1.      Florence Moore Hall 305 (1994-1995)

First modern Menlo mathematics team formed by the Menlo Mathematics Concepts Class (now Precalculus Honors).  Class motto “We = MC^2”.

The tradition of posting memorable items on the wall begins.

2.      Florence Moore Hall 310 (1995- 1996)

First yearbook appearance, under the name “Radicals”.  Founding members: Scott Diebert, David Countryman, Chris Countryman, James Han, Kim Lodato, Kenneth Kang, Hide Oki, John Earl

3.      Temporary (WWII vintage) Building , Room 11 (1997 – 1999)

In 1997 John Earl successfully lobbies for Menlo’s mathematics and computer science club to be called The Neighborhood, punning on the term from mathematical analysis, with a nod to Fred Rogers of television fame. 

Other 1997 events: (i) MOCK, the Menlo Obfuscated Code Kontest, won by Josh Dorward,

(ii) founded by Matt Ryan, The Menlo Mathematics Magazine, begins its seven year run,

and (iii) the awarding of the first Nerd Of The Month citations.  The first group of recipients included Kraig Salveson, Brandon Schneider, Kenneth Kang, and Kerrin Mitchell. 

Other important founding members: Alex Pearson, Krishna Sampath, Ed Hsu, Nick Feamster, and Phil Zeyliger.

Class of 1998 saw major contributions from: Allen Ibara, Jamil Valliani, Brian Ellis, Katrina Macrae, Steven Saito, Matt Geiger, Daniyal Kaleem, Eric Schafer [local communist], Alex Jack, and Ambar Bhattacharya. 

In 1999, the club’s founding document (now apparently lost to history) specifies that the club will have a President (or presidents).  All other club members will have the official designation: Vice President. 

Major new 1999 contributors: Ilya Pesic, Tiffany Wong, Lily Kang, Darrick Wong, Tim Kane, Chris Sun, Woodley Packard, Chris Niederauer, Ben Mandel [who coined the term “Nerdery”], Marcus Schwartz.  

[The styrofoam whale (Whalebert?) takes up residence in the Neighborhood.  The whale successfully migrates to Curtis Hall.]

4.      Curtis Hall (1999-2003)

In 2000 Darrick Wong creates a student run Unix server (now defunct: http://thibs.menloschool.org/) – Darrick maintains the site and adds new features for several years.  Steven Stanek, Greg Burns, Seth Zeren, Dima Belogolovsky, David Scheinman, Sidney Huang, and Woodley Packard create CFAT (Club For Advancing Technology), the first of several Neighborhood centered computer science offshoots. 

The collection of Stanford Christmas Cows (stuffed animals) grows noticeably,  supplemented by Tux, the Linux penguin.

In 2001 important student leaders include:  Anya Dolganov, Steven Stanek [who also edits the yearbook], Woodley Packard, Kyle Dennis, and Andrew Farmer.  

2002 is distinguished by one of the greatest contest teams ever.  Erica Wilson and David Kaplan both qualify for the USAMO.  Jamie Niemasik correctly solves 23 problems on the AMC12.  This trio earns top-20 national honors for Menlo.  Steven Chait wins prizes at the Bay Ara Math Meet (USF).  Other superstars from this era include: Lisa Seeman, Cleo Leung, Eric Chen, Steven Golod, and Sahil Bhargava. 

[A second computer science offshoot, The Artificial Intelligence Club flourishes briefly under the leadership of David Kaplan, Jamie Davidson, Edward Helmer, and Jamie Niemasik.]

Notable contributors in 2003: Alex Tang, Blake Byers, Chris Harris, James Lew, and Alex Von Oech. 

[Russ Frank continues the tradition of Coca Cola art, started by Greg Burns.]

5.      Stent Hall 201. (2003 – 2018)

In 2003-2004 we moved to Stent Hall.  Seniors Stephen Chait and Bennet Meyers provided leadership. Thomas Niemasik made important contributions to the culture.

