www.andover.edu/intouch Pune, India, before beginning work as a software developer for ThoughtWorks in New York. Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker spent two weeks last semester cycling from Germany to Portugal to raise money for charity. Maggie cycled through Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal with a group of 30 students from her university in Germany. The group slept in hostels, an old army bunker, two fire stations, a surfing champion’s house, and sports halls. Part of the trip was on the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage route to northwestern Spain, which is where Maggie and her companions ended up on Easter. Marcus Smith has been busy in Amherst, MA, and encourages anyone in the area to come visit him at the Amherst Farmers’ Market, which he just started managing, on Saturdays on the downtown common. Marcus now manages the winter and summer farmers’ markets in Amherst. He will be doing an internship with the Neighboring Food Co-op Association to explore the different possibilities of farmers’ markets as cooperative businesses and is also in the middle of becoming the secretary of the board of directors of the Amherst Community Co-op, a food cooperative looking to provide a full-service fresh foods hub in Amherst. This past semester, Michelle Hantman interned at Nickelodeon Animation Studio and was hired for a full-time position in the original movies department. Michelle began working the Monday after her graduation from USC. Sydney Keen worked as an editorial intern with W.W. Norton Publishing in NYC over the summer while living in the Bronx. She began her senior year at Fordham University in the fall. Sydney and Laura Lee ’11 planned to host Kelsey Phinney ’11 for a weekend in New York over the summer. Thank you to everyone who submitted notes. Special congratulations to those of our classmates who recently graduated from their respective colleges and universities! Only one more year until our first Andover reunion. Crazy how time flies! —Sydney Keen
2013 M.J. 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
Devon Burger and Abby Chung rang in the New Year together in New Hampshire and celebrated Abby’s birthday at Stanford University
in April. Devon also visited Boston while on her a cappella group’s spring tour and caught up with Alexandra Donovan, Emily Field, Malynna Mam, Nalyn Yim, and Unwana Abasi. Claudia Giles, Dylan MacDonald, and Susanna Rademacher spent New Year’s Eve together in Sunapee, NH, and Claudia and Veronica Harrington had a lovely day together in Miami Beach during their spring vacation weeks. Claudia lived in Washington, DC, over the summer, where she worked as a Web designer for Ritz-Carlton’s corporate offices. Christiana Nguyen started 2016 snowed in at Columbia University, but she was able to visit Jing Qu and Nikita Singareddy. She also caught up with William “Zach” Merchant in April when he came to visit Cornell University. Raeva Kumar was regretfully unable to attend that meeting of The Phillipian’s CXXXV commentary editors, but Christiana and Zach look forward to seeing her at the next one! Bo Yoon, Sarah Lee, Lauren Kim, and Christiana were also able to meet up for drinks for Sarah’s birthday. Christiana ran into Franco D’Agostino and Jessica Lee at a crew race at Yale, and she saw Henry Kennelly, Jake Rauh ’14, Marc Sevastopoulo ’15, and Jack Lane ’15 when they came to race at Cornell. Christiana and Hailey Novis, who now rows for Radcliffe College, caught up when they happened to be staying at the same hotel. Over the summer, Christiana lived in Dallas while she interned with Neiman Marcus. Mark Meyer visited Purdue University this winter to speak at Purdue’s Calumet Big Sell Entrepreneurship Competition about advertising and user acquisition. He continued his work at the start-up Getmii over the summer at the company’s offices in Bangkok and at Harvard University’s Innovation Lab with his brother, Max Meyer ’08. In the course of his travels, Mark stopped by a meeting of the University of Chicago’s German Club, which Sam Koffman worked to expand during this past academic year. David Crane and Connor Fraser caught up at Princeton University in December. Connor also ran into Lucy Frey in January while both were on winter training trips to Puerto Rico, for Columbia’s and Wheaton College’s swimming programs, respectively. Emily Carrolo visited her sister, Elizabeth Carrolo ’11, Jing Qu, and Connor in NYC in March for Italian food and ice cream. Connor and Jing spent the summer living together in the Financial District while they interned in NYC. Rory Ziomek and Ross Bendetson were fortunate to work on a class project together during their spring semester at Tufts University, in which they analyzed Kanye West’s music career. Rory, Tim Superko, Sahil Bhaiwala, and David McCullough all saw Richard “Swiss Rick” McAllister on the basketball court at Tufts this winter, when Bowdoin played Tufts. Rory stayed in Boston over the summer while he worked for the U.S. Commercial Service. At Cornell University, Alexandra Donovan
helped launch a grocery store that aimed to provide healthy, affordable, and accessible food to all students. Rhea Lewis, Devon Burger, Malynna Mam, Nalyn Yim, Emily Field, and Abby Chung surprised Alexandra at her home for her birthday in December. They all missed Andrea Vargas dearly! Alexandra continued to pursue her passion for design by interning at an architecture firm in Boston over the summer. Gabbi Fisher and Justin Appleby caught up during the spring over the fire pit at the Slavicthemed cooperative house where Gabbi will live during her final year at Stanford University. This summer, Gabbi worked as a software engineer for Palantir Technologies in Washington, DC. Angela Batuure and M.J. Engel enjoyed spending their fall semester together at Columbia. Angela spent the spring jet-setting around Europe during her semester studying abroad in London and even attended the Cannes Film Festival in May. Esperanza Mata and Yeo Bi Choi caught up in Madrid this past spring. Pearson Goodman, Jason Nawrocki, Hemang Kaul, and Brendan O’Connell were able to hang out in Andover during their spring breaks and were all up to their old shenanigans. Julia Kichorowsky and Lucy Frey still keep in close contact while at school, and they frequently sing Taylor Swift songs to each other over the phone. Julia spent the summer working as an analyst at Centerview Partners in NYC. There were several Andover reunions overseas when members of the Class of 2013 studied abroad during their spring semesters. Jimmy Hunter and Emily McKinnon reunited at the Stockholm School of Economics during their semesters abroad in Sweden. Jimmy had an amazing time exploring Stockholm, getting to know his host family, teaching English at a local school, and traveling to Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and the Czech Republic. He hopes to make a return trip to Sweden in the near future. Over the summer, Jimmy worked as a business development intern at Turner Company in Boston. During their spring semesters, Erin Wong and M.J. Engel studied abroad together in Vietnam, Bolivia, and Morocco, where they both took part in a program focused on climate change and the nexus of food, water, and energy around the world. Erin worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing over the summer. Thank you to everyone who submitted news. The 2013 class secretaries wish you good luck as many of you embark on your senior years of college, and we look forward to hearing more from everyone in September! —Connor Fraser
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