Nineties

		Co-Class Secretaries: Margaret R. Judge, 21 Lessard Ave., Biddeford, ME 04005-2907; Marjorie Patterson Cochran, 36 Green St., 2, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, e-mail marnie-patterson@mgate.hmco.com Class President: Karen LaConte Roberts, 1014 Humphrey Dr., Swampscott, MA 01907 , e-mail karen_m_laconte-roberts@fleet.com Next Reunion in 2000. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Neva Arno is tenured in the NYC public school system and is engaged to Seth Weber ’88…. After completing her master’s in physical therapy, Lara Asmundson married Andrew Grumet and is now a physical therapist at a rehabilitation hospital in Salem, Mass…. Ron andJenn Beggs VanBelle welcomed son Nicholas Beggs VanBelle in February 1998. They live and work in Stamford, Conn…. Living in Boston and still singing in a band (M.E. and the Pour Boys), Mary Ellen Bilafer finished her master’s in occupational therapy…. Joyce Bareikis El Kouarti has started an editorial service in New Hampshire…. Whitney Blanchard Soule moved from Maine to Connecticut and is now director of admissions and recruiting at Connecticut College…. Though back in school full time for a B.S. in engineering, Cathy Boosales plans to hike the Appalachian Trail this spring. Anyone care to join the trip?…. Jeff Braun married high-school classmate Lori Romano in October and they now live in Fairfield, Conn., where they bought a house just two days after they tied the knot. Jeff is a marketing consultant at a firm based in Westport and his wife is a nursery school teacher…. Ever the jet-setter, Tina Brickley recently ran into Eric Heyke in the Newark airport and Steve Tesler in Atlanta…. For the past two years, Amy Bruton has been running her own environmental consulting business in San Diego, Calif…. Tired but elated, Romalda Clark Blanchard and Peter Blanchard ’89 are now the proud parents of W. Paxton Blanchard…. Sue Carrier moved on from her job at GE in Ohio to join her fiancee in Philadelphia…. Connie Chaplan is nearly finished her master’s degree in nonprofit management at the Univ. of Washington…. Rachel Clayton has hung up her basketball sneakers and strapped on a guitar as the co-lead singer in the Boston-based band Chapter in Verse (www.chapterinverse.com)…. Now married to Daran L. Poulin, and a recent graduate of Simmons College with a master’s in both teaching and library science, Cindy Lee Cumming is teaching English at Stoneham (Mass.) High School…. Amy Cutler received her M.B.A. from the Sloane School at MIT and works as a senior consultant with Deloitte & Touche Consulting in Boston. Husband Jamie Maloney is a co-founder and director of sales at DSCI, a telecommunications company in Lexington. Though still playing rugby with the Boston Irish Wolfhounds, Jamie took some time recently to travel with brother Sean Maloney ’89 through Ireland…. Susan Downs-Karkos and Kern Karkosare expecting their first child in March. Kern is a senior reference librarian at Denver Public Library and Susan is a program officer at a charitable foundation, The Colorado Trust…. Jennifer Eifrig is still at Mystic Seaport, raising money for technology-based projects. She’s working on her final project for Wesleyan’s Graduate Liberal Studies Program in sumi-e painting…. Bradford Ellis is in his second year as an assistant professor of Spanish language and literature at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Mich…. Tom and Betsy Dodds George recently bought their first house in the Seattle area…. Katharine Godin married Joshua Tecu in July 1997 in Marshfield, Mass…. Leslie and David Hazlett are parents of a baby girl, Olivia Sara…. Back from an amazing diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef, Christine Henshaw has joined the Arthur Andersen Business Consulting Group as a senior in the Health Care Division…. Laura Hillier moved to Waldorf, Md., to be closer to her job as director of health promotion at the Charles County Health Department…. Arguing technicalities whenever he has the chance, Rick Hollispractices law as a sole practitioner in Iowa…. Still running many a road race and looking to form a Bates Club chapter for Southern Connecticut, Anne Jamieson is the human resources manager for North America at Marakon Associates…. Yoon Joh recently received a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the Univ. of Connecticut and now works as a senior psychologist with substance abusers at St. Barnabas Hospital, Queens Division. Yoon ran into Jennie Munoz-Lewis in NYC recently. Jennie is busy with both a career and graduate school…. The operations manager for an audio-visual company in the Washington, D.C., area, Craig Kiker is married and the father of Walden (3) and Sally (1). Craig reports that he has stayed in touch with Michael Edgar, now attending Harvard Medical School…. Mark Kennedy, wife Naomi, and son Robin enjoyed hosting freshman year roommate Dan Swartz at their Tokyo home during Dan’s visit to Japan to attend the most recent Global Warming Conference in Kyoto…. Jen King, husband Dan Maranci ’88, and son William welcomed a baby girl to the family, Lily Deane Maranci…. Kathryn King Byrn moved to State College, Pa., where her