AndoverMagSpring2015

stay connected...2008Hanson Causbie ’08 recently returned home from Afghanistan, where he was deployedwith the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.to start business school in London. She recentlywent on a road trip with Sara Nickel to see CarrieSt. Louis ’08 on the national tour of Wicked.Carrie also helped unite Claire Voegele andBecky Greenberg, who saw her in Rock of Ageson Broadway last year. Claire loves law schooland is enjoying a peaceful life in the South withher boyfriend, who is the No. 1 real-tennis playerin the world, and their new corgi puppy, Gus.Ryan Ferguson recently wrapped up his timeworking for Deval Patrick down in Washington,D.C. He’s currently between gigs on Capitol Hilland using the extra time to expand his networkand enjoy the occasional spring gala. He makesthe trip home now and then when he has the timebut is otherwise all about our nation’s capital.Conner Stoldt is still living down in NorthCarolina but is hardly ever there due to all his travel.When not traveling for work, he’s been using all hisrewards points and recently went to Puerto Rico.Miles Silverman has fallen in love with Californiaand the area around UCLA, where he ispursuing his doctorate. Allison Callery is workingas a presidential management fellow in the U.S.Department of State’s Office of ConventionalArms Threat Reduction. Back in Massachusetts,Lindsey Hildebrand is in her secondsemester at UMass Medical School in Worcester.Molly Ozimek-Maier has seen a numberof Andover folks in recent months, includingSam Conte, Sam Gould, Karen Schoenherr, andChris Capano during Andover-Exeter weekendand Catie Shaw for some Black Friday shopping.Sam Gould and Karen apparently hosted aholiday bottle-swap party in Cambridge, attendedby Dave Curtis, Pete Smith, Katy Ebbert,Lauren Kelleher, and Shay Paintal. Pete andDave got two pizzas for free, Katy and Laurenlost and then found a stranger’s phone and jacket,and Shay almost lost his car keys in an Uber.Molly Ozimek-Maier and Eliot Wall want to givea special shout-out to our class for its participationduring the rivalry-week fundraising effort: “Weonly need 18 more donors from the class to hit ourgoal of 45 percent participation! Go, ’07!”Mary B. Doyle327 Noe St.San Francisco CA 94114781-439-5209 (cell)mbdoyle@gmail.comLydia Dallett319 Ave. C, Apt. 3CNew York NY 10009Lydia.Dallett@gmail.comMany ’08ers have turned or will be turning 25 thisyear. It’s not as big a deal as, say, 30, but being ableto start stories with “Twenty years ago...” and endsomewhere other than a baby’s changing tableis a significant milestone nonetheless. For someof us, it means taking a giant step forward witha life partner. For others, it means opting for thehealthier one scoop of Chipotle chicken on theburrito instead of two. Whatever they’re doing atthe quarter-century mark, ’08 is killing it.Kelci Thomasco got the shock of her life when,on a visit to their shared alma mater, SouthernMethodist University, her boyfriend Jeff Blomkerreached into his jacket for a camera and pulled outa ring instead. Happily for Jeff, who’d asked his andKelci’s parents to come to Dallas for the occasion,Kelci said yes. (And afterward, little else. “I wasin such shock I could barely speak for the entirenight!” she writes.) The wedding is planned forMarch 2016 in Florida.William & Mary law student Abigail Hoglundwas similarly surprised when her Johns Hopkinsbeau Justin Shen popped the question. So, apparently,was Justin. As so often happens in New Yorkhotels around Christmastime, the champagnecame early. But Justin remembered his lines anddropped to one knee, and the ecstatic couple willwed in August 2016.Our last bride-to-be, Jen Downing, had beendating Yale classmate Chris Labosky for almostfive years before his New Year’s Day proposal, sothe fact of their engagement wasn’t a total surprise.(“I was quite optimistic,” says Jen.) But she hadn’texpected the location: up in the snowy WhiteMountains of New Hampshire, where the coupleis building a log cabin themselves. (Yes, by hand—don’t pretend to be surprised.) They hope to haveit finished by the end of the year.Jimmy Spang didn’t get a ring this year, buthis company did relocate him to New York,where he works in software sales for Thinking-Phones. He occasionally runs into Steve Bury andZach Dixon. We hope there’s much champagne.Other ’08ers changing addresses:Kie Watanabe, still at McKinsey, transferredfrom Tokyo to London, while John Heroyleft investment banking behind in Hong Kongto start as a software engineer at Google. Inbetween, he attended Hack Reactor in SF,which he says was a unique educational experienceand great way to reacclimate to life in the122 Andover | Spring 2015