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Vows
Brian A. Block C95
married Deborah Joy Malkin on Sept. 30 in an outdoor ceremony on
the garden terrace of Oxon Hill Manor, overlooking the Potomac River
near Washington. His best man was Ray Schleinkofer
W95, Deborahs sister, Jennifer Malkin C99,
was maid of honor, and Kerem Kepkep EE96, GEng97 was
a groomsman. Deborahs father, Bruce Malkin C67 and her
stepmother, Joanne Rinehart Malkin CW62, shared the festivities
with their best friends, Dr. Jeffrey Frank C67, M71,
GM75 and Deborah Linker Frank CW68, their daughter,
Dr. Laura Frank C95, and Dr. David
Matz ChE67 and Roberta Rubenfein Matz CW67.
Lucy Oh Cook C95 married
Dr. Richard Cook in Vancouver on Jan. 6. The wedding party included
Kimberly Weissler Nu95 and Lucys
brother, Sam Oh W92. Guests included Yenii Chen Dex W91,
Lisa Tanimune C92, Jenny Heejae Garcia C93, and Grace
Loh W95; many other alumni from decades back attended
and all enjoyed the festivities. Lucy and Richard have since moved
into a house in Vancouver, Canada while he finishes his cardiac-surgery
residency. Lucy encourages all her classmates to contact her if
they are ever in the Pacific Northwest area.
Kristine Daniels W95
and Brian Borowsky W93, were married March 24th in Melbourne,
Australia on a glorious autumn day in a lakeside service. Other
alumni in attendance were Irv Stern W'86 and his family, and Laura
Pucci W'95. The 4-week honeymoon took place in both New Zealand
and Vietnam. Brian & Kristine have been living in Australia
since 1999, where Kristine is an Organisational Change Consultant
for an Australian consulting firm, and Brian is the Product Management
Director for Australia's largest online job site. The two will soon
shift continents once again as Kristine begins her MBA at the London
Business School this September 2002.
Basia Dybicki C95
married Dave Fabian on June 1, 2002 in Cragsmoor, N.Y. Basia writes,
It was an intimate Catholic ceremony in an old stone church
on a cliff overlooking the Shawangunk mountains where we go skydiving
on weekends. Penn grads that attended were Ryan Smith C97,
Jim Loveman W97, and Sarit Zadok C95.
Afterwards we went on an amazing scuba diving honeymoon in the Seychelles
(Indian Ocean). Now we're back, living in Park Slope, Brooklyn,
and I work for Barnes&Noble.com, while Dave's at JP Morgan Chase.
By the way, Dave proposed to me last November during a night scuba
dive in Rarotonga (Cook Islands). We were 60 feet under in pitch
dark, he pointed his flashlight to a little "will you marry
me" sign, gave me an underwater pencil, and I wrote yes yes
yes. Then we kissed and tried to drink a little bottle of champagne
he brought, without drowning. Big parrotfish looked on.
Betsy England C95
married David J. Skolnick CGS00 in Westport, Conn., on July
1. Fellow alumni included Brian Leaf C/W95
and Deborah Kroch Leaf C/Nu96, and Kessel L. Nelson C94.
We just purchased our first home in Weston, and are happily
raising our bloodhound puppy. Im writing fulltime and am currently
at work on my second novel. David, a 1988 graduate of Boston University,
works for a diversified holdings company in Westport.
Nancy Epstein C'95 is proud
to announce her wedding on September 1, 2002 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Nancy and Josh live in Manhattan, where she is an associate at Sidley
Austin Brown & Wood and he is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
Wendy Rottenberg Feiner C'95
and Matthew Feiner W'95, L'98 were married
on August 4, 2001 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, Mass. Alumni in
the wedding party included Jessica Braun Rich
C'95, Greg Fidlon L'98, Heather Smidt
Pomerantz W'95, Jessica Wallack C'95, and Matt's father,
Jeffrey Feiner W'67. Other alumni at the wedding included Jeff
Cohen C'95, Brian Kestenbaum C'95, Harris Cohen C'95, Ira Lapp C'95,
Leigh Fuchs C'95, Carrie Girgenti C'95, Niki Assa W'95, Eveie
Wilpon C'97, David Brioso L'98, Allan Kassenoff L'98, Ross Klenoff
W'94, Jamie Feiner C'99, Seth Lasser C'98, and Stuart Feiner W'70.