husband is pursuing his master’s in history at Penn State. Their first child, Kelly Elizabeth, will join their ranks in December…. Living with husband David in London, Amy Koch-Oman is expecting their first baby in February. Seems there’s quite a Bates community in London: Liz Hilles Manship and David Morris live there also with their respective spouses…. Though living in Pennsylvania, Eric Knight saw Lara Asmundson, Mike Ireland, and Ruthie Loescher at Ted Walls‘ wedding in Plymouth, Mass….Andrew ’92 and Karen LaConte Roberts live in their new home in Swampscott, Mass. She’s vice president of retirement plan services at Fleet Bank in Boston…. After completing a clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,B.R. “Lance” Lanciault joined the antitrust department of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. Like the rest of us, he wonders where in the world Brad Stratton is…. Living just north of New York City, Traci LaRosa-Suppa is marketing director for the Westchester Convention and Visitors Bureau…. Still single and the father of no kids he’s aware of,Todd Lee is working in structured finance at Skadden, Arps in New York City…. Greg Manthei started his own company in NYC called TechStaff on Call, a technology recruiting firm. Batesies in attendance at Greg’s 1997 wedding to Jennifer Loveman included Eric Knight, Brad Ellis, Greg Postel, andTim Nichols…. After nine years with Outward Bound, Susan McBride is now with a documentary filmmaker in Camden, Maine…. Giving teaching a break for the time being, Lisa Miron Sidel is at home with daughter Rachel…. Still living in Tokyo, Bob Mischler and his wife Adrianne are now the proud parents of Matthew Constantino Mischler…. About to receive her master’s in history from Wesleyan Univ. and still coaching the Hotchkiss women’s varsity lacrosse team, Tracy Moore Chandler and husband Chisholm welcomed Zachary Thomas Chandler to the family in August…. A therapist at the Scarsdale (N.Y.) Family Counseling Center, Stephen Muggeo directs the Adventure Based Counseling Program, recently named a nationally accredited Wilderness Therapy Pro gram…. The proud new mother of Timothy Michael Fitzgerald, Kristin Murray spent a wonderful weekend on Cape Cod celebrating Jane Murray‘s wedding to Erik Krupka…. Spencer Ordway reports that all is well with him and wife Jennifer in Portland, Maine…. Working as a financial assistant for the Univ. of Vermont Print Shop, Craig Palmerreports that he and his partner have bought a condo in Shelburne. They are also foster dads to a beautiful toddler named Joey…. Marnie Patterson Cochran is now a senior editor for Perseus Books, an imprint of the New York-based Perseus Books Group. She and husband Monny have bought a house in Boston near the Arboretum…. Kristi and Stephen Provasnik are living in Chicago. Kristi is a social worker in a junior high school and Stephen is finishing his Ph.D. in education at the Univ. of Chicago…. Daniel Record continues to love his job as a fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade school counselor…. Ann Elise Rodrigues Record has started her master’s in education…. Alisia St. Florian is finishing up at Suffolk Law School this spring and anxiously awaits the birth of her and husband Ben’s first child…. Helping St. Peter- Marian High School students with their college/post-secondary plans, Kelli Reyngoudt Stowe and husband Steve are enjoying their new home in Shrewsbury, Mass…. Paige Roberts is executive director of Lawrence (Mass.) Archives. A Ph.D. candidate in American studies at George Washington Univ., she is specializing in New England material culture….Kathi Rollberg Boldt and husband Jurgen recently welcomed their third child: Kai Christopher Boldt…. Rebecca Sawyerteaches full-time kindergarten and works evenings as a certified reflexologist just west of Boston…. With medical school on hold for the moment, Andrea Snow enjoys staying at home with daughter Caroline. Husband Ismael Carrerashas earned his Ph.D. in educational research, measurement, and evaluation from Boston College and now works as a senior research analyst at Cambridge Reports/Research International…. Thanks to the helping hands and elbow grease of Jessica Adler Clay and Maggie Easton Watson, Molly Snow Robinson can finally settle into her “new-old” house in Bristol, R.I. She happily reports that son Owen had his first grilled cheese at the Bates Den last year…. Sarah Stoneenjoys being a children’s librarian while trying to stay one step ahead of her 1-year-old son…. Still working at Craig, Wenners & Craig, Stephanie Stergiou Ferro and her husband have recently finished renovations on their new home in Manchester, N.H…. Planning their wedding at Bates this spring, Christine Swartz and Peter Trask are living in Ann Arbor, Mich. Peter is completing a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine at the Univ. of Michigan Medical Center. Christine teaches part time at the university and has joined a neurotoxicology consulting firm…. Joanne Walton teaches kindergarten in a corporate nonprofit child-care center in Northern Virginia…. Finishing his Ph.D. in educational psychology at Boston College, Ted Walls recently married Maria Babyonyshev.
