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

In the last few months, I've received many interesting updates from a number of classmates. I'm happy to report an update of my own: I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of James Stewart and Victoria Dobson on June 21. It was a wonderful ceremony and evening of meeting friends and family. It was also a treat to see Jamie get married almost 10 years after he had been my best man. . . . In the May issue of Down East Magazine, Matt Hancock and his brother, Kevin, were profiled for their conservation efforts with environmental groups to ensure that important woodlands in Maine would be preserved. If you get a chance, read the article to see how they helped the environment while solidifying the future of their company. Matt also has kept busy with sports by developing the Hancock Sports Academy with his brother. The academy will feature three full-size hardwood floors for basketball, volleyball and training. In a recent article highlighting the growth of indoor sports facilities in Maine, Matt said that he hoped his academy would provide sorely needed space for training, instruction and coaching. . . . Beth Kubik wrote to say that Chandra Goldsmith Gray had a baby girl, India Fox Gray, in March. Chandra is living in Chicago, working as a landscape architect and teaching landscape architecture at a local university. She also heard from Amy Farmer and Mark Michaud, whose second daughter, Samantha Elizabeth Michaud, was born in July. Beth also mentioned that Mark is operations director for the Dean campaign while Amy is responsible for the volunteer and educator program at the Shelburne Museum. Amy, Mark and their daughters live in the Burlington, Vt., area. Finally, Beth wrote that in the spring of 2002 she completed her doctorate in clinical psychology. In December of 2002, Beth and her husband, Tucker Hanson, welcomed their first child, Elizabeth Svea Hanson. Beth is currently doing her post-doc at a mental health agency in Augusta, Maine, where she focuses on the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders. . . . In late April, Deborah Rebore was invited by Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y., to speak about her career as an education attorney. After graduating with a law degree from Catholic University, Deborah first practiced law in the areas of child abuse and neglect. Eventually this led her to education law in which she focuses on the rights of special education students. . . . Jill Sinclair Smith wrote to say that she stays in touch with Colleen Bulger Proppe, who now lives in California and is kept busy by her twin boys, Aidan and Blake, who turned 1 last spring. Jill also said that she has been married to Scott Smith since 1991 and that they have three children, Taylor Mackenzie, 7, Morgan Olivia, 4 1/2, and Trevor James, five months. They've lived in the Bangor, Maine, area since their wedding but moved into a new house 18 months ago. Jill is currently working part time as a safety administrator for RH Forster Energy and is taking classes toward elementary education certification. . . . Nate Clapp started work last September as a camera assistant on a new HBO show, K Street. Steven Soderbergh is the director and co-produces it with George Clooney. Nate also mentioned that Clooney would be a cameraman for the first episode and that two of the stars are Mary Matalin and James Carville. Congratulations on the new gig, Nate. I'm sure you'll have lots of interesting behind-the-scenes stories. . . . Thank you all for the updates. Keep them coming.