Wendy is a product development manager for Lerner New York, a division
of the Limited Inc., and Matt is an associate at Davis & Gilbert
LLP, where he specializes in labor and employment law. Wendy and
Matt live in New York City.
Russ Fliegler C95
and Caryn Meyers C97 are happy to announce their recent marriage
in Chicago this July, with many Penn friends and family at the ceremony.
Russ is a marketing manager for the National Basketball Association,
and Caryn recently graduated from the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism, and is a reporter at The Herald News
in Passaic County, N.J. Russ adds We would love to hear from
Penn classmates.
Charles Gassenheimer C95
married Lori Gassenheimer at the Grove Isle Club in Coconut
Grove, Fla., on June 2. Classmates attending Chad
Brown C95, Erik Brown C/W95, Woodrow Anderson C/W95,
Leonard Cooperman C95, Raffaele J. Senese C93,
Michael Block C/W92, and Elliot Fuhr ChE81. Charles
and Lori live on the Upper West Side in New York.
Michelle Gittelsohn C'95
recently became engaged to Marc Nadel. Michelle is an attorney at
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher in New York City and Marc is an attorney
at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom also in New York City.
A November wedding is planned.
Senthil Govindaswamy EE94,GEE96
and Meha Patel W96, wed on August 19, 2001 in Nairobi,
Kenya. Penn alumni who travelled to Kenya for the wedding as well
as safari were Alex Fridman ENG/C95
and wife Shirley Hwang C95, Ing
Phua ENG/GEN96, Vishal Shah W/ENG99, Kalindi Patel Kumar
W94 and husband Harsh Kumar ENG/W91. Senthil is currently
working for Qualcomm in SanDiego and Meha is working in the energy
industry after graduating with an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Senthil and Meha are enjoying the great outdoors in sunny San Diego.
Jason Goldfeder C95 and
Nguyet Nguyen were happily married on April 6 in St. Louis. Both
are on the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine.
Tracy Gitnick Herriott C95
married Stuart Herriott at the Central ParkWildlife Center in New
York on Sept. 3, 2000. Heather Gilbert C95
and Lisa Roth C95 were bridesmaids;
alumni attending the wedding included Rachael
Millstein C95, Tama Weinberg C95, Catherine Bender C95,
Katherine Ahn C95, Joanna Silber C95, and Eric Dubinsky
C95, G97. Tracy and Stuart recently moved from
New York to Los Angeles, where she is deputy photo editor for the
Associated Press in California and he is an account manager at CarryOn
Communications.
Lynn Bernstein Hesby C/W95
married Jim Hesby in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2001. Alumni attending
the wedding included Marna Fainman Goldwin C95,
Lauren Sarnat C'95, Melinda Graham C'95, Adena Friedman C'95, Lauren
Stein C'95, Neil Chernoff EAS/W'95, Markella Coulalaglou Daugherty
C'95 and Reza Daugherty C'95.
Jason T. Jaslow EAS/W95
and Regina Wong W97 are excited to announce their engagement
on July 5. He works at Scholastics Internet group in SoHo,
handling all their Internet and eCRM statistics. She is director
of b2c marketing at SmartMoney.com in midtown Manhattan. Wed
love to get back in touch with our friends at Penn.
Biren E.S. Johnson W95
After September 11th, many people's focus changed including
mine. I currently work for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon
(which is quickly being rebuilt) doing financial management analyst/contracting
work. I still live in Columbia, Md. and do mortgage loans, refinancing
etc. in my spare time with MortgageStar out of Bethesda, Md. What
a hot real estate market!! I am excited to announce my wedding took
place August 10th in San Antonio, Texas to Jacqueline L. Thomas
(administrator- in Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, Md.). We loved
seeing many of our friends and family and traveling to Mexico for
our honeymoon! God Bless America!
