stay connected... Emma is an incredible craps player, whereas Carly is better suited to drink-scouting. Unfortunately, we have some sad news to share. Conor Sutherland writes, “I got engaged! To an Exie!” The future bride is fellow Princeton alum Grace du Pont. The pair got engaged in New York’s Hudson River Park in June, after reunion. Conor warns, “Let the cold war of influence over which Phillips our future kids will attend begin.” An edit to our last note—Morgan Abraham also pitched his startup, UGo Smoothies, at our Reunion showcase, a vending machine which creates fresh fruit smoothies. Jeni Lee hopes that people continue moving to Boston, Owen is surprisingly silent, and I am enjoying commenting daily on @paresky_dining. —Justin.
2007 10th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com
Stacey Middlebrook Spurr recently finished a master’s degree at MIT and moved back to downtown Boston, where she now works at a commercial real estate company. She hangs out with Adrienne Sabety all the time and is excited about Shay Paintal and Andrew Faulkner moving back to Beantown! Jack Dilday moved to LA this fall to start up his production company, I&I. He spent much of 2016 codirecting and acting in his first feature film, with a six-person crew shooting in locations such as Death Valley, a Colorado ghost town, the Adirondacks, and NYC. In between shooting, Jack managed to catch up with Jim Larson—who consulted him on the film’s score—and David Mauskop, who took a teaching job at Swarthmore this fall. Hasan Siddiqi is managing The Tulip and The Rose Café, a farm-to-table restaurant in the Catskill Mountains, and would love to have anyone visiting the area stop by. After graduating from medical school (with Robert Hsu ’05), Song Kim moved to Atlanta to start her residency in neurology at Emory. In the midst of moving, she got engaged to her sweetheart of 1½ years. During a Poconos weekend earlier this year with Song, Lindsay Agostinelli, Jean Pak, Michelle Nguyen, Aline Dubois, Ola Canty, Amy Chen, Alicja Lam, and Jack Pettit, a bet was placed on which member of
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www.andover.edu/intouch the group would be the first to get hitched; Song did not expect it to be her! Molly Ozimek-Maier would like to thank the entire class for amazing participation and contribution for the Andover Fund! If anyone wants to become a class agent, they should email her at mozimekmaier@gmail.com. Molly, Joy Joung, and Kayla Lawson recently all got together in DC at Joy’s house for dinner; Molly also saw Sam Gould, Karen Schoenherr, and Marina Warsaw-Fan at Marina’s house in Grantham, NH. Sam Gould spent last summer in Europe, traveling and continuing his climb up the professional squash-world rankings (he was 165 at the time of this writing). For those of you who are dying to hear more about his squash exploits and world travels, Sam has a blog titled 408 in the World. Olivia Pei still lives in SF but travels regularly to Europe for work, which is made even more fun by seeing Andover friends (Laura Minasian in Copenhagen and Marina Warsaw-Fan in Berlin). She also saw several people in SF recently: Emma Wood, Catherine Crooke, Charles Francis, and Liz Finnegan ’06. Mary Catherine Grinton married Hasil Patel in April; she got to celebrate with Sara Nickel, Kate Morin, Fori Wang, Henry Frankievich, and Paz Mendez Hodes. Alessandra Siraco got married to Bob McHugh in Cochran Chapel in September. Mike Siraco ’09, Alexander Abugov, Emily Anderson, Betina Evancha, and Lindsay Maroney were all there. Miles Silverman continues to bask in the radiant glow brought on by life as an engaged man, but his wedding isn’t for another year. After getting married in Andover this summer, with a beautiful reception at the Log Cabin, Ryan Ferguson is back at home in Washington, DC. Susannah Poland lives in rural southern Vermont, designing educational programs for Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions. When she’s not visiting partner communities in France and Nepal, she’s in the woods—working out of an old cow barn, gleaning from local farms, and sitting at the Vermont Insight Meditation Center. This year she’s creating new programs in Morocco, Bhutan, and the French Antilles. She welcomes all visitors to Vermont! As part of his work as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, Helal Syed is continuing to travel around the CONUS (continental U.S.). He just completed a temporary duty assignment in Biloxi, MS, and is now in San Antonio doing a fourth-year medical school rotation. After completing his rotation, Helal will head out for Operation Bushmaster, a full-scale medical field exercise. Cecily Pulver spent last year living in Uganda studying baboons. Now she’s relocated to Paris, where she masquerades as an adult and tries to apply to grad programs so she can continue to play with monkeys for the rest of her life. In August, Ben Feng won his third Ultimate Frisbee youth national championship in four
years—as a coach. He’s coaching an elite DC adult club team this fall. Maura Mulroy has been living in Basel, Switzerland, for the past year and completed Ironman Switzerland (a triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run) in July. Jocelyn Gully is living in Brooklyn, where she recently acquired two chickens to roam her backyard. Jocelyn frequently sees her sister, Hanna ’09, and longtime friend Danny Silk. Colleen Thurman married her college sweetheart, Andy Proudman, at a beautiful ceremony on the Cape this past October. It was attended by many Andover alums, including maid of honor Katharine Matsumoto and her longtime boyfriend, Vic Miller ’05. And Amy Chen writes, “The West Coast move is finally happening, after living my entire life between Boston and New York! Spent the summer interning at a startup in LA and am making the jump after B-school graduation— hit me up if you’ll be there.”
