stay connected... 1995 20th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Lon Haber P.O. Box 4501 Rollingbay WA 98061 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com
Katherine Jollon ’96 married Michael Colsher last November in New York City, with many Andover friends in attendance to share the celebration. Holding the banner in front are Dan Koehler ’96 and Laurence Jollon ’94. In the middle row, from left, are Megan Kultgen ’96, the groom and bride, and Lauren Hacker Roth ’96. In back, from left, are Jane Biondi Munna, Meghan Long Dunbar, Anh Nguyen, Maggie Klarberg Kennedy, Doug Perkowski, Marc Gottesman, Robert Fisher, Jimmy Moore, Jeff Jollon ’92, and Kealy O’Connor Murray, all Class of ’96 except as noted.
in Vancouver, as a presider over one panel and a respondent at another. A lot of the news coming in has been newborn related. Eden Doniger was the first to send news, informing me of the birth of Ilana Shalom Doniger Tsur, who joins sisters Noa and Orli. Next up was Emily Kalkstein Carville, whose daughter, Eleanor Elizabeth, was born in September. Eleanor’s birth came right after both a visit from Abbie Suberman Chen (recounted in the last edition of the notes) and Emily’s celebrating a decade in marketing with L.L.Bean. Maria Taft wrote a bit apprehensively, worried that she was repeating news, but I can say she wasn’t. In July, she welcomed into the world Quentin Taft Swanson. “Quentin” is also the name that Rachel Chellappa chose for her first child, who was born in December. Among those who have no newborns to report but plenty of toddlers, Jessie Clyde wrote to let me know that she started a new job at the International Women’s Health Coalition. She’ll now be working on issues outside of Latin America for the first time, as she will also be covering India and South Africa. Apparently, the toddlers will not be in tow for the longer flights. She also vacationed over the New Year in LA, where she had breakfast with Berk Nelson. Aaron Sharma’s twin toddlers (and older daughter) keep him busy enough at night, while he continues working as an interventional radiologist in Syracuse, N.Y., by day. Classmates took to announcing their updates right on our Facebook group’s wall (http:// tinyurl.com/pa94fb). Marta Rivera Monclova led the charge by letting us all know that she harvested her own saffron this autumn.
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Jessica Lubarsky Wax and her husband, Aaron, moved to San Carlos, Calif., on New Year’s Day and are looking for friends and people who would like to go hiking and biking with them. But signs of trouble emerging from relying on Facebook too much in the future are also bubbling up. Katy Sumberg Langhorst announced that Katherine Wrobel got married, but Katy added that Katherine had quit Facebook, indicating why the news came secondhand. I personally make no secret of the fact that the only reason I still have a Facebook account is so that the Class of 1994 can contact me easily. So I’m waiting for e-mail’s triumphant return. And then, handwritten letters! Bhak Tanta-Nanta wrote from New York to announce that he now works from the 65th floor of the Empire State Building, meaning he has a wonderful view of both the Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty. His work as a volunteer firefighter earned him a commendation for pulling a mother and her 6-year-old son out of an apartment fire. Both were in cardiac arrest when they were rescued, but the son was able to recover. Finally, I extended the deadline a bit to see if more news trickled in, but only Aaron Flanagan took the bait. He recounted his 2-year-old’s favorite knock-knock joke (not to be reprinted here). Aaron sold his home in Newburyport, Mass., and is looking for a new home; he also got a promotion at Amphenol, a company that manufactures products for aircraft. He closed his Facebook message stream (sent at 5 a.m. Lithuania time) with a recipe for carne guisada. That’s all I have for now. Please consider joining our class’s page on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb.
Greetings, one and all! This was a particularly slow season for class notes, but with the holidays taking over and our 20th Reunion weekend approaching, it’s quite understandable. Of course, now we expect future issues to be chock-full of tantalizing news and photos, and Margot VBS Maltzahn and I are brainstorming some fun shenanigans to enhance the experience overall. Just you wait. Luckily we did hear from a few of our ’95ers. Parker Sides and wife Lori Marshall Sides ’00 were thrilled to welcome their first child, Robert W. Sides III (“Bobby”), in November. He is named after his great-grandfather Robert W. Sides ’34 and his grandfather Robert W. Sides Jr. ’61. Parker’s sister Rebecca Sides Capellan ’97 and husband Henry Capellan welcomed their first child, Wesley Jacob Capellan, the following week. It was exciting to have the two cousins born right before the holidays. Parker is looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion in June. I met up with Alicia Robbins and Monica Duda in Seattle for a fun-filled evening. I opened up a Seattle office in fall of 2013 after being in LA for nearly 15 years. I was enjoying life both on the islands in Puget Sound and in Seattle proper, but in the spring I’ll be having a homecoming and spending a great deal more time in Miami, after 22 years on the run since matriculating at PA. Monica is an attorney for Microsoft and recently got engaged. When not enjoying her new home, she travels to exciting and exotic places on behalf of her job. Alicia is still saving the planet, one brilliant idea at a time. The three of us had a blast talking about old times and new; we learned that Shannon Marvin Brown reports that all is well in Austin, Texas, and that she recently had a wonderful visit with Tiffany Freitas, who is working hard for Disney. The two lovely ladies are planning on being at the 20th Reunion, and I hope all of you reading this are too. Gibby Greenway (a.k.a. Trey Green) has come out with some stellar new songs and is well under way in his musical performing and recording career. For details on our upcoming reunion, please visit the Facebook page, to which all of you should have received invitations. If not, please let me know. David Brown, Erik Campano, Mimi Crume Sterling, Margot, and I have all