stay connected... provides music therapy and adapted lessons to children and adolescents with autism. Amy and her husband, Steve, welcomed their second child in November. Misty Muscatel Davis was excited to return to campus and cheer on Big Blue for the fall Alumni Council weekend, where the council hosted the first ever Andover-Exeter tailgate for the home games. Meg Blitzer had a marvelous visit to Boulder, CO, to see Kate and Greg Kimball and their daughter, Cora, at the end of July. She spent a couple of days at Kate’s family cabin near Crested Butte and saw Kate’s parents, including her dad, George Bartlett ’61. Thibault Raoult recently celebrated one year as an assistant editor at the Georgia Review. Each September, he hangs out with Lawson Feltman at the AJC Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA. James Shin is holding it down in LA. He has hung out with Cap Bacon, Jim Cunningham, and Darcy Brislin from the ’01 flock. He recently left his job as a movie development executive at Sony to produce film and TV content for manager Scooter Braun, who represents Justin Bieber, Kanye West, and Ariana Grande, among others. James Wylie is finishing off the year polishing his PhD thesis and overdosing on the Fringe and International festivals in Edinburgh, which he can’t recommend enough (the festivals, not the thesis writing). His wife, Lillian, remarkably and against her better judgment, continues to tolerate his life choices. Ashley White-Stern, Nekia Durant, Raquel Leonard Moreno, Shanna Bowie, Casi Kolbjornsen, and Stephanie Soli Araujo had a great time at Jadele McPherson’s wedding to Charlie Hart this past summer in Montpelier, VT. Ramesh Donthamsetty has completed a decade in New York and is excited to be co-class secretary. Besides catching up with folks at reunion, he recently enjoyed trips with Alex Finerman to Japan, watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver with Vikas Goela in New York, and visiting Eric Newman for a weekend at his new home in New Jersey with his wife, Monica and two daughters, Eva and Ellie. I couldn’t be more delighted to get more involved with Andover as co-class secretary, and I look forward to hearing more about what everyone is up to. I finished my pharmacy residency this past June, and I’m working near Boston as a veterinary compounding pharmacist at the Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital in Woburn, in addition to working per diem at two hospitals along the seacoast. I had a blast with all of the ’01ers who made it to reunion in June, and I am already excited for our 20th! —Jennifer
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www.andover.edu/intouch 2002 15th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 711477 Mountain View HI 96771 Lauren9@gmail.com
As I write these notes, many of you are celebrating the remains of summer on Labor Day weekend. By the time the notes are published, however, it will be the beginning of winter 2017. Our 15th Reunion is coming up; get your blue attire ready and start counting down the days! On May 28, Jessica Duffett married Edward Decker in Portland, OR. Sam Spears, Luke Spears, Cassie Kaufmann, Tisse Takagi, Liz DeLacy, and Lillian Kingery were all in attendance to celebrate the bride and groom. In August, Kelsey Siepser got engaged to longtime partner Francisco Pryor Garat when he proposed, post sunset, at Leo Carrillo Beach in Malibu, CA. How romantic! Kelsey wrote a solo show and performed it at Son of Semele theatre in LA. Supportive classmates Stevie Brock, Alex Anderson, and Brandon Winston all made it out to see the show. Jonathan Adler married Nahal Hamidi on Sept. 10 on Martha’s Vineyard. Their nuptials were an Andover-studded affair, with many classmates in attendance. To that end, Jonathan basically hosted his own mini reunion! Wills Hapworth, Ben Beinecke, Jarrett Wetherell, Brandon Winston, Dean Felch, Stevie Brock, Mitch St. Peter, Jeanne LeSaffre St. Peter ’03, Becca Lewis, Chloe Lewis, Malik Lewis, Nico Wheadon, Holly Schroeder, Becca Wexler, Dan Cote, and Kate Bach all joined together to celebrate the happy couple. Shortly after the wedding, Jonathan and Nahal moved to San Francisco. Wedding bells will soon be ringing for wedding guest and classmate Wills Hapworth. No, he did not catch the bouquet, but he is engaged to Abigail Weiner ’04. Wills is a partner in an early-stage venture capital firm and runs the entrepreneurship institute at Colgate University. At this writing, Kate Planitzer was looking forward to her Sept. 24 wedding at St. James’ Church in NYC, with a reception to follow at the American Museum of Natural History’s Powerhouse. Kate and fiancé Michael Harper invited many classmates to celebrate their love, including maid of honor Rachel Sobelson Tash, Elizabeth Thorndike, Ryan Coughlan, and Alexis Steil Burwell. Congratulations to all of the recently engaged and married couples! Expect lots of babies in tow at our upcoming reunion, because the Class of ’02 continues to contribute to the next generation. In May, Matt Kelly and wife Kate were blessed with a baby
