www.andover.edu/intouch historical monuments with the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Genevieve Desaulniers finished a master’s degree program in nursing last December in Atlanta. She is now a pediatric nurse practitioner working for WellStar Health System, the largest nonacademic hospital system in Georgia. Taylor Yates graduated from MIT Sloan this spring and is working at a Boston tech consultancy called Cartesian. He and his wife, Karen, are enjoying their time in Boston and always looking to connect with other Andover grads in the area. Alanna Hughes just finished her first year of business school at MIT Sloan. She has decided to enroll in a dual-degree program and will start taking classes at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (HKS) this fall to pursue an MPA concurrently with her MBA. She spent this summer in DC working as a summer associate with a Monitor Institute team as part of Deloitte Consulting’s new social impact service line. Last April, Ashley Whitehead Luskey was in Boston to present her dissertation research at the Union Club of Boston as the 2014 recipient of the Governor John Andrew Civil War Writers’ Scholarship Award. She graduated from West Virginia University in August with a PhD degree in history, concentrating in 19th-century American history. She continues to work as a park ranger and historian at Richmond National Battlefield Park in Richmond, Va., where she led a lot of tours, talks, and guided battlefield walks as part of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battlefields in Richmond. A couple of her presentations have even been featured on C-SPAN! In June, she spoke for the third time at the Civil War Institute conference at Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Penn. Vineel Kankanala finished his internal medicine residency in June and moved to Chicago to start his GI fellowship at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dan Serna moved to Austin, Texas, last year for his job at MetLife Agricultural Investment. He is enjoying the city and being closer to family. He has been leading the firm’s farm and ranch real estate lending business in much of Texas and Oklahoma. Ian Hafkenschiel spent three weeks in Waikiki this summer, chaperoning high school grads on a Hawaii trip. After that, he returned to Santa Cruz, Calif., where he is web programming for a computer-controlled rooftop-farming startup called Cityblooms. Henry Andrew Watterson took a six-week sabbatical from his job as a designer for a tech company in San Francisco to road-trip across the country with his boyfriend in a VW camper van. Ben Bloom married Ruth Shewmon last year. The two graduated from the University of Chicago in June with PhD degrees in physics and moved to Portland, Ore. Sharon Shin married Austin Kang on May 3, 2014, on Oahu, and Di Wu was in attendance. After her honeymoon in Maui, Sharon returned home to Las Vegas and continues her job at Zappos.com. Meade Curtis got engaged to
Back on campus for their 10th Reunion were, from left, Bill Beregi ’04, Michelle Easton ’04, Ariel Gold ’04, Scott Marmer and Daria Axelrod Marmer ’04 (in back), Amanda Donaldson ’04, Marjorie Mocco ’04 (in back), Travis Green ’04, Zabecca Brinson ’04 (in back), Jamie Bologna ’04, Meg Sullivan ’04, Homan Lee ’04, Jisung Park ’04, Patrick Holkins ’04 (holding the flag), Wing-kit Chu ’04, Uzoma Iheagwara ’04, April Warren ’04 (in front), and Alanna Hughes ’04 (in back).
his girlfriend, Melissa, and the two planned to get married over Labor Day weekend. Lexie Kuhn Peedin welcomed her second child, Finn, this April. He is doing well and enjoying time with big sister, Pippa. Jenny Byer Elgin and Abbe Anderson ’03 attended Amy O’Gorman’s wedding to Joe Block this spring. Jenny is living in San Francisco and had a son, Milo, last year. Jenny met up with Ali Schouten and introduced her to Milo while Ali was in San Francisco this spring doing research for a new TV show on ABC Family, Young & Hungry, for which she is writing. Ali is still living in LA. She seems to be working crazy hours, but from what I gather, she is having the time of her life! I saw Ali when I was in LA this spring for a cousins’ weekend. The two of us had an excellent day-date paddle-boating on Echo Park Lake, shopping in the Los Feliz neighborhood, and sharing grilled brioche slathered with raspberry jam at one of Ali’s favorite cafés. I am still in Brooklyn, seeing a lot of Andover friends like Jacqui Bovaird (who is moving to LA this fall), Olivia Oran, Jenny Wong, and Ellen Knuti and generally trying to take advantage of New York while it is still at my fingertips. This will be my last installment of the class notes, and I just want to thank everyone for being so good about keeping in touch and sharing your great news with me. I am in the midst of planning my great escape from the city and will keep you posted on where I end up. Anyhow, even if it isn’t in an official capacity, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line. I always love hearing from you. —Emma Sussex
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As always, it was great to hear from everyone who submitted to this edition of the class notes! First, many congratulations to Natalie Exner Dean and Chelsea Paige, both of whom celebrated spring weddings! Chelsea, who married her fiancé, Scott, in Washington, D.C., on May 23, works as an analyst for the federal government. Natalie married Ethan Dean on May 17 in Beverly, Mass., with Megan Scarborough as one of her bridesmaids and Chris Zegel in attendance. Natalie graduated from Harvard University with a PhD degree in biostatistics in May, moved to Gainesville, Fla., in June, and works part time as a consultant on HIV drug resistance surveillance in low- and middle-income countries for the World Health Organization. Natalie and Ethan bought a house with a pool and invite any ’05ers in the area to get in touch. The summer months witnessed several other ’05 relocations (and by “several” we mean “a ton,” so bear with us). Lee Rotenberg moved from Tel Aviv, Israel, to NYC to cofound ArtSetters, a curated online marketplace for emerging artists around the world. After returning from a trip to Martinique with her company, Natalie Ho moved from New York Andover | Fall 2014
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