 Other important Neighborhood denizens from this time period:

Class of 2004:  Stephen Chait, Boris Chen, Ethan Dreyfus, Andrew Farmer, Navin Kadaba, Andy Kittler, Cleo Leung, Bennet Myers, Albert Yap.

Class of 2005: Chris Darby, Tim Fall, Thomas Niemasik, Mark Rosekind. 

Class of 2006: Tamara Alexander, Gilad Gray, Kate Hawkins, Laura Jasek [founded the NPR Club which operated out of the Neighborhood for one year], Rochelle Nguyen, Eric Tang. 

[Tamara and Kate dazzle the Poetry Slam crowd with a poem that is an actual working Java program.]

Fall 2003 marked the arrival of Menlo’s second great math contest team.  During their four years at Menlo the class of 2007 accumulated a massive number of honors.  One year 17 students qualified for the AIME.  Nathaniel Shar became our third USAMO qualifier. Nathaniel’s uncle, the legendary mathematician Douglas Hofstadter, gave two guest lectures at Menlo.  A partial list of the Neighborhood members from this glorious class:  Kelly Drinkwater [awarded Fine Artist of the Month award twice in the same year)] Matin Movassate [senior class president], David Castor, Elliott Star, Nikhil Basu-Trivedi [now Menlo School board member], Alvin Yap, Nic Breidinger, Kiran Malladi, Allegra Aron, Gracie Brown, Audrey Chait, Derrick Chen, Benjamin Dorn, Colin Duffie, Kevin Greene, Matt Hale, Andrew Helmer, Robert Lennon, Joseph Maliksi, Jessi McDade, Kay Ousterhout [Hertz Fellowship winner], Mila Schultz, Nathaniel Shar, Derek Su, Andrew Terwilliger, Taylor Warren, John Williford, Mike Wohl. 

Class of 2008: Brano Albert, Patrick Costello, Chris Rebert, Raven Reddy [MIT graduate, famous for calling Neighborhood dwellers “members of a Guild.”], Brandon Risberg, Jenny Simonovich [first Menlovian to attend Olin], David Silver, Eric Sum. 

[Ms. Chou often appeared in the yearbook supporting the Neighborhood.  2008 marks Ms. Lax’s first appearance in the yearbook photo.]

The class of 2009 was another group of major Neighborhood contributors – a group with an intense interest in computer science: Jay Baxter, Daniel Crankshaw, Kacyn Fujii, Alex Lai, Chloe Lalonde, Amy Ousterhout [Hertz Fellowship winner], Geoffrey Pleiss, Mark Hudnall, Jeremy Rossman [student body president], Daniel Fremont, Lawrence Thibodeaux, Jeremy Pope, Brian Quock, Aaron Rosales.  

Class of 2010: Ben Adler, Alex Chang, Patrick Chase, Ashu Desai, Danny Diekroger, Ben Godfrey, Jack Hessel, Frans Honig, Vien Nguyen, Brian Peltz, Matt Redmond, Drew Schleck, Raphael Townshend,

Class of 2011 was the third uncommonly large group of Math superstars.  As one measure of this class’s  extraordinary talent – seven members of this class attended MIT.  Class of 2011:  Estefania Avila, Sasha Badrenkov, Kyle Bowman, Andrew Carlisle, Stephanie Carlisle, Gina Chang, Brian Cooper, Jacob Dorn, Brad Eckert, Grace Fremont, Kyle Gerstenschlager, Ryan Goulden, Andrea Grimbergen, Laura Grimbergen, Serena Gupta, Matt Heising, Geoffrey Lalonde, Jon-Jon Lam, Matthew Lam, Ali Nahm, Priyanka Nigam, Shannon Osaka, Sam Parker, Michael Portman, Matthew Roy, Maxime Serrano, Rachel Star, Bijan Thornycroft, Mycal Tucker, Christophe Viret, Lowry Yankwich. 