		Class Secretary: Pamela Batchelder Johnson, 3305-213 Eastover Ridge Rd., Charlotte, NC 28211, e-mailpamrob@mindspring.com Class President: A. Tracy Talbot Spencer, 1903 Kalorama Place NW, #21, Washington, DC 20009 e-mailTSpencer@nawd.org Next Reunion in 2001. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Genevieve and Sean Andrews live in Brooklyn. Sean continues as director of the Green Neighborhoods Program in NYC… Steve Becker and wifeErin Lydon-Becker ’92 live in Chicago, where Steve is finishing up his dissertation and teaching communications at Northwestern. Steve’s band, Post Office, recorded its second full-length CD. Their debut CD received critical acclaim, with comparisons to Robyn Hitchcock…. Kyra Belcher is still a librarian at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass., and lives in Somerset, Mass…. Madeline Belliveau — in San Francisco — is a print production manager at Anderson and Lembke Advertising. Madeline visited Amy Michaelson in NYC over the summer…. Beth Bonner Carney was married last May in the orchards of the Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton, Mass. Beth is in her fourth year teaching in a full-inclusion fourth-grade classroom in Tyngsboro, Mass…. Peter Carey spent the summer visiting New England and mountain biking in the Smoky Mountains…. Sean and Sue Arnold Carnegie report from sunny Tucson, where Sean is in charge of inmate rehabilitation programs at the special management unit for the Arizona Department of Corrections. He is finishing a teacher certification program at the Univ. of Phoenix to teach special- needs children. Sue received her B.S. in nursing from the Univ. of Arizona in 1998, passed her state boards, and is now working as an RN at a psychiatric hospital. She’s in the master’s program at Arizona in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner track. Sean and Sue visited John Lanza in LA and Corrine Coburn Nikolenko in Sacramento last summer. Sean, Jeff Kubick, Tim Shaw, Mike Golden, Jamie Maloney ’90, and Mark Peabody ’90 got together last summer for the second reunion of JB 202…. John Caron is in Poland teaching English at the International American School in Warsaw and looking forward to a visit from brother Tomand Scott Smith in April…. Tom Caron is an attorney at Mone, D’Ambrose & Hanyen, living in South Boston…. Peter Carr, a lawyer in Boston, tried and won his “first solo jury trial with a defense verdict” in July, and enjoys saltwater fishing in Rhode Island with his father…. Steve Cassell is in Sao Paolo, Brazil, with American Express. He went to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro last February and “paraded with one of the most well-known samba schools — the Mangueira — in front of the tens of thousands of spectators. An experience that everyone needs to try.”… Kathy Chaitin Pineo enjoys time with daughter Kaelyn and does psychological testing on husband Bill ’89’s day off…. Jon Child and wife Liz are now “happy but poor homeowners in the Pioneer Valley” in Hadley, Mass…. Christina Chiu received the Van Lier Fellowship and is working toward a master’s in creative writing at Columbia. Her story, “The Peak,” will be appearing in the anthology Grandmothers: Granddaughters Remember….Scott Clough is one of three chief residents at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. At his September wedding to Megan Hollis ’93, Batesies attending includedMichael ’90 and Terri Hockman Byerly ’91, Bill Hiss ’66 and Colleen Quint ’85, Pritu Singh ’84 and Richard Sampeur ’95, and Laura Beardsley ’94…. Corrine Coburn Nikolenko is in her last year of law school at McGeorge School of Law at the Univ. of the Pacific in Sacramento, Calif. She has an internship with an immigration lawyer and wants to stay in immigration law after graduation…. Tammy Colman is back in the Northeast after teaching for seven years in Louisiana. She’s busy getting certified to teach in New York state…. Vicky Coombs Bushnell married Fitz Bushnell in Salt Lake City last spring. She is an attorney at a litigation firm in town, and they just bought their first home in July…. Tim andMarianne “Mooey” Nolan Cowan ’92 and son Patrick welcomed baby Kaitlyn Pamela in June ’98…. Ted Curcioworked in Yellowstone National Park at Lake Hospital last summer and is now back at Boston Medical Center for one more year of residency. “Steve Katz is still my best friend,” he says…. Kendra Sowers and Charles Dinklage say that daughter Hannah Katherine (1 1/2) models her “I’m on my way to Bates College” bib at mealtime. Kendra is a technical writer at SmithKline Beecham Clinical Labs and telecommutes one day a week. Charles is a financial planner with Karr Barth Associates…. Julie Englund Farhm returned to her job as a high school physics teacher in Keene, N.H., after taking some time off to be with new son Zachary…. Jim ’89 and Megan Falk Pickette are busy settling into their new home in Chester, N.J…. Kate Faragher works at the Augusta police department under a federal grant, collecting police and court data on domestic violence in southern Kennebec County. She is also a certified reserve police officer, having completed the pre-service program at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Waterville. Kate, who lives in Portland, serves on the Bates Task Force on Sexual Assault, which is starting up this fall….Christina Fasse recently moved to San Francisco after finishing a clinical psychology internship in Fresno. She is now a therapist in a special ed setting for severely emotionally disturbed middle school kids…. Carl Fey is an assistant professor of international business at Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Carl says, “My new challenge is helping our school set up a branch business school for executive education work in St. Petersburg, Russia. I also continue to ski on the U.S. ski-orienteering team.”