alumni at large else out there who’s still single and loving it?” Y Matt Olsen moved to California after two years in Israel working as a security mediation and verification consultant for the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip. This winter he was hoping to trade politics for powder. Y Colleen Spindler-Ranta, who completed a two-year Peace Corps service in Bulgaria and hiked the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail, is now working for the Steppingstone Foundation in Boston. Y Ryan Aldrich is finishing his second year of graduate school at the University of Denver in higher education administration in Colorado. He sees Alex Parrillo and Nate Bradley occasionally. Y Abby Duff was married to Geoff Gilchrist last summer at their farm in Unity, Maine. Martha Healy Fried and Monica Titera attended. Y Ali Mian started the third year of med school (MCV) with clerkships in vascular and neurological surgery. He spent the first part of summer 2005 in England on a fellowship at Oxford University, where his work involved the removal of brain lesions that cause epilepsy. Y Walter Wang graduated last May from the University of San Diego School of Law with an LL.M. in taxation. Y After graduating from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business with his M.B.A. last May, Jonathan Sickinger started a job in marketing at Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wis. He is currently the associate brand manager for the Henry Weinhard and Leinenkugel brands. And yes, he gets three free cases of beer each month. Y John and Meg Lawson Hyde had their first baby, a daughter named Ellie, who arrived on August 9, 2005, their second wedding anniversary! They love life with Ellie and “just cannot get enough of her!” Y Mackenzie Dawson Parks was recently made the editor of the new “Workplace” section at the New York Post. She is also still writing articles for the features section—on everything from red carpet wannabes to jealous exes who sell their husband’s possessions on eBay. Y Chrissy Barnett still works in production for the Discovery Channel and loves it. She recently moved to Silver Spring, Md. She is getting married on the eastern shore of Maryland on June 10, 2006. Courtney Smith will be Chrissy’s maid of honor. In October, Chrissy performed in a local theater company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 62 COLBY / spring 2006
Company. Y Kea Watson expected to graduate from the Director’s Guild Training Plan in December and will be able to work in TV and movies as a second AD. Kea is currently living in Van Nuys, Calif., with her partner and two cats, but she’s hoping to move back to the east coast soon. Y Ben Grasso is now living in Albany, N.Y., getting his master’s in secondary education. Y Rachel Simon won the first-book prize, The Transcontinental Award, from Pavement Saw Press. They will be publishing her book of poems, Theory of Orange, in the fall. She’s still in Yonkers, teaching at SUNY, Purchase. Y Kristy Tracy Dawes’s daughter, Lauren, turned a year old last June. Kristy and her husband, John, expected a baby boy in early November! Y For more news of our class go to www. colby.edu /mag/90s Y Keep t he news coming! —Lindsay Hayes
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Congrat ulations to many recently engaged, married, and united classmates! On Oct. 9, 2004, Lindsay Stewart married Chris Pinchbeck. They live in Hope, Maine. Lindsay is working on her master’s in education, teaching through the creative arts, and teaching photography at an elementary school near Rockland. Y Kamini Bhargava and Nicholas LaRusso married on May 29, 2005, in Madison, Wis. They still live in Denver, where Kamini teaches private violin lessons and performs with a symphony and Nick is an account executive at Ecollege. Megan Davis and Jared WoodwardPoor, who were in the wedding, were married on Aug. 20, 2005, at Sunday River in Bethel, Maine. (Megan says they dropped the Woodward and are now the Poors.) They live outside of Burlington, Vt., where Megan is a school social worker for a middle and high school alternative program and Jared began a career in woodworking, making furniture on Shelburne Farm. There were many Colbyites in attendance at both weddings, including Carolyn Massa, who is in her fourth year of dental school in Boston. Y In June 2005, Tracy Freuder married Diego Muilenburg ’99 on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Diego started a residency in general surgery at UCDavis. Tracy’s in Alexandria, Va., finishing her master’s in landscape architecture at Virginia Tech. After completing her degree she’ll join
