stay connected... Sammy Marrus had a great fall semester in Paris, studying history at the Sorbonne. Katie Hebb visited Sammy for a long weekend, and they saw Isabel Elson for brunch. Sammy also saw Tafarii McKenzie in Budapest, Hungary, for dinner and was greeted at the airport in NYC by Leonore “Nora” Princiotti. Matthew Lloyd-Thomas visited his sister, Sophia Lloyd-Thomas ’14, last December in Israel. Currently on a gap year, Sophia is living there and studying Hebrew at a kibbutz. The two had tons of fun tripping around Israel and look forward to many more camel rides in their futures. Christian Jaster and 13 other students from the University of Trier in Germany joined efforts with students from Kenyatta University in Kenya to evaluate health care in Nairobi slums. This fourweek-long interdisciplinary research project took place in March. They also founded a nonprofit organization last December that is currently raising funds for Kenyan students to attend school as well as for the Trier students’ own trip to Nairobi. We have lots of 2012ers who were studying abroad this past spring! Julia Quinn was in Capetown, South Africa; Ben Manuel was in Alicante, Spain, and will be working in London this summer. Brooke Van Valkenburg traveled to Montreal to visit Leah Humes (who is studying abroad in Florence, Italy, this spring) before leaving for her internship in Auckland, New Zealand, where she planned to see Sam Hewat. Hannah Beinecke was abroad in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne and working at UNESCO. She plans to travel around with Leah and see Zach Sturman, who will be in Estonia during the summer. Danny Gottfried traveled to Israel through Taglit-Birthright over winter break and for the spring was abroad in Irkutsk, Russia. Sydney Keen is the assistant copy chief for the Fordham Ram, Fordham’s newspaper, as well as a member of the editorial and executive boards of the paper. Over winter break, she continued to do research in pediatric cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Miranda Haymon and Izzy Kratzer, while in a casino in Montreal, recognized the actress who played the character “Blah Blah” on How I Met Your Mother and tried to get her autograph but had to end the pursuit when Izzy’s name was called off the wait list for a game of Texas hold ’em. Miranda also visited Thea Raymond-Sidel in New York to celebrate Thea’s 21st birthday and while there, saw Minymoh Anelone and helped her select hair-care products. Stay classy, 2012. —Miranda
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2013 MJ Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com
This past fall reunited alumni and saw seasoned sophomores begin their second year of college. (Or, for the many members of the Class of ’13 who took gap years, it brought the start of college.) Kristin Mendez spent four days with her Andover roommate of three years, Dylan MacDonald, at UVa. They snuggled and tailgated and could not have been happier to be reunited. Christiana Nguyen, after finishing an internship with Senator Maria Cantwell, traveled all over the East Coast, visiting Caroline Gutierrez, Connie Cheng, Diondra Peck, Unwana Abasi, and Samuel Green at Harvard University. Zach Merchant and Jeremy Chen invited her to Tufts University, where they had dinner. Maia Hirschler, Gregory Cameron, Nicole Ng, Kristin Mendez, and Christiana Nguyen had a Phillipian reunion in the newsroom of the Yale Daily News. Maia Hirschler hosted a dinner at her home in NYC with Nicole Ng, Jeremy Chen, Connor Fraser, M.J. Engel, and Jing Qu. Jason Nawrocki, Pearson Goodman, Brendan O’Connell, and Hemang Kaul convened to raze buildings in a rousing evening of Age of Empires. Jing Qu, M.J. Engel, and Rochelle Wilbun spent much of the semester studying together for their class on critical approaches to social theory at Columbia University. Unwana Abasi visited the trio in New York and saw Rochelle Wilbun’s dance performance. Jing Qu reunited with Uday Singh ’12 and T.J. Lenzo ’12 at Columbia Homecoming at the Delta Sigma Phi House, of which Will Rodriguez is now vice president. This semester, Jing Qu wrapped up her internship at theSkimm, a fast-growing media startup that just completed $6.25 million in Series A funding. Samuel L. Green stayed with Christopher Hedley in Colorado to ski and to celebrate the New Year; he saw Zach Merchant and Stephanie Nekoroski ’14. During an epic game of Settlers of Catan, Franco D’Agostino narrowly edged Alasdair McClintic and Samuel L. Green with a tricky trade. Over winter break, Hemang Kaul went to his local grocery store, Market Basket, where he ran into Brendan O’Connell. He then reunited with Sahil Bhaiwala at the gym and afterward played hockey at the Phillips Academy rink
with Ross Bendetson, Jason Nawrocki, and Eddie Ellis. David Crane and Hemang kept in touch through a series of long-distance rap battles. Anna Stacy performed in an Occupy Wall Street–themed production of Sweeney Todd. John Perkins and Dan Martucci traveled to the northernmost part of Tibet to learn martial arts. Jackie Murray, Madeline Silva, and Stephanie Petrella visited Phillips Academy and celebrated the New Year together. Corbin Lee spent $400 on an Uber, and Gaelyn Golde and M.J. Engel were reunited in the General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee.
2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu Kai Kornegay 3650 Spruce St., MB 960 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com
Members of the Class of 2014 had a great time coming back to campus for the fall Andover-Exeter weekend! Remmington Remmel, Alec Tolentino, Charles Talcott, and Luke Stidham all pledged Chi Psi at UNC, and Luke was their pledge class president, which he says was “quite the experience.” JA-Lamar Lyons came down to UNC for a weekend to visit them in October, and he planned to return for another visit, this time with Scott Diekema, in mid-January. Alexia Rauen came up to Boston to ring in the New Year with Doris Nyamwaya and Poonam Kamdar. Kai Kornegay played the role of Mama in Lydia Diamond’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye at Penn. Esther Cohen and Caroline Sambuco won the hearts of their audience in a production of Sweeney Todd, for which Esther also served as assistant director. Janine Ko is now sleeping nine hours a night for the first time ever, likely because she is no longer working for the paper. Janine, Zainab Aina, Efua Peterson, Meera Bhan, Dan Wang, and Autumn Plumbo joined the march for #blacklivesmatter. Dan spent the fall months traveling in the west and south of China and in January, with Ryan Miller and Jordan Boudreau, headed to India; they planned to stay at the Riverside School for three months. Armaan Singh fulfilled a lifelong dream