AndoverMagSpring2015

stay connected...Sammy Marrus had a great fall semesterin Paris, studying history at the Sorbonne.Katie Hebb visited Sammy for a long weekend,and they saw Isabel Elson for brunch. Sammyalso saw Tafarii McKenzie in Budapest, Hungary,for dinner and was greeted at the airport in NYCby Leonore “Nora” Princiotti.Matthew Lloyd-Thomas visited his sister,Sophia Lloyd-Thomas ’14, last December in Israel.Currently on a gap year, Sophia is living there andstudying Hebrew at a kibbutz. The two had tonsof fun tripping around Israel and look forward tomany more camel rides in their futures.Christian Jaster and 13 other students fromthe University of Trier in Germany joined effortswith students from Kenyatta University in Kenyato evaluate health care in Nairobi slums. This fourweek-longinterdisciplinary research project tookplace in March. They also founded a nonprofitorganization last December that is currentlyraising funds for Kenyan students to attendschool as well as for the Trier students’ own tripto Nairobi.We have lots of 2012ers who were studyingabroad this past spring! Julia Quinn was inCapetown, South Africa; Ben Manuel was inAlicante, Spain, and will be working in Londonthis summer. Brooke Van Valkenburg traveled toMontreal to visit Leah Humes (who is studyingabroad in Florence, Italy, this spring) beforeleaving for her internship in Auckland, NewZealand, where she planned to see Sam Hewat.Hannah Beinecke was abroad in Paris, studyingat the Sorbonne and working at UNESCO.She plans to travel around with Leah and seeZach Sturman, who will be in Estonia duringthe summer. Danny Gottfried traveled to Israelthrough Taglit-Birthright over winter break andfor the spring was abroad in Irkutsk, Russia.Sydney Keen is the assistant copy chief for theFordham Ram, Fordham’s newspaper, as well asa member of the editorial and executive boardsof the paper. Over winter break, she continuedto do research in pediatric cardiology at BostonChildren’s Hospital.Miranda Haymon and Izzy Kratzer, while ina casino in Montreal, recognized the actress whoplayed the character “Blah Blah” on How I Met YourMother and tried to get her autograph but had toend the pursuit when Izzy’s name was called offthe wait list for a game of Texas hold ’em. Mirandaalso visited Thea Raymond-Sidel in New Yorkto celebrate Thea’s 21st birthday and while there,saw Minymoh Anelone and helped her selecthair-care products.Stay classy, 2012. —Miranda126 Andover | Spring 20152013MJ Engel414-477-5563mjengel8@gmail.comConnor Fraser9 Scotland DriveAndover MA 01810978-857-4443cfraser142@gmail.comChiamaka Okorie347-981-0429okoriesc@ymail.comThis past fall reunited alumni and saw seasonedsophomores begin their second year of college.(Or, for the many members of the Class of ’13 whotook gap years, it brought the start of college.)Kristin Mendez spent four days with her Andoverroommate of three years, Dylan MacDonald,at UVa. They snuggled and tailgated andcould not have been happier to be reunited.Christiana Nguyen, after finishing an internshipwith Senator Maria Cantwell, traveled all overthe East Coast, visiting Caroline Gutierrez,Connie Cheng, Diondra Peck, Unwana Abasi,and Samuel Green at Harvard University.Zach Merchant and Jeremy Chen invited her toTufts University, where they had dinner.Maia Hirschler, Gregory Cameron,Nicole Ng, Kristin Mendez, and ChristianaNguyen had a Phillipian reunion in the newsroomof the Yale Daily News. Maia Hirschlerhosted a dinner at her home in NYC withNicole Ng, Jeremy Chen, Connor Fraser,M.J. Engel, and Jing Qu. Jason Nawrocki,Pearson Goodman, Brendan O’Connell,and Hemang Kaul convened to raze buildings ina rousing evening of Age of Empires. Jing Qu, M.J.Engel, and Rochelle Wilbun spent much of thesemester studying together for their class on criticalapproaches to social theory at Columbia University.Unwana Abasi visited the trio in New York andsaw Rochelle Wilbun’s dance performance.Jing Qu reunited with Uday Singh ’12 and T.J.Lenzo ’12 at Columbia Homecoming at the DeltaSigma Phi House, of which Will Rodriguez is nowvice president. This semester, Jing Qu wrappedup her internship at theSkimm, a fast-growingmedia startup that just completed $6.25 millionin Series A funding. Samuel L. Green stayed withChristopher Hedley in Colorado to ski and tocelebrate the New Year; he saw Zach Merchantand Stephanie Nekoroski ’14. During an epic gameof Settlers of Catan, Franco D’Agostino narrowlyedged Alasdair McClintic and Samuel L. Greenwith a tricky trade.Over winter break, Hemang Kaul went tohis local grocery store, Market Basket, where heran into Brendan O’Connell. He then reunitedwith Sahil Bhaiwala at the gym and afterwardplayed hockey at the Phillips Academy rinkwith Ross Bendetson, Jason Nawrocki, andEddie Ellis. David Crane and Hemang keptin touch through a series of long-distance rapbattles. Anna Stacy performed in an OccupyWall Street–themed production of SweeneyTodd. John Perkins and Dan Martucci traveledto the northernmost part of Tibet to learnmartial arts. Jackie Murray, Madeline Silva,and Stephanie Petrella visited Phillips Academyand celebrated the New Year together.Corbin Lee spent $400 on an Uber, andGaelyn Golde and M.J. Engel were reunited inthe General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee.2014Djavaneh Bierwirth3456 Sansom St.Philadelphia PA 19104978-933-1910djavaneh@wharton.upenn.eduKai Kornegay3650 Spruce St., MB 960Philadelphia PA 19104609-670-6658kaikornegay@gmail.comCat Haseman5400 Fielding Manor DriveEvansville IN 47715812-204-9113cchaseman@gmail.comMembers of the Class of 2014 had a greattime coming back to campus for the fallAndover-Exeter weekend!Remmington Remmel, Alec Tolentino,Charles Talcott, and Luke Stidham all pledgedChi Psi at UNC, and Luke was their pledgeclass president, which he says was “quite theexperience.” JA-Lamar Lyons came down toUNC for a weekend to visit them in October,and he planned to return for another visit, thistime with Scott Diekema, in mid-January.Alexia Rauen came up to Boston to ring inthe New Year with Doris Nyamwaya andPoonam Kamdar. Kai Kornegay played therole of Mama in Lydia Diamond’s adaptationof Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye at Penn.Esther Cohen and Caroline Sambuco wonthe hearts of their audience in a production ofSweeney Todd, for which Esther also served asassistant director. Janine Ko is now sleepingnine hours a night for the first time ever, likelybecause she is no longer working for thepaper. Janine, Zainab Aina, Efua Peterson,Meera Bhan, Dan Wang, and Autumn Plumbojoined the march for #blacklivesmatter. Dan spentthe fall months traveling in the west and southof China and in January, with Ryan Miller andJordan Boudreau, headed to India; they plannedto stay at the Riverside School for three months.Armaan Singh fulfilled a lifelong dream