proud big brothers David, 6, and Merritt, -t, out in Grand Rapids, Mich. . . . I n August, Karie and Eric Green's third, Maggie, joined her two b i g sisters, Nell, 3 , and Annie, 2 . . . . I saw Mike '86 and Christine Palmer Sav age at a birthday party for Joy Pratt and M ary McCarty. Christine was expecting #2 in the fall and is busy with PJ at home and avoiding all the work that' being done on their house in \ Vellesley. Tim and Teri Scally Kfosella were also there. They live up in Newbu1-yport and have a l ittle boy, Cole, who's I . Teri, along with Melissa Raffoni, is part of a group called the Professional Skills Alliance, which is a Boston-based group of consultants who work individually and in cross-functional teams to provide a wide range of business consulting services to all types of companies. Check out th e i r Web s i te ( p ro fessionalskills.com) . . . . Helen Muir Milby reports t h e birth onJm1e 2 2 o f their second girl. Kate, s h e writes, "has been a joy. Although bittersweet, I am looking forward to heading back to work. It should be an interesting fall with the elections. I have worked closely with Senator Lieberman over the past five years and hope that he'll be our next vice president." . . . Karen Czuchry Sallman has just taken a senior consulting position with Ariba. She writes, "I will be stationed and livi n g in Munich. I got married on August 4 to a German by the name of Florian Sallmann. This year we had our German civil ceremony and next year, also on August 4, we will have our church wedding w i th family and friends." . . . MelissaJenkins contin ues to serve on the faculty of Brown University in the department of psy chiatry and human behavior. "As a clinical neuropsychologist," she says, "I perform assessments of patients with neurologic i l lnesses and i nju ries. I teach in the clinical psychology i n ternshi p/fellowship program and conduct research . " You can fi nd J\lfelissa's recent publications in many journals, including the A 111 eria111]011r11al ofp,J1cl1iany. She also spends time scuba divi ng, skiing and rollerblading and was looking forward to coming to J\ Iaine in the fall to make apple butter with her 8-t-year-old grand mother' . . . Thanks to Josh Shapiro for answeri ng my plea for news. H e got married inJ uly t o Suzanne] uster, a Notre Dame alum, and had lots of Colby friends at their wedding. The attendees and their professions: Ethan Shapiro '83, Josh's brother, a dean/
teacher at P h i l l i ps Exeter; Scott Lainer, advertising; Bruce Dalbeck, consulting; Mike Ashley, started his own business; Shannon McDonald, mother and part-time social worker; Andrew Rudman, State Department; Brad Fay, \TP market research; Je ff DiSandro, partner in a management recru i ting firm. Josh and Suzanne live in 1 ew Jersey, and both work as brand managers at Reckitt Benckiser. . . . Glenn Cummings started a new job in ugust as d irector of profes sional advising at the niversity of V i rginia, where he serves as the pri mary faculty advisor for UVA stu dents considering law school and medical school. On his first day he met with a grad student who turned out to be Margaret Russell Ewalt '92 . Small world1 The summer was busy as well, as Glenn had a commitment ceremony in June w i th his partner of three years, Colby Smith. Yes, his name is really Colby' They plan to stay in Charlottesville, where Glenn's been for 1 2 years. Colby travels a lot, teach ing seminars all over the U.S. for the Moulton Company . . . . Marco Loretto is co-founder and vice presi d e n t , b u s i ness development for Notara in N.Y.C. H i s company pro vides \ Veb-based collaborative soft ware that automates administrative processes . . . . Thanks to those who wrote to me. And for the rest of you, send me an e-mail today! My best to you all.
