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Volume 100 Issue 4 Winter 2012 Article 11

January 2012

Alumni @ Large

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This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. Boland ’83 and Buck ’78 Nominated To Be Alumni Trustees Susan Boland ’83 and Alexander 2011 she served on the visiting commit- years as chair of the board of Camp Kieve, “Sandy” Buck ’78 have been nominated to tee for international studies and chaired a nonprofit educational institution and boys’ serve three-year terms on Colby’s Board of the visiting committees for classics and for camp in Nobleboro. He is a past chair of Trustees as alumni trustees. French and Italian. Boland lives in Manhat- the Audubon Society, serves on the Boland is a part-time graduate stu- tan with her partner, Kelly Granat, and their Trust for Public Land Maine advisory board, dent at New York University, where she is daughter, Alexandra. is a founding trustee and chair of the Essex pursuing her Ph.D. in classics. She was a Since 1996 Buck has served as County Community Foundation, helped managing director and portfolio manager president of the Horizon Foundation, an found and chaired the Maine Environmental at Chilton Investment Company, where she education- and conservation-oriented Funders Network, and served on the boards specialized in European equities. Earlier family foundation in Portland, Maine, that of Audubon, Shore Country she was a portfolio manager at Credit makes grants in the fields of art, environ- Day School, and Pingree School. A Colby Suisse Asset Management, a director and ment, history, and leadership development. overseer, he was on an environmental stud- portfolio manager at Barron & Partners He earned a master’s degree in teaching ies visiting committee, and he has been an Ltd., a partner and portfolio manager at history at Stanford and worked at Pingree admissions volunteer. Teton Partners, and a portfolio manager School as history department chair and According to alumni association bylaws, and research analyst at Fidelity Manage- director of admissions; Applewild School, other nominations may be made by petition ment & Research Co. At Colby Boland ma- where he chaired the history department to the executive secretary of the Alumni jored in classics, was elected to Phi Beta and led the upper school; and Shore Council with signatures of one percent of Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude Country Day School where he taught fifth the members of the association. If there are with distinction in the major. She earned a grade. He lives in Cumberland Foreside no nominations before May 1, Boland and master’s degree in classics from Harvard with his wife Sissy. They have a daughter Buck will be declared elected by the chair of in 1985. As a Colby overseer from 2003 to and a son, both married. Buck served nine the Alumni Council.

1920s-30s 1944 1947 been a good year for them: illness-free Colby Colllege Josephine Pitts McAlary Meg Bernier Boyd and hope to stay that way. They now live Office of Alumni Relations [email protected] [email protected] full time in La Jolla, Calif. Y Dot Worthley Waterville, ME 04901 Cleaver still lives by the beautiful Kenne- Time is taking its toll on the Class of 1944. The Bob Madison couldn’t believe what he bec River, even after her husband, Chuck, 1940 good news first. Betty Wood Reed celebrated found in his attic when he cleaned out his passed on last year. She takes good care her 90th birthday on Halloween. Her family home in Stamford, Conn., where he lived of the house, boat, canoes, fishing gear, Ernest C. Marriner Jr. suggested a card shower for a celebration, so since 1960. Bob recently sold his house and [email protected] truck, and snowmobiles. She can’t ski I took it upon myself to send a card from the relocated to Mamaroneck, N.Y. He hopes to anymore because of a dropped foot but 1941 Class of 1944. Hope that’s okay with every- attend his 65th reunion at Colby in June. enjoys seeing children and grandchildren one. Congratulations to Betty! Y Judy Jones using all of the above. She writes poetry Meg Bernier Boyd Zimmerman sent an early Christmas card. [email protected] 1948 and books for her grandchildren, paints a She and Fred moved from South Burlington, little, and takes part in politics. She writes, Vt., to Essex Junction, Vt. She mentioned David and Dorothy Marson 1942 [email protected] “I’m thankful for the blessings of Colby and that she now gets around in a four-wheeler. retired life in Maine and especially for 60 Meg Bernier Boyd Y On Aug. 6 we lost Gabe (Gabriel) Hikel. Elizabeth Coombs Myers is delighted to [email protected] wonderful years with Chuck. He wrote me an He had a massive heart attack on his way to report that her Colby granddaughter, Lauren amazing letter before he died, so I’m doing Margaret Campbell Timberlake writes Sunday mass. His widow, Zanie, is a sister Corke ’10, is a Peace Corps volunteer in what he hoped I would do and am neither from Portland, Maine, that she spends many of Harold Joseph’s wife. Y I find being 88 Ghana teaching art to deaf children as lonely nor sad. Aren’t you all glad we lived mornings at the mall feeding a sparrow that quite surprising! I’ve now lived longer than well as computer skills to others. She’s when we did?” Y Aaron Sandler lives in has made its home there for more than two my mother, who died in 1977. She was Colby thoroughly enjoying the experience and Chicago now. His son, Matthew, made the years. Mall workers can’t get it to leave. Y 1913. My most recent trip was a five-day sail in the new friends she’s making. Since this arrangements. He lives at The Hallmark, Williamsburg, Va., resident Harry Hicks June on the Victory Chimes, the three-masted has been Lauren’s dream for a long time, a nice retirement building on North Lake says he’s lucky to be alive after 50 years windjammer that is on the Maine quarter. The Elizabeth is very happy for her and proud Shore Drive. He’s on the 28th floor with a of heavy smoking. He’s on oxygen part captain of that ship was one of my students too. Elizabeth was delighted to have lunch great view of the lake, marina, and all the time and tries to play twice a week, in junior high school, many years ago. He still and a wonderful afternoon visit in Chatham, boats. He writes, “I’m feeling well and hope although he skips a few holes each round. insists in calling me Mrs. McAlary. Mass., with Semonian Newlove ’49 in it continues. Guess I’ll have to get used to At 91 he’s still driving his car. August. She wrote, “It’s good to be in touch the weather. It is going to be different from with Ali-Rie March Miller, Jan McKenney Florida.” Y Carol Stoll Baker plans to be 1945 Murphy, and Deanie Whitcomb Wolf ’49. 1943 Meg Bernier Boyd at Singer Island in Florida this winter. Last How I do miss New England!” Y Selma and winter we had dinner with Carol and Fran- Meg Bernier Boyd [email protected] Ronnie Farkas took a 12-day cruise down [email protected] nie Hyde Stephan as they treated us to a 1946 the Baja, leaving from and returning to San celebration of our 60th anniversary. It was Diego. They’re considering a barge trip on good to see them so vibrant and beautiful. Meg Bernier Boyd the Columbia River in Oregon next fall. It’s [email protected] There was much conversation about our

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classmates. Y Howell Clement says he plans to move to a retirement community. anyone is in the Villanova, Pa., area, please in Waterville in June for reunion. If so, has snow, but it’s not deep yet. He notes At this point they’re looking in Wolfeboro give me a call. I would enjoy seeing you. In Anne and Russell plan to attend. Y Janet that our aches and pains are the price we and Concord, N.H., and Falmouth, Maine. the meantime enjoy life and mention Colby Hewins took a wonderful October trip to pay for a long life. It takes him about 30 Connie and Dick have grandchildren at the in your will. We need to keep our record of Italy—Rome, Florence, and Venice. “Lots of minutes to get things loosened up every Coast Guard Academy, George Washington the number of responses from our class. great art with excellent guides.” Y Nancy morning. Y Our granddaughter, Jessica University, Whitman, Hamilton, and Trinity Please send me news about your activities. MacDonald Cultrera appreciates every McNulty ’07, will run in the Boston Marathon and a high school senior who just finished Good luck to all. day now that she feels so well after a year in the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge. submitting 13 college applications! Connie lost to poor health. “Long live living in the She’s busy training and soliciting donations commented how great it is to turn to the moment” is her motto. Last summer she for this most worthy cause. Jessica is the 1950 column in the magazine and see news 1952 enjoyed get-togethers with her extended daughter of our daughter, Deborah Marson about our classmates. I think many of us Jan “Sandy” Pearson Anderson family: four sons, seven grandchildren, and ’75. We keep busy in Jupiter with visits feel the same. It would be so nice to hear [email protected] three great-grandchildren. She calls two of from the family, golf, and socializing with from you and know how and what you’re Evelyn Walker Mack and a friend took a her grandsons “famous.” Kyle, following in members of our club and our Colby friends doing. Use one of the following to get in two-week tour of the Northwest and Canada father Stephen’s footsteps, is in the NHRA who winter in Florida. Dorothy is active in touch with me at any time: betsymaley@ from Seattle to Glacier National Park to drag racing world. He’s won several trophies representing our community in Jupiter by yahoo.com; 479 Ridgeview Road, Orange, Banff to Jasper to Vancouver and back to and is also attending the University of North being the chair of the government liaison CT 06477; or 203-795-4207. Seattle. There was snow on the peaks in Carolina. Ryan, youngest son of David, committee. Jasper, so the scenery was spectacular has a degree in filmmaking from Emerson through the Canadian Rockies. Evelyn was College. He’s gotten funding to produce a 1951 off to Longboat Key, Fla., in mid-December film, and Nancy spent lots of time helping 1949 Chet Harrington for a few weeks. Y Edie Carpenter Sweeney him and learning about the film business. Anne Hagar Eustis [email protected] has written a book for her family and sent She’s honored to have the title of executive [email protected] To all the great classmates of “the greatest me a picture of the cover. Edie says, “Colby producer. Y At 81 John Waalewyn plays Not much news to pass on to you this time class of Colby history.” At least someone was an important part of my life.” Y Carolyn a lot of golf but is not getting any better! around. I did hear from Martha Loughman gave us that title. I guess it was because of Stigman Burnham is back in Sarasota, Fla., He talks with Sara and Dave Lynn quite Shepard, who sends in some news of a dif- the time in Colby’s history that we survived enjoying the sun for another winter. She often and sees Frank ’53 and Judy Jenkins ferent nature—a rave review for “rock and the transition to Mayflower Hill from the looks forward to a visit from Evelyn Walker Totman ’54, as they only live a half hour tone” athletic shoes. They “are the magic outdated campus in the center of town. Mack. After the winter, the Burnhams are away. John saw Joan Rooney Barnes ’53 words for me. Pain-and-cane have been We’re more than survivors, we were the always excited to return to Maine and their at Frank’s 80th birthday party in Kittery, my lot for several years following multiple settlers of the finest campus in northeast home at Wind in Pines on Sebago Lake. Y Maine. Y Roy and Betsy Fisher Kearney back surgeries. Then last spring I discovered America. Y As for class news, we need more Rod Howes and his wife of 57 years live in Caldwell were in New England for Roy’s these shoes and they turned my life around. responses. Everyone seems to be moving a retirement village in San Antonio. Rod is granddaughter’s wedding in September and Not only have they greatly reduced the pain, to other places, but the interest in Colby confined to the campus, as he uses oxygen took that opportunity to visit Els Warendorf they’ve improved my sense of balance so should still be our favorite collegiate topic. 24/7. “We’ve had a great life, traveled the Hulm ’51 at her home in Wolfeboro, N.H. that I no longer have to look at my feet Y Walt Russell returned to Connecticut world, and fulfilled my dreams of flying, from She invited Al and Joan Martin Lamont when I walk. Last summer I walked over and has a new address but the same hang-gliding to jets. My only Colby contact is and Mark ’51 and Eddi Miller Mordecai five floating docks without a cane or an e-mail. Y Dick Birch will return to Florida, John Dutton, who was also an AF pilot and for a mini-reunion. Everybody’s planning to arm to support me! Then I followed that as will Bruce Carswell and several others, played football with me.” Y In early October venture to Mayflower Hill come the 60th by a tramp in the woods with only a stick reunion. Y As for yours truly, I didn’t move for support. Hooray!” Martha reports that to CT in October after all. Improving health she went off to Ireland in April to trace her Lois Latimer Pan ’56 writes that someone in has allowed me to stay on the Cape a while roots and had a great time. Y Well, that’s longer. I’m anticipating a trip on the Mis- it for this column. I do hope some of you her Quaker retirement home in Maine noticed sissippi in April on the American Queen, will send me your news, however small it her Colby fleece vest (a generous gift from one a beautiful Victorian-era steamboat. How seems to you, for our next column. of our classmates for our 40th or 45th reunion ) about some of you joining me? Happy New Year. Stay well! and recited the following cheer: Tough as nails, 1950 Betsy (Dudie) Jennings Maley Hahd (sic) as bricks, Colby Class of ’56! 1953 [email protected] Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey I had a nice talk with Bud Everts and his [email protected] wife, Ellie. They have two granddaughters including Ted Shiro, who survived another I received e-mail from Rebecca Rogers that Hello classmates! As I type this “offering” and five grandsons. The two oldest have surgery and is back playing . He has read, “My dad, Norman B. Crook, passed at the end of November 2011, another year graduated from college, one from Ithaca a new address and enjoys Naples year away Oct. 4, 2011 in Alabama.” Our class just flew by for me. These years seem to and the other from Elon. Their grand- round. Ted’s grandson, Aaron Murray, is the sends our condolences. Y Russell Wallace go faster as we live into our 80s. Martin daughter Brooke works at an orphanage in quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs. Y I hasn’t done any travelling since Spain in Bruehl reminds us of this with the shortest Tanzania and is very happy with her work. spoke with George Wales and he is sorry April and a couple of weeks in Hawaii during news item I ever received. He said, and I Grandson Harrison, who goes to Gettysburg to have missed our 60th reunion. He is in June. He had a great summer in northern quote: “Still alive at 81.” Y Electra Paska- College, is in Copenhagen. Bud has given good health and continues to make furniture California. This fall he did some property lides Coumou left her home of 40 years in up tennis, (as have I) but still plays golf. Y and take long walks on the Denison College improvements at the Inverness retreat, Acton, Mass., to move to a condo just two Alice Jennings Castelli talked with Barbara campus along with his still-active wife, played, and improved his vision with two towns away in Hudson. She survived the Hill Millett. Barbara hopes to go to London Lorraine. Y Jane and I will be somewhere cataract removals. On New Year’s Eve he “dumping” of all the years of household in the spring to visit her grandson, who is in Naples for February and will look up all flew to Hong Kong for a trip he’ll report on accumulation, then took a rewarding trip studying there. Y Dick and Connie Leonard the Colbians we can. I still play golf every later. He hopes that the DU frat brothers to Italy for three weeks. They rented a Hayes have their condo on the market with day that ends in “y” and hope to continue. If from the Cape, plus Herb Nagle, will be farmhouse with three other couples in the

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[email protected] 42 1/11/12 9:53 AM Tuscany mountain area. She said that the Island, Maine, in his eight-foot dinghy. Ned’s Julius II, and Jo came to understand through need locally. Eric and she enjoyed Alumni drive to it on rough dirt roads was terrifying, writing includes completing a memoir he the film Cromwell the struggle between College at Colby last summer. What a with mountain heights on one side and deep promised his daughter and producing an commoners and the Stuart monarchy. She wonderful experience! “Before we left for ravines on the other. However, the views article about his father’s 50-year career as wishes “everybody a peaceful winter season home we got together at Harriet Sears from the farmhouse were spectacular and a book illustrator, writer, and teacher for and a bright new year.” Y “Greetings to my Fraser’s home and enjoyed seeing Jack worth the rough trip. Y Art Klein attended Illustration magazine. Every-other-month classmates,” from Elizabeth (Beth) Young and Ann Burnham Deering and Larry ’56 the wedding of Roger Huebsch’s grandson. luncheon dates with Carolyn English Caci Baker. “In April and May last year, Bob and and Jean Van Curan Pugh. Best wishes Although Roger and his wife, Susan (Smith ’53 help to keep fond memories alive. Ned I took a seven-week round-the-world trip for a great new year!” Y Karl ’54 and Jane ’54), are no longer with us, their spirits were and Ellie will, for the first time, flee the New to Thailand, Rome, Italy, India, Israel, and Millet Dornish love to go to Colby athletic there. Y Ginny Falkenbury Aronson wrote, England weather and spend time in Pacific Cairo. In June our twin grandsons (almost events. They saw the Colby-Bowdoin foot- as promised, about her 80th birthday in New Palisades, Calif. Y For Sue Johnson, trips to 8) flew alone to see us and filled the house ball game, “which was fun (but sadly Colby York City. She said her kids roamed Ellis a Danforth graduate reunion in Claremont, with lots of activity. We visited daughter lost).” The tailgate tent by Eddie Woodin Island and Ground Zero while she chose Calif., sightseeing in Savannah, Ga., with Jeanne and family in Redwood, Calif., ’69 was amazing! Jane writes, “Karl and I to do a walking tour of the theater district, a group from her retirement community, spent Thanksgiving with daughter Betsy loved the Boston Symphony. We’re taking a St. John the Devine, and Park Avenue. She and a western Canadian “Rockies by Rail” and new husband at their ranch in Boise, no-brainer wine class at Colby (no tastings dined on sushi, Chinese, Indian, Korean, excursion with a Road Scholar (formerly and will return to California for Christmas. yet, but we are hopeful for the last class!). and more. Being with her four kids was a Elderhostel) group were the highlights from Recently I have become a volunteer and I have read two Peter Mayle books to go real joy and especially meaningful for her last summer. Lifelong learning classes at will be tutoring the homeless and indigent along with the film. Our best to all!” Y Have 80th. Y Phyllis Whitcomb Laurin took a James Madison University are among the toward their GEDs.” Y Wheaton and Ellie a great new year! trip to in the early fall, and reports many offerings that keep folks young in Small Hudson hope “everyone had a good that the country is still very poor under heart at her retirement community. Small Thanksgiving and a merry Christmas.” Y Castro but some free enterprise was being world note: one of the residents in her Other Hawaiian vacationers were Eric and 1956 allowed. European tourists were present, apartment building is Barbara Jefferson Beryl Wellersdieck Piper, who visited their Charlene Roberts Riordan to her surprise. Y What would our news be Walker ’51. son and family who live there. They were [email protected] without a note from John Lee? He went on joined by their daughter. We talk often to Greetings to all! As I embark upon this new a cruise to Alaska aboard Holland America. Barbara Restall Horne, who spent Thanks- endeavor, my hope is that I shall perform the He had never been there, so enjoyed seeing 1955 giving with her daughters and their families task as well as my predecessors. Thanks to glaciers and whales. I think I just missed Kathie Flynn Carrigan in Big Bear Mountain. Sistie continues to all who wrote to wish me well and to start me John in Maine the first week of August. I [email protected] be her upbeat self. She volunteers for the on my epistolary way. Y The Sortors, Rose- dropped in at Colby on the second. John Andy Boissevain writes that, “Judy and I Alzheimer’s group that she founded in Sun marie (Crouthamel) and David, attended was actually in Belgrade and Smithfield, still and spent a couple of weeks on City. Barbara volunteers in an organization two Colby football games as their grandsons on North Pond. Being there reminded him the big island of Hawaii in March, which giving and other assistance to those in (at Amherst and at Bowdoin) were in the of his four summers at a resort on East turned out to be quite adventurous!” His Pond, where he started as a dishwasher two granddaughters arrived late at the Kona and ended as assistant manager in the airport. They couldn’t get back to their condo resort lounge. John’s daughter, Wendy, is in because of the big tsunami from that Baghdad and his grandson, Christopher, an was aimed at them. They spent eight hours Army captain, is in Afghanistan. Y Carolyn in a local safe zone (the shopping mall) in English Caci’s husband, John, passed away a “small rental car without a Termpur-pedic ’63 and Patricia Raymond Thomas ’65, P’88 Dec. 1. There were no further details at the mattress.” The year before, they were awak- time I received the news, but we send our ened at 6 a.m. and ordered to evacuate Supporting the Liberal Arts sympathy to Carolyn. Y Thanks for news! to a local tsunami safe place! The moral is that if anybody from Colby wants to go The Thomases had some valuable assets that weren’t to Hawaii, check and see if Andy and Judy earning anything. By creating a charitable remainder 1954 are there; if so, don’t book yourself at the unitrust at Colby, they started earning 6 percent Art Eddy same time. Another trip was six weeks from those assets and received a tax [email protected] to Austria for hiking, a trip to Landstuhl, deduction as well. Lindon Christie writes from Las Vegas , (where wounded soldiers from “It’s now paying us about (where he plans to remain until his Iraq and Afghanistan were first evacuated), forty-five thousand dollars a runs out) that he’s “staying well.” Y Judy and, finally, to Amsterdam to see Andy’s year,” said Tom. “I can’t imagine Jenkins Totman loves every minute she brother. Otherwise, they hang around the anybody better with whom to Y spends assisting folks who need help at north Olympic Peninsula enjoying home. establish a CRT. Colby does this time of their lives. Y Lois McCarty Lee Culver Johnson and her hubby made a great job, and that’s Carlson recalls fond memories of her it back to Florida after being caught in the something I can be courses with Mark Benbow, which she Halloween snowstorm in New Hampshire. proud of.” credits with making her a critical thinker. Y They went on a cruise in November and then Alan Lindsay is in a rehab center because got ready for family to arrive the day after of a very bad fall. Yvonne reports that he is they returned for Christmas. Y Jo Bailey Let’s talk not doing very well, but his dedication to Campbell just finished a great course with Susan Conant Cook ’75, P’11 Colby continues to be strong. Y Ned Shen- Coastal Senior College called Monarchs, [email protected] ton continues with his energy consulting, Martyrs and Mystics. Her teacher, Char- 800-809-0103 which includes selling insulated shades. marie Blaisdell, shared the same mentor Equipment problems kept him from using with Colby History Professor Larissa Juliet Want to learn more about Tom and Patti Thomas? his sailboat this summer, but he did a good Taylor. Films and lectures included the deal of dubbing around the harbor on Peaks conflict between Michelangelo and Pope See special section on inside cover or visit www.colby.edu/willows

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line-up for their respective schools. There from Revolutionary days. The reviews have new association she will be able to focus in September. Deb reports, “Though for the Amherst game were Tess and Jube been favorable! Y Please continue to send on ministries of her special interests. In there were no star sightings this time, we Jubinsky (from Hawaii), Peter and Hope news as it is so easy to do in this age of January she sang in a recital with a young did sing in Vezelay, Lyon, Arles, Monaco, Palmer Bramhall, Paula and Peter Lunder, “instant communication.” mezzo-soprano in Madison, N.J. Later that and Chamonix. On 9/11/11 we sang two and Kathy McConaughy Zambello. They all month Mikki traveled for a month to Aus- concerts in exquisite village churches had a great tailgate lunch before and dinner tralia and New Zealand. Y Shirley Transue tucked into the French Alps. Fun for two afterwards. Harry and Lyn Brooks Wey, the 1957 Cram e-mails her best wishes. She’s had Colbyettes from long ago!” Y Ellie Forten- Sortors and Kathy joined the Bramhalls in Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue a busy year with the Hartford Chorale. In baugh de la Bandera will be doing Spanish Falmouth for the Bowdoin game. Hope and [email protected] June the group sang two major choral works, translations for the Lee County (FL) board Peter now call a “house-a-minium” their new Well, HELLO! Now that I have captured and the concert was a rewarding evening of elections—the result of her e-mailing down-sized home—enough space and less your undivided attention, don’t forget for Shirley, who was celebrating her 76th them about a sample ballot in the local maintenance! Y Football does help some that this year (May 31-June 3) is our 55th birthday. It also was a bittersweet occasion, newspaper in which the “translator” had of us to stay connected. The Sortors have reunion. Much more to come about that marking her resignation from the chorale translated “ward” (as in ward 1, 2, 3) as a grandsons who are or have been students from the College in the next few months! after 35 years, many of them spent as chief person: ward of the state. Double aWARD for at Darien High School, where I teach, and Y Peter and Jeanne Arnold Jeffries, M.D., financial officer. Y Fall of 2010 found Arlette careful proofreading and civic involvement! one played football, so to the Turkey Bowl took their annual trip across the country and Mac Harring hiking in Vermont and Y In the fall Tony Kalloch flew from Boston we have gone at Thanksgiving and later, to Utah (record snowfall there), stopping enjoying bird hunting in Massachusetts; in to LA to attend his son David’s wedding. in June to graduation. Y Lois Latimer Pan “Thought that would never happen, since writes that someone in her Quaker retire- his brother, Bruce (older by four minutes), ment home in Maine noticed her Colby Ellie Fortenbaugh de la Bandera ’58 will has been hitched with two beautiful children fleece vest (a generous gift from one of our for about 10 years.” Tony and three friends classmates for our 40th or 45th reunion ) be doing Spanish translations for the Lee were headed to Pebble Beach to play some and recited the following cheer: Tough as County (FL) board of elections—the result of her golf. “A Christmas present we are giving nails, Hahd (sic) as bricks, Colby Class of each other.” Y Helen Payson Seager is ’56! I admit that I, too, wear said vest—I e-mailing them about a sample ballot in the bursting with pride about her “children.” love to sport the Colby name! Y Susan local newspaper in which the “translator” had Mary solves accounting problems for small Miller Hunt had a wonderful lunch with translated “ward” (as in ward 1, 2, 3) as a person: businesses in Alexandria, Va., by coaching Brian and Sheila McLaughlin Freckman them through Quickbooks and is rising in Dillon of Australia as special guests. After ward of the state. Double aWARD for careful the certification ranks ofI ntuit’s endorsed Jim Freckman’s death, Sheila connected proofreading and civic involvement! technicians. Son Tom is teaching at Arizona with Brian, a work-related Australian friend. State University and developing methods As we say, the rest is history! The Dillons of teaching moral decision-making and return yearly to the U.S. to visit with their ethical reasoning to graduate students. respective children. They had hoped to along the way for genealogical research. October, they played tourists for a week in Myra runs a landscape design, installation, make reunion, but it didn’t work out this Jeanne is president of the Sheldon Family London. After enjoying one of the best ski and maintenance business out of Peekskill, time. Completing the dining group were Association, and they attended the 72nd seasons in years, the Harrings are selling N.Y., and is the catalyst behind a downtown the Sortors and Janet Stebbins Walsh. Y annual meeting in Portland, Ore. Also on the the home that Mac has lived in since 1964 daffodil-planting project near the Hudson Joan Williams Marshall attended her 59th docket in May was her 50th reunion from and bought a condo in the same town, River. “All three are so imaginative that I Weymouth High School reunion as did Linda B.U. medical school, followed in July by a Acton, Mass. They also sold their trailer keep asking myself where they came from!” Burrage Sprague. Later there was a girls’ two-week trip to Bosnia with Peter and their and big diesel truck and will concentrate Y Dragging their travel trailer to Prince lunch with Joan Arcese and Janet Steb- daughter’s family. October brought the birth on international travel. Y Singing with the Edward Island and back in September was bins Walsh. Other Colbyites the of a grandson, their son’s first child. Quite Colby Eight at reunion in June was great fun a fun trip for Dave Adams and wife Pam, saw on the Cape this summer were Sherry a year, all told! Y It was wonderful to hear for Tom Brackin. Peter Merrill still leads largely because that area differs so from and Don Rice, Edith and Tom LaVigne from Janet Mittelsdorf Lumsden! Due to the group and Tom and Bo Olsen are “still the Maine coast. It’s much less rock-bound ’58, Loretta and Don Crowley ’58, and her husband’s business transfer, they’ve able to keep up and still in tune.” Peter and more agricultural. “What appealed Fred (Brownie) Brown. Y Brian Stompe been living outside Dallas for the past Re and his wife were there as steadfast most was the great bicycling along lonely has been living in Novato, Marin County, 35 years. But Janet is still a true Yankee fans, bringing out the very best from the paved lanes with the crashing ocean on north of San Francisco, in the same house at heart. She and Don have raised three group! During the summer, Marilyn and one side and the sloping fields of yellow since 1970. He wanted to make reunion, children and now have seven grandchildren Tom took an enjoyable week’s vacation at grain or potatoes on the other.” They were but a canoe trip with Charlie Rice’s two and one great-grand, all living within 50 Christmas Cove on the mid-coast of Maine, planning a Thanksgiving feast at a state park sons had already been planned (Charlie miles of them. Janet attended the November with perfect weather as a bonus. Y For our near Atlanta with their son and his family. died in 2008). Brian says that he is trying wedding of her grandson in Dallas at the last column, the College was kind enough Y John ’55 and Jane Daib Reisman took to get better health care for CA and the beautiful Fountain Plaza. Y We all hear to edit the piece to our limit of 650 words. their annual summer trip to Maine, where U.S. He and his wife of 53 years, Susan, about the ordeals of infirmities, but when Your responses are so greatly appreciated for 11 years they have rented a cottage are active in city and county planning and I talked to Janice Thomson Christensen but I have to be vigilant in the amount of with Jack and Susan Bower Hendrickson. conservation. Y Ann Lowery moved back recently, I could not believe my ears! Jan information sent in. In fairness, I shall try Joining them for a day of fun were Bob ’56 to New Hampshire at the Weirs in Laconia, had endured a miserable bout with, of all my best to edit any repetition. Thanks for and Fran Wren Raymond, Bill and Cindy right on Lake Winnipesaukee. Sounds things, whooping cough! It was tough to your understanding. Allerton Rocknak, and Olin and Willie great! Active in her church, she serves as diagnose and then conquer, but she has McDonald Sawyer. They met Kathy McCo- cochair of the staff parish relations com- since recovered fully. Y In November Mikki naughy Zambello ’56 for lunch and spent a mittee and sings in the choir. After many Chomicz Manno had a very special event 1958 day with Mark ’54 and Larry Walker Powley years running libraries, she looks forward take place in her life. She became a new Mary Ellen Chase Bridge ’54. “Connecting with our Colby friends has to personal reading time. Y Jackie Huebsch Seton associate of the Sisters of Charity [email protected] become more and more meaningful as the Scandalios’s son, Michael, published his of St. Elizabeth. Mikki stressed that she Marian Woodsome joined Deb Robson years go by.” Y Jean and Don Kennedy have first novel, Privateer, about a naval hero is not becoming a nun, but through this Cobb and her group to sing across southern spent major holidays with Dave ’61 and

