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Gathered in New York City to celebrate the wedding of Gene Park ’92, second from left, were PA classmates Taek Kwon, Ken Lee, and Larry Shin.
From left, Sam Royal ’89, Sam’s son Cameron, and Jose Ahedo ’89 soaked up the sun last June in Honolulu, where the Royal and Ahedo families vacationed together.
no problem keeping herself busy. Apparently unable to stop being an architect outside of the office, she is in the final stages of finishing a scale replica of the Memorial Bell Tower made out of blue and white Legos! Also, after seeing old hockey buddies Alison Wheeler Kennedy ’93 and Amanda Adams ’93, Lucie has decided to get the skates out of storage and hit the ice. She also had a great time catching up with Uche Osuji and Tiffany Corley at the New York PA holiday party. Lucie reports that Sasha Kipka just moved two blocks away and that they enjoy being “neighborhoodies.” Thank you for the news, and I look forward to staying in touch. All the best. —Matt
1992 Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles CA 90065 allen.soong@bluelink.andover.edu facebook.com/allen.soong
As I write this, we have just turned the page on 2013, and Baby New Year is/will be in good company. Agnes Nagpal Cantre and Julio Cantre welcomed baby Benjamin Cantre in the final month of the year, joining big sister Paloma. Justin Lattanzio and his wife, Hillary, planned to introduce baby Celia to their two boys Luke and Samuel in May, and Dylan Seff and his wife, Jordan, will begin several months of eternal twilight with the arrival of their twin girls. I remember being simultaneously awake and asleep for most of the first half-year with my twin girls,
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Avery and Penelope. Happily, I can attest from personal experience that, while it is absolutely true that twins are more than twice the effort, they’re much more than twice the reward. Good luck, Dylan! From his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., Justin writes that he owns and manages a custom crush winery, Vinify Wine Services (www.vinifywine. com), and also makes a small amount of pinot noir and chardonnay for his own label, Lattanzio Wines. He invites any and all to come visit his small tasting room at Vinify and sample his products. If you’re a little too far from Sonoma County to swing by, you can place an order at www.lattanziowines.com. Tricia Riley Terlep also now has three kids. Daughters Lucy, 5, and Penny, 3, became big sisters to baby Charlie, born in the early months of 2013. Tricia keeps up with her growing brood’s needs as an audiologist in private practice in Maryland. Speaking of private practice, imagine my surprise on a flight to Seattle when I picked up the Alaska Airlines in-flight magazine and found Justin Piasecki’s grinning mug and bulging biceps staring back at me, from a full-page ad for Justin’s plastic surgery practice. Looking good, big guy! Last November, Gene Park married Young Choi at a quintessential Manhattan wedding in Bryant Park. The black-tie affair was replete with family and friends, including Bishop Southers Taek Kwon and girlfriend Akane Fuji, Ken Lee and wife Rebecca, and Larry Shin. The event was topped off with a sparkler send-off for the happy couple. Many of you may recall Darryl Cohen’s skills on the wheels of steel from the last couple of reunions; Darryl, another former Bishop resident, DJed the Todd Isaac memorial basketball game last September in NY, where he ran into Anthony Aime and Gene Park. Along with his live DJ gigs, Darryl is now hosting an Internet radio show called Legacy Radio on itsfreshradio.com every Friday from 7 to 8 p.m. EST. Darryl’s side job for the census bureau is parsing data that informs just about every major policy decision in Washington; Christian Lentz arranged for Darryl to speak at a February seminar for the geography department at UNC Chapel Hill, where Christian is a professor. Supermom and product designer extraordinaire Heidi Newell crashed at my house on her way to running the Death Valley Trail Marathon after Thanksgiving. (That’s one way to work off the turkey
dinner, I guess!) Bad enough it was below freezing when the race started, but the route had also changed at the last minute because of the weather, quadrupling the planned elevation change from 2,500 feet to a knee-buckling 10,000 feet. A quick recovery swim at the Inn at Furnace Creek the next morning, and she was motoring through the Eastern Sierras, back in the Bay Area in time to do ballet pickup and cook dinner. Our class definitely seems to have more than its fair share of endurance athletes. Daphne Matalene and Anant Raut and their obsession with the number 26.2 have been mentioned in these notes before; perhaps you may not have known that Matt Cahan continues to compete and raise funds for charity in marathons and triathlons, 10 years after major surgery on his ankle and knee. Nicole Quinlan, no stranger to triathlons herself (including the infamous Alcatraz), planned to run the Boston Marathon with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team in April to raise money for cancer research. And finally, in case you might not have already heard or read, in November, Hafsat Abiola received the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction for her advocacy work to end violence against and create opportunities in public life for women in Nigeria. Hafsat spoke at All-School Meeting on Oct. 30 as an exemplar of the Andover motto finis origine pendet; you can stream a recording at http:// bit.ly/1dIwToc. In that inimitably soft and tranquil voice of hers that belies the strength and determination within, Hafsat shared with her young audience how her time at Andover prepared her for both the triumphs and the tragedies to come. When she was young, her father called her “supergirl”; later in life, Hafsat would have to be truly superhuman to face the challenges in her home country as well as her own household. At Andover, she found a safe place to explore and define her values, teachers who encouraged and believed in her, and, in her history classes, inspiration from real-life superheroes like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. If you can spare a few minutes, please watch the video. It is a heartfelt and funny (even cheeky) reverie that vividly reminded me of how special a place it is that we all shared. I’m sure Cochran Chapel has rarely felt so intimate. [Editor’s note: See the winter Andover magazine for more about Hafsat Abiola.]