’95 20th Reunion Class of 1995, please keep an eye out for information from AFS about your upcoming 20th reunion! If you are on Facebook, be sure to join the AFS Class of 1995 group for updates. E-mail alumni@ abingtonfriends.net with your current contact information to be on the reunion mailing list or if you are willing to help organize the event.
1998 Amanda Grosso Kaminis writes, “I just received my BSN from Jefferson University this past May (my second bachelors degree), graduating with magna cum-laude honors. I also had my 3rd child last July as well.”
Joshua Siegel writes, “I’m presently living in Brooklyn with my fiancé, Julie Remus of the Jenkintown Remuses. We’re getting married in Doylestown this November. I’m working at Google in NY, but we’re hoping to return to the Philadelphia area sometime down the road, ideally to a farmhouse surrounded by Border Collies. Hey, you never know!”
1996 Karen Meshkov and Matt Pillischer are celebrating their two-year wedding anniversary in July! Karen is in her 6th year running her 5th-generation family business, Philadelphia Eyeglass Labs (with a new store just across the street from AFS!). She recently completed her Yoga Teacher Training from Integral Yoga, where you can catch her teaching in her spare time. Karen is excited to join the Board of their awesome reconstructionist synagogue, Mishkan Shalom in Manayunk. Matt is now working as an “attorney-mediator,” helping couples navigate separation and divorce outside the court system in a healthy, inexpensive way, with a company that pioneered divorce mediation in Southeastern PA: Alpha Center for Divorce Mediation. You can still catch him organizing for criminal justice reform around his awardwinning documentary, Broken On All Sides, which has screened all over the U.S., in Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Canada and England.
Laura Zingle, AFSA, writes, “Hello! In San My husband is Michael Kaminis and my children are Nikko (behind me in the photo), Athena (to my left), and Kallista is the baby who I am holding.
1999 Jordan Gatenby writes, “My wife Sarah Gatenby, AFSA, and I live in Orlando Florida. She teaches 4th grade and I am the stage manager for a show called ’Fantasmic!’ at Walt Disney World. Last summer we welcomed our first born son Matthew into our family on August 29, 2014. Hope everyone is well!
Diego, I am still working as a freelance AEA stage manager and production manager. I recently closed “El Henry,” a world premiere site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV Part 1” by Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash, which included a few low-rider classic cars and a motorcycle. Next up is a San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus concert and another production at La Jolla Playhouse. I love keeping in touch with other alums living on the west coast or visiting southern California!”
’00 15th Reunion Class of 2000, please keep an eye out for information from AFS about your upcoming 15th reunion! If you are on Facebook, be sure to join the AFS Class of 2000 group for updates. E-mail alumni@ abingtonfriends.net with your current contact information to be on the reunion mailing list or if you are willing to help organize the event.
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