AndoverMagSpring2015

www.andover.edu/intouchreceived a PhD degree in epidemiological sciencefrom the University of Michigan and started anNIH fellowship in January.Mitch St. Peter got engaged to fellow Andoveralum Jeanne LeSaffre ’03. They are now living inSan Francisco and planning an October wedding.Congratulations! Drew Comins joined thehappy couple in San Francisco to celebrate theirengagement. Mitch is working at FutureAdvisor, afinancial technology startup.Ted Sack and Hank Hattemer frolickedbarefoot, hand in hand, in the sand in VeniceBeach, Calif., with Zach Robbins, who works asthe food and beverage coordinator for the BigApple Circus. Ted, Dmitry Serov, Travis Pantin,Ben Hogan ’01, Jon Lo, Rob MacInnis, andJosh Haney still hang out a lot, says Ted. He didnot report where any of the above classmates liveor where these magical hangouts take place, butI’m assuming it’s California.In other Class of 2002 bro-bondingnews, Dan Cote, Ben Chang, Eli Flouton,Shuva Chakraborty, Dan Shvartsman,Jack “Juddy’’ Judson, Matt Roman, Pete Glenn,Andrew Tonelli, and Justin Eberlein have afantasy football league. This year, Eli won theregular season, and Juddy won the league overall,in his first year in the league. Pete came in second,narrowly losing to Juddy in the finals, and BenChang came in last, barely outstinking Roman forthe Toilet Bowl. Thank you, Pete Glenn, for theharrowing account of the Class of 2002 fantasyfootball league outcomes.2003Will Heidrichwheidrich@gmail.comTwo thousand fourteen was another goodyear for our classmates. To kick things off,Danny Dumond celebrated her wedding to CalebWard in September with a handful of classmates inattendance. The two married in the Log Cabin onthe PA campus, with Katie Dlesk, Erin O’Hern,Kathleen Minahan, Kate Cooper Sawyer,Rachel Rapp, and Anita Taylor joiningthe festivities.Anita also got married, to Sridhar Prasad onDec. 6 in Morristown, N.J. Many of the same groupattended the Prasad-Taylor wedding, with KatieDlesk serving as maid of honor, while Rachel,Kathleen, Danny, and Caleb all cheered along.Sridhar and Anita honeymooned in Hawaii overthe holidays before returning home to Cambridge,Mass., in January.Jen Park also tied the knot this past fall,marrying Jonathan Boebinger in October withmany Andover pals by her side. Sylvia Zhu andKimberly Wedderburn served as bridesmaids,while longtime friend Erin O’Hern also attended.Cathy Rampell became an op-ed columnistat the Washington Post, a longtime dream ofhers, this past year. In addition to reaching thatprofessional milestone, Cathy also married ChrisConlon last August. Several Andover friends joinedthe festivities, including Alessandra Colaianni,Kim Henderson, Stephen Zehring, and ChrisHughes ’02. Congrats to Danny, Anita, Jen,and Cathy!Katie Regner Cannan reported that she andher husband, Matt, planned to move to Hong Kongin late January. Both of them will continue to workwith their current companies as they explore anew city. If there are any alumni in HK, reach outto Katie!Julia Totosy de Zepetnek wrote from McMasterUniversity in Ontario, where she completed aPhD degree this past fall in exercise physiology. InOctober, she also welcomed a baby boy, Liam!Drew Ward and his wife, Melena, alsowelcomed a child to their family this past year:Penelope, their second. Drew and Melena stayin touch with Jo and Dean Boylan and theirbaby boy, Blake. They also connected withPam Risseeuw Stroble and Aaron Stroble ’04when the Strobles brought their daughter, Caroline,to DC in November.Dan Koh reported from Boston, where he wasrounding out his first year as chief of staff to MayorMarty Walsh. Fellow classmate Shaun Blugh alsojoined the mayoral administration this winter,serving as the city’s new chief diversity officer.Nick Barber wrote from NYC, where hehas lived for the past three and a half years.While living in SoHo, he has run into classmatesKanyi Maqubela, Coleman Lyons, andBen