www.andover.edu/intouch 2001 15th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com
Members of the Class of ’01 continue to rise through the ranks in their industries and bring beautiful new babies into the world. We are gearing up for our 15th Reunion this June and are pumped to get the gang back together! Update of the quarter goes to Will Chan, who at this writing was volunteering for a few weeks in Lesvos, Greece, where many refugees arrive in boats from nearby Turkey and then await EU processing. He has found it inspiring to see how many ordinary people step in to fill gaps left by governments and NGOs. Carly Rockstroh was promoted to director at PwC earlier this year and is currently leading their account at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among other public sector financial services clients. Carly moved up to Chevy Chase, Md., a year and a half ago and is having fun with her puppy, Sieger. Debbie Linder is still rocking on the faculty at Tufts Veterinary School and has also recently become associate director of the Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction. Her current project involves bringing therapy animals to visit children with cancer at nearby UMass Medical Center. With this new project, she gets to see Mara Meyer Epstein and her daughter, Hannah, as Mara works at UMass. Vanessa Nickerson is still living in Denver and had a glorious trip to Costa Rica over Christmas with her boyfriend, Jeff Forbes, along with her family. Vanessa also began a new position as a criminal law associate with Hernandez & Associates, P.C., a boutique criminal-defense and immigration law firm. Helen Ho has been working for Vanguard in Malvern, Penn., for the past four years, since graduating from business school. She had a great, relaxing holiday hanging out with Meredith Chin. Ashley Foster Sellers is finishing an MBA degree program this spring at Kellogg in Chicago and participated in an exchange program in Melbourne, Australia, for a bit this winter. She loved escaping the Chicago winter and enjoying the 80-degree weather every day. Raquel Leonard Moreno is still doing well with husband Orlando in Philadelphia. They enjoyed a quiet holiday season and celebrated Hanukkah for the first time with local friends. Just before the holidays, Nekia Durant came to visit Raquel for a day of vegging out and catching up. Stephanie Araujo also visited Raquel down in Philadelphia, and her visit coincided with the FringeArts festival, where they saw an artistic performance by the Leah Stein Dance Company.
This past November, Misty Muscatel ’01 married James Davis in Boston, with many Andover friends sharing in the celebration (all Class of ’01, except as noted). Front, from left: Alida Payson, Caitlin Henningsen, Ella Hoffman, Amita Singh, Marion Read (obscured), the bride and groom, Ruth Weiner ’66, Sarah Kline, Nicholas Ma, Paige Austin, Stefani Kovach ’02, and Nate Beck. Back row: Greg Sherman, Danielle Vardaro, Rachel Weiner, Josh Aisenberg ’00, Tom Beaton ’73, Erin Winkler, and Smita Singh.
In Class of 2034 news, Susie Dickson and her husband, Jamie DeGraw, recently welcomed their first child, Dickson McEachern DeGraw. Dickson met his Andover aunties Marion Read and Erin Winkler, who also live in San Francisco, and looks forward to meeting the rest of the ’01 crew. Marion has had an amazing time with her new son, Malcolm, including introducing him to Andover aunties Susie Dickson and Erin Winkler at home in San Francisco and the whole crew at my wedding in Boston. Marion returned to work at O’Melveny & Myers in January. James Kenly and wife Kristen welcomed their second child, Andrew Robert Kenly, last August. Scott Darci came to Denver over Halloween and James’s daughter dressed him up as a “big kittycat” for trick-or-treating! The Kenly family gets to see Greg Kimball and Kate Kimball regularly, now that they’ve moved to Boulder, Colo., and they see Steve Dise ’97 occasionally, as their kids are in the same play group. James also finished an MBA degree program at the University of Denver in August. Gavin McGrath and wife Amanda are excited to become a family of five this June, as they anticipate the arrival of their third child. In the Big Apple, Ife Babatunde is working for LinkedIn. I heard from Elka Gruenberg, who will graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) this spring with a master’s degree in global fashion management. The program has taken her to Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. In New York, she has been working for French lingerie brand Simone Pérèle as their fit expert and also as Northeast account executive. While flying back from Hong Kong, Elka ran into Christine Lee in the airport; Christine was on her way to Myanmar. Over on the West Coast, Kevin Sinclair, Brad Meacham, and I met up for dinner in LA over the winter. Liesl Beecher-Flad got married
to Antonio Sirabella, a delightful, kind, and handsome “Mainer,” at San Francisco City Hall the Thursday before Labor Day. Christine Lee and Shanna Bowie were in attendance at the small reception afterward, held at the Mill Valley, Calif., home of Liesl’s father, Ward Flad ’68. Liesl has been working at the Togus campus of the VA Maine Healthcare System as a licensed clinical psychologist in primary care, striving each day toward better integration between primary care and mental health. The newlyweds are living in Hallowell, Maine (aka “New Orleans on the Kennebec”), in a converted mill apartment. Liesl is very much looking forward to the 15th Reunion in June, especially since it’s now just a drive away and she doesn’t risk missing her flight! In other nuptial news, I tied the knot with James Davis in November at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel with a serious Andover and ’01 crowd to share the special day. The weekend turned out to be beautiful, sunny, and brisk, with the foliage holding out for us, letting out-of-town guests enjoy their time in Boston. Joining in the festivities were Alida Payson, who traveled from Wales, Nate Beck, who traveled from Alaska, Marion Read and Erin Winkler, who came in from the West Coast, and Amita Singh and Smita Singh, who came in from Chicago, as well as East Coasters Paige Austin, Nicholas Ma, Greg Sherman, Ella Hoffman, Caitlin Henningsen, Josh Aisenberg ’00, Stef Kovach ’02, Tom Beaton ’73, and Ruth Weiner ’66. Rachel Weiner was by my side as a bridesmaid, and Sarah Kline read an amazing Big Blue blessing during the ceremony. We are so excited for this next chapter and were happy to have been surrounded by so much Andover love during our wedding. We followed up the fun with a safari honeymoon in Africa this February. These are our last notes before our 15th Reunion! We are so ready! Andover | Summer 2016
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