stay connected... Park when the weather is nice. Between all this, Jeffrey has still found time to work in residential architecture and pursue art and writing projects, and to plan a New Year’s holiday in Switzerland with friends including Laura Lisowski and Kelly Stecker ’05. I won’t be venturing quite as far (or anywhere nearly as glamorous!) for the holidays, returning to LA to host my brother, nephew, and sister-in-law for Christmas and Hanukkah, then heading out to Palm Springs to ring in 2017 with girlfriends and board games. Given my competitive nature when it comes to Scattergories, I expect I will go into the New Year with zero friends.
2005 Ian Schmertzler Ian.Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.com
This was a season of important events in the history of ’05: Sam Lederfine Paskal married David Yeatman and moved to southern Maryland to start working as an occupational therapist. Any ’05ers living in the Baltimore/DC area are asked to give her a ping. Jill Ozzie and her husband, Pat Kinsel ’03, welcomed their second son, Oscar, into the world on Aug. 7. Their other son, Edward, made it through his first semester of a pre-pre-K toddler program. Chelsea Paige Cederbaum and her husband, Scott, welcomed Amelia Paige Cederbaum into the world on Oct. 17. Marc Asch visited London, where he met Sims Witherspoon and Beau Freker and, together, “caused a ruckus in a French restaurant.” Beau’s baby girl, Eliza, continued to light up Facebook, most recently displaying a great suspicion of toy Christmas elves. Sims spent Thanksgiving with Will Riordan, Mary Burris Riordan, and Kat Dix. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, I finished a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, leaving Kojo DeGraft-Hanson as the only known ’05er still on Tech’s campus. Farther to the south, at the University of Florida, Natalie Exner Dean finished teaching her first college class, Intro to Biostatistics, and carried out Zika research. That is all the news that reached my ears. Please give me a ping at ian.schmertzler.andover@gmail. com if you have anything to report!
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www.andover.edu/intouch 2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland, CA 95695 925-846-8300 Jeni.lee519@gmail.com Owen Remeika Oremeika@gmail.com 617-794-7898 Justin J. Yi 124 Allen St., Apt. 3A New York, NY 10002 978-886-3307 justinyi@gmail.com
Hello, 2006! Since I (Jeni Lee) moved to Boston at the beginning of 2016, I have absolutely loved reconnecting with fellow alums in the area. This has encouraged me to be more active in volunteering through the AAR network and Alumni Council. If you’re not already involved with AAR, the Andover Alumni Representative network that helps interview applicants off-campus, I suggest you do so! It’s a wonderful way to be involved from afar—ping me for details. On election night, Andrea Coravos organized a wonderful tapas dinner connecting Andover and Harvard Business School women. It was a lovely dinner and a great way to reconnect! Shortly afterward, I caught up with Jennifer Wang at the Tip Tap Room on Beacon Hill (is it clear that they serve steak tips and beers on tap?). Jen is a patent attorney at Wolf Greenfield, specializing in medical devices. I was very excited to pick her brain about medtech investing, and also got some great (nonedible) tips about surviving the Boston winter. Speaking of the Boston winter, Mia Kanak, Katherine Adams, and I braved the long line outside the dingy (but delicious) Boston Chinatown favorite, Gourmet Dumpling House. Mia is a second-year pediatric resident at Boston Children’s Hospital. She shared an amazing story: “I was taking care of a patient who is a huge fan of Kevin Olusola. He kindly sent the patient a personalized video message, which brought a lot of happiness to a tough hospital stay.” Over dumplings, Mia noted that her patient watches this video multiple times daily! Thanks, Kevin! Kevin sends his regrets that he missed our 10th Reunion, as he was touring in Europe with Pentatonix. He did send a very sweet video message greeting to the class during reunion. He enjoyed seeing many Andover people around the world (perks of an international tour!), including Jasmin Baek, Steve Kim, Priscilla I’Anson, Wesley Mui, and Vincent Siu. Pentatonix just released their third studio Christmas album,
