www.andover.edu/intouch Christian Parker had a fantastic late-summer dinner with Mirabelle Kirkland and her astoundingly impressive children while she was on a N.Y./ New England visit. Still based in Paris, Mirabelle has a burgeoning screenwriting career and is in the midst of a screenplay about Dusty Springfield, among other writing and producing projects. If I could, I would fondly affix a fuzzy, fake moustache to this installment of ’89er news. Alas, we’ll just have to don them in June when we mark the (almost unfathomable) 25th. Will you be there? Hope so. With affection, Emily
1990 Regina A. DeMeo 1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 250 Washington DC 20009 240-621-0559 reginademeo@yahoo.com Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com
It was so great to see so many alums helping to keep the spirit of our fallen classmate alive at the Todd Isaac memorial basketball game in September. I enjoyed the first half of the game with classmates Wanda Mann, Mark Ramsey, and Rob Milton. Bobby Edwards inspired us all with his touching words about Todd at halftime. More importantly, the game pitted youth against wisdom, and guess who emerged victorious: wisdom, of course! Special thanks to all who organized the event; I hope to see many more Class of 1990 faces next year. Great to hear from Chris Weber, who continues to live and teach in Colorado. Chris kept in touch with many Andover friends in 2013. On Memorial Day, Chris reconnected with Josh Porter in the Moab, Utah, area. Over the summer, he hosted a barbecue with the families of Adam Galvin, Max Caulkins, and Jean Coulter. Finally, in September, Chris caught up with Andre Gardner in NYC, spending a wonderful evening with Andre and his wife. Regina “Gina” DeMeo reconnected with Roberta Ritvo and Meredith Persily Lamel recently. Roberta is still at DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., and Meredith is continuing to expand her consulting business in the Washington, D.C., area. Meredith’s group Working Mamas will be featured in an upcoming segment on Gina’s TV show, Making It Last. Gina also caught up with Jennifer Giles Adams, who married Shawn Adams, an editor at ABC News, in 2011. Together, they have a son, West, born in February 2013. Jen and family live in LA, where they frequently see former Abbot
Cluster president Corey Sanford ’89 at, among other things, an infant swim class at the Rose Bowl attended by their sons. Jen planned to attend the September wedding of Josh Davis ’92, where she hoped to catch up with Kenny Davis ’89. Kenny, Jen reported, is the marketing genius behind the return of the Furby. In August, Anna Ivey celebrated the publication of her latest book, How to Prepare a Standout College Application: Expert Advice That Takes You From LMO* (Like Many Others) to Admit. Anna previously wrote a book about the law school admission process and continues to own and operate Ivey College Consulting, based in Cambridge, Mass., an admissions coaching firm that helps applicants from around the world get into top U.S. colleges. Also celebrating the publication of her newest book in 2013 is Regina DeMeo. Her first children’s book, Gina the Gymnast, is about a talented young girl who achieves many things but does not find true joy until she finds her family. Sound familiar? Dan Lennon embarked last year on a 12-month adventure from Boston to the San Francisco area, where he will be a stay-at-home dad for a year. Dan plans to remain with Five O’Clock Shadow during his year-long hiatus from New England. Baby news to report from Oliver Schwaner-Albright and family: Oliver and his wife, Christine Muhlke, celebrated the birth of Maximilian in 2013. The happy family is cozy in their Manhattan apartment. From Down Under, Alastair Bor reports plans to travel to Europe, Vietnam, and Hawaii, which is quite the undertaking with a 3-year-old. Living in Australia, Alastair doesn’t have many opportunities to catch up in person with PA folks, and he encourages anyone visiting to look him up. I can certainly relate to living far from Andover graduates. Most people in my neck of the woods assume I was sent to boarding school because I lit a fire in the basement or committed some similar youthful indiscretion. I have grown used to the notion that staying connected outside of Facebook requires me to travel, which I did a few times last summer. In July, I had the pleasure of visiting with Carl Smit, wife Jacquelyn Coles, and their three beautiful children, Olivia and twins Charlie and Jamie. The Smit-Coles family recently traded the Silicon Valley for Annapolis, Md., where Carl now works in retail marketing for Under Armour. My boys— Tommy, 15, and Jackson, 10—had a great time romping around and generally getting piled on by the Smit-Coles children at their family’s temporary lodging. I’m told the family has since purchased a home and is now settling into a more permanent arrangement. I also was thrilled to spend time with Ricky Shin and his family at the home of John Berman in August. Ricky and wife Hay-Won Byun also are the proud parents of twins, who, along with their big sister, helped me tear up Berman’s home for a day. That’s all for now. Please don’t be a stranger. Would love to hear from one and all! —TWS
1991 Hilary Gershman 6124 SW 104th St. Miami FL 33156 305-467-6581 hilarygershman@yahoo.com Matt Fleming 221 Edgevale Road Baltimore MD 21210 410-375-8302 Mattfleming91@bluelink.andover.edu
Dear classmates, This past summer, I found myself wandering around the Andover campus with my four little boys. After the requisite lunch of cheese steaks and pizza at King’s Subs, they were further impressed by the ropes course, baseball diamond, tennis courts, football field, Morse and SamPhil and Bulfinch, and of course, the library, which, like everything else on campus, is gorgeously maintained and updated. A few weeks later, in August, Stephen Matloff brought his wife, Susan, and kids Isabelle, Daniel, and Edie for a campus visit. They enjoyed a picnic of King’s on the Great Lawn side of the library before they walked all around campus: from GW into the Sanctuary to the science center and finally to the playground named in Dickie Thiras’s honor, next to Paresky Commons. The following day, the Matloff crew drove up to the Topsham Fair in Topsham, Maine, where they met up with Nicole Graber Stephenson, her husband, Rob, and their kids, Lilly and Gavin, as well as Eric Stockman, his wife, Julie, and their daughters, Maxine and Willa. They all indulged in lots of fried dough and ice cream, and there was a heated fry-pan competition (that is, the pans were not heated, but the competition sure was)! Earlier in the spring, Steve was a guest at Mara Raphael’s home in LA for dinner, joining Blair Lawson, Ben Stout, their spouses, and Todd Lubin ’92 and wife Aimée Cook Lubin ’92. The evening included a special viewing of a video project that Mara and Ben had done as uppers, featuring many of our classmates. According to Steve, it was a cutting-edge film about people’s favorite bathrooms at school! The Moscow mules flowed generously, and everyone raved about the vanilla ice cream with olive oil and sea salt. Speaking of Moscow, Josh Tulgan recently celebrated his 20th anniversary of living in that fine city. He and his wife, Dina, spent the end of the summer on an amazing trip to Sicily. To celebrate our 40th birthdays, I traveled west in September to visit Mara and Blair, and Victoria Farley Hostin flew in from Denver. While I am not at liberty to share all the details of the weekend (what happens in Laguna Beach stays in Laguna Beach!), it was a fabulous reunion full of laughs and funny stories, and we promised to make it an annual event. Mara had also seen Elena Bagas Giammarco, Ali Fitzgerald Dodwell, and Hilary Driscoll Price around Andover over the summer. Andover | Winter 2014
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