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2011 Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu Oriekose Idah 8 Sycamore Lane Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 oidah0608@gmail.com Kevin Song 1 Windy Hill Road Green Brook NJ 08812 kevin@andover11.com
When Charlotte Cleveland ’11 took part in the Passavant Cotillion and Christmas Ball in Chicago in December, several classmates were in attendance. Seated, from left, are Elizabeth Carrolo and Carolyn Harmeling. Standing, from left, are Marilyn Hewett, Melina Prentakis, Charlotte, Elizabeth Kelly, Emily Kent, and Emily Timm.
real change in policy and practice in local and global organizations and communities. Emily Hutcheson-Tipton happily welcomed her daughter, Alice, into the world in late July 2013. She is busy being a new mom and working toward a degree in English and elementary education at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Brenna Liponis reports that she hopes to graduate from Dartmouth College with a double major in economics and Chinese this spring and will work for Trinity Partners, a life-science consulting firm in Boston, starting in July. Julie Xie finished her term as managing editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, where she’s been writing and editing since freshman year at Penn. She’s been interning for the Philadelphia Inquirer this semester and says she “has no idea what’s coming after graduation!” Mari Miyachi graduated from MIT last May and is now living in San Francisco, working for a startup. This past November, Katie Riley’s field hockey team (Bowdoin) won the NCAA Division 3 national championship, playing against Summer Washburn ’11 (Salisbury) in the finals. After the season, Katie was also named an All-American! Calista Small and Serena Gelb journeyed across the Swedish Lapland together to visit the Ice Hotel, located inside the Arctic Circle. They went dogsledding, tried cloudberries, and saw reindeer. “It was a blast,” they say. “Looking forward to 2010’s five-year reunion.” J.P. Harrington is about to graduate from Dartmouth after taking a year off from classes to work as an editor-in-chief of a campus newspaper as well as work in the “real world.” He is excited to start work in New York City next year and has large plans for the future. “More details to come next time!” he says.
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Caroline Gezon had fun seeing Whitney Ford, Claire King, Katherine Sherrill, Alex Farrell, Sophie Fourteau, Nathalie Sun, and many more fellow Andover ’10 alums at Whitney’s 21st birthday party in NYC this past December. Anne Hunter is excited to report, “This academic year has been amazing so far!” She got an internship in the development office at Smith, began her fourth year on the Smith varsity equestrian team, and got engaged! If all goes as planned, she says, she’ll graduate with a philosophy degree and head to work in the development office of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. John Turiano will graduate this spring from Fordham University with a degree in international political economy. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He just spent the past year plus a few months living in Milan and Moscow, including a stint in the American Embassy in Moscow. “But don’t make me talk about it,” he says, “or I may have to kill you.” Kelvin Jackson is graduating this spring with a double concentration in linguistics and computer science. At Brown, he has gained proficiency in two languages, learned to program, and taken part in seven Gilbert & Sullivan shows, while “managing to come out of my shell a bit more.” Mathew Kelley is currently a senior concentrating in East Asian studies at Brown. This past summer, he met up with a bunch of Andover alums, including Liz Lavin and Nonye Odukwe, in Beijing while he was interning at City Weekend magazine. He’s looking forward to finding work in China after graduation. Sophia Bernazzani graduated from George Washington University. She’s currently finishing an internship at the Center for Global Development and hopes to stay in DC.
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We received a handwritten note from Albert Magnell. Albert is in his third year at Oxford, as a member of New College reading for an MBiochem. Over the summer, he worked at Princeton and made a small discovery on the reversibility of the arginine deimination in histones. Albert presented his work at a poster session in front of a couple hundred people. More recently, Albert has been working at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, studying the photo assembly of the water-oxidizing complex of photosystem II in thermophilic cyanobacteria. He expects his work to get published. In addition to Albert’s strides at Oxford, the Class of 2011 took to jet-setting, as many members of our class traveled overseas this semester. Natasha Vaz studied abroad in Spain, and Chioma Ngwudo spent her time in London, but the friends met up in Ireland to do some sightseeing. Chioma then traveled to Rome to visit Jess Holley. The two enjoyed nights out dancing and savoring Italian cuisine. Nneka Anunkor is spending this school year at Yonsei University in Korea. She has loved immersing herself in Korean culture. Nneka spent some time with Andrew Cho ’12 and his family for a nice dinner in Seoul. Mike MacKay studied abroad at Oxford, where he took on some diplomatic adventures, including a trip to Warsaw, Poland, to attend the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Matt Appleby followed suit, attending Stanford’s Oxford program in the spring. Max Queenan, Thomas Armstrong, Cal Brooks, and Jeb Roberts had a little Pease House reunion during winter break up in Vermont. Braving the minus-30-degree weather, Cal hosted the young men of Pease. The gentlemen drove through the New Year’s snowstorm and skied at Stratton Mountain in Vermont for a few days. Patrick Brady, Adam Levine, and Ben Brodie enjoyed a much-needed reunion lunch at LaRosa’s in downtown Andover. It was great to catch up and reminisce over Andover adventures. The young men reportedly “had a lot of laughs—or LOLz?”