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

Scott and Kerry Knudsen Galson moved to Chicago last summer with their son, Avery. Scott is attending graduate school at Northwestern University and teaching in a Chicago public school. . . . Brendan Cavanaugh was to start a cardiology fellowship at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago this year. . . . Kaatje Van der Hoeven Kraft continues to teach geology at Mesa Community College in Arizona and is actively working with local teachers to bring up the level of science education in the state. Last summer she hoped to hike the last 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail. . . . Lisa Zorn, whom I see from time to time, has been working this last year in and around New York City at various hospitals as she finished her last year of medical school. She began her residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in the summer. . . . Jake and Darragh Fitzsimons Young expected their first baby at the end of August. They climbed Mount Washington in New Hampshire in May and ran into Leslie Campbell '93. Darragh is still working for her brother's software company in New York City, but she and Jake now live in the New Jersey suburb of Maplewood. "The plan was, house, dog, then baby," writes Darragh. "We ended skipping right over dog, going straight to baby, but we still can't wait to get a dog. What does that say about our parenting skills/expectations?" Darragh recently saw Lisa Kenerson, Rachel Lapkin and Cara O'Flynn at Lisa's great new condo in Burlington, Vt. Lisa moved there from Seattle, still works for Mercer and was thinking of buying a dog. Rachel received her master's in library sciences and has been working in Chicago restoring antique museum-quality books but was looking for a new job last summer. Cara also was looking for a new job; she's been living in New York City working in media research and is still dancing quite a bit. . . . Deborah Fletcher Muniz, her husband, Rafael, and their 2-year-old daughter, Amanda, moved to Southern California and like the West Coast life. She enjoys her time at home with Amanda as well as her new hobby: running marathons. She attended the weddings of Nikki Breen, Dee Loew and Jason Mahoney last summer. "It was great to catch up with Colby friends and see how life has changed," writes Deb. "E-mail (debmuniz@hotmail.com) if you are in the area and need a place to stay. We love to have guests." . . . Heather Beusse lives in Oregon and works in Intel's finance department. In her limited free time, she helped write the business plan, budget and several grant applications for GLOBIO (www.globio.org), a Portland, Ore., nonprofit. GLOBIO is working to build hands-on, interactive biodiversity education, including the tools and curriculum required to engage and motivate the world's children to address biodiversity issues. . . . Greg '93 and Alyssa Bensetler Suffredini live in Winchester, Mass., and report the birth of their second son, Kevin, in May. Their first son, Matthew, is almost 2. . . . Ned '92 and Kristen Hanssen Goodell had a girl, Zella Marion, in May. "I am taking a year off from my surgical residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center to do research so I can spend more time with her; I'll return to the ridiculous work hours and call schedule next year," writes Kristen, who also reports having Mike Murphy as a medical student during his third year at Tufts Medical School. Kristen regularly sees Julie Rentz, Maureen Finn Schwartz and Alyssa Falwell Ross and her two boys. "Julie keeps breaking her own records for being awarded grants and contracts to manufacture the laser-based measuring devices she invents," says Kristen. She, Julie, Maureen and Alyssa attended the September wedding of Ben Damon and Erika Schlicting, who met rowing on the Charles River in Boston. Kathryn Cosgrove flew in from London for the event. Her business, Chic Lets, leases high-end designer apartments to business travelers. . . . Jason '96 and Betsy Robinson Phillips welcomed Ethan Wendell Phillips on July 24, 2003. They reside in Portland, Maine, where Betsy is a dentist and Jason is the owner of All Elements Landscaping. . . . Douglas Macauley received his master's in business administration in 2000 from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and is again working as an investment consultant at Cambridge Associates, where one of his clients is the Colby College endowment. "[I'm] working hard to preserve those alumni donations," writes Doug. He recently passed the level 3 Chartered Financial Analyst exam and lives in the Back Bay of Boston. He has recently seen Christian Citarella and Betsy Robinson Phillips and reports that Christian has a daughter named Mattea. . . . Fred and Heather Johnson Webster enjoyed a great summer with tons of sun in Seattle. Fred still works for Glaxo Smith Kline and went on a golf extravaganza in Scotland for his 30th birthday in early August. "He shot a 75 on the old course at St. Andrews," writes Heather. She is still enjoying staying home with their daughter, Gwyneth, who is now 18 months old. She is also working part time in the business office at a local gym.

