newsmakers Phoebe Lehmann Zarnetske ’01, a graduate student at Utah State University, received the 2005 Ecological Society of America’s E. Lucy Braun Award. Zarnetske is conducting in the Forest, Range and Wildlife Sciences Department in the College of Natural Resources. An biology and environmental science major, she is modeling the habitat of management indicator animal species and estimating where they are likely to occur in Utah’s forests. Zarnetske received the award for her poster entry, “Modeling Forest Phoebe L. Zarnetski ’01 Bird Species’ Habitat with Extant Presence Points and Generated Pseudo-Absence Points in Utah,” at the 90th Annual ESA and IX International Congress of Ecology meetings held earlier this year in Montréal, Canada.
milestones Marriages: Michael P. O’Brien ’00 to Beth Varone in Seekonk, Mass. Kirsten C. Isaksen ’01 to John J. Benjamin in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Marybeth Maney ’01 to Isaac Wilhelm in Beverly, Mass. Derek J. Cyr ’02 to Mandy M. LaBonte in Lewiston, Maine Sarah Mason ’03 to Jonathan Eck ’03 in Lyme, Vt. Jonah Barasz ’03 to Allison Stewart ’05 in Waterville, Maine. week in June, snorkeling and relaxing. Ed works for Investors Bank & Trust in Boston as an account supervisor. —Sarah Dressler
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Jill Laramee and Thad Feeney were married on June 11 in Tahoe City, Calif., with Lauren Bliss and Erik Lisk in the wedding party. At the wedding, in a friendly vote between Colby alumni, none other than class speaker Evan McGee was voted Most Changed since our Colby days as he has shed more than 40 pounds to reveal a new, svelte figure. Y Greg Lynch ’04 and Kim Niederberger were married on July 9, 2005, at Colby’s Lorimer Chapel. Kim also reports that she traveled to Germany for two weeks over the summer on a scholarship from the Goethe Institute for German Teachers. Y On June 25, 2005, Matt Nelson married Michilynn Duplisea. They now reside in Pittsfield, Maine, with their son, Riley. Congratulations to all the newlyweds! Y Alex Yarbrough was engaged to Anna Zwahlen-Tronick ’02 over the summer and was to be married in October. Alex and Anna bought a condo in South Boston, and he is working as a consultant for Eagle Investment Systems in Newton, Mass. Alex often sees Griffin Coyle and Matt Farley in the Boston area. Y Jenn Brenneman is engaged to be married in July 2006. She is living in the Florida Keys, teaching underprivileged girls,
and missing her former roommates, Marin Hoffman, Katie Altneu, and Shelley Hughes, all of whom still live in San Francisco. Jenn reports they are all doing well. Y Amanda Surette wrote that she is engaged to Mason Smith ’04 and that a January 2006 wedding is planned. Both are in the D.C. area and are grad students at George Washington University. Y Meredith Millen is engaged to Trevor Eide ’04. Caroline Riss wrote that she attended an engagement party for them over the summer. Caroline also mentions that she and Tom Richardson both successfully finished their second year of law school at William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota. Y Charles Strom is a first-year attending the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Y Christiana Salah wrote for the first time to say that she graduated in May from Emerson College with an M.F.A. in creative writing. She was enjoying Boston and some free time this summer before entering the real world in the fall. Y Sharon Herbert is still in Burlington, Vt., working for Burton Snowboards. She was nominated recently for the Outdoor Industry Women’s Coalition “First Ascent” Award, which “acknowledges industry newcomers who demonstrate strong potential for leadership.” She is one of three finalists in the nation, and the winner will be announced in Salt Lake City. Y Sara Blask graduated in May from Columbia’s School of Journalism and is
now working for Outside magazine in New Mexico. Y Bill McCloy graduated from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, moved to Burlington, Vt., and started a new job with an environmental consulting firm. He writes that he is glad to be back up north and ready to see as many Colby grads as he can. Y Katrina Noyes is still in L.A. She writes that Catherine Garth visited for a while over the summer and that Spencer Hutchins was headed to Yale to pursue his M.B.A. in the fall. Y Pete Loverso was living with Karli Jaffe in Portland, Maine, but he’s now living in South Carolina and working for Blackbaud. Y Kelly Miller is working in D.C. at Chemonics International, a development consulting firm. Y Chris Reigeluth left his position at a recruiting firm in Boston to pursue a career in international health and public policy at John Snow, Inc., specifically supporting health initiatives in the Republic of Georgia and Madagascar. He also mentions that the ex-White Mule club soccer team in Boston, known affectionately as The Bushmen, is doing well. Conor Cooper has been quite effective in goal, and Nick Rohs captains the team. Y Alexandra Gelbard wrote from Cuba, where she spent most of the summer. She is starting a Ph.D. program in sociology at Michigan State and will find herself in Cuba quite often in the next couple of years to do research for her dissertation on African-derived religious traditions and carnival in eastern Cuba. Y Nat Chamberlin headed down to Atlanta to visit Keagan Russo. They had a blast; Nat says that Atlanta makes Boston look boring! Y Kelly Martin is in Weston, Conn., working at Wildlife in Crisis, a rehab center for wildlife. Y Congrats to all those now married and engaged and best of luck to those who started school and new jobs this fall. Y For more news of our class go to www.colby.edu/colby. mag/00s. —Lauren Tiberio
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Our class successfully survived our first year out of Colby and everyone seems to have great plans for the upcoming year. Y Vanessa Verri is attending law school at Arizona State University, where she is planning to study Native American law. Y Rob Selover is a grad student in the department of geosciences at Penn State University. Y Sarah Wright has been living and teaching in Bangkok. Y Amy Tolsdorf spent
2000s Correspondents 2000 Caroline Calhoun Cathedral Pines Farm P.O. Box 67 Cornwall, CT 06753 860-672-6747 classnews2000@alum.colby.edu 2001 Dana D. Fowler 353 East 78th Street, 11B New York, NY 10022 classnews2001@alum.colby.edu 2002 Lydia Terry P.O. Box 1730 Sun Valley, ID 83353 classnews2002@alum.colby.edu 2003 Lauren Tiberio 131 Valley View Drive Wethersfield, CT 06109-2621 classnews2003@alum.colby.edu 2004 Kate Weiler 101 Plain Road Wayland, MA 01778 classnews2004@alum.colby.edu 2005 Katie Gagne 25 Alton Place, Apt. 3R Brookline, MA 02446 classnews2005@alum.colby.edu three months backpacking around New Zealand. She was a waitress for the summer and has been attending medical school at UConn. Y Meredith Collins is attending medical school at The Ohio State University. She spent the summer working at a family practice clinic that serves underprivileged people who can’t afford healthcare. She hopes to go into surgery. Y Ann Claflin is attending the University of Michigan to get a master’s in information science. She is living in Ann Arbor with Diane Nelson. Y Ben Sheehan left Aspen last spring and is now working for his mother’s company, Green Hope Farm, and for a metal and ceramics shop, Tariki Studios. Y Kate Wheeler and Kevin Brunelle ’03 were engaged last spring while vacationing in France. They are planning their wedding for June 2006. Y Emma McCandless is teaching sixth grade reading for a second year for Teach for America in the Rio Grande Valley. Karen Prager returned from Russia and joined her on the Mexican border. Y Erin Dube is also working for Teach for America. She completed her first year in Camden, N.J., and spent the summer working at the Teach for America COLBY / winter 2006 67