www.andover.edu/intouch out with James Flynn ’07 and Abby Colella ’08. Mark Efinger ’74 recommended Las Canteras, the DC Peruvian restaurant co-owned by Gary Lee ’74, to Lisa, who now recommends that everyone should visit. In late August, Lisa moved to San Francisco for a new job. Rajeev Saxena moved to Seattle to start his otolaryngology residency. He’s been enjoying the transition to the city and has been hanging out with Julian Jacobson. He also met up with Carrie St. Louis ’08 and saw her amazing performance when Wicked was in town. After spending the summer at a health-care startup in Mumbai over the summer (and eating a lot of Indian food), John Lippe is enjoying dedicated time for learning and reflection provided by business school. He’s exploring general management roles within health-care-services organizations after he finishes school. Andrea Coravos left KKR last spring and spent five months at Dev Bootcamp learning how to code. She was able to catch up with Justin Yi when he stopped by Dev Bootcamp for lunch in July. Andrea is so happy about her career move, having graduated from the program in August. Emily Pollokoff is staying busy editing many theses and books on Tibet, Morocco, Egypt, Senegal, and India, traveling virtually through the books. She also teaches potty-training classes for parents of babies and toddlers. Her girls, Clara and Hazel, are growing rapidly and, she reports, becoming “wild ’n’ crazy gals”! Emily wrapped up the summer canning many of the apples from her neighbor’s yard. Emily and her husband, Elliott, look forward to attending reunion weekend in 2016! Caroline Pires, Gracia Angulo, Stephanie Sit, and Sarah McLean attended their second annual retreat to Onset, Mass., in August. They spent lots of time sunbathing on inflatable swans and T. rexes and eating Gracia’s famous key lime popsicles. Alina Chen was sorely missed. Rachel Isaacs, Eunice Hong, and Eunice’s boyfriend, Daniel Negless, visited Marysia Blackwood in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for two weeks in August. They hiked down into the AksuZhabagly Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan. Jeff Bakkensen attended Tom Tassinari’s wedding in August, as did Alex Campbell, Aaron Weisz, Sam Woolford, Tobey Duble, Mike Galaburda, Melissa Chiozzi, Owen Remeika, and Justin Yi. Congratulations, Tom and Erica! Laura Ferraro married Matthew Gottbrecht in July on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Kate Connors, Martha Durant, and Alison Occhiuti were by Laura’s side as bridesmaids and made sure to share lots of Andover memories during their toast at the rehearsal dinner. Congratulations, Laura and Matthew! In addition, Martha and Michael Rossi got engaged and will get married in September 2016. Congrats! Emma King had dinner recently with Lindsay Dewhirst, who just moved to DC, and Bree Polk-Bauman, who came down from NYC to
Chris Zegel ’05 and Meg Scarborough ’05, who met on their first day at PA, lower year, were married in June in Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. Sarah Donelan, Matt Brennan, and Natalie Exner Dean, all Class of ’05, joined the happy couple on their big day.
visit. Emma also grabbed drinks with Dan Bacon while he was on Martha’s Vineyard last month. Emma got engaged a few months ago and is busy planning a wedding for winter 2016 with her fiancé, Brett Doyle. Congratulations! Alexandre Wolf graduated this past May from NYU with a master’s degree in food systems, concentrating on sustainable business. He and Jane Henningsen continue to see each other regularly. Jeni Lee submitted her dissertation in September and is finally free to travel and work as she wishes. She spent the summer interning at a biotech-focused hedge fund in San Francisco, where she was able to catch up with Justin Yi while he was in town for business. That’s all for now, but we’re excited to see you all in June 2016! Love, Paul and Jeni
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Amy Fenstermacher got married on Aug. 15, 2015, and honeymooned in New Zealand with her new husband, Sean Greeney. Amy also met up with Thao Nguyen and Mary Grinton in DC for
dinner and drinks while Thao was on a whirlwind visit to the U.S. Thao had extended her trip to the States after participating in Sarah Guo’s wedding as a bridesmaid. Becky Agostino is starting her second year as principal of a high school in Camden, N.J. She now proudly lives in Philadelphia. This past spring, Becky took some students to San Francisco, where Andrea Coravos ’06 got to meet up with the group. Alex Clifford is still working at Consolidated Trading in Chicago and plays soccer Wednesday and Sunday nights. His brother Cameron Williams ’18 is a sophomore at Andover! Alex is excited to have an excuse to return to AndoverExeter soccer games. He is working on his startup, Entourage, with his cofounder, Edgar Friloux. They are a team of six now, and Alex plans to move to NYC shortly to trade equity options at the NYSE and give Entourage East Coast presence. Last and most important, Alex—like most of us—is a huge Game of Thrones fan and reports that Jon Snow is his favorite character. Nate Flagg continues his pursuit of a graduate degree. He ran into Evan Moore during the photo thesis show at Yale back in May. Nate is teaching printmaking, which he finds super fun, and working at the Yale University Art Gallery in the Indo-Pacific collection. If you are ever in New Haven, Nate would be more than happy to give you a tour! It’s really a world-class museum. Komaki Foster moved back to London in July and started an MBA degree program at the London Business School (LBS). Fellow ’07 classmate Devon Zimmerling is in her class at LBS. Before moving back to London, Komaki spent four months in Japan, during which time she visited Eddie Kang in Seoul. Olivia Pei also attended Sarah Guo’s beautiful Andover | Winter 2016
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