stay connected... Equity Partners as a financial analyst in technology M&A and venture capital; he frequently catches up with Ola Canty. Ola took a small reunion vacation to Miami and the Florida Keys with Lindsay Agostinelli, Jack Pettit, and Michelle Nguyen— they are looking for trip suggestions for next year and welcome anyone who wants to join! Allison Callery works in DC for Booz Allen Hamilton. John Gwin works for McKinsey in New York; he spent four months of last year working on a project in New Zealand and Australia. He caught up with Becky Greenberg, Eliot Wall, Dominick DeJoy, Henry Frankievich, Yoni Gruskin, and Emma Wood at various PA events in NYC. Emma planned to move to San Francisco in March to freelance before starting an MFA program in the fall. Evan Moore is also planning to start an MFA program next year. Ale Moss has moved back to New York after eight months of work and adventure in Australia; a number of other classmates enjoyed adventures in Australia last year, including Lola Dalrymple, Natalie Kaiser, and Polly Sinclair. Morgan Broccoli is currently taking a year off from medical school, working for the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. Maura Mulroy is keeping busy down in Jupiter, Fla. When work isn’t taking up her time, Maura volunteers at the local animal shelter and helps foster dogs. Ryan Ferguson is still living in Washington, D.C., working in the statefederal relations office for Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. In DC, he frequently sees Komaki Foster. Over Christmas, Ryan met up with Steve Farquhar and the recently engaged Mike DeFilippo in Andover (congratulations, Mike). Colleen Thurman is in her second year of Tufts veterinary school and enjoying life back in Massachusetts. This past winter, she spent time in Nicaragua with her family and reports it was a much-needed break from the otherwise long winter. Last summer, Colleen completed a research project through the National Institutes of Health. She is slowly returning from a second ACL surgery, but the extra recovery time last summer allowed her to make great progress on her writing and cooking. Colleen and Katharine Matsumoto are releasing a follow-up to their first coauthored cookbook. Here’s hoping this one is an even bigger success. Katharine recently moved back to the Bay Area for her new job. She is excited to be a data scientist at Salesforce. com. Living in San Francisco has long been a goal of hers, and Katharine is even happier with longtime friend Michaella Chung. Danny Silk has been busy working in Cambridge this winter but gets to see Andover friends pretty regularly. He recently saw Brooks Canaday in Boston. Danny also visits NYC a good deal. He met up with Jocelyn Gully in Manhattan recently. Jocelyn was in town visiting her parents; the Gully family recently moved to New York, after many years as Andover staples. Their former home a few blocks from campus will always be fondly remembered.
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Biggest ’08 gathering of the season goes to Ben Schley, who hosted a mess of Andover boys in Montana in December; Foster Jebsen, Lambros Theofanidis, Zach Feldman, Evan Hawk, Edwin Muniz, Paul Joo, Zach Dixon, Steve Bury, Kevin Zhai, Oliver Bloom, Will Eastman and Chris Waskom descended on Ben and Dana Feeny’s family cabins in Whitefish, Mont. Like good Montanans, the guys divided their week between the shooting range and snowshoeing trails. Eclectic modes of transportation brought the crew together: for Bury and Dixon, the trip started with a 43-hour train from Chicago to Whitefish, and for Eastman and Feldman, redirected flights necessitated a sevenhour rental-car ride through a snowstorm, traveling from Spokane, Wash., to Montana. Back in civilization, Simone Salvo visited Tessa Pompa, Sara Ho, Alyssa Warren, and me (Mary Doyle) in the Bay Area in November. We took on San Francisco, joined by Dan Bacon ’06 and Will Hunckler, as well as Napa, where Simone toured us around the Oxbow School, where she spent Upper fall semester as part of the school’s magical arts program. Also relishing life in northern California, Hillary Baker is working for an awesome organization, EducationSuperHighway, bringing high-speed Internet to public schools across the U.S. Hugh Edmundson recently left his job at Morgan Stanley to found a company under the guidance of Y Combinator, a startup incubator in San Francisco. Two more ’08 wedding engagements to announce! Abby Hoglund, who is living and teaching in Hong Kong (where she sees John Heroy often), is engaged to her college boyfriend, Justin Shen. Alyssa Yamamoto is recently engaged as well and is living in San Francisco. Sophie Scolnik-Brower just started a master’s degree program in piano performance at New England Conservatory in Boston. Sophie occasionally goes dancing with Elena Jacobson and runs into Jess Cole on the bus. Abby Colella is at Harvard Law School and loves living in Cambridge. Lindsey Branson Crosby is starting grad school for genetic counseling in the fall; she and her husband had a belated December honeymoon in Antigua and had an incredible time! In the lovely South/Southwest: Alex Tayara is living near Dallas, writing and performing music,
working in a café, and settling into her new city. Carrie St. Louis continues to make a splash in the theatre world as the lead of Rock of Ages in Las Vegas; she’s hitting her 400th show and the rave reviews and accolades keep coming! Alix Peabody, Chad Hollis, Kiara Brereton ’09, Olivia Pei ’07, Sarah Beattie ’07, and Sara Nickel ’07 have all stopped by the Venetian to see her show. In New York, Chris Lim spent New Year’s Eve with Katherine Chen, Obinna Igbokwe, Miguel Tavarez, Bryce Frost, Ella Kidron, and Lizzy Chan. Chris is living in Richmond, Va., teaching high school physics. Paul Hsiao, Andrew Chan, Mike Zhan, and Alex Wong ’07 wished Chris Cheung farewell as Chris left New York for a new job in Shanghai. Philip Meyer visited Jonathan Adler and Lucas McMahon in New York in December. Phil is still living in LA, Jonathan is still writing for Jimmy Fallon, and Lucas is still the right-hand guy for Broadway producer Kevin McCollum. I had dinner with Lucas and Molly Shoemaker in New York shortly after New Year’s and got to watch NYC get swallowed up by a snowstorm before I jetted back to California. Margaux Cerruti is in NYC, working at Whitewall magazine, where she coordinates the Chinese edition. Perks of the gig include sponsored trips to art shows in China! Mikaela Sanders is living in Brooklyn and working at Rosie O’Donnell’s nonprofit arts-education organization, Rosie’s Theater Kids, while also attending grad school at NYU part time, in an MPA program. Liz MacMillan, Caitlin Feeney, Sarah Pucillo, and Kimbo Chang have a weekly date night in Lower Manhattan. Liz is working at a sustainabledesign architecture firm and loves it. Caitlin is a paralegal and is starting law school at Cornell in the fall. Nick Anschuetz and John Burke saw Phish at Madison Square Garden on New Year’s Eve; it was Nick’s 65th Phish concert and John’s first. Adam Giansiracusa saw Katherine Chen, Anna Tenzing, and Joel Camacho in NYC while he visited between work in Chicago and a trip to his family’s home in Kenya. Now stay with me in Kenya, move one country to the west, and we have Kelly Lacob, who has been working with Clinton Health Access Initiative in Uganda for the past six months. With the help of private sector partners, she’s improving access to medicine that can treat pediatric diarrhea and severe malaria. Also up to amazing work is James Sawabini, who is building out Zamsolar, the Zambia-based solar energy organization that he cofounded with Thomas Smyth (who recently moved to San Francisco). One ocean away, Rajit Malhotra is working for the Parthenon Group in Mumbai, India, where he’s helping the region’s international schools become financially sustainable. For anyone who hasn’t gotten on the train already: Subscribe to Murphy Temple’s Instagram feed for lust-worthy images of the Andover campus on a regular basis. You only have until Murphy’s teaching-fellow year wraps up in June, so hurry. Blue love. —Mary