stay connected.. . 2012 Kennedy Edmonds kennedyedmonds@gmail.com Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com Ryan Ramos 700 Commonwealth Ave., Box 3232 Boston MA 02215 917-841-0294 ryan.alexander.ramos@gmail.com
This year marks the start of the Class of 2012’s third year as alumni of Andover and has served as a testament to our passion and success as representatives of our alma mater. While many of us have been busy at our respective colleges and universities, we also took the summer months by storm as interns, volunteers, athletes, artists, and students in an impressive number of fields. It was great hearing from those who submitted updates, beginning with Kathleen Smolak, who worked as a peer mentor for the summer. Kathleen was also able to take a relaxing trip to Oklahoma after running a Newburyport, Mass., half marathon in June. Congratulations, Kathleen! Similarly choosing to spend his summer mentoring, Terrence Arjoon ran a portfolioediting workshop for young writers at nonprofit writing center 826 Valencia in San Francisco, living with Alexander “Alex” Schneider for the first month of their summer breaks. Terrence ambitiously spent his spare time working on and self-publishing his first book of poetry! He also had the chance to catch up with Charles “Charlie” Pecora before spending the last bits of summer in NYC. Terrence returned to Bard College for his second year in September. Charlie spent his time off from the University of Miami this summer as an engineering intern at a tech startup in Silicon Valley called Qolsys. In addition to meeting up with Terrence and Alex, Charlie was visited by another one of our classmates, Ryan Ramos. Cameron Hastings, while on a road trip,
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stopped in Charleston, S.C., to visit Benjamin “Ben” Manuel. The two reminisced about Andover and their time living in Stearns. After Cameron’s visit, Ben went to see Alex Schneider, another member of the Stearns family, in San Francisco. Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker had dinner in Manhattan with Brianna Barros, Eliana Kwartler, Tafarii McKenzie, Leonore “Nora” Princiotti, and Katherine “Katie” Hebb. Starting in the fall of 2014, Maggie will begin a two-year-long stay in Germany. She is in a dual-degree program with Elon University, where she has spent the past two academic years, and ESB Business School at Reutlingen University in Germany, studying international business. Once in Germany, Maggie planned to begin looking for an internship for her second semester there, a requirement of the program. Katie Hebb spent the summer back home in NYC, working as an intern with the Clinton Foundation. Also in New York for the summer, Tafarii worked as an intern with a technology nonprofit, Coalition for Queens. The group aims to develop Long Island City into a contributor to the tech world on par with Silicon Valley. Tafarii will be in Budapest, Hungary, for the fall semester, continuing to pursue a degree in computer science. Also with plans to spend time abroad during his third year at college, Daniel “Danny” Gottfried will travel to Russia in the spring of 2015. Over this past summer, however, Danny stayed in Medford, Mass., teaching international students English at Tufts; in the fall, he resumed his own work at Tufts toward a degree in international relations. Nicholas “Nick” Camarda has been enjoying an internship with Foundation Medicine and his time at Duke, after switching his major to biophysics. Also studying at Duke, Shannon Adams is double majoring in history and global health. Over the summer, Shannon received a DukeEngage grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Shannon used her funds to travel to Durban, South Africa, on the Eastern Cape. While living there for two months with a host family, Shannon worked at a children’s home called Isiaiah 54. There, she assisted the home with orphaned, abused, abandoned, and HIV positive children. Shannon spent the fall semester in Florence, Italy, taking classes toward her history major. Ryan Canavan is one of our many fellow ’12ers who called Washington, D.C., home for the summer. While suffering through a summer biology course together, Ryan and Anastasia “Annie” Tillman were summer RAs at Georgetown University. Ryan hosted Hannah Finnie ’11 and Kate Taylor-Mighty ’11 for dinner. Ryan also enjoyed some Chinese takeout (which surely couldn’t compete with Golden Chopstick from our days at Andover) with friends from four consecutive Andover classes: Gabbi Fisher ’13, Apsara Iyer, Jenny Zhou ’11, Rachel Zappala ’10, and Annie Li ’10. Apsara spent this past summer researching in Cusco, Peru, and interning at the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. Miranda Haymon spent the summer in Germany, later returning home to Boston before starting her third year at Wesleyan University in the fall. At school, she served as stage manager for In the Heights, a Tony Award–winning musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda that ran from Nov. 12 to 16. Sydney Keen worked as an intern at Boston Children’s Hospital, doing research with a cardiologist as part of the transplant research program. Sydney is in the midst of her second year at Fordham University as a pre-med English major. Miranda and I were really excited to have seen so many more submissions for class notes for this issue of the magazine, and we look forward to reviving 2012’s participation. As always, please reach out to us with any updates you would like to have included in our class notes! Love always, ’12. —Sydney
2013 MJ Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com
We began the new academic year stronger and one year wiser, but it is clear that many of us in the Class of ’13 have missed one another. Christian Langalis lived in Oyster Bay, N.Y., this summer, working for a sailing team called Oakcliff Racing. On a seven-day trip completely offshore with the team, he raced to Bermuda and back. As he enjoyed the stars, he missed his pal Ross Burnaman and their astronomy class together. Although Julia Kichorowsky and Lucy Frey are spending their college years apart at Yale University and Wheaton College, respectively, their “long-distance relationship is thriving.” Lydia Godo-Solo, David Jordan, Rashana Shabazz, Andrea “Dre” Vargas, Babatunde “Tunde” Bello, Diondra Peck, Christopher Amendano, and Jonathan Thompkins had a reunion in NYC at the beginning of August. They went to a “very eccentric” Indian restaurant and walked around Union Square. Some of them accompanied Andrea Vargas to the Bronx to visit her relatives! Lydia Godo-Solo also met up with Diondra Peck and spent a day with Kai Kornegay ’14, enjoying good food, shopping, and Central Park. Rounding out the weekend, Lydia and Diondra caught up with Shireen Aziz and stayed with her.