www.andover.edu/intouch at IDEO.org and would love to meet up with folks in the area. Rob Webb married Amanda Harvey on Pi Day (both are engineers) at Convict Lake, near Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Rob was happy that Nirav Thakor attended. They hadn’t seen each other since early 2001. Joisan Decker DeHaan convinced Sara Smith to come visit her in Mattawan, Mich., Joisan’s little two-stoplight suburb of Kalamazoo, this past spring for her baby shower. Although Sara’s stay was tamer than previous visits, they had a wonderful time catching up. After six years in California, Kalle Thompson Sousana moved back to her hometown of Charlotte, N.C., and is really enjoying having a patch of land to poke around, planting things, and just staring up at the trees and meditating. She and her husband, Jesse, have two boys, Miles and Arieh Lev, called Arie. Kalle is a full-time mom and is also a genital integrity advocate, having protested in three cities with BloodStained Men. After completing a dental fellowship in prosthodontics at UConn, Noah Orenstein and his wife, Diana, now live in Newton, Mass. Noah is currently practicing in Brookline and has been able to reconnect with Paul Penta and Emily Tompkins Karlin. He is excited to be back, now that the snow has finally melted! In Washington, D.C., Adam Berg works on Capitol Hill as deputy staff director and counsel for the Democratic staff of the House Rules Committee. He and his wife, Erika, are expecting in September. Brooke Currie is also in DC, with her husband, stepdaughter, and 18-month-old son, Owen. Brooke occasionally sees Catherine Kannam, who has a son a few months younger than Owen, and says it’s been fun sharing playdates. Brooke recently stayed with Heather Collamore Skalet and her husband, Ari, at their home in Port Chester, N.Y., and is looking forward to spending time with Bella Tonkonogy after Bella completes her fellowship at MIT Sloan. Bella is planning her wedding, after which she and her husband will move to Paris. Claire Coffey reports that the novice boys’ and girls’ crew teams that she and her husband, Zach, coach both won Virginia state championships! Claire also got to hang out with Lindsay Hoopes and Alex Mantel at a spring event for Hoopes Vineyard, Lindsay’s family winery. Finally, we have updates from our classmates in NYC. Nick MacInnis and his wife, Hillary, welcomed their son, Charlie, in February. In May, Charlie met Daisy, the daughter of John Swansburg ’96 and Happy Menocal ’98, in Brooklyn. Camille Manning joined the Plumbers Local 1 five-year apprenticeship program and is enjoying the work. Recently, Camille has been installing cast-iron pipes and has a great view of the Freedom Tower from her job site. Sarah Moulton Faux and her husband, Gordon, welcomed their daughter, Clara, in February. Sarah is doing well and was back in rehearsals for the role of Zerlina in a production of Don Giovanni
with Amore Opera in NYC two weeks after giving birth! Keep the updates coming!
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So your own class secretary was a no-show for our 15th Reunion. Blame Kelly-Jean Elworthy for our absence, as we were instead keeling somewhere offshore of the Bronx, becoming ASA-certified sailors with the New York Sailing School. Ahoy! Heard through the grapevine and saw through social media that June brought an intimate assortment of some of our classmates back to campus. Despite not physically being there with you all, I’ve been lucky to hear news from some of our tribe, anyway. Ashley Harmeling Wayman was married in summer 2014 to Alex Wayman of Concord, Mass., at Twin Farms in Barnard, Vt. Andover alums in attendance included Ashley’s sibs Taylor Harmeling ’98, Rachel Harmeling ’04, Evan Harmeling ’07, and Carolyn Harmeling ’11, plus Joisan Decker DeHaan ’99, Roopali Agarwal Hall ’99, Laura Fitzgerald Clark, Brian Clark, Bernadette Doykos, Susannah Richardson, Anna Valeo, and Scott Darci ’01. The couple strode into their wedding tent, following bagpipers piping “Scotland the Brave” (you know, that same song that puts tears in our eyes and pride in our hearts at Andover graduations and reunions). At time of writing, Ashley and her husband were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first child—a baby girl. Stay tuned, Andover Class of 2030! Andover native Barbara Dalton Rotundo wrote in for the very first time. “After about 10 years in film and television, I decided to switch careers—mostly to have a more civilized work/ life balance, since a 12- to 14-hour day was pretty typical on most jobs. (Though the week we spent shooting in a strip club on That’s My Boy provided plenty of extra motivation to leave.) What’s fun in one’s early 20s is not necessarily so fun in one’s early 30s,” she writes. Barbara then spent three years working as a software engineer at a game company called HitPoint Studios, which primarily makes mobile and Facebook games aimed at women over the age of 30. In June, she started a new job as MaGE program coordinator and computer science lab instructor at Mount Holyoke College. The MaGE Program is a Google-funded peer mentor program designed to increase the capacity of introductory level computer science classes at Mount Holyoke. She writes, “I live in Easthampton, Mass., with my partner and his 4-year-old son. So now, rather than starting my days arguing with actors about
which underwear they’re going to wear, I wake up to arguments about whether or not a brownie is an appropriate breakfast.” Rounding off this edition of class notes is the latest from assistant professor Tiffany Joseph, who completed her tenure as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at Harvard in 2013 and rolled right on into a tenuretrack position in the sociology department at Stony Brook University in New York, giving a talk at Andover on her research sometime in the middle of it all. In February of this year, she published the culmination of this research in her first book, titled Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race (Stanford Press). The book takes us from Brazil to the U.S. and back again, analyzing how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians’ understanding of race relations. In short, the interchange between the two countries’ populations is resulting in a situation in which both nations’ contemporary race relations are starting to resemble each other, when they had previously seemed almost opposed. In discussing this effect, Tiffany provides a whole new way of seeing how race can be remade in countries with significant rates of emigration. Anyone who wants to read more about this fascinating, relevant topic and purchase the book with a 20-percent-off promo code, compliments of Tiffany, should go to www.sup.org, type in the title, then check out using the word “Joseph” (this gathered from a lovely abstract and flier that Tiffany had e-mailed to me but that sadly cannot be conveyed in the format of Andover magazine). What’s more, at the time of writing Tiffany was preparing for a sabbatical in Boston, starting this academic year, while conducting research for her second book, an exploration of immigrants’ health-care access under the Affordable Care Act. No wonder she couldn’t make it to reunion, either. We miss you, but don’t you slow down, Tiffany, unless it’s to show up at our 20th. Well, this certainly has been an example of quality over quantity, but it sure would be good to hear more from you all, no matter what you have to say. Keep on changing the world and being your good selves. ’Till next time!
2001 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com
Jenn Zicherman Kelleher graduated from MCPHS University (formerly Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) with a doctor of pharmacy degree. This July, she started a year-long PGY-1 clinical pharmacy residency at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H. If that doesn’t sound like it’s keeping her busy, Andover | Fall 2015
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