stay connected... dream of becoming a Bollywood star. Fortunately, a fantastic summer in Evanston, Ill., and a visit from Alex Tamkin and Ben Yi in late August soothed his woes. Misha Hooda met up with Emilia Figliomeni in Bologna, Italy, and with Sam Johnson, Dan Wang, and Ben in New York. After spending last spring break with Emilia in Chicago, Katherine Vega spent the summer working as a house counselor at Andover Summer Session and saw Jordan Boudreau and Rachel Murree, who came one step closer to achieving their “Most Likely to Return as Teaching Fellows” superlative by working on campus this past summer. Janine Ko was also busy on campus, working for the Tang Institute. While in Andover, Katherine, Rachel, Jordan, and Janine spent a few days catching up with Ryan Miller. Jordan met up with Iman Masmoudi at Harvard’s CS50 puzzle day. Alex Sweeting has been keeping busy leading an alternative fall break trip focusing on LGBT youth advocacy, participating in the Atlanta Pride Parade, and working on the staff board of Volunteer Emory. Olivia Cabral, Will Young, Charlie Talcott, James Judelson, and Rem Remmel all got to catch up while studying at the London School of Economics this past summer. Meghana Jayam and Poonam Kamdar had a host-family reunion in Dubai, UAE. Katia Lezine, meanwhile, was studying abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. Alex Anderlik and Autumn Plumbo shared some candy while catching up in Spokane, Wash. Vanessa Shrestha visited Meera Bhan in Boston. Meera, Molly Magnell, Harry Wright, Dan Wang, and Janine Ko also had a little Boston reunion this summer. Four of them (minus Harry) had an amazing time together at the Museum of Chinese in America in NYC. During the summer, Molly interned at the New England Aquarium, teaching visitors about exhibitions and ocean conservation and creating a series of watercolor illustrations of animals at the aquarium. She also went to visit Janine at Columbia, where she met up with Efua Peterson, Adella Pierre, Stephanie Hendarta, and Ben Yi. Molly, Tess Khan, Steph, and Efua grabbed brunch and ice cream together for a Johnson Hall mini reunion. Meanwhile, Emma Kahn visited Laura Bucklin and Harshita Gaba in Washington, D.C., where Laura was interning and Harshita was taking classes. Laura later went up to NYC and Connecticut to hang out with Madeleine Lippey and spent some quality time in the city with Kate Wincek, who was visiting from Omaha, Neb. Caroline Sambuco and Grant Bitler met up in Florence, Italy. Dan Kim met up with Elaine Chao, Reid Meyer, James Heaney, Sonya Chen, Janani Hariharan, and Vanessa Shrestha in NYC and with Misty Monteville in Paris and Le Havre, France. Madeleine Lippey and Anthony D’Ambrosio have been busy organizing a conference on sexual assault, along with Josy Hicks-Jablons ’13, Corinne Singer ’15, and Jaleel Williams ’15. Melanie Oliva performed
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concerts in Bratislava, Prague, Budapest, and Vienna with the Colgate University Choir this past summer and met up with Sam Johnson in Andover before going back to school. Caroline Chen met up with Jerry Li, Elaine Chao, Mary Catherine Nanda, and Mikaela in Shanghai, China. Brian Kim, David Yoon, Clint Yoo, Jackie Kim, and Caroline Chen all met up in Seoul, Korea. Caroline Chen also met up with Danielle Liu and Djavaneh Bierwirth in San Diego. Djavaneh also met up with Bea Marin Alcala, Jennifer Kim ’16, and Natalie Kim in Madrid where they shared some great tapas at the Mercado de St. Miguel.
