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Old friends turned out by the dozens at the CAMD open house, held in Morse Hall on Reunion Weekend.
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The Class of 2008’s past few months saw more exotic travel destinations, more leafy green graduate-school campuses, and more of Zach Dixon’s Brooklyn backyard. Megan Richards hopped over to Vietnam with Kate Farrell, Haley Bruns, and Veda Eswarappa. Kate and Veda are both working in Singapore; Haley and Megan are just taking advantage of their Southeast Asia proximity. Veda and Rajit Malhotra, both working for the Parthenon Group, traveled to dozens of schools around the world to assess the most innovative education organizations for the WISE Awards. Nkem Oghedo, Hailee Minor, Carolyn Chica, Dacone Elliott, Arianna Van Sluytman, and Britney Achin traveled to Jamaica this April, in the second installment of Baecation ’08. Sally Poole spent May and June biking 1,000 miles across the UK, from Land’s End (England) to John O’Groats (Scotland), to raise money for a cat shelter in Maine. She starts veterinary school at the
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University of Glasgow this fall. Margaux Cerruti continues to travel the world as a marketing lead for Whitewall magazine. After launching Whitewall China, Margaux is driving the launch of Whitewall’s new mobile guide to international art fairs and exhibitions. Tomas Rojo completed a master’s degree program in physics at Cornell. He lives in Madrid and is working for Indra. Blaine Johnson is finishing an MPA degree at Fudan University in Shanghai. During a snowy layover in NYC, Blaine took refuge with Lydia Dallett. Alyssa Warren is traveling the world a bit after wrapping up two years with Teach for America in San Jose, Calif. Carolina Marion was off to Italy this summer after a spring spent running into ’08ers, including Abby Colella, Britney Achin, Nkem, J.J. McGregor, Chad Hollis, Evan DelGaudio, and Sophie Scolnik-Brower. Impressive roster, Carolina! “Living our collective theatre-kid dream” (as Abby Colella puts it), Carrie St. Louis is starring as Glinda in a U.S. tour of Wicked. Abby is entering her third year at Harvard Law School after a summer interning in Washington, D.C. Rajit Malhotra is pursuing a master’s degree at Harvard’s School of Education, beginning this fall. James Sawabini moved to San Francisco to hang out with us for a hot second before starting Harvard Business School this fall. Nkem is also entering HBS, where Atima Lui is in her second year. Andrew Cox is starting medical school at
Dartmouth this fall, joining Teddy Curran, who is in his second year there. Andrew caught up with Zach Dixon, Jimmy Spang, Lou Tejada, and Marvin Blugh ’09 over many games of Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Nick Anschuetz is back on the road with his band after recording a new EP this spring. Molly Shoemaker, who ran into John Bukawyn in Hudson River Park, has two Andover minions as interns at Signature Theatre in NYC this summer, including Rachel Cohen’s younger sister, Esther ’14. Rachel is living in New York but caught up with Sara Wallace in Boston for an epic party. Caitlin Feeney finished her first year at Cornell Law School. Megumi Ishizuka wrapped up her first year at Boston College Law. Kelly Lacob concluded her gig with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Uganda this spring before heading to Johns Hopkins in pursuit of a master’s degree in bioengineering innovation and design. Jacqueline Hall is at Yale’s School of Architecture, living near campus with Nate Flagg ’07, who is at the School of Art. Paul Joo is also at Yale, where he finished his first year of law school. He worked in San Francisco this summer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. Chris Lim is earning a PhD degree in the biological and biomedical sciences program at Yale. Chris is spearheading a new summer undergraduate program—BioMed SURF—that is focused on the retention of underrepresented minorities in the sciences.