… Josh Friedlander is in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., finishing his last year of his doctorate in clinical psychology at Nova Southeastern Univ. He completed the officer basic course for the U.S. Army this summer…. Emily Goff is beginning year number five as a first-grade teacher at the Moses Brown School in Rhode Island. She and Sue Vitters visited Lisa Bommarito de Kirkman and her husband and son in the Dominican Republic in March…. AJ Gross is in his third year of internal medicine residency at New England Medical Center. Dawn and AJ live down the street from Boston College with their two dogs, Kaya and Dakota…. Kerry Gurtler lives in Silicon Valley and works at Hewlett-Packard in market development in the Network Server Division. She received her M.B.A. from Cornell in 1997…. Ted and Heidi Hamill Baumerrecently saw Chip and Julie Simplicio and son Philip, andDeb Parrott, who is getting her M.B.A. at Babson…. Traci Higgins has completed her Ph.D. in psychology at Clark Univ. in Worcester, Mass., and is doing a “postdoc applying cognitive-developmental psychological theory to educational issues.” She ran her first 5K in San Francisco and still plays hoops three times a week…. Sharon Higgins Charbonniermarried Nicolas Charbonnier in April ’98 — they met while Sharon was living in France. Sharon works at a Massachusetts bank while finishing her Ph.D…. Terri Lynn Hockman Byerly is “reveling in all t he space” at her family’s new home in Londonderry, N.H. She keeps busy at home with her son (3) and daughter (1). “When the kids are older, I intend to pursue a career using my M.Ed., which I received in May ’97, but that’s on hold for now!”… Lakin Hughes married Jack Shostak in September ’98. She graduated from her physician’s assistant program in August and will take the national boards in October. Lakin lives in Fairfield, Conn., and has seen John Ducker, who lives the next town over…. Aaron Humphrey, in Portland, Ore., is still “playing with lights.” He had his knee reconstructed in June but is already biking and climbing — and hoped to be skiing by December. Aaron got together withAnthony Miller a couple of times over the summer…. Ken Husbands writes: “I did the struggling musician thing in Paris for three years, then I played disco in Boston for three years, and now I am in grad school studying French literature at UC-Irvine.”… Amy Hutchinson and husband Scott are teaching in Boise, Idaho. They miss Montana, “but we’re learning to appreciate Idaho’s landscapes, too.”… Trina Janes is in her last year at Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She works for the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International…. Kristin Johnson Bogue has a new job within the same company and loves it. She and Sean spent a lot of time traveling last summer — California, Maine, Puerto Rico, and D.C…. Mary Kelly Brown and husband Jim are living in Washington, D.C. Mary is on the adjunct faculty at Northern Virginia Community College…. Robin Levin Marshall and her husband have moved into a new home in Seattle. They christened it with a Chase Hall- style party, “complete with DJ and cops.” Robin just wrapped up a $9.5- million campaign at Seattle Preparatory School…. Adam Lynn is a psychologist on an acute, 34-bed dual-diagnosis inpatient unit at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn…. Chris Magendantz is defensive coordinator of Northeastern’s football team and is “thrilled to finally be married” to Kristin Bierly ’92, who is now an attorney. Chris gets together with Greg Mulready, Scott Higgins, Matt Pedone, Mike Evans, Chris O’Connor, Alex Lifson, and Mike Taylor, although “not as much as I’d like.” He was also “very impressed with the hiring of Mark Harriman as Bates’ newest head football coach.”… Mary Marshall teaches 9th-grade (honors) and 11th-grade English at Falls Church (Va.) High School. At a national conference, she presented education units she developed. Mary continues to write and has published some pieces in newsletters and literary magazines. She got together with Caroline Smalleyover the summer…. Kathleen McCarthy is “still living in Chelsea” with a new job as major gifts and planned-giving specialist at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, NYC. She gets together with Bevin Howard often, and Beth Walsh hosted a birthday party for her in Boston…. Erik andPatricia McCracken Osman have had a hectic year with twins Hallie Helen and Lars Reinlie, born in April ’98, and their move to Seattle…. Amy Michaelson made a fall trip to San Francisco to visit Madeline Belliveau and Christina Fasse. She lives in Manhattan and is “an interactive designer at a young, really cool financial technology firm.” Amy also does volunteer work with Russian immigrants…. Kurt ’94 andStacia Oakes Johnson have bought “a very old house that needs a ton of work” in Westborough, Mass. Stacia works at Taunton State Hospital as a primary therapist on an inpatient adolescent ward…. Julie and Mike O’Brien welcomed their second child, Shane Michael O’Brien, in May ’98. Seeking a small company “where I can make more of a difference,” Mike joined Direct Report Corp. in Stow, Mass. The company provides investor relations services to public companies….Craig and Alison Buttrick Patton ’92 attended a Corey Harris concert at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park outside Chicago with Stephen ’90 and Kristi Morgan Provasnik ’90, and Alexandra Delp ’90. Craig co-owns/manages Apogee Information Systems, a software consulting company. They recently won the first annual Application of the Year contest held by Inprise Corp. for their work with ITT Sheraton. Craig also published a short story called “Monthuglu” in a collection of Star Trek short stories called Strange New Worlds. He was one of 18 winners chosen from 3,000 contest entries. The book came out in June 1998…. Julia Abbott Rider was born in January 1998 to Todd ’90 and Karen Pfirman Rider. They live in Germantown, Md. Karen is a research analyst for a consulting company in Arlington, Va…. Hilary Poriss is working on her Ph.D. in music history at Chicago and has been doing research in Venice and Florence…. Tiny Proctormoved to Minnesota in 1996. He’s restoring an old house there, and opened up his own photography studio, Studio T, in St. Paul…. Kristin Presley Radford is a social worker at Londonderry (N.H.) High School and enjoys time with daughter Emily Alexandra, born in June ’97…. Lisa Rosene is in her last year at NYU, working towards her M.S.W. and doing an internship at CancerCare. Last summer, she visitedMargaret Byrd Bathmaier ’90 in Santa Barbara, Calif….Mike Roy will be attending the UC-San Diego to study psychology in a Ph.D. program…. Inga and John Russell are parents of Matthew, born in April ’98. John is working “within the institutional sales sector of Fidelity as a wholesaler.”