stay connected... Boston at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, where she was able to meet the Dalai Lama! She also celebrated Amy Morin’s 21st birthday with Helen Leahy, Sam Johnson, and Caroline Garrity ’15 in Massachusetts. Cat Haseman, Renee LaMarche, Zoe Gallagher, and Natalie Kim all met up in Portsmouth, RI after a summer of language study, army training, and interning, respectively. Sarah Cornelius and Malina Simard-Halm reunited in Missouri for a week where they both accepted the Truman Scholarship. Doris Nyamwaya studied abroad in Heidelberg, Germany and traveled around Europe during spring semester with Ashlie Rockwood. While abroad, she met up with both Mikaela Rabb and Veronica Hildenbrand. Katherine Vega interned in Chicago this past summer at the Obama Foundation. In the city she was reunited with Arzu Singh ’16. Graydon Tope spent the summer in a quantitative biology lab at McGill University. She will be continuing her research this fall on an independent research project. Graham Johns was promoted to Artist of the Company for the 2017–2018 season, which is the equivalent of the corps de ballet. He also caught up with Zoe Chazen over Eritrean food in central square.
2015 Devontae Freeland 1455 Harvard Yard Mail Center Cambridge, MA 02138 732-841-1839 dfreeland@college.harvard.edu Tessa Peterson 70 Pennsylvania Gulch Road Nederland, CO 80466 303-717-2764 tessa@boulder.com Kailash Sundaram 186 Rosemont Drive North Andover, MA 01845 408-417-2033 ksundaram@college.harvard.edu
Dear Class of 2015, Early this summer, a group of our schoolmates traveled back to campus for the memorial service of Gina Soutendijk, including Chris Li and Alex Li, Liana Brooks, Charlotte Berry, Thea Rossman, Kaylee Llewellyn, Annie Littlefield, and Julianne Xenakis ’16. A donation page was created in Gina’s name to support Project HEAL, the largest nonprofit in the United States supporting the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. A tree on the Gelb Quad was dedicated in Gina’s honor. She is dearly missed. Others traveled back to campus to celebrate the class of 2017’s commencement. Josh Murphy, Rob Irvin, Mackenzie Bradford, and Victoria Skrivanos were just a few whose siblings received diplomas, while several others showed up to cheer their friends on including A.J. Augustin,
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Arthur Doran, Jason Young, Matt Osborn, Hanover Vale, and David Gutierrez. Kory Stuer celebrated his 21st birthday at his summer apartment in Georgetown. In attendance were Tyler Tsay, Justine Wang, Diego Blandon, Chris Li, Devontae Freeland, and Trevor Lazar ’17. Dynamic duo Bianca Navarro Bowman and Rebecca Somer caught up at home in Northern Virginia and attended the Capital Pride parade in Washington D.C. among other excursions. Another dynamic duo, Nya Hughes and Alba Disla, met up in Cuba this summer where they were each doing summer programs with school. Kelli Mackey traveled to Alaska in June to work for the Greg Carter European Hockey School. She spent the rest of the summer training for Hamilton College hockey, exploring the Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, WY and helping her father with his cattle business and ranch in California. On the other side of the globe, Tom Burnett backpacked the Gobi Desert this summer and later studied monastic vocal techniques in the hills outside of Beijing. Aneesh Ashutosh is entering his third year at New York University. This summer he worked as a software engineering intern at Namely, an HR software company. Throughout his sophomore year, Aneesh worked at Twitter for four months and received two President’s Service Awards for distinguished achievement in civic engagement and service. Aneesh was chosen as one of ten up-andcomers by Washington Square News, NYU’s campus newspaper. That’s all for now! We wish you all well wherever you are in the world and in your own personal journeys, and hope you will always rely on this Andover community as a support system personally and professionally. Take care, ’15 —T, K, & D
2016 Tyler Lian 860-460-6715 lian.tyler@gmail.com Mofopefoluwa Olarinmoye 4b, Babatunde Jubril Close Omole Estate Phase 1, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria 100213 978-289-0778 mofopsy@gmail.com mio@princeton.edu Arzu Singh 3807 East Millers Bridge Road Tallahassee, FL 32312 850-728-7073 arzuksingh@gmail.com
Members of the class of 2016 are continuing to prosper and connect with one another in their second year living outside of the beloved 01810.
A few of our peers wrapped up their worldly gap years this past summer. Kieto Mahaniah moved out of Germany and onto the roads of Italy, hitchhiking, working for stay, and existing off the generosity and curiosity of others. He also allegedly learned to cook Italian-style. Claire Glover finished her gap year by backpacking in New Hampshire with Jack Lawlor ’17, and kicked off her college career at Mount Holyoke in September with a pre-season soccer team training trip to Japan. She is thrilled to be a member of the team. Michaela Hagler spent six months, from May to November, in Suzhou, China on a study abroad internship program. Given that Andover students are scattered all across the globe, she met up with Nick Rauen and Sean Hawkins while abroad. Sam Shapiro spent five weeks during the summer interning in Jerusalem, Israel and ended the summer by working as a camp counselor at an overnight summer camp. Back in the United States, Isabella Haegg graciously hosted Claire McDonnell, Sloane Sambuco, Olivia Picchione, Alessa Cross, and Anna Kramer for a small New York City reunion in June. Isabella, according to Claire, “assembles a killer charcuterie board.” Maddie Comer, Sitara Rao, Brooke Keene, Jessie Schmitt, Christian Cruz, and Skylar Takyi met up in Boston for dinner to celebrate finishing their freshman years. Later in the summer, Sharon Zhang, Ashley Scott, and Arzu Singh travelled to Andover to spend time with Mihika Sridhar and other Andover residents. Arzu Singh spent most of the summer interning at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation in Chicago, and she met up with Katherine Vega ’14, Akhil Rajan ’17, and Justin Williamson while in the city. She loved her first time living in an urban environment. Vienna Kuhn, Caroline Shipley, Peter Hahn, Kelly McCarthy, Kasey Welch, Nick Faulkner, Dylan Norris, and Pranav Tadikonda spent the Fourth of July weekend at Caroline’s lakehouse at Squam Lake in New Hampshire. They also threw Kasey a “surprise” birthday in June, and Claire Ressel came up to Boston from New York to surprise her at the party. Pranav is said to have “routinely dominated Nick Faulkner, Dylan Norris, and Peter Hahn in Settlers of Catan” throughout the summer. Felipe Chamon had a relaxed, uneventful summer; he did, however, run into Dr. LopezMorales and her family at Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, MA in July. Ariel Abonizio made Felipe jealous with all the Brazilian food he sent him pictures of. Claire Tellekson-Flash worked at Mission: Wolf, a sanctuary for captive wolves, over the summer, and is currently studying wildlife biology and leading trips for the Outing Club at the University of Vermont. Mofopefoluwa Olarinmoye stayed in the U.S. this summer to help develop an after-school boarding program for underserved teens in