--Yuhgo Yamaguchi

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Ben Otto moved to Iowa City to begin a nonfiction writing M.F.A. at the University of Iowa last fall. Ben is regularly in touch with John Daly and Joy Christoferson, Jessica Boyles and Caleb Dolan, all of whom are well. . . . Tamela Spaulding Perkins was promoted to full teacher in a Northport, Maine, public school, where she's teaching 5- to 8-year-old kids with special needs. . . . In other teaching news, Rebecca Mawn teaches second grade in Littleton, Mass. She recently took a trip out to Las Vegas with Jenney Smith. . . . Maxime Hibon is working as an agent in France's biggest modeling agency, representing celebrities from the worlds of music, sports and cinema. Maxime asks if anyone has heard from Soren Palmer. . . . Mark Mortensen completed his Ph.D. at Stanford and is now an assistant professor on the faculty of management at McGill University in Montreal. . . . Keith Albert is working as a research scientist in a Portland, Maine, biotech company, and on August 2 he married Pamela J. Foster in Holden, Maine. In attendance were Matt Russ, Colby and Amy Ostermueller Wyatt, Kevin Rice, Mark Johnson, Lou Dagostine, Bryan Raffetto '95 and Diana (Dresser '97) and Greg Nehro. . . . Other recent weddings: Rachel Moritz and Matt O'Connell on April 12, and Bernadette Graham and J. Michael Hudson on February 15. Bernadette's maid of honor was Melissa Taylor Beckwith, who is currently doing her residency in Hershey, Pa. Nancy Zierman, who lives in Seattle, Wash., and Carrie Allen, who lives in New York, N.Y., were both there. Also in attendance were Woody '97 and Anne Robinson Pollack. Anne and Woody had their second child, Madeleine, on June 2 just before moving from California to Florida, where Anne is doing land-use law and Woody attends law school at Stetson University. . . . Other proud parents include Katie (Quackenbush '99) and Eric Gordon, happy to announce the birth of their son, Daniel Colby, on May 6; David and Kristin Boles Phillips, who have a new girl, Tabitha Louise; and Jim and Patti Abbot Arnow, who had Emily Rebecca on February 13. Ethan Wendell Phillips was born July 24 to Betsy (Robinson '95) and Jason Phillips, who started his own landscaping business in Portland, Maine. John Lovett and wife Allison had their first child, Juliana Hamilton Lovett, on September 3, shortly after John returned from a tour in Iraq. And Jason and Kathy Romeo Alexander had a second girl last April: Elizabeth joins Grace, who was 2 in September. Kathy writes that she often gets together with Sheila Grant Orphanides, who is living in R.I. with her husband, Chris '95; Gretchen King Rice, who with her husband, Kevin, recently bought a house in Framingham, Mass.; and Heather Hunt, who is living in Worcester and attending UMass medical school. . . . . Aran Ryan resides in Center City, Philadelphia, and just completed his fifth year in the hospitality and leisure consulting practice at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He and his wife, Alice Goldberg, celebrated their first anniversary in September 2003. . . . Chris McMath graduated from the Kigezi International School of Medicine in Cambridge, England, and Tina Garand Branson graduated from the University of Washington physician's assistant program and will be working in a women's health clinic. Tina and husband Paul are celebrating four years of marriage and daughter Emma's third birthday. . . . Hillary Brennan McKellar recently completed the Vermont City Marathon in Burlington, Vt., together with Betsy Low Bowen. Hillary also raised more than $5,000 in the American Stroke Association's "Train to End Stroke" in honor of her late mother and grandfather. . . . Anne Jurgeleit, currently working on her last year of a doctoral program for physical therapy, lives in Boston and is engaged to Chuck McCormick '89. . . . Rachel Sobek Shaw has two kids, Josiah, 3, and Lilyanna, 6 months. Rachel spends the majority of her time taking care of them but also tutors high school students in Spanish twice a week and coaches for the local YMCA swim team. . . . Ruth Bristol wrote that she was getting married on November 1 to Felipe Albuquerque and expected to see Cristina Pacheco, Carrie Califano and Chris and Cate Kneece Wnek in attendance.

