ALUMNI PROFILES
John Tewhey '65
Land Mark

Jeff Potter '78
Cooking the Books

Lisa Perrotti-Brown '89
Good Taste

Zach Shapiro '92
Place of Honor

Do you remember Luis Roberto Hernandez? Luis started his freshman year at Colby living in Coburn. He would like to hear from old Colby friends (contact him at robhdez@aol.com). After a Jan Plan class in computer programming, Luis decided to return to Costa Rica to work for Central Bank of Costa Rica and earn his B.S. in information technology. He worked in the Dominican Republic as a computer consultant, and then started a computer applications systems company in Costa Rica. In 1990 he joined Unisys as a project manager and through contacts was offered a position in Cincinnati. Luis lives in Independence, Ky., with his wife of 25 years, Lorena, and three daughters Adriana, 22, Liza, 19, and Cristina, 14. Luis also is working as an interpreter in Spanish/English translations and interpretation and hopes to become a licensed minister to work with Hispanics living in Kentucky. . . . Steve and Jenni Scully Shaffer have a flourishing landscape business and live on 18 acres in Dover, a town in rural south central Pennsylvania. Jenni's daughter, Jasmine, 15, and step-daughters, 14 and 15, keep them busy. Last August they traveled to Boothbay Harbor and visited with Tom Myette at his cafŽ, called Type A Cafe. . . . In June Jack McBride crewed on a 40-foot sailboat for a two-week crossing from Falmouth, Maine, to the Azores. After Jack left the Azores, Ted Reed and Susan Pollis '78 arrived to crew the boat to Portugal. While sightseeing, Ted negotiated his moped over a cliff and broke his collarbone. Sue went ahead with the crossing, while Ted went back to work at Unum. Jack hears from Liz Martin, who is in Albany, N.Y., working for an architectural firm specializing in historic renovations. Liz is training to be a competitive bicycle racer, and she raves about the social life in Albany. Jack planned a winter ski trip with Dave Perry. . . . After graduation, Chris Mellon earned a master's in international relations from Yale University. He worked as a legislative assistant to Senator William Cohen, R-Maine, spent 7 1/2 years with Cohen on the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence and followed Cohen in his '97 Defense Secretary appointment to President Clinton's cabinet. Chris was deputy assistant secretary of defense for security and intelligence at the time of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. In January 2003 he rejoined the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as the senior Democratic staffer. . . . Tim Davis lives in Reading, Mich., with his wife, Janet, and three daughters, ages 10, 7 and 6. Tim is an elementary school assistant principal, is active in the recreational baseball program, plays pickup basketball one or two times a week and is close to completing his master's degree in teaching administration. . . . Barry '81 and Johanna Rich Tesman and family returned to the U.S. last June from their year in Norwich, England. While in England they traveled to Greece, Ireland, Paris, Scotland, Holland and Italy, and Barry finished a graduate-level math textbook. Johanna learned about English early education services, Lucy, 3, developed a great British accent, and Emma made many new "mates." They planned "going down shore" with Ellen Mercer Papera and family last August. . . . Liz Yanagihara Horwitz makes jewelry at Shellie Brooks Studio in Somerville, Mass. She has played the flute or double bass at various events with Chris Russian '82 and Marty McMillian '82 for the last 20-plus years. Liz and Barry Horwitz '79's son, Michael, is attending UMass-Amherst, and daughter Ali is a high school sophomore. Michael and Ali have inherited their mother's musical talent and play the oboe and violin. Liz often visits with Sue Kerr, head teacher at Wellesley College Child Study Center. Sue's sons, John, a freshman in high school, and Peter, in middle school, are avid soccer and tennis players. . . . Erin Ireton Elliott has been in the Bay area, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, for eight years. She met her husband in Boston while they were both working at Fidelity. After a stint in Atlanta, they moved west with son Conner, now 12, and Lizzy, 9. They try to come back to New England once a year to visit and hope to be at our 25th reunion. . . . Rose Nawfel married Andronikos Stamboulides last May. Nico and Rose met at a Greek church's event in the Boston area, and they now live in Ashland. Rose has a master's in chemistry from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and has worked as a research chemist at Shipley Company for 20 years in various research and engineering areas of the company. . . . Andy Goode married Sue Jones at Wolfes Neck Farm overlooking the ocean in Freeport, Maine, last August. Sue is an environmental lawyer specializing in clean air issues and renewable energy for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Scott Butterfield was best man along with Andy's brother. Twenty Colby grads attended and drank cases of brew, made and labeled just for the wedding, supplied by Mike Brown '84 from the Magic Hat Brewery in Vermont. Mark Garvin and Elliott Pratt report that a good time was had by all. Congrats to our newly married classmates! . . . Our 25th reunion is less than two years away. You recently received a letter from Lisa McDonough O'Neill, who has volunteered and is psyched to put together a 25th reunion yearbook. Please help her by sending her your photos.

