AndoverMagSpring2015

stay connected...will ya please do us a favor and bring extra flasksto put the bairns to beddy-bye so that the pack ofremaining lone wolves can party proper? Kidding,kidding... Faithfully yours, class secretary.2001Misty Muscatel203-569-9713mistina.muscatel@gmail.comUpdate of the quarter goes to Raquel LeonardMoreno, who is now a cohost on a radio showcalled The Green Hour on WURD in Philadelphia(www.900amwurd.com). The program airs onSundays from 11 a.m. to noon. Raquel would loveto hear the voices of Andover alums who havethoughts to share about the many elements ofsustainability. Folks can feel free to call in to theshow, or shoot me an e-mail and I’ll connect youwith Raquel if you have topics you would like toshare as a guest on the show.James Kenly kicked off the year with somegreat updates, including his new job creating anaccount management department at a softwaredevelopment consultancy startup called QuickLeft. It was number 1916 on the Inc. 5000 lastyear! James caught up with Lawson Feltmanover some beers at Eventide Brewing while ona business trip earlier this year in Atlanta andalso attended a few ’01 weddings. Tim Danielsmarried Kathryn Kendall in Annapolis, Md., onHalloween weekend. Scott Darci, Gino Rotondi,Scott Ward, Steve Mead, Luke LeSaffre, IsaacTaylor, Tom O’Rourke ’02, Charlie Fuller ’00,and Ethan Liebermann ’00 were all in attendance.Shortly after Tim tied the knot, Scott Darcimarried Tess Morton in Key West, Fla., andthe Andover group was quite similar, with theadditions of Eric Chase, Alex Bradley, AshleyHarmeling ’00, and Porter Fraker ’00.In his international travels, James caughtup with Al Dahya while in Istanbul, Turkey,in August and met Al’s beautiful wife, Roxana,and baby, Sofia. Allison Colbert connectedthe dots for this reunion. Al is currently thedirector of business development for SunEdison(solar energy).Merri Hudson Johnston ran the NYCMarathon in November and raised morethan $4,000 for Team MR8. Rachel Weiner,Sarah Kline, and I get to have dinners with Merrievery so often in the city, and they are always suchfun reunions. Her two girls, Ellie and Emmy, areabsolutely adorable and mini-Merris, alreadyplaying and interested in sports.Gavin McGrath has two beautiful kids,Caroline, 3, and Charlie, 1-1/2, who love their“Pease House playdates” with Martin Fox’s twoboys. The families get together every few months,and Martin is now looking forward to the arrivalof his third boy! The McGrath kids also got toplay with Cora Kimball (Kate Kimball and116 Andover | Spring 2015Greg Kimball’s daughter) a few months back.Gavin has been staying busy traveling the globein 2014, consulting to an international hotelcompany as an engagement manager at L.E.K.Consulting. He is happy to report that 2015 willinvolve less travel, and he will be closer to home.Also rocking some ’01 playdates isLarisa Vaysman, residing in Cincinnati, whereshe is working as an attorney. Larisa’s first baby, abeautiful girl named Miriam, turned 1 in January.Vivian Huang Bastos ’02 and her daughter, Parker,get together with Larisa and Miriam, as they alllive in Cincinnati.Also enjoying a new addition areMara Meyer Epstein and husband Jon, whowelcomed their first child, a baby girl namedHannah, in October. The whole family is doingwell and is beyond thrilled with the new addition.Vanessa Nickerson is still living in Denver(though she recently moved) and has resignedfrom her position with the Office of the PublicDefender. She’s taking a few months off, shewrites, to “explore Denver, snowshoe, summit asmany ‘14ers’ as possible, and generally enjoy thegreat outdoors” before she finds herself back in thelegal profession.Ian Cropp has accepted a position with asports consulting firm in NYC called GlideSlope.We are beyond thrilled to have him join the NYCAndover crew.While completing a fellowship at the Villa ITatti in Florence, Caitlin Henningsen hostedSusie Dickson, Alida Payson, Ella Hoffman,Sarah Kline, and Nicholas Ma over the course oflast fall. She also visited Vienna with Marion Readand husband Alex Saltman before their move toSan Francisco.Amanda Barash got married last summer toAhmad Odetalla at the Lyman Estate in Waltham,Mass. Several ’01ers were in attendance, includingCynthia Cohen, Adrea Lee, Elka Gruenberg,Diana Mahler Spalding, Matteo Natale, DesiraéSimmons, and Matt Rotman.Andrew Tucker’s gorgeous wedding to LaurenCzeizler took place on Sept. 6 at the St. Regisin NYC. Andover alums in attendance wereAdam Sklar, Bryan Haughom, Eric Newman,Ramesh Donthamsetty, and Matthew Miller ’00.My big update is that I got engaged overThanksgiving to the very fun James Davis, whommany ’01ers have met. James proposed in front ofmy entire 23-person family dinner, and we will betying the knot this fall in Boston. Should be a funbut hectic few months ahead!Keep the updates coming. It’s just a little over ayear until our 15th Reunion, ’01. Start preparing!2002Lauren NickersonP.O. Box 711477Mountain View HI 96771Lauren9@gmail.comHappy 2015, Class of 2002! Hope this is a happyand healthy year for all.First news is that after many years of beingco-class secretary, Paul Crowley has decidedto step down from his post to spend more timefocusing on his career and family (more on thatin a minute!). We would like to thank Paul for hisyears of service to the Academy and wish him wellin his future endeavors. Paul is practicing law inMaryland, doing indigent-criminal-defense work,and occasionally gets together with Doug Presleyfor dinner and Patriots games. Paul and his wife,Nicole, welcomed their first baby in September.Helen Amelia Crowley is happy and healthy, andher parents are doing well. Stay in touch, Paul!Don’t be a stranger.I (Lauren Nickerson) will continue to be atthe helm of class notes, writing until babies (notanytime soon) and/or career (the more likely ofthe two) also prove to be too time consuming. Sokeep on sending your updates!And now to the notes, in no particularorder—chronological, alphabetical, orthemed. Erin Chantry wrote to share the delightfulnews of the birth of her first baby. Erin and husbandMatt welcomed Elizabeth Regina Chantry inSeptember. To judge from the pictures that Erinshared, little Elizabeth is ever the Southern belle,just like her mama. The whole Chantry familywill be moving to Charlotte, N.C., where Erinhas accepted a position as urban designer atStantec Consulting.Another ’02er is jumping ship from themainland and heading to Hawaii. In February,Diane Liu, her husband, and their two childrenmoved to Oahu, where her husband has accepted anew position. Aloha and e komo mai, Diane!Jeff Sandman loves his new life in Washington,D.C., where he lives with Jon Adler and theirrespective dogs. Jeff wrote to share somethingabout footie pajamas and to report that he getstogether with quite the Andover crew every nowand again for some serious brunching. Alongwith Jeff and Jon, Chloe Lewis, Kate Bach,Annie Lowrey, Dan Cote, Becca Wexler, andMalik Lewis enjoy “semi-regular” Andoverfamily brunches.At the time she e-mailed me, Sarah Newhallwas four weeks away from her wedding day! Sarahmarried Elliot Tarloff on Jan. 17, 2015, at the LoebBoathouse in NYC’s Central Park. Nick Ma ’01 wasin attendance and served as an usher.Alice Torbert Percy and her family headed tothe hills of West Virginia for the world’s premierunderground invitational yard golf tournament,which was won by a rock musician wearing agorilla suit. I can’t make this stuff up. Helen Meier