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«César Ritz» Family News Sophia & Thomas Marie-Isabel & Christoph Vera & Alfonso It was in August 2005 that Tanja Reimann tied the knot with Jens Muenchenbach, a German chef who works at the Follmer House Hilton. After seven years in Washington DC, Tanja moved to Chicago where she is enjoying her job as Assistant Director of Revenue Management at the Conrad Hotel in Chicago. Tanja.muenchenbach@hilton.com After falling in love in Nice, Alexander Nurock got married to Lilith Tadevossian in December 2005. They had a nice traditional wedding in Armenia where they live, and a big dinner party in Israel. Alex is Director of Sales & Marketing at Armenia Marriott Hotel in Yerevan and writes: “Everything is fi ne since my last position of International Director of Sales at Riviera Marriott Hotel La Porte de Monaco and Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel. I’ve been offered a move to Yerevan to lead the sales team. Yerevan is a new market which offers great development opportunities and new challenges.” alex.nurock@marriotthotels.com The wedding of Sophia Jing Su was celebrated last December. Sophia and her husband Thomas Vasic live just 5 minutes away from Geneva, in Ambilly, France. sophia.su@ritz.edu Andreas Christoforou and Eleonora celebrated their wedding on 25 April. The ceremony was followed by a cocktail reception and dinner at the Hilton Park Hotel. The newly-wed couple spent their honeymoon in Mauritius. Andreas works as Course Supervisor of the Travel, Tourism and Hotel Management program at Frederick Institute of Technology in Nicosia, the second largest college in Cyprus. He has also started his PhD with a British University on a part-time basis. andreas.christoforou@ritz.edu Marie-Isabel Kochendoerfer and Christoph Brauckhoff were married last August: “On the way back from our honeymoon in Italy, we made a short stop-over in Brig, to show my husband where I studied. We decided to come back another time and spend more time in the area. I left Brig in December 1992 for UMASS and fi nished my degree there in 1994. I then enrolled at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland for my Masters in Tourism. Once I had my MSc, I worked briefl y in Heidelberg for a tourism marketing company and worked as Marketing Assistant with Utell International in Frankfurt. I changed jobs two years later and started my eight-year career with Tourism Ireland situated in Frankfurt, where I have been everything from Travel Advisor to Marketing Assistant and Promotions Rep. I have now specialized in E-Marketing & Cross Media and am responsible for everything in this area for all of Central Europe. As we recently moved, change is on the way. We will see where it leads me this time.” Marie-Isabel would love to hear from old friends: miko.miko@gmx.de The wedding of Trent and Hillary Rath (now Carpenter) was celebrated on 18 February. Hillary writes: “I enjoy reading the alumni news and remembering my fun times in Brig! I attended ICHA as an exchange student from Washington State University in 1997. After graduating, I moved to San Diego, where I worked at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort as a National Sales Manager. In 2004, I moved to Oregon, where I worked as Senior Sales Manager at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel. We are now moving to Santiago, Chile, for a year or two, where my husband and I will work at Key Knife, Inc. I will work part-time, while taking Spanish classes. We will also take this opportunity to travel all over South America.” hillaryrath@yahoo.com Vera Smorodina and Alfonso Biondo Maiz, a 100% «César Ritz» couple, tied the knot on 26 August! Who would have thought that their love story would lead to a wedding, when they started dating in Brig, in spring 2003? Vera writes: “Our beautiful wedding took place in St. Petersburg, my home city, where guests joined us from many countries. Marco Farina, also a former UCCR student, was present at our wedding! We are going to live in Madrid where Alfonso is working as a Sales Manager at a big insurance Tanja & Jens Alex & Lilith Andreas & Eleonora Hillary & Trent
Sharina & Carlos Simone & Dierck company. Warm regards to all the faculty members and students from Brig who remember us. We would like to thank you for everything and to wish you all the best in the future.” vera.smorodina@ritz.edu and alfonso.maiz@ritz.edu Carlos and Sharina Wilk-Enciso chose 25 March for their wedding. Family members and friends came from Asia and the United States to attend the civil ceremony in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Sharina moved from Myanmar to Schweinfurt in Germany where her husband currently works for the US Army. Their church wedding will take place in December. sharinaelena.wilk@ritz.edu The wedding of Felix Chi Wai Wong and Carol took place on 7 April at the Conrad Hong Kong, where Felix works as Meeting Services Manager. “We went to Europe for our honeymoon and spent three days in Geneva. Unfortunately, our schedule did not allow us to come back to «César Ritz» for a visit. As I would love to see some old faces, I will try to come to the alumni reunion in Switzerland in May 2007!” felix_wong@conrad.com.hk 20 May was the big day for Isabel Yanguas Balmaseda, when she said “I do” to the man in her life, Cesar Guardamino. Isabel writes: “I work in my family business in Madrid, which has been running olive oil farms for several centuries in the South of Spain. We are taking up a new challenge, not only producing the olives but making our fi rst production of the fi nest olive oil next year. Our target is a very high class gourmet industry and we will export all over the world.” If anyone is interested in trying Isabel’s fi nest olive oil, you are welcome to contact her at isabel.yanguas@ritz.edu. On 29 July we celebrated the wedding of former «César Ritz» students Simone Back and Dierck Kersten, who found love while studying at the University Centre «César Ritz» in Brig. The wedding was held in Simone’s hometown of Messkirch, not far from the river Donau, in the South of Germany. Since graduating in 2003, the newly-weds have been inseparable. After spending a year and a half together in Colorado, they now reside in Bavaria, Germany. Dierck’s family and friends fl ew in from the USA to celebrate the marriage. Simone’s family and friends went to great lengths to create the dream wedding the bride and groom greatly deserved. The wonderful reception afterwards was held in traditional German style, with a lot of joy. Helene Tichawa, Arne Christian Meyer and Fredrik Svensson represented the «César Ritz» family at the wedding. dierck.kersten@ritz.edu and simone.back@ritz.edu On 26 August, Mathy (Vanmathy Wickramasingam) and Marco Sommer shared their important moment with family and friends, in the picturesque village church in Gruyere. It is always a pleasure for us to be invited to our alumni’s weddings, especially if the couple’s love story began while they were studying at «César Ritz». This was refl ected in the invitation: “Love fi lls a moment, a moment fi lls a lifetime, a lifetime begins eternity, our eternity begins here at our wedding.” The «César Ritz» Family was represented by Mathy and Marco’s fellow students Sandra Ganguin from Switzerland, Hannaneh Tanha from Sweden and Ida Krohn Venas from Norway. Marga Cretton, Trude Gulbrandsoy and Christian Konrad truly enjoyed these very special festivities, which offered a perfect combination of the two cultures (German and Sri Lankan) and to which the colourful saris added a special touch. In line with her Swiss and European tradition, Mathy wore white to the wedding ceremony and then changed into a beautiful, heavily embroidered pink sari for the reception at Villars sur Glane, where she grew up and where her family lives. The traditional Hindu Wedding took place the next morning at the Sri Kalyanamurugan Temple in Bern and was the special highlight of the festivities. Marco.sommer@ritz.edu and mathy.wickramasingam@ritz.edu Mathy and Marco surrounded by «César Ritz» family members Felix & Carol Isabel & Cesar 9
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