stay connected... natural beauty by doing lots of hiking. When she returned to Boston, she and Emily Hoyt enjoyed a delicious Italian dinner in the North End. Emily traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland, where she conducted bioengineering research with people from all over the world. She is considering rejoining the lab at a Max Planck Institute after graduation from Williams College next spring. Christian Langalis worked at Graham Capital, a hedge fund in Connecticut, and often saw Kevin Fung, who worked at JP Morgan. He also supported Ross Burnaman’s rowing competitions and had a lovely lunch with Suzanne Wang. Arianna Chang interned in sales and trading this summer down the street from Lydia Kaprelian, who was interning at 30 Rock! They loved exploring NYC together and even went to a clam bake in Connecticut. They also had a blast at a sneak preview of The Secret Life of Pets with Saroj Gourkanti and Kevin Newhall. Mimi Leggett spent last year in Berlin, interning for a fashion designer and studying art and German. She returned to Oberlin for her senior year and is working towards her senior thesis exhibition. I wish you the best as you enter the last stretch of college. We are looking forward to hearing where your experiences and opportunities lead you!
2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu’ djavaneh@googlemail.com Kai Kornegay 3650 Spruce St., MB 960 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com
Junius Williams had a great time coming up to Andover for commencement, to see friends from ’14 as well as their younger siblings and other ’16s, many of whom he prefected during his time at PA. Casey Durant, Adele Bernhard, and Esther Cohen saw Waitress on Broadway together this summer! Cat Haseman took a break from her internship with the International Justice Mission in Washington, DC, to travel to San Francisco with Renee LaMarche and Natalie Kim to visit Zoe Gallagher for a weekend. John Henry Fitzgerald spent a couple weeks at Mads Engel’s house in Colorado Springs, CO. According to John Henry, Mads is
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www.andover.edu/intouch a great cook. Jake Marrus had Luke Stidham, Stephen Moreland, James Robertson, and Alec Tolentino up to his house in New Jersey for July 4. According to Luke, “’Twas a great time.” Miguel Wise and Henry Manning traveled the Southwestern US, hiking the Grand Canyon, trudging through three feet of summer snow, and fervently searching for available campgrounds at the last minute as punishment for their lack of planning. In NYC, Janine Ko, Tyler Tsay ’15, Chris Li ’15, and Djavaneh Bierwirth got together over Chinese food. Meanwhile, while interning for Ali Baba in Beijing, Caroline Chen met up with Suzanne Wang ’13, Haonan Li ’13, and Rachel Xiao ’13. Also in July, Ryan Miller traveled from his summer post in Berlin, Germany, to visit Emilia Figliomeni in Bologna, Italy, for the weekend. They ate lots of gelato and reminisced about Art 500 while at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. On the other side of the world, in Venice, CA, Djavaneh met up with Celine Kwon ’13. In August, Djavaneh also caught up with Caroline Chen and Vanessa Shrestha in San Diego and LA. They took several small road trips in a bright red Mini Cooper convertible and reminisced about PA over copious amount of poké.
