stay connected... Mariah Russell, Jisung Park, Lars Trautma, and Patrick Callahan. Patrick is also studying at MIT, where he is entering the third year of a PhD degree program. He spent the summer doing research at a particle accelerator facility in Hamburg, Germany. While in Germany, he caught up with Johannes Knuth in Munich, where Johannes is making a career for himself in sports journalism. Congratulations to J.J. Feigenbaum, who married Alexandra Steinlight this past August in New York. Derrick Kuan, Uzoma Iheagwara, Bill Beregi, Dan Serna, Olivia Oran, Jenny Wong, and Ali Schouten were all there to celebrate. I graduated this past May from law school in New York, and then my father, my dog, and I set off on a cross-country road trip bound for LA. I spent the summer there studying for the New York bar exam. Despite all of the studying, my time in LA was wonderful and greatly enhanced by the friends from Andover I had a chance to catch up with, including Ali Schouten, Scout Kingery, Anthony Green ’05, and Anthony Pucillo ’03. Jenny Wong even flew out from New York for a weekend visit! I did a bit of traveling before I started working last fall. I flew to England at the beginning of August, then traveled to Helsinki, Finland, and Copenhagen, Denmark, with some friends from law school. From there I set out on my own for Berlin, where I caught up with Filip Dames ’01. I then went to Croatia for a week to cruise around the islands. While there, I bumped into Harry Goldstein ’05 and Cotton Harrold at a beach club in Hvar. I wound up in Barcelona on the last leg of my European travels. It was a fabulous summer, and I have particularly enjoyed getting to catch up with old friends. I hope that you all enjoyed the summer, and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
2005 Matt Brennan matthew.s.brennan13@gmail.com Alex Lebow alexlebow@gmail.com
Hey, folks, there’s much to report and an all-tooshort word count, so let’s dive right in: Chris Zegel and Megan Scarborough got engaged to each other in late summer. Victoria VanStekelenburg also got engaged; she met fiancé Christopher Bianco at Georgetown. Victoria sees her maid of honor, Catalina McCallum, regularly and works as an attorney at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., doing transactional work. Congratulations, all! Also in DC, Natasha Midgley saw Nate Scott and Pat Shannon to break bread, grab drinks, and enjoy good company in July. Amy Sticklor and her fiancé closed on their first home this summer and moved into a beautiful row house in DC. They also visited Massachusetts, where Laurel Sticklor, Alex Doty, Bridget O’Sullivan, and Katie Minott
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threw them a surprise engagement party on July Fourth. Amy started graduate school at Georgetown in the fall. Alison Wheeler recently left the hustle and bustle of DC for the woods of New Hampshire, where she attends the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth with Nell Beattie and Ben Grant. Also in New England, Christian Vareika left his job as chief speechwriter for Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee ’71 to start law school at Boston College. He lives with Zach Sandman, who’s also at BC Law School and who made an admirable attempt to punk the class notes. (He never really appreciated how smart and attentive to detail Matt Brennan is, despite having known him since the first grade.) Erica Christensen is working for Keller Williams in Andover as a realtor and coaching figure skating (private, group, and off-ice conditioning) at the PA rink. Bridget O’Sullivan finished her clerkship in bankruptcy and started as an associate this past fall at Ropes & Gray. She will be working on investment management, as a bar certified lawyer in both Massachusetts and New York. Jenny Drucker finished her third year as an elementary school teacher in Atlanta and moved to Boston to pursue an MS degree in medical sciences at Boston University School of Medicine. Laylah Mohammed returned to Andover with a photo album Chloé Hurley and Meta Weiss had made for her 16th birthday and visited Sarah Donelan. She saw Peter Nelson, Grant Yoshitsu, Vanessa Parkinson de Castro, Alex King, and Jason Duffett at the Addison Contemporaries event in early summer. In New York, where Laylah works for the architecture