newsmakers Katherine E. Dunn ’02’s essay about her job as coordinator of Paterson, N.J.’s environmental and cultural enrichment program for fifth graders in the Paterson school system appeared in The Christian Science Monitor. “If I’m ever jealous of [my cosmopolitan classmates’] lifestyle,” she wrote, “I focus on the perks of living on a 560-acre camp and working with kids.” Katherine E. Dunn ’02
Milestones Deaths: Laurel G. Johnson ’00, February 1, 2003, in San Bernardino, Calif., at 25. Maine, to start his private practice. . . . Joshua Davis graduated from law school and will be moving to D.C. to study for the bar and begin work at Arnold and Porter. . . . Laurie Roberts is studying at the Yale School of Public Health. —Lindsay Hayes
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Emily Ouellette wrote, “Right after graduation, I headed to Washington, D.C., to work as a civil-rights and employment paralegal. I really loved my job. I spent most of my time working on fair labor cases representing workers in the poultry industry. I now know a lot more about chicken than I ever thought I would. In September 2002, I headed to Ecuador through the Worldteach Volunteer program and have been teaching English in a vocational school since then. I always wanted to return to Latin America after being an international studies major and studying in Chile during college. I am very happy to be here. I have stayed in touch with Christy Nuss, Nicole Neault and Jill Morejon, all of whom seem to be doing really well.” . . . After seeing the spring issue of Colby, Tom Donahue says he thought it was time to touch base with the class. He recently finished an M.A. in international relations at the University of Chicago (where he sometimes ran into Tamas Juhasz ’02) and planned to start the Ph.D. program in political theory at Johns Hopkins this fall. . . . Laurel Genetti Kemp e-mailed to say things are going well for her. She got married, March 1, 2003, to Scott Kemp, whom she met while working at Ramapo For Children in Rhinebeck, N.Y., a nonprofit organization serving kids with special needs. Miranda
Eberle and Lynn McDonald were in the wedding party, and Jill L’Heureux, Portia Dyrenforth, Heather Izumi and Erin Fuller were in attendance. Since returning from their honeymoon in Italy, she has been involved with a production of Little Shop of Horrors at a local theater. They have performed to several sold-out audiences over the course of their three-week run. Laurel will be attending Mount Saint Mary College this fall to pursue a degree in nursing. “It has been a crazy three years since we graduated. I can’t believe it,” she said.
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Wedding bells are going nuts for our class! Drew Hall and Joel Williams are getting married on Memorial Day weekend 2004. In the wedding party are Emily Mahlman, Sara Bowen and Matt Solso. . . . Lou Distasi and Rebecca Curran from Winthrop, Mass., are engaged. . . . Stacie Galiger and Jeff Williams ’02 are engaged. They returned to Switzerland to work together this summer, then headed off to grad school in the fall. Stacie will do a one-year master’s program at Harvard and then move down to N.C., where Jeff will be studying at Duke. . . . JJ Abodeely and Piper Elliott ’02 were married in August in Colorado. JJ is an analyst at a portfolio management firm, coach and rugby player. . . . Teresa Hawko and Patrick Olsen ’02 are engaged for a July 2004 wedding. Teresa will apply to grad schools for higher education student affairs master’s programs. . . . Sarah Richards and Dubek Kim ’99 were to be married in August. They both work at the New England Center for Children in Southborough, Mass., where they teach children with autism
and behavior disorders. . . . Stacy Erickson (srericks@hotmail.com) and Jory Raphael ’02 are getting married on August 14, 2004. Stacy wrote, “If you just can’t contain yourself and find you must tell us how happy you are for us right now, you can visit our Web site (www.stacyandjory.org). We have a guestbook online and we would love for you to sign it, and you can read all the fun details of our engagement, the oh so small wedding we are planning and more.” . . . Jason Freedman is the managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and the chair of the executive board for the Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance and never sees the light of day. . . . Jen Cosso is living in N.Y.C., working as a production coordinator for MTV. . . . Lambie Bickford ran the Austin Motorola Marathon in a time fast enough to qualify for the Boston Marathon. . . . Hillary Evans finished her second year of law school at the University of Washington, taking one quarter off to clerk for state Supreme Court Justice Bobbe Bridge, and this summer was in Washington, D.C., working for Washington state senator Maria Cantwell while living with Liz Hart ’00 and Carrie Keeling ’00. . . . Vanessa Sibley graduated from Harvard with a master’s in theological studies, was to be married on July 26 to Joseph C. Mudd and will teach high school. . . . Yuki Kodera is in her second year of working towards a master’s in intercultural relations at Lesley University. One of her classmates is Nyasha Pfukwa. Yuki sees Coji Watanabe, Junko Goda, Shuba Srivatsan and Janice Greenwald, all living in the Boston area. . . . Lindsay Prichard teaches psychology and history to freshman and seniors at Matignon High School in Cambridge, Mass. Lindsay, Caroline Blair and Darcy Lynch moved to Davis Square in June. Caroline is going to Suffolk Law School, and Darcy still works at the Perkins School for the Blind. . . . Pete Oppenheim was to start his first year of law school in the fall. . . . Phil Coppage continues his hard work at the RNC after a tough season of campaigning. . . . Chris McLean returned to his final year at Georgetown Law after a summer working for a law firm in New York. . . . Lisa Mark is working as a legislative assistant for freshman congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan. . . . Angela Ridlon graduated in May from the master’s of social work program at the University of New England. She wants to continue
2000s Correspondents 2000 c/o Meg Bernier Colby College Office of Alumni Relations Waterville, ME 04901 207-872-3185 classnews2000@alum.colby.edu 2001 Dana D. Fowler 353 East 78th Street, 11B New York, NY 10022 classnews2001@alum.colby.edu 2002 Lydia Terry 819 Marquette Street Dallas, TX 75225 classnews2002@alum.colby.edu 2003 Lauren Tiberio 131 Valley View Drive Wethersfield, CT 06109-2621 classnews2003@alum.colby.edu working with adolescents in school and in-patient hospital settings. . . . Matt Cost completed a one-year internship in stage management at the Portland Stage Company. . . . Lindsay Fanjoy, from Millinocket, Maine, is engaged to Patrick Dalton Corsin of Maine. Lindsay is a Spanish teacher at Union 113. . . . Karin Felmly is a fourth grade teacher at Yarmouth (Maine) Elementary School. . . . Phoebe Lehman and Jay Zarnetske ’00 left Boston to begin graduate school at Utah State University. Phoebe will study wildlife conservation management, and Jay will study river system geomorphology and restoration. . . . Kathy Manu has been living in Budapest, Hungary, for the past two years, teaching at an international kindergarten and doing some random other jobs but planned to come back to the U.S. for a two-year stint in grad school in N.Y.C. in counseling psychology. . . . Dave Fuente, upon receiving a master’s from Indiana University, and Payal Shah will embark on a fellowship in India from September to June of next year. Dave plans on either a Ph.D. program at Indiana University or an M.A. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison upon his return. Their buddy Asher Ghertner was awarded an AMS/DOE atmospheric radiation measurement program fellowship. He’s studying at UC-Berkeley and plans to examine the societal and environmental impacts of air pollution within the U.S. and developing countries. —Dana D. Fowler
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