Virtual: Allie Parr, Maggie LeMaitre, and Victoria Glynn have maintained a regular group text since upper year. You’re probably not actually invited to join that, but it deserved a mention. Kelci Thomasco, living in St. Louis, recently got engaged! Megan Richards, Kathryn Quijano, Haley Bruns, Nicole Lee, and Madeleine O’Connor spent a dreamy summer weekend together in Plymouth, Mass. Veda Eswarappa and Sara Wallace are coleading a growth strategy project at the education nonprofit they work for in Boston. Abby Colella is in her second year at Harvard Law School and spent this past summer interning with the U.S. Department of Justice in DC. Ian Accomando is a newly minted assistant coach for the men’s lightweight crew team at Harvard. Also active in Boston, Murphy Temple and Jess Cole ran a half marathon there together in May. Molly Shoemaker ran her third half marathon on Staten Island, N.Y. She hangs out with Lucas McMahon in NYC, where they recently saw Carrie St. Louis starring in Rock of Ages on Broadway. Philip Meyer’s been riding bikes with Thomas Smyth while Thomas is in LA for work. Phil came to see Will Hunckler and me in San Francisco in August, a visit we turned into a weekend-long food tour of our Mission neighborhood. Indeed, in case you guys were unaware, the Bay Area is blossoming into an ’08 hub. Lambros Theofanidis recently made the wise move, and he and Ben Schley are living together in SF’s Russian Hill neighborhood. Christina Coravos moved to San Francisco in August. Hillary Baker, living a few blocks away from me near Dolores Park, saw Grace Gordon, Ellie Shepley, Kimbo Chang, Elizabeth Macmillan, and Sarah Pucillo while visiting NYC this summer. Murphy Temple recently started a PhD degree program in history at Stanford, joining Sebastian Caliri. John Heroy visited the pair before embarking on a programming boot camp in Hong Kong called Hack Reactor. Jen Downing visited Britney Van Valkenburg and Kristin Spiak here in September and went hiking through Marin. Caitlin Feeney started Cornell Law School in the fall and is still wrestling with the tradeoff of losing New York’s speedy Seamless food delivery but gaining Ithaca’s trees. Rachel Cohen ran into Lydia Dallett at the airport in Newark, N.J., in June. Nicole Duddy started NYU Stern’s MBA degree program this fall, joining the horde of ’08ers in New York. Emerson Moore, Foster Jebsen, Chris Waskom, and Joey Mensah moved in together downtown. Andrew Clay is teaching eighth grade at a charter school in NYC’s Harlem. He caught up with Jacqueline Hall this summer before she headed off to Yale for architecture school. In closing: T minus three years until the 10th Reunion. Blue love —Mary
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2009 Alexander McHale 30 Waterside Plaza, Apt. 29J New York NY 10010 703-786-3330 arxmchale@gmail.com Deidra Willis 550 East Holly Ave., #39 Pitman NJ 08071 347-342-7447 willis.deidra@gmail.com
With this summer coming to a close, the Class of 2009 is continuing to keep in touch. Months after our Fifth Reunion, the question on our minds is still, Where is everyone and what are we all up to? Erica Harris and Ariana Remmel had the chance to do lots of fun tourist-oriented activities while Erica was living and working in Bangkok. Eamon Callison recently rowed at the Henley Royal Regatta with the Cambridge ’99 Rowing Club and completed a master’s degree in human evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge. He is currently living in Boston while pursuing a PhD degree in human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Abi Pollokoff moved to Seattle at the end of the summer to begin working toward an MFA degree in poetry at the University of Washington. She and Qing Yi Yu enjoyed delicious food in August and saw some great views of the city from the top of the Space Needle. Stephanie Colello started medical school at Columbia University, to add to the many alumni living in NYC. Thor Shannon and Cora Lewis now live together in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. Sam Dodge is doing awesome work serving our country abroad as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Roosevelt (DDG-80). Sam reports that it’s a humbling honor being able to utilize his Arabic while fostering connections with foreign militaries and that he looks forward to being able to attend our 10th Reunion. Alexander McHale, Max Abitbol, and Marvin Blugh continue to enjoy their Mel’s Brew Crew privileges at Mel’s Burger Bar in NYC, near Columbia, and periodically go up there to enjoy specially curated craft brew presentations. Mel’s has become Taylor Hall’s satellite campus, as Jack Walker and Matt Gorski have also begun their Brew Crew cards. At the end of August, Tina Kit had a rooftop party at her apartment on the Lower East Side; Johnny Carmona, Michael Discenza, Malik Jenkins, Alicia Keyes, Moses Kim, David Luan, Deidra Willis, Larry Zhou, and Tony Zou were all in attendance. The group cheered on Moses and Tina in a push-up face-off and helped David ring in his birthday with song before barhopping through the neighborhood. Courtnie Crutchfield and Scott Dzialo went to the Fourth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and Reception in NYC with other
alums and CAMD Dean Linda Carter Griffith in September. Big congratulations are in order for Sarah Smith, who got married at the start of September! Caroline Ann Gattuso, Jackie Wallace ’10, and Nicole Okai ’10 were bridesmaids at the lovely wedding. After running into one other on the street by chance and getting some delicious gelato, Vivian Wehner, Carl Jackson, Christian Anderson, and some friends went to the San Francisco Street Food Festival, marching up some SF hills and eating some hole-in-the-wall food. Any other Andover alums in the area should look out for them. In Washington, D.C., Alex McHale went to a Nationals game—an Andover event—with Sara Nickel ’07 and Komaki Foster ’07; there, he met Rob Bohorad ’90 and his family. Alex writes, “Even though the Nationals lost, we had a great time catching up. The go-go band outside of the stadium was incredible as well.” Jill Kozloff, Annie Glancy, Trey Meyer, and Brian Russell all got together to celebrate Eric Kanter’s birthday in Boston at the beginning of September. Without a doubt, the Class of 2009 continues to link up and do fun stuff in both domestic and international waters. Until next time…
2010 FIFTH REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Sascha Strand Metcalf Hall W205 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 316-371-9053 (cell) Sascha.Strand@Tufts.edu Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com Faiyad Ahmad 978-289-3584 (cell) faiyad_ahmad@brown.edu
Jennifer Miao was accepted early to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and began her first year of medical school in July. She graduated from Vanderbilt, double majoring in English and music (piano). The most memorable aspects of her four years there included building a clinic in Peru, playing the piano on a weekly basis for the elderly at an assisted living residence, volunteering as a medical intern in Latin America and Asia, working at Vanderbilt Medical Center’s emergency department, conducting a study on malnutrition and post operative complications in Guatemala, and examining biological pathways responsible for the