boy, whom they named Michael McShane Kelly. Ryan Coughlan wrote to say, “Niki Roberts had a baby, Theodore Rex Roberts Benskin (aka T. Rex). I’m heading down to Houston to visit the baby (dinosaur) as soon as humanly possible.” Baby Theodore was born to Niki and wife Krisa in June. Also in June, Kim Ramos and David Breen celebrated the birth of their son, Cameron Landers Breen. In July, Madeleine Fawcett and husband Adam welcomed daughter Ines Fawcett Atenasio, and the parents “couldn’t be more in love.” In her first few days of life, lucky baby Ines was visited by her Andover aunties Christie Checovich, Courtney Gimbel Bardo, Olivia Wilde, and Mariel O’Brien ’01. Sam Takvorian and wife Melina celebrated the arrival of daughter Stella Ann Takvorian in July. Sam reports, “She’s turned our world upside down in the best of ways; we’re smitten!” Tom O’Rourke joined fellow dads Matt Kelly and Patrick Linneman for dinner in New York. Tom and wife Farrell’s daughter, Mary Carmen O’Rourke, was born in November 2015. Pat and wife Lindsay have been enjoying parenthood for a few years now, thanks to son Jack Owen Linneman, born in December 2014. One alum who will not be joined by a tot at reunion is Alice Percy. Alice writes, “With everyone announcing their pregnancies, babies, and marriages on Facebook recently, it occurred to me that I’ve hit a different kind of a milestone: All three of my boys are in elementary school now! I’m enjoying my regained semi-independence. While I very much look forward to admiring everyone’s little ones at our reunion, there had better be a few people left who are ready to stay up until the wee hours with me!’’ Congratulations to all of the new parents and to Alice for celebrating her newfound independence. In July, Cranston Gray and wife Leigh moved to Boston as Cranston begins the next phase of his medical training as an anesthesiology resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In August, Leanna Boychenko moved to Chicago, where she is an assistant professor of classical studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is mainly teaching ancient Greek, which she began studying at Andover! Dave Paolino finished nearly a decade of training and is practicing as a cardiac anesthesiologist in San Antonio, TX. Dave and wife Celest visited Diane Liu and her husband, Mason, in Hawaii in June, and met up with Erik Lepke in Boston in July. Also in Texas (Houston), Ellie Marshall Osborne is finishing up her last year of residency in radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is looking forward to graduating in June. In September, Ellie and husband Eric celebrated the first birthday of their daughter, Charlotte Jane. In San Francisco, Jess Tory works for Boston Consulting Group, where she has been since graduating from Stanford. Jess was looking forward to tying the knot on New Year’s Eve in Napa with a fellow Stanford classmate.
After three years in Nairobi, Kenya, Emily Kumpel will be moving back stateside in January to be an assistant professor at UMass Amherst in the department of civil and environmental engineering. Sandra Leung, who is still living in Hong Kong, visited Madrid, Spain, where she met up with Eva Martinez Orbegozo. The two former Stimson dormmates had not seen each other since our graduation. In September, Eva began pursuing a master’s of education degree at Harvard. Greg Chang celebrated his bachelor’s party with Kwadwo Acheampong, Gabe Cuthbert, and Jordan Harris in Cartagena, Colombia. Greg reports that “a grand time was had by all, as we sampled the local cuisine, enjoyed Colombian coffee while resting in old town, and gallivanted throughout the Rosario Islands by boat.” Sadly, according to Greg, no photos were taken. It would not be ’02 class notes if we did not have some good old-fashioned sports ribbing. This month’s contribution comes from Sean Mansfield, who enjoyed watching Ben Chang lose copious quantities of golf balls when the pair got together for a round of golf in Chicago in August. Until next time, start prepping for reunion by getting into the Big Blue spirit: “What do we eat?”