[Ryan Goulden and Maxime Serrano attend CMU and become leading members of their championship competitive hacking team.]

Class of 2012: Isaac Alter, Meiro Anto, Yujin Ariza, Tara Basu-Trivedi, Zach Chase, Lyall Cooper, Alec Drobac, John Gilhuly, Ari Holtzman, Kevin Marren, Dylan Mayer, Catherine Pavlov, Daniel Pugliese, Jordan Shaw, Annie Taylor, Maddie Taylor, Alex Welch. 

[Mr. Steinberg makes his first appearance in the yearbook photo.]

Class of 2013: Helena Abbott, Glenn Baxter, Alexander Carlisle, Max Coleman, Julia Dressel, Ali Kim, Xander Lazar, Kelly McConnell, Max Parker, Rachel Pinsker, Jake Rachleff, Micah Rosales, David Rozenfeld, Christopher Sauer [Stanford Terman Award winner], Tinyen Shih, Kyle Vaidyanathan, John Welch, Brennon Williams

The Class of 2014 was the center of the fourth great Neighborhood mathematical flowering.  Superstars Kate Park, Ray Tung, and Sam Redmond combined their skills with Chris Sauer(’13) and Hanson Tam(’15) to dazzling effect.

Class of 2014: Hide Anto [Trivia Club superstar!], Hunter Brown, Niles Christensen, Alex Grossman, Ryan Hammarskjold, Jack Heneghan, Joweina Hsiao, Pooja Kathail, Alexis Mack, Sean Morgenthaler, Matt Myers, Kate Park [Stanford Terman Award winner], Christian Pluchar, Maddy Price, Sam Redmond [Menlo’s fourth USAMO qualifier, Stanford Terman Award winner], Paul Roever, Sienna Stritter, Ojan Thornycroft, Ray Tung, Christina Wadsworth, Justin Wang, Paul Wat, Katherine Weingart, John Wilson, Max Zats.

The Class of 2015 maintained the stellar 2014 record, adding a slew of new mathematics heroes: Simran Aurora, Ben Barantschik, Jeff Barret [who RSAs his senior page comment], Nikhil Bhatia, Christopher Cassidy, Daniel Chan, Audrey Flower, Jessica Fry [champion dancer and Broadway star], Emily Glazer, J. B. Horsley, Andrea Katsis, Shea Ketsdever [Briliant conductor], Brittney Kidwell, Joe Klein, Eric Luxenberg, John McNelly, Allie Miller, David Nahm, Peter Rosston, Sam Rubin, Elana Shen, Jacob Siegelman, Chris Strong, Hanson Tam, Paul Touma, Jackson Wagner, Julia Weingart, Luke Williford, Elaine Wong, Ethan Wong, Saul Woolf, Elizabeth Yao.

Class of 2016: Elena Ariza, Andrew Arnold, Maddy Buxton, Justin Cardozo, Julian Christensen, Adriana Contreras, Kiki Fann, William Hsieh, Drew Kim, Annie Kim, Nika Kunwar, Ian Loftis, Parvathi Narayan, Andy Parker, John Reinstra, Shannon Shih, Scott Stevens, Schuyler Tilney-Volk.

[John Reinstra works incredibly hard bringing the first Menlo Hackathon to life.]

6.      Portable, Main Quad. (2016 – 2017)

The strange year in the math portable was a great year for The Neighborhood on two fronts: (i) the great class of 2017 and (ii) the sophomore class (class of 2019) nerds adopt the portable as their home base.

Class of 2017: Jun Ru Anderson, Nikki Arora, Anna Boonyanit, Aaron Brown, Lauren Chan, Colton Conley, Amrita Misha, Jack Hamilton, Jessica Houghton, Jacob julian-Kwong, Aaron Lee, Rebecca Ma, Mina Mahmood, Jason Moon, Jason Scharff, Amy Shoch, Hunter Siebel, Nikhil Singhal, Akshay Srivatsan, Mikayla Stabile, Nitya Tarakad, Ishani Thakur, Tom Welch, Lauren Yang, Ashley Zhang..

