www.andover.edu/intouch 2013 MJ Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com
Members of the Class of 2013 finished their first or second years of college in style and embarked on exciting summer plans—with many surprise reunions and fun visits along the way. Sirus Han and Anna Stacy double-dated with Andries Feder and Lydia Kaprelian over “too much Japanese food” in Montreal. Sirus spent the summer working again in the Barton Lab at California Institute of Technology, doing research on DNA repair pathways. Angela Leocata has been very busy with exciting research in Indonesia and India. This spring she conducted research on the experiences of schizophrenic women in India, specifically the practice of chaining patients with psychosis. Angela will continue this research into her fall semester abroad in Indonesia. Over the summer, Angela interned as a research assistant in Goa, India, studying community-based approaches to maternal depression, a continuation of her gap-year research project on the relationship between mental health and dowry for women in Varanasi, India. Cam Morose and Christopher Hedley visited David Crane and Raeva Kumar at Princeton University for a Buddhist retreat and fun night out on the town. David has particularly enjoyed his frequent online conversations with Zachary Merchant and Joshua “J.J.” Hayward, where they have debated the musical talent of Flo Rida and made plans to attend an Ariana Grande concert in the future, among other things. Devon Burger returned to Austria over spring break this year to visit the family that hosted her during her gap year, and at Stanford University, she and James Garth get lunch regularly. This summer, Devon worked at Camp Mohawk in Litchfield, Conn., her 13th year in a row at the camp. Emily Carrolo welcomed Campbell Howe ’14 into Stanford’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity as her “little sister.” Gabbi Fisher has hosted many Andover friends at her vegetarian cooperative house at Stanford. Justin Appleby, Devon Burger, and Anika Kim ’14 often stop by to take advantage of Gabbi’s “mad dripcoffee brewing skillz” and hang out on the house’s porch. Jay Reader lives just across the street from Gabbi, and while he is still scared of her house’s
vegetarian food, he drops by its outdoor dinners in between rugby practices. Gabbi planned to work on the privacy and civil liberties engineering team at Palantir Technologies this summer in San Francisco and to run the SF half-marathon with Suzanne Wang as well. Suzanne will be attending MakerSquare, a programming bootcamp, while in San Francisco. Over this past year, Suzanne visited MJ Engel and Rochelle Wilbun at Columbia University, to which they transferred last fall, and made time to dine with Erin Wong and Nikita Singareddy, also at Columbia, while in NYC. At Harvard University, Suzanne regularly sees Unwana Abasi, and Unwana even accompanied Suzanne to get a tattoo this spring. Erin Johnson had the good fortune to run into Julie Zhou at a local coffee shop in Northfield, Minn., and chat about Julie’s semester abroad in London and Erin’s in Russia. Erin was also looking forward to her annual start-of-summer hike with Angelo Morlani, Audrey Burnim, Gina Sawaya, Kim Sarro, Malynna Mam, and Sarah Vinchesi. Paul Turiano ran into Walter Chacón at the High Tide Ultimate Tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in March. Rory Ziomek and Ross Bendetson frequently meet up in the dining hall for a quick dinner at Tufts University. In May, Ross and Jeremy Chen stopped by Columbia to get dinner with Jing Qu. Jing planned to live in NYC with Kristin Mendez this summer while they both interned at Goldman Sachs. In April, Jing returned to the Andover campus, along with MJ Engel, Maia Hirschler, Stephen Moreland ’14, and Avery Stone ’10, to participate in a conference on gender-based harassment awareness. She also met up with Samuel Green, Nicole Ng, and Connor Fraser from The Phillipian’s CXXXV board at an event in New York celebrating the newspaper’s endowment fund. Also in April, Emily Fang visited Angela Batuure in New York to watch Big Sean perform at Columbia’s annual Bacchanal spring concert. Garrick Gu visited Michael May this spring, and he planned to work this summer on synthetic chemistry research. Mark Meyer and Sam Koffman launched the German Club at the University of Chicago to “instant success” this year. Mark also traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with his boyfriend, Nicolas Lukac, for spring break, and the two accidentally ended up lost in the jungle for a day. This summer, Mark flew to Bangkok, Thailand, to work with 20 other strategists on an as-yet-unnamed startup company. He and Andries Feder also hoped to organize a hiking trip to Capitol Peak before resuming school in the fall. Finally, Julia Kichorowsky and Lucy Frey reunited in Andover in May and planned to spend the summer “with their toes in the sand and Shirley Temples in hand.” Thanks, everyone, for your submissions, and we look forward to hearing more about your experiences this fall!
2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu Kai Kornegay 3650 Spruce St., MB 960 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com
This summer, Esther Cohen worked alongside Andrew Schlager ’12 and Molly Shoemaker ’08 as the artistic intern at Signature Theatre in NYC. Kai Kornegay worked as a summer teaching fellow with the Breakthrough Collaborative of Greater Philadelphia, where she taught literature to low-income, high-achieving middle school students. This fall, she started working with Penn Anti-Violence Educators, leading bystander intervention trainings to prevent sexual and relationship violence. While she was chaperoning students attending a Model UN program in Philadelphia, Mikaela Rabb met up with Kai and Caroline Sambuco. Caroline, Meghana Jayam, and Claire Frankel all joined Chi Omega’s chapter at Penn. Mikaela is now the director of said Model UN outreach program, and this summer she traveled to China on a Yale Richard U. Light Fellowship. Claire brought her talents as an intern to Hyundai Capital this summer. Doris Nyamwaya taught “kitchen chemistry” this past summer at Kaleidoscope, a summer day camp for children, and volunteered at Lawrence General Hospital. She also visited Kenya and Tanzania in August. In May, Armaan Singh went to an alumni event that was held at a Cubs game in Chicago, where he met up with Miguel Wise and Jonathan Arone. Katherine Vega worked at Andover this summer as a prefect for the ACE Scholars program, and over spring break she hosted Emilia Figliomeni. The two of them had a great time exploring Chicago! Junius Williams worked at a real estate firm in Accra, Ghana, this past June and July and spent the rest of the summer in the New York area. He also met up with David Yoon, David Cho, Amo Manuel, Isaac Berg ’13, and Jason Jin ’15 in Seoul in March. This past summer, Natalie Kim studied history and French in Paris through a Harvard Summer School program. David Cao spent the summer working as an intern at the Goddard Space Flight Center. In addition to the usual class notes, we wanted to acknowledge the passing of our classmate Andover | Fall 2015
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