stay connected... Margaret Ramsey and Matt Lindsay, as well as Matt’s fiancée, Abby Frey. After living and working in Boston for the past few years, Tara plans to return to the Bay Area this summer. In April, Tom Dimopoulos, Matt, and I got together to watch some NBA playoff games and discuss the state of junior varsity baseball circa 2001. Tom recently took a new job at an e-commerce startup in San Francisco, and Matt continues to work as an architect in the city. While seeing a movie last winter, I ran into Dave Beyer and his mother at the theatre. Dave also lives in San Francisco and continues to work in the venture capital space and advise startups. Janis Scanlon Rice and her husband, Brandon Rice, have relocated to Montclair, Calif., in the East Bay. She hosted a housewarming in May and counted many of our classmates among the attendees, including Seb Benthall, Sam Beattie and his wife Julie, Matt, Michael, Viraj Navkal, and me. Kate Cooper Sawyer wrote from Austin, Texas, her new home. She and her husband have recently connected with longtime Andover pals Brian Emery and Matt London. Caitlin Littlefield reported from Seattle, where she is pursuing a PhD degree in ecology at the University of Washington. She and fiancé Nick Neverisky recently hosted Kathryn Moore, who visited from Anchorage, Alaska. Stephen Fee has been on the road with PBS NewsHour. You can follow his work on Twitter at @stephenmfee. While living in NYC, he has stayed in touch with longtime pal Kelly Sinclair, who moved to New York last year from San Francisco. Brian Karfunkel wrote from Brooklyn, where he has been living for the past few years. Before Alex and Mimi moved West, Brian had sushi with them in the city. In early May, Brian also ran into Brian Emery and his expectant wife at the Neue Galerie. Marianna Kleyman moved to Boston this spring to work on her postdoc at MIT. She, too, endured the harsh winter but has enjoyed being back in Boston. I visited New York this spring on a work trip and caught up with my former Georgetown roommate Andy Hattemer. Andy lives in the city with his girlfriend and continues to work at Isobar. That’s it from here. Stay in touch, and stay safe!
2004 Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com
Congratulations to new moms Amy O’Gorman Block and Johanna Marmolejos! Steven Ronald Block came into the world weighing 8 lbs., 8 oz., and reportedly charmed every nurse in the hospital.
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Amy earned a master’s degree in public health before Steven’s arrival. Johanna’s daughter, Ariana Grace Vallés, was in a rush: though Johanna had planned on a home birth, she hadn’t planned on an unassisted one! Ariana must have been eager to share her April birthday with godmother Rachelle Brignol. Uzoma Iheagwara married Becky Bayer on April 25. Guests included Derrick Kuan, Bill Beregi, Anwell Lanfranco, and J.J. Feigenbaum. After completing an MD/ PhD program at the University of Pittsburgh in May, Uz planned to stay on at the university as a radiation oncology resident. Newlywed Jamie Bologna works at WBUR, a Boston NPR station. Also off the market is Jenny Wong, who wed Nathan Sharp in June. Jenny took a break from her new job at Tishman Speyer for a bachelorette weekend in Venice Beach, Calif. Her maid of honor, Emma Sussex, recently returned from a trip to South America, planned a wonderful weekend dubbed “sWong song.” Ellen Knuti, Jess Chermayeff, Olivia Oran, and I were on hand to celebrate. Livy Coe is still in the Navy and works at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He recently met up with Tom Barron and Walter Haydock when Tom’s Army training brought him up from North Carolina. Jennifer Vanecek Bales and her husband are stationed at Fort Hood, in Texas. After serving 25 months of command time, Jenn is being sent by the Army to Dartmouth to earn a master’s degree in public health. Lily Kelly lives in Oakland, Calif., with her husband, Dan Adamsky ’06. At Global Green USA, she serves as senior program associate and organizes composting and recycling pilot projects. In her free time, she is learning to play the accordion. Also in Oakland, Martin Quinones works as a plaintiff ’s attorney. He recently served as second chair in a wrongful death suit against the major tobacco companies. Over in Santa Cruz, Ian Hafkenschiel works at Cityblooms, a company that does computer-controlled hydroponic farming. Cityblooms received a 2015 Acterra Business Environmental Award for its farm at Plantronics corporate headquarters. Ian’s hobbies include sailing, capoeira, surfing, and playing music. Stephen Turro and Audrey Deguire Turro have been married since 2013 and live in Brighton, Mass. Audrey recently completed an MBA degree program. Stephen is an assistant director and has worked with noted filmmakers including David O. Russell, Jason Reitman, Antoine Fuqua, and David Fincher. This summer he helped shoot the new Ghostbusters film in Boston. Also in the Boston area is Alanna Hughes, who has one year left in her dual degree program at Harvard and MIT. She sees Taylor Yates, Amy Lippe, and J.J. Feigenbaum around Boston. This summer, Alanna worked for an e-commerce startup in Luanda, Angola. Taylor is a tech consultant and lives in Cambridge with his wife. Alexandra LaMela Filippakis is a neurology
resident at Tufts. She got married last year. Will Scharf is the policy director for Catherine Hanaway’s campaign for governor of Missouri. Andrew (Henry) Watterson spent some time traveling in Europe with his boyfriend. They met up with Lydia Wallace in Barcelona and Rome, where they ate, drank, and played cards. Dorothy Voorhees and her boyfriend are moving to Minneapolis (which she affectionately refers to as “Winterfell”) after she completes her degree from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Dorothy will work for Target. Ben Hansen is married to his college sweetheart and working on a degree at Columbia Business School. At Boost Venture Capital, Adam Draper has helped back 100 startups. He describes his 11-month-old daughter, Quinn, as “awesome.” April Warren works at Abt Associates, Inc., a social research and consulting firm, where she manages a health enterprise fund that identifies and supports early-stage enterprises with innovative solutions to critical health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. She travels for her work to Kenya and Ethiopia and, along with Mimi Hanley and Allegra Asplundh-Smith, recently took a recreational trip to Charleston, S.C., to celebrate Malika Felix’s birthday. I am in Los Angeles finishing writing season two of Young & Hungry and moving to a sweet little place in Echo Park with tons of charm and no air conditioning. In addition to being passionate about jigsaw puzzles, I recently learned to crochet, making me the oldest 29-year-old in the country.
2005 Ian Schmertzler Ian.Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.com
[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Matt Brennan and Alex Lebow will be stepping down from their role as class secretaries. The Academy thanks them for their service. They will be succeeded by classmate Ian Schmertzler.] In lieu of the usual updates from our far-flung correspondents, Al and I went “Woodward and Bernstein” in honor of the 10th Reunion, collecting stories and reporting from inside the festivities (well, as much as our memories would allow). And so, without further ado, our brief, semiauthoritative account of Reunion Weekend: ANDOVER, MA—It all began innocently enough, with Henry Manice sharing a taste of his Mighty Squirrel beer outside of Rockwell on Friday evening, but by the time the Great Golf Cart Incident of 2015 came to a close in the wee hours of Sunday morning, PA ’05 had had its way with reunion once more. “I had my runes read by a wise old sage,” Stephen Severo wrote in an e-mail, echoing several fellow revelers. “As I wandered campus on Sunday—covetous of the quiet, reflective moments I saw being enjoyed by those around