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In September 2013, a group of alums met at Olivia Pei ’07’s San Francisco apartment for a housewarming party. In the front row, from left, are Andrea Coravos ’06, Olivia Pei, Katharine Matsumoto ’07, and Sarah Guo ’07. Back, from left, are Jeni Lee ’06, Allen Cai ’07, Charles Francis ’07, Chris Li ’07, Laura Minasian ’07, and Victor Miller ’05.
2007 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com
Katharine Matsumoto is wrapping up a master’s degree program at Northwestern and spent much of the summer living and working in San Francisco. Although Katharine loves her classes, she currently has designs on heading back to the Bay Area upon graduating. She also saw Michaella Chung, who has returned from Asia to earn an MSc degree and, she hopes, a PhD in civil engineering at Berkeley. David Curtis finds himself immersed in the noblest of studies, hot in pursuit of his law degree at Harvard. When not nose deep in textbooks, Dave spends his free time honing his writing and pursuing his passion, free-verse poetry. Colleen Thurman spent this past summer as a graduate research assistant. In her second year at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Colleen enjoys her studies and her time spent practicing on her puppy patients. Danny Silk still lives in Cambridge, Mass., and works for Forrester Research. Danny spent some time at the shore this summer, and he often travels to New York, where he recently hung out with Jocelyn Gully. Jocelyn is living and working in Washington, D.C., with her roommate and sister Hanna Gully ’09.
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Last June, Chip Schroeder ’08 married Marcheta Marshall in San Francisco. From left are Jake Bean ’08, John Bukawyn ’08, the groom and bride, and Sara Ho ’08.
Having visited Danny in Boston earlier this year, Conner Stoldt spent much of the fall traveling between New York and Charlotte, N.C., for work. He also found time to take a long weekend hunting up in the mountains. And though Conner and Sam Gould rarely talk, their mothers keep in touch. Nate Flagg spent half a year studying calligraphy in Hangzhou, China, and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., working as an artist’s assistant. He spends his off hours making artwork and running an art space out of his sizeable home studio. Nate is also teaching Chinese calligraphy there, so if anyone’s interested, drop him a line! Nate’s former roommate Brooks Canaday is a senior staff photographer at Northeastern University and recently ran into Eliot Wall, who’s now living in Boston with Henry Frankievich. Brooks also recently caught up with Carter Boyle. Ben Feng spent this past school year working as a teaching fellow back at Andover. This summer, he coached a U19 Boston Ultimate Frisbee team (which included two recent PA graduates) to a national championship. Miles Silverman recently returned from a monthlong excursion in the Yucatán, spelunking ancient Mayan cave burial sites. He is now back at UCLA doing graduate work in science. Ryan Ferguson started a job in August in Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s federalstate relations office. He is still in Washington, D.C., and is living with his girlfriend. Ryan has seen a lot of Komaki Foster and Stephen Stapczynski and sees Lauren Kelleher from time to time. Lauren recently moved to DC for law school. Nico Lanson recently finished up an undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary education at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.; her degree combines religious studies with ecology and creative writing and was designed to address her interest
in mapping states of consciousness in relation to place. Ale Moss successfully embarked on overseas adventures several months ago, moving to Australia to travel and work indefinitely. Alex Clifford is working as a corn-options trader for Consolidated Trading LLC at the Chicago Board of Trade. In his free time, he takes improv lessons, plays soccer, and enjoys an obsession with his fantasy football team. Alexa Reid graduated from Yale in May and now lives in Brooklyn and works as a curatorial assistant for the private art collection of the owner at MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., in NYC. Giacomo Chiaro graduated from medical school in July and is now applying for residency training in the UK; Catherine Crooke fell in love with him over the course of several adventures around London this past spring and is eagerly awaiting his return to Britain. Catherine will be in the UK for another year, completing an MSc degree in refugee and forced migration studies at Oxford. She recently enjoyed drinks, dinner, and charades with Dominick DeJoy, Evan Moore, Tasha Keeney, and Becky Greenberg at Emma Wood’s apartment in Manhattan. Lola Dalrymple was there in spirit. Devon Zimmerling is now also based in the UK and recently spent two weeks traveling with Stacey Middlebrook: They hit London; Istanbul, Turkey; Mykonos and Athens in Greece; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Munich, Germany. Claire Voegele currently works in Charleston, S.C., as a paralegal for Motley Rice LLC, focusing on the BP oil spill settlement. James Flynn spent the summer working at the U.S. Department of Justice and saw a number of alums, including Mary Grinton and Sara Nickel, at the summer DC alumni event. Lily Mathison is completing a PhD degree program in counseling psychology at Iowa State University. Billy Cannon lives in San Antonio