At Reunion Weekend 2014, four “Double Brick girls” from the Class of ’94 revisited their former campus home. From left are Bronwyn Murray, Emily Liao Chen, Gillian Rickmeier Schmitz, and Tricia Marshburn Davis.
David Callum wrote with some reunion memories of catching up with Enola Williams, Randy Perry, and Alex Hancock. I hadn’t realized that the reunion fell on his daughter Sophia’s first birthday, so it was especially nice that he made the trip. David flew to Washington after the reunion, where Sophia met her uncle Robert Callum ’90 and David participated in the National Club Track & Field Championships. Afterward, he made use of an ancient Andover/Exeter-branded ultimate flying disc while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. Emily Liao Chen wrote with her own quick reunion update, which included a photo with three fellow former juniors from Double Brick House: Tricia Marshburn Davis, Bronwyn Murray, and Gillian Rickmeier Schmitz. She hopes a larger contingent will pose together in five years, though she did also meet up with another old dorm mate, Sandra Sarmiento, in Chicago later in the summer. Dimitri Chalvatsiotis also wrote after the reunion to bask in PA’s glow once more for a moment or two. Finally, though she missed our reunion, Abbie Suberman Chen had a mini reunion with Emily Kalkstein Carville in Maine. Abbie recently renovated her home in Seattle and excitedly takes her children to preschool. Other classmates wrote in with quick updates. Marc Syp is in the San Francisco Bay Area. His daughter, Jojo, started kindergarten, and his photo trading app (Snap, Tag, Love), which aims to create some order out of the chaos of one’s photos, is in private alpha. Merry Rose wrote from Culver City, Calif., to note that she’s hoping to take a trip back East to do some video work for the Concord Museum of Concord, Mass. Stephanie Dixon Britz is blogging and working as a social media specialist for a “local garden center with national aspirations” in Massachusetts. Her children are enrolled at the same school as Hannah Sharpless Graff ’s, so Stephanie and Hannah talk gardening from time to time. Marta Rivera Monclova wrote to say, simply, that she’s well and “reasonably contented.” Finally, Danielle Debrule got me a bit jealous with a brief message about being an “enthusiastic sailor” and spending lots of time in Morocco and Algeria, two
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places I’m very, very eager to visit after having lived in Paris for three years. In closing, I can mention that this edition of the class notes was written during the Phillipian Endowment Fund drive. Those who know me well know that the paper meant a lot to me, and I was glad to be part of the group that got a few of our classmates to give. The drive put me back in touch with my imposing editor-in-chief, Josh Rosenfield, and my plea for money on Facebook got at least one confirmed response: Emily Lin capriciously gave while waiting at the airport. These kinds of quick Andover shocks to the system will hold me over until next time, I suppose! If you want to join in on the fun of these little jolts, please consider joining our class’s page on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb.
1995 20th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Lon Haber P.O. Box 4501 Rollingbay WA 98061 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com
As we write these notes, it’s fall, a season of new beginnings, new ideas, and—we can only hope—sunshine enough to see all the Northern Hemisphere folks through the months ahead. As for those of you down South, here’s hoping spring is treating you gently and well. Speaking of sunshine for just a moment longer, this time around we got a healthy dose of it in the form of updates from people we hadn’t heard from in ages, if at all (ahem, Jed Donahue)—which, of course, we absolutely loved. Peter Nilsson wrote to say that life is treating him gently and very well—and that he’s still
teaching at (cough) Deerfield. All in the name of trying to make the world a better place and focusing on educational innovation as a way of doing it, he’s “working with a number of outside educational organizations”—from SXSWedu to the Center for Curriculum Redesign. As if that weren’t enough, I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll soon have yet another addition to the Class of ’95 nursery: Peter and his wife are expecting their first baby, a boy, in January. Huge congratulations! Pete wrapped up his note by saying that they’re taking recommendations for names, so get thinking and send them in. If you make it interesting, we’ll publish a list in the next notes! (Named in the class notes—what a way to start an Andover career, no? Maybe we should just call him Gunga and be done with it. Or Sam Phil. Or Blue, though that’s kind of been done.) Kristyn Leuner completed a PhD degree in Romantic-era literature at CU Boulder, and right afterward she moved from Colorado to New Hampshire to start a three-year position as a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, in the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences and the English department, where she will be teaching. For her postdoc project, she’s building a digital model of a historic 19th-century library of women’s writing. Also in higher education, Tom Chapman Wing got that tenure-track job he mentioned he was hoping for in a previous edition of the class notes. Let’s all congratulate the assistant professor of French at the College of Staten Island. Chapeau, monsieur professeur. J.B. Lockhart has an exciting update: Not only are his two adorable and active sons (James and Xander) doing superbly, the family recently moved to the Connecticut burbs, and J.B. is working for the NBA (they wanted him for his height). Mike Graffeo is back out biking after hip resurfacing surgery last year and looking forward to training and racing again. He and his wife, Kristin, are negotiating the busy lifestyle of gymnastics and Scouting. He hasn’t had too many PA alum encounters these past few months but is looking forward to seeing everyone at the 20th Reunion next year. Ana Kardonski Salaverria has a lot to catch us up on. Since graduating from college she’s lived in Miami, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and NYC and now lives in San Salvador, El Salvador. She loves her Salvadoran life, has been married for nine years, has 3-year-old twins and a 4-year-old, and is working for a leadership and college-skills preparation program for teens that weaves coaching and neuro-linguistic programing (NLP) techniques throughout. She’s just getting back into teaching after spending about three years as a full-time mom and is thoroughly enjoying her return to the workforce and specifically, the world of teaching. Candice Koo reports that a baby explosion has taken place in Hong Kong: Kevin Kwong and Jonathan Shih both welcomed theirs, a boy and girl, respectively, in July, and Candice had her second, a girl, in September. She also shared that Terry Friedlander got engaged earlier this month.