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When Cece Yu ’07 married Justin Aschenbener at the Art Institute of Chicago last September, several PA classmates joined the festivities. From left are Gina Kim, Colleen Thurman, Nate Flagg, Q Yankes, the groom and bride, Hilda Buss, Fay Gao, Olivia Pei, Chiz Izeogu, Mikaela Sanders ’08, Steve Stapczynski, Rob Sun, and Allen Cai.
Thanks for the updates, 2006! Hope you’ve had a wonderful start to 2015, and we’re looking forward to what’s to come this year. Love, Jeni and Paul
2007 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com
First and foremost, there are a number of engagements and weddings to announce. Betina Evancha recently became engaged to Daniel May and will be getting married in October. Stacey Middlebrook is also recently engaged; coincidentally, her fiancé went to Andover High while we were at PA, but they met after college. Karl Novick was married to the lovely Kate Grumbles this past summer in Richmond, Va. In attendance were Pete Dignard and Chris Adams. Last but not least, Cece Yu got married to Justin Aschenbener in Chicago in September. In attendance were Gina Kim, Colleen Thurman, Nate Flagg, Q Yankes, Hilda Buss, Fay Gao, Olivia Pei, Chiz Izeogu, Mikaela Sanders ’08, Steve Stapczynski, Rob Sun, Allen Cai, and Olivia Wang. All of Clement House ’07 was
represented! Cece and her husband are now living in California, where they rock-climb a lot and where Cece recently started a new job leading product design at a startup called Wealthfront. Congratulations to all the happy lovers! Nate Flagg is loving his classes and studies at the Yale School of Art, where he has already learned so much and improved greatly from the artist we all knew back at Andover. He is living with Jacqueline Hall ’08, who’s in the architecture school at Yale, and he frequently runs into James Flynn down in New Haven. Catherine Crooke is back home in NYC, where she now works at a small and very feisty international refugee-assistance organization called IRAP. NYC continues to be an Andover hub: This winter, Catherine consumed a lot of whiskey and rich foods at a dinner with Jack Dilday, Tasha Keeney, Becky Greenberg, Lola Dalrymple, Anna Klenkar, Dominick DeJoy, Evan Moore, Dave Mauskop, and Lucy Bidwell ’09. They are all doing extremely well; Evan is working on a novel. In December, Catherine celebrated the winter solstice with tequila and pagan rituals, joined by many of the above-named individuals plus Melanie Kress ’05, Emma Wood, Eddie Diaz, Curtis Holden, Brian Louie, and Jonathan Louie. Emma is having an extremely successful time as a poet at the University of Iowa. Catherine and Emma had lunch with Olivia Pei when Olivia visited the East Coast from San Francisco (Emma and Olivia also saw each other at Emma’s poetry reading last year). Olivia was recently promoted and got her (current) dream job of leading international strategy for Cisco Meraki. She attended a Halloween party hosted by Sarah Guo,
which Billy Draper also attended. We finally heard from Peter McCarthy, who is also in San Francisco, working at a small company called Quid. Last year he visited Eddie Kang in South Korea, at his army post near the North Korean border. Pete climbs a lot of mountains, and sees Olivia Pei, Katharine Matsumoto, Vic Miller ’05, Meg Evans ’06, and William Thompson-Butler ’09 fairly regularly. Ethan Schmertzler is the CEO of a New York tech startup working on secure communications; they’re still in stealth mode but should be launching soon. Danny Silk has made it official: He lives in NYC full time and loves the city life. He hasn’t been running into quite as many fellow grads as everyone above, but he has hosted quite a few as they roll through the city. Maura Mulroy cannot get enough of life in Florida, even though she recently returned from a trip to Zurich, Switzerland. She completed her first Olympic-length triathlon this past fall, and if she didn’t have it before, has now fully caught race fever. Alex Clifford is still living in Chicago, trading options and working on his app, Entourage. A bit farther afield, Devon Zimmerling is still working in London and will be attending London Business School next fall. She caught up with Stacey Middlebrook, Dawson Joyce-Mendive, Carly O’Leary, and Kit Harris in Boston around Thanksgiving. Steve Blackman is still alive. He is traveling the U.S. working for Gibson Boards and is happy to get to escape Amish country. Komaki Foster is still working in Congress but plans to leave Washington, D.C., to head to Japan for a few months and then continue on to the U.K. Andover | Spring 2015
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