Jordan. Nick has started a business calledPatina NYC, selling mid-century modern furniture;check it out at patinanyc.com and @patinanycon Instagram. Nick also served as best man toNick Franchot and Alexa Raducanu when theywed last May.Fellow NYC resident Matt London wrotefrom Austin, Texas, where he and his wife, Jordan,visited her family for the holidays. They joinedAustin residents Kate Cooper Sawyer and RyanSawyer for trivia while in town. Matt recentlyauthored The 8th Continent, the first volume in achildren’s book series, now available on Amazon.In addition, he finished teaching his first semesterof digital storytelling at Brown University, whilemoonlighting at NYC high schools SAR Academyand Horace Mann. Brian Karfunkel wrote fromBrooklyn, where he moved in July. He caught upwith classmate Alex Minasian in NYC this past fall.Anne Snyder has moved to Houston, whereshe has taken a grant from the H.E. Butt FamilyFoundation to freelance a variety of stories aboutthe immigrant population. She writes that she hasenjoyed the change of scenery, including the rodeo,Mexican food, and the culture of Texas.In the SF Bay Area, our classmate head countcontinues to expand, adding Jeanne LeSaffreand Tom Oliphant most recently. Several of us,including Jeanne and her fiancé, Mitch St. Peter ’02,Michael Ruderman, Matt Lindsay, Janis Rice,and me, connected at a local Andover event thispast fall, where Head of School John Palfrey sharedthe school’s Strategic Plan. Janis Rice recentlymoved to the East Bay, where she and her husband,Brandon Rice, have bought a condo. I have alsokept up with Margaret Ramsey, who continues toteach at Menlo School in Atherton, Calif.I made it back to campus and saw a handfulof our classmates during Leaders’ Weekend 2014,including Jesse Bardo, Fay Rotenberg, Alex Minasian,Justine Wardrop, and Sarah Carden. Thecampus looked fantastic, and ’03 represented well!That’s it from here; stay safe and go Big Blue.2004Ali Schouten2712 Ivan Hill TerraceLos Angeles CA 90039617-584-5373AlisonSchouten@gmail.comBy the time this goes to print, Amy O’GormanBlock will have given birth to her first child! Amyreports that Baby Block is larger than average andappears to have inherited her long third toe. BabyBlock is also especially active, kicking and flippingall the time. Maybe he or she will follow in Mom’sfootsteps and join SLAM? Adam Draper and hiswife welcomed a daughter in May. Adam runs astartup accelerator called Boost VC. Almost asexciting as these two additions is Derrick Kuan’slatest: He and his girlfriend adopted a dachshundmixpuppy named Penelope. Penelope gets alongwell with her older brother, Derrick’s beardeddragon, Orlando.Jess Chermayeff ’s film Kehinde Wiley: AnEconomy of Grace was one of eight films shortlistedfor an Academy Award nomination forbest documentary short subject. Although Jessdidn’t take home the Oscar this year, I have nodoubt that there’s a trophy in her future. Hard atwork launching the F Show, Lolita Munos Taubis traveling worldwide to interview millennialentrepreneurs. The show will air in mid-2015 and ismeant to inspire the next generation of women inbusiness. Jacqueline Bovaird is now in charge ofthe West Coast office of Levine/Leavitt. In betweena crazy work schedule and planning her wedding,Jacqueline saw Justin Cahill, also living in LA.Paull Randt has a finance job in HongKong and is looking forward to meeting upwith any PA alums who are living in or passingthrough the city, including Emma Sussex, whowill move to Hong Kong in 2015 after trips toSouth America and Hawaii. Wing-Kit Chutraveled to Charlottesville, Va., last August forLars Trautman’s wedding, where Pat Callahan,Homan Lee, Taylor Yates, and Jisung Park wereguests. Wing-Kit has since moved to Austin, Texas,to start his new job with Amgen and loves it there.Ariel Gold lives in Washington, D.C., and worksfor Amazon Web Services. Marjorie Mocco,Andover | Spring 2015117