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Class Notes for 1994

Spring 2019

Who’s ready for our 25th reunion?! I can’t wait to see you all and find out what you’ve been up to for, oh say, 25 years. Let’s stop catching up over paper and do it in person. * Jason Sudano and his family moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he’s started a business. He’s super excited to see everyone at reunion. (If he can make it from Denmark, then no excuses from the rest of you!) * We have a new restaurant to visit this summer thanks to JB Blau. He’s opening his sixth restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard—a comfort food, BBQ joint named Sea Smoke BBQ. “Any current Colby students looking for a ridiculously fun summer should contact me for a summer job!” * Rob Underwood has joined FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation—a consortium of leading investment banks and technology companies such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citi, Github, and RedHat—as director of programs, where he works to expand open-source adoption in financial services. He also continues his work as cofounder, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, of the CodeBrooklyn campaign, which works to expand computer science into Brooklyn’s 400 public schools in support of the CSForAll initiative. Rob’s son Toshi and Stephanie Cain Sherman’s son Harold are in the same grade in Park Slope Brooklyn and play on the basketball team together. Small world! * Justin Brown has worked as a fourth grade teacher in Brookline, Mass., for 14 years. He recently became a climate organizer with the group 350Mass to grow the climate movement and help design and implement both advocacy and direct-action campaigns to push for a livable future. (Thank you, Justin!) He continues to play music, though not as much, and started playing tennis again. He married Erin Smith in August 2017, and they live in Boston. * Marina Netto Grande Campo met Paul Marnoto and his family in Orlando, and her senior-year roommate, Julie Ackerman Kaeli, in South Florida. She attended the Colby Dare Northward campaign event in Miami—“an amazing experience”—where she caught up with Karlene Burrell-McRae and others. Marina volunteers as an alumni interviewer in South Florida and enjoys sharing her passion for Colby. She’s looking forward to reunion! * Josette Huntress Holland took a new job as assistant head of upper school at Cary Academy. She also took her family to see Kamin McClelland Macomber and her family in San Francisco before taking a bike trip through Yosemite last summer. * Rima (Lathrop ’96) and Brian Carlson and their two daughters are spending a year in New Zealand, away from their Vermont home. They ran into a group of current Colby students, on an exchange program in Dunedin, on a hiking trail in New Zealand’s “Southern Alps.” * Colleen Brennan Thorndike lives in Southern California with her husband, daughter, and son. She can’t attend reunion because her daughter, Abby, graduates from high school that weekend. But Colleen’s positively influenced Abby, who will become a member of Colby’s Class of 2023 and the women’s soccer team. Colleen will head to campus in August for move-in day and in October for Homecoming. Heather Eskey plans to join her on the October trip. * Dave O’Shea ’93 and Carolyn Hart had a lovely, if chilly, January brunch with Kim Kessler Rubin, Kelly Moynihan Barry, and Donna Bacchiocchi in Portsmouth, N.H., at … wait for it … Colby’s Breakfast & Lunch. We are nothing if not on-theme. I know you’ve heard from Carolyn about reunion, but she finishes our column with this: “Would LOVE to see everyone in Waterville June 6-9 to celebrate our 25th reunion. If you haven’t been back in a while, you won’t believe the changes—but so much remains the same. It’s a fantastic weekend, and the College pulls out all the stops. Come back and network with old friends, make new ones, and celebrate 25 years of Colby memories and fun. Looking forward to seeing you!”

 
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