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 Wildlife Wonderment
Last Thursday night at the Central Park Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society held their annual gala benefit with the theme “The Coasts of Patagonia,” highlighting the WCS’ conservation work in that part of the world. This is always a very fashionable affair held at the very end of the Spring social season in New York. It’s black tie and the women dress in long dresses in colors that reflect the coming summertime. Cocktails are held around the Sea Lions Pool and despite the formality, there is an air of relaxation among the guests who can’t help enjoying the atmosphere (which is underscored by the seals at play and at feeding).
They honored Dr. Juan Carlos Castilla, professor of marine biology at the Catholic University of Chile; fashion designer Maria Cornejo, who is Chilean, and Dr. Steven Sanderson, who is completing his term as CEO of the Society in July. |
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| Designer Preston Bailey, who performs magic with his floral designs, decorated the reception area as well as the three dining sections set up in the Zoo’s pavilions. |
| This is one of the most relaxed of New York formal events. Many of the guests are well established New Yorkers and long time supporters of the Wildlife Conservation Society, mixing with the newer supporters, many of whom share their enthusiasm for the Society’s purposes. The “lure” is the pleasure of the environment on a beautiful summer-like night in the middle of the city. There is bare minimum of speeches and acceptances to the point where if you stepped away for five minutes, you miss it. There are strings playing during the dinner, which begins at twilight and after dessert, the younger set appears and the DJ begins to spin. |
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Mark Borthwick and Maria Cornejo |
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George Wambold and Angela Hearst |
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Chris and Paula McKenzie |
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Kelly Keelan and Ross Koller |
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Christian Simonds, Gillian Hearst, Scott Buccheit, and Naeem Delbridge |
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Eric Lowrey and Cynthia Loh |
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Jeanne Keating |
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Susan Breitenbach, Sharon Kerr, and Samantha Breitenbach |
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Justin and Amanda Steil |
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Amie and Tony James |
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Erwin Gonzalez, Carla Ruben, and Preston Bailey |
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Al Kahn, Jillian Crane, Michele Felsher, and Gary Felsher |
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Malcolm and Cathy Price |
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Renke and Pamela Thye |
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Michele and Gary Felsher |
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Kate Maloney and Helen Johnson |
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Raleigh Leahy, David Cranston, Lauren Cranston, and Melissa Hawks |
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Dr. Steve Sanderson, Maria Cornejo, and Dr. Juan Carlos Castilla |
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Rachel Heller |
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Marianna Rounick, Stephanie Hessler, and Heather McAuliffe |
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Jean and Martin Shafiroff |
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Melissa Berkelhammer |
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Kate Loscalvo, Britain Muhl, Jesse Mckallap |
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Doug Chadwick, Cathy Horyn, and Art Ortenberg |
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Nancy Kuhn and Bernard Nussbaum |
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Jessica Feingold and JF Thye |
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Dr. Juan Carlos Castilla and Dr. Steve Sanderson |
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Drew Grant and Elizabeth Brown |
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Cynthia Reich and Nicole Robinson |
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Adrianna Casa, Cristian Samper, Wendy Luers, and Ward Woods |
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Sasha Feldman, Zack Pasanen, and Danielle Roever |
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Clementine Reid, Jack Pitney, and Caroline Kelso |
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Krista Killian, Lauren Grafer, and Carla Killian |
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Patty Calabrese and Ann Hunterberg |
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Steven Beltrani and Erin Cohen |
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Olga Mikelic and Andrew Lucre |
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Jeffrey Ganz and Elizabeth Brown |
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Jamie Dahill and Samantha Andriano |
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Katrina McDonald, Camilla Crane, and Michelle Mahon |
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Brooke Woodard and Evan Riley |
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Lauren Powell and Ted Gushue |
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Ishani Vellodi, Bridget Murphy, and Kate Durnan |
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Maureen O'Connor and Paige Donnelly |
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Sydney La Londe and Erin Donahue |
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Taryn Talmadge and Grace Kelly |
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Peter Whitcomb, Valeria Mykyta, and Eric Sheehan |
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Olivia Jessup and Sarah Coleman |
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Steven Loessler and Savannah Engel |
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Lindsay Sullivan and Anne Battey |
