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1999 Adam Kaswiner reports that ChefKas LLC, his culinary venture, is growing rapidly. He is now the executive chef of Daily Kitchen in Las Vegas and has partnered with the Lev Restaurant Group. In addition to recent appearances on The Taste and Ex-Wives of Rock, he is also practicing and teaching the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira which he began nine years ago. NA alumni visiting Vegas should give ChefKas a shout. Jackie Ko-Dillon and her husband, Greg, welcomed their second child, Kali Mae, on November 26, 2012. Mila Ling (3) is enjoying being a big sister. The family of four currently lives in Irvine, California. Jodi Luciani and Ryan Cohen were married last November. The couple resides in Edgewater, New Jersey.
Ben Purkert ’03 featured in The New Yorker
Bride Jessica Jacobowitz with Eric Weinberg ’04
2001
in Boston where Rumena graduated from Harvard Business School and now works for Blackstone in the tech advisory department.
Josh Mallalieu and his wife, Michelle, welcomed a baby boy, Jude Salvatore, on October 16, 2012. Jude joins big brother Noah (3) and sister Emory (18 months). Josh continues to work at Universal McCann in New York as partner in portfolio management, specializing in digital communications.
2002 Alex Senchak married Rumena Manolova on October 6, 2012 in Grace Cathedral after meeting in San Francisco in 2008. Alex works for Graham-Pelton as a senior consultant
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2003 10th Reunion Contact: Lauren Anderson lauren.h.anderson@gmail.com David Mazzuca david.mazzuca@gmail.com Evan Sills evan.sills@gmail.com
Jeb Banegas has been editing Oddities on the Science channel, and Counting Cars and Pawn Stars on the History channel. His short film, City Limits, recently finished its festival run with screenings at the Big Apple Film Festival, The Golden Door Jersey City Film Festival and the Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. Ben Purkert was named to the Best New Poets list for 2012, a competition for emerging writers. Additionally, one of Ben’s poems was published in a recent issue of The New Yorker magazine.
2004 Last May, Jamie Cohen graduated from Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is currently a pediatric resident at the Chris Evert Children’s Hospital of