stay connected... Melissa Clapp Johnson lives in New Jersey with her husband and three kids, now tweeners! She works as a freelance editor and medical writer. Andrew Frishman writes that he and his wife, Leigh, have moved near Central Square in Cambridge. Their daughter recently finished her first year at Amigos School, a public school located just a block from their house. Andrew continues to serve as the program director for Big Picture Learning. Amy Carr writes with updates from her continued road trips directing the lighting design for concerts and events. She wrote me on her fiveyear anniversary of quitting smoking. (Go, Amy!) She spent the summer touring with the show she designed for Esperanza Spalding (a remarkable jazz bassist and performer—worth looking up if you’re not familiar). And this fall Amy is slated to bring the tour to Europe and Japan. Now here’s some stuff I learned about folks with the help of the Internet. Some of these are quick abbreviations of news stories featuring our more famous classmates, and some are taken from recent Facebook updates and online profiles. I’ve tried to include people we haven’t featured recently in class notes. Leif Dormsjo is now the director of DDOT, the transportation authority of Washington, D.C. It sounds like a big deal, and no doubt it comes part and parcel with a tall stack of politics, managing, and budgeting concerns—all things Leif mastered in his years working with Martin O’Malley and the Maryland Department of Transportation. Gus Quattlebaum continues his work with the Red Sox. Early in 2015, he was named assistant director of professional and international scouting, following five years as assistant director of amateur scouting. Morgan von Prelle Pecelli serves as the VP of institutional advancement for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She’s got a long and rich history as a curator and producer and “occasional performing artist.” She also has a PhD degree in anthropology from Columbia. Scott Hennessey lives in Bethesda, Md., and has two adorable sons. He works with solar panel company SolarCity, where he serves as director of policy and electricity markets. Angela Cheng Matsuzawa lives in Hong Kong, where she is cofounder of a juice cleanse company called Punch Detox and raises twin boys. Max Shapiro works as a gastroenterologist in Atlanta. He’s married and has two daughters. Taro Nettleton teaches art at Temple University’s campus in Japan, and he occasionally writes book and art reviews for the Japan Times. He has a PhD degree in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester. As for myself, dear readers, as I write this I’m producing episodes of a CNN series called The Hunt. It’s a fugitive show with John Walsh, of America’s Most Wanted fame. It will air this summer—or rather, it aired months ago. You missed it. Until next time. —Ted
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1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 244 Greene St. New York NY 10003 312-792-8828 moacir@gmail.com
It’s a beautiful spring day in Vilnius, Lithuania, I just gave my remake exams to the seniors who failed my course during the spring semester, and I’m eager to go outside. That’s not the reason these notes are short, however. That is more because of the paucity of information I got from my classmates this time around. Remember, dear classmates, your lives are interesting, just because they are your lives. People who went to PA with you want to hear about them. We’ll start with Emily Kalkstein Carville. She was noticeably pregnant during our reunion in June 2014, and Eleanor Elizabeth was born in September. Eleanor’s cousin will be a junior at PA in the fall, keeping the Andover Kalkstein legacy strong. Also pregnant at the reunion was infrequent contributor Beth Crowley. Son Conor Daniel McKinnon was born in October and joins older sister Ginny, whom Beth describes as “thriving.” Beth is someone we’ll be hearing from rather often over the next few years, especially now that Stuart Hee has joined her as cohead agent for our class. Also in possession of a 2-year-old is Saasha Celestial-One. She’s crossed the decade mark in her life in London, living there with her son, Nolan, and her Danish husband, Michael. Now that her European maternity leave has (finally) ended, she’s launching her second business, OLIO, a mobile food-sharing app that aims to unlock the value of food wasted in the home and community. Non Sibi Weekend occurred in April, and Hannah Sharpless Graff spent the day planting seedlings and hauling compost for the Food Project at Ingalls School Farm in Lynn, Mass. Stephanie Dixon Britz also attended, with her sister. Hannah thanks Mike Koehler for initiating the project, and she also thanks Non Sibi Weekend for keeping alumni connected both to one another and to the ethos of the school. Mike also wrote in about the Non Sibi Committee of the Alumni Council, which he cochairs with David Wartman’s brother, Jed ’97. In another Non Sibi Weekend project, Matt McGirt, Kevin Moran, and John Stubbs worked for the Urban Ministry Center in Charlotte, N.C. Mike encourages people who are interested in Non Sibi Weekend to visit http:// bit.ly/1NuAARY. Jessica Lubarsky Wax is getting used to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she moved with her husband, as noted in the last edition. She’s asking anyone in the area who wants to meet up to please let her know. Down the coast, Bryan Seabury wrote from LA. He has three pilots on the schedule for this fall from CBS, including Supergirl, which he says is the biggest pilot he’s ever worked on.
His two daughters, Scarlett and Quinn, are doing well, and he was recently in London to meet up with Curren Krishnan and Juris Vitols. From Woodstock, N.Y., Jess Lunt sent some news as she prepared for her annual summer pilgrimage to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She is expanding her yoga teaching, as well. Aaron Flanagan spent the snowy, snowy winter on Plum Island, Mass. He has since moved to a new home in Newburyport, Mass., with his wife and 3-year-old son. From the other side of the world, specifically Vietnam, Jason Lusk sent in some news. He is working as Microsoft Vietnam’s digital marketing lead, and he also cofounded ClickSpace, a coworking space for digital nomads, complete with café and bar. Finally, and on a sad note, Marta Rivera Monclova wrote “to fight the Facebook-esque trend of only posting good things.” She suddenly lost her partner of five years, Daniel Albright, on January 3, to multiple pulmonary emboli. She has gotten a lot of support from Andover friends, including Lilli Lewis ’93 and Sofía Echegaray ’93, who sent flowers, and Brock Savage, Lisa Larson ’95, and Justin Libby ’95, who met her for lunch. Marta is still trying to figure out what is next for her. As always, please keep in touch by joining our class’s page on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ pa94fb. Or contact me via the myriad options listed at the top of this update.
1995 Lon Haber 2645 South Bayshore Drive Miami FL 33133 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com
This is going to be a doozy—but read through: We promise you tall tales of tent crashing, adventures in the Sanctuary, and...an engagement! Read on, dear friends. First off, our sincerest apologies. After two years of drumming up excitement in the notes and a full year of conference calls and planning sessions, that your (devoted) class secretaries weren’t able to attend the reunion was a bit of a blow. Ditto Mimi Crume Sterling, who’d put in a good bit of time helping to pull it together. Sod’s law, and all that. Still, Margot van Bers Streeter and I [Lon Haber] were definitely there in spirit, and from our respective perches in London and Miami, we watched the weekend unfold online with great interest—both of us throwing “likes” around with wild abandon. And we weren’t alone in that. From the comments flying as each new photograph was