www.andover.edu/classnotes fist at the clouds and wrote in to report: “sitting for my CPA here and just riding out Hurricane Harvey.” He has been working for LivaNova as a contract administrator. In some timely news, Sims Witherspoon writes, “In July, my team at Google launched SOS Alerts—a new set of features in Google Search and Google Maps that activates during a natural or manmade crisis to help people get information when they need it the most.” Outside of work, Sims went to Lake Como with Mary Riordan and Ciarra Schmidt, and caught up with Jill Ozzie at a wedding. In addition to reporting on Billy Doyle, David Wilkinson, and Ben Hoerner becoming fathers, Harry Goldstein writes, “I’ve enjoyed watching from afar as Mac King cultivates an outstanding “yard playground” in advance of the upcoming fall “Savoy Vol. 2” event, at which time several minivans will be brought to the junkyard. Mac will know what I mean.” Vic Miller moved to LA from the Bay Area. He writes “I saw Paul Kim a few times in Santa Monica before he moved back East, and I’ve seen Kyle Kucharski a couple of times down in LA, too. I also saw Dave Wilkinson and his wife Whitney ’04 and their adorable new son, Bennett, while I was driving through Boston a couple of weeks ago. I’ve also seen Bobby Spang a few times in the past couple of months—we’ve been able to hang out in Boston and in Wakefield.” Alex Lebow is out in Portland, OR working with the Global Communications Team at Nike. He says he is “enjoying all things running/biking/ hiking, but missing New Orleans.” Natasha Midgley got married to Jakob Moskow, who she met out in LA. Natasha has taken a headfirst dive into standup comedy, doing shows at the Comedy Store along with other monuments to the trade. Lastly, from the other side of the world, Patrick Jiang reports he is now teaching at the Shenzhen Graduate School at Peking University. His son, Alistair, was born in January.
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Live from New York City, NY—so nice, they named it twice. Entrepreneur Nick Bowen is continuing building out his roofing business in Columbus, OH. He’s enjoying a gifted ’95 Nissan pickup from his uncle and concludes, “no wives or advanced degrees
yet.” Multiple wives seem a bit greedy, Bowen! Brad Colbert hopped from one athletic-wear giant, Under Armour, to a future one, Outdoor Voices. Still enjoying fast-growing Austin, Brad manages data analytics for Outdoor Voices. Despite getting in early, he’s somehow the second PA alum there. Mr. Colbert (no relation) had burgers this summer with Empire City-based classmates Faaez Jafarey and Caroline Towbin at Brinkley’s (R.I.P.) in SoHo. Also meeting for burgers were Sean Wadland and Amy Prosper, who both work in real estate and development. Amy is opening her own real estate office in Kenmore Square for the Boston market. Amy writes that Ariana Wilkinson finished medical school at BU and brought her talents to Miami for her residency. Amy lists other run-ins, including Paul Scola in Boston’s historic seaport district, as well as a sneaker-clad Claire Collery in North Chatham on Cape Cod. Also on the Cape was Ali Holliday who attended Katie Koh ’05’s bachelorette and wedding in July. Ali is spending her last year at Harvard Med setting up a leadership and teamwork curriculum, and hopes to go into primary care focusing on population health management and patient-centered care. She credits her success to Mr. Koolen’s Bio-100 mantra, “three fatty acids and a glycerol.” Jeff Bakkensen is plotting an all-cow a cappella group named the “Moo-Tones,” an Andover sushi tribute group. We hear rumblings that T.J. Thompson secretly eloped but still threw an epic wedding party in Sheboygan, WI, the hometown of his wife Kelley Dentino. Mike Spiak and Pumi Maqubela were in attendance. After seven years of being antagonized at Yankees games and waiting in lines at cool clubs, Tobey Duble moved from the Big Apple back to Beantown’s trendy South End, where she is a behavioral consultant at the May Institute. Also in the Puritan City, Andrea Coravos recently dined with Mia Kanak and Jeni Lee. All three are working in healthcare from different angles: as a venture capitalist (Jeni), physician (Mia), and software specialist (Andrea). Andrea moved back to the City by the Bay after HBS and is working full-time on a start-up she co-founded, Elektra Labs. First-time contributor Aba Temeng Lekeaka got married on May 28 in Houston to Asong Lekeaka. Chichi Erondu and Jeannette Francis were bridesmaids and in attendance were Mgbechi Erondu, Kojo DeGraft-Hanson ’05, Akosua Oforiwaa-Ayim’07, and Aniebiet Abasi ’11. Aba moved from Atlanta to Charlottesville where her husband attends business school at UVA, and she continues to work at AT&T. Maggie Reich Manus finished her residency in June and moved back to Houston where she is practicing Internal Medicine. Maggie is exploring
options to mobilize alums to help post-Hurricane Harvey—reach out to her for details! Now based in Tinseltown, Olivia Mascheroni had lunch with Jeannette Francis, who is a creative executive at STX (Bad Moms, The Gift). Olivia spent the summer on a production in New York for Blumhouse (Get Out, The Gift) where she caught up with Ben Kuller, who moved to NYC and works at Killer Films. She also saw ASM legend Prateek Kumar ’07, who now lives in Albany. With impressive commitment to bothering PA librarians through the decades, Jamie Love-Getchell staged a gorgeous wedding photoshoot in OWHL’s Garver and Freeman Rooms. Her July wedding in Cochran Chapel to Stephen Getchell was attended by Jevan Jammal, Julie Wadland, and Lindsay Moramarco Fuccillo, as well as numerous faculty and staff. Louisa Rockwell says that she had a great time catching up with Spencer Johnson via email. She writes, “I can’t really think of anything else that happened this year.” Martha Durant Rossi, who works in strategy for Ann Taylor and LOFT brands in New York, writes in for her classmates, “Kate Connors, Laura Ferraro, Alison Occhiuti, and I reunited for a long weekend in Kennebunkport to celebrate 15 years of friendship.” Martha reports that Alison finished graduate school and is working at pharmaceutical company Sanofi, Dr. Ferraro is in her OB/GYN residency at UVA, and Kate is currently “Boston’s own Olivia Pope” working in PR and solving crises. Let’s all hope she’s not mirroring Olivia Pope’s personal life. In the Emerald City, Christa Vardaro celebrated her 30th birthday with a trip to Peru in October. Christa is an administrator in a Seattle County hospital, who also spends time working on passion projects in wine and social services (hopefully not at the same time). In addition, she dabbles in jazz vocals and loves seeing her twin nephews! Big updates from Margaret Moore Nelson— she married Brett Kiel Nelson in Hobe Sound, FL during Memorial Day 2016 and with Kinnon McCall Foley ’04, Lexi Dwyer Poyant ’04, Abby Weiner ’04, Cory Schneider ’04, Kat Conlon ’04, Sam Kennedy ’05, Matt Longley ’03, Shaalini Ramanadhan ’03 and Wills Hapworth ’02. A highlight was a Day Hall inspired speech by Lexi, Kinnon and Kat. Now back in the Second City, Margaret is Head of Product for women’s apparel company Mott50. This summer she and her husband welcomed a baby boy, Brooks Kiel Nelson! Second-year MBA Kira Gendlerman writes from New Haven after a summer working for Samsung in New York. Her roommate in Queens was Nandini Vijaykumar, a family medicine resident at Jamaica Hospital. Kira and Nandini dined with Thereza Osias, who is back in New York for a new law position. Emily Pollokoff is busy home-schooling in central New York, and her daughter Hazel still talks often about visiting the PA observatory Andover | Winter 2018
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