arrival, the family has moved to Sturbridge, Mass., where Ryan, an internist, joined a hospital group practice. Matt Kalin reports that he will officially be attending Bruins games alone for the rest of his life. Last July, he and his wife welcomed their second daughter, Alexandra “Lexi” Katherine Kalin. So now it’s Matt and three girls! In all seriousness, though, Lexi is great, mom is doing great, and Sophie (the Kalins’ first daughter) has taken the newbie under advisement. Matt and his girls enjoyed many trips to Cape Cod this summer to see Matt’s brother, John Kalin ’96; they spent a lot of time on John’s boat there. Many thanks to everyone who wrote in with submissions. It’s great to hear from so many people. Let’s keep this trend going! Andover alums turned out in force for the August wedding of Kam Lasater ’99 in East Lyme, Conn. From left are Ike Lasater ’68, Garland Lasater ’56, Elizabeth Weiss-Lasater ’01, Elizabeth Johnson Lasater ’96, Miles Lasater ’96, Karen Lasater (bride) and Kam Lasater, Mollie Lasater ’56, Bo Lasater ’86, Carmelo Larose ’96, Kittie Clark, Will Clark ’89, and Monte Brown ’99.
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designer at a museum design firm in Manhattan. Dan continues to play music and make short films, but unfortunately, not with Michael Ercolini, who is a lawyer living in Brookline, Mass. Dan was recently paid a visit by Noah Kaye, who was on his way from Israel to the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he has begun teaching ancient Greek studies. Dan also reports that John Costantino married Hannah Jayne in October at John’s family’s home in Athens, Ga. In the wedding party were Dan, Eddie Hale ’00, and Zachary Mexico (né Waldman) ’98. John works as an attorney in Athens, Ga. In other wedding news, Kam Lasater married Karen Blanchette at White Gate Farm in East Lyme, Conn., last summer. Kam is still working at the company he cofounded, SeeClickFix, in New Haven, Conn., and his bride is currently working toward a PhD degree in nursing at Penn. There were many Andover and Abbot alums at Kam’s wedding, stretching from the class of 1956 all the way to the class of 2001! Alan Parker Lue wrote in with three updates— the month of August was a busy one for him. He was awarded the CFA charter, but more important, he married Sara Parker. They have double-barreled their surnames into “Parker Lue.” Bill Lincoln also took the plunge, marrying Rosana Lee in May in the chapel at Yosemite National Park. The couple has settled in Washington, D.C., and Bill is working as a junior faculty member at Johns Hopkins. Jennifer Bickford writes that she got engaged to Duncan Birch in July. She was also pleased to see Fred Flather, Sara Smith, Chris Kane, Jeremy Hersch, and Morgan Swett Hersch ’00 at Liza Trafton Ndreu’s wedding celebration last summer. We have a couple of classmates living in Austin, Texas. Juan Agudelo is still at UT Austin, working to complete a PhD degree in ethnomusicology. Juan would like to extend his Texas hospitality to
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any Andover classmates who happen to swing by! Juan’s big news is that he married Kaitlyn Jolly last summer. Andover classmate Michael Cody was in attendance with his beautiful wife, Emily. Also at UT Austin is Jazmine Leon-Wing. Jazmine currently serves as the corporate and foundation relations officer for the Jackson School of Geosciences, where she works closely with major companies in the energy sector, putting her Columbia MBA degree to good use. Jazmine reports that she and her family have had a wonderful year! Her husband, Tisun, earned an MBA degree at UT, which is the reason they originally moved to Austin, in 2010. They absolutely love Texas and have decided to settle there for the long term. Jazmine and Tisun welcomed a baby boy, Aiden James Wing, in the summer of 2013 and can’t believe that he is already more than a year old and walking (and even climbing!). Aiden’s favorite word is “Jo-Jo,” the name of the family’s 7-year-old terrier. Kristy Wiehe is living in LA, where she continues to work as an attorney. She enjoys running the occasional half marathon or full marathon. Recently she, along with classmate Kate Hackett, produced a short film that was shown at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival in October. In addition to her collaboration with Kristy, Kate is working in LA as a film director and editor. Kate was just awarded a 2014 Yaddo residency to finish her screenplay, a narrative feature called Purify My Heart. Yaddo is an artists’ community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Its mission is “to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.” Last but not least, we have a couple of births to report. Last May, Ryan Fillipon and his wife, Nicole, welcomed their first child, a handsome little guy named James Ryan. Since James’s
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Happy 2015, year of our 15th Reunion. Unbelievable. Time doesn’t just fly; it skips. Apropos of this phenomenon is the following news from two class members we haven’t heard from in a good long while. Since our 10th Reunion, Emily Wheeler has turned her southern migration westward, recently moving to Scottsdale, Ariz., after five years in Austin, Texas. In Austin, Emily worked as a senior policy analyst for a state senator and then as a director of operations for a local nonprofit. In August of last year, she and her husband welcomed a son, Alexander Ram Gupta. Emily has confirmed that sleep deprivation is an effective form of torture, and she suspects that any surviving parents are actually superheroes. She wants you to know that PHX is a preferable layover to LAX, so please come visit! Meanwhile, Ian Goldberg has been living in LA since 2004, working as a writer and producer in TV and film. He has been a writer on more than 10 shows over the years and most recently wrote and produced on the first two seasons of Once Upon a Time for ABC. He is currently developing pilot scripts with Channing Tatum, David Goyer, and the Kennedy/Marshall Company and is also cowriting the newest installment of Friday the 13th for Paramount Pictures, hitting theatres this November! Although he doesn’t see too many Andover people out in LA, Ian occasionally keeps in touch with Mark Turetsky and Natalie Wombwell ’01, both of whom seem to be doing great. Fantastic to hear from voices new and old as the seasons roll on. Y’all keep making news and, more important, sending it to your faithful class secretary.