Weddings! Engagements!
ordan George wed Carol Workinger on April 13 in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, in an intimate ceremony on the beach ... Jon Bennion and
Kayte Williams married on February 20 in Tulum, Mexico. Nick Jesdanun, Brett Saffer, Jamie Michael, and Jeff Tse were on hand to celebrate
with Jon and Kayte.
Melissa Filut is engaged to Walter Weiner. They will marry on July 25 in Ithaca, New York ... Friday, March 26 was a big day: Matt Stein
proposed to Rachel Diamond, and Jesse Lansner and Liz Call became engaged ... Jesse and Liz met in 2005 at a Flyer Happy Hour organized by
Nick Jesdanun. Jesse and Liz bonded over their mutual devotion to Brooklyn, historical fiction and open water swims. They will marry on
the Coney Island boardwalk on October 9 ... Rachel has known Matt since she was 9 years old. The pair reconnected 4 years ago, during High Holy
Day Services at their childhood synagogue. After a March wedding, the happy pair will honeymoon in Australia and Tahiti ... Karen Harris
and Andreas Werder will have a June wedding at their Upper East Side home ... Mazal tov to all our Flyer brides and grooms!
The Next Generation:
oward Brown and Risa Lewak welcomed Gabriel Asher on February 3. Big sister Liora (the Princess of Long Island) is 2 ... Congratulations to
Paulo Flor and Sally Brackett on the birth of Ginger Elizabeth on March 11! Oliver Flor, also age 2, welcomed his baby sister with open arms.
Following in their parents’ footsteps: Knox Chadwick, age 11, ran the Coogan’s 5-K with mother Heidi Chadwick ... Michael Zakarin ran the
National Marathon on March 21. Dad Gary Zakarin ran the Paris Marathon a few weeks later. There is no escaping the Flyers: Gary and his wife
Eileen bumped into Amy Stern in Paris. A lot of good food and shopping ensued.
Career Notes:
ust a few days after her longtime employer, St. Vincent’s Hospital, shut its doors, Julie Cook landed her dream job on the Mt. Sinai cardiology
team. Coincidentally, another veteran Flyer triathlete, Tony Squire, is a cardiologist at Mt. Sinai ... Chris Morgenroth has been promoted to
Senior Vice President - Director of Global Corp Applications for Jeffries ... Scott Swanay is contributing to a weekly fantasy baseball blog on
Forbes.com that will run throughout the baseball season, as well as a weekly entry for a fantasy baseball blog on USAToday.com that will also
run throughout the current baseball season ... After nearly two years of travel, Russ Jacobs is starting a job with Starbucks in Seattle.
Hold your barista orders – Russ is a trademark attorney.