… Liz Rynecki was promoted to project manager for Ridge Associates, a communications consulting training company….Steve Ryder is in the orthopedic surgery training program at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y…. Drew andMelanie Fleming Sachs live outside Washington, D.C. Melanie is an inner-city social worker and was elected in May ’98 to the board of directors of the National Assn. of Perinatal Social Workers for a two-year term. Drew was promoted to branch chief of the Mitigation Directorate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency…. Rachel Segall and Tony Hurley, in West Roxbury, Mass., report that their daughter, Madeline Louise, born in December ’97, is “doing great — getting into everything!” They are happy that Michael Edgar’90 is in Boston, and they also see Sue Rooney often…. Mike Sgoutas was in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa, 1992-94. Upon his return, Mike went back to school to get his teaching certification and master’s degree. Now, he’s teaching science at a middle school in Fairfield, Conn…. Tim Shawgraduated with honors in May from Columbia Business School. He works with IBM’s management consulting practice in NYC, helping financial service clients with information technology-related strategy and process improvement. Last year, he traveled to Brazil to see Stephen Cassell, Club Med Turkoise, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, England, and Wales (visiting Floris van der Burg)…. John and Cathy Pendergast Shay and sons John and Nathaniel hope to be out of Fargo “before the 30-below weather hits.” Cathy reports that Becky Farr is competing in triathalons…. Adrienne Shibles visited Bates last summer withAm y Schrag, Pam Wunderlich Martinez, and Kristine “Goldie” Dailey ’90. Adrinne is still coaching basketball and teaching at Swarthmore College…. Roger Sion has joined Price Waterhouse Coopers in D.C. as a senior associate, focusing on providing strategic planning for the federal government and related agencies. Lisa Comer Sion is an account executive in Arnold Communications’ public relations department, working primarily for technology industry clients…. Kim Small is the morning news producer at WCVB Channel 5 in Boston…. Matt and Tracy Talbot Spencerattended two Bates weddings over the summer, celebrating with Abby McLaughlin Berler and husband Dan and Josh Macht and his wife Penny. Although they got stuck in Boston traffic and missed Josh and Penny’s ceremony, they heard it was lovely!… After seven years at the New England Center for Children, Meridith Tewhey Bernard began teaching special education at the elementary level in Wayland, Mass….Martina Todd still lives on Nantucket year-round, working as a nurse practitioner. She keeps in touch with Stu Titus(teaching at the Pingree School) and Jen Ketterer (a pediatric nurse at Boston Medical Center). Martina ran the first leg of the Rock Run, which is a 50-mile run around the coast of Nantucket on the beach…. Betsy Tomlinson is a dorm head and associate director of admissions at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn…. Jen White recently earned a diploma in adult education from St. Francis Xavier Univ., Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She’s a training specialist with Canada Life Assurance Co. in Toronto. Jen and her “significant other” just bought a house in Mississauga, Ont….Kristin Wolcott married Jim Farese in August ’98 in Phippsburg, Maine, followed by a honeymoon in Tortola, BVI. Her first year as a clinical special worker was “challenging” and she hopes to continue this work in Gainesville, Fla., where they have just moved “for at least a year.”… Pamela Wunderlich Martinez married Gregory Martinez last January. They live in Maryland. Pamela is the hospital librarian at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. On a visit to Bates this summer, Pamela “admired all the changes to the campus.”… Mike and Suzi Ziegenhagen Kingare in Montrose, Colo. Suzi is busy with son Connor, serves as treasurer of the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate, and does a little computer consulting on the side. She recently saw Susie Butler and Evan Borg, who live in Denver…. Barb Zomberg Skinner writes that she is happy to be back on a college campus, running payroll at Clayton College, just south of Atlanta, Ga…. Stacia Zukroff is director of study abroad at Babson College.
		Co-Class Secretaries: Claudia E. Goldstein, 504 W. 110th St., Apt. 8A, New York, NY 10025 e-mail ceg17@columbia.edu ; Jesseca P. Timmons, 1710 S Madison St., Denver CO 80210 e-mail jptimmons@juno.com Class President: Jennifer M. Otis, 3426 Dover Rd., Durham, NC 27707- 4520 Next Reunion in 2002. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! ! Chris ’93 and DeDe Alexander Plante live in Southern Pines, N.C., where DeDe plans to teach Spanish and coach swimming at the local junior high. Chris is flying A-10s for the Air Force and will be off to Kuwait in July. DeDe also volunteers at the VA hospital and hopes to reach alums in the area…. Loving San Francisco,Heather Ames is a chef for Farallon, an award- winning restaurant on fashionable Union Square…. Moving to North Carolina last March, Amy Arnold Baker is a physical therapist at Arowan Hospital. Husband Sean is a fellow physial therapist. At their wedding, Sarah Thibeau was a helpful bridesmaid…. Living in Denver with husband Grant Pius, Heather Balser is the assistant to the city administrator for the City of Louisville…. “Van” Barker has relocated to Dallas in the marketing department at Frito-Lay…. While she works on her dissertation in history at SUNY- Stony Brook,Amy Bass teaches in the American studies department at SUNY-Old Westbury. Batesies she saw at Karen Davis‘s wedding were Micaela Corkery, Kristin Haga, and Mary Holt…. Amy Beard is “living and working in San Francisco.”