alumni at large went blonde. Y Austin Stonebraker will soon have his master’s and will work for an environmental consulting company out of Newburyport, Mass. Y Anna L’Hommedieu moved to Seattle in September and started a master’s in organizational psychology at Seattle Pacific University. Anna enjoys the coffee and the weather (so far). She recently had run-ins with Rob Belcher, Ashley Landbloom, Katie Harris, and Piper Elliott Abodeely. Y I’m preparing for another snowy winter on Mt. Hood here in Oregon and hope to compete in a few ski events with my husband, Chris. Until next time. —Sally Hall Bell
03 Winter class notes for the Class of 2003 are online at www.colby.edu/ mag. —Lauren Tiberio
04 It is hard to believe that our fifth
reunion is coming up in June. I hope to see everyone there! Y Andrew and Cassie Cote Grantham moved to Portland and bought their first house. Cassie was promoted to program manager of cardiovascular health at MaineHealth. Y Vanessa Verri received her J.D. from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law this spring and will remain in Arizona to practice federal Indian law. She is also pursuing an LL.M. in tribal law, government, and policy. Y Allison Turner married Josh Osgood (Dartmouth ’04) Aug. 9 in Wolfeboro, N.H. Melissa Rosales Neff was a bridesmaid. Morgan Pratt also attended. Allison and Josh bought a condo in Quincy, Mass. Y Elizabeth Turnbull is enjoying her first year as a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, studying business and the environment. Y Andrew Will started a new full-time job as house sound operator for the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston’s South End. Y Sarah Getchell got married in September. Jenny Boylan performed their wedding ceremony (she became a notary public for the event). Alumni attendees included Eric Fitz, Colin Witherill, Evan Allen ’05, Ben ’03 and Gretchen Black Tuff, Bill ’03 and Anna Carlson McCloy ’03, Andrew Jaspersohn ’02 and Lindsay Antolino, Laurel Haeusslein, Dawn Mertineit, and Sarah Brown Davidson ’03. Y Eric McAllister and Jenny Carpenter were married last year and moved to Boston, where Eric attends Harvard Business School and Jenny works as a documentary filmmaker for National Geographic. Y Mahdi 60 COLBY / WINTER 2009
Bseiso is still in New York City, where he is a managing senior consultant at a company specializing in anti-money laundering. Y Betsy and Peter Rice had a son, Samuel Bartlett Rice, July 16. They live in Arlington, Va., and Peter works at Alarm.com. Y Brittney Lazar married Alex Burgess ’03 in August. Injoo Han, Rebecca Avrutin, and Kate Wheeler Brunelle were bridesmaids and they had a large crew of classmates in attendance. Brittney and Alex live in Hanover, N.H., where he is at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and she works as a therapist at a mental health center. Y Brandon Irwin lives in East Lansing, Mich., and is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. student at Michigan State University in the sport psychology program. Y Shannon Kelly is moving to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, and opening a oneroom schoolhouse. Y Alan Hartmann climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania this August. Y Andrew McKennaFoster spent two weeks on a spidercollecting expedition in Panama. Y Annika Svore married Erik Wicklund Oct. 18 at The Rainier Club in downtown Seattle. Ellen Soucy attended their wedding. Y Alyssa Henley is in D.C. working in corporate relations at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She visited Orlena Scoville, Sarah Gagnon, and Stephanie Lane in San Francisco and plans to move there next year. Terri Cunningham is engaged to Christian Segura. Since Alyssa and Terri have been roommates since freshman year (eight years!), they will hike the Macchu Picchu trail this spring as one last roommate trip before Terri gets hitched. Y I attended Brandon Davis and Dawn Spinner’s beautiful wedding in NYC this November and saw Jenn Withnell, Amelia Confalone, Kyle MacDonald, and Lindsey Lanier. —Kate Weiler
05 After spending a crisp, autumn
weekend on Mayflower Hill, I’d like to congratulate the 2005 alumni who triumphed at this year’s Family Homecoming Weekend tailgate competition. Maureen Sherr y, Nicole Wessen, Carreau Mueller, Steph Pierce, Courtney Morris, Matt Lynes, Aaron Blazar, Ryan Crotty, and Sheldon Stevenson all contributed to a winning tailgate, keeping the Class of 2005 proud! Y Cupid has struck! Sarah Goodrich and Noah Hoffman are engaged and plan a wedding for summer 2009. Sean Murphy and Katie Austgen will also soon tie the knot. Jennifer Andrews
