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When Karen Friedlander ’01 married Jennifer Miles in Manhattan in June, friends and family joined in the festivities. From left are Evan Stone ’89, Reed Curry ’01, Elliott Friedlander ’99, Jennifer and Karen, Terry Friedlander ’95, Erica Hubbard ’01, Serge Mezhburd, Nicole Friedlander ’94, and Larissa Hubbard.
team. I guess we will all have to wait another six months to see if any others of us were there and ran into him at the event or in the city. And Lauren Sirois, the heroine of this issue, shared that in fall 2014, she moved from New Jersey back to the San Francisco Bay Area as she traded work in small pharma for big biotech. She is still working as a research and development scientist developing new drugs, and she says, “I get to have fun in the lab on top of managing my project.” That’s hot. Having decided that she’d had enough of Silicon Valley during her last stint in California (smart move, I say), Lauren says she’s found an apartment that she loves and “can almost afford” right in San Francisco (tell us your secret!). In SF, she’s been enjoying catching up with other Andover peeps in the area, such as Cassie James Dixon, Raja Jain, Sandra Sanchez, Christine Choi, Liz Bramwell Ashley, and Momo Akade. There’s a lot in that line—I know for a fact that a few of those mentioned were last seen in the NYC/N.J. area. Hope you’re having fun on the Best Coast! Lauren also expressed that a “downside” to her life in California is that she doesn’t get to see her East Coast friends and family nearly as much as she used to. She also missed our 15th Reunion on account of work obligations, which made her wish that she had another event (cough, wedding) coming up like Jimmy Noonan’s DC wedding in fall 2014, where Louisa Morrison, Andy Gossard, Kate Burke-Wallace, James Checrallah, Susie Wager, and Aaron Litvin also reunited. Don’t worry, Lauren, I’m sure the rest of us stragglers will start pairing off (not necessarily with one another) eventually. And by all means, nuptials shouldn’t be the only way to reunite and stay in touch, right?
At Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan, Waden Emery ’71 joined sons Brian ’03, Matt ’08, and Kevin ’00 to celebrate the birth of Brian’s son, Declan (’33?).
2001 15th REUNION June 10 –12, 2016 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com
The update of the quarter goes to Jordan MacTavish, who is currently working at Toshiko Mori Architect in NYC. He just finished the design of Thread Artist Residency and Cultural Center in Senegal, which won an AIA award and was featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, last year. Check it out at www.thread-senegal.org/. Lots of baby news in this issue. Michael Paa and wife Jessica welcomed their first child, Caroline May, in December ’14. They are still living in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Also living in the San Francisco area, Marion Read and husband Alex welcomed Malcolm Read Saltman into the world in July 2015. Everyone is happy and healthy—although a bit sleep-deprived! Malcolm has already met Alida Payson, Eli Lazarus ’00, Susie Dickson, and Erin Winkler, and I was lucky enough to meet him this past fall! Just one day prior to Malcolm’s arrival, Amanda Barash Odetalla gave birth to a lovely baby boy. His name is Musa and he is an adorable, tiny dictator who rules Amanda and husband Ahmad’s lives. In other baby news, Melinda Hung Brooks and her husband, Joe, are still in DC and welcomed twins Amelia Jean and Joseph Simon in June. Corbin Butcher and wife Ivona expected a daughter this past fall. Corbin recently moved to Zolfo Cooper, a restructuring and interim
management boutique, and now works across the hall from Eric Newman—a Stearns West reunion daily! Parag Goyal and wife Adriana welcomed Isabella, their second beautiful child, in May. The whole family, including big brother Lucas, 3, is thrilled. Diana Mahler Spalding and husband Cameron welcomed baby number three, son Wilder Mason, this August. Mariel O’Brien is living in beautiful Vancouver, B.C., and working for Lululemon as the director of global merchandising; she is focused on growing the men’s global business. Andover alums, go buy some Lululemon and be converted! Farah Peterson successfully defended her dissertation in American history at Princeton in June. She recently started a clerkship with Justice Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, where where she ran into Caroline Van Zile ’02. Farah and husband Eugene Sokoloff ’00 have enjoyed catching up with Dan Schwerin ’00 in DC. After a number of years working for large firms in New York, Charlie Alovisetti has moved to Denver to work for law firm Vicente Sederberg, where he represents businesses in the cannabis industry. Liz Edmonds, husband Alan, and daughter Mary have left the Big Apple and moved to Durham, N.C. They already miss NYC but are excited for their new adventure. Raquel Leonard Moreno and husband Orlando celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary this past summer with a lovely renewal of the vows ceremony. Raquel continues to teach classes in the Philadelphia area on the health benefits of eating locally grown fruits and vegetables. Earlier this summer, Ian Cropp had a lovely visit from Mike Paa in NYC, where they met up with Matt Peltz ’02 and reminisced about times at the old hockey rink. Another fascinating update came from Andover | Winter 2016
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