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James H. Shin ’01 married Janet Lee in January at the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif., with many PA friends in attendance. From left are Danforth Sullivan ’02, Anthony Bitz ’02, Jeremy Hersch ’99, Morgan Swett Hersch ’00, the groom and bride, Eric Sherman ’98, Carter Bacon III ’01, Nakul Patel ’01, Jim Cunningham ’01, and Mark Kawakami ’01.
doctoral fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence, Italy. Marion Read is moving to the Bay Area to start at Weil, Gotshal’s Silicon Valley office. Marion hosted Sarah Kline, Rachel Weiner, and Ella Hoffman in Wilmington, Del., at the end of May and showed them the many small wonders of Delaware. Katie Schellenberg started an educational consulting and tutoring company in LA specializing in helping students with special needs navigate the school system. After almost six years at Calvin Klein Collection, Emily Thornton is starting a new job as knitwear designer for EDUN, a global fashion brand founded by Bono and Ali Hewson to promote trade in Africa by sourcing production throughout the continent. Talk about the non sibi spirit! Chris Callahan received a scholarship from MIT to attend its global startup workshop in Marrakech, Morocco. On a recent trip to NYC, he caught up with John Kluge about social entrepreneurship and saw Joe Maliekel and his son, Gil. Also in NYC, Ife Babatunde lives in Brooklyn and works for Ogilvy & Mather. Claire Constantine Larson started at NYU’s College of Nursing this spring, leaving law work behind. She’s excited for the career change and is busy being a mom to 21-month-old Penelope.
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Katy Nassberg has been working at VDC Research as an analyst and was a keynote speaker at a conference in Stockholm this spring. Amy Kalas Buser owns Wholesome Harmonies, where she provides music-therapy services to children and teens with special needs in Miami. Amy and her husband were expecting their first baby at the end of June! Erin Winkler is loving her job at Google on the newly formed leadership research team. She gave me the insiders’ tour of the Mountain View campus when I came to town in March. Ira Renfrew started at iRobot, working on new product concepts for our robotic future. He is based in Boston and recently saw Rutherford Hubbard, back from Southeast Asia for a New England visit. Ashley Foster married Joseph Sellers on May 3 in Boston. Other ’01 attendees included Tina Valverde, Katie Schellenberg, and Eric Feeny. Greg Sherman married Anne Martin in Maine in September 2013. Also up in Maine were Jessica Olans Hausman and Desiraé Simmons, attending Elisabeth Sacco’s bachelorette party in May in anticipation of Lis’s wedding in June! Nate Beck married Sarah Colosimo over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in New Orleans. A strong Andover showing included Rachel Weiner, Sarah Kline, Paige Austin, Amita Singh, Smita Singh,
Susie Dickson, Gavin McGrath, Will Siguler, Martin Fox, Elliot Beck ’05, and me. Gavin spends time with Greg Kimball and Kate Bartlett Kimball, coordinating playdates between his two children, Caroline and Charlie, and Kate and Greg’s daughter, Cora, who is now 1. Gavin is traveling the globe consulting for a client and has been to Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Zurich, Vancouver, Toronto, and London in the past nine months. Greg’s startup, Nifti, continues to thrive. Ted Jutras and wife Erica welcomed their baby girl, Lyla J, born in March. Diana Mahler Spalding just had her second baby, Asher Patrick, and Andy Marchesseault and wife Analieses welcomed their first child, Johann Hunter Marchesseault, in May. Jess Watson and husband Zach welcomed their baby girl, Rosemary Iapalucci Smith, in February. Harris Ackerman and wife Marra welcomed their baby boy, Logan Jerome, in May, exactly eight years to the day after Marra and Harris got engaged! Camille Conley Kerr and husband Nate were expecting a baby in September. In June, Camille changed jobs; she’s working as the director of fieldbuilding at the Democracy at Work Institute. Meredith Hudson Johnston and sister Marissa Hudson ’04 ran the Boston Marathon for the Mass General Hospital team and are so thankful for all the Andover support toward their fundraising efforts. Vanessa Nickerson is in Denver and working as a deputy state public defender for the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender. She just finished her first half-marathon and is training for the Denver Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in October. Thibault Raoult married Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes on the summer solstice. In other news, Thibault’s band, Historic Sunsets, recently played a show with Lawson Feltman in Athens, Ga., Thibault and Gabrielle’s new hometown. Lawson is living in Atlanta, where he was touring with his band, Trucks, Herring, Feltman & Graham. He’s now focusing on solo performance, looking to start a new band, and getting ready to do an album of his songs, aiming to be done at the end of the year. Ramesh Donthamsetty was in attendance at one of THF&G’s shows. Raquel Leonard Moreno participated in a career panel sponsored by CAMD. Back home, she’s buying her first house in Philadelphia with husband Orlando. Tim Daniels has been holding down the Big Blue hangouts, frequently seeing Scott Ward, Scott Darci, Gino Rotondi, Luke LeSaffre, and Ethan Liebermann ’00. Tim was also excited to attend Isaac Taylor’s wedding in August. John Pearson had lunch with ’01 Stearns alums Adam Sklar, Eric Newman, and Ramesh Donthamsetty to discuss the upcoming Andover tennis outing and various market trends. Keep rocking, ’01!