married Jerod Weinman in July in Amherst, Mass. They honeymooned in Jamaica and relocated to Grinnell, Iowa, where Jenn works with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Grinnell College. Grads attending the wedding included Kevin Andrews ’04, Patrick Harner, Torrey Kulow, Ben and Melissa Yosua-Davis, Chip Colwell ’03, Becky Anderson ’07, Kristen Schaefer ’04, bridesmaid Mary Hill, and Christabel Kwabi ’06. Patrick Harner will be married this November to Lois Grandmaison. Patrick works at U.Mass Amherst in campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Ellen Weaver married Derek Berg in August. She is a certified teacher pursuing a master’s in applied literacy. Steve Kasperski recently married high school girlfriend Sarah Adamis in Chicago. Many Colby alumni attended including Katie Slemp, Tom Wilson (who lives in Burlington, Vt.), Larry Dagrosa (who is in medical school at UVM), Noah Hoffman, Sarah Goodrich, and Kyle Ross ’06. And our reigning class couple, Bill Gallitto and Michelle Cote, are enjoying their recent engagement. They still live in Brighton, Mass., and attend school in the Boston area. Y David Acker relocated to Houston, Texas, where he works at New Living, an eco-friendly home and building supply start-up. He periodically runs into Jeremy Little, Houston’s newest socialite, who works for a small public relations agency, On the Mark Communications. Y Melisse Hinkle works in D.C. producing video stories for United Press International’s Web site (UPI.com) and traveled to Denver and St. Paul to cover the Democratic and Republican national conventions. She also ran the Cape Cod Marathon in October in honor of her grandmother’s 80th birthday and fight against cancer. Y Catherine Sear is in a master’s program in international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is currently studying at the school’s campus in Bologna, Italy, and will complete the program next year in Washington, D.C. Y I ran into Devon McConnellGordon in NYC this September. She completed an undergraduate degree in architecture and is in her final year of a master’s program in architecture at Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S. This co-op program enabled her to live in Dublin, Ireland, and NYC in the last year. Barry Brown also recently started this program.
Y Hannah Emery was awarded her
M.A. in sociology at UC Berkeley at the end of the summer and is still working toward her Ph.D. Y After three seasons of coaching football at Colby, Mike Civitello now coaches Division I football at the University at Albany. Y Jon Eisenberg is in Africa guiding raft trips on the White Nile in Uganda. He assures us that more updates and hopefully more stability are in his future. Y Toni-Lynn Robbins has worked for the Bangor Daily News since graduation, during which time she received the Maine Press Association’s Bob Drake Young Writer’s Award. She recently took a job at Winchester Hospital in Winchester, Mass., as a communications specialist and is enrolled in a master’s program at Simmons College. Y Caitlin McCusker ran the Boston Half Marathon in October alongside Steph Pierce, Carreau Mueller, Aaron Blazar, Jeff Lederman, John Pollakowski, Nicole Wessen, and Mackenzie Wessen ’07. Y Rachel Damon is the new director of the drama department at Allen Academy, located in College Station, Texas, working with students in grades K-12. Y Katie Slemp lives in Providence, R.I., with Greg Sawyer ’03, who is completing his orthopedic residency at Brown. Katie works for Health Dialog, a health-care management and analytic firm, where she designs analytic tools for health plans, provider groups, and beneficiaries. Y Kevin Yardi reports that the Class of 2005-sponsored senior night, held last April at the Colby Pub, was a success (150 members of our class contributed to make this possible). Kevin plans to rally the class again this spring to sponsor a similar event. Y Have a wonderful winter and please keep this great news coming! —Katie Gagne Kit Hickey and Katie Roberts met in Germany the last week of September and ran a marathon together. After running they headed to Munich for Oktoberfest where they met up with Nicole Stadelman and Amy Cronin. Y Emily Tull started a new job in sports marketing in NYC and moved in with Liz Shepherd and Sasha Kenyon ’08. Liz just started teaching her first English class and Sasha started a job at Merrill Lynch. Y Brandon Smithwood lives in Brookline, Mass., and works on renewable and clean energy with an organization called Conservation Services Group as the Clean Energy Markets Fellow. He’ll go to
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