recently announced to be certified platinum! Their Christmas special on NBC also pulled in 12 million viewers. A huge congrats to Kevin and Pentatonix. Personally, Kevin purchased a townhome in LA, putting down roots. He has yet to decorate (risks of international travel), but will be spending more time in LA this year, writing personal music and doing more songwriting. John Lippe moved to Kansas City, MO with girlfriend Rachael after graduating from HBS—he began running his first DaVita dialysis center in December! John and Rachael encourage visitors. Jeff Zhou connects with Justin Lee in LA once every few months, including at a Rams/ Falcons football game. As some of you may recall, Jeff pitched his startup, Fig Loans, during our startup showcase at our 10th Reunion. He met their lead investor at reunion—he graduated from PA in 1981—and his niece was the roommate of Mai Kristofferson ’09 (Jeff ’s girlfriend). Small world! Jeff splits his time between LA and NYC, where Justin Yi will never hang out with him. With only two blocks between them, hopefully Jeff and Justin can connect soon. Jeff also visited Bob Divers ’07 and Graham Miao ’09 in Shanghai in December. Tobey Duble was able to leave NYC for a few days last fall to visit Luke Cahill and all the Cahills (including Justin Cahill ’04) in Nashville. Emily Pollokoff continues her usual multitasking life of work, kids, and garden. She’s added a few garden beds, including a mini meadow that will hopefully come up rainbows in the spring. There are also rumors of a mini pumpkin patch! Greg Hsu is now in his seventh year in Charlottesville, VA, working as a pastor with college students at UVa. He notes that keeping pace with the undergrads keeps him young in the inexorable slide toward 30 (we’re all feeling it!). Due to an exciting opportunity opening up in his ministry organization, he may be in Cambridge, MA, starting next summer. Stay tuned! Rachel Isaacs returned from an amazing trip to Antarctica—her sixth continent (!)—which was the most beautiful, otherworldly place she’s ever been. Her goal is to complete all seven continents by October 2017—next up is Africa! She invites other ’06ers to join her as well. Jane Henningsen will be moving to Chicago this summer to pursue an MBA at Northwestern. While she is very excited, she’s mourning the fact that she and Alex Wolf will no longer live in the same city. She will be working through an NYC/Brooklyn bucket list until she moves, and invites Andover grads to join her. Jane recently also attended Emma King’s wedding in DC, along with Paul Engelhardt and Carlisle Engelhardt. Congratulations, Jane, on your upcoming adventure! This past June, Lindsay McLellan Borden married Vincent Borden in Boston. The pair met at UVA while Vincent was in law school and Lindsay was in medical school. Friends Kira Gendlerman,
Nandini Vijayakumar, and Kassie Archambault also attended, as did cousins Robin McLellan Woodworth ’93 and Sam McLellan ’95. The happy couple currently lives in Roanoke, VA, where she is doing her residency in OB-GYN and Vincent works as an attorney. She notes that it was so wonderful to have the four (Kassie, Kira, Nandini, and Lindsay) together again! Kassie works at Andover, is a house counselor, and is taking the wrestling team by storm. Kira just started business school at Yale, and Nandini is a family medicine resident in NYC. Martha Durant Rossi married Michael Rossi in Poughkeepsie, NY, last September. Kate Connors was a bridesmaid. Also in attendance were Laura Ferraro, Alison Occhiuti, and Molly Ozimek-Maier ’07. Kat Chen married Michael Nicholson in a beautiful Veteran’s Day Weekend wedding in Syracuse, NY. Anna Ho, Christine Sargent, Lauren Bissell, Alison Holliday, and I attended the nuptials. Kat moved back to Syracuse at the end of the summer from NYC. Ishani Vellod Reddy visited New York before the New Year to reconnect with some Andover ’06ers. She regrets missing our 10th Reunion, but since she delivered her son literally days after, we’ll forgive her. Though she mentioned that she could have attended if she wanted to deliver at Isham...glad she skipped that! As usual, it was so great to hear from all of you. Keep seeing one another, and we look forward to the next round of notes! Much love, Jeni (and Justin and Owen)
2007 10th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton, MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn, NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com
Henry Frankievich moved back to New York to start a new job after three years living in Boston. Since moving, he caught up with Becky Greenberg and Tasha Keeney for an experiential play in Brooklyn, which they all found to be bizarre; the trio also enjoyed dinner with Dominick DeJoy, Evan Moore, and Emma Wood when Emma was in town over the holidays. Henry also saw Eliot Wall, John Gwin, and