Dr. Melissa Schindel Kaplan C'95
married Todd Kaplan in Long Island, New York on September 7. The
bridal party included Simone Betchen C'95, Stacey
Dinstell C'95, and Laurie Pearl C'95.
Other Penn friends in attendance were Cara Alperin
C'95, Melissa Jongco Sanchez C'95, Vicky Lai EAS'95, Vivian Lee
W'95, and Andy Levinson W'96. Melissa and Todd relocated
to sunny Florida where she practices orthodontics and he is a tax
attorney.
Marguerite O. Kraftson C95
is pleased to announce her engagement to James Thayer Kelley III.
Members of the wedding party include Cristina
M. Catinella C95 and Donald W. Kraftson WG96.
The wedding will take place in Philadelphia next June.
Sandra Kuehn C95 married
Matthew Guerrieri C98 during a beautiful day in Center City
Philadelphia on Sept. 8; the ceremony was performed at Holy Trinity
Church and a reception followed at the Union League on Broad Street.
Alumni attending included Erik Bergman C97, Kara
Sandler C95, Sloane Lobach C94, Colleen Lynch
C94, Dawn Kulp C95 (who sent
in this note), Michael Shannon C97, Rachel Lu MacPherson W93
and Andrew MacPherson C93, Candi Dalipe W94, Caspar
Bentinck C97, Hazel Imbesi C99, James Lees C98,
Marcus Dahllof C97, Lori Solomon Siembieda
C95, Christian Siembieda W95, Julie Steinhouse C95,
Connie Fang W95, and Dixon Gillis C98.
Vicky Lai EAS95 is
excited to announce her engagement to Edwin Wong of New York; a
wedding is planned for spring-summer in Poughkeepsie. They both
work at Deloitte & Touche LLP.
Dr. Heena Katherine Yuhan Lee C95
married Dr. Dennis Lee on May 5, 2001 in New Jersey. The
wedding party included Dennis brother Jason Lee C97,
Angela Wong C96, Nina Park Yim C95,
Joann Kwah C98, Dr. Simon Yoo C96, and Khee Jhung Lee.
Other family alumni who attended the wedding include Heenas
brother James Yuhan EAS96, her cousin Dr. Joseph Yuhan C94,
Dennis cousin Deborah Kim Zajkowski W86 and her husband,
Jeffrey Zajkowski W87, cousin Dr. Edward Kim M93, and
cousin Sara Lee W89. Alumni friends who attended the wedding
include Tina Chang C97, Kitty Choi C97, William Chun
C97, GPU98, June Chung C94, GEd95, Dr.
Albert Han C95, Dr. Steve Han C95, Cathy Hwang
C97, In Seon Hwang W97, Amanda Jones C93, Ailsa
Kim W96, David H. Kim C94, Mark Kim C98, Jim Lee
C97, Lien-Ha Nguyen C94, Mira Og C96, Byoung Park
C99, Calandra Park C97, Jane Park C93, Suzette
Peng C97, Ruby Shiau C94, John Sim C96, and Timothy
Yoo C94. Heenas cousins, Dr. Timothy You M93 and
Dr. Kevin Yuhan M97, and her friend, Linda Ahn Kwon SW94,
attended a post-reception held in California the following week.
Heena and Dennis live in Boston, where she is a pediatric resident
and he is a dermatology resident.
Nicole Fischer Luterman C95
says, I am writing to let you all know that I was married
on May 18, 2002 to Stephen Luterman (of Dallas, Texas) at my parent's
home in Potomac, Md. My husband and I met four years ago in New
York City where we currently live. I work as an associate vice president
in the eBusiness Development Group in Prudential Financial. My husband
is the chief technology officer with CrossBorder Exchange, an Internet-based
platform for global securities trading and payments.
Paolo Marciano C95, GR02,
M02 recently married Alana Conti
ENG95, CGS97 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Penn
graduates in attendance included Dr. Nigel Timothy
C95, Dr. Alexis Wong C95, Kevin Welch C95, Alison
Steinkamp C95, Oner Khera C94, Jovin Lazatin
C94, Bien Lazatin C94, Cannon Ghelani SEAS'96, Lori
Hart Mendham SEAS'95, Jenny Chang C'97, Daryl Jacobson W'94,
Peter Trinh SEAS'92, Rana Gupta C'01, Dr. Dana Emery GM'00, Dr.
