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to Washington, D.C., and Danny Lee started a residency in emergency medicine at Stanford University after graduating from medical school in Houston. After working with the wildlife research crew at Grand Teton National Park and spending a winter at Big Bend National Park in Texas, Sonia DeYoung began the field naturalist program at the University of Vermont. Dan Hackney graduated from Brown with a degree in computer science and moved to San Francisco in June to begin work at Google. Dan LeClerc moved to Philadelphia and finished his first year at the Wharton School with classmates Alison Murphy, Jeff Zhou ’06, Lisa Donchak ’06, Jeehae Lee ’02, and Brian Cloonan ’01. He reports that Jane Herzeca and Catalina McCallum graduated in the spring, and Peter Belisle is set to begin in the fall. Dan spent the summer in Kampala, Uganda, with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and chatted with Kelly Lacob ’08 on his first day. Meta Weiss received two grants for dissertation research in Moscow, where she hung out with Paul Sonne ’03; she also won the Violoncello Foundation Listener’s Choice Award for an album recorded with Arianna WarsawFan ’04, toured extensively, and accepted a position teaching cello and chamber music at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. After living with Jon Weigel and hanging out frequently with Jon Hillman in Boston, Ned Henningsen moved to Farmington, Conn., in August to begin teaching English as a Penn teaching fellow at Miss Porter’s School. Sam Lederfine Paskal, who had been working
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as a job coach for Jewish Community Services in Baltimore, moved to Boston to begin a master’s degree program in occupational therapy at Boston University. After completing law school at the University of Pennsylvania, Ben Hoerner also returned to Massachusetts, where he planned to study for the bar exam and work as an attorney for the Commonwealth. Among those staying more or less in the same place, Emily Bargar is happily teaching math at Milton Academy and living with her partner in Dorchester, Mass., while Christian Vareika finished his first year of law school at Boston College and spent the summer working for the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. Kelly Stecker researches exercise and breast cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, celebrated Memorial Day weekend with Alison Wheeler, and ran into Katherine Ireland along the Charles River after bumping into Caitriona McGovern, now in her third year of medical school, outside of Whole Foods. Krishna Gupta has seen many Andover alums lately, including Kelly, Katherine, Dina Burkitbayeva ’06, Sly Boumil, Beau Freker, Nick Smith Wang, Patrick Jiang, and Olivia Pei ’07. Krishna is fundraising for Romulus Capital’s latest fund and remains on the lookout for great new tech/science-enabled companies that are dreaming big. Anthony Green saw Billy Doyle, Grant Yoshitsu, Alex King, and Mac King, and was recently featured on CNN for his SAT tutoring. Jesse Seegers landed a nine-month curatorial residency at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and Luis Ortiz, who received a master’s degree from Juilliard in the spring, joined Juilliard as a staff pianist and performed at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, where he also served as production manager. Sims Witherspoon presented on data analytics at a tech conference in Tokyo before landing a new gig at Google, as associate product marketing manager on the brand marketing team. She took a beekeeping class and wants her own hive. Emma Downs defended her PhD dissertation in chemistry at the University of Oregon, and Vic Miller, who recently visited Hawaii with girlfriend Katharine Matsumoto ’07, finished a PhD degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford. Cassie Tognoni visited New Orleans with other math nerds and graced Alex Lebow with her presence; Alex and Matt Brennan enjoyed drinks in the French Quarter with Emy Gelb, who later sent them a delicious batch of cookies. Alex continues to work for Mayor Mitch Landrieu and oversee the youth development organization he cofounded, Youth Run NOLA. Matt taught a seminar on Southern religion at Tulane (where he’s a PhD degree candidate in U.S. history), contributed to Indiewire, Medium, and New Orleans’ alternative weekly, and joined Slant Magazine as a television critic. That’s all for now, folks! Much love, PA ’05. —Matt and Lebow
2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland CA 95695 925-846-8300 jeni_lee@bluelink.andover.edu Paul Voorhees 345 West Berwicke Common, N.E. Atlanta GA 30342 404-402-4869 pauldvoorhees@gmail.com
Thomas Gebremedhin has been working at Vogue since June 2013. John Lippe is heading to Harvard Business School this fall, joining Dina Burkitbayeva, who is starting her second year. Daniel Wagman is entering his second year at Columbia Business School and worked in New York over the summer. Brendan de Brun is stationed at Moody AFB, near Valdosta, Ga., flying HC-130P Combat Kings with the 71st Rescue Squadron. His primary mission is Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), which mainly consists of functions like airdrop, low-level flying, dropping paratroopers, and refueling helicopters. Chris Sargent had fun seeing Ali Holliday and Katie Faulkner briefly over a freezing winter visit to Boston. After a summer break in the U.S., Chris is back in Jordan on a Fulbright student research grant, doing dissertation research, for the 2014–2015 academic year. Emily Pollokoff is expecting her second child this October. Justin Yi and Emily Chappell went to Hong Kong Sevens, a rugby tournament, in March, where they saw Charlie Frentz and Vincent Siu at an Andover event and managed to take a selfie with John Palfrey. Justin and Emily also visited Gordon Murphy in London and ran into Kat Dix ’05 at a party. Jeni Lee, Mia Kanak, and Andrea Coravos all went out together for crepes in San Francisco. Becky Agostino ’07 and Andrea spent a weekend together at Coachella, and Sims Witherspoon ’05, Helen Chacon ’05, Mark Margiotta ’05, and Andrea all watched the Super Bowl together. Katherine Adams, Katie Faulkner, and Mia Kanak attended Karl Hirt’s wedding in Philadelphia in June. Karl married their Yale crew teammate Marypat Wixted. Jamie Neuwirth is now at Google, working with school districts around the U.S. to help get technology into the classroom. Carly Williams and Paul Engelhardt got married on Aug. 16 on Martha’s Vineyard. Our congratulations to them, and we hope that everyone is doing well! Cheers, Paul and Jeni