Parag Khandelwal ’06 to celebrate John’s recent engagement. John met his fiancée at McKinsey doing consultancy work. She is from Australia, but moved to the U.S. to go to college and is now in her second year of medical school (she went back to school after working for a few years). We have a few other engagements to announce… Steve Loeffler got engaged over the summer and will be getting married in October in Florida. Alexa Reid just got engaged to Colin Smith. They can’t wait to see everyone at reunion! Komaki Foster got engaged in November and also recently welcomed Eddie Kang to London. Eddie is now part of the Andover crew there with Komaki, Alisha Varma Mulhall, and Devon Zimmerling. Olivia Pei is still living in San Francisco doing the tech thing. Olivia also joined a rock band recently, and whenever they decide to perform, everyone is invited. Over the past few months, she’s made time to see Laura Minasian (in Copenhagen!), Marina Warsaw-Fan, Sarah Guo, Cece Yu, and Colleen Thurman. Cece attended Colleen’s wedding this past fall along with Clara Wilder, Conner Stoldt, Gina Kim, Maura Mulroy, Michaella Chung, and maid of honor Katharine Matsumoto. Claire Voegele will graduate from law school in May. She clerked at a firm in Boston last summer and had the chance to see Liz McDonough and Jill Kozloff ’09. She also visited NYC in October to see one of the last performances of Carrie St. Louis ’08 as Glinda in Wicked. Carrie treated her to the ultimate backstage tour. Claire caught up afterward with Akosua Oforiwaa-Ayim, Becky Greenberg, Dacone Elliott ’08, and Hailee Minor ’08. Emily Kennedy successfully defended her dissertation on industry implementation of biomimicry last March. She will graduate with a doctorate from the University of Akron in May and then sleep for two months. Catherine Crooke is surviving her 1L year at Yale Law School, and will be in DC for the summer working in UNHCR’s Caribbean Protection Unit. Now that he has retired from professional Ultimate, Ben Feng has settled into a role as the youth and gender equity coordinator of the DC Breeze. In November, he coached two different youth girls’ Ultimate teams; they had an 11–1 combined record against college teams! Steve Farquhar now lives in Philadelphia. He enjoyed being in Ryan Ferguson’s wedding last July, along with Ben Landy, Steve Stapczynski, and Matt Villanueva—it took place at the Log Cabin in Cochran Sanctuary. Stacey Middlebrook Spurr went to DC several times in 2016 to visit Dawson Joyce-Mendive, and also spent several weekends with Carolyn Pollard. They all got the chance to catch up with Sarah Dewey and Liv Coffey a couple of times. Molly Ozimek-Maier saw Kayla Lawson and Joy Joung for a wine night at Karen Schoenherr’s house. She also met for brunch with Sam Gould in Cambridge, MA. Molly is really enjoying
helping to coordinate our upcoming 10th Reunion over conference calls with Kayla, Pete Dignard, Alexa Reid, John Gwin, Anna Klenkar, and Cece Yu.
2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco, CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 10 Stuyvesant Oval, Apt. 10E New York, NY 10009 Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com
Happy spring, everyone! We have just a few updates this time around, beginning with wedding bells and ending with a call to service in honor of Non Sibi Day’s 10th anniversary. Major congratulations are in order for Jorden Zanazzi, who married longtime girlfriend and fellow, Hoya Anne Kjeldgaard, last August. The couple met while at Georgetown and returned to campus to tie the knot. In attendance were Mike Palermo, Sebastian Caliri, Lucian Neville, James Rockas, Dave Koppel, Josh Infantine, and Conor McKinnon. Today, Jorden and Anne live in Boston, where Jorden is an associate at the law firm Jones Day. Adam Giansiracusa is also living in Boston, where he is finishing his first year at Harvard Business School. “There’s a wonderful ’08 contingent here (Joey Mensah, Veda Eswarappa, James Sawabini, Kie Watanabe, and Nkem Oghedo),” reports Adam, “so we all get to see each other and hang out occasionally as well, which is great!” On the other side of the country, Alyssa Warren is continuing her work for a network of charter schools where she manages social emotional learning, school culture, and enrichment programs that serve low-income communities in the Bay Area. Since ’08ers can’t trip without running into one another, it’s no surprise that Alyssa bumped into Silké Cummings at a Non Sibi event held at the San Francisco Center for the Book last year. The volunteers prepared for an annual festival and got to do some letter pressing, which, according to Alyssa, is how one makes “hipster cards,” whatever those are. Alyssa also randomly ran into Jane Shin during a visit to DC, where her network was opening a new school. (See? We’re everywhere.) Joe Wilkin continues to compete on the national and international stages in the world of competitive compound archery. Joe is getting so good that he recently took on and defeated Katniss Everdeen, who was promptly eaten by wolves. In February, Joe competed in Las Vegas and was cheered on by Matt Turiano, who fortunately was Andover | Summer 2017
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