(they know who they are!) with all of the articles on how smoking is bad for your health. She recently went to Fla. with Kim Betz Kearns, Grace Becker, Jen Barrett, Cate Young, and Ashley Harris to throw a baby shower for Meaghan Lane Couch, who recently had a baby girl, Taylor Marie Couch. Y Johanna Schroeder headed back for her 10th season of whitewater raft guiding on the middle and main forks of the Salmon River with Idaho River Journeys. In the fall she will probably go back to Ithaca, N.Y., where she has been living during the off-season. Y Annika Svore is engaged to Erik Wicklund, whom she’ll marry in Seattle Oct. 18, 2008. Y Tim Smith married his partner, Dr. Steve DuBois, in Tiverton, R.I., May 24. Ande Nicoletti, Steen Sehnert ’06, Ted Sullivan, Susie Blair, Marley Orr, and Susannah Magrane attended, and Abigail Wheeler performed the ceremony. * Laura Barrow Geiger works as a development officer for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s Midwest Regional Office in Chicago. Phil Geiger is still at Jones Lang Lasalle and they live in River North, in downtown Chicago. Y Kristan Jiggetts moved back to Chicago and works as an associate producer on the Judge Jeanine Pirro show. Y Jackie Dupont had a “quarter-life crisis” and bought a motorcycle. —Kate Weiler I was inundated with exciting updates, so enjoy the news! Gabriel Reyes graduated from Columbia Law School in May and started as a tax associate at Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP this fall. His roommate, Joseph Okeyo, moved to Philadelphia to start his M.B.A. at UPenn’s Wharton School of Business. Y Both Osman Haneef and Bill Ford started business school this fall at the Yale School of Management. Y Abraham Summers will marry Zhang Xing Xing in December in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. Y Brian Footer graduated from Case Western Reserve Law School and started a judicial clerkship this fall in Philadelphia. Y Lisa Reinhalter will attend the University of Illinois, Champaign, to get her master’s in Hispanic literature; she plans to stay to earn her Ph.D. Justin Burner will join her, relocating from D.C., and plans to teach high school math in central Illinois. Y Cheka Gage moved to Denver this spring to work as media logistics manager for the Democratic convention. Afterward
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she returned to D.C., where she is national finance director for Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.). Cheka recently traveled to Boston, where she caught up with Nicole Wessen, Courtney Morris, Steph Pierce, Carreau Mueller, Maureen Sherry, and Matt Lynes. Carreau and Nicole went skydiving with Jed Mahoney and Danielle Martin to celebrate Marty’s 25th birthday. Caitlin McCusker, Heather Hansman, Carreau, Nicole, Steph, and Maureen will all run the Boston half-marathon in October. Y Bill Gallitto and Michelle Cote are still the Colby power couple. Bill completed his first year of law school and Michelle began studying in September for her M.B.A. at Boston College. Y Wendy Bonner and James Spicer were married August 2 in Leonardtown, Md. Y Julie Bryar works in Boston at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a research assistant in the infectious disease division. She started at the Harvard School of Public Health in September, where she’ll pursue a master’s in health policy and management. Y Nikki Patel was married to Mihir Patel in April at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, Conn. The fabulous three-day celebration included one beautiful bride and a number of Colby alums, including Evan Allen, Doug Summa, Andy Warneck, Andrew Raser, Kara Lanahan, Gillian Nadel, Jenny Abramson, Julia Benedict, Rachel Luskin, Courtney Smith, Dan Egan, Nina Harrold, and Marina Stakes ’06. Y Natalia King got engaged to Frederik Rasmussen ’03. She started her third year in a Ph.D. program at Boston College. Y Michael Walsh’s thesis proposal was accepted at Cornell, where he is working toward a Ph.D. in environmental engineering. He was elected to serve as a student trustee on the Cornell Board of Trustees. Y Shannon Emerson started the M.B.A. program at the University of Texas, Austin. Y Alana McGee now owns and runs a designer shoe store called Mu.Shoe in Seattle. On a hunt for new shoes for the store, she traveled to Italy. Y Melisse Hinkle took a job with United Press International in Washington, D.C. She anchors and produces entertainment webcasts and will soon develop her own feature stories. (search for “Hinkle” at www. upi.com/video). Y Nora Gouge will attend Yeshiva University this fall to start her doctorate in clinical psychology. Y Todd Moore clerks for a judge in Brooklyn and will start
