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Congratulations are in order for Sarah Guo, who recently got engaged to Pat Grady, and Mike DeFelippo, who is also engaged. Bravo to the happy couples! Meanwhile, Nat Lavin is living in Washington, D.C., and laments he “still hasn’t gained any superpowers... and is not wealthy enough to go the Batman route.” On the plus side, he enjoyed a large Andover brunch with a number of ’06ers, plus Ryan Ferguson, Komaki Foster, Helal Syed, Amy Fenstermacher, and Thao Nguyen. Thao left for Beijing on her first tour as an American diplomat with the U.S. Embassy; she recently caught up with Henry Yin in Beijing and would love to hear from anyone else who’s living locally or passing through. Before departing, Thao managed to grab lunch with Mary Grinton, who graduated from law school and will start work in October as a tax attorney in the D.C. area. Mary recently saw Sara Nickel, who had just returned from a big trip to Australia—where, rumor has it, adventurers Polly Sinclair and Lola Dalrymple were also spotted (thanks for the postcard, Lola!). Akosua Oforiwaa-Ayim started at Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge this September and kindly requests that anyone in the London/ Cambridge area get in touch. She also recently launched an online magazine covering African entertainment (www.mera-ki.com), which works to bridge the gap between African artists and audiences across the diaspora. Alex Clifford is working on an iPhone app called Entourage (www.goentourageapp.com) and is still trading options at the Chicago Board. Emma Wood is headed to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; Evan Moore is starting an MFA program in creative writing at Columbia. Lauren Jackson moved to Tempe, Ariz., to take a position on the college staff ministry team at Antioch Community Church. Ben Landy lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with Matt Villanueva and is now the home-page and opinion editor for msnbc.com. Nate Flagg also lives in Brooklyn and works as an artist’s assistant, does art editorial projects at the magazine Guernica, and, with some friends, runs Mami Papi Gallery out of his apartment, staging exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, and film screenings. He is starting an MFA degree program in painting at Yale. Lily Mathison finished the first year of a PhD degree program
and spent the summer in Tel Aviv, Israel, studying mental health stigma in religious communities. Since graduating from a master’s degree program in city planning at Penn, Izzy Cannell has moved to Seattle for a new job; she’d love to connect with anyone passing through the Northwest. Chizorom Izeogu is working as an editorial assistant for an online travel review site called Gayot Publications. She spent Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco with Olivia Pei, Cece Yu, and Allen Cai. Arielle Filiberti finished her first year of medical school at UMass. Starting this fall, Becky Agostino will be on the leadership team of a high school in Harlem; she recently went to Coachella with Andrea Coravos ’06. Susannah Poland moved to southern Vermont, where she started a new job designing and leading international educational trips for Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions. Steve Blackman has quit working in Illinois politics; he now works for a startup snowboard manufacturer, Gilson Boards, based in central Pennsylvania. He spent the summer leading kids on backpacking trips in Maine. Keep the updates coming, folks!
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Hello, hello! Lots of news to share this quarter, so let’s jump in. We couldn’t be more excited to announce the engagement of Alyssa Yamamoto and Killian Nolan, a dynamo pair who met while Alyssa was an undergrad at Harvard and Killian was a student at Harvard Law School. The two are currently living outside of San Francisco, where Killian is an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, but they expect to move back to the East Coast in the next few years. Alyssa, who’s working for the Burundian nonprofit Village Health Works, says she and Killian are planning an “urban chic” rooftop wedding in Manhattan sometime in 2015. You can bet this class secretary will be on hand to make sure the cocktails are Carrie Bradshaw approved. Jenn Hammond is not getting married on a Manhattan rooftop next year (as far as we know), but she is moving to San Diego to start an exciting new career as a technology consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She’s looking forward to catching up with college friends, learning how to
surf, and basking in California’s “perfect weather.” Nicole Duddy is also making moves, relocating in May from Philadelphia to NYC to take a new job at her company, Towers Watson. Before leaving the City of Brotherly Love, Nicole got in some quality sister time watching the Kentucky Derby with Madeleine O’Connor. She’s still singing to sold-out crowds in Las Vegas, but when Carrie St. Louis took the stage in Rock of Ages in New York this spring, she got a warm PA welcome. In the audience cheering her on were former Andover cast and crew mates Molly Shoemaker, Lucas McMahon, Abby Colella, James Flynn ’07, and Eli Grober ’09. Molly, who works as an artistic assistant at Signature Theatre Company (recently the recipient of a regional theatre Tony Award), says watching Carrie sing on Broadway was “surreal.” While “surreal” is not exactly the term he would use, Ben Schley also saw a bit of star power when he and Thomas Smyth met up in San Francisco at a fundraising dinner for Seth Moulton ’97, a former Marine who is challenging incumbent Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) for his congressional seat this fall. Other notable (though apolitical) meet-ups happened in New York when Katherine Chen and Chris Lim went on a winter hangout spree and spent time with Sophie Scolnik-Brower, Anna Tenzing, Bryce Frost, Miguel Tavarez, Obinna Igbokwe, Lizzy Chan, and Sarah Gordon. In a brilliant strategic move that in no way suggests a conflict of interest, NYU Wagner grad student Mikaela Sanders took an administrative position at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she will be helping to provide tuition remission for graduate programs at, you guessed it, NYU Wagner. She didn’t go to Andover for nothing, that one. Joining the growing ranks of ’08ers in grad school, Stephanie Schuyler matriculated at Harvard Law School this fall. Chris Lim is also going back to school, though by our reckoning it’s not clear he ever left. After teaching high school physics and chemistry in Richmond, Va., for two years, Chris is ditching the adolescents to join Yale University’s biological and biomedical sciences program, in the biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology track. Before diving into all that biology, Chris planned to lead his last trip as an Overland summer service counselor in Hawaii. Switching time zones, big congratulations are in order for Kelicia Hollis, who received a Critical Language Enhancement Award along with a research Fulbright to study in China. She can’t wait to tap into the growing PA community in East Asia; that community will soon include world traveler and math teacher extraordinaire Kate Farrell, who is leaving the leafy confines of Kimball Union Academy to begin a two-year stint teaching in Singapore. Donations to the sendyour-class-secretary-to-Asia fund can be made by check or money order to my private bank account in Switzerland. Andover | Fall 2014
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