www.andover.edu/intouch 2007 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com
If it hasn’t happened already, the Class of 2007 is starting to grow up. Congratulations are in order for multiple classmates. Chris Li married his beautiful fiancée, Samantha, this fall in Plattsburgh, N.Y., in an event that had a nice Andover showing. Brooks Canaday reports he had an amazing time and caught up with fellow ’07 attendees Prateek Kumar, James Siddall, Susannah Poland, and Charles Francis (who was Chris’s best man). Brooks is enjoying life in Boston, where he frequently sees and hangs out with Eliot Wall and Sam Gould. Amy Fenstermacher recently became engaged and purchased a home, for a double down on the congratulations. Amy also caught up with Liz Finnegan ’06 and John Tincoff ’05 this fall. Cece Yu married Justin Aschenbener in September, and a number of classmates attended. Nate Flagg was there and informs us that a rad time was had by all. Nate has been hard at work this past fall at Yale’s School of Art, where he is rooming with Jacqueline Hall ’08, who is attending the School of Architecture. Nate plans on seeing James Flynn, who is also at Yale. Komaki Foster is still living in Washington, D.C., and working on Capitol Hill. She often gets to see Ryan Ferguson and Sara Nickel around town. Komaki and Sara went to the Sept. 6 Andover alumni event in DC and had a great time watching the Nationals game, despite the loss to the Phillies. Katharine Matsumoto loves living out West and working in San Francisco, where she gets to see Michaella Chung all the time. The two often pal around the city and enjoy yummy San Francisco food. Katharine is spreading that non sibi by helping to launch a San Francisco chapter of the nonprofit DataKind. She would love any and all Bay Area Andover grads who are interested in getting involved to reach out. Miles Silverman is covering Southern California and wants people to know that if they come to California, they should visit him at UCLA. Miles is hard at work on a PhD degree at the California NanoSystems Institute. When he is not busy with school, Miles spends his free time climbing rocks in Malibu and watching the trees. Conner Stoldt took a wonderful trip to Argentina this fall and came back stuffed full of steak and delicious Malbec. He has been enjoying the South, but over Labor Day weekend he was back in Boston, where he caught up with Colleen Thurman.
Colleen is wrapping up her final year at Tufts’ veterinary school and is glad to be back at school after her summer spent interning in Boston. Danny Silk officially moved to New York this fall, after spending much of his time there over the past few years. Danny has already been connecting with fellow classmates, enjoying an outing to an East Village barbeque place with Sam Gould, Lou Tejada ’08, Alex Schwartz, and Molly Ozimek-Maier. Steve Blackman is alive and well. No, he hasn’t been avoiding you—Blackman has been spending the better part of his time living in Amish country and has had to adapt to social networking off the grid. He left Chicago and is working for a manufacturing startup, Gilson Boards, based in rural central Pennsylvania. After a really successful R&D/market evaluation last winter, the team spent the summer designing and building a new snowboard manufacturing facility in an old auto shop. They started producing the first snowboards of the season in September. Blackman is hitting the road again this winter in a 1978 Airstream trailer for a four-month cross-country demo tour. We are eagerly awaiting updates from the road. Catherine Crooke is acclimating to life back stateside after moving to New York. She spent a couple of days hanging out with Natalie Kaiser and her sister, Brittany ’05, in London at the end of the summer. Catherine also had a small PA reunion on the roof of Dominick DeJoy’s apartment over Labor Day weekend. Polly Sinclair was in town and came along, as did David Mauskop, Lola Dalrymple, Jack Dilday, and Tasha Keeney. Tasha started working for ARK Investment Management, an active ETF firm that invests in disruption in general platform technology; its funds start trading this fall. Tasha is a thematic analyst on the industrial innovation fund. Earlier in August, Emma Wood hosted Catherine, Henry Frankievich, Eliot Wall, Becky Greenberg, and Tasha Keeney for a weekend at Emma’s house in Connecticut.
2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 399 River Road Andover MA 01810 508-265-1005 (cell) Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com
With most of us now a couple years out of college, this past summer saw transitions out of first jobs, the start of grad school, transnational and international moves, and finally accruing enough PTO to travel for more than four days at a time. Ain’t adulthood grand?
Winning that last category: Nkem Oghedo, Hailee Minor, Carolyn Chica, Dacone Elliott, Arianna Van Sluytman, and Jara Crear went Euro-tripping in July, hitting seven countries and maintaining a Tumblr dubbed Baecation 08. Arbitrarily bumped to second place is Ben Schley’s second annual sailing trip off Long Island, N.Y., featuring Nick Anschuetz, Oliver Bloom, John Bukawyn, John Burke, Steve Bury, Zach Feldman, Foster Jebsen, Evan Hawk, Dave Holliday, Chad Hollis, Emerson Moore, Edwin Muniz, James Sawabini, Dan Silva, Jimmy Spang, and Chris Waskom. The trip included running up sand dunes, taking on Port Jefferson’s nightlife, and camping on what Schley claims was a private island. Sarah Cohan is spending five months working in Tel Aviv at a startup incubator focused on international development solutions. Kelly Lacob is in her second year working for the essential child medicines team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Uganda; usually a bit limited on her Andover encounters in East Africa, Kelly and her team hosted Dan LeClerc ’05 as an MBA intern this summer. Hanson Causbie is stationed in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division, flying Apache helicopters. He should be coming home in June. Moving east: Jeff Lu and John Heroy work in the same office in Hong Kong. Rajit Malhotra is based in Mumbai with the Parthenon Group; he travels regularly to Kazakhstan and Hong Kong, conducting assessments of international schools. He spent the summer traveling to 12 countries and six continents, reviewing WISE Award finalists— schools recognized for outstanding dedication to fostering innovation in their communities. So cool! Joe Wilkin has gone global in his competitive archery career. Sponsored by Kittery Trading Post and Mathews, one of the biggest bow manufacturers, Joe’s crushing some seriously senior competition in Las Vegas, England, Morocco, and beyond. Blaine Johnson is getting her master’s degree in Shanghai; on a brief visit to North America, she got royally sunburned while vacationing in Canada with Lydia Dallett and saw Victoria Glynn in DC for drinks. Returning stateside, please find a list below of regular dinner dates that you should crash should you find yourself in... Boston: Jess Cole hosts a weekly potluck on Sundays, frequented by Jen Downing, Abby Colella, and Siobhan Alexander. Breet Achin is the GM of a restaurant in Kendall Square, Kika Tapas, so stop by when you’re next in Cambridge, Mass.! San Francisco: Some combination of Mary Doyle, Ben Schley, Will Hunckler, Hillary Baker, Tessa Pompa, Sara Ho, Chip Schroeder, and Lambros Theofanidis want to get drinks with you. Philly: Silke Cummings and Matt Emery found a spot serving lobster tamales and delicious cocktails, so get in on that. Andover | Winter 2015
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