stay connected... 17 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio! Super proud of you, Louisa. Being in the Olympics equals #goals. Over Labor Day weekend, Olamide “Mide” Babatunde got together with Peter Ly and Brendan Casey for dinner and some drinks in Chicago. Peter was visiting for the weekend from San Francisco; both Mide and Brendan live in Chicago now. It was Peter’s first time in the city, and the guys were sure to show him a good time. In August, Larry Zhou spent the night in Yosemite camping with Charlie Dong and Pat Wolber ’11. They went on a 16-mile hike to a watering hole. They followed that up with a trip to Vegas, which included ATVing in the dunes around the city! While out and about, Larry also got to catch up with Blaine Johnson ’08 during a layover on her way back from Beijing and summited Half Dome using the cables this past month. Wedding bells are ringing for several members of ’09 who’ve taken that step and are truly killing this adulting thing. In June, Steven Lee-Kramer got married in Charlottesville, VA, and had a spectacular mini reunion. Alums in attendance included Larry Zhou, Ishan Kapoor, Andrew Malin, Shaun Stuer, Kyle Rogers, Trevor Gulick-Stutz, and Geoff Kwok ’10. Shaun, Kyle, and Steven even put on their unies again and did a pre-wedding rowing session! Georgina Norton got married on July 2 to Trevor Middleton. Alli Lyons was a bridesmaid, and Stephanie Moroney and Aubrey Zimmerling attended as guests. They actually had their ceremony in Cochran Chapel, and the reception was held at the Andover Inn. Georgina highly recommends Andover to any engaged ’09ers looking for wedding venues. On August 13, Olivia Panaccio Tresham Mackasey also got married. There was a big Day Hall ’09 reunion with Rebecca MacRae, Allison Flanders, Blaire Pingeton, and Carolyn Han in attendance. Just one week later, Danica Mitchell got married in upstate New York. Emily Kowal and Antoinette Oot were bridesmaids, and Alice Conant and Mali Bowers were also there. To all the newlyweds, newly engaged, and the happily single, congrats. And in case you forgot how long we’ve been at this, this fall’s Andover-Exeter Weekend marks 10 years since our first home A-E on our amazing campus, during our lower year! Alex and I are totally making this a thing, so check out the Facebook group. I can’t wait to cheer on the young’uns against the school we love to hate in November. Who knows—I may even dust off a few Blue Key Head cheers and bring out the old sweatshirt. As always, we love hearing stories and updates from all of you. Please send any- and everything to pa09classnotes@gmail.com, so we don’t have to resort to stalking all your exciting lives and colorful social media pages. If you haven’t been getting our emails, send us an email, so we can update your contact information. —Deidra
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www.andover.edu/intouch 2010 Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com Will Lindsey 27 Commerce St., Apt. 1A New York NY 10014 919-308-9866 will.lindsey23@gmail.com Andrew Townson 978-886-8191 andrew.townson@gmail.com
Will Winkenwerder and Paul Bloemsma continue to spend time together in New York and report that they “have jointly adopted a pet gerbil named Armani.” Will just started a new job in private equity at Apollo Global Management, and Paul just started in private equity at First Reserve. Sebastian Becker is currently working on the field program for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as a regional organizing director in Ohio. He started on the campaign in August 2015 and worked as an organizer through the primaries in four states: Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, and Nevada. Trevor Braun is starting a master’s degree program in economics at McGill this fall. He’s working on hiking the 46 Adirondack high peaks on the weekends. Trevor says, “I’ve done 15 this summer. Still got a ways to go.” Zahra Bhaiwala graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health in May. In September, she got engaged to Ahmed Alkhateeb, whom she met two years ago “in a hallway at HMC.” He was there doing a postdoc. She currently lives in Central Square in Cambridge and works at a biotech/ biopharma consulting firm. Annie Li was happy to report that in July, Julie Xie had a birthday get-together in NYC, and it turned into a mini reunion with David Chung, Minyoung Kwon, David Luan ’09, Mike Discenza ’09, Peter Bang ’11, and Kim Kuoch ’09. Catherine McLaughlin is currently living in London and working as the commercial manager for a TV post-production company. Over the summer, Isabella Uria went on a pilgrimage through northern Spain called El Camino de Santiago. Now, she’s starting at Yale Law School and says she is “excited to be back on the East Coast, so I can catch up with other Andover grads in the area!” Alexis Dawkins recently moved to Shanghai, China, to work for a tech translation and localization company. She’s been spending a lot of time with Stephen Xenakis and Mat Kelley, who “also live and work in this amazing city!” Mat will be relocating soon, but staying fairly local, as he is moving to Singapore.
