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Summer 2015 brought another season of growth and change for the Class of 2003. In May, Katie Regner Cannan wrote from Hong Kong, where she and her husband, Matt, moved in January. Matt has stayed busy building his firm’s Asia investing business arm, while Katie has continued to work at MFS Investment Management. If you travel to HK, let Katie know! Ryan McChristian will be in Japan for another year and also welcomes ’03 visitors. Last summer, Ryan caught up with pals Gavin Kuangparichat and Chris Lanterman when the duo traveled through. Ryan also hoped to see Janis Rice when she and her husband, Brandon, vacationed in Japan. Stateside, Brian Emery and his wife welcomed a baby boy, Declan, in May. Brian said it was an amazing summer; he was happy to host longtime pals Matt London and David Linfield (traveling from Mali), who both visited and met Declan. Dan Koh proposed to his girlfriend, Amy Sennett, on Marathon Monday in Boston. Dan is the chief of staff for Boston mayor Marty Walsh and reports that things are going well. Marianna Kleyman also reported from Boston, where she now works for MIT. She wrote, “It’s nice to be in a city after so long in the mountains, though I do sometimes miss seeing the stars at night.” Tom Oliphant married his longtime girlfriend, Dana LaMendola, this past fall. I celebrated with a number of classmates at the wedding, including Phil Caruso and Kait Caruso, Chris Skipper, and Greysen Carlson. In October, Matt Lindsay married his longtime girlfriend, Abigail Frey, in Maine. A number of classmates joined in the festivities, including Michael “Rudy” Ruderman, Tara Gadgil, Evan McGarvey, and me. Stephen Fee wrote from Brooklyn. Stephen is a producer and on-air reporter for PBS NewsHour Weekend, and worth a follow on Twitter @stephenmfee. Stephen lives near Andy Hattemer and has stayed close with fellow NYC resident Kelly Sinclair. In August, Stephen also caught up with Ali Rosen Gourvitch and Emily O’Brien over dinner. Kelly has also stayed in touch with longtime pal and Sweden resident Boo Littlefield Karlsson via weekly Skype chats. Gardy Gould wrote from LA, where he enjoyed a summer of camping, biking, and swimming. Gardy saw Cathy Rampell and Chimaobi Izeogu at Stephen Zehring’s wedding. If you were worried that Gardy has lost his dance moves, fear not! As he wrote, “We danced so hard we sweated through our suits!” I recently saw a big group of classmates at an alumni event organized by our own Janis Rice in San Francisco. Local residents Margaret Ramsey,
Tara Gadgil, Matt Lindsay, Rudy Ruderman, Phoebe Rockwood, Katie Dlesk, Alex Minasian and Mimi Butler Minasian, and James Chou were among our classmates in attendance, as were a few out-of-town visitors, including Liz Vazquez and Morgan Intrator. A few weeks earlier, Dave Beyer organized a dinner with a bunch of classmates, including Mimi and Alex, Janis, Katie, and Seb Benthall. All in all, we have had a few good gatherings of ’03 in the Bay Area.
2004 Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com
The upper management of the ’04 Phillipian board is off the market! Olivia Oran Beaton celebrated one year of marriage to her husband, Greg, and Jenny Wong Sharp and Clem Wood each tied the knot this summer in Brooklyn. I was able to attend Jenny’s June wedding to Nathan Sharp, where I celebrated the beautiful bride and groom and caught up with Olivia, Clem, Emma Sussex, Ellen Knuti, Jess Chermayeff, J.J. Feigenbaum, Alanna Hughes, Steve Travierso, and Greg Kimball ’01 and Kate Kimball ’01. Jenny is now back in New York after her honeymoon in Italy. Clem also had many Andover friends in attendance for his August wedding to Kate Carcaterra, including Jenny, Tom Barron, Evan McGarvey ’03, Adam Jonas ’00, and Clem’s sister, Emma Wood ’07. In May, Margaret Pyle tied the knot, with Jamie Bologna, Ilana Segall, Amy Yang Chong, and Meg Sullivan in attendance. Margaret and her husband moved to Baltimore so Margaret could begin her residency in pediatrics at the University of Maryland. Uzoma Iheagwara began a medical residency in radiation oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after getting married in April. Derrick Kuan, J.J. Feigenbaum, Bill Beregi, and Anwell Lanfranco were on hand to toast Uzoma and his wife. In possibly the humblest class notes update ever, Mariah Russell went back and forth with me for a few rounds about my favorite show, Bachelor in Paradise, before revealing the exciting news about her own love life: Mariah’s getting married! With Saidi Chen and Emily Guerin as bridesmaids, it’s sure to be a festive affair. Emily Watson is also engaged and plans to wed in April 2016 near Philadelphia. Tyler Simms accepted the position of assistant men’s basketball coach at Brown University. He prepared for the season in style with a trip to Italy. Will Scharf is enjoying St. Louis and working as policy director for Catherine Hanaway’s Missouri gubernatorial campaign. Amy Lippe completed graduate school and moved to Denver.
Kat Conlon began her studies at the Cross Continent MBA program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Kat looked forward to Lexi Dwyer’s wedding this past fall, where she expected to see Kinnon McCall Foley, Abby Weiner, Cory Schneider, and Margaret Moore ’06. Adam Draper is still a happy husband and father and runs Boost VC, an accelerator for startups, particularly in bitcoin and virtual reality. Sharon Shin began a job at SpaceX and will take time off for a two-week trip to Europe with her husband, ending up in Berlin for the League of Legends finals. Still living with his girlfriend, Olga Tomchin, and practicing law, Martin Quinones told me his most important announcement is the adoption of a 2.75-pound teacup Chihuahua named Bisouchka (pronounced bee-ZOOCH-ka). Look for her on Instagram @bisouchka, where I’m sure she already has far more followers than I do. Ashley Whitehead Luskey left her job of eight years with the National Park Service to join her husband in Morgantown, W.Va., after four years of long-distance. Now she teaches in the history department at West Virginia University and recently began working as an independent historical consultant for museums, national parks, and historic sites, including the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Alex Thorn also moved— in his case, from Raleigh, N.C., back to Boston. He is still working for Fidelity. Though he’ll miss sharing beers with Jed Kelly in North Carolina, Alex enjoyed seeing Seth Stulgis and Mike Preston ’05 on Nantucket this past summer. Seth started a new job as senior marketing manager for the Stion Corporation, a U.S. manufacturer of solar panels, and served as Cotton Harrold’s best man at Cotton’s wedding in Jamaica. After a trip to Washington, D.C., to visit Caty Papez, Danny Meller is headed to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, for six months to study health care in Latin America. Just barely beating Danny, Lily Kelting had our biggest relocation; she finished a PhD degree program in San Diego and moved to Berlin, where she is working on a postdoc in food and performance. She also married Kedar Kulkarni, with Adam Holt ’05 and his parents in attendance. Both Lily and Danny would love to see any Andover alums passing through their parts of the world. Perhaps Lolita Munos Taub will take them up on their offers. Her online show, The F Show, is available in more than 60 countries every month and features female entrepreneurs around the world. Having moved back to Michigan with her husband and their son, Milo, Jenny Byer Elgin is expecting another boy and is enduring many terrible babyname suggestions from yours truly, a favorite pastime of mine. Plenty is happening for ’04 grads in and around Boston. Whitney Kelly Wilkinson works for educational technology startup Launch Academy. She and her husband, David Wilkinson ’05, spent Labor Day weekend at the wedding of Mac King ’05. Audrey Deguire Turro and Steve Turro relocated Andover | Winter 2016
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