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CHRISTOPHER JOHN WEITZ ’84 directed The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second book in Stephanie Meyer’s blockbuster teen vampire romance series, starring Dakota Fanning. It was released in November. See www.twilightthemovie.com for more details.
she cum laude and he magna cum laude. Ms. Hertz, who is keeping her name, is now a special assistant in the office of information and regulatory affairs, a division of the Office of Management and Budget, in Washington. She received her
Ethan Wasserberger, son of SIMON WASSERBERGER ’85, is in the Kindergarten at Allen-Stevenson this year. ERIK PETERSON ’86 (epeterso1@optonline.net) and wife, Jennifer, are the proud parents of daughter, Stella, born in October 2007. POLO DOBKIN ’87 (polodobkin@gmail.com) is the executive chef at Dressler, winner of two stars from The New York Times and one Michelin star, as well as chef at Dumont and Dumont Burger. All three restaurants are in Brooklyn. Dobkin taught a cooking class at Macy’s in October. WYATT WARTELS ’89 (wyattwartels@yahoo.com) married Nicole (Wanzer) Wartels on September 19th, 2009, at the San Francisco Film Centre in The Presidio, San Francisco. The best man was his brother, EDWARD WARTELS ’91.
1990s COLIN MCCABE ’90 (colin@choptsalad.com), co-founder of Chop’t, a chain of restaurants specializing in salads in New York, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, is opening his 10th store in Times Square. BRIAN HALWEIL ’90 (brian@edibleeastend.com) was recognized by Just Food for his contributions to the local food movement. He is executive editor of Edible Manhattan, Edible Brooklyn, and Edible East End, three sister magazines devoted to celebrating the local food community. Brian writes: “On a personal note, my wife, Sarah, and I live in Sag Harbor, where we keep a
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home garden and orchard (and have just started raising oysters). Sarah is a labor and delivery nurse at Southampton Hospital, and a yoga teacher in the Hamptons. We have a 22 month old daughter, Clio (old enough to help out in the garden), and a 3 month old son, Cyrus (not quite old enough to help). I'm a work-from-home dad, on staff at the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C., where I am a senior researcher and where I head up the Institute’s food and agriculture program. We recently received a $1.3M grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support this work.” CHARLIE BURGER ’91 (charlesburger@hotmail.com) and his wife, Courtney, welcomed William Ryan Burger on September 20, 2009, weighing in at 7lbs 2 oz.
law degree from the University of Chicago. Mr. Angell, 28, is pursuing a law degree at Columbia and a master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins. He is also a summer associate at Covington & Burling, the Washington law firm.” OLIVIER JACQUES BUSQUET ’96 won the 2009 Borgata Poker Open, World Poker Tour No-Limit Hold’em Championship, in September. “He
CANNON LYELL HERSEY ’92 (blackagemedia@yahoo.com) was part of an art installation, LIGHT SOURCE, which ran from June 4th to June 27th at a gallery in Chelsea in New York. WILLARD J. OVERLOCK ’95 (willoverlock@hotmail.com) was married to Colleen Neill on October 11, 2008 in Kent, CT. CHRISTOPHER E. ANGELL ’96 (ceangell@aol.com) and Jessica Rose Hertz were married May 30, 2009, by Judge Sonia Sotomayor at the Metropolitan Club in New York. The New York Times wedding announcement said: “The bride and bridegroom met at Harvard from which they both graduated,
topped a field of 1,018 players to take home the top prize worth $925,514 and his first WPT title. Busquet came into the final table with the chip lead, but he ran into some trouble early and then pulled off an impressive comeback during heads-up play (he was down below 2 million at one point when blinds were 100,000-200,000) to win the title at a final table that lasted 153 hands. Busquet