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As always, it was great to hear from so many of you! On May 29 I was so excited to marry Justin DePre ’06 at Point Lookout Resort in Northport, Maine. We had a wonderful day made even better because about a third of our guests were Colby alumni. Y Jonathan Godbout and Stephanie Finn ’07 connected after several years to work on a project with their two organizations, Common Sense and Builders of Hope. They’re helping launch an initiative in Africa called Eco Manyatta to upgrade more than 50,000 rural homes with solar panels, clean-water harvesting, bio-gas stoves, and other features. Y Abby Hall married Ben Grubs Oct. 11, 2015, in Siler City, N.C. Elizabeth Rattey, Danielle Nielsen, and Rachel Daly Hobbs attended. Abby’s working at Duke University as a study-abroad adviser and lives in Raleigh. Y Kathleen Nicholson was excited that Tanya Rosbash and Greg and Jackie Grady Smith made trips in March to Costa Rica to visit her and her wife, Emily. They saw lots of wildlife, enjoyed the warmth of the Pacific Ocean, and reminisced about Colby days. Kathleen and Emily spent their summer at Wolfeboro, a summer boarding school in New Hampshire. They’ll return next year to Costa Rica, where Kathleen will work as a science teacher and guidance counselor. Y
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Andrew Herstein was diagnosed with leukemia in September 2013—a year and a half into his general surgery residency at Boston Medical Center. He underwent several rounds of chemo and a bone marrow transplant in February 2014. During his recovery, he decided to switch to anesthesia and started his residency at the University of Washington this July. He reports that “I feel very privileged to be alive and able to continue practicing medicine!” Y Matt
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Wallach reports that, “after nearly eight great years with BMW in South Carolina, I’ve returned to New England to begin a dual master’s program at MIT. The LGO program consists of an M.B.A. and M.S. in engineering over the course of two years.” Y Mariah Buckley and her husband, Chris, expected a baby boy at the beginning of August. They live in Arizona but hope to move back to New England in the very near future. Y Last October Michael Lee Gravelle and Blakemore Foster met in Revere, Mass., and had a beautiful seafood and whiskey dinner, and then caught the film Everest in IMAX. They hope to have many more evenings together, and to be allowed back in Blake’s apartment with Bobby Gorman ’08 and Rob Foster ’08 to play beer die responsibly this time. Y Josh Gerber married Lesley Farber in September 2015. Present at the wedding were Adam Robbins, Zachary Sullivan, John DeBruicker, and Matthew Wahl. Josh and Matt happen to have lived in Salt Lake City over the past few years. Through Matt’s tutelage, Josh has become an excellent craps player, as evidenced by his most recent resounding success in Wendover, Nev. Y Kevin Fritze and his wife, Dorian, welcomed a baby girl, Kristin Louise Fritze, April 27. Y Dave and Carolina Sicard Willette are happy to announce they’re expecting a baby girl in November. Y Ian London went to the wedding of Todd Olmstead ’06 and saw Bryan Gattis, Marcy Rolerson and Dan Lake ’06, Chewy Olcerst, Eric Richmond ’06, and Andrew Will ’04. Y Alain and Amy Pendoley Cid live in Jacksonville, Fla., with their son, Mark, 3, and soon-to-be baby #2. Amy’s starting a new job this school year as a Spanish teacher at Grace Episcopal Day School. Y John DeBruicker is writing for a healthcare advertising agency and moving into a new home in Philadelphia. Y McKenzie Wessen is enjoying her first year back in New England where she “can play pool with Meredith (Lawler ’09) and
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comed Molly Ayres Turnbull March 28. Julie Hike ’07 was Sarah’s ultrasound technician and they spent lots of quality time together in the weeks leading up to Molly’s birth. Small world! Y Emilia Tjernström and a horde of Colby grads—including Jayadev Vadakkanmarveettil ’07, Dhruv Chadha ’07, and Renzo Mendoza Castro ’07—invaded a beach town in Uruguay in March to witness the beautiful wedding of Horacio Diaz Adda ’07 to the lovely Amy Hutmacher (not a Colby grad, but we like her anyway). Emilia finished up her first year as assistant professor at UW-Madison and is slowly starting to believe the people who told her that the summers are nice enough to make up for the winters. Y Todd Olmstead married Emily Miller at a cider mill outside Iowa City, Iowa, in May. Dan Lake and Eric Richmond were groomsmen in the wedding and Marcy Rolerson was the photographer. Brian Parise, Liz Wyckoff, Andrew Will ’04, Ian London ’07, Bryan Gattis ’07, and Aaron Olcerst ’07 were there for the festivities. Y If anyone is interested in serving as our class correspondent, please send me an email. I’ve loved keeping in touch with everyone and would like to give someone else in our class the opportunity to be our class correspondent.
