Vashon Island, Wash., for her primary care practice, where she is administering some very exciting therapies for high-performance athletes and other patients with pain. On the side, she has been enjoying stand-up paddle boarding, fishing for salmon, and camping with her family. Speaking of children, Ted Latham blew my mind when he told me that he is dropping off his daughter Elizabeth Latham ’16 at Andover for her upper year! Where has the time gone? Ted just started a second job as music director at St. Katharine of Siena parish in Wayne, Pa., and was promoted to coordinator of the DMA in performance program at Temple University, where he is still an associate professor of music studies. I hope everyone had a wonderful fall, and I look forward to staying in touch. All the best.—Matt
1992 Adam Galaburda, René Henery, Chris Stack, and Matt Polly, all Class of ’92, met for a backpacking trip in the Colorado Rockies last summer.
Farther south, Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of activity for our class. After 11 years in private practice, Al Iarossi is joining the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney in the national courts section. Richard Arnholt is similarly employed, focusing on government contract issues at Crowell & Moring. When not practicing law, Rich keeps busy with his family: wife Katie, who is an attorney at the office of general counsel to the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, son Henry who is 4½ (but not yet a lawyer!), and Matthew, who is 1½. To keep up with the growing boys, family Arnholt recently moved to a new house in McLean, Va. Blair Lawson reports from LA that she is working for a startup called Beautycounter, which is devoted to developing safer skin-care products. She lives down the street from Mara Raphael, whom she sees almost every day. From time to time, Blair runs into “Andover Angelenos” Steve Matloff and Ben Stout. Ben’s daughter, Nina, attends preschool with Blair’s youngest child, Angie. Fellow Smith Houser Tina Hartell is doing well in Vermont. She has been busy promoting her company, Bobo’s Mountain Sugar, and recently got some great press in Country Living and Esquire magazines. When she is not shipping product, some to locations as far away as Japan, Tina is also on the Northeast food producer/artisan speaking circuit and a full-time mother to 4-year-olds Aida and Wren. Nicole Maxwell is equally active in the Pacific Northwest. She recently opened a new location on
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We are now officially at the midpoint between the 20th and (gulp) 25th reunions. Put it on the calendar and start planning your 2017 summer around it, folks—it’ll be here before you know it! Writing from Nashville, Tenn., Matthew Cahan reports reconnecting with several classmates after the 20th—running the Big Sur International Marathon with Christine Bergren Orr ’93 and her husband, James; spending quality time with Kevin O’Brien and Jeff Jollon; dining with Matthew Polly and his family in Palo Alto, Calif.; and looking forward to a much-delayed round of golf with Duncan Harris and Chas Parsons in Vermont. (By the way, Matt’s novel in progress, Straight Commission, should be completed and available in 2015.) Speaking of long-delayed group outings, Adam Galaburda, Christopher Stack, René Henery, and Matt Polly had been talking for years about getting together for a backpacking trip. Adam reports they finally managed to sync their schedules and met up in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado this summer. They had a grueling uphill climb, humping 80-pound packs; at an elevation of 12,000 feet, they set up camp for several days and settled in to catch up. Adam is one of two leaders of a top-performing private wealth management team at UBS Investment Bank in New York, and at home, he does the bidding of his three daughters. Matt is at a tech startup on the opposite coast and—not surprisingly, considering his brood of four—is anxiously working toward “a liquidity event.” Chris has begun to find success as a working actor after years of toiling among the many others seeking fame and fortune in theatre, film, and TV. René works on examining ways to sustain fish populations in the California river system. Each has pursued a different path, and
each still holds dear his experience at Andover. Adam writes, “There is no question that the deep friendships we all forged at Andover are enduring, through time and distance.” By the time these notes are published, Rebecca Howland Granne will be weeks away from moving to Pittsburgh with her husband, Mike, and twin 7-year-old boys, after 19 years in the New York area. Rebecca is leaving PepsiCo to become vice president of marketing for pharmaceuticals company Mylan and is seeking play dates if any classmates happen to be in Pittsburgh. In baby news, Melissa Davis Balough reports from her home in Boston that she and her husband, Matt, welcomed a daughter, Anna Katharine, last February. Justin Lattanzio and his wife, Hillary, brought home a daughter, Celia Lynn, to join her two older brothers in May. The following month, Dylan Seff and his wife, Jordan, were blessed with twin girls Westley Belle and Marlowe Quinn. T.K. Baltimore and her husband, Jay Konopka, announced the arrival of their baby girl, Tesla Kay Baltimore, in August. Roger Kimball has somehow found time outside his busy professional life as an investor to re-engage with ski racing as a coach. Not only is he now the head of the weekend U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) racing program at Mohawk Mountain in northwest Connecticut, he also founded a company called Lead Change Racing to operate a ski camp in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, this past summer. Roger writes, “The Alps are amazing. Two tram rides and an underground funicular train to perfect training conditions on the glacier. Who knew there was such awesome snow in the northern hemisphere in July?” For 11 years and counting, Maya Cointreau and Monisha Saldanha have also been multitasking, running Momaya Press along with their day jobs. Observing that the experience of writing is chiefly a solitary affair, in which writers rarely get to see their words in print or hear from their readers, Maya and Monisha set up Momaya Press as an online forum where aspiring writers can post their work and get feedback. Momaya Press also sponsors an annual Momaya Short Story Competition and publishes the Momaya Annual Review. Since 2004, in their spare time, Maya and Monisha have published more than 175 writers, many of whom have been encouraged by this validation of their talent to seek greater success and eventually publish works in other journals. “Most of our waking hours are spent doing things that are functional,” Monisha writes. “It’s a celebration of life to take time out to write a piece of fiction that exists for no purpose other than as an expression. Our own unique, individual, never-to-be-replicated contribution to the world in which we live.” As previously reported in these notes, Maki Hsieh left the corporate world behind to pursue a new career in music. She recently crowdfunded an album using Indiegogo and Kickstarter; 36 percent of the amount raised came from Andover classmates, to whom she is grateful.