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[email protected] 44 1/11/12 9:53 AM Patsy Houghton Marr ’61 since reuniting flew to Connecticut for Christmas with son with them at Wesleyan in 1963. Since Christopher and two grandchildren. Y Peter retiring as a superintendent of schools in The Dallas school system chose Mary “Molly” and Virginia Clark Heyler have lived in Mis- 2000, Don has been director of planning Lynn Watt ’60’s poem, Civil Rights Update, soula, Mont., for an unbelievable 13 years. for the nonprofit New England School to be paired with Dr. Martin Luther King’s They have six grandchildren. In September Development Council in Massachusetts. they celebrated their 50th anniversary. They In recognition of his work in leading teams I Have a Dream speech in the ninth-grade flew to Alabama to see their son, Scott, but to assist more than 200 school districts curriculum. She’s finishing a poetry manuscript, were surprised to find their entire family. across New England, Don was presented After that they took a spectacular trip to in May with the cooperative leadership On the Wings of Song, set in the civil rights Iceland. Y Janet Grout Williams enjoyed award from the National School Develop- movements, and is teaching a poetry course at a lovely fall in northern New England and ment Council; this is only the third time this the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. was not seriously affected by the Halloween award has been made. Congratulations! Y snowstorm. Y Sandy Myers Paap visited Last summer when I visited Ginny Angney Colby last summer while in Maine to attend Bushee in Morgan, Vt., we saw Hairspray at her 55th reunion at Gould Academy. She the across-the-border theater I wrote about the Sudbury Valley trustees. Mary Jane is Doug ’58 and Judy Ingram Hatfield traveled planned to attend our 50th but missed earlier. In August Susan Sherman White, a talented Nantucket basket maker and to India in October to visit their daughter and out due to last-minute family concerns. Dot Greenman Ketchum, Carol Conway an active grandmother with a daughter family, who are doing research in Delhi. They She didn’t get to see roommate Jo Deans Denney and I had a wonderful week at a and granddaughter in Taos, N.M., and a spent time in Mussoorie in the Himalayas, Auchincloss before Jo’s untimely death last camp in Stockbridge, Mass. We went to son and two granddaughters in Sandwich, where their daughter lives, and took a week- spring. Sandy lives happily in Wisconsin, performances at Tanglewood and Jacob’s Mass. Y Joan (Crowell ’60) and Skip Tolette long train ride touring Rajasthan. Y Skip ’59 but hasn’t given up the idea of moving back Pillow, a play in Lenox, the Clark Museum continue to be blessed with good health and Joan Crowell Tolette split their time to New England to be closer to family. Y in Williamstown, and the Norman Rockwell and happy times. They now split their time between Thousand Islands, N.Y., and Vero Eunice Bucholz Spooner continues living one nearby. A great mini-reunion! I recently between the Thousand Islands, N.Y., in Beach, Fla. They spend time with Keet ’59 at home with the help of aides, which caught up with Sally Fritz on the Cape. summer and Vero Beach, Fla., in winter. and Bev Johnson Arnett in Vero. Visiting means keeping her Great Dane puppy, Y Best to all and keep the news coming. They enjoy four delightful teenage grand- their son Mark ’83 on Vinalhaven Island, Delilah. Her son, Peter, took her to lunch children. They practice fractured medical Maine, is a great excuse to drink butter Dec. 2 to celebrate 29 years of living life to care—they have doctors and dentists in (mixed with lobster). When returning from its fullest since her auto accident. Eunice 1959 Florida, northern New Jersey, southern New Maine they visited Julie Klafstad Runnells took two cruises in January, one on the Joanne K. Woods York, and northern New York. They often see and Dottie Baldridge Dzenis in Concord, same cruise as Ken Nigro’s Red Sox group [email protected] Eve and Ian Tatlock, who also are in the N.H. Y Pete Henderson retired from the and the other with her youngest son and Congratulations to Fred and Carol “Sanka” Thousand Islands, reachable only by one’s Air Force in 1980, got his doctorate, and his fiancée. Y Barbara and Ronald Weber Sandquist Banister who celebrated their own boat (and there are no stores). Skip became a professor. He taught at Auburn went to Ocean City, Md., for their 50-year 50th anniversary this year. Sue Taylor, spends a lot of time in his small barn on University, UMaine, and Faulkner University. reunion with four guys who’ve known one who stood up with them when they were Grindstone Island (the fourth largest of the Pete retired again after 9/11 and started another since age five. They also see Gale married, attended the anniversary. All of 1,860 islands in “the Thousand Islands”). fundraising. He and wife Jane have two and Mike Silverberg. Y In September Juan their children are scattered throughout the They see Jack Pallotta in Florida and get to daughters and six grandchildren. They sail and Jane Holden Huerta spent a wonderful country so it was the first time they were spend fun time with Bev (Johnson ’60) and and travel, including an annual trip to Maine. week in New York celebrating the wedding all together in a long time. Fred and Sanka Keet Arnett in Vero. They also see Karen Pete enjoys reunions with the Colby Eight. of their son, Jon ’95. Jane was thrilled to have four children, eight grandchildren, and (Beganny ’63) and Skeeter Megathlin and Y Steve Curley went to Brunswick for the see Robin Ottaway ’95, Foster Klug ’95, four great-grandchildren. Y Elaine (Healey walk the beach and play golf. Joan also plays Colby vs. Bowdoin football game. Y Peg and Mike Keller ’95. Jane and Juan took the ’62) and Paul Reichert had a busy summer. tennis and still skis. (Alta, Utah, is their Jack Johnston keeps busy traveling with auto train to NY and drove back to Florida. They went to their son’s home in NH, where favorite area). Joan and Skip’s son, Mark one or more of her three sons and seven Y The Dallas school system chose Mary they painted his house (“cedar shakes are ’83, built a cottage on Vinalhaven Island, grandchildren. She is involved with Rotary, “Molly” Lynn Watt’s poem, Civil Rights not fun”). Then they visited their son in MA Maine, and visiting is a great excuse to drink where her passion is spreading awareness Update, to be paired with Dr. Martin Luther to build a tree house for their grandson. butter (mixed with lobster). Y Louise (Robb of the need to eradicate polio. Y Jane and King’s I Have a Dream speech in the ninth- In between they attended the high school ’60) and Art Goldschmidt moved to Foxdale Ralph Galante live on Merrymeeting Lake grade curriculum. She’s finishing a poetry graduation of one of their granddaughters. Village Retirement Community, which is in New Durham, N.H., from May to October manuscript, On the Wings of Song, set in She graduated number one in her class and approximately one mile from where they and in Bonita Springs, Fla., the rest of the civil rights movements, and is teaching was also the top female athlete/scholar. lived for 44 years. Art says, “downsizing, the year. They golf and travel to visit kids a poetry course at the Harvard Institute for She will attend UVA in the fall. Upon arriv- packing, and unpacking were stressful.” Y and grandkids with a trip overseas every Learning in Retirement. Civil Rights Update ing back home they received an offer on Please keep the news coming. I love hearing other year. Y Judy Allen Ferretti serves can be found at www.colby.edu/mag on our their house and moved in with their son from classmates. on two nonprofit boards: Elderhostel/ class notes page. and his wife in Spofford, N.H., while future Road Scholar and a local nursing home/ plans are made. They left Florida ahead of rehabilitation center. Judy gave her husband Irene and arrived in NH in time to enjoy the 1960 a trip to Hawaii in March to celebrate his 1961 rain and the loss of power for two days. Jane Holden Huerta “significant” birthday. They’re going to the Diane Scrafton Cohen Ferreira Y Carol Holt Case and Mary Jane Davis [email protected] Kentucky Derby in May. Y John Vollmer and [email protected] Smith meet periodically for lunch midway Roberta Jeromin Nelson, who lives in wife Diana spent Thanksgiving at their farm Our president, Steve Chase, tells us that between Carol’s Wayland and Mary Jane’s Brazil, enjoyed reunion and hopes to go in Missouri with 35 of Diana’s family. For photos from our 50th reunion are now Yarmouthport (MA) homes. Neither can again! She and her daughter took a cruise John, a former Swedish citizen, it’s fun to online. Go to www.colby.edu/alumni and believe she’s known the other for more than to Scandinavia, and she loved Estonia. She celebrate a “true American” event in the click on the reunion tab. Y Elizabeth (Betsy) 50 years! Carol continues to keep her hand also visited Richmond for her grandson’s heartland. They went to South Africa, includ- Harper Hopler died in November. Betsy in writing and designing by doing volunteer fifth birthday and will travel to the U.S. in ing a safari, in December. After celebrating majored in American literature, was an work for the Wayland Council on Aging and April for her granddaughter’s christening. Y son Mike’s birthday in San Francisco, they editor of the yearbook, and also worked

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on the Echo. She was a member of Alpha Y Peter Denman said he finally received his Delta Pi. Y Tom Kirkendall writes: “Fifty reunion book! Colby listed just his street years ago, not only did Dotty [Boynton] address, not his post office box. Here is Gary ’62 and Peggy Bone Miles ’62 send and I graduate together, but we married one his and Susan’s correct address: P.O. Box news from California, where Peggy teaches week later, so 2011 was a big year for cel- 660, Kapaau, HI 96755. Y Finally, Liz (Rowe ESL to adults, despite cutbacks in the ebration. Although we didn’t get to reunion ’63) and Beverley Lapham celebrate their because of medical issues, we consum- 50th anniversary in February. They’ll be in California budget, and Gary volunteers with mated our pent-up desires for a four-week Tanzania on safari on the Serengeti Plains. an organization that supports former foster cruise of Pacific Islands including Hawaii Beverly says, “So if the tent’s a-rockin’, (Aloha, Diane!), Fiji, American Samoa, and don’t come a-knockin’!” Yup, youths, runaways, and wards of the court. Pago Pago, with an additional two weeks of 1961—still kickin’! Aloha! cruising New Zealand and Australia. We still enjoy frequent sails in the Caribbean with children and grandchildren.” Y Bob Di 1962 homes. They spent time in New England last her friend and Michael (McCabe) and me. Napoli pens, “No big news but did want to Patricia Farnham Russell summer, including three nights with Colby Y Michael and I are back in Atlanta for the say hello. Remembering what fun I had at Nancy MacKenzie Keating roommates Cynthia and Sandy and their winter, with plans to travel to Alabama and reunion. Had small cancer removed from [email protected] husbands at Cynthia’s Vermont “paradise.” the Florida coasts. We’re busy helping to my tonsils in July. No big deal but maybe Lots of news—let’s get started. Y Joanne Y Peter Duggan, after two years of trying, make our 50th reunion this spring a great another surgery in December. How lucky to Herbold Clarey is back from a month-long sold his home on the Hudson River and experience, and we encourage everyone be living in the 21st century, when modern residency at the Jenney House in Nova will retire to Naples, Fla., spending four to attend. See you then! medicine makes none of this a death sen- Scotia awarded to her partner, artist Anne summer months in the northeast. Anyone tence. (Gene Rainville will be glad to know Garland, and her. They collaborated on a have a “small house with a view” they’d I lost six pounds recovering, since I couldn’t nature book featuring Anne’s sketches and like to rent? He retired as chairman of the 1963 eat much for days.)” Y Tom and Marilyn Joanne’s essays. Joanne has published board of the Storm King School after nine Paule French Blom Evans, featured in many reunion two thrillers and four mysteries and is years, a very rewarding experience after [email protected] photos, wrote, “The 50th reunion was so challenged by the genre change. Y Dick decades of “corporate America.” Peter On a recent trip to Italy, Al Carville found much fun. Thanks to all the classmates who Mittleman attended a Colby reception in hopes to attend our 50th reunion. Y Toshi the lessons of Colby art history and made such a nice weekend possible. As we Rhode Island, where he renewed friend- and Jean Gaffney Furuyama still work part architecture classes served him well. After mentioned to many, we stayed on in Maine ships and met new alumni. He and his wife time, Jean three days a week for the buyer Rome he cruised both coasts and visited for the rest of June in a vacation rental at spend most of the winter in Fort Lauderdale of her practice, doing expert witness work, Monaco, Sicily, Greece, and Montenegro. Owls Head. Our three children joined us and plan a 50th anniversary trip to Europe, and lecturing at various dental meetings. In August Rod Pierce and Al visited Ralph there and, combined with reunion, made regrettably ruling out our 50th reunion. Y Y With a European river cruise, Jim and and Gail Price Kimball in Boothbay Harbor. our entire vacation very special.” Y Bob ’59 Peter Leofanti took a few friends (John Susan Welch Bishop celebrated their Y Last September Bill ’62 and Barb Haines and Wendy Ihlstrom Nielsen had a great McHale, Jay French, Ed Hayde, Doug 50th anniversary and her fifth year as a Chase had an adventure in Beard’s Fork, time at reunion and enjoyed seeing so Mulcahy ’63, Terry MacLean, Jay Webster, cancer survivor. They play golf as often W.V. Although Barb says she knew less many of the class return. They live on the and Cy Theobald) to the Colby-Bowdoin as “stamina allows” and plan a trip to the than the students about construction, they Connecticut shore in Niantic. Most of their football game Nov. 12, only to watch Colby Masters in April. She keeps up with Jan Cole rehabbed, insulated, taped, and mudded post-reunion summer was with family from go down in defeat. However it was a good Courant, and Jim recently reconnected homes. It was a great team experience Virginia. Bob and Wendy also celebrated time, and tailgating Eddie Woodin ’69-style with John Sheldon. Y Gary and Peggy in a beautiful place. Y Since Beth Brown their 50th anniversary and send, “Best to was fantastic. Michael and I also attended Bone Miles send news from California, Turner got her doctorate, in August at the all for a good winter and good health!” Y and met up with Dick and Jeanie Banks where they “still swim in the Pacific every University of Georgia, she’s applying for Scotty MacLeod Folger reports the “Colby Vacco. Y Brenda Wrobleski Elwell Gott- morning, year-round.” And without wet postdoctoral fellowships. Y Our condo- Varsity” met in September at Liz (Rowe ’63) schalk traveled to the former Republic of suits! Peggy teaches ESL to adults, despite lences to Frank Kirby’s wife, Jacqueline, and Bev Lapham’s in Meredith, N.H., for Georgia, where she “saw enough monaster- cutbacks in the California budget, and who wrote that Frank courageously battled “three days of good conversation, special ies to keep me holy the rest of my life.” For Gary volunteers with an organization that kidney cancer until his death. Y To see music, excellent food and drink, great walks, Thanksgiving she headed to Yellowstone supports former foster youths, runaways, what Ralph Kimball’s been up to in along with fun activities like kayaking and for several days of wolf watching and in and wards of the court. Their son and family retirement—playing on a team ! Captain Lapham’s ’sundowner February will do a “girlie getaway” to the live close by, and their daughter’s family appropriately called Rusty Blades—go to cruise’ on the party boat was a highlight. Great Wall of China with her best friend. lives in southern France. Y Penny and Ed www.centralmassrustyblades.com. Y Jane In attendance were Sandy and Nancy Y Doug and Gail Macomber Cheeseman Kyle write from Florida, where they spend Melanson Dahmen is working on paintings Cunneen Boardman, Hilda Brown Daley, celebrated the 60th African safari and fall and spring, alternating with winter and for shows at the Powers Gallery in Acton, Denny Dionne, and Stewart Arens. Norman their 32nd year of leading safaris via their summer in New Hampshire. “Skiing still Mass., in April and at the Courthouse Gal- ’58 and Charlotte Clifton Lee were greatly company, Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris. calls, and summer provides hiking, kayak- lery in Ellsworth, Maine, in July. She also missed!” Scotty shares that the women Next is a trip to , Easter Island, and ing, camping, etc.” He sees Allie Weller has work at the Gleason Gallery in Boothbay have a tradition of gathering for basket Patagonia, followed by and on the slopes and hikes with Bill Chase and Portland. Jane visited her son and his making at Bev and Liz’s in January: “We all Peninsula Valdes. Gail claims that retire- on occasion. Ed and Penny look forward family in Vancouver. Her daughter-in-law look forward to that!” Y In a separate e-mail, ment is still a long way off, as they love to June in “scenic Waterville.” Y John teaches in Bergen, Norway—Jane’s next Scotty says, “If you get people together what they do! Y Brenda Lewison has left Chapman reflects: “It seems life on the trip! Many thanks to Jane for agreeing to for an Hawaii gathering, keep me posted; the “editorial world,” loving her free time road will only heat up.” Daughter Abbi was be artistic consultant on our 50th reunion that might be all I need to get myself out and finding great contentment in “my married to Peter Gregory in Damariscotta book. Y Thank you, also, to Bonnie Brown to see you!” So who’s game? Send me happy marriage, children, grandchildren, in May, and grandchild number eight, Ben Potter for being on our committee of three your name if you’re interested in a Class of reading, and the gifts of mother nature.” Chapman, arrived in August.” John and his to produce our reunion book. Y Sandra ’61 Hawaii mini-reunion! Y Ron and Helen Husband, Bill, is Cleveland Clinic’s archi- wife, Allison, enjoyed a lobster lunch at the Moulton Burridge attended the Peace Johnson Knox want friends to have their tectural consultant, working on hospitals beautiful home of Nancy Rowe Adams in Corps’s 50th anniversary celebration in new e-mail address: [email protected]. in Ohio and Abu Dhabi as well as designing East Boothbay, joined by Debby Price and D.C., meeting up with her Ghana group.

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[email protected] 46 1/11/12 9:53 AM She visited roommate Lillian Waugh in thinking about your autobiography for our the board of a nonprofit charitable founda- Lynne Urner Baxter ’65, and I would love to West Virginia. They had a “heartwarming 50th reunion book. tion. But their primary focus is their family of have you join us for this series of lectures and overdue reunion and invite all the 1963 15 grandchildren, ages 17 to three months! and discussions. Mary Low Annex sisterhood to an annex Y Susan Woodward has been RVing now reunion at our 50th!” To see, and hear, 1964 since the fall of 2007. You can read about Lillian in a 100-cello choir, go to www.cel- Sara Shaw Rhoades her adventures at www.rv-adventuring. 1965 lospeak.org and click on the YouTube link. [email protected] com. Y Joyce Arnold Kottra writes, “My Dick Bankart Y John and Marsha Palmer Reynolds had Michael Cohen, happily married for 44 life goes on comfortably and busily and [email protected] a fabulous cruise on the new Norwegian years (two sons and two grandchildren), happily with Rotary literacy and vocational CLASSMATES IN MOTION! Bob Gordon Cruise Line ship the Epic. They started retired last year after a career in the auto- projects, children’s learning events (won and his partner, Steve, relocated from with a cooking class in Barcelona, sailed mobile business. After earning his M.B.A. a regional award for one), the impossible Columbus, Ohio, to Tucson, Ariz., where through Gibraltar to the Azores, then to St. from Boston University, he worked for Ford, goal of improving my golf performance, and they’ve been winter visitors for 35 years. Thomas and Miami. “More than two weeks American Motors, Chevrolet, Dodge, and staying in touch with growing grandchildren Bob has retired. He misses his kids and of pure relaxation.” Y Michael Archer, Nissan. Lately he is active with the South- and great-grandchild!” Y Candi (Wilson ’65) grandchildren in Ohio, but “with gorgeous who lives in Brazil, came to Prouts Neck, east Michigan Porsche Club of America as and John Haynes will soon be grandparents mountain views it feels like we’re on vaca- Maine, for his brother’s wedding and spent editor of its magazine and a member of for the second time. “With only one child tion every day.” Y Also relocating—Judy a great week with his sons in Salvador, the board of directors. Y Johanna and Bob in play, it’s a bit harder to get to that point Guptill Simmons from western North Bahia, Brazil. He plays golf year round. Mangion spent two months with another of being surrounded by new, interesting, Carolina to Chapel Hill “to be nearer to Y Patricia Dunn Field had a wonderful couple in Russia and Mongolia. “We went little people. For those of you who didn’t my daughter and her family” with the usual three-week African safari, sleeping in a tent by train from St. Petersburg to Lake Baikal experience the Halloween blizzard in all soccer games, piano recitals, and school with various bugs and lizards. Elephants, with four major stops. Several times we its ugly glory, let me tell you, no power events with her grandsons. Y Ruth and lions, and other creatures strolled close met wonderful Russians—expats, a Perm for seven days in a house with no water, Harold Kowal spent three weeks in France: by. Her next adventure is the Galapagos repertory group performing Handless heat, or any utilities wears real thin after a week in Paris and two more touring the and South America. Pat keeps in touch in Seattle, two poor singers, an angelic two days. I have a new understanding of Pyrenees. He mentioned wine was involved with Joanna Buxton Gormley, Cindy passerby at the Moscow train station who the utility of gray water. I was amazed to somehow in this adventure. Y Across the Richmond Hopper, Cindy Peters McIver, helped us replace our stolen train tickets, a easily sleep 12 hours a day just to hide mountains to the southwest were Sue Mary Jo Cahill Shroeder, Mary Dexter ’nyet’ woman in Tomsk, and a dorm proctor from the constant 50-52 degree interior and Nick Locsin touring the south coast Wagner, and Arlene Jenkins Graber. Y who let us stay two nights in a university temperatures. Fortunately, it was mostly of Spain. “Bicycling, gourmandizing, and Pauline “Pi” Ryder Kezer recommends psychiatric dorm. The rivers in Siberia flow sunny outside, but the heavy, wet 14 inches exploring.” Both continue as volunteers Passion and Principle: The Story of John north to the Arctic very, very slowly in the we got still linger in the shady spots. Tree at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. and Jessie Fremont, a historical account winter, so most of the 1,500 miles of taiga damage was extensive in western Massa- Y Merry Barker Chapin has retired after of our country’s first “power couple.” Pi is clumps of birches separated by marsh. I chusetts and has been hard to take after 40-plus years teaching in Phippsburg, wonders if our class would be interested left my heart in Mongolia traveling by Rus- a tornado, Irene, a microburst, and other Maine. She’s now a volunteer at the school in reading a book and discussing it at our sian van south to the treeless Gobi and then winds that wreaked such havoc on our lives. department career center helping kids find 50th. Y Pen Williamson rowed again in the jobs, write résumés, etc. She’s also “co- Head-of-the-Charles Regatta in Boston. president of Maine’s first ship,” a project to He’s now in the “senior veterans race and Johanna and Bob Mangion ’64 spent two reconstruct and sail a Colonial-era vessel. got trounced by several in their 70s and months with another couple in Russia and Her husband, Craig, retired from teaching 80s! I’m one of those who make the top half and being a principal in 1984 and now possible, but great fun just to participate!” Mongolia. “We stayed in guest yurts of works as a carpenter. Y John Bragg spent Y Karen Forslund Falb, Tom Thomas, and nomadic families, ate a lot of mutton soup, and two weeks in Hawaii celebrating his 20th Whit Bond wrote greetings to all. Whit says anniversary. He retired from the family busi- he’s planning to attend our 50th. Y Ruth enjoyed the amazing light of the desert and the ness last November after 46 years. “Now it Pratley Madell was mother of the groom spectacular mountains covered with tamarack is winters on the beach in Fort Myers and at son Peter’s wedding in Chicago, a fes- near Lake Kovsgol. In many places in the Gobi summers in Bangor.” Y Back from Africa are tive and fun occasion. For her milestone Charlie ’63 and Pam Plumb Carey. They saw birthday, daughter Kristen is taking her to one can see no trace of human existence.” “multiples of the ’big five’” while at a private Ireland. Ruth writes, “I’ll raise a Guinness game reserve and crossed from Victoria to you all!” Y Sally White Butler works Falls (Zambia) to Botswana for a shorter at the Lahey Clinic and teaches reading safari along the Zambezi River. Y “As I write as a volunteer. Her granddaughter, in into Mongolia. We stayed in guest yurts of I’m taking the issue of personal survivability this it is a lovely, bright autumn day in early Reading, Mass., works in finance. Sally nomadic families, ate a lot of mutton soup, a lot more seriously.” Y Lynne Davidson November and the oak leaves have turned enjoys hiking in the mountains of North and enjoyed the amazing light of the desert still works “full time and a half” at NYU and a lovely hue of reddish-orange.” So writes Conway with her three grandsons. Y Tim and the spectacular mountains covered lives in Greenwich Village. She was recently Nancy Godley Wilson. Nancy and John Dakin and wife Irene live in New Bern, with tamarack near Lake Kovsgol. In many involved in intervention for restructuring ’63 visited Jackson Hole and Yellowstone. N.C., a beautiful, historical area close to places in the Gobi one can see no trace and organizational change in the medical The Wilsons summer on Deer Isle and had the coast and with fabulous weather. They of human existence.” Y Ike Balbus retired profession, working with diverse specialties visits from Bryan Harrison Curd, Margo both volunteer and Tim teaches at Mount officially from the University of Illinois at and all levels of physicians in a metropolitan Beach, and Pam Harris Holden ’66. They Olive College. We’ll see him at the 50th! Y Chicago in August 2010 and is in a three- hospital. She and Jim recently had brunch will return to Lexington and prepare for a I spoke with Judy Magalhaes Garcia and year, part-time teaching arrangement. His with Sandy Smith Sobocinski and her week-long trip on a five-masted schooner Jim Westgate, who stay in touch across most recent book, Governing Subjects: An husband Y This year’s Alumni College will out of Barbados in February. Y Speaking of the globe. Jim had a harrowing experience Introduction to the Study of Politics, was be July 22-25 and the subject is “An Age of the woods, Marty Dodge has retired from with flooding in Thailand, but he and his published by Routledge in 2010. Y Robbie Democratic Revolution? From the American 41 years of teaching at Finger Lakes Com- home were spared. Both send their best. (Gilson ’65) and Bob Drewes live in Utah. War of Independence to the Revolutions munity College, but he managed to score his Y Thank you for your news! I hope you’re Bob is involved in several startups and is on of 1848.” George Shur, Wayne Fillback, 18th and final woodsmen’s championship

