00s newsmakers Megan Williams ’04 received the 2012 Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce Rising Star Award. The award is given to a chamber member under the age of 40 who demonstrates business success and community involvement. Williams is president of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, a central Maine nonprofit. F Noah Charney ’02 gave TED talks in December (“How to Steal From the Louvre”) and March (“Leonardo da Vinci and the Treasure-Hunt Instinct”); spoke on “Traffickers, Forgers, and Thieves—Crime in the World of Art” at the Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield, Conn., in March; coauthored the eBook The Wine Forger’s Noah Charney ’02 Handbook; and finished writing The Book of Forgery, to be published next year. F Katherine Jacobs ’03 was selected for the 2013 Fulbright International Education Administrators program in Japan. She is assistant dean of international studies at Providence College. F Lauren Smith Camera ’05 was named a 2013-14 Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She will use her fellowship to examine the Obama administration’s competitive grant programs. Camera is an education policy staff writer at CQ Roll Call.
It was Ben’s first-ever marathon, and Scott had his best time yet. Y Nikki Crocker is getting her M.S. in geology at the University of Houston. She’s working as a TA as she goes to school. This Christmas she got engaged to a native Houstonian she met while obtaining an additional undergraduate degree. While they were visiting Nikki’s family for the holidays, he proposed on the beach where she spent her summers growing up. Her fiancé is earning his Ph.D. in structural geology.
2010 Sameera Anwar classnews2010@colby.edu Delia Langan was on the East Coast starting in November doing trunk shows in New York, Philly, and D.C. She’s back in SF and just acquired her own jewelry studio, and delialangan.com is now fully functional! Y Dan Prunier and Roger Bel traded in the girl they met on Craigslist for Colby baseball rival Jim Wood (Trinity ’10), and they recently adopted a cat. If you want to play them in NHL 2013 on Xbox 360 live, please reach out on Tinder. Y Kelsey Gibbs and Matt Silverman ’12 live in Portland, Maine, and enjoy the East Coast. Y Leigh Bullion and Ross Nehrt live in Boston and love living near so many Colby friends. Leigh will be traveling for work to both coasts and Europe this spring. Y Kat Cosgrove runs into Nadege Roux ’09 every so often in Denver. She’ll graduate from the Korbel School in June and is looking to stay in Denver but will likely relocate to D.C. Y Schuyler Weiss is
now a director at Morgan Stanley. Y Rob Knipp works at IBM in Washington, D.C., while also volunteering as an SAT prep tutor at night. His travels have taken him to the Caribbean, Croatia, and Bosnia recently. Y Brittany Tasi is a third-year school psychology graduate student at Fairfield University and designed a project to celebrate School
Savina recently presented her work at Thinking Gender, a conference at UCLA. Y After teaching in Thailand for two years and getting yoga certified in India, Ali Davis moved to the west coast of Costa Rica to surf, do yoga and reiki, explore mysticism, and generally enjoy life. Y Whit McCarthy sold his company, By Hand Granola, and now works for a tech start-up in Santa Monica. He planned to visit Sam Kennedy ’09, Stew Brown, and Phinney McIntire in Chicago for St. Patty’s day with Max Weiss, Caddy Brooks ’09, Alex Farmer ’09, Chris Healy ’11, and Geoff Parr ’09. Y Doug Sibor, James Westhafer, Scott Veidenheimer, Mike Baldwin, and Karthik Sonty recently welcomed their dear friend Christopher “Reilly” Taylor to the greater Boston area at a delightful housewarming bash at Reilly’s new apartment in Somerville. Memorable activities included a photo booth, some late night revelry, and one of the group referring to himself as a “blonde bombshell.” Y Erica Block and the handsome Nick Tucker drank Manhattans in LA, where they both now live. Y Jordan Schoonover currently lives in Washington, D.C., where she will be until August. She’s having a lot of fun exploring the city with Hannah Bisgyer ’11. Y Samantha Smith, Johanna Kunkel, Rohan Dutt, and Emma Beck ’12 have been soaking up the sun in San Francisco. Y The Joint Chiefs (Jeoff
Hank Wyman ’11 has a start-up called La Matera that sells belts handmade in the U.S.A. with gaucho-patterned fabrics imported from Argentina. The patterns have been around for 100 years. Psychology Awareness Week. She shared her work in the Connecticut Association of School Psychologists newsletter and in the National Association of School Psychologists newspaper, the Communiqué. She will graduate this May, receiving her certification as a school psychologist. Y A hearty congratulations to Sarah Bruce and Will Cantley ’08, who got engaged in January and are celebrating with many Colby friends! They live in Boston, where Sarah enjoys work at an advertising agency and Will attends graduate school at Tufts. Y Sarah Levine will attend vet school next year, either at UW-Madison or Tufts. Y Emily Griffoul recently moved to Irvine, Calif., with Ken Cramer. Diana DelleChiaie and Savina Balasubramanian both joined them to explore California for a few days.
Jarnot, Zander Koallick ’11, James O’Brien ’12, Carson Brown ’13) do America this summer. They’ll debut their upcoming album in Boston June 14 and then tour for the next month with stops in Portland, New York, D.C., Nashville, New Orleans, and Chicago. Make sure to come out and say hello. The party is just beginning, folks!
2011 Nick Cunkelman classnews2011@colby.edu Tory Grey recently finished up a year and a half of research on traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital before starting work as a chiropractic assistant at a wellness center in
North Andover, Mass., in January. On the side, she also works for a start-up that designs customized CrossFit websites and is an assistant ski coach for the Tufts alpine ski team. She recently moved to Beverly, Mass., and loves it. She is competing in CrossFit and is now certified as a CrossFit level 1 trainer. In July she will be a certified holistic health coach. Y Chase Baker has been working at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine, since the fall of 2011. This year he is teaching AB and BC calculus as well as two sections of non-AP calculus. He’s a dorm parent living in a dorm with students and other faculty, and he coaches three seasons: boys’ soccer in the fall, girls’ varsity basketball in the winter, and coed track in the spring. In June 2012 he traveled to Malawi to volunteer for a month with a program called Go! Malawi. During his spring break, he traveled to Fredericksburg, Va., to visit Lauren Hendricks. Y Catherine Mullin and Chelsea Heneghan moved in together just before the New Year when Catherine joined Nurse Chenny in NYC. The two have enjoyed working hard and playing harder in the concrete jungle. Y Sonia Rose Mahabir graduated from her higher education administration master’s program at the University of Michigan last December. Y Lia Engelsted still works at IBM in the D.C. area. She enjoys spending time with the Colby crew of Arlington, Va., and D.C. They celebrate each other’s birthdays and have housewarming parties. There is even a Colby trivia group that gets together every other week, made up of Alicia Kreiger, Stephen Sentoff (who just got engaged), Alex Pan, Ellen Morris, Aaron Kaye, Nate Eberly, Brynna Patel, and Michael Brophy ’12. And thanks to Pan, Hali Castleman, Morris, Eberly, and Patel got tickets to Obama’s inauguration. It was a chilly but amazing weekend in D.C. Y Hank Wyman has a start-up called La Matera (lamaterashop.com) that sells belts handmade in the U.S.A. with gaucho-patterned fabrics imported from Argentina. The patterns have been around for 100 years.
2012 Sarah Janes classnews2012@colby.edu I hope everyone is having an exciting first year away from Mayflower Hill. I’ve enjoyed running into many familiar faces here in Boston. As your class correspondent, I will be reaching out to you and, starting with the next issue, compiling news about our classmates here in this column. Looking forward to seeing all of you back at Colby June 6-9 for our one-year reunion!
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