Diego in Sacramento. Y On July 7, 2005, Kevin James became domestic partners with Brian Sereda of Portland, Ore. Kevin graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School last summer and took the Oregon bar; he is currently awaiting bar results and seeking a job in Portland, Ore. Y On Oct. 1, 2005, Rebecca Solomon married Noah Letwin at her home in Queensbury, N.Y. In attendance were Keryn Kwedor, Katie Reber, Dubek ’99 and Sarah Richards Kim ’01, and Sarah Martin Kennedy ’01. Y Mark Edgar is engaged to Kara Leehive, a Harvard ’01 grad. They plan to marry on the beach in the Caribbean in the fall. Mark is living in N.Y.C. and working at Deutsche Bank. Y Congratulations to the new parents! Lindsay Shaker McDermott got married two years ago and now has a six-month-old son. She’s loving every minute of being a parent! Y Philip and Sarah Church Murphy welcomed Oliver Gray Murphy on Aug. 3, 2005. He’s an absolute delight, writes Sarah. Y Limi Perry Bauer, her husband, and two children, ages 2 and 10 months, moved to Seoul, Korea, for the year. Her husband is completing studies at Yonsei University while she teaches English, takes care of the children, and enjoys Korean culture. Y Ben Mackay moved to Boston for his M.B.A. at Babson College. Y Meghan Matschke moved from Boulder, Colo., to N.Y.C. and a job with College Sports Television. Y Krikor Daglian is also living in N.Y.C., working as a writer/editor and playing in and around the city in a band called The Walk Ons, who released their first CD last summer. In August Krikor attended the wedding of Tony Frangie ’01 and Mindy Gorman and saw Jake Conklin, Alex Chin ’96, and Mike Cuzzi ’98, among others. Y Michael Farrell enjoys his work leading trips for Outward Bound and has been doing a lot of fire performance gigs (www.poispinner.com). “It was a blast spinning fire at the fifth-year reunion,” he writes. Y After three years in Hawaii, primarily teaching French, Diane Carr returned to the mainland for a master’s at Stanford University in international comparative education. Y Jeff and Reba Frederics Libby enjoy being new homeowners in Auburn, Mass. Reba also got a new job in Cambridge as a production editor at O’Reilly Media, Inc. Y Erik Waters is finishing his second year at the University of
Chicago Graduate School of Business. He spent last summer interning with Chevron in the Bay area. His wife, Amy (Forrer ’98), will finish her medical residency program at the same time he graduates in June. Erik writes that Colby seems to have developed quite a following at GSB, where he is joined by Kendra Shank Krolik ’02, Rob Webb ’01, and Chris Ryan, who left Colby for Pomona after his sophomore year. Y Cipperly Good works for Ocean Classroom teaching maritime history to 20 high school students aboard the schooner Westward between Gloucester, Mass., and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Y For more news of our class go to www.colby. edu/mag/00s. —Caroline Calhoun
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Chandler and her fiancé, Bret Oettmeier! They plan a July 2006 wedding in New Hampshire. I am so excited to be a bridesmaid! Y Mindy Mraz loves living in Portland, Maine, with Jake Civiello. Mindy now works for North Atlantic, and Jake took a new position at Royal Bank of Canada. Y Becca Bischoff said she was getting ready to embark on an exciting adventure to India. Y Eric Lantzman is living it up in San Francisco, working as an ob/gyn at Kaiser San Francisco, and hanging out with Devin Beliveau, who is teaching U.S. history and government at Downtown College Prep Charter H.S. in San Jose, Calif. Y Jon Engel graduated from BU law and is an assistant attorney general in the regulated industries division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office. They represent consumer interests in administrative and judicial proceedings against energy and telecomm utilities. Y Hannah Smith was married in October 2004 to Brian Harrison of Oklahoma. They had a beautiful wedding in New Hampshire and currently live in Center Harbor, N.H. Hannah works at the gallery in Center Harbor, where she also sells her paintings, and at the Barnstormers Summer Theatre in Tamworth. Y Hilary Spitz and Seth Arens got engaged last September. Hilary is in the second year of her master’s program in watershed science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and Seth moved to Anchorage, Alaska, to start his master’s in ecology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Seth was in Thule, Greenland, last summer