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for the men’s team. He then spent seven brings me to the happy news that Dave Frank ’64 and Natalie Bowerman Zaremba Class president Fran Finizio is glad he can weeks in Alaska supervising the building of Hatch will marry Dale Rottner this spring. visited Pam Harris Holden in Scottsdale, retire from Fidelity next May as planned, five log cabins for one of his former students. They’ve been riding bicycles and enjoying Ariz., in the fall. Y Anne Ruggles Gere and thus avoiding a move by Fidelity to Dallas. Then off to Costa Rica and “nesting green the Venice, Fla., beaches and restaurants family spent Thanksgiving in Buenos Aires, Y Congratulations to two class authors, turtles one moonlit night in Tortuguero.” for some years and have decided to marry. as Anne was giving a talk at the university Barry Willdorf, whose novel Flight of the Y Alaska-bound in August will be Jean Your correspondent suspects more wine will there. Y Gary McKinstry missed our reunion Sorceress has won a Global eBook Award (Hoffmann ’66) and Neil Clipsham. Last flow. Y Hail, Colby, Hail! due to real estate business travel to England for best historical literature, and Jay Fell, year they took a foliage tour of Vermont. and the Netherlands, and more recently he coauthor with four other men of 100 Years Neil continues some part-time work and went to Cape Town, South Africa, finding Up High: Colorado Mountains and Moun- volunteers at the local library, while Jean 1966 it amazing how many foreign buyers are taineers, written to celebrate 20th-century works at the Indian Creek Foundation (for Meg Fallon Wheeler attracted to the beaches and cultural life Colorado mountaineering and the 100th mentally challenged adults). He says hi to [email protected] of Sarasota, Fla., his hometown. Y Steve anniversary of the Colorado Mountain Club. his classmates. “Seems like yesterday we Gary Barnes and Gayle Jobson Poinsette Rand and his partner, Susan, enjoyed Y Sue Turner visited with many Colby class- were Colby Eight-ing together.” Y Barbara are again spending three winter months time on the Belgrade Lakes this summer mates last fall, among them gifted artist McGillicuddy Bolton is writing a novel far from Vermont, this year in Arizona. Y and took a side trip to Colby. Y Californian Kay Tower Carter, talented knitter Anne about a young woman from northern Maine Vermonters Betty (Savicki ’68) and John Terry Eagle has retired from full-time work Ladd Carlson, and accomplished Maine who is a freshman in a liberal arts college “Daisy” Carvellas will spend a couple of at Cate School after 45 years of teaching. state librarian Linda Hall Lord. Y Veteran in central Maine in 1961. Watch for Lulu winter months in St. Augustine, Fla. Y RVers He now works one day a week for Cate, Maine state legislator Gary Knight is chair Goes to College. Y Stan Garnett reports on Liz (Drinkwine ’68) and Ted Houghton hit serves on five nonprofit boards, sees his of the House taxation committee, hoping some real nostalgia. He attended an ATO the road again after their Massachusetts two grandchildren as much as possible, and to improve the Maine tax code to make it reunion in Boston last summer. (Suspect summer. This year’s eight-month odyssey spent two months in Maine this summer more equitable and easier to administer. Y A beer was involved.) “Several generations started in Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, working on his golf and squash games. Y long-silent classmate has come forth: Peter of Tau’s attended. My wife and I brought and Utah en route to New Mexico, where Linda (Brooks ’68) and John Perkins enjoy Blumenthal retired in 1998 from the retail none other than Thelma Hanson to the they’ll spend most of the winter. Y Eddie and retirement in Yarmouth and Oquossoc, chain of picture framing stores he started, event from Palmetto, Fla. Thelma and her Lynn Seidenstuecker Gall are wintering at Maine. They took a fascinating course at grew, and sold to a venture capital group. husband, Dick, ran Dick’s Café in downtown their California home in La Quinta, finding University of Southern Maine on the geol- He then moved to Jerusalem for a year with Waterville, long the gathering place for the combination of California winters and ogy of Maine, taught by a fabulous teacher, his wife and daughter, 7. He had lost his ATOs and townies. Still sharp as a tack, Maine summers perfect. They’d love to see John Tewhey ’65. They’d like to hear from first wife to cancer in 1988, after they had Thelma will turn 100 in 2012.” Y Which anyone visiting in the Palm Springs area. Y Susan (Brown ’65) and Frank Musche. Y two sons, both Colby graduates. Back to

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When the National Park Service held a month in Buenos Aires she ing company in 2010. signing ceremony to establish a sister park met with Argentine biolo- The Rotary Foundation agreement between Pinnacles National gists, national park repre- funds trips to encourage Monument and Parque Nacionale Quebrada sentatives, and researchers professional exchanges and del (Canyon of the Little Condor) involved with preserving to deepen mutual apprecia- in Argentina in 2010, Peter Anderson ’66 Andean condors. tion of cultures, and in this was there representing Rotary International. In subsequent years case the exchange resulted After initiating professional exchanges she initiated return trips in a sister park agreement between his Rotary Club in Morgan Hill, with other biologists from that benefits both humans Calif., and a club in Buenos Aires, Argen- Pinnacles and the National and endangered condors. tina, where he is an honorary member, Park Service who were “But Rotary looks at it a Anderson spent three years following the working with the American little beyond that,” Ander- project closely (and translating between condors. Anderson twice son adds. “As long as we can Spanish and English) as scientists in both accompanied these groups get people together from Peter Anderson ’66 countries worked on restoring populations to Argentina to keep the different countries, other of condors in the wild.. Rotary connection and to help bridge the good things happen.” At the signing ceremony Anderson rep- language barrier. “If everyone had a chance to spend two resented Rotary alongside the directors of Anderson said that Professor Emeri- weeks or a month in another country under both national park systems, the Argentine tus Henry Holland, his Spanish teacher the auspices of Rotary, there would never ambassador, and Congressman Sam Farr, at Colby, “would have been proud that I be another war,” Anderson said. “That’s a who represents Anderson’s district in the navigated a lot of the off-line discussion major principle of Rotary: peace through House of Representatives. between dignitaries with aplomb.” In fact world understanding.” It began in 2007 when one of the four he’s had subsequent assistance learning the Anderson is at once a firm believer in and California Rotarians on the initial exchange language—his wife of 40 years, Elena, is an exemplar of the organization’s motto, was a biologist from California’s Pinnacles an Argentine American. They now split “Service Above Self.” National Monument, a release site for the their time between the two countries since “It’s easy,” he said. “You do what you endangered American condor. During her Anderson sold his geotechnical engineer- love.” —Laura Meader

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[email protected] 48 1/11/12 9:54 AM Boston, where he developed several new tion within in the division of information sailing regattas). I completely redid my gathering. You simply cannot offer enough businesses—exercise equipment, cooking services at Griffith University. Despite a website to a full-blown professional site.” Y thanks and gratitude to our veterans. I just school, baking business, lice treatment— busy schedule Joanna has coauthored four Ed Quinto wants to know when Pete Rouse got back from Alicante, Spain, where I sailed with various family members. Pete keeps papers and a journal article. Y Connie and will host a Colby day for the Class of ’68 in the Legends Regatta. Having sailed in fit swimming and biking, attended Peter Woody Berube moved to their retirement at the White House? Y Arthur Brennan three round-the-world races, it seems that Swartz’s son’s wedding in Puerto Rico last home near Dallas. While Connie continues writes: “I retired from full-time service as I am (was) a legend! I sailed in the regatta May with Betty and Daisy Carvellas, and to work in advertising, Woody takes to the a Maine judge in August and now serve onboard King’s Legend, a Swan 65 sloop, takes credit for giving Daisy his nickname. links nearly daily and shot his first hole in on an active-retired basis. I plan to work on which I became a circumnavigator in In Pete’s words: “I gave it to him because one, which he followed up with a second about four months a year. Hope to do some 1978. Next Carolyn, my bride of some 40 I thought he played football like a girl. several weeks later. This was after a second Only kidding. I did give him his nickname, knee replacement. Y Since retirement Char- but it was because I thought I heard the lie and Sally Ray Bennett have traveled the Dr. Judith De Luce ’68 retired from Miami name ’Daisy’ when someone was actually world. They recently visited their daughter, University for good. She writes, “So far I’ve calling him by his initials, ‘JC.’ Being more who teaches at an English-speaking school colorful, my nickname stuck.” Our Colby in Italy. When they return to Rhode Island, been president of the Oxford Kiwanis club, education continues. they’ll have a cup of coffee and then head member of my church’s vestry, and doing mock to Florida to escape the New England winter. Y Ann Russell-Starr plans to retire in June. interviews on campus for career services. 1967 She’s taught biology in Vienna, Va., and in When people ask if I have enough to keep busy, Bob Gracia the past two years has been the supervising I just laugh.” Judy Gerrie Heine teacher for AP science investigation. Ann [email protected] and Mike will move to Hilton Head Island For the past 44 years Jim Eisenberg has after she completes the academic year. been very active. After graduating from Two of Ann’s daughters have an important long-delayed traveling and generally enjoy years, and I will spend February in Nepal. Colby, Jim earned an M.D. and Ph.D. second semester coming up as they both a more relaxed schedule. So far, so good.” Onward!” Y As for the aforementioned (anatomy) at Case Western Reserve, mar- complete work at the master’s level. Ann Y Jessie McGuire still a couple of Peter Jost, I recently completed my first 5K ried, and moved to San Francisco, where is hoping to see many longtime friends times a year, which is what he loves to do. while visiting my son and his fiancée near he completed a surgical residency. He later at our reunion in June. Y Rick Sadowski Being in Bhutan for the king’s wedding (and San Francisco. He was second overall and did a second residency in radiology and recently moved to Marshfield, Mass., a seeing two different festivals) is the latest she was fourth in women’s; I was 123rd. for the past 30 years has practiced in that lovely seaside community on the south and probably most exciting trip in the last Nevertheless, I may have been bitten by specialty. Jim and his wife, Tova, have three shore of Boston. The new home has become couple of months. Y Dr. Judith De Luce the running bug, and I will definitely train children. When he finds time to leave his a gathering spot for Rick’s extended family. retired from Miami University for good. After for the next one! Hope you are all well. practice, Jim and Tova travel and spend time Shortly before moving, Rick and his brother teaching for 36 years, it was time to try a few Keep in touch. at their retreat on Lake Michigan. Y Mike traveled to Moscow and St. Petersburg and new things. She writes, “I’ve discovered that and Pam Cooper Picher welcomed two then to , Denmark, and Sweden. everything they say about retirement is true; new grandchildren in August, the children Rick has been studying mediation and is it’s wonderful. So far I’ve been president of 1969 of their Colby sons. If there’s a drawback working towards establishing a mediation the Oxford Kiwanis club, chair of the board Ray Gerbi to grandchildren, it’s that Pam prefers practice as part of his law practice, which of the Institute for Learning in Retirement, [email protected] spending time with them rather a certain means he’s not planning on retiring anytime member of my church’s vestry, and my Greetings classmates. Sharon Timberlake aging husband. Y David and Debbie Terrio soon. Y Alice Hubert Gardner is pleased latest project is doing mock interviews on returned to school, earning a Ph.D. at 60, Brunell moved to Falmouth on Cape Cod. to announce that she has opened a studio campus for career services. When people and finds it “fun and challenging” teach- While Debbie loves living on the Cape, she in Gloucester, Mass., in a historic building ask if I have enough to keep busy, I just ing organizational theory (giving thanks spends four winter months in Florida and on the North Shore next to the Cape Ann laugh. And now I have to finish preparing to to Professor Geib) and related courses in keeps tabs on her real estate business via Museum. While practicing psychotherapy, teach Latin for a friend on maternity leave.” the leadership and organizational studies the Internet. Like Pam Picher, Debbie finds Alice studied art and now does pen-and-ink Y Spencer Sullivan writes: “I recently had program at the University of Southern her three grandchildren to be the best part and watercolors. When not painting, Alice a chat with my neighbor in Plainfield about Maine. She often sees Diane Kindler and of aging. Y Eric Rosen continues his study is thrilled to be with her two grandchildren, our college experiences in the ’60s. We’ve is in touch with Alice Huse Tanner and of religion and participation in interfaith 5 and 7. known each other for several years but he Alden Wilson. Sharon invites people to dialogue. Eric keeps in touch with Dave hadn’t known of my foreshortened Colby visit her on Facebook. Y Moses Silver- Aronson, Peter Swartz ’66, Jim Thomas, experience. He asked if I knew Peter Jost man, a partner in the firm of Paul, Weiss, Harry Graff, and Joe Candido. Y Jean 1968 and then related his years at Rutgers Law Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, has been Ridington Goldfine traveled to England Peter Jost School and their casework together. I’m practicing law in New York City for the past last summer, where she hiked an ancient [email protected] still dabbling in contract charter flying at 38 years. His wife, Betty Robbins, serves drover track in Wiltshire. Y Ken Ingram Bruce McDonald writes: “I officially retired Morristown, N.J., airport. I’ve taken up inline as counsel to the American Jewish com- lives near Charlotte, N.C., where he works from medicine and surgery at the end August skating as a fitness program and compete mittee. Their son, Ben, graduated from law for an Argentine company that consults on 2010. My retirement lasted only a couple against other “grand veterans” and “grand school, worked for the Federal Defenders business models. Ken enjoys time with his of months as I got drafted to serve as race esquire” (generally 60 years up) skaters. of New York, and started a clerkship for a first grandson. Last summer Ken visited commander at the Austin Yacht Club. In I’ve won a few races, but the tragedy is that federal judge. Their daughter, Rachel, is Port Clyde and Tenants Harbor, Maine. Y addition to the usual challenges of putting I’ve been the only skater in those geriatric the artistic administrator of the New York Nick Hadgis has also joined the ranks of on races every weekend for 44 weeks of the divisions.” Y Ted Allison writes: “Being a Theatre Workshop. Y In July Laurie Killoch the grandparents. His granddaughter was year, we had a La Niña weather pattern that residential real estate agent these past Wiggins attended Colby’s Alumni College born last fall. Nick continues to expand resulted in high winds and a record drought, few years has been just fantastic! What a on the Italian Renaissance, experiencing the global leadership program at Widener which saw our lake levels drop more than market! In July I delivered the address at the “three and a half days of pure bliss!” While University. Y Joanna Snyder Richardson 60 feet. I still do freelance photography and Run to the Vietnam Wall in Cody, Wyo. This there she enjoyed seeing Steve Ford ’68. is acting manager of scholarly informa- some for-hire event photography (mostly was my ninth time riding the Harley to this She and a friend then traveled up the Maine

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coast, from York Harbor to Acadia National hope to see many of you there in the future. children. Daughter Holly lives in NYC and Self! His son, David, and David’s wife, Sara, Park. They visited art museums, went whale Y Have a wonderful early spring everyone! is an executive director of PR for Hearst produced a healthy baby boy. Mike lives in watching, and ate at the famous Red’s Eats. Publication and is responsible for Elle, Elle North Carolina and still swims every day. Laurie says they had fun staying with Jon Décor, and Town and Country magazines. and Paula Joseph Eustis. While in Maine 1970 Tom is still president and CEO of North she also caught up on news about Jeanne Libby Brown Strough Technology Group, the owners of North 1971 Merola Mukai and Cyr Latvis. In [email protected] Sails, Southern Spars, North Sportswear, Ann E. Miller Boston she visited Criss Nigro and saw Bill Hardy started with the Class of 1966, and Edgewater Powerboats. They make sails [email protected] the Chihuly glass exhibit at the MFA. Then but was waylaid by lack of academic moti- and carbon fiber masts for boats ranging The seasons do roll by quickly, don’t they? it was on to the Berkshires, Princeton, vation and the Vietnam War. He ended up from small up to 300-foot mega yachts. My mother used to tell me that time goes by and Long Island to visit other friends and returning to Colby and finishing with our Most America’s Cup or Volvo (around-the- more and more quickly the older you get. family. Laurie has “the Alumni College class, somewhat more motivated and still world) Ocean Race sailboats use North I think I’m in trouble. Y Danny and Jeanne penciled into my calendar every year until I in one piece. He went to law school and Sails and Southern Spars. They built all of Miller Ouellette completed the transition drop.” She hopes to see more classmates started a practice in Lewiston and Portland, the soft storage for the space shuttle and from Scituate, Mass., to Lovell, Maine. on her swing-through next summer and Maine. In 1967 Bill married Lona Eldridge helped develop a machine that Boeing is Having been in Scituate for 23 years, Lovell invites anyone in the area to contact her ’66. In 2003 they bought a home in Napa, using for the new 787 aircraft fuselage. Tom is quite a change, but Danny and Jeanne at [email protected]. Y David and Calif., while still a home in still races sailboats quite a bit, but not as welcome the new chapter in their lives. Y Ines Ruelius Altemose celebrated their Just in time for Hurricane Irene and the 30th anniversary with another couple on next tropical storm, Debbie Wentworth a trip to Africa. Ines says it was truly the Lansing tried to complete a backpacking trip of a lifetime! They saw an “amazing 70s newsmakers trip on the Appalachian Trail in Maine but number of animals” on an eight-day safari The Patriot’s Path Council, Boy Scouts of America, has could get only about half of it done due to in Tanzania and visited Victoria Falls and awarded Libby Corydon-Apicella ’74 the 2011 Berkeley the storms. Along the trail she found lots of Cape Town. Y Mickey Jako and his former Heights (N.J.) Good Scout Award. An independent travel people our age (yikes!) who were exploring roommates Steve Fisher and John Kearns consultant, multilingual tour guide, and trustee for the what retirement means in the wilderness. Y had their annual reunion, reminiscing about Wharton Music Center, Corydon-Apicella helped found Bill Hladky keeps himself busy with work music in junior high school, the stress of and is now the president of CAST (Creative Arts Support so as not to worry about his son, his son’s prep-school academics, how dynamic Team), which supports and develops opportunities in the grades, and his son’s status at Cal Poly. professor Todrank was, and the disturb- visual and preforming arts for Berkeley Heights public Y Back from her trip to Iceland, Nancy ing current trends in education, finishing school students. F Attorney James Peale ’77, has been Hammar Austin continues to rave about the afternoon by “concluding how great it appointed clerk of the Cheshire and Sullivan County the geothermal Blue Lagoon, the waterfalls, was to see each other and what remark- Superior Courts. An English major at Colby, Peale has the black lava, and those crazy puffins. Y ably handsome men we still are.” Y Craig served in the New Hampshire court system since 1987. From abroad, Jacques Hermant writes that Libby Corydon-Apicella ’74 Stevens checked in from the sunny south, F Gary, Ind. native Savas Zembillas ‘79 was elected he had a family-style vacation this summer. where last March he had an exhibit of his metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh at the Ecumenical Next March he will return to Hanoi to teach work from Iceland at the Woodruff Center Patriarchate In Constantinople, Turkey. He recently told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette again in the university. Next year he and that despite his monastic garb and Oxford University doctorate, “I’m from a steel town in Atlanta, followed by a one-month run in his wife, Marylen, plan a two-week cruise in Indiana, so I have an affinity for places like Pittsburgh.” the Alexander Gallery in Savannah. Craig in the Antarctic. Y Mike Round and his spent the summer in Camden, playing wife found themselves in China this fall. golf and teaching at the Maine Media Not their typical vacation—it turned out to Workshops in Rockport. This is his 25th Portland and a relationship with the firm much as during his 1980-2003 America’s be exhausting but culturally enriching. Of year as a professor of photography at he started (Hardy Wolf & Downing). They Cup years. Tom has tried to stay close to the 1.3 million people who live there, he the Savannah College of Art and Design, have a son who works as a neuroscientist Colby. He spent some time with President thinks they met most of them. He found where he’s working on experimental digital in a startup brain rehab business in San Adams last summer, addressed a number the Chinese to be a very warm, friendly printmaking techniques. Visit his work at Francisco, a daughter-in-law who lobbies of CT Colby alumni last year, and plans to people who wanted their pictures taken www.craigstevens.me. His daughter, Emily, for children’s health issues in Sacramento, speak at Colby in February about how Colby with “Westerners.” He feels he should have is engaged and will be married next Sep- and their first grandchild, born in October. prepared him for his career. Y Sally Vose studied a little Mandarin, since many older tember near Camden. Y Bill Antonucci is They enjoy the San Francisco opera and Mackenzie was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Chinese don’t speak much English. The taking time off from hockey after 29 years ballet offerings. Bill enjoys painting, playing grant at the Vietnam National University in language barrier was a bit of an obstacle, of coaching, but remains active in youth golf, volunteer teaching, and making wine Hanoi for spring 2012. Sally is an associate but it is their country after all. China was a hockey. His son Ben, 13, is being coached with friends. He’s still grateful to Colby for professor of educational leadership at the bit more than they’d expected coming from this year by a Class of 2010 Colby grad. giving him a second chance. Y Jeff Lovitz University of Maine. In addition to teaching Ketchikan, Alaska. Y Grateful for his wife’s Bill is thinking he may start coaching again is completing his 30th year of practicing in the college of education’s department recovery from a stroke and an aneurism, when his granddaughters (Julie, 3, and family medicine in Waterville; however, of research and international relations, Chip Altholz has finished his PPM for his Sophie, 8 months) get old enough to play. he stopped delivering babies about five she’ll consult with government officials global kids Web project. He’s looking for He continues to work, play golf, and hopes years ago. Now he’s trying to recruit his and others throughout Vietnam regarding investors and hopes to launch it in the that retirement comes along sometime replacement as he thinks about winding school reform, teacher preparation, and spring. Y Bill Simons writes from NY about soon. Y In November Pam and I attended down. His wife, Cindy (Carlisle ’73), teaches leadership development. Sally is a widely his activities with his union, of which he the annual Colby-Bowdoin football game kindergarten in Fairfield and still loves it. published author on educational leadership is chapter president. He helped organize tailgate party, an event Eddie Woodin has They have four children, all out of college and has worked extensively with school and worked in a regional flood relief effort generously hosted for the past 12 years. with chosen careers that involve giving leaders in Maine and nationally. She and her in central New York, which was hard hit It’s a wonderful time with lots of great food back to society. Y All is well with Tom husband, Goldfarb Professor of Government by recent floods. He loves spending what and drink, and it provides an opportunity Whidden and his family. His son Avery is a Cal Mackenzie, who was also awarded a time he can with his two granddaughters. for Colby alumni in greater New England to managing director at Deutsche Bank, lives Fulbright, will spend six months in Hanoi. Y Y Leslie Anderson has settled back into catch up with one another in a fun setting. I in Darien, Conn., and is married with three Congratulations to first-time grandpa Mike her cozy condo in Portland for the winter.