[Laikh Tewari launches another Computer Science Club – Laikh teaches classes on programming techniques and he fosters a series of noontime lectures featuring young programmers from industry.]

[Jason Scharff successfully builds and runs the 2017 Menlo Hackathon.]

7.      Stent Hall 210.  (2017- present)

Class of 2018: Sebastien Abadi, Will Abbott, Trevor Berbard, Niko Bhatia, Sylvia Chen, Makayla Conley, Baily Deeter, Cole Dollinger, Katelyn Eustace, Jeff Frenkel-Popell, Miller Geschke, Rachel Howard, Aidan Israelski, Atreya Iyer, Connor Kennedy, Ellie Kunwar, Chloe Lai, Bo Leschly, Jason Li, Keeton Martin, Robert Miranda, David Schmaier, Tiffany Tam, Laikh Tewari, Ryan Thompson, Liang Tung, Drew Wadsworth, Christian Wagner, Dani Wang, John Weingart, Anna Wong, Tommy Yang, Andrew Zheng

In 2018-2019 Sarah Fujimori and Vivian Liu lead the official Neighborhood.  Katherine Tung is a vigorous new contributor.  Thomas Woodside carries the Menlo Hackathon tradition to new heights. 

From 2016 through 2019 a huge portion of the class of 2019 lived all or part of their day in The Neighborhood.  This is the largest single-class contribution of mathematicians, computer scientists, gamers, and souls looking for kindred spirits in the history of The Neighborhood.  Class of 2019: Sal Argueta, Luke Arnold, Nick Beninato, Luke Bowsher, Will Buxton, John Canessa, Daniel Cazares, Kevin Chen, Jay Chiruvolu, Jake Coslet, Charlie Donnelly, Luca Espinosa, Beatty Fann, Buzz Fann, Matt Flower, Avi Gupta [another great conductor], Natalie Hilderbrand, Charlie Hsieh, Ashli Jain, Austin Jones, Adrian Kalaw, Abby Kaplan, John Kim, Meri Klingelhofer, Clark Kovacs, May Li, Walter Li, Vivian Liu, Joseph Ma, Santy Mendoza, Brian Mhatre, Jacob Muchnik, Justin Nam, Connor Nelson, Sun-Mi Oh, Simon Oros, Maxwell Patterson, Matthew Phua, Colin Raab, Meg Reinstra, Jack Rellamas, Sam Rosenberg, Alejandro Ross, Bobby Shove, Charlotte Swisher, Neha Tarakad, Alexa Thomases, Alec Vercruysse, Andrei Volgin, Zak Werdegar, Thomas Woodside, Tzy Ying Lee.

The Neighborhood 2020:

Class of 2020 and beyond: Sonya Lebedeva(’20),  Teddy Liang (’20), Joshua Lim (’20), Matthew Lim (’20), Morgan Wyatt (’20), Vikki Xu (’20), Ethan Yan (’20), Egan Lai (’21), Oliver Lee (’21), Joshua Lowe (’21), Daniel Tan (’21), William Akis (’21), Tyler Ho (’21), Michael Jeffries (’21), Aayush Goyal (’21), Sarah Fujimori (’21), Leo Jergovic (’21), Jonathan Lutch (’21), Colin Skinner (‘21), Katherine Tung (’21) [Katherine becomes the fifth Menlo student to qualify for the USAMO, this year for the online version], Alex Acra (‘22), Grace Tang (’22) [Grace founds a new Computer Science Club, assisted by faculty advisor Katherine Sanden], Marvin Mok (’22), Mitsuka Kiyohara (’22), Andrew Tung (’23), Sophia Lutch (’23)

[Due the covid-19 crisis the Menlo Hackathon goes virtual – Sonya Lebedeva and Mitsuka Kiyohara work incredibly hard to pull off this miracle.]

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