A Manhattanite through-and-through, Wanda Mann arrived in Nathan Hale as a new junior. A crush on an Andover alumnus who spoke at weekend gifted and talented enrichment program titled Andover scales in Wanda’s favor. Even this New Yorker felt like an un-worldly 12-year-old when she arrived on campus who quickly realized that Andover made us all fend for ourselves, making all of us more resilient than we realize. Crediting Tom Regan and Lou Bernieri with amazing teaching, she would, indeed, be willing to have a sniff of Mr. Regan’s finest cognac all these years later. Perhaps the funniest moment of the podcast so far, Wanda is still exasperated by the antics of the late Todd Isaac and Hamlin O’Kelley in Lou’s Senior Seminar in Bullfinch some 35 years later. She still owns several of the works they read in that class. Her love of writing and her time in Bullfinch led her to her current career as a writer of, lover of, discerning critic of, and much sought after speaker of wine and wine culture. According to Wanda without PA, she’d probably have lived a very New York life, but, fortunately, Andover gave us all a wider path.