Kathy Saatman GSEAS'92 and Dr. Nathan Smith GEd '00. We are currently
attending graduate school at PENN where Paolo is completing his
MD/PhD degrees and Alana is finishing her PhD in Neuroscience.
Craig Reynolds C95 and
Katrina Riddick Reynolds C96 were married on December 15 at
Cap Juluca in Anguilla, British West Indies. Celebrating the wedding
(and enjoying a fabulous tropical vacation) were Penn friends Ananya
Dash C96, Danielle Gray C96, L00, Andrew Jankowich
L00, Katherine Perry Penberthy C96, Patricia McInerney
W96, Cindy Horesh Schnitzer C96, Edward Schnitzer C94,
John Koo C96 and Brian Chacker C96.
Elizabeth Rudnick C95
married Elton Parker in Cleveland, Ohio on October 6, 2001. Penn
alumnae joining in the celebration were Jennifer
Gordon C'95, GEd '96, Lisa Solomon Belcher
W'95, Rita Weintraub EAS'95, Robyn Kestenbaum C'95 and Jill
Levine C'93. Courtney Mizel W'95 almost
made it to Cleveland and was there in spirit. Liz and Elton both
practice law in Cleveland.
Allison Winn Scotch C95
married Adam Scotch on March 23 in San Juan, P.R. (just for
fun), celebrating with alumni and students from over the decades.
Among them were her parents, Dr. H. Richard Winn M68 and Deborah
Dash Winn G67, and aunt Linda Sterling Winn C63, uncle
Dr. Samuel Winn M64, and cousins Peter Winn G/WG98 and
Andrew Winn WG03. The bridal party included matron-of-honor,
Michelle Kroiz Winn C95 (Allisons
housemate at Penn and now cousin, through Michelles marriage
to Andrew), and Elizabeth Prostic C96. Other Penn guests included
Melissa Brecher C95, Matthew Berman
C94, Julie DeGarmo C95, Douglas
Dietrich WG00, Paula Pontes C95,
Cassandra Tryon C95, Amy Stanton C95, Michael Lundblad
C95, Guillermo Marroquin WG01, and Audrey Gorman
WG03 and Michael Gorman WG03. Allison and Adam live
in New York, where he works in finance and she is a writer. She
recently completed ghost-writing the book The Knots Guide
to Wedding Flowers, due to be published this fall by Chronicle
Books, and frequently contributes to magazines, such as Brides
and Fitness.
Joshua Senders C95
married Talia Kohorn Senders C97 in New York on April 28.
Wedding participants included Keren Backer C98, Penny Feldstein
C96, Brooke Holzer C97, Marc Krichafsky C97, Katharine
Leeson C97, Brian Levitt C96, Lauren McKeone C/EAS97,
Mark Senders L73, WG74, and Mark
Sherman C95.
Dr. Barbara Soriano C95
is happy to announce that she married Dr. Michael Gillespie in Livingston,
N.J., on March 31. Her maid of honor was Dana
Loesberg Baron W95, and the entourage included Renee
Simon C95, Andrea Stoltz Gendel C95, and Laura Radosh
C95. Other Penn friends attending were Julie
Katz C95, Itai Baron C96, and Lori Lieberman
Maran C96. Barb and Mike both graduated in May from Medical
College of Pennsylvania Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
They both started their internal-medicine residencies at the University
of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill, in June. In late-May
she was looking forward to finally being out of school and
to the move down South.
Elizabeth Steinberg C95
married Victor Hsu C95 at the Rittenhouse
Hotel in Philadelphia on May 26. Jenifer Gross
C95 was maid of honor, Lori Solomon
Siembieda C95 and Kate McLennan C95 were bridesmaids
and Tom Huang C/W95, David Hepps C95,
Roger Chiang EAS/W94, and Henry Steinberg C97 were groomsmen.