his second year at Fordham Law. Y Jennie MacPherson graduated from Ithaca College with an M.S. in organizational communications. She relocated to Portland, Ore., where she lives with Conor Semler and works at the Portland Japanese Garden. Conor graduated from Cornell with a master’s of regional planning and works for a private engineering and planning firm. The Colby crew in Portland includes Court Fowler, Tim Roberts, Dan Torres, Sarah Dunham, Sam Gray, and Andrew Volk. Y Rachel Beaupre and Noah Smith were married in Conway, Mass., this August. They’ll relocate to Amherst, where Noah will run his start-up company, Common Media, Inc. Y Megha Kapoor married Abhay Fotedar in August. Lubos Hudec and Justinas Pelenis were at the wedding in India. Megha works at the World Bank in Jakarta, Indonesia, and will move to Thailand at the end of the year. Y Peyton McElyea was promoted to associate at Barclays, but left the firm this spring to do some traveling before he begins his M.B.A. at Columbia. Peyton recently finished the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco alongside “Diver” Dave Cohen ’04. Y Jake Colognesi still lives in Charlestown with Matt Guy-Hamilton and works at Fidelity Ventures. He plans to apply to business school this fall. Y Ryan Boccuzzi and Maddie Horwitz ’06 were married in August in Worcester, Mass. Y Rich Downing is studying at UVA’s business school, Darden, this fall. Y Katie Markowski graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, while Tim Haas graduated from BC law, and Jess Foster graduated from law school at Washington University in St. Louis. Y Thanks for all of your responses, and have a great fall! —Katie Gagne
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Ph.D. student in historical musicology and William Fontaine fellow at U. Penn, where he teaches jazz history. In the spring Garry presented a paper on South African jazz at Penn and another on John Coltrane at Cornell. Y Brian Rodriguez entered his second year of medical school at Drexel University in August. He recently got engaged to Lynne Ponto (UVM ’06) and will be married June 2009 in Burlington, Vt. Y Rebeccah Amendola has worked for two years teaching fifth- and sixth-grade Latin at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn. She started at Yale Divinity
School for her master’s this fall! In March, she traveled to LA, where she visited Colleen McGee, who is a fourth grade teacher at the Wildwood School. Y Leah Weisberg writes that Kelsey Neville held a charity night for Make-a-Wish in Boston June 7. Colby alums in attendance were Katie Roberts, Ashley Lamb, Nicole Stadelman, Amy Cronin, Leah Weisberg, Margaret Jackson, Julie Jaenicke, Sam Burke, Josh Berman, Pat Lever, Rodney Ames, Nate Dick, John Goss (who was the DJ!), Will Thompson, and Michael Westbrooks. Y Charlie Hale still lives in San Francisco and works for Google. Charlie saw Steen Sehnert this summer when he was in New York for work. Charlie was psyched for Emilie Coulson to move out this summer! Y Greyson Brooks is in rural Kenya doing community organization work and research for The Daraja Academy, Kenya’s first fully free high school. Y Dan Burke was in Portland, Maine, this summer working mostly for the Portland Radio Group producing live shows, among other things. Dan headed to Boston University this fall to earn a master’s in broadcast journalism. Alexis McCallister lives near Dan. Y Tomasz Zajaczkowski was working at NERA Economic Consulting in White Plains, N.Y., but in August started a Ph.D. program in economics at the University of Virginia. Y Jen Coliflores and Jackie Rolleri both headed to Bristol, R.I., to attend law school at Roger Williams University. Jackie plans on doing a joint degree program in conjunction with University of Rhode Island to get both a law degree and a master’s in marine affairs. Y Emily Tull still lives in New York but moved in with Elizabeth Shepherd and Sasha Kenyon ’08 this summer. She also has changed jobs and now works for ION Marketing, a sports marketing firm. Y Steve Kiely teaches social studies and coaches football, basketball, and lacrosse at Boston College High School. Y Caroline Theoharides completed her second year as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. This fall she started an economics Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she plans to study development and labor economics. —Jen Coliflores
07 Fall class notes for the Class of 2007 are online at www.colby.edu/ mag. —Karli Gasteazoro COLBY / FALL 2008 69