Andover magazine: Fall 2015

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www.andover.edu/intouch London this year to start working as a market data analyst for King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush. He saw Felicity Bloom when she was in Britain for work. Mia Kanak married her college sweetheart, Andy Schrum, in Napa, Calif., graduated from Stanford Medical School in June, and will be starting residency at Boston Children’s Hospital shortly. Katherine Adams was at Mia’s wedding. Rajeev Saxena recently matched into otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ENT) for residency at the University of  Washington in Seattle. He has been in touch with Julian Jacobson and looks forward to seeing Christa Vardaro after moving out to Seattle. Rajeev recently completed an MD/MBA degree program and just came back from honeymooning in Thailand. Charlie Frentz and Elizabeth Brown ’09 got engaged in April. They are still living in Hong Kong and look forward to seeing anyone who comes through. In similar news, Jeff Bakkensen got engaged to Jen Bender recently. Emily Pollokoff  is still running her editing business, Greenlight Editing, working on lots of dissertations and book projects—with special rates for PA alums! Emily also added a business venture, working as coach for Go Diaper Free, which offers elimination communication and non-coercive potty training. It’s helping her connect with the crunchy/alternative community in central New York, and she is loving those locals. Emily is still doing a ton of sewing and singing with a peace and justice community choir. Her compost bin has expanded into a vermicompost operation and a few raised beds. She plans to start keeping bees next spring and upping the permaculture goodness in their yard. Her daughter Clara is 7 months and crawling, and Hazel is 3 and reading! They grow up fast. As for us, Jeni Lee is finishing up a PhD degree program at UC Davis, and Paul Voorhees is working at General Motors in Detroit. Come visit us anytime, though you may want to avoid Detroit in winter. Cheers, Jeni and Paul.

2007 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com

Becky Agostino now lives in Philadelphia and is the principal of a high school in Camden, N.J. She sees Dan LeClerc ’05 each month, as he is a board fellow on the school’s board

Enjoying a picnic on a picture-perfect day were Laura Eddy, Eileen Manning, Hee-Jin Chang, Marcella Viktorin, and Christiana Hollis, all Class of ’05.

of directors. She also sees Katie Morris and Susannah Poland each time she goes home to Andover. Stacey Middlebrook planned to marry in August in New Hampshire (Adrienne Sabety, currently in a PhD degree program at Harvard, expected to be there!); Stacey recently started a master’s degree program in real estate development at MIT as a Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Entrepreneurship Fellow. Lindsay Agostinelli still lives in Boston and has received many visits this year from Aline DuBois, who’s been living in Montreal. Amy Fenstermacher married Sean Greeney in August and was excited to celebrate during her honeymoon in New Zealand. Devon Zimmerling and Komaki Foster both just entered the MBA program at London Business School. Ahmet Taner moved back to Turkey in September and insists that everyone visit; he spent last Christmas in Hawaii with Reilly O’Brien’s family. Reilly got married in July in Northern California; Howie Kalter attended the wedding after finishing a teaching fellow year at Andover. Maura Mulroy is moving to Switzerland, where she will be taking her skills as a triathlete. Chelsea Woods made a short film this summer as a participant in the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women. James Flynn graduated from Yale Law School in May and moved to DC over the summer. Emma Wood was married in New York in April; Catherine Crooke, Eliot Wall, Tasha Keeney, Becky Greenberg, and Evan Moore attended the wedding. Molly Ozimek-Maier’s daughter is 3 years old; Molly is now in her second year teaching preschool. Allison Callery spent the summer on the Brazil desk of the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Sam Gould can be found climbing the ranks of the

professional squash-playing circuit. Sam recently attended a tournament in Charlotte, N.C., where he met up with Conner Stoldt. When Sam isn’t playing, he helps coach the MIT squash team and spends some time on the Left Coast. Alan Wesson is excited to announce he is getting married. Brooks Canaday recently moved from Boston to Denver, where he’ll be a freelance photographer. Alessandra Siraco got engaged to Bob McHugh, a fellow graduate of Emerson’s MFA program, and will be getting married at Cochran Chapel next year. Danny Silk is loving life in NYC, where he recently changed jobs. He frequently entertains guests from his days at both Andover and Yale. John Gwin moved to Boston this summer to take a new job in investment management. Emily Anderson recently passed the Georgia bar exam and now works at a law firm in Atlanta. Claire Voegele spent the summer working at Yale Law’s legal clinic for veterans, where she ran into James Flynn. Sarah Guo got married in May in Carmel, Calif. Steve Blackman is still alive and enjoying working for Gibson. Nate Flagg is in his second year at the Yale School of Art; he still lives with the wonderful Jacqueline Hall ’08 and recently reconnected with Teddy Teece ’09. He also keeps bumping into Evan Moore, who frequently visits Yale. Peter McCarthy spent a large chunk of the summer on a climbing expedition in the Alaska Range. Otherwise, he still lives in San Francisco, working at a startup called Quid. Andrei Manda started an MBA degree program at Columbia this fall. Lauren Jackson got married in August and now lives in Tempe, Ariz., working with college students at Antioch Community Church. Prateek Kumar is back in his hometown of Albany, N.Y., and started his own investment company. Andover | Fall 2015

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