51
Award winning magician Brad Ross ’99
Lisa Podell writes, “I’m proud to share that last year I started my own tutoring company called Lisa Podell Tutoring. We have an office in Manhattan but will also travel to the homes of elementary and middle school students. For more information, please visit www.lisapodell.com.” Anup Shah is now working as a urologic surgery resident at the University of Washington and is in his chief resident year of training. He previously graduated from Duke University as an undergraduate and Stanford University for his medical degree. He is happily married to Tanvi Shah and has two young daughters, Anissa (2) and Maya (4 months).
1999
Jacob Wolff and Lauren Mirchin ‘99
Brad Ross just completed his sixth consecutive year starring in the world tour of Disney LIVE Presents Mickey’s Magic Show. This last leg of the tour covered 35,154 miles criss-crossing the United States – 200 shows in 87 cities, 32 states on a 34-week tour! Over the course of the tour, Brad said the magic word “Abracadabra” more than 5,200 times! Recently honored by the International Magicians Society (the world’s largest magic organization with 37,000 members worldwide), Brad was presented with the prestigious Merlin Award and named “Best International Family Entertainer.” The award ceremony took place in Newark, New Jersey, at the Prudential Center with Mayor
Corey Booker present along with the producers of Disney LIVE Presents Mickey’s Magic Show. Even the big cheese himself, Mickey, was on hand to cheer on his co-star! Brad has also just finished writing a children’s book, Hocus-Pocus Al-I-Mi-Choo, now available in stores. You can keep up to date with Brad at www.BradRoss.com and by searching BradRossMagic on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
2001 Class Representatives Colin Griggs ’01 cgriggs13@yahoo.com Brian McGaughan ’01 bmcgaughan@gmail.com
Class Representatives John Gregory ’99 Jcg681@gmail.com
NEWARK ACADEMY ALUMNI WEBSITE IS A BIG HIT!
Asha Talwar ’99 asha.talwar@gmail.com
On October 10, 2010 Lauren Mirchin and Jacob Wolff were married at the Harmonie Club in New York. Their wedding was warmly attended by several Newark Academy alumni. In 2010, Lauren, her husband Jake, and fellow Fordham law graduate Josh Gelb, launched hitchswitch.com, a website designed to facilitate the name changing process. Hitchswitch.com is headquartered in New York.
Hundreds of alumni have logged in and registered on the alumni website at alumni.newarka.edu. HAVE YOU? Now you can sign up for events, participate in surveys, submit class notes, update your profile information, and much, much more. What are you waiting for? Go to alumni.newarka.edu today and be part of this growing online community!