www.andover.edu/intouch 2002 Paul Crowley 919-724-5868 Skip.crowley@gmail.com Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 2118 Volcano HI 96785 Lauren9@gmail.com
Happy fall, Class of 2002! Thank you to everyone who submitted notes. It was fantastic to hear from you. We cannot have notes without your updates, so thank you for sharing. Lots of news coming from abroad this time. Sam Struzzi wrote from Australia, where he is loving life with his wife, Anna, and their bulldog, Bruno, and working as a travel agent. He sends lots of love, koala bear hugs, and kangaroo kisses. Jordan Harris celebrated his 30th birthday by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his father. Belated happy birthday, Jordan! Actually, I am sure that many of you have hit this milestone or are preparing to do so in the near future, so please share your celebration plans and news of how you commemorated the big 3-0. Katherine Cascio wrote in from Ecuador, where she was serving as a staff advisor on a service trip with the University of Kentucky. She will start her dissertation this summer and begin conducting interviews with former sex workers to learn what influenced their entry into prostitution. John Byung-Jin Kang landed a job with the Paris Opera and will be moving from Copenhagen, Denmark, to join the orchestra in the fall. While in Copenhagen, he got a visit from Eric Liu and his wife. Sandra Leung is still living in Hong Kong, where she works as an investment banker and was looking forward to being a groomswoman for Jan Hsi Lui in September. Diana Dosik married Matt Schwab in Puerto Rico in February, and her guests included Erin McGirt Chantry, Kate Elliott, and Emily Robbins. Diana also reported that she recently attended a Phillipian board reunion hosted by Chris Hughes, with Ben Beinecke, Annie Lowrey, Kate Elliott, Pat Linnemann, and Katherine Chu all in attendance. Not quite abroad but equally cool is Anchorage, Alaska, where John Simeone works as an independent consultant for international trade, investment, development, and conservation projects between countries in the Pacific Rim. He moved to Alaska with his fiancée, Erica, after completing graduate school at the University of Washington. I was personally quite pleased to hear from John, as it means I’m not the only one living outside of the 48 contiguous! Many soon-to-be graduate school graduates are in our midst. Kate Planitzer will graduate with a master’s degree in food systems from NYU. She is currently managing operations and maker development for Mouth.com, an e-retailer based in the
Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ben Merrill will graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a master’s degree in international economics and international relations. Kwadwo Acheampong will graduate with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has committed to a position as investment associate with Prudential Fixed Income in Newark, N.J. Sean Mansfield is currently attending Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and recently accepted a new position in Chicago as vice president of business development at GE Capital. Wedding bells will be ringing for many classmates. Sarah Newhall got engaged in February and is living in Washington, D.C., where she works as an executive vice president and managing director at Blue State Digital. Britta Schell got engaged to Jonathan Stasiak. They live in San Francisco with their puppy, Elsa, and Britta runs her own market research and brand strategy business. Brooks Teevan got engaged to Matt Abts and is currently working toward an MFA degree at the University of Minnesota. Some of our fellow classmates are experiencing the joys of sleepless nights and changing diapers. Alan Katz and his wife, Sheryl, welcomed their first son, Gabriel Zeev Katz, in March. The Katz family lives in Miami, where Alan owns a cosmetics export business. Chris Burnett, who is a pastor at a church in Birmingham, Ala., is a parent times two! He, his wife, and their 2-year-old son, Baron, welcomed baby Noel in January. Brit Holten, husband Ally, and daughter Sophie welcomed baby Eva in March. Eliza Roberts and her husband, Arie, are smitten with their baby daughter, Zoe, who was born in December 2013. They are living in Minneapolis where Eliza works for the Forest Stewardship Council, an environmental nonprofit, and plays lots of squash in her spare time. Congratulations to all of the newest initiates to parenthood! Laurel Ingraham Aquadro and her husband, Brian, are fleeing NYC to start their own brewery in Massachusetts. Prior to settling down, they will travel for five months, visting Europe and Hawaii. James Sonne also recently left New York and is working as assistant general counsel at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in Washington, D.C. Still in New York are housemates Lindsay Talbot and Becca Lewis, who share a townhouse in Fort Greene. Lindsay is a writer and senior editor at Condé Nast Traveler and Becca is the communications manager at the Neue Galerie. Bali Kumar is also in New York and works at Proskauer Rose, where he focuses on executive compensation and benefits law. Zach Robbins was recently hired as senior vice president of concessions management for the Big Apple Circus. If anyone is ever on the Big Island of Hawaii (ahem, Laurel Ingraham Aquadro!), let me know. I would love to catch up and play tour guide. Aloha! —Lauren
2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com
There have been many milestones to celebrate for the Class of 2003. To kick things off, two of our classmates, Nick Franchot and Alexa Raducanu, wed in May! They join a growing list of classmate couples, including Phil Caruso and Kait Ainsworth Caruso as well as Lirra Schiebler and David Hill. Nick’s Andover and Stanford Graduate School of Business classmate Michael Ruderman was among the many PA alums in attendance. Another couple, Sam Beattie and Julie Taylor, also tied the knot in May, in Mystic, Conn. They moved west last year, pushing the number of our classmates in the Bay Area to more than 35. Danny Dumond recently became engaged to her boyfriend, Caleb Ward. The two plan to exchange vows this fall at the Log Cabin in the bird sanctuary on PA’s campus! While planning the wedding, Danny has stayed busy as a senior research engineer and a seventh grade technology and engineering teacher at McCall Middle School in Winchester, Mass. Lirra Schiebler wrote from Boston, where she keeps in touch with many of our classmates. She recently celebrated Claire Reyner’s wedding along with several classmates: Mari Ono Zilles, Aneesa Sayall, Molly Hauptman, and Meryl Mims, as well as Charles Reyner ’01. Lirra and Mari also caught up with Christina and Rashid Galadanci this spring; the quartet did karaoke in Chinatown in early May. Lirra sees longtime pal Bob Yamartino in Boston; Bob recently moved to Boston after completing a JD degree. Lirra’s fiancé and fellow classmate, David Hill, begins his second year of medical school in Grenada this summer. Brittney Bailey wrote from Washington, D.C., where she is now an appointee for the Obama administration, advising the foreign-aid arm of the U.S. government on development innovation. Her work has kept her in touch with classmates David Beyer and Kanyi Maqubela. Bonnie Oliva ’00 updated Brittney’s team last month on a mobile credit-scoring project in India. Outside of her professional life, Brittney has stayed close with Ali Rosen Gourvitch, Matt Kane, and Emily O’Brien with regular trips north to New York. Brittney also reprised a high school role in The Vagina Monologues in DC, with Itiah Thomas, Chloe Lewis ’02, and Malik Lewis ’02 in attendance. Ali earned a notable distinction earlier this year when Forbes named her one of its “30 Under 30” in the food category. She joined another classmate on the list; Forbes also honored Dan Koh in the media category, for his work at the Huffington Post. Several of our classmates have also carved out notable niches as journalists. After several years as a New York Times economics writer, Cathy Rampell Andover | Fall 2014
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