Colby lists marriages and same-sex commitment ceremonies as “Milestones” in the Alumni at Large section of the magazine. To have a wedding or commitment included, please submit the names of both partners along with the class year(s), the date, and the location of the ceremony to the appropriate class correspondent (listed in the Alumni at Large section). For notices of births and adoptions, the parents’ and child’s names, and date and location of the birth should be submitted to the appropriate correspondent.
apparently they are neighbors. Y My other former roommate, Michelle Satterlee, reports that Los Angeles is A-OK. She is enjoying the delights of “Big Eats Tuna Sandwiches” and is proud to announce her recent admission into her first choice for law school, Loyola Law School. Y For more news of our class go to www.colby. edu/colby.mag/90s. —Jessie Newman
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ine J. Christy got married in Dover, N.H., in October 2004. Colby alumni in attendance included Marissa Shaw Glowac, Andrew Vernon, Bryan Raffetto, Craig Murray ’96, Alyson Angino Germain, and me. Alisa Masson, Kelly Spooner, Michelle Grdina, Michelle Wyemura, and Sandra Jewers Dow were all in the wedding party. Kathy is employed by Harvard University as director of giving for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Bill serves in the Navy as a docking and diving officer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, N.H. Y Michele Elliot and Brian Carovillano celebrated their four-year wedding anniversary last summer with their 3-monthold daughter, Emilia. They live in Wenham, Mass. Brian is an editor with the Associated Press in Boston, and Michele is working in marketing for a biotech company on the north shore of Massachusetts. “We’re enjoying parenthood very much!” writes Michele. Y Sarah Christie ’97 and John Carolan celebrated son Johnny’s first birthday as well as their fourth wedding anniversary on June 9, which, Sarah pointed out, is the same date Sheila Grant ’96 and Chris Orphanides got married. Y Brooke Lorenzen graduated from Seattle Pacific University in June with a master’s in education. She is currently teaching 11 students from kindergarten through eighth grade in a one-room school at a Young Life camp 20 miles outside of Antelope, Ore. Y Mike Murphy and Heather Engman ’97 got married in 2002. Matt Metz was the best man, and Bram
Lutton, who is married to Mike’s sister, Lori, was groomsman. Jens Kueter and Brendan Cavanaugh also attended Mike and Heather’s wedding. Matt is a surgeon in Rochester, N.Y., and Bram is getting his Ph.D. at Boston University in shark research. Mike is currently an emergency room doctor at Rhode Island Hospital and is a secondyear resident in the Brown University emergency medicine program. “Life is pretty good—still have time to kayak and mountain bike and play my drums,” he writes. Y Last June, Jen Benwood Saam graduated from a residency program in Seattle, specializing in foot and ankle reconstructive surgery. In May she was on an elective outside rotation in Dresden, Germany, on a foot and ankle fellowship in an orthopedic trauma hospital. She joined a private practice in Bellevue, Wash., in September. Jen and her husband, Conrad Saam ’96, expected their first child, a boy, in October. Y Maine native Jesse Salisbury has turned pounding, drilling, carving, blasting, and sanding rocks into an art. His work on permanent display at the Bartlett Maine Estate Winery in Gouldsboro includes Fruit, and Seed was featured in “Touchstones: Sculpture Participating with Place,” a group show through September at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. In 2007 Jesse will host a six-week international sculpture symposium in conjunction with Schoodic Arts for All and the National Park Service at the Schoodic Education and Research Center, at Schoodic Point. Y For more news of our class go to www.colby.edu/colby.mag/90s. —Yuhgo Yamaguchi
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Sarah Richmond writes that she left Boston’s financial district last year, hoping to find a job closer to her Cambridge home and work that suited her better. She is now working at Tufts University in the School of Engineering dean’s office and is very excited at the thought of perhaps making a career out of academia. Y Also on the move to the Upper Valley—Sasha Cornell started a pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth
after graduating from UVM College of Medicine in May. Y Amie Sicchitano Taylor wrote to share news that Patty Benson Bechard recently moved from Newton, Mass., to her first house in Andover, Mass., with her husband, Brian. She continues to work at Gillette. Amie lives in Franklin, Mass., with her husband, Mike, and their yellow Lab, Brandy. She continues to enjoy teaching kindergarten in Wellesley and spent her summer playing tennis and helping her brother run after his three children. Y A number of people have reported recent Colby get-togethers. Last June, Nicole Jalbert Pirani spent three days in Rockland, Maine, having a minireunion with her Colby roommates and their families. Also in attendance, in addition to herself, husband Kevin Pirani, and their daughter, Mae, age 1, were Tom and Katherine Holliday Sohn and daughter Anna, 1; Brian and Rachel Wolf Preti and son Thomas, 8 months; Matt ’98 and Nina Leventhal Paquin; and Heather Duley Gleason, her husband, Keith ’94, and her children, Madison, 4, Jack, 2, and Anna, 3 months. Also, Sarah Langan had a mini-reunion at a creepy house in Sandy Point, Maine, where she met up with Chris and Dori Morrison Galvin, Erik Gustavson and Michelle Torrens, Eric Loth and his son, Aiden, Aran Ryan, Lori Kalisz Stattenfield, her husband, Ryan, and their daughter, Abby. Sarah reports that they ate lots of lobster and found a quarry to swim in, which was a lot of fun. Y Recent weddings include Beth Atkinson, who married Mark Zow on May 21, 2005, in Signal Mountain, Tenn. Katharine Graham Guthrow and Dori Desautel were both in attendance. Beth and Mark are living in Greenville, S.C., where she is an emergency medicine physician and he is a corporate financial manager. Y Sarah Gelman Carney, husband Tim, and 1-year-old twins, Jane and Jack, want to say “congratulations” to Alex Chin and Mary Thach ’98 on their May 14, 2005, wedding in St. Louis. Sarah writes, “It was so great to see our Colby friends at the very special event. The Carneys currently live in Buffalo, N.Y., and are rooting for the Bills!” Y We also have a number of new additions to report, including Mike and Angelique Coyne Sabin, who had William Ryder Sabin on April 18, 2005. Proud godparents are John ’94 and Julie Erickson Bond. . . . Chris and Becky Trufant White had a boy, Samuel Thomas White, on
March 22, 2005. Y Benjamin ’94 and Alexandra Kean Strong welcomed their second child, Thomas Brewster, in March 2005. Y For more news of our class go to www.colby.edu/colby. mag/90s. —Mark Mortensen
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Things really seem to be clicking for the Class of 1997 on the career, marriage, and family front, which is not only great news but a poignant sign that we are getting older. Recently I had the pleasure of attending Andrew Black’s 30th celebration in Dartmouth, Mass., which was attended by several Colby alums, including Shannon Tracy Bergquist, Dave McLaughlin, Andrew Pease, Tony Rosenfeld, Jerrod DeShaw, Lucas Penney, and, all the way from the backwoods of Maine, John Hebert, who welcomed a son, Henry, into the world back in January. Andrew Black also became a proud father back in May. Y Sarah Holmes checked in with news that she recently moved to Roxbury, Mass., ending a living arrangement that included Chris Sullivan and Tom DeCoff. Sarah is happily running the Boston branch of Pentec, Inc., a handwriting and document examination company started by her mother. She is also heading up a group of anniversary agents who will be working to provide a gift to the College during our 10th anniversary year, so expect some phone calls soon. Y Yawa Duse-Anthony is working as a transportation planner in Andover, Mass., and living in Metheun. Yawa is also expecting a child in December. Y Jami Fisher Clark accepted a position at the University of Pennsylvania as the American Sign Language Program coordinator; she’s teaching and doing administrative work for a fast-growing discipline. Y The former Karen Blaisdell, now Karen Faiman, is working on her graduate degree in public policy and nonprofit management at Southern Maine and also coordinates an adult education program at the YWCA in Portland. She enjoyed the June wedding of Christina Downing, at which she was a bridesmaid along with Joy Pelletier-Devins, Deidre Brochu Sweeney, and Kayla Baker. Joy is living in Nashua, N.H., and has a 14-month-old (as of July) son, Chase. Y Speaking of 30th birthdays, Wendy Morris Levine, Kerri Duffell Murawski, Anna Thomson, Jennifer O’Neill, and the recently engaged Molly Bracken all traveled to Naples, COLBY / winter 2006 63