alumni at large traveled extensively to Japan, India, and Sri Lanka and brought her wisdom back to her students. Y Thanks to everyone who wrote.
1979 Cheri Bailey Powers classnews1979@alum.colby.edu
1980 Tom Marlitt classnews1980@alum.colby.edu Glen Coral was named director of advanced planning solutions for CBIZ Wealth Management in March 2009. Glen joined CBIZ in 1998 and for the last 11 years has built a successful wealth-transfer, business-succession, and executive-benefits practice. Glen and his wife, Amy, live in West Chester, Pa. Their son Jason is completing his B.S in chemistry at West Virginia University. Son Jon is pursuing a degree in industrial technology at Millersville, and their daughter, Stacey, is a high school sophomore and an avid softball and field hockey athlete. Y Cathy Palmer Smith is working at Casey Family Services in Concord, N.H., where she recruits, trains, and licenses foster parents. In her spare time, she and husband Dan continue to renovate their 110-year-old farmhouse in Boscawen, N.H. Y Johanna Rich Tesman is a psychologist working with children with autism. Her husband, Barry ’81, was promoted to full professor and given an endowed chair in Dickinson College’s math department. Last August Alison Jones ’81 and Jim Webb (Colby history professor) visited Johanna and Barry. Y Karen Caine Babbitt’s daughter, Emily, graduated from Georgetown last May. She competed with the women’s sailing team at nationals in San Francisco and placed seventh overall. Karen’s son, Ike, is a junior at Hobart and hoping to compete at this year’s nationals in Wisconsin. Karen is a literacy coach at her local elementary school in Dartmouth, Mass. She and husband Jib bought a house in Sunapee, N.H., and hope anyone i the areawill look them up. Y Jack McBride is busy with ABODE, a company he started that focuses on building custom-designed, energy-efficient, green homes. His son John is a sophomore studying international affairs at George Washington and son Will is a senior at Concord High (and possibly heading to Mayflower Hill). Daughter Louisa is in seventh grade. Last September Jack, Dave Perry, and Tom Eyman sailed from Rockland up to Brooklin Boatyard to visit Steve White ’77 for drinks and tour of his boatyard. Y In August Linda Alter completed her master’s in public affairs from the University of Minnesota. In September she gave birth to twin daughters Rebecca and Zoe Alter Capell!
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80s newsmakers Walter E. Judge Jr. ’82, who is in the Burlington, Vt., office of Downs Rachlin Martin, was recently named one of America’s leading lawyers by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers magazine. Judge is an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School as well as chair of the Vermont Bar Association Insurance Law Committee. F Christopher Carmosino ’82 was named president of RBS Business Capital of Boston, a leading asset-based lender that operates through a network of offices in major markets in the United States. Carmosino most recently served as the company’s executive vice president, leading the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region as well as managWalter E. Judge Jr. ’82 ing its national capital market activities. F Doug Scalise ’86, pastor of the Brewster Baptist Church on Cape Cod, organized a mini home makeover for one of his congregation whose family had fallen on hard times. “Our church just wanted to surround [the family],” said Scalise in an article in the Cape Cod Times. Improvements included wheelchair accessibility modifications for the home, since the woman’s husband was paralyzed in a car accident.
milestones Deaths: Mark G. Maher ’83, Nov. 8, 2009, in Beverly, Mass., at 48. F Paul J. Mooney ’87, Dec. 5, 2009, in Evanston, Ill., at 44.
