Pablo Durana ’02 was part of the team that made the award-winning 2013 documentary Life According to Sam, about Sam Berns, a young man with progeria. Here, Sam and Pablo are pictured at a Progeria Research Foundation fundraiser. Sam died on January 10, 2014.
completed a master’s degree in literature and writing this summer. When she returned to Menlo School this past fall as a teacher, she also became the new freshman dean! In SoCal, Nyssa Liebermann wrote that she will again be roommates with longtime friend Lucy Keating; the two are living in Nyssa’s house in Venice, Calif. Nyssa has also stayed in touch with a couple of other classmates: She was a bridesmaid in Danielle Vardaro’s wedding in October and has kept up with both Tony Pucillo and Jen Graham ’04 in Los Angeles. Justin Ng touched base from Hong Kong, where he is now a community manager for Uber. HK has been a fantastic launch for the ride-sharing service; let Justin know if you are in the city sometime this year! As usual, I’ve stayed in touch with Chris Skipper and Andy Hattemer. They’re both doing well in Michigan and NYC, respectively. We have a great group of classmates in the Bay Area, so if you visit sometime this year, let us know.
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It was a summer of love for the Class of 2004! Rachelle Brignol married Adam Lerner in June, with Margaret Wheeler in attendance. Johanna Marmolejos took a break from her busy job as a real estate agent with Bond to give, says Rachelle, “one of the best maid of honor speeches ever!” Thanks to her job with the Edrington Group, a Scotch whisky company, Rachelle is always up for a Scotch tasting. Jed Kelly also had a June wedding. Jed and his wife live in Chapel Hill, N.C.,
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High spirits and fine weather were in evidence at the June wedding of Laura Miller ’02 and Steven Stewart in Newport, R.I. From left are Natalie Ho ’02, Terri Samel Miller ’74 (mother of the bride), Laura Miller, Helen Spink Meier ’02, and Sasha Parr Corken ’02.
where she is a family medicine resident and he attends Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Also in June, Ashley Lewis wed Dave Masse in New Castle, N.H.; Jackie Dwulet was a bridesmaid and Meg Sullivan attended. The new Mr. and Mrs. Masse spent their honeymoon on a cruise of northern Europe. Meade Curtis married his college girlfriend, Melissa Diener, over Labor Day weekend. In September, Jessica Birecki wed Wallis Osborn. Jacqueline Bovaird was Jessie’s maid of honor. And there was no need for Jacqueline to catch the bouquet—she had gotten engaged to her boyfriend, Josh Wallin, the month before. The two plan to move to Venice, Calif. Jackie Latina celebrated her recent engagement with Katie Ting and Nicole Slezak. Jackie is a resident at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, specializing in internal medicine. Lolita Munos Taub honeymooned in Greece, Israel, and Italy and recently created the #F Show, about and for female entrepreneurs. Livy Coe is still in the Navy and just moved to DC to work at the Pentagon, where he looks forward to seeing Walter Haydock. His last job, at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, allowed him to catch up with Tom Barron, currently stationed there with the Army. Amy O’Gorman Block is living in Colorado, where she is nursing, hiking, and loving married life. In Santa Cruz, Calif., Ian Hafkenschiel works in Web development for the startup Cityblooms. Martin Quinones is a lawyer living in the SF Bay Area with his cat, Merit. He and his girlfriend, Olga Tomchin, recently took a trip East, where he hoped to reunite with friends from Andover. Lexie Kuhn Peedin is in the third year of a pathology residency in Chapel Hill, N.C. She and her husband, Mitchell, plan to attend the 15th Reunion with children Pippa and Finn. Over in Raleigh, N.C., Alex Thorn still works at Fidelity Investments, doing legal and internal investigations. Many of our classmates have stayed in
Massachusetts. Alanna Hughes is busy with school in Cambridge, working on a dual graduate degree from MIT and Harvard. Will Scharf reminisced to me about the 10th Reunion, where he and Steve Turro took a joyride in a golf cart. Taylor Yates enjoyed some time off to travel in Europe before beginning a job as a tech consultant in Boston. He has since met up for drinks with Jamie Bologna, who is attending graduate school at Boston University. Jamie also recently caught up with Travis Green in Las Vegas. Farther afield, Paull Randt lives in Hong Kong, where he enjoys exploring the restaurant scene. Congratulations to our recent graduates! Garrett Kirk finished up at the University of Michigan and is delighted to have moved back to the East Coast, where Malika Felix is helping him reconnect with other Andover graduates in NYC. Ben Stone completed a master’s degree program in public policy at the University of Chicago and now works for the state of Massachusetts as a budget analyst in the Office of Administration and Finance. Wing-Kit Chu finished up an MBA degree at Duke and has since moved to Austin, Texas, to work for Amgen. He would love to connect with any PA alums in the area. Iris Tien earned a PhD degree in civil systems engineering from UC Berkeley and, after nearly a decade in Berkeley, moved to Atlanta to work as an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. All is well here in Los Angeles. Sam Levenback was in town for the summer and saw lots of Jen Graham before she moved to New Haven, Conn., to start an MBA degree program at Yale. Derrick Kuan and his girlfriend, Alex, recently joined me for a comedy show at the Upright Citizens Brigade. I get to see Jenny Byer Elgin when she visits her in-laws in Orange County. Her son, Milo, continues to wow both in person and on Instagram. I’ve been overwhelmed by the support from my Andover classmates as I tackled my first