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[email protected] 50 1/11/12 9:54 AM Y For me, I have finally begun to recover were enjoying every minute of their travels be missed at Colby, Lucia! Y Janet Gillies ’72 and Jeanne Emerson Young ’72 and from a whirlwind that had me out straight and were planning a visit to Peru and the Foley came out of retirement in April (from their daughter, Mallory ’05, Bob Diamond from May to October. Remind me not to Sacred Valley. “Retirement is great!” Y Avid) to work with Jean Straehl Moss in her and his son Charlie ’12, Debbie Wathen do that again. The hectic pace included a Carolyn “Lindy” Dewey lives in Montana, business, Olde Ipswich Tours. Janet writes Finn ’74, and Sue (Conant ’75) and Jim two-week singing concert tour to Turkey, the where she’s created an elite wellness of the fun and excitement working in such Cook ’78 and their daughter, Emily ’11. Republic of Georgia, and Armenia. I seem to retreat complete with raw , local a wonderful business with a dear Colby During Family Homecoming Weekend, have had a bout with heat exhaustion and transportation to Glacier National Park, a friend. Janet spent Columbus Day weekend Alex emceed Colby’s annual C Club dinner, dehydration while in Armenia. These tours broad spectrum of health-building tech- in Woods Hole with Chris Hannon, Carol which honored coach Dick Whitmore. Y Bob are not for the faint of heart. Then a quick nologies, and bodywork, along with great Reynolds Mucica, and Jane Currier, all O’Neil has been elected president of his four-day turnaround visit to New Brunswick hikes out the back door! Y In 2009 Peter celebrating 60 in a beautiful spot. Y Frank local bar association. He took a wonderful and a recording session rounded out July. and Pam Mause Vose sold their house of Mellen is quite excited to have retired a vacation last August with his wife, Vicki, Lots of summer visitors and a month-long nearly 30 years and built a “green” house in full month before turning 60! This August that included a drive “Down East,” where recovery from some broken ribs held me Falmouth, Maine, where Peter teaches high he officially left his job of 37-plus years in he met Carol and Jim Daly at their cottage in abeyance in August. I was hard pressed school English. They heat the house using financial services and has spent the last in Bath, Maine. Bob is working on a special to respect the rest I guess I needed. Is this a geothermal system with some assistance few months “decompressing” by traveling song for our 40th reunion in 2013 (save because we’re getting old? from passive solar and wood. Pam retired to Florida and Amsterdam with wife Nancy the date everyone!) to the tune of My Old as an elementary school social worker (Capers ’72), who retired last December. School by Steely Dan with words specific in Cape Elizabeth in June 2010 and was They both plan to start a second career to Colby and our time there. I can’t wait to 1972 immediately hired to work part time as a soon in part-time, private tutoring. Y Bob hear it, Bob! Nancy Round Haley school social worker at the high school. Last Diamond continues to be actively involved [email protected] June they celebrated their 39th anniversary in Colby. In September he met with 40 Nancy Capers Mellen began garden design hiking in Bryce and Zion national parks. alumni in London while attending a recep- 1974 school in August 2010 after retiring from Before embarking, they enjoyed a meal tion hosted by President Bro Adams and Vicki Parker Kozak teaching eighth-grade English for 30 years. with classmates who were in the wedding Andrew Weber ’97. In October Bob chaired Jill Gilpatric Richard She graduated in May 2011, and her class party: David Belton (and his wife, Susie the Board of Trustees’ annual fall meeting [email protected] was invited to do a garden in the Boston [Rogers ’73]) and Judy Moreland Spitz. Y in Waterville and, more recently, he visited Happy New Year! We’re writing this around Flower and Garden Show at the Seaport Christina Belsky Russack says she’s taken campus to see his youngest son, Charlie ’12, Thanksgiving after receiving 10 inches of World Trade Center in March. She hopes a beating with the economy, so no travel to in the play A Long Christmas Ride Home. snow in the North Country. Y Big congratula- to see alums there! Y Alice Osmer Olson exotic places for a while. “One good thing Bob delightfully notes the strong energy tions to Karen Heck on her win in the race still teaches second grade in Mt. Vernon, (and I can’t believe I’m saying this), Social on campus and adds that Colby maintains for mayor of Waterville. The city’s in good Maine. Her small town library, where Alice Security kicks in next year.” She’s following its momentum in further strengthening its hands with Karen as mayor and city manager has been a part-time librarian for more than the Occupy Wall Street protesters, and it position as a leading liberal arts college. He Mike Roy at the helm. Y We learned from 20 years, completed automation. She finds reminds her of Colby in the ’70s. “But at asks for further alumni interest and support Deb Wathen Finn that our ace Boston Globe it a wonderful way to connect with the com- least we knew back then what we were and looks forward to the bicentennial and reporter Brian MacQuarrie leaves soon for munity. Y Last summer Kathy Muhlhausen protesting!” Y Barbara Senges is in her reunion in 2013. Y I saw James ’72 and Lisa another round of reporting in Iraq. Be safe, McIntyre fulfilled a dream of rafting the 38th year as an educator in Connecticut Kehler Bubar for brunch in Newburyport Brian, and let us know what’s happening. Colorado River through the Grand Canyon (24 as an administrator), the last five years recently. They were excited about the Brian and several classmates, including on an 18-day trip. After that, she and her as associate superintendent of schools in three-week road trip they had just taken Norm and Chris Bogosian Rattey, enjoyed daughter, 20, traveled in Italy and France Middletown. Last year she also taught a visiting old friends and family in Wisconsin, a fun day at the Colby-Bowdoin football for a month before her daughter stayed French I class to eighth graders—her first Indiana, Tennessee, and North Carolina. game Nov. 12. Deb, Remi Browne, Artie in Bordeaux for part of her junior year. “It time in the classroom since 1987. She’s brought back so many memories of my not thinking of retiring soon, as she loves junior year at Caen.” Kathy still teaches her work. She’s looking forward to our 40th Big congratulations to Karen Heck ’74 on her ESL at Salt Lake Community College and this June. She’s not been to Colby since our win in the race for mayor of Waterville. The loves her work. Y Pat Mustakangas is in 20th. Y Let’s all plan to return to Mayflower her second six months as the part-time Hill for our 40th reunion May 31-June city’s in good hands with Karen as mayor and congregational administrator for the local 3, 2012. Check out our reunion page on city manager Mike Roy ’74 at the helm. Unitarian Universalist Church. “Great Facebook, Colby College Class of 1972, people, great working hours, interesting and post a picture or make a comment. work.” She plays the French horn in a quintet and two community bands. She reads a lot They thoroughly enjoy their lovely home Bell, and Janet Hansen Drouin ’75 hung out of history, biography, and fiction, and finds 1973 on the river in Durham, which they refer to for the tailgating and the game, and then retirement much better than working full Carol Chalker as Chez Bubar, where Chris Mattern Way, cooked dinner together at Artie’s house time! Y Diane Malpass Gloirant, Greta [email protected] Debbie Mael Mandino, Jackie Nienaber in Yarmouth. Remi’s wife, Gail, joined the Gordon, and Charlene Rasch Revette Peter Rinaldi gets top billing again this Appeldorn, and I regularly gather to visit, fun there. Y Herb Landsman wrote after have married names, but when they got time—thanks for being the first to reply! eat their wonderful food, specially prepared, a 20-year silence that he’s executive vice together last summer at Diane’s in York, Peter has just started a newspaper called and play countless hands of bridge. Lisa president of merchandising for HomeGoods Maine, it was like they were foolish fresh- XPress, which serves southwest Missis- shared a note from Dave Hoitt, who feels and “travels the world in search of extraor- men on the second floor of Champlin all sippi and east central Louisiana. This new “really lucky” to be doing something he dinary products at wild value!” Herb spends over again. “Time is an illusion,” says Char. addition joins Miss-Lou Magazine and the enjoys: teaching graphic arts, tech ed, and weekends in Boston stores, at the Pocasset, Y It was wonderful to hear from Peggy Natchez Sun in his lineup of publications. digital photography at a small high school Mass., golf club, on his boat on Buzzards Zientara Lessard, who will contribute in Y Lucia Whittelsey is retiring in May 2012 in western Massachusetts. Y Alex Wilson Bay, or attending field hockey games at the future when her life changes. Y Bill and from her position as director of financial was at Colby twice this fall. In October he Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Pat Downey Schannen wrote in November aid at Colby. She describes this ending attended Alumni Council meetings and where his daughter, Ellie, is a junior and from the Galapagos Islands, where they as feeling like a commencement. 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wife, Cindy, is an administrator at LSRHS the sale of its high-end cashmere products in and is set to retain a weight equal to, or editing (with two others) CNN’s “Black in and is an expert gardener, groundskeeper, and embroidered pillow covers from all over perhaps less than, her Colby days. Grate- America 4: The New Promised Land—Silicon and 24/7 counselor to Ellie and Herb. Their Central Asia. Carol is excited to work on this ful that her prayers were answered to be Valley.” His daughter, Alix, graduated from son Sam, 27, is in his first year at Tulane project and hopes to travel to some very restored to her former self, and thankful for Colby in 2009, majoring in international Medical School and is getting married interesting places. Y In 2002 Mike Wolk, getting back a life she never thought she studies. Y Jon Reisman and his wife, Ernie next June. Charlie, 25, is managing “The his wife, and daughter rode recumbent would live again, Annie has emerged from (Ochs ’79), have two sons. Asher gradu- Runway” at TJ Maxx and training to be a bikes as part of RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual hibernation to say hello! ated from Haverford last spring and Avram buyer. Teddy, 21, a junior at Wake Forest Great Bicycle Race Across Iowa), an annual is a member of the Colby Class of 2013. Y majoring in business, is spending a year seven-day bicycle ride. In years since, Mike Michael and Denise Martell Martin are abroad in London. Thanks, Herb, for the has won the state time trial championships 1976 “finally” empty-nesters. It was a 10-year news. Hope it isn’t another 20 years before in his age group, climbed Mt. Mitchell, and Robert Weinstein sequence of their four children spreading you write again. Y Robin Hamill-Ruth just has ridden all around NYC on a fixed gear, [email protected] their wings. Now they look forward to retire- graduated child number five from college, on the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia, down the For updates from Eileen Dennett Burnell, ment, except that, after raising four children while her sixth, Leah, is a high school main drag in Haight-Ashbury, and climbed John Mulcahy, Ed Harvey, Frank Callanan, and supporting their endeavors to become sophomore. Wanting to downsize, she put Lombard Street, among other exploits. Y and Mary Uppgren, see our online column self-sufficient adults, the day when they her house on the market until two of her Charlie LeRoyer decided to retire after 32 at www.colby.edu/mag. will actually be “retired” looks distant. To kids came back home to live along with years as a physician’s assistant. That lasted get there, Denise has added a third busi- three kids, three dogs, and three cats. for all of three weeks! Now he works two ness to her self-contained portfolio: www. Robin decided that downsizing could wait. days a week at the VA hospital in Augusta, 1977 goodforyoucoaching.com. Y Michael Rieck She has gotten back into quilting, started Maine, and loves his five-day weekends. Kevin Farnham has been working on the “three-point pose again for the first time in 40 years, Charlie looks forward to plenty of free time [email protected] problem,” which concerns figuring out the and is learning Spanish. All of that should for travel, winemaking, golf, hiking, and the First of all, don’t forget that May 31-June position and orientation of a camera and keep her young at heart. Y Jeff Barske, all the other fun stuff! Y Jeff Frankel still 3, 2012, is our 35th reunion! Y We’re lucky has applications to robotics and virtual from Thompson, Conn., is entering a new lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he’s the to have heard from Jeffrey Stafford, who’s reality. He hopes to present a related paper chapter in his life. Recently divorced, he’s chief learning officer for Massage Envy. been fighting multiple myeloma since 2000. at a conference in Rome next spring. Y My met a wonderful new woman. He enjoys his His son, 25, attends graduate school in His four children (Liz, Julianne, Christopher, news: I’ll never forget our chemistry pro- Patriots season tickets and has started a Los Angeles; his daughter is in high school. and Courtney) have inspired him to keep fessor George Maier, who, as I presented challenging project restoring a 1949 GMC Y Life in Nashville has been fun and chal- going, in part by holding annual charity my Senior Scholars proposal, asked if I pickup. Like many of us, he is also busy lenging for Rick Drake. His wife commutes swim events each summer to raise money would be fusing my interests in science caring for his 91-year-old parents. He adds for two weeks at a time to Hartford, Conn., for the International Myeloma Founda- and literature in the project. In my Autumn that he can still dance and sing. Way to go, where she works in anesthesia at Hartford Jeff! Y Shelley Bieringer Rau’s life seems Hospital, as anesthesia jobs in Nashville to revolve around her children’s weddings of are scarce. Rick is quickly accumulating Blake Luce ’77 has lived in Atlanta since 1981. late. Daughter Adrienne was married at the frequent flyer miles in his role as head He just completed editing (with two others) family’s log home on a small lake in Turner, of business development for the nation’s Maine, in July. Son Lucas plans to be mar- seventh-largest hospital consulting firm CNN’s “Black in America 4: The New Promised ried next July in Las Vegas. Shelley works and largest manager of hospitals. He is Land—Silicon Valley.” as an occupational therapist in the local closing in on his bucket-list goal of hitting school system and, for fun, sings with the all 50 states. Just Mississippi and North Androscoggin Chorale (Lewiston/Auburn) Dakota left! His older son is finishing and Choral Art Society (Portland). She also graduate school in Chicago in advertising tion (they’ve raised more than $125,000 Sonnets I’m finally doing that, to the best enjoys spinning fiber and knitting. Y Sean and does well as a standup comic. His thus far!). Despite his illness, Jeff has of my ability. He was right about that being and Barb Thayer Barry live north of San younger son is an engineer, designing new continued working for the past 17 years the best approach for an English/physics Francisco but came back to Orrs Island, fighter jet engines in the Northeast. Rick at Redington Counters in Windsor, Conn., double major! Maine, in October to visit Barb’s father, still plays hockey and is playing in an “old currently as national sales manager. He Jim Thayer, Class of 1938! He is 95 years guys” national tourney in Florida in April. Y and Ellen have been married for 31 years. young and still going strong. Unfortunately, Annie Holloway Stone experienced some Jeffrey sees Jeff Olmstead regularly and 1978 they were unable to meet up with their very uplifting life changes recently. After he was recently in contact with Richard Janet Santry Houser esteemed class correspondents (Vicki and leaving Colby, she worked a myriad of jobs Conant. Y Speaking of Dick Conant, he Lea Jackson Morrissey Jill) and Sonja Powers Schmanska due to and developed a love of whitewater canoe- continues to pursue accomplishments [email protected] time constraints. Definitely next time! Y We ing and kayaking. She spent years of pad- such as hiking the 100 highest peaks in We’re hearing from a variety of classmates, hope everyone’s holidays were blessed and dling big water in West Virginia and North New England (he’s done 76) and skiing all some who write occasionally and some filled with family fun and good times. Let Carolina, easily accessed as a resident of active ski areas in New England. “Never a who’ve never written before! You certainly us know what’s going on for the next issue. Cashiers, N.C., in the heart of the Appala- dull moment—it may make it hard to go back make our job easier and broaden our news. chian Mountains. Sadly, a period of morbid to work in some type of second career.” Y Thanks for taking the time. Y Sandra Bol- obesity changed everything and lasted for Cindy North lives in Ventura, Calif., and is stridge Morin has never written but always 1975 20 years. Temporarily living now in Baton a business development manager at CDI reads the class column. Sandy transferred Laurie Fitts Loosigian Rouge caring for her 93-year-old mother, Corporation, a global engineering staffing out after her sophomore year, but will always Susie Gearhart Wuest city life has been quite a change from the services provider. She’s worked there 23 fondly remember her Colby experience and [email protected] North Carolina mountains. However, she years. Her son Matthew, 18, is attending the people she met. Sandy graduated from Deciding to make a change after five years quickly noticed the incredible medical USC, and son Nic, 16, is in high school. Husson College with a B.S. in accounting of teaching Montessori in New Preston, facilities there and began researching “bar- Cindy travels home to Cape Cod for several and has a small accounting and financial Conn., Carol Majdalany Williams now iatric surgery.” Last year after undergoing weeks each summer and remembers her services firm in Bradley, Maine. She and works for ZAANHA, a company that works a “sleeve gasterectomy” and losing 160 Colby days fondly. Y Blake Luce has lived Jeffrey Morin married in September 1978 to put Afghanistan girls in school through pounds, Annie has a new lifestyle locked in Atlanta since 1981. 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[email protected] 52 1/11/12 9:54 AM and Christopher, 28. Michael is a resident to the occasion. We hit and exceeded every undecided which college to attend. Craig 1980 park ranger in Pine, Colo. Christopher is goal we set! And he cannot say thank you looks forward to spending more time skiing Tom Marlitt a finish carpenter at Hinckley Yachts in enough to our classmate who extended the this winter in Snowmass, Colo., with his [email protected] Trenton, Maine. Sandy and Jeff own Harleys great challenge for last year. Great job all! two new knees. Y Greg Jalbert watched and enjoy riding, and for the past several Y Have a good winter. the wilderness of his youth packaged up Congratulations to the Rev. Jane E. Dibden, summers they have spent two to three and hauled away by the truckload when who married Michael A. Bishop last June. weeks traveling across the he gave up his lodge on the Allagash River. Michael had a crush on Jane when they were on motorcycle. They thoroughly enjoy seeing 1979 He continues the guiding tradition passed 9 years old, and when Jane moved back this great country and meeting people Cheri Bailey Powers down by his father and grandfather as to Johnson, Vt., last year, they met again from all over. Sandy hopes that her first [email protected] a guide on raft trips through the Grand and started dating. Diana Small Snow was submission inspires others who have never Cindy Flandreau Helfrich moved from Canyon and along Idaho’s Salmon River. present at the wedding, and the two old written to send in news! Y Congratulations northern to southern California a year ago, As if he didn’t have enough going on as friends spent an afternoon together before to Joanne Anthonakes and Mark Cushing where her husband, Jim, and brother-in- a marketing specialist, Greg just received the non-rehearsal dinner. Mike is a retired on their marriage last summer in Maine. manager for Meineke, and Jane still pastors They live between Boston and Duxbury, and is a substitute teacher. Jane keeps Mass. Their combined family numbers six in touch with Kathy Quimby Johnson ’79, kids, and Joanne admits they’re very busy. Susan Raymond Geismar ’79 spent more than who lives in neighboring Cambridge, Vt. Y Joanne’s kids: TJ is a junior at Bucknell three fabulous weeks in Malawi, Africa, with Glen Coral and wife Amy have raised three and Sara graduated from Colby in 2010. great kids. Their oldest, Jason, completed Jo works part time as an editor assisting Go!Malawi, an amazing organization dedicated a chemistry degree at West Virginia and high school students with their college to education, conservation, and HIV/AIDS heads off next fall to graduate school in environmental toxicology at Clemson. Son essays. Like many of us she was sad to prevention support in the Ntchisi district of hear about Professor Bassett’s death—he Jon is in his senior year at Millersville U. was her favorite. Y After many years in central Malawi. playing on the number-one ranked Division financial services working with companies II club team in the country, and such as Prudential, New England Financial, daughter Stacey is a senior in high school. and MetLife, John Breedlove opened his law Gary McCarthy started a business an executive M.B.A. from the University of Glen recently reconnected with Ron Levine Y own firm in Newton, Mass., called Moody together. Cindy and Jim enjoy the beaches, Denver. Y Suzanne Viger Randall’s twin through LinkedIn. In November Lynn Col- Street Financial. It has 10 full-time associ- warm weather, and being closer to two of boys graduated from high school and both lins Francis started a new job in clinical ates and 20 affiliated brokers. John finds their children. Daughter Carly is a senior are in college. They’ve opted to stay local data management at Boston Scientific. this extremely exciting and fun, although at USC, and Jack just graduated from (USM and SMCC) and work part time while She, too, keeps in touch with classmates he admits that risking the opening of a firm Loyola Marymount. The youngest, Ted, is a in college almost full time. Suzanne is still through LinkedIn and Facebook. Y Glenn like this at this stage of life seems a little sophomore at Georgetown, playing soccer. with UNUM, and her husband is in the Air Rieger will represent the Class of 1980 crazy. Y Last spring Theanna Pateropou- Cindy has started a small business called Force Reserves and works at GrafTek. She as a new Colby Overseer. Congratulations los graduated from California Institute of Button Up Wraps, which she sells on her has fleeting thoughts about retirement, Glenn! Y Tom Eyman traveled to Mayflower Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. website and in stores. She saw Lisa Hall but nothing serious. Y Susan Raymond Hill in November to watch Colby trounce She earned her master’s in counseling Reed at a USC football game, where Lisa Geismar spent more than three fabulous Bates (where his daughter is a freshman) psychology with an emphasis in somatic was visiting her daughter, Molly. Y Ross weeks in Malawi, Africa, with Go!Malawi, on the football field. He was planning a trip methods of psychotherapy. She’ll remain Moldoff has had a great year. He made an amazing organization dedicated to to Brunswick to watch Colby try to capture in San Francisco another four years in the a presentation at the American Planning education, conservation, and HIV/AIDS the CBB hockey title. Tom was traveling CIIS doctoral program in clinical psychol- Association conference in April, and an prevention support in the Ntchisi district with Scott Butterfield’s brother, Mark, ogy. In spring 2012 her daughter, Sarah, article he wrote about the presentation of central Malawi. It was difficult to return who reported that Scott was unable to will graduate with a master’s in human was published in the newsletter Zoning home, but she is already planning to go make the trip due to “domestic sanitation development from University of Maine, Practice. In July Ross and his family spent back. She’d be happy to share informa- engineering issues.” Y Our last two columns Orono, where Sarah received a graduate two weeks in Israel. After the trip Ross tion on this great NGO. Y I reconnected have been a little sparse, so I encourage assistantship. Theanna tries to make two climbed Mt. Washington and, while staying with one of my freshman roommates, those classmates who haven’t written in visits home each year to Maine to see overnight at the Lake of the Clouds hut, Deborah Lieberman Moore, this summer. recently to send me an e-mail and let us family and friends, including Mary Rolerson he met three recent Colby grads working It was great hearing from her and catching all know what you’re up to. Hebert and Gayle Amato Lusa ’79. Y Dave there. In August his family hosted Nick up! She’s been the executive director of Kayatta works in southern California and Tucker ’10 and Sam Rouleau ’10 for a the Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill in 1981 is trying to finish educating the five kids night on the pair’s cross-country walking Middletown, Conn., for 12 years. Deborah Steph Vrattos for whom he and Renee live. Their oldest trip. Y Craig Garson writes from Halifax, loves the easy 35-minute commute and [email protected] son, Taylor, is in law school; Michael is a N.S., where he’s practiced law for the last being able to bring her golden retriever to first-year resident in med school; Ali is 29 years at his firm Garson MacDonald. work. Her job description, besides being Not much news this quarter. I only heard studying for a master’s in education; and Unlike the first half of his career, when responsible for the mansion’s financial from one person, so that’s all I have to Kristy is a first-year UCLA Bruin and on D1 he practiced primarily criminal defense, viability, is to make people happy. Y News share. Please, send me news so our column rowing team. Last but not least, Hailey just Craig’s practice is now limited almost at my home is that we are officially empty- can be more robust. Y On June 18 Mike started high school and is a top-ranked exclusively to mediation and working for nesters. My brother has moved into his Cronan hosted the second annual Joel tennis player. Wow! Y Things have been a few international clients. Craig’s oldest, new house and my youngest, Meredith, is Potvin Memorial Cruise in memory of Joel on the move in Jeff Wheeler’s family. His Ellen, 23, graduated with a business degree attending Colorado Mesa University. Wed- “Sluggo” Potvin, who died suddenly in daughter transferred from Loyola to UMass from St. Mary’s University in Halifax in June ding preparations for my oldest daughter, March 2010. Mike writes, “We had a cocktail Amherst, his son graduated from Lynchburg and is working for a year while she decides Kayleigh, are coming along, and I know party at my house in Newburyport followed College, and another son finishes up at UVM on phase two. Middle daughter, Rosie ’15, June 30 will be here before we know it. Y by a dinner cruise out of Plum Island Point. this spring. Jeff said that 2011 was a great is a freshman at Colby, and the youngest, Keep in touch in 2012! Joel’s family was presented with a check year for our class giving, as our class rose Marybeth, is a senior in high school and in the amount $5,000 in his name, which

