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Stay in Touch! Visit us online to connect with Andover friends and classmates. At andover.edu/alumni, you can link to the Alumni Directory, learn more about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities, update your contact information, and lots more. Of course, you can still update your records in the traditional ways: ●
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E-mail alumni-records@ andover.edu Call 978-749-4287 Send a note to: Alumni Records Phillips Academy 180 Main St Andover, MA 01810-4161
Toan Nguyen is currently living in Hanoi, Vietnam. Toan works as consultant with McKinsey & Company. He often travels to the Northern mountains of Vietnam. Toan spends his free time helping his family and teaching US and World History to high school students. Jane Thomas recently resigned her position working for the Harvard Writing Center to begin working at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA. Jane says that “working with psychiatric patients has its challenges, obviously, but nonetheless is a rewarding and ultimately even fun job.” Billy Fowkes moved to NYC and works as a Technology Analyst at New York County District Attorney’s Office, where he supports Assistant DAs in criminal investigations. He lives with his girlfriend on the Upper West Side and says he’s loving NYC so far. Tom Hubschman got married on July 29th to Daliena St. Germain at the Old South Meeting House in Boston. They were happy to share
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this special moment with a few Andover alumni: Lucy Arnold, Ross Bendetson ’13, Sophia Bernazzani, Billy Fowkes, Greg Hanafin, Billy Hubschman ’15, Conor McAuliffe, Ben Nichols, and Ben Prawdzik. Will Lindsey began his Master’s in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in September. He lives in Cambridge with Sebastian Becker, who is pursuing his JD at Harvard Law School. Will reports that they’re “currently accepting guests on their couch.” Bennett Carroccio is now a partner on the deal team at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA that invests in innovative software companies. Alex Farrell graduated from the UPenn Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program this past August. She currently works as a Registered Nurse at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, specializing in Inpatient Oncology. Henry Metro just celebrated two years at Facebook, where he works as a software engineer on the places search team. He reports that he’s doing well and enjoying Facebook and NYC! Riley Gardner completed 2 years teaching 8th grade math in Indiana for in Teach for America and stayed to teach for another year at a KIPP school in Indianapolis. In Fall 2017, Riley moved to Philadelphia to pursue her MBA candidate at UPenn’s Wharton School. Fred Grace currently lives in Nashville, TN with his wife Catherine and their son Frederick Sutton Grace, Jr. Spencer Macquarrie just celebrated one year at TPG Global in the technology, media and telecommunications group. Emelyn Chew, Hannah Bardo and Courtney King recently enjoyed an evening catching up at the incredible Mr. Pollo in San Francisco. Max Png travelled to Boston with Zach Feldman ’08 this fall, and each gave a presentation at the New England Society of Vascular Surgery. While in town, Max had the chance to reconnect with Aditya Mithal, Faiyad Ahmad
and Annie Rao, all of whom Max said are also either “in the thick of or considering entering the overworked, underpaid life that is graduate school.” Back in NYC, Max has been getting back into the tennis groove with Tony Zou ’09, “attempting to roll back the high school glory days under Coach Greg Wilkin.” Kelvin Jackson is studying for a master’s degree in Finno-Ugric linguistics at the University of Turku in Finland, and just entered the second year of these studies. In addition to Finnish, Kelvin has had the chance to study a number of interesting languages, including Hungarian, Udmurt, and Mokša. Sara Bakrow is working at Fitch Solutions and living in Chelsea in NYC. She has enjoyed spending weekends in Connecticut this summer. In July, she competed in an off-roading cooking competition, which involved campfire cooking and taking the car on some daunting trails through the woods. Sara reports, “My team and I won the competition and the car only got a few scratches.” This fall, Helen Lord started as a Data Science Fellow at Galvanize in San Francisco. The fellowship is a full-time data science bootcamp, where she is learning about the programming and math behind machine learning in order to get into the data science field. Helen just started a month ago and reports that she is “really enjoying it!” William Brooke is working as a business development strategist at Fueled, which involves a mix of managing client relationships and their partnerships program. “It’s a great job,” he reports, “I’m loving it.” He is also working on a completely new app coming out this fall! Nick Dean is working as an industrial designer in the San Francisco Bay area at Bould Design. Previously, he did industrial design for Garmin in Kansas. Mari Miyachi is an engineering manager at Nava in San Francisco, working on improving Medicare reporting. She also just qualified for the Boston marathon and will be running in 2018! On top of that good news, Mari got married at the end of August! Andrew Khang is living in Singapore and working as the finance manager for GE’s drilling business. Earlier at GE, he completed GE’s Financial Management Program, a two-year rotation through departments across the USA in securities and exchange commission reporting, asset management, energy financial services, global markets and GE ventures. Peace Corps service is normally a 27-month commitment including three months of training and 24 months of service. Chelsea Quezergue applied and was accepted to extend for a third year on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Chelsea says that she feels “excited and fortunate to be going to this area that has a history and culture completely different from the Pacific side as it was a British colony and a part of the Atlantic slave trade. As with many populations that descend from enslaved peoples, the Atlantic coast is often glossed over,