A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E - Colby-Sawyer College
A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E - Colby-Sawyer College
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Blushing bride Lauren Smyrl Koron ’97 is surrounded by her alumni friends on her wedding day. (L to r) Ashley Grant<br />
’08, Mary Drueding ’83, Melissa Smith Johnson ’95, Sarah Holmes Tucker ’95, Lauren Smyrl Koron ’97, John Koron,<br />
Beth Chartier Tower ’97, Kim-Laura Boyle ’98, Jolene Thompson Stratton ’97 and Liz Cronin Gosselin ’97. Missing<br />
from the photo is Tyler Davis ’07.<br />
this year, so with 2 kids under<br />
2 we know she is busy! Colleen<br />
Cross Carlson ’98 moved back to<br />
NH after living in MA for 5 years.<br />
She and her husband bought a<br />
house in Merrimack, and she<br />
works at Amherst Middle School<br />
as a 7th grade language arts<br />
teacher. Rachel Anderson Dodge<br />
works on the rapid response team<br />
at FL Hospital in Orlando and<br />
enjoys family time with her 2<br />
children, Eric (2) and Christian<br />
(8 months). She and her husband<br />
have kept the kids busy with<br />
the park, library, Sea World and<br />
Disney. Lauren Smyrl Koron still<br />
lives in Wilmot, NH, and works<br />
for Nestlé Purina as a veterinary<br />
sales consultant. She and her husband<br />
welcomed their first child,<br />
Victoria Kimball Koron, on July<br />
18. Erica Wells Leighton and<br />
her family had a great summer<br />
traveling to ME for her sister’s<br />
wedding. Her sons Davis (9) and<br />
Nathan (5) were excited about<br />
starting, respectively, football and<br />
soccer. Congrats to Erik Daly<br />
and his wife Betsy, who built a<br />
new house in PA that they’re<br />
enjoying with their 3-year-old,<br />
Harper!<br />
We want to see your face, too.<br />
Baby photo policy:<br />
While we love to receive photos of your<br />
adorable children, our policy is that<br />
an alumna/us must also be present<br />
in the photo in order for it to be<br />
published in the Alumni Magazine.<br />
74 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE<br />
1998<br />
Jamie Gilbert<br />
10-2 Countryside Lane<br />
Middletown, CT 06457<br />
(860) 305-4641<br />
e-mail:<br />
sportsmassage01@hotmail.com<br />
Chris Quint<br />
130 Granite St<br />
Biddeford, ME 04005<br />
e-mail:<br />
christopher.quint@gmail.com<br />
Sorry for the hiatus in the last<br />
edition of Class Notes. If you are<br />
on Facebook, send me, Chris,<br />
a friend request; if you aren’t,<br />
e-mail me to let me know what<br />
you are up to. Me? I’m loving<br />
life in ME. I hung out with<br />
Steve Townsend in Portland in<br />
Sept. and also saw Brian Dyer<br />
’99. Life is good in Amesbury,<br />
MA for Marty Binette, Missy<br />
Eckman Binette ’99 and their<br />
son Camden. Brian Karbel<br />
’99 got engaged and started a<br />
job at Allurent as an account<br />
executive. Jamie Gilbert lives<br />
in Middletown, CT, took a<br />
new job in loss prevention for<br />
Banana Republic, and is applying<br />
to Boston U for the Master<br />
of Criminal Justice program.<br />
Jamie reports that Lisa Lachesky<br />
works as a flight attendant<br />
for Northwest Airlines and as<br />
an exercise physiologist with<br />
cardiac rehabilitation patients.<br />
Kelly Ervin Packett relocated to<br />
Nesconset, NY, and had a baby<br />
boy, Cameron Drew, on Jan. 8.<br />
Kelly still owns Building Blocks<br />
for Parents and keeps in contact<br />
with Elise Picard Howe and her<br />
3 kids. Melissa Morgan lives in<br />
Manhattan, works in Queens as<br />
a licensed social worker in an<br />
outpatient mental health clinic,<br />
and volunteers on weekends.<br />
Chris Cousins, wife Jennifer<br />
Blais Cousins ’99, and family<br />
relocated to the Pittsfield, ME,<br />
area where he took a reporter job<br />
at the Bangor Daily News. Brian<br />
Jessica Lamoureux Montgomery ’99<br />
and her daughter Morgan.<br />
Heon welcomed his first child<br />
on Dec. 31, 2008, and started<br />
SportLuxe, a wakeboard and<br />
water-ski boat distribution company.<br />
Shannon Zimmerman<br />
Figueroa is on year 5 at Holy<br />
Cross Hospital. Theresa Saucier<br />
Bousquet works at Fairhaven<br />
High School as the athletic<br />
trainer and is seeing her 1st<br />
child off to kindergarten this<br />
year. Sarah Wall Bates lives in<br />
Kansas City, MO, with 4-yearold<br />
Abigail and started work for<br />
an in-house ad agency in the<br />
reference department. Danielle<br />
Rychalsky got engaged and is<br />
planning a wedding in Hawaii in<br />
Summer 2010 as well as a new<br />
career path in nursing with hospice.<br />
Nate Camp went through a<br />
tough patch with the loss of his<br />
mother to cancer; on the positive<br />
side, he was recently named the<br />
head men’s basketball coach at<br />
Kearsarge High School in New<br />
London where he lives with Beth<br />
Bryant Camp ’92 and family.<br />
Jill Rubchinuk LaChance keeps<br />
in touch with Beth Ferreira<br />
Webster and Adina Barber<br />
Cripps. Jill Bishop Avery,<br />
living in Gardiner, ME, with<br />
Holly Brooks Robinson ’99 was married on September 20, 2008, in Lions,<br />
Colo. Joining Holly (center) on her special day were alumni friends (l to r)<br />
Abigail Hamlin Sehnert ’99, Curtis Low ’97, Kathleen Walsh Cyr ’99 and<br />
Maura Higgins Semmes ’95.
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