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the Potvin family will use to establish a life as a “fac-brat.” Y Mair Sirakides Hill was something in the water at Colby as so Legal Services, in Portland’s Old Port. He scholarship for a deserving student-athlete celebrated her 50th birthday by spending many of us had multiples—what are the had a great summer playing , water at his and Marie’s alma mater, Biddeford two weeks in Australia. Her oldest son is a odds?!” Y Tom Claytor has been dropping skiing, and chasing his two boys, 10 and High School. In attendance were Tim Porter freshman at Tufts. Y We send prayers to the food packages from the air to families cut 13. He played golf last fall with a group of ’78, Jim Crook ’78, Gerry Skinder ’78, Ralph family of Norman Crook ’52, Becky Crook off by flooding in Ayutthaya and Bangkok. DUs and enjoyed a vacation in Portugal Peterson ’79, Bob Dorval ’79, John Daley, Rogers’s dad, who died last October. Becky “Families are now living on their roofs,” last October. Y Julie Sands Causey was at Al Bruzzese, Harry Hadiaris, Steve Pfaff, works part time at the YMCA in central Ohio he writes. “Nine industrial estates are Colby in November on a college visit with Dennis Ring, and myself. Shortly after and leads new staff orientations. She’s completely flooded. Half the computer hard her son, Cameron, and his friend. She says leaving the dock a magnificent double gone back to school to obtain a human drives in the world are made here, but not it was really fun to see the school through rainbow appeared on the horizon, which resource management certificate. She’s now.” Follow Tom’s journeys and missions their eyes and that “the coaches of their was probably Joel’s way of letting us know also raising her second Canine Companion at www.claytor.com. Y Rob Hazard lives in three sports were engaged and welcoming.” he was in the neighborhood. Always great to puppy, Steel, a black lab-golden retriever see old friends from Lambda Chi, where the cross. Her son, Michael, is a sophomore at bonds we forged years ago are as strong as Ohio State studying international law and ever.” A photo of the gathering is posted on will continue on to law school. Y We’ll need Tom Claytor ’85 has been dropping food our class page at www.colby.edu/alumni. details, but Katy Spencer Donovan, Janet packages from the air to families cut off by Wyper, Sonya Thompsen Halsey, Bridget flooding in Ayutthaya and Bangkok. “Families 1982 Callahan, Leslie Gregory, Theresa Lynch, and Laurellie Jacobs Martinez ’84 got are now living on their roofs,” he writes. “Nine Nancy Briggs Marshall together in Florida for their 50th birthdays. [email protected] Y Deb Fenton and Richard Manley had industrial estates are completely flooded. Half Find out who’s coming to our 30th reunion, a great weekend hosting son George ’13 the computer hard drives in the world are made May 31-June 3, and read other news in and his mock trial team from Colby when here, but not now.” our online column at www.colby.edu/mag they competed at Brandeis. There were 10 great kids from the Classes of 2012 through ’15. Spent a lot of time poring 1983 over old yearbooks and comparing notes North Kingston, R.I., and has been married They were impressed with the significant Sal Lovegren Merchant on professors still there like Cal Mackenzie, seven years. He works for Universal Wilde, new resources around environmental sci- [email protected] Sandy Maisel, and Ira Sadoff. They heard a printing and direct marketing company, ences and the Bigelow Laboratory. “The “We’re so impressed with Colby today. lots of entertaining stories about frats and and has been working in the advertising/ Colby we know now has top-notch athletic It’s remarkable to see how successful our the Echo. “It was a great group of talented, graphic arts/direct mail business since fields with night lighting, beautiful big new classmates have become as a result of our smart, and fun kids. Glad to see Colby graduating. Rob attended our 25th reunion buildings, a young, enthusiastic group of time together,” says Mike Schafer. Mike is hasn’t changed.” Y Deb Bombaci Pappas last year and most recently reconnected professors, and a fabulous new math and in his ninth year as head of school at Kimball now works at Children’s Hospital Boston as with Andy and Barbara Wilkes Sheehan. science building on the way,” Julie adds. Union Academy in Meriden, N.H. Both Kim- senior director of marketing. Deb’s office is Y Terry Martin was accepted into an “It is clear, as well, that the domestic and ball and Colby were founded in 1813, which literally next to Fenway Park and she’s been international educational council that took international diversity adds profoundly to leads Mike to hope that the bicentennial told to watch for Red Sox player sightings him to Krakow and Berlin. He spent 10 days the richness of the experience. Go Colby!” celebrations don’t conflict, as is often the in the parking lot. last summer with 15 colleagues intensely Y Thanks for the news. Hope your holidays case with alumni weekends. “The schools studying the effects of the Holocaust and were happy and healthy! share some interesting similarities in their postwar communism on the identity of Poles founding, particularly in the longstanding 1984 and Germans. Y Shireen Shahawy met up coeducational missions. On a campus Mary Kate Whalen with some classmates at Colby’s Nov. 12 1986 visit and interview with our daughter, I [email protected] football game at Bowdoin. Shireen saw Henrietta “Hank” Yelle had a chance to read excerpts of Profes- three generations of Andersons: Rick and [email protected] sor Bassett’s Colby history, especially Kathryn Clarke Anderson, Rick’s parents, Look for Movement for Kids: The Story the “modern” era—our years—and read 1985 Dick ’55 and Jean Hawes Anderson ’55, and of NovatoSpirit on Amazon and on your the deliberations on the fraternity issue. Katie Holland Adams Rick and Kathryn’s daughter, Emily ’14. Cory Nook—it’s by Marian Huntington Schinske From my perspective as a school head, I [email protected] Humphreys Serrano couldn’t make it, but and highlights the stories of disadvantaged found the entire process fascinating from It was great to hear from Chris Rona her husband was there with their daughter, kids who have received athletic scholar- an educational and leadership standpoint. Alban, a fellow mother of twins living in my Marisa ’15. Check out the great picture from ships from her nonprofit NovatoSpirit in While there are varying viewpoints still on hometown of Medfield, Mass. Chris has a the event on our class page at www.colby. Novato, Calif. Y Steven and Karen-Jo the whole matter, it was a courageous and sixth-grade son and her girls are juniors edu/alumni. Unfortunately the Mules lost, Giammusso Shapiro just celebrated their I think prescient decision that has helped in high school just beginning the college but the great tailgate party, sponsored by 25th anniversary. Steve also notes that position Colby today as a leading school of search process. Chris is working on becom- Eddie Woodin ’69, eased the pain. Shireen his Honda Accord, which he’s been driving its kind. We have a number of Colby alumni ing a certified general real estate appraiser, has done professional voice work for years since graduating Colby, also just turned 25! on the faculty—most recently we added a two-year process. Chris keeps in touch and launched a new website, www.that- Karen-Jo recently became a board certified Cole Conlin ’94. We’re well represented by with Janet Lamoreau Carter, who lives in girlcanread.com. Y Tom Colt had a busy coach and continues coaching with lead- Kimball students in Colby’s current student East Waterboro, Maine, with her husband fall: skydiving and attending concerts and ers at the Center for Creative Leadership. body and enjoy hearing about their engage- and twin son and daughter. Both Janet and some Steelers games. He caught up with Y Another California girl, Gretchen Bean ment and success. We also have a number her husband are teachers in public school Gretchen Bean Bergill at a work confer- Lurie, is a new empty-nester with two kids of Colby alumni whose children attend KUA districts in the Portland area. Chris also ence in New Orleans in September. He also now in college. She’s just bought a house and last year graduated the son of Chris hears from Suzanne Krumm Yerdon, who saw Greg Shefrin last summer when Greg steps away from the Rose Parade and Murphy ’82.” Mike and Gayle’s daughters lives in Chester, N.J., with her husband and his son were visiting the University of invites any 86ers looking for a warm sunny study at KUA, Joanna, a freshman, and and high school triplets (one son and two Pittsburgh. Y Ben Lowry is happy to report spot on New Year’s to come by! Gretchen Hannah, a senior. Their son, Jon, 11, loves daughters). 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[email protected] 54 1/11/12 9:54 AM enjoying the connection to Mayflower Hill and outside of Denver. Y Across the pond, with the vat of cherry Jell-o™? Okay, that’s light still burning blue, and feel that pas- via work with the admissions committee of Laurent Kosbach coaches baseball for just one made up example of the many fond sion in your heart still burning hot. You’re the Colby Alumni Council. Y Further north, his local club in France, which he loves, memories you may hold of Colby. Actually, gonna steal a library book, have a Colby 8, Mary Lou Kopas has finished graduate although some of the players are a third I shudder to think how much more exotic run naked across the quad (okay, maybe school and is practicing midwifery with his age and have taken to calling him Papy. your actual memories might be. But I do that’s just me) and for one brief weekend, the University of Washington midwives, Despite this and having celebrated the 30th know the ideal time to share them with one re-capture what has been so eerily elusive a hospital-based group in Seattle. Her birthday of his stepdaughter, Clara, he is another: our 25th reunion. Now I’m no math since graduation: yourself. We have a very elder son, Carson, is applying to college still feeling young and loving life. Y That’s whiz, but by my calculations, we only get major experience in common, perhaps more this year. Y After a marathon European what I wish for all of you—to feel young and one 25th reunion. Unless the earth reverses unifying than any other decision we have summer vacation with family (including to be loving life! Keep me up to date with its rotation and we get to live the same made since. Personally, I want people to see sister Kate Docherty Lawes ’82), Andy your doings. It makes me happy to hear day twice. Unfortunately, the odds of that that my hair started growing back, which Docherty sent his eldest, Connor, off to from any and all of you! are at least four to one. Which means you is a medical miracle. And I’m also taller. William & Mary, while high school senior absolutely need to be there from May 31 It’s an experience that’s been 25 years in London settled into the college application to June 3, because it may be the last time the making. An epic that transcends us as process. Having just finished a tour at the 1987 we get together as a group for another 25 individuals. Don’t miss it. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Andy’s Scott Lainer years. My plan is to arrive early and stay next assignment for the U.S. Navy is with [email protected] through summer and the next two semesters the Joint Task Force in Guantanamo Bay, Hello, fellow classmates. I have two pieces so I can relive senior year. Except I won’t 1988 Cuba. Y When Guy Holbrook headed out of news. Which is better than one, and way be taking classes, just doing all the other Nancy Donahue Cyker from New England to Minnesota for busi- better than none. Beth Harrison Cutliffe stuff. Yes, I hear the excuses. “We always [email protected] ness recently, Heather Reay Rocheford, and family relocated from Bedford, N.H., spend that weekend switching our spring Here’s an update from Johnson third floor Chapman Mayo, and Charlie Clippert kept to New Castle, N.H., after 13 years in the clothes to summer clothes, followed by a 1984/1985. I asked for memories, news, him entertained with a fun, deep-fried, same house. (Hopefully they went for walks nap. Then another nap.” And sure, many of Colby highlights and redos. My freshman food-filled night at the Minnesota State every once in a while.) Daughter Jessica is you are scattered to the four corners of the roommate, Patty Haffey Clendenen, lives Fair! Heather Cameron Ploen ’87 would a freshman at Roger Williams University, globe, which I know is round, but stay with in Wellesley, Mass. Her husband, Pat, have joined them, but she was on crutches. studying secondary education and math- me. Some of you have kids in college and practices law in Boston. Patty is looking Y On the East Coast, Jen Imhoff Foley ematics. Second daughter, Jenn, is a junior may have forgotten that you once howled at for a job now that her youngest, Claire, is has changed careers. After two decades at Portsmouth High School. Beth can’t wait the moon—when it was broad daylight. Even a senior. Their oldest, Paul, is at Clemson, at L.L.Bean, she’s now VP of development for our reunion! Y Tristram Korten signed worse, your kids are thinking, “Gee mom (or and Drew is at Miami Ohio. Pat and Patty at Maine Public Broadcasting Network. A on to be a contributing editor at the Florida dad), you’re so mature and responsible, you made the trip to Colby with Claire wondering longtime MPBN member, she’s thrilled to be Center for Investigative Reporting. Says Tris, have no conceivable idea what it’s like to be if they’d finally have a child who appreci- helping secure the organization’s financial “They’ll underwrite four of my projects this young and experimental and free. You can’t ates the remote beauty of Maine! I recently future. Jen’s husband, Brad, works towards enjoyed catching up with Patty during a walk his third decade of building safe highways around the Weston, Mass., reservoir with and byways for the State of Maine DOT. our dogs. Y Rob Koff is in Simsbury, Conn., Eldest son Jamie is in his first semester at 80s newsmakers where I used to see him at car washes and Maine College of Art, and Ben is a junior a favorite bar, more frequently at the latter. Shaun Sutner ’80, an investigative reporter for the trying to figure out how to deal with an Rob has three kids (two girls, 6 and 9, and Telegram & Gazette newspaper in Worcester, Mass., was unfair rebalancing of parent-to-child ratio part of a team reporting from Haiti in December. Sutner a son, 16), owns a real estate investment now that Jamie has flown the coop! Both wrote about the continued work there in memory of Britney and management company, and is married. boys are counselors at Birch Rock Camp in Gengel, a college student who went to Haiti to work with Rob’s redo: to have exercised his talents Waterford, Maine, with Rich Deering, and orphans but died in the earthquake in January.* Aviva and played football at Colby! He stays in they really embrace the “help the other Sapers ’83 was recognized by the Family Business Asso- close contact with Scott Bunker, Peter fellow” motto. Y Lila Hopson Monahan ciation for her work as CEO of insurance and investment O’Toole ’89, and freshman roommate Derek had a blast at our 25th, having convinced company Sapers & Wallack Inc., in Newton, Mass. Sapers Sappenfield. Derek sent the most creative roommate Cindy Castro Minnehan to and others were noted for striking a balance between work response to my request for favorite Colby come from Tampa and Fray Crease ’87 and family, according to the Boston Business Journal. F memories: “Yianni’s special right before to fly in from Santa Barbara. Lila’s recent Therese Langlois ’85 has been promoted to senior vice bed, road trip (including cow tip- president at Citizens Bank. Langlois will lead a team news includes putting her proverbial foot Aviva Sapers ’83 ping), a payback swirlie, day-long wiffle ball in her mouth. When an early winter storm providing analytical and reporting support to several games, the anticipation of a full garbage can was predicted to cause widespread power executive management teams at the Providence, R.I.-based bank. of water leaning against a door, marathon die outages on Halloween weekend, she games (including one with a certain person’s commented to everyone, “We never lose father).” Derek is a business consultant power.” After six days without electricity, year.” Here’s the link to a feature story he possibly relate to my late papers and my and has lived in Russia, South Africa, and she was eating those words! Y Eve Lynne wrote on Medicare fraud that just came out bad-ass tunes and my goal to play the lute Belgium and worked virtually everywhere Ermer’s son, Erik, got married this August in Fast Company. (www.fastcompany.com/ on the streets of Paris despite a 4.0 GPA.” else. He has a son, 8, who bears a strong (is she our first mother-in-law?!) to Johanna magazine/161/medical-fraud). (I regularly Are you gonna take that? Hell, no! You’re resemblance and who seems to have inher- Palmer. They live in Underhill, Vt., where contribute to Slow Company, which has a gonna put together the $19.95, or whatever ited the travel bug. Y Karen Linde Packman Jo is finishing up grad school at UVM and readership of just me.) Y Thank you and it costs to attend the reunion (probably lives in Weston, Mass., with her two girls, 15 Erik works in Colchester. Y Down south in have a great … wait, I still have some room closer to $20), and hightail it to Waterville and 13. Her husband, Jeff, works in biotech Sarasota, Fla., we find Gary and Sarah here. And as you know by now, I use all 650 at the most picturesque time of year, when while Karen keeps busy with the girls and Whittle Stoffel. One daughter started col- allotted words. So let’s reminisce. Do you the blossoms are blossoming and the smell with work for a foundation focused on arts lege this year at High Point University in NC, remember that time at three in the morning of the paper factory shifts toward Canada. and education, particularly in low-income and their son began high school. Their two on second floor Foss with that wax statue of You’re gonna remember when you knew only communities in Massachusetts. The family older daughters live in northern California Clint Eastwood and the three-legged goat potential. You’re gonna see that old blue enjoys bicycling and skiing. Karen’s Colby

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highlight is her life-long friends, including her husband have two kids, and she works Hadden some airtime for his book. Gerry and, of course, birthday parties. Y Reed her best friend, Jeff. Redo: volunteering at Alcatel-Lucent in strategic marketing, and John are not only Colby classmates, Bernhard retired from the Navy after 20 as goalie for the JV lacrosse team fresh- where she manages the enterprise global but both attended Pelham High School in years of flying. He has settled in Seattle man year having never before picked up consultant program. You may see Terri on NY. Y Andy Ayers and Rob Erdmann are with his wife and son and looks forward to a stick. Y Stacey Mendelsohn Marx was the Food Network one day: she tried out co-head coaches of the Agawam Mite A continuing his flying career. Congratulations Karen’s roommate. Stacey and Josh live for the first season of Gordon Ramsay’s (7 to 8-year-olds) travel hockey team in on your retirement Reed and, as with Matt, on Bainbridge Island in Washington with MasterChef in 2010, and in October she Hamilton, Mass. Andy’s son, Jimmy, and we’re humbled by your service. Y David Cole- Sallie, 16, and Nate 14. Stacey works on placed fifth out of 227 in the Aetna Food Rob’s son, Jack, both play on the team. Y man and family live in Silicon Valley, where getting mental health coverage for the Fight Challenge, vying for a chance to cook Shaun Dakin had a great visit with Mike he’s the manager of the merchant support underserved. She runs half-marathons, for Bobby Flay. Y Susan Serino lives in Beck this summer on Block Island. Shaun team for Playspan. His wife home-schools spectates at her kids’ games, and enjoys Cambridge with her husband, Steve, and is works in DC as a managing partner for their two children. They spend weekends in cooking. Stacey has created a beautiful and in her 17th year as a school psychologist/ training at Webbmedia Group. His son is in the Napa area riding horses or attending warm home overlooking the water, which counselor at Acton-Boxborough Regional second grade, and Mike helped celebrate their daughter’s ballet rehearsals. Y Annie I enjoyed during a visit with Karen Linde High School. She also currently serves as Shaun’s 14th anniversary with his wife, Band loves life in Wyoming, making time for Packman in 2008. Y Peter Weltchek lives her Harvard Square church’s junior warden. Dr. Saleena Dakin. Congrats! Y Andrew mountain biking (with her husband and son), in San Francisco with his wife, Sara Starr, Y Jeff England finds it ironic that, after being Ian Dodge is busy with his run for U.S. hiking, paragliding, swimming, and making and boys Charlie (fourth grade) and Owen expelled from Colby for bad grades, he is Senate. As he says, it will be “one inter- lots of jewelry in her newly upgraded studio. (first). They live in the city, where Peter is a now a professor at the Fashion Institute of esting spring next year and I can’t wait.” Y She went hiking with Diana Howell O’Brien, partner in a real estate company, investing Technology in NYC responsible for hand- Gretchen Kreahling McKay isn’t a senator, who has a thriving physical therapy practice in underperforming shopping centers. He ing out grades. “Thankfully, I’m a better but she was elected to the advisory board in Jackson. Y Dan Spurgin has been in was in NYC over Thanksgiving and enjoyed professor than I was a student.” Y Jana for Reacting to the Past. She works with Kansas dominating his family fantasy foot- seeing freshman roommate Chris Whelan. Christopher lives in Keene, N.H., where, Professor of Art Michael Marlais at Colby ball league and starting a soccer team last Chris and his wife, Marie Elena (Gravano when she isn’t working as a residential ’90), live in NJ and have three daughters. educator at a group home for mentally ill Chris works in NYC for Morgan Stanley. Chris adults, she deals tournaments for a charity Matt Ovios ’90 was promoted to captain and Peter saw Shawn Holt, his wife, and poker room. Jana is learning sign language and was deployed to the western Pacific and three daughters at their home in NJ. Jon and is a peer counselor in Re-evaluation Earl and one of his two daughters were also Counseling, so she keeps plenty busy! Y Arabian Gulf onboard the aircraft carrier there. On a visit to Boston, Peter connected Kathleen Murphy Fellbaum enjoyed Jody John C. Stennis ... and was in the midst of with Dean Schwartz and Hilary Seward Zorgdrager’s book, Of Consequence, as Kempainen. I see Hilary around Boston well as Gerry Hadden’s book, Never the launching jets that support missions in Iraq with her young son and daughter. The kids Hope Itself. Y Lawrence Collins also said and Afghanistan. always look supremely happy. Y And finally, Gerry’s book is “awesome.” Lawrence’s Becca Bruce Dobberfuhl sent news from band is almost finished with a new album, Austin, Texas. At the time she wrote, Becca Acoustronika, and will have released a and her husband, Steven, were anxiously five-song EP version by the time you read to develop a Reacting to the Past game. fall for 2-4 year olds, which they call “Mighty awaiting the arrival of their baby, who was this. Y Jennifer Johnson Muse lives in Starting in January Gretchen will be chair Lions Soccer.” Y Elaine Kaufman Goldman due via gestational carrier in January. After Pittsburgh, where, pre-kids, she was an of the department of art and art history lives in St. Louis with her husband and riding on the infertility roller coaster, they’re ICU nurse. Now she’s busier than ever at McDaniel College, where she teaches. three daughters. Her company, Logo Loops, thrilled. Becca and Steven, a doctor, went shuttling three kids to “every sport under produces embroidered stretch headbands on a medical mission to Honduras last May the sun” and volunteering for the Phipps in a variety of colors/designs—think tween and treated women and children in make- Conservatory and the Carnegie Museum’s 1990 girl. Elaine reports that Erica Hoffmeister shift clinics in three remote villages. They Women’s Committee. Jennifer’s oldest, Kristin Hock Davie Supple, Suzanne Quill Feldman, Andrea celebrated Josh and Stacey Mendelsohn Anna, competed in the world champion- [email protected] Ciampa McEachern, Leslie Couture Mour- Marx’s 20th anniversary with them in ships in Irish dancing in Dublin last April, Carolyn Reed Kirkpatrick wrote from moura, Kirsten Rossner Buchanan, Valerie Bainbridge last September. Her Colby redo: and Jennifer got to go along. She’ll go again Queenstown, N.Z., where she and her Bryer Pettit, and Dr. Gretchen Schwarze learn Spanish. Y Thanks to the many who when Anna competes next spring in Belfast. husband and two sons live on a sheep sta- Mezrich are all well. Y Kristin “Cricket” wrote in. Some news wasn’t included since Y After 21 years in California, David Fearon tion. She is involved with several education Girvin Redman checked in from Madison, I have a 650-word limit. The next column is has returned to the East Coast, where he projects and both boys are on the local Wis., where she lives with her husband and already written! Stay tuned and keep it up! is a data management specialist at the ski team. Y Matt Ovios was promoted to dog. She is practicing graphic design, playing Johns Hopkins library in Baltimore. He captain and was deployed to the western some pond hockey, running, and skiing. She reports that JHU’s Georgian campus is like a Pacific and Arabian Gulf onboard the aircraft sees Laura Senier, who is on the faculty at 1989 “bigger, sciencier Colby.” Y Nancy Spellman carrier John C. Stennis. He was in the midst UW Madison in rural sociology and family Anita Terry recently caught up with Jenni Underhill in of launching jets that support missions in medicine. She also gets together with [email protected] Florida under not-so-great circumstances. Iraq and Afghanistan. Upon return he and Gretchen Granger Hartley, who is a vascular This is the column of the long-lost class- Nancy’s mom, who lives in Cape Canaveral, his wife will head to Newport, R.I., where surgeon and on the faculty at UW Medical mates. I heard from more people who had fell and broke her shoulder. Jenni has been Matt will be the director of fleet training at School. She also sees Tim Felt ’91, although never written in or who hadn’t written in encouraging Nancy to get involved in cycling the Navy’s Surface Warfare Officer School. not often enough. Y Tanja Gross Chevalier years. Welcome back! Jan Gisholt was mar- and, while in Florida, Nancy and Jenni rode Matt, we wish you a safe return and are checked in from the Chicago area, where ried to Hara Mavrikos Sept. 17 in Santorini, together. Nancy has completed four metric humbled by your service to our country. Y she lives with her husband and three kids. Greece. He and Hara practice maritime law centuries (62 miles) in the past year, and Carol Lockwood expanded her commercial They’re enthusiastically involved with music in NYC, and he promises not to wait another Jenni has done a full century (100 miles). real estate law practice to include family law. and French culture and enjoy the changing 22 years to submit. Y Terri Edmunds has Y John Reynolds still writes and performs She lives in East Oahu with her two sons. seasons in the Midwest. Y John Hayworth been living near Chicago since 1996, but on CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig She’s also the stereotypical mom, shuttling became the managing partner of Walker, she still misses the East Coast. She and Ferguson, where he is trying to get Gerry boys among school, swim lessons, soccer Tipps & Malone PLC, a litigation boutique

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[email protected] 56 1/11/12 9:54 AM firm in Nashville. He and his wife are busy out London with her hubby sans children! Y Great job with the news everyone—keep went to Big G’s for his favorite sandwich raising two kids, one very mellow lab, and Y Since our reunion, DC Comics (now DC it coming! (the Myles Standwich). The location had one crazy-ass corgi. He hopes to visit Chip Entertainment) relocated C. Evan Metcalf changed, but the food was exactly as he Smith, Scott Schirmeier, and Bob Lian in from NYC to the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, remembered it. Y Rachel Klein-Ash recently DC soon. Y Congratulations to Pete Sekulow Calif., where he works in the creative services 1992 returned from Christy O’Rourke and Scott and his wife on the birth of their daughter, division facilitating the brand extension of Karen Wu Habetz’s amazing wedding in Sausalito, Veronica Mia Sekulow, born Sept. 8 in DC Comics properties (, Superman, [email protected] Calif. Scott is originally from NC, but the Virginia. Y After 20 years working in sports, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern) into vid- Hello and welcome to the year of our 20th happy couple resides in San Francisco. The mostly as a baseball writer, Larry Rocca is eogames, movies, and television. His wife, reunion! Can you believe it’s just around morning of the wedding, Christy, leading in the DC suburbs working as development Amie, and three children—Oscar, 8, Arlo, the corner? Y Annaliesa and Scott Alprin enthusiastically, encouraged a group on a director at his high school alma mater (some 6, and Lucy, 3—have joined him in a cozy announce the birth of Jacob Eno Thomas hike up into the Marin Headlands, where they may remember his Georgetown Prep letter 1950s ranch home on the flats of Burbank, Alprin, born Sept. 17 in Washington, D.C. had spectacular, expansive views of San jacket). Y Cinda Jones is president of her where it’s always sunny, lizards outnumber The Alprins wanted their second child about Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. Other family’s Timberland and Real Estate Co. in squirrels, and orange trees grow in their front two years after their first, and they accom- Colbians in attendance were: Katie Martin, Massachusetts. She’s redeveloping a former yard. Y Sue Gouws Korn is still in the San plished that: sister Marlie turned 2 Sept. Marah Silverberg Derzon, Lisa McMahon- sawmill site into a village center just a half Francisco Bay area, where she’s been for 13 15. They suspect joint birthday parties will Myhran, KK Smith, Jenny Alfond Seeman, mile north of UMass Amherst. years, and started a new job as VP-finance at not be tolerated by either child. Y Nicole and Katherine Rynearson Tagtmeier. Y peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper. Farkas Mogul enjoys living in a house in Katie Drowne is working on a project that com. She loves the startup mentality and is DC that she and her husband gutted and may resonate with some of you. She’s in 1991 wondering why she didn’t make the switch renovated. She stays in touch with Scott the process of writing a book about Richard Dave Shumway years ago. Her sons are 6 and 3, and she’s Alprin. Y Last August Eric Johnson and his Russo, who taught in the English Department [email protected] continually amused looking at the world wife welcomed their second son, Chase while we were at Colby. He’s left Colby but Becca Brackett Price has had a wonderful, through their eyes. Y Katherine Dauge-Roth Hudson. Chase was born in NY as Eric is in has won the Pulitzer Prize and many other crazy, intense, exhausting, and fulfilling year. returned from a great year in Switzerland, the middle of a two-year assignment there accolades. Though Katie didn’t know him She and husband Lewis traveled to China husband Alexandre’s home country, where for PIMCO. In October Eric hung out with well and never took a class with him, she last November to meet their daughter, they were both on sabbatical from teaching Dave Dore during a quick trip to Luxembourg, has discovered that he’s a wonderful writer Zoe. She’s absolutely amazing, and they’re at Bowdoin and Bates. Katherine writes, where Dave and his wife, Anita, have lived and finds it a pleasure to write about his blessed with an active, friendly 5-and-a- “We got lucky and found a house to rent for four years. Y Dana Mackin Pilchik is in work. Her book, Understanding Richard half-year old. They still run their specialty near Neuchatel with a view of the lake and her final year working toward her doctorate Russo, will be published in 2013 by the cable business, and Lewis travels around rolling hills of vineyards above it. Alex and in clinical psychology. She’s finishing her University of South Carolina Press. Y Pete the world several times a year. Fayetteville, I spent our time doing research and writing dissertation and applying for internships Hayden moved to the DC area a year ago Ark., has been their home base for five years. while our children, Claire, 12, and Aymeric, around the country (hoping for Boston). after returning from his second tour in Iraq. Becca says it’s very much like New England, 4, navigated school and making friends all Y Carol Chamberlain Hebert caught up The air conditioning in his rental house broke with shorter winters! Y Caitlin Sullivan in French. We hiked a lot, skied a little (no with old friend Beth Baumer LeBlanc at a last summer so he, wife Melissa, and their completed her first half marathon in October snow over there this year, contrary to what beautiful and peaceful log cabin on Rangeley four kids moved into Pete Carney’s house after three months training. She has three they got in Maine!), ate lots of cheese and Lake in Maine. Beth lives in Auburn, Maine, in Arlington for a week. The two Petes and wonderful children, 4, 7, and 9. They’re chocolate, and just enjoyed living at a dif- with her husband and boys Joey, 5, and their families have gotten together a few a big tennis family and their 7-year-old ferent pace as a family for a little while. It Tommy, 3, and works for L.L.Bean. Carol, times, but not often enough. Pete Carney competed in a USTA tennis tournament. It’s is nice to be back in Maine, though as of a high school math teacher, lives on Cape is a partner at White & Case, specializing in been years since Caitlin has visited Colby, international antitrust litigation. He’s busier but she’s still very close to her good Colby now that his hands are full with beautiful friends and appreciates them so much! Y Trish Biros Mitchell ’91 is an exercise daughter Claire, born May 27. Over the Gretchen Fisher Orr works for the Fidelco physiologist and runs a pediatric summer, Pete Hayden saw Yong Kwon and Guide Dog Foundation in Connecticut as an his family when Yong was returning from a instructor/trainer and is currently enrolled in cardiopulmonary exercise laboratory at Hasbro mission trip to Tanzania. Yong’s boys, Caleb, grad school at UMass Boston in the vision Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I. She 12, and Christian, 10, are almost as tall as studies program for orientation and mobility mostly does clinical work but gets involved Yong, and daughter Evelyn, 5, is growing into (white cane travel for the visually impaired). a lovely young lady. Pete Hayden is still an Happily married for two years to Armond with occasional research. Last September Army JAG, working for the chairman of the Orr, she shares their home with Sheyenne, she presented their most recent research at a Joint Chiefs as deputy legal counsel for cyber a German shepherd, and Bella, a little pit and intelligence operations. His family is bull/terrier mix with a big personality. Y Cory biannual pediatric work physiology meeting in content with life in northern Virginia. Soccer, Snow said that Sandy Colhoun had baby Cornwall, England. orchestra, Boy Scouts, lacrosse, and school number two, Stuart Wood Colhoun, with keep the kids largely out of trouble. Y I have wife Selina Oct. 6. Everyone is healthy. Y just one more column until I pass the reins Trish Biros Mitchell is an exercise physiolo- to the next person. Anyone? Happy New gist and runs a pediatric cardiopulmonary this writing Aymeric, who abandoned English Cod with her husband, son Daniel, 14, and Year! See you in Waterville. exercise laboratory at Hasbro Children’s entirely about two months into our time stepdaughter Mandy, 13. Y Norm Stillman Hospital in Providence, R.I. She mostly over there, has yet to speak a word of it!” is a small-animal veterinarian and owns a does clinical work but gets involved with Y On Dec. 26, 2010, Richard and Kaylyn three-doctor practice in Plymouth, Mass. 1993 occasional research. Last September she Hipps Groves welcomed their second baby: He’s married to Diane (Osgood ’91) and they Jill Moran Baxter presented their most recent research at a Maxwell Augustine Groves, a healthy and have two daughters, Emma, 12, and Hannah, [email protected] biannual pediatric work physiology meeting happy little boy. Lucky for all of them that 10. Norm was recently at Colby to introduce Aaron and Diana MacKendrick Kielhack in Cornwall, England. The best part was Max is easy going—sister Mary-Alice, 2, the kids to their parents’ alma mater. He moved to Bismarck, N.D., where Aaron crossing the pond five days early to check enjoys pushing him over a bit too much. hardly recognized the place. Of course he works for North Dakota’s information

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Remembering Again | Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan ’96

