www.andover.edu/intouch guarantees. Anything short of that is not to be countenanced, and we all have a responsibility to respond, react, and engage.” We’re already looking forward to bringing you the next installment of developments and perspectives. —Jack & Kelly
1998 Zoe Niarchos Anetakis 658 Massachusetts Ave., No. 2 Boston MA 02118 781-475-9772 zbniarchos@yahoo.com
Friends, our news is short and sweet this time around. Let’s talk about the sweet. There are a few new additions to report! Emily Porter Morrissey added a little boy to her mix of three. Her son, Oliver Lincoln, was born this past summer, joining big sisters Helen and Maggie. Mike Gutner and wife Becca welcomed a son, Max, in June. Max joins big sister Sadie, who loves her brother “super hard,” says Mike. Well, I can just imagine. You are 2 years old and your baby doll just became a real, live baby! Like magic! Bethany Pappalardo Childs and husband Clancy Childs ’97 welcomed a second son, Archer Lloyd, this summer. Archer joins 3-year-old Beckett. The Childses love living in the UK and somehow have racked up 10 years as London residents. Soon they will make a go for citizenship. As an aside, you may start to notice that we have begun to refer to the timeline of our lives in decades. Hold me. I’m not ready. We still have a few first-time parents in our midst. Ish Harshawat and wife Emma welcomed baby girl Maya Rose this September. Hannah Heath and her husband, Tim, welcomed baby boy David this summer. He has already taken to sailing, making him a proper Aussie already (the family lives in Sydney). Taking the cake, Courtenay Green and her wife, Larrison, welcomed twins Clifford and Louisa (“LouLou”) this past summer. For the uninitiated, I believe the phrase is “one is none, two is 10.” So, if there is any sort of contest in sleep deprivation for new parents, Courtenay and Larrison win. As your families grow, some of you have taken to mini reunions of sorts. Fun! Lindsey Heller Lohwater and her girls had a great summer hanging out with Erin Dougherty O’Connor and her two children, as well as Leah Welsch McNeeley and her two little ones. Farther north, Samar Jamali and her daughter, Noor, got to enjoy the crisp Maine air with Alison Banks Hark and her son, Emmett. As I write, we are in the throes of football season, which hits pretty close to home for Caroline Pollak Marandino, whose husband Roger is the strength and conditioning coach for the Indianapolis Colts. Having grown up in Hilton Head, S.C., gone to college on the West Coast, then gained full New England status for nearly a decade, Caroline
is surprised to find herself a Midwesterner! That said, she is taking advantage of her time in Indiana, finishing up a master’s degree program in educational leadership and administration at Butler University. She works as a project manager for a statewide literacy initiative for the Indiana department of education. Also, her firstborn daughter, Annabella, is 7 years old. Seven! How?! Another classmate with a first-grader (whoa) is Ian Barnard, who lives with his family—wife Ting and 7-year-old daughter Victory—in Providence, R.I. Ian and Ting recently celebrated 10 years of marriage (double whoa). Ian’s career has been cranking; he is working with both MIT and Northwestern on science and tech documentary pieces and has also shot pieces for the Keds brand, Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots, and Boston Ballet. Clearly, Ian is keeping things interesting! Charlotte Latham Kent recently wed and also completed her doctoral studies in comparative literature. She has accepted a visiting faculty position and is the committee chair at the National Arts Club in New York, where she invited Charlie Finch to speak about his most recent novel. Fun! If any of you are working on creative projects—anything from archaeology to fiction to technology—get in touch with Charly! It’s fun for you and it’s fun for me, because I get to write about it. OK, team, that’s it for now. I’m sure you are all saving up your bits and pieces for me, and we will blow it out of the water in the spring. Until then, be well, live well, and write me!
1999 Kirsten Riemer 72 Connecticut Ave. Greenwich CT 06830 kirstenriemer@gmail.com
Happy New Year, ’99ers! I hope that you all enjoyed the holidays and that 2016 is off to a great start for you all. The second half of last year was very busy for all of us, with professional accomplishments, marriages, new babies, and kids starting school. In the professional realm, many congratulations are in order. Iain Wood was recently named a partner at law firm Akin Gump. Siret Unsal started his new role as the executive director of Turkey investment banking at UBS. Siret made the move back to Turkey after many years in London, though he still gets back to the UK from time to time. Alex Rampell wrote in to say that he sold his company, TrialPay, to Visa in April 2015 and started a new job in October as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm. Alex’s older son, Cameron, recently started first grade at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Palo Alto, Calif. Alex remarked, “It’s hard to believe I was only eight
years older than him when I went to Andover!” Alex’s younger son, Harrison, turned 4 last fall. Carrie English is teaching seventh- and eighth-grade social studies to recent immigrants (mostly refugees) in Fort Worth, Texas, and loving every minute! Last summer, she spent five and a half weeks in Africa (three weeks in Senegal and the rest of the time in Morocco), practicing her French (thanks, Mr. Sturges!), riding camels, eating her weight in mangoes, and just generally having a blast. She also spent two weeks with her parents in Andover, where she made sure to walk around the campus and confirm the geese hadn’t eaten the people. Also in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Grancis Santana was able to watch last year’s Final Four with fellow college basketball fan Liza Darnell. Grancis will be in Boston this summer, attending the Harvard Kennedy School to get an MC/MPA degree and become an Army strategist. Nick Johnson directed a prose piece by Samuel Beckett, a show called No’s Knife with actress Lisa Dwan, at NYC’s Lincoln Center in November as part of the White Light Festival. It was his first big New York credit as a director. Congratulations, Nick! Last May, Simon Thavaseelan brought his two children to the baptism luncheon for Mike Sechrist’s second daughter. The luncheon took place just minutes from Harrison’s Roast Beef in North Andover. Mike’s and Simon’s two older girls are friends from birth, and Simon realized that he’s known Mike for 25 years! Simon has been a happy at-home dad for the past two years and still plays soccer on the weekends; Alan Ginsberg ’00 is on his team. Mike recently moved to Lynnfield, Mass., and Simon and his family have been living in Wayland, Mass., for the past two years. Simon also reports that Charlie Wang lives in Lexington, Mass. Jen Bickford married Duncan Birch in Cape Neddick, Maine. Lauren Phillips came all the way from Seattle to attend! Jen and Duncan honeymooned in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and are now settling into married life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y. T.J. Durkin and his wife, Sarah, celebrated their one-year anniversary last summer. While T.J. is a bit late in announcing news of his marriage, there was a good Andover crew at the wedding, with Eugene Cho winning the “longest distance” award, having come all the way from Seoul for the festivities! Other PA alums in attendance included Teddy Dunn, Jamie Durkin ’05, Fletcher Boyle, Matt Kalin, Nathaniel Fowler, and Tiffany Horne Noonan. Bill Lincoln recently took a new job as an assistant professor at Claremont McKenna College and is now living in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Rosanna, and son, Benjamin, who was born in July 2015. Al Moore wins the award this go-round for the most in-depth update. Al reports, “My wife, Kayla, Andover | Winter 2016
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