stay connected... Guo and her husband at SFO—they were on the same flight from SF to Denver—and then saw Brooks Canaday in Denver. Catherine Crooke left her job at the International Refugee Assistance Project in July, spent the summer lazing around in Europe and California, and started at Yale Law School in the fall. Conner Stoldt recently caught up with his old roomie, Danny Silk, and Jocelyn Gully when in NYC for his sister Camerin Stoldt ’12’s fashion show. Danny is doing well, despite moving all the way to Jersey City. Jocelyn is living with her boyfriend, an Andover High School alum. Miles Silverman proposed to his girlfriend, Renee, this spring. The happily engaged couple is living in LA, where Miles is pursuing a doctorate and focusing on quantum theory and potential time-space-bending implications. In July, Ryan Ferguson wed his longtime girlfriend in Andover. The reception was out behind the Log Cabin in the Sanctuary. Steve Farquhar, Ben Landy, Steve Stapczynski, and Matt Villanueva were all in the wedding party, and there were plenty of other Andover grads in attendance. Ryan saw and hung out with Lauren Kelleher at her annual “Lamb Jam,” where they roasted a whole lamb. Steve Blackman made a surprise cameo at the Lamb Jam, so we can confirm he is still alive. Tori Anderson just graduated from Harvard Law School and is moving back to Portland, OR, to be a public defender. While at Harvard, Tori made Rosemary Bailey hang out with her all over Boston. Claire Voegele just finished her second year of law school and had a note published in the South Carolina Law Review about proposed remedies for administrative shortcomings that befall Vietnam veterans with PTSD and bad paper discharges. Claire was a summer associate at Nelson Mullins in Boston this summer and hoped to see some fellow classmates at A-E weekend. Finally, please provide us with any of your updated contact information so that we can continue to stay in touch, especially ahead of our upcoming 10th Reunion!
2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 10 Stuyvesant Oval, Apt. 10E New York NY 10009 Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com
Hello, and welcome back to our thrice-annual check-in with the Class of 2008! There is much to discuss, so let’s dive in, starting with the baby news! Lindsey Branson Crosby and husband Kyle welcomed Charlotte Claire Crosby into the world
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in October 2015. Can we just say baby Charlie is a bundle of cuteness? “She has been such a good baby, and we have enjoyed every minute,” says Lindsey. Congratulations, mama! Lauren Shevlin married college sweetheart Jon Mace in a beautiful ceremony in Lenox, MA, over Labor Day weekend. Kelly Fox graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and proposed to her longtime girlfriend Amber Brown, who happily said yes. Dr. Fox and Amber will be married in Amber’s home country of South Africa (so you know the wine will be good). Nicole Duddy, now in her final year at NYU Stern School of Business, became engaged to boyfriend Zachary Weil and was, she says, “so happy to hear from all my Andover friends sending love/ congratulations.” Mercy Bell also made a huge commitment this year and bought a house on Martha’s Vineyard for the purpose of expanding the massage and yoga business she’s building with her brother. The retreat center—in Great Exuma, Bahamas!—launches this fall. Matt Sternberg is excited to move to Nashville, TN, where he will start business school at Vanderbilt. Alexa Rahman began a doctoral program at Harvard Business School and spent her last exam-free moments visiting her boyfriend in Germany. Hillary Baker traveled to Thailand and Vietnam with Billy Draper ’07 and vowed that, upon her return, she would get back to the wheel and pick up pottery again. Rajit Malhotra finished a master’s degree program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and now works in New York at the Bank Street School for Children, where he is director of strategy. Hector Cintron lives in Arlington, VA, where by day he is a mildmannered data scientist at a software-consulting firm and by night is frequently found on the dance floor, showing off his salsa moves and cutting a dashing figure in a red silk shirt and black pants. (OK, I made the outfit up, but isn’t that what you were imagining?) And Sally Poole is still at vet school in Glasgow, where she spends all her time “studying, walking my Dalmatian, and sticking my hand up sheep!” In May, Annabel Graham’s short film The Ravine made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival and had its world premiere at Laemmle’s Music Hall in LA in June. The film, which Annabel wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, is dedicated to her late father, director William A. Graham ’44, who passed away in 2013. Annabel also exhibited two photographs at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, read short fiction at the Manhattanville Reading Series in Brooklyn, and attended the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop in Portland, OR. Somehow in between, she managed to catch up with Sara Nosaka and Ellie Shepley. Meanwhile, Rachel Cohen moved to Brooklyn. Nick Anschuetz moved to Boston to start a job at MEDITECH and formed Bobsled, a band that focuses on original compositions and deep group improvisation. He also joined Bearly Dead, a
Grateful Dead tribute band that plays Wednesdays at Thunder Road in Somerville. Nick writes, “Aside from all my music icons dying, 2015–2016 has been fantastic!” Stephanie Clegg also reports having an “unbelievable year,” in which she started medical school at UMass, backpacked in Europe, and ran the Marine Corps Marathon. Steph spent her summer looking at patient-reported outcomes of pain and function after total knee or hip replacements in the UMass orthopedics department. Frank Pinto left the company he started in 2013 in order to work independently as a project manager/full-stack Web developer, which is a fancy way of saying he’s getting paid to travel to cool places. (So far, he’s hit up Mexico City, Medellín, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and that’s just internationally.) When he’s stateside, Frank ends up seeing a lot of Chad Hollis. Victoria Glynn accepted a fellowship at CommunityRED, an organization that brings cybersecurity expertise to journalists, dissidents, and activists operating in countries where free speech is restricted. In May, Victoria visited Rachel Cohen’s new apartment and was asked to bring her own toilet paper because Rachel’s roommate “measures our rate of usage down to the square.” Talk about a violation of free speech. Joy Fowlkes joined the publishing department at Creative Artists Agency in New York, where she focuses on fiction and young adult interests. Joy says she’s “more of a fan girl” than she ever suspected she’d be. Silké Cummings graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine and is happy to be starting residency in San Francisco. This spring, she attended the 60th anniversary celebration of The Open Mind, the weekly public affairs program hosted by Alexander Heffner. Last winter, Ben Schley, Dave Holliday, Zach Feldman, Lambros Theofanidis, Ian Accomando, Dana Feeny, and Kevin Zhai went skiing in Whitefish, MT. “Ian wore Chubbies (the shorts) the entire trip,” reports Ben. And finally, I’m now a researcher for the HBO comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, so if you have a topic you’d like to see covered, let me know! If you spot a factual error in our reporting, tell no one. Very best, Lydia