www.andover.edu/classnotes in making the move seamless, support that Ker-Yu Ong was evidently lacking when she made her own move: “After months of agonizing, I finally moved back to the Bay Area to find my only friends Jin Lee and Michael Zhan moving to Singapore and New York, respectively. Thanks guys. Also, my other only friend, Ken Watari ’07, moved to Vietnam. Thanks Ken.” Yeah, thanks Ken. Hanson Causbie is living in Colorado and got married this fall at West Point, with Jonathan Adler, Lambros Theofanidis, Ishan Kapoor ’09 and Jeni Lee ’06 in attendance. “Obviously I’m very excited for the tax benefits,” Hanson writes. Nicole Duddy got married and became Nicole Weil in August, with Lisa Lian as one of her bridesmaids. Soon after Nicole began a new job as a consultant at Alvarez & Marsal in New York. Maggie Maffione got married in Charleston, SC, at Lowndes Grove, with members of Andover ’02, ’04, and ’08 in attendance. We presume Maggie and Nicole are also excited about the tax benefits. Dan Silva hosted Johnny Bukawyn and Ben Schley in Nashville to watch an English Premier League game. “We watched Tottenham vs. Man City and the bad guys (Man City) won,” says Ben. “Tottenham got killed!” Otherwise, he says, the weekend was awesome. Alexander Heffner hung out one evening this fall with Max Meyer. In case you were wondering, they ate Sicilian pizza and salad. Lucian Neville, Conor McKinnon, Jorden Zanazzi, Josh Infantine, Dave Koppel, Eamon Hegarty and Seb Caliri got together for a weekend on the Cape in August. Dave commandeered a vessel and took the crew out to search for the elusive striped bass. “After dotting around Cape Cod Bay for the better part of a day, we caught two keepers,” reports Seb. “I naturally got one, at 29 inches, but Lucian took home the prize with a 31-incher. Delicious fish dinner had by all.” Victoria Glynn, who has been suffering the indignity of being hauled out of bed Sunday mornings to learn how to play tennis with Allison Parr, went to San Francisco to visit Eleazar Vega-Gonzalez. “It lived up to all my expectations based on the TV show ‘Silicon Valley,’” she says. J.J. McGregor finally hung up his hockey skates and joined a slowpitch softball club team, traveling the country to slowly throw soft objects at people, we assume. At the national championship tournament in Portland, OR., the team started off “on fire,” going undefeated for the first five games, but they ultimately fizzled out and finished 17th out of 68. Should have brought some harder balls. Matt Turiano went rock climbing in Boston with Sally Poole, who was visiting from Scottland. Matt says Sally “killed it and almost me when I wouldn’t let her down till she topped out the slab.” We have no idea what that means. Matt also went camping last summer with Zach Olenio, who, Matt says, is making spinal inplants and experimenting with hydroponics. Again, no idea what that means. Nick Swift’s journey to the top of the Boston charts continues: his Bearly Dead band is growing rapidly and made numerous festival appearances
last year, the highlight being a performance at the House of Blues Boston in front of over a thousand fans. (The nervousness went away after his first solo.) Nick is also putting the finishing touches on an EP for another band, Bob Sled, which focuses on his original music. Rajit Malhotra had a busy summer of travel, reconnecting with colleagues in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bombay, and was extremely surprised on one flight to find Jeff Lu sitting in the seat in front of him. Jade-Isis Lefebvre traveled to Dublin and was similarly surprised to bump into Jamie Harisiades (“It was awesome!!”). And Haley Bruns ran into Megan Richards while hiking last summer in Glacier National Park, but it was not a surprise because they went together. She just literally ran into her. And last but never least, Hannah Weiss, who hasn’t been seen in North America since she fled to the South Pacific to escape a drug-smuggling charge, is extremely proud to announce that after seven years on the run, she has finaly earned her Australian citizenship. Well done, you little criminal. See you all in June! —Lydia
2009 Alexander McHale 101 NE 53rd St., Apt. 2714 Oklahoma City, OK 73105 703-786-3330 pa09classnotes@gmail.com Deidra Willis pa09classnotes@gmail.com
Hey ’09! The other day I was at work and some of my coworkers started sharing stories about high school and when they were younger. Naturally, I chimed in and gushed on and on about the awesomeness of Andover and of course they couldn’t relate (remember that I live in the Midwest, in Iowa, where boarding school is not a thing, and college sports are all that matters). I got the usual questions about if I had been sent away for misbehaving or if I missed my parents. As I’m sure all of us can attest, I found myself feeling the need to defend or explain just what PA meant to me and stood for—that it was like college…but different. That it was still school—academically challenging with awkward moments of growth but made up of fun unforgettable stories, friends, house counselors, dorms, coaches, and rivalries like they couldn’t imagine. So ’09 even if we see each other every day or every five years, I encourage you to hold onto those memories, keep in contact with each other and—most importantly—tell me all about it. Some of our class has done that and then some. In August Trey Meyer and Jill Kozloff tied the knot in Lake Placid, NY with a great Andover turnout! Attendees included Mai Kristofferson, Annie Glancy, Eliza Dewey, Liz Frentz (previously Brown), Anna Burgess, Tom Foley,
R eunion 2018 Celebrating 3s and 8s on June 8 –10.
Glenn Stowell, Tony Zhou and many other Andover alumni from the years. In September, Chelsea Carlson attended Jean Fang and Luke Miller’s wedding in Louisiana. Gloria Odusote and Jean’s sisters, Emily Fang ’13 and Anna Fang ’10, tuned in via live stream and joined in spirit. Best wishes to all of the happy couples! Before that, Chelsea Carlson met up with Jean Fang, Gloria Odusote, and Caroline Colombo in New Orleans for the Red Dress Run Fundraiser (a mini Mardi Gras). The group had a great time exploring the city and noted that time always goes a little too fast when they have a chance to get together. Katie von Braun had a couple of ’09 reunions too at the end of summer; first with Sudhandra Sundaram sightseeing outside Tiffany’s jewelry store, and the second running into Krystle Manuel-Countee at Harmony Program’s Youth Orchestra Day! Alex McHale recently moved to Houston, TX to begin work at Quantum Energy Partners, an energy-focused private equity fund. He managed to survive Hurricane Harvey by flying away to Washington, D.C. to watch Korean soap operas with his mother. While he has yet to run into anyone from Andover, he is optimistic that the Andover network is more powerful in Houston than in Oklahoma. He writes “if anyone is ever in town, please let me know. First drinks are on me!” That’s it for now ’09. Be sure to keep in touch at PA09ClassNotes@gmail.com —Deidra
2010 Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica, CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com Will Lindsey 115 Battle Lane Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919-308-9866 will.lindsey23@gmail.com Andrew Townson 978-886-8191 andrew.townson@gmail.com
Trevor Braun saw the solar eclipse in Montreal with Khalid McCaskill. He is moving to the bay area for work as a Data Analyst at Orbital Insight at the end of September and says he is looking forward to seeing any Andover alumni out there. Andover | Winter 2018
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