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Last September, longtime friends from the Class of ’03 attended Danny Dumond Ward’s wedding at PA’s Log Cabin. From left are Katie Dlesk, Erin O’Hern, Danny Dumond Ward, Kathleen Minahan, Kate Cooper Sawyer, Rachel Rapp, and Anita Taylor. A sizable Andover contingent turned out for the July 2014 wedding of Michael Cashman ’02 and Shana Platz. From left are Eliott Wall ’07, Geoff O’Donoghue ’02, Kara Gaughen Smith ’02, Jess Spradling Russell ’02, the bride, James Platz ’67 (father of the bride), the groom, Kathryn Zox ’65, Greg Martin ’02, Christina Kelleher Knoll ’02, and Luke Basta ’02.
Ducky, all the time. Sims Witherspoon is still at Google and traveled to Colombia and Brazil for a couple of research projects, including helping the Google Maps team map Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Dan Hackney lives in Mountain View, Calif., and is working at Google as a software engineer for AdWords. Outside of work, he’s been dancing in two performance groups, in addition to doing social swing dance and training for ballroom competition; he recently ran into Clare Kasemset because her husband is in one of his performance groups. Melanie Kress moved back to NYC in January 2014 and has been working at the Friends of the High Line as the curatorial fellow for High Line Art, the program of public art presented on and around the park. She is thrilled that Beryl Sinclair recently moved from Seoul to New York and celebrated her return with Kendra Allenby, Vanessa Parkinson de Castro, Brittany Kaiser, and Nick Pappadopoulos ’04, among others. Lindsay Baker is studying interior design at the Rhode Island School of Design and celebrated Christmas with Katie Hunckler and Harry Goldstein in Chicago. Harry plans to remain another year and a half in Singapore, where he recently started a new role at the packaging manufacturer Amcor. He’d love for any Andover folks heading his way to give him a shout. Katie is marketing director for Bucketfeet, a custom sneaker company featuring designs by emerging artists from all over the world. Ian Schmertzler saw Karl Hirt ’06 rowing in blue down at the Head of the Housatonic, ran into Kelly Stecker at the Head of the Charles, and enjoyed a day of making pumpkin pie with Hector Inirio, Faaez Jafarey ’06, and a small army of college friends. (He also saw Vanessa and
Brittany, who “were a social scene unto themselves in New York this fall,” he says.) Ian led a European Banking Authority stress test last summer, spent the fall studying programming at General Assembly, and will be working with brother Ethan ’07 on a startup until the fall of 2015, when he’ll head to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree. In September, John Tincoff caught up with Vic Miller and their onetime prefectee Peter McCarthy ’07 in Palo Alto, Calif., over tacos. Vic had recently finished defending his dissertation at Stanford and has been working on a super-cool medical-technology startup. John also celebrated with an ’05 crew—Krishna Gupta, Kelly Stecker, and Henry Manice—at a Romulus holiday party in Boston this past December. Over the holidays, Matt Brennan had enchiladas in Methuen, Mass., with Sarah Donelan; Chinese food in Andover with Laylah Mohammed and her fiancé, Dave; fancy cocktails in South Boston at the home of Meg Scarborough and Chris Zegel; and steak frites and rye with Ben Hoerner near the Garden, where they met up with Nate Scott, Steve Rolecek, Andrew Geraghty, Dave Wilkinson, and Whitney Kelly ’04 (and spied Cara Ruccolo on what looked like a date). Besides eating, drinking, and causing a ruckus on JetBlue with Nathan Kellogg, Meg Coffin ’03, and their dog, Nigel, Matt is the television critic for Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood! and a regular contributor to several other publications. He lives with Alex Lebow, director of strategic partnerships for the mayor of New Orleans, proud thrower of epic New Year’s Eve parties, and fellow class secretary. Until next time, be well—and hope to see you at our 10th Reunion! Much love, PA ’05. —Matt and Al
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The start of 2015 means that our 10th Reunion is now only one year away! The end of 2014 was filled with many Andover Class of 2006 reunions (a.k.a. weddings), plans for weddings to come, career moves, and non-wedding-related mini reunions. Thanks for sharing your updates. We love to hear from you! Rajeev Saxena married his college sweetheart in July in Houston and celebrated with Mario Noyola, Gracia Angulo, Caroline Pires, Sarah McLean, Paul Engelhardt, and Carlisle Williams Engelhardt. Rajeev was also the best man at Mario’s wedding to Adriana, Mario’s college sweetheart, on Long Island, N.Y., in November. Katie Faulkner got married on Aug. 9, 2014, in Homer, Alaska. Alyssa Hill was a bridesmaid, and Katie’s siblings were all in the bridal party: Andrew ’07, William ’09, Kristen ’11, and Nicholas ’16. Duncan Cumming (who was Katie’s piano teacher at Andover) played the piano at the wedding. On Oct. 18, 2014, Dan Taylor married Lauren Krznaric, a 2009 graduate of Bucknell Andover | Spring 2015
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