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Louise Ball Schutte louisehira@gmail.com Danielle Grunebaum White dwhite@hillviewcap.com
2005 10th Reunion
Teddy Aronson ’07 MOVING BEYOND CULTURE SHOCK
Contact: Jonathan J. Allocca jonathan.allocca@gmail.com
Matt Brodie ’06 and fiancée Danielle Soffer
Gabriel Gaviola gabe.c.gaviola@gmail.com
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Molly McGaughan molly.mcgaughan@gmail.com
Contact: David Doobin doobind@gmail.com
Bridget Duffy Raines Bridgetpraines@gmail.com
Teddy Aronson ’07 brought Somaliland home to NA. Teddy
Catherine Pfeffer catherine.pfeffer@gmail.com
Sam Gordon and Catherine Bradshaw became engaged in November. They are planning a July 2016 wedding.
Andrew Somberg asomberg@gmail.com
a school focused on preparing young people to lead the
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struggling young country, formed more than 20 years ago.
Contact: Julia Appel appel.julie@gmail.com
Contact: David Frank david.frank44@gmail.com
Ilana Mandelbaum ilana.mandelbaum@gmail.com
Alexa Gruber alexa.gruber@richmond.edu
Sarah Marcus sarmar88@gmail.com
Lynn Olesky lynnolesky@gmail.com
Asia Stewart asiamstewart@gmail.com
Maximilian C. Staiger mstaiger41@me.com
In March, Matt Brodie proposed to Danielle Soffer on Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara. They are planning an August 2016 wedding.
Lynn Olesky has worked in the luxury fashion industry for the past two years. She recently started a new job in planning at Saks Fifth Avenue’s corporate office. She lives in Hoboken and loves spending time with her family and friends (many of whom are NA alums!). She and her boyfriend, Ian Leyden ’03, recently began volunteering at St. Hubert’s Animal Shelter in Madison, NJ.
spoke to NA Middle School students about the year he spent teaching at the Abaarso School of Science and Technology, a boarding school for students in grades 7-12
Emily C. Simon emily.c.simon@me.com
in Somaliland. He talked about the environment at Abaarso,
He described the culture shock of living at a school where students go to pray at the on-campus mosque during
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breaks throughout the day. On one occasion, classes at the school were cancelled because the country was experiencing
a drought and the president of Somaliland had declared a
national day of prayer in an effort to receive more rain. Teddy offered this advice to his Middle School audience:
Cultures may seem very different
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around the world, but we can learn so much from them. I learned as much from
my students as they did from me.
Reach out and explore other cultures. It’s more than worth it.
Haley Douds and Andrew Holmberg became engaged in February. They plan to marry in Vermont in September 2016.