stay connected... Maternal—Fetal Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he is doing research on fetal heart malformations and cardiac function. He often travels back to California to see his family and work with his father. Julia O’Hern has been in California for over a year now, working for The Marine Mammal Center rehabilitating stranded seals and sea lions. She also captains a local whale watching boat and volunteers with the whale disentanglement team. She is planning on going to D.C. in November for Dr. Dalton and Dr. Rotundo’s talk! The only other Andover folk she has seen in months are Erin ’03, Joseph ’07 and Joe ’67, while at the infamous Iowa State Fair. Deborah Linder has been busy doing with a couple of new projects at Tufts Veterinary— research on improving child literacy by reading to therapy dogs and she recently came back from a trip to Bangladesh to help improve international veterinary school teaching methods in infectious disease. Katy Nassberg and her husband Isak bought and are now running the country’s oldest independently owned bookstore: Otto’s Bookstore in Williamsport, Pennsylvania! This past spring, Camille Conley Kerr moved to Western Massachusetts for her work at a social enterprise development nonprofit. The nonprofit is building cooperatives owned and controlled by child care and home care workers in partnership with labor unions. She met with Barbara Rotundo ’00, who is also in Western Mass, and hoping to see more classmates on the East Coast, particularly in New York which she visits frequently. Camille also caught up with Eric Feeny on one of her recent trips to Seattle. Jess Watson, her husband Zach, and her children, Rosemary, 3, and Baxter, 1, have officially made the move to Portland, ME and love every minute of it. They are excited for a beautiful New England fall with lots and lots of apple picking! Corbin Butcher and his wife Ivona recently moved to the Czech Republic from NYC and founded the country’s first search fund together. They recently met up with Claire Bernard and her husband, Jack, in Prague where they all went on a tour of Karlstejn Castle. Matt Natale, Matt Rotman, and Amanda Barash Odetalla met up with Abby Malcolm Farnsworth on Chincoteaque Island, Virginia for a long weekend in July to celebrate Abby moving back east to North Carolina from Arizona. Diana Mahler Spalding was unable to travel, but video chatted to catch up. John Kluge had a lot to report for the year, including finishing his MBA at Babson, marrying Dr. Christine Mahoney, moving from NYC back to a farm in Charlottesville, VA and co-founding the Alight Fund, an investment fund for refugee entrepreneurs with his wife. J.P. Chisholm ’99, Faran Krentcil ’99, Anna Lewis ’00, Ross Perlin, Tyson Reist, and Nick Mele represented the Andover tribe at his wedding earlier this summer.
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Dear Classmates, As many of you know, these will be my last notes as class secretary. It has been an honor to serve you for these past 11 years. I have enjoyed keeping up with many of you and even had the pleasure of spending time with some of you in Hawaii and elsewhere. I am handing over the reigns to two very capable alumna who I know will serve you well. Please welcome Chloe Lewis and Casey Martin Caughel as your new co-class secretaries! And without further ado, your updates. Nicole McLaren-Campbell wrote her first book, Make it Count: Tips on Unlocking Your Vision in 2017 and Beyond. Her book is avilabale on Amazon and iTunes. Her book has a remarkable 4.8-star rating on Amazon! She had the chance to gift a copy to John Palfrey when they said beside each other on a flight. Congratulations on your success, Nicole! Alice Percy signed a book contract with Chelsea Green Publishing. Her book will be a technical manual for high-welfare swine husbandry. Alice suspects that none of our classmates will read it but you never know. Maybe someone looking for a career change might benefit from Alice’s swine husbandry knowledge. Zach Robbins reconnected with Rob MacInnis and Ernst Sack at the New York preview for the 40th Anniversary of the Big Apple Circus where they enjoyed a round of laughs and a bag of circus peanuts. Zach was promoted in 2016 from Food and Beverage Coordinator to Director of Talent and Animal Operations. In July, Sarah Lau moved to Los Angeles to pursue a MBA at USC Marshall. Ryan Coughlan fully embraces his role as uncle to Niki Roberts’ son, Theodore, and to Tisse Takagi’s baby, Fredrick. Both babies made their first visits to Andover for our reunion! Ryan completed his PhD and is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in CUNY. In the past few months, lots of alums tied the knot (though none with each other.) Kezi Barry married her South African college sweetheart over this past New Years in Hermanus, South Africa. Theirs is quite the love story! They met when Kezi studied in Cape Town. He eventually visited and met her whole family and even met Mr. Maqubela! Then after 9 years apart, they reconnected thanks to Facebook and Skype. On Memorial Day weekend, Alicia Widge married Graves Spindler. Kara Smith, Jessica Russell, Laurel Ingraham Aquadro, and Roxie Beinart were all in attendance. The happy couple was married at Linekin Bay Resort in Boothbay Harbor Maine. Alicia started a fellowship in Allergy/Immunology at the NIH. On July 15, Kelsey Siepser married Francisco Pryor Garat in Sebastopol, CA.
RoseMarie Maliekel was the officiant of their eclectic ceremony, which included Shakespeare, a Catholic and Jewish blessing, a Quaker silence, and more. Stevie Brock, Brandon Winston, Luke Spears, and Sam Spears were also all in attendance and according to the bride, the Spears brothers were looking quite dapper. On August 5, Tenley Eakin married Vivek Raj in Las Vegas, NV. Also in August, Juliana Wu, who lives in Brooklyn, married her childhood friend, Jon Chen, in Italy. Congrats to all on their recent nuptials and may you enjoy long lasting and happy marriages! I often think about the amount of baby news that I receive. When did it start? No, seriously— who was our first class baby? I will not atone for my random musings because after all, this is my last chance to share such thoughts with you, my captive audience. Anyway… babies. On May 23, Diana Dosik and husband welcomed daughter Caspen Rose. Their son, Henry, is a great big brother so far, giving her lots of hugs and kisses (and, of course, a cold!) Marc Ward and wife Cat welcomed their fourth kiddo, Marc Rome on May 29. Andrew Scharf and wife Naomi welcomed their second son, Henry Samuel on August 17th, 2017. His older sibling, Aaron Winston is a great big brother and both kids are looking forward to hopefully carrying on the Andover tradition in approximately 12 and 14 years from now! Heidi Ashbaugh and her husband live in Florida where they have been busy renovating an old home, selling their previous home, and spending time with their infant daughter. Jordan Harris is getting the alumni seal of approval for his restaurant Stagolee’s in London’s Fulham neighborhood. When Greg Chang was in Europe on his honeymoon during the festivities, he visited and reported ‘’it’s awesome American southern cooking.’’ Bali Kumar spent a few months in Geneva with a startup private equity fund investing in sub-Saharan Africa. He also had the chance to visit London a couple of times and visit the critically acclaimed restaurant. He encourages all who pass through London to check out Jordan’s successful eatery. Being as these are my last notes, I’m going to commandeer them for my own lengthy update. In the past few months, I have formed a fantastic connection with Sophie Noero Cheston doing something we are both passionate about: saving dogs! Sophie works for Muttville, a non-profit senior dog rescue in San Francisco, and I have leveraged my dog’s Instagram account into a platform for advocacy and have also become engrained in my local rescue community. In May, when transporting a rescue dog from Hawaii to the Bay Area, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Sophie at Muttville, where we also spent time with fellow dog enthusiast, Jon Adler. We cuddled with sweet adoptable dogs and caught up on life since Andover. Since then, Sophie and I have partnered in transporting dogs from Hawaii to SF where they have a greater chance of being adopted. In September, we spent time together (with dogs of