alumni at large Photos of weddings or commitment ceremonies involving Colby alumni may be submitted for The Blue Light, Colby’s alumni Web site. Visit www.colby.edu/alumni/photos to view photos of weddings and other alumni gatherings. Please identify all alumni pictured, including class years. Send prints to Alumni Relations, 4310 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901-8843, or e-mail digital images to alumni@colby.edu.
her nonprofit management career. After establishing herself in Portland as a fundraising pro, she now gets to help give the dollars away as executive director for the Stimson Miller Foundation, a part-time position that’s ideal as a transition back to work. They live happily in southeast Portland with their boys, Owen, 7, and Elliott, 4. Last year they bought a rustic cabin on Mt. Hood as a weekend retreat, which has largely taken the form of major R&M projects. Their kids might never learn the area trails, but they’ll know how to paint and hammer. Y Scott Alprin married Anneliesa Clump in Washington, D.C., May 2, 2008. The couple rode the subway from the synagogue to the reception during Friday rush hour in wedding gown and tux with about 150 guests in tow. The Washington Post got wind of the “commute” and sent a photographer. The next morning a picture of the happy couple rising out of the Dupont Circle station on an escalator was on the front page, above the fold, with a full story inside entitled “Metromonial Bliss.” Attending were Josh and Sarah Bramhall Reynolds, Mike Gerard, Sarah Poriss and her fiancé, Paul, Lisa and Scott Greenfield ’93, and Scott Abrams ’93 and his fiancée, Fabiana. Check out w w w.wash i ng tonpost.com / wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/ AR2008050203812.html. Y Aimee (Flores ’95) and Cal W heaten celebrated the arrival of their third daughter, Denison Grace Wheaton, May 6, 2008. Sisters Serena, 4, and Isabel, 2, adopted Denison as “their baby” and informed Aimee that she can have another baby if she wants one of her own. Serena looked forward to a visit in late June from her godfather Uncle Mark (Mark Mellyn) and his new wife, Echo. Serena had her LAX sticks out for a one-on-one challenge with Uncle Mark. Y Pete Carney married physician Alexandria Schwarsin June 21, 2008, in New York. Adam Belanger and Andrew Wellnitz attended. Y Cecily von Ziegesar has a new novel for adults, Cum Laude, set on a college campus much like Colby, to be published by Hyperion in fall 2009. Y Andrew 62 COLBY / FALL 2008
Barnett lives in Chattanooga, Tenn., with his wife, Liza Blair, whom he met in 1998. He’s a second grade teacher (nine years and counting), and the director of a summer guitar camp for children ages 8-14. He occasionally hears from Pika Ghosh and Margaret Russell Ewalt and keeps in touch with Emily Dahmen ’93 and Jason Reifler ’95. Y Congratulations to Heather Ferguson, who married Gus Coldebella (Colgate ’91) April 26, 2008. In attendance were Charles and Chantal Begin Mihm, who live in Sidney, Maine, with their girls, Sophie and Audrey. Heather lives in Washington, D.C., and works as a consulting genetic counselor for a new company, Informed Medical Decisions, which provides phone genetic counseling to individuals with hereditary cancer. Y Congratulations on the birth of yet another future Colby student, Holly, born May 7, 2008, to Chris and Marie DiBenedetto Riddell. Y Sarah and Jason Eslick are the proud parents of James McFarlan Eslick, born May 27, 2008. Mom and baby are doing well. Jason sent a picture, which, sadly, none of you can see. Trust me, James is a cutie. Y Keep the news coming. —Karen Wu
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Pestana married Alessandro Laiolo (from Torino, Italy) in Mombercelli, Italy, June 22, 2008. They honeymooned in Corsica, France, and live in Franklin Lakes, N.J. Naomi works as the chief assignment editor for the Spanishlanguage television network, Univision WXTV New York. * Siobhan McCloskey graduated from Vermont Law School in May and studied for the Massachusetts Bar in Vermont this summer with several friends. Y Paul and Brandy Shafter Chapman have been busy with their twin boys, Brandon and P.J., who arrived healthy April 4. They join big sister Connie, 5. Y Janine Deforge Olson enjoyed Reunion Weekend this year and the chance to reconnect with classmates. Her funniest moment was seeing her classmates outside of Averill playing beer die on Saturday afternoon. Some things never change! Her kids, ages 11, 9, 2, and 9 months, had a wonderful
time. The older two were so enamored with Colby that they are promising to be future students.
