00s newsmakers Jessica Porter Stauth ’00 was hired as vice president of quant strategy at Quantopian, the first browserbased algorithmic trading platform. She joined Quantopian from Thomson Reuters, where she served as director of quant product strategy. F In May Erin Parry ’06 earned two degrees from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: a Ph.D. in human genetics and molecular biology and an M.D. Parry received the Warfield T. Longscope Prize in Clinical Medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She is in her first year of the Osler Meaghan Fitzgerald ’08 Medical Residency Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. F Meaghan Fitzgerald ’08 was named one of Britain’s 30 Under 30 Women in Digital 2013 by The Drum, the country’s top trade publication for the industry. A founding member of 23snaps, Fitzgerald is head of marketing for the company, which lets parents save and privately share photos and videos of their children. F Byron Meinerth ’09 received a Boren Fellowship to study Mandarin Chinese at Nanjing University in China during the 2013-14 academic year. Meinerth is a graduate student in international economics at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
but she is warming up to the idea of having a baby brother. Y Nick Gambino and his wife, Meghan, bought a house in Hopkinton, Mass., and last June they welcomed their second daughter, Mary Sophia Gambino. Y Will Sander started a one-year AAAS science and technology policy fellowship with the EPA in Washington, D.C. Y Kerry Whittaker married Gabriel Rodriguez last June. Gabriel is a physician in the U.S. Navy. They moved to San Diego, Calif., after Kerry finished her Ph.D. in medical psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. She’s a
2005 Katie Gagne classnews2005@colby.edu Dan Saganey married Heidi Nicklaus at the Wychmere Beach Club on Cape Cod. Many Colby friends were in attendance, including groomsmen Mark Azevedo, Brandon Binder, and Matt Clason. Dan is still enjoying his work, entering his fifth year as a scout with the Cleveland Browns, and he is also enjoying settling into the new home that he and Heidi just bought. Y Christina Pluta relocated to Hanover,
Neha Sud ’05 lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where she works for the World Bank. Prior to Kenya, she worked in Mali.
research psychologist and currently works as a consultant in medical and health psychology. Y Kirsten Helmcke married Joe Dudeck in Chicago July 12. Y Chris Blomberg recently completed his internal medicine residency and has accepted a one-year position as chief medical resident at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston. He and Erica Joseffy Blomberg continue to live in the Boston area with their newly adopted dog, Bailey. Y I hope you’re making plans to attend our 10th reunion. Mark June 5-8 on your calendar and join us back at Colby for a great weekend together.
N.H., where she is pursuing her M.B.A. at the Tuck School of Business. I look forward to some Tuck alumni trips to Hanover to visit while she’s there carrying the Colby torch. Y Jamie Falk, who lives in Denver, recently got engaged to Gretchen Hultman. He proposed just a day after finishing his first ultramarathon (50K). Y Michelle Cole works in communications for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. She was recently given the 2013 American Cancer Society New England Volunteer Values Award and was selected for the Fairfield County Business Journal 40 Under 40 for
her leadership in the nonprofit field. Y Pawel Brodalka and his wife, Archana Prasad ’07, spent two weeks in August touring Poland, visiting Kolobrzeg, Gdansk, Warsaw, and Krakow. Next up in their travels: London, Montreal, Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon. Y Kristi Eck accepted the position of interim chief of staff at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego, where she began work in late August. Y John and Wendy Sicard Cole officially relocated to Butte, Mont., where John is a pediatrician at Rocky Mountain Clinic. They enjoyed their 20-day hiking adventure out west and look forward to more exploring in their new neck of the woods. Y Paul and Jillian Parker Blakeslee welcomed their first child, Parker Edward Blakeslee, Aug. 7. Jillian and Paul live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. They’ve enjoyed some Colby visitors since Parker’s arrival, including Rachel Damon, Jeanne Dibella, and Amy Squires. Y Melisse Hinkle still works as the content manager for the U.S. and Canada at Cheapflights. She’s learned a lot since starting in January and has even been quoted as a travel expert in some well-known travel publications, including Condé Nast Traveler and the National Post in Canada. Melisse has enjoyed some of her own travel adventures including trips to London and Hong Kong, where she and Jenny Abramson visited Gillian Nadel. She also adopted a rescue pup, Coco, in May and really enjoys being a dog owner. Y Kat Perez and Justin Fahey were married this summer just outside Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Their wedding party included Colby friends Nick Larsen, Eliza Huleatt, and Laura Normand, and there were 13 other Class of 2005 attendees. Justin is getting his master’s and teaching high school social studies as part of Teach for America while Kat is a museum exhibition designer in Denver. Y Mallory Young is engaged to Jonathan Michaeles, who is the head football coach at Colby and a graduate of Bates. Mallory was appointed interim head coach of women’s hockey at Colby. Y Ken and Meghan Barringer Pitter welcomed their first child in May, a baby boy named Logan Charles. Y Neha Sud currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where she works for the World Bank. Prior to Kenya, she worked in Mali, where she reconnected with Bill Ford, who was passing through on an assignment abroad during his M.B.A. program. Y Best wishes for the holidays, and please continue to share these great updates with us!
2006 Jen Coliflores classnews2006@colby.edu Dan Giuliani runs a company in Seattle called Volt Athletics (voltathletics.com),
which provides affordable, sport-specific strength-training programs to high school and college athletes around the world. Y Katie Roberts married Brian Dinneen July 6. The wedding took place in Beaver Creek, Colo., and Colby grads Kit Hickey and Jackie Dao ’05 were in the wedding party. Katie and Brian met while attending business school at the University of Virginia, and they now live in Connecticut. Y Meghan Race and her husband, Jeff Petrello, moved to Denver last September and bought their first house in the West Wash Park neighborhood. They’ve been working for the past year at Exclusive Resorts in member services. Lambie Bickford ’01 also works at the resort, and Meghan credits her for helping a fellow Mule get her foot in the door. Y Colleen McGee got married this summer in Teton Valley, Idaho, to Mathew Thompson. Taylor ’08 and Rebeccah Amendola Kilian and Dana Eisenberg were in attendance. Y Sarah Lindeke-Wolff and her husband, Ryan Williams, welcomed son Chester June 9. Colby friends Jess Stathis, Carrie Ngo, Kirsten Lawson, Emily Greene Kahn, and Miruna Sasu ’05 made the trip to Greenwich, Conn., for Sarah’s shower a month before the baby was born. Y Sarah Lim recently moved to Denver with her husband and started a new job as a critical care nurse. She can’t wait for ski season. Y Nate Stone, Stephen Planas, Drew Moreland ’07, and Bennett Barnwell got together for their seventh annual summer reunion in August. This year they met in Washington, D.C. One of the evenings included a Family Feud game night. Y In June 2013 a crew of Colby friends—Melissa McNulty, Aine McCarthy, Cait Miller, Nate Stone, and Tom Gildersleeve ’07—began a seven-day trek up the Machame route of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Hiking along the way, another group of American trekkers stopped them, recognizing Nate’s Colby hat. It turns out that Johnny “Baseball” Schroeder ’13 was also on his way to the summit with his family, hiking the exact same route. After a discussion about the small world of Colby travelers, cheese selection at Bob’s dining hall, and the improvement of Colby’s baseball team, they snapped an excellent photo of the Colby grads with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. The blue light shines on, even on Africa’s highest peak. See the photo at alumni.colby.edu under the Stay Connected tab. Y Dave and Jenna Morrison Civitello decided to donate their snow shovels and move to Tampa, Fla. Dave graduated with a Ph.D. in biology from Indiana University and is now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of South Florida. Jenna started a
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