stay connected... Danielle relocated to New Orleans and started her business, My People Tell Stories, LLC. Danielle returned to Andover to participate in a career panel, where she talked with current students—young women of color—about her career choices. Other alums on the panel included Jennifer Wade ’96 and Nicole Williamson ’95. Afterward, Danielle returned to her hometown of Brooklyn, NY, for the release of her book, East of Flatbush, North of Love: An Ethnography of Home. The book is a music-centered ethnographic memoir that explores growing up in the West Indian community of East Flatbush. It contains more than 100 suggested listening tracks that accompany the narrative. The book is interdisciplinary, and it is recommended for grades 8-plus (including colleges and universities). A teacher guidebook is also available. The book release was held at CaribBEING House in Brooklyn. The event was well attended, and Danielle was happy to see several Andover alums, including members of the Class of ’97—Joaquin Escamille, Misun Chung, and Natalie Grizzle—as well as Tiffany James ’95, Denise Simon ’94, and Danielle’s brother, David Brown ’95. Danielle has upcoming events planned for her business, including a research trip to Cuba, speaking engagements, and musical performances. Books can be purchased directly from the My People Tell Stories website, www.mypeopletellstories.com. Don’t hesitate to contact Danielle if you are interested in her work and/or would like to connect her to your school or organization. You can also contact her just to say hi! Danielle also responded to Jack Quinlan’s request for submissions about the recently honored Steven Carter with this note: “Mr. Carter was my math teacher and was also coach when I managed football. I will always remember his kindness when I suffered an illness that forced me to take incompletes in most (if not all) of my classes during the final trimester of my junior year. I’m sure for him it was nothing (and he probably doesn’t even remember), but it’s often the small things that matter to people who are suffering from an illness. Whenever I think of Mr. Carter, I think of him with fondness, because of how he treated me during a difficult and stressful time in my life.” Dia Draper wrote to tell us that her business, Workplace Evolved, continues to provide leadership development and employee-training programs based on NeuroLeadership and mindfulness, as well as yoga, to workplaces. She’s also about to leave Denver for almost two months to do a little volunteering in Peru and a little learning Spanish. Our main man, Marc Hustvedt, let us know that in January, he and his wife, Carly, welcomed their second child, Edie Wes Hustvedt, into the world; she joins older brother Maverick, 2. Hust continues to run his entertainment studio, Supergravity, which is growing rapidly, producing and distributing a steady crop of films. David Constantine got married in September
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www.andover.edu/intouch 2015; he and wife Molly were expecting a baby boy in early September 2016. Michelle Kalas recently moved to Fort Sill, OK, where she is the chief of claims as a full-time civilian legal-assistance attorney for the Army and serves as an Army Reserve judge advocate officer on the weekends. She saw Kenny Weiner ’96, husband of our own Hannah Brooks Weiner, while he was training in nearby Altus, and Michelle hopes to see more Andover folks, military and otherwise. Michelle is enjoying the change from urban life in Boston and is trying to get outdoors to hike and rock-climb and enjoy other activities of country living, such as skeet shooting, as much as possible (which Jack vigorously encourages). Luis Gonzalez moved back to New England in December after five years of service abroad. He is currently at the Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, RI, where he is lead instructor in basic engineering and gas turbine for the surface combatant fleet but is soon to head back out to sea to as a newly minted commander of a destroyer. Luis’s daughter, Catarina Anne, was born in February. Luis has been spending time with Mike Napolitano; he’s been a tremendous “uncle” to Catarina Anne. Luis reports Mike and his twin boys are doing well. Luis also ventured down to New York for NYC FC games, catching up (and drinking a bit too much) with John Hyon. Nick Wilson’s wife, Kate, gave birth to their son, Bodie, in June, and the new family moved back to Boston this fall. Nick is doing research and evaluation at the new Center for Teaching and Learning at Boston University. Finally, we’d like to get Old ’97 thinking about attending our 20th Reunion next spring. We’re both on the reunion committee (in addition to serving on Alumni Council and writing these notes) because, apparently, we just can’t get enough of giving our free time to Andover, and we want all of you to come back and spend some of your free time with us on our beautiful campus in June. This is a big one, and it’s usually the first real family reunion. So we expect to see many classmates and a lot of these kids that we’ve been writing about for the past five years. Start making arrangements now! Faithfully yours, Jack & Kelly
1998 Zoe Niarchos Anetakis P.O. Box 384 Westport Point MA 02791 781-475-9772 zbniarchos@yahoo.com
Well, that didn’t go as planned. I did it again; I missed another column! I was so busy liking your photos on Instagram and commenting on your Facebook updates that I never put pen to paper (or hands to keyboard, as it were). I’m sorry. I was listening to a morning radio show recently