--Mark Mortensen

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I might have missed a column here or there, and for that I apologize. Somehow, real life crept in. At any rate . . . Tanya Semels and Todd Brylinsky tied the knot on August 9, 2003. Liz Ward Saxl and Jen Atwood were bridesmaids; Kara Marchant Hooper was a reader. John Nykvist was best man, and Bob Doak and Brian Gemme were groomsmen. Ben Pratt was also in the house. . . . Greg Moody has a new job as an editor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He's considering going back to school for a second master's in fiction writing. . . . Marah Smith married Zachary Atwell in Rhode Island in June. She works for the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and lives in Cambridge. . . . Amy Stengel wrote, "So after three years of debauchery and misfeasance in New Orleans, I figured it was time to move on while I was still a semi-functional adult. I've landed, feet on the ground, in Boulder, Colo., where I'm working as an attorney in a small environmental litigation firm. I spotted Anna Hamlen's infamous graffitied Subaru in the supermarket parking lost last fall, and since then we've done our share of camping, hiking, bar hopping and dog walking." . . . Chad Higgins graduated from Georgetown Law Center in May and was studying for the bar exam. He was planning on joining Arnold and Porter as an associate this fall after returning from a two-week trip to Turkey. . . . Ashley Ring finished her M.S. in physiology and biophysics at Georgetown and started at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. . . . Mark McInnis completed his M.B.A. at Boston College last spring and was married to Darcie Villeaux in a Colby wedding. . . . Cindy Leclerc graduated from the University of Minnesota with a doctor of physical therapy degree. She moved to Montreal with her husband, Corey, who is a professor at McGill University in the chemical engineering department. . . . Kerri Duffell is engaged to Dale Murawski and thanks Mary Rosenfeld for setting them up on the date that brought them together. Kerri is a finance attorney in Boston. . . . Molly Bracken graduated from Stanford with a master's in education administration and returned to Princeton, where she works in the admissions office. . . . Mika Hadani Melamed returned from St. Petersburg, Russia, where she worked at the Mariinsky Theater. At the time she wrote, she was about to leave for another ballet tour in Denmark and then planned on going to Israel to visit her family. . . . Jennifer O'Neill is working for US Weekly Magazine in N.Y.C. . . . Wendy Morris works in development at Marin Academy in San Rafael, Calif. She was recently engaged to Marc Levine and plans a February 2004 wedding. . . . Liz Baker has returned from the West Coast and works at Harvard in donor relations. . . . Lucas Penney began his M.B.A. at Cornell, and Andrew Black, who is engaged, began his M.B.A. at Columbia. . . . Tony Rosenfeld, who is also engaged, moved back to Boston but is still involved in the culinary arts. . . . Dave Bruinooge moved to Italy, where he's in business school in Milan for an M.B.A. Prior to leaving the States, he produced a couple of episodes of VH1's I Love the '80s. . . . Hope all is well.

