alumni at large moved to Boston, where he looks forward to connecting with other Colby alums. Y Melanie Newton Lago continues to teach kindergarten at Beauvoir Elementary School in Washington, D.C., and started her ninth year of teaching in September. This summer she spent four weeks improving math education through various math camps and professional development opportunities. She ended her summer with a few weeks hiking and traveling throughout New Zealand and Australia with her husband. Y Jesse DeLaughter joined Teach for America as a corps member. He finished at the training institute in Philly and started teaching ESL at the Elihu Greenwood Leadership Academy in Boston. Y Michelle Riffelmacher started at Citi in July doing institutional sales for the securities lending group focusing on U.S. clients. Y Miko Yokoi changed jobs and is now the tribal optometrist for the Indian Health Service Health Center in downtown Reno, Nev. She keeps busy with trips to Lake Tahoe and practicing fire arts like hoop dance and poi spinning. Y Ellen Whitesides taught quant classes at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government over the summer and this fall started working to help states implement the Common Core State Standards, a nationwide education policy. Y Over the summer Chris Reigeluth did research on adolescent development and men’s mental health. He also moved from Boston to Worcester to be closer to his clinical psychology graduate program. Y And last but not least—Hal Hallstein toured east from Boulder over the summer, visiting Mike Lee’s photography gallery and sailing on the wooden boat owned by Nick Owen ’04. He spent time with Jake Beren this fall in canyon country and remains impressed with Aaron McCloskey’s flatpicking. He has mixed feelings about Eric Crabtree moving to Vienna from Oahu. Y Hope everyone had an amazing summer!
2004 Kate Weiler classnews2004@alum.colby.edu Erica Joseffy and Chris Blomberg got married this summer with lots of Colby friends in attendance. Groomsmen included Kyle Lieberman, Brian Foley, and Doug Dua ’05. Bridesmaids included Laurel Wolfrum and Justine Belvin. Others in attendance were Leigh Cummings, Sarah Wolfrum, Sarah Jasinski, Kristin Saucier, and Alex Kronauer ’05. Erica and Chris live in Boston, where Erica is a speech language pathologist at Spaulding Rehab Hospital and Chris is a medical resident at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Y Cynthia Davies started a new job in September as a physician’s assistant at Southern Maine Medical Center in
Biddeford. She spent August in northern India with Himalayan Health Exchange working with a mobile medical clinic. Y Elizabeth Turnbull graduated from Yale’s joint M.B.A./master’s of environmental management program this spring and joined the Adidas Group to support the energy and environmental initiatives in their portfolio of buildings. She’s excited to join the network of Colby alums in the greater Boston area. Y Andrew McKenna-Foster is helping design a new science center for Nantucket through the Maria Mitchell Association. He also completed his first sprint triathlon on Nantucket. I raced Nantucket Triathlon as well and also ran into him at the weekly Nantucket Brant Point Runners 5K, which he wins each week! Y Judd Moldaver lives in LA and was named in the top 40 under 40 list in The Hockey News last January. He is engaged and works at a talent agency representing professional hockey players. Y Tom Rogers and his fiancée, Julia Levine, finished a year-long trip around the world this spring and have settled in Stowe, Vt. They got married Aug. 2 with many Colby alums in attendance, including Nick Markham, Elizabeth Turnbull, Bethany Craig, Clifton Bullard ’07, and Chris Zajchowski ’07. Y Samantha Saeger and her fiancé took time off from their jobs and moved to Sweden for the year to live and breathe orienteering. They’ll spend the year training, learning, and improving as much as they can. They’re both the reigning U.S. orienteering champions. Y Matthew Harrington just opened a hip, new, low-cost, hassle-free gym in Brookline called GymIt. Check it out at www.gymit.com.
