stay connected... will ya please do us a favor and bring extra flasks to put the bairns to beddy-bye so that the pack of remaining lone wolves can party proper? Kidding, kidding... Faithfully yours, class secretary.
2001 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com
Update of the quarter goes to Raquel Leonard Moreno, who is now a cohost on a radio show called The Green Hour on WURD in Philadelphia (www.900amwurd.com). The program airs on Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon. Raquel would love to hear the voices of Andover alums who have thoughts to share about the many elements of sustainability. Folks can feel free to call in to the show, or shoot me an e-mail and I’ll connect you with Raquel if you have topics you would like to share as a guest on the show. James Kenly kicked off the year with some great updates, including his new job creating an account management department at a software development consultancy startup called Quick Left. It was number 1916 on the Inc. 5000 last year! James caught up with Lawson Feltman over some beers at Eventide Brewing while on a business trip earlier this year in Atlanta and also attended a few ’01 weddings. Tim Daniels married Kathryn Kendall in Annapolis, Md., on Halloween weekend. Scott Darci, Gino Rotondi, Scott Ward, Steve Mead, Luke LeSaffre, Isaac Taylor, Tom O’Rourke ’02, Charlie Fuller ’00, and Ethan Liebermann ’00 were all in attendance. Shortly after Tim tied the knot, Scott Darci married Tess Morton in Key West, Fla., and the Andover group was quite similar, with the additions of Eric Chase, Alex Bradley, Ashley Harmeling ’00, and Porter Fraker ’00. In his international travels, James caught up with Al Dahya while in Istanbul, Turkey, in August and met Al’s beautiful wife, Roxana, and baby, Sofia. Allison Colbert connected the dots for this reunion. Al is currently the director of business development for SunEdison (solar energy). Merri Hudson Johnston ran the NYC Marathon in November and raised more than $4,000 for Team MR8. Rachel Weiner, Sarah Kline, and I get to have dinners with Merri every so often in the city, and they are always such fun reunions. Her two girls, Ellie and Emmy, are absolutely adorable and mini-Merris, already playing and interested in sports. Gavin McGrath has two beautiful kids, Caroline, 3, and Charlie, 1-1/2, who love their “Pease House playdates” with Martin Fox’s two boys. The families get together every few months, and Martin is now looking forward to the arrival of his third boy! The McGrath kids also got to play with Cora Kimball (Kate Kimball and
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Greg Kimball’s daughter) a few months back. Gavin has been staying busy traveling the globe in 2014, consulting to an international hotel company as an engagement manager at L.E.K. Consulting. He is happy to report that 2015 will involve less travel, and he will be closer to home. Also rocking some ’01 playdates is Larisa Vaysman, residing in Cincinnati, where she is working as an attorney. Larisa’s first baby, a beautiful girl named Miriam, turned 1 in January. Vivian Huang Bastos ’02 and her daughter, Parker, get together with Larisa and Miriam, as they all live in Cincinnati. Also enjoying a new addition are Mara Meyer Epstein and husband Jon, who welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Hannah, in October. The whole family is doing well and is beyond thrilled with the new addition. Vanessa Nickerson is still living in Denver (though she recently moved) and has resigned from her position with the Office of the Public Defender. She’s taking a few months off, she writes, to “explore Denver, snowshoe, summit as many ‘14ers’ as possible, and generally enjoy the great outdoors” before she finds herself back in the legal profession. Ian Cropp has accepted a position with a sports consulting firm in NYC called GlideSlope. We are beyond thrilled to have him join the NYC Andover crew. While completing a fellowship at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, Caitlin Henningsen hosted Susie Dickson, Alida Payson, Ella Hoffman, Sarah Kline, and Nicholas Ma over the course of last fall. She also visited Vienna with Marion Read and husband Alex Saltman before their move to San Francisco. Amanda Barash got married last summer to Ahmad Odetalla at the Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass. Several ’01ers were in attendance, including Cynthia Cohen, Adrea Lee, Elka Gruenberg, Diana Mahler Spalding, Matteo Natale, Desiraé Simmons, and Matt Rotman. Andrew Tucker’s gorgeous wedding to Lauren Czeizler took place on Sept. 6 at the St. Regis in NYC. Andover alums in attendance were Adam Sklar, Bryan Haughom, Eric Newman, Ramesh Donthamsetty, and Matthew Miller ’00. My big update is that I got engaged over Thanksgiving to the very fun James Davis, whom many ’01ers have met. James proposed in front of my entire 23-person family dinner, and we will be tying the knot this fall in Boston. Should be a fun but hectic few months ahead! Keep the updates coming. It’s just a little over a year until our 15th Reunion, ’01. Start preparing!
2002 Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 711477 Mountain View HI 96771 Lauren9@gmail.com
Happy 2015, Class of 2002! Hope this is a happy and healthy year for all. First news is that after many years of being co-class secretary, Paul Crowley has decided to step down from his post to spend more time focusing on his career and family (more on that in a minute!). We would like to thank Paul for his years of service to the Academy and wish him well in his future endeavors. Paul is practicing law in Maryland, doing indigent-criminal-defense work, and occasionally gets together with Doug Presley for dinner and Patriots games. Paul and his wife, Nicole, welcomed their first baby in September. Helen Amelia Crowley is happy and healthy, and her parents are doing well. Stay in touch, Paul! Don’t be a stranger. I (Lauren Nickerson) will continue to be at the helm of class notes, writing until babies (not anytime soon) and/or career (the more likely of the two) also prove to be too time consuming. So keep on sending your updates! And now to the notes, in no particular order—chronological, alphabetical, or themed. Erin Chantry wrote to share the delightful news of the birth of her first baby. Erin and husband Matt welcomed Elizabeth Regina Chantry in September. To judge from the pictures that Erin shared, little Elizabeth is ever the Southern belle, just like her mama. The whole Chantry family will be moving to Charlotte, N.C., where Erin has accepted a position as urban designer at Stantec Consulting. Another ’02er is jumping ship from the mainland and heading to Hawaii. In February, Diane Liu, her husband, and their two children moved to Oahu, where her husband has accepted a new position. Aloha and e komo mai, Diane! Jeff Sandman loves his new life in Washington, D.C., where he lives with Jon Adler and their respective dogs. Jeff wrote to share something about footie pajamas and to report that he gets together with quite the Andover crew every now and again for some serious brunching. Along with Jeff and Jon, Chloe Lewis, Kate Bach, Annie Lowrey, Dan Cote, Becca Wexler, and Malik Lewis enjoy “semi-regular” Andover family brunches. At the time she e-mailed me, Sarah Newhall was four weeks away from her wedding day! Sarah married Elliot Tarloff on Jan. 17, 2015, at the Loeb Boathouse in NYC’s Central Park. Nick Ma ’01 was in attendance and served as an usher. Alice Torbert Percy and her family headed to the hills of West Virginia for the world’s premier underground invitational yard golf tournament, which was won by a rock musician wearing a gorilla suit. I can’t make this stuff up. Helen Meier