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Sarah Gaston, Jordan Taylor, and Kate Salzman |
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Alex van Hoek and Kylie Gattinella |
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| A tradition of this annual evening gala is the After Party, which brings out the younger set. It begins about nine-thirty and by ten o'clock the party is underway. This year was a record -- they had more than 900 attending, and on the dance floor the joint was jumping. You can see by the pictures that they were enjoying the night. |
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Rebecca Warner, Lauren Hawkins, Lynden Bolpe, Isabele Garcez, Courtney Cronin, Ana Guimaraes, and Caroline Nype |
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Emily Hottensen, John Shaddock, Carter Boardman, F.E. Castleberry, and Elizabeth Brown |
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Sean Quinn, Christine Layng, Katie Bluhm, and Erin Donahue with friends |
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Craig Workman, Melissa Wasiewski, Akbar Hamid, Veronica Arndorser, and Michael Defisher |
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Ashlyn Lovejoy, Bella Slagsvol, Maddy Casella, and Katie Lovejoy |
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Melissa Pesch, Allissa Favrikanc, Daniel Bise, Johanna Anchundia, and Maria Lykos |
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Carla Vass, Juliana Traut, Francesca Gottardo, and Krista Kucheman |
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Alexa Rosen, Jennifer Chu, Betsy Maloney, and Bunny Laughlin |
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Lynden Volpe, Caroline Nype, Ana Guimaraes, and Lauren Hawkins |
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Milena Duke, Fifi Knott, John Harrison, Rebecca Zoller, and Charlotte Woltz |
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Alessa Brooksmith, Alexander Baird, Madeline Gordon, and Lucie Miller |
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Alexander Baird, Brittany Dawson, Jackie Bland, Scott Banerjee, and Maggie Paplepp |
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Scott Buccheit, Gillian Hearst Simonds, and Adam Robison |
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Chloe Malle and Reed Simonds |
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Anna Schkolnikov and Naeem Delbridge |
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Maria Cornejo, Cindy Sherman, and Anne Christiansen |
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Reed and Suzanna Simonds |
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Malcolm Price |
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Justin Taylor and Lizzy Fraser |
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Lorenzo Borghese and Tinsley Mortimer |
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Samantha and Susan Breitenbach |
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Jillian Crane and Al Kahn |
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J.F. Thye and Jessica Feingold |
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John Wambold Jr., George Wambold, Melanie Wambold, and John Wambold |
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Kate Maloney and Helen Johnson |
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Andrew Fulton, Ally Collier, Davis Ravnaas, Julia Villanova, and Andrew Rice |
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Nicole Phelps, Alexa Brazilian, and Anne Slowey |
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Cathy Price and Linda Fraser |
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Jennifer Gould Keil |
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Patrick Li, Whitney Vargas, and Adam Glassman |
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Jean Shafiroff, Lorna Livingston, and Jamie Figg |
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Janice Blakely, Lizzy Fraser, and Julia Stein |
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Stephanie Hessler, Steve Hessler, and Marianna Olszewski |
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Sydney Wasserman |
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Kirby Hosea and Sybil Bunn |
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James Tang and Victoria Harman |
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Connor O'Brien and Christina Kaczynski |
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Marina Thompson, Jeffrey Thompson, Claudia Thompson, David Cummins, and Andrienne Nolan |
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Erin Cohen and Steven Feltrani |
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Kelsey Breining, Rebecca Regan, Lacary Sharpe, and Melanie Lazenby |
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Sylvester Miniter, Margo Langenberg, and Hunt Slonem |
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Lauren Powell and Ted Gushue |
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Andrew Lucre |
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Joan Jedell, Gillian Miniter, and Guy Harley |
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Elizabeth Brown, Sam Dangremond, and Carola Lovering |
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Dorie Golkin, Clelia Zacarias, Natalie Rodriguez, and Emily Balter |
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Maggie Malloy, Charles Clarke, and Sam Andriano |
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Carson Sieving |
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Julianna Simmons and Samia Qader |
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Juliana Traut and Krista Kucheman |
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Cameron Scott and Virginia Powell |
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Monika Lesniak, Cari Smith, Melissa Pesce, and Melanie Lazenby |
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Lauren Davenport, Alecta Hill, and Christine Pedersen |
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Stephanie Brag, Oliver Blodgett, Ascanio Serena, and Ashley Hill |
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William Sinclair and Justin Korsang |
