Jung Mee Park and Everett Alden Schlawin were married in two ceremonies last month. On Monday, July 20, Christopher J. Durkin, the clerk of Essex County, officiated at the Hall of Records in Newark. On Saturday, July 25, Carl D. Ferkinhoff, a friend of the couple, led another ceremony at the Big Red Barn, Cornell’s graduate student center, in Ithaca, New York.
Schlawin is a 2005 graduate of High School South. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Oberlin College in 2009, and his master’s and doctoral degrees in astronomy at Cornell. He is a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Arizona.
The groom’s best man was his brother, Justin Schlawin, who was raised in West Windsor, and is now a resident of Maine. (He graduated from George School in 2001 and Bates College in 2005.) Groomsmen were Jesse Hopkins and David Koppstein, High School South, Class of 2004. The ring bearer was Merlin Schlawin-Whittlesey, nephew of the groom.
Schlawin is the son of Ilene S. Dube and Mark F. Schlawin of West Windsor. The groom’s mother, a freelance writer and editor, manages communications for the D&R Greenway Land Trust, a preservation organization in Princeton. His father teaches middle-school science and mathematics at Princeton Charter School in Princeton.
Park, who will keep her name, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s in quantitative methods in the social sciences from Columbia and a doctoral degree in sociology from Cornell. She taught history and sociology at the Newark campus of Bard High School Early College.
The bridal attendants were Sonali Mishra, Susan Park, and Kira Novakofski. The flower girl was Kaylee Sugimoto, niece of the bride. She is a daughter of Young Hee Park and Hui Son Park of Atlanta. The bride’s parents own Park Services, a small-appliance repair business in Dunwoody, Georgia.
The couple lives in Tucson, Arizona.