The conventional wisdom example, that two influential completed in 2010. That followed by a year is that immigrants jumping Bostonians, Jewish merchant the publication of Becoming American Jews into the melting pot of 19th- and philanthropist Abraham (Brandeis University Press), which Dwyer- century America banded tightly Shuman and Irish journalist Ryan cowrote. Next up? She said she wants together, keeping a wary eye on and poet John Boyle O’Reilly, to explore the idea of ethnic authenticity other ethnic clans and interact- had much in common—in and ethnicity as a conscious choice. “What ing only to protect their turf. particular an interest in Irish does it mean to be really Irish?’ she said. That may have been true nationalism. “Fascinating,” she “Can you be Irish if you’re born American? with the recently arrived said. … How can I prove my Irishness, Jewish- working classes, says Meaghan Speaking with Dwyer- ness? That sort of transition is something Dwyer-Ryan ’96, but for the Ryan reinforces the notion of I’m really interested in pursuing.” upper classes—and yes, there Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan ’96 historian as detective. She’s The daughter of a high school social were immigrants in those ranks—it was a worked at the New York Historical Society studies teacher, Dwyer-Ryan was raised to very different story. and combed the archives at Ellis Island. As ask questions and to make inquiry part of “A lot of it was played up, ethnic antago- an Irish-American (her parents were pleased her life and university teaching. At Colby nisms through politics, that sort of thing,” when she studied abroad in Cork, she said, she took a wide variety of history classes, Dwyer-Ryan said, “whereas with the upper because her Irish cousins could look out for from medieval to African history. She and classes, particularly in the late nineteenth her), she has focused on that ethnic group— her Irish-born husband, Anthony Ryan, century, there seemed to be much more comparing the Irish to Jewish immigrants recently had their first child, a son named room for negotiation. There’s a lot more of the time. Cian (Irish for “ancient”), but she said she’s working together.” Dwyer-Ryan, who teaches history at continuing to publish articles and is look- As a historian specializing in immigrant Eastern Connecticut State, plunged into ing for a publisher for a book based on her history, she peels away preconceptions and the study of Irish-American culture know- doctoral research. stereotypes, trying to determine how things ing she’d have to convince some that there is Her work is a living reminder of a saying happened and why. more to examine than “shamrocks and shille- often applied to immigrants. Said Dwyer- Trained as an archivist (master’s degree, laghs.” She considers ethnic consciousness as Ryan, “The first generation remembers, the NYU) and a historian (Ph.D., Boston it overlaps with acculturation as immigrants second wants to forget, the third remem- College), Dwyer-Ryan has the tools to tried to figure out how to become Americans. bers again.” revive and analyze the past. She found, for That’s the subject of her dissertation, —Gerry Boyle ’78

technology agency as a project manager. Wyoming with their sons, 5 and 9. Kimberly 20. The award, which Teacher Magazine last minute because his skirt ripped.” Y Diana stays busy with their children, Lil- and her husband are both middle school dubbed the “Oscars of teaching,” includes After reading Scott’s entry, it’s clear who lian, 8, Giselle, 5, and Winston, 3, and teachers. Y Nancy Emerson Kress teaches a $25,000 unrestricted gift and recognizes should be writing our class notes—and their activities. Aaron and Diana say, “We math at Hanover (N.H.) High School, while outstanding teachers for what they have perhaps also planning the upcoming 20th miss the East Coast (Stamford, Conn.), her husband, Brian, does physics research achieved and the promise of what they will reunion? As always, thanks for writing in! but things are booming out here and we’re and teaches at Dartmouth. She’s also busy accomplish in the future. Y Last but never looking forward to winter (skating, sledding, raising three boys: Clay, 8, Glen, 6, and least, Scott Parker e-mailed a well-crafted etc.).” Y Ari Druker visited NYC for a few Lyle, 2. Watch this space as Nancy and her blurb that I’m including verbatim: “Murph 1994 days, traveling from Tokyo, and he caught husband expected to add to their family alert … Mike Murphy, his wife Denise, and Kimberly Valentine Walsh up with Jon Yormak, David Beatus, and in late January. Y David and Cristen Cole- baby Rio visited the Big Apple in November [email protected] Rob Hostler. He reports that everyone man Mastroianni welcomed a baby boy (from their home in Alaska). After a busy As we’re hitting many milestones (ahem, was well—enjoying parenthood and looking in October. Luke joins brother Jake, 2 1/2. day of trying to organize Occupy Wall Street 40), I asked not only for updates but for forward to our next class reunion. Y Amanda Cristen enjoyed being home on maternity (literally), Murph blew off some steam with reflections of how Colby friends have played White lives in Waltham, Mass., with her leave and returned to her job at Fidelity in 1%’ers John Bonello and Scott Parker a part in our lives these past 20 years. Y boyfriend of 10 years, Rob Reuter. Amanda January. Y Bree Jeppson and her husband, at his first NFL game (where happily for I loved catching up with Jessica Drislane taught in the language-based learning dis- James Bassett, happily announce the birth Murph and Parker, the Patriots romped when she visited Minneapolis. It was as if abilities program at Reading Memorial High of their baby boy, Lucas Bassett, last April. the Jets 37-16). Bonello was miffed at the a day hadn’t passed (except we’re more School starting in 2000. This year Amanda Y Anne Griffin still lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, Jets loss, but was able to wipe his tears gorgeous and wiser, of course). Y Josh enrolled in a cohort of the National Institute and loves every minute of it. She was busy on the bib of his new baby boy, John Jr. and Laura Pavlenko Lutton celebrated For School Leadership. She occasionally preparing her company, Bulgarian Pottery There was also a Colby reunion of sorts their 15th wedding anniversary and the hangs out with Jim Kelley, who lives in and Gifts, for a Christmas village in Phila- at the retirement party Dilan Siritunga ’92 20th anniversary of their first date at Ashby, Mass. Y Jon Eddinger’s fall was delphia and the New York International Gift helped host for Professor Meehan at the Colby—breakfast before a homecoming busy after taking a job in Portland, Maine, Fair. She hopes for a lot of snow in Bansko Harvard Club (where’s our Colby club?), Colby Echo tailgate. Y Katie Morrison just at Mercy Hospital as a staff cardiologist. It’s Ski Resort, Bulgaria, this winter. Y Doug where Parker, Bonello and Bill Miller (aka celebrated her 10th ordination anniversary going very well and he’s glad to be back in Hutton, a science teacher at Glastonbury Vanilli) were joined by Ricky ’White Shoes’ and reflected on the journey as a challeng- Maine. Jon has a son, Jackson, 3, who is a (CT) High, won the Milken Educator Award (Rick Wallace) for a night of debauchery. ing one, since she was a trailblazing out joy. Y Phil and Kimberly Blatz Orbell live in during a surprise school assembly Oct. Greg Burns was going to join, but bailed lesbian in the Presbyterian church. Her

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[email protected] 58 1/11/12 9:54 AM Colby friends were some of the most sup- Carolyn Hart. She’s says they “get together working in partnership with local farmers to epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treat- portive during that process: Karlene Burrell every Columbus Day, no matter what—it’s serve free samples of fresh vegetable dishes ment of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpes McRae, Maria Kim ’93, and John Cook Colby girl annual weekend.” and provide recipe cards to inspire visitors virus diseases. How about them apples? ’92. She gives thanks for the dear Colby to cook more at home. He posts his recipes friends she’s still in touch with and for the on his blog www.whatIhaventcookedyet. countless others who were supportive of 1995 com and on his Facebook page of the 1997 The Bridge and other efforts toward creating Yuhgo Yamaguchi same name. Y But this really floored me: Leah Tortola Walton a more welcoming school environment for [email protected] our very own Lauren Iannotti is the deputy [email protected] LGBT persons. Y Jennifer Walker Hemmen Brent McLean recently traded in the editor at Glamour magazine, and recently Stephanie Blackman Stokamer finished reached a difficult milestone that others beaches of southern California for the went on a whirlwind trip around Africa with her dissertation and earned an Ed.D. in of us may have as well—the passing of her snowcapped Cascade peaks of Bend, Ore., Hillary Clinton to profile her for Glamour’s educational leadership from Portland State. dad—and appreciates how wonderful Colby and is VP of sales and marketing for the September issue, available online. Are you She started a new position as an assistant friends have been during a difficult year. Northview Hotel Group. He’s also engaged serious? Anyhow, Lauren lives in Park Slope professor and the director of the center for Y Adriana Sulak Bombard “treasures the to Tara Shimmin of San Diego. The wedding in Brooklyn with her smashingly handsome civic engagement at Pacific University in friends made at Colby—they are my deepest will take place in Kennebunk, Maine, in boyfriend, who I hear is a dead ringer for Oregon. Being at a small college has brought connections. It’s odd to think they’re now August 2012. Y Brian Rayback and Alysa Ted Danson. She visits Sarah Eustis and back lots of Colby memories for her—and fully the ’old’ friends, since we’ve known Cohen had their third child, Benjamin Andy Meeks in Portland, Ore., as much she would love visitors if anyone passes each other half my life! I’d be lost without Striker, July 30. He joins big sisters Lucy, 6 as possible. Y Wait, there’s more! Hillary through. Y Also in Portland, Zoë Kaplan them.” She celebrated her 40th in San and Maisie, 4. Y Abe Rogers is obtaining his Brennan McKellar and husband Todd Presley enjoyed a mini Colby reunion and Francisco with Tanya Nygaard ’92, Jeff master’s of education at Boston University. (Morse High School ’91) made a very big some great new music at the Pickathon ’93 and Connie Huffine Zlot, and Stacey He also coaches the Harvard masters swim life change moving from the ’burbs back to music festival with James Loveland ’96 and Warner and new husband Ross Piper ’95. team. Y Brett Hudson has been living in a Boston. They live in the South End, enjoying Jen Vogt, Lindsay Frantz Field ’96, Andy A little karaoke adventure reminded her of tent as part of the occupy San Francisco all the excitement and conveniences that Meeks ’96 and Sarah Eustis ’96, Jess Boyles celebrating Connie’s 20th in Sydney. There movement; he’s marched with protests in city living has to offer. Y Melissa Taylor’s ’96, and Jill Picard Paine ’96. Y Becca was also a party to celebrate Stacey and San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. He carrier pigeon arrived with news that last Durham Whithed works as a botanist at Ross’s recent marriage that included Tanya, earned an M.A. in creative writing and is summer she visited Bernadette Graham the MPG Ranch in the Bitterroot Valley of Jeff and Connie, Greg Christopher, Chris planning to teach English at a university in Hudson and her family at a camp on the Montana. She wrote a piece in The Place Abbott, Nick Abbott ’95, Caroline Morris the Persian Gulf region. Y Michelle Grdina Belgrade Lakes. Bernadette has two girls, Where You Live section of Orion Magazine Peabody ’92, and Marty Krolewski ’95. and Sandra Jewers Dow had an impromptu Clara, 5, and Nora, 3. Melissa continues that was to be published in the Nov./Dec. Congrats Stacey and Ross! Check out the reunion with Bob DiVito and Jason Spooner her work as a pediatrician in Waterville 2011 issue. In September she attended the photo on our class website at www.colby. at a recent performance by The Spooner and has two boys, Andrew, 5, and Alex, 3. Colby alumni Welcome to the City event in edu/alumni. Y Mike ’93 and Kristen Zier Trio in Portland, Maine. Michelle lives in Y After many years in Africa, Jen Pope is where else? Portland, Ore.! Not only did she Pietraszek welcomed baby Olivia Jean Boston and recently started a new position settling back into life in DC. She works for have a “fabulous time,” but she won a Colby July 24. Big brother Owen, 6, adores her. as program manager for the Deshpande PSI focusing on reproductive health and blanket. Y Megan and Gray Macmillan Y Caleb Winder played in the first annual Center at MIT. social franchising. This year alone she has welcomed twins, Lily and Andrew, May 31. Colby football alumni golf tournament last hit five continents, and DNS is starting to Gray wrote, “Lily and Andrew look forward fall. He played in a foursome with Greg wonder whether she actually lives in the to visiting Maine soon and intend to apply Suffredini ’93, Tim Merrigan ’93, and 1996 U.S. When Jen does stop moving, she likes for early-early admission.” Y Marc Hebert former head coach Tom Austin. Tom had Brad Smith to catch up with Amie Sicchitano Taylor, lives in Washington, D.C. He and his wife them laughing with stories about beaver [email protected] who lives in Franklin, Mass., with her hus- expect twins in June while son, Luc, is still a trapping with Shawn Jenkins ’93. Caleb Remember Bad Beer Fest? Well that was band and two kids. Y Georgia Brian and toddler! “Mercy…,” he wrote, “three kids in was promoted to director at Excel Venture almost 20 years ago, and the Class of 1996 Dave Chen ’95 are still in Boxford, Mass., diapers at the same time!” Y In April Jenny Management, a life sciences and infor- has really been on the rise ever since. Then with their two girls Ava, 6, and Zoe, 3. Higgins welcomed son Atticus. She left mation technology venture capital firm in again, we could only go up from there, right? In winter they’re at their Sugarloaf home her post at Columbia University to accept Boston. Y When Frances Morris turned 30 Y For one, Kate Radley opened a multidis- and welcome visitors. Y Yup, mo’ babies: a new faculty position at the University of she had a house and a job. In the past 10 ciplinary law firm in Denver that specializes Miranda Miller and husband Jud Wolfskill Wisconsin-Madison, where she’ll teach a years she turned that house into a home in best-interest representation of children welcomed a baby girl, Susannah Charlotte large class on women’s health and bodies, and filled it with family—husbandR obb and in dependency and neglect cases. She was Wolfskill, in June. Kathleen Wood Griffis, continue her research on sexual health, and three kids, Els, Jane, and Jack—and turned also married in June to an as-yet-unnamed Julie Gerry, and Chesley Davis ’01 helped finally try to learn how to ice skate backward. the job into a career. She was in Maine last person at the Denver Botanic Gardens with a few meals during their first weeks Y Al Madrid lives in Philadelphia, where he summer to visit roommate Heather Post with Kate Swenson, Elizabeth Garbe, home from the hospital. Joy Christoferson works as a civil defense attorney, having LaFrance. She also met up with Hardin and Marybeth Thomson in attendance. and John Daly and Julia Tatsch shared baby earned his J.D. from Temple Law. His wife, and Jennifer Payne Gray with their two Y And yeah, there’s more. Sarah Langan gear, clothing, and wisdom. In September Jessi Schwarz ’99, works as a midwife at kids, Campbell and Avery, for apple and welcomed her second daughter, Frances they enjoyed introducing baby Susannah Children’s Hospital there, and they have pumpkin picking. Frances also sent a photo, Carolina Petty, Oct. 19, joining big sister to Professor Nikky Singh and to Matt Russ four children. Diego, Penelope, Claudia which is on our class website. Y Elizabeth Clementine, 2. Her radio play, Is This Seat on their way to Bar Harbor. Y Et le wagon de Rose, and Adrian keep them very busy! Bancroft Hoch had a baby girl, Katherine Taken, was released in a boxed set called bébé continué. Jean-Michel Picher écrit Y Jeff and Kara Marchant Hooper, along Bancroft Hoch, in early October. Y Jessica Tales From Beyond the Pale, produced by que tout est grand à Toronto. Mais voici with their two boys, visited Leif and Ellie Newman moved to Cambridge, Mass., and Larry Fessenden and Glen McQuaid. Sarah’s quelque chose nouvelles: Picher et epousé Peters Bergquist and their three children was at Michelle Satterlee’s beautiful fall also penned a bunch of short stories in a Valérie a accueilli leur premier enfant: this summer in St. Louis. Kara reported wedding with Janet Powers, Heather Eskey bunch of magazines and anthologies. Say Claire, et elle arrivé en août. Zut Alors! Y that everyone is doing well, and they even Hamasaki, and John Grady just outside of what! Y Oh, and there’s this too: begin- And finally, our resident physician savant caught a Cardinals game in the new sta- Conway, N.H. Y Rebekah Freeman Shulze ning last August Jonathan Bardzik spent Ryan Sullivan accepted a new position in dium. Y Mika Hadani Melamed has been got together with Sara Ferry Gyan, Heather Saturdays doing live cooking demos at the hematology/oncology unit at MGH. The working for five years at The Creative Group, Lounsbury, Marile Haylon Borden, and Washington, D.C.’s historic Eastern Market, Internet tells me that his work focuses on a division of Robert Half International.

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She recently received a promotion to lead a baby girl named Avery. They moved to recruiter. Congratulations, Mika! Y Sandra Bethlehem, N.H., where they both work at Lund Sargisson (NY), Julie Davidson 90s newsmakers the White Mountain School. Y Jonathan Fisher (Boston), Chrissy Killheffer Sinclair and Alli DeGroot Tyler welcomed a baby (Seattle), and Wendy Ridder Bergh (San The work of artist Ellen Langford ’90 was part of a show boy July 28, Callum Robert Tyler. They live at Studio 561 in Jackson, Tenn., in November. The show Francisco), all roommates senior year, in Montclair, N.J. Y Jo Reardon Prince, was part of an effort to showcase historic restoration got together in November in Scottsdale, her husband, and their daughter moved in Jackson. Langford, a painter, lives in Jackson, Miss. Ariz., for a weekend of fun and catching to southern Switzerland, where Jo teaches She was profiled in the Jackson Sun newspaper. F up. Y Peter Sheren lives in Singapore and fourth grade at TASIS, an American School. Brian O’Halloran ’93 was promoted by new Boston explores Southeast Asia through work trips Red Sox General Manager Ben Cherington. O’Halloran They love exploring the area and look forward and vacations. He recently flew home to was named vice president/assistant general manager. to skiing in the Alps this winter. Y Melissa Washington, D.C., and had a BBQ with Drew Galen Carr ’97 continues as the team’s special assign- Thouin Federman headed to NYC last fall Minkiewicz ’96 and family. At the time he ment scout, according to the (Quincy) Patriot Ledger. to celebrate Payal Luthra’s wedding. Laura e-mailed, he was planning to celebrate New F Thomas Harrop ’95 was named a managing director D’Afflitti Weierman was also in attendance. Year’s with Andrew Weber and his family Galen Carr ’97 at Goldman Sachs. Y Brad Sicchitano happily reports that in London. Y Amanda Sprang moved from there are finally other Colby grads working rural Pennsylvania back to her hometown at Fay School in Southborough, Mass., of Seattle in May and then moved again October. KB and Dave Dodwell, Pete and They’re all homeschooled, beach-bumming, where Brad is the director of primary and in September to Port Moresby, Papua New Sarah Eno Felmly, Lisa and Jon Foster, organic, environmentally friendly little lower school admission. Elizabeth Lyons Guinea. She still works for a company in the Raja and Liz Hooper Bala, Brian and . Living on the beach and doing as ’09 and Devan FitzPatrick ’09 joined the oil and gas logistics industry, and reports Kristelle Aherne Gill, Rachel Westgate, much traveling, hiking, surfing, and yoga school this fall and brought in the love of that PNG is the perfect mix of adventure, and Meghan Hauptli were there. Y Jenn as the kids will allow. Y Harris Eisenstadt Maine and Mayflower Hill. Brad is a proud work, friends, and the unexpected. Y Chris Smith received a postdoctoral fellowship lives in Brooklyn with wife, Sara, and son, Fay parent, as his three children are now and Jen Atwood Lesky welcomed their first to support her behavioral ecology research Owen. He spent the fall teaching at SUNY there. Brad says working at Fay has been child, Caroline, April 6, 2011. They live in on yellow-bellied marmots at UCLA and the Maritime and SUNY Empire State and on a wonderful experience meeting families Newton, Mass., and Jen works part time as Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Y Derek tour in Austria and the UK. Y Thank you for with his Colby banner in the background. a private tutor as she spends most of her Luke reports that the brewery is busy and your contributions and enjoy the winter. It has led to many great conversations and days with little Caroline. Jen looks forward to anticipates filling 8,000 kegs this year. meeting other Colby (as well as Bates and our reunion in June! Y Speaking of reunion, They also produced 80 wooden casks of Bowdoin) graduates and sharing stories of please mark your calendars for May 31-June Thomas Tew Single Barrel rum. Derek is 1999 living in Maine. He hopes they’ll continue 3 and plan to join us on Mayflower Hill! getting married in New Zealand in February Lindsay Hayes Hurty to attract other Colby alumni to the school to Annie Sherman of Newport, R.I. Y Kevin [email protected] as faculty, staff, and future parents. Y Eric Landis is assistant professor of theater Joshua DeScherer and Jaime Jones hap- and Amy Erdmann Sholk welcomed another 1998 and the director of the theater program pily welcomed their first child, daughter little boy! Andrew Sholk was born Nov. 16, Brian M. Gill at the University of Colorado in Colorado Zella Liv Jones DeScherer, July 27. Joshua and his two big brothers are thrilled to have [email protected] Springs. He also acts at Theatreworks and teaches music theory and contrabass at the him in the family (for now)! Y Kristopher Many congratulations to those with new produces a theater lecture series called Portland Conservatory of Music and recently Murphy completed his two-seat homebuilt additions! Andrew Porter and his wife Prologue. Y Raja and Liz Hooper Bala performed at Colby for the first time since aircraft and enjoyed flying it to the annual welcomed their third child, Margaret Marion are currently auditioning for the Amazing graduation as a member of the chamber EAA convention in Oshkosh. The project Porter, Nov. 17. Maggie is big and happy and Race. Y Ross ’99 and Monica Staaterman ensemble Les Sorciers Perdus. Y Marty took nine years of intermittent work, but healthy. She keeps her two older brothers McEwen have two daughters, Claire and Whitmore lives in Boston, works as a buyer now he flies with local friends and his two and her parents busy. Y Pete and Sarah Marissa. After 11 years in software sales for TJX, and was engaged this fall to Jessica daughters. Y Keep the news coming! Eno Felmly welcomed a daughter, Georgia with Cognos (which was acquired by IBM), Vazquez. They plan to get married in Boston Elizabeth, Oct. 20. Y Beth (Monahan ’01) Monica has begun a new job with Qliktech next August. Y Megan Watson delivered and Paul Caruso had their first child, and will start its federal sales division. She (while her husband, Jason, supported) 2000 Christian Thomas, Oct. 12. They’re all doing frequently sees John and Julie Fidaleo their son, Finnian James Schissel, Oct. 25 Ben Mackay well. Y Peter and Meredith Greene Ross Madison, who recently welcomed their at 11:36 p.m. He was seven pounds, seven [email protected] had their second son, Isaac, in March 2011 second daughter, Whitney Kathleen. Y ounces, 20 inches long, and cute as can After three and a half years living in Dallas, and they moved to Hamden, Conn. Y K.C. Vanessa Hernandez-Elmore still lives in be! Y After leaving Colby Christina Lemieux I’m moving to Jackson Hole January through McClelland Krieger gave birth to a little girl, Santa Fe, N.M., where she switched jobs spent three years in San Francisco, living and March to see if I can split my time. I’m look- Maggie, in June. She joins her two brothers, from a focus on antique/historic Native working in the midst, and aftermath, of the ing forward to being back in the mountains, Michael and Matthew. K.C. has returned to American art at Morning Star Gallery to dot-com bubble. She then spent three years especially during another La Niña winter. Let work full time as the director of investments delving into the world of contemporary in NYC before moving to London, where she me know if you’re coming through town and for Eli Broad’s family office and founda- Native American art at Blue Rain Gallery. has lived and worked for the last six years. want to make some turns! Y Jen Kassakian tions. Y Eben Peck and his wife, Colette, Vanessa and her husband, Paul, had a baby She’s married to a Brit and has a beautiful Anderson sailed on the fifth-place boat in welcomed their first child, Lucy Antonia girl, Samantha Rose (Rosy). Y Amanda 10-month-old daughter, Anya, who is the the 2011 Swiftsure round trip from Victoria, Peck. Six pounds, five ounces, and a shock Bakian completed a master’s in statistics light of her life. Christina’s career focus is B.C., to Cape Flattery, Wash. She also had an of red hair, she looks forward to hanging and a Ph.D. in ecology from Utah State advertising, and she currently works as a incredible three-week trip to Patagonia. She out with the many other Colby babies in University. Amanda and her husband, Ian strategy director at a digital/brand behavior started a new job that takes her to Boston the Washington, D.C. area. Y Andrew Lit- McAlexander, live in Salt Lake City, where agency. She is also writing a book about the frequently, allowing her to catch up with Colby tell and his wife, Margo, welcomed Greta she works as an assistant professor in the art of lobster fishing in Down East Maine. folks—too many to list. Y With a business Whittemore Oct. 27. Greta joins sister Lucia department of psychiatry at the University The book, published by History Press, is partner from Boston, Limi Marie Perry Bauer in Brooklyn. Andrew enjoys his work on the of Utah’s School of Medicine. Y Chad and due out this spring. Y Kim Nagy is engaged opened up an English-language institute that strategic partnerships team at Google. Y Jeana Flahive Pimentel are happily rais- to Mark Monnin from Wells, Maine. Y Ryan focuses on business English, conversation Katherine Littell married Pat Hinchey in ing four beautiful children, 8 to 4 months. Aldrich and his wife had their first child, groups, tutoring, and experiential learning.

