Andover magazine: Spring 2014

Page 113

www.andover.edu/intouch By the time you read this, Franny and Ian will have welcomed their first child, expected in March! Wedding bells are ringing all around for ’01ers, including Liz Edmonds, who got married this winter; Elizabeth Lotter and Alex Coppock ’02 were both in attendance. Amanda Barash and her fiancé, Ahmad Odetalla, who is also a teacher, plan a June wedding. Amanda rocked an ’01 brunch when Liesl came to NYC, with Matteo Natale, Ehi Oviasu-Kahn, Christine Lee, and Elka Gruenberg at Greenwich Project. Desiraé Simmons got engaged in October and will have Matteo Natale by her side in her bridal party. Farah Peterson and Eugene Sokoloff ’00 welcomed their first son, Serge Peterson Sokoloff, in August. Farah wrapped up a law clerkship and is now back at Princeton, working on her dissertation in American history. As for me, I’ve been staying busy with Andover involvements, including my first year serving as vice president of the Alumni Council. I’m still cranking away at Google, leading a newly formed team managing Unilever’s business, which has me working long hours but has been really exciting. I’ll be traveling a lot this year so will be hitting you up in every city I go to. I’m actually typing these notes on a plane to San Francisco, where I’ll be heading straight to dinner with Susie Dickson and Erin Winkler. Go Big Blue!

2002 Paul Crowley 919-724-5868 Skip.crowley@gmail.com Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 2118 Volcano HI 96785 Lauren9@gmail.com

Hey, Class of 2002! I hope you are all doing well. Here are your updates! Nadeem Mazen was elected to Cambridge City Council after running on a social justice, education, and affordable housing platform. His companies are doing well, with danger!awesome expanding into 2,000 square feet of education space in downtown Cambridge. Madeleine Fawcett recently became engaged and is planning a wedding for next December in Palm Beach, Fla., with several Andover alums in her wedding party, including Courtney Gimbel Bardo, Christie Checovich, Olivia Wilde, and Mariel O’Brien ’01. In December, Madeleine hosted her annual Christmas party, which brought Wills Hapworth, Jarrett Wetherell, and Matt Dougherty ’01 to Dumbo, Brooklyn. Travis Pantin appeared on the Today Show on NBC in early December, modeling winter clothes. Sam Spears graduated in May 2013 from Harvard Law School, where he was in the same firstyear section as Paige Austin ’01 and Emily Ma ’04; in November, he moved to Los Angeles to start

work at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where Baolu Lan is also working. Sam has been hanging out with Andrew Fenlon, who also moved to LA recently. Lillian Kingery is living in LA as well and worked as the props coordinator on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is currently in post-production and was scheduled for release in spring. She hosted a Thanksgiving feast in her apartment; Libby DeLacy and Kelsey Seipser were in attendance and had a wonderful time. Cassie Kaufmann got married in October to Tom Quick. Joining them at the wedding were Sam and Luke Spears, Tisse Takagi, Jess Duffett, Leanna Boychenko, Emily Selove, Michael Mueller, Ryan Coughlan, Lucy Greene ’00, Mike Mueller, and Kate Elliott. Tom O’Rourke and Farrell Curran got married June 15, 2013, in Marion, Mass. Joining them at the wedding were Tim Daniels ’01, Nat Carr ’00, Jack Judson, Ethan Liebermann ’00, Matt Kelly, Chloe Lewis, Pat Linnemann, and Freddie Martignetti. Adam Arguelles and Megan Eidman got married in May in Vermont, and “everything was absolutely perfect,” Adam reports. Andover attendees included Craig Ferraro ’03, Stephan Chischportich, Cranston Gray, Jim Gray ’66, Rachel Higbie, Tony Bitz, Eric Newman ’01, and John Pearson ’01. Adam has also gotten together with Jon Adler, Becca Wexler, Dan Cote, Annie Lowrey, Malik Lewis, Kate Dunn, and Kate Bach in DC a few times over the past few months. Emily Kumpel was married in December to Jay Taneja. Tisse and Natalie Ho celebrated with her. Emily roomed for two months in Nairobi with Gowri Vijayakumar and Josh Williams ’03. Derrick Bass and his wife, Shekhinah, were expecting a baby boy in early April to join their 3-year-old daughter, Saniyah. Alan Katz and his wife, Sheryl, were expecting a baby boy in March. Alan recently started a new import-export company in Miami. Jung-Eun Shin and her husband welcomed their second baby! Jung-Eun is occasionally holding art exhibitions in Singapore and Korea and is training to be a volunteer guide at the Singapore Art Museum. Lauren Nickerson moved back to Hawaii from DC. She is living on the Big Island with her boyfriend. They just bought their first house, and Lauren is running her own tutoring company. Jack Judson is living in Tucson, Ariz., teaching high school English and loving it. Sara Kitaeff joined a family law firm in Boston and is enjoying litigating. She hung out with Kwadwo Acheampong in Chicago in September. Keziban Barry produced a shoot and video at the Gramercy Park Hotel in NYC; she also traveled to Croatia with her sister, Heather Barry ’97, to celebrate her 30th birthday and to Spain for a photo and video shoot. She recently had her first solo photography show in NYC at the Norwood Club. Sean Mansfield hung out with Kwadwo at an Andover Chicago event with John Palfrey. Sean was accepted into Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and will be starting this year. Also

