www.andover.edu/intouch received a PhD degree in epidemiological science from the University of Michigan and started an NIH fellowship in January. Mitch St. Peter got engaged to fellow Andover alum Jeanne LeSaffre ’03. They are now living in San Francisco and planning an October wedding. Congratulations! Drew Comins joined the happy couple in San Francisco to celebrate their engagement. Mitch is working at FutureAdvisor, a financial technology startup. Ted Sack and Hank Hattemer frolicked barefoot, hand in hand, in the sand in Venice Beach, Calif., with Zach Robbins, who works as the food and beverage coordinator for the Big Apple Circus. Ted, Dmitry Serov, Travis Pantin, Ben Hogan ’01, Jon Lo, Rob MacInnis, and Josh Haney still hang out a lot, says Ted. He did not report where any of the above classmates live or where these magical hangouts take place, but I’m assuming it’s California. In other Class of 2002 bro-bonding news, Dan Cote, Ben Chang, Eli Flouton, Shuva Chakraborty, Dan Shvartsman, Jack “Juddy’’ Judson, Matt Roman, Pete Glenn, Andrew Tonelli, and Justin Eberlein have a fantasy football league. This year, Eli won the regular season, and Juddy won the league overall, in his first year in the league. Pete came in second, narrowly losing to Juddy in the finals, and Ben Chang came in last, barely outstinking Roman for the Toilet Bowl. Thank you, Pete Glenn, for the harrowing account of the Class of 2002 fantasy football league outcomes.
2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com
Two thousand fourteen was another good year for our classmates. To kick things off, Danny Dumond celebrated her wedding to Caleb Ward in September with a handful of classmates in attendance. The two married in the Log Cabin on the PA campus, with Katie Dlesk, Erin O’Hern, Kathleen Minahan, Kate Cooper Sawyer, Rachel Rapp, and Anita Taylor joining the festivities. Anita also got married, to Sridhar Prasad on Dec. 6 in Morristown, N.J. Many of the same group attended the Prasad-Taylor wedding, with Katie Dlesk serving as maid of honor, while Rachel, Kathleen, Danny, and Caleb all cheered along. Sridhar and Anita honeymooned in Hawaii over the holidays before returning home to Cambridge, Mass., in January. Jen Park also tied the knot this past fall, marrying Jonathan Boebinger in October with many Andover pals by her side. Sylvia Zhu and Kimberly Wedderburn served as bridesmaids, while longtime friend Erin O’Hern also attended. Cathy Rampell became an op-ed columnist at the Washington Post, a longtime dream of
hers, this past year. In addition to reaching that professional milestone, Cathy also married Chris Conlon last August. Several Andover friends joined the festivities, including Alessandra Colaianni, Kim Henderson, Stephen Zehring, and Chris Hughes ’02. Congrats to Danny, Anita, Jen, and Cathy! Katie Regner Cannan reported that she and her husband, Matt, planned to move to Hong Kong in late January. Both of them will continue to work with their current companies as they explore a new city. If there are any alumni in HK, reach out to Katie! Julia Totosy de Zepetnek wrote from McMaster University in Ontario, where she completed a PhD degree this past fall in exercise physiology. In October, she also welcomed a baby boy, Liam! Drew Ward and his wife, Melena, also welcomed a child to their family this past year: Penelope, their second. Drew and Melena stay in touch with Jo and Dean Boylan and their baby boy, Blake. They also connected with Pam Risseeuw Stroble and Aaron Stroble ’04 when the Strobles brought their daughter, Caroline, to DC in November. Dan Koh reported from Boston, where he was rounding out his first year as chief of staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Fellow classmate Shaun Blugh also joined the mayoral administration this winter, serving as the city’s new chief diversity officer. Nick Barber wrote from NYC, where he has lived for the past three and a half years. While living in SoHo, he has run into classmates Kanyi Maqubela, Coleman Lyons, and Ben Jordan. Nick has started a business called Patina NYC, selling mid-century modern furniture; check it out at patinanyc.com and @patinanyc on Instagram. Nick also served as best man to Nick Franchot and Alexa Raducanu when they wed last May. Fellow NYC resident Matt London wrote from Austin, Texas, where he and his wife, Jordan, visited her family for the holidays. They joined Austin residents Kate Cooper Sawyer and Ryan Sawyer for trivia while in town. Matt recently authored The 8th Continent, the first volume in a children’s book series, now available on Amazon. In addition, he finished teaching his first semester of digital storytelling at Brown University, while moonlighting at NYC high schools SAR Academy and Horace Mann. Brian Karfunkel wrote from Brooklyn, where he moved in July. He caught up with classmate Alex Minasian in NYC this past fall. Anne Snyder has moved to Houston, where she has taken a grant from the H.E. Butt Family Foundation to freelance a variety of stories about the immigrant population. She writes that she has enjoyed the change of scenery, including the rodeo, Mexican food, and the culture of Texas. In the SF Bay Area, our classmate head count continues to expand, adding Jeanne LeSaffre and Tom Oliphant most recently. Several of us, including Jeanne and her fiancé, Mitch St. Peter ’02, Michael Ruderman, Matt Lindsay, Janis Rice,
and me, connected at a local Andover event this past fall, where Head of School John Palfrey shared the school’s Strategic Plan. Janis Rice recently moved to the East Bay, where she and her husband, Brandon Rice, have bought a condo. I have also kept up with Margaret Ramsey, who continues to teach at Menlo School in Atherton, Calif. I made it back to campus and saw a handful of our classmates during Leaders’ Weekend 2014, including Jesse Bardo, Fay Rotenberg, Alex Minasian, Justine Wardrop, and Sarah Carden. The campus looked fantastic, and ’03 represented well! That’s it from here; stay safe and go Big Blue.
2004 Ali Schouten 2712 Ivan Hill Terrace Los Angeles CA 90039 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com
By the time this goes to print, Amy O’Gorman Block will have given birth to her first child! Amy reports that Baby Block is larger than average and appears to have inherited her long third toe. Baby Block is also especially active, kicking and flipping all the time. Maybe he or she will follow in Mom’s footsteps and join SLAM? Adam Draper and his wife welcomed a daughter in May. Adam runs a startup accelerator called Boost VC. Almost as exciting as these two additions is Derrick Kuan’s latest: He and his girlfriend adopted a dachshundmix puppy named Penelope. Penelope gets along well with her older brother, Derrick’s bearded dragon, Orlando. Jess Chermayeff ’s film Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace was one of eight films shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short subject. Although Jess didn’t take home the Oscar this year, I have no doubt that there’s a trophy in her future. Hard at work launching the F Show, Lolita Munos Taub is traveling worldwide to interview millennial entrepreneurs. The show will air in mid-2015 and is meant to inspire the next generation of women in business. Jacqueline Bovaird is now in charge of the West Coast office of Levine/Leavitt. In between a crazy work schedule and planning her wedding, Jacqueline saw Justin Cahill, also living in LA. Paull Randt has a finance job in Hong Kong and is looking forward to meeting up with any PA alums who are living in or passing through the city, including Emma Sussex, who will move to Hong Kong in 2015 after trips to South America and Hawaii. Wing-Kit Chu traveled to Charlottesville, Va., last August for Lars Trautman’s wedding, where Pat Callahan, Homan Lee, Taylor Yates, and Jisung Park were guests. Wing-Kit has since moved to Austin, Texas, to start his new job with Amgen and loves it there. Ariel Gold lives in Washington, D.C., and works for Amazon Web Services. Marjorie Mocco, Andover | Spring 2015
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