alumni at large wedding, and then Lauren Stevens got engaged to Brendan Hannigan the following day! They plan a Maine wedding for the summer of 2009. Lauren got her master’s in elementary education and completed her first year teaching second grade at the Brimmer and May School. That weekend my husband and I stayed in Boston at Jon and Jenny Burbrick Engel’s new pad. Jon made the move from public to private, leaving the attorney general’s office after three years and moving to Shilepsky O’Connell, a small law firm in Boston. Jenny is still at the New England Center for Children, consulting and supervising programs in public schools that provide services for children on the autism spectrum. Y Beth Festa is engaged to Kurt Ahlstrand and they plan a fall 2009 wedding in Vermont. Y Darcy Lynch and Sam Clark got married June 14 in Old Lyme, Conn. Y Whitney Dayton Brunet completed the San Diego marathon this summer. Y Sarah Meehan will marry Duna Chiofaro (Harvard ’00) Columbus Day weekend in Ipswich, Mass. They live in Charlestown, Mass., and Sarah is finishing her postdoc in clinical psychology. She sees Laura Montgomery, one of her bridesmaids, all the time. Y Jay and Kirsten Isaksen Benjamin, with baby Sophie (8 1/2 months), traveled to the U.S. this summer. Jay has a new job as creative director of Leo Burnett in Sydney, and Kirsten loves being a stay-at-home mom. Hopefully they’ll move back to the States in 2010 and come to the next Colby reunion! Y Eric Lantzman returned from operating and delivering babies in rural Kenya for three weeks in the town where Barack Obama’s grandmother lives and where she raised Barack’s dad. Eric’s wife, Maggie, met Eric afterward, and they trekked across Tanzania, hiking Mt. Meru to watch the sun rise over Kilimanjaro and relaxing on the beaches of Zanzibar. Stateside, Maggie and Eric were excited to have Mindy Mraz join them—wearing a bunch of polypropylene—hiking all over California, where Mindy lived for the summer before her second year at Tuck School of Business. Y Robb Henzi graduated from business school at Stern at NYU in June with fellow mule Brian Newman. They rocked it together in student government, once again—Robb was social chair (VP of events). Robb traveled to Israel, Turkey, and Spain before going into consulting in the media and 66 COLBY / FALL 2008
00s newsmakers Rebecca Stern ’03 graduated as excelsus laureate from Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned her M.F.A. degree in photography. Her current work illuminates the symbiotic relationship that exists between land and man. To view her online portfolio visit www.rebeccasternphotography.com. v MediaHUB Media Supervisor Meghan Finneran ’04 is part of the team that won Mediaweek’s Media Plan of the Year in the spendingless-than-$10-million category for their Timberland campaign. Their plan was also, notably, the first carbon-neutral Rebecca Stern ’03 media plan, which is integral to Timberland’s earth-friendly message.