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
Sophomores, freshmen, abroad, off-radar? The further removed from Andover we become with time, the more the narratives of our class members broaden and vary. It is our pleasure to share now just a few of the updates from fellow 2015 graduates. Both Zachary Baum and Kelli Mackey transferred to Hamilton College, where they live down the hall from one another. Zach is thinking about pairing environmental studies with a government or world politics major. He wants to be involved in the outing club, as well as the ski and sailing teams. Last year and over the summer, he was able to reunite often with Billy Hubschman and also saw Elijah Jackson and Jack MacWilliams. After a year of focusing solely on hockey as a juniors player, Drew DiGeronimo has started his college career at Wentworth Institute
of Technology. Over the summer, Drew met with fellow 2015 postgraduates Ben Reinisch, Jake Nelson, and Culver Duquette to celebrate their mutual love of the 1986 classic film Stand by Me. Meanwhile, Arthur Doran camped for a week in the Adirondacks with Reid Bradt and Robby Schwartz. Tom Burnett hosted fellow Yorkie Devontae Freeland in Providence, where they performed a duet together at a new interactive performance lounge on Thayer Street. Scott MacDonald worked as an A/V intern at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, this summer; the festival featured four main stage productions as well as other performances and lectures. In the fall he will head back to Carnegie Mellon for his second year in the school of drama. Ravn Jenkins, Wei Han Lim, Owen Corey, and David Benedict attended a concert in Portland, ME, to see Noah Singer play with his band, Miss Rosie. David was also part of a crew at school whose radio play was featured in the freshman showcase and nominated for a Tisch award. His current project is sound-designing and scoring a 20-minute horror film. Jen Kaplan has also been incredibly busy this past summer and school year. Thinking of doublemajoring in computer engineering and gender and sexuality studies at Brown, she interned as a research assistant to a computer-graphics professor at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology this summer. In this position, she coded 3D games and created web viewing platform for displaying 3D geometry online. Jen has received visits at school from Charlie Jarvis and keeps a car on campus, which she uses to visit Kayla Thompson in Cambridge and Alex Thomas and Isabel Taylor in NYC. Other Andover classmates have also been able to keep in close contact at college. After two years of living together at Andover, Paulina Munn and Marina Folz are dormmates again this year at Cornell University. Last year, Paulina got her first job working in a restaurant on campus, was accepted into the Hospitality Leadership Development Program, filed her own taxes for the first time, and drove herself to and from school—a great number of personal accomplishments! She said she also enjoyed watching Andover seniors in the Class of 2016 grow into their role and graduate. Tessa Peterson and Alex Westfall are two gapyear students who started college side-by-side with Andover 2016 alumni. In August, they matriculated at Bowdoin College with Caroline Shipley ’16 and Matt Whalen ’16. Since arriving, Tessa has had campus encounters with Andreas Tonckens, Derek Yau, Tim Bulens, Nick DiStefano ’14, Walter Chacón ’13, and Richard McAllister ’13. So it goes at small New England liberal-arts colleges. Earlier this summer, Tessa contributed to a Kickstarter campaign Alex launched to publish Silver Hour, a book of photographs from her travels
in Iceland last fall. The Kickstarter was successful! As the demands and excitements of our present endeavors nudge nostalgia for Andover out of mind, there are still some moments of reflection about the Class of 2015. Alejandra Uria shared one such thought as we probed her for some words about being a year out of Andover: “Andover was bae, and I never realized it.” Wherever your reminiscing about PA has taken you, we welcome news about your life and hope to hear from you. —Devontae, Kailash, and Tessa
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
Though it has been only a few short months since we left Andover, members of the Class of 2016 have been busy! First off, cheers to Angela Tang and Jenny Huang, who both received Presidential Scholar Medals from U.S. Secretary of Education John King ’92 this past June. Also, a big congratulations to Gabe Blanchard for winning gold in the U19 Men’s Eight event at this summer’s Canadian Henley regatta and Annette Bell for completing six weeks of intense cadet basic training at West Point. Quite a few of our classmates have had exciting international adventures. Diana Ding traveled to Europe with her family, and Felipe Chamon attended the Olympics in Rio. Kailey Kirkwood and Lizzie McGonagle spent three weeks traveling across Europe after graduation. Parker Tope climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with her family. Sara Luzuriaga visited family in Ecuador in June, then spent the last few weeks of summer traveling around Europe with Franziska Trautmann. Angie Lara visited Colombia to see her relatives for the first time in seven years, and she interned at Ferguson & Shamamian, an architecture firm based in NYC. Vienna Kuhn spent most of her summer splitting her time between a biotech startup and an investment firm in San Diego. Kasey Welch and Claire Ressel visited her, and she took a week