Jamey Tesler C95 married
Monica Swanson at the Gedney Farm in Mass., on May 19. They met
while in law school at Michigan University. Alumni attending included
Alyson Tesler C97 (who sent in this note), Dave
Yee C95, Steve Rosenberg C95, Brooks Mackintosh C95,
Adam Caplan W95, Todd Saxon W95, Karyn Peiser C95,
Paul LaMonica C95, and Sean McGrath W95. The
wedding was beautiful and it was great to be able to celebrate with
so many old friends.
Stephen J. Zelkowicz C95,
C97 is engaged to Patricia L. Stern. The wedding will
take place at a Temple in Manhattan on October 5th, 2002.
births
Matthew J. Bass C95, L99
and Elizabeth Montgomery Bass Nu94 announce the birth of their
daughter, Devorah Emily Bass, on Feb. 10, 2001 at the Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania in the Ravdin building, named for
the grandfather of Bill Ravdin C95,
who was among the first alumni to see Devi. Other grads who
have complimented us on our daughter include Stephanie Brown C92,
who called the delivery room at an inappropriate time, Jessica
Yin C95, Nadeen Thomas C91, and all of the attendees
at the Elizabeth Popp C95
and Dan Berman C95 wedding.
A Web shrine devoted to Devi can be admired at (www.angelfire.com/mb/matthewbass).
Patrick Fitzsimonds C95 and
Dr. Reiko Maki Fitzsimonds C90, Gr95 announce the birth
of their second child, Sophia Katherine, on Jan. 11, 2002. Reiko
is an assistant professor of physiology in the Yale Medical School;
Patrick will join Deutsche Bank this summer in New York, after completing
a dual degree in statistics and management at Yale.
Andrea Stoltz Gendel C95
and Jason Gendel had a newborn baby girl, Amelia Hannah, on May
29th. Both baby and Mom are doing well!
Gregory Scott Gennarelli C95
emails that he and his wife, Michelle Goldstein Gennarelli, whom
he married on March 31, 2001, are happy to announce the birth of
their son, Matthew Tyler, on Feb. 21, 2002. Matthews grandfather
is Dr. Thomas A. Gennarelli, former Penn professor of neurosurgery.
We live in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and I am an attorney with
Salenger & Sack, LLP, in Manhattan, practicing in the areas
of medical malpractice, construction-site litigation, and general
negligence.
Lauren Tracy Slawe Hirsch C95
and Brian Edward Hirsch G97, L00 celebrated the birth
of their daughter, Abigail Zoe, on June 25.
Karen Keating Kline C95 and
Rick Kline W/C93, celebrated the birth of their first child,
Casey Maxwell Kline on July 21, 2001. Casey's two grandfathers are
both Wharton alumni, Mel Keating WG68, WG78, and Allan
M. Kline WG69, and Caseys uncle, Danny Keating, is currently
a Junior at Penn.
John W. Kung EAS95 and
his wife, Linda Chan, joyously announce the birth of their son,
Tyler, on Sept. 23, 2001, he weighed 6lbs. and 15oz.
Leslie Finkelstein Rosen C95
and her husband Alan Rosen are delighted to announce the birth of
their twins Lily and Aidan, born May 17, 2001. We are all
living in New York City where I am an attorney and my husband is
an owner of Junior's Restaurant.
Lisa Aaronson Roub C95
and Michael Roub W94, welcomed Mia Brooke on November 30,
2001 in San Francisco, Calif. Big Brother Jacob, who turned three
in March, is thrilled with his little sister, as are Mom and Dad.
Kerri Korkin Sonenshine W95
and Daniel Sonenshine C95 are proud
to announce the birth of Marguerite Zion Sonenshine (Maggie) on
February 22, 2002. Kerri received her MBA from the Anderson School
at UCLA and is a Product Manager with ConAgra Grocery Products Company.
Daniel practices Corporate Law with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker. They live in Costa Mesa, California.
Guy Waters C95 and
his wife, Sarah, announce the birth of their first child, Phoebe
Louise, on June 4, 2001. The family lives in Durham, N.C., where
he is a doctoral candidate in religion at Duke.
