alumni at large at the University of Maine, Orono, where she is pursuing her master’s in clinical social work. She is still working for Hardy Girls Healthy Women in Waterville. Y Mike Schnurr is attending Georgetown Law School, where he spends all of his time in the library. —Kate Weiler
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Warner Nickerson made the U.S. Ski Team and raced in the World Cup giant slalom at Beaver Creek in December. Y Beth Scherer, Annie Szender, and Erin Rockney live together in Alexandria, Va. Caroline Andresen, previously living with Beth and Annie, relocated to Kenya in October. Y Shannon Emerson remains at IBM Business Consulting Services along with Kevin Yardi and Chris Van Wagenen. Y Melissa Mullen is in her second year of the chemistry Ph.D. program at Penn State. Y Aaron Blazar works at Atlantic-ACM with Whitney Jones and Charlie Reed ’06. In October he ventured to Homecoming in a Cruise A merica RV with his boy-band entourage: Matt Lynes, Sheldon Stevenson, Mac Lynch, Jon Gilboy, and Will van der Veen. Y Ted Farwell made the U.S. rowing team and competed at the World Rowing Championships in England. Y Lisa A ndracke moved to Brooklyn, where she is working on a documentary about the Dodgers for HBO Sports. Y Jon Eisenberg is a raft, bike, and kayak guide in the Futaleufu River valley in Chile. Y Andrea Palmer relocated to Austin, Texas, and lives with Elizabeth Brown. She is an ESL teacher’s assistant; Elizabeth is a legal secretary. Y Adelin Cai is at Cornell finishing her master’s in public policy with a concentration in human rights and social justice. Last summer she worked at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Y Jonathan Devers is engaged to Anna Locke ’07 with a June 2007 wedding planned. Y Andy Orr was in South Africa, where Taylor Bemis and his girlfriend visited. Y Mary Medlin competed in two triathlons in August—a sprint in Salem, Mass., (she placed second), and an Olympic distance in Lakeville, Mass. Y Lauren Smith moved to D.C. to finish BU’s Washington journalism program. She writes for Scripps Howard and the Bangor Daily. Y Karina Johnson ran a Manchester, Conn., road race in 72 COLBY / SPRING 2007
December then relocated to Waterville, where she is assistant track coach with Colby’s men’s distance team. Y Becca Nisetich ran the Chicago Marathon in October; Laura Ellis and Jess Foster came to cheer. Becca qualified for the 2007 Boston Marathon. Applying to Ph.D. programs, she’ll publish a paper in Rethinking and Rereading Kate Chopin next year. Y Nels Leader and Jeff Lederman ran the N.Y.C. Marathon in November in support of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Y Elizabeth Johnson, Laura Cimini, and Julia Benedict, who works in advertising sales at E! Online, live together in N.Y.C. with their French bulldog puppy, Dexter. Y Scarlett Slenker, in her first year at Vermont Law, ran into Wendy Sicard atop Mount Mansfield in October. Y Carreau Mueller lives with A nne Holt and Mary Olsson in Brookline, Mass. She works in development at Harvard while taking classes and applying to grad school. She took a fall road trip with Andrew Raser and Rob Mehlich to visit Steve W helpley and Ted Far well in Philadelphia. Y Courtney Smith finished her master’s in education and traveled to Belize in January to help build an orphanage. She plans to relocate to Aspen. Y Kate Crocker married Tom Jordan on August 6, 2005, at Colby—honeymoon in Bermuda. Y Hannah Emery presented her Colby honors thesis at the Pacific Sociological Association’s annual conference in California in March. Y Heather Hansman, Steph Pierce, and Katie Lynch live in Vail and are showing newcomers Taka Bennett ’06, Tim Stenovec ’06, and Liz Turner ’06 the ropes. Y Megan Loosigian is teaching Spanish at The Governor’s Academy and rowed in a Colby alumnae boat at the Head of the Charles. Y K at h r y n Gregor y married last September and works with teenagers in Hartford. Y Jen Andrews works for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Mount Holyoke and UMass with Patrick Harner. Y Melissa Yosua and Ben Davis are planning a summer wedding; both study at Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey. Y Nick Von Mertens is in his second year teaching English in Saga, Japan. He spent Thanksgiving with Mark Chapman in Shanghai where Mark works. Y Kevin Selby is in his sec-
ond year at Harvard Medical School. It’s easier than Colby, he claims. —Katie Gagne
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K im Devine lives in the Boston area with Ronny Bachrach. She went through a 12-week buyers’ program at TJX Companies and is now an allocation analyst for the A.J. Wright division of the company. Y Anuradha Bhatnagar is in her first year of an MBA program at IIM-Calcutta in India and will be spending the summer at Morgan Stanley in London. Y Shari Katz landed her first job and big break as a dancer for the Regent Seven Seas Cruise Lines on The Voyager, a six-star world tour cruise ship that traveled around the Caribbean during December and then to South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Y Jenny Mooney moved to Butte, Colo., in November to teach adaptive skiing for the winter at the Adaptive Sports Center. Y Todd Rockwood and Troy Lieberman are living in a house in Clarendon in Arlington, Va., and are working at IBM Business Consulting in Fairfax. Y Dan Burke moved to Portland, Maine, and is doing temp work at L.L. Bean. Y Taka Bennett and Tim Stenovec are living together in Vail, Colo., where Taka works at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and Tim is a producer and host for Plum TV, a local cable channel. Zach Russem also works at Plum. Y Noah Balazs loves being an assistant teacher in his first grade classroom on the North Shore. He had a chance to visit Colby with Sarah Ayres and got to catch up with a lot of people. He works and teaches with another Colby grad, Britt Palmedo ’03. Y After taking a CTEFL (ESL certification) course in Florence, Italy, Melina Markos now lives in Sassari, on the island Sardegna, and works there at Inlingua, an international language school with more than 200 language schools worldwide. Y Mikey Nguyen is an investment analyst for Prytania, a structured finance asset management firm in London. He writes that London has its charm but, needless to say, is a totally different world from the beautiful Mayflower Hill. He misses Colby and the people he met at Colby. Y Heather Lersch is a teacher at the Leadership School at Camp Kieve, in Nobleboro, Maine, where she works with Kieve’s program for experiential learning. Y Fraser Moncure is
leaving N.Y.C. and roommate Juan Urruela and moving to Kansas City to live with Bryan Sanders. Bryan is going to work on the presidential campaign of Senator Sam Brownback. Meanwhile Bryan and Fraser are working on a screenplay on the life of John Brown. Y Greyson Brooks is living in Wellesley, Mass., and working as a curatorial assistant at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge. He just received his international teacher’s license, a TESOL certificate, and a mediation certificate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and he will soon start mentoring homeless children. Y Kendra King moved to Aspen and will be teaching snowboarding at Snowmass and bartending at Eric’s Bar. Y Meghan Race lives in Avon, Colo., and works in Vail. Y Emilie Slack is spending the year in New Zealand. She lived in Tauranga, working as a bartender/ server until March and then traveled to Southeast Asia for a month or so. Y After graduation Charlie Hale moved to Cairo, Egypt, to work on his Arabic with the State Department. He’s now living in San Francisco with roommate Matt Morrison, working for Google, and loving California. Emilie Coulson, Bram Geller, and Katie Himmelmann ’07 visited in January. Y Life for Barbara Hough is falling into place in Massachusetts. She teaches private flute lessons in Norwood and in Haverhill she teaches music to first and second graders. —Jen Coliflores