the Northwest Service Academy, an AmeriCorps program in Portland, Ore., that focused on environmental and educational service. She's looking forward to being on the East Coast again . . . . Nicole LaBrecque Gil fin ished her third year at the Sewickley Academy outside Pittsburgh. Her hus band will be continuing his degree in aviation at Purdue, so the couple is moving to Indianapolis. She'll teach at the Sycamore School, a K-8 private school for gifted children. Nicole started her master's in psychology this spring but decided to focus on Spanish instead. Before making their move to the Midwest, they spent the summer in Rhode Island and touring the Span ish coast from Alicante to Barcelona. . . . David Bruinooge now lives in Brooklyn and is in the process of find ing a gig with a film company . . . . Lauren Graham returned to Maine. She's living in Portland and working at an environmental consulting firm in Yarmouth. On her first day of work she ran into Karen Hoppe, who teaches at a school in Yarmouth . . . . C.J. Polcari is attending tl1e Loyola University-Stritch School of Medi cine in Chicago . . . . Amanda Maga ry graduated from Columbia School of Social Work with a master's in science and moved out to San Francisco(okay, which Colby contingent is bigger now-Boston or San Fran?). Michelle Lin will join her soon . . . . Tony Rosenfeld is in I taly (Tuscany) ap prenticing witl1 one of tl1e world's prem.ier chefs, learning a ton and im proving his Italian. He still writes for Tbe Boston Globe, contributing pieces while on the road . . . . Carole Reid is moving to Hong Kong with her fiance after leaving her position at Discovery Commtmications in New York . . . . Jonathan Levin completed his first year of law school at Suffolk in Boston and moved to Readville (near Blue ffills) . . . . Sean Handler graduated from Temple law school. . . . If anyone else has any news, send it along and it'll get into the next column. Be sure to send in engagement and wedding announcements. Take care! -Kimberly N. Pm·ke1·
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It was a delight to run into Jamje Yourdon and Reid Farrington last night. Reid is living in Brooklyn with Will Guthrie. Reid loves his job as a freelance set designer for off-Off Broadway shows and has been imrited to join a theater company-he's doing exactly what he's most passionate
about. Jam.ie is at the Uruversity of Arizona getting his M . F.A. in creative writing and teaching first-year En glish classes (eqwvalent to Colby's EN 1 I 5). Jamie told me all about his exciting new venture as an editor and writer for a weekly v\Teb 'zine called Eitber!Or. Check itoutat www.either or.net. He's always looking for con tributors-one of whom is Nate J ue, a weekly contributor/writer. ate teaches L Otl1 graders in New Hamp shire, but he anticipates moving some time soon . . . . Anna Bridges is in Boston doing research on vaccine de velopment at i\l lass General Hospital and bwlding her portfolio in prepara tion for graduate school in music composition . . . . Josh DeScherer is working on his master's at Tufts Uni versity in music composition . . . . Dave Fasteson is also furthering his education-at Brown University where this June he began working towards an i\ll .A.T. in biology . . . . Alex Quigley is a member of Teach for America in the Mississippi Delta, teaching second graders. He loves his work, and he spent the summer as a full-time graduate student at Ole M .iss in the master's in elementary educa tion program. Alex was recently ac cepted to tl1e Mississippi Teacher Fellowship Program1 He sends a shout out to Crystal Brakke, who teaches eighth grade English witl1 Teach for America in Henderson, N.C. Lyle Bradley visited Alex on h.is cross-cowl try road trip. Lyle also recently fin ished a furni ture design class in Camden, Maine . . . . Dave Wilkens loves being a research techn.ician at Aaron Diamon AIDS Research Cen ter, but he took a six-week leave of absence this summer to teach pre calculus at Nortll field Mount Hermon School. . . . In the fall Derek Ken singer took off for El Salvador \vith the Peace Corps. Katherine Golfino poulos is also just beginning an ad venture witl1 the Peace Corps . . . . Diego Muilenburg spent th.is sum mer in St. Johns witl1 Tracy Freuder '00 . . . . Justin Harvey and Heather Fine botl1 just took the LSAT, and Heather reports that invas the hardest test she's ever taken . . . . Karena Bul lock just got a promotion at Forbes and is working in special events now. . . . Sean Foley is living in Portland, Maine, and pursu.ing his acting. As I understand it, Sean is part of a two man show tl1at performs Shakespeare in schools all over the place. He loves it! . . . Kelly Wtlliams's apartment is