In September, Kyle Leahy moved out to San Francisco with his girlfriend. He transferred within his current company, but, he says, “My girlfriend, Olivia, actually is the one with the cooler transition.” She had been working in development at Concord Academy back in Boston, but she got an offer from Stanford’s undergrad admissions office. “So, long story short,” says Kyle, “once she got the job it was a no-brainer to move out West!” He’s currently working at Yesware’s San Francisco office and says, “Hopefully, I’ll get to connect with some PA people out here soon!” Emilie Kannekens recently moved back from Copenhagen to Amsterdam to finish law school at the University of Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, she met up with Celia Cadwell, who, she reports “has been traveling around Europe for a couple of months.” After having worked in the software industry for a year and a half, Kelvin Jackson was accepted to a master’s degree program at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland. Kelvin is there now, studying Finnish and its related languages. Andrew Townson spent the summer backpacking across 13 countries in Europe. He’ll spend the next few months in Baltimore helping to open a ramen shop with a friend from college. He says, “If you’re in the area, come enjoy a bowl!” Sara Bakrow is currently living in Manhattan and recently celebrated two years at her job at BMI Research. She also spent two weeks in Italy this summer and came back just in time for Avery Stone’s surprise birthday party (organized by Kelsey Lim; Caroline Kaufman made an appearance from DC!). Kelsey started a new job in July as a designer at Sweden Unlimited, a digital agency in Manhattan specializing in strategy, design, and technology for fashion and lifestyle brands. Meredith Rahman is currently back at PA working as a teaching fellow in biology. Hannah Bardo is finishing up her Fulbright ETA grant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and plans to backpack her way from Brazil up to Colombia before heading back to the States in the spring. Hannah says, “It’s been a blast catching up with alums passing through Rio.” She’s recently met up with Jasmine Stovall, Trevor Gulick-Stutz ’09, and Nate Scott ’05. Hannah says that a major highlight of the past few months was Courtney King’s recent visit with her boyfriend, Joe, during which they “discovered a new passion for Olympic canoeing and ripped up the France House dance floor. Courtney even got a tan from our daily treks to one of Brazil’s most beautiful beaches on Ilha Grande! Looking forward to many adventures to come.” Hannah Hall worked for two years for Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol: the first year in the room, and the second year on the hill (after she learned how to ski). For the past seven months, she has been living out of her car, traveling, climbing, and writing articles for climbing magazines.
Now, she is back at Mammoth again, finishing her prerequisites for nursing school; she plans to apply at the end of this semester. She has spent a lot of time rock climbing, and says she is “most passionate about trad climbing and getting into the mountains!” This summer, Hannah climbed the Salathe Wall on El Capitan and the North Ridge of Mount Baker. She is “all about the adventure” and recently attempted the Minaret Traverse but “bailed after three towers, realizing we had to adjust to different tactics.” Next up, Hannah is planning a trip down South this winter to pursue some more mountains.
