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Generations mingled at Friday night’s dinner. From left, Beau Freker ’05, Beau’s wife, Jennifer Engel, Harry Goldstein ’05, Rodney Goldstein ’70 (Harry’s father), Mari Wellin King ’75, Kyle Kucharski ’05, and Mac King ’05 (Mari’s son).
John Palfrey speak for the first time at the Athletics Hall of Honor induction ceremony [where Hee-Jin Chang became a member!]—and hearing how he one time had the nerve to call it ‘Exeter vs. Andover,’ ” she wrote. “Thanks so much for such a wonderful time, ’05,” Hee-Jin added in an e-mail. “Let me know if any of y’all are ever in Houston! Marcella Viktorin, Angela Tenney, Kaia Lubanko Kessler, Maya Lucaci-Vashee, Nikki Crocker Villarreal, and I will be around!” Further afield, Geoff hopes to run into any ’05ers who’ll be in the area when he and three friends drive a “beat-up” 2001 Nissan Micra 10,000 miles across Europe and Central Asia in the Mongol Rally to raise money for charity. Sims Witherspoon has been living in London and working on antitrust initiatives for Google, focusing on security and privacy. A number of sources reported efforts to extend the reunion experience beyond the campus itself. Laura Sciuto, who works as a consultant at Ernst & Young in NYC and was, at press time, planning to visit Wes Howe in San Francisco, drove to Andover with Chloé Hurley and Chloé’s pup, Ducky. (They detoured at Eddy Farm in Connecticut for a Michael J. Fox Foundation dinner to support Parkinson’s disease research fundraising efforts and Chloé’s fiancé, Sam, an MJFF staff member and “extreme adventure athlete,” per the foundation’s website.) Natalie Ho enjoyed a “very entertaining” drive back to Washington, D.C., with Lauren Seno and Kaitlin Alsofrom, stopping in Brooklyn for dinner with Andrew Heilmann and his wife, Mary. After reconnecting at reunion, Natalie planned to get together with several other DC-area alums, including Nate Scott and Nicole Amaral. Shawn Fu, who met up with Meng Tan in Beijing
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and Ryan Burke in Shanghai in the spring, hiked up Holt Hill Sunday before leaving town. “I was unable to make the reunion again, which was a bummer,” Ryan noted in an e-mail, adding that he recently relocated to San Francisco after five years in China to work on a messaging startup called Lynk, which you can check out at lynkmessenger.com. Ben Grant was also “bummed” to miss reunion, as it fell on the day of his graduation from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, where his class included Nell Beattie, Alison Wheeler, and Jed McDonald ’04. Ben is looking forward to one last summer of travel and leisure (Iceland, the Pacific Northwest, and New Hampshire) before he returns to Bain & Co. in Boston in September. Despite the thin veneer of propriety maintained through the Alumni Parade, the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association, MeatstiK on the Great Lawn, and the Saturday-night musical stylings of “DJ Jim”—which, I can report, (literally) felled at least one member of the Class of ’10—this was, in retrospect, the calm before the storm. Sources, who declined to name the culprit(s), say that at least one perpetrator purloined a PA golf cart and the leftover booze from Saturday night’s event to bring to Marc Asch’s house for an after-party graciously cohosted by Marc’s mother. (Round of applause for PA’s Jenny Savino, who not only tracked down the golf cart and helped skirt any potential arrests but did so with immense good humor. We don’t deserve you, Jenny!) Among other highlights of the event, Peter Accomando lost a 12-yard swim race to Charlie Thornton and also lost a pair of shorts; Jon Hillman jumped off the roof into the pool; JeanMarie and Cassie Ornell threw down during a chicken fight; and Alex Lebow awoke in a dark corner of Marc’s house, phone near-dead and
party long disbanded, and somehow found his way back to Rockwell. General merriment was had by all, but it was Asch who described the Great Golf Cart Incident, and indeed our entire 10th Reunion, best: “That is,” he wrote, “quite legendary.” P.S. On a more personal note, this will be our final dispatch as class secretaries. Ian Schmertzler has generously offered to take the reins, and though we’re so grateful for the opportunity to keep in touch with y’all over the past five years, we’re ready to pass the baton. Apologies for our lateness in sending requests for updates, in general and especially after reunion, and for any stories that were, by extension, left on the cutting-room floor. We trust, knowing the ’05 spirit as we do, that the memories will suffice. It’s been an honor. Our door in New Orleans is always open. Much love, PA ’05. —Matt Brennan & Alex Lebow
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Kevin Olusola continues working with Pentatonix, who went on on their first real world tour this past spring. They went through America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Japan and then toured with Kelly Clarkson over the summer. The group is also working on their first full-length original album. Kevin released his first EP, The Renegade, on March 10. It debuted at number one on Billboard’s Classical and Classical Crossover charts, and was number one on iTunes Classical for about a month! Kate Connors and Khaki Burke had a vicious disagreement over what was actually the best song from our time at Andover. Khaki’s favorite was Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Been Gone,” while Kate’s was Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack.” Khaki, note that Kevin Olusola may have an in for you. Andrea Coravos is leaving her current job and starting a five-month coding program at Dev Bootcamp in SF. She ran into Thomas Gebremedhin at her Duke five-year reunion and believes Sarah Takvorian was also there. John Lippe has surprising section and study-group mates in business school: Mark Margiotta ’05 is in his section, and Stephanie Marton ’07 is in his study group! After finishing a master’s degree program, Constantin Calavrezos moved to