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Inquirer. . . . Sally Richards married M ichael Lehr i n Simsbury, Conn. , last J uly. They are living in orwood, Mass., where Sally is teach ing seventh grade social studies and loves the challenge of dealing with " 1 20 hormonally chal lenged" teenagers. . . . Last May Mark Smith and h is wife, Patty, had a baby boy, Kyle Patrick, and they know he will be a hockey player but haven't decided on what position he will play (Jim Reduto is betting the little tyke will be a goalie. ) . . . Thanks to all of you for all the news, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in June ! -Laura Senier
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Amy Selinger married Mark Elefante this past August. Amy received a master's de gree in education from Harvard and now teaches history at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. Mark is an associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray . . . . Also married in August were Matt Nerney and Laura Fogarty '93 . Matt is working for the Aberdeen Group, and Amy is at Management Science for Health, both in Bos ton . . . . Alec Haavik recently earned a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music . . . . J C Klick graduated from U Mass Medical School and is interning in anesthesiology at Metro West Ho pi tal in Framingham. He's also study ing critical care at Brigham and Women's Hos pital in Boston . . . . Drew and Jennifer Coffin Hoyt had their first baby this past J une. Jessica Lee Hoyt and parents are all doing fine and living in Foxboro, Mass . . . . John Olson and his wife, Erin, also had a baby girl recently. Chloe Elizabeth now resides with her parents in Port land, Maine, along with a dog, Casey, cat Alex and an African gray parrot named Marley. John is the manager of technical support services for sec, a software development company based in Portland that develops contract management solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. He recently met up with George Markell, who is living i n Brookline, Mass., and working as a software developer at Fidelity in Boston . . . . Continuing with the baby news . . . Lisa Churchill Dickson writes that she and husband Stephen are now the proud parent of a baby boy, M itchell, born on 9/9/99 ( great birrhdate or what ! ), and all are doing well. Stephen fin ished h is Ph.D. in marine geology last spring so the fam i ly had a lot to celebrate last holiday season . . . . Peter Andrews graduated from Dickinson School of Law and is now an associ ate at a Philadelphia, Pa. , law firm that spec ial izes i n defense litigation . . . . Since I'm short of news from all of you, I'll include news of my own. After I I years of being gone (I include Colby years in that count ), I've moved back to Massa chusetts, where l grew up. My company offered me a transfer last spring, so John and I took the offer. The timing couldn't have been better for John-he quit his job, spent the summer work ing on his golf game and his tan and then started with a marketing company in October. Now we're enjoying being around family and old friends again. My company is headquartered in
New Jersey, so I'm back frequently enough to see friends in N .Y.C. All in all, it's the best of both worlds . . . . I hope everyone had a happy and safe New Year and that the new millennium is off to a good start for all of you. Now please write or e mail with news so that I don't have to babble on.
-Michelle Fortier Biscotti
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Hello everyone and happy millermium! I j ust want to take a minute to explain to you all the new correspondence system. You now have the ability to contact me in a variety of ways: via e-mail ( using either bcurran@sig.bsh.com or classnews l 993@alum.colby.ed u ) , via the insert in your issue of the Colby magazine or via the good old-fashioned pony e xpress ( note my ad dress in the l ist of correspondents ) . You will no longer be receiving a newsletter prompting you to write-so l am counting on you to be proac tive with your correspondence! You can do it, Little Engines ! Anyhoo, due to the info-gath ering switcheroo, l am a little I ight on the news this time around; my apologies in advance . . . . Some of our fellow alums are still pursuing their love of sport . Hilary Gehman made the U.S. N ational Rowing Team this year. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls i n t h e world rowing champ ionships in Ontario in August and finished in fourth plac e ! . . . After a stretch with the Canadian Football League, Len Baker is teaching and coaching football in Smithfield, R . I . . . . A lso teaching is J o rma Kurry, who is in the math department at Falmouth ( Maine ) H igh School. . . . Amy O'Mara Moore graduated from Suffolk Law School this past summer, and Holly Coxe is a public relations account manager at Hauptman & Partners Comm un icat ions in Portland, M aine . . . . Peter Caruso, along with the rest of "After Eight," sang the "Star Spangled Banner" at the Fleet Center in Boston re cently before the opening of a Celtics game. "After Eight" is a group of Colby Eight alumni in the New England area who still sing to gether, both competitively and for fun ! . . John Cully announced his engagement to Philippa Edwards while they were vacationing recently i n France. A fall '00 wedding is ex pected! . . . Chris Richards and Kelly Berner are engaged and will be married in Newport, R . I . , in J u ne '00 . . . . Scott Greenfield, who has h is M . B.A. from Washington University, mar ried Lisa Cohen in J une '99 . . . . Mary Fitzgerald and Daniel Olohan were married i n October '99. Both Mary and Daniel are lawyers in the Boston area . . . . Karen Beauchesne married Scott Charette in Scarborough, Maine, in No vember '99. Louise Jalbert was a bridesmaid . . . . Reena Chandra Rajpal got married in a tradi tional H indu wedding in August '99. She is work ing as an epidemiology fellow in the W isconsin State Division of Public Health. Best wishes to everyone! . . . Zach '94 and Karyl Brewster-Geisz are the proud parents of a new son, Dre w ! . . . A lso with happy news of a new family member is Kristen Zilling
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Jim Reichert is living in Cambridge, Mass., and working at State Street as a credit analyst for a lending group that makes loans to investment companies and mutual funds . . . . Jessie Newman was promoted in October to director of the convention and events depart ment of the Colorado Restaurant Association. She wrote that Heather Eskey is at the Brook lyn School of Law and that Paul White is in the Peace Corps in Honduras . . . . Alex and Kristin Spiller Moody were expecting their first baby in early January 2000 . . . . Congratulations to Danielle ( Desmarais '92 ) and David Mostoller, whose son, Lucas James, was born on October 2 3. Dave earned an M .S. in geology from UMass Amherst in 1 997 and works as a hydrogeologist for Atlantic Geoscience Corporation in G ilford, N . H . He also wrote that he and Danielle are building a house in Alton, N . H . . . . Missy Faser Gramer and her husband bought a house in Dover, Mass . . . . Sean Hayes is an institutional position trader at Merrill Lynch. . Mike Mullin is also working for Merrill Lynch and recently moved to Denver, Colo . . . . Melissa Wilcox is in her second year at Virginia Theo logical Seminary. She wrote that she is in forma tion to become an Episcopal priest and serves a parish as a seminarian in Silver Spring, Md., and would welcome any visitors from Colby. She will be in Jerusalem for three weeks this summer with fellow seminarians and then will travel to Nairobi to do a course at the Maryknoll Insti tute in African studies. . . Bruce and Sue Benson Panilaitis are living in Medford, Mass., where Bruce should finish his Ph.D. in biology this spring. Sue is a tenured pre-kindergarten teacher in the Chelsea public schools. They wrote that the biggest change in their lives has been the addition of two foster children ( actu ally Bruce's cousins, M ichael and Robert ) , ages 3 and 4. Both were a big hit at the reunion this past summer. Bruce and Sue spent a week in the British Virgin Islands on Lorin Knell's sailboat with Dan Demerrit and Doug Hamje '96 . . . . Chris Sharpe '94J proposed to Ally Goff this pa t J u ly on top of a mountain in New Hamp shire. Chris and Ally are planning an August 2000 wedding in Bedford, . H . . . . Other engagements include: Jeff Cotter and Ami Bowen; Zach Rubin and Kim Kessler; Matt Salah and Sharon Masterson; Sean Devine and N icole Clavette '95; and Ingrid Kristan and Mark Renzi . . . Marile Haylon married David Borden in July 1 999. The following attended the wedding: Joe McKenna '93, Sara Ferry, .
Heather Lounsbury, Rebekah Freeman, Jen nifer Walker, Holly Labbe, Melissa Wilcox, John Grady, Sally Zimmerli '93 , Tim Seston '93, Dave O'Shea '93 , Chris Austin, Carolyn Hart, Eric Johnson '93 and Kim Morrison '90J . . Devri Byrom is studying for her M.S. in
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