www.andover.edu/intouch Catherine McLaughlin graduated from the London School of Economics in July and now works at Brown Brothers Harriman in Boston in the client oversight department. Alanna Waldman is doing research on protein synthesis and biosensors at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology. In June, she’ll complete a five-month stint in the Bahamas, where she’s been researching sustainable fisheries. Ansley White is at the Marine Corps Basic Officer Course in Quantico, Va., and planned to attend flight school to become a Marine Corps pilot in February. Sam August is currently in a Boston-area band that plays six to eight shows per month, including every Saturday night at West End Johnnie’s, right by the TD Garden.
2011 Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu Oriekose Idah 8 Sycamore Lane Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 oidah0608@gmail.com Kevin Song 1 Windy Hill Road Green Brook NJ 08812 kevin@andover11.com Edith Young 470 Park Ave., Apt. 2D New York NY 10022 edithwyoung@gmail.com
At this writing, many members of the Class of 2011 were preparing for their last few months of college and exciting summer adventures before diving into the “real world.” Albert Magnell is completing his final year at Oxford, earning a master’s degree in biochemistry, and hopes to pursue a PhD degree in the same field. Albert is currently finishing up his thesis, in which he explores the interactions between M2 amphipathic helix and the virion of influenza A. Kerry Lanzo returned to South Korea for the second time to teach Model United Nations before heading to Normandy this semester to study the D-Day landings. Kellie Walsh is biking across the country this summer with a program called 4K for Cancer. Ken Tharp coincidentally signed up for the same trip! During the winter holiday, a number of alums were able to catch up. Manwei Chan and Austen Novis spent a wonderful day together in NYC. They got bubble drinks and saw the National September 11 Memorial, had a romantic walk along the West Side, and ended their day at the Standard Biergarten.
Mary Polk-Bauman and Amanda Howland enjoyed a great vacation on St. Thomas and reminisced about their trip while traveling back to NYC. Ken Tharp, Aniebiet Abasi, Matt Appleby, and Kristen Faulkner had a drumline reunion and grabbed dinner in Cambridge, Mass., to celebrate the upcoming finals and holiday season. Orie Idah finally visited Natasha Vaz at Vanderbilt. The two spent the weekend exploring Nashville’s honky-tonk culture and reconnecting after years of cross-country separation. Class of 2011 members had many accomplishments at the end of 2014. Zachary Fine wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times. Haley Scott and Eric Kanter ’09 both worked on the campaign of Congressman Seth Moulton ’97 and celebrated his swearing-in on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C. They were joined by countless other Andover alumni and parents who supported Seth along the way. Our class had an exciting end to 2014, and we’re looking forward to even more adventures and opportunities to reconnect in 2015.
2012 Kennedy Edmonds kennedyedmonds@gmail.com Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com Ryan Ramos 700 Commonwealth Ave., Box 3232 Boston MA 02215 917-841-0294 ryan.alexander.ramos@gmail.com
During the summer of 2013, Min Jae Yoo took a leave of absence after finishing his freshman year at Penn to join the Republic of Korea Army’s special forces. He had the opportunity to apply and be subsequently admitted to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in February 2014. As a UN Blue Beret (or UN peacekeeper), he spent eight months in South Sudan and as of this writing was back in the Special Forces 9th
Brigade (Airborne), waiting to be discharged from his service in April. Ben Krapels spent the summer of 2014 interning in Washington, D.C., for Massachusetts senator Edward Markey. At Cornell, Ben occasionally runs into Alex Smith, Ian Sigal, Greer McBeth, and Demetri Papageorgiou ’13. He plays for Cornell’s men’s rugby team with Jake Howell ’14. After finishing his sophomore year at Harvard, Andrew Cho enlisted in the Republic of Korea Army last September. At the moment, he is preparing for the annual combined military exercise with the U.S. Army as a private first class in the counterterrorism unit. Eliana Kwartler declared as a double major in theatre studies and American studies at Yale, moved off campus to a super-cool new apartment, and hung out with Melissa Wattana at the YaleArmy tailgate. Melissa had another mini reunion this past fall in Andover with Lauren Howard, Claudia Shin, Sofia Suarez, Kelsey Jamieson, Collin Benedict, and Celine Kwon ’13. At Duke, Nick Camarda recently changed his major to quantitative systems biology, a course of study that he designed himself through Duke’s Program II. He also joined a research lab at Duke in the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine. Rowland Robinson held a birthday party near Northeastern with Austin Teece, Jonathan Sze, Alex Smith, Ian Sigal, Khalil Blassingame, Colby McBride, Kastle Jones, Chris Blackwood, Elezhan Zhakiya, Philipp Giro (who came all the way from Germany to visit!), and Katie Ellinger. Last October, Tananya “Ray” Thamthieng, Seika Nagao, Madeleine McClintic, and Marie Liu all got together for a weekend in Chicago. Ray hosted them at her apartment, and they toured the city and even took selfies at the “Bean”! William “Trey” Jennings was visited by Uday Singh at Dartmouth over Halloween weekend. Trey also had dinner with Alana Saab in NYC after an adventure-filled day at SantaCon. He also had the pleasure of celebrating Sage Hunt’s 21st birthday in NYC with Julia Quinn, Lydia Azarat, Sarah Freedman, Borkeny Sambou, Tyler “Ty” West, Will Walker ’11, and Malcolm Mason Rodriguez ’11. This past winter, Trey interned at Pfizer in the company’s neuroscience research unit in Cambridge, Mass. Hopefully, he had the chance to meet up with some Andover alums who go to school in Boston! Abigail Burman saw Peter Larner, Tia Baheri, and Katherine Chaviano for “a raucous friendsgiving.” She writes in an e-mail, “We managed both to produce dinner and not burn the place down.” This summer, Abigail will be graduating from Oxford University and is “furiously preparing for exams and looking forward to settling on the East Coast for at least a few years.” Congratulations and good luck to Abigail! Andover | Spring 2015
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