2005 Katie Gagne classnews2005@alum.colby.edu Maggie Johnson graduated from California State University, Northridge, with a master’s in biology. She’ll continue her research on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide emissions on coral reefs in a Ph.D. program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego). Y Bill Foley was recently engaged to his long-time girlfriend and plans a Rhode Island wedding for summer 2012. Y Carolyn Hunt and Brendan Carroll celebrated two years of marriage and moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Carolyn works for UPS in its European headquarters. Brendan is finishing his Ph.D. in EU policy. Y Katie Markowski was engaged in March to Christo Dru, whom she met in Chicago while in law school. They’ve relocated to Hollywood, Calif., where Katie took a job with Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C., and Christo began his residency at Cedars Sinai. I’m looking forward to celebrating
00s newsmakers Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Gavin Garner ’01 was honored with the 2011 Mac Wade Award at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Garner was recognized for rebuilding the U.Va. chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, transforming the department’s lab spaces, and continuing the popular mechatronics course after the death of his mentor. Garner also won the professor of the year award from the Rodman Scholars Program. F Playwright Amina McIntyre ’04 premiered her most recent play, In the Garden, at Lenoir-Rhyne University in September. A visiting playwright in resiAnya Toteanu ’08 dence at Lenoir-Rhyne last spring, McIntyre wrote In the Garden as a creative retelling of the Song of Solomon. McIntyre has also had her plays staged at the Indiana Theater Association ITWorks and at Wabash College. F The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research named Anya Toteanu ’08 2011 Outstanding Customer Service Representative (CSR) for Massachusetts. A certified insurance service representative for the Richard Soo Hoo Insurance Agency, Toteanu has “demonstrated a level of professionalism beyond her years, a sincere desire to help, and a tremendous amount of courtesy to clients.” Toteanu is now eligible for the national Outstanding CSR of the Year award. F Entrepreneur Nick Friedman ’10 received one of five Entreverge awards from Portland, Maine, PROPEL, a networking organization for young business professionals. Friedman, along with Brandon Pollock ’10, founded Blue Reserve as a senior at Colby and continues to sell the company’s bottleless purified water to businesses statewide. In addition to a brightly colored guitar, consulting advice and access to experienced entrepreneurs come with the award.
their nuptials in May 2012 in Chicago. Y Jake Colognesi graduated from Tuck at Dartmouth in June and now works for a small-growth equity firm, Volition Capital, in Boston. Jake and I will be swapping roles, as I started at Tuck this fall to begin my M.B.A. I plan to regularly see Jon Ryder ’02 and Wayne Harrington, who also started the M.B.A. program, and Carreau Mueller, who works in Dartmouth’s development office. Y Matt Lynes and Maureen Sherry were married in Brookline, Mass., June 25, exactly four years after their first date. A celebration at the Wellesley Botanical Gardens followed, where many alums were in attendance. Y Nick Malick’s short story “The Boy in the Lake” will be published in the Kenyon Review during winter 2012. It was runner-up in the Review’s national 2011 short fiction contest, judged by Ron Carlson. Nick and wife Rebecca (Taylor ’04) are schoolteachers in the San Francisco Bay area, and Juliet, their daughter, is 2. Y Julie Bryar will stay at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as program manager for the chief quality officer. She’s getting married this October to Trinity graduate Dave Porter. Y Peyton McElyea was married July 30 in Beverly Hills to Jen Keith. Steve Bogden, Pat Semmens, Matt Bucklin, and Kyung Ko ’06 served as ushers. Y Wendy Sicard Cole started a master’s program in wildlife sciences at the University of Vermont’s
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Husband John is in his second year of pediatric residency in Burlington, where he started a grant-funded program to teach minority students in the Burlington area to swim. Y Chris and Erin Rockney Van Wagenen had a baby girl named Milly and recently moved to Maine, where Erin started her pediatric residency. Y Kristi Eck was promoted to assistant director of Say Yes in Syracuse and was featured on the news for helping a group of students write and publish several books now sold at Barnes & Noble. Y Meg Musser moved to Raleigh, N.C., to start a veterinary medical oncology residency at NC State. Y Casey McCarthy and Margaret Siciliano ’04 were married this summer in Vermont. * Jillian Parker got married to Paul Blakeslee June 11 in North Yarmouth, Maine. Lauren Wolpin, who introduced the couple, was a bridesmaid. Y Nikki Patel is again living on the East Coast with her husband, Mihir Patel, working as a chiropractor by day and spending her nights as a dedicated mom to Diya, 1. Y Meredith Duval married Kevin O’Brien July 16 in Boston and now lives in Richmond, Va. Y Miranda Silverman got married Oct. 9 at a private estate in Wenham, Mass., to Matthew Gaude, who is the chef de cuisine at Aquitaine in the South End and in the process of opening his own restaurant in Kendall Square.
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