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Class Notes 2006 Save the Date, September 24, 2016, for HM Homecoming and the 10th Reunion of the Class of 2006. Gabriella Levy's unique porcelain lighting company Immerlit (www.immerlit.com) has been featured in such top design publications as Trouve which wrote: Gabriella's work elegantly illuminates spaces with the natural beauty of porcelain, translucency and light." Jason Siegel and Ciara Monchek Siegel were married on October 3, 2015 in NYC. The bridal party, together with the bride and groom, included 11 HMers, with many more alums in attendance. 2007 Liz Olanoff works in programming and development at the Food Network and Cooking Channel (Scripps Networks Interactive). In June 2015 Rachel Cholst, editor of the nationally recognized music blog Adobe & Teardrops (http://adobeandteardrops.blogspot.com) curated "Proud," a benefit compilation album that featured the music of Karen Pittelman '93 and her band, Karen and the Sorrows. Karen is known for her popular Queer Country Monthly concert series. In 2015, the pair co-hosted the concert, and raised over $500, donated to FIERCE, a nonprofit that trains LGBTQ youth of color to become activists to lead the fight for LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, police reform, and housing justice. When not on stage, Rachel teaches high school history at an alternative high school in the South Bronx. Adobe & Teardrops has also featured music by Doug Goldstein. Goldstein, who was a winner in the 2014 national FreshGrass Banjo Award Contest, is a full time member of Woody Guthrie's grandson's band "Cole Quest & the City Pickers" whose debut LP "My Name Is New York" came out in 2016. Goldstein also works on his own project, "DOUGMORE." Writes Doug: "It is under that name that I am finishing production on my own full length debut release, "Outer Boroughs" a concept album based on Ovid's Metemorphoses and the literary tradition of that theme." (look for Dougmore projects online.) Goldstein plays banjo with a band he co-founded, the nationally touring and teaching Cricket Tell the Weather, a Brooklyn-based string band with roots deep in the bluegrass tradition, embracing folk, old-time, and spirituals as a backdrop for their original songwriting. The band won the first-annual Freshgrass Award for best band in 2013 www.crickettelltheweather.com. Goldstein also appeared in the HMTC Alumni Play "Assassins" in 2016. From left to right William Sargent, Elizabeth Sargent and Maxwell Troop '07 created a social media app called Wigeon. Courtesy of Maxwell Troop Maxwell Troop (together with his fiancée Elizabeth Sargent and her brother William Sargent, both fellow Union College alums) recently launched Wigeon, an app that enables users to discover new shows to watch, music to listen to and places to go via friends' and connections' recommendations. It replaces those "notes" we write to ourselves to check things out later by allowing the user to record the recommendation in a centralized repository, and take action right away. Max worked with Brooklyn-based mobile app developer App Partner to launch his new, free lifestyle app for iOS. Wigeon is receiving great reviews from the tech media, including AlleyWatch and TechTimes. See www. alleywatch.com/2016/04/launched-alleyquestionnaire-wigeon and www.techtimes. com/articles/143623/20160323/wigeon-social-media-app-lets-friends-exchange-movierestaurant-recommendations.htm. migrants who are pursuing graduate school in the United States will assist Akusobi with his MD-PhD studies at Harvard Medical School, where he is a second-year student, researching better treatment and cure of infectious diseases. (See p. 36) Leah Mishkin is an on-air reporter for the News 12 television network. After graduating from Emerson College in broadcast journalism in 2012 she worked at the CBS station in Myrtle Beach, SC as an on air correspondent. She returned to NYC in April 2015 for her News 12 job. She is also pursuing a Masters' degree in Criminal Justice through Boston University. Leah reconnected with Horace Mann School when she did a story on a Habitat Home HM students built in Yonkers, NY, that was dedicated on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2015. Leah Mishkin '08 interviews HM Habitat Club president Ahmet (Ike) Kilinc '16. photo by Jasmin Ortiz Nicole Lustig Paternak was married to Merin Pasternak '09 on September 20, 2015. Among the guests were close to 30 HM alums including those pictured. The HM Alumni and Development Office provided the HM "swag" for the event. Along with the bride and groom (center) HMers at the wedding included Allie Lustig '10, Gabi Lustig '13, Harley Pasternak '12, Sam Shelley '09, Vardan Gattani '09, Peter Jacobs '09, Spencer Fallek '09, Nicky Robbins '09, Andy Jabban '09, David Sukenik '09, DJ Amirsaleh '09, Nicky Ruth, Josh Friedman, Rachel Zukerman, Ali Levine, Danielle Greenberg, Steven Friedman '72, Lisa Braunstein Zola '83, Alex Baumann '16, James Baumann '18, Matthew Baumann '22, Ross Karetsky '14, Ethan Karetsky, '10, Tory Lynch '09, Dipika Sen '09, and Matt Klimerman '09. 2008 Chidiebere (Chidi) Akusobi was named one of 30 recipients of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. 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