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home in Stow, Mass., just back from picking berries and making jam with my mom in the midst of a late-June humid front. I forget how big my hair can get in this climate! Y Pierson Bourquin continues to be a large account manager for Verizon and purchased a home in San Francisco with his partner of three years, Rob. The two adopted a nine-year-old cocker spaniel from the pound. Rob and Pierson spend much of their weekends hiking and biking. Pierson was happy to discover, while training and fundraising for the Tour de Cure (for diabetes research), that Tracey Bishop ’90 was equally passionate towards the cause. Check out www.pierson. smug mug.com. Y Lor i Cohen Sherf reports that after running five Boston Marathons (she rocks) for Dana Farber that she began training for the 2009 bike ride, the Pan Mass Challenge, which she will do with her mom and sister-in-law in honor of her dad, Bana Cohen ’62, who passed away in 2004. She looks forward to bringing her sons—Adam, 7, Jacob, 5, Matthew, 2—to Colby for reunion next summer. She reports Josette Huntress Holland is pregnant, expecting a girl (after two boys), and due the same day as Jay Hartshorn, who is pregnant with her first child and is still coaching at Bates. Also, TJ Winick got married at the end of June. Y Brian Seidman and his wife recently bought a house in Portland, Ore., that they are remodeling. Brian celebrated a recent promotion to VP of product management, agriculture, and biofuel markets, at Triple Point Technology, where he’s been for more than four years. He wrote that Ted Gulley shot a hole in one in June and that Brian and his wife were heading in late June to the Camden, Maine, wedding of Tori Esser. Y Andie Sulak and her husband moved from Lake Tahoe, Calif., to Edwards, Colo., (near Vail). If anyone is in the neighborhood give her a shout! Y Sara Ferry Gyan is excited to see folks at reunion. Can you believe it’s been almost 15 years?! Y Writing from Alberta, Canada, Caleb Winder was looking at oil sands. He and wife Phoebe celebrated the birth of their son, Charles Sears, June 21. Y Hardin and Jenn Payne Gray moved to Stonington, Conn., in late 2007 and enjoy coastal living. Their son, Camp-
bell, turned 3 in January and their daughter, Avery, was born in April 2008. Hardin works as a freelance multimedia programmer and Jenn practices dermatology. Y JB Blau and his wife, Heidi, celebrated the first birthday of their daughter, Piper Elizabeth, March 1 and also opened their second restaurant/bar, Sharky’s Cantina, in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard in May. I hear it’s got all the Colby football, lacrosse, and woodsman’s games on the big screen! Go Mules! Y Jen Hurd bought a house in Melrose, Mass., last spring with her boyfriend and has been painting and settling ever since. After a stint in real estate, Jen is returning to the world of IT at the software company she joined after graduation. Y Bruce and Meredith Gregory Ksander welcomed son Kyle Gregory Feb. 8. Kyle joins his three step-brothers, James, Michael, and John, and stepsister, Grace. Meredith still works at Harvard Medical School in ophthalmology. Y Marina Netto Grande Campos and her husband, Rafael Campos, just returned from a oneweek trip to Egypt, where they took a cruise down the Nile and hung in Cairo. Marina works in the telecommunications industry association of Brazil and often travels to Brasilia and Rio de Janiero for business and to see family. This year they saw for the first time the carnival parades in Rio. Marina confirms they are amazing. Y Jeff Carter is on the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical School and was headed (late June) for British Columbia for a seven-day mountain bike stage race with Tyler Merritt ’93. He wrote that Matt McGowan was soon to marry. Y Greg and Katherine Bordwell Flenniken welcomed son Liam Spencer Feb. 20. She recently saw Heather Boothe, who enjoys her job as a park ranger in Colorado. She’s also in frequent communication with Katrina Greenfield Hanevelt, who lives in Victoria, B.C., and enjoys motherhood with her 16-month-old son, Willem. Y Carie King shares that her 11-yearold daughter, Caitlyn, was heading to the Big Apple to live with dad David Nicholson. She welcomes any and all traveling ’94ers to stop and see her in beautiful Santa Fe, N.M. Y Brad Pattershall recently became a partner in the law firm Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow LLP in Portland, Maine. Brad and his wife, Sharon, welcomed Sofia Mairi into the world in August 2007. Y Ray and Alyssa Schwenk Adams welcomed Andrew