ALUMNI AT LARGE He’s also in touch with Eric Zieff, Gary Donaldson, Harold Rider, and Jeff Bruce. Y Keep writing.
1989 Anita Terry classnews1989@colby.edu Keep an eye out for Scott Jablonski’s newest CD, We’re All Standouts, in the next few months. Scott recently started an organization in Rhode Island called Stand Out With Scott (www.standoutwithscott. com) devoted to reinforcing positive character traits in children and inspiring them to discover and use their natural talents productively. Y Must we rely on the Class of 1986 for news about our own Kevin Plummer? Sarah Whittle Stoffel ’86 ran into Kevin at Tampa Prep, where Kevin is headmaster and where Sarah’s son was playing lacrosse for a rival school. There’s a photo of the encounter posted on the alumni website to verify that Kevin does in fact still exist. Y Andrew Ian Dodge started writing a column in the Brunswick, Maine, Times Record, in addition to writing for the Huffington Post and PolicyMic.com. He reports that he has “quite a few interesting prospects in 2013, both political and nonpolitical.” Y If you saw a familiar face in the audience at the State of the Union, it was Shaun Dakin, who continues to work on the issues of climate change and gun control for his clients. Shaun’s son is heading into fourth grade. Y Are we really old enough for our offspring to go to college? Lara Beetham Monasch is just one of many to report that indeed we are. Her son Ryan had his confirmation and first AP exam as
never get invited anywhere: Marc Enger, Rachel Bernstein, Leslie Dougherty Biddle, and Brendan Cahill met for dinner in NYC and I didn’t find out about it until afterward. Y Also in the mini-reunion department, Marc Rando was headed to Sebago, Maine, for an annual trip to visit with Dave and Cindy Cohen Fernandez, Matt Sotir and his family, and Kristin Palmer McAnaney. Rob and Hilary Barnes Hoopes will miss it this year because their kids have to prepare for finals. Marc is also preparing for his 12th trip to Spain with Thayer Academy students, including his seventh-grade daughter. My daughter is also in seventh grade, Marc, so good luck with that. At the end of the summer, Marc and family will meet up with the Sotirs and Eric and Shari Sadowski Stram at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine. That’s a lot of reunion prep, there, folks, which is good because our 25th is now only a year away—June 5-8, 2014. I hope you’re all planning to attend! Y Mick Beck attended Reunion 2013 this June and shadowed the Class of 1988’s 25th reunion. He had a ball and recommends that everyone attend. Mick is part of the reunion planning committee headed up by class president Jim Connolly. You’ll be hearing more from Jim soon!
1990 Kristin Hock Davie classnews1990@colby.edu Congratulations to Doug Hall and his wife, Jamie, who were married in June in Portland. Doug and Jamie’s son, Henry, was proudly in attendance! Y Doug is not
Scott Jablonski ’89 started an organization devoted to reinforcing positive character traits in children and inspiring them to discover and use their natural talents productively.
and emergency medicine practicing in Newburyport, Mass. He has a wonderful 9-year-old daughter who is the best thing in his life. He is also passionately in love with his epic 4.3-acre oceanfront property with an exotic permaculture fruit orchard on the Big Island of Hawaii. Check it out at www.HaleKukui.com. Y Jim Reduto lives in Scarsdale, N.Y., with his wife and two daughters. He is a partner in a local law firm and practices in trusts and estates and probate law. He keeps in contact (though not often enough) with Mark Smith, who lives with his wife and son in Lawrenceville, N.J., and Stephen Nahley, who lives with his wife and daughter in NYC and Connecticut. Jim caught a Colby-Williams
Dave Vincent ’91 has been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army after three years as a combat engineer. He plans to begin a fulltime M.B.A. program at Georgetown.
hockey game last February and thought the team looked great! He’s in his 20th season of refereeing local youth and high school hockey in Westchester and Putnam counties in New York. Y Eileen Kinney Lindgren is pursuing her master’s in clinical psychology. After the birth of her second daughter, she left the high-tech world to spend more time supporting the emotional development of children and adolescents. She is thrilled to see it finally turning into a new career. Y Alex Day has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the department of history at Occidental College in Los Angeles. The Day family will be on the move from Wayne State University in Detroit to L.A. this summer.
1991 David Shumway classnews1991@colby.edu
a high school sophomore, and he may be doing college visits this summer. Lara’s bat mitzvah was slated for the last week of May, and her daughter, Shayna, was to have her bat mitzvah in June. The youngest Monasch, Skyler, starts kindergarten in the fall. Y Susan Scott Stucker is the new COO of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. The Star-Ledger reports that Susan will oversee operations, education, community engagement, finance, and human resources. Y More proof that I
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the only relatively new dad from our class. John Robbins and his wife welcomed Zady Lillian in December, and Tom Sherry and his wife are busy raising their little guy, August. Y John Hutchins serves as the director of financial aid for the admissions department at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. Y This spring Chris White was named coach of running backs and special teams at the University of Iowa. Go Hawkeyes! Y Andy Sclar is a board-certified osteopathic physician in internal medicine
the explosions occurred and their three daughters, who were in town with them, were safe in their hotel with their cousins. Becky and Matt are so thankful for all the Colby friends far and wide who checked in on them to ensure that they were safe. They say they’ll be back next year to run again. Boston Strong! Y Dave Vincent has been honorably discharged from active duty with the U.S. Army after three years as a combat engineer, including a year in Afghanistan. The post-9/11 G.I. Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Scholarship are allowing him to attend Georgetown University’s M.B.A. program full time as a member of the entering Class of 2015. He hopes to reconnect with other Colby alumni in the
Greetings again, classmates! It was a stormy spring here in New England, but summer is here. Now here’s the news… Y A note arrived from Matt and Becky Streett Melander, who ran the Chicago Marathon and then planned to run NYC the following month. Despite the NYC race being canceled, they still went to New York and saw Carol Cumming, Kit Merriman, and Amy Walter, who happened to be in town to cover the election. They then spent the winter training for the Boston Marathon. Luckily, they had finished the race before
Washington, D.C., area. Y Iris Kelley Park has had a lot going on this past year and finds it hard to believe that friends have college-bound kids. She hosted Carol Rea-Feagaiga’s daughter, and they visited colleges in Massachusetts. Iris has been busy with her three kids, Kelley, 12, Ethan, 10, and Tomtom, 7; their school and sport activities keep her on her toes. She also recently celebrated the birth of her nephew, Thomas Francis True V. His parents, Toby True ’95 and Iris’s sister, Cindy Kelley ’96, are adjusting to their new baby. Y A note arrived from the always-amusing Alan Yuodsnukis, who wrote, “I live the very definition of a mild-mannered life, full of minor interests and simple pleasures. My children lead far more exciting lives. I did visit campus for the first time in many years this spring with my youngest daughter (Class of 2019?). Colby is on a long list of potential schools. We had an informative tour and a very nice lunch in Dana dining hall, which I hardly recognized. Both the food and the room have been upgraded considerably. Kudos to Colby! We also snuck into the field house and onto the hockey rink. Emily is a die-hard puck chaser. So cool to see the names and faces of several of my Colby contemporaries on the walls and in the rafters: John Daileanes ’92, Kevin Whitmore, Derek Bettencourt ’92. Perhaps one day there will be a Yuodsnukis up there, too. (They’ll need to make the banner wider