www.andover.edu/intouch 2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland CA 95695 925-846-8300 jeni_lee@bluelink.andover.edu Paul Voorhees 345 West Berwicke Common, N.E. Atlanta GA 30342 404-402-4869 pauldvoorhees@gmail.com
It is, as always, a pleasure to compile the notes from our class—to hear about the thrilling travels, the alumni-filled celebrations, and the exciting things you are all up to next! Congratulations to all those who have found wedded bliss, completed advanced degrees, and found new callings. We hope you have a wonderful 2014, and we can’t wait to hear more updates from you soon. Last spring, Ginia Sweeney completed a master’s degree program at Williams College in the history of art. Immediately after graduation, she moved to Atlanta, where she is currently a Kress Museum Interpretation Fellow at the High Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the Southeast. Ginia loves the position and living in Atlanta. She hopes that any ’06ers who find themselves in the area will look her up. Victor Kim graduated from Drexel University College of Medicine and has started his general surgery residency at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. He now lives in Somerville, Mass. Lisa Donchak started an MBA degree program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, alongside Jeff Zhou and Alison Murphy ’05 (Gordon Murphy’s older sister). Melissa McDonald is in graduate school at the University of North Carolina, working toward a master’s degree in Russian and East European studies. Her roommate is Christa Vardaro, who is earning a master’s degree in health administration at UNC. Melissa spent the summer doing research and traveling in the Balkans before a two-month stint in a Croatian language course in Zadar, Croatia. After two years of working in finance in New York, Eunice Hong went to Korea for a time, where she met up with Jasmin Baek. Following a summer in North Carolina, Eunice returned to New York and is studying at Columbia Law School (as is Jessica Alcantara ’04). Michelle Miao, also studying law, is in her second year at NYU. Eunice recently traipsed around Brooklyn with Rachel Isaacs, ate ramen with Anne Renner and Gina Kim ’07, and explored the Met with Marysia Blackwood, who is starting her third year in a PhD degree program at Harvard. Anne, also at Columbia University, started a two-year master’s degree program at the School of International and Public Affairs. Alex Wolf also returned to New York for school.
Also in New York is Jane Henningsen, who moved from Virginia to NYC over the summer to start working in HR at Dow Jones. She is excited to partake in Andover alumni events throughout the city. Olivia Mascheroni continues her career at Creative Artists Agency in LA, where she has been for two years. At the beginning of the year, she moved to the motion picture department. Over the summer, Olivia traveled to Narragansett, R.I., where she spent some time with family during the Fourth of July and Labor Day. In July, she partook in the annual San Diego Comic-Con International. In the fall, Olivia traveled to Chicago before landing in Andover for the biannual meeting of the Alumni Council. Emily Pollokoff and her family have returned from Morocco and have commenced their homesteading adventure near Syracuse, N.Y. Her husband, Elliott, is teaching, and their daughter, Hazel, is learning how to color. When Emily is not chasing Hazel or editing, she takes over the counter space with various ferments and sprouts and freshly baked bread. Anyone who is in the area, she says, should feel free to visit. While in NYC, Andrea Coravos visited Becky Agostino ’07. Over the summer, Andrea and Marina Warsaw-Fan ’07 hung out in Berlin. Late in the summer, Andrea moved to San Francisco to begin a new job at KKR Capstone, which is Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s operations team. She had lunch with Sims Witherspoon ’05 at Google in Mountain View, Calif. Andrea and Jeni Lee met up with Olivia Pei ’07 at Olivia’s flat in San Francisco for a fun-filled Andover evening, with fellow alumni James Watson, Allen Cai ’07, Charles Francis ’07, Katharine Matsumoto ’07, Victor Miller ’05, Chris Li ’07, Laura Minasian ’07, and Sarah Guo ’07. Conor Sutherland moved to Hong Kong from New York for a six-month rotation in Apollo Global Management’s Hong Kong office. He will be doing the same type of work he did in the New York office (private equity investing) but focusing on the Asian and Australian markets. Conor will stay in Hong Kong until February or March and then move back to New York. He has been hanging out with Charlie Frentz, who has been in Asia for a few years since graduating and who just moved back to Hong Kong from Jakarta, Indonesia. Mia Kanak, Katherine Adams, and Katie Faulkner all attended Karl Hirt’s June wedding to Mary Pat Wixted, with whom Katherine and Mia were on the crew team at Yale. Congratulations, Karl! Dina Burkitbayeva and Ishani Vellodi were bridesmaids for Parla Alpan Ergan’s wedding to Hürrem Ergan at the Feriye Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 7, 2013. Dina raves that the venue was superb—right on the Bosphorus—and that Parla was the most beautiful bride. Congratulations, Parla! Merit Webster celebrated her 25th birthday in Boston with Tom Tassinari and his girlfriend, Melissa Chiozzi, Owen Remeika, Emily
When Parla Alpan ’06 got married to Hürrem Ergan in July 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey, classmates Ishani Vellodi (left) and Dina Burkitbayeva were bridesmaids.
Chappell, Justin Yi, and Tobey Duble. The group also went out to Cape Cod to celebrate the Fourth of July. Merit visited Denver on a business trip and met up with Simon Keyes. Justin now lives in New York with an Exeter graduate who works with Colin Touhey. Jeff Bakkensen similarly celebrated his birthday with fellow Andover alumni, singing karaoke with girlfriend Jen Bender, Tobey, Justin, Aaron Weisz and girlfriend Rachel Wilson, Gordon Murphy, Cornelia Wolcott, Alex King ’05, Claire Collery, Eric Bakkensen ’01, and Eric’s fiancée, Lark. Nick Bowen was in the Virgin Islands this past winter and spring with some friends. One evening, as he was drinking at Castaway’s on St. John, all of a sudden he found Derek de Svastich sitting next to him! They had a great time together and met up in the following days. Nick reports that it was great to see his former dorm-mate and forever friend. John Lippe continues his search for the meaning of life in Seattle, while starting a company with Ben Schley ’08 and Eric Feeny ’01. He encourages any and all to come visit him (and Pete Kalmakis, also in Seattle) to explore the Pacific Northwest! Andover | Winter 2014
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