Chandler Alumni Go ‘Back to School’ to Wed Who could have imagined when Amy Hathaway ’88 and Naveen Jeereddi ’88 first met at Chandler School in fourth grade, they would end up planning to spend their lives together? This past October the couple married in a ceremony in Napa, accompanied by several of their Chandler chums. In fact, Chandler was mentioned several times during the elementary school-themed reception that was a nod to the couple’s early beginnings. “Naveen and I both really loved Chandler, and it’s a special connection for us,” says Amy. The couple was not a couple while at Chandler and did not reconnect again until two years ago on Facebook. “He was living in SoHo, and I was living in L.A., and we went on a date at the Château Marmont [in Hollywood], and we just hit it off,” recalls Amy. “It’s great when you meet someone in the fourth grade because they just really are who they are… We met when we were really innocent, and then we reconnected at just the right time, and it was really special.” Eight months after that first date, Naveen relocated to the West Coast and took Amy on a special trip to a private winery in Napa where he proposed. “We went for a hike after lunch, and we went to the top of this hill, and there were two Adirondack chairs and a chest, and the chest was full of champagne, so after he proposed we sat in the chairs, drank champagne and looked out at Napa Valley,” she recalls. The couple returned to Napa for their wedding and chose an elementary school theme a la Chandler to symbolize how they first met. “For the name tags we had pencils, for the cake we did a bake sale, and for our guestbook, we made it look like notes you would pass in the classroom.” Amy says. Even the guest “photo booth” backdrop was made to look like a classroom back at Chandler. Fittingly, their bridal party included several of their former Chandler classmates: Chiara Vilgiate-Rivas ’88 (who is now a school teacher), Sanjay Daluvoy ’88 and Hillary Hathaway-Biehl ’86 (who is also a school teacher in Orange County). The couple now resides in the Hollywood Hills. Naveen has an MBA from Harvard Business School and runs a successful hedge fund. Amy continues to pursue an acting career and recently finished filming the feature film Gemini Rising. Not surprisingly, when the couple celebrates their one-year anniversary, they are planning another nod to their Chandler roots – small shamrock tattoos on their wrists. Imagine what Tom Chandler would say to that!
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Alumni Structure at Chandler Current Whitney Chandler ’66 Lisa Curry Austin ’74 Melina Eversole Montoya ’75 Heather Bohr Unterseher ’81 Peter Stavropoulos ’82 Geoff Arrobio ’83 Andrew Wang ’84 Maureen Madsen Short ’84 Garrett Calhoun ’85 Lauren Craig Albrecht ’85 Michelle Nobel Barnett ’86 Joyce Wang Sakonju ’87 Jody Trimble Sandberg ’87 Panney Wei ’88 John Berger ’88 Elizabeth Seitz ’90 David Abdo ’91 Tom Rose ’92 Cary Harder Hueser ’93 Chris Walker ’93 Susan Dutra ’94 Stephanie Luh ’95 Jay Harder ’96 Eszter Lengyel ’96
The 2010-2011 Alumni Council: Top Row Chris Waldheim ’81, Laura Dicovitsky, (Director of Development), Garrett Calhoun ’85, John Berger ’88 (Alumni Council President), Peter Stavropoulos ’82, Max Ortiz ’01, Celia Heath, (Alumni Relations & Special Events Coordinator) Sitting Row Lisa Curry Austin ’74 CHS ’78, Lauren Craig Albrecht ’85, Christine Sarafian ’99, Joyce Wang Sakonju ’87 (not pictured) Chris Walker ’93