2015 Devontae Freeland 1455 Harvard Yard Mail Center Cambridge MA 02138 732-841-1839 dfreeland@college.harvard.edu Tessa Peterson 70 Pennsylvania Gulch Road Nederland CO 80466 303-717-2764 tessa@boulder.com Kailash Sundaram 3465 Sansom St. 410 English House MB 123 Philadelphia PA 19104 408-417-2033 kailash@sas.upenn.edu
Hey, ’15! This issue we’re celebrating six-plus months as Andover alumni and our first round of class notes, as well as our first semester without one another since 2011. How things have changed! Since graduation, people have kept busy working, traveling, visiting one another, and jumping into new environments at college and beyond. Just after graduation, several members of the Class of 2015 rowed with the boys’ and girls’ crew teams at the Henley Royal Regatta in the UK. Among the girls were Qiqi Ren, Isabella Berkley, Cara Cavanaugh, Olivia “Lane” Unsworth, Charlotte Chazen, and Julia Marcus. Among the boys were Marc Sevastopoulo, John “Jack” Lane, Ben Hawley, Nico Robertson, Rob Irvin, and coxswain Jacob Kozol. The rowers also had a number of Andover fans, including Ali Hill, Juan Pablo Villarreal, Everett “Evie” Elson, and Durham Abric. Back home in Andover, Alex Becker reunited with friends Tom Johst, Nick DiAdamo, Matt Alpert, Emily Graue, Sam Zager, and Tom Feigenbaum, later venturing to NYC to spend time with Nick Swenson and Matteo Bruni. Matteo and Nick joined Dylan Mott and Andrew Zheng to visit Andrew’s family in China. Back in NYC, Calvin Griffin hosted Austin Robichaud, Achindra Krishna, Jordan Swett, and John “Culver” Duquette over
the summer. On the other side of the continent, Maddie Mayhew and Elizabeth Kemp spent a month in the Alaskan wilderness, camping, backpacking, surviving with only one shirt (each) for 30 days, and sampling Alaskan cheeses. Zoe Leibovitch traveled with non-Andover friends to Croatia to do some “deep-water solo climbing,” an activity that we’re sure everyone does in their spare time. Lucius Xuan spent July in Madrid with the INESLE Institute of Spanish program, learning Spanish and staying with a host family. In addition, Devontae Freeland joined the INESLE program staff as an English teacher. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Evelyn Liu, Ada Li, Matt Osborn, Di Ouyang, James Towne, Felix Liu, Rhaime Kim, Carra Wu ’17, and Jessica Lee ’16 got together for lunch with John Gorton and Rebecca Somer. John and Rebecca set off for a month-long trans-Asia expedition immediately after Commencement last June, skipping the goodbyes and the grad-week festivities. On the itinerary were Bali, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. They also met up with Tas Yusoontorn in Thailand. Thea Rossman worked at an education policy nonprofit in Cambridge, Mass., last summer and later hung out with Tom Burnett, Devontae Freeland, Rachel Gerrard, John Gorton, Kory Stuer, and Jaleel D. Williams on Martha’s Vineyard for a week in August. Isabella “Bella” Flynn worked at a Japanese bakery in Boston; her favorite item on the menu was ラムネ (ramune, a type of Japanese soda). Jared Newman worked at a Web analytics startup called Chartbeat and used his earnings to rent a small studio, where he worked on writing short stories. He is taking the year off to travel and write more, and planned to leave NYC after the holidays to go to Louisiana. Others in our class also took on jobs or internships. Simon Sharp spent last summer interning on Capitol Hill, while Tom Burnett was working and volunteering at home in Boston for local domestic-violence and suicide-prevention programs. Lily Grossbard worked as a counselor at Tanager Lodge, a summer camp in the Adirondacks where she started as a camper long ago. Eden Livingston volunteered at a food bank in her hometown of Houston and visited Ellie Blum in Minnesota to attend Ellie’s brother’s bar mitzvah. Mazel tov! Perhaps most exciting, after winning Iron Chef Andover last April, Hanover Vale interned for Ming Tsai ’82 and was later hired as a cook at his restaurant Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Mass. She planned to be there until leaving for culinary school this January. In other news, last May we welcomed back Jada Sanchez from Zaragoza, Spain, where she spent a year on SYA. Benny Ogando completed cadet training at West Point, and Brendon Misterman legally changed his name to Emilio Ovalles-Misterman, keeping “Brendon” as a middle name. Alba Disla spent a week taking summer courses in Africana studies at Penn, where she met up with Kai Kornegay ’14 and had