2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 10 Stuyvesant Oval, Apt. 10E New York NY 10009 Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com
Marriages, moves, mergers, meetings, Moscow, Lezzertag—the Class of 2008 is making magic happen all over the globe, starting with the production of wildly popular lesbian laser-tag events in NYC (@ Rachel Cohen). Jessica Cole moved to San Francisco for a fellowship with Code for America. Jess rallied some ’08ers for a picnic in Dolores Park this summer, including Christina Coravos, Silke Cummings, Brian Watson, and Frank Pinto, as well as Arun Saigal ’09. Mary Doyle ran into Arun and Eleazar Vega-Gonzalez while catching up with Dan Bacon ’06 at SF’s premier pirate-themed bar, Smuggler’s Cove. Eleazar moved to San Francisco last year and founded a startup, Reduced Energy Microsystems, with Will Koven. Frank Pinto, Chad Hollis, Zach Dixon, Alex Schwartz ’07, and Sam Gould ’07 headed to Colorado this summer for Lou Tejada’s bachelor party. Earlier, in the spring, Dave Holliday, Zach Feldman, and Ian Accomando joined Ben Schley for a Montana ski weekend. Silke recently moved to San Francisco, where she initially crashed with Eleazar, Will, and Katherine Chen. Sara Ho still lives in the Bay Area and recently started at a new private-equity firm, Hellman and Friedman, amid dinners with me and
her new puppy, Maverick. Do yourself a favor and follow the pup on Instagram: MavtheFluff Monster. After more than nine years of dating— since Blue & Silver during upper winter!— Hillary Baker and Billy Draper ’07 got engaged over July 4 weekend. Kristy Spiak returned stateside after six months in Kampala, Uganda, working for a solar-power and financial-services company. Kristy is now living in Washington, DC, where Victoria Glynn works as deputy press secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs and Blaine Johnson is at a think tank. Victoria went on a Labor Day camping trip with a crew that included Duncan Crystal ’10, who is working with one of her best friends. Jen Downing got married in Vermont in September, with Kristy Spiak serving as maid of honor. Lauren Shevlin—now Lauren Mace—got married in the Berkshires the previous weekend, with Lindsey Branson Crosby, Kelci Thomasco Blomker, and Abby Donahue as giddy witnesses. Lindsey rendezvoused with Kate Foley for dinner before heading back to Indiana. Abby Hoglund-Shen got married at the end of July. Nicole Duddy, who is getting married next year, just asked Lisa Lian (recently moved back to NYC) to be a bridesmaid. Lisa recently caught up with Paul Hsiao and Chris Cheung—visiting from Hong Kong—in Central Park. Paul visited Matt Emery in Philly this summer and saw Nicholas Koh at Nic’s birthday in NYC. Philip Meyer and Lucas McMahon caught up in NYC, where Steve Bartz recently moved. Caitlin Feeney is in her last year of law school at Cornell and is interning in NYC at the ACLU this semester. She provided this update while en route to dinner with Liz MacMillan, Kimbo Chang, and Sarah Pucillo. Molly Shoemaker, expanding her scope at Signature Theatre in New York, is now working with Signature’s new artistic director, Paige Evans ’80. Andover power women of the theatre world, unite! Jacqueline Hall is still at the Yale School of Architecture, starting a joint degree program in environmental management. More important, she now lives directly across the street from Alice Conant ’09, who is starting grad school at Yale. Siobhan Alexander moved to Moscow. She’s starting a two-year master’s degree program in international business and is eager for visitors! Sarah Cohan is on sabbatical from her consulting job of the past four years, exploring Chile and her own home city of Boston. Mercy Bell opened a wellness retreat center in the Bahamas, starting her own life- and wellnesscoaching practice. Kelly Lacob moved to Minneapolis to work at Medtronic, steering projects in a new incubator dedicated to healthcare solutions for emerging markets. Eamon Hegarty recently returned from
