Alumni at Large 1990s Kalloch Murphy. . . . Sigmund Schutz is an environmental litigation and media law attorney in Portland, Maine. He was recently elected vice chair of the Portland chapter of the American Red Cross. . . . Terry Meehan will marry Anita Sommers in August 2002. He is pursuing a Ph.D. from the University of WisconsinMadison. She is the marketing director at Very Special Arts in Madison. . . . Danny Katz was to marry Kimberly Nesvet this June. He is employed at Fidelity Investments, and she is a preschool teacher in Weston and an adjunct professor at Quincy College. —Tracy K. Larsen
95 Lauren Pelz Kearney wrote
that Lynne Moss married Paul Perricelli last February. They were married in New Jersey and live in Yonkers, N.Y. . . . Allison Wilkin Hallin graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1998 with an M.S. in molecular and cell biology. She returned home to Bend, Ore., and spent the winter season as a ski instructor at Mt. Bachelor. It was there that she met Brian Hallin, and they were married in Bend, June 16, 2001. Regina Wlodarski Kruger, who wrote that she and her husband, Keith, were expecting their first baby at the end of March, was present as matron of honor with Maylene Cummings Mitchell ’96 and Margaret Suggs Herath as bridesmaids. Brian enjoyed his first trip to New England in September 2001 when they traveled to Maine for Maylene’s wedding to Erik Mitchell ’97. Allison and her husband currently live in Portland, Ore., and work at Oregon Health and Sciences University. . . . Erin Mansur is finishing up his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California-Berkeley on electricity deregulation and environmental regulation. He will be an assistant professor at Yale University next fall in a joint tenure-track position between the School of Management and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He and his wife, Jennifer Shatney, are going to be parents in July! . . . John Gorczyk and Kristen Bloomquist were married in San Diego on November 3, 2001, about 10 years after they met on COOT! In the wedding party were Colleen Diver, Jennifer Dursi Rothman ’96, Virginia Stettinius, Nathalie Theard, Sung Park ’93 and Scott Rothman ’96. Other Colby guests
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Newsmakers Martha Walsh ’90 recently returned to her law practice in England from a posting at the Hague in the Netherlands with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Assigned primarily to issues and cases in the appeals section of the office of the prosecutor, she worked briefly on the Slobodan Milosevic case, the first-ever war crimes trial of a former head of state. Walsh has been involved for more than a decade in such global hot spots as Cambodia, Vietnam and Bosnia The U.S. Chamber of ComMartha Walsh ’90 merce hired Geoffrey O’Hara ’91 to serve as executive director of the Eastern Regional Office in Stamford, Conn. He manages the chamber’s extensive legislative, political and grassroots resources in 12 states.
Milestones Births: A son, Bruno Philippon, to Jerome ’90 and Amy Curtis Philippon ’89 A son, Morgan Unruh, to Marnie and David Unruh ’91 A daughter, Harriet Rose Finch, to Robert and Jennifer McLeod Finch ’92 A daughter, Jessica Ellis Flynn, to Michael and Jeannette Riddle Flynn ’92 A daughter, Emma Christine Stone, to Ken and Laura Armstrong Stone ’92 A daughter, Kate Mackenzie Gerdsen, to Cassi and Rodney Gerdsen ’93 A son, Conner Joseph McKenna, to Danielle and Joseph P. McKenna ’93 A daughter, Bryn Helen Rio Cannon, to Jonathan Cannon ’96 and Catherine Malone. Marriages: Amy E. Moody ’92 to Michael F. McGrath in Woods Hole, Mass. Shawn D. Bryant ’93 to Ellen M. Dunham in Wellsboro, Pa. Martin A. Krolewski ’95 to Kimberly B. Portnoy in Weston, Mass. E. Lynne Moss ’95 to Paul Perricelli in Dover, N.J. Erica A. Casano ’96 to Christopher B. Spater in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Carolyn G. Donahue ’96 to Abram W. Conant in South Hero, Vt. Gretchen Rice ’96 to Kevin King in Westford, Mass. Kathleen E. Kohatsu ’97 to Matthew W. Toms ’97 in Keene, N.H. Melanie C. Macbeth ’97 to Roger M. Binggeli ’96 in Jackson Village, N.H. included Jon Bowden ’95 and Denise Mailloux ’97. “It was a lot of fun to get all our friends from around the country together again,” writes Kristen. “We honeymooned in Kauai and are back in San Diego, contemplating a move back east.” . . . Kaatje Van der Hoeven got married in August 2001, in Walpole, Maine, to Mike Kraft, whom she met in Arizona. She wrote, “A number of Colby folk attended the wedding: Heather Beusse, KC Lawler, Tracy Patton Zschau, Beth Herbert, Kathryn Swaggart Erickson ’94 and of course Auntie Al, our mailroom pal!” Kaatje and Mike live out in the Valley of the Sun (the Phoenix megalopolis—soon to be L.A. Jr.), and she’s a full-time instructor of geology at Mesa Community College. . . . Faisel Zaman is working as a resident physician in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
He’s the resident chairman of the medical education committee of the American Academy of PM & R. He’s still into motorcycles and a member of the Southern Cruisers Motorcycle Gang. . . . Gerry Coakley got married last August to Rachael Millstein (now Rachael Coakley) in Chatham, Mass. He is working as an attorney in Chicago. . . . Fred and Heather Johnson Webster welcomed their first child, Gwyneth Marie, on February 6, 2002. They are all doing well adjusting to their new life with a baby and headed out to Hawaii in May for a short vacation. . . . Ariana Talbot Vance is still living in Laramie, Wyo., enjoying the outdoor adventures that Wyoming offers. Her husband was to graduate with his master’s degree in May. “Most of my day is kept busy with my prides and joys,” she says: Paige, 5, Hailey, 3, and Morgan, 1. “I work as a homebound teacher for
the school district in my free time. Nothing too new and exciting, but I’m happy.” . . . Scott and Kerry Knudsen Galson just returned from their Peace Corps adventures in Suriname, South America, and are working on freezing some of the fungus spots off their bodies in what has turned out to be a mild Chicago winter. “We’re currently looking for teaching jobs in New England and expecting our first child (eeegad!),” writes Kerry. Reports indicate that Baby Galson will be born the end of July. . . . Noah Haverkamp is cooking in Knoxville, Tenn. . . . Sarah Bohlinger is living in Virginia, working on the pastry team at The Inn at Little Washington. . . . Bryan Carey moved back to Washington, D.C., to clerk for a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals. He lives in Woodley Park near the National Zoo. . . . In the past year, Jen Gennaco has taken vacations to Puerto Rico and Cancun, but her most exciting news is that she got engaged on Thanksgiving Day to Benjamin Smith, a Bates grad. They plan an August wedding. Cheryl Johnson Dutrumble, who will be in the wedding party, expected a baby in June. . . .Tobey Williamson is living the high life in Washington, D.C., spending much time at the National Zoo pondering the diversity of life. Recently graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a master’s in regional planning, he is employed as federal policy program manager at American Farmland Trust. Much of his work involves cooperating with a coalition of environmental organizations trying to influence the reauthorization of the farm bill, which promises to allocate significant increases in funding for agricultural conservation programs that will slow urban sprawl, improve water quality and restore wildlife habitat. He’d love to hear from friends far and near. —Yuhgo Yamaguchi
96 Suzanne Kulin graduated in
May with an M.S. in communicative disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was married to Tom Moffitt ’97 in September. . . . Sheila Grant was married to Christopher Orphanides ’95 last June in New London, Conn. Bridesmaids were Heather Hunt, who is in her second year of medical school at UMass, Kathy Alexander Romeo, who had her first child, Grace Kathryn, in September, and Gretchen Rice King, who is a Web producer at Pearson