www.andover.edu/intouch taught for a year in New York and then earned a PhD degree in history at Oxford University, across the pond. Throughout, she managed to keep up with her fiction writing. Two years ago, she found a fantastic agent in NYC, who sold her manuscript to Little, Brown. Her debut novel, Shorecliff, was released at the end of this past summer! The nowpublished author of the well-reviewed family drama set in 1920s coastal Maine resides in Cambridge, Mass., and spends most of her time writing, with some tutoring and editing on the side. Biz Ghormley, another mover and shaker, has started surfing. Despite her claim of not being particularly skilled, she displays great determination to improve in the sport on the waves of Rockaway, Queens, and elsewhere around the world. Tell Kelly Slater we say hi, Biz! After three years in The Hague working on war crimes prosecutions at both the International Criminal Court and a United Nations tribunal, Steven Arrigg Koh is now back in the U.S., working as a fellow at the American Society of International Law in our nation’s capital. Finally, proving that the sky is literally the limit for what our classmates can achieve, Jess Garcia is working as a subcontractor at NASA down in Houston, Texas, doing astronaut health surveillance. She says it’s a blast working with a bunch of people who are even nerdier than she is. All day, she gets to interview astronauts about their health exposures and their experiences in space. Since she talks extensively with retired astronauts, she’s met the famous ones. She can’t name names, but, yes, they have been to the moon, which they say is a nice place because of the weaker gravity but a bit dirty because of all the lunar dust. Don’t let the dust—earthly, lunar, or otherwise—settle on our communications, class. It’s great to be hearing from more and more of you, and I hope the trend continues this year.
2001 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com
I always love this time of year, because I get the updates and the gossip and get to see what everyone’s up to. A few more engagements, moves, weddings, and babies are entering the ’01 world! I’m realizing we’re in that reunion lull where we’re not due for crazy Knoll shenanigans for two more years, so I’m taking it upon myself to get something big on the books for spring ’14. Get excited and start busting out some blue apparel. Andrew Tucker got engaged at the end of the summer. In his words, “Sounds like a good life event to have as my first class notes post.” I agree, and huge congrats to Andrew! Another first to submit updates was Christian Sjulsen, who is just across the river from me in
Misty Muscatel ’01 hosted a group 30th birthday party for her classmates on her rooftop patio in New York City last April. Attendees, from left, included Mihir Patel, Vikas Goela, Amita Singh, Adam Sklar, Sarah Kline, Ramesh Donthamsetty, Misty Muscatel, Daniel Ahn, Matteo Natale, Rachel Weiner, Amanda Barash, Sophia Walter, and Kat Russell.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and who opened a cycling studio in July called Torque Cycling & Fitness (www.torque-cycling.com). All you New Yorkers, go check it out! Greg Kimball and wife Kate Bartlett Kimball welcomed daughter Cora in March 2013. Andover Class of ’31, here she comes! Greg and Kate’s fifth wedding anniversary was on September 6, and they are starting their new adventure as parents in Boston. Greg has been busy as an active Andover volunteer through his involvement with the Abbot Academy Association. He’s also in the process of setting up a way to infuse entrepreneurship more deeply in PA. Greg and Kate caught up with Spencer Washburn recently, who is living it up in New Jersey, coaching at Princeton, and taking care of his newborn son, Teague, and energetic toddler, Caden. In addition to keeping up with his work with Andover and becoming a new dad, Greg has had an incredibly busy year after finishing an MBA degree program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School and launching his startup www.Nifti.com. We’d love to get as many Andover alums as possible to check it out and sign up to show support! Raquel Leonard Moreno is doing great in Philadelphia, where she is working on new healing art therapies. She offers an open invitation to any alums in the Philly area to share these techniques to develop inner balance and experience personal growth. Chris Callahan is living and working in West Palm Beach, Fla. He spent much of the summer in NYC, Boston, and Cape Cod and pursuing a couple of new ventures: building an app called Surfr to journal your surfing life and helping launch an
initiative to create an entrepreneur resource center in West Palm Beach. The app (www.surfrapp.co) is soon to be in the App Store, so tell your surfing friends and keep an eye out! The other venture, an incubator dubbed Startup Palm Beach (www. startuppbc.com), has garnered support from both the public and private sectors and, at this writing, was in the process of securing 6,800 square feet of retail space in downtown West Palm. Chris and his team are building a network of partners—entrepreneurs, startups, sponsors, investors, mentors, and advisors. Chris saw Joe Maliekel and family while in NYC, and he continues to keep in touch with Nick Ma, Lawson Feltman, and Tyson Reist. I love these kinds of updates because they crack me up, yet get to the point. From Nakul Patel: “Eric Chase married.” Another great update from Joe Maliekel: “We have a baby! He’s cute!” Congrats to the Maliekel family for welcoming George Lindsey (“Gil”) Maliekel into the world. I got to meet Gil in person as I ran into the Maliekel family in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, where Joe and I learned we are neighbors. Gavin McGrath’s family welcomed Charlie Walter to their family this past July. Wife Amanda is doing great, and Charlie’s sister, Caroline, went from jealous to thrilled in roughly 12 hours. Congrats! Lex Renwanz became a certified nursing assistant and home health aide. Jim Cunningham moved from NYC to LA to find film production work and has met up with James Shin and his fiancée, Janet, who were planning to tie the knot in January 2014. John Pearson works for the Saudi Arabian Oil Company and is based in Texas. Allison Colbert Andover | Winter 2014
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