stay connected... Duke for a master’s degree in statistical science. Lyra Silverwolf is in Newport, R.I., working as a nuclear engineer in the Navy, and Karl Hardin is in Charleston, S.C., finishing a degree in mathematics before going into the Navy as a nuclear engineer. In the South, Zary Peretz is in Atlanta interning in IT consulting, and Aneissa Urias is in Houston working at Ernst & Young. Melina Prentakis is pursuing a master’s degree in higher education administration at Vanderbilt. Matt Appleby and Yuto Watanabe are working toward master’s degrees at Stanford University. Tina Su is working on a graduate degree in biomedicine. Denzil Bernard is working at Lever, Elisa Li at FormSwift, Patrick Wolber at Halo Neuroscience, Luke Hansen at Wealthfront, Evan Hoyt at Rally Health, and Oriekose Idah at Google. Scott Shambaugh will be working at United Launch Alliance in Denver. Down the coast, Callie Davidson is finishing school at UCLA, Michael Berube will complete his degree and work for NASA in Arizona, Sarah Stevens is working at Morrison & Foerster, and Nikita Lamba is working at Partizan production company. Steven Kosovac and Jonathan Leung are both finishing degrees at Carnegie Mellon. Jinzi Zhang is working in Madison, Wis., at Epic Systems. Emily Timm is joining Target in Minneapolis, and in St. Louis, Brandon Lam is working at Sigma-Aldrich. Cameron Pierson and Charlotte Cleveland will both complete degrees at Washington University in St. Louis. Austen Novis is in Chicago. He’ll be joined by Ryan Yost, working for a boutique wealth management firm, and Kevin Song, working at Deloitte as a cyber risk services consultant after interning at The Points Guy, a travel blog. Congratulations, college graduates! We are incredibly excited to see your adventures unfold.
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Hello, Class of 2012! The spring and summer months held exciting endeavors for our class: trips abroad, internships, and small reunions of many
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Andover alumni around the world! Emily Samson spent the spring semester abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, in the same study-abroad program as Manwei Chan ’11. While Emily was there, she met up with Brian Hanafin, who spent the spring in London. They went skiing in France, and Brian spent a few days in Geneva. Emily also got the chance to meet up with Christian Jaster on a trip to Germany. As a student at the University of Trier, in Germany, Christian traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, in March to work with students from Kenyatta University, evaluating health care in impoverished Nairobi. Also in Europe, Abigail Burman graduated from Oxford University over the summer. Congratulations, Abigail! After her graduation, Abigail planned to travel through Russia, Mongolia, China, and Thailand before heading back to Washington, D.C., in search of a job. Abigail got to see Tiana “Tia” Baheri and Peter Larner recently and had hopes of visiting Mia Dwyer before returning stateside. Tailor Dortona participated in the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship Program, received a Gilman award, and studied abroad in Chengdu, China, for a few months in the spring. In addition to taking courses at Sichuan University, Tailor worked for the Chengdu Disabled Person’s Federation, conducting research on China’s special education system for the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences. Danny Gottfried studied in Irkutsk, Russia, this spring, taking classes at a local university and volunteering in an English language classroom. He enjoyed learning about the drastically different worldviews of Russians and Americans. This summer he worked at Tufts University’s Summer English Language Program. Over winter break, Maddie Kim, Brianna Barros, and Noël Um enjoyed cupcakes together. Over spring break, Noël and Hannah Beinecke toured the streets of Paris. Maggie Shoemaker is continuing her years in Germany as an intern at Adidas, at the firm’s global headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. She works in product marketing for the women’s training apparel department. In September, Maggie began university again in Germany. She had the opportunity to visit Maddie Kim in Rome for pasta and gelato while Maddie was studying abroad. Asia Bradlee had a busy spring semester down in New Orleans. She got to catch up with Eric Meller at happy hour when he visited NOLA for a night. Asia returned to Boston for the summer, working as the digital health editorial intern for Boston magazine. Jamie Shenk finished her junior year at Princeton University, where she occasionally squared off against David Crane ’13 in intramural floor hockey and met up with Yuni Sumawijaya to reminisce about Andover. She spent the summer conducting independent research in Colombia for her senior thesis, following
some generous leads from Dr. Neissa’s senior year elective. Over the summer, Marcus Smith had internships with the Amherst (Mass.) Farmers’ Market and with Many Hands Farm Corps, which sends interns to area farms, introducing them to the farming industry. Marcus was also recently named head of sustainability for a lifestyle-brand company called Superego, LLC, which specializes in apparel made from eco-friendly fabrics. Julia Quinn finished her study-abroad trip in Cape Town, South Africa, before returning to Boston for the summer. Rachel “Sage” Hunt was also in South Africa for the spring semester. Ben Manuel also spent the spring semester abroad. After traveling around Alicante, Spain, Ben returned to Charleston, S.C., for the summer to work for a solar-farm developer. Nora Princiotti interned in Washington, D.C., this summer, covering the Nationals, golf, tennis, and football for the Washington Times and hanging out with Katie Hebb. While there, the two caught up with Leo Cohen. Last fall, Katie spent a week visiting Sammy Marrus in Paris, where they also caught up with Isabel Elson. Katie planned to work at a political strategy and communications firm in DC this summer and was looking forward to catching up with any Andover people who are there! This spring, Sammy visited Nora Princiotti in Washington, D.C., where they ran into Soo Jung “Christa” Choy while walking in Georgetown. At Wellesley, Sammy sees Kelsey Phinney ’11 frequently and is living with her this year. Sammy worked at an NYC public relations agency for the summer. Along with Katie Hebb, she visited recent alums Tessa Peterson ’15 and Catalina Feder ’15 for dinner during their senior year! Tom Palleschi spent the month of August traveling through Belgium, Holland, Germany, and England playing basketball. Sheiling Chia traveled abroad to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the spring semester of her junior year and had some amazing experiences while there (including traveling alone to the Amazon!). Coincidentally, she found herself in the same area as Marhelich Santos and Tamara Katoni. Over the summer, Shei was an intern at Rothschild in NYC. Shei returned to Columbia University this fall to share a suite with Yara Sifri. Yara and Sheiling were placed together as roommates in Stevens when they started as new lowers at Andover and now, six years later, are spending their last year of college together as well! I concluded my sophomore year at Fordham University and spent lots of time in NYC with Stephanie Colello ’09. I continued as a research intern for the Transplant Research Program at Boston Children’s Hospital over the summer. Once again, thank you to all who contributed. I feel so grateful to hear about all of your successes and adventures. As always, much love, ’12! —Sydney