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[email protected] 60 1/11/12 9:54 AM The place is called East Coast English. So de St Maurice was in Kyoto in January www.welcometowecreate.com. Y Melanie applying for full-time M.B.A. programs to even though she calls Austria “home” these researching an IIE Fulbright. He stopped Morin and her husband expect their first start this fall. He also stays busy with kids days, she has a little America within her four through Boston and saw Chie and Jason child in June. They live in KY while Melanie James, 1, and Charlotte, 3. Y Congrats to walls. Her day job is working as a fifth-grade Ri, Carlos and Jess Mulready Dominguez, serves as an active duty Army psychiatrist. Rob Painter for recently earning his Ph.D. teacher in the local middle school, which and Kate Henry. Jason started a master’s Y Elizabeth Wainwright’s team won the NYC Y John and Kimberly Schneider Branam is its own culture clash experiment—and in counseling through Leslie University this Women’s League Championship for 2010- live in Portland, Ore., and welcomed their never boring. Y Both Phoebe (Lehmann year. Kate is pastry chef de cuisine at Oleana 11. Y Cara Greenwalt ’02 and Michelle first child, Cecilia, in October 2011. Y ’01) and Jay Zarnetske recently received in Cambridge and, along with her partner, Cook graduated from Ohio State College Andre “Coach” and M.E. Leroy Picher live their Ph.D.s and moved back across the Molly Hansen, and their adorable daughter, of Veterinary Medicine last June. Michelle in Toronto and welcomed their first child, country to start postdoctoral fellowships at Beverly, she impatiently awaits the addition started her internship at Angell Animal Medi- Beausoleil, in August. Yale. They’re adjusting to being back in New of another little girl to their family. cal Center in Boston and also got engaged England and city life and are happy to be to fellow veterinarian Jonathan Plenn. Y closer to family and many Colby friends. Y Stephanie Greenleaf Fyfe lives in Wayne, 2002 John and Kelley Moore Kendall welcomed 2001 Maine, after seven years in Phoenix with Sally Hall Bell their third child, Alexander Gregory, last July. Dana Fowler Charette daughters Riley, 5, and Harper, 3. Stephanie [email protected] Katarina, 8, and John, 5, are very proud of [email protected] still works for K12 Inc. Y Jacqueline Mourot Get jazzed for our 10th reunion May 31-June their baby brother! Kelley is completing Bliss (Woolmington ’02) and Patrick Bernal joined the U.S. Foreign Service in February 3, and read other news, in our online column her M.S.W. at Southern CT State University chronicled their adventure around the globe 2011 and is now serving her first diplomatic at www.colby.edu/mag. and continues to work full time as a case with Jude, 2, at www.aroundtheworldwithat- tour in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Y Kate Isley manager for Connecticut’s Department of woyearold.com. They now live in Manches- moved to Cambridge from South Boston. Developmental Services. Y Hilary Smyth ter, Vt. Y Welcome Macey Ann, born Sept. After four years as an associate at Ropes 2003 Wirtz works in the advancement office at 3 to Jon and Jenny Bubrick Engel! Y Sean & Gray, she moved to a smaller firm, Pierce Lauren Tiberio Concord Academy and lives in Southbor- ’00 and Becca Bischoff Luoma welcomed Atwood, a Maine firm. Kate is their first [email protected] ough, Mass., at St. Mark’s School, where her Colton Walter Nov. 17. Y Michael Kleinman litigation associate in Boston. Y Seth and Hello Class of 2003! Hope everyone had husband is assistant head/dean of faculty. and his wife, Christine, welcomed Jack Hilary Spitz Arens welcomed twins Willow a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season. They welcomed a baby boy, Richard Charles Charles Nov. 18. They live in Boston and and Quinn in June 2011. They enjoy living in We had quite a few first time contributors … “Charlie,” July 28! Y Erik Waters is coming Michael finished his neurology residency Utah at the base of the Wasatch Mountains exciting to hear from classmates we haven’t up on one year with Ascend Learning, where at BU last year and is a neuromuscular while working for the Utah Department of heard from in almost 10 years! Y Sara he is responsible for strategy and business fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Environmental Quality—Hilary in the division Blask has been busy since we last heard development. Great company. If anyone is Center. Y John and Mandy Cochrane Raser of water quality and Seth in the division from her (probably from Mayflower Hill!). looking for a career change, they’re always welcomed their second boy, Luke, in May. of air quality. They spend time with Tim She recently left the AP newsroom in New looking for bright folks. There’s already a good Brother Jonah is 2 1/2. Mandy works in Grayson, who lives in Salt Lake City with York to join the corporate communications contingent of Colby grads in their Burlington, fundraising at the Home for Little Wander- wife Melanie. Y Jack and Allyson Giard team at the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones. Mass., headquarters. On the family side, he ers in Boston. Y Tim Wiswell reported that Downey welcomed baby boy Logan Aug. On Sept. 10 she officiated the perfect wed- and Amy (Forrer ’98) are doing well. Their he and Van Haidas, Courtney Monteiro, 14. Y Cara Erdheim is in her second year ding of Jennifer Santini ’04 and Matthew twins, Elsa and Olin, turn three in February and Scott Bixby made it to their 10-year as a college literature professor at Sacred Benson held in Rockport, Mass, where and are ready to start preschool. Y Brian reunion. Y Aida Khan moved to London to Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. Y Mike Jen Mojo ’04 and Clark Stevens were in Hanseth is opening seven restaurants in do her master’s at the School of Oriental ’00 and Sarah Goodrich Alto live in Maine. attendance. The following weekend she saw the Boston Area as a franchisee. Y Kathryn and African Studies. She has a son, 2, and Sarah completed her master’s at USM and Phil ’04 and Laura Barrow Geiger ’04 and Reber Colcher has joined the faculty of the their beautiful baby, Alexa Marie, born July Georgetown University School of Nursing 30 in Chicago. Y Susan Ellsworth moved and Health Studies as an adjunct instructor. to California from DC two years ago and Y James ’99 and Jenny O’Donnell Spidle Jacqueline Mourot ’01 joined the U.S. Foreign recently finished a master’s in community had a baby boy, Charlie, May 14. They can’t Service in February 2011 and is now serving development focused on agriculture and imagine life without him—he’s the greatest! Y food systems. She lives in Winters, Calif., Alex Moskos continues to live the dream in her first diplomatic tour in Guayaquil, Ecuador. where she works with farmers while pick- Boston. In August he met JR Rudman, Chris ing olives on the side and setting things in Bonafide, James Mason, and Brian Hiester motion to start a flower CSA this spring. Y in Philly. Although they never made their goal her husband commutes between Pakistan works as a family nurse practitioner. They Katie Altneu completed four years of grad of locating Johnny Hammond, they did get to and London. Y Joel and Drew Hall Williams reconnected with Megalomaniacs friends! school at Southwest Acupuncture College see Mason swim in the Schuylkill River. They and Joel Andrew, 2, welcomed James Morris Y Tom and Jennifer Blume Shanley expect in Boulder, Colo., and received her M.S. also randomly spotted Kevin Bacon in his May 10. He enjoyed his first trip to Colby their first child in March. They live in South in Oriental medicine. She’s a licensed hometown of Philly—now they’re separated for reunion a few weeks later. Y Danielle Boston. Jennifer works for Berklee College acupuncturist and herbalist and started a by one degree. Y Greg ’98 and Vanessa D’Entremont Lam has worked as chief of Music in the office of communications, business, a holistic health center called The Wade Wehmeyer bought their first house in pediatric resident at the Floating Hospital for and Tom works for Credit Suisse. Y Shanna Point, in Denver. Good luck, Katie! Y Jon Plainville, Mass., at the end of December. Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston Brownstein lives in Portland, Ore., doing Allen participated in AIDS/LifeCycle 10, a They’re excited about the move, as is their this year. She bought a house in Quincy policy and work for an energy 545-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco daughter, Ella Marie, who looks forward to a with her husband, Hue ’00. Y Christian company. She also runs WISE, a networking to Los Angeles, to raise money for the San pink bedroom, her own playroom, and pool Brunet graduated from Yale’s School of group for women who work in the environ- Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. Gay play dates next summer. Y Brian ’99 and Management in May and he and Whitney mental and sustainability sectors. She & Lesbian Center. The event raised more Tacy Conard Quinn welcomed Theodore (Dayton) live back in Boston. Whitney works and her husband expect their first child than $13 million, making it the largest single (Teddy) Mahoney Oct. 29. Big brother for Yale’s development office. Y Ted Wallach in March. Shanna went to San Francisco fundraiser for HIV/AIDS in the world. The Charlie is 3. They’re having fun as a family finished his feature film, Magic Men (www. with Calla Fankhanel in October to watch ride was an amazing experience—Jon met of four and hope to get out west and visit magicmenthemovie.com), and sent it off to Sarah Breul rock the Nike women’s half many great people and challenged himself the grandparents for spring skiing. Y Greg Sundance and started a creative agency, marathon. Y Richard Hallquist has been both physically and mentally. He credits his

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used to the Canadians! Benson Hyde, Bill in chemistry at Penn State and moved Younker, and Rose Becker ’08 have already to Cleveland to start a postdoc at the 00s newsmakers visited during their first two months of Lerner Research Institute. She’s engaged Y Marie Lorrain Cerat ’00 won the 2011 Family Court Legal residence there. Betsy Ramos started a to Michael Davis, whom she met at Penn Services Advocacy Award. The award is presented by new job teaching at a public high school in State. Y Mallory Young shares wedding the New York City Administration for Children’s Services her hometown of Lynn, Mass. She and her announcements. Ken Pitter and Meghan to recognize efforts to protect children and strengthen girlfriend of more than five years bought a Barringer were married in the Poconos families. F Evan Reece ’01 was featured in a Boston new house. Y Morgan Pratt is engaged to last summer and live in Manhattan, where Globe article about his company Liftopia.com. The Cooper Arvisais. They live in Colorado. He Ken is working toward his M.D./Ph.D. and company, based in San Francisco, “has established proposed during a surprise flight on a Flight Meg is working as a physical therapist. Y the standard for Internet sales in the snow sports for Life Helicopter over the summit of Gray’s Lori and Chris Duncombe were married in industry.” Skiers can buy lift tickets for 150 mountains, and Torrey’s peaks. They’re shooting for a Portland, Maine, last June. Mike Booras, shopping for last-minute deals and long-range bargains, spring 2013 wedding. She’s been bit by Brendan Crighton, and Daniel Oliphant ’06 Marie Lorrain Cerat ’00 the report said. the triathlon bug and plans to do a couple were groomsmen. Y Lauren Smith and John Olympic distance races next summer. Y Camera were married in Annapolis, Md., in Kristin Saucier wrapped up her M.P.H. August; Heather DeVito was a bridesmaid. success partly to the support of his many her husband, Jeff Williams, welcomed a and M.A. in international development from Y While traveling, Tim Roberts took shelter Colby friends! Y Peter Loverso moved daughter, Sophie Eleanor, Oct. 20. They’re George Washington University last spring with Eva Gougian ’08 in the Dominican into the house that he built last spring. living in Homer, Alaska, where Brie works and moved to Nicaragua as an international Republic during Hurricane Irene. Y Katie He got promoted to senior manager for for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Y Liz fellow for Population Services International, Crocker Jordan still lives in London with mail pharmacy services at Catalyst Rx. He Kueffner Koors and her husband welcomed for whom she had previously worked in DC. her husband, Tom, where she completed travels a lot for work, so look for him at an their second baby, James McQuade, Aug. Y Rebecca Evans is completing her resi- her Ph.D. in systems biology at Warwick airport near you! Y Laura Shufelt married 20. They still live in Richmond and Liz is dency in anesthesiology at the University University. Kate started medical school Patrick Kenney on Peaks Island, Maine, anxiously waiting to find out where they’ll of Utah and Teresa Leyro is completing her at Imperial College. Isabelle Reining and June 25. It was a great weekend and a fun be located for her husband’s residency. Y internship in clinical psychology at UCSF. Jeremy Little recently stayed with Katie reunion of the Colby ladies (they found Thanks for the news—enjoy the snow! They recently reunited in San Francisco and Tom while in London. Y Michael Walsh time for their traditional human pyramid). for the U.S. half marathon, which brought married Brianna Tufts ’07 at Lorimer Chapel The wedding officiant was Professor Tom them across the Golden Gate Bridge and and celebrated with a reception in Page Longstaff, Laura’s advisor. Y Christine 2004 up the grueling Marin Headlands. They Commons. Brianna completed her M.B.A. Kate Weiler O’Donnell married Dan Hagan Aug. 13 in placed 14th and 27th in their age group. at Cornell, where Mike is finishing his Ph.D. [email protected] Salem, Mass. Stacy Thurston Barton, Kara Y Sarah Wright and Christopher Sussman They recently relocated to Somerville, Mass. Hubbard ’02, and Amanda Walsh ’05 were Lots of classmates welcomed babies this ’02 married Oct. 15 at Sleepy Hollow in Y Joe and Julianna Green Schump, who bridesmaids. Other alums in attendance year! Alex Gaeth and his wife, Alison, Huntington, Vt. In attendance were Devon live in Fort Collins, Colo., welcomed a baby included Brock Barton, Jasmine Ashe celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Anderson ’09, Greyson Brooks ’06, Ryland girl, Claire Elizabeth, in August. Y Nico ’06 Hodgson, Abby Kussell ’02, Adam Cohen, Sydney Grace. Y Phil and Laura Barrow Brooks ’07, Andrew Bruening-Wright ’93, and Melissa Hernandez Mwai relocated Dan Parise, Lauren and Ian MacPherson, Geiger welcomed their first daughter, John de Perczel, Jennifer Munroe Downs, from NYC to Washington, D.C., for new job Anna Schierberl Scherr, Katie Trainor, and Alexa Marie, July 30. Y Erin Dube and her Isaac Griffith-Onnen, Daniel Kosmala, opportunities. Y David Acker visited Will van Rick Forster ’81. Christine and Dan live in husband, Adam, welcomed their second Kim Strader O’Leary, Claire Riley ’05, Anna der Veen in Cairo in December 2010 and Burlington, Vt.* Rebecca Stern married daughter, Norah Elizabeth. They live in Royer, Jennifer Rosenberg Schwartz, recently finished his M.B.A and master’s in Brendan Schulte Sept. 10 by the ocean Rhode Island. Y Melissa Rosales Neff Robert Selover, Abigail Sussman ’09, education at Stanford. He lives in San Fran- in South Thomaston, Maine. They met in and her husband welcomed their second Elizabeth Magner Tov, Rafal Urban, and cisco. Y Megan Loosigian went on a cross- 2003 in Jackson, Wyo., and currently reside baby girl Sept. 22—Olivia Salem. They still Sarah Webster ’05. Sarah and Chris live in country road trip and stayed with Colby there. Rebecca is the owner and creator live in North Carolina. Y Peter and Susie Belmont, Mass., and plan to through-hike classmates along the way. She currently of RS Photography (www.rs-photography. Blair Rufo welcomed their first child, the Pacific Crest Trail this summer for their lives in seacoast New Hampshire, where com). Check out their wedding photo on Ryan Charles, May 7. Y Marley Orr is still honeymoon. Y Nick ’05 and Becca Taylor she helps with her family’s new apple farm our class page at www.colby.edu/alumni. in San Francisco and settling into a new Malick live in Oakland with daughter Juliet. business. Y Shawn Sato is in his second year Y Pam Sawyer received her Ph.D. in social job at AKQA, a digital advertising agency, They expect their second child this spring. of his radiology residency at the University psychology from the University of California, and working on the Xbox. She finished her Becca teaches elementary music at a of Iowa. Wife Kate (Durda) took a new job Santa Barbara last summer and married Will first half marathon and looks forward to charter school in Oakland, and Nick teaches at the University of Iowa Cancer Center. They Powers (CalPoly alum) in October. Rachel running another soon now that she has middle school humanities in Lafayette. welcomed a new addition to their family—a Merrick Maggs was a bridesmaid and Scott her running legs back. In late summer she Y Emily Quann Luth works as a special puppy named Snoop! Y Adelin Cai is in her Maggs, Adam Bickelman, Andy Harnett, vacationed in Maine and visited Colby long education teacher with the New England fourth year at Google in Mountain View, Amy Bennett ’04, Kevin Yardi ’05, and John enough for a trip to Big G’s. She also saw Center for Children and recently received Calif., where she works on policy issues McManigal were in attendance. Y Piper Susie Blair Rufo and her gorgeous son, her certification as a behavior analyst. She related to Google’s commerce portfolio. Loyd lives in San Francisco. She attended Ryan. Y Nick and Jen Barrett Crocker and her husband, Eric ’05, live in Newton, After a short engagement last spring, she the fabulous union of Sean O’Grady and moved to Boston in September and had Mass., with their dog, Luna, and expect a was married in October in a small, family Amanda McKown in the fall. Y Sharon their first baby, Thomas Chadbourne, Nov baby boy in early January. ceremony on the High Line in New York. Herbert is a senior product manager at 3. They love being back in Boston closer Y Patrick Harner was married to UMass Burton Snowboards but also started study- to their families and near a bunch of Colby grad Leah Boisvert in September. Xavier ing at the New England Culinary Institute last friends! Y Cynthia Davies started a new 2005 Garcia was a groomsman, and Greg Lynch fall. Y Thaddeus and Jill Laramee Feeney job at Southern Maine Medical Center in Katie Gagne ’04 read Scripture. Y Patrick McGowan is welcomed their second child, Maggie. She Biddeford as a physician’s assistant. Y [email protected] engaged and will wed in April in Newport, was born in good ol’ Waterville. They figure Ryan and Grace Becker Lochhead moved Lauren Baumgarten moved to New Orleans, R.I. Y Lauren Wolpin married Ben Bruno in they’re doing their part to add to the Colby to PEI for Grace’s job. It’s been an exciting where she began medical school at Tulane. August and now works at Middlebury. Lydia blood in town. Y Brie Drummond and change for them, and they’re slowly getting Y Melissa Mullen completed her Ph.D. Durant and Jillian Parker Blakeslee were

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[email protected] 62 1/11/12 9:54 AM bridesmaids. Lauren was a bridesmaid in hosted an epic Oregon Trail trivia game teaches middle school general music in her August 2012 wedding. They also had Jillian’s wedding to Paul Blakeslee in June. night. Melissa McNulty and Cait Miller Haverhill, Mass., while concurrently doing a Halloween party with Eva Farina-Henry Lydia is engaged to Sathish Umapathy and were part of the wagon train, and fortunately her student teaching to earn her master’s and Zak Starr ’08. Y James Cryan is excited currently lives in London. Y Cheka Gage neither one contracted typhoid or perished of music education. She plans to graduate to have founded a new PK-8 charter school married Michael Bobys Oct. 15 in Flor- on the journey. Y Francis Chapuredima from the Boston Conservatory in May. She in Denver. He’s looking for great teachers ence, Italy. Close friend Courtney Morris continues to teach math and economics at continues teaching private flute lessons and and leaders to join him in this fun work! married Bowdoin graduate Mark Drauschke the Holderness School in NH. Francis was on directing her church choir in Haverhill. Y In Visit www.rockymountainprep.org. When June 4. Y Alan Ashbaugh works at a Web Mayflower Hill and was very impressed with October Garry Bertholf presented a paper not working he skis and hangs out with design company based in Portland, Ore., what the African students are doing with at the annual meeting of the Caribbean Liz Coogan, Ian London, and Tony Gill. and is partnering with Doug Calhoun ’04, the Colby African Society. Jen Coliflores Philosophical Association, and it will be Y After their honeymoon month in India, who is leading business strategy for the invited Francis to be a keynote speaker published in the spring issue of Anthurium: Josh Taylor ’05 and Kate Braemer moved company. Y Kevin Yardi is engaged to at the Massachusetts Youth Leadership A Caribbean Studies Journal. Y On Aug. 7 to Philadelphia to spend quality time with Bates grad Libby Getzendanner and plans Foundation’s “Make a Difference Day” con- Kim Devine married John McDevitt (Bates Kate’s family while settling into their new a summer 2012 wedding. Y Cory Cramer home. Y Andrew Yeskoo is pursuing his teaches high school English and history master’s in geotechnical engineering at UC in Santa Barbara, Calif. He lives with his Berkeley. He proposed to Jessica Harold fiancée, Kate Fox, and they plan an August Francis Chapuredima ’06 continues to teach ’08, who works at Cal in a genetics lab. wedding in Maine. Y Megan Burd-Harris is math and economics at the Holderness School They share an apartment with Liz Byrne ’09 studying at Wesley Seminary in DC, where and her dog, Buddy. They’re planning skiing she’s working on her master of divinity and in NH. Francis was on Mayflower Hill and was adventures this winter. Y Ross Kaplan, toward ordination as an elder in the United very impressed with what the African students Adam Roslyn, and Jon Bandi observed Methodist Church. Y Alana McGee started are doing with the Colby African Society. penguins in their natural habitat at the a small business hunting truffles with her Central Park Zoo. Y Josh Handelman lives dog, Duff, in the Pacific Northwest. Y Liam in Hawaii and works for Congresswoman McDonnell works as an engineer on the Mazie Hirono in her race for the U.S. Senate. U.S. Coast Guard cutter Midgett and is in ference. MYLF is nonprofit that focuses on ’04) in Newport, R.I. Celebrating with Y On July 9 Brianna Tufts married Michael the process of applying to officer candidate student citizenship and leadership for high them were Buffy LaMantia, Kait Taylor, Walsh ’05 at Lorimer Chapel. The recep- school. Y Kat Perez and Justin Fahey still school students. Y Bobby Redwood is an Bethany Peck, and Shari Katz as well as tion was in Page Commons with 19 alums live in Portland, Ore., where they see Nicole emergency medicine resident in Madison, Sam Kennedy ’09, Kaitlin Gangl ’07, Matt from as far back as the 1970s. Brianna Conrad, Meggie Finn, Dae Ho Kim, Trevor Wis. He loves working on the field at the UW Gangl ’05, and Rachel Noiseux ’04. The obtained her M.B.A. from Cornell and McWilliams, and Rachel Ritchie. Justin football games and on his med flight heli- proud parents of the bride are John ’78 works for Enernoc in Boston while Mike is works for nonprofit Teach for All and Kat copter rotations. Y Nani Phillips finished and Pamela Cleaves Devine ’78. finishing his Ph.D. Y Bayley Lawrence and recently curated her first exhibition at the her master’s of public health at UConn in her husband, Nick, and son, Owen, live Museum of Contemporary Craft. Y Enjoy May and started medical school at Albany in Hangzhou, China, and travel like mad the winter! Medical College along with Peter Allfather 2007 around the country and greater Asia. They ’11 and Lisa Park ’11. Nani had a celebra- Karli Gasteazoro have room for visitors so stop by if you’re tory beverage with fellow Albany-dwelling [email protected] in the Shanghai/Hangzhou area! Y Adriana 2006 Matt Mitchell, who is pursuing his Ph.D. at Kendall Kirby received her master’s in mar- Nordin Manan is entering her fourth year Jennifer Coliflores SUNY Albany in ecology and evolutionary keting from Emerson College and works at as a researcher at Khazanah Nasional, the [email protected] biology, after he won the Best Talk Award Mullen Advertising as an account executive. Malaysian government investment agency. Despite the unexpected arrival of Hurricane For Excellence in Scientific Presentation She and Jeff Miller ’06 are engaged and will She might be back in the States for a year Irene, Lindsay Barada married Jake Bayley at the University of Albany’s Life Sciences marry this summer with bridesmaids Jenni- beginning fall 2012 to pursue a master’s Aug. 27 in Nantucket, Mass. Nick Bayley Research Symposium. Y Emily Greene fer Murphy, Lee Kozakiewicz, Cassie San- in political economy. Y Finn Teach visited ’05 was best man and Amy Cronin was a and Josh Kahn ’05 were married Oct. 15 cartier ’08, and Jessie Prentice ’08. Y After the Supreme Court and the Capitol building bridesmaid. After five and a half years living in Boston. The wedding party included completing a Carnegie fellowship at ABC and met up with Jen Anderson while he in separate countries, Lindsay moved to Annie Lewallen, Kirsten Lawson, Will van News Investigative Unit, Robin Respaut was in DC at a public policy conference. Y Cambridge, Ontario, at the end of last year der Veen ’05, and John Pollakowski ’05. Y works as a research reporter at ProPublica, Anders Wood lives in Boulder, Colo., and to FINALLY be with Jake! Y Jess Minty was Jenna Morrison and Dave Civitello were an investigative journalism organization in skies frequently with Jessica Seymour gearing up for the U.S Olympic marathon married Aug. 20 in Plymouth, Mass. Their NYC. She lives in Brooklyn, where she regu- ’06, Dylan Harrison-Atlas, Emily Pugach, trials that took place in Houston in mid- wedding party included Katie Chin (married larly grabs a beer with Matt Wahl. Y Elisa Caitlin Gallagher, and Lindsay Tedeschi. January. She looks forward to the wedding to Curtis Chin ’05), Mike Civitello ’05, Kate Chiniara had a misguided adventure with Anders is in the habit of playing die Sunday of Hillary Easter in June and hopes to visit Zeigler Lera, Holly Eydenberg, Katy Sage Karli Gasteazoro visiting Erin Schlossman nights with Leigh Audin and others on Elizabeth Turner in Albuquerque! Y Katie Barus, Daniel Oliphant, and Conor Sul- in Maine before a weekend on the Cape Katie Price’s old die table. Y Liz Stovall Ryckman proudly announces the birth of livan. Jenna and Dave enjoyed barrier reef with Alisa Perry. Y Carolyn Adler married started her master’s in public policy at the her daughter, Lily Shea, born Aug. 8 and and Mayan rainforest adventures on their Jon Jessup, a Middlebury grad and her high University of Chicago’s Harris School. Liz weighing eight pounds! Katie moved to honeymoon in Belize. Y Sarah Lim married school boyfriend, April 30 at the Old North spent time with Cindy Meadow before the Irvine, Calif., for a job as marketing manager Ethan Gray last summer in California. Sarah Church; their reception was at the Boston wedding of Ashley Hunt and Chris Juraska at Neudesic, a Microsoft consulting com- is now in an accelerated nursing program Public Library. Courtney Goodie was a ’06. She swung by Colby for a visit, but pany. Y Eric Richmond became engaged to at UMass Amherst after a two-year stint in bridesmaid. They honeymooned in Peru, wasn’t granted a free meal pass at Bob’s Beth Scherer ’05 last May. An August 2012 Indianapolis, where she worked in public visiting Machu Picchu and hiking in the despite her alumni status. Y Nick Bazarian wedding is planned. Against their better health. She spent time with Lindsey Brewer, . Last fall they moved to Philadelphia married Arpi Paylan in July 3 with judgment, Brian Parise will give a toast. Steven Djordjevich, Aya Costantino, Sara and started at Wharton for their M.B.A.s. a number of Colby friends in attendance. Eric is pursuing his M.B.A at the Wharton Booth Petrosillo, Grey Brooks, Heather Y In October Meg Distinti and Elizabeth They had a blast honeymooning in the School. Y Nate Stone and Stephen Planas Ryder, Clifford White ’07, and Sarah Wright (Z) Finn visited Genni Dubuque for her former Yugoslavia and have settled into are still roommates in DC, and recently ’04 over the summer. Y Barbara Hough bridesmaid weekend in preparation for life in Alexandria, Va. Y Amanda Vickerson

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Extreme Newsgathering | Ellen London ’09