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Desiree Gallas, Michael DeFischer, Melanie Lazenby, and Rebecca Regan |
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Elissa Niemiera, Charles Bakke, and Amy Pompea |
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Stephanie Wong |
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Anne Karoubi and Brian Atkinson |
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Emily Demchyk and Colleen Leihey |
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Kate Morgenier and Kat Carmichael |
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Eliza Wilkenson, Olivia Dong, and Annie Warren |
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Olga Mikelic, Michael Mikelic, and Pala Dzko |
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Justin Korsant, Peter Armstrong, and Joe Rault |
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Brett Finkelstein and Tyler Gaffney |
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Christina Mallon and Rebecca Lewis |
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Catherine Dewey and Matthew Douglas |
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Pamela Suskind and Cody Baird |
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Billy Kreitsek Jr. Brendon Mahar, Candace diConza, and Loren Cole |
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Bonita Taylor |
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Christine Mosley, Sheila Raju, Dani White, and Tara Tunney |
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Matthew Brag and Sara Engle |
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Megan Falcone and Kirby Hosea |
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Marianne and Eddie Brennan |
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Christina Altman and Samuel Leeds |
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T. Valentine and Elizabeth Durkee |
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Dave Knott, Christine Paras, Alexander Farkas, Sara Eisman, and Drew Schneider |
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Stacy Van Ingen and Anait Bian |
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Elouise Frishchkorn and Emily Hanna |
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Jackie Rohrbach and Jenny Smith |
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Jackie Bland and Brittany Dawson |
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Walter Hoffman and Lauren Synar |
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Catherine Grinfell, Larry Haertel, and Pfeifer Marley |
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Clelia Zacarias, Pfeifer Marley, Catherine Grenfellm, and Natalia Rodriguez |
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Iman Nanji, Katherine Kapnick, and Christina Najjar |
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Eric Lowrey and Cynthia Loh |
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Karen and Marlie Kiernan |
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David Stein and Maggie Kempner |
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Ali and Jessie Hebenstreit |
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Lizzy Edelman and Emily Holmes |
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Christian Bjelland, Fredrica Tompkins, Jaime Sterne, Alecta Hill, Lauren Davenport, and Oliver Schultz |
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James Moore and Lauren Sonas |
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Christine Paras |
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Oliver Striker and Stephanie de Franco |
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Paige Woodruff and Danial Neczypor |
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Matteas Detjan and Julia Azevedo |
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John Brandis, Jacqueline Kenook, and Christian Russell |
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Lizzy Duffy, Malaika Benjamin, and Emily Allen |
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Chelsey Breining, Matthew Douglas, and Rebecca Regan |
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Peter Burns and Grace Kelly |
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Alex Cecil and Savanna Engle |
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Courtney Kenefick and Jess Bergeron |
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Katie Straut and Zack Pasanen |
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DJ Cassidy and Micah Jesse |
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Robert Lavan, Mara Siegler, and Katie Olds |
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Jackie Bland and Maggie Taplett |
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Chelsey Breining, Miles Hammond, Alex Cecil, and Jason Ehrlich |
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Eleanor and Ashley Pardoe |
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Jeser Lannung |
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Lauren Davenport and Nicholas de Kwiatkowski |
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Jeff Ryan and Christina Manzi |
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Christen Paras and Alexander Farkas |
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Drummond Rice, Elizabeth Kern, Kylie Gattinella, and Alex van Hoek |
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Rebecca Regan and Sebastian Bland |
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John Lawrence, Phillip Gaucher, and Oliver Blodgette |
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Michael Allwin and Lilly Galef |
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Brie Kahler and Charlie Razook |
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Jesper Lannung and Brittany Dawson |
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Jacqueline Kencook and Christian Russell |
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Amanda Starbuck and Alex Mejia |
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Sandy Cass, Zinia Kim, Marissa Komisar, and Laura Mari |
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Jack Fennebresque and Sims Lansing |
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