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Weddings
Aurora
Bearse and Ian Crosby
Bearse-Crosby. Aurora Ruth Bearse, daughter of Myrna Bearse of Princeton and Peter Bearse of Cambridge, Mass., to Ian Bradford Crosby, son of Maureen and David Crosby of Juneau, Alaska. The April 21 ceremony took place at the La Foce estate in the Tuscany region of Italy. Miriam Bearse, the bride's sister, officiated at the symbolic Jewish ceremony in Italy and at the civil marriage in Washington State which took place before the couple left for Italy.
The bride, 33, is keeping her name. A Princeton High School graduate, she earned a degree in History and Religion from Rutgers University. She received her law degree, with honors, from Rutgers Law School-Newark. Following graduation from law school, she clerked for the Honorable William H. Walls of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and for the Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She currently works at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, Wash., where she coordinates the school's public service placement programs. Her father is an economic consultant; her mother retired as the editor of Town Topics.
The groom, 34, is a partner in the
Seattle office of Susman Godfrey, a Houston-based law firm. He
graduated from Reed College and received his law degree, with
high honors, from the University of Texas. Following graduation,
he clerked for the Honorable John C. Coughenour, then chief judge
of the United States District Court for the Western District of
Washington, and the Honorable Robert Boochever of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His father is an attorney
in Juneau; his mother retired as a teacher.
Engagement
Sammy
Politziner and Carey King
King-Politziner. Carey King of Asheville, N.C., the daughter of Bob and Penny King of New Bern, N.C., to Sammy Politziner, also of Asheville, the son of David and Alison Politziner of Princeton.
Ms. King is a 1995 graduate of New Bern High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in religion and anthropology at Wake Forest University in 1999 and a master's degree in education at Harvard University in 2003. She taught kindergarten for three years in south Louisiana through the Teach For America program, and is currently a reporter for The Sylva Herald and Ruralite in Sylva, N.C.
Mr. Politziner graduated in 1995 from Princeton High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Russian/Eastern European studies at the University of Michigan in 1999, and a master's degree in education at Harvard University in 2003. He taught second grade in Bronx, New York, through Teach For America, and is now a seventh grade teacher at KIPP: Asheville Youth Academy.
A July 3 wedding is planned at the old Jackson County Courthouse in Sylva.