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Laura Johnson has started a private practice in pediatrics, and she and husband Patrick Bridges wel comed t h e i r t h i rd c h i l d , S a r i n a Mackenzie B ridges, o n Ju n e 1 5 , 2000. Sarina joins Alexa and Owen in tl1e Johnson Bridges household . . . . Chris Tompkins had a book published on the Croton Dams and Aqueduct i n September, a n d on the day he sent the final manuscript to the publisher he received his master's of social sci ence from the J\ Iaxwell School at Syra cuse . . . . T have enough baby news to fill an entire column1 Mary Browne DiSandro and husbandJeff '88 had a baby boy,James ,\ fanning, on Febru an' 1 5 . ,\ lary writes that James ar ri �1ed a mond � early, so his aunt Cathy "C.C." Cook was not able to be in Boston for his birth . . . . .\ Iichael and Cherie Poulin Szustak had a daugh ter, Katelyn Ann, on J une I . They also h<l\'e a son, Christopher, who started kindergarten this fall. . . . Brian Murphy is the proud papa of
Liam . . . Ponch Membreno writes that he and wife Jess were expecting a baby in December. They bought a house on Peaks lsland, J\ Iai ne, though they haven 't lived there yet because Ponch took a job at Patagonia in ew York. They hang out witl1 Jake Ul ick '90, Tucker Offutt and Tom Cahill and saw Steve Masur '88's band. Ponch recently spent three weeks kaya k i n g in T h a i l a n d . . . . J i m Connolly sent a long e-mail with news of the birth of his son, Carsten James, in October '99. Jim reports that he recently kayaked the Potomac River to raise awareness about the e ffect t h a t the pol l u ti o n in t h e Anacostia River h a s o n d i e fragile Chesapeake. J i m also sent news that Jan Gisholt is engaged to be mar ried. Jan lives in M i ami and works as a ship broker. His fiancee, Denise, is a psychiatrist. . . . Kayaking is quite the trend. Jennifer Joseph regaled me with tales of her kayaking ex ploits, including a planned trip to Acadia and a kayaking symposium in Castine, Maine.Jenni fer lives in P i ns burgh and works at Ernst & Young; she recently returned from a birthday trip to Norway and Iceland . . . . Carolyn Harper joined the marriage ranks in J une when she married Stephen Paul Hefner . . . . Michelle Leinbach and husband Rob Travis '88 had their first baby, Benjamin, last February. They also bought a house in \V. Newron, i\ Iass., and Michelle is now back at work as a lawyer at Mintz Levin in Boston. She sees J u l i e Abele Wetzell a n d Michelle Delea a n d reports that Michelle and her husband had a baby girl in December '99 . . . . Nancy Spellman and husband Paul Brunell welcomed Geoffrey Drew Brunell on July 20, 2000 . . . . Bob and Sue Banta Gallagher moved to Scituate, ,\lass., where Sue is a catalog visual specialist for Tai bots and Bob is a senior man ager in a specialized l itigation-con sulting group with Price \ Vaterhouse Coopers in Bosron. They had a baby girl, Emily Reed, on Easter Sunday. Sue writes that the�· h<we had visits from Liz (Helft '9 1 ) and Don Darby and their l i ttle girl, H annah, and Kirk Koenigsbauer and his wife, .:'\een, and baby Peter. i nce mo,'ing to Bos ton, ue and Bob see more ofi\'lelita �larks, who just became engaged ro Da,·e chacter, Christina Theokas, who is in a Ph.D. program in psy chology at Tufts, and Dave and Karen Currey \Vehr, who had a bab1· girl in ,\ I a�" . . . Kathy Dowley
is now a professor of pol i tical science at S 1:Y-New Pal tz, where Roger Bowen is president, and she was to travel to Albania in the fall to moniror local elections. Kathy and her h us band, J\ Ian, and their two kids love upstate N . Y . . . . Mark Demian writes that he recently became a partner with]a1'itch, Block, Eisen c' Ratl1bone in Cleveland and ,,·ill soon move to Columbus to be the managing part ner in the firm's office there . . . . Lane Wilkinson is sti ll in Seattle, recently bought a house, and is now the bike and ski buyer for R E I . H e spentjune climbi ng i n the Bolivian Andes . . . . Dawna Zajac Perez started a new job as director of development for the H ispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation i n Boston and Lawrence. She works from home, although home may be changing as she and husband David and their two boys a re building a house in H averh ill and hoped to move from N. Andover in Decem ber. She writes that she would lo,·e to hear from Micky Beck, Rob Gar land, Brett and Leslie orton
Rankin, John Girard, Steve Nason or anyone who lived in Coburn se nior year.
-Anita L. Teny
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John Hayworth left his old law fi rm i n December 1 999 with seven other people to establish their own l i tigation firm and i s happy to report that die new firm i s doing very well-and that he and his w i fe are expecting their second child i n February. He sees Chip Smith be cause Chip is in Nashvi l l e as one of Al Gore's deputy campaign manag ers . . . . Rudy and Erika Dresser Penczer wrote to say that they are also expecting a second child in Feb ruary. Their son, .:'\icholas, will be a bout 2 1 11 when hi new l i tt l e brother or sister arrives . . . . Carol Lockwood moved from \\'ashing ton, D . C . , to Hawa i i last spring, fol lowing her mother's diagnosis with brain cancer. h e writes, "while the mo,·e was unexpected and the rea sons for it de,·astating, i t is n ice to be back with my family." She is practic ing i n ternational trade, corporate and real property law at a fi rm i n Honolulu. Carol's d a d gradu a ted from Colby i n '6.+, a nd her mother attended with the Class of '66, so Colby is dear tO all of them, and they think frequently of the friends they made there . . . . Matt Frymier is still living out in an Francisco, where he was a bond trader for six years, C 0 LB Y
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