Andover magazine — Winter 2015

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Four classmates from ’03 helped celebrate the wedding of Caroline “Boo” Littlefield ’03 to Par Karlsson in Kalmar, Sweden, in August. From left are Kelly Sinclair, Paul Sonne, Boo, Abbe Anderson, and Stephen Fee.

real writing job for ABC Family’s Young & Hungry. While waiting to hear if the show is coming back, I took a much-needed break to visit the East Coast, catch up on my reading, and relax at my house in Silver Lake, where all of you are welcome if you find yourselves in LA.

2005 10th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Matt Brennan matthew.s.brennan13@gmail.com Alex Lebow alexlebow@gmail.com

First things first: Congratulations to Nicole Crocker Villarreal, who was married in Rhode Island on Aug. 2, with Kaia Kessler and Maya Lucaci-Vashee in attendance. Nicole’s husband, Dustin, is a PhD degree candidate in geology at the University of Houston, and Nicole is a geologist at an oil company. Congratulations also to Mailan Pham and Evan Reiser, who were married at Hans Fahden Vineyards in Calistoga, Calif., in June. Stephanie Chan was a bridesmaid, and Jaclyn Ho and Grace Ha ’06 were honored guests at the joyous celebration. The newlyweds had a romantic honeymoon in Paris and reside in San Francisco. Kelly Stecker works at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in breast oncology, researching the effects of exercise on cancer survivors. She shared beers with Sam Kennedy in Marblehead, regularly runs into Lindsay Baker, who’s often gliding by on her roller blades on Beacon Hill, and spent time with Alison Wheeler this summer. Sarah Chang moved to Boston to start an MS/ MPH degree program at Tufts’ Friedman School

Holding the Andover banner with Rachelle Brignol ’04 at her June wedding in New York were classmates Margaret Wheeler and Johanna Marmolejos.

of Nutrition Science and Policy. Ben Hoerner joined the Massachusetts attorney general’s criminal bureau and attended Dave Wilkinson’s beach party with Brendan McManus, Andrew Geraghty, and Dave’s wife, Whitney Kelly Wilkinson ’04. Katie Purcell, who started running just last spring, competed in a few obstacle-course races and participated in her first half marathon in October. She is also studying to take the GMAT and apply to MBA programs. Julianne Fitzpatrick practices law at a Boston firm specializing in product liability defense and commercial litigation. She recently caught up with Katie Nadworny in Harvard Square and Gina Crivelli in Philadelphia and had plans to see Lisa Cloonan, Katie Koh, and Caitriona McGovern in the fall. Sheena Hilton took a leave of absence from teaching chemistry at Andover to earn a master’s degree in food science and technology at Cornell and reports learning a lot that she can bring back to the classroom. Also at Andover, Erica Christensen started her second year coaching skating as a fall sport for students at every skill level. Christian Vareika began his second year of law school at BC and spent the summer working under Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate Judiciary Committee in DC, where he hung out with Nate Scott and Jon Hillman. Mac King had dinner and a drink or two with Harry Goldstein, Steve Sherrill, Kyle Kucharski, and Billy Doyle. Lissette Duran graduated from Columbia Law School and joined the midtown Manhattan firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as an associate. Laura Sciuto visited Chloé Hurley in New Orleans and dropped in on Matt Brennan and Alex Lebow while in town. She also started a new job with Ernst & Young consulting. Anthony Green, who reports that he’s “destroying body and soul living in New York City,” received national press for his tutoring business this summer and visited New

Orleans as well. Laylah Mohammed traveled to Nashville, Tenn., in September for the wedding of  Emma Wischusen and to New Orleans in October to visit Matt Brennan. Laylah also saw Meta Weiss perform in Bryant Park in NYC and ran into Jesse Seegers at the beach in Rockaway, Queens. Meta started as the artist in residence in the school of music at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches cello and chamber music and coordinates the outreach program. Nate Scott lives in DC with Jeff Sandman ’02, writes for For the Win and USA TODAY Sports, and cut a rug at Chas Gurry’s wedding in Boston. Natalie Ho moved to DC from New York and works as a brand manager for a finewine distributor in Baltimore. She’s recently hung out with Christiana Hollis, John Tincoff, Sarah Hong, Sarah Chang, Clarissa Deng, and Thameka Thompson. Emma Downs completed a PhD degree in chemistry at the University of Oregon and accepted a teaching position at Centre College in Danville, Ky., where she’s looking forward to getting to know a new part of the country after a very long drive. After their wedding in the spring, attended by Ruoxi Chen and Aviva Stahl, Chelsea Paige and husband Scott Cederbaum honeymooned in Charleston, S.C., and started planning an anniversary trip to England and France for spring 2015. Natalie Exner Dean lives in Gainesville, Fla., with her husband and works for the World Health Organization. Dan Hackney moved to Mountain View, Calif., to start working on Google AdWords, slept through his first earthquake “like a fire alarm in Stuart,” and dived into the local swing dance scene. Andy St. Louis and Natasha Midgley caught a Tokimonsta show in LA, where Natasha worked on a Dunkin’ Donuts holiday campaign and moved into a new place in Koreatown. Natasha also had dinner with Anthony Reyes. Kaitlin Alsofrom and Sims Witherspoon Andover | Winter 2015

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