--Lynn Collins Francis

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I apologize for missing the last issue. There is a lot of news to catch up on. Steve Trimble at Fidelity Investments is transitioning to a new engagement management role, coordinating "off-shore" systems development in India and Europe. He says, "It is quite a challenge evaluating the work and packaging it for programming overseas." Steve frequently runs into Beth Pniewski Wilson '81 on the commuter rail. In his free time, he's having fun coaching his 7-year-old child's soccer team. . . . Claire Brovender Liliedahl spent a wonderful weekend in Boston with Susan Wechsler Atkins last May. They bunked at the Bostonian for two nights, leaving their husbands to manage the kids on their own while they "hit a show, ate well and generally had a superbly relaxing time. We'll definitely be doing that again!" Claire also sees Peter Thomas and his family every Saturday at Groton/Dunstable, Mass., U10 soccer games. Their sons play together on a town team. . . . Wesley Martin lives on Cape Cod, Mass., and retired from the practice of law about three years ago to pursue a career in tennis. He spends the winter months as the director of the junior development program and as a tennis pro at Mid-Cape Racquet and Health Club in Yarmouth, Mass. During the spring he coaches the Sandwich High School girl's tennis team, Atlantic Coast League champions for the past two years, and in the summer he is the head pro at Craigville Beach Tennis Club. Wes also started Pyramid Tennis of Cape Cod, a small tennis supply and service business, and he is a member of the Wilson advisory staff. His wife, Martha (Merrifield '85), continues to work as an English teacher at Sandwich High School. They celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary last August, and their two sons, Luke, 11, and Matthew, 7, who are doing great in school, both play multiple sports, not surprisingly including tennis. Luke plays in USTA tournaments seeking his New England ranking. Wes plays tennis with Peter Van Dyck at the club on a regular basis. . . . While in London recently, Sarah Lickdyke Morissette took the high-speed train to Paris to visit her Colby roommate, Lavinia Stefani, and her adorable, bilingual 2 1/2-year-old son, David. Sarah writes, "It seemed as if no time had passed in the 10 years since we had last seen each other, though much has changed for each of us. Lavinia is a child psychologist, recently divorced, and still looks like the girl we graduated with, only even more refined. Recently, Lavinia tried to find a number of her old Colby friends via the Internet and has had good success in contacting them. She is still looking for Don McCaughan and Al Arevalo, however!" While at dinner in a small Paris restaurant, Sarah sat next to a college classmate of Colby President Bro Adams, and former president Bill Cotter and his wife, Linda, were on her return flight from London to Boston. Sarah lives in Andover with her husband, stepsons and daughters and stays busy working, teaching Sunday school and "coaching" writing in her daughter's kindergarten class. She sends a fond "Hello" to her Colby friends and writes, "I think of you all regularly." . . . After 20 years of working for Fidelity Investments in Boston, Cathy Fracasse has moved to the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where she and her family have lived part time for the past seven years or so. She works in Great Barrington at Berkshire Publishing, a small reference publishing company, where she is responsible for all technologyÑquite different from her technology role at Fidelity (moving from a 30,000 employee company to one with only nine employees makes for a bit of culture shock!). She writes, "It's nice to be in a more Ôacademic' environment after decades in the world of finance." Cathy's husband, Alan Papscun, is squeezing in some sculpting while caring for their son, Daniel, 4. Dan keeps them hopping, and helped Cathy make the decision to move to the Berkshires full time so that he could start school there. The two-hour commute to Boston was wearing on them. . . . Jim Haddow wrote from Maine that his sons, Hamish, 13, and Max, 10, are students at Waynflete School in Portland. Their only plans for the summer were to spend two weeks at their camp on Sourdnahunk Lake on the western edge of Baxter State Park. Jim's favorite part of the experience is being unreachable by telephone (including cell phone) for two whole weeks. After completing a one-year term as vice president of the University of Maine School of Law Alumni Association board of directors and chairing its annual fund, Jim has now been elected to a one-year term as president. Jim also spoke last spring on legal issues related to cystic fibrosis screening at a conference for medical and laboratory professionals convened in South Portland by the Foundation for Blood Research. . . . Bob Benjamin spent all summer between Camp Virginia and Camp New York in Kuwait. Weather there was "beautiful and sunny," with occasional dust storms and daily highs of about 125 F. He says evenings are a bit cooler, with temps in the low 80s (but it's a dry heat!). As of September, Bob was back in the States for a brief sojourn before retuning to Kuwait until January at least.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Sally Lovegren Merchant
classnews1983@alum.colby.edu

