www.andover.edu/intouch In January, Lucy Bidwell ’09 held a housewarming party in NYC that was well attended by alums. In front, from left, are Erica Segall ’09, Anna Burgess ’09, and Catherine Crooke ’07. In the middle row, from left, are Chris Waskom ’08, Foster Jebsen ’08, Dominick DeJoy ’07, Alex Moss ’09, Eli Grober ’09, Jack Dickey ’09, and Lawrence Dai ’09. In back, from left, are Sayer Mansfield ’10, Thor Shannon ’09, Lucy Bidwell ’09, Alexander McHale ’09, Marvin Blugh ’09, Graeme Clements ’09, Harrison Hart ’09, and Jack Walker ’09.
Karl Novick ’07 (center) got married last August in Richmond, Va., and classmates Pete Dignard (left) and Chris Adams (right) were there to cheer him on.
U.S. John joins fellow Googler Kym Louie in LA. Emerson Moore stayed in New York but moved in with Joey Mensah, Foster Jebsen, and Chris Waskom. (Their former roommate, Zach Feldman, moved uptown to Mount Sinai for medical school.) Finally, Hanson Causbie is heading home from Afghanistan, where he has been stationed with the 82nd Airborne Division, flying Apache gunships in support of ground forces. According to my Facebook feed, lots of 2008 went sightseeing last year. Joey Mensah visited Corbin Tognoni in Stockholm, and they traveled together through Copenhagen, Berlin, and Prague. Britney Van Valkenburg and Veda Eswarappa both spent time in India, though judging by Britney’s photos, she probably had more fun (Veda’s trip was for work). Rajit Malhotra, who also works in India, traveled to Qatar to attend the World Innovation Summit on Education. And a whole bunch of people went to Ben Schley and Lambros Theofanidis’s housewarming in San Francisco, including Kristy Spiak, John Heroy, Jin Won Lee, Alyssa Warren, Sebastian Caliri, Hillary Baker, Murphy Temple, Will Hunckler, and Alix Peabody, among many others. The new roommates were also celebrating their new jobs, Ben at Salesforce and Lambros at SunEdison. On the job front, Kristy Spiak is now a finance associate at the World Affairs Council of Northern California, while Megan Richards and Nkem Oghedo are both at Artisan Healthcare Consulting. Jade-Isis Lefebvre is teaching yoga and getting a PhD degree in clinical psychology (en français). Blaine Johnson is in China, writing a thesis on food-waste-sorting programs in Shanghai’s residential communities. And Adam Giansiracusa, a consultant at Monitor Deloitte, is still enjoying the weather in Dubai, where he’s based. Between the engagement and the log cabin, you wouldn’t think Jen Downing would have
time for much of anything else. You’d be wrong. Jen met up with Jake Bean, who was on his way through Boston for Navy training; attended one of Jessica Cole’s famous potlucks; had drinks with Chris Wade and Megumi Ishizuka; saw Lisa Lian at a holiday party; and briefly ran into Thomas Smyth at a Harvard-Yale tailgate. We don’t know if she saw Jen or not, but Murphy Temple lives in the same apartment complex at Stanford as William Thompson-Butler ’09 and runs into Sebastian Caliri and Will Hunckler fairly frequently. On a break from work, Rajit Malhotra visited Lizzy Chan and Sarah Gordon in New York. Penn dental student Silke Cummings also took a trip to New York to celebrate Paul Hsiao’s birthday and hang out with Nicholas Koh and Steph Teo into the wee hours of the morning—hopefully, with champagne. Until next time. —Lydia
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Hello, all. A bit of a shorter submission this time around. It seems we are all too busy living life to write about it. Here’s what we’ve been up to since we last spoke. Michael Kaluzny is currently living with Kevin Ofori in Atlanta. He had a great time
rock climbing with Jean Fang in Chattanooga, Tenn. Johnny Carmona rang in the New Year with Malik Jenkins at Johnny’s apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. David Luan and Johnny had a farewell dinner with the elusive Hyungtae Kim before he temporarily left NYC to conduct research in Silicon Valley. Tina Kit met up with Johnny, David, Moses Kim, and Andrew Ang for drinks in Brooklyn. Moses also went ice-skating with Vincent Jow and Christine Choi in Central Park. Vincent writes that it was “really romantic” and that he got to “hold Moses’s hand so he wouldn’t fall.” What a lucky boy! Jessica Frey flew down from Boston to Washington, D.C., with Salena Casha and Eliza Campbell to visit Marianna Jordan for a long weekend in November. Sophie Shimer also joined in, driving down from Yale, where she is currently attending med school. The girls managed to meet up with Ricky Chen for a few hours and did a bunch of typical touristy things (including taking what Jessica describes as “the world’s most awkward White House selfie”). Jessica lives with Eliza and Megan Farquhar in Brookline, Mass., so, she writes, “Every day is an Andover reunion!” The group tries to get together with Salena, Carolyn Calabrese, and Tori Wilmarth as much as they can. Eddie Zhang works as a product manager for Facebook. He regularly sees Charlie Dong in San Francisco and managed to catch up with Vincent Jow over the holiday break. He plans to see Conrad Bastable and Tory Marvin soon as well. Stephanie Xu continues to work in Washington, Andover | Spring 2015
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