alumni at large
00s newsmakers
Escar Kusema ’09
Professional triathlete Sarah Piampiano ’02 was the keynote speaker at Stratton Mountain School’s 2012 commencement. Pampiano worked on Wall Street for 10 years, then decided to become a professional triathlete. She got her first win in the Ironman New Orleans in April. F Laura Williamson ’07 was named head women’s soccer coach at Vassar College. Williamson was an assistant women’s soccer coach at Stevens Institute of Technology the last three seasons. F Escar Kusema ’09 was named one of Top 35 Africans making an impact on their respective countries by Young People in International Affairs (YPIA). Kusema, who is from Zimbabwe, is CEO at Dumela: Research, Advocacy & Sustainable Relief for Internal Displacement, a Boston-area nonprofit.
marketing communications specialist for National Life Group in Montpelier. Tom is a landscape architect with Ambler Design in Stowe. Y Bill and Kate St. Germaine Simpson welcomed their second child, Stewart William Simpson, in February. Edith, their oldest, eagerly awaits climbing trees with her baby brother.
2003 Lauren Tiberio classnews2003@alum.colby.edu Suzanne Skinner is getting married this October. Brie Drummond, Caroline Koskinas, and Anne Rudolph are in the bridal party. Y Brooke McNally is engaged to Kevin Thurston ’98. They plan a June 2013 Colby wedding. Y Julie Blossom is marrying Nicholas Parks aboard the Santa Fe Southern Railway this October. Guests include Harrison and Bonnie McGuire Wreschner, Melanie Newton Lago, and Andrea Jones. Y Zach Shull got married last August in Boston. He met his bride at MIT Sloan in 2009. Brian Mitchell, Meredith Pfaff Wolcott, David Friedman ’02, Sean Skulley ’02, Grant Swisher ’02, Shawn Burnell ’02, and Chris Prendergast ’02 attended. Y Sarah Zerbonne married Steve Fenigstein in Ohio July 7. They live in Seattle, where Sarah works for an environmental nonprofit and Steve is a web developer. Heather Ogilvy ’04 recently visited Sarah. They had a great time singing in a band and reminiscing about Colby. Y Kristy Thurston graduated from the UConn general surgery residency in June and started a colorectal fellowship at North Shore-LIJ in July. She and David Prinstein ’02 were married in April on St. John, V.I.
Y Alison Killelea was married in May in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from emergency medicine residency at Brown in June and moved to Florida to start a job as an emergency medicine attendant. Y Peter Newberry received his Ph.D. in economics from UWisconsin, Madison, and is an assistant professor of economics at Penn State. Y Michael Cox caught up with Spencer Hutchins in San Diego and Justin Stempeck in Boston while snagging a position as an assistant professor at Dartmouth. Y Eric Eichler lives in Northampton, where he’s finishing his M.S.W. at Smith. He’ll move to San Diego this fall to work at the VA in a psychosocial rehabilitation program for veterans with psychosis. Y Danielle O’Steen graduated with an M.A. in art history from George Washington in 2011 and this fall starts a Ph.D. program in art history at UMaryland, College Park. Y Tom Sterio is moving with wife Caroline and son Tom Jr. from San Antonio to Boston to join a periodontics practice. Looks forward to escaping the 100-degree Texas temperatures! Y Mike Wiley purchased Hugo’s restaurant in Portland, Maine. His partners, Andrew Taylor and Arlin Smith, bought the restaurant a couple months ago. They’re opening another next door to Hugo’s, Eventide Oyster Bar, where they will serve immaculate seafood and creative cocktails. Y Last April Kristen Vaughn Olson’s husband’s brewery—Bandwagon Brewpub in Ithaca, N.Y.—won a gold medal for their High Step Weizenbock at the TAP New York Craft Beer & Fine Food Festival. Bandwagon has only been open since December 2009, so Kristen and husband Will are thrilled one of their beers was voted
best in New York State! Y Jasmine Ashe Hodgson and husband still live in Manhattan and welcomed baby girl Lily Marie, in March. Y Kara Watson and husband Darren welcomed a daughter, Hadley Jane Sutherland, Feb. 24. Y Anna ZwahlenTronick ’02 and Alex Yarbrough welcomed their second son, Wesley Charles, who joins brother Grayson, 3, in Mill Valley, Calif. Y Mason ’04 and Amanda Surette Smith welcomed daughter Cora, Feb. 23, in Alexandria, Va. Amanda still works for the U.S. D.H.H.S. Y Dimitri and Joyce Megan Shannon-Winterson Michaud, from the D.C.-Metro area, announce the birth of their first child, Elodie Winter, in November 2011. Dimitri is a business and strategy consultant and recently completed his M.B.A. from the Smith School of Business. Megan works on Capitol Hill as a legislative director for Congresswoman Schakowsky of Illinois. Y Aliya Al Aufi welcomed her second child, Hannah Regina. She’s still in Oman, working as an HR consultant for an oil conglomerate. Y Daniel and Laurel Burnham Deacon moved to Duxbury, got a golden retriever, and expect their second child at the end of July. Y Start the countdown to our 10-year reunion, June 6-9, 2013!
2004 Kate Weiler classnews2004@alum.colby.edu Amanda Belden Kramer graduated from her orthodontic residency at Tufts School of Dental Medicine. She and her husband are expecting their first baby at the end of August. Y Amina McIntyre has been busy with theater productions in Atlanta. She was also an invited writer for the first Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival in June. Y Sari Gilbert married Billy Rudolph Dec. 31, 2011. Katie Sweeney Lepak was her maid of honor and Ashley Porter Walsh was a bridesmaid. Bobby Rudolph ’09 is the brother of the groom and was the best man. They spent their honeymoon in South Africa and the Seychelles and now live in
Salem, Mass. Y Brian and Ann Claflin Kelly moved from D.C. to Ann Arbor, Mich. Shortly afterward in April, they were thrilled to welcome their first child, Nathan Anders. Y Kristan Jiggetts works as a high school English teacher in the north suburbs of Chicago. For her spring break, she and her boyfriend visited Shannon Hopkins and her husband, Preston, in Vietnam. Shannon is doing great! Y Michael Hepburn shared that Holly Brown has landed a coveted job as the VP of development for The Combine, which is Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield’s new production company. The Combine already has three films in various stages of development/preproduction. Y Emily Bernier and Walt Shepard (Bowdoin grad) were married May 27 in Yarmouth, Maine. They live in Portland, where she works as a physician assistant in internal medicine and he works as a strategy consultant.
2005 Katie Gagne classnews2005@alum.colby.edu Kyle Ross returned from Asia and now lives in Denver, working for SportsOptical. com. Y Darren Larsen lives in Boulder and just finished his master’s in engineering (hydrology and water resource engineering) at UColorado. He’s working to complete his Ph.D. in geology this year. Y Nikki Patel and husband Mihir moved into their first home in January and expect their second baby girl in October. Y Laura Miller is engaged to Phil Rios, a Navy officer. She’ll move from Florida to Newport, R.I., this summer to be with him. They plan a summer 2013 wedding. Y After four great years at Google, Adelin Cai moved on to work on Twitter’s trust and safety team, building out policies for online advertising. She and her husband are based in the Bay Area and travel frequently to N.Y.C. Y Matt Lynes shares news from Tim Lancaster, who finished his M.D. at Temple Medical School and will start his general surgery residency at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Tim’s wife and their children
Lisa Andracke ’05 , who completed her master’s in July, lives in Barcelona while working in video production for a nonprofit, Worldreader, that gives people in the developing world access to digital books. She traveled to Ghana to produce a shoot and document progress.
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