ALUMNI AT LARGE him busy with soccer, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, and gymnastics. He writes, “I still find time to play golf and hockey, though I haven’t found the need to revisit the Mohawk. Matt Gibbons lives up the street from me, and we revisit the iPlay days by playing in an over-35 softball league. I also see or talk frequently to Jeff Hartwell, who lives in Cohasset and has two young boys, and Blake Liebert, who has two kids and is up in Salisbury, Mass., and is also a vet. Jeff and Blake recently bought their first boats. Dave Ford has a young son and works in development at Harvard and lives in Newton, Mass. Mike Freret is a real estate mogul living in Phoenix with four boys who can be as charming and surly as Mike, and Matt Greenlaw is in Portland, Ore., and runs hockey camps and programs. Toby Cox is a pediatrician near Salt Lake and has ample time to abuse himself on the mountain bike and the ski slopes, and Dave Mumford, another financial advisor, lives on the West Coast but makes biannual trips to the East Coast.” Y Keep the news coming!
1992 Molly Beale Constable classnews1992@colby.edu Elaine Bueschen O’Grady broke 20 years of class notes silence with this report: “In July my husband, Michael, our kids, Nora,
I had a mini-reunion in Boston with Jen Greenleaf, Jen Pelson Hopkins, and Jen Kosek Walker. All are doing great.” Y Norm Stillman is a small-animal veterinarian and owner of the Court Street Animal Hospital in his hometown of Plymouth, Mass. “My wife, Diane Osgood ’91, and I have two lovely daughters. The eldest started high school this fall. I feel as though I was in high school not that long ago! I’ve been back to Colby once since graduation. Things had changed quite a bit (not to mention Big G’s relocation!), but the campus looked great.” Y Meredith Johnson wrote from her home in Beverly, Mass. “Our hands are full with a 10-month-old puppy named Freckles who is a sweet rescue dog from North Carolina. Her name was ‘Lady,’ but could you imagine my husband, Al, yelling down the street, ‘Hey, Lady, come back!’? It would have been a little too much like a Seinfeld episode. I’m still working in sports medicine as a physician’s assistant at Lahey Clinic, and Al works for MetLife securities compliance. We love being by the water—and just wish we had more time to be on it! My cousin Kate Connolly is a senior at Colby. She runs cross country for coach Deb Aitken, who has been at Colby for 27 years(!). I’m planning a road trip to Colby with several friends who have watched Kate grow up to see her compete at a meet in October. It should be beautiful.” Y Kim Ereminas Reeve heads up the New York office and nonprofit
Elaine Bueschen 0’Grady ’92 is director of the Air Quality and Climate Division of Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation. 7, and Aidan, 5, and I spent a fun-filled day with Bill ’93 and Anne Maddocks Michels and their kids, Lindsay, 10, Will, 9, and Alex, 6, on Lake George in New York. Everyone had a great time swimming, kayaking, and fishing. On a professional front, I recently started a new job as the director of the Air Quality and Climate Division of Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation. I’m excited about the opportunity to work on air pollution and climate change issues for the state of Vermont.” Y Rebecca Graham Forde gave a shout from Los Angeles, where she has lived for eight years. “I work in television and currently produce the series Fast N’ Loud for the Discovery Channel. I am proud to say that fellow alum Mark Boles might be our biggest fan! Over the Fourth of July weekend
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practice of Cathedral Consulting Group. “I am finally putting my French degree to use by expanding the firm’s international presence, including traveling to Sierra Leone and Guinea last spring to present three conferences on entrepreneurship. I am also finishing up coursework for a Ph.D. and am busily writing my dissertation, which focuses on effective evaluation methods of social enterprises. In June I had a minireunion with Stephanie Clement, Jeanine Caunt, and Joy Marean Hickey in NYC. (We missed seeing Tara McDonough!) We had a wonderful time laughing and sharing our favorite Colby memories. Stephanie is the conservation director at Friends of Acadia and is enjoying life in Maine. Jeanine works in editing, communications, marketing, and design and is in the process of launching
her own company in the NYC metro area. And Joy is finishing her Ph.D. at Columbia in education. She and her husband, John, live in New Jersey and have an absolutely adorable daughter named Elizabeth. We are all hoping to make it to the 25th reunion—even though we are still trying
of July 2014. Y Meredith Bradt lives in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and works as head of marketing and communications at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. Meredith says, “It is great to see how internationalization has grown at Colby! I would (probably) never
Meredith Bradt ’93 lives in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and works as head of marketing and communications for the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. figure out exactly where the last 20 years have gone!” Y Aren’t we all? Have fun, everyone. See you next time.
