2009 is the year the day job gives way to the entrepreneurial portfolio? Y Jane Solomon Donovan lives in Stoneham, Mass., with her husband and two sons, Benjamin, 5, and Matthew, 3. With the boys in kindergarten and preschool, she returned to work part time as a commercial lines account manager for an insurance agency. She’d love to know if any classmates are in the Stoneham area. She often gets together with Jim ’89 and Jen Cos Brayer and their two girls, Lindsey, 6, and Heather, 4. Recently Chris Horst, husband Wade, and son Zak ventured east from Colorado and joined the Brayers and the Donovans for a long overdue get-together. It’s amazing how the years have passed but the Colby bonds and friendships remain strong. Y Matt Melander has been on the 40th birthday circuit: last August Matt Dumas’s 40th in Greenwich, Conn., included Dan Bouvier and Erik Potholm; in January in Denver, Colo., an improv performance for Walker Fenton included Keith Thomajan, Chip Smith, and Charlie Allen. Great fun! Dr. Melander reports that his sports medicine practice is growing and he is having a lot of fun with his girls, Willa, 5, Addie, 3, and Lucia, 1. Y Susan Gerstberger Goggin writes, “I currently live in Washington, D.C., with my husband, Kyle, and our daughters, Addisyn Mackenzie, 3, and Keaghan Cannon, 8 months. I’m a Secret Service agent on the Presidential Protective Detail and work at the White House. As you can imagine, it has been a busy few months preparing for the Inauguration! So after little sleep and many hours working in the cold, we had a successful day and a new president in the White House. It is a unique opportunity to participate in such a historical moment
in our country and that is one of the things I love about my job. We are truly sitting in the front seat of history! In a small-world coincidence, I was working an event at the White House in December with President Bush and recognized George Moore as one of the attendees at the 2008 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom where his in-laws were honored. It was fun to see him and to meet his beautiful family. I recently reconnected with Colleen Halleck Taylor courtesy of Colby magazine. We’ve gotten together on several occasions and I’ve met her husband, Ray, and children Quinn and Campbell. I guess that’s what the alumni columns are all about!” Y She’s right: stay in touch with your classmates and send me your news today!
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Karen Wu classnews1992@alum.colby.edu Dr. Margaret Russell Ewalt’s book, Peripheral Wonders: Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Orinoco, was recently published by Bucknell University Press and is available online. Check it out. Y Congratulations to Sarah Poriss, who got married Oct. 19 to Paul Spirito in Hartford, Conn. She’s an attorney in West Hartford. Y Laurence and Molly Beale Constable, and their son, Webb, 3, welcomed Sadie Goodyear Constable into the family. Molly reports that Sura DuBow Lennon just had a third child, a boy, Heath Patrick Lennon. Jim and Lyz Makely Best had Charles Logan Best. Kelly Wenger is due with her second in February. Molly lives in Boston, Sura in
90s newsmakers Laura Senier ’90 received the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences for work in community outreach and environmental justice in Rhode Island. Senier, currently a graduate student in sociology at Brown, is the first social scientist to receive the award. F President Barack Obama named Jay Heimbach ’91 to his legislative affairs team. Heimbach was chief of staff for Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. He also held positions in the Office of Legislative Affairs and as policy advisor to the deputy chief of staff in the Clinton Laura Senier ’90 White House. F Super Lawyers magazine selected Tara Falsani Harkins ’98 as one of its rising stars for the state of Minnesota. Harkins’s practice specializes in intellectual property and business litigation. The rising stars list includes only 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state each year.
milestones Births: Triplets, Giselle, Lauren, and Jackson, to Heather and Jason Jabar ’96 F A son, Benjamin Baker Klemesrud, to Brad Klemesrud and Shannon Baker ’98 Deaths: Alison Werner Barton ’96, March 1, 2009, in Killingly, Conn., at 34.
Chicago, Lyz in northern N.J., and Kelly in Portland, Ore. Last August Sura, Lyz, and Molly had a mini reunion—minus the late nights of beer and wine. Seems like 2009 is the year of the baby. Congratulations to all of you! Y Jim Dionizio has been selected by the Rhode Island Interscholastic League as one of 12 distinguished athletes, coaches, officials, and administrators for induction into its athletic hall of fame. Induction ceremonies will take place May 6 in Warwick, R.I. Jim, you’ll have to give details after the big ceremony. Well done! Jim teaches in the Cranston public school system and is an assistant baseball and football coach at Cranston East High School.
