Alumni at Large 1990s wedding. . . . Bill Epps is currently living in Austin, Texas, working at the University of Texas at Austin for a Ph.D. in history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations with Latin America; he’s also teaching an intro rhetoric and composition course. He says he’s “exploring, and enjoying, the incredibly vibrant music scene in Austin and practicing my banjo.” . . . Jill Picard was married last summer and is now Jill Paine. She’s been living in San Francisco for the last two years with Ashley Malcolm ’97, who also was married last summer and is now Ashley Laakso. “We have been happily living in a house shared by us and our new husbands!” said Jill, who is still working at the corporate headquarters for Gap Inc. . . . Lee St. George MacGregor and her husband, Stuart, welcomed a boy, Emmett Alasdair MacGregor, on September 21, 2001. Lee took the year off from teaching to take care of him and says they all are healthy and doing well. . . . Jamie Geier is working on her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Columbia University and lives in New York City with her husband, Rob. She keeps in close contact with Rachel Simson D’Antonio and Martha Previte Botten. Rachel still works for JP Morgan and lives in Ridgefield, Conn., with her husband, Bob. Martha moved to San Diego after graduating from law school and lives with her husband, Jason. Jamie’s sister-in-law, Jennifer Stewart Guay, works in real estate and is living in Biddeford, Maine, with her husband, Norm. . . . Chad Sisson and his wife, Karen Bossie, D.O., live in Grand Rapids, Mich., with their daughter, Edin, 2. Last November Chad successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in zoology—“Life history dynamics of nudibranch sibling species in the genus Dendronotus in the Gulf of Maine”—at the University of New Hampshire and was scheduled to graduate in December 2002. He says he was “employed as a full-time stayat-home dad” but planned on teaching part time last spring at Grand Rapids Community College. . . . Robert Gold wrote that he lives in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. (tale of the headless horseman) and works as a dentist in the Bronx and in Rockland and thoroughly enjoys it. He planned to get married last spring to Bettina Gold (“just a coincidence, no relation yet”). He goes mountain biking and skiing with Amy Phalon when she has time off from her job teaching English at Montclair State College. . . . Last year, Rima Lathrop 58 | C O L B Y • F A L L
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newsmakers Kebba Tolbert ’94 is the new head coach and director of men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field and of both cross-country teams at Portland State University in Portland, Ore. He moves up from assistant track coach at Syracuse University Doctoral student and teaching fellow Andrea J. Stairs ’94 received the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award at Boston College for her work designing a collaborative program for Kebba Tolbert ’94 urban secondary teacher education Ever gone in for “speed dating,” the new matchmaking phenomenon that pairs men and women for three to 10 minutes of get-acquainted conversation across a table? Michelle M. Grdina ’95 tried it, as reported in a feature in The Improper Bostonian. Be prepared with some good questions and have a positive attitude, she concluded, “even though I didn’t meet anyone that I want to date” The April edition of Fine Woodworking featured art history major Kerry E. Ackerman ’96’s sewing table, based partly on a 19th-century design. Her goals include creating affordable hand-crafted furniture, said Ackerman, who is studying furniture making in Boston. Michelle M. Grdina ’95
Milestones Marriages: Mary (Molly) D. Beale ’92 to Laurence G. Constable near Squam Lake, N.H. Jonathan J. Eddinger ’93 to Robin Currier in Manchester, N.H. Andrew K. Bonham ’94 to Jaime M. Grogan in Dallas, Texas Brian P. Pompeo ’95 to Jennifer Aquino in Cohasset, Mass. Rachel J. Moritz ’96 to Matthew S. O’Connell ’96 in Falmouth, Mass. Jennifer E. Johns ’97 to Jonathan R. Bolton ’98 in Powell, Ohio Marah E. Smith ’97 to Zachary J.D. Atwell in Narragansett, R.I. Heather A. Sanders ’99 to Todd R. DiCaprio in Las Vegas, Nev. Births: A son, Peter Lim, to SooHee Lee ’90 and Bryant Lim A son, Wilson Clark Thors, to Thor and Melissa LaBarre Thors ’91 A daughter, Maya Barnes, to Mandy and Jason C. Barnes ’93 A daughter, Emma Carbone, to Jana and Robert H. Carbone ’93. Carlson was a fourth-year medical student at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. While she was interviewing at the Family Practice Residency Program in Anchorage, Alaska, she and her husband, Brian ’94, got together with Carrie Califano, Sarah Charnecki ’95, Jeff Harrison ’95 and Sean ’91 and Jenny Dorsey Skaling ’93. . . . Jean-Michel Picher, a.k.a. Piche (jmpicher@yahoo.com), after working in Democratic Party campaign politics for a couple of years, living in Idaho with Emmett McCarthy and Chuck Bowen and
traveling overseas to see a few things, finished his third of four years of an M.B.A/law degree at the University of Western Ontario “because I’ve got no idea what to do when I grow up. Thanks, Colby!” Piche, Emmett, Sarah Hamlin Walsh and Hillary Brennan McKellar were all proud to stand with Chuck Bowen and Betsy Low as they were married in Falmouth, Mass., last October. Among others in attendance were Brad Smith, Ryan Sullivan, Sean McBride ’95, Matt Mannering ’95, Greg Walsh ’95, James Colligan ’95, Mark Porter ’95, Brian
Seidman ’94, Pete Luber and Krista Severson. . . . And another Class of ’96 wedding! Rachel Moritz and Matt O’Connell were married on April 12 in Falmouth, Mass. Bridesmaids included Maura McLaughlin and Beth Dunn Allen, and groomsmen included Ben O’Connell ’99. Alison Werner, Emily Guerette, Laura Whittaker, Mike Montgomery, Erika Moore Coombs ’97, Dennis Nations ’95, Matt Tangney ’95, Bill Bradley ’95, Jason Hallee ’95, Drew Serbin ’94 and Christian Drucker ’94 were all in attendance. . . . Anybody want to step up and be the next class correspondent?
97 The news has been piling up,
but I was so engrossed in American Idol that I missed the last deadline! Michael Doogue spent time in Ecuador after graduation for a few weeks of climbing volcanoes and roaming the Amazon basin with Adam Wolk and Erwin Godoy, after which he started graduate work in electrical engineering at Dartmouth. After graduation from Dartmouth, he took a job designing integrated circuits for a Concord, N.H., company called Allegra Microsystems. He married Kristen, whom he met while at Dartmouth, and the couple now lives in Manchester, N.H., where they are renovating a historic home. Mike recently attended Adam Wolk’s wedding; Adam married Io Nami on January 19, 2003, on the sandy beaches of Pacific Grove, in Calif. Adam is in his fourth year of medical school at UC-Davis, and at this time it looks like he will head back to D.C. for his residency. . . . Rico Del Sesto has finished his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Utah and is now in Colorado Springs “doing research at the Air Force Academy,” he writes, “working through a National Academies of Science fellowship on materials for military/defense (no, I’m not making bombs, as everyone asks).” . . . Lauren Graham married Adam Harkins on February 4 on a beach in the Bahamas. After a week, the Harkins returned to their home in Portland, Maine. . . . From the Chinese New Year, February 12, to May 23, 2002, Tim Andreae did a fast from all wheeled transportation. He spent 101 days in a row without “getting any wheels between my feet and the ground.” He received lots of press and comments that “apparently our society has arrived at such a pace that a person can make news by simply walking.” Get in touch with him at