Jenifer Ambler is living in Brattleboro, Vt., with her daughter, Kate, who is in third grade, Brownies, swimming lessons and all sorts of young girl activities requiring mom to drive her around. They enjoy water skiing and downhill skiing together. Jenifer is the local and state treasurer for the American Association of University Women. She was about to embark on her ninth trip to El Salvador, where she works at a medical clinic and also takes part in water purification systems work sponsored by her local Rotary Club. . . . Chris Easton moved to the biology department at St. Lawrence University, which he says is a "small liberal arts college very much like Colby in flavor and atmosphere." Chris sounds quite content. . . . As of February 2004, Jim Galluzzo will have put in 20 years at RBS Greenwich Capital, where he trades short-term treasuries and works with Adrienne Plotch's cousin, Bill. Jim and his wife, Emily, live in New Canaan, Conn., with their twin sons, Ned and Jake, who are 8. All four still travel to Maine to visit Emily's Christmas Cove family compound. . . . Heidi Henderson was in Maine last summer to visit Barb Leonard and Dan Marra. Heidi lives in Rhode Island with her two daughters and has just taken a professorship at Connecticut College. . . . I can count on assistance from Bill Lloyd's e-mail updates on a few classmates. Thanks, Bill! Keep the stuff coming. . . . Resortful Arts is the name of the new company Karla Hostetler started on the island of Antigua. Her company, based in the St. James Club resort, collaborates with the Elite Island Resorts group on Antigua, St. Lucia and the Grenadines to distribute Caribbean-made art, apparel and dŽcor to the wider resort market. In the process, jobs are created while strengthening the Caribbean arts sector. Karla had been working for the last 12 years with the NGO Aid to Artisans. She was anxiously awaiting the October arrival of her adopted baby boy, Mendior, from Kazakhstan. . . . I was so glad to hear from my Colby "roomus" (we were in Mary Low for two years) Liz Murphy Kloak, who lives in Ridgewood, N.J., with her husband, George, and their beauties Peter, Lucie, Georgie and Lillie. Liz sounds busy with all kinds of local committees, including the youth hockey board, but everyone had time to visit the Jersey shore as well as Liz's Massachusetts ties this past summer. Great to hear from you, Liz! . . . Received a note from New York, where Jennifer Thayer Naylor lives with her family. Jen reads a lot about Chinese and Indian approaches to health and fills me with ideas of a more holistic lifestyle. In August, she took her two kids to a family wilderness camping weekend at a Zen monastery she sometimes visits. In September she was headed to a United Nations conference about ending the occupation of Palestinian territory. . . . Jim Plumer moved from Bowdoin to Amherst College as the head coach of women's ice hockey. He says he is enjoying his new home. . . . Valerie Spencer Poulos's biggest news was that their oldest, Ben, deferred entering Colby in favor of spending the year studying at the Russian University in Kiev, Ukraine. Ben wants to join the Foreign Service at some point so the change in plans for the year will afford great experiences. Valerie's family is hosting a foreign exchange student from Dortmund, Germany, this school year. . . . Charlie Ciovacco's daughter is a junior in high school, and Charlie wonders if she'll look at Colby, too. It was great to see Charlie on campus in June for reunion! . . . I heard from Anne Edwards Westerman. The Westermans sound great. . . . Tammy (Perkins '85) and Kevin Riley live in Portland, Maine, with their two daughters, both in middle school. Kevin is senior vice president of JHA, Inc., in Portland, and Tammy spends a lot of time volunteering in the school and local library. They ran into George Katz last June when Kevin was at a conference. . . . Todd Coffin started his new job at Colby as the head coach of men's cross-country and track and field after Jim Wescott retired in May 2003 after 25 years at Colby. Todd also was to continue working at Jacques Whitford Co., Inc., in Portland as an environmental consultant. The Coffin family lives in Freeport, Maine. . . . Sue Desrochers Patterson is the assistant corporate controller at Sun Microsystems, where she's been for six years in a variety of finance roles. Training for a November 60-mile three-day Breast Cancer Walk from San Jose to San Francisco was a major focus for Sue when she wrote in September. The proceeds raised by the walks help fund research, education, screening and treatment programs. . . . I received e-mail photos of Andrea Schultz and Scott Stein's September wedding. They honeymooned in Italy for a couple weeks in both the south (Amalfi Coast) and north (Venice). Sincere congratulations, Scott and Andrea! . . . Here in my neck of the Acadia National Park/Mount Desert Island world of Maine, things are always moving and changing for me. I learned a long ago to try to take it one day at a time. Some time I'll tell you about my experience with a "life coach." Best wishes to everyone.

