both attend business school at Duke. Y Anna L’Hommedieu relocated to Seattle to earn her master’s in organizational psychology at Seattle Pacific University. Y Rob Belcher also moved to Seattle to attend business school at University of Washington. Y Katie Egan Wertheimer teaches and coaches in Westfield, N.J., where she lives with her husband. Y Victor Cancel is working as a mentor at Emarc (Eastern Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens) and recently received his real estate sales license at the American Real Estate Academy in Massachusetts. Y Rashad Randolph continues to work as a Spanish teacher and started as a new teacher in Brooklyn High Academy this fall. Y Pedzi Makumbe finished his Ph.D. in engineering from M.I.T. in August 2008. Y Meghan Kreider Rogalus is the new watershed specialist at the Bucks County (Pa.) Conservation District after earning a master’s in water resources from the University of Vermont. Y Veronica (Craun ’04) and Justin Ucko had their third child, Lawson Monagan Ucko. Justin reports the whole crew is doing well. Y Stacy (Erickson ’01) and Jory Raphael welcomed Phoebe Alice Raphael to the world April 14, 2008. Y Brett Lurman recently uprooted from Brooklyn to New York City. He reports that Tim Persinko traveled to Beijing this summer to work at the Olympics. Y Lindsey Malbon Coffin lives on Long Island with her husband, Pete, and their 18-month-old daughter, Hannah. Y Kendra Shank Krolik is in marketing at General Mills after receiving her M.B.A. at University of Chicago last June. Y Eric Laurits continues his photography career while playing in a band with Heather Ogilvy ’04. Y Melissa Sternlieb York works for Maine Winter Sports Center as a community development coach. Y In my life happenings, I tied the knot in June with Chris Bell in our hometown of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and honeymooned in southern Oregon. I taught a NOLS course for the summer and Chris competed in a series of triathlons. —Sally Hall Bell
03 The summer must have been
a busy time for everyone, because we were a little light on submissions. However, those who did write had some exciting news. Y We missed those who were unable to attend our fifth reunion at Colby. It was an absolute blast, with most of the Class of 2003 residing in Piper, Drummond,
and the renovated Johnson! I will also say that Adam Freedman and Kevin Crosman have not lost their die game, despite having been away from Colby for five years. They were the masters of the eight-footer for the entire weekend! Y Now for the real news. As always we’ll start with weddings and engagements. Patrick Koch married KellyMay Fuller in Pittsburgh May 10, 2008, with a great audience of Colby grads. Pat sent a picture, which is now posted on the Class of 2003 alumni page— the groom and his groomsmen were fully outfitted in traditional kilts! Congrats Pat and KellyMay! Y Jess Kellett ’04J (a first-time contributor since graduation) married a fellow Northern Californian, Ryan Silva, in Calistoga. Emily Posner, Tennessee Watson, and Evan Woolley were there to celebrate. Jess and Ryan live in San Diego; Jess is at UCLA getting a double master’s in business administration and public policy. Congrats on your marriage Jess and good luck at UCLA! Y Laura Thomason (another first-time contributor) wrote, “Well I haven’t had any news until now…,” and she does have some big news! She graduated from U.C. Hastings School of Law in May and she and Ray Mazza ’01 got engaged and are planning a wedding in fall 2009, which will be their 10-year anniversary since meeting at Colby in 1999. Y We have a toddler update as well: Gretchen (Black ’04) and Ben Tuff report that son Wyatt is up and walking. They live at the Kent School in Conn., where they moved in July and where Ben works in admissions. Y A few new grads. In May Dennis Kuhnel graduated with a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law. This past fall he returned to the University of Iowa to take his comprehensive examinations for a Ph.D. in history. Y Deborah Doberne graduated from medical school at Tel Aviv University and started residency in internal medicine at Long Island Jewish Hospital. Last April she and Shannon Corliss traveled to Petra, Jordan, where they rode camels and spent a night at a Bedouin camp. Y Chingiz Mammadov graduated in July from INSEAD in France with an M.B.A. and moved to London to begin work at Credit Suisse. Y Rebecca Stern graduated this spring as the Excelsus Laureate and was awarded an M.F.A in photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Her current work strives to show the interactions between man and the
land and highlights the symbiotic connections. Her work has been presented at multiple juried shows around the country, including the Bridge Art Fair in Miami, the Rayko Center for Photography in San Francisco, and at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut. Check out her Web site www.rebeccasternphotography. com. Y Erika Togashi lives the life out in California. She resides in San Francisco and works as a designer of technical jackets for The North Face but splits her off time between snowboarding in the eastern Sierra mountains and surfing in Sayulita, Mexico, where her boyfriend lives. This past spring she spent three weeks traveling through Cuba. Y Lauren Bliss and Andy St. Martin still live in their house in Attleboro, Mass. Andy works for Anchor Capital in Boston and on his M.B.A. at Babson at night. Lauren is a biology teacher at North Attleboro High School and is getting her master’s in teaching in biology, grades 8-12, at Bridgewater State College at night. She also works for her parents’ ice cream business in the summer. Y Keep the news coming as we get ready for another winter! —Lauren Tiberio
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I received lots of news, and everyone agrees it’s unbelievable that we graduated four years ago. * Karima Ummah lives in Conn. and works as director of international/multicultural affairs at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. She and Thomas Jackson ’03 are engaged and had a baby girl, Nia Bella Jackson, March 22, 2008. Y Kyle MacDonald spent the summer working in a law firm in Portland, Maine, and began her third year of law school at Maine Law. Y Brandon Irwin is in Springfield, Mass., earning his master’s in exercise science and sports studies with a concentration in sport psychology while coaching football. This fall he’ll attend Michigan State for his first year of doctoral study with a teaching assistantship, working towards a degree in kinesiology with a concentration in psychosocial aspects of sport and exercise. Y Kristin Carlson spent the past few years in Lake Tahoe, Calif., but returned to the East Coast to teach for Nature’s Classroom. Y Alexis Caselle married Phil Bancroft in May. Kristan Jiggetts, Carolyn Plant, Kirsten Helmcke, and Kristin Carlson attended. Y Andrew McKennaFoster is director of the Maria Mitchell Natural Science Museum
2000s Correspondents 2000 c/o Meg Bernier Boyd Colby College Office of Alumni Relations Waterville, ME 04901 207-859-4312 classnews2000@alum.colby.edu 2001 Dana Fowler Charette 401 E 80th Street, Apt. 6F New York, NY 10075 646-744-5043 classnews2001@alum.colby.edu 2002 Sally Hall Bell 6824 SE Knight Street Portland, OR 97206 503-929-3700 classnews2002@alum.colby.edu 2003 Lauren Tiberio 96 Waters View Drive Wethersfield, CT 06109 860-874-1118 classnews2003@alum.colby.edu 2004 Kate Weiler EMC Corporation 300 Conshohocken State Road Conshohocken, PA 19428 classnews2004@alum.colby.edu 2005 Katie Gagne 209 Washington Street, Apt. 3 Brookline, MA 02445 617-823-1463 classnews2005@alum.colby.edu 2006 Jennifer Coliflores 565 Madison Street Wrentham, MA 02093 classnews2006@alum.colby.edu 2007 Karli Gasteazoro 477 Selby Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55102 classnews2007@alum.colby.edu on Nantucket Island, Mass. In September he went on a spider-collecting expedition in Panama. In winter he attends the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, working on a master’s in environmental science and policy. Y Tom Rogers finished out his “pretirement” in Jackson Hole, Wyo., by raft guiding for the summer on the Snake River before heading to graduate school at University of Montana for an M.S. in organismal biology and COLBY / FALL 2008 67