www.andover.edu/intouch Paul Hsiao launched an online menswear store called Standard Shirt Co. He recently visited Silke Cummings and Matt Emery in Philly. Nicole Duddy continues to pursue an MBA degree at New York University’s Stern School. She started a new job at Moelis & Company. Stephanie Clegg ran the Boston Marathon— raising $7,800 for children’s medical research!— and is running the Marine Corps Marathon in DC in October. She is starting at UMass Medical School this fall. Sarah Cohan recently moved back to Boston after six months at a startup incubator in Tel Aviv. Steve Bartz, Katherine Chen, and Kevin Zhai joined Ben Schley for a weekend of skiing in Montana. Jonathan Adler, still writing for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, went on a starlight sightseeing cruise around Manhattan with Lucas McMahon. One fine day in the wilds of San Francisco, Sebastian Caliri separately ran into Kristy Spiak and Jin Lee. Kristy, working for World Affairs Council, planned to backpack through Glacier National Park this summer. Kristy, Sawabini, Schley, Lambros Theofanidis, and Mary Doyle convened for dinner in SF to discuss our Facebook invitations to Zach Dixon’s parties, which take place 3,000 miles away. Speaking of Zach Dixon: maybe you haven’t heard, but he launched a video-game social company called Players’ Lounge, mounting largescale projects at the intersection of the gaming and events industries. Dixon spread the love to hosting regular Andover alumni parties in NYC. Among those who have stopped by Zach’s gatherings are ’08ers Jonathan Adler, Sayoko Kumamaru, Lucas McMahon, Margaux Cerruti, Nicole Duddy, Paul Hsiao, Nicholas Koh, and many more! Blue love, Mary.
2009 Alexander McHale 101 NE 53rd St., No. 2714 Oklahoma City OK 73105 703-786-3330 arxmchale@gmail.com Deidra Willis 2815 Rohret Road, Apt. 201 Iowa City IA 52246 347-342-7447 willis.deidra@gmail.com
It’s been five years, 11 months, and 19 days since the Class of 2009 graduated (actually, more than that, by the time you read this). Either way, the honeymoon phase is over. For most of ’09, we’ve stepped into that unknown, almost comfortable phase of adulthood. We’ve just about all graduated with bachelor’s degrees and even some master’s degrees. For those who went straight to work after college, we’ve finally gotten over that awkward “hate your first job” feeling and are likely
settling into something more satisfying. Many are welcoming or have welcomed promotions or relocations to different cities, states, and countries. Our Fifth Reunion went by in a blaze of glory, and we’re halfway to our college five-year reunions. But amidst all that, ’09 is out there all over the world, kicking butt and simply winning. After moving to Singapore at the start of the year, Robert Buka, Kate Farrell ’08, and Veda Eswarappa ’08 hung out quite a bit and took a trip to Surabaya, Indonesia, where they climbed Mount Bromo starting at 4 a.m. and caught an awesome sunrise. Rob and Peter Ly also traveled to Siem Reap, in Cambodia, and to Hong Kong. Liz Brown is engaged, as is Danica Mitchell, and lots of ’09ers wrote in with their best wishes and excitement! Brittany Peltz Buerstedde is recently married and has a beautiful baby girl. Over the winter, Jean Fang and Steph Yu caught up in Hong Kong and shared nostalgic Stevens House stories. In Indiana, Jean met up with Chelsea Carlson to go to a wedding and got her first real taste of the Midwest. Jean is moving to Chicago this fall and welcomes any tips about life in her new city. Kwon-Yong Jin took a road trip in April. He had dinner with Jean along the way in Houston, before graduating from Yale Law School. Congratulations! Alex McHale got to have one last hurrah with Matt Gorski, Andrew Pohly, and Jack Walker at their going-away party, where Krystle Manuel-Countee, Marvin Blugh, Malin Adams, and Phil Oasis were also present. As part of Non Sibi Weekend in April, a group of nine volunteers served at the Father’s Heart Ministries, a soup kitchen in NYC’s East Village. These included Andrew Pohly, Malin Adams, Jack Walker, Marvin Blugh, Krystle Manuel-Countee, and Joel Camacho ’08. The group was assigned to different stations. Some volunteers served meals to the guests; others served beverages, reset the tables, helped seat the guests, and kept the inside line moving; and still others cleaned up the tables. A total of 601 guests were seated and served during 1½ hours of service. It was an extraordinary and enriching morning for all volunteers. Trevor Gulick-Stutz saved the day in early May and was able to host a get-together with Zach Dixon ’08 on NYC’s Lower East Side with plenty of alums from ’06 through ’10. Those from ’09 included Max Abitbol, Kiara Brereton, Anna Burgess, Sam Burwell, Malik Jenkins, Tina Kit, Jill Kozloff, Michelle Kwon, Anna Mackey, Jack Walker, Larry Zhou, Tony Zou, and lots of others that I [Deidra Willis] sadly was not able to scribble down in my notepad app. The large group ended the night on Trevor’s rooftop before splitting up for more fun. In mid-May, Mai Kristofferson and Larry Zhou were at Penn for the MBA graduation of Jeff Zhou ’06 and Jeehae Lee ’02. Katie von Braun graduated with a master’s degree in music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and this
fall Gloria Odusote will be finishing a stint in the Peace Corps in Lesotho. Congrats all! Tiffany Li and Dan Glassberg planned to move in together with a college friend in Santa Monica, Calif., in July. Dan is starting at the distressed opportunities team at Oaktree Capital Management. Kyle Ofori is working for a mobile app development company called Detroit Labs, focusing on an app for DTE Energy and presenting at conferences, such as the Self.conference, with his team members. As for your class secretaries, Alex moved to Oklahoma City in July to work at an energy private equity firm. If any of you find yourselves in Oklahoma City, he’ll be happy to buy you a drink. Deidra is moving to Iowa City to be a systems engineer II with General Mills and promises to provide free cereal, Gushers, or Fruit by the Foot to anyone who decides to visit her in the Hawkeye State. Until next time.
2010 Sascha Strand Metcalf Hall W205 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 316-371-9053 (cell) Sascha.Strand@Tufts.edu Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com Faiyad Ahmad 978-289-3584 (cell) faiyad_ahmad@brown.edu
The Class of 2010 had a great Reunion Weekend this June. About 150 of our classmates showed up for our events, and we were lucky enough to win the reunion participation award! We’ll have the Class of 2010 engraved on the Reunion Weekend silver cup—and I’m sure there will be many more engravings of our class on that cup in years to come. Highlights included the reunion circle of our dreams, complete with words of wisdom from our head of school extraordinaire Barbara Chase, an epic reunion speech by Faiyad Ahmad, closing remarks by Charlie Walters, winning our participation award, exploring the incredible Addison Gallery (exchanging regrets that none of us went in when we were students), the shuttle/party bus to the hotel, hundreds of dollars’ worth of pizza Faiyad bought for all of us, an epic Saturday after-party hosted by Hannah Bardo, and a bittersweet Paresky Commons lastmorning brunch. I think it’s safe to say that everyone reconnected Andover | Fall 2015
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