Congratulations to Linda and her partner, Lisa. Y Andy Miller took a month off last summer and traveled through the Southwest with daughters Savannah and Delaney. He also spent a great weekend on the Cape with Peter Reif ’83 playing backgammon, drinking beer, and eating lots of lobster! Y Alice Domar’s new book, Live a Little, came out in December. The tag line is “Take the hell out of healthy,” and Alice hopes that the book will help women look beyond mediaimposed guilt regarding health habits. Y It’s with sadness that I share that Catie Fulton Teeven passed away this July in Florida, where she resided for the past 20 years. She is survived by her husband, Gerry ’79, and her children Casey, an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, and Ali, a senior at Florida State. Bill and Mary Lou Eckland Jackson, Charlie White, and David “Hully” Hull ’79 attended services in Florida, and many classmates gathered with Gerry and Casey in early October in R.I. to celebrate Catie’s life. Joining the group were Joanne Shannon O’Donnell, Mary Lou Eckland Jackson, Diana Herrmann, Lynn Collins Francis, Patty Valavanis Smith, Nancy Reed, Nancy Munroe Corsaro, Liz Nelb Gearan, and Lisa Mackintosh. Losing Catie reminds us all of how fragile life is, but also of the importance of the gift of our Colby friendships, despite the years, the distance, and the various paths our lives have taken. Let’s look forward to coming back to campus to celebrate at our 30th June 3-6. We’ve set up a Facebook page for our class, and reunion planning is in process, so please send your ideas to
Lynn Collins Francis at lynnfrancis00@ yahoo.com or Lisa McDonough O’Neill at lisaoneill80@gmail.com.
1981 Steph Vrattos classnews1981@alum.colby.edu Happy New Year! I’m newly employed by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, diligently, eagerly, and happily working as patient services coordinator for a thoracic surgeon. Y Congrats to my hockey teammates Sara Bunnell Yeager and Mary Coe Connolly. Last summer, after 19 years at Cushing Academy, Sara became academic dean at Suffield Academy in Connecticut. Sara will also teach English and help with coaching. She lives on campus with her son, Robert, a senior at Trinity. Mary celebrated her 25th anniversary and was named director of college counseling at Presentation High School, a college prep school for girls in San Jose, Calif. She frequently runs into Tom Marlitt ’80 and Ed Devine ’89, college admissions reps for Sarah Lawrence University and Hawaii Pacific University, respectively. At a June admissions conference held at Harvard, Mary enjoyed dinner with Karen Cowles Berkley ’82 and MaryBeth Whitaker McIntyre ’82, whom she had not seen since moving to California 12 years ago. Y “Life is busy and good” for Charlie ’80 and Mari Samaras White, who split their time between Massachusetts and Florida. Mari works at KPMG’s international tax department in Boston, while Charlie does marketing for Chico’s clothiers in Ft. Myers. They
thought it was strange to have two children attending Colby, but “it feels even stranger to have them as graduates!” They have a third studying architecture in Boston and a fourth at the Kildonan School in Amenia, N.Y. Y Longtime Portland, Maine, residents Joel Harris and wife Talie celebrated their silver anniversary last year by becoming empty nesters after seeing their son graduate from Washington and Lee University and sending their youngest daughter off to St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. Their oldest daughter is at Smith and will spend her junior year abroad studying art in London. Joel is a partner at H.M. Payson & Co., an investment advisory firm in Portland. “As soon as the stock market recovers and college tuitions are paid off,” moans Joel, “we plan to do some traveling, hopefully before we’re confined to wheelchairs and taking meals through straws.” Y Not worrying about their imminent infirmity, Jon Light and wife Melissa celebrated their 50th birthdays by hiking down the Grand Canyon, spending the night at the bottom, and hiking back up the next day. Y Despite John Clevenger’s restrained pleading with daughter Caitlin, an epee Junior Olympian, she chose Vassar over Colby, in part because of its fencing program. Maybe he’ll have better luck with son Drew, a high school junior football player. Notes John: “If fraternities still existed at Colby, Drew would probably become an LCA, which is something his PDT dad would find amusing, or distressing, or both!” Many thanks to John, our retiring head class agent, who reminds us to keep giving to the Colby Fund. “Every little bit helps.”
1982 Nancy Briggs Marshall classnews1982@alum.colby.edu E.J. Meade’s architecture studio in Boulder (where he has been for 25 years), Arch 11 (www.arch11.com), has been fortunate to stay busy in the “new economy.” He completed several modern residences that achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficient Design) gold certification. In March the studio was awarded its first public project, the Park County Public Library, and in October the Colorado AIA chapter named Arch 11 “firm of the year.” He still finds time for some fly-fishing and telemark skiing with daughters Eliot and Nora. Y Donna Curran Stock was named director of development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which expanded her fundraising role. Her two oldest children are off to college (WPI and Eastern Connecticut State) and two others remain at home (high school and middle school). She would love to connect with classmates during her travels! Y Matt Lewis is back in touch with Karen Zuffante Pabon.