… Having finished his M.B.A. in finance with double honors, “Ted” Bernhard has a “dream job” as a high-yield bond analyst in New York. He attended the 1998 Bates Commencement when his stepfather, John Updike, received an honorary degree…. Mary Bilotta Caracappa is assistant training consultant for Prudential Life and Disability operations in New Jersey…. After Craig ’91 and Alison Buttrick Patton were married, they moved from Hartford, Conn., to Chicago, where she began work on her M.Div. at Chicago Theological Seminary. She has one more year to go before she is ordained in the United Church of Christ. They enjoy Chicago and managed to catch a concert by Corey Harris ’91 and also ran into Amy Berger last summer…. Last August, Marc Chaput began working for the BT Alex. Brown healthcare investment banking group in San Francisco…. Suzi and John Cloonan live in Atlanta, where he works for a civil engineering firm as a proposal writer and graphic designer and some inline skating on the side…. Last summer, Blair Collins visited Nell Leadley Andreoli and family along with Heather Nolan and Courtney Cushing Kiernat. Blair also went to Australia and New Zealand withDave Butterworth and Paul Roy ’93. Last fall she planned to move to San Francisco to work at a non-profit organization…. In Washington, D.C., Micaela Corkery is the recruiting coordinator for The Boston Consulting Group…. Kate Crinitiand Emily Volpone share an apartment in Brookline, where Kate is “kicking butt” in Boston at Tester Hurwitz & Thibeault law firm. Emily works for Allen & Gerritsen, a “young, incredibly bright, and very fun” ad agency in Watertown….Craig D’Ambrosia works for the Archdiocese of Boston in the finance department. Craig and Betsy are proud of Jake (2) and baby Caitlin…. Roland Davis has been appointed the new Director of Student Counseling and Outreach at the Harvard School of Public Health…. Laura Detwiler is working on certification in midwifery. She loves her work with a “homebirth midwife.”… Christopher Donovan has been traveling in the Middle East…. Formerly at Barnard College,Eric Douglas is now director of donor relations and special projects at Teach for America…. Ellen Draegert is in Pennsylvania, where she works in marketing and is doing additional undergrad work towards grad school…. Living in Stonington, Conn., with husband Michael, Andrea Elder Stultz is a recreation director at the Groton Regency Nursing and Rehabilitation Center…. Nancy Flynn Bass reports surviving the great ice storm of ’98 and is still enjoying life in Portland…. At Drew Univ. in New Jersey, Mark Freeman is delighted to have joined the faculty. He and Reveni (Seneviratne) ’93 finished graduate work at the Univ. of Colombo last year and are now adjusting to the very long move from Sri Lanka back to the United States with daughter Durayna (3)…. U.S. Airways promoted Peter Friedman to captain. He flys Boston-based flights around New England….Tina Gibson is still “slugging it out” at Northwestern and is in Milwaukee evaluating an anti-poverty program that works with low-income women…. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Michelle Grant practices shiatsu, “a form of bodywork based on the same principles of acupuncture.” She enjoys snowboarding, rollerblading, hiking, kayaking, and owning “the world’s greatest German shepherd.”… After four years in Yonkers,Regan Greene teaches an undergraduate writing program at SUNY-Stony Brook while she works on her master’s in ESL…. Eric Halvorson has begun residency in general surgery at Brown. He also has started a multi-disciplinary therapy group on non-contact healing therapeutic touch with classmate Bob Cole, Dan Boylan ’93, and Shari Kumar ’93, based on an ashram on Cape Cod…. Mark Helm is a criminal defense attorney in Las Vegas, Nev…. In San Francisco, Ellen Holty has been managing director of Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation. With husband Javier Alvares, she plans to “wander the Mediterranean for two months in search of adventure then settle in Barcelona!”… Living in Boulder, Colo., Julie Hummer Berry continues to make wedding cakes and “do the Mom thing” as daughter Maddie thrives in preschool…. Karyn Landry Woelflein and husband Mike live in Denver, where she began residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation last July…. Nell Leadley Andreolirecently sold her company, Packford Enterprises, and began a new business, WBS Transport. The Andreolis live in Monroe…. At Yale, James Levy is in the third year of a joint master’s program in management and forestry/environmental studies. He hopes to work in the Boston area to “help improve corporate environmental performance.”… In Portland, Ben Lowenstein has a residency in internal medicine at Maine Medical Center…. While working on her M.B.A. at Northwestern, Erin Lydon Becker led a class to Brazil last March to study the country’s business environment and she had a summer internship at American Express. Steven ’91 is a visiting professor at Lake Forest College and lead singer of Post Office…. Colin Marquis is in Atlanta, where he appears regularly as a senior meteorologist on The Weather Channel and also has appeared on NBC nightly news…. Jonathan Michaeles coaches football at the Univ. of Pennsylvania…. After Army service, Jesse Miller now works at Wise & Shepard, Palo Alto law firm, where he specializes in intellectual property litigation…. With one year left of night school, Lee Morgan works for a regional investment firm in Cincinnati…. After six years in the admissions office at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., Aya Murata is at Harvard in the East Asian studies program. She and husband Mike Charland ’93 enjoyed a recent trip to Alaska…. At CNN in New York, Jeff Mutterperl is a producer in the financial news divisio n, which is both “stressful and fun.”… Peter Olson has changed law firms and now practices litigation exclusively for Pullman & Comley in Bridgeport, Conn….Brad Peacock and wife Tracy O’Mara ’94 are “having a blast” in NYC, where he is a senior associate at Bright Sun Consulting…. Class president Jennifer Otis has left Boston to attend business school at UNC and interns at Glaxo Wellcome…. Katie Parke and husband Tim Reiner enjoyed camping and visiting Colorado last summer. She has bought a house in St. Paul, Minn., where she works as a video editor and writer…. After six years in San Francisco, Maria Pradostill loves it there and her “exciting, challenging, and fast-paced” job at Siebel Systems software company…. Happy to be back in Maine, Amy Robbins co-directs the access/managed care program for mid-coastal mental health in Rockland. She enjoys life in her own house with cat Camilla…. After living in the south of France, Emily Romeroand husband Francois Meucci have happily adjusted to life back in the United States. She works at American Institute for Foreign Exchange in Greenwich, Conn., which coordinates cultural foreign exchanges for students. She and Francois returned to Provence last summer to visit family and friends….Chris Ryder left a successful finance career to realize his dream of becoming a stuntman. He now lives a “biocoastal existence” between New York and Los Angeles. Look for Chris in a Harrison Ford movie to be released in 1999…. Last season in Philadelphia, Rich Sautter acted in three plays. He is now writing a one-man show about writer Max Eastman. The Sautters have