stay connected... their dining room. Alexander “Sasha” Opotowsky is a cardiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He sees a bit of Nils Vaule, who works for children’s theatre nonprofits. Victoria McEvoy Khanna wrote from Boston, where she is a director for Bain Capital and the mother of three boys. She enjoyed lots of family time this past summer in the Hamptons. Alexis Dittmer visited her after reunion. Alexis, who lives in Santa Monica, Calif., with her husband, had lunch and “lots of laughs” with Steph Johnes and Zeke Farrow. The class secretaries eagerly await news of Zeke’s latest script, which he dreamt would star Mila Kunis. An expectant (and radiant) Michelle Choi and her husband await a little sibling to their son. Eloyse “Ellie” Milner Ellerman works for Intuit and lives in Lexington, Mass., with her husband and two kids. She caught up with Johan Aasbo at reunion. Johan, a cardiac electrophysiologist, lives in Toledo, Ohio, with wife Abby, an ordained minister and former hospital chaplain, and their two sons, Soren, 3, and Christopher, 1. Susannah Smoot Campbell and her husband live in Atlanta with their 4-year-old, George. She and Alison Wheeler Kennedy just started a business, First Line Strategy, providing developing businesses and private investment groups with marketing strategy and capital raise services. Alison lives in Lexington, Mass., with husband Pat and daughters Lauren and Peyton. Alison sees Lara Slachta Phimister in Boston, where Lara started a new law firm. Alison also may see more of Gus Quattlebaum, who just moved around the corner from her. Gus confessed at reunion that it was strange to be back on the campus that, for most of his life, he called home. His parents have retired and are doing well! Mark Jaklovsky launched a coffee brand, Café Jose, which can be found in 71 Market Basket supermarkets and dozens of Boston-area independent grocery stores. Brandon Schwartz reported in for the first time since graduation! He shares, “I’ve been a grad student, computer programmer, Navy officer, scientist, teacher, and tax lawyer, and now I’m in San Francisco, running my own business and trying to learn Russian so I can talk to my grandparents-in-law.” He and his wife, Yanina, enjoy traveling and recently held hawks at a wildlife sanctuary in Europe. Ying Liu, an exchange student from China during her time at Andover, reported that she is safe, sound, and living overseas. Rabbi Marc Baker wrote in from Waltham, Mass., where he leads Gann Academy, a pluralistic Jewish independent school where, he writes, students experience “much of what [he] loved about Andover, in the context of a caring, purposeful, intellectually engaging Jewish community.” He and his wife, Jill, have four children. He was “thrilled” to walk in John Palfrey’s investiture. Samantha Appleton reports that she and her partner, Brian Mathis, welcomed a daughter, Beatrice Mathis, in July 2013. Steve Kokinos is an IT entrepreneur in Arlington, Mass. Sadly for all the
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former groupies of his band, he doesn’t play much anymore. He invests his days in building a business and nurturing a lovely wife and three kids. Alison Crawford works in advertising and seized reunion to spend time with Kim Valentine Washington, who works for P&G in Cincinnati. Making a brief appearance before reunion was David “Dave” Jackson, who lives in Seattle with wife Kat and two kids and happily toils at Amazon. On his way to his Dartmouth reunion, he supped with friends, including Carole Reid Bird. Carole, married to classmate Willett Bird, journeyed to reunion from Hong Kong with her daughter, leaving Willett at home with son Atticus. Carole caught up at reunion with Arian Giantris Clements, who works for human rights in Portland, Maine. Quick notes on the folks of Newman House, where Dave and Willett lived: Matt Macarah is rumored to be headed for Alaska. Asher Richelli lives in NYC, where he is general counsel at DF King Worldwide and founder of Page 73, a nonprofit that develops and produces the works of early-career playwrights. Gi Soo Lee is a married doctor in Boston. There’s a cache of PA folks in Texas, including Ore Owodunni, who lives with his wife and family and hopes to visit family in Lagos soon. Mary Olivar, who works for Whole Foods headquarters, lives in Austin with her three children. Chris Keady lives in his college town of Chapel Hill, N.C., works for Home Depot, and raises his family. He enjoys being in the military reserves. Elizabeth Bissell Miller serves as an international communications coordinator at the University of Missouri, and she’s also the ambassador for the Timbuktu Libraries in Exile project. She lives in Columbia, Mo., with her husband and two cats. Andrew Frishman returned to campus as a speaker commemorating the 25th anniversary of PALS, a mentorship program with Lawrence middle-school students. Andy is director of program development for Big Picture Learning Network, and he and his wife, Leigh, have two children. Ted Sterling shared tales of child-rearing and sustainable living. He lives and works at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri with his partner and daughter. Mike Schulte is an entrepreneur in Chicago, leading the innovative Thinking Fan Design, which is able to capitalize on memes and trends with organizations like the NFL Players Association, crowdsourced designs, and just-intime productions. Colton Brown is the regional marketing and sales director at DuPont Fabros Technology, which provides data storage to the likes of Facebook and Google. He lives in NYC with his wife and son, John. Ramona Gittens Morgan is a beauty and fashion entrepreneur. She lives in upstate New York with British husband George and daughter, Eve. Melissa Clapp Johnson is a writer and editor outside of NYC, where she lives with husband Chris and three children.
Tina Ver Foley wrote in from Paris, where she lives with her husband, Paul, and son, Rowan. Tina leads fundraising and external relations for the American University of Paris. She was back on the Andover campus a few months ago with her mother and son. Tina missed reunion because she was preparing for the university’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Ted Gesing recently moved back to NYC, where he produces documentaries and has made the delightfully insane decision to become one of your new class secretaries. Class—especially those who have been silent lo these past decades—our goal is to provide an update on every classmate in the next five years. Please tell us your news!
1994 20th REUNION June 13–15, 2014 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira +1 774 473 9856 Google Voice moacir@gmail.com
Maybe everyone is keeping a bit mum so that there is more news to report at our upcoming reunion, but it was especially difficult to get news from my classmates this time around. I considered filling up our allotment with tales of my own preparations for winter (the house in which I’m staying just had a delivery of 20 cubic meters of firewood, and I’ve got to help stack it), but, instead, I’ll stick to what the others have said and come in comfortably below the word limit. Speaking of the reunion, Aaron Flanagan wrote in to remark that he had recently eaten a burrito, and shortly thereafter he was looking forward to bringing his toddler, Silas, to Andover in June, so that he may meet his future classmates. Sachita Shah and husband Andrew Reichman had a daughter, Ayla, in December. Sachita’s doing well as an emergency medicine doctor at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Another new parent is David Callum, whose first child, Sophia Diannarose, was born last summer. He decided that being a first-time parent wasn’t sufficiently challenging in and of itself, so he also moved to Milton, Mass., just before her birth. Jessie Clyde had her second child, daughter Annecy, in June as well. Jessie spent most of her maternity leave on the picturesque Massachusetts beaches with Liz DuBois and her baby, Sabine, and then celebrated three months of Annecy’s life by taking the baby camping on an island. In July, Beth Crowley had a baby girl, Virginia. The previous month, Beth and her husband went to Andover to watch their niece Emily McKinnon ’13’s graduation. Ivan Barry also recently visited Andover to see his parents, who will be retiring next summer from PA, meaning that our reunion will, sadly, be their last. Ivan still teaches history at the Cate School,