stay connected... their study-abroad location of choice, Paris. All three started their own fashion blogs and so naturally talked about all things fashion. In Germany, Emily Timm spent a semester in Vallendar, through a Washington University in St. Louis program. While traveling across Europe, she ran into Morgan Askew in Paris and Miranda Haymon ’12 in Berlin. Class of 2011 alumni were particularly active in Italy. Marilyn Hewett studied abroad in Florence, but not before visiting Kristina Rex, who was in Parma. Elsewhere in Italy, Eleonora Petrulli studied in Ferrara. During her time there, she met up with Kristina in Bologna to catch up and have a typical Italian lunch, complete with tiramisu, with Eleonora’s family. Eleonora had quite the story to tell about an excursion to Seville during Holy Week with Manuel Rubio: “While attending one of the many religious ceremonies, I noticed someone I knew in the crowd: it was Morgan [Askew]! I started screaming ‘Andover! Andover! Phillips Academy!’ to attract her attention. And it worked!” Chioma Ngwudo spent the entire academic year abroad at the London School of Economics. While there, Chioma explored Europe, immersed herself in the LSE community, and learned a bit of economics, of course! Chioma had the opportunity to make her first stage appearance in LSE’s African & Caribbean Society’s culture show, Ablaze. During the show, she enjoyed support from classmate Hana Kim. Afterward, Hana and Chioma danced the night away at the successful show’s after-party. Elsewhere in the world, Kerry Lanzo has been trotting all across the globe. After spending five months studying in Brussels with the undersecretary of NATO, during which time she met up with Thurston Smalley in Paris, Kerry embarked on a new adventure traveling the Balkans to study the Yugoslav wars and, on impulse, went to Seoul, South Korea, to teach Model United Nations in her most rewarding Model UN experience yet. Meanwhile, back in the States, Ken Tharp took a leave of absence last semester to work as an AmeriCorps youth crew leader in the Montana Conservation Corps. He spent the spring leading at-risk youth doing service work in the Montana wilderness. Oriekose “Orie” Idah and Sarah Jacobson ’10 reunited as resident staff members in a Stanford dorm and loved fostering a warm community among almost 90 freshmen. Kristina Ballard ran the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in Washington, D.C., in April and then spent an amazing week visiting Kira Wyckoff ’12 at UC Santa Barbara. Kristina wrote to us while looking forward to watching Fred Shepard ’10 graduate from Amherst College this past May. After enduring one of the coldest winters in South Bend, Ind., history, with temperatures dipping near -20°F, Kevin Song, at the University of Notre Dame, spent the spring semester designing and developing a new website for the daily student newspaper, the Observer. He is looking forward to
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assuming his new role as assistant managing editor in the upcoming year but not eager for winter to roll around again. Finally, defying all notions that Andover and Exeter students can’t be friends, Kevin, Eric Ouyang ’13, Gregory Hosono ’14, and Alex Jiang ’15, together with Exeter senior Brandon Wang, kicked off Sponsr.Us, a studentrun 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Through online fundraising and mentorship, they’ve enabled several student-run projects from across the nation to get off the ground. They’re excited to grow the program in the years to come. Three years out of Andover, the Class of 2011 continues to find opportunities to stay connected, whether it be in the U.S. or across the globe. We wish everyone the best as we move into our junior or senior year in college and look forward to hearing all of the stories from everyone as we pass the halfway mark to our first class reunion! Your class secretaries, Chris Batchelder, Orie Idah, Kevin Song, and Edith Young
2012 Kennedy Edmonds kennedyedmonds@gmail.com Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308- 6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781- 640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com Ryan Ramos 700 Commonwealth Ave., Box 3232 Boston MA 02215 917-841- 0294 ryan.alexander.ramos@gmail.com
Abigail Burman is continuing at Oxford, having lots of fun seeing Peter Larner and visiting with Janelle Lamb and Mia Dwyer. She always sees Tia Baheri in Washington, D.C., on breaks. While on break, Abigail also visited Miranda Haymon, who studied abroad in Berlin during her sopho-more spring semester and wrote, “I absolutely love this city. My host mother is great, my German is rapidly improving, and I’m seeing lots of plays.
I’ve tried at least 12 [insert pun about the Class of 2012 here] different kinds of bread, and wurst has become a staple food of my diet. There’s a lot of Andover in Berlin as well. Kate Mesrobian is also studying abroad here, so I see her all the time. I had brunch with Katy Svec ’10 and we talked about Drama Labs, and Emily Timm ’11 paid a visit to the city with her family.” Ezequiel “Izzy” Davila will also be doing some traveling abroad this year. Izzy wrote, “During the summer I worked to put Boston Fashion Week on the map. I’m working with local, grassroots designers on pictures and video for their work. Later in the summer, I’ll be traveling to Japan. I received a fellowship from Williams to photograph street fashion in Tokyo. I’ll be investigating the fashion culture there, wondering if it’s a form of resistance, appropriation, or a matter of outdoing one another. I’m super excited! In the fall, I’ll be studying in London at Westminster’s Art College (I’m a studio art major now).” Julia Quinn attended the tennis match honoring Mark Adamsson ’11, catching up with William “Trey” Jennings and Myles O’Neil there as they rooted on the team against Taft. Julia worked at a hospital this summer in Nantucket; Lydia Azaret and Sarah Freedman were also on the island, waitressing. Julia hoped to visit Rachel “Sage” Hunt, who was living in Boston for the summer. Daniel Schultz is enjoying NYC and taking advantage of all the museums and concerts. He is majoring in Germanic languages and cultural studies at Columbia and working part time for Canvasback Music, an imprint of Atlantic Records, doing mainly A&R. And he’s enjoyed spending time with fellow alums Dennis Zhou and Stella Girkins ’11, cavorting around the city. Haley Erskine saw Calvin Aubrey at a Tough Mudder in the Pocono Mountains, where the two were getting their “badass fitness” on. In other sporty news, Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker and her sister, Molly Shoemaker ’08, ran a halfmarathon in January at Walt Disney World. Derrick Choi went to Coachella 2014 and met up with Tobi Coker at the campsite. Derrick wrote, “We hung out and reminisced about our longgone Andover days.” Ben Manuel wrote in an e-mail, “I’m studying at Clemson University, enjoying running into Corbin Lee ’13 and Claudia Giles ’13 around campus. I reconnected with Zach Sturman in Charleston [S.C.] and had a blast reminiscing and enjoying the Charleston weather. I am working in Charleston for the summer at a solar company.” Matthew “Matt” Lloyd-Thomas has been spending most of his time at the Yale Daily News, where he frequently sees Julia Zorthian ’11, Sophie Gould ’11, and Rishabh Bhandari ’11. Matt also got to see Kian Ivey over winter break and for a weekend in March. Tananya “Ray” Thamthieng also caught up and hung out with Madeleine McClintic, Seika Nagao, and Marhelich Santos at the University of Pennsylvania. They celebrated St. Patrick’s Day and