starting graduate school is Nilsen Miller, who entered a PhD program in statistics this past fall at Rutgers and saw Tisse Takagi at a party with a few of their college friends. In November, Roxanne Beinart defended her dissertation (deep sea biology) and started a postdoctoral position at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod in December. She and her husband, Andy, were also expecting a baby girl in March! Anna Barensfeld completed an MBA degree at Babson in August and moved to Boulder, Colo., last fall for a business development position at Skratch Labs, an active nutrition startup. After earning an MBA degree from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in June, Joanna Banks moved to Dallas to work as an analyst at ExxonMobil. Greg Martin started a new job as an assistant professor in the political science department at Emory University in Atlanta this past fall. Thanks, and I hope to hear from you soon, especially if your name wasn’t included above! —Paul

2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com

To kick things off, Pat Kinsel and his wife, Jill Ozzie ’05, welcomed a son in 2013, Edward Kinsel, adding to the ranks of our class’s children. The family lives in Boston, where Pat is active in the tech and startup communities and currently works for Polaris Partners. There were a lot of class reunions in the S.F. Bay Area this past winter. I kicked off the holidays with Matt Lindsay, Michael Ruderman, Margaret Ramsey, and Janis Rice for San Francisco’s annual SantaCon in December. Most of the same group also welcomed Tara Gadgil back to the Bay Area for a visit. After graduating from Stanford’s business school last summer, Tara moved to Boston for a new job. A couple of ’07 alumni also organized an all-class party, where ’03 had a strong showing, including Kanyi Maqubela and his lovely fiancée, Martha Muna, Krys Freeman, Tara Anderson, Erik Trautman, Morgan Intrator, and James Chou, among many. I visited NYC this past fall for work and caught up with my college roommate Andy Hattemer, who has settled into Brooklyn and who’s attended many of the Andover NYC functions. Also in NYC, Claire Reyner hosted a holiday brunch and caught up with old friends Matt London, Mari Ono, Lirra Schiebler, and Molly Hauptman. Matt and his wife, Jordan, visited San Francisco for Thanksgiving, where they caught up with longtime pals Janis Rice and Seb Benthall. The group met up with Erik Trautman at Dave Beyer’s Thanksgiving party, and with Sam Beattie and his fiancée, Julie Taylor, for Tara’s birthday party. Matt’s novel, The 8th Continent (the first in a planned series), will be published by Razorbill, a division of Penguin, in 2014. Phil Caruso and Kaitlin Ainsworth Caruso Andover | Spring 2014

111


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.