1993 Jill Moran Baxter classnews1993@colby.edu Greetings, Colby folk! If your summer involved some vacation time, you were in good company—Katy Donovan O’Neil, Christopher Iannini, Ginny Fowles Ward, and Karyn Patry all caught some time away from work, if their out-of-office emails are any indication. Y Crawford Strunk and family traveled to Maine for a vacation and were lucky to see Maylene Cummings Mitchell ’96. Crawford and wife Shelly and their three kids, Asa, Everett, and Emma, hail from Toledo, Ohio. Crawford still works at Toledo Children’s Hospital as the director of the sickle cell disease and hemoglobinopathy clinic. The Strunks recently added a new member to the family, a sweet Havanese puppy named Colby. Y Anna Marie Wrin Yombo works in HR at the Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School in D.C., where her son, Leo, is in third grade; daughter Rachelle graduated last year. Anna Marie’s husband, Ernest, also works at the school as an assistant principal. Anna Marie says, “I haven’t been back to Maine since graduating from Colby, but I keep promising my family a road trip so we’ll make it there someday—can’t wait!” Y Mike Murphy imagines our 20th reunion was a treat in many ways. He is “glad to know ‘the friends I made on Mayflower Hill remain loyal’ goes a long way.” Murph spends half the year in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and winters in Taos, N.M. His family includes a 2-year-old boy, a wife of nine years, and two dogs; he writes that he feels young and thankful. Murph is advocating for a 21st Colby reunion (B.O.O.T.) at his place in McCarthy, Alaska, during the last week
have ended up in Europe for the last 20 years if I hadn’t been able to go to Germany for my junior year abroad.” Meredith enjoys catching up with former dean Parker Beverage and some of Colby’s current admissions staff (Steve Thomas and Hung Bui ’94) at the OACAC conference each summer. Y Suzie Girard and husband Dave welcomed Zachary Jacob Klein, who weighed in at 9 pounds, 6 ounces, on May 16. Suzie writes, “He is, I believe, the cutest baby ever. ;) And he is keeping me and Dave on our toes.” Y Tobin Slavin also welcomed a baby in May. Daughter Divya Ellis makes child number five in Tobin and wife Martina’s blended family. Martina and Tobin recently launched a startup called MustTryIt.com, a platform to promote local businesses that are a “musttry.” Y “I currently have the pleasure of having my writing on nearly every street corner of New York City,” writes Mark Radcliffe, who is the author of the ad campaign for Citi Bike, NYC’s bike-share program sponsored by Citibank. Mark recently met up with Chris Bither and George Moore ’91 in the city. Y Lael Hinman Stanczack, who lives in Singapore, spent 10 weeks in the U.S. this summer. She supervised construction on her new apartment and attended a wedding. Lael loved seeing everyone at our 20th reunion, especially Sarah Burditt McDougall, Stephanie Doyon Gross, Dave O’Shea, and the After 8 guys. She is already looking forward to our 25th reunion. Y Write in and share your news. Hope to see you in the next column!
1994 Kimberly Valentine Walsh classnews1994@colby.edu I just received my save-the-date postcard for our 20th reunion—so put June 6-8, 2014, on your calendar so we can catch up in person! Y Cole Conlin has moved to Minneapolis with his family. I’m looking