CLASS NOTES 60
Erica Baitler Berger ’98 and husband Daryn with daughters Lola and Maisie
members of the wedding party. Josh Goldstein, Patrick Leibovich, and Andrew Kim also attended the wedding.
1996 Class Representatives Andrew Slutzky ’96 andrewzky@gmail.com Jason Granet ’96 grizo1222@yahoo.com
Matt Gutman is a TV correspondent for ABC News and can be seen regularly on Good Morning America, World News and Nightline. He has covered the Haiti earthquake, the Gulf oil spill, and the Treyvon Martin case and continues to travel and report on breaking news events.
1997 Class Representative Amanda Rubinstein Black ’97 amandahblack@gmail.com
Adam Kaswiner ’99 cooks up something special
Randal Vegter married Ginny Hughes last May at Battery Gardens in New York. The couple took a honeymoon cruise through the Galapagos Islands and now resides in Brooklyn. Randal is a leadership facilitator at JetBlue Airlines in New York and Ginny is a freelance science journalist. Jesse Sanford from Bloomfield, New York asked Sharon Ochs to be his wife while traveling in Guatemala last March. The couple resides in Brooklyn. They’re planning a June 2013 wedding.
1998 Class Representative Lisa Shah Sen ’98 lisashahsen@gmail.com
Erica Baitler Berger, husband Daryn and big sister Maisie were thrilled to welcome a baby girl, Lola, last June.
1999 Class Representatives John Gregory ’99 Jcg681@gmail.com Asha Talwar ’99 asha.talwar@gmail.com
Little Ella, daughter of Doug McNamara ’99
Evan Nisenson is assistant director of alumni relations at New York University. He is working on completing a master’s degree in entertainment business at NYU. In his spare time he works with clients as a freelance social media consultant.
Congratulations to Lauren Carrescia and Evan Nisenson ’99
On September 1, 2012, Evan married the lovely Lauren Carrescia. They currently live in New York City. Doug McNamara and his wife, Rachel, welcomed their first child, Ella, in September 2011. Doug has also changed careers and is now teaching high school math in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Adam Kaswiner, aka “ChefKas” owns and operates ChefKas LLC out of Las Vegas where he has resided for three years. ChefKas prepares, teaches, and lectures on “Food and Cooking for Awesomeness,” and has cooked for noteworthy clientele including Sheldon Adelson, Jesse Waits, Mark Munoz and Erik Seidel. He is also practicing and instructing the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira which he began nine years ago. NA alumni visiting Vegas should give ChefKas a shout. Kumi Dikengil is an orthopedic physical therapist practicing at Morristown Medical Center and Michael Kay is a major in the United States Army Special Forces, currently deployed in Afghanistan. They are thrilled to announce their engagement. They will be married in New York in June 2013.
2000 Class Representative Alison Poole ’00 akpoole@gmail.com