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Tucker Mullin ’08 is one of the driving forces behind the Thomas E. Smith Foundation, and in August 2013, he and several Andover classmates participated in the foundation’s fourth annual Just Cure Paralysis golf tournament. From left are Jack Walsh, Bobby Farnham, Tucker Mullin, Pat Keegan, and Ryan McCarthy.
and works for the U.S. Air Force. Helal Syed has completed Air Force Commissioned Officer Training and is now a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force; he is currently a medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Kara Hollis left her job at Goldman Sachs to pursue a dual JD/MBA degree at Stanford. Melody Pao recently organized the Celebrity Series’ Street Pianos Boston Festival, with 75 vibrantly decorated pianos available for anyone to play and enjoy in public spaces all over the city. Thao Nguyen recently started her position as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and will be serving her first tour as a diplomat in Beijing. Lauren Johnson just finished her first semester of grad school at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, where she will be working toward a degree in mental health counseling. She has also been enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve for two and a half years as a behavioral health specialist. Jared Cheatham has spent the past two years teaching English at a rural primary school on the tiny island of Tanna in the Republic of Vanuatu as a Peace Corps volunteer. During the course of his Peace Corps service, he completed a grant to secure water access to his village and ran several workshops on phonics and parental involvement in students’ education; at this writing, he was getting ready to paint a world map at another local school. He hoped to travel to Bali, Indonesia, at the start of December once his Peace Corps contract was finished. Best of all, Jared recently gained new enthusiasm for returning home when he met a fellow PA graduate from the late ’90s at the local Alliance Française on Tanna. Stay Blue, kids!
Malik Jenkins and Victoria Sanchez, both Class of ’09, were all smiles at their Yale graduation in May.
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We’re baaaack! Here’s a little update on what ’08 has been up to since last we checked in: You heard about her engagement photos, now read about the real wedding: Lindsey Branson became Lindsey Crosby on Sept. 14 when she married Kyle Crosby in a beautiful ceremony in her home state of Indiana, witnessed by Madeleine O’Connor and Kate Foley, among others. You didn’t see any photos or know of his engagement, but Damian DeSousa also tied the knot, marrying his sweetheart, Brandae Swailes Belanger, on June 21 in Montreal before sweeping her off to Lyon,
France. Big congrats to the newlyweds! Save us some cake. In September, yours truly left her low-paying job as a production assistant on a documentary to take an even lower-paying job as an editorial intern at Business Insider. (Follow my life in the proverbial food-stamps lane on Twitter: @Ldallett.) And finally, Simone Hill had an underwhelming experience with a cronut. And that’s all we’ll say about that. Tucker Mullin didn’t have a cronut (at least not to our knowledge, and if he did, it certainly wasn’t underwhelming). But he did end the summer on a particularly high note, and given how exhausted our class is from its recent reuniting, we thought we’d depart from our usual “who’s seen who” gossip rag to take some space here to tell you about it. This past August, fresh off a successful college hockey career (two-time team captain) at Saint Anselm College, Tucker joined fellow Andover hockey veterans Pat Keegan, Ryan McCarthy, Jack Walsh, Bobby Farnham, and Chris Kreider ’10 at the Andover Country Club to participate in the fourth annual Just Cure Paralysis golf tournament. More than 120 golfers turned out for the event, and the Thomas E. Smith Foundation raised more than $32,000. The Andover ’08 crew—who Andover | Winter 2014
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