stay connected... hiked through Malawi, camping on the Nyika Plateau and stopping on Likoma Island for a slice of paradise. Sims and Greg Feldmann started craft brewing for friends in San Francisco but are thinking about working toward a pop-up brewery. They’ve brewed a brown farmhouse ale, an English pale ale, and a Belgian wheat. On a visit to New England over the summer, Matt Brennan enjoyed dinner with Sarah Donelan, saw Chris Zegel and Meg Scarborough’s beautiful new digs in South Boston, and drove up the Maine coast to spend an afternoon drinking by the water with Nate Kellogg and Meg Coffin ’03. Matt’s a PhD degree candidate in U.S. history at Tulane, writes regular film and television criticism for Indiewire and Slant Magazine, and recently had his first piece for Deadspin published. Alex Lebow continues to work for New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu and serve on the board of the youth development organization he cofounded, Youth Run NOLA. Matt and Alex celebrated their fourth anniversary as roommates by eating dinner on the couch and watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. That’s everything. Much love, PA ’05! —Matt and Lebow
2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland CA 95695 925-846-8300 jeni_lee@bluelink.andover.edu Paul Voorhees 345 West Berwicke Common, N.E. Atlanta GA 30342 404-402-4869 pauldvoorhees@gmail.com
Hello, Class of 2006! This past year held so much for our class— engagements and weddings, new jobs and promotions, and of course, many mini reunions of Andover alumni. On February 22, Paul Engelhardt and Carly Williams visited Andover for the AndoverExeter alumni hockey game. After the game, Paul proposed to Carly on the spot where they had their first kiss eight years before: halfway between Fuess and Stevens (their dorms senior year)! They were married on Aug. 16 on Martha’s Vineyard. The ceremony was at St. Elizabeth’s Church and the reception held in Carly’s parents’ backyard in Edgartown. Emma King and Catherine Castillo were both bridesmaids in the wedding. Emma traveled from Washington, D.C., where she recently started a new job lobbying for Ford Motor Company, and Catherine flew in from Manchester, U.K., where she is pursuing a PhD degree. Classmates traveled from far and wide to cheer on the newlyweds: Bree Polk-Bauman, Lindsay Dewhirst, and Caroline Pires from
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New York, Alina Chen from Hong Kong, Dan Bacon from San Francisco, and the also newly married Rajeev Saxena from Boston. After their honeymoon in the Canary Islands, Paul and Carly settled in Napa, Calif. Carly is the capital communications director for State Senator Joel Anderson. Paul recently started as a portfolio management officer for the commercial banking office of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in San Francisco. Maggie Reich married Neil Manus on June 7 in Houston. Many of Maggie’s Andover friends traveled from all over the world to celebrate with them—including Lindsay McLellan and Maggie’s Morton House roommates Elizabeth Ryznar, My Khanh Ngo, and Alice Campbell ’05. In July, John Badman married Alex Burlingame in front of an Andover-stocked crowd. Andres Bobadilla, Conor Sutherland, and Emerson Moore ’08 were John’s groomsmen, sporting the classic Andover tie (as did another groomsman, who attended Exeter!). John’s sister, Barbara ’03, was a bridesmaid. Other Andover attendees included James Kelly, James Watson, Chris Cahill, Colin Touhey, Eliot Fearey, Lindsey Baker ’05, Nick Smith Wang ’05, Foster Jebsen ’08, Chris Waskom ’08, and many others. In September, Merit Webster and Erin Lanzo attended Jackie Price’s wedding to Tim Birnbaum in Tulsa, Okla. Merit frequently runs into the couple in their neighborhood in NYC. Congratulations to all the 2014 newlyweds! Looking ahead to future weddings, Mike McMahon proposed to Yurie Sekigami on Martha’s Vineyard in July. Yurie is in her second year of medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. After a year of long distance, Mike moved to Milwaukee and is now serving as branch manager of Zoom Technical Services, an engineering staffing company. Mike started at Zoom straight out of college, working at the firm’s Boston location. He now travels between Boston and Milwaukee for work. At school, Yurie serves as president of the Student Surgical Society and president of the local chapter of AMSA (American Medical Student Association). Congratulations on your engagement! Over the summer, Alison Holliday visited with many Andover friends: She and Gracia Angulo took days off together; Chris Sargent joined her for a family dinner; she and Katie Koh ’05 had a blast at Katie Faulkner’s bridal shower; and she and Parag Khandelwal are South End neighbors. Ali started her studies at Harvard Medical School, luckily close to so many Andover alumni. One other Andover alum, Rebecca MacRae ’09, is in her HMS class! Also in the Boston area, Ariana Wilkinson is in her third year of medical school at Boston University. She will spend this year rotating through different branches of medicine to see what she’d like to do for her residency at the end of her four years. At the moment, she is deciding between emergency medicine and ob/gyn but is trying to
keep her options open. She lives in Allston with three other BU graduate students and loves it! On the musical front, Jeff Cutts, living in New Jersey since receiving his master’s degree in music, enjoys his church organist/choirmaster day job that also allows him to participate in professional singing and conducting in New York, Philadelphia, and, this year, all over the United States. Completely by chance, he ended up singing in a choir that performed an entire concert of works by another Andover alum, John Cavallaro ’80. Kevin Olusola, now living in Los Angeles, will soon be releasing some new songs of his own on his YouTube channel. Kevin and Edwin Kulubya, also in LA, have been meaning to grab dinner at a Korean BBQ restaurant while Kevin is still in LA! Soon, Kevin and the rest of Pentatonix will be traveling to various countries to promote their two new albums. They recently finished a tour in Europe, Korea, Japan, and Australia. Kevin has enjoyed seeing various Andover alumni along the way! This year, they will be embarking on a proper world tour. Pentatonix was signed to RCA Records in 2014. They released a new EP, their third, with RCA on Sept. 23 and a Christmas LP on Oct. 21. Tobey Duble, Jeff Bakkensen, Mike Galaburda, Alex King ’05, and Mike’s girlfriend, Annalise Sciliano, attended a Red SoxYankees game in September. Jamie Neuwirth now works on the Google for Education team, helping K–12 schools in the United States “go Google.” In September, Sarah Takvorian moved cross-country from Boston to San Francisco to join Salesforce.com. Luke Cahill was recently promoted to an agent role at the Agency for the Performing Arts (APA), so he books concerts for a wide variety of acts, such as Capital Cities, Judas Priest, Boston, and ZZ Ward. As part of the Nashville, Tenn., office, Luke’s main focus is on the country music department, which includes legendary acts such as Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, and Travis Tritt, among others. Emily Pollokoff and her husband, Elliott, bought a modest home and made their first major improvement—a compost box! A garden will follow in the coming year. Emily took some time off in late summer for her maternity leave for her second baby, who arrived in October. Emily’s daughter, Hazel, is up to her usual mischief and keeps Emily and Elliott busy! Andrea Coravos and Jeni Lee got together in San Francisco for an Escape from the Mysterious Room adventure. Andrea still works for KKR in the Bay Area, though she travels to Atlanta to work with her portfolio company, National Vision. Andrea and Becky Agostino ’07 went to Coachella together in 2014. While in New York visiting her sister, Jeni caught up with Justin Yi over dinner. Hope you are all doing well, and keep us updated!