician associate program. Hilary took last summer off to travel around Peru, where she had the opportunity to hike the Inca trail to Machu Pichu. . . . Sara Frantz writes that she has "one of the most enjoyable jobs out there!" Sara is a Planned Parenthood educator in Columbus, Ohio, where she travels to public schools to teach kids about abstinence, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, birth control and relationships. She admits it's a lot of fun and definitely keeps her in touch with today's youth. . . . Pete Felmly spent his summer working for a law firm in Portland, Maine, and for a judge in Augusta. He enjoyed weekends fly fishing and camping in northern Maine. Pete is in his second year at the University of Maine School of Law. . . . Kevin Landis is living in N.Y.C., teaching public communication at the Stern College for Women after graduating from Brown University with a master's in dramatic literature. He is in the process of applying to a Ph.D. and a M.F.A. program in theater. . . . Also in New York, John Brunero entered his third year of a Ph.D. program in philosophy at Columbia. John spent part of his summer in Spain traveling around Tenerife and the Canary Islands. (He adds that he was unable to remember any college Spanish!) . . . After spending three years skiing in Utah, Wells Wheeler decided to head back to his hometown of Chicago to begin his first year at the University of Illinois Medical School. . . . Congratulations on a number of recent engagements! Jared Fine was engaged to Liz Hubbard '01 this past fall, and they plan a September 2002 wedding. Jared spent his summer on the shore of Lake Huron at a biological station doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. . . . Allison Clougher is engaged to marry Kris Keelty '99 in the fall of 2002. Allison graduated from the University of Vermont last May with a master's of social work and is now a social worker for the state of Vermont. . . . Suzanne Stonehouse is engaged to Wojtek Wieckowski '00. She writes that a "Poland-Spring (pardon the pun) wedding is planned." . . . Meghan Fallon challenged herself to hike the entire Appalachian Trail! She began her trek in Georgia on April 12, 2001, and looked forward to finishing the 2,167-mile adventure in Maine in the fall. Meghan wrote that she ran into a few classmates along the way. She also said that Mila Dickson was engaged to be married to Peter Rossi on November 3 in New Orleans. Mila has been living in New Orleans since graduation. . . . Take care and stay in touch! --Allison Brown Flynn top  |   next

 

	99		CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Hayes 130 Long Neck Point Road Darien, CT 06820 203-655-4664 classnews1999@alum.colby.edu
	Barbera Thomas got married on June 9, 2001, to Jason Dooley, whom she met in grad school at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Barbera, now Barbera Thomas Dooley, graduated with a master's in vocal performance in May. They live in Greenbelt, Md., and Barbera works as a legal secretary in D.C. Sarah Banner, who participated in Barbera's wedding, still works as a reporter in D.C. and is waiting for Chris Frazar to return from his master's program in Montana. He was to be moving to D.C. in December. . . . Jason Gerbsman was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and is a security commander in the Israeli navy in the Gaza Strip. . . . Meg Belanger lives in Los Angeles and is in the critical studies master's program in the School of Cinema-Television at USC. . . . Jon Hiltz lives in Farmington, Maine, and is working toward becoming a certified financial planner with MetLife Financial Services. . . . Alexis Azar moved to Australia. . . . Lyndall Schuster and Andy McLetchie are engaged. As Andy finishes law school, Lyndall begins at Denver University in Colorado. . . . Robyn Osborn was to finish an M.A. in December and planned a trip to Australia after graduation. . . . Emmett Beliveau lives in D.C. and started Georgetown Law in the fall. . . . Alex Wall moved back to Maine, bought a house in Augusta and helps promote and run Augusta's Water Street dance club, The Edge, a place for youth to hang out. . . . Ryan Waller's wedding drew a good crowd of Colby people to Alaska in August: Ross McEwen, Kristy Gould, Masood Dehnavifar, Laurel Coppock, Billy Riley, Drew Johnson '01, Ryan Kelly '01 and Jodie Cabe '00. Laurel is studying improv at Second City Comedy School in Chicago. . . . Will Polkinghorn started Harvard Medical School in the fall. . . . Lelia Evans moved back to Boston in July. . . . Erin Steven is working in business development at Real Networks in Seattle. She and her husband just purchased their first home! . . . Chrissy Barnett moved from Boston to D.C. after finishing her master's in broadcast journalism at Boston University and now works at a TV news bureau. . . . Kea Watson spent the summer in Australia and New Zealand, then worked at a camp in North Carolina for three weeks, then in the middle of July went to D.C. to work at the Kennedy Center on a show with the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Kea was to move to San Francisco to work at ACT, a theater there. . . . Ryan Aldrich spent the summer traveling to the Greek Islands and Italy with a friend before meeting with Alex Leach in Zurich, Switzerland. They traveled through Switzerland to Munich, Salzburg and Vienna and spent a week in Prague. In their rented scooter car half the size of a golf cart they reportedly looked like "Dumb and Dumber" cruising around Interlaken. Alex flew out of Berlin, and Ryan continued on to Copenhagen, Denmark, and into Sweden and later Finland. . . . Kerry Olson is living in Medford, Mass., with Sarah Mahoney and Chris Sullivan '97, who works in downtown Boston as a commercial real estate broker for CB Richard Ellis in their investment properties group. . . . In August, Katie Frank returned from two years in the Peace Corps in Moldova (part of the former U.S.S.R.). Katie left for Eastern Europe just two weeks after we graduated and is settling back into life at home in southern Maine. . . . Emily Hoberg moved from N.Y.C. to D.C. and is still working as a paralegal for Sullivan and Cromwell. . . . Chris Fleming wrote to straighten out rumors that his time was being spent only in the Boom-Boom Room. He was recently promoted to sales and marketing manager at Shoxygen Sports Marketing, a Boston-based sports marketing company, and he's beginning preparation for the GMATs. Chris lives in Brookline Village with his brother and Mark Melander, who was just given a promotion at Fidelity Investments and has been making headway there since beginning work with them shortly after graduation. Chris reported that Matt Sawatsky lives in Boston with Ross McEwen. Matt just passed the Level I CFA exam and is well on his way to some serious success in the world of investments. Ross is in sales for Network Plus, an Internet infrastructure company, and spent plenty of time this summer honing his golf game. Chris wants to send a line out to Rob Chisholm and the rest of the Dojo in hopes of "getting the band back together." . . . Liz Bayne got married on August 12 to Ethan Budiansky, a Connecticut College grad. Laura Mitchell and Catherine McDonough '00 were both bridesmaids, and Jill Morneau, Mariek Schmidt, Anne Nettles and Ali Tetler attended. . . . Ben Grasso through-hiked the Appalachian trail, starting in Georgia on March 17. He was to finish at Mt. Katahdin in Maine at the end of September. . . . Steph Sharples lives in Somerville, Mass., and works as a pre-school teacher (kids aged 4 and 5) in Wellesley, Mass. . . . Jill Huntsberger is a photo assistant at the Chicago bureau of the Associated Press. . . . Rachel Simon started the M.F.A. program in poetry at Sarah Lawrence University. --Lindsay Hayes   top  |  next