--Franc-Eric Wiedmer

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Edie and Keith Thomajan had their second son, Walt Zareh, on June 2. Keith writes, "The birth was smooth and amazing, and mom and boy are both having a wonderful summer." Their first son, Harlan, was 2 in September and loves having a brother. Last spring, Matt Melander and Walker Fenton went to Portland, Ore., to visit with the Thomajans and spent time at Mt. Hood for a weekend of skiing and camping. . . . Patty Masters Correa and her husband, Kevin, welcomed their first child, Syndey Grace, last summer. . . . Ben and Shannon Johnson Ames also welcomed their daughter, Isabel Blanch, in September. . . . Dave Shumway tells us, "2003 has been a pretty good year so far. I celebrated my sixth year at Applied Biosystems and my 12th year of working with Cub Scout Pack 1776 of Duxbury, Mass." Dave also recently returned from his first trip overseas--12 days of exploring Wales, London and other parts of England. He says that he regularly stays in touch with Jack and Katherine Cole Aydelott, who live in Connecticut. He also saw Fred Bright and Debbie MacWalter-Bright and their two children in Duxbury, Mass., at the July 4th parade. . . . Pete Carpenter, CEO of ClearPoint in Seattle, reports an interesting and somewhat random run of bumping into Colby people. "I was in New England visiting from Seattle and went to Bill Higgins '92's parents' house for a lobster bake. From there I hooked up in Maine with Rob Fast '84, who runs our New England offices. (Bill Higgins works for him in our office in Newton, Mass.) Rob and I picked up some lobsters at a little market in Falmouth, Maine, and in walked Billy Goodman with his daughter--very cute kid, must get it from her mom. The last time I saw him was a random walk-by in Pike Place Market in Seattle 10 years ago. Two days later I was walking through Freeport and ran into Sandy Colhoun, who lives in Marion, Mass." . . . Rachel and Rich Rusnack live in Wisconsin and "are blessed with arguably the two best kids on the planet, Hannah, 9, and Griffin, 7." Rich and Rachel have their own retail and real estate development businesses, but he has decided to pursue an M.B.A. at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University while Rachel runs the businesses solo! . . . Jeremy Grant is in Omaha, enjoying his work as the senior pastor of a growing Presbyterian congregation. He and his wife, Kit, are the parents of Brendan, 7, Kayli, 6, and Emmy, 2. . . . Andy '92 and Margaret Mauran Zuccotti moved from Vermont to Jenkintown, Pa., and were awaiting the arrival of baby number 2. Last summer they spent time with Sandi and John Roth when John and Andy did a triathlon together. . . . Shawn Crowley finished his fourth marathon--Boston in April. "On the drive back to N.Y.C. that night," he wrote, "my pregnant wife wasn't quite feeling right. We headed straight to her N.Y.C. hospital, where she gave birth to our first child a few hours later! Peter Andrew is the first grandchild on both sides so he's already quite spoiled!" . . . David Unruh reports that his wife, Marnie, and 2-year-old son, Morgan, are doing well in Pittsburgh. He was recently made director of major gifts at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been employed for the past eight years. . . . Donna Wentworth has been working as a writer/editor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School for the past five years, and she writes a daily Web log column called "Copyfight" on the politics of intellectual property. She also writes and edits the Berkman Center's newsletter, "The Filter," on Internet law and policy. Last year she was a panelist at two conferences (Yale and Berkeley) on Web logs and why they matter. And last summer she was married "to one of the sweetest, warmest people I have ever met." Donna also wishes Emilie Miller-Vickers to know that she is thinking of her! . . . Brian Quinn's update is much appreciated: "Dave Ford recently got engaged and is currently living in Newton while working at Northeastern University. In his spare time Dave has become an avid cyclist and is rapidly moving his way up the New England cycling circuit." . . . Jeff Hartwell planned a sabbatical from his job at Tufts Health Plan to tour the southwestern U.S. national parks during June and July. . . . Blake Liebert finished vet school and planned to join a practice in Andover, Mass. . . . Dave Mumford recently purchased his first house in the San Jose, Calif., area to make room for the latest addition to his family. Brian and his wife recently had a baby boy, Dylan, who joins his sister, Lexi, 2. . . . Becky and Dan Bowman live in Westford, Mass. Dan continues to work at the management consulting firm PRTM based in Waltham, Mass., where he has been since 1999 and is now a principal in the firm. Dan continues to travel extensively forhis client work.. . . Audrey Wittemann Wennick celebrated her first wedding anniversary Memorial Day weekend. She is in the home stretch on her master's in urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is concentrating in transportation planning and land use planning. . . . Maryann Hutchinson Grimm and her husband, Jed, recently bought a house in Cohasset, Mass. They have a 1-year-old son, Nathaniel. She is back to work in Boston at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. in the client service/marketing group working with institutional and private investors.

--Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier

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When they wrote, Erin (Kelly '91) and Chuck DiGrande expected their third girl "any day now," so by the time this appears in print their new addition should be here. . . . Dan Connolly and his wife, Kim, have moved back to the East Coast (Virginia) from California. Dan now has two children and has taken a strong interest in his garden, which he calls "his new passion." . . . Todd Alexander is still actively working with the Maine Legislature in an effort to create "Pine Tree Zones," or economic development zones, in areas that have found it difficult in the past to attract investments or development. . . . Molly Beale married Laurence Goodyear Constable in June. Molly is working as an assistant director for clubs and programs for the Harvard Alumni Association in Cambridge. . . . I have written about this before, but Wylie Dufresne is getting great reviews for his new restaurant, WD-50. In the words of some New York press: "this will be the hottest table of 2003." Hey Wylie--I'm in New York all the time, so save me a spot. . . . Bill Foster kept trying to e-mail me information about Jamie Zinman and Brian Mulvey, but my company's server prevented his e-mail from coming through. Let's hope he'll have that worked out in time for our next article. . . . Erin and Jim Burke are still living in Illinois and now have two children. . . . Still haven't heard from Jason "Big Daddy" Gleeson for years, but rumor has it he is interested in taking over my position as class secretary. He feels that the position would "bring him that much closer" to his fellow classmates. . . . Christian Tosi, where are you? . . . Lisa McMahon-Myhran and her husband, Rob, have two children, Charlie and Alice, and recently relocated from Oregon to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She has been in touch with Christy O'Rourke Doyle, who is living in Boston with her husband, Jeff. Christy is contemplating heading back to school to prepare for a career in teaching. . . . Mark and K-K Smith Tindall have two children, Abigail and Rees. They recently relocated to Annapolis, Md., where K-K accepted a teaching job at the Naval Academy (after finishing her Ph.D. in economics). . . . Jim Albright (who takes the prize this time around for providing the most updates for an article) completed his fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology--head and neck surgery. For the first time since Colby, he is officially done with school/training. He tells me it's time to get a real job now. He and his wife, Kim, still reside in La Jolla, Calif., but will most likely be leaving in the near future. Jim and Dave Provencal ran into each other at Torrey Pines Golf Course recently. . . . JC Klick just completed his residency in anesthesia at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and is now in an 18-month fellowship at Mass General in critical care medicine/cardio-thoracic anesthesia. . . . Meredith Johnson is working at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., as a physician's assistant with the orthopedic department. She travels regularly to France to visit her old roommate, Dominique. . . . Andy Wallace is working at New York City Hall hammering out the city budget. He's living in Brooklyn. . . . Nicole Farkas Mogul checked in from the Hudson Valley (N.Y.), where she lives with her husband, Ken, and their new addition, daughter Nora Ace. (Ever notice our classmates have cool names for their kids?) I had to pry a little bit, but Nicole eventually gave me some great updates (and a funny story about the blackout and the need to empty her fridge). She tells me that Cecily Von Ziegesar is living in Brooklyn with her husband, Richard, and her 2-year-old, Agnes. Cecily just submitted to her publisher her fourth book in a teen series called Gossip Girl. In September she and the series were featured on the cover of the N.Y. Times Styles section. . . . Scott Alprin is living in D.C. and working as a lawyer for a Japanese law firm. . . . Jennifer McLeod Finch was elected to a two-year term as president of the Association of New Hampshire Law Librarians. Jennifer, who has published a number of articles on Web development, also was appointed director of library and research services at McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton Professional Association, where she provides research and reference assistance to McLane employees, maintains the firm's library collection and makes print and electronic acquisitions that enhance existing research materials. . . . Matt Noyes is living in Gardiner, Maine, with his wife, Carla, and daughters, Madyson and Tavia. (Once again, cool names for those kids, people!) Matt is building his own freelance design business and looking forward to some great skiing at Sugarloaf this winter. . . . Great to have Pete Hayden check in. Pete is still in the Army and just finished a graduate law degree at the JAG school in Charlottesville, Va. Pete and his wife, Melissa (and four kids), recently arrived in Germany, where he will manage the Kitzingen Law Center. It's a five-attorney law office in the 1st Infantry Division in Kitzingen, Germany. Let's hope it'll be awhile before the 1st Inf. gets tapped to go anywhere.

