On Labor Day weekend Shafeek Mohamed went camping and hiking with Amy Kyaw and Christopher Van Alstyne on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. * Dan Heinrich and Danny Wasserman went to Vegas with Sarah Switchenko ’08, Jen Li ’10, Ishan Singh ’08, Alex Pietroforte ’08, and Anuj Kapur ’10. * Lauren Pongan celebrated the wedding of Joshua Sadownik and Caitlin Coit ’08. * In July Adam Musial married Helen Chow at Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Chao Zheng, Qiamuddin Amiry, and Prabhdeep Singh were groomsmen, and Irina Cazan ’11 also attended. * Garrett Hatton and Sarah Gordon got engaged in June a few weeks after reunion. * This spring Kirstin Miller Swenson passed her comprehensive exams in school psychology at the University of Iowa. She married Tyler Swenson on her parents’ farm in July. This fall she plans on proposing her dissertation and applying for internships. * Nicole Crocker married Dustin Villarreain in Rhode Island Aug. 2. Lydia Pardini and RT Tourek attended. Dustin is earning his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Houston, and she’s working as a geologist at an oil company in Houston. * Kim Cohen married Christopher Neil ’07 last October in York, Maine—eight years after meeting him in Heights. Talia Savic, Rachel Baird, Maggie Hayes, and Michele Chu were lovely bridesmaids, and they also celebrated with Rebecca Kamins and Zac Helm. Last fall Kim started a Ph.D. program in ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown, where she’s an NSF graduate research fellow. * Ruth Langton works at the Newton Montessori School teaching first, second, and third grade. She’s also coaching a high school diving team. * Danielle Crochiere, Sarah DeLiefde, Caitlin Casey, Andrew Young, Steph Cotherman, Elissa Teasdale, Jason and Megan Schafer Hine, and Brad Cantor ’08 celebrated the wedding of Kristen Hitchcox to John Enright in Buxton, Maine. They ate lots of Maine lobster, danced their pants off, and ended the night roasting marshmallows under the stars. * Sally Drescher married Chris Pietrafitta (Syracuse) Aug. 16. Elizabeth Eaton ’11 was her maid of honor. * Sam Hoff began his final year at Boston College Law School. On Labor Day he and Alexander Richards were groomsmen as Josh Sadownik married Caitlin Coit ’08. The week before, Sam drove the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to L.A. and visited Logan King, Travis Townsend, Henry Sears, Sam Wampler, Andrew Cheit, Mather Neill IV, and Charlie Moore. * Brittany Canniff started her M.B.A. at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. * Chelsea Eakin works for the Paulson Institute and loves living in Beijing. * Ben Hauptman and Elyse Apantaku moved back to Waterville. Ben works at Winslow High School, and Elyse works for the state in Augusta. * Kat Brzozowski ’09 married Wes Miller ’08 in Richmond, N.H. In attendance were John Chung ’08, Nolan Gagne ’08, Skylark Sutton ’08, Ronnie Wise ’08, Keane Ng ’08, Hang Chang ’08, Jim Kelly, Patrick Boland, Andrew Cherne, Elizabeth Zagroba, and Casey Lynch. * Ned Warner is teaching preschool and playing lots of music in Vail, Colo. * Abby Sussman and Devon Anderson tied the knot in Vermont July 5 with 28 Colby grads in attendance. * Dave Metcalf was promoted to senior tax consultant at Deloitte, where he celebrates his three-year anniversary in October. * Elana Cogliano and Peter Perry-Friedman realized they both live in Brooklyn and have been sharing rides with each other ever since. * Ali Coughlin and Artie Cutrone got engaged in July on Martha’s Vineyard. They live together in New York City, where Ali works for Hachette Book Group and Artie works for the National Basketball Association. This May Artie completed a master’s in sports management from Columbia. * We are heartbroken to have lost our classmate Eitan Green during an avalanche on Mount Rainier in April. He was fulfilling his passion for mountain climbing as a guide for Alpine Ascents. Chelsea Eakin wrote, “Eitan taught me the value of breaking the rules and taking risks in order to achieve the most elated moments in life.” Joanna Fisher recalled visiting Eitan at Mount Rainier and running into people he had guided who raved about having him as a guide. “One of them said, ‘I would follow this guy anywhere. He really believed in me, you know?’ Eitan had the distinct ability to make people around him feel empowered, supported, and cared for.”
Fall 2014