2011 Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu Oriekose Idah 8 Sycamore Lane Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 oidah0608@gmail.com Kevin Song 1 Windy Hill Road Green Brook NJ 08812 kevin@andover11.com Edith Young 470 Park Ave., Apt. 2D New York NY 10022 edithwyoung@gmail.com
2012 5th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com
Congrats to the many members of the Class of 2012 who just graduated from college! In June, Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker started working for GoPro
in Munich. After living in Germany for two years she has adapted quite well to the culture; when she’s not working, you can find her swimming in the Isar River, drinking a Helles, or eating a Brezel. After graduating from Harvard, Katie Hebb spent part of her summer traveling through Asia with Allison Morrison. The two of them ran into Sheiling Chia and Ariana Brenner in Thailand and Eric Meller in Japan! Dylan Gully, Ben Manuel, and David Russell continued their tradition of spending July 4 together at Dylan’s family house in York, ME. Dylan added in an email, “And I continued the tradition of kicking Ben’s butt in the annual home-run derby tournament.” Ben recently moved to Asheville, NC, to continue working in solar-energy development. He came up north to visit Dylan, as well as other Andover people like Ryan Ramos, and to attend the BC-Clemson football game. Go, Tigers! At the end of the summer, Chelsea Ward headed to Shanghai to study Mandarin for the year as part of the Chinese Government Scholarship program. Over the summer, Danny Gottfried lived in a small village outside of Chisinau, Moldova, where he completed his preservice training for the Peace Corps. This past August, he moved to his permanent site of Comrat, where he teaches English in a local school. After graduating from Yale, Claudia Shin took a film class in Paris and hung out with Collin Benedict, who was working there. Claudia has since moved to Los Angeles and started working for United Talent Agency. Henry Field received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army after a term of service that spanned several years and included a humanitarian rotation to North Africa and a combat tour in Afghanistan. SPC Field served as a senior combat medic on patrols in both Eastern and Southern Afghanistan. Upon concluding his service, he intends to return to coastal Maine and, as he wrote in an email, “take up the hobby of not being blown up and shot at.” He also might try gardening. Kelsey Jamieson is in Beijing for a master’s degree program in global affairs at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. If any Andover people stop by Beijing, be sure to look her up! James Lim, Gabriel “Gabo” Cordero Fuentes, and Kian Ivey are all working in NYC and are planning the first of many mini Stowe House reunions. Evan Eads just graduated from Duke University alongside Benjamin Scharf, Rachel “Sage” Hunt, Nicholas Camarda, Joseph Kruy, Shannon Adams, Ricky Goldstein, and Chelsea Grain. Evan is now working as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in NYC with Colton Dempsey and Soo Jung “Christa” Choy. Shannon began a medical postbac program at Goucher College in Baltimore. Gabbie Cirelli recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and is living in NYC with Isabel Elson, who graduated from Harvard in May and now works at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea. Madison Grant
recently graduated from Colgate and started law school at Columbia University this past fall. William “Trey” Jennings graduated from Dartmouth as a double major in neuroscience and economics. Trey moved to San Francisco to work for Wells Fargo, doing life-sciences investment banking. If anyone is in the SF area, let him know! Scherezade Khan has begun working in marketing and business development for a software company in Cambridge, MA. That’s all for now, Class of 2012! Stay classy.
2013 M.J. Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com
Hello, Class of 2013! We hope you enjoyed your amazing summers of internships, international travels, and Andover reunions. Jing Qu was looking forward to spending her fall semester as a White House intern, but she enjoyed living with Connor Fraser in NYC over the summer. Connor is excited about senior year in his new penthouse suite dorm at Columbia University. They often ran into Julia Kichorowsky, who still regularly attends family dinners with Lucy Frey in Andover. Anna Stacy had a very theatrical summer with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. When we heard from her, she had just finished a production of Henry V, was working on Coriolanus, and was then going to be in Hamlet! She was worried about memorizing her lines, but we know she was incredible. David Crane, Hemang Kaul, and Sahil Bhaiwala reunited in Boston for a night out, where they ran into Gabriel Kneisel-Freund. Rory Ziomek, Ross Bendetson, and Jason Nawrocki road-tripped to Saratoga Springs, NY, in July. They had a fabulous time at the opening day of horse racing and are preparing for their senior years. Eddie Ellis was inspired to become more involved in activism, so he traveled to Houston, TX, where he supported laws encouraging the advancement of women’s rights. He also spent time going door-to-door as a volunteer for the Clinton campaign. He finally got rest and relaxation with his family in Burlington, MA, and best friend Ross Bendetson. Anjali Krishnamachar interned at Boeing, explored Seattle, and took advantage of the area’s Andover | Winter 2017
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