Reunions

2022 Boston Reunion Boston, MA May 22, 2022

Alumni Council member Briney Burley ’93 hosted the Boston Alumni Connect group’s first meetup on Saturday, June 25. The group enjoyed the warm weather with drinks and snacks on the terrace of The Anchor, a wine and beer garden on the water at Boston Harbor. Briney was excited to welcome Alisa Prager ’04, Amy Carlin ’92, Betsy Yoshimura ’97, David Kidder ’70, Erin Callanan ’85, Ginny Allen (FF ’82–07), Megan Brown ’96, Sleiman Elias ’14, Ashley Sullivan ’92,

Connie Fukudome (AP ’90–00, FF ’72–73, ’74–75, ’77–78,

’79–06), David and Carol Prewitt (AP ’87–98, FF ’87–98), Gail and Michael Bjornholm (AP ’86–95, FF ’86–02), Gretchen Herault ’86, Megan Gates ’87, Yuko Oda ’93 for a fun-filled evening.

The group would love to welcome more alumni community members in the New England area! For more information about future events, please check out the Alumni Connect: Boston LinkedIn group.

2022 New York Reunion New York City, NY May 22, 2022

The New York City Alumni Connect group hosted its first alumni get-together in Central Park on Saturday, May 22. A wonderful group of alumni showed up despite the blistering heat to picnic, mingle, and reminisce about Chofu (with much-needed chilled rosé supplied by Donovan Raftery ’99 to help the group cool down). They had a great time connecting over shared memories of friends, faculty, and the campus, and learning about each others’ professional lives and post-ASIJ experiences.

Along with host David Leslie ’03 and his wife Roshan Nozari Leslie ’05 and son Kian, the group was made up of Donovan Raftery ’99 and Lauren Hunter, Max Taffel ’04 and Allen Yang, Michael Thornton ’06, Laura Conwill ’08, Elaheh Nozari ’09, Hayden Jardine ’12, Alicia Clow ’15, Sakiko Ohashi ’16, Asa Ohira ’20, and Tourie Nozari (AP ’99–01).

The group hopes to continue holding regular events, so join the Alumni Connect: NYC LinkedIn group for updates!

2022 Honolulu Reunion Boston, MA May 22, 2022

Alumni Connect: Honolulu representatives Christie Samson ’00 and Brian Nelson ’85 want to give a big thank you and mahalo to the Hawaii ASIJ alums, former faculty, alumni parents, and families who turned up last weekend at Kapiolani Park for the ASIJ Hawaii Alumni picnic! Alums from the classes of ’84 to ’18 joined, and everyone brought Japanese food and local treats to share. The group had a great time reconnecting with classmates and meeting alums, former faculty, and parents from various years.

For information on future Hawaii events, don't forget to join the Alumni Connect: Honolulu LinkedIn Group!

’96 26th Reunion Chicago, Il June 24–25, 2022

The Class of 1996 celebrated their 26th reunion in Chicago on the weekend of June 24–25. Classmates partook in drinks at LUXBAR on Friday night, and a group of former student athletes enjoyed basketball and other sports on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday night, the whole group gathered at HUB51 for good food and drinks and even better conversation. Sarah Kelsch ’96 put together a slideshow of nostalgic photos, and everyone had a great night reminiscing about their time in Tokyo.

“The reunion was great,” shared organizer Dennis Hudachek ’96. “We even played basketball one day with several folks from the ’96 Varsity team and even some folks who played for the team in Middle School!”

After three attempts at planning the ASIJ ’10 Ten-Year Reunion starting in 2019, with two postponements during the pandemic, ASIJ ’10 Class Agents Janet Kanzawa ’10 and Kana Maeji ’10 are thrilled to share that the ASIJ ’10 Twelve-Year Reunion successfully occurred on July 30–31, 2022 in Los Angeles! They gathered from near and far on the California coast and enjoyed a weekend reconnecting and reminiscing on high school memories.

Our group of 26 included Anne Marie Dornoff ’10, Gavin Bird ’10, Reza Bloomer ’10, Alex Busam ’10, Ryan Christianson '10, Emi Ellis '10, David Forster ’10, Kevin Gallagher ’10, Kai Hallberg ’10, Hana Kelley ’10, James Olson ’10, Harshit Sedani ’10, Bryan Yonamine ’10, Kai Yamamoto ’10, Justin Marut ’10, Abhi Sharma ’10, Gaby Sun ’10, Alex Vergel ’10 and Quinn Patrick ’09. Brady Miller ’10 and Miyori Takano ’10 also made virtual cameo appearances.