in attendance: Emily Tull, Sasha Kenyon ’08, Kristin Schmidt, Monty Hankin and Laura Harker, and Jenny Mooney. Liz is also excited to report that Lauren Uhlmann Blazar had the same due date expecting a baby girl! Y Nate Stone, Stephen Planas, and Danny Epstein ’08 had a mini-reunion in DC in November. The three amigos trekked up to Happy Valley, donning their red Ohio State shirts among a sea of 100,000-plus Penn State fans. The trio emerged from the game safely and with a commanding Buckeye victory. They were able to keep the celebration going for a couple extra days when Danny was stranded in DC thanks to Hurricane Sandy! Y Lijah Barasz lives, works, and plays in Los Angeles alongside her fiancé, Wesley High. Her third episode of Pretty Little Liars will air on ABC Family in early February. She joyfully sings alongside fellow Sirens alum Heather Ogilvy ’04 in the Silver Lake Chorus. Y Tracy Kolakowski married Michael King ’08 June 2 in Darien, Conn. She is head teacher at the West Side Montessori School in New York, and he is a vice president in Citigroup’s Transaction Services business.
2007 Annie Mears classnews2007@colby.edu Riley Doyle received an M.B.E. (master’s in bioscience enterprise) from Cambridge University UK, Hughes College. While there, he entered the CUE Cambridge University Business Plan Competition in October 2011. After going through three different rounds, Riley’s team won the life science division award for their plan for an automated device to synthesize DNA. They received a cash prize of 7,500 pounds to start the business, Desktop Genetics, Ltd. Y Merle Eisenberg moved to Princeton to start his Ph.D. in medieval history. He had a great time last summer seeing horses at Assateague Island with, among others, A.J. Herrmann, Todd Herrmann ’10, and Brett Souza ’10. Merle also hung out in New York with Chris Appel and Charlie Wilson. Y Kate Braemer is now camp director for a summer camp at a nonprofit foundation in Newtown Square, Pa., that serves children in need with educational and recreational opportunities. She’s also developing the environmental education curriculum for their early learning center. She hopes for a snowy winter! Y Emily Wilbert is engaged to her sweetheart, Tim McGough. They’re getting married in April in Durango, Colo. Y Krissy Morin finished her Ph.D. in biomedi-
cal engineering at the U. of Minnesota in late October and is now employed as an R&D scientist at St. Jude Medical in St. Paul, Minn. She also attended the weddings of Courtney Larson ’08 and Jeff Carroll ’08 and Caroline Donohue and Jake Ouellette over the summer. Y Josh Handelman was in Honolulu until December and successfully helped elect Rep. Mazie Hirono as the next U.S. Senator from Hawaii. Now typically I like to refrain from commentary on what people are doing, but campaigning around Hawaii sounds pretty amazing, so well done, Handelman! Y Kali Abel finished her graduate degree in geology last spring and has been working as an environmental consultant in Portland, Ore. She’s starting her own science and engineering data firm based in Girdwood, Alaska, in 2013. Y John DeBruicker is writing about health insurance, cars, and the new Furby for an advertising agency in Philadelphia. He and Josh Gerber designed and wore T-shirts to a Paul Banks concert in November, thus reforming the Plenti Pak. Y Beth Hirschhorn finished a master’s degree from UPenn in biopharmaceuticals in the spring. She’s returned to Novartis, working as a clinical trial leader. Y Katie Himmelmann married Charlie Hale ’06 in Portland, Maine, on Labor Day. There were many spirited Colby alums in attendance and it was a wonderful day. Katie is a nurse and is earning her master’s at the University of California, San Francisco to become a pediatric nurse practitioner. She lives in Oakland, Calif., with Charlie and their dog, Yogi. Y Elizabeth Horton Smyth married Timothy Bramley Dec. 1 in Pittsboro, N.C. She teaches English as a Second Language in the Haywood County Schools in North Carolina. Y As for me, Annie Mears, I am sending warm congratulations to many newly engaged friends, including Laura Keeler, Katie Maland, Karli Gasteazoro, Catharine O’Brien, and Blake Foster.
