Pawel Brodalka moved to Washington, D.C., to join PricewaterhouseCoopers’ strategy and consulting group. * Emily Goodyear Forgett, her husband, Kevin, and son Ryan relocated from Boston to Denver, where Emily grew up. * Isabelle Reining and husband Steve Bayes ’04 welcomed a new addition to their family Dec. 24—daughter Eleanor Marlow Bayes. They live in Petaluma, Calif., where Isabelle works as a sustainability manager at Straus Family Creamery and Steve teaches science at Marin Academy. * Courtney Smith married Martin Grzyb (Trinity ’05) in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 15. Margaret Trzyna Marks and Alex Ridder were in the wedding party, and several more Mules attended. * Ted Farwell and his wife, Katie (O’Neill) ’04, are enjoying their second year as expats in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ted rows on Lake Geneva with fellow crew alum Kevin Selby. * Emma Lynch Brown married Donald Brown at Black Mountain Lodge, nestled at 11,500 feet in the Colorado Rockies. Fellow Mules Eric ’06 and Beth Scherer Richmond, Heather Hansman, and Dana Gwinn were there to celebrate. * Former 2005 class couple Bill and Michelle Cote Gallitto welcomed baby girl Grace Dec. 24. Grace was warmly welcomed into the Mule family by her elder Mules, including Melisse Hinkle, Jake Colognesi, Bill Foley, Lily Maltz, and Cheka Gage. Bill and Michelle look forward to introducing Grace to the rest of the Colby clan at reunion. * Adrienne LeClair got engaged over the holidays to Jonathan Parrelli. They’ve been acquainted more than 10 years and both are taking over family businesses north of Boston (Parrelli Optical and LeClair Dental). A destination wedding is planned for November 2015 in the Mayan Riviera. Y Sarah (Belden) ’06 and Steve Markesich welcomed baby Maya Nov. 24. She was 7 lbs. 3 oz. and lives to eat. Sarah is back to work in her first year of residency at University Hospitals in Cleveland, and Steve is teaching high school science. Y On Nov. 1 Carreau Mueller and Jonathan Ryder ’02 were married on Nantucket. The festivities were punctuated by a Nor’easter that kept some from arriving and marooned a hardy group of Colby grads for an extra day and a half—Jared and Nicole Wessen Cushman, Courtney Morris Drauschke, Maureen and Matt Lynes, Steph Pierce, Heather Hansman, Melissa Plante Dubois, Katie Lucas Geant ’06, Jessica Pilcher, Nathaniel Hulme, Sheldon Stevenson, Katie Gagne Callow, Brad Kasnet, Tom Curran ’02, Blake Grosch ’03, Russ Mink ’02, Martin Schnermann ’02, and John Brownell ’02 were along for the adventure! * Rory Kelly and Jessica Hardy got engaged while apple picking last fall and plan an October wedding in Maine. Jess recently led the operational planning for the October opening of Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, the first new hospital in Maryland in 25 years. * Brendan and Amy Campfield Blake welcomed a baby girl, Bailey, in June. They continue to live in Denver, where Amy is completing her neonatology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado. They often see Lorraine Beane Baline ’04 and her baby, Lily, whom they hope will be Bailey’s freshman roommate when the girls join the Colby Class of 2036! * Think spring! I look forward to seeing many of you at reunion in June.
Spring 2015