stay connected... you’re in the neighborhood, feel free to drop in and say hello!” Meredith Rahman recently received a master’s degree in health science from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Jenn Schaffer has left NYC to begin her life in England. She is pursuing an MPhil degree in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge, living in a small white cottage, drinking good cider, and—she hopes—writing a lot. Courtney King spent the summer interning with the Africa programs department of the Hunger Project, a global nonprofit based in NYC. She took two weeks at the end of the summer to backpack in Belize and Guatemala and is back at Columbia University pursuing a degree in sociology. She recently ran into Brenna Liponis on the street in NYC and is happy to report that Brenna is moving her career in biotechnology to NYC.
2011 FIFTH REUNION June 10 –12, 2016 Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu
Chioma Ngwudo and Aniebiet Abasi, both Class of ’11, visited Sofia, Bulgaria, over the summer.
Penn friends and Celia Lewis. Kelsey is living in Brooklyn and working in graphic design at Huge. B.J. Garry just moved to Cambridge, Mass., and is working in Waltham in marketing and advertising. He reports that he’s “kickin’ it old school with Tom Hamel and Faiyad Ahmad.” He was also trying to get a party bus together for alums in the Boston area for A-E in Exeter this past November. Jasmine Stovall started working at Creative Artists Agency in their NY office. “In the mailroom, of course!” she writes. Jasmine also met up with Chelsea Quezergue, Nicole Okai, Geoff Kwok, and Patrick Wolber ’11 in July in NYC, and, she reports, “We ran into Mike Discenza ‘09!” Jasmine described this as their “last hurrah of sorts” before Chelsea left to serve two years in Nicaragua with the Peace Corps. In June, Laura Moreno Morales graduated from the University of Mannheim in Germany with a bachelor of science degree in economics. She planned to stay in Mannheim to take part in a twoyear master’s degree program in economics. John Turiano is living and studying in Berlin, but before he left the U.S., he enjoyed catching up with Courtney King, Emelyn Chew, Jessica Blake, Julie Xie, and Sam Poliquin. He says, “If
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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 Edith Young 470 Park Ave., Apt. 2D New York NY 10022 edithwyoung@gmail.com
Last summer was full of travel, new beginnings, and Andover connections for the Class of 2011. Embarking on a fun-filled European adventure, Chioma Ngwudo and Aniebiet Abasi spent a week in Bulgaria! They visited Sofia, Sunny Beach, and Nessebar and met a lot of awesome people along the way. Their favorite part was paragliding over the city on their last day in Sofia; it was truly an awesome experience. Before her trip, Chioma hosted Oriekose “Orie” Idah in New York for a weekend getaway. They had an amazing mini reunion at Tre restaurant’s bottomless brunch with Natasha Vaz, Jasmine Stovall ’10, and Kemi Amurawaiye. The five reminisced and got excited about the 2011 reunion coming up in June. While in NYC, Orie was able to catch up with Alec Abitbol, and they walked around the city talking about political philosophy and sharing stories. She is looking forward to
meeting up with Grace Hoyt as they both begin work in Mountain View, Calif.! Kerry Lanzo ran into Justine Wang ’15 at Harvard University, where Kerry had been teaching Model United Nations. This followed a week of teaching at Columbia University, where presidents of PA MUN ’16 and the Class of ’19 attended Kerry’s classes. Ben Brodie and Adam Levine were hanging out and making some beats when they got a call from Alec Weiss. Alec invited them to go fishing, and much to their surprise, their buddy and fellow alum Zach Fine joined them! They all went fishing and didn’t catch anything, except hypothermia. But you can’t put a price on fun. They got into a riveting political debate over social issues and talked about Adam’s neck hair. They are all excited to start their new lives as full-grown adult men. Yerin Pak recently moved in with Michelle Ma and two other college friends in the East Village, in NYC. Yerin and Michelle have had lots of Andover visitors: Caitlin Kingston, Grace Hoyt, Midori Ishizuka, Hana Kim, Julia Zorthian, and Malcolm Rodriguez. They have loved catching up and look forward to seeing more Andover classmates soon. Carolyn Harmeling moved to Charlottesville, Va., to live with Marilyn Hewett. Carolyn is working at a wilderness boarding school for girls with behavioral and emotional problems. Five days a week, she lives at a campsite in the woods with nine teenage girls, helping them work through their problems by performing physical work and facing nature’s challenges. On her time off, she hangs out with Marilyn. Claire Harmange and Christopher Magnani met as freshman at Harvard, as members of their respective rowing teams. They became engaged in August 2015 after surviving four years of physics together. Congratulations, Claire and Christopher!
2012 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 Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com
Hey, Class of 2012! Believe it or not, many of our fellow 2012ers are gearing up to graduate from college. Our Fifth Reunion will be before you