firm WCA, she attended a surprise party to celebrate Chloé’s acceptance into NYU School of Law with Morissa Sobelson, Billy Doyle, Laura Sciuto, Lindsay Baker, and Tom Church, and met up with Charlotte Steinhardt for a concert in Prospect Park. Meta Weiss and Arianna Warsaw-Fan ’04 released their first CD as duoW, Entendre, on Aug. 27 (available through iTunes, Amazon, and the label, Sono Luminus Records); they toured the West Coast, mainly California, in November and January. Meta also spent a month in Moscow doing research for her doctoral dissertation at Juilliard. Morissa Sobelson left the health-care consulting world to serve as chief of staff to Dr. Irwin Redlener, who heads both the Children’s Health Fund and the Columbia University–based National Center for Disaster Preparedness. In the evenings, she is working toward a master’s degree in public health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Recently, Meta, Morissa, and Laura gathered at Chloé’s apartment to flip through the original spiral-bound ’02 to ’05 facebooks. Laura is working as senior manager of business development at a startup called Ivy Exec. In addition to the aforementioned people, she keeps in touch with Ian Schmertzler. Nina Beinart Kunkes is still working with Luke’s Lobster, bouncing between NYC,
Philadelphia, DC, and Maine. Sarah Hong worked as a front-of-house manager with Hillstone Restaurant Group in East Hampton, N.Y., then in Manhattan, and now Winter Park, Fla. Mac King moved to New York in June to begin a job at the city’s Fox affiliate and has seen Billy Doyle, Grant Yoshitsu, and Steve Sherrill. Dan Fromson works as a copy editor for the website of the New Yorker and wrote a short e-book, Finding Shakespeare, about a Vietnam veteran’s unlikely search for the legendary English accent spoken by Shakespeare himself. Dan also saw Krishna Gupta in New York. C.C. Donahue left New York in August to give the student game a second try; he’s at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business pursuing an MBA degree. Stephen Severo lives in the New York metropolitan area and welcomes visitors. Elsewhere, Miles Canaday conducts a women’s choir at a state college in Denver and began a new job in public relations at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. Angela Tenney spent the summer hanging out with Sarah Waldo in San Francisco during a summer fellowship at the Natural Resources Defense Council and recently moved to Houston to work in chemical consulting. Hilary Fischer-Groban works at a sustainable fashion company, The Reformation, in LA, where she’s seen Ali Schouten ’04 and Scout Kingery ’04. Sims Witherspoon works in advertising and as a social impact project manager for Google Giving. She is currently managing Huffington Post editorials and live segments that feature grant recipients, and she also completed therapy dog school with her puppy; they visit hospice facilities every other Saturday. Kaitlin Alsofrom finished her stint in Teach for America in Chicago and is now living in Brazzaville, Congo, teaching preschool there. She has an extra bed for an ’05er! Harry Goldstein moved to Singapore and will start a new role with Amcor, a packaging company. Katie Nadworny lives in Istanbul, Turkey, photographs and travels as much as she can (including trips to Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, and Montenegro), and showed Adam Holt around during the occupation of Istanbul’s Gezi Park. She also maintains a blog, www.KatrinkaAbroad.com. Here in New Orleans, Alex Lebow and Matt Brennan moved to an antebellum-era carriage house in the French Quarter, host Nate Kellogg and wife Meg Coffin ’03 regularly for dinner, and saw visitors Sarah Donelan, Nate Scott, and Ben Hoerner. Alex recently received a promotion in the mayor’s office and hired an executive director for Youth Run NOLA, a nonprofit youth development organization of which he is cofounder and board president. Matt continues his graduate work at Tulane, where he teaches U.S. history to freshmen and sophomores. He writes for Indiewire, contributed an essay to an upcoming e-book about Woody Allen, and served as a juror for the New Orleans Film Festival. Drop us a line if you’re in New Orleans: Our door is always open, and the bourbon is always cold. Until next time, much love, PA ’05. —Matt and Alex