milestones Marriages: Geoffrey M. Mason ’00 to Jaime P. Dahlke in Diamond Point, N.Y. v Caitlin M. Nelson ’00 to David Joshua Merrill in South Portland, Maine v Frederic F. Floberg ’01 to Katherine M. Perry in South Portland, Maine v Pamela J. Foxley ’01 to Gregory K. Arifian in Sharon, Conn. v Allyson R. Giard ’01 to Daniel J. Downey in Carmel, N.Y. v Douglas A. Otte ’01 to Kelly J. Langton in North Kingston, R.I. v Meredith M. Renda ’02 to Reed S. Idriss in Old Saybrook, Conn. v Lydia Brown Terry ’02 to Sean M. Flynn in Sun Valley, Idaho v Patrick R. Conley ’03 to Brooke E. Alexander in Dallas, Texas v Elizabeth Kueffner ’03 to Paul D. Koors in Fairfield, Conn. v Rachel E. Merrick ’03 to Scott Maggs ’03 in Whitefield, Conn. v Katherine C. Brown ’04 to John Kaufmann in Langhorne, Pa. v Robert W. Selover ’04 to Casey E. O’Sullivan in Brookside, N.J. entertainment group at Capgemini. Y Amy Millett married Ryan Scallon in September at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He started a job as principal at a Bronx high school, and Amy is starting a Ph.D. at NYU in teaching and learning. Y Daniel Martin spent the last few years producing reality TV shows and currently is producing Dancing With the Stars on ABC. Y Lisa Hart Olson lives and works in NYC, which she loves. She works as an interior designer with Michael Simon Interiors, a high-end residential design firm. They bought their first home last year—an apartment in the West Village. Lisa played on a co-ed soccer team for the past year with Stephanie Mendell and Kristy Malm Magyar ’02, and they won their division championship. Y Megan Lewis got married March 1 in Kona, Hawaii, to Major David Oue. David, from Kailua-Kona, is a graduate of the Air Force Academy. They live in Colorado Springs, where David is an Air Force officer and Megan works for the Department of Defense. Y Kyle and April Hunter Garry live with their one-year-old
son, Owen, in Framingham, Mass., where Kyle is in the management training program at TJX Companies and April is a medical case manager at Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. Y Ann Farley is running the NYC marathon Nov. 2 for Fred’s Team, a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Charity. Y Stephanie Nichols earned her Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of Texas at Austin May 17. Y Lauren Schaad moved to Arizona to begin her M.B.A at Thunderbird. For the past three years she’s worked as an executive recruiter with Conley & Company in Boston. At Thunderbird she’ll specialize in international development and put her Spanish major to good use. Y Ria Calong Russo left NYC and started business school at Boston College. She competed in the NYC Olympic-distance triathlon July 20, raising $2,500 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with Teams in Training. Y Suzanne and Richard Hallquist had their first child, Charlotte Ruth Hallquist, April 24, 2008. Y Rob Egleston and
Celia Gentile were married in Boston June 7, 2008. Y Danielle Fornes is in her third year as morning show host of 98.9 WCLZ radio in Portland, Maine. She recently spent four days broadcasting live from the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. Y Melanie Morin started her fourth and final year of psychiatry residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She and her husband enjoy their dogs, Gracie and Daisy. Y Danielle D’Entremont was awarded her D.O. degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine June 7. —Dana Fowler Charette
02 Greetings 2002-ers! Loryn
Traversi married Matt Irwin Sept. 20, 2008, on Cape Cod. Loryn is working on her M.S.W. at Boston College, with one year to go. Y Matt Tolve was recently engaged to Mercy Horst (Middlebury ’01) and plans a fall 2009 wedding. Matt is in his third year at UC Davis-Law and is interning for a law firm in San Francisco, where he hopes to stay. Y Claudia Laverde married Ryan Anderson in San Francisco. Tara Sweeney, Eric Strome, Jenna Bishop, Lauren Eisenberg, and Jill Bluso were there to celebrate. Y Erika Thoreson married Daniel Tristan May 25, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas. Lauren Frisoli, Shayna Scholnick, Jennifer Coughlin Gaubinger, Jamie Hinson Scribner, and Katy Bruski were bridesmaids. Also in attendance were Nick Gaubinger and James Scribner ’99. Y Brook Brisson married Josh Best in January in Vt. Brook recently graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School. They will move to Anchorage, Alaska, where Brook will clerk for a judge on the Alaska Court of Appeals, and, she hopes, get some good skiing. Y Chris Cogbill married his wife, Elizabeth, in 2004 and they have pursued careers in pathology and internal medicine respectively. Since graduation Chris has completed five marathons and skied four American Birkebeiners (A merica’s largest cross-country ski marathon). Chris recently saw Page and Paul Lee, who live in Chicago, where Paul finished his first year of med school at Rush University while working to finish his Ph.D. in chemistry. Y John Skovran also finished his first year of medical school and spent the summer in Accra, Ghana, providing humanitarian and medical services at a hospital. Y Brian and Katie Rausch Bailey moved to North Carolina, where they will