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Marc Acito ’90.

Marc Acito has written a novel, “How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater,” which is due out in September. The film rights have already been optioned by Columbia Pictures. Marc has a syndicated humor column, The Gospel According to Marc, which appears in 18 alternative newspapers across the country. • Stacey Wing Barrett and her husband, Chase, live in Colorado Springs, with their children, Layne, Emma, Tanner, Graham, Kendrick, and Hudson. • Joel Hrbek and Palmira Santacruz were married in February in Miami, Fla. Alumni in attendance were Sarah Hoyt ’89, Ian Calkins, Bill Porter, and Brad Wilson ’91. Joel is the new venture development manager with the Miami Herald Publishing Company. • Terri Grzybowski Lay teaches math at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, Calif. • Craig Miercort lives in Tampa, Fla., where he is a doctor. • Josey Axt Mullins is the managing environmental scientist with Northern Ecological Associates in Delaware Water Gap, Penn.

’91
Ryan and Maria Reardon ’90 Capp live in Palmer Lake, Colo., with their children, Sophia, Benjamin, and Ethan.

A bunch of CC alumni, bourbon, and horse racing! What better combination could you ask for? The annual Kentucky Derby party was hosted at the Kahului, Hawaii, home of John White ’92 and Aubrey Hord ’91 to celebrate Aubrey’s southern upbringing. From left, John, Aubrey, Sam Mochizuki Meyer, Peter Horovitz ’92, Sophia Horovitz, Liana Mancini Horovitz ’92, Max Mochizuki Meyer, and Lisa Mochizuki ’91.

Ryan is a science resource teacher for elementary school teachers and Maria is a grant writer for several nonprofit agencies in the Pikes Peak region. • Bruce Casson teaches at the Classical Academy in Colorado Springs, where he lives with his wife, Pamela, and their children, Jonathan, Catherine, and Anna. • Parice Halbert and Steve Schuh were married March 20. They live in Gibson Island, Md., where Parice is stepmom to Brittany and George. • Aubrey Hord lives in Kahului, Hawaii, where she is the Maui marketing manager for Coffee Partners Hawaii. • Carrie Martin-Light teaches fifth grade for Deerfield Public Schools in Deerfield, Ill. • John Shors is the author of “Beneath a Marble Sky – A Novel of the Taj Mahal,” a recounting of the legendary story behind the creation of the Taj Mahal. • Amy Stix is a water program coordinator with American Wildlands in Bozeman, Mont.

’92
Rob Adkisson and Gearl Brace were married Feb. 19, in San Francisco, Calif. • Mark Glaze lives in Washington, D.C., where he owns Glaze Strategic, a company that specializes in media consulting on legal and policy issues. • Rob and June Steely Hunter live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their twin sons, Matthew and Christopher. Rob is a stay-at-home dad and June works as an internal medicine doctor. • Rebecca McQuitty is a veterinary student at the University of California-Davis. • Kimberly Nearpass-Pollack and her husband, Justin, live in Frisco, Colo., where they are both naturopathic physicians. • Amy Palmer and Richard Williams were married May 17, 2003. • Susan Patrick is the director of the Office of Educational Technology in the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C.

’93

Jessica Jackson-Keeley ’92 is pictured at the finish of the Rome Marathon in March. It was her fourth marathon and her second with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team-in-Training program.

Sean Cunningham and Jill Johnson were married April 17. Sean is the vice president of technology at Watterson-Prime Software, Inc., in Bellevue, Wash. • Carolyn McCarthy is in Puerto Montt, Chile, for a year on a Fulbright Fellowship. She is writing a book about life in the rural south emerging from isolation. • Jennifer Schreck and Jason Kabat were married June 28, 2003, in Denver. Jennifer is an attorney for the Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado. • Jack Sedwick lives in Gainesville, Fla., where he is chief in the division of plastic surgery at the University of Florida. • Karen Badonie Sopko started a cardiology fellowship in July at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque. • Lisa Hardin Van Bramer and husband, Erik ’91, are both on the board of directors of the Rocky Mountain Research & Prevention Institute in Aurora, Colo. The institute introduced legislation to create a “Colorado Kids 1st” special-interest license plate to fund the promotion of health and prevention of injury to children.

’94
10th Reunion – Oct. 8-10, 2004!
Jeanna Baitlon and Tommy Myers were married in February 2003. They live in Salida, Colo., where Jeanna has her solo law practice. • Michelle Beutz is a pulmonary/critical-care fellow at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. • J.J. Breazeale works in the global learning solutions department at StorageTek in Louisville, Colo. • Sarah Davidson and Anton Maria were married in June 2003. • Anne Boatwright Davila is pursuing a master’s degree in international development at the University of Denver. She and her husband, Federico, have two daughters. • Terry Deeringer is a management assistant with the City of La Quinta in La Quinta, Calif. • Sean Hanretta is a visiting lecturer in the department of history at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., where he lives with his wife, Kim. • Jonathan Rodriguez and Jennifer Ruggerio were married Aug. 16, 2003, in Seattle, Wash. Alumni in attendance were John Lutz ’95, Heather Ogren ’95, and Gina Rodriguez ’03. Jon and Jennifer live in Seattle, where Jon is an assistant controller for RREEF/DB Real Estate. • Jason Widegren is a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo.

