Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court Wayne, NJ 07470-6271 anna_labowsky @yahoo.com
Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 385 Grand Street, #L906 New York, NY 10002 venad@yahoo.com
Class agent: Mrs. Jaclyn Latzoni Spedaliere 58 Burnham Parkway Morristown, NJ 07960 jaclynspedaliere@gmail.com
1994 20TH REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2014
2001
Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick jasonawerdick@gmail.com Ms. Dana Pisacane dana.piscane@gmail.com
1995 Alex Joerger wrote: Just relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area for a new job! Very hectic to move 3000 miles with a fouryear old and a one-year old, but looking forward to new opportunity out west.
1996 Ms. Tanya Barnes tbarnes@fas.harvard.edu Ms. Erica Hirsch 10 West 15th Street, #902 New York, NY 10011 ehirsch77@yahoo.com Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 3 Swayze Lane Chester, NJ 07930 ldvartan@yahoo.com
Kristen Connolly ’98 Kristen Connolly ’98 made a guest “In Person” appearance at the Montclair Film Festival in May, when she appeared with fellow NJ actor Ben Rosenfield in Homegrown: A Conversation with Kristen Connolly & Ben Rosenfield. Described as actors “rising in their field,” the event’s promotional materials went on to say: “Connolly is best known from House of Cards playing Congressional staffer Christina Gallagher. She recently completed shooting for the NBC pilot Tin Man and the History Channel miniseries Houdini… In this conversation, Connolly and Rosenfield discuss the craft of acting and their journeys from Montclair.”
1999 1997
Kate Edelstein Corcoran’s father, Stephen Edelstein ’65, contacted Alumni Director, Louis Montorio, with the following news: In the recent, hotly contested Mayoral election in Newark, the main press person for each of the two campaigns was an MKA grad. Tai Cooper ’98 was the press person for Ras Baraka and Teresa Wells ’96 was the press person for Shavar Jeffries.
1998 Class Agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi gemmagiantomasi@gmail.com A huge shout-out to Tim Howard ’98x for his spectacular World Cup performance – his 16 goal saves was a record in World Cup History!
15TH REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2014
Congratulations to Louis Waldman on his March engagement to Abigail Hart Baird. The couple met in New York where Louis was completing his residency at Weill Cornell’s New York Presbyterian Hospital and his fiancee was completing her internship in medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The couple are now both physicians for Yale New Haven Hospital and a September 2014 wedding is planned.
2002 Class secretary: Mrs. Melissa Fortunato Slomienski 40 Holton Lane Essex Fells, NJ 07021 fortunme@mac.com Miss Emily Santangelo 27 Woods Road Little Falls, NJ 07424-2010 emilyannesantangelo@gmail.com
Ms. Sandra Tritt 300 E. Seminary Mercersburg, PA 17236 sandratritt@gmail.com Class agent: Mr. Alexander Holz 538 E. 85th Street, Apt. 2A New York, NY 10028 alexbhlz@gmail.com Alex Holtz let us know that classmate Dan Blake appeared with pianist Kenny Werner and Grammy-winning vocalist Esperanza Spalding in a Concert to Feed the Hungry on April 25th.
2000 Mr. John Garippa 2741 NE 58th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 oceanhut@aol.com
Class agent: Ms. Lindsay Braverman 340 East 34th Street, Apt. 5A New York, NY 10016 lbraverman1@gmail.com
Class agent: Mrs. Lauren Tortoriello Ertel lauren.tortoriello@gmail.com Kerry Bishé continues to get noticed as her acting career goes from strength to strength. She was the subject of an extensive article in the May 27 Chicago Tribune which included comments and insights from MKA Middle School F&PA faculty member, Christian Ely, who was Kerry’s first theatre teacher. With stage and screen credits that already include an ensemble part in the Oscar-winning Argo and the recent lead role in the TV drama Scrubs, the Tribune focused on Bishé’s latest project: the lead role of computer engineer Donna Clark in a new AMC series, Halt and Catch Fire that premiered in late May and is available
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