Ellen London ’09 knew she was passion- minored in classics, and where she was fea- ate about journalism when she found herself tures editor of the Echo—her first foray into picking through a Manhattan Dumpster journalism. “I think about Tuesday nights researching a story as a graduate student at in the Echo office: just completely nerding the Columbia School of Journalism. “There out about where to put a comma, coming I was climbing under a lid into trash with a up with crazy headlines, and dancing to our recorder and a notepad in hand,” she said. ‘booty mix’ CD.” At Colby London learned London was following extreme, eco- how to write, how to parse information, and friendly individuals called “freegans,” who the importance and meaning of the words, try to reduce waste by eating discarded she said. food. The story took her to alleyways at These skills and passions carried her night and into waste receptacles behind to a summer internship with Down East bakeries and supermarkets—all to capture magazine in 2009, when she won a Lovejoy the story and passion of people she just Journalism Internship from the Gold- met. “That experience showed me if you’re farb Center. “I came [to Down East] at a willing to pursue a story and go out of really pivotal time and was able to come your comfort zone, you can get some really in and really get my hands dirty,” she said. incredible insights,” she said. She flourished in the “all hands on deck” she said. “I think we offer good, solid re- Her assigned beat was covering food in atmosphere and published several articles porting from a young voice.” Nothing But New York City for a course that taught the featuring her byline. Gold tries to fill that gap through Lapin’s fundamentals of writing and reporting. For The Down East internship, combined television appearances, books that decode London it was a 10-month period of story- with skills acquired at Columbia, prepared money-related topics, online resources, and telling and self-discovery, using tales of New London for her latest role as COO of Noth- digital content. York to earn an M.S. in magazine journalism. ing But Gold Productions, a multimedia With a solid background and journalism Despite the fast-paced nature of living in company “focused on creating accessible credentials, London has risen in a profes- one of the world’s largest cities, the Maine financial content across various platforms.” sion that has grown more competitive as it native recalled her youth, in Topsham, when London spearheads former CNN and has faced challenges adapting to new media. she read Harriet the Spy and began filling up CNBC anchor Nicole Lapin’s television, Where will London go next? “The best notebooks with childhood observations. digital, and print projects working to journalists are willing to adjust as they go— London brought that inquisitive drive reach an audience London feels has been to follow the thread when they find it and with her to Colby, where she double- left behind. “Youth has been incredibly go to something great,” she said. majored in English and government and marginalized [during the financial crisis],” —Dash Wasserman ’12

started a new job at Gorham High School, marine resource management at the School to Leeds, England, and is studying at the the young-adult novel that began as her where she is co-advisor to the GSTA and of Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) University of Leeds for his M.A. in trans- Colby honors thesis is finished and she’s works in the behavioral support program. at UMass Dartmouth. His thesis was cited port economics. Y Chris Shelley started looking for an agent and an editor. She’s She maintains sanity by taking day trips by the National Shellfisheries Association law school at Drexel’s Earle Mack School also blogging about “Living, Learning, and with her wife, cooking vegan, and playing and his work was published in the scientific of Law. Y Erica Ciszek married Christina Writing with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity ! Y Chris Hoffman married journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. Raymond Sept. 10 in Ogunquit, Maine. Disorder” at www.JuliannaNWilson.com. Y Courtney Reichert (Bowdoin ’06) Aug. 6 He’s working on his Ph.D. at SMAST. Jenna Alumni in attendance included Val Coit, Meaghan Fitzgerald still lives and works in Portland, Maine. Noah Hoffman ’05 was received a degree at Johnson & Wales and Shannon Merrell ’10, Emily Warmington ’10, in London and especially enjoyed spend- best man. Alums in attendance included works as a chef at Persimmon in Bristol, Meaghan Jerrett, Virginia Brown, Jamie ing time with temporary neighbor Laurel Lena Bachmair, Tim Brown, Jabez Dewey, R.I. Y Hanna Gerlovin lives in Boston and Fierce, Caroline Voyles, Lindsay Tedeschi Todesca ’06 and the annual Thanksgiving- Josh Kahane, Daniel Kiernan, Ian London, will complete her master’s in biostatics this ’07, Jen McAleer ’07, Erica Kreuter, Kath- in-London celebration with Kip Kiprop ’07. Rory Murphy, Robert Oh, Alan Ozarowski, spring at BU. On Nov. 12 she ventured to leen Nicholson, Devon Ducharme ’06, She’s excited to see more of Riley Doyle Andy Roland, Steve Sandak, Ryan Scott, DC with Caitlin Coit and Matt Haefele to Ally Haas, Christa Miller-Shelley, Jess ’07, who’s joined the ranks of Colby-ites in and more. Colby’s attendees totaled 30 to celebrate Nicole Terrillion’s wedding, at Coliflores, and Alex Harris ’07. Y Joerose the UK. This year, in addition to traveling Bowdoin’s 14. Good times were had by all. which she and Caitlin sang. Y After more Tharakan was back at Colby in October around Europe, Meaghan focused on her than two years as the talent buyer for a for Career Connections Weekend with role as marketing director for a London small music venue in Manhattan, Adam Gretchen Markiewicz, Patrick Sanders, tech startup and would love to speak to 2008 Geringer-Dunn is now the talent buyer at and Tim Williams. This was her first trip entrepreneurial-minded alumni. Y Sarah Palmer McAuliff Brooklyn Bowl (www.brooklynbowl.com) in since graduation. Joerose is pursuing her Parrish and Evan Kaplan are thrilled to [email protected] Williamsburg. The venue is a 600-capacity M.B.A. at the Yale School of Management, announce their engagement! They plan to Thanks for all of the news! Jenna Walsh and concert space with a16-lane bowling alley along with Abby Lowell ’06, John Wong ’06, marry in June. Y At the end of August, Laura David Bethoney are engaged and plan an and a Blue Ribbon restaurant. If you’re and Zack Schuman, and will graduate in Perille reunited with Jennifer Bushee, Luke August 2012 wedding in Newport, R.I. Last in Brooklyn, check it out! Y After sailing May. Their new dean is Ted Snyder ’75! Y LaViolet, Brian Putnam, Katie Harris, Julia year David received his master’s in living around the world, Brad Woodworth moved Julie Wilson is excited to announce that Stuebing, Sarah E. Clark, Kit Clark, Tom

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[email protected] 64 1/11/12 9:54 AM Treat, Mason Dutton, and Bill Whitledge and works for the China Greentech Initia- at Analysis Group and is applying to busi- Klassen has been working on grants for in Estes Park, Colo., for a great week of tive, a commercial collaboration focused ness schools. Y Sam Hoff is working on the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health hiking, rafting, horseback riding, tennis, on green technology solutions. Byron applications to law school for fall 2012 and while pursuing an M.S. in biomedical engi- brewery tours, and the like. She’s also Meinerth, studying with Johns Hopkins in also serves as chairman of the Mayflower neering at Hopkins. Y Congratulations to been to Boston to see Leslie Wardwell, Nanjing, uses her apartment as storage Foundation’s Boston committee. He lives Aaron Block for being accepted into a P.A. Jon Scott, Brian Lam, Sarah L. Clark, space. Y Dylan Perry moved from DC to in the North End with Logan King and Sam program! Y Jennifer Dahnke is now at the Jacqueline Beaupre, and Anya Toteanu. Worcester, Mass., to study at the UMass Witherspoon. Y Kimberly Cohen and Chris Monterey Institute of International Studies Laura is in her third year of a Ph.D. program Medical School. He’s bunking up with med Neil ’07 got engaged on a recent trip to doing a master’s in nonproliferation and in history at Brown. Y Kristin Weigle passed classmates Geoff Buckle ’07 and Josh Maine. Maggie Hayes and Rachel Baird terrorism studies. Y Tim Jeon works for the California bar exam and was sworn Kahane ’07. Y Laura Bisbee teaches English took her out for a fun night in Boston to KPMG and lives with Will Harrington in into the State Bar of California Dec. 1 in at a primary school in Hangzhou, China. Y celebrate. Chris is a Ph.D. student studying Boston. Y Delia Langan has been display- Sacramento. Y Caroline Voyles attended Paolo Pepe moved twice last year for his molecular biology at Brown, and Kimberly is ing her jewelry at shows and was recently separate weddings of Erica Ciszek and job: first from New York to Atlanta, and most in her first year as a biology Ph.D. student contracted to design jewelry for a profes- Lauren Goethals last fall. Caroline left her recently to Boston, where he hangs out with at BU studying bats and disease ecology. sional advertisement. Y Elise Randall, position as LGBTQ coordinator of commu- Katie-Elyse Turner and Sam Gillies ’11. Y Y Adam Goldfarb received his certificate Kelsey Gibbs, Matt Silverman ’12, Alec nity action youth programs in Greenfield, After two years as a newspaper reporter in fundraising from Canisius College. He’s Oot, Jess Levasseur, Danny Hoshino ’11, Mass., to head to Hawaii with her girlfriend, in Rockland, Maine, Fritz Freudenberger working as the VISTA program manager at Leigh Bullion, and other grads attended Julia Wallis, to WWOOF for a month. They moved to Durango, Colo., to earn geology the Service Collaborative of WNY, Inc., and Zack Ezor’s New Year’s Eve wedding in worked on a small organic farm, snorkeled credits at Fort Lewis College to pursue a is getting his M.S. from Buffalo State Col- Atlanta. Y Kaitlyn Lynch Oroho got mar- with sea turtles, climbed active volcanoes, master’s in geology. Y Kat Brzozowski and lege in higher education administration. Y ried in October in NJ amongst friends and and enjoyed the beach in January. They’re Wes Miller ’08 live in Queens, N.Y. Kat is an Rebecca Lynch was elected the youngest family. Y Allison Straw moved to Laramie, now in Philadelphia and would love to have assistant editor at Thomas Dunne Books, Democratic district leader for the Queens Wyo., and regularly meets Emily Stimpson other Colbyites show them around town! where she recently acquired her first book County Democratic Organization. She took ’09. Y Megan Browning has settled in Y Jacqueline Beaupre was accepted into as an editor. Y Chris Copeland works in a road trip to Nashville with Sara Gutt while Cambridge post-travels and loves living BU’s master of arts in teaching for science Portland, Maine, at the mobile marketing visiting her in Atlanta. Y Julia Bacon lives in with Hannah Holbrook. Y While charting education program. Last summer she left firm Liquid Wireless. He hangs out with Ben DC and will marry Sam Fabens ’08 next fall. his next steps, Hasan Bhatti volunteers teaching high school biology to attend BU Many, Krishan Rele, Nick Cody Friedman Y Prabhdeep Singh is in New Delhi, India, at community social services agencies in part time while working as an immunology ’10, Brandon Pollock ’10, and Jared Houri- working for American Express. He was one Chapel Hill, N.C. Y Ruth Doherty teaches research technician full time at Children’s han ’11. Y Bryan Brown is in Hawaii helping of two people selected from Amex in India high school math and coaches fitness with Hospital Boston. Jacqueline attended a with a humpback whale study. Y Nikolai to represent Amex at the One Young World a rambunctious group of seventh and eighth delicious Thanksgiving potluck hosted by Barnwell is setting up an accelerator space Summit in Zurich in September. graders at the Hopkins School, Conn. Y Katherine Koleski with Liz Petit, Jamie for East African web/mobile start-ups in Nestled in the mountains of Leadville, O’Connell, Emily Plumb, Virginia Brown, Nairobi. He works as the country manager Colo., Julia Stifler teaches French and Laura Pomponi, Anya Toteanu, Brian Lam, for the Danish investment fund 88mph. Y 2010 leads backpacking expeditions at High and Lane Marder. Tyler Plourde married Jaime Bisson Aug. Sameera Anwar Mountain Institute. Y Kari Rivers moved to 20 in Woolwich, Maine. John Wagner, [email protected] St. Louis and works at a French immersion Greg Zartarian, and Tom Milaschewski Hey everyone! Andy Rougeot was recently school as a kindergarten assistant teacher. 2009 attended. Tyler is athletic director at the commissioned as a second lieutenant and Y Devon Rook teaches third grade at a Olivia Sterling Hyde School in Bath. He saw Denis Cronin is headed to Carson, Colo., to be a military public charter school and loves the daily [email protected] when Tilton School (where Denis coaches) intelligence officer at the 4th Infantry excitement! Y An IT consultant by day, by Elizabeth Zagroba works for NY Public played Hyde’s football team. Y Ned Warner Division. Y Ben Rooney finished a farm night Andrew Cox is part of a trivia team that Radio and lives in Brooklyn. She sees lives in Laramie, Wyo., and is applying to management position at an urban farming competes statewide in Wyoming. Y Ryan Kat Brzozowski and Wes Miller ’08. Y graduate schools to study art teaching. Y nonprofit in Portland, Maine, and is off to Conlon recently moved to Mystic, Conn., Alex Richards works for UBS and lives in Mark Phillips married Raven Adams ’08 Zimbabwe to start a sustainable agriculture and manages a Pepsi sales territory along NYC, where he sees Alex Hoder and Lissa May 29 in Denver. Mules in attendance program. Y Bridget Ely fundraises and the coast of CT. Y Jessica Balukas works in Martin. He saw Maxime Guillaume, Ben were Mike Piacentini ’07, Ian London ’07, event plans for the UK charity Wellbeing the lab at the Department of Environmental Goldenberg, and Simon Levy when they Melyn McKay ’08, Courtney Johnson ’08, of Women. Y Hanna Pickwell returned Protection in Augusta, Maine, and will visited for a partial Apt. 231 reunion. Jay Emily Wilson Connelly ’08, Angela Martinelli to the U.S. from China to start work at continue a second AmeriCorps term there. Larmon and Chris Vancisin were not ’08, Menya Hinga, Eben Witherspoon, a nonprofit that provides social services Y Emily Pavelle and Kelsey Gibbs decided missed at all (just kidding). Alex also saw Xander Kotsatos, Adam Lowenstein, to immigrants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. to occupy Portland’s East End, but indoors Sam Hoff and Caitlin Leibenhaut at The Nick Van Niel ’10, Amy Snickenberger ’10, Y Sakshi Balani returned to India and and without a permit. Y Jeoff Jarnot is the Hunt in October. Y Abby Sussman and Elizabeth Disney ’10, Sam Brakeley ’10, started working with a nonpartisan policy director of seacoast expansion for Atlantic Devon Anderson moved to Portland, Ore., Anna Kelemen ’11, Raleigh Werner ’11, research think tank. Y After road-tripping Heritage Insurance, coaches hockey, and in August. Devon attends Oregon Health Kevin Baier ’11, and Austin Sutherland ’11. cross-country, Peter Johansson works in plays bass for the Joint Chiefs. Y Megan & Science University for an M.D./Ph.D., It was a beautiful spring evening with lots an economic think-tank in Beijing. Y Katrina Towe landed a job with startup LiveIntent. and Abby works in admissions at Reed of great dancing. The couple honeymooned Gravel and Dan Vassallo ’07 got engaged A great article about Megan’s journey to College. They see Spencer Crim and John in Costa Rica, and are now finishing up law in October. They live in the Boston area this company is in Business Insider—check Lewallen ’10. Abby met up with Samantha school. Y Amy Keefe works in marketing and see Colby grads regularly. Y Jordan it out! Y Lamont Henry is happy to have Given-Dennis in San Francisco. Y Shirmila at the mobile gaming company ngmoco. Schoonover is busy with her environmental great friends like Hamdi Sheriff, who still Cooray returned from a trip to Nepal, where She moved from San Francisco to transfer law program at Lewis & Clark Law School. plays jokes on him. Although Lamont is she worked on human trafficking and to her company’s Brooklyn, N.Y., office. Y Y Dan Reeves and Ross Connor hang out not actually married, as Hamdi claimed, he gender-based violence programs for the Sally Drescher works at Milton Academy with Adam Paine and Liz Disney when the does live in Virginia Beach, where he is a Asia Foundation. She capped off her trip as officer of parent programs and lives latter two manage to escape med school. Y college unit director and financial planner with a vacation in Australia and the Cook with Justine Scott ’08, Matt Ahern, and Kat Cosgrove wrapped up her first quarter for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. Islands. Y Chelsea Eakin lives in Beijing Sara Burbine. Y Lokesh Todi still works of grad school and loves Denver. Y Charlie Y Keep writing! It’s great to be in touch.

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Leonette Warburton Wishard Howard DeShon, she is survived by was a member of the Dover-Fox- trained thousands of practitioners ’23, Dec. 2, 2011, in Bridgeport, nieces, nephews, and cousins. croft Congregational Church. In around the world. An instrument- Conn., at 109. Colby’s oldest liv- later years she volunteered and had rated pilot, he loved flying and ing graduate until her death, she Elizabeth Wood Reed ’44, Dec. a raspberry business. She is sur- Woody Allen films. He is survived attended a campaign celebration 9, 2011, in Montpelier, Vt., at 90. vived by her sister, Roberta Young by four children, one grandson, in 2008. She earned a master’s of Born to Baptist missionaries in ’47. She was predeceased by her and two former wives. religious education at Andover Szechuan, China, she met her longtime companion, Marilyn Far- Theological School and worked husband at Colby and was mar- rar, by her parents, Andrew Young Robert R. Laliberte ’51, Nov. 28, with young women around the ried on campus the day after she 1913 and Claramae Harvey Young 2011, in Lakewood, N.J., at 82. An world as a Baptist missionary. She graduated. She lived in Rumford, 1919, and by a brother. All-New England hockey player established the Leonette Warbur- Maine, until moving to Montpe- for three years at Colby, he worked ton Wishard Financial Aid Fund to lier in 1965, where she worked as a Eleanor “Lee” Clayton ’48, Nov. as an accountant for Pratt & Whit- support women planning on reli- medical assistant and volunteered. 29, 2011, in San Francisco, Ca- ney, owned hotels in Florida and gious or other community-related Predeceased by her husband, Ron- lif. at 85. After Colby she moved New Jersey, and operated the Red work. She was predeceased by her ald Reed ’43, she is survived by her west with her cat and every pa- Bank Bus Terminal for 15 years. husband, Glenn Porter Wishard, daughter Sandra Reed Clougher perback mystery she had ever laid Survived by two sons, two grand- and sisters Josephine Warburton ’69, son Brian, and four grandchil- eyes on. In California she worked children, and nephew Douglas La- Wilkinson ’25 and Arleen Warbur- dren including Allison Clougher in finance and was one of the first liberte ’03, he was predeceased by ton Russell ’28. Keelty ’98 and Erin Clougher ’03. employees of Rosenberg Capital brothers Alton ’42, Bernard ’52, Management. She was active in sister-in-law Anita ’42, and nephew Dorsa Rattenbury O’Dell ’32, Beverly F. Booth ’45, Dec. 15, the Financial Women’s Club and Scott Laliberte ’01. Jan. 9, 2008, in Julian, Calif., at 2011, in Weston, Mass., at 91. Born loved bridge and football. She is 96. She transferred from Smith to on Nantucket, he studied library survived by her long-time partner, Nancy Weare Merriman ’52, Colby and worked in the public re- science after graduating from Beverly Cramer, and by a niece and Oct. 25, 2011, in Exeter, N.H., at lations office at the College for two Colby and worked for 30 years at a nephew. 80. She lived in Westbury, N.Y., years after graduating. She lived at the Alabama State University li- most of her life before retiring to Stoneapple Farm in southern Cali- brary. He was a member of Rev. Jane George Daniels ’48, Nov. 22, Rye, N.H. An avid bridge and ten- fornia and traveled the world with Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dexter 2011, in Belmont, Calif., at 85. A psy- nis player, she also played violin in her husband, author of the New- Avenue Baptist Church and had a chology and sociology double major, the Hicksville, N.Y., community bury Award-winning Island of the warm personal relationship with she married and moved to Califor- orchestra. Survived by four daugh- Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell, who Rev. King. Gregory Mobley, a fel- nia, where she was a social worker. ters and seven grandchildren, she predeceased her. low parishioner at Newton’s First She is survived by sister Priscilla was predeceased by her husband, Baptist Church in Massachusetts George McNally ’42, two daughters, Robert Merriman ’50. Eliot B. “Huck” Kraft ’43, Oct. described Booth as “our Forest a son, and three granddaughters. 28, 2011, in Canton, Mass., at 91. Gump ... eyewitness to so many Priscilla Buck Peard ’52, Oct. 25, He learned Russian and served pivotal events of the 20th century Carl J. Samuelson ’49, Nov. 19, 2011, in Frederick, Md., at 81. After with the Army Quartermaster and a beacon of optimism, kind- 2011, in Forestburg, Tex., at 92. raising her children she returned Corps in the European and Pacific ness, and idealism.” He was prede- He served in World War II, in- to work and volunteered at her theaters in World War II. He took ceased by two brothers. cluding at Guadalcanal, until mid- churches and in her community. over his family’s business in Bos- 1944, when he was assigned to the She loved , reading, Bible ton and retired to Florida. Prede- Pasquale V. Rufo ’46, Dec. 14, White House. He attended Colby study, friends, and family. Survived ceased by his wife, the late Barbara 2011, in Concord, N.H., at 89. He and Boston University, and he was by her husband of 57 years, Peter, Wax Kraft, and a daughter, he is served as a Marine in World War passionate about family, church, four children, five grandchildren, survived by his longtime compan- II and afterward built up Rufo’s hymns, opera, big band music, and two great-grandchildren, she ion, Barbara Levy, and by three Greenhouse, started by his mother. and his pets. He is survived by two was predeceased by her mother, children and six grandchildren. He was a four-term state represen- daughters, a son, a stepson, and Doris Buck ’27, and aunt, Muriel tative, a member of civic and frater- five grandchildren. Armstrong ’29. Muriel McLellan (Flagg) DeShon nal organizations, and a founding ’43, Dec. 6, 2011, in Perry, Maine, member of New Hampshire Plant Richard Fisch ’49, Oct. 23, 2011, George Fred “Tim” Terry III at 90. She earned a master’s degree Growers. Predeceased by his wife, in Redwood City, Calif., at 84. He ’52, Nov. 21, 2011, in Augusta, in education at UMaine and taught Katharine, and two sons, he is sur- served as a U.S. Navy medic be- Maine, at 82. He grew up in Wa- English, French, and Latin in vived by two daughters, a son, and fore graduating, then earned his terville and was proud to be in Eastport and Calais, Maine, for 37 a granddaughter. M.D. at New York Medical Col- the class that started downtown years. She was active in historical, lege. Known internationally as a and graduated on Mayflower Hill. literary, and educational organiza- Mary Louise Young ’46, Nov. 6, psychiatrist, he pioneered Brief He served in the Navy during the tions that spanned the Maine-New 2011, in Charleston, Maine, at 88. Therapy, a short-term approach to Korean War before joining the Brunswick border. Predeceased by She had a career teaching Latin many problems. He wrote a num- family insurance business. He was two husbands, Philip Flagg and and French in public schools and ber of books on Brief Therapy and active in Rotary and in the Sugar-

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[email protected] 66 1/11/12 9:54 AM loaf community. He is survived by 2011, in Deer Isle, Maine, at 70. An his wife, Natalie, daughter Sarah obituaries in brief advocate for human rights and em- Carlson, a sister, two grandsons, powerment of women worldwide, Colby doesn’t always learn about alumni deaths in a timely fashion, and sometimes granddaughters Rachel Terry ’07 we cannot locate an obituary. In those cases we publish information available to us, she earned an M.S.W. at Univer- and Emma Carlson ’08, and niece as seen below. sity of Chicago. As a student she Rosemary Perkins ’09. heard John F. Kennedy propose the Jeanne Peyrot Hoffman ’36, Mar. 15, 2009, in Kennett Square, Pa., at 93 F Carolyn Peace Corps at a rally and commit- Edith M. Costello ’54, Dec. 13, Browne Bolles ’48, May 17, 2009, in Harpswell, Maine, at 84 F Charlotte Weinberg ted to join. She helped found the 2011, in McLean, Va., at 78. She Davis ’48, Dec. 14, 2007, in Framingham, Mass., at 82 F Stanton H. Cramer ’63, National Women’s Political Cau- earned an M.A. in psychology at June 18. 2007, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., at 68 F Tanya M. Raimey ’92, Oct. 15, cus, served as development direc- American University and retired as 2011, in Los Angeles, Calif., at 48. tor until 1979, and was rumored a career officer in the Central In- to be the model for ’s telligence Agency. She was prede- Joanie Caucus. She worked for the ceased by her longtime companion, by the American Board of Pediat- recently received the Nashua Bar Carter administration, advised the Joseph L. Giraudo. rics, and practiced in Salem, Mass., Association’s Lifetime Achieve- Clinton administration, and intro- and the Bahamas. He married ment Award. He was president of duced candidate Barack Obama in Alvan P. Field ’54, Nov. 15, 2011, Joanne Kershaw McKeage ’57 and Rotary, Memorial Hospital, and Bangor in 2008—an experience she in Toms River, N.J., at 79. Field had two sons, including Jeffrey ’79. the Grand National Curling Club. rated second only to being Ms. De- earned his D.D.S. at Temple and He is survived by his wife of 53 cember in the 2004 Maine Lobster practiced for 50 years at Beach- Lois Weaver Neil-Sambar ’56, years, Mary Jordan Lopez, three Women’s calendar. A former Colby wood Dental Arts in Beachwood, Oct. 11, 2011, in La Cañada Flin- children including Susan Lopez overseer, she married Ron Ste- N.J. He loved family, cars, motor- tridge, Calif., at 76. She taught ’91, and three grandchildren. gall and is survived by a daughter, boats, football, tennis, horseracing, high school, became a vice princi- Shana Cousins, and a son, Skyler. blackjack, and food. He developed pal, and was principal at Rosemont Elizabeth Harper Hopler ’61, medical buildings in Toms River Middle School. She earned a mas- Nov. 10, 2011, in Lewes, Del., at Roberta “Bobbi” Loveland Vest and restored Tuckerton’s Main ter’s in education and a doctorate 72. A lifelong writer and editor, ’62, June 23, 2011, in Reston, Va., Street. He is survived by his wife, in educational management. Later she most recently worked for the at 70. She earned a master’s de- Carol, six children, nine grandchil- in life she taught and advised pro- Cape Gazette in Lewes. She loved gree from Virginia Polytechnic dren, and cousins Robert Rosen- grams at Chapman University, bird watching, nature, and cook- Institute and taught in Maryland, thal ’50 and Arlyne Sacks ’54. University of La Verne, and Occi- ing with her grandchildren. She is Okinawa, and Virginia, retir- dental College and was active with survived by a sister, four children, ing as a reading specialist from Lee Gropper ’54, Nov. 5, 2011, in civic organizations. The Crescenta and 11 grandchildren. the Fairfax (Va.) County School Pasadena, Calif., at 79. After serv- Valley Chamber of Commerce System. She was the wife of Wil- ing in the Army he had a career at named her 2001 Woman of the Diane Hilton O’Connor ’62, liam Vest, mother of Amy and W. Beckman Instruments (now Beck- Year. Survivors include her second Nov. 24, 2011, in Bremen, Maine, Bradley (Kristin) Vest, and she man Coulter) in Silicon Valley, husband, Chuck Sambar, two sons, at 70. In Washington, D.C., she had two grandchildren. where he helped develop a com- and two granddaughters. worked in public affairs for the mercial centrifuge and was cred- U.S. Forest Service, where she won Michael A. Halsey ’76, Aug. 20, ited with more than a half dozen Roy Ericson Norcross ’56, Dec. the USDA’s Distinguished Service 2011, in Santa Fe, N.M., at 58. He patents. A bicycle accident in 1984 1, 2011, in Hartford, Conn., at Award. She traveled extensively in earned an M.B.A., summa cum left him unable to read, write, or 82. He served in the Korean War the Americas and started her own laude, at University of Chicago and speak intelligibly. He is survived by and earned a master’s degree at trip agency in retirement. Return- moved to New Mexico, where he a brother, one of his two sons, and the University of Stockholm. He ing to her hometown, Bremen, was a financial consultant in urban three grandchildren. taught English at the Kingswood Maine, in 1996, she was engaged development projects. His passions Oxford School in West Hartford on many civic boards and commis- were surfing, flying his airplane, and Konrad Gesner ’55, Dec. 7, 2011, for 38 years, holding administra- sions. She is survived by her hus- gardening, which earned him the in Kingston, Mass., at 79. Drafted tive positions there as well. He was band, Leo O’Connor, a brother, nickname “Tomato Man.” He is sur- for the Korean War, he graduated a deacon in the Congregational and two sisters including Mary vived by his wife, Caroline Monaco. from Babson on the GI Bill. An avid church, an avid gardener and Hilton Weeks ’66. bird hunter and fisherman, he had cook, and maintained a residence Karin Judkins Hogan ’90, Nov. detailed knowledge of Duxbury Bay in Sweden. He is survived by his Judith Parker Millen ’61, Nov. 9, 22, 2011, in Oakland, Calif., at 45. and marshes. He was a life trustee wife, Gunvor, a daughter, a son, 2011, in Burlington, Vt., at 71. After She earned a B.S degree in physics of Ducks Unlimited. Predeceased and five grandchildren. finishing her degree at Plymouth with honors at Cal State-Hayward by wife Nancy Lang Gesner, he is State, she taught for 25 years in and was a computer scientist and survived by his wife, Elizabeth, a Chester H. “Chet” Lopez Jr. ’58, Littleton and Bethlehem (N.H.) el- test engineer in nanotechnology. son, a daughter, three stepchildren, Dec. 15, 2011, in Nashua, N.H., at ementary schools. She loved travel, With her husband she started a and five step-stepchildren. 75. He earned a J.D. at University genealogy, family, friends, and serv- business designing and marketing of Chicago Law School and prac- ing her community. She is survived components for the biotech indus- Richard E. McKeage ’55, Nov. 1, ticed law for 50 years with Ham- by her husband, Richard Millen, a try. She is survived by her husband, 2011, in North Port, Fla., at 77. He blett, Kerrigan, LaTourette, and son, a daughter, and three brothers. Michael, her parents, Fred and earned an M.D. at Tufts, served two Lopez. Active in the local, state, Judy Judkins, a sister, a brother, years in the Air Force, was certified and regional bar associations, he Lael Swinney Stegall ’62, Oct. 25, other relatives, and her dog, Layla.

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