stay connected... wedding in Carmel, Calif. Prateek Kumar visited San Francisco this past summer, and he, Charles Francis, Chris Li, and Olivia all got together for lunch. Olivia recently moved to a new apartment (with her boyfriend, who went to Exeter). Peter McCarthy was the first person to visit Olivia in her new place. Peter also recently celebrated his birthday with friends including Katharine Matsumoto, Vic Miller ’05, and some ’06 grads. Also this summer, a couple of people from ’06 came to visit San Francisco, and Olivia took them to Brendon Sullivan’s house. Chris Li and Olivia also went to see Pentatonix in the Bay Area with those same ’06ers. The first week of September, there was an Andover gathering in San Francisco at The Hall. There were a lot of people there, although not that many from ’07. Olivia did bump into both Billy Draper and Charles Francis. Lauren Jackson got married Aug. 1, 2015, to Josiah Smiley and now goes by Lauren Smiley. She is loving life in Arizona, working with the Antioch ministry at Arizona State and Grand Canyon universities. Izzy Cannell is still very much enjoying living by the mountains and the sea out in Seattle. She had a chance to see Becca Waldo when Becca’s cross-country ride with Bike & Build ended in Seattle. Izzy also got to enjoy a fantastic evening at the theatre with Christa Vardaro last summer, seeing Carrie St. Louis ’08 and the amazing cast of Wicked rock it on stage during Carrie’s tour across the country. Maura Mulroy recently moved to Switzerland to continue working for biomedical company Synthes. She is in love with the countryside and is continuing her triathalon training. Ryan Ferguson is still living in Washington, D.C., and is happy to announce he is engaged to Aly Bullock. After his time on the (other) Hill, Ryan is currently working for a news media company. Chris Bramwell recently met up with most of Stowe House at the Todd Isaac Memorial Basketball Game. He was glad to catch up with Curtis Holden, Ikechi Ngwangwa, Brian Louie, Jon Louie, Akosua Oforiwaa-Ayim, and Molly Ozimek-Maier. Alan Wesson got married on June 22 in Berkeley, Calif. His wife is Johanna Suárez Vargas. Unfortunately, no Andover people were in attendance, but it was still a beautiful and memorable day. Colleen Thurman began her campus rotations after completing veterinary school at Tufts this past spring. Sam Gould continues his travels around the world as he works his way up the national squash rankings. He has found his time to be quite enjoyable, as the locals have welcomed him with open arms. When not playing, he is often teaching clinics in the local community or enjoying the scenery. He finished a Southeast Asian swing this past fall and was hoping to be stateside in the winter to help coach at MIT.
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It pains me to think that by the time this goes to print, most of us will be bundled up in wintry garb and wondering why on earth we didn’t follow Hannah Weiss’s lead and move to Australia or pull a Kate Farrell and ship off to South Africa for a teaching gig. (Don’t get too smug, ladies—it snows there, too.) No, we denizens of northerly climes will have to content ourselves with perusing sunny Instagram feeds (#beach) and repeating notquite-believable mantras like “February doesn’t last forever (right??).” However, there is one lucky group for whom the summer sun will still be shining. I’m speaking, of course, about the impressive number of classmates who escaped the Tinder morass, heaved off the yoke of singledom, and said yes to the dress last year (or at least became engaged). Huge congratulations and good-luck wishes are in order to Thomas Lavin and his new bride, Carolyn; Iris Meng Li and her husband, Jie Jin; Farah Dahya and her fiancé, Chander Gupta; Amberly Tenney and her fiancé, Eric Zwiener; Maggie Maffione and her fiancé, Chase Bentley; Lou Tejada and his fiancée, Nadirah Farah Foley; Tessa Pompa and her fiancé, Andrew Schneider; and Emily Cokorinos and her fiancé, Kelley Erb. Beam on, happy couples; the rest of us will warm ourselves in your matrimonial glow—and possibly snag a bite of cake (chocolate, please). Many more ’08ers did not make life-changing commitments last year, but I’m pleased to note their updates here. So let’s begin with someone who at least made a go at getting hitched—sort of. While finishing a master’s degree at Fudan University in Shanghai, Blaine Johnson went on a Chinese matchmaking show to compete for a date with a bachelor. It was exactly as awesome and random as you’re imagining. Naturally, Blaine’s perfect Chinese and bobbing-for-apple skills (really) scored her a “hubby,” whom she spoke with after the show for all of five minutes. The real prize, of course, was the free “honeymoon” trip to the Maldives, where Blaine, after ditching her suitor, spent a happy if unmarried week. Rachel Cohen’s summer trip—a sevencountry tour to visit the au pairs of her childhood—was not bankrolled by a Chinese television studio, but she assured me it was still awesome. In Berlin, she connected with Abby Colella and James Flynn ’07, who were on their own European vacation, which included a trip
to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Abby is finishing up at Harvard Law, where she spends time with Jessica Cole and Evan DelGaudio. Paul Hsiao reports having had “the best summer ever” (take that, married people!). He launched Standard Shirt, a menswear company focusing on, you guessed it, shirts; celebrated Nicholas Koh’s birthday in New York; visited Christina Coravos’s new apartment in San Francisco; and had a lovely time catching up with Siobhan Alexander and Samantha Hantman. And what did you do last summer? Alyssa Warren also got new SF digs when she moved in with Mary Doyle, who’s kicking butt on the Box product management team. The new roomies celebrated over dinner with Sebastian Caliri, Murphy Temple, Hillary Baker, Kristy Spiak, Ben Schley, and Chip Schroeder and his wife, Marcheta. Mary also saw Hillary, Ben, Hugh Edmundson, and Kristy at an Andover happy hour, where presumably she did nothing but pepper them with requests for class notes updates (always thinking ahead, that one). Someone at Tufts Medical School seemed to think it was a good idea to let Lucian Neville teach med students how to conduct physical exams. Just kidding, Beantown, you’re in good hands. Though he’s very busy being a very responsible second-year resident at Lahey Hospital, Lucian did manage to get away for a few days to go fishing on Cape Cod with most of the old Applebee’s gang, Dave Koppel, Conor McKinnon, Jorden Zanazz, and Josh Infantine. A number of ’08ers, including Hector Cintron, Dana Feeny and Nancy Ann Little, returned to campus last June for the graduation of younger siblings. Nan presumably went to kiss her little brother goodbye before charging into the wild unknown. (She says she went to practice her firstaid skills, but all I saw on her Facebook page were photos of axes and saws.) Nan is studying at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and says all ’08ers have an open invitation to come get cut in half with a saw—I mean, go skiing. And we’ll end with a public service announcement: If you live in DC and want to hang out with new Beltway resident Allie Parr, talk to her Facebook message-handler Victoria Glynn, on whose roof Allie is spending all her time while pretending to go to Georgetown Law. I hear there is wine. Until next time. —Lydia