Elin Brenner Young W95,
and Dr. Jeff Young announce the birth of their son, Matthew, on
August 30, 2001. Elin is an attorney focusing in securities litigation
with Ulmer & Berne LLP in Cleveland.
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other life events
Michael Agha W95 is
a partner at Spinnaker LLC, a Boston-based venture-management company
that specializes in technology spinouts. Michael wishes to send
his condolences to the family of his classmate Garth
Feeney EAS/W95.
Priti Chinai C95 and
Raj Chinai C94 have recently moved from San Francisco to Boston,
where Raj has started graduate school at Harvard. He is back in
school with Penn classmate, Rajit Malhotra C94, W94.
Luke Esterkyn C95
emails I live in San Francisco and play in a band called Stroke
9. Our second album, Stroke 9, came out on Universal
Records in October; the first album, Nasty Little Thoughts,
is also out and in record stores.
Ella Faynzilberg C95
and Vivian Lee W95 graduated from
the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in June 2002.
They will both be moving to NYC to work in investment banking; Ella
will be joining Solomon Smith Barney and Vivian will be joining
Merrill Lynch.
Nechelle Feaster C95
emails My New York-based Internet and new-media services firm
is doing well, even in the economic downturn. We recently launched
the re-design of BlackEnterprise.com
and are in the final stages of completing a site for Bad Boy Entertainment.
Weve also just launched a new small-business Web package for
the entrepreneur, home-based business, or small-business ownerwhich
people have been purchasing like when Play Station 2 first came
out. My daughter, Madison, is seventeen months old now and is taking
sign-language classes and learning Spanish from her nanny. Shes
really too cute and brings me boundless joy.
Daniel Gardenswartz W95
is a partner at The Sage Group, an investment bank in Los Angeles
with a focus on middle market mergers and acquisitions and private
equity.
Scott Litman C95 is
an attorney in the New York office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker LLP who specializes in sports law and the formation of new
sports leagues. He led the legal teams that worked on the
formation of the Womens U.S. Soccer League, the Womens
Professional Volleyball League, and I believe most recently, the
U.S. Mens Lacrosse League. (This note was sent in by
David E. Simon W95 WG01.)
Courtney Mizel W95,
has been in Los Angeles since graduation and involved in a variety
of endeavors. I am in the process of completing my first year
of law school at USC. In addition, I am one of the producers of
a feature film called Tortilla Heaven which was shot in Taos,
New Mexico. The film will be completed this summer and we are crossing
our fingers for Sundance. To relieve the stress of law school I
have taken up running and just completed my second Marathon and
was able to decrease my time by over an hour and fifteen minutes.
This summer I am off to Croatia, Prague and Paris to pretend to
study abroad.
Mahealani Richardson C95
emails, I moved from Hawaii to Portland, Ore., about a year
ago. I work as a news reporter at KGW, the NBC affiliate and No.1-rated
station in Portland. Working in Portland is a huge career step,
but I miss Hawaii a lot. At Penn, I was in Arts House Dance Company
and I still take jazz and hip-hop classes today. I even taught a
jazz/hip-hop class at a local gym. If you are interested, you can
log on to my work website and check out my biography and picture:
its at kgw.com
and click onto "About Us," then click onto "Meet
Our People." Take care and Aloha!
Craig Rutenberg C95
practices law in the San Diego office of Heller, Ehrman, White &
McAuliffe.
Dr. Kenneth N. Sable MD ENG95,
will be starting as an Attending Physician in the Department of
Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
in July after completing a three year Emergency Medicine residency
at UMDNJ-Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center in Camden, N.J.
He will also continue to use his engineering background in computer
science to create and lead a Division of Medical Informatics in
the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides.
Dr. Manali Ayachit Shendrikar C95
graduated from medical school in Texas and has re-joined her husband,
Rohit, in Los Angeles to complete a residency in family medicine
at Santa Monica-UCLA Hospital. She looks forward to hearing from
her long-lost college buddies.
Rita Weintraub EAS95
graduated from Columbia Business School in May. She works as an
investment-banking associate at Bear, Stearns & Co.
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