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Meg Bernier Boyd classnews1993@alum.colby.edu Shawn Behling Keller had her second baby, a girl, Josephine Susanne Keller, Oct. 27, 2008. Y In September Scott Abrams moved from Waltham to Belmont, Mass. In the two months following, Scott set a personal best time in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., and he and Faviana Vasconcelos were married on a catamaran off the coast of Key West. Laurie and Dave “D’eau” Crittenden, Cindy and Dave “Tubby” Lauman, and Sarry and Kelvin “Elvis” Lui ’92 attended the wedding. Y Glenice Nickerson Burk expected her second baby girl in January. Y With $55,000 of graduate school bills, no job, slight weight gain, a receding hairline, and a 1997 Ford Escort that didn’t pass inspection, Patrick Robbins looks forward to a summer of living at his parents’ house. He would like to tell his fellow alums that there is no excuse for not sending in their story. Y Brian and Nancy Emerson Kress have two boys, Clay, 5, and Glen, 3, and are expecting another child this summer in their Lyme, N.H., home. Brian is a research professor in Dartmouth College’s physics department and Nancy teaches math at Hanover High School. Y Janine Deforge Olson works as a financial advisor with Smith Barney in Waltham, Mass. She and her husband, Sven, expect their fifth child in June. Y Kathryn Steele Zoldan and her husband welcomed their second son, Simon Dylan, June 11, 2008. Their 4-year-old, Alexander, loves his brother very much, and they are all doing well. Y Last year Sarah Burditt McDougall ran her first half-marathon since 1992. She thanks Coach Deb Aitken for her early inspiration. She enjoys lots of sunshine and outdoor activities in Bend, Ore. Give her a heads up if you’re in the area. She has also enjoyed catching up with some old Colby classmates on Facebook. Y Marty Hergert and Amy Swan had their second child, Charley Martin, June 20, 2008, in Melrose, Mass. He tipped the scales at 10 lbs. 3 oz.! Marty is a product manager at State Street
Global Advisors in Boston and is pursuing his M.B.A. at Suffolk University at night. He enjoys exploring Boston’s Chinatown at lunch and often catches up with Matt ’92 and Laura Fogarty Nerney and Shirley Macbeth and Ben Merowitz.
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Jessie Newman classnews1994@alum.colby.edu Mark your calendars for Reunion Weekend at Colby: June 4-7, 2009. Greetings Class of ’94. We writers have been encouraged to keep it short to save space for the magazine… sorry to not have more space to elaborate. As I write this on a cold Sunday in late February, I find myself relocated to the Boston area (Stow, Mass., to be exact) taking a new job running the corporate foundation and community giving programs for BJ’s Wholesale Clubs. But more importantly, I’m with my family as my father struggles with the end stages of brain cancer. We’ve had a good fight these last 10 months and are now enjoying our new friends in hospice and their wonderful care. Y Jon Kaplan is now the spokesman for Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher of California. Y Cecily Totten has lived in South Africa for almost a year working on a horse farm that does pony treks into Lesotho. She has a horse named Becks, and she loves living in a small town in the mountains. Y Marina Netto Grande is pregnant with another baby girl, Alice, due in September. Alice will join big sister Amanda. Marina works as a manager in the association that defends the telecom industry in Brazil, and she lives in Sao Paulo. The Grande’s will travel to New York to see old friends, including Paul Marnoto, Julie Ackerman Kaeli, and Jocelyn Hiller Kane. Last September Marina was in China and Dubai and met up with Adam Furber and his wife, Lin, in Hong Kong. Y Ali Meyer Hong moved to a new house in Newton last summer and balances working part time in college guidance at Newton Country Day School with raising two energetic boys: Matty (almost 6) and Tommy (almost 4). Y Sara Ferry Gyan reports that Rebekah Freeman Schulz expects baby number two in May. Sara’s family visited with Marile Haylon Borden and her crew for 10 days in Harbour Island. Y Jason and Stephanie Cain Sherman welcomed their third child, Juliette, July 12. Juliette joins Annabelle and Harold. Life with three under the age of four is perpetually buried in juice boxes and diapers. Y Janet Powers welcomed Scarlet Aimee Lee on 2/09/09 and she is already daddy’s little girl! Y Sean Devine, who has been at UNH the last 13 years as an assistant football coach and has called the shots on offense the last two, has moved on and is the new offensive line coach at Boston College. Y Jennifer Hurd is getting married in August COLBY / SPRING 2009 47