’95

ldquo;Fijis” and their families gathered in Colorado Springs for a reunion at the Broadmoor Hotel in January. Mike Edmonds, dean of students, and Diane Brown Benninghoff ’68, assistant vice president for advancement, joined them for breakfast one morning. Back row, from left, Craig Lopez ’95, Zach McFarland ’95, David Forester ’94, Jeff Bush ’95 (holding son Bradford), David Kim ’94, Todd Sweet ’94, Jon Surdam ’94, Matt Moyer ’94, Pete Kent ’94, Mike Edmonds; front row, Jennifer Forester, Leslie Bush, Leslie Blaugrund Kim ’95, Jamie Moyer, Wendy Boudreau, and Christy McFarland. Collon Kennedy ’94 was also there, but arrived too late for the photo.

Janelle Towns Albright lives in St. Louis, Mo., with her husband, Patrick. • Lynn Barnes and Chad Panitzke were married Dec. 13, in Redwood Falls, Minn. • Gretchen Nowak Coker is a fisheries biologist for an environmental consulting firm in Wenatchee, Wash., where she lives with her husband, Stephen, and their son, Ian. • Ryan Ehrhart lives in Memphis, Tenn., where he is first vice president of fixed income capital markets at Morgan Keegan & Co. • Iris Hinds is still living in Amsterdam, where she is teaching, traveling, and going to art school. • Joshua Howell and Veronica Poblete were married Nov. 22, in Phippsburg, Maine. They had another ceremony and celebration near Pucon, Chile, on Feb. 21. • Karen Baker Nathan is the new alumni events leader for Cleveland, Ohio. • A story appeared in the March/April 2004 issue of Skiing about Hilaree Nelson O’Neill and her faithful black lab, Buck, regarding their skiing adventures around the world. • Walker Peacock and Stacy Stensrud were married June 7, 2003. • Daniele Richardson and Andrew Tobey were married Jan. 10, at Shove Chapel. Alumnae in attendance were Becky Hoenigman and Martha Tobey Alvarez (MAT) ’96. They live in Colorado Springs, where Daniele is a software engineer at MCI and a math adjunct professor at Pikes Peak Community College. • Erin Shay is a real estate agent and developer in Englewood, Colo. • Simone Juter Sobel and her husband Gidon, live in Atlanta, Ga., with their children, Bracha and Avital. • Seth Vannatta is going into his ninth year of teaching in the history and English departments and coaching soccer, volleyball, and strength training at Casady School in Oklahoma City, Okla.

’96

<strong>John Anthony ’95</strong> bumped into <strong>Kim Nixon Hutchison ’95</strong> in Key West, Fla., in January. John is working on voter registration campaigns targeted at women and live music fans.

John Anthony ’95 bumped into Kim Nixon Hutchison ’95 in Key West, Fla., in January. John is working on voter registration campaigns targeted at women and live music fans.

Christy Gass and Ryan Foran were married May 31, 2003, in Chicago. Alumni in attendance were Matt ’94 and Sara Fuller Hutchinson, Greg ’94 and Whitney Wieggel Pritham, Meriweather Campbell, Amy Conger, Derek Damon, Amy Foley, Erika Fredell, Carly Glassmeyer, Tom Heisler, Jamie Klopp, Christoffel Krediet, Chris Long, Sarah Nelson, Jamie Repenning, Lucius Taylor, and Tamara Glupczynski ’97. • Jenny Irving is a teacher in Salem, Ore., where she lives with her husband, Kelly Mick. • Ian Jacobson is an associate with Laird Norton Co., L.L.C., in Seattle, Wash. • Kara Pellouchoud and James Hoffman were married Sept. 21. • Jamie Roberts Rasch is company manager of Kim Robards Dance in Denver. • Caroline Seigel opened her own art appraisal practice, 20th Century West Art Appraisal, in Santa Fe, N.M., in April. • Kathryn Stewart is the director of college counseling at Xavier High School in Manhattan, N.Y. She can see the Statue of Liberty from her dining room table in her Brooklyn apartment. • Lucius Taylor is a hydrogeologist with CH2M Hill in Oakland, Calif. • Robert Van Sickle and Deborah Gregg ’98 are the proud owners of the Polka Dog Bakery in the south of Boston, Mass. The bakery specializes in natural, home-baked treats for dogs.

’97
Matt Atencio is based in Portland, Ore., for nine months out of the year, coaching soccer at Warner Pacific College. The other three months are spent in Wollongong, Australia, where he is working on a Ph.D. involving physical activity, young people, and culture. • Elizabeth Ayres works for the Del Norte County Library in Crescent City, Calif. • Kristi Franklin reports that she is putting her law degree to good use in working for the poor, as the planned giving manager for the Sacred Heart League in Wall, Miss. • Heather McDowell is a special education teacher in the South Bronx. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her sister, Megan ’00. • Lydia Ogden lives in New York, where she is a psychiatric social worker.