Okinawa, Japan, as part of his four-year service with the Marines. He and Zack An, currently in the Republic of Korea Air Force, are both looking forward to their transitions back to private life this year. Rajit Malhotra is working as director of strategic initiatives at Bank Street, a progressive private school in NYC. Chip Schroeder commutes to Silver Lake’s NYC office from Boston, where his wife, Marcheta, is attending Harvard Business School. The Schroeders join a big ’08 family at HBS: Adam Giansiracusa, Joey Mensah, and Veda Eswarappa all started this year, and Kie Watanabe, Nkem Oghedo, and James Sawabini are all in their second year. Nick Anschuetz and his band, Bearly Dead, recently played one of Nick’s dream venues— Nectar’s, in Burlington, VT. Chad Hollis, Lou, and Ian have all been to Nick’s shows over the past year. Stephanie Clegg, in her second year of med school at UMass, saw Jamie Harisiades, Tucker Mullin, and Jack Walsh at the Falmouth Road Race in August. Tucker and Jack sped ahead of Steph before they had a chance to properly chat. Steph spent the summer researching in the orthopedics department at UMass, specifically looking at patient-reported outcomes of pain and function after total knee replacements. Kate Measom and Thomas Smyth ran into each other at the Shrimp Shack on St. Helena Island, a tiny town in South Carolina! J.J. McGregor, Zach Dixon, and Kaitlyn McInnis ’09 had an awesome weekend in New Orleans. Keep the news coming, team! Much Big Blue love. —Mary
2009 Alexander McHale 101 NE 53rd St., Apt. 2714 Oklahoma City OK 73105 703-786-3330 pa09classnotes@gmail.com Deidra Willis 2815 Rohret Road, Apt. 201 Iowa City IA 52246 347-342-7447 pa09classnotes@gmail.com
By the time you read these notes, ’09, it’ll be winter, and the days of basking in the hot sun will be all gone. But never fear! Your class secretaries will keep you up to date and help you reminisce about the days of tank tops and sundresses. #AllSummer16, the Class of 2009 has been living it up and successfully adulting. I think it’s safe to say we’re all winning, whether it’s with more degrees, career accolades, exploring new places, expanding families, or all of the above. We may not see each other every day, and some folks we almost never see, but I for one love hearing and seeing
how everyone’s doing. Jessica Frey, Eliza Campbell, and Marianna Jordan get to enjoy an Andover reunion every day as they live together in Brookline, MA. They recently ate their way through Mexico City by way of tacos and tequila on a 10-day vacation. Jessica works for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund as an event planner in the fundraising department. In her free time, she rows and races with a women’s masters team on the Charles. Alex McHale grabbed dinner with Ishan Kapoor as Ishan was traveling through Oklahoma City. The two feasted on surprisingly good Oklahoma Korean food and reminisced about the good times at Andover over bulgogi tacos. Ishan has recently accepted a new position at Guggenheim Partners as an equity research analyst covering oil-field services companies. Courtnie Crutchfield met up with Scott Dzialo in July to “help” him set up his new apartment. Courtnie also saw lots of alums at Abby Hoglund-Shen ’08’s July wedding including Chris Lim ’08, Nicole “Sam” Hantman ’08, Lizzy Chan ’08, and Rachel Cohen ’08. The meetups kept rolling as Courtnie met up with Linda Griffith for a Broadway show and dinner with Tiffany Corley ’91 as well. Courtnie is living in North Jersey with her boyfriend of five years, his 11-year-old daughter, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, two kittens, a 17-year-old cat, and a bunny. She’s working at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in the management training program and was looking forward to reconnecting with her PA family at the Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game on Sept. 10! Happy belated birthday to Margaret Finch, who spent a bit of this summer on the East Coast, where she enjoyed brunch with Salena Casha, Megan Farquhar, and Eliza Campbell. Gustavo Tavares wishes everyone his best as he continues to kick butt in the Dominican Republic. He is sad he missed Hannah Kauffman’s birthday party. Anabel Bacon, Kevin Ofori, and Michael Kaluzny met up and hung out in Atlanta while Anabel was in town for work. After finishing up a master’s degree program at Oxford in June, she is back in the States, producing original audio programs with Audible. Congrats on another degree, Anabel! Kyle Ofori recently moved to the Cambridge area to start his a master’s degree program at Harvard. He and Johnny Carmona have been hanging out a lot as they close out the summer—those in the area should totally hang out with them. Over on Cape Cod in August, Krystle Manuel-Countee hung out with Jack Walker, Eric Kanter and Andrew Pohly at the Beach Club. A big congratulations to Louisa Chafee, who finished eighth overall in the sailing mixed Nacra Andover | Winter 2017
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