because—side note—I moved to Providence (more on that later), so I am in the car more these days. The hosts were talking about phrases that our children won’t understand as digital natives—things like letting the phone ring “off the hook.” (What hook? Phones don’t go on hooks!) Maybe that’s the way of class notes; maybe they belong to a bygone era, before our actual, hard copy face book became Facebook. But just as I am firmly in the camp of hand-written thank-you notes, I am firmly in the camp of composed and written class notes, published in a magazine that shows up on your doorstep. Good news is, lots of you agree with me. The school did a survey, and something like 90 percent of alums read their class notes. This is good for me, because I love an adoring audience (in my head, you adore hearing from me; let’s stick with that). But it’s bad when I can’t live up to my promise to get my notes in on time because #lyfe. So I’m here to ask you for help. After 13 years, I’d love a partner in this thing. I love writing our column, truly, but I need help getting the raw updates sourced and organized and keeping our deadlines in check. It is about five hours of work a year, and I really believe that it matters and is a great (and easy) way to give back to our beloved school. If you want to lend your voice to write one column a year, great, but no pressure. Before I leave you, I’ll give you my quick update on Providence. Backing up, I moved to Boston in 2002, right after college. In my 20s, I honestly believed that at any minute an opportunity was going to arise for me to move to Europe or Japan or somewhere other than Boston. Well, almost 15 years later I got my opportunity to move out of Boston! And I moved 60 miles away, to Providence. If that doesn’t scream adventure, I don’t know what does. Over the past 14 years I grew to know Boston like the back of my hand, so I’ve got some serious scouting to do to get up to speed here. If you grew up in Providence or have lived here, I’d love to hear from you.
1999 Marisa Connors Hoyt marisahoyt2@gmail.com
It’s a pleasure writing these notes again, as is being back on the Andover campus twice per year for the Alumni Council meetings. At last May’s meeting, I was able to catch up with Samantha Shih, among many others from a few classes above and below us. It’s unbelievable how things on campus have changed but also stay the same. I walked into the Garver Room, and honestly, it felt like I’d been transported back to 1999. Then again, the new Sykes Wellness Center is a pretty amazing addition to the Andover landscape and makes the sleeping room at Isham seem like a relic. Isham, by the way, has been turned into a new dorm. Anyway, I digress, so on to the news.
Noah Orenstein and his wife, Diana, have been living in Newton, MA, for the past few years and welcomed their daughter, Charlotte Eve Orenstein, into the world in July 2016. Noah reports that it has been a wonderfully enriching peak experience and that he and his wife are looking forward to catching up on their sleep sometime soon. I can relate, Noah! Nels Frye and his wife are the parents of a 2-year-old daughter, Ricarda Jia Frye. Nels has started a new business, Pawnstar, which aims to be the top secondhand clothing and accessories retailer in China. After nine years in the Bay Area, Justin Bandy moved to Chicago last August, as part of a group opening a new Chicago office for his firm, Artisan Partners. He is a partner and associate portfolio manager in the global value strategies division. After graduating from Stanford in 2012 with a PhD degree in economics, Charles Wang moved back to the Boston area with his wife to join the Harvard Business School faculty. He was able to catch up with Jon Fisher in NYC recently and said that Jon seems to be doing very well at his hedge fund. Charlie and his wife live in Lexington, MA, with their two kids, Thomas, 4, and Ava, 2. Over the past four years, Charlie has taught in the MBA and executive education programs at HBS and has had a number of PA alums in his classes, including Aneesa Sayall ’03, Mark Margiotta ’05, and John Lippe ’06. In addition, Alexa Rahman ’08 recently joined the doctoral program in accounting and management. Charlie reports that, not surprisingly, Andover alums really shine in the HBS classroom. Bill McGonigle and his wife welcomed their first child this past June. His name is Cormac, and Bill reports he is pretty amazing. Fellow former Foxcroft resident Barrett Hamilton and his wife also welcomed their first child, a girl, born just a week after Cormac. Barrett and Bill were hoping to meet up in Maine over the summer to introduce the two kids and catch up. Amylynn Teleron Findley and her husband, Joe, welcomed their first baby, a beautiful girl named Mariana Teleron Findley, this past summer. They honored Amylynn’s family tradition of using the mother’s maiden name as the baby’s middle name. They were able to catch up with fellow Vermont residents Alex Moore and his wife, Kayla, and were able to meet their adorable 1-year-old son, Lee. In August, Heather Collamore Skalet and her husband, Ari, welcomed a baby girl, Quinn Kennedy Skalet. Tiffany Horne Noonan and her husband, Joe, welcomed their third baby girl, Liv, in June and are living on Nantucket for the year while they renovate their home in Andover. While traveling in Japan for work, Kristin Hooper caught up with Sam Jung, Matt Kish, and Tomoyuki Sakakura ’98 in Tokyo. As always, if you have any news you’d like to submit, please email me at marisahoyt2@gmail. com. I hope all is well!
