takeaway: Elise Kornack ’09
certified women’s health nurse practitioner, joined the staff of Bedford (N.H.) Commons OB-GYN....Lucia Piacenza and Franz Ritt were married Nov. 28, 2014.
2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com
media outlet: Food Republic
headline:
Take Root’s Elise Kornack challenges convention, and herself, at every turn
date:
Feb. 5, 2015
takeaway: Being thoughtful doesn’t preclude being bold Food Republic profiled Elise Kornack ’09, whose restaurant, Take Root, has gotten great reviews from The New York Times and Esquire, plus a coveted Michelin star. Located in Brooklyn, the 12-seat restaurant, only open Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., is run by Kornack and her wife, Anna Hieronimus. Writer Richard Martin says that “for all the accolades and chatter” about Take Root, “Kornack’s cooking is ultimately personal and thoughtful rather than flashy or stylized.” That personal and intimate style is matched by Kornack’s interest, as she says, in “pushing... New Yorkers out of their comfort zone...whether it be through an ingredient, or through a plating, or through a preparation, or through your environment.” The goal, she says, is for “people to feel just a touch uncomfortable before they start eating. So they’re like, ‘Oh, okay, I need to settle, relax. I’m in good hands; I can handle it.’”
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Erin Bonney and Brendan Casey were married June 14, 2014....Rachel Kaplan and Nathan Cooper were married March 7, 2015....Sulochana Dissanayake, who has worked extensively in traditional Indonesian performance forms, returned to campus to join the Bates Gamelan and Indonesian guest artists for a performance of music and wayang golek puppetry....Standout Nordic skier Sylvan Ellefson is the new vice president of sales and marketing at Cirque Mountain Apparel, headquartered in Jackson, Wyo. He won the U.S. Cross-Country Championships leading up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, where he earned a spot as an alternate racer. Now retired from competition, Sylvan was also named to the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s first Wall of Excellence....Sam Evans-Brown is environment and education reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. His work has won several local broadcast journalism awards.... Mac King is a reporter at Fox 5, WNYW-TV in New York....Caitlin Murphy Dufault welcomed a daughter, Julia Addison Dufault, on Dec. 10, 2014.
2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ mail.com The Daily News spoke with Tom Beaton and wife Robyn of West Newbury, Mass., before they ran the Boston Marathon together in support of a 6-year-old boy with leukemia whom Robyn, a nurse, cares for at Mass General. The two former Pentucket High School standouts registered for the race soon after they were married last year. “Running a marathon, we knew we wanted to do it after we got married, so we decided to do it right now,” said Tom, who starred in football and baseball at Bates....Will Brunnquell is an associate lawyer with Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis.... David Curley is now a leasing
officer at Cummings Properties, a commercial real estate firm in Woburn, Mass....Rachel Tofel and Cameron Ferrante were married Nov. 1, 2014. She has an MBA from New York Univ. and works in Washington as a marketing manager at Uber Technologies, a smartphone-based taxi service. He has a law degree from Northeastern and is a legal fellow at FairVote, a nonprofit dedicated to voting and election law reform, in Takoma Park, Md....Sarah Hunt, a student at Rutgers School of Law-Newark, received a public interest fellowship from the law firm Proskauer Rose and interned at the pro bono program Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.... EcommerceBytes caught up with Elliot Moskow, CEO and cofounder of online retail marketplace Pricefalls.com, which he launched in 2009 while he was still a student. Since then, the company has gone through various phases. Originally, sellers on Pricefalls could offer merchandise and let their prices fall over time until they were either purchased or reached an “If It Hits” price set by the seller. Now, all products are offered at a fixed price, though many items bear “Make the price fall” coupons that customers can claim if they share deals with their friends on social networks. The company has launched a new website and last year it raised $4 million in funding. “We will be using a substantial portion of these funds on marketing to drive traffic to our sellers’ products,” Elliot said....Alicia Orkisz joined Greysteel, a commercial real estate company in Bethesda, Md., as an analyst with its mid-Atlantic multifamily investment sales team....Doug Ray is studying museum anthropology at Columbia Univ.... Christine Roemer and Timothy Bacon were married July 12, 2014. Both work in New York, she as an associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he as an associate at Deutsche Bank. The New York Times recounted how the two met at Blair Academy and survived a disastrous outing on the golf course. Christine, a member of the school’s golf team, was giving Tim pointers on his swing when she stepped too close and was struck in the head with his club. “I was terrified and freaking out at first because there was a ton of blood everywhere,” Tim recalled. Two staples were needed to close the wound. “A week or two later, when it was clear that she was OK, we both saw the humor in it,” he said....Abbie Morse (Colby-Sawyer College ’10) and Dan Roop were married May 25, 2014....Kate Thorson aggregated 10 bits of social science