’98
Melissa Prather Bauman lives in Sacramento, Calif., with her husband, Joel Bauman ’99. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California-Davis. • Cassandra Richardson Berry lives in Fort Knox, Ky., with her husband, David, and their children, David Jr., Arlonda, and Amanda. • Sonja Hovey Broten lives in Minneapolis, Minn., where she is a stay-at-home mom to new son, Nehemiah. • Theodore Cheng is enjoying the sun and hamburgers in San Francisco, Calif., after living in London for six months. He is vice president of corporate development for WagerWorks. • Chris Condon and Tracy Voss were married Sept. 20, in Aspen, Colo. Alumni in attendance were Brigid McRaith ’97, David Turner ’97, Jay and Roe Williamson Fellows, Lee Groom, Kahlil Lozoraitis, Dave Macomber, Luke Maher, Laura Sehnert, Tim Shoaf, and Rob Vinton. • Andrew Farago and Shaenon Garrity were married Feb. 14, in San Francisco, Calif. Alumnus, Blake Jordan, was in attendance. They live in San Francisco, where Andrew is the gallery manager at the Cartoon Art Museum. • Dimuth Fernando is an engineer of dynamic loads for Boeing in Mukilteo, Wash. • James and Erica Peterson ’99 Fukuhara are the new metro events leaders for Kansas City, Mo. • Desmond Herzer Holshouser lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband, Terry, and their children, Brinkley, Avery, and Clayton. • Adam Lerner and Jillian Taylor were married June 14, 2003, in Vancouver, B.C. They live in Austin, Texas, where Adam is pursuing an M.B.A. at the University of Texas. • Amanda Lloyd and Miles Ellis were married Feb. 14. They live in Hayden, Colo., where Amanda teaches at Craig Middle School. • Olivia Mesa is the new metro events co-leader for Tucson, Ariz. • Sheila Panda and Ian Moore were married Jan. 1. They live in San Diego, Calif., where Sheila is a doctor. • Megan Perkins and Peter Shepard were married Aug. 30, 2003, in Bend, Ore. Alumni in attendance were Mikal Condon, Christy Hagan, Lisa Hootnick, Scott Keiner, Erin Knoska, Wendy Monahan McGrane, Laila Peabody, Tamsyn Phifer, Michelle Russell, Bjorn Salvesen, Jacob Segerhammar, Jamie Stralka, Noel Sullivan, McLean Bulmer ’99, Caroline McCusker-Concannon ’00, Marit Robinson ’02, and Tom Shepard ’02. Pete and Megan live in Madison, Wis., where Pete is in a medical residency. • Zachary Putnam and Nikki Mundie ’99 were married March 27 in Seattle, Wash. Alumni in attendance were Jeremy Canwell ’97, Jean Weisman ’97, Sophie Askew, Chris Dockum, Darren Lake, Kyle Ploessl, Jesse Quay, Jacob Segerhammar, Derek Sexton, Ben Sharaf, Brian Somerset, Jamie Stralka, Noel Sullivan, Liz Wall, Eric West, Paul Braunger ’99, McLean Bulmer ’99, Emily Cabral ’99, Carrie Finnerty ’99, Matt Good ’99, Stephanie Hara ’99, Alison Henry ’99, Kristen Leibensperger ’99, Alison Pierce ’99, Becky Pitts ’99, Teresa Robinson ’99, Ian Abernathy ’00, Caroline McCusker-Concannon ’00, Jessica Packard ’00, and Emily Nelson Bort ’01. • Evan Wolf is a wetland ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

’99
5th Reunion – Oct. 8-10, 2004!
Emily Cabral lives in San Francisco, Calif., where she is pursuing a graduate degree in psychology at The Wright Institute. • Eric Carpenter is currently traveling around South America on a motorcycle. Friends can follow his adventures at www.freedomsojourn.com. • Carrie Finnerty lives in Boston, Mass., where she is pursuing her J.D. at Suffolk University. • Karin Friederic is a graduate student at the University of Arizona in Tucson. • Jodi White Fuller is pursuing a master’s degree in human development and family studies at Indiana University. • Maggie Gilbrook lives in Colorado Springs, where she is a nurse with the U.S. Air Force. • Katharine Hopkins is pursuing a master’s degree in printmaking at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. • Ian Kipp and Jessica Bannon were married Aug. 2, 2003. • Erica Lundsten is pursuing a master’s degree in physician assistance at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. • Raphael McBride lives in San Francisco, where he works for Genertech. • Amy Moser is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, and began her first tour in June as a public diplomacy officer in Harare, Zimbabwe. • Joshua Paddock was awarded a President’s Fellowship from the University of Virginia, where he will pursue his Ph.D. in German language and literature in the fall. • Katherine Perkins lives in Franklin, Tenn., where she is an artist. • Kyle Stock is a business reporter with The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. • Jedediah Wangsgard lives in Colorado Springs, where he is an attorney. • Abigail Washburn lives in Nashville, Tenn., where she is a musician. • Jonathan Weeks is nearing completion of his master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver. He has been accepted into the research and evaluation methodology doctoral program in Boulder, where he will live with his wife, Andrea Godsman Weeks, and their daughter, Madeline.