alumni at large she and her husband, Conrad ’96, had a baby boy, Lars, in October 2005. Y Mark Porter married Katie Galvin in July 2005 in Buffalo, N.Y. A sixth grade teacher in Memorial Middle School in South Portland, Maine, Katie received a master’s in education from Canisius College. Mark is a sales processor for Idexx Laboratories in Westbrook, Maine. Mark and Katie honeymooned in Ireland and live in Portland. Y John and Kristen Bloomquist Gorczyk had their first child, Katherine Kinsley Gorczyk, on June 11, 2005. Just before Kate was born, they moved into a farmhouse in a small town in New Hampshire. Built in 1775, it was the former home of Colby President J. Seeley Bixler, and some of President Bixler’s children still live nearby and remember living on campus when it was located in downtown Waterville. Y Brooke Lorenzen, a K-8 teacher at the Big Muddy School in Antelope, Ore., got engaged over the summer and planned a June 2006 wedding. Brooke reports that Jen Shatney and Erin Mansur expected their second child in October 2005. Y Jason Reif ler is an assistant professor of political science at Loyola University in Chicago. His research was mentioned in the Washington Post in the summer of 2005 and in the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor in December 2005. He’s had several academic articles accepted for publication and is finishing a co-written book manuscript tentatively titled “Paying the Human Cost of War.” “Most important,” writes Jason, “I’ve come to discover that East Coast pizza is better than Chicago deep dish pizza.” Y Julia Rentz married Ken Dupuis ’94 on Aug. 20, 2005, in Lynn, Mass. Colby alums in attendance included Eric ’96 and Maureen Finn Schwartz (a bridesmaid), Dhumal Aturaliye, Ned ’92 and Kristen Hanssen Goodell, Ben Damon, Kathryn Cosgrove, Alyssa Falwell Ross, Hardin ’94 and Jenn Payne Gray ’94, Eddie Plantilla ’94, and Pat Sykes ’96. Ken and Julia live in Medford, Mass. She is working at Optra, Inc., as a systems engineer and is pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering part time at Boston University. Ken is a drug representative (selling an HIV drug) for Roche Laboratories and is pursuing an M.B.A. part time at Babson College. Y Ariana Talbot Vance spent last summer camping, traveling, and herding children from 64 COLBY / summer 2006
one activity to another. Her kids took their first airplane ride, to St. Louis to visit John and Margaret Suggs Herath. “They were gracious hosts and managed a whole week with my four children running wild through their home,” Ariana writes. She says Margaret is enjoying working for a financial planner. This fall, Ariana will go back to teaching in the school district’s homebound program. “Being a homebound teacher is what a liberal arts education is all about. I teach anything and everything!” Ariana and her family are also doing foster care with three children currently placed in their home (yes, that means she is raising seven children!). Y For more news of our class go to class notes in Colby magazine online. —Yuhgo Yamaguchi
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Langan wrote to announce that her first novel, The Keeper, will be published by William Morrow on Sept. 1, 2006. Y Christopher and J. Catherine Kneece Wnek recent ly relocated f rom Massachusetts to Maine, following Chris’s graduation from Tufts School of Dental Medicine. Chris now practices as a general dentist in Brunswick. Cate continues to work for Bank of America but is enjoying time at home for now with new baby Tucker Colby. They caught up with Matt Russ at Pam and Keith Albert’s holiday party last year and attended Amy Phalon’s wedding to John Land last summer at their new home in Boonton, N.J. Y Kylie Taphorn Thoma wrote with lots of news. First, she announced the birth of her baby girl, Avery Jane Thoma, born Dec. 20, 2005, in Sacramento, Calif. Living an ocean away in Tokyo, Japan, Kylie’s freshman year roommate, Nozomi Kishimoto Reichow, had a baby girl, Noa Tasha Reichow, one week later on Dec. 27, 2005. Though the timing was unplanned, they e-mail and talk often about their daughters and how excited they are that more than 13 years after meeting each other in Johnson they are now sharing in another wonderful new experience. Kylie also wrote that Linnea Basu lives in Boston, Mass., and is attending Northeastern University for an M.S. in college student development and counseling. And Kylie reports that Stephanie Paul Lynch still lives in Alexandria, Va., with her husband, Kyle, and 15-month-old daughter, Eleanor. Stephanie works in the real
newsmakers Amanda E.C. Bligh ’97 has been researching German business at the University of Bremen for the past year on a Fulbright Scholarship. And what a year to live in Germany, host of the 2006 World Cup. She volunteered to work as a translator for journalists at the games, and on June 12 she welcomed, in English, 52,000 fans to the game between the U.S. and the Czech Republic. Jeffrey Peters ’96 and his friend John Green Amanda E.C. Bligh ’97 hiked from Death Valley, the lowest place in the United States, to the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states. They hiked for six days, stopping for food and water at caches they had previously set up. The last cache contained some extra items. How could they descend Whitney in just 25 minutes? “I was on skis, and my friend John was on snowboard,” Peters said. “We figured we would try our hardest, and if it didn’t work we would go do something else,” Brent Ryan ’97 told The Providence Journal, talking about the brewery he and a group of Colby friends started in Rhode Island. The article highlights people who have successfully followed their dream of starting their own business. Luckily for Ryan and his friends, trying their hardest did work. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained,” Ryan said.
milestones Marriages: Reed J. Bernhard ’90 to Tiffany J. MacInnes in Anacortes, Wash. John C. Klick ’92 to Barbara Hodges in Newport, R.I. Josh Burker ’95 to Meghan Scheck ’97 in Camden, Maine Dina M. Mandes ’96 to James Hayes Jr. in San Juan, P.R. Cameron W. Frothingham ’98 to Katharine Truesdale in Candia, N.H. Mary C. Holahan ’98 to Michael L. Baru ’99 in New York, N.Y. Kelly E. Field ’99 to Eric M. Green in Washington, D.C. Jennifer Munson ’99 to Ellis Bayley Jr. in Cape Elizabeth, Maine James D. Scribner ’99 to Jamie N. Hinson ’02 in New Harbor, Maine Births: A daughter, Molly Elizabeth Frothingham, to Heidi and Chris Frothingham ’92 A son to Scott ’95 and Kerry Knudsen Galson ’95 A son, Noah, to Keith and Shannon Tracy Bergquist ’97 A son, Eric Kwesi Foster, to Scot Foster and Yawa Duse-Anthony ’97. estate investment banking division of Jones, Lang & LaSalle and is also on the board of directors of New Hope Housing, a homeless shelter in Fairfax County, Va. Kylie let us know, too, that Whitney Glockner lives in Redwood City, Calif., is working on her master’s in counseling psychology at Santa Clara University, and also continues to work for a wireless startup called Good Technology. Y Dina Mandes reports her March wedding to James Hayes in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. They live in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., where Dina runs a video production company with her sister. Y Matt and Rachel Moritz
O’Connell welcomed Brian Savage O’Connell on Feb. 12, 2006. Y Betsy Robinson ’95 and Jason Phillips write that their daughter, Ainsley Elizabeth, was born in May 2005 and welcomed by big brother Ethan, 2. In September 2005 they moved to Minnesota, where Jason started a doctorate in chiropractic and Betsy is practicing dentistry. Y Jamie Geier gave birth to her first child, Charlie Stewart, on Aug. 16, 2005, and loves being a new mom. Things are a bit hectic, she says, as she tries to balance graduate school and a baby, but she hoped to complete her dissertation by May. Jamie also recently