--William Higgins

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Great to be back in touch--thanks to Beth Curran Balter for a great job as correspondent. Keep the news coming--weddings, accomplishments, pets, anything! . . . I just returned from the wedding of Diane Decker (a veterinarian) to Nathanial Demerus at Copake Falls, N.Y. Those in attendance included Mike Pietraszek and Kristen Zier '94, Chris Reinhart and Sean Greene. . . . Carrie Smith and Tom Woodruff were married in Manchester, Mass., on September 6. . . . Sally Zimmerli writes that she and Tim Seston spent the summer on the Cape; both are teachers and athletic coaches at schools west of Boston. They often see Beth Cronin and Josh Bubar and their son, Duncan. . . . Andrea Krasker Gavin is in Portland, Maine, working on her doctoral dissertation. She recently saw Laurie Girard Eidt. . . . Jen Cowles is in Portsmouth, N.H., and is hoping to visit her twin sister, who's in China in the Foreign Service. . . . Crawford Strunk is now a first-year fellow in pediatric hematology/oncology at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland. . . . Dave McKee writes that he's a freelance writer and fly-fishing guide in Montana and hosts a giant fish fry each summer (can we all come?). . . . If you're in Denver, look for Warren Kelly's paintings--he recently had his first solo exhibition at the Cordell Taylor Gallery. He's also learning cattle ranching and wheat farming from his grandfather. . . . Two engagements: Jim Cronin and Monte Hoffman, and Mick Soth and Jimena Lopez. . . . Chris Chin lifted a few with Greg Burns after randomly meeting in Chris's Boston office building. Each is married with two sons. . . . Paul Butler was named principal of the Fairmount Elementary School in Bangor, Maine. . . . Mike O'Neil has joined Baynes Electric Supply in Brockton, Mass., as an outside sales manager. . . . Sarah Longden is an associate producer for Dateline NBC. . . . Mark Radcliffe spent three weeks biking the major climbs of the Tour de France (check out the photos at www.chasinglance.net). . . . Lots of babies: Matt '92 and Laura Fogarty Nerney welcomed William Kenneth Nerney on May 1; he's their first. . . . Jay Moore and wife Diane now have three boys (Owen, Ian and Patrick), ranging in age from several months to 3 years. Jay alternates between diaper changing and working for HP. . . . Paul and Amy Stickney Lavallee had a son, Joey, in April. They live in Maine, where Paul has abandoned beer brewing to work at UnumProvident; Amy is an occupational therapist. . . . Anna Marie Wrin Yombo and her husband have a daughter, Rachelle, who will be 1 on Christmas Eve. . . . Paul and Brandy Shafter Chapman welcomed daughter Connie in March; Brandy works at Liberty Mutual and recently saw Cristen Coleman (working at Fidelity). . . . Kristen Zilling Kreuzkamp has two little boys, and Laura Novak Steinbrink just got married. . . . Tom '90 and Jule Gourdeau Whelan had their second child recently, so they now have a son and a daughter. . . . Sean '91 and Jenny Dorsey Skaling had their first child (son Lawton). Jenny is a marketing coordinator at the University of Alaska and working on a master's. . . . Tom '94 and Jen Millard Seery live in Princeton, N.J., and welcomed daughter Elisa Cayla in August. . . . Kate Awtrey Fitzgerald recently left a job she loved (teaching special ed) to take another job she loves--being a full-time mom to daughter Madison and getting ready for the twins she and her husband are expecting. . . . Luke and Isabelle Gagnon Johnson had their first child, Linus, in June. Isabelle writes that she was sorry to miss reunion but looks forward to being class president. Please let Isabelle know if you'd like to be involved with the class.