2008 Palmer McAuliff classnews2008@colby.edu As always, thank you for your updates! Each time I hear from one of you, I am more and more excited for our reunion in June! Mark your calendars and come celebrate with us June 7-9! Below is a taste of all the exciting news you’ll be sure to hear firsthand during Reunion Weekend. Y Erica Kreuter married Jonathan Schechter in Rhode Island Aug. 11, 2012. In attendance were Jessica Coliflores, Jamie and Valerie
00s newsmakers USA Hockey’s director of women’s ice hockey, Reagan Carey ’01, hired Mike Boyle, the strength and conditioning coach who helped Team USA win gold in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Carey wants to ensure her players reach their full potential as they eye the top prize in 2014. F Kate Crocker Jordan ’05 won the Thomas Henry Huxley Award and Marsh Prize for the best zoological doctoral thesis produced in the U.K. Jordan is now in her second year at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London. F Becky Munsterer ’01 published her first book for children ages 6-11, Mrs. Claus and The School of Christmas Spirit, available on Amazon. com. F After a national search, Jonathan Bastian ’06 was hired as the local host of NPR’s Morning Jonathan Bastian ’06 Edition on Louisville Public Radio, where he is responsible for anchoring the news for most of Kentucky and southern Indiana. His work has been published on NPR.org and aired nationally on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Coit Luckenbill, Erica Ciszek, Ally Haas, Christa Miller-Shelley, Virginia Brown, Cate Denny, Jamie O’Connell, Bailey Woodhull, Dustin Hilt, Aditya Bhat, Jamie Goldring ’09, Christy Mihos ’09, Danielle Crochiere ’09, Shannon Merrell ’10, Emily Warmington ’10, Christina Mok ’09, Alyssa Belisle ’11, and Will Harrington ’10. Y On Oct. 21 Patrick Sanders’s boyfriend, David, proposed on stage at the Kennedy Center and, of course, Patrick said “yes!” The following evening they celebrated in style as they sat next to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi at the taping of the Mark Twain Prize. Patrick also attended Janice Kassman’s retirement party in September, where he enjoyed seeing Bryan Solar, Tim Williams, and Sarah Kunkel. When Patrick made a trip to Boston in October, I got to spend time with him and he was also able to see Victoria Hayne, Emily Plumb, and Stephanie Lubin-Levy, as well as catch up with Laurel Duggan, Nicole Turgiss, Dustin Hilt, and Bailey Woodhull. Y Connor Tubridy and Elizabeth Enderle celebrated their marriage June 23, 2012, in Pomfret, Conn. In attendance were Zack Schuman, Brett Willis, Adam Geringer-Dunn, Christian McTarnaghan, and Amanda King. Connor and Elizabeth currently reside in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Y In May Kristin Weigle started a job as a consultant at Sjoberg Evashenk Consulting, a firm in Sacramento that specializes in consulting and auditing for government entities. Y Jessica Harold married Andrew Yeskoo ’07 Aug. 4 in Speculator, N.Y. The wedding was attended by Kelsie Cullinan ’07, who served as Andrew’s best (wo)man.
The couple currently lives in Berkeley, Calif., where she works as a genetics researcher and he as a geotechnical engineer. They spent much of the fall exploring Yosemite, where Andrew was doing research on rockfalls. Y On Sept. 22 I had the pleasure of attending the beautiful wedding ceremony of Nicholas Cade and Christina Evriviades at the Newagen Seaside Inn in Southport, Maine. Colby was ever-present, as dozens of classmates and friends were there to celebrate, and the wedding celebrant himself was our very own Bro Adams—what a weekend! Y Thanks again for the updates and look forward to seeing you all in June!
2009 Olivia Sterling classnews2009@colby.edu Kat Brzozowski was promoted to associate editor at Thomas Dunne Books in New York and is engaged to Wes Miller ’08. Y In addition to accepting a new position at Viacom Scratch (scratch.viacom.com) in June, Zac Bloom spent the first week of November working on his dad’s campaign for California’s State Assembly. As of this writing, they are the presumptive winners (with a 218-vote margin)! Y Shelley Payne weathered the storm on Cape Cod, where there was only a minor power outage. She works for the Cape Cod Bluefins hockey team in the single A Federal Hockey League—and they were not locked out! She got dispatches from several Colby friends further south, but no one was affected too badly. Y Ned Warner moved from Laramie, Wyo., to Denver to pursue
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