The New York Times-20080127-Katharine Applegarth- Matthew Simons
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Katharine Applegarth, Matthew Simons
Full Text (293 words)Katharine Davis Applegarth, a daughter of Dr. Linda D. Applegarth and Paul V. Applegarth of Greenwich, Conn., was married on Saturday evening to Dr. Matthew Franklin Simons, the son of Victoria R. Simons and Dr. Robert L. Simons of Key Biscayne, Fla. Robert J. Paolucci, a Roman Catholic deacon, performed the ceremony at St. Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church in Church Creek, Md., with Cantor Nancy R. Ginsberg taking part.
Mrs. Simons, 31, is a marketing and business consultant in Manhattan. She graduated from Georgetown and received an M.B.A. from Yale.
Her father, a financial consultant, was until November 2005 the chief executive of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a federal agency that provides development aid to poor countries. Her mother is an associate professor of psychology in the departments of psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan. She is also the director of psychological services at the Cornell Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility.
Dr. Simons, 35, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan and the assistant director of emergency medicine at Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica. He graduated from Colorado State University and received his medical degree from the University of Florida.
His mother owns Simons & Green, an accessories boutique in Miami. His father is a clinical professor of otolaryngology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he also served until 1998 as director of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery.
The bride is also a founding member of the Suburbia Roller Derby league of Westchester County, using the moniker Rat-a-Tat-Kat. The bridegroom is a D.J. known as G-Funk, playing at bars and clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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