Kimberly N. Parker

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Jodi Beznoska is in graduate school in arts administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school. Last October 16 a new work she produced for Present Tense Theater opened in N.Y.C. . . . Jon Bolton was married to Jennifer Johns '97 in May 2003, and the couple resides in N.Y.C. Jon is in his third year of law school at Columbia University. . . . David Goldman and Beth Anderson were married at Tavern on the Green in New York in May. Jared Fine, Matthew Strobl, Andy Smith, Jon Bolton, John Brunero, Jenny Johns '97, Emil Thomann '00 and Karen Hoch '00 attended the wedding. David and Beth are now living in Yarmouth, Maine, where she is working as managing editor for People, Places & Plants magazine. David was to attend UMaine law school in Portland. . . . Justin Ackerman and Heidi Salley '97 planned to marry in the fall. . . . After several failed attempts and many roadblocks, Brooke Pisarsky and Sarah Morgan '96 are finally buying their first house in Bowdoinham, Maine. They're often seen hanging out with Holly Moirs '99 and her fiancŽ, Brian Pressley. . . . Dagan Loisel continues his Ph.D. work at Duke and was looking forward to the upcoming basketball season. . . . Steve and Amy Lyons Higgs lived in Anchorage, Alaska, last summer, working with two nonprofit conservation organizations and enjoying the mountains, glaciers and midnight sun. "We've never been better, despite the mosquitoes," they wrote. They returned to their home in Ann Arbor, Mich., where they are nearly done with graduate school in environmental education, conflict resolution and environmental law. . . . Betsy Kies writes that she got engaged last spring to Bill Raftery (Boston College grad) and will be married in May. She is living in Connecticut, next door to Chris Gates and Kristina Smith, who also recently got engaged. Betsy attended the five-year reunion in June with a few friends and says she had a blast: "It was great to be back on campus, even if it was for a couple of days." Betsy also wrote that Mary Ellen Shuttleworth graduated from Georgetown Law School and moved to N.Y.C., where she's living with Melissa Carpenter. . . . Mimi Sotiriou was engaged last spring, as was Graham Macmillan '97. . . . Ed Kostrowski writes that he recently proposed to Shannon Bagley. He moved out to Ithaca, N.Y., where he started business school at Cornell. . . . In March 2003, Jared Fine went on an all-expense paid three-week trip to Hawaii with his major professor to do research on fish that climb 100-foot-tall waterfalls. On days off they went hiking, snorkeling or walking around Mount Kilauea, an active volcano. He says the bottoms of his shoes are still a little melted. . . . Mike Cuzzi planned to leave his position with Akzo Nobel in Chicago to join Senator John Kerry's campaign for president. He'll be working in N.H. through the primary as site lead for campaign advance operations and thereafter on the national campaign staff. . . . Jessica Rice got engaged last summer to Chris Healey. They're getting married in Massachusetts in April. . . . Andrew Porter writes that he is building boats in Marblehead, Mass., at CW Hood Yachts. . . . Tara Falsani recently married Aaron Harkins, and both are attorneys in N.Y.C. Tara is a litigation attorney with Seward & Kissel LLP, and Aaron works for Thacher Proffitt & Wood. . . . Emily Taxson moved to Virginia after living in N.Y.C. for the past five years but continues to work in HR at Ernst & Young and enjoys singing in a 10-piece swing band called Big Ray & the Kool Kats. . . . Congratulations to Raja Bala and Liz Hooper, who got engaged last summer and recently moved in together in Cambridge, Mass. They plan a summer wedding. . . . And last summer I was married to Kristelle Aherne, who is a high school English teacher at Masconomet High School in Topsfield, Mass. . . . Enjoy the rest of the winter and visit beautiful Mayflower Hill if you're in the area.

--Brian M. Gill

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Steph Sharples is teaching ESL to elementary students in the Boston Public School System. Steph got engaged on Christmas Eve 2002 to her high school sweetheart, John Sulzbach. The wedding is set for this June. . . . Laurie Roberts is studying at the Yale School of Public Health. . . . Katie Frank planned to move to Baltimore to attend the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to get her master's of health science in behavioral science and health education. . . . Alex Wall survived his first year of law school at the University of Maine and did a summer internship in Augusta. . . . Steve Murphy worked as an administrative assistant at Travelers Aid, an emergency shelter program for homeless families in Boston, and then as a campaign associate for the 2000 Walk for Hunger. In July 2000, Steve entered the Peace Corps in Cape Verde. After teaching high school English and running youth development projects for two years, he was chosen to join a select group of third-year volunteers to establish a new Peace Corps post in newly independent East Timor. Steve completed his work as a Peace Corps volunteer in June 2002 and is currently a health promotion advisor. . . . Jonathan and Andy Hutchins Sickinger moved from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Durham, N.C., last July. Andy received her master's in social work from the University of Michigan in April 2002, and Jonathan began the M.B.A. program at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. . . . Patrick Cramb started work in the communications department at Putnam Investments in March 2002. . . . David Wilkens spent last winter in Stowe, Vt., and a few weeks in Guatemala during the spring. Dave and Molly Pindell had a bender with many Colby folks at Dave's house on the Cape in the spring. Dave led another trip for Overland Adventures in the summer of 2002, and that fall Molly and Dave moved to Boston. . . . Jon Zarecki started his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Florida in classical philology, exploring attitudes and prejudices toward foreigners in the second and third centuries. Jon also drank some beer with Tim Foley '00 in Gainesville a while back and planned to return to Colby for a visit. . . . Katie Haas is in Portland, Ore., learning to play the mandolin and working at a nonprofit community development group on a project to improve child-care quality and affordability in low-income areas of the city. Katie also has connected with the Russian community in Portland.

--Lindsay Hayes

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