Class Note 2011
Mar - Apr 2016
Hey there, ’11s. First up, a reminder from one of our reunion chairs Katie Paxton (now Katie Paxton Christ) to make sure you mark the calendars for the big five-year reunion: June 17 to June 19. Already looking forward to being back in Hanover with you all then. It’s coming up soon!
Now onto the updates.
Athena Aicher moved to Newport, Rhode Island, in the fall to attend the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS), a classic wooden yacht building and restoration trade school. Athena, who was working as a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod before heading to IYRS, hopes to own her own shop in a few years. And I hope to one day own a boat that Athena can restore. Now who can teach me to sail?
Ahmad Nazeri writes from Atlanta, where he’s doing operations management at McMaster-Carr and is working on his M.B.A. at Emory. Ahmad, who previously was doing Teach for America in Baltimore, is living with fellow ’11 Don Kephart and says he gets to see classmates James Kim and Zach Stolzenberg every so often.
Mayuka Kowaguchi is living in Tokyo, where she’s worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and Uber and is now traveling around Southeast Asia and Latin America. She’s thinking she might head to business school, but says her plans are still up in the air. Very jealous of your travels, Mayuka! And she says she’s seen many ’11s in Tokyo, including Elva Fan, Molly Schloss, Forrest Rice, Lilai Guo, Jonathan Choi, Reyad Allie and Matt Foreman.
Speaking of Molly, she had been working in the strategy and analysis group at Digitas, a digital technology and advertising agency, and is now one of our classmates back in Hanover at Tuck. Hope all those up in Hanover make it through another New Hampshire winter unscathed and get the place ready for the rest of us for the reunion!
(Fun fact: Mayuka, Ahmad, Molly and I were all on the same foreign study program in Morocco in spring 2009. Can’t believe we’re coming up on seven years since then—where’s the time gone?)
That’s it for now. Please continue to send along updates, and can’t wait to see you in June!
—Drew Joseph, 49 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com