off from work to go on a bike tour of Italy and visit relatives in Switzerland. Giulia Paletti had a blast with Anna Dear in LA. Now, though, Giulia is “back to reality” and studying, as Italian admission tests are in September and the college process is not over for her. Let’s wish her luck! Claire Glover is loving living on her own in Salzburg, Vienna, as an au pair to “two feisty and affectionate kids.” She says she has plenty of free time, which she has already used to adventure in Italy, Austria, and Germany. Kieto Mahaniah worked as a roadie this summer, going to fairs, carnivals, music halls, and more. He thoroughly enjoyed his summer of eating lunch with bands, having dinner at 4 a.m. after gigs, and driving all day with the crew. Christina Schoeller spent a month backpacking with NOLS in the Yukon Territory, where she happened to be in the same group as Jack Lawlor ’17. For her gap year, she will be based in Denver, doing service projects throughout the Southwest for 10 months as a member of the AmeriCorps NCCC program. Lauren Luo spent the summer interning for Vince Siu ’06 and Wes Mui ’06 at their board-game startup, Press Start Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Lauren met up with Jonathan Jow, Michael Shen, Cameron Wong, Jenny Huang, Riku Fukumori, and Terrence Xiao. Lauren visited Jules Comte in southern France and stopped by to see Tora Liu while in Beijing. Tora coached little kids in hockey while in China and returned to Boston to begin his year at Northfield Mount Hermon. Tyler Levine started his first season playing junior hockey with the Brooks Bandits in Alberta, Canada. Even those of us who did not travel the globe had interesting summers. While walking the streets of NYC, Theodore Perez ran into Mr. Palfrey, who, according to Theo, “was not prepared for the encounter.” On another day, Theo walked around New York with Joel Peña and Richard Ira playing Pokemon Go. Theo also went to the Panorama Music Festival with Ian Jackson and Joe Lee. In a “life-changing turn of events,” Theo became a proud holder of a membership to the Bronx Zoo. He went to the zoo one day with Ellie Shang (Samantha Lin) and Tora Liu, where they rode the Bug Carousel. Charles Stacy and JongHo Park went to a midnight showing of X-Men. (They were the only ones in the entire movie theatre.) Charles also visited Kastan Day at his internship at NASA Langley Research Center, and wrote— big surprise!— a film score that featured Joshua Henderson ’15 on the violin. Mihika Sridhar, Olivia LaMarche, and Nupur Neogi all worked at Noodles & Company, a fast-casual restaurant, and the three hiked Mount Major in New Hampshire with Peyton McGovern. Mihika then spent a few days with Thea Rossman ’15, John Gorton ’15, and Bella Berkley ’15 on Martha’s Vineyard, eating fried
clams, soft serve, and freshly caught scallops. Noah Wintman was busy taking on the role of field director for Massachusetts state senator Eric Lesser’s reelection campaign. John Isenhower helped with the campaign of Congressman Denny Heck and started working for Fidelity National Title. Sean Hawkins interned at a neuroscience lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, which he secured through an Andover teacher. Sean also met up with other members of the Class of ’16 to go blueberry picking, to the beach, and into Boston. Mofopefoluwa “Mofi” Olarinmoye interned at an engineering firm, where she had the opportunity to build a power panel alongside the firm’s technicians, then spent the rest of summer enjoying much-needed relaxation. Eric Lee, Sabine Nix, Ellie Shang, and Tora Liu hiked the Adirondacks together. Sam Shapiro spent some time with Rohan Dixit, Darren Ty, Ryan Fischer, Sam Cohen, and Michael Najem before heading to off to work as a counselor at an overnight camp. Kyle Kingston, Payton Jancsy, and Alex Dziadosz exchanged goodbyes before college over pancakes and waffles at a diner in Beverly, MA. Kyle Kingston also reunited with Meredith Collins ’14 at a Coldplay concert, which they followed with a visit to Taylor Swift’s house in Rhode Island. Erica Shin grabbed breakfast with Isabella Haegg in Beverly Hills, CA, and met up with Emily Anderson for a couple of days in Manhattan Beach. Arzu Singh visited Sara Kowdley in Seattle for a week and became a burrito-wrapping pro at Chipotle. Speaking of minimum wage, Tyler Lian learned to fold clothes at Gap. Jeanine Moreau had a quiet summer, then began her career as a college athlete on Rensselaer’s soccer team. Also in the realm of soccer, Darian Bhathena is playing on the varsity team at MIT as a walk-on player. Harper North struggled through chemistry at UVA with Richie Zhang. Samantha Hagler took an ecology class on Appledore Island at the Shoals Marine Lab, and Claire Tellekson-Flash studied environmental science at UVM’s Rubenstein school. Whew, what a summer! With the first semester of college well under way, we hope everyone is having a blast. Keep in touch with each other— and keep sending news our way!
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