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En route to my wedding, Patrick Sanders took his parents and his husband, David, to see Joel Alex at Blue Ox Malthouse. He also saw David Brand, who works there, and at lunch ran into Kerry Whittaker. In June Patrick had dinner with Annie Feutz and Liz Neumann ’04 to celebrate Annie’s birthday and had brunch with Jackie Dao Dinneen ’05 and Abbey McGuire ’05. He caught up with Caroline Voyles when she was in DC in March for a conference. Y Gretchen Markiewicz and her husband, Chris, happily announce the arrival of a healthy boy, Connor Everett, born in early March. They’re all doing well and welcome Colby alums to visit! Y Ed Fox Davis moved to Boston in June to join Current, GE’s new Internet of Things business. He’s very excited to be closer to Sarah (Bruce ’10) and Will Cantley, as well as John ’11 and Rich Waterman. Y John and Caroline Allison Clark welcomed their daughter, Victoria (Tori), Jan. 9, 2016. Y Luke LaViolet graduated with a master’s of science in business analytics from George Washington University in May. On June 29 he married Tania Nguyen in Yosemite National Park. Following the wedding, they hiked the John Muir Trail, more than 200 miles from Yosemite to Mount Whitney. Y After six years at Mulholland Books—Little, Brown’s mystery and suspense imprint—Wes Miller joined Grand Central Publishing this spring as senior editor. He now edits New York Times bestselling authors. Wes and Kat (Brzozowski ’09) celebrated their second wedding anniversary with a trip to Bologna, Italy, where Kat studied abroad. Y JaeHee Yun married John Kim in Dickerson, Md. Shaelyn Germain and Juan Colón were in attendance. Y In September Jack Davidson starts a new job as senior pastor of Spring Glen Church in Hamden, Conn, where he lives with his wife, Laura, and their daughter, PJ. Y Eric Holstein is in Portland, Maine, building a food incubator and tasting room, Fork Food Lab. It’s set to open in late summer and plans to house up to 50 food businesses. Y Sasha Kenyon received her M.B.A. from Tuck in June and will move back to NYC in September to join Tiffany & Co. Y Darcy Taylor and her husband bought their first home in June. Y Christine Avena received a Fulbright fellowship and will travel to Switzerland to continue her doctoral dissertation work on bat-disease ecology. She lives in Boulder with Brian Putnam and others in the wonderful Colby community there including Tom Treat, Kit Clark and Sarah Clark, Angela Martinelli, Mark ’09 and Raven Adams Phillips, Morgan Davies, and Ned Warner ’09. Christine enjoyed July visits from MaryClaire McGovern and Chantal Balesdent. Christine also visited
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Sandy Ma ’08 was named head of the Hong Kong evening sale and a specialist in Asian 20th-century and contemporary art at Phillips, a global platform that buys and sells art and design. Ma began her career at Christie’s and will help Phillips build its brand in Asia. ♦ Andrew Volk ’05, owner of Portland Hunt & Alpine Club in Maine’s largest city, was named one of the country’s best new mixologists by Food & Wine magazine. Volk’s bar was also a semi-finalist in 2015 in the Outstanding Bar Program category of the James Beard Awards.
Bryce Cheney in Boston on a Friday and drive to Portland to meet Anne Cuttler Hicks’s new baby girl the following day.” Y Essie Widlanski and Mike Haimes ’04 are super happy to be engaged! They’re loving life in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with their dog, Calvin, and small but mighty rooftop veggie garden. Wedding plans are in motion for summer 2017 in Maine. Y Heather Murray started her first full-time library job last August as reference librarian at the Acton (Mass.) Memorial Library, and recently moved to Nashua, N.H. Y Amanda James Venezia recently celebrated her ninth anniversary with Farmers Insurance as a property claims trainer at the University of Farmers. She and her husband, Matthew, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in November and welcomed their son, James Robert Venezia, April 7. Y As for me, Annie Mears, I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of two fellow 2007 grads, Jamie Kline and Jamie Winterbottom June 4. Attendees included Jake Hanin, Ben Hughes, Shari Katz ’06, John McCormack, Ali Fulreader, Natalie Ginsburg, Liz Coogan, James Cryan, Alisa Perry, Laura Keeler Pierce, Mary Warlaumont, Erin Schlossman, Adam Curatolo, Tammy Lewin ’07, and Eric Ffitch ’08.
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