I’m going to get right to it as we had a great response! * Lexi Grant married Ben Collins in September at a vineyard outside D.C., where they live. She still works as a writer and digital entrepreneur. * Bradley Petersen married Sara Gargiulo Nov. 11 in NYC. There was a whole pack of Mules—20 be to exact—at their wedding. *Rick Harbison married Heidi Walls this fall in Millinocket, Maine. Attending were Hal Hallstein, Mike Wiley, Jake Beren, Mike Lee, Aaron McCloskey, Nick Owens ’04, and Jay and Tracy Schloss Combs. Rick and Heidi bought a house in Portland, where Heidi is in med school and Rick works at a regional planning agency doing town/city planning. * Clay Smith and his wife, Samantha Collins, moved to the Denver area, where Clay works as an in-house attorney for a mercury emissions control company. They spend every extra minute on the slopes. * Kevin Brunelle opened his own accounting firm in Windham, Maine, and he’s expecting his third daughter in April with wife Kate (Wheeler) ’04. * Caroline Riss is an administrative law judge for the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. She focuses on child support case enforcement. Last summer she floated the Green River in Utah with some Colby alumni—lots of reminiscing! * Susan Ellsworth and her partner, Colin Dixon, are happily settled in Oakland, Calif., splitting their time between the city and the Sacramento Valley, where they grow peonies and harvest and mill olives for olive oil. *Jessica Kellett visited Emily Posner ’04 in New Orleans over Halloween, and she got engaged in November to Drew Zepernick. Jessica and Drew live in Hermosa Beach, Calif. * Jenn Brenneman Clements lives at Three Forks Ranch, where she’s lodge manager, on the Colorado-Wyoming border. She and husband Dave welcomed their first child, son Augustus, Aug. 17. Gus is an awesome addition to their lives. Jenn regularly sees Shelley Hughes, still at Kellogg in Chicago, Katie Altneu, still practicing acupuncture in Denver, and Marin Hoffman Kemnitz, still working for Target in Minneapolis and raising her two boys, 3 and 1. * Alex Yarbrough lives in Mill Valley, Calif., with his wife, Anna Zwahlen-Tronick ’02, and their boys, Wesley and Grayson. He works in San Francisco for a financial software firm and sees Nate Lindsay around the Bay Area. Matt Farley came up from LA for a long weekend. * Alicia Ford Pelletier introduced her identical twin girls, Emma and Erin, to Donna Pitteri in New Hampshire while Donna was visiting family. * Bill and Anna Carlson McCloy live in Rutland, Vt., with their girls, Elsa, 4, and Alice, 1—close to family and the mountains! * Erika Togashi left her job as men’s outerwear designer for J.Crew in NYC to go on a six-week surf trip to Sri Lanka and Bali. Six weeks turned into a few months … into now living in Bali with her boyfriend and designing for Deus Ex Machina. * Greg Sawyer, wife Annah, and kids Lylah and Jude live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Greg works at Maine Medical Center as an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon. * Bianca Belcher took an amazing vacation to St. John with Colby folks including Catherine Chuprevich ’04, Elizabeth Bomze ’04, and Kate Hurd ’05. * Tom Sterio and his wife, Caroline, welcomed their second child, Katherine, in early December. Big brother TJ is excited! * Luke Ferriter and his wife, Liz, had a baby girl, Lily, Nov. 30. They’re having a blast being parents. * Doug LaLiberte and his wife, Rebecca, were blessed with a baby boy, Wyatt, Sept. 16. They live in Owls Head, Maine, where their practice, Granite Coast Orthodontics, is doing well. * Alex Libby Wool had an eventful year. She earned her Ph.D. in art history in May, had a baby—Elizabeth “Libby”—in August, and then landed her dream job at the National Gallery of Art in December. She’s the assistant curator of northern Baroque paintings. *The year 2014 was also big for Erin Estey Hertzog, with a new job as director of reimbursement and health policy at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a move to a new (albeit 120-year-old) house on Capitol Hill in D.C., and the birth of her second child, Greta, Nov. 28. * Eric and Courtney Fry Lerch welcomed their third child in December. Siblings William and Catherine are excited about baby brother John. * While many of you have probably heard, I’ll note the passing of our classmate Chip Kennett—a life cut much too short. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers, especially his wife, Sheila, and two young children.
Spring 2015