--Sally Lovegren Merchant

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I need to make a correction in my summer column: Shelley Lent Gillwald wrote that she had the incredible opportunity of working for the Salt Lake Olympic Committee serving as alpine/snowboard volunteer coordinator. In the summer column I made the mistake of quoting her letter directly without quotation marks so it read that I had that incredible opportunity. Sorry for any confusion. . . . Maura Cassidy traveled to her seventh and last continent in December 2002ÑAntarctica by way of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on board an icebreaker. From the sound of it, Maura would recommend it to everyone. Back home in Boston, she has started her own company, Go Ask Anyone! She produces conversation cards, some of which are called Go Ask Your Father!, Go Ask Your Mother! and Go Ask Anyone! She has representation in 11 states and hoped to be carried in all 50 states by 2004. She is enjoying running her own company and realizes that all her previous jobs have led her to this new one. Check out her Web site at www.goaskanyone.com. Best of luck to you, Maura! . . . Nathan Emerson was in Boston in August to see "The Boss." He attended both the Friday and Saturday night shows. In true groupie form he moved up to the front row on Friday night and, although he didn't get pulled up on stage like Courtney Cox, he did end up sharing drinks with Mr. Springsteen at the Four Seasons Hotel after the show that night. Nathan is working for the Four Seasons Hotels as a real estate advisor in Jackson Hole, where they opened their newest hotel in December. Any Mules heading out to Jackson this winter should give him a shout! . . . Donna Galluzzo (dgalluzzo@salt.edu) checked in from Portland, Maine, where she has been living since 1996. She was recently named the executive director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, which offers educational programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels in documentary photography, radio and non-fiction writing. Donna also has been pursuing her own work as documentary photographer the past six years. If you are in Portland in the Old Port area, stop by and visit the gallery. . . . Lisa Kuzia Krueger wrote of her annual family gathering in N.H. that is really a Colby mini-reunion, since all three of the Kuzia family members met their respective spouses at Colby. Stan Kuzia '85 and Susan Robertson Kuzia '82, Steve Brennan '86 and Sylvia Kuzia Brennan (Stan's sister) and, of course, Warren Krueger '82, Lisa's husband, were all there. Lisa and Warren have three children: Caitlin, 14 1/2, Eric, 11, and Rachel, 9. Lisa's afternoons are taken up with tons of after-school activities, but in her "free" time she is working as a lifeguard for Leesburg Parks and Recreation, substituting in Loudoun County, volunteering at the kids' school and helping out as a Junior Girl Scout leader. She also took the time to join many of us already in the "41 club"Ñwhere did those years go? Lisa recently saw Catherine Walsh and said Catherine was "looking marvelous." Catherine is working for Harvard Business School. Lisa also reports a fun family visit last July with Denise Brunelle Priess and her family. . . . Scott Morrill wrote that he and his wife, Jane (MacKenzie '83), visited Colby in July to show the campus to their three sons. Their oldest, Ken, is a junior in high school. Their middle son, John, proclaimed "Colby rocks," and the youngest, David, had "no comment." Scott has moved into the newly created client assistance office of the Oregon State Bar. He screens complaints and questions about Oregon lawyers and assists people with problems they may have with their lawyers. The department also gives written and oral ethics advice to Oregon lawyers. . . . I've been asking everyone who responds to my e-mail requests if they are thinking of attending the reunion this summer, and so far responses have been mostly positive. I hope everyone is giving it some serious thought! It would be great to have a big turnout. Please consider attending and asking someone you haven't seen in a while to attend, too. Remember I can help locate people you may have lost touch with; I can be e-mailed via the College or directly at cynthia.m.m.lazzara@eudoramail.com (yes, I know, it's the longest e-mail address in America). Hope to see many of you soon!