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It was a true Andover wedding when Audrey Deguire and Stephen Turro, both Class of ’04, got married on campus last summer; the bride and groom met on their first day at PA in 2001.
wrote from Portland, Maine, on their way to meet up with Matt Longley and his wife, Shaalini Ramanadhan. The longtime pair joined Phil and Kaitlin as a classmate couple when they married this past fall! Phil is currently in Chicago, finishing graduate school at UChicago, while Kaitlin is on a posting for work in Maine. The two have stayed close to fellow Chicago resident Tom Oliphant, who is finishing graduate school at Northwestern. Tom has also kept up with Yuki Watanabe, who now lives in Schaumburg, Ill., just west of the city. On a business trip to San Francisco this past fall, Yuki also connected with Justin Ko, James Chou, Seb, and Erik for some drinks. Chris Skipper is also in the Midwest, carrying the ’03 flag in Detroit and keeping tabs on his former Stearns buddies Tom, Greysen Carlson, and Phil. Nate Meltzer reported from Asheville, N.C., where he has been submitting research and presenting at industry conferences for outdoor education. During the day, Nate is an instructor for both the National Outdoor Leadership School and United World College USA. While in New England over the holidays, he caught up with several classmates, including Gardner Gould, Liz Vazquez, and Molly Hauptman; he also reconnected with Emily Guerin ’04 when she traveled through Asheville this fall. In some exciting news, Rashid Galadanci married his Dartmouth sweetheart, Christina Douglas, in Southampton, N.Y., last summer. They enjoyed celebrating with longtime friends from ’03, including Bob Yamartino and fiancée Denise Tsai, Zach Cafritz, Nick Ingaciola, best man Dave Hill, and Dave’s fiancée, Lirra. Other PA classes were well represented by Kristina Guild Douglass ’02, Sam Levenback ’04, Hadi Husain ’00, Ben Heller ’05,
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Christina Chaplin ’00 married Mikel Vitoria Carrero near San Sebastian, Spain, last September. From left are the groom and bride, father of the bride Philip T. Chaplin ’73, and bridesmaid Cari Shiffman ’00.
and Ben’s wife, Kaylea Nelson ’04. After a welldeserved honeymoon to Italy and France, Rashid and Christina have returned to NYC. Bob is preparing for a great 2014: He and his fiancée, Denise Tsai, are wedding planning, after getting engaged in 2013. The day after the Galadanci wedding, Bob also graduated from UConn’s law school, where his class selected him to speak on the big day. After passing the Massachusetts bar, he and Denise moved to Boston, where Bob started as an associate at Sullivan & Worcester. The two are excited to be back in the same city as Bob’s good pals Alex Minasian and Evan Panich. Meg Coffin married longtime boyfriend Nate Kellogg ’05 in June in Kennebunkport, Maine, cheered on by many classmates and Nyssa Liebermann as a bridesmaid. Nyssa graduated from Harvard Business School last summer and has joined Lucy Keating and Tony Pucillo in LA, where she is working for Bain. That’s it from here. Stay safe, and stay in touch!
2004 10th REUNION June 13–15, 2014 Emma Sussex 214 Court St., 3rd Floor Brooklyn NY 11201 702-378-6695 emmajcsussex@gmail.com
Hi, everyone. I hope this edition of the class notes finds you happy and healthy! Thanks to so many of you for writing and letting me know what you have
been up to. Lolita Munos Taub left IBM last year and traveled to Burkina Faso with the Peace Corps, but she had to return to the States due to illness. This year, she and her now husband, Josh, took a trip that covered Southeast Asia, India, a little bit of the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. They volunteered at an AIDS women’s community center in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; she says seeing people help with so much heart and passion was life-changing. After returning home from Africa, Lolita and Josh moved from Los Angeles to La Jolla, Calif., married, and started new jobs; Josh started his own online business, and Lolita took a new job as Cisco Systems’ tribal gaming and hospitality account manager in Southern California. Laura “Lily” Kelly and her husband, Dan Adamsky ’06, along with their two cats, have made a westward move to Oakland, Calif. Lily is still working with Global Green USA but now supporting the organization’s S.F. Bay Area activities and continuing her work on packaging recycling alternatives. Ian Hafkenschiel is living in Santa Cruz, Calif., four blocks from the ocean, and working with a lawyer and entrepreneur on insurance litigation and a rooftop agriculture startup. His funk band, Shamma Mama, plays shows in town and recorded an EP this January. Ian’s event-publishing startup, theWimzy, is still bootstrapping and chugging along. He sees Jason French whenever Jason is not extremely busy working on his game business, Fantasy Hip Hop, and Ian recently ran into Brent Vale in line to buy snacks at the movies. Rohit Acharya is starting a new whiskey company called Workhorse Rye, which will be based in San Francisco. The company will age rye in red-wine barrels so that it has the color and the nose of red wine; it’s also coming out with bitters,