www.andover.edu/intouch Emily Timm reports that Charlotte Cleveland participated in a formal debutante ball cotillion in Chicago, Ill. Charlotte’s entourage included Elizabeth Kelly, Elizabeth Carrolo, Carolyn Harmeling, Melina Prentakis, Marilyn Hewett, Emily Kent, and Emily Timm. At the cotillion, the girls ran into fellow ’11ers Will Adams and Mick Wopinski, dressed to the nines in tails. We are counting down the days until our Fifth Reunion! [Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Mark Adamsson passed away on March 5, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]
2012 Kennedy Edmonds kennedyedmonds@gmail.com Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Ryan Ramos 700 Commonwealth Ave., Box 3232 Boston MA 02215 917-841-0294 ryan.alexander.ramos@gmail.com
and saw Angela Batuure, Nikita Singareddy, M.J. Engel, and Unwana Abasi. Suzanne is living in Hawaii for two months with Max Schorr ’99, working on a startup, and will be visiting Haonan Li in Singapore. Ali Belinkie, Madeline Silva, Topher Hedley, Edward Mole, M.J. Engel, JJ Hayward, Pearson Goodman, Amanda Chatupron-Lacayo, and Andrea Hewett attended an alumni meeting in Washington, D.C. Unwana Abasi hosted Rashana Shabazz, Didi Oyinlola, Gabbi Fisher, Christopher Amendano, and Jonathan Thompkins in her dorm room at Harvard during Andover-Exeter weekend. Jimmy Hunter could not make it to Andover-Exeter but instead visited Jen Sluka and Virginia Fu in NYC. He also had breakfast with Arianna Chang and Aiganym Zhumashova. M.J. Engel and Unwana Abasi visited Alexi Bell at West Point to watch Army play Navy in volleyball. Adrienne Pisch graduated from U.S. Army Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training, earning the right to call herself an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army Reserve. Christiana Nguyen and Erin Wong have had brunch every Saturday to get some killer Instagram photos and chat about their fellow alumni. Erin planned to start at UCLA this spring. Over Christmas break, Sam Green stayed with Topher Hedley in Vail, Colo., where they spent a day skiing with Franco D’Agostino, Maia Hirschler, Olivia Bren, and Zach Merchant. Madeline Silva and Tahera Doctor visited Jackie Murray to decorate her house. Anna Stacy played the lead, Phyllis, in Brown University Gilbert & Sullivan’s production of Iolanthe and ate fish and chips with Sirus Han.
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MJ Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com
George and Pat Edmonds 45 Martingale Lane Andover MA 01810 978-475-3193 gandp@comcast.net
Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com
Devon Burger is spending her gap year working as an au pair in Salzburg, Austria, and traveling in her spare time to places like Paris and Budapest. Alexandra Donovan visited her over her winter break. Gina Sawaya rushed Tri Delta, and Amanda Zhu joined a coed fraternity. Suzanne Wang worked in NYC as an intern for GOOD/Corps
As we pick up the quill for these notes, we hope to maintain the fine tradition established by Sherm Drake, Elaine and Carroll Bailey, and Jennie and Andy Cline in providing a wide variety of reports for this column. Please help us by writing, e-mailing, or phoning your news. We are “equal opportunity” editors and, over time, hope to include news from all. To guide our beginning here, we talked with our predecessors to gain their good advice and also to receive the following news from them. Jennie and Andy Cline reported, “We continue to enjoy the beauty of Acadia National Park, where Andy is now a tour guide, and the community of Southwest Harbor, Maine, where we both are active and Jennie is working to organize a food co-op. We also cherish time spent on projects
in Andy’s wood shop and in Jennie’s art studio. Despite Jennie’s having to undergo a second round of chemotherapy, we seize every opportunity to be with our children and grandchildren (now 5, 2 1/2 , and 2). We plan to spend March in the San Francisco area, where son Kevin ’97 and his family live.” Elaine and Carroll Bailey have sold their charming Rose Cottage and decided to stay in Andover in the Atria Marland Place retirement community, where they had been living, presumably temporarily, while Elaine was undergoing chemotherapy. Elaine showed her traditional spirit (and her renewed energy from what appears so far to be a recovery from cancer) by decorating one of the Marland Place floors for Christmas. Carroll, unfortunately, continues to experience declining eyesight but still has his friendly voice and welcomes telephone calls. From Middlebury, Vt., Sherm Drake proudly told us that Dottie Drake celebrated her 90th birthday in September at a family gala in Ogunquit, Maine, and that he advanced to 92 on Thanksgiving. Given such longevity in Vermont, we decided to check on other Andover Vermonters to see what the Green Mountain State offers to Andover emeriti. From South Strafford, Jon Stableford ’63 writes, “We have inevitably and eagerly settled into Vermont town life, which means volunteerism and community life, most notably [wife] Cindy as president of the library friends and I as trustee at a local town academy. We both are study leaders in Dartmouth’s continuing education program, we heat our house with wood, and by January we will have gone solar for all our electricity. We are happy and active and gladly welcome any of our Andover friends who find themselves in central Vermont.” From farther north, Nat Smith writes, “Cilla [Bonney-Smith] and I are fortunate on many counts. We live in a lovely house with a great view in the friendly community of the very small Vermont town of Greensboro. With the usual aches and pains of advancing age, we enjoy good health; we walk, ski, and golf nearby in Vermont. All seven of our children are married, with James and Phil living nearby. All seven of our grandchildren work or go to school in New England. So we ‘babysit’ and go to their various dance and sport events. This year, Cilla celebrated her 70th by joining Ruth Quattlebaum and Marlys Edwards on a bike trip in Spain; Nat won a couple of small-time golf tournaments even though the ball ‘just doesn’t go as far anymore.’ We both work with a variety of local organizations. Cilla (of course) does flowers for church every Sunday and arranges for a wedding florist in summer. She does her walking-ladies group and spends many hours volunteering for the local retirement home. Nat does not do any flowers, preferring to serve on the zoning board, golf committees, land trust, and the water department, where his engineering background gets stimulated. He wants his Morse colleagues to know that he still hasn’t spotted a logarithm anywhere in town. We very much enjoy still being counted as part of the Andover | Spring 2014
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