a year-old son, William…. At the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Sean Sawyer is in his third year of veterinary school…. Still in Philadelphia, Cory Theberge is a chemist at Merck and plays guitar as much as he can…. Sarah Thibeauis a project manager for a small language translation agency in Acton, Mass. She has run into Erica Chapman McPartland’93 at several meetings of the American Translators Assn. conference…. Homeowners in Oakland, Calif., Vee Jai Thomsak teaches first grade and wife Ashley Keller is a reading recovery teacher at the same school. Last summer they traveled to Thailand to visit Vee’s family and also planned to attend his 10th high school reunion back in Portland…. Co-class president Jesseca Timmons completed her ESL certification for Denver public schools and still teaches second grade. She and husband Abe traveled to Alaska last fall, where he was doing research for the CDC in Anchorage….Christopher VerPlanck works for the Foundation for San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage…. Since 1994, Tim Walshhas been in Hungary working on a World Court case involving Hungary and Slovakia. He also is a data management consultant and would- be poet…. Other classmates living in San Francisco are Kelly Cunninghamand Kjersti Weisenberg who works for an educational tour company and does lots of traveling…. In the Portsmouth area,Heather Williamson has completed teaching requirement for secondary education in social studies and Russian. Classmates in graduate school: Amy Bass, history, SUNY-Stony Brook;Alison Buttrick Patton, M. Div., Chicago Theological Seminary; Tina Gibson, Ph.D., human development and special policy, Northwestern; Regan Greene, SUNY- Stony Brook, ESL; James Levy, M.A., forestry, environmental management, Yale; Erin Lydon Becket, M.B.A., finance and international business, Northwestern; Lee Morgan, M.B.A., Univ. of Cincinnati; Aya Murata, M.A., Asian studies, Harvard; Jennifer Otis, University of North Carolina, business; Sean Sawyer, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Graduate degrees: Amy Arnold Baker, M.P.T., January 1998; Heather Balser, M.A., public administration, Univ. of Colorado; Ted Bernhard, M.B.A., finance; Mary Bilotta Caracappa, M.A., counseling; Marc Chaput, M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management, 1988;Blair Collins, M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management, 1988;Mark Freeman, Ph.D., social psychology, Univ. of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1998; Eric Halvorson, M.D., Duke, May 1998; Karyn Landry Woelflein, M.D., physical medicine and rehabilitation, Univ. of Denver; Damon Maida, M.F.A., acting, Univ. of Florida; George Schmidt Jr. , M.B.A., Univ. of Southern Maine; Ruveni Seneviratne Freeman, 1993, M.A., Univ. of Colombo, Sri Lanka; George Van Barker, Kellogg School of Management; Chris Ver Planck, architecture, Univ. of Virginia; Heather Williamson: M.Ed., Univ. of New Hampshire, 1997.
		Class Secretary: Jodi Sturgis Coppeta, 8 Willard Ave., 3rd floor, Medford, MA 02155 , e-mail jodi.coppeta@parexel.com Class President: Alexandra C. Messore, Apt. 1B, 2378 Euclid Heights Blvd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106 e-mail ,amessore@IMGWORLD.com Next Reunion in 1999. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Re-live the days you just can’t remember…. Which days are those? Believe it or not, the 5th Reunion for the classes of ’93, ’94, and ’95 is June 11-13.Jodi Sturgis Coppeta and Jason and Anna Louise Hanleymet in mid-September with members from the classes of ’94 and ’95. We’ve recruited classmates for the Social Committee, to help us make our first Reunion memorable (especially for those who can’t remember their four years at Bates). We’ll be contacting the rest of you soon, hoping to answer questions you may have and get you excited about attending the Reunion. See you in June for a guaranteed good time!…. At the Univ. of Colorado, Michelle Camou is a teaching assistant and graduate student…. Karyn Christy Benvenuto is at Suffolk Univ. working in career services and cooperative education…. At the Univ. Nebraska- Lincoln, Rebecca Colman is studying for her Ph.D. in psychology…. In Milford, Mass., Colleen Donahue McCretton is product manager, director of marketing, for Granite Software…. Sarah Dunhamand Sam, her yellow lab, live happily together in Ketchum, Idaho. She works for a well-known Sun Valley photographer. “Anybody passing through the area is welcome to visit,” she says…. Lauren Fine has moved back to West Hartford, Conn., to work for her father, Jim ’65, at Acme Auto Inc., and is excited to join the family business. Leaving Boston also meant moving away from some great friends, such as Alexis Gentile and Jen Murphy, who live together in the North End in the same apartment building as Chris Comrack. “Lex” is an advertising account manager at Ivy Productions, a start-up company that provides career advice and guidance to graduating college students on a membership basis. (Bates is a member!). Jen does marketing for an e-commerce beginning company. Chris works on lab research and new business development as a research associate at Millenium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Also in the area, Lauren reports, are Billy Farrington in Cambridge, “Whitt” Lee in Brookline, andTim O’Keeffe, still and always on Beacon Hill…. In South Portland, Michelle Jolicoeur Molesworth is a family support worker for Community Care System, and is an M.S.W. candidate at UMaine-Orono…. Adam Molesworth is a legal proofreader for the reviser of statutes of the Maine Legislature. He is a graduate of the Univ. of Denver Publishing Institute….Susie Mahoney, taking a break from Wall Street, works for her father in real estate development…. At Duke Univ., Carey Oliver is studying for a Ph.D. in pharmacology…. In Lexington, Mass., Jeffrey Partridge is a research assistant at Shionogi Bioresearch. He has his M.S. in microbiology from the Univ. of New Hampshire…. Kerry Rice and Jamie Scoular moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where Kerry works for a home schooling program and Jamie is in graduate school for clinical psychology. They also issue an invitation: “If anyone wants to come visit, we’d love to see you.”… George Schmidt Jr. is senior marketing analyst at L.L. Bean in Freeport…. In Tokyo, Haruki Umezawa works at Mitsubishi Corp….Jessica Whiteley received her master of science in psychology from Virginia Tech last fall.