on the beach in Tel Aviv, and she works for a h.igh-tech company called BMC Software . . . . Sarah Hewins lives in Boston and works at SCOR£1 Also in the Boston area are Rachel Reider, who works at an advertising agency, and Alison Rainey, who is a consultant at CSC Consulting . . . . Michelle Foster just completed her first year of grad school at Lesley Col lege, got her teacher's certification and teaches at a private school in Manchester . . . . Alexis Azar fin.ished up an internship at the Sm.ithsonian Museum in D.C., where she lives . . . . Lauren Rothman works as a trend analyst in T.Y.C. at Faith Popcorn's Brain Reserve, a trend forecasting firm . . . . This summer,Jason Gerbs man began travel.ing and studying in Israel. . . . Ryan Aldrich has been a ski instructor out west all winter while getting h.is teaching certification. In June, Ryan traveled around Wyoming and Montana to Ay fish and h.ike with Matt Smith '00, and on July I he began an admission position at tl1e Kent School in Connecticut. Ryan says he is entirely happy. I can only wish for tl1at same kind of happiness for all of you. Be in touch. -Liudmy Hnyes
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Hello, everyone1 Hope you all had a wonderful summer and are en joying your first fall away from Colby. I am currently in Boston working at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, L L. P . , witl1 Greg Madden, a n d I am living with Katie MitcheLl, who is getting her master's in early ch.ildhood educa tion at Lesley College and teaching at The Brookwood School in Manches ter. I often run into Colby grads in Boston (I) and hear what many of you are doing, and I receive many e-mails as well (classnews2000@alum.colby. edu) . . . . Vanessa Wade is in the Boston area, attend.inggraduate school in tl1e field of school psychology at Tufts University. . . . Alex Moskos worked at the J\ 1useum of Fine Arts th.is summer before attending gradu ate school at Northeastern niver sity. He is living in Somerville with Chris Bonafide . . . . Also living in Somervi U e are Mark Harries, Darren Powell, VIrill Kendall, Dave Schoetz, Chloe Chittick, Abby Campbell,] ay Zarnetske, Tacy Conard and Sarah Hubbell. Tacy is working at the law
firm of Hill and Barlow, and Sarah is working for a substance abuse pro gram . . . . Annalise Blech reports that she will be pursuing her :\ LA. at the
University of Texas at Austin in the department of Slavic languages and literatures. She recently traveled across the country from Boston to Utah with VVhltney Lawton, who will soon be moving to Siberia to teach English. She informed me that she \viii take Tom l o ts o f w a rm c l o t h e s 1 Donahue i s working in New York City at the law firm of Da,<is, Polk & \Vardwell and is living with Sambit P a t t a n a y a k , who i s work i n g a t Lehman Brothers as a fixed income analyst. . . . C h ris Tracy i enjoying Teach for America in \1\'ashington, D.C., and Brian Hansen is also in D.C., working for the Federal Re serve . . . . Morgan McDevitt is )i,<ing 111 ew York City and working at Brown Brothers Harriman. He often runs into Am.ie Mallett, Amanda Carucci and Alexis Fine . . . . Heather Daur will be living with C a rrie Russell in N.Y.C. after she returns from London, where she has been training for her job at Deutsche Bank. . . . Dana Turpie and )en Kassakian have been in Maine (near Boothbay) since the summer. Jen is enjoying working with lobsters and saw Becky Rasmussen a few times before Becky headed to California . . . . Also in Cali forn.ia are Michael Siegel and Jeff Boyer. Jeff is working for the South ern Californ.ia Golf Association and went to the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach . . . . Hubert Lam was a park leader this summer for the Quincy, Mass., Recreation Department, and this fall he is attending Yale Un.iver sity Graduate School in the program of molecular, cellular and develop mental biology . . . . Eric Saucier, •
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Sean Luoma, C h ristine Pirani, sher Lauren Borchardt and )en are in the Boston area, as is Kate MacLeay, who is working for FAC Equities . . . . Nelia Dwyer will begin teach.ing at the Echo Hill Outdoor chool on the shore of the Chesa peake Bay in Maryland this coming spring . . . . Sarah Church is attend ing graduate school for landscape ar chitecture at U;\ lass-Amherst and often hears from i\ll ary Ann Schu macher, who is working at a law firm in 1\ ew York. . . . And despite rumors, Ross Frankenfield is not moving to Toronto but is sta}<ing at his job at State treet Bank in Qwncy . . . . \\'ell, I hope to hear from more of you soon. Have a wonderful fall and see you during Reunion \Veekend!
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