--Krista Stein

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Kebba Tolbert started a new job at Portland State University last July. He is head coach and director of the men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field teams as well as both cross-country teams. He recently had dinner with Jon Thomas when he was at Stanford for the USATF Nationals. . . . Kristen Scheible Hanley is a visiting assistant professor of religion at Bard College in upstate New York. She and her husband, Pat '93, daughter, Aidan Louisa, and black lab, Ike, recently spent four days with Michelle Mathai and her black lab, Obie, on Martha's Vineyard! Michelle was training for a triathlon. . . . TJ Winick recently saw Melanie and Jonathan Kaplan, also on Martha's Vineyard. Jonathan is a writer for "The Hill" newspaper in Washington, D.C., covering the Republican beat. . . . Mike McCabe is an assistant district attorney in the special investigations/prosecutions unit of the Erie County District Attorney's Office out of Buffalo, N.Y. He has been in Buffalo for two years after moving from N.YC., where he worked in a Wall Street law firm. He was trying to buy a house in Buffalo and looking forward to going to his fifth-year reunion at Yale Law School in October. . . . Robb Aldrich is living in southwest Connecticut, working as an engineer for Steven Winter Associates. His main job involves helping home builders around the country design and build more energy-efficient, healthy, durable and affordable homes. . . . Amy Alderson Artmann and her husband, Michael, moved to Denver, Colo. They were livingin Pine Ridge, S.D., where she worked as a certified nurse/midwife on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Amy began work in Denver as a midwife/clinical instructor at the University of Colorado. . . . Jessie Newman is working for the Junior League of Denver. She was recently in the August edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine (page 64) for a Junior League event with Harper's Bazaar and Adrienne Vittadini. Jessie just bought a house in Denver's historic Potter Highlands neighborhood. For the second year in a row she was nominated by the Denver Business Journal as Top Business Woman in Denver. . . . Michelle Satterlee quit her job and left for a six-week trek to South America. . . . Kerry Enright Villalva graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in educational linguistics last June. She is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She and her husband, Max, are settling into their new house. . . . Emily Davis Wall and her husband still own their home in Juneau, Alaska, but are living in a houseboat in Vancouver. She is teaching a variety of writing and English courses, and her husband is in a degree program for architecture. . . . In May, Andrea Stairs received the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for her work preparing secondary school teachers for the urban context. She is a doctoral student and teaching fellow at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. . . . Marci Schwartz Cincotta and her husband moved to Westford, Mass. . . . Andie Sulak got engaged to David Bombard, whom she met years ago when they were both teaching skiing in Breckenridge, Colo. They live together in San Francisco and plan a May 2004 wedding in Lake Tahoe, Calif. . . . Michelle Tadros got engaged to Sam Eidson last June during a hike in the San Juan Mountains outside Telluride, Colo. The wedding will be on Cape Cod in July. Her bridesmaids will be her four senior-year roommates: Allison Guth Wells, Kimberly Valentine Walsh, Elizabeth Labovitz Smith and Jessica Matzkin, her maid of honor. Michelle currently works in business development for EchoStar Communications and lives in Denver, Colo., with her fiancŽ and their dog, Molly. Matt Lapides recently visited Denver with his expecting wife, Sara, and had lunch with Michelle and Kimberly. . . . Simon Walter and his fiancŽe, Corinne Brackett, moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., where they planned to be married in November. They both work for EF Educational Tours, which helps organize trips for teachers and their students all over the world. . . . Kent Bonham married Jaime Michele Gorgan on June 21 in Dallas, Texas. Kent is employed at Clark & Weinstock in Washington, D.C., and Jaime is a graduate of DePaul University and employed at The Eudy Company, also in Washington. . . . Bekah Freeman was to wed Louis Schulz in Connecticut on September 13, 2003. . . . Sara Barker was to marry Elliott Swarthout in Ithaca, N.Y., on October 11, with Elizabeth Bancroft as a bridesmaid. Sara and Elliott, both research biologists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recently bought an 1860s Italianate house that they're restoring. She's still racing road bikes when not working on the house! . . . Adam and Melissa Wilcox Kradel moved to Madison, Wis., where he is getting a Ph.D. in political science. Melissa is working as the Episcopal chaplain to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She and Adam were looking forward to Carolyn Read's September wedding in New Hampshire. Melissa was to be a bridesmaid while Adam officiated the services.

--Tracy K. Larsen

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