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Jia H. Jung 550 11th St., No. 4R Brooklyn NY 11215 917-589-5423 (cell) jiajung@alum.berkeley.edu
Ramesh Donthamsetty rdonthamsetty@gmail.com
Here’s what I managed to juice from you guys in 2016. Grace Hong and Jonathan Sabatini were recently (September 2016) in London, doing exactly the same thing they do every week in NYC. Grace was jealous that Jonathan was planning on going to a class at Psycle London, because she had too much work to do, yet she somehow managed to make it to a 6 a.m. yoga class, before he was even out of bed. Dan Schwerin, Hillary Clinton’s main speechwriter, was so gracious as to answer a mid-campaign email of mine. He did so with a question of his own, asking what, in particular, I was most interested in hearing about. Well played, Dan! When I responded to his response with coy, deflective curiosity, he wrote: “Dan Schwerin is in Brooklyn, writing speeches for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The hours are a lot like editing The Phillipian, except now he doesn’t have to climb up the Bishop fire escape at the end of the night.” And we can’t say with total certainty at the time of writing, but we are still rather sure that, by the time our class reads this, the rest of his news will be the news. As for your class secretary, highlights of last year did not include becoming engaged or married, bearing a child, or buying property, but rather turning 35, surviving a Portuguese man o’ war sting in Key West, and placing articles in Public Radio International’s Global Nation Education series while working an inconsequential day job that I couldn’t stand but had to be grateful for. And so it goes: May that low bar make you all feel the comparatively inflated sense of self that might be necessary to encourage you to share what’s been going on in your lives. Peace, love, and prosperity for 2017. —Jia
Jennifer (Zicherman) Kelleher P.O. Box 762 Byfield MA 01922 978-273-8557 jenniferakelleher@gmail.com
First order of business: Misty Muscatel Davis, thank you for carrying the class secretary torch for an impressive 15 years and for being the glue that has held this class’s spirit together since junior year. Your passionate commitment to keeping our class informed, connected, and engaged enhances our experience as ’01ers every day. Accepting the role of youngest Alumni Council president to date is not easy, but there is no one we would rather see at the helm. As a class, we wish you all the best and are honored for you to represent ’01 in your new position. Ramesh Donthamsetty and I are thrilled to be your new cosecretaries and will try to do a job that will make you proud, Misty. Thank you for all of your hard work and guidance and for all that you do for Andover! On to updates: At the end of September, Rachel Weiner started at Snapchat, where she’ll be working with Meredith Hudson Johnston. Maeva Bambuck caught up with Riccardo Viaggi in July while on assignment in Brussels. Maeva will be leaving Beirut and moving to Mexico City, where she will be working as planning director, Latin America and the Caribbean, for the Associated Press. After a fun trip out to San Francisco to visit his former roommate, Mike Paa, and catch up at brunch with Austin Arensberg and Frank Brodie, Ian Cropp spent most of August in Rio working for clients at the Olympics. He also caught up with Emily Thornton in Brooklyn, where she has begun a new position as design director of sweaters at Ralph Lauren’s Lauren division. We heard from Jason Cheung, who is working as a spine surgeon in Hong Kong and is a happily married father of two sons. Postdoc training is under way for many of our own. Bryan Haughom has moved from Chicago to Boston for his orthopedics fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Jess Watson and husband Zach, daughter Rosemary, and son Baxter will be moving to Portland, ME, in July 2017 after Jess finishes her vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the University of Iowa. The whole family is enjoying their Midwest adventure but is excited to be coming back to the East Coast! Amita Singh welcomed a baby girl, Naomi, this past summer and is finishing her cardiology training. Amy Kalas Buser is a board-certified music therapist in Miami, FL, where she owns a private practice, Wholesome Harmonies, LLC. She Andover | Winter 2017
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