		Class Secretary: Mark G. Doctoroff, Chase Manhattan Bank, 150 Beach Rd., 33rd floor, Gateway West 189720, Singapore , e-mail Mark.Doctoroff-Sg@chase.com Class President: Sheela Agarwal Merrow, 378 Sunderland Rd., Apt. 5A, Worcester, MA 01604 e-mails_agarwal@globe.com Next Reunion in 1999. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Mark your calendar for June 11-13, our chance to return to Lewiston and relive four years of memories in one weekend. For our 5th Reunion, we will be joined by alumni from the classes of 1993 and 1995. We want to have as many people from our class there as possible, so start looking at flights, train schedules, and drive times. Hope to see you all there! Christopher and Julie Flaherty Dennisnow live in Augusta, Ga., where Julie teaches junior high school math and English and Christopher has begun work on his M.D. at the Medical College of Georgia. At the Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham, Julie earned her M.Ed. and Christopher completed his master’s in public health. Batesies at their July wedding in Birmingham included Matt ’93 andBecky Allen Bogyo ’94, Rob ’95 and Tabitha Deans Riley’94, Alexa Pinard ’94, ’93ers David Fox, John Fitch, Paul Roy, Jon Carlisle, John and Deb Miller McDevitt, Eli Spanier ’93, and from 1992 David Butterworth andJonathan Dennis…. Meredith Godley is director of college counseling at Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, N.J….Cory Liebergott finished her master’s in physical therapy at Boston Univ. Husband Chris Floyd is at Cornell Business School and they live in Ithaca, N.Y.
		Class Secretary: Marjorie Northrop Friedman, 334 Turnpike Rd., Norwich, VT 05055 e-mail kknorthrop@valley.net Class President: Rebecca J. Wolfe, 41 Dane St., Apt. 1, Somerville, MA 02143 e-mail r wolfe@wjh.harvard.edu Next Reunion in 1999. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Hey ’95ers, our 5th Reunion (joining ’93 and ’94) is June 11-13. A bunch of us were on campus in the fall to start planning the festivities. Come back and “re-live the days you just can’t remember!” Michelle Coes Tiballi is an A.S. degree candidate in occupational therapy at Champlain College…. Recently married Amy Vasilakis and husband Joseph Donzella are both third-year medical students at West Virginia Osteopathic Medical College in Lewisburg, W.V.
		Class Secretary: Faham M. Rashid, 99 Brattle St., Lawrence 308, Cambridge, MA 02138 , e-mailrashidf@ksg.harvard.edu Class President: Natasha G. Heath, PO Box 775827, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477-5827 e-mail raddad@cmn,net Next Reunion in 1999. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Sarah Farag, who teaches at D.R. Gaul Middle School in Union, Maine, was a co-winner of the Teacher of the Year award from the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine for her work developing a Holocaust curriculum, and some of her students won individual awards from HHRC for their work, as well…. In New Haven, Beth Tove Whitten is working on her portfolio for applying to graduate school for studio art. She also has been involved with the Yale women’s crew team. Husband Joseph Anderson is a pediatric resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
		Class Secretary: Sharleen Joy Davis, 46 Hill Cir., Burlington, MA 01803 , e- mail sdavis@gis.net Class President: Larry Ackerman, 23 Scudder St., 2d floor, Garfield, NJ 07026-2528 e-mail larryack@hotmail.com Next Reunion in 2002. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Tim Brady is the assistant lacrosse coach at Dartmouth. A four-year letterwinner in the sport at Bates, Tim was assistant coach at the Pingree School in South Hamilton, Mass., and earlier taught at Shore Country Day School in Beverly, Mass…. Travis Emery is night housekeeping foreman at Jackson Hole Ski Resort, which provides him with ample day time for skiing. Kina Pickett, in the “winter wonderland,” works at the Mangy Mouse local tavern at the Ski Resort, passing the days “careening down powdery slopes with 20 kids in tow, bursting with joy.” Dave Warn was to join them shortly. He and Kina have also coupled their musical talent to form “Sideshow Bob and the Vermont Revolt.” Keep watch for their act to come to a small venue near you.
		Class Secretary: Tyler Munoz, 1596 Skye Pkwy, West Linn, OR 97068 e-mail tyler.munoz@us.pwcglobal.com Class President: Robert Curtis, 16 Birchwood Way, Laconia, NH 03246 Next Reunion in 2002. Got news? Tap out a note tomagazine@bates.edu ! Thanks to Professor Hodgkin for news of David Lieber who spent three months in Washington, D.C., as an account assistant with Crounse and Malchow, a direct-mail Democratic political consulting firm. David coordinated the early and absentee voting strategy for the Phil Malouf campaign in New Mexico…. Nathaniel Rand works for State Street Bank of Boston. Last summer he spent several weeks in Ireland.