2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com
This set of notes begins with some exciting news: Evan McGarvey and his wife, Allegra AsplundhSmith ’04, also welcomed a son, Winslow, this August. They live in Austin, TX, where Evan works and where Allegra is finishing graduate school. It’s also fun to report a number of weddings from our class over the past few months. Former Phillipian editor Courtney McBride married Ted Engelhardt in Washington, DC, this June, with many of our classmates cheering them on, including Ryan McChristian, Kathleen Minahan, Katie Dlesk, Kaitlin Ainsworth Caruso and Phil Caruso, and Sam Weisz. On the same day, fellow former Phillipian editor Evan Panich married his longtime girlfriend Amy Pimentel in Boston, MA. Michael “Rudy” Ruderman, Janis Rice, Evan McGarvey and his wife, Allegra, Mike Panich ’98, Bryce Kaufman, Alex Minasian, and Bob Yamartino all joined Evan and Amy on their big day. A few weeks later, Dan Koh married his longtime girlfriend, Amy Sennett, in Milwaukee, WI. He, too, celebrated with a number of our classmates and fellow alumni, including brother
Steve Koh ’00, mother Claudia Arrigg Koh ’67, sister Katie Koh ’05, Kanyi Maqubela, Shaun Blugh, Duncan Dwyer, and Sarah Newhall ’02. Kaitlin Caruso wrote from NYC, where she and her husband, Phil, saw Phil’s former Stearns mate Tom Oliphant for dinner in August. I also hope to make it to New York soon to catch up with the Carusos and my former Georgetown roommate Andy Hattemer, who recently moved to Jersey City with his fiancée, Stephanie. Heading west, Meryl Mims wrote from Corvallis, OR, where she and her husband, Scott, have spent the past year as Meryl completed postdoctoral research for the U.S. Geological Survey. In January 2017, Meryl and Scott are planning to move to Blacksburg, VA, where Meryl will join the Virginia Tech faculty as a professor of ecology and global climate change. Sam Beattie wrote from Seattle, WA, where he and his wife, Julie, recently relocated for Sam’s new job as a game designer for PopCap Games. Gardy Gould and his fiancée, Tiffanie Hsu, visited Seattle this summer and caught up with Sam. If you have not seen it yet, be sure to check out Don’t Breathe, the summer movie thriller on which Gardy worked as an editor. Brian Karfunkel recently returned to the Bay Area. He and his fiancée moved in April, when Brian started a new job at Pinterest in San Francisco. Brian met up with with Janis Rice, Katie Dlesk, Seb Benthall, and Tara Anderson when Tara visited in August. Stephen Fee visited SF this summer as well and brought out a bunch of our classmates. Tom Dimopoulos, Rudy, Matt Lindsay, and I met Stephen for a drink while he toured the city. Longtime SF resident Rudy also caught up with several more of our classmates in August when Mitch St. Peter ’02 and Jeanne LeSaffre St. Peter hosted Nick Franchot and Alexa Raducanu Franchot, Kanyi, and Rudy at their apartment in SF. Finally, I also heard from Nate Meltzer, who continues to lead backpacking, climbing, and winter courses for the National Outdoor Leadership School in the Tetons, near Driggs, ID. Nate was in Maine for Emily Guerin ’04’s August wedding and also ran into Matt Garza ’04. That’s it for this batch. If you haven’t recently, update your contact information in the Andover alumni database, and stay in touch!
2004 Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com
The Class of 2004 is continuing its steady march toward becoming the most successful, well-traveled group of married people ever to exist.
Jackie Latina wed Christopher Whipps on Cape Cod, with Katie Ting, Sarah Sherman, and Nicole Slezak all in attendance. Jackie recently finished her internal medicine residency and is applying to cardiology fellowships. April Warren sent off her single days in style with a San Diego bachelorette party that included Mimi Hanley, Amy Lippe, Hilary Papantonio, and Malika Felix. Rich Besen and Stephen Russell planned to join that group in Kansas City to watch April wed Justin Mills in September. Dan Serna married his fiancée, Carly, at their Catholic church in Austin, with J.J. Feigenbaum on hand, in addition to alums from many other classes. Emily Guerin married Andy Cullen on Bailey Island in Maine. When the bartender bailed on the reception, Matt Garza and Anthony Roldan came to the rescue, traversing the tiny island until they found a replacement. Emily is a radio journalist in North Dakota. Laurie Ignacio wed Laura Kaneko at the Richardson Garden at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where they met. Laurie and Laura were fêted by Susannah Gund, who performed a reading, and Shauni Deshmukh, who gave a toast. Now for a little preview of the 2017 wedding season! Jen Graham finished business school at Yale with a degree and a fiancé, Alex, noting that “all of my mother’s dreams came true.” Before starting at Parthenon-EY, Jen took a few months off, during which she celebrated Clem Wood’s 30th birthday with Olivia Oran, Jasper Perkins, and Carey Hynes and visited Jessie Birecki Osborn in Colorado. Jessie has a son, Taft. Jisung Park got engaged to Irene Youngji Kim. They live in Cambridge, MA, where Jisung is completing a PhD degree in environmental economics at Harvard and sees Patrick Callahan, on his own PhD track at MIT, as well as Taylor Yates, who has a young son. Ashley Whitehead Luskey and her husband, Brian, welcomed a daughter in August. They refer to little Harper Jane as their “junior historian,” which class secretary Ali Schouten feels is the cutest thing she has ever heard in her life. Jessica Chermayeff is following her Emmynominated and Oscar-shortlisted documentary, Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, with another documentary project, this one focusing on themes of forced migration. Jamie Bologna and his husband, Alex, traveled to Japan and South Korea this summer. Lolita Munoz Taub is headed to Madrid to get an MBA degree at IE Business School. Also starting toward an MBA is Emma Etheridge, who is attending the Johnson School at Cornell. Alanna Hughes completed an MBA and MPA program and ran an entrepreneurship bootcamp in Algeria with a local partner before moving back to Boston in the fall. In the time it took to type that sentence, Alanna probably learned yet another language. Will Scharf suffered a “brutal” loss on behalf of his candidate in the Missouri primary—but got hired by her opponent right after! Will serves as Andover | Winter 2017
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